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Mairi
Mairi came into my life about two years ago. She came from Arizona with a cheap trailer, four kids from three different fathers, and a seriously negative attitude. We met on a frosty October afternoon and with my Victorian upbringing, I developed a seriously negative attitude toward her. However, as time went on and I matured, we evolved from wary strangers into polite acquaintances then into comfortable friends
Her trip from Arizona was fraught with headaches which don't have anything to do with the story so we'll ignore them. She moved into a Wisconsin trailer park with a house made for 80° weather and her last electric bill was almost as much as all of my utilities put together. Since she had no money and no income other than public assistance, she became dependent on her father, Edison. Edison lives about 100 miles from her. And since everything was going wrong with the trailer, Edison spent many hours and dollars fixing things. Actually fixing just about everything. Like the doors, the windows, the plumbing, the heater, the furniture and sometimes the kids.
Kids are 12 year old Stone, 10 year old Amaryllis, 5 year old Zoey and Fritz, the baby at 2. Stone and Amaryllis were fathered by her first… and only… husband who whiled away his time drinking, drugging and mishandling the family. Zoey's father, Manny, plays a large role in Mairi's life now, but at the time of his child's birth, took off and left them. Little Fritz's father is now in jail. So Mairi didn't have any support, paternal or financial, bringing up the kids. Surprisingly enough, except for a few mild instances of running away, tearing up the house, starting fires, lying, stealing and cheating, the kids are pretty good. They behave well in restaurants, which has always been my idea of the ultimate test, and they're very loving. To me, at least. And their grandpa. And uncles.
Mairi has two brothers, Joker and Brick, who affectionately consider her an idiot or in more forgiving times, a ditz. She gets excellent advice from her father and brothers which, if she had to pay for it, would cost her a couple of her kids. Giving up an arm and a leg would make life difficult. Unfortunately, she knows best and anyway marches to her own drummer.
For instance. Prior to moving to Arizona to live near her best friend, April, Edison pleaded with her not to go because she would be all alone if anything clouded her relationship with April. She claimed all would be well because April was her best friend and they'd help each other babysitting, drinking coffee, eating cookies together and generally reenacting the Brady Bunch. About two months later April stole money from Mairi and accused her of sleeping with her husband. Apparently, she never accused her husband of sleeping with Mairi, though. She then stole Mairi's truck and hid it from her. That was about the first time Mairi thought that maybe her father had some sense. Not a lot, perhaps, but some.
Then there was the matter of moving the trailer. In her more financially comfortable days, Mairi bought a lot in Arizona and put the trailer on it. She built a fence completely surrounding the property, had drainage ditches dug, ran gas, electric and phone lines in and made herself a very nice nest.
When the love affair with April fell apart and Mairi decided her best bet was to move to Wisconsin, she contacted a realtor by telephone to sell her lot. She never met with the realtor nor did she give the woman any instructions other than "sell it". Well, as they say, out of sight, out of mind. Mairi moved and realtor Wanda forgot all about her. Why bother with a $2,000 commission?. Edison kept after her to make contact with Wanda to see what was happening but Mairi, not unlike most of us, doesn't like confrontation so she creatively came up with one excuse after another. It's now been 18 months and still little has happened. To be fair, though, she did get a new realtor assigned to her property but Jill isn't anymore interested than Wanda.
Manny reentered her life a few months ago. He has a bit of a rap sheet, severe credit problems, no job and bad teeth. Bless him, though, he treats all of the kids as though they were his own. Management by screaming. Well, Manny, after much nagging from Edison, has found himself a good job but, his past is catching up with him and he has problems with his taxes and the court system meaning that he'll have to take time off from his new job to perform community service and visit the IRS. Do you think the new job will sit still for him? But Mairi is happy he's there, nonetheless, albeit it's a little crowded with six people in an 800 square foot house.
Mairi was suffering from endometriosis and had a hysterectomy several months ago. She claims her doctor, Dumi, is a first class nitwit, quack and charlatan. Two months after the original surgery and after undergoing three more surgeries because Dumi didn't sew her up right, she's finally healing and reflecting. She wonders how much it would cost to put a contract out on Dumi. I wonder how much it would cost to put a contract out on Dumi.
Mairi's beat up truck was uninsured but she drove it from Arizona anyway because she's always had good luck driving and been in very few accidents. Edison bought her car insurance and the following week, a nice big Lexus rear ended her. Unfortunately, Manni was in the truck and the police checked his ID and arrested him. Apparently, he was still wanted in upstate Wisconsin for something or other and he spent the night in jail until Edison and Brick bailed him out.
Nonetheless, it has been an exciting adventure knowing Mairi and because I will soon become her stepmother, she and I will be together for a long time. I can't wait to see what else she gets herself… and us -involved in.
(Names have been changed to protect the guilty)
Ann O. Nimus knows some fascinating people and loves to tell tales of them. Juliana Johnson is a good listener and tries to write her stories.


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Phil Nivens
Phil Nivens serves as Vice President of Operations with ITC Defense, a multidimensional role with a specific focus on providing the leadership, strategic plans, operational systems and quality controls for the successful planning, execution, and operations of lines of business. Mr. Nivens developed his passion for establishing efficient operational infrastructures; providing exceptional service delivery; and a belief that employees are a company's greatest asset, over 25 years of leadership experience supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
Prior to joining ITC Defense Mr. Nivens served as Chief Operating Officer for MatinFederal Consulting, ensuring superior service delivery across service lines: Engineering & Tech Services, Training Solutions, Advanced IT Solutions and Cyber Solutions for customers including U.S. Army Sustainment Command's (ASC) Army Oil Analysis Program (AOAP), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Mission Operations and Integration (MO&I), U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) Army Field Support Center (AFSC), U.S Army National Guard Professional Education Center (PEC) Strength Maintenance Training Center (SMTC), The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and Fire Research Laboratory (FRL) and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Korean War History Project.
Mr. Nivens spent many great years working for SAIC as a Program Management Senior Manager. His last role was serving as the Deputy Program Manager for the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (AMCOM LCMC) Information Technology Support Services (ITSS) II and most recently ITSS III contracts. His leadership and guidance over the operational planning, establishment, execution, and evaluation of program level actions resulted in SAIC's first Capability Maturity Model for Services (CMMI-SVC) rating of Maturity Level 2.
A 1994 graduate from Auburn University with a bachelor's degree in Business Management, majoring in Finance, he also holds Project Management Professional (PMP) and ITIL Foundation 3 certifications. Mr. Nivens is a Leadership Greater Huntsville alum, graduating from the Management Academy and continues to volunteer his time speaking during program days. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) as the VP of Education.

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Food Under $20 in New Orleans: Frappes
09:00 August 11, 2022
By: Kim Ranjbar
Delicious Frappes in the Big Easy
Even for aficionados, a piping hot cup of coffee on a sweltering summer day in New Orleans is about as appealing as running a 10k in a goose down parka. Though many folks can be found sheltering inside well air-conditioned spaces where a steaming cuppa Joe can be had in relative comfort, it's altogether easier, more portable, and infinitely more fun to go frozen with a frappe.
Describing drinks chilled with ice, the name frappé is French in origin and goes as far back as the late 1800s. The French were enjoying café frappé, or iced coffee, which was sometimes served like slushes. Then, in 1957 Giannis Dristas, a representative of Nestlé, created the Greek version of café frappé, by mixing instant coffee, cold water, and ice cubes in a cocktail shaker—an invention that has forever linked Nescafé to frappé.
Fast-forward to the '90s when George Howell's Massachusetts coffee shop chain, the Coffee Connection, developed and trademarked the frappuccino, made with ice cream and cappuccino. The Coffee Connection was purchased by the Seattle-based java giant Starbucks in 1994 and the rest, as they say, is history.
These days, it seems coffee shops use the terms frappe (sounds like slap), frappé, frozen coffee, and frappuccino interchangeably to mean the same thing, though if your shop isn't Starbucks, you're likely to get slapped with a lawsuit for formally using the latter. Whatever you call it, it's a sweet, cooling delivery method for that daily caffeine injection we all adore, and, as a bonus, you don't have to go to Starbucks to get it.
[Courtesy, Coast Roast Coffee]
Though Coast Roast Coffee started in Long Beach, Mississippi, it has quickly become a beloved New Orleans brand with a café inside St. Roch Market and CR Coffee Shop on Magazine Street. Using high-quality arabica, they roast the beans in a restored, century-old roaster, resulting in a smooth, rich flavor you have to taste to appreciate. Though they do offer a regular frozen coffee, it is more than worth it to try their chocolate-covered espresso bean flavor to add an extra sweet jolt to your day.
Away over there in Arabi, there's a cool little café dubbed, most appropriately, the Coffee House. This community café started life as a drive-thru in 2015 and has now grown into a full-fledged shop, offering java brewed from Coast Roast beans as well as free WiFi, friendly faces, and handmade croissants and breakfast burritos. Their frosty frappe flavors, replete with whipped cream, are constantly changing, but they've been known to offer everything from white chocolate and cheesecake to lavender maple and (a Star Wars fan favorite) "Darth Frappe," or mocha and almond with chocolate whipped cream.
Way down in Metairie, in a busy strip mall on W. Esplanade Avenue, Evolve Coffee is mixing it up serving specialty coffees and teas, including the healthful and oh-so popular matcha. Using beans roasted by Mojo Coffee, Evolve makes not only a creamy, frozen latte, but a cool matcha-licious fusion dubbed the "frozen Evolution"—a mashup of freshly brewed espresso and ceremonial-grade matcha sourced from Japan. One day perhaps we'll see them slushify their signature rose matcha latte.
Speaking of Mojo, as one of the first coffee shops in town featuring "hand-crafted pour over methods" to the GNO, it should come as no surprise that at least one of their locations offers a fabulous frappe. In the Lower Garden District, on the corner of Magazine and Race streets, Mojo serves frozen coffees with a slew of syrups added for flavor, from salted caramel and Bananas Foster to miel (honey), Milky Way, and king cake.
Coffee giant PJ's Coffee has locations all over the country, but it calls New Orleans home as it was founded here in 1978 by Phyllis Jordan. Sourcing only "the best quality arabica beans," which are then small-batch roasted, PJ's features their own frappes, though they're called granitas (traditionally an Italian sno-ball-like dessert) and "velvet ice." Though the two are generally only offered mocha and latte-flavored, the company will occasionally release seasonal versions like Southern wedding cake with vanilla and almond or honey macadamia.
Finally, one of the most famous frappes to be had in the Crescent City would have to be the frozen cafe au lait at Cafe Du Monde. Whether you're at Lakeside Mall, on Williams Boulevard in Kenner (brah), or standing in line at their iconic, green and white-awninged stand on Decatur Street in the French Quarter, it's pretty hard to beat this frozen coffee and chicory treat. Grab one to slurp while gaping at the Mighty Mississippi, and, perhaps, this summer won't seem quite so hot.
Food Under $20 in New Orleans: Queso
Like many of the world's most marvelous inventions, cheese was likely an accidental discovery.
Some lucky goat herder thousands of years ago probably was attempting to prolong the life of milk and, in the process, made it curd. Oh what a happy day that must have been. Unbeknownst to the fortunate countrywoman, her revelation would lead to the creation of hundreds of cheese varieties, thousands of dishes derived from them, and millions of "cheese-pull" videos on TikTok and Instagram.
Cheese, to those who are lactose tolerant, is easily one of the finest foodstuffs this earth has to offer. Extremely versatile, lovers of the curd can enjoy it during any meal, from breakfast to dessert, and in any form. One creamy creation, out of the hundreds of thousands (dare I say millions?) which currently exist, is a Tex-Mex phenom called queso.
Queso, or chile con queso, is a simple, yet dreamy combination of melted cheeses, cream, and chiles, one of the most perfect dips for your chip. Typically, Velveeta (which is not really a cheese, just a cheese-like product) has been the main ingredient, but many of our local restaurants step up their game adding real cheeses, or replacing the processed cheese product altogether, in their ooey-gooey, can't-stop-eating-it quesos.
Barracuda Taco Stand
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Chef Brett Jones, owner and operator of Barracuda Taco Stand on Tchoupitoulas Street (now with a second location in Algiers Point), tries to make his queso as close to the classic Velveeta version as possible using real chihuahua and sharp cheddar cheeses, their own in-house hot sauce made with spicy pequin chiles, and garlic. When they first opened several years ago, Barracuda gave diners the option of enjoying their fabulous queso with flour tortilla chips or fresh-out-of-the-fryer chicharrones, but those poppin' pork skins have disappeared of late. Though some may be disappointed by their disappearance, the takeaway is that their killer queso remains.
El Cucuy
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Just down the street from Barracuda, El Cucuy, named after the Mexican boogeyman, is one of the city's newer taco stands. With lots of outdoor seating and colorful murals, this Mexican street food-inspired spot is choice for cocktails under the stars and the perfect pairing for a bowl of hot cheese. In their version, a Mexican hatch chile sofrito spices a bechamel made with three different cheeses (both hard and soft) and cream. The finished queso is then drizzled with arbol/guajillo chile oil and served with warm corn tortilla chips.
El Pavo Real
Over in the Broadmoor neighborhood, Chef Lindsay McLellan and her husband Mario are slinging out all kinds of cheesy creations at their Mexican restaurant El Pavo Real, including an incredible queso. Roasted poblano peppers are blended with several cheeses (cheddar, chihuahua, queso blanca), caramelized onions, and fresh corn, and served with flour tortilla chips. Feel free to add chorizo or fresh, local crab if it's in season, but you better be hungry and share with the table or you may not be able to eat anything else.
Juan's Flying Burrito
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Juan's Flying Burrito, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, has become a New Orleans institution, a local restaurant chain inspired by the Mission Burrito joints popular in the San Francisco Bay Area. Self-touted as the "world's first Creole Taqueria," Juan's offers an eclectic menu with dishes ranging from their signature Flying Burrito stuffed with grilled steak, Gulf shrimp, and chicken to banh mi tacos with pickled daikon radish. Surprisingly enough, they keep their queso pretty simple with a creamy white, processed cheese and hatch chile combo, though they do like to top it off with sliced Cajun Chef pickled jalapeños.
Secret Birria Tacos
[Kim Ranjbar]
Finally, the Uptown stand dubbed Secret Birria Tacos is also a fine purveyor of cheesy bliss, among other things. As the name clearly states, this particular restaurant offers the popular Mexican dish quesabirria, which has swept the nation-crispy, cheesy, flour tortilla tacos are filled with a savory goat or beef stew meat (ie. birria) and served with a spicy, meaty tomato "au jus" for dipping. Along with those incredible tacos, Secret Birria also offers items like birria ramen, flautas, a "birriarito" and, of course, queso. Made with American white cheese and mozzarella, this particular cheese dip is topped with salsa negra (roasted tomatoes and chile peppers) and served with crispy, Cajun-seasoned cracklins.


My website has been a holding page for nearly ten years. Before that, it had been a growing online portfolio of my artwork up until around 2010 or 2011 at which point it started to stagnate. Eventually I decided that it no longer represented me in a way that felt right for the moment so I replaced it with a short message stating that I did not currently know what I wanted to do with my website and I would update it soon, a gif of a turning hourglass loading animation, and one picture of a sculpture. The site has been like that for years now, with minor changes to the language and changes of address when I move.
I have frequently found myself under the illusion that I'm about to finally update my website; to give it an overhaul that'll represent where I'm really at today; to give it a format that can grow with my thinking and my activities. And then I don't.
I've conceived probably a dozen new concepts for this website, half of them maybe good. I've built entire new websites entirely different from one another and then never put them online or told anybody that they existed.
Recently I helped my friend Anna build herself a website and this prompted me to think out loud again about my own site. I started playing around with the static site generator, Hugo (which turned this bit of writing into a web page) to organize my writing, with the idea that this might be a way to get on with the process, and also to encourage me to be a little more organized and disciplined about my writing, and to share it with the world.
Then, this past week, I came across an article by Laurel Scwulst that reminded me that a website is an ever-changing thing, and that mine will never be done so I might as well get on with it and let it grow in the light of day, play with the other websites, and learn.
Some of the first websites that I admired were simple personal blogs that people would use to share dispatches from their lives and thoughts. I found that a good blog could strike an appealing balance between personal and public, polished and raw. They could fall in an interesting gap between reading an essay and reading someone's journal. With this this blog I'll try and strike a similar balance writing somewhat for my own benefit but with some awareness that someone else might read it. I'll try and be a bit disciplined about it, but not too disciplined. I'll try and write maybe one significant entry per month: one entry that I've put real effort into researching and/or composing.
This area of my site will continue where my previous Tumblr blog left off. This area of my site will act like a bucket collecting rainwater, the rainwater being things like quotations that fall into my hands or ideas that fall out of my head.
So, I do not know what this website is. I may never know, just as I may never know "who I am." For now, let's just call it a site of experimentation, which is all it's ever been in so far as it has thrived. I'd like if this became not just a reflection of "who I am" but a tool to use in redefining that question, in connecting me with other people in a way that I don't think the crowded and manipulative platforms we primarily use to communicate online will allow.
The old site that the holding page has replaced seems to have been lost to the bits and bytes of time and, like a lot of work that felt insignificant or annoyed me at the time when I lost track of them, I'm sad that it's gone. I think I've finally learned my lesson and will begin to version my website with git, so I can see how it changes over time - grows, shrinks, drifts. Eventually, maybe I'll even set up a thing where visitors can go back in time to see earlier iterations. This was one of my dozen ideas for a website that seemed too daunting, so I never began.


What do you do when you've just won the athletic department's second ACC Championship of the academic year? Why, celebrate of course.
That's just what the women's track & field program did Tuesday. First, Mark Elliott gathered his entire staff, as well as the men and women that make up Clemson's track & field teams, for a short celebration in the McFadden Building.
The team's highlight video from this past weekend was shown, and then Elliott made a few remarks about his team's performance before a crowd of athletic staff supporters. An impromptu appearance and motivational talk from football coach Dabo Swinney followed, before cake and refreshments were served to commemorate the program's achievement.
Then, Elliott and his team appeared during halftime of the men's basketball game against NC State. Fans graciously applauded the Tigers, who brought home their fifth ACC Indoor Championship in the last six seasons.


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10 Essential Electric Guitar Design Innovators
By Brad Tolinski, Alan di Perna
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Culled from the pages of their book, Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound & Revolution of the Electric Guitar (opens in new tab), renowned guitar journalists Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna run down the 10 key innovators who made the electric guitar the ultimate rock machine it is today.Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound & Revolution of the Electric Guitar (opens in new tab) is now available in paperback and you can find it in bookstores and online (opens in new tab).
1. George Beauchamp
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The whole electric guitar idea might never have gotten off the ground had Texas-born George Delmetia Beauchamp figured out how to create a string-driven, electro-magnetic guitar pickup. He implemented the design on the first commercially produced electric, the RO-PAT-IN A-25 "Frying Pan," which hit the market in 1932. RO-PAT-IN would eventually morph into Rickenbacker.
2. Walter Fuller
PHOTO: Guitar Player Archives (Charlie Christian)
Gibson design engineer Walter Fuller took the string-driven electro-magnetic pickup to its next evolutionary stage with a hexagonal pickup design he devised circa 1935. Less bulky than Beauchamp's horseshoe magnet design, Fuller's pickup was employed on Gibson's first commercially successful electric Spanish guitar, the ES-150, introduced in 1935. Because of the 150's association with the 1930s' foremost jazz guitar legend, Fuller's invention would be known as the Charlie Christian pickup.
3. Alvino Rey
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In a fair and just world, Alvino Rey would be just as famous as Les Paul, if not more so. An accomplished player and inspired inventor, Rey did much to popularize the electric guitar in its infancy, while also pushing the envelope on the instrument's development. In the early 1920s, while still in his teens, he was tinkering with amplifier designs and a pickup for his first instrument, the banjo. Rey performed the first electric guitar radio broadcast in January 1933 at station KGW out of Portland, Oregon. He did early design work on the Gibson ES-150 pickup and developed the first "talk box," a device later employed by Jeff Beck and Peter Frampton in the 1970s.
No, Les Paul did not invent the electric guitar. He didn't invent the solidbody electric guitar. Nor did he design the Gibson Les Paul model. But he is still a towering figure in the instrument's development and popularization. An inveterate tinkerer, Les's experimentation on instruments such as the "Log" guitar and numerous instruments he called "Clunker" put considerable momentum behind the electric guitar's evolution. His pioneering work with multitrack recording and sound manipulation birthed the concept of multiple, layered, orchestral guitar tracks, paving the way for the work of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Brian May and rock guitar auteurs. As a showman, Les's extensive work in radio and TV brought the sound of the electric guitar into millions of homes on a weekly basis.
5. Paul Bigsby
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A gruff, energetic ex-motorcycle racing champ, Bigsby is perhaps best known for the elegant vibrato arm tailpiece that bears his name. But he is also a key figure in the development of the solidbody electric guitar. The solidbody that he built for country picker Merle Travis in 1948 was the direct inspiration for Leo Fender's groundbreaking Broadcaster/Telecaster design, first introduced the following year. Bigsby's mechanical genius also did much to drive the evolution of the pedal steel guitar.
Known as "the Henry Ford of the electric guitar," Clarence Leonidas Fender revolutionized electric design in the middle years of the 20th century by adapting post WWII manufacturing techniques to the age-old art of luthiery. Fender's bolt-on guitar neck made the instruments more affordable and more easily repaired.
The simple, functional ergonomics of the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster made the electric guitar a truly populist instrument—a practical tool for the working musician. Fender's Precision Bass, introduced in 1951, changed the very nature of bass playing and established the archetype for all bass guitars to follow. And of course Leo Fender's amplifier designs became the benchmark that players and amp builders still reference and revere to this day.
7. Ted McCarty
No-nonsense straight-shooter Ted McCarty combined a shrewd head for business with the design flair of a true artist. Like many guitar manufacturers, Gibson took a severe hit during the Second World War. But as the company's president from 1950–1966, McCarty restored and reasserted Gibson's leadership role with inspired electric guitar designs that include the Les Paul, ES-335, Flying V, Explorer and Firebird. These models established Gibson's market niche as the upscale alternative to Fender. Today these are some of the most coveted and expensive guitars on the vintage market. Later in life, McCarty became a mentor for Paul Reed Smith, and the PRS McCarty model proudly bears his name.
Where would electric guitarists be without the fat tone and noise-cancelling electronics of the humbucking pickup? Which is to say, where would electric guitarists be without Seth Lover? A design engineer at Gibson both before and after WWII, Lover developed a pickup with two magnetic coils to get rid of the unwanted 60-cycle hum that takes place when single coil pickups interact with stage lighting and other electro-mechanical interference. When Lover's pickup first hit the market in 1955, it was known as the P.A.F. (Patent Applied For) design, because the patent Lover had applied for had not yet been granted.
The P.A.F. designation stood until 1959 when the patent was finally granted. But P.A.F.'s are still considered the most desirable humbucking pickups of them all. They were essential to the sound and popularity of Gibson electric guitars such as the Les Paul, ES-335, Flying V and Explorer. After leaving Gibson in 1957, Lover went on to work for Fender and Seymour Duncan.
9. Roger Rossmeisl
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Sporty, German-born luthier Roger Rossmeisl was the man who gave the world ultra-stylish Rickenbacker electrics such as the 360-12 played by the Beatles' George Harrison, the 325 favored by John Lennon and the 4001 bass beloved by Paul McCartney and numerous other bassists. Which means that Rossmeisl had a key role in crafting the guitar tonality of rock's seminal 1960s. Before coming to Rickenbacker, Rossmeisl had worked as a luthier for the Roger guitar company in Germany with his father Wenzel. He brought a modernist European design flair and the famed "German carve" design to the States with him when he emigrated to America in 1953. After he left Rickenbacker in 1962, he went on to design guitar for Fender and became a mentor to luthier Phil Kubicki.
10. Paul Reed Smith
PHOTO: Courtesy PRS Guitars
Obsessive, meticulous and fiercely creative, Paul Reed Smith initiated a new era of guitar design in the 1980s and beyond. He started out as a custom builder in the 1970s before launching PRS Guitars in 1985. Smith strove to unite the best features of classic Gibson and Fender designs in a single instrument that also embodied more recent design innovations, along with premium woods and a very high level of craftsmanship. With their trademark aviary fret inlays and dazzling finishes, PRS guitars are much in demand and command premium prices today.
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'White Boy' Rick Wershe parole hearing set for June 8
DETROIT (WJBK) - Imprisoned drug dealer Rick Wershe will be in front of a public parole board on Thursday, June 8 for a chance at freedom for the first time since 1988.
The public parole hearing is set to start at 9 a.m. in Jackson after a Michigan Parole Board voted 6 to 10 in favor of Wershe getting a parole hearing. Wershe will appear in court in front of a judge as his parole request is heard.
'White Boy' Rick Wershe granted public parole hearing
'White Boy Rick' Wershe was arrested for possessing 8 kilograms of cocaine in 1988 when he was 17 years old. He was sentenced to life without parole. But the law changed - converting all life without parole sentences to life with parole, meaning now, he doesn't get an automatic resentence.
In prison, Wershe cooperated with the FBI to help break up drug rings and solve other crimes. Yet each time Wershe has come up for parole, it's been denied.
He's serving a life sentence with occasional opportunities for parole. The parole board so far has declined to release him.
In February, Wershe met with with the chairman of the Michigan parole board as part of his latest bid for release. Wershe has been in prison for 29 years for possession with intent to deliver more than 650 grams of cocaine.
Wershe has spent almost 30 years behind bars. Last September, he got a glimpse at the possibility of freedom when Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Dana Hathaway rejected arguments that Rick should be left to rot.
He was supposed to have been resentenced for the crime later that month. However, just a few weeks later, a federal appeals court ruled that he would not be resentenced. An appeals court overturned her decision due to a 'procedural issue'.
The appeals judge told Wershe that he had already been resentenced because he was originally sentenced to life without parole and it was then changed to life with parole.


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Summary of "Sagittal profile has a significant impact on the explantability of well-fixed cemented stems in revision knee arthroplasty: a biomechanical comparison study of five established knee implant models."
Easy revisability is gaining increasingly in importance. The removal of well-fixed cemented stems is very demanding and is often associated with increased operative morbidity. Implant design may be here a decisive impact factor, and the best way to ascertain it is experimentally. Aim of this study is to assess different cemented stems of established knee revision implants in regard to their removal capability.
Cemented conical stems can be removed more easily than cylindrical stems, regardless of cone angle in revision knee arthroplasty.
Variations in Sagittal and Coronal Stem Tilt and Their Impact on Prosthetic Impingement in Total Hip Arthroplasty.
Aggregate gradation effects on dilatancy behavior and acoustic characteristic of cemented rockfill.
Extraction-free whole transcriptome gene expression analysis of FFPE sections and histology-directed subareas of tissue.
Implant vs abutment level connection in implant supported screw-retained fixed partial dentures with cobalt-chrome framework: 1-year interim results of a randomized clinical study.
Screw-retained fixed partial dentures (FPD) have shown a lower incidence of biologic complications and an easier retrievability compared with cemented FPD.


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Jasinda Wilder interview
NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, WALL STREET JOURNAL and international bestselling author Jasinda Wilder is a Michigan native with a penchant for titillating tales about sexy men and strong women. Her bestselling titles include ALPHA, STRIPPED, WOUNDED, and the #1 Amazon and international bestseller FALLING INTO YOU. You can find her on her farm in Northern Michigan with her husband, author Jack Wilder, her six children and menagerie of animals.
As a multi-category romance author, in your opinion, what are some of the biggest misconceptions about the romance genre as a whole?
That romance is nothing but "genre fiction", which is usually meant derogatorily, as if by writing mere genre fiction, we're not serious authors and artists. We are. We put our hearts and souls into our books, our stories, our characters.
I've also made a bit of a career around defying rules. I killed the main character and love interest in the fourth chapter of Falling Into You; my characters are often shown engaging in sex with more than one character in the same novel—this is always part of their journey, but it's shown, not just hinted at, another no-no in the romance rule book.
What's the best line from a book, movie or TV show that you wish you wrote?
I'm really not sure I could pick just one.
Jack and I both really love the movie P.S. I Love You, and there's this exchange between Hillary Swank and Harry Connick Jr., whom I absolutely LOVE, and this scene, it's just…I don't know. It's just soooo good, but not in the way you'd expect.
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Daniel Connelly: You've been thinking about me?
Holly Kennedy: Because you've been a real friend through all this.
Daniel Connelly: Have you ever thought of me in the nude?
Holly Kennedy: [laughing] No.
Daniel Connelly: Not even with my shirt off?
Holly Kennedy: [still laughing] Gerry, stop it.
Daniel Connelly: Daniel, I'm Daniel, are you ever gonna feel the way you felt about Gerry with anyone else, or do you need one of your letters to figure that out?
[He leaves]
Holly Kennedy: Where are you going?
Daniel Connelly: [He comes back] I really like you, but I can't be the Invisible Man. I'm tired of being the shoulder, I want to be another body part. I want to use up a woman so she's ruined for all other men.
Holly Kennedy: You don't want to do that.
Daniel Connelly: No, I don't want to do that. I want to date a woman who actually likes men, I want to be somebody's Gerry.
[He gets up to leave]
Daniel Connelly: Honestly, I don't blame you. It's not your fault, it's mine. I didn't plan on liking you, it just sort of happened that way, I'm sorry about that.
If Falling Into You were to be made into a movie, who would you want to play Nell, Colton and Kyle?
I've always wanted Amanda Seyfried for Nell. Who I want for Colt and Kyle changes, honestly. If I had any say, the music would all be done by the actual actors, not voice-over, so Colt would have to look the part AND sing. Now that he's grown up and…erm…filled out a bit, Zac Efron could probably do a good Colt, even though he's not really big enough to fit my mental image of that character, but we know he's got the singing chops…Can Channing Tatum sing? Kyle I think would be best done by an unknown actor chosen to look sort of like whoever is playing Colt.
If you could co-author a book with anyone you haven't worked with before, who would it be and why? (feel free to time-travel on this one—it can be any author, living or dead)
Oh boy. You don't ask easy questions, LOL. I love Anne Rice. She's such an incredible writer, she just has this magical prose and a way with philosophy and religion and the essence of life, and Lestat is just this iconic, classic character. I'd love to be able to work with her.
Becoming a NYT and USA Today bestseller is no easy accomplishment. What advice do you have for all the authors and aspiring writers out there who hope to someday achieve your level of success?
Honestly, don't think about those lists, hitting those marks. They don't automatically sell more books, don't gain you more fans. Hitting the NYT or USA Today is always this huge goal for authors, and it was for me, but once I hit it, I was like…oh. Um, okay? Now what? Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of those accomplishments, and there's always a part of me that wants to be able to put "#1 NYT bestseller" on my books. But instead of pursuing that goal, I focus instead on writing the best story I can. I focus on my audience, on satisfying them and making them want more. So my advice is to focus on the next book, on the characters, on the prose.
The zombie apocalypse has hit (as we all knew it would one day). Which TV or movie characters do you want as part of your crew? (no superheroes…that's cheating)
Um, duh. Darryl, Michonne, Rick, Carol, Glen, Maggie, Abraham, Carl…the Walking Dead gang. If I had to pick just one, it would be Carol. She's such a badass.


Jeff B. Davis is an actor and comedian from Los Angeles. His TV credits include Whose Line Is it, Anyway?, Happy Family, The Sarah Silverman Show and Drew Carey's Green Screen Show .
His career began at age four, starring as Linus in a terribly ill-advised, all-children production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Goundlings Theater. On opening night, Jeff vomited all over his director, then turned and took the stage. At age nine, Jeff was cast as Louis in Yul Brynner's final production of The King and I, which toured nationally and closed on Broadway when Jeff was 11, after nearly 800 vomit-free performances.
In high school Jeff began improvising with Los Angeles ComedySportz, eventually learning the skills he'd later need as a frequent guest on the hit television show Whose Line is it, Anyway? Jeff spends many nights of the year performing live with Whose Line stars all over North America. He can also be heard on the highly-acclaimed, deeply weird Harmontown podcast with NBC's Community creator Dan Harmon. Listen at your own risk.


Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia (at 41°13′41.97″N 44°50′9.12″E / 41.2283250°N 44.8358667°E) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.
Armenia Securities Exchange or "AMX" (Armenian: Հայաստանի ֆոնդային բորսա), formerly "NASDAQ OMX Armenia", is the only stock exchange currently operating in Armenia. It is located in Yerevan, the capital city. The stock exchange began operations in 2001 as a self-regulatory organization founded by the exchange members. In November 2007, pursuant to relevant amendments in the legislation covering the local securities market, it was demutualized and became an open joint-stock company.
The state regulatory authority for the stock exchange and the Armenian securities market is the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA). Instruments currently traded on AMX include stocks, corporate bonds, government bonds, currency, SWAP and REPO (repurchase agreements) on corporate securities. Trading hours for all markets are 11:00–15:00 (local time, UTC+4).
Since 1995, the Armenian Stock Exchange has been a member of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges. The headquarters of the Federation is located in Yerevan.
Armenia Tree Project (ATP) is a non-profit organization based in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, and Yerevan, Armenia, founded in 1994 by Carolyn Mugar to promote Armenia's socioeconomic development through reforestation. Since its founding, the organization has planted more than 4.5 million trees in communities throughout Armenia.The organization has a full-time staff of 80, of whom 75 are employed in Armenia. Its Yerevan branch manages three state-of-the-art tree nurseries, two environmental education centers, and partners with families to create tree-based small business opportunities. Its major program initiatives include planting trees at urban and rural sites, environmental education and advocacy, community development and poverty reduction.
The dram (Armenian: դրամ; sign: ֏; code: AMD) is the monetary unit of Armenia and the neighboring unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). It was historically subdivided into 100 luma (Armenian: լումա). The word "dram" translates into English as "money" and is cognate with the Greek drachma and the Arabic dirham, as well as the English weight unit dram. The first instance of a dram currency was in the period from 1199 to 1375, when silver coins called dram were issued.
The ruble (Armenian: ռուբլի, Russian: рубль) was the independent currency of the First Republic of Armenia and the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1919 and 1923. It replaced the first Transcaucasian ruble at par and was replaced by the second Transcaucasian ruble after Armenia became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic. No subdivisions of the ruble were issued and the currency existed only as banknotes.
In order to support the sector and increase availability of loans, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) started the process of monetary policy easing by systematically lowering the refinancing rate, which decreased by 4.5p.p. down to 6% between 2015-2017. This has pushed banks to revise rates on loans and deposits downwards, evidenced by dropping credit and deposit rates from 14,7% to 10,7% and from 9,7% to 5,3% in 2016-2017 respectively.The Central Bank of Armenia is charged with regulating the money supply, circulating currency, and regulating the commercial banks of the country. Commercial banks in Armenia include HSBC Bank Armenia, America-Cascade, Ardshinbank, Armagrobank, Armeconombank, Armimplexbank, Arminvestbank, ArmSwissBank, Bank Armcommunication, Bank "Capital," Bank "Haykap," Central Bank of Armenia, Commercial Bank "Ardana," Commercial Bank Anelik, "Gladzor" Joint Stock Commercial Bank, Masis Commercial Bank, Unibank and the State Specialized Savings Bank of the Republic of Armenia. Leading foreign banks include: VTB (Russia), ProCredit Bank (Germany), and Mellat Bank (Iran).
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been concerned about the direction of policy taken by the Central Bank of Armenia and the slow pace of financial reform. Armenia's financial sector is overbanked and beset with nonperforming credits, mainly to large state enterprises. Armenia has been a model reforming country among the former Soviet republics, and multilateral creditors are worried that public pressure may now force the government to loosen monetary and fiscal policies.It was revealed in January 1997 that the central bank's credits to finance the government's budget gap has surpassed their $100 million limit in the first 10 months of 1996. The bank has been forced to intervene in the domestic markets, selling foreign exchange reserves to maintain the stability of the dram. The IMF reports that in 2001, currency and demand deposits—an aggregate commonly known as M1—were equal to $141.6 million. In that same year, M2—an aggregate equal to M1 plus savings deposits, small time deposits, and money market mutual funds—was $310.3 million. The discount rate, the interest rate at which the central bank lends to financial institutions in the short term, was 19.4%.
The Central Bank of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի Հանրապետության Կենտրոնական Բանկ) is the central bank of Armenia with its headquarters in Yerevan. The CBA is an independent institution responsible for issuing all banknotes and coins in the country, overseeing and regulating the banking sector and keeping the government's currency reserves. The CBA is also the sole owner of the Armenian Mint.
The bank is engaged in policies to promote financial inclusion and is a member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.On July 3, 2012 the Central Bank of Armenia announced it would be making specific commitments to financial inclusion under the Maya Declaration.
The diamond industry in Armenia is a significant part of the country's manufacturing and exports. Armenia is a major supplier of diamond.
Armenia has no proven reserves of oil or natural gas and currently imports nearly all gas it from Russia. The Iran-Armenia Natural Gas Pipeline has the capacity to provide twice the country's 2008 natural gas consumption and has the potential to provide energy security for Armenia as an alternative to the Russian-dominated imports that flow through the Georgian border.
Despite a lack of fossil fuel, Armenia has significant domestic electricity generation resources. The Armenian electrical energy sector has had a surplus capacity ever since emerging from a severe post-Soviet crisis in the mid-1990s thanks to the reopening of the nuclear power station at Metsamor. The Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant provides 42.9% of the country's electricity. Armenia has plans to build a new NPP in order to replace the aging Metsamor which was built in 1979. The country also has eleven hydroelectric power plants and has plans to build a geothermal power plant in Syunik. Most of the rest of Armenia's electricity is generated by the natural gas-fired thermal power plants in Yerevan (completed in 2010) and Hrazdan.
Upon gaining independence, Armenia signed the European Energy Charter in December 1991, the charter is now known as the Energy Charter Treaty which promotes integration of global energy markets. Armenia is also a partner country of the EU INOGATE energy programme, which has four key topics: enhancing energy security, convergence of member state energy markets on the basis of EU internal energy market principles, supporting sustainable energy development, and attracting investment for energy projects of common and regional interest. Since 2011, Armenia holds observer member status in the EU's Energy Community.
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is an economic union of states located in central and northern Asia and Eastern Europe. The Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union was signed on 29 May 2014 by the leaders of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, and came into force on 1 January 2015. Treaties aiming for Armenia's and Kyrgyzstan's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union were signed on 9 October and 23 December 2014, respectively. Armenia's accession treaty came into force on 2 January 2015. Kyrgyzstan's accession treaty came into effect on 6 August 2015. It participated in the EAEU from the day of its establishment as an acceding state.The Eurasian Economic Union has an integrated single market of 183 million people and a gross domestic product of over 4 trillion U.S. dollars (PPP). The EAEU introduces the free movement of goods, capital, services and people and provides for common policies in the macroeconomic sphere, transport, industry and agriculture, energy, foreign trade and investment, customs, technical regulation, competition and antitrust regulation. Provisions for a single currency and greater integration are envisioned in future. The union operates through supranational and intergovernmental institutions. The Supreme Eurasian Economic Council is the supreme body of the Union, consisting of the Heads of the Member States. The second level of intergovernmental institutions is represented by the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council (consisting of the Heads of the governments of member states). The day-to-day work of the EAEU is done through the Eurasian Economic Commission, the executive body of the Union. There is also a judicial body – the Court of the EAEU.
Gyumri Technology Center (formerly known as Gyumri TechnoPark; Armenian: Գյումրու տեխնոլոգիական կենտրոն), is a technological center for IT development in Gyumri, the second-largest city in Armenia. It was opened on 13 September 2014. The project aims at promoting the prosperity of the city of Gyumri, turning it into a technology zone with advanced IT infrastructures. The project is carried out by the Ministry of Economy of Armenia. US $ 1.7 million was allocated from the state budget to fulfill the project. The technological center was founded as a result of the cooperation between the Armenian government, Enterprise Incubator Foundation and the World Bank.
This is a list of Armenian provinces (marzer) by Human Development Index as of 2017, including Yerevan, the capital and largest city.
The economy of Armenia benefits strongly from investment and support of Armenians abroad.Before independence, Armenia's economy was largely industry-based – chemicals, electronics, machinery, processed food, synthetic rubber, and textile – and highly dependent on outside resources. The republic had developed a modern industrial sector, supplying machine tools, textiles, and other manufactured goods to sister republics in exchange for raw materials and energy.
The National Competitiveness Report of Armenia (ACR) is an annual publication of EV Consulting and the Economy and Values Research Center (a partner institute of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Network) that aims to encourage and foster in-depth dialogue and analysis on improving Armenia's competitiveness.
The ACR provides a detailed assessment of Armenia's competitiveness position and benchmarks this position against its neighbors in the region. It attempts to take analytical look at Armenia's international competitiveness standing and the factors influencing it, by using contemporary conceptual frameworks for competitiveness.
Social protection is an important state institution, which deals with the population's social protection and realization of people's social rights.
This article considers transport in Armenia. For Soviet transportation, see Transport in the Soviet Union.
Armenia is underdeveloped in its waste management and recycling activities.
According to ArmStat organizations produced 55.2 million metric tons of waste in 2016. Which runs down to about 18.5 metric ton per capita in year 2016 and probably includes abundant mining waste too. According to Waste Atlas, Armenia produces 368,618 tonnes of MSW per year or 119.8 kilograms (264 lb) per capita/year.On May 4th 2018 modifications of relevant legislation aimed at strengthening responsibility for proper waste management were approved.In recent years there have been several attempts initiated by public activists to address this problem including the "Toprak Petq Chi" (Eng - I don't need a plastic bag) initiative targeting single-use plastic bags.


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Michigan still doesn't do a great job hiding the blitz, but it's less important here.
Play looks like a mirror of the blitz above. Demens drops into coverage. Ryan and Kovacs blitz, this time on Colter's blindside.
This is the moment above that Colter sees the blitz coming. He still hasn't recognized it.
Colter is looking ahead at his open receiver but hasn't recognized Kovacs screaming down on him.
Kovacs drills Colter as he's releasing the ball and it falls to the turf.
In the second video, you can see Colter try and roll away from the blitz briefly before setting his feet and throwing. He has recognized the blitz pre-snap but has also underestimated Kovacs' speed. Because the blitz is coming from the blideside, Colter can't actually react to Kovacs other than to half roll away from the pressure. It is not a coincidence that this is the only one of these blitzes that actually works out.
It took Mattison a little longer than ideal to recognize this, but he was able to do so mid-game and made the proper call in a crucial moment. We're still yet to see a game where Mattison really uses his entire array of blitzes, but as we saw in this game, he may not be able to; certain blitzes are susceptible to various offenses, so his options may be limited. However, it's good to know he's able to analyze an opposing offense and dial up a blitz package specifically for them.
Is it possible that Mattison is playing more conservative by not blitzing so much? IOW, Mattison has more confidence in his standard defensive sets, and is choosing to not gamble with the blitz packages.


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The interesting colour and texture of Begonia 'Sophie Cecile' is fantastic for use as cut foliage in flower arrangements. Often they'll also strike roots in the vase which gives you an idea of how... Annual begonia plants may be cut back before frost and used inside as a houseplant in winter. Once inside, keep the soil moist, provide humidity with a pebble tray and place in bright filtered light. Once inside, keep the soil moist, provide humidity with a pebble tray and place in bright filtered light.
Unfortunately there is often great reluctance even among experienced hobbyists to cut back an overgrown begonia for fear of losing potential flowers. Surely it is desirable to sacrifice one season of bloom to develop a beautiful specimen plant.... Begonia Begonia Variety or Cultivar 'Bonfire' _ 'Bonfire' is an upright, bushy, tender, evergreen perennial, often grown as an annual, with triangular, dark green leaves with red-flushed, serrated margins and pendent, tubular, orange-red flowers from midsummer into autumn.
These begonias rarely need staking, but require pruning in winter or early spring: remove old, woody canes and shorten green ones to about four or five nodes, some canes longer and others shorter. (New canes just starting should be left alone.) Repot into fresh mix at the same time.
Cut back watering as fall nears and allow the tops of the plants to die back and the soil is dry. Loosen the soil and remove the tubers, carefully brushing off loose soil.
All the angel wing begonias have similar growing requirements, so treat them all the same. The dragon wing begonia (based on B. descoleana) is a similar cane-type begonia that thrives on the same treatment as angel wing begonias.


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Schumer: The Wall is Just a "Petty Campaign Pledge"
Posted by TC Staff Writer | Dec 14, 2018 | All News, Politics, US News | 0 |
In a speech on the Senate floor this week, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused the president of wanting to hurt federal workers with a government shutdown – and all for no better reason than to build his silly wall, which would only…what? Keep out thousands upon thousands of illegal immigrants, many of whom are criminals and terrorists? What a ridiculous thing to care about!
"The president has called for a shutdown at least 20 times since he came into office," said Schumer. "You can add at least five or six more times from our meeting. No president should ever say he would be proud to shut the government down. No president should so glibly use the American government, and the millions of workers who work so hard, as a bargaining chip. That is where President Trump is headed."
Okay, so stop the tape for a second. We would agree that it would not be typical for a president to proudly claim ownership of a shutdown, but this was actually refreshing, to be honest. Trump knows that the Democrats (and, by extension, the media) is going to blame him for this if it goes down, so he's putting it out there: I don't care! Let them! He's not "proud" to shut down the government, he's proud to do whatever it takes to force Democrats to give him the money needed to construct the wall.
"He has made clear he will hold parts of the government hostage for a petty campaign pledge — that's all it is," Schumer said. "If President Trump holds to this position, that unless he gets his wall he'll shut down the government, who will suffer needlessly? The American people."
Well, that doesn't have to happen, now does it? Both Democrats and the White House know that a shutdown is the only solution if the two sides can't come to an agreement. Both sides have drawn lines in the sand. It takes TWO parties to reach that agreement. It takes TWO parties to orchestrate a shutdown. You can point fingers, lay blame, call Trump's position "needless" or "petty," but you cannot wash your hands of your own responsibility, no matter how much the media helps you along.
The government will shut down because you refuse to pay for the border security we need. Plain. Simple. Obvious.
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Our Pro-War Media
wjastore / November 23, 2013
Cheerleaders may support our troops, but media cheerleaders are bad at covering our wars
W.J. Astore
Five years ago, I wrote an article for Nieman Watchdog with the title, "Networks Should Replace Pentagon Cheerleaders with Independent Military Analysts." Major media networks rely on retired colonels, generals, and admirals to give "unbiased" and "disinterested" commentary on military matters to the wider public. At the same time, many of these same retired military talking heads serve on boards for major defense contractors, a clear conflict of interest, as revealed most tellingly by David Barstow. I argued that media outlets need to develop their own, independent, commentators, ones that are not embedded with (or in bed with) the military and companies that profit from war.
In five years, I've witnessed no change to military coverage on TV and cable news. It's wave-the-flag boosterism, pure and simple. The main problem with such uncritical coverage is that it keeps us in untenable (and unwinnable) wars. Consider the latest announcement from Afghanistan that American troops will remain in that country for another decade. Such an announcement is greeted with collective yawns by the U.S. media, even though a majority of Americans want U.S. troops out of Afghanistan now. After a dozen years of death and waste and corruption, who can blame them?
Critical documentaries have been made about the U.S. military and its wars, but they are consigned largely to leftist fringes and seen by audiences that need little convincing about the peril of war. To name just three, consider watching The Ground Truth (veterans' perspectives from Iraq), Dirty Wars (based on the Jeremy Scahill book by the same title), and Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (currently streaming for free online). These documentaries give the lie to the idea that America's wars are heroic and clean and necessary.
Nevertheless, a pervasive myth is the belief that the U.S. media is "liberal" and "anti-military." In "Stop Blaming the Press," journalist David Danelo (in the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings from January 2008) recalled a comment made by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James Conway, in September 2006. Lauding Marine reporters, General Conway barked, "Maybe if we could get the rest of the media to do the job like you folks, we might have a chance of winning the war [in Iraq]." Stormy applause greeted this comment.
To his credit, Danelo defended the fairness of most U.S. media coverage, which drew strong dissents in the February 2008 issue of Proceedings. A Navy officer complained that Danelo failed "to level criticism at reporters for not doing their part to ensure victory." Today's press, this officer implied, neither supported American troops nor wanted America to succeed in its wars. Another officer, a retired Marine, wrote that "just one negative story" from an American journalist "bolsters our enemies' confidence and resolve while equally destroying support from the public at home, thus eroding our servicemen's and women's resolve on the battlefield." Refusing to suffer such journalistic "fools," whose "stories could not have been more harmful than if al Qaeda had written them," this officer demanded immediate military censorship of media working in-theater. Those journalists who refused to cooperate "would operate at their own risk and without military protection," this retired Marine concluded ominously.
The idea that critical media coverage provides aid and comfort to the enemy is a commonplace. It serves to muzzle U.S. media watchdogs, ensuring that America will continue to unleash its dogs of wars across the world.
Sadly, the saying "The first casualty in war is truth" has never been more true. When our media coverage of wars is compromised, so too are our wars. And when our wars are fought for ill-conceived notions, so too will our media coverage be ill-conceived and notional.
As long as our nation keeps lying to itself in its wave-the-flag media coverage of war, our nation's wars will persist.
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Greg L. says:
"Got a light for my Victory cigarette?…Ah, thanks, buddy. May I offer you a shot of my Victory gin?" With each passing year, I marvel more at the prescience of Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. Apparently the military officers you quoted here would like the media to conform to Big Brother's standards: victory is always imminent, just keep a stiff upper lip there on the homefront. (And accept with untroubled mind the regular shifting of just who the enemy is.) Despite the ranting accusations of wingnuts (most of whom probably never served in the military), the U.S. media were NOT out to sabotage the war against Viet Nam. It's just that that war was so wrong, and perpetrated such horrors against the civilian population, that Truth finally squeezed through cracks in the wall of blind "patriotism." The virtual requirement that correspondents be "embedded" with U.S. forces in Iraq constituted de facto censorship. As for Afghanistan, it's nothing less than hilarious that the U.S. had to dance around Mr. Karzai's demand for an apology for certain "mistakes" before reaching this agreement to extend the American presence there to 2024. We are assured by the Obama administration that after next year, U.S. personnel will only "support and train" Afghan forces. Right. And the first U.S. troops sent into Viet Nam were only there as "advisors." I'm sure the people of Afghanistan can look forward to a new, shining society, just as stable as Iraq has become after the beneficent U.S. presence there. Virtually every day this past week the NY Times carried the headline: "Dozens Killed In Attacks Across Iraq." I'm looking forward to the next rerun of THIS headline: "U.S. Says Back Of Taliban Resistance Broken." Now, where'd that bottle of Victory gin get off to, darn it?
b. traven says:
While on the topic of the media complicity it demands that we remind the media that Obama did NOT pull all of our troops out of Iraq in order to keep his promise to end that occupation. WE WERE "KICKED OUT OF iRAQ" by the Shia puppet government we helped to install. Try to hear that from any media outlet in this country. The Iraq government insisted, contrary to our demand, that US forces would be subject to Iraqi law rather than our law. as a result we pulled out our troops under the timetable established by Bush, not Obama.
How positively ludicrous and grotesquely bizarre this is. According to our previous great leader, Bush, our mission in Iraq, once the messy diversion on WMD was shit canned, was to bring Democracy to this benighted country. If we left this country with the rule of law why would we not let out soldiers be tried under their laws? Unspoken was the fact that the real reason was to secure Iraq's oil for us and our allies, and to serve the Saudi royal family and Israel's strategic anti Iran goals. So now we have an undemocratic Shia government that has marginalized the minority Sunni citizens causing an insurgency. And as an added insult to our greater wisdom they have moved closer to Iran and now become a major contributor to the general political instability spreading throughout the Middle East.
Has the media and we learned anything? Of course not. We are now trying with all of our might to extend our occupation of Afghanistan for ten more years in order to bring Democracy to another benighted tribal society who shows more wisdom about their sad plight than we can muster.
Let's hear from all who agree or disagree!
redwood says:
The USA has never left any nation. Our bases are still in Europe and so many other places. We never had French bases after the revolution. Many people say "US bases shouldn't be all over the world. What nation doesn't have US bases?" Ehud Barack Obama wants our nation to stay in Afghanistan until 2024. If Hillbilly Clinton becomes president, she will keep us there even longer.
"The main problem with such uncritical coverage is that it keeps us in untenable (and unwinnable) wars."
Wars don't become "good", or better in any way, if they are winnable. In fact it probably makes them even more heinous and criminal, because it most likely means the USA is attacking another impossibly weaker country, like Nicaragua, which had less than 4 million people when the USA mined its harbors and supported a proxy terrorist army to attack it.
As for the "marine" (gang member), who wrote that critical news reports help US enemies: good. Nelson Mandela was on the USA's terrorist list for years. We were supposed to believe he was a terrorist and a threat because the USA supported south african apartheid and Mandela opposed it.
Shows you what the USA's "terrorist" list is for.
The USA saying someone is an "enemy" means nothing.
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A: If I got you correctly and your posting a json string you can do:
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Q: DATE COMPARISON in GOOGLE APP ENGINE DATASTORE / PYTHON I am trying to fetch records after a certain date.
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Mike: Thanks for joining us today and I'm excited that to dig in. What got you started and creating some of the supplements that are very different than what typically sold in health and fitness?
Wade: That's a great question. It's great to be here as always. It's fun to connect and talk shop because it's just this, I'm just like, I've been fascinated with the whole body and physiology. And for those who don't know or haven't heard my story, in 2003 I was competing at the Mr. universe contest and I had the best coach in the world. And after 16 years of training, and nine and a half months of dieting, I guess it was, and I was like staying at a lean body fat. After the universe, I went from, I would say Mr. universe to Mr. marshmallow, he gained 42 pounds of fat and water in 11 weeks.
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The Ideal Protein Intake
Mike: Can you tell us about like how much protein do you really need to be eating when you're being on an athlete like that with or without enzymes?
Wade: I was consuming kind of the standard one gram per pound of body weight and a little bit more in a contest dieting because of the satiety factor that protein provides, especially on a low-calorie diet. That's one of the advantages of it. I was taking at about 250 grams a day at the time when I was competing in Oh three. Well, after a meeting, Dr. O'Brien and learning about enzymes and probiotics and how they interacted and could optimize your utilization of the protein you were consuming. I'm Matt and I really went after this and started split testing.
We had a whole group of bodybuilders from around the world and we were kind of like the original bio-hackers. This was like, Four or five or them. And we started, we started developing specific enzyme and probiotic strains that worked on breaking down amino acids, protein into amino acids. And over the course of the four years, I went from consuming 250 grams of protein to 85 grams a day. And people go, well, how's that possible? I'm like, well the assumption people make is there's, they assume that they're taking whatever they are taking in is getting digest and utilize.
I went back to the world championships. I did better, I felt better and I didn't blow up after and I was only eating 85 grams of protein a day on a plant based raw food diet. That's how extreme I went. I'm not suggesting or promoting that, I'm just saying I want it to push it to the extreme. Could I achieve levels? I showed up about eight pounds heavier than I was like eight pounds a muscle heavier for years later, four years later into my career eating a third of the protein I have.
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