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Cardiff Blues had to work overtime for an unconvincing 14-7 RaboDirect Pro12 victory over Zebre at Stadio XXV Aprile on Sunday.
Cardiff Blues had to work overtime for an unconvincing 14-7 RaboDirect Pro12 victory over Zebre at Stadio XXV Aprile on Sunday.
The Italians had shown tremendous spirit in defeat to Ulster a week earlier and headed into their latest challenge confident of earning a win at the expense of a Cardiff outfit struggling badly for form.
But three second-half Ceri Sweeney penalties made Zebre pay for their indiscipline and cost the hosts victory after they had held an early lead.
The sin-binning of the Blues' Robin Copeland on 15 minutes paved the way for the Italians to cross for the game's first try, scored by Samuele Pace, following a period of territorial superiority.
But the hosts were unable to add to their lead and by half-time their advantage had been cut to just two as Nathan Trevett crossed for a crucial try just ahead of the half-hour.
Sweeney was wide with the extras, but his eye for goal in the second-half would prove pivotal, as Zebre conspired to relinquish their advantageous position through a series of poor defensive decisions.
The first three-pointer on 58 minutes gave the Blues the lead and a quickfire brace around the 70-minute mark put further daylight between the two teams, and left Zebre requiring a converted try to salvage a draw.
But the levelling score did not come, and the Blues became the latest team to escape from Parma with a narrow victory.
The scorers:
For Zebre:
Try: Pace
Con: Halangahu
For Cardiff:
Try: Trevett
Pens: Sweeney 3
Zebre: 15 David Odiete, 14 Leonardo Sarto, 13 Gonzalo Garcia (c), 12 Samuele Pace, 11 Sinoti Sinoti, 10 Daniel Halangahu, 9 Tito Tebaldi, 8 Andries Van Schalkwyk, 7 Nicola Cattina, 6 Filippo Ferrarini, 5 Filippo Cazzola, 4 Josh Sole, 3 David Ryan, 2 Andrea Manici, 1 Salvatore Perugini.
Replacements: 16 Carlo Festuccia, 17 Andrea De Marchi, 18 Luca Redolfini, 19 Emiliano Caffini, 20 Filippo Cristiano, 21 Alberto Chillon, 22 Paolo Buso, 23 Ruggero Trevisan.
Cardiff Blues: 15 Dan Fish, 14 Owen Williams, 13 Gavin Evans, 12 Dafydd Hewitt, 11 Tom James, 10 Ceri Sweeney, 9 Lloyd Williams, 8 Robin Copeland, 7 Josh Navidi (c), 6 Rory Watts-Jones, 5 James Down, 4 Macauley Cook, 3 Taufa'ao Filise, 2 Rhys Williams, 1 Nathan Trevett
Replacements: 16 Marc Breeze, 17 Sam Hobbs, 18 Benoit Bourrust, 19 Michael Paterson, 20 Andries Pretorius, 21 Lewis Jones, 22 Rhys Patchell, 23 Tom Williams.


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Davis Hosts First Field Listening Session on USDA Cultural Transformation
More than 220 USDA employees met Thursday at the Varsity Theatre in Davis, Calif. to share their thoughts during the first listening session designed to help implement a cultural transformation within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Members of the USDA Cultural Transformation Task Force were present to hear ideas and to ensure this effort results in a more diverse, inclusive and high performance organization. Read more »

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Thursday, November 29, 2007
It is no surprise that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are down with the swirl
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
I couldn't resist...Beware the attack of the nooses!!!!
I cower as I write this. My Zombie Survival Guide, and my SAS Survival Handbook have some valuable tips for dealing with this type of calamity. But, I fear the information they impart may not help me survive the attack.
Chauncey DeVega Says: So divine and heavenly is the Joy of Sex with Bea Arthur
For those of you not in the know, public relations, because it is a client based enterprise, is akin to being a prostitute. You are at the beck and call of your Johns (here: the client). You are rented out to the client by your pimp (here: your employer). And ultimately, you have to pretend to enjoy servicing your John, and to enjoy it so much that your John will keep coming back for more---so much more, that your pimp/p.r. firm can continue to rent you out over, and over, and over, again. The noted public intellectual, Ice-T, eloquently summarized this relationship in the documentary, Pimps Up, Ho's Down, when with great aplomb he said, "we are all someone's ho. it is just a matter of picking the right pimp":
For me, this "new" phenomenon of old white women looking for some sycamore tree comes down to agency and willpower--attributes which both parties have, but in differing amounts. Restated, "who is playing who?" Is the "victim" the young black man who gets money, attention, perks, and access to the all inclusive resort? Is the "victim" the old woman who believes that this diggler will love her? I strongly suggest, that perhaps, they are playing each other.
It is hard out there for a pimp. But, it is harder out there for a mangina:
Chauncey DeVega says: What those old white women are really looking for in Kenya
Tomorrow, I have something more substantial to post. But for now, here is what those European and American women who go to the Islands, or to Africa, are really looking for:
And remember, Mr. T don't believe in Race Mixing. Plus, he beat cancer. I pity the fool!!!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Zora on Film: "Heading South" – White Women as Consumers of Black Flesh
You see, I suffer from a phenomenon termed by sociologist Charles Horton Cooley as "the looking glass self." This is essentially the interaction between how we see ourselves and how others see us. Because respectable negroes so often find themselves in white dominated spaces, we all experience this phenomenon at some point or another: we may adore Jay-Z, but we groan when we see our white colleagues grab their crotches and attempt to sing Girls, Girls, Girls; we may love fried chicken, but we pass on it at the company picnic; we may love to dance, but we'll be damned if we are the first to get out on the dance floor at the firm's holiday party… Why? Because we know that what they see is not what we see. In reacting to others perceptions of us, we both alter our behavior and our own perceptions of ourselves.
As I stood in the line to see Heading South, and later as I watched both the audience and the film, I knew that those women would not see what I was seeing. I was there to see a film about the terrible exploitation of the developing world by the West. They were there to see what they imagined as the white woman's version of How Stella Got Her Groove Back. A New York Times report on one screening described, "Some bought tickets in groups for a kind of middle-aged girls' night out. Interviews indicated the movie has hit home with this audience because it affirms the sexual reality of women of a certain age, that even as they pass the prime of their desirability to men, libidos smolder. More than a few said they came seeking a hot night out."
Heading South takes place in Papa Doc's Haiti -- one of many terrifying chapters in the island's history. The central male characters are all poor, Haitian men who are struggling to get by. The central female characters are all elite, middle-aged women from the U.S., Canada & Europe. The women are there to purchase the attentions of young men (in one case very young, thirteen). The story focuses on the relationship between Ellen and Legba, her favorite, young lover. Early in the film, Ellen confesses, "I always told myself that when I'm old I'd pay young men to love me. I just didn't think it would happen so fast." Like the women in the audience that night, she could care less about the vulnerability and desperation of the young man she embraces. The violence and poverty of the island she enjoys is held at bay by security guards, leaving her free to exploit her fantasy. She doesn't care to know more. When tragedy inevitably raises its head, Ellen foolishly and selfishly sees herself at the center of it all.
The fact that the male protagonist is named Legba should have been the first clue to both the audience and to Ellen that all was not as it appeared, that there was a truth to take away. Legba, aka Eshu, Elegba or Elegua, is a Yoruba deity found in the practices of Orisha-ifa, Candomble, Santeria and Vodou. He is known as a playful, "trickster" god who plays pranks on mortals in order to teach them hard lessons. Somehow this key fact was lost on the female characters, on the audience members and on movie reviewers alike. They completely missed a major part of the story line and reduced the film to a hot story about sexy mandingos and the white women they crave. Of course, I left the film angry and with an attitude. And, of course, my fellow movie-goers assumed that my anger was tied to a resentment of their desirability. My entire movie experience, my entire night, was altered by what I imagined a bunch of old, white women were thinking.
At this point, I know that you are wondering why I let myself get so worked up about a film. The problem was that I knew that this film was based in fact, that it wasn't entirely fiction, that many of those women in the audience ran to book vacations to Haiti, to Cape Verde, to the Dominican Republic, to Jamaica, to Kenya ... As a frequent traveler, I can't tell you how many times I have gone to the Caribbean and witnessed wrinkled, flaccid women from Europe waiving dollars, Euros and gifts in front of young men who, in stronger economies, would be employed or in school. I try to hide the surprise and disgust on my face, but the men see it and either react with aggression ("Who the hell do you think you are?") or turn their heads in shame. When I was traveling in upper-Egypt, I witnessed the same phenomenon: beautiful, Nubian men in traditional kufis and gallabiyyas walking along the shores of the Nile with frumpy, old women immodestly dressed. Anyone who has ever visited a man in jail or prison has witnessed similar dynamics. There, you very often see young, black men in their prime attached at the hip to older, white women, those who presumably could not afford plane tickets abroad.
In all of the popular discussions of this growing phenonemon, the narrative is always about white women rediscovering their sexuality. The women are always haughty and self-righteous about their arrangements, asserting a dynamic of equal exchange. Rarely do we hear the voices of the men and young boys, for this isn't their story. They are merely part of the supporting cast. They are black bodies for purchase. They are what white women perceive them to be. The suffering economies and violent societies are mere backdrops for a neo-colonial love fest. This is the story of Miss Ann being "served, serviced and pampered" by her over-sexed mandingo.
Respectable Negroes of the Week
"There was absolutely no prospect of a Middle East peace process that was going to lead to anything," she said in an interview in May about her thinking in 2001. "I just didn't see it." Nearly seven tumultuous years later, Ms. Rice, as secretary of state, has led the Bush administration to a startling turnaround and is now thrusting the United States as forcefully as Mr. Clinton once did into the role of mediator between the Israelis and Palestinians. The culmination of her efforts occurs this week in Annapolis, Md., as Mr. Bush, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, meet to set the outlines of a final peace agreement before the end of Mr. Bush's term.
Augustus Hawkins
Augustus Hawkins, who was California's first black congressman and helped form the Congressional Black Caucus, has died. He was 100. Hawkins died Saturday at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md., of symptoms related to old age, his niece, Susan Jefferson, said Monday. Hawkins, a Democrat, represented south Los Angeles for more than half a century, first starting off in the state Legislature in 1935 and then getting elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1962. Hawkins sponsored the equal employment section of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act that created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He helped create the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971. Hawkins also co-wrote the Humphrey-Hawkins Act of 1978 that was designed to reduce unemployment and inflation.
...its been a slow week for respectable negroes.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving
We respectable negroes are also thankful for Paul Mooney.
Accordingly, here is some Thanksgiving's day Paul Mooney love:
Happy Thanksgiving, May The Force be with You, Peace, and Salaam, from us respectable negroes to all of you.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Baby I'm Black (but only from the waist down)
An African Poet in England Curses his English Head of Department
An African Poet in England Curses his English Head of Department
My dear HOD, i.e., Head of a Donkey,
I just want you to know, you dumb ass,
that in the culture I come from, it is okay
for a poet to curse, provided it is in verse!
As you leave Hope Place, tonight, staggering
homewards like a drunken miner rehearsing
how to beat up his wife and strangle his children,
may the bright light at the end of your tunnel
Be the headlamp of an approaching diesel train.
As you hiccup forward, hoping to find in Freshfields
some respite from the razorblades and penknives
flourishing, like cactus flowers, in your rancorous
and cantankerous heart, may you reach home only
to find out that your wife has run away to your best friend.
May your two daughters elope to Africa
with the fuzzy wuzzy who bangs bongo-bongo drums
with callused palms to stay the seasons
of his abused self and exiled soul in your corruscating
Caucasian department along Hope Street.
May they impale their pear-shaped buttocks
on his delicious penis, lowering themselves
ecstatically on his gorgeous Zulu dick, like
headless, barbarqued chicken and keep rotating
round and round frenetically until they are bronzed
by the heat and power of his copper-hot rod and brown libido.
When they return to England, as they kiss you
at the airport, may they empty what remains of his semen
and the other juices of his body they swallowed
through their pussies into your own mouth and down your throat.
May you never be able to digest those juices of their love.
May your next wife mistake you for her clitoris
And play with you as often she did with herself
before she married you and you became her clitoris.
May your students mistake you for Caligula
or Grendel or the Cyclops or Nero or Nebuchadnezzar
Or Jack the Ripper or Richard West or Jeffrey
Dahmer and deal with you accordingly.
May your colleagues see you in a new and progressive light
As the twenty-first century reincarnation
of Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Richard III, Narcissus,
Goliath, Pentheus and deal with you accordingly.
When you bid the earth adieu, preferably
by stoning or public strangling, may you
be buried in the belly of a thousand wolves
and foxes and hyenas and other scavengers.
May vultures share your flesh shred by shred
As they sing their national anthem in German.
In your next reincarnation, may you come back
rearranged like the petals of a hibiscus flower,
or the feathers of a crippled, impotent peacock.
And when you do come again, may you never
harbour the dim and blighted illusion that you are
the only flower in the graveyard called Hope Place.
If anything I have spoken tonight is false,
If my speech is slander, if what I have uttered
here is the soot from the bottom of my mother's pot,
meant for an innocent face, may all the curses
I have uttered on this page fall upon my own head.
--Esiaba Irobi
Monday, November 19, 2007
Chauncey Devega says: Priceless!
Just being provocative....any takers?
Here is some Cloverfield love for you
Prominent Black Athletes: Public Enemy #1
I guess that the daily barrage of stories about athletes' legal problems makes it hard to see how truly remarkable this is.
According to supporters of stale organizations like the NAACP, these indictments are evidence of a racist witch hunt by white folks looking to take down influential black people. These shakedown clowns give respectable negroes a bad name.
...But I digress. Based on the events of the last couple of years, all bets are off. We may see black athletes charged with all kinds of crazy shit. If I were a black athlete, I'd retire immediately, hire a driver (but never show that driver my shotgun), refuse to set foot in a strip club, and avoid white women like the plague.
My predictions:
March 2008: Freddy Adu is charged with identity theft for trying to impersonate Don Cheadle (I know they don't really look alike, but there are very few dark-skinned celebrities these days. It's like an El-Debarge/Al B. Sure revival).
August 2009: Venus and Serena get pinched for bootlegging moonshine on some Uncle Jesse shit (the one from "DuKKKes of Hazzard," not the one from "Full House").
February 2010: The black half of Tiger Woods is found to be behind an international Asian sex slavery ring.
November 2010: Whoever the token black NASCAR driver will be is arrested on the track and charged with DWB.
Is Another Respectable Negro About to Fall? Whispers in the Clinton Camp ...
... Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party's presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it. The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed.This word-of-mouth among Democrats makes Obama look vulnerable and Clinton look prudent.
--Robert Novak
..."everyone knows" the LA Times was sitting on a story, all wrapped up and ready to go about what is a potentially devastating sexual scandal involving a leading Presidential candidate. "Everyone knows" meaning everyone in the DC mainstream media political reporting world. "Sitting on it" because the paper couldn't decide the complex ethics of whether and when to run it.
...some troubling inside scuttlebutt. There's no way to know if it's legit, bluff or just another attempt by Clinton to intimidate her way to the nomination. But if I were Hillary Clinton, I don't think I'd be eager to start a media war over the details of people's personal lives, if that's what this is about. When you are married to Bill Clinton, and when the world has decided to ignore, for now at least, the details of his personal life since he left office, best to leave the dirt alone, don't you think?
--Andrew Sullivan
...Maybe the Obama response to an alleged Obama story is not a function, pace Larison, of "flailing" and inexperience, but a calculated bid to force Clinton's biggest liability out into the open before she gets the nomination? I have no inside information on this, and no solid evidence of either an Obama "scandal" or a Clinton one, but the stakes are very high for all the reasons I've speculated on. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
--The Atlantic Monthly
Politicos everywhere are placing bets on this one. Respectable Negroes are hoping that the rumors are unfounded. More later...
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Respectable Negroes of the Week
When Cynthia Fitzgerald started out in pharmaceutical sales 20 years ago, she received ample training on the right and wrong ways to sell medical products. Right was selling on the merits. Wrong was luring customers with perks and freebies. It was O.K. to buy doctors lunch or dinner, for example, but tempting them with lavish gifts was taboo...
But she says those early lessons didn't serve her so well when she went to work on the other side of the table in 1998, in health care purchasing. Going by the book, and expecting her colleagues and employer to do the same, cost her a job, most of her friendships and several years of her life, she says.
Eventually, Ms. Fitzgerald decided to file what could become one of the largest whistle-blower lawsuits on record...
Hugo Chavez (yes, he's a Negro)
In two weeks, Venezuela seems likely to start an extraordinary experiment in centralized, oil-fueled socialism. By law, the workday would be cut to six hours. Street vendors, homemakers and maids would have state-mandated pensions. And President Hugo Chávez would have significantly enhanced powers and be eligible for re-election for the rest of his life...
Chávez loyalists already control the National Assembly, the Supreme Court, almost every state government, the entire federal bureaucracy and newly nationalized companies in the telephone, electricity and oil industries. Soon they could control even more...
"We are witnessing a seizure and redirection of power through legitimate means," said Alberto Barrera Tyszka, co-author of a best-selling biography of Mr. Chávez. "This is not a dictatorship but something more complex: the tyranny of popularity."
Wads of dollar bills are usually as much a part of rap videos as fast cars, diamond-encrusted jewellery and scantily-clad models. But in an apparent nod to the low value of the dollar, rapper Jay-Z's new video Blue Magic features another currency...
The US currency has been ticking off historic lows over the past few months as falling US interest rates make other currencies more attractive. It recently passed $2.10 to the pound, reached parity with the Canadian dollar and set an all-time record of $1.4752 to the euro. Other more conventional market-watchers have also been snubbing the dollar, including the billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
There have been no suggestions that Jay-Z's fellow rapper 50 Cent could be considering a move into a different currency.
(Kidding aside, respectable negroes paying attention to money markets should know that the dollar is in a steep decline. START INVESTING IN EUROS!!)
Chauncey DeVega says: Those damn dirty apes
It seems that apes have run amok. In India, there have been several incidents in which monkeys have killed innocent people. Apparently, these little rapscallions have overrun an entire city. As noted in this article---those dirty apes are "wreaking havoc in my constituency by taking away mobile phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators". Hmmm...sounds like my neighborhood. Plus, to make matters worse, we have turkeys running wild in one American city.
My friends say I can't beat a monkey in a street fight. They argue that the ape has too much strength, too much speed, and I wouldn't be able to score any damaging blows:
I disagree. As long as I have my trusty belt, a la Pootie Tang, I can whoop any ape, anywhere, and anytime:
Fighting an angry ape does require training. Here, I suggest that all prospective man versus ape competitors study Pootie Tang because it features one of the most impressive man versus ape fight scenes in movie history. I implore you, please rent the movie and deconstruct it, lest you suffer the same fate as Pootie Tang's father ("only the third time a man had been mauled by a gorilla at that steel mill"). Now "experts" say you should avert eye contact, avoid sudden movements, and be docile if faced with a monkey attack. To this, I say, hell nah! Simply take your belt off, use your superior intelligence, and proceed to whoop that monkey's ass.
Addendum: I have been told by several people that monkeys, apes, chimps, and gorillas are not the same. Again, regardless of the label or moniker attached to those 2 legged beasts, I believe I could whoop any of said primates with my belt. And I certainly could defeat a turkey in man versus beast combat.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Chauncey DeVega says: May you live in interesting times
This week there is something in the air that gives me, us, real concern regarding our nation's stability, long term prosperity, and frankly, speaks volumes to our collective sanity (or lack thereof).
Perhaps, it is because I am in D.C. Maybe I am experiencing a "Tyler Durden" moment because I am off my meds? Quite possibly, it could be that I am picking up on our body politic's collective exhaustion at the thought of 1.6 trillion dollars being flushed down the shitter on a wasted, unnecessary military adventure which has left us weaker rather than stronger. Who knows? maybe it is just hanging out in D.C. and seeing all these homeless brothers and sisters, many of whom got to play G.I. Joe and G.I. Jane and were conveniently forgotten and abandoned when they came home--damaged and broken people who are an unpleasant reminder that these military escapades have a very real, and very human, cost.
In other news, this week's news events included:
1. Chaos in a nuclear armed Pakistan. This is a nightmare scenario. In the worst case scenario, Musharraf's clique is deposed and we could lose a crucial ally against Al-Queda and The Taliban. Or in the worst, worst, Freddy Krueger is coming to get you scenario, we would see Pakistan's nuclear weapons come under the control of folks who would like nothing more than to Fedex a warhead to NYC. By the way, there is no reasonable or viable scenario for securing those nukes. Where is Chuck Norris and Delta Force when we need them?;
2. Indian Women are "renting" their wombs to rich Europeans and Americans. I don't need to describe how many levels of twisted this is;
3. I won't go for the obvious and mention how delightfully cute the 8 limbed Indian child is, or speculate about what these increasingly common birth defects reveal about the state of the environment and how polluted it is. Nor, will I mention this story about the disturbingly high levels of industrial toxins in the average American's body;
4. In Nigeria, researchers released findings about a region of that country which I affectionately refer to as, "The Land of Magical Yams". Here, everyone is a twin, it must be those magical yams. Hmmmm...that sounds like the beginnings of a folk melody, any takers?;
5. Researchers have announced that they have successfully cloned monkeys. In other news, researchers have experimented with fusing animal and human DNA, as well as cloning organs for human transplant. Oh yeah, with the mapping of the human genome there has been serious discussion regarding the viability/inevitability of biological weapons which can target specific ethnic and racial subgroups. I am not a fan of too much unnecessary rising action in my fiction. Nor, am I a fan of too much teasing in my erotic life (which explains why I don't generally like lap dances, let me rephrase, I like lap dances at Spearmint Rhino, but I don't like paying for lap dances anywhere else). So, can we please just get around to the big reveal that scientists have been cloning humans for decades.
6. The dollar has sunk to such lows that Jay-Z is flashing Euros in his videos. Likewise, the supermodel Giselle, an exemplar of financial wisdom and acumen, is divesting herself of American dollars. By the way, America now rank's 15th in average worker income.
These events, and many others I didn't list, hint at a future that resembles Soylent Green or Omega Man (excluding his politics and his present state of decrepitude, Charlton Heston was the man back in the day). Prudently, I am going to dust off my Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, and George Orwell just to get a refresher on what may be coming.
In lieu of that heavy reading, I will wait for "Mr. Happy Rapper's" take on Richard Matheson's prescient apocalyptic vision:
And yes, I will checking out Southland Tales as well:
And no, I won't have be writing any movie reviews because my girl Zora would stick me with that rusty shiv she carries if I squatted on her turf....
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Zora Says: Another Respectable Negro 'Bites the Dust' – the tale of Dr. Jan Adams
I was already saddened when I heard that the mother of rap-star Kanye West died tragically this past weekend. I am at the age where the loss of my parents is becoming more and more tangible. I get nervous whenever they are sick and any mention of their having to undergo major surgery scares me to death. My heart really goes out to Brother Kanye. Unfortunately, I realized days later that the death of Donda West was accompanied by another tragic loss -- that of her doctor, Jan Adams.
On the scale of "respectable negroes," Dr. Adams was uber respectable. As a graduate from Harvard College, a medical resident at the University of Michigan, a television personality and a renowned plastic surgeon, he was a model for little black girls and boys across America. Dr. Adams was committed to making sure that women of color be able to alter their bodies at the same rate as white women. For him, plastic surgery was about providing us with "a new path to self-discovery and self-esteem." With our civil rights affirmed and economic security in place, Dr Adams was taking us to a new frontier. He was part of the vanguard of individuals who were breaking new ground for us black folks. His fame and influence had even led me to consider plastic surgery. (Could he have been the one to deliver me from the tag of having a "white girl's bootie?")
All of this is in the past tense, of course, for Dr. Adams has now lost all respectability. Whether or not he is found responsible for the death of Kanye's mother, he will never again be seen as a good, non-threatening negro. He has fallen from our ranks. With allegations of driving under the influence, medical malpractice, spousal abuse and rape, he will now evoke and confirm every known stereotype attached to negro men in America.
Why? How did Dr. Adams allow himself to fall so far? I don't know him, of course, but I will conjecture: with all of his fame and achievements, Dr. Adams allowed himself to forget his very basic status of being a negro in America. He forgot the words of our elders cautioning us that "you have to be twice as good." He saw his white colleagues getting sloppy in the operating room and thought, "If they can get away with it, so can I." He saw other high-profile figures in Hollywood getting slaps on the wrist for drunk-driving, for assault, for rape, even for murder and thought, "If there are no consequences for them, why should there be for me?" The more Dr. Adams got away with, the more emboldened he became with his carelessness. I imagine that Dr. Adams got caught up in a lifestyle and lost his head. With bills mounting and over a half million dollars in malpractice settlements, he said yes to a surgery that he should have declined. The conclusion of this cautionary tale has yet to be written, but I think that we all know the ending already.
I write this not to suggest that the burden of having to be twice as good, of always having to be squeaky clean is fair. It is not. The level of scrutiny and judgement that goes along with being a respectable negro is almost impossible to bear. But the moment when we delude ourselves into thinking that we have "arrived," that we are somehow not like "the other negroes" is when we begin to stumble on that steep incline toward success and equality.
Chauncey Devega says: So a monkey, a dog and the Jena Six walk into a bar
Here is an experiment. This week researchers released the finding that monkeys, yes those damn dirty apes!!, also experience cognitive dissonance. For the less informed, or for folks with other things to do, cognitive dissonance is a mental state of being in which we are forced to reconcile the irreconcilable, to make sense of the absurd, or alternatively to convince ourselves that what we are seeing makes sense regardless of all the impulses that tell us what we are witnessing is total bullshit.
I know that we respectable negroes will be returning to this topic in force in the next few weeks, but since I am in premier Bush's hometown, the chocolate city, good old Washington, D.C., and frankly am suffering from "protest fatigue"--you know, should I boycott overstock.com? Should I march on Washington to fight nooses? Should I not have spent money last week on Black boycott day?--I just had to post this little experiment.
1. Read the following article about monkeys and cognitive dissonance. In short, monkeys, like humans, and those of us who are suffering from "victomology" and have subquently had the voodoo put on them by "poverty pimps", (i.e. like the Earl of Tawana Brawley a.k.a. Al Sharpton et al.--a man who should be on the tv show Heroes because of his power to convince the public of any truth, however absurd) have the capacity to negotiate any number of variables, as well as contradictory bits of data, in order to produce a result which we find agreeable.
2. Watch this video about those young victims and role-models for struggle and resistance, i.e. "The Jena Six."
3. Watch this video about the puppy accused of biting off the child's genitals.
4. Reconcile by substituting the public's impassioned advocacy for the little innocent puppy (you damn well know this litttle innocent pup didn't bit off any kid's equipment) with the impassioned defense made by brother Al, and folks of that stripe, on the part of The Jena Six.
5. Write up your lab report and submit it.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Gordon Gartrelle says: A hip hop mixtape for Zora (no Slow Jams on this one)
It's not that kinda party.
Long ago I vowed that I would not to try to "legitimate" hip hop for those who don't understand it. I cringe whenever I hear Dyson or Russell Simmons begging people like Bill O'Reilly and Oprah to accept hip hop.
I place these hip hop defenders in the same category as those who plead with classical music snobs to recognize the complexity of jazz or prog rock, comic book fans who offer non-superhero graphic novels to as evidence of the medium's "serious" or "adult" sensibilities, or black people who use black military service as proof of our historical loyalty and patriotism.
All of these groups seek acceptance by adopting the terms and frameworks of ignorant, but more powerful or influential people. Their efforts are Sisyphean, and their insecurity and need for external validation are pathetic.
I'm breaking my vow for you. I'm giving you this mixtape not because I seek your approval, but because I know that you'll appreciate it because you are a critical thinker. Your inaccurate beliefs about hip hop stem from a lack of exposure and an ideological bias, not an inherent antagonism toward the people who produce it.
When you "school" me on those genres you defended, you'll likely tell me to look beyond the clichés of sci fi lit (as a well-read negro, I am quite familiar with Ms. Butler) and zombie movies to appreciate the underlying social and political commentary on such topics as consumerism, conformity, memory, otherness.
Please take your own advice when listening to this mixtape*: go beyond the surface; pay attention to how the following songs use the language of rap to deal with transcendent questions concerning life, death, suffering, human nature, mind, matter, free will, God, and time.
Eric B and Rakim—In the Ghetto
Madvillain—Shadows of Tomorrow**
*Don't think that this kind of content is limited to "underground" hip hop; this just happens to be some of the stuff I have handy. The same approach is evident in the works of more popular artists like Outkast, Scarface, Nas, and even Jay Z, the epitome of mainstream corporate rap.
**Some rappers even draw inspiration from Sun Ra. How's that for insularity?
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
You got to love the Japanese, but how would this work in the 'hood?
The Japanese are an innovative people. But, how useful is this idea to the good negro people of these United States? If we respectable negroes were to hide inside our portable "vending machine" for protection when the ign'ts dragooned us we would be beat down pretty quick--if anything the promise of free soda would encourage the monsters to stomp us even harder.
So, in the interest of cross cultural exchange, we propose a more 'hood friendly series of disguises. The criteria are simple, what common and ubiquitous items or locales can we turn into costumes, and thus (hopefully, if only for a minute) be rendered ninja stealthy? We propose:
1. a bodega, fully equipped with sugar water, chico sticks, and other tasty ghetto treats;
2. a pay day loan or check cashing spot;
3. a store front church, cause you know you all need to be saved;
4. an empty 40oz bottle of beer or other malt liquor;
5. a bootleg dvd with the pixeleted homemade cover and audience "commentary";
6. personal responsibility and common sense cause folks are blind to both.
What else can we add to our list?
Monday, November 12, 2007
Zora Says: Who Be We in the Galaxy?
Sun Ra
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Fela Kuti
There is absolutely no place for anything Hip Hop on our mix tape. This isn't a slam against the genre, but more a comment on the nature of the music. Overall, it addresses the business of the street, the here-and-now. Where once it provided an alternative voice, a "bite back," it increasingly just promotes a faux vision of gangster life, of urban life, of negro life … What's more, it is ahistorical – for most hip hop artists, our life began in the 1980s (maybe the 70s, but only as a source of samples). Transcendence Hip Hop does not offer.
Communing with alternative life forms requires something existential, a deep probing of who we be – as negro Americans, as decedents of Africans, as Black people, as men and women, as human beings, as earthlings … Who be we? I still don't know, but Sun Ra, Kirk and Kuti are examples of black artists who require serious introspection.
Post note:
Anyone who appreciates the music of Sun Ra, should not be so quick to dismiss science fiction, speculative fiction, zombie flicks, etc. These art forms require the same level of thought -- an ability to imagine alternative ways of being, to reason outside of what has been given to us as rational. Octavia Butler, for example, was one who understood well the potential for science/speculative fiction to explore and explain the madness and irrationality of race. Chauncey and I will have to school you on this later …
Gordon Gartrelle says: Speak For Yourself!
"As renaissance negroes we are also black geeks"
You know damn well that I'm not into comic books, videogames, "Star Wars," sci fi books, zombie flicks, slasher flicks, "Lord of The Rings," Monty Python, computer programming, or any other element of geek culture. I was a huge "Simpsons" fan before it started sucking, though.
And "There be life" is not a valid construction in AAVE . Stop disrespecting our heritage, Brother.
To answer the question, I say we send samples of our greatest alien musical representatives:
Sun Ra, Funkadelic, and Outkast.
I think we should also send the complete works of James Baldwin. Not only was his intelligence otherworldly, just look at his face and tell me the aliens wouldn't recognize him as their brother.
Friday, November 9, 2007
Chauncey DeVega says: There be life!
Danger Will Robinson! Danger! This post is an official black geek alert.
Respectable negroes are innovators both by nature, (because we have melanin, a magical substance which allows us to metabolize the sun's light and to generate heat and energy) and as a function of necessity (because our material limitations have forced us to be innovative, e.g. digging for cast off records in the 25 cent bin and then transforming said records into the basis for a whole genre of music).
Respectable negroes are natural multi-taskers. For example, while ruminating on the plight of the ignt's we may simultaneously:
- find ourselves admiring the prose of Langston Hughes
- computing the correct number of credit cards necessary to play an infinite game of credit card roulette in which we transfer balances from one card to another and never ever pay our actual credit card bills;
- wondering if the comic book series The Walking Dead will turn a corner and return to form;
- finding a way out of the time travel paradox presented by the Terminator movies;
- speculating if the creators of the heretofore, and now officially "craptastic" television series Heroes, will admit they are basically lifting the X-Men and its Legacy virus storyline;
- writing screenplays for movies that will never be made;
- hoping that Rosario Dawson is as cool and sexy in person as she appears to be in either Clerks 2 or in Alexander--speaking of which, how did a Puerto Rican mami get to the hinterlands of asia in the 3rd century B.C.?;
- or comparing the relative merits of that San Francisco treat, aka Rice-A-Roni, to Near East brand's rice pilaf, a rice favored for its subtlety, but one that in my opinion, lacks Rice-A-Roni's complex flavor.
Today, I am having a black geek moment, a geekasm, a geek priapism, a moment of geek ecstasy and nervous release because we have additional confirmation that there are multiple Earth type planets in the galaxy, and that by inference, we are probably not alone in the universe.
Undoubtedy, there are some members of the flat earth society who don't understand the importance of this discovery (see state's evidence number one: that cabal of harpies on The View), or alternatively would reject the notion of life on other planets because it is not "biblically" correct (dumb asses). This discovery is not exciting simply because it confirms what any person with a minimum of common sense has long known, i.e. that life is probably more common than uncommon in the universe. Here, I must introduce one qualifier: as a black geek who has astrophysics journals among his pile of "droppin a deuce" reading materials in the bathroom, I do not take this discovery of earth type planets as necessarily making a strong case for alien visitation to our fair planet. Why? Because frankly, as my ace boon coon theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, and also the smartest human being I have ever met, once said, "why would aliens want to expend time, energy, and resources to visit an out of the way planet in an uninteresting solar system, a solar system that is in fact the equivalent of galactic trailer park?"
Nah, this is exciting because it is a chance to hypothesize about how given the working assumption that there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe, and that we humans have been broadcasting some 130 plus years of putrid radio and television signals out into the void of space, what perceptions and understandings would our alien brothers have about black people here on Earth? As my mom would say, if "Black" "Entertainment" Television, or mainstream media is a reference point, aliens must think all black folks do is bounce basketballs, fight a never ending battle against a plague of nooses, perform minstrel-hop, and that our women have 10 kids by 5 different men:
I would also add that extra-terrestrials would probably think we are a really happy people because all negroes do is dance and laugh when we aren't out committing crimes.
When the United States had a forward thinking space program in the 1960s and 1970s, we launched the Voyager series of deep space exploration probes--yes, the same type of probe that came back to Earth in Star Trek: The Motion Picture because it wanted to have freaky sex with the hot bald alien chick and commander Decker. These probes each contained a golden record which was encoded with all of the best that humankind had to offer. Basically, this "mixed tape for the gods" was our way of telling the universe we are here, we are intelligent, and please don't come here and lay the smackdown on on us like those those aliens from "Mr. Non-threating Happy Rapper" Will Smith's movie, Independence Day.
Zora, Gartrelle, what do you think on this one? Fellow readers, what are your thoughts? If we were to make a golden record today and send it out into space as our galactic calling card, what should it contain?
I have three suggestions. First, our probe should contain a clip of one of the greatest comedians of all time, performing one of the greatest routines of all time (we should show the aliens we are smart, funny, and appreciate irony):
Second, our probe should contain my boy Jay-Z performing Roc Boys from the American Gangster "soundtrack" because even when he is at 60%, Hova is better than 90% of those minstrel hoppers in the game, and we need to provide an antidote to some of that poison our alien brothers have been exposed to:
And just to show our alien brothers that we are tolerant of "difference":
Gordon Gartrelle says: Why we (dis)like it: Lightskinnededgirl
The likes and dislikes links to the right aren't consensus picks. In fact, each of us can add to the likes and dislikes independently of the others. Last week, I proposed an idea for a regular feature: Why we (dis)like it. This feature will consist of one of the respectable negroes objecting to the like or dislike selection of another, and this second negro then defending the selection. The third might chime in as well. Why we (dis)like it will serve not only to highlight more of our disagreements, but also to spark broader argument about the value of the people, things, and sites on our lists.
I was going to wait until next week to write the first Why we (dis)like it entry, and lightskinnededgirl was one of the two subjects I was considering. But when I saw that she made a blog post yesterday bemoaning her addition to our dislikes list, she made the choice for me.
It might seem strange that I'm defending lightskinnededgirl, given that:
1.) I'm an admitted hater.
2.) I share my colleagues' distaste for tragic mulatta narratives--they're tired, they are often based on the desire to be distinguished from "regular blacks," and they perpetuate essentialist racial and cultural binaries.
and 3.) I wouldn't say that I'm a fan of her blog.
I do, however, respect her right to define herself without being castigated. The type of "mixed up" identity that can come as a result of having a black and a white parent seems more justified than, for instance, the pathetic "I got Indian in my family" bullshit that internalized hatred has kept alive among black folks.
Race screws up everybody; lightskinnededgirl is just screwed up in a different way than are those who identify as white or black.
There are bigger fish to fry, negroes. I say we toss this one back.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Light-Skinned Negroes Who Understand the Value of Being Black ...
...and not Bi-Racial, Mixed, Mocha, Mulatto, Mestizo, Octaroon, Quadroon, Bi-Cultural, Multi-Cultural, Almost White, Etc.
Bob Marley, Malcolm X, Sonia Sanchez, Duke Ellington, Anna Deveare Smith, Booker T. Washington, Katherine Dunham,
Zora on Film: Gone Baby Gone and White American Pathologies
For me, Gone Baby Gone joins other great films like The Grapes of Wrath, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Fargo, Raising Arizona, and A Patch of Blue in addressing and exploring white American pathologies. While not acknowledged as such, these films serve an important role in highlighting the types of white behavior that our media and mainstream society tends purposefully to ignore.
Poverty, drug use, criminality, welfare abuse/fraud and broken families are phenomena that are inevitably given black faces. These associations are so ingrained in the American psyche that black people themselves often believe them to be true. During Ronald Reagan's last presidential campaign, I was struck by how effectively he was able to wield the image of the African-American welfare queen to gain support for his conservative politics. I recall watching a television interview with a poor, white woman sitting on a broken-down porch discussing the failures of African-Americans and their dependency on welfare. The reporter later commented that the woman herself was a third-generation welfare recipient.
Gone Baby Gone tells the story of a little girl who is stolen from her home in a working-class, largely white Boston neighborhood. Because she is white, beautiful and vulnerable, the media pounces on the story to add yet another chapter to the old American narrative of white women in peril. The girl's mother revels in the attention and takes every opportunity to share both her tears and her story. It turns out, however, that "her story" isn't entirely accurate – it rarely is in these cases. The mother is a cold, pathetic woman who is more interested in finding a man and getting a fix than in taking proper care of her daughter – she knows it, her family knows it and even police investigators know it. The reporters outside of her house, however, are completely uninterested in knowing or reporting on anything that the public may not be able or willing to easily digest.
Ben Affleck plays on our sensibilities as American viewers and presents us with a likely villain in the form of a dark-skinned, Haitian drug dealer. With him surrounded by his Asian and white prostitutes, I am sure that most viewers will have no problem envisioning him as someone capable of coveting a vulnerable, blond baby. But just when I was about to throw my popcorn at the screen, Affleck gives us a twist. "America, don't be so quick to consume stereotypes," he urges. "Use your head. Scratch the social surface to reveal the true ills beneath."
The resolution of Gone Baby Gone is a bit far-fetched. It is difficult to imagine that Morgan Freeman's character would take the risks that he does. It is even more difficult to imagine that working-class whites in south Boston would allow him, indeed beg him, to take those risks. I can only explain the ending by attributing it to Affleck's personal vision of a better world. We are not there yet Ben, but I applaud you for at least giving us a snippet of our racial world as it currently is.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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Monday, November 5, 2007
Chuancey Devega says: Wes Welker and I agree--go f@ck yourselves
Gordon, you are a homophobic hater. What is wrong with liking professional wrestling? Did you have any idea that I was posing up like Arnold in this video before the game? Plus, make sure to check -4:16 in this video. Please, this beat needs to be looped and chopped. My boys are just like Arnold, and maybe a little Lou Ferrigno, posing and flexing in your faces.
1. As the commentators said during the game: a great pitcher beats a great hitter. This game was ugly. And, if you take Addai out, and the questionable penalties, penalties that were facilitated in my opinion by the refereeing crew being told to ride the 'Pats hard (which would jive with the stories a few years back about pass interference calls during the championship and Indy boo-hooing), this is a much greater victory for the 'Pats. In fact, Addai was responsible for the majority--I will find this stat Monday afternoon--of the Colts offense. This is a clear message to the league, as we know, pressure Brady, test their offensive line and mug those receivers-especially if you have a sympathetic group of refs. FYI, did you see that banner in the Indy inzone? hatin' on my folks callin' them cheaters;
See in you in week sixteen when we really start to celebrate...
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Gordon Gartrelle says: Mechagodzilla…really? And I thought your Star Wars collectables were geeky.
The Pats-Colts game is more than just a sporting event; for me, it's an existential event that highlights the tensions between my sports self and my black self.
As a sports fan, I too have succumbed to the hype. Sunday's match-up is the most discussed, anticipated regular season game certainly since
As a black man, though, the media treatment of the two teams, particularly the coaches, and quarterbacks, cause me some concern. If I may:
Coaches (Bill Belichick vs. Tony Dungy)
Belichick: Without question the biggest asshole in the game. I have a genuine soft spot for brazen assholes, so part of me is enjoying the reign of evil Billy. While Belichick is the best NFL coach since Bill Walsh, I am uncomfortable with the way the word "genius" is thrown around to describe him and his coaching staff. First of all, it's football; it aint rocket science. Belichick is no Dirt McGirt. The main reason Belichick is considered a genius is that 90% of NFL coaches are incompetent. There are some racial undertones and overtones to this genius bullshit. Remember when Charlie Weis, celebrated offensive mastermind, was supposed to restore to Notre Dame football the tradition and glory that "Chocolate" Ty Willingham was fired for tarnishing? As if black folks needed another reason to hate Notre Dame? And, to be completely honest, Belichick just looks like a racist. It's the flat hairstyle and the way the thin lips curl. The only NFL coaches who look more racist are Mike Shanahan, Tom Coughlin, and Norv Turner. I can easily imagine the four of them waxing nostalgic about the good ol' days, back when niggruhs knew their place and white men could have themselves a taste of the dark meat without repercussions.
Dungy: A respectable negro if there ever was one—perhaps the most respectable negro in the history of sports. This guy should be on our banner. But by the way that media talks about how nice, articulate, and gentle he is, I half expect some of these reporters to pat him on the head as he does a minstrel shuffle. And there's something off about his demeanor: he's a little too nice. He seems like the type to suddenly flip out and take out his whole family. Finally, I have no qualms with his personal relationship with Hey-Zeus, but I don't think that our most visible respectable negroes should be associating with the whole Christian anti-gay contingent.
QBs (Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning)
Brady and Manning are the two greatest QBs of this era; they possess superior playmaking ability, accuracy, poise—the total package. Remember all the talk about certain stupid, self- destructive players revolutionizing the position? Forget about it. The most effective and most successful QBs happen to be two very traditional (and very white) pocket passers. They deserve to be celebrated for their play, but except for Brett Favre, no athletes receive more underserved praise for their character than do Brady and Manning. The media will have us believe that their virtuosic performances on the field make them paragons of moral righteousness off the field. Their character is contrasted with that of the tattooed, cornrowed, hip hop lovin thugs (that's code for young black men) who have supposedly ruined the integrity of the NFL and NBA. Word? Let's take a closer look.
Brady: The idol of every heterosexual white guy in the country. Movie star looks (so I'm told), legendary track record playing the most respected and publicized position in all of professional sports, and his pick of famous white tail. Hmm, I guess that makes him the idol of a whole lot of brothers too. Anyway, Brady knocked up his ex, and refused to marry her. Granted, her pregnancy has all the makings of a trap, but still. Where's the outrage that people express over black unwed fathers? Where are all of the middle aged white sportswriters and black buffoons talking about the bad image Brady's bastard child sends to the youth about the sanctity of the white family? Someone needs to fund a study to determine whether lacking melanin gives white skin the properties of teflon. Also, Brady was Bush's guest of honor at the 2004 State of the Union Address, so he loses 25 black points.
Manning: I am convinced that half of these sportswriters would take a bullet for Peyton Manning. They robotically praise his numbers even back when he had that little annual habit of choking in the playoffs. 1) he has been known to yell at, berate, and blame his teammates for his team's failure. The sports media calls that passion: we're supposed to applaud him for caring so much. A black athlete does the same thing? He's a bad leader, a team cancer, an immature, selfish primadonna. And, let's not forget that Manning tried to teabag a female trainer in college, then implied that it wasn't a big deal because she had a "vulgar mouth!" The sports media came down on Manning pretty hard about his character issues and, as a result, his stock plummeted on draft day. What's that? That didn't happen? They either completely ignored the incident or treated it as a harmless prank? Oh yeah, white privilege, double standards, yada yada yada. What a silly negro I am sometimes.
Oh, and Chauncey, I say this because I care: watching wrestling as a kid is OK; watching wrestling as an adult is a little suspect. Half nekkid, oiled-up men in drawls, makeup, and glittery costumes pounding on each other to the delight of millions of homophobic adolescent males? Something is fishy about that. I'm just sayin'.
White sports media: 42
Sanity: 0
p.s. prepare to toss some swine salad, Chauncey.
p.s. prepare to toss some swine salad, Chauncey.


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Tead Off wrote:theredbaron wrote:TIM wrote:Tead Off wrote:Very good points, Gingko. Here in SE Asia, the emigrant Chinese are quite different from N. America. In N. America, they face a different kind of brainwashing than what goes on here.
You sounded like a colonial plantation manager Tead... Seriously
I don't know much about the US, but the brainwashing/state propaganda that has been going on here in Thailand for decades is quite overwhelming, and almost unbearable. Not all countries are free...
Wasn't saying one was better than the other, just different. In the U.S., there is more of a disconnect from the country of origin. I am eastern European by descent. I knew nothing of my origin growing up. My wife is Cantonese, ABC. She didn't even learn Cantonese growing up yet her parents are both Mandarin and Cantonese speakers. This was within one generation.
Many young Thai Chinese have very little idea about their heritage. Part reason for this was somewhat forced assimilation during the communist insurgency days in the 60's to the 80's. Advantage is that here in SEA people of Chinese descent are more assimilated than in any other country, and whatever other social and political problems Thailand has - anti-Chinese riots such as happened in Indonesia, and could also happen in Malaysia, are here quite unthinkable. Disadvantage is obvious, while in neighboring Malaysia, Chinese culture is blooming, especially also tea culture, here is a bit of a cultural wasteland, especially in terms of tea culture.


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Saw this thread so i thought i'd check my account status, got my invitation!!! totaly was not expecting one being in australia and having pretty darn bad luck with these things. So happy!!
Saw this thread so i thought i'd check my account status, got my invitation!!! totaly was not expecting one being in australia and having pretty darn bad luck with these things. So happy!!
Force was talking about him suspecting it only being press invites so far, guess he was wrong if it's already properly rolling
"Friends don't let friends be gnomes."
I'm very curious about PC specs of people who got invite. Guys, do you have high-end PCs or it doesn't matter?
Didn't get one. Hopefully I will.
Got into the SC2 beta though, wasn't into the game a whole lot at the time though so I didn't play it much.
No, but a friend has... so... I will be playing it tonight :P
My PC is only a few months old, gfx is gtx580sc with i2500k cpuI'm very curious about PC specs of people who got invite. Guys, do you have high-end PCs or it doesn't matter?
Got mine 11 PM last night. Awesome game so far, want more content though T_T Guess I'll play the other 4 classes.
<Four Twenty Friendly> - Mythic Raiding - 3/7 M HM 7/10 H BRF
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Sadly no :c
Really want one.
Not yet, don't know if I wanna play if I ever get one. Don't wanna ruin the fun before I get to explore with my friend.
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No. =(
I'm really sad, even though it's very early in the Beta stage. I've convinced myself that because I wasn't in the first wave, I won't get in. =P And since they're releasing in 2012 now, that's even longer I have to wait to play it. If any of my friends get in though... you can bet that I'll be spending a couple of days at their house.
Just checked my mail. Thought it was a spoof, but double checked anyway. Woot. Finally a beta invite from Blizz.
Orks, Space Marines, Rift (<---- Links for pics BTW)
I got mine at 12:30am est last night. Should get a crack at it tonight. Can't wait!
No and i've got 4 active battle.net accounts opted, never been in any blizzard beta to date though so I'm not optimistic.
i heard abou like 100 ppl online on d3 battle net. thats a huge stress test, huh?
Got mine this morning. Played for about 15 minutes before going to work. I was already pretty impressed with the few minutes I'd spent.
Just a reminder though, if you do end up getting into the beta, let it download more than just a little into "Available" in the launcher. I was super eager to play and hit "Play" as fast as I could and my fps bombed when I got into the game for about 15-20 seconds. After that there were a few hiccups but it got better.
Yeah, letting it download properly makes a HUGE difference to it. Pretty funny when your char start teleporting around the screen due to fps problems.
Nope =(
I'm usually not very lucky with beta invites though, so I'll live.
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After the publication of the annual results, we update our view and highlight the key points. Q4 16 key highlights As a reminder, the company reported results 30% below expectations at $400m for Q4 16. By division: 1) In upstream, underlying replacement costs profit came to $400m, vs. a loss a year earlier of $728m and a loss of $224m in Q3 16, reflecting the ongoing lower costs which have benefited from simplifications, efficiencies and lower exploration write-offs. In the US, the loss is still $147m. Production came in at 2.19mbpd, down 5.5% yoy due to disposals and up 1.8% on an underlying basis thanks to ramp-ups. One of the key events during the quarter was the renewal of BP's onshore concession in the UAE with a 10% interest in the ADCO onshore oil concession. In terms of outlook, production should be higher in 2017 and will depend on the timing of project start-ups, acquisitions, divestments, and OPEC quota. Also the Abu Dhabi concession will be visible as from Q1 17. 2) In downstream, replacement costs profit came to $877m, down from $1.2bn a year ago and $1.4bn in Q3 16. The US division showed a loss of $371m vs a gain of $1.25bn. Non-US Fuel business earnings halved to $417m due to the weaker refining environment as well as the impact from the particularly large turnaround at the Whiting refinery. In lubricants, profit rose to $357m, reflecting the continued strong performance in its growth markets and premium brands as well as simplifications and greater efficiencies. The margin should remain unchanged for Q1 17. 3) Rosneft. Underlying replacement costs profit came to $135m, down from $235m a year ago, affected by the increased government take. Production was at 1.15mbpd, up from 1.03mbpd a year ago. This reflects the completion of the acquisition of Bashneft and Rosneft's increased stake in the PetroMonagas venture. BP received a dividend of $322m after deduction of the withholding tax, in July 2016. On the Macondo oil spill, the charge taken for the Q4 16 pre-tax was $530m. This reflects BP's latest estimates for claims including business economic loss. The pre-tax cash outflow on costs related to the oil spill for the full year 2016 was $7.1bn. Cash flow Excluding the Gulf of Mexico payment, the operating cash flow was $4.5bn. Underlying operating cash flow excluding the oil spill-related payment was $17.8bn for the full year. Proceeds during the year and the scrip dividend were not enough to cover capex and the cash dividend. Gearing at the end of the year increased to 27% ($35.5bn debt), in the high range of the group's target of 20-30%. Organic capital was $16bn, below original guidance of $17bn to $19bn. Capex in 2017 should be close to $16-17bn. Divestment proceeds should be higher in 2017, close to $5bn and then reducing by $2-3bn per year after 2018. The total costs of the Deepwater payment should fall to $2bn in 2018 and then $1bn per year as from 2019. In 2017, this should be close to $5bn. All in all, including the latest acquisitions, cash flow break-even should be close to $60/bbl in 2017.
GMP FirstEnergy ― UK Energy morning research package
17 Feb 17
Enquest (ENQ LN): Speculative Buy, £0.65: Kraken FPSO in the field and hooked up in the North Sea | Ithaca Energy (IAE LN/CN)6: BUY, £1.40: Stella First Hydrocarbons in the North Sea | Bowleven (BLVN LN) (not covered): Denies claims made by Crown Ocean Capital


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As promised, I will do my best to post pictures of the Misfits cast whenever they've available. Check it - Iwan Rheon at the premiere of Wild Bill in London tonight. He plays a low level thug. Oh look! It's Andy Serkis in real life, no motion capture!
And how is Simon/Iwan? Well, IMDB says he's shooting a movie with Neville Longbottom. Yes, worlds, please keep colliding.
Wild Bill opens on Friday in the UK, same day as The Hunger Games. Unfortunate timing.


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The Pentagon announced this week furloughs for up to 11 days for civilian employees at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts are scheduled to begin July 8th. Air Reserve spokesman First Lieutenant Andre Bowser says the furloughs, which are the result of federal spending cuts — or sequestration — will affect more than 700 workers at the base.
"That includes about 450 dual-status what's called air force reserve technicians. These are individuals who are reservists as well as civilian employees."
The 11 furlough days are half the number originally planned and Bowser says the affected employees will have some flexibility in how they take the unpaid days off based on the needs of the base. With careful planning, he says, base officials are hoping to minimize any disruption on operational readiness.
"This is a less active time, but obviously training is key in what we do. And we'll have to continue to train but we'll have to do it and kind of stretch out and do it with fewer resources and fewer people over a longer time."
Westover is one of the largest employers in the greater Springfield area, accounting for more than $237 million in 2011. About 600 civilian workers at Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield are also being furloughed.


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Lake Wenatchee Book Club, from 2007 ongoing
Lake Wenatchee Book Group meets once a month, in the evening, in our members' homes. We've been getting together since 2007.
We started with one rule: the gathering was not to become an eating and drinking club. Although we enjoy our hosts' generosity, and do nibble and sip, we are there to discuss books. We socialize for one half hour as we gather, then we discuss the book: there are also no side discussions.
We generally have our book list sketched out five or six months in advance. We choose our books rather informally. Usually someone has read the book, or read a book review. We try for a certain amount of balance and a certain amount of diversity in our choices: popular/classic, fiction/nonfiction, genre/literary, and now we have an evening scheduled with a choice from juvenile fiction, enhanced by our own favorites from childhood. Before one December, a member suggested a poetry reading aloud rather than a book discussion; we tried it, we liked it, and we've done it in December every year since. I think we all would say that the real pleasure of that month is the search for the poems. In our busy time, immersion in poetry is a real luxury.
The person advocating the book often also facilitates the discussion: that means finding out information about the author, and having a few questions to ask should the discussion lag. Often the discussion has no evident facilitator. A very lengthly book (Goodwin's Team of Rivals, or Trollope's The Way We Live Now are examples) may be divided in half and discussed over two meetings.
We also have a fall-back position of three questions. We seem to use it if the conversation wanders, or is sluggish, or if the book seems like it will be difficult. The procedure is for each member to write down and put a question about the book that s/he would like to hear answered in a hat. Then we go around the participant circle three times: 1) each member identifies the most memorable part of the book for him/her, and says why; 2) each member draws a question out of the hat, and answers it; 3) each member says whether or not s/he liked the book, and why. Frequently the conversation livens so much that we do not get to #3, or even #2. On occasion, when a movie is available, we have shortened the discussion and viewed parts of the cinematic version.
Our group's regulars are 5 men and 7 women, scattered in age from late 40s to late 70s. We come from a variety of family origins and a variety of life experiences. We are politically and religiously diverse. We have a couple of occasional members, who come depending on book choice, and some 'lurkers' who receive our e-mail postings but do not attend (perhaps they will some day). We all live in the same neighborhood, if a neighborhood stretches ten or so miles in all directions.
I think that the diversity of our group keeps our reading fresh and interesting, and our conversation dynamic. We have read Westerns ('guy' book), novels of manners ('girl' book), science fiction ('nerd' book), mysteries ('popular' book), classics ('literary' book), and current issues ('politico' book). We are careful not to become focused too much on one type of writing, and to appeal to the interest of each and all of our members, from time to time.
I think that for all of our members, book group night is a 'regular' on the schedule that other events get scheduled around. I know how much I look forward each month to the assurance of getting together with my friends.
I have asked our book club members to write something about their club that I can publish on my blog. Thank you Lake Wenatchee Book Club members for sharing. North Central Regional Library has over 300 book clubs. I think that is amazing. There is an average of ten members in each club. That is a lot of people that love to get together and discuss books. If you are not in a book club and would like to start a club please contact me. Contact information is on NCRL's web site. Click on How Do I and then click on Book Clubs.


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Doing Research in Real Time: A Collaborative Approach
This video is adapted from a presentation given at the 2010 National Genealogical Society Conference entitled "Doing Research in Real Time-An Exhilarating Collaboration Experience!" Its purpose is to demonstrate that genealogical research can be conducted by forming a collaborative team that can work together online. By utilizing this type of approach, a small team of researchers can produce more artifacts and results in less time than a single researcher working alone. The Wiki Article/Handout link found above provides more detailed information about the process and tools that can be selected and utilized.
If I'd Only Known! Beginner Genealogy Mistakes
In this lesson, you will learn about common mistakes beginners make with genealogy.
This class explains how family historians can accurately deduce ancestors' identities and many aspects of their lives by digging below "surface information" in genealogical records and combining information from several sources. Useful in many situations, inferential methodology is especially helpful where records do not state relationships. Because of extensive multimedia, this course is best viewed on a higher bandwidth internet connection.
Principles for Beginning Genealogy
In this short video you will learn the principles to effective genealogical research. Dr. Tom Jones gives the steps of research, helpful hints and overall direction on how to overcome your "brick walls." This lesson presents research ideas that can be more fully explored in the full research course title Inferential Genealogy, which includes the same concepts with case studies and simulated, interactive coaching.
Take a Genealogy Trip with Tiff!
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On the second day of the COP, traffic chaos settled down and negotiations began in earnest. One of the key issues is the need to settle on a vision for the future. That's the responsibility of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA). There is another Ad Hoc Working Group focused on the post-2012 Kyoto Protocol Commitments.
The LCA was formed in 2007 and gets its mandate from the Bali Action Plan formulated at COP 13, which calls for the development of a "shared vision". A shared vision is the foundation of a future agreement that will safeguard the planet for future generations. The IPCC report released in the same year is clear: unless action is taken immediately, it will not be possible to stop the planet from warming more than 2 degrees C. And that will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes.
In the last year, further research has shown that the emissions reduction targets need to be tougher. The Association of Small Island States has called for action to prevent global average temperature increases from exceeding 1.5 degrees. MSV supported this position last year, and it is supported by the Inuit Circumpolar Council in its call on global leaders to take immediate action on climate change at the COP.
To get there, there needs to be a commitment on reductions that would see GHG emissions peak no later than 2015. It's going to be a hard target to hit, but supporters say anything less consigns the Arctic, Small Island Developing States and other vulnerable regions to an untenable future.
Indigenous Peoples' Organizations at the COP are working together to articulate a long-term vision that includes them. Indigenous Peoples are among the most vulnerable groups to climate change. Patricia Cochran is an Inupiat from Alaska and co-chairs of the Indigenous Peoples' Network on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. This group is trying to implement the Anchorage Declaration, which came out of the Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change last year.
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An advisory in regard to LORIS PINs
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The Laurier Registrar and the Laurier ITS department would like to advise the student community that no one in any Laurier department will ever initiate a request for your LORIS PIN number or for your Novell password. PIN numbers and passwords are private and should never be shared with anyone.
This warning is being issued because there has been at least one incident in which an anonymous caller claimed to be a Laurier staff member in order to trick a student into disclosing their LORIS PIN number.
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ITS Department
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One of the most storied teams in all of sports, if not MLB, the Chicago Cubs located on the North side of Chicago call the friendly confines of Wrigley Field home since 1916. Come for a game, for the crowd, for the history of being in an historic ballpark. Sit out in the bleachers and watch the Cubs as they try to break the longest championship drought in professional sports.
Spectacular White Sox baseball, season ticket plans, group outings, party areas, family entertainment, business entertainment, great food, friendly staff and exciting fireworks! Call the sales department for more information at 312-674-1000.
Danville Dans at Historic Danville Stadium
Built in 1946 as part of the Brooklyn Dodgers farm system, during the summer the field is home to the Danville Dans, a college summer wooden bat team. This NCAA-sanctioned, Major League-sponsored wooden bat collegiate league plays at Danville Stadium.
Come tour the Northern Illinois University, catch a show preformed by their Theatre or Dance department, or explore one of their Art Galleries. There is much to do on campus including their new Anthropology Museum, an Observatory, the Huskies Den or take in a game! Their Museums are free to visit, some fees may apply for shows or School of Music Concerts. There is never a dull moment on campus!
Southern Illinois Miners Rent One Park
The Southern Illinois Miners Rent One Park is the stadium where The Southern Illinois Miners Frontier league baseball team plays from May through September.
President-elect Barack Obama is an avowed fan of the Chicago White Sox, and is often seen wearing a White Sox baseball cap. U.S. Cellular features an exploding scoreboard, an old-time facade, complete with arches and over 40,000 unobstructed-view seats.
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Directions to Hotel Estalagem Porto SeguroAddress: Rua Marechal Deodoro, 66, Centro, Porto Seguro, Brazil
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Arriving at the airport in Porto Seguro, where it has already rented a car is just down the hill from the airport and follow a straight line toward the center by Marechal Deodoro the popular street of the mangrove, the hotel is located before the bridge. Otherwise just get a taxi at the airport where taxis operate 24 hours, this course has a duration of 10 minutes. If you choose to come by bus to reach the bus station take the bus with the name 'Campinho' and ask to get off at the Municipal Stadium, our Hotel is on the parallel street.


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This 25-acre wildlife park, featuring remnants of the original tallgrass Illinois prairie, features a butterfly house.
Anna Bethel Fisher Rock Garden
Created in 1927 from an old sand pit across the road from Lake Decatur, the city's oldest garden was extensively renovated in 1992. Its resurrected look features secluded paths leading through rocky terraces planted with unusual trees, and landscapes brimming with colorful perennials. Towering bald Cypress trees, planted in the 1920s, still reign over these delightful grounds.
Open year-round and offering annual and perennial flowers, mums, fall decor, pumpkins, squash, and fall treats. Known also for the 7 acre corn maze, haunted maze and mind twisted maze. School tours and groups welcome. Christmas trees and wreaths offered in winter months.
Cross Country Skiing at Rock Spring Center
Trails open whenever there is at least three inches of snow on the ground. Equipment rental available from 9am-2pm.
Ice skating available during fall/winter months. Call ahead for exact dates. Admission to the ice arena is $6 and skate rentals are $2. During the spring/summer months, the arena is used as venue for shows and fairs.
The origins and growth of the Decatur Gun Club parallel that of the clay target itself, and the games created to hone and test shotgun shooting skill. Shotgun sport shooting with live pigeons and later, glass balls existed in the U.S. from the early 1800's. But the first "clay pigeon" and "trap" to throw it were not developed until about 1880 by George Ligowsky. William Brett From Decatur was the second manufacturer of clay targets in the U.S., which he called the "Decatur Red Bird". Considered the oldest shotgun shooting sports club in Illinois, the Decatur Gun Club was founded soon after clay targets were invented. Chan Powers and Bert Hildebrandt were two of the mentors of the club, first located near East William Street Road and 22nd Street. In the early years, the club occupied sites in the Hess Park area, the Wyckles Corner area, the Macon County Fairgrounds, and an area west of the Fairgrounds before finding it's home of the past 61 years at the north end of Faries Park.
In addition to 39 neighborhood and community parks, our green spaces boast bike trails, picnic and camping facilities, gardens, golf courses, playgrounds, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, and swimming pools.
Explore 70 acres of prairie, wetlands and forest habitat.The Visitor Center features interpretive exhibits, sensory displays and live critters, including a bird observation area.
A favorite of walkers and hikers, this park offers year-round camping and scenic hiking trails, many of them hugging Lake Shelbyville, Eagle Creek has 163 vehicular campsites, with 148 of those being Class A sites with electricity, picnic tables, and showers. There are 56 sites available by reservations made at least 2 weeks in advance by mail.
This aquatic center has a frog slide, water slide, wet playground area, a sand playground, concessions, a shaded picnic area and a bath house.
In operation since 1850, the farm features a blacksmith shop and Clydesdale horses. Chuck wagon cookouts are available.
2.5 acre fenced off leash park in Fairview Park. Register at the DISC, 1295 W. Wood St. or call 217-422-5911.
Forest Park is a municipal park with the Chautauqua Auditorium, Vietnam Memorial, Family Aquatic Center, picnic areas, pavilions, baseball & softball diamonds, fishing lagoon (Crystal Lake), skateboard park, soccer fields, a youth athletic center, and more. There is an entrance to the General Dacey trail at the back of the park and the Memorial Sunken Gardens have been revitalized. The park is also home to the Festival of Lights.
Forrest W. "Bo" Wood Recreation Area
This recreational area has 47 sites available for camping and more are being added. To make reservations, see the information. For general information, you can go to www.lakeshelbyville.com.
18-hole golf course set in the countryside of Windsor. The Fox offers a golf experience for everyone from the casual golfer to those looking for a real challenge. The course was built on 160 acres of rolling farmland and woods in 1998. Located close to Lake Shelbyville. GPS ADDRESS: 1300 N 3050 E
36 sites with pads, 20 extended-stay sites, 22 regular sites, electrical hook-ups, modern restrooms and showers. Reservations required.
This trail is a multi-use recreational trail -- accessed mainly by walkers, runners, and bikers. As you move along the pathways of the Dacey Trail, you will find nature at its best with many scenic views of Lake Shelbyville. A fitness area is between the Dam West Recreational area and the Dam. The trail is being added to and improved each year. You can begin the trail at Forest Park or at the Dam West Recreational Area (9th St.).
Fun skating for kids and adults alike! Great chance to get some healthy exercise with your friends and family, and even plan birthday parties for even greater fun!
Swimming and a wide variety of exercise opportunities.
Located 14 miles southwest of Decatur off Route 48 near Blue Mound. Hike the trail up the glacial kame to the observation deck for sweeping view of the prairie. Picnic facilities and playground.
Kitchell Park and Chautauqua Auditorium
This 40-acre park, donated to the City of Pana by Civil War Captain Kitchell, features the round Chautauqua Auditorium, Schuyler Bridge, a playground and picnic area.
The state's largest artificial body of water, Lake Decatur spans 2,800 acres, with 30 miles of shoreline offering recreational opportunities and wildlife vistas at lakeside parks and the city marina. Water sports include boating, fishing, sailing and jet skiing. While shoreline locations surrounding Nelson Park Marina offer miniature golf, dining, public gardens and picnic facilities.
Central Illinois lake with over 11,000 water acres and 172 miles of shoreline. Lake Shelbyville has 5 federal campgrounds, and 2 state campgrounds with over 1,000 campsites from tent camping up to full hookup. There are several recreational areas with picnic areas and pavilions and 2 wildlife management areas. Three public beaches are available for swimming on the lake. The lake also hosts many launching ramps that are available for boats, and 3 marinas on the lake. Many hiking trails also encompass the lake such as the General Dacey which also includes fitness stations, the Chief Illini trail and others.
Lake Shelbyville - Bo Wood Recreation Area
Most of the campsites in this 82 site campground are shaded. Located on Lake Shelbyville, beach nearby.


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