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Continuing our Sports Authors With Pure Hearts series, we present, honestly, one of our favorite sports books of all time: Sunday Money, a whirlwind, Kerouac-esque look at a year on the NASCAR circuit. Sports Ilustrated, New York Times and New Yorker author Jeff MacGregor, along with his photographer wife, packed in a mobile home and followed NASCAR for a whole year, documenting fans, drivers, the road and the whole culture of a sport that half of us don't understand and the other half worships with frightening passion. But mostly, it's just an amazing book about this weird, scary, beautiful America.
We know we're supposed to be all full of bile and vinegar around here, but we have a hard time even pretending to be cynical about this book: We desperately wish we could write like this. Buy it. Seriously. And then read our interview with McGregor about what "mainstream" sports fans are missing about NASCAR, why Donald Trump hates him and how Deadspin will change the world, yes yes. Full interview after the jump.
You have to be the only Sports Illustrated author with a blurb from Tom Perrotta. We think this book transcends NASCAR, or sportswriting even. It really does feel like a more plugged-in Kerouac at times. We find it amazing that this was your first book. What took you so long?
I blush at your flattery. And if I had an email smiley that did likewise, I'd post it as proof. I have one that winks, quite knowingly by the looks of it, but have yet to figure out how to deploy it. In any case, being neither a saucy, fifty-three year-old divorcee with a taste for jokey forwards in the accounts-receivable department of a Beloit trucking company; nor an IM-savvy junior high school danceline co-captain from San Dimas, I rarely convey the state of my thoughts with emoticons. Except the one that hurls like it just came off a two-week tequila bender in Vegas. I'm using it next month in a book review for the Times of London.
Too late for the short answer here, I guess, but I had another career before I started writing. And the less said about it the better, trust me. From the time I was a little kid, though, I'd always wanted be a writer. It just took me a few years to get around to it.
I think the book feels less like sportswriting because it is less like sportswriting. I just write what I see and what I hear. It's kind of a little big book about America and Americans - that happens to have a NASCAR season as its occasion for telling some stories.
Three years after your tour, how much NASCAR do you watch now?
We still watch at least part of every race in our little household. We made a lot of friends out there, and we're genuinely interested in how they do week in, week out. The truth is, though, that television pales in comparison to being at a race. Real fans know that the only way to make converts out of their friends is to get them out to the track. It's unlike anything in sports. The noise, the heat, the skin, the funnel cakes and binge-drinking are worth wallowing in for a weekend.
How thoughtful and intelligent is the average NASCAR driver, compared to other athletes? That is to say, do they fall closer to the tennis pro who was "home" "schooled" from the age of three up and has no idea how to socialize or interact with anyone who isn't a tennis player, or do they fall closer to, say, Shane Battier?
I think most NASCAR drivers fall right in the middle of the "Professional Athlete Versus Ordinary Mortal" continuum. They're nice guys, most of them, polite and incredibly accessible by the standards of other sports. Not much more or less aware of what's happening in the wider world, certainly. About as well spoken as most other pro sports performers, too. And some of the older guys are straight-up Pure-D colorful if you catch 'em at the right moment. Like when Sterling Marlin throws an M-80 under your minivan. That said, the drawlin' and brawlin' days of stock car racing are behind us. The younger fellas especially are so closely affiliated with their corporate overlords, and so well programmed, that it can be tough to knock them off-message. But then I'm a writer, and like Herr Doktor Heisenberg, change things just by trying to observe them. Maybe it was all naked Yahtzee and Jaegermeister after I walked out of their trailers.
It's a hoot to spend an afternoon with Dale, Jr., I can tell you that.
Of Mr. Battier, sadly, I know nothing.
You make some interesting points about the comparative "popularity" of NASCAR to other sports, particularly baseball. (The argument being that more people actually do watch baseball every week than NASCAR; it's just less concentrated. We're oversimplifying.) Can NASCAR get bigger? Where does it fit in?
The point I try to make in the book is just a warning about NASCAR's optimistic arithmetic. They're still fifth in terms of paid attendance behind the Big Four sports. And when it comes to television ratings, their public math is a relentless kind of self-promotion. My puny rebukes are of course quite useless against them. For all their huckleberry modesty, they're by far the savviest big league in America when it comes to inflating their own numbers and selling themselves. I have yet to see another reporter or writer anywhere question the ratings or attendance figures that NASCAR dishes out with the 'brats and the chicken wings in the media center.
As to how big they might become: The season can't get any longer, so by "growth" we're talking about pumping up the television ratings and expanding into new market areas. This they will clearly continue to do with great success. In the last 10 years they've pushed racing into urban consciousness by bringing tracks to urban areas. That's where most of their new TV eyeballs are coming from, too. Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas/Fort Worth, Chicago, Miami. New York's next, so prepare yourself for the "What The Fuck Are You Lookin' At? 500."
The cost to the sport, though, has been its relationship with hardcore Southern fans and their powerful sense of tradition and possession. That the early temples like Darlington and Rockingham lost races to shinier tracks was a nasty slap in the face to NASCAR's old guard. In the coming world of racing, newly minted fans will understand stock car racing as a television show, rather than a live event, or as part of a particular culture - in much the same way most people think of other big-league sports.
How that fits into our broader culture, I'm not sure. I float a bunch of crackpot theories in the book, but I think foremost among them has to be the return to a simpler time. America is rolling back the clock these days generally, in search of some one-dimensional, Pre-Darwinian innocence. I'd say the clear-eyed, square-jawed heroes imagined and promoted by NASCAR fit quite well into that model. Look what happened the other day with Kurt Busch. People were shocked - shocked! - to hear that a professional athlete might have had a drink with his dinner, or be a boor when pulled over by the cops. Or drive too fast. Seriously, the NASCAR fan base had a lot of trouble wrapping their heads around it. It sounded too much like all the other sports.
Which reflects another attraction of the thing, and it isn't a pretty one. At the Cup level, it's the only remaining professional sport with an all-white field. Call me crazy, but the mythologically uptight, upright white athlete of yesteryear is greatly missed in certain quarters.
What do you think of this whole points and playoff system thing?
The new "playoffs" blow. It's some phony hocus-pocus on behalf of the television networks. In the past racers were rewarded for consistency. Now, with the revisions, luck plays too large a part in the outcome over the last ten races. The whole thing feels inorganic to me, and very theatrical. They'll revise it again in a few years.
What's the blog world like for NASCAR? What's the general tone of mainstream NASCAR blogs?
Earnest. Or "Ernest Goes to Pocono."
They're very straightforward and generally snarkless. Shock damper settings, paint schemes and years-long arguments over who's cooler, Tony or Kasey.
There's one, though, worth visiting, at least as a cultural aside. Gaytona.com. Bring your tap pants.
If someone is a huge sports fan but doesn't watch NASCAR — one of those people you write about who consciously avoids NASCAR — is there any hope for them? Will they just never open their mind? Do you have a recommended prescription?
Some folks will never be convinced. Others need to open their hearts. And their minds. And their wallets. Tickets for these deals aren't cheap. But go to a race. If you're not hooked after a day in the stands, you're never going to get it.
You talk in the book about how a large part of NASCAR'S popularity derives from America's obsession with the automobile. What kind of car do you drive?
My radiant photographer bride and I, despite living in New York, have kept our 1993 Toyota pick-up. 129,000 miles. We never drive it, of course - we might lose our parking space. It's more of a 4x4 rolling storage locker than anything.
How do you think the literary praise for the book changed you as a writer? Do you get more opportunities now?
I have become insufferable, bien sur, and have taken to wearing a beret; which goes wonderfully with my cape and jodhpurs. I've got a two-bottle-a-day absinthe habit. And Updike won't stop calling about his bowling league. Jackass.
Good reviews are swell, but nothing has changed. Like you, I'm a guy who sits in his sweatpants and a Maple Leafs jersey all day typing.
Didn't you get in some sort of fight with Donald Trump?
Yes. Yes I did. I choose to characterize it as our "public feud," although the man wouldn't know me if he fell over me. I'd written a book review for The New York Times that mentioned him, some might say irreverently. He took exception to it and branded me a "loser" in their letters column a week later. He said "some men choose to cast shadows" (him presumably) and that "others choose to live in them" (me, apparently - or really anyone who lives next to one of his tall, surpassingly ugly buildings).
Anyway, I thought about it long and hard and realized he was right. I am a loser. Thus have I applied to Trump Online University in the interest of self-improvement. (My safety school is EBay University - rockin' party school from what I hear.) I think the curriculum's based on "The Apprentice," so I'm hoping to major in "Taking Credit" at Trump U., with a minor in "Assigning Blame."
After I make my first million, I'll buy a pair of matched, gold-inlaid curling irons and challenge him to a duel in Central Park.
Ever think of becoming an ESPN talking head? What do you think of the network? Be honest.
No. I've done ESPN a couple times, and a couple of ways, and didn't feel like it was a good fit. Too much barking in too small a space. Though physically, of course, quite beautiful, I just didn't feel like I had much beyond that to contribute. I like doing Letterman very much, though, because he lets me tell my little anecdotes.
As to ESPN, it will constitute a benign world government by 2035.
Have you been in a motor home since your trip?
Sadly, no. I kind of miss it, too, with its tiny little appliances and lurid upholstery and 40-second showers and so forth. Having done nearly a year in one, though, 300 consecutive nights, I'm pretty sure we're done with RVs. Hang on, let me check with my wife.
Mm-hmm, we're done.
You writing another book? If so, what's it about, and if not, why?
Yes, I am. But I'm not allowed to talk about it yet. Although it's very sexy, and fantastically, life-alteringly important. It'll come out in the spring of 2008. And, like Sunday Money (due out in paperback next May, by the way), it will be a book that no American can afford to be without. If they choose to actually read it, then so much the better.
What do you think of Deadspin? Be mean.
I think when history looks back on us from the great, grave distance of time, and seeks to judge us for who we are and what we've done; when our descendants search for themselves in us, and ask how humanity rose to meet its fate across the ages; and when they hear our voices calling out to them through the howling vastness of the years, they will discover in a single defining cultural moment everything they so desperately seek....
Deadspin is that moment.
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The New Jersey Jackals hosted the Gary South Shore Railcats for a double header yesterday that was suspended due to fireworks. Every Saturday is fireworks night at the Railcats ballpark and it was put into serious jeopardy because of the doubleheader and a local noise ordinance. Rather than run the risk of missing the fireworks, the teams suspended the game at 10:30 p.m. in the seventh inning with the Railcats leading 3-0.
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Even after all this time, I am still amazed at how seemingly similar situations on a bicycle can stimulate so many unique feelings. Racing road bikes. A whole other world. Out of my comfort zone. I am 114 miles in for the day and have been up since 5am, so here's the quick summary:
Riding out and time trial
The randonuer crew, Dan and Michael, were at our place at 515am ready to escort us (how lucky are we?) the 40 miles to Leo Carillo Park on PCH at Mulholland. If riding cross town could always be like it is at 530am…Anyway, after meeting up with Brian and Alec at the world famous Ocean/San Vicente cycling meet-up point we rolled up six deep. First oddity: In between every other parked vehicle was a cyclist on rollers warming up. What a strange sight. The first stage was a four-mile uphill time trial. Individual starts 30 seconds apart, no drafting. I was out of breath 100 yards up. The climb wasn't all up, so there was time to recover. Fucking hell this was hard! Passed two people, finished tied for 17th out of 50. Jack got 6th and Brian had some confusion regarding his time, so we don't know.
Riding out to and riding stage two
Due to some confusion with our shit (was cold to start so we had tights, gloves, etc), we rode back down to the start, got our stuff, then road back up and over the Santa Monica mountains on Mulholland the 20 miles to the Circuit race. This is a closed, two mile loop with tight turns. The time, not the distance is set. When time is almost up they tell you, 'two laps left'. Anything can happen. Category-V, known as public or newbie, is what we are racing in. This particular race had multiple Cat-V groups (over 40, first-timer, etc), we raced in the 'experienced' one, though it was still filled with some sketchy riders. It would speed up, slow down, get wide, completely switch up, all at 20-30 MPH. We were trying to work as a team, but would get blocked out. Jack went for the lap-2 time bonus (10 seconds off), but went out solo super early and was caught at the line. It was a dope attempt. The whole last lap we tried to get lined up, but it wasn't happening. Brian kept pulling the entire group. I tried anyway to get him and Jack set up for the final sprint. From about 8 or 9 deep I popped out to the left and hammered, just before a slight incline. They couldn't get on my wheel and I ended up pulling out some other people. I held on best I could, but by the time it all unfolded, about 100 yards from the finish, I was spent. Finished 9th or something, but in the pack. Everyone in the pack, except 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, gets the same time.
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Jack is sitting about 40 seconds off the leader, myself about 1:22. Tomorrow is the 22-mile road race, which includes a big climb. We are stoked.
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|Salafists jailed for Palais Abdellia violence
|[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisia imposed jail terms on 16 people over violence linked to a controversial art exhibition in La Marsa last June, TAP reported on Thursday (January 17th).
The defendants were convicted of violating the state of emergency, but were acquitted from the more serious charges, which included rebellion, assaulting public officials and attacks on public order by organised gangs, their lawyer Salaheddine Barakati said Wednesday.
The art show at the Palais Abdellia infuriated salafists, sparking three days of riots and ultimately forcing authorities to declare an overnight curfew in several Tunisian cities.
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The Minotaur composer Harrison Birtwistle has won his fourth British Composer Award.
The awards, given by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA), are given in recognition of achievements in contemporary classical and jazz music.
Harrison, who was knighted in 1988, has won or been shortlisted for seven British Composer Awards since they were established in 2003. This year he won in the orchestral category for his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, and was shortlisted in the vocal category for Angel Fighter, his piece for voices and ensemble.
During his career, Harrison has received many honours, including the Grawemeyer Award in 1968 and the Ernst von Siemens Prize in 1995; he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1986, and a Companion of Honour in 2001.
Harrison's The Minotaur, for which he collaborated with award-winning author David Harsent, had its premiere at Covent Garden in 2008. The original cast - John Tomlinson, Christine Rice and Johan Reuter - return in January 2013.
Other winners in this year's British Composer Awards include Thomas Adès (Chamber), Ray Lee (Sonic Art), Francis Grier (Liturgical), Jocelyn Pool (Stage Works) and Christine Tobin (Contemporary jazz composition).
The awards ceremony, which was held at Goldsmiths' Hall, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 9 December.


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Are You Normal?
Find out by taking this online survey on sex, money, marriage and more
Andrea and Allan have been married for more than 30 years and think they have an ideal relationship except for one thing: They only make love once a month — at most.
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Their sexual frequency hasn't always been this low. In fact, when they first met, the couple found time for romance once a day, sometimes more. But now Andrea wonders if their sex life is typical for people at their stage of life — or if it says something troubling about their relationship.
"Am I normal?" Andrea asks.
That's a question many people have about their behaviors and beliefs. We're all curious to know how our version of normal life compares with other people's versions. Do the core elements of our relationship — from how often we kiss to how open we are about our finances — reflect a wider pattern? Is what's normal for you the same as what's normal for others like you?
I'm part of a team undertaking an extensive study that will attempt to answer such questions. I'm working with author Chrisanna Northrup and sociologist James Witteof George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., to conduct an online, interactive survey called, "The Normal Bar."
If you click on The Normal Bar link, you can participate in this survey on love, sexuality and other matters related to dating, marriage and other romantic relationships right from AARP's website. Your participation is anonymous. There are some general questions about yourself and your relationship. Then there are 17 modules where you can take our poll on a wide range of topics. Chose the modules that most interest you. I suggest starting with the ones on sex and money, which include questions designed specifically for AARP.
In a few months, we'll compile all the data and analyze it by gender, income, age, religion, ethnicity, race and a variety of other factors. I'll be posting the results in this space. So if you're wondering — am I normal? — here's your chance to find out.
Dr. Pepper Schwartz, AARP's love and relationship expert, is a professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Universal Pictures has released, through iTunes Trailers, a new trailer and poster for Battleship which you can view below. Also, be sure to check out ComingSoon.net's visit to the film's edit bay by clicking here.
Peter Berg produces and directs the May 18, 2012 release, an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Based on Hasbro's classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam, a physical therapist and Hopper's fiancée; Alexander Skarsgård as Hopper's older brother, Commanding Officer Stone of the USS Samson; Rihanna as Lt. Raikes, Hopper's crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone's superior (and Sam's father), Admiral Shane.


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Shares of ETFS Commodities Securities Ltd (NG3S.L) have seen the Mesa Adaptive Moving Average (MAMA) climb above the Fractional Moving Average or FAMA. The crossing of the MAMA and FAMA lines can be used to generate Buy and Sell signals. When the MAMA crosses above the FAMA a buy signal is given. Alternatively, when the MAMA crosses below the FAMA a sell signal is given.The MESA Adaptive Moving Average is a technical trend-following indicator which adapts to price movement "based on the rate change of phase as measured by the Hilbert Transform Discriminator". This method of adaptation features a fast and a slow moving average so that the composite moving average swiftly responds to price changes and holds the average value until the next bar's close. The Averages act as support and resistance areas and the price will tend to react to them. This makes pullbacks to the MAMA and FAMA suitable with-trend entry areas. As with most technical indicators, the MAMA is best used in conjuction with additional signals.
Let's take a look at some additional technical levels on shares of ETFS Commodities Securities Ltd (NG3S.L). The current 14-day RSI is noted at 43.78, the 7-day is 31.39, and the 3-day is seen at 10.92. The RSI, or Relative Strength Index is a popular oscillating indicator among traders and investors. The RSI operates in a range-bound area with values between 0 and 100. Many traders keep an eye on the 30 and 70 marks on the RSI scale. A move above 70 is widely considered to show the stock as overbought, and a move below 30 would indicate that the stock may be oversold. Traders may use these levels to help identify stock price reversals.
Traders may be focusing on other technical indicators for stock assessment. Presently, ETFS Commodities Securities Ltd (NG3S.L) has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -104.46. The CCI technical indicator can be used to help determine if a stock is overbought or oversold. CCI may also be used to help discover divergences that could possibly signal reversal moves. A CCI closer to +100 may provide an overbought signal, and a CCI near -100 may offer an oversold signal. Investors may be watching other technical indicators such as the Williams Percent Range or Williams %R. The Williams %R is a momentum indicator that helps measure oversold and overbought levels. This indicator compares the closing price of a stock in relation to the highs and lows over a certain time period.
A common look back period is 14 days. ETFS Commodities Securities Ltd (NG3S.L)'s Williams %R presently stands at -97.80. The Williams %R oscillates in a range from 0 to -100. A reading between 0 and -20 would indicate an overbought situation. A reading from -80 to -100 would indicate an oversold situation.
Currently, the 14-day ADX for ETFS Commodities Securities Ltd (NG3S.L) is sitting at 18.81. Generally speaking, an ADX value from 0-25 would indicate an absent or weak trend. A value of 25-50 would support a strong trend. A value of 50-75 would identify a very strong trend, and a value of 75-100 would lead to an extremely strong trend. ADX is used to gauge trend strength but not trend direction. Traders often add the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) to identify the direction of a trend.
A widely used tool among technical stock analysts is the moving average. Moving averages are considered to be lagging indicators that simply take the average price of a stock over a certain period of time. Moving averages can be very helpful for spotting peaks and troughs. They may also be used to help the trader figure out reliable support and resistance levels for the stock. Currently, the 200-day MA is sitting at 26.16.


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Duck vs Chicken!! Which one you prefer? I rarely buy duck because it's has very lesser meat and the price is more expensive then chicken .Furthermore,the duck sold here comes in frozen form..nothing freshly slaughter from the slaughter house like chicken or beef.I guess the demand is not great ,so the duck breeder prefer to froze their product for better quality.It's been awhile since I roast duck for Eliot..He seem quite like duck better if compare to me.I'm not really fond of duck but I don't mind eating it once a while.This time I used 5 spices powder as the main seasoning rub and stuff with onion and orange into the cavity to get better flavor and moistness..Too bad I was in hurry,didn't get the skin a good prick before seasoning.Wish it's have crispy skin to look good but I don't mind if it's doesn't look crisp because we didn't eat the skin if it's has crispy skin.It's for healthy reason.Anyway,the duck is delicious and have tangy orangee flavor!!
I duck ,thaw in fridge if in frozen form,about 4-5 lbs,remove giblets from cavity
I duck ,thaw in fridge if in frozen form,about 4-5 lbs,remove giblets from cavity
1 tbsp 5 spice powder
1 tbsp sea salt
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 orange,cut to quarter
1 small onion,peeled and cut 1/2
maltose or honey for brushing
1:Wash and check any feathers still attached,remove and use fork to prick the skin over 50 times or more..
2:combine all seasoning in a bowl,mix well.Rub the seasoning all over the duck inside out thoroughly.Stuff orange and onion into the cavity.Wrap the seasoning duck over aluminum foil and store in fridge overnight.
3:Pre-heat oven to 425 F.Place the duck on a baking tray.Roast duck for 40 minutes and turn the top facing down.Roast again for another 30 minutes..Remove duck from oven and brush with maltose or honey.
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Gardening has been a hot topic around my house lately. The past few summers my wife has been interested in creating a garden but the timing has never been right. This summer she is determined to make it happen.
We recently sold our house and purchased a new house, allowing her to fully commit to creating the garden. She recently order vegetable seeds and is starting to make plans on the location of the raised planter bed in the new backyard. I reminded her that in addition to the traditional vegetable garden crops that we could add some edible trees and shrubs. The strong benefit of trees and shrubs besides providing a new source of "groceries" is that we only need to plant them once compared to some vegetables.
There are many choices that we can make but was reminded by one of her magazines to plant what you will eat. That narrows down our choices since we are both picky eaters.
In the end we agreed that we are going to explore finding a space an apple tree.
Any suggestions on other fruit trees or nut trees we should add? We have limited space in our new backyard.


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Last nights outfit was this dress, one that I've had for ages but got lost in my wardrobe shuffle. I did a huge clear out before I came a way and and old favourite was discovered! I've had it a long time now and I actually don't think Missguided sell it anymore unfortunately, but you might be able to find something similar. I love how the white really contrasts with the black to give a interesting bodice effect while the chiffon skirt keeps it girly. Paired with my "Jasmine" shoes I thought this was a really lovely little outfit to wear on a hot Turkish evening!
We didn't really do much last night apart from chill, and then we came back early as we were all so tired. The hot weather really takes it out of me! I'm currently sitting in my air conned room taking some time out to check on my emails briefly and make sure I'm up to date with the sidebar of shame over on the Daily Mail! I need to download a new book for my Kindle so any recommendations would be perfect! Thank you!


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Oh lookit me! I'm Riddles! I'm gonna say that Ethos won't write anything! Well fuck you! I'm going to steal that TGS Hey! Look! Listen! you promised. Bah-ha ha ha. Well, not every piece of big TGS news, just the stuff I care about.
Team ICO Out the Ass: The Last Guardian Release Date
Finally we hear more about this ridiculously-anticipated title. People seem to be shocked that this was given a Holiday 2011 release window, but that comes as no surprise to me. In fact, that's in the early range of what I was expecting, so count me as excited.
What's that in the distance? Sounds like some sort of whistle. And now I see smoke? What could that possibly be…oh it's the hype train! Full speed ahead!(IGN)
Team ICO Out the Ass: ICO and Shadow of the Collossus HD Collection!
BAH-HA HA HA HA HA AH! FINALLY! My life is complete! This long-rumoured collection is finally a reality. At first there was talk about it being two separate discs but has since been confirmed to be a single Blu-ray disc compete with trophies, the PAL ending for ICO, and even improved framerates, textures, and new widescreen framing. This collection is why humanity was created. (IGN)
Team ICO Out the Ass: Sexism Battle!
Remember when Miyamata joked about Peach not being playable in Super Mario Bros Wii because they would have to animate her dress? Remember when we all puked? Well as excited-out-my-ass as I am for The Last Guardian, studio head, Fumito Ueda was talking at TGS and even if his comments were meant as a joke, I still cringed.
He mentioned that the original protagonist for The Last Guardian was going to be female but because girls wouldn't have the same physical strength as boys when traversing the environment, and "girls wear skirts", they changed it to a boy.
Yeah, bullshit. I know that scientifically, the anatomy of men and women are different and strength arguments are occasionally valid. Like separating sports in the Olympics. But I don't think it would have been unreasonable for a little girl to accomplish the same tasks as a little boy. That doesn't sit well with me. And yeah, girls couldn't wear Peter Pan-style capri shorts. That would seem weird. Fuck off. (IGN)
Muramasa and Odin Sphere Heavily Rumoured To Also Go HD
Sweet. This doesn't appear to be a HD collection for PS3, but rather downloadable HD ports for all capable systems. Apparently Muramasa's assets were developed in HD, so the process should be rather simple for that title at least.
I just hope the framerate is improved for Odin Sphere. I liked that game, but it was literally like a slide-show at points. That will need to be better for me to pick it up. (1up)Idiot
Ugh. Just when you thought Activision and Blizzard's marriage wasn't affecting the Blizzard side of things, Bobby Kotick goes off and starts spewing more of his famous shit about packing together all the cutscenes of
Starcraft 2 and selling it as a movie. Idiot. Seriously.
I mean, Starcraft 2 was just his example, but he talks about this idea like it's the most brilliant shit in the history of time. Who the fuck would spend $20-$30 to watch all the cutscenes of a game? Certainly not the people who bought the game, and certainly not the people who didn't buy the game.
There are reasons that these cutscenes are cutscenes. If you bought one of these "movies", there would be major plot holes, it would all be high-intensity, and – oh yeah – THERE WOULD BE NO FUCKING GAME TO PLAY!
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Lindsay Lohan Rushed to Hospital with Lung Infection
Lindsay Lohan Rushed to Hospital With Lung Infection
Lindsay Lohan was rushed to the emergency room in NYC last night ... and sources connected to the actress tell us she's suffering from a bad lung infection.
Lindsay has been telling friends she's been dealing with a bad case of "walking pneumonia" for the last couple weeks -- and last night, we're told things got so bad she had to go to the hospital.
We're told Lindsay was taken to Mt. Sinai, where she received medication for the infection -- including antibiotics -- and was discharged shortly after.
Lindsay's currently resting back in her hotel room.
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La Bella is a local neighborhood tradition that has served the Oak Park community since 1990. Located in an intimate 1891 storefront in the historic Pleasant District of Oak Park, La Bella offers traditional southern Italian comfort food, fresh fish, veggie specialties, steaks, chops and veal, a wonderful selection of wines and beers, homemade desserts, and handmade old fashioned cocktails, "muddled where possible." Our warm, experienced staff and the inviting atmosphere of the space will assure you the relaxing break that you are seeking from the busy lives that we all lead. You are most welcome to join us!
Start out with a sweet "Piacenza Punch" or "1939 Manhattan" cocktail. Then, try the grilled calamari, fried zucchini or stuffed artichoke, or sample our appetizer-sized hand-tossed pizzas. Next, don't miss the Stacked Eggplant salad or perhaps share the Insalata di Mare for a wonderful low-carb seafood start. For your entre? Choose from our huge selection of traditional pasta dishes, including stuffed gnocchi, ravioli, tortellacci, linguini, cavatelli, rigatoni, eight finger, fettuccine and more. We offer veal and chicken dishes, steak and choices of chops (blackened, Siciliano, oreganato). Fish? How about fresh baramundi or lake perch in our light sauces? End your experience with homemade tiramisu, New York-style cheesecake, irresistible pinot grigio cake or spumoni, as well as our selection of cordials and single malt or blended scotches and other whiskeys.
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Hot Dog of the Week Art Prints for Sale
Every week, I look forward to seeing what Philadelphia-based illustrator Hawk Krall comes up with for the Hot Dog of the Week. There have been a number of HDotW's that I've wished I could get high-quality prints of.
Well it just so happens that some of my (and, I hope, your) favorite Hot Dog of the Week artwork is now available as high-quality 11-by-14-inch art prints. These are professional giclée fine art prints, printed by the fine folks at Silicon Gallery Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
I can't imagine who wouldn't want one of these (all of which are suitable for framing) in their kitchen. Choose from four designs and stay tuned for more to be available in the future. The Giclée prints are $27 each, and the original paintings are also available here.
You can order now from Hawk's online store.
Aside from the Hot Dog of the Week series, Hawk's illustration and comics can be seen in a variety of publications, including Bust Magazine, NY Press, Philadelphia Weekly, Swindle, and the recently published Big Funny comics anthology. He also contributes to the blog Drawing For Food, where he writes about—you guessed it—mostly hot dogs and cheesesteaks.
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It's slippery. It's sticky. It's silly. It's the Paradise Roller Girls Jell-O wrestling tournament and calendar signing day at the Hilo Town Tavern! Come join the fun November 10 in downtown Hilo to watch your favorite derby girls battle it out in a pool of slimy goo before the presentation and signing of the Paradise Roller Girls newly released 2013 photo calendar.
This year's Jell-O wrestling tournament is the third such event to be hosted by PRG. During last year's tournament Atomic Ace defeated Firefly Fatal and Sasha Buzzkill before beating Derbutante Diva to become the 2011 Jell-O wrestling champion. Ace, who was just a rookie last year, explained that like derby, Jell-O wrestling is not a staged event – it's the real deal!
"Yeah, we were really wrestling in there. It was a really rough match," she said about last year's final matchup with Derbutante Diva. "I had never Jell-O wrestled before, but it was kind of cool because it is a bar that I go to often and there are a lot of people there that I know."
Holly 'Von Slappenbitsch' Zimmerman, the 2010 Jell-O wrestling champion, explained that the event is not just for entertainment either. "It helps to raise funds for the Paradise Roller Girls and it is fun," she said.
Money raised from the event helps to pay for some of PRG's administrative and operating costs. Entrance to Saturday's Jell-O wrestling tournament is $5, with the wrestling action beginning at 4 p.m. Hotdogs and hamburgers will be sold at a discounted price for all PRG fans and Tavern regulars who make it through the door. For more information contact Ann Illusion at 315-0494 or the Hilo Town Tavern at 935-2171.
Paradise Roller Girls is a women's flat-track roller derby league located on the Big Island of Hawaii. PRG's mission is to promote a healthy, athletic lifestyle in their community through the alternative sport of roller derby.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The number of immigrants seeking asylum after entering the United States illegally nearly tripled in 2013 to the highest level in 20 years, a report said.
The report, issued Thursday by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, said the number of asylum-seekers granted temporary refuge rose from 13,931 to 36,026 in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The increase in requests raised concerns that border jumpers and drug cartel members may be filing fraudulent claims as a way to slow their deportation, the Times said. The report did not indicate how many claims may have involved fraud.
Immigrants already in the United States who can demonstrate "credible fear" of being persecuted in their home country because of race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion may be referred to an immigration court and granted temporary asylum, provided they pass a criminal background check. They must appear before an immigration judge at an assigned time, which can take a year or two to schedule.
If an asylum claim is denied, the applicant can be deported immediately.
"It appears to me that word has gotten out that a 'credible fear' claim might be a good way to get into the country," Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday on asylum abuse allegations.
Committee member Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., urged immigration officials to review the asylum claim process closely to ensure it doesn't miss those really needing protection from persecution.
"Let's make sure that if someone really fears death that America is a safe place for them," he said.
Ruth E. Wasem, an immigration policy specialist for the Congressional Research Service who analyzed the claim data for House panel, said there wasn't enough data to determine whether the jump in claims could be traced to fraud, the Times said.
"The increase alone does not signify an abuse of the claims," Wasem told the panel.
The rise in claims came mostly from people asking not to be deported to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as well as Mexico, India and Ecuador, Wasem said.


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As Virginia delegates root for Sen. Tim Kaine at the Democratic National Convention, they also are poking good-natured fun at a distinctive part of his face -- his left eyebrow.
Virginia delegates cheered on the senator carrying vivid orange signs bearing a smiley face with the left eyebrow cocked, just like Kaine's.
Delegate Vivian Paige explained.
"Tim Kaine gave us these in 2008, at the convention. He was governor at that point," she said.
Kaine's eyebrow first rose to national prominence in 2006, when the newly sworn-in governor delivered the State of the Union response. His arched eyebrow grabbed attention. Not all of it was positive.
"... That eyebrow is too distracting for the party to ever put him on national television again," political blogger Brendan Nyhan commented at the time.
His fans in Virginia said they have observed the eyebrow over the years.
"When he talks, his little eyebrow goes up on one side, so it's a little joke, but he goes along with it. He loves it. He's a good guy," delegate Susan Rowland said.
Kaine himself made the first buttons with the arched eyebrow smiley face, passing them out to Virginia delegates when he spoke at the 2008 convention.
"He's a fun-loving, down-to-earth, everybody-loves-him kind of guy," Paige said. "So, this is him poking fun at himself, and he's pretty good at that."
At the convention this week, delegates may find their vintage buttons now are a hot commodity. But Paige says she will not give hers up.
"Let's just say I would make a few bucks if I wanted to sell it. But I'm not about to sell it. Not now," she said.


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President Obama took his fight for Wall Street reform to lower Manhattan on Thursday, chiding the financial industry but also asking for its titans to join his cause.
"Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street," Obama said, outlining a series of reforms that he argued were crucial to ending future bailouts. In the wake of Obama's speech at Cooper Union college, pundits remain skeptical that the president and Congress will truly deliver on the promise of no more bailouts, ever. But many agreed that by investing in Wall Street reform, Obama is on the cusp of reaping political dividends:
- "By all appearances, Obama appears to be marching towards a legislative victory on financial reform, with key Republicans sounding increasingly likely to support the measure in the coming weeks," writes Michael Scherer for Time. "If this does come to pass, it will be a major victory for the President, not only for the bipartisan support his effort can attract, but for the extent to which it moves his presidency beyond the tangle of health care reform."
- The president and future policy makers "had better be very, very smart" since passing Obama's financial reform bill would turn big banks into "the equivalent of utilities," warns The Wall Street Journal editorial board. That "may, or may not, reduce the risk of future financial meltdowns and taxpayer bailouts," but what is certain is that Washington is on the path toward becoming the "new master of the financial universe," they write.
- "13 Bankers" author and MIT Professor Simon Johnson applauds Obama for showing a "shift in attitudes" toward Wall Street but argues it will require heavy lifting to actually make the financial system "significantly safer." A prominent evangelist of breaking up big banks on his "Baseline Scenario" blog, Johnson calls for grass roots pressure in support of the "Brown-Kaufman SAFE Banking Act," which would cap big banks' debt levels.
- Liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues that Obama showed too much deference to Wall Street by pledging not to stifle financial innovation. "The fact is that Mr. Obama should be trying to do what's right for the country — full stop," Krugman writes. "If doing so hurts the bankers, that's O.K." While Krugman supports Democrats' financial reform legislation, he calls the bills simply a "first step" on the path to shrinking the financial sector.
- Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson argues that Obama should thank the "misbehaving lords of Wall Street" for helping the president "get his mojo back." As for whether Wall Street will become any less of a "gambling den," don't bet on it, Robinson writes. "No one should believe anyone who says the U.S. government will never, ever, spend a dollar of the taxpayers' money to rescue another financial institution from its own greed and stupidity."


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Chester County Beekeepers Annual Conference- 2016
The Chester County Beekeepers Association's Annual Conference will be March 11th, 2017 at the West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383. Speakers include Dr. Dewey Caron, author of Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Phil Craft, columnist for Bee Culture Magazine, Dr. Meghan Milbrath, Michigan State University Department of Entomology, and Master Beekeeper Landi Simone, owner and operator of Gooserock Farm. Lunch will be provided. For registration and details, go to http://www.ChescoBees.org.
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A passport that is valid for at least six months after the end of your trip is required for both U.S. and Canadian citizens to enter and depart the country. Please ensure that the name on your passport matches all travel documents we have issued. If this is not the case, please contact us immediately.
Your passport must have at least one blank page for the entry stamp. This cannot include the 'endorsement' page at the back.
Please make a photocopy of your passport's identification page and keep it separate from your original. It's also a good idea to leave a digital copy with someone at home. This may speed up the replacement process should you lose your passport.
Citizens of the USA and Canada do not require a visa for Morocco, only a valid passport. If your stay is longer than 90 days, a resident permit is required and can be issued by the Police Department of your place of residence in Morocco.
Foreign visitors to Morocco are allowed to enter and exit the country with a maximum of MAD 2000.
For more visa information please visit:
America: www.travisa.com
Canada: www.travisa.ca
Cancellation and Medical Insurance is highly recommended as it can safeguard against the expenses associated with in-country medical emergencies, lost or delayed baggage and emergency cancelation or interruption of your trip. Please ensure your policy will provide you with upfront medical coverage so that you are not responsible for a hefty doctor's bill while away. Insurance can be purchased through us.
No vaccinations are required by law to enter Morocco but Typhoid and Hepatitis A are two vaccinations that are strongly recommended. It is also a good idea to be up to date with your polio and tetanus vaccines. Some vaccines require more than one dose or a major length of time to be effective. For that reason, it is recommended to see your doctor or health provider at least 6 to 8 weeks before your trip. For all vaccinations and health requirements, you can also refer to the recommendations from:
World Health Organization (WHO): http://www.who.int and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://wwwnc.cdc.gov.
If there are any medical items essential to your health, such as prescription drugs or corrective eye wear, bring duplicates and divide them between your checked bags and hand luggage. While non-prescription drugs such as aspirin are generally available, it is difficult to replace prescription items.
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The Moroccan climate varies according to season and region. Throughout most of the year, mornings and evenings can be cool and if you are travelling to the Sahara or trekking in the mountains please note that early mornings and evenings can be extremely cold. Weather is rather unpredictable from October through February and can vary greatly from one year to the next; some winters are quite moderate and others are wet and cold. Although there is a chance you might encounter rain at any time, the odds are greatest between November and February. Summer temperatures are high from June to early September.
For up-to-date forecasts, check www.weather.com.
Electricity: Electricity in Morocco is provided at 110/220 volts and 50HZ.
Phone: Roaming charges vary between carriers, but tend to be quite costly. Consult your phone provider prior to departure to discuss overseas rates and international package options.
The Moroccan unit of currency is the dirham which is divided into 100 centimes. There are ATM's throughout Morocco in all of the major cities and most towns. We recommend that you get local currency from your bank before you leave home or from a bank machine in-country which is much cheaper than an exchange service at the airport or in tourist areas. Your bank card may work, but Visa or MasterCard are more widely accepted. You will need a 4-digit PIN to be able to use your cards. For current exchange rates please visit www.xe.com
Capital: Rabat
Language: Darija (Moroccan Arabic), French, Berber
Currency: Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
Religion: Muslim, Christian, Jewish
Time Zone: UTC +1
Electricity: 220 Volt, 50 Hz
Telephone: Country code for calling is +212
Calling North America: Dial 001 plus area code and your 7-digit number
Emergency numbers in Morocco: Police (in urban areas): 19, Royal Constabulary (outside urban areas): 177 Firemen and ambulances: 15


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|Google's home for the Democratic Convention is located at the corner of Tryon and Third streets in uptown Charlotte. Photos by Sergio Tovar
There was a lot of speculation when shipping crates started to go up on the parking lot on the corner of Third and Tryon streets in uptown Charlotte last week. Because of the familiar color scheme, Google was quickly speculated to be behind the structure.
Google ended the mystery Monday, when it opened the doors to its home during the Democratic National Convention. The facility offers free wifi to the public as well as plenty of sofas and chairs to sit and relax. The air-conditioned tent offers much-needed relief from Charlotte's heat and humidity. Google Bytes, a refreshment bar at the site, features soft drinks, iced coffee and other beverages.
A local company was behind the structure. Boxman Studios, started in Charlotte in 2008 by David Campbell, specializes in recycling shipping containers for hospitality, housing, mobile classrooms and other uses.
Boxman Studios built a structure for Google at the TED Conference in Long Beach, Calif., this spring. Campbell said he started talking with Google about creating a structure for the Democratic National Convention soon after.
Conversations continued through the summer and Boxman Studios finally got the green light to build the structure about a month before the DNC.
"It was a great opportunity for us to partner with them again," said Campbell. "They chose us to help them create the environment they were looking for."
Boxman Studios worked with production company MKG to design the structure, which Campbell said was one of the largest the company has done. The structure was then fabricated Boxman Studios' Charlotte warehouse.
"We always try to push ourselves and try to do something unique," he said.
Campbell said the company had to keep the project a secret for the last month and was happy to reveal it to the public Monday.
"With a partner like Google, you just hope that we can help make this week special for Charlotte and Google," said Campbell. "I think it's going to be an iconic place for people to gather."
There were also several interactive displays at Google's tent as well as televisions showing coverage of the convention and a studio.
Google set up charging stations, but only for Android phones. Sorry, iPhone fans.
And you can also get a chance to see one of Google's self-driving cars outside the tent.
Google's uptown home will be open Monday until 6 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Google Bytes operates from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. It will open Thursday at 10 a.m.
After the convention, Boxman Studios will break down the structure and take it back to its warehouse in Charlotte to be repurposed for future projects.


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The Hand-Made 'Tempest'
Target Margin Theater, the celebrated downtown company, presents Shakespeare's late comedy, The Tempest for its twentieth season. The production focuses its energies on exposing its illusion-making apparatuses to such an extent that the creaks and cranks of its pulleys and the nonchalant all-female run crew become the focal point of the play. When Prospero declares "I abjure this rough magic" in the final act, Shakespeare's poetry is imbued with an unexpected shade of meaning because theater itself is shown as a failed contrivance bereft of illusory magic.
As the audience find their seats the entire stage is open and we can see HERE Theater's back wall where actors chit chat and prepare for their performance. From these first moments the tone of Target Margin's Tempest is established. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that: this is a performance, the actors are pretending, and the stage is anything but a stage. This only heightens the knowing playfulness already present in a text rife with double meanings, direct addresses, and asides. The effect is not so much a Brechtian break from emotional identification, but more of a feeling of being let in on the joke.
Director David Herskovits establishes a well-defined performance style for his actors reminiscent of a bygone era of stage conventions with extended arms, deliberate movement and heightened speech. When Prospero, played with precision by the affable Steven Rattazzi, retreats to his room to tell his daughter Miranda, the sensitive and slight Clare Barron, about her bizarre origins, the stage transforms by what seems to be a plank of wood at a time, into a candle lit interior above which the word "Remember" is painted. The scenic change, the flickering luminescence and the actors' strange gestures all work to create a moment of rare theatrical beauty when this spectator is painfully aware of the transitory nature of the sight before her eyes, a delicate and fleeting vision soon to be destroyed by the next installment of time. In this scene, the different design elements come together to convey an aesthetic cohesion that, unfortunately, the production has difficulty in maintaining. Rattazzi and Barron are able to embody the whimsical choreography while remaining fresh and alive. Some of the actors get lost in the movement, and seem to exert more effort maintaining it than delivering their lines.
Clever sound design by Kate Marvin and David Herskovits and ingenious set design by David Birn work laboriously to announce their contribution to the play-making, mostly to comic effect. But, as the evening continues, the insistence on calling attention to the seams starts to distract from the wonder a play like The Tempest can conjure simply with the dazzling display of its language. Even though it is only an illusion, sometimes I want to believe in theater's magic.


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I'm currently reading the paper "Holonomy, the Quantum Adiabatic Theorem, and Berry's Phase" by Barry Simon.
Imagine a vector bundle with a connection $\nabla$. For simplicity, we assume that this is a $U(1)$ vector bundle. Parallel transport gives rise to the holonomy group, which assigns to each curve $C$ a number $e^{i\gamma(C)}$ that indicates how a vector is "rotated" when transporting it along the curve. In turns out that the phase change $\gamma(C)$ can be expressed as an integral of the curvature form over any surface $S$ that delimits the curve, $C = \partial S$,
$$ \gamma(C) = \int_{S} F^{\nabla} .$$
I am interested in the integral of the curvature form over the whole manifold, which turns out to be an integer multiple of $2\pi$,
$$ \int_{M} F^{\nabla} = 2\pi k, k\in\mathbb{Z}$$
Simon notes that this "standard fact" is a consistency condition on the holonomy group. I can understand that: integrating over the whole manifold is like taking the holonomy of the constant path, which must be the identity.
What I would like to understand is the generalization to higher Chern classes. For instance,
Why is the integral of the second Chern form an integer multiple of $4\pi^2$?
$$ \int_{M} F^{\nabla}\wedge F^{\nabla} = 4\pi^2 k, k\in\mathbb{Z}$$
I have a pedestrian proof for special cases, but I would like to understand a general reason behind this phenomenon. Is there a "higher holonomy" at work here?
Obviously, my knowledge of vector bundles and characteristic classes is rather limited. I can find my way around the book "From Calculus to Cohomology", but have by no means absorbed all the material. Basically, my question is why the Chern classes defined via connections are normalized with a factor of $1/(2\pi)^k$.


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A new documentary sheds light on the Greek city's most vulnerable residents.
In the shadow of the Acropolis, they set off before dawn. Men and boys driving rusty trucks, pushing heavy hand-carts, towing wagons behind battered motorcycles. As the city slowly comes to life, they are already well into their day's work, scouring alleys and Dumpsters for old box-spring mattresses, appliances, car parts, anything they can salvage and sell at a scrap yard for a few dollars a day.
Many Athens residents have been struggling to get by since economic and political crisis erupted in Greece, threatening to engulf much of Europe. But the estimated 80,000 Athenians who collect and process scrap in the city's informal economy were eking out their meager livings back when the rest of the city was still living large.
"In 2004, when we started filming, nobody was talking about poverty or corruption," says Greek filmmaker Christos Karakepelis, who spent six years capturing life among Athens's scavengers for his documentary, Raw Material. "Greece was celebrating the Olympic Games; everything seemed bright and hopeful," he says.
That optimism led Greece to invest $15 billion in new sporting facilities for the Games and helped drive consumer spending to record levels. But Karakepelis says the precariousness of Greece's situation was evident even back then to anyone who bothered to look at the city's underclass, the thousands of people living in shanty homes cobbled together from scrap wood and lined with old billboards.
cenes from Christos Karakepelis's "Raw Material," courtesy Falero House
"The situation of the scavengers showed this sense [of prosperity] was a false one," says the director after a recent screening of his film at the 31st Istanbul Film Festival. "To be five minutes from the Parthenon, the symbol of Western civilization, and see people living this way showed things would turn out differently in the future."
Today, in the fifth straight year of recession for Greece, the lives of Athens's garbage-pickers no longer seem so distant from those of the rest of its inhabitants. Nearly 1.1 million Greeks are out of work, mostly in Athens and other urban areas. Thirty percent of the shops in the capital are shuttered, crime is on the rise, and homelessness, once almost nonexistent, is now a regular sight on the city's streets.
"In 2004, nobody else had the fear that they might end up in a situation like this. Today fear is the basic sentiment of Greek society," says Karakepelis. "The scavengers symbolize the fear of falling downward, and more people are now falling down like this every day. Poverty is closer to everyone's experiences."
Having more people share their woes has made times even tougher for the garbage pickers, who remain at the margins of Greek society and face increased competition for shrinking resources. Karakepelis says two or three times as many people are now picking over smaller and smaller pieces of trash as sharply reduced consumption by the middle class means fewer bonanzas like old refrigerators left out on the street.
The scavengers depicted in Raw Material, who came to Athens from Albania, India, Turkey, and elsewhere, are at additional risk due to a rise in violent attacks against immigrants in the city. Their status as illegal immigrants makes it difficult for them to organize themselves and demand more money and rights—as members of the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers gathered recently to do on the sidelines of the Rio+20 summit in Brazil.
Karakepelis hopes his film can join a long cinematic tradition of "giving existence to people on the margins of society," in this case the people who are responsible for 80 percent of the 3 million tons of iron produced in Greece each year through the recycling process. "The city exists around them but is indifferent to their situation," he says.
That indifference, he suggests, is detrimental not only to the trash pickers but to society as a whole, whose failure to consider the plight of some of its poorest urban dwellers may have blinded it to early warning signs of broader problems in Greece.
"After a screening in Athens, people said they saw the city in a different way, that it wasn't the same city they thought it was," Karakepelis says. "It led them to reconsider their priorities."