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Date of News Release: 10/23/2006
(Bowling Green, KY) - Three adult males and a male juvenile were arrested today in relation to this incident. All four were lodged and charged with 25 Counts of Wanton Endangerment First Degree. Further charges are pending. The Kentucky State Police was assisted by the US Marshall's Fugitive Task Force and the Barren County Drug Task Force in locating these subjects. Two of the subjects were located in Hart County, one subject in Barren County and one subject in Warren County.
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(BOWLING GREEN, KY) - KSP Bowling Green received a call of a shooting incident on Walnut Street and Smith Street in Horse Cave. All three victims (Radford Graves, Tasha Glass, Brittany Catalino) were taken by Life Flight to the University of Louisville Hospital where they are listed in stable condition. No further information is being released at this time. The investigation is ongoing. Updates will follow.


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Nice write up! You missed a few helpful mobs and notes.
The Muck elementals in Nag are not immune to frost damage. Useful for baby frost mages.
Fishing the Pure pools in Nag (on plateau, occasionally on lake below it, and rarely on the streams nearby) is by far the best way to get water if your fishing skill is up. 1-2 per cast., multiple casts per pool. Some other pool types rarely give them, including some in Zangarmarsh. Buzz by every day on way to the diamond for the daily.
The elite trees in Skettis are soloable for some classes/specs given decent gear. They "skin" to 3-5 life motes + herbs + grays. Grab one if it's up but be careful. Little space for kiting. May have to clear a spot first and hope no one tags it first.
SSC has lots of mobs skinnable for life. Work out a rotation :)
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Alpha Team Six Rev 10- PatchedApr 13, 2013 Patch 10 comments
This is a slight upgrade from the previous release, the main menu has been modified a bit and there is now A map selector !
Story Line is being re-written!!
Game Development(Updated 04/10/13):
Guns: 10%
Maps: 5%
Code: 0%
Networking: 0%
Sounds: 0%
Engine Development(Updated 04/10/13
Model Loader: 75%
Scene Management: 5%
Image Loader: 10%
Input: 100%
Also Check out my youtube channel for tutorials
Skype: sniperz227 (ill add you to the friday arcade night chat)
4 comments by Sniperz227 on Sep 5th, 2013
First of all, I would like to give a big shout out to all you AT6 fans for being probably the most dedicated and supportive fan base I have known. I know I haven't been fair to you guys so I will explain what's going on.
Hey there so sorry for not updating the page in a while I have been busy with school and football and my schedules has gotten even tighter, but I'm still pushing the release date to be asap. Now onto the bad news..... The reason I labelled this as everyone read, is because the PSP version is being discontinued. I feel as if it has been the real reason we haven't been getting a proper release in.
You see the PSP is very limited and I would say game dev is hard. So with the psp it makes it 10x harder because on top of regular development you have to really optimize your models, textures and code which has gotten me frustrated and is the reason why you would see updates every month or so because I would have to leave the project, get my focus back and then work on it etc... You may also notice that when I start posting PC content it comes in a series of updates meaning there is a lot and they come fast. This is because the PC is pretty stable for Game Dev and I don't get frustrated (as much) when working on the PC build. So I decided the only way I would be able to finish this project within the next year is to work on the PC version.
Now I haven't just been goofing off with the PC version, I have been building a custom engine. Now I know I said I was using unity but I quickly learned that I was contradicting myself. How? well I started making a custom engine so I can know the engine inside out thus making it easier to code certain aspects of the game. Now when I moved to unity I realised that I dropped the darkplaces engine because I'd have to learn all it's features and it would take a while to master it, and the same applies with unity I have to learn how the engine works! So now I'm back on my engine dev and have minor details of what it will contain. Also I'd like to note that there won't be many updates till november/december ish because I am going to school and I am apart of 2 football teams which practice almost everyday. So I will have about 2-3 hours at home everyday to finish my homework first and then game dev. Homework takes a while so most days I can't get much in. My season will finish in November so I will have more time, but i'll still be in school so be patient with me.
I'd Like to introduce the earliest build of the Lightning Engine, Powered by Visionary Gaming Studios( Was not as FANGS but we had a name switch).
The Lightning Engine is going to be a very sophisticated engine when it is finished. It is programmed in c++ and has the easiest framework I have codded yet. As of now the main function only contains 3 lines of code which can easily be turned into 2, even 1 actually but too keep everything organized I like to keep it at 3. It is currently using OpenGL 3.0 as a place holder but soon will be upgrading to OpenGL 4.0 to better the user experience. Can't support OGL 4.0? No worries the Engine automatically detects that and drops back to OGL 3.0 and adjust's it's functions and features according and currently we are debating on whether to add a drop back to OpenGL 2.0. It uses Model Stockpiler technology which in it's current stage allows you to load 4, 3D file formats, soon to be 6, but in the end it will automatically identify the model type by itself without you having to code the location of the model, ex. all models will be placed in one folder and one by one the engine will read all the models, sort them by file types and use the appropriate file format loader to load them. I t currently loads: .x,.ase,.obj and .ply. Our aspirations are to add .fbx or .dae to that list.
It comes with a state of the art map editor which is in heavy development process. This means that we are focusing a lot on the map editor part because the engine will be loading a custom map file format that will satisfy our engine's needs.
To end this off I would like to say I have gotten textures working with .obj files and I am working on an animation system for .ase files. Here's a video of the early Model Stockpile feature, I recorded a while back.
Thanks for reading and for your patience we hope you are not disappointed with our decision and if you are just know that this will be better for Alpha Team Six.
Oh ya don't forget to donate to our cause, we only want you to donate if you wish we are not going to tell you that you'll get "exclusive dropbox privilege" or"early releases", the donation money will go on mostly books so that I can expand my knowledge and make the engine better.
Check out the MODDB page now for the video and if it doesn't show(because I know some people couldn't watch our previous video) here's the YouTube link to it!:
This is a slight upgrade from the previous release, the main menu has been modified a bit and there is now A map selector !
The real version of AT6, already accessible from main menu! How to install 1. extract the RAR file 2. pop it into your PSP/GAME file 3. make sure you...
release for alpha team six after the loooong wait it's finally here so download your copy now. P.S its PSP release not PC
One thing that always gets me in these types of games is that America/UK/Canada are usually the victims and some foreign country (China, Russia, North Korea) and depicted as monsters
Whats wrong with drones? Nobody in those countries cares about or likes americans. I say we kill all those savage *****.
They deserved that A-Bomb in japan, they bombed the **** out of us, while following nazi dbags.
No, they pretty much diddnt.
They bombed pearl harbor, most casualties were military.
That was 1 time
We, firebombed them, MULTIPLE times, and all of those bombs were aimed at civilians.
Yes, they allied with germany, but not to follow the holocaust, just to fight against US
u are drunk...
....DONT YOU *Hiccup* TELL ME HOW TO *hiccup* MAKE SCRAMBELED EGGZ.....
Why not?
America has done just as bad as every other country if you add up all the bad things
Thanks for the info and really i hope you were able to convince Sniper to work things out for the psp. This is one of last promising games we have left for psp.
Like i said, Im not helping, just convincing.
I hope that this game has a portable future
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Director: Chantal Akerman
Writer: Chantal Akerman (scenario), Jean-Louis Benoît (scenario), Chantal Akerman (dialogue)
Cast: Juliette Binoche, William Hurt, Stephanie Buttle, Barbara Garrick
Duration: 108 min
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Convection oven tips, please
- ttoommyy Nov 12, 2010 05:18 AM
After a sort of lengthy kitchen renovation, I will be cooking (fingers crossed) with my new GE Profile convection oven some time towards the end of next week. I have searched this board for what has been discussed about convection ovens, but I want to ask:
What is the one thing you can tell this first-time convection oven user that will make learning to use a convection oven an easy task and make me love it?
No naysayers please. I realize there are downsides to a convection oven (and just about everything else in life), but the oven is in place and there is no turning back now. I just want to hear from those who enjoy their convection oven and have a useful tip to pass along.
re: Plano Rose
I'm looking forward to answers from people who have been using their convection oven for a while. We got ours just a few days ago, and so far, I've only used the rotisserie function.
I have found that baking home-made pizza right in front of the fan gives a terrific crunchy crust. I have the same model; I really just use the setting and it adjusts the temperature appropriately. I don't really fuss with it at all. Usual caveats of checking things early to make sure you don't overcook, but that's true with any oven.
I've had convection ovens for many years, and love them, especially for roasts (meat, veggie chips, etc.) Just be careful with timing - some things cook very quickly (especially kale chips). The only things I don't use the convection feature for are custards (creme brulee, flan, etc.) - for some reason, they cook more evenly and quickly w/o the convection. This sounds counter-intuitive, but I've tested this twice and got the same results. Have fun!
Thanks to the few who answered; seems like no one else wants to play.
Now I have a specific question: is it worth using the convection mode for a braised dish? Something that will sit in a covered casserole for 2 or so hours? I can see the advantage of a convection oven for baking cookies and other things that the hot air can circulate around, but I wonder about a covered casserole. Thanks.
re: ttoommyy
In answer to your specific question - no it's not worth it for a braised dish. In braising, you're looking for even, gentle heat that comes from bottom (mostly). Convection will blow the air around the dish, but this really isn't necessary because the food itself doesn't actually get touched by this air movement. So no - don't bother.
Actually I find that convection doesn't get used as much as I thought it would. It's GREAT for roast meats, especially poultry, where you want a browned, crisped exterior. I use it sometimes for the last ten minutes or so when I bake bread or some kinds of pastries (like choux) where a nicely browned crust is important. But most of my baking is better off with regular, non-convection heat - steady, even, bottom heat. A big loaf of bread is nice to bake 3/4 through on regular heat and then turn on convection for the last 1/4. The same strategy might also work for some kinds of cookies, although they bake so quickly that usually I don't bother with convection at all (unless they're not as brown on top as I'd like). And in answer to Piano Rose (below) it depends on the size of the turkey. Convection all the way if it's smallish, but if it's a behemoth that will have to roast for 5 hours anyway, don't use convection because it'll get too dark before the inside is fully done.
Like any other kitchen toy, it takes some experimentation to see how it works. AND not all convection ovens are equal - so you'll just have to figure out what you like.
re: Nyleve
Thank you Nyleve. Very kind of you to give a thorough answer. I appreciate it.
re: ttoommyy
probably cheaper than the big oven. save money, buy tasties instead!
re: Plano Rose
PlanoRose: "Should I use the convection feature for the turkey?"
You will not like this answer: it depends.
Convection ovens either reduce cooking times or allow you to set the oven 25 degrees lower for the same cooking times. There are certain dishes for which you NEVER should use convection: soufflés, Dutch babies. There are others where you should think twice: where there is danger that the food will dry out.
Do you roast your turkey in a covered pan? Fine, use convection. Do you get your turkey extra moist through brining before cooking under a loose aluminum foil "tent" (as we do)? Fine, use convection. Do you roast your turkey ""in the open" and exposed without moisturizing it through brining or putting an aluminum foil tent over the top? Then, do not use convection.
re: Plano Rose
I roasted a turkey open with convection and it was the best turkey I ever made-very juicy. I think the main drying part goes to the skin which makes it crispy and the fat under the skin provides a moisture barrier to prevent the drying of the flesh unless the internal temp is too high and it overcooks. I cook my turkey stuffed and upside down for the first 1.5 hours and with a probe. I also have the Electrolux oven and it has a "perfect turkey" button.
I think cooking with convection can lead to some very personal preferences. I have read that cakes and muffins baked in a convection oven do not come out as well due to the fact that the batter becomes dry on the outside and inhibits the rise and the the heat comes from all directions instead of the bottom and this causes the rise to be uneven. Others on this forum say they have gotten great results with convection. I think that many factors can come into play. Gas or electric oven, fan or third element, how deep or how thick or the color of your pans, and I'm sure quite a few more factors I haven't thought of.
I think some things might have a consensus but there are quite a few things you just have to try for yourself. I think that the ovens with the third element used in a pure convection mode are not as even as used in a convection bake mode. I think they blow heated air and make a hot spot in front of the fan. If you use the convection bake/roast mode, the third element does not really even come on that much. I have two different brands with European convection. I just think it is oversold and not that necessary.
re: Plano Rose
use roast setting? both microwave and oven at once?
Have you tried the GE Profile yet? What do you think? If I had read this thread before, I would have said yes to convection but no the the GE Profile. Even just the preheat function is frustrating so I've barely used it in the few years I've owned it.
re: chowser
why is the preheat function frustrating? I have a GE Profile convection oven, and it seems to work fine. Preheat shows the current temp and beeps when it's there.
re: DGresh
I'm curious too. I haven't gotten to use the oven yet; probably won't until Tuesday or so at this point.
re: DGresh
I shoiuld have been more detailed. First, the preheat takes much longer than my GE Profile oven. If you interrupt it in the middle, it starts all over from the beginning. It seems to go by time and not by temperature. If I interrupt the cooking, it starts over from the preheat cycle. I should have also said I have the microwave combination, not the regular oven/convection--I think that's the big flaw.
But, don't get me started on the problems w/ GE Profile stand alone stove or the dishwasher.
re: chowser
I've used the dishwasher a couple times now, no problem. What have you found to be wrong?
re: ttoommyy
It doesn't clean. We have to rinse and wipe before putting in the dishes or they come out dirty. I was talking to a friend who has the same problem and we commiserate. But, we both bought ours a few years ago and maybe they've improved them? And, mine is really noisy.
re: chowser
GE doesn't have the corner on bad dishwashers. I'm on my third in 19 yrs (Whirlpool, Kitchenaid, GE) - and they're all lousy.
re: Claudette
I need to do more research before I buy another. My sister loves her Bosch.
re: chowser
SO do I! So quiet. Got a Great deal on one at a Used appliance place. Looked Brand new. Works like a champ!
re: chowser
We bought a Bosch and it is a good machine. We bought middle of the line. It costs more to use those pellets though. It is wonderfully quiet.
re: chowser
Here's a tip we learned from an install guy when my parents upgraded their dishwasher: He said that because the new dishwashers are "energy efficient" they don't heat up the water as high as they did years ago. In fact, they only increase the water from the tap by 20 degrees. So he instructed them to run the sink tap until the water was hot - allowing the cold water in the pipes to empty - before starting the dishwasher. They saw an immediate difference. My feeling is that "energy efficiency" may not be all that great in the areas of dishwashers. To save energy and get good results you have to waste water. :(
re: kmrickert
"So he instructed them to run the sink tap until the water was hot - allowing the cold water in the pipes to empty - before starting the dishwasher."
This is stated in the booklet that came with our dishwasher.
I always run the dishwasher after having washed by hand the pots, pans and other things that don't go in the dishwasher so for me there is no waste of water.
re: kmrickert
That's good to know, though since that post, my dishwasher (thankfully?) died and we replaced it w/a a Bosch. It's so quiet and efficient, especially in comparison. I don't know if it'll matter for us since we keep our water temperature on the low side, though.
re: chowser
Hm...my GE profile stove/oven works just fine.
re: Claudette
The problem with the stand alone I have is that it was obviously not designed by someone who cooks. My controls are on the back of the stove, and the lip hangs over part of the back burners which renders them useless unless you have a flat frying pan that can fit under the lip. Nothing taller will fit. If you look at the back of this picture, you can see the overhang and how it hangs over part of the burner:
Anyone who cooks will put their big pans in the back, pasta, stews, etc. and actively cook on the front burners. But, I can essentially only use the front two burners because I can't pan fry on the back burner behind my pot of stew. It's very poorly designed. There is the same problem w/ the warming burner and the overhang. Unless what I'm warming is in a container that's shorter than 2", I can't use it.
If you have the model where the control panel is in the front, on one of the slide in ranges, this wouldn't be a problem. So, my oven/stove works fine, it's just not functional.
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You're right about that lip - I hate it, but for the price, the stove's got great features. My big burner for pasta, crab pot, etc. is in the front right, so the lip is not an issue there. Behind it is the really small burner for warming, etc. As soon as I win the lottery, I'm buying a new house, new kitchen, and big 36" cooktop!
re: chowser
Does anyone have the "bridge" burner? In which you are supposed to be able to use two burners that connect across so you can use a griddle, etc. My model has this feature but the very detailed instruction book really doesn't address it. Thanks.
I think it does a great job of baking things evenly. Just remember to always set temp 25 degrees lower for baking. For other cooking, I set the temp the same as I would in a regular oven, and I find it generally makes cooking time 20-30% shorter.
I just want to say that I've used my new GE Profile Convection oven quite a few times now and I am in love! I've made numerous batches of various Christmas cookies in the last week and they all turned out perfectly. No rotating of multiple pans necessary! That is one of the best parts.
Also, my GE Profile dishwasher, microwave and French door refrigerator are all wonderful as well. I am so happy with my new kitchen!
Thanks to all who responded.
My convection oven is about 10 years old. It does not automatically reset temps; I often bake or roast using regular times, but have learned to check well into the baking or roasting process to make sure I am not going to overbrown or overcook somethinng.
The best thing you can do is read the manual, and then use the oven!
Master any special tricks it has (mine has a nifty convection broil that has me place meat in the middle of the oven on a special rack and it makes really good pork chops!) but just use it.
I know someone who has a convection oven who is scared of it. Sheesh, it's just an oven, not a nuclear reactor. And yes I do like mine really well.
re: Chowrin
"just do it on grill, top and bottom (aka heat the turny sheet)"
Yes, I want to make pizza soon. Thanks, Not sure what you mean by "grill" or "turny sheet" though Chowrin. Please explain. Thanks!
Recently learned from the Wolf representative traveling chef, that if you adjust the temperature 25 degrees less than the recipe calls for -- that is usually an accurate measure for cooking it for the same period of time called for in a recipe. You can always set the timer to go off two or three minutes ahead of time to check on whatever it is that you are cooking.
re: devilishlyblue
It is just a very loose guideline though. It is trial and error depending on your brand of oven and what you are cooking.
I used the convection roast feature of my new GE Café oven for the first time last night and was flabbergasted at (1) how quickly the oven preheated, and (2) how quickly the chicken cooked. My spatchcocked chicken, which the recipe said would take about 50 minutes, took less than 35. Love the range, but I'm thinking I've got a rather steep learning curve ahead of me. Good thing I have plenty of time to play with it, because the idea of experimenting with the Thanksgiving bird does not appeal. And thanks, Nyleve, for the turkey tip. Also the idea of just turning it on to brown at the end. Makes sense.


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The Retired Professional Firefighters Cancer Fund donated $15,000 to the Upstate Cancer Center. Firefighters have a higher incidence of some cancers than the general population. The donation will be designated to the Michael E. Connolly Endowment for Lung Cancer Research, the Carol Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund and the Upstate Cancer Research Institute Fund. Pictured are Binghamton firefighter Pat Eggleston, City of Syracuse fire chief Mark McLees, Upstate Cancer Center administrator Dick Kilburg, Retired Professional Firefighters Cancer Fund chairman Bill Newland, Fund board member Tricia Newland, Syracuse Firefighters Union president Jim Ennis, and Binghamton firefighter John Janos.
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OWENSBORO, Ky. - Ruby Earnistine Carter Worth, 76, passed away peacefully June 11, 2013 at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. Born on June 22, 1936 to the late Jasper and Myrtle Francis Carter, she was also preceded in death by her four children; Sharon Welch Griffith, James Welch, Scott Welch, and Norma Welch.
Ruby worked and retired from OMHS in 1999. She was married to Herbert Worth in 1988. She loved her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was funny and spunky and always energetic.
Surviving is her husband, Herbert Worth, her grandchildren, Stephanie Aull (Derrick), Lisa Taylor (Keith), and Steven Haynes, all of Owensboro.
Graveside services will be 12:30 PM Friday at Utica Cemetery with Mark Poiles officiating . Visitation will be from 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM Friday at Glenn Funeral Home and Crematory.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to the family in the name of Stephanie Aull c/o Glenn Funeral Home, 900 Old Hartford Road, Owensboro, KY 42303.
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Honorary Chairman: Mary Davidson
An elegant evening of dining and dancing will mark the height of Hanley Center's social season, and the Foundation will make certain that it is an event to remember. Regarded as one of the must-attend galas of the season, the Caron and Hanley Treatment Centers Gala is special for many reasons. The Gala celebrates the completion of another successful year of providing the finest in substance abuse treatment available, and it is the kickoff to a new year of innovative approaches to programs and services that continue to save lives.
In keeping with tradition, The Breakers Palm Beach will again be the setting of this extraordinary event. This season's festivities promise to deliver as exquisite an experience as past successes, including the Gala of 2013, which marked the merger of Hanley Center and Caron Treatment Centers, and the Purple Butterfly Ball, which marked Hanley Center's 25th Anniversary. Attire is Palm Beach casual so, while the room is elegant, the mood is a festive celebration.
Guests of the upcoming season's Gala can look forward to a five-star dinner and premier entertainment, followed by a raffle of exclusive items in support of the Foundation's fundraising efforts. All proceeds from the event will benefit Hanley Center's Lifesaver Patient Aid Fund, the Foundation's critical initiative that brings financial assistance to those who otherwise would not be able to afford treatment.
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Great Scott! It's The Sartorialist!
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- Category: Life
30 Nov 2013
- Written by C. Mendez Legaspi
AFTER Sarah Jessica Parker and David Gandy, The SM Store enlisted another world-class fashion provocateur to lend a sartorial touch to its malls. Scott Schuman, famously known as The Sartorialist, came to the country on a whirlwind visit last week to shoot a campaign for the soon-to-be-opened Mega Fashion Hall. The swanky new wing of SM Megamall in Ortigas will reinforce its reputation as the premier shopping, dining, lifestyle and recreation destination.
Schuman took street photography to artistic new heights—and a more lucrative direction. With his blog www.thesartorialist.com, inspired by Brooklyn-based writer Grace Bonney's interior-design blog Design*Sponge (www.designsponge.com), the enterprising American is one of the top fashion bloggers in the world, in the same rarefied ranks as Diane Pernet, Susie Bubble, Emily Weiss of Into the Gloss, Leandra Medine (The Man Repeller), Tavi Gevinson, Bryanboy and his own girlfriend, Garance Dore.
As his blog gained credibility among fashion insiders, Schuman began contributing to style.com, GQ, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris and Interview Magazine. Soon after, brands took notice and hired him to do their campaigns: Burberry ("Art of the Trench"), Coach, Crate & Barrel, Kiehl's, Gant by Michael Bastian, DKNY Jeans and Nespresso. He has also modeled for The Gap and Verizon.
Anthologies of his work (The Sartorialist and, later, The Sartorialist: Closer with a men's and women's cover) were published by Penguin. His photographs are also part of the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
"With the idea of creating a two-way dialogue about the world of fashion and its relationship to daily life," Schuman isn't "reporting on a bag; who's carrying what bag and who's wearing what dress. I'm not reporting on people," he explained to the blog Business of Fashion (BoF), which named him one of the world's 500 most influential people. "What I am looking for is a certain grace."
Schuman, also cited on Time magazine's 2007 list of Top 100 Design Influencers, is arguably the heir apparent to the legendary photographer Bill Cunningham, who documents everyday New Yorkers for The New York Times. But to better understand what kind of artist he aspires to be, it's best to know who his major influences are.
These include Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (1899-1984), the Hungarian photographer, sculptor and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century; Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), the French photographer and painter, recognized for his photographs of automobile races, planes and Parisian fashion models; August Sander (1876-1964), the German portrait and documentary photographer considered "the most important German portrait photographer of the early 20th century"; Helen Levitt (1913-2009), the American photographer noted for street photography around New York City; Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), the French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism who helped develop the street photography or life reportage style that was coined "The Decisive Moment," which has influenced generations of photographers; and Steve McCurry (born 1950), the American photojournalist best known for the National Geographic magazine's "Afghan Girl."
"At the very beginning I had to decide: Do I want this to be a blog about fashion, or do I want it to be an artistic photographic thing? I kept going back and forth. At some point, I think I finally decided that I didn't want to be a magazine. I decided to take a more photographic route," Schuman told BoF.
"You can really make a living out of this," said Schuman emphatically. "It's tough, but if you work really hard you can create a business—if you're smart about it and have something real to say."
Inevitably, Schuman caught the attention of The SM Store, which is slowly catapulting the Philippines onto the global fashion radar.
With his trailblazing street-style way of photographing people, Schuman shot 10 of the Metro's fashionable. The privileged few are jewelry designer Janina Dizon Hoschka, milliner Mich Dulce, model Jessica Connelly, vocalist/tattoo artist Sarah Gaugler, mompreneur Kai Lim, Elite modeling agency managing director Eughie Teng, fashion blogger/model Kim Jones, student/entrepreneur Mike Concepcion, football player Jonah Romero and director Sid Maderazo.
In our equally whirlwind interview of The Sartorialist at Richmonde Hotel, it was clear that he can vividly express his thoughts and passions in words as succinctly as he can in the images that he takes. The man, dapper in a suit and shoes sans socks, is a treasure trove of insights and inputs on anything, uhm, sartorial.
"SO far, so good. I didn't want it to be so fast. The dates kept moving. You know we had this setup before all the typhoon stuff and all that, trying to get all the pieces to fit together. All the dates are moving and I have other projects I'm doing. Unfortunately, this had to be a fast one. But hopefully this would be the beginning of one of many trips," Schuman said.
"There are a lot of places I want to go to. I mean, Manila wasn't the only place. I want to go to Cuzco in Peru [Mario Testino's home]. I want to go to a lot of places in India, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Vietnam. Luckily, I'm young and I've got a lot of places to go," he said in jest. "Right now, the biggest thing in my life is scheduling. How much time do I give to projects; how much time do I give for my own work. I have to get the blog going every day and try to be out shooting. So it's a big juggling act, how much time you spend where and all that.
"I would love to come back here and be able to shoot another project but then spend time. I mean that's why I kind of came in and took off quick because I knew I wasn't going to have enough time to do and really stay and get further out because I have other things coming out right after this. I want to come back and shoot not just in the city and maybe go out to some of the other places. I've heard there are over 7,000 islands, and there's a difference between how many islands there are between high tide and low tide. See? I know my stuff," he laughed. "So at least I want to go to at least 3,000 of them on my next trip. But some of these islands are only the size of a car. If it doesn't have at least one castaway, then I don't know."
"THE thing that's going to be interesting is there's a growing middle class. In places like Rio and Moscow and China, they're really changing their whole fashion persona because they're also growing their middle class. It's the middle class who have just enough money to start playing with fashion a little bit when they have stores like H&M, Zara and Uniqlo, where the middle class can buy three sweaters and learn how to play with color. Or, you buy fashion and mix genres or mix patterns and have a little fun with fashion. I think it really starts with the middle class. I was very middle class when I was growing up and I used my knowledge and ability with fashion to change my social status, and I see that in developing countries. It's the same thing in Italy, where Armani, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana were very middle class; they used their ability to move up the social rank, and I think you'll see the same thing here. It's a very common thing. I think the growing middle class is the thing to change the fashion landscape, not the high end."
"WELL, there's a lot of physical beauty. The guys are handsome, the girls are beautiful; The guys are beautiful, the girls are handsome. What I like—not just here but it's the region, but especially here—there's a very wide acceptance of different kinds of sexuality here, and masculinity and femininity. Even today the crew that was working at the photoshoot, I mean I'm usually pretty good at this stuff: Is that a guy or a girl? (Laughs) That's great! That's fantastic, you know, how that's accepted in the society. From the outside, it just seems that it's much more accepted here than in a lot of other places. So I think that's going to really be interesting as the Philippines becomes more important and is able to export that kind of lifestyle and that kind of openness."
"ALMOST every single one, that first time I shoot them, it's totally spur of the moment. I love that. I always love meeting someone new. The camera gives you a great reason to go talk to someone. It's a great icebreaker. So, really, the trick is how do you keep that same feeling when you're doing commercial work. Like today on the set, it took me a long time to learn how to do it, you know; I got really tense. Now I'm going to try to recreate this thing—now, I'm totally relaxed, play music and really try to keep it very easy, because I'm totally relaxed when I'm out shooting on the street by myself. So I just try to learn how to not let these other people—the hair and makeup people—distract me and make me feel tense.
"So the only thing that I request is that the talent come in very early and they get all their stuff done as early as they can, so that we always have fresh people and I'm not waiting for hair and makeup so I'm not getting distracted by them. So as soon as I'm ready to go, I can shoot because I shoot pretty quick. I like to shoot fast and use my first impression of the people and kind of make that as the basis of the photograph. And I want absolutely the smallest amount of people on the set with me when I'm shooting."
"I DON'T know if that's even important. The fashion map, what does it mean? The thing is, because the climate here is so specific, it will always be its own unique thing. I don't know if being on the fashion map is important. It would be like going to a place and we're really excited to see what they really do well. I do think that as the middle class grows here and they start to play with fashion, it would be fun to see, because what can be restrictive could also be a source of real strength. We know you're not going to ever have to play with a lot of texture in fashion, you're not going to have to deal with mixing fur with leather. It's too hot. So that restriction actually makes it a lot easier, you don't have to deal with that. So you're going to be able to hopefully be very good with color, mixing patterns."
"A LOT of people say a photograph tells a story; hopefully mine starts a story. They look at each individual person. I think I have done well in the fashion industry because people are inspired by it, because everybody who looks at [my photograph] thinks of their own story. So hopefully mine doesn't tell a story but starts a story."
"YEAH, all the time. But that's the thing that keeps me going. Sometimes I purposely go out without a camera and then I get mad! Ugh! I'm OK with missing shots sometimes. It keeps me hungry."


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For the second time in less than four months, there's another story out there that makes me believe in true love ... in a love that's so powerful, it can do anything you will it to. In October we read about a couple in their 90s who died holding hands, and now there's a story out of Pennsylvania of a husband and wife who'd been married for 61 years that died just hours apart. Richard and Nancy Trimmer both passed away this Sunday; she was 77 and he was 81 years old. They had 6 children, 10 grandkids, and 12 great-grandkids.
They started their lives together back in 1951 and ended their lives together in 2012. Wait 'til you hear the details.
Richard was diagnosed with lung cancer and was only given six months to live. He was hospitalized when he took a turn for the worse, and Nancy, whose her daughter said "didn't want to be in the house without him," fell ill, as well, and was hospitalized with issues stemming from her heart surgery 10 years prior.
In separate hospitals, the lovebirds lay as family and friends prayed for their recovery. But on Sunday morning at 12:25 a.m., Nancy passed away. Heartbroken, the family knew they had to let Richard know the news, and headed over to his hospital to fill him in.
When they got there, the clock over his hospital bed had stopped on 12:25. Richard wasn't very lucid, like he had been just a day before, and asked for his family to "hold me tighter now" as he drifted off to meet Nancy. He died just a few hours after Nancy did.
It's stories like these, these infrequent little bursts of faith, love, and togetherness, that bring a sense of hope into our lives. You don't hear tales like these that often, but when you do, it kind of makes you glance out the side of your eye and wonder how you're going to die. And if we're half as lucky as Nancy and Richard, we'll go surrounded by love, for love.
How does this story make you feel?
Photo via timparkinson/Flickr
That is really sweet! Yet sad, but still really sweet :) My grandfather died at age 93 hugging my grandma(87) in bed. She laid there with his dead body for hours until someone noticed they were sleeping in for too long and decided to check on them. My grandmother said she didn't want to leave his arms :( After that she became very ill and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and died two years later. I have always believed in true love since that happened . They were married 71 years and he still treated her like a queen :) I love stories like this.
Bertha21, that is so sweet! How awesome for your grandfather to pass like that, peaceful, with his girl in his arms. Thank you for sharing!
This story was great, too - but I'm sad that they were in separate hospitals before they died. Very sad for their kids, too - both parents at the same time is rough.
The power of true love. I firmly believe that the same would happen with my husband and I; we've been together since high school (almost 12 years, married for almost 4) and he has told me repeatedly that should I die before him, and our kids were grown, he wouldn't have anymore reason to be on Earth.
I believe my husband and I would die without each other. We've been separated from each other and have always been drawn back together every time we've been apart. Each time we've come back together it's been like "we're coming home." However, we always held onto the faith that we were going to be back together one day. If one of us were to die, I believe it would literally be the death of the other!! We've been in each other's lives going on 19 years and officially married going on 4. (Long love story!!)
That is a real sweet story and hope that my husband and I go just like that,we have been together for 14 yrs and today is our 6th yr Wedding Anniversary.
why the hell were they in separate hospitals?
Aww this reminds me of my grandparent's who died at 94 and 93, they died exactly a month apart.


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And now, they're coming for your Social Security money - they want your fucking retirement money - they want it back - so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later. Because they own this fucking place. It's a Big Club: and you're not in it.
—George Carlin
Charles Pierce has some suggestions for a simple, straightforward set of debate questions:
Mr. Romney, please explain in detail how $56 million diverted [by PG&E] from safety measures to incentive bonuses [and directly resulted in an explosion that killed eight and destroyed 38 homes] really is a victory for all Americans in pursuing their American dream in this, the greatest country on earth and the shining city on the hill.
Mr. Gingrich, please explain in detail why a culture of dependency and moral laxity is inculcated among the poor by $200 a month in food stamps, but why it is not inculcated by millions of dollars of "diverted" funds among the executives of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Mr. Santorum, please explain in detail why two happy gay people who get married is an existential threat to the moral foundation of this country, but sucking up money you gouged out of the ratepayers, allegedly to protect them, is not.
Dr. Paul, please explain in detail why markets work better for all of us when they're unregulated, and why the real solution to an exploding pipeline that kills eight people and wrecks 38 homes is the fact that, because its pipeline killed eight people and wrecked 38 homes, PG&E will suffer a public-relations problem in the marketplace.
Shrill, but Lincoln-Douglas shrill.
"What's the effective rate I've been paying? It's probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything," Romney, a GOP presidential candidate, said. "My last 10 years, I've — my income comes overwhelmingly from investments made in the past rather than ordinary income or rather than earned annual income. I got a little bit of income from my book, but I gave that all away. And then I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much."
According to his most recent financial disclosure statement, he earned nearly $375,000 for nine speaking engagements in 2010 and early 2011.
Well, now, this would seem to be a rather rich potential political line of attack. In one simple, straightforward stroke you have a narrative that both weakens Romney and advances important information in the broader sense relative to what's really been going wrong in America these past ~40 years. Not only does Mitt (unsurprisingly) pay the preposterously low 15% rate on his largely-investment-based income, a rate dramatically lower than most Americans pay on far less income and but also Mitt reveals that this is aside from the entirely trivial, "not very much" money he made doing speaking engagements, itself a value fully 10 times the median income in these United States.
Naturally, The Democrat thinks it's high time to leave Mitt alone on such issues:
At least one top Obama surrogate is pushing for the party to shift the balance of its attacks on Mitt Romney away from his days in private equity and on to his time in the public sector. […] "Bain is a little complicated for people to follow."
Of course, of course. Who among us can possibly understand that Mitt pays a fraction of the taxes you do on wealth so fucking inexhaustibly vast that he considers income in excess of 10 times what you probably make in a year to be "not very much." There's just no way to play that information such that people can follow it.
"So I think this is going to a very, very difficult year and I think, honestly, that HALF-MEASURES LIKE ASSASSINATIONS or sanctions are only going to produce the crisis more quickly. The better way to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons is to attack its nuclear weapons program directly, break their control over the nuclear fuel cycle."
— John Bolton, who has endorsed Mitt Romney.
Half-measures like assassinations!
And but also, I'd like to know exactly how an attack is anything less than a half-measure? Even if said attack works perfectly, and utterly eliminates all nuclear facilities "known" and "unknown," precisely how does this "break their control" over the nuclear cycle? Within six or nine months they are presumably already right back at it, with a deeper, or more secretive laboratory. Or they never stop because, you know, they already had a deeper or more secretive laboratory. And now you've done nothing more than provide indisputable proof that they need nuclear weapons. Only way to fend off these Americans and their constant nosing into our bidness.
Bolton's "plan" only works, in fact, if you a) go nuclear and functionally exterminate all living matter in Iran, —or— b) conventionally or otherwise invade and govern Iran. There is no other way that has any reasonable chance of success. Period.
I suspect the American people would poll dramatically against either of those "kill 'em all" style outcomes. Therefore it might behoove reporters to ask about them directly such that we are all clear exactly what this lunatic and lunatics like him are talking about. But they never do. Shrill. We have learned nothing from the W. Bush administration and, apparently, never will. So the Republic crumbles.
I'm not sure how many times the Republicans have to say the same stuff, plainly and in modern English, before it begins to sink in to the minds of those in the media that they, the Republicans in Congress, want Obama to fail in his bid for reelection and to achieve that goal, they need the American economy to fail.
You, as a GOP House mover-and-shaker (aka Tea Klan fanatic), are faced with the newly rising popularity of Obama (e.g. he's in the 50s for the first time in a while), the first positive news on housing starts in a long, long time (driven more or less entirely by huge demand for apartments, since vanishingly few folks can qualify to buy houses anymore, at least not considered relative to the bubble excess and the fact that home foreclosures are still relatively high), a suddenly more optimistic public attitude re: the economy, and none of your own GOP candidates for the nomination are exactly setting the woods on fire, and may well be instead burning down the house relative to your broader chances both up- and down-ticket come 2012.
All that considered, do you, the rank and file Tea Klan fanatic, feel comfortable handing that same Obama you want to fail a sure-fired way to boost the economy even more as 2012 rolls along? Or do you want to apply the emergency brakes? With this most recent nonsense, I think no sensate being could still deny that we have our answer.
Now, of course, there is some subtlety to their position. They don't want the extension of this particular tax break because it a) doesn't help their prime audience in any way (aka the 1%), because those folks either don't draw traditional paychecks and/or said pay is a relatively tiny fraction of their entire portfolio, so they could care less and won't notice either way b) it legitimately does help the broader economy and quickly since we're in an aggregate demand slump and this is cash in the pockets of the 99% who actually create that aggregate demand in, uh, aggregate, and c) is a quick and relatively easy way to sand the gears of the economy, and they think they can sell it to their crazed idiocratic supporters through ever-willing conduits like FOXnews and the Wall Street Journal (The latter of which is already overboard) using such time-honored tools as goalpost moving and poison-pill additions. No one will ever know, and if they do, we can convince them to blame "Democrat leaders in the Senate." Who, for once, have grown a pair and are doing their part to (rightly) hang this on the GOP. They even have a "Tea Klan tax hike" style meme going. It's like they've finally gotten hip to the way the other side messaged in, oh, 1992.
But frankly this is a pretty simple calculation for the GOP. Braveheart and all the rest are just window dressing that, as usual, the MSM is lapping up. The real story, the one far too shrill to actually report: Anyone or anything getting in the way slowing the economy can kindly go die in the streets. Tax proposals benefiting the 1%: always welcome. Wedge issues that reliably bring this or that fractional percent of old white voters to the polls in November: always welcome. Anything that might actually help the economy and, by extension, Obama: forget about it. And they have.
— Mitt Romney, accurately describing the inevitable and country-destroying results of going from a 35% top marginal rate to a 39.6% top marginal rate. Let's not have anyone ask him about or call him on this issue specifically. Shrill.
— Jeffery H. Anderson makes me wonder if he's even been paying attention. If we assume that the posited chain of events occurs: GOP holds some kind of House majority and gains a new but non-60 vote majority in the Senate (and, of course, President Mittmentum) then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to derive the complex psychohistorical formulas for what happens next?!?!?
The GOP eliminates (by simple majority) the filibuster on the first day of the new Congress. The MSM declares this an entirely reasonable, "sensible center" approach to governing. Wholesale dismantlement of the New Deal follows, coupled to and justified by the oncoming tax revenue collapse from a 0% effective tax rate on the rich and consumption-based, maximally regressive tax on everyone else.
It's what they've been talking about for years. They are entirely serious. They mean to do it at the first opportunity, and this would be it. There will be no fiddling with reconciliation or anything approaching "normal order" as we define it in 2011. How many times do they have to say this stuff before someone in the MSM takes them seriously and asks a follow-up or two? Or, for that matter, before The Democrat starts using these positions against them. (Shrill! Class War!!).
The far-right GOP candidates and elected officials are not "blowing smoke" or "providing red meat" for the "true believers." This is who they are. Everyone else can kindly go die in the streets.
— Karl Rove, old turd blossom hisself, opining on the GOP Presidential primary field.
Sorry to be the one to tell you this, Karl, but the "sensibility" ship has sailed, been round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames, and subsequently was no-bid auctioned into a second career as a part-time riverboat gambling operation for KBR executives.
John Huntsman even put his hand up on the "10:1 cuts/revenue is a non-starter deal" question and he's only running for 2016 positioning. There is no one in the field even trying to be the slightly more sensible, slightly more center-far-right candidate of today's GOP. Mittmentum, the man made to take up that role abandoned it in 2008. His strong showing then has sensibly pushed him even further to the right now. That ought to fix his issues. If the GOP can't win the general election from a far right stance, they almost can't win in 2012. And if the economic headwinds were a bit more predictable, we could drop the "almost" qualifier right now.
But the last thing The Democrat would want to do is start making the GOP take stands against job creation. People just don't want to hear about that stuff right now. Shrill. Better take a "non-confrontational approach," get into the defensive crouch, and hope for the best. And this is why they fail.
How to square the circle: Assuming Medicare for all tomorrow and that you can find a way to return the dollars in-between the red and blue lines to the people paying it: the American worker with employee provided health insurance. Right now, that's all invisible income, spirited away into the employer-shared costs of providing coverage. It's the underlying reason that real wages have been stagnant for most of my lifetime. Turn that into real wages and the broader economy would explode. There would suddenly spring into existence a middle class with (gasp) actual purchasing power. Who knew?!?
Naturally, the plutocrats would, at least initially, turn that space into more profits for themselves. Sooner or later, though, it seems likely that constraints on quality workers would gradually bring the money over into regular salary as companies competed to find highly trained folks. You'd still have to solve the manufacturing issue and/or something to do with all that idle but essentially untrained labor force out there…but it would be a start. At any rate, a few more than the 17 Americans vaguely cognizant of this cost gap need to be made painfully and continually aware of it. Every day, every hour, every time a microphone is switched on with a Democrat behind it. Complete with this graph. That Medicare, far from being "expensive," saves money in dramatic fashion. And that, since they, the average hardworking healthcare consumer, cannot buy into that massive bargaining pool or something very much like it, they are being robbed. Every. Single. Day. With malice aforethought. And that they have precisely one party, the GOP, and Joe Lieberman to thank for it.
But that would be shrill. And Weiner lied to his fellow Democrat. That's what's important here.


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The original draft was written by Michael Givens.
The story concerns a tough female bodyguard who finds unexpected romance while protecting a cocky NBA star from an unrelenting stalker.
Manes and Kunert are producing documentary Voices Over Iraq, now in post-production and without distribution.
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L J de Gara, man hater, liar, hypocrite, from Montreal, Quebec - Man-Hating Women - Crimes Against Fathers - Australia »
So, I was doing a casual Google of myself when I discovered that, a little while back, I was the subject of a post on "Crimes Against Fathers"… An Australian anti-feminist website. They don't like me much, apparently.
I GOT MRAs, I GOT HATERS, LOOKS LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER MADE IT
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Conrad Murray: Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter, Pleads Not Guiltyby Hilton Hater at . Comments
In a follow-up to a story we posted earlier today, Conrad Murray has been officially charged with involuntary manslaughter and has entered a plea of not guilty.
The documents were filed in court today by the Los Angeles District Attorney, who alleges Murray "did unlawfully, and without malice, kill Michael Joseph Jackson." Those are haunting words just to read, aren't they?
Meanwhile, the county coroner released his official findings at the hearing and there's no doubt about it: a lethal dosage of Propofol killed the singer. Eleven vials of the drug were found in Jackson's home, and none of had prescription directions, patient or doctor names.
According to the coroner's report, obtained by TMZ, homicide is cited as the cause of death because...
- The setting of Jackson's bedroom (e.g. a chair alongside the bed) indicate the drugs were not self-administered.
- Propofol was injected in a non-hospital setting, without any appropriate medical indication.
- Suggested equipment for patient monitoring, precision dosing and resuscitation were not present.
After the DA originally asked for bail to be set at $300,000, the judge set it at $75,000. He forced Murray to hand over his passport and decreed that the doctor cannot be in possession of, or prescribe, anesthetics.
If Murray is found guilty, he'll face a maximum of four years in prison.
Even if he's acquitted of these criminal charges, the family can sue Murray for millions, according to Bill Newkirk, a lawyer who specializes inmedical malpractice.
"This is absolutely a slam-dunk malpractice case simply because of the alleged use of propofol. If the drug was indeed in his system, no competent doctor could justify why it was used. You can bet the Jackson family will be filing a civil claim soon against any doctors implicated in Jackson's medical care."
mickey you never know that a girl in india is badely loves you.i feel that you are the part of my soul. i cannot live without you.occasinally not daily i open the net to meet you. i have no interest in my life but now i am only 20 so afer 30 years surely i will meet you in heaven. wait for me.you are only mine and this time i will prove this. see you soon.
Dr.Conrad Murray must've purposly killed Michael Jackson by giving him those pills and Conrad Murray knew that pills weren't good for Michael Jackson and he should not have gave him those pills. I think what Conrad Murray did was much more than manslaugther, to me, it was murder and to me, he should get more than four years.
There has got to come to the time when we all realize Conrad Murray may have started off being a doctor,but ended up being a "Mad Scientist".To better help ourselves to cope,know that Michael was given one of the largest send off ever.When a person leave us and be recognized as Michael has been it softens our heart to be reminded that he was a "rare gem",truly missed and with the indications of the above mentioned comments still very much with us.
I am a big Micheal fan, so sad, we lost a great man and entertainer. The thing is, where would Micheal lay the blame? I bet he would accept some of it. Doc Murray swore an oath to save lives he should definately lose his license forever, be charged with manslaughter and yes recieve jail time. Will he be an example for other medical people that have not been caught suppling VIP's with perscriptions medications? Hopefully yes, because it goes on all the time, they have the money and they can buy whatever they choose(most times). The loss of Micheal rips a hole in my heart, but as a fan you know and I know the Doc never forced it into him. It took two, one to ask for it and one to administer it. One Tragic Death and two pople at fault. Micheal I will miss you. Thankyou for the music that I will always be able to enjoy. God bless your Family Micheal, and I know heaven is now enjoying the music we Loved on earth.
JUSTICE for Michael is all we want!!!!!
I am with the Jackson family one hundred percent, this charge isn't enough. If found guilty Murray could only face four years, if any. Not right. I will keep telling the family to keep fighting for justice for Michael. And the family should bring a civil suit against Murray so he can't profit off of killing Michael.
This is so sad and I am so angry! He was only 50 and had so many years ahead of him. This doctor should have known better! Four years in prison? Put him away for life!
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"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do."
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money is the anthem
god you're so handsome
money is the anthem
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I'm obsessed with mini strawberry cheesecakes and the form tutor I had last year (who's also the resistant materials teacher). I walk up and down his corridor five or so times a day in the hope I'll see him. Not even talk to him just see him.
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Clinton Runs Rings Around Gore With Clinton usurping Gore's role as candidate, the latter's humiliation seems complete. Last week, the president, stealing a page from the "inventor of the Internet," even claimed that he, not George W., had invented the term compassionate conservative. Discussing Bush's "rhetoric of compassionate conservatism" on the left coast leg of his nationwide "poverty tour," Clinton told the L.A. Times that "half those speeches sounded like I gave them in '92." The president added that he finds Bush's lingo "very flattering in a way" because it "replicates the rhetoric" of his own themes. Since Reagan, of course, the conservative movement, whose basic thrust has been to end what's left of New Deal social welfare, has been seeking new palliatives in hopes the electorate won't see them as a complete bunch of bastards. They've been fine-tuning "compassionate conservatism" at places like the Heritage Foundation for years. While Clinton was still goofing around in Little Rock, the Republicans had compassionate conservatives playing big-time politics chief among them Reagan himself, and Jack Kemp, who's been doing the bit for years. Clinton's New Democrats are pale copies, though it's certainly true that the only thing Clinton offered the poor on his trips to the other side of the tracks was compassion not money. At the same time, Hillary trooped around New York State on her hysterical "listening tour." Starting on Wednesday, at the Moynihan farm, she was repeatedly trotted out before fawning audiences from Rome to Syracuse to Albany, even coming onstage between acts at a presentation of Gypsy in the state capital, after doing a shameless 180 on Israel in an attempt to ingratiate herself with New York's key bloc of Jewish voters. Meanwhile, Dubya drifted about in a dreamlike swirl, dropping out of the blue into the minority journalists' conference in Seattle, bobbing and weaving and dodging every weak jab coming his way, including the requisite inquiry into his questionable military record. In 1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the 21-year-old Bush sought to get into the Texas Air National Guard. He had no flying experience, but no matter. Dad was a congressman, and citing his work as a ranch hand, oil field "roustabout," and sporting-goods salesman, he got in and he became a poster boy. A 1970 Guard release featured the high-flying Dubya as "one member of our younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed. Oh he gets high all right, but not from narcotics," it said. "Fighters are it," Bush was quoted as saying. "I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot, and I wouldn't want to fly anything else." The minutiae of Dubya's stewardship in Texas will seem mind-boggling to people who don't live there. Last week, the Austin Chronicle reported that Bush may have been at the heart of a scheme to wring campaign contributions from the funeral industry. At issue was whether mortuary mogul Robert Waltrips's giant Service Corporation International could subcontract the embalming of corpses, thereby allegedly making additional profits. The company is at the heart of a whistleblower suit in which a former member of the Texas Funeral Service Commission alleges Bush and other politicos worked to thwart an investigation into the operations of improperly licensed embalmers. Lights Out
Rudy Runs Against Con Ed Last week's blackouts in Manhattan were just the tip of a problem that threatens the nation's entire electrical system. Giuliani's rants against Con Edison (run, Rudy, run), followed by his announcement of the city's suit against Con Edison, could, in fact, help expose the rot affecting the country's power grid. The reason: Throughout the '90s the U.S. has been gradually deregulating the electric- utility industry. This has allowed power companies to combine with other firms and move into a variety of businesses, in the process transforming the industry into a market-driven machine or, more precisely, giving it the appearance of one. For it remains a hodgepodge industry, with some parts modern, some antique. This means two things. First, in a quasi-free market electricity producers can only stay in business if prices are high enough to realize a profit. The best way to assure profits is to decrease reserve capacity, so that, in a period of intense demand, prices rise sharply, as they did last year, from $25 per megawatt hour to over $1000. Second, explains Jim Dushaw, director of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' utility department, although theoretically the system is free market, it can't operate that way because the lines that carry the juice aren't really an interconnected system. "There is no national grid as such," Dushaw says. That means large blocks of electricity can flow only over certain lines. Huge amounts of power pouring into the East from the Great Plains, for example, can overwhelm smaller eastern utilities. The upshot of the volatile market maneuverings now taking place will be to saddle consumers with the cost. What happened in Manhattan last week will surely be repeated, but in the future it will be much worse. Blackout on Serbia Damage
'Unique in World History' Although a UN report last week indicated that the overall damage in Kosovo may not turn out to be as severe as originally thought, NATO's bombing of Serbia is another matter. The UN will soon begin an investigation of environmental damage in Serbia, but Pekka Haavisto, Finland's former environment minister, who heads the inspection team, says NATO has not been forthcoming with information. Fears are greatest in Pancevo, a city 12 miles from Belgrade, where NATO targeted a huge manufacturing complex, releasing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. Mico Mastinovic, a hydrologist, told the Chicago Tribune that the array of toxic chemicals released in the region "is unique in world history." According to a log he kept, NATO bombed the complex for 23 days. On April 18, NATO scored direct hits on facilities holding 1500 tons of vinyl-chloride monomer, 250 tons of chlorine, 1800 tons of ethylene dichloride and 15,000 tons of ammonia. "Thousands fled the city, coughing and complaining of burning eyes, stomach upsets and choking. The fires raged as long as 12 hours. Nearly a third of the toxic chemicals went up in smoke," Mikovic told the Tribune. "We have no idea what negative effects they will have on human life and the environment because we have no test analysis available," he added. "We can only suspect they polluted our entire watershed, the soil, and the rivers." According to the UN report on Kosovo, damage to housing, health care, and water resources are "severe" in 141 of approximately 2000 villages. Forty percent of the water in the villages is unusable, with many wells polluted by animal and human corpses. However, the report adds, "the extent of the damage to housing has been overstated." This is because two-thirds of Kosovo's population lives in cities, and only two cities Pec and Djakovica experienced widespread damage. One third of Kosovo was relatively untouched. Calling All Spies
Nuclear 'Crown Jewels' at Risk In the wake of the Chinese spy scandal, the government is undertaking an extraordinary project that will provide future spies a great target. The July-August Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports that the nation's most important nuclear weapons secrets are being collected, catalogued, indexed, cross-referenced, and put into a unified electronic data base called the Nuclear Weapons Information Base. "It's a point-and-click computer network of weapons knowledge so complete that its theft by foreign spies would constitute a loss of virtually every nuclear weapon design secret possessed by the United States," the Bulletin states. The system is a how-to manual for many weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, featuring blueprints, engineering drawings, documentary pictures of hydrogen bomb tests, full texts of classified documents, and video interviews with the physicists and engineers who designed them. The idea was to provide workers in the nuclear weapons complex with the accumulated knowledge of 50 years of weapons work. Although the project prompted internal criticism that the security risk was too great, Bill Bookless, in charge of Livermore National Laboratory's contribution to the network, told the Bulletin he believed the security issue could be solved. "Unlike the uncertainty surrounding the value of weapons data that may have been lost to the Chinese, there would be no doubt about the impact if this database were compromised," the Bulletin states. "It would explain everything; it represents the crown jewels of America's nuclear weapons program." Through the Looking Glass
Weyrich in Wonderland Paul Weyrich, a founder of the New Right and a driving force in the conservative culture that suffocates the Capital, is now suggesting that conservatives, taking off from the path-breaking movement in home schooling, can best tune out slime culture by setting up parallel institutions. According to Weyrich, more than a million conservative children are now being home schooled and, by and large, "taught our values." "This is, after all, a war," Weyrich writes in the June 15 issue of his newsletter, The Weyrich Insider. "And wars are not won unless we control territory. . . . We need institutions of our own so that we can function as social beings without having to live in a world controlled by our enemies." He adds, "We need all sorts of parallel institutions to retake the culture. We need a private court system which can bypass politically correct judges. We need our own entertainment industry so that we can have an alternative to the garbage Hollywood produces. In short we need a new voluntary movement in this country, similar to voluntary efforts in the Victorian era in Great Britain which reclaimed that decadent society." Cover Your White Ass Bursting with racial pride, a Midwest entrepreneur has begun to manufacture, under the label "Caucasians," what the newspaper White Patriot calls "American-made jeans for proud white people." Loose-fit and straight-legged, Caucasians are adverstised by a company in Cuba, Missouri. Additional reporting: Ioana Veleanu Research: Coalition for Human Dignity


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