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GOODYEAR, Ariz. - Outfielder Ezequiel Carrera and four others were sent to the minor leagues by the Cleveland Indians on Sunday.
Carrera, right-hander Corey Kluber and infielder Juan Diaz were optioned to Triple-A Columbus. Catcher Michel Hernandez and right-hander Hector Ambriz, who missed the entire 2011 season recovering from elbow-ligament replacement surgery, were reassigned to the minor-league camp.
Carrera hit .243 in 68 games for Cleveland a year ago, when he was called up after injuries sidelined outfielders Grady Sizemore, Shin-Soo Choo and Michael Brantley. Carrera and Diaz were acquired from Seattle for first baseman Russell Branyan in June 2010. Diaz hit .313 in 11 games this spring training.
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Mr. Arteaga was born Oct. 18, 1939, in Zacatecas, Mexico, and had lived in Tracy the past 47 years.
He worked in all aspects of row farming for 45 years and was a parishioner of St. Bernard's Catholic Church.
Survivors include three stepchildren, Dena Leonardo, and her husband, Larry, of Ripon, Gregory Reed of Mount Ida, Ariz., and Rick Reed of Stockton; five siblings, Maria Isabel Arteaga Rosales, Francisca Arteaga Santamaria, Jacinto Arteaga Rosales, Adalberto Arteaga Rosales and Armando Arteaga Rosales, all of Southern California; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death were his wife of 30 years, Mary Ann Arteaga, who died in 1995; his parents, Leodegario and Anacleta Arteaga; and a brother, Mauro Arteaga Rosales.
Tuesday's Mass will begin at 10:30 a.m. at St. Bernard's Catholic Church, 163 W. Eaton Ave. Burial will be in Tracy Cemetery, 501 W. Schulte Road. Visitation will be observed from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, followed by a vigil at 6 p.m., at Hotchkiss Mortuary, 5 W. Highland Ave.
Contributions in Mr. Arteaga's name may be sent to St. Bernard's Church Building Fund, 163 W. Eaton Ave., Tracy, CA 95376.


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That mascot wasn't helping one bit (update)Posted on January 26th, 2007 – 11:04 AM
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Here's a link to the video, if you're curious. Thanks to Coyote, who is definitely With Leather. Great blog, great blog name.
Funny story from the NBA Development League: The Austin Toros' mascot — Da Bull — almost cost his/her/its team the game the other night by prematurely celebrating. The lead to the story uses the fictional word "Bull-oney," which should be a writing suspension in its own right. But here's some of the rest from ABC12.com:
"The mascot, known as Da Bull, prematurely ran onto the court and hung from the rim with .4 seconds remaining, apparently to punctuate center Loren Woods' breakaway dunk that gave the Toros a four-point lead over Colorado. While hanging from the rim, the Toros detailed in a news release Thursday, Da Bull collided with a Colorado player. At the point of contact, the mascot's head, to his horror, fell to the floor. The Toros were assessed a technical foul. The 14ers' Von Wafer made the free throw, but Rick Rickert missed a 3-pointer that would have tied the score as time expired. Da Bull was suspended for two games and assigned by the team to 50 hours of community service. A replacement mascot will perform in his absence."
We really don't need to provide any follow-up, but:
1. Loren Woods and Rick Rickert were involved. That's outstanding.
2. Von Wafer.
3. We think any mascot that can hang on the rim should be commended, not punished. But that's just us. Furthermore, some sort of mascot controversy should now be part of every NBA Developmental league game. Who's in charge? David Stern? A deputy? Make it happen.
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- Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler"
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- Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road"
Actress in a Leading Role
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- Melissa Leo in "Frozen River"
- Meryl Streep in "Doubt"
- Kate Winslet in "The Reader"
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- Penélope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
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- Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
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Animated Feature Film
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- "Kung Fu Panda" John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
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- "Changeling" Tom Stern
- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Claudio Miranda
- "The Dark Knight" Wally Pfister
- "The Reader" Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
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Costume Design
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- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Jacqueline West
- "The Duchess" Michael O'Connor
- "Milk" Danny Glicker
- "Revolutionary Road" Albert Wolsky
- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" David Fincher
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- "Milk" Gus Van Sant
- "The Reader" Stephen Daldry
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Documentary (Feature)
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- "The Garden" Scott Hamilton Kennedy
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Film Editing
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- "The Dark Knight" Lee Smith
- "Frost/Nixon" Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
- "Milk" Elliot Graham
- "Slumdog Millionaire" Chris Dickens
Foreign Language Film
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- "The Class" France
- "Departures" Japan
- "Revanche" Austria
- "Waltz with Bashir" Israel
- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Greg Cannom
- "The Dark Knight" John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
- "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz
Music (Original Score)
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- "Defiance" James Newton Howard
- "Milk" Danny Elfman
- "Slumdog Millionaire" A.R. Rahman
- "WALL-E" Thomas Newman
Music (Original Song)
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- "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" Music by A.R. Rahman; Lyric by Gulzar
- "O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
Best Picture
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- "Frost/Nixon" Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
- "Milk" Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
- "The Reader" Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, Producers
- "Slumdog Millionaire" Christian Colson, Producer
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- "Lavatory - Lovestory" Konstantin Bronzit
- "Oktapodi" Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
- "Presto" Doug Sweetland
- "This Way Up" Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes
Short Film (Live Action)
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- "Manon on the Asphalt" Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
- "New Boy" Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
- "The Pig" Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
- "Spielzeugland (Toyland)" Jochen Alexander Freydank
Sound Editing
- "The Dark Knight" Richard King
- "Iron Man" Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
- "Slumdog Millionaire" Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers
- "WALL-E" Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
- "Wanted" Wylie Stateman
Sound Mixing
- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
- "The Dark Knight" Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
- "Slumdog Millionaire" Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
- "WALL-E" Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
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- "The Dark Knight" Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
- "Iron Man" John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan
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- "Doubt" Written by John Patrick Shanley
- "Frost/Nixon" Screenplay by Peter Morgan
- "The Reader" Screenplay by David Hare
- "Slumdog Millionaire" Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
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- "Happy-Go-Lucky" Written by Mike Leigh
- "In Bruges" Written by Martin McDonagh
- "Milk" Written by Dustin Lance Black
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(1440 WNFL AM - Jason Miller) - Aaron Rodgers has said some pretty weird things along the way, but this may be the weirdest. Hey even high profile athletes can try to be funny. But was this a funny or a shot at a former Green Bay Packers wide receiver. Rodgers is quoted as saying this after being asked about Greg Jennings moving on, "who?" according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. When the crowd responded with a BIG, OHHHHHHHH. Rodgers said, oh there must be some Vikings fans here tonight.
He is going to be one of if not the highest paid QB/Player in the NFL when his contract gets completed and will hopefully go down as one of the best in Packer history. Do you want your quarterback acting like this, even if in fun or do you want him to respond with a, sorry to see him go and we will try to move on without him?
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Rated 2.5 / 5 stars December 11, 2007
Was alright.
I figured the visuals were suppose to be that way. They looked nice and really suited the animation type. The animation on the other hand was a bit dodgy, up your frame rate a bit for more fluent animation.
Good attempt, keep it up.
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Did you get the music and voices from the game?
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The world's most important leftist intellectual talks about his Zionist childhood and his time with Hezbollah
It seems safe to say that no living intellectual has enraged more people with more predictable regularity than Noam Chomsky. A biting and voluble critic of American power, Chomsky has been denounced as a traitor, a well-poisoner, the author of over 200 largely unreadable books, a pompous would-be prophet drunk on his own claims to moral authority, and a naïve apologist for Hezbollah and the Khmer Rouge. His political writings, speeches, and interviews over the past five decades have made him a hero of the global left and the world's most quoted living thinker.
Sitting in his office at the Department of Philosophy and Linguistics at MIT, Chomsky appears as an avuncular, white-haired presence in baggy blue jeans and a navy crewneck sweater who visibly struggles to retain physical and emotional details against the force of a powerful structuralist imagination. He is a lively conversational presence who enjoys intellectual thrust and parry, and who moves quickly to the attack when challenged. When the tone changes, or a new idea catches his fancy, he steps back and quickly resets. He is less interested in people than he is in ideas, and he is more interested in general rules than in the highly textured specifics that might interest a cell biologist or an historian.
There is a noticeable gap between the incredible quickness of Chomsky's mind and the unadorned banality of his political rhetoric. While his political tracts decorate the shelves of his outer office, his inner sanctum is lined with flourishing plants and souvenirs from his travels around the world. His bookshelves hold a very Chomskian mix of tattered academic books about linguistics and nicely bound literary volumes about other countries and cultures, displaying a mind that finds equal pleasure in Into Tibet and a Festschrift for Roman Jakobson. Staring out from the wall near the door is a large, saintly looking portrait of Bertrand Russell accompanied by a motto: "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." On his desk is a framed photograph of a memorial stone for his wife, the linguist Carol Schatz, who died in December 2008 of cancer.
Chomsky's political writing can seem like a deliberate casting-off of the habits of mind that made him perhaps the last great thinker of the Enlightenment, so that he could take his place on the intellectual cafeteria line, serving up politically useful slop. The sheer volume of his output, which can seem equally thrilling and nauseating even to people who write for a living, seems at times like a loopy attempted proof for the linguist's terse and methodical academic work of the 1950s and 1960s, which posited the existence of a fixed set of inborn rules that allow humans to form sentences.
Yet there is also something awe-inspiring about the consistency and breadth of Chomsky's political writing over the decades that defies even the most dogged attempts to label him a hack. The theory of generative grammar that Chomsky laid out in a series of papers that began with his master's thesis at the University of Pennsylvania and culminated in his landmark 1957 paper "Syntactic Structures" has to be regarded as one of the most powerful and influential ideas of the 20th century, reshaping crucial debates in the fields of linguistics, behavioral psychology, and cognitive science. It is hard to identify another thinker who has combined Chomsky's breadth of interest with the depth and productivity of his best ideas, aside from Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein.
I talked with Chomsky about his upbringing in a Jewish home in Philadelphia by Cultural Zionist parents who devoted their lives to the revival of Hebrew language and culture, and about some of the strange bedfellows that he has acquired in five decades of impassioned crusading. I left his office with a sense of a specifically Jewish Chomsky that in three decades of engagement with his political writing, his academic work, and a few dozen of his radio appearances had never really struck me before, and now seems obvious and unavoidable.
You grew up in a home that was heavily influenced by Ahad Ha'am, the father of cultural Zionism.
My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays. He was the founding figure of what came to be called cultural Zionism, meaning that there should be a Zionist revival in Israel, in Palestine, and it should be a cultural center for the Jewish people. He wrote in Hebrew, which was novel, because Hebrew was then the language of prayer and the Bible. He saw Jews as primarily a Diaspora community that needed a cultural center that had a physical presence, but he was very sympathetic to the Palestinians. In fact he wrote some very sharp essays, after a visit to Palestine, criticizing the way the new settlers were treating the indigenous population. He said, "You can't treat people like that." Also, on practical grounds, he didn't want to create enemies. A Jewish cultural center in Palestine was his ideal.
Now I won't swear to the precise accuracy of this, because these are childhood memories, but I remember reading together with my father an essay that Ahad Ha'am wrote about Moses. The basic idea was there are two Moseses—the first is the historical Moses, if there was such a person, and the other is the image of Moses that was constructed and came down through the ages and occupies an important place in the national mythology.
Ahad Ha'am was an early advocate of the idea that later became famous with [the Marxist political scientist] Ben Anderson, when he wrote his books about how nations are imagined communities. He said there's an imagined—I don't think he used the term—but there's an imagined Jewish community, in which Moses plays a central role, and it really doesn't matter if there was a historical Moses or not. That's part of the national myth, which is a sophisticated version of what [author] Shlomo Sand was trying to get at. Sand debunks the historical Moses, but from Ha'am's point of view, it makes no difference.
Did you read Nivi'im, the prophets, with your father in Hebrew?
The word "prophet" is a very bad translation of an obscure Hebrew word, navi. Nobody knows what it means. But today they'd be called dissident intellectuals. They were giving geopolitical analysis, arguing that the acts of the rulers were going to destroy society. And they condemned the acts of evil kings. They called for justice and mercy to orphans and widows and so on.
I don't want to say it was all beautiful. Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful. You read Sakharov, who is sometimes appalling. Or Solzhenitsyn. And the nivi'im were treated the way dissident intellectuals always are. They weren't praised. They weren't honored. They were imprisoned like Jeremiah. They were driven into the desert. They were hated. Now at the time, there were intellectuals, "prophets," who were very well treated. They were the flatterers of the court. Centuries later, they were called "false prophets."
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. You've got to serve power. You can't argue that the policies that Israel is following are going to lead to its destruction, which I thought then and still do.
Did you imagine yourself as a navi, a prophet, when you were a child reading those texts alone in your room or on Friday night with your father?
Sure. In fact, my favorite prophet, then and still, is Amos. I particularly admired his comments that he's not an intellectual. I forget the Hebrew, but lo navi ela anochi lo ben navi—I'm not a prophet, I'm not the son of a prophet, I'm a simple shepherd. So he translated "prophet" correctly. He's saying, "I'm not an intellectual." He was a simple farmer and he wanted just to tell the truth. I admire that.
Did religion play a role in the life of your home? Did your mother light Shabbat candles?
We did those things, but they were—I don't know how you grew up, but my parents were part of the Enlightenment tradition, the haskalah. So you keep the symbols, but it doesn't involve religious faith.
At the age of 10 I came to the conclusion that the God I learned about in school didn't exist.
I remember how I did that. I remember it very well. My father's family was super Orthodox. They came from a little shtetl somewhere in Russia. My father told me that they had regressed even beyond a medieval level. You couldn't study Hebrew, you couldn't study Russian. Mathematics was out of the question. We went to see them for the holidays. My grandfather had a long beard, I don't think he knew he was in the United States. He spoke Yiddish and lived in a couple of blocks of his friends. We were there on Pesach, and I noticed that he was smoking.
So I asked my father, how could he smoke? There's a line in the Talmud that says, ayn bein shabbat v'yom tov ela b'inyan achilah. I said, "How come he's smoking?" He said, "Well, he decided that smoking is eating." And a sudden flash came to me: Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile. He can't figure these things out. If that's what it is, I don't want anything to do with it.
And what did your father say?
I was just thinking about that. He just quoted the line to me and then explained, "He thinks he is eating."
Your father, Zev, was one of the significant Hebrew grammarians of the past century, and you did your early academic work on medieval Hebrew. Did something interest you about the structure of the language, or was it just available to you as the language in your home?
It wasn't the language in the home. We spoke English. My parents would never utter a word of Yiddish, which was their native language. You have to remember there was real kulturkampf going on at this time, in the 1930s, between the Yiddish and the Hebrew tendencies. So we never heard a word—my wife either—of Yiddish. Hebrew was the language we studied. And then when I got to be a teenager I was immersed in novels.
You returned to Hebrew for your college thesis.
When I got to college, I had to do an undergraduate thesis. I was in linguistics then, so I figured, "OK, I'll write about Hebrew. It's kind of interesting." I started the way I was taught to: You get an informant, and you do field work and take a corpus. So I started working with an informant, and I realized after a couple of weeks, this is totally idiotic. I know the answers to all the questions. And the only thing I don't know is the phonetics, but I don't care about that. So I just dropped the informant and started doing it myself.
My work was more or less influenced by the style of medieval Hebrew and Arabic grammar. It was historical analysis. But you can translate the basic ideas into a kind of a synchronic interpretation, a description of the system as it actually exists, and out of that came the early stages of generative grammar, which nobody looked at.
So your theory of generative grammar in its early stages came out of your study of medieval Hebrew and Arabic?
Yes. When I was maybe 10 or 11 years old, I was actually reading the proofs of my father's doctoral dissertation, which was on David Kimhi's Hebrew grammar, and then I read articles on the history of the language and Semitic philology. When I got to college I started studying Arabic. I wanted to learn Arabic, and I got pretty far.
It's the same basic structure, but Hebrew is based on a root vowel pattern distinction, so there's a root, which is neither a noun nor anything else, and it's not plural or past tense or anything. It's a root, typically a tri-consonant root, with a couple of exceptions, and it fits into any large array of different vowel patterns, which determine what its function is in a sentence. Is it a verb? Is it a noun? If it's a verb, is it third-person plural, does it agree with some other nouns? The whole language builds up from that. And that's how I treated it in my early work, which is kind of the way it was done in traditional grammar. Now people do it differently, rightly or wrongly.
Of course the modern Hebrew language is quite different. I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.
When you were refused entry to the West Bank recently by the Israeli Interior Ministry, did you talk Hebrew to the people who sent you back to Jordan?
I could've, but I didn't. I've done it before, at security. Back in the 1980s I attended a conference in Jerusalem, and on the way out of the country you have to go through security. There were two of us, and the other guy was a friend who I don't think is Jewish, and they opened everything in his suitcase, took out his dirty socks. There were things in my suitcase I didn't want them to see. It was during the First Intifada and I had managed to break curfew a couple of times and get into places under curfew until we were picked up by soldiers. I had found a container for a grenade that had stamped on it the name of some place in Pennsylvania, and I wanted to bring that home.
I also had a lot of illegal pamphlets. Israeli security could never find out how they were circulating these pamphlets. In fact it was young kids jumping over rooftops. So I had a collection of these pamphlets that I wanted to bring home, and I was hoping I wouldn't get inspected. When I got to the inspection, the woman security officer took my passport, and said, "Oh, you have a weird name." I said, "Yeah." She said, "Do you speak Hebrew?" So I said, "Yeah." Then we went on to have a discussion in Hebrew. "Did you visit your relatives, did you have a good time." And she never bothered to look in my suitcase.
Were there any gentiles in your parents' world?
Practically not. In fact there weren't even Yiddish-speaking Jews. They lived in if not a physical ghetto then in a cultural ghetto. Their friends were all people deeply involved in the revival of the Hebrew language and cultural Zionism. I happened to have some non-Jewish friends, but that's just from school.
Describe Mikveh Israel, the synagogue that you grew up in and where your father first taught.
Well, Mikveh Israel was actually Sephardic, so I grew up in the Sephardic tradition. It was kind of the elite synagogue in Philadelphia, like the Portuguese synagogue in New York. It was Sephardic because the original settlers were Sephardic Jews from Holland. So we had a Dutch, actually originally Portuguese, rabbi, and the hazan was from Morocco. We learned all the Sephardic rituals, and pronunciation and everything, even though everyone in the community was from eastern Europe. It was kind of the Jewish elite, but it was also the center of a Hebrew renaissance-oriented small society. The people were either teachers, rabbis, there were businessmen and others, but they all shared a passionate interest in Hebrew cultural revival. My father was the head of the school. My mother was running the Hadassah meetings.
Did your mother also come from a religious family?
She came to America with her family when she was 1 year old. They were so religious that she told me that when she was a teenager, talking with her girlfriends on the street, if she saw her father coming toward them, she would get them to cross the street so that she didn't have to suffer the embarrassment of having her father walk past her and not acknowledge her because she was a girl. It was a very Orthodox family. Of course, they grew up here, and the kids lost it quickly. My father came here in 1917. He and my mother shared many interests and experiences in common.
They were so dedicated. I remember friends of my father and mother, a couple of women, who when they called a department store downtown, they would insist on talking Hebrew, in the hopes of convincing them to hire a Hebrew-language operator. I mean they all spoke English. It was real dedication. It had to be. How do you revive a dead language?
Was that what motivated you to live in Israel?
My wife and I were there in '53. We lived in a kibbutz for a while and planned to stay, actually. I came back and had to finish my Ph.D. We thought we'd go back.
Was it the idea of the kibbutz, or was it the fact of speaking Hebrew, or what was it?
It was political. I was interested in Hebrew, but that wasn't the driving force. I liked the kibbutz life and the kibbutz ideals. It has pretty much disappeared now, I should say. But that time was incredible in spirit. For one thing it was a poor country. The kibbutz I went to, and I picked it for this reason, was actually originally Buberite. It came from German refugees in the 1930s and had a kind of Buberite style. It was the center for Arab outreach activities in Mapam. There was plenty of racism, I should say. I lived with it. But mostly against Mizrahim.
When you think of the motivations of people like your parents or the people who founded those Mapam kibbutzim, you don't think of those motivations as being inherently linked to some desire to oppress others?
By then I was old enough to separate from my parents. I'd been on my own intellectually since I was a teenager. I gravitated toward Zionist groups that were not in their milieu, like Hashomer Ha'tzair.
My father grew up in Hashomer.
I could never join Hashomer because in those days they were split between Stalinist and Trotskyite, and I was anti-Leninist. But I was in the neighborhood. It was a Hashomer kibbutz that we went to, Kibbutz Hazore'a. It's changed a lot. We would never have lasted. It was sort of a mixed story. They were binationalists. So up until 1948 they were anti-state. There were those who gravitated toward or who were involved in efforts of Arab-Jewish working-class cooperation and who were for socialist binationalist Palestine. Those ideas sound exotic today, but they didn't at the time. It's because the world has changed.
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Online Scavenger Hunt at Del City Library
What do fuel cell cars, Bob Dylan, and the Texola Baptist Church have in common?
Not much--unless they are all part of clues in the online and database search competition now going on at the Del City Library, 4509 SE 15th in Del City.
"This is really a scavenger hunt on the Internet," said Del City librarian Sam Weehunt, who organized the affair "to give people a chance to test and prove their skills in finding information on the Internet and in the library systems databases."
Weehunt promises a slate of prizes to contestants who can answer a series of a dozen questions. Answers can be found online, and Weehunt is offering some clues to help people get started. First prize is a flash drive, which is a small, reusable data storage device.
"I'm doing this to promote our databases," Weehunt added. "Not everybody realizes the wealth of information a person can find in them. I also wanted to introduce people to a few places they can find good information on the Internet.
"The ability to search the net is very important because this is where the information is these days. However, it is an ocean of information, not a superhighway. Learning how to find good information on the Internet and in databases is critical for people who need good information."
Weehunt invites everyone interested in entering the contest to come by the Del City Library to pick up a search contest questionnaire and then see if they can answer all the questions correctly by May 1st. Call the Del City Library at 672-1377 for more information.
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PITTSBURG — Pittsburg State University head football coach Tim Beck announced today (Apr. 27) team captains for the 2011 season.
Following a team vote, seven Gorillas were elected to the role of captain: senior quarterback Zac Dickey, sophomore linebacker Nate Dreiling, junior offensive lineman Aaron Kolich, senior wide receiver Aaron Sawyer, senior linebacker Luke Stringer, junior defensive end Gus Toca and senior defensive end Spencer Worthington.
Worthington is the lone returning captain from the 2010 campaign, while the other six individuals are first-team honorees.
"This is a tribute to these individuals that their teammates selected them for this honor," said Beck, who enters his second season as the Gorillas head coach. "There was very clear-cut voting that separated this group as worthy captains. We have a good mix of offensive and defensive players, a good mix of seniors and underclassmen. We think this is a good group of team leaders to represent our football team."
Dickey, a Pittsburg native, started 10 games for the Gorillas in 2010 - nine as Pitt State's quarterback. He completed 91 of 188 passes (.484) for 992 yards and six touchdowns and rushed the ball 144 times for 901 yards (6.3 ypc) and seven scores.
Dreiling, a Hutchinson, Kan., native, started all 12 games at linebacker as a redshirt freshman for the Gorillas last year. He led NCAA Division II with 160 tackles (13.3 pg), including 20.5 tackles-for-loss and a pair of forced fumbles. Dreiling was a consensus All-America selection and was named the Don Hansen co-National Freshman of the Year.
Kolich, an Olathe, Kan., native, played in all 12 games - and started three games - on the offensive line as a sophomore in 2010. He helped the Pitt State offense average 361.7 total yards and 24.1 points per game.
Sawyer, a Meriden, Kan., native, saw action in a reserve role in 10 games for the Gorillas last year, catching six passes for 60 yards on the season. Sawyer who battled back from a major knee injury a year ago, has 17 career receptions for 323 yards (19.0 ypc) and three touchdowns.
Stringer saw action in all 12 games in a reserve role at linebacker for Pitt State in 2010. The Topeka native logged 24 tackles (10 solo) with 4.0 tackles-for-loss. He has compiled 48 tackles (18 solo) in 32 career games.
Toca saw action in 11 games with 10 starts for the Gorillas last year. The Waco, Texas, native posted 26 tackles (13 solo) with 5.5 tackles-for-loss and 2.5 quarterback sacks, earning honorable mention All-MIAA honors.
Worthington started all 12 games at defensive end in 2010. The Carlisle, Iowa, native registered 46 tackles (21 solo) with 7.5 tackles-for-loss and a team-leading 5.0 quarterback sacks. He earned honorable mention All-MIAA honors for the second time in his career. Worthington has 129 tackles (63 solo) with 16.5 tackles-for-loss and 9.0 quarterback sacks in 36 career games.


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Bezos Family Foundation president Jackie Bezos to introduce discussion that will kick off U.S. Conference of Mayors event in Dallas
DALLAS, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the nation's mayors gather tomorrow, Friday, June 20 2014 in Dallas, Texas for the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) meeting, building an early learning nation takes center stage to kick off the event. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Mayor Michael Hancock of Denver, and Institute for Learning and Brain Science (at the University of Washington) Co-Director Dr. Pat Kuhl will speak on the urgency of building an early learning nation and making this a national commitment through city and community-based action.
The president of the Bezos Family Foundation, Jackie Bezos, will introduce the panel which will be moderated by award winning National Public Radio journalist and commentator, John Hockenberry.
Later in the conference, the mayors will vote on a resolution calling for a national commitment to building an early learning nation by 2025. The resolution has been introduced by Seattle's Mayor Ed Murray and is co-sponsored by 17 other mayors from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon.
Where: Omni Dallas Hotel, Trinity Ballroom 6-8, 555 S. Lamar, Dallas, TX
When: Saturday, June 21, 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. (Central Summer Time) Plenary Breakfast session.
What: "Creating an Early Learning Nation": A panel discussion featuring U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Institute for Learning and Brain Science (at the University of Washington) Co-Director Pat Kuhl. Introductions by Mayor Kevin Johnson of Sacramento (and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors), Mayor Ed Murray (Seattle) and Bezos Family Foundation president Jackie Bezos. Panel moderated by John Hockenberry of National Public Radio.
Who: Nearly 300 mayors from across the United States along with deputy mayors, city managers and key staff. Anticipated panel audience attendance is 700.
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Parents Drown Trying to Rescue the Dog They Should Have Never Gone After
Not the dog in questionI've always been one of those "dogs are part of the family" kind of people. My own two dogs are currently sleeping on my couch while I work. But the heartbreaking death of parents who drowned while trying to rescue their dog over the weekend in California is testing even my devotion to my pets.
The unidentified mother and father left at least one child orphaned, a daughter who called 911. Their 16-year-old son is also listed as missing, believed to have been sucked into the sea at the Big Lagoon beach north of Eureka as he too entered the water to rescue the pup. As for the dog?
He survived, making it back to shore on his own while his owners drowned.
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As a dog lover, I'm glad to hear he made it. As a human being, on the other hand, I'm having trouble making sense of this tragedy.
One adult going into the water after a dog makes sense. As I said, they are very much part of the family. But both adults? And the child?
The boy may be 16, but he is still a child. I can't help but wonder if someone shouldn't have stayed on the beach with him and his sister. Would that one parent have made the difference? Would they have been able to keep the boy from going into the water? Maybe been able to see what was going on from a safe vantage point and called their spouse back when it looked like it was too dangerous?
I don't mean to denigrate what these people did. I think we need to put value on the lives of our animals, and they clearly loved that dog. But if it came down to the life of my dog versus the life of my child, I'm not ashamed to admit that my daughter would come first.
Have you ever had to face the possibility of saving an animal vs. keeping a family member safe? What happened?
Update: The AP reported at 2:46pm today that the dad went in after his son, who had gone in after their dog. The son surfaced but went back in, with his mom, to try to find his dad. The teenage son is still missing and both parents drowned.
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SierraLynnNovember 26, 2012 at 11:34 AMIt's tragic. That's about all I have to say.
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VegetaNovember 26, 2012 at 12:23 PMThere must be more to this story. And anyway they didn't jump in expecting to die, just to grab the dog and come back. If my dog got pulled into the ocean I'd go after him every time, as he cant swim. I dont think any dog owner would stand there watching the tide pull their pet out to sea and go 'well I guess spike was fun while we had him'.
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FrankieblueeyesNovember 26, 2012 at 12:28 PMAccording to news sources the couple didn't drown trying to save the dog. The son went in to save the dog and the father went in when he couldn't see his son. The son was able to get out, but he and his mom both went in when they couldn't see the father/husband. Tragic, but shows the love that the parents had for their son and the love the son had for his dog and father.
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LilacNovember 26, 2012 at 12:37 PMHow about actually reporting the facts? Get the story straight Stir. The 16 year old son was playing with his dog when the dog was swept away. The teenage went in after his dog and the father tried to save there son NOT the dog. The son apparently made it to the beach but went back in the water trying to find the father and so did the mother. Mom and dad's bodies have been found the body of the 16 year old has not been found.
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gabiNovember 26, 2012 at 2:25 PMYes according to other news sources, the son ran in after the dog, then the father went in after his son, and finally the mom went in after her husband. I can only imagine if it was my 16 year old, I'd run in after her. One thing is certain, it is such a tragedy and my prayers are with the survivng daughter and any other extended family. The last thing they need is negative press laying blame on those who have died. Tragedies happen, and healing is what comes next.
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solidNovember 26, 2012 at 3:50 PMThat's the problem with society too many people would die for their pets. Why not save something that's worth saving like a human.
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nickyNovember 26, 2012 at 4:04 PMMy dogs are my children regardless of the situation.
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kaeraeNovember 26, 2012 at 4:24 PMGood grace, you need a fact-checker. Only the teen ran after his dog, he's a kid, they don't always make the best choices. The parents went in TO TRY TO RESCUE THEIR CHILD, NOT THE DAMN DOG!!!
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jinkiesNovember 26, 2012 at 4:25 PMOn the plus side, at least there aren't any pics of Jeanne's kid in this one...finally!
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Valorie Jacobsen LovelaceNovember 26, 2012 at 5:33 PMHave a heart. Please consider that friends and family of these people may be reading your post, and don't be so quick to judge. You weren't there, you don't really know.


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Washington • There they go again. Or do they?
Will Mitt Romney miscount the number of unemployed, as he has before? Will President Barack Obama's dubious claim of a peace dividend, bopped down in the last debate, rise again? When Obama and his Republican challenger debate Tuesday night, the media's fact-checking corps will be watching for problematic claims that have popped up repeatedly in the campaign, as well as brand new ones.
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You can play fact-check Whac-a-Mole on debate night, too. You might have your hands full: The format, driven by questions from the audience, could shake things even looser than usual.
To be sure, you're not likely to catch one of them saying it's daytime when it's night. Shades of mistruth are more common than whoppers. Often, the offense is one of omission: an accurate as-far-as-it-goes assertion that ignores something really important, like the other side of the ledger. And, at times, the debaters tweak a statement to make it closer to right. You just never know.
To assist in armchair fact-checking, here's a guide to 10 of the leading misleading statements of the campaign:
• From the State of the Union on, the president has told the nation he wants to take "some of the money that we're saving as we wind down two wars to rebuild America," as he put it in the last debate. There is no such pile of cash. The wars were financed mostly with borrowing. So treating the end of wars as a financial bonanza just means continuing to go deeper in debt to fix roads, bridges and the like. The potential benefit is that borrowing is put to more use at home. But it's still borrowing.
• The president talks frequently about a plan to cut the deficit by $4 trillion. Impressive number, but it's not cut and dried. For one thing, he's banking more than $2 trillion already achieved in law, after a deal with Republicans last year. Moreover, he uses creative accounting to hide a huge cache of spending on Medicare reimbursements to doctors. So any claim like the one in the last debate, "I've proposed a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan," could rate a bop.
• "Gov. Romney's central economic plan calls for a $5 trillion tax cut." Here Obama uses an estimate from the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research group, that Romney's tax cuts would reduce federal revenue by $465 billion in 2015. Multiply that by 10 years — a common budgeting procedure in Washington — and he is in the ballpark in talking about $5 trillion. But Obama leaves out Romney's proposals to reduce or eliminate tax credits, deductions and exemptions. He is only counting half the plan. Romney has not specified what tax breaks he would cut, opening himself to criticism that he's been stubbornly vague on vital elements of his plan. But there's no question he says he will pull some back, reducing the cost of his tax package.
• Obama has something to crow about when he talks about the auto bailout, which almost certainly saved General Motors and Chrysler. His estimate that up to 1 million jobs were saved is based on a 2010 study by the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank. But Obama rarely acknowledges that his predecessor, George W. Bush, began the auto bailout that he inherited and expanded. Vice President Joe Biden declared flatly in his debate last week, "We went out and rescued General Motors."
It's also not readily conceded that the government will lose billions on the deal. It's out about $1 billion on the $12.5 billion Chrysler bailout. At GM, the government is $27 billion in the hole right now on a $49.5 billion bailout. The ultimate loss will depend on the price of GM stock when the government sells its stake. Shares are trading for less than half the $53 price needed for the government to recoup all its money on the GM deal.
• The president and vice-president have both been cagey on $716 billion in Medicare cuts set in motion by Obama's health care law over 10 years. To hear Biden talk, the government took the money out of Medicare with one hand and is restoring it with the other: "What we did is, we saved $716 billion and put it back, applied it to Medicare."
Not really. The cuts are from payments to Medicare service providers, like hospitals, and some of the money is going toward improved preventive care and other benefits under the program. But most isn't. The bulk is being used to expand health care coverage for the general population. And there is no guarantee that the cuts to providers won't hurt the services they provide down the road.
• The Republican nominee has taken various shortcuts with jobless numbers, to the point of wildly misstating them at times. In the first debate, just before the improved September jobless figures came out, Romney said in one instance the U.S. has "23 million people out of work." A bit more accurately, he said earlier in the debate that there are "23 million people out of work or stopped looking for work." But even that was off by close to 9 million.
In all, the government counts nearly 12.1 million unemployed, 8.6 million working part-time for economic reasons and 2.5 million discouraged people who want work and looked for a job in the past year but aren't looking now.Next Page >
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Disapproval of congressional Republicans' budget wrangling after a weeklong shutdown has shot up to 70 percent, with 51 percent disapproving "strongly," according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
At the same time, President Obama's approval rating has ticked up due to improved marks among moderate Democrats and independents.
Poll shows atheism on the rise in the U.S.
The number of Americans who say they are atheists rose, from 1 percent to 5 percent.
Rick Santorum Now Polling Higher than Mitt Romney Against Obama
This is a strange development. Obama has a healthy 10 point lead over Romney in a head-to-head matchup but is beating Santorum by only 4 points.
Perhaps social conservatives and Evangelicals dissatisfied with Romney are not willing to vote for him even in a "lesser of two evils" scenario. Everyone always emphasizes the importance of appealing to independents but independents are least likely to actually vote.
Gallup: Obama job approval surges
The latest Gallup survey shows that 47 percent of Americans now say they approve of the way that President Obama is handling his job. This is a 5 percent improvement since the Dec. 16-18 Gallup survey and marks the first time the president's numbers have been in positive territory since July.
It's too soon to draw sweeping conclusions, but it seems that the standoff with House Republicans over the payroll tax cut did no damage at all to the president — and a further climb in the polls could mean that the White House won a significant public relations victory during the payroll tax cut debate.
Majority of Americans Support Taxing the Rich and Redistributing Wealth
69% of Americans think Republican policies favor the rich
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Marijuana and Morning Sickness
Guest blogger Jessica Katz: I am one of those unfortunate people who get sick -- very sick -- when pregnant. It's not morning sickness, it's 24-hours-a-day sickness. From the first moment I saw the plus sign until I was in the delivery room, I spent my whole first pregnancy puking.
Look up Zofran and its side effects. It is an off-label use in pregnancy. Cannabis is much less toxic, doesn't cause any of these horrendous side effects (transient blindness, liver damage) and is much safer. You don't have to use much either. I used it in the 1970s with my pregnancy—just one hit a day—and it made all the difference. Still only gained 16 lbs, but the baby was all right and made it to full term.


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NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey was a lawful effort to prevent terrorism, not a civil rights violation.
U.S. District Judge William Martini dismissed a lawsuit brought in 2012 by eight Muslims who said the surveillance programs were unconstitutional because they focused on religion, national origin and race. His ruling was issued Thursday in Newark.
The lawsuit accused the NYPD of spying on ordinary people at mosques, restaurants and schools in New Jersey since 2002.
Martini said he was not convinced that the plaintiffs were targeted solely because of their religion. He said the more likely explanation for the surveillance was "to locate budding terrorist conspiracies."
Plaintiff Farhaj Hassan says the ruling felt "a slap in the face."
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Summary: It's 1978, and Ave Maria Mulligan is the thirty-five-year-old self-proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap, a sleepy hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She's also the local pharmacist, the co-captain of the Rescue Squad, and the director of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the town's long-running Outdoor Drama. Ave Maria is content with her life of doing errands and negotiating small details-until she discovers a skeleton in her family's formerly tidy closet that completely unravels her quiet, conventional life. Suddenly, she finds herself juggling two marriage proposals, conducting a no-holds-barred family feud, planning a life-changing journey to the Old Country, and helping her best friend, the high-school band director, design a halftime show to dazzle Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed Hollywood movie star who's coming through town on a campaign stump with her husband, senatorial candidate John Warner. Filled with big-time eccentrics and small-town shenanigans, Big Stone Gap is a jewel box of original characters, including sexpot Bookmobile librarian Iva Lou Wade; Fleeta Mullins, the chain-smoking pharmacy cashier with a penchant for professional wrestling; the dashing visionary Theodore Tipton; Elmo Gaspar, the snake-handling preacher; Jack MacChesney, a coal-mining bachelor looking for true love; and Pearl Grimes, a shy mountain girl on the verge of a miraculous transformation. Comic and compassionate, Big Stone Gap is is the story of a woman who thinks life has passed her by, only to learn that the best is yet to come.
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NBC announced Sunday that it will air a live telecast of the classic musical
"Peter Pan" in December.
On the heels of the airing of "The Sound of Music
Live!" last month, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt announced the network will air a live telecast of "Peter Pan" on
Dec. 4, 2014.
"We're very pleased to be underway on 'Peter Pan' as
our next live holiday musical for the whole family," Greenblatt said.
"We were all delighted to see how 'The Sound of Music Live!' struck such a
chord in December and brought nearly 19 million people to the live telecast
plus another several million viewers over the weekend."
Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who produced "The
Sound of Music Live!," will again executive produce the production.
"We're thrilled to be reteaming with NBC and Bob
Greenblatt in bringing 'Peter Pan' back to its roots as a live television
event," Zadan and Meron said in a joint statement. "We hope to create
the joy that has made this musical so beloved. We would like a whole new
generation to experience 'Peter Pan' and for families across the country to
share the magic."
The original Broadway production of "Peter Pan"
opened on Broadway in 1954. The production was directed and choreographed by Jerome
Robbins and featured the iconic songs "I'm Flying," "I've Gotta
Crow," "I Won't Grow Up" and "Never Never Land."
"In the hopes that lightning strikes twice, we think
we've landed on another great Broadway musical ... that is a timeless classic
for all audiences, young and old, who just never want to grow up,"
Greenblatt said.
The 1954 production starred Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril
Richard as Captain Hook -- both of whom won Tony Awards for their performances.
Casting of the NBC production is currently on a fast track.
The show closed in 1955 to make way for the live broadcast
on NBC, with an audience of 65 million viewers — the highest rating for a
single night program at the time. NBC later broadcast the show live again in
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Freda Charcilia Payne (born September 19, 1942) is an American singer and actress best known for her million selling, 1970 hit single, "Band of Gold". She was also an actress in musicals and film, as well as the host of a TV talk show. Freda is the older sister of former Supreme Scherrie Payne.
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MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - Milwaukee officials did not check the 204 people who registered to vote Monday, to see if they were convicted felons who are not eligible to vote.
State Government Accountability Board director Kevin Kennedy told his panel Tuesday that the problem was caught and corrected. He said Milwaukee election officials were planning to retroactively check those who registered before the mistake was noticed.
Kennedy said his agency told Milwaukee's Election Commission where it could find the proper place on the Internet to check the criminal status of those who registered.
State law prohibits convicted felons from voting until they have served all of their probation, parole, and extended supervision.
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"It's Liberating Not Having to Compromise My Guts": An Interview with Doves' Jimi Goodwin
As the frontman for Doves, Jimi Goodwin proved to be quite the pop craftsman. On his new solo album, he creates a sort of personal mixtape, styles all around, Goodwin telling us how as a solo album, it couldn't have existed in any other form.
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Part 1: From Lily Allen to Gallows
Slipped Discs kicks off with Britpop princess Lily Allen, the late great Vic Chesnutt, the Balkan beats of [dunkelbunt], the hypnotic sounds of the Field and many more. All records that missed our top 60 list last year.
Monday, April 20 2009
Straight Out of Madchester: An Interview with the Doves
Doves talk to PopMatters about their development in the Manchester music world, the pressures of living up to their potential, and the new album Kingdom of Rust.
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"We Don't Want to Be Famous, We Want Our Music to Be Famous": An Interview with Doves
The Manchester pop trio's drummer lets us know that there are no lost souls in this band, no matter what their changing sound indicates.
Wednesday, April 14 2010
Doves: The Places Between: The Best of Doves
It might seem too soon for a Doves best-of, but the music inside is nevertheless glorious.
Sunday, April 5 2009
Doves: Kingdom of Rust
Doves' first album in four years, while certainly not without its share of great moments, is also their least consistent to date.
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Doves: Some Cities
Doves' first album in three years keeps things simple, with pleasing results.
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|Week 24
|Turns out that the Wiz never really got close to Third Best Team In The East status no matter how many times Charles Barkley predicted it. They'll gladly settle for No. 6, though. Happily, even, after they clinched a winning record and are getting Nene (knee) back from a 21-game absence.
|Week 23
|Life is generally good in the nation's capital. Nene is inching closer to a return, and Washington's worst-case scenario -- landing seventh in the East to draw Indiana in Round 1 -- no longer looks like the outright nightmare it would have been if you brought it up a couple weeks ago.
|Week 22
|The Wiz have steadied themselves to the point they likely can't finish lower than No. 6 in the East. Better yet: Washington will soon join Toronto on the list of teams officially playoff-bound, leaving Minnesota (10 seasons in a row) and Sacramento (eight) with the two longest playoff droughts.
|Week 21
|Losing five of eight, after winning eight of the previous nine games, has exposed the Nene-less Wiz to possible slippage down to the East's No. 7 seed. Rest assured both Washington and Charlotte lust for the No. 6 seed no matter how supposedly shaky Indy and Miami are looking lately.
|Week 20
|John Wall has to be in the mix for Eastern Conference Player of the Month honors for March. The Wiz are 8-3 since the injured Nene went down in late February and Wall, now up to eight 30-point games this season after eight in his first three seasons, is shooting .515 on 3s in March.
|Week 19
|Who had the Wiz winning five out of their first six games without the injured Nene? Our next question: Who had John Wall hitting another gear while Nene's knee heals ... and Trevor Ariza draining all his 3s and playing even better than Wall has in that same stretch? The correct answer: Nobody.
|Week 18
|Common sense says the Wiz lost any shot they had to finish No. 3 in the East -- as Charles Barkley repeatedly says they should -- with Nene (knee) lost for six weeks. But here they are with a shot at the club's first seven-game winning streak since January 2005 if they can beat Memphis on Monday night.
|Week 17
|On Saturday night, Nene was tying his career high with 30 points in a crucial one-point home win over New Orleans. On Sunday night, Nene took another hit to that vulnerable left knee and has the Wizards -- happy as they are to be back at .500 -- holding their breath and hoping for the best.
|Week 16
|The Wiz will no longer settle for a playoff participation ribbon. They have the talent to play with any team in the East not named Indiana or Miami. With a GM and coach each in the final year of his contract, expect screws to tighten down the stretch. (Kyle Weidie, Truth About It)
|Week 15
|When the Wiz spend the All-Star break lamenting the fact they're not the East's undisputed No. 3 team, they'll be forced to relive home L's to Philly, Milwaukee, Detroit, Rajon Rondo-less Boston, San Antonio (sans Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Kawhi Leonard) and Cleveland twice.
|Week 14
|Let's not rush to dock the Wiz points because they were so rested compared to Saturday night's guests playing on the second night of a back-to-back. Washington's issues at home have been a thing all season. Don't forget that OKC, furthermore, was 9-0 on the road against the East coming in.
|Week 13
|John Wall is one of just two players (along with Steph Curry) averaging 20-plus PPG and 8-plus APG this season. Yet I'm pretty sure he'd trade that status to see the Wiz finally nudge past .500 ... something that hasn't happened in the nation's capital since they started the 2009-10 season at 2-1.
|Week 12
|Saturday night didn't merely bring the latest disappointing home defeat in a season full of them. Losing to Detroit prevented the Wiz -- who happen to sport a share of the East's third-best road record at 10-10 -- from moving past .500 after Jan. 1 for the first time in any season since 2007-08.
|Week 11
|Don't expect the Wiz to protest too loudly about where they live. Not even after the leaks in the roof that led to multiple rain delays -- NBA rain delays! -- Saturday night. Life is still quite grand in the East when you're 1-14 against .500-or-better teams and still on course for a playoff spot.
|Week 10
|Six losses in the past seven home games? Or put it another way: Exactly one win at The Phone Booth since beating Orlando on Dec. 2? Unacceptable for a team with supposed aspirations of snagging the East's wide-open No. 3 seed. The Wizards' ever-iffy health only goes so far as an alibi.
|Week 9
|The No. 3 seed in the East would appear to be up for grabs now after what happened to Al Horford in Atlanta. And the Wiz figure to have a real shot at it if Bradley Beal and Nene stop yo-yoing in and out of the lineup. John Wall has four 20-and-10 games already after just three last season.
|Week 8
|The Wiz are the only team in the East not named Indy or Miami with a positive +/- in the standings. So what if it's only a +1 when you subtract Washington's home losses from its total of road wins? Sporting a 6-8 road record has to feel pretty fantastic after living through last season's 7-34.
|Week 7
|Uh-oh. Just when it seemed that the Wiz had emerged from their standard early-season misery faster than usual, they lose excruciatingly in OT at Milwaukee and Atlanta, drop two in a row at home after winning five straight in D.C. ... and awoke Monday to Marcin Gortat frustration headlines.
|Week 6
|So Wizardly. What should have been a wonderful week, with lots of practice time after a win over Orlando nudged the Wiz to the hallowed ground of .500 for the first time since November 2009, wound up being smothered by injury fears tied to Bradley Beal, Nene, Al Harrington, etc., etc.
|Week 5
|Best PG in the game? Not quite yet. But give John Wall and the resurgent Wiz this much: He's one of only five players in history to average at least 16 points, eight assists and four rebounds through the first 200 games of his pro career ... joining The Big O, Magic, Damon Stoudamire and CP3.
|Week 4
|The weekend eruption netted only one win, because that's the sort of start it's been for Washington, but John Wall uncorked consecutive games with at least 30 points for the first time in his career. No Wizard had pulled that off since Antawn Jamison back in the first month of the 2007-08 season.
|Week 3
|The Wiz have faced a tough schedule, true, but this isn't too surprising after a home loss to a Cavs team in disarray on the heels of a rough road trip that began with a bad collapse in OKC: Our offshore pals from Bovada.lv list Randy Wittman as a 2-to-1 fave to be the season's first coach ousted.
|Week 2
|The Wiz, in the end, didn't flirt with last season's 0-12 start or even 2011-12's 0-8. But the sort of W that really could have eased some of the pressure on Randy Wittman slipped away in OKC after the Bradley Beal-led Wiz had just stormed back from 11 points down to stun Brooklyn.
|Week 1
|Blame me, @ESPN_RobKing and @HouseFromDC. The committee (of one) clearly got carried away with the l-a-t-e October trade for Marcin Gortat and what that meant for the Wizards' playoff prospects. Which, in turn, doomed your heroes to the home loss at Philly that sealed a winless Week 1.
|I see five teams jockeying for the East's 6-7-8 seeds: Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto and Washington. And I've got the Wiz as the preseason fave from that group after the trade to acquire a healthy (scoring) center in Marcin Gortat to help backcourt dynamos John Wall and Bradley Beal.
|Training Camp
|Camp hasn't even started in the nation's capital and already there's an injury (Emeka Okafor's neck) to fill the air with gloom. Maybe John Wall and Bradley Beal can lift it if they start fast and keep blossoming as a tandem, but you can't halt a run of five straight non-playoff seasons without size.


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The shocking news reverberated across the world, leading millions to reflect upon and honor the life of this storied ... read more >> Sebastian Ridley-Thomas takes Oath of Office Written by Sentinel News Service email@example.com 12 December 2013 Assumes duties of California State Assembly member for the 54th District On Thursday December 5 the Honorable Sebastian Ridley-Thomas took his oath of office and assumed his official duties as ... read more >> VIDEO: Jim Brown Gives President Obama A 'C' Written by Super User 12 December 2013 [module-209] Clip & Photo Courtesy: The Arsenio Hall Show / Courtesy CBS Television Distribution watch video >> Wesson Offers Reward to Find Killer of 7 Year-Old Written by Sentinel News Service email@example.com 12 December 2013 Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson has announced a $75,000 reward for information in the shooting death of 7 year old Taalib Pecantte and the attempted murder of his mother Sawan Mock. Wesson ... read more >> Nelson Mandela Celebrated during International Memorial Written by Jennifer Bihm Sentinel Staff Writer 12 December 2013 President Barak Obama and Winnie Mandela at Nelson Mandela memorial 2013 President and First Lady Obama joined former presidentsGeorge W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter December 10 in Johannesburg ... read more >> Marguerite LaMotte Leaves Lasting Legacy Written by Kenneth D. Miller Asst. Managing Editor 12 December 2013 LaMotte reading with kids LAUSD Board Member Services Scheduled The Los Angeles Community and the massive Los Angeles Unified School District are still reeling after the stunning demise of treasured ... read more >> TransAfrica Movement Had Many PartsThat Mobilized to Free Nelson Mandela Written by Kenneth D. Miller Asst. Managing Editor 12 December 2013 Randall Robinson (right), founder and now, president emiritus of TransAfrica and Nelson Mandela (Sentinel File Photo) The world continues to celebrate the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela who died ... read more >> VIDEO: President Obama Speaks at a Memorial Service for Nelson Mandela Written by Super User 10 December 2013 SggOsfjsL0c watch video >> PHOTOS: Jesse Jackson Birthday Written by Princess Manasseh 10 December 2013 Acclaimed Songstress Chaka Kahn was in attendance, even taking the stage after dinner to sing a couple songs Photo Robert Torrance Sentinel Photographer Birthday Boy Jesse Jackson with long ... read more >> VIDEO: R. Kelly Honors Nelson Mandela with 'Soldier's Heart' Written by Super User 07 December 2013 [module-206] Photo & Clip Courtesy: The Arsenio Hall Show / Courtesy CBS Television Distribution watch video >> VIDEO: Arsenio Hall & R. Kelly Pay Tribute to Nelson Mandela Written by Super User 07 December 2013 [module-205] Photo & Clip Courtesy: The Arsenio Hall Show / Courtesy CBS Television Distribution watch video >> Fisk Seeks Accreditation Written by Special to the NNPA from the The Tennessee Tribune 06 December 2013 Dr. H. James Williams, Fisk University President (File Photo) Fisk University President Dr. H. James Williams and a team of top Fisk administrators were set to visit Atlanta in early December to ... read more >> Judge Cunningham Files Excessive Force Complaint Written by Staff and Wire Report 06 December 2013 Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Cunningham III filed an excessive force complaint against UCLA Campus police recently, after they pulled him over and "roughed him up" over the Thanksgiving ... read more >> FAST-FOOD STRIKES AIM AT 100 US CITIES Written by Associated Press 06 December 2013 Demonstrators in support of fast food workers protest outside a McDonald's as they demand higher wages and the right to form a union without retaliation, Monday, July 29, 2013, in New York's Union Square. ... read more >> Man survives 3 days at bottom of Atlantic Written by MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press 06 December 2013 In this image made available Tuesday Dec. 3, 2013, Harrison Odjegba Okene poses for a portrait inside a decompression chamber after being rescued from three days underwater (AP Photo) Entombed at the ... read more >> Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Releases Hate Crime Data Written by Sentinel News Services 06 December 2013 Attorney General Kamala D. Harris (Courtesy Photo) Attorney General Kamala D. Harris recently announced that the number of reported hate crimes in California decreased 12.8 percent in 2012. There ... read more >> Council Orders No New DWP Service Shut-Offs Written by Sentinel News Services 06 December 2013 City Council President Herb Wesson (Courtesy Photo) In the wake of the continuing problems with the Department of Water and Power's new computerized billing system, Council President Herb Wesson ... read more >> Councilmember Price Jr. Announces New Community Beautification Efforts for South Los Angeles Written by Sentinel News Services 06 December 2013 Councilmember Curren D. Price Jr. (Courtesy Photo) Responding to community concerns and remaining committed to uplifting the impacted neighborhoods of the Ninth Council District, Councilmember Curren ... read more >> Congresswoman Waters Commemorates the 25th Annual World AIDS Day Written by Sentinel News Services 06 December 2013 Congresswoman Maxine Waters (Courtesy Photo) Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), a congressional leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, issued the following statement in recognition of the 25th anniversary ... read more >> Record Crowds Over Weekend, but Spending Declined Written by ANNE D'INNOCENZIO Associated Press 06 December 2013 President Barack Obama, with daughters Sasha, center, and Malia, pays for his purchase at the local bookstore, Politics and Prose, in northwest Washington, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013. 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