|Publication number||US4384302 A|
|Application number||US 06/278,449|
|Publication date||May 17, 1983|
|Filing date||Jun 29, 1981|
|Priority date||Jun 29, 1981|
|Publication number||06278449, 278449, US 4384302 A, US 4384302A, US-A-4384302, US4384302 A, US4384302A|
|Inventors||Hans G. Schwarz|
|Original Assignee||Rca Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (7), Classifications (7), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates to video signal processing apparatus and particularly to apparatus for limiting amplitude excursions of a composite video signal.
In certain color picture information processing systems, it is advantageous to employ FM techniques in the transmission of video information. See, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,934,263; 4,022,968; and 4,005,474, which disclose video disc recording arrangements in which a recording signal is formed which includes a picture carrier wave modulated in frequency in accordance with the amplitude of a composite color video signal inclusive of luminance and chrominance signal components.
In such video disc (or tape) recording systems, bandwidth limitations of the recording media can limit the modulation index for the higher frequency components of the video signal to such an extent that a signal-to-noise ratio reduction may occur for signal frequency components near the higher end of the modulating signal band. For this reason, it is conventional practice in disc and tape recording systems to translate the chrominance signal from its normal location at the upper end of the luminance band to a lower frequency so that the signal-to-noise ratio loss of the chrominance component does not become excessive. Pritchard, in U.S. Pat. No. 3,872,498, discloses translating systems which interleave or "bury" the chrominance signal within the midband portion of the luminance signal band. This technique is commonly referred to as "buried subcarrier" (BSC) encoding and prevents degradation of the chrominance signal-to-noise ratio for at least the reasons mentioned above.
While the chrominance signal-to-noise ratio may be improved by means of buried subcarrier encoding, a different approach is used to overcome the loss which may occur for higher frequency luminance signal components. Conventionally, the luminance signal is subjected to high frequency preemphasis prior to modulation of the FM carrier so that a signal-to-noise ratio improvement may be realized when a complementary high frequency deemphasis is imparted to the luminance component of the FM carrier (e.g., in a disc or tape player). To prevent the preemphasized luminance signal from causing excessive carrier deviation of the frequency modulator, some form of video signal limiting is needed. In a known method of composite video signal limiting, the luminance signal is clipped at predetermined levels and summed with the chrominance signal to form a composite signal which is then clipped and applied to the modulator.
It has been found that when a composite video signal is limited by clipping its peaks at fixed levels and used, for example, to drive the cutterhead of a video disc mastering lathe, certain undesirable effects may be observable in a picture produced when the mastering substrate or a pressed disc is played back and displayed on a television receiver or monitor. In particular, it has been found that for certain program material, the chrominance content of the picture may tend to undesirably influence the picture luminance level and flesh tones may tend to exhibit an unnatural hue.
A substantial reduction in chrominance-luminance signal interference and hue shifts may be realized by controllably compressing the chrominance signal in the manner proposed by Wharton et al. in their U.S. Pat. No. 4,316,213 entitled "Video Signal Processing Apparatus", which was filed Sept. 23, 1980. In the Wharton et al. apparatus, the chrominance component of a composite video signal is compressed in response to peaks in excess of a given value of a control signal. The control signal is derived from a selected one of (1) the chrominance component of the composite video input signal, (2) a sum of the chrominance component of the composite video input signal and the preemphasized luminance signal and (3) the output composite video signal produced by the apparatus.
The technique of controlled chrominance signal compression of Wharton et al. provides a desirable reduction of even order harmonic distortion of the chrominance signal. This is particularly advantageous where the video signal is of the buried subcarrier format proposed by Pritchard and in which the chrominance signal subcarrier choice is such that its second harmonic falls within the luminance signal band. A visual effect of the presence of the undesired second harmonic of the chrominance signal in the luminance signal band is the formation of picture anomalies such as vertical bars or variations of brightness with the level of color saturation.
Notwithstanding the advantage of the controlled chrominance signal compression technique proposed by Wharton et al., a need exists in video signal limiting apparatus for further reduction in even order harmonic distortion of the chrominance component of a composite video signal. A need also exists for simplified and precise control of the peak amplitude limits of the processed composite video signal. The present invention is directed to meeting these needs.
Video signal processing apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes filter means for separating a composite video input signal into two components comprising a luminance signal and a chrominance signal. A first limiter means limits the luminance signal to a range of values defined by first and second reference signals to provide a limited luminance signal. A circuit means provides a first control signal proportional to a potential difference between the limited luminance signal and the first reference signal and provides a second control signal proportional to a potential difference between the limited luminance signal and the second reference signal. A second limiter means symmetrically limits excursions in either sense of the chrominance signal to the lesser of the control signals. The limited luminance and limited chrominance signals are combined to provide a composite video output signal limited to a range defined by the reference signals and in which the chrominance component thereof exhibits symmetry with respect to the level of the luminance component thereof.
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram, partially in schematic form, of a composite video signal limiter embodying the invention; and
FIGS. 2-5 are waveform diagrams illustrating operation of the composite video signal limiter of FIG. 1.
The apparatus of FIG. 1 is useful in applications where it is desired to confine amplitude excursions of a baseband color video signal to a predetermined range of values and where, under limiting conditions, minimizing of color distortion is desired. Such applications include baseband transmission systems (e.g., closed circuit video monitoring) as well as carrier transmission systems (e.g., AM broadcast TV transmitters, FM video disc or tape recorders, etc.) in which it is desired that the signal supplied to the FM or AM carrier wave modulator be limited to prevent excessive deviation or overmodulation. As will be explained, the chrominance component of the composite video signal is controlled in such a manner that it exhibits symmetry with respect to the luminance signal component under limiting conditions and the composite video output signal is confined to predictable and independently controllable limits.
The composite video signal limiter comprises an input terminal 10 for receiving a composite video input signal inclusive of a luminance signal component and a chrominance signal component. Terminal 10 is connected to the input of a filter 12 which separates the composite signal into its luminance (Luma) and chrominance (Chroma) signal components. Illustratively, filter 12 may comprise the combination of a low pass filter (for Luma) and a high pass filter (for Chroma), such filters being well known. Preferably, however, filter 12 is of the comb filter type to provide maximum filtering efficiency (i.e., signal separation). Comb filters for separating luminance and chrominance signals are well known. See, generally, U.S. Pat. No. 3,872,498 of Pritchard and U.S. Pat. No. 3,966,010 of Kawamoto which disclose high performance comb filters suitable for use in video disc apparatus.
The luminance signal produced by filter 12 is supplied via a path including a preemphasis circuit 14, a luminance signal limiter 16 and a delay element 30 to a first input of a two input summing circuit 32.
The function of preemphasis circuit 14 is to enhance the higher frequency components of the luminance signal so that a signal-to-noise ratio improvement may be realized when, for example, the signal is later recovered from a video disc record and subjected to complementary deemphasis. Illustratively, for video disc mastering, circuit 14 may comprise a resistance-capacitance or a resistance-inductance type of lead-lag network with element values selected to provide a lead break point at 0.25 MHz, a lag break point of 1.0 MHz and a slope of 6 dB/octave to provide a net boost of 12 dB to the higher frequency luminance signal components.
Limiter 16 (outlined in phantom) limits the amplitude of the preemphasized luminance signal to a range defined by reference voltages V1 and V2 which correspond to the desired upper and lower limits of the composite video output signal of the apparatus of FIG. 1. Illustratively, it will be assumed that V1 corresponds to a level of +144 IRE units and that V2 corresponds to a level of -70 IRE units. Limiter 16 comprises a current limiting resistor 18 coupled between the output of preemphasis circuit 14 and a circuit node 20 which, in turn, is connected via a first diode 22 to an input terminal 24 for receiving the voltage V1 and via a second diode 26 to an input terminal 28 for receiving the voltage V2. The diodes 22 and 26 are poled in a sense such that the diode 22 becomes conductive if the preemphasized luminance signal should be more positive than V1 (plus the diode threshold voltage) and diode 26 becomes conductive if the preemphasized luminance signal should be more negative than V2 (minus the diode threshold voltage). In this way, the preemphasized and limited luminance signal produced at node 20 is confined to a range of values defined by the voltages V1 and V2 (plus two diode threshold voltages). One may, if desired, replace the illustrated "passive" shunt diode limiter with the well known "active" or feedback form of limiter in which feedback techniques are used to minimize the effects of the diode threshold voltages. See, generally, the textbook "Operational Amplifiers" by Tobey et al., published in 1971 by McGraw-Hill Company, particularly Chapter 7 for examples of feedback limiter circuits.
Delay element 30 compensates for delay differences in the luminance and chrominance signal processing paths of the composite video signal limiter to prevent misregistration of the luminance and chrominance components of the processed composite video output signal. Delay differences exist mainly because of differences in bandwidth of the luminance and chrominance channels with the luminance channel having the wider bandwidth (e.g., 3-4 MHz or so) and the chrominance channel having the narrower bandwidth (e.g., about 1 MHz).
The chrominance signal produced by filter 12 is supplied via a path including an amplifier 40 and a chrominance signal limiter 50 to a second input of summing circuit 32 which combines the preemphasized and limited luminance signal with the amplified and limited chrominance signal to provide a resultant composite video output signal at output terminal 34. Amplifier 40 amplifies the non-limited chrominance signal relative to the luminance signal which is desirable for improving the chrominance signal-to-noise ratio in video disc or tape recording systems and, illustratively, may have a gain of about three.
Chrominance signal limiter 50 (outlined in phantom) is of a type which limits excursions in either sense (i.e., positive or negative peaks) of the amplified chrominance signal produced by amplifier 40 to the smaller of two control signals S1 and S2 produced, as will be explained, by a control signal generator 80 to provide a symmetrically limited chrominance output signal to summing circuit 32.
Limiter 50 comprises a pair of amplitude modulators 71 and 72 which modulate high frequency carrier waves (e.g., 20 MHz or so) with the control signals S1 and S2, respectively. The carrier waves are supplied to the modulators by means of an oscillator 73. The output signal of modulator 71 is demodulated by positive and negative demodulators or detectors 74 and 75, respectively, to recover the first control signal +S1 and its inverse -S1. Similarly, the output of modulator 72 is demodulated by a second pair of positive and negative detectors 76 and 77 to recover the second control signal +S2 and its inverse -S2.
One function of the modulator-demodulator portion of limiter 50 is to generate the complements -S1 and -S2 of the control signals S1 and S2. Since the input control signals S1 and S2 are processed in the same manner (i.e., modulated and detected) as the complementary control signals -S1 and -S2, it is thereby assured that each of the four detected signals experience substantially the same time delay.
Another function of the modulator-demodulator portion of limiter 50 is to effectively remove the DC components of the input control signals S1 and S2 and reestablish the DC components of the four limit control signals +S1, -S1, +S2, and -S2 at a value equal to the average value of the chrominance input signal applied to terminal 52 of limiter 50. As an example, if the chrominance input signal has an average value of zero IRE units, then by connecting the low pass filter portion (not shown) of detectors 74-77 to a voltage source (e.g., ground) equivalent to a level of zero IRE units, the four limit signals will all exhibit symmetry with respect to the average value of the chrominance signal regardless of what the DC component of the two input control signals S1 and S2 may be.
The remainder of limiter 50 comprises four limiter diodes D1-D4 and a current limiting resistor 54. Resistor 54 is connected between the input 52 and output 56 terminals of the limiter. Detectors 74-77 are coupled to terminal 56 via respective limiter diodes D1-D4 poled in a sense such that the less positive of the control signals +S1 and +S2 will limit positive excursions of the chrominance output signal and the less negative of the control signals -S1 and -S2 will limit negative excursions of the chrominance output signal.
The control signals S1 and S2 for limiter 50 are produced by a limit signal generator 80 which includes a subtractor 82 for subtracting the preemphasized and limited luminance signal L from the upper limit reference voltage V1 (assumed to correspond to +144 IRE units) to produce the control signal S1. A second subtractor 84 in generator 80 subtracts the lower limit reference voltage V2 from the preemphasized and limited luminance signal, L, to provide the second control signal S2 to limiter 50.
FIGS. 2-5 provide a detailed illustration of the overall operation of the composite video signal limiter of FIG. 1 under the assumed conditions that: (1) the gain of amplifier 40 is times three (X3); (2) the composite video input signal supplied to terminal 10 is an NTSC color bar pattern of moderately high brightness level (75% Luma) and of moderately high color saturation level (75% Chroma); and (3) the desired upper and lower levels of the composite video output signal are +144 and -70 IRE units, respectively. The assumed values of amplifier gain and video signal limits have been found advantageous in video disc mastering applications but other gain and limiting conditions may be preferable in other applications.
The composite video input signal choice is arbitrary but serves to illustrate relatively typical signal levels of color television program material (full levels of brightness and saturation occur relatively infrequently in typical program material). The specific choice of 75% brightness and color saturation is also convenient in that it is a standard test signal format available on conventional color bar generators. As to alignment, the reference voltages V1 and V2 are adjusted to values corresponding to the desired output signal limits of +144 and -70 IRE units.
FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrate the waveform of the luminance signal produced by filter 12 and the chrominance signal produced at the output of amplifier 40, respectively, for the assumed conditions (for ease of illustration, the luminance signal is shown without preemphasis). As seen from FIG. 2, the luminance signal varies between -40 IRE units during the sync tip interval to 75 IRE units duirng the white (W) bar interval. The luminance levels for yellow (Y), cyan (C), green (G), magenta (M), red (R), and blue (B) are 66, 53, 44, 31, 22, and 9 IRE units, respectively. In FIG. 3, the 75% saturated and times three amplified chrominance signal is seen to be symmetrical about the zero IRE unit axis and has peak values for burst and the six color bars Y, C, G, M, R, and B of 60, 101, 142, 133, 133, 142, 101 IRE units, respectively.
FIG. 4 illustrates the undesirable effect which would result if the waveforms of FIGS. 2 and 3 were combined and applied to a conventional fixed level limiter or clipper circuit having limiting levels of +144 and -70 IRE units. The cyan color bar, for example, having peaks of 195 and -89 IRE units, if clipped at 144 and -70 IRE units would have an average value of 37 IRE units. That value differs from the value of the luminance signal (53 units) by 16 units and thus the cyan color bar would not be symmetrical with respect to the luminance signal level. An effect of such asymmetry is creation of even order harmonic distortion products. For the specific example given, all of the color bars, if clipped at levels of 144 and -70 IRE units will exhibit asymmetry with respect to the luminance signal level.
Referring again to FIG. 2, it is seen that for the color cyan, the signal S1 equals 91 units and is less than S2 which equals 123 units. The greatest peak to peak value the chrominance signal can assume is therefore ±91 units relative to the luminance level (53 units) to avoid asymmetrical limiting. In chrominance signal limiter 50, detectors 74 and 75 bias diodes D1 and D2 to turn on when the chrominance signal exceeds 91 IRE units in either sense (positive or negative) thereby limiting the chrominance signal amplitude to ±91 IRE units so that the sum of the luminance and chrominance signals for the color cyan is limited to 144 units and the chrominance component is symmetrically limited with respect to the luminance level (53 units) as shown in FIG. 5.
FIG. 2 also illustrates the permissible limits of the red color bar where it is seen that the signal S2 (92 units) is smaller than S1 (122 units). For this condition, the maximum chrominance signal amplitude is ±92 units to avoid exceeding the lower limit of -70 units and retain symmetry with respect to the luminance signal level (22 units). Accordingly, for this case, detectors 76 and 77 bias diodes D3 and D4 to limit the chrominance signal to ±92 units for the red color bar.
From the foregoing, it is apparent that by limiting excursions in either sense of the chrominance signal to the smaller of the signals S1 and S2 which represent the difference between the luminance signal and the desired upper and desired lower limiting levels, that: (1) the average value of the composite output signal for each color bar will equal the level of the luminance signal component; and (2) the peak amplitude of the composite video signal can never exceed the illustrative limiting values of +144 and -70 IRE units. Thus, even though each of the color bars is reduced in saturation level, the reduction is symmetrical with respect to the luminance signal level and is by an amount that confines excursions of the composite video output signal to the desired limiting range. Advantageously, each limit of the range may be independently controlled without affecting the other limit by appropriate selection of the voltages V1 and V2 applied to terminals 24 and 28, respectively.
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Guitarist/vocalist Kim McAuliffe and bassist/vocalist Dinah ‘Enid’ Williams originally came together in 1975 under the moniker Painted Lady after growing up alongside one another on the mean streets of Wandsworth while staring down the inhospitable climate that greeted the idea of the “fairer … Read More
…MORBID SAINT are back and Century Media have dusted off their arsenal of thrash classics for all you vinyl fiends. With debut album ‘SPECTRUM OF DEATH’ on wax again and a deluxe CD reissue that includes unreleased demos and the remastered version of lost album ‘DESTRUCTION SYSTEM’, GUY STRACHAN tracked down guitarist JAY VISSER to find out how it feels to be Morbid again…
“It truly is incredible that after all these years this band is where it is. We never played or wrote these songs with the intent that 25 plus years later we’d still be playing them, talking about them, or performing them live all over the world. We were just a bunch of kids hanging out that sucked at playing our instruments, without any direction or too much thought about what we were doing other than we were having a lot of fun doing it.”
Despite their stated lack of knowledge about what they were doing, Morbid Saint would go on to become one of the thrash underground’s best-kept secrets for many years after their initial tenure. Formed in the small town of Sheboyhan, Wisconsin in November 1984, the quartet of guitarists Jay Visser and Jim Fergades, drummer Lee … Read More
A lot of metal bands have an unconventional tale of how they began, but it’s fairly certain that Durham’s Winds of Genocide are the only group that can boast it being put into motion by a bang on a window. “We officially formed in early 2006, as a two-piece, but it took us until 2009 to find a drummer and begin actively rehearsing,” vocalist Kat Shevil tells us. “A Swedish guy called Linus, studying at the university here, drunkenly walked past my flat one night and saw the Skitsystem sticker on my bedroom window. He banged on my living room window and we ended up going to the local pub for a pint. We soon realised that we had not just a mutual love for crust punk but also for death and black metal; about four months later we were writing our first songs with him on drums!”
Linus has since departed the band, replaced by Ian Hunter and, in the last nine years, the four-piece have put out a demo and an EP, as well as two splits with Abigail and Firstblood, Diskelmä and Satellite. About to release their debut album ‘Usurping The Throne Of Disease’, Kat and co’s self-proclaimed … Read More
Municipal Waste may have crowned themselves as the kings of party, with a drunken fan-base stumbling behind them but Tony Foresta, like his other Waste bandmates, shows a different side with Iron Reagan. Despite playing “house shows and dive bars” for the last couple of years, the crossover project consisting of Rob Skotis (Hellbear), Mark Bronzino (Mammoth Grinder, ANS) and Ryan Parrish (ex-Darkest Hour) have just been added to the Relapse roster allowing their politically-fuelled punk to reach the masses. “For me it’s cool because you can’t really go into that territory lyrically with Municipal Waste,” Tony explains when discussing the very obvious political themes. “Nobody wants to hear a band that sings about drinking the entire time try to wax philosophical about women’s rights in Virginia!”
With their debut album ‘Worse Than Dead’ released last year, Iron Reagan are already following it up with a 13 song EP coming soon and although it only lasts an insane seven minutes, there’s an evolution to be heard. “I think with the addition of Mark and Rob to the band it definitely has a darker sound, as well as being heavier. It’s still fast as shit though. Hardcore punk metal, man.”
As well as … Read More
Classic heavy-metal! Punk rock! Women yielding swords! The recipe worked so perfectly with Iron Dogs so why shouldn’t it with Ottawa’s Zex? Especially since they have in common multi-instrumentalist and former Germ Attak and Cauchemar live member Jo Capitalicide… While Iron Dogs are “not doing much at the moment”, with no warning this quartet have just unleashed their debut EP ‘Savage City’ on Electric Assault, two tracks of sing-alongs and fist-banging that conjures the late ’70s spirit of both the nascent NWOBHM and glam-punk scenes, performed by a half-female, half-male line-up. “Zex was a long time in the making,” unveils Jo. “But the concept lurked in my mind for a long time before finally materialising. With the demise of Germ Attak in 2011, I ended up with loads of unused ideas that I started working on about a year later. Gretchen was to be our singer and Rick Morin, who played bass for Germ Attak on our final tour, was to be our lead guitarist but sadly, as we had no rhythm section at the time, he soon left. We had to wait until people moved to Ottawa to get a full line-up and since last November, we‘ve been rehearsing … Read More
Kurt Brecht is man whose lungs have earned him his name firmly carved into the walls of crossover thrash history and as 2012 heralded DRI’s milestone 30th birthday, the band, fronted by Brecht toured the globe in celebration. However, as the band have decided against recording any new music the dirty rotten singer has gotten himself embroiled in a side project, Pasadena Napalm Division. Taking their name from their Texan hometown and not the Californian suburb, PND were founded back in 2008 when local Houston death thrashers Dead Horse split and were looking to form a new band. Guitarists Greg Martin, Scott Sevall and drummer Ronnie Guyote set about recruiting bassist Bubba Dennis who’d served time in Texan/SF hardcore punks Verbal Abuse and when they heard Kurt was back in Houston on downtime while DRI guitarist Spike recovered from cancer surgery he was the obvious guy to get on board.
Brecht’s spoke of his choice to join PND saying; “I listened to the songs they had and realised that it wouldn’t be too hard to write some lyrics for them. The guys in the band all seemed really nice too. I’d never jammed with anyone outside of DRI before, except … Read More
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Joe Bruno Stepping Down
The personal reasons sound convincing in this case, but I can't help but wonder whether the decision not to run again made by 79-year-old Joe ...
The personal reasons sound convincing in this case, but I can't help but wonder whether the decision not to run again made by 79-year-old Joe Bruno, the longtime Republican leader in the New York Senate, is a sign he believes his party is about to lose its decades-old hold on the chamber.
His decision did not appear to be related to a federal investigation of his outside business interests, according to people with knowledge of the investigation.
But there was little doubt that Mr. Bruno had grown fatigued in recent months, worn down by the two-year investigation, the increasing stress over whether his party could hold on to its one-seat majority in the Senate, and the death in January of his wife of 57 years, Bobbie.
"After 32 years in office, I have decided that it is time to move on with my life and to give my constituents an opportunity for new representation and my colleagues in the Senate who have supported me an opportunity for new leadership," Mr. Bruno said in a statement. He added: "Politics is a tough ballgame. Tougher now than it has ever been."
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Tycoon actor Kang Dong Won is eyeing FNC Entertainment?
FNC Entertainment seems to continue attracting celebrities after nabbing the nation's MC Yoo Jae Suk and the latest on the list is the powerful tycoon and actor Kang Dong Won.
It is reported that Kang Dong Won's contract with United Artist Agency will expire in November and once he completes filming schedules for his upcoming movie "A Violent Prosecutor" he's transferring to a new agency eventually.
As early as now, many agencies are already contacting the top actor and it is reported that FNC Entertainment has made their love call as well. However, FNC denies, "It's not true that we have discussed exclusive contract with Kang Dong Won."
Kang Dong Won is known to have an impressive educational background and his family has a powerful social status.

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Jul 01, 2022
Two Women Rescued While Lost Hiking Shirley Canyon Trail In Tahoe
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TAHOE (CBS13) — A rescue team saved two women from a cliff after they got stuck while hiking on steep terrain at Palisades Tahoe this week. The stranded hikers ended up looking down on 800 feet of cliff face with nowhere to go, resulting in a 911 call.
On Thursday, June 30, police dispatched the Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue Team to help the two women get raised to safety.According to a statement by the Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue Team, a rescuer arrived before dark and scaled the rocks up to assist the two women on the resort’s Shirley Canyon Trail. The women were first relocated to a safer tree and then hooked up to anchors in order to create a belay system, which attaches a climber to a lifeline.
Then, the rescue team hauled the women to a position where ropes were no longer necessary, a process that took three-and-a-half hours. The two women then hiked in the direction they originally came from and were back down to ground level safely by 2:30 a.m.
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Robyn Griggs, soap star and film actress, dead at 49
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Robyn Griggs, a television and film star best known for her roles on soap operas “Another World” and “One Life To Live,” has died at the age of 49.
The star’s official Facebook account announced the sad news Saturday afternoon in a statement.
“Hi everyone, With a heavy heart, I am saddened to announce Robyn’s passing,” the post began.
“However, she is no longer suffering and would want us to remember that and the good memories.I will never forget how open she was to telling her story, and accepting of me helping her tell it. She wanted to help people and spread the word of her story to do it. I was honored to do so.RIP my friend, I love you and smile when I think of you.”
Griggs — who married golf pro Mark Wiley in 2013 — was very transparent with friends and fans when it came to her health troubles, as she was diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer in 2020 and as recently as last month revealed that she had developed four new tumors.Griggs was diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer in 2020. Facebook/Robyn Wiley
“I have 4 new tumors. 2 new tumors on my liver, one on abdominal muscle and large one on right side lymph node,” Griggs posted to her account July 7. “So in pain and I goto chemo Monday am. I told them whatever it takes,. I’m in for the fight.”
The account also confirms that on Aug. 11 — just two days before her passing — the actress moved into hospice care.The actress’ death was announced via her Facebook account. MediaPunch / BACKGRID
“She has fought with determination, strength, and grace that is nothing short of inspirational. Please continue keep Robyn and her family in your thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.”The small screen star featured on soap opera “Another World” for two years. MediaPunch / BACKGRID
Griggs played Stephanie Hobart on “One Life to Live” in a total of six episodes in 1991. She went on to play Maggie Cory on “Another World” for two years.
She later starred in films such as 2003’s “Severe Injuries” and 2010’s “Hellweek.”Filed under actors , celebrity deaths , soap operas , 8/14/22

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http://www.hairyplugmonster.com/ Today was a rather hectic affair, we took delivery of 5000 copies of the second edition run of The Hairy Plug Monster and they look awesome. I cant praise the printers Stephens and George enough, who have produced a world class product. Without trying to sound too much like an "ebayer" I would recommend them to anyone who has aspirations to bring out a book. in fact anyone who needs any largescale printing done.
We have a larger format, better font and the finish on the front cover is to die for. Toys and Tales in Bramhall http://www.toysandtales.com/ have become the first official stockist of the HPM and hopefully the first of many. Two more copies were dropped off at Pownall Green and Banks Lane Infant schools today, together with a covering letter about how I was a former pupil and how I would like to thank them for the time I spent there with a copy of my book....
Pownall Green especially, owe me one because when I was 11 together with a girl called Susan Champion, we won the Stockport Book Quiz and with it a copy of Hans Christian Anderson tales for myself and 200.00 worth of books for the school. In hindsight it probably ranks as one of my greatest academic achievements.
The hard work starts tomorrow in earnest with a new career change as a book promoter, to be honest I am slightly overawed with the whole thing. It would be nice to just write the buggers and let someone more capable than me do the silver tongue selling, but then it wouldn't be my publishing company.
I need to get hold of a list of book shops and schools and write to them one by one, extolling the virtues of the HPM and its rightful place in modern literature... Its just a question of getting the message out there,
On the plus side, I have managed to track down a really good friend who I have not seen since I left school, and while I have been flirting with the dregs of society (as well as being a good family man) she has got her head down and is now someone big at the beeb. So apart from renewing an old friendship, she might have some proper advice I can follow, rather than the badly written tutorials from other peoples blogs.
In fact considering I went to a state school, almost all the people I grew up around have gone on to be leaders in their own right with one thing and another. For instance one girl captained the England Hockey Team whilst another is on t.v. everyday advertising a phone company ( she was in my drama group as well - so I like to think that she may have got a little bit of her talent from me....not) - even my first love went on to be the hirer and firer at THE bake bean company.

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Rethink: Tourism Master Plan
Vancouver's first ever Tourism Master Plan now has the blessing of Tourism Vancouver, the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Economic Commission, and is ready for your perusal.
In the master plan document (click here), you'll also find a situational analysis of the key assets, constraints and opportunities facing Vancouver's tourism industry; the goals that were set at the start of the process; recommendations in eight areas of focus, from product development to transportation; and ideas for implementation of the plan.
Tourism Master Plan Background
The Vancouver Tourism Master Plan (TMP) follows the Rethink Vancouver visioning process conducted in 2011 which recommended seven actions be taken by Tourism Vancouver, including the creation by Tourism Vancouver and the City of Vancouver of a Tourism Master Plan. Furthermore, this TMP has been designed to build on the four key pillars of destination management identified by Rethink:
- Marketing: Develop a unified tourism industry, allowing collaboration on marketing where appropriate with a focus on tourism customers.
- Planning: Encourage a regional Tourism Master Plan with a focus on stakeholder interests.
- Policy: Establish a forum to develop industry consensus with a focus on influencing policy makers.
- Product: Build energy through product development with a focus on attracting investors.
The TMP is intended to close the gap between the demand side of the equation (Tourism Vancouver / visitors and new markets) and the supply side (new products and services / tourism business owners /investors and policy makers at the City and other levels of government). The TMP is also intended to provide a consensus between the stakeholders who participate in decision making on tourism-related development for the City and advising investors /businesses on where they should be putting their energies. A broad range of input and opinions have been considered as part of this process with more than 180 one-on one stakeholder interviews conducted by Resonance Consultancy and participation of more than 2,000 Vancouver residents and business leaders via an online survey.
Based on this input, key issues and opportunities for potential products, amenities, programming and experiences broadly supported by both the tourism industry and Vancouver residents have been identified in areas such as transportation, visitor experience, events, product development, partnerships and alliances, tourism infrastructure, marketing of neighbourhoods, and public affairs and advocacy on tourism related policies and issues.
To view the Vancouver Tourism Master Plan presentation, from Tourism Vancouver's AGM (June 13, 2013), please click here.
To view the final report of the Vancouver Tourism Master Plan, please click here.
The video below defines a Tourism Master Plan and explains how it can benefit a destination. In the video, Tourism Vancouver's former President and CEO Rick Antonson and Resonance Consultancy's Richard Cutting-Miller each explain the purpose of a tourism master plan and its importance to the growth of tourism in the city.
B.C. Liquor Review
At the end of September 2013, Tourism Vancouver invited members to share their thoughts on B.C.'s liquor laws with the government, through an online survey. Tourism Vancouver then compiled those results along with research from the Vancouver Tourism Master Plan, and submitted it to Mr. John Yap, Chair, BC Liquor Review, Parliamentary Secretary to Attorney General and Minister of Justice, on October 17, 2013. The government has now released the B.C. Liquor Policy Review Final Report. The report addresses many of the suggestions made by Tourism Vancouver members, in fact it has an entire chapter on the importance of economic growth, jobs, tourism and marketing (pages 20 -26).
From the online member survey, some 75% of the nearly 400 businesses that responded were of the view that current liquor regulations negatively impact Vancouver's ability to compete as a destination. When asked to rank a number of issues based on their importance and how they impact their business, the number one ranked issue was liquor licencing, followed by purchasing of liquor only through the BCLDB, Taxes on liquor purchases and BCLDB pricing system.Members were asked to include any comments relating to BC liquor regulations that they would like to share with Minister Yap. There were common themes such as, the need to serve liquor in other public areas (parks, beaches, festivals, hallways, etc.), prices and taxes are too high compared to other destinations, need longer hours to serve liquor, including Happy Hour and lack of wholesale prices.
To view Tourism Vancouver's submission to Mr. John Yap, Chair, BC Liquor Review, please click here.
Highlights from the B.C. Liquor Policy Review Final Report include:
- Creating a licensing system that responds to emerging marketplace realities and reflects current lifestyles and societal values.
- Providing flexibility for businesses and removing operational barriers, to help grow the economy while protecting public safety.
- Recognizing the importance of jobs and investment in the hospitality, tourism and agri-foods sectors, in support of the BC Jobs Plan and continued economic growth.
- Ensuring a sustainable liquor manufacturing sector.
- Providing for an efficient and effective liquor distribution system.
To view the B.C. Liquor Policy Review Final Report click here.
In the wake of the highly successful Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, the opening of the expanded Vancouver Convention Centre and the promise of a decade of tourism ahead, the time was right for stakeholders to come together to map out a vision and roadmap for destination marketing in Vancouver. The idea behind Rethink was to carry out a strategic assessment that was intended to respond to two key questions:
- What is it that the tourism industry would like to accomplish together in the coming decade?
- What, then, does destination marketing for Vancouver look like going forward, beginning in 2011?
The project was structured in two phases:
- Phase One (May-December 2010) focused on delivering a comprehensive strategy that would Rethink what it would take for Vancouver to achieve competitive advantage as a destination.
> Rethink Phase: 1 Report
- Phase Two (January-May 2011) responded to this strategy with a Rethink of Tourism Vancouver as a key agency to deliver success.
> Rethink Phase 2 Tourism Industry Summit Presentation
> Rethink Phase 2 Tourism Industry Summit Notes
For a copy of the letter from James Terry Chair, Rethink Advisory Council and Chair, Tourism Vancouver, click here.
Rethink Vancouver 2012 onwards:
The board of Tourism Vancouver endorsed the report in draft, and took the decision to move forward on the following recommendations:
- Work with appropriate partners to form the Lower Mainland Tourism Alliance.
- Work with the City of Vancouver to embark on a tourism master planning process for Vancouver. For full details and updates about Vancouver’s Tourism Master Plan, visit www.vancouvertourismplan.org
- Formalize Tourism Vancouver’s role in destination management and operate as a Destination Marketing and Management Organization (DMMO).
- Pursue a collaborative process to develop a broad community vision (a “World City”) for Vancouver.
- Focus resources on securing at least one major convention and one major event for each month of the year, every year, from 2012 – 2020.
- Pursue a network organizational model as a new approach toward engaging the tourism industry and stakeholders in building more business from key markets.
- Work with the Hotel Association of Vancouver (HAV) to form a “Coalition of interests”.
For a copy of the Rethink Vancouver Update, click here.


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Perspectives Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
A 2003 special issue of Perspectives marked the 30th year since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that women possess a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. The issue’s editorial introduction noted that the collection highlighted “what has been accomplished and what remains to be done in the effort to ensure safe, accessible and affordable abortions for women who need them.”
The issue encompassed a mix of pieces: a pair of research articles, a comment and a handful of provocative viewpoints. The two articles—by Guttmacher Institute researchers Lawrence Finer and Stanley Henshaw—presented findings from the Institute’s 13th survey of U.S. abortion providers, in 2001‒2002. The first reported that abortion incidence had declined slightly since the previous survey, in the mid-1990s, and that more than one in 10 abortion providers had closed their doors in the intervening years. The second article described significant barriers to women’s access—gestational limits, travel distance to a provider, cost and harassment from antiabortion protestors.
In the issue’s sole comment, Willard Cates, Jr., and colleagues assessed the public health impact of legalizing abortion, noting that what had once been an unsafe, clandestine procedure had been transformed into a safe one performed by professionals under medical conditions. The authors identified numerous health benefits, the most notable being a substantial reduction in abortion-related complications and death. The issue was rounded out by viewpoints covering a variety of topics—health care providers’ sometimes negative attitudes about abortion and the need for more abortion training programs; the social, moral and medical imperatives to support women who seek an abortion; and the need to convince and train providers to offer medication abortion. The editors encourage readers to revisit this special issue, and to keep an eye on Perspectives in 2023, when Roe will turn 50.


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Fantabulous Follies 2015
Fundraiser show proceeds to benefit Port Townsend High School drama program.
Going from Vaudeville to the Silver Screen, with lots of toe tappin' mixed in - we dare you to try and NOT sing along at the 10th annual Fantabulous Follies presented by the O'Meara Dance Studio. This, our final year, Artistic Director Joan O'Meara has put together a “fabulous” production of numbers to the theme of “Puttin' On the Glitz”; destined to delight audiences.
Performances are: Friday, March 13th, 7 PM, Saturday, March 14th, 1 PM Saturday, March 14th, 7 PM Port Townsend High School Auditorium
Tickets at the door: $10 Adults - $15 Couples - $5 Seniors
Victorian Heritage Festival
Join us March 20-22, 2015, for a celebration of our region's 19th Century history
Kick off Friday night with our pub crawl - featuring saloons, "shanghai tunnels," and fine vintage cocktails through a staggering selection of Port Townsend's (in)famous watering holes.
Saturday looks back to Port Townsend's maritime tradition along Water St. As always enjoy the stunning Victorian Fashion Show and the Grand Victorian Ball.
Concerts in the Woods:
Saturdays from March to May, 07:30pm - 09:00pm
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Looking for pace? Sorry, wrong channel.
But if you like seeing shots bounce harmlessly away from the basket, you have reached the right place.
The Orlando Magic managed to do just that, by netting only an astounding 31 of 94 shots (33%), including 7 of 39 from three point range (17.9%).
The Magic managed five field goals in the second quarter, and six in the fourth. The Magic scored just 13 fourth quarter points, after taking a three point lead into the fourth.
Armed with a 13 point halftime lead, the Chicago Bulls were not much better. The Bulls scared “tank fans” by sinking but TWO shots in the entirety of the third quarter, opening the third quarter on a 0-for-14 tear. They managed just nine points in that period.
“I was proud of the way our guys came out of halftime. They showed a lot of fight.” - Frank Vogel
With a three point lead heading into the fourth quarter, Frank Vogel was out of answers. Every offensive weapon in the Magic’s arsenal was on the floor, and with DJ, Mack, AG, Vuc and Hezonja on the floor, the Magic could not find a way to win.
“We got really cold. Missed some wide open threes, and didn’t get back and match defensively well enough.” – Vogel
There were no heroes in this one, but promising rookie Lauri Markkanen had an impressive first quarter with eight points in the first four minutes. He would finish with 13 points and eight rebounds.
His early offense contributed to a quick 25-11 lead, though the Magic would close to 30-24 by the end of the first.
Cameron Payne made all four of his shots in the first half for 11 with six assists, while Sean Kilpatrick led the reserves with 13 on 2 of 11 shooting. Noah Vonleh and Cristiano Felicio had 11 and 16 rebounds, respectively.
As for the Magic, Aaron Gordon was the leading scorer, albeit on 6 of 21 shooting, just 1 for 8 from three and seven assists, while Nikola Vucevic collected 12 points and 14 rebounds on 5 of 16 shooting.
Asked if Vogel approved of Gordon’s shot selection: “A lot of them, yes. A handful, no.”
Did You Notice?
The Chicago Bulls were expected to start Robin Lopez, but opted to start Cristiano Felicio instead. Lopez did not play a single minute.
Wesley Iwundu was set to return to the starting lineup, fresh from his upper respiratory infection, but was pulled from the lineup an hour before tip due to the same circumstance.


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Actor Siddique's elder son Shaheen Siddique is all set to enter the star kids block of Malayalam cinema. Shaheen will make his acting debut with Mammootty starrer Pathemari, directed by Salim Ahmed. Interestingly, Shaheen will be essaying the role of Mammootty's son in the movie.
The young actor, who is all excited about his movie debut, feels that he is blessed to make his acting debut as Mammootty's son. He will be playing a guy in his early 20's in the movie. Shaheen says that his father Siddique considers Mammootty as his elder brother and the veteran actor is a fatherly figure for him.
Shaheen, who is currently busy with his business career, was earlier approached for a couple of movies; but he was initially reluctant to pursue a career in movies. Another interesting fact is, Shaheen's father Siddique will also play a pivotal role in the movie; but the father and son won't be having combination scenes.
Pathemari is a social drama, which revolves around Pallickal Narayanan, an NRI, played by Mammootty. Sreenivasan will play another important role. Jewel Mary will essay the female lead opposite Mammootty in the movie. Pathemari is scripted by Salim Ahmed himself. The filming of the movie is progressing in Thrissur.

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The Degenerettes are an all-girl “queer art rock power trio” whose new release, Bad Girls Go To Hell, includes bass-driven, jangly fuzz guitar sounds and literary, often humorous songwriting – influenced by years on the garage rock, soul, roots, and punk rock scenes – that is earning them quite a following in their home city of Baltimore, Maryland. Here, Rahne Alexander (guitar, vocals, songwriting), Kristen Anchor (drums), and Chrissy Howland (bass) talk to Cherry Grrl and share their story of working hard to bring queer rock to Baltimore and beyond.
Cherry Grrl (CG): You describe yourselves as a “queer art rock power trio.” How would you explain that in more detail in terms of your style and sound as a band?
Kristen: We decided when we put this band together that foregrounding our queerness was politically important, but not necessarily musically important. I mean that we want to be open and matter-of-fact about who we are but also keep ourselves open in terms of songwriting. Rahne’s songwriting approach is less personal or confessional and more from a creative writing bent.
Chrissy: I am a firm believer in the “power trio.” Big bands are great, lots of sounds and voices can really be powerful. But, what really makes a good band is the ability to be great when you’re stripped down. Especially in the kind of music we make – the bass and drums are so important. If Kristen and I aren’t totally locked in with each other pretty much everything will go to shit. And you know, I like to pretend, as a bassist, that I’m the lead guitar player – so a trio gives me the necessary room to pull that off.
CG: Who do you each consider to be your musical influences?
Chrissy: PJ Harvey, 20,000, Johnny Cash, Walker Teret, Snacks, and my dad.
Rahne: I’m a big fan of challenging songwriters like Dory Previn, Harry Nilsson, and Laura Nyro, but I find things to love in pretty much all music and particularly rock & roll – from Big Mama Thornton to the Velvet Underground to the New Pornographers. I really love the queens of country music, especially Dolly Parton.
Kristen: Memphis soul and dirty garage rock. It is funny because I love anything raw, energetic, urgent, scratchy, lofi – the more lofi the better. Rahne likes really well produced studio sound and polished songwriting. So the band is heavily influenced by those juxtapositions.
CG: If you had to compare your style of music and sound to another band who would that be?
Chrissy: Those girls in garages from the 60s. Clair Lane, The Beatlettes, etc. However, Rahne’s lyrics are a little too complex and bizarre for us to totally be comparable to those groups. Our songs are not exactly about “Daddy keeping us away from our bad-boy boyfriends,” etc. Not that I’m dissing those songs – I love them. Women in the 50s were a little limited as far as what they were allowed to sing about, if they wanted to stay on their label. Most of the time those girls weren’t even writing their own material. But the feel is similar, for sure. So I guess it’s ironic that we make “garage” sounding music with such radical subject matter.
CG: What types of topics and themes are addressed on Bad Girls Go to Hell?
Kristen: Mummies, CIA agents, Utz Chips, ladies with big trucks and getting in trouble.
Chrissy: How, when and where to fuck shit up.
CG: How did you 3 come together as a band?
Rahne: The Degenerettes were already going for a couple of years and one night at a gig we were sharing the bill with Chrissy. She told us that she wanted to be in the band, and what she didn’t know at the time was that the old bassist was about to leave for grad school. So I guess you could call it fate.
Chrissy: I made threats of violence. Rahne and Kristen had no choice but to adopt me. Some things in life I know, for instance – whose band better have me playing bass, or else.
CG: What’s behind the band’s name, The Degenerettes?
Chrissy: I think it’s Rahne’s fault.
Rahne: I plead the fifth.
CG: What do you each do when you aren’t performing or recording?
Rahne: I help organize events like the Maryland Film Festival and the Charm City Kitty Club – which is the queer cabaret in Baltimore where Kristen and I met. I also make films and video art and I write for various publications. Kristen is a video artist and curator and runs a non-profit media center at this great venue called Creative Alliance.
Chrissy: Oh God. I think I might most always be performing or recording. I’ve been in the studio for the last 48 hours… working on recordings of my other band – Jack Chick. I play in a lot of bands, make films, perform in variety shows, etc. I’m burdened by this massive boredom guilt. Like I’m supposed to be too smart and productive to get bored so I never stop running around. However, when I do get free time I typically hang out at home: painting, gardening, fort building, trying to will myself into being possessed by Susan Sontag, read (Sontag, de Beauvoir, Freud – as of lately), A LOT of movies are watched on a pretty much daily basis; I burn a lot of incense. I’ve been working for the past 6 months on an installation called “Xanax, Chicken Shit and Amulets – An Illustration of the Post-Modern (American) Female,” paintings, drawings, and sculpture embodied in compulsively compiled and displayed stereotypical Victorian era decor, addressing the modern “female model” as it relates to the Victorian model.
CG: What have been the highlights of your career so far as The Degenerettes?
Rahne: My favorite single night so far was sharing the stage with Pansy Division and the Avengers – meeting Penelope Houston got me tongue-tied and a little bit star-struck. But what’s better than meeting my heroes has to be making friends with other really fantastic musicians and developing friendships. We met Pariah Piranha because they booked us for a show, and now we’re super tight.
We were just featured in a documentary about trans musicians called Riot Acts, and we caught the sneak premiere of that film last month in New York. The film will hopefully make it into some film festivals over the coming months. It’s really awesome to be included in this document, which shows how far trans artists have come. It’s marvelous to see how much is going on, and a real honor to be included as part of that.
Kristen: My highlight is our puppet career – there is a puppet version of the band, and we’ve starred in a couple puppet shows with ZZ Zop! In one show we save them from mid life crisis. The real us also played music for the shows too.
Chrissy: There have been a million amazing, hilarious, and magical moments. But I think I’m mostly just really happy and grateful to have gotten to become such good friends with those other two. I’ve learned a lot from them both. I don’t think there is a single person in the world like Rahne or Kristen.
CG: What are your future goals as a band?
Rahne: We’ve got another record ready to record, and I’m itching to tour again.
Chrissy: Degenerette bobble-heads, our own individual perfume lines… There has some talk about a full length film based on the lives of the Degenerettes, so that will be cool. I’m hoping to play myself.


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I've taken a bit of a break. The combination of personal writing projects coupled with my new job has monopolized my time. I have a few more entries that should last through the month of August. I hope to be posting here sporadically, but it won't be weekly updates unless a fancy strikes me.
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Daily Archives: June 14, 2009
In this podcast, Bruce, Michael, and Dale discuss hate speech, Iran and North Korea.
There is no direct link to the podcast this week, since a number of technical difficulties intervened (thanks for kicking me off the phone twice, Verizon!). So, if you want to hear this one, you’ll need to get it from our Podcast page at BTR. There will be no RSS link this week, either.
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As a reminder, if you are an iTunes user, don’t forget to subscribe to the QandO podcast, Observations, through iTunes. For those of you who don’t have iTunes, you can subscribe at Podcast Alley. And, of course, for you newsreader subscriber types, our podcast RSS Feed is here. For podcasts from 2005 to 2007, they can be accessed through the RSS Archive Feed.
Steve Benen is “shocked, shocked I tell you”, that some on the right are trying to hang the Iranian election shambles on Obama. He entitles his post:
“WHEN IN DOUBT, BLAME OBAMA…”
Of course, for 8 years, Benen and company made a cottage industry of substituting the name “Bush” for “Obama” while doing the very same thing. Apparently that’s gone the way of an Alzheimer patient’s memory of breakfast and they’ve awakened in a new world which began on January 20th of this year.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so insufferably hypocritical.
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Subject(s): Iranian election and the foreign policy implications, van Brunn and “right-wing hate”, China says no to emission cuts, economy.
Bonnie Erbe, writing at the CBS News blog site, has had it up to here with all the hate speech, and its inevitable consequences. So, she has a cunning plan.
If yesterday’s Holocaust Museum slaying of security guard and national hero Stephen Tyrone Johns is not a clarion call for banning hate speech, I don’t know what is…
Not only have we had three hate crime murders within the last two weeks (Mr. Johns, as noted above, Dr. George Tiller a week ago last Sunday, and Pvt. William Andrew Long by an American-born Muslim convert outside a recruiting station just before that.)…
It’s not enough to prosecute these murders as murders. They are hate-motivated crimes and each of these men had been under some sort of police surveillance prior to their actions. Isn’t it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?
Let’s call it “preventative detention”, or something equally innocuous. Let’s pretend that it isn’t a suggestion that is so totalitarian, and so horribly un-American, that Ms. Erbe should be ahsamed for having publicly presented such an evil proposal. You see, not being privy to the internal lives of my fellow citizens, I don’t know which of them will commit a crime, so I don’t feel comfortable imprisoning for the possible consequences of their thoughts.
Ms. Erbe, on the other hand, seems to have no such compunctions.
This is, by the way, where the logic of “hate crimes” inevitably takes you. Once you realize that prosecution for hate crimes doesn’t stop them, you move to prevent them by other, inevitably totalitarian–means. And, eventually, the definition of what becomes “hate speech” starts expanding.
And so, we’ve arrived now where a “responsible” journalist can now advocate opening up prisons to house those whose only “crime” is to hold insufficiently pure thoughts.
Michael Kinsley annoyed some people this week by suggesting that we replace our national anthem with some other, more singable tune. This subject comes up at least once per year, usually around either the Super Bowl or the World Series, when some new butchering of the song prompts the discussion. Personally, while I don’t agree with Kinsley’s reasoning, I favor the change.
Growing up a Philadelphia Flyers fan, I’ve always had a special affinity for “God Bless America” and often wondered why that tune wouldn’t be a better choice. And anyone who has ever heard Ray Charles sing “America the Beautiful” can be forgiven for thinking that this is our country’s anthem. Both are far representative of the nation than a song about one battle in Baltimore’s harbor.
So, I’m curious. Where do you all stand on the Star-Spangled Banner? Would you rather a different song, and if so, which one?
It’s kind of hard to protest an election in court when you’re in jail.
Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was reportedly arrested Saturday following the reformist’s defeat at the polls by hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Mousavi’s arrest was reported by an unofficial source, who said that the presidential contender had been arrested en route to the home of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
My guess – and that’s all it is – is this is a move to defuse the protests. It will also remove the last bit of the veneer from the belief that these were “free and open” elections. In some ways this makes Iran easier to deal with. There’s no longer any doubt that it is a totalitarian regime where no “robust debate” is taking place or possible.
Look – the fantasy that these were “free and open” elections was a sham to begin with. 475 people applied to run for the presidency. 4 were approved by the ruling mullahs. That should tell you all you need to know about this election. Even Mousavi had impeccable revolutionary credentials, or he wouldn’t have been one of the 4.
But the election appears to have taken an unexpected turn. It would seem those that voted for Mousavi and perhaps Mousavi himself, took it a little more seriously than the authorities expected. Supporters turned out in record shattering numbers (85% of eligible voters) to vote and simply aren’t buying this supposed “landslide” win the mullahs and IRG had put together to keep their guy in office.
Crude, certainly, but to be expected. Authoritarians don’t believe in the democratic process – never have. But they understand the power of popular approval – even if they have to fake it and fake it poorly.


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The most common walnut tree grown in the U.S., aside from the native Black Walnut, is the English (also called Persian) walnut. English walnuts are often preferred for their milder taste and easier shelling, and they will not stain your hands like the husk of black walnuts can.
Where Can Walnut Trees Grow?
Often grown on the West Coast, these trees can be grown in most environments of the United States that are not subject to deep freeze and have a relatively long growing season. They have a slow dormancy attainment, so areas subject to flash freezes and fast-approach fall frosts are not well-suited to growing walnuts. Spring frosts can also be detrimental to walnut production.
Walnut Tree Site Selection
The planting site should be at least thirty feet from any obstruction to allow wide root growth and branches to match. Soil should be well-drained and at least five feet deep to allow root expansion. Spots on a small rise or slope are best to allow for drainage. Prolonged flooding will destroy walnut trees faster than most other problems.
Planting Walnut Trees
Dig the hole approximately to match the width and depth of the seedling’s root system. Prune off broken roots and place the tree into the hole. Fill it in so that the uppermost root is at least three inches below the surface. Tamp down the dirt after filling in the hole and moisten well. Do not fertilize, but water daily to keep the soil moist, until the seedling is well-established.
Management and Pruning of Walnut Trees
New trees will need to be staked to withstand the wind and promote straight trunk growth. Cloth ties should be used to avoid harming the young bark with the stake 6 to 8 inches from the tree on the windward side. Recheck ties regularly to be sure they aren’t getting too tight as the tree grows or the stake moves.
Pruning is usually only to keep the trees well-shaped and remove dead or dying branches. Once the trees are trained, pruning every second or third year (the production year) is done by simply nipping buds to prevent new limb growth and promote more nut production that year.
When the husk can be easily cut free from the nut with a knife, they are ready for harvest. Most growers wait until late fall rains have caused the husks to split, as then the nuts will easily fall from the tree, allowing for the use of shakers. Home growers often spread blankets or bedsheets beneath the tree and use poles or other means to shake tree branches and cause the nuts to fall.
The most common pest for walnut trees is the walnut husk fly. The larvae of the fly reside in the husk of the walnut, eating the inside layers of husk and staining the shell and nut. They are most often noticed after they’ve burrowed in, when the green husk begins showing dark spots from their burrowing. Walnut aphids are another problem, destroying the leaves of the walnut tree and thus negatively affecting nut production. Deer can damage walnut trees and are the most common physical threat to the trees in most areas. Fencing and other barriers are the best protection.
Other Resources for How to Grow Walnuts:
Oregon State University – Growing Walnuts in Oregon [PDF]
University of Minnesota – Growling Black Walnuts

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Dark City (1998)
One of the best science fictions ever made...
Dark City is the best film of Alex Proyas. He uses the Gothic and claustrophobic themes commonly and dark colors prevail during the film like "The Crow" .The story doesn't follow a certain order of rule, instead there is some mind games and puzzles in the film, that causes watchers to be active in each minute and motivate to the movie..
The topic is about a man who loses his past and first finds himself in a bath tub, doesn^t know about himself and his life, but he has one ability that no one has, he can be alive when the evil forces stops the time and reshapes the world according to their own demand. The story is so fantastic and Proyas' nightmare world come true in that movie.
I can basically say that it's one of the best science fiction movies ever made, it opens doors to different dimensions and force human brains' capability....
not more than a child movie
There are so many things to talk about negatives, rather than positives... the movie starts as usual like all other similars and u can always estimate following scenes, that bores watchers. Garfield is animated such a way that there is no need a computer animation, it doesn't exhibit special movements to the film except a few rotten joke..
The topic is sooooo simple and you don't even wonder what will happen in the next scene.
I think it fails when we look at other similar productions like Stuart Little, Babe and other motion pictures.. Garfield: The Movie can not attract people who are above 7 years old. It's a waste of time and one can spend that time outside, caressing kittens.... :)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Pixar has done a good job..
Finding nemo is not the best film that Disney has ever created, however it can be said that it's very good. I've watched 3 times.. The events in the movie are easily estimated while we are watching. There is not so much surprises but the humor and the characters are fantastic. The kid turtles and vegetarian sharks are very nice.. The story is around a little crown fish which is kidnapped by the people who are living in Sydney.. His father wants to find him and there are humorous events while searching.. The colors are so vivid and the atmosphere of the ocean is very well designated.. I recommend the film but not strongly, It's nice but not perfect.. It can attract the children and it's a family name.
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
There's nothing to gain academy reward in that film
I surprised after I watched the whole movie why did it earn economy reward. The film is inevitably normal to me,however it hides behind the scenario.Moreover, Joseph Fhinnes is not a right decision for the headrole... According to me, with the absence of William Shakespeare and the scenario of William Shakespeare, the film is not very attracting. In contrast, the atmosphere is successfully reflects the time of the British Empire, Queen Elizabeth is very good adapted to the movie. It's fluent that the film doesn't have an ability to gain Academy award, the topic is clear and it's enjoyable to see some scenes..It's not a child movie....


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It is a well known fact that making a film is not a piece of cake, especially for a debut director and this story will surely drive home the point that it takes a lot of hard work and sheer determination apart from talent to helm a film.
Sources claim that the team of upcoming film ‘Yaariyan’, which is the directorial debut of Divya Khosla Kumar, had to bear extreme weather conditions while shooting for the film in Lachen, Sikkim. A source attached to the film unit said, “Major scenes of the film are shot in Lachen and the weather there was extremely cold- around minus six degrees! It was one of the toughest schedules of the film.”
However, on her part, Divya seems to have immensely enjoyed her time over there. “I have roamed throughout Europe and other parts of the Western world, but the kind of snowfall that I had seen in India at Lachen was something that I had never seen anywhere before! That place is magical!” Himansh Kohli, who plays the lead Lakshya agrees and adds, “The kind of scenery we had seen there…trees covered in snow and all, was something that I had seen only in magazines or read about in fairy-tales as a kid.”
Produced by Bhushan Kumar, ‘Yaariyan’, which is slated to release on January 10, is a contemporary and youthful film that takes audiences through the trials and tribulations of the best years of their life. The film stars Himansh Kohli, Rakul Preet, Dev Sharma, Shreyas Pardiwalla, Nicole Faria, Evelyn Sharma, Deepti Naval and Gulshan Grover in pivotal roles.