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Judge orders Silverstone to turn on golf course water again
It's safe to say Silverstone Golf Club's new owner has struck a nerve.
By James DeHaven Las Vegas Review-Journal
September 8, 2015 - 10:46 pm
Resident Maureen Hasson, center, raises her hand to ask a question during a homeowners association meeting for the Silverstone golf course community at the Centennial Hills YMCA in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. A crowd of several hundred homeowners were voicing their concerns against a possible new development on their now closed golf course. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Association president Frank Anderson, center, speaks at a homeowners association meeting for the Silverstone golf course community at the Centennial Hills YMCA in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. A crowd of several hundred homeowners were voicing their concerns against a possible new development on their now closed golf course. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Resident Rick Carrier speaks at a homeowners association meeting for the Silverstone golf course community at the Centennial Hills YMCA in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. A crowd of several hundred homeowners were voicing their concerns against a possible new development on their now closed golf course. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Resident Dwight Magness speaks at a homeowners association meeting for the Silverstone golf course community at the Centennial Hills YMCA in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. A crowd of several hundred homeowners were voicing their concerns against a possible new development on their now closed golf course. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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Residents listen to a speaker during a homeowners association meeting for the Silverstone golf course community at the Centennial Hills YMCA in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. A crowd of several hundred homeowners were voicing their concerns against a possible new development on their now closed golf course. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Silverstone Golf Club, 8600 Cupp Drive, taken through a portable fence is seen Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Follow him @jlscheid
The entrance leading up to Silverstone Golf Club, 8600 Cupp Drive, is shown on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Follow @Jlscheid
A week after Beverly Hills-based lawyer Ronald Richards bought the cash-strapped northwest valley course, more than 300 nearby residents held a rowdy homeowners association meeting to slam the sale and take jabs at Richards, who represents a Los Angeles-based group that has faced lawsuits and heated criticism over its plans to build houses on a San Diego-area golf course.
Richards hasn't quite denied drawing up similar blueprints for Silverstone, a fact not at all lost on the hundreds of homeowners who filled two meeting rooms and spilled out into a hallway at the Centennial Hills YMCA Tuesday night.
"It's like we've had the death of a loved one," said homeowner Steve Hellerstein, one of several donors to a legal defense fund aimed at derailing Richards' plans for the course. "Everybody who bought (homes) here bought because it's a golf course community."
Hellerstein and most other residents in attendance rallied behind any and all proposed efforts to stall, stop or reverse Richards' purchase of the property.
Many wondered why a legal covenant held by course homeowners wouldn't scupper last week's sale.
HOA attorney Tim Elson said he believed that agreement, which requires 75 percent homeowner approval for any modification of the 27-hole course, goes a long way toward protecting homeowners from Richards' plans for the property.
Those not quite reassured by the covenant called on HOA board members to sue Silverstone's new owner, action Elson said he is "aggressively pursuing."
Should those legal remedies fail, at least a handful of residents said they would happily reorganize human blockades they had put together to turn back a crane they said was headed for the course Tuesday morning.
That was just hours before an attorney hired by Hellerstein's group filed a temporary restraining order that prevents Richards from removing water pumps or otherwise permitting the "waste, removal or destruction of golf course property."
The order, signed by Clark County District Court Judge Joe Hardy, also forces him to turn on Silverstone's water to irrigate its greens and fairways and fill its water features.
"We are not in the golf course operations business," Richards wrote in an email late Tuesday. "We have no set agenda and are open to numerous avenues of use other than requiring us to subsidize someone else's golf game or operate an asset that has no economically viable use to anyone except a privileged few."
Richards, who has said only that he plans to take Silverstone in a new, more "environmentally sound" direction, did not attend Tuesday night's meeting.
City Councilman Steve Ross figures that was probably a good idea.
Ross, who represents the ward where Silverstone is located, promised homeowners he would put the "full force of the city" behind getting residents what they want.
"This is going to be a battle," Ross said to ringing applause. "No permits will be issued until a judge has seen this case."
Reached for comment just before the meeting, Ross was even more strident, warning that he was "probably the last person" Richards would want to meet if and when he comes to town.
Board members estimate they have several hundred thousand dollars available to wage a legal battle over the future of the course. Resident and Las Vegas attorney Melanie Hill estimated residents in Escondido, Calif., have spent at least $750,000 fighting to keep Richards' bulldozers off their course.
Attorneys for Silverstone residents said a District Court judge plans to hear their case Sept. 22.
Western Golf Properties, a California-based golf course management company, will continue to run the course in the interim.
Western CEO Robert Heath said he wasn't sure when Richards planned to take over the property's day-to-day operations.
He declined to speculate on whether employees laid off by the course's previous owner would be rehired.
Heath said there were no employees at the course when his company took over operations this week.
Contact James DeHaven at jdehaven@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3839. Find him on Twitter: @JamesDeHaven.
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Former test site official and museum founder Troy Wade dies
By John Przybys / RJ
Troy Wade's career ranged from the Nevada test site to the atomic testing museum.

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Nick Thompson blends colour, form and shape into his photography and film with a strong classical influence and a contemporary aesthetic. His meticulous style and obsession with composition and shape is what has given his imagery a reflection of a classic fashion photography style. He has tenaciously continued to develop his own artistic aesthetic through his creative direction, photography and moving image works. His films have seen international recognition at the Berlin Fashion Film Festival, Bucharest Fashion Film Festival and the Fashion Film Festival Milano as well as being featured as one of the emerging "Photographers to Watch" at the Swipecast Nouvelle Garde launch in New York. Some of his clients have included Chanel, Fendi, Burberry, ASOS, Westfield, Amazon Fashion, Deciem, MAC, John Frieda, British Vogue, Love, GQ, ELLE, Esquire, W Magazine, and L'Officiel. He currently resides in London and travels frequently between New York, Paris and Milan.


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Q: Bundle framework with plug-in in XCode there is a post here on how to bundle a framework within an application. But in my case this is not application but a plug-in i want to put the framework within.. The "Installation directory" cannot start with @executable_path. so i have no clue on how to define the plug-in path
any help would be great, thank you

A: @loader_path/../Frameworks

dylib @executable_path path issue in a plug-in bundle

A: Typically, this will depend on the application you're writing the plug-in for, and how it implements plug-ins.
You might be able to get away with using relative paths (ie. '../Frameworks') but I suspect only experimentation will show whether or not that works. ;)

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Q: How to access a Vue component's data from a script Here are the simplified html and javascript files of the page. It has a button and component which is a text displays the data of the component. I want the component's data to be changed when I click the button. But how to access the component's data from a script?
index.html

    <my-component></my-component>
    <button id="btn"> change data </button>

main.js

let app = Vue.createApp({});
app.component('my-component', {
    data: function() {
      return {
        component_data : "foo"
      }
    },
    template: '
 data = {{ component_data }}
'
  }
);
app.mount("#app");

document.querySelector("btn").onclick = function() {
  // HOW TO CHANGE component_data TO "bar"
}

A: One possibility is to incorporate the button into the HTML within the component's template. If that's feasible for your app then you can add a function to the component and bind the function to the button's click event.
E.g. (Note this is untested so may have typos)
app.component('my-component', {
    data: function() {
      return {
        component_data : "foo"
      }
    },
    methods: {
        changeData() {
           this.component_data = "The data changed";
        }
    },
    template: `
 data = {{ component_data }}

<button @click="changeData">Change data</button>`
  }
);

If the button can't be incorporated into my-component then I'd recommend using the Vuex datastore. Vuex is a reactive datastore that can be accessed across the entire application.

A: You can use component props change data between components.
index.html

    <my-component :component-data="text"></my-component>
    <button @click="handleBtnClick"> change data </button>

main.js file
let app = Vue.createApp({
    data() {
        return { text: 'foo' }
    },
    methods: {
        handleBtnClick() {
            this.text = 'bar';
        }
    }
});
app.component('my-component', {
    props: {
        componentData: {
            type: String,
            default: 'foo'
        }
    }
    template: '
 data = {{ componentData }}
'
  }
);
app.mount("#app");

I think you new in Vuejs. You have to first read Vue documentation

A: To get the reference of a component outside of it, you can use the template refs
Here is the refactor of the code provided in the above question to access the components data from the script.

  <my-component ref="my_component"></my-component>
  <button @click="onBtnClick()"> change data </button>

let app = Vue.createApp({
  methods: {
    onBtnClick() {
      this.$refs.my_component.component_data = "bar";
    }
  }
});


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The Roggen Turn (RCOL 4501) reports for duty in the BNSF Railway Auto Facility at 9101 Yosemite St. You must stop and sign in before entering the gate at the guard house. Have your BNSF ID available. This assignment switches the industrial area at Irondale, CO. Extra Board Trainmen can claim 19 miles round trip for driving your own vehicle on the working days time slip.
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Meghan Hesterman (she/her) had an emotional morning. She is a junior at UMD studying Early Childhood Education, Special Education and Spanish. That day, she was at her job as an assistant teacher in a Pre-K classroom. Out of nowhere, one of her students tugged on her shirt softly, looked up to her and said, "I love you, Teacher Meghan." Hesterman was overwhelmed with emotion and realized at that moment a child's capacity to love unconditionally. "The way that teachers can make a big impact on children in a short amount of time can really say something," she says.
Inspiration and Teaching
Hesterman remembers her elementary school teachers as people "she looked up to." She mentioned her science teacher as an example. "Just the way that she was a leader and welcomed me into the classroom," made an impression. "I want to be just like them when I grow up."
In 2016, Hesterman realized that she wanted to teach younger children while she was teaching a group of preschoolers at a summer camp. "I was just so inspired by how open their minds were, how curious they were, and how energetic they were to learn about everything around them," she says. "As adults, I find that sometimes we don't have that curiosity as much as children do." Since that moment, Hesterman has strived to push forward with the profession of teaching and pushing her students to their fullest potential.
UMD Classes to a Blog
In May of 2020, Hesterman wrapped up her semester of online classes including, "Educating the Human Brain," with professor Molly Harney. At the end of the class, Hesterman recalls Harney saying, "you are now child advocates." Hesterman says, "I felt so empowered by the phrase 'child advocate,' but didn't know how I could use or express my advocacy." After pondering, she decided to combine her love of writing and child advocacy in a blog called, Journal of a Future Teacher. She says, "I decided that I really wanted to start somewhere, and I wanted to express a lot of my ideas," she says.
Launching the Blog
When Hesterman built her blog, she had two goals in mind. One goal was to share her journey of becoming a teacher authentically highlighting the good and the bad. The other was to share important issues and information related to education.
"I've published the blog over a year ago now, which is crazy to me." Hesterman describes looking back at previous articles and resources she has published. "It's not only benefiting others, it's also benefiting me." She says, "I can go back to something that might have been fresh in my mind a year or two ago, and I still have access to it."
Why Early Childhood Education?
Early childhood education is vitally important for young children. "I could go on and on about this," says Hesterman. "The basics of the first five years of life are the most important for a child's development."
The development of a child's brain before they are eight years of age is an additional critical period. That's when they learn fundamental skills that are building blocks for the rest of their lives.
There's a time period called the brain window. It's a crucial time in a child's development. Hesterman says, "If a child does not receive early care, they're not learning and using their full potential. We need to maximize the time when their brain window is open, or they will lose opportunities."
Calling To Action
Hesterman not only uses her blog to share her experience in teaching, but she also uses it to share resources and spread awareness about trending topics that are important to discuss. One recent topic was, "Why are some families and schools against antiracist education? Let's talk about it." She also shares tips and tricks for becoming a strong advocate for students, doing research and recruiting others to talk about representation.
A Teacher at Heart
Because education affects us all, it is important to learn more about the changes to continue to educate ourselves and future generations. Hesterman says she strives to teach, inform, and be her best self daily. At the end of every blog post, Hesterman shares an important message for her readers that says, "Take action. Start the conversation. Be the change." Hesterman says, "I hope to use my voice to advocate for myself as a future educator, for my future students, and for systemic change within the education system."
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An Alternate History of the Atomic Age
Scientist and author Gregory Benford discusses his latest book, The Berlin Project
By Lee Billings on May 13, 2017
The mushroom cloud from 'Romeo,' an 11-megaton hydrogen bomb detonated in the south Pacific in 1954 during the "Operation Castle" series of U.S. nuclear tests. A new "alternate history" novel speculates that the hydrogen bomb's development might have been avoided through minor, early changes in the U.S. nuclear weapons program. Credit: Getty Images
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the resulting deaths of tens of thousands of Japanese citizens in the summer of 1945 did more than decisively end World War II. The U.S. strikes that brought nuclear destruction of those two cities also thrust the world onto a new trajectory—one that led to the terrifying development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb and the ruinous arms races of the cold war it entailed. In retrospect, one might wonder how our modern world might look today if World War II's nuclear conclusion had played out differently. A new work of historical fiction—The Berlin Project—is author and physicist Gregory Benford's best attempt to explore that question.
Benford makes the case for how a single fateful decision could have armed the U.S. with effective nuclear weapons a year ahead of schedule—early enough to deploy them on the western front in Europe, rather than only in the Pacific. The result, he says, could have been a faster and less devastating end to World War II as well as a profound shift in the course of world history. Through an informed exploration of what might have been, The Berlin Project provides a unique and darkly enthralling perspective on the events underpinning the advent of the atomic age.
Scientific American spoke with Benford about the factual basis for his book, the appeal of "alternate history" and the surprising origins of some real-world nuclear tactics in works of science fiction.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
What is the appeal to you or your readers of reimagining historic events?
The idea of "alternate history" restores to history the sense of contingency—that is, the people in the past did not have the assurance of knowing the outcome! So we have to get into that mind-set to understand why certain choices were made.
What made you want to revisit this particular part of history?
World War II, as my editor at Simon & Schuster once said, "is the gift that keeps on giving." It touches on and in some cases helped create many of the greatest problems we have today—especially the existence and use of weapons of mass destruction, whether nuclear, biological or chemical. It's the greatest war in human history, and so its history is filled with many fascinating details.
The real incentive for this novel, though, comes from when I was a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, working for theoretical physicist Edward Teller straight out of grad school. One day over lunch he told me about a turning point in World War II that very few people knew about. Teller remarked that, of course, everybody loves success. So historians had papered over the fact that when we developed the atomic bomb we made a decisive bad judgment that cost more than half a billion of 1940s dollars and delayed the war's end by about a year. The bad decision came in 1942 from Gen. Leslie Groves, who directed the Manhattan Project, which was the U.S. R&D program to develop the first nuclear weapons. To make uranium suitable for an atomic bomb, you have to somehow enrich it up to weapons grade, so that it is almost pure U 235, the element's most fissile isotope. Groves chose to pursue gaseous diffusion over an alternate concept—Harold Urey's centrifugal separation—to enrich uranium up to weapons-grade. And we now know that was a huge mistake. If we had stuck with centrifugal separation for another six months, we would have solved its engineering problems, without question. By contrast, gaseous diffusion did not have the necessary semipermeable membranes when Groves decided to use it, and it took two more years—until 1944—to develop them.
If you use centrifugal separation, you get an A-bomb in the spring of 1944, and you then might drop it on Germany. And then you get a very different and more rapid ending to World War II. The death rate in the last year of the Second World War—civilian and military together—was mostly due to starvation, and was roughly a million people per month. And that devastated Europe for decades. Whole societies collapsed. Imagine the millions more people who would have survived if the war had ended earlier. I wanted to explore that.
So in the book we drop a bomb on Berlin?
Well, we do. Because everybody assumes that the smart thing to do is to drop a bomb on Berlin. It turns out, though, that's not the smart thing to do, for reasons you'll discover if you read the book. If you look at Leo Szilard, whom I talked to about this when I was a grad student at the University of California in San Diego, he said nobody thought a demonstration would really make any difference—certainly not to the Germans. In the book we use what's called in the trade a "ground pounder,"—a surface detonation rather than an airburstbecause then you can knock down a hell of a lot of buildings and bust up buried bunkers and tunnels with the shock wave. It creates a much greater blast effect than infrared radiation, or heat—which was the primary means of destruction from the bombs we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ground pounders are really terrible things—they'll blow down everything and bury everybody. So in the book we use them together—the D-day invasion at Normandy as well as the ground-pounder in Berlin—to try to take out the Nazi leadership. We do still bomb Japan, though—just different targets.
Tell me more about your research process, how you developed this.
I simply went in and read enormous amounts of known correspondence, mostly in the Manhattan Project. It took me four and a half years of work and writing, plus personally knowing most of the characters.
I found all sorts of amazing things—like a memo between Groves and Gen. Eisenhower, where Groves asked Eisenhower's permission to deploy Geiger counters with every infantry battalion that made a landing at Normandy on D-day. I asked my father James Benford about that—he went into Normandy on the fifth day. He said he remembered them vaguely, and then I found in fact the Geiger counters stayed in the field for about a month before we realized the Germans were not going to use their uranium—of which they had over 150 tons—as essentially a pollutant, a crude terror weapon. But they certainly contemplated doing it—we know that.
The entire history of nuclear weapons is filled with scientists considering the future using science fiction as a prompt. As a scientist and an author of science fiction, I find that fascinating. The idea of using radioactive dust as a weapon came from a short story by Robert Heinlein: "Solution Unsatisfactory," published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941, which was about the strategic standoff that would occur from the development of nuclear weapons. But in Heinlein's story the weapons aren't explosives, they're contaminants. That idea went through Astounding directly into the ears of the German rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun, who was still receiving and reading the magazine through a subscription he began in the 1930s via deliveries through the German embassy in Stockholm. He read about it and relayed it to Albert Speer, so the Nazi elite must have known of it as a weapon. The U.S. kept it secret because it occurred to them also, at the same time as Heinlein—in fact, some believe because of Heinlein. There are a bunch of now-declassified memos I have read about uranium as a contaminant, and I quote them in the book! All the memos, letters and so forth in the book are real. I didn't make them up!
But, as I said, there is also a personal side to this story for me. I knew many of these historical figures, and I tried to depict them as close to reality as possible. I worked with Edward Teller; Harold Urey was on my thesis committee; Luis Alvarez. Freeman Dyson is a major figure in the story and so is Richard Feynman. I managed to find Feynman's Los Alamos ID badge! It's in the book. He has this smirk on his face that is pure, classic Feynman. Groves looks like you would expect—this uptight, harrumphing general, and they misspelled his name on the badge so it's hand-corrected. You can't make this stuff up.
Most importantly, I knew my father-in-law, Karl Cohen. I'd known him since the 1990s. Karl was a research assistant for Harold Urey in 1938 when news of the reality of nuclear fission arrived. Karl was put in charge of calculations for the centrifugal separation of uranium, and he invented the two-flow centrifuge, still a classified patent. You can find a diagram of it in the book but technically the design is still classified. I decided to focus the story on my father-in-law and what would've happened to him if centrifugal separation had gone forward. He's the protagonist, and the book covers his life, including when his wife gives birth to his daughter—my future wife! Karl died in 2012, age 99, shortly after I had begun working on the novel.
In real life, once Groves decided to kill centrifugal separation in favor of uranium enrichment by gaseous diffusion, Karl became one of the planners for the big gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He also continued to work with Enrico Fermi on the reactor in Chicago, because he felt at that point that he'd rather work on nuclear power, which he believed had more of a future than just working on bombs. In the book his life takes a different path—and so does the world. After the end of the war the book jumps to 1963, and you see how things turn out for the story's major figures. You get to see what this other world looks like, similar but still very different from our own.
How is that future different? Is it better? Worse?
Better. First, the Soviets don't get into central Europe, because we defeat the Germans before they can get close. Second, you save the lives of about 10 million people. Third, you show that nuclear weapons used intelligently and tactically can be decisive in a large land war. And not just as the punctuation point at the end of a long sentence, but from the middle of a war. I speculate that this alternate history would likely have led to a treaty banning the development of the hydrogen bomb—thermonuclear weapons that use not only nuclear fission but also nuclear fusion, which makes them far more powerful. Without the H-bomb, the strategic risks to civilization would be much, much lower—you don't get such a nasty arms race, you don't get megaton warheads on intercontinental ballistic missiles with multiple targeting reentry vehicles, and so forth. All that technological development does not occur because you don't have an H-bomb. So the result is a less dangerous world, and one in which the Soviet Union was not nearly as grotesque as it came to be. Maybe people would be happier there—certainly less endangered.
Is that the real value of alternative fiction, imagining how things might have been and applying those lessons to the real world?
Right. Generally, in alternative stories you try to rethink events without knowing the outcome first. This puts us in the mind frame of how history happened to people then. Their reality was contingent on many forces.
The nukes ended World War II. What can we learn from that now? I've worked on studies of how such "tactical" bombs could be used now amid an otherwise conventional war. On red/blue teams we considered cases like an India–Pakistan war (of which they have already had three):. Use nukes against armies alone? Or the enemy's nuclear assets alone? Or, in desperation, on cities? These are real, current issues—not only in India and Pakistan but also in Korea and the Middle East as well. How do you use your few bombs to bring down a regime? It's not easy! Politics comes into play, not just the military ideas. Such ruminations decades ago led to the novel's central idea.
For this novel, I had to revisit the many feelings scientists and others had about using the bomb. Widespread disappointment came when Manhattan Project people saw they could not get the bomb before Germany was defeated. So the question became: "How could the bomb be used against Japan?" Scientists raised petitions, argued, even tried to reach the president to make their case favoring a demonstration [detonation] rather than using the bomb on Japanese cities. They lost, because Pres. Truman knew how hard the Japanese resisted surrender. He decided they needed a wake-up call. Perhaps not coincidentally, he had also been a reader of 1930s science fiction stories about superweapons, in which big bangs win wars. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Whether you are hosting an outdoor concert, awards gala, graduation, or kid's birthday, you are officially involved in event planning. As the cooler weather rolls in, it's important to have a strategy to keep your guests warm as the sun goes down. Rather than have all the guests shuffle indoors, utilizing patio heater rentals can be a cost-effective way to maintain a seamless flow of outdoor enjoyment. When making a decision about heater rentals, think about the type and capacity based on two criteria: Enclosed and Open-Air events.
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Keep up to date with all the happenings at the Old World Deli here.
Old World Deli sells quality sandwiches, like gyros, corned beef sandwiches, and clubs, but have you ever stopped to wonder how these sandwiches came to be?
Corned beef on rye. Come and get it!
I want to rehash(pun intended) the history of corned beef. It is traditionally eaten on St. Patrick's Day in the U.S. and is associated with the Irish. It gets its name from the process of curing meat with salt or corning. This was done to preserve the meat so that it be eaten at a later date.
The Irish in Ireland did not usually eat beef as it was too expensive. They traditionally ate boiled bacon and cabbage. When the Great Potato Famine forced many to leave for the United States, they found that corned beef was less expensive and easy to get on this side of the pond. It then replaced bacon in their boiled meal with cabbage and potatoes and so a new tradition was born.


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Glorifying Enemies of Rome (Worthington Publishing LLC, 2017)
I LIKE Enemies of Rome (Worthington Publishing, 2017). The RockyMountainNavy Boys like Enemies of Rome. We have played it four times in the three weeks since it arrived in the RMN house. This level of repeat play is unheard of and a true testimony to how good the game is and how it fits the RMN game night. As good as Enemies of Rome is…I sense the RMN love affair with this game is quickly reaching the point of a major breakup.
So what is the problem?
We play Enemies of Rome even though we intensely dislike the scoring mechanic. Victory in Enemies of Rome is determined by Glory Points. In the rules as written (RAW), players earn Glory Points by attacking and winning a battle in an area. Defenders do not earn Glory Points even if they win. At the end of the game the player with the most areas gets a bonus of 3 Glory Points. A player can lose 2 Glory Points if they attack an area with another player's Legions and do not win the battle; they do not lose Glory Points for losing against the enemies of Rome. The player with the most Glory Points is the winner. In the event of a tie, the tied player with the most Legions on the board wins.
Sounds pretty straight forward. Battle, earn Glory Points, and win.
Which doesn't sit right with us. Victory in Enemies of Rome goes to the one who has won the most battles; the board state is irrelevant (except in a tie when it is the number of Legions, not areas, counted).
Another problem as I see it is the Event Cards in the game don't support the Glory Point mechanic. To be clear, we have only played the three-player version of Enemies of Rome. After playing a few times (**SPOILER ALERT**) we have noticed that many of the Event Cards place enemies of Rome onto the board. When this happens a battle usually follows. Legions are expended in battle, but no Glory is won if these battles occur in areas the players already control. Indeed, a considerable number (maybe half?) of all battles in the games we played are against the enemies of Rome in areas already controlled. This means half the lost Legions, half the victories won, count as nothing.
[I fully realize that the "non-player" enemies of Rome are available to use as a proxy force. The ability to move the enemies of Rome on your turn is powerful as you can position the enemies of Rome in a more favorable manner to make your next conquest easier or you can use the enemies of Rome as a proxy army to batter down an opponent.]
One other Event Card effect (**SPOILER ALERT REMAINS**) we noticed is that in the later stages of the game the arrival of the enemies of Rome often challenge one to keep areas they already control. One (major) impact of the cards is to force battles in controlled areas. Battles that are won don't mean anything for there is no Glory Point earned for keeping an area you control. The battle system does not allow for retreat either; battles are to the death so there is no "save your troops" mechanism. The net effect is that players in the end game grow weaker as many battles are fought for no Glory Points.
In each of the games we played, at least one player was "besieged" for the better part of the game; that is, constantly fighting in areas already owned. As noted, these constant battle use up Legions but do not gain Glory Points. This player was at a constant disadvantage. It was very apparent that this player was going to lose as there is no "catch up" mechanism other than to win battles in other areas – battles that the player often cannot fight because the constant attrition of Legions fighting to just hold areas already owned prevents a build up of forces for attacking new areas.
We have already tried a few house rules to find a better experience. Instead of the player with the most areas getting a bonus we added the number of areas as a straight addition to Glory Points. Neither seems enough. We tried awarding bonus Glory Points (2) for an unused Intrigue Talent. In the next game we are considering changing the rule to make any victory in battle a Glory Point – even when defending. We may give a 2 Glory Point bonus to the player with he most Legions on the board. These changes certainly seem in spirit with the RAW where Glory Points only come from battles and the number of Legions on the board is an ingredient of the tie-breaker.
There is too much goodness in Enemies of Rome and we have already invested considerable playtime in this game to simply walk away from it. We will keep trying to find a balance. I am curious as to what the game designers have to say. So far, the forums on BoardGameGeek have several player comments but nothing from the designer.
Featured image courtesy Worthington Publishing.
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Rainy Day Solo #Boardgame – Holding back the barbarian hordes in Pandemic: Fall of Rome (@Zmangames_ , 2018) – RockyMountainNavy Gamer says:
[…] the RockyMountainNavy Boys would rather play a game of Enemies of Rome (Worthington Publishing, 2017) so instead I have tried to play the Solitaire Challenge version of Pandemic: Fall of […]
Tough Game Night Moments – thoughts on rules, factions, and "take that" – Bravo Zulu says:
[…] I have said before that Enemies of Rome is not the game it appears to be. What looks like an area control game is actually a Battle Royale. Glory Points are scored by winning battles which means one must think very offensively. Although the RockyMountainNavy Boys and myself have played Enemies of Rome ten times now, and even discussed the victory demands, it has yet to fully sink in to the Middle RMN Boy. In tonights game, like the last one, he "turtled" early and fell far behind in points as he built up his forces without attacking any of the enemies of Rome. Unfortunately, the enemies of Rome also were building up their forces right in his neighborhood. It also did not help that the Youngest RMN Boy chose to lash out at his brothers outposts and seized several provinces. As a result, Middle RMN fell far behind in points and was very sullen and not fully into the game. […]
Frienemies with Enemies of Rome (Worthington Publishing, 2017) – Bravo Zulu says:
[…] Enemies of Rome again reminded me of several issues I have with the game. The first issue (which I have discussed before) is the victory point mechanic. In short, one gains VP (Glory Points) for winning battles as the […]
Reconsiderations after first 4-player Enemies of Rome (@Worth2004, 2017) – Bravo Zulu says:
[…] Prior to tonight's game I had very mixed reactions to Enemies of Rome. I "like" the game, but it had issues (especially scoring and victory conditions) that I was uncomfortable with. This four-player game was much more enjoyable. Here are some reactions/thoughts after play: […]
A Little Rebellion – #GameNight 1775 Rebellion – The American Revolution (@Academy_Games, 2013) – Bravo Zulu says:
[…] playing Enemies of Rome (Worthington Publishing, 2017) the past few weeks, the Youngest RockyMountainNavy Boy picked an older but highly enjoyable title for this […]
Planetary Defense Commander says:
I could interpret some of these scoring issues as Roman leaders who cared for their own glory within the empire, more than the state of the empire itself. But, as you said, from a gameplay mechanic, if a player is in a downward spiral where they can't recover, that isn't much fun.


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Pact's award-winning approach toward helping empower women in Myanmar has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation, the charitable giving arm of The Coca-Cola Company.
The Coca-Cola Foundation identified Pact's WORTH program as an ideal investment to help support families and economic development in Myanmar, a country undertaking sweeping changes to improve its people's lives. Coca-Cola announced the grant in a news release last week.
"We have seen the tremendous resilience and entrepreneurial energy of the people of Myanmar," said Mark Viso, president and CEO of Pact, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., and at work in 29 countries.
"The Coca-Cola Foundation's generous contribution will allow even more women to tap their own potential, earn a dignified living and lift their families out of poverty, while also helping all of Myanmar realize the promise of a brighter future."
Pact has been serving women and families in Myanmar for 15 years and is the largest international NGO in the country today.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been rapidly implementing economic and democratic reforms under the leadership of President Thein Sein. Coca-Cola has not done business in Myanmar in more than 60 years but expects to begin business in the country as soon as the U.S. government issues a general license allowing American companies to make investments there.
"The Coca-Cola Company has always stood for optimism at times of change and progress around the world," said Coca-Cola Chairman and CEO Muhtar Kent.
"From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the establishment of normal U.S. relations with Vietnam to the rise of political and economic freedoms in Myanmar, Coca-Cola has proudly been there to refresh, invest, partner and bring hope for a better tomorrow."
WORTH encourages small groups of up to 25 women to save together to develop village banks that make low-interest loans to members to fund entrepreneurial efforts. In addition to developing more income for their families from their small enterprises and dividends from interest payments, the women learn to read, apply basic math skills, confront public health issues and exercise influence in community affairs.
To date, WORTH has benefited nearly 60,000 people in 31 townships in Myanmar. Pact developed the WORTH program in Nepal in 1999.
Like Pact, Coca-Cola builds local promise. The company has a general practice of operating as a local business in every market it serves, including selling, distributing, manufacturing and hiring locally.
Coca-Cola is the latest corporation to join Pact in its efforts to help those in poverty build lasting solutions at the local level. Corporations and/or their philanthropic arms interested in innovative local solutions to challenges facing their workforces and families around the world should contact Suzanne Rexing at srexing@pactworld.org.
Pact is a recognized global leader in international development, specializing in the areas of health, livelihoods and national resource management. Our uniquely integrated approach, always adapted to local needs, is transforming lives in each of the nearly 40 countries where we work.
We welcome inquiries from the media. In addition to our in-country development specialists who can speak knowledgeably about local conditions, Pact employs a range of international development experts in areas including public health, capacity development, governance and civil society, natural resource management, poverty, fragile states, monitoring and evaluation, small-scale and artisanal mining, microfinance and more.
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January has indeed been a month full of events. After attending Science Online 2010 and Linux.conf.au 2010, I am finally back onto my almost normal routine.
Science Online 2010 was a great experience, albeit difficulties with flight changes that made me miss the last morning of the meeting. It was great to put some human faces to people I knew only from their online persona. The experience was absolutely brilliant, and I will soon be posting on some of the fantastic stuff I learned while I was there. In the meantime, you can read about what happened there from the large list of posts posted here and here.
Linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington was my next stop. I am glad I went, despite being unsure of what I would get out of it. My main incentive was to learn a bit more what was going on locally in terms of the development of platforms that could facilitate Open Data/Open Science /Open Education, and I was not disappointed. Again, I will be posting what I learned there in future posts.
I was very sad to hear that Dave and Greta Munger have decided to stop posting in Cognitive Daily. I loved their blog, and having just met both of them at Science Online 2010, I can also say they are lovely human beings. The good news is that Dave will continue with his work in ResearchBlogging.org, so we can all continue following his thoughts there.
The final decisions on Open Laboratory 2009 were made earlier in January, and the final list of the selected blogs can be found here. I can only imagine what a great chore this must have been for all those involved in the final selection, so big kudos to all of them. Although this blog didn't make it to the final list, I would like to take this opportunity for to thank whoever was behind nominating it, especially given its short life.
ResearchBlogging.org has now opened nominations for the best blogs discussing peer reviewed research. The site aggregates blogs that talk about peer reviewed research, and there are several blogs in Sciblogs that are registered on the site. You might want to consider supporting your favourite Sciblogs bloggers for the different categories. Many of these blogs started in 2009, so they are eligible for the new blog category.
As far as I can tell, these Sciblogs are eligible: Fisheye Perspective, The Chicken or The Egg, The Atavism, BioBlog, misc.ience and yours truly, Building Blogs of Science.


The Fire Side: Finding my way through stuff.
I'm a list person - I always have lists around of things I need to do, things I need to remember, things I need to buy. There's lists around our house, which sometimes get updated and sometimes not.
For now though, I am just enjoying the sunshine.
There's always stuff to do, stuff to sort and stuff to figure out. It's about finding a balance, and that's something that's still a bit of a way off for me.
Good luck - especially with trying to avoid the supermarket!


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That's part of the synergy behind Syngineering — one team creating powerful solutions that make a BIG difference in the lives of our clients.
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Broadway legend Ben Vereen has been accused of sexual assault recently. As always with ethics scandals, we are looking for a Jupiter-to-Pallas transit... Jupiter for publicity and Pallas for ethics, generally accompanied by a major outer-planet transit which represents a significant change in status.
Transiting Jupiter at 17 Scorpio is semisquare Vereen's Pallas at 4 Capricorn.
A Uranus-to-Jupiter transit also seems to be a common feature of ethics scandals. Here we have transiting Uranus at 24 Aries (widely) opposite Vereen's 3 Scorpio Jupiter.


This method is used to determine whether the nickel released from products intended to come into direct and prolonged contact with the skin will not exceed 0.5 µg/cm2/week (0.5 micrograms per square centimetre per week) and for Post Assemblies the limit is set at 0.2 µg/cm2/week (0.2 micrograms per square centimetre per week).
This European Standard specifies a method for simulating the release of nickel from consumer items in direct and prolonged contact with the skin in order to determine whether such items release nickel at a rate greater than 0.5 µg/cm2/week and from Post Assemblies whether such items release nickel at a rate greater than 0.2 µg/cm2/week.
On the 25th August 2015, an amendment was published to clarify the compliance/non-compliance criteria for release of nickel from jewellery and other metal components that may be in direct and prolonged contact with the skin by removing the 'no decision' category and to provide a 'PASS' compliance level of 0.88µg/cm2/week for articles intended to come into prolonged and direct contact with the skin, and of 0.35µg/cm2/week for post assemblies.
The item to be tested for nickel release is placed in an artificial sweat test solution for 1 week. The concentration of dissolved nickel in the solution is determined by atomic absorption spectrometry or other appropriate analytical methodology. The nickel release is expressed in micrograms per square centimetre per week (µg/cm2/week).
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The Bay Ridge Third Avenue BID exploration steering committee has kicked off a survey that is one of the first stages of the process.
The effort to create a Business Improvement District (BID) along Third Avenue is moving forward.
To that end, the Bay Ridge Third Avenue BID exploration steering committee has kicked off a survey called a Community Needs Assessment, "to help identify priority areas of service offerings and necessary budgeting," according to Merchants of Third Avenue President Robert Howe.
"This survey is a critical tool and we are targeting a substantial number of responses," he stressed.
The idea of bringing a BID to Third Avenue has been kicking around for a while. It was addressed earlier this fall at a meeting held on Oct. 9. The steering committee was formed with the Merchants partnering with Perch Advisors, a consulting firm that is helping advise on the development of the BID.
Howe said that with the support of City Councilmember Justin Brannan and Perch, the exploration process is now underway.
Howe is asking for the community's assistance in taking the survey. He explained that the survey is necessary in helping the Merchants understand the needs of the community in the creation of the BID.
He also said that some Third Avenue businesses have contributed prizes as incentives for participating in the survey, including $50 gift certificates to the Greenhouse Café.
To take the survey, go to https://bit.ly/2Q25BZm.


The Mediterranean Sea became the world's deadliest passageway as tens of thousands of people fleeing war and repression in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia lost their lives making the journey to Europe. As political disagreement grew within the EU, the focus shifted in 2018 from that of help and rescue of stranded refugees to that of deterrence.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that between 2014 and 2017 more than 14,500 individuals died attempting to cross the central Mediterranean Sea. With no safe and legal means of entry to Europe, migrants crowd into plastic boats or dinghies and set sail from the Libyan or Tunisian coast for Italy or Greece. The overcrowded and sub-standard vessels lack emergency provisions, and prove to be no match for the slightest change in sea currents or bad weather.
During a peak in the crisis in 2015, the media was bombarded with stories of harrowing escapes from capsized boats and images of lifeless bodies pulled from the water. Initially, rescues organized by the EU,NGOs, and residents frequently went out to sea to bring migrants safely to shore. Over time, the EU began to criminalize civilian and NGO maritime rescue missions, claiming that they were a pull factor for migration. In the summer of 2018, two NGO rescue ships, carrying 630 and 59 migrants respectively, spent days stranded at sea, when Italy and Malta refused them port access. The ships were eventually allowed to dock in Spanish ports.
Things reached a new low point in 2018 when the debate began to rise on whether Europe should let individuals die at sea to deter others from coming. After a steady decline beginning in 2016, deaths along the Mediterranean sharply increased in 2018, with the worst case occurring in June when 600 individuals drowned. Appalled by these developments, activists in Germany organized the Seebrücke (pier) campaign, calling on the EU to allow safe passage and port access to rescue ships.
The Missing Migrants Project is a global database sharing key data on deceased and missing migrants arund the world in order to strengthen advocacy and support a more informed policy response.


Some things in life can be simple.
There is so much on my mind these days. Things to accomplish, ideas to share, blessings to be thankful for. How often I have sat in front of this tab on my browser, "Add New Post," eager to write a new blog entry. Yet each time I am tangled between so many different threads of life and thought, that my mind is left speechless. Numb, even.
I type a line or a phrase. Pause. Then highlight and delete it. Before I can complete a thought, I am taken away by a work meeting, an errand to run, a class to teach, or just boring old exhaustion. Hours, days, weeks later; I have a few empty drafts and nothing new. So here come my few centavos worth of thoughts, hoping to break this cycle of silence. And like most of my writing, it is less for the sake of being heard by others, and more to able to hear myself.
Yesterday, was the seventh workshop day of Buhay Makulay's Likha Workshop series (7/10). To close off our volunteer's debrief after lunch, I asked my team to go around the circle and share how the children pointed them to God that morning. One sentence.
After they had all shared such beautiful and sweet spoonfuls of joy and learning, I was left with a reminder for my own heart that I in turn shared with them: Some things in life can just be simple.
There are things in life that will choose to be complicated. They will complicate themselves on their own without your help or desire. They will even refuse to be anything except complicated. A problem at work. A quarrel with your best friend. What to order at your favorite restaurant.
But, there are things in life that don't have to be complicated at all, even if our human minds perceive them so. Like the truth that God is good. The human longing to belong. The desire to achieve a lifelong dream. The love of a father for a child. How to get to your afternoon meeting. Who to invite to your birthday celebration. Or what to cook for breakfast.
I have been very very very busy for the past few months. Probably the busiest I have been in the past year. In the midst of the craziness, I am finding clarity. In the overabundance of life happenings, I am almost forced to sift through all of it, looking carefully for the things that actually carry weight, to keep me grounded. The things that are worth holding on to, worth setting my eyes on.
I'd like to think I am continuously in the process of simplifying my life. This is not only the process of removing objects from my possession. Neither is it a mere reduction of activities, commitments or hobbies. It goes deeper into the surface than that: It is a paring down of the things that I regard with value. These, we can choose. When those things are clear and simple in your heart, no earthly complication can corrode it. Through the complexity, the truth will speak simply.
How did I come to reflect about simplicity with my Buhay Makulay kids? I don't know exactly. But in their company, the world somehow simplifies itself. Perhaps it is because we are taken away from our usual hectic daily-grind environments, where we are eaten up by worries both big and small. For the children, these worries on any given day could include where their next meal will come from, how they cannot go to school because of a parent's illness, or a recent death of a family member. Mine, though not as grave and often tied less to immediate need, tend to feel just as urgent.
Yet the joy on the children's faces will seldom reveal the losses of which they suffer or the needs that cannot be fulfilled. They will leave their worries at the door and enjoy a moment with you. With the swing of their voices in my ear as they tell me about their artwork, I know we are friends. And this friendship is simple. This moment is simple and true.
Let the world be complicated; but draw near to the things that keep you simply and genuinely you, without muddling for achievement, recognition, prize or gain.


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#include "ANGLEWebKitBridge.h"
#include "GraphicsContext3D.h"

#if PLATFORM(BLACKBERRY)
#include <BlackBerryPlatformLog.h>
#endif

#if USE(OPENGL_ES_2)
#include "OpenGLESShims.h"
#include <GLES2/gl2.h>
#include <GLES2/gl2ext.h>
#elif PLATFORM(MAC)
#include <OpenGL/gl.h>
#elif PLATFORM(GTK) || PLATFORM(EFL) || PLATFORM(QT) || PLATFORM(WIN) || PLATFORM(NIX)
#include "OpenGLShims.h"
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#include <wtf/MainThread.h>
#include <wtf/Vector.h>

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Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::Extensions3DOpenGLCommon(GraphicsContext3D* context)
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Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::~Extensions3DOpenGLCommon()
{
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bool Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::supports(const String& name)
{
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void Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::ensureEnabled(const String& name)
{
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}

bool Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::isEnabled(const String& name)
{
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}

int Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::getGraphicsResetStatusARB()
{
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String Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::getTranslatedShaderSourceANGLE(Platform3DObject shader)
{
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    if (m_requiresBuiltInFunctionEmulation)
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    if (!isValid)
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void Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::initializeAvailableExtensions()
{
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}

void Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::readnPixelsEXT(int, int, GC3Dsizei, GC3Dsizei, GC3Denum, GC3Denum, GC3Dsizei, void *)
{
    m_context->synthesizeGLError(GL_INVALID_OPERATION);
}

void Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::getnUniformfvEXT(GC3Duint, int, GC3Dsizei, float *)
{
    m_context->synthesizeGLError(GL_INVALID_OPERATION);
}

void Extensions3DOpenGLCommon::getnUniformivEXT(GC3Duint, int, GC3Dsizei, int *)
{
    m_context->synthesizeGLError(GL_INVALID_OPERATION);
}

} // namespace WebCore

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Days of Rage review
DAYS OF RAGE: AMERICA'S RADICAL UNDERGROUND, THE FBI, AND THE FORGOTTEN AGE OF REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE. By Bryan Burrough. Penguin Press, 2015, 585 pp., $34.95.
The Vietnam anti-war movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a mixed bag, populated by individuals who were pacifists, socialists, activists, young, old, mainly white, but with strands of people of color, since its roots, though tangled, were deep in the Civil Rights movement that preceded it. Days of Rage, though, is not mixed at all. It covers only the violent side of the anti-war movement, beginning in 1969 with Sam Melville, "the man who started it all,"a white, thirty-something, long-haired New York City bomber, famously gunned down two years later during the Attica prison revolt. It's a curious place to begin, but one must start somewhere.
Bryan Burrough has published five other books, three covering financial figures, one on NASA, another on the early years of the FBI. He is an odd author to tell this tale, given his attachment to the magazine Vanity Fair (he effusively thanks its editor, Graydon Carter, "the best in the business"). VF has perfected a sort of celebrity journalism featuring the rich and the powerful behaving badly. There's a lot of that going on. But Days of Rage doesn't escape VF's personality-centric style. The book lists a "Cast of Characters," 54 people, members of six groupings Burrough's assembles, such as the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberaction Nacional Puertorriquena), and others, some little known. Given the span of history the book covers (roughly late 60s, early 80s), this is actually a small amount of people; Burrough seems to ascribe to the theory that history is driven by individuals, rather than so-called larger forces.
Indeed, Burrough's object, he states, was to write a "straightforward narrative history of the period and its people." He means to keep his judgments "to a minimum." Earlier, he criticizes John Castellucci's dense book on the Brink's Robbery of 1981, The Big Dance, for being "so loosely structured it is often hard to follow."
The world of the not loosely, but tightly, structured, straightforward narrative, is meant to be fast-read history – if any book of nearly 600 pages can be said to be read fast. A number of odd revelations stand out with this method. Burrough alternates white groups followed by black groups and Puerto Rican groups (the FALN), then mixed racial groups, concluding with the strange (though all the stories are strange) account of two white couples, plus children, merry bombers and eventual cop killers.
Being so schematically structured, Days of Rage presents the White/Black/Puerto Rican worlds as separate, occasionally invaded by the practically all-white FBI, and other law enforcement groups with sparse minority representation, looking for the diverse underground perpetrators. Burrough thus sets up, perhaps unconsciously, a weird race-based story. Succinctly put (which he seldom attempts, brevity-being-the-sister of art not being his strength), he shows that the white radicals went to college, the black radicals went to prison, and the Puerto Ricans did a bit of both, for their sessions of radicalization.
That's the trouble with fast-read history; it often leaves out nuance. Burrough's caused cause for all the depicted mayhem is White students' guilty solidarity with Black struggles: "What the underground movement was truly about – what it was always about – was the plight of black Americans." He downplays the Vietnam war, the draft, etc.; but the history is more complicated than he allows. He never notices, it seems, that righting wrongs heaped upon Black Americans was not so much the reason for the conduct described, as it was a justification. Not coming from the generation he writes about, Burrough misses other motives, including the effect of WWII's Holocaust, being fitfully revealed as these kids grew up, on their consciences.
So, beyond the great "man" theory of history, we get the violent theory of history, which is that nothing of importance happens in the world without violence. It's the "American as cherry pie" analysis of social change, from the street philosopher and former head of SNCC H. Rap Brown, whom Burrough's quotes. In Days of Rage you will read the Top 10 quotes of the era; he doesn't miss those beats. His book has been assembled from research, other people's books, a lot of memoirs, and a few important interviews he undertook with prominent movement veterans. This is the method of magazine journalism, yet Burrough's most important contribution is those interviews – especially the ones with Liz Fink (nomen est omen), a radical lawyer active in the circles described since the late 1960s, Cathy Wilkerson, the Weatherman who survived the 1970 11th Street townhouse explosion, Ron Fliegelman (Burrough's chief scoop), Wilkerson's partner in crime and father of her child, and a few peripheral others, plus a handful of talky former FBI agents.
From a writer of three books dealing with the modern financial world, I was surprised Burrough didn't have any sort of political economy analysis to offer, even of the Freakonomics sort: Why were all those college kids able to drop things and run off to protest, both in the Civil Rights arena and the anti-war movement? He still doesn't seem to know. It's the economy, stupid. The 60s and early 70s still had enough surplus capital floating around to allow for youthful leisure, this being before Ronald Reagan made sure all that money went into the right hands. It's one of the larger forces Burrough neglects.
Burrough keeps saying throughout, in one version or another, that the world the underground bombers occupied, began to "change". No one cared anymore, "America yawned."
The book ends with a Where-are-they-now? Epilogue. I enjoy that sort of thing as much as anyone, but still there is no hard reckoning of how the world changed. That might have forced the author to make "judgments". But, Burrough should know: His most recent previous book is titled The Big Rich.
Days of Rage is full of period highlights and if one is well versed in the history Burrough doesn't cover, it's easy to add context. (The name Berrigan isn't found in the Index or the text, though Burrough refers once to the "Catholic underground," though that too missed the Index.)
Fresh ruminations, though, can arise from his depictions: One: The black, violent revolutionaries were among the first to be globalized, to travel abroad, to see their plight in a geo-political context (see Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver, etc.). Two: That as the underground and the bombings continued for over the decade of the 70s women became more central, yet remained at the beck and call of the men – their feminism increased, but remained paradoxical because of what they would let the men get away with. An early form of this was Weather-woman Bernardine Dohrn's hybrid persona of sex-pot and conflicted proto-feminist. This internal volatile dynamic finally helped implode the remaining straggling violent groups.
Heavy on facts and light on analysis, readers not familiar with this material will read Days of Rage chiefly as a lurid tale, a text-movie un-spooling before their eyes: The sexual revolution as adapted by radicals, the boyfriend/girlfriend world of political motives and decisions (though Bill/Hillary are not discussed), the fun of blowing things up (Made it, Ma, top of the world!), thrills and chills, the Patty Hearst circus revisited once again, wild ironies on display and jaw-dropping episodes of coincidence, how drugs fueled so much of the late violent manifestations, and all along the "feckless" FBI fumbling through. Burrough, preposterously, speaks admiringly of J. Edgar Hoover, but the FBI doesn't come off well, as usual, in this account. But, however flawed, I hope Days of Rage secures a wide readership, especially among the uninformed young.
Though Burrough's book doesn't tell you, the Black Panthers' outbursts led to the militarization of our country's police forces. The flirting with violence of the Catholic Left led to the Catholic Right's attacks on abortion clinics and physicians. History was upended; those most prone to violent protest switched sides.
Burrough's central thesis is all this past has been "forgotten". But by whom?
America's talent for forgetting can be salubrious. The problem is not what we forget, but what we remember. That propensity produces many grim examples, one being what the recent Stars-and-Bars-waving young killer, Dylann Roof, chose to remember in Charleston, SC. He murdered nine – no radical bomber in Days of Rage killed nine people at once. Look out for what you remember.
A shorter version of this review ran in the October 23-November 5, 2015 issue of the National Catholic Reporter.
http://ncronline.org/books/2015/10/days-rage-ignores-larger-forces
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WILLIAM O'ROURKE is the author of The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left (1972), Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles (1993), and On Having a Heart Attack: A Medical Memoir (2006), Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer (2012), and a 40th anniversary edition of The Harrisburg 7 book, with a new Afterword (2012); the novels The Meekness of Isaac (1974), Idle Hands (1981), Criminal Tendencies (1987), and Notts (1996). He is the editor of On the Job: Fiction About Work by Contemporary American Writers (1977) and Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years (2009). Campaign America '96: The View From the Couch, first published in 1997, was reissued in paperback with a new epilogue in 2000. A sequel, Campaign America 2000: The View From the Couch, was published in 2001. He has been awarded two NEAs and a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS grant. He was the first James Thurber Writer-in-Residence at the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio and is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and was the founding director of its graduate creative writing program. He wrote a weekly political column for the Chicago Sun-Times from 2001 till 2005.


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BWW Review: THE PRICE at Arena Stage Offers Up Wonderful Acting in a Classic American Drama
by Jennifer Perry
Washington, DC is experiencing its own little Arthur Miller festival at the moment. Area theatergoers have the opportunity to catch a tremendously acted production of Death of a Salesman at Ford's Theatre and an equally well acted production of The Price at Arena Stage. The Price may be lesser known, by most standards, but is more than worth the trek to the revitalized Waterfront area.
Broadway and television's award-winning actor Hal Linden, as the elderly furniture appraiser/dealer Gregory Solomon, may be the star name in the production, but the entire cast that Director Seema Sueko has assembled is certainly his equal. Attention must certainly be paid especially to Maboud Ebrahimzadeh (playing the role of Victor Franz through November 5). He's delivered a number of wonderful performances on area stages in the past few years (his performance in Round House Theatre's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was particularly memorable), but his work at Arena surpasses all of that. It's that sensational. Nuanced yet explosive acting when required, he reveals all of Victor's many layers with considerable skill.
Like Death of a Salesman, The Price is a family drama. Victor, a policeman nearing retirement age, has returned to his parents' Manhattan brownstone ready to sell off the old furniture piled up in the attic (exquisitely designed by Wilson Chin). His father has been gone for some time and there's no more time to wait because the building is about to be destroyed. His image conscious wife Esther (Pearl Sun, showing she's an equally capable dramatic actress as she is musical theater actress) has joined him. Their relationship is a bit messy at the moment, in part due to finances and other related issues. Victor found a furniture appraiser/dealer in the phone book. Memories bubble up as he's waiting for Gregory to arrive. When Gregory does appear - and Hal Linden puts his natural comedic talent to use - Victor realizes the process is not going to be as easy as he anticipated. The appearance of Walter (Rafael Untalan), his doctor brother whom he has not seen in years, complicates matters even further. Secrets, resentment, and painful memories of the past brim to the surface in this family drama. It's a story of sacrifice and the price you pay for the choices you make - both financial and otherwise.
While The Price has a bit of a slow start (no fault of the actors or the direction - it's Miller's script), it's worth the slog through the first twenty minutes to get to the meat of the play. Linden's comedic zingers, from the outset, add some spice to the proceedings, and he has great chemistry with Ebrahimzadeh, which makes the buyer/seller scenes great fun. Believable dramatic performances by Ebrahimzadeh, Untalan, and Sun draw us into their tangled pasts later on in the play.
And the acting is reason enough to hurry on over to Arena Stage for this gem of a production. It's classic American theater at its finest.
Running Time: Two hours and 35 minutes, including one intermission.
THE PRICE plays at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater - 1101 6th Street, SW in Washington, DC - through November 12, 2017. For tickets, call the box office at 202-488-3300 or purchase them online.
Caption: (L to R) Maboud Ebrahimzadeh as Victor Franz and Hal Linden as Gregory Solomon in The Price; by Colin Hovde
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Adrian Halen 06/21/2012	News
Never Submit Entertainment proudly presents the WORLD PREMIERE of "Poetic" – a feature film production in association with Plastic Age Productions and Cazares Entertainment. Special thanks to local businesses – Al's Carpet & Design Service, Hayes Distributing Rockford and Killian's Irish Red Beer – for their generous support.
On Saturday, June 30, 2012, at the Tebala Shrine Auditorium,
Matthew Cichella will present his first feature film release for an intimate WORLD PREMIERE screening in his hometown of Rockford, IL. Two short films – Travis Legge's "Taxidermy" and Myke Wilson's Event "Invitation" – will be shown prior to the screening of "Poetic".
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased either at the door or in advance at www.poeticmovie.com
The show begins at 8:00 p.m. and doors open at 7:00 p.m.
For more information call (815) 704 – 4882 or email mcefilms@gmail.com
Advance Tickets are also available at Disc Replay in Rockford.
All seats general admission (No Reserved seats)
About the writer/director:
After writing screenplays for several years, and not wanting to sell off his original ideas, Matthew Cichella finally stepped behind the camera in 2006, directing his first production, "Obsession."
Since then he has completed several short films, "Innocent Looks" featuring Rockford actor Ty Yaeger and WREX-TV's own Jeannie Hayes, followed by "FAMOUS", featuring Chicago actor Giovanni Pauletti and local actress Melissa Revels.
After many months of diligent work, Matthew plans to unleash his newest feature film, "Poetic". This is his first full length film and the culmination of a dream come true for the writer/director.
He still resides in Rockford, Illinois. While he loves the glamorous life that Hollywood can bring, he remains faithful to his hometown roots and doesn't see a change of location any time in the near future.
Poetic (2012) (84 minutes)
Written and directed by Matthew Cichella.
Executive Producer & Editor Travis Legge.
Produced by Rick Roland Jr.
Starring Rockford residents Ty Yaeger, Melissa Revels, Dave Block, Tommy Larson & Rob Romero.
Also starring Talena Caza, Marc Edwards, Heather Dorff, Jolene M. Aldus, former VH1 Scream Queen Sierra Holmes, & Tony Lee Gratz
Poetic is an intense, sexy, character driven psychological thriller that centers on a world full of deceit, passion, and revenge. One couple finds themselves caught in the middle of this when they are kidnapped by "Cowboy", a mysterious and merciless renegade killer who takes karma in to his own hands. Now prisoners in their own home, the couple is turned against one another and forced to relive their dirty little secrets. Their domestic quarrel turns in to a nightmare they might never awaken from.
The Soundtrack Musicians:
The original soundtrack for this film was created by Rockford's own talent. We have Holland Zander of the "Sensations" and "Steve Lindsay & Whiskey Train", Tom & Crystal Parrott from "Nikovtyme" & the "Hall Of Fame Trophy Gang"
There will be alcoholic beverages available in the Tebala Shrine Pyramid Club and they will be featuring Hayes beer products (including Miller Lite, Killians, Coors Light, etc.) Must be 21 w/ Valid photo ID.
DISCLAIMER: POETIC is UNRATED: It contains adult language, graphic violence, strong sexual violence, and simulated rape. It is NOT suitable for anyone under the age of 18. All attendees must present photo ID at the time of admission.
Tags Obsession Poetic
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Harry and Meghan's Move Puts Suburban Windsor in Spotlight
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are coming to Windsor, a town outside London popular with young families and where home prices are rising despite economic uncertainty
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, better known as Harry and Meghan, on a trip to New Zealand earlier this year.
By Ruth Bloomfield
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, better known as Harry and Meghan, move from London to Windsor early next year, they will be taking a well-trodden path followed by countless other young families looking for more space and a peaceful, provincial lifestyle.
Their arrival will also shine a spotlight on this historic riverside town, 22 miles west of the British capital, where real estate has struggled to absorb a series of hard knocks, from tax increases to political upheaval.
Buckingham Palace has confirmed that the duke and duchess will set up home at Frogmore Cottage, a 10-bedroom property on Queen Elizabeth's Windsor estate and close to Windsor Castle. The couple is expecting their first child in the spring and will raise their family in the same town where they held their wedding party.
John Carroll, director of Hardings Estate agents, estimates that around six out of 10 houses in Winsdor are sold to exiting Londoners. Their enthusiasm for the town helps explain the historic strength of its market for family homes.
Research from Savills reveals that the value of a "prime" stand-alone house—defined as the top 25% of sales by price—has increased just over 30% from about $1.06 million in 2008 to $1.4 million today. Prices peaked at $1.42 million in 2016. They then fell slightly during 2017, to $1.05 million, before rallying this year.
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