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Court: Statements About Choking in Wrongful Death Case Against Florida Nursing Home Not Hearsay – Benjamin v. Tandem Healthcare
Home » Blog » Court: Statements About Choking in Wrongful Death Case Against Florida Nursing Home Not Hearsay – Benjamin v. Tandem Healthcare
In Benjamin v. Tandem Healthcare, Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal explains the hearsay rule and how it relates to a wrongful death action concerning a fatal choking incident at a nursing home.
Marlene Gagnon died while a resident at a West Palm Beach nursing home owned by Tandem Healthcare when she allegedly choked on coleslaw. Gagnon had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and had documented swallowing problems as a result of a bout with polio as a young child. Jodi Benjamin, Gagnon's daughter, sued Tandem for wrongful death, arguing that the company breached its duty of care owed to Gagnon by failing to supervise her while she was eating.
At trial, Benjamin presented experts who testified that Tandem was responsible for allowing Gagnon to choke, which ultimately led to her death by cardiac arrest. Meanwhile, Tandem presented evidence in support of its claim that Gagnon suffered a fatal arrhythmia, which may have been caused by two prescription drugs she was using.
Thus, the trial focused on the question of whether or not Gagnon choked to death. On the day in question, a nursing assistant brought Gagnon to the facility dining room where she was monitored by her speech therapist. Before leaving the room, the therapist asked the nursing assistants on site to keep an eye on Gagnon. One of these assistants later noticed Gagnon "staring blankly." Nurses did not find any food in Gagnon's mouth and attempted the Heimlich Maneuver without success.
Testimony indicated that food was later found in the back of Gagnon's throat after she was transported to a hospital emergency room. She was removed from life support a few days later.
To support the estate's case, Benjamin proffered the testimony of Ian Samsoondar, who was working in Tandem's kitchen at the time of the incident. According to Samsoondar, he witnessed a nurse assistant run into the kitchen and yell "somebody choked on some food." Samsoondar did not know the employee's name, nor whether she actually observed the choking, rather than hearing about it from other Tandem workers. He further asserted that a Tandem kitchen manager said in a later staff meeting that Gagnon had choked on coleslaw. Samsoondar could not recall whether the kitchen manager observed the incident.
The trial court excluded this evidence, however, ruling that it was inadmissible hearsay. Hearsay is testimony about something for which the witness has no direct personal knowledge, often based on another's statements. Because the estate could not show that Samsoondar had direct knowledge of the cause of Gagnon's death, his recollection of statements by the nurse and kitchen manager could not be used at trial, according to the lower court.
Related: Florida Offers of Judgment – Audiffred v. Arnold
While generally inadmissible, Florida law allows for hearsay evidence to be admitted at trial under certain limited circumstances. For example, a court may allow a statement to be used against a party to a lawsuit where the statement is by the party's agent or servant concerning a matter within the scope of the agency or employment thereof, made during the existence of the relationship."
Related: Florida Court Denies County's Motion to Dismiss Claims By Man Shot At Firing Range – Flynn v. Polk County
Here, the Fourth District found that the kitchen manager's statement qualified as a statement by a Tandem employee in the course of his employment. As a result, the lower court erred in excluding Samsoondar's testimony regarding the statement. The Court remanded the case for further proceedings.
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RJC AGM and conference 2019
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED The first annual RJC conference will be held on Monday 18th November at the De Vere Conference Centre on the University of Nottingham's University Park Campus. The RJC membership will meet before the conference on Sunday the 17th November for the AGM and we will host a complimentary dinner for our members to celebrate our relaunch that evening.
The first annual RJC conference will be held on Monday 18th November at the De Vere Conference Centre on the University of Nottingham's University Park Campus.
The RJC membership will meet before the conference on Sunday the 17th November for the AGM and we will host a complimentary dinner for our members to celebrate our relaunch that evening. If you are unable to attend the conference but would like to attend the AGM only, please select this option when registering.
Participants are invited to bring materials to share their work with others and to promote their services. Tables will be provided for flyers, brochures, and publications on research.
If you are not currently a member of the RJC and would like to benefit from discounted conference fees, accommodation rates and attend our AGM you can join now by clicking here.
Key Note Speakers
Dr Gerard Drennan
'Psychotherapeutic Change & Restorative Justice in Dialogue'
The RJC is pleased to announce that Dr Gerard Drennan will be a keynote speaker at our 1st annual conference on Monday 18th November 2019. Dr Drennan is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in training, who holds the post of Head of Psychology & Psychotherapy in the Behavioural & Developmental Psychiatric Operational Directorate of the South London & Maudsley Mental Health Foundation Trust (SLAM). He is also an Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at Kings College London. Dr Drennan qualified as a clinical psychologist in Cape Town and his doctoral research examined the practical and political role of language and interpreters in mental health practice in post-colonial, institutional settings. This research ran concurrently with the work of South African Truth and Reconciliation and was touched, as all South Africans were, by the restorative aspirations of that nation-building endeavour. Gerard has held clinical and leadership roles in forensic and offender mental health settings in London and Sussex for the past 20 years. He has published on the implementation of recovery-oriented practice and, since training in restorative justice conferencing in 2012, has worked and written on the place of restorative justice practices in mental health settings. His keynote paper entitled 'Psychotherapeutic Change & Restorative Justice in Dialogue' will explore restorative dialogue in stimulating change in patients in mental health settings, an emergent area of practice within the restorative justice field.
Nicola Preston
'Restorative Approaches in a Higher Education Context: Relationships Matter'
The RJC is pleased to announce that Nicola Preston will be a keynote speaker at our 1st annual conference on Monday 18th November 2019. Nicola is a senior lecturer in Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Inclusion at the University of Northampton and adjunct faculty for the International Institute for Restorative Practices Graduate School. She has been a practitioner, trainer and researcher in restorative practices since 1996 when she was introduced to the ideas as a serving police officer in Thames Valley Police. Nicola has two Master's degrees and is currently studying towards a PhD, all of which involve research into restorative practices. She is a qualified primary school teacher and SEN Co-ordinator, a member of the British Psychological Society and a member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice Newsletter Editorial Team. Nicola's keynote paper entitled 'Restorative Approaches in a Higher Education Context: Relationships Matter' will consider how restorative practices can develop a relational pedagogy in Higher Education, an emergent area of practice within the restorative justice field.
Dr Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt
'Victims of Domestic Violence, Their Justice Needs and the Odds of a Restorative Way Forward'
The RJC is pleased to announce that Dr Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt will be a keynote speaker at our 1st annual conference on Monday 18th November 2019. Fernanda is a Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Pernambuco - UNICAP (Brazil), and an Assistant Professor at the International Institute for Restorative Practices - IIRP (USA). In January 2014, she completed her DPhil in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. In 2005 she was awarded a Master's degree from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the World Society of Victimology, and the Book Review Editor for The International Journal of Restorative Justice. She is also a member of Research Committee of the European Forum for Restorative Justice and of the Asa Branca Research Group of Criminology (UNICAP). Her research interests include restorative justice, community (justice), youth justice, critical criminology and victimology. She has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in these areas, both in Brazil and abroad, and is the author of The Role of Community in Restorative Justice (Routledge 2015).
Draft Programme Overview
Sunday, 17th November 2019
14:30 - 17:00 AGM
Monday, 18th November 2019
09:00 - 10:00 Opening and Plenary
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 12:00 Morning Parallel Sessions
12:45 - 13:45 Plenary Session 2
13:45 - 15:15 Afternoon Parallel Sessions
15:30 - 16:30 Closing Plenary
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Institutionalising Restorative Justice
The Development of a Restorative Ward in a Low-Secure Forensic Service for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Sarah Cooper, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Tackling Demand and Stimulating Cultural Change through Restorative Policing
Kerry Clamp, University of Nottingham
The Restorative Circle @ South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – Creating Mental Space For Health-Based Practice
Finlay Wood, SLAM
Red Teaming Restorative Practices into Forensic Mental Health Services
James Tapp, Kingston Uni
Learning from Restorative Justice Practice
Restorative Practice as a Response to Assaults in a Secure Hospital: Our Learning From Experience
Andy Cook (Clinical Psychologist), Julie Allan (Art Therapist), Nichola Eliades, Sussex Partnership Trust
The Restorative Practices Knowledge Exchange
Jon Hobson & Richard Hester, Gloucestershire Uni & Brian Payne, Ulster Uni
The Dramatic Dimensions of Restorative Justice
Chris Birkbeck & Greg Smith, University of Salford
Accessing Restorative Justice
Victims and Restorative Justice: From the Offer to the Outcome – Exploring Victims' Experiences
Rebecca Banwell-Moore, University of Sheffield
Does it matter where RJ referrals come from?
David Masters and Harriet Ransome, Wales CRC
What does it take to be principled and determined to improve access to restorative justice services for victims of serious crimes?
Davina Cull – Service Manager Make Amends – Devon & Cornwall
The Local Provision of Restorative Justice: An Exploratory Empirical Study
G. Maglione, J. Buchan, L. Robertson, Edinburgh Napier University
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Restorative Justice Application to Serious and Complex Offending
Restorative Justice (RJ) within the Context of Serious and Organised Crime
Nikki D'Souza, Durham Constabulary
RJ and Hate crime
Lucy Jaffe, Director, Why me?
Restorative Justice for Sexual Offenders: An analysis of the challenges, barriers and experiences of men convicted of sexual offences
Philip Cawley, Lancashire Constabulary
Restorative Justice and the Law
Restorative Lawyering
Jonathan Doak, Nottingham Trent Uni
Restorative Justice with Corporations: The Idea and the Practicality?
Martin Wright, De Montfort University
Checkpoint Deferred Prosecution Scheme
Kevin Weir, Durham Constabulary
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Replay: Patriots Postgame Show Mon Jan 10 - 03:30 PM | Tue Jan 18 - 11:55 AM
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Andy Hart
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I was disgusted by the game (SNF) and though we lost I felt jobbed. We did not lose because of the refs but they sure made it harder. I can live with the penalty in the end zone (I think Def Holding) but the mugging Talib put on our sure first down in OT has to be called fairly and it was not. I feel disgusted by that and it will be tough to keep home-field advantage from Denver for the remaining games. I do feel however that not battling for an undefeated season is a help to us. I don't believe in a 'good loss' but I do think a change in that pressure is going to help. Your thoughts on the officiating (specifically the offensive line holding calls and non-calls) and the relief of not fighting for 16-0?
Chu Snow*
I don't think the officiating was very good in Denver. It hasn't been good in a lot of games I've watched this season, both those that have included the Patriots and plenty of others that did not include New England. It's been a terrible year for the officials. I think everyone would admit that. That said, I didn't have a big problem with the Talib play you brought up in overtime. NBC didn't show a good replay of the coverage, but nothing I saw on the TV tape or the coaches' film made it look like an obvious pass interference, although both Tom Brady and Brandon LaFell were certainly calling for the flag. As for the loss, I've never thought of a loss as a good thing. I don't think the 2007 Patriots lost the Super Bowl because they were undefeated heading into that big game. I don't think it's good that New England's air of invincibility has been removed for this season. I also don't think it's good that the team could now be in a fight for seeding if it loses another game as it has lost the potential tie-breaker with the Broncos. Maybe a decision would have had to have been made if the team were 15-0 heading into the finale in terms of resting players. That's a decision I would like to have to make every season. For me, you try to win every game you play, are disappointed when you don't win and like being the guy taking the best from every opponent. Losing is bad. I'll never be convinced of anything to the contrary.
Is Harper's release a product of dropping the punt, Amendola's (hopeful) return, or both?
James Siegel*
It's probably a little bit of both, especially considering the reported addition to the roster of return specialist and receiver (Eagles, Texans) Demaris Johnson. I initially thought that Harper's departure from the roster after just one game was likely due to the fact that Amendola might be ready to return and the team could need to add a body to another position like tight end or linebacker. But by adding Johnson it certainly makes it look more like it was a reaction to Harper's costly muff in Denver. It's too bad, I thought he had a nice preseason and even did a decent job on punts against the Bills. But, they do call it the Not For Long league when you make big mistakes.
OK I am sure you will hear this all week but what is your take on passing to Gronk with just over two minutes and having just got a first down? I mean why even have Blount? I get he wasn't killing it on the ground but it's first down, we run and make them use a time out, we run again to get to the two minute warning and probably have a manageable 3rd down. If we get a first, game over. To top it off BB acts like he's offended to even be asked about this, your take?
Tommy Raymond*
Even given how poorly Blount has run the last three weeks, I was surprised the Patriots didn't run the ball in the situation you are referring to. Assuming the first play isn't too quick, you indeed force Denver to use its timeout and get under two minutes. On Belichick's conference call on Tuesday he said the team considered all its options, as well as how the Broncos were playing defense, and did what it thought was best. The Broncos were indeed loading the box with eight defenders on the pass play to Gronkowski that resulted in the tight end's injury. Still, I probably would have erred on the side of running the ball in that spot clinging to the 21-17 lead and the limited weapons left in the passing game. As for Belichick's comments postgame, it is what it is. He doesn't have to deal with losses too often and doesn't always do a good job of it. But I can't imagine it's easy in the immediate aftermath of defeat to have to answer for every decision you made minutes earlier in a competitive, fast-paced environment. He's not the only one who doesn't come off well in those situations.|
I understand all the injuries that took place but there was one huge mistake the coaching staff made that probably cost the game. I was screaming at my TV at the end of the first half, we had over two minutes left, the two minute warning and three time outs. At this point the Patriots were only up by a touchdown, I believe. I know us fans "don't know anything" but what was the logic behind run, run, punt with that much time on the clock? Please give us some insight.
Second, is it safe to assume either Brady or McDaniels really wanted Chandler to get the ball down the sideline? Brady must have tried that play three times in the fourth! Trust your eyes, that wasn't slow motion video, Chandler can't run very fast.
Jeff Simpson*
The situation at the end of the first half was indeed different than the way the Patriots usually handle those spots. Holding a 14-7 lead, three timeouts, set to get the ball in the second half and with the best kicker in football working in light air it seemed like a spot to try to increase the lead. Instead the Patriots ran five straight times seemingly content to go to halftime with the seven-point advantage. Belichick lumped this decision in with the one in the fourth quarter when asked about the situation on his Tuesday conference call. He said the team considered all its options and the way the Broncos played the situation before going with what it thought was best. I would have played it differently and the Patriots certainly have played it much differently in the past, but without Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola maybe the comfort wasn't there for a two-minute drive in that situation when it wasn't absolutely necessary. As for Chandler, clearly both Brady and McDaniels believe they need the veteran tight end to be a productive part of the offense and they are working to get him to that point. Brady said as much after the game, and given all the injuries they are probably right. It wasn't pretty, for the most part, but it's an investment now that may pay off later. I don't understand why getting Chandler involved lobbed deep balls down the right sideline, but I agree that I didn't care for it, repeatedly.
The injury bug that sidelined Pats entire skilled offence revealed two issues which the impressive offence was covering up till now. 1. Pats cannot power-run the ball on quality defenses. 2. Pats are missing a quality CB. BB had a chance to address CB situation but decided not to. So my question is about running the ball - if Pats have a top-tier RB like Peterson instead of Blount, would they still struggle to make yards behind this O-line?
Jeremy M.*
Hi guys, late submission, so will probably not make it. My question is what is happening with our run offense? Blount seems to be dancing around in the backfield with no sense of power. Of course our O-Line is having problems, but a bit more "show of life" by Blount would seem appropriate. Hope we can keep Gronkowski out of the lineup against a depleted Philadelphia team this week. Thanks.
Larry from BroncoLand*
The Patriots have not run the ball well in recent weeks. A lot of that has to fall on Blount. I do think he's danced around a bit too much in the backfield, especially against a very good Broncos run defense that has speed at linebacker. But, to be fair, he's done that in games when he's been very productive as well. What has been missing are the longer runs that he usually breaks to balance out the production. He hasn't had a 20-yard run in the last three games, each of which he averaged 3.5 yards per carry or less. Some of that has been on the line, but certainly an elite back like Peterson would have created more production. I even wonder if a guy like a healthy Stevan Ridley would have been a better option. But, alas, that's not an option. Blount is the lead back and he needs to be better. He'll have a chance to do that against an Eagles defense that allows 4.4 yards per carry on the ground this season. Or, maybe it's time for either Brandon Bolden or James White to get a few more traditional running chances.
The goal of any NFL team is to win the Super Bowl. However, it seems to me that the Patriots also had another goal this season, to go undefeated. Judging by the exuberant reaction by Brady and Belichick after the Giants win, and Brady saying after the loss to the Broncos that it is the most pissed off he's ever been after a game (not to mention Coach Belichick's demeanor in the post-game press conference), it seems that the Pats were on a mission to go undefeated. Do you agree? As a fan there is nothing I would have liked better than to finish off the perfect season. Now that there's no chance for that, hopefully the Pats can complete another 18-1 season, but this time with a win for the last game.
Gary Goldstein*
I don't think the feelings of Brady and Belichick were related to an undefeated season. They were simply about a tough loss in a key AFC game, a game they very easily could have and probably should have won. I also think some of that emotion/animosity was thanks to the officiating. Neither guy is a very good loser, which is probably part of why they don't lose very often. I think they try to and plan to win every time they take the field. That's on a game-by-game basis, not some goal to go undefeated. They lost. They don't like to lose. The showed that. And as I said earlier, I don't really think the loss gives them a better chance to win the Super Bowl. That's crazy to me. In fact, the loss actually pushes them closer to potentially having to fight for the bye, which is important.
Negative Jeff is back and here goes. The refs certainly did not do us any favors and certainly had an impact on the game. But that's not why we lost. The king of situational football, BB, had an undrafted free agent rookie out there to return a punt in critical point in the game. Why would he point someone so inexperienced out there and then release the player the next day like it was solely Harpers fault they lost? How about the defense showing up for once? Why is it that every time we have a lead towards the end of the 4th quarter in a big game, the defense falls apart? Under 4 minutes to go and defense gives up 90-yard touchdown in just a few plays. The Broncos also scored 3 running touchdowns on the same play. Why does Patricia still have job? The defense has been unable to close out big games (minus the miracle interception in Super Bowl thanks to bonehead play call by Carroll) for years now. In a tight game, 4th quarter, I have no confidence in our defense. I am not upset we lost, just with the way we lost. We killed ourselves and the refs just poured salt on the open wounds. Have major concerns with this inept defense. Thanks.
Jeff Cabral*
You are Negative Jeff and sometimes I am Angry Andy. I'm often described as Angry Andy when I'm declaring my doubts for the defense. I think the unit still has to prove that it can make a big play or big stop in the passing game. I think the defensive backs are still a question mark. But, that's not a popular thought in a Patriots Nation that's been building up the secondary all year. The group has been good enough for the most part, but does that mean they are good and capable of winning when the game in on the line? I have my doubts and those fears played out on Sunday night. As for Patricia, I think he's a very good coach and does a good job blending into Belichick's philosophies. But Belichick always get the defensive credit for success on defense, so I also give him the blame for failures in that area. Just seems fair. And for Harper, he had done a solid job on punts in the preseason and against the Bills. With Edelman and Amendola down, he was probably the next best option, although Keshawn Martin was another possibility. It was a tough mistake for the rookie and a learning experience. I hope he gets another chance down the road.
Hi guys, avid reader from Ireland, love your stuff! My question is Matthew Slater a really terrible receiver? I know he's a great ST contributor but is he really bad as a wideout and that's why he never lines up for snaps on the offense?
Adam Connor*
This is a good question, especially after seeing Brady throw a number of deep balls to LaFell and Chandler in the loss on Sunday. Slater has one career catch. He's not a refined route runner. But he has the speed to run deep, a way the team has used him in the past. One problem with his deep threat abilities is that it's pretty much a giveaway when he's on the field because he's not used in other ways except occasionally as a blocker. Slater did get decent reps this summer in joint practices with New Orleans and looked OK. Belichick also emphasized recently that the veteran special teams captain runs routes – both New England's and on the scout team – at times in practice. But he's not a great pass catcher or much of an offensive option, at least that's the way the team feels based on the way it uses him. Based on the limited I've seen from him over the years as a pass catcher, I don't disagree.
Was it just me or were the referees absolutely terrible again Sunday night? They missed major DPI calls against the Broncos (covering LaFell twice if my memory serves me) and the calls that they DID make were more often than not borderline calls at best. They really changed the momentum and ultimately the outcome of the game. Also, what is up with the Gronkowski OPI calls? I didn't see anything there that would merit a yellow hankie. Why do I feel the Patriots frequently get stuck with the worst officiating crews in the NFL? Is there any solution to this madness?
Derek M.*
Pats fan stuck in Indiana*
While normally this email may sound like sour grapes, after Sunday night it doesn't seem that way. First, we now have proof that the NFL gives the Patriots the worst officiating crews. Peter Morelli's crew that was being punished for its horrific performance last week in the 49ers/Cardinals game was taken off its previously scheduled role on Sunday night football and reassigned to the Patriots game against the Eagles. It would be funny, if it were not true. The crew is apparently not good enough for a Sunday night game that the entire world will watch but is good enough for a Patriots game. Wow. Just wow. That said, the NFL is clearly trying to crack down on offensive pass interference this year. That includes regular plays and rub or pick routes. They seem to be focusing on Gronkowksi as the most physical, dominating pass catcher in the game today. Gronkowski certainly believes that to be the case. He's now had six OPI calls against him this year. Some were earned. Some very questionable. Yet many officials seem to allow the big tight end to be molested all over the field by defenders. It reminds me of how the NBA used to allow Shaq to be treated. It's not fair, but I guess it happens when you are one of the biggest, most dominant athletes to every play a sport.
What's up with the Broncos targeting the knees on any Patriots player in possession of the ball. There were multiple hits where the Broncos defender had an open lane to make a tackle and choose to tackle full speed while intentional targeting the knees. WTF?
Brett Larson*
I don't agree with this assertion. The Patriots wouldn't seem to either as both Brady and Malcolm Butler expressed postgame that the hit on Gronkowski was not dirty. Tackling low is the way the game is played today, by all teams. Defensive backs certainly have to go low on a player like Gronkowski if they have any chance at success. The Broncos tried to go high on him early in the game and both safeties were brushed off as Gronkowski trotted into the end zone for a touchdown. I know fans are emotional seeing Gronkowski get hit low and get carted off. It stinks. But it's the way guys have to tackle in the game today and against a player like Gronkowski. If guys like Brady, who lost his best weapon, and Butler, who has to tackle guys like Gronk, don't think it is dirty that we can't really see it that way either. Regardless of how emotional we get.
Hi guys, super job you do, please continue. Patriots fan from France here!
As last year I ask the same question as we will enter a period of time when some teams will drop some games to have a better draft choice. Why not change it ? To keep all teams focused until week 17. I propose to give #1 draft choice to best record team just missing play off and until #20 pick to the lowest record team. And after to give #21 draft choice to lowest record team making the play off until #32 pick for SB champion. What you think?
Ludovic*
Versailles, France*
I don't love it. I know there are issues at times – more in the NBA than the NFL – but I still think the top pick should go to the worst team. It's really hard in this competitive world of football to decide to tank a season for a certain player. Usually that happens very late in a year for a team that's already well on track for the top pick because they actually do stink. I don't think borderline playoff teams should be strengthened at the cost of worse squads. That's a way to ensure that the same teams remain bad for long periods of time. That's not fair or a good business plan in my opinion. I understand leagues trying to make sure the process if fair, but the draft still has to be a way for bad teams to get better.
Everyone is talking about the PI call on Gronk and the holding call on Chung as plays that altered the outcome of the Broncos game and they did. However there are two other calls and one non-call that also drastically altered the outcome of the game. The first is the holding call Tre' Jackson on Von Miller that negated a 51 yard completion by Brady. All Jackson did was maul Miller and smash him to the ground. One play later the Patriots had to punt from deep in their own territory. The one noncall was the first play of overtime when Aqib Talib obviously held Brandon LaFell and wasn't called for it. Two plays later the Patriots were forced to punt. But what I really want to know is how can an official rule Denver's ball on the muffed punt when Nate Ebner came out of the pile with the ball? The official was at least 15 feet away with several players obstructing his view and he was already ruling Denver's ball. Disgusting!
Jim Ricard*
The officials were not very good in Denver, we have established that. That said, I thought the Jackson call was an obvious hold. Miller got through Jackson's inside shoulder and had a path to Brady but was held from that point on till the rookie regained leverage to take him to the ground. When you have a guy's jersey and he gets to the side so your hands are outside of your frame it's going to get a flag just about every time. I also didn't see enough on the Talib play to call for the flag that both the receiver and his quarterback were lobbying for. I do think there was a very quick declaration of Denver's recovery on the muffed punt. The Broncos coverage player should have recovered it easily, but I'm not sure he did. It looked like the all was always moving under him and Ebner wrestled it away. It was one of the quickest declarations of possession I've seen in such situations. I think Ebner and the Patriots have a beef there.
I have heard many Pats fans complain about our secondary. If you ask me Butler and Logan Ryan are playing at an extremely high level forcing teams to use no-name players to make plays. We have the best defense (in terms of points) in the NFL. I think it's time to start giving these two young players more credit especially considering the corners we lost last year and how these two may become two of the best corner combo in the league in the near future.
Jonathan Gianacoplis*
I will have to respectfully disagree here. I think Butler has been up and down. He was great against Odell Beckham Jr., for example, but struggled against Eric Decker and others. Ryan, in my opinion may have had his best performance on Sunday night and even then it took a lot of Demaryius Thomas drops for that to come to fruition. I think Butler has an intriguing future, but more than half way through his third season I think Ryan is probably best suited as a backup cornerback. I certainly can't see them as the best cornerback tandem in the NFL – now or ever. But, we all have the right to our opinions. Mine is that with the game on the line in Denver the Broncos went right at the Patriots secondary and got the big plays they needed to get the job done.
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Dean Brookie established his architecture and planning firm based in Durango in 1980. He has dedicated much of his career to developing affordable housing, municipal and educational facilities, and historic preservation in historic downtowns nationwide.
He has served on the city's Board of Appeals and on numerous not-for-profit boards including High Noon Rotary Club, Habitat for Humanity, and the Durango Adult Education Center. He is a founding member of the Boys and Girls Club and a Council Member of the El Pomar Foundation.
In 2007, he was honored as Volunteer of the Year for Habitat for Humanity in Colorado for his design assistance for family housing, and in 2009 received Colorado's Governor's Award for Downtown Excellence for the Best Building Rehabilitation of the former Wallace Furniture Building, located at 858 Main Avenue.
A leader in community development and environmental sustainability, Dean was a principal member of the design teams for the Durango Community Recreation Center and award winning, LEED-certified Durango Multi-Modal Transit Center.
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County Board of Supervisors interviews candidates for vacant District 2 seat
Ryan Phillips on May 30, 2012
Four candidates went before the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday afternoon to argue their cases for why they should be named the interim supervisor for District 2 after Nadia Lockyer stepped down. Now the four remaining board members have a week to decide who will join them for the next five months before standing for election this November.
Newark City Councilmember Ana Apodaca, Union City Mayor Mark Green, businesswoman and political novice Cheryl Grant, and former Union City Councilmember Richard Valle are all vying for the seat, which represents Hayward, Newark and Union City, and parts of Fremont and Sunol. Each was interviewed by the county supervisors for up to 45 minutes on Tuesday.
The District 2 seat was vacated in April by Nadia Lockyer, the wife of State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, who was elected in 2010 and resigned amidst allegations of drug use and having an affair. The board now must find someone to appoint to the seat until the November election. There was a two-week application window for District 2 residents that closed May 15. The board then narrowed the field from eight candidates to five finalists last week. Gail Steele, a former supervisor for 18 years who retired in 2011, withdrew from the race before Tuesday's interviews. The board now has until June 19 to select a supervisor.
Apodaca, the Newark vice mayor, appeared to be the favorite of the remaining four going in to Tuesday's interviews; she was the lone candidate to receive a vote from each supervisor last week. During last week's vote, supervisors had the opportunity to vote for more than one candidate, and Green, Grant and Valle all received at least one vote from a supervisor.
On Tuesday, each candidate was asked the same broad questions about decisions they'd make in office, such as how to close the county's $88 million budget gap, what they'd cut from the budget first, how they view the county's role as a "safety net" provider of social services, and whether taxes should be increased in place of budget cutbacks. The candidates also faced questions specifically aimed at them about their political ambitions.
By the luck of the draw, Apodaca was chosen to go last. She showed her knowledge of each district in the county by mentioning redevelopment projects in Supervisor Nate Miley's district (District 4). Apodaca ran for mayor of Newark in 2011 and narrowly lost; she said she would have strong backing from that city and other parts of the district in a November election for a supervisor seat if selected.
"I've worked in this area for 15 years, it's a community I know well," Apodaca said. "I went to high school in Hayward, I went to college in Hayward. I know it very well, as well as Union City and Fremont. I feel very strongly that I'll be competitive in that race."
Green, a five-term mayor of Union City, touted his knowledge of the district, having lived there for 40 years, and also spoke in favor of passing Measure B in November, which would double the funds for county transportation projects. "I think this is a crucial area," Green said.
Green was also asked by Miley point-blank if he was "office shopping" and looking for an Green is also running for the State Assembly from District 20, and will be on the ballot for Tuesday's June primary, the same day the supervisors will be making their decision.
Green responded that he isn't "office shopping" and whether he's elected to the assembly shouldn't affect his seat on the board, because he'll still be able to serve for the remainder of the year before taking office with the state assembly, should he be elected to that position. Green said if he advances in the assembly race next week he won't run for re-election for the supervisor seat in November.
"I'd still like to be up here, and I think I'll do a great job for you for the next five months if I am appointed here," Green said.
Grant, a technology sales executive and community activist, struggled through her interview with the board— with a few long pauses before answering, and short answers for other questions. She answered a question from Miley about what services or programs she'd cut to help close the $88 million deficit by saying it was "critical" to move away from cuts and focus on bringing in more revenue. When Miley responded that supervisors had already searched for ways to earn more money, and Grant needed to select something to cut, Grant said, "So, with that question, I take it I need to cut something." The battery in Grant's microphone then cut off, and she said, "I guess it didn't want me to answer that question, either."
Valle is a seasoned politician, having served 12 years on the city council for Union City. He is also the founder of Tri-CED Community Recycling, a recycling center in Union City. Valle introduced himself as a longtime District 2 resident, having grown up, attended high school and lived in the area for more than 50 years.
Valle highlighted his skills as a consensus builder, and said he'd want to "bring all 9,000 [county] employees into the room" when discussing what to cut to close the budget gap. Valle is also running for mayor of Union City, but said he would drop out of the race and focus on winning the District 2 supervisors' seat in November if the board votes to confirm him next week.
In answering a question about what he'd do in his first 30 days of office, Valle said he'd done "considerable" research on the county budget and was prepared to start the job immediately. But that's not what the soft-spoken Valle said he'd do right away if he got the job.
"I think one of the first things I'm going to do is go my Buddhist center and do a lot more chanting," he said. "And give thanks."
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42-44 Mattoon Street, Springfield, Mass (2)
The twin houses at 42-44 Mattoon Street in Springfield, around 1938-1939. Image courtesy of the Springfield Preservation Trust.
These two photos show the same houses as an earlier post, just from a different angle. As discussed in that post, these two adjoining houses were built in 1888 on Mattoon Street, a street that is noted for its elegant late 19th century townhouses. Both houses, along with the one at 36 Mattoon on the far left side of the scene, were originally owned by Lebbeus C. Smith. He lived in a house nearby at 77 Elliot Street, but he used these houses as rental properties. The 1900 census shows both 42 and 44 Mattoon being used as rooming houses, with ten residents in 42 Mattoon and nine in 44 Mattoon.
This was the beginning of a steady decline for the houses on Mattoon Street, most of which had been designed as single-family homes before devolving into rooming houses. The house was long past its prime by the time the first photo was taken in the late 1930s, and by the 1960s most of the street was in poor condition. Some of the houses were demolished in the early 1970s, but most were ultimately restored, thanks to efforts by residents and preservationists. Today, Mattoon Street survives as the only street in Springfield that is lined by historic townhouses on both sides, and it is a part of the Quadrangle-Mattoon Street Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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Thom Hartmann Wiki, Biography, Net Worth, Family, Wife
Thom Hartmann Biography
Thom Hartmann, who was born on 7th May in 1951 in Michigan, is a well-known radio host as well as a television personality, who became famous for being the host of famous TV show named "The Thom Hartman Program" as well as television film named as "The Big Picture". Apart from being the famous TV personality, he is also a well-known author, wrote famous books based on critical acclamation. In 2007, he also appeared in "The 11th hour" and "Ice on Fire" as an environmentalist documentator. Since childhood, he had an interest in politics and was very active politically, as he took part in the Barry Goldwater campaign, which occurred during the 1964 presidential election. He is regarded as an internationally progressive TV show host, who has won many awards and wrote New York Times some best-selling books throughout the world.
Thom Hartmann's height, weight, and exact physical measurements are unknown. However, he has a handsome personality and a very strong and appealing voice.
Thom Hartmann was born on 7th May in 1951 in Michigan to Jean and Carl Thomas. He has 3 siblings. When he was just 2 years old, he lived in Detroit. Later on, as he grew up, he shifted to Lasing, Michigan along with his family. Since childhood, he was interested in politics. When he was 13 years old, he took part in the Barry Goldwater campaign, which occurred during the 1964 presidential election. Although he was a good student, he was expelled out of his school in 10th grade.
Thom Hartmann was a good student, but he was expelled out of his high school in 10th grade. Then he enrolled at Lansing Community College, from where de did graduation. Later on, he got admission to Michigan State University and studied with selecting electric engineering as major. Apart from that, he also has a master's degree in Herbal Medicine as well as a Ph.D. degree in homeopathy. He was honored this honored Ph.D. degree in Goddard College in Vermont. As a psychotherapist, he was restored for 5 years, by the State of Vermont. Then from the society of NLP, he attained Trainer's Certification in NLP.
Full Name Thom Hartmann
Nickname Thom Hartmann
Profession Radio host
TV personality
Height (approx.) Not known
Weight (approx.) Not known
Debut The Michigan Healings Arts Center
Famous for "The Thom Hartman Program"
"Ice on Fire"
Date of Birth 7th May in 1951
Birthplace Michigan
Nationality Not known
Hometown Michigan
School high school
College/University Lansing Community College
Educational Qualification master's degree in Herbal Medicine
Ph.D. degree in homeopathy
Hobbies Politics
Girl friends Louise
Parents Jean and Carl Thomas
Siblings 3
Wife / husband Louise
Net worth $1 – $5 million
Thom Hartmann started his career from the society of NLP, he attained Trainer's Certification in NLP. In the 1970s, he founded the famous The Michigan Healings Arts Center and ran it later on. After that, he invented and started running 2 advertisement agencies as well as a travel agency. In New Hampshire, he found a community for abused children. Over the years, on all 5 continents, he started relief programs while working with Salem international organization. He has gained huge fame, wealth and success throughout his career. His achievements have made him much success and he is still on the way to make his future bright.
Thom Hartmann met the love of his life named Louise in the year 1960. They both have together built many businesses and sold them gaining a lot of wealth. Both of them have been married for over 45 years. Together they are blessed with 3 children. They are currently living in Portland, Oregon along with a small menagerie.
Thom Hartmann has gained huge fame, wealth and success throughout his career. He has built many businesses and sold them gaining a lot of wealth, along with his wife. His net worth is approximately $1 – $5 million, with which he is living a luxurious life along with his family.
Thom Hartmann is famously named as Talkers Magazine.
In the year 2019, he was included in the list of 10th most important talk shows in America and been in it for over a decade.
He has also been the number 1 most important progressive host in the list of top 100.
He is also a censored award winner for 4 times.
As an author, he has written 24 New York Times best-selling printed books.
He reframed ADHD and discovered "Hunters in the farmer's world".
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Thom Hartmann was born on 7th May in 1951 in Michigan
He is a well-known radio host as well as a television personality.
He became famous for being the host of a famous TV show named "The Thom Hartman Program" as well as a television film named "The Big Picture".
Apart from being the famous TV personality
He is also a well-known author, wrote famous books based on critical acclamation.
In 2007, he also appeared in "The 11th hour" and "Ice on Fire" as an environmentalist documentator.
Since childhood, he had an interest in politics and was very active politically, as he took part in the Barry Goldwater campaign, which occurred during the 1964 presidential election.
He is regarded as an internationally progressive TV show host, who has won many awards
He has also written New York Times some bestselling books throughout the world.
His net worth is approximately $1 – $5 million, with which he is living a luxurious life along with his family.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a necessary tool for anyone who does anything in the digital sphere. Do you want a niche way to communicate with consumers? An AI-enabled chatbot is the answer. Do you want a better social media campaign? Algorithms with AI can come to your rescue. But there is one aspect that still has to be done by humans, and that is website design.
Or is it? There is a new kid on the block, which might make quite a difference to your organic search agency and that is The Grid. It is an AI-powered website designer which uses artificial intelligence to design websites so that designers no longer have to. While this type of website building is not new, the fact that The Grid creates a website by itself by using content you give it is unique. Curious? Read on to find out what The Grid is and what AI-created websites will mean for marketers.
So, what is The Grid exactly?
Simply put, The Grid is an artificial intelligence-based website designer. The websites are designed by an AI program called "Molly" by using the goals and content that you input into the system. It will function as your own personal graphic designer, "thinking" about your brand by analysing the content you have uploaded and the colour choices you make when choosing a template.
For those who want a simple and straightforward way to create a website, The Grid is an ideal choice. As The Grid CEO and co-founder Dan Tocchini says, "The design adapts to your content, not the other way around." This means that your site will be personalised specifically to the content you give it. No more spending hours trying to figure out how to add or remove elements with fiddly online tools. You simply upload pictures, documents or videos, choose a colour template or let Molly decide for you and let the AI work its magic.
However, it seems that The Grid's Molly isn't all she is made out to be. Some users have found that the sites created using this new AI phenomenon are too similar and there is no room for personalisation from the user once the site has been created.
Are there other offerings like this?
The Grid might sound like the future of AI-designed websites, but it is not alone in this sphere. The ever-popular Wix now offers their own AI tool known as Wix ADI, which works in a similar way to The Grid. There is also the startup known as Firedrop with slightly different AI.
Instead of creating a site based on content you have uploaded, Firedrop uses its own chatbot Sacha who guides the user through the website building process. Sacha acts like a graphic designer, giving useful tips and advice to create the perfect website. This chatbot makes it seem as though the user is being helped by their own personal graphic designer, but has also had problems with very generic questions leading to designs that people like.
What does website AI mean for marketers?
If we consider the fact that The Grid, Wix ADI and Firedrop are still in the beginning phases, there is no need for graphic designers to be scared for their jobs. However, there are certain things that need to be taken into consideration when thinking about the future.
As we have discussed above, the website-building AI tools have the ability to create designs using what has been uploaded. This means that they have fairly useful cognitive abilities and because they are connected to the internet, these tools have access to references and designs that can help graphic designers.
AI tools can be used for image recognition in order for brands to be smarter about image-related marketing such as social media posts and advertisements. An AI algorithm will be able to understand consumer behaviours and buying patterns by "looking" at an image on the internet and comparing it to an image in its own library. For example, if your client sells snacks, you can find the geographical demographics of their consumers by allowing your AI to look for images of their snacks at certain locations. This will allow you to create targeted adverts.
Graphic designers and marketers are always striving toward keeping the client happy, as you should do. But sometimes, when it comes to instructions from a client, things can become a little murky and hard to understand.
AI tools for website design have come a long way, and now have a better contextual understanding of the instructions you give them. For example, if you input to the tool that you want a certain image to be filtered through a certain colour, it will not just pick any shade of this colour but the one that best suits the rest of your web design colours. And if the colour you ask for does not suit the rest of the design, the algorithm will suggest a better colour. This better understanding of context will allow designers to build a website that makes sense and is true to the brand of the client.
The future is most definitely digital. You cannot escape the fact that we are moving toward AI being a much bigger part of our lives, especially when it comes to marketing. Offerings such as The Grid might be a long way off to perfection, but it is not something to be disregarded.
Right now, graphic designers can collaborate with artificial intelligence tools at their disposal and stay ahead of the curve when the future of website-AI does arrive.


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Richard's Seven Houses
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My friend Richard wanted to understand time.
So he said I understand space pretty well. I'll use that.
So he built seven houses, for the seven days of the week.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Sunday. And in each of the houses he did what characterized
That day of the week. Example: In the Sunday house he was always
Worrying that he would have to go to work the next day.
In the Wednesday house he was settling in, to the demands of the work week
Its despairs its consolations and its routines, forgetting both.
Surely this is not time, I said to him, because they are free-standing these houses
What happens in the house of Saturday night
Causes no regret no jubilation in the house of Sunday.
And he said "Okay you're right." And he had an ovum and a spermatazoan
In each house gestate a baby, and he set up the Requisite Causal Links
(which you can work out I'm sure, the events that happened in the House of Sunday
would cause weal or ill to the dweller in the House of Monday).
They sentenced him to death and the executioner waited for him in the house of Thursday
For that was the day of his death, written and sealed in the court document.
And they all moved into the house of Saturday
And reside there to this day.
Thoughts on Star Wars and Rogue One
April 29, 2017 ericlinuskaplan 9 Comments
The original 1977 Star Wars was an escape from grown-up ideas about the guilt of America in Vietnam by casting America as an evil empire, and film makers, creative people, and young people as rebels. It was able to do this without thinking too hard by putting it all in fantasy land where you don't need to think about what the difference is, other than that the bad guys blow up planets and hide their faces.
This was justified by pinning it to the Monomyth idea of reactionary anti-semite Joseph Campbell. (Actually it was justified by the fact that it made a lot of money, but Campbell was the justification to give to smart, bookish people.) Fascist ideologues love myth and ancient stories, because you do't need to think about your own moral culpability or grown-up relationships. In fact they view self-doubt, non-violence, and rational thought as signs of weakness and decadence. Also myths extoll violence. (Fun obscure fact: Campbell was a student of German Indologist Heinrich Zimmer.)
Star Wars because of its nostalgia has an odd relationship to science fiction. It takes the imagery of science fiction but makes it all look old and beat up. Even though a lot of classic sf is about extolling rationality and thinking hard about the moral choices technology will cause us to make, the ideology of Star Wars looks to the past and irrationality (The Force!). It repurposes science fiction images into a world view that is pro-past and anti-thought. That's why there are spaceships but how they work doesn't make sense, and why there are ancient religious leaders running around telling Luke not to use his mind.
In both original Star Wars and Rogue One the interesting characters are monsters and robots. And I guess spaceships. The franchise made a lot of money selling these as toys, because the characters originally WERE toys. The whole vibe is of a pre-pubescent boy playing with dolls — i.e. action figures. Now this thing blows up! Now that thing blows up! Now these guys are sneaking around this way but then they turn around and sneak this way. This subtext became text in the Lego Movie, where you actually see the kid is just playing with toys cause his Dad is ignoring him. All the sexual relationships are chaste and smirky — like a ten year old boy's view of sex and adult relatinships.
In the latest Star Wars — Rogue One — it starts with iconography of the Iraq war, where the USA is the Empire, i.e. the bad guy. Then it becomes the US campaign against Japan in the Pacific where the US are the rebels and the Empire are different bad guys.
Whole thing is way reactionary because it encourages the ruling class of a military power to view itself as noble children.
Whole thing eats its tail because now the children who grew up watching the original Star Wars have nostalgia for Star Wars. Like nostalgia squared. That's why the new one ends on disconcerting image of recently deceased talented screenwriter Carrie Fisher brought back as creepy CG simulacrum as she looked in 1977.
Should I Trust Myself?
I'm going to a job interview. It's important. I need this job to take care of my pregnant wife and two year old child. I take a shower and I'm naked. I need to get dressed. I can either put on a suit or a t-shirt. I pick up the tie and suddenly think. "Wait. Maybe if I wear this suit I will seem boring. Maybe I should wear the t-shirt so I seem fun and like somebody who breaks the rules. When I wear the suit I always feel uncomfortable. When I wear the t-shirt I feel relaxed, and fun, like I did when I was a kid. What should I do?" I wonder.
As I stand there naked looking at the clothes I remember a piece of advice I once read. "Trust yourself." For a second I think, "Aha! Wear the t-shirt. That makes me feel like I really am — relaxed, and young, and fun." But then an alternative way of looking at it occurs to me.
"I am worried about not getting this job. I am part of a civilization in which wearing a suit means responsibility. Maybe that's also my "self". Maybe the worry, and the desire to seem responsible, and the willingness to be uncomfortable to take care of people who rely on me — and my own skin — is my self. Maybe I should trust that."
My wife comes into the room and says "Put on that suit."
I think "How can I do what somebody else says? Is that "trusting myself"? It seems like it is obviously trusting somebody else."
But then another voice within me says "Hang on. Maybe trusting myself includes trusting my decision to care about and trust other people, including my wife, who I trust cares about me, and knows more about suits and t-shirts and the messages people send with clothes than I do."
"But then what is trusting myself? If trusting myself includes trusting authorities — priests who tell me what God wants from me, clubs that tell me how a man should be, states that tell me when my honor demands dying in foreign wars — then is "trust yourself?" anything other than a meaningless slogan?"
"That's the issue. The person who will be humiliated if I fail to get this job, or who will be humiliated if I do get this job, or who will feel free if I tell the job to f off, or will feel empowered if I do get this job, after all is me."
"I'm the one who lives or dies in this interview. So I have to trust myself. If I lack confidence I am trusting my own lack of confidence."
"Whether I live or die, whether I am brave or cowardly, whether I listen to an idea that occurs to me or one provided by my wife or father or priest or recruiting officer, whether I wear a t-shirt or a suit, I am trusting myself."
"But who would give advice that everyone follows whether he lives or dies, whatever he does?"
"Somebody who trusted himself!"
The Higher the Monkey Climbs, the More You See His Ass
-But the lower the monkey goes, the more you see his head.
-Yes, but it is still a monkey head.
-Yes, but that is better than a monkey ass.
-Agreed.
-Everywhere I see character traits that I admire — a poetic take on things, a willingness to buck society and take risks, self-assertion — used to support a horrifying cruelty.
-Maybe that should teach you the truth of the old hermetic maxim — corruptio optima pessima. The corruption of the best is the worst.
-Maybe that should teach me the truth of the new hermetic maxim — perfectio pessima optima — the very best thing is to take what is lowest in human nature and perfect it.
-And that's true too.
What's the Difference Between "He's Crazy!" and "He's Evil!"
Certain prominent political leaders who grab our attention (you know who I mean) sometimes seem crazy and sometimes seem evil. Which is it? To answer that, we need to ask ourselves what's the difference between crazy and evil.
Some people say "it is more compassionate to call someone ill than to call someone evil". The diagnosis of illness makes us want to heal while the diagnosis of evil makes us want to condemn and punish. This is false. When people are ill sometimes we quarantine them and allow them to die. When people we care about do evil, sometimes we preach at them and try to get them to mend their ways.
Some people say "people who are evil are free to change" while "people who are sick are compelled by their illness." This is either false or so philosophical as to be useless. Some people are so evil that they will never change. Some people who are sick will get better by appropriate psychotherapy.
Some people say health is an objective scientific category while good and evil are subjective. This is not true either. When we define mental illness we make judgments of what sort of human life is worthwhile and what sort of human life is not worthwhile. Sometimes we don't notice because we appeal to a concept of function and disfunction, but these are always explained in reference to an ideal of human flourishing. The man who sits in his room all day counting motes of dust is functioning perfectly well — as a lonely dust mote counter. To call him catatonic or obsessive or paranoid requires some conception of how a good human life differs from his.
An argument that illness and evil are the same is that the opposites are the same. There is no real difference between the extremely good human being and the extremely mentally healthy human being. They are both human ideals that we laud, imitate, and are inspired by.
Calling someone mentally ill and calling somebody evil are both mechanisms of social ostracism. If somebody is crazy, we don't want to listen to his advice, we don't want him taking care of our children, and if he's dangerous we lock him up. Similarly if somebody is evil; we watch ourselves around him, are wary of obeying his counsel, and if he does something bad enough lock him up or kill him. What's the difference then?
Let's take a very simple case of social ostracism. Joe, Mary, and Edward are lost in the woods with very little food. Joe says to Mary: "I had a dream last night. My pet dog Bomba appeared to me as a ghost and said if we kill Edward he will lead us to safety." Edward says to Mary "Let's wait until Joe is not looking and kill him and eat him, and if we make it to safety we will say he died falling in a ravine."
Let's say Mary does not listen to either of her companions, and that evening they are saved. Mary tells the authorities (or her closest friend) Edward is evil. Joe is crazy. Beware of them. What does she mean?
The message from Joe was weird and led her in an unfamiliar way. The message from Edward was entirely normal but something she doesn't want to give in to. Mary's method of resisting the call of insanity is different than her method of resisting the lure of evil. How is it different? I'm not sure, but I think it's different. Or it might be. In certain circumstances.
What if we come across Mary and Joe walking alone and they tell us that they killed Edward because they were following the advice of a dog in a dream. We might say that Joe drove Mary crazy.
What if we come across Mary and Edward walking alone and we learn years later that they killed JOe. We might say that Edward seduced Mary to evil.
Or we might say that Edward and Mary made a tough but necessary choice. Or we may say that Joe's dog Bomba really saved them.
In that case would it mean we ourselves are crazy? Would it mean we ourselves are evil?
If we are crazy or evil, do we ostracize ourselves?
The Revealer of the Strange
You wanted to know about the man who in our language we call "The Revealer of the Strange"? In those days we lived on an island in the river that had an extremely large tree in it, and we spent most our time fighting the men from Bear Clan. And it so happened that the night before one of our fights a stranger appeared. He spoke our speech strangely, and said he was from an island across the sea. The Bear Clan had withdrawn but he was a good tracker and advised us of a feint. We pretended to sleep and put out the fire, and slept with the swords hidden under leaves. And the Bear Clan attacked and we routed them, and Revealer of the Strange killed two.
Three of the Bear Clan were left alive and Hero was going to kill them. And Priest said, it is pleasing to the gods. And he told the story of how Sky Mother got Sky Father drunk one time and lay with him,and when he woke up she had done mischief and he spanked her. Spanked her hard! And Priest said "These wounded men of Bear Clan. We will please Sky Father. We will spank them hard. And eat them. And burn their fat so Sky Father can smell the pleasing fragrance with his nostrils."
And everybody was drunk by then and, as you know, when you start to put a plan like that into action, you dip your toe into it first, and they started teasing the prisoners, first with words, and then pulling their noses and their ears and such, and the prisoners, wounded they were, and tied up, glared. One of them cried I think.
And Revealer of the Strange said "What do you say about a son who tells lies about his father?" "He is a scoundrel!" we cried. "And what do you say about a liege-man who tells lies about his liege-lord? Says he is a scoundrel or a coward?" "Death to him!" cried Hero! Death to him!
"Then why do you tell lies about the All Father?"
Everybody quiet and he recited a Making, a Making of Words, and the images danced in our minds. It was a strange way he spoke of the gods, the revealer of the strange. He said the All Father had no wife. If he had a wife he would not spank her. He had no hands. He had no anger. He was like the memory of the moon and the feeling of hope before a battle, and the gleam of dawn. He has no body."
He said the All Father did not kill or take a side in the war of Bear Clan versus Eagle Clan. He said All Father loved the men and women and children of Eagle Clan as much as those in Bear Clan. "You lie!" said Priest!
"You lie!" said Priest. But Hero was listening. Hero could kill when he was drunk with battle and drunk with wine, but he did not wish to kill the prisoner with the wet eyes. But he feared to be called coward. The fear of the prisoner's eyes, the fear to be called coward, battled within him. He was sixteen year old.
"I do not lie." said Revealer of the Strange " In Ethiopia they have flat noses and dark skin and they believe All Father and the other gods have flat noses and dark skin. In Thrace they have slender waists and fair hair, and they say the gods are likewise. If oxen could paint pictures of gods their gods would look like oxen. If donkeys could paint pictures of the gods their gods would look like donkeys. "
"Spare the men of Bear Clan and let them join us." said Revealer of the Strange and we did. And my daughter is married to one of their sons.
He was strange. He revealed the strange. He came from the strange world, lingered with us for five summers, and departed. He made the world seem stranger, but also the strange seem like it belonged to us. Now that the world is so different and we fight with swords of iron for cities of stone I feel a strange in the world. Not so in the world of memory where I remember that party speech he gave.
In our language we call "He Who Reveals the Strange" "Xenophanes".
ἀλλ᾽ εἰ χεῖρας ἔχον βόες <ἵπποι τ᾽> ἠὲ λέοντες
ἢ γράψαι χείρεσσι καὶ ἔργα τελεῖν ἅπερ ἄνδρες,
ἵπποι μέν θ᾽ ἵπποισι βόες δέ τε βουσὶν ὁμοίας
καί <κε> θεῶν ἰδέας ἔγραφον καὶ σώματ᾽ ἐποίουν
τοιαῦθ᾽ οἷόν περ καὐτοὶ δέμας εἶχον <ἕκαστοι>
A Visit with the Hog Rat
Hog Rat or Hog Rag or Bog Rag or Bog Rat lives in the old burrow underneath the widow's armpit that used to occupied by Continuous Spider (a Fell Beast whose Legges Doe Forme a Continuum There Byeing One Leg Betwixt Everie Othere Paire off Legges).
This inconvenient Bog Bag (if that is his true description — sources have gone silent since the gas seeped in from "The Bog") cannot be described, but only alluded to, nevertheless he is about five feet tall, one hundred and eighty pounds, has the shoulders of an ape, the torso of a hog, and the face of a rat, his limbs being those of a Glass Lizard or Serpent (ie lacks 'em!) and is entirely ignorant of his lack of musical talent.
He will gash you with his tusks but it is only because he thinks you don't like him.
Some of the sages who occasionally blast through town on motorbikes to tell us to stop feeling so fuckin' sorry for ourselves say: you don't like him because you are worried he will gash you with his tusks!
Some of the sages who occasionally show up to distribute food and cocaine to our children say: there's no answer to the question, do you dislike Hog Fat/Hog Rat/Big Fat/Old Cat cause he will attack you or does he attack you cause he can guess you don't like him.
But the sage Grandpa says: It's cause of his Bad Smell.
But the sage Grandpa says: his music's not so bad if you really try and like it!
But the sage Grandma says: send him back to the Bog & tell them {TRY AGAIN!}
But the sage Grandpa says: Maybe he shouldn't be called HOTGRAT — maybe he is his own thing and shouldn't be compared to HOG or RAT and that offends him.
But my friend Abby says: let's go skipping across the lawn at the edge of town at the very purplest last moment of a summer night, and maybe we will swim in it — it's a brook.


Vets Best Bitter Cherry Spray is gentle on the skin, but bitter to taste. It is a non-stinging, and alcohol-free deterrent containing Lemon and Grape Seed extracts, which discourages chewing and licking at skin, stitches or bandages.
It can also be applied to furniture, pot plants and other items that your four legged friend has taken a shine to! It is clear and non-staining, plus it smells great even though it tastes horrid.
When using on furniture and items of value please test for staining and colour change on a discrete area first.


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Q: Meaning of accessMask parameter in CommonAce Constructor (System.Security.AccessControl) What is the meaning of the accessMask parameter in System.Security.AccessControl.CommonAce's Constructor. Unfortunatelly the description "The access mask for the ACE." is not very helpful.

A: From the SDK docs:
A 32-bit value whose bits correspond to access rights for the object. Bits can be set either on or off, but the setting's meaning depends on the ACE type. For example, if the bit that corresponds to the right to read permissions is turned on, and the ACE type is Deny, then the ACE denies the right to read the object's permissions. If the same bit is set on but the ACE type is Allow, then the ACE grants the right to read the object's permissions.
From the WinNT.h SDK header file:
//       3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
//       1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
//      +---------------+---------------+-------------------------------+
//      |G|G|G|G|Res'd|A| StandardRights|         SpecificRights        |
//      |R|W|E|A|     |S|               |                               |
//      +-+-------------+---------------+-------------------------------+
//
//      typedef struct _ACCESS_MASK {
//          WORD   SpecificRights;
//          BYTE  StandardRights;
//          BYTE  AccessSystemAcl : 1;
//          BYTE  Reserved : 3;
//          BYTE  GenericAll : 1;
//          BYTE  GenericExecute : 1;
//          BYTE  GenericWrite : 1;
//          BYTE  GenericRead : 1;
//      } ACCESS_MASK;
//      typedef ACCESS_MASK *PACCESS_MASK;
//
//  but to make life simple for programmer's we'll allow them to specify
//  a desired access mask by simply OR'ing together mulitple single rights
//  and treat an access mask as a DWORD.  For example
//
//      DesiredAccess = DELETE | READ_CONTROL

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I still have another sneak peek from the display boards at last month's On Stage event to share with you today. One of the new sets that will be available starting June 1st is Love & Affection. It is a pretty floral set with even prettier sentiments.
One of the colors that I was asked to focus on was Delightful Dijon. So for this card, I ran a piece of Delightful Dijon through the Big Shot with the Softly Falling embossing folder. I then cut it into two piece and inserted a piece of white card stock, on which I stamped some of the floral images from Love & Affection with Watermelon Wonder and Mint Macaron inks.
The sentiment was embossed with Black Stampin' Emboss Powder. I added a little bit of black baker's twine and called it a day. This would be an easy card to send through the mail.
On this last card, I watercolored some Delightful Dijon ink onto a piece of Shimmery White card stock with a paint brush. The butterfly was cut from Vellum Cardstock using one of the Butterflies Thinlits dies.
Aren't these sentiments so sweet! I love them!
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Why thank you, Amy (LOL)! J/K!!! Your cards are lovely; I love your hops too! TFS!
These are both just wonderful!