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Historical Context
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This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration files, "Camp Misty Mount Historic District" (with photographs) and "Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) Architecture at Catoctin Mountain Park," and records in the archives of Catoctin Mountain Park. It was written by Debra Mills, a Park Ranger at Catoctin Mountain Park. TwHP is sponsored, in part, by the Cultural Resources Training Initiative and Parks as Classrooms programs of the National Park Service. This lesson is one in a series that brings the important stories of historic places into the classrooms across the country.
Where it fits into the curriculum
Topics: The lesson could be used in units on the growth of industry in colonial America, on job programs of the Depression, or in a course examining the importance of resource conservation. Students will strengthen their skills of observation, research, and analysis of a variety of sources.
Time period: Early 20th century
Relevant United States History Standards for Grades 5-12
Relevant Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
Find your state's social studies and history standards for grades Pre-K-12
Objectives for students
1) To explain the important role that forests can play in a local economy.
2) To outline the tasks completed at Misty Mount by the Works Progress Administration work force and explain why this government program had both local and national significance.
3) To describe the concept of rustic architecture and explain why the style was so well suited for the construction of Campy Misty Mount.
4) To compare the use of natural resources in the Catoctin Mountain area with the use of natural resources in their own region.
Materials for studentsThe materials listed below either can be used directly on the computer or can be printed out, photocopied, and distributed to students. The maps and images appear twice: in a low-resolution version with associated questions and alone in a larger, high-resolution version.
1) one map showing the main routes to the Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Area in the 1930s;
2) two readings demonstrating the changing uses of Catoctin Mountain Forests and the construction of Camp Misty Mount;
3) one document showing an estimation of labor and materials for camp buildings;
4) four photographs of rustic architecture and views of the forest;
5) one drawing of Camp Misty Mount.
Visiting the site
Camp Misty Mount is part of the National Park Service's Catoctin Mountain Park, located three miles west of Thurmont, Maryland, on state route 77. The park is open year-round during daylight hours. The visitor center is open daily from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., with extended hours on weekends. Camp Misty Mount is available for individual cabin rental from April 15 through the end of October. (The general public is excluded from the camp to assure the privacy and security of the cabin occupants.) For more information, write to the Superintendent, Catoctin Mountain Park, Thurmont, MD 21788 or visit the park Web pages.


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The pantoum originated in Malaysia in the fifteenth-century as a short folk poem, typically made up of two rhyming couplets that were recited or sung. However, as the pantoum spread, and Western writers altered and adapted the form, the importance of rhyming and brevity diminished. The modern pantoum is a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza. The last line of a pantoum is often the same as the first.
The pantoum was especially popular with French and British writers in the nineteenth-century, including Charles Baudelaire and Victor Hugo, who is credited with introducing the form to European writers. The pantoum gained popularity among contemporary American writers such as Anne Waldman and Donald Justice after John Ashbery published the form in his 1956 book, Some Trees.
A good example of the pantoum is Carolyn Kizer's "Parent's Pantoum," the first three stanzas of which are excerpted here:
Where did these enormous children come from,
More ladylike than we have ever been?
Some of ours look older than we feel.
How did they appear in their long dresses
More ladylike than we have ever been?
But they moan about their aging more than we do,
In their fragile heels and long black dresses.
They say they admire our youthful spontaneity.
They moan about their aging more than we do,
A somber group—why don't they brighten up?
Though they say they admire our youthful spontaneity
They beg us to be dignified like them
One exciting aspect of the pantoum is its subtle shifts in meaning that can occur as repeated phrases are revised with different punctuation and thereby given a new context. Consider Ashbery's poem "Pantoum," and how changing the punctuation in one line can radically alter its meaning and tone: "Why the court, trapped in a silver storm, is dying." which, when repeated, becomes, "Why, the court, trapped in a silver storm, is dying!"
An incantation is created by a pantoum's interlocking pattern of rhyme and repetition; as lines reverberate between stanzas, they fill the poem with echoes. This intense repetition also slows the poem down, halting its advancement. As Mark Strand and Eavan Boland explained in The Making of a Poem, "the reader takes four steps forward, then two back," making the pantoum a "perfect form for the evocation of a past time."
In his book A Poet's Glossary, former Academy Chancellor Edward Hirsch writes, "The Western pantoum adapts a long-standing form of oral Malayan poetry (pantun) that first entered written literature in the fifteenth century. The most basic form of the pantun is a quatrain with an abab rhyme scheme. Each line contains between eight and twelve syllables. Like the ghazal, it is a disjunctive form, since the sentence that makes up the first pair of lines (ab) has no immediate logical or narrative connection with the second pair of lines (ab)."
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West Paris fireworks warehouse goes up in flames; firefighters from 5 communities respond
WEST PARIS, Maine (AP) � Firefighters are on the scene of a major fire at a warehouse behind a West Paris fireworks store.
The blaze was reported at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Paris Fire Chief Brad Frost says firefighters from five communities responded and were warned to be careful of explosives in the building.
The fire is in the old Penley Mill building.
Fireworks retailer AAH Fireworks opened a store at the site last June.
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Blast, fire at La. chemical plant
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GEISMAR, La. (AP) — Louisiana State Police say a reported explosion has started a fire at a chemical plant.
Capt. Doug Cain says the fire broke out Thursday morning at The Williams Companies Inc. plant in the town of Geismar (GYS'-mahr). The plant makes highly flammable gases that are basic building blocks in the petrochemical industry.
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6 steps to build a robust online network from scratch
These tips will get you started—even if you don't know anyone else on the Internet.
When I joined my company's marketing team a little more than a year ago, I was told to start reading blogs, commenting on them, and seeking out guest posts.
My reaction: Comment who? Network where? Guest post what?
I was new to the marketing/blogging community and had absolutely no idea where to start.
Sound familiar?
Here's the secret: Regardless of your niche, you have to start with good, old-fashioned networking and relationship building. What you know is undeniably important, but so is who you know.
I want to share how I started networking so you can have a place to start your relationship building. Keep in mind there isn't an exact formula to make friends. A year later, I'm still working at networking.
1. Grab a little guidance.
Your first option is to try a simple Google search with "[your niche] + blog."
For example, if you write for a knitting blog, your results will look something like this:
This doesn't list every knitting blog out there, but it's a good place to start. Google deemed these blogs the cream of the crop, so other knitting enthusiasts will flock to these sites.
Also ask your supervisor, co-workers, or any business contacts what blogs they like to read. They'll probably direct you to big names like Copyblogger, Problogger and Chris Brogan.
These are great places to start, but you're not going to become best friends with Chris Brogan after reading his blog for a month.
2. See if you actually know anyone.
If you're not completely new to social media, there's a good chance you already follow a couple of bloggers in your niche.
Check out your Facebook subscriptions, Google+ circles, and/or the people you follow on Twitter. I like to scroll all the way to the bottom of my following list on Twitter, hit the control key + F (or command + F for Apple users), and search for "blog."
Christian Hollingsworth and Jeremy Schoemaker were among the first 100 people I followed on Twitter. Considering they are flanked by college friends and news syndicates, they must've made an impact on me when I started out on Twitter in 2009.
Check out the users you find and their blogs. There has to be a reason you followed them. Visit a couple you find interesting.
If you are completely new to social media, add these bloggers to your Google+ circles, Facebook subscriptions, and Twitter following. Social media is crucial to relationship building.
3. Leave some comments.
Nobody is going to know you're there if you don't speak up. Leave comments on big-name blogs and any you pick up from social media. Compliment the author on the post (triple check to make sure you have the right name) and either pick out a part you like or pose a question.
Don't be afraid! It may seem intimidating to leave your name and thoughts in a comment section, but people on the Internet (outside of YouTube) are generally pretty nice. Even if the blog owner doesn't reply to you, other readers might be able to answer your question.
Also, don't force yourself to leave a comment if you don't legitimately have anything to say. Writers can smell a forced comment a mile away. It's better for people to know you as someone who comments every so often with insight than someone who spams every post so she can get a backlink.
Are you still nervous to leave a comment? Don't be. The trick is to get started. All bloggers have been where you are now, and as I said, they're all generally pretty nice.
If it makes you feel better, I'll link you to one of the first blogs I ever commented on. Looking back, I cringe that I ever put this in writing. However, it started a conversation with the blog owner, and I still talk to him on Google+. This comment was the beginning of a relationship.
4. Analyze blogs for other bloggers.
Now that you've eased into the practice of commenting, it's time to really start networking.
Take note of two kinds of people on both big-name blogs and other blogs you stumble across: The people who leave comments regularly and/or help people in the comment section, and people who guest post on a whole bunch of the blogs you read.
These are the people you want to get to know. As Tom Ewer of Leaving Work Behind said, you need to network with those around you.
Let me give you an example that started on Kikolani.
Kikolani is one of the blogs my supervisor suggested I start reading. After a few weeks of reading it, a guest post by Leo Widrich from Buffer went live. It was about Twitter and blogging, which were two things I knew a decent amount about.
Widrich wrote an insane amount of guest posts to build awareness and buzz for Buffer, and I started to see his name pop up on just about every social media blog I read.
Since I dug his Twitter tips, I decided to start reading the Buffer blog. I loved the actionable advice in the posts and started to comment on the posts and share them on my social networks.
About a month later, Buffer posted a guest post by Gregory Ciotti. At the bottom with the author bio, Widrich added that Buffer was starting to accept guest posts.
I was so excited to have the chance to write for Buffer that I immediately started to make an outline for a potential guest post. I pitched it to Widrich the next day, and he accepted it. Over the course of the past year I've written three posts for Buffer, including my best-performing blog post ever: "7 Ways I Accidentally Got Twitter Followers (and 7 Ways You Can on Purpose!)."
5. Share your knowledge.
Now that you've been blogging for a while, made some new friends, and have a better feel of the online [your niche here] community, start sharing your expertise with others.
First, make sure you always reply to comments on your guest posts. It's maddening to me that bloggers take the time to write a great guest post, send it to another blog, and then abandon it. It's just bad manners to not reply to a single comment.
Second, many commenters ask questions on popular blogs. If there are tons of comments, the author doesn't seem to be replying, and you have a good answer, feel free to jump in and offer it.
I did this in the comment section of a Social Media Examiner post last year. Someone asked how he could tweet while away from Twitter for the majority of the day. Since the post had more than 100 comments, I decided to jump in and offer my two cents.
My reply turned into a multi-comment discussion.
Best of all, David ended up coming to my company's blog and becoming a frequent commenter. He still tweets many of our articles and comments now and then, and I have no doubt he's driven traffic to us that converted to sales.
6. Don't be a jerk.
Nobody likes a jerk.
People will want to connect with you because they find you interesting, helpful and kind. Feel free to disagree and challenge, but not in a harmful or malicious way.
Calling someone an idiot won't get you anywhere. And do you even want to connect with someone you think is an idiot?
Let your kindness and intrigue shine through, and you'll already be a step ahead of much of the Internet's population.
Are you feeling better yet?
The Internet can be a huge, overwhelming place, but by finding some like-minded individuals and treating them the way you want to be treated, you'll create new relationships in no time.
Have you tried any of these techniques? Do you still struggle with networking?
Mandy Kilinskis is a content developer for Quality Logo Products. A version of this article originally appeared on Kikolani.com.
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Would You Like More WLM Information In DB2 Accounting Trace - And How Would You Use It?
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I was lucky enough to be in Silicon Valley Lab for DB2 BootCamp last week. There I ran into a DB2 developer I've worked very successfully with in the past - John Tobler.
(He's the guy I look to for questions and issues with DB2 SMF data.)
We had a good discussion about something I'd personally like to see in DB2 Accounting Trace - more WLM information - and this post is as a result of this conversation.
Two salient pieces of information:
Putting these two together you come to the conclusion it might technically be possible to get more WLM information into Accounting Trace. That, of course, doesn't mean it's going to happen. I have to stress that before going any further. But it's worthwhile thinking about what's needed and how useful that would be to customers.
What Should Be Added?
Uncontroversially, I think, QWACWLME should be filled in with Service Class for all work types. I say "uncontroversially" because - if it can be done cheaply - it's just using space that's already in the record. I don't know if it can be done cheaply, though.
More controversially because, taken together, they represent 18 additional bytes in each 101 record are:
I think I could live without Workload but it seems a shame to exclude it.
As Willie points out Performance Index (PI) is also in the DISPLAY THREAD command but I think we can get that from RMF Workload Activity Report (SMF 72) and that's probably a better place to get it from.
But the key question is "how useful and important would this extra information be to you?"
Let me outline three areas of use I can immediately see...
Understanding Not Accounted For Time
This time bucket is what you get when you subtract all the time buckets we know about from the headline response time. The two most important causes for this are CPU Queuing and Paging Delay.
If we calculate this time for a record and we know the (behaviour of) the WLM Service Class it's in we can understand this time better. A bugbear of doing DB2 performance is just this: understanding whether work is subject to queuing or not. (For Paging Delay as a cause of Not Accounted For Time we could do much the same thing.)
Understanding The WLM Aspects Of DB2 Work
It would be useful to be able to break down the work coming into a DB2 subsystem by Service Class, Goal and Importance, wouldn't it? In particular it would be nice to see the hierarchy of goals and importances, and to be able to relate the works' WLM attributes to those of address spaces such as DIST and DBM1. (In the former case discovering that the TCB's in the DIST address space were subject to pre-emption by the DDF work would be a blow.)
Correlating Service Class And Report Class For DDF Work
For non-enclave work I use the Report Class and Service Class in Type 30 to establish how these relate to each other (and what kind of work has which RC and which SC). I can't do it for DDF work because there's no usable Type 30 (i.e. with this kind of information in). If the 101 record had these both in you could extend the method.
(In case you wonder what I'm talking about see What's In A Name?.)
This still doesn't help us in the non-DDF enclave cases, of course.
Over To You
What do you think? I've listed three categories of value that immediately spring to mind (and that's with the disbenefit of jetlag so maybe not that articulately expressed). But I'd really like to know if this would be of value to you - and to modify the proposal if you think you'd like something slightly different.
There's no guarantee this will get done - and it's a bit of an attempt at a "Social Requirements Gathering" process. But it's worth debating in public, I think.


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So, anyone who writes and photographs a doughnut recipe book--oh, Doughnuts: Simple and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home, from Sasquatch Books, for instance--is pretty much tops in my book.
But really, as awesome as you might figure such a person to be, author/photographer/doughnut maker Lara Ferroni is even better.
From the day I learned she was working on this project, I couldn't stop myself from constantly saying things like "Doughnut Stop Believing!" or "Just Donut!" whenever I saw her. And--bless her--she never got terse with me or punched me or anything.
And now the book's out! And it's full of amazing doughnut lore, factoids, recipes and mouthwatering photos. Which one to try first--a classic raised doughnut? Or perhaps something more exotic, like a Margarita, Red Velvet, or S'mores Doughnut? Here, preview it all in the promo video:
Well, one lucky reader can choose their own doughnut adventure, because I've got a copy to give away!
How do you put yourself in the running? Simply weigh in on this holey issue in the comments section below:
Doughnuts: Yeast or Cake?
US and Canadian entrants only, please. This giveaway will close one week from today, on Tuesday, October 19th at 12pm PST!
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Totally sweet! We have a winner! Chosen at random, it's Mandy, who says:
For me, it's cake. For my niece who is following my baking example, she chooses doughnuts for everything! Doughnuts over birthday cake even.


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Trucking Initiative
Safety & Health Assessment & Research for Prevention (SHARP) Research for Safe Work
TIRES prevents injuries in the trucking industry
The SHARP program at L&I is conducting in-depth occupational safety and health work in the Washington State trucking industry to identify work environments that put trucking workers at increased risk of injury. The Trucking Injury Reduction Emphasis (TIRES) project identifies risk factors for worker injury, and works with the industry to create and share prevention strategies. Project direction and publications are reviewed by an industry and labor steering committee to ensure useful information is developed for trucking companies and employees.
The goal of the TIRES project is to reduce the incidence of:
- Non-traumatic musculoskeletal disorders of the neck, back and upper extremity.
- Slips, trips and falls.
- Injuries from getting struck by or against an object.
These conditions comprise 71% of the industry's workers' compensation claims, costs and lost workdays.
See the TIRES Publications for injury prevention materials developed specifically for the trucking industry.
The TIRES project is supported in part by federal funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
TIRES project staff defined systematic data collection methods as part of this project including detailed analysis of injury data, interviews of injured workers, site visits, and "ride-alongs" with truck drivers in different sectors of the industry.
Specific outreach goals
- Build and maintain partnerships with representatives from both management and labor within the trucking industry.
- Maintain the Web site KeepTruckingSafe.org (www.KeepTruckingSafe.org) for additional safety resources available to the trucking industry.
- Publish technical reports describing injuries, trends and costs within the trucking industry by sector through analysis of state workers' compensation data.
- Conduct case follow-up interviews with injured workers to identify risk factors and solutions for the injury types listed above.
- Conduct industry-wide surveys of both employers and employees to identify hazards and risk factors for the targeted injury types, needs and possible solutions based on company type and size.
- Develop and promote the use of educational materials and other interventions to reduce hazards and injuries within trucking.
- Disseminate findings and information to people within the Washington trucking industry who can work to reduce injuries. Impacts of outreach using social media.
- Produce a trucking industry specific online safety manual to assist smaller companies in the development of their safety plans.
Injury prevention material
Don't force it: Check out our companion Web site (www.KeepTruckingSafe.org) for an interactive simulation of the forces generated from exiting a truck cab or trailer. Get ready for impact!
Information learned through data analyses, telephone case follow-up interviews, onsite visits, employer and employee surveys, and other follow-up activities is being used to identify root causes that can be addressed to prevent injuries.
Trucking industry specific injury prevention materials may be downloaded and copied as needed.


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Moonglow or Furor? The age-old question: Is it better to save mana or gain mana?
This question has been answered many times before, but the answer tends to fall under one of two extremes: it either references a complex formula which goes right over my head, or it gives an absolute X is better than Y without much explanation. I'm going to try to answer the question in a way that falls in between those two extremes. I'll answer the question in layman's terms with concrete examples of how the two talents affect your mana pool.
First, let's look at exactly what the talents do:
Moonglow – Reduces the cost of your damage and healing spells by 9%.
This is a very basic bonus. The benefit you'll see from Moonglow depends entirely on how many spells you cast and how much mana they cost. The more mana you spend, the more benefit you will see from Moonglow.
Furor – Increases your maximum mana by 15%.
Furor is a little more complex. Besides the flat mana increase you get, you will also see a bonus to any mana regeneration that is based on your mana pool, such as Revitalize, Replenishment and Innervate. Furor is a talent that scales with gear – as your mana pool increases, so does the benefit you gain from Furor.
So how do you tell which talent will create a more positive effect on your mana? With math!
Let's look at Moonglow first. To figure out how much mana you can save with Moonglow, you need to have an idea of how much mana you spend on any given fight. To do this, I looked at random 30 second snippets of boss encounters and broke down how many spells I cast and how much mana they cost. Here's one example:
|Sample 5
|Cost w/o MG
|Cost with 3 MG
|Mana Saved
|Rejuv x7
|SM x2
|WG x3
|N x4
|LB x2
I also cast 2 Regrowths during that time, but left out their mana cost to account for Omen of Clarity procs (I assumed a rate of 2 OoC procs per 30 seconds).
After looking at 5 random samples, I found that 3 points in Moonglow would give me an average mana savings of 4823.5 every 30 seconds.
Looking at different fight lengths, Moonglow saves:
|Mana Saved in:
|3 minutes
|4 minutes
|5 minutes
|6 minutes
|7 minutes
|8 minutes
|9 minutes
|10 minutes
Now let's look at Furor. I looked at the impact Furor would have on a mana pool of 100,000. First, there would be a flat bonus of 15,000 mana. Second, there would be an increase in mana regeneration effects.
- Replenishment returns 1% of total mana over 10 seconds. An extra 15,000 mana would mean an extra 150 mana from Replenishment every 10 seconds.
- Revitalize returns 2% of your mana whenever it procs. It has a 12 second internal cooldown, but from examinations of my own logs I found an average proc rate of once every 13.5 seconds. An extra 15,000 mana would mean an extra 300 mana from Revitalize every 13.5 seconds.
- Innervate returns 20% of your mana and has a 3 minute cooldown. An extra 15,000 mana would mean an extra 3,000 mana from each Innervate.
I looked at how much extra mana would be regenerated with a base mana pool of 100,000 over a 3 minute fight:
|Mana with 3 Furor
|Mana return over a
3 minute fight
|Replenishment (18 occurrences)
|Revitalize (13.33 occurrences)
|Innervate (1)
|Extra mana regenerated from Furor
Add that 9,699 to the flat 15,000 mana increase and 3 points in Furor would gain you 24,699 extra mana over a 3-minute fight. I then expanded these figures to account for larger mana pools and longer boss fights.
My full calculations are available in this spreadsheet.
When all the math was done, I compared the numbers for Moonglow and Furor and put them in a pretty graph.
Things we learn from this:
- Furor gets better with larger mana pools.
- Moonglow gets better with the amount of spells you cast. It gets better in relation to Furor as the fights get longer.
- At current mana levels Moonglow will provide more of a benefit than Furor on any fight longer than 3 minutes.
- Furor will not become competitive with Moonglow until our mana pools start hitting 150,ooo (at least) and even then, only on the shorter fights.
I hope I've helped to clarify the issue for those people (like me) who want to understand the reasons why one talent is better than the other without doing too much math.
*Disclaimer: I did not account for temporary Intellect increases in my Furor calculations. The temporary mana increases make only a few percent difference. For example, on a 3-minute fight with 100k mana, Power Torrent procs would increase Furor's mana regen by about 4.9%. As mana pools increase, this number goes down. Adding in the temporary Int boosts does not affect any of the numbers enough to make Furor better than Moonglow for any fight length or mana pool. And I'm all math-ed out.*
Thanks to Hamlet for reviewing my spreadsheet. For those looking for more druid theorycrafting, I suggest downloading Hamlet's TreeCalcs. Thanks also to Zosima for making sure my math-to-English translation made sense. 🙂


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Name: John
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Location: San Diego
My dick is kinda small. I want to add 3-5 inches. How do I do that?
Jeez, this is just about my least favorite topic of all. I keep promising myself that I won't respond to anymore "how do I grow my dick bigger?" questions. And then along comes a young pup, like you John, and asks the question again. Here's a tip, everything I have to say about cock enlargement schemes I've already said. If you want to know my thoughts about this wearisome topic scroll use my site's search function in the sidebar to your right. Search with key words like "cock shape", "cock size" and "jelqing". Once you read through all columns and listen to the podcasts you will have all the information you seek.
Here's a bit of an overview of what you'll find. First, you're not even completely through puberty yet, John. So if you could just chill out for a couple more years till your growing spurt is complete, you might find that nature itself will resolve your issue for you. If, by chance, you find that by your 18th birthday your cock is no bigger than it currently is, then it's time to make your peace with your piece. Because basically that's the dick you're gonna have to work with for the rest of your life.
In other words, you have about as much chance of growing a bigger dick than what your genetics has determined for you as you do growing your feet bigger or adding inches to your height or changing the color of your skin. It's simply not gonna happen. There is no true way of safely increasing either the width or the length of your johnson, short of a surgical intervention. And I never recommend that.
Just like there are ways to give the illusion of bigger feet, darker or lighter skin or being taller than you really are, there are things you can do to create the illusion that you're growin' yourself a bigger dick. But all the creams, the jelqing, the pumps, the weights the what-have-you, will only have a short-term effect if they have any effect at all. In the end you will have spent a whole lot of money, wasted a lot of time, been consumed with a great deal of anxiety and possibly even injured yourself to wind up having what you've always had and not significantly more.
May I suggest that you practice accepting what genetics has determined for you in terms of cock size and everything else. Because that will give you more time and energy to learn how to use what you have to its greatest benefit. Luckily, our capacity to be a good, and even great, lover has nothing to do with the size of our cock. Anyone who tries to tell you different is pullin' your leg.
Name: Laurel
Gender: female
Age: 42
Location: San Francisco
My best friend, someone I truly love, has been really getting into S&M lately. Some weeks ago she told me she now has a full-time slave. She says it's a lifestyle thing, but I still don't get it. The problem I have is that this isn't a private thing between her and this guy. She parades it around and treats him like a slave 24 hours a day. I find this really disturbing and it's like she does this just to annoy me. My husband and I are complete equals in every way. I can't get comfortable watching my friend humiliate and degrade someone like this. My friend says I should just quit being so uptight. Is this really just a question of me being closed-minded? Or is there something radically wrong with someone wanting to humiliate and degrade someone else?
How did your best friend's lifestyle choices, whatever they might be, suddenly become all about you? If you really cared for this person as much as you say you do, or better yet, as much as you care for yourself and your delicate sensitivities you'd try to look beyond your superficial appreciation of what's going on with your friend and her slave.
You say your problem with your friend is that she doesn't keep her perversion private; rather she and her man slave "parade around" 24hr a day. What, you'd prefer she be a dilettante kinkster? Hell I give her credit for taking this thing seriously. So many others compartmentalize their lives — this is me for my family and friends — this is me for playmates — and this over here is my secret me.
As to your friend, I doubt that she gives a flying fuck if her public antics annoy you. In fact, that may very well be why she does it. Let's try and look at this as dispassionately as possible. Your friend, by being so public with her kink, has entered the realm of political and sexual theater. That is not in any way meant to diminish her commitment to her lifestyle. On the contrary, only someone who is totally into this would have the fortitude to constantly poke a finger in the eye of polite society. She has a message for you and us. And I suspect that it has something to do with the unfortunate sex-role stereotyping and stultifying gender conventions that plague our buttoned down society. But best you get that directly from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
I have no way of knowing why your friend does what she does, but she belongs to a very long and venerable tradition of flying in the face of the popular culture. Sure she risks being cut off by you and ostracized by others. And that has to hurt on some level even for those way out on the fringe. Like all political theatrics she draws you into her world, albeit as an unwilling participant. Humiliating her slave in front of squeamish folks, like you, who don't share her kink is asking for more than tolerance that's for sure. One could make the case that her behavior is foolhardy and counterproductive. What's for certain is she's walking a fine line between performance art and alienation. In the end, Laurel, you may find that it is you who will need to set the boundaries.
And I don't think this is simply a question of you being too up tight. But I fear that you are using a conventional mindset to try and decipher these very interesting goings on. That's simply not gonna work. Like I said earlier, she's being this public about what most people, including yourself, think should be private because she wants to make a statement. I suspect your conventional mindset doesn't know what to make of consensual power-play, which is precisely what this is.
You point out that you would never humiliate your husband like this. No kidding? Of course you and hubby aren't engaged in consensual power-play, are you? Because if you were, you'd understand your friend a whole lot better, even if you still disapproved of her public performances.
If you find your friend's lifestyle so disturbing, you could simply ask her to chill the scene when you're around. She may or may not comply. Another solution might be that you ask her for some alone time, just she and you, without her slave. Hell, even a slave get a day off from time to time. Again she may or may not comply. If no arrangement can be made, then perhaps it's time to part ways. Hopefully you guys could do that with as little acrimony as possible. There's no need to burn bridges over this. Who knows this might be a phase she's going through…ya know trying to show everyone how edgy she is. In time she might very well find that the fringe is not all that comfortable and decide to keep her kink more to herself.
Name: Jack
Age: 52
Location: Milwaukee
I've been dating this guy for over a year. He is the love of my life. I love him so much, but he treats me like shit. I met him on vacation in Florida. He's 26 a stunning, 6'3" 200lbs, blond surfer Adonis. And excuse me for being so graphic; he has the biggest dick I'd ever seen. The first time we had sex I saw stars. He filled me up like no other person has.
When I got home we exchanged emails nearly every day and even had some hot phone sex a couple of times. He was down on his luck, because he lost his barista job for coming to work stoned too many times. I know I shouldn't have, but I invited him to come live with me. I flew him up, but I told him that this wouldn't be a free ride, he'd have to stop smoking so much dope and get a job and he agreed.
The sex was fantastic for the first couple of months, but once he established himself as a star at the gym he found his own friends and now I don't see too much of him. He eats my food and drinks my liquor and drives my car. I pay for his cloths and gym membership. He has yet to find a job.
I know I should just end it, but I love him and I would really miss the sex. My friends ridicule me for thinking he loves me as much as I love him. They tell me they know he sees other guys. I'm so turned around I don't know what to do.
Like my momma always used to say: if it's got wheels or a dick, you know you're gonna have problems with it. And I would add, if it's got big wheels or a big dick you know you're gonna have BIG problems with it.
Before we turn our attention to your no good boyfriend, let me make a few quick observations about you. You're a freakin' mess, girlfriend! I mean really, you've broken all the cardinal rules about dating a hustler. I know, I can hear you now…oh no dr dick, he's not a hustler; he's a good kid who's just down on his luck and I'm just trying to help. Bullshit!
Ya see, that's the first cardinal rule of dating a hustler is never lose sight of the fact that he's a hustler and you're his john. Don't get me wrong; I have the deepest admiration for hustlers and their johns. It's just that this arrangement only works if everyone is clear about the ground rules. And here are the ground rules — rich older gentleman connects with needy younger hunky stud for mutual benefit. Rich older gentleman keeps needy younger hunky stud in room and board, booze, cloths, car, gym membership and the like; and needy younger hunky stud buggers rich older gentleman senseless with his big blond surfer-boy dick. Get it? Got it? Good!
Second cardinal rule — what happens on vacation should stay on vacation. Vacation sex, as wonderful and delicious as it may be, does not transplant very well to your non-vacation life. You're more likely to have success transplanting a delicate tropical orchid to your Milwaukee backyard than transplanting a vacation hustler fuck to your work-a-day world back home.
Third cardinal rule —don't try to gloss a perfectly fine, fully functional and even an affectionate hustler/john relationship with talk of love. It's unnecessary, unseemly and untrue. It's lust, it's limerence, it's love sickness, whatever…it's just not love. Because LOVE don't ever make you feel as bad as you're feelin'. Probably your friends would have less difficulty with your mooning over this guy if you were more honest about the nature of this relationship. They wouldn't be rubbing your face in the evidence that surfer-boy is pluggin' other dudes.
Fourth cardinal rule — a size queen, like you Jack, should admit that you are enamored with the guy hose and how it fills you up plain and simple. To pretend that you would string yourself out like this for a guy with tiny meat is just that — pretense. Listen, there's nothin' wrong with bein' a size queen, it's the dishonesty I object to.
How is this young fella ever supposed to respect you when you don't respect for yourself? He probably had you pegged (no pun intended) back on the beach in the sunshine state. He knows you will tolerate his misbehavior, which of course gives him permission to do whatever he feels like doing whenever he feel like doing it. And now he don't even have to give up the occasional mercy fuck any more, even though that was surely part of the deal at the get go, right?
So the waif has yet to find a job after a year, huh? Why is that not surprising? But even a hustler needs his mad money, besides what is doled out to him by his long-suffering john. I'd be willing to guess Mr. surfer dude is turning tricks to keep himself in weed and other essentials.
Thing is, this fellow probably would have treated you better if you would have just stuck to the hustler/john script. Ya see, kids like this need structure. He may have looked to you for this at one time, but when he realized that he had you cock-whipped, the teachable moment evaporated. This lad is probably like most other boys with big dicks. They learn early on that their cock gives them enormous power, because it is the object of desire for so many. He soon discovered that you were no different than all the other men (and some women) in his life — only interested in owning a piece of his sizeable endowment. And so he turned the tables on you. You can hardly fault the guy. You try to manipulate him with your money. He outwits you and manipulates you with his dick.
If you're really serious about reining in the little monkey, you'd better come up with a clear, unambiguous message about what you will and will not tolerate. And it better be something more than "I expect you to bone my scrawny middle-aged ass on occasion." Because, until you do, he will roam wherever and whenever he wants.
There are many root causes for his behavior, just like there are many root causes for your behavior. But since I'm talking to you, not him, I suggest that you get to the bottom of all of this by investing a good deal of time and energy with a competent sex-positive therapist. There's one thing I can say for certain, if the status quo continues your resentment will boil over one day and there will be violence, the kind of violence that you may not think yourself capable of now. But violence there will be; you can bank on it!
Is there enough goodwill between the two of you to resolve this unfortunate situation amicably? Who knows! If I had to guess, I'd say there was a slim to no chance for that. If that's the case, I advise you pack him up and put him on the next plane south. And no more relationships for you, particularly with unemployed young men with massive schlongs, till you get your head screwed on tighter.
Good Luck Ya'll


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - "Iron Man 3" is the heavy-lifter at theatres with a colossal overseas debut that overshadows a sleepy pre-summer weekend at the domestic box office.
The superhero sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. got a head-start on its domestic launch next Friday with a $195.3 million opening in 42 overseas markets.
Sunday studio estimates show director Michael Bay's true-crime tale "Pain & Gain" muscled into first-place domestically with a $20 million debut.
The movie starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie knocked off Tom Cruise's sci-fi adventure "Oblivion" after a week in the No. 1 spot. "Oblivion" slipped to second-place with $17.4 million, raising its domestic total to $64.7 million.


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The National Center for Science Education is reporting the end of one of the last lawsuits active in the US that focused on the teaching of evolution. Selman v. Cobb County has been settled, with the school board agreeing to end the practice of placing warning stickers on their biology text books that specifically raised questions about evolution. The board had lost once at trial, but their appeal had resulted in the case being returned to court for a further gathering of factual evidence. With the settlement, no further trial will take place.
The case was a bit of an odd one from the start. The stickers were only proposed after the Cobb schools had instituted their first systematic program to teach evolution, and were proposed as a way to smooth the program's introduction over with some parents. Nothing about them was technically false—the same could be said about any scientific theory—but the singling out of evolution on a text book that also contains theories regarding genetics, germs, and more is suspect. In Pennsylvania, the Dover decision held that a reasonable observer would recognize that the singling out of evolution for critique is a promotion of a specific religious view, and the original ruling in this case reasoned along similar lines.
With that case gone, there seems to be only a single major active case that pertains to biology education left before the courts, one that involves private high school education. In that suit, an organization that represents Christian schools is suing the University of California, which refuses to certify their high school science classes (as well as classes in other fields). Apparently, the texts used promoted Young Earth Creationism, which has some serious inconsistency issues in regards to most branches of science. That hasn't even reached the trial stage yet, so it may take a while to reach a conclusion, but it's notable that, unlike in Dover, El Tejon, and Cobb County, the public school system isn't involved.
Although things are settling down in the courts, they could pick up again at any time. The NCSE has found that in five states (Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas), the Republican Party platform specifically calls for the teaching of creationism in schools, and in three more states, the party's platform suggests that decisions on how to handle the topic be pushed down to local levels. If any of those platforms ever gets enacted, we're certain to see more cases in the near future.


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Angus Fleet was a Muggle who lived in Peebles, Scotland. On 1 September, 1992, the Daily Prophet reported that Fleet spotted a Ford Anglia in flight, and informed the police of the sighting.
Behind the scenes
- Angus Fleet was presumably one of the Muggles that Molly Weasley mentioned to her son Ron, saying that he caused Arthur Weasley to face an inquiry at work.[1]
- In the Norwegian translation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets he's from Glasgow.
The name "Angus" possibly means "one strength" derived from Irish óen "one" and gus "force, strength, energy". Aonghus (sometimes surnamed Mac Og meaning "young son") was the Irish god of love and youth. The name was also borne by an 8th-century Pictish king and several Irish kings.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Name appears in Daily Prophet)
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
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Would You Pay $85 a Month for Unlimited Espresso?
New York City is getting a new version of the bottomless cup of coffee.
A subscription-model coffee club, in which customers can pay a monthly fee to get unlimited java from selected cafes, launches Monday in the city after a successful run in Israel.
The CUPS mobile app is designed to compete with the smartphone-driven loyalty card programs offered by coffee giants Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts.
Not surprisingly, the price varies depending on the customer's preferred high-end coffee. New Yorkers who prefer espresso will pay a monthly fee of $85 for unlimited coffee at about 40 independent cafes citywide.
A subscription from unlimited brewed, drip, pour-over or filtered coffee or tea is $45 a month.
Those who need a little less of a buzz can also purchase packages of five, 10 or 20 coffees per month with prices depending on the type of drink.
Similar to a MetroCard, the unlimited subscription has just one limitation--customers can buy only one cup every half hour.
And as a perk, anyone who signs up to the unlimited models will receive a month of free coffee.
"It's kind of like the Starbucks app but for independent coffee shops," said app co-founder Gilad Rotem. "It's designed to give independent coffee shops that opportunity to compete with Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts."
The app is currently in Beta and being tested by users going to participating coffee shops, which include Irving Farm Coffee Roasters, Pushcart Coffee, the Bean, O Cafe, Madman Espresso, UR CUP, Cafe Panino Mucho Giusto, Café Integral, Bee's Knees Baking Co. and the Uncommons.
While most of the participating cafes are located in Manhattan, Wild in Williamsburg and Coffeed in Queens will also use CUPS.
The app will be available for download from the App Store or Google Play on April 14.
Andrew Hetzel, a coffee industry specialist who is a Board Member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, said he thinks the CUPS model can be popular with consumers but has concerns about the "bottomless cup" concept from the perspective of
"My fear is that flat-rate pricing model will be a disincentive to the use of quality coffee and reduce overall consumption, making the app a poor value for consumers," said Mr. Hetzel.
Mr. Hetzel said the New York specialty coffee scene was in its infancy just five years ago, far behind cities like Portland and San Francisco, but has recently blossomed into one of the most vibrant in the world .
"What has allowed so many coffee shops to flourish in New York is 'specialty coffee,' a concept driven by quality differentiation and,
not surprisingly better taste at a higher price," said Mr. Hetzel.
CUPS launched in Israel in September 2012, and now partners with more than 80 cafes in Tel Aviv and has just launched in Jerusalem.
The business, which now employs 15 people, was the brainchild of five friends from high school, said Mr. Rotem.
"We're all big coffee drinkers, but none of us is from a coffee industry background," he said. "We try to give independent coffee shops the benefit of a franchise or network but we're not taking away from their independent style."
Related: Cups co-founder Gilad Rotem joins Lunch Break.


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Freeport girls lacrosse making a comeback
At the conclusion of the post-game speeches, Danielle Ballard kicked off a quirky dance number -- to the amusement of her Freeport lacrosse players. This, as Diane Wahlers looked on with a mirthful smile.
It was a scene plucked from 1997. Then, that routine might have been routine. Then, Ballard, now the coach, was a star player and Wahlers, now an assistant, coached one of Nassau's perennial powers.
Until this season, Freeport's girls lacrosse team hasn't had much to celebrate in the last decade. But the "back in the day . . . " stories of the golden era of the '90s are passed on from the coaches to this group. So Thursday evening was a throwback -- an 18-7 victory over Valley Stream District had clinched the Conference V title for Freeport (7-0).
"I love you, Brit!" Kaitlyn Karp playfully yelled to teammate Brittany Gardner, who made eight saves. Ballard and Elena Sparaco grinned as they tallied the attack's goal total. It was eight, a career-high for the junior.
Quite a turn for a squad that was 3-8 last season and near the bottom of Conference A-II. The teams were grouped based on school size, so Freeport was in a pack with some of Class A's elite; teams the Red Devils once tussled with during a heyday that produced a 1992 county championship and finals appearances in '93 and '97.
But this season, Nassau Conference V was formed -- a collection of six teams, some relatively new upstart programs (Hempstead, Elmont and West Hempstead), and others trying to rebuild.
Perhaps Freeport's most impressive performance was a 13-10 win over Conference III's Herricks (6-3) on April 12. But securing a conference title "means a lot," midfielder Ashley Gomes said. The junior, who recently committed to Stony Brook, has a team-high 46 points. "This program has great history and we want to restore that prowess," she said.
The elimination of local youth leagues in the early 2000s was the "biggest contributor" to Freeport lacrosse's decline, Ballard said. "It's become a football town and some of the other sports have tapered off," she said. Wahlers, who started the team in 1985, said "without a feeder program anymore, most of the girls aren't introduced to lacrosse until junior high and it's tough competing against kids who've been in PAL since third grade."
Ballard credits Danielle Gallagher, the Manhasset girls lacrosse coach, with hosting clinics and providing scholarships for camps, which "have been instrumental in our progress."
In addition to the new conference, Freeport is loading up on the school's best athletes and developing skills on the fly. The coaches have cajoled soccer and basketball players into trying lacrosse. Defensive anchor Deon Edionwe is a tennis player. Gomes, Sparaco and Gardner? Cheerleaders. ("Hey, it's a sport!" Gomes said.)
"We've been through a lot of losing," Sparaco said, "but it's getting to the point where I can feel proud in saying I'm on the team."
They can also take pride in being one of only three undefeated teams in Nassau, along with Farmingdale and Garden City.
"We're not those teams, but we want to work our butts off and try to get this program back on that level," Gardner said. "It's one of those ultimate dreams. We want to be 'Freeport' again."
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This article appears in the Spring 2017 issue of The American Prospect. Subscribe here.
Every day since Donald Trump's January 20 inauguration, Hetty Rosenstein gets up at 6 a.m. to write an email to activists throughout New Jersey about upcoming rallies, marches, meetings, and other events to protest Trump's agenda. The list began with 80 names, but by the end of February, the 62-year-old Rosenstein, state director of the Communications Workers of America union, was sending her daily email blasts to more than 2,700 people.
Her missives include information on protests at town meetings sponsored by Republican Congress members, weekly vigils to defend the Affordable Care Act, training sessions of burgeoning activists, rallies for immigrant rights and transgender students, a talk and rally at a Trenton church by activist Reverend William Barber II, reminders of upcoming marches like the International Women's Day strike ("Wear red in solidarity"), and an "Evict Trump-Kushner" rally at a Jersey City office building owned by Jared Kushner's real-estate company.
Rosenstein's daily emails have helped strengthen the "resistance" movement against Trump and the Republicans in Congress. Even Rosenstein was surprised that more than 1,000 people showed up, with hundreds of protesters outside, at Representative Leonard Lance's town hall at a community college in suburban Branchburg, demanding that the conservative Republican vote against repealing Obamacare, oppose Trump's travel ban on Muslims, get Congress to investigate Russia's interference in U.S. elections, and push Trump to release his tax returns.
"I've been organizing for over 30 years and I've never seen anything like this before," says Rosenstein. "Lots of people went to the Women's March who hadn't been to a demonstration before. Now they come to the health-care vigils every week. The folks who show up at the town halls include some longtime activists and some new people. I go to two or three demonstrations a week now, and there are many others I don't get to."
Many established liberal organizations as well as the dizzying array of new upstart groups are discussing how to sustain this burgeoning anti-Trump movement. They face three key challenges:
- How to stop Trump and the GOP-led Congress from inflicting significant harm and pain through executive orders, legislation, and appointments to key positions in government.
- How to translate the rise in activism into a powerful electoral force to help progressive Democrats take back Congress in 2018 and the White House in 2020. Democrats also need to reverse Republicans' domination in governors' seats (the GOP now holds 33 of 50 positions) and state legislatures (the GOP controls both legislative chambers in 32 states and has total control—both legislative chambers and the governor's office—in 25 states outright) in order to play a role in the next redistricting so as to challenge GOP-friendly gerrymandering.
- How to keep a grassroots progressive movement alive for the long haul that trains new leaders and candidates, advances a progressive policy agenda, and links people concerned with specific issues (i.e., women's equality, immigration, workers' rights, environmental justice, public education), transforming the movement into a broad ongoing crusade for a more inclusive and equal America.
Over the past few years, efforts like Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Dreamers immigrant-rights movement, the battles against the Keystone pipeline and for marriage equality, and the Fight for 15 generated a new wave of activism, but nothing has inspired more protest than Trump's election.
A constituent asks Representative Leonard Lance a question during a town hall meeting in Branchburg, New Jersey, on February 22, 2017.
"Lots of us woke up the next morning wondering whether we understood the country as well as we thought we did," says Gara LaMarche, president of the Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy liberals that supports progressive candidates and organizations. "We spent some time trying to absorb it."
But it didn't take long for people to recover from the shock and begin a resistance movement. "I can't overstate how unprecedented the grassroots energy of this resistance is," said Anna Galland, MoveOn's executive director. "This is far beyond anything I've seen, even at the height of the anti–Iraq war movement."
The new mood of both frustration and urgency is sparking a new level of political activism. According to a Washington Post poll released in late January, 25 percent of Americans—including 35 percent of Democrats, 40 percent of Democratic women, and 43 percent of Democrats under the age of 50—say they plan to be more politically active this year.
"If we're going to succeed, it won't mainly be people like us," says Dan Cantor, national director of the Working Families Party, a group that mobilizes voters and supports progressive candidates in 17 states. "We're not nimble enough. That's why we need the resistance. We're running to catch up. That's great."
Many existing progressive groups have seen an upsurge of new members and contributions since the election. The ACLU's dues-paying membership jumped from 400,000 to one million, with another million on its email list. Within three months after Trump's election, it raised more than $50 million.
"We're going to invest much of it to do grassroots organizing," explains Faiz Shakir, a former staffer for Senator Harry Reid, who was hired in January as the ACLU's first political director. In March, the ACLU held the first of a planned series of what it calls People Power "resistance training" workshops—conducted in Miami but livestreamed to more than 2,000 house meetings around the country—for its growing membership.
MoveOn.org saw a surge in the number of people on its email list, which now exceeds eight million. The number making a monthly contribution more than tripled to 75,000 within a few months after Trump's election.
The Sierra Club saw a spike in donations, while its membership and supporter base climbed to 2.7 million. Trump's election produced a large bump for Planned Parenthood, which faces defunding from Trump and Congress because it performs abortions at its health clinics. The group now has 9.5 million people on its email list.
The day after the January 21 Women's March, Planned Parenthood co-sponsored a training workshop for 800 people in Washington, D.C. Most of them had never been involved in political activism before, says Kelley Robinson, the group's deputy organizing director.
"The Women's March gave them an opportunity to express their feelings," says Robinson. "But what happens next is equally important. Our message was: Don't make this a one-time thing. Go back home and be an organizer."
Within a month after the women's march, Planned Parenthood had recruited 50,000 volunteers—called Defenders—who pledged to take some action—a phone call to Congress, attending a rally—at least once a week to oppose defunding Planned Parenthood and Obamacare.
Even the Democratic Socialists of America has gained new members and donors, thanks to socialist Bernie Sanders's growing prominence and the fear incited by Trump. A legacy of the Socialist Party that began in the early 1900s, DSA was languishing in early 2016 with only 6,200 members. Now it has nearly 20,000 members and 121 local chapters, according to national director Maria Svart.
"When everything is at stake, and with Republicans in power, we're going to lose much of the time, [so] we need a framework to decide what fights are most important to fight," explains LaMarche of the Democracy Alliance. "On some issues—like immigration, abortion, and health care—we have no choice. But we also have to attack the sources of the right's power. We have to protect voting rights and reform our campaign-finance laws. We have to defend the courts and the independence of the media. We have to fight fights that weaken Trump and drive a wedge between him and his base, like defending Medicare and safety-net benefits."
THE ANTI-TRUMP movement doesn't speak with one voice or agree on an overall strategy. It is composed of well-established groups and new upstarts, seasoned activists and political neophytes.
A new group, Indivisible, began as an online "how to" manual for people frustrated and angry by Trump's victory, and in just two months spurred the formation of nearly 6,000 confirmed local activist groups in all of the nation's 435 congressional districts.
Members of the Orchard City Indivisible Group of Campbell, California, raise their hands in support of a fellow member who spoke before the city's council against Trump's policies on March 7, 2017.
Its instigator, Ezra Levin, is a 31-year-old former staffer for Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas and, since 2013, the associate director of a D.C.-based anti-poverty group. After the election, he and his wife (Leah Greenberg, another former congressional staffer) invited friends to their living room for what he called a "grief counseling meeting for progressives." Visiting Austin, Texas, over Thanksgiving, they met with some local "resistance" groups and discovered "lots of energy but a lack of direction about where to focus."
When they returned to D.C., Levin and Greenberg met with others who had all worked on Capitol Hill in 2010 when the Tea Party emerged to thwart Obama's presidency and push the Republicans further right. In a few days, they produced an easy-to-read document, "Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda," based on lessons they'd learned from the Tea Party, including sections on "How your Member of Congress thinks, and how to use that to save democracy," and "Four local advocacy tactics that actually work."
Levin sent it to his 650 Twitter followers on a Wednesday night with this message: "Please share w/ your friends to help fight Trump's racism, authoritarianism, & corruption on their home turf."
Word spread quickly through social media and within a few hours the Google document crashed. "So we started a website," Levin says. "Within eight weeks, the site had about 16 million views and two million downloads. About 270,000 people signed up to be on our email list. They wanted to know, 'What can I do? Is there a local group in my city?' So we added a registration function to the website. Twenty people would get together in someone's living room and the next week 500 people would show up at a community center. Within a few days, 700 people showed up at a meeting in Fargo, North Dakota! Some folks in Alaska started a new group called 49 Moons—the length of time Trump would be in office."
Indivisible sponsors weekly conference calls—some with 60,000 participants—that link its members with the ACLU, MoveOn.org, the Working Families Party, and other groups. After Trump announced his ban on immigration from seven Muslim countries, Indivisible hosted a conference call cosponsored by the National Immigration Law Center, the ACLU, the International Refugee Assistance Project, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice, with 35,000 people on the line, leading to thousands of phone calls to Congress and participants in protest rallies against Trump's policy. Levin says they will do future conference calls with other groups around taxes, health care, reproductive rights, and other issues.
Indivisible joined with People's Action and the Center for Popular Democracy (both nationwide networks of local community-organizing groups), MoveOn.org, and the Working Families Party to start #ResistTrumpTuesdays actions at Congress members' and state legislators' offices, to demand they publicly denounce Trump's agenda and Cabinet appointments.
After Trump's victory, Meetup added a new network under the hashtag #Resist. Within a few weeks, more than a thousand new groups were created to engage in political action.
Laura Moser started Daily Action, a text message service that makes it easy for users to call their member of Congress. Since its launch in December, about 100,000 users have signed up, generating almost 10,000 calls per day against Trump's agenda.
Brad Lander, a former community organizer who represents Brooklyn in the New York City Council, instigated Get Organized BK! to mobilize Brooklynites around progressive issues and to pressure the state's congressional delegation—including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—to oppose Trump's initiatives.
The number of coordinated nationwide protests has also escalated. The January 21 Women's March—the largest protest in American history, with three million to five million participants in cities and suburbs across the country—was followed by an International Women's Day strike on March 8. The spring begins with a nationwide Tax March on April 15 in Washington, D.C., and more than 50 cities to demand that Trump release his tax returns. Other protests—a Science March (April 22), a People's Climate March (April 29), an immigrants and workers march (May 1), and a Children's March (May 13), among others—are already scheduled. Several new websites—including WhatDoIDoAboutTrump.com—keep people abreast of all the anti-Trump events.
Although many of these marches and rallies have a single-issue focus, the level of mutual support has increased significantly. Many unions and environmental groups, for example, mobilized large contingents to the Women's March in January.
"Trump's been a great organizer for us," explains Peter Colavito, chief of staff to Mary Kay Henry, the president of the Service Employees International Union. "There's a higher level of collaboration across movements and issues than I've seen in a long time. Now we are seeing a period of unified opposition, led by grassroots activists, that we need to harness into elections."
Demonstraters march for the "Day Without Immigrants" in Chicago on February 16, 2017.
In response to Trump's effort to ban Muslim visitors and increase deportation of immigrants, a coalition of religious, immigrant-rights, and labor groups led a campaign to fight back, protesting at airports, initiating lawsuits, and persuading dozens of cities, universities, and churches, as well as California's political leaders, to pledge to resist cooperation with the federal crackdown.
"The popular upsurge is stiffening the spine of the Democrats," says Cantor of the Working Families Party. The problem, however, is that if Republicans continue backing Trump, he will prevail legislatively. So one challenge for the activists is to raise the political costs for Republicans when they walk the plank for Trump by backing unqualified or corrupt nominees and unpopular policies.
NEXT YEAR'S POLITICAL map makes it almost impossible for Democrats to gain a majority in the Senate. The Republicans only hold 8 of the 33 Senate seats up for grabs in 2018. To gain a majority, the Democrats would have to hold on to all 25 seats and topple Republicans in at least three states.
Immediately after Trump's victory, it seemed almost equally implausible for the Democrats to regain control of the House, where they need to win a net 24 seats. But the number of "swing" districts has grown in the wake of the Trump meltdown. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has identified 59 GOP-held seats it intends to target, hoping to take advantage of Trump's historically low popularity, the upsurge of activism, and the growing local protests against House Republicans. (See "Will Suburban Activism Pave the Democratic Way to the House?," by Justin Miller.)
A challenge is how to win back white working-class voters who supported Trump, and to increase turnout among African American, low-income, and young voters who, if they go to the polls, are more likely to vote Democrat.
Color of Change is one of several groups that are working to mobilize black voters.
The civil rights group is best known for its successful 2009 effort to get advertisers on Glenn Beck's Fox News show to pull their ads after the right-wing talk show host called President Obama "a racist," and for its campaign to get corporations to withdraw from the American Legislative Exchange Council, the conservative lobby group that pushed state legislators to support voter-ID and stand-your-ground gun laws. This year, it led a petition and social media campaign, along with the Grab Your Wallet campaign, to push corporate chieftains to resign from Trump's business advisory council; the first to quit was Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. Next target: Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Over the past year, however, Color of Change, with 1.2 million members, has primarily focused on fighting racial bias in the criminal justice system. Its primary strategy has been to mobilize black voters to elect progressive local district attorneys, prosecutors, county-level officials, and judges whose decisions shape voting laws, the number of polling places, whether to prosecute rogue cops that kill black residents, whether to plea bargain, how much bail to set, and what prison sentences to seek in court.
"For black communities, these are day-to-day, life-and-death decisions," explains Arisha Hatch, executive director of the Color of Change PAC, which uses the campaign hashtag #VotingWhileBlack. "These are issues black voters care about. It is a way to translate resistance to Trump in a very concrete way." Their strategy is not only to help elect more progressive local district attorneys, prosecutors, and judges, but also to increase voter turnout among African Americans, which helps Democrats running for other offices.
Last November, it helped six of seven targeted candidates win races in Florida, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, and St. Louis. It enlisted more than 3,000 volunteers who sent text messages to more than three million voters, according to Hatch.
Trump won Pennsylvania by about 44,000 votes. Higher turnout by black voters would have delivered the Keystone State to Clinton. This year, Color of Change is working with a coalition in Philadelphia to get candidates vying for city district attorney to adopt a progressive agenda on bail, juvenile sentencing, and other issues, and to increase voter turnout in the May primary. The coalition enlisted Becky Bond, who ran the field operation for Bernie Sanders's campaign, to help organize the voter-registration drive.
Progressives have added some new gadgets to the political machinery used to identify and support candidates.
A Swing Left house party for New Jersey's Seventh District on March 4, 2017
Swing Left is a website that allows people to plug in their ZIP codes to find the nearest competitive House district. It was started by Ethan Todras-Whitehill, a writer in Amherst, Massachusetts, who hadn't been politically involved before November.
"I live in a safe Democratic district," says Todras-Whitehill, "but we're not far from New York's 19th Congressional District, where [Republican] John Faso beat Zephyr Teachout by just 26,000 votes.
"I posted a message on my Facebook page that I'm going to work there in 2018 to flip it to a Democrat. Then I asked myself: Why isn't there an app to do this for me—to find a closest swing district? I called my best friend from high school, an entrepreneur in the Bay Area, and said, 'Dude, we need to build this.' He talked with his wife, who is a brand strategist. … It blew up faster than we could have imagined."
Soon after the website went public, comedian Sarah Silverman tweeted, "Start thinking mid term elections now—this makes it CRAZY easy," and linked to Swing Left's website.
By early March, Swing Left had 300,000 people on its list, and information about 53 districts, researched by volunteers, on its website. It organized an initial conference call with 17,000 people, put together more than 500 teams, and organized local house meetings. Like Color of Change's PAC, Swing Left partnered with Becky Bond's Knock Every Door group, to help train volunteers in the art of canvassing, voter registration, and recruiting volunteers.
"I don't think the existing infrastructure can meet the moment and scale up grassroots participation on its own," says Bond. "We need new things.
"Most of the mainstream liberal groups think that people can only do one thing at a time. Sign a petition. Give money. Make phone calls. But when people are angry or hopeful, they can do multiple things. They want to do something every day with other people. There are tons of people ready to get to work. They're not waiting for national organizations to tell them what to do."
Bond started Knock Every Door in January to enlist experienced organizers to train local volunteers in the skills of grassroots organizing, running campaigns, and recruiting progressive candidates. Bond's approach resembles the Camp Obama training, which helped the Illinois senator win the White House in 2008, and similar efforts that catapulted Sanders from an obscure Vermont senator into a strong contender in the Democratic primaries.
"Democrats can't depend on candidates who can self-finance," Bond says. "If you have the charisma to be a leader and are good on issues, you've got a shot. We can train them. We can help them organize their campaigns."
Many people engaged in various resistance activities were part of Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. Since November, Sanders has attended meetings and rallies across the country to keep his campaign's momentum alive and make sure his followers have a strong voice within the Democratic Party. The group built out of his campaign, Our Revolution, has the benefit of Sanders's volunteer and fundraising lists, and 900 local affiliated groups. It has supported progressive candidates for local, state, and congressional offices, like Pramila Jayapal, a community organizer and state legislator whom Seattle voters sent to Congress in November; Monica Kurth, who was elected to the Iowa state legislature in a special election in January; and Jane Kleeb, a leader of the fight against the Keystone pipeline, a founder of the progressive group Bold Nebraska, and a Sanders delegate to the Democratic convention, who was elected chair of Nebraska's Democratic Party. But some activists have criticized the group for not investing its resources to hire field staff.
"Our goal is to build sustainable local groups that can work inside and outside the Democratic Party in all 3,143 counties in the country," says Larry Cohen, the former president of the Communications Workers of America who was a senior adviser on Sanders's presidential campaign and is now chair of Our Revolution.
"We have to be clear what we're fighting for, not just what we're against. We're not just fighting against the repeal of Obamacare. We're fighting for Medicare for all. … We're fighting to get big money out of politics," Cohen notes. "We will never succeed unless we build a movement for real democracy."
Sanders's followers played a key role in Representative Keith Ellison's campaign for Democratic National Committee chair, a post he narrowly lost to Tom Perez, Obama's labor secretary and a seasoned progressive who was unfairly characterized as the candidate of the party's "establishment." Perez immediately asked Ellison to serve as the DNC's deputy chair, a bow to the Sanders wing and an effort to unite the party for the upcoming election cycle.
AT THE DNC'S February meeting in Atlanta, delegates elected Maria Elena Durazo—longtime leader of the hotel workers' union and champion for immigrant rights—as the party's vice chair. As the head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Durazo helped transform Los Angeles and California into labor-friendly and Democratic bastions.
"The party's bad habits won't just disappear," she says. "We have to change the party's culture. We have to focus on organizing."
"If we're going to think about building a progressive movement for the long haul—not just the next election cycle—we have to turn these new activists into leaders, we have to invest in them," says Durazo, who is the daughter of immigrant farm workers. "They know they need more training so they can strengthen their organizations and increase their numbers. They want to develop their skills, not be told to show up at the next action."
The Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017
"We have thousands of talented organizers in our movement," she adds. "They know how to develop leaders, recruit candidates, run political campaigns, build sustainable organizations, and engage in nonviolent direct actions that win results. But that takes resources and a commitment to movement-building. That's what the DNC should be doing."
A big dilemma for the progressive movement and the Democratic Party is the weakened labor movement. Unions' ability to bankroll elections for friendly Democrats is tiny in comparison to money that corporations and wealthy reactionaries like the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, and the Waltons provide conservative Republicans. Labor's steady pummeling and resulting decline in membership—now only 10.7 percent of the workforce, one-third what it was in the 1950s—means it has fewer people to mobilize for campaigns and to turn out on Election Day. In 2016, union households represented only 18 percent of all voters.
Even so, unions remain the largest constituency in the progressive landscape, with close to 15 million members. Unions still provide considerable funding for Democratic candidates and progressive coalitions, but their political budgets are much slimmer than they were only a decade ago.
Unions are in a fight for their very survival. Trump has declared war on organized labor, although the construction unions—whose leaders met with him at the White House in February, praising him for greenlighting the Keystone and Dakota pipeline projects and for pledging to push Congress to adopt a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan—didn't seem to notice. The number of Republican-dominated states that have passed anti-union "right to work" laws has increased from 22 in early 2012 to 28 today, including once-union-friendly states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and West Virginia. Republicans have designed these laws to weaken unions and remove one of the progressive movement's key pillars. Public employee unions also expect court rulings, initiated by right-wing groups, that will ban automatic dues payments. Unions will be prioritizing several governors' races next year in order to thwart and reverse the right-to-work momentum.
Without the labor movement as the Democrats' fulcrum, there's no key power player that can bring all the core constituencies together to strategize about targets, resources, recruiting and training candidates, policy, voter registration and turnout, and message. Perhaps the Perez-Ellison team at the DNC can play that role, but they have not yet been tested.
When progressive activists are asked to identify how they are coordinating their efforts to challenge Trump and build momentum for the 2018 and 2020 elections, they talk about the different "tables" they are invited to. The mosaic of liberal and progressive groups—including unions, Planned Parenthood, Demos, the Working Families Party, MoveOn.org, the Center for Popular Democracy, the Center for Community Change, Color of Change, EMILY's List, Next Generation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, the Human Rights Campaign, People's Action, the NAACP, PICO, the National Council of La Raza, United We Dream, the ACLU, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Wellstone Action, Mijente, and Caring Across Generations—join forces in overlapping meetings, conference calls, and coalitions.
But some activists resist the notion that the progressive movement needs a centralized war room, which they disparage as "top-down" planning. In the wake of Trump's election, longstanding groups are still figuring out how to work with the many new players and activists around protest actions, lobbying efforts, and elections.
Democrats and their progressive allies are also divided between those who feel the necessity of cutting deals with Trump on issues such as trade and infrastructure, and those who insist that any compromising with Trump results in "normalizing" a man they view as an authoritarian, or even a neofascist.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, one of Trump's fiercest critics, is in a tricky position. An estimated 44 percent of union households voted for Trump, a higher margin than they have given past Republican candidates. Trumka has tried to walk that tightrope by saying that he'd work with Trump when the president did the right thing, while broadly hinting that this was vanishingly unlikely. But when Trumka went on Fox News and said, "Will we partner with him? Absolutely. Will we partner with him to try to rewrite the immigration rules of the country? Absolutely," his comments had the progressive blogosphere in an uproar.
Progressives were also upset when any left-leaning Democratic senators voted to confirm Trump's cabinet nominees. They even criticized Senator Elizabeth Warren—many progressives' favorite candidate for president in 2020—when she cast her vote in favor of Ben Carson to be the next secretary of housing and urban development.
In contrast, Planned Parenthood won progressive plaudits when it rejected Trump's proposal to restore its federal funding (almost $500 million a year) if it agreed to stop providing abortions. "Offering money to Planned Parenthood to abandon our patients and our values is not a deal that we will ever accept," said Dawn Laguens, the group's executive vice president. "Providing critical health care services for millions of American women is nonnegotiable."
But the reality was that Planned Parenthood rebuffed the offer in the midst of its discussions with the Trump administration. They were, in fact, negotiating with Trump. But they couldn't reach an agreement.
As part of the resistance to normalizing the man and his policies, Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, John Oliver, and Alec Baldwin mock Trump on television on a regular basis. Meryl Streep spent six minutes condemning Trump at the Golden Globes without mentioning his name, which nevertheless triggered one of Trump's Twitter tantrums. The mainstream media have begun using the word "lie" in headlines and news stories to describe some Trump statements. Sleeping Giants, a social media campaign, successfully pressured more than 1,000 companies to stop advertising on the white nationalist website Breitbart, which was run by Trump's closest adviser Steve Bannon. Members of Super Bowl champions the New England Patriots announced they'll refuse to meet with Trump at the White House, while the vice president of the Baltimore Orioles said that if it were up to him, he wouldn't let Trump throw out the first pitch on opening day. This year's Super Bowl featured commercials for Coca Cola, Budweiser, and other sponsors that promoted diversity and tolerance—a not-very-subtle dig at Trump's attacks on immigrants, Muslims, and others. In one ad, hair-product company It's A 10 warned viewers that we're "in for four years of awful hair."
INDEED, MANY AMERICANS—not just liberals and progressives—view the prospect of four years of Donald Trump in the White House as frightening. He has already inflicted much suffering on vulnerable Americans, and more pain is in the offing. It is uncharted territory. Nobody has a clear road map. But the upsurge of protest in the streets and political activism in the precincts is promising—not only to win back the House next year and put a progressive Democrat in the White House in 2020, but also to build an ongoing movement for change.
Containing Trump, and using that energy to rebuild a persuasive progressivism, is a challenge unlike any other we've faced. Looking back on a century of organizing, there were periods when large numbers of ordinary people were mobilized for years, even for decades. But the struggles to build unions, the anti-war movement of the 1960s, and the fights for civil rights, women's rights, disability rights, LGBT rights, and environmental justice were each about a reasonably well-defined project with concrete objectives.
The movement to resist Trump is in a whole other category. Its goal is nothing less than to save American democracy, and then to use that mass mobilization to resume the project of creating a humane America that is more like social democracy than corporate plutocracy. The challenges are on multiple fronts, but never has the need for solidarity been so urgent. To succeed, this movement will require a permanent increase in the level of popular engagement—a reinvigoration of democracy to save democracy.
The stakes have never been higher. Trump is too dark a threat to use words like "blessing in disguise." The best response is to defeat Trump's fake populism and his appeals to fear and bigotry by showing the world that the American people are more decent than he is.


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Agencies Adopt Final Rules to Implement the Bank 'Broker' Provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 2007 - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) on Monday announced the adoption of final joint rules to implement the "broker" exceptions for banks under Section 3(a)(4) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These exceptions were adopted as part of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLB Act). The SEC and the Board approved the final rules at separate open meetings held on September 19, 2007, and September 24, 2007, respectively.
The Board and SEC issued proposed rules for comment in December 2006. The final rules are similar to the proposed rules in overall scope and approach. In response to comments, the agencies also have modified the rules in several important respects to make the rules more workable and less burdensome. These changes are discussed in detail in the attached notice, which will be published in the Federal Register shortly.
The rules define the scope of securities activities that banks may conduct without registering with the SEC as a securities broker and implement the most important "broker" exceptions for banks adopted by the GLB Act. Specifically, the rules implement the statutory exceptions that allow a bank, subject to certain conditions, to continue to conduct securities transactions for its customers as part of the bank's trust and fiduciary, custodial and deposit "sweep" functions, and to refer customers to a securities broker-dealer pursuant to a networking arrangement with the broker-dealer.
The rules are designed to accommodate the business practices of banks and to protect investors. In developing these rules, the agencies consulted extensively with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of Thrift Supervision. Banks do not have to start complying with the rules until the first day of their fiscal year commencing after September 30, 2008.
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