Sustainability | Try-It Distributing Inc.
Try It Distributing and its subsidiaries are committed to reducing our waste streams, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and overall impact on the environment by fostering recycling and clean energy programs across all of our facilities and operations.
In 2014, we converted our entire delivery fleet of 43 trucks to CNG at a cost of $2 MILLION greater than a comparable diesel fleet!
We have installed Solar Panels on the roof of our Saratoga Springs, NY facility. Additionally, we are exploring the potential of greatly expanding our system in Saratoga Springs and also installing a massive solar array at our facility at Try It that would produce more than 50% of our electrical requirement at both campuses!
Solar energy is recognized as the future of alternative energy sources as it is non-polluting and helps combat the Greenhouse effect on global climate.
In 14 ½ seconds, the sun provides as much energy as humanity uses in a day. Why the heck wouldn't we use just a bit of it for good?
As a growing Beverage Distributor, we have constructed over 350,000 square feet of distribution space across Upstate New York within the last 5 years. As we design, build, and operate these facilities, we feel it is our responsibility to create distribution complexes that have as little environmental impact as possible and far exceed the required energy mandates for efficiency.
LED last up to 10 times longer than even the best fluorescent lamps!
There is no mercury used in the manufacturing of LED lamps!
LED light bulbs use only 2-10 watts of electricity (1/3rd to 1/30th of Incandescent or CFL) Small LED flashlight bulbs will extend battery life 10 to 15 times longer than with incandescent bulbs. Also, because these bulbs last for years, energy is saved in maintenance and replacement costs.
880,000 pounds of the 1,162,000 pounds of steel required for our Lancaster warehouse expansion is reclaimed from pre and post-consumer recycled content. This means that 75% of the steel on our project is RECYCLED!
Instead of using virgin mined stone as a sub base fill material under paving areas, we have elected to use recycled concrete. We found a home for 60 MILLION POUNDS of this material on our site!
Using this recycled concrete will remove this waste material from the landfills and other polluted areas. We will also avoid further air, land, and water pollution by not requiring this fill material to be mined from a quarry. All good stuff!
These ceiling fans are not your run of the mill fans you see in your friends' living rooms! These are 18 to 24 foot diameter, specially engineered air foils that are capable of moving tremendous amounts of air at low rpm speeds.
In the winter heating months, these fans are running to eliminate the stratification of warm air at the ceiling – essentially forcing it down to the floor of the warehouse where it is needed – to heat the good people of our warehouse.
In the summer, the fans are running to give those same good folks some cooling effect – a much less impactful option vs. air conditioning!
Develop a lighting plan and install lighting fixtures that are sensitive to protecting nocturnal environments and to minimize any lighting trespass and reduce sky-glow to increase night sky access for our neighbors.
Select construction material manufacturers that are located within a 500 mile radius of our facility.
Goal – On a local scale, to support local companies and their employees – all of whom are our customers. On a regional scale, to reduce the impact on the environment due to transportation and its related infrastructure.
Strategy – during periods of high electrical demand, our utility provider notifies us to reduce our electrical consumption.
Goal – By having the ability to reduce our electrical consumption requirement when requested, the utility provider offsets the need to expand their infrastructure system, which would have a wide range of economic and environmental impacts.
Strategy – We have changed from bottled water coolers to higher efficiency "Pure Water Technology of WNY, Inc." systems, which filter and refrigerate tap water instead of using plastic bottles.
Goal – This eliminates plastic bottles from being produced and thrown away. It also reduces gasoline usage and air pollution because water no longer has to be delivered by truck to our facility. The water is pretty darn good too!
Last year, we recycled over 71Tons of paper, cardboard and shrink wrap. Every stakeholder realizes the benefits of this plan and it's with their help we are able to realize this level of success!


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Q: Split string from multiple line I have the following code to split strings in arrays and then instert the arrays into database
Private Sub ReadAllModules()
    Dim list As String() = rtbComData.Text.Split(Environment.NewLine.ToCharArray())
    For Each Row As String In list
        If Not (Row = "AT+BC=FL " + dtp_Rinterval.Value.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") + "" Or Row = "OK" Or Row = "") Then
            Try
                Dim separator As String() = {"+", "|", "*"}
                Dim s = Row.Split(separator, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
                Dim con As New SqlConnection
                Dim cmd As New SqlCommand
                con.ConnectionString = "Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\Database\smdData.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"
                con.Open()
                cmd.Connection = con
                cmd.CommandText = "UPDATE smdTable SET date='" + s(1) + "',datetime='" + s(2) + "',Interval1='" + s(3) + "',vi1='" + s(4) + "',Interval2='" + s(5) + "',vi2='" + s(6) + "',Interval3='" + s(7) + "' WHERE AdresaUnica= '" + s(0) + "'"

                cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
                Me.SmdTableTableAdapter.Fill(Me.SmdDataDataSet1.smdTable)
            Catch ex As Exception
                MsgBox(ex.Message)
            End Try
        End If
    Next
End Sub

Until now I had the strings coming on a single line and that was ok. However now my strings comes on different lines like:
AT+BC=FL 09/09/2015
OK
+00019500000068B9|1:9/9/2015|06:55:18|19:30-22:30*100|22:30-00:30*80|00:30-       05:00*40|05:00-

+00019500000068B9|2:07:30*90|OFF

how do I insert the second line string in an array and insert it in the database?

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We talked to costume designer Jenny Tiramini about her intricate designs for The Marriage of Figaro.
Jenny Tiramani is not your average costume designer. For a start, she's not interested in pretence — she designs clothes, not costumes. There are no press studs for quick changes or zips hidden in the side of button up boots.
Tiramani is a student of historical fashion, and has published books on the patterns of this period. As we speak, the pages of those books are scattered with post-it notes, because the Opera Australia wardrobe team are using her patterns and surveys of original pieces to make the clothes for The Marriage of Figaro.
Materials: use the right fibres and colour palette for the period.
Shapes: get the pattern shapes right, so you craft clothes that reflect the proportions of the period.
Construction: the sewing machine was invented in the 1840s, so before that time, everything was made by hand.
Context: dressing each person appropriately for their character's status and position.
For example, using a modern fibre would render the whole look and feel of the production incoherent. But in this case, to use original fibres, there needs to be a compromise on construction: the materials used in The Marriage of Figaro are not handwoven or naturally dyed. Not every garment can be hand sewn — there isn't time or money — but Tiramani and the wardrobe department are doing all they can.
The aristocrats wear rich black, red and golden yellow — expensive dyes. The Count wears exquisite lace — lace that would have cost as much as a house.
While Tiramani does have a passion for historical dress ("it thrills me, the idea of the beginning of clothes"), she has many strings to her bow. While working on The Marriage of Figaro, she's also working long-distance on a contemporary production of Into The Woods, a brand new script and a new production of a Shakespeare play.


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Unhappy with the treatment she received from her dentist, Jill Caywood sued him for malpractice. The dentist moved to dismiss Jill's complaint for lack of compliance with the statute of limitations. The trial court granted the dentist's motion, and Jill moved for reconsideration. In her reconsideration motion, Jill argued for the first time "that she suffered from mental incapacitation and was unable to appreciate that she had been injured by defendants' wrongful treatment." The trial court disregarded the argument and denied the motion.
Get the whole case, Caywood v. Gossett, No. 1-06-2458 (4/11/08), by clicking here.


The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities has awarded Marianne Gullberg the Swenson prize for research in the humanities and social sciences.
Since 2014 Thailand has recovered 751 objects. India has recovered 28.
We really need to take more pride & #BringOurGodsHome.
Critically-acclaimed will be released 1/25 in Little Rock, Bentonville + 10 US cities, stars (Walking Dead) & (). Filmed here & co-written by Arkansans Daniel Campbell & Graham Gordy. Watch the trailer: .
Brace yourselves! ANTIQUITIES has a nationwide release! I am grateful to have been apart of this film and love every talented human involved.
Egyptian bust of Pharaoh Akhenaten dated to the mid 14th century BCE. Sandstone. Currently located in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (also known as the Egyptian Museum) in Cairo Egypt.
Join Curator Susan Masten tomorrow, January 25, at 11:30 a.m. for a FREE gallery talk. You will see fascinating archaeological discoveries from the Israel Antiquities Authority and learn more about life in ancient Israel. Meet in the lobby to begin.
Reasons to Love Minnesota No. 8: The @artsmia in Minneapolis, a.k.a. the Met of the Midwest, lands blockbuster shows like nobody's business. The current headliner, 'Egypt's Sunken Cities,' showcases more than 250 antiquities excavated from Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, two ancient cities that disappeared into the Mediterranean Sea more than 1,200 years ago. French archaeologist Frank Goddio and his team at the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology recovered hundreds of remarkable artifacts from their dives, including a corn mummy in a falcon-headed coffin decorated with hieroglyphs; a 17.7-foot-tall statue of Hapy, god of fertility and a symbol of the Nile floods; and this 2,682-year-old statute of Osiris, newly awakened after death. The show runs through April 14, and the museum is open late on Thursdays and Fridays (till 9 p.m.).


I was always attracted to the cover of The Snow Child, but it was Beth's review that left me really curious about this wintery tale. I ended up buying a copy with a gift card I received for my birthday earlier this year, but I decided to save it for cooler weather. I don't always have to match my read to the season, but I knew this had a more somber, melancholy tone. I thought that it would be much more fitting to read it in the fall/winter than in the spring/summer.
The Snow Child is the story of Jack and Mabel, an aging and childless couple that moves to Alaska in hopes of building a homestead. The couple feels alone in their childlessness, and going somewhere far removed from society, friends and family offers a welcome respite. But instead of drawing them closer, the harsh landscape and isolating environment just highlights the tension in their relationship. They do still manage to have moments of joy. In one, a snowball fight leads them to build a little snowgirl. It's a decision that changes their lives forever.
They wake up the next morning to find that the snowgirl is gone, but there's a real little girl who appears out of the woods. Faina, the snow child, quickly becomes a huge part of their lives. She's a little girl alone in the wild, fending for herself, and her origin and family are a source of mystery. Where does she come from? And where does she go each spring?
Ivey was inspired to write this story after she read the classic Russian fairy tale of the snow maiden. Her website notes: "The story haunted Eowyn with its loneliness and magic in a landscape so similar to the one she grew up in. She spent the next few months researching the original tale, and depictions of it in Russian art work, before she began writing."
I wanted to include that information because this book has a very magical, fairy tale quality to it. I spent much of the book wondering what was real and what was imagined. One thing that's very real, however, is Ivey's depiction of the Alaskan wilderness. Ivey lives in Alaska, and you can see her familiarity with the landscape and her love for it on every page. Even when it you see that this place is so brutal and unforgiving, it still seems like a beautiful place. From the sly fox to the cold winter wind, the setting is a HUGE part of this story. I could totally picture this place, and it made me really glad that I decided to read it during this season.
The Snow Child is a very quiet, slow-moving story. It's not driven by any major action. Faina appears and disappears. She seems both real and make believe. I was so intrigued by this story, and I was left with so many questions and thoughts at the end. This is the kind of book I'd love to discuss with someone else! There may not be a lot of action, but the book could still spark a number of conversations. Ivey melds reality and fantasy in a way that felt so unique and so creative. Stories like this don't always appeal to me, but the setting and prose ended up winning me over.
For all its magic, The Snow Child is still a very sad read. As I noted in the beginning of my review, there is a melancholy tone that hangs over this whole story. Mabel's sadness and Jack's loneliness is heartbreaking. There are so many unspoken thoughts and emotions - you can feel the wedge that's been driven between the two. It's definitely not a happy read, but I still enjoyed it.
I can see why The Snow Child has garnered so much praise. It's a really haunting read - I've thought about the characters and the ending several times since I closed that last page. The Snow Child was so different from what I typically read, but I think it was a great addition to my personal library. This was such a strong debut, and it's a story that will lead to a different reaction with every reader.
"We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?"
This book sounds... evocative. That's the first word that comes to mind, based on your review and the summary. I think it would be a great read for the season we're in! I've seen it before, but never actually read a review for it, so it was great to hear your thoughts. I might just have to check it out!
Yes, it's totally a winter read! It would be PERFECT to read right now.
Haha I love it! I could totally see this book being very discussable - perfect for a book club!
I've had this one FOREVER and still haven't read it. I've heard so many wonderful things about it and I love Alaska, so what's holding me back? I'll have to bump this one up in my list!
Sounds goood. Really goood. I like the quote you included too.
Yes, it's very good! I think you'd enjoy. A slower book, but definitely a lovely story.
Ah, I've seen this cover around too and I had NO idea what it was about. It sounds incredible and I feel like Magan would enjoy this one too? I will send her this review. I don't think I've read anything set in Alaska before, and even your review has this fairy tale quality to it. Must put this on my list. Thanks for the recommendation, H!
Thanks E! I'm so glad I got to put this book more on your radar. It's such a lovely, evocative read. It would be a great winter big kid read *hint hint* Haha!
Like you, I received this book earlier in the year but haven't read it yet because I wanted it to be more weather-appropriate. I'm still going to wait to read this until it's snowy and in the middle of winter here by me. The main reason that this story has intrigued me is because of its connections to the Russian fairy tale. I know basically nothing about Russian folklore, but anything related to a fairy tale will immediately catch my attention.
Thanks for pointing out the somber tone though - that's something I'll have to keep in mind.
Glad you enjoyed this one overall, Hannah!


The sculpture, 'Der Unwiederstehliche Zustand der Ruhe', is a container system resting and rotating on rollers. Viewing it along its axis, it is possible to look through it. It is filled to half capacity with a reddish fluid. The unit rotates so slowly that the liquid adapts to the changing sectional shape of the container without a hint of turbulence. Whilst the size and shape of the surface vary continually, the horizon remains constant. This gives rise to the impression that the construction is cutting like a kind of radar system through a liquid that is present throughout the location, but invisible except where it is revealed, in the window-like openings of the apparatus. Several of these objects, ideally to be placed in a constellation to be decided in situ, will enhance the impression of a common horizon existing unseen.


Are you a chess fan? Join in the game 3d Chess Set to play the chess. The chess pieces are divided into black and white one. The black and white play chess by turns. If you like the game, don't forget to share it with your friends.


Every working day, there are traffic jams between Weert and Eindhoven on the A2 and they are particularly bad in the direction of Eindhoven during the morning rush hour. Besides the daily users, of course, the municipalities and provinces located in the south of the Netherlands also suffer the negative consequences of tailbacks. Moreover, motorists have a tendency to take short cuts, which is not good for the liveability or traffic safety of the villages concerned.
Improving the accessibility of the south of the Netherlands will contribute to liveability, safety, economy and international trade. A significant element of this is finding a solution to the structural congestion between Weert and Eindhoven on the A2. For the regional parties involved, this is reason to urge that measures be taken to improve the flow on this section.
A Multinannual Programme for Infrastructure, Space and Transport (MIRT) study is being carried out on the traffic situation between Weert and Eindhoven on the A2. This means that the problem has been included in the central government's Multiannual Programme for Infrastructure, Space and Transport.
To arrive at a problem analysis which is supported by the central government and the region. To this end, decisions must be taken about the urgency of the problems ascertained and about the solutions/problem-solving approaches to be looked at.
To look at possible solutions/problem-solving approaches for the jointly supported problems. This objective will at least include a fully-fledged third lane and Smart Mobility/ITS solutions.
A No Regret package of measures will be realized. Implementing the No Regret Package slightly eases the problems of traffic flow, traffic safety and traffic. It forms a bridge between the current situation and a future package to be realized in the future.The effects are examined with continuous monitoring.


Myth, legend and Hollywood icon Harry Dean Stanton shines in this slow-beat indie film about the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist in a one-horse town. If the name doesn't ring a bell, chances are you'll at least recognise the face, as Stanton has featured in more than 200 films over the past 60 years. From Pretty in Pink to Big Love and more recent blockbusters like The Avengers, this Hollywood heavyweight has been there, done that, and Lucky is no exception.
You'll need to pay attention to the quiet performances given, as there is no obvious climax or tipping point in the film. Instead, just as in life, Lucky (Stanton) finds himself at the closing end of his long life, staring down the barrel of the abyss that his atheism would have him believe lies ahead. This leads him into a venture of self-discovery, and a search for that ever unattainable - enlightenment.
Directorial debut of actor John Carroll Lynch (American Horror Story, Shutter Island), this film encompasses the polarising questions of morality, spirituality and human connection.
It's a slow burner, so if you need big special effects to keep you entertained, this film isn't for you. If you are looking for a film with understated performances, and a plotline that borders on confusing - this film will leave you with more questions than answers.
Showing at Luna Palace Leederville from 24 November 2017.


That seems easy enough-right? If you said yes, I know you are not being truthful. It's HARD! Those words above are like telling me to not eat that last bite of chocolate cake….I can talk a good game, but at the end of the day-that cake is gone.
We are at an update part in this Kill the Paps journey.
I had my end of cycle scan this past Wednesday. (I also had the arrival of what could only be called an alien abduction of my throat-seriously…when I am in tears over throat pain-call the CDC-it can only be the plague.) I digress. Scan. I've lost count on how many CT scans I have had over the past four years, but I still have to close my eyes as they move the table under the scanner. There's just something surreal in those moments as the scanner does it's thing, the contrast makes its way into every crevice of your body-you have zero control over anything that occurs during the scan or after the scan. (See above quote.) Something with such enormous implications, ends with a quick removal of an IV, and you then leave as if it was something as mundane as a routine lab draw. The hands of the clock the next twenty-four hours move like molasses on a cold, winter day. This was a big scan….it would determine whether we placed a port on Friday, whether I would move to cycle two….determine if I went to the OR for a debulking.
Thursday afternoon came, and I saw it pending in my portal, so I knew it was time to call for the answers to the above steps. I'll just park the results of the trachea portion of the scan right here.
Yes-you are seeing that correctly. In three doses, almost half of what the lesions were upon intake scan! Pulmonary all stable-nothing new. Larynx-nothing new (it was clear at intake). A good report (minus learning there's a dental issue to deal with that has given me zero indication it existed). This meant-Friday was on. Kim was getting a port.
So, now to the port. I wasn't nervous-I was more than ready………until…..wait…this seems to be a tad bigger deal than I had it in my head. I almost put the shoes back on during education training. Let's say that seeing it up close and personal….it was the size of a python…ok, maybe not, but it was deeper than I anticipated it being. PS-I did not need to have training on the catheter/needle used to access port….I could have remained blissfully unaware and been totally ok with that…there's a reason I don't look at IV upon entry. Some things are better left unseen.
Can I just tell you that every nurse I have interacted within the Emory system has been excellent! Seriously, I told my spouse that I honestly felt they were as good if not better than my Mayo care.
Once all the boxes were checked, I was wheeled back into the frigid procedure room. I had been told that I would be given conscious sedation and would not be aware of what was taking place, and would likely not remember any of the procedure. I was ready for my drug induced nap. Drugs given. I'm looking around, unable to see much of anything due to being tented (PS-tent someone with a trach and our natural reflex thinks you are going to block our airway-hand goes up-I'm scolded…) Back to the drugs….nothing, nada, zilch…I get a booster….nothing, nada, zilch. Insert mild panic on my part, realizing what was fixing to take place-I was going to be a major participant in todays procedure. Neck is numbed. Can I go now? I think I'll pass on the rest. Then chest was numbed. Seriously, I'm good..let's call it a day. I'll spare you the detailed details, but let's just say that I am certain Thor walked in with his hammer and snapped things into place. The cardiologist was wiping my tears. Why didn't they give me more meds? Avastin has this little side effect where it can raise your blood pressure-and mine was running 152/90 on this day and at this point it was just best to keep going. Soon, it was done and with no drowsiness, no complications, I was free to go in about thirty minutes.
The past forty-eight hours have been uncomfortable, but I still know this was a good decision-even if I wanted to jog my way out of Emory on Friday after education and during the procedure.
I was able to enjoy church this morning and was able to get out for a bit yesterday to enjoy the beautiful weekend here in the peach state.
This week, I begin cycle two. My goal this cycle is to see a trachea with zero growths after the next three infusions, no new growths and the beginning of shrinkage of my pulmonary nodules.
Today, I celebrate a wonderful scan report, a complication free port insertion (minus my full participation) and I celebrate those who have held my hand this entire journey. Someone was talking about my being brave…and I'm really not…not by myself anyways. I'm brave because of those who walk alongside me. I'm brave because I refuse to accept any outcome that doesn't end with a clear scan down the road. Is it this drug? I don't know. I just know it's coming. I hope it's here on this earth, but it could be when I have my wings…either way….I know it's coming. I do wish my Mom was here for this. I wish I could have told her that the papilloma are on the losing side of this battle.
So, peace out, drink some coffee….stay out of the kiddos Easter baskets.
That is a fabulous report!!! Wow!!
I am so glad you got the port, even though it sure was a rocky go. Yikes!!!!
A bit of advice – Ask for a prescription of lidocaine cream that you can apply to your port site about an hour before they stick you. (Mine was lidocaine 2.5% and prilocaine 2.5%.) Use a generous blob! (A cut up zip-lock bag worked great to cover the goo. It was less flimsy than saran wrap. I used paper tape to keep it all in place – OFF my shirt and ON the port site.) Seriously, that cream was the BEST! Even with the giant needle, I never had pain. A little pressure, but never ever pain!
Praying that your next rounds will continue to Kill off the ugly Paps and that your side effects are easily managed.
Thank you! The cream was a universal suggestion and I have it-ready to be used this week! Hope you are doing well. I believe you had just been diagnosed right before or after our move. Yes, happy dance all around for the port.


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BDS operatives protest the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in New York. (Twitter) Twitter
BDS Hits Sour Note with Israeli Orchestra Boycott in New York
anti-Israel boycott
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"The [BDS] dogs bark, but [Israel's] melody continues," remarked Israel's Consul General in New York after pro-boycott group tried to disrupt a Carnegie Hall performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
By: TPS
Anti-Israel protesters on Sunday attempted to disturb a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York.
A few days prior to the performance, anti-Israel elements, led by the pro-BDS Adalah group, began to drum up support for the protest on social media.
Adalah ("Justice" in Arabic) describes itself as an independent human rights organization that protects the human rights of "Palestinians in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories."
Dozens of protesters heeded its call and demonstrated outside the concert.
The demonstrators said that Israeli cultural institutions should be boycotted, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, "which is part of the Israeli apartheid regime."
Dani Dayan, Israel's Consul General in New York was present at the concert and commented that he was "proud of the arrival of the Philharmonic Orchestra in the United States. Israeli culture is sought throughout the world, it is the pride of Israel."
Responding to the demonstration, he stated, "This is not the first time that extremist anti-Israeli elements have organized a protest against Israeli culture. No protest will stop Israeli culture from flourishing in Israel and abroad. The dogs bark and our melody continues."
Proponents of boycotts of Israel, such as Adalah, claim that financial, academic and cultural sanctions against Israel are a nonviolent struggle against the so-called "Israeli occupation."
Critics say their activities are a modern form of anti-Semitism and that their true objective is to destroy the State of Israel.
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washingtonpost.com > Nation > Green
Estimate of spilled oil goes up, and BP stock price goes down
Admiral: 630,000 gallons of oil captured a day
U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says the oil spill containment operation in the Gulf of Mexico is now catching up to 630,000 gallons (15,000 barrels) daily. Allen told reporters that "we continue to make progress."
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By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
The stock price of BP plunged more than 15 percent Wednesday to a 14-year low as it became increasingly clear that the amount of oil spewing out of the Deepwater Horizon well is substantially greater than the company or the federal government initially estimated.
Coast Guard Adm. Thad W. Allen, head of the government's spill response, said that BP collected 15,000 barrels of oil (630,000 gallons) from the blown well on Tuesday but that significantly more was escaping the containment cap into the ocean. Allen said the company is moving a "mobile drilling unit" to the site that will increase the receiving capacity to 28,000 barrels (almost 1.2 million gallons) a day.
The quantity of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico has been the subject of speculation and controversy for weeks. Early in the crisis, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued an estimate of 210,000 gallons a day, but more recently a government-appointed team of scientists known as the Flow Rate Technical Group produced estimates of 504,000 to 1.05 million gallons.
Because the damages and penalties that could be levied against BP would be based on the amount of oil released into the gulf, investors interpreted Wednesday's news as substantially increasing the company's potential liability.
Allen also said Wednesday that the 1,000-foot shuttle tanker Loch Rannoch was headed to the gulf from the North Sea. The tanker is capable of withstanding rougher seas than the ships currently in place at the crowded blowout site.
Along the Gulf Coast, the damage to wildlife is becoming more apparent. A rescue center in Louisiana said it has gotten more than five times as many oily birds in the past few days than in the previous six weeks.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's rescue center in coastal Louisiana has reported a little more than 400 birds since the BP well blew out April 20. Of those, 350 were brought in since Thursday.
Since the Deepwater Horizon explosion, BP's stock price has dropped by more than 50 percent. Wednesday's decline was attributed to both the amount of oil flowing from the well and comments from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that the Obama administration will ask BP to repay the salaries of workers laid off because of the six-month moratorium on deepwater exploratory drilling.
Phil Weiss, an oil analyst with Argus Research in New York, said momentum is working against BP as the news gets progressively worse despite the increased capture of oil. He said he thinks the company can survive, "but there's more doubt in my mind than there was a week ago. Momentum is a powerful thing."
Concerns have also grown that BP will have to suspend its dividend payment under pressure from U.S. lawmakers who say the money should go toward paying legal claims and for environmental repair in the gulf. In the past two days, seven analysts have cut their expectations on the likely payout, giving more reason to sell the stock.
Although officials of the administration and BP communicate every day, President Obama told NBC's Matt Lauer Tuesday that he has not spoken directly with company chief executive Tony Hayward.
He told Lauer he expected that Hayward would just tell him what he wanted to hear -- an explanation that was revised Wednesday by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. The spokesman said that Hayward had no independent authority and that decisions are made by the board of directors and its chairman.
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This is a list of schools within the Royal Air Force, empire flying training scheme, civilian and service elementary training schemes, as well as gliding schools.
The Royal Air Force operated many schools to train aircrew in the many and various skills required to operate an air force.
To train pilots for the Royal Air Force, there have been many flying training schools, which are listed here.
No. 3 Central Flying School RAF - Planned but never formed.
As well as powered aircraft, the Royal Air Force has operated a large number of gliders both for military tasks and for Cadet training.
Halley, James J. The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918-1988. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1988. ISBN 0-85130-164-9.
Jefford, C.G. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001). ISBN 1-85310-053-6.
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Kansas City Police Search For SUV After Deadly South Side Nativity Scene Shoot Out: Stolen Baby Jesus Saved From Gun Fight
Whilst our community of d-bags argues about property values, police are searching for a gang of combatants who shot up the South side on Sunday and reported FIRST on TKC.
Check it . . .
KCPD: SUV sought in connection with Sunday's south Kansas City homicide
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"Kansas City, Missouri, police identified the city's 171st homicide victim in 2020. He was found shot to death around 5 p.m. in a vehicle at the scene. KCPD also released a photo of an SUV, which police said appears to be a tan or silver Ford Explorer from the 2010s model year. Investigators are interested in locating the vehicle and speaking with its occupants."
"Everybody's just a little shook up and confused. Because it's just not normal behavior for this neighborhood," the homeowner said.
Meanwhile, one of the MOST KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS notes a not-so-fun fact about property crime and sacrilege from the scene of this tragedy . . .
"Pre-Christmas miracle: The home owners whose front lawn served as the stage for this gun battle reported the theft of baby Jesus from their expansive Nativity just a few days ago, sparing Our Lord from the traumatic experience."
LOL. Glad you're trying to search for good news.
$60,000 for that house tops.
Love, D-bag
Can the lord save this city is the real question
"Dear Lord Baby Jesus, or as our brothers to the south call you, Jesús, we thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Domino's, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just want to take time to say thank you for my family, my two beautiful, beautiful, handsome, striking sons, Walker and Texas Ranger, or T.R. as we call him, and of course, my red-hot smoking wife, Carly who is a stone-cold fox." Ricky Bobby
"Dear Lord baby Jesus, lyin' there in your ghost manger, just lookin' at your Baby Einstein developmental videos, learnin' 'bout shapes and colors. I would like to thank you for bringin' me and my mama together, and also that my kids no longer sound like retarded gang-bangers." — Ricky Bobby
"I like to picture my Jesus in a tuxedo T-shirt. 'Cause it says like, I wanna be formal but I'm here to party too. I like to party, so I like my Jesus to party." — Cal Naughton, Jr.
"I like to think of Jesus as an Ice Dancer, dressed in an all-white jumpsuit, and doing an interpretive dance of my life." — Cal Naughton, Jr.
Me, I like to think of Baby Jesus laying in the manger in a MAGA Hat, smiling while thinking of the "Donald" as he is inaugurated on Jan. 20th 2021. chuck
Clearly the mayor and clowncil are incapable of saving us.
Very typical for some Black guy to have a White baby Jesus in his front yard.
Dang, T! Why do we have to be d-bags. That was a legitimate discussion about property values and the condition of the neighborhood. Likely, somebody you knew lived in this area and they were trying to defend their shitty existence and neighborhood. Well, it's a piece of shit community but folks don't know that until they've seen neighborhoods that are much less shitty. Blacks are in to the latest it thing... except when it comes to housing. They think their 1950's style house is the bees knees and it hasn't been for a very long time.
And another point of contention... the comment was that this neighborhood had nice cars in the driveway/garage. Police beg to differ citing " KCPD also released a photo of an SUV, which police said appears to be a tan or silver Ford Explorer from the 2010s model year." Are we calling decade-old Ford Explorers nice cars? From the videos, most of those cars were at least a decade old too. Nobody wants to drive a Charger. I didn't see 1 nice car in the video. That comment guy has really low expectations.
Aren't you a fucking prince?
Is the KANSAS CITY ATHEIST COALITION involved? Asking for a friend.
gawd no!
Urban scholars on their way to class - just excited Kamala is canceling their school loans.
These are KC scholars at their finest
MDSF said...
...So @7:59..just how was 'jesus' born? 'comon you can tell us....just 'popped out'? How'd 'The Virgin' get knocked up again? Please let us know the way these things happened...
This ex-cath. atheist wants to know....17yrs. didn't convince me that it did....


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HomeBiographySyed Nasir Hussain Shah, PPP Talented and Active Member
Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, PPP Talented and Active Member
Syed Nasir Hussain Shah s/o Ghulam Shabbir Shah was born on 10 November 1964 at Rohri, District Sukkur. He passed MA (Political Science) from Shah Latif University, Khairpur.
Since stepping to politics he has remained linked with Pakistan Peoples Party. He is an active member of PPP ever enjoyed its support. He started his political career after becoming as mayor of Sukkur from 2001 to 2005. Later he became mayor of Sukkur again from 2005 to 2008.
During general elections 2008, he contested as candidate of PPP provincial seat from Sukkur. He won these elections and became member of provincial assembly.
Nasir Hussain Shah also contested as candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party on Provincial Assembly seat at PS 2 (Sukkur II). During which remained member of Sindh Assembly after getting 34664 votes.
During May 2018, Mir Panal Talpur submitted petition against Nasir Hussain Shah for holding Aqama of UAE. The petitioner appealed in his petition against Nasir Hussain Shah that he has aqama from UAE from the year 2009. But he had not mentioned in nomination papers submitted for contesting in general elections 2018. The petitioner added that being employee of a foreign company and full time salaried person, nobody can hold the seat of minister or office of high appointment. This act is violation of Article 62 and 63 of Constitution of Pakistan. But, Nasir Hussain Shah had shown in his nomination papers as agriculturist from general elections 2013.
He was reelected as member of Provincial Assembly from PS 25 (Sukkur IV) during general elections 2018 and won the seat after getting 42490 votes.
He was inducted into Sindh assembly cabinet of CM Syed Murad Ali Shah and appointed as Minister of Sindh for works and services.
Nasir Hussain Shah was previously enjoying the ministry of Provincial Minister for Works and Services from 5 Sep 2018 to Aug 2019.
On 5 August 2019, he was appointed Provincial Minister of Sindh for Local Government, Forests and Religious Affairs and still holds these appointments.
As per statements of assets submitted by himself, he has livestock worth Rupees 5.8 Mn, Furniture worth Rupees 1.2 Million. He has Corolla Car 2010 Model ATE-224 for rupees 1.295 Mn, and tractor trollies amounting to rupees 3.75 Million. He has also 70 tola gold worth Rupees 0.46 Million. He has Agricultural lands worth 0.396 Million. He has also cash in hand amounting to Rupees 6.9 Million. One Bugalow at Rohri worth Rs 5.00 Million. He has also shown in assets as 50% ownership a plot. He has also 104 acres agricultural lands and one bungalow at Clifton, Karachi. Moreover, sources have discovered that he has 40 acres agricultural lands on the name of his spouse and 22 acres agricultural lands on the name of his son Kumail Shah. Reportedly, he has three bank accounts having balance worth Rs 1.1 Million.
Syed Nasir Hussain Shah enjoys happy family life and has proud to be father of well raised children. He is satisfied and happy very much from his loving family. He praises that behind all his success is due to his family support and prayers. He has one wife and two sons Syed Kumel Shah and Syed Akbar Nasir Shah.
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The Travis County Sheriff's Law Enforcement Association (TCSLEA) Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 912 was founded in September 2001. We represent nearly 700 members throughout the Austin area. Our members, as police and correctional officers, patrol and emergency management personnel, are not only dedicated to each other, but to serve and protect the local community.
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On September 18, 2014, we lost one of our own.
Shortly before 2:00 am on Thursday, September 18th, Patrol Officer Jessica Laura Hollis was checking for low water crossings when her vehicle was swept away by floodwaters. Jessica had been a commissioned peace officer since 2006, and had worked as a Travis County Deputy Sheriff for 7 years.
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2016 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award New Illustrator Winner
EJK Book Award Medalists and Honorees (from left to right): Julia Sarcone-Roach, Phoebe Wahl, Megan Dowd Lambert, Rowboat Watkins, Ryan T. Higgins, and Don Tate. Posted with permission from Megan Dowd Lambert. #GetBehindPictureBooks
Known collectively as the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, the New Writer Award was established in 1985 and the New Illustrator Award in 2001 to recognize and encourage emerging talent in the field of children's books. This year, we would like to congratulate Phoebe Wahl for winning the New Illustrator Award for Sonya's Chickens! Check out her interview here.
Sonya's Chickens
Written by Phoebe Wahl
Hardcover | 32 Pages | Ages 4-8
"A father's thoughtful explanation provides a helpful perspective for a child's loss…. There's an old-fashioned feel to this simple story and its timeless illustrations, created with watercolor, collage, and colored pencil and reminiscent of Goodnight Moon in mood, design, and palette…. Both words and illustrations emphasize comfort and the security a family can provide…. A reassuring story about death in the natural world, thoughtfully designed and illustrated." — Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews
Congratulations to Don Tate for the New Writer Award and to all the Honor Book creators: Megan Dowd Lambert, Julia Sarcone-Roach, Ryan T. Higgins, and Rowboat Watkins!
The EJK Book Award is given annually to an outstanding new writer and new illustrator by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. A distinguished selection committee of early childhood education specialists, librarians, illustrators and experts in children's literature reviews the entries, seeking books that portray the universal qualities of childhood, a strong and supportive family, and the multicultural nature of our world. Click here for an 11 x 17-inch EJK Book Award poster to display in your home, classroom, library, or store!


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This Startup Founder Is Putting Her Experience to Work Leading Colorado's Crisis Response Team
Elisa Miller-Out 24 April 2020
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The value of strong, capable leadership is never more apparent than during a crisis such as the one the world is currently going through. Leaders don't just spring up, however. They're developed over a long period of time. As managing partner of Chloe Capital, a seed stage venture capital firm focused on women-led tech companies, we've built our firm around the core value of investing in promising female founders with great, forward-thinking ideas, especially those moving ahead of the curve.
One of those leaders is Sarah Tuneberg, who was just plucked from her role as co-founder and CEO of Geospiza to direct Colorado's Innovation Response Team (IRT) and immediately address the pandemic. With a background in public health and emergency response, Colorado Governor Jared Polis has tasked her with uniting public and private sector resources and innovations for the state's emergency response to the COVID-19 virus.
I spoke with Sarah, who's running both her company and the IRT from a bedroom quarantine. In the course of her IRT work, she was exposed to someone who later tested positive for the virus. I asked her to fill me in on how she is shaping the state's efforts.
"Governor Polis is a tech entrepreneur and he wanted to engage the private sector in service of the state, " said Sarah. "That's a really innovative idea. We talk a lot about public—private partnerships, but it doesn't always work very well."
Sarah is leading a team of fourteen professionals, joined by more than 300 volunteer software engineers, hoping to bring entrepreneurial thinking and the speed of iteration from the private sector to this government response. The team was assembled in less than 14 days, an incredible feat of scaling up.
Sarah's team is focusing on four key areas:
Ramping up local capacity to produce critical supplies like personal protective equipment
Deploying a mass, community-based testing strategy
Providing support such as food, internet, health care, and education to citizens of Colorado to enable them to stay at home
Developing mobile and other technologies to help track the spread of the virus and support infected citizens.
Sarah, who was recently named a Cartier Women's Initiative Fellow, is drawing upon her experience as a startup founder to inform her work on coronavirus response.
"Building a startup is an experience of comfort in the unknown and being able to execute quickly with little information," says Sarah. "At the moment, I have to make quick decisions with only the information I have at the moment."
Sarah is also drawing upon her strength as a "people-keeper," her management skills, and her communication strategies. "In times of crisis, you need to rely on your network and be transparent. When you are rapidly scaling a team, you have to trust and empower that team."
While Sarah is fully invested in Colorado's pandemic response at the moment, she is also gathering insights to bring back to her company, Geospiza – an intuitive climate risk assessment platform that helps risk managers, sustainability teams, operation departments, and asset managers to quantify and take action against climate and natural hazard risks. The company allows clients to visualize asset risk to a variety of hazards including flood, heat, drought, hurricane and cyclone, and wildfire – and breaks down the costs and benefits of potential actions.
While Geospiza already included pandemic response in its modelling, Sarah realizes that this is the perfect moment to help clients understand how interconnected climate change and human health can be.
"One of the things we know is going to happen in the time of climate change is that we're going to have more disease," she says. "Our product is really about helping companies take steps to reduce or mitigate their risk in deeply uncertain times. We're really interested not just in sounding the alarm of the risk you're facing, but giving companies and communities the tools to effectively manage that risk and move out of the alarm stage."
The CEOs who are moving out of the alarm stage and already making plans are faring better in response to coronavirus. Sarah is also one of a handful of female founders in the risk assessment software vertical. I asked her what she thinks her perspective as a woman founder brings to her work.
"Female founders are more likely to come with really robust and diverse experience that informs their company visions," says Sarah. "We're founding companies around our experienced pain, and so we're much more connected to the mission. We have a lens of equity and empathy in our companies. As women, our core values are not to just be making money for ourselves and our investors, but to be doing something better for the world."
Research backs up Sarah's instincts. The 2020 Women in U.S. Technology Leadership Report notes that "…companies are more likely to thrive when they include various voices and backgrounds from different places."
Despite the current state of the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic difficulties, Sarah remains hopeful for the future. "At times of crisis comes incredible innovation," she says. "Investors shouldn't be afraid of this moment, but should be supportive of their portfolio companies and new ideas that are coming out, because this stressful, terrible time is going to lead to incredible new ideas. Doubling down rather than running away is what we should all be doing right now."
Chloe Capital is an investor in Geospiza. Our firm focuses on catalyzing solutions to the gender and diversity gap in entrepreneurship.
Elisa Miller-Out
Managing Partner of Chloe Capital
Elisa Miller-Out is currently co-founder of PollQ, a polling software startup and managing partner of Chloe Capital, an early stage investment fund. She also serves on the board of Women 2.0, the leading global media brand for women in tech. Elisa is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Cornell University's Blackstone Launchpad. She's based in Ithaca, NY, but grew up in New Orleans and spent time in New York City as well.
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Students plan to participate in "Hands Up Don't Shoot" graduation
Published on : May 18, 2015 May 20, 2015 Published by : Angeline Ubaldo
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As graduating students prepare for commencement, some will use the opportunity as a final form of student activism by putting their hands up to show solidarity for the victims of police shootings.
The Black Student Union and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán are organizing students to participate in the "Hands Up Don't Shoot Graduation" during several 2015 commencement ceremonies at SF State. They hope to support the national movement that has raised attention the issue of police shootings, according to senior broadcast and electronic communication arts student and main organizer, Xavier Galindo.
From Michael Brown's death in Ferguson in August 2014 to Freddie Gray's more recent death in April, protesters nationwide have led actions calling for justice for victims of police negligence. Students demonstrated solidarity at SF State during the National Day of Awareness Against Police Brutality last October when students dropped "dead" at a die-in demonstration.
"I don't think we've done enough," Galindo said. "This has been happening for what, a year and a half? This issue of police shootings. I believe the university has a long history of activism and I don't think we've seen enough from college students here in terms of what happened."
Students who participate in social movements and protests are willing to risk more since they don't face the same consequences their parents do, according to political science professor Robert Smith.
"Over the years, young people tend to have more freedom than their elders," Smith said. "That is, they don't have responsibilities like mortgage or loans."
Anthony Amaro, graduating psychology student and BSU member said he plans to put his hands up at the ceremonies he's attending to bring awareness and unity surrounding the issue of what he calls is an oppressive system against people of color.
"As people of color are being affected negatively by systems and policies put in place that seem to really affect a certain type of people," Amaro said. "People of color really need to unify on that and really start to be aware of just what we're against."
Amaro said that it is particularly important for SF State to show solidarity the victims of police shootings considering the history of activism on campus. He credited BSU's efforts in collaboration with other organizations in the 1960s to form the college of ethnic studies.
BSU and the Third World Liberation Front led a major five month campus strike in 1968 which resulted in the creation of the ethnic studies department, according to an SF State news brief.
"We created something– the (College of) Ethnic studies," Amaro said. "If we want more of that on a grander scale, we have to come together on a grander scale. This was campus unity."
Smith said although that the activism students participate in now is much more conventional than in the 1960s, they are still forerunners in creating social change.
"I wouldn't expect any powerful social movements to be effective unless it had students in some way as the vanguard of it," Smith said.
Galindo said he strongly believed that college students have a voice worth listening to.
"I want people to see that young college students care about this issue and that we also have something to say about it," Galindo said. "We want to express our opinions about it and hopefully that influences people in power and encourages others to join and do something about it."
Galindo said he is dedicating his last days at SF State to help college students realize the waves they can create in national policy.
"I just want college students to be more politicized and feel more empowered to do something and say something," Galindo said.
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Crumb On Others Part 7
CRUMB ON OTHERS Part Seven
Originally Published in December, 2013
This is the seventh in a continuing series of discussions. In November, 2013, I asked Robert for his comments on another list of celebrities and artists.
Robert: Ah yes, Annette. She was the one in the Mickey Mouse Club that all the boys had the hots for because she had tits; very early on she developed tits. She just died recently. And it turned out, she was quite short. Somebody I know met her and said she was very short.
I was not attracted to her. I was actually a little too old when the Mickey Mouse Club first started in 1955. I didn't swallow it and it seemed very patronizing to me. The whole Disney thing was kind of through for me by the time I was, let's see, I was 12 in 1955. So I didn't quite buy into the Mickey Mouse Club. But we liked to watch the old cartoons they showed. But that whole thing with the kids with ears, that just seemed stupid. And the host of the show, this guy Jimmy Dodd, had such a patronizing way of talking to the viewers, which he knew were kids: "M-I-C-K-E-Y, why? Because we like you." Yeah, that was quite repulsive. [laughs] It was awful.
Robert: Allen Ginsberg kissed me once. It was in 1989, before I knew what was going on and I couldn't stop him, he kissed me on the mouth. [laughs]
I like Howl. Howl's great. It's like the beatnik manifesto of the '50s, y' know, it really says it all. It's got that beatnik attitude of that time in America. It's quite eloquent. But after that, he didn't really do anything that struck me as particularly interesting. But he was like a spokesman for the hippies in the '60s too. He would lead the hippies in all those Indian chants. He tried to lead them in the direction of spirituality, an East Indian kind of spirituality with meditation and chanting and all that.
Robert: Lenny Bruce was an interesting case. He was kind of a semi-criminal, a low-life character. There's a biography of him written by a guy named Gold-something [Albert Goldman wrote a biography on Lenny Bruce, and a Jonathan Goldstein wrote another, so I have no idea which biography Robert is talking about.— Alex] and it's pretty interesting. He was a junkie and all that, but he was funny and kind of revolutionary in his time. He used to say, "Don't do schtick." That was one of his mottos. Y' know, you should always try and be original, in life as well as in your performance. "Don't do bits."
They did a movie about him in the '70s called Lenny. It was kinda interesting. Aline and I were in Florida at the time visiting and staying with her grandparents. So we took them to see that movie because we were interested in Lenny Bruce. They didn't know anything about him, but they said, "Yeah, sure we'll go to the movies." Alright, so we go to the movies where they immediately fell asleep about ten minutes into the movie. After, when we're coming out of the theatre, I asked her grandfather Joe, "Joe, what did you think of that movie?" His only comment, as he put his cigar in his mouth, was "Gah-bage." [laughs]
But Lenny Bruce was fucking and hustling these showgirls and chorus girls all the time, because he worked in nightclubs and sleazy places. So yeah, he was busy with those showgirls. He probably did some pimping too. He was pretty sleazy. He was in a couple of grade B movies in the '50s where he plays this really rough character and he's like roughing this one woman up, and it's too realistic.
Robert: Well, I haven't really read that much of his stuff. I read his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He was a pretty crazy guy. I met him a couple of times. He used to hang out at that Mitchell Brothers Theater on O'Farrell Street in San Francisco, which was a strip joint run by the Mitchell Brothers. There was this kind of like Irish-Journalist-Mafia that used to hang around there. He and these other Irish characters from San Francisco who were into journalism there, newspaper guys, they hung around there for some reason, I don't know why. Who's that guy with the eyepatch? He used to write for Ramparts Magazine, investigative journalist, he dug up dirt on the CIA back in the '60s… Warren Hinkle. Anyway, they all hung out there. But Thompson did a lot of cocaine and drank, and then he would go on these long "cocaine raps," ranting and raving. But by the time I met him, y' know, he was already well-advanced to being really fucking out of his mind.
Alex: About what time was that?
Robert: The eighties, early to mid-'80s.
Robert: I think Escher is great. I love that optical-illusion stuff he did. It's very well-executed and ingeniously thought out. he became very popular with the hippies in the '60s, and they sold millions of posters of his drawings, which were kind of psychedelic. For the hippies, it was trippy. [laughs] But they're good. I like him.
Robert: Love 'im; love Scott Joplin. But I like ragtime, and he was the premier ragtime composer. There were other great composers too, lots of them. Joplin might be the best. I don't know. I don't know enough about it to say. I guess what you can say is he wrote more great Rags than anyone else. Other people might have written one or two or three great Rags but Joplin wrote lots of them. You know, 20 or 30 great compositions in that genre. It's funny about Ragtime: you don't hear it very much. It's this great, great American music but you never hear it. They don't play it on the radio. Considering how they play Classical music and the same composers over and over, these European classical composers. But here's this great American genre of Ragtime and there's tons of it, but they never play it. I suppose part of the problem is it's hard finding good performances of it. It's hard to play well, actually. But there are great performers around. There's a great Ragtime player in New Orleans named David Boeddinghaus, he's a great Ragtime performer. I'm sure he's got CDs of that kind of music out there. From collecting 78s, I can tell you there's so much great Ragtime on 78s. But they're not going to play those on the radio. With 78s, there's too much sound quality problems, n' all that. Some of them go back to sound recordings done in the 1890s. And then there's kind of a blur between earlier styles of Cake-walk/Minstrel tunes and Ragtime- they kind of blend together. And then by the 1920s, Ragtime blends into this genre of early Jazz and novelty music. Jelly Roll Morton and others took it from there. It's arguable whether you can consider it Ragtime at that point. What Ragtime's about is syncopation, syncopated melodies.
Yeah, but Scott Joplin died broke. He got ripped-off by the music publishing companies. Everybody did back then. Music publishers were all sharks.
Robert: He directed some of my favorite films, like Goodfellas; classic. And King of Comedy, that's a great movie and great social commentary. Yeah, it's got his man DeNiro in it, who's in a lot of his movies. I think Goodfellas is probably the best film about the modern American crime syndicates. Casino was kind of a follow-up to Goodfellas, and I didn't think it was quite as good. Probably Goodfellas got so much praise it kind of went to his head so everybody got together and made this indulgent film. It had it's good parts, it was good, it just wasn't as good asGoodfellas. For one thing, there were too many close ups on DeNiro's face. I just kept wanting the camera to back-off. OK, you think the guy's great looking, but Jesus, OK, it's enough, back-off!
Robert: Well, I liked One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. That was good. I read that. I thought that was an excellent book for that time. And then later he became this hippie guru and got this bus with the Merry Pranksters and all that stuff. But I didn't think he as so interesting after that. And later he became this big Kahuna of this hippie commune up in the Northwest somewhere. But Cuckoo's Nest was great, just excellent. It came from a time when mental institutions were a big thing in America. There were a lot of them, and a lot of people threw their relatives and kids in these mental institutions at the drop of a hat. Back in the early '60s, a lot of the kids my age had been in and out of mental institutions. Their parents just stuck 'em in there if they showed the slightest bit of eccentricity. And they gave them awful treatments like shock therapy, thorazine, and all sorts of horrible drugs. I remember one girl I knew flipped out so I went to see her and they had her locked in this room with all these crazy women. They let me in the room to visit her and locked the door behind me. I sat and talked to her for a while and then when it was time to leave they let me out. Then locked this big metal door with a little glass window in the middle of it and she had her little face pressed up against the window looking out at me from this big metal door. That was the last I saw of her. She was an early girlfriend of mine….the first girl I ever kissed. This is back in 1963. But I knew other people in my age group who were alienated and depressed and their parents would just put them in those institutions. AndCuckoo's Nest kind of came out of that whole thing. And then of course Reagan came along and disbanded a lot of the mental institutions and flooded the streets with crazy people.
You know, Kesey was involved in these LSD experiments when he was quite young. He might have been in the service, I'm not sure. But he was given LSD experimentally. And he wrote about that. It was very early, like in the late '50s.
Robert: Harvey, my pal… my buddy Harvey. I first met him in 1962. My friend Marty Pahls knew him. I first moved to Cleveland and was rooming with Marty in late 1962. Pekar lived a couple of blocks away. He was a record collector, so Marty took me over to meet him. Marty liked to hang out there. Pekar was heavily into modern jazz: bebop and progressive jazz. He used to sit around his apartment and listen to these crazy bebop and modern jazz records and talk about the music. He was the first guy I ever met who used hipster language at that time. I had read Jack Keroak and other beatnik stuff and I thought he was the closest person I had met up until then — I was 19 at that time — that actually embodied that beatnik persona. The way he dressed, talked, and he had these wacky, modernistic paintings on the walls all around his apartment. [laughs] He was a very soulful guy. Then he got married to this horrible woman. She was a very unpleasant person. Harvey was not a very clean guy, his house was always a slob-pit, but his wife was even worse. So his house turned into this God-awful filth-pit.
But you know, Pekar, he's the guy who always stayed in Cleveland. He never left. Since he never moved from Cleveland, he basically became the guy who told the story of Cleveland. And he's the kind of person who you admire for sticking with his class allegiance to the working class. Even though he was an autodidact intellectual, his sympathies were working class. He never developed an intellectual style of talking. He always talked in very plain language and I always admired that about him. He was a difficult person though, he had a difficult personality. He was so intense; just coming out of his skin with burning intensity all the time, which could be exhausting.
But he was a great comic book writer. I liked drawing his comics, it was enjoyable drawing them.
Alex: Why did you stop?
Robert: Because I wanted to draw my own stuff. He would have been totally happy if I just completely dedicated myself to drawing his comics and nothing else. He had a big ego, and he didn't care if I continued to draw my own stuff or not. And in order to persuade me to draw his comics he would tell me, "Aw Crumb, you're all washed-up; you're finished. It's over for you. You should get on the bandwagon with my stuff — my stuff is really what's happening. My stuff is the hottest thing." [laughs] Yeah, I liked drawing his stuff, 'cuz it was good, you know, story and dialog, but I didn't want to spend all of my time just drawing his stuff. So, he very quickly realized that and got other artists to draw his stuff too. He chased down all kinds of artists to draw his comics. There must have been at least 30 or 40 different artists all together that illustrated his stories, because he didn't draw at all. He never even tried to learn. But he understood comics very well, and the rhythm of comics. He was always an avid comic book reader. Even Marvel comics and all that stuff. He was deeply into comics so he had a feel for how to tell a story in comic book form. But he never made any money at it, he was always broke.Then he got married to his third wife. She wasn't really a very pleasant person either.
Alex: Third wife? What happened to his first wife?
Robert: She left him. [laughs] She took all the money out of their bank account and ran off with some black guy. Never heard from her again. This was way back in the late '60s. They had been together for about five years. But she was nasty, unfriendly, had this shrill, penetrating, whiney voice, "Ha-a-arveee!"
Then he married a woman named Lark. I never met her but she was supposedly very nice. But she was trying to have a career in academia and Harvey would embarrass her. They'd go to these academic cocktail parties and Harvey would deliberately antagonize these professors. He thought the whole academia thing was bullshit. So he used to embarrass her and she'd become angry at him until finally she gave up on him. He was too difficult. Then he married his third wife who is a rather difficult woman herself.
Alex: Are you familiar with his appearances on the Letterman show? And that he was kicked-off?
Robert: [laughs] Yeah, that was great. I remember once when the whole audience was booing and he said, "Ahhh shut up. You're all just a bunch a' sheep," or something like that. Finally, they just cut him off. He used to try to antagonize Letterman, try and get him to get real and shed his talk show persona. He needled him about how GE owned the network and how the CEO would dictate programming to NBC.
But as he got older, he mellowed a little. The cancer really took a lot of the wind out of his sails. Up until he got cancer, he was really a hyper character.
Alex: When I met him, he seemed to be very appreciative of you and all the help you had given him.
Robert: Yeah, I always appreciated that about him. He'd always praised my work. And it's probably true that my work helped him get his stuff published and out there, my illustrating his stories. That helped, and he appreciated that. When I kept telling him I didn't have time to do any more work for him, he would bribe me by finding rare 78s for me. And he was very resourceful about it. He found really great old 1920s records just around Cleveland.
AL JAFFEE (Mad Magazine Cartoonist)
Robert: Well, I think he did his best work when he was working for Kurtzman at Humbug magazine. That was his best stuff. He wasn't as good before that, and he wasn't quite as intense afterward. Maybe the same could be said about Arnold Roth at Humbug. And Jack Davis and Elder did some of their best work in Humbug. They also did great work in early Mad, during the time when Kurtzman was in charge of it. And Wally Wood… actually all of his best work was done for Kurtzman. Kurtzman, I don't know, somehow he lit some kind of fire under these artists and made them perform at the top of their ability.
Robert: He came into Mad magazine after Kurtzman quit, during the Feldstein era of Mad. I always thought his style was very square. I thought he should have been working for the Jehovah Witnesses Watchtower magazine or something. But because of that, his drawing style was always interesting to me. There was something "unslick" about it, kind of "out of it." Not "in" with it, but an "out of it" artist. And I didn't think his jokes were particularly funny, or anything. I always thought it was odd that he was in Mad. David Berg, a very individual character, an artist who drew very literally, whose style was homely and unartful… skillful but unartful. Interesting.
Robert: Here's a little jewish guy who came from Eastern Europe [at that time Russia] and he wrote these great songs that are so deeply American, White Christmas and Easter Parade. [laughs] "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas." I'm sure he never even celebrated Christmas. He probably celebrated Hanukkah. But in the '20s he wrote a lot of excellent popular songs. He was one of many of that generation of Tin Pan Alley song writers: the Gershwins; Walter Donaldson; Dorthy Fields; Jimmy McHugh; DeSylva, Brown and Henderson… there were so many of them. And they just wrote tons of songs in that period, in the 1920s and '30s. That was the golden age for Tin Pan Alley songwriting. But I don't think Berlin's songs were any better than any of the others that I mentioned. And there were so many more. They were all these songwriting teams; one would write the melodies the other would write the lyrics. But I think Berlin was one of the few that did both.
Tin Pan Alley was 23rd Street in New York. Up and down that street there were dozens of songwriting and publishing outfits all with pianos playing away composing songs all day long. Hundreds of songwriters did that. And there were lots of bad songs published too; lots of stupid songs. But there was so much, out of the sheer quantity of all those song came lots of great ones. And not all of them are remembered. Lots of them are forgotten. Some hung on as standards, but many great songs got lost in the shuffle.
Nowadays it's all different. It's not like that anymore. Now they're writing songs that are, to me, non-melodies. I don't get it at all. You can't get the melody in your head. Those old songs like "Ain't She Sweet" or "My Blue Heaven" or something, those melodies were catchy so it gets in your head. You're walking around humming it to yourself. But it's not like that anymore. It's weird.
Robert: Sad case, Stephen Foster. He probably single-handedly jump-started the American popular music business. His songs were so popular that he made many song publishers rich. So then a lot of other guys jumped on the bandwagon and tried to write songs with catchy melodies. I mean, it may have existed before, but it was very low-key before Stephen Foster. This all starts in the 1860s. By the 1870s there are already song mills cranking out songs. You can still find tons of old sheet music from the late 19th century when they just cranked and cranked songs out. But Stephen Foster was the first American songwriter to make hits nationally overnight. Like Oh! Susanna which was a huge popular hit around the country around 1850. Mark Twain complained during his first trip out west about having to hear it constantly, people singing it constantly while he travelled out west.
And he wrote all those sentimental songs: Swanee River, Beautiful Dreamer, My Old Kentucky Home, Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair and Hard Times Come No More. They're beautiful songs. He was a great songwriter, bad alcoholic, died broke.
MUDDY WATERS / BUDDY GUY
Robert: Naaaah, I'm not too interested in Muddy Waters. He was one of the first blues guys to make the electric guitar popular though. That's why people keep referring back to him because he was the first blues guy to use electric guitar. And by doing that he became like a guru to lots of younger, black blues musicians in the '50's, in the Chicago scene and all that. I just read an interesting book by Buddy Guy. You know his work?
Alex: Yeah, but you read a book by Buddy Guy?
Robert: Yeah, somebody sent me this book and it's great. I'm not interested in the music but the book is really interesting. It's an autobiography that came out recently. In the book Buddy Guy writes about meeting Muddy Waters and it was like sitting at the feet of a guru. And Muddy Waters advised him about dealing with the music business which was so fucking hard-assed then. Those black guys just got the blood sucked right out of them by those music business people who were, yeah, probably most of them were Jewish who had the race record labels in those days. Does that sound anti-Semitec? It probably does. Hey, I'm sure that those Jews were no more crooked than the general run of goyish businessmen. It just so happened that Jews tended to get into the entertainment business. T'was ever thus.


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The Missing Man Table serves as a reminder to remember those still believed to be missing or held captive.
These words express a sincere acceptance and appreciation to those who have been missed.
They can also take the form of a strong handshake, a solid pat on the shoulder, a long hug, or a noticeable nod of the head.
Very few Vietnam veterans heard these words or experienced these actions when they came home.
He served with the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment from 1969 to 1970. About his service, all he said is that he saw combat and that he served honorably.
The Silver Star pin on the left lapel of his blue coat silently spoke of his heroism.
But no one welcomed him home.
National Vietnam War Veterans Day is celebrated on March 29th. It is a time to honor the courage and welcome back those who served during the Vietnam War.
As the long and politically divisive war came to an end in 1974, President Richard Nixon issued declaration honoring Vietnam veterans.
He chose March 29th because it marked the day a year earlier on which the last remaining American service members departed Vietnam.
From that time forward, states and territories informally marked the day.
"Vietnam Veterans Day was a good start toward recognition of those who served then," said Bill Peterson, who served from 1966 to 1968 as a tail gunner on a B-52.
This country's involvement began on November 1, 1955 and ended on May 15, 1975. During those two decades, approximately 2.7 million service members served in Vietnam.
The wounded numbered over 304,000; the dead numbered over 58,000.
The Vietnam War was very controversial; the nation was as much at war with itself as its soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen were in Vietnam.
The vast majority of returning veterans came home to the indifference of no parades or welcome celebrations, or to the screaming hostilities of protestors who in many instances spat on or assaulted them.
"There was a lot of anger for not getting a welcome home," said Mike Batnick, a veteran who served on the flight deck of the USS Midway in the Tonkin Gulf from 1961 to 1962.
Army and Vietnam veteran Roger King has no regrets about his service.
On March 29, 2012 President Barack Obama proclaimed the day as Vietnam Veterans Day.
Noble in intent, the proclamation only called for a one-time observance of Vietnam veterans.
March 29, 2019 marks the second anniversary of President Donald Trump's signing of the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017.
Presented by Senators Pat Toomey, R-PA, and Joe Donnelly, D-Ind, the act honors Vietnam veterans with a day on the anniversary of the withdrawal of the last military units from Vietnam.
The act calls for all American flags to be flown on March 29th in honor of those who served.


Coming Home by Jane Suen is the second installment of the Flowers of December series. It is the continuation of the Connor Norton's story. He has come back to his hometown during the Christmas holiday, after grieving the loss of his mother. Tom, Connor's mom's cat, has been helping him during the grieving process. While in town, he is reunited with Mary Ann, which he would love to rekindle their relationship. Mary Ann is currently in a relationship with someone else, but could a Christmas miracle bring her and Connor back together? This is a short read with a great storyline that will keep you engaged until he end. Keep the tissues handy for this emotional story about love, healing and forgiveness. I highly recommend this series and look forward to more great books by Jane Suen.


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Growing up in the universe – Waking up in the universe (1991)
In the first of his CHRISTMAS LECTURES, Richard Dawkins explores the origins of life. Beginning with a look at our ancestry, he shows how the probability of our existence is very small.
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Lecture 1 - Waking up in the universe
Life grows up in the universe by gradual degrees of evolution. Billions of years ago, there existed a vast population of bacteria. But it was only an elite group of these bacteria that evolved to become humans. In truth, we are lucky to be alive.
In the first of his CHRISTMAS LECTURES, Richard Dawkins explores the origins of life. Beginning with a look at our ancestry, he shows how the probability of our existence is very small. Becoming an ancestor is much more difficult than simple reproduction, and Richard reveals how our ancestors did what it took to survive and pass on their genes.
But although some of our life must be devoted to perpetuating it, surely there must be more to it? Richard explores the role of art and culture in society, and examines how the capabilities of the human body have enabled us to accomplish complex tasks.
When it comes to our understanding of the meaning of life, science is important. As Richard explains, science can help us uncover both when we arrived on this planet, and why we are here. Some people turn to the supernatural for the answer to such questions. Richard looks at the limitations of beliefs in the supernatural and uses a cannonball to prove why instead we should have faith in science and its predictions.
About the 1991 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
The world-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins presents the CHRISTMAS LECTURES on "our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe."
Just as children grow up to be adults, so too does life gradually evolve on a planet over thousands of generations, to move from "nonliving simplicity" to become "living complexity".
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The first time I "met" Ion Cuervas-Mons was on twitter, when he still was in Shanghai to direct the construction of Madrid Pavilion for Shanghai Expo. The second time I've heard of him it was because he was working on relationships between parametric design and games and we started exchanging a lot of interesting ideas – here is an article in French .
Once Ion invited me to a meeting to discuss a project called OPENARCH.
He absolutely wanted to design and build a house to create a new model of living, strongly connected to the Internet and inspired by the open-source philosophy.
That idea has now turned into a real appartement, located next to Bilbao – map.
Openarch is a real prototype of a smart home.
The first home designed from scratch to incorporate a digital layer connecting the house and its elements to the Internet.
Its inhabitants lead a new digital and connected life. It is flexible and thanks to its ability to transform, it can adapt to any condition that the user requires.
The digital layer – which from now on we will call D. OS (domestic operating system) – includes a series of components that allow users to stay connected to anyone or any place; control the house's components by the movement of the body; hold conferences from home; know the power consumption at any time; activate any electrical household appliance from work; share a live video of your cooking recipes with the rest of the world; create your own TV set in the lounge, and so on.
Openarch is a platform based on open software and hardware philosophy.
An inhabited playground where technologies can be tested. It is an open-living lab where other companies, artists or organizations can evaluate their products and services through the infrastructure and the participation of the house's inhabitants.
D. OS updates and the incorporation of new technologies will be documented and registered under creative commons licenses and available to download as KITS.
OPENARCH is the first project by Thinkbig Factory, an innovative architecture and design consultancy.
The project is directed by Ion Cuervas-Mons and it is distributed under a Creative Commons license.