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Former Alabama great Derrick Thomas tabbed to College Football Hall of Fame
Derrick Thomas joins the 14 players and two coaches announced Thursday as the latest class to join the College Football Hall of Fame by the National Football Foundation.
The former Alabama linebacker played for the Crimson Tide from 1985-88, where he set the school records for sacks in a season (27), career sacks (52) and tackles for loss (68). He went on to play in the NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs, earning a spot on the Pro Bowl nine times. Thomas died in 2000 following a car crash that left him paralyzed. He was 33.
Former TCU running back LaDainian Tomlinson, who won the Doak Walker Award in 2000 and still holds 15 schools records including being the school's all-time leading rusher will also join Thomas.
Here is the rest of the list: Dre Bly (North Carolina), Tony Boselli (USC), Dave Butz (Purdue), Shane Conlan (Penn State), Joe Hamilton (Ga. Tech), John Huard (Maine), Darrin Nelson (Stanford), Willie Roaf (La. Tech), John Sciarra (UCLA), Sterling Sharpe (South Carolina), Leonard Smith (McNeese State) and Wesley Walls (Ole Miss).
Mike Bellotti (Oregon) and Jerry Moore (North Texas, Texas Tech, Appalachian State) are the two former coaches inducted into the hall.
The group will be enshrined in a ceremony at the new College Football Hall of Fame facilities in Atlanta.
Some of the big names not inducted this year were Texas running back Ricky Williams, Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth, SMU running back Eric Dickerson, Florida receiver Wes Chandler, UCF's Charlier Pierce, Bernard Ford, Ed O'Brien and Miami stars Jerome Brown, Warren Sapp and Ray Lewis. Florida's
The NFF also announced that in the future, the HOF classes will be announced on the Friday before the National Championship Game in January.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Jaff11 The hotel has a great location The hotel has a great location. The room was kept clean at all times. Although, there are some things that needed to be fixed in our room, such as: the bathroom door knob was broken, the plug by the lamp in between the beds was too loose, and the blinds for complete black out was not working. Otherwise, our stay was excellent. The staff were approachable. May 1, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by JMM2544 Pubes on Toilet When I checked in, there was a really long line at the SPG counter - the line moved quicker if you weren't in the SPG line. I booked a king bed room, and got 2 full beds. Since it was just me, I didn't cause an issue, because they were oversold. When I checked into my room, the bathroom was not that clean - black hairs in the tub and on the toilet. Yuck. June 5, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by Dido Hotel too big and impersonal Location good but not impressed by the service received compared to 2 previous stays in New York in a smaller much more friendly hotel. We did not feel particularly valued by staff. Room also very noisy as situated near lifts which sound like subway trains when in operation. Problem with lifts on one day caused chaos as large queues formed to reach rooms. December 6, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 best hotel & staff I STAYED IN YOUR HOTEL FOR 5 DAYS AND IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST HOTELS I HAVE STAYED IN IN A LONG TIME FROM THE DOORMAN TO THE CLEANING STAFF HELEN AT FRONT DESK WAS GREAT YOUR HOTEL WAS VERY CLEAN AND YOUR STAFF WAS VERY KIND AND POLITE AT ALL TIMES I WILL RECOMMEND TO ANYONE I KNOW TO STAY AT THIS HOTEL THANK YOUR STAFF FOR MAKING MINE & MY SONS STAY GREAT April 18, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 clean, safe, close to everything Beautifully decorated, clean, safe, and within walking distance to theaters, Times Square and Central Park. I plan on returning next November. There was a gentleman at the Bell Captain's desk, named Sydney, that was extremely helpful early Sunday morning when I was trying to figure out the best way to get to the Staten Island Ferry. Thank you, Mr. Sydney! November 7, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Lesles Comfortable stay Hotel was comfortable. Not too filled with youth groups this time. May 19, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by Tombarb Great location but the linens had a foul odor The location of this hotel is perfect for enjoying the city. It is only a few blocks from just about any point of interest in the area. The sheets and towels, however, had a foul odor, even with clean ones each day. I had to buy some fabric and air odor eliminator to spray them. I think there was a laundering problem, but it was a bit offensive at times. August 27, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by UnwillingConsumer Typical American Overconsumption Completely in line with the fantasy at the end of the industrial age that the unsustainable is desirable, this glitzy hotel is brightly lit, filled with industrial products, and uses vast amounts of electricity. It gives the impression that everything is okay, that we will never wake from this bad dream of endless consumption, that more is always better. March 9, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by Traveller99 Staff seemed very rushed... There was a problem with my reservation on arrival: I had been promised a king bed and was initially given a room with two double beds in it. Went back down to registration and woman found me a more appropriate room. On my departure on Sunday, I asked to check on my previously booked Airport Shuttle. Woman initially said she had no record of it and was not very helpful or very polite. She snapped something to the effect of "You should have a receipt..." (How would I have a receipt given the transaction was conducted the day previously over the phone...)? Eventually, she called the Airport Shuttle and the situation was resolved, although they had no receipt for me (I had given my credit card number the pervious day over the phone). Not the most pleasant people... Also, I feel it a little unconscionable, given the high room rate, to charge extra for the use of the fitness center. This seems to be happening at more and more Sheratons. October 10, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by gretanyc NY Times Sheraton There is one side of the hotel that does not seem to be as updated (lower 20 floors). The reception staff is very busy - and didn't give eye contact or smile. May 8, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by India1 Club floor Room we were given room in 32nd floor and chanfged to 47th as we are not happy with the size and view. reception understanding, helpful but took long time to sort it. Despite being in 47th floor no city views at all as advertised and all the offices are overlooking your room if you choose to stay on the weekday! Club lounge is excellent and has city view. November 23, 2012
Rated 2 out of 5 by freldin General comment The hotel is very unpersonal. No real attention. It is very dificult to accept that internet WIFI conection (which is very instable) is charged 15 USD per day when, everywhere in NYC, WIFI connection is free. It looks like Sheraton is trying to make money on everything it can. That is not the good Policy since client never forget such a mean attitude. June 24, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by MLD31 Great location but then that is about it! NO SPG recognition at desk. Check in staff is surly and unhelpful. Cannot wait to leave the hotel which is always always always busy! They have the volume and therefore they do not care about doing a good job. They have truckloads of tour people coming and going. Definitely will not come back. THey charge for using the gym and internet! What the heck! November 3, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Terry57 Great hotel, but front desk/reception staff need to be consistent in the information provided to guests. May 16, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by AtlantaGirl Very comfy, but loud outside The staff members were very friendly and helpful. Our room was clean and comfortable. I was surprised at how much of the street noise traveled up to our 27th floor room - mostly sirens. Would recommend bringing earplugs just in case. Overall, would recommend this hotel. April 9, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by thomas24 better than expected I was happly surprised to find the room and hotel better condition and managed well. The last time I stayed there it was not a good experience--this time the room was above expections-clean and comfortable bed, shower was a bit small but the room had all going for it---up high floor with echo of street noise but that did not get in my way of sleep. T September 12, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by rlb3 What a Turnaround! I hadn't stayed at this hotel in years as it was in such bad shape the last time I stayed there. What a difference a few years makes. The hotel is on brand and the rooms, corridors, elevators, everything just looked and felt new and fresh. I don't like to stay in this part of town, but the price makes for great value and I will definitely be back. December 20, 2012
Rated 2 out of 5 by Brianne Although looks updated, service and cleanliness lacking I stayed here at a group rate for a conference. Although the hotel and room were nicely updated, the smell of something moldy in the bathroom was overwhelming. As NYC goes this is in a great location, with no free gym (like most NYC hotels), free wifi in the lobby causes and overly crowded lobby, but free is unheard of in NYC so it was a nice touch. January 2, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by SJS63 Great staff and great location! Stayed at this location in April and enjoyed our stay. Just had a "sister" weekend and was no disappointed. Location is perfect. Checkout time was a bit crazy was on the 37th foor and elevators were full - waited for close to 20 minutes - Until Edorado came to our rescue and took us down service elevator! Very nice!!!! Highly recommended!!!!! December 30, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by Spb2nyc 50/50 Pros: - 24-hour club lounge - comfortable beds - wifi connection - friendly staff - good new furniture Contra: - got small room without view, shower gel (!), sleepers, paper delivery, not on SPG floor - saw previous guest's hair on the bathroom wall. Reported to reception, received just phone "sorry" from manager. Final conclusion: not recommend. May 5, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Mono Good conference setting I do not like being told what I have to do in a voluntary review May 17, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by AlanLisaDallas Nice stay My wife & I stayed for 5 days -- the rooms and staff were excellent. The location is good too - walking distance to most everything, but not as busy as Times Square. Check-in with Rirani was a pleasure - she solved our problems! April 22, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by OldBoomer Pretty good All in all this place was excellent, both in location and style / quality. However I had a few quibbles. The lamp in the front foyer was burned out, and the sun blocking window blind was jammed and could not be raised. This left me scratching my head, how could a place this good make such goofy errors? But if you need to be in that area, use it. February 22, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Hast48 My stay in NYC This hotel was wonderful. Great location and the staff was great! Loved the Club Lounge. Thanks for a great stay!! May 12, 2014
Rated 1 out of 5 by Rez1000 Horrible stay Bathroom was smelly all the time Was never given any water till i asked several times Service was awful May 13, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by CSP29 Check-in While the associates registering guests were polite, I never saw enough staff to keep the lines down. Wait time for rooms to be ready varied from 0 to 5 hours. Waiting to get into my room meant that I was not as prepared as I needed to be for meeting with the hotel staff about our convention. I stayed behind the power curve all week as a result. August 4, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by CodyandRiley Indebted to hotel staff / security Very pleased with our one nite stay at this Sheraton NYC location. I am indebted to the hotel staff/security people (thanks Sal!) for finding and forwarding credit and other cards I happened to leave in our hotel room. The Sheraton people were on top of it and I received the credit/other cards via mail in a matter of days - thanks Sheraton! Dave March 18, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Edster1971 Staff, location, room - this property has it all Everything about this property is great - staff (Jade is on top of things, helpful, and remembers your name/room number), location (E line subway in front of hotel), room (received an upgrade). Sadly, the hotel does not participate in "Make a green choice" - here for 7 nights (still here). My rate included free wifi and access to fitness center. April 16, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by havanashirl Great location Hotel was very good for location, room/bed, and hospitality room for SPG members. Manager Anna was very friendly when we checked in and treated us to a free bottle of wine, signature spring water and couple of apples that were sent to our room the first night. We ate at local spots so cannot comment on the restaurants. Overall great experience. September 18, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by Robert1205 Sheraton Times Square I stay at this hotel often but my most recent stay December 7 -10 was disappointing. Only one out three elevators servicing the 28th floor was working for most of my stay. Access to the lobby and room were therefore difficult with exceptional waits for the one elevator. The bar service was so overwhelmed that getting drinks was a nightmare. December 11, 2013


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'Belmond Amaryllis,' a luxury barge in the Belmond Afloat in France collection, spends her season exploring Burgundy, France's best-known wine region. She plies the waters of the Burgundy Canal, River Saône and Canal du Centre, cruising between Dijon and St-Léger-sur-Dheune or Vandenesse-en-Auxois and Dijon. Guests on board enjoy spacious cabins, a comfortable salon with large picture windows and a heated pool on deck.
Sophisticated 'Belmond Amaryllis' has a comfortable and tastefully appointed salon with large picture windows and a formal dining room for memorable candlelit dinners. Comfortable sun loungers and a heated pool beckon her guests on deck to watch the passing scenery.
The four spacious cabins are handsomely decorated in traditional style with a mixture of contemporary and antique Louis XV and XVI furniture, complemented by occasional tables from Li Puma of Florence. The en suite marble bathrooms have twin basins and heated towel racks.
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Passengers: 8
Crew: 6
Length: 128 feet
Width: 16.6 feet
Cabins: 4 king/twin, each with en-suite bathroom
Cabin Size(s): 215 to 279 square feet
Departs: Sundays from Paris
Meet in Paris for a Private Driver Transfer to Dijon. On arrival, continue to 'Belmond Amaryllis,' where a champagne reception awaits. There is time to relax before your first gourmet dinner on board.'Belmond Amaryllis' | Meals: D
Cruise to Longecourt along the peaceful Canal de Bourgogne this morning. After lunch, tour Château de Longecourt. Rich in history and décor, it has remained in the same family since 1631. During World War II, the Château hosted American pilots who left "graffiti" on the walls of its stable.'Belmond Amaryllis' | Meals: B L D
In Dijon this morning, stroll the market with a walking tour that includes the Ducal Palace and mustard shop. Back on board 'Belmond Amaryllis,' cruise to St-Jean-de-Losne, the barge capital of France, where there is time to explore the bustling port before dinner.'Belmond Amaryllis' | Meals: B L D
On the River Saône today, cruise to Seurre for lunch ashore. Then discover Beaune with its fascinating medieval charity hospital, Hôtel-Dieu. After a wine tasting, continue cruising to Chalon-sur- Saône for a walking tour of this lovely Burgundian-style river town.'Belmond Amaryllis' | Meals: B L D
Enter the Canal du Centre today, with excellent opportunities for walking or cycling on the towpath en route to the overnight mooring at Rully. After lunch, visit the estate of Château de Germolles, one of the last residences of the Dukes of Burgundy.'Belmond Amaryllis' | Meals: B L D
Enjoy a last leisurely cruise to St-Léger-sur-Dheune this morning. Later travel to Château de Marguerite de Bourgogne, a fortified castle dating from the 13th century. After a tour and wine tasting, return to 'Belmond Amaryllis' for a final gala dinner on board.'Belmond Amaryllis' | Meals: B L D
After breakfast, a Private Driver Transfer to Paris brings your journey to an end.Meals: B
Canal Barge Cruising in Europe is a relaxed way of travel that is inherently flexible and subject to change. The above itinerary is an example of the places you may see and visit during your cruise; your actual itinerary may vary.
Cruise itinerary operates in reverse direction on alternate weeks.
'Belmond Amaryllis' also cruises between Dijon and Vandenesse-en-Auxois. Contact A&K for details.
Price displayed is per person, or in the case of Canal & River Cruising, could represent charter price for the cruise.
For availability and reservations, call 800 554 7016.
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I haven't been on Tumblr in forever, but this is still happening and that makes me happy.
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oh my goodness Katherine is so adorable at the end of this video
Oddly mesmerizing.
In more "John Green is popping up everywhere and getting even more well deserved recognition" news: The really popular facebook page "I fucking love science" posted this quote of his today!
Practicing my 'adding text to gifs' technique
I love when Hank live tweets John's events.
Got bored while playing Sim City.
Congratulations on 1,000,000, Hank and John!!!!
Now this is a war I'm in favor of.
Remember this?
Why did you need a llama, John?! And where is the video?!
Nerdfighters are wonderful and it's really great to have a nice place to talk to them all.
Have you signed up yet?
Pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza blood is like some creepy version of duck duck goose.
I think John Green's life goal is to have everyone on earth simultaneously wearing his face on their torsos.
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Look at these pitbulls fighting. Scary
this is the cutest and i will never get over it no matter how many times i see it
Bless whoever looked at a picture of two mountains and thought of this.
I'm a huge supporter of things which annoy misogynistic rich white men
the scary thing about dating is that you are either going to marry that person or break up
Welcome to America where everyone is equal except everyone
this is so accurate i want to cry
stop for a minute and realize you are a 10lb brain piloting a slab of meat
I've realized that you can't really hack someone's tumblr like you can on Facebook. On Facebook you can update a status to say, "I like dick in the eyeball," and everyone would be freaked out. On tumblr, people would be like, "yeah man me too." Then post a gif from supernatural.
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Kent Alan Petersen, 67, Olathe, Kansas passed away Thursday, October 9, 2014 at St. Luke's Hospice House, Kansas City, Missouri where he had been a patient for 1 day. He had battled Multiple Myeloma for 8 years and received excellent care at Kansas University Medical Center.
Kent was born in Valley City, ND on July 25, 1947 to Dalton and Ann (Brooks) Petersen. He graduated from St. Catherine's High School in 1965 and Valley City State University in 1969. On October 27, 1990 he married Garneda Lee Pierce the love of his life. He is survived by his wife of 24
Marvin Stanton Alberts, 89, passed away on September 25, 2014 in Smithville, Texas.
Marvin was born in Fargo, North Dakota on March 14, 1925 to George and Josephine (Rock) Alberts. He was preceded in death by both his parents and his wife, Janet (Carico)Alberts.
Marvin is survived by his two children: Son, Jeff Alberts; Daughter, Stacy Watne and his son-n-law, Doug Watne. Grandchildren: Chris Watne, Jessica Taylor and husband, Clint Taylor, Steven Alberts and Melissa Alberts. Great-Grandchildren: Alexis Mae Watne, Matthew Taylor, Brody Taylor and Kaylee Taylor.
Timothy "Timmy" Ralph Archambeau, age 63 died Oct. 9, 2014 at Luther Memorial Home in Mayville, ND. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 AM Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 at the Lerud-Schuldt Funeral Home in Valley City with Rev. Jolene Knudson-Hanse officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to services Friday. Burial with military honors will take place Monday Oct. 20, 2014 at the North Dakota Veteran's Cemetery at Mandan, ND. Lerud-Schuldt Funeral Home is assisting with arrangements.
Evelyn Olson, age 96, of Arthur, ND, formerly of Valley City, ND, died Wednesday, October 8th at the Arthur Good Samaritan Society. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 2:00 PM on Thursday, October 16th at St. Mary's Catholic Church near Dazey, ND. Visitation will be held on hour before the service at the church on Thursday afternoon. Interment will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery near Dazey, ND.


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Denver, CO (Sports Network) - Denver Broncos center J.D. Walton underwent a second surgery on his left ankle Monday and will miss the start of the upcoming regular season, according to the Denver Post.
Sources told the newspaper that Walton had a follow-up procedure to repair existing hardware in the ankle, which he fractured and dislocated during a Week 4 rout of the Oakland Raiders on Sept. 30 of last season. The fourth-year pro was placed on injured reserve shortly afterward.
Walton is expected to be sidelined until late October or early November, though the possibility he could miss the entire season exists if any further complications arise.
The 26-year-old has served as the Broncos' regular center since entering the NFL as a third-round pick in 2010, starting a total of 36 games over that span.
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I needed to call my bank today to ask few questions… Called the bank,
asked my questions and the lady on the other end asked me if she could
put me on hold while she searched for the required information. I
don't generally like being on-hold so I said no and that I would
rather wait online. She went a little quiet while she was doing
whatever it is that she was doing. Meanwhile, I am sitting there,
doodling and listening to all the background noise… Somehow it makes
me feel more comfortable than being on-hold. For some reason I tuned
into a particular conversation where a call centre person was reading
some numbers. They sounded like somebodies credit card number (maybe
an account number).
And here is where I start getting a little paranoid: wouldn't it be
possible to call a bank call centre from a monitored (recorded) line,
keep the staff on the phone for as long as possible (I don't think it
would be very hard, just keep asking dumb but time consuming
questions) until you get tired of it or disk space/tape runs out.
Next comes the tricky part: filtering and isolating the conversations
in the recording. Personally I wouldn't know where to start, however
people who are into their music software would probably find it
This makes me wonders if it could be a new (most likely inefficient
but non-the-less) higher-return method of phishing?
Just a passing thought…
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The Wynn House
The elegance of Southern entertaining at its finest awaits you at the Wynn House.
By Kristen Brown Photos by R. Caligaris
Since 1839, The Wynn House has enriched the lives of many in the Columbus area. It has served as a family home, center of community fellowship and a venue for momentous occasions. Built by Colonel William Wynn and originally called Oakview, the home is a Greek Revival style, a style popular in the south. The high ceilings and center hall improved the ventilation and helped homes stay cooler during the heat of the summer months. It is surrounded by Doric Columns on three sides and topped by a cupola and a widow's walk.
Oakview originally stood on 10th street in the Overlook section and was one of the finest homes in the Wynnton area, which made it a popular gathering place for prominent Columbus citizens and the site for many community celebrations such as Fourth of July.
The celebrations continue as more than 20 civic and nonprofit organizations meet monthly and absorb the grandeur of this historic home. Brides select the venue for wedding events and the community still enjoys the Annual Holiday Greenery Market and Easter Egg Hunt. Throughout the years, many families called the Wynn House home. After Col. Wynn's departure in 1849, Henry Hurt bought the home in 1852.
From there Colonel Hines Holt bought the home in 1855, J.T. Cooper purchased it in 1905 and moved the house forward and nearer to Wynnton Road, Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Butler bought the home in 1932 and began renovations to the home while maintaining the historical integrity and character. Most of the renovations that took place were toward comfort and livability.
The Butler's added bathrooms, closets and enclosed the back porch that was then separated from the kitchen and the rest of the home to create a family room. In 1958, Mr. Jim Woodruff purchased the home and gave it to the Christian Fellowship Association (CFA) to house their offices and the various programs they offered to the community.
The CFA later became the Wynn House Inc. and today the Wynn House is a nonprofit organization and is on the National Registry of Historic Places. The Wynn House has been maintained throughout the years and survived two fires that threatened to destroy the home. In 1969, a fire did extensive damage to the front of the house and major restoration was required.
In the incident, the crystal chandeliers were destroyed and J&L Lobmeyer of Vienna, Austria was commissioned to fabricate the crystal and gilt chandeliers that now hang in the front parlors as a gift from Mrs. Brownie Buck Elliott and Mrs. Mildred McCreery Flowers.
The furniture is a mix of Empire, Victorian and 19th century pieces that were mostly given to the house as gifts, including the gilded mirror in the music room that was left as a gift from Mrs. Butler.
The wallpaper in the dining room was hung by Mrs. Butler when she restored the house. It is a Zuber wallpaper known as "El Dorado" and the namesake for the room. Zuber & Co. from Rixheim, France has been in the business of creating beautiful, wood block papers since 1797. The company has passed the process of making paper down from generations and it is still hand printed today using the original wood blocks from 200 years ago.
Jackie Kennedy hung Zuber paper in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House that was an antique copy of the panoramic wallpaper titled "View of North America," further increasing its popularity in the design world. The "El Dorado" design that hangs in the Wynn House is a series that represents the Spanish legend of a city in which everything is made of gold. The Zuber wallpaper holds significant historical and cultural value. The wood blocks were granted the "National Valuable Historical Monuments" status by the French Government in 1955. The Wynn House takes great pride in preserving this piece of history.
The Wynn House is sustained by individual, family, and corporate memberships along with support from local donors and contributions through the Community Foundation. Members are granted special rental privileges along with priority invitation to numerous fundraising events such as Valentine's, Italian, and Candlelight dinners, teas and fashion shows. Also, revenue generated from venue rentals and onsite catering for weddings, anniversaries, rehearsal dinners and other special events helps to preserve the historic structure.
In addition, The Wynn House offers a fully stocked freezer of casseroles and desserts made using some of the most cherished recipes of Columbus. Around every corner awaits the warmth of southern hospitality at the Wynn House as its staff caters to the desires of your palette with delicious dishes and hors d'oeuvres for every occasion. Guests also admire the craftsmanship and sheer volume of work that went into building the structure.
Often they select a favorite room for an event such as the Eldorado Room, Piano Room, or Gold Room and the Gloria Cummings Memorial Garden is a favorite of all. Celebrate old world charm and modern day romance in the heart of Midtown Columbus for your next special event at the historic Wynn House. For more information on the Wynn House contact Darlene Hughes at 706.323.1895 or visit thewynnhouse.com. svm


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This guy stopped watching porn — and he wants you to know why. Gender activist Ran Gavrieli felt that most of the images he saw in porn encouraged negative, even violent, attitudes toward women, despite a recent wave of feminist porn. So he pulled the plug, and found that his personal sex life and private fantasies became much more fulfilling.
In his talk at TEDxJaffa, he advocates for physically and emotionally-safe sex, as well as erotica that shows a wider range of fulfilling sexual experiences — including the intimacy of human connection, laughter, and touch. Watch his talk here.
This is important.
* I'm trying. 1 day at a time.
A reservoir that has turned blood-red as a result of mining pollution in Sháoguān, China.
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Cleaning workers retrieve carcasses of pigs from a branch of Huangpu River in Shanghai, on March 10, 2013. Over 2,200 pigs were found dead, floating in one of Shanghai's main water sources, official media reported on March 11, 2013, triggering a public outcry in China where concerns over food safety and environmental pollution run high.
Wake up! This is no joke. This is actually happening
and your 5 plant lifestyle is the primary cause of it.
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Modern fishing vessels catch staggering amounts of unwanted fish and other marine life. It's estimated that anywhere from 8 to 25 percent of the total global catch is discarded, cast overboard either dead or dying. That's up to 27 million tonnes of fish thrown out each year — the equivalent of 600 fully-laden Titanics. And the victims aren't just fish. Every year, an estimated 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die entangled in fishing nets, along with thousands of critically-endangered sea turtles.
All modern forms of commercial fishing produce bycatch, but shrimp trawling is by far the most destructive: it is responsible for a third of the world's bycatch, while producing only 2% of all seafood.
Shrimp (and many deep-sea fish) are caught using a fishing method called bottom trawling, which usually involves dragging a net between two trawl doors weighing several tons each across the ocean bed. This has a destructive impact on seabed communities, particularly on fragile deep water coral – a vital part of the marine ecosystem that scientists are just beginning to understand. The effect of bottom trawling on the seafloor has been compared to forest clear-cutting, and the damage it causes can be seen from space. The UN Secretary General reported in 2006 that 95 percent of damage to seamount ecosystems worldwide is caused by deep sea bottom trawling.
* Okay, now I'll legit lose some sleep about this…
Mining metals and other natural resources is not good for the planet. When you take precious metals, minerals, oil, gas, etc out of the planet, you're actually damaging the planet. Us humans aren't used to thinking that Earth is a living organism. Planets are evolving creatures just like animals. When you take something from the Earth, you gotta give it back. Also, building dams is not healthy for the planet either. It stops the natural flow of the elements and can also cause geological shifts.
Chris Jordan - Midway: Message from the Gyre (2009-current)
I understand that these are horrific, disturbing images and not remotely beautiful.
At first I was under the impression that the albatross remains had been arranged by the photographer around piles of plastic trash; then I read this article and learned that "nesting chicks fill their bellies with plastic as their parents collect and feed them bits that look to them like food. As a result, tens of thousands of albatross chicks die of starvation, choking, internal bleeding and poisoning each year."
I feel the set deserves posting.
Re-post cuz we often forget the consequences of our thoughtless actions.
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Vice interviews Gareth Branwyn, a writer for the late great Mondo 2000 magazine and author of the forthcoming Borg Like Me:
What are some of weirdest fringe scenes out there?
Well, the whole dark net world of Anyonmous, 4chan (the anonymous images/bbs where rebels, criminals, and crusaders hang out), anonymous P2P networks are pretty kooky. And things like Tor, which you can use to buy mailorder illegal drugs with bitcoin. It has been said that what you see on 4chan will melt your brain, and that's no lie. You see things, you hear things, that you can't unsee or unhear.
Then, of course, there's the whole Jihadist net, but I've never checked that out. I've also been researching a feature article on sexcam sites and that's this whole specific world and there's very kooky stuff on there—naked yoga shows, sexual game shows, women who craft and run raffles and then masturbate when they're done and send the craft item to the raffle winner. That's a fascinating subculture that I don't think anybody outside of it knows much about.
Ah yes, I've heard about the sexcam trend. So how do you go about researching something like that?
So far, I've just been watching A LOT of cams… for research. I'm establishing relationships with various models and will hopefully convince some of them to talk candidly to me about themselves and their work. This isn't going to be a piece about the business of these sites, but rather, about the models themselves and their "shows," who their fans are, the nature of these relationships. I think it's rather unique and an interesting twist on DIY sex work and net-based intimacy here in the early 21st century.
Full Story: Vice Motherboard: Life on the Fringes of Cyberculture: An Interview with Gareth Branwyn
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Klint Finley
Michael Stevenson revisits the "Mondo 2000 vs. Wired" of the early 90s to compare it to the contemporary blogger and startup culture:
The co-optation argument, however, fails to recognize a subtle but important difference between Mondo's 'rebel cool' and that found in previous subcultures. Where subcultures are typically conceived of as 'outsider' scenes, from those in the counterculture that consciously 'dropped out' of mainstream society to more recent outsider scenes like punk and rave culture, the subversive computer culture Mondo proclaimed to represent was different. To borrow a key theme from Alan Liu's book The Laws of Cool, Mondo's cyberculture is best described as a scene of insiders-outside and outsiders-inside. The ideal subversive computer culture was something simultaneously inside and outside of mainstream, corporate America – for example, the corporate- and state-employed hackers and cyberpunks that Mondo imagined to be driving a social and cultural revolution from "inside the belly of the beast," as Robert Anton Wilson wrote in the magazine's first issue.
Wired's style was similarly built on this contradictory positioning. Think, for example, of its portrayals of tech CEOs as rogue upstarts, as outsiders bringing about a subversive future from inside the system. This was also the essence of how Wired itself was imagined and operated – as an independent magazine that would infiltrate and revolutionize the mainstream publishing industry (on this, see especially Gary Wolf's history of Wired, in which he often points out Louis Rossetto's ambivalent relationship with his traditional publishing 'peers'). This was not a co-optation of Mondo's style, but an elaboration of its outsider-inside identity.
Full Story: webcultures.org: Cybercultural "mindstyles" circa 1993 and 2013
(via John Ohno)
See also:
Silicon Valley's Anti-Capitalism-Capitalism
(Disclosure: I write for Wired)
ACCELER8OR is running an excerpt from the William Gibson interview conducted by Simone Lackerbauer for the MONDO 2000 history project:
We do, in fact, now constantly inhabit a sort of blended VR, but we now assume that we don't need the goggles as long as whatever's on the screen is sufficiently engrossing. And the distinction between real and virtual continues to blur. The virtual is colonizing the real, but generally in ways we don't notice. VR was predicated on a notion of real/virtual that now seems very last-century. Our grandchildren won't be able to readily imagine where we were at, with that one!
Full Story: ACCELER8OR: William Gibson On MONDO 2000 & 90s Cyberculture (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #16)
See also:
Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality? - Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier interviewed by R.U. back in 2002.
Notes from a William Gibson Q&A Session (9/08/10), which covers a little of the same ground.
Here's an old Mondo 2000 interview from 1993 with both Genesis P-Orridge and Hakim Bey conducted by Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow:
JOHN: Right, Taoism has no truck with good and evil at all.
HAKIM: Taoism seems to be the one religion that doesn't have the Gnostic trace.
JOHN: In our culture, the problem arose with the Romans.
HAKIM: I think it goes further back. It's Babylon. It's just like the Rastas say, "It happened in Babylon." It's Marduk and Tiamat. It's Mr. Hard-on God up against Sloppy Mom. In China, chaos is a benevolent property. Huntun is the gourd or the egg out of which everything comes. He's a wonton. Huntun and wonton are the same words. He's like this little dumpling and everything good comes out of him. In Babylon, chaos is the disgusting monster vagina that has to be ripped up by Marduk into myriad blobs of shit and slime. And we are those globs of slime. That's how the human race came into being. What is the purpose of the human race? To serve Marduk, to serve the masculine principle, to store up grain in the granary for the priests, to pay for the priests for their sacrifice so they get the free hamburgers. That's the whole Western myth. It's St. George and the Dragon. St. George pins the dragon down.
In China, the dragon is the free expression of creativity. He's the mixture of Yin and Yang, the principle of power. But here's evil, plain and simple. This is why chaos has kicked off, for me, for Ralph Abraham, and others, an interest in making a critique of this Western mythology, and saying, "Let's put Humpty Dumpty back together."
JOHN: There's been an interesting co-evolution lately of a lot of apparently disconnected things, like chaos mathematics and neo-tribalism, a sudden interest in Taoism and what I perceive to be a deep feminization of Western culture.
GEN: Some philosophers feel that there's a risk in absolute unconditional surrender of that male-God power, even though it's obviously failed miserably. Should we seek out every possible male trait and subordinate it to a female principle?
HAKIM: I didn't like the rule of Dad, but I don't think I'm going to like the rule of Mom either.
Pastbin: Zoning Out, Temporarily with Hakim Bey and Genesis P-Orridge
See also:
Douglass Rushkoff in Conversation with Genesis P. Orridge (2003 and 2007)
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge dossier
I interviewed Richard Metzger and R.U. Sirius last week at Contact. We talked about the Occupy movement, what it's like to start a new publication today and whether tools for free speech have room for improvement.
I apologize in advance for the audio quality - I didn't have a windscreen for my microphone, so things get pretty noisy when the wind picks up.
R.U. Sirius was the co-founder and editor of the influential cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000. He also ran for president on the Revolution Party ticket in 2000 and has worked for publications such as Wired and H+ Magazine. He recently started a new online publication called Acceler8or. He's also working on an open source history of Mondo 2000. My previous interview with him is here.
Richard Metzger was the co-founder and creative director of Disinformation, where he served as the host of the online show Infinity Factory and the Channel 4 show Disinfo Nation. He's now the editor and host of Dangerous Minds. My previous interview with him is here.
Before The Open Source Party. Before The Guns and Dope Party. Before The Revolution Party. In 1969, Timothy Leary ran for governor of California against Ronald Reagan. The motto was "Come together - join the party" and John Lennon originally wrote the song "Come Together" for Leary.
According to a letter from Leary published in Mondo 2000 # 6 in 1992, this was Leary's platform:
1. The basic function of government is to protect individuals against organized gangs and groups.
2. Decentralization: California secedes from the USSA.
3. Another basic function of govt. is to entertain/educate.
4. The government makes a profit. Instead of paying taxes, the citizen received dividends.
5. The profits derived from licensing pleasures: Marijuana license like an auto license/registration, hard liquor, gambling; prostitutes were professionals like dentists or lawyers; LSD, etc., used in state parks or theme parks; Entry taxes - California would be like an amusement park - entrance fees and daily residence fees; Education - California specializes in education - non-Californians paid substantial fees.
The only other info I could find about the platform:
Revealing part of his guber-natorial platform for the first time, Leary pledged solutions to California's 10 major political problems.
He leaked out only a few of those solutions, but what did emerge was unique — to say the least.
"I'm going to legalize marijuana and charge a $1,000 a year permit fee for those who want to make it," he said.
"Given the size of California population, that will generate a huge amount of additional revenue each year.
"Then I'll turn that money over to the police and the forces of the right wing to keep them happy and off people's backs," Leary explained.
Wouldn't that be discriminating against the poor who can't afford $1,000 a year for the privilege of turning on? he was asked.
"That's not really a problem," he explained, "because it's only a short-term situation — in five years I'll eliminate all money from Californian society and return to a barter system."
See also: Timothy Leary Dossier
I actually thought I'd posted these before, but I can't find them in the archives anywhere. They are older interviews, but they're a good introduction to DeLanda.
Don't call me Gaia. The Gaia hypothesis is a very interesting point. […] Philosophically, it is a terrible mistake. It is a terrible mistake precisely in the neo-materialist sense because it takes the metaphor of the organism, it sees life, living flesh as the most magical thing that happened on this planet. This is of course a chauvinism, a kind of organic chauvinism on our part. It takes the metaphor of the organism and applies it to the whole planet. Now the whole planet is alive, that what Gaia is. Not only do you call it an organism, you also give it a goddess name just to make sure you are ridiculous enough. The way out of this is to think that the planet is indeed something special, but it what Deleuze and Guttari called a body without organs, which is the exact opposite of an organism. It is a cauldron or receptacle of non-organic life, a body without organs. Because it can be alive in the sense of being creative and generating order without having genes or having organs or being an organism. In my view, the very fact that the atmosphere connected with the hydrosphere can generate things like hurricanes and cyclones and all kinds of self-organizing entities means that indeed the planet, even before living creatures appeared, was already a body without organs, a cauldron of creativity, a receptacle of spontaneously emerging order.
And here's Erik Davis's interview with DeLanda from Mondo 2000:
I have my shaman there, since I was like 19, this woman called Julietta. She is a direct heir of a long, long line of Mazatec knowledge.
I hate mysticism. I've always hated the whole idea of taking psychedelics and then going, "Western science is bullshit, let's turn to Eastern philosophy." I always strive to have a materialist explanation for what's going on. I always thought that matter had much more to it than just this inert stuff that sits here. And now I'm being proved right.
Think about the Game of Life [computer-based cellular automata developed by mathematician John Conway]. At first the rules of interaction of the little cells in an abstract space were so simple that everybody thought it was a game. Then they found ladders and glider-generating guns spontaneously forming. So this tiny, abstract, stupid space all of a sudden began exploding with possibilities.
XNX Designs has a catalog of clothes that look like they could have been on the cover of Mondo 2000.
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There was a time when the name R.U. Sirius was synonymous with cyberculture. His seminal magazine Mondo 2000 predated Wired, and was even more enthusiastic in its wow-gosh sexification of the new geek order. Articles predicting a slick future of nanotech parties and smart drugs were mixed in with batches of fearful predictions of terrorism, economic collapse, draconian copyright enforcement, increased surveillance and invasive advertising. But Sirius didn't stop there: After the collapse of Mondo, he went on to write for magazines like 21C, Salon and Disinformation, and edited Getting It. He created the Revolution Party, a non-ideological anti-authoritarian political organization ("If even the alternative parties like Libertarian and Green seem a bit rigid to you, consider joining us"), and campaigned for Presidency of the United States. His latest project, The Thresher, is a political magazine.
But The Thresher is a print magazine. Sirius hardly goes online anymore, except for research. The truth is, the Godfather of GeekChic has moved on.
_Mondo 2000
K: Have you ever read Patrick Farley's e-sheep comic? He did this one, this autobiographical comic, where there's this guy, a parody of you… What he tells the main character, the autobiographical character, is that you made up all the stuff for your magazine.
RU: Actually, I say that all the time in public interviews, "We made it all up." Which in a sense is true — some of it we made up and some of it we didn't. Mondo 2000 clearly wasn't journalism in the conventional sense. It was mostly composed of interviews, very subjective, really dedicated to people speaking in their own voice. It was very playful and very surrealistic. I never really wanted to do journalism — I do now because I have to to make a living. And we do it at Thresher, I guess because it's become a habit now. To say we made it all up is kind of flippant, but we weren't concerned with responsibility or credibility. We were more concerned with creating a sense of excitement and energy and a sense of belonging to the next wave of culture. And we were concerned with making people laugh.
K: It seems like rather than inventing things, you brought them together. I mean, you could have Terence McKenna and GWAR in the same issue.
RU: *Laughs* A lot of it definitely didn't make any sense. We had a great liberty to basically be about technoculture, and at the same time we could run stuff that had nothing to do with the main theme of our magazine, which Wired could never do. When we started Mondo, Eric Gullichsen brought around these Japanese magazines and pointed out that Japanese magazines included everything. They'd have serious political articles, children's stories, pornography, anything you could possibly imagine… It was every magazine in America and every theme they'd have packed into one magazine and they wouldn't differentiate. Which to me is sort of ideal.
_smart drugs
K: To change the subject somewhat, where do we stand on the war on drugs right now? Is it more or less important than it was, say, two years ago?
RU: It's all sort of integrated into the war on terror, and there's a lot of complex connections there. It's amazing that it's all happening in Afghanistan, which is sort of a nexus for the drug underground and also turns out to be the nexus for Al Quaeda and the place where America wants to build an oil pipeline and the place where we have our troops and bombs. And all those things converge. Narcopolitics, as much as class, is at the center of politics in our time. I don't think any of that has changed. You also see this integration in Columbia where they're fighting over drugs and they're also fighting against leftists and they're fighting for their oil interests — it's still rather the same story. On the positive side of course, Europeans almost uniformly are liberalizing drug laws. I don't know how things are in Canada… I think Vancouver is pretty liberal.
K: Do you think there's a potential use for psychedelics in psychotherapy?
RU: Yeah, I've always thought it was a useful tool. The great thing about having a guide, rather than doing it on your own or in a party, is that it grants permission to take a pretty walloping, great massive dose and go through changes without having to worry about what kind of incursions might occur during the trip. I think if it could be approved for psychotherapy, that would be a tremendous step in the right direction. There's basically two schools of thought on ending the drug war. One is the libertarian point of view, which is that it should be legalized because it's a cognitive liberty, a matter of personal choice. And then there's the attempt to medicalize the situation… harm reduction and so forth. And while I agree with the libertarian view on that, I think medicalization is more likely to be allowed.
K: You wrote about smart drugs years ago, do you still take any of that stuff?
RU: No, actually I've had stomach problems for a number of years. I've found that I can't take most of those drugs. I certainly can't take them regularly.
K: What did you feel worked for you, though?
RU: Oh I can't remember of course. DMAE, I remember being one that was interesting. There was one that came in liquid drops, Deprenyl… quite good! Hydergine definitely — if you take it every day — sharpens up your memory. It was very closely related to LSD, actually.
K: Yeah, Albert Hoffman invented both of them didn't he?
RU: Yeah. They all had a stimulant effect. As far as the studies that all the advocates quoted to prove that they were effective long-term enhancers of cognition, I don't know. I'm not in a position to judge the quality of those researchers. They definitely functioned as stimulants. And they were much more even in terms of how they would take you through the day than cocaine, or methamphetamines…
K: Or caffeine…
RU: Or caffeine, right.
K: The only one of those [types of drugs] I've taken is vassopressin.
RU: Yeah, vassopressin is nice.
K: It worked for me, but every half hour I had to take a couple snorts.
RU: It was the one that was the most like coke; I think its effect on brain chemistry was compared by Pearson and Shaw as blatantly uhhh…
K: It was definitely, ah… addictive and expensive
RU: I gave some of that to William Gibson once, and he really liked it.
K: It's funny, now the whole smart drug thing has been written off as snake oil.
RU: Bruce Sterling used to joke about people taking things that didn't work, but I think I convinced him that they're stimulants.
K: So they're just stimulants and not long-term brain enhancers?
RU: It's hard to know. I was taking them regularly during the Mondo 2000 period in the early nineties, and I was definitely quick. I don't know if I was wise, but I was just quick.
K: How did The Thresher come about?
RU: Dave Latimer is the publisher, and he kind of liked Tom Frank's The Baffler, a sort of neo-Marxist political journal out of Chicago that's gotten a lot of response. He liked that and he liked McSweeney's, and he liked the whole idea of this rough, sort of intellectual form of publishing. Also, it's become a trendy thing. And I thought it would be a fun way of organizing materials and expressing ourselves. I'd done the opposite with Mondo 2000, which came to the party way over-dressed. We decided to take it the other direction.
K: It kind of seemed that Mondo 2000 was the stoner geeks goofing off in the back of the class.
RU: Heh!
K: The Thresher is more serious.
RU: Yeah, it's pretty serious. The second issue, which is just about to go to press, is actually pretty irreverent and a lot weirder, probably as a result of world events and also as a result of my being too busy on other things to concentrate on it closely. I sort of let it slip through my fingers, and as a result, we've unintentionally created a darkly comedic, rather nasty issue that I'm looking forward to seeing. I was actually trying to create a publication initially that was pretty serious and politically pragmatic, and sort of trying to operate on the boundaries between mainstream and alternative views. But we sort of blew that all to hell on the second issue. It's pretty radical. Conspiracy theory and a radical Islamist who writes in a sort of hip postmodernist style.
K: It seems that The Thresher is still largely about technology, just in a different context. Instead of being emerging or future technology —
RU: In the first issue there was an alternative energy thing and also a biowar thing — actually one of the interviews with [Richard] Preston was actually done for an issue of Mondo 2000 that never came out. So yeah, those kind of obsessions are still there. But I don't know how much of that's in the new issue, I think it may not be. I had actually considered making number two a technology issue, but again, world events pushed us in another direction.
_revolution party
K: What's the status of the Revolution Party?
RU: Well, we still have a discussion group [on Yahoo!] but we haven't really done anything. I feel like it's time to rethink a lot of things… Not necessarily to renounce where you've been before but… I kind of feel like I am (and we are) in a cultural and political, certainly economic and maybe even technological place of standing still. And for me, it's a great moment to take a deep breath and not immediately presume to be able to come out with a lot of opinions…
We're questioning not just what's next, but what it means to be human and what sort of real value it has. A few years ago, I wrote that we're at a point where we're thrilled with technology, and we're disappointed with human beings. At this point I'm not sure that we're very thrilled with technology anymore.
K: Do you have any idea of how to get control? Was that what the Revolution party was about?
RU: Control and powerlessness are two different things, of course. We shouldn't expect control but we should expect some kind of power over our lives, government, et cetera… One of the main ideas [behind the Revolution Party] was that people of counter-cultural sensibilities could actually organize and become a political force. Sort of a countervailing force to the Christian Coalition.
K: What can we do to have some sort of effect on our lives and comfort?
RU: I don't know. I don't see much point in any of the strategies that people currently employ. I think that the apparatus that we have, in terms of democracy and free speech, is probably as good as it's going to get — we just have to find a way back to real power within the democratic apparatus that's been captured by money and so forth.
K: What about blogs, where you've got giant decentralized conversations going on between different people?
RU: Yeah, that's definitely a value.
K: But it seems discussion can only go so far.
RU: Yeah, discussion needs to lead to action. I don't know if you follow Douglas Rushkoff's mailing list or not, but he just sent out an email saying that we should act as if we've already won. But I think if we've already won, we should be able to find ways of supporting each other, and we should have an alternative place to find quality health care, and make a living, and have a home. And we're so far away from that. We're just talking. We have this vast information matrix through which we can sort of form these temporary autonomous zones for our mental activities, but I don't see how it is going to extend beyond that. We can get people out to protest or whatever, and that has a certain amount of effect. But in terms of livingry, in terms of people going into a space together and changing the way we live and consume energy — I'm not saying that can't happen, I'm just saying that I can't see how we're getting there right now.
_the book
K: What else are you working on?
RU: I'm writing a book called Counter Cultures Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, a history book about 15 different cultures that were anti-authoritarian and accepted a philosophy of constant change — what Nietzsche called transubstantiation. I'm doing that for Villard, which is a subsidy of Random House. I've never written a history book before, and it's taking all of my time. It's a very complicated project…
I'm really kind of boring right now. Studying history, right now I'm studying Sufism. I'm advancing through the years in this book and trying to get up to the stuff that I already know, which would begin with the Enlightenment… the Age of Reason.
K: How far are you into the book?
RU: I've finished almost half of it. I had to turn in half of it to get the rest of the advance, and they're way pleased with what I have so far. So that's good news, that I'm not wasting my time and this thing will go to print. It should be done in about a year, so it will be a year and a quarter before anyone sees it.
K: What do you do online these days?
RU: I do a lot of my research online, for the book, and also for various journalistic assignments I have. I just finished a piece on Michael Ruppert for Rolling Stone. He's the 9/11 conspiracy guy, he's sort of become the most famous person presenting evidence, supposed evidence, that the Bush administration knew what was going to happen, even in a more precise manner than we know now. That he knew exactly what was going to happen and allowed it to happen for a political advantage. Anyway, in relevance to your question, I use the web for research on something like that.
K: More for work than for fun then?
RU: Yeah, more for work than for fun. I'm not really participating in a lot of discussion groups; sometimes I still go on The WELL and let myself get sucked into conversation there. And I don't use multimedia at home, because all I have [is a 1999 iBook]… it just doesn't really do multimedia adequately. I got to enjoy the peer-to-peer music and all that while working at the Getting It office and I miss that.
K: Do you have any favourite blogs or porn sites?
RU: It's been a while since I've been on the blogs…
K: So you don't keep up with them?
RU: Well, I used to, but I've sort of fallen off now. I can't remember the names now, but there were some people I really liked. MetaFilter? I think was it MetaFilter? I thought that was good. And one run by Jorn Borger the name of which escapes me [Robot Wisdom]. But no, I haven't been following the blogs lately. Like I said I've been so busy working on research. I've been following conspiracy sites primarily because of my work for Rolling Stone.
K: Lately there's been a lot of talk about a return to the old days of the internet, a return to the non-profit spirit. At the same time, there are a lot of new startups and venture capital is finally being pumped back into the net. This might not really be your field anymore, but do you feel that the internet and business can ever be separate again, or do you feel that it's going to go back to its non-profit roots?
RU: People are going to try to form businesses there — some of them are going to fail and some of them are going to succeed — but the sense that this is some sort of agora that you pump yourself in and everything turns into gold… there was never any logic to it whatsoever, and I don't think we're going to return to that. But the business is there, and people are using it for other purposes; politics, creativity, porn, communication… it's all going to go on there at once. That's good. I think community and experimentation was the dominant mythology in the early nineties and then business in the late nineties, and now there isn't one… There's no zeitgeist now.
K: In terms of what you've written about, you've basically gone from psychedelics, to technology, to tabloid stuff, to politics. So was that a natural process of one thing leading to another?
RU: Well, I was actually very political when I was younger. I was a member of the Yippies in my early adulthood, and was editor of an underground newspaper — a Yippie newspaper in Binghamton, New York. So I started off writing about politics, and by the time I got to Mondo in 1989 it was just a different way of approaching what we thought at that time was the progressive revolutionary thing. In some ways the politics were kind of hidden in Mondo 2000. It was odd because we were interpreted as being libertarians by some people, whereas we were the type of people who would tend to glamorize the Weather Underground or something like that. But we did take sort of an experimentalist, "let the cards fall where they may" stance and up-front claimed to be politically irresponsible. That was sort of our pose.
K: If you weren't doing what you're doing now, politics and history, what would you be doing?
RU: I'd like to take a long slow ride across America and talk to people out there beyond the San Francisco bay area and see what people are thinking about.
K: Have you ever thought about relocating?
RU: I've thought about it from time to time. If I did relocate it would probably just be to go to New York City because my fiance's relatives live there. But I do think it would be fun to live in a small town out in the middle of nowhere.
(Originally published at http://www.shift.com/content/web/387/1.html July, 2002)
I've used links from Boing Boing frequently, but never formally recommended it. Boing Boing started out as a magazine in the early 90s. Along with Future Sex and Mondo 2000, Boing Boing helped start up the cyberpunk culture. Now it exists as a really hip web log. You can read the old magazine articles in the book Happy Mutant Handbook which is out of print but not hard to find.
Update: There's now also a free anthology of material from the BB zine available here.


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Conservation Next? Getting Real about Rural Stewardship
Heather Tallis is The Nature Conservancy's lead scientist.
Conservation organizations spend a lot of time working with people in developing countries who rely on the earth for a living — ranchers, herders, fishers, hunters, gatherers.
There are good reasons for collaborating with these people: They know a lot about their environment, and there are a lot of them. And if they can sustain their traditional way of life, they keep their culture and we have ready stewards of the environment. Many millions of them.
But the way conservation engages with rural people in these contexts — indigenous and non-indigenous people alike — is starting to look like a pretty short-term conservation solution.
The current approach generally goes like this:
1. Identify areas important for biodiversity that also house communities dependent on natural resources that are in decline.
2. Work with these communities to improve management of these resources so there's more for nature and for them.
3. Assume that, by improving the resources, we improve livelihoods and help people in these communities stay on as enduring stewards of nature. (Fishers who see a stock recover, we think, will understand the livelihood benefits of fishery closures and management practices and continue those approaches. Herders who see grass rebound and stay plentiful through a drought will take up improved grazing management and stay on as keepers of a healthy grassland.)
But what really happens when conservation improves resources? It means more stability and more income for these communities — enough for kids to be sent to school or for adults to move to the city themselves.
Both students and adults then abandon the traditional livelihoods conservation is relying on for durable stewardship of nature.
In other words, our present approach to natural resource management with rural communities is leading to short-term conservation success, but a long-term conservation vacuum. We're losing the land stewards. The conservation problem is really also a development problem.
I've seen this dynamic play out in the last year in two places that couldn't seem more different:
+ In Kenya, the northern two-thirds of the country is home to not just some of the healthiest wildlife populations in Africa, but also 6 million pastoralists herding cattle, sheep, goats and camels. Conservation is investing in indigenous herders, working together towards more sustainable grazing that should provide more food for wildlife and livestock alike.
But at the same time, more and more indigenous children are going to school, where they move away from some of their traditions like dress and herding practices and emerge into different life trajectories. Instead of herding, young men are finding other jobs like trading livestock in the markets, organizing sporting events, or finding day labor.
+ In Mongolia, nomadic herders are improving grassland management patterns and seeing good forage on the vast, open steppe where Saker falcons still soar and takhi, the world's only wild horses, run free.
Yet the most sincere wish for many of these herders is for their children to have a different future, one in the city with a settled home and constant income. At the first chance, they send their kids off to school — and off the land.
So how do we address such conservation vacuums? In my view, we have two options.
People will almost always choose better living conditions, more opportunity, education and higher income levels over subsistence living. And rightly so.
So the first option dictates that we provide these millions of people with another development alternative to breaking their backs over the land for decades to come — one that allows progress in place, rather than migration to the city.
Education and health have to go the village, likely in novel forms. Opportunities and amenities have to go to the village. The full right to govern has to go to the village. Only by finding serious ways for all aspects of wealth to accrue in these communities will their people remain in place as active earth stewards.
In the second option, we stop these kinds of engagements, given their likely short-lived returns, and deal with what comes next.
Conservationists know this act of the play well. If rural communities move off the land and into cities, the land left behind seldom just sits there as a thriving haven for nature. Most often, the space will be filled with large-scale corporate resource exploration and extraction, or subdivision and urban or residential development.
Even swooning success in establishing protected areas on some of these lands will leave small remnants of the remaining large landscapes at play. If we choose this option, we need to move much more quickly and boldly to embrace large corporate and government actors and find novel and compelling ways to align their activities with conservation.
Either path is a hard sell — not nearly so nice as the romantic notion of rural people as eternal earth stewards.
But in the developing world, the market economy hasn't given these people a viable path to live comfortably off the land, and conservation hasn't either.
Which path will we choose?
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