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Oooooops: University of Connecticut star basketball player Stefanie Dolson slips off the podium riser
Congrats on 1st, nospin!!!
Thank you, Chips, for a very FUN thread!!! Those were priceless moments and can you imagine the grief her teammates have already given her!!!! 😀 😀
Bless her heart, she towers over PBO! That must have been quite a moment for them all! WTG, nospin!
What did the grape say when it got squashed?
Nothing, it just let out a little wine.
Hiya all you O's!!!! It was an especially great getting up day in TODdytown for me today. Did my early morning bd run along the trail with my furry friends (only 30 secs off my personal best time of 2 years ago, got work to do). Then Zumba'd my way home from the gym. Now I'm off to treat my summer visiting grandson to a pajama ride for ice cream.
btw, how bout our guy in the WH, doing it for our students. Unlike his loooney predecessor who said, "What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind", PBO knows the correct phrase, 'a mind is a terrible thing to waste' and then just gets it done.
Awww, and to think he did that same thing pre-birthday for me the last time he was here. Still has that smile I put on his face!
{{{Cookem}}} It was very 'nice' of you to drop by so I could give you a birthday squeeze or two.
May your birthday evening be as lovely as your morning run with the furry creatures, and may your joys continue to multiply!
Thanks vcprez! I had a great day and even though I may not get around to posting much anymore, I try to lurk as often as I can. Just know my eyeballs are watching you,
Now that's scarey stuff – your eyeballs watching me, I mean. I didn't realize that, so now I'll have to smarten up.
Is today your birthday, cookemom? I swear I saw that rumor running around here somewhere:)
Happy Happy, Cookemom! Is there any cake left? Balloons? Flowers, wine! All for you!
No cake, flowers, balloons, or fanfare of any kind, unless all that boody shakin' at the gym counts. Now wine, that's a different story all together. As a matter of fact, I think that's a great idea! See yous
here is a lil tune to help with the booty shakin…HA!….
Happy Birthday to ya..cookemom!
shook the groove thang too, now it'll take me another year to get it back to where it belongs.
hahahahahahhaha…ohhhhhhhhhhh…nooooooo……should have lent you my cane….hahahahaha
Happy Birthday, Cookemom! May you continue to be Blessed with love, peace, and joy!
Cookemom–Hope you're having the best birthday ever!! An ice cream run with grandson sounds perfect.
thank you ma'am, this is the big one and I'm just glad that grandson is here to share it with me. Can't wait til his big sister joins him next month.
Is she the most adorable precious ever! Hope she has a wonderful day tomorrow…filled with love, laughter and joy. I remember when my daughter was that age…I wanted to trade her in for a new model. She got past the tough part and turned out pretty good:)
NO! Don't put yourself out, Chips! You're probably exhausted. We'll get meta to whip up something. Right guys! 😉
Well, er, uh…
As a matter of fact, it's not so much an allegation as a … KNOWN FACT!!!
Don't start tripping! Know thyself! 😀
Yay cake!
Wait… what am I saying? Are you angry at Cookemom, df? Girl, you know what kinda cakes… Er, uh…
Um, what about one of meta's delicious treats? Chips is probably really work and Danny and all! 🙂
I'll take it any which way it's put together. I'm sure with Danny helping it'll be pawfect.
Hey Birthday Girl! Hope you're having a splendiforous day!
I left a song for you this morning.
This is same song but different performance. YouTube won't let me grab the other on my phone. Oh well. Here ya go!
Enjoy! 🙂
Ummm yeah she did a lovely birthday cake for me last year but I had to chase the top layer down the street because it was running away…..
Woowee my sister and I both were a handful at that age. Not that Sasha will be the smart-assed, sneaky little terror that I was. 🙂
PBO and FLOTUS will nonetheless need plenty of hugs for a while – virtual and physical.
President and Mrs. Obama has raised a phenomenal young ladies. Ms. Sasha is growing up behind the scenes in the protective care of her mother, grandmother and very busy but engaged father. She is also growing up before our eyes as on of the first daughal ters. Tomorrow I know will be a special day for Sasha on her day and for her family that she is no longer just a little girl but a blossoming woman. Happy Birthday Sasha!
My thoughts also go to my niece who will also turn 13yrs old in November and to little Christina Green who did not make it to 13 because of that fateful day in January 2011 when she went to meet her congress woman Gabby Giffords whose birthday was yesterday. I will never forget that beautiful child who was born on 9/11….a forever angel.
John McCain is either a lying SOB, or he's senile. Or both.
Dear Sen. McCain: No, the Taliban Prisoners didn't Carry out 9/11; but you Supported Muslim Radicals
The Taliban offered to turn OBL over to the USA after 9/11 but of course that did not play into the Bush Admin plans to invade Iraq to kill Sadam and get Iraqi oil.
This is a damning indictment by Juan Cole, Df. We need more people like this calling McCain out on his hypocrisy. He goes about lying about the president while he drags his own ugly, dictator-loving baggage behind him and not one person in the media has the brains or guts to call him on it.
In all seriousness, I have no doubt she is already planning her campaign. Truly, not a joke. One of the most telling moments was when she and her re-elected Father walked on stage after the 2012 Election results were announced and the way she nudged him to turn around and acknowledge folk standing behind him. She misses NOTHING and cares, just like her dad.
One of the joys with these children is having the opportunity to watch them grow and mature into phenomenal young women. Thrilling to think about their adulthood!!
She will be a TEENAGER tomorrow…just a few years ago she was our cute little ham – now she is becoming a young lady, almost as tall as her VERY tall parents! I'm wistful just thinking about this, so I can just imagine how our President must be feeling. 🙂
But she has to be 35.. An American-born citizen may run for president at 35 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy#United_States
Starting tomorrow and for the next 2 weeks I'll be volunteering to help GOTV for our Lt. Governor (Anthony G. Brown) who is running for Governor this year. Early voting starts on Thursday for our Primary so my time here will be limited until after the primary. Governor O'Malley is term limited so after he leaves office early next year he will have plenty of time to hone his skills for his Presidential run in 2016.
Does he have any serious competitors, Donna? He must be great if you're supporting him.
Yes Doug Gansler http://douggansler.com/ . Brown is leading but we have to GOTV otherwise with low turnout Gansler could sneak in.
Finally 🙂
I did this 4 months ago w/ AT&T U-Verse….it works….got my bill lowered $1308 for the year!
….Pretend you're canceling your service: You might be tempted to just be honest and ask for a discount. But that probably won't work. Cable networks are extremely expensive to build. But once the equipment is in the ground, the cost of providing service to one customer is very low. Almost all of your monthly cable bill goes straight to your cable company's bottom line.
That means that your cable company is going to be willing to give you a hefty discount to keep your subscription — but only if they actually think you're going to cancel otherwise. If they think you're just bluffing, then they have no reason to offer you a discount.
"It pays to play hardball," says a customer service representative who worked at an Oregon call center from 2002 to 2009. "Threatening to cancel will get you further than outright asking for a discount." So just say "I'd like to cancel my service please." You'll almost certainly be transferred to a "retention specialist" whose job it is to change your mind…..
It IS real! I read about this "wonderful invention" the other day. Thought to myself, gee…this is stupid! Just someone's idea to profit off the blood and fear of others…they talked about how these were cheaper than building a bunker for them to escape to. WTF. WTFF. I have an idea. Rather than do stupid things like this, why don't we just get to the gd crux of the matter and pass some common sense legislation! There's an idea who's time is WAY THE HELL OVERDUE! Cowards. The Dem in VA. that took a bribe is no different than what any of these congressional cowards do with the NRA, Heritage, Gun Owners of America…etc. They take $$$ for votes and pretend they care. VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT!!! Done with my rant. For now. Can't wait to read your piece on this, LL.
I'm trying to imagine how these children feel having to undergo this "practice" of trying not to get shot while they attend school.
Kind of answers your question. http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/06/09/the-kookification-of-gun-culture/#more-154570
We should all be ashamed of ourselves for allowing this to happen to our children.
BTW, LL, a shooter wouldn't have to bother removing those stupid 'shields' if they are firing an assault weapon of any kind. I'll just leave it at that.
Except for this ….
#EnforceWellRegulated …. why is that such a difficult caveat of the 2nd Amendment for everyone to grasp and act upon?
As all of you know, one of my preferred approaches to doing so is tried-and-true 'market' pressure – Liability Insurance requirements for every gun & ammo manufacturer, seller and user.
Other approaches could include actually requiring folk owning a weapon with more than six shot capacity to join a State-run militia, i.e., the National Guard and have access to their weapons of war only during training and deployment.
" Liability Insurance requirements for every gun & ammo manufacturer, seller and user."
I have been saying the same thing for years Bobfr. It makes sense.
Yeah, the old cop killer bullets are probably better than ever at what they do. . . 😥
I'm intentionally not bringing very specific technical information about ammo, Carol, because I try to avoid (or, at least, alert as with my links to Peter Clifford's reports on Syria) posting what would be truly horrific facts. So, let's just leave it at the fact that Lanza would have laughed out loud if he'd confronted children under those mats … before he slaughtered them.
smh – Just recently I skipped over an ad for 'stylish' bulletproof clothing apparently geared to celebrities etc, and I remember thinking in passing that they'd be marketing it to the general public soon. I was leaning a bit to the snarky side; I never thought 'soon' would be this soon and geared towards kids!!! In fact at the time I was thinking more along the line of opportunistic. I don't really know what to say about this. I cannot imagine what a regular practice like this one would do to the psyche of kids, or the ideas it could put in some young disgruntled kid's mind!
It's all bad and all MAD, VC. It's a path to having the most heavily armed civilian population on the planet become Somalia on steroids.
Well, Bobfr, when Sandy Hook didn't stop them I virtually threw my hands in the air. I still haven't gotten over the fact that those little children being massacred IN A PLACE WHERE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE was not enough to shock U.S. legislators into action!
Am right there next to you, VC. I thought that Sandy Hook would be a transformational moment. Instead, more than 35,000 Americans have been killed by People With Guns in the ~ 18 months since that horrific slaughter of innocents.
We need to cancel the currencies of Hate & Greed in America. Only then can we escaoe the accelerating spiral into ever more destructive domestic terrorism.
Yep, this is just about as effective as ducking under your desk to avoid the impact of an atomic bomb. Meantime, every one of those kids is terrified.
My God, LL, George Will has gotten even loonier and nastier than he was, which is saying a lot.
These GOP right wingers are despicable! I've never been a fun of the pretentious George Will, but what he wrote clearly demonstrates that he is another creepy right wing misogynist who does not care about the well being of women.
Ahhh….the glory days. One of my favorite pics during the Auburn visit was Robert Gibbs's son (Grandparents were Auburn professors) getting in the team pic. 😎
Some of the expressions are priceless….
Charlie Rose has finally posted the FULL video of interview with Jay Carney: http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60402451
Definitely worth a look, especially toward the end when Jay talks about the President's response to Sandy Hook and other inside information.
Today we were all disturbed by the VA (D) Senator stepping aside so that Medicaid expansion could be stopped by the GOP.
I was shocked, too.
But I shouldn't have been. In New York, the last two state senate races were WON by democrats who then stepped aside to give the GOP the senate gavel.
We like to say: Elections have consequences.
We say: When democrats vote we win.
GOP says; We are going to lose many many many elections.
So, we will find ways to win anyway by subverting the democratic process itself.
Sunlight on this giant problem would be the best way i can think of to solve it.
(In NY the group of four state senators that switched to GOP in the prior election—-3 out of the 4 of them are in jail for $$$ crimes.
This cycle has 5 "breakaway" dems. So far none in prison.)
Switching parties is nothing new. But switching parties to hand states over to the highest bidder seems like a terrible threat to our country.
Well, Vicki, here's a tweet and I urge you to read the content of the link – especially the last segment of it … hope it will help ….
The guy isn't getting the job with big tobacco if that's any consolation. . .
And, he's in serious trouble with VA's bribery law, at the least. Given that his and his daughter's willingness to be bribe in order to hinder a Federal health program has likely got some significant legal implications, as well.
Virginia: GOP + 1 Dem Pull Dick Move to Prevent Medicaid Expansion (Update: Illegal??)
Good news must not go uncontested
By Steve Benen
But Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) made some comments the other day that suggest something more fundamental – and less nuanced – about the strategy.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says President Barack Obama "thought everybody would be cheering" the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. … "He wanted last week to be a great week."
And so Graham and his allies pushed back, ensuring that it wasn't. Graham had related concerns – did you know Graham thinks "radical Islam is a threat to our way of life"? – but the result was something almost unimaginable: a major political party convinced much of the country that the release of an American prisoner of war was something other than good news.
It is really nothing to do with Sgt Bergdahl & some Senators are so seriously brainless they say it out loud. It was all about hating on ANYTHING that President Obama does.
I cannot even imagine what this lot will do next – is there anything lower than calling for a POW to be executed – because black President?
"It was all about hating on ANYTHING that President Obama does."
Exactly, 99. And, I assure you, if they can find a new 'Low' they'll dive for it in a nanosecond.
Well I guess this is the silver-lining.
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The Blue Ridge Christian Academy has since closed due to a lack of funding.
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Have you discussed the NRA's stupid theory about how a "Good Guy With A Gun" could have stopped LV shooter?
The NRA has been insane for years CarolMae – but people still give their support – because guns and black people
They have many supporters who turn that killing against the President – because it wouldn't happen except – black President
Collateral damage are those who are killed – serve them right for living under a black President
Doesn't make sense to me or my hubby who owns guns. Guess I own the too. I know the combination but I would shot myself first just trying to shoot it.
You know what I wish? I wish that we could all just start/have a running list of everything that the RWNJ's think is ok now…sort of have everything all laid out and pass it around the intertubes and Twitterverse for massive, thought provoking dissemination. Would be best if we have these things laid out with citations, because Lord knows, someone out there in RWNJ world might just be thinking that enough is enough and not mind looking at some facts for a change!
Who wants to start? We can keep adding on….every day will bring a brand new thing to ignore, disregard, become the new normal…etc
Df, Please bring this comment over to the new thread – it's worth repeating!! 🙂
Don't worry if your dogs eat the banana peels. There is no evidence shows the banana peels are bad for dogs' health. Researchers in Taiwan discovered banana peel extract can ease depression, maybe banana peels would improve the mood of your dogs.
Bananas are just treats,don't expect your dogs absorb nutrients from them.
Sixteen more years to go, and congress has killed this too? Shame! I would have loved to had seen it! 😦
Balancing! They had an article about how Obama met his four major promises so one they are trying to find something he has not met to discredit PBO. Maybe they heard from their corporate GOP owners.


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'Party to End Israeli Apartheid!' Still On at Gay Center, Activists Vow, But With Picketing, Not Dancing
The fuss over Israeli Apartheid Week won't end. Still steaming about the LGBT Center's cancellation late last month of tomorrow night's "Party to End Apartheid!," organizers still plan to descend on the center en masse tomorrow night in protest.
Meanwhile, another Israeli Apartheid Week event at another venue — a panel discussion Monday night at NYU's Kimmel Center — went off without a hitch.
Porn king and ardent Zionist Michael Lucas, who sparked the cancellation, and lefty activist Sherry Wolf continue to duke it out in the the pages of the Advocate.
But the NYU event has sparked no controversy. Wolf, an NYU professor, and an NYU student rather calmly laid out a case for the three-pronged boycott-divestment-sanctions movement against Israel. Panelists were particularly interested in getting TIAA-CREF, which handles many NYU employees' retirement portfolios, to stop investing in five companies that do business with Israel. Wolf mentioned the LGBT Center controversy during the event, but it wasn't the main focus of the conversation.
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The Center's officials, smarting from criticism, have announced a March 13 "Community Forum," saying, "Recent events have led us to build on our process for providing space."
Meanwhile, Siege Busters, the group ejected from the LGBT Center, gathered 1,500 signatures (including that of gay hero Cleve Jones) on a petition asking the Center to reinstate their event and the right to hold future meetings.
Around town this week in the LGBT community, the issue of how Glennda Testone, just one year into her tenure as the center's executive director, would navigate through this crisis has been a hot topic.
The Siege Busters folks are not impressed so far. After a week of silent treatment from the Center following their ejection, they say, Testone finally agreed to meet with them, but with tight restrictions on what could even be discussed.
Under the rules she proposed, says activist Brad Taylor, "the issue of the [Party to End Apartheid] cancellation should not be on the table — that it should not be discussed. Instead, the subject should be the center's policies and access."
Taylor says that Siege Busters had no interest in a meeting in which "only one side decided in advance what was going to be discussed, but that we were going to the Center to present our petition anyway, and we'd be happy to meet with Glennda then without any preconditions."
When they arrived at the Center, Taylor and two others were escorted to meet with Testone and two members of her staff. As Taylor recalls it, "We basically said, 'We're here to help you handle the fact that you've made a terrible mistake. A terrible PR mistake, and a terrible political mistake. We'd like to discuss the way that we can, in a facesaving manner, reinstate this event and allow Siege Busters to meet at the Center again. We don't want to rub your nose in it, we don't want to attack the Center or you personally. The only thing we want is for the Center to rescind the decision.' "
Taylor says they also demanded an answer as to why they had been kicked out, and they were told "that our event had generated too much controversy from both sides, and it wasn't 'queer enough.'"
He says the Center asked them to consider hosting a town hall discussion, but the Center wanted to be able to set the agenda and wanted it closed to the press. Siege Busters wanted it to be open to the press, and insisted that it still be a benefit to support their effort to send a relief boat to Gaza.
Ultimately, Siege Busters decided the Center's offer was too little, too late. The group says it plans to meet as originally scheduled at the Center tomorrow night, when the original "party" was set to happen. They will be holding picket signs, though, instead of dancing.
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Why the fuss then? They were taken by a secret camera without her knowledge by the owner of the gym, Bryce Taylor, who admits that his action was 'calculated, surreptitious, sly' and done for the money. For this intrusion into the Princess's privacy he and the paper have been denounced by Buckingham Palace, Lord McGregor and a battery of politicians and leader writers; and sued by the Princess herself.
Who is Lord McGregor? The chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, a body set up three years ago, financed by the press, to impose order and discipline on itself, replacing the old Press Council. The PCC operates a Code of Conduct, drawn up by a committee of editors, which prohibits, among other things, taking pictures of people on private property without their permission. It's called self-regulation.
Does the MIRROR group subscribe to the PCC? Until Monday, when it pulled out in a fit of pique.
Has anyone done that before? Oddly enough, a few years ago David Montgomery, now chief executive of the MIRROR group, withdrew TODAY from the old Press Council, which had demanded an inquiry into the paper's acquisition by Rupert Murdoch. Montgomery returned to the regulatory fold only on Murdoch's insistence.
So Rupert Murdoch, publisher of the SUN and NEWS of the World, is a friend of press regulation? Funny old world, isn't it? Did you see the deputy editor of the SUN on television on Monday, talking about the need for restraint?
And keeping a straight face? Almost. Don't forget that the DAILY Mirror is engaged in a ferocious battle with the SUN, which has taken a circulation lead of 1.2 million by cutting its price to 20p (the DAILY Mirror costs 27p). Such considerations often colour the views of editors on questions of ethics.
How does the Mirror group justify printing the pictures? In sundry wondrous ways. First, Colin Myler, the SUNDAY Mirror editor, said he did it to combat rumours that the Princess was ill. When it was pointed out that the pictures were taken six months ago, the DAILY Mirror said the purpose was to expose a lapse in security, arguing that the secret camera could easily have been an IRA bomb.
And what does the DAILY Mirror call Lord McGregor? 'The arch buffoon.'
Is he? Well, no, but he does have some unfortunate mannerisms. He looks rumpled on television, does not handle interviewers well and has an embarrassing apocalyptic prose style: 'flagrant breach . . . dishonourable conduct' and last year, 'journalists dabbling their fingers in the stuff of other people's souls'.
What are his good points? A deep suspicion of lawyers and a conviction that they should have no role in regulating the press. Politicians likewise.
But without statutory measures, how does he think you can control the wilder excesses of papers such as the MIRROR? By the condemnation of their peers. And he suggested on the radio this week that readers and advertisers might boycott the offenders.
Will they? Fat chance.
So what happens now? There will be renewed pressure for legislation from MPs who would love to be able to exert control on the press.
In other words, the loose cannon has shot itself in the foot? I see you are picking up the vocabulary already. Even if the press were a centipede, it would by now have no unshot feet left. Andrew Neil, editor of the SUNDAY Times, has said that this time it has shot itself in the head.
But wasn't he . . .? Yes, he was the Murdoch editor who provoked McGregor's 'dabbling their fingers' outburst. But that's beside the point.
Well, what is the point, exactly? That the Government may now be more inclined to introduce legislation to rein the press in.
Weren't they going to do that anyway? Well spotted. They have already indicated that they will make it a criminal offence to use long-lens cameras and bugging devices under certain conditions. And in July, the Lord Chancellor proposed a civil offence of intrusion into privacy, where a victim would have the right to damages.
So what tougher measures could they bring in? This year Sir David Calcutt QC, in his second report on the matter for the Government, proposed the creation of a tribunal with statutory powers to fine newspapers that broke the code. The indications from Whitehall were that this had been rejected but some Cabinet ministers are still believed to favour it. The current hoo-ha could strengthen the hand of this minority.
I take it Lord McGregor would not approve? No way. For one thing, the tribunal would probably be headed by a lawyer; and for another it would effectively put the PCC out of a job.
You've already pointed out that the foot-shooting has been going on for years. Why hasn't the Government acted before? The cynical answer is that the press is predominantly Conservative and ministers feel they owe their repeated election victories in part to its loyal support. They do not want to seem ungrateful nor jeopardise their prospects next time. More charitably, there are some in the Cabinet who genuinely accept the 'slippery slope' argument that privacy legislation would inhibit inquiries into financial scandals and other abuses that it is in the public interest to expose.
Would it? Not necessarily. It should be possible to draft a law that embodies a public interest defence.
And what does the public think? In a Mori poll published in September 1992, people were asked whether newspapers should be allowed to publish a photograph of a member of the Royal Family taken on private property without permission. Only 18 per cent believed they should and 53 per cent thought there should be more control over the tabloids.
Yet they still rush out and buy them? Of course.
Isn't that a bit . . . what's the word . . . hypocritical? That's the word, yes.
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by Michelle Badash, MS
Cushing's syndrome is a hormone disorder. Cortisol, in normal doses, helps the body manage stress and infection. However, high levels over a long period of time can cause several health problems.
Cushing's syndrome is caused by extended exposure to a hormone called cortisol. Prolonged or excess exposure to cortisol may be caused by:
Factors that may increase your chance of Cushing's syndrome include:
Cushing's syndrome may cause:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Tests may be done to determine the level of cortisol and find a cause.
Tests for cortisol levels may include:
Tests to determine the cause of Cushing's syndrome may include:
Imaging tests evaluate the pituitary and adrenal glands, and other internal structures. These may include:
Treatment of Cushing's syndrome depends on the cause. Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Options include:
Work with your doctor to keep your use of corticosteroid drugs to a minimum.
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Fantagraphics recently released a handsome hardcover collection dedicated to the fairly new, emerging genre of abstract comics. Edited by Andrei Molotiu, 'Abstract Comics' features examples from an eclectic mix of comics creators including: Robert Crumb, Gary Panter, Patrick McDonnell, Lewis Trondheim, Mark Badger, J.R. Williams and many more.
Above: 'Abstract Expressionist Ultra Super Modernistic Comics' by R. Crumb. Copyright R. Crumb 2009.
Refreshingly, the collection also represents an international pool of comics talent, with contributors from France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Australia, and here in New Zealand.
Wellington cartoonist Draw has been prolifically self-publishing comics for 10 years, including the series 'Style Crime', 'Clutter', 'Delve' and the anthologies 'Pictozine 2' and more recently 'Bristle'. Last year he began experimenting with abstract comics for his excellent website Drawing Silence.
To find out more about abstract comics, and more importantly, what inspires them, I tracked down Draw for some answers:
AK: How did you become involved in the project?
AK: What inspired you to create abstract comics?
AK: Were there particular visual ideas or effects you were interested in exploring with the comics form?
AK: Panel frames appear to be a recurring theme for exploration in your abstract comics series, with some very arresting results. Comics panels traditionally control both focus (by framing the narrative into sections) and time (length of time it takes to read the panels in sequence), as a result I find their presence adds a great deal of conceptual baggage for you to experiment with. Was the traditional mechanics of the comics panels something you had in mind during the creation of Series #1?
Above: 'Series #1, #7a' of Draw's abstract comics. Copyright Draw 2009.
AK: You've also experimented with having content inside and outside of a panel grid, for example, Series 1 Abstract 8 set 'They are coming'. Did you find one effect more interesting than the other, or was it more about exploring the contrast between to two effects?
Above: 'Series #1, #8c: They are coming', by Draw. Copyright Draw 2009.
DRAW: I had an epiphany. The gutter is where all the action in a comic takes place, its where the reader creates the comic reading experience. The Abstract Seven set from series One is the first experiments I did looking into this. I wasn't trying to create effects, I was trying to create a visual representation of what happens in the gutter of a comic.
DRAW: I had an epiphany. The gutter is where all the action in a comic takes place, its where the reader creates the comic reading experience. The Abstract Seven set from series One is the first experiments I did looking into this. I wasn't trying to create effects, I was trying to create a visual representation of what happens in the gutter of a comic.
Above: 'Series #3: 'Lines', #8', by Draw. Copyright Draw 2009.
DRAW: So for series 3 the question became what kind of abstract comics experience will the reader have if the content is situated within different parts of the comic form, the gutter or the panel. This is why I tried several versions of each work.
Above: 'Silver #2, page 3', by Draw. Copyright Draw 2009.
AK: You've also experimented with photography in the 'Silver series' and in Abstract series 2. Could you talk a little about that choice and does it have any link to the panels from 'Series #1'.
DRAW: Its interesting that you have mentioned silver along with Abstract comics, since when I conceived of it I didn't think of it as a abstract comic, most of the images are representational if a bit fuzzy. I was exploring history, stories, nostalgia, fantasy and reality using found images. Silvers in time.
With Abstract two I was Initially thinking about how and what the gutter in a comic is. The gutter in a comic hides and reveals the story as you read it, you don't see everything in a comic. You have these tiny fragments of the image with much of it obscured. By applying this idea to a found image you create a different experience of the image, it changes. So to start with I covered a found image with paint (the gutter) and then removed the gutter to create the comic panels. From that I moved onto painting the gutter onto found images to create panels.
AK: Having been involved with the Abstract Comics collection and blog and seeing the work of other creators involved, has that provided you with some different perspectives and ideas for areas of abstract comics to explore next?
Hmm...to see what new directions (and forms) Draw's abstract comics will take, be sure to check out his website. There's also the Abstract Comics Blog: a collective featuring new work from the artists featured in the collection.
Abstract Comics, edited by Andrei Molotiu is out now from Fantagraphics.
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When I said earlier that the digital movie distribution landscape is becoming a crowded place, I meant to say a crowded and combative place. At the All Things D conference currently going on in Carlsbad, CA, Walt Mossberg interviewed Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos who mentioned that Amazon's Unbox service will unveil a for-pay streaming service in the next few weeks.
Unbox currently offers the ability to download and rent movies, not stream them. While the immediate thought is that this is a response to Netflix, which allows users to stream unlimited amounts of select titles for free to their computers, and soon to their televisions with the Roku box, the key phrase in Bezos' remarks is "for-pay." To me that makes it seem more like a rental service — which Unbox already offers.
So what's will be the point of the streaming service? Unfortunately, Mossberg didn't have Bezos elaborate on his comments so we have absolutely no details other than it will be coming soon and will be a paid service.
I would speculate that this will be an unlimited streaming subscription service similar to Netflix, but Tech Trader Daily is reporting that the service will be a la carte. Which again, reeks of rental.
Perhaps it will work like this: you'll pay a monthly fee and you have access to a certain number of films that month. For that to work, it would have to be a better deal than simply renting those movies at their current prices (most are $3.99). Basically, that would be a renting movies in bulk service.
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I expect reid actually believes it when he says:
Virtually all that popupate the left surely have an inflated view of their place in the world.BUT FOR ME, WE'D BE IN WORLD-WIDE DEPRESSION
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Love to be a fly on the wall when Al Gore hears of this.
I can picture him getting all pissy and going "Well, I invented the Internet!"
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If that wasn't so comical, it'd be sad.
He was part of the cause, and claims to be the cure.
I'm not saying Angel needs to be in, but this guy definitely needs to go.
I think that "mini-stroke" he suffered may have not been so mini.
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It's all in the editing. Why do you think Angle refuses all interview requests now? You can see the full interview at http://www.edschultzshow.com/news/de...sp?newsID=5217. The point Reid was making was that if he came in and told Nevadians that he saved the world from a depression, they would still want to know what he had done to create jobs in Nevada. I just hope Angle is still helping 12 year olds to make lemonade out of lemons if they become pregnant after being raped by their fathers. I don't care much for Reid, bu would rather see him than a lady who wold be better off in a straight jacket than in the Senate.
What part did you find objectionable? The comment about victims of incest came from an interview she gave on a conservative talk show:Question : What do you say then to a young girl, I am going to place it as he said it, when a young girl is raped by her father, let's say, and she is pregnant. How do you explain this to her in terms of wanting her to go through the process of having the baby?The straight jacket comment was obviously just opinion. I think the lady is crazy. That certainly wouldn't make her unique in the Senate, but I don't think that is a demographic that requires greater representation among our elected representatives. In the words of Jack Nicholson, "Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all full up here."
Angle: I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade.(http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news...s-and-lemonade)
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Fettes Brot is a German hip hop group founded in 1992.
Fettes Brot is German for fat bread. "Fett" is a German slang term for "excellent" and brot is slang for "hash". The band took the name from a fan who called them "Fettes Brot" after an early gig, which was probably meant as a compliment, but the members considered it so bizarre that they took it as the name for their new group. Fettes Brot's longevity has meant that it is sometimes referred to as "Hamburg's hip-hop-dinosaurs" by its members.
When the group Poets of Peeze disbanded in 1992, its members Dokter Renz (Martin Vandreier né Schrader) and Tobi Tobsen together with König (king) Boris (Boris Lauterbach), Schiffmeister (Björn Warns) and Mighty founded the band Fettes Brot. The Schmidt brothers (Tobi & Mighty) left the newly founded band early on, to pursue other projects, so the band released their first album, the EP Mitschnacker on Yo Mama Records, as a trio.
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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:34 AM
DonViejo (25,472 posts)
Shooting At Newtown Elementary School
Source: Hartford-Courant
NEWTOWN State police are responding to a report of a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dickinson Drive, school officials said. Police are reporting a number of injured parties. The nature of their injuries is not clear. There are unconfirmed reports of two shooters one dead, one still at large. Shortly after 9:40 a.m., police reported that a shooter was in the main office of the school. Groups of students some crying, some holding hands were being escorted away from the school by their teachers. A staging area has been set up for students and their parents near the school. Read more: http://www.courant.com/news/breaking/hc-police-responding-to-incident-in-newtown-20121214,0,3969911.story
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DonViejo | Dec 2012 | OP |
upaloopa | Dec 2012 | #1 | |
mikeysnot | Dec 2012 | #5 | |
dwigthreeD | Dec 2012 | #32 | |
hrmjustin | Dec 2012 | #68 | |
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Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:42 AM
upaloopa (11,417 posts)
1. This is happening too damned often!
I feel so sad and frustrated so full of rage every time I hear of one of these shootings. I hope we don't accept this as the new normal.
Response to upaloopa (Reply #1)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:59 AM
mikeysnot (2,911 posts)
5. Gun nuts go nuts
Solving problems at the barrel of a gun is our nations sad legacy.
Response to mikeysnot (Reply #5)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:29 PM
dwigthreeD (18 posts)
32. Fox News
Defense of the shooter in 3...2...1...
Response to dwigthreeD (Reply #32)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 06:51 PM
hrmjustin (69,505 posts)
68. Welcome to DU and I hope you enjoy the site.
Response to dwigthreeD (Reply #32)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 07:04 PM
Stevepol (4,234 posts)
69. Fox News and the other paranoia-inducing public media outlets are big causes of this.
To regulate the guns without regulating the lying and constant preaching of violence that comes from Fox and the thousands of radio outlets that do little more than make anybody who disagrees with the speaker into a Satan worthy of being shot down will not solve the problem.
There are always going to be the crazies out there, and if you have these public radio stations and TV channels constantly churning out hate and ideas calculated to turn even the half-sane among us into irrational robots of hate, you're going to have horrors like this happen. Events like this do not happen in a vacuum. They are mulled over, fantasized, justified within, and slowly turned into reality. There are two parts to the problem: the guns and the mind-set of the people who use the guns. There have to be ways of dealing with both. |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:43 AM
heaven05 (13,818 posts)
2. another one?
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:47 AM
Plucketeer (11,660 posts)
3. More evidence
We need to assign kids books, a locker and a sidearm at the start of the school year!
Response to Plucketeer (Reply #3)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:59 AM
mikeysnot (2,911 posts)
6. don't forget the bullet
proof body armor.
Response to Plucketeer (Reply #3)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:08 PM
The Straight Story (48,120 posts)
8. Naw, only allow our great govt and people like romney to have guns
We cannot trust our fellow citizens. We are all potential terrorists and shooters.
More power to those in charge, less to us, for our own good! Kind of like my neighborhood watch - we have learned that minorities do most the crime (and crime is all we report on each day when it comes to them - helping others, feeding the homeless, giving folks rides, etc...well that does not make for news that people will use for fear and to talk about) so we are calling on all non-minorities to get educated about what to look for, raise funds to buy up empty houses before the criminals do, etc. Gotta run, have to send out a tweet to my watch friends, just saw a minority with some skittles and they too may have a gun (and we all know, if you have a gun you will kill someone). |
Response to The Straight Story (Reply #8)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:43 PM
laundry_queen (8,646 posts)
36. What a load of crap.
If you have a gun, you may not kill someone by shooting them, but you might. If you don't have a gun, there's 100% chance you won't kill someone by shooting them, but you may kill someone by other means, but it will only be one at a time, and will require a lot more effort (and stronger homocidal tendencies) than simply moving one finger.
BTW if your gov't and Romney wanted to kill you, they would. It wouldn't take loads of guns. Hell, YOU could have most of the guns. The rich and the powerful will always find a way to do away with you, if they so choose. It's a silly argument that doesn't hold water in this day and age. |
Response to laundry_queen (Reply #36)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 10:25 PM
lbrtbell (2,389 posts)
74. Only guns kill people?
It never fails to amaze me, how people don't realize how easy it is for someone to go online and find recipes for bombs that could kill a lot more people than a fully automatic gun.
Look at the soldiers coming back with massive head injuries from roadside bombs. Hell, look at how Bin Laden killed so many people, with his minions using nothing more than carton cutters to take over planes. Bottom line: Mentally ill people who want to kill a lot of other people will do so. Guns are only ONE choice of weapon. Many others exist. You can't ban everything. The only real solution is to get help for mentally ill people before they snap. |
Response to lbrtbell (Reply #74)
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:07 AM
laundry_queen (8,646 posts)
76. Other methods take more effort
and thus require someone with more commitment and deeper convictions to kill. It would nearly stop all 'passion killings'. And it would save lives, and, IMO, every single one of those kids deserved that chance, at least.
Your 'real solution' is no solution at all - most people are sane - until they're not. People who 'snap' often are 'fine' up until the point they 'snap'. There is more correlation with sex and mass murders than there is with mental illness and mass murders. Maybe the way to stop this is to only let females have guns. (that's about as much sense as your argument makes) |
Response to The Straight Story (Reply #8)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 07:40 PM
LanternWaste (27,212 posts)
71. I imagine many people believe that 27-plus dead school children are merely a price to pay
I imagine many people believe that 27-plus dead school children are merely a(nother) price to pay to keep the American citizenry the most heavily armed nation on earth per capita.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:00 PM
Le Taz Hot (22,261 posts)
7. Is this some kind of sick cosmic "joke?"
"Michigan Bill Allowing Concealed Weapons in Schools Approved by House Committee" http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=334024 Holy hell. |
Response to Le Taz Hot (Reply #7)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:26 PM
billh58 (5,374 posts)
12. When the right-wing
Tea Party leaning SCOTUS forced an insane 5-4 decision onto the American public with Heller, the crazies in the nation interpreted that as a vindication of their romance with guns. All that Heller actually "settled" was the right to have a gun in the home -- which few really oppose in the first place. The "guns everywhere" society of right-wing red necked politicians and their slobbering sheep have since used Heller as an excuse to attempt to legislate away the last 100 years of gun regulation sanity.
Our very own Gungeon crowd is proof of this madness, and that they are allowed to spew their love of violence, vigilantism, and summary executions on DU is beyond belief. And now Florida is bragging about being the first state to allow over 1 million red necks to carry concealed guns in public. At some point public outrage about daily occurrences of acts gun violence such as this one will turn the tide, and sanity will begin to once again prevail. Until then, please support organizations like the Brady Center, and Mayors Against Illegal Guns in order to counter this insane rush to legalize murder and violence. |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:14 PM
onehandle (51,122 posts)
9. Moar guns. Moar guns. Moar guns.
Sez the gungeoneers.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:18 PM
Comrade_McKenzie (2,526 posts)
10. We need comprehensive fucking gun control...
And anyone that disagrees should be the first to lose their guns.
Response to Comrade_McKenzie (Reply #10)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:29 PM
hack89 (35,965 posts)
13. Connecticut has strong licensing requirements and an AWB
there are few Northeast States with weak gun control laws.
Response to hack89 (Reply #13)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:44 PM
Tommy_Carcetti (28,732 posts)
19. It has your precious concealed carry.
Don't kid yourself.
Response to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #19)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:09 PM
hack89 (35,965 posts)
30. Every state in the union but one has concealed carry
in six months it will be all.
Here is a perfect opportunity for you to show a direct correlation between concealed carry and increased gun violence. You have some evidence I assume? Or why else would you raise the issue? Connecticut has gun control measures that many do not have - my.only point. |
Response to hack89 (Reply #13)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 06:10 PM
llmart (4,494 posts)
66. Get the hell off DU with your crap.
I'm sick of you and all your gungeon crap. You and people like you take some of the blame for those dead children.
Response to llmart (Reply #66)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 06:14 PM
hack89 (35,965 posts)
67. Just pointing out that Conneticut has strong gun laws.
that's all.
Response to hack89 (Reply #67)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:15 PM
LanternWaste (27,212 posts)
73. Right... "that's all" indeed.
Right... "that's all" indeed.
Response to Comrade_McKenzie (Reply #10)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:00 PM
Dokkie (1,688 posts)
47. Do u really think he wouldn't have
been able to kill a bunch of kids with a Brady bill style approved handgun? So please lets not turn this into another gun restriction debate. People are dead here
Response to Dokkie (Reply #47)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 07:13 PM
tabasco (22,974 posts)
70. This part of your post perplexes me:
"please lets not turn this into another gun restriction debate. People are dead here."
I think what you are saying is here should be no gun restriction debate. Dead people are EXACTLY what should justify a gun restriction debate. |
Response to Comrade_McKenzie (Reply #10)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 05:17 PM
happyslug (14,779 posts)
62. The issue is NOT that we need gun control, but what type
And that is where the battle is being fought. No one is saying everyone should have access to weapons, even the NRA says Felons and the Insane should NOT have access. On the other hand NO one is advocating a complete ban for the complete ban will force Police officers (if they are allowed to keep guns) to do what is done by civilians today, including various types of animal control. No one can afford that, outside some urban areas, thus the two extremes are untenable. The real issue is where in the middle should the law be,
I have been told I am a radical, I believe the Assault Weapon Ban and the ban on automatic weapons clearly violate the Second Amendment, for the bans prohibits people from arming themselves if they form they own militia units. On the other hand, I do NOT believe the Second, as it is written, prohibits bans on pistols, for pistols have limited military usability. The problem is both the Majority on the Supreme Court AND the dissent on the Supreme Court both rejected that position for both more feared an armed rebellion (that can be done with rifles and other "long arms" and requires people to work together) then criminal activity (95% of all crimes with firearms are done with pistols). The reason pistols are used in crime and Rifles are not is simple, it is hard to conceal a rifle and when people see a person with a rifle, they have time to take precautions. Thus, without changing a word of the Second Amendment, pistols can be banned if the Court would just accept that the second is what is says, the right of the people to bear arms so that they can be formed into a Militia OR form themselves into a Militia if needed. In such units you want rifles and shotguns not pistols, thus the Second should be restricted to rifles and shotguns for they are the preferred weapon if we ever do need to form up the reserved militia (which is every male between the ages of 18 and 45 by Federal Law), |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:24 PM
sanatanadharma (282 posts)
11. Anti-American gun religionists...
...ignore words of second amendment and refuse to be "well regulated".
The 2nd amendment is not scripture; the gun is not a sacrament; gun defenders in this century are evil! |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:30 PM
Aristus (38,512 posts)
14. When this happens in Norway, it's a shattering, numbing national tragedy.
When it happens over here in the US, it's Friday, or Tuesday, or whenever...
Response to Aristus (Reply #14)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:56 PM
a la izquierda (9,809 posts)
24. That's the first thing that popped into my mind.
I just read student essays that decried Latin America as an inherently violent region, while the US is remarkably stable and free from violence.
And then I read this, the second gun massacre in a week. WTF? |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:37 PM
muriel_volestrangler (83,084 posts)
15. Kick (nt)
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:42 PM
MessiahRp (5,405 posts)
16. At a fucking elementary school?
Jesus Christ, elementary age kids should never have to endure anything like this.
Response to MessiahRp (Reply #16)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:17 PM
Divine Discontent (21,049 posts)
50. and incredibly, 18 will never have to worry about it again. :(
I just can't believe this happened at an elementary. Guns are just so F((())G prevalent that I don't what can be done. There's so many people with dozens of them - what happens when people break in and steam them? dozens get on the streets to punks, to be used for crimes.
those poor kids, screaming and crying, and having to be shot and killed. The nation's gun laws must be strengthened and to hell with any who scream that they should have hundreds of guns sitting around their house and trucks.... |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:43 PM
Botany (43,262 posts)
17. How many more times?
Thanx NRA ..... Portland and now this in one week.
Somebody's 2nd amendment rights should not supersede one's 1st amendment right to life and liberty ..... shopping, at school, and or watching a movie when is enough enough? ****** some of the dead are kids kindergarden kids????? ****** i am crying right now...... fucking NRA and all those gun nuts. Ones 2nd amendment rights don't supersede all our 1st amendment rights. 27 dead? Kindergarten kids? |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:43 PM
riderinthestorm (23,001 posts)
18. If only some of those kids had been able to carry guns at school, this wouldn't have happened!
Or something like that....
Response to riderinthestorm (Reply #18)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:20 PM
Dokkie (1,688 posts)
52. Only if we had implemented the Brady bill
the shooter wouldn't have been able to pick of those poor kids with a mere handgun or hunting shotgun. That makes no sense
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:47 PM
TwilightGardener (46,416 posts)
20. We are helpless in the matter of gun violence.
There is simply nothing we can do. This will keep happening.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:49 PM
csziggy (22,560 posts)
21. Not just the US, not just guns - attacks on school children
Seem to be increasing.
China school knife attack in Henan injures 22 children
14 December 2012 A man with a knife has wounded 22 children - at least two of them seriously - and an adult at a primary school in central China. The attack happened at the gate of a school in Chenpeng village in Henan province. Police arrested a 36-year-old local man at the scene. Security at China's schools has been increased in recent years following a spate of similar knife attacks in which nearly 20 children have been killed. More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20723910 |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:53 PM
Drum (6,338 posts)
22. Updating:
Andrew Doba, Director of Communications with Connecticut Governor Malloy's office, says they are coordinating with local authorities and state police. They continue to monitor developments in Newtown. The governor is in Connecticut today. The shooter is dead, a source with knowledge of the investigation, tells CNNs Susan Candiotti. Police have recovered two weapons from him, the source added. It's not known whether police killed the alleged shooter or he took his own life. The source says one weapon recovered is a Glock and the other is a Sig Sauer. The Hartford Courant, citing police, said an unspecified number of people had been shot. The nature of their injuries was unclear, the newspaper said. But it cited police in saying one person had "numerous gunshot wounds." |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 12:54 PM
Marrah_G (28,581 posts)
23. sigh............
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:00 PM
llmart (4,494 posts)
25. What a country.
Sad that it was allowed to come to this where every freakin' day in America another horrendous gun crime is committed and the NRA still buys politicians' votes.
Those of us who are sane about gun laws need to take back our power from the gun nuts who fund the NRA. |
Response to llmart (Reply #25)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:09 PM
brooklynite (37,421 posts)
29. But if only the Elementary School kids HAD guns, they could shoot back...
Response to brooklynite (Reply #29)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 06:08 PM
llmart (4,494 posts)
65. I'm fucking sick of it.
I don't use that word often, but in this instance I am so angry at the crap that's spewed by the NRA and their minions that I want to scream. That includes every last one of the gun nutjobs here on DU. We all know who they are. I am sick, sick, sick to death of this. These were innocent little babies and being a mother, I can't even wrap my mind around how the parents will deal with this.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:07 PM
brooklynite (37,421 posts)
26. UPDATE: Sources: Multiple Deaths, Including Children, At Sandy Hook School Shooting In Newtown
Multiple people, including children, have been killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The number of victims is unclear. Many of the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom, sources said. A person believed to be a shooter is dead. Earlier reports of a second shooter are unconfirmed. http://www.courant.com/news/breaking/hc-police-responding-to-incident-in-newtown-20121214,0,3969911.story |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:22 PM
SoCalMusicLover (1,520 posts)
31. 2 Innocents Dead
CNN reporting the Principal & School Psychologist are deceased.
Edit: Also reporting 1 Child deceased. Tragic, More Fucking Tragedy This Holiday Season. |
Response to SoCalMusicLover (Reply #31)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:06 PM
lunatica (33,363 posts)
41. 26 are dead.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:33 PM
mainer (9,664 posts)
33. meanwhile, a knife-wielding man attacks a Chinese elementary school...
but while numerous children are injured, none of them are dead.
http://www.wvnstv.com/story/20346802/man-attacks-kids-at-chinese-elementary-school |
Response to mainer (Reply #33)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:42 PM
Mangoman (100 posts)
35. There goes that argument
"If they didn't have a gun they would have used a knife to kill the people"
I guess it's not as simple as that |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:37 PM
oberliner (42,852 posts)
34. Deaths in the double digits
At least 20 people shot according to what I'm hearing on the news.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:49 PM
Scruffy Rumbler (957 posts)
37. CNN just stated... 27 dead.
OMG.... this so amazingly heart wrenching.
Response to Scruffy Rumbler (Reply #37)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:53 PM
Cobalt Violet (9,218 posts)
38. a whole classroom
so sad
Response to Cobalt Violet (Reply #38)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:57 PM
Scruffy Rumbler (957 posts)
39. I can't rap my mind around it....
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:05 PM
lunatica (33,363 posts)
40. 26 dead. 18 of them are children
Response to lunatica (Reply #40)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:37 PM
dixiegrrrrl (49,382 posts)
43. OMG...now every Christmas will be a nightmare for those families.
And every parent here knows how horrible this tragedy is.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:23 PM
forward4freedom (18 posts)
42. This madness has to stop. nt
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:47 PM
Beowulf (761 posts)
44. One entire classroom unaccounted for outside the school
reports the Harford Courant.
Response to Beowulf (Reply #44)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 02:55 PM
dipsydoodle (42,239 posts)
46. That remains the main current concern.
Response to Beowulf (Reply #44)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:18 PM
Divine Discontent (21,049 posts)
51. :( sounds like the classroom he chose? how sad. what a messed up evil action.
pure devilry....
may those kids and adults killed RIP. I'm all for massive gun laws to prevent this. America is obsessed with them. |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:01 PM
countryjake (8,124 posts)
48. Another body discovered at a home connected to the shooting...
Possibly the parent of the shooter (or spouse)?
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:02 PM
TrogL (31,879 posts)
49. Salon is saying one gunman wearing a vest, carrying four guns
But other reports are discounting the vest |
Response to TrogL (Reply #49)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:27 PM
TrogL (31,879 posts)
53. and the gunman's parent is dead
Response to TrogL (Reply #53)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:29 PM
countryjake (8,124 posts)
54. Much misinformation in the early hrs after the massacre...
Last edited Sun Dec 16, 2012, 06:06 AM - Edit history (1) I am editing this to correct some of that faulty reporting. The shooter's mother was found dead in the home which she shared with her son, about five miles from the Sandy Hook Elementary School, but she had no affiliation with the school, at all. This is just incredible. |
Response to TrogL (Reply #53)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:56 PM
TrogL (31,879 posts)
57. father dead at home, mother dead at school, he shot up her classroom full of kids
Response to TrogL (Reply #57)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:22 PM
TrogL (31,879 posts)
59. Girlfriend and another friend missing in New Jersey
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:30 PM
kestrel91316 (51,666 posts)
55. Well-Regulated Militia FAIL. Time for our militia to limit who is permitted to join.
Annual psych exams need to be mandatory for all members.
Response to kestrel91316 (Reply #55)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:57 PM
happyslug (14,779 posts)
60. That is a problem, the US Supreme Court has ruled EVERY male is a member of the Militia
And that has been the case since BEFORE the American Revolution. Technically even the insane are members. Today, I can see the Courts ruling the restriction as to men is no longer valid (if it ever was, washer women were part of EVERY military group of more then 20 men since at least the Crusades, they had long been a tradition in all European and Middle East Armies even by that date).
Thus you have to decide who is NOT a citizen, for being a member of the Militia is part of being a Citizen. The only way to strip people of their position in the Militia is to strip them of their Citizenship. |
Response to happyslug (Reply #60)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 05:25 PM
kestrel91316 (51,666 posts)
63. Well then we need the USSC to revisit that whole idea. I would posit that the Militia itself
via its elected representatives (Congress) has every right to determine who is and is not a member. In 1790 it sure didn't include BLACK men, or any women as you pointed out. And it probably didn't include the local drunks or the prisoners in jail or the homeless vagrants or known violent troublemakers.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:54 PM
mainer (9,664 posts)
56. Shooter's guns all said to be legal
CBS says they were legally purchased.
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:08 PM
grahamhgreen (15,741 posts)
58. WAS THE SHOOTER ON PSYCHOACTIVE MEDICATION(S)? Can we please start asking the question?
See: http://www.ssristories.com/index.php?sort=date&p=
Click on the blue 'What' to access a story. Click on a red column heading to sort the index by that column. What Drug Date Where Additional Suicide Effexor 2011-11-11 England Lawyer Impulsively Jumps In Front of Train: Effexor, like All A/D's, Can Cause Impulsivness Suicide Med For Depression 2011-11-11 England Physician Kills Himself Shortly After Starting an A/D Personality Drained Away/Huge Weight Gain Med For Depression 2011-11-10 England After Many Years on A/D's, Man Felt Like His Personaity Was Drained Away & He Became Obese Violence Med For Depression 2011-11-10 Canada Man Strikes an Ax at a Neighbor Death Antidepressant 2011-11-10 England 23 Year Old Woman Dies of Cardio-Respiratory Arrest: High Level of A/D's in Body: No Alcohol or Drug Suicide Celexa Antidepressant 2011-11-10 England Woman, 73, Kills Herself While on Celexa Murder-Suicide Prozac 2011-11-09 California Man Kills Two Police Officers & Himself Heart Disease Med For Depression 2011-11-09 Global ++Depression Meds Are More Likely to Cause Heart Disease Murder Attempt Med For Depression 2011-11-08 Malta/Mediterranean Man Attempts to Murder Uncle With Hammer: Confused & Agitated Bizarre Behavior Lexapro & Desyrel Antidepressants 2011-11-08 California +Famous Actress Kim Richards Exhibits Bizarre Behavior on TV Dulled Mind/Numbed Body Zoloft 2011-11-07 Georgia Woman Physician Quits Zoloft: Tells How She Recovered From Depression Suicide Med For Depression 2011-11-07 Texas Woman Drives Her Car Into Lake Suicide Antidepressants 2011-11-05 Ohio Soldier, 22, Kills Himself: Black Box Warning on Suicidality for This Age Group Robbery/Bizarre Med For Depression 2011-11-04 England Man Steals 54 Supermarket Trolleys: Doesn't Know Why: Recent Change in Depression Med Murder-Suicide Attempt Med For Depression 2011-11-03 New Jersey Mother Kills her Six Year Old Son: Attempts Suicide Violence Antidepressant Withdrawal 2011-11-03 New York Man Attacks Mail Carrier: Beats Him Violently For No Reason Suicide Prozac 2011-11-02 England Groomsman Hangs Himself the Day of Sister's Wedding DUI Paxil 2011-11-01 Connecticut No Alcohol Involved: Woman Crashes Into Car in CVS Parking Lot Suicidal Thoughts Med For Depression 2011-11-01 New York Vassar Student on Med For Depression Feels Like Killing Herself ETC>>>>....... |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 05:01 PM
happyslug (14,779 posts)
61. Sounds like we may have a mass school killing that beats out Bath, Michigan in 1927.
Response to happyslug (Reply #61)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 05:32 PM
obamanut2012 (12,521 posts)
64. And Virginia Tech
I actually thought this earlier.
Tech is the largest school shooting. Just so horrible. |
Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 07:59 PM
olegramps (4,974 posts)
72. Isn't it bit too late to have any hope of actual gun control?
With some 300 million guns in the country how in the hell could it ever be controlled. People are not buying less guns. In my state they just published how gun sales have gone ballistic. The same with Right-to-Carry permits. It is difficult for me to have to accept that elementary schools need high tech security to protect little children. I guess I am just to damn old to grasp what has taken place in our nation.
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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:07 PM
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It's no secret that, when it comes to marketing, the channel tends to come up short. The reasons are many: a mindset that marketing is a cost center as opposed to an investment; not enough internal resources; a staff that is laser-focused on sales and customer delivery; or an overreliance on vendor marketing campaigns, which do little to build the solution provider's brand.
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In today's column, let's take a look at one of the vendor community's go-to-market plays: the lunch-and-learn.
I'm sure you're familiar with the rather stale lunch-and-learn model. You and your customers: a) show up at fancy restaurant; b) network for 10 minutes; c) sit down and get served; d) listen to the vendor's pitch, which usually consists of more than 50 PowerPoint slides and e) leave with a full stomach. With such a staid formula, it's no wonder that we've all lost our lunching-and-learning appetite.
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- Make it a "brunch-and-learn." Don't be afraid to change the time of the event to mid-morning. Doing so allows your attendees to work from home first thing in the morning, come to the event and get back to the office by lunch. Most importantly, you can expect a better attendee rate as they won't get bogged down at the office (or traffic to the office) the first few hours of the day.
- Ensure a unique takeaway. Have you ever heard of visual partners and graphic facilitators? They add a neat visual element to any corporate gathering or meeting, such as a lunch-and-learn. Having a graphics facilitator illustrate the meeting with visuals fosters an active atmosphere and stimulates excitement and curiosity among the group. People sense something different; they become receptive and retain more of what they learn from the presenter. As a follow-up, send each attendee digital and hard-copy versions of the final work. Or even replicate one particularly important image on a sticker.
- Add a twist to the door prize giveaway. Your attendees come to learn something, but they also expect some swag or even a sought-after giveaway. But instead of providing the requisite AMEX card, give away the gear used during the presentations. In other words, the iPad, mini projector and laser pointer would all get thrown in the prize basket.
- Talk with them, not at them. Your attendees want to hear from peers who faced IT challenges similar to the ones they're facing; attendees want to hear about the problem as well as how it was resolved. Case study slides are good. But a living case study is even better. So instead of simply relying on a case study narrative, set up the program as a Q&A talk show with a customer or two. This format certainly takes more time and effort to execute, but the value delivered to your attendee is well worth it.
Those are just a few lunch-and-learn ideas to liven up the time you spend at events with customers and vendor partners. What are your thoughts? How have you delivered a valuable lunch-and-learn program?
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Bloody Good by Georgia Evans
I'm always glad to see a vampire novel that moves away from stereotypical plots and settings. So, when I learned that Georgia Evans's Bloody Good was set in England during World War II and that its vampires were Nazi secret agents, I was immediately intrigued.
Bloody Good is at its best when depicting the struggles of ordinary country folk during the war. Through the many neighborly chats that fill these pages, the reader gets an idea of what it might have been like to deal with air raids, rationing, and the experience of either being an evacuee or having an evacuee billeted in one's home. For several of Brytewood's residents, who are secretly supernatural beings, hiding their true nature is a further challenge. Evans does a great job of showing a cozy setting in ominous times.
I also loved th... Read More
Georgia Evans
Georgia Evans is a pseudonym of USA Today best-selling author Rosemary Laurey. She's an expatriate Brit, retired special education teacher, and grandmother who now lives in Ohio and has a wonderful time writing stories of vampires and shape-shifting pumas. Read excerpts at her website.Brytewood — (2009) Publisher: While the sounds of battle echo through the sky, a lady doctor has more than enough trouble to keep her busy even in a sleepy hamlet outside London. But the threat is nearer home than Alice knows. German agents have infiltrated her beloved countryside — Nazis who can fly, read minds, and live forever. They're not just fascists. They're vampires. Alice has no time for fantasy, but when the corpses start appearing sucked dry, she'll have to accept help where she can get it. If that includes a lowly Conscientious Objector who says he's no coward though he refuses to fight, and her very own grandmother, a sane, sensible woman who insists that she's a Devonshire Pixie, so be it. Indeed, whatever it takes to defend home and country from an evil both ancient and terrifyingly modern…
Bloody Good: WWII Nazi vampires
Bloody Awful: Nazi Vampires!
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Bloody Awful by Georgia Evans
Bloody Awful continues the story of Brytewood, a cozy English village that is secretly home to several supernatural beings. Brytewood's inhabitants, both human and Other, face an ongoing struggle as German bombs fall from the sky and Nazi vampires infiltrate the town itself. It's the characters that make this series compelling. I had issues with Bloody Good, but wanted to keep reading to find out what happened to the people I'd "met."
I enjoyed Bloody Awful more than I did Bloody Good. This is partly because the copy editing is vastly better. There are a few typos and continuity errors, but overall, Bloody Awful is much more polished editing-wise and reads more smoothly as a result. Another reason I liked Bloody Aw... Read More
Bloody Right: Best of The Brytewood Trilogy
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Bloody Right by Georgia Evans
My guess was right — Bloody Right, in fact! This is the best book in the The Brytewood Trilogy.
This time, the remaining Nazi vampires have been assigned to assassinate Winston Churchill at a party on an estate near Brytewood. The assorted pixies, dragons, elves, sprites, and humans of the village must stop them before they can do the dastardly deed.
The leading lady and man in this installment are Mary LaPrioux, a schoolteacher evacuated from Guernsey, and Gryffyth Pendragon, who has just been discharged from the army after losing his leg. I liked this romance better than the previous two, and the main reason is Gryffyth! He's by far the most interesting of the three male leads in the series. I loved him to bits!
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