But it was Mr. Thompson's performance, in which he shook off the laid-back style that has defined his candidacy, that provided some of the liveliest moments of the debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.. "This is a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and its future," said Mr. Thompson, who has staked his run on a strong showing in South Carolina. The primary there is Jan. 19.
"On the one hand," he said, "you have the Reagan revolution, you have the Reagan coalition of limited government and strong national security. And the other hand, you have the direction that Governor Huckabee would take us in. He would be a Christian leader, but he would also bring about liberal economic policies, liberal foreign policies."
Mr. Thompson then lit into Mr. Huckabee, the former Baptist preacher and Arkansas governor who won the Iowa caucus, for wanting to close the prison at Guant namo Bay, for supporting what he called "taxpayer-funded programs for illegals" and for wanting to sign a law restricting smoking. "That's not the model of the Reagan coalition, that's the model of the Democratic Party," he said.
Mr. Huckabee, for his part, responded with trademark humor. "The Air Force has a saying that says if you're not catching flak, you're not over the target," he said. "I'm catching the flak; I must be over the target."
The bottom line is that Thompson finally lived up to what many GOPers felt was his potential.
Liberal fascism sounds like an oxymoron - or a term for conservatives to insult liberals. Actually, it was coined by a socialist writer, none other than the respected and influential left-winger H.G. Wells, who in 1931 called on fellow progressives to become "liberal fascists" and "enlightened Nazis." Really. His words, indeed, fit a much larger pattern of fusing socialism with fascism: Mussolini was a leading socialist figure who, during World War I, turned away from internationalism in favor of Italian nationalism and called the blend Fascism. Likewise, Hitler headed the National Socialist German Workers Party.
These facts jar because they contradict the political spectrum that has shaped our worldview since the late 1930s, which places communism at the far Left, followed by socialism, liberalism in the center, conservatism, and then fascism on the far Right. But this spectrum, Jonah Goldberg points out in his brilliant, profound, and original new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (Doubleday), reflects Stalin's use of fascist as an epithet to discredit anyone he wished - Trotsky, Churchill, Russian peasants - and distorts reality. Already in 1946, George Orwell noted that fascism had degenerated to signify "something not desirable."
To understand fascism in its full expression requires putting aside Stalin's misrepresentation of the term and also look beyond the Holocaust, and instead return to the period Goldberg terms the "fascist moment," roughly 1910-35. A statist ideology, fascism uses politics as the tool to transform society from atomized individuals into an organic whole. It does so by exalting the state over the individual, expert knowledge over democracy, enforced consensus over debate, and socialism over capitalism. It is totalitarian in Mussolini's original meaning of the term, of "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." Fascism's message boils down to "Enough talk, more action!" Its lasting appeal is getting things done.
US forces' airstrike destroys al-Qaeda stronghold: "Bombers dropped 18 tons of explosives on 40 targets in an al-Qaeda bastion on the southern outskirts of Baghdad in a 10-minute airstrike. The attack by B-1 bombers and F-16 fighters on Arab Jabour village was part of a nationwide operation against al-Qaida, codenamed Phantom Phoenix, launched by US and Iraqi forces on Tuesday. "Thirty-eight bombs were dropped within the first 10 minutes, with a total tonnage of 40,000 pounds," the US military said. "More than 40 targets were hit after precision air strikes destroyed reported al-Qaeda safehavens in Arab Jabour," it said. The bombings were carried out as ground troops closed in on the area. No details of casualties were given."
The thin man goes to Washington: "In his inaugural New York Times column, William Kristol suggests Mike Huckabee may be the right Republican presidential candidate to beat 'a liberal Democrat' who will 'want to increase the scope of the nanny state.' This is like counting on Godzilla to save us from King Kong. Losing more than 100 pounds in less than a year is the former Arkansas governor's main claim to fame, and for Huckabee, the personal is political."
The "change" campaign: ""Welcome to the new year. Apparently 2008 is the year of Change. Change and Hope. Change, Hope and New Direction. Change, Hope, New Direction and Fixin' Up Washington. How? Well shame on you for asking. Isn't it enough that we're hearing speech after flowery speech promising these things? Why, I get all misty just thinking about all the change that's on its way. Confound it man, don't be asking how these fabulous Agents of Change intend to do it all. Let's just spend some time feeling good and excited about the bright and shiny changed future."
For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS, IMMIGRATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, EYE ON BRITAIN and TELSTRA/BIGPOND.
Last year, I was speaking at a prestigious university in Washington, D.C., and brought up Margaret Sanger. Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a racist who believed in eugenics and felt that birth control was essential to controlling the "inferior races"-i.e., blacks. When I said this, the students looked incredulous. A couple even shook their heads; obviously I was disseminating bad conservative propaganda. Margaret Sanger, liberal icon, a racist? Please.
The historical record on Sanger is clear. Yet those who refuse to acknowledge her commitment to eugenics are impervious to evidence. They are the same ones who will be shakingtheir heads at Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, the devastating new book by Jonah Goldberg, an editor at National Review. The sad paradox is that the more the Left rend Goldberg apart, avoiding the book like anthrax because they assume we are in Ann Coulterville, the more they will make his point.
Goldberg has marshaled a staggering amount of evidence to conclude, as the first chapter has it, that "everything you know about fascism is wrong." Mussolini was weaned on anarcho-socialism (his father Alessandro was a socialist and anarchist). Mussolini and the Italian Fascist party were, in the early years, not anti-Semitic-in fact, the party included Jews. As a young man, Mussolini had carried in his pocket a medallion of Karl Marx, whose influence-combined with the bizarre syndicalist philosophy of George Sorel and a Nietzschean contempt for Christianity-resulted in Italian fascism, a mix of myth-making, prophecy about the rise of the working class, and a relentless determination to aggrandize more and more power for the state. German fascism was not far different, which is why Hitler himself, as Goldberg puts it, was "a man of the left."
In short, the very term "fascism" has been misused for decades now. Although on several occasions Goldberg openly invites criticism, admitting that he is not a professional historian, he has done the work of a historian; besides, he is a much better writer than most historians. And the case he makes is as persuasive as it is provocative. Consider Father Charles Coughlin, the "radio priest" of the 1930s, a touchstone of right-wing evil for liberals. It turns out that Coughlin actually advocated collectivist, anti-capitalist theories that were much closer to the left than to the right. Goldberg quotes leftists-among them the "New Deal Priest" Msgr. John Ryan-praising Coughlin. Coughlin became FDR's bitter foe because FDR's collectivist policies did not go far enough.
Fascists have often called for the overturning of religious tradition, to be replaced by the dictatorship of the people; have engaged in a "cult of action" that sought to smash the bourgeoisie; and have relegated certain people and races to the dustbin of "inferiority." Considered this way, the radicals of the 1960s fit quite snugly into Goldberg's thesis.
Goldberg does stumble with his shoulder-shrug at gay marriage, which he supports. For once in this mesmerizing book he falls to apply his model. Gay marriage activists, after all, have all the trademarks of fascism, and more. They want to control the courts and inflict their philosophy on the reluctant bourgeoisie. They are obsessed with "street action" and protest, and contemptuous of Christianity. They have turned homosexuality into an exalted state, often claiming that gay people are more sensitive and enlightened than others.
While the Left will claim that Goldberg thinks that everyone he disagrees with-from FDR to Hillary Clinton-is a fascist, this is not true. Progressives, he notes, are not building concentration camps. Hillary Clinton wanting universal health care is not Crystal Night. But by reexamining the history of fascism and its pathologies, Goldberg shows where the fascist impulse-to smash the past, accumulate power, and create utopia-is most likely to resurface.
You see occasional mentions saying that the war in Iraq has NOT increased the death-rate among American military personnel. It seems counter-intuitive but it is true. Getting into a car with a skinful of alcohol at home in the USA seems to be just about as dangerous as going around fighting terrorists in Iraq. The official figures are here. See particularly Tables 4 and 5 in the "active duty" column. The casualties actually seem more numerous in the earlier part of the series but that would be because the army was larger then. You would however need some pretty fancy statistical fiddling to argue that the war has increased U.S. military deaths.
About 150,000 Iraqi Muslims have been killed by Muslim terrorists "About 151,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the three years following the US-led invasion of their country, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) research. The study, which said violent deaths could have ranged from 104,000 to 223,000 between March 2003 and June 2006, is the most comprehensive since the war started. The study drew on an Iraqi health ministry survey of nearly 10,000 households - five times the number of those interviewed in a disputed 2006 John Hopkins University study that said more than 600,000 Iraqis had died over the period. While well below that figure, the United Nations agency's estimate exceeds the widely cited 80,000 to 87,000 death toll by the human rights group Iraq Body Count, which uses media reports and hospital and morgue records to calculate its tally. "There are a lot of uncertainties in making such estimates," WHO statistician Mohamed Ali, who co-authored the study, said."
Dems Speak No Evil Of Islamic Jihad: "We scanned the transcripts of Saturday's debates hosted by ABC News and tallied up the references to Islamic terrorism. The rhetorical divide between Democrats and Republicans on that score alone - ignoring the yawning gaps in policy - is stunning. None of the four Democrat presidential candidates - despite running for an office that demands they lead the ongoing global war against Islamic extremists - could bring himself or herself to define the enemy we face as Islamic. Their combined references to "Islam" or "Islamic" totaled zero - even though moderator Charles Gibson prompted them with a question about "Islamic radicals" threatening the U.S. with nuclear terrorism. But Democrats refused to go there. Out of respect for their constituency, there was a complete blackout regarding Islamic jihad. Instead, Hillary Clinton defined the enemy generically as "stateless terrorists," while Barack Hussein Obama complained about the "politics of fear" that he thinks accurately defining the enemy has created... Republicans, on the other hand, called the enemy by its proper name."
Thank you, New Hampshire: "Mrs. Clinton remains the best hope for Republicans this fall. Face it, Barack Obama is too nice, too smooth and too blank a page to defeat easily at a time when voters are displeased with the Republican Party. We need Hill. She's beatable. His "defeat" on Tuesday - perception being 9/10ths of the law in politics - gives old Hill the audacity of hope."
It would appear, unless he commits the mother of all gaffes, Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. Why the finality here? Because we've been there, done that.
Less than two years ago, a similar train left the station. In Massachusetts, it was the D Train. Deval Patrick carpetbagged into the state, campaigned on "Together We Can", and sought to become the first Black governor of The Bay State. There was the allure of history being made and the guilt-ridden bought it, hook, line, and sinker.
His opposition was a female Republican that, unfortunately, delivered the same old, antiquated message. We got the same old AARP-era, focus group vetted, plastic deliveries. Deval Patrick spoke from the heart, while the Republican stuck to the script. Patrick went on to a resounding victory over an opponent no one has heard from since.
When Obama takes the oath, will he be all that he promised? Deval Patrick should be in a wheelchair, considering how many times he's shot himself in the foot. The state of Massachusetts is in a financial quagmire, hemorrhaging businesses and people fleeing unchallenged liberal regulations and taxation run amok.
Barack Obama has offered mucho "change" and "hope". "Change" and "hope", when it comes to politicians, often has a hefty price tag. When history is made, the moment will be, we'll all feel special, and people move on. The D Train lost its luster, and so will the O Train.
I have just put up here an article by Arlene Peck titled "Tending Everyone Else's Garden" which points out that many rich Jews would rather donate to almost any charity rather than support or donate to an Israeli cause. Like the Jews of Nazi Germany, they think that if they blend into the host society, nobody will ever come for them.
Taranto has a good coverage of the current Democrat delirium about Obama.
Charlie Foxtrot has found a link between Obama and the racist Leftists of America's prewar era.
Yuk!: "Obama's appeal in part is that he incarnates the Democratic Party. He is both a highly educated member of the upper middle class and a half-minority. As one of my acquaintances put it, referring to the way Obama blends an educated articulation of policy positions with the uplifting cadences of the African-American preacher: "Who better to represent us?" Some continue: "Who better to heal our racial wounds?" When I press them on this point, explaining that I live in the most racially diverse neighborhood in the U.S. and that I'm not looking for a priestly President who can absolve me of my sins, I'm told that such absolution is a good thing-whether I want it or not."
Obama - A Clean, Well Spoken Idiot: "It's almost like the "Second Coming", but not of Martin Luther King, as Hillary notes. But to see how the MSM and a lot of America is fawning over Barak Obama is indicative of how gullible we have become. After all this is the America that celebrates third-rate, drug addicted trailer trash - such as Britney Spears, and yet still considers her a "celebrity"..... it appears that the fact that Obama, who is even more of a leftist than Hillary Clinton, who can speak well and - in the words of Joe Biden is a - "A Clean Black", is wooing everyone into submission (did I say submission?). Which is more indicative of just how stupid we have become as a nation. Forget the substance, just sit dumbly and get mesmerized by the music. Note that no one is talking about his ideas which in the case of foreign policy border on the insane, or even of his background, much of which has yet to be answered for. It's all about how he looks and talks, as if those were the only criteria. So we may have an idiot as the next president, albeit a well spoken one."
A remarkably sober comment from a Leftist: "Obama has a great deal of crossover ideological appeal, based primarily on style and mood rather than policy substance. By standard measures, Obama is on the most left-hand side of the respectable political distribution (things like ADA and ACU scores). Now, these may not be great predictors of his behavior in office. In fact, my gut tells me that he's not highly committed to Democratic government producerist interests, and that he has a considerable libertarian streak. But there's just no way to know, and it's not quite clear that he even really knows, since he hasn't had to figure out what his abstract positions mean when faced with lots of zero-sum choices between alternative courses of action (see above on experience). A considerable part of Obamania syndrome (of which I am a victim) is a tendency to project our own beliefs onto the guy. So, more moderate Democrats and even conservatives extrapolate from the fact that he is respectful toward their views, that he is sympathetic to them. Which may be true, but probably isn't"
New findings seem to contradict one of the most widely accepted assumptions about ageing: that the human brain is at its most powerful between the ages of 18 and 26. Scientists have discovered that intelligence, instead of peaking in our youth, remains stable and in some respects gets sharper as we grow older. The researchers found that verbal skills continued to increase for at least two decades beyond the age of 20, while arithmetic ability remained constant.
Their work suggests that many assumptions made by employers, policymakers and educational institutions about ageing need to be rethought. "Verbal ability appears to keep increasing over time," said Lars Larsen, a psychologist at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, who led the research. In the study, Dr Larsen obtained the records of 4300 US ex-servicemen who had been given a battery of intelligence tests when they joined the military at the age of about 20. The same servicemen were tested again two decades later. Dr Larsen's research involved carrying out a meticulous comparison of the two sets of data. The results, published in Intelligence, a peer-reviewed academic journal, show that the real changes in intelligence are more marked and more complex than had been realised.
Dr Larsen believes that the most likely reason for improvements in verbal skills is simply practice. Older people have had to solve far more social and practical problems than younger ones, so they have been forced to develop complex language skills. This effect overrides the slow but steady loss of brain cells that modern medical scanning techniques have confirmed begins in the late 20s.
The study is part of a revolution in research into intelligence that began several years ago and has overturned the idea that intelligence peaks in early adulthood and then begins a slow and inevitable decline. Lorraine Tyler, head of the centre for speech, language and the brain at Cambridge University in England, said: "When we image the brain, we do see physical atrophy with age but brain function can be preserved. This shows how plastic the brain is. It adapts and changes with age and other challenges."
Such findings raise the question of why past generations of psychologists suggested that reaching adulthood was followed by decline. Part of the explanation lies in the way people were tested, with researchers, often young, applying the same tests to young and old alike, without making allowances for educational and cultural differences.
In line with their usual love of boogeymen, various Leftists (example here) have been speading the fear that Obama will be assasinated by "gun-toting racists" (one of the many abusive Leftist tems for conservatives). It presumably reflects the way Leftists themselves would act if Obama were a conservative. Why? Because the threat is entirely made-up. There have been no events leading to it. Daniel Pipes has pointed out however that Obama is an apostate Muslim and that IS cause for him to be assassinated -- by Muslims, not by conservatives. No Leftist so far seems to have mentioned that the last successful political assassination (of RFK) in America was by an anti-Israel Arab (Sirhan). The Leftist post I mentioned above goes right through the history of political shootings in the USA without mentioning the name Sirhan. But a dishonest summary of the facts is routine for Leftists, of course.
It stands to reason that people moving interstate in the USA would tend to move from high-taxing States to low-tax States. Suitably Flip has proof that there is such a statistical tendency. Tax is not the only factor, however. Pusuit of a warmer climate is probably the main factor. Strange that Al Gore thinks that a warmer climate is a bad thing!
U.N. corruption has harmed Iraq: "Iraq's culture of corruption stems from the actions of the international community and the controversial UN oil-for-food scheme, the deputy prime minister Barham Saleh said on Thursday. Speaking at a new anti-corruption forum in Baghdad, Saleh said that the programme, run between 1996 and 2003 while Iraq was under UN sanctions, and what he charged was the body's wasteful use of money were to blame for the rampant corruption that bedevils Iraq. "A large responsibility for the outbreak of corruption in Iraq lies on the international community," said Saleh. "The scandals of food-for-oil and the wasting of public riches by the UN... is evidence of the serious damage that has deepened the problem in the country."
Global privacy study: Big Brother gets bigger: "According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly invading the privacy of citizens with surveillance, identification systems, and archiving of private data. Driven by concern over immigration and border control, countries have been quick to implement database, identity, and fingerprinting systems, according to the 2007 International Privacy Ranking report."
It takes publicity to move bureaucracies: "Kerry Beal was taken aback when he discovered last March that many of his fellow security guards at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania were taking regular naps in what they called "the ready room." When he spoke to supervisors at his company, Wackenhut Corp., they told Beal to be a team player. When he alerted the regional office of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, regulators let the matter drop after the plant's owner, Exelon, said it found no evidence of guards asleep on the job. So Beal videotaped the sleeping guards. The tape, eventually given to WCBS, a CBS television affiliate in New York City, showed the armed workers snoozing against walls, slumped on tabletops or with eyes closed and heads bobbing. The fallout of the broadcast is still being felt. Last month, Exelon, the country's largest provider of nuclear power, fired Wackenhut, which had guarded each of its 10 nuclear plants. The NRC is reviewing its own oversight procedures, having failed to heed Beal's warning"
Brits go nuke: "A new generation of nuclear power stations will be encouraged to supply unlimited amounts of electricity to the national grid, The Times has learnt. The Cabinet will give the go-ahead for the new building programme today and John Hutton, the Business Secretary, will announce the decision on Thursday. He will pave the way for the nuclear industry to play a much bigger part in meeting Britain's energy needs by making plain that there will be no limit on the amount of electricity it can supply to the grid. At present nuclear power accounts for 20 per cent of energy supplies."
A bit of silliness from "The Times" of London: "UK living standards outstrip US"
Living standards in Britain are set to rise above those in America for the first time since the 19th century, according to a report by the respected Oxford Economics consultancy. The calculations suggest that, measured by gross domestic product per capita, Britain can now hold its head up high in the economic stakes after more than a century of playing second fiddle to the Americans.
Oxford Economics says that while the comparisons are affected by sterling's high value against the dollar, they also reflect longer-term factors. "The UK has been catching up steadily with living standards in the US since 2001 -- so, it is a well established trend rather than simply the result of currency fluctuations," its report says. It concedes, however, that a significant fall in the pound against other currencies would push Britain back down the ladder. It has assumed an exchange rate of just over $2 for the purpose of the calculation but in recent days the pound has slipped below that level.
"The crowds are packing the pavements around Oxford Circus Tube station. On the roads, cars and buses are jammed in a giant gridlock. This is central London - but it's not the pre-Christmas rush or the height of the sales. It's just the start of another working day. Similar problems afflict many city centres: Birmingham's New Street, Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street and Edinburgh's Princes Street see similar daily throngs. It is something that city dwellers have become accustomed to, but living in British cities used to be a very different experience."
I used to love London but I am glad I don't live there now.
Huckabee's Surge Statements Don't Jibe: "Governor Mike Huckabee was questioned this morning on FOX News and ABC News about his transparently false claim that he supported the troop surge in Iraq before Governor Mitt Romney. When confronted with his own words from back in January this morning on "This Week," Governor Huckabee tried and failed to have it both ways."
Democrat candidates willful denial on Anbar awakening: "There's a truth the Democratic presidential candidates can't handle: the success of the "surge" in Iraq. The addition of American troops and the adoption of a new strategy of protecting the civilian population has now dramatically reduced the level of violence in Baghdad and pacified other parts of Iraq as well. But the Democratic candidates insist on pretending otherwise. It isn't clear whether they were uninformed, out of touch, mistaken, politically fearful, or knowingly dishonest when they were asked to comment on the surge during an ABC television debate Saturday night in New Hampshire. In any case, their refusal to acknowledge success in Iraq marked a low point in the Democratic campaign."
Obama Shows the Audacity to Exaggerate & Make Stuff Up: "Barack Obama did not have the slightest idea what he was talking about when he touched on the Anbar Awakening tonight in the New Hampshire Democratic Debate on ABC. Obama says it wasn't the troop surge-- it was the Democrats winning in 2006 that caused the Anbar Awakening! In reality- the main ones cheering the Democratic win in November were Khamenei, Iran, Al-Qaeda, North Korea, etc. Not only that... Obama also said the Anbar Awakening was an attempt by the Sunnis to make peace with the Shia. SORRY- The Anbar Awakening was an agreement among Sunni Tribal Leaders to join together to fight Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorists. It had nothing to do with the Shiites. Obama showed that besides hope- he also has the audacity to make things up.... the actual formalization of the Anbar Awakening had been ongoing for more than a year. It wasn't something that just happened when Pelosi the Terrible took over the House... Try February 2006."
British Conservatives to cut back jobless benefits: "The unemployed would be forced to take a job or lose their benefits under radical Tory proposals to get millions of people receiving state hand-outs back to work. Under proposals to be unveiled by David Cameron this week, the unemployed would be required to take part in mandatory welfare-to-work programmes designed to prepare and train them for jobs. If they refuse a reasonable job offer, they could be banned from claiming unemployment benefits for up to three years. The welfare-to-work schemes, modelled on programmes in the United States and Australia, will be run by private firms and charitable groups who will be paid according to the number of people they keep in work. In reforms that will infuriate disability pressure groups, the Conservatives also intend to force every person claiming incapacity benefit to be tested to see if they are too ill to get a job. The Conservatives estimate that at least 200,000 incapacity benefit claimants are making false claims"
'Honest Abe' was not racially enlightened, as many people think. The truth is both ugly and unpleasant: Not only was the ghastly, bloody war that he supposedly fought to end slavery unnecessary, Lincoln was a tyrant and an abuser of civil liberties. The "tyrant" part is well-documented. He suspended habeas corpus. He deported a US Congressman who disagreed with the war. He had Federal police impound dissenting newspapers and smash their presses. He authorized Sherman's March to the Sea -a war crime, by any civilized human standard.
The above excerpts are from a libertarian site. Most libertarians do abhor Lincoln for his authoritarianism and vast expansion of central government power. I myself have a similar view -- as I set out here. To me "Lincoln the liberator" is perhaps the greatest myth of the 19th century -- not unlike the "Hitler was a Rightist" myth of the 20th century. Politicians do find myths very handy at times.
There is a big review here of the absurd "600,000 Iraqi deaths" study reported in Lancet. It confirms concerns expressed by myself and others about the lack of basic verification of the raw data and reveals that the "data" was collected by a former Saddam Hussein operative known for large exaggerations! There is in fact no evidence that any survey at all was carried out. The safest assumption is that the whole thing was just made up! A crooked Iraqi simply gave Western Leftists what they wanted.
Media bias against Fred Thompson: "To my best memory, none of the pundits at Fox News Channel had predicted this week that Thompson would rank that high, yet instead of commenting on Thompson doing unexpectedly well, the pundits at Fox -- when they talked about Thompson at all -- joined Mike Allen of Politico in concluding that a third place finish means Thompson's campaign is at death's door. At the same time, Allen and the pundits were very enthused about McCain's possible fourth place finish, stating he was in great position for the future. Say again? As Rush Limbaugh noted today, the media seem to be falling in line behind a "McCain comeback" story, and they're thus shaping the facts to fit that scenario."
Muslims now running the Pentagon? "Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism, has been fired from his position on the military's Joint Staff. The action followed a report in this space last week revealing opposition to his work for the military by pro-Muslim officials within the office of Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England. Mr. Coughlin was notified this week that his contract with the Joint Staff will end in March, effectively halting the career of one of the U.S. government's most important figures in analyzing the nature of extremism and ultimately preparing to wage ideological war against it. He had run afoul of a key aide to Mr. England, Hasham Islam, who confronted Mr. Coughlin during a meeting several weeks ago when Mr. Islam sought to have Mr. Coughlin soften his views on Islamist extremism."
The AP shellacs "Relic" Bill Clinton.: "In a presidential race where the Democratic candidates are competing as agents of change, Hillary Rodham Clinton's most reliable campaign prop is something of a political relic - her husband. The former president was at her side to help put the best face on her third-place finish Thursday in Iowa, and he was beside her again when dawn broke the next day on the final push to Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. "I was never more proud of Hillary in all the days we've been together and all the days of this campaign than when she gave that speech in Iowa," the ex-president told New Hampshire voters. The candidate's husband, meanwhile, tends to ramble on about himself."
Barack Obama wants to end the US "Occupation" of Iraq: "In an 11-minute interview with hometown Chicago radio broadcaster and journalist, Roland Martin, Barack Obama revealed that his first act, if elected president, would be to pull our troops out of Iraq as quickly as possible: "Well, we will call in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I will give them a new assignment and that is to bring our troops home in a careful, responsible way, but to end this occupation in Iraq".
Obama races to 10-point lead over Hillary: "Barack Obama the 46-year-old senator aiming to become America's first black president, has stormed into a 10-point lead over Hillary Clinton in this week's critical New Hampshire primary, threatening to send her campaign into meltdown. The Rasmussen survey, which was carried out the day after Obama's victory in last Thursday's Iowa caucuses, put his support at 37% in New Hampshire, compared with 27% for Clinton. The poll of 510 likely Democratic voters signalled a further swing away from the 60-year-old former first lady, whose campaign portrayed her as the "inevitable" victor until she was beaten into third place in Iowa".
For sale: America's nuclear secrets: "A whistleblower has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency's Washington field office. She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey. Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions".
Trying to get an obsessive-compulsive to stop his obsessive rituals is a notoriously futile process. You might interrupt the compulsive behaviours momentarily but they very rapidly resume. It is only by treating the cause of the behaviour (by deconditioning, for instance) that you have some chance of success. Even then you will often fail.
I am reminded of that sort of compulsion when I read academics writing about race. For most, their statements are completely predictable, completely irrational and quite closed off from any contradiction, discordant evidence or dissuasion. They NEED to aggrandize themselves as angels of light and pesky facts must never stand in the way of that.
It's just fact-free Leftist boilerplate by and large -- but hedged with more weasel words than usual. Take the last sentence. He clearly wants to say: "we insist on the absence of differences among biological races" but that is so obviously false that he inserts "deep" and "essential" to cover himself. So that no matter what evidence you present after that, he is able to say that the difference is not "deep" or "essential" enough. For non-critical readers, however, what he appears to be saying is the unhedged version of the statement: A version which is "angelic", meaningful and quite false.
He is just not interested in discussing the facts -- such as the hugely greater crime-rate among blacks -- that might disprove his line of holy propaganda. What he actually says is just mumbo jumbo parading as meaningful discourse. And he is supposed to be an expert in the philosophy of science! All that he is an expert in is unfalsifiable statements. But he has been much awarded by his colleagues so his Leftist religious convictions have served him well.
KBJ gives a more extensive dissection of Kitcher's confused line of argument, if you can call it argument. It's more an orison (ritual prayer).
Palestinians have a hidden history of appreciating Israel that contrasts with their better-known narrative of vilification and irredentism. The former has been particularly evident of late, especially since Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, floated a trial balloon in October about transferring some Arab-dominated areas of eastern Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority. As he rhetorically asked about Israeli actions in 1967, "Was it necessary to annex the Shuafat refugee camp, al-Sawahra, Walajeh, and other villages, and then to state that these are part of Jerusalem? One can ask, I admit, some legitimate questions about this."
In one swoop, this statement transformed pro-Israel statements by Palestinians (for a sampling, see my 2005 article, "The Hell of Israel Is Better than the Paradise of Arafat") from the mostly theoretical into the active and political. Indeed, Olmert's musings prompted some belligerent responses. As the title of a Globe and Mail news item puts it, "Some Palestinians prefer life in Israel: In East Jerusalem, residents say they would fight a handover to Abbas regime." The article offers the example of Nabil Gheit, who, with two stints in Israeli prisons and posters of "the martyr Saddam Hussein" over the cash register in his store, would be expected to cheer the prospect of parts of eastern Jerusalem coming under PA control.
Not so. As mukhtar of Ras Khamis, near Shuafat, Gheit dreads the PA and says he and others would fight a handover. "If there was a referendum here, no one would vote to join the Palestinian Authority...There would be another intifada to defend ourselves from the PA."
Two polls released last week, from Keevoon Research, Strategy & Communications and the Arabic-language newspaper As-Sennara, survey representative samples of adult Israeli Arabs on the issue of joining the PA, and they corroborate what Gheit says. Asked, "Would you prefer to be a citizen of Israel or of a new Palestinian state?" 62 percent want to remain Israeli citizens and 14 percent want to join a future Palestinian state. Asked, "Do you support transferring the Triangle [an Arab-dominated area in northern Israel] to the Palestinian Authority?" 78 percent oppose the idea and 18 percent support it.
On "Time" magazine's aptly-named "Swampland" blog, we see that one of those marvellously "professional" MSM journalists spells "bellwether" as "bell weather" -- in the very first line of her article. She obviously has no clue that the expression refers to a sheep. In case they correct it, the original is quoted here. I love the headline of the article, though: "Hillary Booed at NH Democratic Party Dinner". It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.
Democrat donor jailed for fraud: "A Chinese-American businessman who raised thousands of dollars for Democratic Party presidential hopefuls was jailed for three years Friday over a 1992 fraud case. A judge at San Mateo County Court near San Francisco rejected last minute pleas by defence lawyers for Hong Kong-born fundraiser Norman Hsu's 16-year-old conviction for running a ponzi scheme to be set aside, court officials said. Hsu, 56, who is reported to have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign before it was later returned by the New York senator, pleaded no contest to the case in February 1992 and agreed to serve three years behind bars and pay a 10,000-dollar fine.


What is the County/School dress code policy?
What is the Eleanor Roosevelt High School Textbook Policy?
What is the ERHS Bell Schedule?
How do I rent or reserve space for a function at Eleanor Roosevelt?
Shirts and blouses should be continuous from neckline to waist. The entire mid-section should not show. No tank tops and muscle shirts.
No clothing with vulgar language, obscene pictures, weapons, drug/alcohol or drug paraphernalia and tobacco products.
No identifiable gang/crew clothing or paraphernalia.
Skirts, dresses, shorts, and spandex skirts should be approximately six (6") inches below the buttocks, or no shorter than fingertip level.
Pants should be secured at waist - no sagging below the waist to expose undergarments.
Tights, stretch pants, leggings, and body suits must be worn with clothing long enough to cover buttocks.
All teachers who issue textbooks to students are required to follow the policy listed below. Teachers are encouraged to share this policy with their students several times during the year and to check for books on a periodic basis.
Textbooks will be issued to students using the "Book Issue/Return Form." All the appropriate information should be completed on the book form before the teacher collects it from the student.
The teacher will require an end of course activity that will be averaged into the student's final grade. This activity may be an exam, project, presentation, etc. The text for the course will be collected on the day of the closing activity. If a student does not have his or her book or the money to pay for the book on the day of the closing activity, the teacher will allow the student to complete the assignment but will not grade the activity until the book is returned or debt paid.
Teachers will submit book slips to their department chairs at the end of each semester. One corner of the book slip form needs to be clipped off for all core subject textbooks.
Any organization inquiring about building rental or use, please contact Mr. Eric Dent. He is the school's calendar and facility use coordinator. Please do not wait for the month of use since the school's calendar may not contain up-to-date activities and events. Most available dates are selected by the end of September.
Lunch period schedules will adapt to special bell schedules but will always remain Periods 3 through 7.


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Q: How to run TTask multiple times in parallel? I've a simple method that use TTask method to perform a long time operation calling a datasnap server.
The method below does the job:
procedure AssignPhoto(PhotoName, Folder: string; Image: TImage);
var
   Server: TSMClient;
   Size: Int64;
begin
  Server := TSMClient.Create(dmDados.DSRestConnection1);
  Size := 0;
  TTask.Run(
  procedure
  var
    PhotoStream: TStream;
  begin
    { 1. Long time operation calls datasnap to get a stream }
    PhotoStream := Server.DownloadFile(PhotoName, Folder, Size);

    { 2. Get the result in the UI Thread and display the picture }
    TThread.Synchronize(nil,
    procedure
    begin
      Image.Picture.LoadFromStream(PhotoStream);
      FreeAndNil(Server);
    end);

  end);
end;

As you can see, this just call a datasnap server to get a TStream picture and load it into a TImage that was passed as a parameter.
The method works well, however, the problem is: if I call this method twice it doesn't work.
I call this method twice to load user's profile photo and user's id photo as the code below suggest.
  if FUrlProfile <> '' then
    AssignPhoto(FUrlProfile, PROFILE_PHOTO, imgProfile);
  if FUrlDoc <> '' then
    AssignPhoto(FUrlDoc, DOC_PHOTO, imgDoc);

This opens a form and load the pictures in two TImage components.

*

*The first time I open the form it works pretty well;

*When I try to open the form again. The second time I try to open the form I get the error:
ENetHTTPRequestException with message 'Error adding header: (87) Incorrect Parameter'
I know that,

*

*If I load only one picture it works pretty well all the time.

*If I open the form, close and open again really fast it causes the error.

*If I open the form, close, wait for a while and open it again it doesn't cause the error. It seams it needs to get something done before starting the procedure again.

So the problem is that it seams I can't call the TTask method multiple times. Maybe, am I missing something?

A: @J... was correct in his comment. The problem was because I was using the same TDSRestConnection in multiple threads.
So, creating a TDSRestConnection each time the method was created is the solution.
procedure AssignPhoto(PhotoName, Folder: string; Image: TImage);
var
  Server: TSMClient;
  Size: Int64;
  DSRestConnection: TDSRestConnection;
begin
  DSRestConnection := GetConnection; // Creates a new TDSRestConnection
  Server := TSMClient.Create(DSRestConnection);
  Size := 0;
  TTask.Run(
  procedure
  var
    PhotoStream: TStream;
  begin
    { 1. Long time operation calls datasnap to get a stream }
    PhotoStream := Server.DownloadFile(PhotoName, Folder, Size);

    { 2. Get the result in the UI Thread and display the picture }
    TThread.Synchronize(nil,
    procedure
    begin
      Image.Picture.LoadFromStream(PhotoStream);
      FreeAndNil(Server);
    end);

  end);
end;

function GetConnection: TDSRestConnection;
begin
  Result := TDSRestConnection.Create(nil);
  Result.Host := SERVER_HOST;
  Result.Port := SERVER_PORT;
end;

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I'll have a more detailed update in a few days. I just wanted to say welcome and thank you to everyone who's backed the project so far. And to say even though we made our goal, keep spreading the word about the magazine. A larger community behind the magazine not only means a physically higher quality magazine but improved content as well.
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whoops [profile] has commented on 3 tracks.
Order by - songtitle - year -	performer - date recommended
Going out of My Head performed by Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 1966
Recommended by delicado [profile]
A wonderful version of "Going out of my head", which was originally sung by Little Anthony and the Imperials. It's a great song anyway, with really nice words (well, nice for a Smiths fan like me, anyway: 'there's no reason why...my being shy...should keep us apart...'), but Sergio Mendes also adds an extra musical edge to the chorus, and this really adds a new dimension to the song. The instrumentation is classic Brasil 66: Percussive jazz piano, group vocals, and a driving bossa nova beat.
from Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 (A&M SP4116)
13 Jul 02 ·whoops: I totally agree with you. Their version of Caetalo Veloso's Lost in paradise is also quite wonderful.
L'anthracite performed by Serge Gainsbourg 1959
Recommended by whoops [profile]
Early Serge Gainsbourg masterpiece with an "exotica" feel. The backing track is a far-east melody while the lyrics are simply beautiful. Gainsbourg used the characteristics of the anthracite to describe his feelings about a girl. It's a kind of first step into what was to be the apex of his first period, the "Gainsbourg percussions" LP of 1964.
from N�2 (Philips)
available on CD - Couleur caf� (Mercury/Philips)
04 Jan 04 ·whoops: sorry, in place of "far east" please read "middle east" in the recommendation above.
Oasis performed by Wonderwall
Recommended by xicanti [profile]
Fine. I like it because it's mournful and I find the lyrics intriguing. Every time I listen to it, I come up with a different theory on what it might mean. It interests me.
And why NOT recommend it if I like it? If you don't, then fine, but I'll thank you not to jump down my throat because I do.
11 Jul 04 ·djfreshmoney: How about filling in the rest of the info, including the reasons you're recommending the song! Tell me why you think this band and the song are good! Without that, your recommendation isn't really worth anything.
13 Jul 04 ·Undercover_Owl: I also love Wonderwall by Oasis! (Does anybody really need explanation......unless they haven't heard this song before.....please!) This isn't my ultimate favorite song, but it's a notably good one, IMO. It's tough to describe. DJFRESHMONEY: can you describe this song for us?
13 Jul 04 ·whoops: ok, i'll try to describe it for you two, Oasis addicts : Totally bombastic song, that set me in the mood to reconsider the quality of the Robyn Hitchcock bad lp's i still have in my collection everytime i hear it (thanks god it's not so often nowadays), at least Robyn Hitchcock knows how to craft a delicate pop song using only three chords. To answer your question Undercover_Owl, yes sometimes an explanation is necessary since we can't read in your head, neither in your heart...and no, everyone who have heard this song doesn't necessarily love it.
14 Jul 04 ·snafkin: I'm not jumping down anyones throat! Wonderwall is a great song but everybody knows it already - how about an Oasis b side that people might have missed! Don't be so touchy! ;-)
30 Jun 05 ·karitopv5: ok... now... hello to everybody... god... i'm new in these... so... someone can explain me the real meaning of wonderwall or just... explain it... god, every time i hear it i love it more... but i find 2 sences to the song and i don't know wich is the one that is correct... SOMEBODY help me PLEASE!... ok... that's all thank you xoxox
30 Jun 05 ·n-jeff: Ialways thought it was a song about Cocaine. But I may be wrong.
BTW Paul Anka's version is great! Just what we need in these troubled times.
30 Jun 05 ·konsu: "Wonderwall" is an english film from 1968 that may have inspired this song. It has a soundtrack by 3rd Beatle George Harrison thats actually quite gorgeous. It also has Jane Birkin playing a pregnant model who attempts suicide... sound like a song?
Recommend your favorite tracks

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Betlen János (Budapest, 1946. július 27. –) közgazdász, tolmács, műfordító végzettségű televíziós műsorvezető.

Élete

Betlen Oszkár újságíró, történész fia. 1958-ban a Szovjetunióban volt úttörőtáborban, ahová mint jó oroszos kerülhetett. Egyetemi tanulmányait a Marx Károly Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetem nemzetközi kapcsolatok szakán végezte.

Pályáját a Magyar Rádiónál kezdte 1969-ben, ahol a külföldi adások munkatársa – ezen belül rövid időre főszerkesztője – egészen 1994-ig. 1984-85 között a Soros Alapítvány budapesti irodájának titkára, 1989-ig külső munkatársa.

Televíziós munkája a Magyar Televízióhoz kötődik. Az MTV-nél 1989-ben kezd dolgozni műsorvezetőként, szerkesztőként. Eközben egy Heti Hetes-szerű műsort csinált a Fenyő János-féle TV4 csatornán "Tévés négyes" címmel Havas Henrikkel, Horvát Jánossal és Verebes Istvánnal közösen. Munkatársa a TV Híradónak, amelynek rövid ideig, 1994. július – 1995. május között főszerkesztője. Műsorvezetője az Aktuális és a Záróra című hírműsoroknak, a Törzsasztalnak, a Kormányvárónak. A Magyar Televízió 1-es csatornája 1995-ben tűzte műsorra az egyéniségére szabott, hétköznapi emberek életével foglalkozó Jani házhoz megy című sorozatát.

1992-től a Nap-keltében dolgozott műsorvezetőként. Miután az MTV levette a Nap-keltét a képernyőről, 2009 októberétől az új reggeli közéleti magazinban, a Ma Reggelben lett műsorvezető. 2011 szeptemberétől a Duna TV "Klubszoba" című heti beszélgetős műsorába került.

A Metazin internetes magazin szerkesztője Pogonyi Szabolccsal.

Művei
 Fekete felhő Olaszország felett; Kossuth, Bp., 1972
 Aktuális volt; Alexandra, Pécs, 2002

Fordításai
 Antonio Gramsci: Az új fejedelem (Magyar Helikon, 1977)
 Roger Borniche: A banda (Európa, 1980)
 André Brink: Fekete éjbe nézve (Európa, 1980)
 Michel de Ghelderode: Drámák (Európa, 1982)
 André Brink: Aszály vagy vízözön  (Magvető, 1982)
 Gore Vidal: Teremtés (Európa, 1985)
 Antonin Artaud: Könyörtelen színház (Gondolat, 1985)
 Winston Churchill: A második világháború (1989)
 George Orwell: Hódolat Katalóniának (Interart Studió, 1989)
 Primo Levi: Akik odavesztek és akik megmenekültek (Európa, 1990)

Jegyzetek

Források
 napkelte.wildom.hu

További információk
Titkos helyek – Séta Betlen Jánossal a II. kerületben  – Heti Válasz, 2008. március 30.

Magyar újságírók
Magyar közgazdászok
Magyar műfordítók
Magyar rádiósok, televíziósok
1946-ban született személyek
Hieronymus-díjasok
Budapesten született személyek
Élő személyek
A Charta '77 aláírói

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Q: Undefined is not an object (evaluating 'navigator.permissions.query') I am getting this error when trying to access my website on an iPhone 7, with a white bank screen (the main screen loads fine, but then I get this at the net screen after I click something.
I assume this is what it's talking about:
  useEffect(() => {
    navigator.permissions
      .query({ name: "microphone" })
      .then((permissionStatus) => {
        setMicrophonePermissionGranted(permissionStatus.state === "granted");

        permissionStatus.onchange = function () {
          setMicrophonePermissionGranted(this.state === "granted");
        };
      });

    navigator.permissions.query({ name: "camera" }).then((permissionStatus) => {
      setCameraPermissionGranted(permissionStatus.state === "granted");

      permissionStatus.onchange = function () {
        setCameraPermissionGranted(this.state === "granted");
      };
    });
  }, []);

How do I fix this?

A: You need to check permission APIs availability and then if not available - query standard APIs.
Here is the location example:
Permissions API
Navigation API

if ( navigator.permissions && navigator.permissions.query) {
//try permissions APIs first
  navigator.permissions.query({ name: 'geolocation' }).then(function(result) {
      // Will return ['granted', 'prompt', 'denied']
      const permission = result.state;
      if ( permission === 'granted' || permission === 'prompt' ) {
          _onGetCurrentLocation();
      }
  });
} else if (navigator.geolocation) {
//then Navigation APIs
  _onGetCurrentLocation();
}

function _onGetCurrentLocation () {
    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
        //imitate map latlng construct
        const marker = {
          lat: position.coords.latitude,
          lng: position.coords.longitude
        };
    })
}

A: Permissions.query() is marked as an experimental feature as of June 2021 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Permissions/query.
As of today, that traduces into that you'll need to implement two UIs / flows; one capable of supporting fancy flows to tell the user how to proceed, and the other one more standard, using try / catch blocks. Something like:
useEffect(() => {
    requestPermissions();
}, []);

const requestPermissions = async () => {
    try {
        handlePermissionsGranted();
        const stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ audio: true, video: true });
        startRecording();
    } catch {
        ...
    }
};

const handlePermissionsGranted = async () => {
    if (navigator.permissions && navigator.permissions.query) {
        const permissions = await navigator.permissions.query({name: 'microphone'});
        permissions.onchange = () => {
          setMicrophonePermissionGranted(permissions === 'granted');
        };
    }
};

const startRecording = async () => {
    try {
        const stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ audio: true, video: false });
        const mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(stream, { mimeType: 'audio/webm' });
        ...
    } catch {
        ... << if you reach this catch means that either the browser does not support webrtc or that the user didn't grant permissions
    }
};

A: I was trying to check for the mic and camera permissions from iOs devices and through the Facebook browser, which I guess makes the whole thing fail, as these don't exist in those environments.
Once I've moved that query to the component that only loads if it is not a mobile device, my error fixed.


Before issuing any Radius requests, the library must be made aware of the servers it can contact. The easiest way to configure the library is to call radius_config(). radius_config() causes the library to read a configura╜ tion file whose format is described in radius.conf. The pathname of the configuration file is passed as the file argument to radius_config(). The library can also be configured programmatically by calls to radius_add_server().


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How Skateboarders Are Paving The Way For Gamers Everywhere
Skateboarding and esports are one and the same when it comes to being major disruptors in the traditional sports scene. But while neither are considered "mainstream", there's almost a cultish feel if you're on the inside, nurtured by a shared language, look and attitude. It's probably because anyone can join, participate, and enjoy without any formalities associated with traditional sports. While many traditional sports entail long-established structures, where you start in youth leagues, progress to junior varsity or varsity school teams, advanced to college ranks, and then maybe get scouted and hit the big time, that's not the case with skateboarding or esports. As soon as you can click controllers or mount rollers – you're in! And you're welcome. It's then up to you to determine how far and high you ascend.
A year before the turn of the century Tony Hawk landed his famous "900" in the X-Games that catapulted skateboarding into the consciousness of those outside the cult, leading to a new era of popularity. While the distinguished identity of skateboarders remained unchanged, their fan base exploded beyond the narrow group of skaters themselves. Embedded in boarder culture was a deep sense of individualism reflected partially in disinterest in the rituals of elite athletes in traditional sports such as nutrition, sleep, and physical and mental support from trainers and doctors.
Today, spurred by the spotlight on high-profile boarders preparing for the first-ever Olympics, we are hearing about more and more embracing healthy routines similar to their counterparts in other sports. Zion Wright, for example, who will compete in the first-ever skateboarding competition in the Tokyo Olympics, is focused on nutrition, strength training and regular cardio and physical therapy. Like athletes in other sports, the realization is taking hold that to reach and remain at the height of their sport, boarders must ensure their downtime from practicing and competing is minimized and that they are in top physical and mental condition. Zion, for example, takes the time after practice and competitions to recover properly by stretching, foam-rolling, and replenishing lost nutrients.
Gamers have the chance to take a page from boarders and start building healthy rituals into their daily routines. If they don't, they risk going down the same path as recent high-profile gamers like Uzi and ZooMaa who retired in their early 20's due to musculoskeletal and cognitive health issues that come with long hours of highly focused, relentless competition. Uzi, China's most prominent League of Legends player, recently announced his retirement at age 23 saying: "As a result of staying up late for years, a fatty diet and being under insurmountable stress, last year I found out that I was type-2 diabetic… The doctor has told me that if I continue there could be serious complications."
However, awareness is creeping into the world or gaming that "healthy gamer" need not be an oxymoron. Some high-profile streamers are now even streaming their weekly fitness training sessions. One can of course question how that's helping the thousands sitting on their couches watching the streamed workouts — but hey, it's a start! Additionally, some brands that have cultivated a culture of caffeine and sugar to keep gamers playing for long periods of time are now trying to pivot towards healthier alternatives.
One new brand, SummaForte has created a product line designed to bring healthy rituals into the lives of gamers. By listening to their concerns and interests, SummaForte leveraged leading science behind CBD to create bespoke products aimed directly at the health needs they identified. The first two products, SummaMix and SummaTape, take advantage of innovative technologies to ensure that the award-winning "Lifter" strain of CBD delivers as much benefit as possible. SummaMix, a daily drink mix supplement, contains a trifecta of nutrients that combines CBD with natural lutein and nootropic for vision and cognitive health. The CBD helps gamers remain balanced and achieve homeostasis throughout the day versus dealing with the bucking up-and-down rodeo that comes with caffeine and sugar-filled drinks and snacks. The other two nutrients promote longer term vision and cognitive health to help them stay focused, quick and accurate into the future.
SummaTape combines kinesiology tape and CBD and gamers are already loving it. The CBD is delivered through the skin while wearing the tape at typical gamer "pain points" like atop fingers, on the wrists, or along the neck or back. It packs a double-whammy of the anti-inflammatory effects of both the kinesiology tape and the CBD, while also delivering the calming, sustained energy characteristic of CBD.
This year the Handbook of Esports Medicine – Clinical Aspects of Competitive Video Gaming, was published by Dr. Lindsey Migliore, M.D. (aka "GamerDoc"). As a lifelong gamer herself, GamerDoc is a pioneer within the medical community, dedicating her career to addressing the long-ignored or misunderstood health risks and needs of gamers. She has partnered with SummaForte to raise awareness about health risks that plague esports, and simple remedies to overcome them.
While SummaForte was created with gamers in mind, they've found their products have helped a wide range of consumers looking for an effective way to remedy their muscle pains, eye strain, neck tension, and lack of energy. Make sure to check out SummaForte today and get a FREE 8ft SummaTape with the purchase of a SummaMix, no code needed!
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Q: FAB Not Anchored Correctly - Android Design Support Lib Currently I have a layout that I want to center the FAB at the bottom of the layout, but instead of being anchored at the bottom, it goes past the nav buttons and only gets anchored after scrolling down on the recyclerview.
My layouts are as follows:
activity_main.xml
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <!-- As the main content view, the view below consumes the entire
         space available using match_parent in both dimensions. -->
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">

            <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
                android:id="@+id/appbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content">

                <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
                    android:background="@color/primary"
                    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
                    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
                    app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"/>

                <android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
                    android:id="@+id/tabs"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    app:tabTextColor="@android:color/white"
                    app:tabSelectedTextColor="@android:color/white"
                    app:tabGravity="center"
                    android:theme="@style/Material"
                    app:tabIndicatorColor="@color/accent"
                    app:tabIndicatorHeight="@dimen/tabs_indicator_height"
                    app:tabMode="fixed"
                    android:background="@color/primary"
                    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"/>
            </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

            <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
                android:id="@+id/pager"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:clipChildren="true"
                android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
                app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"/>

        </android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

    </LinearLayout>

    <!-- android:layout_gravity="start" tells DrawerLayout to treat
         this as a sliding drawer on the left side for left-to-right
         languages and on the right side for right-to-left languages.
         If you're not building against API 17 or higher, use
         android:layout_gravity="left" instead. -->
    <!-- The drawer is given a fixed width in dp and extends the full height of
         the container. -->
    <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/drawer"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_header"
        app:menu="@menu/menu_drawer"/>

</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

fragment_event.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/list"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

    <com.melnykov.fab.FloatingActionButton
        android:id="@+id/fab"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="16dp"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom|center"
        app:layout_anchor="@id/appbar"
        app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|center"
        app:fab_colorNormal="@color/accent"/>

</FrameLayout>

The fragment is inside of the viewpager and this is what happens:

If i make the FAB a child of the Coordinator layout it works fine though...


Week 1. Lecture QA138: When man finishes his life, he then realizes that everything else is secondary to his attempts to find himself and to liberate himself from all that prohibits contact with his innermost self and with that of others. Then he will know that he has not lived his life in vain. Everything else is secondary, my friends. And anyone—regardless of what fulfillments where realizable— anyone who does his utmost will finish this lifetime in peace and in the deep knowledge he has fulfilled his life. Not how much is accomplished, spiritually, materially, emotionally, or intellectually, but how much have you really tried and overcome resistance, overcome those subtle elusive little tugs at you which want to pull you in the opposite direction.
Week 2. Lecture QA171: The healthier a person becomes—I mean healthier in mind and soul—the more he will see to it that he will also eat the proper food substances that further his physical health as well. While the person who continually eats the kind of food that will be detrimental to his body or not furthering for his body must have also a self-destructiveness, an inner will not to expand, not to feel energetic, not to live his best.
Week 4. Lecture QA142: "I want to look at myself in utter truth. I'm willing for that purpose to give up my preconceived ideas—all emotions and pseudosolutions and pseudosafety I hold on to—for the sake of truth, for the sake of integrity, for the sake of honesty. This is what I want. And my deepest inner being will furnish me with that awareness about this truth I need at this particular moment, which may be different than what yesterday's moment was and what tomorrow's moment will be." And this is the yardstick. If man would constantly do that, then his path toward self-realization would be a relatively very short one. And he would, on this road toward this attainment, be in constant vibrating energy and peace.
Week 5. Lecture 212: To the degree you offer generously and trustingly the best you have to give to life, allowing God to take over, to that very same degree will you feel perfectly entitled to spread your arms wide to receive the best life has to offer. To the degree you hold back in puny fear that this might damage your self-interest, to that same degree you must hold back from receiving life's riches. There can be no mistake in this calculation. There is this finely calibrated mechanism installed in the deepest regions of your psyche that works in absolute perfection.
Week 6. Lecture 253: There is a vast difference between hanging on to life because you fear annihilation of all you are, of who you have become, and between affirming life because you cherish the task your life on earth means.
Week 7. Lecture 25: You can reach perfection only by going through your imperfections, not by going around them! And this you should meditate on daily until this knowledge becomes part of you, until you are indoctrinated with this truth.
Week 8. Lecture 250: The very world you live in, the universe, all of creation, the way divine law is constructed, all are an expression of divine grace. You live and move and have your being in a universe that consists of such tenderness, such love, such personal care of the living God, the all eternal presence in all that is, that it simply defies description.
Week 9. Lecture 189: You are neither the negative traits nor your self-punishing conscience nor even your positive traits. But you have managed to integrate the latter into the fullness of your being. However, this is not the same as making them you. It is more accurate to say that that which managed this is you, that which integrated and determined, decided and acted, thought and willed, is you.
Week 10. Lecture 192: The unbearable, hard, and dangerous experience of pain is due to the false need that says "You must give me what I need, what I insist upon. If you do not, I will perish with a vengeance." This voice, my friends, must be discovered. It exists, to some degree, in everybody without exception. The more concealed it is, the further away you are from dissolving it and transforming your energy currents. If you can, let yourself experience this voice and recognize it for what it is, rather than identifying with it.
Week 12. QA149: To the extent man learns to fully accept himself and his life, his immediate now, and no longer runs from the nucleus within himself, to that extent, the acceptance of death is not a hardship or difficulty.
Week 13. Lecture QA154: Any effects—any negative effects—that manifest in a person's life can always and should always and must always be brought back to the point of "where am I looking away from myself? Where do I not accept something in myself? Where do I try to escape from where I am and what I am at this moment?" Whenever life is approached in this way, you have the basic key that opens the kingdom of heaven right now.
Week 14. Lecture 139: When you finally find and connect the fact that your outer state, no matter how undesirable it may be, is exactly a result of what you are, and what you think, and what you feel, and what you want, and when you subsequently understand that your outer situation cannot be any different in view of what you think, feel, want, and how you act, react, and what your attitude is.
Week 15. Lecture 17: If all your inner currents were according to divine law, you would certainly be able to love.
Week 16. Lecture 81: By facing death squarely, not cringing from it, you will learn to come to terms with it as you should, thereby freeing the life force in you which remains bottled up so long as you do not learn to cope with death in a healthy way.
Week 17. Lecture 152: It is not a question of first having to have removed the defects so that then something else can happen. It is a question of being able to quietly see oneself in the defect. Then and then only is a person able to perceive the existential conflict between the ego and the universal consciousness.
Week 18. Lecture 31: So it is not a question of how good you are or of how many weaknesses you still have that determines your self-respect, but self-respect — and as a result of it, also the respect of others — can only be determined how true you are to yourself, or how much you deceive, how much you escape yourself, how much you hide behind a wall of pretense.
Week 19. Lecture 74: Outer, little confusions are the symptoms of the larger, hidden ones. Therefore one needs the outer happenings to point to the inner condition. Thus the little everyday confusions, the little insignificant by themselves, perhaps "unimportant" things are the very best ones to start with.
Week 20. Lecture 120A: This is the evil of this world—to reverse truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth and therefore let loose streams of hatred.
Week 21. Lecture 163: Since you treat the outer world in exactly the same way that you treat your own unconscious, you emanate the same climate onto those whom you are involved with. Other people retract from this onslaught of forcing, of saying, as it were, "you must," as much as your own unconscious does.
Week 22. Lecture 53: No one who truly realizes that nothing happens that is not caused by himself (no matter how obviously outer circumstances may point to the opposite) and that cannot be changed by changing yourself will ever indulge in self-pity!
Week 23. Lecture 160: The moment any emotion is fully acknowledged, one begins to see it for what it is. It then dissolves, for it is always illusion. It then reconverts itself into its original substance. Anyone not having experienced this may misunderstand and confuse this acceptance with condoning and finality. It merely means stopping the struggle against what is, a struggle always conducted out of the motives of pride, fear, and self-will.
Week 24. Lecture QA174: In the giving lies the fulfillment. And the fulfillment is not then a reward or a holy, goody-goody attitude because you were a good child, now you can receive—heaven rewards you. It is not like that. But it is that the giving personality is open and susceptible for pleasure—for pleasure on all levels, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
Week 25. Lecture 250: Man's entire bent of putting effect before cause creates such misperceptions and misinterpretations of life that this in itself prevents you from experiencing grace. The habit of automatically concluding this reversed way extends to a great deal and to many different issues and aspects of reality.
Week 26. Lecture 190: All that is evil, destructive, negative in human nature is a result of defending against experiencing painful, undesirable feelings.
Week 27. Lecture 41: The mature being knows he can control life only by going with it, by not demanding that life follows him, but he will follow life, adjusting to it.
Week 29. Lecture 141: Pain is the result of conflict. It is when two opposite directions exist in a personality that pain comes into being.
Week 30. Lecture QA157: All biblical analogies and symbolism is not a one-time historical happening. It is constantly recreated in the human soul. And if you think more carefully of that analogy and separate yourself from the distortion that the human mind and human religions have brought into this symbolic representation, you will find so much truth in it, as it exists right now in you.
Week 31. Lecture 109: Perhaps the most difficult thing for man is that of facing his lower self. And, after all, it is in connection with the lower self that real guilt exists. Man goes to any length to avoid facing the lower self. Or perhaps he is capable of and willing to face parts of it, yet certain parts he is absolutely unwilling to accept. He is so frightened by the possible implications and so eager to be better than he can possibly be at the moment, that he would rather produce much worse guilts that are untrue than accept the tiniest real guilt belonging to the area of the lower self that he is unwilling to accept.
Week 32. Lecture 109: On the one hand, I invite you to face your lower self, your real guilts, and to make restitution for them, to purify yourself; while on the other, I emphasize how dangerous perfectionism, self-condemnation, moralizing, false guilt feelings are.
Week 33. Lecture 115: Consider your feelings as a child toward your parents; and then see how your responses still react according to the same feelings you once harbored toward your parents.
Week 34. Lecture 181A: To really allow yourself to be irrational, to know it, to observe it, to own up to it, and yet not be drawn into it—that is the art that you learn on this path.
Week 35. Lecture 182A: Whatever you experience, life communicates something to you about your inner being that you may be unwilling to or afraid of seeing. And this fear is always unjustified, because if you drop your defenses, you will not become annihilated as you fear. You will not become humiliated as you fear. But you will truly find the safe and firm ground that knowing yourself, that understanding yourself, that being open about yourself and unconcealed about yourself will give.
Week 36. Lecture 180A: No matter how many impairments of integrities must be faced along the way, the self is never worthless. It could never be worthless. And this truth must be kept in mind, for otherwise the surrender of the ego is impossible.
Week 37. Lecture 184A: Your innermost being is always expressing itself. It always talks to you, only most of the time you choose not to listen to it. And once you train yourself to listen to it, you will become very much attuned to it, and it will become loud and clear—what your innermost being says to you, constantly, constantly. Once this happens you have truly found your core.
Week 38. Lecture 53: By not loving yourself would mean that you do not honor the divine manifestation that you represent. Not loving yourself means self-punishment, masochism, denial of your personality. Not loving yourself prohibits your functioning as you should. It prohibits your capacity to love and to help others. So beware of the misconception that to love yourself is wrong. So distinguish between the sick and the healthy way — that is, between self- respect and distorted self-love.
Week 39. Lecture 133: All the fulfillment of the universe does not exist away from you, my friends, not in the distant future, not in a state beyond your physical life, not in attaining something through arduous means. It lies only in the acknowledgment of what you really feel and think at this moment. It is this great simplicity that seems so hard to comprehend.
Week 40. Lecture 187: As you let the negative emotion be and be carried by it without fighting it, so you become capable of the identical attitude toward bliss.
Week 42. Lecture 253: Life is feared as much as death; pain as much as pleasure; failure as much as success. Out of this "reverse unity" a real unity can grow, when you comprehend the nature of the fear at both ends of the spectrum.
Week 43. Lecture 190: What really prevents you from fully living is your fear of and resistance to living the feelings you did not accept when they painfully came to you.
Week 45. Lecture 212: No human being, no individual, no entity can ever find peace and inner fulfillment, joy, wholeness, security, and his intrinsic genius with which he uniquely contributes to creation unless he can be dedicated to a cause outside himself.
Week 48. Lecture 184: As long as you try to become good by denying evil, by forcing yourself to be what you cannot yet be and what you can in fact never be, you remain in a painful state of inner split, partial self- denial, and paralysis of vital forces within you.
Week 49. Lecture 249: You are the director of your thoughts. Your thoughts do not befall you. Through your thoughts, you create the flow of feelings and the direction of your vital energies.
Lecture 249: The great waters of truth, love, wisdom of divine reality, of the Christ consciousness, seek their channels and break through obstructions. Every one of you can be instrumental in removing more of the obstructions and the pollution of these clear waters.
Week 51. Lecture 239: You can give birth to the Christ in you. At the same time, this joy, this ecstasy, this total peace cannot be experienced unless you purify your soul, for otherwise you become anxious and contracted in a negative way, and you reject the experience of joy and ecstasy.
Week 52. Lecture 104: Jesus spoke of not resisting evil. This is what he meant. If you resist the evil, the confusion, the distortions, you only drive it underground. If you do not resist it, you can see it. You automatically have the humility of not trying to be more than you are, and thereby you have the basic prerequisite to grow out of it — to be reborn into your real self.


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Stephen Stills tour to play Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix
The legendary Stephen Stills will bring his latest tour to Phoenix on Sunday, July 26, for a show at Celebrity Theatre.
Stephen Stills tour to play Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix The legendary Stephen Stills will bring his latest tour to Phoenix on Sunday, July 26, for a show at Celebrity Theatre. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://azc.cc/1HhFW3R
Ed Masley, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 2:19 p.m. MT May 13, 2015 | Updated 11:37 a.m. MT May 14, 2015
Stephen Stills, seen here performing at the 25th Anniversary Rainforest Fund Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City, will play the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix.(Photo: Jamie McCarthy, Getty Images)
Tickets are $35-$95, going on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, May 18, at celebritytheatre.com, the Celebrity box office and 602-267-1600.
Stills has been inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame not once but twice — as a member of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash (occasionally joined by Young). In 2003, he was rated the 28th greatest guitarist of all time in Rolling Stone. As a writer, he's responsible for the Buffalo Springfield hit "For What It's Worth" and "Love The One You're With," his highest-charting single as a solo artist. No fewer than three albums featuring Stlls were included in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time — "Buffalo Springfield Again," "Crosby, Stills & Nash" and "Déjà Vu" by CSN&Y.
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For this home in Watermill, we added a 2-story, 1,500 square foot extension, essentially creating a third "peak" to maintain the elegant Tudor style. Addition included fireplaces, grand bedrooms and master bath. Working with New York interior design firm D.D. Allen, we reconfigured existing rooms to create a state of the art kitchen/dining space, redid all finishes, including richly stained oak flooring and intricate installation of custom fabric wall treatments.
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What is Shudder? Everything you need to know about the horror streaming service
Emma Witman
Shudder is a streaming service dedicated to horror fans.
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Shudder is a video streaming service with an exclusive and extensive focus on the horror genre.
Classic horror, cult favorites, and original content are all included in Shudder's catalog of film and TV.
You can subscribe to Shudder directly or through Amazon Prime Video, Roku, or Google Play accounts.
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Do you like horror movies?
If your answer to that question — a question that could predict both the viability of a relationship, and how well you're coping with 2020 — is "yes," you should probably get acquainted with Shudder.
Why? Because in the realm of streaming services, Shudder is a scary movie fan's fantasy come true: a content provider with an exclusive and extensive focus on all things horror.
Here's what you need to know about Shudder, and how you can get your spine tingling to Shudder's curated selection of spooky classics and originals.
Shudder is a streaming service that caters to the horror genre
Shudder might be perfect for a horror movie devotee due to its selection of nearly every subgenre of horror: supernatural, cult favorite, classic, cutting-edge, and more.
Shudder's catalog encompasses a wide range of horror films and TV shows.
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Shudder offers a curated and extensive selection of horror. From "Halloween" to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," you could easily stay satiated on the horror classics Shudder offers alone.
But you probably wouldn't want to, given that some of the most acclaimed horror movies of 2020 have been Shudder originals, like the innovative "Host," which features a group Zoom call format, and "Blood Quantum," a take on the classic zombie tale with timely subtext.
A Shudder exclusive, "Revenge" was also one of the most well-reviewed horror films in 2018.
Shudder also hosts exclusive TV content, including the anthology series "Creepshow" and the stylish noir, "Deadwax."
How much Shudder costs
A monthly Shudder subscription is $5.99. You can also instead opt for a yearly Shudder membership for $56.99, which calculates to $4.75 per month.
A free seven-day trial is initially offered, although if you scour the internet, you can also find codes for lengthier free trials.
How to subscribe to Shudder
While you don't need to have Amazon Prime, Roku, or Google Play, you can subscribe to Shudder by way of these services rather than through Shudder.com or the Shudder mobile app for Android or iOS.
Shudder TV is the service's live broadcast
Shudder TV is Shudder's 24/7 live channel that you can tune into at your leisure if you don't have a particular preference for what you watch — so long as it's scary. You can easily access Shudder TV through its designated desktop website or by selecting the Shudder TV tab in the Shudder mobile app.
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An update from our friends at Vintage Wings Inc. and progress with the full restoration of their newly-airworthy, WWII-veteran Douglas C-53-DO Skytrooper 41-20095 nicknamed Beach City Baby. As readers will remember, we have been covering this restoration for some time now, including the first flight which took place on October 6th, 2018. This first flight, covered photographically HERE exclusively by Warbird Digest's own Greg Moorehead, was just the first major step in the restoration though. It allowed the aircraft to move from her long-term home in Beach City, Ohio to Vintage Wings Inc.'s restoration hangar in Franklin, Pennsylvania.
Over the past few months, the team at Vintage Wings Inc. has been busy bringing Beach City Baby back to full airworthiness and turning her into a true "flying museum" to spread the word about this particular C-53's colorful history. As many of you are aware from our coverage on the aircraft, after arriving in Franklin Pennsylvania, the Vintage Wings Inc team wasted no time getting to work in making the necessary repairs and inspections to bring the historic cargo plane into better-than-new status. The team recently removed both wings for an Inspection and Repair As Necessary, or IRAN program to replace, fix, and/or repair any aircraft parts or components still needing attention. The group also recently completed the last of the C-53's Airworthiness Directives ADs) by adding doublers to the aircraft's wing spars. Many components and parts have been removed, then fully refurbished, and are awaiting final installation and paint. PPG Aerospace has generously donated all of the paint stripper, surface preparation, primer and paint to complete the project once mechanical repairs are finished.
Also of importance to filling in gaps regarding the aircraft's wartime service history is the recent discovery and contact made with relatives for two of Beach City Baby's wartime aircrew, her pilot and radio operator. Aircraft Commander Major Jack Bartlett and Radio Operator Sgt. John Falotico were regular crew members while the aircraft was serving in the North African wing of Air Transport Command during 1944. Their living descendants have been in touch with President Jason Capra and have helped tell the wartime story of this historic Douglas C-53-DO Skytrooper.
As Vintage Wings Inc. recorded, "In late 2018 after meeting the Faloticos, Vintage Wings Inc. member Janet Aaron went on a mission to locate the rest of the original crew of "Beach City Baby." After days upon days of dead-ends and endless detective work, Janet stumbled across a loan grave stone in the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Oakland County, Michigan. The name upon the grave stone was none other than Major Jack Bartlett who passed away on November 18, 2008. Jack was survived by his only child, Wendy Bartel of Pennsylvania. The information was passed to foundation President Jason Capra who reached out to Wendy on multiple occasions with no answer. It wasn't until New Year's Day, 2019 that Wendy and Jason connected via a phone call and confirmation was made that Jack Bartlett was indeed Wendy's father and the pilot of our C-53 in 1944.
Stay tuned for more updates as this incredibly motivated and talented all-volunteer team keeps moving forward on the restoration and preservation of one of the oldest surviving military variants of the DC-3, the January 1942-accepted Douglas C-53-DO Skytrooper, Beach City Baby.


The March edition of ArtStarts on Saturdays featured a fun, interactive workshop with Sand Northup, the amazing One Woman Circus. Kids braved the thrilling Wheel of Death (!), spun plates and much more in this laughter-filled event.
One Woman Circus' many talents include juggling, unicycling, and making audiences laugh uncontrollably. You just can't resist having a good time during Sand's show... in fact, you might even be inspired to run away and join the circus yourself!
The next installment of ArtStarts on Saturdays will take place on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 11am and 1pm with dubD3000 Hip Hop Robot. See you then!