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Pacific Northwest Chapter Status Report For 2013
Our chapter continued semi-monthly meetings (started in 2012) during the first part of 2013, but did not evolve into monthly gatherings as anticipated. Instead, they stopped entirely by the middle of 2013 due to time and space conflicts. Communication between members has dissipated despite a new mailing list being created by Lucas Reber and hosted by the University of Washington. We remain hopeful that further separation of members regionally and continued conflicts of time and outside commitments will not hinder our chapter further in 2014. Although members have each continued their contributions to malware analysis and/or information assurance / cyber security in general, few of our members have answered the call for an update on their activities to include in this report. As such, it its limited in scope and content.
Chiraag Aval, M.S.
Chuck Costarella
David Dittrich
Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Ph.D.
Dennis Charles Grant - Chapter Lead
Franklin Jackson
Eliot Lim
Stuart Maclean
Ashish Malviya
Julia Narvaez
Raymond Pompon
Alex Railean
Lucas Reber
Michael Schweiger
Christian Seifert, Ph.D.
Mike Simon
- Two "HonEeeBoxes" continue in operation from the 2012 implementation.
- "Public Regional Information Security Event Management" system (PRISEM) designed to offer early warning on malicious activity continues to operate. (PRISEM uses customized security and information event management (SIEM) equipment housed in the University of Washington's Applied Physics Lab).
Alexander, O., Chung, S., Endicott-Popovsky, B. (2013 March). Attack-Aware Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA). Poster presented at the 13th Annual International Conference on International Warfare. Denver, Colorado. (Best Poster Award)
Costarella, C. (2013). "Hardening Honeynets against Honeypot aware Botnet Attacks", University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Dittrich, David and Kenneally, Erin and Bailey, Michael, Applying Ethical Principles to Information and Communication Technology Research: A Companion to the Menlo Report (October 8, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2342036 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2342036
Endicott-Popovsky, B., Horowitz, D. (2013 February). Unintended consequences: Digital forensics literacy and the legal system. Paper presented at 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists, Washington, D.C.
Endicott-Popovsky, B. and Jansen, A. (2013 June). Integrating digital forensics and archival science: Creating a Preservation-Ready environment. Paper presented at the 2013 Conference of the International Council on Archives, Barbados, West Indies.
Evans, M., Lysenko, V., Endicott-Popovsky, B. (2013 October). Proactive vs. reactive: Securing the critical data transport in the Cloud. Paper and poster presented at the 1st Annual International Conference on Cloud Security Management. Seattle, Washington.
Fink, G., Best, D. Manz, D., Popovsky, V. and Endicott-Popovsky, B. (2013 July). Gamification for measuring cyber security awareness. Paper presented at Human Computer Interface (HCI) Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. Published in Foundations of Augmented Cognition Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8027 Berlin, Germany, Springer, pp. 656-665.
Kuntze, N., Rudolph, C., Schilling, H., Alva, A., Bribois, B. and Endicott-Popovsky, B. (2013 November). Seizure of digital data and "selective suppression" of digital evidence. Paper presented at 8th International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Lysenko, V., Endicott-Popovsky, B. (2013 March). Action and reaction: Strategies and tactics of the current political cyberwarfare in Russia. Poster presented at the 13th Annual International Conference on International Warfare. Denver, Colorado.
Moon, C., Chung, S., Endicott-Popovsky, B. (2013 August). Architecture for insider threat detection system using cloud computing and in-memory database with emphasis on database server logs. Paper presented at US-Korea Conference, Meadowland, New Jersey.
Moon, C., Chung, S., Endicott-Popovsky, B. (2013 August). A Cloud and in-memory-based two-tier architecture of a database protection system from insider attacks. Paper presented at 14th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, Jeju Island, Korea.
Rudolph, C., Kuntze, N., Endicott-Popovsky, B. (2013 October). Forensic Readiness for cloud-based distributed workflows. Paper presented at the 1st Annual International Conference on Cloud Security Management, Seattle, Washington.
Schweiger, M., Chung, S., Endicott-Popovsky, B. (2013 October). Malware analysis on the Cloud: Increased performance, reliability and flexibility. Paper presented at the 1st Annual International Conference on Cloud Security Management, Seattle, Washington.
Dr. Endicott-Popovsky of the University of Washington also recieved the following recognition during 2013: Selected to lead Dagstuhl Seminar: Digital Evidence and Forensic Readiness, Daghstuhl Germany, Feb. 2014. Best Poster Award 13th Annual International Conference on International Warfare. Denver, Colorado. Appointed by Washington State Adjutant General and President of the University of Washington to the Washington State Governor's Uniform Coordinating Group for Cyber Disaster Preparedness. Named to the Washington State National Guard ICT Planning Group. Academic representative to Cyber Storm IV. Named to the National Visiting Committee of the National CyberWatch Center. Named North American leader of Interpares Trust IV, international organization funded by Canadian govt.
David Dittrich blogged on the following topics during 2013:
"A new infosec era? Or a new infosec error?" http://www.honeynet.org/node/1031
"Debating the Active Response Continuum: Defining the Terms of the Debate" http://www.honeynet.org/node/1048
"Hide and go seek, not hide and go tweak" http://www.honeynet.org/node/1076
David Dittrich also presented "So You Want to Take Over a Botnet..." at the Microsoft DCC 2013 in Barcelona, Spain in February: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/talks/dcc2013_dittrich_botnets.pdf
- Several chapter members were directly involved with the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition during 2013.
- Several chapter members are faculty, staff, students and/or guest lecturers at the University of Washington.
- DC Grant currently holds the office of President in the Mt Rainier ISACA Chapter and has accepted a faculty appointment at Columbia Basin College as a Cyber Security Instructor.
- Charles Costarella and DC Grant both attended Industrial Control Systems Security Training at Idaho National Labs during 2013.
To rebuild communication within the chapter during 2014, which had improved during late 2012 and early 2013, but dissipated during the last half of 2013.


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Singer/songwriter Maria Taylor is having a baby.
She dropped that bomb during an interview last week with the Arizona State University student newspaper, The State Press. And although the Saddle Creek Records chanteuse, who is also half of the duo of Azure Ray, is on a tour with a new solo album, I couldn't think of a more important topic of discussion.
"Well, I can tell you that I met my boyfriend at a show in Washington, D.C.," Taylor said while lying down in the tour van before her show Monday night in Portland. "He's the first non-musician I've ever dated. He's a Chief of Staff for a politician -- I'm not going to tell you who."
The reason for keeping his anonymity: "I haven't asked him if he wants me to talk about it," Taylor said. "He's a really wonderful person. If I'm going to move to Washington, D.C., he must be a wonderful person. I remember driving into (Washington) before I met him, I was sitting in back-to-back traffic as always and I said, 'Watch me meet someone from here and have to move to this f***ing town.'"
She went on to say Washington isn't that bad. In fact, the more she experiences its history, museums and parks, the more she likes it. So the plan is to move to Washington, have the baby and then start touring again with baby in tow. "And my mom will be tour nanny," Taylor said. "She just retired and wants to see the country. I plan on working on an Azure Ray record before having the baby to get as much done as we can. So the Azure Ray tour will be the first baby tour."
They say having a baby changes everything, but does that include the way you write music? "I feel like it will," Taylor said. "I draw from what's happening in my life when I write. I imagine my disposition will be different, and it will even affect the sound as well as the lyrics."
Taylor, both as a solo artist and in Azure Ray, has defined her music with deeply personal love songs, a style that seems almost passé as she's about to enter a different stage in life, but she's still not sure if she'll leave love songs behind. "I haven't written a song since I found out I was pregnant," she said. "I might feel like focusing on different aspects of life, but what if I'm not good at that? I need to start writing again, but right now I'm real sick and on tour, and I don't write when I'm on tour. I've been throwing up a lot. I haven't felt creative."
She said she didn't think she would be sick just three months into the pregnancy -- her due date is April 30 ("A Taurus," she adds), and she won't find out if it's a boy or girl until after the tour.
"I was told I would feel amazing, but my body just shuts down at 9 p.m. and I get shaky and go to bed and get sick again" she said. "I can't drink and I have social anxiety. It's not the same experience to tour pregnant, but I feel like I'm conquering my fears. I'm talking to people every night and battling sickness.
"The cool thing is that I feel like the baby has all of its organs and just grows and gets bigger," she added. "I can't help thinking that I'm teaching it rhythms. It feels the vibrations. We really rock out, so I think it's going to be a drummer or bass player."
With songs like guitar-driven grinder "Matador" and strobing, soaring album opener "Masterplan," Overlook, Taylor's new album released this past August, may be her most diverse collection to date. The album balances the rock with Taylor's usual delicate, reflective material, like the dreamy "Happenstance," and somber "This Could Take a Lifetime." Critical response also has been rather diverse -- reviewers either love it or say the record sounds too rushed.
"I feel like I shot myself in the foot in the press release," Taylor said, laughing. "I said I locked myself in a room and wrote it in two weeks. I feel like (critics) think I didn't spend enough time and that it was thrown together. I could have written all my records that way. If I said I'd spent two years on it, they would say it was my best record yet. People who loved it probably didn't read the press release."
Overlook marks a return to Saddle Creek after Taylor strayed to Nettwerk to release 2009's Ladyluck. She said the label switch was merely testing different waters. "There are pros and cons about each label," she said. "Nettwerk put a lot of money into it, but we didn't make it back, so I didn't make money. With Saddle Creek, you can recoup and make money, and that's hard to do these days. I don't want to have to wait tables or go back to school."
For now the biggest question is how Taylor will balance her career and motherhood. While her life is about to change forever, she said her new arrival won't keep her from making music.
"When I'm on stage that one hour, I'm 100 percent happy," she said. "I have social anxiety, but I feel like I'm connecting with people, and singing is my favorite thing to do in the world, especially on stage with my friends and family. I can't imagine going through the rest of my life not doing that. I need that."
Maria Taylor plays with Big Harp and Dead Fingers Sunday, Oct. 30, at Slowdown, 729 No. 14th St.. Showtime is 9 p.m. Admission is $10. For more information, call 402.345.7569 or visit theshowdown.com.
Lazy-i is a weekly column by Reader senior contributing writer Tim McMahan focused on the Omaha music scene. Check out Tim's daily music news updates at his website, lazy-i.com, or email him at email@example.com.

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Club or Organization Advisor Contract
Each new club advisor needs to review and then submit a contract verifying he or she understands the expectations.
- Regularly attend club meetings
- Attend club activities where community members are invited and any after hours
- Approve forms including SLL Event Planning, Financial Requests, Vehicle Requests, Travel Approval Request.
- Responsible to travel with club
- Provide continuity for the group from year to year
- Explain College policies and procedures to club members
- Intervene when knowledge of illegal activity(ies) contrary to SLCC policy, Utah State Law, or the Student Code of Conduct.


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The GQA: The Uncensored Brilliance of Shia LaBeouf
The star of Transformers: Dark of the Moon gets exceptionally candid on his violent, contentious, and ultimately tender relationship with director Michael Bay, the Megan Fox feud, and the intergalactic robot franchise's biggest failure
GQ: How did you first meet Michael Bay?
**Shia LaBeouf: **I did a screen test and they sent my dailies to Michael, and Michael asked to meet with me. I still hadn't met Steven at this point. I went and sat down with Michael; he had me read these really generic lines for what seemed like a stand-up routine; the character was—it was a neurotic monologue. And then he asked me to ad-lib my own separate monologue on the tail end of it and then combine the two of them, and then run in this parking lot and do the monologue, and then run up the stairs and do the monologue, and then do push-ups and do the monologue. Stuff like that—I mean literally, literally, literally. And then we went downstairs, and we talked about my upbringing and all that, and my family. We started talking about the stand-up routine and then he asked me to do some of my stand-up routine for him, which I did.
Not long after that—maybe a week later—I was still shooting Disturbia, that tape had gone to Steven and he had signed off, and Michael said that he had signed off, and they were working on my deal. Michael told me there was a guy in London who, if I didn't sign up for, you know, a rebated deal [would replace me]. My whole thing was I wanted to work with Michael, because first and foremost, I'm a true fan of Mike's movies. There's not one movie he's made that I'm not entertained by—not one. Not one where I don't watch the entire thing all the way through. And there are a lot of movies I can't get through. If there's anything to say about Michael: he makes entertaining films. He knows his audience. When I met Mike, I was a seventeen-year-old boy. He was my fucking god.
And meeting him in person was a very different thing; he's not at all this alpha male, this machismo legend shit—he's not any of these things. When he's on set, he's different; when he's on set, he's a leader, a general; he's relentless. He's precise and he's specific and he's determined; he's outrageously committed. He never flinches in a firefight. He's always there for you; when the going gets tough, he never flinches. He's helpful; he's confident; he's a risk-taker. But he's also completely unreasonable and irrational sometimes and emotional and aggressive and demanding. He's my coach; I love him; he's my captain. When we're on set, he's my ace. He's my best friend, but he's also my worst enemy. He's blunt with women; he lacks tact—especially on the stage that we're on, there's no time or room for talking around feelings. Sometimes it does have to be blunt. And Mike is good at that. He's very goal-oriented; he's motivated. He's smart as fuck. He knows exactly what he wants; he understands his audience. I think the dude is a genius; I think he's a visionary. He's the greatest action director in film, I think. I'm proud that I've been able to work with him. You know what he is? New York. If you can make it on a Bay set, you can make it on any set. He's really good.
GQ: What was your reaction the first time you were on set with him and he had the megaphone out and he began yelling?
**Shia LaBeouf: **Well, I mean, I'd just come from D.J. Caruso, who's a very—while also as enthusiastic and committed and dedicated, he's just not as blunt. He doesn't have that real leadership. Michael walks around like an undefeated fighter. The first day I came to set, the first thing I was asked to do was run away from a pitbull/mastiff/Doberman combo, that was supposed to run at me, towards camera, and then run into this dog trainer's arms. And I had just flown in from Disturbia; I was still filming that and came in for this one shot. And Mike said, "Okay, you're going to go over there." I'd never worked with this dude before. And when I came to see him on set, he had a different look in his eye. And I would come to know this Michael Bay over the next six years, but at this point in time—day one—I didn't know shit.
And so I go over to the start mark and he yells action and these dogs chase after me. In my mind, I see the dog trainer; I'm thinking these are trained dogs. There's no way he's going to make me run around with dogs that aren't trained. But, surprise surprise, these dogs have never done a fucking movie before. They were attack dogs from a retired police academy, and so they were trained to attack people. I guess this dude was like a retired cop who was like the dog guy; basically he recycled a bunch of dogs that were in the academy and then took them on his own little expedition to Hollywood and met me, and the dogs didn't stop for him. They had no respect for him and they just wanted to eat my face.
So literally I just ran around set, and I remember all the crew—this is my first shot, first take—all the crew was throwing chairs at the dog, trying to distract these dogs who were on my tail and relentless and not going to stop. And I remember them finally corralling the dogs and looking over at Mike, who's just giggling. Just fucking giggling. Giggling. And every director I worked with to that point wouldn't have been giggling—here's the star of his movie about to be mauled to death, day one, and Mike is just giggling. But when I would come in there later in life and the pedal was really to the metal—I'd really taken losses, physically—I've seen Mike drop to his knees and cry, to the floor. I've seen a different side of Michael Bay that, I guess, the legend doesn't entail.
GQ: Can you give me an example of that?
**Shia LaBeouf: **Yeah, I remember, we were in Alamogordo and I'd just come back from mangling my hand in a car accident. I was like, four weeks in and we're doing all right, and we're now in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and I'm supposed to stab this spear into Optimus's chest—which is a big blue mound on the floor. It was angular, because it's supposed to look like a robotic chest. It was kind of moist in the middle of the desert, because the morning in the desert's cold as shit and it's very moist, actually—there's a moisture out there. And the moisture was all over this blue tarp, and I kept slipping and sliding; I guess we did one take where I slipped and the spear went into my eye about three inches above my retina. And this purple liquid started dripping down my face. And I remember Michael running over—I'm next to this Marine, who's an EMT actually, and he's in the scene. But he's also a trained EMT who'd just come back from Afghanistan.
I remember him saying to me when Mike ran up next to him: "It's purple, good. Thank god." And Mike said, "Why is it good that it's purple?" He's freaking out like Sam, that Sam neurosis. He's tripping and asking the guys: "Why is it good that it's purple?" And the guy said, "If it was red, it means the moisture out of his popped eyeball would have mid in with the purple blood, because blood comes out purple when it first comes out. If the milky residue in that eye had mid with the purple, it would have come out red." And that means I hadn't popped my eyeball, and there's too much blood to be able to decide whether it was in my eyeball or not, but made a decision based on the blood that was seeping out of my face—and I don't know what's going on. All I see is a purple film's over my eye, my right eye, part of my vision, and my other vision is fine. I look at Mike, and Mike drops to his knees and puts his hands over his eyes and starts crying with the megaphone next to him. And that's when you know the dude loves you.
He's never going to come over and tap you on the back or give you a hug or say good morning to you—unless we're off work. But when we're at work, there's no huggy, kissy shit. He's a boss. He's General Patton-like, and his affections are minimal, but the only time I felt, at least, his affection at work, was when I would take damage. Then he would really care, and I remember towards the end of the film run, he wouldn't let me do a lot of the stunts he used to let me do. It was interesting. Because he became protective, parental. His maturation is taking him closer to the dude who belongs in a family, and I can see it reflected on me. That protectionist thing that he has in him—the man is a good man, but when he's on set, he can't allude to that. He's got to be a motherfucker. Because there's 90 people marching to the beat of his drum, and there can't be any indecision. He has to look like the smartest shark in the water. Otherwise, people are going to follow him into the fire. And so it's a character that Mike puts on; he's very smart, and you need that guy to make these movies.
GQ: He described you guys as having a big-brother, little-brother relationship. Accurate?
**Shia LaBeouf: **Yes.
GQ: But he did tell me that you had one blow-up where you yelled at him on III. He was surprised about it—can you tell me about that a little bit?
**Shia LaBeouf: **Uh, I mean one Mike would tell you about was when I was—the first time—I'm a pretty explicit character, as is Mike, and I'd never met a director like him, and he'd never met an actor like me. When we got to the set—I met him when I was 18, so I didn't have a whole lot of ground to stand on. My leverage was nil to none, and I was this new rookie who was in the middle of the Michael Bay Show trying to anchor it—in truth. And some of the shit he was asking me to do was asinine, and I would tell him, and he'd be baffled that this eighteen-year-old had the gall to step in front of Mike Bay, the master, on his set in his domain and say: No. So that got old really quick for Mike.
I remember one time—and Jon Voight was there; if you talk to him, he can attest to it—and Duhamel was there, and Tyrese was there, and Megan was there. We were all in the middle of a like, sundry, like where we're stashing weapons and a weapons shoot. And I think I had a problem with some—I forget what it was; it was superfluous at the time, but I remember, they just add up. You spend seven months with a person screaming at you; toward the end, you're like, "You know what? I'm going to fucking stab you." So any little thing and you're ready to fly off the handle, and I think I lost my cool one day with Mike on some dumb, dumb shit like who I was entering with. And Mike lost it as well, because he had had enough at that point as well, and we got to the point where it's shirts and hands, fist to chest, screaming, spitting—we're about to fight. And I remember Jon Voight struts in and puts his arms between—and Jon is the biggest man on set; he's an older dude, but he's still ripped, and he's still big. I just remember the force of Voight's palm pushing me back and pushing Mike back. That was one time when we almost came to blows.
And then on the second movie, he was nice to me. Because that was in the middle of my sort of physical catastrophe, like Quasimodo-ing my way through the movie, so he was nicer. And he had his own problems with Megan. Towards the third movie—there's really heavy emotional lifting. That's the thing about Mike, and that's what makes him a great leader also—I think a major director attribute is that he's willing to take risks. And he does it in segments—so like, in the third movie, he'd never dealt with this type of emotional—he'd never really dive in this hammer-on-the-nail sort of approach to the emotional shit that we'd have to do in this movie, like dealing with loss and things like that. And Mike's dealt with loss in his own life, and so when he's having us depict something that mirrors something in his life, it starts to get too close to home, and he starts feeling less leader and more vulnerable. He starts shutting down, and in those moments, I need him the most; that's when I need him to be the fucking—he needs to be my rock in those moments, because I need to be vulnerable, and you can't have two vulnerable people trying to make a movie at the same time. It's impossible. You need a leader. And so if I have to crack and you have to guide me, then you need to be strong in those moments.
On III, I think we were dealing with something where we were shooting underneath a big spaceship in Cape Canaveral, and there were all these NASA people around this. I'm having to deal with the loss of Bumblebee; I'm losing my best friend in the whole world now to another planet, and I'm never going to see him again. In order to make that real for me sometimes, I need to mindfuck myself. And part of that is having a speaker on set with an iPod plugged in so I can conjure emotions. And some of the songs that I like to play—you know, like Feist—Mike's not going to have it. Because he's on his set and he's surrounded by 90 masculine worker bees who've been with him for seven months trudging uphill, and surrounded around those people are military and NASA, and everybody's looking at Mike, who's now dealing with someone—it's a very vulnerable subject matter—not only just what we're dealing with, but also for him and his career. People take a lot of hits at Mike based on character, actor, storyline type topics. And they think he doesn't have a good hold on those things.
I read as much as the next fan—as does Mike—and you read all the negative as well, and most of the negative I see targeted at Mike is dealing with things like what we had to deal with in this moment. And here we are at NASA and I can feel him bubbling, and I'm playing my song and he finally says to me, "No, we're not going to play that song." And he puts on some orchestral Batman soundtrack shit—not for me, you know? Like maybe, "Yeah, Mike, if you want to sit here and cry at the loss of your best friend, then play that. But you're not here right now; it's me here and I need this and this is what it's gotta be." And now we're arguing about the music choice for my scene that he's involved in from a distance, but in this moment, it's me and that music, and I can't get over the idea that he won't allow the idea to play this vulnerable shit that gets me there. He's just playing the soundtrack, and it's like—to me, I can't get my head around it.
And so, you know, again—we start wrestling again. And then I get really bold with Mike, when I'm like that. He gets bold with me also, you know? And then he sort of backed off, and the cameras finished off what we needed to finish, and then he came back and shot the rest of the movie. It was probably the worst verbal argument I've ever had with any coworker in my life—under a spaceship, screaming at him: "You motherfucker!" All this insanity. Really crazy stuff that I don't even feel comfortable repeating, actually. Really gnarly. And then you pull your pants back up and you get back to work. There's nothing you can do. He's my best friend at points, and my worst enemy at points.
GQ: That's exactly how he described it. What did you take away from that, and how does that reflect on working with other directors in the future?
**Shia LaBeouf: **Oh, I'll never meet a Michael Bay again. Here I'm am, I'm at the tail end of a John Hillcoat shoot. It's a totally different animal. There are attributes to John I wish I could bestow to Mike and vice versa. There's more sitting around here. That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set, is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene. You're never in your trailer—you don't have to conjure much, either. That's the beauty of Mike: if there's going to be an explosion that you have to react to, you don't have to do much. He's going to blow the whole fucking building up; you just gotta be around.
**GQ: You mentioned that he had his problems with Megan; obviously, you worked with Megan a lot on the first two films. Did you have a sense that things were worse on II than they were on the first film? **
**Shia LaBeouf: **Well, I got the idea that—basically, what I saw happening is: I saw two people getting very strong-willed—well, I saw—well, here's what I saw: I saw one person who was a commanding officer—and there'd never been any mystery there—but I saw a movie come out and a person's personality change in terms of the exposure and the explosive fame element, which changes people's mindset. And then I saw a power wash over this person, and a strength that could have been taken in a positive way and instead was taken in a negative way. And she started shit-talking our captain. It's one thing to say something that's criticism, that's been talked about mutually; there's no mystery, and criticism that is real and that the person would make themselves—and then there's name-calling publicly, which turns into high school bashing. Which you can't do; you can't do.
I think at one point, Megan had said something like that Mike was Napoleon or Hitler, and I think that...he's a sweet man. He loves his mother, and he loves his dog, and he wants a family. Like all this talk about him being degrading to women and using women is all bullshit. He's not that guy. I've only seen Mike with two women in the six years that I've known him. He wants a family and has the heart for it. And I think Megan thought that he was this sort of insidious being that she invented in her mind, and because she was—the whole world was saying she was the most beautiful woman in the world—she started reading a lot of Marilyn Monroe and got this woman-power protectionist vibe that she came to II with that wasn't there in one. And while it did keep her safe, she lost her vulnerability and developed this edge that Mike didn't enjoy—as a coworker. As a character, I see the attributes to having a new person, and I also see the challenges that we face in doing so.
But again, none of it was—none of it came down to a decision I had to make. I just had to sort of become okay with it. I love Megan, and I love Mike, and now, at the tail-end of working with Rosie, I have a love for Rosie as well. It's a difficult scenario all around. But I think there's no way we would have gotten through the third movie with them at each other's necks the whole way.
GQ: Was the atmosphere of III different because of that? Did things change on the set at all?
**Shia LaBeouf: **Yeah, III was probably—while it was as hard to make as the others, this was our most concisely-directed effort—I think because this was one, our best script, and two, I think we knew how to make these movies really well. This is the third time we've had a go at it, and there's a lot of things that these dudes perfected that we were sort of inventing on the way.
GQ: And that was obviously the goal—Michael has talked a little bit about his disappointment in II, and I think you've talked about it, too. How did you initially feel after it came out?
**Shia LaBeouf: **I remember being in London with Mike at the premiere, and I remember coming out of the premiere—and the audience reaction was incredible, actually. It was a really, really solid audience reaction: standing ovation and all that, and we get out, and Mike has this sort of—just this demeanor, he looks fractured. And he's sitting in the chair next to Kenny Bates, who's his lifelong best friend and stunt coordinator on all his movies, and they look at each other, and I remember Kenny saying: "I think it went over well, Mike." And Mike says, "You think?" Mike is a very vulnerable guy when it comes to these moments in his life, and he's always asking—you know, he's the guy who will laugh at a joke and then ask you why it's funny. He's that guy. He's very inquisitive as to why it's good; tell me why we succeeded, why they like it. And I just remember him asking why and nobody being able to explain to him why we had succeeded, or why the action was what it was. Whereas the first time, everybody had a why. Everybody had an answer to the why. And the second time, nobody could figure it out. I just remember that sort of—that question mark in the air, and all of us—at least the key people—just sitting around in a room feeling like, "Yeah, we're going to be okay, but we sure as shit didn't blow it out the water like we intended to do and like we all worked for." I remember that feeling being there and nobody ever really spoke about it, and then—I didn't ever really make public mention until maybe a month later. And then after Mike had read this interview I put out there, he called me and we talked about it, and he agreed with me. And then we talked about what the next move was.
GQ: How did you guys verbalize that? What did you decide needed to change to improve?
**Shia LaBeouf: **We lost a big human element. We lost a—you know, in the second movie, we went bigger, yes, and succeeded in doing that. And in doing that, he also lost a lot of the intricacies. The first one had a lot of texture, and there was actually lot of personality going around, a lot of character. And the second one didn't expand on that; it actually sucked all of that dry and added this ridiculous storyline which was meandering and went nowhere, a complete shit storyline—crafted by the two dudes who wrote the first one. And so everybody felt like, "Well, if there's anybody to do this again, it's the guys who wrote the first one, because the first one's fantastic." And they were just—I think they were just sucked dry of ideas at that point; they had been writing "Fringe" nonstop. They had been writing J.J. Abrams's Star Trek, and then they're locked in a room for six weeks after the writers' strike to write a second Transformers movies, and when it came out the oven, nobody wanted to eat it. We were forced on this fucking script because we had a release date.
And so now there's a lot of me and Mike in a room trying to finagle ideas and ad-lib, bringing other actors in for rehearsal time, and then what you wind up with is you have a director who's committed but doesn't have the tools in the bag to be able to make what he wants in the canvas. Our script was flawed from the beginning and didn't deal with what the audience wanted to watch. And so I think that because these dudes were rushed, the characters were rushed, and in rushing the characters, you lost the characters; and in losing the characters, you lose the human element, as well as the robot element. Those robots have a personality as well, and I think some of those robots almost became, like—one for sure was racist. The other one became like—they all became movie surface-y bullshit characters. And the first one, when you discover them, they're actually rich and full of life—you know, in the first film. When they're all standing around in a circle and they're explaining to me how they got here—these characters are characters. They're full of life, and they have textures to them. The first one, even though it's a big movie, deals with all the semantics of those relationships. Whereas the second one was just dealing with, literally, set pieces. It's almost like Mike threw a bunch of ideas at them in the preliminary stage, like: "Hey, it'd be cool to make it worldwide. It would be cool to have a scene at the Pyramids, at the foot of the Pyramids"—and I guess there wasn't enough puzzle pieces between Mike and Kurtzman and Orci to be able to make a puzzle.


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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Rallying Cry
People have been left scratching their heads, in many respects standard assumptions fall to pieces, Harper very much looks like teflon. Some of the "scandals" aren't trivial, they are significant. In the past, issues of this scale have tripped up campaigns, and yet in this election Harper just plows on, with impunity. Nothing seems to have changed, even though an election is supposed to bring greater attention, scrutiny. In some respects, the opposition is to blame for not making the case, but I'm sorry, it goes beyond superficial blame or credit.
In my opinion, Liberals needed to tell voters to "wake up", get in their face and raise the stakes. Some risk in that approach, for obvious reasons, but the status quo has done little to engage. With that in mind, this STIRRING speech by Ignatieff, the natural rising action quite strong, THIS is the hill we should choose to live or die on:
Rise up, wake up, get your heads out of your ass, whatever your choosing, the sentiment is required, desperately. The Liberals will lose this election, unless we create a spark and fast. This message, should be repeated at every stop, it should become our central theme, one we NEVER deviate from until the polls close. The evidence is there, the laundry list of indictments incredible when you consider, and yet Harper seems immune. Only a "cold shower" approach will do at this stage, we need a rally cry and Ignatieff organically created just that. Forget about issues of the day, meandering all over, a simple focus on this theme, everyday, everywhere, maybe it fizzles, but it's our best chance left. Yes, RISE UP indeed!
19 comments:
- Jerry Prager said...
As one of the leading proponents of a democracy campaign based on rising up, I was needless to say overjoyed when all the pieces clicked into place in Iggy's thinking and Rise Up spilled up. STOP trashing the NDP, a vote for them is NOT a vote for Harper in all ridings, this IS bigger than the Liberal Party. Keep going down that road, focus the campaign entirely on speaking to the majority of Canadian voters who have kept liberal democracy alive in Canada since 1935 (the last time corporatism reared it's ugly head in Canada.)
Harper put himself in the wrong side of history by not bringing in democratic reform, fill the void, ask for a minority and ask for a parliament of committed liberal democrats to work with.
I have believed for some time now that Ignatieff was history's child, and that he is being forced to strip away everything but the essence of what needs to be done.
- 8:28 AM, April 17, 2011
- bubba said...
Rise up vacate your seats in the house of commons!
Rise up make room for CPC and ndp Members to do the nations work!
Rise Up go back to the drawing board and reinvent the Liberal party!
Rise Up and recognise a real scandal is when money ends up in Mps and Party hands that was meant for public services not the assorted screw-up of the day liberals try to call scandals.
Rise up and recognise a party is about to get 50% of the vote that is committed to the idea of canada.
Rise Up and celebrate that democracy does work, and people get it,and the more liberals call them names for their ideas the worse the punishment will be at the polls. RISE UP!
- 10:11 AM, April 17, 2011
- Steve V said...
Keep your day job bubba :)
- 10:15 AM, April 17, 2011
- Jerry Prager said...
Bubba's got delusions, you think you get to list liberal failures, and pave over Harper PMO directed scandal after scandal ?
I'm not a Liberal, so I have no vested interest in the Party, my committments are to liberal democracy, Harper's committment is to destroying liberal democracy.
The Harpercons are corpoatism's last stand in Canada, for it is about to be voted out of office and driven out by democrats rising in America, and around the world.
Harper and you Bubba put yourself on the wrong side of history by lying about renewing democracy when you came to power. That was the gate of either or.
Time for the Cons to go back into the wilderness and find some ethics and principles before you dare show your faces in this nation again.
Rise up where we can see the beast inside Harper for what it is: the religious elect have deceived themselves by worshipping at the altars of Mammon and by pimping for Babylon.
Happy Sunday Bubba, the real gate of this election is between the false sheep of spiritual pride, and the sheep lying down as the pride of the Lion of Judah.
In the name of the Lion I say to the valley of dry bones, rise up Canada and see the lying lot of the Harpercon hordes, servants of the Beast that we have all seen lurking and creeping behind Harper's face; sneering contempt at us through his eyes.
- 10:55 AM, April 17, 2011
- liberazzi said...
I hate to say it is all about the leader, but at least in my riding at the doors that Iggy is a drag on the party. Also, Coyne makes a good point, whereby sure "Rise Up", but we are not providing any dynamic alternative. Bring in real QP, committee reform, real voting reform, and real internal party democratic reform. The Liberal Party internally is terribly undemocratic, you've got to practice what you preach.
- 11:26 AM, April 17, 2011
- Jerry Prager said...
liberazzi, yes but a minority liberal government would support NDP democratic reforms, Bloc reforms, Harper won't. That should be the message. Liberals are the mediators between the governing classes vis a vis the rights and freedoms of crown chartered commoners in a corporatist economy.
- 11:30 AM, April 17, 2011
- liberazzi said...
I think the family pack is a nice contrast to what the Cons are proposing, but I sense voters are not convinced the Libs would act much different than the Cons in power. I think the Libs needed to go harder on democratic reform, with more dramatic proposals, I think they have lost that opportunity. I think voters are going with the devil they know, unless the campaign team puts more meat on the bone with regards to democratic reform.
- 11:34 AM, April 17, 2011
- Steve V said...
Actually that's just kneejerk cynicism in my view, rather than fair criticism. There are plenty of ideas, plenty of distictions, I grow tired of people heaping scorn on every move.
- 11:35 AM, April 17, 2011
- liberazzi said...
If the Libs want to engage the voter propose this:
- immediate & real parliamentary reform, QP/committees etc
- voting reform, I would like to see a run-off vote if the top candidate does not receive 51% against the 2nd place candidate. Proportional Rep, has never succeeded and is somewhat goofy
- mandatory voting, but investigate online voting
Whatever it is it needs to be bold or kiss the election goodbye. However, I suspect the Libs are playing it safe, hoping for a better results (10-20 seat increase) & live to fight another day.
- 11:44 AM, April 17, 2011
- Steve V said...
I was disappointed in our democratic reform package, but that isn't the magic solution, not by a long shot.
- 11:46 AM, April 17, 2011
- Jerry Prager said...
Democracy is not a magic solution, except now is this window of time, there will be massive tax rallies across the US tomorrow fighting corporate greed and tax evasion, democracy is magic now because it is history's doing, that's why it is bigger than the liberal party, they just have to be willing to take their minority government democratic reform package into the first 100 days, where they just need to be willing to expand the package with the support of whatever parties are elected. Harper put himself on the wrong side of history, and Ignatieff is history's child, that's what he woke up to with Rise Up, he woke to the Chimes of Freedom flashing.
- 11:53 AM, April 17, 2011
- liberazzi said...
Like I said the family pack are good proposals & appeal to the Liberal base. But Iggy has made this election about democracy, yet all he is saying is for Harper to respect the institutions already in place. However, the voters are too cynical & jaded regarding our current system, so we needed to be bolder in our democratic proposals rather than playing it safe.
- 11:53 AM, April 17, 2011
- Steve V said...
I agree, we did, but this is still a good call to arms, regardless of what kneejerk cynicism says.
- 11:58 AM, April 17, 2011
- liberazzi said...
I agree, I like Iggy's passion (I wish he showed that passion during the debate). I was worried that PM would overshadow Iggy, but actually Iggy did quite well last night. Lets just put some substance to the words now.
- 12:06 PM, April 17, 2011
- Kirk said...
Off topic but has anyone else noticed how few Conservative ads we see now in the election as compared to before?
I used to see 4 ads per 1 hour of programming at times, now it's barely that for all parties combined.
Just shows how much the Cons were spending before. And I think the election has been more defined by that pre-election spending with the endless attacks on Ignatieff than anything that has happened during the election.
Liberals want to win an election? Well, get the fund raising up to Con levels, advertise before the writ and then we have a chance.
- 1:45 PM, April 17, 2011
- Steve V said...
Don't forget 27 million in EAP ads, I would say that has even more of an effect. Combined, a potent brew indeed.
- 2:31 PM, April 17, 2011
- Jerry Prager said...
Action Plan Media Scam 2009
130 million
"figures ... show a 64-per-cent increase in the government's marketing bill.
The latest tally is more than three times higher than the advertising budget of $41.3-million in 2005-2006, when the Harper government took office. "
"Last year's advertising blitz on the promotion of the Economic Action Plan, which cost $49.5-million, was by far the most costly element of the advertising blitz. "
- 3:57 PM, April 17, 2011
- ottlib said...
$30 billion for fighter aircraft without engines!
This election is not over yet.
As I stated yesterday the NDP have had one good week out of three and that was because Jack Layton could do his thing on national TV. The best exposure he is ever going to receive during this election. For the remaining two weeks the media will focus on Mr. Harper and Mr. Ignatieff and the NDP will fade.
Mr. Harper has had three bad weeks out of three. His performance in the debates did not help him and now he is beginning week four on another bad note. (See first sentence of this post.
The Liberals have run a very good campaign and they just need to continue doing it.
- 4:16 PM, April 17, 2011
- Steve V said...
Nanos leadership index shows Harper now at lowest level since start of campaign.
- 5:39 PM, April 17, 2011


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The unstoppable Jason Bateman
We all know about Robert Downey Jr's rise from self destruction to becoming one of the hottest commodities in Hollywood. But also… Jason Bateman. Although the effects of his demons were much less spectacular, he too struggled with recklessness and eventually realised it was time to clean that sh-t up.
The result, slow and steady, has been an impressive career over the last 6 or 7 years. There's always work, and more often than not, the work is good. And he's popular. And he's likable. And the power people, they want to give him more. He's also developing more on his own.
The entrepreneurial Bateman has partnered with Will Arnett to create a "comedy enterprise" called DumbDumb:
DumbDumb is a comedy enterprise led by Will Arnett and Jason Bateman. The twosome will create commercials along with short and long form programming for distribution across all platforms. For the new endeavor, DumbDumb will utilize web production, development, and marketing expertise from CollegeHumor.com, whose original content creations have been viewed over 800 million times. DumbDumb will create and produce digital content matching not only a brand's personality and marketing objectives but Arnett and Bateman's well-known comedic tone as well.
Their first ad was recently released for Orbit called The Prom Date. Jacek hasn't seen it, but when he does he'll be all over it. There are some classic Will moments here, I love how he says "breakies", and Jason is soooo… his timing… it's amazing:
Jason then is why I'm seeing The Switch. He's why a Jennifer Aniston movie might not be so bad.
Here's Jason in New York a couple of days ago walking around looking adorable in a suit, and out again today with his daughter Francesca.
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Conservatives have a an initial distrust of anything or anyone that uses tax payer dollars as a means of survival.
But if you ask a Democrat, America has 99 problems and they need your money to fix them. Included in the list of 99 problems is not one bitch.
Not one Hillary.
Not one Palin.
For some people, the 99 problems equate to 99 weeks. The exact number of weeks they may or may not have money to feed their families.
I have 99 problems which make me much too busy to blog. Work more, buy less.
From this article on the Future of Capitalism.com
December 4, 2010
Harvard economics professor and former Bush administration official Greg Mankiw has a post up about whether to extend unemployment insurance:
'when I hear economists advocate the extension of UI to 99 weeks, I am tempted to ask, would you also favor a further extension to 199 weeks, or 299 weeks, or 1099 weeks? If 99 weeks is better than 26 weeks, but 199 is too much, how do you know?….'
I should note, by the way, that economists who strongly favor the extension of UI benefits, such as those who signed this letter, also tend to favor more income redistribution in general. I suspect, therefore, that the foundation of their support comes not from having weighed the specific pros and cons of UI per se, but rather from a more general desire to "spread the wealth around." That issue is, as I tell my students, more a matter of political philosophy than it is of economics.
One of Professor Mankiw's objections — that extending unemployment insurance "reduces the job search efforts of the unemployed" — could be addressed in part by turning unemployment into something more like a health savings account, where if an individual gets a job before the benefits expire the individual gets to somehow keep the unused portion of the benefits in an account that can grow for the next time around.
Are unemployment benefits the same as welfare?
Conservatives and Democrats will give you a different answer.
Afrocity is on the fence. My mother went from one form of government assistance to another. The scales tipped more in favor of welfare but once in 1979, she worked for the "city" as a desk clerk. When she was subsequently laid off, she received unemployment. Unsurprisingly, I felt more legitimate when she was on unemployment. The check was larger- $625 as opposed to the paltry $225 we received on welfare. Unemployment also meant my mother had at one time actually had a job.
We were not on unemployment for 99 weeks…It was more like 20 weeks. I believe it ran out then mom made the transition back to the welfare boat. It would be 15 years before she looked for work again.
But getting back to my actual question of is unemployment welfare and are the Republicans being meanie weanies for cutting it off at 99 weeks and before you answer– do you know how long 99 weeks is?
99 weeks =1.89737112 years
That is a long time to be unemployed.
That is a long time to create 99 problems.
Whole Foods- November 15, 2010.
Afrocity is standing in the grocery line chastising herself for once again succumbing to the lure of organic produce and wholesome pumpkin flavored ice cream at $5.99 (on sale) for a 1/4 of a pint. The woman in front of me spread her grocery selections on the checkout conveyor belt . Aloe Vera Juice at 8$, green tea rice $5 a bag, venison, apple hickory duck sausage. The total bill came to $254 and she paid with a foodstamp card. Suddenly my guilt melted away. No longer did the $5.99 ice cream seem so bad, or my fennel bulbs, or horseradish cheese spread. My bill was around $57 and I paid with my own hard earned cash. That woman was eating better than I was and using my tax dollars to do it. Does this woman have 99 problems?
Michigan Avenue- Chicago, Il- December 4, 2010
Crate and Barrel had a 20% off all Christmas ornament sale. I needed a topper for my tree. Instead of being greeted at the door by carolers, I was greeted by protesters of extending the Bush tax cuts to evil rich people who make over $250K- You know like the small business owner- a woman recently widowed, who runs a small chain of mom and pop knitting shop in Chicago's fabric district. She has lots of medical bills to pay from her husband's Hospice care and cancer treatments. Two kids in college too. Does this woman have 99 problems?
She is a woman and the tax cuts are not bad for her but apparently NOW thinks so because she has a vagina . Oh I forgot to add that NOW would have no problem with her being called a whore or a cunt-especially when they know that she makes over $250K.
Does NOW have 99 problems?
All throughout the year, Michelle Obama, eats lobster, wears $500 tennis shoes… She has even released her favorite things list- Just like Oprah. Too bad the average American cannot afford most of it.
Does Michelle Obama have 99 problems?
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced yesterday that the terror alert has been downgraded two levels, from "We're all gonna die," to "Be very afraid." "We're not out of the woods yet," said Carney," but thank goodness we're able to tap into al Qaeda's communications, or else we'd be up the creek."
The most recent alert was initiated when known terrorists, who apparently didn't realize that their communications were being intercepted, began exhibiting "increased levels of chatter, blather, babble, prattle, jibber-jabber and mumbo-jumbo," according to the Secretary.
"I'm not able to be specific on whether or not the details of this intercepted data were specific," he said, "but I am able to be vague. I'm doing that right now. One thing we now know for sure is that all of the terrorists thought 'Argo' should never have won the Best Picture Oscar. They seem to have been evenly split between 'Les Miserables' and 'Life of Pi' as to which movie should have won. They hated 'Zero Dark Thirty.'"
Another important fact that was discovered from the intercepted al Qaeda communications was that al Qaeda is very angry at us for giving aid to Yemen. But according to Secretary Carney, "We really had no choice. That's because when life gives you Yemen, the best thing you can do is make Yemen-aid!"
As an ongoing response to this very real terror threat, Carney announced that we will be implementing a number of important security measures. "First," he explained, "we will be closing all International Houses of Pancakes until further notice. Next, we will be replacing all of our embassy workers with armed robots. These will be operated by even more sophisticated robots located here in the States. Ultimately, our goal is to eliminate the need for human beings at all levels of government.
"And thirdly, at the slightest appearance of any kind of trouble anywhere, the President will immediately be whisked off to a fortified underground bunker in Utah. Just to be safe, the Vice President, Speaker of the House and everyone else in Congress will likewise be squirreled away to secret locations, as will all ex-Presidents, their families and their pets. One of those locations will be in Camden because al Queda would not dare go there. Non-governmental people will be advised to hide in closets, under beds or anywhere they please."
For his part, President Obama spent a busy week making the rounds of TV shows, talking up the terror threat and the importance of covert surveillance. On Tuesday he was a contestant on Wheel of Fortune where he solved the puzzle, "God Bless the NSA," in between answering probing questions from host Pat Sajak. On Thursday he broke up a chair-throwing fight between a pregnant woman and her cheating boy friend on the Maury Povich show. Afterwards, he told the woman she should have been monitoring the man's phone calls.
And on Friday, the President held his first news conference since April. He arrived wearing a jacket made out of Saran Wrap, stating, "I'm trying to be transparent." During the press conference, he criticized Russian Czar Vladimir Putin for granting asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. "They BELONG in an asylum," said the president. "They're both nuts."
At one point, when the president was talking about the al Qaeda threat, a bearded man in a turban charged the lectern, yelling "Death to Americans" and waving a sword. The President grabbed a flagpole and chased the attacker out a back door. "See? What did I tell you?" the President screamed, "These guys don't play."
When a reporter pointed out that the bearded man looked a lot like Vice President Joe Biden in disguise, Mr. Obama replied, "Okay, it was Joe, but this nonetheless accurately depicts the type of attack that could happen at any time. We just wanted to prove that a wacko could get into the White House!"
When asked if he could divulge even one small detail about the nature of the terror threat, the President sat down on the floor, touched his elbows to his knees and said, "I am not in a position to respond to that right now." After a while, when it became apparent that he was either unable or unwilling to return to a normal standing position, the news conference was adjourned, and everyone sang "God Bless the NSA!"


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Adidas's Springblade running shoe is the first to offer horizontal propulsion, using 16 elastic blades on the sole that are angled to propel the wearer forward with each step. Michael Hsu takes a look.
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Reading Marx
Reading Marx
ISBN: 978-1-509-52140-1 June 2018 Polity 180 Pages
DescriptionMarx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Yet the nature of its relevance and some of its key tenets remain poorly understood. This bold intervention brings together the work of leading Marx scholars Slavoj iek, Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza, to offer a fresh, radical reinterpretation of Marxism that explains the failures of neoliberalism and lays the foundations for a new emancipatory politics.
Avoiding trite comparisons between Marx's worldview and our current political scene, the authors show that the current relevance and value of Marx's thought can better be explained by placing his key ideas in dialogue with those that have attempted to replace them. Reading Marx through Hegel and Lacan, particle physics, and modern political trends, the authors provide new ways to explain the crisis in contemporary capitalism and resist fundamentalism in all its forms. Reading Marx will find a wide audience amongst activists and scholars.
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reading Marx: Unexpected Reunions
- Chapter 1: Marx Reads Object-Oriented-Ontology
- Chapter 2: Marx in the Cave
- Chapter 3: Imprinting Negativity: Hegel Reads Marx
- To Resume (and not Conclude)
- Notes
- Index
"Reading Marx is not only a call for seeing Marx's renewed importance today; it also reveals the potency of the intersection of philosophy and Marx. It presents revelations on every page that point toward how we might think a philosophical Marxism."
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"The authors of this timely book reverse the conventional approach of understanding Marx by critiquing Hegel; they start from Marx and then turn to Hegel. In this way they open up a whole new intellectual horizon."
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David Arias is an exemplary leader among Southern California Catholics. Working in the Hispanic community, Arias has been involved in many evangelization efforts in the Diocese of San Bernardino and Archdiocese of Los Angeles, including with his primary apostolate, Prophets of Hope, which trains Church leaders in the presentation and defense of the Catholic faith. When Arias shares the story of his journey of faith, however, listeners are stunned to learn that 20 years ago not only was he an inactive Catholic, but a member of a Satanic cult.
"The Lord is powerful," he said. "Little by little, with his grace, I was able to change."
Arias, 40, was born in Mexico City. At age 16, he moved to California with his family, settling in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles. He was a "troublemaker," he said, and conflict with his family was common. He described his family as "culturally Catholic."
Friends in high school — and he noted he used the term "friends" loosely — introduced him to the Ouija board, which participants use to contact spirits (many Catholic leaders condemn the Ouija board as an introduction to the demonic). Furthermore, he was invited to play it in a cemetery.
He received invitations to "underground" parties, which involved promiscuity and extensive drug and alcohol use. He was then invited to get involved in the "Satan church."
Arias defines a Satanist as "one who rejects, hates and curses God." His particular group had about 80 members, including several "priests" who would lead activities. Rituals and specific activities vary from group to group. His group gathered monthly for a "black Mass," a mockery of the Catholic Mass.
Arias said his group kept a low profile, as they were involved in extensive criminal activity, including rape, drug and alcohol abuse and murder. He said there were three steps involved in one's entrance into the cult 1) beginners observed rituals, 2) the more experienced participated in sacrifices of animals (such as rats and cats), which included drinking their blood and pronouncing curses on others, and 3) the finalists sacrificed humans. Those murdered could be runaway teens, or the babies of women in the group who got pregnant.
Arias said his group included all ages (at 16, he was among the youngest) and ethnicities. Many were "gothic," people who dress in black, and color their hair, lips and around their eyes black. Others appeared perfectly respectable and worked as doctors, lawyers and engineers.
Members were always on the lookout for new recruits, he said. Of particular interest were teen girls, as they could be impregnated and their babies sacrificed. He said, "Teenagers are looking for something and are open to experimentation. It was easy to get them in and then hooked on sex or drugs."
The group was careful to avoid the police and threatened to kill any member who went public with his experiences.
Arias was involved with the group for four years. As Arias was alienated from his family, they had no idea he was part of a cult. If he were to dress oddly, "my family thought that was just the fashion."
However, Arias "felt empty" inside. He walked by a church one day and, looking at its cross, offered a challenge to God: "Can you offer me something better than Satan?"
Walking away from the group would prove difficult, he said, "but the Lord started working in me and changed everything."
Arias went back to church, married his wife Maria, and, today, has three children. He moved from San Fernando to San Bernardino — away from his former associates in the Satanic cult — and today works in quality control for a large company. He uses his free time to teach others about the Catholic faith, as well as warn of dangerous influences in the culture.
He said, "Parents need to be aware of what their children are doing. Today, children have easy access to many things that are harmful."
After four years in a cult, Arias sees many examples of the demonic influencing society. Regarding abortion, for example, he said, "The evil one wants human sacrifices, and abortions are sacrifices."
He noted that one member of his cult was an abortionist.
Some music popular among teens is Satanic, he noted, which can help lead young listeners away from God. And, although Halloween is a popular holiday among millions of Americans, Arias is no fan. He says it is a popular day for activity among Satanic cults.
One recent phenomenon that reminded him of the influence of the demonic, he said, is the so-called "knockout game," in which inner city black teens sucker punch unsuspecting whites as they walk by. He said, "Who is inspiring this hatred? A normal human being wouldn't do this; the influence has to be coming from somewhere."
In his own battle against Satan, Arias said, he regularly goes to Mass and receives holy Communion (even Satanists recognize the Body of Christ, he noted, and like to steal hosts so they can desecrate them during Black Masses). He makes regular use of confession and a variety of personal devotions, particularly the Rosary. He noted, "The Rosary is powerful. When someone is praying the Rosary, evil gets upset!"
He also wants his fellow Catholics to take their faith seriously, so he leads weekly education classes through Prophets of Hope at his parish. He said, "We need to know what we believe and stay in communion with Christ."
Father Martin Madero, associate pastor at St. Genevieve Church in Panorama City in California, has been a longtime friend of Arias and has offered him counsel in his apostolates. Arias has become a role model in the Catholic community, he said: "He may have been a Satanist at one time, but he's converted. He really lives his Catholic faith, and so does his family. He's a leader in the community."
Belem Villasenor of Long Beach is a family friend and volunteered for Prophets of Hope. She once went on retreat with Arias and was "shocked" to hear his personal testimony. She said, "He has an extraordinary story. God's grace can do wonderful things in us. Everyone was surprised to hear about his background, but praised God for his conversion."
He and his wife Maria, she added, "are wonderful people of faith. I admire them greatly."
Arias is not concerned about his safety speaking out publicly against Satanism and sharing his personal experiences. He lives in a different community, he noted, and his involvement ceased 20 years ago.
And, most importantly, he said, "The Lord is with me. With him, I have nothing to fear."
Jim Graves writes from California.
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E-Ink readers like the Nook touch currently come with 4 bit (16 levels) of gray, no camera, often no sound, no GSM, often no landscape detection sensor etc. And especially, the display refresh rate is very slow. Still or nonetheless they have advantages like battery time, especially with the display on, clear readability in bright direct sunlight over a tablet and display size over a phone and also more and more often come with Android. Here are some apps and hints which work great for that scenario.
Firstly, with the Kindle I had gotten used to using the great Instapaper service. Now with the Nook, there's no comfortable "Whispersync" to send documents to it via wifi. But if you root it, you can install instapaper apps, which are actually even more comfortable, have no limit to 20 articles, automatic syncing etc. My app of choice so far is EverPaper, which is specialized to saving notes to everpaper, but gets the pages for offlines reading from Instapaper.
For browsing, which is not great yet, because there's no page button scrolling as on the Kindle and the internal nook touch browser is very, very bad, I highly recommend the leightweight Opera Mini. Actually you can even use VNC clients and e.g. surf via your computer (remember to at least use the 8 bit color mode to save cpu power).
One of my favorite apps is also "Gespiegelt"/"Mirrored", which lets you access articles from the German Der Spiegel Magazine comfortably, although the font size is a bit small even in the largest setting for my taste.
Of course you can - which makes it really fun - read your ebooks bought at other ebook stores with Android apps, e.g. Amazon's Kindle app. You can transfer files with Dropbox.
And last but not least some games run great in this setting, e.g. the really fun strategy game Pirates and Traders or of course things such as Sudoko. The battery time is much better here, because there's no screen backlight to draw battery.
Conclusion: Many apps work great out of the box on eReaders. If you're a developer and you want to optimize your app for eReaders the most important thing is to have a switch to disable all animations to reduce flashing. Another option might be to use 16 levels of gray in processing, that could save some cpu cycles. And an offline mode will be much appreciated, because the wifi is one of the biggest battery drains on the long lasting eReaders.
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Pan-Cooked Steak: A little more forgiving than using the higher-heat method: Put 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Prepare the steaks through Step 2. When the oil is warm, put the steaks in the pan (they won't sizzle), seasoned side down, and sprinkle the tops with salt and pepper. Cook until the edges begin to turn brown, 5 to 10 minutes, then turn and cook until the steak is at least 1 shade redder (or pinker) than you like, another 3 to 5 minutes. Turn the heat to medium-high and cook, turning once, until each side is seared a little, less than a minute total. Remove from the pan, let rest, and serve with the pan drippings poured over all.
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Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher to Appear Together on 'Oprah's Next Chapter'
Carrie Underwood and husband Mike Fisher will discuss their blissful marriage together for the first time during a segment for 'Oprah's Next Chapter,' television mogul Oprah Winfrey's newest show. Winfrey traveled all the way to Nashville, Tenn. to speak with the happy couple.
"@CarrieUnderwood is so darling. Everything you love about her, you will even more. Just finished interview," the popular talk show host tweeted yesterday (May 14). "Her husband Mike is as lovely as she. So happy for both of them," she said in a following tweet.
The episode will also give fans a glimpse of the couple's personal life, with Winfrey posting a picture of the three from the interview in what she refers to as "Mike and Carrie's cabin."
The 'Oprah's Next Chapter' interview is just one of many media stops for Underwood as she continues to promote the release of her fourth studio album, 'Blown Away,' which sold an impressive 267,000 copies in its first week of release. When it came to putting together a well-rounded album, Underwood admits she needed to tap into her neurotic side to get in the right frame of mind.
"I'm a little schizo when it comes to making an album — in a good way," Underwood confessed to Ryan Seacrest during a radio interview with her former 'American Idol' host. "I feel like there's something for everyone."
She further explains, "There really is no particular theme. A lot of the songs are very visual, but in different ways. It kind of is a rollercoaster and I definitely think I pushed things in a lot of different directions. We go a little darker. We go a little lighter. I sing songs that are a little more traditional country than I've ever sung before."
Underwood and Fisher's 'Oprah's Next Chapter' episode is set to air Sunday, May 20 at 9PM ET on OWN.