One of the more striking features of the contemporary conservative movement is the extent to which it has been moving toward epistemic closure. Reality is defined by a multimedia array of interconnected and cross promoting conservative blogs, radio programs, magazines, and of course, Fox News. Whatever conflicts with that reality can be dismissed out of hand because it comes from the liberal media, and is therefore ipso facto not to be trusted. (How do you know they're liberal? Well, they disagree with the conservative media!) This epistemic closure can be a source of solidarity and energy, but it also renders the conservative media ecosystem fragile. Think of the complete panic China's rulers feel about any breaks in their Internet firewall: The more successfully external sources of information have been excluded to date, the more unpredictable the effects of a breach become. Internal criticism is then especially problematic, because it threatens the hermetic seal.
[T]here is nothing more potentially fatal to the momentum of an insurgency fueled by anger than a conversation.
This is also true of cults, isn't it?
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To say that there are insular subcultures within conservatism would be accurate, to say that all of conservatism is insular is ridiculous. Such a statement is the kind of lie that liberal media outlets promote to decree that the default views are those of the liberals and the self-contained fringe are the conservatives. This entire argument could be easily reversed and it would have the same ring of false modesty to cover a smug condescension either way.
You're obviously not an epistemically closed person, and you are correct that there are people on the left who close themselves off as well. But there is a curiously closed-loop culture on the right that seems to broach very little intellectual range or nuance. From my vantage, there is a lot more open air in liberal circles.
Two examples: global warming and evolution. Any sane 21st century movement should be able to come to terms with what scientific experts have come to consensus on, and adjust its politics to that reality. You shouldn't get to make up your own facts.
I really did not want to be sidetracked into another subject, but while I concede that some conservative views on evolution should be challenged, I do not agree with your statement on Global warming. I am a scientist and I am skeptical about Global warming because it is not as a clear cut case as some people, like Al Gore, wanted it to be. When scientific community decided that they are not going to look to any evidence that cast any doubt on Global warming they are creating their own version of truth which may turn out to be just wrong.
The resort to an ad hominem such as calling the claims of the other a lie is itself an espistemic closure.
So doubting the validity of others claims is now a non-sequitur? People who don't know what logical fallacies actually are shouldn't throw around words like "ad hominem." It only serve so expose that they have no idea what they're talking about.
How ironic you mention the word 'non sequitur,' as one accused you of making one.


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Destiny Anna's art is a nice marriage of surreal and warmth. When I first saw the above picture I thought there was some kind of political agenda however nothing could be further from the truth. She takes images and symbols the we have al known and have been familiar with society and combines them to demystify their stigma. Her art is as gentle and kind as her personality. She's new to the art world and I'm looking forward to her continued contributions..
When I first saw Mike Carr do stand up I was taken back by how humble his presentation was. His subject matter was bitter sweet but the way he presented it was very inviting, he talked with the audience instead of at the audience. Typically when comedians do comedy they create a persona, however when Mike got off the stage he was that same tough luck chap that we all laughed and sympathized with. Mike is a funny guy with a heart of gold.
Where to begin with Jeremy Gloff...I have to say to call this guy a friend is beyond an honor. I originally saw him preform at my Mykebration show several years back and he captivated everyone watching. He preformed songs from his 21st Century Love Songs, a very heartfelt album about love and loss. He preformed the songs simply with a keyboard but what came out was a wall of sound that connected the everyone. His newest album went for a different style completely, entitled THIS it is much more of a dance album. With just those two albums it proves exactly how versatile he is but I haven't even mentioned his years of previous albums. Jeremy Gloff is a treasure indeed.


If you are going to hire a Financial Advisor independently of your agent, there are some things you will need to know about the financial topic. The first is "How the Financial Business Works. The following is a brief description of the components and roles of a Financial Services Relationship.
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Client and Financial Advisor work together to navigate financial industry. Advisor brings knowledge and experience, and client brings money and opinions. Advisor uses financial firm's tools, services and products to investigate and implement agreed upon strategies.


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H.Con.Res.212 - Expressing the sense of Congress on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of historic events in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and reaffirming the bonds of friendship and cooperation between the United States and the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.111th Congress (2009-2010)
Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7] (Introduced 11/07/2009)
House - Foreign Affairs | Senate - Foreign Relations
Senate - 11/20/2009 Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (All Actions)
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11/20/2009 Senate Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
11/19/2009-1:44pm House The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
11/19/2009-1:44pm House On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 426 - 0 (Roll no. 906). (text: CR 11/18/2009 H13110)
11/19/2009-1:37pm House Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H13288-13289)
11/18/2009-2:58pm House At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
11/18/2009-2:30pm House DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Con. Res. 212.
11/18/2009-2:30pm House Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13109-13113)
11/18/2009-2:30pm House Mr. Ackerman moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended.
11/07/2009 House Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
11/19/2009 The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
11/19/2009 On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 426 - 0 (Roll no. 906). (text: CR 11/18/2009 H13110)
11/19/2009 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H13288-13289)
11/18/2009 At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
11/18/2009 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Con. Res. 212.
11/18/2009 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13109-13113)
11/18/2009 Mr. Ackerman moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended.
11/07/2009 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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Two US congressional staffers who travelled to London in July and tried to contact former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, were sent by a longstanding aide to Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House intelligence committee and a close ally of the White House.
The trip has brought back to the surface a continuing struggle for control of the committees investigation into Moscows role in the 2016 US election. The reliability of a dossier compiled by Steele, containing explosive allegations of extensive secret collusion between Trump and the Kremlin, is a key part of that investigation.
The two staffers turned up unannounced at Steeles lawyers offices while the former MI6 officer was in the building, according to a report by Politico on Friday. But the committees leading Democrat, Adam Schiff, said on Sunday neither he nor his Republican counterpart had been informed about the staffers London trip.
A congressional official insisted, however, that the staffers were in London on official committee business. He said they had been told to make contact with Steeles lawyers, rather than Steele himself.
It was an intelligence committee trip although going to meet with the lawyer was not the sole purpose of the trip. They were also there on other committee business, the official said, but he added he could not describe what else the committee staffers were doing in London.
Them being sent to meet with the lawyers was at the behest of the committee staff director, the official added, speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject.
The House intelligence committees staff director is Damon Nelson, who worked as deputy chief of staff for Devin Nunes from 2003 until 2014 and then as a senior adviser before moving in 2015 to the staff of the committee which Nunes chairs. Nunes was a member of Trumps transition team on security and enraged Democrats by maintaining close contact with the president and making a secret visit late at night to the White House in March to view supposedly secret information without telling other committee members.
Nunes stepped aside from the committees Russia investigation in April, months before the London trip, after becoming the subject of an inquiry by the House ethics panel into whether he disclosed classified information in a bid to discredit the Obama administration. Republican congressman Mike Conaway took over Nunes duties directing the Russia inquiry. Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the committee, has since praised Conaways cooperation into investigating the links between the Trump campaign and Moscow, but has also complained that Nunes has continued to intervene in the investigation, despite his understanding to stay out of it pending the ethics inquiry.
Schiffs office declined to comment, and Conaways office did not reply to a request for comment. But Schiff said on Sunday that neither of them had been told about the London visit aimed at establishing contacts with a key witness.
I wasnt aware of it, and I dont think Mr Conaway was either, Schiff told CNN. But the reality is we do want to meet with Mr Steele, would like him to come before the committee. If hes not willing to do that, wed be happy Mr Conaway and myself to go to London to sit down with him. He does have, certainly, very relevant information that would assist our investigation.
Steeles dossier on Trumps alleged collusion with the Russian government was compiled in 2016, for a Washington research company, Fusion GPS, and commissioned by Trumps election opponents, first Republican in the primaries, and then Democrat.
It was presented by Republican senator John McCain to the then FBI director, James Comey, in December, and has since been part of a wide-ranging inquiry into possible collusion, now under the control of special counsel Robert Mueller.
A congressional official insisted it would not be unusual for a committee staff director to organise a foreign fact-finding trip on his own authority.
However, Adam Blickstein, a former Democrat spokesman on the House intelligence committee said he found that unlikely in the such a sensitive investigation.
In this specific scenario, I cant imagine a staff director sending two staffers on this trip, without the chairman knowing about it, Blickstein said. That wouldnt pass the smell test.
I find the fact that they presumably spent taxpayer money to undertake such a hyper-partisan and unprofessional effort extremely troubling, John Sipher, a former senior CIA officer said in an emailed comment. There are normal ways to do this through our existing institutions, and their relationships with our British partners. This is bad on many levels.
Republicans that are part of the House investigation should not be undertaking efforts without informing their Democratic colleagues, Sipher added. Not only is it unprofessional but it is impolite. Mr Steele was a professional who worked on important and compatible issues with the US. He deserves better than being ambushed by a bunch of hacks.


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Q: xUnit, using DateTime UtcNow in test fails the with fraction of millisecond I am working on .NET 5 unit tests for DateTimeUTC. My following tests fails with fraction of millisecond. I am initializing expectedDateTimeUtcNow = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow and then using expectedDateTimeUtcNow to convert to millisecond as SUT to test my method where I pass hardcoded long millisecond value then test pass not sure what I am missing

[Fact]
public void ConvertDateTimeToUTC_MustTakeDateTimeParameter_InMilliSecond()
{
        //Arrange
        long startDateTimeUtc = 1626991200000; //2021-07-22 22:00:00
        var expectedDateTime = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(startDateTimeUtc);

        var expectedDateTimeUtcNow = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
        var dateTimeUtcNowMiliSec = expectedDateTimeUtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();

        //Act
        DateTimeOffset utcConvertedDateTime = DateTimeCalculationHelper.ConvertDateTimeToUTC(startDateTimeUtc);
        DateTimeOffset actualDateTimeUtcNow = DateTimeCalculationHelper.ConvertDateTimeToUTC(dateTimeUtcNowMiliSec);

        //Assert
        Assert.Equal(expectedDateTime, utcConvertedDateTime);
        Assert.Equal(expectedDateTimeUtcNow, actualDateTimeUtcNow);
    }

SUT
 public static DateTimeOffset ConvertDateTimeToUTC(long utcDateTimeInMilliSec)
    {
        var dateTimeUtc = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(utcDateTimeInMilliSec);

        return dateTimeUtc;
    }

A: Fundamentally, when you convert to a whole number of milliseconds (as you are by calling ToUnixTimeMilliseconds) you lose any sub-millisecond data. This should not be a surprise.
Currently, your test is somewhat like this:
double original = 5.5;
int integer = (int) original;
double result = (double) integer;
Assert.Equal(original, result);

If you understand why that test is bound to fail, just apply the same thing to your situation. You can't "regain" the sub-millisecond information that you lost when you convert back to a DateTimeOffset...

A: An alternative but redundant. Test is passed.
 Assert.Equal(expectedDateTimeUtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds(), actualDateTimeUtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds()); //PASSED

Ticks are different when compare expectedDateTimeUtcNow vs actualDateTimeUtcNow

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Serge Schoffel
14 rue Watteeu - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
Located in the Sablon area of Brussels, our gallery specialises in all ancient tribal arts. Every region of the world is represented : Subsaharian Africa, the South Seas, the Indies, the Americas and the Great North. We favor sculptures but we like also beautiful ethnographic objects. Our selection is governed by the requirement of authenticity, age and artistic excellence.
http://www.sergeschoffel.com
Schoffel de Fabry
14 rue Guénégaud - 75006 Paris - France
The family Schoffel-Valluet opened its first gallery devoted to tribal art in 1969. The gallery is closely engaged with the antiques market and has earned international renown, contributing directly to the creation of numerous important private and public collections. The gallery extends its expertise to the arts of Oceania, Africa, North America and South-East Asia and it has participated in numerous art exhibitions including 'Jackson Pollock and shamanism' at the Pinacothèque in Paris in 2008 and 'Return from expedition' at the Museum of Hunting and Nature in 2012. It has exhibited at BRAFA since 2011 and has participated in 'Parcours des mondes' since the fair began. It has also organised thematic exhibitions such as: 'Clair-Obscur de Jean François Chavanne', September 2008; 'War and Peace', September 2009; 'South East Asia', June 2010; 'Victor Brauner and the primitive arts' with the Samy Kinge gallery, October 2010; 'Musical instruments', January 2012 and 'The Ivory Coast: sculpture', December 2012.
http://www.schoffeldefabry.com/
Schuler Auktionen
Seestrasse 341 - 8038 - Switzerland
In 1984, Philippe Schuler founded his own auction house together with two employees. Today, the auction house employs 25 people. From the very beginning, Schuler Auctions have been domiciled in Zurich-Wollishofen. Our experts rely on many years of experience in the fine art trade and are very well informed about the current market situation. Thanks to our specialists, who are in charge of 25 different subject areas, your precious objects are in good hands. We appraise, research and catalogue every auction lot, from the Anker aquarelle to the Zurich pewter tankard - with utmost care and professional competence.
https://www.schulerauktionen.ch
Schweizer Premodern
39 East 78th Street - 10075 New York - NY - United States
Located at the heart of New York City's prestigious Upper East Side neighborhood, at the corner of Madison Avenue and 78 Street, Schweizer Premodern is a high-end art gallery focusing on major artworks of the premodern era from Africa, the Pacific and the Americas. Prior to founding Schweizer Premodern in 2015, Mr. Schweizer was Sotheby's Head of African and Oceanic Art in New York from 2006–2015. During this time he had a tremendous impact on the African and Pacific Art market, selling in excess of $250 million worth of artworks in those fields. He has been instrumental in the creation of some of the finest private collections formed in the past decade, and has placed many important works in Europe's and America's leading art museums. He is credited with introducing new standards for scholarship in the market and re-contextualizing Premodern African and Pacific Art as universal art forms. In November 2014, he established Premodern African Art as one of the highest-value categories of sculpture: the sale of the Kunin Senufo Female Statue for $12 million set a new world record for African Art. Mr. Schweizer has made Premodern African and Pacific Art accessible to a vastly expanded audience and effectively spearheaded the transformation of a niche market into a major collecting category.
http://schweizerpremodern.com
David Serra
Av. Sant Juan 2 - 08198 Barcelona - Spain
David Serra - Art Tribal Gallery is a space dedicated to the exhibition and sale of primitive art objects. Founded in 1998 by Mercedes and David Serra - longtime connoisseurs of the cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa -, the gallery exhibits sculptures, ritual masks and specially selected ethnic pieces. The gallery participates in the most important international tribal art fairs and collaborates with museums and private foundations.
http://www.davidserra.es
Bill Siegal
540 S. Guadalupe Street - NM 87501 Santa Fe - NM - United States
The William Siegal Gallery in Santa Fe is a high-concept space that exhibits a distinguished collection of ancient art and artifacts alongside contemporary works of art. This stunning five thousand square foot gallery provides a rare opportunity to appreciate art that spans 5,000 years and many different cultures, while inspiring a new collecting sensibility: the Old is New and the New is Old. Side-by-side, they create exciting dialogs. For over 40 years, William Siegal has assembled the world's largest collection of Andean Textiles dating from 750 BC to the 19th Century. Ceremonial objects & artifacts from Meso & South American cultures, Ancient Chinese, Southeast Asia, African and Indonesian museum-quality pieces are also represented. William Siegal Gallery is located in Santa Fe's dynamic Railyard District, now a major arts destination throughout the world and the central location of Santa Fe's contemporary art scene.
https://williamsiegal.com/
Galerie Simonis
Poststrasse 3 - D-40123 Düsseldorf - Germany
Nina and Henricus first discovered African Art as students at the Academy of Arts in Holland and were both taken by it. "Our fascination was intense since the art had captured our imagination and this led to the opening of our gallery in 1978. Our philosophy is to offer both collectors and beginners a wide range of Museum quality African Art including advice and guidance."
http://www.galerie-simonis.com
Sisi Tatu
- - Belgium
Sisi Tatu is a family business with thirty years of experience in the ethnic material culture. Formerly a gallery in the historical centre of Ghent, we have now established an online web shop that breathes the same love for aesthetics as the former gallery but with a window to the world. With the matter on authenticity, we seek for shapes, materials, integrity and phantasy in both new and old objects that resonate this vision.
You are welcome to browse our online gallery and we invite you to subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date with the latest arrivals.
http://www.sisitatu.com
63 Park Plaza - 02116 Boston - MA -
Founded over four decades ago, Skinner offers more than 60 auctions annually. Skinner auctions reach an international audience and showcase the unique, rare, and beautiful in dozens of categories, including the fine and decorative arts, jewelry, modern design, musical instruments, science and technology, wine, and many others. Drawing on the expertise of its specialists and its personalized service, Skinner works with individuals, institutions, and estate settlement professionals to attract outstanding items from across New England, the United States, and the world. Important sales include a Qing Dynasty vase that set the record for Chinese art sold in the U.S., works by Fitz Henry Lane and Aldro Thompson Hibbard, folk art portraiture, and Kashmir textiles. Skinner regularly sees strong results for items ranging from fine Italian violins to Cartier diamond jewelry. Skinner is located in Boston and Marlborough, Massachusetts, Coral Gables, Florida, and New York, NY and offers its customers worldwide, "anywhere" access to its sales through the SkinnerLive! real-time, online bidding service.
http://www.skinnerinc.com
Sotheby's - Fine Art Auction
York Avenue, 1334 - 10021 New York - NY - United States
Sotheby's New York department of African & Oceanic art is led by Heinrich Schweizer, Senior Vice President & Department Head (heinrich.schweizer@sothebys.com). Since his arrival in 2006, Mr. Schweizer has orchestrated some of the most successful auctions and private sales in the field, including the auction of the Robert Rubin Collection of African Art (May 2011: $11.7 million) and the private sale of the Masco Collection of Oceanic Art to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and in total placed more than $120 million at auction and more than $70 million privately. Sotheby's New York team is completed by Alexander Grogan, Assistant Vice President & Specialist (Alexander.Grogan@sothebys.com), and Laura Seidenfeld, Senior Administrator (laura.seidenfeld@sothebys.com).
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In Remembrance of our Veterans and Pearl Harbor Day
On December 7, 1941, the United States was attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. When the attack ended shortly before 10:00 a.m., less than two hours after it began, the American forces had paid a fearful price. Twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet were sunk or damaged, 188 aircraft were destroyed and another 159 damaged, and 2,403 American lives were lost, with another 1,178 persons injured.
In all the numbers and statistics of history, we find out two Casto brothers were killed that day. Fireman first class Charles Ray Casto and Fireman second class Richard Eugene Casto were serving aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB-37). I recently learned the story of the Oklahoma and how within 11 minutes of being struck by several Japanese torpedoes, the ship "turned turtle" and rolled over with men still trapped inside. Rescue crews worked feverishly for almost two days to free the men trapped inside, who were banging on the sides of the hull. Thirty-two men made it out--429 crewmembers perished.
In a world 70+ years removed from that horrible day, we find ourselves once again fighting against evil and those that would do the U.S. harm. Please support our troops in anyway you can, especially at this time of year when so many of our brave men and women are far from home and can't share in the holidays with their loved ones. These soldiers are risking their lives, sometimes losing them, because they believe in freedom and liberty and keeping us safe. Next time you see someone in uniform, be sure to say, "Thank You"!
2013 Update: In 2011, I was contacted by Dee Dee King, a certified genealogist with Forensic Genealogy Services (www.forensicgenealogyservices.com/NavyCasualty.html ) and asked to assist her in providing current next of kin for the Casto brothers that served about the USS Oklahoma. I was very honored to be able to provide her with the contact information she needed. From the Forensic Genealogy Services Website, "The Navy Casualty POW/MIA Branch contacts potential family members to share with them the U.S. Government's efforts to recover and identify remains of American service members who failed to return from past wars and conflicts (WWII thru the Gulf War). Identification of remains from older Loss Incidents relies heavily on forensic technology which compares mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or yDNA with family donor reference samples. This important Genealogical Outreach Program for the Department of the Navy is but a small part in the overall effort of the U.S. Government to locate, recover, and identify remains of Sailors who gave their lives to defend our Nation and the freedoms which we continue to enjoy."
In October, 2013, I was sent the following information to share:
Danita,
I found your wonderful website on the Casto brothers. What a great tribute to these two brothers lost on 7 Dec 1941.
There are 377 OKLAHOMA Sailors buried as unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, one of which is F1c Charles Casto.
The DOD is contemplating the fate of these men in regards to indentifying them. However, in the interim the Secretary of the Navy has made a position to not endorse disinterring caskets for identification purposes. A final decision has not been made at this time.
I just wanted to update you on current events concerning the USS OKLAHOMA.
Thank you for your interest and work on the USS OKLAHOMA Sailors.
V/R
Rudy Gonzales
Branch Head
Navy POW/MIA
I also found this news article from August, 2013:
http://newsok.com/forensic-anthropologist-says-he-can-identify-unknown-dead-on-uss-oklahoma/article/3868823/?page=2
2017 Update: When I first created this website, my son was 4 years old and playing with trains and soccer balls. Now, he is serving with the US Army National Guard in the Middle East and it makes my heart ache that much more for the parents and family of Charles and Richard Casto. They were beloved sons, brothers, nephews, cousins and I am very sure there were a lot of people heartbroken at their loss, especially both at the same time. Did their mother think they were "safer" serving in a paradise like Hawaii? Had she already shipped them their Christmas presents? Were they scheduled for leave and coming home for the holidays? They were only two of almost 300,000 men and women killed in combat during World War II. I am glad that we still remember those two young men who served their country with honor and bravery as well as all the others who fought for our freedom.
For more information on the USS Oklahoma, visit:
· Official Website of the USS Oklahoma: http://www.ussoklahoma.com (this is a great website!)
· Remembering the USS Oklahoma: http://www.angelfire.com/ok4/ussoklahoma/
· News Article from 2016: https://www.stripes.com/news/us/after-75-years-remains-of-5-uss-oklahoma-sailors-are-identified-1.388226 (if link is broken, click here)
· PBS Special: http://www.pbs.org/program/pearl-harbor-uss-oklahoma-final-story/
· USS Oklahoma Memorial: https://www.nps.gov/valr/planyourvisit/upload/Oklahoma%20Memorial%20Revised.pdf
As time has gone by, several links have been removed but it is nice to see that I can add more because the story of the men of the USS Oklahoma and all the others who fought in Hawaii that day has not been forgotten.
The Casto Brothers
From the USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
Charles Ray Casto and his brother, Richard Eugene Casto, both served on the USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Since originally doing this research, I have been contacted by family members of these two men. Richard and Charles Casto were the sons of David Gay and Mary Alice (Eddy) Casto. This information was sent to me by Joe Todd who has a Findagrave.com listing for Richard Casto.
Casto, Charles Ray – Fireman 1st Class. SN 3286365. Born 23 Sep 1922 in East Liverpool, OH. Son of David Gay Casto, 225 Walnut St, East Liverpool, OH. Brother of Charles Ray Casto. Source: Randy Friley, Commander VFW post 6450, Chester, WV.
Casto, Richard E. – Fireman 2nd Class. Born in East Liverpool, OH. Son of David Gay Casto, 225 Walnut St, East Liverpool, OH. Brother of Charles Ray Casto. Source: Randy Friley, Commander VFW post 6450, Chester, WV
1930 Hancock Co., Chester City, Grant District, WV, ED 9, Sheet 4B:
Casto, David 36 b. WV
Mary A. 33 b. WV
Oscar 16 b. OH
Orville 14 b. WV
Charles 9 b. WV
Richard 7 b. OH
Elene 6 b. WV
1920 Lawrence Co., PA, New Castle, ED 104, Sheet 5A:
Casto, B.D. 26 b. WV
Mary 23 b. WV
Oscar 5 b. OH
Orville 3 b. WV
Ralph 8/12 b. PA
I also discovered that the VFW Post in Chester, WV, which is located right across the bridge from East Liverpool, Ohio, was known as the Burge-Casto VFW Post 6450.
If you would care to share info or ask questions, please contact Danita at Danita@castoconnections.com.
December 4, 2008 Update:
Paul Goodyear (1918-2014), one of the survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack that sunk the USS Oklahoma, sent me these two photos of Richard and Charles Casto.
THE USS OKLAHOMA VETERAN
We buried an old Naval veteran today.
His passing was quiet, far from that terrible affray.
He had survived and done well in his final years.
Unlike his shipmates, who perished in unfathomable fears.
They were not supposed to be in port, they should have been out on patrol.
Coming to "Pearl" for an Admiral's inspection would bring a deadly toll.
Sailors were sleeping-in, not worried about the inspection order.
"Now hear this, this is not a drill, sound general quarters."
Chaplain Schmitt was headed for church-call when the attack started.
Within eleven minutes, to his heavenly father he had departed.
He was below decks helping injured sailors make it safely out.
A place was waiting in heaven for the Padre, there is no doubt.
Father Al would be the first Chaplain to die in that world war.
Pushing injured sailors thru a hatch, "move topside" he did implore.
He could have made it out alive, if not for Navy protocol.
Senior man stays until the end, directing escape for all.
Private Joseph Lawter was on the fantail with his bugle ready to blow.
After first call, he saw something flying in, straight and low.
"Corporal of the guard, those are Jap planes flying just above the drink."
"Lawter you get paid to blow that bugle, not think."
It was too late, the first torpedo slammed into the port side.
Within minutes more would strike the Okie's tough old hide.
Too many hatches were left open in anticipation of the Admiral's inspection.
It is easy in hindsight to see the error of this fatal leadership misdirection.
The Oklahoma was senior and she should have been moored inboard.
Putting her to the outside left the Okie open to the Japanese horde.
This may have saved the Maryland from destruction on that December day.
But it left one grand old dreadnought, lying on the bottom of the bay.
The USS Oklahoma was an older battleship, from an earlier generation.
With her 14 inch guns she stood ready to defend the nation.
She had never fired a shot in anger, not even in the First World War.
Now she is on the bottom of the ocean, her big guns never again to roar.
Off Spain the Oklahoma was there to protect Americans in harm's way
In this new war she was lost to the Navy and the Nation in the opening day.
She rolled over in minutes with her keel raised to the Hawaiian sky.
429 men were trapped below, and were destined to die.
The Japanese sank the Oklahoma, a long list of crewmen they did cull.
As small boats were passing, banging was heard on her turned up hull.
Seaman Garlen Eslick and 31 others were trapped in an artificial night.
It would be 28 hours before they again saw the glow of daylight.
With hammers and chisels rescuers worked to pierce that dying ship.
No cutting torches because life from seamen's lungs it would strip.
The crewmen were dying as the water continued to rise on the Okie's inside.
Work harder, work faster they must peel away, the old girl's armored hide.
Airman "Spider" Webb had been on board the Oklahoma for just a day.
He did not know where to go, as he sprang from his rack were he lay.
He would push himself through a port hole, that's all he could do.
But the Jap's would see "Spider" again over Pacific skies of blue.
"Spider" Webb would go on to win his pilot wings of gold.
Taking on the enemy in the air, he proved to be a man of bold.
Dogfighting, he surrounded 40 Jap planes creating a moment's thrill.
But that day he upped the score for the Oklahoma, with eight aircraft kills.
The Barber brothers all joined the Navy to serve their Nation with pride.
The three shipped out on the Oklahoma standing side by side.
In the end they all would be lost, with no remains to be returned.
Leroy, Malcolm and Randolph, respect from a grateful nation you earned.
There were other brothers to serve and die on the Oklahoma that day
They all had a sad history in this new war to play.
Lost forever were the brothers; Woods, Trapp, Palmer, Blitz, and Casto.
Into heaven they ascended, as the crew of a small boat they did row.
"This is a real air raid, this is no sh__"
Not a standard shipboard broadcast, but it got the message out there quick.
Ensign Herbert Rommel returned to his guns as Zeros skimmed the bay.
But Captain Rommel would survive, to fight and win another day.
Over 1300 crewmen were assigned to the Oklahoma on that sunny morn.
Eventually taps would be sounded for 429 on a bugler's sorrowful horn.
The wounded would be pulled from the water and tended as heroes all.
The rest of the crew would be reassigned, to meet a suffering nation's call.
The Oklahoma never returned to challenge her enemy to a fair fight.
It took years at "Pearl" to right her and bring her deck into the light.
She was sold off as scrap after they pulled from her, those big guns.
The USS Oklahoma was finally lost, sunken under tow in the Pacific sun.
We must remember the Oklahoma, for the crew their time is running out.
It must be marked in stone, to be preserved in a military redoubt.
Ford Island will be the home to a memorial that will stand the test of time.
For the Naval veteran he can visit and say "I was there, she was mine."
This one, a shipmate who had seen that tragic December day.
But he survived to meet his nation's demand, to seek justice for all.
He fought hard for his nation, and now takes his final military call.
Major Van Harl USAF Ret.
vanharl@aol.com
Rear Admiral Roy Casto sent me this picture from his visit to the USS Oklahoma Memorial at Pearl Harbor.


3 Bedroom double glazed spacious house. Integral kitchen with all mod cons.
Situated in a peaceful cul de sac very close to all amenities and local bus routes.
Comes with enclosed small garden and parking.


To observe the many flowering trees and native plants. The Blue bonnets are up and beautiful, the prickly poppies, white against a backdrop of winter browns and Indian Paintbrush is starting to show, the eye catching orange- red. What has peaked my interest is the Red Bud trees.
So as I was looking at these lovely trees I went a little farther. Texas red bud, Cercis canadensis, var. Texensis. This is possibly the "Best Loved" ornamental native tree in Texas. They seem to appear overnight around the first of March. In all their Magenta Pink glory. They can be magenta , pink, purple and even rarely white. They have shiny heart shaped leaves, multi trunk, light to grey bark with white spots usually not getting taller than 25 ft. are an under story tree. Drought tolerant and Love our thin soils. These bright floral stems are often featured in wedding bouquets. Surprisingly they are in the pea family Their fruit is a red or purplish red to reddish brown pod, 2 to 3 inches long and 1/2 inch wide with several seeds inside. They are nectarine for bees, butterfly's, moths and insects. Larval Host: Henry's Elfin Butterfly. They thrive in the alkaline soils of Oklahoma and Central and South Texas. These are a legume and edible, The flowers and the pods are used for a variety of foods and often a foraging favorite.
Now that I have a little more information of this beloved flowering Texas favorite I look more closely at the structure and the delicate flower that brings the color back to life in the dreariness of late winters end. Another blooming tree or shrub that is showing color now is the Mountain Laurel,Sophora secundiflora, also known as Mescal bean. Deep shiny green leaves with multi trunk. With is purplish hanging flowers that have the aroma of grape soda.This is a nectarine plant. The pods have a red seed inside that is Poisonous. Clip the seed pods off before they mature if you have children or pets. Another tree shrub that is tolerant to our temperatures and soils and a delight to our winter weary senses. We have a beautiful Mountain Laurel at the side entrance to out LLano Library that many wait for the flowers to appear, then we know that we may have a few more cold spells and the warm weather is close to follow; Even in the long days of late winter we see the natural world appear with abundance, grace and we can the Smell of Spring!


2. Breakfast cereal machinery make machinery Capacity: 120-150kg/h, 200-250kg/h, 350-500kg/h.
3. Breakfast cereal machinery make machinery materials: All the machinerys are made by stainless steel.
It can be used to produce snacks, cereals by adjusting the mouldsfrom extruder.


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I just called Sudha, the customer care exec for P&P and was told my apartment was still unsold.
The apartment in P&P is Flat 5E Tower 1. It's 3.5BHK, and 1698 sq ft.
Welcome newlight1 to this forum..
After waiting for 2 years, I also cancelled my P&P booking in the end of Oct 2014.. Yes, this is the clause on the booking form. I am yet to get the Refund.. In my case, 4 months have passed.. Going by the comments of my colleague who worked in RV a few years ago, the MD Suresh is not an easy going person..
nrajan1981; - Did you get back your refund within 6 months as per the booking form? Could you please confirm and share the refund experience?
Friends, any updates on the construction process. Last when visited they were doing piling work on the site for the 3 blocks in phase 1. I heard a news that they are going to start piling work for the phase 2 also soon.
Does nay one have any further updates?
Not yet. RV's response has been pathetic. I and 2 others are planning to initiate the legal proceedings soon.
Further, the more the number of people join, the stronger will be the case. If anyone else planning to join, message me.
Any advice on good lawyers for Consumer Courts would be appreciated.
What's been holding you back from seeking legal recourse? What excuses has the builder been saying each time you speak to them?
சேவை வரி வட்டாரங்கள் கூறியதாவது: எங்களுக்கு கைது செய்யும் அதிகாரம் உள்ளதால், சேவை வரி செலுத்தாமல் இருந்த, 'ரியல் வேல்யூ புரமோட்டர்ஸ்' என்ற நிறுவனத்தின் உரிமையாளர் சுரேஷ் என்பவரை, சமீபத்தில் கைது செய்து, சென்னை, எழும்பூர் பொருளாதார குற்றப்பிரிவில் ஆஜர்படுத்தினோம். 'உடனடியாக, 1.5 கோடி ரூபாயை செலுத்துங்கள்' என, நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவிட்டது. அவரும், அந்தத் தொகையை செலுத்தினார்.இதைப் போல, 1,000க்கும் அதிகமான கட்டடங்களுக்கு பல கோடி ரூபாய் சேவை வரி வராமல் உள்ளது.இவ்வாறு அவர்கள் கூறினர்.
Oh this guy is evading tax which he has already collected from the customers!!
Not to patronize any one, 99% of the builders in India do not pay the sales tax. Corporate houses like Hiranandani, DLF etc also default. Its who pays more bribe to stay out of Jail. Bribe, Which probably Mr. Suresh, did not pay. That is what is happening. The concept of both sales tax and construction tax to the end users i.e. who are the ultimate buyers itself is an absurd concept. I don't understand, the amount of taxes by the indian government which far out surpasses any country in the world.
Most hilarious is Road Tax in India, when most of the places don't even have a road.
Hi all any updates if anyone got refund , since my written request to them for cancellation its 7 months over now.. & they don't bother to reply to my mails. They are very cheap people to talk on the phone. Sales person Sairam says they are not bank or lending company to give interest. After keeping our money for 3 years they have cheek to talk like this..
As per them if we get any client for them we will get our money refund or transfer booking to them, knowingly how can I push someone in the well.
I got the same response when meeting Sairam. That if i get a person to book the cancelled flat, i can get the refund quickly.
They have not refunded me either after 7-8 months. Through my lawyer, I have already sent a Legal Notice to RV.
Next step is to file a Consumer Court case, once I am back to India.
Am sure if more people file the consumer court case, RV will be under pressure to refund. Do file it within 3 years of your payment.


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Q: process scheduling question
For example, a process waiting for
  disk I/O to complete will sleep on the
  address of the buffer header
  corresponding to the data being
  transferred. When  the interrupt
  routine for the disk driver notes that
  the transfer is complete,  it calls
  wakeup on the buffer header. The
  interrupt uses the kernel stack for
  whatever process happened to be
  running at the time, and the wakeup is
  done  from that system process.

Can you please explain the last line in the paragraph which I have emphasised. It is about  waking up the process which has been waiting for some event to occur and thus has slept. This para is from Galvin. By the way can you suggest some good book or link for studying unix operating systems?
Thanks.

A: There is some process running at the time the interrupt is received.  The kernel doesn't change over to some other process context to handle it -- that would take time -- it just does what's necessary in the current context, and lets the scheduler know that the next time it schedules, the waiting process is ready to proceed.
There are a number of good internals books around.  I'm fond of the various McKusick et al books, like The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System.

A: Maurice Bach's Design of the Unix Operating System is the most well-known and comprehensive book on the subject.

A: The I/O completion interrupt will be executed as soon as the disk signals the end of the transfer. This is done regardless of what the kernel is currently doing. Interrupt handlers are usually very small and self-contained. Therefore it is faster to re-use the current runtime environment (stack, CPU state, etc) instead of doing a full context switch to a separate thread. On the down side this means that interrupt handlers are only allowed to do very limited things, like setting a flag somewhere else, or enqueing a work item. Also, they have to clean up very carefully after themselves, so that the running process is not disturbed.

A: Eric Raymond's 'The Art of Unix Programming' , should be read to understand the Unix philosophy and culture.To actually know and appreciate the reasons behind its design.


I've been meaning to make this thread for a while.
In the right hosting conditions everything should be working properly now with very few exceptions.
As Symbiostock sites are deployed, please post here if your site works or does not work, along with what host you are using and what plan/setup if applicable. Or if you had to make changes that resulted in a theme working.
Results: Symbiostock features work or not.
Info: If you had to make adjustments to get image processing or other features working (generally memory adjustments).
IMPORTANT: This theme generally does not work on entry-level server environments. Bluehost - BLUEHOST.COM - seems to be the best setting for Symbiostock deployments.
Results: All features worked out of the box. Have uploaded batches of photos up to about 40 at a time with no errors.
Info: No adjustments were required.
Results: Had to edit php.ini which required permission from them to be able to upload images larger than 4Mb - easily done but I think Leo has changed things within Symbiostock since then.
Info: Probably owned by same company as Bluehost as shares addresses etc just slightly cheaper. Recommend you go for longest hosting period you can afford (with any company) as that works out cheaper, remember if you have a .com etc address they will usually require an extra payment yearly .
Not voted in poll as was frustrating till I worked out the problem but very easy after that.
EDIT: Do not trust their back-up system, create your own as they do not back up as regularly as they say, nor do they back up everything and if they lose one of your files during their own downtime they don't care !
Since i'll setup my symbiostock site next monday, it's nice to read more information from people who already configured their websites.
Host: 1and1.com - I have a few other wordpress sites hosted in a shared package for $4.99 a month, so it is cheap if it works!
Don't know if this would make sense, but I'm in conversation with the COO of a hosting company (Servint.net) about the issues I have had with 1and1, and perhaps it would make sense to share a dedicated server among us all? They also have a cloud solution where you pay based on what you do - I've asked if that would make sense.
I'll keep the group informed. I've known him for a long time and they have been in business for 15 years so they are stable!
Info: Had to have host change .htacess to allow "post" function. FTP files over 4Mb only with ehosting. Could not resolve paypal and download link. I switched to Bluehost and was up and running in about a half hour completely from scratch.
Results: Symbiostock features work. I am just beginning to navigate around and personalize the site, but installation was easy and it looks good!
Info: I have been hosting with ix for years. They are reasonably priced and reliable. I can actually call their 800 number and get a real tech person. I used the EasyApps installation for installing Wordpress, but it would not allow me to install to the root. I called tech support and they moved the installation to root within 10 minutes. So far, so good!
How much symbiostock sites until now? 10? More?
Its a secret. I haven't counted but probly somewhere a bit above that.
Host: AussieHQ Current plan is now obsolete, but about to upgrade to Ultimate Linux.
Results: Everything we've tried so far is working.
Info: Had to get PHP safe mode turned off.
Do we need to upload a zip file??
I'm jsut working on this with Bluehost. I can upload images up to 10M without issue, but above that level I get the same error. I'm trying to do a chat with technical support.
That is strange. I just tried a 7M file and had no issues at all. I just did a completely clean build of WP using their script. Set the permalink setting to Post, added the Symbiostock theme. Activated the network, and set to work on images. First one worked fine and everything less than 10M has been OK.
Wonder why it is different?
edit grrrr kindle quoted wrong post this is in regard to no accompnying image found. should only happen when u upload mismatched zip or Eps . Try again and if probem let me know. Also hosting will be like imaging software. Better host better results. Later will try to get imagick going in process. Some people are processing huge files with no prob .... excuse my kindle typing jargon.
I need to point my domain properly to Bluehost before I can get ftp working to do this!
This was supposed to be a "testing Symbiostock" site, but I will likely keep it live.
I haven't worked on the Paypal end of it. Wondering though, should I open up a new Paypal account so buyers don't see a charge from Pixart Design and dispute it because the don't recognise?
If I am understanding correctly, there are places in the theme to add logos for your rebelstock.com site so that when they buy, they will see that logo. I don't think it matters that it is going into your same paypal account. You add the site paypal logo in symbiostock>settings>under the email and payment process communication.
For the first time, my site is offline. Bluehost issues. I did a chat with support guys. Just fot information.
Just sharing my experience with inMotion Hosting. Not impressed, looks like I may have to move back to my original host. Customer service was unhelpful during the sign up process, it took a full 3 days to be able to access my website. Once it was up the FTP problems started, endless waiting for server messages..server timed out etc. I submitted a ticket, with all the extra information they requested and then never heard back again, even after asking if the ticket was still open.
That was last week, still no word. Today my site was down for a solid half hour. (Apparently a large number of their shared hosting customers were affected.) Their support live chat was down and their phone rings busy. A search on Twitter shows a LOT of unhappy customers saying typical inMotion, frequent outages etc. So all in all, not great. Unfortunately, I'd not recommend this company.
For what it's worth, in 10 years using Bluehost for multiple sites I've had to contact support maybe 5 times, and they were always available. I just wish I had noticed the coming soon page for their new VPS options Could have saved myself the move back!
Edit: Sorry, I should add that other here, including Leo may have had a better experience than I did with them, I was just at the end of my rope today with this latest issue!
I only know inmotion from the dedicated server level, which has been quite amazing. But on the entry level I have no idea where things stand. But Bluehost is by far the best match for an entry level Symbiostock site because of its price/power.
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The Bank Dick (1940)
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The Story (continued)
At the bank before he goes on duty, Egbert repeats a jumbled version of Waterbury's promises to his gullible, dense future son-in-law, bank clerk Og Oggilby, and encourages him to make a risky investment. According to Egbert's fanciful hope, he (and/or Og) will be able to afford to live in a big country place with beer flowing through the estate - over his grandmother's paisley shawl. He has to get the cash to close the deal - and what better place than from someone who works in the bank:
Egbert: I met a poor fellow who's in trouble. Something the matter with his grandmother's paisley shawl. He has 5,000 shares in the Beefsteak Mine and you can buy them for a handful of hay.
Og: Hay? And they're worth..?
Egbert: Ten cents a share. Telephone sold for five cents a share. How would you like something better for ten cents a share? If five gets ya ten, ten'll get ya twenty. A beautiful home in the country, upstairs and down. Beer flowing through the estate over your grandmother's paisley shawl.
Og: Beer?
Egbert: Beer! Fishing in the stream that runs under the aboreal dell. A man comes up from the bar, dumps $3,500 in your lap for every nickel invested. Says to you, 'Sign here on the dotted line.' And then disappears in the weaving fields of alfalfa.
Og: Gosh! Do you think he was telling the truth?
Egbert: You don't think a man would resort to terra-diddle, do you? Why, he sounded like a child at the very thought of disposing of these shares. How does the bank make its money?
Og: By investing.
Egbert: That's the point. You don't want to work all your life. Take a chance. Take it while you're young.
To convince him and speaking with the voice of experience, Sousè relates the story of his Uncle Effingham Hoofnagle, who was also faced with a decision and took a chance, acting without hesitation. He was drifting three and a half miles up in the air and took a chance - he jumped out of the basket of the balloon and tried to land in a load of hay. Og asks if he made it. Sousè must reluctantly admit that his uncle perished in the attempt:
Egbert: My uncle, a balloon ascensionist, Effingham Hoofnagle, took a chance. He was three miles and a half up in the air. He jumped out of the basket of the balloon and took a chance of landing on a load of hay.
Og: Golly! Did he make it?
Egbert: Uh, no...He didn't. Had he been a younger man, he probably would have made it. That's the point. Don't wait too long in life.
Sousè realizes that he has a marriageable daughter engaged to a poor bank clerk - and they cannot marry on Og's present salary, but maybe if the stock gamble is successful, Og will take Myrtle off his hands. He imposes on Og and convinces him to temporarily borrow - not steal - the bank's money. Og proposes his $500 bonus coming due in four days to immediately make the risky investment and buy stock in the gold mine:
Og: I've never done anything like this. And another thing, I haven't got the money. Of course, my bonus comes due in four days. That's $500. I could buy 'em then, and then with all that money, why, I really might be worthy of your daughter's hand.
Egbert: Women really appreciate the fine things in life. You don't wanna die and leave your wife and children paupers, do ya?
Og: No.
Egbert: Borrow the $500 from the bank. You intend to pay it back when your bonus comes due, don't ya?
Og: Well, sure.
Egbert: Surely, don't be a luddie-duddie, don't be a moon-calf, don't be a jabbernow, you're not those, are you?
On his first few minutes as a vigilant bank dick, Sousè is seriously conscious of his responsibilities, so much so that he chokes a young boy in a cowboy outfit waving a toy gun - believing that he is a holdup man. He asks: "Is that gun loaded?" "Certainly not," says the boy's mother, "but I think you are." As she walks her son out of the bank, the bratty boy ridicules the guard's shiny, bulbous red nose: "Mommy, doesn't that man have a funny nose?" His mother chides him for making fun:
You mustn't make fun of the gentleman, Clifford. You'd like to have a nose like that full of nickels, wouldn't you?
The exchange of money and shares is made at the bank at the appointed time. Just then, prissy, incorruptible, effeminate bank examiner J. Pinkerton Snoopington (Franklin Pangborn) unexpectedly arrives to check the bank ledgers. At the beginning of a long and elaborate charade, Sousè is able to get Snoopington out of the bank to protect Og. But there are four more days that Snoopington must be delayed in checking the books.
At Sousè's house, everyone is working on a crossword puzzle, looking for a six letter word that means embezzlement - prison. Og, upset over the transaction and the possibility that he will get caught, arrives to call off his engagement to Myrtle and to confess his illegal use of bank funds for an unwise investment with Egbert.
In a memorable sequence, Egbert walks with the Snoopington on the streets of Lompoc for a town tour. Egbert generously offers to persuade a store proprietor to weigh Snoopington for free. In their conversation, Sousè describes his own family (and his lecherous nature) in glowing terms:
I'm very fond of children. Girl children, around 18, 20. I have a young daughter, marriageable age, also small daughter. Nice wife, and a mother-in-law that loves me like her own son.
He leads the virtuous examiner, not quite by accident, into his favorite bar, intending to get Snoopington drunk with a "constitutional," but Snoopington insists he doesn't drink during business hours. Against his better judgment, the bank examiner agrees to enter, and asks to sit somewhere in the bar where they won't be seen. He requests that the window shade be pulled down. Sousè agrees: "You can pull anything you want to. It's a regular joint." He hints to Joe, the cafe's bartender:
Has, uh, Michael Finn been in here today?
Joe serves Snoopington a drink with a poisonous spike in it, making him feel deathly ill and nauseous. Sousè then takes the drugged bank examiner a six block walk to his hotel, the New Old Lompoc House on the Avenue, adding: "We pass the Spanish Americo Chili Parlor on the way up." On the way, he suggests the cause of Snoopington's illness:
Maybe you've eaten an oyster, and it must've had an oar in it.
As they enter the lobby of the hotel, Sousè asks that Snoopington pull himself together, because the hotel is a respectable place: "Equilibrium's the thing." After explaining it's a case of "ptomaine poisoning" to the manager, he succeeds in getting the tipsy Snoopington upstairs, but then is seen rushing down the stairs in a tizzy, sprinting out to the street. He leads a dazed and dusty Snoopington back into the lobby a second time. (Off screen, the examiner has fallen out the second-story window of the hotel.) He must explain that he is not leading a different drunk in but the same person: "A friend of mine caught him on the first bounce."
Sousè calls on Doctor Stall (Harlan Briggs) to come over and examine Snoopington. After safely bedding down the moaning examiner, Sousè suggests that maybe he needs something to eat - "breaded veal cutlet with tomato sauce, a chocolate eclair with whipped cream." Sousè exclaims: "Poor fellow hasn't had anything to eat," as Snoopington rushes to the bathroom to heave.
The quack doctor enters the room and tells his old pal that business isn't like the good old days:
I don't suppose we'll ever get another whooping cough epidemic again.
With a very cursory examination, he orders the sick patient to eat more solids, meats and sauces, more iron (liver and bacon), and vitamins (A, B, and C, skip the rest down to X and Y). The most important treatment is to remain in bed to rest for a few days with no exercise. He produces a large jar filled with awful-looking white pills (the size of ping pong balls): "Take two of these and a glass of castor oil for two nights running. Then you, uh, skip one night." Snoopington takes him literally: "But I thought you said I wasn't to take any exercise."
With the proper rest, the doctor assures that the patient can be released in three days. Sousè keeps trying to imply that four days are necessary - long enough for Oggilby's bonus to be paid so that the books will balance. The doctor adds that if complications set in, an extra day will be needed. As he leaves, Sousè promises to send up a radio to make him feel "gay": "Now leave everything to me. I'll do the worrying. Be happy and gay. I'll have the management send you up a radio." And as he leaves, he promises: "I thought I'll have the missus bake you a nice coconut custard pie...," sending Snoopington to the bathroom one more time to heave.
However, a dutiful, sick, pale-faced, but sober Snoopington obstinately reappears at the bank to examine the bank books for the audit the next morning. Snoopington is assigned to Sousè's care. Og faints when he first sees the auditor. Sousè attempts everything he can to waylay the audit. He crushes Snoopington's right hand in a letter press with a loud crunch. "Unfortunately, you must have had your hand in there. That'll interfere with your writing, won't it?" Sousè hopes. Snoopington one-ups Sousè, informing him: "Fortunately, I'm left-handed." Hearing that Snoopington can't see a thing without his glasses, Sousè deliberately steps on Snoopington's glasses and crushes them with his foot when they fall to the floor. But the bank examiner has a case full of replacement spectacles. The examiner begins to realize that the bank guard is not overly anxious for him to check the books.
In the meantime, Waterbury learns from a newspaper report that the Beefsteak Mine stock is a bonanza and worth a fortune, so he offers to purchase back the stock. Waterbury pretends he is sorry at having unwittingly cheated a trusting friend, and implores them to sell back their shares. Sousè and Og are eager to deal and cash in their stock.
As Snoopington is about to discover the missing funds, and they are about to sell their stock back to Waterbury in the deal, they learn that the stock is successful - their newfound fortune means that they don't have to worry any further about Snoopington. Egbert punches Waterbury through a bank window. Just then, however, the escaped bank robber from the first hold-up, Repulsive Rogan, robs the bank a second time. The robber fills his case with cash - and their Beefsteak Mine stock. Egbert is taken as hostage, used as a shield, and forced to drive a getaway car in a memorable zany, slapstick car chase, reminiscent of the silent Mack Sennett Keystone Kops films. Following in three other chase cars through the city and country are the local police, the bank president, and a representative from the movie company. It is a superbly-timed chase - the cars zoom and circle around, barely avoid crashing into each other or other obstacles in the path.
The getaway car careens through streets, over ditches (over the heads of ditchdiggers), around curves and up a mountainside, missing collisions at every turn with the pursuit vehicles. An unruffled Sousè gives non-chalant comments about the traffic and scenery. As the car starts to fall apart, he jokes: "The resale value of this car is going to be nil after you get over this trip." When asked by the thug in the back seat to give him the wheel, Egbert matter-of-factly pulls it off the steering column and gives it to him. When the rear tires start falling off, he calmly states:
That's what I thought - going to be very dangerous.
The robber is struck by the bough of a tree as he stands up and the car comes to rest at the edge of a steep precipice. Sousè mumbles: "Have to take the boat from here on anyway." The unconscious thief is apprehended, and Sousè is a hero once again for thwarting another heist - and offered a huge $5,000 reward by the police for capturing the thief. He also is presented with $10,000 by the film company for the brilliant, 'improvised' script that he had created earlier as director on the streets of Lompoc, in addition to a contract to bring the script to the screen. The bank's money and the Beefsteak Mine stock are also recovered. Sousè is given another "hearty handclasp" by the bank president.
In the last sequence where he displays his new-found wealth, Sousè is seen as the dignified master of the house in his expansive, newly-purchased mansion with butlers, while the tune There's No Place Like Home is again heard on the soundtrack. His unlovable family is seated around the dining table. His wife asks the butler if Mr. Sousè has had his favorite drink of the day - "Cafe Rum a la Papa." They now treat him like royalty - he is finally relieved of all financial worries and bothersome family members. He has become his 'alter ego,' the character he had always wanted to become. Dressed in a cutaway coat with spats, all family members (even his mother-in-law) give him a friendly kiss as he steps out - he catches himself when he blurts out that he is on his way to the saloon.
He incurs the displeasure of his butler (Joe North) when he dons his African safari sun helmet to wear with his morning suit, rather than a top hat. Walking happily out into the front driveway, he catches his top hat with his cane. His family acts as if they have reformed him. His mother-in-law compliments his wife:
Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch: What a changed man. You deserve a lot of credit, Agatha.
Agatha: It hasn't been easy.
Outside however, he is free to pursue the life he had always wanted - the carefree, simple life of booze and braggadocio. After he spots the scurrying bartender, he quickens his pace to the Black Pussy Cat Cafe for another drink.
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Kerala Blasters have effected a sensational turnaround in the third season of the Indian Super League (ISL). They looked lost after four matches, but have surprisingly and successfully broken the mega cities' hold at the top of the table. All of this with a negative goal difference, built on solidity at home.
The Blasters' success has been founded on their defence and they will face one of their sternest tests against Gianluca Zambrotta's Delhi Dynamos in the semi-final. They have conceded a mere four goals at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi this season and have been one of three teams to stop the free-flowing Dynamos. It will take a monumental effort to keep Delhi at bay in the semi-final. Delhi have never failed to score at home, and Kerala haven't scored too many away. But still, Steve Coppell's side are the one that you would bet on to take the Dynamos head on.
The key then for Kerala Blasters will be to take a lead and consolidate it in Kochi, and then hold on for dear life in Delhi. The situation they find themselves in is eerily similar to the one when they reached the playoffs, in the opening season in 2014. A victory would be no mean feat against a Delhi team comprising Marcelo, Richard Gadze and Kean Lewis, a trio whose combined total of 18 goals in the league stage is more than that of the entire Kerala side.
Kerala's main threat upfront are undoubtedly CK Vineeth and Kervens Belfort, who are predictably unpredictable and the only players in the side to have scored more than once this season.
The key for Kerala will also be how well their midfield pivots, Mehtab Hossain and Azarack Muhamat do to contain Delhi. They would look to play the spoiler in Delhi and force the issue in Kochi to gain passage into the final.
Kerala will take heart from their ability to fight back from tough situations, and be inspired by that fact that the final is at their fortress, but coach Coppell knows they will have to score and score first to have any impact in this battle. They are the team with momentum though, and if they can hold it for three more matches, the title will be theirs.
Vineeth quickly dismissed any talks of celebration after qualification for the playoffs. "No, no, we aren't going to celebrate. We rest and then prepare for the next game, and then next game and then final and then celebrate."
This is a toss up between Mehtab Hossain and Azrack Muhamat, and Sandesh Jhingan and Cedric Hengbart. Mehtab and Muhamat are the best of friends, and Jhingan and Hengbart love having the wind running through their hair, but they defend very well too.
There's always something special about a late goal, and so one coming from a returning hometown hero in the 98th minute of a 99-minute game takes some beating. But this one does beat it. Zico won't be pleased about this. Nor should he be. You won't realise how good Belfort's goal really is, till you set it to a thavil and watch it again. Sit back and have a look.
Boris Kadio for Michael 'Rocky' Chopra against Chennaiyin FC was probably the substitution that changed the season for Kerala. Chopra had been a regular prior to this game. Kadio's brilliance as a number 10 (only for that one game though) meant Coppell was finally willing to drop his compatriot and make way where there was one.
Duckens Nazon on Gourmangi Singh to score the opener against Pune City FC at Kochi. Gourmangi looked like he had it, and he probably would have a few years ago. Unfortunately he didn't, flapping at it with his legs, as the Haitian, calm as you like, passed it into the net.
Was it when Chopra scored his first-ever ISL goal against Mumbai City FC? Not really. Chopra had been steady in the beginning of the season, and had always looked like the player to break Kerala's duck. 'Rocky' bit came later in the season, but the most unreal moment was this. Not just because of its quality but also for its imagination. Seriously, how committed are Kerala fans!
Hengbart. The 36-year-old with a 15-year-old son, who has played all but 23 minutes of Kerala's league campaign. The veteran Frenchman has the most tackles for Kerala this season, the second most interceptions and has won more aerial duels than any other player in the league. He is also Kerala's third highest goalscorer with... One goal. Second coming anyone?
Don't you just love Kerala fans?


Self-employed midwives are based in the community and receive funding directly from the Ministry of Health. They tend to work in small groups and offer continuity of care. Self-employed midwives have access agreements so they are able to care for women at individual birthing units and hospitals.
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Born in 1976. He received his MBBS from International Islamic University Of Malaysia (IIUM) in 2003 and earned his Master in Medicine ( Nuclear Medicine) from University Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2014. He is trained in both diagnostic and therapeutic Nuclear Medicine. In diagnostic Nuclear medicine he is experienced in various modalities like Gamma Camera, and in hybrid imaging with SPECT/ CT as well as PET / CT focusing mainly in the area of Oncology.
In therapeutic Nuclear medicine, he is has vast experience in the treatment of Thyrotoxicosis and Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in both adult and children. He worked and trained in many Nuclear Medicine centers like National Cancer Institute (IKN), Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Sarawak General Hospital, and HUSM Kubang Kerian.
Internationally he has been trained under IAEA in Korea for PET/ CT imaging in the area of Oncology. Nationally he is involved in Nuclear Medicine Service Policy making committee for Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia.
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Bavius, tout comme son collègue Maevius, était un critique célèbre à l'époque d'Auguste, qui dépréciait et attaquait les talents de poètes supérieurs. En particulier, l'un comme l'autre attaquèrent le travail de Virgile et d'Horace. Virgile répondit à Maevius dans son Églogue :

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Virgile affirme avec ironie qu'un amateur de la poésie de Bavius doit l'être aussi de celle de Maevius et qu'admirer l'un et l'autre n'est pas moins impossible que d'atteler des renards et de traire des boucs…
Horace pour sa part parlera dans son Épode 10 du « olentem Mevium » (sous-entendu Maevius sent mauvais).

Bavius et Maevius sont également cités dans l'œuvre d'Alexander Pope La Dunciade.

(1). "Que celui qui ne hait point Bavius aime tes vers, ô Maevius! qu'il s'en aille atteler des renards et traire des boucs!" Virgile, Églogue III.

Bavius
Poète romain du Ier siècle
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'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Va., descends into anarchy on Aug. 12, 2017.
"Both sides eventually advanced on the other, and we were again caught in the crossfire. Several bottles hit us, and members of both sides began swinging wooden stakes and batons at each other all around us. Police remained still on the scene.
"Protesters then brought out a 'battering ram' made out of plywood and reinforced with a metal step ladder. Members of the protest charged at the white supremacists, knocking us down in the process. Enforcers managed to stop the device before it reached the actual shield line, but a new group of protesters tried to push the ram further. The force of both groups was enough to tear the metal ladder and break the device in two," the news site reported.
A video, posted on YouTube by an apparent attendee, shows the moment the "Unite the Right" demonstrators were pushed by police directly into a group of counter-protesters, who are then seen threatening the rally-goers with bats.
Whenever three or more persons assembled share the common intent to advance some lawful or unlawful purpose by the commission of an act or acts of unlawful force or violence likely to jeopardize seriously public safety, peace or order.
"Whenever the possibility [of declaring an unlawful assembly] arises, some attorney is going to have to research it. I'm sure that was happening this weekend in a couple places around Virginia. Specifically, the governor's office, the Attorney General's office, the county attorney for Albemarle, and the city attorney for Charlottesville," he said.
McAuliffe also erroneously claimed the "Unite the Right" attendees hid a weapons cache in the park before the rally.
"They had battering rams and we had picked up different weapons that they had stashed around the city," McAuliffe told Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson.
Virginia State Police spokesperson Corinne Geller later disputed the governor's claims.
McAuliffe has defended the police response.
WND reached out to the Virginia State Police for comment, who directed questions to the city of Charlottesville.
Can you please provide the evidentiary basis upon which the City of Charlottesville declared the legally permitted Emancipation Park rally to be an unlawful assembly in violation of Virginia statute, Va. Code §18.2-406?
Given that a federal judge had issued a preliminary injunction less than 24 hours earlier ordering the City of Charlottesville to reinstate the permit for the Emancipation Park rally, did the City of Charlottesville's legal counsel provide a legal opinion to the City Council, City Manager, or Mayor as to the additional evidentiary standard that might be required to declare an unlawful assembly? If so, could you provide that legal opinion?
Who, specifically, in the City of Charlottesville made the declaration that the Emancipation Park rally was an unlawful assembly?
At what time of day on August 12 did the Council for the City of Charlottesville issue its emergency ordinance stating"the Charlottesville Chief of Policy is hereby empowered to regulate, restrict or prohibit any assembly of persons, or the movement of persons or vehicles on any public street, sidewalk, right of way, park or other publicly-owned property?
By what legal authority was the emergency ordinance issued by the Council for the City of Charlottesville? Did the Council convene in person or telephonically?
Why did the Chief of Police not simultaneously declare the adjacent permitted demonstration as an unlawful assembly at the same time?
Breitbart claims to have received no response.
WND also contacted Dickler and McAuliffe's office but has not received a response.


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Donald Davis
Department: History
University: University of Texas at Austin
Not everyone raised in a strict Baptist minister's family takes Christian faith seriously in adult life'especially after 13 years of higher education and a university career. Why do I? Growing up in Southern California, the eldest of five children, I knew that our family was different than most of those we knew inside and outside the church. The rather exacting behavior patterns and practices and our priorities made us unique. Yet, I was aware of the close bonds that united our family and the high expectations that our parents placed before us'expectations, however, that no doubt contributed to a stammering speech problem. At times during these years I was embarrassed not to be able even to say my own name when asked. College life at UCLA was a liberating time for me and I found myself questioning many of the assumptions with which I was raised. Though no aggressive or insolent adolescent rebel, I reacted in my own way to the new ideas I was exploring. When a sophomore, I remember that I was seriously over committed'carrying 19 hours of classes, working part-time, playing in the football band, competing for an ROTC appointment, and serving in our church. I remember coming to the end of myself'the first of several times'and realizing that I could not go on and retain my sanity. I had no time for quiet reflection, no time for my friends, and no time for dealing with ultimate realities in my life. I recall crying out in desperation, giving up control, and being willing to take whatever God gave me with gratitude. The flood of relief that came over me is as clear to me today as it was more than 40 years ago. I was free! My continuing search for authentic answers to my many questions was supported by a small group of Christian students who were dealing with some of the same issues and encouraged me to study the evidence. A similar community at Berkeley'where in the early 1960s I pursued graduate studies in history and professional studies in library and information science'provided a context for further working through intellectual and religious questions that nagged at me. This was a time of great growth and maturation, as I was caught up in the turbulent decade that rocked an entire generation. As I left the University in the summer of 1964, I found myself again in difficult circumstances'my father's recent death, disruption of a brief marriage, resettlement in a new community, and beginning a new job as reference librarian at the state university in Fresno. Again, I was forced to go back to the foundations and ask some basic questions: Is God dead'or is there really One who cares? How could I know? What evidence is there? And how would I respond? During that summer I thought and pondered a great deal, read, prayed, and talked to numerous friends. Paul Tournier's insightful book Guilt and Grace, along with C. S. Lewis's candid A Grief Observed later, helped me to see that every human being, at some point experiences an undefined sense of unease, a gnawing void deep inside the soul, that even the best of the intellectual, physical, and (even) spiritual "good life" does not fill'that does not satisfy. One must be utterly honest with oneself, admit defeat and failure to God, and allow God's grace to heal the wounded spirit. I recognized in this insight a truth with biblical roots'that in ourselves we cannot exist in self-sufficient independence. God alone can satisfy one's thirst for the transcendent dimension, lasting peace, reconciliation, and wholeness. I came to see more clearly that Jesus of Nazareth (who he is and what he has done) makes this possible, through his life, death and resurrection. Responding as honestly as I could, I began to experience God's healing and found spiritual meaning and purpose unimagined before. This process of reflection and renewal, often in relationship to a small group of seekers, would become a lifelong pattern. Undertaking doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the late 1960s, I met Avis'the reflective woman who would be my wife, companion, and mother of our three grown children. I then accepted a teaching position at the University of Texas at Austin, where in 2005 I retired after 34 rewarding years as professor in the School of Information, and more recently, the Department of History. We live in a modest house about six blocks north of the campus, and worship in a supportive congregation'Covenant Presbyterian Church. Although the journey of faith has not been one of uninterrupted progress, my relationship with God, known in Jesus Christ and empowered by his Spirit, has provided the foundation for continual searching and growth'a life marked by grappling with various questions that plague the human species but that are still worth pursuing in the search for sense. Sure, I still stammer on occasion and falter at some of the worst times; but I have come to enjoy personal relationships and the teaching, research, and service all of which define the academic community'giving papers around the world, editing a scholarly journal, and authoring or editing a dozen books. I have learned that we are not so much responsible for the situations in which we find ourselves, as for how we respond to them. My experience of God's care in my life has helped me to see that I am never really alone and that no circumstance is hopeless, and indeed can be a means of grace when I depend wholly on God. Jesus Christ'who is he and so what?'that is the issue. There is surely enough evidence for the one who is open to it to respond with heart and mind. If Socrates was right when he said that the unexamined life is not worth living, the words of Jesus speak even more directly'"Those who lose their life for my sake will find it." Like countless others throughout history, I have found this to be true. [link=www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/person_details.php?PersonID=21] >>My U.T. site [/link]
"The whole world has divided into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." G.K. Chesterton. "Gratia Dei sum quod sum." (By the grace of God I am what I am.") 1 Cor. 15
Friends describe me
encouraging, fuzzy, creative, steady, provocative
braking for historical monuments, hymnology, travel, hiking
Fantasy dinner guests
John Calvin, Stonewall Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Best advice I ever received
It's better to love the girl you marry, than to marry the girl you love.
My undergrad alma mater
UCLA (University of Calfornia, Los Angeles)
My worst subject in school
physical psychology, physics
In college I drove
1964 Plymouth four-door sedan
If I weren't a professor, I would
be an impressario, a salesman, a private secretary to a great person
Guilt and Grace by Paul Tournier; A Grief Observed by C.S.Lewis
A Man for All Seasons; Saving Private Ryan; Lawrence of Arabia
Favorite city
Malvern, Worcestershire, England
French Dark Roast
Nobody knows I
I had a private conversation with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. I was in Moscow during the 1991 attempted coup. I've gone around the world twice--once each way.
My latest accomplishment
helped raise money for a two million dollar endowed chair in the history of archives, books, and libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


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Kamloops man sentenced to life for murder ineligible for parole for 12 years - InfoNews
Kamloops man sentenced to life for murder ineligible for parole for 12 years
FILE PHOTO - Kamloops RCMP were called to the 9000 block of Dallas Drive Feb. 11, 2017, in response to a disturbance.
(KIM ANDERSON / iNFOnews.ca)
KAMLOOPS - A 59-year-old Kamloops man convicted of second-degree murder after stabbing and beating his former friend to death at a Kamloops RV Park was sentenced to life in prison and today he learned when he will be eligible to seek parole.
Kamloops Supreme Court Justice Len Marchand set Stephen George Fraser's parole eligibility at 12 years today, May 17.
On Feb. 11, 2017, Fraser, 59, was arrested and charged for an altercation that left his former colleague and friend, 26-year-old Cody Foster dead in his own camper trailer.
During Fraser's trial last winter, a 12-member jury learned the two men had met 14 months before the incident occurred. The two worked together at Adwood Manufacturing in Kamloops and spent time socializing together outside of work.
On the afternoon of the killing, the two men were drinking together in Foster's camper when an altercation ensued. Fraser told the jury Foster threatened to kill him and Fraser was simply trying to defend himself.
Crown prosecutors Alex Janse and Camille Cook brought forward pathologist Dr. James Stephen who performed the autopsy on Foster's body to testify as an expert witness. According to Stephen's report, Foster suffered from 17 stab wounds from a sharp-edged instrument and 11 lacerations caused by blunt force trauma. The knife used to kill Forster was broken into six pieces, some of which were still protruding from Foster's neck during the autopsy.
A jury convicted Fraser of second-degree murder on Dec. 13, 2018.
Crown prosecutors and defence lawyers met earlier this week to enter submissions for Fraser's parole ineligibility. Prosecutors asked for 14 to 15 years of parole ineligibility while defence lawyers sought 10 to 12 years.
Fraser's period of parole ineligibility began on Feb. 11, 2017, so it will be ten years before he can apply for parole.
For past stories on Stephen George Fraser go here.
To contact a reporter for this story, email Karen Edwards or call (250) 819-3723 or email the editor. You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom and be entered to win a monthly prize draw.
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