In 2003, when brothers Scott and Daniel Stedman launched The L Magazine, it was a scrappy operation that hardly foretold a media company comprised of Brooklyn Magazine, Taste Talks, SummerScreen, BAMBill and the Northside Festival--the latter of which draws 100,000 people who turn out to see 400 bands, 150 speakers and 50 films over the course of a week. Recently, the Northside Media Group has been acquired by Zealot Networks.
"Even when it didn't work, we knew it was gonna work in a strange way," says Scott Stedman. "In 2008, there was a lot of transition and a lot of cool stuff came out it, but we couldn't pretend we were crushing it."
That was when the Stedman brothers committed to building their festival, and their thinking evolved from media company to a business based on community.
1. Network, network, network. "Tap your friends, colleagues, and social networks," says Scott Stedman. "The majority of the products that I see succeeding are built on community. That's not in the generic sense, it could be a community of business owners--they'll give you time and feedback, and until you have an understanding of how people will accept your product, you don't have anything to sell. That community will be your best resource, and your early evangelists--but not until you've answered your feedback! If you succeed in creating a product that is remarkable and helps them, they're then going to be your greatest evangelists, and they'll help you push it out."
2. Have an optimistic vision and work toward it. "When we started the magazine, Daniel and I were making 50 cold calls a day," says Scott. "And it was demoralizing, but we had an optimistic view. We felt it would be unfair to the consumer to not give them a chance to participate in what we're doing. That led to a client telling us they'd rather go with the competition and they didn't even like them. And then a few months later, we're at a Yankee game with the guy and he was spending $20K a quarter and that was significant at the time."
3. Eat your own dog food. "You have live and breathe your product," says Daniel Stedman. "Smoke and inhale whatever you are trying to sell. Throughout the process, you're going to be knocked off your feet. You need to listen to the market. We saw that a lot as our product changed and evolved."
4. Be realistic about goals, expectations and what you can afford. "You hear a lot in the startup community, spend big to go big, and that couldn't be further from our experience," says Daniel. "Every expense we made went through a process of deliberation, and we lost growth opportunities because we wouldn't spend money, but what you will end up selling is not what you think you'll be selling. Our start-up phase lasted close to a decade, but we survived because we ran so lean. It's not about ending an industry and rebuilding it in an app."
5. Don't be afraid to ask for help. "Asking for help is something you should do from everyone. There's nothing more powerful than showing a bit of vulnerability and you'll find that people are nice, thoughtful, and people will work their best to solve your problem because you've shared it," says Scott. "The process is always listening, and responding, and over a drink, and we had the same conversations over $10K as when we were trying to get $500K."


Tony Blair comes to Camp David to discuss George Bush's drive toward war in Iraq. Plus: Presidential candidate John Kerry once again criticizes the administration's war plans.
Tomorrow George W. Bush will hear from Tony Blair what is quickly becoming a worldwide consensus on policy toward Iraq: No unilateral military invasion to overthrow Saddam. Leaving behind his own restive parliament -- where the overwhelming consensus of Labor Party members opposes British backing for American unilateralism -- the Prime Minister is coming to Camp David to persuade Bush that the United Nations is an essential part of any move against Baghdad. Blair believes that seeking UN sanction for action against Saddam will mute European opposition, or even transform that opposition into conditional support.
The Arab states, more and more vocal in defense of Iraq, are unlikely to be mollified by any such multilateral gestures. Evidently the leaders of the Arab League take quite seriously the argument by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry that if Saddam is overthrown by American force, any other of the petty monarchs and dictators in the region may someday suffer the same demise. The news that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began to plan a strike against Iraq on Sept. 11, 2001 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml, before he had any idea which American adversary was responsible for the terror attacks can only make the Arab leaders increasingly nervous about American intentions and conduct. Rummy didn't even consult with the president, let alone the Secretary of State, the Congress, or friendly governments in Europe and the Mideast.
On the domestic front, Bush has clearly decided that the politics of war favor his party. As Karl Rove indicated back in January, the White House regards national security as the most potent Republican issue in the midterm elections. Indeed, it seems to be the only issue they can use to advantage. Now their pre-election strategy will shield the president behind "patriotic unity" while smiting Democrats with partisan propaganda. That's why Bush is insisting that Congress vote a resolution on Iraq before the October recess. He and Rove assume that they the Democrats will face two unpalatable prospects: Either vote for a war resolution, thus wrapping the flag around Bush (and his party), or vote no, and open each dissenting member to an assault on his or her fortitude and loyalty.
The Democrats, preferring to fight the election on prescription drugs and Social Security, have so far equivocated on Iraq. Rove's plan to snag them on the forks of a war resolution may work. But as of this morning there is at least one Democratic Senator with the guts to question administration assumptions and to propose alternatives. Those who have been paying attention won't be surprised to see the byline of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., over this toughly critical Times op-ed essay.
"For the American people to accept the legitimacy of this conflict and give their consent to it, the Bush administration must first present detailed evidence of the threat of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and then prove that all other avenues of protecting our nation's security interests have been exhausted," Kerry writes. "Exhaustion of remedies is critical to winning the consent of a civilized people in the decision to go to war. And consent, as we have learned before, is essential to carrying out the mission. President Bush's overdue statement this week that he would consult Congress is a beginning, but the administration's strategy remains adrift ..."
He continues: "If we are to put American lives at risk in a foreign war, President Bush must be able to say to this nation that we had no choice, that this was the only way we could eliminate a threat we could not afford to tolerate."
As Kerry certainly knows, there are alternatives. Today, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace outlines a creative proposal to put international armed force behind a worldwide demand for Iraqi compliance with weapons inspections. Before American (and Iraqi) lives are forfeited again, there will be an international debate - whether the armchair warriors and unilateralist hawks like it or not.


The first issue of this bulletin, produced by UberEats and Deliveroo workers with the IWW Couriers Network Cymru, focuses on the growth and first victories of the network.
It's not the first workers' bulletin produced in the sector - the Rebel Roo was a bulletin published for a year between the winters of 2016 and 2017.
The main action taken by the network so far has been against wait times at McDonalds. Workers from the network also released a statement in solidarity with the McStrike, showing that there is potential to link up these fights industrially.
members are reporting that [waiting] times have got better across the [McDonald's] restaurants in Cardiff. Are there other restaurants that really need to improve? Get in touch, join the network, and let's work to change things!


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Skollie
One man's struggle to survive by telling stories
John Fredericks
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In 2016 South African film audiences were mesmerized by the film Noem My Skollie, which was written by – and based on the life of – John W. Fredericks. In this book Fredericks tells the full story on which the film was based. Growing up in a dusty township on the Cape Flats, Fredericks formed a gang with his friends, and at the age of seventeen he was arrested for robbery and sentenced to two years in Pollsmoor prison. There the number gangs vied to initiate him into their ranks, but he resisted their advances, offering instead to help them push their time by telling stories. And so he became the prison 'cinema', drawing on his storytelling abilities and cementing his ambition to become a writer. Life after prison became a nightmare when he was arrested for a murder he hadn't committed, his childhood friends were sentenced to die on the gallows, and a gang boss tried to kill him. Slowly he turned his life around, getting a job and building a family, but society kept judging him as a gangster. Struggling to deal with his past, he turned to storytelling again, and painstakingly learned the art of scriptwriting. The result was Noem My Skollie, which was watched by almost 90 000 people and won numerous awards. Written in a powerful and authentic voice, Skollie is a gripping memoir of life on the Cape Flats, of prison and gangs, and of one man's struggle to survive all this by telling stories.
John W. Fredericks was born in a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. His father was a dustman and his mother worked in the abattoirs. He spent most of his growing-up years on a refuse dump searching for books to read and anything of resale value. Reading opened his mind to a whole new world and at a young age he decided to become a writer. Through strife and struggle and with very little education he set out to reach his goal, but first he had to rise above the stigma of prison and poverty that had become his heritage. He has written a number of film scripts, including the acclaimed Noem My Skollie.
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Waddle Dee est un alié des jeux vidéo de la série Kirby. Il apparaît dans tous les jeux en tant qu'amii de base. Il a une apparence proche de celle de Kirby (corps rond doté de deux appendices servant de main, et de deux pieds directement collés au corps), ce qui laisse à penser qu'ils sont d'une espèce voisine. Il possède un petit visage bien dessiné, deux joues rouges et deux grands yeux pareils à Kirby, mais de couleur marron et sans bouche apparente. Il apparaît souvent avec des parasols.

Waddle Doo est également un adversaire de base de la série, quoiqu'un peu plus rare que ses cousins. Il ressemble beaucoup aux Waddle Dees, de couleur orange avec une mèche, il est capable de lancer des rayons lasers avec son unique œil.

Historique

Kirby's Dream Land

La toute première apparition de Waddle Dee est on ne peut plus basique : c'est un ennemi classique, sans armes ni attaques, qui avance droit devant lui. On observe tout de même certains descendant du ciel à bord de parapluies. En mode "Hard", ils sautent et les parasols attaquent le joueur. Il existe déjà les Waddle Doos, mais ceux-ci apparaissent beaucoup moins que les autres.

Kirby's Adventure

L'épisode NES n'apporte rien de nouveau pour le Waddle Dees qui restent pareils que dans le jeu précédent, et Kirby, qui a depuis ce jeu la capacité d'absorber les pouvoirs de ses ennemis, n'en gagne aucun en en avalant un. Certains apparaîtront aussi avec un parasol qui donnent à Kirby le pouvoir "Parasol". Ce n'est pas le cas des Waddle Doos qui donnent à Kirby le pouvoir "Rayon".

Kirby's Dream Land 2

Dans le second jeu de la saga Dream Land, les Waddle Dees n'ont pas changé d'un iota : ils continuent à avancer sans rien faire, parfois chutant en parasol, mais rien de nouveau. Les Waddle Doos sont quant à eux absents du jeu.

Kirby Super Star

Les Waddle Dees sont en toute logique dans ce jeu, mais à nouveau sans changements. Ils ont tout de même quelques petits rôles, comme starter du jeu "Gourmet Race", ou premier concurrent du mini-jeu "Megaton Punch" (il est même du coup doté d'un petit foulard bleu).
Cette succession d'histoires diverses annonce le retour des Waddle Doos. Kirby, qui acquiert désormais des chapeaux lorsqu'il obtient un pouvoir, a celui d'un bouffon, rouge et jaune, étoilé de blanc et orné de pompons, ainsi qu'un sceptre qui lance les lasers. On en voit parfois se balançant sur des lianes ou avec des parasols. Il apparaît aussi en premier concurrent du mini-jeu "Samurai Kirby".
On peut noter que les deux Waddles sont oranges lorsqu'ils apparaissent en tant qu'ennemis, et marrons en tant qu'alliés.

Kirby's Dream Land 3

Dans ce nouvel opus, on observe cette fois-ci une grande variété de Waddle Dees. Il n'y a plus ceux à parasol, mais certains font du canoë, chevauchent des Nruffs (une sorte de sanglier), ou encore sortent de jarres orientales (ces génies sont appelés Wapod). Il n'y a encore pas de Waddle Doos.

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

Dans Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Waddle Dee ne se battra pas contre Kirby mais avec lui.
Lorsque Kirby le rencontre, il est possédé par Dark Matter qui le transforme en Waddle Doo et le force à attaquer Kirby.
Une fois battu, il reconnaîtra son ami et l'aidera lors de l'aventure, en l'accompagnant dans un radeau, dans un wagonnet ou dans une luge, en faisant rouler un rondin ou en faisant de la tyrolienne.
Il essayera aussi de convaincre le Roi Dadidou de se joindre à leur équipe. Ce dernier refusant dans un premier temps, il se montrera plutôt déçu, mais Dadidou les accompagnera finalement.

Kirby : Le Pinceau du Pouvoir

Dans ce jeu, les Waddle Dees apparaissent toujours comme ennemis et ne disposent plus des équipements qu'ils avaient dans certains jeux. Toutefois, certains sont armés de lances. Les Waddle Doos apparaissent également et donnent toujours à Kirby le pouvoir « Rayon ».

Ces deux personnages peuvent également être incarnés par le joueur une fois le jeu fini, mais alors transformés en balles, tout comme Kirby. Waddle Doo a la particularité de posséder le pouvoir « Rayon » en permanence, même s'il est blessé.

Kirby Super Star Ultra

Dans Kirby Super Star Ultra, remake de Kirby Super Star, les Waddle Dees et Waddle Doos conservent les mêmes rôles mais peuvent également être incarnés par le joueur principal dans le jeu « L'Heure de Gloire ». Ils sont respectivement jaune et vert dans ce mode de jeu pour ne pas être confondus savec leur allié s'ils en ont un.

Un des Waddle Dees est aussi un mini-boss dans l'aventure « Revanche Royale ». Il porte un bandana bleu et est plus endurant que ses semblables, mais il se déplace de la même façon et peut toujours être aspiré par Kirby et être vaincu instantanément.

Kirby's Adventure Wii

Dans ce jeu, on trouve des Waddle Dees, parfois armés d'un parasol ou chevauchant des Nruffs. Ils se cachent parfois à plusieurs sous un costume de Waddle Dee géant, en carton ou en métal. Les Waddle Doos sont aussi présents et peuvent également être dotés de parasols. On notera toutefois l'apparition de deux nouvelles sortes de Waddle Doos : le Super Waddle Doo qui permet à Kirby d'utiliser le super pouvoir « Sphère radiante » une fois avalé, et le Roi Doo, un Waddle Doo géant et jaune, qui apparaît plusieurs fois au cours du jeu comme mini-boss.

Le Waddle Dee au bandana bleu de Kirby Super Star et son remake sur DS est également de retour en tant que personnage jouable. Il aide Kirby dans sa quête et est armé d'une lance.

Relations avec d'autres personnages

Bien qu'il soit souvent l'ennemi de Kirby, on peut cependant noter son aide précieuse dans Kirby 64 et Kirby's Adventure Wii. Il semblerait qu'il y ait deux sortes de Waddle Dee : ceux qui se battent contre Kirby, et ceux qui l'aident.

Le personnage le plus proche de Waddle Dee est bien sûr le Roi Dadidou. Dans Kirby Super Star Ultra, on peut remarquer un Waddle Dee avec un bandana, que le Roi envoie se battre contre Kirby en désespoir de cause. Il se fait battre très facilement (il est plus résistant qu'un Waddle Dee normal, mais on peut l'avaler), mais restera fidèle au Roi, marchant avec lui et les autres Waddle Dee dans la séquence de fin. Dans Kirby's Adventure Wii, le Roi Dadidou s'associe à Kirby dans sa quête, et le Waddle Dee au bandana, fidèle à son roi, aidera Kirby également.

Notes et références

Personnage de Kirby
Personnage de fiction créé en 1992

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If elections were held today Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party would win 25 Knesset seats, the highest number of any party and more than double what it currently holds, according to an opinion poll published on Friday morning in Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon. Likud, the current ruling party, came in second with 24 seats, down from its current 30.
According the poll, the Zionist Union party under new leader Avi Gabbay would win only 12 Knesset seats, exactly half the number it currently holds. Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu party follows closely with 11 projected seats, one more than it currently holds. Kahlon will soon have to face the decision of whether or not to leave the coalition and bring about elections after police make public their recommendations regarding the corruption cases involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to the poll, Naftali Bennet's Habayit Hayehudi party would increase its strength to 14 Knesset seats, up from eight, while the Joint List would lose one seat, ending up with 11.
The religious coalition party United Torah Judaism would pick up an extra seat, giving them a total of seven. The Shas party would drop three seats to a total of four.
The left-wing Meretz would see an increase of two seats to seven, while Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu would drop from six to five. The poll was conducted by the Maagar Mochot research institution and had 507 participants.
The survey also asked people who they think is most suited to be prime minister, if elections were held today. Netanyahu headed the list with 24 percent, while Lapid received only 18 percent. Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon was the choice of 7 percent. Avi Gabbay and Naftali Bennett both received 6 percent and Avigdor Lieberman 3 percent.
One third of the respondents said they would pick none of the options listed or any other person. By contrast, a July opinion poll published by Channel 2 News showed 34 percent of respondents picking Netanyahu as most suited to be prime minister, with 13 percent choosing Gabbay and 12 percent picking Lapid.
A survey taken for Channel 10 last month showed that Gabbay was significantly faltering. While both Likud and Yesh Atid got 24 Knesset seats in that poll, the Zionist Union plummeted from 24 to 17 seats. The same poll showed Habayit Hayehudi going from eight to 12 seats, the Joint List dropping from 13 to 11 and Kulanu dropping from 10 to nine seats. Moreover, both United Torah Judaism and Meretz went up to seven seats, with Yisrael Beiteinu dropping to five and Shas to four Knesset seats.
Gabbay's weakened standing comes on the backdrop of several contentious statements that drew fire from the left. Over the last few months Gabbay has said that the left has forgotten how to be Jewish, voiced support for the deportation of African asylum seekers and said that a united Jerusalem is more important than peace, even arguing that settlements should not be evacuated in the event that a peace accord is reached.


With the destruction of the Papal army in the Siege of Forli, two parties make their way back to Rome. The first is Hernando de Caballos (Robert Cavanah) and Benito Sforza (Noah Silver), the Spanish general who served as the second in command for the siege, and his prisoner, the son of the Lady of Forli. The other is Juan Borgia (David Oakes), the Pope's son and head of the Papal armies, who deserted and fled the battle when the siege was attacked from the rear. Back in Rome, in pain and in shame, Juan is even more demanding than usual while bragging of his false deeds before the Pope. Oakes gives a weighty performance through much of the episode- that of a prideful man, broken and descending into madness by way of self-delusion and drug use. One soft spot was the late night talk with his father, which seemed a bit off kilter- but that may have been intentional. And, Juan's pride and how he is handling it will likely be his downfall, an enviable task for Oakes to carry out.
One of the Borgias central themes has been the bitter rivalry between Juan and his brother, Cardinal Cesare (François Arnaud). After Hernando informs him of his brother's actions and telling him about Benito, Cesare conspires for the boy and his father to meet. Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons), encounters the Benito alone in the damaged Basilica. While Irons has shown the Pope's ruthlessness to his enemies, real and imagined, he has portrayed a tenderness to children and the innocent. The nuances in his performance throughout the series, especially when it comes to showing compassion to said children, continues to be remarkable. Despite the fact that his character sent the army to break or murder this boy's mother, Iron's shows us the faltering of the Pope's will when confronted with the human face of an unintended victim. Which sets up the return of the Benito Sforza while providing proof of Juan's lies to the Pope.
Concurrent to the more masculine intrigues, we arrive at the mother and daughter of the Borgia, Vannozza dei Cattanei (Joanne Whalley) and Lucrezia Borgia (Holliday Grainger), respectively. With another marriage alliance needed, the Pope pressured Grainger's character to get married, though she has resolved to not be married off like cattle. To solve the problem of Lucrezia's wandering heart, Vannozza suggests a novel solution; marry the suitor and take his brother as a lover. This will let the Pope gain the alliance he need, and let her cheat the system. And while Grainger plays the part well, it is Whalley's performance in handling the Pope and subtly coercing her daughter that shines most brightly.
Antonello (Jessie Bostick) is the young monk who will become the weapon of Giuliano Della Rovere (Colm Feore) against the Pope. Bostick's performance has been from somewhat innocent to outright creepy in this episode. His emotions seem to have bled out of his portrayal as his character is prepared. This is highlighted in his vacant description of eliminating an obstacle to the plan. His representation is all the more chilling given where his character began.
This episode has set the major parts of the final two episodes of the season into play; now to see if they deliver the story as strong as the actors.
One of the things I am doing now is professionally reviewing various television shows/episodes and movies. Currently, most of the reviews are hosted at PopDecay, "a leading online news, politics and entertainment information delivery service." The reviews that go up there are the Streamlined reviews, whereas the ones I post here will be the Robust reviews.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think- civilly, of course.


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Hunter S. Thompson Fan?
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone starts with his first essay for Rolling Stone magazine – the story of his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Party platform – to his last essay on the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004, and includes many events and people which we of a certain generation heard about or followed first hand, including Muhammad Ali, Watergate and Vietnam.
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Armchair Travel – Shooting Stars and Flying Fish
The school holidays are finished and it's back to our normal routine, but I have to say how envious I was that many of my customers were travelling to warmer climates over the holidays. Unfortunately, there are no exotic holidays for me just at the moment so I decided that I could be an armchair traveller instead.
My first foray is Nancy Knudsen's travel memoir, Shooting Stars and Flying Fish. I love stories about travelling to far off countries especially those that I am unlikely to visit myself, and this fitted the bill. Like many of this type of memoir, the decision by Nancy and her husband Ted to leave their secure lives of self employed business executive and architect respectively came after their children had grown up and "left the nest", and their decision to circumnavigate the globe on a yacht wasn't that surprising given that they both were part of the Sydney sailing scene
What, I think, captivated me was that the challenge of living together in such close confines, the sailing for days on end without any land in sight and having to rely on each other for their safety and well being meant that the trip was very different to the weekend races they were use to. I am not a sailor myself, but living in Bayside Melbourne means that I know people who sail and the strong sense of camaraderie and mutual support that I had been told existed was evident in Nancy's book.
(Blackwattle picture courtesy of Nancy's blog on which the book is based can be found here)
Don't be put off reading this book if you are not into yachts and the ocean. There is so much more to the story than that. One of the things that Nancy stresses is that when you are on a yacht you see more of the real parts of the countries you visit than when you jet in as a tourist just visiting the major cities. Her descriptions of the Maldives, India, Oman, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt, Turkey where they lived for two years while Ted taught at a university,the Panama Canal, the Carribean and the islands of the Pacific gave wonderful insights to the cultural and political differences between these exotic places.
Exploring beautiful beaches, old ruins, and market towns on their fold up bikes, the exotic food and the friends they made along the way, both yachties and locals in the area they were visiting gives the book colour and interest and I feel Nancy and Ted's story will appeal to a wider audience, especially to those who dream of leaving the rat race for a while to enjoy life to its fullest.
Feature Book This Week – "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating"
This week I thought I would feature a book where the title was so strange that I had to dip in to see what it was all about. Unlike other in vogue books that feature dogs and cats and other animals such as Marley and Me by John Grogan or Making the Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating really does feature a snail. Yes, a small brown snail. How could someone write a book where one of the major characters of the story is so…..bland? I googled the book and found such positive reviews that I had to start reading it, and now I can't put it down.
Here's a synopsis from the Australian publisher of the The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey, Text Publishing:
While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of the interconnections between species and her own human place in the natural world.
Intrigued by the snail's molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion, and mysterious courtship activities, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer, providing a candid and engaging look into the curious life of this overlooked and underappreciated small animal.
Told with wit and grace, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience, showing us how a small part of the natural world illuminates our own human existence.
I'm looking forward to reading more of this little gem this weekend. For more feedback on what others think of this book check out the following link to the book on the Goodreads book networking site.
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For those who loved the TV show, I've got copies of Jamie's 30 Minute Meals cook book back in stock.


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HOUSE, SENATE TO HOLD JOINT BRIEFING
ON PROPOSED CLOSURE OF STATE HOSPITAL AT KANEOHE
Three Senate Committees and four House Committees will jointly conduct an informational briefing on a recently introduced proposal to close the Hawaii State Hospital at Kaneohe. The hospital, which cares for the mentally and emotionally distressed, including those convicted of crimes, is also under a Federal Court Order to meet certain requirements.
The briefing will be held Wednesday, April 7, 1999 in the State Capitol Auditorium beginning at 6:30 p.m. The Legislature is expediting the processing of this bill, however, due to an internal House of Representatives deadline, the measure will also be heard by the Finance Committee a couple of hours prior to the informational briefing.
"It's somewhat unusual, but it will not affect the final outcome of the bill," according to Rep. Alex Santiago (D-Waialua to Kahuku), House Health Committee chair. "It doesn't change the fact that we will do what is in the best interests of the patients, their families and the community."
Rep. Dennis Arakaki (D-Kamehameha Heights, Kalihi Valley), chair of the House Human Services and Housing Committee, said it is also important to ensure that "there are sufficient providers of the necessary services in the community to provide the proper care."
The Senate committees participating include:
Health & Human Services, Sen. Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair
Labor & Environment, Sen. Bob Nakata, Chair
Judiciary, Sen. Avery B. Chumbley and Sen. Matt Matsunaga, co-Chairs
The House committees include:
Health, Rep. Alex Santiago, Chair
Human Services & Housing, Rep. Dennis Arakaki, Chair
Labor & Public Employment, Rep. Terry Nui Yoshinaga, Chair
Public Safety & Military Affairs, Rep. Nestor Garcia, Chair
For more information, contact the committee clerks at the following offices:
Sen. Suzanne Chun Oakland, 586-6130
Rep. Alex Santiago, 586-6380
Rep. Dennis Arakaki, 586-6050


Please explain this sentence, particularly "in and of itself": Although the pineapple plant is attractive in and of itself, most growers want their plants to flower and fruit.
First, to paraphrase: The pineapple is a beautiful plant to look at. It's good enough to grow this plant to see its flower alone, but most growers have a double incentive – to see it fruit as well. What's being implied here is that the pineapple plant is grown mostly for its delicious fruit.
"In and of itself" is an idiom that addresses the intrinsic quality or characteristic of something. Literally, "in and of itself" means in itself and of itself, in its own self and of its own self.
So, what does this mean idiomatically or figuratively?
This means we are speaking about the said quality in isolation, disregarding other factors that may directly or indirectly affect the situation being talked about.
Again, using our example, the pineapple flower is attractive enough on its own merit. Some people would be happy to spend the time growing that thing just for its flower. But most people do it for a double purpose – for its fruit also, the sweet, juicy, buttery fruit.
To sum up, "in and of itself" means by itself and on its own, when "it" is considered alone and in isolation. And whenever we say something is a certain way in and of itself, we usually imply that it is or will be different when we factor in other conditions and circumstances.
1. During Game 3 of their first-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers, the Golden State Warriors faced their first test en route to what they didn't yet know would be an undefeated run through the Western Conference playoffs.
The Warriors were holding a four-point lead with a minute remaining when rookie Patrick McCaw rebounded an Andre Iguodala miss. In the chaos of the offensive rebound, Portland wing Allen Crabbe ended up on two-time MVP Stephen Curry.
As he has done countless times, Curry isolated and used his dribble to get in shooting rhythm. Having created a small opening, Curry stepped back and knocked down a 3-pointer that effectively ended the game.
Even more so than the 3-pointer in general, the 3 off the dribble has been Curry's signature shot. And, with Curry's rise as Exhibit A, it might just be the most important shot in the modern NBA.
The funny thing about what I'm calling the most important shot in the NBA is it actually isn't a particularly good shot, in and of itself.
According to SportVU tracking on NBA.com/Stats, during the regular season players made what the site classifies as "pull-up" 3-pointers -- any 3 taken off the dribble -- at a 32.3 percent clip. Even after accounting for the extra value of the 3, that's still just .969 points per shot, about 5.6 percent worse than the average attempt.
When we talk about the high efficiency of 3-pointers, we're really talking about 3s of the catch-and-shoot variety -- those the NBA collectively made at an 36.9 percent rate this season, resulting in 1.111 points per shot.
- Steph Curry made the pull-up 3 the most important shot in the NBA, by Kevin Pelton, ESPN.com, May 28, 2017.
2. This past summer, my research made me cry.
Sure, I would invest parts of myself into my research: I chose questions I found interesting; I spent hefty chunks of time figuring out what I wanted to say; eventually, I exposed my thoughts to criticism. But ultimately, research questions were public, not personal – cerebral, not emotional. They concerned something external to me.
In my internship office this summer, that compartmentalization began to dissolve. Working at a small Native American advocacy organization in Providence, Rhode Island, I split my desk time between news sites and sluggish academic articles on Native American lands. At the start, I expected my research to be useful at best, not heart-wrenching.
But soon, it was near impossible to avoid the personal implications of my research. The articles I read not only had a function outside of the academy (we were preparing for litigation to protect Native American lands), but it also began to feel deeply – frighteningly – personal and real. Past melted into present, there into here, my subject into myself. The historical sources resembled the day's New York Times stories and the potential stakeholders in the research were my friends and co-workers, not imagined interlocutors. Instead of considering questions in the otherworldly silence of Firestone, I was working in the din of reality.
So I cried… a lot. And it felt amazing. Even though it hurt in this case, the connection I felt with my research felt more whole and intense – a meaningful experience in and of itself, not just a means to a pedagogical end.
This semester, I hope to lean in further to what's at stake for me – personally – in my research projects. Let what's interesting to me reveal what's important to me. Though I'll be writing these from the air-conditioned safety of Firestone, I'm excited to feel afraid of what I might learn.
- When Research Gets Too Real, Too Soon, by Rafi Lehmann, Princeton.edu, October 7, 2017.
3. David beating Goliath is very exciting – unless you're a fan of Goliath.
Instead the problem is the American system of identifying and cultivating soccer talent – or, more accurately, not identifying this talent.
For the past six years I have been researching and writing about the commercialized youth sports industry, including a youth soccer system that excludes low-income and nonsuburban families from participating at the same rate as higher-income families.
U.S. kids don't play soccer with bare feet on hardscrabble barrio fields where creativity dominates the action and with few grownups in sight.
Instead, too many American kids play soccer in high-tech cleats on manicured suburban fields, where they stand around quietly until an adult (often paid) runs them through repetitive drills – all to prepare for an expensive tournament three states away.
Commercial components permeate every aspect of the youth game. Research presented in my recent book on college and youth sports shows that family income is highly correlated with youth soccer participation. About 25 percent of American families have incomes over US$100,000 annually, yet they produce 35 percent of youth soccer players.
Conversely, the 25 percent of families with incomes below $25,000 account for only 13 percent of youth soccer players. Forty percent of youth soccer players will leave the sport between ages 13 and 18.
The result is a system more attuned to identifying the best payers than the best players.
Those remaining in what I call the pay-to-play soccer system increasingly sign up for high-cost tournaments like the annual Disney Boys' Soccer Showcase, with the idea that it'll increase their chances of being identified by the national team or college recruiters who frequent the expensive tournaments.
What would have become of Cristiano Renaldo or Marta had they grown up in the U.S. pay-to-play system?
- Until youth soccer is fixed, US men's national team is destined to fail, by Rick Eckstein, TheConversation.com, October 13, 2017.
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What People Can Learn About the Estates of Musicians From John Branca UCLA Lectures
By Jaxx Dani Last updated Jun 24, 2021
Have you been wanting to learn more about how musicians plan their estates? When you're a famous musician, it's a wise idea to protect your music while you're still alive and healthy. After a musician dies, their music still stays alive. Having an attorney who specializes in music estates is incredibly helpful for artists who want to protect their music for future generations.
Involves More Than an Average Estate
When the average person is considering planning their own estate, it involves items like houses, bank accounts, and automobiles. A business owner may have a slightly more complicated estate than someone who didn't own a business because they'll need to add the company to the estate. A musician, however, has to not only plan for the distribution of their physical tangible property but also has to decide who will carry the rights to their music after they are no longer living. They need an experienced attorney who is familiar with musician estate law to help them figure the ins and outs of planning their estate.
Requires Copyrights To Be Renewed
When a musician secures copyright for his or her music, oftentimes it is created for a set amount of time. After this duration finally expires, the copyright must be renewed, or else the rights to the music are lost. Copyrights last for a certain amount of years, and this can easily extend past the natural life of the artist. Music professionals need to determine who will retain the copyright after they die. This individual is then responsible for renewing the rights when they eventually expire.
Protects the Music Against Unwanted Distribution
Without an estate plan in place, the musician could lose the rights to their intellectual property after they die. If copyright expires on a piece of music, it then enters the public domain. This means that anybody can reproduce and distribute the music without legally needing any permission at all. By appointing someone as executor of a musician's estate, the artist can ensure that their music stays out of the public domain and remains protected.
Famous musicians need to consider what will happen to their life's work once they are no longer here. Legal professionals help artists sort out the red tape and fine print involved in drawing up estate documents. When a person works so hard their whole lives to create music, they must preserve the art they made.
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HVAC system and ducts allow constant airflow in your house or office. The average 6 room house collects over 40 pounds of dust each year. Clogged ducts compromise airflow, indoor air quality, HVAC system, and affect the wellbeing of everyone indoors. However, air duct cleaning services can ensure that your ventilation system is efficient.
Residential air duct cleaning: before and after.
Being such an important part of the HVAC system, it's a pity that the ducts in most properties are taken for granted and forgotten during the usual heating and air conditioning maintenance. Since most people spend 90% of their time indoors, it should be a priority to ensure an efficient and clean ventilation system. However, many homeowners don't even think about checking their ducts unless there is something seriously wrong. At HVAC Experts, we believe that every residential and commercial building should have an efficient HVAC system and consistent, effective airflow. This is why we invite you to take advantage of our free on-site appointments in Chicago and have a professional determine if your ducts need to be cleaned.
Mold growth inside any of your heating or cooling system components.
Ducts are infested with vermin or animals.
Noticeable debris, pet hair, odors or other contaminants released into the room through the ducts.
Recently completed renovation, especially when asbestos abatement, lead paint removal was conducted or excessive amounts of dust were created, and your ducts weren't covered during the process.
Someone in your household or office is suffering from unexplained allergy-related illnesses when you've taken every other step to decontaminate the indoor environment.
If you have noticed any of these indicators, we recommend cleaning the air ducts in your home or office and choosing experienced, professional contractors at HVAC Experts. Call us at (630) 216-8883 and schedule your free inspection, and we'll make sure that the ventilation system in your building is cleaned completely and thoroughly.
When is air duct cleaning essential?
Is cleaning the air ducts really worth it?
You may think that changing your air filter is enough to ensure good indoor air quality, but did you know that typical fiberglass furnace filters are less than 7% efficient? Furthermore, EPA states that "If not properly installed, maintained and operated, these (heating and cooling system components, including ductwork), may become contaminated with particles of dust, pollen or other debris. If moisture is present, the potential for microbiological growth (e.g., mold) is increased and spores from such growth may be released into the home's living space. Some of these contaminants may cause allergic reactions or other symptoms in people if they are exposed to them." This is why cleaning the ductwork in your home can prove beneficial to your health, especially if you or someone in your household suffers from allergies, asthma and related diseases.
Most of our clients report improved airflow and HVAC system efficiency, as well as reduced allergies and slower dust accumulation after the ducts in their home have been cleaned.
Most of our clients report improved airflow and HVAC system efficiency, as well as reduced allergies and slower dust accumulation after residential or commercial air duct cleaning services have been conducted. And even though air duct cleaning isn't on the usual maintenance list, we strongly suggest hiring a professional to check if your ventilation system is dirty. Having a clean ventilation system is beneficial both to your health and your wallet - when done correctly, cleaning the air ducts can increase the efficiency of your HVAC system by up to 40%, meaning you will be saving on your energy bills, too.
Whether or not cleaning the air ducts is worth it is completely up to you, but there is absolutely no harm in having a clean ventilation system in your home. And when you work with experts of the industry like HVAC Experts, during your consultation we advise you if it would be beneficial for you to clean the ducts, or if it's clean as it is.
When your home or office is damaged by a fire or a flood, it doesn't just affect the interior and exterior of the building - the damage extends into the ductwork as well. And when your property is being reconstructed, renovated or remodeled, dust gets into the air ducts and is released into your indoor air. You can get rid of the aftereffects by calling HVAC Experts in for some assistance, and we will restore the fresh airflow in your home or office.
Ventilation system inspection We asses the current state of your ductwork and inform you if duct cleaning would be beneficial to your household.
System accessibility evaluation We evaluate how hard or easy it will be to clean the air ducts and give you a price estimate based on our conclusions.
Cleaning of the entire ventilation system This includes the entire heating and cooling system.
Specialty cleaning services including coils, fans, drain pans and humidifier cleaning also available.
Letting you inspect our work We guide you through the cleaned ductwork, allowing you to evaluate our work.
Maintenance recommendations Before we leave, we offer advice on how to ensure that your ductwork doesn't become polluted anytime soon.
Fires leave a lot of damage behind, and ductwork is no exception. Especially if your HVAC system was operating during the time of the fire. Since the forced air ventilation system is very efficient at spreading smoke, the fire and smoke damage probably extends far beyond the area of the fire, and the particles that settled in the ductwork will be spread into your indoor air every time your air conditioner is active. This is why duct cleaning is vital after a fire - professional contractors use highly efficient measures to remove any damage and pollutants from your ventilation system so that you can enjoy a healthy and safe indoor environment once again.
While it's highly recommended to seal the vents during any renovation, remodel or construction work, many contractors need a running HVAC system during the process. This is because most renovation work occurs during the hot summer days and the air conditioning is used to control moisture which benefits the interior finishes and fittings. While filters are supposed to prevent dust from entering the ductwork, the truth is that the amount of dust is simply too overwhelming for a typical air filter to stop all the particles from getting inside your air ducts. This is why we highly recommend considering air duct cleaning after a renovation or construction work in your home.
Floods don't just bring moisture, mold, and dirt into your home - all of those unpleasant substances get into your HVAC system and ductwork, too. In addition to being submerged in flood water, your heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems capture a whole lot of dirt, debris, bacteria and other microorganisms. Left untreated, they cause HVAC system malfunctions, inefficiency and pollute your indoor environment. So, when you're receiving post-flood mold remediation for your home, don't forget about cleaning the air ducts and your HVAC system.
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Son charged with murder in death of father in Chincoteague Island shooting
Kelly Powers
CHINCOTEAGUE, Va.— A Chincoteague man has been charged with fatally shooting his father.
Chincoteague Police said responded to a report of shooting at a home on School Street just after 8 a.m. Thursday to find a 70-year-old man dead inside. Thomas Lee Watson Sr., died in what appeared to be a homicide, police said in a news release.
Police said further investigation led to the arrest of Thomas Lee Watson Jr., the victim's son.
He was charged with second-degree murder, according to police, and is now held in Eastern Shore Regional Jail with bond denied.
More:Woman's body found on southern end of Chincoteague
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Police said the department is being assisted in the ongoing investigation by the Accomack County Sheriff's Office.
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Anyone with information on this case is encouraged to contact police at 757-336-3155.


It was great to spend time at the Cole Eye Institute as Visiting Professor last week -- and bring some ModaMD style to Cleveland. Muted floral patterns are in no matter the season. I chose this pretty blue and taupe floral printed 3/4 length sleeve sheath from Black Halo for a day in clinic. Of course I scored this at the sample sale. But it has a similar feel to the Jeannette dress or the Garden of Eden Yoomi sheath. This dress is meant to have a blouson effect on top but I want it to still look tailored so I added a navy Elegantly Waisted Belt and navy Jimmy Choo Gilbert pumps (once you have tan and black pumps in your closet add navy - like these velvet beauties for fall- you won't regret it!).


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International schools cast beam Titanic story to relatives 'back home'
Distant relatives and friends of pupils at Dundonald Primary School were able to watch its production of Titanic play, She Was Alright When She Left Us when it was live-streamed on the internet.
At least 15 of the 90-strong cast have multi-ethnic backgrounds and so their relatives abroad were able to go online to watch the show.
While most of the pupils are from the Dundonald area, some come from a wide range of countries including, the Philippines, India, Poland, Bulgaria, Sudan and Nigeria. Given the emigration theme is central to the Titanic story, the play was very poignant for the young cast.
Svetozar Zdrawkov (11) whose parents are from Bulgaria had a part in the play: "I think the live stream is great because my auntie is able to watch the play from Chicago in America," he said.
Written by Belfast actor Dan Gordon, the play was commissioned by the Ulster-Scots Agency in association with the Lyric Theatre and is part of a successful series of children's plays called Pat & Plain.
The Lyric's Creative Learning team has helped 36 schools across Northern Ireland produce plays from the Pat & Plain range in the last four years. This, the last in a series of plays, deals with the lives of the people who commissioned and built RMS Titanic, bringing its association with Belfast alive for children.
Doreen Neagle, Primary 7 teacher at Dundonald said the pupils and staff had worked hard to put on the performance.
"We wanted to use all the children in the year, not just a select few," she said. "We didn't want them to miss the experience of doing the show. We asked the children for suggestions on movement and they came up with a few. The Lyric mentor, Orla McKegney was a tremendous source of encouragement. I'm absolutely thrilled with the play. I find it very moving and yet it is quite simplistic. We have had a lot of great comments from parents."
Dundonald Primary School has also made special links with a school across the Irish Sea in Birkenhead. Bidston Avenue School watched the performance during the live stream.
The Titanic is of special interest to this school, near Liverpool because Bruce Ismay came from the area. The chairman of White Star Line, which owned the Titanic, gained notoriety and derision because of the disaster and especially as he survived the shipwreck.
Philip Crawford, the Lyric's Creative Learning Co-ordinator, said: "An audience of over 10,000 has watched the Pat & Plain plays in Northern Ireland over the past four years. The live-stream affords a terrific opportunity for the work to be seen by people across the world, including the children of Bidston Avenue, who will be working on the play when they visit Belfast in June."
Students from Lurgan Junior High School, who have a media unit, filmed the play and ensured the live stream took place so there were no disappointed relatives.


If you have been setting goals and pushing the limits that the world has set on you, you have probably heard of SMART goals. Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Timely. IT is a fantastic framework to help make sure the goal you set makes sense.
Recently we have seen the attention span of individuals continue to erode and goal setting has made a major shift from Yearly Resolutions to 90-Day sprints. OKR's, Objectives & Key Results, are a new way of looking at effort that helps make moonshots possible.
Probably the best, and most referenced, example is this talk from Google. One of the pioneers in using OKR's to achieve massive organizational progress.
One of my key take aways is that Objectives should be big. Big enough that they may not be 100% achievable. I have always shot high to get where I am today and enjoy that.
The important thing is that they should reflect your organization and be a part of the culture. To that end, the tools I review will be based on how well they can be built into the culture with 1 on 1 (1:1) facilitation, inttegrations, etc. You may find a tool that works better for you and your teams that didn't work for me and mine. That is ok!
To really see how to orchestrate OKR's, I recommend this resource published by Weekdone. Probably the best examples out there! You might even want to copy a few to get started!
Working in an Enterprise level organization, Atiim was the first product that really jumped out at me. They have a robust client list that includes financial institutions, so you know they take security seriously. They develop mobile-first, so it is a tool we can use on Walking 1 on 1's.
Small businesses will probably be left out until they develop a freemium model though. Implementation comes with consulting by default, which requires at least 35-50 seats.
BetterWorks is a solid platform for and also what I would consider Enterprise Grade. Very professional but seems more HR focused than deliverable focused. Confirmed when speaking to their representative. They would not move forward without an HR representative, though our OKR initiative is through IT.
Seems more focused on goals, but not quite a full OKR tool. The feedback and other tools were strong, but left feeling this was more of a tool to help a business get started with goals, managed by HR initiative.
Encourage each employee to be a part of the process with a Goal Lite subscription that is personal and not tied to OKR's.
Weekdone was my first experrience with OKR's. If you haven't seen their OKR Examples page, I highly recommend starting there to see how this should all come together. Weekdone and Atiim definitely lead the pack in educating and championing for OKR's.
Multiple views to data specific to app viewing is an interesting model. I don't like having multiple apps where it isn't needed but having a separate weekly task app that is very clear compared to a full OKR app for front line might keep things on point without being overwhelming.
Very clean interface and one of the most recommended on the internet. Definitely built to be a central hub of OKR and communication.
Very attractive OKR dashboard that rolls up responsibilities. I really like that each OKR can have an Owner, Lead, and Contributors called out to clearly show supporting cast. While it has a chat on each milestone, it is missing 1:1 tools that I think are critical to an OKR tool.
A nice goal dashboard for small teams who like to live in Slack. 1:1 support seems to only be a 2-question scrum form.
At first I thought it was an opensource solution, but GTM Hub is one of the most dynamic of all of the solutions. If you are looking for an OKR dashboard to pull from multiple sources every month, this is a strong option. I feel without the facilitation of the 1:1 meetings, the OKR dashboard looses a lot of it's power. This could probably be delivered with another solution like Grow.
A Coworker is testing out Lattice with his team now. Very design friendly interface. Mobile first so walking 1:1's are easy. 360* feedback supported with multiple levels of privacy. I think the thing that stood out most for me was the pre-meeting email so our 1:1's can be as effective as possible.
Many of the same datapoints, but really looks and feels like an Excel fie turned into an app. Design-wise it looks like a lot of charts, graphs, and info pushed together into a single view. Low on the pricepoint, but feels like a tool a micro-manager would want.


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The Devil in Massachusetts
The night of the manhunt that ended when Dzokhar Tsarnaev was caught, hiding like a child who had played at a game for far too long, under a tarp in a boat on dry land, I sat in a bar lit by narrow filament bulbs shining through hanging, chain-bound baskets of pennies. Above the wall stocked with liquor, light flickered through shapes cut from a wooden border—a serpent, it looked like, a sun, maybe a figure dancing. A friend and I sat next to each other, thumbing continually through social media feeds, searching for news from Boston, turning sometimes to tell each other what we'd found. People we knew were barricaded in their living rooms.
An old acquaintance wrote that he and his young daughters had missed the explosions near the finish line by mere minutes, and cut quickly to a common pulse: "Puritan justice circa 17th century please."
Within days of the bombing, there were rumors that the death penalty would be reinstated in Massachusetts: non-binding referenda showed that voters would support it, and an amendment quickly reached the floor of the state House of Representatives. The government of the Commonwealth, which had abolished the death penalty in 1984, for now rejected any change. But Dzokhar Tsarnaev's trial was likely to be a part of a federal case, which meant that punishment by death could indeed be decided in Massachusetts.
In the weeks and months following the explosions, the words "witch hunt" rang, with frequency, over television transmissions, radio broadcasts, and across computer screens. Investigations of the attack on Americans in Benghazi had been, and continued to be, "a witch hunt." The IRS targeting scandal, surveillance of journalists under PRISM, and many smaller political maneuvers were wrapped in these words—formerly weighty, now seeming flimsy, decorative. During the week of the Boston search, the online forum Reddit was accused of encouraging a witch hunt by asking its online community to find matches for a man in the grainy surveillance photographs of one of the bombers released by the FBI. Days later, following the harassment of innocent people like the family of twenty-two year old Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, who had been missing since March, Reddit apologized, using the same words: "witch hunt." The words clapped against the cobblestones of Boston, and turned the dust of the cruel colony that came before it.
In the same days and weeks, the evils of our government were also decried in mainstream forums with unusual force. The day before the Boston bombing, the New York Times had published an op-ed written by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel—one of ninety-three prisoners at Guantanamo participating in a hunger strike, then in its third month. Al Hasan Moqbel had described his haphazard arrest, eleven years and three months prior, and the excruciating process of being force-fed via a long tube reaching through his nose and into his stomach, by members of the U.S. military. Days later, an op-ed by the Times' own editorial board condemned the continued captivity of uncharged, untried prisoners at the detention center: by that third week of April, of one hundred and sixty-six men being held in cells at the prison, only six were facing active charges. There were almost fifty men at Guantanamo whom the government admitted it had insufficient evidence to prosecute but deemed too dangerous to be released. We kept them—and keep them—that is, not because of any crime, but because of fear.
The phrase "witch hunt"—scorched into the language of politics by Arthur Miller's 1952 play The Crucible, written as a response to the McCarthy hearings—has been critically diluted and transformed. It is entirely wrong to refer to the relentless pursuit of American wrongdoing in Benghazi as a witch hunt; likewise IRS targeting, likewise PRISM, likewise ad hominem punches in Senate confirmation hearings. A witch hunt is not simply a determined attack with political motivation: it is an attack in which the accusation of wrongdoing is largely equivalent to a conviction—delivering the same shadow, shame, and often, legal consequences. Dependent on the witchy aura of words, it is the phenomenon that causes a suspected communist to suffer the consequences of communist actions; an accused witch those of witchery; an accused terrorist, those of violence against innocent people. The political witch hunt has by nature political, practical motivations, but it derives its power from the fear the accusations stir in the crowd, and from the occult belief that we can quarantine harm. It is the pointing finger itself that condemns, and the accuser that incants a curse.
This has always been the allure of the Salem witch trials, that which makes us return to the scene. We do believe there was a type of evil in Massachusetts in 1692, and a type of witch: the accusers, the girls and townspeople who called "devil." It is not only that we know that the "afflicted" girls practiced what they themselves thought to be witchery— examining a raw egg in a bowl, as if it were a fortuneteller's ball, or, in the mythologized (and false) version of Salem, invoking the voodoo of the Parris family's Carribean Indian slave, Tituba, dancing naked around a fire in the woods, sacrificing a chicken, drinking its blood, as depicted in the 1996 film adaptation of The Crucible. It is that the girls played pretend all the way to the foot of the gallows, and the adults of Salem, led by fear and perhaps greed in the form of land lust, seem to have been quite determined to kill people. The name we give the trials, in retrospect, is ambiguous: Which is the witch?
A new historical-fiction series, "Salem," which premiered on WGN this Sunday (Easter, perhaps a slight provocation), seems to be built on this very idea, and a poster for the show, appearing frequently in subway stations around New York, plays upon the same homophony: above the silhouette of something resembling both an empress and a mutant tree, it reads: "Which Among Us." In a trailer for the series, between shots of Louisiana woods disguised as Massachusetts, and a close-clustered tall-roofed village bearing little resemblance to colonial New England, the words, "It wasn't paranoia" flash across a black screen in white print. Then: "It was real." A male character, in voiceover, presents the highly anachronistic self-awareness that seems the show's premise: "There could be nothing worse for Salem than a witch hunt," he says. We learn, through bits of dialogue, set against quick shots of sex, torch-bearing mobs, and ghoulish violence, that the real witches of "Salem" are those undertaking the hunt.
The idea that we can become evil through attempts to defeat evil, or while claiming that end—that we become what we fear—is common in discussions of capital punishment, and of terrorism and torture. The War on Terror—a title that can be read as "the War predicated on terror," the war whose cause and logic is fear—has been driven by a 17th century belief in both inhuman forces and our ability to contain them. It seems today that we rarely remember how conspicuous was the public language of "evil" and "darkness" as George W. and his associates primed the country for a military response to September 11th. And since the War on Terror began, foreign prisoners at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and other American camps, have been dressed in hoods, made to squat in darkness, held underwater, chained to cement, jammed into small crates, all to make them speak—to admit their evil, or the evil they've seen.
Certainly, there is "Puritan justice" here, as there is witchery. That the two are bound together, that such justice could resemble cultish sadism, is not surprising when we consider that New England Puritans believed so strongly in the devil that their worldview can, from our vantage, resemble something pagan: the earth was not yet won for God, and was in effect controlled by two rulers. Historian Frances Hill writes, "It is hard to grasp the nature of the Puritans' belief in supernatural beings. Devils and spirits were not abstract ideas but creatures dwelling all around them. It was for this reason that Satan was sometimes referred to as the 'Prince of the air.'"
The "Puritan justice" called for by my old acquaintance was of course something different: something definitive, severe, and unforgiving, fitting perhaps with the words of Judge Danforth in Miller's Crucible: "This is a sharp time, now, a precise time—we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world." But these words served Miller's purpose because they were exactly wrong. The real Thomas Danforth didn't sit on the court at Salem, but the certainty of Judges Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, and others who did, would haunt Massachusetts for years to come. Hathorne, who never expressed remorse for the witch trials, would have a grandson who would go on to add a "W" to his last name to distance himself from the hangings at Salem, and would eventually become our most famed critic of Puritanical hypocrisy, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
In May of 1693, when the rope-wrung mania of the witch trials had exhausted itself, the responsible parties stood in the shame of causeless killing, and freed the accused left in jail. The town and colony began the pardons and apologies then that would continue into the 21st century. Around ten years later, the Massachusetts House of Representatives wrote into law that no "spectral evidence" could again be used in criminal proceedings.
In May of 2013, 320 years later, the US government held prisoners based on evidence that could, very plainly, be called immaterial. It was legal wriggling by the Bush administration, signed by George W., and in large part upheld by the actions and inactions of Obama, his cabinet, and congress—see Jill Lepore, "The Dark Ages" or Lawrence Douglas, "A Kangaroo in Obama's Court"—that concluded that "the nature of international terrorism" made it "not practicable to apply… the principles of law and the rules of evidence generally recognized." Following the public outcry in response to al Hasan Moqbel's description of Guantanamo and broader media coverage of the hunger strikes, President Obama was interrupted during a speech at the National Defense University, at Fort McNair, by a young woman pressing the issue. He allowed that it was "worth being passionate about" and soon deflected smoothly: "Look at the current situation, where we are force-feeding detainees who are being held on a hunger strike," he said. "Is this who we are?"
It's a good question, and a useful rhetorical device. But the President knew, as we did, that the answer was at least in part "Yes."
Following Dzokhar Tsarnaev's capture, authorities found that he had written on the inside of the sheltering boat, perhaps like a teenager scrawling graffiti, perhaps like an insurgent on his last legs. "The U.S. government is killing our innocent civilians," he wrote. "I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished."
That Tsarnaev killed and maimed innocent civilians himself is quite clear. And we, too, cannot "stand to see such evil go unpunished": by decision of Attorney General Eric Holder, a guilty verdict for Tsarnaev will mean the death penalty. That our country kills innocent civilians is also true. We now shoot men, women, and children from the sky over foreign land. One of the quieter effects—from this distance—of the War on Terror, via the American drone program, is an "unprecedented" level of psychological distress in Pakistani civilians. Is there a punishment that we deserve?
A 2002 essay, "Why I'm Not For Peace," by Ellen Willis, cautions us to tread carefully here. Willis pointed to a strain of thinking in the American "peace left"—those who opposed military retaliation following 9/11—that positioned the immoral actions of the United States as a type of sin for which we must pay. "…At the heart of the matter," she wrote, "is an unspoken meta-argument: that America is a sinful country, and must achieve redemption through nonviolence. Violence committed against us is the wages of sin. …Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind." She continues later:
"The implication is there's such a thing as a morally pure state: one that abjures power, wealth, and violence and is sincere, truthful, and consistent. In fact, a morally pure state is an oxymoron. The state, including its liberal democratic version, is an inherently problematic institution, whose basic reason for being is to exercise power and protect its sovereignty, its physical integrity, and its wealth, by force if necessary."
No individual civilian deserves violence for the violence of its country, and it is incoherent, in Willis's view, to discuss what the state itself—a non-moral entity—"deserves." But we find ourselves in the strange position of being a part of a country, begun by zealots, who aspired to exactly the oxymoron Willis describes: the morally pure state. Thus our identity is not one of moral purity, but of aspirational morality. And without the ambition to be better, we have very little.
Puritan John Winthrop, founding figure and four-times Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in his famed "city upon a hill" sermon, given aboard the ship Arbella in 1630, on its way to New England, said that the "only way" to avoid "shipwreck" in the new colony was to "follow the counsel of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly…"
This theory of Puritanism—loving "mercy," especially—lies quite far from the historical practice of Puritan justice. But it is worth noting that the Hebrew name Micah is a question, a rhetorical challenge: it means, "Who is like God?" Indeed, who are we? Which is the witch? The questions are not so different.
Katie Ryder is a writer and editor living in New York. Some of her recent work can be found in Black Clock and online with Bookforum.
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Cheapens copper for a week as the minimum WTI traded at $ 43 in Asia. Oil fell below its 100-day moving average down for the first time since April and short positions are gaining more momentum for a new attempt to reach the level of $ 40.
However, he recovered to 6740p in the opening FTSE regardless of softening oil, prices of raw materials and weak corporate results. The cheaper pound seems to be the major bullish driver this morning. Basic materials won last 1% with the pound set another slide towards the mark of 1.30 against the dollar. Investors see the increased value of the depreciation of the pound, as the British companies become progressively more profitable, and could be interesting targets of M & A for foreign investors.
selloff BP (-0.82%) remained reasonable, after the company announced a 44% decline in 2Q earnings. Investors could take a breather in BP's decision to maintain its dividend unchanged at 10c / share.
Expect to see a massive fiscal stimulus simply vaporized after the Japanese Finance Minister Aso said he would let the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to decide on what to do next in terms of further stimulus. Abe-maniacs readjusted their expectations sharply downward since the probability of a fiscal stimulus worth $ 30 billion quickly vanished overnight.
The US dollar sell-off aggressively against the Japanese yen; USDJPY collapsed below the critical decline of 38.2% in July increased 104.60, sending the pair to the bearish consolidation area before the BOJ meeting on Thursday.
The possibility of a decent disappointment is priced in, as the Bank of Japan could – and certainly not be able to meet market expectations ultra-moderate. The consensus is 5 basis points cut in the policy rate and no change in asset purchases, despite speculation that the Bank of Japan may buy an additional 10 to 20 billion yen worth of assets annually introduces a pessimistic bias in the YEN-complex in the last two day.
Across the Pacific, we see a softer US dollar ahead of the two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve (Fed). We expect the Federal Reserve to maintain the status quo and to join the field of wait and see in the middle of the post-Brexit uncertainty. The FOMC probably will emphasize the importance of future economic data and deliver a statement accompanying pessimistic to provide support to markets. The S & P 500 and the Dow could navigate a new wave of cheap money, if the Fed leaves the bowl on the table.


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April 19, 2014 /0 Comments/in Academic /by Ken Fields
"I can't do it !" It's certainly a common enough phrase; I can't do this, I can't do that. It probably gets run through much more inside our mind than out. I'm not going to tell you it's not true, that you can do anything you set your mind to. There are some things you can't do. I know there are some things I can't do. The problem is that when we use that phrase "I can't" it suggests that we are not able to do it at some time in the future; that we are not able to learn how to do it. So, using the "I can't" phrase doesn't really do our potential any justice. And regarding our internal self talk, there is no distinction between fact and fiction. So, when the mind hears the self talk "I can't" it simply says "ok." There is also no time frame involved our self talk, the "I can't" phrase has no expiration date. As far as the mind is concerned, "I can't" means you never have been nor will ever be able to. That's not quite accurate.
Many in the field of mental health or self improvement suggest that "I can't" be replaced with "I won't." In some cases, that is a good suggestion. There are quite a few times when a person who says "I can't do that" is really saying they choose not to do that. In such cases, saying "I won't do that" is not only appropriate but more accurate and more empowering. You can try this out for yourself. If you can catch yourself about to say "I can't" when in fact it's a choice on your part not to do it, simply say "I won't" or "I refuse" or "I choose not to." Don't say "I can't" when in fact you can but don't want to."
But, what about those situations when in fact you really are not able to do it. You don't have the skill, the experience or the capacity? In those cases, it's still much better to use an alternate phrase. For example, if someone asks you to help them edit a book in a foreign language that you don't speak, you can say something like "at this time, I am not able to" or "I have not yet learned how to speak that language." By avoiding the use of "I can't" we don't shut down the future possibilities. The mind remains open to the potential.
But, what about a person who is clinically depressed, severely anxious or diagnosed with terminal cancer or some other serious physical condition. Are they not justified in saying "I can't get better?" It would be somewhat cruel to suggest to them it's their choice and they should say "I won't get better." The latter statement is not just a choice based phrase it is also very deterministic. It could itself be cause for depression as it is an affirmation of the problem. Yet, "I can't get better" isn't that accurate either. There are anecdotes of individuals who have overcome these types of problems and if any one individual can accomplish something, it is at least in the realm of possibility that others too can. So, more realistic self talk than either "I can't" or "I won't" is called for. What might work? Well, this is the kind of thinking that is required of a person interested in adjusting their self talk. They need to think about alternative phrases and then begin to use them when they catch themselves using the old more irrational or less than realistic phrases. Before reading on, think for yourselves what might work in this situation…..
Because the issue of choice is somewhat secondary in these kinds of situations; that is, we can assume that nobody consciously chooses to be depressed or terminally ill, the "can't" and "won't" don't quite apply. Willpower is not the issue either. According to Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt Therapy, the beginning of real change occurs when we acknowledge and accept where we are right now in the present moment. So, perhaps we can take the "I can't" and make it into an "I can" if we "can" simply accept our present condition. "I can accept my problem" or "I can accept my illness" can be the precursor openings which may prove helpful and perhaps even somewhat healing. Of course, acceptance of an illness is itself not a task which is accomplished right away. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross has delineated the stages of loss and acceptance is near the end. Nevertheless, we can transform our "I can't" into an "I can" by changing what it is we think we can or can't do. "I can't get better" can become "I can accept this." Here, of course, the initial response to terrible news or a fatal illness is "I won't accept this" which is the first stage of loss, denial. But, the truth is, it can be accepted and, as one passes through the stages of loss, is accepted. And then, there is often much more peace, less resistance and openness to the possibilities so often found in "I can."
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