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Note: I found writing this piece to be a way of channeling my own anger at the massacre this morning. But I recognize that anger is only one part of the grief process. Please join me in praying for the families and friends of those killed.
American worships the gun. Today, 33 more were sacrificed on the altar of our devotion to the gun. Specifically to semi automatic handguns. There are already dozens of articles from disciples arguing that the massacre today at Virginia tech could have been avoided if some of the students had been carrying guns so they could shoot the killer before he killed them. We trust the gun more than we trust God.
The brutal reality of our gun fetish is that selling guns and ammo is highly profitable. But it is not simply the fact that the market values short term earnings from gun sales more than the social, cultural, political and long term economic damage that gun violence does to our society. More importantly, the gun industry long ago learned to effectively invest their short term earnings into the social, political and cultural sphere. Their investments in the NRA, especially since 1977 years have returned 10 fold and the results are a culture in which gun ownership is intimately connected with the values of self-sufficiency, responsibility and security that so many Americans identify with. We'll call these frontier values.
As much as we'd like to wish that the new Democratic congress would seize on this moment to pass some common sense gun laws, the reality is that many of the new members of Congress were partly by actively courting those with frontier values. Unless their constituency shows signs of disconnecting handguns from frontier values, any vote for limiting the sales of hand guns will be doomed.
It may be that changing our gun culture requires looking at movements that have successfully challenged large corporations with large amounts of cultural capital. The anti-smoking movement comes to mind. The last 30 years have seen a drastic shift on the public perceptions of smoking. The parallels are striking. The right to smoke was once also closely associated with frontier values. The industry also heavily invested in cultural, social and political institutions to maintain and promote the cigarette. For a time it seemed that they were effective. But these days its very hard to find anyone in political office trumpeting the rights of smokers.
What were the tactics and strategies of the anti-smoking lobby? They brought law suits by second hand smokers against big tobacco. Unfortunately a law passed in 2005 protects the industry from any parallel suits.
Another tactic of the anti-tobacco movement was its relentless funding of anti-smoking advertising. Through memorable add campaigns they have gradually associated with smoking with disease and decay. It seems this solution has much potential given the brutal reality of gun crime. Is the anti-gun lobby much less well funded? Have they not found the right message?
Of course, part of the anti-smoking victory can be attributed to the scandal of Tobacco companies lying to consumers for many many years. This highlights a major difference between gun industry and the tobacco industry is that gun manufacturers are much less visible in the debate then big tobacco was. The NRA is by far the most visible and powerful gun lobbying organization. The wikipedia article on Smitth & Wesson tells the interesting story of how gun owners turned on the hand that fed them after Smith & Wesson was seen to have compromised on gun control.
But there is hope. In the United Kingdom after the Dunblane Massacre, more than 700,000 Brits signed the Snowdrop petition calling for a total ban on the private ownership and use of handguns in the United Kingdom. The petition led to the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 which completely banned handguns in the UK (this was the final in a long series of hand gun control laws) According to a report from the home office, from mid-2005 to mid-2006, only 49 people were killed by handguns (Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2005/2006, page 36). This is a rate of roughly 1 per million compared to 55 per million in the US (FBI 2004 Crime report). It turns out that a mandatory five-year jail term for carrying a hand gun does have an effect. I lived in the UK from 2004 through 2006 and noticed that fatal shootings were so rare that they regularly made the national newspaper. People take the hand gun ban for granted and find the gun religion in our country to quaint and strange. On one of my first evenings in the UK I watched a documentary in which a UK reporter went deep into US gun country and interviewed gun disciples. It was like watching an exotic safari.
Change is possible. Massacres like the one at Virginia tech do not need to be a reoccurring horror in our headlines and our lives. Let's work together to end our worship of the gun.
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I understand your anger at the events today. We all feel them. But to blame the object and not the shooter is misplaced anger.
If the shooter hadn't used a gun he would have found other ways to hurt the community- bomb threats, poison, etc.
The painful truth is if someone wants to inflict damage they will find a way to do it. A gun, unfortunately, is a sensible way to cause harm. If he had wanted to hurt someone in that dorm and didn't have a gun, and had instead poisoned the water supply, think how many more innocent people would have been hurt in his efforts.
Like it or not, the gun, while dangerous, is more humane.
Outlawing guns will not stop violence. Teaching people to take responsibility for their actions, better access to mental health care, teaching people to control emotions and rage- that will help end violence. Responsibility will end violence.
Outlawing guns will only mean people will find other ways to inflict pain.
PS- in response to your example of the UK and gun control laws.
Did you know they now have more knife crimes in the UK than the US has (per capita) in gun crimes?
It is estimated that in the UK 1 in 5 male school children carries a knife to school.
outlawing guns didn't end their crime problems
Outstanding, timely and bold.
I agree and blogged about it.
Keep salting and know that God plus one equals a majority.
Why are we blaming the gun? Before anyone labels me a crazy NRA member, I do not own a gun and nor subscribe to the NRA. Whate happened today was horrific but the only person responsible for this attack is the attacker himself. It is not the gun makers fault, the students fault, the schools fault, or the bullet makers fault. The man who chose to do this act is responsible.
We have to be careful not to let such events create a knee jerk reaction for laws.
At the cost of freedom of speech, I hope you will allow my comment to stay.
Thank you. Douglas
Are you an idiot? We do not worship a tool; we worship God! You seek to blame an inanimate object for the actions of a person! That is neither sane nor rational. Please get a clue before posting any more of this hoplophobic tripe! You, by your very statements, are actually part of the problem, not part of the solution! You are helping to create more victims and more tragedies!
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good"
– George Washington
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
– Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes."
– Cesare Beccaria, as quoted by Thomas Jefferson's Commonplace book
"…quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." […a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.]
– (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD)
A few responses to the comments above:
EA (and Douglas): You are entirely right to point out that getting rid of guns will not stop crimes all together. I hadn't heard the particular statistic you quote about higher knife crime in the UK than the US, but it doesn't surprise me. Most police officers in the UK wore knife proof vests around all the time. However, its worth noting this quote from an emergency room physician in London:
Dr Lemen, emergency physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London, says only one or two admissions a month are gun related. "There is an increase in gun related crime, particularly in London," he says. "Despite the great media concern the vast majority of injuries are stabbings (20 per week) and other blunt assaults (100 per week)–such penetrating injuries are more common and a greater cause of morbidity. More people die from being stabbed than shot because there are more people being stabbed. The trouble with guns is the fatality rate of an assault is around 30%-50% whereas the mortality rate of being stabbed is probably only 1% or 2%. Stabbing is a far more common crime." (from Looking down the Barrel)
I regret if my post suggested to you that gun control would be a magic potion to solve crime. As you point out access to mental health care and anger management training are also important tools for lowering crime rates. I thing poverty reduction and community policing are also important steps.
However, when it comes to large scale massacres such as the one that happened this morning, hand guns lower the threshold for impulsive acts. You are right that the shooter could have instead poisoned the water supply. But that would have taken extensive research, planning and time that a mentally unstable person is unlikely to be able to muster. For example the < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster" in 1927 which is still the worst school massacre every (45 killed and 58 injured) took over a year to plan. It takes a extraordinarily meticulous madness to plan this type of bloodbath. Or a terrorist. But the handgun lowers the bar and allows even the briefly insane to kill tens of people.
Mark: The vehemence and vitriol with which you deny your allegiance betrays you. I notice you do not quote the Bible, but from your own sacred text cobbled together from two Deists, a secular rationalist and a Greek stoic philosopher.
People hurt people. The question is, do hand guns and automatic weapons make that more possible. of course they do. would 33 people have died if he was armed with a butcher knife? probably not. but people still would have died.
for myself, it isnt so much about the gun. it is about a culture of death that we live in. our culture is saturated with death and mayhem. i am not the guy who blames video games and Quentin Terrentino movies. i am talking about the general attitude of death, mixed with a disconnectedness and hopelessness.
you solve those issues and then we got something. Ezekial 37 we all know is about the Valley of Dry Bones. a valley of death. What does it say the cause of these dry bones are? V.11, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off."
Can you here the cry of culture from Ezekial? I can. People are dying. literally. who carries this hope for something better gang? God through us.
"I will put my spirit in you and you will live, and i will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that i the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord."
I find it interesting how quickly a few people came to the defense of guns after Tim's post. If you feel the need to claim that you aren't a "crazy NRA member" or pre-emptively claim Freedom of Speech and ask that we don't call you a wing-nut and delete your comment…it might be a sign of something.
Call it a "tool" and an "inanimate object" as much as you want. I have a terribly hard time thinking of a handgun that can shoot 8 rounds in 2 seconds as an innocent "tool" or "object." It is a serious weapon and the only purpose of such a weapon is to cause harm to people, a lot of harm to a lot of people, very quickly and easily.
As Joe mentioned, yeah, this is about more than guns, we have a serious problem of a culture of death and violence that won't be solved by gun control. No, I don't think that all guns should be banned or that all guns are bad all the time. It would, however, be a good start to challenge the idea that we should all have unimpeded access to such weapons.
Please stop with the "yay, guns" talk. I would like to think that George, Ben, Tom, and Lucious would all be appalled at the idea of such weapons in the hands of anyone who wanted them. I guess we'll never know because they've all been dead for an aweful long time and can't tell us what they think on this. Yay, a bunch of dead white guys said some things that support your point…I don't really care, that doesn't mean you aren't wrong.
*chuckle* People come out of the woodwork when someone disagrees with their pet views. Do people from various pro-this or anti-that message boards sit around watching for other boards to talk about "their topic" and then a delegation of members is sent to set it straight? Poor form.
Anybody seen "Lord of War"? Excellent, chilling movie. I believe at one point the main character says the AK-47 is the true weapon of mass destruction. We may not have as many of those in the U.S. per capita as we do handguns, but the basic idea that they're too easy for the average person to get still holds true.
I'm surprised none of the gun-rights supporters brought up the statistics of more people dying in car crashes than at the end of a gun. Before you do, let me say the purpose of a car is not to crash into things and kill people. It's to get someone from one place to another at a certain speed and comfort level. A gun does none of those things. Its purpose is to maim and kill. If people suddenly started using guns only to shoot skeet, trap, and paper targets, I'd have no problem with the proliferation of firearms. Target shooting is fun, no joke. I can't remember the last time I heard of someone accidentally dying while shooting skeet. (Hunting accidents are different. I won't start in on that.)
Making guns harder to get would limit the number of nutjobs who get them. Yes, the black market would still exist, but tighter restrictions would add another complexity to the mix, thus reducing the number of people who are able to take guns to school and shoot dozens of people. The "briefly insane" that Tim mentioned may not find it worth the trouble.
I'm also all for anger management, conflict resolution, etc to reduce the other factors that contribute to these events. But there's no reason why we can't try to work on this thing from multiple angles.
TimN wrote: "The vehemence and vitriol with which you deny your allegiance betrays you. I notice you do not quote the Bible, but from your own sacred text cobbled together from two Deists, a secular rationalist and a Greek stoic philosopher."
Strawman argument. I always have an irrationally reaction to stupidity, especially when it has the potential to negatively affect my safety. And I quoted two Christian men inspired by God in the founding of this country (I do not subscribe to the liberal rewriting of history to push the agenda that this is not a Christian nation) and two experts during their lifetimes on the affects of crime and punishment upon society. God is no respecter of persons, especially those who lived in times when it was not possible to hear of Him. When He blesses His children with wisdom, it makes sense to listen to them.
Again, I do not worship tools and the need to insist upon this falsehood for those who understand the gift that God has given us in being able to defend ourselves, our families, and our country does your argument no service.
Katie wrote: "Please stop with the "yay, guns" talk. I would like to think that George, Ben, Tom, and Lucious would all be appalled at the idea of such weapons in the hands of anyone who wanted them. I guess we'll never know because they've all been dead for an aweful long time and can't tell us what they think on this."
They would be more appalled at the idea of the population at large being disarmed en mass. They understood that this creates victims for the violent elements of society and slaves of the government. And we do know how they felt because they wrote prolifically on this very subject.
Thanks for stopping the name calling. And I agree with you that people other than Christians are capable of wisdom.
You've made the case that you don't "worship" guns. Perhaps a different way to phrase it would be that you see guns as sacred or as you put it, "a gift that God has given us." You believe that if handguns ownership were illegal for private citizens it would go against the core values of the United States. And the core values of Christianity apparently.
I notice that you repeatedly mention God but never Jesus. Is this perhaps because you find Jesus inconvenient since he blessed the peacemakers, told us to love our enemies, turn the other cheek, do good to those who persecute us and repeatedly refused the way of violence? Its hard to imagine this man endorsing a "tool" whose sole purpose is killing and maiming. Skylark goes into this better than I can above.
Finally you claim that taking away guns would make us slaves of the government. While this may have made some sense during the Revolutionary, today its absurd to suggest that hand guns and even automatic weapons could pose any threat to the highly advanced weaponry of the United States military. If US citizens tried starting an armed revolt against the US government within its borders your revolution would be crushed before it even began.
From a purely pragmatic perspective mass nonviolent action is a much more effective tool then a gun. Just look at the Orange revolution in the Ukraine and the Cedar revolution in Lebanon. In each of these cases if the citizens had taken up weapons it would have given the government an excuse to kill them all. Guns do not protect us from slavery to our government. Active and engaged participation is what does that. This includes lobbying, writing letters, attending protests and voting. How does having a gun on your shelf help with any of that?
Beautifully written, Tim. :-)
Mark said: "And I quoted two Christian men inspired by God in the founding of this country (I do not subscribe to the liberal rewriting of history to push the agenda that this is not a Christian nation) […]"
In my eyes, you dug yourself an even deeper hole with this statement. Let's not confuse a democratic republic with Christianity. Gee, how did God cope before the U.S. came along? Christianity existed long before the U.S. did, and this governmental structure is hardly the epitome of the way God tells us to treat each other. Systemic abuses are here, too. I'm not advocating for any other governmental structure, please understand me. I'm not ignorant to the flaws of communism, socialism, feudalism, anarchy, oligarchies and all the rest. Because people are flawed, every structure we can come up with will also be flawed.
Like Tim, I think it's ridiculous to suppose the citizenry can launch an effective revolt against the U.S. government. It may accomplish genocide in countries like Liberia with poor heads of state, which is why I mentioned the AK-47. It doesn't work when facing the WMDs of the U.S. military.
Speaking of strawmen…"They would be more appalled at the idea of the population at large being disarmed en mass." I'm sorry but that is not the argument I'm making. I just don't get how you get from the idea that maybe we should regulate access to semi-automatic handguns becuase they are very dangerous weapons that cause a lot of damage to our society (which I am suggesting) to the idea that "the population at large being disarmed en mass" (which I am not suggesting). Like I said in my comment, "No, I don't think that all guns should be banned or that all guns are bad all the time. It would, however, be a good start to challenge the idea that we should all have unimpeded access to such weapons." By "such weapons" I mean semi-automatic handguns. I'm not a big fan of other handguns but I won't get into that.
I would also personally question why our society has such a fetish for guns and such faith that they actually make us all safer. Recalling what Tim said originally "[guns are] intimately connected with the values of self-sufficiency, responsibility and security that so many Americans identify with. We'll call these frontier values." I would add that they are also a symbol of masculinity. I'll wait to open that can of worms for another day though. I guess we just loves our guns.
Well, seeing as it would be an affront to universally disarm the masses, and feeling a bit low on armaments these days myself, can anyone tell me where I can buy some nuclear war-heads and a can or two of anthrax?
Gotta defend me and mine, you know.
Just read your article on Ekklesia - interesting reading. I think that there are at least some signs of hope on the horizon in this area. For a start, the proportion of households with guns in the US is approximately 33%, down from 54% in 1977. So despite the vociferousness of the pro-gun lobby, and the seeming support for the theory of gun ownership, the appetite of the average American for the actual practicality of gun ownership seems to have diminished significantly.
Nevertheless, the need for some kind of paradigm shift seems undeniable from our perspective across the pond - the figures speak for themselves in that respect. More Americans have died by the gun on US soil since 1963 than have been killed in open warfare across the world in the whole of the 20th Century. Or to put it in more contemporary perspective, the US is taking a worse beating in its war with itself than with Iraq: for every soldier killed in Iraq since the invasion, approximately 40 civilians in the US have been killed by guns.
One other thing that I have noticed is that a lot of the pro-gun lobby like to talk about the 'fact' that gun crime has risen in the UK since handguns were banned. In fact, the number of offences involving handguns (which, apart from automatic & semi-automatic weapons, are the only kind of gun that are actually banned) have fallen by almost 25 percent between 2001 and 2005. Whereas offences with shotguns, imitation weapons and other weapons (e.g. rifles) - none of which are banned - have either risen or stayed level. Imitation weapons account for the biggest rise in firearms offences in the UK in this period - which somewhat undermines the idea that the ban has made things worse. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm more than happy to live with a higher rate of "firearms offences" it boils down to a greater risk of facing an imitation weapon, and a lower risk of facing a real handgun …
(source: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/hosb0206.pdf )
I was curious to see some of the responses above, in particular the assertion that one in five schoolchildren in the UK carry knives into classes. I find this highly unlikely, and would be interested to see the source of this information. I've taught in schools in the UK, and I know many people who still do – and have encountered nothing that would lead me to believe this statistic to be anywhere near the truth.
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The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks, Abkco
HAIM Don't Save Me
(CD Single), Polydor
Starship Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists), Sony Tv/Columbia, 1
Tavares Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario, MFP
Madness My Girl
Madness - Complete Madness, Virgin, 2
Matthew Wilder Break My Stride
Love & Pride - A Kick Up The 80's: Vo, Old Gold
Bellowhead Roll The Woodpile Down
Broadside, Navigator Records, 003
Kool & The Gang Celebration
Kool & The Gang - The Singles Collect, Phonogram
Kylie Minogue All The Lovers
(CD Single), EMI, 1
Dion Runaround Sue
The Wanderers (Original S/Track), Sequel Records
Lawson Learn To Love Again
(CD Single), Global Talent Records
The Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star
Our Friends Electric (Various Artist, Telstar
The Faces Cindy Incidentally
(CD Single), Warner Bros
Billy Joel It's Still Rock & Roll To Me
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2, CBS
Wham! Freedom
Wham - The Best Of Wham!, Epic
Joe Cocker Fire It Up
Fire It Up, Sony Music
Joe Cocker With A Little Help From My Friends
Rediscover The 60's - With A Little H, Old Gold
Bee Gees Night Fever
Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits, Polydor
Emeli Sandé Clown
(CD Single), Virgin, 5
INXS Need You Tonight
The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ..., Columbia
Marvin Gaye Can I Get A Witness
The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye, Motown
The Marvelettes Too Many Fish In The Sea
Marvelettes-Compact Command Performan, Motown, 5
Martha Reeves and The Vandellas and Martha Reeves Nowhere To Run
Motown - The Hits Collection Vol.2, Motown
Four Tops It's The Same Old Song
The Four Tops - The Ultimate Collecti, Motown
Deacon Blue That's What We Can Do
(CD Single), Edsel Records
Little Richard Good Golly Miss Molly
Little Richard - British Hit Singles, Ace
Pause for Thought
From Rev Sharon Grenham Toze, an Anglican priest and prison chaplain.
Chris, you and I are both communicators. It's what we do for a living: gathering together ideas, letting them rumble around in our brains for a while and then packaging those ideas up and putting them out there in a way we hope is meaningful, or entertaining (and sometimes both).
But we've also both learned over the years that we can't communicate out, unless we're prepared to listen to what's coming in. The author Mark Twain said 'if we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we'd have 2 tongues and 1 ear.' In fact, all of us, every day, need to listen more to the people we live with, work with, do business with. Because listening, is perhaps the most important part of communicating. Any one of us might be really clever with words, but it's only when you've listened properly that it becomes a 2 way street.
I had 2 very different meetings this week. In one of them the other person sat with his back half-turned, his eyes on the computer and the phone ringing in his ear. I felt about 2 inches tall, and would really struggle to go the extra mile for that person in future. In the other meeting, the person made eye-contact, asked questions and gave me his full attention. You can guess how much better I felt about that one! When someone listens to us, it gives us a sense of value, we feel understood, and, importantly, we're then more prepared to accept compromise if we have to. Listening builds trust, it builds respect, and it makes connections between people which are stronger, and which are more likely to hold when the going gets tough.
It's a noisy, rough and tumble world a lot of the time, full of words, full of challenges, and that's great, nothing wrong with energy and zest. But in the middle of all of that, perhaps the greatest gift we can give one another is the gift of our attention.
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More than a few people have been asking me to poke Assassin Actual to see if he's alright. He is OK.He's stuck in a very demanding job right now, with the workload of several people falling solely on him. That's what you get when you're good at your job, I suppose. He should have known better than to let his unit know he was smart!Anyway, he's not going to come back any time soon. He knows that he always has a spot here at FtB waiting for him when he's able. … [Read more...]
Assassin Actual is still alive (and well)
Everybody needs to wish Assassin Actual 'get well soon'
This was actually sent out to a lot of people by someone in the Army. I'll spare identifying details, but you deserve +1 internets.It's pretty funny, and it got our attention. Apparently people are succumbing to the Norovirus left and right. The warning message about this outbreak might have just been ignored by many people. We get weird stuff in our inbox all the time.Anyway, I've just received confirmation that one of my fellow FtB'ers, Assassin Actual has Norovirus. He said it was … [Read more...]


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Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practised no cruelties.
Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions…for safety on the streets…for child care, for social welfare…for rape crisis centres, women's refuges, reforms in the law.
If someone says, "Oh, I'm not a feminist," I ask, "Why, what's your problem?""
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NJIT's Open University To Host Digital Forensics Talk
October 31, 2006
Denman Powers, a detective with the New Jersey State Police who is currently assigned to the New Jersey Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory, will discuss Digital Crime and Computer Forensics on Nov. 1 at 4 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 1400. Refreshments will be served. >>
This fall, NJIT will offer to companies and government agencies a practical, hands-on and sophisticated six-course, 18-credit certificate program designed to combat digital and physical terrorism. "Our goal is to create a new generation of counter-terrorism experts and we think the array of in-depth courses we've put together will fit the bill," said Robert Statica, program director. >>


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Swirls Gone Wild
The swirlies relaxed approach to its sparkling musical experiments has often been misunderstood.The band emerged in Boston in 1990 during the zenith of shoegaze and embraced a dazzling mix of extreme yet melodic distortion entwined with sweet, glittering vocals and excursions in sampling. Wrapped in layers of effectsladen, heavily processed guitar fuzz, reverbsaturated voices bobbed just beneath the surface of the group's dreamy noise. But unlike many of its musical counterparts, the group's rough-hewn recordings often epitomized the lo-fi aesthetic. Despite this, some fans were caught by surprise when live shows weren't terribly refined.
"Some people seem to have an idea that we're some pristine shoegazing band that is going to put out polished music. And that's just not what we do and that's not what we've ever done," says Damon Tutunjian, lead vocalist and guitarist in The Swirlies, sounding mystified that anyone would have this expectation.
"On our first tours, we used a drum kit that packed into itself and sounded like you were hitting cardboard boxes." Unpredictable, unrestrained elements have always formed the core of The Swirlies' magic and defined the half-dozen full-length albums and oodles of EPs and singles, from 1996's Sneaky Flutes EP to 2003's Cats of the Wild Volume 2 (the last proper Swirlies record) the ever-morphing band has released in its nearly 19 years of existence.
Now, after a long hiatus, the Swirlies will return to the stage for a few strictly East Coast, expectation-defying shows.
"It'll be loud and noisy and funny.That's what we strive for,"Tutunjian says via phone from Ann Arbor, Mich. "It might be sloppy, but that's also part of it. It might accidentally be tight, in which case some people who don't really understand what it's all about will be very happy."
After being tucked away in academia toiling away on a Ph.D. in linguistics for the past five years,Tutunjian's finally going back to The Swirlies, if only temporarily, during his spring break.The Swirlies last appeared live during a 2003 tour touring with The Lilys, right before Tutunjian started graduate school in Michigan, but the extended break that followed wasn't a conscious decision on anyone's part,Tutunjian says. He simply became consumed by his scholarly pursuits, and with his band mates on the East Coast, performing together hasn't been possible. Until now.
The current incarnation of the Swirlies includes Tutunjian, Andy Bernick (a founding member), Adam Pierce (Mice Parade) and Rob Laakso (Mice Parade and Diamond Nights). Deb Warfield, a sometime-Swirlie, will rejoin the fold for the New York show, along with possible other secret guests (secret because Tutunjian's not exactly sure which other past Swirlies might jump on the stage and chime in when it comes down to it). Pierce, who signed up to be The Swirlies' drummer in 1995, orchestrated the three upcoming shows when he managed to find time in his schedule between working for the FatCat label's U.S. branch, producing records for other artists including Gregory and the Hawk and focusing on Mice Parade.
"I felt like playing because I just haven't played music in too long," Pierce says from his home in Highland Mills, N.Y. His last live performance was with Mice Parade in July 2008—"and I don't really feel like a drummer in Mice Parade, and that causes an identity crisis within myself, because I feel like much more of a drummer in general than a guitarist."
He has switched to guitar for the most part in Mice Parade, his intricately structured post-rock band that's a far cry from The Swirlies. And this disparity between Mice Parade and The Swirlies, with its looser style and immense volume, is what Pierce finds appealing.
"Mice Parade never creates a loud wall of sound, which is meant to stop on a dime. That's Swirlies being tight.You've got this huge steamroller and it can just stop," Pierce says. "The Swirlies live can get very loud. Before '95, from '92 to '94, I watched Swirlies shows in the audience, and I'd never witnessed a more impressive wall of sound, just a massive psychedelic slosh machine."
The Swirlies will have two days to practice before taking the stage. And whatever happens musically at the show, it won't be anything that's happened before—not in precisely the same way, at least. And for Tutunjian, that's a point of pride.
"It's never been a polished, standardized item,"Tutunjian says. "And it never will be."
> The Swirlies
Feb. 27, Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston St. (at Essex St.), 212-260-4700; 8, $12


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This location is in Bakersfield. Nearby parks include Heritage Park, Virginia Avenue Park and Potomac County Park.
Nearby schools include East Bakersfield High School, Horace Mann Elementary School and Bethel Christian School.
The closest grocery stores are Vallarta Supermarkets, Fastrip Food Store and Better Trade Market.
The closest coffee shop is Starbucks. There are 22 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Hungry Howie's Pizza, Linos Tacos Mexican Fast Food and Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits.
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Gonna take you on a joyride today, me and you stay true never hesitate to make love, sure enough, you're the only one I'm ever thinkin' of.
Just to hold you baby I can hardly wait, as we go through the motions damn it's great to make love, sure enough, we're gonna take it to the end and that's what's up.
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When megachurch pastor Max Lucado greeted his successor at his San Antonio church, the two stood onstage and tried to put on each other's shoes. They couldn't.
The problem? Randy Frazee, Lucado's successor, was six inches shorter.
The point, say co-authors William Vanderbloemen and Warren Bird in their new book about pastoral succession, came through loud and clear: No leader can stay forever. And none will be exactly like the one who came before.
For congregations that haven't thought about who will succeed their current pastor, the authors of the new book "Next: Pastoral Succession That Works" have words of warning: Be prepared.
Churches may not know the day or the hour when they need to have an interim or permanent replacement for the senior pastor.
James Merritt spent years as senior pastor of an Atlanta-area megachurch that featured a mighty choir.
Then he changed his tune.
At 50, he left First Baptist Church Snellville to plant a new church — 200 people in a rented space at a high school 12 miles away — focused on reaching a young generation.
There was and is no choir. And that puts Merritt's current congregation, Cross Pointe Church, right on trend.
The newly released National Congregations Study finds church choirs are on the downbeat in white Protestant churches across the theological spectrum.
Choirs stand strong in black Protestant congregations, where 90 percent of regular attendees say there's a choir at the main service. The same is true for three in four (76 percent) Catholic worshippers.
But among white conservative evangelicals, only 40 percent of worshippers say they hear a choir at services, down from 63 percent 14 years ago.
"God has to be busy with everyone else. And hopefully he will come into my life. I hope it happens. It's going to break my heart if it don't."
So says Andrew, one of the three teenage subjects of the documentary Rich Hill, currently playing in theaters across the country. While film refrains from any sermonizing on poverty, or any direct call to action from its audience, it's mighty hard for socially minded Christians to hear these words and not feel compelled to react. Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo's documentary is an unflinching portrait of poverty in rural America, and its sympathetic portrayals give heartbreaking examples of neighbors in need.
The film follows a year in the lives of three boys: Andrew, Harley, and Appachey. They don't know each other, but they have much in common. Besides living in the small town of Rich Hill, Mo., all three come from troubled families living well below the poverty line. Andrew is the most hopeful of the group. He's got a family he loves, and a father who means well, but whose unrealistic dreams keep the family moving from place to place and dodging unpaid bills. Thirteen-year-old Appachey and 15-year-old Harley, however, come from darker situations. Harley is a victim of sexual abuse (his mother is in jail for attempting to kill the man responsible), while Appachey's violent behavioral issues are simply too much to handle for his single mom, overwhelmed with his siblings and a dilapidated house filled to the rafters with junk.
By now you have heard that Apple gave you music. Free music. From U2. Now, they paid U2 a lot of money for those tunes and it's pretty clear that it's not the first time that someone paid a U2 a lot of money for their music so that you could have it for free as long as you were a loyal customer.
The U2 back catalogue has done pretty well this week.
Some of us are rather peevish customers, it would seem. There have been numerous articles on the betrayal by either U2 or Apple. Don't they know that our iDevices are private property? Don't they know that we have put a fence around our little corner of the cloud?
Sadly the tech doesn't really work that way and the agreement you checked - we all checked, really - makes it pretty clear that they own the cloud and you merely lease space there. Your iDevice is a portal, no more, no less.
When Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was suspended for only two games for beating his fiancée (now wife), it became a dramatic public example of the lack of accountability for professional athletes. Only when a video came out showing Rice punching his fiancée so hard it knocked her unconscious, and then dragging her limp body from the casino elevator, did the NFL take further action. As new incidents of domestic violence and child abuse come out, many are calling for Commissioner Roger Goodell to resign or lose his job.
But this epidemic is about so much more than Goodell, whose lack of leadership is typical in professional sports. It's about more than one team, one league, or sports in general.
Last week, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was derecognized at California state schools, barring the group's access to on-campus meeting rooms, school funds, and other student functions. While InterVarsity welcomes all to participate in its campus-based student groups, it was derecognized because their leadership policy, which requires students in positions of leadership to sign a statement of belief, conflicted with state-mandated nondiscrimination policies.
From the standpoint of religious liberty in this secular age, it's hard to get around the troubling nature of this policy. Part of me squirms and rolls my eyes at the increasing irony of the intolerance of tolerance. Why can't we — as a religious community born of a 2,000-year-old tradition — retain some beliefs that have become out-of-style in the modern academy? The principle irks me: Shouldn't Christian groups be allowed to require that their leaders are Christian?
On the other hand, might this be another example of evangelicalism prioritizing doctrines over compassionate love of the world? I mean, can't InterVarsity recognize why nondiscrimination policies exist, stop complaining about persecution, welcome their LGBTQ members into leadership, and get on to the real business of redeeming creation to the glory of God? Is this yet another haunting specter of fundamentalism clinging to its evangelical host?
Given that the crux of this issue revolves around what InterVarsity's student leaders ostensibly do or do not believe, perhaps this is an opportunity for Christians to (re)consider their affinity for "belief statements." Are they really that important?
Now, wait — before you throw your hands up and shout "liberal postmodern relativism," let me explain.
Drawing on sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Christian philosopher James K.A. Smith writes in Imagining the Kingdom that belief is not primarily "assent to propositions but rather a functional, enacted trust and entrustment to a context and a world."
In other words, it is not primarily our intellectual assent to a correct doctrine that constitutes belief. To our enlightened modern minds, this may sound frightening. What we think doesn't matter? Aren't propositional belief statements the very bulwark which has preserved Christian orthodoxy against centuries of secular onslaught?
But consider: what does it really mean to believe in something?
Historically, Christianity hasn't been very open to the idea of being influenced by other religions. In the early days of the faith, we borrowed from Hellenism, Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism, Judaism and various "pagan" religions, repurposing their symbols to mean something new. Following the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire, we focused more on converting others to our faith, or at least denigrating the legitimacy of other faiths to establish ours as superior.
Oh, but times, they are a'changin.'
Our numbers are down, our influence continues to wane, and we're struggling with what I call in "postChristian" both an identity crisis and a credibility crisis. The good news is that, in this newly humbled state, lies a glimmer of opportunity. Not the kind we've had previously, to once again dominate the cultural landscape. That time has passed. Rather, as more of us within the Christian faith take less for granted, we're asking harder questions:
It was a gathering that would have been unthinkable just five years ago.
On a cool summer evening, in a borrowed classroom overlooking San Francisco Bay, about 150 men and women gathered to screen a short documentary about a Mormon family whose 13-year-old son came out as gay.
The Montgomerys, who accepted their son and his news, were ostracized by church members, some of whom refused to accept Communion distributed by the young man in church. Like many conservative Christian denominations, the 15 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bans homosexual activity and considers it grounds for exclusion from Mormon rites, rituals and even the afterlife.
Sunday night, 23-year old Kira Kazantsev proved two things when she was crowned Miss America for 2015. First, she can make a nationally television audience "happy" by using only a red plastic cup. Second, domestic violence knows no bounds.
That's right. This year's Miss America is one of the every four women who has experienced domestic abuse in her lifetime. During college, Kazanstev was in an abusive relationship that left her "isolated" and "hopeless," she recently told NPR. In the same interview, Kazanstev says she wasn't aware of the resources available for victims of domestic violence: "I very well may have Googled it," she says. "But that's not the mindset that you're in when you're in that situation. You just feel alone. You feel helpless. You don't feel like anyone could possibly understand."
New Jersey is often dismissed as a cultural wasteland of traffic jams and suburban sprawl, mobster graveyards and lost dreams — source material for native son rockers like Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi.
But soon the state may also be known as home of the latest American saint, a Bayonne-born nun who is to be beatified in Newark next month.
The beatification of Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, who died in 1927 at the age of 26, puts her one step away from formal canonization.
If Demjanovich does make the final hurdle, she would become just the second person born in the U.S. ever to be named a saint, and it would give New Jersey something to brag about — albeit humbly, no doubt.
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4K Kennels German Bloodlines / Companion
German Bloodlines / Companion Dogs
Welcome to the 4K Kennels website. We are proud of our dogs.
We have German bloodlines and our dogs are all family oriented. Our puppies are handled by all family members from the day they are born. This way we ensure that all pups are socialized at an early age.
The puppies are given 1st shots and wormed three times by the time they are six weeks of age. Both front and rear dew claws are removed when the pups are between 3 to 5 days old, and the are micro chipped with the AKC.
The puppies will be ready for homes at approx. 6 weeks after whelping date.
The photos on this page are, on the left, Hunter and Zeek, in the center we have Brady, Hunter and Zeek, and on the right is Titan (a pup out of Pasha aqnd Ginger.) We are very proud of our males. Feel free to check out the Studs page.
All out dogs are out of working bloodlines and have extremely high ball drives.
All our dogs are full of self-confidence. They are strong , agile, well balanced and muscular fit. All our dogs and puppies have a noble and quality look.
Our dogs puppies will be great family dogs. They can also be used in agility, as working dogs or as therapy, guide dogs. Check out Ginger's Previous puppies page and see Mission. He is current used by Circletail as a service dog for the handicapped.
A very wise man told me one day about the "original dog handler" of the world. He developed all the techniques for training the perfect dog thousands and thousands of years ago. As he neared death he took all the perfect techniques that he had written down and tore them into pieces and cast them to the wind. Since that day they have surfaced in bits and pieces but no one, absolutely no one, has put all the pieces together to get the "perfect training techniques" or the "perfect dog". Take what works for you and your agency and let the others do the same. If by chance you happen to run across the "perfect trainer" with the "perfect dog", RUN LIKE HELL. It's either a ghost or a liar.
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We preach Christ crucified for the forgiveness of sin.
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I Have a Love/Hate Relationship with Granny
Guest blogger Paul Starke: On Friday, Grandma #1 comes to visit from Canada, which will be slightly annoying but manageable. The next day, however, Grandma #2 is popping in as well, from Boston. We are facing the perfect storm of Grandmas -- a category 5 disaster.
Let me be clear -- my Mom and my mother-in-law are exceptional women -- they raised six kids between the two of them, so they know their stuff. They just seem to have forgotten it recently. This week's Daddy Dozen: The 12 Things I Love/Hate About Grandmother Visits.
1. They hold the baby like a bobblehead doll. OK, I'm new to the parenting thing, but even a doofus like me knows that an infant needs his head supported.
2. They bring us useless crap. Sorry, but there's only so many tiny Red Sox jerseys the baby needs, especially since we live in NEW YORK.
3. They scoff at "newfangled" ideas like hand washing and bottle sterilizing. Apparently, keeping the Ebola virus out of our son's mouth is being "overprotective."
4. They wear way too much perfume. Call me crazy, but I don't want our son to smell like Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds.
5. They keep saying, "He doesn't look like you at all." Granted, that's a good thing. But still irritating to hear.
6. They tell embarrassing stories about you. Really, what do you say when your Mom tells anyone who'll listen about how you soiled your Spider-Man Underoos?
7. They're always up for babysitting, no matter what. Plus, they won't eat everything in your fridge.
8. They love the baby more than they love us. As soon as they get through the door, it's all about the kid, and they ignore my wife and I.
9. They SOMETIMES buy USEFUL crap. If my mom hadn't got us the crib, the baby would be asleep on a pile of dryer sheets.
10. They kept all of our baby mementos. It will be nice to pass these along to my son: my first hockey sweater, my baby shoes, my bad report cards...
11. They are like baby whisperers. It's amazing how the soothing Grandma voice can have such a calming effect ... on me and the baby.
12. The look on their faces when they see the baby. After putting up with our nonsense for 30-plus years, it feels good to give them back some moments of pure joy.
|Paul Starke is an Emmy-winning TV producer, and a co-writer of the #1 New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Book.
i love these lists you do! 11 is SO true!!!! my mom is so awesome.
I know what your saying but take the negative and positive and run with it.
I had no Grandparents living and my girls are well adjusted. But I know they would have been a positive influence on my girls.


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"We are pleased that the USDA enforced their regulations. We are also pleased that the elephants were released to the sanctuary where they can live out the remainder of their lives in a more natural setting."
"I am so personally hurt with losses. I really am an elephant like that. I don't forget. I can still feel the pain and sting of it (last year's loss to Tennessee). So when you consider the length of the season and when you can be a little tired, I am not. I am just fueled by what could have been."
"Elephants are amazing animals. They have so much personality, and are by far the most intelligent animal I've ever been around."
"It felt like six miles, ... I had to go up and down two elephants and through the windmills. It was the best putt I ever hit in my life."
"It is disappointing that elephants live in zoos and circuses, chained for days and months on end, forced to live in restricted spaces with no resemblance of anything natural. They simply exist to entertain the public. The Sanctuary elephants have freedom to do what they want, when they want, where they want. The decisions that are made about their lives are theirs to make."
"That is always the elephant in the room with J&J. Everyone wants to know what is going on in M&A, and they're not saying."
"It is really tough. It feels like there is an elephant on your back, you feel flat, your legs feel weak, you're really tired, you have a hard time breathing and it's painful. At this altitude everything is so much more painful. If you overextend yourself just a little bit, especially when you're in a technical section and you have to put out a lot of effort just to get over something, the moment you're over it you're in trouble and it takes a very long time to recover."


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Perennial top-ten lightweights Donald Cerrone and Rafael Dos Anjos met in the Octagon Wednesday in the co-main event of UFC Fight Night 27 from the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
Cerrone, who has become a fan-friendly scraper of epic proportions during his tenure in the UFC was making his tenth appearance in the Octagon and was looking to add some career momentum after his recent win over K.J. Noons at UFC 160.
Dos Anjos was riding a UFC career best four-fight winning streak, and certainly wasn't interested in seeing "The Cowboy" render all of his previous victories moot.
Round one saw the 28-year-old Brazilian open with visible confidence. Light on his toes and employing textbook lateral movement, Dos Anjos came out looking to outstrike the striking specialist.
For the majority of the opening frame, Dos Anjos surprised many, perhaps Cerrone himself, as he peppered the Team Jackson stalwart with effective body striking and powerful combination punching.
At the two-minute mark of the first round, Dos Anjos floored Cowboy with a crushing left hook that put him flat on his back. Looking to finish, the Brazilian leaped into Cerrone's guard.
Cerrone withstood the onslaught and used slick ground control and wary submission attempts to survive the round.
Round two was more of the same as "RDA" came out with body kicks and splendid head movement. Cerrone seemed visibly frustrated by this point and was getting picked apart at will by the tricky striking of the King's MMA product.
Cerrone eventually shot for a takedown, and after seven or so collective minutes of getting beat up on the feet, who could blame him? Cerrone's takedown was rather ineffective, and Dos Anjos won the round on most pundits' scorecards with a takedown of his own later in the round and his effective display of varied strikes.
In between the second and third rounds, Cerrone's corner explained that a finish might be in order, and he opened the final frame at a frantic pace.
Cowboy unleashed his striking prowess with authority as the third round began. He used front kicks, leg kicks, counter punches, and even tried some takedowns, but this was a textbook case of "too little, too late."
Cerrone won the third round as the combatants battled back and forth until the final bell sounded, but in the end, it wasn't enough, as Rafael Dos Anjos earned a unanimous decision victory (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) and handed Cowboy his second loss in his three fights.
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For Dos Anjos, this signifies a remarkable career rejuvenation. The Brazilian made his debut all the way back at UFC 91 in a losing effort to Jeremy Stephens. In fact, from 2008-2011, Dos Anjos fought eight times for the UFC, and went an unremarkable 4-4 over that time. Many wondered if he would ever be a viable threat to the 155-pound crown.
Now, the surging lightweight is on a five-fight winning streak with victories over some heavy hitters in the division, and talks of a possible title shot are beginning to surface.
Not only is Dos Anjos a viable name in the divisional landscape, but he may also be next in line for a shot at UFC gold.
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he will get killed if he fights for the title.
Based on what? To say that he wont be a champion is one thing to say that he will get killed is another. He just beat Cerrone who is a proven top 10 tough guy, to say that he would get killed in a title fight might me a little exaggerated.
I almost agreed with mmama until reading your post. Very great point!
"Cowboys is gonna kill him."
That's what I saw everywhere.
I think it was a great surprise, I really like Dos Anjos, and the way he's evolving is amazing.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) For decades the Minnesota Twins have been known as one of baseball's most patient and loyal franchises, sticking with managers, coaches and members of the front office in the bel
By sometime Friday night, either Chipper Jones will be out of baseball or the defending World Series champion Cardinals will be out of the playoffs.
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Categories > Cartoons > G.I. Joe > Tenderfoot
Evolution, part 10 Reviews
A collection of ficlets, in chronological order, focusing on Lift Ticket and Lifeline.
"I'd expect no less from a guy like you. You'd throw yourself on a chunk of asphalt in the middle of the jungle to save your comrades from it, wouldn't you?" Lifeline murmured, pulling small chunks of gravel out of Lift Ticket's shoulder.
"Just shaddup and do yer job," Lift Ticket growled. He had ridden motorcycles in a T-shirt hundreds of times before. For the first time, he had fallen, and it had to be when he had the peanut gallery to fix it up, didn't it?
"I could always get someone else to do it, if you don't like my company," Lifeline replied.
Lift Ticket grunted. He had to admit that Lifeline had a touch. He'd fallen once when bicycling, back home in Oklahoma, and rashed up his leg. The doctor had poked and prodded him like a side of beef, scrubbing at his rash with a scouring pad while his unwilling patient had cussed him out. Lifeline ghosted his hand over skin, pulling out chunks so quickly and smoothly that Lift Ticket could barely feel it. "Nah, just finish up."
Lifeline smiled, stepping back to look critically at the shoulder before rinsing it and diving back in with tweezers. The tray next to him was full of gravelly crud, the blood congealing with it to make some vile variant on concrete. "You're current on tetanus, aren't you?"
"Yeah - you did it."
Lift Ticket turned his head to look as footsteps announced the arrival of a third person. From his crewcut to his pleated trousers, he was every bit the stereotypical Marine - broad-shouldered, square-jawed, straight-spined, in a dress uniform whose cleanliness seemed to mock his surroundings. "I'm looking for someone called Lifeline."
"Yo," Lifeline said, his attention still on his work.
"I'm Jim. Jim Trimball. Remember the name. You know a girl named Bree?"
"Yes, I've had the pleasure," Lifeline said.
"You have?" Lift Ticket muttered under his breath. Lifeline jabbed him in the side with the tweezers.
"Well," the man squared his shoulders, "I want you to stay away from her, you hear? She's mine, and no other man is going to come within ten feet of her or I'll give him something to think about."
"You've got it," Lifeline said, blandly.
The man seemed disconcerted. "Erm, right. Well. Just as long as we're clear." He turned on the toe of a spit-polished boot and strode out of the room.
"Ya took that well," Lift Ticket observed.
Lifeline shrugged. "Should I be disappointed?"
Lift Ticket chuckled. "Nah. I think she will, though, when she finds she doesn't get the ego-stroking rivalry she wanted." Lift Ticket had envied Lifeline for getting a rich girl at first, but that feeling hadn't lasted a week. She was one spoiled and manipulative little minx.
"Are you incapable of saying anything good about anyone?" Lifeline asked, shaking his head as he cleaned the rash, patted it dry, and swabbed the oozing skin with iodine.
"Are you incapable of sayin' anything mean?" Lift Ticket snorted.
Lifeline started to cut a bandage. "Fine - your romantic advice stinks."
"Romance?" Lift Ticket snorted. "What do you want that for? Have fun, don't stay too long; it's a helluva lot more fun and a helluva lot less complicated." Not that it was easy meeting girls around the base, Lift Ticket mused. He hadn't missed much about his hometown, but he'd missed the girls; bright, beaming Oklahoma girls in sundresses, their hair in ponytails. He was quite the looker back home, with his build and his lopsided grin, some of them had told him breathlessly; his daddy had an old Thunderbird that he'd loan Victor for dates, and it had a big backseat...
Lift Ticket snapped out of his reverie as Lifeline tore off a strip of tape, frowning. "That's disgusting."
"Spare me yer holier-than-thou Northwest morality," Lift Ticket replied. Seattle girls probably wrapped themselves in layers of fleece up to the neck, he thought. No wonder Lifeline had such an odd attitude towards females.
"Take this off before bed and wash thoroughly," Lifeline said, flatly, as he finished taping down the bandage. "You don't want it getting infected. Give me a shout if it gets red or inflamed or leaks pus. And try to evolve."
Lift Ticket's retort was interrupted by Flint. "Lift Ticket!" he said sticking his head in. "I've been looking all over for you. Come with me."
Lift Ticket pulled his shirt on, stiffly, and followed Flint, leaving Lifeline to clean up in stony silence.
"You're going to be taking Lady Jaye on her next mission," Flint said as Lift Ticket fell into step next to him. "Leave as soon as you can. I wanted to give you a little advance warning, but I couldn't find you." Lift Ticket bristled at the implied rebuke. "For now, head out to the hanger. Lady Jaye will brief you; the mission details are need-to-know. And," Flint's voice became much quieter, "keep an eye on her."
"Yessir," Lift Ticket muttered, breaking away to head for his room and collect his gear. At least he no longer got lost trying to get there, he reflected.
It was odd to have a lady in the co-pilot's seat, but Lady Jaye could get him used to the idea, he decided. She was terse and businesslike on takeoff, then a witty conversationalist once they got to the dull ground-eating portion of the flight. She was full of stories about college and past missions that Lift Ticket was unsure he believed, but they were good stories anyway.
"You think I'm making that up!" she accused, midway into a tale of streaking a cake into English House for a friend's birthday.
Lift Ticket shrugged. "It's just hard to believe yeh spent half yer college time nekkid."
"You obviously haven't been to Bryn Mawr." She looked out at the water skimming below; the lower they flew, the less the chances of anyone seeing them, and Lift Ticket could fly very low, indeed. "Are we getting close?"
"Maybe five or ten minutes."
"Right." She unstrapped herself and headed into the passenger compartment, emerging with a double armful of cloth. "We're going to be infiltrating a small Cobra outpost dressed as Vipers, and picking up some information. It should be pretty straightforward, but you'll understand that we wanted to keep this fairly hush-hush."
Lady Jaye put on her disguise as Lift Ticket was landing the Tomahawk behind a copse. Lift Ticket shut the engines off and headed to the passenger compartment, where Lady Jaye had turned into an appropriately ominous Cobra pilot. She was holding the other uniform in her hands. Lift Ticket practically swallowed his tongue when he realized that she expected him to change right in front of her. "Could ya turn yer back, ma'am?"
"Oh, for crying..." She dropped the uniform and stepped out of the helicopter to wait, impatiently. "Hurry up!"
The Viper uniform did not go on easily, and even after he had it on, Lady Jaye had to tug and wrench at it here and there to get it to hang right. Lift Ticket felt like a five-year-old getting dressed up by his mom. Finally, however, she declared him fit to be seen in public, and the two of them marched over untended grass and through twisted brambles, towards the outpost.


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Carroll swimmer finishes 6th at state
Carroll senior Grant Music finished sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke in the IHSAA swimming and diving state finals Saturday at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis.
Music, who was the only swimmer from the area to reach the finals, finished in 57.46 seconds. Cody Taylor of Columbus North won the breaststroke title with a time of 55.25.
Chesterton won the state title with 238.8 points, and North Central finished second with 203.5. Snider finished 16th in the team standings with 32 points, Carroll tied for 17th (26), Homestead was 38th (11) and Warsaw was 54th (2).
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I tried to use Action settings to attach a sound clip (recorded via Insert > Sound in PP) to a callout object - the idea is to play the sound IF and when the object is clicked. This is not supported by Articulate (no ability to click object ergo no sound in published course).
The courses I work with are annual reviews and most people just read through them, but the audio option would help the poor readers.
I was asked to add a button that a user could click to listen to the content if s/he wanted... rather than asking the greater number of people to turn sound off. Does anyone know how else I might get this effect?
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That's not something that is supported in Presenter:
Here's a great way to simulate that, though:
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Does anyone have written instructions for this? The site is blocked by my organization. Thanks.
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Here's a quick PDF that I made of the article (see attached).
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I use sound in my presentation using power point custom animation but when I publish through Articulate Presenter no sound is there but animation is ok...why?
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Kanye West Hit His Head On A Pole, Flipped Out At Paparazzi
Don't laugh, it looked like it REALLY hurt. …I said don't laugh!
1. It was a normal day in Los Angeles.
2. KimYe was just walking around when SUDDENLY:
3. (The irony of the words "wrong way" and "severe damage" appearing on the sign are not lost on us.)
4. Kim checked Kanye's head out to make sure he was OK…
5. …but Kanye wasn't okay — or at the very least, his pride wasn't.
6. So Kanye lost it.
7. Like, really lost it.
10. A quick scan of Twitter showed that people kiiind of found it to be hilarious.
11. And there are already parody videos out there about the incident:
12. To be fair to Kanye, this is what his head looked like the next day:
It was obviously painful.
13. Who do you think is to blame for the injury — the paps or Kanye's ego — and is this sad-funny or funny-sad?
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Gunnie Sanotchra//Promo Flyer Design
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Laurel Isle Photography// logo & business card design
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2011 HollyShorts Film Festival// event branding
Here's a sample of the design I created for HollyShorts 2011 Film Festival. This was my second year providing the design/branding for the festival.
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Had the privilege of designing this year's Easter Promo for Freedom Christian Center. I wanted to create a powerful image that mirrors the statement "When He was on the cross You were on his mind."
For Chicas// website design | creative direction
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L.A. Coliseum . Sports Arena// Logo packaging design
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the Blacklist album// creative direction
creative direction of the Blacklist album for Blocrebel Media. The artwork and direction of the photoshoot was inspired by the griddiness found in the sound & music of the Blacklist album. Both the music and the design were merged together to tell a story drawing from the social climate.
the Loft// branding & identity
Creative branding and logo identity for the Loft grand opening. The design was given a downtown urban vibe and inspired by vintage typography… a downtown reflection.
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No band was more willfully, confrontationally stupid than The Stranglers in their 1976-1979 heyday. No band worked harder to alienate its audience than The Stranglers did between 1981 and 1984, moving at blinding speed from dirty dirge-y Doors-y testosterone rock to science fiction scribbles to meditations on love to dinky synthpop. As a fan back in the day, I can tell you that it was a constant challenge not to be disappointed by the new material as it arrived. Yet through it all there was a strain of sensitive musicianship and a real open attempt to get beyond the straightjacket conventions of pop and psych, all with one eye on their chart performance.
This book represents The Stranglers perfectly. It gets at all the contradictions, has great intentions, offers baffling explanations for baffling behavior and artistic choices, and ultimately disappoints.
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