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Morgan Ashleigh. 21. Philadelphia area. Illustration major. Intersectional Feminist. Black and Cherokee. Open-minded. Currently dating a great guy.
I post about things I like, including but not limited to art, music, cooking, human rights, science and history. I would be more than happy to be your friend.
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return"
For my studio art class, I have to create a project designed around ritual. I chose to have a ritual of recording my feelings in a journal each day until the project's due date, pick a corresponding fabric square that matches my feelings for each day based on color, print, texture, etc and then sew them together in a quilt.
Looking over my emotions has got me unsettled. Like a boiling pot of water, things that I need to fix will keep rising to the surface until I do something. Reading entries I wrote previously isn't helping.
1. Don't just hear people when they talk. Listen to what they have to say.
2. Respect others for what they are.
3. Learn when to say no.
4. Admit when you're wrong. Humans can never do right all the time.
5. You will see people's true colors come out when death is involved.
6. Do not hate…
I'm afraid to age.
Not because of the aches and pains in my body
Or the aches of losing people.
But because society will disregard me and throw me out like restaurant trash simply because I'm older.
And this will mean me doing the same with my self respect.
He was interesting, intimidating. A long forgotten desert slept on his cheek. Behind his eyes lay emerald fields of grass separated by a rolling sea. I looked into them and thought and I have never left home.
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Sunway offers free shuttle bus
Sunway now provides free shuttle bus service around Sunway Integrated Resort City! The free shuttle runs every 25 minutes (subject to traffic conditions) between 0700 and 2130 hours daily. Weekend & public holiday from 0900 and 2130 hours.
The shuttle operates at:
1. Sunway Pyramid Hotel
2. Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa
3. Sunway Pyramid Mall (Under the Lion head)
4. Sunway Lagoon Entrance
5. Sunway University College (Side Entrance)
6. Monash University Sunway Campus
7. Sun-U Residence
8. Sunway Medical Centre
9. Menara Sunway
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Pin It Now!
18 November 2012
Silent Sunday
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That's gorgeous and quirky! Where is it?ReplyDeleteReplies
Amazing isn't it? Some friends of ours were holding a charity event I'm their parent's garden! Hobbit houses, fairy houses - it wa amazing!Delete
oooh that looks exicting..where is it?ReplyDelete
oh wow, that looks amazing xxReplyDelete
Ooh, I love it. Would live to know where it is.ReplyDeleteReplies
Something straight out of a fairytale! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
It really was - not sure who was more excited - me or the kids?!Delete
Wow! Where's that? Did you get to look inside?ReplyDelete
I want to go there it looks so magical, I can just imagine the squeals of excitement from the children.ReplyDelete
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that is excellent i want one!ReplyDelete
ohh how wonderful is that!!!ReplyDelete
Brilliant! I'd probably have been more excited than the kids too! How fantastic to have fairy houses like that at the bottom of the garden :)ReplyDelete
That is so cool, I wish we had more trees.ReplyDelete
That looks part of an amazing adventure, if there is more photos I would love to read where you were on Country Kids?ReplyDeleteReplies
I've got loads of beautiful pictures! It is a friend's garden - they host a fundraising event there every year. A truly inspiring story.Delete
In what way can I share it?
Wow - that looks like somewhere where some fantastic adventures could take place! Very magicalReplyDelete
So many people have commented on this place. It really is a magical secret garden....I am tempted to blog about the whole story at a later date.ReplyDelete
A garden?!!!! Wowzer those are some lucky little ones!ReplyDelete
wowowow what an amazing picture. Where is it? StunningReplyDelete
Fantastic! I would love that in my garden.ReplyDelete
OMG I want one!ReplyDelete
I love that! I want to shrink and live in it! :)ReplyDelete
Wow in a garden. Looks very exciting.ReplyDelete
Thanks for all the comments folks :)ReplyDelete
I love this photo. I would so like to have played there as a little girl. It looks magical - the stuff that dreams are made of.ReplyDelete
Like everyone above me has said.. I want to go there!!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous picture x
how cool! i want to go there!!!ReplyDelete
I just showed the photo to Spud and he said "wish we could go there" :)ReplyDelete


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This product data sheet was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to produce a precise translation; however, no automatic translation is perfect, nor it is intended to replace a human translator. The original product sheet in Spanish is available at Palas cargadoras
Roda Serie Max
Loaders shovels: with a device that absorbs the swing
Agricultural machinery Roda, S.L. It has the series Max, a range of loaders crowbars, that allow connection with pressesure and have of multiconector of hydraulics takings and of a device oleo-pneumatics that absorbs the swing brusque of the tractor trucks vehicle in movement. These shovels, fast and reliable, also have a stick automatic. The system guarantees the comfort in the driving and does not present losses of oil.


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As the owner of the cultishly adored Hammertown decor shops in New York and Massachusetts, Joan Osofky understands that "country" isn't just a look; it's the freedom to express your personality. Her new book, Love Where You Live ($50; Rizzoli), coauthored by Abby Adams, spotlights 18 houses that exemplify this eclectic approachfrom the rustic-modern home of writer Susan Orlean to artist John Greene and wife Gwen's traditional spread, a refurbished circa-1790 farmhouse brimming with antiques-store finds. Gwen puts it perfectly: "Everything here is us."
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Coalition Testimony on Catch Shares before House Subcommittee
Jeff Angers, president of the Center for Coastal Conservation delivered testimony on the U.S. Catch Share Policy before the House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife Oversight Hearing, Committee on Natural Resources on behalf of CCC, American Sportfishing Association, Coastal Conservation Association, International Game Fish Association, National Marine Manufacturers Association and The Billfish Foundation.
In his testimony, Angers conveyed that the organizations appreciate that implementing catch shares in commercial-only fisheries can be a useful tool for managing harvest, however they are an inherently inappropriate tool for recreational-only fisheries.
The groups have serious concerns about the potential impact of commercial catch shares on the recreational sector in mixed-use fisheries (in which there are both recreational and commercial components). Our organizations respectfully submit that the Draft Policy Catch Share Policy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under consideration lacks the necessary guidance to protect the recreational sector from adverse impacts associated with the implementation of a catch shares policy in mixed-use fisheries.
Given the cascading and substantial impacts of fisheries restrictions and closures currently underway in a number of key recreational fisheries, the protection of the recreational sector should be a priority for the Congress – and for NOAA Fisheries as it develops any new overarching policy on catch shares. At a minimum, NOAA should ensure that vital socio-economic information on recreational fisheries is gathered prior to the issuance of any final policy; undertake a re-evaluation of allocations prior to implementing a commercial catch share system, and allow inter-sector transfers of catch share quota through mechanisms that ensure equitable access to the recreational sector.
In mixed-use fisheries where there is a large and growing recreational sector, exclusive fishing rights proposals maximize benefits to the commercial fishing industry while ignoring the participation, conservation value and economic contribution of recreational fishing, which totals $80 billion and provides over half a million jobs – an economic impact equal to or greater than commercial fishing economic impacts.
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Erdogan tells Kurds to put down arms
Turkey to permit religious headscarves
Turkey blasts Syrian 'war machine'
Turkey, Greece seek to bury hatchet
Greece, Turkey seek accord on Cyprus
Turkish PM tamps down amnesty for PKK
Kerry addresses Erdogan Zionism remark
Turkey's PM says Zionism is humanity crime
Israel 'seeks to repair ties with Turkey'
Aleppo violence ongoing after Scud attacks
Turkey: PKK cease-fire first step to peace
Turkey drops road privatization plan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (IPA: ; born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who has been the Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003. He is also the chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan previously served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences. Erdoğan was also a semi-professional footballer from 1969 to 1982.
Erdoğan was elected Mayor of Istanbul in the local elections of 27 March 1994. He was banned from office and sentenced to a prison term for reciting text (""The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers....") from a poem during a public address in the province of Siirt on 12 December 1997. The poem was allegedly quoted from a book published by a state enterprise and one that had been recommended to teachers by the Ministry of Education, but the lines recited do not appear in the original poem. After six months in prison, Erdoğan established the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on August 14, 2001. From its first year, the AK Party became the largest publicly-supported political movement in Turkey. In the general election of 2002 the AK Party won nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament, forming the first single-party government for 19 years.
As prime minister, Erdoğan implemented numerous reforms. 45 years after Turkey signed an Association Agreement with the EU, the negotiations for Turkey's accession to the EU started during Erdoğan's tenure. Parallel to this, inflation, which had for decades adversely affected the country's economy, was brought under control and the Turkish Lira regained its former prestige through the elimination of six zeros.


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Collect your choice of gallery quality Giclée, or fine art prints custom trimmed by hand in a variety of sizes with a white border for framing.
Orange watercolor hibiscus flowers
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I painted orange hibiscus flowers on my bedroom wall when I was 16, so seeing this made me smile! Great work! :D


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For years, Super Drama TV has aired Star Trek reruns in Japan. It's been a real godsend for me, as most of the time the episodes aired at 6PM - prime dinner viewing. For a time there were two Trek episodes back-to-back, an embarrassment of televised riches for a nerd like me.
Super Drama recently finished airing Enterprise and, for the time being, has no Star Trek shows on the schedule. This made me sad, so I went searching through their website in the hopes of finding an indication of when Trek would return to the air. Imagine my surprise when I found a list of the supposed "best episodes" along with other rankings chosen by fans.
Long story short: Japanese fans love pilots and finales NO MATTER WHAT.


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Posted By Robert Gorell On June 29, 2007 @ 11:21 am In Branding,Branding and Advertising Rants | 12 Comments
[1]Has anyone camping out for an iPhone realized [2] that you don't have to go to an Apple Store [1]? As you may recall (from the only negative moments in any of the reviews), it's an AT&T device. I just called a few AT&T stores in Brooklyn. No lines.
Apple has become the #1 brand this year for making people blind to the obvious. Don't get me wrong; we love Apple so much our entire office has gone Mac. Still, this is nuts…
In fact, it might be the biggest example ever of what Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts calls "brand loyalty beyond reason [3]."
So, contact AT&T if you don't want to "reach out and touch" the person next to you [4] in line. Works better than "The new AT&T," doesn't it?
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[3] brand loyalty beyond reason: http://www.lovemarks.com/index.php?pageID=20015&lovemarkid=135
[4] if you don't want to "reach out and touch" the person next to you: http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/iPhoneCenter.html
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Certificate in Environmental Law & Policy
Few fields are as diverse or engaging as that of environmental law, compliance and policy. Together with the outstanding environmental science, economics and policy departments at the University of Arizona, the Law College can provide a rich and rigorous training to those interested in matters of environmental law. Areas include pollution law, water law, natural resources law, energy law, and ecosystem management. Students may wish to obtain the MLS Certificate to work in a private firm environmental compliance department, for a government agency in permitting, environmental assessment or compliance, or for an overseas multinational corporation that will inevitably engage with environmental regulation at the domestic or international levels.
A. Required Courses (7 units)
- Introduction to the U.S. Legal System (2 units)
- Legal Research (2 units)
- Environmental Law (3 units)
B. Elective Courses (6 units)
Complete at least six (6) units in substantive courses relevant to Environmental Law and Policy, including the following courses, any additional course that may be listed on the website for the Program in Environmental Law, Science and Policy, or any additional course that is approved in advance by the Program Director.
Courses include:
- Water Law: LAW 641
- Natural Resources Law and Economics: AREC 576 / LAW 576
- Mining and Public Land Law: LAW 640
- International Environmental Law: LAW 696N
- Energy, the Environment and Business Strategy ECON 578 / LAW 578
- Environmental Policy: PA 581 / LAW 581
- Arizona Water Policy: HWRS 596B / LAW 596B
- Comparative and International Water Policy: GEOG 596I / LAW 596I
- Law, Geography and Property: GEOG 596L / LAW 596L
- Sustainability and Environmental Policy: LAW 603J
- Global Climate Change and the Law: LAW 603M / SWES 603M
- Property, Social Justice, and the Environment: LAW 603N
- American Legal History (The Colorado River): LAW 625
- Oil and Gas Law: LAW 627
- Animal Law: LAW 630
- Mining and Public Land Law: LAW 640
- Native American Natural Resources: LAW 643D
- Land Use Law: PLG 660 / LAW 662B
- Problems in Water Law and Policy (Substantial Paper Seminar): LAW 696N
- Economics, Law, Environment and Governance Workshop: LAW 697S / AREC 697S
C. Interdisciplinary Study (3 units)
Satisfactorily complete a minimum of three (3) units of graduate-level study from outside the Rogers College of Law in coursework that is relevant to mining law. If a student wishes to take a graduate-level course that is not listed below, he or she should obtain prior approval from the Program Director.
- Economic Evaluation of Water and Environmental Policy: AREC 575
- Energy, the Environment and Business Strategy ECON 578 / LAW 578
- Global Change: GEOS 578
- Power, Politics and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: GEOG 580
- Comparative and International Water Policy: GEOG 596I / LAW 596I
- Law, Geography, and Property: GEOG 596L / LAW 596L
- Arizona Water Policy: HWRS / LAW 596B
- Water Resources Policy: HWRS 515
- Water Resources Management, Planning, and Rights: A Policy Approach: HWRS 520
- Environmental Policy: PA 581 / LAW 581
- Land Use and Growth Controls: PLN 559
- Applied Environmental Law: SWES 544
- Natural Resources Economics and Planning: RNR 585
- Natural Resources Policy and Law: RNR 580
- Land Use Planning Law: PLG 660 / LAW 662B
D. Additional Electives (14 units)
Fulfill the remaining units required for completion of the degree with elective courses chosen from those offered by Arizona Law or, with permission of your advisor, by another University of Arizona department or school.
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Same Smile, Series 1 Episode 12 of 14
Duration: 15 minutes
Nisha Anil and her three cuddly panda friends take a look at children's lives in the UK, discovering that people are all the same but different.
Nisha and Mish, Moosh and Mogo are looking for lots more smiles from some new friends in Glasgow. The Same Smile suitcase is bursting with the theme, which is music.
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"You do not want to sanction anyone you depend on."
And, below are a couple of illustrations/pictures – since they are often worth a thousand words.
How Does One Say "No" in Deutschland?
Here are ten words recently spoken by Joe Kaeser, CEO of Siemens, regarding use of economic sanctions:
"You do not want to sanction anyone you depend on."
And, below are a couple of illustrations/pictures – since they are often worth a thousand words.
Ukraine and West vs. Russia
When in doubt, follow the money. Accordingly, the recent confrontation between Russia and the Ukraine (and the West) has a lot to do about natural gas and energy, proxies for money. And, apparently, Putin and the Russians are not known to be lenient with buyers who get too far behind in paying their bills, as was the case back in 2009 when Russia basically shut off the gas to Ukraine and much of the EU. So, one can expect some form of monetary bailout for the Ukraine so it can pay Russia for past due bills and to assuage Russia's concerns regarding trade account delinquencies.
As such, below is a chart that depicts the reliance by Ukraine and Western Europe on natural gas provided by Russia. It seems, in this instance, Russia is holding all the good cards, as they say.
Nevertheless, Russia and Western Europe (especially Germany) have been circumventing distribution routes through Ukraine and Belarus since 2009, as the illustration below depicts (circa 2009; natural gas capacity in billion cubic meters – "bcm" – for the Nord Stream, Belarus Route, and the Ukraine Route).
Apparently, one would need more than 200x the amount of U.S. dollars and 6x the amount of gold to buy a ticket for Super Bowl XLVIII versus a ticket for Super Bowl I (1967).
Sources: Coventry League; Bloomberg; Zero Hedge
Bicycles Are Outselling New Cars
Coventry League embraces bicycling as a healthy, sustainable form of transportation, so reading about bicycles' outselling new cars in practically every European country is encouraging. Small Business Labs wrote a blog today referencing the article at NPR titled In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars.
Small Business Labs also provide some additional statistics and perspectives. For example, it mentioned that even in the U.S. bicycle outsold cars (18 million versus 14.3 million, respectively). Also, last October Coventry League highlighted the Top 20 Bicycle Friendly Cities globally (Portland was ranked #1 in the U.S. and Amsterdam in the Netherlands was the overall #1 city).
Towards a Theory of Sustainability
Who doesn't want to strive to be a bit more sustainable nowadays? Some of the most respectable companies that have growth and profitability as goals also factor in externalities (costs on society) and the quality of life (note, this is not synonymous with 'standard of living') for employees and stakeholders to achieve said growth and profits. Patagonia (an interview with the founder, Yvon Chouinard) and WL Gore (maker of Gore-Tex fabric) are just two companies that are role models for others.
On a more personal level, citizens can put in place legislators who will put forth progressive policies to help achieve better outcomes for their respective communities. I particularly like to reference the policies instituted in Copenhagen, Denmark regarding bicycling (virtually eliminated vehicle street parking; imposed meaningful taxes on purchase and ownership of cars; relatively expensive gasoline; bike tracks separated by physical barriers – not simply painted lines and sharrows; etc.). Also, individuals may choose to be the change they want to see; for examples, bike to work or to do local errands, plant a garden, eat more foods that require less resources to generate, and – well, as the infographic below illustrates – learn how to compost.
Star Trek (Next Gen): Jean-Luc Picard
A growing number of folks are becoming aware that the performance of most mutual fund managers over an extended period does not exceed that of benchmark indexes such as the S&P 500. More specifically, 99.6% of all mutual fund managers failed to beat (i.e., only 71 funds out of 17,785 matched or beat) the performance of the S&P, net of fees, over a ten year period according to data compiled from the Mutual Fund Screener of The Wall Street Journal. Please reference the entire article titled "Wall Street Is a Rentier Rip-Off: Index Funds Beat 99.6% of Managers Over Ten Years" at the blog Of Two Minds.
Talented investors are often not managing formal, traditional funds but rather managing one's own accounts or a small number of accounts (e.g., friends and family). These individuals are more likely to fit the mold of idiosyncratic entrepreneurs or founders of technology start-ups.
Nevertheless, one of several takeaways is "don't judge a book by its cover." In other words, just because a money manager is nicely dressed, displays stereotypical good credentials, and has friends in high places (partly enables said manager to either procure capital or secure the fund management role), shouldn't imply an above average talent for investing. One can present a similar case against most (not all, of course) hedge fund and venture capital fund managers, as highlighted in two Zero Hedge articles titled "Most Hedge Funds Underperforming The S&P 500 For Fifth Year In A Row - Full YTD Performance" and "Venture C(r)apital: Myth And Reality."
The Middle Manager's Oath
Cover of Issue 9; Published 2002
You can find the comical article titled The Middle Manager's Oath written by Christopher Mah at McSweeney's, a magazine founded by editor Dave Eggers, the Bay Area Bard.
For those who are not aware of Eggers, he wrote the popular book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, among others. He also founded a couple of nonprofit organizations based in San Francisco: 826 Valencia, a tutoring and literacy organization in the Mission District neighborhood; and, ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition.
Below are a few extracts from the article:
"I will challenge my team to solve the problems I unnecessarily created for them."
"Jargon is not meaningless as long as it is strategic, measurable, and scalable."
"I will become diabolically drunk with the slightest sip of power."
A Money Chart for Finance Geeks
Samuel L. Clemens stamp, 1940
November 30th is Mark Twain's birthday, which makes me think of some of his witty quotes such as this one:
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
Keeping that quote in mind, the webcomic xkcd has a fine infographic cheat sheet of the economic vortex appropriately titled "Money Chart." It's available in a wall poster, which could make for a unique holiday gift for any finance geeks among you. Also, Chris Turner, a sustainability blogger and author wrote a short article referencing a few interesting sections of the diagram such as cost externalities of electricity (upper right corner; coal).
Top 20 Bicycle Friendly Cities
Amsterdam's popular mode of transportation
In today's blog post titled "California Wakes Up To Another Record High Gas Price," Zero Hedge writes that "gas stations across the country are seeing increasing price-sensitivity by drivers with lines at the 'cheapest' and empty lots at the priciest. It seems yet another weekend of hyper-inflating gas prices has pushed the until-now seemingly uncaring-at-the-margin gasoline-'user' to seek out rationally lowest prices."
Nevertheless, if you are seeking consolation, then note that gas prices are much higher in Europe. In Amsterdam, for comparison, it costs roughly 1.90 euros per liter (that's approximately $9.30 per gallon).
So, what are some of the best bike friendly cities? Well, Copenhagenize Consulting is glad you asked. Last year it created an index based on 13 criteria. The inaugural ranking assessed 80 major cities worldwide and ranked the top 20. Below is the top 20 list along with corresponding city data such as population, land area, and density compiled by Coventry League using Wikipedia (each city's page) and web research. You may download a PDF version for free.
An index of smaller cities might be forthcoming, which would likely include places like Boulder...and maybe even Pittsburgh and Cleveland, which is gaining attention for its brew pubs (Great Lakes Brewing, Happy Dog, Nano Brew), eco-consciousness (EcoWatch, Community Greenhouse Partners) and bicycle advocates (BikeCleveland).
And, if you want to research more about world cities, the website City Mayors has a lot of interesting data.
GMO Labeling Transparency
Land area used for GM crops by country ('96-'09)
Form your own opinion regarding the reasoning behind why some companies prefer transparency in food labeling and others do not.
Selected companies that support GMO labeling:
1) Chipotle Mexican Grill
2) Stonyfield Farm
3) Organic Valley
4) Amy's Kitchen
5) Lundberg Family Farms
Selected companies that DO NOT support GMO labeling:
1) PepsiCo
2) Mars (M&M's, etc.)
3) ConAgra Foods (Orville Redenbacher's, Egg Beaters, etc.)
4) The J.M. Smucker Company
5) Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
Also, below is a chart from an article titled "These companies don't want GMOs labeled in California" by Twilight Greenaway published by Grist.com:


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Almost Home Animal Rescue League is hosting special fall-themed, weekend-long adopt-a-thon, "Fall in Love with your New Best Friend." It runs Saturday, October 12th and Sunday, October 13th from 11am-7pm.
This event will focus on finding homes for all the organization's animals and will be held on shelter grounds at 25503 Clara Lane in Southfield.
KSAZ-TV & KUTP511 W. Adams St.Phoenix, AZ 85003Phone: (602) 257-1234Fax: (602) 262-0177


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Her art's really pretty!!
I love Nitori so much ;v;
Rin walked out the door as he replied. "Yeah, yeah." He walked down to the locker rooms to change into his wetsuit. He grabbed his goggles and headed out to the pool with Nitori, who was also now changed. He hadn't noticed before, but Nitori looked so-
Rin looked away from Nitori, getting in position now to dive. They trained for hours. Getting their timing right, practicing their forms as they dove. Rin was panting heavy with exhaustion. "Aye, Nitori. I think we're done here." He rose out of the water, his body dripping as he grabbed a towel. "I'm going to change." He dried his hair as he entered the locker room as Nitori followed.
Rin laid in his bed, his eyes closed with thoughts racing through his mind. Thoughts about the finals, about winning, about…Haru. He sat up, trying to block out the menacing thoughts. He didn't need this right now- he needed to be training. Rin stood up and grabbed his bag which held his things. "Aye, Nitori." He called out. "I'm going to the pool and I need someone to time me." Rin stood by the door, his bag over his shoulder as he stared at Nitori, awaiting his response.
I know I posted this in an image set before with the rest of the Iwatobi boys, but this Rin fan art deserves it's own post. Because, well.


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From Pooka's Crayon turned 1 today!
In this May 17, 1980 photo, 30-year old vulcanologist David Johnston is shown in the evening at his camp near what is now known as Johnston Ridge near Mount St. Helens. At 8:32 a.m. the next morning, Johnston radioed a message to the USGS headquarters: "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!", shortly before he was killed by the massive eruption of the volcano that also killed 56 others. (AP Photo/USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Harry Glicken)
Click to see more INCREDIBLE pictures. It is so sad. I think studying the impacts in school has desensitized many. We need to really understand why the memories this eruption still haunt people 30 years after.
"The Burning of the Call." The San Francisco Call newspaper building in flames after the April 18, 1906 earthquake.
Cheesecake Filled Chocolate Easter Eggs with Passionfruit Sauce
Prehistoric Wolf Ice-Skated to Remote Island
by Charles Choi
The mystery surrounding the origin of a wolflike predator that once lived near Antarctica — a puzzle that stumped even Charles Darwin — has now been solved, researchers say.
The extinct carnivore apparently made its way to islands hundreds of miles from the nearest continent by crossing the frozen sea thousands of years ago, scientists explained.
The reddish coyote-sized Falkland Islands wolf was the only mammal native to the Falkland Islands far off the east coast of Argentina. The foxlike predator lived on seals, penguins and sea birds until hunters exterminated it in 1876.
The existence of the Falklands wolf perplexed Darwin when he first encountered it in 1834. "How did this great big carnivore arrive to a set of islands 460 kilometers (285 miles) from the nearest mainland when no other terrestrial mammal did?" asked researcher Alan Cooper, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia. "If it came by a land bridge, then the islands should've been covered with rodents as well, since South America is rodent central."…
(read more: Live Science)
(image: Michael Rothman/Ace Coinage)
The discovery and analysis of an extremely rare African American Y chromosome pushes back the time of the most recent common ancestor for the Y chromosome lineage tree to 338,000 years ago. This time predates the age of the oldest known anatomically modern human fossils.
University of…
Overenthused undergrad for scale.
My pal Ryan Mcjunkin silkscreened my new drawing onto wood panels for an upcoming printmaking show in Oakland March 16th. Cool!
From National Geographic Photo Of The Day; March 4, 2013:
Yasuní National Park, Ecuador Steve Winter, National Geographic
From the bromeliads, ferns, and orchids that cover a Kapok Tree (Ceiba pentandra) 160 feet above the forest floor to the jaguars that prowl below, Ecuador's Yasuní National Park is home to countless plant and animal species. All of them now face threats from oil development.
See more pictures from the January 2013 feature story "Rain Forest for Sale."
Hunter and Barrett's A Field Guide to the Carnivores of the World
by Darren Naish, Scientific American
For all their popularity as the subject of dedicated books, cats, dogs, bears and their relatives have never previously been the focus of a single, field guide-style volume that treats all of them together. Luke Hunter and Priscilla Barrett's A Field Guide to the Carnivores of the World (published 2011) is a beautifully illustrated, comprehensive book that treats all 245 or so living carnivoran species in turn. The book is compact (16 x 24 cm) and designed with text on the left-side pages and illustrations on the right-side pages.
Regarding the book's title, I really wish that people would universally switch to the term carnivoran when referring to members of the group Carnivora. Calling these animals 'carnivores' is a frequent source of confusion and ambiguity. Having said this, I fully realise that a great many biologists have no plans to change things, so that needless ambiguity is destined to remain for now.
An introductory section depicts an up-to-date carnivoran phylogeny before summarising the history, biology and distribution of the 13 'family'-level groups covered here. The up-to-date-ness is demonstrated by the inclusion of separate sections for Mephitidae, Nandiniidae, Prionodontidae and Eupleridae…
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Celebrating Simchat Torah in a Closet in Taipei
"Let's go to Simchat Torah." I said. "It'll be fun."
My husband isn't Jewish, but he can power through the transliterated Hebrew in the Reform siddur (prayer book) with the best of them. He was skeptical, but my promise of fun (and possibly dessert) won out.
Having never celebrated the holiday growing up, the only reason I had any inkling it would be fun was because of the only other time I ever celebrated. In a closet in Taipei.
That's where the Jews meet. A small room–a nicely converted supply closet room, really–hosts some Jewish literature, a small table, a few chairs, and an honest to goodness Holy Ark. Read the rest of this entry →


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He's among the most successful and charismatic people in the Western World, but I'm not sure success and charisma will save Rick Pitino. This isn't He Said/She Said. This is He Admitted To Police, which is an altogether different thing. And here, according to Andrew Wolfson of the Courier-Journal, is what the Louisville basketball coach has said he did:
• Met a woman in a restaurant and, after the establishment had closed its doors, had sex with the woman while an assistant was within earshot.
• Gave the woman $3,000 to have an abortion after she informed him she was pregnant.
• Met with the woman at the condominium of the team's equipment manager, who would subsequently marry the woman.
Were he still an NBA coach, this would still be a seamy matter. Because Pitino works for a state-supported institution of higher learning, that makes it something more. The University of Louisville is in business not just to sell tickets to basketball games but to provide an education for the young and impressionable. Is such behavior, even if it happened more than six years ago, the sort a university can condone?
Rick Pitino's marriage has long been the subject of much Bluegrass conjecture, but he remains wedded to Joanne Pitino, mother of his five children. (One of those, son Richard, just left his father's staff to go work for Billy Donovan at Florida.) Beyond that, Pitino is Catholic. While coaching at both Kentucky and Louisville, Pitino has had a priest — Father Bradley, no relation — sit on the team bench. The Catholic Church does not condone abortion in any form.
This story has come to light only because Pitino reported to the FBI in April that the woman in question — Karen Sypher (nee Cunagin) — had made extortion demands through her now-estranged husband: First for college tuition for her children (she has four), two cars and $3,000 a month; then for $10 million. She has pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to the FBI and extortion. Pitino has been charged with nothing. (Sypher has accused Pitino of raping her both at the restaurant and at the equipment manager's condominium.)
But it's not Sypher who's the most recognizable person in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The truth might well be on Pitino's side, but it's an ugly truth.
Think of it this way: The enthusiasm for and scrutiny of basketball in Kentucky can be likened to the fervor for football in Alabama. And wasn't Mike Price dumped as head coach by the Crimson Tide before coaching a game after reports surfaced that he'd had sex with a stripper in Pensacola, Fla.?
Price denies to this day such an encounter took place. (He settled a lawsuit with Sports Illustrated, which had reported the alleged assignation, out of court.) Pitino has admitted to having sex with Sypher and giving her $3,000. (Though his lawyer claims the money was for her to buy health insurance, not to have an abortion.)
Both the University of Louisville's president and athletics director released statements in the wake of the Courier-Journal's report. AD Tom Jurich: "We stand by [Pitino] and his family during this process." But James Ramsey, the president, admitted: "I've now been informed that there may be other details which, if true, I find surprising."
As Pete Thamel of the New York Times has noted: "There aren't a lot of historical touchstones here, especially for college. The Patriots never considered firing Bill Belichick when his name popped up in as the 'other man' in a bitter New Jersey divorce case."
And that's the point. Belichick is a professional coach. He's paid to win games, period. Pitino is paid — $2.25 million — to win, yes, but also to conduct himself in a way that confers honor on the University of Louisville. (Full disclosure: My dad was a U of L alum; I'm a Kentucky grad.)
He's one of the best coaches in the business, but I'm thinking Rick Pitino isn't long for campus life. Don't look for Louisville to fire him, but look for a best-for-both-parties separation between the school and its famous coach. Look for him to be back in the NBA within 10 months.
Update: Pitino apologized for his indiscretion Wednesday and, according to Marlen Garcia's story in USA Today, vowed to remain at U of L. And president Ramsey released another statement: "As we try to teach our students, when you make a mistake, you admit it and right it as best you can. Coach has done that today."
August 12th, 2009
2:43 pm
Imagine if you had a coach at a public university who for years was sleeping with a married member of the State's Board of Regents. Man, that would REALLY be a story.
August 12th, 2009
2:44 pm
I lived in Louisville for a long time (including when Pitino became coach of the Cards. I think he'll be fine because, rightly or wrongly, people love him and will give him the benefit of the doubt. That said, if they have a sub-par year, if Calipari beats him, if recruiting dips… this will come back to haunt him.
And Porcino is closed now (we lived in walking distance). Over-priced Italian food, though supposedly very good.
August 12th, 2009
2:47 pm
MB – another phenomenal blog entry. Spot on, my friend. I'll assume your last entry was just a hiccup.
August 12th, 2009
2:51 pm
I feel awful for the Pitino family but I certainly think it is for the best you got rid of the UGA prediction blog. I was envisioning some of the Dawgs running you out of town. Glad things are ok now.
August 12th, 2009
2:53 pm
Can't wait for the same story to come out about me
August 12th, 2009
3:03 pm
Mark, how can you acually email an AJC writer? From time to time, I'd like to email a writer, with a legit question, using my real name.
August 12th, 2009
3:04 pm
He's my favorite coach and one I've always wanted to emulate in coaching.
However, I still feel he'll be coaching Louisville this upcoming season.
I feel horrible for his family, though.
August 12th, 2009
3:13 pm
MB writes: "Pitino is paid to win, but also to conduct himself in a way that confers honor on the University of Louisville."
We soon will find out that Pitino is paid to win, the rest is just window dressing. This, unfortunately, is the ugly truth about D-I universities and the people who coach their "student-athletes."
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August 12th, 2009
3:15 pm
Price did not have sex with the woman and this is generally acknowledged. I still have the vision of this woman in my head. She looked like Pat from Sat night live only thin of course. I categorically refuse to believe an older man imbibed with alcohol could have done anything with this one. He should have been fired solely on the basis of picking the world's ugliest, manliest stripper. He was just fired for what was obviously poor behavior and basically just embarrassing himself and the school.
Interesting that you would make the analogy between UK basketball and Bama football. The fans of the 2 seem to have a mutual respect and admiration for each other's success in the opposite sport. They've always admired our football tradition and likewise we've always been in awe of their basketball tradition. Its a unique admiration that is well known between fans of the 2 schools.
If Bama fired Price over far lesser allegations of just having a stripper party in his room then Pitino has got to go. The abortion, the affair itself, trying to arrange for the equip manager to marry her. The whole thing is a huge mess that dwarfs Mike Price's one night mistake.
August 12th, 2009
3:19 pm
Great coach, sad story, but I'm glad he did not buckle into the extortion demands.
August 12th, 2009
3:23 pm
They had a picture of her online. I would kiss the green, wart nosed evil witch in the wizard of oz before I would kiss this woman. And when I call her a woman I'm giving her the gratuitous benefit of the doubt.
If it had been a girl from say the Cheetah here in Atlanta I would have applauded Price for pulling that one off and suggested an elderly man of such vigor, energy, and charisma should keep his job.
Its like what the French had to say about Clinton/Monica Lewinsky. For God's sake the man was president of the United States. He couldn't do any better than Monica Lewinsky?
August 12th, 2009
3:26 pm
And please don't google her picture, post it, and give the crimson tide crimson faces all over again. You can spare us that indignity can't you? I'ld rather tack on another 5 years of probation yet again then see the sordid pic of this stripper.
August 12th, 2009
3:30 pm
God bless the South, I love it.
This comment thread goes from a legit conversation about morality, ethics and a tough decision facing a university president and in a few short posts GOES 180 DEGREES in the direction of Strippers and Crimson Tide Football.
August 12th, 2009
3:30 pm
The bottom line is this guy is the guy who will have to sit across from high school kids parents and close the deal during recruiting. To say Pitino has damaged his reputation is putting it mildly. I am from Ky. and I know how rabid the fans are there. I also know that most high school kids parents will be leary about turning their kids over to a coach with this stuff as part of his resume. Me thinks he may be gone too.
August 12th, 2009
3:31 pm
Do these idiots never learn?
August 12th, 2009
3:32 pm
I wonder who sat at that table next? LOL
No really, I am a straight pretty strict female; I do not like what he did but I detest what this @#%*% did! She is a con and I am sick of these women doing this. He didn't rape her. No woman gets raped and goes back for more later. What a crock! Her ole man found out about it and at some point they concocted this scheme. Her husband didn't want to pay child support or something. And as far as the pregnant thing. Another crock. No way – 2 weeks. You have to be 2 weeks past your period to even suspect. At her age? BS!! She forgot her hormone pills not her birth control pills! I feel for Petino's wife/family. Heck, I am not sure I would be that angry with my husband after 6 years and a one nighter on a table! No threat to my marriage there. Now, if he has ran around before or since, that's different.
August 12th, 2009
3:32 pm
Well, we know Price was in hell based on the fact that Saban reigns supreme down there.
Poor Pitino's gonna burn in Tuscaloosa!
August 12th, 2009
3:32 pm
You cannot have a coach sitting across from a high school kid"s parents who is trying to seal the deal and have this mess as part of your resume. Parents tend to be partial as to who will help their kids get through their college years. Me thinks he is gone shortly.
August 12th, 2009
3:36 pm
Well I'm not so nice as to not paste a link to the picture of Mike Price's stripper:
Though she looks suspiciously like Nick Saban in drag…
August 12th, 2009
3:36 pm
All of this will eventually lead to Rick's resignation. He sent his son to UF to succeed Donovan who will be UL's next coach. UK didn't pursue Rick when Billy G left because this was a brewin'.
He won't escape this one even though she appears to be a head case. too much bad pub for Jurich and the Prez to turn heads and pretend it isn't there.
It is a shame too because the UK/UL basketball game was gonna become a instant classic every year with the talent being stockpiled in both camps.
August 12th, 2009
3:37 pm
Its not a tough decision. They have to fire him. Plain and simple.
The Alabama side conversation came from the article because Mark referenced the Alabama situation with Mike Price and strippergate. The Alabama thing with Price has a great deal of relevance to this situation because its the only other pertinent situation similar to this Pitino problem that's happened in the sec regarding head coaches and sexual scandals.
August 12th, 2009
3:38 pm
Somehow I get the impression that the woman in question lacks a little on the beauty as well as morals. Of course Pitino is the one in question and more importantly the school.
August 12th, 2009
3:39 pm
Thank God the they closed the place down. How you like to be the patrons seated at that table for lunch the next day. Probably stickier than a table at an IHOP.
Reminds me of Monty Python's "Every little…. is sacred". Do they have to mention his religion? The fact that he totes a Priest around with him? That he didn't have the Priest around with him that night?
Hey Rick turn the lights out and lock up when you are done.
August 12th, 2009
3:41 pm
baconboy, that was the lead singer for Twisted Sister wasn't it?
August 12th, 2009
3:42 pm
[...] Mark Bradley of the AJC on Pitino [...]
August 12th, 2009
3:45 pm
The Mike Price situation is an awful comparison. Mike Price was never accepted as Bama coach by a number of people who used his lapse to get rid of him. Rick Pitino is loved in Louisville and supported by everyone. Consider: suppose after being hired Saban engaged in the same conduct that led to Price's dismissal. Would Saban have been fired? No way because Bama could never get a better coach than Saban just like Louisville cannot get a better coach than Pitino.
August 12th, 2009
3:46 pm
I am an Atlanta native but I live in Louisville from '83-'87, during which time they won a national championship. I coached rec league basketball while there and got to meet a lot of people involved in the basketball scene there by running camps. I can tell you, U of L's president may fire him, but if you put it to a vote in the city, Petino stays in a landslide.
August 12th, 2009
3:47 pm
Who paid the ticket at the restuarant? Was he on his own time or the states? Did he buy her meal/drinks on the state as well? State auto, etc., for this after dinner mint?
August 12th, 2009
3:50 pm
There is one main difference here.
Rick Pitino paid the woman after fornication to have an abortion and left her physical unharmed.
Mike Vick would have drowned, electrocuted, beaten, shot, tortured and/or hung the woman and her fetus.
August 12th, 2009
3:50 pm
MB- Don't remember all the details about the Price incident but I would venture a guess that somewhere along the lines he was dishonest about what happened. Pitino, by all accounts, has be open and honest from the jump. That's all I need to know about him. As for his family and religion, he has his wife and God to answer to about that.
August 12th, 2009
3:51 pm
has been** stupid laptop
August 12th, 2009
3:52 pm
So you don't feel he will be coaching Louisville this year Mark?
August 12th, 2009
3:54 pm
Don't they kind of need Rick Pitino more than he needs them?
August 12th, 2009
3:55 pm
bowman, To extend your point, the same goes for the politicians running our country.
August 12th, 2009
3:57 pm
The Price case is pretty relevant. It doesn't matter if some people at Bama were unhappy when he was hired. Virtually every head coaching hire at virtually every program is going to have some people unhappy about the hire. That's just the nature of fans.
The university president hired him with the approval of the board and the same president and board had him fired. They didn't hire him just to find an excuse and turn around and fire him a few months later just because some people weren't thrilled with the hire.
August 12th, 2009
3:58 pm
Well written blog Mark. As someone also originally from the Commonwealth I still follow the action up there. I could be wrong but unless you are correct and he decides to resign (which I believe would be the proper thing to do) I think his job is safe. And he has UK to thank for this.
As sad as it may be for athletics to have such a position of power in cases like this the Cardinals can't afford to let the balance slip completely over to the Wildcats. It's already slipping that way with the hiring of Calipari. Having to do a coaching search now would definitely hurt them.
August 12th, 2009
3:59 pm
I guess he actually learned something from his NBA days eh?


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Considers the potential role of physical activity on substance abuse prevention and describes some of the research that has been conducted on this emerging area of addiction science.
Describes a series of free online training courses on addiction and drug abuse research targeted to the international research community.
Reports 2010 rates of marijuana use among 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students, noting that daily use increased by more than 10 percent in all three grades since the 2009 survey. Also reports a rise in ecstasy use.
Describes a study revealing that HIV-infected prisoners in Texas often experience an interruption in treatment following their release and that assistance in filling out paperwork can reduce these interruptions.
March 2011 Reports on a school-based drug abuse prevention program showing that teens who participate in the program are less likely than their peers to engage in risky sexual behavior as young adults.
Reports 2010 rates of cigarette smoking among eighth girls, providing historical data and racial and ethnic differences.
December 2010 Describes a study investigating the effectiveness of modafinil in enhancing sleep among cocaine abusers who are currently abstinent.
December 2010 Announces NIDA's new director of its intramural research program, Antonello Bonci, M.D., a leading researcher in neuropsychopharmacology.
December 2010 Reports on a study of close to 400 Washington State men that found that those who use marijuana may increase their risk for developing testicular cancer.
December 2010 Announces the recipient of an award for online resources in education, Dr. Louisa Stark, who developed two interactive Web sites on genetics.


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Cancer can be a tough subject to center on in a movie. It can be easy to get too melodramatic when focusing on the deadly disease. But in the new film The Fault in our Stars, starring the excellently cast Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, director Josh Boone manages to mostly avoid that trap.
The new romantic drama is based on the book by the same name, written by John Green. It centers on Hazel Grace Lancaster (Woodley), a teenager facing terminal lung cancer. She reluctantly agrees to attend a cancer survivors support group when her parents worry she's feeling depressed. That's where she meets the handsome and charismatic Augustus "Gus" Waters (Elgort), an impossibly charming teen whose cancer is in remission after having his leg amputated. The connection between the two is nearly instant and feels genuine for the most part.
The movie ditches the sappiness and zeroes in on the reality of the disease. The movie shows that it's OK to laugh in a scenario where our two leads lives are in serious danger. It manages to make you laugh without relying on dark humor.
As the two continue to connect, largely over a book written by reclusive author Peter Van Houten (Willem Dafoe), their relationship continues to grow. Gus eventually uses his wish (similar to the Make a Wish foundation) to take Hazel to meet her idol, which doesn't go exactly as planned.
Woodley and Elgort both shine in the new movie, convincingly portraying the two star crossed lovers. Their connection works through most of the movie, although there are a few odd instances that feel a little forced. One in particular is when the two share a first kiss in Anne Frank's house while visiting Amsterdam. But overall, it feels sincere.
While most of the film does feel largely unsentimental, by the last half hour, Boone amps up the emotions, forcing tear ducts to flow. As when dealing with a disease as serious as cancer, you cannot expect a completely happy ending. Our characters have to deal with the bleak reality of the disease, but our main character learns to feel an emotion she never would have thought she could. While the film is not perfect, it is refreshing to be able to laugh along with the stars of this film, while also understanding the dire cost cancer brings.
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Tanner Foust is no stranger to posting drift videos at the Internet. Actually, he does them just about all the time. So it didn't come as a surprise to any of us that Mr. Foust himself is starting a new drift series sometime in March.
Driving his trusty rear-drive V8-powered Scion tC , Foust's first teaser video of his new Street Drift Series sees him making a smoking drift – and in slow mo, no less – across out computer screens with the words 'Street Drift: Mulholland' bonking up the entire screen shortly thereafter.
We've seen a lot of Tanner Foust's drift videos over the years but we still can't help but get all geeked up for his new drift series. Maybe – and we're keeping our fingers crossed – we can see more of those slow-mo drifts in the future with lots and lots of smoke.


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The Apnea Hurdle
Trucker Bob Stanton, who heads the A.W.A.K.E. network of the American Sleep Apnea Association, at awake.truckersforacause.com, tells drivers to take the time to see a doctor: "If you think you've got sleep apnea, get tested. If you've been diagnosed with it, you need to be treated before you drive again."
Visit understandingsleep.org for details on screening and treatment.
Sleep apnea signs
These symptoms and related conditions often indicate sleep apnea:
• Excessive, loud snoring or snorting
• Interrupted sleep
• Obesity (a body mass index of more than 30)
• Large neck (17 inches for men, 15.5 inches for women)
• Short sleep periods
• Daytime drowsiness
• Frequent nighttime urination
• Soft throat tissue
• Hypertension
• Reduced libido
• Cigarette smoking
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Current Issue
From the Editors
In this issue, we shift our focus toward domestic concerns, though we also look abroad with anxiety and trepidation.
The Working Class and Left Politics: Back on the American Radar
The American political system, so highly polarized between conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats, has experienced in the last year some interesting changes on the left-hand margin of the national political scene.
Beyond Obamacare
Universalism and Health Care in the Twenty-first Century
The Affordable Care Act commentariat—including those confidently awaiting the day when all its promises are vindicated, those rooting for its ignominious demise, and those of us in a separate camp—have been kept occupied in recent months. Between autumn's website drama and winter's enrollment saga, the news cycle has been full of stories of IT dysfunctions tackled, right-wing challenges thwarted, enrollment goals met, electoral prospects threatened, and individuals newly insured (or variously dissatisfied).
The Teachers' Trifecta
Democracy, Social Justice, Mobilization
Across the United States, we are in the midst of a great struggle over the nation's education system. On one side is a bipartisan effort to privatize schools and undermine the promise of public education. Opposing that effort are large numbers of parents and teachers.
The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973
A Memoir and Reflection on Badass Boffo Revolutionary Feminist Music
In Chicagoland, in 1970, almost every teenage girl listened to rock. They considered it their music—hormonal, quasi-outlaw, with screaming guitars and a heavy, driving beat. But it was sooo misogynist! This wasn't the Beatles' playful woman-affectionate songs.
Aquí estamos y no nos vamos—Adelina Nicholls on the Fight for Immigrant Rights
We're here and we're not going away
On February 7, 2014, I sat down with Adelina Nicholls, executive director of the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) in Atlanta, to talk about the organization's history and achievements, as well as to reflect on the political role of Latino immigrants in the United States today.
Droning On, Fracking the Planet
Foreign Policy in the Obama Era
The moral collapse of the Obama administration on so many fronts—Guantanamo, Palestine, drone warfare atrocities, mass electronic surveillance and brutal prosecution of whistleblowers, presidential-ordered assassinations, and so much more—has rightly drawn shock and outrage from the peace and global justice movements. Indeed, this presidency has been a civil and human rights travesty both domestically and globally. Alongside our horror, however, must be a clear material and political assessment of the underlying strategic purpose of this administration.
The Crisis in UkraineSummer 2014
The crisis in Ukraine has raised grave problems for the people of that country, significant dangers for world peace, and many contending views on the left. Here we offer three articles that we think help us make sense of what's going on, by Joanne Landy, Kevin B. Anderson, and Sean Larson.
Ukraine Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Is There a Way Out?
The governments of the United States and Russia are attempting to shape events in Ukraine in their own interests, not for the benefit of the Ukrainian people. Ukrainians have long suffered from domination by Moscow, under the Russian czars and later in the Soviet Union, most horrifically under Stalin. With the end of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, millions hoped for freedom and a new beginning.
Ukraine: Democratic Aspirations and Inter-imperialist Rivalry
Ukraine constitutes a test not only for democratic movements, or the unevenly matched imperialisms of the U.S./EU and Russia, but also for the global left. As with other "difficult" moments like the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, Iran 2009, or the Libyan uprising, our support for democracy and human rights has in some quarters come into conflict with the long held stance that neoliberal capitalism, led by the United States, is the main danger confronting humanity.
Contradictions of the Ruling Class in Ukraine
Ukrainian capitalism today is distinguished by the most fortified oligarchy of the post-Soviet states. Politics in Ukraine have been subject to volatile lurches over the last decade, driven by the direct involvement of masses of Ukrainians. Meanwhile, shaping the economic, political, and ideological aspects of society and daily life in Ukraine is a ubiquitous inter-imperialist competition between Russia on the one side and the United States and the European Union on the other.
On Returning To Where the Heart Is
[Ed. note: This essay by James Kilgore was the winner of the Daniel Singer Prize for 2013. Kilgore lived in South Africa from 1991-2002. During that time he was a fugitive from U.S. justice living under the pseudonym "John Pape." He worked as an educator and researcher for unions and social movements. In 2002 he was arrested on the streets of Cape Town, then extradited to the United States where he served six and a half years in prison. In July 2012 he returned to South Africa for the first time since his arrest. Here he presents his reflections on the journey.]
Argentina: The End of Kirchnerism?
Scholars have sometimes noted that Argentinian history seems unusually punctuated by periods of booming prosperity followed by dramatic collapse.
China's Emergence as an Imperialist Power
One of the most important issues in world politics today is China's rise as a great imperialist power. Most left-wing writers consider China either as a "socialist country," a "deformed workers' state," or as a "dependent capitalist country" exploited by Western monopolies.
Rosa Luxemburg: Economics for a New Socialist Project
Right-wing militias killed Rosa Luxemburg and dumped her dead body into the Landwehr Canal after the Spartacus uprising in Berlin. Social democrats and communists finished off her intellectual and political legacy by putting her on their respective pedestals. She became a principal witness against Bolshevik organizing practices for the former and was praised as a co-founder of the German Communist Party and a revolutionary martyr by the latter.
Remembering Doug Ireland, Steve Kindred, and James D. Young
Doug Ireland, radical journalist, blogger, passionate human rights and queer activist, and relentless scourge of the LGBT establishment, died in his East Village home on Oct. 26. Doug had lived with chronic pain for many years, suffering from diabetes, kidney disease, sciatica, and the debilitating effects of childhood polio. In recent years he was so ill that he was virtually confined to his apartment. Towards the end, even writing, his calling, had become extremely difficult.
In Memoriam: Phil Evans, 1946-2014
The gifted political cartoonist Phil Evans passed away earlier this year in the seaside town of Hastings, England. He was 68.
Mapping the New Oligarchy
Inequality is the theme of our time. It should perhaps be said that it has always been so. But after the surge of globalization since the 1990s, the decreasing fortunes of the middle class, and the more recent shock of the 2008 financial crisis, it has come more sharply into focus. It is within this context that Thomas Piketty has published Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a book that is exhaustively researched and brimming with empirical data and interpretation.
New Light on the KKK
Sit-ins at lunch counters by black students began in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960. Blacks had traditionally not been served there or anywhere in the South at that time. Within a week the sit-ins spread to Durham and Winston-Salem. Eleven of the first sit-ins were within 100 miles of Greensboro. After many arrests, and assaults by white hoodlums, on July 25 all Greensboro stores targeted by the sit-ins agreed to serve blacks on an equal basis.
Sleeping Through the Pirate Raid
The mainstream media was never true to its pretension of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable—which was Gilded Age humorist Finley Peter Dunne's point—but there were exceptions, and exceptional practices. "Accountability reporting," or investigative reporting, is one of them.
When the Red States Really Were Red
The labor- and third-party movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been studied and written about extensively by academics and writers on the left. Most readers of this journal are probably familiar with much of this material. This book, however, is of particular interest today for a couple of reasons. For one thing, the author concentrates on the South and emphasizes the biracial nature of the movement.
Renegades and Castaways
For many years the dominant trend in scholarship on C.L.R. James has been to emphasize his cultural and literary writings. Arguably the most popular way to frame his legacy has been to situate him as a forerunner to cultural studies, post-colonial studies, and identity politics. Grant Farred, for example, has criticized "earlier modes of James studies" that addressed "debates that occupied sectarian James scholars" and welcomed "the centrality of cultural studies within James scholarship," while Brett St. Louis has argued that the "march of identity politics and post-modernism" is "irresistible," and that James's work is of value precisely because it "grapples with a proto-post-marxist problematic."
Blogs & On-Line Features
Dilma or Marina—Or Luciana?
A little more than year ago, Brazil was paralyzed by the enormous popular protests of the June Days of 2013 as, according to a highly regarded poling agency IBOPE, some 8.5 million people joined demonstrations in 400 cities and 22 state capitals, first against high transportation costs and then against just about everything else that had to do with government policies. IBOPE found that 72 percent of the population approved of the demonstraitons and that 89 percent had no faith in the political parties.
Ukraine: Resisting nationalist polarization and Russian invasion
Building a Democratic Left Party; A leftist feminist point of view
Nina Potarskaya is one of the leading Ukrainian leftist feminists, founder of the feminist squadron at Maidan, and member of the Left Opposition, which helped organize three successive conferences of left forces in Kiev, in November 2013, March 2014, and September 2014. The most recent conference decided to build a new democratic Left party, which is the first electoral effort of its kind in Ukraine. She was interviewed in Geneva by Jean Batou, with the help of Kirill Buketov, for solidaritéS.
Climate Convergence Moves Us Forward, but Challenges Us to Create a Strategy
The Climate Convergence with its more than one hundred workshops, its large plenary sessions, and its miles-long mass march of more than 300,000 people, the largest climate protest in American history, represents a turning point for the environmental movement. The gigantic and passionate parade of indigenous people, ethnic groups of all sorts from everywhere in the country, students by the tens of thousands, neighborhood organizations by the dozen, several major national labor unions, and every conceivable sort of ecological cause tramping through New York City carrying huge banners and giant puppets, striding and dancing to the tunes of 29 marching bands, put the issue of the environment and climate change on the national agenda as never before. The national climate movement has arrived—now what will it do?
After you win the union election, what next?
What happens after a social movement/social justice reform caucus wins the union leadership? As we see more victories, we need to consider what changes and why. I was delighted to open a panel that began the convention of CORE, the now-leadership caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union. I think CORE faces some new challenges, which I briefly describe in my remarks.
Climate Convergence Opens with a Prayer and a Call to Action
The Climate Convergence—an opening session on Friday, a hundred meetings on Saturday, a huge march and Occupy the U.N. Climate Summit on Sunday, and other actions on Monday such as #FloodWallStreet (Stop Capitalism. End the Climate Crisis.)—began in New York City on Friday night with an indigenous prayer, speeches from climate activists, and a powerful call to action to save the planet. Organizers have worked to make this a turning-point event.
The Climate Convergence has come to New York to challenge, protest, and attempt to change the climate policies of the corporations, national governments, and the United Nations which is holding its Climate Summit this week in New York.
Capitalism and Work Today: A World Survey
Corinne Goria, editor. Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy. San Francisco: Voice of Witness, 2014. 388 pages. Map.
Corrine Goria, the San Diego-based lawyer and writers, together with a large team of other editors, researchers, transcribers, translators, and all the usual assistants who make possible the production of a book (and it is nice to see them all recognized on the verso of the title page) has produced an engaging and useful volume that is a kind of survey of work today in the capitalist world.
The Tragedy of Being Michael Brown
Did Brown have to be a college-bound angel to have his death matter?
Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, was shot dead by police in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9.
Defying Apocalypse
Image by Ricardo Levins Morales
Today it often feels as though we are hopelessly mired in apocalyptic thinking, both in our social movements and in popular culture.
Greening the Union Label
Zero Carbon Future Could Be a Jobs Bonanza
From teachers to transit workers, civil servants to electricians, the People's Climate March will have more organized-labor participation than any environmentalist effort in U.S. history.
Chicago Teachers Union President Launches Campaign for Mayor
The likely candidacy of the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, which led one of the most important strikes in recent years in the USA, against the incumbent Democrat Rahm Emanuel, formerly the chief-of-staff of the White House and a champion of the privatization of the school system, is a major political event.
A snapshot you won't see in the media
Naomi Klein Breaks a Taboo
The fact that global warming is man-made and poses a grave threat to our future is widely accepted by progressives. Yet, the most commonly proposed solutions emphasize either personal responsibility for a global emergency (buy energy-efficient light bulbs, purchase a Prius), or rely on market-based schemes like cap-and-trade. These responses are not only inadequate, says best-selling author Naomi Klein, but represent a lost opportunity to confront climate change's root cause: capitalism.
Teachers in British Colombia are on strike and deserve our help
Reply to Bennett Muraskin on Gaza Protest Blog
Bennett Muraskin complains that a blog post of mine -- a report on a demonstration in Newark protesting the blank check given by NJ senators Menendez and Booker for Israel's crimes -- is missing "full recognition of Hamas' war crimes and vile ideology."
Response to Stephen Shalom's Blog on Israel's War Crimes in Gaza
There is something missing from Stephen Shalom's blog post on Israelis crimes in the recent Gaza conflict and it is full recognition of Hamas' war crimes and vile ideology.


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Gabe Carimi
Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:20 pm Buccaneers waived/released OL Gabe Carimi, RB Michael Hill, DT Derek Landri, and QB Jordan Rodgers.
Fantasy Source Spin: Per Yahoo's Brian McIntyre, the four moves save a combined $2.07 million in cap space. An ex-Bears first-round pick who knows new Bucs coach Lovie Smith from their time in Chicago, Carimi was a quick cut for Smith, getting the ax just 41 days after Lovie's hiring. Landri is the other notable name here. The Notre Dame alum appeared in nine 2013 games, making nine tackles and one sack.
Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:31 pm New Bucs OL Gabe Carimi played right tackle at Tuesday's minicamp session, but coach Greg Schiano believes he has the "flexibility to play somewhere else."
Fantasy Source Spin: Carimi will undoubtedly see time at guard, but it's certainly notable that he lined up at tackle for his first Bucs practice. Carimi's most likely role will be super-sub, but this is an indication he could push RT Demar Dotson for a starting job. Schiano takes no prisoners.
Source: Rick Stroud on Twitter
Sun Jun 9, 2013 8:33 pm Buccaneers acquired G/T Gabe Carimi from the Bears in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in 2014.
Fantasy Source Spin: Bears GM Phil Emery is throwing in the towel on the 29th overall pick in the 2011 draft after two years of dismal play. In 2012, Pro Football Focus graded Carimi 73rd among 80 qualifying offensive tackles, and 78th in pass protection. Carimi did handle himself much better in four appearances in right guard. The Bears were going to audition Carimi there full-time in training camp. Instead, he's off to Tampa Bay to compete for a roster spot. The Bucs have one of the better lines in football, so Carimi would do well to earn a sixth-man role.
Source: Brad Biggs on Twitter
Sun Jun 9, 2013 8:33 pm Buccaneers acquired G/T Gabe Carimi from the Bears in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in 2014.
Fantasy Source Spin: Bears GM Phil Emery is throwing in the towel on ex-GM Jerry Angelo's final first-round pick after two years of dismal performance. In 2012, Pro Football Focus graded Carimi 73rd among 80 qualifying offensive tackles, and 78th in pass protection. Carimi did handle himself much better in four appearances in right guard. The Bears were going to audition Carimi there full-time in training camp. Instead, he's off to Tampa Bay to compete for a roster spot. The Bucs have one of the better lines in football, so Carimi would do well to earn a sixth-man role.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Sun Jun 9, 2013 1:19 pm Bears G/T Gabe Carimi will indeed attend mandatory minicamp this week after training away from the team during OTAs.
Fantasy Source Spin: Despite Carimi's OTA absence, GM Phil Emery stated in mid-May the team would welcome him back with "open arms." Skipping the mandatory minicamp could've cost Carimi up to $66,150, so there's a financial factor in play. Carimi says he trained in Arizona because it helped his recovery from multiple knee injuries.
Source: ESPN Chicago
Fri Jun 7, 2013 1:38 pm The Bears have kept in touch with G/T Gabe Carimi during his offseason workout regimen in Arizona.
Fantasy Source Spin: Bears GM Phil Emery doesn't seem overly pleased with his disappointing former first-round pick's decision to train away from the team, but does "assume" Carimi will report for next week's mandatory minicamp. "We'd like all our players to be here," Emery acknowledged. "But Gabe made a decision that was best for Gabe, so every individual player has to make those decisions."
Source: ESPN Chicago
Fri May 24, 2013 12:19 pm The Chicago Tribune reports the Bears don't want to cut G/T Gabe Carimi.
Fantasy Source Spin: Carimi's $1.016 million base salary is fully guaranteed, so the Bears would rather give him a chance to stick at guard than move on just two years after making him a first-round pick. Carimi has been skipping OTAs to train with former NFLer LeCharles Bentley in Arizona. He won't be competing for a starting job when he makes his way back to the Windy City for minicamp.
Source: Dan Pompei on Twitter
Mon May 20, 2013 9:43 pm Bears G/T Gabe Carimi is working out with former Pro Bowl C LeCharles Bentley in Arizona and is reportedly "light years" better than he was in 2012.
Fantasy Source Spin: Bentley now runs O-Line Performance Academy after a knee injury ended his career in 2006. Carimi trained with Bentley prior to the 2011 draft. "Gabe can't go back to Chicago and be the player he was," Bentley said. "If he (does), he's failed and I've failed him, to be quite honest, and we've failed one another." Carimi is skipping OTAs, but he'll be in Chicago for mandatory minicamp in June.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Wed May 15, 2013 10:15 pm Bears GM Phil Emery says G/T Gabe Carimi, who is skipping voluntary OTAs to train in Arizona, will be welcomed back with "open arms."
Fantasy Source Spin: "Gabe has made a decision that he wants to stay in Arizona and train," Emery said. "We respect that. And he'll be welcomed with open arms when he comes back." Carimi claims he's training away from the team because it's in his best interests after multiple knee surgeries. Upon return, Carimi will compete for a backup job with Eben Britton, James Brown, and Jonathan Scott.
Source: Sirius XM NFL Radio
Tue May 14, 2013 2:27 pm Bears G/T Gabe Carimi was absent from OTAs for the second straight day Tuesday.
Fantasy Source Spin: The sessions are technically "voluntary," but it's a bizarre decision from a player who may be on the roster bubble and is without a set position. He's reportedly training in Arizona, meaning he's 1,750 miles away from the new coaching staff he needs to impress. Perhaps Carimi is trying to force the Bears' hand so he can move on to greener pastures.
Source: Jeff Dickerson on Twitter
Mon May 13, 2013 6:49 pm Bears G/T Gabe Carimi was a no-show for the first day of OTAs on Monday.
Fantasy Source Spin: OTAs are not mandatory, but there's usually 100 percent participation. Carimi hasn't been with the team since he participated in voluntary minicamp from April 16-18. The 2011 first-rounder informed the club he'd train in Arizona this offseason, which may or may not go over well with new coach Marc Trestman's staff. The Chicago Tribune suggested Monday that Carimi is on the roster bubble.
Source: ESPN Chicago
Mon May 13, 2013 12:55 pm The Chicago Tribune believes 2011 first-rounder Gabe Carimi is on the Bears' roster bubble.
Fantasy Source Spin: The Bears appear to have given up on Carimi at tackle, leaving him to compete for reserve guard duties. Sidelined for a majority of his rookie season by a knee injury, Carimi was an absolute train-wreck as a sophomore. Failing to survive final cuts would solidify Carimi as one of the bigger draft busts in recent memory.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:03 pm Bears coach Marc Trestman hinted Tuesday that OL Gabe Carimi is unlikely to see time at tackle this season.
Fantasy Source Spin: Carimi took snaps at right tackle in Tuesday's voluntary workout, but the Bears are focusing him at guard. "He was hurt all last year," Trestman said. "So we're going to focus on him competing at the guard position with Matt (Slauson)." It's a tacit admission of failure with a player who was the No. 29 pick as a tackle just two years ago. At 6-foot-7, 316, Carimi will be one of the biggest guards in the league.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:26 pm Bears OL Gabe Carimi is working at three different positions during offseason workouts.
Fantasy Source Spin: The 2011 first-round bust has yet to look comfortable anywhere on the Bears' offensive line. He'll spend the offseason working at left guard, right guard and right tackle, with his goal being to "secure a starting job at one of them." Head coach Marc Trestman views him as more of a guard than a right tackle. With one of the worst offensive lines in the league, Chicago hopes Carimi can improve in his third season.
Source: Brad Biggs on Twitter
Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:37 am The Chicago Tribune expects Gabe Carimi to line up at guard this offseason.
Fantasy Source Spin: Carimi has been a bust since the Bears took him in the first round of the 2011 draft. Jermon Bushrod is the new left tackle, J'Marcus Webb is moving to right tackle and Carimi is left at right guard. Last year's starter at that spot, Lance Louis, has signed with the Dolphins.
Source: Dan Pompei on Sulia
Sun Mar 17, 2013 2:25 pm The Bears remain undecided on 2011 first-round pick Gabe Carimi's position.
Fantasy Source Spin: A bust to this point, Carimi will be given a chance to compete with J'Marcus Webb at right tackle, but also may be the frontrunner to start at right guard. The Bears haven't given up on re-signing free agent RG Lance Louis. If they lose Louis to the interested Dolphins, Carimi would figure to be his replacement.
Source: ESPN Chicago
Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:52 pm Bears GM Phil Emery is unsure whether 2011 first-round pick Gabe Carimi will play tackle or guard moving forward.
Fantasy Source Spin: "I'm sure that will take all the way through camp to find his exact position," said Emery. Carimi was embarrassed -- literally -- in 11 starts at right tackle last season, holding up better in three right guard starts. The Bears still do not seem to be approaching the offseason counting on Carimi as a locked-in starter.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:56 am Sources tell ESPN Chicago that RT Gabe Carimi has been benched in favor of Jonathan Scott.
Fantasy Source Spin: Monday night's humiliating performance against 49ers DE Aldon Smith was the straw that broke the camel's back. Despite Carimi's status as a 2011 first-round pick, you can't give up 5.5 sacks and keep your job. Scott is a journeyman that has previously spent time with the Lions, Bills and and Steelers.
Source: Mike C. Wright on Twitter
Wed Nov 21, 2012 1:13 pm The Bears are considering benching RT Gabe Carimi for veteran Jonathan Scott.
Fantasy Source Spin: A bottom-10 tackle in Pro Football Focus' rankings, Carimi got flat out embarrassed by 49ers DE Aldon Smith in Monday night's loss, getting tossed around like a rag doll. Carimi is less than two years removed from being the No. 29 overall pick, but unless he's playing injured, there's simply no excuse for the way he performed in Week 11. A change is likely coming for Week 12.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:30 pm Bears RT Gabe Carimi opened training camp with "no injury concerns" after undergoing two knee surgeries since his rookie year.
Fantasy Source Spin: Carimi also had knee problems at Wisconsin, but the second-year tackle and 2011 first-round pick is healthy now and projected as a starter. Carimi wound up playing only 100 snaps in his rookie year. Pro Football Focus graded him slightly negatively as both a pass and run blocker, but he should be better in 2012.
Source: Bob LeGere on Twitter
Wed May 30, 2012 9:38 am Bears RT Gabe Carimi practiced Tuesday for the first time since undergoing knee surgery in December.
Fantasy Source Spin: Carimi underwent a follow-up procedure to connect tissue around his patella and MCL after a right knee subluxation ended his season in November. His participation level is unknown, as Tuesday's session was closed to the media. Wednesday's practice will be open, however.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Sun May 13, 2012 8:07 pm Bears RT Gabe Carimi (knee surgery) confirmed that he plans to participate in all pre-training camp activities from this point on.
Fantasy Source Spin: Carimi underwent two knee surgeries last year after dislocating his kneecap in Week 2. The former Wisconsin Badger also had knee issues in college. "I'm feeling really good," he said. "They're saying another couple of weeks and I'll be here for [OTAs] and minicamps. I'm just champing at the bit to get back."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:49 am Coach Lovie Smith now believes RT Gabe Carimi (knee surgery) will be "good to go" for offseason activities.
Fantasy Source Spin: Smith was unsure a month ago if Carimi would be ready for OTAs. While Smith insists he's "comfortable" with Carimi at right tackle and J'Marcus Webb at left tackle, the Bears may still look to upgrade early in the draft. Webb surrendered a league-high 14 sacks in 2011.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:33 am Bears coach Lovie Smith is "unsure" if RT Gabe Carimi (knee surgery) will be ready for the beginning of the team's offseason program.
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Source: Brad Biggs on Twitter
Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:43 pm Bears RT Gabe Carimi underwent knee surgery to repair connective tissue around his patella and MCL.
Fantasy Source Spin: Carimi was placed on injured reserve in November after suffering a setback to the knee injured in Week 2. The Bears expect him to return to action before the start of training camp next summer.
Source: chicagobears.com
Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:16 am Bears RT Gabe Carimi (injured reserve, knee) will undergo more knee surgery shortly.
Fantasy Source Spin: Carmini, the No. 29 overall pick in this year's draft, was originally injured in Week 2 and tried to return to action after a scope. That didn't work. Now he'll need more invasive knee surgery and is looking at four months of rehab. According to the Chicago Tribune, several teams had a medical yellow flag on Carmini's knee coming out of Wisconsin.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:54 pm Bears placed RT Gabe Carimi (knee surgery) on injured reserve, ending his season.
Fantasy Source Spin: Carimi underwent surgery to repair his subluxed knee one week ago after suffering a setback following the Week 2 injury. Lance Louis will remain Chicago's right tackle the rest of the way. Carimi showed promise in his first two appearances, and should return in 2012 with a good chance to retain his starting job. He's certainly viewed as the Bears' long-term right tackle.
Source: Vaughn McClure on Twitter