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The fall is one of those times of year when camera and lens manufacturers tend to launch a spate of new products. Accompanying those releases are the inevitable reviews and a plethora of commentary (both pro and con) by pundits and readers alike on photographic web sites. Amidst all of this din and distraction it is often difficult to assess whether to buy new gear or not. Getting off the gear replacement merry-go-round can be much more difficult than it first appears.
If we’re honest with ourselves, we’d likely admit to looking longingly at new gear at least on an occasional basis. This may be especially true when our current gear may be a bit tired looking, even though it may be in excellent working order and producing good results.
I’d be the first person to admit that I’ve fallen prey to unnecessary gear replacement a few times over the years. And, wasted a lot of time and money in the process. Some of the gear reviews make it seem like life will end if one does not own the latest technology.
Oh the horror of owning and using older gear!
Motivation to replace camera gear comes from a number of reference points. The first is a noble one…the desire to actually improve the quality of our work because the new gear that we are considering actually does provide a meaningful, and measurable improvement when compared to our current gear.
The other two common reference points are less positive: ego satisfaction and/or low self-confidence.
Being a prisoner to these emotional motivations is extremely hard from which to break free. It involves invoking the rational part of our brain…a far too uncommon act for me…and many other folks.
Buying new camera gear is an ego-driven purchase for many people. Being seen out and about with the latest and greatest equipment does provide opportunities for bragging rights, albeit only on a temporary basis. Ego buyers are easy to spot since they spend far more time showing their gear to other photographers and talking about it with them, than actually using it. I suppose this is the same orientation as needing to have the latest Smartphone, expensive watches, or new vehicles.
Buying from a position of low self-confidence doesn’t mean that one goes through life weighed down under a constant burden of debilitating self-doubt. The low self-confidence to which I’m referring stems from not being a ‘gear head’. Appreciating that one’s own understanding of the technical aspects of photography is somewhat limited, can contribute to an overreliance on the opinions of others. When we find ourselves in this position it is easy to fall prey to gear acquisition syndrome. I know this is what happened to me when I made the transition into full frame camera gear a number of years ago.
We can certainly go around in circles trying to figure out what to do about our camera gear, and if replacement in whole or in part, is justified.
It can be even more daunting when getting into photography on a more serious basis when we are trying to make a major decision about which format to use. In an earlier article, Creating a Camera Buying Decision Matrix, I outlined one approach that can help cut through the clutter and focus on one’s own equipment needs.
So, what can we do from a practical standpoint when getting off the gear replacement merry-go-round?
The first thing is to realize that changes in photographic gear are incremental. And, those changes may not make any material difference to the quality of our photographs. Putting technical advancements into perspective is like looking through the viewing portal in the image above, only a small slice of performance will be affected. Whether that performance difference is significant and important to us as individuals is a key consideration.
One way to assess whether some of these technical improvements are actually meaningful for us is to logically assess the performance of our current gear. For example, let’s say that a camera has a new focusing system that is touted to be ‘more reliable’ than a previous generation camera. How many images did your current camera miss achieving focus when used properly? If the answer is none, then the ‘improved’ focusing system on the new camera is an irrelevant improvement for you. If, on the other hand, you have been experiencing a lot of frustration with the auto-focusing performance of your current gear because it is causing you to miss capturing a lot of images, then this could be a meaningful improvement for you to consider.
Regardless of the technical improvement that is being promoted, if we want to get off the gear replacement merry-go-round we need to critically assess the performance of our current gear, when we use it properly. If we are not missing photographic opportunities with our current gear, specific technological improvements may not be relevant for us to consider.
The professional photographer that my daughter hired for her wedding did a superlative job, producing a wonderful collection of images. It is instructive to note that this pro shooter wasn’t using the most up-to-date or ‘hottest’ camera gear. She used a couple of Canon full frame cameras, of 3 and 6 year vintages, and an old Nikon D300. Her gear did not restrict her ability to demonstrate her considerable talent.
There are situations where empirical test data is available for us to consider. Even here we need to exercise some prudence to assess whether improvements are meaningful. As a case in point let’s have a look at some DxO Labs test data with Nikon D7XXX series cameras, from the D7000 through to the D7500.
These overall scores are composite numbers based on how the sensors in each of these cameras performs in specific DxO Lab testing for dynamic range, colour depth, and low light performance. Let’s take a look at these individual factors in detail.
According to DxO Labs a difference of 0.5 EV is required to begin to be noticeable for most people. Based on that criteria only the D7200 outperformed the D7000 in any meaningful way in terms of dynamic range. The D7500, which is almost 7 years newer than the D7000, is basically on par with it.
Now let’s look at colour depth.
According to DxO Labs a difference of 1.0-bits is needed to begin to be noticeable for most people. So, out of the three newer generation D7XXX series cameras, only the D7200 would likely perform noticeably better than the D7000, and even then only at a minimal level. The D7500 does not cross that 1.0-bit difference performance threshold.
The final comparison we’ll look at is low light performance. Here are the DxO Lab scores for the four cameras we’ve been comparing.
According to DxO Labs, a 25% difference in the low light test data equates to a 1/3 EV difference in low light performance. Based on this criteria only the D7500 will produce an improvement of at least 1/3 EV in low light performance over a D7000. This level of low light performance difference is likely not going to be material for most photographers.
I suppose where all of this is leading is to acknowledge that it sometimes feels lonely shooting with older gear, or equipment that is not the ‘latest rave’. I’m not saying that we should never upgrade our camera gear when needed. Far from it. I have no regrets at all buying a couple of Nikon 1 J5s last year. There is a noticeable improvement in image quality (dynamic range and colour depth) when compared to my V-Series cameras. Its my assessment that the work that I produce with the J5 is somewhat better than with the V2s I used in the past.
The key point is for each of us to learn to use our gear, and software for that matter, as fully as possible. When we do, we’ll likely discover that most of our photographic limitations were mainly caused by our skill levels, not by our camera gear. For example, moving to full frame gear from a cropped sensor camera system will not improve our photographs if our main challenge is not being able to compose our images well.
When we do discover that our gear is truly holding us back – then investing money in new gear is a wise decision.
All photographs were captured hand-held in available light as per the EXIF data. All images in this article were produced from RAW files using my standard process of OpticsPro 11, CS6 and the Nik Collection.
Article and images Copyright 2017 Thomas Stirr. All rights reserved. No use, duplication or adaptation of any kind is allowed without written consent. If you see this article reproduced anywhere else it is an unauthorized and illegal use. Posting comments on offending web sites and calling out individuals who steal intellectual property is always appreciated!
Tom, I really liked how you picked the photos for this article to match what you were writing about – great job.
Thanks Joni – I’m glad you enjoyed the posting!
You hit the nail on the head with this and I think your SAS post from months back bears mention. Who hasn’t been guilty of GAS one time or another? I know I was. There was a point when I’d change from one Nikon camera body to another every year or two years. Nowadays, I keep abreast of developments but invest more on photography ebooks, online seminars, etc., very much happy and settled with my D800 and D300. In fact, I recently did a step in the other direction — getting a Coolpix B700 and traveling mostly with it, enjoying the freedom of traveling lighter while still fiddling with manual exposure settings. The earnings to be had from doing photography work have declined steeply in the last couple of years so even entertaining the idea of upgrading is also out of the question. Some clients/companies resort to the more popular method of crowdsourcing pictures for free. As I use my cameras for work, it’s becoming less and less judicious to upgrade when the “old” stuff still works fine.
Thanks for sharing your experiences and adding to the discussion Oggie! It sounds like your trio of D800. D300 and Coolpix B700 is doing the trick for you! I’m in total agreement with your comment “As I use my cameras for work, it’s becoming less and less judicious to upgrade when the “old” stuff still works fine.” My trio of V2s is a testament to that fact.
I recently bought a Ricoh GR 2 as a lightweight high IQ travel camera. I have been using older Canon DSLRs and an EOS M mirrorless to date. Wow, what a difference! The GR2 has a highly capable sensor matched with a great lens and it is a serious upgrade towhat I was familiar with. So sometimes a gear upgrade does work – as the cliche goes, it can “take you to the next level”.
But has it made me a better photographer? Well actually it has – it has inspired me to work hard to improve my skills because I can see the potential. It’s a keeper.
Is it perfect? Obviously not. The boggest hurdle so far is composing on the rear screen. As you said about the J5, you can adjust to that but I just seem to be taking a little longer than you!
So for wide angle shooting (28mm EFOV and 21mm with an adaptor) I think I am set for a while.
Now for a lightweight telephoto zoom companion to the GR? Is the Nikon J5 the solution? TBD!
Thanks for adding to the discussion! Your words “it has inspired me to work hard to improve my skills” really struck a chord with me. When camera gear does that for any of us, we know we’ve spent our money well!
Thanks for sharing your recent experiences at the US Open Tennis Grand Slam! No doubt you turned a lot of heads when you pulled out your gear…and likely generated some negative comments…that is until some of the other shooters saw your work! My J5s have very quickly become my favourite Nikon 1 body. I love the size and handling of the J5, as well as the improved image quality over my V-Series bodies. I still prefer shooting video with the V2s and I hope I can squeeze another 3 years out of them!
While I am a certified gear “whore” pardon the crass epithet, having “Go Bags” filling my camera closet of various systems, I have vowed to use the J5’s for some of my news gathering forays here in NY City, because it has become just that confidence inspiring. Having become, perish the thought comfortable with using it’s lcd for composing, which I hadn’t thought possible until my US Open experiment. Somehow, now, peering through a viewfinder seems more limiting, even claustrophobic, and antithetical to being more aware of my surroundings; like whats on my sides, and back in fluid situations. I have de-e-volved into my comfort zone of pro amateur professional. Do I care what “other’s” might think,? Not in the least. It is liberating. And at near 70, an incredible lightness of being. Cheers, all.
I share your sense of liberation – on both counts!
There is another consideration. It is the sheer joy of using certain equipment over others. In my case, I love using the Pen F. I also love my “old” Nikon 1 V2, regardless of fact that the J5 produces better files. The V2 is a pleasure to use and feels right in the hand. No J5 for me; I’m hanging on to the old until it croaks. I feel the same way about my Fuji X-Pro 2. There are certain cameras that fall in hand and to the eye with pleasure. I’m told that many feel this way about Leicas. Certain cameras have a classic “feel” to them. Some say this is the case with the Nikon D500 and the new Sony A9. And these hard to quantify considerations are independent of sensor size and cost and bit depth. To site personal experience again, I’m annoyed at myself for giving up my Ricoh GR. So easy to use, such marvelous photos!
I can really identify with your comment about ‘the sheer joy of using certain equipment’. My least favourite Nikon 1 camera from a pure ‘feeling’ standpoint is the V3. There’s lots that I have come to appreciate about the camera in terms of the additional resolution over the V2, the added external body controls, as well as not having a low pass filter…but it doesn’t have the same ‘feel’ to me. If I wasn’t trying to extend the life of my trio of V2s for my video business I doubt that I would have bought any V3s. My wife on the other hand, much prefers the V3 over the V2.
Good timing for me Tom. I shot with a professional guide during my last trip and I enjoyed it, both his artistic abilities and teaching me more to look for, and from getting the chance to use his gear. We were shooting both my D750 with the 24-85 VR and his D810 with either the 24-70 G or 16-35 VR. I’m still trying to figure out if there’s any real difference between the files, either DR or sharpness or “rendering”, but it sure has me wondering about upgrading my kit lens (D850 usability improvements are heavy on my mind – touchscreen and light up buttons and improved AF). It’s an interesting exercise to see if I can see any difference in the files. Too early for a conclusion right now.
Thanks for sharing your experiences! There’s a lot to be said for actually shooting with gear, then comparing files, rather than just relying on reviews and test results before making a purchase. It’s great you had the opportunity to do that.
When I was shooting with full frame gear I decided pretty quickly on the 16-35mm f/4 VR and the 70-200mm f/4, but had some mental twists trying to decide between the 24-85mm kit lens and the 24-120mm f/4. At the end of the day I went with the kit lens as I was only looking to fill in the focal length gap between the other f/4 zooms, i.e. 35mm to 70mm. It all comes down to what’s best to meet an individual’s needs.

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You may recall that a function is a block of code that performs a specific task. Sometimes a function returns a value. In Java Script you code a function by using the keyword function, followed by the function's name, followed by a list of parameters that get passed to the function (enclosed in parenthesis), followed by the block of code that performs the task (enclosed in curly braces).
Another way to create a function is to have Java Script write the function code during execution. Why would a program need to create a function at runtime? This could be used in a program that allows the user to add functionality to the application during execution.
A function that is created at runtime is called a dynamic function. To create a dynamic function, use the keyword new, followed by the keyword Function (Note use of upper-case F in keyword Function when creating dynamic functions), followed by a list of parameter values enclosed in quotes and separated by commas ("parameter1","parameter2","parameter3","statements"), the final entry in the list being the statements that will execute when the function is called.
The first line after the script block opening tag above is the declaration of the dynamic function, placing a reference to it in a variable named calcVolume. The second line calls the dynamic function using that variable name, placing the return value in a variable named result. The third line uses the alert function to display the value in result.
Dynamic functions are sometimes called "anonymous functions" because, as you can see in the code above, technically the function doesn't have a name. In this example, the name calcVolume is the name of the variable that contains a reference or pointer to the function in the computer's memory.
Another note about anonymous functions is, because their reference is contained in a variable, their scope is the same as any variable declared at that same level. In other words, if the code to create an anonymous function is within a function, that anonymous function disappears upon exit of the function within which it was created.

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"I've always been a man obsessed with most things vintage and retro. My girlfriend Jasmine and others have sometimes referred to me as a 'man out of time' -- and I tend to think that I should've been born 50 to 100 years earlier. I'm stuck in a past that, for me, never even existed, and feel such a nostalgia for an era that I never knew.
"The price tag on the Scrambler was my only hesitation. I decided to keep looking around. No choice could've been better made. Whenever I ran across the Royal Enfield online I was instantly in love. I informed everybody I knew that I would be buying a Bullet ASAP.
"It was also no contest which bike I would buy: the Military model pulled every string inside of me that was tethered to my love for vintage and military-esque items. It's hard to even put into words how giddy I felt when I first laid eyes on it. I knew it would be mine.
"I did some research and found out about the fabled 'constant maintenance and repairs' that these bikes demanded from their owners. As a young kid with absolutely ZERO mechanical experience, I was a little concerned (to say the least). I never knew how to change the oil on my car. I tended to ALWAYS neglect taking care of it -- never washed it, wouldn't change the oil until I was about 3,000 miles afterthe 3,000 mile oil-change mark, never worried about new tires, etc. I was a bad owner. This made me a little worried about how I would fare with the Enfield Bullet.
"I loved the idea that this was a bike you could tinker with and work on while on the side of the road, if you had to. I loved the idea that this was a bike that would probably run forever if you treated it right. Slowly, I began to fall in love with the idea of learning to become a mechanic, learning to treat the bike as, essentially, an extension of myself and taking care of it. I took the dive and 'bought the Bullet'."
Next: So how does he like his new Bullet?
Josh, Did your bike come with the stenciled star motif or was it something you added yourself?
anonymous: I added the star decal myself. There is a really great seller on eBay who sells sheets of these star decals both for restoring WWII military motorcycles, as well as for restoring WWII military jeeps. They're pretty cheap, and the seller is generous enough to throw in extra stars for free if you need. Just search for "military motorcycle decals" and you'll find them.

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They're men, they're men in tights. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, or The Trocks as they're known to their fans, are the world's most famous all-male ballet company. A true dancing phenomenon, they've been pirouette-ing and plié-ing en pointe since 1974, and this year marks The Trocks' Spoleto Festival debut. More exciting, hometown boy and veteran Trock-er Robert Carter will perform with his company in Charleston for the first time.
Carter's career in ballet started when he was 7 years old. He was singing in the children's group Magic Circle at Middleton Place during Spoleto when he caught the eye of Robert Ivey. The local dance guru zeroed in on the young Carter and quickly contacted his mother, asking her if she would like some dance training to go with his singing.
"I saw Bobby, and he had so much enthusiasm," Ivey recalls. With his mother's encouragement, Carter enrolled at Robert Ivey Ballet School, where he quickly took to dance. "After my first class, I couldn't wait to go back," Carter says. "And since then, I knew that was what I wanted to do."
Flash forward to today, and not only is Carter a star in The Trocks, he and Ivey are still close friends. "I'll get calls in the middle of the night," says Ivey, "and it'll be, 'Hey Mr. Ivey, it's Robert. I'm in Hungary today.' Or, 'I'm dancing in France.'" The dancer credits his success to Ivey's influence and his mother's continued support. "I think I was fortunate to have grown up in Charleston, because I had a supportive environment and was exposed to people who nurtured me on my way to where I am. I must say I have been blessed."
The biggest blessing, however, goes to the Spoleto audience members who seize the opportunity to see Carter and The Trocks perform. The cast dances in drag wearing pointe shoes, performing some of the world's most famous ballets, including Swan Lake, which Carter will showcase in Charleston. Although it's all farcical fun, the men take their moves seriously. It's true you have to have a sense of humor to be in the company, but more importantly, you need the ballet chops to match. "When we're in a rehearsing period in New York, we work five days a week," Carter says. "On tour, we don't rehearse as much, but first days in a theater, including the two hour show, can go as long as seven to eight hours."
Carter honed his skills under Ivey's tutelage, but it was really the open-minded environment of Ivey's studio that allowed him to dabble with toe shoes, usually reserved for women. Ivey says, "When he was about 12, Bobby said he was interested in trying out pointe, and we happened to have a girl in one of our classes with very large feet. So when she was done using her shoes, he'd try them on."
Like any teacher, Ivey was thrilled Carter had so much interest — it didn't matter that he was studying in shoes generally meant for a feather-light ballerina. (In case you're curious, today Carter wears a 6.5 E in Bloch pointe shoes.) These early beginnings en pointe paid off. "I had danced in a couple conventional ballet companies and found I was not happy," Carter says. "When I got the opportunity to audition for the Trocks, there was never a struggle to decide."
So what makes Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo so fabulous? The perfect harmony of exquisite dance paired with killer comic timing. A bat of an eyelash here, a particular head bop there, a seemingly ad-libbed flash of choreography there. While it would have to be said that the Trocks in large part parody the classical style, isn't imitation the highest form of flattery? In a sense, they make a four century-old dance tradition more approachable, one laugh at a time.

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The Man from Earth is a rare stage play that raises challenging intellectual questions usually only seen in the best science-fiction, reminiscent of Twilight Zone and Star Trek. This is no coincidence, as it is the final dramatic work by playwright Jerome Bixby who was responsible for several episodes of both series in the 1950s and 1960s. His Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life,” about a 3-year-old who commands vast supernatural powers and terrifies the residents of his town, is widely considered among the best of the legendary series. His Star Trek episodes include “Mirror, Mirror,” where the crew are interchanged with their evil counterparts from a parallel universe; “Day of the Dove,” where an alien entity thrives off violent energy from conflict it engineers; and “Requiem for Methuselah” about a man who has lived for thousands of years. He also co-authored the short story that provided the idea for the film Fantastic Voyage that was subsequently “novelized” under contract by Isaac Asimov (leading to the common but mistaken impression that Asimov was the original author).
It is “Requiem for Methuselah” that inspired The Man From Earth, which was made into a well-regarded although obscure film in 2007. Both the film and stage versions of the story take place entirely at the home of history professor “John Oldman” (Ed Benjamin, III) who has abruptly resigned from a tenured position after 10 years at a small college (jokingly referred to as “We Teach U”) in the American Southwest, explaining only that he has “cabin fever” and “itchy feet” that make him want to move on. His colleagues surprise him at his house to give him a proper good-bye party: anthropology professor “Dan” (Bruce Church), biology professor “Harry” (Chris Sabatino), art history professor “Edith” (Elizabeth Parent) and John’s office assistant “Sandy” (Megan Ruggiero). Archæology professor “Art” (Dave Almeida) arrives on a motorcycle with student “Linda” (Emily Lamarre) and gives John a copy of his new book, Shadows of the Cave: Parallels to Early Man. Not only has John abruptly resigned, but a moving crew (Bob Messier) is picking up for donation all of his furniture and possessions that he cannot fit into his pickup truck. Art historian Edith sees what looks suspiciously like a previously unknown original painting by Vincent van Gogh.
As his friends express concern and press John about the reason for his sudden departure, he decides to tell them his secret: He is 14,000 years old and moves on every 10 years when people start to notice that he doesn’t age, appearing permanently about 35. He presents this information initially as a hypothetical, asking whether they believe such a thing is possible, and the impromptu panel of interdisciplinary experts conclude after discussion that it is not impossible. Biologist Harry lays out the physiological aspect: if someone had a “perfect” immune system good enough to prevent decay and aging so that the usual process of cellular replication and regeneration never went awry, then in principle an individual could live indefinitely. Anthropologist Dan realizes that such a man would be very confused at first, unable to understand any more than is understood by the culture around him, constantly reinterpreting his memories and experiences in terms of the accumulating scientific and other knowledge of the society.
John infers that he was a part of the culture archæologists now call the Magdalenian Upper Paleolithic that ranged across Europe and the Near East before the end of the last ice age, the toolmaking culture responsible for the most well known of surviving cave paintings. (“Upper” simply means recent, derived from geological references to excavation layers. “Paleo” and “lithic” mean “old” and “stone,” respectively, so the “Paleolithic Age” means “Old Stone Age.”) John says that he has a memory of seeing the British Isles from France across the English Channel, empty then because the waters that today flow into it were blocked by ice dams. He says that in his long lifetime he was a student of the Buddha and a few hundred years later tried to bring those teachings to the Jews of the Roman Empire. He says the painting was given to him by van Gogh personally.
Art becomes convinced that John is having a psychotic break, and he quietly telephones another colleague, psychiatry professor “Gruber” (Robert Ellis Smith), who quickly arrives to assess the patient. As things develop, a police officer (John Burke) is called.
Bixby is very careful to get the details correct, at least insofar as was possible with the science as it was understood before his death in 1998. Unlike many such attempts at speculative fiction, someone knowledgeable about many of the subjects touched upon will not be angered by dumb mistakes.
The anthropological consensus a few decades ago was that anatomically modern humans, the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, emerged around 200,000 years ago, and at some point around 70,000 years ago, possibly in response to a severe ecological crisis, began expanding out of Africa into the rest of the world, reaching much of what would become the inhabited world by about 25,000 years ago. By contrast, behaviorally modern humans – defined as capable of planning ahead, managing a hearth and fire, knowing how to fish, burying their dead, and making art – seem to have emerged only about 50,000 years ago. Why there seems to have been a gap of nearly 150,000 years between when humans could have become behaviorally modern and when they did is a great mystery in anthropology, explained by hypotheses ranging from lousy evidence (eventually artifacts will be found showing behavioral modernity much earlier) to environmental provocation (everything was going fine until humans were forced to acquire skills to leave Africa to survive).
Since Bixby’s death, discoveries including new anthropological sites and better techniques for retrospective genetic analysis have complicated this neat timeline, but his choice to have his main character born 14,000 years ago has held up. After forcing a nomadic existence hunting and gathering, about 12,000 years ago the last ice age gave way to a warming climate that allowed the invention of agriculture along with the beginnings of civilization needed to support it, including social organization and hierarchy, preservation of information across generations through writing, simple machines such as the wheel, enough mathematics to survey land and conduct trade, and astronomy sufficient to manage crop planting. By about 8,000 years ago someone figured out how to fire clay in kilns to make pottery. By about 5,000 years ago someone figured out how to greatly strengthen copper by alloying it to make bronze. By about 4,500 years ago the Egyptians could build pyramids. By about 4,000 years ago the Babylonians needed to make legal codes. By about 3,000 years ago someone figured out how to smelt iron. The rest, quite literally, is history.
Various strands of the story are drawn from the zeitgeist of the 1960s: The discussion about Christian Gospels that seems a terrifying heresy to Edith, a devout believer, is drawn in significant part from the highly polarizing non-fiction 1965 bestseller The Passover Plot that became well enough known to inspire its own film version in 1976 and remained in print into the 1990s, and it seems impossible that Bixby was unaware of it when writing this play.
There are many subtle references, even jokes, about time. At one point John plays a recording of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, which is an atypical piece that, unlike any other work by the composer, derives its structure almost entirely from rhythm and tempo – and it is famously the first work in which Beethoven annotated the tempo in explicitly numerical beats-per-minute using the newly invented metronome rather than just the less precise traditional Italian designations (“vivace,” “allegretto,” “presto,” and “allegro”). Art sarcastically suggests that instead he should have played Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), perhaps the only widely performed work that depends even more on rhythm and tempo to an extent that provoked riots in the audience at its premiere.
The set design is innovative with two separate platforms, one for the parlor of John’s rustic cabin with a stone fireplace and the other a Southwestern vista for his pickup truck as it is loaded with boxes. The house left half of the audience has a much easier view without having to crane their necks, something of a deficiency in the layout for the other half. There are a number of clever “Easter eggs” on stage for Star Trek fans: if you think you see one, you’ll probably be correct. Benjamin wore a David Bowie T-shirt, slyly playing on the confusion of The Man from Earth with the similarly named but totally unrelated The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Among a uniformly excellent cast in a captivating production, Benjamin is very convincing as “John” as he reluctantly unspools a seemingly fantastic tale in a way that ebbs and flows in the credulity his academic colleagues are willing to accord it. Almeida as “Art” is the most extreme skeptic, a supremely confident archæologist, leather-clad and riding in on his motorcycle, regarding John’s story as so absurd that the only possible explanation for it is psychosis, although it is Lamarre as “Linda,” arriving on the back of the same motorcycle, who is most open to the possibility that John’s story is true, innocently observing of a 14,000-year life, “What a chance to learn.” Church as anthropologist “Dan” and Sabatino as biologist “Harry” become something of a team, expertly playing off each other as they slowly begin to accept that John’s story just might possibly be true. Parent as art historian “Edith,” however, is emotionally shaken into a frenzy by the philosophical and religious implications of John’s story, viscerally unraveling as her colleagues start to take him increasingly seriously. Ultimately, though, it is Ruggiero as office assistant “Sandy” who has fallen in love with John and Smith as the ever more forceful psychiatrist “Gruber” who must take the lead in determining the course of events, the former willing to accept John’s story on faith and the latter, in a superb performance, unwilling to consider any possibility other than mental illness.
Co-directors Alex Aponte and Douglas Greene wisely chose to present the play in a single act, allowing the audience to be drawn into the twilight zone of doubt, as even the characters observe that there is no way to either verify or falsify John’s claim to be 14,000 years old. Scientists must be familiar with such doubt, always open to the possibility that evidence may be discovered that challenges their assumptions, even their most fundamental ones. If you loved The Twilight Zone, “a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind,” this Attleboro Community Theatre production of The Man from Earth has everything you could want except for Rod Serling.


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Utah offers great alpine skiing, so why not also eat the way they do in the Alps? The traditional way of cooking food over a roaring indoor fire is featured at Fireside Dining at Empire Canyon Lodge.
Four different courses are found at various stone fireplaces as guests make their way through a unique evening of dining. Although the lodge is operated by Deer Valley, it’s located in the Empire pass, and just getting to it provides a beautiful drive through one of Park City’s less-traveled canyons.
The night begins with large blocks of Swiss raclette cheese sitting next to the flames and melting right onto plates, which are then handed to the diner, who can combine them with bread, cured meats, homemade chutneys and unique mustards to make an array of delicious appetizers. The second course is a series of simmering stews and fricassees, featuring everything from veal to rabbit to venison to quail, all served with a potato rosti to go along with salad and housemade ciabatta bread.
Legs of lamb hang in front of the fire and are cooked right before your eyes for the third course. The freshly carved lamb is served along with Dutch-oven dishes such as Vidalia-onion bread pudding. Finally, dessert consists of fondues of chocolate, caramel and white chocolate Grand Marnier being warmed by the blaze to be accompanied by fruits, cakes and cookies for dipping.
You can also enjoy a snow-capped winter night by scheduling a horse-pulled sleigh ride around the grounds before, after or in between courses of your meal. Being under starry skies in the mountains, after just having eaten next to a fireplace, makes for a classic winter experience.

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Duuro Magazine – Page 14 – The best place to read PS4 game news and reviews. We also love new tech!
Ubisoft announced that Update 1.8 “Resistance” for Tom Clancy’s The Division will release simultaneously on all platforms this autumn.
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Hailing from Mumbai, Ankur & The Ghalat Family is Ankur Tewari – Lead Vocals, Sidd Coutto (Rhythm Guitar and backing vocals), Vivaan Kapoor(Drums), Gaurav Gupta (guitars) and Johan Pais(Lead and Rhythm Guitar). Yaaron is their beautifully catchy, brass-driven new video, Shot and Recorded at Cotton Press Studios (Video by CATNIP). What a performance!
Ankus says that the song “is about friendship. There have been times in life where friends have stood strong like the rock of Gibraltar. An ode to all the friends who were around when the world turned its back on us. Although a handful, they’ve done more than an army of casual acquaintances would have offered.” pretty cool.
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Mr. Calvin Thomas Eakes Jr. age 62 of 101 Quailridge Road died Friday September 26, 2008 at Granville Medical Center. A native of Granville Co. and the son of the late Calvin Thomas Eakes Sr. and Cozette Hobgood Eakes. A member of Enon Baptist Church.
Graveside services will be conducted at 2:00 P. M. Monday September 29, 2008 from Mt. Creek Baptist Church Cemetery by the Rev. J. Lemar Wheeler.
Surviving are two sons, Calvin T. Eakes III, and wife Holly, of Creedmoor, NC and Stephen Lee Eakes, of Oxford NC. One sister, Mrs. Mildred Eakes Lister and husband Thomas of Oxford NC.One grandchild, Hailey Eakes. Three Aunts, Alma Yancey, of Bullock, NC and Helen Hobgood, of Oxford NC and Ethel Dunkley, of Roxboro, NC. Several nieces and nephews. Visitation will be Monday September 29, 2008 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon at Gentry-Newell & Vaughan Funeral Home, 503 College Street, Oxford NC. Online Memorials to www.gnvfh.com, select obituaries.
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In Northern Caucasus, violence of a spouse remains the main source of threat for women. The problem of domestic violence in the region is aggravated by the situation of women in society and in families when victims traditionally avoid seeking outside help. This was stated by rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" in connection with a brutal murder of a Chechen young woman in Khasavyurt.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in March 2018, a Chechen young woman was killed in Khasavyurt. A 25-year-old local resident was detained on suspicion of murder.
Video records from surveillance cameras show that he beat the young woman with his feet and used a stone to smash her head. According to the preliminary version, the murder was motivated by jealousy.
In Northern Caucasus, victims of domestic violence extremely rarely address specialized psychological and legal assistance centres, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by rights defender Aida Mirmaksumova, the head of the project "Fathers and Daughters".
"Nobody collects official statistics concerning victims of domestic violence. And not every woman appeals to us. Very often we learn about cases of domestic violence from advocates, psychologists, acquaintances or from social network users," the rights defender noted. She has also added that they are mostly addressed from Dagestan and "very rarely from other regions of Northern Caucasus."
Victims of violence, who decide to appeal to the law enforcement bodies, experience enormous pressure, including from the community, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has been informed by advocate Akhmed Elmurzaev, who works with psychological support centres for women.
"In Northern Caucasus, in particular, the problem is aggravated by the situation of women in society and in families where a woman will from time to time tolerate violence from a man, ... since her relatives will generally advise her to tolerate violence, despite everything," notes the advocate.
Murder of a Chechen young woman in Khasavyurt recalls tradition of blood feud, Researchers of Caucasus announce failure of Kadyrov's attempts to eradicate blood feud, Murder of entrepreneur in Chechnya reminds of blood feud custom.

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At their May 1, 2018 meeting, City Council proclaimed May to be Bike Month and Bicycle Safety Month in the City of Columbia. The City’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) Co-Chairs echoed the sentiments of the proclamation.
The City of Columbia celebrates throughout the month with a variety of activities, and a calendar of events is available here:https://www.columbiasc.net/planning-preservation/bpac/bike-month.

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DKV Joventut advanced to the Top 16 and soared to second place in Group B on Thursday with a 98-92 win over Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv on Thursday night in Badalona, Spain. The game came down to the wire, but the hosts outscored Maccabi 16-3 in the final minutes and the Israeli champs missed 3 of 4 free throws in the final 11 seconds. Joventut improved to 7-4 and took a one-win lead over Maccabi in the group standings. It was the fifth win in six games for coach Aito Garcia Reneses's squad. Since Joventut has already beaten Partizan and Unicaja twice, it has mathematically made it to the next round. Maccabi lost a nail-biter on the road for the second week in a row. Rudy Fernandez came off the bench to lead Joventut with 21 points. Elmer Bennett had 15 points and 6 assists, Charles Gaines added 14 points and 8 rebounds, and Robert Archibald and Lubos Barton scored 13 apiece. Barton also dished 7 assists. Simas Jasaitas drilled five three-pointers on his way to a game-high 24 for Maccabi. Nikola Vujcic finished with 20 points, Derrick Sharp 16 and Lior Eliyahu 12 in a losing effort.
Maccabi won the opening tip, but it was Joventut that got on the board first when Ferran Laviña converted a three-point play in transition. Vujcic scored Maccabi's first points on the next possession and the visitors soon took their first lead, 5-6, after a Jasaitas triple. Laviña's circus shot restored Joventut's advantage, but Jamie Arnold quickly answered with a hook. The lead continued to switch hands on nearly every possession as a speedy, but sometimes sloppy game developed. Maccabi looked to pull away with a Will Bynum steal and one-handed jam and Sharp's triple, which gave the visitors an 11-17 lead. Three-pointers by Paco Vazquez and Rudy brought Joventut back within 2, but Eliyahu's first points followed by a Vujcic offensive rebound and score made it 20-26 after 10 minutes.
Vazquez and Bennett drilled threes early in the second period and Rudy's free throw got the hosts within 27-28, but Jasaitas and Vujcic restored a 5-point Maccabi lead. Bennett and Sharp exchanged triples, but Joventut couldn't get the stops it needed on defense to get back on top. Jasaitas drilled his third three and Vujcic dunked after an Eliyahu miss to put Maccabi up 36-44. However Bennett and Barton connected from downtown and a Gaines follow-dunk tied the score at 46-46. Arnold showed his familiarity with the Badalona baskets, sinking a pair from the line to put Maccabi back on top and Jasaitas added three the hard way to put Maccabi over the 50-point mark. After a Barton jumper, Sharp beat the buzzer with a three to send the teams to the lockers with Maccabi ahead 48-54.
Maccabi started the second half strong as Vujcic freed up Eliyahu for a slam. Vujcic then drew a foul inside from Andrew Betts and sank both free throws to give the Israeli champs their first double-digit lead. Joventut's first points of the period came on a pretty Bennett-to-Gaines alley-oop, which seemed to give the hosts some momentum. Barton stole the ball from Bynum and sent Rudy for a slam after which Maccabi coach Neven Spahija took a timeout. The hosts' comeback continued though with a Bennett jumper and Archibald's three-point play that trimmed the gap to 57-59. Vujcic scored for Maccabi, but Yotam Halperin then committed an unsportsmanlike foul on Rudy, which allowed Joventut to tie the score at 61-61 after another Bennett-to-Gaines alley-oop slam. Vujcic scored inside again, but Bennett answered from downtown to give the hosts their first lead since the opening minutes. Jasaitas made sure that the green team's lead would be short-lived with a triple. Arnold added a basket-plus-foul to give Maccabi a 5-point lead. But Bynum turned the ball over for the seventh time and then committed his fourth foul, which saw him take a spot on the bench. Archibald and in turn Betts made free throws to close the gap to 68-69. Vujcic and Sharp from downtown put Maccabi up 6 and after Marcelinho Huertas scored his first point of the game from the line, Sharp ended the period with a pair of free throws for a 71-76 lead heading into the final quarter.
Bennett and Sharp started the fourth quarter exchanging jumpers before Vujcic set Jasaitas up for a slam. Archibald drew Joventut back within 76-80 with three free throws, but perhaps more importantly drew Vujcic's third and fourth fouls along the way. Rudy's layup cut the gap to 2, but Yaniv Green, playing for Vujcic, scored his first basket for Maccabi. Jasaitas drilled one more three – his fifth – for a 78-85 lead midway through the final period. After a Huertas layup, Maccabi's Lithuanian forward corrected a Green miss to keep the visitors in control. Barton drove the baseline for a basket, but an Eliyahu basket inside with two-and-a-half minutes to play was like a dagger to Joventut's hopes. However Gaines brought the hosts within 5 and Green committed an offensive foul to give Joventut reason to believe. Barton missed a three-point attempt, but Halperin fouled Rudy on the rebound and his free throws made it a 3-point game. Vujcic set up Eliyahu inside, but Archibald took him down with a foul. The rookie forward sank both. However Barton answered with a three to make it 89-91 with a minute to go. Halperin lost the ball and Badalona raced down for a Rudy slam to tie the game with 40 seconds left. Halperin drove for a layup and missed and Archibald was the first to the other side for a wide-open slam and a Joventut lead. Maccabi went inside to Vujcic, who was fouled with 11 seconds remaining. But the All-Euroleague center missed the first. Joventut beat the Maccabi trap for a Rudy layup and a 3-point lead. Joventut sent Sharp to the line and he also missed the first. He then missed the second on purpose, but Rudy grabbed the rebound and with it guaranteed a well-deserved win for the hosts which made Joventut keep fighting for Euroleague glory in the Top 16.
"I am happy for the faith we had in the end and the good accuracy in the final minutes. We defeated Maccabi, a great team with talented players such as Vujcic and great outside shooting. We have to remain humble and keep on working to play at our maximum. I want to thank the crowd who showed up today, too. We had as much fun as them with this game."
"Congratulations to Joventut for the win. We played well for 35 minutes but in the last 5 we weren't there. We played against an excellent team that we knew played well, but they showed againtonight that they can go far. We led for 75% of the game but we missed down the stretch."
"It was a great game. I want to highlight the faith we had when they were away and dominated the game. But we were better down the stretch and I am glad that the 8000 fans that came here tonight had a good time against such a great team as Maccabi Elite."
"I have to congratulate my former team for their good game. They played with energy and concentrated in defense at the end. We didn't know how to keep dominating the game. Joventut is a team that plays great andis always like a block despite having stellar players."

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Developer and publisher Capcom has announced that it’s started its fiscal year off with a bang – saying that profits are up nearly 300 percent from the previous year. You might imagine that it’s mostly due to their practise of nickle-and-diming consumers through pointless costume DLC – but no, it’s actually mostly from game sales.
The games that drove Capcom to mega-profitability? Yeah, you guessed it; Dragon’s Dogma and the rather awful Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Capcom reiterated previous news that Dragon’s Dogma had sold over 1 million copies – though it admitted that the game failed to make much of an impact on the West. Sales in its home territory, however, have "exceeded expectations" ensuring that continued existence of Dragon’s Dogma as a franchise. I’m pretty happy with that news; despite Garth’s opinions on the game, I think Dragon’s Dogma holds a great deal of promise – even if its first game completely lacked story and made up for it by being terrible in other areas too.
I’m somewhat less enthusiastic about Raccoon City being a profit driver – especially if it means we end up with more soulless cash-ins on existing franchises – and considering it is Capcom, cashing in is exactly what you’d expect.
Capcom is set to have a good year, financially at least. Games coming from its stable include Resident Evil 6 (which people will buy no matter how terrible it is), Lost Planet 3, DMC and Okami in HD. I can’t say I’m terribly excited for the giraffe-blowing simulator RE6; from everything I’ve seen it looks like a bit of a disaster. The same, oddly, can’t be said for Lost Planet 3 – which looks like it’s elevated itself beyond its lacklustre sequels. I’m curious to see Ninja Theory’s take on Devil May Cry (and I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt). Okami HD though? Sold!


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When Archer is hired to get the goods on the Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections-until he discovers the mysterious foreigner is connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.
When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the suntanned skin of Southern California's high society.
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At a time when India continues its political, economic, and cultural rise on the world stage, the India Initiative aims to advance shared approaches between the United States and India on critical global issues.
India is poised to expand its economic influence on the world stage, but it grapples with concurrent economic narratives of growth and poverty.
Environmental factors and energy delivery are a main focus of India’s development agenda, but accessibility must be balanced with sustainability in the coming decades.
India’s demography is one of the most complex in the world, and Indian politics often intersect with the many and varied identities of the Indian electorate.
In the face of internal and external security questions, coordination of the military, intelligence sector, and diplomatic efforts are increasingly important for India.
Information technology plays a critical role in India today, and has helped to transform India’s image from a developing economy to a global hub of innovation.

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The order that came in the favour of Netflix, Amazon that they will keep on streaming different Web series, movies, serials etc. The order that made a huge relief to its watchers and to their owners, as the case was filed against them that they show vulgarity, harm ethics, display unusual things on it.
The case was raised by NGO called Justice For Rights had petitioned before High Court against the streaming of these popular apps.
In a major victory for the advocates of freedom and creativity in India, the Delhi court had dismissed the petition. They contacted the ministry of information and broadcasting that whether there is any rule to dismiss these apps streaming, the ministry clearly stated no to it. They said that there is no rule or order to dismiss such apps.
The petition has focused on the streaming of some of the popular Web series like Game of Thrones, Sacred Games, Mirzapur, Selection day and many more. They claimed that these shows hurt their ethics, show vulgarity, religiously forbidden and morally unethical, which is not suitable for Indians.
Delhi High Court on Saturday made his decisions. As the ministry of broadcasting has no idea to ban them, so these can’t be banned in such quick notice. The verdict was delivered by the Bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao.
The petition to ban these streaming apps was filed By Justice for rights foundation in October, last year.
In November, the Delhi High Court asked the ministry of information and broadcasting that whether there exists any rule to ban these apps.
While hearing the full case, the Bench decided that there is no such rule that could ban these apps from streaming.
These type of practices has been performed earlier also. So to avoid such type of practices Netflix has made orders to create their own ‘Code of Ethics’ and if any content violates the rule then maybe some strict actions are taken.
Netflix has informed that ‘consumers have the right to select and watch their own taste of channels, they will not be burdened to watch the same set of channels.
So till then be assured that no ban is imposed on these apps as these apps keep on the entertaining public by launching the latest movies and Web series.


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I rarely read your online edition, but did see the interview with Paul Crespo. It reassures me that my decision to stop my subscription to the print edition of your magazine was right. Instead of defending Americans right to their own memory, customs and identity, you eagerly shilled for the browning of America. Having chosen treason, you should not whine when the day of reckoning for traitors arrives.
That’s exactly the sort of soft shoe so many of us learned to spot during last year’s immigration battles.
No, Mr. Crespo, I do NOT agree that all immigrants should become American citizens. On the contrary, I think that only legal immigrants should have that opportunity.
Regarding Paul Crespo — brilliant! McCain needs to be looking at him for a Cabinet spot or some position of responsibility in his administration. He’s got more gravitas than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton combined. Semper Fi!
I disagree with the author that Americans don’t understand the difference between legal and illegal immigrants. We do. We welcome legal immigrants and are understandably unhappy with illegal immigrants.
As a U.S. government worker I worked with many Americans of Hispanic heritage. They loved their country and spoke excellent English. I enjoyed working with them and appreciated their friendship.
The problem that has arisen is with the illegal immigrants. Many have no intention of staying here. They want to make money and leave. They don’t play by the rules by learning the English language and don’t know anything about American culture. I watched a Hispanic driver almost get hit by an ambulance because he didn’t know enough to give way to it.
I’m glad Civica Americana is trying to help Hispanics to become part of America. That is what we need. We don’t need divisive multiculturalism. We need more patriotic Hispanic Americans who can participate in both a Hispanic culture and our joint American culture.
I would like to thank The American Spectator and Shawn Macomber for bringing this man and this organization to light. Frankly, here in New England, I had never heard of this man or organization. Let me say that I totally believe, with Teddy Roosevelt, that hyphenated Americans are not Americans at all. That is as true today as it was when old Teddy uttered it. This article seems to be informing us that Mr. Crespo is, indeed, doing the Lord’s work in this regard. I respect him very highly for what he and his group are attempting to accomplish. I also respect him for being a Marine. He was probably a better Marine than I was, but than that would not have been extremely difficult. I mean my separation from the Corps was fairly amicable and definitely honorable. It is just that the only way I would have ever made Marine of the Month would have been for me to be the only Marine left alive in the world at large.
I do think that it is unfortunate that Mr. Crespo and his group have taken the view that they have regarding what is, and is not, something that they should get involved in. Mr. Crespo notes the pool of folks that exhibit, in his opinion, xenophobic characteristics. Yet, he seems oblivious to the great degree to which folks like Mr. Crespo could counter, and indeed refocus these individuals. Mr. Crespo seems to be saying that it is someone else’s job. His job, he says, is to explain America to Hispanics the world over, not particularly the ones already here.
Sir, many of us, and I am one of them, are livid regarding the virtual invasion of our supposedly sovereign country from Mexican territory by mostly Hispanics. An invasion that is totally illegal. I refer to those of us that have no beef whatever with LEGAL immigrants. Heck, we would even agree with you that the immigration rules need a serious reworking. That said, that does not give anyone carte blanche to invade my country. Mr. Crespo, you would gain uncountable allies among the non-Hispanic heritage citizens if you would consistently, loudly, publicly, and frequently stand up to La Raza and the other pro-open borders folks, and the folks that really do want to “take back” parts of America for Mexico. The ones that demonstrate waving Mexican flags in American cities. All I can say to you, sir, is that your silence would seem to indicate agreement with those folks, or at least consent.
Sir, many of us, and I am one of them, are livid at the extra taxes that we have to pay so that the official documents of our various levels of government can be printed in Spanish as well as English. Sir, I think it completely wrong that we have to print voting instructions and the ballots themselves in Spanish. If you cannot speak, read, and understand English, then you should not be voting for our officials until you can. Mr. Crespo, I have not seen you on TV or heard you on radio standing up to the “Hispanic activists” consistently, loudly, publicly, and often against the abuse of our societal tolerance to the detriment of our tax rates and our blood pressures due to irritation levels.
And, Mr. Crespo, why should I have to press any button on my phone to continue in English when I call a commercial enterprise in America? Why would it not be better for Hispanics to press a phone button to switch to Spanish? After all this is NOT a Latin American country — yet.
Mr. Crespo, do you not find it extremely rude for those of Hispanic roots to cluster together at work and in general public restaurants and speak Spanish exclusively? I have personally been into Mickey Ds, Wendy’s, Burger Kings, in the Miami area where I was literally the ONLY one that spoke English. I have had a hard time ordering a burger and fries for lunch because the counter help had such a poor grasp of the English language. Now I would fully expect that if I was in Mexico. I think it is entirely rude and wrong in a city in the United States.
Mr. Crespo, let me sum up. Silence indicates acceptance and/or agreement. For all the good work that you seem to want to do on behalf of what it means to be truly an American, you undermine your credibility when you refuse to publicly chastise the Hispanic activists, agitators, and multiculturists that are tearing this country apart and driving a wedge between our citizens, those that are seeking to Balkanize our society. Sir, our DIVERSITY is NOT our strength. Our unity is our strength, and our lack of that unity, that assimilation, that homogenization will be our death warrant as a once great country.
Thank you for what you are doing, sir, but please consider trying to do that part of the job that you are not presently doing. A job half done is a job not done at all.
Shawn, outstanding, enlightening, and very helpful to me. In the America of today, one has to stay constantly on guard not to get swept up in the politics of the moment. I do want to make sure our boarders are secure, but I do not want to ever lose sight of what America stands for. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, it has always been men and women like Paul Crespo that have sacrificed and contributed greatly toward making America the great nation that it is today.
Also, I saw one of the first responses to your article. Whining? Browning of America? Based on the content of your article, I am not sure where that came from.
If you have the opportunity to speak to Paul again, please tell him that as an American, I appreciate his efforts and I am very glad he lends his numerous talents to improving our country.
Shawn, take care, and keep up the excellent work.
Why is it ridiculous, why is it wrong, and why does a law, passed by the Congress — the people elected by the American people to represent them, and signed into law by the President–also elected by the American people — need to be “fixed”? Because Mr. Crespo doesn’t like it? He always has the option to go back to Cuba if he doesn’t like it here. Nobody will stand in his way, unlike in Cuba.
Why you can’t ask such fundamental question invalidates your, or Mr. Macomber’s, claim to be a journalist. Propaganda artist, yes. Sickening.
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Didn’t Al Franken already cover this in his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them?
Mr. Tyrrell — Thanks for yet another great article on the Clintons, and their “understanding”(?) of the truth. In this political season you may never run out of material to continue this thread your words are part of.
In her campaign speeches in Iowa (and elsewhere), Mrs. Clinton claimed that she was instrumental in crafting and then helped pass the SCHIP legislation that created a national health insurance program for the children of low-income families. This more than deviates from the truth. Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch were the prime movers of this legislation. Bill Clinton initially lobbied against this program, much to the surprise and anger of Kennedy. Mrs. Clinton claims she has been an advocate for children’s issues for 35 years, and the SCHIP program is a key event in that advocacy. This is malarkey.
“As the Clintons enter their 17th year at the center of the national stage, some Washington pundits are running out of patience with them.” News flash to the punditocracy: Many, many, many of us ran out of patience with them a very, very, very long time ago.
As for HRC’s claim that she can only remember “misspeaking” once in the past 12 years? Brassy.
But couple her prevaricating with Barack Obama’s whoppers, the Dems have two really trustworthy wannabes. Not.
In publicly held companies most executives, including CEOs, are bureaucrats having risen through the ranks by not making mistakes. They all can easily be replaced by similar people in the talent pool. Executive compensation has become excessive because the board of directors, and shareholders, do not do their job. Boards are generally too friendly, too incestuous and too lazy. Shareholders are too distant and handcuffed by both lack of funds to defeat an incumbent board and corporate by-laws.
Maybe a requirement by shareholders that the CEO cannot be paid compensation greater than 20 times the lowest paid hourly worker would be appropriate? A rising sea lifts all boats.
The economy is also tied with the energy industry, which is currently a mess in the U.S. because of overhyped environmental concerns. The president should use whatever bully pulpit he has left to expose the shameless Democrats who are blocking the exploitation of our own resources. Releasing the oil and gas resources in Alaska and on our coasts for exploitation would initially provide a boost in American confidence because it let the public know that our government is truly concerned about energy independence and not just giving it lip service by subsidizing always-too-late-too-little alternative fuels. Together with more nuclear power plant licenses, it would be a sign that less of our money will go to oil-rich countries in the future. Currently, we have no hope for ever even approaching energy independence. Instilling some hope, not the vague Obama-in-the-sky hope, would go a long way to help us out this mess.
Good idea, Quin, good luck.
You write; “A benevolent dictator who implemented just those mentioned in this column, though, would surely catalyze the strongest, most lastingly solid economy the world has ever known.” That is the ONLY way you will ever get your good program implemented.
There was much, much more to the John Profumo scandal that just sleeping with not one, but two, young women with ties to a Soviet agent.
It was more than just coincidence that the Soviet Yankee class ballistic missile submarine was an almost exact copy of the U.S. Ethan Allen class ballistic missile submarine. John Profumo could have given more details on this strange ‘coincidence’ had the English wished to be further embarrassed.
The two major difficulties, aside from avarice and cowardice of our elected officials, are the magnitude of the dollars and the time horizon. Most people cannot begin to fathom numbers like trillions; the term remains, at best an abstraction. 75 years from now is beyond the average life expectancy of any who is even beginning to contemplate the meaning of Social Security. Neither of these excuses our citizenry from its responsibility of understanding and controlling these costs, but our elected officials are supposedly, though not demonstratively, smarter than the average bear. (Living off the government dole does not take intelligence, but it helps.) American tax dollars are transferred from the personal income of the many to pay a few (but growing) to manage our affairs intelligently. Apparently, we are not getting our money’s worth.
In the words of Bob Dylan, “Steal a little and they put you in jail. /Steal a lot they make you a king.” Our boys inside the beltway have their own little fiefdoms. It is time, not 75 years from now, for the American people to wake up and demand action from our leaders. The money they are burning up is ours and will remain so for generations to come. If we don’t stand up now, we will be handing our great grandchildren a heavy burden and no fair explanation.
Having now worked in the Northern Virginia area for a couple of months, I feel Elizabeth Terrell’s pain. And not just on the inability to mount the traffic mirror, but on the increasingly confiscatory burden the local pols are placing on the backs of the good people of Arlington County.
Ms. Terrell, having been unsuccessful at a proper permitted mounting of the safety mirror, should remember a slightly worn and paraphrased adage often credited to my heroine, Admiral Grace Hopper: it’s often easier to gain forgiveness than get permission. I say mount the mirror, earn the gratitude of those who benefit, and force the bureaucrats to make you take it down. Perhaps a revolt with torches and pitchforks by the bent-fender crowd will change their minds.
I have nothing to say pro or con Susan Jacoby and her book about our anti-intellectual nation. But in his review, Christopher Orlet sneers that any teen with an iPod could refute her theories. (Which are not theories, actually, but, rather, opinions).
In fact, if that were so, no one would be writing books deploring American anti-intellectualism.
Trying to prove a moral equivalence between Democrats and Republicans (as Mike Roush and desperate Democrats are doing) is impossible. Democrat history of manipulating racial issues to advance the party’s political fortunes is an ongoing saga. Never has the national Republican Party supported racial prejudice or openly discriminated against African-Americans. For those who think challenging Democrat voters at the polls is a racial issue it isn’t. It is about keeping Democrats who play fast and loose with voting honest (I’ve done it in predominately white voting places myself when Clinton and Perot voters were indifferent to election laws).
In this year’s election as always it is Democrats making race a major factor. Obama is using it to secure votes and Northern white Democrat politicians who back Hillary are saying Northern white Democrats will not vote for a black. When race, ethnicity and religion are used in politics to attack individuals it is normally Democrats doing it to people like Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Judge Brown, Miguel Estrada, Alberto Gonzales, Justice Alito, etc… It wasn’t Republicans asking if “Barack Obama was black enough?” Republican antipathy for Hillary and Obama has nothing to do with gender or race, but everything to do with their lack of ability and radical agendas.
As for the ministers cited none are racially divisive like Jeremiah Wright. There may be differences in matters of theology and ecclesiology between Protestants and Roman Catholics, but that is a spiritual not political matter. Falwell’s and Robertson’s post 9/11 ill-chosen words were theological and not political. They only became political, because the media chose to make them so. Unlike Jeremiah Wright they both apologized for their intemperate remarks. Wright on the other hand refuses to repudiate his slurs against the US and his racially insulting or divisive statements. In fact, his spiritual protÃ©gÃ© Barack Obama has gone out of his way to defend and justify Wright while the liberal media and Obama’s supporters have continued to condone such hate speech.
On race and religion the differences between Democrats and Republicans are significant and pronounced. While the GOP is not the party of God (Joshua 5:13-14 illustrates God doesn’t take sides per se) it has more often been on the side of the “angels” regarding race relations in the U.S. than its counterpart.
As a mixed race (Irish-Native American) baby boomer, there are few subjects more depressing and tragic in boomers’ lives than the discussion of race relations. I have been to more race seminars, lectures, organized discussions, controlled confrontations, sensitivity trainings, etc than I can remember since kindergarten. Yet, it all has been unproductive and unrewarding. After 45 years, given the contemporary unyielding resentment and anger, I have given up hope — at least for this generation.
In spite of all the sound bites from the politicians and talking heads about a need for a “national dialogue on race” in this country, it will never happen nor should it happen. Having such as dialogue would stand only to make things worse. The racial waters have become so corrosive and toxic that even sincere exchanges will alienate considerable portions of the citizenry.
I have given up any hopes for genuine reconciliation between all the races in contemporary America. Real progress may be made after this generation passes away. Perhaps even after the next generation or two. But for now, I have come to believe it is not humanly possible for all of us to “like” each other. What is possible and necessary is to treat each other with civility and respect. Yes. This is meeting a serious issue with low expectations. This is far from the wishes of Martin Luther King and the other men and women of the Civil Rights Movement — no denying it. But it is attainable and to a large degree it can be enforced.
Time is on the side of the ideals of the Declaration. It is an affront that we get it so wrong for now. But it is an error to believe we can do all the time what we can only do some of the time. As they say in psychiatry, start where the behavior is at — not where you want it to be.


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Does your life look pretty good on the outside? And yet, you just aren’t happy?
This is not uncommon. Stress, anxiety, depressiona, lonliness and relationship issues can hit even the most secure people at times. And when you feel like this, all you want is to feel better.
Personal growth and empowerment are key factors in successful psychotherapy. Creating an environment for one to develop a stronger sense of self is a personal goal of mine as a therapist. As one’s sense of self increase, other aspects of one’s life fall into place.
Working from an emotionally focused persepctive, we look at unresolved feelings and negative relating skills that we developed in childhood or past relatonships. Often we recognize ways in which our pain is repeated in present day relationships and activities–sometimes we are unaware of how we repeat with others what was learned long ago. Some people shut down emotions altogether, while others act out their emotions in destructive ways. Usually we blame the other people in our lives for the repetitive pain. No matter where we are, however, the emotion or lack of emotion is ours, and only we can stop the repetition. This pain pattern is the leading cause of poor choices and dysfunctional relationships or withdrawal from healthy relating.

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This commemorative collection of the essence of Dr. Coveys teachings on leadership, effectiveness, and management, even family and love, drawn from his bestselling books, will appeal to his millions of fans around the world.
Recognized as one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans, Stephen R. Covey has dedicated his life to demonstrating how every person can truly control their destiny with profound, yet straightforward guidance. As an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author, his advice has given insight to millions. He has sold over 20 million books sold (in 38 languages), and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. His most recent major book, The 8th Habit , has sold nearly 400,000 copies. He holds an MBA from Harvard, and doctorate degree from Brigham Young University. He was the co-founder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, the leading global professional services firm with offices in 123 countries. Stephen R. Covey passed away in July 2012.

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Beware the Cambion. The demon longs for the taste of newborn flesh and has called away many a fair maiden to beget them with child just for a taste of it.
Be cautious of his sweet words and promises. A Cambion can never defy it's nature.
Oh my goodness, I guess they both went together. Really belated, but my heart goes out to u.
really late, but I totally understand. I am sure u still miss ur little one. btw, does ur little one come by to visit and warn u of stuff?


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For having hosted the benefits of regular retirement, the CIQUIBIC conjunction with the Department of Biological Chemistry presented him Dr.. Clara Monferran a commemorative medal for his work and commitment to the institution during the 43 years of his career academic and scientific.
Dr.. Monferran, native of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, he graduated in Biochemistry at Faculty of Chemistry, National University of Cordoba 1974. As a student and grade, He showed great scientific vocation, entering as a student assistant in the Department of Biology when I was in 3rd. Year. He then studied a PhD in Biochemistry under the leadership of Dr. Federico A. Cumar in the Department of Biological Chemistry, which he ended in 1981, as well as postdoctoral studies at the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) from 1984 a 1986. Back in Córdoba, Dr.. Monferran entered the Career Research Scientist reaching CONICET Independent Researcher Category and the UNC, the Assistant Professor. In these years he made a fruitful research work in the study of the neuropathological alterations in models of demyelinating autoimmune diseases and mainly related to the action of bacterial enterotoxin of cholera toxin family studies, publishing numerous papers in international journals of good impact. He also participated in the training of human resources, directing 8 tesinas grade and 3 doctoral thesis.
Dr.. Monferran participated, under the direction of Drs. Federico A. Cumar and Hugo J. F. Maccioni, in the development of an immuno-enzymatic method for the detection of cholera toxin that allows the diagnosis in patients with cholera or food. This method, developed through an agreement 1991 between the Ministry of Science and Technology of the province of Cordoba and the School of Chemistry at UNC, It was patented and later transferred to the Blood Products Laboratory at UNC.
It is with great affection that members of CIQUIBIC and the Department of Biological Chemistry wish you Clarita the best for this new stage of his life.
Dr. Clara Monferran has been awarded by CIQUIBIC and the Department of Biological Chemistry with a commemorative medal for her work and institutional commitment during her 43 years of academic and scientific career.
It is with great affection that members of CIQUIBIC and the Department of Biological Chemistry whish Clarita all the best for this new stage of her life.

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These are the jewels in Spain’s crown – the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Granada, Seville, and Cordoba. They have some of the most important landmarks and monuments of anywhere on earth, many of which are designated as Heritage Sites by the United Nations. Each city has its own charm and attractions with lots to see and enjoy including art museums and architecture and superb cuisine, with plenty of time for breaks in peaceful parks or on magical beaches.
You will experience the region of Andalucia, simply one of the most beautiful corners of Europe and, as yet, much of which is undiscovered. The food and drink is a delight – most notably for seafood and fortified wine from Jerez we know as sherry – the region offers a unique blend of superb countryside, beautiful monuments and wonderful art.
Set aside a whole day to see Gaudi’s masterpieces all over the city of Barcelona.
Make a pilgrimage to the Prado in Madrid, one of the world’s legendary art museums.
Learn all about flamenco at the Museo del Baile Flamenco in Seville.
1&2 Madrid, sightseeing and attractions Vibrant Madrid is a city that never sleeps. Visit world-class museums and palaces here such as the Museo del Prado, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. See some of the city’s beautiful architecture that provides a glorious backdrop to city life, from medieval mansions and royal palaces to the delights of Spanish contemporary architecture, from the sober brickwork and slate spires of Madrid’s baroque, the extravaganza of the belle-epoque buildings. Madrid had more bars than any other city on earth, so make sure you spend time out and about in the evenings to experience the lively bars and clubs, as well as some of the culinary feasts available at world-class restaurants, including the oldest restaurant in the world, the Restaurante Sobrino de Botin – dishes include roast lamb, baby eels, and roast suckling pig.
3 Madrid – Toledo, sightseeing and attractions Explore the treasure chest of churches, museums, synagogues and mosques of Toledo Old Town, set in a labyrinth of narrow streets, plazas and inner patios. Toledo is known for its art and history, and is has a landscape that combines Arabic, Mudejar, Gothic, medieval and renaissance architecture. Visit the El Escorial Monastery on the way – it’s a combination of a palace and a monastery and features a wonderful collection of art.
4&5 Barcelona, sightseeing and attractions Barcelona is an artful experience. To get a feel for the city, stroll through the Rambla and the Gothic Quarter, and set aside a whole day to see Gaudi’s masterpieces all over the city – particularly the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia, Casa Mila, and Park Guell. Spend a day in theEixample seeing moderniste architecture and make time to browse through Barcelona’s sophisticated shops and boutiques. There are so many wonderful restaurants to choose from where you can try traditional Spanish dishes including patatas bravas, tortilla, and ensaladilla.
6&7 Valencia, sightseeing and attractions Tour the Old Town of Valencia, it contains dozens of glorious buildings such as the Plaza de la Virgen, Valencia Cathedral – a spectacular mix of Gothic, baroque, Romanesque and neoclassical styles, and the Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados church. Visit the 15thcentury former silk exchange, and now a Unesco world heritage site, and find time to visit the Plaza del Carmen to admire its amazing baroque façade. Escape to La Albufera, a giant freshwater lagoon surrounded by rice fields and pine forests and birthplace of the delicious paella. Or head off to the beach to soak up some sun, or for a refreshing swim.
8 Granada, sightseeing and attractions Pass through rolling olive groves en-route to Granada that is located in one of the world’s most naturally dramatic locations – nestling below the snow-capped mountains of the Sierra Nevada. The city is a Moorish delight. Soak in the history and drama of the Alhambra Palace, and weave your way through its alluring mix of tangled streets, Moorish architecture and sprawling medieval Moorish quarter. And the Capilla Real is a masterpiece of ornate Gothic style.
9&10 Seville, sightseeing and attractions Head off into real Andalucia to Seville, and experience that special Andalucian way of life. Seville is known for its stunning palace and sultry atmosphere, as well as flamenco. There are narrower, winding, and medieval lanes and squares to explore, more hidden plazas soaked in the scent of orange blossom, and so much Spanish tradition to enjoy including flamenco and bullfighting, and some incredible ancient architecture to see. If there’s one sight you must see its Seville’s immense cathedral, officially the biggest in the world, that stands on the site of the great 12thcentury Almohad mosque with the mosque’s minaret still towering beside it. And don’t miss the ruins at Italica, just outside the city.
11 Cordoba, sightseeing and attractions Explore beautiful ancient Cordoba on foot and dive into old bodegas (corner shops and wine stores), and relish the city’s architectural wonders. Cordoba was the Roman and Moorish capital of Spain, and was a leading centre for science and philosophy in the 9thand 10thcentury. Wander the streets of Juderia (Jewish quarter) that stretch out from the great mosquelike little streets and then emerge on some beautiful and peaceful plazas. And visit the Islamic ruin of Medinat al-Zahra that will stir your imagination with its glory and grandeur.
Climb up to the hills surrounding Barcelona, a wonderful place for panoramic views over the coast and sea. The Carretera de las Aigues is a 10km trek along the side of Tibidabo, the mountain on the north-western edge of the city.
This 13th century monument was once covered in gold tiles. The watchtower dates back to 1220 and was once part of the Moorish fortified walls that surrounded the city.
Don’t miss seeing what Cordoba’s only bridge was for 20 centuries. Built by the Romans in the first century AD, it’s recently been renovated back to its original state.
This mosque is one of the most beautiful examples of Spanish Moorish architecture.
This lovely Romanesque church offers the perfect combination of food and art.
It’s a slow pace in the long, hot summer days of the Mediterranean sun - relax on a yacht off the Cote d’Azur, go island-hopping in Greece, or take a leisurely drive along the sunny coasts of Spain, Portugal, France & Italy. See ancient Greek ruins in spring, Provencal magic in autumn, year-round art & architecture in Barcelona & Madrid, and fiestas, carnivals & festivals galore in sunny southern Spain. Morocco is best in spring when the country is lush and green, and head for a touch of winter-sun on a city-break to Portugal’s Lisbon, Porto, or the Algarve.

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Claire was assigned the role as birth mother in her society, but something went wrong when she gave birth to her first child. He's taken away and she's reassigned in society, but her vague memory of him lingers, and she's determined to find him. She determines his identity, but he's soon stolen away and escapes society with Jonas. She follows, but an accident, culture changes, and an encounter with a very dark, evil being that threatens her search. Will Claire find her son?
This book was divided into three parts and, in turn, lent itself to three different stories. At times, it seemed to drag, but was very thoroughly developed. The element of fantasy or magic that was introduced was a bit of a surprise for a book set up as a dystopia, but the plot development made it fit. As a series, I liked it well enough.


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Delhi Metro-like transport network for the New York City in the US - that's what former transport commissioner of the US city, Janette Sadik-Khan, wants!
In the national capital for a visit, Janette Sadik-Khan said that Delhi Metro offers an experience she would hope to have in the New York City.
Delhi Metro-like transport network for the New York City in the US – that’s what former transport commissioner of the US city, Janette Sadik-Khan, wants! In the national capital for a visit, Janette Sadik-Khan was quoted in a ToI report saying that Delhi Metro offers an experience she would hope to have in the New York City. According to Janette Sadik-Khan, what Delhi is doing is an example the world needs to follow. New York City hasn’t invested in the metro in many years and now they are paying the cost, she believes.
Janette Sadik-Khan finds Delhi to be a city of contrasts – at one end it has a world-class metro and at the other severely congested streets. Sadik-Khan is widely credited for creating a cycle lane network of 650 kilometres during her six-year tenure as transport commissioner in New York. However, Sadik-Khan recommends that to declog streets the buses should move faster in the same corridors in dedicated lanes. India had done the same during the 2010 Commonwealth Games, she said. According to her, if Delhi can revisit the CWG approach for traffic management, travel would be smoother than before. Sadik-Khan was New York City’s transport commissioner between 2007 and 2013. During her tenure, the city saw drastic changes in streetscape when not only did a vast network of bicycle lanes come up, but public plazas, including the one at Times Square, were created.
With several new stretches opening soon, Delhi Metro is set to have among the top 5 largest metro networks in the world. Called the lifeline of the national capital, Delhi Metro spans a 317-kilometres long network. The seamless connectivity provided across the city in an efficient manner has often grabbed eyeballs internationally. As Delhi Metro phase-III nears completion,s plans are in works for approval of Delhi Metro phase-IV as well.

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Mooresville, NC -- The Mooresville Graded School District is announcing a calendar change due to a state rally for educators taking place on May 1, 2019. There will be NO SCHOOL for students on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. This day is now designated as an optional teacher workday. Because of this change, Wednesday, May 8, 2019, will now be a full instructional day following a regular schedule. There will be no early release as previously planned. MGSD has closely monitored the number of teachers who have requested to take a personal leave day to attend the rally. As of this morning, we have approximately 110 staff requesting leave which is over 25 percent of our instructional staff. As a result, we do not have enough substitute teachers and other staff to safely supervise and effectively instruct students during the school day.
MGSD realizes this is a busy time in the school year, and we understand the burden school schedule changes can create for our families. We want our families to know that we have put much thought and consideration into this decision. Our teachers are not just taking the day off but advocating for public education, including our children.
If parents utilize the Before and After School Program (BASP), care will be available; however, slots are limited so reservations will be required. Director Cindy Karriker will share more information about May 1 childcare with our BASP families.
For questions regarding this change in schedule, please contact the MGSD Central Office at 704-658-2530. MGSD thanks you for your support and understanding.