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"We've now confirmed with a body, what the eDNA evidence has suggested: That Asian Carp are indeed knocking on the door of the Great Lakes," Department of Natural Resources assistant director John Rogner said Thursday night.
If the Asian carp reach the Great Lakes, environmental officials fear it could destroy many species endemic to the lake. The giant fish could starve out other fish and devastate the $7 billion-a-year Great Lakes fishing industry.
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The author has been living with some of his material for three decades, and you get the impression he has never once grown tired of it, no small achievement when you consider that this period includes novels as tiresome as "Studs Lonigan" or (I would guess) Michael Gold's "Jews Without Money," a "feverish," naturalistic story about coming of age in New York's noisome Lower East Side that was widely acclaimed and widely read when it was published in 1930. Dickstein's thorough, sympathetic account of the novel credits it with a jagged, passionate style, apparently not entirely appreciated at the time. I don't know. I suspect I will never know, from firsthand experience, what I think of Gold's fiction: Life, as they say, is short. What I do know of him firsthand, from my own researches into 1930s criticism, is that he soon became, as Dickstein writes, "an apologist for party hacks and progressive 'enlightened' murderers," vituperatively excoriating contemporaries who strayed from the Stalinist line.
It makes you wonder. It makes Dickstein wonder, I'm sure -- what came over this modestly promising man? But Dickstein is no student of the psychology of artistic creation. His thoughts are confined to the written or imagistic record -- what they meant to us in their day, what they may still mean to us today. It is a good strategy if your aim (it is not a small one) is to convey what it was to read and see at a certain moment in history.
It's to Dickstein's credit that, while he is vividly readable on relatively obscure writers such as Gold, he's at his best with more popular figures like John Steinbeck and Frank Capra. In fact, it requires true critical daring to advance the causes of people long since dismissed as "middlebrows" by the cultural elite. He sees Steinbeck not so much as a "protest" writer -- he was no ideologue -- but more as a reporter, a horrified witness to the rape of the Edenic California of his birth. Steinbeck can write sympathetically of the Communists organizing migrant farmworkers, but his deepest concern is with people like the Joad family, struggling to survive amid overwhelming disasters with little more than goodwill and a touch of populist rhetoric to support them. This cost him the critics but permanently won him a readership that renews itself with each new generation. That is all right with Dickstein. And with me. "[W]ith his remarkably simple, concrete, and accessible style [he] remains virtually the introduction to literature for many young readers," he writes. His work refuses to date like that of his "more ambitious or grimly topical contemporaries."
Capra's case is more complicated, not least because he himself willfully misunderstood his own work, gleefully embracing the "Capracorn" label placed on it largely because he always tried to manipulate his films toward a happy ending. At best, his motto was "The People, Maybe" (which may be an improvement on Nathanael West's attitude, "The People, Ye Gods"; Dickstein writes movingly about West). By the time Capra made "Meet John Doe" in 1941, that broken, near-masterpiece, his fear of American populism, in which he clearly saw the potential for native fascism, powerfully nagged at him. And the darkness of his last masterpiece, "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) -- somehow misunderstood as a cozy Christmas fable -- is at least half the time a genre unto itself: "Small Town Noir." It is greatly to Dickstein's credit that he reads Capra's films, not his reputation. I would add only that at his brief height he was, technically, the greatest American director, resting my case on the astonishing "Rally in the Rain" sequence in "Doe" (which I believe is the greatest piece of mass-action staging in American movie history).
You can quarrel with Dickstein, of course. I like Dos Passos' "U.S.A. Trilogy" and Budd Schulberg's "What Makes Sammy Run?" far less grudgingly than he does. The former may be schematic and typological in its characters, but it has an energy and a singular, half-mad desire to blend the literary modernism of the 1920s with the left-wing politics of the 1930s. "Sammy" may be, as Dickstein suggests, a sort of proletarian novel about men in polo coats, but it is also a timelessly accurate novel of Hollywood manners and morals -- including those of its sizable population of decent people.
But we must not bog down in details. Dickstein is terrific on all kinds of expression: the decade's cult of speed or the process of streamlining; the elegance of Art Deco and its employment of new materials (Bakelite anyone? Fred and Ginger?); the raucous raptures of Louis Armstrong and the insinuating ease of his good, jazz-singing buddy, Bing Crosby. Woody Guthrie was, yes, bound for glory but also bound for a craziness far deeper than most of us ever understood.
I like Dickstein's notion that Busby Berkeley's intense choreographic geometries owe as much to Leni Riefenstahl as they do to Broadway's paltry models. He gives us inverted success stories ("the gangster as tragic hero" and all that), Gershwin and Copland coming to populism by very different routes and F. Scott Fitzgerald wandering the progressive wilderness -- trying, and failing, to turn his boyish romanticism into a tragic vision. (Did ever any fiction get Hollywood as wrong as "The Last Tycoon"?) I even appreciate some of the things Dickstein essentially leaves out -- "Gone With the Wind," for example, and "The Wizard of Oz," those drippy fantasies treasured by those forever lost in Neverland.
Despite the author's resistance to Big Think, some quite interesting, surprising conclusions peep shyly out of these 600 pages. One is that, at least in high culture, a dialectic was working: between the once-dominant high culture of the 1920s (with its stress on experiments both verbal and visual) as it fought a rear-guard battle against artlessness for artlessness' sake -- or should we say, against a largely ill-expressed proletarian sentimentality? This was a struggle not won by the modernists until well into the postwar era, and then possibly for the wrong reasons. But there you are -- nothing is as deeply lost to non-specialist posterity as proletarian novels such as "Bottom Dogs," "Hungry Men" or, yes, "Jews Without Money." Oh, brothers, where art thou?
Ironically, as Dickstein makes clear, these sober, idealistic works were thrown in the face of a perversely chipper, middle-class public culture. Maybe one-third of the nation was wandering around looking like Dorothea Lange extras, but . . . wow, look at the Chrysler Building, shouldering the sky. Wow, look at the streamlined cladding of the Pennsylvania Limited whizzing past. Wow, listen to Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell trading zingers in "His Girl Friday." The thought occurs to me, reading Dickstein's marvelous and nonmoralizing book, that maybe this country has not been, for something close to a century, a serious country. Even in extremis we're always looking for a laugh, a song, an inspirational ending. We try -- we really do -- but, damn, that Jean Harlow sure was a cutie.
Schickel's new book, co-written with George Perry, is "Bette Davis: Larger Than Life."


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For several months now Little Joy has been locked up tight as new owners gave the Echo Park hipster dive bar a makeover that features a contemporary, industrial-style with Art Deco touches. Echo Park resident Joaquin Reyna-Donaldson and business partner Don Andes added a new oak bar and DJ booth but kept some of the original features and fixtures – including the pool table and even bars on some windows. There is one part of the bar where the new owners, and many of the patrons, were not so nostalgic about: the restrooms. The old Little Joy mens and ladies restrooms were so notorious that many a Yelp! review – included a mention of the dire conditions to be expected:
The band was great and the drinks were cheap.Everything else was not so great… Bathrooms were atrocious (floors were completely soaked with who knows what) – Bethany B.
I have indeed seen coke all over the bathroom at certain points but hey whatever floats their boats? – Monica S.
When I stepped out of the stall [two women] had handfulls of hair and were clawing at each other. Full on GIRL FIGHT! I dodged their swings and washed my hands, quietly sneaking out so as not to get sucked into it. DeAnne D.
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The women's restroom is HUGE. Three stalls, a large mirror and shelf, and those bars you see on the windows were already a fixture of the bathroom but have been fixed up and made a focus of the room.
The new ladies room, and bar, are scheduled to be open for business in time for the Dodger season opener on April 1. The Echo Park bar still needs some last-minute dressing up and decorative touches but here are some photos of what to expect:
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And right on cue, an update on the Pathfinder Online sandbox MMO surfaced:
Not a lot to find interesting; there's background and there's some buildings, but only a few seconds worth of actual figures. The concept of a sandbox fantasy MMO is interesting, so I'm wondering about the details that weren't shown in the video clip.
Another thing I've wondered is whether the next gen consoles will push MMOs away from PCs and into the console format. Blizzard could be getting some valuable development time in that regard with porting D3 to the XBox360 and PS3, but the major stumbling blocks are XBLive and PSN. Without the cross platform connectivity, that seems to ensure that MMOs' major selling point (the massively multi part) will be balkanized. However, I would never bet against Blizzard being able to figure something out in this regard.
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Me: Yeah, just ran right by me. Because, you know, a frigid mountain climb goes better without clothing.
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Warrior: We need a tank here by Drek!
Mage: WTF, man. You're marked AS a tank.
Warrior: Oh. Whoops.
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12 [" You ought," etc. Does any modern bishop of the Roman obedience presume to speak thus to the "infallible" oracle of the Vatican?]
1 Oxford ed.: Ep. lxvii. A.D. 257.
2 Leon.
3 Astorga.
4 Merida.
5 Ex. xix. 22.
6 Ex. xxviii. 43.
7 Lev. xxi. 17.
8 Isa. xxix. 13.
9 Mark vii. 13.
10 "Antistites."
11 John ix. 31.
12 Hos. ix. 4.
13 Num. xvi. 26.
14 Num. xx. 25, 26.
15 [See sec. 5, infra.]
16 Acts i. 15. From some authorities, Baluzius here interpolates, "the number of men was about a hundred and twenty." But this, says a modern editor, smacks of" emendation."
17 Acts iv. 2.
18 Hos. viii. 4.
19 [See Ep. xl. p. 319, supra.]
20 Elucidation XIV.]
21 ["Our colleague Stephen," placed at a distance, ignorant of facts and truth, and, in short, incompetent to meddle with the African province in its own business: such was Cyprian's idea of the limits to which even this apostolic See was restricted.]
22 Gal.vi. 7.
23 Tit. i. 7.
24 Saragossa.
25 A collector of taxes, so called from the amount of his salary.
26 [Elucidation XV.]
27 [Surely a significant warning to our own times.]
28 Some read, "by the furnaces; " some "by arms."
29 [A noteworthy testimony to the Decian period, when to be a Christian, indeed, was to be a confessor or martyr. Soc., H.E., bk. iv. c. 28.]
30 Rom. iii. 3, 4.
31 Ps. l. 17, 18.
32 Rom. i. 30-32.
1 Oxford ed.: Ep. lxvi. From his saying, that he has now discharged his episcopal office for six years (sec. 5), it is plainly evident that he is writing this letter in the time of Stephen. A.D. 254.
2 It is suggested with some probability, that this form of superscription was intended to rebuke the rudeness of Florentius, who, in addressing Cyprian, had used his heathen name of Thascius instead of his baptismal name of Caecilius, which he had adopted from the presbyter who had been the means of his conversion.
3 Matt. x. 29.
4 John v. 31, 32.
5 [A mild remonstrance against the officous conduct of Stephen, also.]
6 Deut. xvii. 12, 13.
7 1 Sam. viii. 7.
8 John xviii. 23.
9 Acts xxiii. 4, 5.
10 [A mild remonstrance against the officous conduct of Stephen, also.]
11 Luke x. 16.
12 [His aphorism, Ecclesia in Episcopo, is here used in another form. "The bishop" here = the episcopate.]
13 [Praepositum is the word thus translated.]
14 Antistitem. [This word occurs in Tertullian, De Fuga.]
15 [In all this his theory comes out; viz., that unity is maintained by communion with one's lawful bishop, not with any foreign See.]
16 Ecclus. xxviii. 24 (Vulg. 28).
17 Prov. xvii. 4, LXX.
18 [See sec. 6, note 3, supra.]
19 Rom. iii. 3, 4.
20 John vi. 67-69.
21 [Not any of his successors, but Peter personally, is thus honoured on the strength of Eph. ii. 20. All the apostles were in this foundation also, Rev. xxi. 14; but the figure excludes successors, who are of the superstructure, necessarily.]
22 [In all this his theory comes out; viz., that unity is maintained by communion with one's lawful bishop, not with any foreign See.]
23 [See sec. 5, supra. This is the famous formula of Cyprian's theory. The whole theory is condensed in what follows.]
24 Gen. xxxvii. 19, 20. [It seems a beautiful coincidence that another Joseph was a "dreamer" (Matt. ii. 20, 23); and in those days, when prophets and prophesyings were hardly yet extinct, we must not too readily call this credulity. Ps. lxxxix. 19, Vulgate.]
1 Oxford ed.: Ep. lxx. A.D. 255.
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Vice President Cheney continues to infuriate E.J. Dionne, surely a good sign for the Republic. Dionne is unhappy with this statement by Cheney:
Al Qaeda functions on the basis that they think they can break our will. That's their fundamental underlying strategy, that if they can kill enough Americans or cause enough havoc, create enough chaos in Iraq, then we'll quit and go home. And my statement was that if we adopt the Pelosi policy, that then we will validate the strategy of al Qaeda.
Outraged though he is, Dionne does not dispute any of the above propositions, all of which strike me as near-truisms. Instead, Dionne talks about the Scooter Libby trial. His argument, if you can call it that, is that Cheney engaged in unsavory "spinning" against Joe Wilson in 2003; therefore he must be doing the same thing to his political opponents these days.
But what exactly did Cheney do wrong to Joe Wilson in 2003? Dionne accuses Cheney of being "beside himself" over Wilson's column in the New York Times in which the debonair diplomat claimed that his trip to Niger revealed that, contrary to what President Bush had said, Saddam Hussein had not sought nuclear material from that country.
If Cheney was in fact "beside himself" over this he had every right to be because Wilson lied in his New York Times article. As John explained here, Wilson reported to the CIA, which sent him to Niger to investigate, that the former prime minister of Niger had told him that Iraq made an overture that the Prime Minister understood as an attempt to buy uranium. This is just what the administration had been claiming, as in the president's famous 16 words about Niger in his state of the union address.
However, Wilson represented in his New York Times piece that his trip to Niger had not borne out the president's claim. Wilson thus flat-out lied in his New York Times piece in order to cast the administration in a false light. Accordingly, Vice President Cheney had every right to be upset.
Of course, Cheney's anger would not have been an excuse for taking unlawful action against Wilson or his wife. But Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation failed to find that Cheney (or Scooter Libby for that matter) took any such unlawful action against them.
Thus, it is Dionne, not the vice president, who is "spinning" and "smearing."
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Interview: Viola on Jesus Manifesto, Restoring Primacy of Christ
Frank Viola and Leonard Sweet believe Jesus has gotten shortchanged and they want to give Christ "His rightful place of centrality, supremacy and sovereignty."
In Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ, the authors outline how incredible, vast and incomparable Jesus is and implore Christians to make Him the centerpiece of God's universe and theirs.
The Christian Post spoke with Viola, who also authored the best-selling From Eternity to Here, via e-mail.
CP: How did you and Leonard Sweet come together to write this book?
Viola: In August of 2008, Len and I began talking via email and phone. We both were very burdened and concerned about the place that Jesus Christ was getting in Christianity as a whole. In April of 2009, the idea of writing a joint essay emerged. We wrote the 2,400-word essay in about 18 days, titled it "A Magna Carta" and subtitled it "A Jesus Manifesto." It was published online on June 22, 2009. It went viral immediately. (I'm told that it was viewed 500,000 times in 8 weeks.) At the end of last year, Thomas Nelson was interested in expanding the essay into a 200-page book. The book, Jesus Manifesto, released June 1st, 2010.
CP: What made you want to write the book now? Did the problem of churches misrepresenting Jesus or making the Gospel about so many things other than Christ become particularly bad in recent years or has it always persisted?
Viola: When Len and I began talking about our shared concern that Jesus Christ was getting short-changed in many quarters, the discussion mainly came in two directions:
On the one hand, there are many who affirm the orthodox teaching of the Person of Jesus, yet in many cases, other "things" are being put on the throne in place of Him. As A.W. Tozer once put it, "you can be straight as a gun barrel theologically and just as empty as one spiritually." It's easy to get distracted with "things" . . . even good things that are related to the Lord . . . yet miss the Lord Himself. Again, Tozer said, "the devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still." It's not enough to be able to parrot correct doctrine about Jesus. The Holy Spirit wants to reveal Christ to our hearts in a living way and make Him preeminent and supreme in our lives, our ministries, and our churches. This happens when our eyes are opened to see His greatness.
On the other hand, the biblical testimony of who Jesus is … that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (rather than one way, a relative truth, or a nice life) . . . has come under massive assault by postmodern deconstructionists. Len and I hold strongly to the apostolic creeds that present Jesus as the Savior who was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, was crucified for our sins, bodily rose again from the dead as this world's true Lord, ascended to the Father, and will return to this earth one day as supreme Judge of the living and the dead. (The Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are solid, yet ancient statements of the above.)
We also feel that many Christians are frozen when they turn to the left or the right (politically speaking). Both the Christian left and the Christian right are seeking to use the power of the Empire to accomplish its goals. Both come to Caesar's table to negotiate as another political player in the game. We feel that this is not the proper place for the church of the living God, especially in post-Christendom world. Thus we are presenting a "third path" that isn't left or right, but forward. Forward to the Christ who lives today–who is the same Christ who is presented to us in the inspired Scriptures.
Finally, we see the Christian camp divided between those who see Jesus as mainly the Justifier (advocates emphasize the portrait of Jesus painted in Romans and Galatians) versus those who see Jesus as mainly the Justice-Giver (advocates emphasize the portrait of Jesus painted in Matthew, Mark, and Luke). Our book brings both portraits together and puts them within the larger context of Paul's revelation of Christ in Colossians, Ephesians, and the Gospel of John. He is Alpha and Omega, and He is far more than the One who justifies the sinner and brings justice for the oppressed.
So many popular books today put you and me at the center of the "Youniverse." Our book shifts the spotlight onto Christ and Christ alone. As one reviewer recently put it, "Don't read Jesus Manifesto unless you're ready to leave the Youniverse."
Charles Spurgeon rightly said that Christ "is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great, all-comprehending theme." Our book seeks to unravel that statement to a 21st century audience.
CP: Could you describe how and when you came to know Jesus in all His glory and splendor?
Viola: The Lord Jesus Christ has been a progressive revelation and unfolding in my life. I've by no means arrived or seen all of Him – we never will or can this side of the veil. I feel like someone who has gotten a small glimpse of Solomon's treasures. It began in April of 1992, when someone presented Christ in a way that I had never before seen or heard. It wrecked me and left me hungry and thirsty to know Him. He has been my chief pursuit ever since. What's so humbling and encouraging is that many people are testifying to this same experience after reading our book.
CP: To most American Christians today, who is Jesus?
Viola: I would expect that if you did a survey, you'd find some of these as answers: Son of God. Savior of the world. The one who died on the cross to forgive us of our sins. The person who gave us an example of how to be good to others. A social activist. A moral philosopher. The Lord. I don't think you'd have many people say that He is the fullness of the Godhead, the creator and sustainer of the cosmos, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and Omega, a life-giving Spirit, and then explain what all of that means in a way that arrests and rivets the heart. Hopefully that will change.
CP: While churches remain engaged in reaching those who don't know Christ, more (such as Craig Groeschel and Rick Warren) are beginning to also reach out to those already in the pews, who are already saved but not quite living their lives as true disciples. What are your thoughts on that?
Viola: Our book is written primarily to Christians. We're very interested in people knowing their Lord, falling in love with Him, and learning how to live by His indwelling life. The way to be a true disciple is to know Jesus, to love Jesus, and to learn how to follow Him by the indwelling Spirit in the here-and-now. That's not WWJD. It's "not I, but Christ lives in me" (present tense). Yet that doesn't happen until we are awakened to the stunning greatness of Jesus, and we discover that He is an indwelling Lord. (He indwells those who have repented and believed upon Him.) Jesus seeks to live out His life in and through us. That's a very different concept for many Christians when they hear about discipleship.
CP: It seems simple and obvious that Christianity is Christ. But why do you think so many believers and church leaders have turned Christianity and the Gospel into something more than or other than Christ?
Viola: It's easy to say and parrot. But having an earthshaking revelation of Christ is quite a different thing. When someone really sees that Christ is ALL (as J.C. Ryle put it) on a heart level, it changes everything . . . even our vocabulary. We give examples of this in the book.
The answer to your other question is that many believers haven't received a revelation of Jesus Christ to their hearts that has ruined them for anything else. To put it metaphorically, their Christ is too small. In C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian, Aslan tells Lucy, "Every year you grow, you will find Me bigger."
This was one of our aims in writing this book – to present to us all a greater view of Christ than we have been given. Thus our words: "It is with a burning heart for Jesus Christ and a guarded jealousy for His preeminence that we have written this book. We have written it for Him and to Him. We trust that it has been by Him and through Him." (page 173)
CP: Jesus is being shortchanged today, you say. So what do you suggest churches do to really grasp who Jesus is, to make it all about Christ, and to re-present him to Christians and non-Christians alike?
Viola: We intentionally didn't make Jesus Manifesto a recipe book as we want people to follow the Spirit in applying its message into their own lives and churches. I know that a good number of pastors are handing the book out to their congregations, and they are going over it together as church.
When I first came into a greater apprehension of Christ, I moved heaven and earth to find those who could present Him with staggering power and reality. So I invited those folks in to minister to us, and it was life-changing for all of us. One of the things that our book is designed to do is to create hunger and thirst for Jesus – a real longing to know Him that's not generated from guilt, duty, or obligation, but out of a sighting of His glory. I would hope that those who are moved by our book would begin to follow that hunger and thirst, and by the Holy Spirit of God, see where it leads them.
CP: What are your thoughts on today's conservative Christian leaders who are active in the public policy area and largely known for what they are against, such as abortion and homosexuality? Should they take a step back and focus more on shining the spotlight on Christ?
Viola: Interestingly, a number of Christians on both the left and the right (politically) have written to us saying that the book has caused them to hit pause on what they are presently doing and reexamine it in the light of the centrality, supremacy, absolute headship and indwelling life of the Lord Jesus Christ. I think that's a wise thing for all of us to do, no matter what sort of ministry we're engaged in.
CP: We keep hearing about the younger evangelicals who are less interested in opposing issues and more interested in working on what they are for such as mission, helping the poor, justice, and so forth. Is the younger generation taking a step in the right direction or, as you mention in the book, are they making justice the end goal?
Viola: Some have shared with us that the book exposed that they were putting justice on the throne instead of Jesus. Others confessed that the book humbled them after reading it, and they realized that they were making Jesus a "cause," admitting that they don't really know HIM very well, but now desire to.
This is also happening among leaders also, who have shared with us that they have put "leadership principles" on the throne and lost Jesus in the process. I think the book finds many of us out in this regard. I know that Len and I wept through parts of it ourselves while writing it. We hope that God will continue to breathe on it in this regard.
CP: Would you say you're more concerned with the secularization of society or Christians losing sight of or misrepresenting Christ?
They go hand in hand. The latter often provokes and foments the former.
CP: Do you currently see any positive signs of people going back to Christ and becoming Jesus Manifestos?
Viola: The book has been out for a little over two weeks. So it's hard to access that right now. But based on the mail I'm receiving, it's having a monumental impact. And based on the way it's been selling, there's titanic interest in the message of Christ that it presents.


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(Photography by Aaron Smith and Carleton Curtis)
The world-famous Lockwood Elementary playground and banks set the stage for 2008's DC King Of L.A. am showdown. Things started off at the buttcrack-'o-dawn and I still can't believe how many skateboarders showed up at 9 a.m.—truly miraculous. But it didn't take long for all 64 young bucks to start flicking king-sized tricks. Ray Maldonado, Trevor McClung, Nick Mullins, Kirk Rocha, Moose, Cesar Fernandez, Billy Davenport, and Nick Merlino all had standout days at Lockwood, annihilating the bump-to-bar, various flatground obstacles, and the marquee bank to bench. To see the first half of the day for yourself, check out the slideshow, sequences, and complete results below… (the Belmont photos are coming soon)—Carleton Curtis
King Of Los Angeles 2008: Nick Merlino
Lockwood Elementary (banks and street obstacles)
1st Place ($1,000) – Ray Maldonado
2nd Place ($500) – Kirk Rocha
3rd Place ($400) – Ricky Webb
4th Place ($300) – Billy Davenport
5th Place ($200) – Dwayne Fagundes
6th Place ($100) – Cesar Fernandez
Cesar Fernandez backtail 270 out the hard way.
Nick Marlino taking a different route with this tall hippy jump.
Nick Merlino, bump to noseblunt to fakie.
Moose bump to frontside boardslide bigspin out.


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You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
The snow won't lift in New Hampshire.
Slate's chief political correspondent, John Dickerson, is reporting from New Hampshire this week, three weeks before the primaries on Jan. 8. In addition to his stories, he'll be filing Twitter updates and dispatches about life on the road. You can also follow his travels on the map below. Also, check out John's past travels in Iowa and all the candidates' whereabouts on " Map the Candidates."
Dec. 20, 2007
Manchester, N.H., Noon: There is an old joke about the guy who in the middle of running a marathon got too tired and ran back. Today, I am that man. About 15 miles down Highway 101, headed toward Exeter to catch Obama, I broke off my tour into the driving snow and returned to Manchester.
After I'd settled my rental car on the two thin gray lines on the highway, I called a source at one of the campaigns. I needed to do the reporting and I could either focus on how hard the snow was falling, how much there was on the road, or the discarded spun out carcasses of vehicles that were parked on the shoulder. Or, I could focus on the most wide-open presidential race in the history of mankind.
"You know," he said, "the thing is, God forbid if anything happens, you'll wonder why you thought driving was so important." This was persuasive. I have seen a lot of Obama speeches. I saw him last night. More persuasive, though, was the Wal-Mart truck and his cousins driving as if it were a bright, dry day and the cheap Christmas presents were two days late. The highway has two lanes, but in the snow the lanes are only theoretical. (permalink)
Manchester, N.H., 9:32 a.m.: It's been snowing since last night's parking lot incident. The schools are closed. I check in with the Obama folks. The events are still on in Exeter, though this message from one of Obama's staffers is not encouraging: "Drive carefully. I spent an hour in a ditch this morning." (permalink)
Dec. 19, 2007
Manchester, N.H., 7:30 p.m.: If I'm not going to make it to the Obama event, I'll catch John Edwards down the street. His event started at 6:45, and—given how late he always is—I'm sure it hasn't even started.
Drat. It has. The Palace Theater is packed and Edwards, still in his graduate school uniform, is pacing onstage in front of the set of A Christmas Carol. He's just wrapping up, which means Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne have long ago finished. I take notes anyway.
Edwards gets more detailed questions from his audiences than other candidates. He's asked about the military tribunals act, the nonproliferation treaty, and the relationship between global warming and poverty. For each, he has a very specific answer. At the Obama event I just attended, for example, people asked vague questions about unity and education. Then, a woman in the upper balcony stands up not to ask a question but to sing. She has written a song for Edwards and despite the professionals onstage, she is unbowed.
John Edwards he should be our president
He's the one with all the qualifications
And he'll lead without a reservation
Edwards is No. 1, follow him and see
He's the man with the plan and he can do what's right for us
Edwards is for me.
The tune resembles the kind that was sung in campaigns up until the '60s. My mother used to sing them, which sent me racing from the room. I am gripped by the same urge. When the woman finishes the first verse, the room erupts into applause. Everyone is on her side. "If I were you, I'd stop on that," Edwards says. What he means, I think, is that she's done such a wonderful job she should go out on a triumphant note. And yet, he may also mean: "If I were you I'd stop on that." (permalink)
Manchester, N.H., 7:15 p.m.: Apparently the people who attended the Obama event and have parked in the underground garage have never seen snow before, or they are transfixed by the Obama message and unable to operate their vehicles. These are the only two reasons I can find to explain why the cars trying to exit the garage into the light flurries are unable to do so at a faster rate than one per lunar cycle. I am going to miss the next event. Wait, no I'm not; it's just some blockage that will clear. Someone will get a new general and there will be a surge. I am in it to win it. Fifteen minutes pass. The cars do not move. At this rate, I'll never make it. I am Tancredoing this operation. (permalink)
Manchester, N.H. 6 p.m.: Obama arrives to a room full of 700 New Hampshire voters—the same room where last December I watched him flirt with the idea of running for president. Everyone in the room has had to go through a narrow passage between two tables so that volunteers can cajole them to put down their names and phone numbers or e-mail addresses. Events like this are about the candidate making his pitch, but they're also an effort to capture data. The campaign needs personal data to constantly assault voters with phone calls, yard signs, text messages, and e-mail updates for the next three weeks to make sure they turn out to vote.
Obama gives a fine enough speech and he has everyone on their feet at the end, but I've seen him better. Anyone can have an off event, so I'm headed down to Nashua to catch his next act. Most of my colleagues in the press are not going to go to the next Obama event because it's snowing too hard. I'm going to risk it. The event is only 25 miles south of Manchester, so I figure it's not that hard a mission. (permalink)
Dec. 18, 2007
Nashua, N.H., Raddison, 10:30 p.m.: The hotel is under renovation. This means there is no food and no libation. After a long day, I find that I am struck by a terrible thirst. The solution can be found at Uno's down the street, where it takes three hands to hold the fold-out menu and where there's a completely separate menu for the flaming, fruity, and frapped drinks. After a day of not eating, however, I am convinced that I have discovered the best pizza in the history of pizza. (permalink)
Nashua, N.H., 8 p.m.: Like in Keene, the theater at Daniel Webster College is packed and there is an overflow room. And like at Keene, we wait for the candidate for an hour. The crowd starts the fast-clap, which is never good for a candidate. Finally, Raitt and Browne play, and Edwards gives a stump speech nearly identical to the one he gave up north, though his wife and daughter are gone, so they don't interject.
A woman stands up to ask him a question about socialized medicine, and he does something I've seen him do at a few other events. He anticipates where she's going before she's done and cuts her off a little bit. He ultimately apologizes after mischaracterizing her view. Bush did this, and I do it, too, when I'm not being very generous to the person I'm debating with. It's not antagonistic, exactly, it's just not generous. He is a man in a hurry, and it shows. (permalink)
Nashua, N.H., 7:45 p.m.: "Mommy, where are we going?" asks a toddler in front of me as we make our long, slippery way into Daniel Webster College to hear John Edwards. His mother tells him that they're going to hear Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne. Oh, and John Edwards. "Is he president?" No, she tells him, he's running for president. It's about 17 degrees, it's a long walk from the parking lot, and I'm very much in agreement with the young lad when he complains, "Mommy, I'm freezing." She has no sympathy: "It's good for you." That is the New Hampshire way. (permalink)
Nashua, N.H., 7:22 p.m.: I have forgotten to eat today. I now have a series of bad choices to make among America's fast-food chains. I turn into the McDonald's because its there. The Neverlost Lady does not like this because she has been tasked with getting me to the John Edwards event. "Please proceed to the highlighted route," she admonishes, because I am off course. For the 2012 campaign, she'll have directions from the doctor: "Chicken nuggets have too much salt, which leads to high blood pressure." She chides me again: "Please proceed to the highlighted route." On the little screen, my car, designated by a triangular ship identical to the one on the old game Asteroids, is off the grid floating in blackness. The drive-in line is too long. I bail. I am back on course to catch Edwards. She has nothing further to say. (permalink)
Highway 101 to Nashua, N.H., 6:55 p.m.: I am driving very slowly because I don't want to get pulled over again and because the dark mountain roads turn as if they were drawn by Harold with his purple crayon. It may be the roads or because it's election season, but I'm getting flip-flopper radio reception. No matter the station, I hear two alternating songs. This deletes any good feeling I may have had after listening to Raitt and Browne. On a radio station somewhere, George Thorogood, Robert Plant, and Stevie Nicks are always singing and this makes for interesting lyrical mashups with an uncertain radio: one burbon, one scotch and one white winged dove. (permalink)
Highway 101 to Nashua, N.H., 6:55 p.m.: I am driving very slowly because I don't want to get pulled over again and because the dark mountain roads turn as if they were drawn by Harold with his purple crayon. It may be the roads or because it's election season, but I'm getting flip-flopper radio reception. No matter the station, I hear two alternating songs. This deletes any good feeling I may have had after listening to Raitt and Browne. On a radio station somewhere, George Thorogood, Robert Plant, and Stevie Nicks are always singing and this makes for interesting lyrical mashups with an uncertain radio: one burbon, one scotch and one white winged dove. (permalink)
Keene, N.H., 5 p.m.: Elizabeth Edwards has just arrived onstage with her daughter Cate, who is a student at Harvard law school. She tells us Cate isn't going to be speaking but then says to the crowd, "Isn't she lovely?" This is not spin. The audience claps because Cate is lovely. This description (though understandable from a mother) would seem a little antiquated and limiting, but then Elizabeth explains that Cate volunteers for a legal-aid bureau and on Thursday will try to keep a family from being evicted the week before Christmas. Lovely and committed, just like her father.
The event has felt a little like a carnival up to this point. Peter Coyote, the actor and author, has spoken and music has been played. Granny D, the 97-year-old political activist, has talked, delivering a righteous clubbing to Hillary Clinton, whom she says is bought and paid for by corporate interests. Elizabeth Edwards centers things, playing her traditional sidekick role. She starts by describing the man she met at law school 33 years ago. "This young man was incredibly sweet about his family. The way he talked about his family would have warmed anyone's heart. He talked about the things he wanted to do and where he'd come from. He didn't have much but he talked about it not in terms of how little he had but all the great gifts he'd been given. The determination and the work ethic and how he was able to bring that to the table in law school. … All those young men I'd met before—they all faded, that one man and that sense of optimism about what a single person can accomplish, made all the difference in the world. It's an incredible characteristic in a husband. It's an essential characteristic in a president. ... He's the same young man I met 35 years ago, and to my great dismay he still pretty much looks the same. My husband, John Edwards."
Edwards arrives onstage dressed like he may have 35 years ago, in jeans and a zippered sweatshirt. Candidates make closing arguments; this is his closing uniform. He was wearing the same thing when I was with him in Iowa last week. During the question period after Edwards' stemwinder speech, his wife returns to make regular interjections. After Edwards answers a question about health care, she adds more about insurance companies' antitrust exemptions. She does the same with a question about the Supreme Court, which Cate has also taken a crack at answering. Edwards reaches the microphone, but Elizabeth waves him away. "Somebody said how they are praying for my good health. Please pray for the good health of Justice Stevens. He is 87 years old and stands between us and even worse decisions by the Supreme Court."
"There is a reason I bring her along," Edwards says taking back the microphone and repeating a question a reporter asked him after watching his wife. "Does she check with you when she speaks?" The answer is no, which becomes clear yet again when Edwards starts to answer a question about how he'll select his Cabinet. "I don't want to be surrounded by a bunch of yes people," he insists, getting up a head of steam. "I want people who will say to me you are wrong." The audience starts to laugh loudly because Elizabeth has raised her hand. "Did you raise your hand?" Edwards turns around to ask her. "I thought they did it on their own." They would have. (permalink)
Keene, N.H., 4:45 p.m.: After getting pulled over, I thought about turning around. I was going to be more than an hour late to the event. Fortunately, I was less late than the candidate who is always late. The second floor of the student center was packed to the rafters at Keene State University, which meant the laconic people of New Hampshire are not as stingy with their time as they are their words. They either really wanted to hear John Edwards, or they wanted to hear Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne.
I had to work, so I sat down on my jacket to read the edits of my McCain piece. When Raitt and Browne finally took the small stage, standing before a few bleachers of voters, I didn't even get up. Then they started playing "World in Motion" by Jackson Browne (a pretty good song despite a slightly clunky rhyme of hatred and eradicated). The room was transfixed by the performers. I stopped to listen and then had to stand up when they played John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery," a gorgeous song about a lonesome woman. For me, it was like unexpectedly smelling great food cooking somewhere. It triggered an entirely different set of reactions than I have to a normal political speech. If that was true for other people, was it preparing them for Edwards or was it going to make him seem like a cold bucket of water? (permalink)
Keene, N.H., 4:45 p.m.: I'm late and on a two-lane highway in the mountains of New Hampshire. Finally, the pickup in front of me turns down a snow-covered lane. Yahoo! I am off like a rocket. This little spasm of acceleration introduces me to the finest of New Hampshire's state police force. I was encouraged to pull over to the side of the road. License and registration, please, the officer asked me. He was a tremendously kind fellow. Rental cars don't have registration. All I could present him with was the plastic laminated card with instructions for the Neverlost system. He returned to his car to check out my license. (He left me with the laminated instructions.) He returned, and there was some further discussion. Did I mention he was kind? In the end, we came to an accommodation that allowed me to continue on my way without sanction. I drove and reflected on what a kind fellow he was, and I repaid his kindness by driving at 45 mph. (permalink)
Dec. 17, 2007
Weare, N.H., 7:15 p.m.: I'll be filing a piece about a politically stirring moment at the McCain event Monday night in Weare, N.H., but I wanted to post about another moment from the town-hall meeting, too:
McCain got into a little trouble when he didn't properly defend Hillary Clinton during a roadside stop when a woman referred to Hillary as a bitch. McCain had previously stuck up for Clinton in a GOP debate when his opponents were all denouncing her, but he didn't in that instance.
He got another tricky question in Weare about Rudy Giuliani from a man who seemed to think he was helping McCain by posing it:
I've got a two-part question that I'm kind of embarrassed to ask. Until a couple of weeks ago, I never thought it would be an issue in a presidential campaign—and you're probably not the best person to answer it—but you're the guy who is here tonight. Um, if you're elected president, can we expect to see you offering Secret Service protection to your mistresses [laughter], and how do you feel for the potential for how good an idea would it be for America to elect someone who can't answer that question in under 10 seconds?
McCain paced the stage and stammered a bit: "Can I just say that I believe the American people should decide who they want to be the president of the United States based on our vision, our positions on the issues, and our record. I just simply don't think it's appropriate for me to address that issue because I have no knowledge of it, and I also happen to respect mayor Giuliani I guess is what … [laughter] I respect Mayor Giuliani, and I respect everyone in this race. I have made many mistakes in my life, and so I also believe that there is a Biblical saying that 'judge not lest ye be judged.' I want this campaign to be based on our vision, our ability to articulate those visions, our experience, our background, and our judgment, and I thank you." (permalink)
McCain bus, headed to Weare, N.H., 6:40 p.m.: In the half an hour of bus riding I have experienced with McCain, he has talked about Pakistan (he essentially supports the Bush policy of supporting Musharraf), Putin (we could have seen it coming, but there's no new Cold War), how he would manage his White House (he'd deputize someone to give him bad news), and the state of the race he's in (slow and steady wins New Hampshire). It's not that his answers are particularly stunning, but I've become used to years of a closed-off White House and candidates in both parties who are managed down to their underpants. It's still refreshing to watch someone thinking out loud and, at the same time, someone who respects the conversation that he needs to have with the press and the public to be an effective president. (permalink)
Concord, N.H., on idling McCain bus. 6:30 p.m.: McCain started his pitch telling Mo Udall jokes, as he always does. When my mother died 10 years ago, I got all of her books from her days as a reporter. Many of them are very obscure. I have a small collection of books about Goldwater's rise and his '64 campaign and books about the economics of the mid-'60s. I can never throw them away because, well, she was my mom, and also I'm like her and I never throw anything away. I'm glad now because I'm carrying in my sack one of those books a more sensible person would have thrown away. It's by Mo Udall, and it's called Too Funny To Be President, which is also the title of my recent Mike Huckabee piece. (permalink)
Home of Marcia Moran, Concord, N.H., 5:30 p.m.: My socks are wet. Before we enter the McCain house party, we're all asked to take off our snow-covered shoes to protect the Oriental carpets. The front hall of the rambling Victorian is filled with little white bags of wet shoes. (McCain takes off his shoes, too. He wears gold-toed socks, for those keeping track.)
I've seen what the Iowa house of a Mitt Romney supporter looks like before the holidays, and on kitsch, the McCain forces have won. The halls are decked and not just with boughs of holly. In the dining room, there are row after row of dishes and cake plates stacked with cookies, brownies, and other snack items. On low tables sit dishes of nuts and M&Ms. On the piano stand, a dozen caroling figurines. On the mantle is a crèche. Snow globes linger. There's a plate with cookies for Santa somewhere in here. I just know it.
I am reminded of the difference between covering politics in Iowa and New Hampshire. In Iowa there are open spaces, and in New Hampshire it's close and hot. It's freezing outside, but you don't spend much time outside. You spend your time here in cramped quarters in bulky sweaters where the newfangled fabrics of high-tech coats and parkas are constantly whistling.
McCain speaks in rapid fire, the way he always does about immigration, the war, and global warming. The house is packed with about 200 people, and they love him. I'm tempted to say it felt this way eight years ago before he took the state, but it's too early for that. His closing argument to voters: "Look, why am I running: We face a transcendent challenge from radical Islam. The world changed after 9/11." (permalink)
Concord, N.H., 4:50 p.m.: I am on the McCain Straight Talk Express. I haven't been on since the spring, when he was still Front-Runner McCain. Back then, he had a very fancy bus. This one is more fitting his style and his penny-pinching campaign. It's like the tour bus for some Motown one-hit wonder and looks just like the one from 2000 on which I spent many months. The scene is identical to eight years ago: McCain in the middle of a semicircular banquette squished between reporters who worry that they're going to run out of questions. Former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge is traveling with McCain and is also back in the little room, jostling with us. McCain is talking to his wife before the bus gets rolling. "John Dickerson is back with us," he tells her. "He's lost a lot of his hair." (permalink)
Concord, N.H., 4:28 p.m.: I am not where I need to be. It's the Neverlost Lady's fault. She is better on the wide open roads of Iowa, where you can drive 400 miles and never take two turns. The flinty New Hampshire roads confuse her. I am at the end of a one-way street looking at the McCain bus, where I am trying to get myself, but unable to cross this highway. I could just ditch the car in the snow bank here and walk. (permalink)
Londonderry, N.H., 3:41 p.m.: Romney arrives in the cafeteria at Insight Technology. He's spending a quick day in New Hampshire before heading back out to Iowa, where he has launched a tough new ad knocking Mike Huckabee for his crime record as governor of Arkansas. He's at a plant that makes night-vision goggles, which are known in the business as "targeting solutions," one of those great military euphemisms. In the audience, local politicians wore Santa hats. The room is filled with about 200 or so people, many of whom work at the company.
During a riff that he often tells about greeting the casket of a soldier killed in Iraq as it returned to the United States, he appeared to get emotional, as he imagined if it were one of his five sons. I have a higher emotional threshold before I can graft on meaning, but I bet it gets coverage both because he famously compared his son's working on his campaign to military service and because we're all watching whether he cries after his Meet the Press appearance, in which tears came to his eyes when talking about the Mormon church decision to end discrimination.
At a press availability afterward, Romney was asked about his new show of emotion, and he said, "I'm a normal person. I have emotions." It reminded me of that line from The Elephant Man: "I am not an animal. I am a human being." (permalink)
Londonderry, N.H., 1:45 p.m.: I am waiting for Gov. Romney to arrive, and while I talk to one of his staffers, the sound guy checks the equipment. "One two yeah, one two, check, check, one two. Check one check two, one two. One, check, one two. Check one two. Check."
I realize after I finish my conversation that he's been doing this strange poetry slam for 15 minutes without interruption. "Yeah, ah, ah, oh, wowh. Two, oooo, oooooh, two, one." It was like he was either at a doctor's office or in a porn film. (permalink)


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Through it all, Joiner made it to only two Super Bowls, with no victories in the championship game.
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"The guy I campaigned for didn't make it but we've got a great President…and we've got a lot of areas where we can work together." With these words, former Ambassador to the Holy See Thomas Melady during George H.W. Bush's presidency, kicked off a panel discussion "Catholic Social Thought and the 111th Congress" sponsored by the Catholic University of America's Life Cycle Institute last night. The panel, held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, was attended by dozens of congressional staffers, students, and political activists.
Dr. Maryann Cusimano Love, a professor in the Politics Department at CUA, focused her remarks on the need for Congress to enact legislation that codifies the Obama Administration's executive orders banning torture. "We worship a tortured God," Cusimano Love pointed out, and said that Catholics are therefore called to see the face of God even in enemies who threaten us. The decision by Boston College to put crucifixes in all its classrooms took on new meaning in light of the professor's comments.
History Professor Leslie Tentler recalled the 1919 Bishop's program on Social Reconstruction. (The "program" was actually the unfinished draft of a speech Father John A. Ryan was preparing at the time.) While its call to end child labor was heeded, many of the central policies it called for remain central to the current debate from universal health care to the state's protection of workers' right to organize. The more things change….
Professor Robert Destro of the CUA Law School gave the only disappointing intervention, repeatedly citing Pope Benedict XV as the author of "Quadragesimo Anno" (it was Piux XI) and calling attention to the different perspectives of the Constitution and its emphasis on competing interests with Catholic social thought's focus on the Common Good, but offering no enlightening comments on how to overcome the differences or at least to benefit from their clarifying differences.
The emotional high point of the afternoon, however, belonged to Father John Langan, S.J., who holds the Cardinal Bernardin chair in Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University. He not only pronounced the emerging Democratic Party's economic agenda as "broadly compatible" with Catholic social teachings but warned against the "quasi-excommunication of the Democratic Party" by some prelates because of their position on abortion. As one might expect from a man who holds a chair named after the great seeker of common ground, Cardinal Bernardin, Langan called for Catholic concern on life issues to be re-joined to Catholic commitments to other social justice issues, harkening back to Bernardin's famous 1984 "Seamless Garment" lecture.
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It happens every day. Somewhere, an HIV-positive person has unsafe sex.
Maybe he assumes his partner is positive, also. Maybe he feels his partner should look out for him or herself. Maybe he doesn't care.
At the very least, unprotected sex is risky in this age of syphilis outbreaks and other ever-present sexually transmitted diseases. Those diseases are potentially more threatening to HIV-positive people than they are to those who are not infected with HIV. Then there is the theoretical danger of re-infection with a new and possibly more virulent strain of HIV.
Why then is anybody -- HIV-positive or HIV-negative -- engaging in unprotected, "bareback" sex?
Resurgence in Bareback Sex"There's a false sense of security from the medications," says Dr. Timothy Fishback, M.D. He feels the myth that AIDS is no longer fatal, along with destructive behaviors caused by self-loathing, are responsible for a resurgence of bareback sex.
The West Hollywood psychiatrist, who counts many HIV-positive men and sexual compulsives among his patients, says honesty is as scarce as bright light in sex clubs and bathhouses.
"I have the good fortune to be in a private situation where people are assured of confidentiality and they tell me the truth," says Fishback. "The majority of my patients say they're not telling the truth about their HIV status. Or they are telling the truth and engaging in unsafe sex anyway.
"There's no one reason. Someone could be irresponsible, someone could be sociopathic and not care about anybody. Someone could be going through a phase where they're really angry, and it's misdirected anger at a stranger."
The tall, youthful doctor looks away and shakes his head slowly, as he talks about cases close to his heart. "I have a friend in New York who's been with his lover for 12 years. He still hasn't told him he's positive. It blows my mind."
"I have patients who have an open relationship, or maybe one is cheating on the other, and they're not talking about it, they're not being tested, they don't want to talk about it. They're in complete denial."
Shared ResponsibilityOn a personal level, Fishback feels safe sex is the equal responsibility of both partners, a feeling shared by most of the 30 HIV-positive individuals recently surveyed for this article.
Twenty-seven of those who responded feel safe sex is the responsibility of both partners, regardless of HIV status. Three feel the HIV-positive partner is primarily responsible for safe sex and disclosure.
Dan Nickerson follows a "do ask, do tell" policy.
"Personally, I came to the conclusion I should disclose," he says, "and if they ask me, 'are you HIV positive?' I would tell them. I certainly wouldn't lie."
Nickerson, a supervisor of Case Management Services at AIDS Project Los Angeles, calls himself "an older guy -- past 40." Those years have given him a keen understanding of human nature. He knows the price of disclosure, but feels the price of dishonesty and denial is far higher.
"There's a lot of stigma attached to this infection, and that's very real," says Nickerson, HIV positive for more than a decade. "It's hurtful on some level. But people will interact with you differently if they think you're negative. They'll take more chances."
Withholding HIV Status CriticizedRebekka Armstrong is trying to convince people not to take those chances. A longtime survivor of HIV, the former Playboy model and actress talks frankly about safe sex to groups, including college fraternities. When asked about HIV positive individuals who don't disclose their status, her reaction is characteristically blunt.
"I think that's fucked up," she says. "There's all this complacency, but you have to protect yourself. That's the bottom line."
Like Nickerson, Armstrong is up-front about her HIV status, especially with potential sexual partners. For both, those are personal policies that will ultimately help slow the spread of HIV infection. What's alarming is that, by all indications, Dan and Rebekka may not be in the majority.
Author Ron Mackovich thanks Jeff Bailey of posimages.com, for conducting the survey cited in this article.
This article has been reprinted at The Body with the permission of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).
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