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Will the Fed finally raise interest rates? Armstrong contends, "The Fed will have no real choice. . . . The Fed will come under significant pressure to raise interest rates because the newspapers and Congress will blame them and say they are creating a bubble with low interest rates. The more they raise interest rates, the higher the stock market will go. I know that sounds crazy . . . historically, interest rates bottom with the markets. I mean, you lose confidence and people won't borrow."
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Tony's Review of "Evil Dead"
Another remake? Yes, Hollywood has been out of original ideas for quite some time. However, "Evil Dead" takes the idea of a remake and does it the way it should, taking as little of the source material as necessary, and coming up with a new twist to make the new film a unique experience for the audience, both those new to the story and fans of the original.
The first thing that may throw a lot of people is that there's no humor in this movie. For many, the "Evil Dead" franchise is equated to goofy horror-comedy, after the films "Evil Dead 2" and "Army of Darkness". However, the original Sam Raimi classic, "The Evil Dead", was not designed as a humorous film. It was meant to be a straight horror film, which it succeeded in being, but the low budget lead to a campy feel that is now looked upon as funny. 22 years later we have a remake that goes back to the basic, and terrifying, idea of five people in a remote cabin where true evil is unleashed.
The film opens with a taste of the evil to come, with a father having to resort to drastic measures to ensure the eternal rest of his possessed daughter's soul. After the opening credits we are introduced to David and his girlfriend Natalie, arriving at David's family's cabin. After a brief introduction to David's old friends Olivia and Eric, its revealed that they are all there to help David's sister Mia quit drugs cold turkey. After a ceremonious dropping of drugs into the well, everyone bunks up for a weekend helping Mia through withdrawals. While Mia begins feeling the harsh effects of quitting cold turkey, Olivia informs David that Mia tried to quit cold turkey the previous year, only to bail on the attempt and later overdose. Now, Olivia and Eric plan to keep Mia there are all costs to make sure she quits. Mia begins to complain of a rancid smell that no one else can detect, except the old family dog who uncovers a blood-covered trap door to the cellar. When they get under the house they find a room with many dead cats strung up, and a package wrapped in a trash bag and barbed wire. While everyone else is either cleaning out the dead cats or helping Mia calm down, Eric's curiosity gets the better of him and he opens the barbed wire package to find the Necronomicon, a book bound in human skin containing warnings to not read the contents of the book. Eric uncovers and reads scratched out passages that causes an evil spirit to rise and possess Mia. Initially, the others chalk up Mia's odd behavior to her withdrawals, but when it begins to pass along to the others one-by-one, they realize there's something more going on.
This movie had a great deal of hype leading up to its release, with its high-profile red band trailers showing a level of gore not seen in recent horror films. Instead of relying on the highly criticized use of CGI blood and gore effects, "Evil Dead" went old-school with a primary use of practical effects, something that pays off well. When a film uses CGI for gore effects, it can take the audience out of the story by looking obviously fake. But the use of live and practical effects for such scenes, like the splitting of a characters tongue or the removal of a needle from someone's eye, helps to maintain a level of realism in a completely outlandish story. Even the use of references from the original films is done in such a way that perfectly fits with the story. The audience is given glimpses of iconic items like the electric carving knife and the chainsaw, but they pay off later in ways that fits into the story instead of just being a reference for reference sake. The only reference that seemed forced came at the end of the film, and was only done to put our hero into the same physical situation as Bruce Campbell in the originals. Speaking of our hero, another great move of this film was the uncertainty of just who would end up being the hero, with the reveal being a pleasant outcome and completely dissimilar to the originals.
There's only two problems I had with this movie: my expectations were too high and "Cabin in the Woods" kind of killed the genre. After the amazing lead up with the red band trailers and clips released online, I had high hopes for this movie. I was looking forward to the classic live effects, as well as a truly creepy movie experience. And while the effects delivered, I was never truly scared during the course of the film. My wife was completely creeped out and held on to my arm like her life depended on it, but I never felt the fear and discomfort I did with a movie like "The Exorcist". Perhaps this is because of the movie "Cabin in the Woods", a brilliant deconstruction of the horror genre from Drew Goddard, the writer of "Cloverfield", and Joss Whedon, the director of "The Avengers". After seeing a film that perfectly breaks down and explains the major points of the genre, the effect of the other films is greatly lessened. Once you see the man behind the curtain, you don't fear the Great and Powerful Oz anymore.
Aside from my stated disappointment with the movie, the only major failure was the cast. Jane Levy as the drug addict turned possessed victim Mia steals the movie. As the possession takes a greater hold of Mia, Levy's performance just gets better and better. But beyond Levy, the rest of the cast is just rather bland. Lou Taylor Pucci has a few standout moments as Eric, being the one who unwittingly unleashes the major evil and is the one who figures out what is going on, but he doesn't do enough to stand up to Levy's presence. The rest of the cast is just there and unimpressive, either by lack of acting ability or lack of proper writing. Elizabeth Blackmore as Natalie is given so very little to do prior to her possession that she seems like a wasted character, only there to be one of the five souls the evil needs in order to rise.
When I first left the theater, I felt disappointed in the film, even telling my friends that a gave it "an enthusiastic 'Meh'." But the more I talked about it with my wife, the more she made me realize my problems weren't with the movie, but my own expectations. Just because I wasn't scared out of my mind watching the movie doesn't mean it wasn't successful in what it set out to be. Though the cast was primarily disappointing, Levy's performance was well worth the price of admission. The effects were as great as expected, and the ties to the original series felt serious and natural, and never like a gratuitous referential wink to the audience. Overall and in hindsight, I was greatly pleased with the movie and look forward to adding the Blu-ray to my collection.
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This grandpa-fresh '70 Buick doesn't get a second look on the street, but it knocks down 11s with precious few mods.
By Chris Lee's own admission, he was once a die-hard Chevy guy, complete with the obligatory First-Gen Camaro-a raucous '67 with a Powerglide trans and 4.88 gears. Sure, it ran 10.70s down the quarter-mile, but it was a pain to drive on the street. Then one day he was introduced to a Buick. A friend of a friend was looking for someone to drive his newly completed '70 GS Buick down the track, and soon Chris was off to Carlsbad Raceway towing a beautiful red Buick GS. Chris tells PHR, "I buckled up and staged the car. I'm thinking high 12s, since the car had a bench seat and was pretty quiet with a smooth idle. The light turned green, I hit the gas and thought, 'Holy crap! This thing hauls butt!'" This seemingly sedate ride knocked down an impressive 11.06 on its first run-not much off his barely-streetable Camaro. Chris had seen the light. Turns out the ride was owned by former NHRA World Champ Dave Benisek. Chris says, "At the time I didn't know his history, but I knew I wanted a Buick."
After a year of searching, Chris came across a '70 GS 455. The Gran Sport option was one of Buick's most potent offerings, and the only thing better was the Stage 1 package (Buick's way of hopping up the GS even more). It came off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan, with a high-lift cam, larger Quadrajet carb, freer-flowing exhaust, heavy-duty valvesprings, and a more capable cooling system. It even had a specific hood with functional scoops. At the time, it was rated at 360 hp at 4,600 rpm, and 510 lb-ft of retina-detaching torque down at 2,800 rpm. This was one of the highest torque ratings of any production car-even more than the legendary street Hemi. So the GS was just what Chris was looking for.
The car had 90,000 miles on the clock, and at $4,500 it was a deal. Immediately upon bringing the Buick home, Chris bolted on some slicks and ran a 14 flat at the dragstrip. After a few suspension mods, a bumpstick, and headers, the otherwise stock GS managed to snatch a much better 12.50 timeslip. But it still wasn't fast enough, and at this point Chris's friends Dave Benisek and Bruce Kent started to hound him to build a more potent mill. A 455 was sourced from a '73 Le Sabre for the budget sum of $500, and torn apart by Chris and his brother Tim for a complete rework. As the engine was in great shape, there was no need to bore out the cylinders. The stock crank was dropped back in place, and the Buick rods were shot-peened. For better durability and a touch more compression, Kenne Bell 11:1 forged pistons were added to the mix. The factory Stage 1 heads received some mild port work from Performance Machine, along with Buick valves and Kenne Bell valvetrain components. Topping off the big-inch Buick is an Edelbrock Performer dual-plane intake, and a Holley 850 carb. To keep things firing in the right order, the stock distributor was teamed-up with an MSD 6AL, with the timing locked at 32 degrees. The big-inch Buick exhales through Kenne Bell headers that dump into a 3-inch Hedman exhaust, and it's all good for 450 hp and 525 lb-ft of torque. In the end, the torque output isn't much more than the factory achieved back in '70-looks like those Buick engineers knew what they were doing.
Backing up the new 455 is the same Buick 400 trans as the '73 Le Sabre. It was rebuilt with fresh internals, and backed with a 3,500-stall, 10-inch Kenne Bell converter. The factory trans cooler has been retained, and a Hurst Quarter Stick Shifter helps ratchet though the gears in a hurry. Bringing up the rear is a 12-bolt with 3.73 gears, and a Moroso posi unit. All in all, it's a well thought out package that has knocked down a best ET of 11.65 at 115 mph. Moreover, it's consistent, and that's what it's all about when you bracket race like Chris. "I added a Meziere electric water pump specifically for bracket racing. It lets me control the engine temp easier, and it cools down quicker between rounds." With over 1,000 passes under his belt, Chris feels he has the ride dialed-in perfectly. Given how the GS performed at our test track in Fontana, California, we would have to agree. The Buick launched like it was rear-ended by a freight train, and even under less-than-ideal conditions it managed an 11.84 at 111.96 mph with a 1.69 60-ft time. Chris tells PHR, "The Buick generally traps 4 to 5 mph slower than a smaller car, like a Nova, but with the same ET." We think this is mostly due to the Buick's high-torque launches.
The body is just as it was when it left the factory, and wears a black paint job that Chris doesn't have to worry about scratching. The dog-dish black factory steelies are wrapped in weight-saving skinnies up front, and sticky Mickey Thompson ET drag radials in the rear. At first glance, it almost looks factory. Almost. The interior is still the original white vinyl, and other than the Hurst shifter and Auto Meter gauges, it looks like the brochure. There used to be a six-point rollbar, but Chris got tired of crawling around it, so it was cut out when the NHRA dropped the requirement down to 11.49 and quicker. One accessory we like is the OEM Buick tissue-dispenser mounted under the dash. We're sure it comes in handy when the surprised competition is feeling a bit weepy after a spanking.
Chris has thoroughly enjoyed his Onyx Black Buick, and has raced it all over the country (including the Buick GS Nationals in Bowling Green, Kentucky). He's made some money winning bracket races, but mostly he's made a ton of memories, and more than a few friends. Chris told us: "This was also the car I went on my first date with my wife in. We were driving in a shady area, going out to dinner, when all of a sudden it quit running and I coasted over to the side of the road. I didn't know what was wrong, but the fuel pump switch felt very hot, so I took the switch off with some Leatherman pliers-the only tool I had with me. I pulled the wires off, held them together and heard the fuel pump come on. With the wires twisted together, we drove to dinner for our first date. She was hooked at that moment." And like any good story, the hero gets the girl in the end.
|By The Numbers
|'70 Buick GS
|Chris Lee, 44
|Hesperia, CA
|Total cost to build: approx. $14,000
|Weight: 3,450 lbs
|Best quarter-mile ET: 11.65 at 115 mph
|455 Buick (4.312 bore x 3. 90 stroke)
|'73 vintage factory block
|Compression ratio:
|stock Buick
|Rotating assembly:
|stock crank, stock shot-peened rods, Kenne Bell forged pistons
|Cylinder heads:
|stock Stage 1 with mild porting
|Kenne Bell 107/118
|Kenne Bell with Buick Stage 1 valves
|Edelbrock Performer
|Holley 850
|Fuel pump:
|Holley Blue
|stock distributor with MSD 6AL
|Hedman system with X-pipe
|Built by:
|Machine work:
|Dugan's Machine, Riverside, CA
|Koni drag shocks
|Front suspension:
|Moroso springs, front sway bar removed
|Rear suspension:
|Dick Miller rear suspension with Moroso springs
|Front brakes:
|stock Buick disc brakes
|Rear brakes:
|stock drum
|stock Buick steelies, 15x7 rear, 14x6 front
|275/60-15 Mickey Thompson drag radials rear; 195/70-14 Dominators, front


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Word of a demo for the previously PC-exclusive franchise came from Twitter. A message from the official Crysis account reads: "At this time, Crytek & EA are glad to confirm that we'll be releasing a pre-launch Crysis 2 multiplayer demo on PC! Stay tuned for details." Shacknews has contacted EA to see if we can capture some of those details early.
An open multiplayer demo is currently available on the Xbox 360; however, users have detailed a handful of issues hindering their enjoyment, ranging from freezing to difficulty finding matches.
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A call for a new faction ... one which might very well do America proud
Daniel Ryan
Students that are dazzled by Marx often don't get very far with their new calling when they hunker down to spreading discontent, insubordination, etc. in America. After preaching their new-found message to the masses most fervently, they first find many Americans nodding, which of course feeds their hopes for imminent revolution. So they keep pressing, subverting, exposing, until they are sure that the wicked capitalism which seems to be synonymous with the United States is about to fall! It's going down, baby!
Until they find that their "maximization of America's contradictions" had exactly the same effect as an old-style Geraldo talk show. Social nirvana for two weeks.
Why is it that a philosophy which many fine scholars have insisted represents the very quintessence of science always ends up being the Kato Kaelin of American political discourse or the Joey Buttafuco of it?
The answer is simple, and can be found in a highly complex text known as The Federalist, Issue X. In it, James Madison explains what a faction is, and the harm that an overbearing one can cause. Then he says that factions, though always potentially harmful, are easily checkmated in a system of liberty because such political freedom allows other factions to do battle with one that's becoming more and more of a threat. So it's only a matter of time before any potentially mighty faction will fall.
This is precisely what happened with the Stalinists. In the 1930s, many were preaching, and more than a few were subverting. One was Whittaker Chambers, who was part of a Soviet spy ring. He was the errand boy for a more direct spy by the name of Alger Hiss, a man of good breeding that came from a fine home. The kind of fine home that associates "common" with "criminal."
Chambers basically crawled away once he lost faith in Communism as an ideal. He knew very well that, when a faction is riding high, opening your voice against it will only get you singled out.
In fact, he knew it so well that he considered himself damned lucky that his literal pleading for a job was answered by Time magazine shortly after his defection.
It wasn't until the Stalinist faction was being slowly, but inexorably, brought to heel that Chambers decided that it was safe to open his mouth. Stalin's regime had gone from exotic foreign land to fair-weather-jilter to war ally as of December 1941; this probably made Chambers' mouth clap shut even more. As of 1947, though, it was becoming apparent that the Soviet Union was not really America's friend and partner in the quest for a more progressive future but a slowly growing enemy of the West. This became apparent when the government of East Germany a Soviet ally - began blocking the (other) Allies' ground transportation routes to West Berlin, a show of unfriendliness which looked suspiciously like breaking one's word to a recent war partner.
Truman's administration successfully parried that blow with a Napoleonic maneuver the Berlin Airlift but it also noted, quietly but definitively, that the bear with what appeared to be a playful smile was actually signaling an aggressive challenge. It wasn't long before a new consensus began spreading that the Stalinists were no longer cute and exotic anymore.
George Kennan spearheaded this at the theoretical level with his famous "containment" article, which was soon adopted as administration policy. Let the bear feast in his own turf, as defined by the post-World-War-2 divvy-up, but don't let him feast on yours. This was generally taken as a compromise at the time, but even compromises have losers: this one's was the "Uncle Joe Is A Good Man To Know" clique. Also losing out were the one-worlders who hadn't already abandoned their dream in exchange for complaining about "preferential treatment for veterans" in the loan market.
It looked like American Stalinism was going to meet the same fate as an earlier flirtation with Mussolini worship, which Stalinolatry had basically replaced. After having the run of the best-seller list, it looked very much like the Stalin fad would sink to the dust-covered shelves of the library, the ones browsed only by frightened-looking scholars.
Right after "Communism's Last Stand" in 1948. A faction which is on that downward slide tends to not take such a lowering lying down, and the Stalinists were true to form in this regard. Deciding that it was time for Roosevelt's successor to meet a type of candidate of the same mettle as an earlier Roosevelt, the Progressive party quickly formed, and nominated Henry Wallace to carry the "somewhat assertive but basically friendly Soviet bear" standard. Many a one-worlder and many a socialist rallied to the Progressives, and its slogan of the twentieth century being that period of history born and raised for the common man.
It was at this point that other factions began picking at what could loosely be described as the "social democracy" one. The remaining Menckenite conservatives took Wallace's pro-common-man stand as an opportunity to brush off their old, pre-Mussolini, wit, and indulge in some jokes at the Wallaceites' expense. One of them was a young World War II veteran named William F. Buckley, who decided to carry a sign to a Wallace rally proclaiming "Give The Atom Bomb To The Russians!"
As of pre-November 1948, such a dally was only a prank, whose purpose was to make the one-worlders look like squishy-faced wimps. The government investigations that are always part of any retooling on the world stage were, as usual, being conducted out of the ken of the public; Parnell Thomas' decision in April 1947 to begin examining suspected "fifth columnists" for possible subversion had not really caught the public's imagination. Nor, I should add, Buckley's, either.
It was at this point that Whittaker Chambers decided it was safe for him to step forward, and to testify against his old deliverer and "cross-class chum" Alger Hiss. This too passed out of the national spotlight: it wasn't until Chambers had repeated his charge that Hiss was a Communist over the public airwaves instead of on the Congressional witness stand an accusation which successfully provoked a slander suit from a newly-class-conscious Hiss, and led to Chambers introducing the now-famous "pumpkin papers" into evidence - that the New York Times decided that there was something printable about this seemingly newsless case. A write-up published on December 12, 1948 suggested, though, that this new sensation was little more than a curiosity; the tone of the article shows it.
This was where the Stalinist subversion issue stood as of the end of 1948: a basically routine spy sweep to look for friends of a foreign nation that seemed to be fast becoming a new enemy. Had it been confined to this, chances are that the fate of the Stalinist faction would have been akin to the libertarian faction: basically laughed down to a few true believers, ones easily stigmatized as "cranks," and then slowly coming back into the semi-mainstream through the efforts of those believers and other characters of the happy-few type. From the standpoint of the public, the anti-Communist sweeps were too low a flyer to merit a blip on the political radar screen as of the end of '48; Wallace's defeat, and Truman's victory, meant the end of the trend. Most of the ones caught up in it were just there because they were broke, most probably, or had gone Communist about the time when the U.S.S.R. was sort-of on our side. No need to worry, really; the recent defeats were alarm bell enough for those types, and government investigators would deal with the ones who needed a different kind of dinger. The scenes of this issue were basically played out underneath the stage, with only the occasional bit player surfacing from the stage floor, briefly.
This is where the issue stayed until this new underground stream burst out into the newspapers the following year. The Soviets, despite the predictions of the best experts which had all insisted that the atom bomb would not be deployable by the U.S.S.R until 1955 at the earliest, had exploded one successfully in 1949. The public began seriously wondering how.
The real reasons are still being debated today, making "the truth" of this issue more of a litmus test for the beliefs of the expounder. But the American public soon found "reason enough" when the more casual reader of the newspapers was buttonholed by evidence gathered by the more thorough. The government of the United States, it became evident to the common-sensical, had been seriously compromised in the area of security by a foreign power that was becoming increasingly hostile.
That made the Hiss Case "suddenly" fit to print. The drama involving an "idealistic" young Establishment lawyer befriending, or falling in with, a genuinely dedicated "old-boy" Communist one who converted right around the time of the market crash of 1929 became compelling. Especially for the less-than-genteel sector of the free press, who began to see more than a hint of "the boss's son" in Hiss the kind of son that was supposed to make more of himself than a mere "common criminal."
It must have been a bit of a shock for the Posh Hills country club set to see one of their own take that all-too-familiar two-word phrase a little more literally than most, but that didn't stop them from closing ranks with each other to assert a kind of class interest that is characteristically their own. Hiss might have "fallen down" a wee teensy bit, but he was still One of Them!
So out came the worthies, from Eleanor Roosevelt on down.
Which awoke a name who used to be one of her husband's own. Joe McCarthy was the Senator who had successfully been elected to the seat of Robert LaFollette, and as such had to have more than a trace of liberal in him. Had he not been awakened by what was largely the class-conflict side of the issue, he probably would have been held up as a fine example of the "new modern liberal Republican."
But destiny called, and he was soon at the head of a faction which been almost non-existent in 1945: the anti-Communist faction. He began a four-year, publicity-drenched campaign to hunt out Communist subversives in the United States government, which quickly spilled over into "society." The Battle of the Factions was on; those who had had nothing but dislike for Communism and/or Communists now had their champion, and a real political momentum which always feeds a growing faction. In 1950, they not only had the U.S.S.R's flouting of the United Nations as a mediating body for the Korean conflict, but they also had in their hand the exposure of "the atomic spies" Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, arrested for espionage relating to the A-bomb. 1951 added to this by the judge presiding over their trial blaming the Rosenbergs explicitly for making the Soviets far more aggressive on the world stage than they would have been had the A-bomb blueprints not been sent to them.
One of those who fell in quickly with the McCarthyite ranks was that same William F. Buckley. His first book, God and Man At Yale, had resulted in him being pasted by the finer set in a manner similar to that faced by both Chambers and McCarthy, and he had also spawned imitators. His next book was a defense of McCarthy from the outside, unlike another rich Irish family who was giving old Joe a little help from the inside the Kennedys. Bobby was one of McCarthy's staffers.
But if the moralities were stern and the cause was just, then why did McCarthy crash and burn? And come to think of it, why was he, and his enemies, so hard to peg as either "bourgeois" or "proletarian?"
Because of something the Founders knew, which every American Marxist has un-learned: America is a multi-factional society. What is known by the Marxist as "capital" and "labour" is seen by the average American as only two of many factions.
Such as the two others which McCarthy tackled: the university faction...and the armed forces. McCarthy's accusations against General George Marshall was the beginning of the shift in public perception of him from crusader to demagogue. Murrow's frappe de grâce would have fired a blank had McCarthy not pre-supplied the bullets by his own blundering.
This was how the most dangerous faction ever to hit America was successfully brought to heel, along with its extinguisher too - much like Oswald's assassination of Kennedy followed by Ruby's shooting of Oswald at the end of 1963. Somewhat weirdly, the next attempt at mass subversion during the Vietnam War saw the "Hate America First" faction using an anti-armed-forces strategy themselves, with the place of Marshall being taken by Robert McNamara.
The United States has been able to win a series of quick wars ever since the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, and has indeed been the victor of the Cold War for approximately twelve long years. Long enough for the internationalist aginners to be looked at as ineffectual idealists again.
Until recently. When the anti-war machine got up and running, the same old fears concerning foreign subversion got up and running because the presently-being-wound-up war was a telegraphed response to the destruction of the World Trade Center in the public mind. This made the peace types look less like pro-Communists in the public mind and more like pro-Nazis.
The obvious anti-Semitism among some of Saddam Hussein's faithful allies merely emphasized the point that the present anti-war faction cheered for a side that had launched an aggressive attack on the scale of Pearl Harbor. The objection that Iraq isn't the same as al-Qai'da sounds almost as obfuscatory as a 1942 protest that the Nazis were only dragged into enemyship with the United States as a result of an imprudent alliance with a completely different nation, the Empire of Japan.
Politics tends to work with taboos. Despite the relative ineffectualism of the stop-any-war faction at this point in time, the perceived threat they pose is now seen as worse than at the high point of Communist infiltration simply because the peacies stomped on the we-must-defend-American-soil-at-any-cost taboo. The best they can hope for, it looks like, is to be cast in the role of Blubber the Wonder Mouth, as Michael Moore was at the recent Academy Awards.
I happen to feel a sort of filial affection for this crowd, to the point of offering some faux-grandfatherly advice to them: If you want your teeth to stay intact, dear lad [sayeth this wise old 33-years-of-age slacker], you have to get less gallantish and more cagey. Here's how you do it:
It's obvious that the pose of "the higher loyalty" is wonderful for getting the attention of the American public, especially when it looks as if you've become a sort of permanent advocacy group for whatever world power, great or small, single-nation or collection of them, happens to be hostile to "America." I know that some of you suspect that you're being used by such hostile powers, or are stigmatized as "Yankee as*****s" Wilsonians in lotus-eater form but nevertheless accept is as the burden of carrying the standard of peace...that Old Glory of yours, the nuclear disarmament sign, known to the less initiated as the "peace sign."
I also know that you have to be sticklers in the area of principle, and I even know how it's enforced. You don't want those lounge-lizard types successfully arguing in the singles bars that you guys are nothing more than a bunch of skirt-chasers with a pose, now do you? That, most probably, is what got a few of you older ones beaten up, isn't it?
I do feel an affection for you guys; the sight of the younger ones being beaten up après-guerre would cause me real pain. And slipping from your standard would probably make you look weak thus inviting a real crusade against all of you.
It seems time for you guys to live in the catacombs, and I have the perfect way. Not only does it square with your traditions, but it also carries a real risk (for the sake of principle) combined with an avoidance of the taboo-stomp which your present course seems to have led to. Here it is:
The peace sign was designed by none other than the Third Earl of Russell. The job of an Earl is to be a representative of the British Sovereign presently Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. This is the head of the same State that was America's staunchest ally in the current conflict.
I remember, as do you, how central Anglophilia was to the forging of the peace faction. This is part of your roots, a legitimate and unquestionable part of them. Why not go back to this?
If you're worried about losing your force as a goad, there's no need to be: the position I'm about to suggest for you is sufficiently counter-cultural for you to garner the press attention you most definitely need.
There is a way for different ethnic groups and classes to live peaceably with one another, one that has been proven to work most of the time throughout history. That means of promoting the peace is monarchy.
What's wrong with making universal peace part and parcel of a political institution that has been proven to work almost continuously for the Nation that's the "Mother of Parliaments," Great Britain? If it can be done for Communism, then surely it would be not much of a stretch to do so for monarchism, now would it?
Best of all a good and enlightened Sovereign would not only not interfere with a sub-institution featuring goods and property held in common, He or She would probably go out of His or Her way to protect it! (Never mind the terminology usually used; it'll be as easy to master as those in the Marxist lexicon.
(It'll be educational too. Good for you.)
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Your Valentine's Day Chocolate Is Mostly Corn
By Rebecca Leber and Aviva Shen
On a typical Valentine's Day, consumers buy more than 58 million pounds of chocolate. Since 70 percent of that chocolate is owned by two companies, Hershey and Mars, most of it was actually processed from genetically modified (GM) corn and soybeans.
In fact, an estimated 90 percent of processed food in grocery stores use GM corn and soybeans patented by agriculture giant Monsanto Company. That includes chocolates, which contain soy lecithin and high fructose corn syrup — a sweetener that's been tied to the obesity epidemic.
Milk chocolate is also likely to contain milk from cows injected with Monsanto's hormone rBGH, which was banned in the European Union, Japan, Australia, and Canada because of the risks associated with increased hormones in cows and humans. The hormone was approved in the US when a Monsanto employee, Margaret Miller, oversaw a report on rBGH's safety, took a job at the FDA, and promptly approved her own report.
Though there is no conclusive evidence a box of GM chocolate will endanger your loved one's health, the ubiquity of GM corn is still cause for concern. GMOs were marketed in the 1990s as a way to cut down on toxic pesticides, as the plants themselves were modified to repel pests and weeds. But a new crop of studies show these GM seeds are giving rise to evolved weeds and pests with beefed-up tolerance for pesticides. Farmers then have little choice but to apply heavier doses of even more toxic chemicals in an arms race with nature.


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- J.J. previews the outfield, and the bullpen. And together with Toni Andracki publishes the 2012 All-Chicago team.
- James previews the AL Central race, and explains the White Sox' advantage as the start of 2012.
- Fangraphs' Marc Hulet says there are dark clouds over the South Side..
- MLBTR reviews the White Sox offseason.
- FutureSox posts the previews for the Sox minor league teams (rookie ball starts after June's draft): Charlotte Knights (AAA), Birmingham Barons (AA), Winston-Salem Dash (A+), Kannapolis Intimidators (A). Baseball America previews the Sox minor league system too.
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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is confident Raheem Sterling will sign a new deal
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has played down talk of a contract dispute with Raheem Sterling.
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Last Updated: 15/11/12 5:01pm
Sterling, who made his England debut against Sweden on Wednesday, has established himself as a key player in the Liverpool side after bursting onto the first-team scene this term.
Liverpool are thought to be keen to tie down the teenager to a new deal, but reports have suggested contract talks had stalled due to personal demands.
However, Rodgers insists contract talks with Sterling will be resolved "without issue" with the player having just 18 months to run on his current deal.
"I think it will be pretty straightforward," said Rodgers. "That will be resolved. There won't be an issue there.
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Rodgers admits Sterling's rise to prominence into the Liverpool first-team and now the England set-up has taken him aback.
"I have been surprised to be honest. You just never know with young players," added Rodgers.
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"He has improved and that is a great credit to him because he wants to improve and become a better player.
"Tactically he is doing better all the time and I think everyone connected with Liverpool could be proud of his (England) performance.
"To get exposed to that level of experience, playing alongside guys like (Zlatan) Ibrahimovic and seeing them at close-hand and how they operate can only make you a better player.
"He has earned that right to be there, he has been one of the top young players in the country this season; he is a real threat, he is dynamic but thankfully he has a lot to improve on.
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Most aspiring authors I meet seem to think that all they have to do is write a book and they will become famous overnight. And many of the readers I meet instantly think I and other authors are celebrities and must be rich and famous. Unfortunately, these myths about being an author are simply that-myths. For the aspiring author, it's best to realize at the start the reality about being a writer so the focus can be on what really matters-working incredibly hard to produce a good book. I plan to shatter a few author myths here so aspiring authors can be prepared for what they must do and face if they hope to succeed.
1. Anyone can write and publish a book-Actually that statement is not a myth, but it leaves out the fact that not everyone can write a good book. The average book takes about 400-800 hours to write, and I suspect it takes more than that when you consider time spent dealing with writer's block and trying to figure out just what to write. Furthermore, even if you write an entire book, that doesn't guarantee it will be a good book. It's vitally important that authors have their books edited and proofread and they work to make the book better by getting feedback from trusted readers (preferably knowledgeable professionals and other authors, not just mom and your best friend). A good author does extensive revisions and numerous drafts. Hemingway once notably said that he wrote one good page for every one hundred bad pages. Furthermore, authors must produce a book that looks as good as any book put out by a major publisher, which means hiring a great cover artist, having a professional design and lay out the book, and paying for quality printing so the book looks completely professional. If you are up to the task, you probably can write a good book and self-publish it. But frankly, writing and publishing the book is the easy part. Selling it is where the hard work really begins.
2. Authors can live off their royalties-I know hundreds of authors, but I don't know personally a single one who lives off his or her royalties. The vast majority of authors today are self-published, which means they don't receive royalties off their books. They work hard to print their books, distribute them to bookstores, sell them at book signings, and then they collect their book payments. Does that sound like a way to make money? Sure, if you're among the 1 percent of authors who actually sell more than 500 copies of their books. If you're not, most likely you will be lucky to break even on the printing costs-and trust me, you'll never get paid for all the hundreds of hours you put into writing the book. All the authors I know have day jobs to supplement their incomes, plus to pay for their publishing hobby-"hobby" because they don't sell enough books to call it a true business.
And even if you do find a traditional publisher and you receive royalties, most publishers pay a fairly standard 10 percent, so if your book retails for $19.95, you'll receive $2.00 per book at best. Furthermore, when books are sold through a distributor and a bookstore, and almost all the books are, the distributor will take its cut, usually about 55 percent, and then the bookstore wants a 40 percent cut that comes out of that 55 percent. That leaves the publisher making 45 percent off the $19.95 book, which is about $9.00 and the author's 10 percent royalty is then 90 cents. Can an author live off such royalties? If you think you can scrape by at just above the poverty level in the United States, which for one person in 2011 was at $10,890, then maybe-but you'll have to sell somewhere between 5,445 and 12,100 books per year to do so if you're collecting standard royalties (and that's selling about 10-25 times more books than the 500 copies that 99 percent of books do not achieve). Hmm, somehow living at the poverty level doesn't sound like the rich and famous author lifestyle you imagined.
3. You can sell millions of books once you get on Oprah. Guess what. The Oprah Winfrey Show is off the air so she's not going to call you. Even when Oprah did endorse books, it was only about one a month. And even if you got on a popular daily television or radio show that endorsed books, the networks usually produce less than 200 new episodes a year (the rest are reruns). Of the one million books published this year, what's the chance your book will make the 200 cut?
4. Authors live fabulously fun lifestyles. The myth of the F. Scott Fitzgerald lifestyle still seems to pervade aspiring authors' minds. Many people think they just need to write a book and they will be able to live like it was the Roaring Twenties, go to fabulous parties, dance with beautiful girls and handsome men, live like a movie star and even befriend a few stars, and do all their writing while sitting in Paris cafes. Well, I don't know about you, but I have a hard time concentrating on my writing books tips in a cafe-you get interrupted and distracted so much that you can't get any writing done. And it's not very easy to write when you have a hangover from all those parties and your phone is ringing off the hook from all those gorgeous girls calling you. Sure, Fitzgerald lived a wild life, but think how many books he could have written if the partying hadn't killed him at the young age of forty-four.
Facing Reality:People are largely attracted to the myth of writers as famous and glamorous. But the reality is that most true writers who stick with writing do so because they enjoy putting words together. I know of many young men and women who went to college determined to become writers. They went through creative writing programs, then never finished the Great American novel, and ended up getting jobs in the corporate world like the vast majority of people. Perhaps you will be the exception, but you won't be if you expect it to be easy and for fame to find you. The only way to become an overnight sensation is to work hard at your craft for many years to become a good writer, and then to learn practical business skills so you can run your business, and to study marketing trends and do your best to capitalize on them so you can sell more books than the average author. Writing and selling your books is one of the hardest, most time-consuming, and often frustrating jobs out there. And don't forget, Steinbeck called writing "the loneliest job in the world."
But writing can also be very rewarding if you do it because you love it, celebrate each small success, and use your common sense to make good decisions for your books and your image as a writer-just remember, showing up at a book signing with a hangover doesn't count as a good decision.
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The Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity celebrates 10 years of opening minds. by Lorraine Berry
The week of October 15, 2009, a justice of the peace in Louisiana refused a multiracial couple a marriage license. Ten months into the presidency of a biracial man, in an era pundits have declared "post-racial," such overt acts of racism seem shocking.
This year, as Ithaca's Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE) celebrates its 10th anniversary, members of its faculty reflect on the ways in which understanding race from a global perspective is a challenge and how the center is teaching students to negotiate the complexities of a diverse and interconnected world.
"All the talk of 'postracial' alludes to our lack of clarity about the changing racial terrain," says Sean Eversley-Bradwell, an assistant professor at the center. "What we know about race and what we do with race are in constant flux. Today, we find ourselves at a moment in history where 'race' is being understood and utilized differently. My students are keenly aware of this shift. The flip side, however, is that students are far less aware of its historical legacy and how race continues to influence one's advantages and disadvantages around education, wealth, life expectancy, incarceration, etc."
In just 10 years, CSCRE has become an integral part of academic and cocurricular life on campus, offering two minors, African diaspora and Latina/o studies; hosting a monthly discussion series; and sponsoring a variety of events.
"The two minors are the only academic programs on campus that focus on the experiences of African American, Latina/o American, Asian American, and Native American people," says Asma Barlas, professor of politics and director of CSCRE. "I find this quite incredible, given the past history of the United States, which has — regrettably — included a history of slavery and dispossession of native peoples. I also find it incredible that we — at IC and in the academy more generally — should have so few courses on race, given the ways in which the historical legacy continues to structure the experiences of both people of color and white people, right up to the present."
The CSCRE curriculum is filling in the educational gaps at IC, and students are interested. "Since their inception," says Paula Ioanide, an assistant professor with the center, "our African diaspora and Latina/o studies minors have seen a tremendous amount of growth. They give students exposure to interdisciplinary methods and issues generally marginalized in curriculums. We explore connections between constructions of racial identity and life chances, and how policies and economic structures perpetuate inequality on the basis of race and gender. But we also focus quite a bit on social movements and cultural expressions generated by African American, Latina/o American, Asian American, and Native American people in order to show that practices of dehumanization have always been contested, and that people continue to fight for dignity and self-determination."
The center's discussion series complements the curriculum by continuing the dialogue outside the classroom. Prominent academics, activists, and artists from around the world are invited to campus and paired with IC faculty. Audience members do not listen passively. "It's not just a talking heads kind of format but a highly interactive one," says Barlas. "Sometimes our events have lasted well beyond the two hours officially allotted to them." In the last four years, series topics have explored "Global Fury/Global Fear: Engaging Muslims," "The Prison Machine: Race, Torture, and the State," "MLK and the Politics of Resistance," and "Race and Immigration."
Miranda Hallett joined the CSCRE faculty this year. While her work focuses on the experiences of Latina/os in the United States and immigration, she also teaches a course that examines how white is as contested a category as black or Latina/o or Native American.
"Being White has been a popular course so far, as students are often curious to know what there is to say about whiteness. They think of it as a non-identity, as an absence of race rather than a racial category in itself," explains Hallett. "This provides an opportunity to look at whiteness as a racial category that those who invented the idea of race applied to themselves. We talk a lot about the historical process of negotiating who gets to be white and who does not by looking at scientific research, legislation, census categories, Supreme Court decisions, and so on. One of the most interesting elements we discuss is the case of Mexican Americans in the United States, who, after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, were declared white by law but were never socially recognized by Anglos as fellow whites."
While IC students are the immediate beneficiaries of the program, CSCRE's outreach is global in scope. Barlas is an internationally recognized expert on Qur'anic hermeneutics and Muslim sexual politics. As a consequence of that work, she has been asked frequently to write and comment on Islam and feminism. She describes her work as "trying to contest the link between religious knowledge and the oppression of Muslim women. The idea that Islam sanctions this abuse is quite common, and one of my objectives is to show how wrong this claim is. I do this by looking at a wide variety of the Qur'an's teachings."
In an August 2009 Guardian op-ed, Barlas responded to the question of whether or not Western feminism can rescue Muslim women. She pointed out that while it is not imperialistic for westerners to want Afghan women to have rights, liberating women was not the pretext for invading Afghanistan.
"There is no reason to assume that change in Muslim societies can only be imposed from the outside; to the contrary, I believe it can and will come from Muslims themselves," she writes. "However, for that to happen, enough Muslims will need to realize that much of what passes as Islam — whether it is wearing a burqa, sex-segregation in public/private, stoning to death, or killing a woman in the name of 'honor' . . . is not mentioned in or sanctioned by the Qur'an."
In other words, change must come from within. And that's exactly what CSCRE is trying to accomplish at IC. While the scope of the center is huge — studying racial and cultural differences in all their manifestations—its mission is focused on helping each student to understand — and question — the sociopolitical constructs that categorize people according to race.
Learn more about CSCRE at www.ithaca.edu/cscre.
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I respect and appreciate the accomplishments of CSCRE, but please let's realize that they do not have the "only programs" that focus on people like Asian Americans and Native Americans. There are various similar and complementary educational efforts around campus. I can particularly speak to the Anthropology Dept (check out the course Asian America: Issues and Experiences to be taught next semester) and the thriving Native American Studies minor, which is housed in H&S. I can also think of race and ethnicity courses in Sociology and the Latin American Studies and Jewish Studies minors.
I understand what you are saying Jack, and while you are right that the center is not the only place that offers your so called "only programs" I think what this article is trying to convey is that it is the only department that focuses solely on those concepts on race and ethnicity in a historical and present sense and for the past 10 years on this campus. There are a plethora race and ethnicity courses offered in many different departments, but I think what you're neglecting to see is the way in which these courses are offered and the focus that are brought into view in them. They all offer ideas of race and ethnicity but what you need to think of is in what sense is the material being presented. I think what's really a shame with this institution is that all these programs are only offered as minors. Why is it that we don't have a African Studies, Latino Studies, Native American Studies or Asian Studies Major. I think that is the question that we need to be asking. Because if you asks me I think that where your idea of "similar and complementary educational efforts around campus" is seriously leaking in terms of the study of race and ethnicity and we really need to see a change in this school.
REMEMBER: CSCRE does NOT have the only programs that focus on people like Asian Americans and Native Americans. They simply DON'T have programs focusing on those two groups.
The question is: why aren't Native American Studies, Latin American Studies, and Jewish Studies part of CSCRE? Or if they aren't part of CSCRE, why isn't there cooperation between these programs and CSCRE? Why isn't there cooperation with Sociology? These are the important questions to ask both of CSCRE and the administration at IC.


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Venezuela's opposition says there could be a power vacuum if Hugo Chavez is not inaugurated on time.
CARACAS - Venezuela's opposition has accused the government of violating the constitution by proposing to delay cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez's inauguration Thursday for a new term amid growing uncertainty over the polarised OPEC nation's political future.
The socialist leader's allies say the January 10 inauguration date laid out in the constitution is just a "formality." They insist Chavez, who has not been heard from for almost a month after complex cancer surgery in Cuba, can take office when his health allows.
His adversaries say that would be running roughshod over the constitution as the former soldier remains in Havana and appears too weak to return to Venezuela after winning re-election in October for a third six-year term.
"If the president of the republic does not take office (on January 10), the country cannot be left in a power vacuum," said Tomas Guanipa of the opposition Justice First party, insisting that the head of Congress, Diosdado Cabello, should be sworn in temporarily.
The dispute centres on an article of the constitution that says a president-elect should be sworn in on January 10, but does not say what happens if the inauguration does not take place that date.
A fierce debate over the issue has deflected attention from the president's absence from the political scene and apparent inability to speak in a live broadcast.
The government, which has refused to discuss having Chavez temporarily step aside as he recovers, is providing only terse statements with bare-bones details of his condition.
On Monday, the information minister said Chavez's condition was "stationary" with respect to the last medical bulletin, released on Thursday, which described a "severe" pulmonary infection that has hindered the president's breathing.
The official position is that Chavez is still fulfilling his duties as head of state, despite his weak health.
For days, television networks have aired contrasting interpretations of the constitutional articles in question, with the opinions of constitutional lawyers and ad-hoc experts now filling social networks.
A Justice First leader has said the opposition could file complaints against the government with international agencies over the potential violation of constitutional protocol.
A popular political cartoonist depicted what appeared to be a wolf running with a copy of the constitution in its mouth, leaving a trail of pages behind it.
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One Chavez critic who called for a national strike via Twitter to protest the situation was ridiculed by the opposition as an extremist but quickly cited by the government as a sign that Chavez's critics want to destabilise the country.
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Americans and people around the world experienced the shattering terror of the Boston Marathon bombings together on Monday through digital and social media. Since then heroes have emerged — often ordinary people who rose to extraordinary acts of courage. A shaken nation has responded with an outpouring of gratitude and respect, holding them up on social media. Here are a few of them:
Carlos Arredondo, the cowboy hat hero
The peace activist was waiting at the Boston Marathon finish line for runners who were racing on behalf of fallen soldiers — such as his son. (Arredondo's other son killed himself at 24.) When the blast went off across the street, he ran to help injured spectators, including a man whose legs were blown off. Arredondo can be seen, wearing a cowboy hat, in a photo, apparently holding the man's severed artery, NBC News reports. Bystanders say he jumped into the fear and chaos Monday and immediately began helping people. On Twitter, Arredondo is one of the nation's most saluted people.
Today has been pretty blue but something about this Cowboy Hero makes me smile. bit.ly/13i32Qr twitter.com/ChrissyCole/st…
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Joe Andruzzi, retired NFL player carried injured to safety
Andruzzi, whose three brothers are NYC firefighters, lifted an injured woman and carried her to safety after the blasts. A three-time Super Bowl Champion for the hometown Patriots, Andruzzi insisted he did nothing unusual and shifted praise to the early responders. "They were the true heroes," he said in a statement.
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Little Martin Richard, killed at 8, but leaving a lasting image of peace
One of the saddest stories of the Boston bombings resurfaced today on social media with a stunning image of hope. Martin Richard, age 8, was killed Monday as his mother and two siblings stood with him near the finish line. Today a friend of his teacher's posted a remarkable photo of the boy on Facebook holding up a hand-lettered sign urging peace. The photo of the smiling boy has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook. His moving call for an end to violence has inspired awe across the world.
Dr.Chris Rupe, the surgeon who ran from race to medical tent
Rupe, a Kansas surgeon, ran in the race and had just finished when the blasts rang out. He went to the medical tent, where his training was much-appreciated by personnel more accustomed to treating dehydration. "I'd just run 26 miles; I was starting to get tired," Rupe was quoted as saying. "There were a lot of great people who were there — there are a lot of good people in the world."
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— Rep. Kevin Yoder (@RepKevinYoder) April 16, 2013
Bill Iffrig, the runner on the ground in an iconic photo
Iffrig is down on the street in perhaps the day's most iconic photo, taken by John Tlumacki of The Boston Globe. He was so close to the blast that it blew him off his feet. "It was only 5 feet away from me," he said. "It was really loud." But he got up, and finished his third Boston Marathon, inspiring runners everywhere. Iffrig is 78.
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As stories emerge, more heroes are held up for their courage and kindness on a long and brutal day. Know of more Boston heroes? Tell us and leave a link in the comments below.


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