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Consultant (Episode 7323)
Occupation Hospital Consultant
First appearance 23rd April 2010
Number of appearances 1
Played by Simon McLinden

The unnamed Consultant examined Molly Dobbs after she had spent a night in Weatherfield General following her car crash in April 2010. He told her that her unborn baby was still alive but that they couldn't be sure that no injury had been caused. Her obstetrician would be keeping an eye on her and she was prescribed the usual medication of lots of rest.

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Nina Holloway appeared in two roles in Coronation Street: Angie, a member of the Baldwin's Casuals staff in December 1977 and a Girl customer in the Western Front boutique in January 1978.

Her only other known credit is as a nurse in General Hospital two years later.

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  1. Juke99

    Juke99 ...Abbey someone

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    coach Bozo...that was the headline up here in NY.

    As far as traumatic moments, I still cringe over the mental image of Bart Starr's sneak...
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    while we're at it

    does anyone have a video of Deion Sanders' no call pass interference and Switzer's subsequent penalty?
  3. Yeagermeister

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    There was nothing wrong with going for it twice but you don't run the same play that just got stuffed again.
  4. Cbz40

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    That play will forever haunt me as well. :(
  5. rdsknsbaby

    rdsknsbaby New Member

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    i kind of liked this video.
  6. SouthernStar

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    Oh, I don't know. It seems like I've seen Parcells do the same thing.....
  7. Juke99

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    Not quite as bad as Switzer's call...but yeah, Parcells has made some real head scratching calls...
  8. Nav22

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    Did you like the conclusion of that season as well?

    #5... how many do the Skins have again?
  9. Erik_H

    Erik_H Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.

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    I was at that game.....

  10. Hostile

    Hostile The Duke

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    Yeah but your taste is all in your mouth.
  11. rdsknsbaby

    rdsknsbaby New Member

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    3... and no i did not like the conclusion at all... but oh well
  12. The30YardSlant

    The30YardSlant Benched

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    Havent they covered this in 6th grade math yet?

    5 > 3
  13. rdsknsbaby

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    oh i forgot... we worked on those the other day we call them the alligator signs.
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  15. Zaxor

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    Let's see Switzer had the best O-line in the NFL the best FB and the best Tailback and was convinced they could gain a yard for him...but they failed and Switzer is an idiot forever...

    Bill tries going for it on 4th and 1 with crap for an O-line, FB and TB and he is a freaking genius and a supposedly HOF coach...

    Sorry I don't buy it...in this scenario (which did happen..check Bill's first year here) Bill is the idiot...

    Ya can't fault Switzer for believing in his team...Switzer had a 0% chance for getting any credit for anything the Cowboys did right and 100% chance of getting the blame if anything went wrong during his tenure..

    I truly do not believe there was another coach in the land that could have taken that pressure and succeded like Barry did...
  16. peplaw06

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    Switzer was decidedly THE reason we didn't win 4 SBs in a row. You can't compare Switzer with Bill when it comes to their Cowboys tenure... Wonder what would have happened if Switzer inherited a team that went 5-11 three straight seasons? I seriously doubt he would have gone to the playoffs year one with a band-aid roster, not to mention put us into position to be successful for a long time... which is where we are right now.
  17. Rack Bauer

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    We won the superbowl that year. I love that memory.

    I agree with Switzer on the call. If we can't get a first down when we only need a yard running behind THAT OL, then we don't deserve it. And we didn't deserve that game.

    Funny how you hear a lot of cowboys fans complain about us being way too conservative nowadays. I wonder how many of those are the same ones that still hate that call?

    Jimmy Johnson failed on a 4th down attempt against the 49ers in the 92 Championship game too. And I also agreed with his call then as well.

    When you have the OL to do it, do it.

    Last year I agreed mostly with Parcells/Peyton's conservative playcalling. Cuz we simply didn't have the OL to make those type of gambles.
  18. Zaxor

    Zaxor Virtus Mille Scuta

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    let's see they Cowboys were in the NFC championship game...and he told Troy you throw an int for TD on the 3rd play of the game and you Mike go fumble the ball...and you Kevin Williams fumble the kickoff and we will give SF a 21 point lead...Get real...Barry did not cause that first 5 minutes and that was when that game was decided

    Barry was probably the only coach with enough sense and the lack of an oversized ego to not change that team...

    Barry had a fault and it was that he wasn't much on discipline...In fact it was the lack of discipline that lead to his firing... But like I said he was probably the perfect coach at the time...but he should have been let go after that last SB...because that team was on the decline and needed a stronger hand.

    Barry I think is getting a bad rap for being himself... Most folk knew what to expect when we got Barry...so why they were surprised when he wasn't different is a mystery to me..
  19. Zaxor

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    and it really is that simple...now I might disagree with last year with you because we didn't have a FG kicker so I think we might needed to be a bit more aggressive but...I am not gonna fire Parcells over that because it was an almost Damned if you do Damned if you don't type thing
  20. Little Jr

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    That was gonna be my point.

    People tend to forget them things when they win. If the Cowboys would have lost that game people would had been calling for Jimmys head.

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RIM CEO Thorsten Heins and CMO Frank Boulben
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins and CMO Frank Boulben

Scotia Capital analyst Gus Papageourgiou published a research report today discussing the potential for upside in Research In Motion shares should the launch of BlackBerry 10 actually go well.

Gus has been covering RIM for a very long time - only a small number of people in the financial community know the history as well as he does. He stayed bullish for longer than the average analyst on this stock, but he's been quite cautious for a while now. He puts out a lot of research looking at the upside scenarios, but he is not ignoring the risks and he's still not bullish on the shares.

So what's in his report?

He points out that Wall Street financial estimates imply that most analysts think BB10 will fail. Naturally, if the Street is wrong, there is a lot of upside to be had. Just last week I laid out my view that RIM needs to get hardware pricing up, and they need to hang onto service revenue.

Scotia, along with most other analysts, are forecasting very low ASP (average selling price) for hardware next year. Scotia has an ASP forecast of $222 per device in fiscal 2014, despite the expectation of a heavier mix of BB10 with initial selling prices of around $600. Just as a reminder, RIM's fiscal 2014 actually ends in February 2014, so it represents about one year of BB10 availability.

I like the approach Papageourgiou is taking here. His official estimates are quite bearish, but he's looking into what happens to the stock if thing's aren't quite so bad. With is forecast of $222 for hardware despite launching BB10, that means RIM has to launch BB10 and then discount it heavily on the back of horrible sales. But what if it actually sells half-decent? He lays out the case for $390 ASP, more subscriber ads, and significantly more revenue and earnings.

In his upside model, Papageourgiou shows how RIM's phone shipments could go from his published estimate of 41.9 million to 56.6 million. Remember that RIM sold about 10 million units last quarter (they shipped only 7.8 million but I'm talking about end-customer purchases here). That's a rate of 40 million per year now. So growing to 56.6 million isn't really anything more than moderate success. But Scotia calculates that this could bring earnings per share to $4.39 versus their official $0.15 estimate.

That's the difference between a break-even business (essentially) and a reasonably profitable business. My take, by the way, is that things will not turn out to be shades of grey like this. It's either going to get way worse (and RIM will be bleeding cash big time), or the recovery model that Papageourgiou suggested in his report could look quite accurate.

Unless I missed part of his report, I don't think he discusses the upside potential for the stock price. He does say that even in the event of a breakup, the shares should be worth more than they're currently trading at. But that's more of a view on downside protection versus the upside scenario we're looking at here.

So I'll put my thoughts out there. Let me pre-frame this by saying it's a big IF ... but if RIM can actually deliver the $4.39 per share earnings in Fiscal 2014 (calendar 2013), then the stock is going to $40 again. Wouldn't that be a satisfying turnaround?

Yes. It would. But let's stay focused on what matters. Execution. RIM is not even close to being out of the woods. They needs apps, they need to release a polished OS on amazing hardware. They need carrier support and effective marketing. They need to hang onto enterprise support.

And if they do it? Wow. The upside opportunity is huge. I'd sure like to see that more than the alternative of a spiral towards break-up value.


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BlackBerry didn’t have a big booth on display at CES last week, but that doesn’t mean the company sat out the biggest tech event of the year. The BBM team was there spreading the word of BBM 2.0 which will soon land on iOS, Android and, of course, BlackBerry. QNX also was there, showing off its latest hotness for use in automotive consoles and displays. And, perhaps most important, BlackBerry’s new CEO John Chen was there.

In back-to-back meetings all week, Chen worked in some time to speak to the media, including an exclusive lunch date with CrackBerry. Unfortunately, the desert dryness had the better of my voice, so I wasn’t quite my usual chatty self. It was all good though, with Mobile Nations' Marcus Adolfsson joining as my wingman — between the three of us we had a very productive conversation and an enjoyable meal.

Because we tag-teamed the lunch, I decided Marcus and I should also tag-team the followup articles. Be sure to read Marcus’ interview with Chen, which does a great job of capturing the on-the-record discussion from our lunch date and goes into a lot of detail on BlackBerry’s near-term strategy going forward. As for this follow-up article, I’m going to focus on what wasn’t said.

Keep reading for my key takeaways from our discussion.

1. John Chen has a very good idea of what loyal BlackBerry users want.

How do I know this? Because we used this opportunity to tell him. And he listened. When I first interviewed John on the phone just over two months ago, I had just 15 minutes to ask questions, and at that point he was on the job for less than 24 hours. I’m not even sure at that point if he had visited CrackBerry more than a time or two.

Fast forward two months, and just as former CEO Thorsten Heins placed tremendous value on CrackBerry’s contributions and efforts and Mobile Nations’ massive community of mobile tech influencers, it’s clear this same value has now transitioned through to John Chen and the new leadership team he is building.

Now meeting face to face and with more time on the clock, we expressed to John what we see are the biggest pain points for today's “enthusiast” BlackBerry smartphone users and what we believe the vast majority of us would like to see happen in the months ahead. John’s strategy for BlackBerry of course goes far beyond just the hardcore user, but it was great to have the chance to give us our list of wants directly.

2. There’s no magic bullet in the near-term strategy, and there are going to be different strategies in different markets.

In 2011 and 2012, we looked forward to 2013 as BlackBerry’s turnaround year. The launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform and release of BlackBerry 10 phones would be the singular event that would get things back on track for BlackBerry. It wasn’t crazy to expect this strategy would work. With more than 70 million existing users, just getting a decent portion of the existing user base to upgrade to BlackBerry 10 phones the first year would be a big boost to the company. Even during our interview with John, he expressed that he truly believes that the phone business is like the movie business, where you’re only one hit away from being great again.

The phone business is like the movie business, where you’re only one hit away from being great again

With the big BlackBerry 10 bullet fired in 2013 and not hitting its target, John Chen’s strategy for 2014 is more akin to firing a machine gun. There are going to be lots of bullets fired, at a lot of targets. No single thing is simply going to kill it and make all the difference to BlackBerry.

And while the launch of BlackBerry 10 was very much a global rollout — one strategy for the entire world — Chen knows he doesn’t have the ammunition to do that right now. Expect to see in different strategies for different markets. For example, in the U.S. it’s no surprise that carrier support for BlackBerry is waning (or almost non-existent). Here he can not rely on the U.S. carriers as much and instead go straight to enterprise and government customers with a direct sales team. In other emerging markets, where BlackBerry is still doing well and the carrier support is there, he can push phone sales hard throughout 2014 and beyond.

It’s not a straightforward path, and the marketing message will have to be done in a very smart way to educate customers in a way that’s not confusing. Bottom line, BlackBerry will operate in every market. Just don’t expect to see BlackBerry doing the same thing everywhere you look.

3. Looking at BlackBerry as a portfolio of businesses will allow BlackBerry to work on its marketing message and turnaround the negative cloud of sentiment that has become synonymous with the company.

Announced during BlackBerry’s recent earnings report, one of John’s first big changes has been a reorganization of the company around four distinct business units: enterprise services, devices, messaging and QNX.

John went into a lot of detail about this during lunch and spoke about the benefit of this repackaging for investors (read our John Chen interview for full details). Each of these business units within BlackBerry is in a different stage of development, at a different stage of profitability, and with its own unique set of competitors, challenges and opportunities. Talking about BlackBerry as a portfolio of businesses allows the company to tell its story more accurately to investors.

The realization I walked away with from lunch was that this strategy is also going to help BlackBerry clear the cloud of negative sentiment that has been lingering over the BlackBerry name for the past few years. Still, today, when you start talking about phones and the name BlackBerry comes up, the average person immediately pictures a BlackBerry phone (and more likely than not, one with a keyboard). It’s no surprise. Selling phones has always been what BlackBerry has been about. For years and years, every decision made at BlackBerry was based around the question, how does this help us sell more BlackBerry phones? The company wanted you to hear BlackBerry and think about its phones.

With BlackBerry pivoting from being a vertically integrated solution (to use BlackBerry services like BES or BBM you had to own a BlackBerry phone, too) into a horizontal provider (BES and BBM supporting multiple mobile platforms), the company is quickly changing the way it makes decisions internally.

On the flip side, the company now has to start changing its market message so consumers better understand the changes the company is going through. John reiterated that he has to go to work on his marketing message, and that’s something he really wants to see happen.

John Chen has given us a story to tell that makes a lot of sense

I really believe this notion of BlackBerry as a portfolio of businesses approach could go a long way in helping to turn around the negative sentiment with mainstream consumers, as this story gets messaged properly to them. Word-of-mouth is super powerful, and people repeat what they read in the media. In 2012, when people would say “BlackBerry is dead,” you could at least tell them about BlackBerry 10 coming to save the day. With the launch of BlackBerry 10 not being as successful on a sales standpoint as we all hoped, it has become really difficult to counter the “BlackBerry is dead” message. If you hear BlackBerry and think just about phones, and the phone sales are not happening, it’s difficult to argue.

Though it’s essentially a repackaging of what’s already is there, with this change in thinking John Chen has given us a story to tell that makes a lot of sense.

4. John Chen will absolutely make the changes necessary to execute on his strategy.

When Thorsten Heins stepped out of his BlackBerry COO shoes and into his BlackBerry CEO ones, the business strategy was already set. He had to bring BlackBerry 10 to market. Given where the company was at, the amount of work that had already been put into it and was left to do, he really had no choice but to stay the course and focus 100 percent on getting that done. He definitely had the ability to influence this strategy — he brought in a new CMO and COO to help market BB10 and get it built — but given the timing he wasn’t about to pivot on big strategy until BlackBerry 10 was launched. Looking back, perhaps the biggest strategic changes Heins made were behind the scenes. Speaking to lots of employees over the past year and half, it’s clear Heins greatly improved the culture at BlackBerry from the Jim Balsillie/Mike Lazaridis era. This is quite a feat if you consider how badly BlackBerry was being beaten up, and that Heins was downsizing and restructuring the company during his reign.

He clearly has the drive to make BlackBerry succeed, but he doesn’t have the protectionist vanity that can come with being the one that founded the company

In contrast, John Chen has stepped into the BlackBerry CEO role from the outside. He has no BlackBerry baggage to carry with him. And he’s stepping in at a time where literally many years of hard work have been completed — there is now a new platform in market to sell and build on top of. BlackBerry 10 is here. And it’s clear clear that Chen will make whatever changes he feels necessary to turn BlackBerry around.

Talking to Chen, I feel like no idea or strategic pivot is out of bounds, as long as it makes sense and he thinks it’s the right thing to advance BlackBerry as a company. He clearly has the drive to make BlackBerry succeed, but he doesn’t have the protectionist vanity that can come with being the one that founded the company. This is a big difference to Mike and Jim’s Research In Motion, where for years they made a lot of strategic decisions that just seemed, well, stubborn. BlackBerry was their company and they ran it the way they wanted to. And because they had been very successful, they really felt their ideas were always best because they were their ideas. I felt this way of decision-making began to disappear in the Heins era, but Heins was really executing on the strategy that Mike and Jim put in place while they were still there. This is JC’s BlackBerry now. There’s no baggage. No ego. He’s going to make whatever changes are necessary to get it done.

5. He’s smart enough to know what he doesn’t know.

Clearly, John Chen is one smart cookie. You don’t walk into a position like this if you’re not. What scares me about smart people sometimes is when they’re too smart and they think they have all the answers about all the things.

Thankfully, Chen knows where he needs to surround himself with people smarter than him. For example, on the handset front he spoke very highly of Ron Louks, recently appointed by Chen to take over leadership of the devices business.

A beaten up company can be very attractive for the best people to head to

Speaking to Chen helped to alleviate one of my biggest BlackBerry concerns of late, which is a loss of talent. I know a lot of smart people who have left BlackBerry over the past couple of years to go work for “the competition.” And with BlackBerry being pretty badly beaten up these past couple of years, I assumed it might be difficult to recruit top talent. Without talent, it doesn’t matter how good your strategy is — you won’t be able to execute it.

Chen has no worries over this though. There are still a lot of smart people at BlackBerry, and recruiting top talent isn’t an issue. In reality, a beaten up company can be very attractive for the best people to head to. Think about it. Share prices for BlackBerry are extremely low. If you get in there, get your shares and help turn things around, there’s a lot of room for growth.

Hell, it almost makes me want to apply.

PART I: Read the full CrackBerry interview with BlackBerry CEO, John Chen for more information


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Welcome back to The Monitor Sphere the CCtD weekly look through all things involved in the world of sequential storytelling, which just so happens to be nowhere near current, week by week, and as promised in last week’s column I did one of the two possible things I said I would do and that was to take a look at Sex Criminals Volume 1 by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky.

The story is fantastic, for those of you who haven’t read Sex Criminals yet, like I hadn’t, you really should. I am a big fan of hero comics, I have more of those in my collection than anything else, and while I would consider this story comedic there are a lot of other layers to it, including a somewhat heroic one.

It starts off right in the middle of the *ahem* “action” with our protagonists Suzie and Jon involved in the titular act. We are then treated to some backstory for our heroes. I’m not going to go into all of it, but rarely, in all my years of reading comics, have I learned so much about the characters so quickly. Almost immediately we are shown the formative years of our heroes and, in a neat turn of events, how the protagonists discovered their hidden ability to stop time upon reaching climax (something they both share). So they decide to use this power to rob banks as any normal person would do.

It is rare that you discover a comic with as much heart as Sex Criminals, and it even has some to spare. There were quite a few pages that made me stop and consider my own life as the comic dealt with thing ranging from puberty, sex, school, depression, and the working world. All that said though the best moments are probably the amazing and incomparable comedy scenes. The two that jump to the front of my mind involve defecating in an office plant, and an amazing panel reminiscent of Family Circus in which a young Jon runs through a sex shop appropriately named Cumworld.

Normally, I would be slightly critical of artwork like this in a comic, but for some reason it really works in this case. Now don’t get me wrong that isn’t to say that the artwork is bad, Chip Zdarsky is a much better artist than I could ever hope to be, it just wouldn’t work in most comics I like to read, but this is the perfect comic for it. The comedy elements are matched perfectly by the cute, funny, cartoony artwork.

All things considered Sex Criminals volume 1 is a book that I absolutely loved that had me laughing just as often as it had me sitting in quiet contemplation and, to be honest, I will probably pick up volume 2 sooner rather than later. If you haven’t read this series yet, dear reader, you really should.

Now, that was going to be the last part of my article for this week but it turns out that as I was writing news came out about DC’s Rebirth event(?), cash grab(?), reboot(?), hope to fix everything they did wrong in the post-Flashpoint Universe(!). And while I don’t really have any good ideas about what they will do I have hopes about what they could do. While I won’t go into all of that here, unless there is an overwhelming demand for it, but I will tell you one thing, I hope Rebirth brings back some of the color and the feel that made DC Comics my brand of choice for almost my entire life. I hope Rebirth gets rid of so much of the grim, gritty, “realistic”, darkness that has plagued DC in recent years and replaces it with the hope, and love that made DC what it was for years.

  1. A nicely worded review, PJ. I'm a big fan of Fraction/Zdarsky Sex Criminals and vol. 2 continues the fun, with epic sex-battles with shadow agencies, tentacles, and ghost porn. Oh, and even more of those wonderful pages the give you fuzzy feelings in the cockles and sub-cockles of your heart. (I believe I've heard them called "the feels.")

  2. Thanks for the kind words. I cannot take any credit in this, though. This was written by Jay Logsdon.

    1. Well excuse me, sir. Jay — hell of a write up! Pick up vol. 2 as soon as you can.


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Row the result of Part 2, for timeRecovery. You’ve heard the word before, but really, what does it mean? You don’t see it in a CrossFit workout… ever. And I suspect that when you go out for a run or a bike ride, you’re not actually recovering, you’re going at a pace to make the workout feel ‘worth it’… meaning, you’re going harder than you should be going to really make it ‘worth it’ for recovery.

What is a recovery workout? Specifically…
• A recovery workout is one that is, by design, easy. Yes… easy.
• When you finish a recovery workout, you should feel good, fresh, happy, and maybe even like you could go out and do it all over again.
• The word ‘intensity’ shouldn’t ever come up in a conversation about recovery, unless it is to describe what to avoid.
• You should be able to carry on a normal conversation during a recovery workout.
• Your heart rate should be no higher than 70-80% of your max heart rate (and no, your max HR is not 220 minus your age – but that is the subject of another post)
• A good way to keep yourself in check… set your heart rate monitor to beep when you’ve hit what you think is your upper recovery limit.

A a rule of thumb, you should be incorporating a recovery workout into your training mix at least once or twice a week, depending on how you’re feeling… and you can get in recovery on a run, bike, swimming, or on a rowing erg.

How often are you doing recovery workouts? Do you keep your intensity in check (hold yourself back)? What’s your experience?

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Lancelin Surfin' Surfari 2014

Wedge in the wind

It's been a long time coming, but this was my first weekend away from both Rowan and James since Rowan was born. James and I spent a week in Bali recently, but it was great to escape for a girls' weekend.
It was classic Lancelin. Complete with flies, a crazy holiday house and all of the weather.

Flies in the Wedge Dunes
Our house was absolutely classic. We tend to stay in the same place, so we tried somewhere different this time. Right across from the beach. And everything about it was an after thought. The front lounge was a deck that had been closed in. The front bedroom was the verandah, that'd been closed in. The bathroom is kinda in the kitchen.... to get to the third bedroom you actually go outside and up some stairs. And the fourth? Back down those stairs, out the back gate, through the garage-cum-bbq-area and past the laundry. Oh, and it's tiled. So it was great. Very cosy though.

It was meant to be windy aaaaall weekend. When we book these trips, months in advance so everyone is free, we don't know what the weather will be like. So the weather was naff. We stayed up super late on Friday night, except for Tania, who wakes up at 5am and is tired at 8:30... So we weren't in a hurry to leap out of bed early to race to onshore slop. As it turned out, it was pretty good fun!

Windy Wedge
This is what greeted us. I took the 5'6 mini simmons and wondered if I'd even catch anything. As it was, we all had some fun rides and the reforms went all the way in to the beach. Managed to do some halfway decent duckdives - haven't done any in months and months as I'm always on the longboard.

So everything changed and this huge rip developed which is was paddling around in for half an hour trying to get in. But I went and had a cup of tea with some guys on the reef and they pointed me in the right direction to get in.

We had our customary BBQ bacon fry-up when we got back to Casa del Escher. We had a fun afternoon surf, did the trip to the shops and I squeezed in some geeky sewing before we walked to the pub. We look like a bunch of bogans (below) but I promise we're not. (They were next door at the house with the "peck deck" out front.

The weather came in on Sunday morning, although Lancelin missed the brunt of it. It wasn't worth the 80km round trip to wedge. We were super lazy and hung out and tried to stay warm. The deck/lounge leaks. We braided each others' hair, had a spa, wandered around in our jocks, but there was no pillow fighting.
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calderonFellow Democrats say state Senator Ron Calderon must either resign or take a leave of absence within a week or face expulsion. After surrendering to authorities, a handcuffed Calderon stood before a federal judge yesterday and pleaded not guilty to 24 felony counts, including bribery, conspiracy and money laundering. If convicted on all the charges, the potential sentence could total nearly 400 years. Senate Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg says Calderon must step aside while his legal case plays out – but he says Calderon has not been convicted, and that it’s too soon to kick the Montebello lawmaker out of the Legislature. Calderon is accused of selling his votes in exchange for cash, trips and jobs for his children.

ecigSmoke or vapor…it’s pretty much all the same to some L.A. officials. A City Council panel has given its okay to a proposed ordinance that would treat electronic – or e-cigarettes – just like regular smokes. The entire City Council will now vote on the proposal. It would outlaw e-cigarettes in all the places smoking is banned: including beaches, public parks and outdoor dining areas. Health experts are divided about whether e-cigarettes are a useful tool to help people quit smoking – or a gateway to using tobacco products.

You won’t see a measure on the ballot this fall to overturn a new law giving transgender California students the right to use public school restrooms of their choice. California’s Secretary of State says backers of a referendum failed to get enough signatures to qualify the measure. They submitted more than 619,000 names, but county election officials say only 487,000 were valid, about 20,000 short of the minimum. Opponents say the law violates the privacy of potentially uncomfortable youngsters.

campkilpatrickA Malibu juvenile corrections facility known for its sports programs could be torn down and replaced with by a lockup that focuses on education and vocational training instead of athletics. The L.A. Times reports that Camp Kilpatrick is scheduled to be razed next month unless it can prove that it helps youthful offenders to stay out of trouble. Camp Kilpatrick is the only juvenile facility in California that fields teams to play against public and private schools in state-sanctioned leagues. The camp’s football team was the inspiration for the 2006 movie “Gridiron Gang.”

guidedogForget goldendoodles and puggles, it’s bogus service dogs that are all the rage in California: pet owners are dressing up their animals with vests and badges and taking them places they wouldn’t otherwise be allowed. But that’s posing a problem for businesses and people with legitimate disabilities. Now business groups and disabled advocates are asking the Legislature to pass a law that would give the state the legal authority and the resources to crack down on service dog fraud.


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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Political Venue: The History of RFK Stadium, Part Five

When Bobby Mitchell came

After deciding to make the Redskins a new home in DC, the government decided to get in George Preston Marshall's business. One way or another, a black player was coming to this team. Curly R's special series on the history of RFK Stadium continues.

Part One: Faded Glory
Part Two: Government Intervention
Part Three: Football and Race
Part Four: A Complex Relationship
Part Five: Ernie Davis, Bobby Mitchell and Ron Hatcher
Part Six: Wednesday
Part Seven: Thursday
Part Eight: Friday

The 1961 NFL season opened for the Redskins with two games on the road before their first game in their new home, the price tag of which had risen to twenty-four million dollars. When Sunday 1 October 1961 finally rolled around, the Redskins lost to the New York Giants in a game that featured Washington scoring three touchdowns in the first quarter behind rookie quarterback Norm Snead to take a commanding 21-7 lead. The Redskins would not score again as New York quarterback YA Tittle led the Giants to seventeen unanswered points.

More than thirty-seven thousand people attended the game, sixteen thousand more than had attended either the 1960 season opener or closer.

Media opinion of the new stadium itself was mixed; DC Stadium was the first of a new breed of stadiums and most viewed it somewhat as a curiosity; its nonstandard lines were off-putting to some and the reflection of noise back from the cantilevered roof was instantly noticeable to others.

There were others at this inaugural game besides fans and media: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people. Angry NAACP supporters picketed the stadium over the team's lack of black players, fifteen years as it was after black players came back to the NFL following the 1933 lockout, and nine years after the next to last team had begun using players of any color on its roster.

Still unsatisfied with the team's position on integration, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall pledged publicly following that first game in DC Stadium that he would personally boycott Redskins games as long as the NAACP continued picketing, which was of course by the NAACP's own position until such time as the Redskins signed black players to the active roster.

It was two more long months before the 1962 draft was held, during which time the Redskins went 0-4 in DC Stadium, averaging nine points per game on offense. When the 1962 NFL Draft was finally held on December 4, 1961, the Redskins famously drafted Ernie Davis first overall. Ernie, a Syracuse tailback, was the first black football player ever to win the Heisman Trophy and was highly coveted in both the NFL and AFL. A bidding war for his services was expected to ensue between the two leagues.

As the story goes, the Redskins traded Ernie's rights less than two weeks later to the Cleveland Browns. In a sad twist of fate, Ernie would never play a down in the NFL, he was diagnosed with leukemia in the 1962 offseason and would succumb to the illness a year later in 1963. In exchange for Ernie, the Redskins would receive Bobby Mitchell, a tailback and flanker who would come to revitalize the Redskins franchise, Bobby was elected to the NFL Hall of Fame in 1983 and remained in the Redskins organization altogether for more than forty years.

But before that trade even happened, something else memorable happened following the draft: The Redskins signed their first black player, eighth round pick Ron Hatcher, a tailback out of Michigan State. Ron was not heralded, and certainly would never have garnered the headlines of an Ernie Davis, still he will always be remembered as the first black player signed by the Redskins, the last team to include players of color in its roster. Ron would appear in three games, amassing no plays for no yards in his one year NFL career.

The cynical eye may regard Ron as the exact token black that Bobby Kennedy and Stewart Udall had no interest in seeing.

Political Venue: The History of RFK Stadium continues tomorrow with part six, Palace Intrigue.

RFK Stadium: Dudley Brooks / Washington Post photo from here via here.

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Friday, November 12, 2010

Another Day Searching for the Ultimate Pen

I have been searching for the ultimate pen for B/W script lettering a long time. Today I found one that is nearly perfect for my handwriting style. The pen is a PITT artist pen with a bold tip. It has the flex of an antique fountain pen that produces a large thick to super fine stroke weight. Previously I tried the PITT big brush pen and I was not able to hold a super fine line with the tip. The PITT bold tip is truly amazing for an affordale writing instrument.

This script sample was produced from 3 quick writing exercises with the PITT bold tip. The version on the right was scanned, imported as a template and refined in Illustrator.

  1. Very nice! I think even an average pen would transform into an ultimate pen in your hand. :)


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The Vampire Diaries

Returning for its third season, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is the story of two vampire brothers who are obsessed with the same girl. In season one, Stefan (Paul Wesley, “Fallen”) and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder, “Lost”) returned to their hometown of Mystic Falls, Virginia, for very different reasons. Stefan was determined to get to know Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev, the upcoming film, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”), who bears a striking resemblance to Katherine Pierce (also played by Dobrev), the beautiful but ruthless vampire the brothers knew and loved – in 1864. Damon, on the other hand, was intent on releasing Katherine from the tomb where he believed she was trapped by a witch’s spell all those years ago. In the explosive finale of season one, Elena’s uncle Johnathan (guest star David Anders) set a plan in motion that resulted in Katherine’s return.

In season two, Katherine’s manipulations threw a wrench into the love triangle between Stefan, Elena and Damon, and the other residents of Mystic Falls were forced to choose sides as they fell victim to a new breed of danger. Stefan and Damon were later met with their greatest challenge yet – the arrivals of Elijah (guest star Daniel Gillies, “Spiderman 2”) and Klaus (Joseph Morgan, “Ben-Hur”), two of the “Original” vampires. As Klaus went head-to-head with Damon and took a special interest in Stefan, he was also seemingly focused on breaking the “Sun and Moon” curse by sacrificing Elena. No matter what action the brothers took to protect Elena, Klaus would not be swayed from his mission, proving himself to be the most powerful vampire in existence. Ultimately, Klaus’ sacrifice ritual proved deadly not for Elena but for her Aunt Jenna (Sara Canning, “Smallville”), whose violent death devastated both her family and her boyfriend, Alaric Saltzman (Matt Davis, “Legally Blonde”).

Season three opens the door to the history of Klaus and The Original Family, as Klaus’ motives for wanting Stefan on his side are finally revealed. As Stefan sinks deeper into the dark side, Damon and Elena struggle with the guilt of their growing bond, even as they work together to bring Stefan back from the edge. The ghosts from Jeremy Gilbert’s (Steven R. McQueen, “Everwood”) past have a powerful message they’re trying to deliver to him, not to mention the impact they’re having on his relationship with Bonnie Bennett (Kat Graham, “Honey 2”). After the emotional end of her relationship with Matt Donovan (Zach Roerig, “Friday Night Lights”), Caroline Forbes (Candice Accola, “Juno”) grows closer to Tyler Lockwood (Michael Trevino, “Cane”), and a war erupts between their families.

Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is from Bonanza Productions Inc., Outerbanks Entertainment and Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios with executive producers Kevin Williamson (“Scream,” “Dawson’s Creek”), Julie Plec (“Kyle XY,” “Wasteland”), Leslie Morgenstein (“Gossip Girl,” “Private”) and Bob Levy (“Gossip Girl,” “Privileged”).

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Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretaps Were Illegal – NYTimes.com

Published: March 31, 2010

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush.

In a 45-page opinion, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated a 1978 federal statute requiring court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone calls of Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon, and of two lawyers representing it in 2004. Declaring that the plaintiffs had been ‘subjected to unlawful surveillance,’ the judge said the government was liable to pay them damages.

The ruling delivered a blow to the Bush administration’s claims that its surveillance program, which Mr. Bush secretly authorized shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was lawful. Under the program, the National Security Agency monitored Americans’ international e-mail messages and phone calls without court approval, even though the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, required warrants.

The Justice Department said it was reviewing the decision and had made no decision about whether to appeal.The ruling by Judge Walker, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, rejected the Justice Department’s claim — first asserted by the Bush administration and continued under President Obama — that the charity’s lawsuit should be dismissed without a ruling on the merits because allowing it to go forward could reveal state secrets.

The judge characterized that expansive use of the so-called state-secrets privilege as amounting to ‘unfettered executive-branch discretion’ that had ‘obvious potential for governmental abuse and overreaching.’

That position, he said, would enable government officials to flout the warrant law, even though Congress had enacted it ‘specifically to rein in and create a judicial check for executive-branch abuses of surveillance authority.’

Because the government merely sought to block the suit under the state-secrets privilege, it never mounted a direct legal defense of the N.S.A. program in the Haramain case.

Judge Walker did not directly address the legal arguments made by the Bush administration in defense of the N.S.A. program after The New York Times disclosed its existence in December 2005: that the president’s wartime powers enabled him to override the FISA statute. But lawyers for Al Haramain were quick to argue that the ruling undermined the legal underpinnings of the war against terrorism.

One of them, Jon Eisenberg, said Judge Walker’s ruling was an ‘implicit repudiation of the Bush-Cheney theory of executive power.’

‘Judge Walker is saying that FISA and federal statutes like it are not optional,’ Mr. Eisenberg said. ‘The president, just like any other citizen of the United States, is bound by the law. Obeying Congressional legislation shouldn’t be optional with the president of the U.S.’

A Justice Department spokeswoman, Tracy Schmaler, noted that the Obama administration had overhauled the department’s procedures for invoking the state-secrets privilege, requiring senior officials to personally approve any assertion before lawyers could make it in court. She said that approach would ensure that the privilege was invoked only when ‘absolutely necessary to protect national security.’

The ruling is the second time a federal judge has declared the program of wiretapping without warrants to be illegal. But a 2006 decision by a federal judge in Detroit, Anna Diggs Taylor, was reversed on the grounds that those plaintiffs could not prove that they had been wiretapped and so lacked legal standing to sue.

Several other lawsuits filed over the program have faltered because of similar concerns over standing or because of immunity granted by Congress to telecommunications companies that participated in the N.S.A. program.

By contrast, the Haramain case was closely watched because the government inadvertently disclosed a classified document that made clear that the charity had been subjected to surveillance without warrants.

Although the plaintiffs in the Haramain case were not allowed to use the document to prove that they had standing, Mr. Eisenberg and six other lawyers working on the case were able to use public information — including a 2007 speech by an F.B.I. official who acknowledged that Al Haramain had been placed under surveillance — to prove it had been wiretapped.

Judge Walker’s opinion cataloged other such evidence and declared that the plaintiffs had shown they were wiretapped in a manner that required a warrant. He said the government had failed to produce a warrant, so he granted summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs.

But Judge Walker limited liability in the case to the government as an institution, rejecting the lawsuit’s effort to hold Robert S. Mueller III, the F.B.I. director, personally liable.

Mr. Eisenberg said that he would seek compensatory damages of $20,200 for each of the three plaintiffs in the case — or $100 for each of the 202 days he said they had shown they were subjected to the surveillance. He said he would ask the judge to decide how much to award in punitive damages, a figure that could be up to 10 times as high. And he said he and his colleagues would seek to be reimbursed for their legal fees over the past five years.

The 2005 disclosure of the existence of the program set off a national debate over the limits of executive power and the balance between national security and civil liberties. The arguments continued over the next three years, as Congress sought to forge a new legal framework for domestic surveillance.

In the midst of the presidential campaign in 2008, Congress overhauled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to bring federal statutes into closer alignment with what the Bush administration had been secretly doing. The legislation essentially legalized certain aspects of the program. As a senator then, Barack Obama voted in favor of the new law, despite objections from many of his supporters. President Obama’s administration now relies heavily on such surveillance in its fight against Al Qaeda.

The overhauled law, however, still requires the government to obtain a warrant if it is focusing on an American citizen or an organization inside the United States. The surveillance of Al Haramain would still be unlawful today if no court had approved it, current and former Justice Department officials said.

But since Mr. Obama took office, the N.S.A. has sometimes violated the limits imposed on spying on Americans by the new FISA law. The administration has acknowledged the lapses but said they had been corrected.

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Bombay: Not Safe for Americans

This is very nasty.

80 dead and 200 wounded seem to be the most common figures at the moment (3:10 eastern) but it seems likely both will go up.

Top anti-terrorist cops have been wounded or killed. The army and navy have been put on alert to help the overwhelmed local cops and national anti-terrorist troops are moving in

...The reporter at the IBL stream (India TV network) just said that gunmen at one of the hotels attacked specifically demanded room numbers of Americans and that Americans are being held hostage

Terror struck the country's financial capital late on Wednesday night as coordinate serial explosions and indiscriminate firing rocked eight areas across Mumbai including the crowded CST railway station, two five star hotels--Oberoi and Taj-- leaving 16 persons dead and 50 injured.

Armed with AK-47 rifles and grenades, a couple of terrorists entered the passenger hall of CST and opened fire and threw grenades, Mumbai General Railway Police Commissioner A K Sharma said.

Apparently India has ordered its Army and Navy to deploy some troops to back up the national anti-terrorist forces. The commander of the Bombay (Mumbai) anti-terror unit was killed about 2 minutes after he went into action at the scene.

HT: Ace

Deekaman said...

I'm thinking the bad guys don't want to talk and don't care who the new President is.

Call me crazy.

gus said...

Islam gone wild!!!
These freaks are not concerned who our President is. They will act more openly and blatantly when they sense weakness.
Mr.Bush has not been weak.

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I got a grant from the federal government for $12,000 in financial aid, see how you can get one also at


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Puppet Labs, the developer of the open source configuration management tool Puppet, has announced that, as of Puppet 2.7, it is switching from the GPLv2 licence to the Apache 2.0 licence. In a blog posting, Luke Kanies, founder and CEO of Puppet Labs, explained that the company's goal was "to have Puppet everywhere".

The GPL, Kanies said, was inhibiting that ubiquity because, rightly or wrongly, some businesses believe that the GPL would force them to share their proprietary code. "With Apache, these companies can focus on whether Puppet will make their solution better", he noted, "and not worry about whether they'll have to make significant business changes to use it."
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Today’s beta 3 release of iOS 7 changes the system text font from Helvetica Neue Light to Regular. Light and Ultra Light are still used in the system in certain places, but more sparingly and appropriately.

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On Mar 19, 2015, kattem Custer, WA wrote:

Posted on March 15, 2015, updated March 19, 2015

I purchased over $100.00 of irises from Teresa Daly from T\'s Flowers and Things last spring, paid immediately with paypal and after having just moved and some grumbling from the seller about accepting paypal we worked out my address change which entailed Teresa Daly having to refund my payment and me reissuing payment.

When it came time to ship she sent notice it was on its way and should arrive within 2-3 days priority mail, which would have been Wednesday, Thursday latest by Saturday it still had not arrived and I emailed her. She said she knew where it was and would get it to me. However, she didn\'t tell me that she had sent the package to my old(wrong) address and that it was sitting at the post office almost a week before it was sent back to her.

She sent me a lengthy email stating she just didn\'t have time for this, she was just too busy and basically couldn\'t be bothered. She wanted to refund my payment and be done with it. Not once did she apologize for her screw up or say she would fulfill her obligation and send me fresh rhizomes, many of which her catalog stated where in stock.

I insisted she send my my order and she eventually did, the ones that had been sitting in an unventilated box(every rhizome order I received has had holes poked in the box)for almost 3 weeks. I planted them, having gardened for decades, owned my own retail garden shop and have experience growing irises and assumed they would be okay after taking a few planting precautions.

This spring all but 5 had died and those are questionable.

I wrote her, again, she basically says tough luck, and that she had offered to refund and her refund policy does not cover it.

When I pointed out that it was her error to begin with by sending the order to the wrong address, well, she still has not responded and that was 2 weeks ago.

I have been selling online for 15 years, owned my own brick and mortar shops and have never experienced such irresponsible, unprofessional behavior as I have from Teresa Daly from T\'s Flowers and Things.

On March 19th, 2015, kattem added the following:

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All my irises are planted in new raised beds with excellent local soil. I purchased over 600 irises last year, hers was the only order with this degree of loss(total). I lost none to one or two at most from the other 14 orders. In fact the one order that UPS failed to deliver the grower not only sent the failed to deliver rhizomes back but dug another set of fresh ones and they are all doing beautifully and the box was ventilated.
We had a cool winter with only one freeze, spring has been beautiful here in the PNW.
The $ loss I can deal with, it was her irresponsible attitude and lack of concern for the loss of a season of growth and that she refused to accept responsibility for sending to the wrong address after we discussed it repeatedly and took steps to remedy the incorrect address, that and not sending fresh rhizomes. Oh well, I always let everyone know my experience with her and I know a lot of growers and buyers in the business.

On Mar 19, 2015, T's Flowers & Things responded with:

"On Mar 15, 2015 1:49 PM, T\'s Flowers & Things responded with:

Yes, first of all, I did ship the order to the wrong address, going from Indiana to Washington. And though I didn't save those email communications, if I did not apologize for that, I'm very sorry. However, this was a legitimate mistake in that this person who knows very much about PayPal and how it works, and had been selling online for 15 years, failed to update their PayPal address to their new address (which I consider to have been the beginning of the problem.) Before I realized that the addresses did not match, I had already printed the packing list information and shipping label with the *old* address, which was the address on the first PayPal payment. At that point, I emailed this person and advised that I was going to have to ship to the address on the PayPal payment; - - where if you do not ship to the address on the PayPal payment, the person can say they never received the shipment (even if they did at some prior address), then PayPal will automatically refund that person the money if you didn't ship to the address on the payment. The paper work and label got set aside after the original PayPal payment had been refunded and a new PayPal payment came through with the correct address. Then at shipping time, trying to get all my Iris orders dug, washed and shipped, including hers, I failed to change the address on the packing list and shipping label to the correct address, picking up the old paper work.

And yes, I was very very busy. Once I had shipped to the incorrect address, that the Iris rhizomes had sat in the box for that time, and until being returned to me, yes, I did NOT want to ship them again. An indication was made (just recently) by this person that I should have dug new and fresh rhizomes ... well I didn't have many of those still available on the order. And yes, once I realized this, I VERY much wanted to issue a full refund because the Iris weren't in the same fresh condition as they had been, and this person could have re-ordered the next year had they chose.

And even though I advised this person that some of the Iris had been damaged in return shipping, she still INSISTED that I re-ship, instead of refund. And at this point she knew that they had been in the box for several days, that a few had broken foliage (I even emailed photos), and she still insisted that I re-ship, and no indication was made at that time that I should dig new and fresh rhizomes (which I didn't have).

Did we have a rough enough winter, with standing water, freezing water, enough to kill rhizomes? I do think the winter could be part of the problem based on the location the rhizomes were planted. However, I have Iris rhizomes which were left laying on the top of the ground, some still laying in my greenhouse ... and they are alive. Perhaps the rhizomes were killed by winter, or perhaps this person just wanted to post a negative here, because of the way I handled the transaction, which was not satisfactory to her.

For all of you reading here, please keep in mind, YES, I do have a work load. But I try my best to offer the best I have at reasonable prices, sufficient communication, and timely shipping.

Teresa Daly

Negative CaptMicha
(27 reviews)
On Oct 22, 2004, CaptMicha Brookeville, MD (Zone 7a) wrote:

I've ordered seed from Teresa in the past. Her prices are phenomenal, shipping is prompt and germination results are high. I hope to order seed from her again and look forward to ordering bulbs and plants from her too.

On June 14th, 2006, CaptMicha changed the rating from positive to negative and added the following:

Changing a positive to a negative is a drastic difference but the seed that I germinated did not come true.

And I ordered a Spigela and a Dianthus from her, both were pitifully small plants, little more than plug size and the small pots weren't even half filled up with root growth.

Needless to say, those perennials didn't survive our unusually mild winter.
On Oct 22, 2004, T's Flowers & Things responded with:

On Jun 16, 2006 9:22 AM, T's Flowers & Things added:

I am very upset about this negative because this customer never made an attempt to let me know of the dissatisfaction of the plants, or that the seeds didn't come true. My policy clearly states that if you are unsatisfied with your plants when you receive them, return them for a full refund including shipping. I like to know if seeds don't come true, especially if they are commercial seeds. Most of the seed that I harvest is open pollinated, so I indicate on the web pages to expect some variation or that plants may not grow true to parent, such as aquilegias and buddleias."

Negative soccor4
(1 review)
On Aug 7, 2004, soccor4 Claremont, MN wrote:

I also had my order canceled for no apparent reason(at least none was give). I recieved my money back but was disappointed, as I was counting on the flowers I had ordered. I submitted my order early so it was not like their was insufficient time to process and plan ahead. I would like to order again as the prices are great.

Negative lemonflower
(1 review)
On May 31, 2004, lemonflower wrote:

Ordered seeds and plants early this year. Seed order short one packet which was promptly shipped when I made it known. But being promised plants to be shipped in may and then receiving no plants is something else. I've now lost a years growth. My money was refunded after I emailed and asked why my plants hadn't arrived. But I received no email saying my plants would not be available prior to my asking where they were. I won't order again from this company.

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Thrill of the chastened

While those of you who have commented here about my Radar interview have been overwhelmingly encouraging, for which I thank you, I've read observations from two people who have said that it was indeed "too much information."

One of the dissenters is an aunt of mine, and the other is a writer on a Catholic blog who does not appear to be very familiar with me or my writings apart from that interview. They make similar points — that in the interest of modesty, I should take the high road and not pander to an interviewer who is baiting me with questions that are unabashedly prurient.

I can see their points. I am new to interviews, and the Radar one was in many ways a learning experience. The biggest thing I learned from it is that I should, if it is at all possible, refuse to answer questions about subjects that are not covered in my book. The problem with outright refusal, however, is that it could make me come off as rude, snobby, or like I have something to hide; nobody likes an interview subject who just says, "Next question." With more experience, I hope to find a way to deflect such questions without irritating the interviewer or readers more than necessary — but there may be more rocky interviews before I master the technique.

With regard to the dissenters' main concern — what they see as unduly explicit answers — I know why I answered the way I did. It was a similar interview that I did for Gawker in August 2004, where I spoke somewhat salaciously of my journey from rock journalist to Christian blogger, that caught the attention of the New York Observer's George Gurley. And it was Gurley's article that in turn caught the attention of W Publishing Group, which is how my book came to be.

In other words, if I hadn't painted Gawker a graphic picture of a woman who found fulfillment in chaste Christianity that she never attained when living a sordid secular lifestyle, The Thrill of the Chaste would not be making the news right now. Perhaps I might have gotten it published by a small publisher who could get it into specialty Christian stores, but it wouldn't have been the exciting, countercultural news story that it now is to mainstream publications like Radar (and many more media outlets to come).

I can guess that the Catholic blogger who dissented to my interview would here interject that by now, I should know better than to feed secular reporters' sexual curiosity; I should never "do evil that good may come."

There is certainly merit in such a viewpoint. To anyone who holds it, I ask for your patience, and especially your prayers. It is very important to me that I bring my book's message to a secular audience. Even if its audience is overwhelmingly Christian, most Christians get far more of their news from secular outlets than they do from religious ones — and secular outlets aren't interested in an interview with yet another buttoned-up, Suzy Creamcheese abstinence advocate with a pasted-on smile and unspotted past. Not that the world doesn't need more Suzy Creamcheeses; however, I don't believe many viewers identify with a woman who knows how to make the perfect jello salad for every occasion but has never in her life worn an outfit intended to show off the contours of her butt.

I believe that in The Thrill of the Chaste, I successfully display the more colorful aspects of my experience and my unusually salty brand of chastity advocacy without dipping too deeply into my blue material. Certainly, respected Christian writers like Maggie Gallagher and Christopher West think so, otherwise, they wouldn't have endorsed my book. The challenge is to accomplish that in interviews, where there is a great deal of pressure to perform. Again, I ask for your patience and, most of all, your prayers.


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July 23, 1987

Eugene M. Parness, Plaintiff,
George Shultz, Secretary of State, and the United States Department of State, Defendants

The opinion of the court was delivered by: GREEN

 Plaintiff Eugene M. Parness seeks a declaratory judgment from this Court establishing that he has retained his United States citizenship. The parties agree that the sole issue in this case is whether Parness voluntarily and intentionally relinquished his U.S. citizenship when he signed naturalization papers to become an Israeli citizen in 1973, as a result of which he acquired Israeli citizenship in 1974. For the reasons set forth below, plaintiff's prayer is granted.

 United States citizenship is a precious right and its loss is often attended by dire consequences. Costello v. United States, 365 U.S. 265, 269, 5 L. Ed. 2d 551, 81 S. Ct. 534 (1961). The privilege of citizenship, when acquired by birth in the United States, is not easily lost. Under the fourteenth amendment, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1. Congress has no power to "restrict the effect of birth" protected under the citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. (Wheat.) 649, 703 42 L. Ed. 2d 890, 18 S. Ct. 456 (1898). Natural born citizens have a constitutional right to retain their status unless they voluntarily relinquish citizenship. Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253, 268, 18 L. Ed. 2d 757, 87 S. Ct. 1660 (1967).

 Parness claims that he did not read the naturalization application he signed to become an Israeli citizen, which states that he renounced his allegiance to the United States. See Defendant's Exhibit ("DX") O. The government claims that when he signed the document, plaintiff committed an act of expatriation and voluntarily and intentionally relinquished his right to U.S. citizenship. Both parties have agreed that this Court has jurisdiction to make a de novo judicial determination of the status of the plaintiff as a United States national and to grant corresponding declaratory relief if appropriate.

 Parness was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1935, the son of Russian immigrants. He lived in Milwaukee with his parents for the first seventeen years of his life. In the fall of 1952, Parness' parents were murdered. With the help of family and friends, Parness finished high school and in the fall of 1953 left the United States for a year with a youth study group in Israel. He has continued to live in Israel for all of his adult life. To safeguard his citizenship in America, however, Parness periodically and repeatedly registered with the United States Embassy in Israel, from the time of his arrival in 1953 through 1968.

 In the late 1960s, Parness heard that because of a change in United States law, U.S. citizens could no longer lose their citizenship by engaging in what had been expatriating actions in the past: serving in the Israeli Armed Forces, voting in Israel, and becoming an Israeli citizen. In 1966, the Supreme Court of the United States had decided Afroyim, which held that U.S. citizenship could not be revoked absent proof of voluntary renunciation of that citizenship. According to his testimony, Parness understood that he could be a citizen of both Israel and the United States. He relied on this understanding of the law and, as a consequence thereof, engaged in activities which are central to his case.

 Parness, who from 1953 through the 1960s had consistently refused to serve in the Israleli military, joined the Israeli military forces for 55 days in 1970 and also served in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. He ceased his earlier practice of registering at the United States Embassy after 1968. Following the Yom Kippur War, he sought to vote in an Israeli election. He incorrectly assumed that service in the Israeli military had made him an Israeli citizen. He was barred from voting and thereafter advised to apply for Israeli naturalization. Parness testified that he decided to be naturalized as an Israeli citizen because of the impact the war had had on him, because he knew his three sons would eventually serve in the Israeli military, and because it was important for them and important to him that he be a citizen of Israel. He had a position managing several industries, felt social pressures, and wanted to take on the responsibilities of Israeli citizenship. In December 1973, Parness went to the Ministry of Defense office in Afula, Israel to file an application for Israeli citizenship. He was 38 years old, married to an Israeli citizen, the father of three sons born in Israel, and he had an American high school education. Parness testified that he did not even consider the possible impact of his application for Israeli citizenship on his United States citizenship.

 Under the Nationality Law of Israel at that time, an adult who wished to become an Israeli citizen must have settled or intended to settle in Israel, must have spent three of the preceding five years living in Israel, and must have renounced any prior nationality, Plaintiff's Exhibit ("PX") 1, Nationality Law of Israel § 5(a) (1952). A person could, however, be exempted from section 5(a) requirements if that person had served in the Israeli Army or married an Israeli citizen, according to the unrefuted trial testimony of Ben Zion Eliash, an expert in Jewish law. Eliash testified that, under Section 7 of the 1952 Nationality Law, Parness was automatically eligible to become an Israeli citizen without renouncing U.S. citizenship because of his marriage to an Israeli woman. Eliash testified that under section 6(a)(1) of the same law, Parness was similarly eligible for an exemption from the section 5(a) requirements because of his Israeli military service. Despite his automatic eligibility, and for whatever reason, Parness neither sought nor was given an exemption in his 1973 application.

 To fully appreciate plaintiff's testimony, it is essential to envision the setting in which he applied for Israeli citizenship. This is the critical time when the government contends Parness specifically intended to renounce his citizenship. After standing in a long line at the Ministry of Defense in Afula, Parness stood at a clerk's counter to give oral answers to the clerk's questions as the clerk filled in his application form. Parness testified that he responded to what he was asked and did no more, that he was never told he would have to renounce his U.S. citizenship, that he did not knowingly or intentionally renounce his citizenship, and that he did not read the naturalization application, which stated in preprinted text that he renounced his citizenship. Parness further testified that he did not cross out a section of the application in which he could have exercised his right to an exemption from the section 5(a) requirements, nor does he know who did. Parness acknowledges that he should have read the document but contends that his obvious carelessness did not result from indifference to the possibility, or knowledge, that he might lose his U.S. citizenship. His "normal or average reaction to a standard document" was to not take the time to read what the document said. He treated his naturalization application in a manner consistent with his normal practice.

 The unusually casual way in which Parness applied for Israeli citizenship closely parallels the manner in which the form was completed by the Israeli ministry clerk. See DX-0. The application is clearly incomplete, inaccurate, and has not been signed by any Israeli official or representative. Portions of the application designed to establish eligibility for Israeli citizenship were left unanswered. The clerk never indicated how long Parness had lived in Israel over the course of the past five years. The clerk never designated whether Parness planned to settle or had settled in Israel. Throughout the document, as translated, Parness is spelled with one "s," as "Parnes." Neither Parness nor the Israeli ministry clerk dignified the document with an attitude more than casual. In March 1984, Parness' application for Israeli citizenship was accepted, and he signed an oath of allegiance to Israel. See DX-P. The oath made no mention of renunciation of other citizenship. Thereafter, Parness voted in Israeli elections and traveled with an Israeli passport. Confident that he was a dual citizen of both the United States and Israel, in February 1979, Parness decided to renew his U.S. passport. Since he traveled frequently in his capacity as senior sales manager for a kibbutz, he could travel more easily and to more countries on that passport. Parness testified that it was at this time that he first learned his Israeli citizenship might have voided his U.S. citizenship. Parness' application for U.S. passport renewal was denied after he told U.S. Embassy officials that he had become an Israeli citizen. He was advised that he would have to provide further documentation before his application would be reconsidered.

 Parness immediately set out to protect his rights and the rights of his three sons. Two of these sons were granted U.S. citizenship status in 1980. A third son was barred from becoming a U.S. citizen for technical reasons unrelated to this case. Parness complied with requests for documentation in a continuing effort to have his U.S. citizenship assured. In February 1980, the U.S. Embassy prepared a document which Parness signed and in which he acknowledged that he had acquired Israeli citizenship in 1974. He crossed out a phrase in this document which stated that he intended to renounce his U.S. citizenship. See DX-V. After reviewing all documentation, including a questionnaire which Parness completed, the State Department concluded that Parness ceased to be a U.S. citizen in 1974, at the time he acquired Israeli citizenship. The State Department then issued Parness a Certificate of Loss of Nationality on May 29, 1981. Once again, in 1984, when he returned to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for his birth certificate, he made another, but equally unsuccessful attempt to obtain a U.S. passport.

 Although Parness is now the managing director of sales for his kibbutz, he has operated and continues to operate his personal life with a remarkable degree of trust and naivete. While he has told this Court that he does not believe affirmation of his United States citizenship will affect his Israeli citizenship, he admits that he has not investigated the matter, despite the troubles he has encountered in this case. The file in this case indicates that at least one Israeli consular official has determined that Parness is not exempt from the foreign citizenship renunciation requirement of Israel's Nationality Law. See DX-R. However, Parness has consistently maintained that he never intended to renounce his U.S. citizenship, and a State Department official, in a memorandum for the file dated July 10, 1984, see DX-FF, acknowledged that Parness' actions do not clearly show an intent to renounce citizenship, and suggested that while "the decision reached at that time was correct" the passage of time ...

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