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Starborn and catching up.
OK, I know I am pretty awful at posting regularly, but I plan to make that all change. Starting now.
I should start off by talking about some of the things that I have read recently, which would be Stan Lee's Starborn, published through Boom! Studios. Well, really I have started reading all three of Stan Lee's new stories being released through Boom! (The Traveler and Soldier Zero being the others) and I have discussed all three on The Panelcast, but so far, Starborn is the one that grabs me the most and the one I want to discuss here.
I think the thing that struck me the most was how much better the pacing was in this comic that it was in the other two. Things happen kinda fast in this comic, but they don't feel rushed. the story progresses along at a pace that seems natural to the story. The main character, Benjamin, while not fully fleshed out just yet already shows promise to become more relate-able as a working schmo that is thrust into an unusual situation. I like that this comic does not try to be more than it is, which is a fun sci-fi comic. It just tells the story. This is really an issue for me in a lot of print media beyond just comics as writers try to force too much to happen to soon. Possibly because of a desire to get to the part they want to write about, but whatever the case, it irks me. Chris Roberson dun good here.
So, good pacing. What else? well I certainly like the art style, being a fan of the more modern, less traditional style of comic art. Khary Randolph's art is still comic booky, but it is new comic booky. I like his character designs and the characters are all pretty recognizable. I think that style of drawing works better (for me at least) with a sci fi story. In the past I have disagreed with this sentiment, wanting my comics to have more realistic styles of art, but I have come start appreciating what different art styles bring to the characters and the setting while I am reading.
I am not going to rehash too much more of the details here (listen to the podcast dammit!). So the catching up part I guess. I expect to be done reading The Science Of Superheroes soon and I will probably discuss it ad nauseum on the next Pancelcast. So far I quite like it although I still have not learned how to gain super powers. Hmmm. Maybe I will just order some plutonium from Amazon.
You are all probably wondering about Geek Girls as well (all 12 of you). The most I can say at this point is that it is not dead. I am still planning some stuff for GG and AJ has given me some interesting ideas for how to continue it. I can say also that I will not let this project go. I really like doing GG and I want it to continue and I also want to extend an invitation to have some ladies come forward to be on the show or if you know any ladies that are involved in some sort of geekdom and would like to talk about it. Really, you don't have to be famous or involved in comics. Geek Girls is meant to be more of a celebration / awareness of ladies in geek culture, whatever facet that may be. I have a lot of ideas, so the direction i take really just depends on who else is involved.
Anyhow, expect to see weekly material from me here in my madness. I am sorta moving away from the strictly comic book review format (though I will still be talking about the titles I am reading) and will also be discussing books, movies, TV and whatnot as well as things related to FP and my work therein. Feel free to start a dialogue with me here, I am very eager to see people's responses. Tell me what you like or don't like about my work on the comics, the show, or just my musings here in my blog. I am doing this for you.


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There are two versions of Outlook Web App: the 'Full' version, and the 'Light' version. Which one you see depends on what browser you use to access Nexus.
The difference between the versions has been significantly reduced since Nexus was first introduced. You can use either version to access your email, addressbook/contacts and calendar. You can also share your calendar and view calendars shared with you. The Full version offers some additional features, such as sharing of other items than calendars and a somewhat different way of displaying shared calendars.
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Psalms 23, 4: Yea, though I walk through the valley of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Today I'm meeting at a rental assistance meeting, since my checking account is so low now. I'm hoping and praying that I'll get most of my rent paid there by them. I've gathered all of my rental agreement paperwork and all of my other papers. I'm having some slight anxiety about this, I've never done this before. But comparing to everything else I've been through, all by myself, this should not be too stressful.
I still have a slight headache. I slept a little last night, not enough of a full night of sleep. I could feel better if I had all of this over with.
I got a big payment from my client just now in Paypal, thank you Josh. And I have a day's work of data entry from Arman Carpets to do today also. So that should be more money. I'm getting paid from the auction too, next week. And also another EDD check coming, hopefully Saturday.
The weather has cooled off, that's a relief.
What else? Nala demands my attention constantly, she's a spoiled kitty. Right now she's eating. And I let Buddy out last night, onto the couch. He lets me scratch him and pet him. And then he jumps off the couch and goes back into his cage. His fur is so soft, and so pretty. It's cute the way that he lies down on the couch with me. he just plops right down and stretches his front legs out and his back legs behind him while he's on his tummy.
I'm having my oatmeal and tea now, and then later a bagel. I bought wheat bagels.
4:49 p.m.: Wow, What a stressful day! I'm so relieved it's almost over. I got my rental assistance and it was much easier at the agency than the hard time I had over here, trying to get the fucking manager here to help me. They paid $650 of my rent, and I pay the rest.
I am so seriously mad at the manager here. She wouldn't fax the tax form that Vanessa at S.O.S. needed. I felt like my world was ending and like I was like 3 days from becoming homeless, when Wendy in the office told me what Delmy the manager said. Just no, that she could not do that, no reason, no help, no telling me what my next step may be. Just that she said she could not do it. She would not fax a form. I literally got on my knees in my bedroom and said a prayer, to help me. And then I decided to call over to the Property management company who is their upper management in Irvine. So I called information and got their number. I had to idea what kind of attitude that I'd get from then, considering the laziness of the manager here. But the women who I spoke with was named Ana, She was great. She asked me to fax it over to her and she'd take care of it. So I again called the bitches in the office here and they got on it. But why did the lazy asses not do anything until I had to call their managers? And then I called the office again in Irvine and told her that they were faxing it over. After another nail biting hour, I got a call back from the management company and the woman Ana said....that any time that I feel that I am not getting the proper help or service from the people here, to call her. And she gave me her email address too. So I told her how I felt about that had just happened here today, with the lazy attitudes of Delmy and the crap that I had to go through. She was concerned. She also said that they need to be trained maybe better about the procedures. After everything that I said to her today, she asked me to send it all to her in an email, and I did. She said that it's going to get passed to the upper management. What pisses me off is that she knew where to fax it! But wouldn't. She wouldn't do it until I went over her head and she was forced to send the fax. Bitch!
The worst part is that I still have a headache, it hasn't gone away. This sucks. Maybe I'll take off work tomorrow and just work here at home, as I have plenty to do. I'm so strapped for money now that I still can't pay my cell phone bill. And I also need to pay my car insurance still.
I hope that I can get a good night of sleep tonight and I'll see how I feel in the morning.
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so, how in the name of balancing is it a good idea to take away DoT-cleansing from a healing class? for all the QQing about how our dispels are "overpowered", i remind you this: shams are a relatively weak hybrid class, with our most important healing spell being Earth Shield (which isn't as good as a priest's PW: shield IMO). As for dispelling: i would be just fine with them taking away cleansing totem and purge. Being a resto sham, i don't find myself using them that much in PvE. i believe a sham's duties are less in having huge heal crits, and more in preventing the tank from taking too much damage from big spikes.
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On the ropes
Let's not get carried away - its very very grim at the moment here in Dubai. No clarity as to what is going on or what the plan is to get us out. No payments being made. Trowers will be the first of many to make redundancies.
Dubai dumba$$es
Hey Expat Joe James Horton sorry to break the news to you, but Dubai is finished. The government hasn't had to pump in billions? You sure are clueless. They've already had to rescue the largest lenders there, Tamweel and Amlak. The UAE has had to "help" out Dubai with 10 billion in funds. Mark my words, this is only the beginning.
I used to be a lawyer, and trust me, when I was in your position, I was myopic about the market around me. Law firms are the last entities to wise up to what's going on around them. Property prices will collapse in Dubai. Foreign capital is exiting in droves and the financial system is being exposed as the chimera it is. Dubai is California II, except the property price declines will be much, much worse. I hope you can stand the 40 degree heat when they turn the power in your respective buildings because the tenants have all vacated and no one is paying the rent. Here's a tip, get out of Dubai before it's too late. Don't say you weren't warned.
Dabai haters
Eddie Bling, as a lawyer based in Dubai who has been asked to advise on two US$ billion plus deals since yesterday (when the US$20 billion bond was announced), i have to disagree with your ill informed view of this part of the world.
Bright comments
Always useful to have informed comment from someone like Eddie Bling. No-one is saying Dubai is perfect, just that the UAE (and Dubai) have less issues than other places in the world and happen to be sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars due to their oil reserves. I think turning out the lights is more likely to happen in the UK with its massive debt which it cannot service and a service led economy which is unlikely to return quickly, as well as a draing public sector. Still, carry on being bitter Eddie - did you lose your job in Dubai by any chance?
Hi Anonymous, you clearly fail at logic and hence I question your legal acumen. Let me guess, you're a junior lawyer? What you just stated is the fallacy of anecdotal evidence. Clearly, just because you worked on deals doesn't mean the market is running smoothly. Here's a newsflash for you. People were working on securitisations even after the securitisation market died. There are derivatives lawyers still doing derivatives now, does that mean that market is also thriving, no, it means deals are unwinding and many of those lawyers will be out of work unless they move to restructuring or insolvency in due course. Do you know what CDS levels are on Dubai? Of course CDS spreads aren't everything, but take a look at the number, 750bps, more than Slovakia and Austria. The market views Dubai as riskier than Casio Computers. Do you know what Dubai's foreign currency reserves are? Do you know what their debt to GDP ratio is? Do you know how much sovereign wealth funds have lost this year? Do you know that Dubai cannot break even on oil with the price of oil at its current level? Do you know that indebted foreigners are leaving Dubai and leaving their cars at the airport because Dubai arrests debtors who don't make good on their debt? Have you not learned from this whole crisis to heed the warning signs.
As for James Horton, no, I didn't lose my job in Dubai, I'm retired, and have been retired for 6 years. I have had friends in the legal industry and financial industry who were considering Dubai due the ongoing problems in the UK and I advised them against it. Clearly, I'm aware the UK is in bad shape, but you are living in fantasy land if you think Dubai is the place to go. It is one of the many additional dominos to fall. All the best to you in any case. It seems you have a vested interest in Dubai. Take a break from drinking the Kool-Aid and wake up to reality, you'll thank me.
What oil reserves?
Dubai has minimal reserves left. It depends on logistics and tourism for its wealth. It has had to be bailed out by Abu Dhabi and at a price which will become apparent all too quickly. Key assets, key commercial reforms will be sacrificed to keep the Sheikh Mo Show just about on the road. The focus of life in the UAE will return to Abu Dhabi where growth will continue on a more sensible and sustained basis.
Dubai in the Sky
Build it and they shall come...have you ever heard of anything so dumb?
Oil Reserves
They may not have much oil in Dubai but they are part of the UAE - that is like saying England doesn't have any but doesn't benefit from North Sea oil. Yes Dubai has been bailed out and will be more controlled by Abu Dhabi - is this a bad thing as it will control some of the previous excesses?
The fact remains that Abu Dhabi knows what Dubai has created is a successful "business model" and attracts business, wealth and people to the region. It will not let it falter and will make its own conservative progress over the next 20 years.
The 2 emirates will dovetail in what they offer to people, companies etc and be a powerful force with the world's "financial" powerhouses like New York and London stymied by regulation and higher tax. Where do you think profit seeking corporations and financial institutions will end up?
Eddie Bling, whilst there is some truth in some of what you said like SWF's losing money, people losing jobs etc, it is a bit glass empty rather than half full. The reality is that if the UAE is in deep trouble, then the rest of the world can forget about society as we have known it. With riots already likely over unemployment in the UK, there is a reason why people still want to come to the Middle East. I think you are deliberately missing the relative strengths/positions of the various economies and the amount of population they have to actually support. Take your pick - a government which is cash rich supporting a population of 4 million or a bankrupt government supporting a population of 60 million? Not rocket science even if the UAE does take a short-term hit.
The Dubai "bubble" was always going to burst with or without a global recession. Dubai will come out of this experience stronger and better organised (with less bling!).
The likes of Eddie Bling needs to understand how the Dubai legal market works. Not more than 15-20% of the business undertaken by the major international firms (ie. not Trowers) based in Dubai relates to Dubai. The rest is work done in the GCC and the wider ME region and there hasn't beem much reduction in the amount of work in region outside of Dubai.
pet project
The truth is no-one really knows what will happen, although I get the impression that when oil prices bounce back up Abu Dhabi will continue to pump cash into Dubai as much as it needs to - at the moment it is an unfinished pet project.
The UAE leadership has had a long term plan since the 70s, that will eventually see Abu Dhabi emerge as the financial capital, with its sparkly, glamorous little sister just up the road. Dubai was always designed to be a playground to attract the wealthy, where nothing exceeds like excess, and until the project is finished I doubt the leaders in Abu Dhabi would cut them off.
The government might seem like they want everything in a hurry but these plans have been in existence for 40 years - with probably another 10-20 left to go - so I dont think that them restricting the cash flow, especially during a time that they're making a loss on oil, is a valid indicator that Dubai is "finished".
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Last year saw some of the biggest security breaches to date, and some large organizations are feeling the heat. Anonymous and LulzSec made their presence known, taking on a large number targets. RSA suffered a massive breach, inadvertently putting the security of its many customers in jeopardy. The Sony Playstation Network had to be shut down following a breach. Even Apple cracked under an attack from malware writers.
Whether this year will be as eventful remains to be seen but what we can predict is cybercriminals will continue to look to profit from their illicit activities, albeit with evolving tactics. Rather than wait for them to strike, a little foresight can help prepare to fight back. So, with this in mind, this article draws on the author's experience of the corporate security landscape to predict four key threats he believes organizations will have to face in this Olympic year and how to mitigate them. Perhaps more important he also looks at the equally Olympic battle organizations face as they migrate away from Windows XP to Windows 7.
1. Mobile Security
The explosion of mobile computing, for example, the various tablets that stormed the enterprise during 2011, shows no sign of slowing down. However, for too long, the security of these devices has continued to lag behind that of traditional desktops and laptops. Many enterprises have struggled with pressure from the workforce to allow these technological marvels, and the precarious balancing act to do so securely.
While many argue that Microsoft has ground to catch up in the tablet market, I think 2012 could see Microsoft gaining mindshare, as Windows 8 will be more appealing to the corporate world. Expected to go into beta in 2012, it is widely anticipated to provide superior integrated security features. In combination, Microsoft is following Apple's lead of having a dedicated App Store, but it's expected to include corporate controls, which will give companies a more 'corporate friendly' tablet. The ability to connect Windows 8 tablets to a domain will ensure that these devices can be secured just like any other Windows endpoint. For this reason I think Microsoft tablets will be viewed favorably in the corporate environment.
2. Bring Your Device to Work
But it's not just tablets - smartphones too pose a serious security concern to the enterprise, especially with the growing trend for people to use their own personal devices to improve their work life balance. Lured by aesthetics and functionality, little regard is given to their corporate security offering. Personal laptops are of even greater concern as the specification could present the organization with a rather large liability headache.
One of the major concerns is that the apps users download to these devices could introduce vulnerabilities. In addition, users, wanting to take advantage of the flexibility and freedom their device can deliver, will be looking to transfer corporate data on to them. The technology-savvy users will use external cloud storage accounts, such as Dropbox, or even email it out of the network to access it externally. The biggest risk here is data loss so, naturally, this is where we will see the big investment, as companies battle to control corporate data.
A fairly new advancement on the block that could gain traction in 2012 is the hypervisor for smartphones, which will allow a phone to be effectively split into two distinct profiles, which are securely isolated from one another. The corporate side could be managed by the enterprise, complete with enhanced security solutions and controls, with the users having a personal side for their apps, music, contacts, etc.
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That leads us nicely to my next point. With the explosion of endpoint devices and the resultant mobility, naturally we've also seen an increased focus on endpoint security.
Solutions that are able to detect the criminals' increasingly diverse arsenal of threats will become crucial in the battle against stealthy and persistent malware. As a result, the adoption of application control and privilege management solutions within the operating system will increase in order to provide a more proactive approach to endpoint security. Many malware attacks can be mitigated, and even eliminated, with better control over application execution and user privileges. Both of these solutions will become more relevant on the server-side too, as organizations look to comply with external or internal compliance initiatives, and demonstrate that servers are secured and administrator activity is strictly controlled and monitored.
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Finally, no 2012 prediction would be complete without a look to the sky. My belief is compliance could be the key differentiator here.
While smaller organizations will continue to adopt cloud-based offerings more readily, larger organizations, especially those governed by regulatory compliance, will continue to tread more carefully and stick to more mature cloud offerings, such as CRM solutions.
That said, the security of servers in the data centers of cloud providers will drive more innovative security offerings at the hypervisor level. This in turn will allow the security software to get a complete view of the hosted servers, especially when dealing with stealthy attacks.
If cloud providers are to appeal to customers in highly regulated industries, then administrator access, and their actions on servers in the data centers, needs to be better controlled and monitored.
Whether this year will see as many high profile incidents as 2011 remains to be seen. However, we are confident that across all industries and sector, one challenge this year will be a common one: organizations looking to migrate across to Windows 7 must 'get it right' this year or it could all be over for the next few years as they struggle to regain control, if they can manage it at all. Don't wait to see what the criminals have in store for you - act now and get ahead of the game.
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I'm sorry about the slow output of new art, guys! Here's a new thing: some characters of varying importance in the world of Mercenary and Sorceress, and some outfits I'm trying out for them. You can also see some of the regional fashions reflected here.
Markers are super fun but it's really difficult to get scene colors with them; they're really best for standard lighting things and keeping characters on-model. Like this! So I guess I made a good choice.
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hey i got accepted to SEWSA 2012 and they forgot to tell me about it
just learned that i will in fact be presenting at the southeastern women's studies association conference in fairfax because a prof saw my name in the program
yay, more or less; time to get the conference funding ball rolling real quick
anyone else heading down there?
SEWSA POC Caucus Call for Papers - Litanies of Survival from the Ivory Tower and Beyond- Due Nov. 15
SEWSA POC Caucus Call for Papers - Litanies of Survival from the Ivory Tower and Beyond- Due Nov. 15
This year, the former Women of Color Caucus renamed the People of Color (POC) Caucus of SEWSA invites papers, poems, performances, playlists, prescriptions, potions, procedures, and processes of surviving the academic industrial complex. How many women of color professors do you know who died before their 60th birthday? How many Queer POC scholars do you know who were denied advancement because of their politics? How many POC students do you know whose work was unfairly labeled "not rigorous" because it was accessible to those outside the academy? How many of us owe our survival to the women of color staff people who run our departments? We ask because we know that you know countless stories like these and we know that you've had these experiences too. As survivors ourselves, we ask how did we do it? How do we do it again? And how do we do it better? Please share with us your research and personal strategies of survival. "We were never meant to survive," but we do!
Please email moyazb[at]gmail[dot]com with your submissions by Nov. 15 with "SEWSA POC" in the subject line. SEWSA will be held at George Mason University March 29-31, 2012.
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The Space Being Occupied by Occupy Atlanta - Kung Li
The Space Being Occupied by Occupy Atlanta
de Kung Li, el Lunes, 10 de octubre de 2011, 15:19
The Occupy Atlanta occupiers renamed their campsite Troy Davis Park yesterday in honor of what would have been Troy Davis's 43d birthday. Today is Columbus Day. It seems a good day to know something about the little patch of grass where Occupy Atlanta is braving the rain.
A month after the end of the Civil War, a train carrying Jefferson Davis pulled into the Atlanta depot two blocks from where Occupy Atlanta has pitched its tents. The President of the Confederate States of America had been caught in South Georgia as he tried to flee. The train stopped in Atlanta to pick up coal on its way to Virginia, where he would await trial for treason.
When the Georgia Legislature convened later that year, it dutifully ratified the Thirteenth Amendment as it was required to do to reenter the Union. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, but with an enormous loophole. Neither slavery or involuntary servitude, it read, shall exist in the United States, except as punishment for crime.
The 13th Amendment ratified, the all-white Georgia Legislature turned around and passed the Black Codes, effectively reinstating slavery in Georgia. The Codes required former slaves to enter into labor contracts, with wages to be paid by the Master totaling – after deductions for food, shelter and penalties for days not worked – two cents an hour. That's how Georgia's antelbellum 1% had rolled before the war, and that's how they wanted to roll after. The only industry had been cotton, so the Black Codes were written to keep freedmen working the same fields they had worked as slaves.
Many were trapped by the Black Codes, but not everyone. Atlanta was the destination for the men and women who walked off their plantations in south Georgia in defiance of the Black Codes and came to the city to live as free people. They gathered in downtown Atlanta – on the streets of what is now Woodruff Park – to look for work and to build a new life. They were confronted by a new Vagrancy Law, the enforcement of the Black Codes that made it illegal to wander or stroll about in idleness without a labor contract.
When the threat of arrest was not enough to drive Black men and women back to the plantations, the real arrests began. Joseph Brown was arrested on Decatur Street in 1868, one of hundreds. Rather than picking cotton under a labor contract, he was in Atlanta without work. The charge: vagrancy.
Mr. Brown and other freedmen who were sentenced as vagrants were not sent to prison. Georgia's prison had been burned during the war, and there was no money to rebuild. Rather, they were leased out to plantation owners, railroad companies and coal mines. Georgia's first lease of in 1868 was to a railroad company: $2500 bought 100 Black men, arrested for vagrancy or loitering and forced to work not as slaves but as convicts.
This was the start of the modern criminal justice system. It started, you might say, right here where Occupy Atlanta will be sleeping tonight, in Woodruff Park, by the post-Civil War plantation owners intent on keeping the work of black men and women cheap and available.
By the time the practice of leasing people convicted of crimes out to private parties was abolished (by the Georgia Legislature, in 1908), convict leasing had turned the primary function of the South's judicial systeminto the maintenance of white control over black labor.
In 1906, Decatur Street, where Mr. Brown had been arrested 38 years earlier, was now lined with saloons, hotels, a buggy repair shop, and the post office.
Spring of that year, the Chief of Police in Atlanta launched a campaign to rid the city of Black men. He committed a full squad of officers to "arrest all loafers" and close down the "Negro dives" that lined Decatur Street in downtown Atlanta. The Chief told City Council that in order to arrest and prosecute all the vagrants, he would need fifty additional policemen.
The police arrested dozens of Black men through the summer, but were not satisfied. The Chief of Police stepped up the campaign in August. "Vagrant Negroes fill streets and saloons at all hours of day," read the August 25 headline in the Atlanta Constitution, "Difficult to convict loafers of vagrancy after they are arrested." The editorial page the next day urged support for police efforts to "Drive out the vagrants." And to clarify why, the next day: "For protection of white women."
The police campaign against "vagrants" in the "Negro dives" on Decatur Street, packaged as a way to reduce crime, was concerned only with Black men and had little to do with actual violence or criminal activity.
On September 3, for example, a white man stabbed another man to death in one of the white saloons on Decatur Street. Tommy Lucas' escape was so leisurely that the newspapers were able to report his name, which morning train he took to Chattanooga, what he packed for the trip, and where he would be staying once he arrived in Chattanooga. There is no record of his arrest.
Pressure to "arrest and lock up all the negroes who were idling about the city" intensified. By the third week in September, coverage about the police campaign against "vagrants" and "negro dives" merged into sensational stories about white women around the city fending off sexual attacks by Black men. Four such allegations turned into front page headlines in that week in September. On Saturday night, thousands of white men gathered in Five Points, sent there by the newspapers exhorting "good white men" to band together and take action to protect their women from "black beasts" and "animals."
By the time the sun set, over 5,000 white men were milling around Five Points. They were stomping their feet on the ground where Occupy Atlanta's General Assemblies sit. Their numbers doubled over the next two hours, men armed with rifles, pistols, long knives, and clubs. They were ready to kill.
And kill they did. Groups of twenty, thirty, a hundred burst forward in a sprinting chase whenever a black man or boy appeared. A footrace up Peachtree, another down Decatur Street, another across a bridge flying over the railroad tracks. Three bodies were dumped in a pile at the foot of the statue of Henry Grady on Marietta Street. A black man was strung up on a lamppost along Peachtree Street. The white mobs raged through the night, quieting in the early morning.
The Governor called in the state militia, but rather than protecting Black families from white violence, militiamen mostly stood at the ready to defend whites from retaliatory violence. No retaliation came. A second mob, smaller than the first, gathered at the corner of Marietta and Peachtree Street, the southwest corner of what is now Woodruff Park. Whites ventured out in groups, more leisurely now, to look for another Black man or woman to kill or maim.
Over three days, twenty-five Black Atlantans were killed, maybe more. Another fifty, sixty, or more had injuries serious enough to brave the streets to get to Grady Hospital. There is neither memorial nor mention of the dead among the commemorations in Woodruff Park.
Half a century later, the streets here around Woodruff Park had been scrubbed clean of any reminder of the race riot. Where the saloons had been were now office buildings, some modern steel frame, some red brick.
On February 1, 1960, four Black students in Greensboro, North Carolina sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter and waited to be served. The police came, but could not arrest the students because they were not breaking any law. The next day, the students returned and again sat quietly at the Woolworth lunch counter. The media picked up the story, and the sit-ins spread. On February 13, five hundred students in Nashville sat in at lunch counters across the city.
The Georgia legislature responded with astonishing speed, passing a new trespassing law four days later. Should the sit-ins spread to Atlanta, they wanted a law that would let the police make arrests. A small law would do. Cast in the same mold as the vagrancy laws, the new trespass law made it a crime to remain on the premises after being asked to leave.
The fears of Georgia's lawmakers were well-founded. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) held its first conference at the Atlanta University Center October 14-16 and resolved to take direct action to desegregate Atlanta's lunch counters. Three days after the close of the conference, Atlanta students staged mass demonstrations and sit-ins at the Rich's Department Store in downtown Five Points and other counters across the city. Across the corner from Woodruff Park where Occupiers will sleep tonight, Black students trained in nonviolent direct action took an elevator up to Rich's 6th Floor Magnolia Room, or down to the Cockrel Grill in the basement, then sat down and waited to be served.
The police came and used the new trespassing law to arrest 51 people, including Martin Luther King, Jr. In pleading innocent that afternoon, Martin Luther King, Jr. announced that he would "sit in jail 10 years if necessary" rather than post the $500 bond.
The next day, the sit-ins and pickets expanded to 16 other downtown eateries. Twenty-six more protesters were arrested, this time on loafing and disturbing the peace charges. They were sentenced to 20 days in the city prison farm.
The students insisted on staying in jail; the Mayor insisted that they be released. The Mayor got his way, but the students won the day.
Atlanta changed. Rich's downtown became Macy's. Martin Luther King, Jr. made a final journey through the streets of Atlanta in a wooden farm wagon drawn by two mules before being laid to rest in South View Cemetery. The students who had been arrested for trespassing became fathers, nurses, senators.
Then in 1996, the Olympics came to Atlanta. The City built a new jail in record time, the first facility completed for the Games. It also closed down Woodruff Park and renovated it. The City took its time – it was their best chance to move out the homeless men and women who slept in the park – and when it was reopened, the Park had been landscaped with a wide open slope to make it easier for police to keep it clear of the visibly poor.
Should the Atlanta Police decide to evict Occupy Atlanta from Woodruff Park, they will likely use one of the ordinances banning overnight sleeping or camping on public space, passed in preparation for the 1996 Olympic.
Officials with the Atlanta Olympic Committee insisted the police were not used to clear poor black people out of downtown Atlanta for the Olympics. Yet, the visibly poor – nearly all Black – disappeared from Woodruff Park for the duration of the Games. The County Jail's population shot up from 2200 to 4500 before and during the Olympics. The Olympic officials insisted: just a coincidence.
Five days before the execution of Troy Davis, thousands of Altantans gathered at Woodruff Park to march to Ebenezer Baptist Church for a part-vigil, part-protest that recalled the civil rights movement's most raucous mass meetings. The protest was majority – an overwhelming majority, if you include those already seated in Ebenezer Church – African American. The State of Georgia was not moved, and killed Troy Davis by lethal injection.
When Occupy Atlanta rolled into the park, it was overwhelmingly white. This has caused some gnashing of the teeth, especially after Congressman John Lewis came by to offer his support and was not able to speak. My teeth are gnashed, no doubt.
But being anti-racist in this place – that is, in Woodruff Park, in Atlanta, in Georgia, in the South – is not mainly about getting more people of color to pitch a tent and sleep out there. In fact, I'm kind of OK with having mostly white people sleeping out there, because when the junta that runs downtown Atlanta decides it has had enough and people get carted off to jail, there's no need for having more Black or brown people in the Atlanta City Detention Center.
Being anti-racist is, if you are going to set up camp and take Five Points as your center point, acknowledging that the corporate forces at play around there are totally about race. This is true currently, and it is true historically – no surprise: Georgia's government was created by and for plantation farmers, the original 1%, running antebellum corporations. And that 1% has been using everything in its power, most notably the criminal justice system, to hold on to its power.
Put a different way. Occupy Wall Street declared, "We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments." That's old news here, friends. The plantation owners have always[1] run Georgia's government.
But they have not always run the street. In 1960, the students won. Was it because they were one sit-in among dozens of sit-ins happening around the country, much like Occupy Atlanta is one of dozens? Was it because they had both strong process and direct action? Was it because they confronted the criminal justice system head on, demanding to be arrested and refusing to post bail? Maybe, maybe, maybe.
Now that John Lewis has been invited back, maybe he will sit down and give some insight. He wasn't just a good soldier in the Movement. He was, in my unbiased-notwithstanding-lifelong-crush-on-John-Lewis opinion, the catalyst that turned a series of actions into this country's greatest Freedom Movement. More on that later.
For now, I am just suggesting that in addition to questions of logistics and process during Occupy Atlanta's committee meetings and larger Assemblies, the questions of why and how race and racism figure into this fight are, I think, worth trying to think through and understand together. Because this is Georgia, after all. And because what happens in Troy Davis Park in 2011 is being written now.
[1] Excepting the years 1868-1871, when the First Reconstruction Act prevented ex-Confederates from holding office in Georgia. This period of what Confederates called "military occupation" spurred the growth of the Ku Klux Klan.
SEWSA POC Caucus Call for Papers - Litanies of Survival from the Ivory Tower and Beyond- Due Nov. 1
SEWSA POC Caucus Call for Papers - Litanies of Survival from the Ivory Tower and Beyond- Due Nov. 1
This year, the former Women of Color Caucus renamed the People of Color (POC) Caucus of SEWSA invites papers, poems, performances, playlists, prescriptions, potions, procedures, and processes of surviving the academic industrial complex. How many women of color professors do you know who died before their 60th birthday? How many Queer POC scholars do you know who were denied advancement because of their politics? How many POC students do you know whose work was unfairly labeled "not rigorous" because it was accessible to those outside the academy? How many of us owe our survival to the women of color staff people who run our departments? We ask because we know that you know countless stories like these and we know that you've had these experiences too. As survivors ourselves, we ask how did we do it? How do we do it again? And how do we do it better? Please share with us your research and personal strategies of survival. "We were never meant to survive," but we do!
Please email moyazb[at]gmail[dot]com with your submissions by Nov. 1 with "SEWSA POC" in the subject line. SEWSA will be held at George Mason University March 29-31, 2012.
We strongly encourage submissions from undergraduates, staff, administrators, and interested community members.
straight white southern baptist men of a certain age who are trying to show me they're 'accepting' of 'difference' are kinda sweet and really awkward
there have been more of them in my life lately
they're tryin', and that does mean something to me
a wonderful idea i had last night
fried pickled okra
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The 10 most segregated urban areas in America
no southern cities, small or major..well would you look at that. people always shit on houston for no zoning but the stats don't lie. :)
yeah, i think that's when i realized that NYC living was not for me….. i was there for undergrad and you know, growing up outside of the city you're always hearing how AMAZING! it is and growing up in the South you always hear about how NOT RACIST! the North but. but i dunno, at some point it hit me that you could live just as segregated a life in NYC as you could as (fill in the blank of a southern town or city). because yes NYC is diverse, but that doesn't mean that people are actually interacting with each other. IME "diverse" was shorthand for the new Thai fusion restaurant on the corner and all of the different language you hear as you *pass by* rather than meaning any sort of deep engagement with a community of heterogeneous people.
that smiths song made a lot more sense afterwards
age at which i went to birmingham, alabama and mostly took some pretty good photos of some plants and a liquor store with a cool name: 22
age at which i realized that there's a birmingham in england, too: also 22
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I got this bright idea to use two different patterns to create a maxi dress. I used Simplicity (Cynthia Rowley) 2497 for the top, Simplicity (Project Runway) 1881 for the skirt. It wasn't easy working with this fabric, tough to get everything aligned just right. If I had to do it over again I would choose a different fabric.
Silky print, thread, zipper
Feb 4, 2013, 09.02 PMby aarista
how did you finish the ruffles? This looks just like this dress pattern: http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v1030-products-7884.php?page_id=861
Feb 4, 2013, 09.12 PMby chillwear
I folded over the & stitched the ruffle edges, pretty simple. Your right the Vogue pattern is close. I have that same pattern, so pretty. On my list to sew ;-)
Jun 2, 2012, 05.56 PMby Delphina14
Absolutely GORGEOUS! Well done! :)
May 24, 2012, 08.41 PMby tmcguire
maybe a pain but BEAUTIFUL results!
May 22, 2012, 08.15 PMby pamchar
I'm in love with ruffles and yours are awesome. The dress is perfect love the short-long hemline and the prints. Great job!!
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stealing idea That is stunning, I know the fabric was a pain, but well worth it. Great job!
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Albany, GA - (WALB) - The MS Walk will be Saturday in front of Riverfront Park downtown. Registration starts at 9:00 and the walk starts at 10:00.
Representatives from the Georgia Chapter of the National MS Society will be in Albany to assist with the walk course.
Organizers welcome everyone - even if they have walking difficulties from MS - we come together and help you get around the walk route.
"Right now we have around 170 walkers registered. There are really some amazing stories in each person who has MS and attends the walks or support groups," said organizer Ann Etheridge.
Fore more information about the walk, you can visit www.walkMSgeorgia.org, and choose Southwest Georgia as the walk.
Albany is kicking off WALK MS as the first walk scheduled in the state of Georgia.
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Have been playing regularly at the Dunes, 3 out of 4 days I'm leaving with over 200% of what I buy in for, which is a plus. I played the sunday tournament a couple days ago, just so I get a feel for a live tournament feel again (since I've been playing just cash games lately), As I am gonna be playing in the sunday tournament at the Commerce casino in LA in a few days. In the Dunes tournament, there was 54 people, top 5 paid with 6th getting $100, I am optimistic for going into LA, I played really well. Played position mostly. When I got knocked out 3 and a half hours in (I finished 13th) I only had to show 6 hands - 4 of them were because there was an all-in. I played small ball, increasing my stack.
The hands I showed, 1st I raised UTG+2 with KK, everyone folded, BB accidently flipped a king, and I showed that I had one of them, then I showed the other. Next one, someone pushed I re-pushed with 66, it was 66 vs QJ, 6's held. Next time, I had QQ on BB, the SB raised I re-raised. He folded, I showed. Next, I raised MP with 99, girl reraises allin, I call she has AQ, A in door card. next hand I was on tilt, UTG I jammed with Q4, SB called. Q4 vs JJ, board went AKx-10-J. lol. Then on button, MP goes allin for 4500, cutoff calls I have AK, I push for 14K, cutoff calls. MP 55 vs. cutoff Ah9h vs. me AK. board: 9xx-5-9. Out I am.
I am optimistic for this tournament, After replaying the hands in my head, I feel I only misplayed 1 hand, maybe 2. the BB QQ, I should have just called, and let him hang himself, but if an A or K hit the flop. I would have to bail. The only reason why I re-popped it, is because I lose so much money with Queens. The other hand I misplayed is the AK, I should have just called, and then we check it down, most likely he would bet the flop and I would fold. saving myself ~9K, to rebuild.
See you in LA.
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- Rake said...
I will be in Long Beach in February. Do you have any suggestions on nearby poker rooms (Commerce or Bike or other)
Thanks for any help.
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Cinematic Science from The Farm to France
Monday was the 182nd birthday of Eadward Muybridge, the moving picture pioneer who first answered the question: Do all four feet of a galloping horse leave the ground at once? Muybridge's remarkable contributions to film often overshadow his instrumental role in kickstarting the science of biomechanics . . .
Stem Cells and Horses
At UC Davis Veterinary Hospital, competitive performance horses receive stem cell treatments that are still off limits to humans. Veterinarians say their success may pave the way for other animals… like us.


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Pyromelter said...
"Unholy actually has great AoE. stemming from the fact that Death and Decay benefits from our mastery and that Pestilence allows us to work around the AoE damage cap"
Unfortunately, compared to howling blast spam, this isn't as true as it used to be. I remember those days back in wrath on those huge trash packs in ICC where dps would spike way above everyone else. Or the DK in my main's (mage) raid who I could just never come close to on those AoE packs. I did a review of WoL logs for a previous dps post, and the only Unholy DK's parses that were doing top damage were on single-target, not AoE fights. Top DK parses were coming from howling blast spamming frost dk's on aoe fights.
It appears as though unholy has not completely recovered from the Great Nerf of 4.06.


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Barbarian At The Gate: Avago Technologies (AVGO)
- AVGO has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $80.3 million.
- AVGO has traded 1.5 million shares today.
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DIY Cupcake Stand for Displaying Items
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I love the idea of the catch-all for an entryway. Not to mention it's super cute just in general!
wow...this idea is just fabulous!!! something to do with my cabinets full of thrifted plates...
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Many states need to adopt tougher laws, including restricting texting on cellphones and requiring the use of seat belts and motorcycle helmets for all riders, according to a highway safety group.
Citing a rise in traffic deaths in 2012, a watchdog group is urging states to strengthen laws that protect drivers and their passengers.
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (AHAS), which has prodded federal and state lawmakers to make roads less dangerous since 1989, said last week that 33,561 people died on highways in 2012.
That's a 3.3 percent jump over 2011. The 2012 statistic is the most recent available and gathered from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among other government agencies.
To reverse that, more states need to adopt tougher statutes in several areas, including restricting texting on cellphones and requiring the use of seat belts and motorcycle helmets for all riders, AHAS President Jacqueline S. Gillan said during a press conference.
"After six consecutive years of declining fatalities on our nation's roads, traffic deaths increased in 2012," she said. "This alarming shift is a stark reminder that states must continue to pass and enforce strong, comprehensive highway safety laws."
AHAS noted that there are economic consequences as well. About 5.5 million crashes occur each year, resulting in an average of 33,000 deaths and 2.3 million injuries. That costs the nation about $230 billion in medical services, lost productivity, health and auto insurance, emergency services and other associated expenses, according to AHAS.
"For every person, every year, this adds up to a 'crash tax' of $730," said Georges C. Benjamin, executive director for the American Public Health Association.
AHAS, which is based in Washington, D.C., detailed the findings in "2014 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws," its annual report grading states on motoring safety. The study gave poor marks to several states for lagging behind others in implementing a group of 15 rigorous statutes controlling everything from distracted and drunken driving (including ignition locking devices for all offenders) to the use of seat belts and child booster seats.
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- Thirty-one states need an all-rider motorcycle helmet law.
- Seventeen states should have stricter seat belt laws.
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- All states need more laws related to graduated driver licensing (GDL) programs for teens.
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The other 29 states received a "yellow" rating, which AHAS said indicates "moderately positive performance but with numerous gaps still in their highway safety laws."
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- 1,168 children 14 or younger died in vehicle accidents.
- 291 children ages 4 through 7 perished in crashes.
- 52percent of passengers who died weren't wearing safety belts.
- 4,957 motorcyclists died in 2012, an increase from the previous year. This is 15 percent of all highway fatalities.
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catsandviolins said: It's summer and many of my high school friends are back home. I love them all dearly and want to spend time with them, but with so many of them I feel cramped because they all want to hang *now*. I still will hang out with them because I like seeing them happy. I also miss them, but would rather space out my time a bit more. I just needed to get this out somewhere.
What I do, since when I have friends who want to hang out now, it throws me off since wasn't planning on it, is try something along the lines of "I am not available now, but what about next Tuesday?" and I make plans in the future to see them. Sometimes they get annoyed, but people can't always expect you to drop whatever you are doing to see them. Just try to make plans to see you friends and space them enough apart so you are okay. Just make sure not to plan something then flake out, and maybe in future your friends will start asking you in advance when you are free.
I am not sure if it is the same for you, but for me, if I know ahead of time I am going to hang out with people, rather than having it sprung on me, it stresses me out less.
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catsandviolins said: I have a friend with whom I've maintained a friendship since middle school. Now we're in college. We barely text during the school year and only see each other 2-3 times a year now, but when we see each other it's like we never missed a day. We're both introverts. It makes me glad that she knows that me not calling her doesn't mean I don't want to be friends, and vice versa. I feel as if we'll maintain a friendship regardless of how far we are from each other. Idk why I'm telling you this. Meh.
Who says that all friends have to constantly talk to each other all the time. I have a friend like that and we still love spending time together after little chat and months apart.


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This version has better sound if it bothers you to much:
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Wow, been more then a year since I made a regular episode.
This is the last one of te current style IMP episodes tough, after this I'm going to do some design changes, make Zody/John/Hhog look less like Sonic, a new IMP Mansion, and so on, and throw Luc, Bustin and all needless baggage out of the mansion.
not to mention shorter intro's and shorter episodes.
But that's for IMP 30.
Wel, thanks to IMP Regulars hhog, Zody, Hentaiboy, Henrik, Cornsilk, Sassi and Lindsay reprising their roles, Elessthecat, Luke wholey and Euan reprising their roles as Officer Pizu, DoughMeister and the mayor, and Lisse, Margriet and Frobman for special guest stars.
Warning, this movie's pretty big, probably 13 minutes or more, the largest movie I made since the old Sonic movie madness days, since this is the first movie I tried Ultra's tactic to bypass the whole " movie freezes after a certain amount of frames" thing. (the last scene with the pahtnom thief would be beyond that point.
No mature or adult stuff, unless you're offended by a few " damnit!"'s.
Have a good time.
shouldnt the ******* phantom thief be a phantom himself
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Nice one. :) It's the first time I'm seeing an episode from the IMP series, but I must say: it's funny. :) Very nice graphics and great humor. The sound quality could be a bit better, but still it's not something that would spoil the whole effect. I vote 5. :)
That's to keep the movie within the 10 mb limit.
The DA version has better sound.
Episode was way to long ^^;
well done..
but i dont like the deleting of bustin and the fact the art has changed :( that art made it funny, still, u should make a few episodes that includes brinay(if thats the cute little foxes name )
still it was better with the good tweened mounts of your 2007 or 2008 flashes
IMP, my only weakness
Didn't knew the IMP series till now. Beside the mediocre sound quality, its pretty enjoyable and funny. I will watch it from the beginning now...
Heh, the first episodes have a worse sound, and embarresing graphics ^^;
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On July 30, Sandy Kirk Poteet and Debbie Dorsey Jones flew from Louisville to San Jose. I arrived a few hours later from Florida. The cross-country trip to California was a whirlwind. The occasion was to visit our friend Monique Douglass Engleman. What started as a fun, carefree vacation ended up as much more. What we discovered was the gift of friendship.
The American Red Cross, Hardin/LaRue Service Center, held its annual golf scramble July 31 at the Lincoln Trail Country Club in Vine Grove. More than $6,700 was raised to benefit the Red Cross Disaster Services Program. Eighty golfers played in an 18-hole team scramble, with a complimentary lunch, goody bag, door prize for each player and cash prizes. Thanks go to The Cecilian Bank for co-sponsoring and helping with the event.
I am writing to share my recent experience with a store in the area. On Aug. 16 – a very hot day – I stopped by the store to pick up dog food. Upon my entering I was welcomed with a very cool blast of air flowing freely out of the door. I began to question the reasoning in such a wasteful action.
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