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Text Mining: The Stand
The Stand (1978)
So…it may behoove you to know that The Stand, King's gigantic, bloated, sprawling epic, was picked by American adults in 2008 as their fifth-favourite book of all time. The Bible was #1 – this is America that was being polled, after all – but The Stand kept company with other books you may be familiar with: Gone With The Wind, The Lord Of The Rings, and the Harry Potter series. Generational touchstones, in other words. As a further fact, Generation X picked it as their #1 favourite (again, behind the Bible). That's some big company, so an examination of this one should yield some interesting results.
This gigantic brick of a novel is 470,000 plus words, which makes it not only physically impressive it's also more data being fed into these mining and analysis processes than all of the books combined before it. Whatever quirks are inherent in it would likely skew results, except of course that this isn't the only gigantic epic in King's bibliography. Still, it's going to be a hell of a lot more information being graphed than before so there may be anomalies present that are specific to this book.
King likes to refer to this one as his "big American fantasy epic" and has likened it to America's third-favourite (and Britain's all-time favourite) The Lord Of The Rings on many occasions. It's an apt enough description; the two share a similar, Manichean ethos that pits a few hardy individuals against the amassed forces of darkness. They both feature long journeys through strange landscapes and they both end rather ambiguously. Tolkien's features a cathartic, drawn out set-piece battle as it's climax (twice, if you count the climactic Battle of Helms Deep); King's features no such triumphant victory. God – and this is a recurrent theme in King's work – is an asshole. He's a selfish, obsessive prick who demands things in a certain way and doesn't care about your feelings or your personal safety. If he demands sacrifice, he gets sacrifice, weighing three lives against the souls of the human species. This leads to a feeling like there's no massive climax in the book; sure, Las Vegas is wiped out from a nuclear explosion and three of the characters you've been following for 1000+ pages go with it and so ends the dark man's wrestling for the Soul of America, but the buildup feels almost like a misdirection of sorts. God wins, but at what cost? Maybe that's why Gen X likes it so much; after all, the Cold War was won during their coming of age, but what was the cost of that?
At any rate, I've never read the original. I've only ever read the full, uncut edition and that's the one we're using here. I don't actually know what was missing in the original version, and for the sake of this analysis it doesn't really matter except as a comparison in terms of sentiment scores between the original and the uncut, but I also don't know if the original was ever made into an ebook, so I'm skipping that bit for now. I should also take a moment to mention that I've read this book no less than 16 times; I've literally read the covers off of my paperback edition.
This is what The Stand looks like as an emotional soundwave:
A few things to unpack from this one.
First, you'll notice that in terms of sentiment activity it looks actually quite quiet up until just over the halfway mark, when it explodes into emotional weight. It looks like what "Dance Yrself Clean" looks like as a soundwave:
Also note the sentiment score range on the y axis of that soundwave graph above. On Salem's Lot's sentiment analysis we were seeing ranges between 100 and -100; The Stand has a range five times that on either end. It's also interesting to note that for over half the book the sentiment scores range around the same level as previous books, but at around chapter 43 they burst into dramatic sentiment levels and keep that volume up until that lull comes in in the mid-sixties. Then right at the end there's a big burst of volume, not quite as big as the middle, but still loud compared to much of the book, kind of like the coda-chorus on "Creep."
Which brings up a pertinent point. How should I choose the cutoff for what constitutes a "spike" or a "guidepost" when it comes to the sentiment line graph? A quick look at the distribution of sentiment in The Stand shows us this:
Where we can see that at least 70% of the sentiment scores registered occur between 50 and -50 (with, of course, most of that falling on the negative end of the range). As such, 50 and -50 seem like the best place to start. However, when we plug it in like that there are only two positive peaks in the entire 470,000 word novel, and the negative peaks look like this:
Again, the sheer drama of emotional sentiment that happens between 44 and 52 is something to behold. 48 spikes down to nearly -300. So what's the deal here? Let's take a look.
The beginning of the book is a lot of setup: introduction to the main characters, all of whom are caught up in the minutae of their daily lives, whether that being living in a dying East Texas town (Stu Redman), running from dealers and your own freak-out about sudden fame (Larry Underwood), or being an unexpectedly pregnant college student (your gal Frannie Goldsmith). While there are ominous portents it's mostly putting all of the pieces into place. While many of the chapters in this region flirt with our -50 guideline, nothing exceeds it until we hit 16, which is the chapter that introduces us to career petty criminal Lloyd Henreid as he pals around with his friend Poke Freeman, robs and murders a Vegas grifter, and then proceeds to murder their way across three states without even really thinking about it. It's telling that this chapter, which introduces the ultimate antagonist's right hand man, is our first peak.
18 is where the background events of the first half of the story really start to get going. Up to this point we've seen the path the plague has taken in infecting America, and we've seen the government's attempts at covering it up through the quarantine of Arnett, Texas (and Stu Redman), but in 18 people start dying in front of us. In this chapter Nick Andros, now unlikely deputy in Shoyo, Arkansas, tells his life story, meets the rest of the short-lived Shoyo cast, and then lives through the initial outbreak as the Sherriff, many citizens, and finally one of his prisoners dies of Captain Trips/Tubeneck/Choking Death/Superflu.
What follows is a great visualization of the path King outlines for this Great Millennial Plague. 19-24 are like a dangle of hope before it all plunges into hell. We stumble down the negative sentiment cliff into 25, where we return to Nick as he watches both Sheriff Baker's wife and his second prisoner, Billy Warner, die. He bikes out to the quarantine line to find that the soldiers have also died of the Superflu. After letting the third prisoner, the ill Mike Childress, go free into the rapidly depopulating world, he watches the television and finds that the news refuses to admit that anything is happening (although they all look nervous, sweaty, and sick). Then in 26 the entire country goes to hell over a series of really rather powerful vignettes that chart the course of plague-driven anarchy as it sweeps over the dead and the dying. All of the paranoia of the hangover of the 1960s is evident here: the U.S. Army firing on it's own citizens to cover up the truth, the rise of radical elements like the SDS to forment revolution, civil war among the disintegrating remnants of the armed forces, riots in the streets, looting, mob violence, racial violence, straight-up murder. While the details are a definite product of their late-1970s origin (the black vs. white soldier fight near the end toes a racist line), the general conceit is timeless and hearkens back to King's quotation of Yeats earlier in the book:
The ceremony of innocence is drowned
28 brings us crashing back into the story; we smash cut from the howling anarchy of 26 into Frannie Goldsmith's blank stare as she tries to contemplate the fact that her father is, in fact, dead. We learn about Ogunquit's chaotic last days and are introduced to sneering proto-neckbeard Harold Lauder. Finally we are introduced to the dream about the Dark Man that will consume so much of the middle of the book.
18-28 tell us the story of how the plague destroyed America – viscerally, and from the viewpoint of many characters. Two more peaks finish off the book's examination of the end of the rational world: 32 and 35. 32 shows us Lloyd Henreid abandoned in a prison cell in Arizona, looking down the barrel of entrapment and starvation. It's a pretty grim chapter and the sentiment score outlines how much more grim it is than the surrounding "what's happening in the final stages of the plague" chapters. 35, meanwhile is (taking out the monstrosity of 48) the negative sentiment peak of the entire book. There's good reason for this; 35 is the chapter where Larry and Rita leave New York City. They set out, walk 30 increasingly more bizarre blocks, get in a fight, and split up. Larry, in the face of an oncoming thunderstorm, is forced to take the dark tunnel under the river by himself. It's one of the creepiest scenes King has crafted to date. Underneath the tunnel it's pitch black, and Larry has to creep along step by step to avoid tripping over anything that might be…stretching out in the darkness.
He fumbled madly for his lighter. The thought that it would make him a target never occurred to him. As he pulled it from his pocket the striker wheel caught on the lining momentarily and the lighter tumbled from his hand. He heard a clink as it struck the railing, and then there was a soft bonk as it struck the hood or trunk of a car below.
The sliding footstep came again, a little closer now, impossible to tell how close. Someone coming to kill him and his terror-locked mind gave him a picture of the soldier with the switchblade in his neck, moving slowly toward him in the dark—
The soft, gritting step again.
It's a burst of impassioned terror and it being a sentiment peak for the novel is absolutely fitting.
It also syncs well with a few of the themes of the book. The Lord Of The Rings comparison is explicitly referenced;
"The beginning of a journey," she said, and then so softly he wasn't sure he'd heard her correctly: "The way leads ever on …"
"It's a line from Tolkien," she said. "The Lord of the Rings. I've always thought of it as sort of a gateway to adventure."
"The less adventure the better," Larry said, but almost unwillingly he knew what she meant.
The concept of tunnels as a liminal zone is first brought up here but also mirrored in chapter 48 (the gigantic spike of doom on the above graph). Characters have to cross through tunnels and emerge on the other side; there is struggle and change involved with both, and the idea of emerging through a hellish experience different but alive on the other end is also referenced in chapter 44, another sentiment peak.
38 and 39 are smaller peaks but still significant. 38 is the "no great loss" series of vignettes, where we see the deaths of those who survived the superflu but succumbed to accident afterward. There's no upside to anything in the chapter so it's sentiment position goes without question. 39 features Lloyd meeting the Dark Man himself, a pivotal moment for Lloyd and, as a consequence, everyone else.
43 marks the beginning of the section where the wild swings start occurring, and it's also the beginning of everyone's bizarrely spiritual division into the camps of Good and Evil. 43 has Nick meeting Tom Cullen in Oklahoma, where Tom saves Nick from a tornado that Nick swears has the spirit of the Dark Man in it. They also meet and ditch obnoxious, vapid, vicious Julie Lawry and meet up with the last main character to be introduced, that ol' Okie sodbuster Ralph Brentner.
44 is Larry's Journey Through The Dark Side, where he nearly kills himself on a motorcycle, gets stalked through New England, and faces up to the concept that everyone has been right about him thus far, that he Ain't No Nice Guy. He meets Nadine and Joe/Leo, and they head on up to the coast which happens to be Ogunquit, where Frannie and Harold have recently left. It's a parallel storyline to the one where Stu meets Glen, and then meets Harold and Frannie, but interestingly the Stu/Glen/etc. storyline is of much more neutral sentiment than the story of Larry shadowing them. It's also interesting that two of Larry's story arcs are sentiment peaks in the story whereas Stu Redman, King's self-described Frodo Baggins, falls below the radar every time. This, despite Stu's being at the epicenter of the superflu epidemic, and his being subjected to government quarantine, endless testing, and barely escaping the Stovington, VT plague center with his life. There is perhaps a case to be made that Stu is a calm, collected individual; even in stressful situations, he remains unruffled. This, therefore, come across in the writing with much calmer emotional sentiment.
The giant whip between 45 and 48 bears examination as well because it pairs exceedingly well with the adversarial structure of the novel. 45, the huge positive peak of the book (and of any other King book so far) is the introduction and history of Mother Abigail, the representative of God on Earth. 48, on the other hand, is the story of how Trashcan Man ended his time with the peculiar little JD hood named The Kid and how he came to Las Vegas, which seemed like a utopia until Flagg proved it wasn't. It's our first major look at Vegas, at Flagg, and especially at the descent of Trashy from pathetic figure of tragedy to architect of his own destruction. The wild swing between the two sets out the Adversaries: Mother Abigail at the positive peak and Flagg at the negative. The rest of the book revolves around this duality.
Between the two, incidentally, is 47, a negative peak that actually features Stu and company, but of course it's where everything almost goes to hell after the party encounters a lawless set of road bandits intent on collecting a harem of women to rape. It's a reminder that, even though much of the imagery that comes before it is surreal and dream-like, the post-apocalyptic world is also violent and potentially lethal. The negative sentiment here is also offset slightly by Stu and Fran getting together romantically.
51 marks another positive peak and this is where everyone in Boulder is getting together, planning on how to make it into a new American home, getting the lights going, and bullshitting each other about how they're going to deal with Flagg, the Dark Man. It's a very interesting sentiment peak because as King tells it, it was very nearly the end of the book entirely. He wasn't sure where to go from there, and you can tell from the sentiment path. Most of the chapters coming after 51 are positive-sentiment chapters, a rarity from what we've seen of King's work so far. People are coming together, making new lives for themselves, meeting each other and forming an Ad Hoc Committee to do the real business of running the government of Boulder. However, as King realized (and as he has Mother Abigail explain much later) the whole point of the book and of facing down the Adversary wasn't to form cutesy little governments and to get the lights running. It was to face down Flagg. Thus, the chapters between 51 and 58 are mostly feel-good, the world-is-coming-together chapters that feel like a bit of a slog because they spiral off into an almost aimless storyline. Thus, in 58, when it crashes back down into a negative spike, it's when Harold and Nadine blow up the Committee meeting and kill Nick Andros.
After that, there's two big peaks: 65-66 and 72-74. 65 is where Flagg consumates his relationship with Nadine under "glittering desert stars"; 66 is where Lloyd confronts the idea that Flagg's artillery captain Trashy has gone rogue and that maybe the big guy isn't all-powerful after all. 72-74, meanwhile, is where the final quartet – Stu, Glen, Ralph, and Larry – head west. In 72 Stu is stranded by an accident and left behind. In 73, as the peak shows, the climax happens – the remaining three face down Flagg in the heart of Las Vegas and when Trashy returns with an atomic bomb he blows up everyone and everything in the city (except for Flagg, who escapes at the last minute). 74 shows us Stu, sick and dying, watching the mushroom cloud grow and dissipate over Vegas. He's discovered by Tom Cullen, and Tom has to care for him as they try to make it back to Boulder. They make it to a Colorado hotel in the teeth of a blizzard and it ends on Stu waiting to live or die.
That's the end, basically. Stu living, and by extent Fran's baby living, are foregone conclusions and there's little terrifying or tense about them. It's just details, as the sentiment scores show. The question of Stu's survival after being left behind is the final climax of the book.
As an afterword (haha) here are the top contributions to sentiment by word:
"Dark" is pretty self-explanatory – the antagonist is the "dark man", after all. Dead also makes sense, given that 99.9% of the human population dies in the course of the book. "Cold" is interesting, since that's the general experience most people seem to have when in Flagg's company.
So this one had some interesting things to show once visualized. The fact that it explodes into a mid-section that's at least double normal intensity is interesting, as is the matchup of huge emotional swings with chapters that base themselves in the two adversaries, Flagg and Mother Abigail. There's a good question here whether the large sentiment scores are the result of the much larger chapter sizes; we'll have to see whether similarly large scores are noted in shorter books. It's also worth noting that, if we remove the massive peak in 48 (due to the fact that it is much larger than a lot of the other chapters) then the sentiment peak of the book is really 35, the Escape From New York chapter. This is, again, one of the more terrifying chapters in King's bibliography and it's fascinating to see that play out in the sentiment scores.
Date August 1, 2018
Tags fiction, horror, literature, plague, sentiment analysis, stephen king, text as data, text mining, the stand
Text Mining: Rage
Text Mining: The Long Walk


Last week Steve and I both had a Friday off work, this is rare - so we celebrated with a trip to Milton Keynes, more directly IKEA! Oh the life of us married folk, so glamorous. We were headed there in particular as I had saved enough money to buy all the components of my new desk (sadly this is super exciting to me). There is so much Ikea goodness floating around the interwebs at the moment and I couldn't resist some of the more popular and iconic IKEA pieces for our home.
Can you see a theme ?? I chose the ALEX drawer units and the LENNMON table tops for my desk. I bought four of the drawer units and two tops in different sizes to replace the two mis-matched desks in my craft room. As soon as my room is back to normal I will take some new photos and share it with you guys.
We had a lovely day, we put Music on in the car as we drove to Milton Keynes and sang along at the top of our voices all the way there and back, I love hearing my Steve sing, he used to be in a band before we knew each other, he has a lovely voice.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend, I am spending mine sorting out all the bits into my new desk, what are you guys up to?


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Malcolm Turnbull - A tight election result is causing backlash within the Liberal Party.
A key backer of Malcolm Turnbull has told him there is a real risk that Bill Shorten could become prime minister if the Coalition "falls into a rabble" over the outcome of the federal election.
It is a nervous wait for Mr Turnbull, who will not know until the end of the week whether he has won enough seats for the Coalition to win a majority in the Lower House.
But the recriminations have begun and the outcome is fuelling growing anger within the Coalition over the performance of the Prime Minister.


Reading – I spend most of my day doing it and my life would be so empty without it. It is a privilege, really. I often think about my elderly grandmother looking her eyesight, so I cherish mine. And I remember when my kids were little, I would dream and wish for just a half hour to put my feet up and read…it rarely happened. These days, I feel fortunate that I get so much time to do so– a gift!
I agree, Eliza — reading is such a gift.


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Wendy's Family Has Sold Their HomeWithout Finding a New One First
High Pitch Erik Says His 'Busy Life' Has Kept Him From Returning the Stern Show's Calls
Wack Packer blames the mixup on Cameo commitments, doctors appointments, and his distaste for Wolfie
High Pitch Erik's involvement with the Stern Show has brought him both fame and prosperity over the years, so one could imagine how surprised Howard was to learn the Wack Packer had recently been playing hard to get.
"I'm hearing Gary [Dell'Abate] calls you, you don't return his calls. You've been difficult," Howard told Erik on Tuesday after picking up on his call. "Now you're big and famous, but you forget how you got famous."
In addition to the Stern Show's executive producer, the Wack Packer also recently brushed off everyone from staffers Sal Governale and Chris Wilding to longtime correspondent Wolfie. But High Pitch was quick to defend himself.
"I'm not a pain in the ass," he said, instead insisting his schedule was brimming with doctors appointments, Cameo commitments, and weekly rounds of golf. "I have a busy life."
Things with Wolfie, Erik conceded, were a bit more personal. "I don't like Wolfie because Wolfie is a dick, okay?" he said, adding, "Sal, I'll do stuff with."
But no one bought his excuses. "Erik, it took me almost four days and 30 emails to get you on the phone," Gary told the Wack Packer. "So, why won't you talk to Sal now?"
"I was at a Yankee game," High Pitch countered.
However, Sal said he's been more than willing to work around the Wack Packer's schedule since then. "We had this funny phone call that we wanted to do … I text Erik, 'Hey, can we do this? Can we set up a date?' And he just gives me a flat out 'No,'" Sal recalled, saying Erik also refused to work with him on a song parody and a Low Pitch Erik bit. "He just refuses to do anything," he continued.
"You've got time for everything but us," co-host Robin Quivers added.
Howard couldn't understand why a Wack Packer he'd helped turn into a celebrity was seemingly big-timing his staff. "I've had Paul McCartney on this show—he's a Beatle—and he's easier to work with than you," he said.
Howard then pointed out other Wack Packers were clamoring for Erik's airtime. One of them, burgeoning Cameo star Ass Napkin Ed, called in to make a case for himself.
"I'm the hottest Wack Packer," Ass Napkin Ed told Erik.
"You are!" Howard agreed.
"And he's just so easy to work with. We love working with Ed," Chris added.
High Pitch suddenly started singing a different tune. "Sal, I'm not golfing today. I'm available after twelve," he said.
"You weren't available for the past three months," Sal responded.
As far as Howard was concerned, High Pitch was still missing the point. It wasn't just about the Wack Packer answering the phone when called upon, it was also about giving Howard and the show some well-earned respect. "If Wolfie calls you, that's me calling you," he said, later adding, "Wolfie is me. Chris Wilding is me. Sal is not me, but alright he should even talk to Sal."
Finally, the Wack Packer saw the error of his ways. "Howard, I apologize to you and I will do better for you," he vowed.

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Manning throws away chance for comeback
Chris O'Meara
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning (18) reacts after throwing an interception which New Orleans Saints cornerback Tracy Porter ran back for a 74-yard touchdown during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLIV.
MIAMI — Peyton Manning spent the whole season building toward a Super Bowl crown, a win that certainly would put him among the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history.
And then he threw it away.
Blocked onto his backside, Manning could only watch as Tracy Porter returned an interception for a clinching, 74-yard touchdown in the final minutes Sunday that gave New Orleans a 31-17 victory over Indianapolis.
"It`s certainly disappointing. Very disappointed. Disappointed," Manning said.
It was a startling end to a Super Bowl that seemed destined to wind up in Manning`s strong right hand. It was the lone turnover of a back-and-forth thriller — who in the world would have thought the big mistake could be made by Manning?
Yet there he was, sitting on the grass after brawny Saints defensive end Will Smith knocked him down as he tried to make a tackle. Manning took a glance over his shoulder to watch Porter`s romp to the end zone, unbuckled his chin strap, stood up and simply walked toward the bench.
"We probably never got into a great rhythm. We were certainly worse in lapses in our final possession," Manning said.
All week, this was the story line in Miami: Could Manning, a New Orleans boy through and through, deny the Saints in a game they desperately wanted to win for their city?
Turned out he helped his hometown team win its first Super Bowl — only not in the way he imagined.
Dad Archie Manning, the longtime star Saints quarterback, got caught smack in the middle.
"I was pulling for the Colts. I`m not quite over that, but I`m happy for New Orleans," he said.
"I don`t know if I`m going to celebrate or not. Maybe later, when the city does, but I`m not in a celebrating mood. Glad to see everybody else in New Orleans celebrate. That`s enough for me now," he said.
Added Archie: "I`m proud of him. … It just wasn`t meant to be."
His son repeated the word "disappointing" at least 10 times in his postgame interview session, using it to describe everything from the Colts not having the ball much in the second quarter to the interception that decided the title.
"We played well in the first playoff game, played well two weeks ago. We just didn`t make enough plays against the Saints," Manning said.
"I understand how excited the Saints are, their families and the city of New Orleans is going to be," he said. "I`m sorry to our fans that we weren`t able to get it done."


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Shelton residents earn academic accolades
Latest academic accolades
The following Shelton residents earned academic accolades this past school year.
Sophia Marino, a graduate of Shelton High School, earned Dean's List Honors at the University of Tampa for the spring 2022 semester. Marino graduated in May 2022 from University of Tampa majoring in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Three Shelton students graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University at the conclusion of the spring 2022 semester. The University's annual Commencement Exercises occurred May 17 at the XL Center in Hartford. Olivia Innaco graduated Cum Laude with Bachelor of Science degrees in Sport & Leisure Management and Theatre. Serena Innaco graduated with Bachelor of Science degrees in Sport & Leisure Management and Theatre. William Smith graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.
Six Shelton residents made the Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester at the University of New Hampshire. Daniel Persico earned Highest Honors. Christopher Calabrese, Charles Chagnon and Katherine Buccigross earned High Honors, and Ashley Coppola and Sophie Molitoris earned Honors.
Alexa Reis was named to the spring 2022 Dean's List at Florida Institute of Technology.
Sidney Shanahan was named to the College of Charleston spring 2022 President's List. Shanahan is majoring in Dance and Business Administration.
Florian Hurlbert was named to the Muhlenberg College Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester.
Leya Vohra has been named to the spring 2022 Dean's List at American International College.
Bryan Herlihy, Mary McNeil, Colin Brown, Ava Genova, and Michael Callinan made the Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester at Bryant University.
Britney Guedes was honored at the Hofstra Annual Film Festival. The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication showcased a record 70 films at the 25th Hofstra University Student Film Festival. The annual year-end event, which spanned three days, included 26 thesis films as well as documentary, experimental, intermediate, and advanced films. More than 20 students, including Guedes, were recognized for creating exceptional films in categories such as screenwriting, editing, sound and production design, and cinematography. Guedes earned an honorable mention for her film titled Tomboy.
Kyle Reis graduated from The University of Tampa on May 7. Reis graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Finance BS.
Brian Berritto was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma National Honor Society in a ceremony on May 6 at Western New England in Springfield, Mass.
Elizabeth Casinelli, Elizabeth Herlihy, Kaylee Gura, Mia Dioguardi, Kevin Platt, Michael Casinelli, John DeRosa and Alvin Torres made the Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester at Springfield College. Elizabeth Casinelli s majoring in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Herlihy is majoring in Criminal Justice. Gura is majoring in Exercise Science/Applied Exercise Science. Dioguardi is majoring in Health Science/Pre-physician Assistant. Platt is majoring in Health Science/Pre-physician Assistant. Michael Casinelli is majoring in Health Science and Pre-Physical Therapy. DeRosa is majoring in History. Torres is majoring in Sport Management.
Racquel Hamilton, Meghan Marini, Caroline Moretti and Kimberly Violette each made the Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester at Goodwin University. Marini, Moretti and Violette also made the President's List for the semester.
Zoe Rogers, a senior business administration/psychology major and a graduate of Shelton High School, maade the Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester at Saint Michael's College.
Cheri Coore, Kayla Krijgsman, Sarah Panek, Kyle St.Pierre and Emily Zerella each made the President's Honor List and the Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester at the University of Hartford.
Max Kruger made the Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester at the University of Maine.
Nhyira Owusu Asante and Kris Laing each made the Dean's List for the spring 2022 semester at Rochester Institute of Technology. Owusu Asante is in the biomedical sciences program. Laing is in the business administration-accounting program.
Michael DeDonato graduated with a bachelor's degree in Engineering (mechanical engineering specialization) in May as part of the Class of 2022 at Roger Williams University.
James McLaughlin, Kim Rodrigues and Lauren Wokanovicz each made the spring 2022 Dean's List at Roger Williams University.
Cassie Ruth Laprise, Luis E. De Camps and Samuel J. Forsythe graduated as part of the Class of 2022 at Western New England University. Laprise graduated with a BA in Psychology. De Camps graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Criminal Justice. Forsythe graduated with a BSBA in Business Analytics & Information Management.


I haven't blogged on this website in well over a year. In fact, in 12 years of writing on this site I've only published 599 posts. That's on average 50 posts a year. I think I've figured out why it has been so hard for me to add content and posts to this site in the way I had hoped. I was focusing more on getting posts perfect than on getting the basics covered and published.
In order to get back to writing more content more frequently I'm trying something new. I've created a new website with a new approach to the process of writing and publishing content. If you've enjoyed any of the posts on this site over the last 12 years I hope you'll take a few minutes to check out my new engineering notebook website at notebook.aaronwest.net. You can read all about this change and the tools I used to create the new website by reading this post.
While I'm not abandoning this website or taking any of the posts down, I plan to write all new posts over on the notebook website. I sincerely hope you'll check it out. Thank you so much for reading the content I've posted here and providing me with feedback over the years. I greatly appreciate it.
For the past few months I've been planning on writing a post about the services that make this site possible. I've read these sorts of posts on other sites and they seem very marketing heavy. They're often titled "sponsor post" or something equivalent. This post is different. I'm genuinely a fan (and customer) of all of these services and in most cases I pay for them monthly. After the break I discuss each service/app I rely on to power this site. I put each service within category blocks such as: the server, the app, backups, uptime, etc.
I've added Twitter's new tweet button to all posts on this blog. If you are reading a post that you like or that you think others will find useful in some way, I'd very much appreciate it if you'd use the button to tell your Twitter followers. All you have to do is press the tweet button and a pop-up window will display with twitter.com loaded. If you are signed into Twitter's site you'll be able to submit the tweet immediately. If you aren't signed into Twitter, you'll need to enter your username and password first.
Yesterday, Dan Wilson blogged about his Web site statistics and how Linux was less than 1% behind Macintosh in his visitor stats. He asked what trends others were seeing so I thought I'd post the same stats he did. After the break you will see a screenshot from Google Analytics of the operating system statistics for aaronwest.net from June 19 - July 19, 2010.
Two weeks ago today I brought aaronwest.net live bringing all my content from trajiklyhip.com and trajiklyhip.com/blog to a brand new, consolidated interface on a new domain. Before I talk about my new site and what I like about it, I want to give a (somewhat) brief overview describing my sites evolution over the last 8 years. Keep reading after the break.
It's time to upgrade. It's time to see the light. It's time to get into the modern age of browsers. So please, take a moment right now to click one of the logos below and download one of the fine browsers out there. If you don't, a litter of puppies will die, a thousand fairies will have their wings pulled off, and a hundred unicorns will perish of african sickness. You don't want all that on you do you?
From TechCrunch, a funeral is being held for IE6 on March 4. Browser to be buried without the body.
Microsoft announces they'll be automatically upgrading Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Check out their announcement here.
Last week I accomplished something I had been thinking about for at least a year, moving this blog to my own server. I had been hosting this site with a popular shared hosting provider for nearly four years and had not been happy for a long time. Picking a shared hosting provider in 2005 had been a pretty easy thing to do. I wasn't too comfortable with managing an entire Linux server so having others take care of it while I simply managed and wrote content was a good choice.
Comment spam on my blog has increased immensely over the last four to six weeks. I'm getting, on average, 150 spam comments per week. In order to help combat the scum of the earth I have implemented both Akismet and Project Honeypot by way of activating these two features in CFFormProtect (which ships with BlogCFC).
I took Ray Camden's lead and created a new BlogCFC stats page that allows me to display stats for the current year (year-to-date) or any previous years. You can pass a URL parameter called statsYear in order to filter by a specific year, or exclude the parameter to see the current year.
Looking through my blog stats over the past few years I was a bit suprised to see my blogging has tapered off since 2006. From 2002 through 2005 I posted 34 entries or less each year. In 2006 I ramped up quite a bit with 119 entries. 2007 saw a drop to 105 and this year I dropped even further to 89. My excuse? For one, having a child (late 2006) really threw off my evenings. It wasn't uncommon for me to come home and code for hours or write a few blog posts a week. Now, I spend most nights hanging out with my son. I also attribute my lack of blogging to the insane work hours I've kept. I took on a management role in 2006 that I thought was going to make my life less stressful. I was totally wrong. I find myself working 15-20 hours more a week and the type of work I'm doing is definitely more stressful. I've been twittering lately about my vacations encompassing hours and hours of work (examples here, here, here, and here). All of these things taken together mean I'm pooped at the end of the day and the last thing I want to do is sit down and code or blog for hours.
In 2009 I need to find a way to cut the stress. This will not only allow me to blog more but also provide a better overall quality of life. To that end, my goal for 2009 is to increase my post percentage by 224% by posting 200 entries. This is an insane goal but I thrive on really difficult challenges.
I've waited as long as I could before turning on comment moderation here, but due to the amount of spam comments that have ramped up over the last few months it's now in place. My Inbox gets flooded with each spam comment notification and I'd hate to think other folks who subscribe to this blog or specific entries are receiving the same crap. So, until I get my site/blog moved to the VPS each and every comment will have to be approved before it shows up in an entry.
This shouldn't present a problem for valid commenters as I will typically approve comments within minutes or a few hours at most. My iPhone and access to my blog will certainly help me stay on top of it.
Due to some major instability problems on the shared server my site resides I'm having some changes made. Specifically, my site and blog will be moved to a Virtual Private Server - running enterprise Linux and CF 7 - within the next 24 hours. During the switchover from shared hosting to VPS there's likely to be at least some downtime. Hopefully things will be running much better very soon.
I don't know if it's my eyesight, my age, or a combination of the two but I'm not seeing as good as I used to. I visit Web sites every day where I have to squint to read the text. This evening, reading a comment on my own blog, I noticed I was squinting. So, I've increased the font sizes around here and I'm already liking it better.
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For those that tried to view entries during this time I apologize. On a less important note I pulled Ray's new files from SVN and upgraded the blog to 5.5.003. Thanks Ray!


When you go to work, are you just going through the motions of completing the work day? Are you engaged with your tasks to where you are making positive changes that bring happiness to yourself and are a benefit to the company, customers, clients and workers you interact with?
While many people may claim that they consider their work important and are satisfied with their jobs, studies say otherwise. Gallup recently conducted surveys of employee engagement in 142 countries and only found that 13 percent of employees were engaged with their work while 63 percent were not engaged. Another startling fact is that 24 percent of employees were unsatisfied with their work and were not productive.
Finding a meaning in your career can be difficult even though God has given us the gifts to find our faith and our true selves. Sometimes we lose sight of the footprints placed before us to seek out fulfillment throughout our lives -- including in our careers -- that matches our spiritual fulfillment with God. According to Curt Devine, who is a contributor to Relevant magazine, "If we're honest with ourselves, most of us are not doing exactly what we had once hoped."
There may have been a time when workers first started their careers where they felt fulfillment and satisfaction. In time, those same workers became frustrated by the endless tasks and difficult deadlines where they no longer knew what meaning their career had for them. Though we have been blessed with all that God has given us through Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:3), most workers have now turned to the materialistic aspects of working a career that simply provides a paycheck. Regaining that meaning to turn a career into a vocation that recaptures your moral purpose can be found again.
Saying that it is important for you to get out of bed and go to work usually won't be enough to spur you to shape your life in a meaningful way. There must be some type of spark that ignites the mind, body, heart and soul that gives you happiness. So what is truly important for you? You have to figure out what gives your life meaning, and see how those ideals apply to your work, or could be applied to your work, to have a more satisfying career.
In addition to finding what is truly important to you and what ideals have meaning to your life, you must take the next step in integrating those ideals into your work tasks. For example, do you find achievement when helping others? If so, you can then shape your career to expand upon that ideal by helping those who need your knowledge and skills. Serve others who need you, and you will find the meaning in your work that can bring happiness and gratitude.
Sometimes you can be so focused on some large, great plan that will shake the world down to its bones that you miss seeing the smaller achievements that have greater meaning in your life. Every moment on this world matters, and every task where you serve others and serve God has meaning -- no matter how small that moment may be. Don't take for granted those times where you help a fellow coworker complete a deadline or mentor a new employee who is trying to fit into their job role. These instances can allow you to have a greater understanding about your work and how to invest your efforts as well as your time to become the best professional you are able to be for yourself and for others.
Just as life can change, so can your career. You can go through life changes where the fulfillment and meaning you seek may not presently reflect what you do at your job. If you no longer find that you can serve others through your present career, it might be time to evaluate why you are doing the work in the first place. Finding your purpose again can lead to a happier life, and that might mean a career change where you go back to school to obtain a degree or finish a degree program. Understand what you want and what you seek in your career. Then use your knowledge and skills to get the career that will be satisfying to you.


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Biografia

Carriera nel biathlon
Ha iniziato a praticare biathlon a livello agonistico nel 1983 ed è stato membro della nazionale di biathlon della Germania dal 1990 al suo ritiro, nel 2007. Nella classifica generale di Coppa del Mondo è giunto secondo nella stagione 1997-1998. Ha vinto l'oro nella staffetta 4 x 7,5 km alle Olimpiadi di , ,  e .

Carriera nello sci di fondo
In carriera ha preso parte anche ad alcune gare della Coppa del Mondo di sci di fondo, ottenendo come miglior piazzamento il 9º posto nella sprint di squadra a tecnica libera di Düsseldorf del 26 ottobre 2003.

Altre attività
Dopo il ritiro è divenuto commentatore sportivo per una rete televisiva tedesca.

Palmarès

Biathlon

Olimpiadi
 8 medaglie:
 4 ori (staffetta ad ; staffetta a ; staffetta a ; staffetta a )
 3 argenti (sprint ad ; sprint a ; staffetta a )
 1 bronzo (inseguimento a )

Mondiali
 20 medaglie:
 9 ori (staffetta a Lahti 1991; staffetta ad Anterselva 1995; individuale, staffetta a Osrblie 1997; inseguimento a Kontiolahti/Oslo 1999; inseguimento, staffetta a Chanty Mansijsk 2003; inseguimento, staffetta a Oberhof 2004)
 5 argenti (staffetta a Ruhpolding 1996; gara a squadre a Pokljuka/Hochfilzen 1998; individuale a Kontiolahti/Oslo 1999; sprint a Chanty Mansijsk 2003; sprint a Oberhof 2004)
 6 bronzi (sprint ad Anterselva 1995; staffetta a Oslo/Lahti 2000; individuale a Chanty Mansijsk 2003; individuale, staffetta mista a Hochfilzen/Chanty-Mansijsk 2005; staffetta ad Anterselva 2007)

Coppa del Mondo
 Miglior piazzamento in classifica generale: 2º nel 1998
 Vincitore della Coppa del Mondo di individuale nel 1997
 69 podi (39 individuali, 30 a squadre), oltre a quelli conquistati in sede olimpica e iridata e validi anche ai fini della Coppa del Mondo:
 21 vittorie (5 individuali, 16 a squadre)
 25 secondi posti (16 individuali, 9 a squadre)
 23 terzi posti (18 individuali, 5 a squadre)

Coppa del Mondo - vittorie

Legenda:
IN = individuale
SP = sprint
PU = inseguimento
MS = partenza in linea
RL = staffetta

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Spink Comhaltas has promoted traditional Irish music in secondary schools in Laois, Kilkenny, Carlow and Kildare since 2011. In 2022, we were delighted to be able to partner with St Paul's secondary school, Monasterevin. The inaugural winners of the Spink Traditional music awards are Sophie Murray Ward (Ceoltóir Traidisiúnta Sóisearach,…
Music Network Funding … 2 years on
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Spink Comhaltas qualified for funding in May 2018 from The Arts Council/ The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht/ Music Network as part of the Music Capital Scheme 2017. Two years on, here is an update on some of the activities which this funding has allowed us to do….
Music Network Funding … 1 year on
Spink Comhaltas qualified for funding in May 2018 from The Arts Council/ The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht/ Music Network as part of the Music Capital Scheme 2017. One year on, here is an update on what this funding has allowed us to do. We updated our already…
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The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women: From Obstacles to Options
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The Supreme Court is one of the most traditional institutions in America that has been an exclusively male domain for almost two hundred years. From 1981 to 2010, four women were appointed to the Supreme Court. The author, Nichola D. Gutgold, analyzes the rhetoric of the first four women appointed to the Supreme Court: Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Gutgold's thorough exploration of these pioneering women's rhetorical strategies includes confirmation hearings, primary scripts of their written opinions, invited public lectures, speeches, and personal interviews with Justices O'Connor, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor. These illuminating documents and interviews form rhetorical biographies of the first four women of the Supreme Court, shedding new light on the rise of political women in the American judiciary and the efficacy of their rhetoric in a historically male-dominated political system. Gutgold's The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women provides valuable insight into political communication and the changing gender zeitgeist in American politics.


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Rodarte's Kate and Laura Mulleavy on Why Anna Wintour Told Them Not to Move to New York
The sisters attended a TimesTalk to promote their upcoming movie "Woodshock," starring Kirsten Dunst.
Laura and Kate Mulleavy. Photo: Griffon Lipson/BFA.com
After making their directorial debut at Venice Film Festival, Rodarte's Kate and Laura Mulleavy attended a TimesTalk in New York City on Wednesday night to promote the upcoming release of "Woodshock," co-written and directed by the sisterly duo. Starring Kirsten Dunst and hitting American theaters on Sept. 22, "Woodshock" is best described by TimesTalk moderator and longtime New York Times contributor Linda Yablonsky as "Midsummer Night's Dream meets psycho killer." "That's so good," says Laura, which was met with somewhat nervous laughter from the audience.
The film is set in a redwood forest, which stems from the Mulleavy sisters' childhood memories of roaming through their hometown's woods. "It's a story of looking inward — a story of transformation — the deeper [Kirsten's character Theresa] looks into herself, the deeper she is lost in the woods," explains Kate. "It's kind of a parallel path. The woods represent her mental state."
The fact that these sisters took a professional tip from Tom Ford to venture into filmmaking isn't too surprising. After all, they did spend an entire year studying and watching horror films before they launched Rodarte. "It was the most beautiful creative expression I've had," says Laura once making "Woodshock" had wrapped.
"It's really great product placement for your clothes," jokes Yablonsky. Though, she wasn't far off with her response. Alongside "Woodshock" costume designer Christie Wittenborn, Kate and Laura did create a few costumes for Dunst's role, which were already developed while they wrote the script.
Read on for the highlights of the Mulleavy sisters and Yablonsky's conversation, which you can watch in full over on the TimesTalks Youtube page.
On Their Big Break and Staying Independent
The Mulleavy sisters' first experience with New York Fashion Week was a mix of tears, snow and luck. They arrived in New York in the middle of a blizzard, which caused their flight from Los Angeles to land in Boston. From there, they took a train to New York with only a giant box of clothes — their precious debut collection in tow.
Upon arriving in New York, they didn't show at fashion week. Instead, says Kate, they barely left their friend's apartment in the East Village, but towards the end of their stay, a stroke of luck (and a phone call) brought her and Laura to the Women's Wear Daily offices. They met the entire team, was interviewed and two days later, the designer duo were on the cover of the trade publication. "It was really fast," remembers Laura about their big break.
Since then, they've managed to maintain their brand as completely independent without the help of a major conglomerate financing them through their collections — and the plan is to keep it that way for now. "We've run this company since it started, and it's only existing because we're smart about it," says Laura. "We're very careful. We realize that what we wanted to do with it is to keep it insular just so we can protect it, and say, 'This is our voice.' We're kind of like the guardians of some type of expression and that's important to us."
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Kate and Laura Mulleavy with Linda Yablonsky. Photo: Griffon Lipson/BFA.com
On Meeting 'Vogue' and Anna Wintour's Best Advice
It was Vogue's West Coast Director Lisa Love who arranged a meeting between the Mulleavys, Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington and Andre Leon Talley in Los Angeles. When they showed the six-piece collection, Laura says she'll never forget Talley's reaction. After learning that the dresses were inspired by mushrooms (their father is a mycologist), Talley couldn't hold in his laughter. "He laughed so hard," says Laura. "We felt like the craziest people that maybe have ever walked in those offices before."
But the meeting ended up being a success. Wintour and the rest of the Vogue team have been championing Rodarte ever since. Plus, it was Wintour who advised the Mulleavy sisters to stay in Los Angeles, which has helped them stand out among a crowded industry of New York-based designers. "[Anna] said, 'No, I can tell what you do is personal. Keep it that way,'" recalls Kate. "In a weird way, it's the most heartfelt advice and one of the things that's so brilliant about Anna. She cares if you understand your creativity and your vision. She'll care about that. I think if you're wavering in it, then it's not going to be in the realm for her. She wants you to follow your own voice, whatever that's going to be."
On Balancing Filmmaking and Fashion Design
So how exactly did Laura and Kate make full-length feature film and not one, but two seasonal collections at the same time? A lot of hard work, of course, and barely any free time. After pre-production and shooting "Woodshock" for one month in Humboldt County, Calif., they then went back to LA for another month to finish their collection, followed by a trip to New York to showcase it and do sales. After that, it was back to the West Coast to edit the film, but midway through that, they took a month-and-a-half break to design, produce and show their next collection. Whoa.
Though the "fractured state" (as described by Kate) was difficult to maneuver, it only invigorated them creatively. "It almost felt like an amazing thing to stop and take a break and come back," she says. Adds Laura, "It made us better designers because I know it pushed us creatively and emotionally."
On Switching Cities and Showing In Paris
It was the shutdown of their go-to show venue (since 2008) last December that prompted the Mulleavys to think about switching from New York Fashion Week to Paris. And after some encouragement from their show producer Alexandre de Betak, the duo decided to drop out of the traditional fashion calendar format and debut their collections during Couture Fashion Week in January and July. "This is a great opportunity to go farther with our design and to do something more than we feel like we can do in New York," says Laura. "I do know it gave us a kind of like kick-start to say, 'It's okay. Go further with this.' And to make it even more elaborate than we've been doing. It felt really fulfilling."
Laura also added that the French city's fashion sensibility matches how it treats Rodarte, but they will always have a love for New York. "It's important for you to try new things for yourself and to not just be part of a habit," she says. "Fashion design is so complicated and so hard, I would say that to anyone. So if you can make it exciting for yourself, it's worth making changes."
On Not Having a Traditional Background In Fashion and Film
It seems to be more and more commonplace for creatives to find success without having a traditional education in a particular field. Laura and Kate, who studied English and art history, respectively, are proof of that. For Laura, her college degree has helped her find meaning in language and formulate narratives, both in design and filmmaking. "It's almost like you're timid about it; no formal education makes you feel less than someone else," says Kate. "For us and our process, studying other things formed our perspective. I don't think I would have been as analytical and open to learning as I am." Though, she does insist it all boils down to figuring out what's best for yourself. "Everyone is different," she says. "I know plenty of artists and creative people who have gotten a very formal education. You have to find your own path."
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A View of Tropical Cyclones from Above: The Tropical Cyclone Intensity Experiment
James D. Doyle, Jonathan R. Moskaitis, Joel W. Feldmeier, Ronald J. Ferek, Mark Beaubien, Michael M. Bell, Daniel L. Cecil, Robert L. Creasey, Patrick Duran, Russell L. Elsberry, William A. Komaromi, John Molinari, David R. Ryglicki, Daniel P. Stern, Christopher S. Velden, Xuguang Wang, Todd Allen, Bradford S. Barrett, Peter G. Black, Jason P. Dunion, Kerry A. Emanuel, Patrick A. Harr, Lee Harrison, Eric A. Hendricks, Derrick Herndon, William Q. Jeffries, Sharanya J. Majumdar, James A. Moore, Zhaoxia Pu, Robert F. Rogers, Elizabeth R. Sanabia, Gregory J. Tripoli, and Da-Lin Zhang
Tropical cyclone (TC) outflow and its relationship to TC intensity change and structure were investigated in the Office of Naval Research Tropical Cyclone Intensity (TCI) field program during 2015 using dropsondes deployed from the innovative new High-Definition Sounding System (HDSS) and remotely sensed observations from the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD), both on board the NASA WB-57 that flew in the lower stratosphere. Three noteworthy hurricanes were intensively observed with unprecedented horizontal resolution: Joaquin in the Atlantic and Marty and Patricia in the eastern North Pacific. Nearly 800 dropsondes were deployed from the WB-57 flight level of ∼60,000 ft (∼18 km), recording atmospheric conditions from the lower stratosphere to the surface, while HIRAD measured the surface winds in a 50-km-wide swath with a horizontal resolution of 2 km. Dropsonde transects with 4–10-km spacing through the inner cores of Hurricanes Patricia, Joaquin, and Marty depict the large horizontal and vertical gradients in winds and thermodynamic properties. An innovative technique utilizing GPS positions of the HDSS reveals the vortex tilt in detail not possible before. In four TCI flights over Joaquin, systematic measurements of a major hurricane's outflow layer were made at high spatial resolution for the first time. Dropsondes deployed at 4-km intervals as the WB-57 flew over the center of Hurricane Patricia reveal in unprecedented detail the inner-core structure and upper-tropospheric outflow associated with this historic hurricane. Analyses and numerical modeling studies are in progress to understand and predict the complex factors that influenced Joaquin's and Patricia's unusual intensity changes.
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After an absolutely incredible 2017, Yves V gets his year off to a wild start by landing on KSHMR's Dharma label with an amazing collaboration with Florian Picasso on 'Here With You'.
Melancholy violins glide across the track as muted piano chords breathes it into life. Delicate male and female vocals trade blows, hyped up through stereo delays, bitcrushing and glitch effects, and out of nowhere comes a sudden build thrusting us into the meat of the track.
The meat in question takes the form of fist-pumping, feel-good fizzing synth chords, energetic beats and thick slabs of melodic bass and makes for a grin-inducing mood. Plucked arpeggios greet us in the break with rising on-beat bass tones building up the energy. The glorious vocal effects sound even more mesmerizing as the kick drops back in, leading us into a bruising snare build. The winding bass of the outro will leave you begging for more and hitting that repeat button.
With super-cool computer game / comic influenced artwork, this one is the whole package. It's been going off in both Yves & Florian's sets in a big way and looks set to become a staple of stereos and dancefloors the world over.


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City Council Update: Amphitheater plans may be affected by a lawsuit
Aaron Christensen, said if the council doesn't come to some sort of agreement to scale down the size of the amphitheater project, they will move forward with litigation. The city council offered to discuss the issue at the city council meeting on Tuesday Feb. 13.
Christensen said the park was intended to remain as open space as a way to hold on to North Ogden's rural farming community feel. He said the Barkers had forgone the money to sell to a developer to sell it to the city and "The new amphitheater in scale and function does not conform to deed covenants."
Christensen said they have collected between 250 and 300 signatures for the petition. The petition to the city asks the continued construction of the amphitheater be stopped until further study can be completed. Christensen pressed the council to hold a special meeting to discuss options before the end of the week or halt construction. A representative from Wadman Corporation, the contractors for the amphitheater, said it could cost up to ten thousand dollars to stop construction until the next scheduled city council meeting on Feb. 13.
The council did not agree to halt construction until that time. They were unable to have all council members attend and have a recorder to take minutes on either Thursday Feb. 8 or Friday Feb. 9. The council made a tentative decision give the majority of the meeting to discuss this topic on Tuesday Feb. 13 which is the next scheduled city council meeting. Christensen said he would speak with their legal counsel about meeting on Tuesday. Councilman Phillip Swanson later said, "I do not know if they connected, but we have not heard anything from them regarding any time they want in the meeting Tuesday."
The Barker Family
Steve Barker is the oldest son of Carl and Lorna Barker. As a former member of the of the Barker Park committee, he encouraged residents to, "Make suggestions if they would like to see things done differently." He said his family hoped the city could grow around the park and love it. He is urging residents to do what it takes so they can move forward. Rod Barker, is one of 9 children, he said they are not opposed to the amphitheater but they are opposed to the large scale of it. Melanie Barker, said she doesn't think the roads can sustain thousands of people. Peggy Barker, said the park was created to save open space so it can be shared. "It's turning into a battle and a war. All of this has been planned, struggled with, and now it seems like we are stuck."
People involved in theater productions
Mark Daniels, a proud member of the theater community, directed the production of Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat on the unfinished amphitheater stage a couple years ago. He said he slept out by the amphitheater to make sure all the equipment was safe through the nights. He said the production created magic and brought community members together to act on stage. "We know how to run it and maintain it once it is built," he said.
Calista Extrom has been involved in the theater program at BYU Idaho. She said she has been feeling the tension build in her neighborhood. "I see the amphitheater's potential to bring the community together." She said she saw a friend become the first in his family to go to college through a scholarship with theater and she hopes young adults will experience the impact of the arts.
Janice Christensen, said she has been trained to be a theater manager. She thinks the idea for the amphitheater has outgrown the park and the residential area.
The process of change
Councilwoman Sara Fawson said the Barker Park amphitheater has "already has gone through processes. It has been approved." Monalisa Wald said she worked for the city up until a few months ago. "I don't know what more could have been done to invite the public to comment." The council questioned, "How do we get people to participate and more people to join the conversation? How do we communicate adequately?" They noticed there are some channels of communication that aren't open.
Some residents turn to mayor's Facebook page. The last three posts about the amphitheater project received a majority of positive support for the amphitheater. Jennifer Wolford in a comment on the page said, "There are a lot of North Ogden residents who like the direction the city is heading."
Other public comments regarding the amphitheater
Senator Allen Christensen said it will take great leadership to make it through this. He encouraged the council and those listening to find common ground. Kennith Hill, said he is concerned about the quality of the hollow area. He is worried about the road sloughing off into the creek. Arron Buther said he wants the city to take care of each neighborhood. He would like to see more bike trails and walking paths so his son doesn't have to cross Washington blvd. Steve Rasmussen, said he hopes the development of the rest of the park doesn't get lost in the discussion. Clay Christensen said his son is disappointed that his sledding hills are going away. He is supportive of beautiful new things being added to the city. "Lets not let this drive a wedge between us."
The council approved caucus meetings to be held in the City Building until the library opens once again.
Susan Clements said she got a late notification to participate in the deer count. The council said city will give more advanced noticed in the future.
The council agreed to add a part time employee to help with administrative duties for North Ogden City. They agreed to review the necessity of the position in 18 months. City Attorney John Call said there is enough work for a full time employee but extra costs such as providing full time benefits would associated with hiring a full time position. Instead, they will add an additional part time employee to work in conjunction with their current part time employee. Call said sales tax and property tax will help cover employee costs.
The council nominated Councilman Cevering to participate on the Amphitheater Planning Committee. The city council selected Philip Swanson to be on the North View Senior Center board.
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Steve Barker is the oldest son of Carl and Lorna Barker NOT Ray and Fern Barker. Steve is the oldest of six. And it is Rod Barker NOT Bob Barker who is the oldest of nine siblings! I really think you should get names of family right before you start quoting them in the story!
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The Competition Bureau Concludes (for now!) That the Rogers-NHL Agreement is Not Anti-Competitive
By: Stephen Zolf
The Competition Bureau has found that the Rogers-NHL 12-year broadcast agreement has not, "at this time," resulted in a substantial lessening of competition (SLC). The 2013 agreement marked the first time that one party (Rogers) has held exclusive rights to broadcast all the national NHL games. Prior to the new agreement, broadcast rights were split between Bell (TSN) and CBC, with Rogers and Bell holding regional rights to various Canadian teams.
Media coverage of the Bureau's ruling can be found here. The key concern for the Bureau was whether the exclusive 12-year deal placed Rogers in a position of enhanced market power with respect to sports programming. The SLC concern focused on the competitive effects of the Agreement, in particular:
· the prices that cable companies and other distributors pay for Rogers' Sportsnet channels;
· advertising rates during NHL games; and
· the ability of Rogers' broadcast competitors to obtain important sports programming.
More detail of the Bureau's analysis can be found in its "positon statement." It is interesting to note that, with respect to the potentially anti-competitive impact of the agreement on Rogers' ability to extract higher prices from cable and other broadcast distributors, the Bureau found that television distributors viewed Sportsnet as a "must have" channel "both prior to and following the Agreement." The Bureau also concluded that Bell's TSN was similarly viewed as a "must have" channel.
What appears to have given the Bureau some comfort, however, is the existence of the CRTC's sector-specific regulatory regime overseeing the price behaviour of licensed discretionary television channels such as Sportnet. The Bureau expressly notes that, in the absence of a negotiated agreement between Rogers and television distributors for carriage of the Sportsnet channels and the fees paid by their subscribers, the CRTC's dispute resolution processes, which contemplates in some circumstances, a final-offer arbitration mechanism, can be engaged to reach a resolution. The Bureau states that "in the course of [its] review, the Bureau found evidence indicating that [the dispute resolution] processes can be an effective mechanism to remedy disputes concerning carriage fees for NHL content."
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Mullah Akhtar Mansour was carrying fake Pakistani passport: US
Afghan Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Killed In A US Drone Strike In Balochistan, Was Carrying A Fake Pakistani Passport, The Obama Administration Said Today As It Asserted That Pakistan Needs To Do More To Root Out Terrorists Using Its Soil To Find Refuge.
PTI | Updated on: 25 May 2016, 08:57:20 AM
"He (Mullah Mansour) was carrying a fake Pakistani passport," the State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said at his daily news conference, responding to media reports that Taliban chief used a Pakistani passport for his visits abroad for over nine years.
On the reports that he frequently travelled between Karachi and Dubai, and Iran via the Pakistani border town of Taftan, Toner said the US does not have any clarity on his reported visits to Iran.
"You know, our major concern is that a major threat to our military on the ground in Afghanistan has been removed from the battlefield," he said.
The senior Obama Administration official, however, did not respond to questions on trust with Pakistan and the charges of the Pakistani officials that they were informed about the airstrike against Mansour some seven hours after the attack.
"We have been very clear eyed and very clear in our interaction with Pakistan, where we believe that they need to do more to root out terrorists who find safe haven in some of their territory and we're going to continue to do that," he said.
The US, he argued, would not get into the operational details of the strike against Mansour, "except to say that these are very narrow windows in any case."
"It is not just with friends and allies or partners or whoever, but in any of these instances it's absolutely vital to keep operational security," he argued.
Responding to a question, Toner said the US has conveyed to the Pakistani government and authorities before that they need to pursue actively terrorist organisations that are using their soil, their territory to find refuge.
"We've also said before that Pakistan is a country that, unfortunately, knows the effects of terrorism, the tragedy of terrorism. It's suffered multiple terrorist attacks, mass casualty terrorist attacks. So it understands the stakes here," he added.
"But we're going to continue to work with the Pakistani authorities and a full faith effort, both to give them the tools they need and the capabilities they need to confront this threat and we're going to also continue to, as we share intelligence and other information with them, to point out that we believe that terrorists are finding safe haven," Toner said.
Mansour was coming to Quetta from Taftan, Balochistan, when his car came under the drone attack, killing him and his driver.
A passport and a computerised national identity card found near the burnt car bore the name of Muhammad Wali.
While Pakistan has not officially stated that the person killed in the drone strike was Mansour, US President Barack Obama has confirmed that the man killed was the Taliban supremo, believed to be in his early 50s.
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It was early in the afternoon on January 26th of this year when David Kato, a Ugandan teacher and LGBT rights activist, was brutally attacked in his home by a male assailant. The attacker hit him twice on the head with a hammer then fled. Kato died en route to the hospital.
Ugandan police claimed it was a botched robbery, but Kato's colleagues strongly suspected other motives. Kato had reported increased death threats ever since a Ugandan tabloid named Rolling Stone had published an article with the names, addresses, and photographs of 100 people it claimed were gay or lesbian, accompanied by the headline, "Hang them." Kato, perhaps Uganda's most prominent LGBT activist, was pictured on the front page.
Kato and other LGBT people in Uganda lived—and continue to live—in a hostile social and political climate. A draconian bill that would increase the punishment for homosexual acts was introduced in the Ugandan parliament by MP David Bahati in October 2009. Under this bill, which has broad popular support, "repeat offenders" can face life imprisonment.
Two days after his brutal murder, friends, family members, and fellow activists gathered to bury Kato. The presiding minister, for reasons known only to him and God, decided it was a good time to launch into an anti-gay sermon complete with pointed references to Sodom and Gomorrah. After activists grabbed the microphone from the offending minister, Bishop Christopher Ssenyonjo, who had been excommunicated by the Anglican Church of Uganda for his ministry to LGBT people, finished presiding over the funeral.
Those present at Kato's funeral knew that Bishop Christopher had himself been cited in the infamous Rolling Stone article that called for Kato's death. A heterosexual supporter of LGBT rights, he was pictured on its front page right next to the man he would later bury.
It's taken me a while to come to terms with the murder of David Kato. I didn't know him, so here I'll add my name to the long list of people who have appropriated his death without being directly impacted by his loss.
I've tried to imagine what went through the mind of the man who killed him. Perhaps after seeing his victim stare in incomprehension, after striking the first blow and watching Kato hold his head in agony, the man's anger could have—should have—subsided, the trace of a doubt should have crept into his conscience and stopped him from striking another blow. Here, present to him, the heft of a man clearly suffering, placed in the scale against some contested ideas about the proprietyof same-sex love. Here, standing or crouching in front of him, a suffering it would be pointless to deny.
I wonder at those who do in fact deny this suffering; who from their pulpits whip their flocks into the white heat of hatred; who pour contempt on the child molesters, the corrupters of youth, the destroyers of marriage, and then, as if to put all things right again, exhort their followers to hate the sin but love the sinner.
I know what drives the hammer. What drives the hammer is a lethal combination of ignorance and bigotry. It's self-loathing, a senseless fear of contagion, a criminal disregard for the basic facts of human sexuality. What drives the hammer is a boundless priestly arrogance, the arrogance of the contemporary Pharisee who quotes Leviticus over a plate of boiled shellfish.
Here is how one of his colleagues remembered David Kato (via GayUganda):
I am at work.
Fact is, my concentration is terrible. Bits and fits, that is when I can concentrate. Seems as if everywhere I turn, I see, think, hear, know only what has happened to David.
My partner was the first to hear the news. I was in the bathroom. And, his shout made me rush out to investigate. It was then I got an sms. From someone else.
No, it did not sink in last night.
My partner was crying. Me, too hardened. Have to express my emotions in different ways. But, I was unsettled.
My partner went, with a few others, to the police in Mukono, and from there to David's home. Where he was killed. Speculation was rife about what had happened. Yes, David was much more open than I am. He used to say that he was the first 'out' gay Ugandan. Indeed, I saw one documentary in which he featured, filmed at his place, which he was still building.
Sad. He built the house. Has barely used it a year. He moved in, as is common here, before the house was ready. But, that is life.
Shit. It is hard. Life, it is hard.
Times when he lived in Masaka. Was actually a head teacher there, if I remember correctly. Then he moved to Nansana, where he seemed to always have problems with the locals. He was too open as a gay man. He would drink, and challenge them. And, he opened his house to the likes of other gay people when they felt threatened at their homes. The likes of George Oundo, if I remember well. And others.
Then he got a place in Mukono, and started building his house. The house where he was brutally murdered, just yesterday.
Sigh ... nostalgia ...
Maybe for the days when he was still alive to pester us with his demands, his beliefs in what he wanted to have done. He was a doer, and, in a difficult environment, he was an achiever. With scanty resources, he did what he could, and did it fairly well.
Of course he was a human being. Cantankerous, devious, quarrelsome.
But, he was a human being, a fighter, going to the police cells to look for those accused of being gay. Going to court to stand up for our rights.
Today is time to celebrate the life of a human rights activist, whose life, that basic human right of all, was brutally cut short. Just yesterday.
I talked to David the other day, on the phone, about his hacked email. We were worried about that seeming non entity now … !
Kato David Kisule. RIP. Wonder where his twin is.
RIP, David
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8 tornadoes touch down in northeast Colorado as…
8 tornadoes touch down in northeast Colorado as storms cause flash flooding
Tornadoes include one east of Brighton and another northeast of Fort Morgan
By Jon Murray | jmurray@denverpost.com and Kirk Mitchell | kmitchell@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
Severe storms moved out of northeast Colorado on Monday night after spawning eight tornadoes that touched down in open spaces, causing little or no damage, authorities said.
Storms also dropped quarter-sized to tennis-ball-sized hail in several parts of northern and northeastern Colorado, said Kyle Fredin, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Boulder. Heavy rains prompted flash flooding on streets and fields in the Julesburg area at about 6:30 p.m.
The tornado nearest to the Denver metro area was spotted just before 5 p.m. about 1 mile south of Lochbuie, east of Brighton, Fredin said. That funnel came midway through a spate of eight twisters over nearly five hours beginning in the early afternoon — a day after nine tornadoes touched down in Colorado on Sunday.
"Luckily they haven't really been anything that have caused any damage," Fredin said of the Monday twisters, calling all of them "weak tornadoes."
This is the funnel cloud over Brighton looking east. 📷: Trisha Gordon Beals. #COwx pic.twitter.com/MKrcUhyGcK
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"They were all in open land, and they were all brief and hard to see," he added later. "Those were all typical for northeast Colorado."
Other tornadoes Monday landed near silos at a cattle ranch near Fort Morgan, as well as 8 miles south of Strasburg and about 4 miles northeast of Fort Morgan, near feed silos, the weather service said.
The outside warning sirens were set off as a funnel cloud was spotted southeast of Fort Lupton. Near Lochbuie. We are currently waiting to sound the all clear until the storm passes. pic.twitter.com/9SDabc25N6
— Fort Lupton Fire (@FLFPD) May 27, 2019
Evening twisters were spawned near Holyoke and other far-northeast towns, Fredin said.
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