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Why a Black History Month?
February 2, 2019 in Blog
I'm having a hard time finding information on African Americans in vaccine research. I keep finding compilations of stories about African Americans in medical history, in computing history, and other history… But I've only found two historical vaccination figures so far. Surely, more African Americans than that were involved in the history of vaccination.
XHGC in Mexico City
When I was a kid, I loved seeing my dad fix all sorts of machines and engines. His brothers were also into fixing things. One of them fixed televisions, and the other would fix radios and other electronics. They had all learned how to do this from books and manuals that my grandfather bought for them. They had very little formal training, but they could bring back to life the most complex of things.
I remember imitating dad as he fixed something. I'd hold a screwdriver or a wrench up to an old engine part and pretend to make it run again. In that sense, dad was my role model.
One day, as I watched television, a commercial came on explaining how the television station got its call signal of "XHGC." The "GC" stood for Gonzales Camarena, as in Guillermo Gonzales Camarena. He was a pioneer in television transmission and engineering, particularly color television. I was so excited to see that commercial that I made it a point to read up more on him when school started. I'd then go on to write several essays about him throughout the rest of my schooling.
Cue The Cynics
The cynics will ask when "White History Month" will ever be celebrated or acknowledge, but you and I know that every month is White History Month in the United States. Every historical moment in this nation's history is filled with White men and women doing amazing and heroic things. George Washington led an army against a formidable opponent. Abraham Lincoln kept the nation together and freed the slaves. Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation in standing up to the Nazis.
A white, American child has a lot of people to look up to, to identify with. Yet history has relegated to the footnotes section a lot of the accomplishments of Black and Hispanic men and women. When I was in the United States, I didn't see a lot of people with my background achieving great things. Instead, the people with a background similar to mine were service workers. In popular culture and the media, Mexican Americans were portrayed as caricatures.
Like, literal caricatures.
Touchy, Touchy
Of course, the issue of race is very touchy, and this blog post doesn't do it justice. In a perfect world, Black History Month would not be needed because there would be plenty of examples of Black men and women to go around and show young children of color that there are people like them, with a similar background and upbringing, who achieved great things. We shouldn't need to concentrate all of those achievements in one month and then kind of forget for the other eleven months… Or only mention them in passing.
But then we get into these silly arguments that wanting to share the focus between people in the minority is somehow being "racist" to those in the majority. Or those in the minority begin attacking those in the majority as having perverted history for some nefarious reason. And so on and so forth.
So Do Something About It
If you don't like that there is a Black History Month, then work hard to make it so that it no longer necessary by making history more inclusive and telling us about Loney Clinton Gordon along with the story of how Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering developed the vaccine against whooping cough. Or tell us about the life and times of Rebecca Lee Crumpler when talking to kids about a career in medicine. Start there… Then check in and I can give you other ideas.
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Thank you. The problem is that the color of one's skin often determined your rights, things that needed constitutional amendments to rectify. Radiolab recently did a musical journey through all of the 27 amendments. It is very entertaining and educational, especially the civil rights ones: https://project.wnyc.org/themostperfectalbum/
Even one of the pioneers of surgery at Johns Hopkins was denied recognition and paid as a janitor for many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Thomas#Career
I remember that when I left high school to enter college, there were schools that was not allowed to apply to because I lacked that all important fractured Y-chromosome. Even though the Boy Scouts allowed women in as Explorer Scouts, we were specifically told when our post was invited to their annual jamboree, the female members were not welcome.
During this very short month, we need to remember these words from Martin Luther King, jr: "It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."
By the way, I am well aware of the privilege I have over many. I am presently reading The Chagres: River of Westward Passage by John Easter Minter, a history of Panama published in 1948. The language is horrifying. The escaped African slaves are referred to as "savages." It is definitely a bit of a scary time travel. Unfortunately there are those who are still stuck in that time warp (most recent "Be Reasonable" where Michael Marsh interviewed Jared Taylor, who is very annoying).


An overcomplicated plot makes this film fascinating but difficult to engage with. It's strikingly well-made, and the script is very smart, but by trying to include such a knotted web of story angles, there's no central element that connects on an emotional level. But it's a suspenseful journey.
In 1953 Moscow, Leo (Hardy) is a war hero in the military police, hunting down spies. When they discover the tortured body of an 8-year-old boy, son of Leo's best pal (Fares), Leo has to be forcefully reminded by his boss (Cassel) that Soviet society is such a paradise that murder can't happen here. After refusing to back down, Leo and his wife Raisa (Rapace) are relocated to the industrial hellhole Volsk, where they discover more boys' bodies. Leo gets his new boss (Oldman) to help investigate, but his old rival Vasili (Kinnaman) declares war.
Of all of the plot strands, this last one feels like the most unnecessary, as Vasili ruthlessly torments Leo and Raisa in ways that stretch credibility, especially in the final act. Meanwhile there are far more interesting things going on both in the grisly investigation and in Leo and Raisa's complex relationship. With high production values, the filmmakers give everything equal weight, making the film feel like it's trying to be a big Russian epic and leaving us unsure where to look, especially in the brutal and messy shaky-cam action sequences.
Matching director Espinosa's relentless intensity, Hardy delivers a riveting performance that overflows with both intelligence and emotion. Transparently revealing where Leo's true intentions lie in each moral dilemma, his interaction is complex and often moving. Rapace gives one of her best performances as the conflicted Raisa, while Oldman shines in a smaller role that's strangely sidelined as things progress.
But then, all of the plot strands suffer as the film rumbles past the two-hour mark. By far the most engaging aspect is the personal journey of Leo and Raisa, which is packed with wrinkles and surprises and yet ends on an oddly predictable note. This leaves the movie's mystery and thriller narratives to battle it out for attention, and both lose as a result, mainly due to the imposition of an overarching villain beyond Considine's unhinged serial killer. So while it's set at a fascinating point in Soviet history, with various gripping storylines, the movie as a whole feels interesting but uninvolving.


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YAM Notes: May/June 2014
By Marty Snapp
The stage was crowded at the Academy Awards on March 2 after the Best Picture Oscar was awarded to12 Years a Slave. But one of the most important people behind the movie was 3,000 miles away. It was Joe Cohen, the financier who put up the money to get it made.
"I'm a member of the academy, but there are 6,000 members of the academy, so to get tickets you have to go through a lottery," he says. "The last three years I got tickets, but this year I didn't win the lottery. So I decided to spend the night in Miami Beach with my girlfriend, cheering at an Oscar party at the Aquilina Hotel. Everyone was blasé about the whole thing except us."
But as the night wore on, he began to get nervous.
"Gravity was picking up most of the awards, and my heart started sinking. I thought there might be a real groundswell building. But when Lupita Nyong'o—who is a Yale Drama School grad by the way—won Best Supporting Actress, my hopes started to pick up. And then when John Ridley won Best Adapted Screenplay, I began to think we really might have a chance."
Then Will Smith opened the Best Picture envelope and said, "And the Oscar goes to 12 Years a Slave!" And Joe and his girlfriend jumped up and screamed. "I kissed her, and she said, 'Ooh la la!' because she's French. All those blasé Miami Beachers were looking at me like, 'Who is this guy?' I think they thought I had a lot of money riding on it in Vegas."
By the time they got back to their room there were more than two dozen congratulatory e-mails waiting for them, including messages from Dick Pechter, Randy Alfred, both Belle and Peter Petkas, and me.
In Randy's words, "Joe is that Hollywood rarity—a financier with style and taste." He runs what he calls a "boutique media investment bank that specializes in incubating and advising independent film and television production and distribution companies." Among the films he has bankrolled: Brokeback Mountain, Into The Wild, and The Blind Side.
Thanks to Joe and a few others like him, Hollywood is still making movies for grownups in addition to slam-bang, computer-generated action films aimed at 14-year-olds.
His next movie is going to be a biopic about Brian Wilson, the tortured genius who created the Beach Boys sound. "There's a Yale connection there, too," he says. "Brian suffered from schizophrenia and depression, and he was controlled by a Svengali-type shrink who will be played by Paul Giamatti '89."
But Joe has no plans to produce movies himself. "I'd rather be a consigliere," he says. "I like having my finger in 20 pies instead of just one."
On a much sadder note, it's my sad duty to report the deaths of two classmates whom we—and the world—can ill afford to lose: Rick Whitaker and Richard Urowsky.
There isn't enough space to write about both of them in this column, so I'll write about Rick Whitaker next time. Richard Urowsky died on January 14 after a long battle with cancer. After Yale College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Yale Law School (editor of the Law Journal), he studied political science at Oxford and clerked for Supreme Court justice Stanley Reed before beginning private practice at Sullivan & Cromwell, where he spent his entire career.
"Whether the case was large or small, Richard always brought his incisive approach to legal issues to bear," the firm said. "Richard was perhaps best known for leading the defense of Microsoft in several antitrust cases brought against the company during the 1990s by the US government. His command of the enormous factual record developed during a six-month trial and his mastery of a wide range of complex legal subjects during a multi-day oral argument before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in February 2001 was a sight to behold. He was a brilliant lawyer, one who combined a rigorous analytical mind with a sparkling wit.
"Richard was also a wonderful teacher who was very generous with his time in mentoring younger lawyers. We all learned a lot from him. We were lucky to have had Richard as a friend and colleague for the last 40 years. He was, as one loyal client said upon hearing of his death, 'a force of nature and a very good human being.' He made us proud of his many accomplishments, but he also made us laugh. We will miss his great intelligence and his subversive sense of humor in equal measure."
Richard was a loyal son of Yale who endowed the Jacob Urowsky Professorship of Philosophy in memory of his father; the Anne Urowsky Visiting Professorship for visiting non-tenured faculty members; and the Richard Urowsky Scholarship Fund for students attending Yale College.
The Class of '67 was represented at his memorial service by Richard Wind, Rick Taft, Barry Vasios, Bill Kroener, and Dave Richards. "It was a nice event," Dave reports. "Speakers included not only his partners who worked with him on the Microsoft antitrust case, which was a notable victory for any litigator, but also Microsoft's general counsel Bill Neukom and Yale Law dean Harold Koh, who spoke of Richard's gift there of an endowed professorship in honor of his mother and also read a letter from Hillary Clinton about Richard (whose year of study at Oxford, in the middle of his law school attendance, moved him into the classes shared with the two Clintons, '72 and '73). I used to see Richard at the Yale Club on Friday afternoons with his martini. The bar at the buffet lunch after the memorial service offered the Urowsky Martini as a choice."
And in case you'd like to try it for yourself, here's the recipe for the Urowsky Martini: Tanqueray, very dry, up, with a twist.
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Rotherham United boss Paul Warne says there are no fresh injury concerns ahead of this weekend's hosting of Wigan Athletic in Sky Bet League One, despite a bout of illness affecting a number of his players this week.
There was a welcome return to action for club captain Lee Frecklington, who came on as a second half substitute against Shrewsbury Town, but Warne explains that three of his players have had their preparations for the weekend stalled by illness ahead of the clash with the Latics.
"I don't think I've got any fresh injuries. I've got a couple who are struggling and there's been a little bit of illness in camp," he told www.themillers.co.uk.
"I've had Richie Towell, Newelly and Jono off this week through a similar illness, so I'm hoping we'll get through training today and nobody will break down.
"The lads are looking quite good and we'll go into a meeting today about how Wigan are going to play.
Millers skipper Frecklington has suffered no ill-effects following his appearance as a second half substitute last weekend, which marked his return to action after sustaining injury at Rochdale in early October and he has impressed his boss by the way he has managed his work load this season.
"He came through really well. We're trying to monitor his training load all the time as best we can to try and get the best out of him," Warne continued.
"It's great to have him back and it's more competition in the middle of the pitch.
"I think this year it's been really easy and he's been excellent. In previous seasons I've always tried to monitor him.
Meanwhile, Warne will once again be without livewire winger Jon Taylor, who will miss out on Saturday's game with a knee injury but left back Ben Purrington is nearing a return.
"He won't be available for this weekend and I'm not sure he's going to be available for next weekend. He's damaged his knee so it will probably be after the Bristol Rovers game," he continued.
"His energy and drive for the team has been unmatchable and we do miss that, but we've got plenty of options out there.


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ABS-CBN's Newest P-Pop Boy Group BGYO is set to debut with "The Light" on January 29
BGYO has announced a FanCon packed with a group performance that include fan interactions. Join the boys as they relive their training journey and watch the exclusive music video behind-the-scenes of "The Light" before the new song premieres.
Expect more surprise releases soon! But for now, you can pre-save BGYO's debut track HERE.
Following up to their debut, BGYO has been trending on Twitter peaking at #2.
BGYO (B-G-Y-O) is a 5 member P-Pop group ranging from ages 17-19 years old who have displayed immense passion, dedication and resilience, and underwent continuous and rigorous training by Korean coaches. Their pre-debut performances in ASAP Natin 'To and It's Showtime was well-received and captivated the audience. Their debut single "The Light" speaks about empowerment, hope, and self-love. Fueled by their passion and dedication for excellence, BGYO, together with Korean partners MU Doctor, aimed to create music that not only captivates the senses, but sparks meaningful messaging that is relevant to youth today.
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For our Coldwater Edits Volume V, we bring you "Weird Waves Season 1: Great Lakes". This short film follows Puerto Rican ripper Dylan Graves as he journeys from his warm water paradise to the cold, snowy plains of Racine, Wisconsin to find waves that are far removed from 99.9% of people's travel list. Dylan meets up with his host and guide, Burton Hathaway, who seems to be the most stoked dude in the universe, as they chase waves around Lake Superior during the storm of the century! Not only did they score some pretty sick waves, we loved seeing the absolute and genuine stoke of the small surf community in this unlikely area, and it gave us a new perspective on what it means to be thankful and happy with what you've got in your backyard! Who knows, maybe team Moment will someday reach out to Burton and venture to the middle of the country on a surf trip. For now, you can watch Dylan Graves and company do so, enjoy!


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Why Baseball Is, And Always Will Be, America's Pastime
By mwinkler
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The ability to celebrate July 4th once again is one not many Americans will probably ever take for granted again. The traditions of gathering for backyard barbeques, yard games, and fireworks will certainly be picked up across the nation once again. But one tradition will stand out amongst them all: Baseball on the 4th of July.
Since the game's creation, baseball and America have been synonymous with each other, so it is only fitting that a full slate of professional games, along with some friendly competition between family and friends, be played when the nation celebrates its birth and independence. Baseball has followed the history of the country. And while both the game and the country have undergone massive changes over time, there are some constants that ensure baseball will always be America's Pastime.
No game is obsessed with its own history quite like baseball. Names like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, and Ted Williams are brought up so frequently you would not be faulted for thinking these greats were still alive. As Ken Burns wrote for his brilliant documentary, Baseball, "It is a haunted game, in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all that have gone before."
But this obsession with history is what makes the game timeless. It is what makes it so that grandparents and grandchildren can bridge the gap between generations and connect on the common ground of baseball, and that is priceless.
Player & Fan Interaction
Fans are a major part of any sport, but no sport allows for as much player-fan interaction like baseball. Name another sport where a fan can potentially decide the outcome of a play or a game.
There's also nothing quite like watching a player fling his batting gloves into the crowd after a big home run or the end of a ballgame. And it's always a great site when a big leaguer takes some time before a game or even between innings to play catch with a lucky young fan.
Ballpark Hot Dogs
It doesn't get any better than taking in a game in your favorite ballpark while enjoying a hot dog. While there is certainly other ballpark fare available, there is something quintessentially American about a hot dog, and enjoying one at the ballgame just takes it to a whole new level. Baseball and hot dogs have seemingly always been intertwined. In fact, baseball fans will consume, on average, 20 million hot dogs per season. That's nearly 1,900 miles worth of hot dogs.
The Home Run
The home run is not just the most exciting play in baseball, it's the most exciting play in sports. There is no argument. Scoring a touchdown requires some build-up to the event. But a home run can happen at any time and can turn a deficit into a lead in an instant. It's lightning in a bottle each time and has led to some of the most memorable moments in American sports.
The Romance
Football is hard-hitting. Hockey is blindingly fast. And basketball is rhythmic. But no other sport is quite as romantic as baseball.
There is just nothing quite like that feeling when you arrive at the ballpark and hearing the sound of the ball hitting bat for the first time. The joy you feel when your team or your favorite players succeeds in their next at bat after striking out in the previous one.
There is just something magical about this game that no other sport can replicate. How can you not be romantic about baseball?
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The full integration of manned and unmanned aircraft over the national airspace has been a key issue for both industry and regulators alike since the introduction of Part 107 two years ago. Enabling this kind of integration is considered the logical next step in UAV legislation since commercial drone operators recognize the need for a comprehensive and complete amalgamation of rules and regulations for both drones and traditional aircraft. That's part of the reason the FAA feels the pressure and is working hard to advance legislation that would allow such integration to take place in a safe manner.
Now though, Congress has finally entered the conversation with an important amendment. It's a critical development since it is directed specifically at the integration of manned and unmanned vehicles and not merely centered on the vague "advancement" of drone technology.
On Jul 31st, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) introduced a bipartisan amendment sponsored by Sens. John Hoeven (R-ND) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) to the FY19 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) portion of the 'minibus II' spending package that would provide $6 million towards unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research to safely integrate them into the national airspace. Currently, the FY19 T-HUD base bill makes $3 million available as matching funds for companies that partner with the UAS test sites working towards integrating UAS into the national airspace. Senator Warner's amendment would boost UAS research funding levels to $6 million.
Senator Warner has been a strong supporter of research and investment in unmanned systems, including driverless cars, drones, and unmanned underwater vehicles. He has introduced bipartisan legislation designed to advance the development of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and build on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) efforts to safely integrate them into the National Airspace System. Virginia is also home to one of seven FAA-approved sites across the country where researchers are testing the safest and most effective ways to incorporate UAS into the existing airspace. In May 2018, the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) announced the selection of Virginia to participate in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP).
Warner's amendment co-sponsor, Senator John Hoeven from North Dakota, is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (THUD) and has been an ardent advocate of UAV technology in his state.
"This legislation supports vital infrastructure improvements across our state, including for road, rail and airports, while also helping to advance the integration of UAS into our national airspace, a pivotal step in growing this industry," said Hoeven.
$14 million for the FAA's UAS Center of Excellence co-led by the University of North Dakota.
$6 million available as matching funds for companies that work with the UAS test sites to demonstrate or validate technologies essential to integrating UAS into the national airspace.
Language requiring the FAA to develop plans for a full-scale unmanned traffic management system in coordination with research conducted under the UAS Integrated Pilot Program (IPP).
Senator Cortez Masto advocated for the inclusion of this funding in the original T-HUD bill. This concept was previewed in June 2017, when Cortez Masto introduced the Safe DRONE Act, bipartisan legislation to advance the development of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and build on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) efforts to safely integrate them into the National Airspace System.
With the constant pressure from the drone industry to expand operations beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), the FAA needs to continue finding ways to advance the safe incorporation of UAV's into controlled airspace. With Congress (finally) providing the funding required to expedite it, the drone industry finally has firm ground to stand on in order to take this critical next step.


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Home English News UN soldier killed in 'complex' Mali attack
UN soldier killed in 'complex' Mali attack
Three deaths reported in Kidal, including a UN soldier, a day after blast in Bamako nightclub killed five people
Three people including a U.N. soldier were killed and 14 wounded in a rocket attack on a U.N. base, the United Nations mission in Mali said.
More than 30 rockets and shells hit the U.N. base in Kidal early Sunday morning, killing a U.N. soldier and two civilian children, said Olivier Salgado, the spokesman for the U.N. mission in Mali. An additional 14 people were wounded.
At least one of the rockets fell on a Tuareg camp, Radhia Achouri, a U.N. spokesperson, told Al Jazeera from the capital Bamako.
"It was a terrorist attack of a very complex nature, in the sense that they used mortars and shells from different locations; from the north and the south of the base," she said.
"They launched at least 30 mortars at the camp and some of them landed inside the camp, which explains the casualty among our men and the civilians as well."
The attack came a day after a masked gunman sprayed bullets into a restaurant and bar in Mali's capital, Bamako, killing five people, including a Frenchman and a Belgian.
A group formed by Algerian Moktar Belmoktar claimed responsibility for the rare burst of violence in the Malian capital. Belmoktar said it was a reprisal attack "against the heathen West which has offended our prophet" and in revenge for the killing of a leader of the Al Mourabitoun group in a French-Malian military operation.
The claim of responsibility by Al Mourabitoun, or The Sentinels, was carried on the Mauritanian news website Al-Akhbar which often receives messages from Malian fighters. Al Mourabitoun is a northern Mali group allied with Al-Qaeda.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack Sunday on Kidal, but the group Ansar Dine claimed a similar attack against U.N. peacekeepers in Kidal in September 2014. Kidal is located some 930 miles northeast of Bamako which has been spared the sporadic violence in the north.
The members of the U.N. Security Council on Sunday issued a statement condemning the attack "in the strongest terms" and urged the government in Mali to swiftly investigate it and bring the perpetrators to justice.
They pointed out that attacks targeting peacekeepers "may constitute war crimes under international law."
Saturday's bloody attack at La Terrasse, a restaurant and bar that is popular with foreigners, stunned Malians. In addition to those killed, nine people were wounded including two experts for the U.N. mission, according to the U.N. stabilization mission in Mali. The two are Swiss soldiers and were flown to Senegal for treatment, said the Swiss Defense Ministry.
Armed fighters seized control of northern Mali in 2012 with the aim of imposing Sharia law in the country.
French forces led a military operation in early 2013 that largely killed or scattered the fighters from the vast area they had controlled in northeastern Mali, and a stabilization mission continues amid sporadic attacks. Among those who survived the French operation was Belmoktar, the Algerian who at one point was the southern chief of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, roaming the Sahel region before he broke with the affiliate.
The claim of responsibility said the Bamako attack was also a response to the December killing of Ahmed el Tilemsi, a founding member of the militant Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa that fused with forces loyal to Belmoktar to form Mourabitoune.
Belmoktar, widely thought to have taken refuge in Libya, has a reputation as the most dangerous man in the Sahara. His loyalists led a brazen attack on a natural gas facility at Ain Amenas, Algeria, in January 2013, shortly after the French intervened in Mali. The attack killed scores of foreign and Algerian employees.
Al Jazeera and The Associated Press
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Is DubScript 100% compatible with FDX files?
It works well enough for me, more or less. Even dual dialog seems to work, but I can't guarantee the same results for you.
It only formats film-formatted FDX screenplays. I think Final Draft may do play and TV formatting too (?). If this is the case, it probably won't work with those.


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Maryland and Eastern United States
Images from my home state of Maryland and other areas of the Eastern United States and Canada.
Moon Over Lincoln
Chapel in Washington National Cathedral
Washington, DC - February 4, 2016: Interior of chapel in Washington National Cathedral. The cathedral is on the National Historic Places Register.
Interior of Washington National Cathedral, facing rear.
Washington, DC - February 4, 2016: Interior view, facing rear, of Washington National Cathedral nave with no chairs. The cathedral is on the National Historic Places Register.
Interior of Washington National Cathedral
Washington, DC - February 4, 2016: Interior view of Washington National Cathedral nave with no chairs. The cathedral is on the National Historic Places Register.
Cherry Blossom Sunrise
The iconic cherry trees in full bloom with the Washington Monument in the background. Each year the thousands of tourists flock to the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park to welcome Spring and enjoy the magnificent cherry blossoms.
Cherry Blossoms and Fog
The pink blossoms of a Yoshino Cherry tree stand out against a blanket of fog over the Washington, DC Tidal Basin. The annual blooming of these famous trees draws thousands of visitors from around the world.
Trees with colorful autumn foliage give shade to a neighborhood playground.
A canopy of blooming trees and pink flower petals wraps around and carpets a long pathway during the Springtime.
Crescendo of Light
This was a sunset that just kept on giving. It started with muted colors that gradually intensified and spread until the whole sky was ablaze and reflecting in the calm water of the partially frozen lake.
Country Sunrise
Colorful clouds fill the sky as the sun rise to begin a crisp autumn day in the Maryland countryside,
WInter Brilliance
Colorful clouds dance across the sky and reflect on the calm water as one of winter's last days makes a spectacular exit.
Sunburst Reflection
Autumn on the Lake
A couple of paddlers glide across the tranquil water of a lake in front of brilliant fall foliage.
Winter C&O Canal Scene
The C&O Canal operated for almost a century as a major transportation route serving communities along the Potomac River. Now it is preserved as a recreatonal and historical resource for walking and bicycling.
Full Moon Rising Over Bridge
The October full moon, sometimes called a Hunter's Moon, rises above the Potomac River and a bridge connecting Maryland and Virginia.
Comet PanSTARRS
Afternoon on the Promendae
Streetlamps glow and reflect in water of the canal at the Carroll Creek Promenade in Frederick, Maryland.
The General Jubal A. Early transports cars and drivers across the Potomac River from Maryland to Virginia at White's Ferry.


Howling Moon Classic Trailer tent for jurgens Xt Trailer. Ladder/Ropes and Tent pens included. Mattress still sealed in bag, as from factory. Used only 4 times. Tent 1 year old.
Campmor Safari Senior Bush Combo 2 Canvas 4-person Dome tent with large extension and verandah. Excellent condition, only used once.
Howling moon Sierra Canvas tent 8 sleeper with extra sides to cover front awning. In very good condition only used a handful of times. Also comes with 3 Tentco large stretchers with fordable mattress.
Green canvas army tent 6 x 6 meter. Complete in good condition.


Bundling, as it relates to web applications, is the packaging together of resources needed to serve a website. It's sometimes often referenced as compiling a site, although this definition is not entirely suitable.
Bundling is somewhat of a strange requirement in web projects. In theory, you don't need to compile, transpile, convert, or optimize anything to create a website. After all, the way the web was designed, the final production files are supposed to be one and the same as your source files. Sites used to be proudly Made with Notepad, after all.
But that theory does not match the reality of modern web development. Given all we can do inside a browser, web projects are more complex now than ever. This means serving unchanged source files is a disservice to your visitors. It is often better not just to bundle files together, but to pre-process them to perform certain optimizations that would be cumbersome or time-wasting if done during the development process. Adding support for older browsers, compressing assets, concatenating files together, dropping unused code, making sure your code confirms to more strict analysis, and many more: these are all steps better taken by a computer, rather than developers themselves.
Hence why every serious web project needs a bundling process where the original, human-editable source files (and assets) are transformed into bundle of files that browsers and slow internet connections can more easily digest.
Bundling is nothing new. However, I think we're at a point where our understanding of what makes good web bundling is changing somewhat.
This is something that took a while for me to understand. What prompted that understanding was analyzing a pretty advanced Webpack configuration created by another team at work. I got a lot of ideas from there, and decided to replace my use of Gulp in a personal project with a full-fledged Webpack workflow.
Ironically, I was coming out of Gulp – a tool I still love – back to a monstrous config file, Grunt-style. But I wanted to see what it was about.
The magic of Webpack is not that it is a better task runner. Heck, you can't use it for arbitrary tasks. Instead, it does one task – bundling – very well. It does so by taking a more higher level approach at what constitutes a web application. Suddenly, you're not treating your code, styles, and other resources as separate entities; they are part of the same magical, mysterious soup that gets mixed together to produce a well-balanced website.
Consider these examples. I used to write CSS files using Less. Less supports (via Gulp) a good number of plugins for minification, auto-prefixing, and any number of tasks as you might need to run on your CSS. But it is still seen as a separate entity from the image files it uses, or the HTML files it is used in. I had to write url references that matched the final structure of my website, and I had to include the style files in my HTML by using the filename I knew were going to be the location of my final compiled files. Then, of course, I needed a separate task to just copy the referenced image files to the correct destination.
In Webpack, everything is a module, so my CSS simply references files using their existing (local) path name. When bundling, Webpack will automatically identify those as needed resources, process them the way I want them to be processed, move them to their final destination, and change the file path references as needed. It's a more holistic way of looking at it.
In that context, certain features that are confusing or cumbersome to implement somewhere else – say, embedding images as Base64 resources in your style sheet if they below of a certain size – come for free.
The same happens, of course, when dealing with your code. Suddenly, having your code import CSS styles is trivial, since they're all part of the same thing. Images can also be inlined where used, if you wish.
HTML output is also simpler. Since your bundle is aware of where all files are, writing tags to your HTML that make reference to the correct files is just automatic.
In essence, much of the guesswork of file referencing is taken out of the developer's work, and handled by the bundler. A file is missing? Webpack will give you an error message. A file is not referenced and as such not needed? It will not be included in the bundle.
These are just examples that come to my mind of the advantages of Webpack's more harmonious approach to website development. Still, many more exist. It's not that these are not possible somewhere else; it's that they're a core part of what makes Webpack. And this is reflected in many of its features, including its incredible development-time watcher/server.
In my own personal project tests, the results couldn't be better, both as my development workflow goes, and in the final result. The final files are as tightly packed as can be: small images are embedded in code, stylesheets, or HTML; all optimizations (including image optimizations) are done at bundling time; both CSS auto-prefixing and code auto-polyfilling (based on target supported browsers) is performed automatically; and project structure is as high level as it can be.
Thanks for the tips, I'll try on my projects.


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Listing courtesy of Yoshida Realty Group.


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Mitchell Gauvin's fiction, non-fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of publications including NEST by Gutterbird, The Sudbury Star, The Varsity, Feathertale and CanCulture Magazine. He lives and works in Sudbury, Ontario and Vandal Confession is his first novel.
Mitchell can be reached directly at mitchellgauvin@gmail.com.


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Uncomfortable Confessions
It's night time. And inside the quaint little abode, the rooms of painting supplies and such have been closed off from the rest of the home as it, slowly, becomes furnished. With the living room all set, the leather couch and television has been carted in…which means that Ivan has set up his old video-game consol. This is what is preoccupying his life at the present time. With his fingers mashing buttons left and right and his concentration kept solely on the television screen, he doesn't even notice what time it is, or the kitten making its way across the couch, watching Ivan with the air of a predator.
It isn't that it is exactly extremely late, by any means. Usually when Faith goes out, even with an escort, she's only gone for a brief period of time. Board game night has been in the works for a while, however, so likely they just got in a few good games before she got tired. She is dropped off outside of the residence as her escort is aware of his place and will not try to associate with Ivan. Tired as she is, the Queen of Crazy is still careful not too make too much noise upon entry. If Ivan is asleep she doesn't wish to wake him.
"No…no…No! Foul play!" Ivan groans, throwing his hands into the air in defeat as his little asian character, the person he had chosen from the much vaulted fighting game, falls to the floor unconscious. Faith should know by now - Ivan wont go to sleep until she's safe and sound in the home. The noise is all Puck needs, however. Immediately taking that as his cue, the wild cat in training pounces onto Ivan…and Ivan barely notices. Mostly because Puck isn't using his claws, as it's clearly a playful hit. But more likely? Ivan's used to being attacked. So all he does is grumble to himself, pushing the kitten away.
The room is entered just in time to watch the interaction. There's a soft smile at the sight even if she's not actually laughing. It's been a long night, after all. "I'm not sure if that's a sign that you're too distracted or if you're used to it by now." This is said as Faith remains standing just a few feet away, wearing her fatigue. The way that she's been working has been causing her to tire out earlier than normal lately. "And he tried so hard, too."
Ivan's head shoots up when he hears the noise, and there's confusion written on his face as he looks to Faith. "I'm used to what?" Truly, the man did not even notice the feline advances. Instead, however, he makes a bit of a face before returning his attention to the television screen. "Want to play a match before bed or did the vampire tire you out? C'mon - I'll even go easy on you." He attempts to cajole, clearly in an easy mood. After all, he's known about the game day for a while, and consented to it. No negativity here. "Didya have fun?"
"Puck pounced on you." This is said softly, gently, with no sign that anything's going wrong. A face is made at the box with the game and eventually she sighs. Soon Faith settles into place on the couch, waiting to lose. "I'm not really good at these things," she points out, even though she doesn't openly dismiss it. "I did." This is true, she did have fun, but Rose always has fun while Tripp is around. "I learned that I suck at blackjack. I really shouldn't ever go to Vegas." It will be idle chit-chat for a while as her mind is still heavy from everything that she's taken in this day.
"What? He did?" Blinking, he peers down at Puck, before letting out a grin of amusement. Particularly, when Rose agrees to play with him. He is enthusiastic about setting up the match to two-player, and then even hands Faith his own controller, so that he is left to get up and pick out the other. "That's awesome. Hey - I'd chose the chinese chick with the buns in her hair. She's really easy to use, all you have to do is press the buttons quickly. And, no worries!" About losing, that is. "Heh. So I wont take you with me as my gambling buddy. Gotchya. You know…I'm pretty good at gambling myself. I used to play quite a bit back in college." He used to do alot back in college.
The cat comes up to join Faith once she's settled and then gets much attention from her. This is the one creature in life that she doesn't currently have to re-assess. Men. She looks up as if caught by surprise when the controller is handed to her. "What? Oh, right." She looks over the controller then at the screen, certainly displaying signs that she's not exactly on the top of her game. "Okay, sure. That sounds easy enough." She'll still lose. Faith isn't all that good at games anymore. The young woman blushes before she shakes her head. "No way, not if you want to win something." She pauses just enough to snicker. "I bet you did more than that in college."
"It got me some extra money here and there, playing Poker in the dorms. Heh. Well…that's one bet you would win, if it's any consolation prize." But then, the game starts. And though Ivan vowed to go easy on the woman, the television screen still sucks up the majority, if not all of his attention, as he plays away… That is, until he notices the absolutely lackluster performance from a certain Tyler. She's barely even putting up a token struggle. And it is this that prompts Ivan to look away from the TV to stare at Faith, a thoughtful frown on his features. "What? What's wrong?"
"I have to win something eventually." This is said almost absently as the game begins. True to her attitude, she doesn't actually try to win. In fact, she's just pressing enough buttons to not flat out die. It almost appears by looking at her that she's getting stressed out over the fact that she's not winning but she's not really struggling all that much. Eventually he comments to her but Faith continues to try and press buttons, using the opportunity against him weakly. "Nothing's wrong." She is physically healthy with no wounds or bite marks to be seen. "I've just got a heavy mind."
Ivan might be competitive, and a bit of a closeted geek, but really? He doesn't care what the outcome of the match is. Particularly not when Faith is clearly struggling with something. "Huh…" She looks physically fine, so that's a good sign. It doesn't mean she is fine, though. He knows her well enough to know that the mental pains? They're more dangerous than any physical wound could ever be. "Penny for your thoughts, then? Let me try to lighten the load, babe."
He's not even trying to kill her at this point, and she's failing to really use this open opportunity. Eventually the controller is placed down beside her even as her hand begins to once more scratch Puck. "Honestly?" This isn't going to end well; she knows that this isn't going to end well. "This isn't something I think you want to take on." Well, now that she's said that Faith knows that she has to continue. "It's been a very long day, and so much has happened, and my head hurts."
"Honestly? Probably not, under regular circumstances. But you're my fiance. Which means I've got to be there for you, even when things are heavy and…well, not optimal." Encouragingly, Ivan moves to nudge her arm slightly, before picking up the television's controller and shutting off the screen. No need to have it on, not when there are serious conversations to be held. "I know you're probably going to say no, but I could get an aspirin for you? Maybe it'll ease the headache a bit." He offers easily, without urgency.
He's not going to make this easy on her, but then again he honestly shouldn't. "No, really. It's not that I don't want you to, but it's not going to help. I'm getting hit with a lot of things up here, you know?" A finger points to her temple to accent her mind as Faith knows that he'll understand what she means. "It's like when I got my memories back? I got them back the way that I wanted to perceive them in some ways. And I kind of thought that a lot of drama was gone now, but it isn't. I mean, I think it's going to get better in some ways, but it's not going to be easy."
Ivan purses his lips as he listens to her explanation, and he finds himself nodding along with it. "Well…I can't say that I've felt what you're feeling before." After all, he never lost his memory, only to be hit with it all at once again. "But…I do know what it's like to be overwhelmed. With stuff at the office, personal life, all that. Sometimes, putting my thoughts down on paper helps? I mean, it's still in my head and all, but if I can see it I can better organize things. I dunno. It works for me…maybe you might want to give it a try?" He's trying to be as helpful and as nonintrusive as possible.
"It's not exactly that simple?" It really isn't, and if he catches sight of such a list he's likely to go off the deep end. At least he's trying, though, and that means a lot to her. Faith attempts a smile, weak yet genuine. "I think I might end up going to hang out with Hope tomorrow." Not that she's going to tell her sister what's happening, exactly, but she's someone to talk to. "But I really need to tell you what happened tonight. You're going to find out anyway, and the more I think about it the more I think that evil lady set it all up."
Ivan arches his brows patiently, and in the end he merely nods his acknowledgement to Faith, waiting for her to go on. "Yeah, things with you generally aren't, huh? I just thought I'd suggest it, though." And with a faint smile, the man moves to scratch his head slightly, only becoming considerably more nervous as she continues on. 'Evil lady' is not…good. "What, Faith? Did something…" She hates it when he assumes the worst, especially about her friends, but its ingrained in him.
He has a point. "Nothing will ever be simple or easy for me. Every time that I think I'm finally getting there? Something else comes up. It's hard." She's almost like a pouting child at this moment but is doing well to just remain calm. "Nothing bad happened. I mean, nothing that will harm me at all. But -you- have a right to know what happened." He is the one who set up the arrangement, after all, so he should know. "Tripp offered to claim me, to further the protection that was ordered by the Sheriff."
Ivan just sits down, looking to the woman in a thoughtful sort of fashion. Just waiting for the supposed bad news, for whatever is bothering her so much, and it is with increasing anxiety, though he ends up nodding when she assures him that she's fine. But…then. She's talking. And she spills it - what he thinks is the bombshell. "No." He fires it off without thought, just a pure, instinctive reaction. After a second, he shakes his head then, frowning. "No. That's what his job is for in the first place, there's no need to claim anyone. Period. We agreed upon that, you didn't want to be claimed."
That was quick. As if it should be over so quickly, so simply. "I think she convinced him that it's the best way to look out for me, in case anything happens. I -am- a magnet for everything that could possibly go wrong." She's not being all that upset about the situation, which is far different for Faith. "I might have, maybe, already agreed to it." It's -Tripp-. He doesn't really count as an evil blood sucking demon. "But that's where it ended. Not like last time."
"What! No!" Ivan is adamant about this, and why shouldn't he be? Knowing her history…knowing all that he does, all that he suspects, it's perfectly right for him to be wary of this. "Take it back! I don't even give a shit if all it is is a verbal agreement. You're covered on the vampire front, it's his fucking job. So he's not trying to claim you to protect you, because he's already doing that, right? So he's just trying to claim you. That's not…that's bullshit!" His jaw is set stubbornly as he glowers at the wall. "Call it off. Take it back and…" Beat. "What do you mean, not like last time?" Cue eerie silence. "What last time? What happened last time?"
This is what she's expected from it. He hasn't even heard all of it, just the parts that she's chosen to tell him. It will only get worse if she were to elaborate on things. "I think he means it for just that; protection. I believe him." A fool, perhaps, but she doesn't believe so. "Ivan, it's -Tripp-. Can you really tell me he'd do something with ill intention? I don't think so. If he were up to no good he would have had plenty of time to act on it by now." Yes, Faith is going to stand up for him, even if her voice is still rather meek. It is made even more so when he asks the last question. "You know," she comments as she shifts uncomfortably, looking away from him. "What happened the last time someone wanted to claim me."
"Protection from what! All claiming does is protect you from law-abiding vampires…which, you know? Is kind of his job? Yeah, well, I don't believe him." And Ivan never will. And with good reason. "To you? No, he'd never hurt you. But he'd want to get rid of me. He wants me gone, wants you for himself. Fuck yeah he'd do something with the intention of hurting our relationship." It's her response to the last question that has him lighten up, if only slightly. He can't rag on her, not with the memory of that. And so, softening, he looks to the ceiling with thin lips. "So…that's it, right? That's all that happened?"
It really isn't helping to have him yelling but she doesn't scream back. The fire filled passion she normally has when going toe to toe with him is gone. Something obviously is bothering him. "You'd say that even if there was strong evidence that it wasn't true." This she is fairly certain of since it seems to be a guy thing, and something she just cannot seem to get under control. To understand. "And at least I know that he's well motivated to protect me, unlike some random vampire that would never be seen. Not that I even wanted this, I should point out. I told you to make it go away." She did, too. "We had a really long talk tonight."
"It was the only way to protect you. You didn't want to be claimed, and I understood that. And…well, have you had any real troubles with vampires lately? Since I managed to get that?" Ivan must point out the success of his endeavors, and as far as her safety goes, the vampire bodyguard has been a smashing success. "That blonde vampire wasn't able to do anything terrible to you, and it was indoors, outside of the body-guard's jurisdiction. And, guess what? Even if that might have been true? The truth right now is that there's strong evidence that I'm right about him." Beat. "About him claiming you…?"
"No, it didn't work. I still got attacked by a wolf. I still got bothered in our own home. It wasn't flawless, and you know what? She -knew- better. I heard her say that she knew I was protected and she -still- tried something. I think that there are people out there that honestly don't care about the orders of this new Sheriff." That has to be it, right? The reason why she continued to suffer even though she was supposedly protected? "I haven't said anything about him. Why are you so certain that he's doing this out of ill will? Spite? He knows that you care for me and he wants me to be happy, but I supposed you likely don't think about that." Okay, now Faith has to stand up. She's not trying to make this worse but she's not going to sit around and hear bad things about Tripp. "At least he doesn't show this level of jealousy."
"Did you tell him we're getting married?" Ivan prompts then, eyeing her with a devout frown on his face. Just to throw a fastball in the situation. "Is he alright with it? Planning to come to the reception?"
The ring, very much on her finger, is flashed before her fianc. "Why do you think that I -went- to talk to him in the first place? I'm not going to keep this fact from anyone, let alone my best friend." The fact that he's even asking this of her actually pisses Faith off, much more than she had been up until this point. "He'll be there if I'm there. It'd defeat the purpose of trying to protect me if he didn't." Another flaw in logic, perhaps. "He just thinks it's too fast, is all."
This calms Ivan slightly. Slowly, he lets out an exhale of calm, control even, collapsing into the couch. "I don't know. I don't know what you guys talk about or do. I thought you went to talk to him just to hang out with him?" Beat. "Wait - isn't the wedding supposed to take place during the day? And…bleh. He doesn't know us. No one does. It's not too fast."
He'd better at least feel a little better about that. "I wanted to go play a few games with him, but I made a point to not cancel on him -because- I needed to talk to him about things. Despite what you think about him, Tripp -is- my best friend." It will stay that way for a while. Even though Ivan's calmed slightly, Faith has not. In fact, she brings a hand to her temple as a bit of pain courses through her head. "Yes, it is. And he doesn't know us, he knows me. I respect his advice and his opinion, and even if it's stressful for me I'm glad to hear everything that he had to say."
Silence. Complete and utter silence. "What are you saying?" Ivan inquires then, turning to stare at her with an impossibly blank expression. Masking the dread, and anger, the everything that he really feels at this moment. Tense as a board. His fingers cling to his shirt.
"I'm saying that you hate him, but I don't, and I'm not giving him up." Marriage is about compromise, yes, but this is not something that she's going to budge on. This includes the claim, which for the time being seems to be forgotten. "I'm saying that he did talk to me, and we talked about the past. I realized what I was doing and he admitted how he felt." There, Faith said it. "And it hurts, but I'm glad he did."
"What have you been doing, then? And he…admitted that he loves you." If there was ever an 'I told you so' moment, this would be it. But…Ivan cannot. Instead, his heart is icy, like there's a hand clutching at his heart. "…So?" he's waiting for something. A resolution. Anything. He doesn't know what to do, how to handle the situation at hand.
She was going to approach this differently, act better about it, but he's not making it easy on her. "I remembered that night fully. How I told him to go after Hope because she loved him. I did that for her." That's what she's been doing. Faith shakes her head at the way that he's acting, but she can't blame him. This is why she's not lecturing him. There's no denying his words but she doesn't confirm them, which is confirmation enough. "So? My mind is throbbing, my heart is in shambles and all I want to do is get some sleep."
"…" That's all Ivan needs to know.
"You're heart is in shambles…" Ivan repeats, slowly and silently. It confirms, and echoes something that Hope has been whispering into his ears all this time. Something he's valiantly denied. Something that, in conjunction with her agreement that it's 'too soon'…it breaks Ivan's heart. "Alright." He gets to his feet then, and without looking to her, moves. To find his shoes. To grab a thin sweater, keys, and his wallet. "If we had what I thought we had? Your heart wouldn't be in shambles. You'd know exactly what you're doing. I didn't want to believe it, I really didn't. I kept saying no, that she was wrong…" Beat. "But I knew it was true, deep down. I've always loved you more than you've loved me."
This is very much what she feared. "Do you think it's -easy- to just have that sort of memory and feeling come back, suddenly? It's not. What did I do about it? I asked to leave. So I'm so glad you think you know everything." No, she's not going to be entirely nice at this point. If he wants to find a place to stay for the night he's more than welcome. "When your past came back, I got mad at -her-. When mine comes back? You insult me." With that said, she does move to walk away. It's obvious he won't believe anything she says anyway. "Congratulations for knowing more about a mental patient than she can remember about herself."
"I'm not angry with you, Faith. I love you, more than I could ever say. I could never be angry with you." But boy, is Ivan crushed. "But I'm no one's second choice. And I can't do this. You can't have me in the mornings and him in the night. And….fuck. Hope told me this would happen." His voice wavers, if only for the moment, and though his back is turned away from her, he hazards lifting a hand to brush away the tear that's falling down from his eyes. "It's not…" He can't follow after her. He's done everything he can, everything for her. Pursued her despite everyone's expectations. But now? It's her turn to convince him for once that it's true.
"You could have fooled me." Something that he says, however, triggers some boiling feelings. "You can't tell me that I'm the first woman you've ever loved, because I know that's a lie. A bold faced lie. How is this any different? Because he's around? Newsflash, Ivan. He's a vampire. You're the one who gave me the ring that I'm wearing and a second chance at life. I will not apologize for being flooded with emotion but I think, in the end, my actions speak for themselves."
Ivan wants to leave. Ivan wants to drive fast, and hard, and feel the wind on his skin. He wants to drink, and dance, until everything is numbed out and he can feel nothing. Absolutely nothing. Until his tired mind stops thinking. Until the despair drowns away. But she's talking. Talking. "…How? How could I have fooled you, Faith?" He speaks, and every word seems to take more and more of his energy, more and more effort. But then he looks to her, and there's no hiding the disjointed, broken quality in his eyes. Like a cracked mirror. "I don't love anyone now. That's the difference. The difference is I don't have room in my heart for anyone else. And that even if I wanted to feel something for someone…I couldn't." A tentative, uncomfortable pause. "That's why you let him claim you, isn't it? Are you planning on seeing him again?"
It comes more difficult the closer and closer he gets to her feelings, even though she's torn. The last bit is technically true, but technically not. So Faith just stares at him, her eyes beginning to water but she's not crying. "I would let him claim me no matter what because he is my best friend. I -do- know him, and I trust him." If he couldn't be trusted, she would be far away with him right now. He has kidnapped before, after all. "Do you think I wanted this? I accepted you, the wedding, the rushed wedding. I accepted this with open arms because of you. Not my past, not what it could mean for me, but for you. The last thing I want is this, but it's not like I can help it. And at least I told you." She could have kept this a secret like she has many other things. "Yes, I plan on seeing him again."
"You didn't want it, but you're not willing to do anything to stop it. You're going to continue to play me, for him." Ivan is going to call a spade a spade. he has no sympathy for her. "You're going to continue seeing someone you love, someone who loves you, despite the fact that it kills me. You're going to let him claim you, knowing all that you do, when you're supposed to be mine and mine alone." Beat. "Okay. I just wanted to get all the facts. This is unfair to me. You know it is. But you don't care enough to change it, or do something about it. I…I might be taking that trip to Mexico." He needs a vacation. "You…you wouldn't stand for it, if I were pulling the same shit you are. You got irrational enough when an old booty call of mine showed up. What you makes you think I should stand for it? Or that I will?"
"Fine then. Don't stand for it." Is that really something that came from her? "You know how I feel about what you do with vampires to begin with but you don't seem to care. All I'm trying to do is have a freaking friend. I'm adult enough to know what is and isn't appropriate. And honestly? If I came back to -you-, then you should know what I'm doing." There is no running to him, cooing him and asking him to forgive her. "Just remember that the only reason I'm in this position at all is because of you. All you had to do was drop that protection when I asked you to. And you know what?" Faith shakes her head. "If someone so important to you came back into your life and made you happy? -I- would be happy, instead of turning it into a competition." So Faith begins to walk up the stairs, allowing him to react as he will. "I've been honest with you, I've been open to you. You have to make up your mind now." Are those tears? Does it matter? "Leave if you'd like."
"The whole nature of that relationship has now been made inappropriate, Faith. And you know it is." And with that, he does leave. She's wrong - she's the one that can't be coddled tonight. She's the one that did wrong. And he can't apologize for behaving in an entirely justified manner. He can't. He's caved so much to be with her already, it's pathetic. And with that, he's out. If only for the time being.
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Events have moved quickly this week in the City of New York's appeal of U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin's decisions concluding that the New York Police Department has engaged in unconstitutional racial profiling in its "stop and frisk" practices. On Wednesday, several prominent lawyers and law professors—NYU Law School Professors Burt Neuborne, Norman Dorsen, and Arthur Miller; Yale Law School Professor Judith Resnik; and former New York City Corporation Counsel Frederick A.O. Schwartz, Jr.—filed a motion on behalf of Judge Scheindlin challenging last week's decision by Second Circuit Judges José A. Cabranes, John M. Walker, Jr. and Barrington D. Parker, Jr., summarily concluding that she had violated the canons of judicial conduct and, on that basis, immediately dismissing her from presiding over the stop and frisk cases. The motion argues that the three judges "breach[ed] … the norms of collegiality and mutual respect that should characterize interactions between District and Circuit judges" by failing to afford her notice and an opportunity to respond to its charges and violated the First and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
In light of the Circuit Court's determination that the actions of Judge Scheindlin "ran afoul of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges" and compromised "the appearance of impartiality," the City will file a motion in that Court by early next week asking it to immediately vacate Judge Scheindlin's rulings.
[I]t seems to me safe to say that if you had acted with real urgency at certain points you could have been before this Court asking for a stay a long time ago….
Judge Cabranes contrasted the City's "leisurely" approach to its appeal with the approach taken by the litigants in the campaign finance case heard and decided by the Second Circuit just two weeks earlier, New York Progress & Protection PAC v. Walsh, in which the parties "moved quickly … by saying this is urgent, we need to be heard as soon as possible," and were able to obtain expedited briefing, argument, and adjudication of their appeal within a week. Judge Cabranes then opined to the lawyer arguing for the City that he was "quite certain that your client [i.e., the NYPD] couldn't possibly be happy with" the "painfully slow" pace at which the City's lawyers were proceeding. Later, in an exchange with counsel for the Office of the Public Advocate—which is the current office of the new Mayor-Elect, Bill de Blasio, and which appeared as amicus curiae—Judge Cabranes intimated that the panel might "telescope the briefing schedule to make [the appeal] ripe for decision before January 1," something that at that point none of the parties had ever sought.
The questions that all of these motions now present for adjudication illustrate the potential harms arising from the appearance of impropriety and partiality that Judges Cabranes, Walker, and Parker may have created with their opaque and procedurally irregular rush to judgment based apparently on what they read in the newspapers. Of course, all three are distinguished, long serving, and highly respected judges, and one certainly must presume that they have acted with good faith, sincerity, and impartiality. But as Dean Erwin Chemerinsky wrote in the New York Law Journal last week, "[j]udges are human," and the nature and circumstances of the panel's order makes it appear that the panel got "caught up in the … deep emotions" of this highly charged case and "rushed to quickly take sides." If Judges Cabranes, Walker, and Parker now were to issue a longer opinion in support of their decision to oust Judge Scheindlin, observers invariably and reasonably would question whether, in light of the highly questionable nature and circumstances of their original order, the three judges simply were—at a minimum—rationalizing and justifying a preconceived result that they had already made clear that they wished to reach, rather than making a genuinely considered and reasoned determination after fully and impartially evaluating the merits of the arguments presented and the record before them. After all, while courts do occasionally delay the issuance of detailed reasons explaining their rulings when exigent circumstances demand that decisions be rendered immediately, they typically give at least some explanation or indication of why that kind of expedited decision is necessary. And in this case, not only did the panel not point to any exigent circumstances that demanded haste in ousting Judge Scheindlin, but it also seems highly unlikely that it could have done so, since—as the "glacial pace" of the City's own prosecution of the appeal until after last week's oral argument confirms—no legitimate circumstances genuinely demanding that immediate action really existed. Observers would undoubtedly pose similar questions, for similar reasons, if the panel were to heed the Bloomberg administration's scorched earth tactics to eliminate Judge Scheindlin's decisions before Mayor-Elect de Blasio takes office—especially given the extent to which the City's shifts in the pace of its appeal appear to have been reshaped almost directly in response to suggestions implicit in the motions panel's own detailed questions and comments challenging the litigation strategies that the City previously had chosen.


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The Long Lost Section of the Mitchell Report
Finally!!! I found it! Okay, I know its baseball time and everyone wanted to get away from this steroids mess, but I had to share with you this baseballogical treasure I have recently uncovered. It was all stained for some strange reason though…
Without further ado , here is the long lost document:
In 2007, over 85 Major League Baseball players were mentioned in the Mitchell Report. The Mitchell Report was a document on performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. Since then, more names of Major League Baseball players that have used performance enhancing drugs have been exposed and star baseball players such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have been mentioned among those names. Major League Baseball wanted to get past the "steroid era", and it seemed possible when a talented, new light, named Alex Rodriguez, was playing. Unfortunately though for Major League Baseball, Alex Rodriguez used performance enhancing drugs. Alex Rodriguez had natural talent at the game of baseball but he used illegal performance enhancing drugs to augment his performance.
Alex Rodriguez had a bountiful amount of natural talent at the game of baseball Alex was the first overall pick in the 1993 amateur draft after being selected by the Seattle Mariners right out of high school. During his tenure at Westminster Christian High in Miami, Alex hit to the tune of a .477 batting average in his junior year, earning All- American honors, and had a batting .505 in his senior year. His batting averages of .477 and. 505 were phenomenal considering that no player in Major League Baseball hit higher than .328 in 2008. Alex was also regarded as the top prospect in the country during his senior year at Westminster and he was a first team prep All-American and was selected as the USA Baseball Junior Player of the year. During Alex Rodriguez's first full season as the Seattle Mariners' starting shortstop in 1996, he won the American League Rookie of the Year Award. That achievement was garnered by Alex after he hit .358, becoming the American League batting champion. Also resulting in this achievement, was the fact that Alex led the American League in runs scored (141), doubles (54), and total bases (379) while additionally being selected to the All Star Game. Alex narrowly missed claiming the American League Most Valuable Player of the Year Award as well that season as he finished second to Juan Gonzalez in the voting by three points. In 1998, Alex Rodriguez once again unleashed his natural talent on the game of baseball by becoming on the third player, in Major League Baseball history, to join the prestigious 40-40 club. He had this honor dubbed upon him after he hit 42 homeruns while also stealing 46 bases in 1998. He also collected a career high 213 hits, obtained his second American League Silver Slugger Award, and acclaimed to a batting average of .310. Not long after Alex Rodriguez displayed his natural talent at the game of baseball, he began to take illegal performance enhancing drugs.
Alex Rodriguez used performance enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003 to augment his performance at the game of baseball. In 2003, Major League Baseball conducted survey testing of the major league players to which it was agreed upon, between management and the Major League Baseball Player's Union. This testing did not remain anonymous however as it was revealed to the public that 104 players tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and that one of those players was Alex Rodriguez. On "60 Minutes", a show aired on CBS, Alex was interviewed by Katie Couric days after the Mitchell Report came out regarding performance enhancing drugs. Alex Rodriguez denied at the time that he had ever used performance enhancing drugs or that he had been ever tempted to use them. He also said, "I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I have always been in a very strong, dominant position and I felt that if I had done my work, which I've done since I was a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have any problem competing at any level." Alex Rodriguez tested positive for the banned substances of testosterone and Primobolan, an anabolic steroid also known as methenolone. Primobolan is an illegal drug that improves strength and maintains lean muscles with minimal bulk development and a few side effects. In a press conference regarding his performance, Alex said his cousin injected him with the Primobolan multiple times throughout 2001, 2002, and 2003. It was later discovered that the cousin who injected Alex Rodriguez with performance enhancing drugs was Yuri Sucart. Yuri was also Alex's best friend, confidant, and personal protector. Alex Rodriguez used illegal performance enhancing drugs and now his talent at the game of baseball may never be seen as "natural" to the public eye in the future.
Alex Rodriguez had natural talent at the game of baseball but he used illegal performance enhancing drugs to augment his performance. Since high school, Alex had been very talented and well known about his skills at the game of baseball. However, from the years of 2001 to 2003 Alex Rodriguez used illegal performance enhancing drugs known as Primobolan and testosterone to elevate his ability at baseball. What Alex Rodriguez did was very unjust but at least he admitted that he used the illegal performance enhancing drugs.
SO WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS:
1. DON'T DO DRUGS.
2. CONFESS TO TAKING DRUGS IF YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW NUMBER 1
DON'T LET THE PERSON WHO GAVE YOU DRUGS PICK YOU UP FROM SPRING TRANING I WEEK AFTER YOU ADMITTED TO STEROID USE
Peace out dog.
Posted in Dailies, MLB
Tags: Alex Rodriguez, Mitchell Report, Yankees, Yuri Sucart
Let the Games….Begin!!!
Spring training is finally here! Yes! Baseball is back!!
The games have arrived and now there will be more action before! This will be a season filled with excitement and surprise.
Will the Phillies repeat? Will the Yankees win it all? Will the Mets suffer another collapse? You never know in the game of baseball. One thing I do know though is that the Yankees played a great game today. Our pitching was phenomenal and A-Rod crushed the ball into the stands.
Today the Rays unfortunately got shut out by the Reds 7-0 but they still played hard and are destined to have another spectacular season. Especially since my man Longoria is on the squad.
Along with the games beginning I would like to make two announcements.
1. I will be holding a mock draft with MLBloggers on either March 14th or 15th at about 7:00. So far bloggers such as cube, cheeky, and King of Cali have signed up and there are only 8 spots remaining. Let me know if you want to join in on the action.
2. I would like to say that my 100th comment has been left and it was from… me! So, I'm going to give a shout out to the person who left me my 101st comment…
The King of Cali!
You can get to his blog via http://king ofcali.mlblogs.com The King commented on my O-Dawg article and wrote (typed):
I would like to try your fantasy draft. What day and time are you planning on doing it?
~King of Cali
Thanks King for the comment. I also would like to give another shoutout to all my loyal readers who read my blog including Julia, Cheeky, Marsh o Man, and Cube. You can get to Julia, Cheeky, and Cube's blogs by clicking on the links below.
Julia- http://werbiefitz.mlblogs.com
Cheeky- http://cheeky.mlblogs.com
Cube- http://cubescrewreport.mlblogs.com
Long live baseball!
Tags: Alex Rodriguez, Evan Longoria, King of Cali, Mets, Rays, Reds, Spring Training, Yankees
From A-Rod to A-Fraud to A-Roid to A-OK?
What a whirlwind the past couple of weeks have been for Alex Rodriguez. From Torre to steroids you could expect nothing less from A-Rod right now. 2 weeks ago, A-Rod was called A-Fraud by Joe Torre in his new book The Yankee Years. In the book, as you probably know,
Torre shared his harsh feelings on the Yankees. From his problems with management, to his mix ups with some players it looks like Torre's supposedly "perfect" era managing the Yankees isn't exactly the fairy tale that it supposedly was. Pairing with Verducci to create this expressive book, Joe created a minor stirral in the Yankee organization compared to what big event would follow. One that would take A-Fraud to the next level and create the monstrosity known as A-Roid. In the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, it was reported by Selena Roberts that A-Rod used a banned substance known as Primobolan from 2001-2003. Primobolan is often referred to as a baseball drug since it doesn't give you Pop-Eye Muscles after he eats spinach. Is A-Rod really A-Roid? Say it ain't so, but it's so.
On Monday, February 11th A-Rod admitted to using a banned substance and that he was young, nieve and is now deeply regretful about that decision to ESPN's Peter Gammons, who interviewed him on his steroid abuse.
(I'm Sorry, but I had to put that in here)
So how will this affect the rest of the world of baseball? Well, Roy Oswalt has harsh feelings against A-Rod:
He said that all of A-Rod's numbers should not count and that if he could, he would erase them all. Imagine what would happen if he used steroids.
Also, our very own commisioner, Bud Selig is thinking about erasing Barry Bonds numbers because of this incident. I am glad that this finally got brought up but it shouldn't have been because of A-Rod using steroids. It should have been brought up a long time ago.
Will the A-Roid Saga end A-Okay? Only time will tell.
Now to end this post I have one easy question for you: What does Madonna, divorce, controversial plays, steroids, scrunitization, and fraudity equal? One answer…
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