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I'll admit that my knowledge of American Punk music of the late 70s and early 80s (or even the British variety, for that matter) is sorely lacking. As a kid I listened to the same music my father did, which is to say almost exclusively 50s rock n' roll and 60s doo-wop. I'm still a big fan--you should hear my karaoke version of "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters or the old standard "Stand By Me." Then about the time I got my first car and had a tape-deck that was entirely under my control, something strange happened--I leapt from The Coasters and Chubby Checker directly into Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Ozzy Osbourne. In my jump-cut from sideburns-sporting crooner to denim-vested metalhead, I somehow gave the American punk movement a complete miss.
And yet I can still sing along with most of the REO Speedwagon tunes I hear on the radio. Where's the justice in that?
My point is, this is a gaping hole in my music education, and one I've never quite been able to fill. Sure, I own several Misfits cds and a kickass Ramones compilation I never get tired of, but everything else is hazy and indistinct. Therefore I was very interested to view the recent DVD offering from MVD Entertainment Group, the 1980 punk drama Blank Generation, featuring influential punkers Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
Note: MVD Entertainment provided a DVD of Blank Generation to MMMMMovies for review purposes.
Blank Generation is not a documentary, as one might first presume.* It's fiction, a drama in the time-honored "talented kid finds success and discovers it's not all it's cracked up to be" mold. It does have many other points of interest for scholars of the era, however: apart from several live performances by Richard Hell and the Voidoids, it also features footage shot at the world-famous CBGBs, not to mention a time-capsule portrait of pre-Disneyfied NYC. Also, pop-art icon Andy Warhol pops in for a brief and typically baffling cameo.
*Adding to the confusion: there is a documentary with almost the same title, The Blank Generation (1976), about the same scene at about the same time, also featuring Richard Hell and footage from CBGBs.
Richard Hell plays Billy, a suitably sullen punk-rock poet whose band has just been signed to a Big Label thanks to the machinations of smarmy long-haired A&R guy Jack (Howard Grant, whom I mistook for New York Dolls' frontman David Johansen for the entire feature running time). He also draws the attention of French TV journalist Nada (the gorgeous Carole Bouquet), who first interviews him for her nebulous feature about the triumphs and pitfalls of fame in America (or something). Soon enough, and strictly according to formula, the French woman starts starts a torrid and tempestuous affair with the blank-faced youth. This soon draws the attention of her German documentarian lover Hoffritz, who comes to New York to see Nada while tracking down the elusive Andy Warhol for his latest feature. Jealousy, heartbreak, and lots of heavily-accented screaming ensue.
Blank Generation is...well, pretty bad, frankly. We never get to know Billy's band (the Voidoids)--in fact, apart from the live performances scattered throughout the film, Billy never seems to hang out/interact with his fellow musicians in any way in his day-to-day life. They're not even present while he lays down his vocal tracks in the studio! Furthermore, the only evidence we ever get of his meteoric rise to fame is what the characters tell us while brooding in their apartments--no screaming fans, no lust-crazed groupies, no press interest (apart from Nada, who works for French TV and is more interested in Billy's off-stage activities IYKWIM). And since Billy is always sullen and...well, BLANK--it's hard to see why he suddenly storms offstage in the middle of one performance, though he later tells us he's "sick of it all." We just have to take his word for it, I guess.
Now rock history is littered with big stars who made crappy actors (Elvis, anyone?), so perhaps Hell's inability to emote can be forgiven. Bouquet's terrible performance is harder to forgive, but she's at least pretty. What can't be forgiven is the shoddy script and haphazard direction. These characteristics will come as no surprise to those familiar with the film's director: Ulli Lommel. A member of the Fassbinder circle who made a splash with the well-received The Tenderness of Wolves (1973), Lommel went on to a downright odoriferous career that included 1980 scare flick The Boogeyman and its horrible sequels, and culminated in recent years with a series of direct-to-dvd films about just about every serial killer whose story he could get the rights to.
Uwe Boll, only he lacks the skewed sense of humor and good-natured hubris that for me makes Dr. Boll's videogame disasters so oddly fascinating. In Lommel's film, motivations are nonexistent, eccentricities are lame and unbuyable, and entire scenes unspool as if the director went out to lunch and someone simply left the camera running.
An early scene in which Billy and Nada try to decide whether to stay in town or go to the beach seems to be reaching for some theme about emotional blankness, but ends up in a silly and horribly acted screaming fit from Bouquet, with Hell standing by looking alternated bored and baffled. Later Nada conducts an extended interview with an American football player whose injury ended his career, and Lommel seems to be reaching again for meaning--something about the exploitation of the athlete being analogous to the exploitation of the artist, maybe?--but it's never developed. Billy later takes up with a female film student who has grand ideas about the democratization of art thanks to portable video cameras, but the idea fizzles before it's out of the vacuous actress's mouth.
Crispin Glover totally nailed it in The Doors.)
After the movie I didn't know quite what to expect from the lone DVD extra, a 45 minute interview with star Richard Hell, presided over by Luc Sante, but this interview pretty much makes the pain of sitting through the movie worthwhile. Richard Hell seems like a very intelligent, thoughtful fellow who knows more than a little about filmmaking, and he also seems frankly astounded that the movie turned out as badly as it did. "I was really searching," Hell tells Sante, "and there's really not a single authentic, truthful moment in the whole movie...it's just COMPLETELY false...All that fetishism about video recording...it had no meaning! It was just meant to be chic..."
The Tenderness of Wolves, but soon became convinced that Lommel had little to do with that film's impressiveness. ("Fassbinder edited it, Raab wrote it...") He calls the experience of acting in the film "painful" and "infuriating," as the actors basically had no direction and no script. Most entertainingly, he implies that Lommel wrote himself into the movie (he played Nada's lover Hoffritz) because he was nonsensically jealous of Hell's centrality and his offscreen relationship with one of the actresses. "He was a former child star...spoiled and narcissistic." Even if untrue, it's a much better story than anything in the actual film.
Hell also has some interesting things to say about "youthsploitation" in movies, and in an entertaining aside claims that his only consolation is that he was a better actor than Bob Dylan, if not approaching him otherwise. Luc Sante is also erudite and engaging, making the interview on this well-done DVD presentation a must-watch.
If only the same could be said of the movie.
Monday, March 1, 2010
DVD REVIEW: Blank Generation (1980)
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 10:52 AM
Labels: '80s, DVD Reviews, Mmmmmusic
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Hell's a pretty interesting fellow - Mike Watt has a rather nice section on his webpage (hootpage.com), where he and his band members do "tour diaries" and Hell's entries are among the more interesting ones.
- March 1, 2010 at 5:04 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Thanks for the heads-up, Anonymous! I'll definitely check it out--Hell's interview was a lot of fun. It's hard to tell if he's mellowed with age, as he was pretty comatose in the movie (he claims it was his way of dealing with having no direction from Lommel), but he definitely seemed like an interesting cat.
- March 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- buy movies dvd said...
I really thinks that this movie is not entertaining and watching this movie is wasting your Money.
- June 10, 2010 at 3:51 AM
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Published online September 29 in the journal Nature Genetics, the study, "Analysis of immune-related loci identifies 48 new susceptibility variants for multiple sclerosis," is the largest investigation of multiple sclerosis genetics to date. Led by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, this study relied upon an international team of 193 investigators from 84 research groups in 13 countries and was funded by more than 40 local and national agencies and foundations.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disabling neurological condition that affects over 2.5 million individuals worldwide. The disease results in patchy inflammation and damage to the central nervous system that causes problems with mobility, balance, sensation and cognition depending upon where the damage to the central nervous system occurs. Neurological symptoms are often intermittent in the early stages of the disease but tend to persist and progressively worsen with the passage of time for the majority of patients. The risk of developing multiple sclerosis is increased in those who have a family history of the disease. Research studies in twins and adopted individuals have shown that this increased risk is primarily the result of genetic risk factors.
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Excerpted from The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island, by Mac Griswold; Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Copyright © 2013 by Mac Griswold.
"Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fiske," I write in July of 1984, "I rowed into the creek below your house and could not resist walking around your lawns and garden," and I finish by saying I am a garden historian and would like to meet them and learn about the history of their house. Several months and three letters later, I receive a reply, and an invitation to visit.
A short car-ferry ride takes me from my home in Sag Harbor, on the East End of Long Island, to Shelter Island, and I drive to the house that so captured my imagination. I pull through the white-painted cement gates and rattle down the long wooded driveway, two worn sandy tracks separated by a grass ridge. Two small figures stand under the front portico, Andrew Fiske, in a wrinkled linen jacket and open-necked checked shirt, and Alice, his wife, in skirt and blouse and a chintz mobcap.
Eventually I will combine the results of a decade of research into Andy's documents with information from oral and traditional histories; intellectual, economic, agricultural, and architectural history; and archaeology, dowsing, and dendrochronological analysis of the timbers of the house. The story of the house is restless, multicultural, and complex, reaching far beyond these grounds to the broader Atlantic world. Yet everyone who visits this marvel of a place (including me)—or who lives there—is momentarily seduced by the urge to leap over the gaps, to simplify, conjecture, or even make things up. The account Andy gives me contains much that is true, but I will learn it relies mostly on nineteenth-century family tales.
Andy's highly-colored version starts like this: "In 1652, the dashing Nathaniel Sylvester, son of an English merchant family, sailed north from Barbados, where his family owned sugar plantations that depended on the labor of hundreds of Africans. With him came his teenage bride, Grizzell Brinley, daughter of Charles I's court auditor, Thomas Brinley. After a dramatic shipwreck, newlyweds landed on Shelter Island, where a large and comfortable house (built previously by Nathaniel and his servants) stood ready to receive the young couple."
Andy's story continues to unroll with Nathaniel and Grizzell as "Quaker protectors," rather than as the Quakers they undeniably were; a mention of the Quaker martyr, Mary Dyer, who fled the savage persecution of Boston Puritans to spend the last six months of her life on Shelter Island, before returning to Boston to be hanged; and a roll call of local Manhansett Indians, including the "sachem of all Long Island," Youghco. Andy notes that generations of Sylvesters hobnobbed with, and married into, New England's ruling elite, and that, last but not least, Grizzell bore twelve children, eleven of whom lived to maturity, thereby begetting the long line that led to himself.
Andy then fast-forwards two generations to Nathaniel's grandson, the fashionable Brinley Sylvester, born in Newport in 1694, who inherited on his uncle's death in 1704 but couldn't take possession until 1735, after a long court case gave him ownership. To Brinley, the ramshackle eighty-year-old family house seemed very out of date; he and his servants tore it down and built this one. We are standing in the east parlor as Andy tells me this, a room of extraordinary beauty and strangeness. Beautiful because the proportions and the fully paneled walls are exquisite; strange, because there are only two coats of paint on these walls, through which the silvery old wood shows in patches. The bottom coat is that acid blue-green so fashionable in the mid-eighteenth century. The top coat is a modest biscuit color, emblematic of good taste, applied sometime in the 1840s, just before wall colors turned dark and Victorian.
Andy creaks open a door hidden by the patterned wallpaper of the front hall to reveal a walk-in safe, a vault that he has been told could withstand the hottest flames for six hours. The ceiling is about seven feet high, and the walls—lined with high dark chests and file cabinets—press in on us from every side. Old trunks crowd the red-tiled floor. Thousands of documents are housed here in these trunks, and many others in drawers, and in albums in which Andy has flattened some several hundred of his most precious ones.
We take the heaviest album into the dining room, where there is more light. On the mahogany table Andy quietly smooths out the original parchment charter for what had once been an 8,000-acre water-bounded domain—the entire island (the manor property is now 243 acres). Blobs of red wax, the personal stamps of the various parties, dot the wide sheet, from which dangles a large, handsome governmental seal. Signed in 1666 by Richard Nicolls, the first governor of the English colony of New York, the document defines the place, "by the Indyans formerly called by the name of Manhansucke Ahaquatzuwamocke and now commonly known as by the name of Shelter Island."
In the west parlor, we gaze at a gorgeous nineteenth-century French panoramic wallpaper: snowy peaks, garden terrace balustrades topped with overflowing urns of flowers, and peacocks. I sign the guest book and turn to admire the mantel. To the left of it is a closed door.Walking toward it, Andy says "This leads to the slave staircase," as if it were the most natural thing in the world to have a slave staircase in your early Georgian house on Long Island.
The staircase behind this door spirals up to the attic, Andy remarks, pointing out how narrow and high the steps are. But nobody walks up this pinched back staircase any longer: the steps are blocked by a collection of small vases and dishes, mostly crystal and metal, which glitter in the light from a glassed side entry. Later I can't help but notice the luxurious treads of the front stairs, whose four-inch risers are so shallow I seem to float effortlessly upward.
It begins to sink in: the "servants" who Andy said built the house were slaves. So were those who lived in the house built by Nathaniel and his wife in the 1650s. In common seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American parlance, slaves were often called servants, as were indentured servants, whose terms did not last for life and whose children would be free. As I listen to Andy's glancing mention of the staircase, I realize I am face-to-face with slavery in the North.
In 1984, Andy is among the comparatively few who are aware of Northern slavery. His family lived with that knowledge as his ancestors lived with their captives. The door to memory was never closed. The unknown people who lived here and helped create this place step forward when Andy and I reach what he says some call the slave graveyard, others the Indian burying ground. As I drove in, I had noticed an old gray fence line, but missed a big boulder lying closer to the main drive. Now I see an inscription carved on the flat side: "Burying Ground of the Colored People of the Manor since 1651." There are no gravestones in this graveyard under the pines. Andy tells me that more than 200 people may be buried here. I don't ask where are the records, why are there no markers? I can guess the answer. These are the ones who slipped soundlessly through history.
By the time Andy's house was built in the 1730s, Long Islanders owned more human chattel than any other group of colonists in the North. In outlying areas such as Shelter Island, up to half the workforce was enslaved. After the Revolution, in 1799, the new state enacted agonizingly complex graduated manumission laws. Buying and selling continued through the years until the last days of the "peculiar institution": Sylvester Dering, Andy's forebear and lord of the manor between 1785 and 1820, purchased a "Negro man Joseph" in 1810. In 1821, Dering's widow emancipated London, the last of the slaves at the manor.
In 1996 I returned to do some research for an article about the manor garden. Andy had died of cardiac complications in 1992, at the age of eighty; Alice, in her late seventies, was searching for a way to memorialize him. Andy, who had loved his family papers so dearly, had also loved archaeology. Fortuitously, I had just hired Gresham O'Malley, a graduate student at the New York Botanical Garden, to make measured drawings as illustrations for my article, a narrow look at the manor's Colonial Revival garden history. While Gresham and I tugged on strings and tape measures and yelled to each other across the hedges, he told me about his digger brother-in-law, Stephen A. Mrozowski of the University of Massachusetts Boston, who had excavated at Jamestown and other seventeenth-century sites in Virginia and New England. As Gresham talked over our sandwiches about his brother-in-law's excavations, Alice realized this might be the way to keep Andy vividly close to her.
Later, I asked Gresham if he thought Steve would like to visit, maybe even consider Sylvester Manor as a project. On a drizzly winter day, Steve drove up with his wife and kids, absolutely prepared, he later told me, to say no, but as we walked toward the house, he bent down and, from among the pebbles on the back drive, picked up a piece of creamware pottery and then a piece of eighteenth-century blue and white porcelain. Then he met Alice, who with her characteristic mix of downhome style and ceremony offered Pringles in a silver bowl as just the right pre-luncheon hors d'oeuvre. That clinched the deal.
Field archaeology requires squads of people, wads of money, and a lab to process the "finds." Alice soon funded a research center at UMass in memory of Andy. Steve came to the manor with a preliminary team in the summer of 1998, with the intention of unearthing what they called a multicultural Northern provisioning plantation that dates to the earliest days of European settlement on the Eastern Seaboard. Calling a farm in the North a "plantation" startled me, as did the concept that such places were specifically set up to provision West Indian sugar plantations powered by slaves. Steve's digs would unearth the often voiceless "conversations" that had taken place on Shelter Island between Europeans, Indians, and Africans—struggles over power and the use of space revealed by artifacts and the faint, multilayered evidence of fences, roads, and buildings.
Once the UMass team started, the Sylvesters' ease as travelers and merchants would also become visible as artifacts were teased out of the ground: English and European ceramics of every description, coins of fivenations, Dutch clay pipes and bricks, a German silver stickpin, and pounds and pounds of Caribbean coral, stockpiled as a vital ingredient for making mortar.
In the vault, sorting through stacks of early-twentieth-century letters, I open a small envelope without a name or address. It contains four half-size sheets covered in Cornelia Horsford's loopy, acrobatic scrawl. Cornelia inherited the manor upon her mother's death in 1903. Her letter (a copy she made) is dated Sylvester Manor, August 26, 1915, but has no salutation. I don't expect to find more than family gossip, and indeed, the letter describes a visit to the manor by a cousin, General Sylvester Dering II. But on page three Cornelia writes, "I took him to see the old slave burying ground which grows more interesting day by day as new graves are brought to light from under the heavy brush, some mounds, some fallen in, all with their headstones and footstones."
Headstones and footstones? Unbelievable. No headstones or footstones have ever been remarked on by anyone as far as I know.
I read Cornelia's breathtaking sentence to a student archaeologist, Elizabeth Newman, who is helping me with the document inventory. The two of us drop everything and head outside through a sleety rain to investigate. We pound up the soggy, puddled drive to the graveyard under the pines and fumble our way through the gate, half expecting to find regular mounds and hollows, headstones and footstones, where we've never seen them before. Neither; nothing. Just brambles, withered field grasses, and poison ivy on the uneven ground. As we walk around, wondering what lies beneath our feet in this sacred space, we stare down at every step, feeling gullible, disconsolate. Elizabeth kicks a small stone like a kid. Then she says, "God, there are so many rocks in here, I guess because this area hasn't been tilled, and the glacial rocks haven't been cleared . . ."
Her voice trails off, and a light goes on.The two of us—she, an archaeologist, and I, a landscape historian—are used to scrutinizingthe earth for different patterns. We missed this one until Cornelia gave us the clue: we are stumbling over an army of small glacial boulders and fieldstone pebbles, many more, at a cursory glance, than anyplace else we have examined on the property. The largest have rolled or been rolled against the fence; the little ones are scattered underfoot, many half buried in the ice-glazed soil. Are these Cornelia's "headstones and footstones"? Early Dutch settlers on Long Island used fieldstones as grave markers, sometimes carving them with names or initials and dates.
I'm angry at Cornelia's careless exaggeration about proper headstones and footstones, and her inability to carry through with honoring Julia, someoneCornelia had known all her life. Given that people so often don't do what they say, rage seems unreasonable. Yet both Cornelia's professed good intention and her inaction put her gesture where it belongs: in the category of condescending and sentimental racism typical of her class and day.
If death, its rituals, and the dense shade of the pines have consecrated the "Burying Ground of the Colored People of the Manor," everyday life, the seasonal rites of agriculture, and bright sunlight hallow the spot of earth that two nineteenth-century manor proprietors called the "Negro garden." For their makers, both grave and garden carried the sweetness of order, an order that the slaves themselves created out of the disorder and powerlessness of their lives. In death, Africans believed, the spirits of those they buried would be free to return to Africa; every spring, the seeds they chose to plant on Shelter Island would sprout from the ground. Digging the first spadeful of earth—the same act performed in both places, life and death answering each other—restored harmony and gravitas to the world.
In a daybook entry for May 7, 1856, three years before his death in 1859, Samuel Smith Gardiner, the husband of Nathaniel and Grizzell's great-greatgreat- granddaughter, Mary L'Hommedieu, noted matter-of-factly that he "Planted Six rows of corn in the Negro garden." By then, twenty-nine years after the end of slavery in New York State, the term "Negro garden" had lost its original sense as the only ground that plantation slaves were permitted to cultivate for themselves. But when the first Sylvesters began to import Africans, probably through the West Indies, both masters and slaves would have known of such plots in Barbados. While traces and records of many "Negro gardens" can be found on plantations in the South, few besides this one have even been mentioned in the North, where plantations run with slave labor were fewer to start with, and where, once free African Americans decamped for the cities, the ground was used for other purposes.
Those gardens provided more than physical sustenance. The Barbadian planter Henry Drax (a friend of Nathaniel's brother Constant) instructed his overseer, "For the enabling Negroes to go through their work with cheerfulness there must be great care taken that they have plantation provisions enough, besides the constant provision-ground of their own. The quantity and most convenient place for the Negroes Garden you must allot, which should be in the outskirts of the plantation." Drax added that better food—particularly food they'd grown themselves—made his slaves better workers.
So where on Shelter Island was the "Negro garden"? Samuel Gardiner's bare notation gave no clue. We had to depend on his less reassuringly literal son-in-law, Eben Norton Horsford. Writing thirty years after Gardiner's daybook entry, he described the paths, tidal spring, shoreline indentations, and Indian village and graveyard of the manor grounds' North Peninsula, finishing with a flourish: "Between the spring and the end of the graveyard, runs the old hawthorn hedge, the office of which has been evident as it forms the limit of the Negro Garden, immemorially so called, and indicated the distance to which the servants might extend their spading the ground." (Horsford applied the word "servant," as did both Nathaniel Sylvester and Andy Fiske, to enslaved as well as free laborers.) There are now a number of paths, springs, and silted-up marshy areas, but no visible signs of Manhansett burials or a hedge, as the entire peninsula has become a weedy succession forest.
The first tantalizing clue on the ground appeared when Steve and two graduate students, Anne Hancock and Lee Priddy, who would help lead the first summer of exploratory fieldwork, drove down from Boston on a cold March day in 1998. We walked together across the land bridge to the North Peninsula, which Steve, on the basis of the Gardiner and Horsford descriptions, had picked as a dig site for the season. Over the winter the ground had frozen, then thawed, heaving up stones and artifacts. Anne stooped down for the first find, a piece of a whiteand-red-glazed pot. Then, quite a few steps farther on, she picked up a sherd that fitted it exactly. Lee spotted something brownishly different from the brown leaves and soil. She turned it over in her hand, and then, in a star turn only an archaeologist can pull off, said, "It's a piece of a clay colander, glazed inside, unglazed outside. The irregular holes tell me it dates to the seventeenth century."
I held the fragment in my hand. For Steve, Anne, and Lee, as historical archaeologists, this was only a piece of a European utensil without a material frame of reference to tie it to a specific ethnic use or period of manor settlement. For me, this colander was a gathering basket. Garden produce is picked, washed, and sorted in a colander. Were we in the Africans' garden? I felt the tension between the archaeologists' thoughts and mine.
The UMass team opened units down along the south shore of the creek to seek evidence of the Negro garden. In the steamy summer days, shrieking with mosquitoes, graduate student Craig Cipolla led a team that cautiously cleared the thick brambles, bittersweet, saplings, and poison ivy and then even more cautiously lifted dense matted roots and topsoil. Faint traces of cultivation can be as powdery as moths' wings—the marks of wooden plows or hoes are far less stable than those left by stone foundations. When Craig found long, shallow, crumbly scratches in the earth—"plow scars"—he called me away from the workroom to come see. They resembled the lines of a child's secret letter written in lemon juice, whose invisible script appears only when the paper is held over heat—except here it was Craig telling me what I was looking at that made me see it.
The team went on to uncover possible planting pits or fence postholes and a larger pit containing ceramics dating to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, but not a trace of food waste—a good sign, since they were looking for a garden rather than a dwelling where people cooked and ate what they grew. A second season of excavation produced more inconclusive yet tantalizing evidence: a few more lines in the soil that were tentatively identified as plow scars, as well as finds ranging from pre-contact lithics (chipped stone artifacts) to antebellum ceramics from the era whenSamuel Gardiner planted his "six rows of corn in the Negro garden."
Alice and I were looking at the portrait of Cornelia as a little girl that hangs at the bottom of the front stair. Cornelia's eyes do not waver. They appear to be fixed on the gauzy middle distance so beloved of Victorian portrait painters. But Cornelia's gaze is not gauzy—never mind that she is wearing a little pink frock with a frilled neckline, or that she is only about ten years old. If this girl had turned her head, she would have stared through Alice and me, taking us backward through history. As an adult and with nineteenth-century certitude, Cornelia had firmly reshaped the house and gardens to suit herself and her ideas of what the place had been.
Alice loved the portrait of Cornelia as a young girl. She loved all the family portraits in the house, but she felt especially close to Cornelia. "We divided a hundred years between us in this garden," she said. It's true: Cornelia started ordering garden seeds in 1890 and died in 1944. Alice came to the manor in 1952 and died in 2006.
With her demise, Steve Mrozowski decided that the first phase of the investigation—the University of Massachusetts's six-week summer field schools (eight in all, from 1999 through 2006)—should conclude. The team moved their efforts to Boston, to the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the university. There they began the analysis (still ongoing as of 2013) of the thousands of artifacts from the digs. "Lab analysis takes ten times as long as fieldwork," says Katherine F. Hayes, the field superintendent, so who knows when it will all be completed.
Near the 1810 windmill and the recently fenced four acre windmill field, now a corduroy patchwork of crop rows, sits a new farm stand built with volunteer labor. A welcome addition to an island where in previous years almost the only vegetables to be found were canned or frozen, the stand offers hardy salad greens beginning in April and stays open well into winter, selling the potatoes and turnips and onions that have been cold-weather mainstays over the centuries for rich and poor, black and white.


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Praise Xenu! We were all deflated last month when British reports suggested that Andrew Morton's Tom Cruise exposé was not going to be published in the UK because it wasn't scandalous enough…but now it turns out it's actually not going to be published in the UK because it's TOO SCANDALOUS and publishers fear that British libel laws will make it too costly for them to defend.
The News of the World gets pretty fictional every weekend – what happened to libel laws there??? The latest from them is that Britney had guns in the house. She had NO GUNS in the house. Trust.
Morton's book is however getting published in America, where libel laws are different and where the salacious details will make the most splash anyway. And while Morton does not dare to go near the gay gay unveiling, he does make some explosive allegations about the Church and about Little Sci.
Morton has the balls to compare Little Sci to Rosemary's Baby! The Devil's baby! And he goes so far as to suggest the possibility that Little Sci was fathered by David Miscavige, Tom's best friend and head of Scientology detailing how the Church bent over backwards to recruit the GMD and satisfy his every whim – once planting an entire field of wildflowers just so Tom could run through it with Nicole Kidman and the wind.
Seriously… only a gay man would conceive a field of wildflowers as the perfect date.
Morton posits that Tom is now #2 in the Church and that he is involved in all major decision making and responsible for bringing in new high profile members, including the Beckhams. Morton also writes of the Church's compound in Hemet – heavily guarded by former Israeli soldiers to protect scientological secrets. What's Xenu hiding behind all those guns???
Point is – he doesn't want you to find out. Which accounts for the armour and also the political strategising. In addition to strong denials from his lawyer, Tom is making major moves in Hollywood.
Tom's United Artists has reportedly reached an independent deal with the WGA meaning he can move ahead with projects away from the big studios. This is huge. So what does Brooke Shields have to do with it?
Remember I reported way back, when Tom somehow weasled his way back into Brooke's good books, that it wasn't her he was after…but her husband, Chris Henchy? Chris is a screenwriter and also one of the producers of Entourage – clearly influential. And now the GMD has a deal with the WGA…
Coincidence or conspiracy???
Chills, chills, chills.
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The Tech Industry Has Already Given Hollywood The Answer To Piracy; If Only It Would Listen
from the stop-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot deptWhile many in the press have really enjoyed claiming that the SOPA/PIPA fight has been about Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley, we've been pointing out for a while just how silly that is. Months ago, we pointed out that it's a strange "fight" when one side (Silicon Valley) appears to give the other side all the weapons it needs to succeed (only to watch Hollywood then aim those weapons at its own feet). It's been pointed out time and time again that Hollywood has a habit of looking a gift horse in the mouth... and accusing it of piracy, when it later turns out to be the answer to Hollywood's prayers.
When the White House came out against the general approach in SOPA and PIPA, it still said that a legislative response was necessary... and asked for the "best ideas" from the tech community and people online:
Washington needs to hear your best ideas about how to clamp down on rogue websites and other criminals who make money off the creative efforts of American artists and rights holders. We should all be committed to working with all interested constituencies to develop new legal tools to protect global intellectual property rights without jeopardizing the openness of the Internet. Our hope is that you will bring enthusiasm and know-how to this important challenge.But, here's the thing: as many of us have been saying for quite some time, the "best ideas" have nothing to do with legislation, because legislation is tackling the wrong problem. No amount of legislation or enforcement stops piracy. That's been shown over and over again. What does help deal with infringement is offering a better service that gives consumers more of what they want in a reasonable and convenient manner.
And thus, I can't recommend enough Nat Torkington's brilliant response to "the President's challenge" above by likening it to this old joke:
Heavy rains start and a neighbour pulls up in his truck. "Hey Bob, I'm leaving for high ground. Want a lift?" Bob says, "No, I'm putting my faith in God." Well, waters rise and pretty soon the bottom floor of his house is under water. Bob looks out the second story window as a boat comes by and offers him a lift. "No, I'm putting my faith in God." The rain intensifies and floodwaters rise and Bob's forced onto the roof. A helicopter comes, lowers a line, and Bob yells "No, I'm putting my faith in God."How does that apply to this situation? Same thing. The tech industry keeps sending Hollywood the tools it needs to save itself... and Hollywood keeps "waiting" for some miraculous savior, while missing all of the tools it's been offered to save itself:
Well, Bob drowns. He goes to Heaven and finally gets to meet God. "God, what was that about? I prayed and put my faith in you, and I drowned!"
God says, "I sent you a truck, a boat, and a helicopter! What the hell more did you want from me?"
All I can think is: we gave you the Internet. We gave you the Web. We gave you MP3 and MP4. We gave you e-commerce, micropayments, PayPal, Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, the iPad, the iPhone, the laptop, 3G, wifi--hell, you can even get online while you're on an AIRPLANE. What the hell more do you want from us?
Take the truck, the boat, the helicopter, that we've sent you. Don't wait for the time machine, because we're never going to invent something that returns you to 1965 when copying was hard and you could treat the customer's convenience with contempt.
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Apparently Mother Nature had some bad shellfish or just one too many espresso-and-grapefruit breakfasts (don't know what I'm talking about? Try it sometime!), because as you might have heard, this past week she dropped trou and let loose a massive dooshing of snow, plus a spatter-painting of slush, onto Washington, DC.
But when your knee is clicking and you are going to yoga EVERY DAY out of cabin fever/boredom and the instructors are wondering why this hopeless case with the all-spandex wardrobe is there all the time, especially when she'll never be able to do full lotus pose or even the half-tiger or double-earthworm, well, then it's time to get shit taken care of.
So on Monday I traipsed down to Foggy Bottom (2.5 miles away, kids…no buses and spotty Metro service, of course) and saw Dr. Fine. Really. This is his name.
"Lie back, DJ." <grabs my left leg> "Now, let it go looooose…." <bends it this way and that>
As it turns out, his name is disturbingly apropos:
"Mmmm…yeah, OK. Your leg is fine."
"Does it hurt?"
He puts his hands on his hips. "It just clicks?"
"…well, just don't become a CIA agent then!"
<blank stare from me>
"You know…….it's tough to sneak around…..when you're clicking."
"Oh. Ha."
So after my appointment with Dr. Comedic Genius, I trudged home over piles of solidified slush and streets (unplowed, natch) coated with 8″ of packed snirt. Aside from the single-lane-traffic sidewalks, fruitless (literally) grocery store run on the way home, angry motorists, angry pedestrians, angry God, and steadily moistening socks, I was also tormented by persistent questions I SHOULD have asked Dr. Genius and that he neglected to even address. I mean, really non-pertinent stuff here — like, oh, I don't know…"When will this be better?" or "Are you sure I'm OK?" or "CAN'T YOU FEEL THAT? CAN'T YOU? AM I ON CRAZY PILLS?" By the time I got home and put my meager food purchases away, I was sniffling and reaching for the cell phone, ready for "I'm-losing-my-flipping-mind-phone-call-to-Mom" number 8 of the week.
This post has taken me forever to write and I'm not staying on track, so perhaps I should just get to the simple main points:
1) Dr. CG said I should elliptical for 2 weeks (1 of which is about up now), then try running again, a mile at a time.
2) Dr. CG said he would give me a referral to a physical therapist. "<scoff> If you really want one. I mean, if you think that's NECESSARY."
3) Dr. CG gave me exercises to do as well — exercises he treated with the same flap-of-the-hand, "Do them as you will, dahling" attitude with which he seemed to treat the rest of my well-being, Goddammit. I have been doing said exercises with a level of commitment I can only wish I brought to studying, religion, or any relationship ever. I do them while watching TV. I do them while studying. I do them on the bus. I do them in the bathroom stall at work. I have even done them during every single time I have had intercourse over the last week.
Ahahaha. A little circumstantial-celibacy humor for you all there. Go ahead and laugh. It chases the sad away, and if you do it hard enough, it almost reminds you of what an orgasm feels like.
Wait. No it doesn't. Does it? Doesn't it? Holy freaking jeez, do I remember? OH GOD I'M GOING TO DIE ALONE WITH A LEAN CUISINE SEASONED WITH TEARS SITTING IN MY LAP <sound of "Legends of the Fall" being inserted into DVD drive>
In "keeping-myself-sane" news, yoga continues to at least somewhat fill running's place, if only in the way that a teaspoon of skim vanilla ice milk can take the place of a pint of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food with a can of Reddi Whip on the side. <sigh>
However, all is not lost, as I had a class today led by The Most Gorgeous Man in The World (TMGMTW). TMGMTW is a tall man with fantastically dark skin and long beautiful dreads and these shoulders. These SHOULDERS. Hohhhhh these shoulders <falls off chair, writhes on ground delighting in the knowledge that there is such beauty in the world>.
Anyway. TMGMTW actually didn't teach that spectacular of a class, though perhaps it's not my place to judge. I have all the balance of a drunk Holstein, so naturally TMGMTW incorporated every one-legged pose EVER into today's class, and also threw in a few that I suspect he made up on the spot, just to mess with my wobbly ass as he strode up and down the rows, giving feedback.
ME: <grunt, moan, wobble>
TMGMTW:<in a tone one would use toward a puppy trying to do organic chemistry> Good job! Keep trying!
ME: <face-plant>
I'ma go ice my nose, y'all. Bye.


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"No longer reserved for the hip in Hollywood, going vegan is being embraced as a viable health alternative. Even professional athletes like Venus Williams and Arian Foster, whose bodies are their livelihood, have made the switch…Look for herbivore-accomodating menus at restaurants on both coasts to start migrating to mid-America in 2013."
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Gone are the days when steamed vegetable plates and plain salads were the only vegetarian options on restaurant menus. Today, more and more eateries—from fast-food to high-end—are answering the growing demand for delicious, compassionate, vegetarian meals. What was once noted as a trend has become a fact: Vegetarian eating is becoming mainstream.
COK's restaurant outreach campaign focuses on a single goal: making vegetarian eating as easy as possible by encouraging restaurants to provide even more vegetarian options.
Why Restaurant Outreach?
Each year, nearly 54 billion meals are eaten in restaurants and cafeterias, as reported by the National Restaurant Association. By working with restaurants to add a greater number of vegetarian choices to their menus, animal advocates can influence nearly everyone, because who among us never dines out? At the same time, seeing animal-friendly appetizers, entrées, and desserts listed on menus at our favorite restaurants further impresses upon those dining that vegetarianism is becoming mainstream.
One of the best aspects of restaurant outreach campaigns is that a single person can make an immediate and lasting difference for animals.
Which Restaurant(s) to Approach
When choosing a restaurant, consider which establishments may be more open to changes in their menus. In COK's experience, we've found that family-owned or independent restaurants are more apt to take customers' suggestions than are national chains. As independent restaurants are generally free of the red tape associated with national chains, they can not only make decisions more rapidly, but can also implement the new offerings immediately, keeping them at the cutting edge of the burgeoning vegetarian market.
After Choosing a Restaurant, What's Next?
Face-to-face meetings are key to the campaign, so schedule a brief appointment with the owner. As running a restaurant typically involves very long hours, assure the owner you won't take up much time but would like to discuss the establishment offering more vegetarian options. Bring free food samples to taste. If you're representing a nonprofit organization, be sure to mention that, too, or simply say that you're speaking on behalf of members of the community.
What to Take to the Meeting
- COK's restaurant manager cards highlight the growing demand for healthier and more humane foods and will help you encourage the restaurant to expand its menu and marketability with even more vegan meals.
- Not all restaurant owners are familiar with the concepts of vegetarianism or veganism. So be sure to have materials to help them understand why increasing numbers of people are opting for animal-free foods. Taking along literature such as COK's Vegetarian Starter Guide will help them with their decision to include more compassionate fare.
- Supplying owners and chefs with free recipes is not only much appreciated, it makes adding vegetarian items to their menu that much easier. Our three favorite and most well-received collections are COK's Easy Vegan Recipes (free by contacting us at email@example.com or 301-891-2458), Simply Vegan by Debra Wasserman, and How It All Vegan by Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer.
Food Samples:
While additions of pasta dishes and portabella sandwiches to menus are wonderful, how great would it be if every listed item were offered in a cruelty-free version? Encouraging establishments to offer mock meats, non-dairy cheeses, and other vegetarian options is a good place to start. As many restaurant owners may not be familiar with vegan foods, providing them with their first mock animal products is a must.
A quick trip to the local natural food store should supply you with enough of a variety to excite the owner. Be sure to look over the restaurant's menu before you go shopping for samples so you know which types of mock meats and non-dairy products to take to best duplicate its current menu. For instance, if you're working with an Italian restaurant, mock "meatballs" are more appropriate than veggie hot dogs.
It's Meeting Time!
Below are some tips to help make your meeting run smoothly and effectively:
- Dress professionally. First impressions are extremely important, especially when you are presenting an unfamiliar concept to someone. Dressing as you would at a job interview helps boost your credibility enormously. Remember, you are not just endorsing vegetarian products; you are also representing the vegetarian movement.
- Be organized. Having all of your literature and food samples ready to be displayed furthers your professional approach.
- Be appreciative and friendly. As soon as you meet the owner, introduce yourself and thank her or him for allowing you the opportunity to meet. And throughout the course of the meeting, don't forget to smile!
- Start at the beginning. Before offering the food samples, show the literature you brought so the owner has some background information on vegetarian eating.
- Appeal to the owner's taste buds. Following up with the food samples, attractively laid out, brings home the appeal of adding more animal-friendly fare to answer customer demand.
- Be honest. Chances are, the owner will have a string of questions (see below). Answer truthfully. If you aren't sure of a response, simply tell the owner you will research the question and provide an answer within a specified time period.
- Explain the appeal of vegan items. For many people, there is no difference between "vegetarian" and "vegan" fare. Explain that vegans opt not to consume any animal products, including whey and casein, and that adding completely animal-free items to menus will appeal to vegetarians, those with lactose-intolerance or health concerns, as well as vegans, whereas dishes with eggs or dairy products won't.
- Be helpful. Even if the restaurant owner is enthusiastic about adding more animal-friendly menu items, the next step in actually doing so may be daunting. Offering your help in any capacity—from developing menu ideas to taste testing to promoting its new vegetarian options—shows your commitment to the campaign and your follow-through proves your professionalism.
- Be appreciative. At the meeting's end, thank the owner again for taking the time in a busy day to meet with you.
- Schedule a follow-up date. Giving the restaurant owner time to mull over ideas and talk with the chef is helpful, so suggest that you'll check back in—via phone or a meeting—to see if you can do anything to help with the process.
Helpful Q&A's
In general, try to keep your conversation and any responses to questions focused on the growing popularity and appeal of vegetarian eating, rather than the ethical reasons you are vegetarian or vegan. You're there to encourage a restaurant owner to offer more animal-friendly items, not to explain your philosophical beliefs. If the owner feels judged or lectured to, chances are good the meeting will not be productive and, of course, not in the animals' best interest.
Some frequently asked questions and possible responses:
Q. Why are you doing this?
A. For a variety of reasons, more and more people are choosing to eat vegetarian foods than ever before. I'm just helping to make it more convenient for them.
Q. Why are you vegetarian?
A. Like so many people, I chose to be vegetarian for many reasons: to improve my health, to avoid supporting cruelty to animals, and to help the environment.
Q. I offer salads and vegetable sandwiches. Isn't that enough?
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On September 26th, LK 10 hc was killed.
This was done by the guild Unspoken of Mazrigos EU - and is the world 4th kill on the 10man strict charts (charts can be found on guildox.com)
We realise 10man strict is getting alot of hate from all the 25man raiders out there saying its really easy to raid 10man - and this is not intended to be a discussion thread of the topic whether its hard or not.
What we want people to realise is that we are only 10 active raiders in our guild - so options for alternate raidsetups are limited, at the same time gear has been a major issue, as drops really havnt played to our advantage (we waited months, litterally, on a whispered fang skull for example)
For those interested, here is our setup and a quick recap of how we did it.
Prot warrior, Prot pala
Disc priest, Resto druid
Fire mage, Ele shaman, MM hunter
Frost DK, UH DK, Retri pala
We had been fighting for progress on this boss for ages, had more than 150 wipes - using a slightly different setup (the resto druid on his destro lock, and retri pala as holy) - but we realised our best odds of getting him down before cataclysm would be to mix it up and hope for the best. Turns out that after only 5 tries we got further than ever, the druid proved himself awesome in healing situations where he had to move, where we had previously wiped due to the pala not being able to push out enough healing.
Also we had to look alot on expertise for our warrior tank, he had major issues with getting hit 3-4 times within 2.5sec - each hit beeing for 28k+ (and keep in mind he's 10man geared so only about 75k hp) - so we figured him getting more expertise for less parries (which resets swing timer) was a really good choice, and we found the perfect balance where he wasnt getting smashed with double hits, and didnt have such a low hp pool that soul reapers was deadly beyond compare.
The first two phases is really where we wiped the most, double enrage on horror's, movement issues for healers due to defile's or valkyrs.
however when we mixed it up and brought the resto druid we eliminated the movement issue, and the Horror issue was sorted simply by addtank grabbing less ghouls.
So we had phase 1 and 2 under control pretty fast - now we just had to learn some cooldown rotation and where to move etc in phase 3 - and then - Ventrilo explosion : )
Big congratulations to my fellow guildies, and a thumbs up for a job well done - they say it cant be done with 3 melee, but who cares
<Unspoken> Mazrigos EU
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"The art of healing has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease."
-Yogi Bhajan
The physical body is the temple in which you can build credit or create debt. When you are young you can often play mischief with the physical body without feeling adverse effects. But in old age, the body pays you back. The body doesn't forgive debts; it records the results of your actions.
You do well to treat your body like a car that needs care and maintenance. If you give your car regular service and oil changes, it will last a certain number of miles. But if you don't schedule regular maintenance, you will need a new car in a short time. This is not an option with your body, so you need to take care of it.
The 3HO lifestyle gives you the techniques and awareness to stay healthy. You gain a strong immune system, vital glands, a strong nervous system, good circulation, and an awareness of the impact of your habits. This foundation gives you energy and lets you deal with the mental and spiritual facets of your life.
"You have to understand the process of healing in the Age of Aquarius. What will give the healing is the flow of your soul energy."
-Yogi Bhajan
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West Haven police found around 600 marijuana plants growing in the backyard of a day care, police said.
According to police, officers responded to 159 Norfolk St., a licensed day care, on Friday after being called by state child care inspectors.
The inspectors called police when they were denied access behind a tall wooden fence in the backyard which they found suspicious, according to the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood.
Police obtained a search warrant and found about 600 plants, each between 6 and 10 feet tall, growing in a garden in the backyard, police said.
City housing inspectors shut down the facility and the day-care license was suspended.
State records indicate that the day care license is registered to Rosalee Miller.
Maggie Adair, a spokeswoman for the Office of Early Childhood, confirmed that Miller is the day care operator and said that the license is on summary suspension, which Miller can request a hearing to appeal. The state suspended the license because Miller denied inspectors access to the garden when they came on Friday.
The suspension is separate from the criminal investigation, Adair said.
Police said arrests are forthcoming but did not name any suspects or detail potential charges.
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Two sites, Ain't It Cool News and Cool Happenings Under Development, have published the Jennifer Government blurb, which I reckon they must have cribbed from an advance reader copy. This may or may not be the blurb that appears on the final jacket. But that's okay, because AICN quotes someone who says the book is "simply awesome." Oh yeah!


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The U.S. Marine Corps is arguably one of the most revered institutions within the U.S. Department of Defense. So, when Combined Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) leadership recently welcomed members of the Djibouti Armed Forces (FAD) into the U.S. Marine Corps Corporals Course, it was a distinct honor.
Deputy command chaplain for U.S. Africa Command engages with key leaders and local practitioners of the Islamic faith during a week-long temporary duty assignment to Djibouti, Africa to take part in USAFRICOM's Cutlass Express 2017 exercise.
Within hours of being notified, CJTF-HOA's East Africa Response Force prepared dozens of Soldiers and tons of supplies for takeoff during an emergency response exercise, validating the EARF's rapid response capabilities.
U.S. military and Department of State representatives assembled at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, for the annual East Africa Security Synchronization Conference to synchronize and prioritize activities in East Africa.
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines gathered to take part in a week-long Field Sanitation Team Training course at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Feb. 13-17, 2017.


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Chief Flynn wants state to change concealed-carry law
Milwaukee's police chief made a plea to Wisconsin lawmakers to crack down on gun-toting criminals after a spike in shootings.
The chief said this summer's gun violence should lead to changes.
There were dozens of shootings on Milwaukee's streets in August, and Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn points, in part, to Wisconsin's lenience for those who carry handguns illegally making it only a misdemeanor crime.
"We need standards which say career criminals can't get permits. And we need sanctions which say if you break this law, you go to jail for three years," Flynn said.
The chief said there are gun-carrying suspects who've had multiple run-ins with his officers who have concealed-carry permits, pointing specifically to a suspect he labels a career criminal.
"This is a man who has been shot, who's been at shooting scenes, who's been arrested for serious crimes. And under current law, he qualifies for a gun permit," Flynn said.
"Because he hasn't been convicted of a felony?" WISN 12 News reporter Terry Sater asked.
"Of a felony. I cannot believe the Legislature was thinking of him when they said, 'We're going to have gun-permitting process,'" Flynn said.
"The right to carry is a constitutional right. We don't believe you should even have to have a permit for it," Wisconsin Carry Inc. President Nik Clark said.
Clark said the solution is not changing Wisconsin gun laws.
"If they're robbing someone, whatever else they're doing, charge them with that crime. But the act of carrying a gun, absent any other circumstance, I don't believe should be a crime for anybody -- felons aside," Clark said.
Flynn said he's asking the state Legislature to block concealed-carry permits from those who have been convicted of three misdemeanors within five years, not just felons, and to make it a felony to carry a gun illegally.


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What is the appropriate word to use when you find out that the top executive at the third largest health insurance company in America raked in 68.7 million dollars in 2010? How is one supposed to respond when one learns that more than two dozen pharmaceutical companies make over a billion dollars in profits each year? Is it okay to get angry when you discover that over 90 percent of all hospital bills contain "gross overcharges"?
Once upon a time, going into the medical profession was seen as a "noble" thing to do. But now the health care industry in the United States has become one giant money making scam and it is completely dominated by health insurance companies, pharmaceutical corporations, lawyers and corporate fatcats. In America today, just one trip to the hospital can cost you tens of thousands of dollars even if you do not stay for a single night. The sad thing is that the vast majority of the money that you pay out for medical care does not even go to your doctor. In fact, large numbers of doctors across the United States are going broke. Rather, it is the "system" that is soaking up almost all of the profits. We have a health care industry in the United States that is fundamentally broken and it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
But wasn't that what Obamacare was supposed to do? No, in fact Obamacare was largely written by representatives from the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Once it was signed into law the stocks of most health insurance companies went way up.
The truth is that Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation in modern American history. It did nothing to fix our health care problems. Rather, it just made all of our health care problems much worse.
In case you haven't noticed, health insurance companies all over the United States have announced that they are going to raise premiums significantly due to the new law. Of course they are just using it as an excuse. They have been sticking it to us good for the last several decades and they just grab hold of whatever excuse they can find to justify the latest rate hike.
If you are looking for a legal way to drain massive amounts of money out of average Americans just become a health care company executive. Health care has become perhaps the greatest money making scam in the United States. When Americans are sick and have to go to the hospital most of them aren't really thinking about how much it will cost. At that point they are super vulnerable and ready to be exploited.
It is almost unbelievable how much money some of these companies make. Health insurance companies are more profitable when they provide less health care. Pharmaceutical companies aren't in the business of saving lives. Rather, they are in the business of inflating the profit margins on their drugs as much as possible. Many hospitals have adopted a policy of charging "whatever they can get away with", knowing that the vast majority of the public will never challenge the medical bills.
The system is broken.
Everyone knows it.
But it never gets fixed.
The following are 25 shocking facts that prove that the entire U.S. health care industry is one giant money making scam….


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Vishnu's 'Doosukeltha' joins Dussehra race
Chennai, Sep 26 (IANS) Following the exit of Pawan Kalyan-starrer Telugu action-drama "Attarintiki Daaredhi" from the Dussehra race, Vishnu Manchu's "Doosukeltha", which is releasing Oct 11, will now slug it out with Junior NTR-starrer "Ramayya Vasthavayya" at the box-office.
Following the online leak, "Attarintiki Daaredhi" originally slated to release Oct 9, is now releasing Friday.
"Vishnu's "Doosukeltha" will hit the theatres Oct 11 on the occasion of Dussehra. It promises to be an action entertainer with scenes featuring Brahmanadam, is sure going to impress the audience," said a statement from the production house.
"The climax scene of the film directed by well known Thai stuntman Kecha will keep the audience on the edge of their seat while Vishnu pulls off a daredevil stunt jumping of a jeep from 80 feet off the ground," the statement added.
Directed by Veeru Potla, "Doosukeltha" also features Lavanya Tripathi, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Rao Ramesh, Pankaj Tripathi, Vennela Kishore and Posani Krishna Murali.
"Ramayya Vasthavayya" is slated to release Oct 10 worldwide. Directed by Harish Shankar, the film also features Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Shruti Haasan.


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Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding is surgery to make the stomach smaller. It is done to help people lose weight. The surgery limits the amount of food the stomach can hold. This helps you eat less and feel full more quickly.
Adjustable gastric banding is done through several small cuts, called incisions, in the belly. The doctor will place small surgical tools and a camera through the incisions. The doctor will then wrap a device around the upper part of your stomach to form a ring. Attached to the ring is a thin tube leading to an access port that is left under the skin. The access port is the place where the doctor puts in a needle to add or take away saline. Adding saline tightens the band and makes the stomach smaller. The doctor can take away saline if the ring is too tight.
During surgery, the band is not inflated. You will need to recover from surgery before the band is adjusted for weight loss. This is usually 4 to 6 weeks after surgery.
Another name for this surgery is gastric banding. Sometimes people refer to it by brand names, for example the Lap-Band System or the Realize Band.
After surgery, you may need pain medicine to help with discomfort and soreness. You'll be encouraged to start moving around to help your body heal. You may have an X-ray the day after surgery to see that everything is working correctly.
Your doctor will give you specific instructions about what to eat after the surgery. For the first 2 weeks, your stomach can only handle small amounts of liquids while you are healing. Some people feel full after just a few sips of water or other liquid. Other people won't notice much difference. It is important to try to sip water throughout the day to avoid becoming dehydrated. You may notice that your bowel movements are not regular right after your surgery. This is common. Try to avoid constipation and straining with bowel movements.
Bit by bit, you will be able to add solid foods back into your diet. You must be careful to chew food well and to stop eating when you feel full. This can take some getting used to, because you will feel full after eating much less food than you are used to eating. If you do not chew your food well or do not stop eating soon enough, you may feel discomfort or nausea and may sometimes vomit.
Your doctor may recommend that you work with a dietitian to plan healthy meals that give you enough protein, vitamins, and minerals while you are losing weight. Even with a healthy diet, you probably will need to take vitamin and mineral supplements for the rest of your life.
After you can eat solid food again, your doctor will adjust the band around your stomach by inserting saline into your port, which will inflate the band and cause it to tighten. You will probably have many adjustments to the band in the first year to find the right size that helps you lose weight, feel full at the right time, and not vomit. You'll need to visit doctor each time you need the band adjusted.
After this surgery, weight loss is usually gradual but steady. You will have regular visits with your doctor to check how you are doing. The doctor can adjust the band if you are not losing weight as expected or if you have problems with the band. Some people continue to lose weight for up to 3 years after surgery.
It is common to have many emotions after this surgery. You may feel happy or excited as you begin to lose weight. But you may also feel overwhelmed or frustrated by the changes that you have to make in your diet, activity, and lifestyle. Talk with your doctor if you have concerns or questions.
Weight-loss surgery is suitable for people who are severely overweight and who have not been able to lose weight with diet, exercise, or medicine.
Surgery is typically considered when your body mass index (BMI) is 40 or higher. Surgery may also be an option when your BMI is 35 or higher and you have a life-threatening or disabling problem that is related to your weight.
It is important to think of this surgery as a tool to help you lose weight. It is not an instant fix. You will still need to eat a healthy diet and get regular exercise. This will help you reach your weight goal and avoid regaining the weight you lose.
Weight loss is slower and less than with gastric bypass.
Risks common to all surgeries for weight loss include an infection in the incision, bleeding, and a blood clot in the legs (deep vein thrombosis, or DVT) or lung (pulmonary embolism). Some people develop gallstones or a nutritional deficiency condition such as anemia or osteoporosis.
Although adjustable gastric banding is considered the least invasive of the weight-loss surgeries, problems can occur. They include:
Weight-loss surgery does not remove fatty tissue. It is not cosmetic surgery.
Some studies show that people who have weight-loss surgery are less likely to die from heart problems, diabetes, or cancer compared to obese people who did not have the surgery.footnote 1
CitationsAdams TD, et al. (2007). Long-term mortality after gastric bypass surgery. New England Journal of Medicine, 357(8): 753–761. Other Works ConsultedArterburn D, et al. (2014). Comparative effectiveness of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding vs laparoscopic gastric bypass. JAMA Surgery, 149(12): 1279–1287. DOI:10/1001/jamasurge2014.1674. Accessed November 11, 2014.Colquitt JL, et al. (2009) Surgery for Obesity. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2).Heber D, et al. (2010). Endocrine and nutritional management of the post-bariatric surgery patient: An Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 95(11): 4823–4843. Available online: http://www.endo-society.org/guidelines/final/upload/FINAL-Standalone-Post-Bariatric-Surgery-Guideline-Color.pdf.Pories WJ (2008). Bariatric surgery: Risks and rewards. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 93(11, Suppl 1): S89–S96. Available online: http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/reprint/93/11_Supplement_1/s89.pdf.
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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — A New Jersey police officer turned a quiet street in suburban Pennsylvania into a tense battlefield today.
Clifton police officer Richard Klementovich, 42, barricaded himself in the home of his estranged-wife and fired multiple rounds from a rifle at police, injuring at least one officer.
Police vehicles were hit by bullets and petrified neighbors hid in their basement as authorities tried to negotiate a peaceful settlement. But the standoff continues into the night.
Doylestown Borough and Township police responded to the home on Bittersweet Drive shortly before 2 p.m. today after a report of a dispute between two neighbors, according to David Mettin, chief of the Pennridge Regional Police Department. It remained unclear last night if a dispute ever took place or it was merely a ploy to draw police to the scene.
Soon after police arrived, Klementovich opened fire, striking and disabling two police cruisers, Mettin said.
Cpl. William Doucette was injured when shrapnel ricochetted off the curb and struck him in the face. He was taken to a local hospital and released later in the day, Mettin said.
Police canvassed the neighborhood about a half hour after the first shots were fired, telling residents to flee their homes and seek safety at the township municipal building. Those who could not get out of their homes were told to stay in their basements.
"There may be several weapons inside the home," Mettin told reporters, as the Father's Day standoff moved into its eighth hour. "A resolution to this incident may take some time."
Klementovich was alone in the home, police said, but no motive for the tense standoff was revealed.
A police negotiator was on scene throughout the afternoon and continued speaking with Klementovich into the night, though Mettin would not comment on what was discussed.
Around 9:30 p.m., a detective told residents, who were camped out at the municipal building that police strategy was to negotiate as long as they could to try and keep Klementovich alive.
Lydia Dibble, 51, was sitting on her deck on Windsor Road a few hundred yards away when she heard what she thought were fireworks, loud pops that cut through the air.
"And then I heard them again," she said, "and I thought, 'those are not fireworks.'"
A police officer was soon outside her home asking her to leave.
Dan Boerner, who lives a few doors down from where the shooting is taking place, said his wife and two sons took cover in the basement, communicating with him via text message because police did not allow anyone back into the area.
Boerner said his son told him he heard 18 to 20 shots fired.
"My wife is a wreck and my two sons are scared," he said today.
Rosann Marabella, who lives three homes from where the shooting is taking place and was camped out at the municipal building, said she did not think much of it when she first heard shots.
There is a gun club nearby, she said, but then she heard rapid fire and screeching wheels. Police, wearing flak jackets, banged on her door and told her to evacuate her home.
None of the neighbors could say much about the alleged assailant. It is unclear if he ever lived there or if the home had been solely occupied by his estranged wife.
Clifton police Sgt. Robert Bracken said members of his department were on scene, trying to help local authorities end the standoff. He declined to say anything else about Klementovich's service or mental state.
Klementovich, an 18-year law enforcement veteran, made $114,560 in 2011, according to state records, A U.S. Army veteran, Klementovich served during the Persian Gulf War as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, according to news clips from the 1990s.
Less than 24 hours before the shooting, Klementovich took to Facebook to post an album of nearly 40 photos from his time in the military.
In 1991, Klementovich was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer story about the Gulf War as saying, "They don't have a chance," and "We're going to do him in," referring to Saddam Hussein.
On his mortar, Klementovich wrote "Saddam is going to die," according to the paper.
Star-Ledger staff writers Tom Martello, Dan Goldberg, Eric Sagara, James Queally and Amy Brittain contributed to this report.


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