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Ron Harris is the RTC correspondent for the Ohio Valley Conference.
Predicted Order of Finish:
- Murray State (16-2)
- Austin Peay (13-5)
- Tennessee-Martin (12-6)
- Morehead State (11-5)
- Tennessee Tech (8-8)
- Tennessee State (6-10)
- Eastern Kentucky (6-10)
- Eastern Illinois (5-11)
- Southeast Missouri State (3-13)
- Jacksonville State (1-15)
What You Need to Know (WYN2K): Murray State and Austin Peay are the traditional powers in the OVC, winning six of the last nine championships. In the 90s MSU won the title nine times. This year the league's marquee player will be Tennessee-Martin's Lester Hudson, who dropped 35/10 on national runner-up Memphis last year and became the first D1 player ever to record a quadruple-double (25/12/10 assts/10 stls). Hudson initially declared himself eligible for the draft but pulled his name from consideration when it became obvious he would not be selected in the first round (see video below).
Predicted Champion. Murray State (#15 NCAA) returns four starters from last year's team and adds combo guard Isacc Miles to the mix. Miles played as a freshman at Creighton two years ago and was named to the Missouri Valley Conference all-freshman team. The Racers also added the Florida 4A-5A-6A Player of the Year in 6'7 Ivan Aska. While MSU might not be as strong as they were in the late 90s, head coach Billy Kennedy is starting to get the kind of players that made the Racers the class of the league back then.
Others Considered. You can never overlook Austin Peay. Head coach Dave Loos always has them ready to play and they have a former OVC Player of the Year in Drake Reed. On the other hand they lost three starters in Todd Babbington, Fernandez Lockett and Derek Wright. Tennessee-Martin has the league's best player in Hudson but last year was their first winning season (17-16) in what seems like a century. Marquis Weddle knocks down 3s when opponents double-team Hudson and the Skyhawks have a couple of big bruisers inside who sat out last season. But even head coach Brett Campbell says they lack offensive skills. Morehead State is solid inside with Leon Buchanan and Kenneth Faried. But they lose point guard Nikoila Stojakovic who finished fifth in the nation in assists last year. Head coach Donnie Tyndal says they will replace him with a point guard by committee scheme. But the lead candidate for the job seems to be JUCO transfer Robert Murry who is a shoot-first lead guard. The bottom line is: Murray State has the fewest question marks.
Important Games / Key Games / RPI-Booster Games. The OVC has not had many marquee wins against non-conference opponents in recent years although Tennessee St. did win at Illinois last season. The best chance for a marquee win this year comes on December 13 when Murray State visits Missouri. The first league games are on December 4 and 6 when Murray State plays at Eastern Kentucky and Morehead. If they can sweep those two games it will validate their status as the favorite.
Neat-O Stat. Did you know that former Murray State alum Joe Fulks was named the best player of the first 50 years of the 20th century and was called The Babe Ruth of Basketball? Fulks is credited by some with inventing the jump shot.
65 Team Era. The era hasn't been good to the OVC, as it currently stands at 19 first-round losses in a row. But the league isn't stuck in #16-seed land (only twice in the last 24 years) so the opportunities have been there. The most recent upset attempts were in 2006 (#14 Murray St. pushed #3 UNC to the wire, losing 69-65) and 2005 (#15 Eastern Kentucky took in-state rival #2 Kentucky deep before succumbing 72-64).
Final Thoughts. If Murray State stumbles you have to like Austin Peay's chances to win the championship. They have one of the league's best coaches in Loos and they have tradition on their side. The Racers are the last current OVC team to win a game in the NCAA Tournament, having beaten North Carolina State in the first round in 1988. Look to their game against Missouri and their games in the San Juan Shootout in Puerto Rico against South Florida, Oral Roberts and Wright State as barometers of their ability to repeat that feat this year.


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By Deborah Mersino
On 09.02.11, our #gtchat session focused on five resources and sites resplendent with information and opportunities for educators, parents, and gifted education advocates. As promised, I am recapping the resources here. Please share these five finds with classroom educators, gifted specialists, administrators, friends, parents, students, and tech lovers. The links are live, so simply scroll over them to access.
{Drum roll, please….}
#1 – www.brianhousand.com
After you take a moment to appreciate the clever logo, dive into this site, designed by Brian Housand, an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. You'll be happy you did. Many of you may know Brian from his novel presentations at NAGC, Confratuate, and Edufest (among others). This forward-thinking educator never tires of "exploring ways in which technology can enhance the learning environment" and "striving to define what it means to be creatively productive in a digital age."
If you click on 2011, 2010, and/or 2009 on www.brianhousand.com, you will see just how busy this digital guru has been. Be sure to click on the "60 in 60" presentation in 2011, where Brian introduces "60 Sites in 60 Minutes." And although you won't hear Brian's riveting dialogue, you will see some of the most current apps and sites worth exploring. You'll also get a true sense of what the future of education could look like.
#2 – www.byrdseed.com
Perhaps one of the finest gifted education blogs available today, Ian Byrd crafts regular posts to stretch our thinking – and benefit the minds and spirits of gifted learners. Ian has taught in a gifted classroom since 2007 and was a GATE student himself from first through sixth grade. He's quickly becoming one of the most sought-after speakers for professional development in gifted education. To me, it makes perfect sense. This humble, yet wickedly creative soul has tenaciously devoted himself to making education come alive for gifted learners via sound gifted education practices mixed with relevant life and digital applications. More than 3,400 educators have already signed up to receive his free PDF entitled, "Improve Your Gifted Classroom: 7 Ways in 7 Days." Whether you're looking for lesson plans, resources, and/or fresh ideas, Ian's blog and site will inspire.
#3 – www.everydayintensity.com
During our #gtchat session, I actually shared a different resource in this #3 spot, only to later realize the site had grown cobwebs {gasp} from being poorly managed. In its place, I'm pleased to highlight one of my favorite new streams, the Everyday Intensity blog, which I personally have delivered via email because it's.that.good. Lisa Rivero has been a strong force for good via social media platforms this past year. She not only serves on the Board of SENG, but also teaches, writes books, and now pens a Creative Synthesis blog for Psychology Today.
In Everyday Intensity, Lisa asks,
- Do you want to know how to live with more intensity?
- Are you interested in finding and sharing resources that pertain to intense learners (children and adults), giftedness, creativity, and personal growth?
- Are you looking for ways to learn about and discuss giftedness that move away from the gifted label?
If you're looking for wisdom and grounded insights, this site will open your eyes and evoke a sense of community and wonder. You'll find yourself nodding your head in agreement and shifting your thinking regularly. After all, isn't that what the best blogs do?
#4 – www.activehistory.co.uk
Russel Tar (@RusselTarr) was one of the first educators I started following on Twitter back in 2009, and he's still one of the best. Currently working as the Head of History at the International School of Toulouse, Russel has created the ActiveHistory site for teachers and students of World History, and he regularly offers up some of the best history resources on the planet. His site is chock-full of interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, worksheets, and lesson plans designed to make education captivating.
ActiveHistory has received acclaim throughout the world. The New York Times, The Guardian and other major news outlets have praised the apps on the site, including his Head2Head Interviews, where students can have virtual conversations with historical figures like Hitler or King Henry VIII. Whether you want your students to compare and contrast the rise of power of Mao to Stalin, interview William the Conqueror or pass sentences on criminals living in the 19th Century, this site is for you. Even if you want to devise a new IB Study Unit on Pinochet, he's got you covered.
Unlike all the other sites listed in this recap, ActiveHistory costs, but it is reasonable. While you can often get free resources from @RusselTarr on Twitter, he does require a small fee to access the full content of the site. Fees for a whole school run $150.00 US/$125 Euros. Single teacher access runs $60 US/$50 Euros. Please let me know if and when you start utilizing this site; I will gladly share your experiences – and those of your students – with others. Personally, I can't wait to create an online book club in seconds…just one of the many activities available.
#5 – Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Awards
The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) offers many vital opportunities for educators; however, not everyone may know about this laudable awards program for gifted students in grades 3 through 6.
Please note that the deadline for this year's awards program has passed. I'm sharing this because I hope you will keep students in mind for next year!
Here's what the NAGC site says about the awards:
The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) is pleased to announce the NAGC – Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Awards program for the 2010-2011 school year. Originally funded by the Nicholas Green Foundation and NAGC, this awards program is designed to recognize distinguished achievement in academics, leadership, or the arts, in children grades 3 through 6. NAGC believes that the Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Awards inspire children to achieve to their fullest potential, highlight high-ability students, and draw attention to the educational needs of our nation's gifted and talented students.
The Nicholas Green Foundation was established by Maggie and Reg Green to honor the memory of their seven-year-old son Nicholas who was killed in a drive-by shooting while visiting Italy in 1994. The Greens paired with NAGC to start the Distinguished Student Awards because they wanted to recognize young people who are: 1.) working hard to make the most of their lives to develop their unique gifts and talents and 2.) around the age of Nicholas at the time of his death.
One child in each state may be named a Nicholas Green Distinguished Student. Each winner receives a $500 U.S. savings bond and an NAGC Certificate of Excellence. Eligible students may be nominated by parents, teachers, students, or community/civic groups.
Thank you to NAGC and Maggie and Reg Green for this program.
So go to the NAGC site, print out the application information, and put it on your bulletin board as an encouraging reminder to think about possible student nominees for next year. During our #gtchat, educator Krissy Venosdale (@KTVee) made this worthy suggestion!
That's it for this recap; I appreciate you stopping by. My hope is that you will not only check out these resources regularly, but also will gladly share them with others. As always, I welcome your comments.
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Opel showed its Adam minicar on the eve of the Paris auto show, assembling journalists in the covered outdoor dining area of a restaurant next to the Centre Pompidou, with cars in the adjoining square. The presentation was punctuated by heavy rain. Bicyclists passed between the speakers and their audience. But the Opel team soldiered on.
Consider it a metaphor for the financial difficulties and uncertainties facing General Motors' German subsidiary.
Amid those problems, Opel has created a competitive entry into the minicar segment -- an important niche in Europe, not so big in the United States, which is probably why the Adam won't cross the Atlantic.
Malcolm Ward, Opel's head of exterior design, said the car is proudly modern, rather than retro. The Adam will have 30,000 possible exterior configurations -- maximum personalization. The interior features a seven-inch touch screen for infotainment that hooks into a driver's smartphone. And one available headliner has 63 embedded LED lights for a "starlight effect."
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As expected, Ben Bernanke officially launched a fourth round of quantitative easing (QE 4) with his announcement last week of $85 billion dollars worth of unsterilized purchases of MBS and Treasuries. In unprecedented fashion, the Fed also tied the continuation of its zero interest rate policy and trillion dollars per annum balance sheet expansion to an unemployment rate that stays above 6.5%. Now, pegging free money and endless counterfeiting to a specific unemployment figure would be a brilliant idea if printing money actually had the ability to increase employment. But it does not.
The Fed recently celebrated the fourth anniversary of zero percent rates and massive expansion of its balance sheet. However, even after this incredibly accommodative monetary policy has been in effect since 2009, the labor condition in this country has yet to show significant improvement. Last month's Non-Farm Payroll report showed that the labor force participation rate and employment to population ratio is still shrinking. Goods-producing jobs continue to be lost and middle aged individuals are giving up looking for work. This is the only reason why the unemployment rate is falling. I guess if all those people currently looking for work decide it's a better idea to stay home and watch soap operas instead, the unemployment rate would then become zero.
But more of the Fed's easy money won't help the real problem because the issue isn't the cost of money but rather the over-indebted condition of the U.S. government and private sector. Keeping the interest rate on Treasuries low only enables the government to go further into debt. And consumers aren't balking on buying more houses because mortgage rates are too high. The plain truth is this is a balance sheet recession and not one due to onerous interest rates. More of the Fed's monetization may be able to bring down debt service payments a little bit further on consumer's debt. However, it will also cause food and energy prices to be much higher than they would otherwise be. The damage done to the middle class will be much greater than any small benefit received from lower interest rates. Therefore, the net reduction in consumer's purchasing power will serve to elevate the unemployment rate instead of bringing it lower.
Rather than aiding the economy and fixing the labor market, what the Bernanke Fed will succeed in doing is to ensure his unshrinkable balance sheet will not only destroy the economy but also drive the rate of inflation to unprecedented levels in this country.
Ben's balance sheet was just $800 billion in 2007. It is now $2.9 trillion and is expected to grow to nearly $6 trillion by the end of 2015. A few more years of trillion dollar deficits that are completely monetized by the Fed should ensure that our government's creditors will demand much more than 1.6% for a ten-year loan. The problem is that rising interest rates will cause the Fed to either rapidly and tremendously expand their money printing efforts, which could lead to hyperinflation; or begin to sell trillions of dollars worth of government debt at a time when bond yields are already rising. If yields at that time are rising due to the fact that our creditors have lost faith in our tax base and its ability to support our debt, just think how much higher yields will go once the bond market becomes aware that the Fed has become another massive seller.
This new Fed policy is incredibly dangerous and virtually guarantees our economy will suffer a severe depression in the near future. Bernanke should start shrinking his balance sheet and allow interest rates to normalize now. When the free market does it for him it will be too late.
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We are a brick and mortar music retail store looking to update the look and feel of our ecommerce website. We need a home page and a product page. No coding needed.
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We sell online but also need to use the site for local customers telling them what we do.
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'Skyfall' is a touch more high-minded than those previous 22 films, but it's also the best crafted Bond movie ever.
'Skyfall' is a touch more high-minded than those previous 22 films, but it's also the best crafted Bond movie ever.
If you just looked at the cast and crew of 'Skyfall,' you could easily confuse the assembled talent for a prestige costume drama. Director Sam Mendes, actors Judi Dench, Javier Bardem and Ralph Fiennes, and cinematographer Roger Deakins might just as easily be mounting a Shakespeare adaptation.
But 'Skyfall' is, of course, a James Bond film, and not only that, it's the 23rd installment in a blockbuster franchise marking its 50th anniversary with only slightly less fanfare than the Queen's Jubilee. 'Skyfall' is a touch more high-minded than those previous 22 films, but it's also arguably the best crafted movie in Bond history.
Those involved in the 007 empire overwhelmingly credit the higher trajectory for Bond to one man: Daniel Craig.
"Daniel was like, 'Everyone said yes! Look at this incredible cast!'" says Mendes. "I'm like, 'Mate, it's because of you.'"
Now in his third film as 007, 'Skyfall' is Craig's most emphatic statement yet on how he'll define his stewardship of the beloved British spy. What's clearest on 'Skyfall' is that Craig has taken full ownership of Bond, not only filling out a tux, but molding the entire production.
"That was an ambition of mine," says Craig. "They give us a lot of money to make these films. If we can spend the money in the right way - it's not just me, it's the collective thinking but I'm very much behind it - if we can spend the money in the right way and on the right people, then we're going to create something that's very special."
The result is the best-reviewed Bond film yet, one that's already made a whopping $287 million in its first 10 days of international release. 'Skyfall' is the culmination of The Daniel Craig Years, a chapter in Bond history that's proving a resounding success.
Craig's first Bond film, 2006's 'Casino Royale,' was a visceral introduction to his version of 007. Less successful was 2008's 'Quantum of Solace,' which was marred by script problems partly caused by the writer's strike. The film's heavy somberness disappointed many and fueled the correction in tone on 'Skyfall.'
After the postmodern deconstruction of 'Quantum,' 'Skyfall' puts Bond back together, restoring many familiar elements, albeit with certain twists. Ben Whishaw inherits the role of Q, Naomie Harris settles in as Moneypenny and Fiennes comes aboard as the new head of MI6. Bardem plays a flamboyant, effete former MI6 agent whose cyber destruction is motivated by a past with M, the role Judi Dench has memorably inhabited for seven films.
Overall, 'Skyfall' is set in a more realistic world - particularly situated in London - where MI6's activities are answerable to government and where the threat of terrorism has firmly displaced Cold War fears as the dominant concern.
It was Craig who, on a sudden instinct over conversation at a party, asked Mendes - better known for his stage direction and dramas like 'American Beauty' and 'Revolutionary Road' than action movies - if he wanted to direct. The two had previously worked together on 2002's 'Road to Perdition,' before Craig's stardom swelled.
"It mattered that it came from him," says Mendes. "I don't think I would have done it without Dan. It's much easier going to Javier or Ralph knowing they're already into the franchise because of Daniel. He's made it cool in a different way."
Craig also approached Bardem, a selective actor whose performance in 'Skyfall' is already being considered among the best Bond villains.
"I asked him as well," Craig confesses sheepishly. "Overstretching my job description. You're an actor! Stick to f------ acting! You can't go hiring people."
But producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, who years ago inherited control of the franchise from their father Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, have been quite content with Craig's initiative. The 44-year-old actor is signed for two more Bond films, but Broccoli would have it be longer.
"We're not going to let him get away," says Broccoli. "We want him to keep making these films as long as he's willing."
"Daniel gives you more opportunities," Wilson adds. "He is definitely the main reason people want to be in these films."
Mendes credits another inspiration: Christopher Nolan, whose 'Dark Knight' trilogy of Batman films, Mendes says, "made B movies into A films."
"It's very important in an environment now where you can only make very big movies or very small movies, that very big movies are not robbed of meaning," Mendes says. "I'm not saying they all have to be treatises on the future of the world or humanity, but they can carry something that's not just escapism."
'Skyfall' has plenty of that too: the gadgets, the chase sequences, the one-liners. But Craig and company believe they've now successfully recalibrated Bond for a new era. After 'Quantum,' Craig says, he had no idea where the films could go. Now, he's clearly energized by the foundation they've laid with 'Skyfall.'
"I want an exploding volcano with a base underneath it," Craig says. "Why not? I think we're allowed. We've set the tone. The tone's good, it's a good tone. It's a serious tone, but it's funny and all those things.
"The stories," he says, "now seem endless."
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|System: X360, PS3, PC
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Making matters worse are the games inconsistencies that serve to aggravate you, cause you to take unnecessary damage, or even lead to your immediate death. First off, Shank seems completely incapable of aiming a gun directly above his head. Later in the game, levels will have enemies positioned on platforms above your head that youre unable to reach, with gunfire being the only solution to this problem.
Rather than standing beneath the foe and shooting straight up, youll have to run across the screen and shoot diagonally in order to take them out. Another major headache comes for some of the games platforming. The jumping in Shank isnt forgiving, often failing you if you are anything more than just a bit off with your timing or positioning. This is further upsetting later in the game when youll be required to face a plethora of platforming challenges that have small windows of opportunity and even smaller margins for error.
Still, the worst offender in Shank is the wonky dodge maneuver. The game will often require you to dodge in order to take out specific enemies or even just to avoid taking otherwise inescapable damage. However, the problem with this is youll never know if it is actually going to work correctly. One time, you may successfully sidestep an incoming attack, the next, you may get plowed into as though you werent aware of it. Im not sure if it is a problem of distance, timing, technique, or a combination of these elements, all I know is I have attempted to dodge the same attacks the same way multiple times and the results are hit-and-miss. In fact, it frequently felt like the game just didnt want me to succeed, given that I had already successfully performed these dodges several times in the exact same situations before.
These issues aside, Shank is also a short title. The game has two different campaigns, a single-player and a co-op, but both experiences are over far too quickly. The single-player campaign tells the story of Shanks revenge and only takes about three hours to beat. On the other hand, the co-op campaign delivers the backstory of why Shank is seeking payback and is even shorter than the single-player adventure. While this is an interesting idea, playing both back to back (single-player first since that is the mode in which you can unlock the additional weapons) will probably take you less than five hours. Of course, if you grow as tired of the repetition and inconsistencies as I did, this shorter length may just be for the best.
While Shank has a great visual style, an interesting story to tell, and plenty of over-the-top violence, the gameplay is extremely repetitive, has some aggravating issues, and is over far too soon. Shanks experience isnt completely without merit, as hacking and blasting your way through hordes of nameless goons can be fun, but it gets stale rather quickly. If youre looking for a mindless beat em up, you could definitely do worse than Shank. However, if youre looking for a lengthy and varied brawler, you will want to look elsewhere.
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Penance, Anointing, and Viaticum celebrated together is the first exceptional circumstance treated in Chapter VIII of the Pastoral Care Rites. Let's start reading the three-section introduction:
236. This rite has been provided for use when sudden illness, an accident, or some other cause has placed one of the faithful in danger of death. It makes possible the reception of the three sacraments of penance, anointing, and viaticum in a single celebration. It is not only for use at the point of death, but even possibly a day or so before when time or the condition of the dying person will not allow a more developed celebration of these sacraments over a period of time. In its pastoral ministry the Church always seeks to be as complete as possible, and with this continuous rite those who are in danger of death are prepared to face it sustained by all the spiritual means available to the Church.
The Church is careful that the final hours or few days of a person's life is not crammed with sacraments to the point where it seems less than serious or prayerful. I have not witnessed these three sacraments celebrated in one liturgy, but I would suppose the presider walks a knife's edge in avoiding a slightly rushed utilitarianism and a too-slow prayerful pace. In the next post, we'll see how the choices are trimmed if there is time for only two sacraments, or one.
It should be noted that the arbitrary or personal preferences of the priest are not taken into account in these "exceptional circumstances." The rite states the strong preference for a "developed" celebration, which would include the appropriate participation of the person, family, and faith community in aspects of these three sacraments–ground already covered in our earlier posts on the PCS.
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A corporation does not exist to better the world or destroy the world. It exists to maximize profits for shareholders. It is irrelevant who runs the companies - if they suck at making profits, they are booted.
They are indeed run by fallible people - but that does not change the fact that profits for shareholders are what they work for. If it happens to make the world a better place, well great. However, history documents well the excesses of corporate entities and how the single-minded purpose of profit for the sake of profit has been significantly more detrimental to our world.
The bottom line is that the bottom line is the most important part of a company with shareholders. Only some cursory research and reading will bring you up to speed. I have no idea what a 'B' Corporation is. I'm assuming it's an American corporation with a specific set of rights and responsibilities. In rhetorically asking that, you basically reinforce the idea that there are specific obligations held by various flavours of corporate entities. For-profit companies exist for, wait for it, profits! This does not make them evil, but it does give them an out when it comes to being a good citizen of the world.
They "care" about profits because they are legally bound to try and make profits. And yes, if a corporation was a real person, sociopathic would be a perfect way to describe them.
Good thing the woman who invented the wheel didn't have a patent.
You state that the mantra of maximizing profits for shareholders is a useful misconception. Then you state they have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits.
Contradicting yourself renders your comments to be invalid.
When you said "...Keeping competing products from entering the market seems like the opposite of how you encourage innovation." you were joking, right? You of all people know that corporations are legally bound to maximize profits for shareholders. If this is what is required to do that, then it must happen.
The only way to start to fix this world is to legally re-define the role and responsibilities of a corporate entity.
Good luck with that one, right?
Gov't regulators everywhere are directed by corporations which results in the rights of the Individual being trumped. When regular people protest, a la "Occupy Movement", those individuals are mocked by not only the mainstream media, but by ordinary citizens.
Here in the west, we have forgotten what it means to stand up for ourselves, and when we do, we are mocked for it. Signing online petitions is one thing, but it doesn't take courage to do, nor does it give you any sense of what is potentially lost.
This will continue for decades, I'm sure. The lure of campaign contributions will always dominate the actions of lawmakers.
I'm not a proponent of anarchy and chaos, but I do assert that until we gather in public and in real numbers, our blog posts and digital petitions will only have so much impact since we are essentially preaching to the converted.
We are allowing our rights to be taken from us day by day. The government, the police, you name it, have over-reaching power that should never have been authorized. We piss and moan about it, but that's about it.
Think about it - the day has come when you can be standing on your own property or on public property and the police can arrest you for the simple act of taking a photograph. Someone, anyone - tell me - am I wrong in this? I sure hope I am.
Big telecom et al., are running the Canadian government. Where in the hell has common sense gone? Well, it goes when politicians have obligations to corporations rather that their constituents.
And what do Canadians do about it? Massive rallies like in Europe? No. Phoning/writing to their Member of Parliament to ask them WTF is going on? No.
We Canadians whine and bitch about just about everything, but do nothing about it except, well, bitch and whine.
Bend over Canadians, you're getting exactly what you fcuking deserve! Damn it I just shake my head and wonder how we came to a place where government works for corporations and not constituents. Unbelievable. Our government is trying to send us back to the early 20th Century. And that's not a Good Thing™.
Somebody bitch-slap us and wake us up...PLEASE!
I read lots of comments that bitch and moan about all the crap handed to you by the TSA and your government, but that's it. It's not going to change until people start to actually do something about it.
We can all jump on the TSA and vilify them (rightly so IMO) but that's not going to make any changes. People have to do something, so get off the comment threads and start writing letters to your elected representatives. If that doesn't work, then you will have to organize rallies to demonstrate your collective disgust over what the TSA does. And you have to keep the protests real and under control. As soon as windows start breaking and the riot police show up, you've lost all credibility.
Bottom line is put up or shut up.
If only Alanis had this story in her head when she wrote her song.
I'm sure WB is so big that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and WB's legal department comes up with the crap they do to ensure their long-term survival.
If only the petards were some of the ignorant politicians and media writers whose lip service supports the big entertainment cause, we would be getting somewhere.
Losses can't be quantified in dollars personally. For me, losses are all about missed opportunities - to enjoy an event with my spouse or kids, or to read something or listen to something in the fashion that suits me best at a particular place and time.
I have a lot more disposable income now, b/c I don't buy anything...nor do I pirate it anymore either. Can't be bothered, so I'm saving money and making plans to travel.
To hell with the companies and ignorant politicians.
The dealership that is involved is a VW dealership, and VW has an advertising deal with the NHL - you see VW ads during the hockey game
Just like JimShahsha said, it's all about control. Shaw, Rogers, Telus, Bell...they want to own everything: internet access, phone/data, cable, satellite et cetera.
We are gouged and gouged and gouged and we have yet to elect a government with any balls to stand up to these companies and enforce real competition. But, as we Canadians are apt to do, we bitch a lot about it, but we still buy the services. We don't have any real choices.
Dear TD - you forgot a button to go with the comments; my suggestion: "Batshit Stupid". Or how about "Lobotomized" or even "Dumbest Fucking Thing I Have Ever Read"?
Just sayin'.
Up here in Canuckistan, we finally have access to Netflix via the Wii and PS3. Today Netflix tells me that I can now use my Xbox so I'm in Netflix heaven...
Until I see that I have to buy a Gold Membership on Xbox Live in order to access Netflix. It's free to get Netflix on the PS3 and Wii, so it's pretty obvious I won't be using my Xbox, which, incidentally, was always my first choice.
Everybody wants their kilo of flesh from the consumer, don't they?
"COPYRIGHT 2010 - NORTH COUNTRY GAZETTE All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the express written permission of the publisher." - so before I click on the three links that they provide to add the post to Delicious, Meneame and Digg, I have to get their express written permission?
By the way, I've been 'reading' as many articles I can before boredom hits OH WAIT...boredom has arrived. :)
What about a spot for CBers to put up or shut up once in a while? Specifically, someone might have the brass monkeys to actually write up something TechDirtish. Let them publish and have the rest of the CBers have a go at them. Let them demo their writing chops and also have a chance to feel the wrath of TAM in the process.
One step further, allowing CBers a chance to write on topics pertaining to this site and have them published as a regular article.
Just tossin' out some ideas!
Here in my part of Canuckistan, we have "driving with undue care and attention" which would/should cover that.
By the time all of these traditional media companies "figure it out" the real world will have left them behind. For the first time in my life, I revel at the idea at something going extinct. Let's start with the music industry and then the movie industry...newspapers and magazines shouldn't be too far behind.
It would be the end of civilization if this happened. I don't think that is an exaggeration, either? Thoughts?
Lego bricks are a premium toy, and as such are very expensive. Maybe if they quit the fcuking litigating their prices could drop a bit. (This is the sound of me holding my breath.) But what lawyer is going to talk her boss into NOT litigating? It's called job security, right?
Lego NEEDS the competition to evolve, so they should just focus on the people that do buy their kits and not worry what anyone else does. You only have to use those cheap knock-off versions of Lego bricks to realize that Lego has the superior product. Besides, Lego builders all over the world have more ideas than all of the engineers at Lego. Connect with them and you'll do just fine.


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At first glance Mickaël Marchand's work »One thousand kilos of concrete, four meter long edges and you standing on it (ailleurs les falaises s´effritent)« (2013) presents a sculptural installation that restages the classic aesthetics of minimal art: a rectangular concrete cube set in relation to the spatial dimensions of the exhibition space. However, the fact that visitors are forced to step on the piece to enter the room irritates the initial impression of a traditional art piece. Made from compressed concrete powder the installation unfolds a second disorder: its unstable structure. Marchand's work not only deals with questions of form and space, but also involves the visitor's body as a destructive threat to the art piece itself.
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Christy Turlington Burns is best known for her career as a supermodel.
Her face has graced innumerable magazine covers, and for 20 years, Turlington Burns was the image of Calvin Klein. What is not as well known is that behind the camera, she is a philanthropist and activist determined to make life better for others.
In honor of her mother, who was born in El Salvador, Turlington Burns has been involved in the efforts to rebuild post-war El Salvador since the early 1990s. In honor of her father, who died of lung cancer in 1997, she has been involved in preventative health care, including smoking prevention and cessation.
But her biggest mission came about because of Turlington Burns' own experience, when she suffered a serious complication - post-partum hemorrhage - after the birth of her daughter in 2003. She wondered what happened to women who suffer PPH with no health care available.
"I couldn't look away," Turlington Burns said. "I wanted to know why so many women are dying."
As a result, she created a documentary film, "No Woman, No Cry," about the global state of maternal health, which was screened Monday at the 15th annual Savannah Film Festival.
In conjunction with the film, Turlington Burns created Every Mother Counts, a campaign to increase education and support for maternal mortality reduction on a global basis. Not only has she earned a master's degree in public health, she has trained and run in marathons to raise awareness.
Shockingly, more than 500,000 women die in childbirth every year, and 90 percent of those deaths are preventable. Turlington Burns filmed the stories of at-risk pregnant women in a remote Maasai tribe in Tanzania, a slum of Bangladesh, a post-abortion care ward in Guatemala and a prenatal clinic in the United States.
With the encouragement of her husband, actor/filmmaker Edward Burns, Turlington Burns made the film and continues to work for the cause.
"I've gone back to each country numerous times to screen it," she said.
While in each country, Turlington Burns has sought out the women whose stories she told to see how they are doing. "Everyone is doing fairly well," she said.
The producer, Dallas Brennan Rexer, was particularly touched by the story of a young girl who appears only briefly in the film, but made a lasting impression on the film crew.
"It was in Tanzania," Brennan Rexer said. "She was out on the roadside and she was so young. She knew she needed help, but she had no idea where to go."
The girl's boyfriend had abandoned her when she became pregnant, and her father abandoned the family out of anger at the mother for allowing their daughter to become pregnant.
On her return to Tanzania, Turlington Burns learned the girl has been admitted to a vocational program with plans to become a teacher and her father has come home. Best of all, the unwanted baby is now adored by everyone in the family.
Girls between 15 and 19 are particularly vulnerable. Turlington Burns said 60 percent of all maternal deaths fall in that age group, causing devastation to entire families.
"It's not just the girls, the women," she said. "It's the people who love them we have to advocate for."


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After a long, well-lubricated holiday weekend, the last thing I need is another beer in my belly. I should stick to water, with a cleansing salad thrown in for fun. But common sense has never been my strong suit. Tonight, I'll no doubt find myself with a beer in hand. After all, it's the charitable thing to do.
Today marks the release of Surge Protector IPA, which was brewed to benefit the food bank Long Island Cares and Barrier Brewing. Though the Oceanside brewery is now back up and running after getting socked by Sandy, the bill for repairs topped more than $100,000. To help defray the costs, Long Island's best brewers gathered at Blue Point in December to brew a collaborative beer.
Representatives from Greenport Harbor, Blue Point, Blind Bat, Long Ireland, Spider Bite, Port Jeff, Great South Bay and Barrier all bandied about ideas for the brew, settling on an easy-drinking IPA that checks in at a quaffable 5 percent ABV. Each brewery donated ingredients for what became a 30-barrel batch of Surge Protector.
While most of the beer is earmarked for bars and bottle shops on Long Island, a small amount of Surge Protector will wash up in New York City. Look for the IPA at Brooklyn's 61 Local and Alewife Queens, as well as the Bronx Alehouse and the Hell's Kitchen location of Pony Bar.
Don't feel guilty for having a second, or even a third pint. After all, drinking is merely the charitable thing to do.
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I know there are only two ways of gauging strangers, via GearSnore or Achievements. To be honest I'm ok with this. I don't care that much.
Sure it drives me a little crazy that people are asking for achievements for VoA. I think the 1st four bosses of ICC don't really warrant it either, on normal at least.
But to get to the heart of the problem, I just don't think it is worth spending an hour trying to get a group together, checking achievements only to blow 10-15 minutes wasting buffs away while the most basic of the boss mechanics get explained to people who theoretically have already done it before, more likely than not, have done it more times than the raid leader.
It's at the point now where I think we should wear the 1st wipe.
Just ready check and GO!
By the end of that 1st fight you will know if people were on follow to get their achievement.
They will either do what they have to do, or still be standing by the front door.
Scrape the corpses up, kick them from the raid and fill the raid with people that do know what they are doing so we can reserve vent for it's intended purpose.
Running ICC on two characters on both 10 & 25 has really worn down my patience for the pre encounter kindergarten chat.
It is quicker to recover from the wipe than to go through the explanation.
For craps sake, the fights themselves barely extend past 5 minutes, why in the name of all that is holy in Gnomeregan do we have to spend 3 times the length of the fight describing what a bone spike is, that Fester is going to give you a slime pet that will eat your heart out, where on your task bar the polymorph spell has to be.
State once at the beginning of the raid.
We have seen your achievements, in theory you know the encounters
When we reach each boss you will get asked once…
Do you know this fight?
If there is no response, there will be a ready check and we will engage with the boss 10 seconds later!
Yes, yes. I know some encounters require a little organization. Rotface is a good example. Yet, people know what they are doing don't they?
As soon as I get to Rotface I get into position. If the raid leader changes that, fine, otherwise I am just waiting to hear about the fucking spores for the 100th time.
I don't know… An hour to get the raid together… an hour and a half to explain the bosses… 30 minutes to actually do the bosses with an additional hour for trash.
Why the hell people say "must be available till 12.30pm", when they could just say…
Raiding for 2 hours. Don't fuck up, don't fuck around, when we have 6 done we will decide if we extend in 30 minute segments
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and I'm not stupid dammit, just engage the boss and I will heal your arse!
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I also believe that parents should play a role in helping their child make decisions and that they should view their child as a partner in this regard.In the comment section of that post, Anonymous challenged my idea that children could or should ever be viewed as partners with their parents, suggesting that parents' roles in their children's lives should be that of "bosses" who make decisions for children because they are not capable of doing so on their own until adulthood (which I read to mean legal adulthood, suggested by this commenter in another comment that was not posted due to its tangential nature, to mean 18 years of age).
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Raising kids by being their "friend" results in horrible, maladjusted kids with a lot of selfishness and problems.First of all, nowhere in that post did I suggest that parents should act as their children's friends. I do not even suggest that children should be viewed as completely equal partners with their parents. All I meant to suggest was that children should be viewed as more than objects to be controlled by their parents. I'll expand on that idea here.
I'd like to clarify that I do not have any children. However, I have experienced a type of parenting that I would not want to replicate if I ever had the desire to raise children of my own. In the middle class, white American culture I grew up in, there is an overarching idea that children have little capacity for personhood. They are treated like objects or pets that should be, in essence, ruled over by parents who always know what was best for their children, without question. Children's opinions and desires do not matter because of their age. In effect, children are lesser people, if they can even be considered people at all.
I have a huge problem with conceptualizing children in the same manner as one might think of a pet. I do not believe this mindset is healthy for the parent or the child. It has the potential to create dependence in children that may make it difficult for them to take on "adult" responsibilities once they reach legal adulthood and it presents a way for parents to place on their children an unfair burden - the responsibility of making their parents feel useful. When the roles of parents and children change as children grow up, it cane be difficult on everyone.
I believe that this idea that children just are not capable of doing certain things is, largely, due to socialization. If parents treat children as if they are incapable of making any decisions at all (as opposed to only life-altering ones), children will not have to rise to the occasion and will fill their parents' low expectations. If parents expected more out of their children and viewed them as capable of doing more, I think a lot of people would be surprised by how much children are capable of.
I also want to stress my belief in parents' roles in helping oversee their children's decisions and helping them navigate the world while teaching and disciplining when necessary. However, allowing children appropriate amounts of control over aspects of their lives is important because no person, small or not, should be ruled by someone else who denies them the opporunity to exercise any amount of power over their lives.
This acknowledgement of a child's personhood throughout life (as opposed to waiting until a child reaches some arbitrary age) could easily create more independent children who are better equipped to handle "adult" situations and responsibilities without doubting themselves. Treating children as smaller people could also easily create within the minds of children reasonable expectations of respect. When they are not used to thinking of themselves of subjects under their parents' rule, it might be easier for them to fight for their rights and perhaps even those of others when they finally leave the nest.


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The thing about Hawaii, at least the part that is geared toward tourists, is that it's exactly what it promises to be. Step off the plane and someone places a lei around your neck, as if it were something you had earned—an Olympic medal for sitting on your ass. Raise a hand above your shoulder and, no matter where you are, a drink will appear: something served in a hollowed-out pineapple, or perhaps in a coconut that's been sawed in half. Just like in the time before glasses! you think.
Volcanic craters, waterfalls, and those immaculate beaches—shocking things when you're coming from Europe. At the spot that Hugh and I go to in Normandy, you'll find, in place of sand, speckled stones the size of potatoes. The water runs from glacial to heart attack and is tinted the color of iced tea. Then there's all the stuff floating in it: not man-made garbage but sea garbage—scum and bits of plant life, all of it murky and rotten-smelling.
The beaches in Hawaii look as if they'd been bleached; that's how white the sand is. The water is warm—even in winter—and so clear that you can see not just your toes but the corns cleaving, barnacle-like, to the sides of them. On Maui, one November, Hugh and I went swimming, and turned to find a gigantic sea turtle coming up between us. As gentle as a cow she was, and with a cow's dopey, almost lovesick expression on her face. That, to me, was worth the entire trip, worth my entire life, practically. For to witness majesty, to find yourself literally touched by it—isn't that what we've all been waiting for?
I had a similar experience a few years later, and again with Hugh. We were in Japan, walking through a national forest in a snowstorm, when a monkey the height of a bar stool brushed against us. His fur was a dull silver, the color of dishwater, but he had this beet-red face, set in a serious, almost solemn expression. We saw it full on when he turned to briefly look at us. Then he shrugged and ambled off over a footbridge.
"Jesus Christ!" I said. Because it was too much: the forest, the snowstorm, and now this. Monkeys were an attraction in that part of the country. We expected to see them at some point, but I thought they'd be fenced in. As with the sea turtle, part of the thrill was the feeling of being accepted, which is to say, not feared. It allowed you to think that you and this creature had a special relationship, a juvenile thought, but one that brings with it a definite comfort. Well, monkeys like me, I'd find myself thinking during the next few months, whenever I felt lonely or unappreciated. Just as, in the months following our trip to Hawaii, I thought of the sea turtle. With her, though, my feelings were a bit more complicated, and, instead of believing that we had bonded, I'd wonder that she could ever have forgiven me.
The thing between me and sea turtles started in the late sixties, and involved my best friend from grade school, a boy I'll call Shaun (some of the names in this story have been changed), who lived down the street from me in Raleigh. What brought us together was a love of nature, or, more specifically, of catching things, and unintentionally killing them. We started when I was in the fourth grade, which would have made me ten, I guess. It's different for everyone, but at that age, though I couldn't have said that I was gay, I knew that I was not like the other boys in my class or my Scout troop. While they welcomed male company, I shrank from it, dreaded it, feeling like someone forever trying to pass, someone who would eventually be found out, and be expelled from polite society. Is this how a normal boy would swing his arms? I'd ask myself, standing before the full-length mirror in my parents' bedroom. Is this how he'd laugh? Is this what he would find funny? It was like doing an English accent. The more concentrated the attempt, the more self-conscious and unconvincing I became.
With Shaun, though, I could almost be myself. This didn't mean that we were alike, only that he wasn't paying that much attention. Childhood, for him, seemed something to be endured, passed through like a tiresome stretch of road. Ahead of this was the good stuff, and, looking at him from time to time, at the way he had of staring off, of boring a hole into the horizon, you got the sense that he could not only imagine it but see it: this great, grownup life, waiting on the other side of sixteen.
Apart from an interest in wildlife, the two of us shared an identity as transplants. My family was from the North, and the Taylors were from the Midwest. Shaun's father, Hank, was a psychiatrist, and sometimes gave his boys and me tests, the type for which there were, he assured us, "no right answers." He and his wife were younger than my parents, and they seemed it, not just in their dress but in their eclectic tastes—records by Donovan and Moby Grape shelved among the Schubert. Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.
In a neighborhood of stay-at-home moms, Shaun's mother worked. A public-health nurse, she was the one you went to if you woke up with yellow eyes, or had jammed a piece of caramel corn too far into your ear. "Oh, you're fine," Jean would say, for that was what she wanted us to call her, not Mrs. Taylor. With her high cheekbones and ever so slightly turned-down mouth, she brought to mind a young Katharine Hepburn. Other mothers might be pretty, might, in their twenties or early thirties, pause at beauty, but Jean was clearly parked there for a lifetime. You'd see her in her flower bed, gardening gloves hanging from the waistband of her slacks like someone clawing to get out, and you just had to wish she was your mom instead.
The Taylor children had inherited their mother's good looks, especially Shaun. Even as a kid, he seemed at home in his skin—never cute, just handsome, blond hair like a curtain drawn over half his face. The eye that looked out from the uncurtained side was cornflower blue, and excelled at spotting wounded or vulnerable animals. While the other boys in our neighborhood played touch football in the street, Shaun and I searched the woods behind our houses. I drew the line at snakes, but anything else was brought home, and imprisoned in our ten-gallon aquariums. Lizards, toads, baby birds: they all got the same diet—raw hamburger meat—and, with few exceptions, they all died within a few weeks.
"Menu-wise, it might not hurt you to branch out a little," my mother once said, in reference to my captive luna moth. It was the size of a paperback novel, a beautiful mint green, but not much interested in ground chuck. "Maybe you could feed it some, I don't know, flowers or something."
Like she knew.
The best-caught creature belonged to Shaun's younger brother, Chris, who'd found an injured flying squirrel and kept him, uncaged, in his bedroom. The thing was no bigger than a hamster, and when he glided from the top bunk to the dresser his body flattened out, making him look like an empty hand puppet. The only problem was the squirrel's disposition, his one-track mind. You wanted him to cuddle, or to ride sentry on your shoulder, but he refused to relax. I've got to get out of here, you could sense him thinking, as he clawed, desperate and wild-eyed, at the windowpane, or tried to squeeze himself underneath the door. He made it out eventually, and though we all hoped he'd return for meals, and become a kind of part-time pet, he never did.
Not long after the squirrel broke free, Jean took her boys and me for a weekend on the North Carolina coast. It was mid-October, the start of the sixth grade, and the water was too chilly to swim in. On the Sunday that we were to head back home, Shaun and I got up at dawn and took a walk with our nets. We were hunting for ghost crabs when, in the distance, we made out these creatures, moving blockily, like windup toys on an unsteady surface. On closer inspection, we saw that they were baby sea turtles, dozens of them, digging out from under the sand, and stumbling toward the ocean.
An adult might have carried them into the surf, or held at bay the predatory gulls, but we were twelve, so while I scooped the baby turtles into a pile, Shaun ran back and got the trash cans from our hotel room.
We might have walked off with the whole lot, but they seemed pretty miserable, jumbled atop one another. Thus, in the end, we took only ten, which meant five apiece.
The great thing about the sea turtles, as opposed to, say, flying squirrels, was that they would grow exponentially—meaning, what, fifty, a hundred times their original size? When we got them, each one called to mind a plastic coin purse, the oval sort handed out by banks and car dealerships. Then there were the flippers and, of course, the heads, which were bald and beaky, like a newly hatched bird's. Since the death of a traumatized mole pried from the mouth of our cat, Samantha, my aquarium had sat empty and was therefore ready for some new tenants. I filled it with a jug of ocean water that I'd brought from the beach, then threw in a conch shell and a couple of sand dollars, to make it more homey. The turtles swam the short distance from one end of the tank to the other, and then they batted at the glass with their flippers, unable to understand that this was it—the end of the road. What they needed, it seemed, was something to eat.
"Mom, do we have any raw hamburger?"
Looking back, you'd think that someone would have said something—sea turtles, for God's sakes!—but maybe they weren't endangered yet. Animal cruelty hadn't been invented, either. The thought that a non-human being had physical feelings, let alone the wherewithal to lose hope, was outlandish and alien, like thinking that paper had relatives. Then, too, when it comes to eliciting empathy, it's the back of the line for reptiles and amphibians, creatures with, face it, not much in the way of a personality. Even giving them names didn't help, as playing with Shelly was no different from playing with Pokyhontus; "playing," in this case, amounting to placing them on my desk and watching them toddle over the edge.
It was good to know that in the house down the street Shaun's turtles weren't faring much better. The hamburger meat we'd put in our aquariums went uneaten, and within a short time it spoiled, and started stinking up our rooms. I emptied my tank, and in the absence of seawater I made my own, with plain old tap water and salt.
"I'm not sure that that's going to work," my mother said. She was standing in my doorway with a cigarette in one hand and an ashtray in the other. Recent experiments with a home-frosting kit had dried out and broken her already brittle hair. What was left she'd covered with a scarf, a turquoise one, that looked great when she had a tan but not so great when she didn't. "Doesn't ocean water have nutrients in it or something?"
"I dunno."
She looked at the turtles, unhappily dragging themselves across my bedspread. "Well, if you want to find out, I'm taking Lisa to the library this Saturday."
I'd hoped to spend my weekend outside, but then it rained, and my father hogged the TV for one of his football games. It was either go to the library or stay home and die of boredom, so I got into the car, groaning at the unfairness of it all. My mother dropped my sister and me downtown, and then she went to do some shopping, promising to return in a few hours.
It wasn't much to look at, our public library. I later learned that it used to be a department store, and that made sense: the floor-to-ceiling windows were right for mannequins, and you could easily imagine dress shirts where the encyclopedias were, wigs in place of the magazines. I remember that in the basement there were two rest rooms, one marked "Men" and the other marked "Gentleman." Inside each was a toilet, a sink, and a paper-towel dispenser, meaning that whichever you chose you got pretty much the same treatment. Thus, it came down to how you saw yourself: as regular, or fancy. On the day I went to research turtles, I saw myself as fancy, and so I opened the door marked "Gentleman." What happened next happened very quickly. Two men, both black, turned their heads in my direction. One was standing with his pants and underwear pulled down past his knees, and as he bent to yank them up the other man, who'd been kneeling before him, and who also had his pants lowered, covered his face with his hand, and let out a little cry.
"Oh," I told them. "I'm sorry."
I backed, shaken, out of the room, and just as the door had closed behind me it swung open again. Then the pair spilled out, that flying-squirrel look in their eyes. The stairs were at the end of a short hall, and they took them two at a time, the slower man turning his head, just briefly, and looking at me as if I held a gun. When I saw that he was afraid of me, I felt powerful. Then I wondered how I might use that power.
My first instinct was to tell on them—not because I wanted the two punished but because I would have liked the attention. "Are you all right?" the librarian would have asked. "And these were Negroes, you say? Quick, somebody, get this young man a glass of water or, better yet, a Coke. Would you like a Coke while we wait for the police?"
And, in my feeblest voice, I would have said, "Yes."
Then again, it could so easily backfire. The men were doing something indecent, and recognizing it as such meant that I had an eye for it. That I, too, was suspect. And wasn't I?
In the end, I told no one. Not even Lisa.
"So did you find out what kind of turtles they are?" my mother asked as we climbed back into the car.
"Sea turtles," I told her.
"Well, we know that."
"No, I mean, that's what they're called, 'sea turtles.' "
"And what do they eat?"
I looked out the rain-streaked window. "Hamburger."
My mother sighed. "Have it your way."
It took a few weeks for my first turtle to die. The water in the tank had again grown murky with spoiled, uneaten beef, but there was something else as well, something I couldn't begin to identify. The smell that developed in the days after Halloween, this deep, swampy funk, was enough to make your eyes water. It was as if the turtles' very souls were rotting, yet still they gathered in the corner of their tank, determined to find the sea. At night, I would hear their flippers against the glass, and think about the Negroes in the Gentleman's room, wondering what would become of them—what, by extension, would become of me? Would I, too, have to live on the run? Afraid of even a twelve-year-old?
One Friday in early November, my father paid a rare visit to my room. In his hand was a glass of gin, his standard, after-work cocktail, mixed with a little water, and garnished with a lemon peel. I normally liked the smell of it, but today the aquarium won. He regarded it briefly and, wincing at the stench, removed two tickets from his jacket pocket. "They're for a game," he told me.
"A game?"
"Football," he said. "I thought we could go tomorrow afternoon."
"But tomorrow I have to write a report."
"Write it on Sunday."
I'd never expressed any interest in football. Never played it with the kids on the street, never watched it on TV, never touched the helmet I'd received the previous Christmas. "Why not take Lisa?" I asked.
"Because you're my son, that's why."
I looked at the holocaust taking place in my aquarium. "Do I have to?"
If I were to go to a game today, I'd certainly find something to enjoy: the food, the noise, the fans marked up with paint. It would be an experience. At the time, though, it threw me into a panic. Which team am I supposed to care about? I asked myself as we settled into our seats. How am I supposed to react if somebody scores a point? The thing about sports, at least for guys, is that nobody ever defines the rules, not even in gym class. Asking what a penalty means is like asking who Jesus was. It's one of those things you're just supposed to know, and if you don't there's something seriously wrong with you.
Two of the popular boys from my school were standing against a railing a few rows ahead of us, and when I stupidly pointed them out to my father he told me to go and say hello to them.
How to explain that looking at them, even from this distance, was pushing it. Addressing them, it followed, was completely out of the question. People had their places, and to not understand that, to act in violation of it, demoted you from a nature nut to something even lower, a complete untouchable, basically. "That's all right," I said. "They don't really know who I am."
"Aw, baloney. Go over and talk to them."
"No, really."
"Do you want me to drag you over there?"
As I dug in, I thought of the turtles. All they'd ever wanted was to live in the ocean—that was it, their entire wish list, and instead I'd decided they'd be better off in my bedroom. Just as my dad had decided that I'd be better off at the football game. If I could have returned them to the beach, I would have, though I knew it was already too late. In another few days they would start going blind. Then their shells would soften, and they'd just sort of melt away, like soap.
"Are you going over there or aren't you?" my dad said.
When the last turtle died and was pitched into the woods behind my house, Shaun and I took up bowling, the only sport I was ever half decent at. The Western Lanes was a good distance away, and when our parents wouldn't drive us we rode our bikes, me with a transistor radio attached by rubber bands to my handlebars. We were just thinking of buying our own bowling shoes, when Shaun's mother and father separated. Hank took an apartment in one of the new complexes, and a few months later, not yet forty years old, he died.
"Died of what?" I asked.
"His heart stopped beating" was the answer Shaun gave me.
"Well, sure," I said. "But doesn't every dead person's heart stop beating? There must have been something else going on."
"His heart stopped beating."
Following the funeral, there was a reception at the Taylors' house. Shaun and I spent most of it on the deck off his living room, him firing his BB gun into the woods with that telescopic look in his eye. After informing me that his father's heart had stopped beating, he never said another word about him. I never saw Shaun cry, or buckle at the knees, or do any of the things that I would have done. Drama-wise, it was the chance of a lifetime, but he wasn't having any of it. From the living room, I could hear my father talking to Jean. "What with Hank gone, the boys are going to need a positive male influence in their lives," he said. "That being the case I'll be happy to, well, happy to—"
"Ignore them," my mother cut in. "Just like he does with his own damn kids."
And Jean laughed. "Oh, Sharon."
Eighteen years passed before I learned what had really happened to Shaun's father. By then I was living in Chicago. My parents were still in Raleigh, and several times a week I'd talk to my mother on the phone. I don't remember how the subject came up, but after she told me I was stunned.
"Did Shaun know?" I asked.
"I'm sure he did," my mother said, and although I hadn't seen or spoken to him since high school, I couldn't help but feel a little betrayed. If you can't tell your best friend that your dad essentially drank himself to death, who can you tell? It's a lot to hold in at that age, but then I guess we all had our secrets.
It was after talking to my mom on the phone that I finally went to the library and looked up those turtles: loggerheads is what they were called. When mature, they can measure three and a half feet long. A female might reach four hundred pounds, and, of all the eggs she lays in a lifetime, only one in a thousand will make it to adulthood. Pretty slim odds when, by "making it," you mean simply surviving.
Before the reception ended that day, Shaun handed his BB gun to me. My father was watching from the living-room window, and intercepted me just as I raised it to my shoulder.
"Oh, no you don't. You're going to put somebody's eye out."
"Somebody like a bird?" I said. "We're firing into the woods, not into the house."
"I don't give a damn where you're aiming."
I handed the rifle back to Shaun, and, as he brushed the hair from his eyes and peered down the scope, I tried to see what I imagined he did: a life on the other side of this, something better, perhaps even majestic, waiting for us to grow into it. ♦


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