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Family photo
Photos of Feng Jianmei on her hospital bed after a forced abortion have been circulating on the web. The photos were taken by her sister who in turn contacted the media about the story. The photos originally appeared in a local newspaper report online and then they were picked by netizens and distributed online.
Updated at 10:33 p.m. ET: China state media says city officials have apologized to Feng Jiamei and suspended three officials, the BBC reported.
Xinhua news said the Ankang city government will urge the county government to review its family planning operations, according to the BBC report.
BEIJING – Feng Jianmei says she was manhandled by seven people, some of them local family planning officials, some of whom she didn't know.
Feng, 22 years old and seven months pregnant, was dragged out of her relative's home, carried and shoved into a van that headed straight to a hospital on June 2, she told NBC News in phone interview.
She was blindfolded, thrown on a bed, and forced to sign a document that she couldn't read with the blindfold still on her eyes. Then two shots were injected into her belly. Thirty hours later, on the morning June 4, she gave birth to a dead baby girl.
Feng is one of the many Chinese women who have been forced to have abortions under China's strict one-child-only policy started in late 1970s to contain the country's fast growing population, which has now topped 1.3 billion people.
One-child policy
China's long time Communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong originally encouraged women to have as many children as possible during the Cold War-era when human power was believed to be an important force if war broke out. But the country's rulers soon found it too difficult to feed the huge population – so they adopted a harsh policy that allows urban citizens to have only one child, and rural couples to have two, if the first child is a girl.
The policy has been carried out for more than three decades despite public opposition, from human rights activists to ordinary people. Thousands of years of Chinese culture fostered the belief that "more children is more blessing," especially in remote and rural areas where the elderly lack adequate social benefits and depend on children as they grow old.
Government family planning officials are also under pressure to make sure their constituencies follow the quota of babies allowed. When there's no clear law telling them what they can and cannot do, forced abortions, often on late-terms pregnancies, have become the norm, particularly for the poor who are unable to pay the hefty fines to have additional children.
Advocates on behalf of these women are usually ignored or face government repression. For example, Chen Guangcheng, the famous blind lawyer and human rights activist, represented victims of family planning abuse in Shandong Province. Chen was jailed for four years for his advocacy and put under house arrest until he recently escaped illegal detainment and fled to the U.S. last month.
There are no official figures of how many women in China unwillingly terminate pregnancies every year. "All Girls Allowed," an organized founded by former 1989 student protest leader Chai Ling, claims there are 1.3 million forced abortions annually.
'How can I agree to do that, as a mother?'
Feng Jianmei didn't realize she wasn't allowed to have a second child (her first daughter was born in 2007) since everyone else around her was permitted to have a second child. Both she and her husband Deng Jiyuan took for granted that they would have the same right. But the family planning office in Zengjiazhen, a small town in Shaanxi province in the heart of China, thought differently.
Through a rigorous and rigid household registration system designed to control population movement, the central government classifies all its citizens as either city dwellers or rural peasants. The registration, also known in Chinese as hukou, determines not only a citizen's residence but also what kind of social services individuals are eligible for.
It is very difficult to change one's hukou although there are many ways, including marrying a person with a different registration status, applying for a new status through one's job, or paying an enormous sum of money.
The local family planning office decided that Feng wasn't allowed to have a second child because she didn't have the necessary permit – apparently she had failed to relocate her hukou to Zengjiazhen when she moved from her original province of Inner Mongolia.
But the couple says they had no idea their plan to have a second child was connected with Feng's hukou.
They were given another option that would solve the problem: pay a fine of $6,400. But that was an impossible amount for the couple to afford – Deng is a migrant worker and Feng is a farmer.
"I told you, $6,400, not even a penny less. I told your dad that and he said he has no money," the family planning official wrote to Deng in a text message that has been made public. "You were too careless, you didn't think this was a big deal."
Feng's sister received the same warning; if they couldn't afford to help pay the fine, it was only a matter of time before her sister had to get rid of the baby, whether she wanted to or not.
Things came to a head on June 2, but according to the local government, Feng agreed to the abortion.
The Zhenping Population and Family Planning Bureau released on June 11 an official stamped document, which says that "after government cadre's repeated persuasion, Feng Jianmei agreed to have an abortion at 15:40 on June 2."
"No, I didn't agree to do it," Feng told NBC News. "How can I agree to do that, as a mother?"
She sobbed when asked what happened next, and said she was too upset to think about it. She said all those officials who kidnapped her disappeared after the abortion, and she's still suffering from a constant headache.
Two appalling photos of her were taken and posted online that show her lying in bed, looking weak and helpless, with a dead and bloody baby next to her. The photos were taken by her sister who in turn contacted the media about the story. The photos originally appeared in a local newspaper report online and then they were picked by netizens and distributed online.
'If this evil policy is not stopped, this country will have no humanity'
Forced abortions in China are not new, but Feng's story spread rapidly via social media, and outrage was immediate and unanimous. On Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblogging site, netizens left thousands of angry comments, although many of the posts were quickly deleted by government censors.
"The purpose of family planning was to control population, but now it has become murder population," wrote Li Chengpeng, a well-known Chinese writer. "It was a method to contain population, but now it is a way to make money. When you can make money by killing, what else are you afraid to do? A seven-month baby can think already. I want to ask the murderer, how do you face your own mother when you go home? If this evil policy is not stopped, this country will have no humanity."
Zhao Chu, another writer, called it pure murder. "This is not about enforcing the policy, it is about depriving someone's right to live. We avoid the nature of it by using a medical word 'enforced abortion.' For so long family planning seems like something completely irrelevant of human life. It's like coal mining or digging mushrooms. Human life has become lifeless indexes, some cold, meaningless numbers.
"Also, pushed by heavy fines, the controversial policy has become profit-oriented activities that everyone hates. The worst victims are those of low-class rural people who have no power to fight. Their tears and cries are not heard by so called mainstream society and the victims become worse than the untouchables," said Zhao.
Many called for the one-child policy to be outlawed. "We feel so sorry for the dead baby girl, we criticize those so-called law enforcers. But we should rethink the 30-year-long family planning policy. It'd be worth it if this could help to change the policy! We keep our eyes open!" commented user A-Kun on his Weibo page.
Even Hu Xijin, chief editor of Global Times, one of China's most pro-government newspapers, criticized the forced abortion on his Weibo account.
"I strongly oppose the barbarous forced abortion to this 7-month-pregnant mother. Time has changed and the intensity of enforcing family planning has changed. We should promote civilized family planning," Hu wrote.
But he added that he didn't think the whole policy should be abolished. "Don't use Hong Kong and Japan as an argument to deny China's population policy. Those places are small and developed early, fed by the whole world's resources. But the world resources cannot afford to feed a China with billions of people."
'This has damaged the image of family planning work'
NBC News tried to contact both town and city level family planning offices in Zengjiazhen and Ankang, but the calls went unanswered.
A report from Xinhua, China's official government news agency, released on Thursday said that the Shaanxi Provincial Family Planning Committee has sent an investigation team to Zengjiazhen and requested local government to have the responsible parties held accountable.
"This has damaged the image of family planning work, and had an adverse effect on the society. The committee will resolutely prevent such things from happening again," the Xinhua news report said.
Feng's conversation with NBC News was interrupted three times by what she said were government cadres entering her hospital ward to talk.
When asked what she would do next or whether they will seek legal help, she uttered an answer in a very low voice: "I have no idea."
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WEST BANK, Palestinian territories - In his strongest pledge yet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that no settler will be uprooted from settlements in the West Bank, regardless of any peace plan.
He also took credit for decisions by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, to declare Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Israel, and for U.S. recognition of the Golan Heights as part of Israel.
The Israeli prime minister was speaking on Wednesday night at an event at the Revava settlement marking the 40th anniversary of the Samaria Regional Council."I will not allow the uprooting of any settlement in Israel in any diplomatic peace plan. We simply won't uproot communities: not of Jews and not of Arabs," he told thousands of people who took part in the celebration, according to a report in The Jerusalem Post."We are not uprooting people: We are done with all that foolishness," Netanyahu said."Judea and Samaria is our homeland," he said. "This is our land; we will continue to develop it and to build here. In any diplomatic plan, I will not allow the uprooting of a single settlement or a single settler, not a single settler," he said.
The IDF (Israeli army) will continue to operate in all of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley, the prime minister said. He pledged to work to gain international acceptance for these principles."Look what I did in the Golan. Look what I did in Jerusalem. There is more to come," he said."This region is not just the nation's birthright, but the nation's guard tower," he said. Try to imagine, he asked the audience, what would happen to Ben-Gurion International Airport or to Route 6, if it were not protected by Israel's presence in Samaria.Head of the Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan called for a million residents in Judea and Samaria and urged Netanyahu to authorize new settlements to achieve that goal, The Jerusalem Post report said."This is the time to apply sovereignty to Judea and Samaria," he added."We did not come just to speak about history, but to write its next chapter. We are embarking on a mission for 40 more years in Samaria," Dagan said.
Pictured: U.S. Ambassador David Friedman (left), U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton (center), and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in northern Israel last month.
Note: Judea and Samaria Area is the Israeli government term for the administrative division encompassing Israeli-controlled Jewish-majority civilian areas of Area C of the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem. Source: Wikipedia
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Samaria is a historical and biblical name used for the central region of ancient Palestine.
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Samaria, also known as Jibal Nablus is a historical and biblical name used for the central region of the anclient Land of Israel, also was known as Palestine...
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Samaria, Hebrew Shomron, the central region of ancient Palestine.
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One issue I noticed is that the HD doesn't stay off -- it spins down after the timeout period, but it's usually back up in less than 5 - 10 minutes. I presume this happens because some kind of log is written onto the HD. Is it possible to write logs onto a ram drive instead (should have plenty of space) and then copy those logs into the HD once a day?


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"Entertainment complex system in the middle of a sewage system" - Epic.
A few more things come to mind:
Panda's thumb
Why so many types of beetles?
Why so many types of parasites?
Why no decent UV/IR vision for humans?
Why can't I have my cake and eat it to?
Why is intelligence optional, and stupidity/ignorance manditory?
Why can't we change our minds more easily?
There are, of course, many examples of stupidity in the design of human beings. We could all come up with some of our own, I'm sure. Here's one that might not have occurred to you: why do we humans have a "blind spot" almost dead center in our vision? The process of evolution provides a completely cogent explanation for this "flaw." And since creationists are wont to use the eye as such a great example of "intelligent design," why do they believe that God gave us myopia, hyperopia, cataracts, amblyopia, color blindness, floaters, flashes, spots, photophobia, nystagmus, stabismus, macular degeneration, glaucoma, macular dystrophy, retinitis pigmentosa, and astigmatism, all of which are all or in part due to how are eyes were "designed"?
Why did God cover our photoreceptor cells with layers of tissue that cause our vision to be less distinct than that of some other creatures, like the octopus? In other words, why did God design the vision of the octopus eye and those of some other creatures to be so much sharper than ours. Is it because He favors octopi over humans? Perhaps it's the octopus, rather than humans that God created in His image in the Garden of Eden. Instead of the white-whiskered old man in a white robe and carrying a long staff is not the correct representation of God in Heaven; perhaps it should be, instead, an 8-legged blob.
Sex. Really, there has to be a more sensible way than the dance humans and other creatures go through to produce copies of ourselves.
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The 8 legged blob harkens back to HP Lovecraft!
Thanks for sharing this, I love these stabs at what's not so intelligent in intelligent design.
I guess when I think about it, if it is so badly made, why does it work at all? Nature focused on 'good enough'?
I guess when I think about it, if it is so badly made, why does it work at all?
Lots of badly made stuff works to a degree.
This article claims that female attendance at a certain atheist conference is down due to sexual harrassment. Of course it's making the rounds of religion-oriented websites. The comments are very entertaining.


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I recently discovered I live quite close to one of the least-used railway stations in the country! How could I resit a visit to Doleham station? With just 56 passengers in 2007/8 Doleham station is a pretty quiet place. What is there to see and do once you arrive at Doleham? This helpful map shows […]
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Some observations on the subject of cows
I'm back at home in Hastings at the moment. Went on the hill near our house with t'family this afternoon and encountered this herd of cows. They are cute! It looks like they are well prepared for the snow with all that hair!
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Do you remember the mystery artefact I found in a Knorr chicken stock cube? Well, I sent it back to their lab for analysis and they actually replied! 😀 Here is the letter they sent (with some sensitive informations redacted): They also included a coupon for £5 off any Unilever product (apparently they own Knorr). […]
Snow day!
Last week doof.me.uk brought you coverage of fog. This week we bring you yet another weather phenomenon: snow! What to take a picture of to demonstrate "snow"? How about the Maidenhead bridge? A favourite of this blog, here it is covered in snow yesterday morning: Not wanting to be accused of bridge favouritism, here's a […]
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I stumbled upon this book today: Some stray notes upon Slough and Upton written in 1892 by Richard Bentley, a local historian. I haven't read much of it yet, but from the first few pages we learn that Slough "is a very healthy place" and has an "inspiriting air". The latter a quote from the […]
Burnham and Slough Trading Estate
As mentioned in the previous post, I went for a walk from Maidenhead to Slough via Burnham today. I took a few photos for the benefit of those that don't live in the area. Here we are then at the Brunel railway bridge in Maidenhead. This is probably the most famous of Maidenhead's two Thames […]
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Within the past three weeks, I've traveled down south twice to celebrate the weddings of 2 of my 3 wonderful Georgia cousins, Emily and Adam! (you're next, Jonathan!)
Emily got hitched with another Adam, and Adam got hitched with Sarah!
Sarah & I were bridesmaids in Emily's wedding, and Sarah suggested that I do a portrait or caricature of the bride & groom. I've always had a bit of difficulty with portraits, but lucky for me I had some good faces to work with :)
So, of course, when Adam & Sarah's wedding rolled around, I decided to do portraits of them too!
Both these sets of portraits were interesting experiments. When I tried to apply the same simplified style I did with Emily & Adam's portraits to Sarah & Adam's, I found that I needed to use a little more realism to get across the best resemblances. Different faces & personalities call for different styles, and I got some great practice out of it!
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Savoy Affair
Ever want to make a mixed drink, but cocktail recipes aren't illustrated enough for you?? Boy, do I have the free iPhone app for YOU! Loud Cloud Mixtures! The Loud Cloud, the creative agency that I'm a part of, recently put out a free app for your iPhone called Loud Cloud Mixtures! All of us artists in the Loud Cloud picked a delicious cocktail, and created an illustration based around it. It's a handy gallery of visually & gustatorily satisfying drinks at your fingers, featuring such drinks as Black Forest Martini, Dark and Stormy, Lynchburg Lemonade, Pink Elephant, The Negroni, and many more! Download it from the itunes store (for freeeee) here!
At first, I wanted to do the White Russian...I tried out some sketches, but nothing really felt right for me.
I looked into some more obscure cocktails, and found the Savoy Affair. What an intriguing name, right? It was one of 20 cocktails invented by Joe Gilmore, the longest running head Barman at the Savoy Hotel in London. (another awesomely named cocktail invented by Mr. Gilmore: the Savoy Corpse Reviver)
Anyway, "Savoy Affair" is just screaming for a mysterious summertime hotel rendezvous...and that's what I decided to draw (complete with a shady character watching from the background!)
I was able to realize it pretty quickly and easily, I think it's definitely one of my favorite recent pieces.
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San Antonio Modern (article)Posted by Patrick Shearer at January 17. 2007
Modern contemporaries are rare in S.A.Web Posted: 01/13/2007 07:19 PM CST
Jennifer Hiller
Express-News Business Writer
The big question is whether Andy Smith is crazy.
Driving past the cottage, ranch and traditional houses that prevail throughout Terrell Hills and Alamo Heights, Smith excitedly points out a handful of contemporary homes. He loves their modern symmetry and sleek simplicity so much that he's building one himself and plans to sell it.
A fan of contemporary art and architecture and a former developer of Hill Country neighborhoods, Smith is one of a very few people building a contemporary home in San Antonio in hopes that a buyer will materialize.
But in a city where Tuscan-style homes reign supreme in new construction, will Smith's modern spec home sell?
"It is more risky," he admits.
The home, with expansive windows, a courtyard and distinctive barrel vault ceilings, is designed by well-regarded San Antonio architect Ken Bentley and priced at $1.2 million.
"People love it or they don't," Smith said. "It's just maybe 10 or 15 percent who appreciate it."
Smith thinks he can find that 10 percent.
Tucked among vast pockets of traditional homes that populate San Antonio neighborhoods are a few elusive homes of modern or contemporary design.
Trying to find them is like a treasure hunt.
"There are people out there who are looking for it," architect Candid Rogers said. "Nobody is designing it and that's the problem."
Bill Riesenecker recently hired Rogers to design three modern single-family homes on a large vacant lot in the Lavaca neighborhood.
They all sold before they were completed, and Rogers is now designing projects for Riesenecker near the former Pearl Brewery and La Tuna Icehouse.
"You have to have the commitment and desire to create it," Riesenecker said. "It's not an off-the-shelf thing."
The barrier to finding modern design: Many San Antonio home buyers remain rabid for the Tuscan/Mediterranean style.
"Most of the homes we are doing new are Mediterranean," luxury builder Roberto Kenigstein said. "We still get people who want the clean lines. When those homes come on the market, they sell."
But they sell more slowly.
Kenigstein built a contemporary spec home in Elm Creek a few years ago and it sat on the market so long that he lost money on it.
However, he did pick up a few new clients who saw the home and wanted something similar.
Kenigstein continues to build contemporary homes for clients and loves the work, but doubts he will another spec home anytime soon.
"I'd break even or lose money," he said.
Todd Glowka, another luxury builder, puts it more bluntly.
"The demand is so minimal for it," he said. "If you had to make a living at it you'd starve to death."
Perhaps one person in every 20 who comes to Glowka for a home asks for something modern.
Becky Oliver, executive vice president with the Greater San Antonio Builders Association, said few builders can afford the risk of building a contemporary home without a client on hand, so there's little supply of new, modern homes.
"The market niche is so small for that kind of design in this part of the country," Oliver said. "People here still want that Hill Country warm feeling. Contemporary is not always warm."
There's another obstacle for home buyers hunting for a modern home.
Much of the supply of contemporary homes is in the upper price range of the market, around $350,000 and higher.
"Younger people love contemporary," Kenigstein said. "They can't afford it."
Other options
Real estate agents say it is difficult, but not impossible, to find a modern home that's not made for millionaires.
For home buyers in a more typical price range — the $100,000s or $200,000s — local real estate agents recommend looking at some of the 1950s neighborhoods around San Antonio. Balcones Heights, Terrell Heights, Castle Hills, Oak Hills and Shavano Park are a few of many areas where 1950s-era homes can be found at varying prices.
Mid-century modern designs have become wildly popular in other parts of the country and have had a big influence on furniture design the last few years.
But San Antonio hasn't quite embraced the mid-century modern, so there are still deals to be had.
"You could redo some of those mid-century homes," said Rick Kuper of Kuper Sotheby's International Realty. "You'd have a basis to work with."
Ann FitzGibbons, a real estate agent with the Phyllis Browning Co., recently had a buyer who wanted a modern home, and so they limited their search to mid-century moderns. Now FitzGibbons is listing a 1950s ranch home with a modern addition for $489,000 in Alamo Heights.
"There's an audience," FitzGibbons said. "We just have to develop it."
Growing market
No one has rolled out the red carpet for contemporary architecture in San Antonio, said Bentley, the architect who designed Smith's spec home in Terrell Hills.
"But I think that's changing in the sense that there's so many people moving to San Antonio from other parts of the country where contemporary architecture is so much more established and appreciated," he said. "We've been a large small town for years. There have been a lot of provincial attitudes."
Bentley specializes in a regional contemporary style that uses materials such as limestone and Mexican brick, and said contemporary design doesn't have to be expensive.
"It wouldn't be any costlier than any other type of architecture," Bentley said. "Tuscan would be far more expensive per square foot than some of our homes."
Karrie Jacobs, the former editor of Dwell magazine and author of the recent book "The Perfect $100,000 House," went on a cross-country search for low-cost, quality modern design.
Her goal was to find an architect who could provide a modern home for $100,000, land not included.
"Several architects said, 'Are you kidding? We can't do it,'" Jacobs said. "But it's a problem that a lot of them really like to tackle. It gives them a sense of mission."
The resale
Once a contemporary home goes back on the market, finding a buyer can be tough.
Kuper is listing a $3.5 million modern home in Elm Creek with a floating stainless steel staircase.
He doesn't want to eliminate anyone, but he thinks the buyer won't be a native San Antonian.
"Likely our buyer at $3.5 million is not going to come from the local market," he said. "That's why we use national and international exposure."
Rose Jamison, an agent with the Elaine Ludwig Real Estate Co., is listing a contemporary home in DeZavala Place, a North Side neighborhood in Shavano Park. San Antonio architect Roy Braswell designed the home with enormous windows, honey-colored wood floors and so much built-in storage that clutter would be nearly eliminated for the owners.
But with a list price of $987,000, Jamison also thinks her buyer might come from California or Florida.
"It's a very, very small market in San Antonio," she said.
She's concentrating on contacting other agents who work in high-end homes and on Web marketing.
"Those who can afford it and those who like it are going to be younger people who will use the computer," she said.
Braswell, who designed the home about 12 years ago, said many home buyers have misconceptions about contemporary homes.
"Most of the homes we do are on the contemporary side, but use more traditional materials like rock and wood windows and clay tile roofs," Braswell said. "They're not a copy of a Tuscan villa. I think people have some kind of image in their mind of flat roofs and minimal detailing. It can be on the contemporary side and still be warm. You don't have to have all Barcelona chairs."
Creating a lifestyle
Riesenecker compared his projects to an Apple computer.
"Does it do much different than a PC? No. But it probably provides a more pleasant experience and platform," he said. "My driving goal is to create a better lifestyle."
Sarah Harding and Jesus de la Torre just bought one of Riesenecker's homes in Lavaca and moved in with their two children, Maya and Elijah.
"We really enjoy the feel of a modern house," Harding said.
The couple's first priority was living close to downtown, and they were happy to find new construction.
"Our first priority was to be in an area where we could walk more," she said. "We wanted to be where my husband could walk or bike to work. We love to go to the theater and the libraries and be involved in the arts."
Riesenecker believes there are other families out there like Harding's.
Smith, too, believes there's a market for modern.
And if there isn't, he has a Plan B. He'll move into the Bentley-designed home in Terrell Hills himself.
Re: San Antonio Modern (article)Posted by Patrick Shearer at January 17. 2007
I wanted to post this article from the San Antonio Express in case there are other San Antonians that missed this.
While the overall point of the article is that there isn't much modern in SA, they also featured several people that are making it happen now. I know Bill and Candid have been focusing on more moderately priced homes than the multi-million dollar ones being done by other developers here.
And, a nice shout out for Modville, the area around La Tuna...
Re: San Antonio Modern (article)Posted by Wilson Curtis at June 03. 2010
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Kilburn & the High Roads were one of the most-respected bands on London's early-'70s pub rock scene, and were just as important (if not more so) for beginning the career of beloved new wave cult figure Ian Dury. Label difficulties prevented the group from leaving much of a recorded legacy, but their eclecticism, offbeat stage presence, and droll Britishness had an undeniable influence on punk and new wave. Dury (28 years old at the time) formed Kilburn & the High Roads in late 1970 while working as a lecturer at the Canterbury College of Art; the name simply came from a street sign for Kilburn High Road. Initially, the band was a part-time affair that included several of Dury's former students. The complete lineup featured Dury on lead vocals, guitarist Ted Speight, saxophonist George Khan, pianist Russell Hardy, bassist Charlie Hart, and drummer Terry Day; saxophonist Davey Payne soon replaced Khan. Kilburn & the High Roads made their concert debut in December 1971 at the Croydon School of Art in London; their sound drew mostly from old-time rock & roll, but also mixed in R&B, jazz, reggae, and music hall, plus Dury's thick Cockney accent. Their stage personas were even more distinctive; Dury's pronounced limp (the result of childhood polio) only added to his bizarre menace, and the rest of the band simply looked (and danced) like a bunch of misfits.
By 1973, Kilburn & the High Roads were playing regular gigs all over the London pub rock circuit, becoming more popular than just about every similar band save for Dr. Feelgood and Brinsley Schwarz. That July, they signed a deal with Warner subsidiary Raft; by this time, the lineup now featured guitarist Keith Lucas (who would later join 999 under the name Nick Cash), bassist Ian Smith, and drummer David Rohoman would soon replace Day. The group completed an album in early 1974, but unfortunately it was scrapped when Warner shut down the entire Raft division. Charlie Sinclair took over on bass for the sessions, as did former Eggs Over Easy drummer George Butler. Adrift for a spell, Kilburn & the High Roads eventually hooked up with Pye subsidiary Dawn in late 1974, where they recorded their debut single, "Rough Boys" b/w "Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself in London)." Rohoman was back on drums, and longtime pianist Hardy was replaced by Rod Melvin. Unfortunately, by the time the band's debut album Handsome was finally released in 1975, their momentum had stalled -- a Kilburn & the High Roads album simply couldn't command the attention it would have a year or two earlier. Tired of the music-biz hassles, the group disbanded that same summer. Dury formed a new group by the end of the year called Ian Dury & the Kilburns, but they too broke up in summer 1976 when Dury's doctors advised him to steer clear of live performances. Still, Dury kept writing songs; he eventually put together a new backing band called the Blockheads, signed with Stiff Records in 1978, and became a U.K. sensation. Thanks to his success, Warner finally issued the Kilburn album it had been sitting on for four years, under the title Wotabunch. ~ Steve Huey~ Rovi


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Who Gets To Keep Togepi? (トゲピーはだれのもの!? The Togepi is Whose!?) is the 50th episode of Pokémon: Indigo League.
Team Rocket stole the egg. Though the heroes get it back after mounting an attack on Team Rocket, the egg hatches into a cute Togepi. However, nobody knows who should receive Togepi, so Meowth, Brock, Ash and Misty have a tournament to decide the winner. Togepi, however, has already chosen one being it likes...
Episode plot
The group stop at a Pokémon Center for a rest and get a message from Professor Oak who wants to talk to them. When they talk, he discusses Muk and offers Ash a Pokédex upgrade. Ash takes the upgrade and they are on their way. Ash and the group wonder about what could be inside the egg Brock has been taking care of since Ash found it in Grandpa Canyon. Misty thinks it could be a water type Pokémon and Brock thinks its a rock type Pokémon.
They leave the Pokémon Center and Team Rocket is disguised as egg sellers, selling eggs that looks like the one Ash and his friends have. Team Rocket tries to convince Ash and his friends to buy or trade one of their eggs for their egg. Ash and friends refuse. Team Rocket, desperate, throws all of their fake eggs into the air and when Ash and his friends are looking up, Team Rocket steals their egg and they run off.
While Ash and his friends are looking for them, Team Rocket hides out in a small cabin. Meowth takes care of the egg while they are there. Meowth sleeps and even eats with the egg. Ash and friends follow a trail of broken pieces from the fake eggs to the cabin where Team Rocket is hiding out. They decide to run and grab the egg, even though its dangerous.
Ash brings out Pidgeotto, Misty brings out Staryu (somehow, Psyduck came out), and Brock brings out Geodude. They quickly run into the cabin, surprising Team Rocket. James brings out Weezing and tells it to use Poison Gas. The egg goes flying and Pikachu catches it. Misty takes it just in time to see it hatch. It is Togepi, and they all fight over who should keep Togepi. Togepi, likes Misty a lot because Misty was the first thing it saw and thinks Misty is its mother. Everyone is distracted until Team Rocket remembers that they have to keep Togepi no matter what. Ash decides to have a tournament. Team Rocket made a deal with him.
They have a tournament and decide that the winner of the tournament gets to keep Togepi. Meowth, Ash, Misty and Brock enter the tournament. Meowth tells Jessie and James that they can't enter the tournament because they didn't help take care of Togepi at all. Meowth then panics because he has no Pokémon to use in the tournament. He asks Jessie and James for help but they refuse, then he remembers that he's a Pokémon.
First was Brock vs. Meowth. Meowth had to be both Trainer and Pokémon against Onix, and Meowth wins against Brock's Onix by pouring water on it (which Brock thinks is cheating) and then scratching it. Next, Ash and Misty battle. Misty tries to send out Staryu, but it turned out Psyduck came out of its Poké Ball instead. Misty tries to make Psyduck go back into its Poké Ball, but it wasn't allowed. Ash sends out Bulbasaur. Ash remembers that Psyduck uses Psychic attacks if its headache gets too bad. He tells Bulbasaur to lick Psyduck on the head, and then tickle it. Psyduck soon goes back into its Poké Ball, making Ash win. The final battle is Ash vs. Meowth for Togepi. Meowth tried to use Fury Stripes, but it missed. Ash wins by having Pikachu use Thunderbolt on Meowth. Meowth is dragged away by Jessie and James and a heartbroken Meowth says goodbye to its Baby.
Although Ash technically won the right to have Togepi as his, Togepi ends up going to Misty instead. Brock eventually realizes why this is happening: when Togepi first hatched from her egg, Misty was the first thing she saw—as a result, Togepi must think that Misty is her mother, which is why Togepi chose Misty instead of Ash. This delights Misty but disappoints Ash and Brock.
- "AHH! I don't have any Pokémon to battle with. Guys would you please lend me your Pokémon?" - Meowth
- "Not a chance!" - Jessie and James
- "AHHH! What'll I do? Huh? Oh yeah, I forgot. I am a Pokémon. I can battle for myself." - Meowth
- "Being your own trainer sure is tough." - Ash
- "Quick! Get back in the ball!" - Misty
- "You're not allowed to call it back." - Ash
- "Grrrrr. He's right. OK, Aim for Psyduck's head Bulbasaur." - Misty
- "It's head? Yeah, like I'm that dense. Bulbasaur, go lick Psyduck on the head." - Ash
- "Now, use the tickle attack." - Ash
- Ash had Bulbasaur tickle Misty's Psyduck into submission. Tickle became an official attack as of Generation II.
- This episode marks the introduction of a Generation II Pokémon.
- This is the second episode with a Generation II Pokémon in it, with the first episode to do so being Pokémon - I Choose You!, showing Ho-oh.
- The card that had Ash's message shows off all the badges that Ash will earn in Kanto.
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Aerodactyl.
- Brock mentioned that the egg might hatch into a Golem. This was false because only baby or basic Pokémon can hatch from eggs.
- In some scenes, James and Jessie did not have their gloves on.
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What I Learned From Breaking the Law
In 1971, I helped burglarize an FBI office and leaked documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover's abuses of power. Here's what that experience taught me.
From The Nation/ By John Raines
I have been asked to develop a set of reflections on the moral lessons I learned from breaking the law. Here is part of that story. In 1961 I was arrested and put in jail in Little Rock, Arkansas. I was a "freedom rider." Then, ten years later, a group of us calling ourselves "The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI" broke into the Media, Pennsylvania office of the FBI, removed the files and released them to the news media. What did I learn from breaking the law? Here are five lessons I learned. I learned that:
1) Law is not to be trusted without interrogating its complicity with privilege and power.
2) Identity is morally problematic, especially if you get yourself born a white male of class privilege.
3) A nation that lets itself be governed by fear will become a poorly governed nation.
4) The arrogance of power contributes to its own demise when confronted by persistent resistance, and finally….
5) I learned that the anger called hope can overcome despair, create a community of resistance and build a future that seemed impossible.
Let me begin with the issue of law and criminality. It is my contention that breaking the law and committing a crime are not identical. Indeed, I would go further. I would claim that under certain circumstances not to break the law is a crime—a crime against justice. That is what I learned back in 1961 when being found guilty of "threatening a breach of the peace" when four of us—two blacks and two whites—sat down together in the "White" waiting room of the Trailways bus station in Little Rock. (more…)