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Howard Zinn (24 August 1924 – 27 January 2010) was an American historian, political scientist, playwright and social activist.
- If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
- Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1991): "American Ideology"
- If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.
- Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1991): "Obligation to the State"
- There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable.
- "Terror Over Tripoli" (1993), from The Zinn Reader (1997)
- The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again — freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws — I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.
- Describing the people who participated in the Freedom Rides to end segregation in Albany, Georgia. in You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train (1994) Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia
- At the great Washington March of 1963, the chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis, speaking to the same enormous crowd that heard Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream," was prepared to ask the right question: "Which side is the federal government on?" That sentence was eliminated from his speech by organizers of the March to avoid offending the Kennedy Administration. But Lewis and his fellow SNCC workers had experienced, again and again, the strange passivity of the national government in the face of Southern violence, strange, considering how often this same government had been willing to intervene outside the country, often with overwhelming force.
John Lewis and SNCC had reason to be angry. John had been beaten bloody by a white mob in Montgomery as a Freedom Rider in the spring of 1961. The federal government had trusted the notoriously racist Alabama police to protect the Riders, but done nothing itself except to have FBI agents take notes. Instead of insisting that blacks and whites had a right to ride the buses together, the Kennedy Administration called for a "cooling-off period," a moratorium on Freedom Rides.
- You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train (1994) Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia
- The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events — some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.
- You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train (1994) Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia
- I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil. Slave revolts are justified, and if John Brown had really succeeded in arousing such revolts throughout the South, it would have been much preferable to losing 600,000 lives in the Civil War, where the makers of the war — unlike slave rebels — would not have as their first priority the plight of the black slaves, as shown by the betrayal of black interests after the war. Again, the Zapatista uprising seems justified to me, but some armed struggles that start for a good cause get out of hand and the ensuing violence becomes indiscriminate. Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of people, whereas too often violent uprisings are the product of a small group. If enough people are organized, violence can be minimized in bringing about social change.
- To put it briefly: the evidence is quite overwhelming on this matter. The Japanese had sent an envoy (Ambassador Sato) to Moscow (still officially a neutral) to work out a negotiated surrender. An instruction from Foreign Minister Togo came in a telegram (intercepted by American intelligence, which had broken the Japanese code early in the war), saying: "Unconditional surrender is the only obstacle to peace... It is His Majesty's heart's desire to see the swift termination of the war." The Japanese had one condition for surrender which the U.S. refused to meet — recognizing the sanctity of the Emperor. It seemed the U.S. was determined to drop the bomb before the Japanese could surrender — for a variety of reasons, none of them humanitarian. After the war, the official report of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, based on hundreds of interviews with Japanese decision-makers right after the war, concluded that the war would have ended in a few months by a Japanese surrender "even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."
- Regarding the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in a ZNet forum reply (13 July 1999)
- Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is superior to the talent of an auto mechanic who makes $40,000 a year? Who is to say that Bill Gates works harder than the dishwasher in the restaurant he frequents, or that the CEO of a hospital who makes $400,000 a year works harder than the nurse or the orderly in that hospital who makes $30,000 a year? The president of Boston University makes $300,000 a year. Does he work harder than the man who cleans the offices of the university? Talent and hard work are qualitative factors which cannot be measured quantitatively.
- Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak. So far, too much of the debate on Vietnam has observed these limits.
- Howard Zinn on War (2000), Ch. 14: Vietnam: A Matter of Perspective
- One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.
- Howard Zinn on War (2000), Ch. 21: Just and Unjust War
- Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.
- Howard Zinn on War (2000), Ch. 21: Just and Unjust War
- Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.
- "Artists of Resistance", July 2001
- We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
- "The Old Way of Thinking", in The Progressive (November 2001)
- The term "just war" contains an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny, and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.
- Terrorism and War (2002)
- Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
- As quoted in Quotations on Terrorism (2004) by Harry Kawilarang, p. 61
- David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event.
- I don't believe it's possible to be neutral. The world is already moving in certain directions, and to be neutral, to be passive in a situation like that, is to collaborate with whatever is going on. And I, as a teacher, do not want to be a collaborator with whatever is happening in the world. I want myself, as a teacher, and I want you, as students, to intercede with whatever is happening in the world.
- Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) documentary film
- I would encourage people to look around them in their community and find an organization that is doing something that they believe in, even if that organization has only five people, or ten people, or twenty people, or a hundred people. And to look at history and understand that when change takes place it takes place as a result of large, large numbers of people doing little things unbeknownst to one another. And that history is very important for people to not get discouraged. Because if you look at history you see the way the labor movement was able to achieve things when it stuck to its guns, when it organized, when it resisted. Black people were able to change their condition when they fought back and when they organized. Same thing with the movement against the war in Vietnam, and the women's movement. History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.
- Rawstory.com Interview (9 September 2005), which compares U.S. wars in Iraq and Vietnam
- Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
- "Election Madness" The Progressive (March 2008)
- To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
- A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270.
A People's History of the United States (1980)[edit]
- This book, originally published in 1980, has been printed in a number of updated and revised editions. The chapter numbers used here are for quotes found in the linked online edition.
- I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
- Ch. 1
- It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.
- Behind the rebel battle yells and the legendary spirit of the Confederate army, there was much reluctance to fight. A sympathetic historian of the South, E. Merton Coulter, asked "Why did the Confederacy fail? The forces leading to the defeat were many but they may be summed up in this one fact"The People did not will hard enough and long enough to win."Not money or soldiers, but willpower and morale were decisive.
- Ch.10, "The Other Civil War"
- To white Americans of the thirties, however, blacks North and South were invisible. Only th radicals made an attempt to break the racial barriers: Socialists, Trotskyists, Communists most of all.
- Chapter 15
- While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.
- One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.
- Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
- Ch. 24
- There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.
But there is also the bubbling of change under the surface of obedience: the growing revulsion against endless wars, the insistence of women all over the world that they will no longer tolerate abuse and subordination… There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
- 1999 edition, p. 661


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In my wonderful years growing up in Mississippi, my body was often a haven for scrapes and bruises. These temporary wounds were usually caused by playing football with friends.
Some wounds were caused during work as a teenager on the Blake family's 'choose and cut' Christmas tree farm — the state's oldest Christmas tree operation at the time.
Tending to acres of cedar, pine, and Arizona cypress trees in the late 1960s and early 970s was the perfect training ground for this teenager and wannabe farmer. I learned a strong work ethic from my parents as we labored during 10 to 12-hour days grooming trees from young seedlings to near perfect 6-to-8-foot trees in just three-to-five years; thanks to 100-degree summer days, 100 percent humidity, and meticulous but enjoyable hard work.
Every mature tree always found a good home just in time for Christmas. People brought their families to the farm to cut their tree. Our family also delivered trees to waiting homes until Christmas Eve.
My father, now deceased, taught me how to safely operate a Gravely walk behind, self-propelled, two-wheel mower to mow grass in the 6-foot-wide tree plots. I later graduated to a large Kubota tractor with a 6-foot bush hog in tow.
Over the years, many branches hit my face causing stinging skin and a few cuts. That experience also taught me the art of quickly dodging fast-swaying limbs. It was on-the-job training.
Dad usually forgot to fill the 5-gallon metal gas can in town before we headed to the farm plots. To keep the tractor running, I learned how to manually siphon gas from the truck into the tractor gas tank.
This process involved taking a 6-foot long piece of old water hose and sticking one end in the truck gas tank. After several heavy sucking motions on the other end of the hose, gas spewed in the mouth and I quickly moved the hose into the tractor gas tank amid a lot of spitting.
Like many farmers, I learned the value of hard physical farm work. There is no better training than hands-on. These values help prepare farm children for life-long lessons — working hard for a fair wage.
But now, the U.S. Labor Department is pursuing a ban that could prohibit some farm kids from learning essential farming activities due to safety concerns, the American Farm Bureau reports.
Under the Labor Department proposal, farm kids would not be allowed to work on a farm that is not directly owned by their parents, or operate power-driven equipment — even something as basic as a battery-powered screwdriver.
The Labor Department says the proposal is needed to protect young people from dangerous work.
"Under this proposal, it sounds like youths would be allowed to push open the barn door, but whether they can flip the light switch inside is unclear," according to American Farm Bureau labor specialist Paul Schlegel. "But they sure couldn't use a flashlight or pick up a weed whacker. And they couldn't go up in the barn loft because it's greater than 6 feet above ground level."
This is another illustration of government intrusion in our lives. Parents, not government, should decide what is safe and unsafe and teach their children accordingly. If a job has danger, this is a tremendous learning opportunity for parents to teach children to manage real-life situations.
The official comment period for the Labor Department proposal is closed. We can only hope that those responsible for rulemaking utilize horse sense instead of bureaucratic nonsense to sensibly guide our future farmers.
And in closing, in the spirit of the Christmas season, Merry Christmas from the Blake family to you and your family.


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2nd ODI: BD vs. SL at Bogra, 22 Feb 2006
Five down, four more to go. Dust off all your aphorisms because finally,
after 15 futile tries, Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka in an ODI. A wholehearted
effort on the field, where bodies were flung fearlessly and bowlers were
the picture of accuracy and guile, was followed up by a nerveless display
with the bat and fans were delivered a 4 wicket win with 2 overs to spare.
The usual suspects all chipped in, as did the new comer and the prodigal
son on the comeback trail.
To win against a team with whom you have struggled to even compete is
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of legend and Bashar's merry men seem to be developing a happy knack of
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The skinny: SL 212/10 (49/49 overs), BD 213/6 (47/49 overs)
Bangladesh beats Sri Lanka by 4 wickets.
3rd ODI: BD vs. SL at Chittagong, 25 Feb 2006
Close doesn't count. That's what the Bangadesh cricket team must tell
itself after a disheartening loss to Sri Lanka in the ODI series decider.
Coming in a buyoant mood after the victory at Bogra, the Tigers were
sniffing another kill with the Lions on the ropes early on in the game.
The BD pacers were keeping things tight and the Narail Express had removed
both SL openeres. However, Kumara Sangakarra gave a master class on how
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A target of 310 always looked out of reach for Bangladesh but while
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run rate caused risky shots and wicket losses. Eventually Bangladesh was
simply glad to play out the 50 overs and minimize the margin of defeat.
The skinny: Sri Lanka 309/7, Bangladesh 231/9
Sri Lanka beats Bangladesh by 78 runs.
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Gore-Tex is generally waterproof for most outdoor use, and it breathes much better than a plastic bag or old style pvc garments. So if you need to be out active in wet conditions it's probably the best choice, along with eVent. But people try and stretch its use, and in a lot of cases Gore-Tex is simply overkill. Realisation of this is one of the reasons for the popularity in softshells over the last decade.
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February 01, 2013 06:00 ET
TORONTO, CANADA--(Marketwire - Feb. 1, 2013) - Seabridge Gold (TSX:SEA)(NYSE:SA) announced today that it has commenced electronic filing of its provincial Application for an Environmental Assessment certificate ("Application") and its federal Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") for its 100% owned KSM gold-copper-silver project with the British Columbia and Canadian Governments. The filing process will be completed when Seabridge delivers printed copies of the 25,000 page document which are now being prepared. The Application/EIS submission addresses the initial requirements of the joint harmonized environmental assessment process as outlined by the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (1992).
Seabridge Chairman and CEO Rudi Fronk noted that, "The Application/EIS document represents nearly five years of effort and approximately $146 million in expenditures to design an environmentally sound and economically rewarding project. We are very proud of the work by our personnel and our first class team of consultants. We are confident that our Application/EIS materials demonstrate that the KSM project, as designed, is environmentally responsible as well as technically and economically feasible. We are also confident that the KSM project can make a significant contribution to the B.C. economy, by generating over 6,500 full time jobs and approximately $48 billion in total contribution to GDP during its more than 50 year expected mine life. We look forward to a timely and fair review of the Application/EIS submission and will continue to work cooperatively and closely with provincial and federal government agencies, Nisga'a Nation, Aboriginal groups, local governments and the public as the Application/EIS review proceeds."
The KSM Project is undergoing a joint environmental assessment as mandated by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (1992) and the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Act. For the past several years, the Seabridge permitting team has initiated extensive community engagement with the Nisga'a Nation, Aboriginal groups, public and stakeholders to provide information on the project and obtain feedback. Components of this program have included site visits to operating and closed mines similar in size to KSM to highlight proposed project details, numerous site visits to the KSM project area, meetings with the Nisga'a Nation, Aboriginal and local government elected officials and public open houses. In addition, Seabridge has participated in a number of working group meetings with Canadian federal and provincial regulators, U.S. federal and Alaska State regulators and Aboriginal groups to review the project in detail as it has evolved. In general, public feedback on the project has been positive and input from this community engagement process has been used to make significant design changes to the project including:
"In our view, the consultation process has helped improve the design of the project, including some innovative, industry-leading responses to evolving standards in such areas as water quality," Mr. Fronk said.
Rescan Environmental Services Ltd., under the experienced leadership of its CEO, Clem Pelletier, (see www.rescan.com for more information) has led the team involved in preparing the KSM Application/EIS. Rescan is a Canadian-based consulting firm with extensive experience in British Columbia offering a wide range of environmental and engineering services to clients around the world. Rescan assists industries, institutions and governments in achieving sound environmental practices for the benefit of present and future generations.
Seabridge holds a 100% interest in several North American gold resource projects. Its principal assets are the KSM project located near Stewart, British Columbia, Canada and the Courageous Lake gold project located in Canada's Northwest Territories. For a breakdown of Seabridge's mineral reserves and resources by project and category please visit the Company's website at http://www.seabridgegold.net/resources.php. For additional information on the KSM Project and the Environmental Assessment process please visit the KSM community website at http://www.ksmproject.com.
All reserve and resource estimates reported by the Corporation were calculated in accordance with the Canadian National Instrument 43-101 and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Classification system. These standards differ significantly from the requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mineral resources which are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.
This document contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This information and these statements, referred to herein as "forward-looking statements" are made as of the date of this document. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect current estimates, predictions, expectations or beliefs regarding future events and include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to: (i) the submission addressing the initial requirements of the joint harmonized environmental assessment process; (ii) the design of the KSM Project being environmentally sound or responsible and technically feasible; (iii) the KSM Project being economically rewarding or feasible; (iv) the KSM Project's future contribution to the BC economy; (v) the expected mine life of the KSM Project; and (vi) the estimated reduction in waste rock storage. Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives or future events or performance (often, but not always, using words or phrases such as "expects", "anticipates", "plans", "projects", "estimates", "envisages", "assumes", "intends", "strategy", "goals", "objectives" or variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements.
All forward-looking statements are based on Seabridge's or its consultants' current beliefs as well as various assumptions made by them and information currently available to them. These assumptions include: (i) the sufficiency of the Application/EIS information in addressing the requirements; (ii) the performance of the KSM Project and its equipment and processes, once in operation, will approximate its projected performance; and (iii) the assumptions, estimates, forecasts and projections underlying the prefeasibility study prepared in respect of the KSM Project (see the Company's news release of May 14, 2012). Although management considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to it, they may prove to be incorrect.
By their very nature, forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, and risks exist that estimates, forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will not be achieved or that assumptions do not reflect future experience. We caution readers not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements as a number of important factors could cause the actual outcomes to differ materially from the beliefs, plans, objectives, expectations, anticipations, estimates assumptions and intentions expressed in such forward-looking statements. These risk factors may be generally stated as the risk that the assumptions and estimates expressed above do not occur, but specifically include, without limitation: risks relating to unanticipated regulatory expectations, the failure of the environmental mitigation measures to achieve their estimated effectiveness or the technical aspects of the KSM Project to perform at the levels forecast, the assumptions, estimates, forecasts and projections underlying the prefeasibility study prepared in respect of the KSM Project (see the Company's news release of May 14, 2012) not being realized and the additional risks described in Seabridge's Annual Information Form filed with SEDAR in Canada (available at www.sedar.com) for the year ended December 31, 2011 and in the Corporation's Annual Report Form 40-F filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR (available at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). Seabridge cautions that the foregoing list of factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive.
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Jalil Anibaba notched a first half equalizer for the Chicago Fire (4-3-3; 15 points), but an Eric Brunner strike and a Logan Pause own goal gave the Portland Timbers (3-5-3; 12 points) a 2-1 victory over the Fire at JELD-WEN Field in Portland, Ore. Sunday afternoon.
The Timbers got on the board inside the first 20 minutes of the match as a failed clearance on a corner kick allowed Timbers center back Eric Brunner to collect a loose ball and knock it past Sean Johnson and into the net at the back post in the 19th minute. The build-up to the goal started when Hayner Mosquera headed the deep corner kick into the center of the 18-yard box where Kris Boyd scuffed his shot before Brunner gave the Timbers the early 1-0 advantage.
Pavel Pardo nearly tied the game at 1-1 in the 36th minute. Patrick Nyarko collected a short clearance from the defense and slotted a pin-point pass to Pavel Pardo wide-open in the box. The Mexican international took a touch and fired on goal, however, Timbers 'keeper Troy Perkins was equal to the challenge and dove to palm the ball away to preserve the home sides' 1-0 advantage.
The Fire would eventually find the equalizer in the 40th minute as Marco Pappa intercepted a Steven Smith pass in the offensive third. The Guatemalan midfielder would laser a pass into the area where Anibaba displayed a nice bit of finishing, turning and placing the ball past Perkins at the back post. The strike is Anibaba's third career MLS goal and the first since tallying a brace against the Columbus Crew Oct. 22, 2011.
A Fire own goal on a corner kick would give the Timbers the 2-1 advantage in the 51st minute. Second half substitute Sal Zizzo found Kris Boyd at the near post. The Scottish striker sent his glancing header toward goal where Logan Pause deflected it past Sean Johnson and into the goal.
For the sixth game of the season the Men in Red came back from a goal deficit to tie the match, but for the first time all season Frank Klopas' side was unable to rally to earn points as the second set piece goal proved the difference.
The Fire return to Toyota Park to face Brimstone Cup rivals FC Dallas on Wednesday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. CT (NBC 5.2; ESPN Deportes 97.5 FM). The Men in Red will round out their three games in seven days stretch when they make the trip to Columbus to take on the Crew on Saturday, May 26 at 6:00 p.m. CT live on NBC5 Chicago and 97.5 ESPN Deportes. Chicago Fire Season Tickets are available by calling 1-888-MLS-FIRE (657-3473), viaTicketmaster or by heading to the club's official website at Chicago-Fire.com.
- For the sixth game of the season the Men in Red showed resolve after going down a goal. The Fire have come back to or win the game in five of the six previous occasions.
- Jalil Anibaba scored his first goal of the 2012 season.
- The Men in Red exhibited continued frustration in the Pacific Northwest. In six matches played in the Cascadia region the Fire are 0-5-1.
- Fire rookie Austin Berry started his fourth consecutive match for the Fire.
- Logan Pause appeared in his 237th match in a Fire shirt.
Chicago Fire 1 – 2 Portland Timbers
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Dan Gargan (Orr Barouch, 81'), Jalil Anibaba, Austin Berry, Gonzalo Segares; Logan Pause © (Rafael Robayo, 68'), Pavel Pardo, Marco Pappa; Sebastian Grazzini; Dominic Oduro (Federico Puppo, 60'), Patrick Nyarko
Substitutes not used: Paolo Tornaghi, Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Hunter Jumper, Daniel Paladini
Portland Timbers: Troy Perkins; Mike Chabala, Hanyer Mosquera, Eric Brunner, Steven Smith; Franck Songo'o (Sal Zizzo, 46'), Diego Chara ©, Lovel Palmer, Rodney Wallace; Darlington Nagbe (Jorge Perlaza, 67'), Kris Boyd
Substitutes not used: Joseph Bendik, David Horst, Eric Alexander, Kalif Alhassan, Mike Fucito
Scoring Summary
POR – Eric Brunner (assist) 19'
CHI – Jalil Anibaba (Marco Pappa) 40'
POR – Logan Pause (OG) 52'
Misconduct Summary
POR – Mike Chabala (caution) 45'
CHI – Patrick Nyarko (caution) 45'
CHI – Gonzalo Segares (caution) 48'
POR – Sal Zizzo (caution) 79'
CHI – Sebastian Grazzini (caution) 80'
CHI – Austin Berry (caution) 85'
Referee: Silviu Petrescu
Assistants: Darren Clark, Kevin Duliba
Fourth Official: Paul Ward
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Kevin Hedge kindly shares with us this amazing story of the night Larry Levan taught him how to use a Urei 1620. SIMPLY A MUST READ FOR ALL UREI FANS! For more info about Larry Levan, Kevin Hedge and Blaze visit http://westendrecords.com
"In 1991 while I was part of the Shelter organization, I had the privilege of working with the legendary Larry Levan. At that time my main service to Shelter was promotions and production, so that put me in charge of booking talent. This week Larry was joining us for a guest DJ appearance. Myself and the resident DJ were there to show Larry how our system worked. Yeah! I'm going to show Larry Levan how to work a sound system, which was mistake number 1.
Mistake number 2 came when I tried to help him with his records. I went to pick up one of his records boxes, Larry politely said "No thank you I don't need any help, please leave the DJ booth."
Now I was feeling like a wet cloth. I was only trying to help and now I've made a fool of myself how could it get any worse. Well I shouldn't have asked.
Mistake number 3 before I was going to leave the booth Larry asked me to turn on the system. I immediately ran to put on all the amps and power to the DJ booth, thinking to myself "I will show him how to use the mixer and he will thank me." *hahaha* so I ran back into the booth to test the system, I rushed up to the console, placed a record on the turntable and cranked the input up to 10. Then I slowly raised the house level to 5 and thought it sounded pretty good. I turned to Larry and said "Mr Levan the sound is live". He said "thanks" and I felt that I had won his approval. But just then the idiot in me jumped out and I said "Sir are you familiar with the Urei 1620?" That's when Larry said to me "Let me show you how to use your mixer."
He then proceeded to tutor the resident DJ and myself on how to properly use the Urei 1620 best for sound quality and cross fade mixing. So let me share that knowledge with you.
Larry Levan on how to use the Urei 1620:First you should never max-out your input level pots. Never try to get more overall volume by cranking the individual input level, which will only limit your headroom for blend volume matching.
Always use the house level to achieve overall volume levels. Remember the mixer is really a pre-amp it's driving the amplifiers, so the house level pot is the most reliable source for signal to the amps since it stays constant. Also this again will allow you more flexibility when cross mixing between turntables.
Larry showed us the Urei sounds best and works most efficiently when, the input level pots are used at between 6 & 8, 8~10 gives you the gain on the channel. This gives you a constant blend volume reference for mixing without compromising your overall house volume. Also it maintains a consistent record out level. *note* The house gain pot does not effect the record out signal. Then he instructed us to set the house level to the overall desired listening volume. Usually between 3 & 6 for low to moderate listening levels and between 6 and 9 for hi-volume listening levels. You never want to run at 10 on the house level pot for fear of overdriving the amplifiers.
A side note: Larry was a real perfectionist when it came to sound quality. He was very careful with his monitor levels. He never played his monitors all night long, mostly using monitoring when blend mixing. Once the blend was done he would lower his monitor volume to pay attention to the house volume and sound. Spot monitoring will save your ear fatigue as the night goes on."


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In response to the increasing demand for convenience in the homes of pet owners, Radio Systems Corporation is introducing the Pet Loo – an innovative artificial lawn 'toilet' designed to contain pet waste in one designated area. Ensuring peace of mind when forced to leave pets home...Download
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Dogs will benefit in more ways than one when they play with PetSafe's latest range of Busy Buddy toys; designed for longer lasting playtime, each toy is made with a different and unique chewing experience in mind and helps redirect potentially destructive chewing behaviour into...Download
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Roughly 64 hours have passed since the botched Times Square car bomb was discovered, and thus far partisans on the left and right have largely muzzled themselves, resisting the impulse to politicize the incident. For this, we can be thankful. Granted, this admirable restraint may well vanish by hour 65, but so far conservatives haven't reflexively blamed the bomb on Barack Obama, and liberals didn't pounce on the incident to quickly suggest that that the bomber had to be a right-wing nut a la Timothy McVeigh.
Wait, let me amend that: Timothy Soltzfus Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University, did suggest, on the Politico website yesterday, that the bomber was probably a right-wing nut. He was skeptical that the eventual suspect would have any foreign ties; in his words, "If, as I believe much more likely, the bomb was placed by a right-wing lunatic, it seems to me that questions need to be raised as to whether the right-wing media bears some responsibility for stoking the delusions of such people through its relentless and often unfounded attacks on the Obama administration and the federal government." (Whoa, prof. How about waiting for some actual evidence?) And, on the right, a few commentators think the car bomb is proof that the Obama team should shelve its idea of prosecuting 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan.
In general, however, we appear to have a rough consensus. The Time Square citizens were vigilant, the cops and the feds have been doing their jobs, the Pakistani-American suspect was caught because the system worked, Obama was reportedly briefed six times yesterday alone...we all seem to be on the same team, for however long this moment lasts.
But on one issue in particular, this rough consensus likely will remain. I'm referring to the surveillance cameras, and the general acceptance of their ubiquity.
There once was a time when many Americans were horrified at the notion that public cameras might track their every move. Civil libertarians, in particular, argued that we didn't give up our right to privacy merely by leaving the house. Eight years ago, when Washington, D.C. was proposing to set up public surveillance cameras, the ACLU warned that the information gleaned from such devices "could be mishandled and used to blackmail, intimidate, or bully people who are exercising their freedom of speech, freedom to peaceful assembly, or just going about their daily lives." More generally, "when citizens are being watched by the authorities - or aware they might be watched at any time - they are more self-conscious and less free-wheeling."
Yet, in the aftermath of the car bomb incident, I have yet to hear anyone decry the presence of the 82 surveillance cameras in midtown Manhattan, all of them positioned from 34 Street to 51st Street between Sixth and Eighth Avenues. Quite the contrary, we've all been hoping that the cameras would yield some evidence. And even though it now appears that the balding white guy seen changing his shirt was probably just a balding white guy changing his short, I have yet to hear anyone contend that the cameras subjected him to unfair scrutiny.
Liberals were often vocal in the past about these public snooping devices; now we have Chuck Schumer, the New York Democratic senator, telling MSNBC that the city should establish a stronger midtown security "ring," with the help of many additional cameras - and this morning the New York Times editorial page seconded the idea.
Clearly, in this age of terrorism, we have come to accept this curb on our privacy rights. I'm not saying this is good or bad, I'm just noting a profound shift in the way we live. We expect to be watched, to the point where we don't even think about it anymore. The old civil libertarian concerns are consigned to a distant era; as one surveillance expert once told me, "Huxley and Orwell are just two old writers that crop up on exams."
Besides, Americans increasingly seem to like the idea that they're being watched. Exhibitionism is in. College students post their drunken party pictures on Facebook, the guy sitting behind you in the coffee shop talks at top volume on his cell about the fight he just had with his wife...you get the idea. As Bill Maher quipped on his HBO show the other night, in his inimitable fashion, "If Americans gave a (darn) about privacy, would they be Twittering about their menstrual cycles?"
Speaking of Bill Maher, he laid an egg on Sunday morning. Embarrassingly so.
The Sunday chat shows have long been predictable and boring, in part because they keep recycling the same old guests, but lately, gratifyingly, there have been some attempts to freshen up the formula by importing some new blood. Hence the move by ABC News to put Maher, the left-leaning satirist/provocateur, at the same roundtable with traditional Beltway bloviators such as George Will.
With Maher slated for the show two days ago, I was eager to watch, if only because I knew that Will would view the interloper as little more than excrement on his well-polished shoe. Will did not disappoint. The problem, however, was that Maher virtually invited the conservative pundit's scorn by uttering the most ridiculous factual inaccuracy.
During a discussion of the BP debacle, Maher argued that America should reduce its oil dependency; after all, he declared, "Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years, and we certainly could've."
Three minutes later, Will fixed on the new guy sitting to his right: "I'd like to go back to Bill. Can you just explain to me in what sense Brazil 'got off' oil?"
Maher looked like a parochial schoolboy who'd been caught by the nuns while pleasuring himself. He said haltingly, "Oh, I believe they did. I believe in the '70s they had a program to use sugar cane ethanol, and I believe this is what fuels - their - country."
Will harrumphed, "I think they still burn a lot of oil and have a lot of it offshore!"
The conversation moved on, but Maher was clearly shaken. As they went to commercial, he said, "Can we have judges fact-check this on Brazil?...I'm sure I read that, I don't think I dreamed that."
But apparently he did. According to the CIA World Factbook, Brazil in 2008 consumed 2.5 million barrels of oil a day - 50 percent more than it consumed as recently as 2006 - and that was the eighth highest in the world.
Memo to Maher: If you want to speak for the left on the morning when official Washington watches TV, keep in mind that you're not riffing to your audience on HBO.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The young tablet market is already littered with floundering or failed devices.
With the tablets such as Motorola's GOOG, -0.30% Xoom, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s HPQ, -0.04% TouchPad, to Research In Motion Ltd.'s RIMM PlayBook, Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.94% has plenty of failures to learn from, including its own previous ill-fated attempts, when it rolls out the Surface later this year. Read more about Microsoft's Surface.
While some of the aforementioned tablets aren't necessarily finished yet, the market is still led by Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.11% and the iPad. The only device to really knock out some of its dominant market share so far has been Amazon Inc.'s AMZN, -1.61% cheaper Kindle Fire, which has since lost some momentum that it had last December.
In April, market research firm Gartner Inc. projected that, even with the arrival of Microsoft-based devices and the anticipated international rollout of the Kindle Fire, "Apple will continue to be the market leader."
Probably the biggest lesson Microsoft can take away from some of the mistakes of the dead and dying tablets is probably price. One of the early key attributes of the iPad — apart from its cool design and other features — was its reasonable starting price of $499. The competing tablets, based on Google Inc.'s Android, were priced far higher out of the gate, discouraging consumers who could pay less for the more popular iPad.
If Microsoft launches the Surface tablet at too high of a price, it too risks entering the tablet graveyard. And now, it's additionally faced with Apple selling the older iPad 2 at a starting price of $399.
But so far, the vibe some analysts are getting is that Surface may start out at a higher price than the iPad. "Microsoft is trying to set the bar higher and it doesn't want to undercut with low prices," said Sarah Rotman Epps, a Forrester Research analyst who believes Microsoft will set higher prices initially for the Surface tablets. "Whether that's a strategy that will resonate with consumers remains to be seen."
The only clues Microsoft has given was a vague statement in its press release that pricing will be announced closer to the availability of the Surface and that it "is expected to be competitive with comparable a ARM tablet or Intel Ultrabook class PC."
That statement left room for a lot of speculation. Early guesses on Wall Street are pretty much all over the map. But what analysts believe will happen is at odds with what they think or hope Microsoft should do.
"The company said RT [Windows Real Time] pricing would be comparable to other ARM-[based] tablets so we hope that means the starter price would be near the iPad's $499 level," said Wells Fargo Securities analyst Jason Maynard, in a note.
There are some other factors at play, though, because Microsoft will be developing two different versions of its tablet, based on its plans to launch two different operating systems, Windows 8 and Windows RT. It also cannot afford to upset its computer maker partners, with which it will also be competing, and said its OEMs will have "cost and feature parity."
Its Surface tablets based on chips using popular mobile designs from ARM Holdings PLC's ARMH could be less expensive, while the heavier, thicker Surface based on Intel Corp. INTC, +1.50% chips may cost more. One analyst has some pretty high price estimates.
"We would therefore expect Surface for Windows RT in the $500 to $700 range and Surface W8 for at least $800," said Raymond James analyst Michael Turits, in a note on Tuesday.
Others, though, believe the software behemoth needs to come in at far lower prices than that, even if it means cutting into potential profits, if it really wants to grab market share. Peter Misek, an analyst with Jefferies & Co., noted on Tuesday that "Microsoft will need to significantly undercut the iPad to be competitive."
Shaw Wu, an analyst with Sterne Agee, said that Microsoft "may need to price aggressively, closer to Amazon or even below, to give the Surface a fair chance in the marketplace," Wu noted. "The risk of course with this is no profitability or likely losses as we have seen with RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook and H-P's TouchPad."
And even it if launches at least one model of the Surface at a very low price point, Microsoft is still seen facing an uphill battle against Apple's competitive advantage and its supply chain prowess and buying power.
The battle between the old foes and quasi friends, Apple and Microsoft, is going to be fun to watch.


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The City of Markham's Snow Windrow Removal Assistance Program is designed to help disabled and elderly residents maintain road access from their driveways during the winter season.
Crews will be dispatched to clear the centre portion of snow windrows (one car width only) on all roads following a 7.5 cm (3") snow fall. Windrows will be cleared within 8 hours after crews plow the road. The City reserves the right to decide when snow windrow service will take place. Also note that the windrow left from the sidewalk plow is not included in this service.
In order to qualify for this program, all individual(s) residing in the household must be 60 years or older (proof of age is required) or younger than 12 years of age. If any members of the household are between the ages of 12 years and 60 years, a current and valid doctor's certificate confirming they are physically unable to clear snow must be provided.
Please note: Residential homes with rear lanes do not qualify for this service because different procedures are in place for snow removal. Snow is pushed straight ahead out of the rear lane and hauled away leaving only a minimal amount of residual snow, which makes this service unnecessary for these areas.
If you are eligible to receive this service, please submit an application form and provide required documentation.
Mail or drop off your completed application form to:
The City of Markham
101 Town Centre Boulevard
Markham, Ontario
Attention: Contact Centre – Snow
If you have any questions or require any additional information with respect to this service, please contact the City of Markham at 905-475-4866 Monday to Friday 8 AM to 5 PM (Thursdays we are open until 7 PM)
Related Documents:
Snow Windrow Removal Application Form [PDF]
Please Note: Application is printable on 8 1/2" x 14" Legal-sized paper.


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