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Posted on 03/12/2011 11:29:40 AM PST by jazusamo
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Im not going to lie to you, this is going to get ugly. So predicts Goldfish, a Daily Kos blogger who boasts of spending two weekends in Madison, Wisc., on the Front Lines of the Class War. Now, Goldfish is predicting a general strike, like the ones in Greece whenever the bankrupt government tries to cut ruinous spending.
A bigger fish, film director Michael Moore, announced on MSNBCs The Rachel Maddow Show on Wednesday that, This is war. This is class war, and that a national walkout of government school students would happen Friday. Jesse Jackson told Fox News that public unions will retain collective bargaining or youre going to have it through the streets. People here will fight back because they think their cause is moral.
Moral? Public employee unions are bankrupting local and state governments, including Wisconsins. They have it cushier than the folks who are taxed to pay for it all. A Spectrum Research Group report found that public employees make up 15 percent of the work force but lay claim to more than a third of the nations $9.3 trillion in pension assets. Many retire in their 50s and then double-dip with new jobs.
Union members have been demonstrating in Madison for days, but became enraged Wednesday when the Republican Senate finally bypassed the 14 AWOL Democratic senators holed up in Illinois and voted to send GOPGov. Scott Walkers budget reform bill to the House. The law, which the House quickly passed and Mr. Walker signed, requires state employees to contribute 5.8 percent of their salaries to pensions and 12.6 percent to health care benefits, which is still less than most private employees pay.
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Im distressed by the fact that the narrative currently in vogue, (even among conservatives, and this is horrifying for what it means for the future of the country) seems to run like this,
Public sector unions are REALLY bad. There are some bad things in private sector unions, too, but they arent pure evil like public sector unions. Private sector unions, especially at the turn of the century, were actually pretty good.
This is pure BS! It is very, very, very scary when, even here on FR, for Petes sake, people do not recognize ALL UNIONS AS GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED THEFT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BUYING DEMOCRAT VOTES. I expect ignorance of this fact elsewhere, but here on FR??????????????????????
Heres how the purely evil, anti-American, communistic, welfare-begging private sector unions work ..
I set up a business, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY (my capital and/or cash money).
I pay for the space, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I pay the taxes using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I supply the parts and inventory, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I pay for the insurance, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I pay the labor, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I recruit, hire, and advertise, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Oftentimes an entire lifes savings (MY PRIVATE PROPERTY) is at stake.
My future, my standing in the community, my credit, and MY PRIVATE PROPERTY are all at stake.
If I fail, I stand a good chance of being economically crippled for life.
One day, on MY PRIVATE PROPERTY that I own and acquired using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY, one of my employers, who is only in my presence because of the risk of MY PRIVATE PROPERTY, comes to me and says, Heres the story, Bub. From this moment forward I am going to begin organizing your other employees to work AGAINST YOUR PRIVATE INTERESTS and do everything in our power to TAKE BY FORCE AS MUCH OF YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY AS WE CAN GET OUR HANDS ON. We are going to spend a great deal of time and effort ORGANIZING AGAINST YOUR INTERESTS TO DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO GROW STRONGER AT YOUR EXPENSE, IN ORDER TO TAKE YOUR MONEY. You might as well have your business competitors working here on the shop floor. If you do not agree to our demands, we will go on strike, make your life miserable, harass and threaten and/or MURDER IN COLD BLOOD anybody you may want to hire in our place.
Now the one and ONLY way that such a thing could EVER take place is for the government to step in and say, Mr. Employer, if you fire this union man, you are going to jail. Plainly and simply, no union could ever exist in a free society. Yes, in a free society, you should be able to form and join a union of any type at any time for any purpose whatsoever. AND YOUR EMPLOYER SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIRE YOUR HAPPY ASS IN A HEARTBEAT FOR DOING SO. FREEDOM IS A TWO WAY STREET.
I find this ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Truly. A man strolls onto the PRIVATE PROPERTY of another man and tells him how he will employ his PRIVATE PROPERTY going forward, OR ELSE!, and hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people the world over think that the first man is not only somehow better than sub-human filth, they actually see him as a hero! To me, this is one of the most perverse and mystifying examples of twisted human thinking the world has ever seen. I cant say it enough; you come onto my PRIVATE PROPERTY, and bargain with me, using the THREAT OF GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED FORCE, about how much of my PRIVATE PROPERTY you will allow me to keep! And this is somehow acceptable?
As I say, even conservatives, (who have escaped the liberal brainwashing that begins when we are still in the womb on guns, race, US history, etc., etc., and do not subscribe to the easy notions that are so readily picked up by the unthinking) seem to fall for this trap. Seem to believe that The work place is filled with mean managers and mean bosses who were/are really mean to kids and women and workers and paid them pennies instead of the legitimate millions that they were REALLY worth, making evil white male capitalists even richer, and they enslaved them and coerced them and made them work real hard and were really, really mean. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for the government stepping in and saving women and children from mean bosses and really mean white capitalist men.
Needless to say, each and every single word of that narrative is as totally false and ridiculous as the liberal narrative on US history, or bad guns, or evil white men. If you know people who believe that stuff, you cannot help them. Do not waste your breath on them, do not do their research for them; have them read Sowell or Williams or von Hayek, or von Mises, or Friedman, or even Stossel when they write of sweatshops either in todays 3rd world or in America at the turn of the century.
General strike?
Sounds like mass firings are in order. Lots of people need jobs.
Absolutely...I'd bet there's more than enough unemployed and underemployed who want those jobs.
That nails it!
Want to choke off unions, do not base your economy on large companies. If every business is family owned (employ immediate family members only) or employ very few persons, unions would be hard pressed to form. Relationship between owner and worker is close. Once huge corporations form, with execs and lawyers etc etc, workers will naturally form unions to counter it (human nature).
They need to also recall the Dem Secretary of State who is now refusing to affix his signature to the law that Scott Walker just signed so that it will stay bottled up.
Great! Unions will HAVE to obey the law, or face the consequences.
It it's a class war, then Moore will go into hiding.
"Want to choke off unions..."
How about we simply allow a little freedom to exist??? You are free to join a union, I am free to fire you for it. REAL simple.
Public employees make up 15 percent of the work force but lay claim to more than a third of the nations $9.3 trillion in pension assets.
People here will fight back because they think their cause is moral.
The gravy train is now out of fuel.
heh heh heh
I guess low class is better than no class at all. :)
Yep, that was pathetic.
That incident has been running through my mind since this Wisconsin public union issue began to get ugly.
Obama claims to want "volunteers" to do "good things", but his own union thug buddies "don't want no volunteers".
How can anybody miss the thuggery these unions employ in outright extortion of the public treasury? Collective bargaining and union "rights" are giving the unions the upper hand. The taxpayers need to take the upper hand back.
I'm not a violent person, but my desire to punch that fool in the snotlocker is huge - fortunately he's 2,000 miles away.
That happened here in Allentown. Boy did the union get a black eye with that. These idiots just can't help but do things to turn off the public. It is in their mindless Lib Rat nature.
No, it's not class war, it's ideological war... between the givers and the takers... and the givers are taking their givings back.
Ne Kulturny. (Meaning "uncultured," a grave insult in Russian.)
Its transliterated ne kulturniy, sometimes as just one word (sorry, dont have a Russian font on this computer).
Pronounced: nyeh kool-toor-knee, accent on the toor.
And it is NOT a term you want to use to a Russian. MANY fights have begun by using the term.
Did the national walkout of students happen? I didn't hear anything about it here in Texas. Just wondering!
Isn't that for this coming Friday? I don't know.
As I said the companies of this country brought Unions on themselves.
Every word you wrote is incorrect. Read the sources I mentioned when they talk about sweatshops and working conditions, and what is "fair", etc.
Job Stress: Comparing teaching with other occupations (Part 1)
Posted: March 06, 2011
Editor's note: Back by popular demand and in light of the events in Wisconsin, this series of articles from last year is being reposted for your reading pleasure.
By John Sullivan
It is hardly unusual for employees in any field to complain about stress related to their jobs. Teachers are certainly no exception, but what are actual job stressors and do teachers suffer more than most? This is an important issue because job stress should have a relationship to compensation.
For example, it would be argued that running backs in the NFL deserve high compensation because their average working life in that position is very short. It could be argued that air traffic controllers deserve high compensation because they spend their entire working day with the lives of others in their hands. It is difficult to list or even imagine all job stressors, but an incomplete list follows.
1. Loss of job.
2. Low pay.
3. Uncertain pay.
4. Uncertain working hours.
5.Weekend work.
6. Little vacation time.
7. Work related travel.
8. Safety on the job.
9. Responsibility for employees.
10. Uncertainty of raises.
11. Saving for retirement.
12. Late retirement.
13. Job relocation.
14. Increased regulation and paperwork.
15. Problems with customers.
"Loss of job" is considered the most important stressor and can come about in many ways, including product obsolescence, structural unemployment, job elimination, discharge, etc. How many autoworkers, steelworkers, keypunch operators, tech employees and so on lose their jobs? The numbers are usually announced in the tens of thousands. Due to tenure, union protection, and leverage against parents, teacher job loss is almost nil. I read recently that 46% of employees are afraid of losing their job. I would guess that few of these are teachers.
Low pay would certainly not be a source of job stress for teachers. Teachers are required to work about six hours a day, five days a week, 180 days a year with 15 paid sick days per year that can be accumulated. They may-or may not- work additional hours for no pay. On a monthly basis, the average teacher makes 2-3 times what a private-sector employee makes with similar credentials.
The amount of pay is known, sometimes years in advance. Compare this to a commission-only salesman of business software that works now for an uncertain payoff six months from now or perhaps a trader on the Chicago Exchange who might make $10,000 today and lose $10,000 tomorrow. These are occupations where "uncertain pay" is truly a job stressor!
Most people have jobs that require flexibility re working hours. Construction workers might find out on Friday that they have to work until the job is done. Attorneys might find out that an important case means that they cannot take any time off indefinitely. Pilots may get stuck on the other side of the world due to snow in Chicago. These are certainly job stressors, but not for teachers.
In that vein, it is certainly stressful to realize that your employer considers your weekends off to be optional. How many employees have to change their weekend plans because they have to work? Do Chicago snow-plowing personnel get to enjoy the weekend off during a blizzard? Not if they want to keep their jobs! In contrast, I have never heard of a teacher who was required to work on a weekend.
Typically, in the private sector, one receives a week of vacation after the first year of employment, followed by two weeks after five years, three weeks after ten years, and four weeks after twenty-five years. The private sector of this country works more hours per year than every other developed nation in the world. I know people who haven't had a week off in ten years. Teachers have about four months off per year beginning immediately. My guess is that "lack of vacation time" is not a stressor for teachers.
Travel, while always a stressor, has become much more so due to increased security at airports. I used to travel moderately in my career, but I certainly wouldn't want to today. In other words, I would have to receive a lot more compensation to take a job that required travel. Teachers do not have this stressor.
Teachers have some safety concerns in the workplace. Teachers can be assaulted like anyone else and there is always the possibility of accidents. This is a stressor for anyone either on or off the job. However, teachers do not work with machinery or equipment, around hazardous or dangerous materials, come into contact with dangerous people like policemen do, work underground, underwater or high in the air, or have any kind of activity that would be considered inherently dangerous. They do not have to evade tacklers or work for a contractor in Iraq. They do not lose arms or legs on the job. As a job class, teaching must be among the safest.
Up next: Part 2.
Job Stress: Comparing teaching with other occupations (Part 2)
Posted: March 09, 2011
John Sullivan has an MBA from NIU and has 20 years of management experience supervising both union and non-union labor. He currently resides in Palatine, Illinois.
My mother with two young sons,father deceased, was barely able to keep the necessary food on the table. It was the early 1930s when unions were coming on strong. There were many nights Mom came home and cried. She cried not only because she felt discriminated against as an immigrant with an accent not being given some of the good material to work with on piecework( management) but she cried also as a very self determined immigrant who was being bullied by union organizers/thugs to continually be on strike, no pay. I believe Mom ended up being unionized but it never increased her take home pay much,if any. The experiences of those times have no doubt influenced my thought that a person is generally if not much better off to find/do work where they can be recognized for their worth as individuals as contrasted to getting paid on a herd basis. No doubt some people are better suited by character, ambition, greed/jealousy to be members of the herd. And of course there are those like my mother who in spite of desire for free choice get caught up in the web of other peoples ambition.
My mother with two young sons,father deceased, was barely able to keep the necessary food on the table. It was the early 1930s when unions were coming on strong. There were many nights Mom came home and cried. She cried not only because she felt discriminated against as an immigrant with an accent not being given some of the good material to work with on piecework( management) but she cried also as a very self determined immigrant who was being bullied by union organizers/thugs to continually be on strike, no pay. I believe Mom ended up being unionized but it never increased her take home pay much,if any. The experiences of those times have no doubt influenced my thought that a person is generally if not much better off to find/do work where they can be recognized for their worth as individuals as contrasted to getting paid on a herd basis. No doubt some people are better suited by character, ambition, greed/jealousy to be members of the herd. And of course there are those like my mother who in spite of desire for free choice get caught up in the web of other peoples ambition.
The government should not be able to force a businessman to bargain collectively with employees if the employer doesn't want to bargain collectively.
Likewise, the government should not be able to force a professional person to get medical "license" before opening a medical practice. Ditto lawyer licenses, dental licenses, and real estate licenses. Let customers decide if the professional is qualified.
Likewise, the government should not be able to force me to locate my business in one location rather than another. Zoning laws have no place in a free society.
Don't get me started!! an use our private property to open a medical practice?
Bravo to you, sir.
The quality of medicine is really **privately** controlled, now, through certified residencies, privately administer board specialist exams, malpractice insurance, peer review boards, and hospital demands that physicians and surgeons be certified before joining their staff.
If they did away with the state licenses, I can't see how it would make much difference to the patient. The medical licenses that states give out now are very basic. For instance, a psychiatrist is licensed to do heart surgery. Psychiatrists have no access to surgical facilities because of the above controls.
And....( This is really important because unions that do the following are nothing more than a mafia.)
If you do not agree to our demands, we will go on strike, make your life miserable, harass and threaten and/or MURDER IN COLD BLOOD anybody you may want to hire in our place.
The above is an offer that the employer can't refuse.
As I say, it's a truly mind-boggling situation.
To hell with collective bargaining rights. How about granting individual bargaining rights instead? If I am the best damn teacher the state of Wisconsin has, I should be able to levy my ability to teach in order to gain a raise in salary from the school district. Without individual bargaining rights, my salary is set by the performance of the very worst teacher in the district.
There is NOTHING good about any union anywhere.
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The widower of a cyclist killed in a crash with a milk tanker in Palmerston North has remembered her as a friendly, outgoing woman with incredible mental and physical strength.
Masters cyclist and Hokowhitu School deputy principal Jocelyn Lee Goodwin died at the scene of a crash in Summerhill Drive yesterday.
Goodwin, 51, and the truck-and-trailer unit were both travelling up the hill just after 7am when the crash happened.
The road was closed for several hours. A crane had to be used to lift the vehicle off the wreckage.
The truck driver was shaken, but not injured.
It was second deadly crash involving a cyclist and a truck in New Zealand in four days. In Christchurch today, over 800 friends of killed cyclist Sharla Phyllis Haerewa celebrated a loving and caring ''treasure'', who was becoming an exceptional nurse. Haerewa, 22, was killed Wednesday while biking to work at 6.40am while wearing reflective cover and flashing lights. The death has prompted pleas to make city streets safer.
Goodwin's husband of 27 years, Garry Wadsworth, said Goodwin loved the freedom cycling gave her, as well as the social nature of it. She was also very good at it.
Time trials were where she excelled - Goodwin won numerous local masters events and was always near the front at national Masters Games.
"They were what suited her most and she loved them," Wadsworth said. "They were a combination of both her physical and mental strength."
Cycling was not the only sport she enjoyed.
As a young woman, Goodwin represented New Zealand in whitewater kayaking and was also a strong swimmer, Wadsworth said.
"She was always good at everything she wanted to do. She was a perfectionist.
"I just hope she didn't have to suffer."
Wadsworth met Goodwin at Teacher's College in Palmerston North in the early 1980s and the pair married in 1987.
They lived together in Dannevirke and New Plymouth before shifting back to Palmerston North at Christmas 1994. They had two children together - Conor, 22, and Renee, 20.
In education circles Goodwin was well respected, particularly in children's literacy which Wadsworth said was the area of teaching she loved most.
"She was very friendly, quite outgoing with people, loved to talk with people and she loved to cook. And she could cook anything."
Wadsworth said he did not want to Goodwin's death to be "another chapter in the war between motorists and cyclists".
"I feel really terrible for the truck driver, the poor bastard."
"She will be sadly missed by all staff and children at the school," Hokowhitu School board of trustees chairman Brett Calkin said this morning.
"When we were told yesterday our first thoughts went out to her family and how our teachers and children are going to feel about what happened."
He said advice had been sought from a Ministry of Education crisis team and protocols had been set up to help staff and children cope with the news.
"She wasn't just a deputy principal but also looked after a new entrants class for us," Calkin said.
"All of those children in her new entrants class are obviously 5, a very close relationship.
"It's going to be particularly tough for those children, but while she's been at Hokowhitu School she's touched the lives of all of our children, including my own. She is a massive loss to our school."
All children came to school this morning and Calkin said he was proud of the way everyone was coping.
"The staff are feeling a significant amount of grief themselves and personally I am really proud of the way they are thinking about the children in class before their own feelings.
"It's through adversity that you see how strong your school community is and we have seen it today."
The school had last night phoned all parents with children at the school to allow them to prepare their children. A formal note would be sent out tonight.
"They will know what has happened but it's hard to know if they will fully process it.
"We've had a really fortunate situation in that we have a relief teacher who comes in and looks after the class when Jocelyn is on deputy principal duties and that teacher has agreed to come in full-time for the next two weeks."
Ministry of Education advice was to keep things at the school as normal as possible and that was the focus over the next week, he said.
"We will do something to honour her in our own special way, but it is too early to talk about a memorial."
Bike Manawatu president Paul van Velthooven said Goodwin was a regular at Bike Manawatu events.
Formerly with the Marist club before the amalgamation of Bike Manawatu, Goodwin won a club masters title on the road and had won other masters medals.
She usually rode with other recreational riders every Sunday but appeared to have gone on her own yesterday, van Velthooven said.
"She was just very passionate about the sport. Everyone is shocked and dismayed that this has happened on what seems like such and innocuous piece of road."
Acting Detective Sergeant Shelley Ross, of the Manawatu CIB, said police were still piecing together what factors had led to the crash and it was too early to comment on any potential charges.
"The serious crash unit is investigating and officers are continuing to make inquiries and speak to witnesses."
City councillor and cyclist Duncan McCann said the tragedy came only months after the council lowered the speed limit in Summerhill Drive by 10kmh.
"We can't speculate on the cause but our sympathies are with the family at this time."
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The third entry in my hummingbird folklore series. Previously, we've read how Hummingbird got the best of Coyote in a pair of Ohlone folktales from the California coast. For this story, we go to the Pacific Northwest for a story from the Nez Percé (Nimíipuu) people. This time, Coyote turns the tables.
Coyote and Hummingbird – Nez Percé
As Coyote traveled along the valley, upstream, he heard a raspy, angry sound, like the sawing of wood. A voice called down to him:
"You there, coming up the valley — we challenge you to a fight!"
Looking around, Coyote saw Hummingbird and his brother atop a mountain peak. He shouted back at them, "A fight is just what I've been looking for!"
He ran up towards them and they rushed down to meet him, coming at him from both sides. They fought, and the Hummingbird brothers beat Coyote easily, killing him. Looking down at him, they said, "Oh, it's Coyote. No wonder he was so arrogant, thinking he could beat us."


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GARRISON STARR, AMY CORRIEA, CLIFF EBERHARDT This will be a very interesting mix, all part of a series sponsored by Organic 99X. Starr is a rocker at heart, but has a strong Americana following. Corriea ventures a bit more into the folkie realm, and Eberhardt mixes a bit of blues into his unique sound. $14-$60. 8 p.m. Eddie's Attic. 404-377-4976. www.eddiesattic.com. -- James Kelly
BEAT BEAT BEAT Beat Beat Beat's springy, old-school punk style recalls both the hungry, no-frills attack of the Damned and the Saints' adrenalized R&B. The vocals are a snotty sneer of attitude skating over a machine-gun beat all fueled by a hyperactive melody. There's a crisp, disarming simplicity that matches the music's vibrancy, like Chuck Berry jamming with the Ramones in the Dead Boys' basement. $5. 9 p.m. Lenny's Bar. 404-577-7721. www.lennysbar.com. -- Chris Parker
JUCIFER While the White Stripes continue to churn out Icky-mainstream-approved-comparatively-stale-two-piece-Thump rock, Jucifer toils on its own terms. Totally indie and beholden to no one, Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood answer only to themselves and their pets. Tonight, the intense twosome will fill the tiny stage with vintage amps, battered drums and undeniable charisma, punishing the sound system with a beautifully unhinged and unrepentant hailstorm of menacing-to-angelic ruminations. The duo is as compelling to watch as to hear. Doomsayer opens. $10. 9 p.m. Star Bar. 404-681-9018. www.starbaratlanta.com. -- Lee Valentine Smith
ROSWELL UMC CHOIR & THE ATLANTA WIND SYMPHONY In its 26th year, this annual patriotic musical celebration includes perennial audience favorites such as Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Free admission, but tickets are necessary to guarantee seating, as it typically attracts a full house. Free. Fri., June 29, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 1, 4 and 6:30 p.m. Roswell United Methodist Church. 770-993-6218. www.rumc.com. -- Mark Gresham
STREET DOGS, THE TOSSERS Taking their name from the old English colloquialism for masturbation, the Tossers pre-date similar-minded Celtic-punk acts. However, it took the success of Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys to boost the Tossers' fortunes, which have improved of late, bolstered by a pair of fine albums for Victory Records, including their latest, Agony. The Street Dogs feature a similar aesthetic but in more of a punk vein, led by former Dropkick Murphys' singer Mike McColgan. $10. 7 p.m. Masquerade. 404-577-8178. masq.com. -- CP
UNKNOWN HINSON If you've ever frequented the right honky-tonk bars around closing time, the idea of vampire country won't seem strange. Charlotte's mutton-chopped Unknown Hinson delivers loping, blood-in-your-beer ballads that hark back to Bocephus, were he ever hillbilly overlord of the undead. He offers such tooth-in-cheek classics as "Don't Bite the Lips That Kiss You," the inflatable "Polly Urethane" and the humorous "Satan in a Thong," off his latest, Target Practice. Hinson also moonlights as the voice of "Squidbillies'" cartoon character Early Cuyler. $12. 9 p.m. The Earl. 404-522-3950. www.badearl.com. -- CP
ZOE KEATING & THE GHOSTS PROJECT Zoe Keating is an avant-cellist from San Francisco whose one-woman performances build off of string compositions that are sampled and layered by means of various pedals and computer assistance. Each of her compositions comes to life with an array of minimalist, modern, classical and pop tendencies, but to label her music as such understates the austere beauty and experimental nature of her work. $8. 9 p.m. Eyedrum. 404-522-0655. www.eyedrum.org. -- Chad Radford
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Jere Flint conducts light classical favorites and Broadway tunes in this open-air park concert in the middle of the rapidly growing, nearby suburban town of Suwanee. Note that parking at Town Center is limited, but off-site parking at Shawnee North Business Center with a complimentary shuttle will be available after 6:30 p.m. Free. 7 p.m. Suwanee Town Center Park. 770-945-8996. www.suwanee.com/whatsnew.php. -- MG
FRANCISCO LOPEZ Francisco Lopez is notorious for his extreme, sometimes absurd approach to minimalism. He has explored various aural realms, ranging from heavy metal to the natural sonic terrain of rain forests in the interest of exploiting opposite, though equally acute, natures of noise and natural silence. He is also notorious for turning out CDs and DVDs that contain no audio or visual material whatsoever, prompting a transcendental listening experience. $7. 9 p.m. Eyedrum. 404-522-0655. www.eyedrum.org. -- CR
KEITH URBAN, THE WRECKERS A pretty-boy from Australia and a former pop singer share the bill tonight. Urban is a smokin'-good guitar player, but his so-called country songs are really bad '70s pop songs with just a hint of twang. Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp are the Wreckers, and they are just as country as Urban ... NOT! $49.50-$59.50. 8 p.m. Philips Arena. 404-249-6400. www.ticketmaster.com. -- JK
THE SELMANAIRES, DARK MEAT, THE ETTES The Selmanaires play bouncy, art, punk jams that are propelled by terse hooks and a simple, powerful percussive plod. Athens' Dark Meat is a twisted, psych-rock outfit that follows Olivia Tremor Control's footsteps, somewhat. But Dark Meat filters the history of mordant 20th-century music through a freakish, lysergic rock lens. L.A. trio the Ettes open with a set of power-pop and garage-rock chops. $8. 9 p.m. Drunken Unicorn. www.thedrunkenunicorn.net. -- CR
TINSLEY ELLIS Atlanta hasn't produced many blues-rock institutions and certainly none that has lasted as long as Ellis. While he isn't a household name, he's a tireless journeyman who has honed his act through nearly three decades of one-night stands. Nobody leaves one of his sweat-soaked shows thinking they haven't gotten their money's worth, and ultimately that's what matters. This gig comes on the heels of a fine, representative new album, Moment of Truth. The local connection is cemented tonight with old running buddies Bill Sheffield and Donnie McCormick as openers. $15. 8:30 p.m. Variety Playhouse. 404-524-7354. variety-playhouse.com. -- Hal Horowitz
UMPHREY'S MCGEE, DISCO BISCUITS These acts fall under the vague "jam nation" umbrella, but neither adheres strictly to the parameters of the genre. The Biscuits don't play disco, but do bring '70s synths and a sort of porno-funk mentality to rock that's spacey yet not spaced-out. Umphrey's channels an even more unlikely twisty prog, Zappa-styled fusion. When both groups loosen up, the tunes follow suit, which is what the audience comes to hear. Note the starting time, and settle in for a long night. $28.50. 4 p.m. Masquerade. 404-577-8178. masq.com. -- HH
COBB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CSO music director Michael Alexander conducts this outdoor "Star Spangled Spectacular" that includes popular Broadway tunes and patriotic fare such as Sousa's "Washington Post" and "Stars and Stripes Forever," and Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait," plus a finale of fireworks. Free. 8 p.m. Legacy Gazebo Amphitheater. 770-423-6650. www.kennesaw.edu/arts. -- MG
FETCHIN' BONES, VIETNAM Although the uninitiated may dismiss them as unimportant, vibrant artist Hope Nicholls led the quirky Fetchin' Bones through a series of enjoyably eccentric LPs in the mid-to-late-'80s, including a major-label deal with Capitol and releases from Atlanta's DB Recs. One of the wave of unique North Carolina bands to earn brief national prominence, FB eroded just as grunge hit. Since, Nicholls has continued working with Bones' guitarist Aaron Pitkin, collaborating on musical and marital projects. Now, for two shows only (Atlanta and Charlotte), Fetchin' Bones has reunited. The extended reunion of Atlanta's VieTNam opens. $20. 8 p.m. Smith's Olde Bar. 404-875-1522. www.smithsoldebar.com. -- LVS
JOHNETTE NAPOLITANO From the guiding spirit of Concrete Blonde, Scarred, singer/songwriter Johnette Napolitano's new solo album, is a smart collection of emotional vignettes, sensually presented by one of the finest performers from the fertile '80s California punk/art/literary scene. Tonight she offers songs from the excellent collection and perhaps a tune or two from some of her Blonde moments. Part of 99X's continuing "Unplugged in the Park" series. Free. 7 p.m. Park Tavern. www.parktavern.com. -- LVS
PEARLENE Any band fearless enough to cover folksinger Fred Neil and drag him down to their swampy blues home is worth a few hours of your time. This four-piece's roots lie both in the '70s Rolling Stones' gutsy rocking and Roky Erickson's bleary singer/songwriter visions. Its unique fusion of boozy blues, scrappy folk and punky psychedelia is more hit than miss, yet, even after three albums, Pearlene remains a work in progress. But it's one well worth investigating. Adam McIntyre & the Pinks also appear. $7. 9 p.m. The Earl. 404-522-3950. www.badearl.com. -- HH
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- Published:02 July 2013
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Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish is often invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the environmental lawyer who fought and won the case, known officially as Hill et al. v. TVA, tells the hidden story behind one of the Supreme Court's most significant environmental law decisions. The truth of the darter's saga has been deliberately clouded, Zygmunt Plater asserts, and he offers a fully documented account of the six-year crusade against a pork barrel dam project that made no economic sense. This is how the case lives on in popular lore: a group of fringe extremists persuaded the nation's highest court to stop a gigantic Tennessee Valley hydroelectric dam that would have wiped out the snail darter's last known population. But Plater documents a wholly different story. The dam was actually small, and not a hydroelectric project. The group fighting to save the fish's river and valley were actually family farmers whose lands were being confiscated for a real estate development scheme. The TVA project, backed by powerful politicians, was deeply flawed from the start. Plater's gripping tale of mobilized citizens navigating the tangled corridors of national power at last sets the record straight.
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Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater is professor of law and director of the Land & Environmental Law Program at Boston College Law School. He chaired Alaska's Oil Spill Commission Legal Task Force and has participated in numerous citizen environmental initiatives.


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You have to admit, all in all, it's a step up from the Weekly.
That's the best JL sighting I've seen in 6 months. Bravo!
Hello Chris:
Thanks for the plug!
I'm sorry you haven't had a chance to come downstairs for some biscotti during the last couple of months. I'm moving out of the building at the end of this month, so if you're still looking for coffee and biscotti, you've only got another week or so.
On a related note, I just passed Dan Savage up on 15th. My girlfriend was driving, and when I told her who I'd seen, she wanted to drive back by him and say "Hey! I've got John Longenbaugh in the car!"
Anyhow, if you can't make it to biscotti, come on by and see Marvolo do his thing. It's a fun evening's entertainment.
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The Golden Age is the most ambitious and impressive science fiction novel since China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. Amazingly, it is John C. Wright's debut novel.
In the far future, humans have become as gods: immortal, almost omnipotent, able to create new suns and resculpt body and mind. A trusting son of this future, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, discovers the rulers of the solar system have erased entire centuries from his mind. When he attempts to regain his lost memories, the whole society of the Golden Oecumene opposes him. Like his mythical namesake, Phaethon has flown too high and been cast down. He has committed the one act forbidden in his utopian universe. Now he must find out what it is--and who he is.
A novel influenced by Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, and A.E. van Vogt, yet uniquely itself, The Golden Age presents a complex and thoroughly imagined future that will delight science fiction fans. John C. Wright has a gift for big, bold concepts and extrapolations, and his smoothly written novel pushes cyberpunk's infotech density to a new level, while abandoning cyberpunk's nihilistic noir tone for SF's original optimism. Big ideas are joined by big themes; Wright provocatively explores the nature of heroism, the nature of power, and the conflict between the rights of the individual and those of society.
Fiction as ambitious as The Golden Age is never flawless. Action fans will find this novel too talky. A change of quests late in the novel is jarring. And, while this Romance of the Far Future suitably examines the heroic virtues, its unfortunate subtext is "heroism is a guy thing." This far-future novel published in 2002 maintains a credulity-shattering mid-20th-century sexual status quo.
Not all plotlines are resolved in The Golden Age, and a sequel is forthcoming. --Cynthia Ward --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This dazzling first novel is just half of a two-volume saga, so it's too soon to tell if it will deliver on its audacious promise. It's already clear, however, that Wright may be this fledgling century's most important new SF talent. Many millennia from now, his protagonist Phaethon disrupts the utopia of the Golden Oecumene to achieve "deeds of renown without peer." To write honestly about the far future is a similarly heroic deed. Too often, SF paints it as nothing more than the Roman Empire writ large. Wright recognizes that our society already commands many of the powers the Romans attributed to their gods; our descendants' world will be almost unimaginably magnificent and complex, and they will be able to reshape their own minds as easily as they engineer the heart of the sun. To make their dramas resonant today, the author uses echoes of mythology both classic (like his namesake, Phaethon is punished for soaring too high) and contemporary (SF fans will enjoy nods to modern masters Wells, Lovecraft and Vance). And he wisely chooses simple pulp-fiction plots to drive us through the technological complexities of Phaethon's world. The hero's quest to regain his lost memories, learn his true identity and reach the stars is undeniably compelling. As a result, having to wait for the next volume is frustrating. Wright's ornate and conceptually dense prose will not be to everyone's taste but, for those willing to be challenged, this is a rare and mind-blowing treat. (Apr. 24)Forecast: Intellectual SF fans should make this a cult favorite akin to Vernor Vinge's Marooned in Real Time or Greg Egan's Permutation City. If the novel finds a wider readership, it will be because, like William Gibson's work, it reflects and inspires current developments in virtual reality and AI.
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Like many others have said the first 100 pages leave you confused yet eager to see where this is going.
It is probably not for everyone.
The relationships among the major characters is Truly some of the best writing ever. I cant wait for Mr WRights next book.
Opinion: Wow! It took me a while to figure out all the language in the book (there are many large, compound words full of meaning that I'm sure I missed alot of). Once I got the basic grasp of the structure of the societies involved, I was engrossed. This story has many facets, many of which I listed above in the summary. I seriously need to pick up the second book in this series because This book just ends. Not much is resolved, yet many things seemed to have been resolved. The resolutions bring up many more questions.Read more ›
He develops a detailed society several thousand years in our future where the relationship between humans and computers is practically symbiotic. The society is vastly different from our own but also very believable due to it's many human nuances. He keeps the prose tidy by describing daily details in the futuristic vernacular, avoiding unnecessarily long passages to give you the mental picture. It takes a couple of pages to get oriented, but the immersion makes the ride that much more enjoyable.
The main gist of the plot centers on how the main character uncovers in stages why certain parts of his memory were removed, the incredible endeavor hidden therein, and why he stands to lose so much if he breaks the law to restore what was lost.
Because of his adept construction of a detailed and believable advanced society and the layered sociopolitical intrigue, the novel moves along well. Many authors would have gotten bogged down and been unable to correctly decide when to advance the story and when to further immerse the reader in details of the novel's world. I was disappointed when I found that I was out of pages to turn. Fortunately for us (as well as Mr. Wright I suppose) there are two sequels to this novel. I've read the second, and have ordered the third.
Wright was schooled in classics from Homer to The Federalist Papers, and he worked as a lawyer and a journalist. His erudition shines through on every page. Characters are named after personages from ancient myth, and their dialogue is learned and meaty. Wright has also meticulously painted a convincing backdrop of human society in the far, far future. His knowledge of the classics has enabled him to distill and retain what is essential about the human experience, i.e., the ability to dream, love and achieve (as well as their opposites, stagnation, hatred and resentment). This gives his characters a kernel of familiarity despite their distinct otherness of living in an essentially post-human civilization spanning most of the solar system.
Wright is equally passionate about scientific realism. The book paints incredible advances in computing and nano-scale technology, there are no warp drives. The Second Law of Thermodynamics is strictly adhered to. Yet his scenarios and inventions are so fantastic, so wonderfully fresh and well-crafted, as to send the mind reeling.
All this would be enough to recommend the book on its own, but I believe the book's philosophical merits will be of particular interest to many readers. In interviews, Mr. Wright states outright that he created his future society to be a libertarian utopia. In fact, he wrote it partly as an explicit rebuttal to certain portrayals of communist utopias.Read more ›
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Combine the politcal machinations of "Dune," the philosophy of "Neuromancer" or "The Matrix," and the social norms (and twists and turns) of Iain... Read morePublished on May 31 2004 by Jon M Altbergs
Others who have called this jargony and overwrought are dead-on. The result is borderline unreadable, plodding and uninteresting. Read morePublished on May 16 2004
Don't read this - read books by Alastair Reynolds instead. His books cover some similar ideas, but he wields them with vastly greater skill. Read morePublished on April 23 2004 by Adam Piontek
The first thirty pages were so dense with extremely contrived techno-babble as to make the story difficult to appreciate. Read morePublished on April 6 2004
Where can one start in reviewing this book? It is tremendously entertaining, at once a grand space opera, a detective story, and a much-less-grimy-than-genre cyberpunk narrative,... Read morePublished on April 6 2004 by Brian A. Schar
First, lets be clear here, this is a trilogy, not a 2 book series as is indicated in the 'official' reviews. And, to get the entire story, you *must* read all three books. Read morePublished on March 13 2004 by JCW
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It's been awhile since Atlanta was consumed with lust for all things Drive-By Truckers, the kind of frenzy former CL editor Tony Ware alluded to in a Nov. 30, 2005, edition of his late, lamented RedEye column. "The Drive-By Truckers look at something internal and eternal in the South and Southern rock; the songs explore how good men can do bad things but bad things don't have to overtake good men," he wrote.
Too bad the Truckers' last album, 2006's A Blessing and a Curse, didn't generate the same kind of passion from its fans. I thought the album was fine material, but it drew some criticism for being too mainstream Americana and not containing enough awe-inspiring Dirty South-sized visions.
Hell, I almost completely forgot that the band released a covers album with the great Bettye LaVette, The Scene of the Crime, earlier this fall. Judging from the dearth of local press, I'm not the only one, either. The Recording Academy did not, however, since it earned a 2008 Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
So let the band's upcoming opus, Brighter Than Creation's Dark, be a reminder of the great Truckers' considerable powers. It comes out via New West Records Jan. 22, just like the new albums from the Selmanaires, Anna Kramer and the Lost Cause, and the Whigs. Read the track listing below.
Perhaps mindful of the aforementioned criticism, the Athens band has excluded Atlanta from the first round of dates for its tour next year. You'll have to drive an hour-and-a-half to Athens to see them on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 11-12, at the 40 Watt. Boo-hoo!
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It's official: Legendary Pictures is developing the first-ever live-action "Pokemon" movie, to be titled "Detective Pikachu."
Nintendo has announced its pint-sized NES Classic Edition, which comes equipped with 30 games, from "Castlevania" to "Zelda II: The Adventures of Link."
After the success of "Pokemon Go," a new report posits that Legendary Pictures is close to obtaining the film rights for the property.
Inspired by the classic video game, this official Question Block lamp emits a "Ping!" sound when turn on or off. Sorry, no gold coins, though.
Mario, Link, Princess Peach and more are featured in a new line of shoes inspired by Nintendo's classic games.
A new hip-hop-influenced, live-action Mario fan film knock the socks of 1994's "Super Mario Bros."
Nintendo has released the nearly 15-minute animated short produced "Ghost in the Shell's" Production I.G. and "Attack on Titan's" WIT Studio.
Nintendo has partnered with the studios behind "Attack on Titan" and "Ghost in the Shell" for a "Star Fox Zero" animated short.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of "The Legend of Zelda," one company has created a limited-edition gold-plated Nintendo Entertainment System.
A collaboration between Nintendo and the Italian fashion house, "Super Moschino" honors the 30th anniversary of the iconic video game.
Called Linkle, the dual crossbow-wielding character will make her debut in March when "Hyrule Warriors Legends" arrives for Nintendo 3DS.
Details are slim, but the agreement represents the latest effort by the video-game giant to expand its pop culture reach.
Nintendo's Satoru Iwata contends the article saying a live-action series is in the early stages of development "is not based on correct information."
Emails from the Sony hack reveal the "Amazing Spider-Man" producer has been in talks with Nintendo for an animated adaptation of the game franchise.
SDCC: Hands-On With Nintendo's "Super Smash Bros.," "Hyrule Warriors" & "Bayonetta 2."
This week, Brian Cronin powers up to discover whether Nintendo bought the rights to a "Super Mario Bros." porn parody simply so it could bury the film.
Dark Horse Editor Patrick Thorpe explains how "The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia" came to America, revealing the secret history of the legendary Nintendo franchise to casual fans and longtime gamers alike.
This week, the comic book filed as an official legal brief in a U.S. District Court! Plus, the comic origins of the classic Nintendo video game, "Hogan's Alley," and did an insult of Jim Valentino make him leave Marvel for Image?
CBR News discussed "Aliens: Infestation" with director Adam Tierney and producer Jeff Pomegranate who explained what is involved in bringing the legendary sci-fi franchise to a new portable gaming experience.
This Fall, "Batman: The Brave and the Bold the Videogame" comes to the Nintendo Wii and DS. We spoke to the games' directors about how they've created something that Batman fans of all ages will appreciate.
Heading into the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this week, most gamers had a pretty good idea of what to expect, but the major press conferences still managed to offer up some unexpected surprises.
"Speed Racer" is coming to cinemas and the Wii, courtesy of Warner Bros and Sidhe Interactive, and producer/designer Andy Satterthwaite is here to tell you all you need to know about "Car-Fu."
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What is the value of the digit 8 in this number? 80,007,941
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