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Murphy lived in Brahms. Presumably, in the left house that we see in the Cinemas Verite depiction. Patrick lives in the right house. Murphy and Carol were divorced and custody rights are unclear, but we assume Charlie lived with Murphy. Charlie goes missing walking home from school and no one can find him. At some point, the body of a child is pulled out of the water behind Patrick's house. Murphy witnesses this, but we never find out if it is Charlie or not (note that there are two cut scenes of this event depicting it happening different ways). We are actually led to believe that the body pulled from the water is Daniel, who Patrick was convicted for the molestation and murder of and sent to Ryall State. Murphy goes stupid and gets himself locked up at Ryall State where Patrick is. There he meets Frank who can see early on that Murphy shouldn't be there and does what he can to look out for Murphy. Frank sets up the work release program for Murphy and tries to get his parole hearings pushed faster. Sometime before Murphy arrives at Ryall State, Frank has already sent his report to the warden about George. George is mad and is looking for a way get Frank out of his way. At some point George finds out about Murphy and proposes a deal, coincidentally, on the same day that Frank shows up with Murphy's approved parole papers. Murphy takes the deal and kills Patrick. George finds out that Murphy is going to be released and has a little talk with him to make sure he isn't backing out of his end of the deal and walks away singing 'Born Free'. George instigates the riot where Murphy finds Frank in the showers and is not sure what to do next. At which point George 'kills' Frank while Murphy watches. Murphy is blamed for Frank's death which is how Anne knows who to go after and she makes sure Murphy gets a transfer to Wayside Max where she works.
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- Carol: Murphy's ex-wife. She isn't important to the story, but gives us some insight into Murphy's emotional and mental state and background story. She seems to have honestly loved Murphy and Murphy thought the world of her but for some reason they divorced. After Charlie went missing she writes Murphy a scathing letter of hate placing all the blame on Murphy.
- Howard: Howard serves little purpose to the game except to give us perfectly clear direction on where to go to advance the story. His presence after that is no longer required and so he doesn't appear again. Although, parts of his dialogue can be used to help support other concepts in the game.
- John P. Sater: John shows a few aspects that we should look at. First off, he doesn't believe he murdered anyone, but he does believe his actions caused people to be hurt. He still can't live with it and commits suicide. We also see that John calls the media, of which Murphy sides, and opinions from others around town liars and John mentions what it is like to live in someone else's lie. This parallel's Murphy being blamed for Frank's death even though he didn't do it, with the one ending exception, and not being able to change what people think about it. If you taunt him, Murphy says, "That's right, take the easy way out. That's what cowards do right?" To which John replies, "There ain't nothing easy about being a coward, Murphy. You should know that." He's referring to when Murphy sat and watched Frank get killed.
- Bobby (DJ) Ricks: Bobby serves the same style of purpose that Howard serves. There is a small amount of parallel connection between him and Murphy. One of Murphy's comments (I cannot find it now for the life of me) mentions the small difference between action and inaction and Bobby didn't do enough acting. This comment displays exactly what Murphy didn't do in the showers when George 'killed' Frank.
- Nun: The nun helps introduce us to the concept of Bogeyman being the child of Murphy. She makes a few comments that imply some interesting concepts that might be useful in understanding the story. She mentions that monsters must run in the family, that Murphy has been so blind he couldn't see what he really was and she welcomes him home when he picks up the freedom key.
- Orphanage Girl: She isn't important to the game as we see it. Yes, she shows aspects of Anne but overall she doesn't add much more depth. She sings "Itsy Bitsy Spider" on a few occassions which is a direct analogy of Murphy's plight and she mirrors some of Anne's lines. She is supposed to be the driving factor for Murhpy traversing the St. Maria Otherworld, but Murphy would have had to do that anyhow.
- Orphanage Boy: The boy is a representation of Murphy and Charlie. He represents Murphy the first time we see him and hints that Murphy's tunnel vision with killing Patrick, his unwillingness to open up to people trying to help him and his indecision are what caused him to become trapped in a nightmare of guilt and self destruction. The boy represents Charlie the second time we see him. The purpose was to make Murphy understand that, even with all the tools at his disposal, he still can't stop what happens. He can also represent Murphy the second time in that he is so focused on his toy that he doesn't realize he's left himself no where to go and his fears are closing in.
- George Sewell: George is needed to construct the main support story for Murphy and Anne's adventure. He doesn't provide any symbolism or overarching themes to the story though other than the 'Born Free' reference.
- Frank Coleridge Frank is needed, like George, to construct the main support story. We also have to know the type of person Frank was to understand the driving force behind Anne and, part of the driving force behind, Murphy's actions.
- Wheelchair Man: So, it's Frank and not Frank. It's an entity based on the memories of Anne and Murphy of Frank. Murphy blames himself for Frank's death even though it wasn't all his fault. It is constantly setting the 'stage' for every place that Murphy goes, but doesn't seem to actually try to bring Murphy harm. Wheelchair Man uncovers bits and pieces of things Murphy has chosen not to remember or pay attention to all the while forcing Murphy to follow a pre-determined path of self-discovery and choice. The reason wheelchair Man may look deformed to Murphy, we assume the same to Anne, is because whenever Murphy remembers Frank he associates it with his guilt and pain at what happened and when Anne remembers Frank she associates it with anger and sadness. These have warped Frank's memory into something it shouldn't be an thus his physical embodiment.
- Charlie Pendleton: He's not really an important character. He helps us to understand Murphy's motivation. We see him in some memories and once in St. Maria's talking to Murphy. He is a projection of Murphy's memory. There is some importance to note that after St. Maria's we no longer encounter Bogeyman as Charlie states, "You killed him. You killed the Bogeyman." He also tells Murphy, "It's not your fault," alluding to Charlie's death.
- Patrick Napier: A character vital to the sub-story supporting Murphy, but not very important. His character helps show Murphy's initial motivation for being in prison and what 'locked' him into his current adventure.
- Anne Cunningham: Anne is required for the current story to unfold. She provides the catalyst for the events that she and Murphy find their selves involved in and could be seen as the reason Silent Hill 'activated'. We keep thinking that the rain and storms are a part of Murphy's mind, but they are more in line with Anne's. She has held on to and fanned the fires of her anger for years and Silent Hill could be manifesting it as a great storm. She believes Murphy killed her father and see's him as a monster for it and does some "sick shit" to get him transferred to the prison where she works. Anne was, or still is, a kind, gentle and caring person at heart, all things she learned from Frank, who became 'broken' after what happened to Frank. She let hatred and anger change who she was.
- Murphy Pendleton: The main character of the story, can't have this story without him. Murphy appears to be kind, gentle, slightly introverted and self-absorbed and headstrong. Murphy seems to make decisions without weighing the costs and jumps to conlusions easily. His name may be derived from Murphy's Law. He mentions that his past had a lot of screw-ups and Carol still married him despite that. Murphy seems fond of this era of his life, he was happily(?) married and had a son, who he loved beyond anything else. Things were going good for Murphy it seemed. Before he knew it he was divorced, his son was 'dead', he was in prison and he saw his only friend in the place killed right in front of him. After Charlie died I'm sure Murphy felt he had nothing else to live for except to get revenge for himself and his son and his walking that road trapped him in his nightmare that just kept getting worse and worse.
- Bogeyman: Bogeyman is an idea. A projection of emotion and thought. He represents that thing that we fear. The thing that haunts our dreams and turns them to nightmares. That is it. The things Murphy feared were Patrick and himself. Patrick's fear was the type of retaliation Murphy brought to him (I don't want to confuse anyone to thinking Murphy was his fear as that is not the case). Anne's fear was the person that murdered Frank, whom she believes to be Murphy. Bogeyman's look is most likely different for each person, but the game has to keep one look for the concept otherwise players might not get the idea. We really only see Bogeyman in a few places and never in physical form outside of the Otherworld. But, just because something scares us doesn't mean it is bad. As far as we know, Patrick didn't kill Charlie, Murphy believes it and may have killed an innocent man. Anne sees Murphy as Bogeyman even though Murphy is innocent of Frank's death (with the exception of the one ending). I'll be the first admit that, even though this theory is the most consistent one I can find, it doesn't explain Bogeyman's apparent hindering of Murphy's progress in the St. Maria Otherworld while he is chasing the Orphanage Girl.
- Void: The void seems to represent truth. Before the first Void chase in the diner Frank tells Murphy to run. This seems to be because Murphy isn't able to face the truth like that in his current state. After the first Void chase in the Centennial Building Frank says, "Truth is like the sun, boy. You can shut it out, but it ain't going away." After the Void chase in St. Maria's Frank says, "You won't find yourself, Murph. Until you face the truth." Before the Void chase in Overlook Penitentiary Frank says, "You can't outrun yourself Murphy." Murphy keeps believing that he isn't a bad guy because he never hurt anyone who 'didn't deserve it.' The Void is what Murphy really is and tries to force Murphy to realize it. The Void doesn't actually destroy the world Murphy is in, it does suck things up and they 'disappear' (I say this because some things have come back, but that could just be a glitch on the PS3). What the Void wants is Murphy and takes as direct a path as it can to get to him. It's something like fire, the ability to purify, bringing light to darkness, truth to lies and leaves no where to hide.
- Born Free: A song we only ever here George singing and yet, it shows up so often in Otherworld episodes. Just judging by the lyrics this song says that we are all born free and can do what we want, living free keeps the world beautiful and interesting, stay free by not shutting parts of yourself away and that life is only worth living because we are free. It's alluding that we are the only ones that can take away our freedom through our own actions. It is a subtle hint to Murphy that not forgiving himself and coming to terms with the things that have happened to him are just keeping him locked up and unable to do what he wants.
In short, Murphy and Anne go on a little adventure of discovery. The memory of Frank still seeks to help Murphy along every step of the path and even at the end becomes something of a 'self-sacrifice.' Murphy deals with the death of Charlie and what he had become and subsequently did to Patrick. Ultimately, he is given the choice to become a monster or redeem himself by either killing or sparing Anne. Of course, we all know where inaction leads.


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However, that's not exactly the case anymore.
The 4-1 Sun Devils are averaging 79.2 points per game this season, a mark that is good for 39th-best in the country. A guest of Arizona Sports 620's Burns and Gambo Tuesday, Sendek said it really comes down to personnel.
"We talked about wanting to play this way last year and then with some guys not being with us that we expected we had to adjust midstream," the coach said. "But right now it's a style that fits our team very well. It's fun and I think it's really what our team needs right now."
The Sun Devils are led in scoring by freshman guard Jahii Carson, who is pouring in 21 points per game along with nearly three rebounds and five assists. He's shooting .484 from the floor and .462 from three point range.
Having a player of that caliber, Sendek said, certainly helps.
"Obviously with a guy like Jahii, coupled with the guys around him, this is a good fit for this team," he said about the style of play. "We're trying to get better at it."
Sendek added that the Devils, for as much running as they're doing, still must be able to execute in half-court sets. Though people may point to Carson as the impetus for the switch in style -- and Carson makes it all possible -- it still comes down to the players around him being able to get the job done.
"Jahii has a big place in it because he's our point guard, and it also takes the other players as well," Sendek said. "We talk about football: everybody loves the passing game, everybody loves sending five wide receivers out, but if you have an option quarterback that may not be the best thing to do, and it's not a function of your philosophy or your coaching strengths, but it's a function of personnel."
Listen: Herb Sendek, ASU Head Basketball Coach ASU head coach Herb Sendeck joins Burns and Gambo following a good start by the basketball team. Herb talks about the new style of play the Sun Devils have adopted due to the players they have. How big of a role does Jahii play in this offense's success? And, Herb talks about the territorial cup victory this last weekend.
But when asked to compare Carson to James Harden, who was the last Sun Devil to really be a "star", Sendek said it's a little tough.
"They are so unique and so different," he said. "They certainly have some of the same team-centered characteristics, they certainly have self-confidence.
"Both guys still are eager to learn and get better."
After that, though, with Harden being a wing player and Carson a point guard, their on-court games are quite different.
That said, their impact on the basketball program seems to be very, very similar.
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On Legitimate and Illegitimate Protest
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass, 1857
This page grows out of dialogue with many community members between the Vancouver Olympics in February and the Toronto G8/G20 in June. It needs saying.
I am writing this for friends who believe that direct action tactics - namely property damage - are either violent and/or 'overshadow' the messages of our movement. I have had so many of these conversations that clearly there is a will and a need to make these points public.
How you can help: Support the Toronto 900: Till every last one is free! Solidarity actions and statements of support are being called for by organizers. Also, you can send bail/legal support funds via paypal by clicking on the 'support us!' link at the bottom right of this page: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
My pacifism can - must - coexist with your militancy if we are to acheive any of our goals
The thing is that my basic nature is to prefer to avoid physical confrontation. For my own spiritual reasons, as well as straight up fear of being hit on the head or penned in by police, I tend to feel in my gut the same way as many of these voices do who are unhappy when the smashing begins - scared, overwhelmed, afraid of the police response, and preferring for my own ethical reasons to be gentle in my actions - which is why i'm not there smashing shit up myself.
At the same time, speaking out of care for and friendships with many people who have thought through their choice of tactics and intentionally use direct action strategies as one set in a large and varied toolbox - I can say that in fact those members of our communities who choose to use these strategies are some of the least violent and most responsible, loving people I know in how they choose to live their lives.
If I were trapped on a desert island a la Lord of the Flies, and had to figure out how to survive collectively, share our food and set up a new society, these are the folks I'd want there with me.
They're the ones with the concrete skills in collective decision making and the respect for life that would make me feel the most cared for and safe.
They're the ones who would make sure no one else gobbled up my share of the food, and the ones who would make sure everyone else had a safe place to sleep before they hit the sack themelves, and who would be the first and most willing to take their turn on watch.
They're the ones least likely to put pig heads on sticks and kill each other with conch shells.
I can't speak for the actions of everyone out on the streets, but if the people I know personally are any example, this is not 'wanton destruction' but comes out of a long, deep, intelligent and educated commitment to larger global social justice movements.
If people here glorify the Zapatistas (which a lot of northern progressives tend to do), then how can we villify people who use the same tactics for the same purposes here?
I think these moments of crisis, and those who create them, help us reach each other in a more genuine way through the haze and bubble wrap of consumerism in which north americans are encouraged to live.
The police, the state, and the corporate media want to separate us into:
'legitimate' protestors: those thousands who walk in incredible numbers with passion and banners - who can be ignored and have absolutely no effect any longer, because the current dominant culture in media and government - i.e. government by elites for elites, and the rest of us can eat cake - no longer takes any notice of expressions of democratic will. Remember the enormous peaceful demonstrations in 2003 when the US stepped up bombing in Afghanistan? All over the world, we marched and sang in the hundreds of thousands as the bombs dropped, and it acheived not a thing.
And 'illegitimate' protestors: those who actually challenge the system, those who recognize that marches may - may - have worked in the 1960s but they no longer work today. In fact, I'm not sure they are what really brought about change in the 60s either - if you look at the civil rights movement, the black panthers, etc. in successful social change movements, there was always a more militant wing of the movement that helped make the 'peaceful' events have more weight and effect.
Basically the 'legitimate/illegitimate' labels work to separate us from one another, and the commercial media laps it right up.
Unity in Diversity means space for genuine diversity
The thing is we live in a world with so many different kinds of people in it... and I don't think my personal preference for slow gentle movement needs to overwrite other people's need for direct, militant resistance.
Do our discomforts with one another's choices about how to resist mean that we have to all resist in the same ways? Would we ever want to live in a world, or be part of a movement, in which there is one uniform party line that we all have to buy into (i.e. only one kind of resistance is allowed, only slow, gentle resistance... or only militant resistance)?
In a conflict with someone or something much, much more powerful... when people live their daily lives in fear... sometimes we may need to be free to scream and yell or be really really firm and not allow ourselves to get trampled because that is asserting freedom from the fear that people live with normally - the fear people live with when we all act like everything is fine. Particularly for the people whose livelihoods, lands, and cultures are on the line.
The quiet daily system of aggression is more frightening when people let it poison our bodies and spirits quietly and while acting nice then it is when people are free/liberated to speak the truth - the full truth- about systems of power - even if that means a few inanimate objects get destroyed.
For those who feel strengthened and liberated by speaking out and refusing to be afraid, I think power to them - it's not my way, and that's fine with them and fine with me.
At this point, while I have a personal (maybe spiritual, maybe self-preservation) discomfort with militancy, so long as it is against inanimate objects, I don't see these things (direct action vs. gentle protest) as in opposition - I see them as complimentary.
And I see them both as profoundly loving and profoundly hopeful.
My gentle approach acheives certain kinds of things, such as the sympathy of middle and upper middle class people who want change without 'plowing the ground' - and there are other things it simply can't do - and I recognize its limitations.
I depend on people with the stomach for more direct action to take those risks, and to push the neoliberal state to recognize that there is only so far the corporate elite can push the population.
There is only so far the corporate elite can steal from us, repress Indigenous peoples and continue to colonize land, destroy our planet and our ecosystems, erode all of our human and civil rights, take apart our social safety net, and repress or ignore us when we speak up.
There is only so far that inequality between the wealthy and the poor can go, before unrest becomes widespread, and this is an important message for governments and the corporate elite to hear. I remember how it felt to be part of an enormous demonstration against the war and then realize that our governments were going to go ahead and bomb anyway.
I remember the feeling of hopelessness and powerlessness watching unspeakably, unthinkably horrible things happen and knowing that no matter how many hundreds of thousands of us take to the streets, we would acheive a tiny blip in the corporate media world, and absolutely nothing in the world of international capital and colonial domination.
When you ignore us, and allow only ineffective marches in Green Zones to be 'legitimate', as you dismantle everything we care about and expand your destruction of our cultures, of civil society, and of the planet, yes, eventually more and more people will resist.
Those who choose direct action tactics are standing their ground and speaking the truth to power, at great personal cost. For taking a stand, I owe them both my honesty and my support.
I think the reason people don't see the value of direct action is because of media and official PR spin. I'm not suggesting that any of us are fools who suck up what's in the news, but rather that we don't have access to a lot of information - in the sense of what doesn't get heard, what doesn't get covered, what is downplayed or ignored... what daily regular violence is ignored.
Rather than turning the dominant opinion against the vulnerable people who take these risks to speak truth to power by destroying symbols - symbols! A cop car is not alive; it is a potent symbol - while people's faces, bodies, lands, and freedoms are being smashed... I prefer to use the conversations as opportunities to build mass movements. Don't let the media trick us into blaming each other.
The protesters in jail deserve kindness and support, whether we share their strategies or not. Let's get them out and be clear in our wholehearted support, and then when we've got them back in our communities and in our arms and around our dinner tables, and out of the arms of the state, then let's strengthen our ability to make space for and compliment each other's approaches - both our gentler approaches and our more assertive ones.
Support the Toronto 900: Till every last one is free! Solidarity actions and statements of support are being called for by organizers. Also, you can send bail/legal support funds via paypal by clicking on the 'support us!' link at the bottom right of this page: http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
Here in Vancouver, where I live, many people I care about were involved in a direct action in February against a corporate sponsor of the Olympics games - Hudson's Bay. After the fact, I heard a lot of pain, fear, and confusion from many around me who are struggling with a perceived rift in the global justice movement: a rift between those who want to protest using only gentle tactics such as marches, singing, and sit-ins, and those who want to protest by actively fighting back against the ever-growing police repression in our lives, and by destroying symbols of corporate domination and colonization such as the windows of massive corporations.
I heard from members of the community choir that I sang in at the demos, for instance, that the direct action tactics 'overshadowed' the message of what I'm going to call 'gentle' protestors.
In response, I can't help but note that, if those I know are any example, the people who used direct action strategies in Vancouver are very committed to social change, and spent countless hours organizing things including the direct action 'heart attack' march but also the tent city, the Women's March (Indigenous women in Vancouver's downtown eastside), and the general flag-waving puppeted facepainted large demonstrations.
The behind-the-scenes relationships can look very different - much more cooperative, organized, meaningful and respectful - than media portrayals or even the way events might look to people who just show up for a demo without coming to the meetings beforehand to find out what's planned and how and why. I find it divisive to separate out and demonize those 'bad' protestors from us 'good' protestors, when really we're all the same people doing different work on different days... particularly since the media and police want to make that distinction.
I wonder, given the history of agitation for social change, which always includes direct physical struggle of some sort or another, whether it's helping anyone to replicate that division of 'good' and 'bad' forms of protest against oppression
As my choir director noted, had the result in the mainstream media been better - for instance, had there been an actual discussion of the real issues in the mainstream media - then those who were so upset about how things turned out in Vancouver (people injured and in jail, protesters branded as thugs, media even less sympathetic) would have been cheering the physical tactics of the direct action folks as part of the reason for success. Anyone who attempted to protest the Olympics at all knows that mainstream perspectives had already decided that the protesters were just a bunch of grumps and killjoys.
It is very easy to scapegoat and blame each other within a movement that is striving to be heard by larger forces who so easily manipulate the message: "Good" protesters and "bad" protesters.
and Toronto
In Toronto, as I write this, the people who have been breaking things (police cars, windows, corporate buildings) are not harming anything alive - they are attacking symbols rather than life - while the corporate status quo is daily harming/killing/destroying not only individual lives but whole ecosystems as a daily matter of course.
As a recent update stated: 'While the media focuses on its predictable ritual of scape-goating protestors, tens of thousands of labour, anti war, migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, anarchist, environmental justice, anti-oppression, anti capitalist, socialist, student, and community-based activists took to the streets to expose and confront the violent policies of the criminal G20. The reasons they did so - Indigenous self determination; environmental justice; a world free of militarization; income equity and community control over resources; migrant justice; gender, queer, disability, and reproductive rights - are just as relevant today as they were this past weekend.'
The violence i'm seeing in all the reports - from corporate and independent media alike - is of police en masse with weapons and riot gear penning people in, attacking people, threatening and assaulting trans folk, queer folks and women, beating, trampling, charging, and injuring people (including people with disabilities, people holding babies, elders, journalists, random passersby, people in so-called `green zones`), rounding people up in mass arrests, sending people to the hospital with broken bones, throwing people physically to the ground by their necks, and generally using brute violence and intimidation against the population.
All of which is 'legitimated' by new laws passed very recently and very quietly (the lawyers and the mayor weren't even informed) stating that within the 'security perimiter' the Toronto police can bodily search anyone they wish upon demand, and can demand that we produce ID without the usual privacy and civil liberties protections we expect in this country.
This is Stephen Harper's Canada - and culturally, people`s acceptance of such a state of affairs smacks of Weimar Germany to anyone who has studied - or lived through - the rise of actual authoritarianism. It is also the side of Canada that those of us who are non-native don`t usually have to see. As Ray says in one of the interviews cited below, the brute force Canada has always used against native people under colonial rule, Canada is now using against the rest of us. Witness the four-hour pen at Queen and Spadina, or the charging at crowds peacefully assembled singing Oh Canada. What the state does to the most vulnerable of us, it will eventually do to all of us, so we must stand in solidarity with those who are most vulnerable.
I met a woman who had moved to Canada from the former Yugoslavia. She works at the flower shop where I picked up flowers to give to friends as they were released from jail last February. As she cut and wrapped daisies for me, she looked out the front window of her shop at the police lined up outside and the Canadian flags marching past, and said she left and came to Canada to get away from this kind of thing and never expected it here. Her words have stayed with me. "Didn't we learn anything? The german people put up with a lot before things got really bad."
For those not currently in TO who are asking what's going on and looking for analysis, here are the news sources IMHO currently worth using for information:
and on twitter by checking the #g20report hashtag
and following g20mobilize
and here are a few other stories and clips:
Journalist threatened with gang rape by police while being held; young woman searched "had finger put up her" by Toronto police: http://vimeo.com/12925239
Conditions in Detention Centre Illegal Immoral Dangerous: http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/conditions-g20-dentention-centre-are-i...
Police Drag Man With Cane: www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php
Childcare/teacher in Green Zone says: "I had a walking stick, and they took it and broke it and pushed me" Journalist reports: "Police Broke Cameraman's Finger": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5G7aCgXtWg
"Refuse to be afraid, refuse to be silent": http://bchannelnews.tv/?p=5959
Report re arrests: http://bchannelnews.tv/?p=5959
Quiet Boost in Arrest Powers: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/828974--dalton-...
New Police Powers: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/new-police-powers-...
Police attack seated demonstrators who are singing Oh Canada: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heb9BXjYcII
Provocateurs and Media Stunts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5G7aCgXtWg
Real News journalist punched in the face by police, and police attack a deaf man for not hearing their commands: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&I...
Police Fire at Protestors: http://www.thestar.com/videozone/829371--police-fire-muzzle-blast-at-pro...
"Your rights don't apply within this building": 18-year-old bystander detainee in mass roundups reports on treatment in detention: filthy conditions, denied water, food thrown on floor, 24-hour lights on, overcrowded containment, threats to gay people told to 'act straight': http://rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2010/06/features/exclusive-eight...
"learn what the issues actually are, and why people are resisting": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAOhCdWsb2M&feature=related
"Your Bra Is A Weapon and Must be Removed" Reports of freezing conditions, body searches in detention, told to stay away from all protests in the future despite no charges: http://rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2010/06/features/young-woman-tel...
Journalist beaten and arrested: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/rabble-staff/2010/06/guardian-journalist...
"Whatever they do to native people they will eventually do to everybody else in this country." http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/outside-makeshift-prisonfor-us-native-...
Arrestees Disappear Down a Rabbit Hole: Lawyer http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/829465--arreste...
Parents of 6 month old awoken with gun to head in bedroom, no warrants shown: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/06/26/police-booth-raid426.html
Police State and Humiliation on Toronto's free streets: http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/06/27/1453...
Police detained and handcuffed journalists: http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100627/g20-protests-100...
Thank you to Patti Powell of Accapelaboratory for dialogue (and words ;P) that shaped some of this post; thank you to friends and organizers who have challenged me, argued with me, and taught me; those thoughts in some form or another make it into everything I write, whether we agree or disagree. And thank you to those who have put themselves on the line to keep our movements strong and thriving. We've got your back.
Wow. That's a lot of words. I have done a 360 on violent protest. I never much liked it, but I could at least appreciate the emotion and sentiment behind it. I'm not a pacifist. But aims, strategy, and tactics must compliment each other. In the case of Toronto, I've been thinking, if the Black Bloc didn't exist, government would have to invent them. They have been so incredibly effective at shifting the focus away from the waste, away from police state tactics, away from the growing recognition of the illegitimacy of the G20 and onto the "hey, look!" specatcle of a sideshow.
I am not one to argue that people ought not to protest, and I abhor the so-called "free speech zones" setup to deprive us of free speech, but in this case, in this one case, a entirely peaceful protest could have seriously jeopardized the Harper government as public focus demanded to know why it was necessary to waste a $1 billion on cops dressed up like Mussolini's black shirts.
Instead, all anyone talks about is the violence. What a waste. I read an excellent essay that argued the Black Bloc protects the G20. I accept that argument. It deflects scrutiny away from the real crimes being committed inside the fence.
That is a very good quote at the beginning of the article.
My main problem with the protests at the G20 is that they didn't seem designed to accomplish any kind of actual goals though. Smashing up symbols is well and good, but they are fooling themselves if they think that is going to have any effect on the G20.
black bloc pretty tame compared to these south korean labour activists. this is real violence:
In the case of Toronto, I've been thinking, if the Black Bloc didn't exist, government would have to invent them. They have been so incredibly effective at shifting the focus away from the waste, away from police state tactics, away from the growing recognition of the illegitimacy of the G20 and onto the "hey, look!" specatcle of a sideshow.
I am not one to argue that people ought not to protest, and I abhor the so-called "free speech zones" setup to deprive us of free speech, but in this case, in this one case, a entirely peaceful protest could have seriously jeopardized the Harper government as public focus demanded to know why it was necessary to waste a $1 billion on cops dressed up like Mussolini's black shirts.
Instead, all anyone talks about is the violence. What a waste. I read an excellent essay that argued the Black Bloc protects the G20. I accept that argument. It deflects scrutiny away from the real crimes being committed inside the fence.
See, I disagree with that assessment, Frustrated Mess. Without the BB, everything would have been nicely stage managed and none of the stuff you project would happen, would have happened.
The BB made the system do something it has no practice at, and that is thinking on it's feet.
For example, people can still talk about the waste of a billion. And people still are. And people will come election time, again.
And so much more.
This will be seen as a watershed event.
I understand that the bourgeois capitalist state, needs to be torn down and rebuilt. At times there will be violence..
But the problem is, randum violence, plays into the hands of the ruling elite.
It scares the passive elements of the working class. It lets the ruling elite curtail civil liberties.
The working class has struggled hard for these rights. Randum violence is used by the bourgeosie, to take them away at moments notice.
In related posts I cited CTV as, by 5:30PM Saturday, giving the score Protesters 1 Police 0. Sunday I gave kudos to the protesters, ranging from "Blac Bloc" "anarchists "thugs" to 'legitimate" "peaceable" Xisians, and. along with CTV, I rated the whole weekend "game". a big victory for the protestors, a total loss for the police.
Thinking of the weekend as a game, the media had a "team", identified loosely as the "Black Bloc", who carried out a number of great offensive plays Saturday. The Team had pre-set goals, achieved those goals and left. There was what could be called the Blue Team" the police/security forces who were hardly in the game, forced into a defensive huddle around the fence and giving the city up to the Bloc. Seen one way, the cops just stood there and let gangs of "thugs" smash windows, trash Starbucks and burn police cruisers. WHAT? BURNING POLICE CRUISERS?- what kind of incompetents are the cops? seems to be the dominant view picked up by the media. The line emerging now that the police were under orders not to intervene isn't going down well with the taxpayers who wanted to see heads split, , especially contrasted with Sunday when the Blue team went on a total offensive against the wrong team, the defenseless and inoffensive Peace Team.
I love the CTV story of the young woman from Cleveland, up visiting her girlfriend, who thought she had a right to peaceably protest and sat down and the cops dumped her on her head and put her in a cage. I saw a middle class dad who always supported the police. questioning the very fibre of his being as the tape show his 2 peaceable children being attacked by cops for no reason. They were boxed in the protest, trying to leave, and the police wouldn't let them go. Baton wilding police waded in and his son got a split lip from a riot shield. Sounds minor, but that is his son there, peacably sitting three and he gets whacked on the lip by a riot shield. Later the baton wielding snatch squad grabs the son, for no obvious reason and his daughter screams as the police hustle her brother away. there were protesters singing Kumbuya, and O Canada as the cops waded in.
I consider it extremely important neither the "Blac Bloc" protests or any other G20 protest seriously harmed any human being, nor did media I watch portray the protests as dangerous to bystanders or the general public. The media realized windows being broken and a Starbucks trashed at a G2A protest is pretty tame stuff in the scale of "violent" or "direct action" protest and are starting to question the police letting that go by- to justify their budget? Add a soupcon of agent provocateurs, a few thousand legal proceeding s- insurance claims, law suits, criminal court cases and public inquires in the federal, provincial and muncipal sphere and its seems the Blue Team is out of the World Cup. this round.while the protesters move on up to the Finals.
We do need to have more analysis of the developing political scene in Canada and the world, given the current crises of capitalism, their attacks and our moves.
thanks [Nora], saw the piece elsewhere and glad you brought it here. I too think the BB acted as catalysts and 'change agents' provoking the police into the kinds of heavy handed gestapo tactics that all are now aware of here. That being said, I think the days that they can infiltrate somebody else's parade or protest and then start smashing shit are probably numbered. It's fundamentally wrong to expose others to police actions for something they had no part in or awareness of. Respect and consent must inform all our relations between ourselves in such situations I think.
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See, I disagree with that assessment, Frustrated Mess. Without the BB, everything would have been nicely stage managed and none of the stuff you project would happen, would have happened.
No, it wouldn't have been nicely stage-managed at all! People would be furious - a billion dollars, for what??
The BB made the system do something it has no practice at, and that is thinking on it's feet.For example, people can still talk about the waste of a billion. And people still are. And people will come election time, again.
The BB didn't make people talk about the billion dollars, it made them stop talking about it. And no - it won't be talked about during the elections, it won't even make the next news cycle. The BB guaranteed it.
The BB didn't make them spend the billion dollars, either. Do you really believe they needed to spend a billion dollars to control a few hundred rioters? If that were true, no city would ever want to win the Stanley Cup, they'd go bankrupt. If it takes 20 000 police and a billion+ dollars to control 50-100 kids in bandanas . . . one can only imagine what a few thousand hockey rioters would cost. Never mind bankrupting the city ... the entire nation would be impoverished by a single true riot!
Notice that the police didn't actually do anything to stop the BB either? The police attacks were focussed on the actual protestors, not the BB. They just watched the BB, or disappeared when they were around. They don't care to stop the BB; for one thing, police are very fraternal and don't attack their own, and for another, the BB provides a veneer of justification for the billion dollars; which was employed exactly as intended, to intimidate protestors from exercising their democratic rights.
If we divided up the BB and the rest of the protestors, and imagined two hypothetical situations, one in which the BB shows up by itself, and one in which the rest of the protestors show up without the BB - do you really imagine they would have spent the billion in the first scenario? No! They'd need less resources than what they need to control the annual Aberdeen Street riot in the student ghetto here in Kingston every year, much, much less. Maybe 100 police (overkill) and a few tens of thousands of dollars.
But to intimidate protestors in general, the billion dollars and 20 000 cops was not enough. So you can see the relative proportions of effect here.
The BB provides the pretext for police violence. That's really all there is to it. They don't scare the police, they're a Christmas present. The Raging Grannies scared the crap out of the police - they can't release the dogs and shoot the rubber bullets and start cracking skulls when faced with a line of grandmothers, and that IS forcing them to do something they have "no practice at". Dealing with petty vandals is definately NOT something the police have no experience with - it is very much within their comfort zone, within the sort of thing they are trained for and imagine themselves doing.
The actions of the black bloc gave the police a pretense for making all protesters and in fact all people on the street "illegitimate".
Some would have us thank the black bloc for helping to reveal how much trouble our democracy is in, you know all those folks at the cabin hearing about little Tommy's ordeal will suddenly wake up to the danger Canada is in. I think that most of those people will simply be terrified and realize that the best thing they can do is hide. I think that was the intent and if you listen to people as they were released without charges they were told that if they EVER participated in another protest they would be arrested, voila protesting is illegal.
If the black bloc is so committed to these kinds of actions why don't we hear about them at other times? Are the only actions they involve themselves in ones in which they can hide themselves in the midst of peaceful protesters? Where are they now? Are they taking any responsibility for Toronto?
There are several more questions people should be asking, such as :
Media: Exactly how was that $ billion+ spent? A public accounting is not being hollered-for. If no protestors had shown up at all, this is exactly what the largely quiescent middle-class would be asking (rather than moot arguments over police tactics). Especially when the bill for this extravagant junket is juxtaposed against the austerity measures to which they themselvers are about to be subjected - again.
Protestors: What are we trying to accomplish?
If it's to get a message across to our glorious leaders, why bother? They already know what we want and they don't give a sff.
If it's to get the majority of the population to wake up and see how they're screwed, the job is half done: they're pretty much aware, but don't know what to do about it. Slogans won't tell them, and anything longer won't be allowed on the media: even if your head is bleeding enough to catch the eye of a camera, the microphone will be snatched away before you can formulate a sentence. Getting hurt is useful, though - if you are a granny or a pretty girl not wearing enough to conceal a weapon. Seeing that kind of thing does make 'regular Canadians' wonder: "to serve and protect" whom? It makes them realize that policing has changed, and not improved - that maybe the system itself is no longer the one they've taken for granted. If you are a fit young man, getting hurt or having your shirt ripped off is no use: the old guys who have any kind of power don't like disobedient young guys - hence the oft-repeated remark: "Send 'em off to Afghanistan!"
It's all theater, you see. A reality-show. They own it; they run it, but we can, to some extent, manipulate it. If we are realistic about what can be accomplished, and how most effectively to accomplish that - rather than waste bodies, minds, time and resources on the impossible.
A good article from the Toronto Media Coop:
The violence of this Black Bloc wasn't just directed towards property. People were attacked and endangered through their recklessness during Saturday's march. I personally was threatened and attacked by black bloc members because i had a camera. I saw black block members attack several other photographers for myself. I also came very close to getting a rock in the head that was headed for a window. On other occasions I saw bloc members smash windows with bystanders on the other side of the windowpane. Not to mention the attacks against police that I witnessed. Putting aside for a moment the argument that attacks against property are not violence, attacks against people certainly are violence and their reprehensible.
Whether the police felt their crackdown was a necessity after the black bloc action or the action was the excuse the police needed to start it, the Black Bloc action by 75-100 individuals was the event that lead to 10 000 of our allies facing police violence and 900 of them being arrested. A small cadre changed the entire dynamic of the convergence and its relationship with the police. After Saturday's Bloc march, no space in Toronto was safe for dissent. Sometimes I wonder if some people who use these tactics aren't hoping for a violent response against their allies just to prove a point about the violence of the state... The Bloc's also made the actions of police acceptable in the eyes of the wider public. This Bloc's actions essentially justified the $1 billion in security costs, the fence, the secret law and the mass arrests in the public opinion.
Respect for diversity of tactics does not excuse activists from being accountable for their actions, but that is how it is treated by members of the black bloc. We lose credibility as a whole to our audience when property destruction and violence occur, these tactics endanger others who choose not to use them (directly and afterwords when police react to them), when these negative effects are felt, members of the Black Bloc are long gone after essentially using the rest of us as human shields... I believe to an extent that this indifference to the damage Bloc tactics do to our movement comes from vastly different priorities: confronting the state's authority vs. putting a message out to a wider audience. The members of this Bloc put their priorities ahead of the priorities of the majority of people at this convergence.
Respect for diversity of tactics is a two-way street. Members of the black bloc generally harbour a disrespect for activists who do not use such risky tactics, often viewing other more peaceful activists as less committed.
Another good article by Chris Lawson:
I work for unions. I have for a long time. I like strikes. They're risky. They're a direct confrontation between authority and people and they cost the enemy (the employer) money.
So in some ways, I suppose I should understand bashing windows, cop cars and the like as part of a protest. It's risky, involves confrontation and it costs the capitalists (the enemy) money. It makes sense, I suppose, insofaras most of the folks doing the smashing (the ones that aren't members of the police union) don't have a union to organize a strike for them.
Strikes, though, are legal (within the strictures of the labour code anyway).
That's unfair to people who aren't unionized and want to hit their oppressors where it hurts, so it's not a compelling reason to be pro-strike but anti-property destruction.
What is compelling, though, is the fact that with strikes, there's an exit point. And there's something to be gained. If you play your cards right, at the bargaining table, you can actually end the strike by raising working peoples' wages.
Not all strikes end well. Sometimes that's not the union's fault. Sometimes it is. But at some point, it's over and we can see how we did. When they go well, they can bring a group of people together, and show them their power.
But this business with the burning the cop cars and smashing the windows during the G20 protest in Toronto – how did the bashers think that was supposed to end? And what exactly was the purpose? Moreover what has it cost us?
Also, the further marginalization of progressive ideas and alienation of social change movements. Mass demonstrations now mean kettling, mass arrest and 36 hours handcuffed in a cage. Who is going to want to be part of that? If I can't bring my four year old, I don't want to be part of that revolution, dudes.
Peaceful activism had its time in the sun, but has failed miserably as a force for change against an unmoveable enemy bereft of conscience or decency. The repetitive counsel for more of the same is an echo which originates from countless defeats.
Well written phrases, but totally wrong. When in Canada did we ever achieve a victory through violence? Never. In Canada, our peaceful activism helped keep us out of the war in Iraq. In North America we turned public opinion against the war in Vietnam through peaceful protest.
Many children go through the phase of expressing their rebellion through petty vandalism, when they are going through puberty, but most of us realize that it is a poor way of getting at the powers by the time we reach our mid-teens. Some people apparently are childish enough to think that the system is going to be frightened by a few broken windows, and some scrawled slogans, that are quickly erased.
Obviously the forces of repression are only glad of that. If enough of the childish ones don't come to the demos, the police will impersonate them, to discredit the demonstation.
Someone asked in these threads, 'what do you call the kind of people who perpetuate the evil injustices of the system in which we live,' well one of the things we could call them is 'good at directing public opinion.' Those who have their petty vandalism are good at one thing as well. That is directing public opinion in favour of the police, obscuring the values of the demonstarions, and getting Harper off the hook for wasting $1B. They have accomplished that.
Peaceful activism had its time in the sun, but has failed miserably as a force for change against an unmoveable enemy bereft of conscience or decency. The repetitive counsel for more of the same is an echo which originates from countless defeats.
Marginal black blocs were around long before the Seattle protests - I remember them well at the ARMX protest in Ottawa in the late 80s. Their time under the sun - the last 25 years or so - has marked the most profoundly unproductive time the left has ever witnessed, and the most triumphant period the right has ever experienced. So I completely and utterly reject your assertion.
We are not talking here about Sandinistas or other armed revolutionary groups who set out to achieve their goals with broad support from their community. We are talking about some children who like to break some windows and liken this to being heirs to the tradition of armed struggle, which is utter rubbish. Drawing any such parallel is an outrageous insult to all those who have fought and died for justice.
Thank you so much, [Nora]. I have been trying to find the words to exlain why I support the Black Bloc protestors even though I don't personally destroy things. You have explained it so well and I agree with everything you wrote here. I was in full support of the BB until I read that they also destroyed store windows of small businesses run by immigrants and that really bothered me. However, I believe most of them probably would not condone that and I still believe in their cause. I think in a world such as this one where there is no possible way to break free of capitalist oppression or even get the State to listen to the people's concerns, there can be no "right" or "wrong" way to protest. When there is no right answer, no one's answer can really be "better" than anyone else's.
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Anybody considered why the police didn't arrest a single Black Bloc member? I see in videos these well armored riot squads standing in large groups while a couple of BB thugs are smashing a police car with sticks mere meters away!
Ok time for some art http://www.pbase.com/matrixone/image/126009867
How to make friends and influence people.
Angry merchants ask: Why did G20 protesters attack us?
Kilislian cut his hands, which had several bandages on them last week, while cleaning up the mess. A young woman who works for him was struck on the hip by the two-by-four.
Not to mention all those toxic chemicals released into the air from burning cars. But that pales in comparison to the BP oil spill, agent orange and depleted uranium. Here's some of the "corporate symbols" that were damaged last week.
- Ken Li's souvenir shop First Choice Gifts
- Wanda's Belgian Waffles Café (take that King Leopold)
- Barclay Jewelry Ltd. (will jewelery be banned after the revolution?)
- Swiss Chalet
- All Leather
- Doctors offices at College & Bay
Chronicles of Rebick: The Real G20 Conspiracy..
"Since my last article debunking long-time Toronto activist Judy Rebick's publicly promoted conspiracy theory that the Toronto police allowed the black bloc to run amok to justify the billion dollar G20 security budget, new information has come to my attention..."
I don't support the blac bloc techniques for the same basic reasons I don't support capital punishment. It isn't so much about what "we" do to "them". It's more about how our actions define us.
Over on Maple Leaf Web, they're having pretty much exactly the same debate but from the police standpoint. It's OK to do whatever is necessary to stop the protestors because they deserve it, blah, blah, blah. People who support the blac bloc protestors should go over there and look into the mirror.
The ends don't justify the means. The means you're willing to use define you as a person to a far greater extent than whatever high-minded goals you claim to support.
If we can't come up with more intelligent and more creative ways of settling our differences, we're pretty much doomed as a species.
Party on, Garth.
Polunatic2, where in downtown were the 19,000 officers while those 2 thugs shown in your article were carrying that 10 ft weapon and destroying store fronts with it in plain view? I live downtown and I have never before seen Yonge street completely empty of police.
Sure I recognize them, SJ. That's the "talking point" for brave civilians and soldiers who have fought and died for justice against nazism, fascism, imperialism, colonialism, and apartheid throughout the decades - the "talking point" which has been appropriated by those very enemies in (for example) the "Support the Troops" call over Afghanistan.
The talking point is perfectly fine and noble. The outrageous insult is applying it, without distinction, to the Canadian military of WWII and the Canadian military of Kandahar. To the national liberation forces of Viet Nam and the SUV boys of Ottawa. To the warriors of Oka and the window smashers of Toronto.
Chronicles of Rebick: The Real G20 Conspiracy..
"Since my last article debunking long-time Toronto activist Judy Rebick's publicly promoted conspiracy theory that the Toronto police allowed the black bloc to run amok to justify the billion dollar G20 security budget, new information has come to my attention..."
This anti-Rebick and anti-Klein lying article is just a more polished variation of the "Stimulator" crap that Cytizen H fed us a few days ago - in fact it cross-references the earlier piece.
In typical disinformation style, it simply lies about Rebick - never using direct quotes, because then the lies would be instantly exposed. Example:
In addition, Rebick's claim that indigenous warriors in Toronto showed that we don't need confrontation and violence was almost as preposterous as her assertion that peaceful protest stopped the Vietnam war.
This is allegedly based on a 7:46 minute video clip embedded in the article, where Judy spoke to the solidarity rally in Toronto. The author must be counting on the reader's laziness. Watch and listen to the full clip. You will find no such claims. In fact, Judy never even uses the words or concepts of "peaceful" or "violent" in the entire speech. Her whole and sole point is the winning of rights in struggle and the criminalization of dissent. She never mentions the vandalism of the previous days.
This is not rocket science. Activists like Judy Rebick (and, thankfully, many others like her) are capable of inspiring thousands to take to the streets and join the struggle. The "diversity of tactics" ideologues, and their cowardly car-burning cadre, are capable only of dissuading people from going anywhere near a street where a protest is being held. The conclusions are not hard to draw.
"It didn't bother you when they started assaulting other protestors and journalists?"
I didn't hear much about assaults to people. I was under the impression that they did not harm
anybody, but now I am starting to find out otherwise. Of course I do not support harming people.
Harming people is going to happen, one way or another. If protesters - militant groups, exasperated students, enraged ethnic minority members, terrified kettled bystanders can't be provoked into lashing out, the harm will be done by police, militia or mercenaries. It doesn't matter what tactics the dissenters use: grievous bodily harm is the next step on this escalator. Firing live rounds into a peaceful crowd follows soon after.
First, people being held, for years, without charges, bail or trial. People handed over to foreign secret police. Then home-searches (in the night: that's classic) and arrests for owning black clothing or having made a phonecall to somebody on a list, or crossing provincial borders, or reading Judy Rebic....
The US is leading this trend, but everyone else, especially Canada, is following quite closely. What the people want doesn't matter. It's all about the money. The more they 'lose' (it's not lost; it's gone somewhere, but that's another story) at the global poker table, the harder they have to squeeze ever-fewer productive taxpayers. The more harm they intend to do, the more anger they expect and arm against, the more they need us to be scared. This monster has its own logic and life-cycle. Nobody can stop it now... except, just possibly, a nation-wide, universal strike. Not likely. Or maybe peasants with torches and pitchforks - but there would have to be millions of peasants, not hundreds. It's far more likely to do what every monster does: grow and grow and grow, destroy its food-supply, foul its habitat, devour its children and starve to death. (economic collapse)
Or maybe fall to one of its other natural enemies: pandemic, climate change, world war, industrial accident. It most certainly will not yield to a few thousand people singing songs, nor a half dozen breaking windows.


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I am a huge fan of the RHS for many reasons, and always recommend becoming a member if you love plants and gardening.
Exotic Butterflies
For a few years now RHS Wisley has had a wonderful event called 'Butterflies In The Glasshouse' through January – February. I think it's a great idea! Not only do I love butterflies, but also when it is usually a quieter time in the garden calendar, this event encourages families to experience the glorious winter garden and revel in the beauty of the butterfly in their stunning glasshouse, which houses exotic plants that are sure to brighten any cold damp days.
I hope to be making a return visit this year!
If you are interested in attending this event, it begins on the 15th January and ends on the 27th February 2011
Time: 10 am – 4.00 pm, with last entries to the glasshouse at 3.30pm
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If you love snowdrops, Wisley has a special snowdrop event on the 29th-30th January. You could combine a visit to see the butterflies and admire the delicate beauty of the snowdrop!
A valentine treat
If you are looking for a romantic Valentines evening to treat your loved one – Wisley has a special event on the 12th February, which includes drinks, dinner and a romantic walk through the glasshouse to see the butterflies.
Wisley has done it again! These events are sure to be popular, so don't miss out!
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SAN ANTONIO -- The Toronto Raptors could only nod their heads in admiration as their five-game winning streak came to an abrupt end Wednesday night against the San Antonio Spurs.
Tim Duncan scored 15 points and San Antonio rolled to a 100-80 victory over Toronto, snapping the Raptors' longest winning streak in three years.
Manu Ginobili added 14 points, Tony Parker had 13, and Tiago Splitter and Stephen Jackson each had 10 for San Antonio, which has won three straight. Kawhi Leonard had nine points and 10 rebounds.
"I've been on that other side; I know what the composure is - experience," Toronto coach Dwane Casey said. "This team has been together forever. You got Hall of Famer(s) in Ginobili, and Duncan and Parker and it's a huge difference. We're trying to learn to keep that composure through those stretches and do the right things; make the right plays offensively and defensively."
The Raptors had difficulty accomplishing those tasks from the start.
San Antonio's starters averaged just 24 minutes, but still managed to outscore their counterparts 54-25.
None of Toronto's starters scored in double figures. Starting guards DeMar DeRozan and Jose Calderon were each 3 for 9 from the field in scoring eight and seven points, respectively.
Alan Anderson and Amir Johnson each had 12 points for Toronto.
Duncan had six rebounds and was 6 for 11 from the field in only 27 minutes as San Antonio's balanced attack wore down Toronto.
Every active Spur scored and eight had at least eight points.
"It took us a while to get going," Duncan said. "We're going to have times like that, have nights like that. You can attribute it to whatever you want to attribute it to. Bottom line is we got it turned around and going the way we wanted it to go in the second half."
San Antonio closed the third quarter on a 13-4 run to wrest control of the game after Johnson's 17-foot jumper pulled the Raptors within 57-54 with 4:24 left in the period.
San Antonio outworked Toronto during the run, including two offensive rebounds on the same play that led to a double-digit lead.
Parker missed a floater and Leonard followed his own 3-point miss with a one-handed dunk to give San Antonio a 63-53 lead with 2:38 left in the third quarter.
"They got a couple of offensive rebounds, we made a couple of turnovers and they made a couple of 3s," Calderon said. "They took it to 10 or 11 points and we couldn't get back in (the game). They played a little bit better down the stretch and that was it."
Leonard matched his season-high in rebounds and had two assists and three steals.
"Huge, huge for us," Ginobili said of Leonard. "With his length and ability to read situations, he can get a lot of deflections and steals that give you a good lift in some parts of the game."
The Raptors kept the game close early despite some poor shooting.
San Antonio shot 58 per cent in the first quarter compared to 38 per cent for Toronto, but the Raptors trailed only 20-18 by taking nine more field goal attempts.
Terrence Ross' 19-foot jumper gave Toronto its first lead of the game at 29-27 with 7 minutes left in the first half.
NOTES: Raptors F Andrea Bargnani (elbow), G Kyle Lowry (triceps) and C Jonas Valanciunas (finger) all missed the game with injuries. ... Every Spur has missed at least two games this season with the exception of Splitter and Boris Diaw, who have played in every game, and Duncan, who has missed one. ... Toronto traded Matt Bonner to San Antonio for Rasho Nesterovic on June 21, 2006, in a move that has clearly ended in the Spurs' favour. Nesterovic averaged 6.3 points and 4.1 rebounds in 193 games over three seasons with the Raptors. Bonner is in his seventh season with the Spurs, averaging 6.4 points and 3.4 rebounds during his time with the team. ... Members of the Texas and Oregon State football teams were in attendance. The teams will play Saturday in the Valero Alamo Bowl at the Alamodome, the former home of the Spurs.
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Potato pancakes or latkes are a wonderful thing. As the Hanukkah season kicks off this coming weekend, latkes are a classic Hanukkah dish.
For those of us who aren't Jewish, potato pancakes can and should be eaten 12 months a year. There should NOT be an off-season for these wonderfully fried starch discs.
The Diner's Journal at the New York Times has a demonstration and recipe for the classic potato latke.
This will enable you to make great potato pancakes at home. If you're lazy and just want to enjoy them, I highly recommend Mohnen's Family Restaurant in Darboy.
You can order their "World Famous" potato pancakes as a main dish, or added to any other breakfast item as a substitute for regular pancakes.
It's definitely worth the drive if you are jonesing for latkes.
As also remember that latkes or pancakes can be made in a similar fashion using different ingredients. Carrots, onions, parsnips, sweet potatoes and rutabagas are just some ideas to expand your latke repertoire.


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Peter is a punk rocker.Aherm. Yeah, this is what I wore to the Disneybound Day at Disneyland (which was full of fun and great people, by the way). Breakdown time, but…
First and foremost, I want to thank whimsicalmela for taking many of these pictures! She was super sweet and offered while we hung out for the day!
All righty, here it goes. Basically, I had to do a sort of punk-ish Peter Pan. What else would the kid be?
The shoes: Picked 'em up at the Melrose swapmeet. Heck yeah.
The pants: Those were white once. Dyed 'em.
The shirt: Bought it from a kid who was making these. I think he was starting his company? Either way, my favorite shirt I own.
The vest: Okay, here's where hours of my life and ounces of blood went into. I butchered an old denim jacket to start, and from there, it was all scratch. The patches were all hand painted and sewn on. I made the hood from some flannel then got some feathers and colored the tips. Sewed those on one-by-one and had to make sure they all stayed flat so they wouldn't fold and snap. All the star spots on the back were painstakingly pushed in and bent back so they didn't pop off. On the front, more hand painted patches and the green star panels (more dyed fabric so it'd match everything else). I made several pins like the ones you get at concerts for bands, but instead relating to things of the Neverland variety. Most are self-explanatory, but there's a few tougher ones in there I'll let you ponder on. One side is reserved for native american-ish/Tiger Lily stuff, because she's awesome. Of course, we couldn't forget Tink! I took a charm Cindy gave me and painted it to put it in a bottle cap. I think that's it? Yeah, I'm going to say that's it.
Accessories: I really do love the crocodile. I found myself a ring and made a wrist band out of various pieces of leather and a button I painted to look like an eyeball. The little chevron band is something I made a long time ago, just sort of has all Peter's colors in it. The rings were part bought, part made. The leather one with the acorn I carved and dyed, and the dagger ring I rigged with a charm I painted. The raven's claw is kind of a distant reference to a character in Kensington Gardens, but that's not exactly Disneybound-related so much as just Peter Pan. Lastly, I made a little clip with a bottle full of pixie dust!
P.S. Please don't hijack/alter/etc the idea. This took a long, long time to construct and is pretty dear to me and all that jazz.