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Writing American Cultures: Studies of Identity, Community, and Place
Edited by Sam Schrager, published 2013
An extraordinary series of folklore/ethnography essays, Writing American Cultures shows the insight and originality that undergraduates can bring to studies of communities of which they are part.
“…a compelling hard-to-put-down book about lives that are both ordinary and extraordinary and experiences that complicate what it means to be an insider.” —Amy Shuman, Ohio State University
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Written by Johanna Gilje
An investigation of creative process across disciplines with particular attention to the materials, practices, and methodologies that are used by artists to generate and record their work.

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''I believe that the majority of Australians believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.''
The government is set to announce a referendum will be held on September 14 on constitutional recognition for local government but key independents led by Tony Windsor have called for a second question to be attached to the paper on recognition for same sex marriage.
Christian groups want a referendum on gay marriage, saying Australians will reject any change to the status quo if the question posed was a ''black and white'' choice on whether to allow ''homosexuals to marry''.
Senator Madigan has introduced a bill that would allow citizens to initiate referenda. He predicted if a public vote were held on same sex marriage, it would be defeated.
''I would think that if the arguments were presented in a balanced way without the accusations of homophobia or bigotry that are often put towards those who support marriage, I think there would be every chance that people would stick with what has been the status quo for millennia,'' he said.
As divisions emerged among the Greens and same sex marriage advocates over a referendum, Reverend Fred Nile joined the Australian Christian lobby in calling for the matter to be decided on election day.
Senator Penny Wong compared the referendum push to the 1999 republic referendum, which failed across all states despite having strong public support.
Australian Christian Lobby spokesman Lyle Shelton said his organisation would make the case for preserving the traditional definition of marriage. ''This is something that people are very passionate about,'' he said.
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He predicted there would be ''every chance'' that a public vote to allow same sex marriage would be defeated.
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He called on the Catholic and Anglican churches to come in opposition to gay marriage.
But Democratic Labor Party Senator John Madigan, an opponent of same sex marriage said he had ''no problem with giving the people the opportunity to express their views'' in a referendum
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He told Fairfax Media: ''I think people should decide the issue.
In comments that appeared to confirm she was backtracking, Ms Milne told reporters on Monday that a referendum would be a ''distraction'' and the issue should be decided before election day in Parliament. ''The only impediment is that the Coalition won't provide a conscience vote,'' she said.
Rev Nile said the Christian Democratic Party would man every booth and hand out how to vote cards to help those voting no on the issue.
Marriage equality campaigners fear the financial might and organisational infrastructure of the churches could mean a referendum fails despite recent polls that put support for same sex marriage at more than 70 per cent
Australian Marriage Equality national convener Rodney Croome said: ''We fear cashed up opponents of marriage equality would exploit a referendum to polarise the electorate and demonise gay and lesbian people in a way that will impact badly, particularly on young gay people.''
''But the question has to be clear. A question like 'are you in favour of marriage equality?' will confuse some people. I'm in favour of marriage equality between a husband and a wife.
Fairfax understands senator Sarah Hanson Young, who has portfolio responsibility for marriage equality, lobbied leader Christine Milne to reverse her support for a referendum.
''John Howard and Tony Abbott ran a very good fear campaign and we lost that referendum,'' she said.
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Rev Nile said his Christian Democratic Party had been ''pipped at the post'' by Mr Windsor and had planned to publicly call for a referendum next week.
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Description - Little Pink Slips by Sally Koslow
On the towering stilettos of The Devil Wears Prada comes a biting, mordantly funny debut novel about the extremely unladylike business of publishing a very ladylike magazine. Once there was a little girl from Fargo, North Dakota, named Maggie Goldfarb who grew up, moved to Manhattan, and morphed into Magnolia Gold, the highly paid editor in chief of Lady magazine. With a corner office, a designer wardrobe, and dozens of loyal employees, Magnolia has been hired to update the dowager of women's magazines. She's on her way to giving Lady a face-lift when she is ignominiously replaced by Bebe Blake, a brash television personality who remakes the magazine in her own hilariously inappropriate image. With her ketchup-red hair, skintight clothes, and penchant for "boy toys," Bebe is more out of control than a speeding limo. Maddeningly unpredictable, she confounds everyone at the newly christened Bebe with her personal vision of what a women's magazine should be, and baffles them further with her bawdy sense of humor and over-the-top generosity.
Shunted off to the darkest corners of executive purgatory-an overlooked back office she shares with a cockroach or two-Magnolia seethes from the sidelines as Bebe turns her beloved, once-profitable Lady into a sideshow. As things go from bad to worse, Magnolia fears that her career will never recover, but even she can't predict how deeply satisfying her eventual triumph will be. And not just at work: amidst the frenzy of backstabbing at the office, Magnolia finds Mr. Right in a city of Mr. Not-Quites. Inspired by real-life events, Little Pink Slips is about the fall, rise, and sweet revenge of a woman who witnesses corporate shenanigans at their most flagrant. Filled with gossipy revelations about celebrity obsession and behind-the-scenes details of the media business in all its malfeasant glory, this novel is delicious, can't-stop-reading fun.
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Sally Koslow, who was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota, is the former editor in chief of "McCall's" magazine. Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks, including works by Margaret Atwood and Alice Hoffman, and is the recipient of several "AudioFile" Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks.

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Occupational Radiation Exposure Limit: Are You Safe?
Radiologic technologists and other healthcare workers are exposed to X-rays in the course of their work duties. There are certain occupational radiation exposure limits for X-ray techs. Remaining within these limits is essential for safety in the workplace. Read on to refresh your knowledge on the key safety limits with regards to occupational radiation exposure.

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text: This park was the first national park in Canada, and its name means "a place for giving birth". It protects many caribou and preserves their environment so that it's perfect for reproduction. It is a very interesting park to visit during your summer walks. It is also crossed by the Firth River, which flows through the tundra to the Beaufort Sea. Many caribou come to drink from the river, as well as grizzly bears, mouflons and arctic foxes. So keep your eyes peeled!

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Finally a post! I have been busy all week with a wonderfully large purchase from Etsy so I haven't had much time to make any other cards or posts! But that order is finally done, so I'm back!
This card turned out so fabulous! I just can't stop looking at it, it's so pretty :)
I embossed the pink background with my D'vine Swirls embossing folder and the white frame around the cross with the Swiss Dots folder. The frames around the cross are cut from my trusty Lacy Labels cartridge! I had planned on putting sunburst type accents around the cross but I think this frame worked pretty well since it has a spiked edge.
The cross is cut from the Wedding Solutions cartridge. The top layer is a white glitter paper. I really wanted the cross to shine, so that was the point of the glitter paper. Then I cut out a pink heart, added some glossy accents and clear glitter so it also sparkled, and placed it in the middle of the cross.
On to the flowers! Those lilies gave me such a headache!
The roses are dusted with some pink chalk and then glittered.
As I said before, I just love this card!!
I've entered this card in the following challenges:
Mojo Monday #227
Fantabulous Cricut #97-Love is in the Air
Kaboodle Doodles #105-Hearts and Flowers
Lexi's Creations #58-Love
The Pink Elephant #134-Pink
Ruby's Rainbow #21-Flowers with a bit of Sparkle
Delicious Doodles #12-All Loved Up
Stampin Sisters in Christ #125-A Project That Shows Love
Some of these challenges are for "Love" projects, which at this time of year would represent Valentine's Day. But to me the cross represents the greatest love of all! So even though it is Valentine's Day soon, the cross will always be the greatest symbol of LOVE in my life!
Thanks for stopping by!


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Crowd plays an important role in a DJ’s performances. When the crowd doesn’t respond to your music then it is an issue. This article is here to address all your crowd related issues.
In order to become a successful DJ, you have to control the crowd/audience and learn how to engage with them. This is applicable for all kinds of DJ performances including club, bar, YouTube and mobile DJ performances.
We all have heard of stories where the audience didn’t like a part of the performance and abandoned the show and stopped their dance.
For some DJ’s this could result into being jobless. You repeat this few times and you gather bad reviews and thus career comes to a halt.
On the other hand, if you do it the right way and keep your audience entertained then you get rewarded many folds. Your name as DJ will also spread with word of mouth.
Table of Contents
1. Ways in Which You Can Engage the Audience and Keep Them Entertained
Reading the crowd means you engage with the audience and know specifically what is the crowd looking for.
You won’t be able to know every individual’s taste but a general overview is good enough to set the path for your music.
Once you and the crowd are on the same wavelength, it becomes so easy to complete the show and people will keep asking for more. This also gives you more ideas about what music to play next and thus makes your DJing job easy.
There are some points which you can look out for before your performance. These include the venue, occasion, age group of the crowd. Half of the work about tracks selection is done when you have done your homework.
Even more, experienced DJ’s would ask questions about the audience to the organizers.
The timing of your performance also plays an important role. Late-night youth parties require different music than a party where married couples are coming.
It is also important to know if you are the first DJ of the night. For the first performance, you need to play some music that invites the audience to hit the dance floor.
On the other hand, if you are 3rd DJ of the night then the audience will already be charged up and you can start playing the dance music without the need for warming up the crowd.
If you are the latter DJ then you also need to know what kind of music the DJ before you have played so that you pick up the tones from that point.
It is always advisable to reach the venue beforehand and have a look at the faces of the audience. This will tell you the mood of the crowd.
When the DJ before you is keeping the audience engaged then you can pick up his music and change it after some time. This gives you more time to adjust yourself with the vibe of the crowd.
A bored crowd will be distracted. They would be attending phone calls, drinking/eating in groups and chatting in each other’s ears. This is a signal for you to switch up the music and play something else which is inviting for them to dance floor.
Maybe the bass is a problem with the crowd. You may need to play music in higher frequencies and choose tracks that are not meant for dancing till being tired.
The bass should be increased once approximately 80% of the crowd is already on the dance floor. Before that keep playing light music and keep inviting the crowd to engage with you.
If you have a helper in the crowd then it is the best thing for you.
All of this comes slowly to the new DJ’s. Even intermediate-level DJ’s mess up in reading the crowd quite often. The better a DJ can read the crowd, the better his performance will be.
2. How to Read the Crowd When You are the First DJ
For the first DJ of the night, it is important to understand that people will come to the club or party to get socialize first and then they will think about hitting the dance floor. They would be resistant to start dancing before they see few bodies already shaking it up on the dance floor.
In such cases, it is best to keep playing your tracks along with observing the body language and facial expressions of the crowd. It is essential to warm the audience before playing the heavy bass tracks.
Don’t be discouraged on seeing the empty dance floor, the first DJ of the night has this responsibility of engaging the audience, make them shaking their bodies even when sitting on their chairs.
Just one trigger is required for a few people to come to the dance floor. Others would automatically come when they see a few people dancing.
Some people may give you requests for specific tracks, you can also play those tracks so that they engage with you and then you can also speak back to them.
The above tips will help you as the first DJ of the night and should make your job easy. The size of the crowd also matters and things will change into your favor if the crowd is large and consists of a lot of youth.
3. Keep Variety of Tracks Handy with Yourself
The bigger the selection of music you have, the better it is. You can bound to fulfill the crowd’s demand for music tracks when you have a good selection. Don’t even ignore the recently popular tracks and all-time favorites.
I have seen that new DJ’s don’t know this and experience DJ’s are too over-confident so as to not have a good selection of tracks with them.
For new DJ’s you have to select the tracks that you want to take with yourself and for advanced DJ’s, they can hire someone for music selection.
A good selection of music from various genres helps in switching up too. Maybe the crowd is not showing interest in a specific genre of music and in that case, you can always play some other genre of music.
However, if you switch genres 3-4 times and still crowd is not excited, then you have high chances of getting a bad show and bad reputation.
When the crowd is large, they are bound to have different music tastes. By deliberately switching the music tracks, you can make sure that everyone gets their taste of music and hence you keep boredom away.
As the first dance man/woman invites others to join the dance floor, so as the first bored person can make others feel bored.
On the other hand, if the audience is small in size then you can ask for direct feedback from the crowd. People like it when their requested tracks are played by the DJ.
One important point to note is the difference between Mobile DJ’s and club performances. For Mobile DJ’s, I would highly recommend that they play the popular tracks.
For club DJ’s, different genres of music tracks can be played as the crowd is more engaged and open to listening newer kinds of tracks.
4. Body Language is the Single Most Important Signal
There are a lot of things that come under body language. The dresses (both men and women), holding of cigar sticks, the age group and even hairstyles tell a lot about what music a DJ should play.
You read it wrong and play the wrong music and you will get cold eyes from the crowd and people would be least interested in the music being played.
Some other things that you can look out for are the crowd’s mood, occasion and who’s the host of the party.
If a company is throwing a DJ party from its employees then expect a different mood crowd versus the same people coming to a party organized for the birthday of a senior citizen couple.
5. When You are Unable to Read the Crowd
Even after using the tips given in this article, it may so happen that you fail to get the vibe of the crowd. This usually happens when the crowd is not giving any response and is busy in themselves and that too in small groups.
One solution is to keep switching the music genre as we discussed above. The other solution is to ask a few people from the crowd for their music track requests.
Even when you have done everything that you have learned about DJ and the crowd is not responding then its best to stop trying too much and assume that the crowd is just like that.
Switching it up too much will cause stress on you and could hamper your performance as such. In such cases, you can ask for feedback from the organizers and venue owners.
If the crowd at that place has always been like that then it makes sense to avoid such places for your performances.
6. How Exactly to Read the Crowd: Engaging with the Crowd
Focusing too much on the music tracks is bad for you. As a DJ, keep saying a few words during the performance and keep making some eye contacts.
If your head is down and always looking at the DJ equipment, lighting and your helpers then crowd will feel disconnected. There will always be people who want to interact with the DJ.
Bring your mood to the same level as the crowd. When you ask them to raise their hands or raise their mobiles, its best to raise your hands too. The crowd needs a leader whom they can follow and you can become that leader.
Personally, I have seen many DJ’s who fail at doing this and hence their performance is not at par as compared to the effort they have put into playing the tracks.
If you have access to a mic, then use it to your advantage and speak to the crowd about a few words in track. They can repeat that word behind you. Use the same word for this repetition and the crowd will get that energy easily.
The feedback you get from the crowd is exactly the thing you should be looking at. Play the track, look at their body language and facial expressions. If you see faces moving up and down on the beats of the tracks then you are doing good.
An important to take care of here is that while you are looking for feedback, your face doesn’t show the crowd that you are searching for something.
7. The DJ’s Who Learn to Read the Crowd become Pro and Earn Fame
Reading the crowd should come naturally to you. This takes time and a lot of performances. The benefit for you when playing the tracks is that if you read the crowd correctly then you need not put extra effort in thinking about next track to play.
The crowd will guide you with what you should be playing next. The ideas will flow naturally in your brain.
DJ’s who completely understand their crowd also know about:
- The echo
- How is the crowd spread out in the club/party hall.
- Genre of tracks to play
- Engaging crowd with mic.
- What other DJ’s are going to play
- At what number is your turn as a DJ
Thus, reading the crowd is a wholistic thing which involves all of the above.
Music creates feelings. Using the music to guide the emotions of listener is an art. The crowd can give you feedback about a specific track but the exact track to play will have to come from you.
Think yourself as a sailor who is taking the crowd through a mixture of feelings apt for the occasion.
One tip that I can give here regarding the arousal of feelings is to play music and build up the hype and then suddenly let the music go off.
This is known as the pattern break or push/pull technique. I have seen this being used by so many DJ’s and it works everywhere and every time.
It’s all putting in the effort. The more unique you make the music experience; the more crowd will get attracted and will ask for repetition of your performances.
Even when you have done 100’s of performances then also do make sure to do your homework about the crowd, music selection, venue, and occasion, etc.
A DJ has aptly said that the more you take care of the crowd, the more care and love you get from the crowd.
All that is possible to learn about how to read the crowd has been discussed in this article. I would recommend you to go over this article multiple times before you learn this art.
If you have learned this art already then there is always a chance of improvement.
Learning all of the above tips and paying extra attention to the above 6 bullet points will give you a lot of head start. The actual perfection will come when you start to perform live.

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‘Emergency measures to contain outbreaks of bird flu in Britain and the Netherlands have been announced by the European Commission.
It comes after Environment Secretary Liz Truss confirmed that a virus found at a duck breeding farm in East Yorkshire was the ”highly pathogenic” H5 strain of avian flu.
The transport of poultry and eggs throughout the Netherlands was banned after an outbreak of the H5N8 bird flu strain was confirmed at a chicken farm in the central province of Utrecht.’
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MIT EECS | Angle Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar
Reasonableness Monitor for Autonomous Machines
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Gerald J. Sussman
As autonomous vehicles start to enter the public space, it is important for them to be able to justify their actions with a human-readable explanation. The reasonableness monitor, formed in the CSAIL Toyota Research Center, is a proof of concept designed to help autonomous vehicles justify their actions. Currently, the system can only determine the reasonableness of a (subject, object, verb) triple. However, my work looks to extend its capabilities to determine reasonableness among compound sentences with an added context. By having human-readable explanations, this reasonableness monitor will make people more comfortable with allowing autonomous machines into their sphere.
Participating in SuperUROP gives me the opportunity to explore artificial intelligence while gaining research experience. I am excited to apply the knowledge I have gained from my Course 6 classes and previous research in autonomous vehicles on my project.


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You know us Brits love a bow tie, and there were plenty on show at London Collections Men. One of our favourite finds were from Marwood, who were showcasing their full collection for the first time. This included bow ties, ties, braces, and pocket squares. Spiffing!
Launched in 2011, Marwood’s first collection showcased an exquisitely crafted range of ties and bow ties made with the finest fabrics such as woven silk, wool and traditional English Leavers lace. The neckties celebrate the traditions and techniques of a rich and distinguished British heritage.
Available from the ‘b Store’ in London, and spreading across the globe to other well known retailers. Watch this brand fly, just like the Wright brothers.

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First, some background, provided by Memory Alpha. It's not complete, but it's a start. Then:
1. Worf's shoulder-cannon thingy from Insurrection fired some weird pinkish-purplish pulse. It's commonly thought to be the isomagnetic disintegrator, but it is my belief that it is in fact the tetryon pulse launcher.
2. The tetryon plasma from the USS Yellowstone was purplish, IIRC.
((What color were other examples of tetryon whatzits in Trek? It might help confirm or deny the idea that his shoulder cannon was the tetryon pulse launcher, and thus intended to knock out the Son'a weapons (a la Dax in "Blood Oath").))
3. Romulan cloaks of the 24th Century make use of a "tetryon compositor". When sabotaged by a Canadian, it can disable the entire cloaking system ("The Die is Cast"[DSN3]). Tetryon emissions can be detected from Romulan warbirds ("Visionary"[DSN3])
4. Could the tetryon issue be the reason weapons still can't be fired while cloaked? After all, if tetryonic things are afoot, the ship's weapons might themselves be impossible to use. Perhaps there is some sort of field effect in play, or perhaps the ship's plasma energy system gets tetryon doodads in it, or what-have-you.
4a. Obviously the ship shouldn't be flooded with high levels of tetryon particle radiation, since "Workforce"[VOY6] features the ship striking a subspace mine and being flooded by tetryons, poisoning the crew. While there may be an acceptable tetryon radiation limit in the Romulan fleet, I can't imagine it's a good idea. Then again, too much of anything can poison you, so perhaps tetryons are considered safe at normal levels.
5. In any case, one would have to figure out why hand weapons can still be used. I don't know about phasers, but I'm pretty sure that the Romulan who took Troi in "Face of the Enemy"[TNG6] was vaped by a Romulan disruptor while the ship was cloaked, and there may be other examples I'm not remembering which feature particle weapons fire on cloaked ships.
Suffice it to say that it's an interesting line of reasoning, but I'm not sure what can be done with it. I doubt we know enough about most of the subjects to come up with anything firm. Nonetheless, I might find something that helps in regards to offering more proof that Worf was using the TPL.


Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
Although admittedly a posthumous release, I was very surprised at the rather dismissive tenor of many of the reviews of this album to date. Hopefully this record will be reappraised soon as being a release worthy of anyone's consideration as I feel it does enhance an already rich legacy left behind by this very fine and innovative band. (So what if Charisma wanted to ride the slipstream of the lucrative ELP juggernaut?)
Essential: A masterpiece of psych-rock music collection.
Vanilla Fudge are a pioneering psychedelic band with a superb lineup and are famous for psyching up well known cover versions. Their debut albums features some of their best and most popular material such as the stunning' You Keep Me Hanging On', 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'She's Not There'.
Antonello Venditti è nato a Roma l'8 marzo 1949.
Appena adolescente, compone due delle sue canzoni più famose, Roma capoccia e Sora Rosa. L'occasione di farle ascoltare in pubblico arriva alla fine degli anni sessanta con la partecipazione alle attività del celebre locale romano Folkstudio, assai importante per la formazione dei giovani autori e la crescita musicale della città (vi suonò anche Bob Dylan). In questo locale conosce molti altri cantautori e musicisti tra cui Francesco De Gregori e Rino Gaetano.
È proprio con De Gregori e la collaborazione di Giorgio Lo Cascio ed Ernesto Bassignano che Antonello comincia ad esibirsi al Folkstudio in uno spazio del programma denominato "I giovani del folk".
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
A rather forgotten band from USA,this quintet hailed from Fort Wayne at the state of Indiana.ETHOS got lucky to be signed by Capitol Records and soon they moved to New York in order to record their first album.By the end of 1975 the work was almost ready and the eight arrangements of ”Ardour” were all written by the leader of the band,vocalist/mandolin player/guitarist Will Sharpe.
This legendary band dates back to the beginning of the 70’s in the neighborhood Jardines del Bosque de Guadalajara, where some young friends manage to invent their own band, “That day, the room was filled with magic”, a legend called: “La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata”.


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The son and brother of the last two Republican presidents vowed to be his "own man" in a foreign policy speech Wednesday. But he failed to outline a plan to deal with a major focus of those previous two Bush foreign policies: Iraq.
Likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush spoke and took questions for more than an hour at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He addressed trade deals with Asia and Latin America, support for Ukraine, pushing democracy in Cuba, stopping nuclear proliferation, fighting the so-called Islamic State — even the revolution in Tunisia.
That "be on the lookout list" used to flag Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny of their tax-exemption applications?
It turns out it wasn't the only one the Internal Revenue Service had been using.
There were also other lists, covering a "broad spectrum" of categories and cases, according to a preliminary IRS report released Monday.
"Once we came to that conclusion, we took immediate action to suspend the use of these lists in the Exempt Organizations unit within IRS," said Danny Werfel, the new acting chief of the IRS, in a conference call with reporters.
The 10 biggest breaks, deductions and credits in the U.S. income tax code are costing the Treasury $900 billion this year, with more than half of that total benefiting the wealthiest 20 percent of taxpayers.
When the House held its much-anticipated hearing on Benghazi Wednesday, one major figure not at the witness table was Thomas Pickering, the former ambassador and co-chair of the Accountability Review Board that reported on last September's attacks.
Why wasn't he there?
That's somewhat in dispute. California Republican Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, put the blame squarely on the shoulders of Pickering and report co-author Adm. Mike Mullen.


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Meredith Booth, courtesy of The Australian October 2017, where the article is entitled “Art’s at the heart of Paula Nagel’s Walkerville home”
Television, education and arts identity Paula Nagel has called Walkerville, in Adelaide’s leafy inner northeast, home for the past 17 years. The modern red-brick home sits at the centre of a thoughtfully disguised triplex belying a trove of art and treasures hidden within, reminders of Nagel’s extensive travel and varied career. “Everything in this house is me. I love maps and exotic things,’’ she says from a kitchen that holds decorative Russian spoons, tins and plates collected from her frequent trips to Greece and Moscow in the 1980s.
Walls are laden with paintings, prints and sketches, gifts and work collected across a lifetime, reflecting her direction and support of State Opera of South Australia, the Jam Factory and Adelaide Festival of the Arts. Among them are works by some of SA’s finest artists: printmaker Barbara Hanrahan, glass artist Nick Mount, and landscape and still-life painter Dee Jones. All come with an anecdote or bear a personal message from the artist.
“I have my sense of style. My friends call me St Paula of the Armani because my style is simple and slightly classic. I like block colours, no paisley,” Nagel says. Her favourite space is the “white room”, where she thinks she has channelled her friend Sheila Scotter — the founding editor of Vogue Australia who died in 2012 — with mirrors, furniture and flowers placed strategically.
The state’s first female presenter of ABC television’s This Day Tonight, Nagel had a 20-year career with the ABC before moving into the boardroom. Her connection with Aunty remains strong, with the house used as a set for 30 of Peter Thompson’s Talking Heads programs with interviews held in different rooms of the three-bedroom home.
She bought the home in 2000 from its Greek-born developer, who originally quarantined the centre of the set for himself. His plans changed and it became her 11th home and one in which she has spent the longest time. She loves the Greek overtones on cornices and window frames, smaller French-style bricks, and the tall french doors to three gardens that give plenty of natural light.
The living rooms have seen their fair share of parties, converted to cater for dozens around the table and most recently hosting a significant birthday for friend and radio personality Peter Goers.
Although she lives alone, Nagel entertains often, and once was a regular host to visiting dignitaries as part of her work as chairwoman of the state’s international education marketing agency and international education adviser to Premier and Cabinet, which led to several missions to Europe and Southeast Asia.
“We had parties here for the missions that came. We packed the house with 50 people. I loved those parties,’’ she says.
Travel took a back seat when Nagel spent time recovering from two bouts of cancer, in 2005 and 2007, but recently she has begun commuting to Sydney as she launches a new business, her own make-up collection for the mature complexion, called Paula’s Secrets.
“I’m determined to work ’til the day I die. I’d be bored out of my brain,’’ she says.
Her Walkerville home is her sanctuary, though, a good base from which to launch her adventures. “It should be the place you retreat to from the busy world, and if it’s not a retreat it’s not a home. It’s just a house,’’ she says. Should a fire take hold of all her precious possessions, Nagel has a plan.
Her beloved poodle Luca comes first; then, a precious golden icon from Bartholomew, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, that sits prominently in the hall, close to the door, and that was given to her on a birthday by her friend Sister Deirdre Jordan, the former chancellor of Flinders University.
PAULA NAGEL was Honorary Consul for Sri Lanka in South Australia for a while if my memory serves me right


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The brief was to produce “not the typical” wine history book – something that reflected the eccentric and unique nature of the winery’s evolution in design, words and pictures.
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Square Inc. is aggressively trying to bring millennials over to its Square Cash platform, first by announcing the ability to buy and sell bitcoin last fall, and now with a program that gives Square Cash Card users $1 off coffee purchases.
The payments company has put out information about its Cash App Coffee Reward program, which promises users a buck off purchases at coffee shops, which it defines as “any establishment that mostly sells coffee and coffee drinks.” Mizuho analyst Thomas McCrohan wrote Friday that his tests of the program indicate that Dunkin’ Donuts’
There are a few catches, according to Square’s
McCrohan wrote that his conversation’s with Square’s management indicate that this is “in pilot” and “no decision has been made to roll this coffee reward program out nationally.” Square told MarketWatch that the program has been available for a few months but is currently available to only a small number of users. Eligible users will receive an in-app notification.
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Cash, which is Square’s peer-to-peer money transfer service, has been a success for Square, even though PayPal Holdings Inc.’s
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Michelle is, amongst other things, a South African writer. She lives at the southern tip of Africa in the coastal village of Kommetjie, Cape Town, with her husband and daughter. They live on the border of a national park and happily share their home with an assortment of pets and wildlife.
Michelle is a graduate from the University of Kwazulu Natal and currently works in the field of environmental communications and media. She began writing short stories in her spare time, in 2008, and has not looked back.
Michelle had five stories published in YOU magazine, South Africa’s top-selling English language magazine, over the period of a few years. One of these stories was also selected in 2011 for publication in an anthology of YOU’s best short stories over the last ten years.
Her story, Whispers from the wild, was published by Black Letter Media in the anthology The Short Story is Dead. Long Live the Short Story!, as part of Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) 2012. That year, she was also placed in the top 20 in the international Writers Weekly 24-hour Short Story Contest.
Her story, Burning Woman, was shortlisted for the SSDA 2013 ‘Feast, Famine and Potluck’ writing competition and was published in the SSDA anthology.
In early 2014, Michelle was offered a place, along with about 60 other writers from all over Africa, on the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) 2014 Writivism programme. Her story, The Gift, was on the longlist of 14 and was published in the 2014 Writivism anthology, Fire in the Night and other stories.
In June 2015, two of Michelle’s stories, Early and The Gift, were selected for publication in the Jalada-Writivism 2015 anthology, My Maths Teacher Hates Me and other stories.
In 2017, Michelle was published by US-based Chicken Soup for the Soul. And in 2018, her children’s story, The Lost Laugh, was published by BookDash. The Lost Laugh has ‘travelled the world’ and been translated into a number of languages. In 2019, Michelle challenged herself to write a wordless children’s book for under two’s, through BookDash. Vuyo tells the story of one day in the life of happy baby, Vuyo. Hundreds of thousands of copies have been printed and distributed in South Africa and beyond.
Last year, Michelle launched her e-book bi(d)ography about her gorgeous Golden Retriever, Bongo’s, adventurous life and escapades. Dog parents, wannabe dog moms and dads, and those who know and love Golden Retrievers will relate, laugh and commiserate. Half the proceeds are being donated to Golden Retriever Rescue South Africa.
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The FDA has approved the first generic version of donepezil (Aricept®) for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The new generic will be marketed as 5 mg and 10 mg orally disintegrating tablets, which dissolve on the tongue and do not need to be swallowed. Generic donepezil is expected to be available later this year.
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Saturday April 10, 2010
From the 2004 issue of My Comrade magazine. Some things never change!
Altar boys: Peter Corvington and Justin Scott.
Photos by Michael Wakefield.
Thursday March 4, 2010
Renaissance gal Lady Bunny—she's a nightclub star, DJ, blog mistress and street-corner slut!—is now also a stage actress, garnering rave reviews for her role in the light-hearted topical comedy When Bobby Married Joey.
The play, which originated last year in Atlanta and recently opened in New York, follows the members of a screwball Dixie clan as they gamely go along with their gay son's wedding.
Bunny breezes into the picture as Charity Divine, the daffy and self-important wife of the local Baptist minister. And I must admit: She is a hoot!
In an exclusive interview, the busy thespian took time to dish with me about her theatrical pursuits!
LINDA SIMPSON: What are the similarities between you and Charity Divine, besides your XXL attire?
LADY BUNNY: I'm certainly not Christian—I'm often on my knees but I ain't exactly praying! I am ditsy like Charity, and we both have southern accents, but I exaggerate mine for the show. Charity's look is a more matronly version of my own look. She's older—like you, Linda—but definitely has a touch of glamour—unlike you, Linda.
LS: After so many, many years being in charge of your own shows, has it been challenging working with a director?
LB: Director John Gibson is one of the writers so he has very definite ideas about how his lines should be spoken. It could have been a nightmare situation, but his suggestions have almost always been right to punch up certain words to get a bigger laugh. He's also very amusing in person and loves to torment the cast by saying things to us right before we go on like "That extra weight works on you" or "It's called comedy" just to put us at ease.
LS: The crowd was quite diverse the night that I attended. Do you think the play has broad appeal? No pun intended!
LB: Definitely! When we performed in Atlanta, busloads of Republican religous seniors came to see it. The play pokes fun at religious hypocrisy, but it isn't judgmental—it just holds up stereotypes and makes people laugh at themselves, which is no easy feat. I did wonder if the southern-fried humor would translate to Yankee audiences, but it totally has. My nightclub act is so raunchy that I welcome the opportunity to perform material that has more mainstream appeal and still gets laughs.
LS: Oh great actress, which do you prefer, doing theatre or film?
LB: My lazy side likes film because you do it once, and it lives forever on celluloid. But a play is a real slice of your life—a time capsule that brings a certain bunch of people together, which might never exist again. I'm lucky that we have a wonderful cast that is talented and a joy to work with. On our first night, I giggled when I learned I was to share a dressing room with the girls. Some of these folks have never dealt with a drag queen, but they have no problem calling me "she."
LS: Obviously the dressing room is dimly lit! Has being in the play made you want to have your own gay wedding?
LB: I'm an atheist..
LB: ...So I do not personally value religious ceremonies of any kind. But the play's hunky leading actor Matthew Pender is gorgeous and so sweet! He's totally straight and was even a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. It just so happens that I'm a catcher... so you never know!
Sunday February 14, 2010
The gender-bending photo novella Bitches in the Sky (which I happen to write and produce) presents its first ever video!
Filmmaker Bec Stupak directed the Valentine's Day short, which stars drag actress Curtsy as her Bitches character, Gertrude McCoy.
Sunday May 31, 2009
I’m happy to report that BINGO-SKI was a hilarious success! I think I’m going to do another one in June.
The stunning party room of the East Village Ukrainian Restaurant.
Violet Temper added a few pounds for her role as an Eastern European babushka.
Svetlana serving Siberian chic.
Musik was provided by Tsarina Erin Markey.
Chris Tanner “entertained” the crowd as Polish comedian Zolfie Kaminski.
Linda Simpson (that’s me) fonding the Bingo-ski balls.
Bingo Boyski Matthew Camp was a crowd favorite. Tarot reader Chelsea gave gypsy realness.
Claire de Loon had the crowd in stitches as former Olympic skater Oksana Baiul.
Happy players Brendan, Kenny, Pailo and Adam
Angela Di Carlo was thrilled with her plushie prizes.
No prizes for Syd and Rae, but they remained in good spirits.
Downtown Manhattan or rural Minnesota? Thanks for blowing up balloons, Steven!
Butterfingers drop valuable American dollars.
Top Four Photos by Ves Pitts, others by Linda Simpson
Friday December 12, 2008
Dynasty Handbag, the queen kook of the performance-art scene, never fails to impress with her stunning ensembles.
Discussing her fashionable ways in a recent post on “The Moment Blog” (the style and fashion blog of The New York Times) is the woman who knows her best, her alter-ego Jibz Cameron.
Among her comments:
"With this look, DH is ready to exercise and to exorcise. She is set to take on demons of any variety, be it outer or inner."
What’s next? The cover of Vogue?
Friday December 5, 2008
My Comrade Editor Linda Simpson here…
I’m so excited. Tonight, I return to the legitimate stage in the new dark comedy, The Bad Hostess.
The playwright, Les Simpson (My Comrade's publisher and my, uh, brother), was kind of enough to write me the starring role of a drag queen performer whose plans for a festive Christmas Eve party are thwarted by a raging blizzard.
The only revelers to show up are her caustic drag-diva neighbor, a coked-up club promoter and an uninvited young couple—she’s a showbiz wannabe, he’s studying to be—gasp!—a minister.
Despite my character's best efforts to keep things cheery—holiday punch, Bingo, Cheetos—the soiree deteriorates into a night of bitter family memories, despicable karaoke, and rants against God and religion. Ah, the joys of Christmas!
If you’re in NYC, come on down! It’s only $15. And I promise to memorize my lines.
Coming soon: Exclusive behind-the-scene photos!
Wednesday October 29, 2008
"It was very hard to alter the beautiful faces of Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff," says photo-shop whiz and My Comrade contributor George Wittman.
But the result is worth it—What a great reminder of the monsters that lurk among us!
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Global Village Space | Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan on Wednesday expressed his desire for “closer and fraternal” relations with Bangladesh, by speaking to the PM, Sheikh Hasina Wajid. Mr Khan, in what was his first telephone conversation with his Bangladesh counterpart Hasina Wajed, said: “Pakistan is committed to deepening fraternal relations with Bangladesh on the basis of mutual trust, mutual respect and sovereign equality.” Imran Khan takes bold initiative towards Bangladesh The telephone contact has come after months of efforts to normalise ties between the two South Asian countries after years of deep freeze. Islamabad’s initiative for mending fences with Dhaka was launched after current high commissioner Imran Siddiqui assumed office in February this year. Observers were caught by surprise when Mr Siddiqui earlier this month met Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen. Pak-Bangladesh relationship took a nosedive after Ms Wajed started her second tenure as the prime minister in 2009 and she resumed the so-called 1971 trial of the ‘war crimes’. Pakistan has always considered the bitter past of the 1971 dismemberment as a closed chapter in view of the tripartite agreement signed in April 1974 for repatriation of war prisoners. Ms Wajed’s father and Bangladesh’s founding father Mujibur Rehman had after the accord agreed that in the interest of regional peace, no one would be put on trial for alleged crimes committed during the 1971 war. Read full article... Imran Khan speaks with Hasina Wajed: Bold Initiative towards Bangladesh?


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Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, in a New York Times interview:
Among many things that [my mentor Ray Chambers] has taught me are five rules for happiness. So the first one is living in the moment. The second is that it’s better to be loving than to be right, and if you’re in a relationship, you know how challenging that can be. The third one is to be a spectator to your own thoughts, especially when you become emotional, which is almost impossible to do. The fourth is to be grateful for at least one thing every day, and the last is to help others every chance you get.
The second rule stopped me: Is it really better to be loving than to be right?
Ideally we would like to be both loving and right, but in a heated discussion, when our irrationality is heightened and we’re compelled to lose sight of one for the other, which is more sacred?
In my experience, I’ve never regretted being loving, but there are plenty of times I’ve regretted being right. When I prioritize being right, I become singularly focused on getting someone to agree with me, which means I stop listening to what they’re saying, because they are obviously wrong. I may hear what they’re saying, their obviously wrong words, but what’s missing is empathy, a consideration of their motivations and concerns.
Instead, I hear only disagreement, which can lead to a frustration that, at its worst, can reduce others to “the idiot that needs to know how wrong they are” or “the asshole that needs to be put in their place”. There are other, subtler things that can be missed, too. Maybe I don’t notice bystanders tuning out, annoyed. Or I don’t realize my “opponent” isn’t even interested in arguing. Or that there isn’t any upside to “winning” the argument.
I find I make this mistake most often with people I’m comfortable with, those closest to me. I’m reminded of something Ryan Holiday wrote:
We give the benefit of courtesy to everybody but the people who earned it. Think of how much patience we have for total strangers and acquaintances. But what a short fuse we have for the actual people in our life. In the course of our everyday lives, our priorities are so very backwards. We do our best to impress people we’ll never see again and take for granted people we see all the time. We’re respectful in our business lives, casual and careless in our personal. We punish closeness with criticism, reward unfamiliarity with politeness. […] Sure, be friendly to everyone but bend over backwards—because they’ve earned it—for the people who put up with your shit on a daily basis.
When I’m careless with loved ones, it’s because I know them so well. Those relationships feel, to some degree, predictable, and I develop an intuition for what they will tolerate. There’s no need to watch my words because I think I know the potential consequences and I’m okay with them.
…Until I’m wrong and misjudge the consequences. And that’s the thing about prioritizing being right: I’m not always going to be right. There’s a book called The Half-life of Facts that is, crudely summarized, about why half of today’s “facts” will eventually be proven wrong. What’s right today won’t necessarily be right tomorrow, and so it’s important to humble myself, especially when the universe has taken a break from doing it for me.
If being loving is better than being right, what exactly does that mean? Does it mean no longer standing up for what I believe? Does it mean always being “nice”, even when someone could be harmfully wrong? Not to me.
To me, the opposite of being loving is disrespecting someone — cutting them down or refusing to consider their perspective. Once I feel the need to disrespect someone, that’s a leading indicator that I’m at the brink of losing — of not persuading anyone of anything — and it’s time to take a step back and reevaluate the situation.
There’s nothing to gain by disrespecting someone I’m trying to persuade. Doing so risks losing not just the current conversation but future ones, which will be undermined if the person no longer respects me nor wants to listen to me. This is all assuming the person in question needs to be persuaded. Because if not, if the person is harmless or inconsequential or unpersuadable, then why bother?

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- Margarethe Tiesel appears nude through much of the picture and has several graphic scenes with Kenyan beach boys
- Director said: 'Women from the rich West exploit young African men. But it's also a business, and they (the men) get something for it'
- It had its gala premiere yesterday in Cannes, where it is one of 22 films competing for the Palme d'Or
By Jill Reilly
PUBLISHED: 10:23 EST, 19 May 2012 | UPDATED: 10:31 EST, 20 May 2012
A graphic film featuring a middle-aged woman traveling to Africa for sex with male gigolos has been praised at Cannes Film Festival.
In Paradise: Love, the first part of a trilogy, director Ulrich Seidl explores the subject of sex tourism among rich, European white women
The film had its gala premiere yesterday where it is one of 22 films competing for the Palme d'Or.
Paradise: Love, stars Margaret Tiesel whose search for love turns increasingly predatory. Screened yesterday, Ms Tiesel appears nude through much of the film and has several graphic scenes with Kenyan beach boys
Strong views: 'Women from the rich West exploit young African men. But it's also a business, and they (the men) get something for it,' said director Ulrich Seidl
PARADISE: LOVE PLOT
Margarethe Tiesel plays divorcee Teresa, who packs her teen daughter off to weight-loss camp and heads to Kenya where a friend has assured her that sex is plentiful.
Soon she meets Munga (Peter Kazungu) and as their relationship develops Teresa believes he doesn't want money.
But soon he starts asking for funds, claiming he needs cash for his sister’s baby, his father’s medical bills or his cousin’s school, but never for himself.
The movie stars Margarethe Tiesel as a 50-year-old Austrian whose search for love turns increasingly predatory.
Previously a stage actress, this is her first major film role and she appears nude through much of the film and has several graphic scenes with Kenyan beach boys.
But the actress told journalists that she did not judge the character's behavior.
She said the movie examined female loneliness and the way 'people who are exploited at home travel abroad and become exploiters in turn.'
Mr Seidl, who looked at east-west friction in Europe in his 2007 Cannes entry 'Import/Export,' plans the film as the first in a trilogy about modern tourism.
The director views his European and African characters with the detached eye of an anthropologist. Seidl began as a documentary maker, and even on his fiction features shoots without scripted dialogue and mixes professional and nonprofessional actors.
'Paradise: Love' had a mixed reception from critics in Cannes.
Cast at Cannes: Actors Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu and Margarete Tiesl pose during the photocall
Theory: Ulrich Seidl, one of 22 directors competing for the top prize at Cannes this year, said many Western women were looking for more than a holiday fling, a key difference to male sex tourism in developing countries
Some accused it of reproducing the exploitation of Africans that it claims to examine — or, like the Hollywood Reporter, simply found it 'a psychologically empty wallow.'
Others praised the bravery of the actors, who are required to strip naked, physically and emotionally, as they enact the characters' sexual negotiations.
'It wasn't easy, it's true,' Ms Tiesel said.
'It was a challenge to surpass yourself, to go beyond your comfort zone. But in the beginning Ulrich said to me: 'Nothing will happen that you don't want to happen.' So that reassured me.'
Mr Seidl said many Western women were looking for more than a holiday fling, a key difference to male sex tourism in developing countries.
'Women from the rich West exploit young African men. But it's also a business, and they (the men) get something for it,' reported news.com.au.
But Mr Seidl rejected the suggestion he is a pessimist.
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Daptomycin 500mg/vial; lyophilized pwd for IV inj after reconstitution (with sterile or bacteriostatic water for inj) or IV infusion after reconstitution and dilution; preservative-free; may be stored at room temperature.
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Give by IV inj over 2mins or IV infusion over 30mins. cSSSI: 4mg/kg once every 24hrs for 7–14 days. S. aureus bacteremia or endocarditis: 6mg/kg once every 24hrs for 2–6 weeks. Renal impairment (CrCl <30mL/min): decrease dosing interval to once every 48hrs; coincide dose for after dialysis.
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It was not the first time it aired. This Coca-Cola TV commercial made its debut during Super Bowl 2014. It aired again Sunday at Super Bowl LI.
This time around, it seemed to be more powerful. Many will agree that its impact on current events, specifically on the new administration of President Donald Trump, is priceless.
The commercial features the patriotic song ‘America The Beautiful’ sung in different languages, including Tagalog. It’s a powerful depiction of America’s diversity that has been enriched by immigrants from all over the world.
It’s a repudiation of Trump’s policy of ‘making America first,’ that has taken form in the banning of refugees, Muslims and foreign citizens from entering the United States. It is a policy that has overreached to individuals that have earned legal status or even citizenship.
But alas, the commercial was lost in translation when it comes to the Tagalog phrase used to substitute for the words, ‘above the fruited plain.’
It is quite obvious that the song’s composer was referring to the fertile land beneath America’s spacious skies. Fruits merely represented the abundance of agricultural produce in beautiful America.
In the commercial, the phrase was translated into ‘sa ibabaw ng mga prutas,’ which literally, is equivalent to ‘on top of the fruits.’
Lost were the plains and lost was the spirit of abundance. In fact, the Tagalog translation could very well mean on top of a bowl of fruits sitting on a dining table or kitchen counter.
As I’m sure it is with other languages, not everything can or must be translated literally. Word for word. To do so would be to diminish the spirit and true meaning of a great work of art.
Perhaps this re-aired commercial can send a message to Trump to open up America’s borders to allow language experts to work for companies like Coca-Cola or American ad agencies. It will ensure that songs as beautiful as that sung in the commercial will never again be lost in translation.


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The Carolina Beach Town Council recently voted to explore charging a fee to leagues wanting to use fields at Mike Chappell Park on Dow Road. The Council agreed the Pleasure Island Youth Baseball League has devoted time and money to improve the field and will forego any such fee for a year.
By WILLARD KILLOUGH III
CAROLINA BEACH - The Carolina Beach Town Council held a special meeting Monday March 4, to discuss a proposed contract with Pleasure Island Youth Baseball for the use of fields at Mike Chapel Park on Dow Road.
The Council discussed cost of the league's use of the field and facilities and whether or not to charge a fee per game of $15 to cover the Town's cost.
Members of the Pleasure Island Youth Baseball Committee explained they have devoted time and resources to make improvements to the field and that very little if any Town resources will be required by the league. The Council ultimately decided to consider the leagues efforts and cost of improvements in lieu of a fee per game this year and will examine costs when planning for the upcoming 2013-2014 fiscal year.
Carolina Beach Mayor Bob Lewis explained the Town has invested $80,000 in basketball courts and recently renovated the tennis courts and, "I look at those as investments in our parks as something that is good for the youth and the adults who want to use it. And if we have two or three hundred... people using it every night, I really have a hard time charging people."
Lewis said having a contract with leagues such as Pleasure Island Youth Baseball sets the framework of what is expected of both parties, but, "I really have a hard time with a fee schedule. If every body else in every county was charging people to use their athletic facilities I would have a different focus but I don't see them doing that."
Interim Town Manager Bruce Shell said he received input from the Council to, "Put contracts together for folks that do business with the Town. One of the things I was trying to correct was to the extent that you incur cost, you arrive at a mechanism for getting some of that cost back" including an hourly rate for staff time if the league required their services.
He said the $15 facility use fee, "Was a way to provide some income coming back because we didn't charge for lights and things of that nature and we were incurring expense there."
Shell said, "If you want to waive that fee we can certainly include that. We will follow your lead."
Lewis said, "We're not going to add additional people because kids are playing baseball in our town." He said while the Youth Baseball League handles chalking the lines for the field prior to games at their own cost, "I think no matter what we do we need to prepare the fields so anybody can use them." He said the league would not be using the fields everyday and it will be open for the public as usual.
Council member Sarah Friede said, "I think that baseball wears fields at a much different rate than say tennis or basketball. The upkeep on the field is certainly a lot different than it would be for tennis or basketball."
As for the Pleasure Island Soccer Association, Friede said, "That doesn't mean we shouldn't charge them a fee to. The Town has a half million dollars a year that it spends on electricity. Spending a ton of money on lights over there."
She said the Recreation Department, "Is consistently in the red because we are making these donations to various organizations that are using Town facilities. I think that we should charge a fee. I know the baseball folks have indicated that they made the donation of certain value of clay or whatever that they are putting on the field. I think it's fine to give them credit for that if they've got an invoice or donation slip or something showing what they put into the fields then we can certainly give them credit for that."
Lewis said the baseball league also digs out the infield, puts down clay, takes care of the grass, setting up the field and other maintenance activities spending money and time in the process.
Friede said, "To keep it playable the Town has to charge a fee because we are going to have some upkeep involved with it."
The Youth Baseball league is a non-profit organization.
Councilman Steve Shuttleworth said the Town is working on utilizing contracts for not just sports leagues but all activities that utilize Town resources.
He said, "We have given staff direction, not specifically at recreational sports, but at all activities... we've had 42 events last year plus all of the athletic events."
He said, "Our staff is getting pulled a hundred different directions. What we've asked Mr. Shell to do is come up with a mechanism where we can start tracking what the commitment is from the Town, what the commitment is from the group or entity or person putting on an event or program, see where the cost are, see where we can squeeze nickels out of them, where we can donate stuff. We've got budgets coming up and we are trying to understand all of that."
He said, "We don't want to be punitive" but, "Also want to answer to the other 4,000 taxpayers what we are doing to make sure we are good stewards" of tax dollars.
The Council voted unanimously to waive any facility fee for the first year to cover the cost of the improvements made by the Youth Baseball League.
The Council agreed the issue of facility fees would be a topic of discussion when planning for next years budget.


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Antonin Scalia Says Gitmo Detainees Can Suck His Gavel:
In one of several surprisingly civilized recent decisions, today the Supreme Court released its 5-4 opinion that detainees held at Guantanamo Bay have the right to challenge their imprisonment in civilian court, and that if the Congress wants to take away the writ of habeas corpus from anyone, then it better fuckin' stand up and say, as the Constitution does, that we're in a "case of rebellion or invasion." In his raised middle finger of a majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy writes of things like Military Detainee Act, the Congress and the President do not "have the power to switch the Constitution on or off at will."
The majority decision (on quick read) is compelling. For real fun, though, let's take a trip into the mad brain of Justice Antonin Scalia, the man whose consistent belief that individual liberties and civil rights are merely the dried ejaculate of the unending masturbation of self-indulgent adolescents has made him the model judge for John McCain and other corporate and imperial power-lovin' whores. In his separate dissent today, Scalia managed to reduce the role of the judiciary to a mere foreskin on the cock of presidential power and the Constitution to so much shit-smeared Charmin spinning into the maelstrom of the American toilet.
Let the man himself speak. First, he gives a mini-version of a Bush or Cheney speech, or one of his own, being the Justice who loves that speaker's fee lucre more than any other: "America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen...On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania. It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed." And what better way to deal with the 1983 Beirut bombing than to deny habeas corpus to Afghanis captured in 2001?
Then Big Tony kicks out the imperial presidency jams: "The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. That consequence would be tolerable if necessary to preserve a time-honored legal principle vital to our constitutional Republic. But it is this Court’s blatant abandonment of such a principle that produces the decision today." If you're a federal judge in a civilian court today, you must feel goddamn proud that Antonin Scalia has such faith in your ability to hold trials for "enemy combatants."
Essentially, as much of the rest of the dissent says, you suck, judiciary branch. It's the kind of self-loathing that has gotten Scalia so chummy with Dick Cheney, where he lets Cheney play "Shoot Scalia in the Face," except with, you know, his dick instead of a rifle. Indeed, Scalia pretty much says the judiciary sucks in one of his last lines: "And, most tragically, it sets our military commanders the impossible task of proving to a civilian court, under whatever standards this Court devises in the future, that evidence supports the confinement of each and every enemy prisoner." Man, what a punk-ass legal system this nation has, demanding that the government prove that an accused criminal is a criminal. What pussies we must be not to just trust the executive branch (and the military) with that. Of course, that'd be called a "dictatorship," but, hell, as long as Scalia is kept fat with linguine and oh-so-yummy sausages, what the fuck does he care.
And what of the logic of Scalia's arguments? He says, among other things, that habeas corpus protections in the Constitution were never meant to extend beyond the borders of the United States, citing English and Scottish precedents (which is odd in itself, since Scalia huffed and wheezed when other justices used the legal arguments of foreign countries to support their decisions). Which begs the question: if the United States Constitution doesn't apply at Gitmo, does Cuba's? No one's? It's like tying your leather slave to the iron posts of the bed and after you put the ball gag in, you tell him there's no safe word this time as you start to put the Ben-Gay on his ass cheeks. (Anthony Kennedy addresses this remarkable Cuban conundrum in the majority opinion, 'round about pages 35-42.)
Finally, there's the couple of instances where Scalia comes across like a blogger who has run out of ways to say shit. For instance, here's an actual quote from this actual Supreme Court Justice: "[S]o long as there are some places to which habeas does not run—so long as the Court’s new 'functional' test will not be satisfied in every case—then there will be circumstances in which 'it would be possible for the political branches to govern without legal constraint.' Or, to put it more impartially, areas in which the legal determinations of the other branches will be (shudder!) supreme." That "shudder!" is now part of the written history of the highest court in the United States.
Instead of worrying about impeaching George W. Bush (save it for arrest as a war criminal), who only has a few more months to fuck us up, what about Scalia, who may have years more to poison our well? Putting more justices on the Supreme Court like Antonin Scalia would be like pouring scorpions into a playpen.