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Review of ΧΑΡΙΣ: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr
Colburn, C.S. Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Colburn, C.S., 2009. Review of A.P. Chapin (ed.), ΧΑΡΙΣ: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies, 2004), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68.2: 117-119.
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Review of The Mycenaean Feast
Younger, J.G. Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Younger, J.G., 2009. Review of J.C. Wright (ed.), The Mycenaean Feast (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68.2: 150-152.
Review of The Chalcolithic Cemetery of Souskiou-Vathyrkakas, Cyprus. Investigations of Four Missions from 1950 to 1997
Fourrier, S. & le Mort, F. Paléorient
Fourrier, S. & le Mort, F., 2008 [2009]. Review of E. Peltenburg (ed.), The Chalcolithic Cemetery of Souskiou-Vathyrkakas, Cyprus. Investigations of Four Missions from 1950 to 1997 (Nicosia: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 2006), Paléorient 34.2: 200-202.
Review of The Aigina Treasure: Aegean Bronze Age Jewellery and a Mystery Revisited
Younger, J.G. Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Younger, J.G., 2010. Online review of J.L. Fitton (ed.), The Aigina Treasure: Aegean Bronze Age Jewellery and a Mystery Revisited (London: The British Museum Press, 2009), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.64.
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Review of Die submykenische Nekropole. Neufunde und Neubewertungen
Lewartowski, K. Gnomon
Lewartowski, K., 2009. Review of F. Ruppenstein, Die submykenische Nekropole. Neufunde und Neubewertungen. Mit einem Beitrag von Anna Lagia (München: Hirmer, 2007), Gnomon 81.6: 535-539.
Review of Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974-1977
Berg, I. Gnomon
Berg, I., 2009. Review of C. Renfrew, N. Brodie, C. Morris & C. Scarre (eds), Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974 – 1977 (London: The British School at Athens, 2007), Gnomon 81.7: 624-627.
Review of Thinking the Bronze Age; Life & Death in Early Helladic Greece
Croucher, K. European Journal of Archaeology
Croucher, K., 2009. Review of E. Weiberg, Thinking the Bronze Age; Life & Death in Early Helladic Greece (Uppsala, Uppsala University Press 2007), European Journal of Archaeology 12.1-2 (April-December): 258-260.
Review of Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans'
Herzfeld, M European Journal of Archaeology
Herzfeld, M., 2009. Review of Y. Hamilakis & N. Momigliano (eds), Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans' (Padua: Ausilio, Bottega d'Erasmo, 2006), European Journal of Archaeology 12.1-2 (April-December): 262-264.
Review of Negotiating Island Identities. The Active Use of Pottery in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Cyclades
Momigliano, N. The Classical Review
Momigliano, N., 2009. 'Minoans Go Home?': Review of I. Berg, Negotiating Island Identities. The Active Use of Pottery in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Cyclades (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007), The Classical Review (New Series), Volume 59, Issue 02, October 2009: 578-580.
Review of In Pursuit of Wissenschaft. Festschrift für William M. Calder III zum 75. Geburtstag
Davies, M. The Classical Review
Davies, M., 2009. Review of S. Heilen, R. Kirstein, R. Scott Smith, S.M. Trzaskoma, R.L. Van der Wal & M. Vorwerk (eds), In Pursuit of Wissenschaft. Festschrift für William M. Calder III zum 75. Geburtstag (Hildesheim, Zurich and New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2008), The Classical Review (New Series) 59.2, October 2009: 617-619.
Review of Markiani, Amorgos: An Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlement. Overview of the 1985-1991 Investigations
Charlier, P. Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Charlier, P., 2010. Online review of L. Marangou, C. Renfrew, C. Doumas & G. Gavalas (eds), Markiani, Amorgos: An Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlement. Overview of the 1985-1991 Investigations (Athens: The British School at Athens, 2006), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.01.32.
Review of A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World
Nakassis, D. The Classical Review
Nakassis, D., 2009. Review of Y. Duhoux & A. Morpurgo Davies (eds), A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World. Volume 1 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Paris and Dudley, MA: Éditions Peeters, 2008), The Classical Review (New Series), Volume 59, Issue 02, October 2009: 327-329.
Review of Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism
Galanakis, Y. The Art Newspaper
Galanakis, Y., 2009. Review of C. Gere, Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism (Chicago 2009), The Art Newspaper, vol. XVIII, no. 208 (December 2009), 44.
Momigliano, N. Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Momigliano, N., 2009. Online review of C. Gere, Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism (Chicago 2009), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.08.20.
Review of Testing the Hinterland: The Work of the Boeotia Survey (1989-1991) in the Southern Approaches to the City of Thespiai
Pettegrew, D.K. American Journal of Archaeology
Pettigrew, D.K., 2010. Online review of J. Bintliff, P. Howard & A. Snodgrass, Testing the Hinterland: The Work of the Boeotia Survey (1989-1991) in the Southern Approaches to the City of Thespiai (Cambridge 2007), American Journal of Archaeology 114.1 (January).
Review of P.M. Steele, Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus (Cambridge 2018)
Review of S. Sherratt & J. Bennet (eds), Archaeology and the Homeric Epic (Oxford 2016)
Review of F.W. Cooper & D. Fortenberry (eds), The Minnesota Pylos Project 1990-98 (Oxford 2017)
Review of R. Angus K. Smith, M.K. Dabney, E. Pappi, S. Triantaphyllou & J. C. Wright, Ayia Sotira. A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece (Philadelphia 2017)
Review of S. Dietz, F. Mavridis, Ž. Tankosić & T. Takaoğlu (eds), Communities in Transition. The Circum-Aegean Area during the 5th and 4th Millennia BC (Oxford 2018)


Many events transpired in my absence last week – President Obama launched a semi sorta military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Republicans and Democrats predictably played chicken with the debt ceiling, Jon Huntsman joined the Republican race (his own campaign website misspelled his first name), Newt "Tiffany" Gingrich lost a few more staffers, a former half-term Alaska governor couldn't even finish a bus tour – but, truth to tell, I was most transfixed by the twisted tale of Billy and Whitey.By now you've probably heard that James "Whitey" Bulger, the Boston crime boss tagged with involvement in 19 murders, was finally captured last week after living on the lam for 16 years. It turned out that Whitey and his moll were ensconced in a Santa Monica apartment, a short stroll from the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Whitey, at age 81, is now back in Boston to face the music.His capture is a big story, at least for those of us who grew up in New England – Whitey's adventures have spawned many books; he was a perverse role model for the Jack Nicholson character in Martin Scorsese's film The Departed – but the bigger, more interesting story has a strong political dimension. It's impossible to talk about Whitey without bringing up his loyal brother Billy. The blood bond is inviolate, tragically so, because Whitey's sins have irrevocably soiled Billy's political career and legacy. In the annals of old-boy networks, this saga is unique.The Bulger boys grew up in the South Boston projects before taking different life paths. Whitey dropped out of high school and fought his way to the top of the Irish mob. Billy, on the other hand, mastered Cicero and Shakespeare, graduated Boston College Law School, and ultimately reigned for 18 years as president of the Massachusetts Senate. For much of that time, from 1978 to 1996, Billy was arguably the state's most powerful Democratic politician, a classic favor-swapping inside player whose nickname was "Mr. President."The facile plot arc is that one brother went bad, while the other hewed to the straight and narrow. The truth was more complicated (just as it was in Brotherhood, the underrated Bulger-inspired Showtime series about two Providence siblings). Billy was a smart and savvy power broker, and naturally that helped fuel his rise in state Democratic circles, but because he never publicly distanced himself from his infamous brother, a lot of Democrats were afraid to challenge or cross him – fearing perhaps that doing so might trigger the wrath of Whitey.Indeed, there were times when people suspected that Billy was using his esteemed Senate office to protect Whitey. For instance, Whitey worked briefly as a state court janitor until a judge terminated his employment; subsequently, this judge had serious problems getting any pay raises. On another front, back in 1981, a line item in the state budget targeted several state cops who had bugged Whitey's garage. The item would have forced these cops into early retirement. It didn't pass. More interestingly, nobody seemed to know how the item got attached to the budget. Billy (who knew every line of every budget) insisted that it wasn't his idea. Twenty-two years later, a congressional committee asked Billy for further details about this budget item; in response, Billy said, "I categorically can't recall."You may be wondering how Billy wound up in front of a congressional hearing in 2003. It's simple, really. The House Government Reform Committee (which was investigating corrupt FBI agents' ties to mobsters) wanted to know if Billy knew where his brother was. Whitey had disappeared in 1995, after being tipped off by a corrupt FBI agent that his arrest was imminent. Whitey, at the time of the '03 House hearing, was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List along with Osama bin Laden.I covered this House hearing, and marveled at the tragedy of Billy's blood bond. Billy at the time had cashed in his political chips and got himself appointed to a prestigious job, president of the University of Massachusetts. But he was under heavy pressure to resign – the new governor, Mitt Romney, wanted him to go – because of his stubborn refusal to discuss Whitey. Seven months before this '03 House hearing, he had clammed up and invoked his Fifth Amendment right to silence. A lot of people in Massachusetts were uncomfortable with Billy's behavior; as UMass student Michael Rhys told me at the time, "We're the laughingstock of higher ed. Who else has a president who takes the fifth?"Anyway, Billy finally agreed to testify in Washington, under a grant of immunity from prosecution. I sat behind his diminutive body, and listened to his gentle brogue as he said, "I do not know where my brother is…I have not aided James Bulger in any way while he has been a fugitive. Do I possess information that could lead to my brother's arrest? The honest answer is no."But that was hardly the whole story. It turned out that when Whitey went into the wind in 1995, he phoned Billy to say that he was OK. As Billy recalled in his House testimony, he told his older brother that the family cared about him and that maybe Whitey's travails would "have a happy ending." But Billy admitted that he didn't urge Whitey to give himself up. Nor did Billy, an elected public servant, opt to call the cops. Instead, he called his attorney. When the House panelists asked why he had chosen his attorney over the cops, Billy replied, "It was my preference." He also insisted that speaking with his fugitive brother was "in no way inconsistent" with his public responsibilities. (During an '01 grand jury appearance, when Billy was asked why he hadn't urged Whitey to surrender, he had replied, "I didn't think it would be in his best interest to do so.")Billy has never seemed willing to acknowledge that his brother was an alleged serial executioner; at the tail end of his long state Senate career, in 1996, he wrote a memoir that essentially depicted Whitey as an innocent victim of innuendo: "Regrettably, he has placed himself in a position where anything goes – planted press stories, absurd rumors, wild exaggerations, the lot."Shortly after his House testimony in 2003, Billy succumbed to the critics and quit the UMass presidency. Last week, when informed by a reporter that Whitey had been caught in California, he said simply, "No comment." Hey, what more could he say? His unswerving loyalty to Whitey has irrevocably stained his reputation. There's no going back to the halcyon days when he reigned supreme in Massachusetts politics; as he softly lamented during his House testimony, "I doubt that that happier time will ever return to me." Indeed not. He has tragically demonstrated that blood is thicker than brains.


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Setting a strategy for playing showcase festivals
Gideon Gottfried
08 February 2017, Wednesday
There are many showcase festivals happening all over Europe. Their aim is to promote up-and-coming artists, new talent and future headliners. We've talked about showcase festivals – such as Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen, Holland, The Great Escape in Brighton, England and Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany – quite a bit. And we always emphasized that you need a strategy before applying to play those gigs. So this time around we asked two Swiss acts who secured a slot at Eurosonic to tell us what strategies they had in place and what they hope to get out of the gig: Ursina and Damian Lynn.
"My main aim is to play a good show and hopefully have some business people in the crowd who like it and afterwards either book you for their festivals or bring other helpful contacts like labels, booking agencies etc. Another good point is that people at least read your name on the program of such a festival. Having played Eurosonic can be an argument," says Lynn. Ursina agrees in that she hopes to be heard by concert and festival promoters, media people and booking agents alike. "Eurosonic is very well-organised and they communicated very well prior to the event. Our gig had been announced, so a few journalists picked up on it even before our performance in Groningen." Sure enough, a couple of days after Eurosonic, Ursina was booked for a festival, and a booking agency from Germany voiced interest in working with her. "So a few of my expectations have already been fulfilled."
Ursina had contacted all the people she would have loved to work with prior to the festival. "We just released our debut album "You Have My Heart," for which we already had a label and publisher. Hence we focused on foreign booking agents, festivals and concerts at Eurosonic. For Lynn, "the strategy was to invite as many people to the showcase as possible and then hit them up again after the show. The invitations were done by our Swiss and German booking agency before and during the festival. They will follow up on all invited festivals afterwards anyway."
Team building is always crucial when starting a business, which you're also in a sense doing as an artist. For Ursina, the most important pillar is her team at Reelmusic, the triumvirate of manager David Burger, Frederick Dürr, her booker in Switzerland, and Cristina Vega, handling the national promotion. "They communicate and negotiate with media and concert promoters. In Germany I can rely on my publisher Wintrup, who also handle radio promotion. "Up until recently I did not have a team that supported me in business matters. I founded my band Ursina in 2011. We released our first two EPs 'Time is a Thief' and 'Hiding Behind a Mask' in 2013 and 2014, respectively, which I produced, financed and distributed myself, with the help of iMusician and Bandcamp. I only hit a wall when it came to promotion, so I got some help in that field. I even organized the release tour accompanying the EPs. All of these experiences helped me evolve as an artist. I know what it means to organise concerts and negotiate deals." Which is the reason why Ursina suggest that newcomers initially do as much as possible on their own. That includes the decision-making process. "If you're entering into a working relationship, it is important that both parties meet at eye level, and that you know what you want – and especially what you don't want. The people you work with have to fully back the project and be enthusiastic about it, otherwise there's no point. I'd say to first look for help in the areas of promotion and booking. After all, the most important thing is to play shows. And if you want people to show up, it helps to receive media coverage." Says Damian Lynn: "I've always been a bit skeptical and took my time before working with new people and choosing them for my team which I think is a good attitude. You should not be too naive when people promise you the earth. At first I booked my own shows but then I began to work with a booking agency. In my opinion playing live is one of the most important parts and since booking shows can take a lot of time it's really helpful to have someone to do this for you." For Lynn, the most important factor in getting where he's at now was "playing a lot of shows, working hard on myself, being skeptical sometimes and being nice to people." Ursina adds "stamina, consistency, taking one step after the other, curiosity and believing in what you're doing."
The money is in live these days. And your live capabilities are the most important factor when playing a showcase festival, so make sure you practice, practice and practice. At Eurosonic around 400 acts compete for the business professionals' attention. And they're all really good, as the Eurosonic team handpicks each and every one of them. Don't be discouraged by the competition, though. Live has become such an important income stream that the thirst for new acts won't be quenched for quite a while. And while you will be exposed to a crowd of business pros at all of the above mentioned events – add m4music in Switzerland and Waves Vienna in Austria – only Eurosonic comes with an extra perk: every act selected to play a showcase in Groningen automatically enters the European Talent Exchange Program (ETEP), where 100 festival across Europe have vowed to book Eurosonic acts for their upcoming festivals. Partner festivals include Paléo, Gurtenfestival and OpenAir St.Gallen in Switzerland, Chiemsee Summer, Melt! and Rock am Ring in Germany, Frequency in Austria, Open'er in Poland and many more. Acts that have experienced a career boost from ETEP include My Baby, Aurora, Benjamin Clementine, Birth of Joy, Coely, Ewert and the Two Dragons, Hozier, Ibeyi, Jungle, Milky Chance, Seinabo Sey, SOAK, Vök and Years & Years. It would be amazing if your name joined that list soon.
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Hi, I'm Hiroto Honda, an R&D engineer at DeNA Co., Ltd. in Japan.
In this article, I share the details for training the detector, which are implemented in our PyTorch_YOLOv3 repo that was open-sourced by DeNA on Dec. 6, 2018.
Last time I introduced our repo and emphasized why it is important to reproduce training performance. This time, I would like to show the structure of the YOLOv3 network architecture and the channel elements of YOLO layers (detection layers) for multi-scale object detection. Some of the important details in this post are not written in the paper, but in the original implementation.
Fig. 1 Schematic of the YOLOv3 network architecture.
YOLOv3 consists of the backbone network called darknet53, the upsampling network, and the detection layers called YOLO layers.
The backbone network extracts the feature map from the input image. The network mainly adopts residual blocks as the basic components. Each residual block consists of a 3 × 3 and 1 × 1 convolutional layer pair with a shortcut connection. The total number of convolutional layers is 53, which is why the network is coined darknet53. The dimension of the final feature map has 1/32 times smaller spatial resolution than the input image.
Three YOLO layers that are responsible for detecting objects at different scales are branched from the 'upsampling network' — the right-hand pyramid shape of Fig. 1. The details of the network are shown in Fig. 2.
At the first YOLO layer the grid resolution is 1/32 of the input image and large objects are detected. The final YOLO layer's resolution is 1/8 and the layer is capable of detecting small objects. As shown in Fig. 2, there are several convolution layers and an upsampling layer between the YOLO layers. Each layer has the sub-layers of convolution, batch normalization and leaky ReLU activation. There are shortcut connections which concatenate the intermediate layers of darknet53 to the layer right after the upsampling layer.
The three-scale YOLO layers are adopted in YOLOv3. The benefit mainly is that the detector is capable of capturing smaller objects than when using only one YOLO layer without upsampling.
Fig. 2 Upsampling network and YOLO layers. The rectangles stand for feature maps.
Each YOLO layer has a dimension of (f_h, f_w, ch), where f_h, f_w, and ch are the height, width, and number of channels of the feature map respectively.
The number of channels in each YOLO layer is N_anchor × (N_class +5), where N_anchor is the number of anchors and N_class the number of object classes. Fig. 3 shows the map of all the YOLO channel elements. By default, YOLOv3 uses 3 anchors and 80 classes. Therefore, the number of channels in one YOLO layer is 3 × (80 + 5).
The nine anchors are depicted in Fig. 3 using the actual aspect ratios. The anchor boxes are the dataset-dependent reference bounding boxes which are pre-determined using k-means clustering. There is clearly large variation in the anchor size — the largest anchor size is (373, 326) pixels and the smallest one (10, 13) pixels. The similar anchor to the target object's bounding box has an advantage of being adjusted to the target more precisely than the others.
Now, how does each channel element work?
The feature maps have 32 , 16, and 8 times as coarse resolution as the input image at three YOLO layers respectively. Each feature grid has the information that represents the coordinates of the detected bounding boxes.
Fig. 4 depicts the relationship between the anchor box and the ground-truth box. The centers of anchor boxes are defined to be at the top-left corner of the grid square. The values x, y at the x, y channels are trained so that displacement of the ground-truth box from the corner is inferred as the relative position within the grid box : (σ(x), σ(y)), where σ is sigmoid function whose output values range from 0 to 1 — w, h channel values w, h are used for adjusting the box width and height. As shown in Fig. 4 (right), w is trained so that the ratio between the anchor width w_a and the ground truth box width w_GT is exp(w).
Fig. 4 Bounding box localization. The green box is an anchor box and the red box is a ground truth.
Values of obj channels represents 'objectness', which indicates the likelihood that an object belongs to the grid. If the obj value is 0.98 for instance, an object is more than likely there. Obj values are used to filter out the inferred objects with low likelihood.
The cls values are used for object classification. The number of class channels corresponds to the number of classes of the dataset — 80 in case of the COCO dataset. The channels are trained so that only the value of the class channel corresponding to the ground-truth class becomes 1 and the others 0. At inference time, you can just argmax the channel values to pick the channel index.
That's it for this time. Next time, I am going to explain the most important part — target assignment to YOLO channels.
Part 3. What are the actual loss functions?
Check out our PyTorch implementation of YOLOv3!!
Thank you, see you again in Part 2!


Imperial College Business School Careers supports over 2,000 post-graduate students. An opportunity has arisen to join Careers to support our students and alumni in their career success. You will work with students and alumni across 14 MSc programmes, as well as alumni of MBA programmes, providing career advice and support and delivering workshops on a range of career-related topics.
While you will support all students, regardless of their desired location, you will have a specific focus on those who are looking for positions in the Asia-Pacific region. A Mandarin speaker, you will ensure students who wish to work in APAC (primarily China, Hong Kong and South East Asia) after graduation are appropriately prepared to compete effectively in the labour market and secure positions at top-tier graduate and MBA employers.
It's an exciting time to join Imperial College Business School where our mission is to drive global business and social transformation through the fusion of business, technology and an entrepreneurial mindset. Our programmes are well-recognised: our MSc Finance is ranked 9th in the world by the Financial Times, while our MBA is ranked 6th in the UK by Bloomberg Business Week. We have a clear vision to continue to progress in the global rankings for both our MSc and MBA programmes. If you are committed to excellence, thrive in a culture of continuous improvement and are a strong team player we would welcome your application.
Please see the job description for a full outline of the role.
To apply, visit www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs and search by the job reference BUS00148.


This study is an exploratory analysis of the economic role of banks under different prudential frameworks. It considers an agent-based computational model populated by consumers, firms, banks, and a central bank whose out-of-equilibrium interactions replicate the conjunct dynamics of a banking system, a financial market and the real economy. A calibrated version of the model is shown to provide an intelligible account of several recurring economic phenomena, thus constituting a favorable ground for policy analysis. The investigation provides a valuable methodological contribution to the field of banking research and sheds new light on the role of banks and their prudential regulation. Specifically, the results suggest that banks are key economic agents. Through their financial intermediation activity, credit institutions facilitate investment and promote growth.


Abstract. We analyzed changes in the stable C isotope composition ( 13C) of bulk tissues and lignin fractions during a 2-yr decomposition study in east-central Minnesota (USA) of aboveground and belowground litter from four perennial grass species: Schizachyrium scoparium (C4), Agropyron repens (C3), Poa pratensis (C3), and Agrostis scabra (C3). Although lignin concentrations increased for all litter types during decomposition and lignin fractions were consistently depleted in 13C compared to bulk tissues (3.6% more negative on average), we found neither convergence of bulk tissue 13C values towards lignin 13C values, nor greater stability of 13C values for lignin fractions. Furthermore, 13C values of C3 and C4 species shifted in opposite directions during decomposition. Thus, our data do not support the hypothesis that 13C values decrease during decomposition because of the selective preservation of lignin and we instead suggest that isotopic shifts are caused by the incorporation of new C from soil organic matter into litter by micorbial decomposers. We estimate that this new C comprised 12-19% of the total litter C, depending on species, at the point of 70% mass loss. In monocultures of these four species plus another C4 grass (Andropogon gerardi) growing on initially homogeneous soils with a predominately C3 isotopic signature, soil 13C values increased 1.6-2.2% for the C4 species and remained relatively unchanged for the C3 species after 4 yr. Averaging across the C4 species and the experimental soil organic matter gradient, 14% of the total soil C in these plots must be new C4 C to account for this isotopic shift. We estimate that this amount of new soil C equals 30% of NPP summed over 4 yr in these plots.


Chris Chapleau, LAc, Dipl Ac, CES, is a practicing acupuncturist and is currently finishing the doctorate program in acupuncture at PCOM. He also possesses an MS in Human Performance and is certified in orthopedic/musculoskeletal acupuncture and Kampo herbal medicine. Chris combines Western knowledge & Eastern practice to help his clients be productive and energetic to meet the demands of daily life. Besides the traditional Eastern approach with acupuncture therapy, Chris integrates a Western biomedical approach to using acupuncture, trigger point therapy, manual, and movement therapy. His experience training himself and others for triathlons, Rucking, bike racing, MMA, and similarly demanding athletic endeavors uniquely prepares him to assist serious athletes in realizing top performance while preserving peak immune function, and general good health.
Specializing in acupuncture and exercise science, Chris integrates acupuncture into musculoskeletal rehabilitation therapy or fitness training for pain modulation, speedy recovery, and enhanced performance. Clients can choose to focus on one-on-one corrective exercise therapy, manual and massage therapy, or acupuncture. However, for best results, Chris recommends all three. Other modalities that he uses in therapy are acu-taping, herbal therapy, nutrition supplementation, cupping, guasha, and stretching techniques. The corrective exercise component is one-on-one body balancing management, focusing on strength and conditioning, post physical rehab – exercise therapy, integrative sport specific exercise, weight loss, core strengthening, dynamic lumbar stabilization, active recovery techniques, and myo-fascial release techniques. The acupuncture component focuses on sport injuries, myofascial pain, peripheral neuropathy, arthritis, facial rejuvenation, stress, smoking cessation, addiction detoxification program, weight management, sport recovery and performance.
Chris is the official acupuncturist and strength coach for Cannondale/fushionThink's Stage 1 Cycling Team, and he is a CTSA Board Member.


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subdown2 is a script that automatically downloads all images from a certain subreddit.
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from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name='subdown2',
    version='0.9.0',
    author='Kunal Mehta',
    author_email='legoktm@gmail.com',
    packages=find_packages(),
    url='https://github.com/legoktm/subdown2/',
    license='MIT License',
    description='A script that automatically downloads all images from a certain subreddit.',
    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
    install_requires=open('requirements.txt').read().split("\n"),
    package_data={
        '': ['*.txt', '*.md']
    },
    classifiers=[
      'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
      'Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X',
      'Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows',
      'Operating System :: POSIX',
      'Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop',
      'Environment :: Console',
      'Programming Language :: Python',
    ],
    entry_points = {
        'console_scripts': [
            'subdown2 = subdown2:main'
        ],
    }
)

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Eating House 1849
2829 Ala Kalanikaumaka Rd A-201, Koloa, HI 96756, USA
Photo courtesy of Eating House 1849
Sun - Sat 5pm - 9:30pm
Iconic chef Roy Yamaguchi helped popularize Hawaiian-fusion food a generation ago, but at Eating House 1849 he takes a delicious detour with dishes inspired by Portuguese, Spanish, and Filipino flavors. This "plantation cuisine" evokes the immigrant dishes served in the mid-1800s, when the state's first restaurant—a Honolulu establishment called Eating House—opened (according to legend). Yamaguchi brings some serious chops to the table: He trained at the Culinary Institute of America before serving as executive chef in Los Angeles's La Serene and winning a James Beard Award. The menu shifts seasonally, according to what farmers, foragers, ranchers, and fishermen produce. Expect delicacies like a beef-and-wild-boar burger and pork lumpia with green papaya. Cap it all off with cinnamon-dusted malasadas (Portuguese doughnuts) with Koloa Rum sauce!


A suspect detectives have been searching for was arrested last night after investigators received information that he was staying at a motel in North Seattle.
David Hansen, 25, was the suspect detectives were attempting to arrest earlier this week on 29th Avenue South when he fled from officers. He was wanted in connection with at least two robberies. Last night, at around 10:45 pm, information was received that Hansen was staying at a motel in the 9100 Block of Aurora Avenue North. His name and photo had been featured here on the Blotter, as well as local media. Members of the North Precinct Anti-Crime Team (ACT) responded to the motel and located Hansen in the parking lot. He was arrested before he had a chance to run. He was transported to the Robbery Unit office, where he was interviewed by detectives. He was later booked into the King County Jail for the felony robbery and a Department of Corrections warrant.
Detectives will continue to follow up on this case.


This year in June, I had the privilege to travel with Saul Alonzo, SDB pastor in the Washington, DC, area, to visit Christian brothers and sisters in Quito, Ecuador. The believers there have allied for the last several years to translate SDB Helping Hand materials from English into Spanish for their congregations in Ecuador. They publish the materials locally and export them to other Spanishspeaking SDB groups including some in the USA.
The congregation in Quito was excited to have us and treated us like honored guests — caring for us, sharing with us, and giving us an opportunity to share some about our ministries and what is happening with SDB groups around the world.
It seemed ridiculous to the boys that their aunt would use "favorite" to identify each of them. However, she did not have a more concise way to express the feelings that she had about how she valued each of them in ways that made them uniquely prized and special to her. When she related that story to me, it made me think of how we must be to God. He has made each of us special and unique. Each of us is so designed not just physically, but through our experiences, our minds, and hearts, that we are each in our own category of persons. God does not respect men due to arbitrary things like height or intelligence. No matter who we are, He made the ultimate sacrifice to give opportunity to redeem us from the penalty of our sins and adopt us into His family. Each of us is His favorite. You are His favorite you. I am His favorite me. When I consider that He loves us each so specially, I feel that I can just begin to understand what must be the heartache He experiences when we reject Him or go astray, injuring ourselves and damaging our relationship with Him.
When I look at myself from that perspective and the world around me, I am nudged in the direction of loving myself and others as God does. Please, pray with me that we can all respond to that love and treat each other as favorites of the Lord Most High, the Great I Am, the Ruler of the Universe…as favorites of God.


Maharaja College is a college situated in Jaipur, Rajasthan in India. Maharaja College is famous for its quality education and play notable role in student and social politics of Rajasthan University.
Maharaja college was established in 1944 and is one of six constituent colleges of University of Rajasthan . It is one of the oldest colleges of north India and rajasthan. It is designed by British architects and building provide a royal look.
Maharaja college provide various UG and PG Courses for Humanities, Science and various other stream. Admission is based on Merit and to get admission you should have good marks in qualification examination.


The Chili Water Frog (Telmatobius arequipensis) is a species of concern belonging in the species group "amphibians" and found in the following area(s): Peru. This species is also known by the following name(s): Telmatobius arequipensis ssp. natator.
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Rafael Adam i Baiges (Valls, Alt Camp, 1886 - Barcelona, 1952) fou un compositor català.

Gairebé tota la seva vida va transcórrer a Barcelona, i va estrenar moltes de les seves obres en diferents teatres del Paral·lel barceloní. La seva obra més famosa és el fado Blanquita (1918), que el va fer molt popular la cèlebre artista Blanquita Suárez. Es va casar amb la ballarina Ascension Garcia, anomenada "La Bilbaina", amb la qual va tenir dues filles: Josefa i Antònia.

Obres seleccionades
 La Hija de un Muezín (1920)
 La Mistinguett
 La Promesa yo quiero ser torero
 Cazalla, tango de la sarsuela La Reina del Barrio Chino 1927
 Una tarde de mayo (pasdoble)(1927)
 La Ramilletera (1912)
 La Regina, sardana amb lletra de Lusinyan i Bilitis

Referències

Compositors de sardanes d'abans de la Guerra Civil espanyola
Compositors de sardanes catalans del sud contemporanis
Músics vallencs
Compositors catalans del sud del segle XX

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In a recent case before the English Admiralty Court, we successfully defended a shipowner's claims for contributions in General Average.
On the night of 17/18 May 2011 the large container vessel "CMA CGM LIBRA" departed from the Chinese port of Xiamen bound for Hong Kong and Europe laden with 8,950 TEU of containerised cargo with a value in excess of US$500 million. She also had on board almost 8,000 tons of bunkers.
Shortly after dropping the pilot, the vessel's Master sailed out of the recognised dredged channel marked by lit buoys, resulting in the vessel grounding at a speed of around 12 knots on a shoal that the vessel's Owners (CMA CGM) allege was uncharted.
The grounding site was within an area identified as being a Former Mined Area, where although there is no longer any direct threat to surface craft due to mines remaining from the Second World War and/or Korean War, mariners are warned that the former presence of those mines has inhibited hydrographic surveying giving rise to a risk of there being uncharted shoals.
The vessel was subsequently refloated by professional salvors operating under a Lloyd's Open Form salvage contract and following an underwater inspection was found to have suffered little or no damage. She proceeded on her voyage to Hong Kong and then Europe.
CMA CGM funded the salvage operation in the first instance and declared General Average to recover the amount of the salvors' remuneration (together with other elements of General Average expenditure said to have been incurred) that would otherwise be paid by Cargo Interests.
The total amount of General Average expenditure was in excess of US$13 million, of which US$9.5 million was paid to the salvors.
Approximately 92% of Cargo Interests agreed to pay General Average in full, alternatively with a very small discount of 1.5%. The remaining (approximately) 8% chose not to pay, alleging there was actionable fault (Rule D of the York-Antwerp Rules) on the part of CMA CGM, which would give them a complete defence to the General Average claim. We acted for those Cargo Interests.
CMA CGM refused to accept that they were responsible for the casualty and commenced legal proceedings in the Admiralty Court to recover approximately US$800,000 from the non-paying Cargo Interests.
At the time of the casualty, "CMA CGM LIBRA" was a recent new building having entered into service less than a year earlier. Although she was equipped with an electronic charting system (ECDIS) she had not been provided with official electronic charts. Her primary means of navigation was intended to be paper charts published by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO).
Prior to departure from Xiamen, the vessel's Second Officer prepared (and the Master approved) a passage plan for the voyage to Hong Kong. The intention as per that passage plan was to follow the recognised dredged channel until reaching the open sea approximately 23 miles from the berth.
The Court held that the passage plan was inadequate. In addition to a number of arguably minor errors and inconsistencies that demonstrated a lack of attention to detail that were perhaps not causative, it did not refer to the existence of a crucial Preliminary Notice to Mariners (NM6274/P10) that had been issued by the UKHO approximately 5 months before the grounding, alerting mariners to the presence of numerous depths less than charted in the approaches to Xiamen and confirming that the charted depths within the dredged channel were sufficient for the vessel.
Moreover, contrary to CMA CGM's requirements (and those of the industry) the passage plan did not refer to any "no-go areas" which had not been marked or identified on the chart. During his evidence given at trial, the vessel's Master confirmed that had the chart been marked up with the appropriate "no-go areas" he would not have left the channel and attempted to execute the manoeuvre that ultimately led to the stranding of the vessel.
The vessel's passage plans for a number of previous voyages to and from Xiamen also contained similar failings.
The Court further held that the absence of an adequate passage plan was causative of the grounding, and that CMA CGM were in breach of their obligation to exercise due diligence to make the vessel seaworthy as required by Article III Rule 1 of the Hague (or Hague-Visby) Rules.
Accordingly, there was actionable fault on the part of CMA CGM and the Cargo Interests are not liable to contribute in General Average, resulting in a considerable saving for our clients. This is particularly important in an environment where cargo insurance rates are under pressure.
This is a significant judgment and highlights the need for shipowners to ensure that careful, accurate passage planning is carried out, particularly when an intended voyage includes navigating in confined and difficult waters. On this occasion, the shipowners were very lucky that there was no damage to the environment, little or no damage to the vessel, and no physical damage to cargo.
This case also emphasises the need for careful consideration to be given to any request for payment of contributions in General Average.
The Supreme Court has held that vehicle repairs on private property are not considered 'use' of the vehicle for the purposes of the Road Traffic Act.
It is common practice for traders, usually when they are the sellers of the goods and the charterers of a vessel, to instruct the carrier to discharge cargoes without production of the original bills of lading and to agree to indemnify the carrier against the consequences of doing so.
Congenbill �Paramount Clause' � Hague or Hague / Visby Rules?
In Yemgas FZCO & Ors v Superior Pescadores SA  EWCA Civ 101, the Court of Appeal considered whether the standard 'Paramount Clause' wording in the Congenbill incorporates the Hague Rules 1924 (the "HR") or the Hague/Visby Rules (the "HVR").


A description of the scene at the World Trade Center elicited tears from students at St. Teresa's on Friday.
Red Cross public information officer Donna Brand Moormann was at the Carson City Catholic school to accept $80.52 raised by students for the Sept. 11 relief effort.
Brand Moormann said she told the children about how the people in New York City came together after the attack.
Brand Moorman told the story of a little boy who didn't have any money to give for the relief effort.
Brand Moorman visited the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The agency is prepared for all types of emergencies from a terrorist attack to natural disaster.
Red Cross disaster assistance is offered free and made possible by voluntary donations of time and money. To donate time or money, contact the Red Cross at 1190 Corporate Boulevard., Reno, NV 89502. For information, call 856-1000.
With more than 84,000 square miles of Nevada to serve, Brand Moormann, a volunteer since 1994, said the Red Cross is always looking for more volunteers.


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Talk about sinking your teeth into a home renovation. When dentists and new parents Mariam Reyhani and Fabrizio Bianchi purchased their two-storey, 2,400-square-foot home in Thornhill, Ont., they knew its tired 1970s interior just wouldn't do. Together with Toronto's Capoferro Design Build Group and RGA Woodworking, they gutted then glammed the interior. The result is a stunning woodsy yet chic cottage-in-the-city home.
Most uninspiring was the dated kitchen, a rectangle that ran north-south along the side of the house, separated from the dining room. Leaving the kitchen as is would have meant that during a dinner party – the couple loves to entertain – someone would inevitably be sequestered in the kitchen prepping the meal, isolated from the rest of the group (and nobody puts a Bianchi in the corner).
A two-toned decorated ceiling composed of wood and drywall ties the beautiful kitchen together and is a transfixing touch. Though the kitchen design has sharp, contemporary lines, the mix of materials keeps it looking warm, not clinical.
Several boxed-in rooms were ditched in favour of this open-concept kitchen, dining and living room. The pendant light over the dining table draws the eye up to the intricate millwork on the ceiling.
"The house is full of white and wood," says homeowner Fabrizio Bianchi, when asked why he and his wife, Mariam Reyhani, chose bright green for the bar area. "It's chalkboard paint, so we have the option to write notes on it or display a menu while entertaining. But it looks so sharp, we've been reluctant to write on it," he says.
A 1970s wrought-iron staircase and dated wallpaper was the first thing guests saw when entering the home.
This magnificent focal point in the home's entryway, replaced an unsightly 1970s wrought-iron staircase. During a two-week construction process, more than 500 pieces of walnut were fitted together to create the curvature.
With its floor to ceiling wood paneling and stone fireplace, this living room was in desperate need of an update.
A fireplace, shag rug, cozy sectional and view to the outdoors impart a cottage-in-the-city feel. Since the room gets northern exposure, it's cool enough that the homeowners don't need to install window coverings – who would want to block that view, anyway?


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New York Freedom of Information Act
What is the New York Freedom of Information Act?
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) allows members of the public to request and have access to information/records held by government agencies. Under the FOIA, government agencies can only withhold information whose disclosure is exempted from public disclosure, prohibited by law, or would harm the public interest. The FOIA is essential to ensure transparency in governance and make government at all levels accountable to the general public.
The New York FOIA, known as the New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), was enacted in 1974. It was passed to ensure public access to records in the custody of New York's government agencies. The FOIL requires all state and local government agencies to make government records, to which the public can have unhindered access, available for inspection and copying. Under the FOIL, a requester is not required to provide a reason for requesting a record or indicate the intended use of such a record. However, they must include the purpose of a request if it requires a list of names and residential addresses. In this case, the agency may request a certification that the requested record (list) will not be used for fund solicitation.
Agencies subject to the New York FOIL include every state or municipal board, division, department, committee, commission, bureau, and council. Others include public corporations, public authorities, and governmental entities performing governmental functions. While the state legislature is subject to the FOIL, it is treated differently from other government bodies. Generally, courts are not subject to the FOIL. However, they must disclose records under other provisions of law. The New York Committee on Open Government oversees the implementation of the FOIL.
The FOIL has witnessed several amendments since enacted in 1974. It was repealed and reenacted in 1977 with notable changes. While the 1977 revision of the FOIL remains predominant, other modifications have also occurred, but no significant changes. In 1982, the New York Legislature included a provision awarding attorneys' fees to record requesters in certain circumstances. Another modification occurred in 1989 when the legislature added a clause to the FOIL, making it a violation for anyone to suppress or destroy any record deliberately in a bid to prevent public inspection. The 2005 modifications advised government agencies of the precise time frames to respond to public record requests. Other amendments took place in 2006 and 2008, making provisions for public bodies to accept email requests and advancement in information technology to provide access to information electronically. The most recent amendment of the New York FOIL occurred in 2017 vis-a-vis attorney's fees. It withdraws judicial discretion and authorizes the award of attorney's fees against any public body that denies a FOIL request without reasonable basis.
What is Covered Under the New York Freedom of Information Act?
Under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), public agencies can only provide the public with documents or records they already have in their custody. They are not required to create new public records or compile any information into records that they did not initially maintain. According to the FOIL, a record is any information generated, held, reproduced, or filed by, for, or with a public body or the New York Legislature. Records kept by New York government agencies and covered by the FOIL may be in any physical form such as papers, reports, memoranda, books, files, and manuals. Others include drawings, photos, codes, microfilms, folders, computer discs or tapes, pamphlets, letters, statements, and maps.
Electronic records covered by the FOIL include telephone call logs, metadata, databases, email, and text messages. In New York, public agencies provide a detailed list of records, by subject matter, maintained by them, whether or not subject to disclosure under the FOIL on their websites. The New York State government also provides an open data resource on several subject matters.
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According to Section 87(2) of the New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), the following records/information are not subject to the state's FOIA:
Trade secrets, records submitted to a public body by a business enterprise or financial information, which, if disclosed, would adversely affect the enterprise's competitive position
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WALKING TODAY - SO OUR KIDS CAN RUN, JUMP, AND SOAR TOMORROW!
On Friday May 23, 2014 Friends of Walgrove will be sponsoring a Walk-A-Thon to raise funds to support the family funded (not LAUSD) Physical Education Program for Walgove Elementary.
This is a fundamental and critical program, directed by our beloved Coach Rachel. For less than $20,000 a year, the 350 students at Walgrove are able to enjoy a proper Physical Education which includes team sports, yoga and hands on training in living an active life.
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Let's Face the Music! is a 1964 studio album by Nat King Cole, arranged by Billy May. It was recorded in November 1961, and released three years later.

The initial Billboard review from February 29, 1964 commented that "The fine blend of Cole singing is beautifully melded with the smart, witty and swinging backing supplied by Billy May...The tempos are mostly in that grand, finger-poppin middle tempo that is just May's cup of tea'".

Track listing
 "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) – 2:25
 "Bidin' My Time" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:27
 "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" (Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh, Irving Mills) – 2:10
 "Warm and Willing" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, McHugh) – 3:01 **
 "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) – 2:37
 "Cold, Cold Heart" (Hank Williams) – 3:45 **
 "Something Makes Me Want to Dance with You" (Colin Romoff, Danny Meehan) – 2:09
 "Moon Love" (Mack David, André Kostelanetz) – 2:11 **
 "The Rules of the Road" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:45
 "Ebony Rhapsody" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 3:04
 "Too Little, Too Late" (Arthur Kent, Jerry Grant) – 2:59
 "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) – 2:25

Personnel
 Nat King Cole – vocal, hammond organ
 Billy May – arranger, conductor
 Jimmy Rowles - piano
 **Heinie Beau – arranger

Orchestra Members
 Harps: Verlye Mills (1, 3, 5-7, 10-12), Kathryn Julye (2, 4, 8-9)
 Trumpets: Frank Beach (1, 3, 10-11), Vito Mangano (2, 4, 8-9), Uan Rasey (5-7, 12), John Best, Conrad Gozzo, Reunald Jones
 Trombones: Murray McEachern (1, 3, 10-11), Tommy Shepard (1-4, 8-11), Milt Bernhart (5-7, 12), Tommy Pederson (2, 4, 8-9), Ed Kusby (2, 4-9, 12), Lloyd Ullate (1, 3, 5-7, 10-12), Bill Schaefer
 Tuba: Red Callender
 Alto Saxophones: Gene Cipriano (1, 3, 10-11), Harry Klee (2, 4-9, 12), Willie Schwartz (1, 3, 5-7, 10-12)
 Tenor Saxophones: Buddy Collette (2, 4-9, 12), Ted Nash (1-4, 8-11), Plas Johnson
 Baritone Saxophone: Chuck Gentry
 Violins: Israel Baker (5-7, 12), Victor Arno (2, 4, 8-9), Emil Briano (5-7, 12), Dave Frisina (2, 4, 8-9), Jack Gasselin (2, 4, 8-9), Irv Klase (5-7, 12), Joe Livoti (2, 4, 8-9), Rickey Marino (2, 4-9, 12), Emanuel Moss (2, 4-9, 12), Isadore Roman (2, 4-9, 12), Ambrose Russo (5-7, 12), Marshall Sosson (2, 4, 8-9), Jerry Vinci (2, 4, 8-9), Harry Zagon (5-7, 12)
 Violas (on 2, 4, 8-9): Virginia Majewski, Alvin Dinkin, Al Harshman, Gary Nuttycombe
 Cellos (on 2, 4, 8-9): William Van Den Burg, Joseph DiTullio, Hyman Gold, David Pratt

References

1964 albums
Nat King Cole albums
Albums arranged by Billy May
Capitol Records albums
Albums conducted by Billy May


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Posts Tagged 'Huckleberry Finn'
High Summer photo by Todd
Woke in the middle of the night. I've been sleeping well lately, so I wondered why I was awake. Wide awake. And then I remembered I broke my rule about not reading any news in the evening, and I also watched a video blurb about Trump—my first Trump visitation in several weeks. I might as well have had two cups of coffee and chocolate truffles before going to bed.
I haven't liked a President of the United States since Jimmy Carter. I am aware that Jimmy presided over lots of horrible things done by our government, but I was thrilled by his willingness to talk about the planetary environmental crisis way back in the 1970s, about how we needed to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. And then he pushed through government programs that helped accelerate the solar power revolution. He walked his talk a little.
Our presidents since Jimmy have been consistently dishonest servants of the supranational monsters who began their complete takeover of our government with the election of Ronald Reagan. All our presidents after Jimmy facilitated the transfer of wealth from those with not much to those who already have everything. They all expanded the military and continued the policy of endless war. They all knowingly presided over the killing of thousands of civilians in essentially defenseless countries. They all did nothing to address global warming, over-population, and the environmental crises threatening life on earth. They all allowed our healthcare system to deteriorate and be taken over by the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. They all played golf.
Thus when I watch coverage of Trump, I do not think, as many of my peers do, that Obama or any of our previous presidents were better than Trump. They may have been less obviously narcissistic and dishonest, but they were all hyper-dishonest narcissistic sociopaths chosen for their loyalty to the ruling elite. And whether Trump wasn't supposed to beat Hillary or not, he hasn't done much to distinguish himself from his predecessors except by making more noise and saying more ridiculous things.
I notice the stock market keeps going up and up and up under Trump. This tells us that the big banks and hedge fund gangsters who stole more than two trillion dollars of our money with the blessings of Obama, are happy with Trump. Obama did nothing to rein in the Ponzi schemers, but rather helped them make the world's economic and financial situation nightmarishly worse. Trump is merely following suit.
I also notice the media and way too many members of the shameful Democratic Party are still trying to prove Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election that put him in the White House. I wonder if these dunces will keep trying to prove the Russians determined the outcome of the election until the next presidential election. Probably. As we learned from Bill Clinton and his sexual dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, the folks in power love to distract the masses with childish nonsense while they carry on their nefarious business of robbing us blind and destroying the world while they're at it.
No wonder I woke up in the middle of the night.
In better news, a friend wrote saying it was high summer. What a fine expression. The Friday farmers market in Mendocino is in high summer mode. We have several vendors selling excellent organic high summer vegetables and fruit—the high summer days lovely and promising. The blackberry bushes of high summer hereabouts are heavily laden with berries and I have been picking berries every day for our smoothies and snacks and cookie batter.
The Mendocino Music festival has come and gone, the big tent no longer starring on the headlands, and the town is somewhat quieter in the aftermath of the annual musical happening. The two highest points of the festival for me were Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherazade and Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 2 in A minor. Zowee!
We know several people who are traveling to Oregon for the solar eclipse. I will not be going to view the blotting of the sun's light by the intervening moon, but plan to sit somewhere outside while the eclipse is happening. I want to participate without travelling far to do so. Maybe I'll walk to the beach for the eclipse where I hope to feel the moon coming between the earth and the sun, since I won't be able to see it.
Solar eclipses always remind me of a scene near the beginning of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court when the novel's hero uses his foreknowledge of an impending solar eclipse to save his life and become a powerful player in King Arthur's court for the rest of the novel—not my favorite book by Mark Twain, but a fun high summer read.
My favorite novel by Mark Twain is The Prince and the Pauper—a great book to read aloud with friends. I also love big swaths of his Joan of Arc, especially his recounting of her trial at the hands of the dastardly Catholic priests, and I love the first three-fourths of Huckleberry Finn—the ending feels false to me. And I'm a big fan of Twain's short stories and Roughing It.
In a dream I had about a month ago I was shown the title of a novel. When I woke from the dream, I wrote the title down, waited a moment, and the novel began to pour out onto the page. I have now written five chapters of this dream novel and I think the story will continue to emerge, but I don't know for certain.
And that's the high summer news. Sleep well.
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"There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind—the humorous." Mark Twain
I wonder how Mark Twain would feel if he knew his novel Huckleberry Finn has been rewritten in such a way that the meaning of his book is entirely changed, and that such an execrable mutation of his work is about to be afflicted on the next generation of American schoolchildren. I ask because such a crime has just taken place. Yes, it's true, and I quote from The New York Times:
"Throughout the book [Huckleberry Finn]—219 times in all—the word nigger is replaced by slave, a substitution that was made by NewSouth Books, a publisher based in Alabama, which plans to release the edition in February.
"Alan Gribben, a professor of English and a Twain scholar at Auburn University, approached the publisher with the idea in July. Mr. Gribben said Tuesday that he had been teaching Mark Twain for decades and always hesitated before reading aloud the common racial epithet, which is used liberally in the book, a reflection of social attitudes in the mid-19th century.
"'I found myself right out of graduate school at Berkeley not wanting to pronounce that word when I was teaching either Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer,' he said. 'And I don't think I'm alone.'
"Mr. Gribben, who combined Huckleberry Finn with Tom Sawyer in a single volume and also supplied an introduction, said he worried that Huckleberry Finn had fallen off reading lists, and wanted to offer an edition that is not for scholars, but for younger people and general readers.
"'I'm by no means sanitizing Mark Twain,' Mr. Gribben said. 'The sharp social critiques are in there. The humor is intact. I just had the idea to get us away from obsessing about this one word, and just let the stories stand alone.' (The book also substitutes Indian for injun.)"
Should we be outraged? I suppose the publication and widespread dissemination of degenerate versions of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer pale next to the unending crimes against humanity perpetrated by military forces around the globe, but still, removing nigger from Huckleberry Finn and replacing it with slave is not only immoral, it is grossly stupid. For one thing, the word slave already appears many times in the original text. Clearly, Twain did not want Jim to be known as Slave Jim. Might not this so-called scholar have changed nigger to negro or some African-sounding word like jomo or kumbaya? Or better yet, why not change nigger to scholar? Scholar Jim. Yes. I like the sound of that.
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." Ernest Hemingway
Ernest who? Wrote some book called For Whom the Bell Tolls. Now there's a title in need of updating. Nobody uses the word whom anymore. Or the archaic verb toll. The new title should be Who Is That Bell Ringing For? Don't you think?
But, Todd, the word nigger taken out of the context of a novel set prior to the Civil War is offensive and racist. Never mind that Huckleberry Finn is about racism and the dawning awareness in the mind of an extremely appealing everyman (Huck) that slavery and racism are deeply wrong and need to be abandoned by anyone purporting to be a decent human being. Never mind that the word nigger is to Huckleberry Finn what garlic is to good Jewish, er, Hebrew chicken soup.
"Only one thing is impossible to God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
Indeed. Why is it even legal for this so-called scholar to rewrite Huckleberry Finn? Oh, because the book is in the public domain, meaning Twain and his heirs are long dead, so anyone who wants to fuck with, I mean, amend the original text may do so without fear of legal action against them. Fine. In that case, I want to change the ending of Huckleberry Finn, which has always struck me as weak and something of a copout. I think the novel should end with Huck coming out of the closet and admitting that he and Tom [Sawyer] have a serious thing for each other. You know what I mean by thing, don't you? And Becky will be exposed as a cover for Tom and Huck's, you know, hanky panky. And Jim (Jomo) should be like this totally wise prophet kind of guy who helps Huck and Tom emigrate to France where they adopt three children, a Hebrew, an Italian, and an Irishman. Yascha, Luigi, and Sean. Scholars all.
"What are the three great American things? Jazz, the Bill of Rights, and Mark Twain." Roy Blount Jr.
What about Moby Dick? Goodness, dick will never do. Dick means, you know, the male thingy. Perhaps the Auburn scholar would like to go through Melville's massive tome and change all the dicks to, I don't know, Jason? Moby Jason. No, I'm thinking scholar might be the best choice here, too. Moby Scholar. Yes. Perfect.
"There are three kinds of people—commonplace men, remarkable men, and lunatics." Mark Twain
There goes Mark (Samuel) again, using an inappropriate word. He used the word men synonymously with people. What a sexist! What a male chauvinist pig. I'm sending a letter to that Auburn scholar demanding he rewrite all of Twain's nineteenth century writings to bring them into accord with twenty-first-century political correctness. Just think how women today must feel when they read quotations like that. How could Twain have been so blind and ignorant and arrogant not to know that our language would continue to evolve after his death. Some genius he turned out to be.
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." Mark Twain
The best thing for me about this Auburn University scholar, or the damn idiot, as I'm sure Twain would have called him, blithely ruining Huckleberry Finn and making boatloads of money in the process, is that his deplorable actions have now freed me entirely from my last shreds of regret about dropping out of college in 1969 after two inglorious years of academic nonsense. There have been times in my life when money and gainful employment were hard come by, and in those dire straits it crossed my mind that it might have behooved me to earn a degree or two, but now I am confirmed in my long ago decision to remove myself from the psychic influence of that Auburn scholar and those of his kind, for they are surely bad for the mind and the heart, and most definitely toxic to the soul.
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." Mark Twain
Seriously folks, I do mourn for our culture as I mourn for our society, the lunatics having taken control of just about everything now. But comes the revolution, we will find all the copies of Huckleberry Sawyer wherein nigger has been replaced by slave, and we will burn those copies, but not wastefully. We will ignite those useless pages in woodstoves to heat our homes, the flames providing extra heat for the double good they are doing.
Tags: Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Herman Melville, Huckleberry Finn, idiots, injun, Mark Twain, nigger, Roy Blount Jr., Tom Sawyer


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/r/SeattleWAPSA: Please don't park you lime bike (or other) on private property, especially in the parking spaces. They aren't easy to move and are a pain for the employees working there.
/r/SeattleWAFound this little guy running the 520 trail. I took him for a ride to meet his family at Marymoor.
/r/SeattleWAWent on a nostaglic run through SpongeBob episodes for 4/20 when I saw this gem, familiar much?
/r/SeattleWAFixing this for 1400$, is it worth it ? Am I getting robbed?
/r/SeattleWACheery Blossoms in UDub Seatle.
/r/SeattleWAThere, fixed it for ya with my phone.
/r/SeattleWASideris. Anyone know anything about this "church"? They meet in Hamilton middle school in Wallingford every Sunday morning.
/r/SeattleWAI found this search result amusing.
/r/SeattleWA[Seattle Parking is for Readers] Is it valid to park here at 7:45pm on a non-holiday Friday? CT bus driver said no, but I'm confused.