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Privatized Warfare: The Summer of Discontent
A new documentary by Robert Greenwald - "Iraq For Sale" - details the corporate profiteering of the increasingly privatized U.S. military.
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In coordination with the release of Robert Greenwald's new documentary, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, In These Times and its progressive media partners are covering the issues and individuals impacted by privatization in Iraq. All media partners are members of The Media Consortium, a new network of leading progressive independent journalism organizations. Read all the stories here:
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Investigative reports on contracting and corruption in post-war Iraq.
For private contractors fighting wars and racking up huge profits without being plagued by pesky accountability, this hasn't been the happiest summer.
Sure, some solace could be had in the decision of a federal judge in August to overturn a guilty verdict against Custer Battles, the company providing "risk management and security consulting services" in Iraq. The judge concluded that the company couldn't have defrauded the U.S. government with false invoices. While the company had been convicted of defrauding the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which ran Iraq from 2003 to 2004, the judge said that despite being funded with taxpayer dollars, the CPA wasn't technically part of the U.S. government.
But then again, in August, a federal jury in Raleigh, N.C., set a legal precedent by convicting CIA contractor David Passaro for his role in the death of a detainee under interrogation in Afghanistan, marking the first time an American civilian had been held criminally accountable for abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq. A couple of weeks later, Blackwater USA–the "professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations firm"–lost its attempt to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of four employees brutally killed in Fallujah. In late July, the construction firm Bechtel couldn't escape being audited, and lost a $50 million contract for mismanaging the long-delayed building of a Basra children's hospital.
And at the end of August, a new report from the Institute For Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy exposed the obscene profits CEOs are making from the "war on terror." The Executive Excess report found that since 9/11, the 34 chief executives of the top publicly traded defense contractor corporations have more than doubled their salaries, taking in $984 million and making 44 times that of a general. The average defense contractor CEO makes 308 times that of a private.
September doesn't look so hot for Iraq War profiteer supporters either. A new documentary from Robert Greenwald, Iraq For Sale (available on DVD at http://iraqforsale.org) shines a fresh, and harsh, spotlight on major contracting corporations. The film tells the story of our privatized military through the voices of former employees, family members of murdered contractors, and actual soldiers who have seen how contractors in Iraq operate.
The film offers up interviews with survivors and the kin of victims from the "Good Friday Massacre," when truck drivers for Halliburton subsidiary KBR were recklessly sent out on a job through hostile territory in military-marked vehicles. Insurgents attacked the convoy, six KBR truckers died, and one other driver remains unaccounted for.
Says one widow, "These men went to do the right thing [and] they were totally taken advantage of … [Halliburton] knew, they knew, that there was more than a good chance that they would be killed." A surviving trucker coolly opined, "It's about contracts … fulfilling the contract and replacing us if we died. [Halliburton] wanted to continue doing business with the Army, whatever the risks were."
A former military interrogator at Abu Ghraib who worked next to corporate interrogators from CACI International describes his experience this way: "We were uncertain–we knew what our chain of command was … but what's the CACI chain of command?" As Salon.com's Mark Benjamin says, the Pentagon was "desperate" for intelligence, "panicked," and hired "a bunch of contractors who didn't know what they were doing."(CACI's sorry role in the Abu Ghraib scandal didn't stop its CEO from attacking the authors of the Executive Excess report last year for criticizing defense contractors who earn far more than generals, arguing that "Companies are accountable for profitable performance and sustained customer satisfaction. Generals are not.")
A former employee of Titan, one of the largest providers of linguists in Iraq, explains that "hostility against American soldiers" is sometimes the result of shoddy, or intentionally self-serving, translations by company staff. "There were people who maybe spoke the [English] language, but it was broken, that could not read it or write it … and they were hired. … Nobody was given a test." And, the employee says, after unskilled people were hired, they weren't appropriately trained or supervised.
Soldiers in Iraq also describe their direct experiences with KBR. One speaks of training KBR staff to fix radios just so they could take over his own job and leave him to "sit up on guard duty to wait around." Another criticizes KBR for systematically allowing long chow lines, where troops are sitting ducks for insurgents, instead of providing food around the clock: "They get paid by how many soldiers they feed, not by how many soldiers they save." A former water purification specialist for KBR, lambastes the company for selling the troops "extremely contaminated" water. Through tears, he warns, "a lot of soldiers over there … might come home without a bullet wound, but … with pathogens in their blood because of Halliburton." Despite this scandalous service, the Executive Excess report found that Halliburton's CEO pocketed $26.6 million in 2005.
Much of Iraq For Sale is essentially anecdotal evidence about the perils of privatization. But anecdotes are all we have; our government isn't keeping hard data. The General Accountability Office has reported that "none of the principal agencies responsible for [Iraq's] reconstruction had complete data on costs associated with using private security providers" and that "inadequate performance data and measures make it difficult to determine the overall progress and impact of U.S. reconstruction efforts."
There is one large hunk of evidence, however: Iraq itself. Have private security firms helped bring security to Iraq? Have private engineering firms helped bring clean water and reliable electricity to Iraq? Has privatization helped the Iraqi oil industry pay for reconstruction costs instead of U.S. taxpayers? Clearly, no.
The Iraq occupation is simply the latest failure of Bush Era privatization. The starkest example is FEMA. In April 2001, the White House announced its goal of privatizing much of FEMA's work soon after Bush's first inauguration. In June 2004, the agency privatized its hurricane disaster plan for New Orleans, contracting the work to Innovation Emergency Management, a Baton Rouge, La.-based firm. We all know how that turned out.
The painfully protracted rebuilding of the Gulf Coast is due to privatization as well. An August report from CorpWatch found that several of the "disaster profiteers" botching the job in Iraq, including Bechtel and Halliburton, are doing the same at home. On ABC's August 27 "This Week," Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) estimated that "30 to 40 percent" of the money going to contractors "never reached anybody, because it went to the contractors for profits."
In the same vein, Republicans have also taken baby steps to privatize Medicare. The new prescription drug plan subsidizes private companies with billions of taxpayer dollars to provide the insurance. Yet, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, that money could have been more efficiently used to offer seniors more complete coverage.
To be fair, the Iraq mess is not primarily the fault of privatization. Imposing "regime change" and permanent military bases at gunpoint in order to aggressively exert dominance over a faraway region was our government's bright idea. But the testimony in Iraq For Sale shows that partially privatizing the endeavor hardly helped the White House achieve its unilateralist goals.
One might argue that the lone positive development of the privatization debacle is that it has put the brakes on the neoconservative agenda. Iraq has been so difficult to stabilize, it appears to have delayed plans to push on into Iran. But even that positive comes with a big negative: the sullying of democracy.
Even if you believe (as I do) that the Bush Administration is wholly insincere about promoting democracy, that's how the war is being sold abroad. And the privatized occupation of Iraq has been the absolute worst way to sell it. As one former contractor sums it up at the end of the film, "How're you going to win the hearts and minds of these people, if they see you cheating your own people, if all this stuff is just for the money?"
With "democracy" now associated with corruption, torture and violence, any future liberal American president attempting to implement a truly pro-democracy foreign policy may have the extra burden trying to convince an increasingly skeptical, beaten-down Arab-Muslim population that real democracy can bring freedom, prosperity and stability.
And yet, despite the relatively poor summer for war profiteers, don't expect things to change very much.
Bechtel may have lost a $50 million contract, but it still has nearly $3 billion of contracts for work in Iraq to keep itself busy. Few litigators are following the legal precedent set to prosecute contractors–as CNN reported in June, not one private military contractor in Iraq has been charged with a crime, not even one of the CACI interrogators at Abu Ghraib. According to the Washington Post, those found to be "shooting without cause" in Iraq are generally just "relieved of their duties," instead of prosecuted.
The little victories against privatizing warfare are valuable. But until the American public calls for a change in philosophy–on privatization and on warfare–by replacing our leadership at the top, the corporatized Iraq occupation will continue to waste money and endanger the lives of both Americans and Iraqis.
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|A Touching Story (Touching and movement compulsions)
A Touching Story
By Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
OCD encompasses many different groups of symptoms. One of the less well-known is touching and movement compulsions. Those whose disorder includes these symptoms can be seen to do one or more of the following:
Compulsions in this and other categories are most often performed for the purpose of relieving the anxiety caused by obsessive thoughts. However, these are several sub-categories which do not exactly fit this pattern.
One subgroup which does fit this pattern takes in those whose touching or moving takes the form of magical or superstitious rituals (see the article "Very Superstitious" in the December 1993 issue Vol. 6, No. 6. The story of the young boy featured in the video "The Touching Tree" is a good example of someone performing a magical touching ritual. By magically connecting things which do not connect in the real world, these sufferers are trying to establish control over dislikable thoughts or events to keep them from happening in the future, to ensure that certain desirable things will happen, or to undo previous happenings or thoughts, which would lead to such events. Perhaps this type of touching could just as easily be classified under magical or superstitious compulsions, but touching and moving are so distinctive that I believe they constitute a separate category in their own right. There is a good deal of overlap between symptom groups anyway.
Those who think in superstitious and magical ways are not 'crazy'. They will be the first to say "I know this sounds strange, but..." It is the strong feelings of doubt and anxiety which keep them working at compulsive activities. They feel that they dare not take the risk or chance of their feared consequence occurring.
Magic usually involves rituals, and rituals must be performed "perfectly" in order to work. Ritualistic behaviors must be performed certain numbers of times or in a particular order which is usually invariable (There is some overlap here with compulsive counting). Sometimes things must be touched until they "feel right." You will typically see "touchers" tapping, grasping or touching things an odd or even number of times or up to a special number of repetitions. If a ritual is performed wrongly, or if an unpleasant thought or image comes to mind (contaminating the ritual), the sufferer will generally have to stop and do it all over again. Because those who do rituals are anxious and because anxiety hampers a person's performance at almost anything, it is not unusual to see people touching things as much as several hundred times before they can stop. Some touchers can be seen to have calluses on their fingertips as a result.
Unfortunately, compulsions only pro-vide a kind of illusory short term relief from anxiety. The long term result is only more anxiety. The more they are performed, the greater the behavioral 'addiction' which develops, until eventually they can almost engulf a sufferer's entire day and every activity.
Objects sometimes have to be touched in special spots. Frequent targets for touching are the edges or corners of things, or any surface irregularities such as bumps, cracks or rough spots. Sometimes stains, spots or marks are also singled out. Where sufferers have to walk or move in special ways, they sometimes use marks or irregularities on the floor to step on, around or over.
Doorways are also common sites for touching rituals, which have to be performed either before or after the individual walks through or past them. For instance, touchers will sometimes have to touch door posts before entering or leaving a room. Sometimes the act involves touching a door before it can be opened or closed. It is not unusual for touchers to get "stuck"to not be able to enter or leave buildings or rooms until they get their ritual right. Some sufferers can also be seen to be "stuck" sitting on chairs or sofas in the same way. They may sit for as long as half an hour or more before they perform their touching correctly.
Other common events which can become incorporated into a person's touching rituals are the opening and closing of drawers, bottles or boxes. Picking up objects and then setting them down in special ways is also a variation on this type of behavior. This frequently is seen during such activities as dressing, shaving, washing, writing, etc.
One of the more unusual looking magical movement compulsions is a type of "undoing" ritual where an individual must cancel out other "bad" movements they have made by doing them in reverse, much as you run a film backwards. It is possible to see someone walking out of a room backwards, making every move and gesture in reverse.
A second subgroup whose members touch and move, perform many of the same behaviors as those who behave in magical ways although they perform them for a different reason. These suffer-ers seem to have a need for "closure" or a kind of completion. They can't exactly explain why they do what they do, but when asked, will say that they feel an uneasiness or nervousness about something being "missing" if the behavior is not performed. There may even have been a reason for touching or moving that motivated them in the past, but usually they can no longer remember what it was. As in the case of the magical ritualizers, those in this subgroup will also touch or move until it "feels right."
A third subgroup moves or touches compulsively simply to satisfy a distinct urge. There is no "bad" consequence for not performing the behavior other than that it will keep nagging at them. One of my patients described his efforts to resist as being similar to holding back the need to sneeze. The impulse can be delayed, but it cannot be resisted completely. These compulsions are similar in many ways to tics, and might even be diagnosed as such in some cases, although this can be a kind of gray area There is not always a clear distinction between a tic and a movement or touching compulsion. I do not believe that anyone has ever really been able to establish where such a difference might lie. In any case, it would appear that there are some links between this type of compulsion and Tourette's Syndrome (TS). Tics themselves are not uncommon in OC sufferers. There does, in fact, appear to be some genetic connection between the two disorders, and it is interesting to note that, for some in this category, the drugs Risperdal, Zyprexa, Geodon, Abilify, and Seroquel (which are used to treat TS) can be useful additions to the antidepressant medications taken for OCD. The match is not complete, however, as these sufferers do no exactly meet the diagnostic criteria for TS. For instance, there may be no history of vocal tics or an onset before age 21, both of which are required for a diagnosis of TS. There are other diagnoses such as Chronic Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder or Tic Disorder Not Otherwise Specified which come a bit closer in terms of their criteria. The diagnostic blurring we see between tics and movement compulsion clearly indicate that this is an area which requires more research.
What can be done about these behaviors? If you are a regular reader of this newsletter you are no doubt well acquainted with the fact that the dual approach of medication plus behavior therapy has been shown to be the most effective treatment package. The use of antidepressant medications, including Anafranil, Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Celexa, Lexapro, Cymbalta, and Effexor can provide a measure of relief by lowering the level of superstitious obsessions as well as the urge to move or touch. As mentioned above, the addition of small amounts of Abilify, Risperdal, Zyprexa, Geodon, or Seroquel to one of the above drugs has been reported to help treat some of the more resistant cases in this category.
Due to the fact that it cannot totally eradicate all symptoms, medication can not do the job alone. Medication's most important contribution is that it can enable individuals to feel strong enough to successfully engage in behavioral therapy. In behavioral therapy, the basic principles are to gradually face the anxiety through the use of compulsions. In this way, sufferers build up a tolerance for the anxiety and eventually get to the point where they do not have to respond to it compulsively to get relief. This is what constitutes Exposure and Response Prevention (E&RP). This approach is very effective for those in the magical touching and moving subgroup. Together with the patient, the therapist (usually a psychologist specializing in behavioral therapy) prepares a list known as a hierarchy, in which every feared thought and situation is assigned a number value anywhere from zero to 100 based upon how much anxiety it causes the sufferer. These are then placed in a ranked order and patients are helped to carry out assignments in which they work their way up the scale, gradually facing more fearful situations while resisting the urge to ritually touch and move. As a person in treatment moves up their hierarchy, their sense of mastery over the symptoms grows, and as they reach the upper levels, items which at first seemed impossible to face have now become approachable.
For those who fall into the second sub-group (touching and moving to get a sense of completion) the use of E&RP would also be appropriate. While there is generally no catastrophe connected to their resisting the urge to move or touch, they usually do feel some discomfort or low level anxiety. They are encouraged to resist the movement while having to confront the idea that they are incomplete or will not get closure. They then work to gradually expand the amount of time and the number of situations in which they will not perform the compulsion.
In the case of the third subgroup (simply satisfying an urge to move or touch) a somewhat different behavioral approach would be used. This is known as Habit Reversal Training, a technique frequently used in the treatment of Trichotillomania (compulsive hair-pulling). It is a multi-component treatment which helps patients to become more aware of when and where urges occur, teaches them how to center themselves through diaphragmatic breathing and muscle relaxation, and then trains them to combine these with a special muscle tensing exercise which can compete with and block the compulsive movement. This is, of course, just a simplified description of the technique. It does require much practice and hard work to master. Further information about this technique can be found in Dr. Penzel's OCD self-help book, mentioned below.
As can be seen, there is effective treat-ment for all forms of touching and movement compulsions. Don't just sit around feeling 'stuck' in both senses of the term. Many with OCD wait and suffer for years before seeking effective help. Try not to let yourself be one of them.
If you would like to read more about what Dr. Penzel has to say about OCD, take a look at his self-help book, "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well," (Oxford University Press, 2000). You can learn more about it at www.ocdbook.com
Please Note: Then information in this site is presented as a public service to our patients and friends. It is not a substitute for a careful evaluation by a qualified mental health professional. If you are already under treatment, do not make any changes in your regimen without consulting your doctor.
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On 17 November — to honor those who strive to reach the historic goal of eradicating a human disease for only the second time in history — my wife, Marga, and I will join Rotarians in the Tucson, Arizona, area to raise money for Rotary's PolioPlus Program at El Tour de Tucson. It's one of the top U.S. cycling events, and it attracts more than 9,000 cyclists a year.
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27-Apr-2012 -- As I was in the area to work with Murray State University on the implementation of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) throughout different schools and departments on campus, and as the incorporation of field work with GPS is an important component in all GIS work, a confluence visit seemed like the perfect capstone. I know only a geographer would consider Indiana on the way from western Kentucky back to the St Louis airport, but to a geographer, everywhere is "on the way"!
En route, I took two conference calls at beautiful Lake Kentucky. Then I drove east and north out of Kentucky and into Evansville Indiana. I quickly realized the mistake of this, because of the traffic. I finally got out of town on the highway west to Mt Vernon, but only after nearly 40 minutes. At Mt Vernon, I turned northwest on Savah Road (Lower New Harmony Road). This was wonderfully hilly and winding, but very slow. Would I make it? I needed to get to St Louis to make my flight.
I drove west along Curtis Road to Wabash Road, and then south. The reason why I did this instead of continuing west to the lake as the previous visitor had done is that all of my research pointed to the confluence being south of the lake, and south of the trees on the south side of the lake. It appeared as though I could walk there from the south. One of my satellite images showed the entire area under water from the flooding Wabash River, a short distance to the west. As I rounded the bend, I was startled to find a whole crew working on the railroad bridge. I turned right, northwest, and then drove west on an unimproved dirt road. As I turned north from the east-week track to park at an oil pumping station, I noted a farmer with an enormous piece of equipment parking off to the south about 100 meters. I walked up to him and asked if I could walk north-northeast to the confluence point, which was now 700 meters away. He said yes and also said that I could drive a bit closer than where I was parked. After I showed him my GPS, I asked him what he was planting. He had planted corn to the east but in this particular field, he was just working the soil. I asked him about the flowers I had seen and he said they call those "yellowtop." They certainly were numerous. I thanked him and walked to the car. I noticed that the road to the oil station ended just 50 meters north, and if I hadn't been in such a hurry, would have walked from there. But, not wanting to unduly disturb the fields, and to save a few minutes, I drove back east along the track, and took the track to the north that I had noticed on the way in. It truly was a single track, driven previously by perhaps 2 vehicles. The earth was very soft and I was a bit concerned I would get stuck, but I continued straight until a 90-degree turn to the west, which was fortuitous as it was gradually leading me to the confluence.
The road ended abruptly at a deep hole partly filled with water, about 3 meters in diameter, and rimmed with a pipe that looked related to the petroleum infrastructure in the area. I parked here and walked briskly to the northwest, only to realize that I had forgotten my camera, came back, and then briskly walked once more over bare ground with a few sprigs of plants bursting forth here and there. I walked gingerly and in less than 200 meters, I reached the confluence.
The southwesternmost confluence in Indiana therefore lies on flat ground, about 90 meters south of the treeline to the north. The temperature stood at about 75 degrees F under mostly clear skies and a moderate breeze. I saw a few birds but no animals. I now had 5 Indiana confluence points. I had stood on 38 North several times in the past, from California on the west to Virginia on the east, and also on 88 West several times before, from Michigan on the north to Alabama on the south. I had to say that this was one of the prettiest confluences I had visited.
As I needed to make rapid tracks to the St Louis airport, which was over two hours away, I only spent 10 minutes on the site. It was one of my fastest confluence visits ever, even though it took me awhile to reach the spot in the first place. After a quick succession of photos and videos, I walked briskly back to the vehicle to the southeast, seeing the imprint of my steps from five minutes previous on the way in, in the bare earth. I drove back out on the narrow track, fortunately not getting stuck. I even filmed a movie when I came to the yellowtop-covered field, and emerged once more on the gravel road at the railroad bridge. Entering my data into my many devices there, I almost collided with one of the workers' trucks as it was driving down to join the rest of the crew. Need to pay better attention!
Now I drove out to the road traveling northwest out of Mt Vernon again (Savah Road), drove a bit southeast on it, but then continued east on a gravel road (250 S), which took me to State Highway 69. It looked new and straight, and was probably the one I should have taken out to the confluence to save time, even though I highly enjoyed the winding Savah Road. I took State 69 north to I-64, then into Illinois, and all the way to St Louis. Once there, I got stuck in traffic near the Arch but managed to turn in the vehicle and make my flight in plenty of time. An excellent end indeed to my time in the central USA.


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Hollywood film director, screenwriter chosen as Commencement speaker
Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. announced today that Hollywood filmmaker Randall Wallace will deliver the 2011 Commencement address on May 14.
Wallace is most widely known for writing the screenplays for Braveheart and Pearl Harbor and directing Disney's Secretariat, released last fall. His work on Braveheart earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America award. He also wrote, directed and produced the critically acclaimed We Were Soldiers and The Man in the Iron Mask. In 1999, he formed his own company, Wheelhouse Entertainment, with the main purpose of creating entertainment for worldwide audiences based on the values of love, courage and honor.
Wallace is also the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels and the lyricist of the acclaimed hymn Mansions of the Lord, performed as the closing music for President Ronald Reagan's national funeral.
Wallace will be no stranger to Lynchburg when he returns in May. Wallace spent much of his childhood here; he is a graduate of E.C. Glass High School.
"Ever since I first watched Braveheart in 1995 and learned that its writer was from Lynchburg, I have wanted to meet Randall Wallace. That movie's lessons about the evils of big government and tyranny and the virtues of freedom are more relevant today than ever," Falwell said. "I watched a video clip of his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in February [Wallace was the keynote speaker]. That convinced me he would be a perfect fit at Liberty and would bring the right message for our 40-year anniversary Commencement."
Falwell recently learned that Wallace's father and his father, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Liberty's founder, knew one another and that Wallace himself had corresponded with Falwell, Sr., in his youth.
"Wallace told me that when he was a boy and going through struggles with his faith, that he wrote letters to my father and that Dad would write him back and give him the advice of his heart," Falwell said.
At Liberty it has been a tradition to bring in guest speakers who are successes in their field, providing examples to graduates of how they can be champions for Christ in their chosen professions. Wallace is a great example, Falwell said, and will be able to share his impact on the film industry.
"Because it's our 40th anniversary, I wanted this year's Commencement to focus on our vision for Liberty's next 40 years. A big part of that vision is finding new ways to communicate our Christian message through new forms of media, including film," Falwell said. "In this new generation, it is not enough to write books and deliver eloquent speeches. To reach a wide audience, the message must be brought to life. No book, speech or sermon could have communicated so effectively the evils of tyranny and the virtues of freedom like the film, Braveheart. We want our graduates to master 21st century communications."
He said Wallace has already expressed an interest in helping Liberty grow in this area and staying connected long after Commencement.
"Wallace said in an e-mail last week that he has great hopes he can get to know our team and find ways to get involved in what we're doing here at Liberty," Falwell said.


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John Anthony Bailo
Born October 22, 1960
Died December 25, 2015
Readers may know John Bailo as the co-founder and lead contributor to you-read-it-here-first.com. I'm sorry to report that John passed away late last year from a hypertensive heart condition while he was parked on the shoulder of the road.
John and I had a great many years of friendship together, plus a few years where that wasn't quite possible. I'll miss his wit and courage, and his loyalty. It is in that spirit I share these reflections.
I remember John wrote a poem while in college (for a little while it was a bit of a thing), and I remember being intrigued but somewhat disappointed. I haven't read it in years, and don't remember it so much as I recall
The story, touching on a Motown star,
by filling to the margins of the page,
it filled the silver screen:
the screen he loved.
And, the words
tended to
tumble down
Now I wonder if I judged it unfairly, because I don't recall ever asking him to read it out loud. And I wonder what he would do today, if he were here to try.
OpenOffice gave me the chance to express my thoughts in a variety of ways. John might've appreciated the gesture if I had chosen to write about him using a spreadsheet, or a powerpoint-style presentation format. The form of this collection of text has yet to gel into something recognizable, but for some jobs, nothing else will do.
Speaking of "text", the place and power of text were topics where John and I had considerable overlap in our thinking. At the time that John developed the "Texeme Construct" idea, being in favor of "text" would have been drowned out by the perennial surges of interest in video, virtual reality, immersion, etc, and could be seen as becoming a niche communication modality, bordering on quaint.
How broadly "the Texeme construct" extended I never was able to learn.
It was absolutely defined and meaningful, and it was a kind of a joke. It was a signpost, a reminder, a smokescreen, and an invitation to find out more. It was about the mastery that the command line offered, compared to the infantile interactions that have come to dominate our computer environment. We don't see it anymore, but John did. Pointing is what a baby does.
It was long variable names, and control of information flow. And Marshall McLuhan was in there. It was the short essay, and the online commentary. It was a cross between a mathematical formula, and obscure science fictional conceit. It was a-blog-for-everyone, and opinions scattered across dozens of online gathering places. I'm extrapolating wildly now: texeme is democratic access, texeme is meritocracy, since more knowledge leads to more mastery, texeme is a place to take a stand, either atavistic, or as a hold-out against the tide of Mad Max and Idiocracy. That, and largely, I estimate, Texeme Construct was his own private joke. A concept so large could never become just one thing. And so it went.
John had the kind of mind that kept all those notions going all at once. He was able to instantly pivot to either "lean in" and carry your logic maybe a little too far, or to flip the bit, and make the clearest possible case for the opposite of what most people just accept without thinking. Conversation with John was often "bracing" in a way that few others I've encountered have been.
I seem to recall that he participated in debate during his high school years, and it showed, in a way. Happily, John seemed to exemplify the fluidity of thinking that debating encourages, but not the stiff, pedantic personal style that forms the debate team stereotype.
The internet gave John the ability to turn his love of debate, of ideas, his bravery, and his passion into a lifestyle that allowed him to have an active role in the world around him. That role, as a member of what could be called the "commentariat" would have seemed nearly unimaginable only a few generations ago.
John and I grew up in a very different world than exists today. For instance, maybe he had it a little better, but I remember being excited that we could suddenly get four TV channels, about recording top-40 songs from the radio to a portable cassette recorder, about a chance to visit the "001" section of books at the county library.
At the outset of our freshman year at Princeton, we all attended a welcoming speech and the only image I retain from that speech is that of the firehose: the firehose, drinking from which, a Princeton education is like (as Yoda might mention). I don't think I felt the full power of President Bowen's comparison quite then, since I was very thirsty, I suppose. But now I feel it full force, and that may be another thing I shared with John.
I recently gathered statistics relating to the number of books published each year. The number of books published annually has generally increased every year. Likewise for the number of self-published books. It interested me to try to compare their numbers with what I thought of as "book-equivalents" in the area of online essays and commentary. My estimates led me to believe that currently, each of these 3 areas (publishing, self-publishing, and online writing) constituted about a third of the total "book" output.
Consider all the books that had ever been published by the time we heard the firehose speech in 1978, and the challenge that such an incredible wealth of knowledge and experience would pose to someone who wanted "just a sip". Now consider that same volume being generated every year! In the face of such a torrent, some would give up, some might go mad, but someone like John would keep going,
would keep searching for that important fact, that insight, that innovation..
We shared a house for a time, John, Janet, and I, and Francesca, Ed, and Dave. For a time, John and I were nearly inseparable as friends, haunting TV lounges across campus, and acting out mock heroic battles in the style of Federation officers, humming our own background musical accompaniment because nobody else volunteered for the job.
In John, I saw someone whose mind seemed to be functioning at a high-level, but unpredictable, whose thought process might not always lead to a good immediately usable answer, but which often led to out-of-the-ordinary insights. Even then, John had the gift of seeing the world through an inverted lens, to seize on the overlooked observation that turned conventional thinking on its head.
We shared a passion for science fiction, and the power of humor. I know that I had a bit of a zany streak back then, but John was primed and ready for us to inaugurate the "Olden Museum of Modern". All our exhibits, alas, were fated to end up as bumps under coatings of paint, or as scattered pennies as Modernity's moment came and went.
We called ourselves "the twins" and only recently have I gained a little understanding as to why. More below.
John's fascination with television affected me deeply. Changing channels can reveal the hidden truth, and show us the meaning of why someone wanted us to see something. Reality can be seen as only what exists on a channel, and the pauses between programs, the dead air, the mix-ups, these are the rare clues that let us recognize and escape what might later be called "the matrix". Since I suppose we were (happily) easily amused, we found meaning and humor from "conducting" the switching between channels, discovering a kind of conversation between the programs.
For their wedding, I bought John and Janet what may have been the only new black & white television available for miles around, just because John loved the aesthetics of black and white. Janet is so good that I don't even remember her crossing her eyes.
I had what turned out to be a good idea. Since I had already filled out some online questionnaires at the website of the University of Pennsylvania, I decided to try to do a test over, but to try to imagine myself as John. Actually, my first attempt was a bit underwhelming. Given so many potential sources of error and bias, the test's result that I was 5-10% "happier" than John didn't seem very helpful.
I got more insight from a different test, the "VIA Survey of Character Strengths". It consists of 240 questions, in which the test-taker responds within a scale (agrees strongly, etc.) to a statement for each. Again, my approach was problematical in the extreme. Only partway through did I realize I needed to answer not how he would answer so much as how I would answer for him, because a survey that purported to depict how he saw himself would be harder to make sense of than one that captured what I saw of him. Also, I started to let my answers for him accentuate his contrarian stances.
An example: For a question like "Everybody should be treated equally", I could sense John's spirit coiling up like a snake. He is the kind of man who, in a flash, immediately sifts through the history of a dozen arguments, definitions, counterarguments, categories, and strategies for responding, all in a flash. As his proxy I honored his principled contrarian approach. I "disagreed", knowing it would count against the survey's view of his leadership and team skills.
This test generates a list of 20 "strengths" whose ordering depends on the answers given. I wanted to understand the strengths we shared, and where we differed. I found many results surprising, but logical in hindsight. For example, I was genuinely surprised to learn that John and I shared 4 of our top 5 strengths: creativity, love of learning, critical thinking, and curiosity. Of course we were twins! Perhaps.
Even more telling though, is where we differed. Where "humor" was a top-5 strength for me, "bravery" was a corresponding top strength for John. It surprised me that I had to learn this from an online test, something that someone else might easily have known without thinking: that John was a brave man.
Now I think about us differently. The 4 out of 5 things gave us a common ground, but our differences meant that there was also something for us to teach each other, something we could each learn.
John and I collaborated on a number of occasions. We went through quite a few business ideas, which I mostly viewed as enjoyable exercises in pure analytics and strategy. Yes, we really did have a system for the lottery, based on spreadsheet analysis of actual lottery results. The fact that our strategy increased payouts by 3 percent was not enough to make playing profitable. We researched the then early "900" numbers, looking for niches: horoscopes? Dictation? It never quite gelled.
Sometimes you just need a naive outsider. He came to me a little late one time: The execution seemed excellent, but he hadn't even heard for himself how odd his "Wallpaper for Windows" product sounded.
He shared my strong interest in the architecture of Christopher Alexander, as expressed in Alexander's book "A Pattern Language". One day we learned the great man himself was to be supervising a project on nearby Whidby Island, as a commission associated with the Giraffe Project. I think we missed the best chance to see him, and so decided just to go check it ourselves.
What we found was something I only encounter occasionally these days, a perfect storm of wrongness. Error piled upon conceit, buttressed by acute misunderstanding, and entirely wrong-headed, counterproductive, and leaving just a plain sour note. I still marvel at how people can allow themselves to become so ridiculous without even noticing. But, of course, we were ridiculous too. Sometimes 1 + 1 is more than 2, and somehow John and I reinforced each other's chutzpah impulses until we found ourselves standing on the roof of a oversize house under construction, pretending to remark on structural details we were observing, while the great man conferred with his husband and wife clients on the far side of the large roof section. For some reason, they did not reach out to involve us in their conference, though the husband did finally approach us, saying "My wife would like for you to leave." Needless to say, this utterance added fuel to our later mockeries, but this seemed only fair because it cut both ways.
I suppose our most concrete collaboration was on the website "you-read-it-here-first.com". John posted as many as a thousand articles there. For a long while, that website was a repository for each of us, for our respective obsessions and stray observations. John left a lot to know him by.
Occasionally we tangled. I liked him as an adversary because he fought fair. And because he could make me see the limits of my own confidence, or even to adopt one of his contrarian viewpoints. Bracing indeed.
For me, my favorite memories of John are of us camping in Central Oregon. I like to find remote areas, or what I call the least popular places in Oregon, and sometimes John would come along. Some of our best conversations were at the Deschutes viewpoint and a place I called the Maxfield Parrish Beauty Spot. From John I learned to insert the word "virtual" whenever I hear the word "consensus".
John felt safe enough to try out lines on me.
"Why do you hate America?" This didn't work – I laughed.
"Science isn't a democracy" and spurred me to formulate a response: "Does Pluto exist?"
He had the kind of mind that saw pretty much instantly the implications of my question.
One time when we were in a remote location, my van's battery died, so John and another friend set off on the 5 mile walk to pavement, in hopes of finding someone to help. Apparently, they encountered a work crew of students measuring plants, but the supervisor would not allow her vehicle to rescue us, due to liability I suppose. John tangled with I guess that government functionary, and when we finally drove past them after finding a more congenial rescuer, John shouted out "I pay your salary" to the students and supervisor. I could tell he was serious, even though, as a resident of Washington State, camping in Oregon, the claim was even more metaphorical than usual.
I've never quite been able to pin down John's relationship with contrarianism. Is it a stance? A tool? A lifestyle? Innate? Whichever the case, the times we had together are what really matters.
I sense his influence on my thinking when I re-consider (in a contrarian lens) topics like the Portland housing crisis (caused by current residents not leaving Portland at their usual rate), or the BP oil spill (on a geological scale its not rare, and oil is food).
A week ago I would have only thought about this contrarian spirit I keep mentioning, But now I know I'll also remember John by learning to ask myself what I would do if I were braver.
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Just so you know how good a core install looks. Here is my AntiX 8.5 i686 core install from last year with a LXDE Desktop instead and Liqourix Kernel. Nice thing about a core install is you can tweak it to your own personal tastes. Then dd it (copy it byte for byte) if wishing to save config for later.
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Damon Stoudamire was one of most popular players in Arizona history, an electrifying, high-scoring guard with a cool nickname.
Now Mighty Mouse is headed back to the desert.
Stoudamire was hired as an assistant coach under Sean Miller on Friday, a move that's sure to be a big hit with one of college basketball's most fervid fan bases.
"We are thrilled to welcome back Damon Stoudamire to the University of Arizona to become a part of our coaching staff," Miller said in a statement. "Damon is an immensely talented recruiter, and is also very comfortable teaching and coaching the game. More importantly, his credibility in all aspects of our game is unmatched -- he simply has 'been there and done that' at the highest level. I believe strongly that he will be invaluable in helping many of our current and future student-athletes do the same."
A 5-foot-10 guard, Stoudamire was one of the most dynamic players in Arizona history, winning 101 games from 1991-95. He helped lead the Wildcats to the 1994 Final Four and was the next season a consensus All-American, Pac-10 player of the year and a finalist for the Wooden Award.
Stoudamire is the only Arizona player to score 40 points twice in a season, is sixth on the school's career scoring list with 1,849 and is a member of the Arizona Ring of Honor inside the McKale Center.
Stoudamire was taken with the seventh overall pick of the 1995 NBA draft by the Toronto Raptors and was the Rookie of the Year after averaging 19 points, 9.3 assists and 4 rebounds.
He was later traded to his hometown team, the Portland Trail Blazers, and also played for Memphis and San Antonio during 13 NBA seasons.
Stoudamire retired after the 2007-08 season and spent one year as director of player development at Rice under head coach Ben Braun. He spent two seasons as an assistant coach for the Memphis Grizzlies and the past two as an assistant under Josh Pastner at the University of Memphis.
"Damon is one of our all-time great players and is a distinguished member of our Ring of Honor in McKale Center," Miller said. "He also enjoyed an illustrious 13-year NBA career before entering the coaching profession. What made Damon such a great player is what makes him a talented coach -- his passion for the game and his ability to connect with people."


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Making positive memories doesn't stop at camp! Our campers are then matched one-on-one with a mentor staff from camp. We reunite the campers each month at Club, continuing the spirit of camp with themed lessons, activities and camp songs. Their mentor is oftentimes the only consistent person in their lives, reminding them that they are not abandoned.
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Throughout the general election campaign, Joe Garofoli has been looking at "lies, half-truths and contradictions" on the campaign trail. Today, we look at Mitt Romney's latest health-care claims.
So for, oh, the past couple of years, one of Mitt Romney's sure-fire applause lines (other than "Isn't Ann great!") is how the first thing he's going to do in office is repeal Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act. Yes, even though the law is based on the law Romney championed and signed as guv of Massachusetts. Still, Mitt has run from his own signature achievement like it was a pile of steaming uranium.
On Thursday, Mitt was asked during an interview with NBC to cite something in his past that would show his compassion — the inference being that he has been a lifelong rich dude who never had it tough and can't relate to working stiffs. Mitt volunteered that he championed Romneycare in Massachusetts.
To paraphrase losing Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, was Mitt "for it before he was against it." Or would that be "against it before he was for it." Either way, we're confused.
A while back we examined Mitt's contention during a "Meet the Press" sitdown that he wanted to keep some parts of Obamacare — and how that wouldn't be possible if he wanted to simultaneously repeal it.
The attempt here: Mitt is trying to soften his image a bit — or at least the heartless, Bain Capital millionaire image that the Dems have been burnishing for months. Even if it means doubling back on what he's said before. Nevertheless, count this as a Con-tra-dic-tion!
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Miguel Tejada signs minor league deal with Marlins
Infielder would be eligible for Miami's 65th game on June 10
Suspended infielder Miguel Tejada has signed a minor league contract with the Miami Marlins.
Tejada is serving a 105-game suspension he began last year for testing positive for an amphetamine.
He would be eligible to play in the Marlins' 65th game, which would be June 10 at Texas if they don't have any other games rained out and postponed until after that date. He could appear in minor league games at double-A or lower beginning May 31.
Tejada was with the Kansas City Royals last year when he drew one of the longest penalties handed down by Major League Baseball. The six-time all-star was the American League MVP in 2002.
The Marlins also released veteran reliever Carlos Marmol on Monday. He had been designated for assignment after struggling in 15 games.


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The competition for the title of Worst Bad Car Ad Parody was tough, but Alex's $23,000 Chrysler Sebring ad came out on top!
With 20% of the votes cast, Alex's ad edged out the Completely Perfect Ford Aerostar. Rather than going with the "incomprehensible gibberish" approach taken by me as well as most of the competition, Alex took on the persona of the "quasi-literate but completely out of touch with reality" car seller, and did it so perfectly that we're sorta wondering about him. For his effort, Alex gets a genuine 24 Hours of LeMons team shirt from my vast collection, plus a measure of glory. Ready to buy a Sebring now?


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Those of you who've been reading our Editors' Blog for more than a week or so know that I like cats (3.75 of 'em in my house). And books (thousands). So, when a Facebook friend posted this video on my "wall," I immediately went in search of more information. This may well be the most purrfect bookshelf unit ever designed.
Corentin Dombrecht, of Belgium, designed this birch plywood unit, which debuted at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last month and has since been making the rounds of Europe's design shows (and design blogs worldwide). The shelving is constructed from three basic modular units, which allows it to be configured in a number of setups, plus there are two "top shelf" units available each with a built-in cat basket – one for large cats and one for small. To ensure pets don't slip on the staircase, the plywood is unfinished.
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Edmonds proud to be considered for Cards' Hall
When Jim Edmonds was traded from his hometown team, the Los Angeles Angels, before the 2000 season, he was disappointed.
Little did he know that his destination, St. Louis, was where he'd make his home in retirement, where his children would grow up and where he would play some of the best seasons of his Major League career.
"It didn't take me long to figure out this was more my place," Edmonds said. "It turned into being one of the best things that ever happened to me in my life."
After that trade, Edmonds would go on to play eight seasons with the Cardinals, including three All-Star selections, a Silver Slugger Award, six Gold Gloves and a World Championship. It's those eight years that earned Edmonds a nomination for the new Cardinals Hall of Fame gallery.
From now until April 22, fans can go to cardinals.com/HOF to vote for up to two of the eight candidates -- Edmonds, Willie McGee, Bob Forsch, Keith Hernandez, Mark McGwire, Matt Morris, Ted Simmons or Joe Torre.
The two leading vote-getters will be enshrined during an Aug. 16 ceremony at Ballpark Village, joining the 22 Cardinals who received automatic induction because they are either already in the National Baseball Hall of Fame or have had their number retired by the club.
"It's an honor to be mentioned in any kind of situation like that Hall of Fame-wise, to be mentioned with the greats of any kind of an organization, let alone the St. Louis Cardinals," Edmonds said. "I was pretty surprised and flattered."
Edmonds enjoyed his best season in Cardinal red in 2004, when he set personal bests for RBIs (111), home runs (42) and slugging percentage (.643) and batted .301 (150-for-498).
"I loved playing in that old ballpark and just everything kind of clicked that year," he said. "I was pretty healthy that year, and most of the time if you stay injury free and you're a pretty good player, you can put up some good numbers. I think that was one of those years."
And he capped it with a stellar performance in a National League Championship Series that included two moments that solidified his place among Cardinals lore -- his 12th-inning walk-off homer in Game 6 and iconic diving catch in Game 7.
"Those were big moments for me, obviously, and big moments in the history of the Cardinals," Edmonds said. "Getting to the World Series, even though we lost, it was pretty special. People still talk about it today, so it was obviously a lasting impression."
Though the Cardinals fell in four games to Boston in that World Series, it wouldn't be Edmond's only trip to the Fall Classic. In his eight years in St. Louis, the Cardinals finished with a losing record just once and played into October six times.
Edmonds started 61 postseason games, and the Cardinals won 33 of them. In 2006, after an 83-78, first-place finish, St. Louis bested Detroit in five games for the club's 10th World Series victory.
"We had a pretty decent team from what I remember, but not the best," Edmonds said. "A lot of injuries that year and somehow we all got healthy right at the right time at the end of the year and played pretty good baseball down the stretch. ... Sometimes if you just come together and play really good baseball for a month, you end up being the World Champion."
In 2007, he was traded from the Cardinals to the Padres in the deal that brought another postseason hero, David Freese, to St. Louis, and Edmonds would play out the rest of his Major League career with the Padres, Cubs, Brewers and Reds. He signed a Minor League deal to return to the Cardinals, but injuries kept him from ever returning to the big leagues and he retired after the season.
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U.S. Coast Guard discovers body in Atlantic Ocean
Man's body found near large debris field offshore
ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. – A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew located the body of a 49-year-old Venezuelan man body near a large debris field Sunday night in the Atlantic Ocean, about 22 miles east of the entrance to the St. Johns River.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission aircrew reported the debris, including two large pieces of a vessel, 10 life jackets, flares, and an oil sheen, about 6 p.m. Sunday.
Late Monday, the Coast Guard identified the victim as Guillermo Gonzalez Losada, whose passport was recovered. His last known residence was in Miami.
"The Coast Guard sends its prayers and condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Losada," said Capt. Tom Allan, Sector Jacksonville Commander. "We are now seeking any information which may shed light on the many unknowns surrounding this case."
Some pieces of debris are more than 20 feet long, suggesting this was a large boat that had not been in the water very long.
"There's no substantial marine growth or anything to indicate it'd been out there a long time. So it appears it was fairly recent," said Jorgensen.
It was unknown if additional people are in the water or in distress, but the Coast Guard is responding as though there are.
"Many times boats will carry more life jackets than they have personnel on board, so we're not really sure [if anyone else was on board]," said Jorgensen.
Continuing to search the area surrounding the debris field are a boat crew aboard a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium from Station Mayport in Atlantic Beach and a C-130 Hercules plane from Air Station Clearwater.
"We're going to continue searching, we had search assets out all night," Jorgensen said. "We're going to continue searching today. Our command center folks here in Jacksonville are trying to determine and piece together the puzzle of what happened and where the boat came from."
The Coast Guard Cutter Kingfisher left the command center at 5:30 a.m. Monday to join the search.
Anyone with information about the debris field or the boat or the people involved is asked to contact the Coast Guard sector Jacksonville watch center at 904-564-7511.
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First settled in 1924 as a result of goldfields of Cania and Monal the township's first buildings were built around 1926.
Lister Street Parkland provides a perfect spot for a picnic or bought lunch, you can take a stroll and view the array of metal and sandstone sculptures by local and visiting artists to the region. Likewise, the Mulgildie Bunyip is a testament to the legend of the Bunyip hole and the historic goldfields and cemetery, Coominglah State Forest and Kalpowar State Forest are all wonderful bush getaways.
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Worried about your jelly doughnut's CO2 legacy and cellulite future? You're right to be concerned, but you have lots of options.
You may have heard that you are what you eat, but you're also not what you don't eat. No need to avoid these breakfast foods like the plague; maybe just avoid them like obesity, heart disease, wastewater runoff and global warming.
Fast food: Why would you trust the food from any restaurant so rushed it fuses words together (Frescuit, Croissan'wich) or can't be bothered to spell out conjunctions (Big N' Tasty, Biscuit 'N' Gravy)? While it's true fast-food companies are scrambling to revamp their images in the post-Super Size Me era, and some have made nutritional improvements, the industry's environmental impacts haven't gotten as much attention. Fast-food chains have huge carbon footprints, tend to support factory farming and produce a massive amount of packaging waste every year.
Cinnamon rolls, doughnuts and pastries: Depending where you get your pastries, you might be better off eating a piece of birthday cake for breakfast. A lot depends on the source and how it's made, though, so try for healthier or more sustainable alternatives. Get a whole-wheat doughnut instead of Boston cream, or a low-fat cinnamon roll instead of a Honey Bun. And if you do eat a cinnamon roll, for your own sake, don't do this.
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Pancakes, waffles, and French toast with butter and syrup: Actually, the main problem with these is just the butter and syrup, so no need to throw out your waffle iron. If you can skip both condiments in favor of real fruit or raw honey, you'll be doing yourself a big favor. If you're making French toast yourself, try using egg whites and skim milk to cut down on cholesterol and fat. And don't be afraid to throw in some fruit, too — bananas go well with French toast, for example.