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Thank god for Bernie Sanders. |
You can make that an uppercase God if you prefer. Or keep it lowercase. You can take that sentiment ecumenically, evangelically, spiritually, atheistically, or any manner of religiously. But know this, wherever you place your faith, you must take that sentiment seriously. |
Bernie Sanders is the saving grace in what has to be the most embarrassing, humiliating, disheartening and frightening presidential campaign, possibly in our nation's history. |
Quite simply, Sanders is the only candidate in either party who is genuine. When he speaks, I believe him. Millions believe him, because he has no hidden agenda, he is beholden to no one, he has a long history of caring and working for people to whom life has not been kind and for challenging those who have always want... |
In comparison, the Republican campaign has featured a collection of liars, misfits, religious zealots, bigots, charlatans, incompetents and people who cannot spell, much less demonstrate, compassion. It has culminated in Donald Trump, one of the most dangerous, embarrassing figures to emerge in American politics. He is... |
His candidacy has allowed all the ugly elements in American society, many of whom reside in the Republican Party, to feel free to voice their hate publicly, to assault and threaten those they fear or those who disagree with them, and, incredibly, to believe that their candidate has any respect for them and their needs.... |
Not one of the Republican candidates -- still standing or fallen by the wayside -- can hold a candle to Sanders and not one of them deserves a vote to be president of the United States of America. They are, in toto, a disgrace. |
However, the real challenge to Sanders comes not from the Republicans, but from within his own party. The Democratic establishment long ago decided that Hillary Clinton should be its candidate for president this time and has done everything within its power to try to make that happen. This includes setting up a ridicul... |
Forget that, her supporters say. She gets things done. What it is she's gotten done is never mentioned. |
Still, the fact is she leads Sanders in delegates won in the primaries so far and, even with her faults, she is still head and shoulders above any of the Republicans in the race. This means, however much I respect and prefer Sanders as a presidential candidate, if Clinton is the Democratic Party nominee, I personally h... |
It's not a total sell-out. Mitigating my vote for Clinton would be the fact that she actually knows how government works and, as president, she would have a working, viable, responsible political party behind her, a party still on working terms with compassion and science and equality and still dedicated to governing, ... |
Thankfully, though, this campaign is far from over. There are many primaries in northern and western and big states where Sanders has considerable support and could easily win enough delegates to capture the nomination. Bill Clinton did it. Barack Obama did it. Bernie Sanders can do it. |
Richmond out-hit the powerful New Hampshire offense 9-6 to even the series at one game apiece. The Squirrels roared back from a 1-0 deficit with two runs in the sixth, two runs in the seventh and another in the eighth. Davis crunched his 12th home run of the year with two outs in the seventh. |
Richmond was shutout over the first five innings by NH LHP Tayler Saucedo before breaking through to take the lead 2-1 in the sixth. Saucedo walked Dylan Davis with one out in the inning. An error on the shortstop Bo Bichette was followed by an RBI single form John Polonius, tying the game, 1-1. John Riley followed Pol... |
Richmond created a small cushion with two more runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Facing reliver Andrew Case, CJ Hinojosa launched a double to the base of the fence in left centerfield and Luigi Rodriguez followed with a double of his own. Davis with two outs launched the home run for a 4-1 contest. |
Right-hander Logan Webb made the start for the Squirrels and retired the first six batters he faced in his Diamond debut. Santiago Espinal disrupted Webb with a double to start the third. Webb also issued a walk in the inning, but stranded runners on the corners to keep the game scoreless. Webb tossed 39 pitches over t... |
The Fisher Cats pushed across the first run of the game on the top of the fourth inning. Harold Ramirez singled to begin the inning and motored to third base on a base hit into right field from Cavan Biggio. With runners on the corners, Max Pentecost grounded out to short, producing Ramirez from third for a 1-0 lead. |
Webb lasted five innings and even returned to start the sixth – marking his longest start of the season. Webb walked the first batter in Forest Wall to begin the sixth, leading to Sam Wolff’s relief appearance. Wolff struck out the side with a walk mixed in, keeping the game a 1-0 contest. Wolff’s K’s closed Webb’s lin... |
Wolff (1-1) earned the win with two scoreless innings of work. Dusten Knight tossed 1.1 innings before McNamara entered with a runner on and one out in the ninth. McNamara induced a pop fly and picked up strikeout to ern the save. |
PETER CAVE: Two weeks ago, the Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett announced the approval of the Four Mile uranium mine in South Australia. |
And just last week there were indications that the Western Australia's first uranium mine could be operating within two years. |
Globally, more countries are looking to nuclear power as a means of tackling climate change. |
But there are still concerns over how and where to store nuclear waste and the possibility of our yellow cake getting into the hands of rogue states. |
I spoke to Stephanie Cooke, a journalist and historian whose new book In Mortal Hands looks at the history of nuclear technology and power. |
Stephanie Cooke, your book is subtitled A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age. Why cautionary? |
STEPHANIE COOKE: Well I wanted to show over the last 60 years sort of lay out what the history of the development of nuclear energy from its use in weapons to its use in reactors for electricity production and the consequences thereof. |
You know the whole history of nuclear development since the 50s is one of kind of putting non-proliferation on the backburner to other interests and so that is the primary reason for the word "cautionary" but the other reason relates to safety of reactors themselves and also safety when it comes to the deployment of we... |
PETER CAVE: Am I correct in reading into your book that you believe it's not possible to separate peaceful and warlike use of nuclear energy? |
STEPHANIE COOKE: I don't think the history so far suggests that it's been successful. I would say that apart from the United States, the Soviet Union and the Chinese weapons program, which was basically handed to them originally by the Soviets, every other weapons program came about or certainly benefited from the adve... |
You could use the peaceful pretext in many ways; for instance to order a reprocessing plant, which would give you plutonium or to have enrichment or to buy enriched fuel or whatever or even for that matter uranium. I mean the uranium that is going to the Natanz Enrichment Plant in Iran as far as we know was purchased u... |
So these things come back to haunt over long periods of time but a lot of what has come about in the way of unwanted weapons programs, including in North Korea which was helped by the International Atomic Agency's technical assistance program, has come about because of the peaceful use of nuclear energy. |
PETER CAVE: Is nuclear energy part of the answer to global warming as many have suggested? |
STEPHANIE COOKE: If you had something on the order of 1,200 reactors by the year 2050 it would make a dent. |
We have about 435 now but it would bring with it a number of other challenges to put it mildly. I think the leading one of which would be that where, I mean right now where you see nuclear developing is in countries you know in the Middle East, at regional hotspots and the history so far suggests that what you are goin... |
And of course there is the issue of waste and there is the issue of safety and are these programs in countries, you know the Russians are trying to get to get the Bangladeshi's interested in nuclear? Are these countries going to have really well regulated nuclear programs? |
PETER CAVE: A lot of scientific energy has gone into to try and find a solution to the safe disposal of nuclear waste in recent years. Has it really borne fruit, do you think? |
STEPHANIE COOKE: You know it has in some countries; it seems, in Finland and Sweden they are getting closer to having a repository. Of course their demands, waste storage demands, are not huge but that said, you have to remember that the timeline for nuclear waste are very, very long and the United States, the Governme... |
Others would say at least 100,000 but it is very, very long and any scientist worth his salt would tell you that he cannot guarantee with any kind of certainty that the facilities that the waste are going to be in are going to be safe for that length of time. I mean in other words, not disturbed. |
PETER CAVE: Australia is at the moment in the process of expanding its uranium minding capacity with projects in South Australia and Western Australia and there's also pressure to exploit the huge resources in Queensland. Would you urge caution? |
STEPHANIE COOKE: Well, yeah. I mean I know some of the people involved in the Australian mining industry and they're - I mean I don't think they wish to see their uranium going to anyone's bomb programs but the truth is ultimately they don't have control over that. |
The other thing to note for Australia is that the residue from uranium mining in the form of mill tailings is the most dangerous human health wise of nuclear facilities that there is because the tailings last, the radon gas that comes out of them, radon itself has a short half-life but it produces other substances whic... |
PETER CAVE: Can Australia though afford to ignore the huge potential of supplying uranium to a proposed 413 reactors on the drawing boards around the world and in particular to a huge expanding economy like India? |
STEPHANIE COOKE: That is a decision that Australians have to make but yeah, I don't think that the loss of uranium exports is going to seriously jeopardise the Australian economy. I think it is more a question of does Australia want to bear the long term consequences of uranium mining and does it want to participate in... |
PETER CAVE: Stephanie Cooke, a journalist and historian for Uranium Intelligence Weekly. |
RALEIGH - Joe Dooley doesn't have the easiest of jobs right now. |
For all the sun, sand and dunks that the name Florida Gulf Coast evokes in college basketball circles, the first-year Eagles coach knows that he faces some challenges. |
The longtime Kansas assistant took over for Andy Enfield, the coach who bolted to Southern Cal after his high-flying bunch became the story of the early rounds of the NCAA tournament by using a fast and fearless style to tear into the Sweet 16 as a No. 15 seed. |
But Tuesday night's 82-62 thrashing at the hands of N.C. State showed that despite returning four starters, this is a different team. And it will have to work out its flaws against the backdrop of Dunk City's long shadow. |
"I like what we have, we're going to get better, there are some thing we need to really tighten up," Dooley said outside the visitors' locker room at PNC Arena. |
But Dooley has experience with difficult situations. |
Nearly two decades ago, a 29-year old Dooley was charged with keeping alive the fragile basketball momentum at East Carolina, a school with scant hoops tradition. |
Dooley was only four years out of college when he joined Eddie Payne's Pirates staff. |
He was on hand when Payne guided the Pirates to only their second NCAA tournament appearance in 1993. When Payne was hired by Oregon State after the 1994-95 season, Dooley stayed in Greenville to become the youngest head coach in college basketball at the time. |
"Everybody learns everything when they change jobs," Dooley said. |
His first season saw the Pirates win 17 games and reach the semifinal of the CAA tournament. They won 17 games the next season, too. But after winning just 10 in his third season and 13 in his fourth, Dooley was let go. |
He'd gone 57-52 over four seasons. At that point, he was the only East Carolina coach in the Division I era to have a winning career record. |
To put that in perspective, future Wake Forest coach Dave Odom went 40-40 in three seasons there. Payne parlayed his time with the Pirates into a better job after going just 56-58. After Dooley was fired, East Carolina didn't have another winning season until first-year coach Jeff Lebo posted an 18-16 record in 2010-11... |
But at 33 years old, Dooley had seen his first head coaching opportunity come and go. |
"It was a great experience for me. I think the university and the people there are unbelievable," Dooley said. "The Pirates fans, they love their team. East Carolina's a great place and I had a great experience there." |
Dooley spent the next three seasons as an assistant at New Mexico. After a season at Wyoming, he was hired by Bill Self at Kansas. |
During his 10 seasons at Kansas, he developed a reputation as a tireless recruiter, helping deliver several of the key pieces to the Jayhawks' 2008 NCAA title run. |
Last March, he scouted Florida Gulf Coast as it blew past Georgetown and San Diego State in NCAA tournament. Both Kansas and Florida Gulf Coast reached the regional finals of the South bracket, losing a few hours apart on the court at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tex. |
Less than three weeks later, he was introduced as the Eagles' next coach. |
Now 47, Dooley is again at the helm of his own program. And like his time at East Carolina, there's work to be done. |
"I think we all learned a few things," Dooley said of his time leading the Pirates. "... I know a lot more than I did then and I was proud with the job I did there." |
With Lent on the horizon, Gorton's Seafood is bringing back its male mermaids—or "mer-bros"—as it rides a wave of momentum in the revitalized frozen-food category. |
The brand debuted the mer-bros last year as part of new cast of characters in a move to update its look, which had long been defined by its yellow-raincoat-wearing fisherman character, who debuted in 1975. |
The fisherman "is kind of iconic to the brand and well recognized," says Chris Hussey, VP of marketing at Gorton's Seafood. Still, the brand wants to attract younger buyers and knows plenty of people didn't grow up hearing the "Trust the Gorton's fisherman" jingle. It sought a creative approach that brought life to the... |
Now, after sales increased aided by the "Trusted by those who know" brand campaign from Connelly Partners, Gorton's has new ads emphasizing updated products. Last fall, it began selling breaded fish sticks and filets that are flash-frozen, or frozen right after catch and then processed. Its fish sticks are also larger ... |
This year, there are new mer-bros who are a bit less bro-y and more in touch with their emotions. Poseidon has returned as well, but the castaway isn't back, at least for now. |
The brand is using the sidekick characters to talk about the new products because "if the fisherman were to deliver that, it would come across as a little too boastful," says Alyssa Toro, chief creative officer at Connelly Partners. |
The updated ads come as Gorton's and other seafood brands gear up for Lent, a busy time for the brand because people often eat more seafood while abstaining from eating meat on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays. (This year, Lent falls from March 6 through April 20.) Retailers also tend to promote the products more at this t... |
The push also comes as frozen food is, well, hot. Frozen food sales rose 2.6 percent in dollars and rose 2.3 percent in units in 2018, according to the "Power of Frozen" research report the American Frozen Food Institute and Food Marketing Institute plan to issue later this month. Seafood is the fifth-largest frozen fo... |
Gorton's increased ad spending by 29 percent from the first half of 2017 to the first half of 2018, according to Chris. This year, it's putting more weight behind TV ads rather than social, while last year, there was more weight behind social than TV. |
Frozen fish isn't the only category getting more marketing backing and TV time. Kraft Heinz's Devour, a line of meals aimed at men, just aired its first Super Bowl commercial. |
Gorton's is owned by Japan's Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd. |
A writer/producer of "Shameless" renders both the 1970s Manhattan fashion world and contemporary body issues on a Pasadena stage. |
One of the epiphanies in my four decades of theatre-going in Los Angeles was the 2003 mounting of Sheila Callaghan’s Shakespearean pastorale Kate Crackernuts by Jessica Kubzansky. It was so fiercely original and so abandoned to its own sometimes obscure inner voice that it encouraged me to connect more intensely to the... |
Her subsequent plays produced here, among them Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), Lascivious Something and Roadkill Confidential, all displayed her peculiar speech and restless exploration of nether crannies of inner experience that illuminate the common quandaries of relating to an often baffling modern world. ... |
But her new Everything You Touch may be the breakthrough work Callaghan’s admirers have been waiting for: A brash, even commercial, elaboration of her universal themes in their most complex and daredevil manifestations yet. It takes place both in the now, where Jess (Kirsten Vangsness), a professional tech success othe... |
They are contrasting existential crises in wildly distinctive time periods, but this being the theater, there is a common narrative, involving many varieties of self-loathing counterbalanced, by degrees, by creative drive. Jess learns her mother, who she has not seen since leaving home irrevocably at 18, is near death ... |
Callaghan cunningly encourages us to maintain the illusion that these are parallel, converging stories, although in her trickster ways, it keeps becoming likelier that the past may be imaginary history, a memory that could well be a fantasy, or is the pipe dream the journey Jess takes by car with Victor to Little Rock,... |
I had the luck to hear the play in a reading at the Boston Court a couple years ago, and while impressed, it is a wonderment what Kubzansky has wrought with its physical realization. The quirky dialogue requires just as much deft intonation as David Mamet, with which it otherwise has nothing else in common save its ind... |
The cast is so superb that even the omnipresent models, both real and ghostly (another echo of Follies), stir our empathy. Vangsness, a longtime mainstay of Theatre of NOTE as well as Garcia on Criminal Minds, wrings out every potential character cliché in her deeply personal incarnation of a standard type in contempor... |
At intermission, I was convinced Everything You Touch was well on its way to being the best new play of the year. The second act, however, contents itself with being merely excellent, as plot strands work themselves out, and the almost impossible energy and intricate patterning of the first act must move towards someth... |
Josh Clark explains how he came up with the idea of the running programme that got millions off their sofas and out jogging. |
In 1996 a young TV producer in Boston came up with the idea of a running programme to help people exercise regularly. Couch to 5K running groups now exist all over the world and it has even been endorsed by Britain's National Health Service, the NHS. Elizabeth Davies hears from Josh Clark, who invented the programme. |
The Greenwich girls water polo team jumped out to an early lead and hung on to beat Choate 12-11. |
"It was an interesting game," Greenwich coach Bill Harris said. "We led 12-7 at halftime and we hung on. It was a very good game and we never lost the lead." |
Daniela Screnci scored five goals to pace the Cardinals attack. |
Jesse Evans added three goals, Allie Hay two and Milena Meehan and Claire Baxter each scored once. |
Paige Neary had five save for the Cardinals, who improve to 11-4. |
Greenwich will be on the road at Loomis Monday at 4:30 p.m. |
Greenwich softball routed Bassick 24-0 behind a strong pitching performance from Taylor Cory to win its second straight game. |
Erica Ambrogio was three for three, Meg Foster was two for four with six RBI and Olivia Francela went three for four for the Cardinals (4-8). |
Greenwich will host New Canaan at 4 p.m. Friday. |
The Greenwich Academy lacrosse team got back to winning, beating Rye Country Day School 11-7. |
For the Gators (10-4, 5-1 FAA) Lexi Henkel had four goals, Emilia Tapsall scored three and Sarahbeth Brecht, Carly Downs and Parker Procida each scored once. |
"It was a nice day and everything was good," GA coach Angela Tammaro said. "Our passing was crisper and our defense was strong." |
The Gators will host Greenwich high Saturday at 2 p.m. |
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