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On Fridays freelance designer Stephen Wildish contributes to his Friday Project: "A project to create something witty or pretty for a Friday." The collection is must check out for pop culture/internet enthusiasts. His masterful venn diagrams humble the hell out of me and I consider his "Kim Jong Il's Golfing Career" illustration from last week the definitive KJI internet tribute.
For the holidays Wildish has treated us to a bonus two-fer: illustrated "test your knowledge" film alphabets from the back-to-back decades that molded you into the person you are today, for better or for worse. Answer keys aren't available as far as I can tell but if you fail to identify 75% then we're no longer friends. That being said, I could use some help with the Vs. I'm sure I'll feel like an idiot once they're identified, especially if they have "vagina" in the title, because my "vagina expert" t-shirt will be rendered completely obsolete.
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At his best, Jack DeJohnette is one of the most consistently inventive jazz percussionists extant. DeJohnette's style is wide-ranging, yet, while capable of playing convincingly in any modern idiom, he always maintains a well-defined voice. DeJohnette has a remarkably fluid relationship to pulse. His time is excellent; even as he pushes, pulls and generally obscures the beat beyond recognition, a powerful sense of swing is ever-present. His tonal palette is huge as well; no drummer pays closer attention to the sounds that come out of his kit than DeJohnette. He possesses a comprehensive musicality rare among jazz drummers.
That's perhaps explained by the fact that, before he played the drums, DeJohnette was a pianist. From the age of four, he studied classical piano. As a teenager he became interested in blues, popular music, and jazz; Ahmad Jamal was an early influence. In his late teens, DeJohnette began playing drums, which soon became his primary instrument. In the early '60s occurred the most significant event of his young professional life — an opportunity to play with John Coltrane. In the mid-'60s, DeJohnette became involved with the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He moved to New York in 1966, where he played again with Coltrane, and also with Jackie McLean. His big break came as a member of the very popular Charles Lloyd Quartet from 1966-68. The drummer's first record as a leader was 1968's The DeJohnette Complex. In 1969, DeJohnette replaced Tony Williams in Miles Davis' band; later that year, he played on the trumpeter's seminal jazz-rock recording Bitches Brew. DeJohnette left Davis in 1972, and began working more frequently as a leader. In the '70s and '80s, DeJohnette became something like a house drummer for ECM, recording both as leader and sideman with such label mainstays as Jan Garbarek, Kenny Wheeler, and Pat Metheny.
DeJohnette's first band was Compost; his later, more successful bands were Directions and Special Edition. The eclectic, avant-fusion Directions was originally comprised of the bassist Mike Richmond, guitarist John Abercrombie, and saxophonist Alex Foster. In a subsequent incarnation — called, appropriately, New Directions — bassist Eddie Gomez replaced Richmond and trumpeter Lester Bowie replaced Foster. From the mid-'70s, Directions recorded several albums in its twin guises for ECM. Beginning in 1979, DeJohnette also led Special Edition, a more straightforwardly swinging unit that featured saxophonists David Murray and Arthur Blythe. For a time, both groups existed simultaneously; Special Edition would eventually become the drummer's performance medium of choice. The band began life as an acoustic free-jazz ensemble, featuring the drummer's esoteric takes on the mainstream. It evolved into something quite different, as DeJohnette's conception changed into something considerably more commercial; with the addition of electric guitars and keyboards, DeJohnette began playing what is essentially a very loud, backbeat oriented — though sophisticated — instrumental pop music. To be fair, DeJohnette's fusion efforts are miles ahead of most others'. His abilities as a groove-centered drummer are considerable, but one misses the subtle colorations of his acoustic work. That side of DeJohnette is shown to good effect in his work with Keith Jarrett's Standards trio, and in his occasional meetings with Abercrombie and Dave Holland in the Gateway trio.
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WEEI Suspends Minihane for one Week
WEEI sports radio host Kirk Minihane has been suspended for a week by Entercom Communications, the station's parent company, for disparaging on-air comments he made about Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews during two recent programs.
Minihane's suspension was announced Friday night by Entercom president and chief executive officer David Field. His statement came hours after Fox Sports informed him with a terse letter it was pulling all advertising from the company's more than 100 stations nationwide, including WEEI.
"Kirk Minihane's statements regarding Erin Andrews were offensive and deplorable,'' said Field. "It is clear by the response from our listeners, advertisers, and employees that Kirk's efforts to apologize and make this right have been insufficient and ambiguous. We want to make it unequivocally clear that his comments were unacceptable and do not reflect Entercom's values and standards.''
Minihane, one of three co-hosts of the morning drive "Dennis and Callahan'' program, referred to Andrews as a "gutless b—-'' last Wednesday while discussing the sideline reporter's awkward interview with Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright during the All-Star Game.
Minihane apologized for his comments in a statement posted on WEEI.com that night. But upon returning from vacation this Wednesday – his first day on the air since the original comments — he punctuated a verbal apology by suggesting that Andrews's success is based on looks rather than ability, saying if she "weighed 15 pounds more she would be a waitress.''
Entercom's announcement of Minihane's suspension came approximately two hours after a letter from Fox Sports president Eric Shanks to Field was obtained by Boston.com. In the letter, Shanks informed Field that all advertising would be pulled and no Fox Sports personalities would be permitted to be guests on WEEI.
"The comments made by Mr. Minihane were boorish and sexist,'' wrote Shanks. "Further, the "apology: made by Mr. Minihane was juvenile and insincere. To make matters worse, the "apology'' was posted under a banner (allegedly approved by your Boston VP and Market Manager, Phil Zachary) hailing "The Triumphant Return of Kirk Minihane.''
"I had hoped by this time we might hear a sincere apology from WEEI, or perhaps someone from your office might have reached out to Fox (which through our film and television businesses is a significant advertiser on Entercom stations),'' Shanks added. "However, none of that has been forthcoming, and needless to say we are disappointed.''
A Fox Sports spokesman said it is uncertain how much the network spends nationally in advertising on Entercom stations.
Minihane and Zachary declined to comment.
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What about our daughters? Women's health begins in childhood
The term "women's health" implies a separation between what a female does during adulthood to stay healthy from what she did – or had done for her – as a child. However, more attention than ever is focusing on urging and enabling children to adopt healthy habits that will last a lifetime.
Media contact: Tom Hughes, 919-966-6047, email@example.com
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011
Written by Elizabeth Witherspoon for UNC Health Care
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The term "women's health" implies a separation between what a female does during adulthood to stay healthy from what she did – or had done for her – as a child. However, more attention than ever is focusing on urging and enabling children to adopt healthy habits that will last a lifetime. The national epidemic of childhood obesity alone has pediatricians, policymakers, school administrators, even the First Lady, as well as parents, involved in a coast-to-coast conversation about eating habits, access to healthy foods and appropriate activity levels for our kids.
In addition to urging girls to substitute an apple for that bag of chips as an after-school snack, there are also some other important aspects of managing a girl's health too though. The goal is to give her the best start on becoming a healthy woman and habits to maintain that health throughout her lifespan.
Establish a medical home
"We are training pediatricians now to provide medical home services for children," said Julie Byerley, MD, MPH, a pediatrician and director of the pediatric residency training program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "A medical home provides care that is comprehensive, patient-centered, culturally appropriate for an individual patient and family. It's important that kids have access to that care and continuity with their provider and an ongoing relationship so that the family and child are well-known."
The first thing that may come to mind is to make sure uninsured and underinsured girls have access to a medical home through a pediatric practice or community health center. Byerley also pointed out even girls who have a medical home may not fully benefit from it if their care is fragmented.
For example, while she says it is more important to get vaccinated rather than not, it is ideal for the vaccination or a sports physical to occur within the context of a check up at a girl's medical home. There the check-up is more comprehensive about the entire realm of a girl's health than what one would receive at a clinic devoted solely to walking kids through a series of stations for the sports physical or to administer a shot.
She emphasizes that the medical home is a place where the provider has an opportunity to know the family and the girl's history, build a relationship, anticipate questions about growth and development and answer questions the girl or her family might have.
"That way if a girl needs anything in the future, she feels comfortable returning to that relationship," she said.
Build healthy bones. Now.
Beyond establishing a medical home, there are other specific aspects of a girl's health that warrant consideration and may differ from the needs of a boy. One is bone health.
The first line of prevention of osteoporosis is to build strong bones early in life. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, 85 percent of adult bone mass is acquired by age 18 in girls (by age 20 in boys). Peak bone density for women is achieved by their mid-20s. After that it is all downhill. Women lose about 0.4 percent of their bone density per year after they reach peak density in their mid-20s, with a much faster rate of loss happening once they enter menopause.
"We are now considering osteoporosis a pediatric concern, not just something to think about for post-menopausal women," said Michael Evers, MD, an OB/GYN at the UNC School of Medicine who both trains future OB/GYNs and practices in Chapel Hill, N.C. "I tell all of my residents here that no matter why a teen is in for an appointment, make sure she also gets the lecture on getting enough calcium- and vitamin D-rich foods. It's during her teen years where you can potentially make the biggest impact on her bone health with something as simple as attention to diet or taking a supplement."
The Institute of Medicine issued a report in 2010 updating recommendations for daily levels of calcium and vitamin D. Girls ages 9-18, should take in 1,300 mg./day of calcium and 600 mg./day of vitamin D, or the equivalent of two cups of milk. This means we want our girls and teens to consider it "cool" to keep drinking their milk.
"The key to bone health is to provide the body with the proper building blocks, that is, calcium and vitamin D, and then participate in regular, weight bearing exercise to encourage the bones to constantly remodel and strengthen," added Evers.
Prevent cardiovascular disease
As if parents didn't already have enough to worry about when their girls eschew fresh fruits and vegetables for favorite foods like pizza and hot dogs, cardiovascular health begins in childhood. Even an active girl or teen of healthy weight can have elevated cholesterol levels. Genetics may contribute, as well as eating habits.
Pediatrics has always been very focused on prevention, said Mike Steiner, MD, chief of the division of pediatrics and adolescent medicine and medical director of outpatient clinics at UNC School of Medicine.
"I think pediatricians are probably getting an increasing appreciation for things that can be done in childhood to improve the life of adult women," he added.
He said he thinks the jury is still out on how aggressive pediatricians should be in screening for or identifying traditional cardiovascular risk factors, such as through cholesterol screening. However, he noted, "There's pretty good evidence that it's beneficial to screen for high blood pressure. And there's good evidence that it's beneficial to screen and treat tobacco abuse, which are two important cardiovascular risk factors in adulthood."
"Widespread cholesterol screening in children is controversial," said Steiner. But he said concerns about family history or other risk factors, such as being overweight or obese, warrants it. In a nutshell, while lifelong cardiovascular risk is receiving more attention than ever, most pediatricians are not pushing daily fish oil supplements for children just yet.
Prevent cervical cancer
Each year, 12,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer nationally. Of those, nearly 4,000 die from an advanced stage of this fully preventable and treatable cancer. About half of women who die from cervical cancer did not receive regular Pap tests, which detect the abnormal cells that can lead to cervical cancer. African-American women and Latinas are disproportionately affected by cervical cancer and the least likely to be screened.
"In a wealthy nation like the United States, it is unforgivable to have women dying from cervical cancer, a fully preventable disease," said Noel Brewer, PhD, director of Cervical Cancer-Free North Carolina and associate professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. "We can do better for our daughters, mothers, sisters and friends. We have to." His initiative and others promote Cervical Health Awareness Month every January.
There are two lines of defense in the war on cervical cancer. One is vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV), in three doses when girls are 11- to 12-years old. The other is regular screening with a Pap test.
UNC's Evers says he also encourages and supports immunization for boys as well with the following reminder.
"Immunization does not negate the need for a young woman to participate in routine pap smears starting at age 21, but it can go a long way in reducing her risk of developing cervical cancer."
Empower our girls
To sum up, UNC's Steiner feels strongly, and Byerley agrees, that we should look at health really broadly, not just in terms of physical health, when preparing girls to become women. If he had a magic wand to do one thing as a pediatrician for girls that would have the most impact it would be:
"To instill an empowerment and self-efficacy and self-confidence from an early age that would serve them well through their whole life related to physical health, overall well-being, relationships, career."
Elizabeth Witherspoon, PhD, is a health and science writer in Durham, N.C. and parent of a tween girl whom she hopes will remain healthy throughout her lifespan.


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The 2011 Business Plan Competition at The Paul Merage School of Business is one of the nation's premier business plan competitions offering all UC Irvine students, staff and researchers the opportunity to form a team, create a business plan and potentially fund their business idea all within seven months.
The competition begins with our signature Kick-off event. At the Competition Kick-off, participants learn more details about the competition prizes, rules, registration procedures and meet some of the winners from previous years. After registering on www.vator.tv, participants form a team, submit their concept papers, attend competition related workshops and submit their final business plan. This culminates in the selection of the semi-finalists and the finalists.
The Final Presentations and Awards Ceremony for the Competition will be held on Friday, May 20, 2011, where $36,000 in cash prizes will be awarded. Between the kick-off and finals, we offer four workshops covering a broad area of business plan development skills led by expert practitioners from across Orange County. The Competition also provides individual team coaches to all teams that qualify for the semi-finals.


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Composition: The CDC is composed of nine members appointed by the Matthews Board of Commissioners. A staff member acts as liaison to the Committee. It is the intent of the CDC to include members from historically underrepresented and marginalized communities. A membership diversity of race, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, age, physical ability, national origin, cultural identification, and family structure is desired.
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Meetings: The CDC meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Matthews town hall.
Appointment Term: Members of the CDC serve two-year terms without a limit on the number of terms a member may serve.
Attendance: Any member, who shall fail to attend at least 75% of the regular and special meetings of the CDC during any one-year period, shall be subject to removal. The Chairperson shall notify the Matthews Board of Commissioners of any member who shall so fail to attend. The vacancy can be filled, upon recommendation of the Committee liaison and Chairperson, by the Matthews Board of Commissioners.Agendas and Minutes:View documents


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A Sandwich a Day: The Piggly Wiggly at Chef Edwards Bar-B-Que in Oakland, CA
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
In this great nation of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Chef John Edwards has been serving Southern-style barbecue in uptown Oakland for over a decade. His original smoke joint, a dining counter with seats on one side and a smoker and two giant cast iron skillets on the other, was where I first discovered the joy of the barbecue sandwich in college.
That sandwich, the "Piggly Wiggly," has been through quite a bit as Chef Edwards moved into a larger, swankier space across the street and began to experiment with his signature special. Despite the fact that the formula seems to change slightly every time I pay a visit to the good Chef, it's still some of the best barbecue I've had on the west coast. And in seven years it's only risen in price one dollar, from $4.50 to $5.50.
You can request the Chef's thick, sweet-and-spicy barbecue sauce on the side, but I've never had to. Like good Kansas City-style 'cue, the Piggly Wiggly's thick chunks of smoked pork shoulder stand up well to the rich, tomato-based sauce, which turns the bottom of half of the sandwich roll into an edible barbecue sponge. A large scoop of peppery vinegar slaw completes the meal, a sandwich that's as good an entry point into barbecue as it was when I first ordered it in 2004.
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text: Proud Heiress pays $67.80 in Wishing Well win Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:00 AM General FLORENCE, KY . . . January 10, 2009 . . . Proud Heiress surprised everybody but her connections at Turfway Park Saturday, taking the $50,000 Wishing Well Stakes at odds of almost 33-1. Commenting on his confidence in Proud Heiress's chances despite an off-the-board finish in the Weekend Delight stakes at Turfway last fall, winning trainer Wayne Mogge said, "She won two at Presque Isle, so she definitely likes the all-weather tracks. She did run sixth [in the Weekend Delight], but that was actually a really good race. She made a big move up the inside and only got beat about three lengths [3 3/4]. It was nose-nose-nose from third on back, so we thought we could as easily been third as sixth. And we've always had high aspirations for this mare."The main thing with her is that you've got to get her in a spot where she doesn't get stopped, because it's hard to get that motor charged again."True to form, Pola's Place went to the front early and at one point down the backstretch led by nearly six lengths. After clocking the first two quarters in :22.08 and :45.58, she hit the top of the stretch in :58.42 and was still about two lengths best heading into the final half-furlong. Behind her, Miss A. Bomb held second and Proud Heiress had closed to third, but neither seemed able to advance. Then, racing on the outside in the middle of the track, jockey Julio Felix roused Proud Heiress at about the sixteenth pole and was rewarded with a burst of new speed, a fluid lead change, and a 1 3/4-length win. Miss A. Bomb went with her and finished second, while Afleet Angel, the 2-1 favorite, gained late to finish another length back in third.Final time for the six furlongs was 1:11.65. Proud Heiress paid $67.80 for the win.Finishing fourth through 12th were Solarana (ARG), Pola's Place, Mrs Petoski, Valentine Fever, Conjuress, School Girl, Vote Early, Altered State, and Bellicose. The win was the first stakes victory for the five-year-old Proud Heiress, who began her career at age four and now has three wins, two seconds, and two thirds in 10 starts for career earnings of $97,526. The Broken Vow mare is owned by Michael Cavey. Felix picked up the mount in the absence of Scott Spieth.Racing continues Sunday at Turfway with first post at 1:10pm.


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PR WINNER OF THE WEEK: "A" (PR PERFECT) to the Australian online betting company that came up with an outrageous combination of national pride and private commerce. SportsBet.com floated a 150-foot balloon replica of Brazil's famous Christ the Redeemer statue wearing a jersey that read "#KeepTheFaith." (Australia was considered a 750-1 long shot in the World Cup.) Reactions ranged from chuckles to cries of blasphemy, but either way the company received worldwide publicity.
PR LOSER OF THE WEEK: "F" (FULL FIASCO) to Eric Cantor, the second highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, who lost his party's primary. Cantor was expected to be the next Speaker of the House, but his support of immigration reform was attacked by Tea Party rep David Brat. Cantor's loss was considered a stunning upset for Republicans and made headlines all week, exacerbated when Cantor resigned from his post.
THE PRV "THERE'S NO 'THERE' THERE" AWARD to David Brat, winner of Virginia's congressional primary. The media shone brightly on Brat's Cinderella story and surprising win, but when the victory confetti settled to the floor, Brat revealed himself to be unprepared to face the media. Asked by NBC Washington correspondent Chuck Todd about minimum wage issues and foreign policy, Brat responded, "Hey, Chuck, I thought we were just going to chat today about the celebratory aspects." The weak response supported the theory that Cantor's stance on immigration reform, rather than the attributes of Brat or the Tea Party, was the deciding factor in Brat's win.


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This antique silver plated vesta is in the form of a lady's corset, a bit risqué for the time. The top is hinged and it opens and snaps closes solidly. The striker is at the bottom. The condition is excellent with no dents or other damage and measures 1 5/8" high by 1 3/8" wide. The silver plating is rubbed at the hinge and it looks like it was plated over copper or brass.
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ADAM: Although Booth takes a few verbal jabs in the premiere, you won't really begin to see his true emotions come out right away. "I think the initial reaction is relief and gratitude that [Brennan and Baby Christine] are fine," executive producer Stephen Nathan tells us. "The second episode is where [Booth] realizes he resents this person, that he's angry at her." But Nathan hints that Brennan's got some issues of her own. "Brennan has lived her entire life quite independently," Nathan says. "She's realizing for the first time that she's terribly interconnected with Booth... and this kind of shakes the foundation of who she feels she's been all these years. [She may] resent the fact that she gave herself over to another person."
Thanks for the Meredith scoop, but do you know anything about MerDer on the upcoming season of Grey's Anatomy? — Rachel
NATALIE: The good news is that the "year of romance" does apply to Meredith and Derek too. "They're OK because they survived the plane crash, so they're happy to be alive," Ellen Pompeo tells us. The bad news is that Derek's injury will lead to some trying times. "I don't know if his hand will ever fully be recovered. She'll do what you have to do as a partner; you have to support your partner." Plus: Have you seen Meredith as an attending?
Have you seen the NCIS premiere? I need details! — Robbie
ADAM: As expected, the team dusts itself off pretty easily after the explosion at headquarters, although McGee is banged up much worse than some of his colleagues. As for Harper Dearing, the man behind the blast, he's got a few more tricks up his sleeve — and as you might have guessed, they all involve a big boom. That said, the much-anticipated Gibbs-Dearing showdown surprisingly ends up being a great deal more intimate than expected.
Any good Glee scoop? —Jackie
NATALIE: Not good, per se, unless you're a Tina-Artie fan because it sounds like Tina and Mike are really over. "It's a little sad right now," Jenna Ushkowitz tells us of the pair. "They were the longest-standing couple and they're definitely on the outs ... It opens up doors for her. It's interesting to switch it up a bit."
I need some fresh Hawaii Five-0 spoilers! — Wendy
ADAM: If you're still wondering how Kono escapes from the watery grave into which we last saw her descend, know this: Thanks to clever thinking by Chin Ho, she gets help from a somewhat surprising source. But Kono's rescue isn't the only major event that takes place underwater. Also: While McGarrett spends much of the episode trying to hide his mom from Wo Fat, it turns out that she doesn't need his help at all — for more reasons than one.
I'm so excited that Daniel Gillies was included in the new Vampire Diaries cast gallery! What can you say about his role this season? — Heather
NATALIE: Elijah will definitely be back. In fact, Gillies just told us about a recent flashback scene he filmed. "It was the 11th century," Gillies says. "It was an episode that depicted a brand new menace on The Vampire Diaries and not just a menace to the beautiful boys and girls of Mystic Falls, but also to the Originals. A big threat."
I can't wait for Person of Interest to return. Will Reese be able to rescue Finch? — Luke
ADAM: Despite a valiant effort on Reese's part, Reese and Finch's reunion won't come in the season premiere. In fact, most of Finch's scenes take place in flashbacks, as we see how he trained the Machine to work. (Fun fact: The machine's excellent at blackjack!) What we do see of Finch in present day is a pretty certain fear of Root, who both reveals why she wants the Machine and proves exactly how ruthless she will be in order to get it.
Thanks for the Fringe scoop. Can you tell us if William Bell will be good or bad in the final season? — Joe
NATALIE: Considering he tried to use Olivia to destroy both universes, I think you have your answer already. "We left William Bell off as pretty much a bad guy," executive producer J.H. Wyman says, explaining that we'll get answers as to how he came to intersect with Walter & Co in the future. "You'll understand why he was frozen in the amber with our team," he adds.
I'm so excited to see Matt Lauria on Parenthood! Do you have any more details on his role? — Shelly
ADAM: Back in July, showrunner Jason Katims said Amber would have a "deep, real love" this season and it looks like the apple of her eye might just be the Friday Night Lights grad. Although Lauria's character, Ryan, first enters the show as an Army vet friend of Zeek's, once Grandpa Braverman introduces him to Amber, sparks will fly. Sarah, naturally, will have hesitations about her daughter growing so close to someone who's been through so much.
Anything fun coming up on The Big Bang Theory? — Damon
NATALIE: The comic book store will hold its annual Halloween party, but there will be no Justice League now that Howard and Bernadette are married. Don't feel blue, because they will be... literally. (That's a hint — one that will definitely please our beloved nemesis.)
Anything you can tease about the Damages series finale? — Elizabeth
ADAM: You'll learn exactly how Ellen ends up lying wide-eyed in the middle of the street — and it may or may not have something to do with the fact that there are two people on the roof above. Plus: There is a major time jump, another epic Ellen-Patty scene on the pier and two significant deaths on the way to what I would say is a pretty tragic ending.
I'm sad that Henry Ian Cusick has left Scandal. Please give me some scoop to satisfy me! — Laura
NATALIE: Stephen's exodus will naturally affect Abby, who's been crushing on him since Day 1, but it might turn out to be for the better. "The thing I can say about Steven being gone is it frees Abby up for some possibility," Darby Stanchfield says. "There's definitely some liberating possibility for Abby to move on with her life."
Adam's Mega Rave: Its complex plots may have often given me headaches, but I will miss Damages. Fortunately, the series ends with the same confident storytelling that won me over in the first place and a riveting Glenn Close performance that puts Patty Hewes in the books as an iconic TV character.
Natalie's Mini Rant: It was the Weeds moment we've all been waiting for: Nancy and Andy actually consummated their relationship. So why do we all feel so dirty?
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MARTINEZ — With Contra Costa County Superior Court closures next month, Martinez is bracing for an influx of vehicles and a downtown parking crunch.
For years, city leaders have called for building a parking garage to move long-term parkers off the streets and free up spaces for shoppers and diners. But with $808,000 in the parking fund and redevelopment no longer an option, a garage isn't likely to happen any time soon.
"If there's going to be any economic growth in this community, we've got to increase our parking stock," Mayor Rob Schroder said last week during a freewheeling discussion of the city's parking woes.
He called for a multifaceted approach that could include a garage, parking lots and a private operator to manage new lots.
Court administrators believe Martinez needs at least 40 more spaces to accommodate the people whose cases would have been heard in Concord or Walnut Creek before the court system's budget cuts. In fact, Councilman Mark Ross, whose office is downtown, said he's already noticed that parking spaces are filling up earlier.
But a big change is coming next year. The long-standing, informal practice of free parking for jurors ends in April. While ending the policy won't add parking spaces, it will result in more meter revenue for Martinez, which clears about $65,000 annually, depending on enforcement. The city socks that money away in the parking fund.
If the council agrees to spend $85,000 for 165 single-space parking meters that accept credit and debit cards, the $15,000 yearly cost of operating the meters will chip away at the surplus and put a parking garage further out of reach.
"Credit card transactions actually end up costing us money," City Engineer Tim Tucker said.
Although Schroder, Ross and Councilman Mike Menesini favor buying the meters, the council delayed a decision until they review parking enforcement costs, credit card revenue, fees and other data at the Jan. 16 meeting. The council members largely rejected a proposal to charge for Saturday parking and to extend meter hours. Staff also had recommended raising the hourly rate from 50 cents to a dollar, but only Menesini said he's willing to consider a "modest" increase. The council did approve a parking meter holiday until Jan. 6.
Councilwoman Lara DeLaney called for permanent free parking in the downtown core with a strictly enforced two-hour limit. But Tucker pointed out that, while it may seem counterintuitive, charging for parking helps cities manage the availability of spaces. For example, to encourage turnover of the two-hour spaces along Main Street, Martinez charges 25 cents per hour for the 10-hour parking spots on the fringes of downtown.
In May, the city installed 62 single-space parking meters that accept credit and debit cards along Main Street from Castro to Court streets for a three-month trial. The solar-powered meters use wireless technology and are less expensive than the multispace pay stations that have popped up across the Bay Area in the past few years.
During the trial period, the fees Martinez paid banks to process credit card transactions and to San Diego-based IPS Group (which makes the parking meters) for wireless connection, the Web-based management system and credit card charges exceeded credit card revenue by about $580, according to data from the city.
The numbers improved a bit from September to November, but fees still outpaced credit card revenue by nearly $380. And most people still paid by coins — credit cards accounted for about 7 percent of transactions at the new meters in November.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
And we have a winner!
Many thanks to everyone who entertained me so thoroughly with their inventive and charming first sentences for In Great Waters. I'm announcing a winner, who gets a free copy, but if you want to keep on playing and coming up with other alternatives, by all means help yourselves.
So, the winning ones. Second runner-up goes to Dash, for the elegantly simple 'Splash!'
First runner-up goes to Michael Mock, for some really good sentences which sketch in rather a lot of background.
But the winner of the book is going to have to be Amaryllis, who made me fall about laughing with 'Call me Fishmael' - not only hilarious, but oddly appropriate for the story's theme; it seems to sum it up with the memorable succinctness of an advertising slogan, and I suspect I'll find myself using it when explaining the book in future. So, Amaryllis, if you'll send your e-mail address to firstname.lastname@example.com and let me know where you want it sent, I'll pass on the news to my publicist. It will probably have to wait for the official publication date; I'll try to get hold of it and sign it if you like.
However, you're all winners here, so by way of a shared reward, you get ... (fanfare please) ... a sneak preview! This is the actual first paragraph:
Henry could remember the moment of his birth. Crushing pressure, heat, and then the contact with the sea, terrifyingly cold - but at the same time a release from constriction, the instant freedom of the skin. His mother gathered him up in her arms and swam to the surface, cradling him on her slick breast to lift his head above the water for his first breath. Henry never forgot it, the mouthful of icy air, the waves chopping his skin, a woman's arms holding him up in a world suddenly without warmth.
Congratulation to Amaryllis! (And, well done - I tried, but couldn't come up with anything even half so funny!)
What, I won? Really? Wow, I'm honored-- I thought there were lots of great lines in those submissions.
Thank you, Michael Mock, and congratulations yourself. (See above about good writing.)
And I'm thrilled-- I get the book! Signed, even, without having to fly to London and track down Kit in person! Picture me delighted.
*goes off to send email*
Aha ! I was wondering what was thwappable about Donalbain's sentence on the other thread...
Congratulations Amaryllis, you deserved it ^^
Any idea about when it comes out in paperback ? I don't like hardcovers very much (well, I like them but they take up too much space) but if it's the choice between that and waiting a year...
(I'll also second the question about a signing tour !)
Verification word is "ruddfu", unfortunately I don't speak Welsh but I'll look it up.
Congratulations, Amaryllis! Well done! It was a wonderful line. (I think we'll all be quoting it.)
Verification word: "modsori" a type of seaweed sometimes presented by deepsmen to Japanese landsmen as a particularly prized gift preparatory to all major negotiations.
Hmm. Conscious and able to form memories at the moment of birth. These are some interesting people you've created here, Kit.
To be technical, human babies are conscious and able to form memories at birth, also. It's childhood amnesia that causes us to forget our early childhood. Brain reorganization is a very, very interesting thing.
Truth be told, it's also slightly plausible for deepsfolk to remember their earliest moments like this. In an essentially bouyant environment, there's less stress on a pregnant deepswoman's body carrying a child. Deepsbabies could be born after the fifth or sixth trimester!
Of course, now that this is all in print it means I'm either right or wrong. :P
It's a good point, Christopher, for which I have to give you full credit. But you know what? It might well work with the scenario I've laid out. My reasoning was based largely on nature documentaries: species born into open and dangerous environments need to have babies that can function quickly, otherwise they'd get taken by predators. You can't make a nest in the sea, hence deepsmen have to be born at least reasonably conscious to survive. Deepsmen children mature faster than landsmen ones, at least intellectually, with the payoff that deepsmen are rather stupider than landsmen, or at least, more simplistic in their thinking - though hybrids can be bright.
Deepsmen children mature faster than landsmen ones, at least intellectually, with the payoff that deepsmen are rather stupider than landsmen, or at least, more simplistic in their thinking - though hybrids can be bright.
That might be more a product of culture than anything else, if you're willing to entertain uninformed speculation. Without access to land (or even much need for it), it's plausible that the Deepsmen have retained a hunter-gatherer culture. To modern or medieval sensibilities, hunter-gatherers sound primitive regardless of innate intelligence.
I wouldn't expect even a Deepsman Einstein to have the cultural background necessary to understand court politics and the value of agricultural land. That makes your Angelica-hybrid all the more interesting, as the first of the Deepsmen (hybrids) who "gets it."
Oh, and there won't be a signing tour; however, if you want a signed copy, you could send me a book plate. You could send me the book itself too if you're prepared to include a return envelope with the proper stamps - I don't want to have to pay for postage or spend hours queuing in my post office, but if you can get hold of the right stamps I'll sign books and put them back in the post. If you're in America, a book plate might be more manageable, I suspect.
Word: broolog. A race mentioned in the first draft of Gulliver's Travels, excised during the rewrites. Notable features include heads the same width as their bodies, and a preoccupation with matters of political intrigue, expressed through the medium of muffins.
Congratulations, Amaryllis!
What's a book plate when it's at home, then?
"hydro"? My word is XX#$!#$%& "hydro"? Gah! That's no fun!
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Word: latin. A dead language originally spoken in Italy, which became a lingua franca during an imperial era. Behold and marvel at my inventiveness?
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The pattern is familiar: Someone goes on a shooting rampage in the workplace, and experts in mental health, law enforcement and the media struggle to find lessons in the aftermath.
That's what happened after four employees were shot to death at the Connecticut Lottery headquarters in 1998 by a disgruntled worker who then turned the gun on himself. The legislature toughened gun laws, and then-Gov. John G. Rowland ordered the state to conduct a security review of all its buildings. He also instituted a zero-tolerance policy for workplace violence.
High-profile incidents of workplace violence around the nation have prompted employers large and small to take similar steps.
Predicting violence in the workplace can be difficult, but in some cases there are signs, said Dr. Harold Schwartz, psychiatrist-in-chief at the Institute of Living in Hartford. Those include an employee who is rigid, inflexible or unwilling to take feedback from supervisors or coworkers, one who is unable to get along with others, or one who abuses alcohol or drugs.
"Those are glaring signs that are missed in the workplace," Schwartz said. He added that people with mental illness are no more likely than others to commit workplace violence unless there is also alcohol and drug abuse.
Schwartz said occurrences of workplace violence across the country are down, possibly because employers are recognizing and addressing issues with employee-assistance programs and other forms of help.
Still, an average of three people are murdered at work each day in the United States, said Larry Barton, an expert in workplace violence who leads training seminars on the subject for the FBI. Few of those homicides, however, are the results of mass shootings.
And experts say most slayings in the workplace are not committed by disgruntled workers. Statistics on workplace homicides include those murdered in the commission of another crime, such as convenience store clerks who are killed during a robbery. Roughly 75 of the 1,000 workplace homicides that occur on average each year are committed by disgruntled workers.
Barton advises employees to take the same approach toward workplace violence that the government takes in encouraging citizens to report suspicious activity at airports and train stations: "If you see something, say something."
"We don't want to [foster] paranoia at work," Barton said, "but there are warning signs."
Barton reviewed 1,800 incidents of workplace violence over the past 26 years and concluded that there were signals 71 percent of the time.
State Rep. Michael Lawlor, D- East Haven, who co-chairs the legislature's judiciary committee, said that in 2007, the state put together a comprehensive policy manual on violence in the workplace.
Lots of disgruntled employees never commit an act of violence, he said, but "you have to take this stuff seriously when you have a disgruntled employee who has access to guns."
"You can be aware of the warning signs and you can be aware of the steps you can take to prevent this," Lawlor said. "This stuff doesn't cross the minds of a lot of employers until it's too late."
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's reported attempts to ban access to the website Twitter in the country Thursday backfired when social media users found ways around the ban and used the site to criticize the move on a mass scale.
Erdogan, who is currently on the campaign trail ahead of March 30th local elections and a presidential race in August, has throughout the year faced ongoing allegations of political corruption and a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Twitter users have not been kind to Erdogan.
"Twitter, mwitter!" he said at a rally Thursday, before the site was blocked—what many are calling a "digital coup." The phrase roughly translates as "Twitter, schmitter!"
"We will wipe out all of these," Erdogan said. "The international community can say this, can say that. I don't care at all. Everyone will see how powerful the Republic of Turkey is."
Government officials, however, claim the ban is not politically motivated, and merely the result of a Turkish court order "that demanded the online service take down links that had allegedly insulted Turkish citizens," the Washington Post reports.
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Album Rating: 5.0Wow. Great review for one of my favorite albums ever mano.
Agreed with your In the Flesh love, it's my favorite song on the album, bar none.
I would've raised the ratings for Idioglossia and King of Loss though.
Never heard this, but it sounds most excellent. Pain Of Salvation interest me, and it's nice to see people mentioning my Be review as well, although I haven't listened to that album for a while for some reason. This sounds like a varied listen that avoids the excesses of the genre though, so I'll check it out sometime. Very good, detailed review as well.
I have never heard of Pain Of Salvation, but they sound really good. Great review, man.
Album Rating: 4.5Med: Yeah, that's the thing about Pain of Salvation. They manage to create well-crafted songs that can go for 7-10 minutes without reverting to overtly flashy instrumental work. They're still quite pompous though, but I like that sort of thing :D
The title track on this album would have to be my favourite Pain of Salvation song ever. That section starting at 4:30, through to 6:30 is just epic. Daniel's voice really shines through in that section.
Album Rating: 4.5Pain Of Salvation is just pwn
Album Rating: 5.0One of my favorite albums of all time. Just an incredible work.
Album Rating: 4.5Personally, the chorus of King of Loss is one of my favorite parts of the album.
It's a matter of taste...
Album Rating: 4.5Ashes was incredible live. This band are like a tasteful Dream Theater. Gildenlow's voice is fantastic.
Idioglossia is actually my favorite song on this album and one of my favorite PoS songs ever. Whenever I want to introduce someone to PoS I usually give them a handful of songs, Idioglossia being at the top of the list.
Good review tho..This Message Edited On 06.26.07
Album Rating: 5.0This album and this band are absolutely incredible. The arrangements are deceptively complex - there is so much going on. After playing this on and off for the past year or so, I am quite comfortable with giving this a 5 rating.
Album Rating: 4.5This is probably gonna be the next album I get. I saw the video for ashes on youtube, and the song was pretty awesome. The video scared the hell out of me to be honest though, probably cuz it was 1:00 in the morning.
Digging: Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
Album Rating: 4.0this album is pretty awesome but I need to give it more spins
Album Rating: 5.0Woh, that vid is pretty damn disturbing.
Album Rating: 4.5Got it! I'm on Idioglossia right now, and can say that this will easily be a 4.5 unless it
really gets worse after it.
:edit: okay, Idioglossia was fucking amazing, one of the most impressive songs i've
heard in a while. How the fuck does the reviewer not like it?This Message Edited On 03.01.08
Album Rating: 5.0dont worry, the rest of the album kicks ass. the title track is awesome
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah, i'm on my second listen now. The rest of the album was awesome, but Idioglossia was my favorite =D
king of Loss was awesome too, probably my second favorite. The chorus reminded me a lot of Tool.
Album Rating: 3.5Wow...just wow. This album is so fantastic and i haven't even finished the title track yet. I think you're very wrong about King of Loss because that was the best track on my first listen. Idioglossia is up there too. I love the vocalist, he is just ear sex!!
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah dude this album rules.
Album Rating: 3.5^ I agree...I love every part of this album except the closer (not the instrumental the closing song). I just feel it's too long winded still mayb itll grow on me


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Interview With Chris Hedges About Black Bloc
Thursday 9 February 2012
by: J.A. Myerson, Truthout | Interview
(Photo: Collin Anderson Sgroi / Flickr [3])
Chris Hedges' syndicated Truthdig column "Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy [5]," printed Tuesday at Truthout and elsewhere, created quite a stir among members of Occupy Wall Street (OWS). Some endorsed the sentiment. Among others, including some central organizers who helped plan the action over the summer, the column raised eyebrows and hackles. I compiled what I considered to be the best critiques of the piece that I came across (as well as my own questions) and interviewed Hedges over the phone.
I explained at the outset that I, too, had written in Truthout to urge doctrinal nonviolence [6] and that I am enormously fond of Hedges' prodigious body of work. Nevertheless, I explained, there was a lot about the column that confounded me and many people I'd heard from, and I asked him to let me push for clarification on a number of points. Here is the transcript of that recorded interview, edited very minimally for clarity.
J.A. Myerson: A previous column of yours entitled "The Greeks Get It" insinuated that the riots there were productive and, as you know, they committed vandalism and arson and so did protesters everywhere from
Chris Hedges: Yes.
JAM: Then I wonder if you would explain your writing, "Here's to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country... Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out ... The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it."
CH: The article and the column lauded the Greeks for responding. It was not an article about tactics. You use the word "insinuate." That's correct. You would have to insinuate that I supported rioting, but I don't know how you can in the long history of everything that I've written. The point that I was trying to make in that article was that the Greeks had gotten out on the street and risen up. I didn't agree with everything they'd done out on the street, but I was confounded by the passivity on the part of the American public that was being fleeced and abused in a manner not dissimilar to what was happening in Greece. I never in that article approve rioting. I had to put it in there, because it's what they did, but the point of the article was that the Greeks had responded and we hadn't - What's wrong with us?
JAM: You speak of the black bloc as though it were a political organization with membership, a violent, secretive, nihilistic cabal, which calls to mind the Black Hand, conveniently. It sounds like a really snarky question, but I swear I am genuinely interested in your answer: were you aware writing this piece that that is not an apt description of a black bloc, which is no organization at all, but a protest tactic that does more than just smash and burn?
CH: I put in there that they detest organization of any kind. I use part of their jargon - "feral" and "spontaneous" protest - whereby you walk down a street and nothing is planned. You walk by a window and you break it. They feel that any kind of attempt to plan immediately imposes a kind of hierarchy that they oppose. That's in the piece. There's a limit to expounding upon the internal - I didn't get into primitive anarchism and all this kind of stuff. But that was certainly part of the piece. It's precisely because they detest - there's a line in the article that says that they are opposed to those of us on the organized left. The operative word is "organization."
JAM: I have seen black blocs de-arresting their comrades (stealing people back from police custody), without hurting anyone or anything. I have seen them win a tug of war with the police and confiscate their kettle netting. I have seen them returning tear gas canisters from whence they came in order to mitigate the suffering of children and elderly protesters in their midst.
CH: Let's not paint these people as the Boy Scouts, come on.
JAM: Obviously, there is smashing and burning, but I wonder if tactics like those, which are also part and parcel of black bloc protests, are also cancerous.
CH: First of all, let's be clear. I don't have a problem with anarchism. The problem is they're not tactics I would engage in. I wouldn't classify them as "violent." I would classify violence as the destruction of property and vandalism, the shouting of insulting messages to the police, physical confrontations with the police. Those are very clear cut acts of violence. The issues that you raise are more nebulous and circumstantial. Throwing a tear-gas canister back that's been fired at you I would not classify as a violent act and yet it was something that probably would not have been done during the civil rights movement under King.
JAM: I think he might have thought of that as violent.
CH: I don't know that he would have thought of it as violent. He wouldn't resist arrest. I know that's an issue. When I've been arrested, I don't resist arrest. Many people do resist arrest. King never did resist arrest. But I prefaced it by saying that it's not something I would do. On the other hand, those are more nebulous issues, which may be part of black bloc activity, but let's be careful. Black bloc activity includes other things that are clearly defined as acts of violence. They don't limit it to those activities is what I'm saying.
JAM: Did you speak to people who had participated in a black bloc in the compilation of this column?
CH: No.
JAM: I've got some assertions you make in the column and I want to ask you about them. Let's start with the one you mentioned. "Black Bloc adherents detest those of us on the organized left and seek, quite consciously, to take away our tools of empowerment." How did you arrive at that conclusion?
CH: Because of the tactics that they embrace. Smashing the window of a coffee shop - which happened in November in Oakland to a local coffee shop owner and then the coffee shop was looted - is an activity that is destructive to OWS, in my view.
JAM: And it necessarily entailed detesting the organized left and consciously seeking to take away the tools of empowerment?
CH: If you look at the writings of black bloc ideologues, they're very clear. I did listen to several hours of Anarchy Radio before I wrote this, which is out of
JAM: I'm interested in that, because the excerpts I have written out are instances of you describing black blocs and their attitudes and their ideology.
CH: This is the radio program that's run by John Zerzan. They're all archived online, plus his publications are online, so I read a lot of the publications and quoted from some of the publications and I listened to probably four or five hours of the radio broadcasts. Like I listened to them on Noam Chomsky. I was curious as to what their attitudes were on a variety of issues.
JAM: I'm struggling with the seemingly conflicting proposals that they are opposed to organization, have no organization and hate organization and, yet, monolithically ascribe to any ideology at all.
CH: I didn't say that they subscribe to an ideology. I said that they subscribe to tactics. I don't know how much you know about them, but it's the whole anti-civilization movement. That's another discussion. But there is a hostility towards civilization as it's currently configured and it must be taken down. Their problem with those of us on the organized left is that we, in essence, are attempting to reform it rather than destroy it. And that's their attack on Chomsky. Zerzan calls him a sell-out. They hate Derrick Jensen, which is why I called him. They've really gone after Derrick.
JAM: Here's another excerpt. "These acts, the movement argues, can never be organized. Organization, in the thinking of the movement, implies hierarchy, which must always be opposed. There can be no restraints on 'feral' or 'spontaneous' acts of insurrection. Whoever gets hurt gets hurt. Whatever gets destroyed gets destroyed." Where does "the movement" argue this?
CH: When they talk about the tactics. That's what "feral" activity is. It rises out of the moment. That's what they embrace. You don't walk down the street and say, "We're going to target that shop." It's a spontaneous response.
JAM: That's interesting taken in the context of this quotation. "The Black Bloc movement bears the rigidity and dogmatism of all absolutism sects. Its adherents alone possess the truth. They alone understand. They alone arrogate the right, because they are enlightened and we are not, to dismiss and ignore competing points of view as infantile and irrelevant. They hear only their own voices. They heed only their own thoughts. They believe only their own clichés. And this makes them not only deeply intolerant but stupid." How did you arrive at the conclusions that they're rigidly dogmatic and dismissive of all other points of view?
CH: From listening to anarchist radio and reading anarchist web sites.
JAM: You cite an article by someone named "Venomous Butterfly," which criticizes the Zapatistas on anarchist grounds, in a magazine called Green Anarchy, whose publisher, John Zerzan, you describe as "one of the principal ideologues of the Black Bloc movement in the United States." Seemingly on these grounds alone, you contend that "Black Bloc adherents" "argue" that the "real enemies" include "populist movements such as the Zapatistas." I can personally confirm that many Black bloc anarchists support the Zapatistas and I'm left wondering about the wisdom of thinking one article in one magazine that no one has endorsed as representative indicates much. An equivalent would be if someone attributed Alexander Cockburn's views on the climate crisis to Katrina van den Heuvel, furthermore adding that van den Heuvel is one of the principal ideologues of the Occupy movement and that therefore Cockburn's views on the climate crisis are broadly applicable to the Occupy movement. Did you have better grounds for this assertion than I've detected?
CH: I certainly, first of all, don't consider myself an expert on the black bloc. I am certain that there are, as with any group, varieties of opinions and divisions. I think it is pretty uniform that they are dismissive of the organized left and I see it as a value judgment. I think that their tactics are ones that essentially are destructive to the tools of empowerment of the organized left. The vandalism that they carry out and the cynicism that they express are juvenile. I am sure that there are black blocs who support the Zapatistas, but they are by and large hostile to any organized entities on the left, including unions, including environmental activists, including populist movements. If you look at the sentence, it says "populist movements such as the Zapatistas." I just pulled it out as an example. Zerzan is hostile to the Zapatistas. I'm sure that others are not. But I used it as an example of a movement that has been attacked by black bloc proponents.
JAM: You write, "The Occupy encampments in various cities were shut down precisely because they were nonviolent." I think I get the point, but I wonder if you'd game that out, because it seems to insinuate that, had camps been violent, they would not have been shut down.
CH: That's a pretty broad leap. They were shut down because they articulated the concerns and anger and frustrations of the mainstream. This is a mainstream movement. Any time you went to
JAM: What then is the solution to the problem? What is the prognosis for the cancer?
CH: There has to be a rigid adherence to nonviolence. That does not mean that the black bloc can't exist. We saw a multiplicity of groups in the 1960s - from the Yippies to the Panthers to the Weather Underground - but the movement itself has to continue to operate in a way that it does not alienate the mainstream. If the security and surveillance state is able to alienate the mainstream from OWS, then OWS will be far more vulnerable to being destroyed. That's very similar to the civil rights movement. I'm a huge admirer of Malcolm X. And, yet, the establishment didn't really fear Malcolm X; they feared King. That's true here. They fear OWS. They don't fear the black bloc.
JAM: That sentiment I agree with completely. But it's interesting to track the basis for your compunction in the piece. That expression seems sort of practical-strategic-pragmatic in a way that I really agree with, but you weren't quoting Gene Sharp, you were quoting "All's Quiet on the Western Front," so it seems like part of your objection to black bloc tactics is less strategic-tactical than almost spiritual.
CH: It's both. I've spent my life around mobs and groups and crowds and armies and they foster for me very frightening physical and emotional responses.
JAM: Thank you for taking the time to answer combative questions.
CH: I don't mind combative questions. But a lot of it was tenuous conjecture. The idea that because I mentioned the word "riot" in the piece about the Greeks, that I embrace rioting.
JAM: It's actually a thing that confuses me personally and I'm looking for your advice on it. I am myself a big nonviolent advocate. But
CH: That's a longer discussion. Eight hundred people were killed in
JAM: Will you expand on that? Are you saying that once there's a big, widespread revolutionary movement, then there's room for that kind of thing?
CH: I'm not going to go there. Personally, I'm always nonviolent. But once that kind of repression manifests itself, it inevitably provokes counterviolence. I wrote a whole book on this called "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Violence is a poison and even when it's employed in a just cause, it's still a poison. This is something I intimately understand. I'm not a pacifist. You can push people to a point where they have no option but to employ violence. That's certainly what happened to the people in
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You love your Daddy and smile every day when he walks in the door from work. You track us both across the room and turn your head when you hear one of our voices coming from another direction. It is so rewarding for to see that you know we are your people. Your coos have now turned into conversations with us. We talk to you about, well, just about anything and you love to respond to us with an assortment of gurgles. Your most talkative times are in the hour right after your first morning nap and in the early evening.
Your hip is healing very well and you are now out of your harness eight hours each day. As soon as you are "sprung" each day, usually around 12 noon, you kick your legs repeatedly and extend them as far as you can, getting a good stretch. You are so go about putting it back on at night and never complain but, you are absolutely enjoying your new-found freedom each day.
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Now, I'm English, and English is my mother tongue, but I could speak Flemish (variant of Dutch) before I could speak English. I learnt how to read and write in Flemish. Dutch is a very phonetic language.
This is a very long way of saying my English is... Interesting.
As in, I assume that every word should be said as it is spelt (try knowledge k-now-ledge, fun, isn't it?) and so my spelling is pretty awful.
I'm working on an AU. Why? It's not that I find canon restrictive, or anything like that, it's simply because I want to tell this story. It's not the same story as the mighty J.K Rowling, and, I think her books and her canon is perfect, there's nothing I would change.
But everyone wonders "what if?" in their own lives, and I'm wondering that in Harry Pottter.
My story is simply my interpretation of a certain question.
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Pittsburgh travelers, airport brace for holiday storm
Some people flying early to avoid storm's potential wrath
The Allegheny County Airport Authority has an army of 40 snow-removal vehicles ready to go head-to-head with Mother Nature at Pittsburgh International Airport.
However, college student Chris Adamek isn't waiting around to see the outcome. He left Pittsburgh a day early to assure his Thanksgiving reunion with family in Denver. And he's elated that his airline did not penalize him for changing flights.
"I'm not sure if it was because of the storm, but I was told 'no fee' and I'm happy about it," he said.
AAA spokesperson Ruth Nagy said airline passengers should consider traveling a day early, like Adamek, if they have the flexibility.
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Airport Authority spokeswoman Joann Jenny said up to 6,000 passengers are expected to jam the airport departure area Wednesday morning.
If flights are canceled, chaos is almost a certainty. Early planning is strongly advised.
"Check in at flypittsburgh.com and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We're going to be sending out advisories," said Jenny.
Along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, many travelers had the same idea.
"We left Sunday, and we could have probably gotten there today, but we'll take our time and get there tomorrow," said Mike Pfahler, who was en route to New Jersey from Wisconsin.
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