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As is the case each and every season, each and every week, any omission below is not on purpose, it's merely intentional.
Chaos in the offing?
Don't look now, but we could be in for an unprecedented controversy in the second-to-last year of existence for the BcS. With five weeks left in the regular season, including conference championship game weekend in early December, there exists the very real possibility there could be four unbeaten teams from so-called BcS conferences left standing as No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Oregon, No. 4 Kansas State and No. 5 Notre Dame all held serve and remained unbeaten this weekend -- and, yes, I'm discounting Louisville from title talk at the moment. While the chance for an upset is always right around the corner -- hello Oklahoma State and Oregon State circa 2011 and 2012, respectively -- the schedules for all four teams suggest the worst-case scenario before a four-team playoff is implemented in 2014 could very well become a reality:
Alabama: at LSU, Texas A&M, Western Carolina, Auburn
Oregon: at USC, at Cal, Stanford, Oregon State
Kansas State: Oklahoma State, at TCU, at Baylor, Texas
Notre Dame: Pittsburgh, at Boston College, Wake Forest, at USC
Again, there are plenty of late-season speed bumps for all five teams in the apocalyptic scenario for it to never fully come to fruition. However, as an ardent anti-BcS proponent and even as I'd hate it for the teams and players involved, I would love nothing more than for that very thing to happen and further embarrass the sham that is the current system for determining a national champion, whether it's in its last days or not.
Little Manhattan, big-time football
One of the best storylines in college football this season has been Kansas State's ascension to the national stage, and in Week 9 K-State continued rolling right along. Literally. After falling behind No. 15 Texas Tech 10-3 early in the second quarter, the Wildcats scored on eight straight possessions, with the seventh of those possessions punctuated a minute later by an interception return for a touchdown. That 52-14 run lifted K-State to its eighth consecutive win in 2012. And further buttressed the case for Bill Snyder as it relates to national honors. While there has been talk about the job Penn State's Bill O'Brien has been doing in scandal-ridden Happy Valley, there's only one logical choice for Coach of the Year honors all across the board. What Snyder has done in Manhattan is nothing short of staggering and should be duly recognized for the masterpiece that it is. Of course, having the presumptive Heisman front-runner -- Collin Klein, two passing and two rushing touchdowns vs. Tech -- doesn't hurt, but it should take nothing away from the totality of Snyder's 2012 work.
Can't spell "Heisman Trophy" without "Manti Te'o"
Ben did an excellent job recapping the they're-real-and-they're-spectacular Notre Dame win over Oklahoma, so we'll just touch on one angle of the fascinating 2012 story that is the Irish: linebacker Manti Te'o. Simply put, the senior heart and soul of the Irish defense is, on a weekly basis, putting on the most dominating defensive display since Ndamukong Suh in 2009. That year, the Nebraska defensive lineman terrorized opponents throughout the season and earned a trip to New York City as a Heisman finalist. Based on his play thus far, Te'o deserves at least that much. If Collin Klein, the presumptive front-runner at this point, were to stub his toe at some point, though, Te'o and the combination of his dominating play plus the poignant story attached to his 2012 season could become (gasp!) the first purely defensive player to take home the stiff-armed trophy.
The heartbreaking injury suffered by Marcus Lattimore in South Carolina's win over Tennessee did have one endearing moment, at least as much as could be had in such a devastating situation. As Lattimore was being placed onto a cart to be taken into the locker room for further treatment, the running back was, understandably, surrounded by the entire Gamecocks squad. In one of the classier moves you'll ever see on a football field, though, the entire Volunteer team came across from their sidelines and did the same, with some offering personal "keep your head up" messages to the injured player. "I don't know that I've ever seen anything like that," head coach Steve Spurrier said of what UT did post-injury. Top notch, Vols. Top notch. And, if you ever want to know what kind of player college football may have lost for good, that gesture from the opposing sideline spoke volumes.
Huskers: They are Legends
For the moment, at least. Thanks to Nebraska's 23-9 win over Michigan, the Cornhuskers and Wolverines are tied for first place atop the Big Ten's Legends division at 3-1. As the Huskers hold the head-to-head advantage, however, they tentatively sit in the driver's seat with four conference games remaining -- at Michigan State and Iowa and home games versus Penn State and Minnesota. On the other side of the conference, and despite their overtime loss to Michigan State, Wisconsin is firmly in control of the Leaders division at 3-2; the next-best eligible team is Indiana at 1-3 and oh my goodness is the B1G just sad this season.
Buckeyes hoist IneligiBowl trophy
Thanks to NCAA sanctions, neither Ohio State nor Penn State are eligible for the 2012 postseason, turning the Week 9 matchup of the top two teams in the Big Ten's Leaders division into a de facto bowl game for both programs. And, thanks to a dominating second-half performance, the Buckeyes can continue to stake its unofficial claim as the best team in the Big Ten. With the score tied at seven coming out of halftime, OSU scored 21 third-quarter points to effectively put the game out of reach for a Nittany Lions' offense whose NASCAR package was the equivalent of Danica Patrick on this Saturday afternoon. The 35-23 win pushes the Buckeyes to 9-0 in the first season under Urban Meyer and keeps them on track for the only thing other than pride they still have to play for: the Leaders' division trophy, for which they are still eligible even as they are ineligible for the Big Ten title game.
Marquise performer
Based on God-given ability, there's likely not a better or more naturally-gifted player than Marquise Lee at the wide receiver position in all of college football. Never was that more evident than in USC's game against Arizona. The true sophomore caught 12 passes for 255 yards... then decided to come out and play in the second half. Lee finished with 16 catches for 345 yards and two touchdowns, with the yardage total representing new school and conference records. Lee actually totaled 469 yards as he returned three kicks for 123 yards and rushed once for one yard. It was all for naught, however, the No. 10 Trojans dropped a 39-36 decision to Arizona,
Sammy no longer MIA
-- In 2011, Sammy Watkins caught 12 touchdown passes and accounted for 1,219 receiving yards en route to an All-American season as a true freshman. This season? Yeah, not so much. Through Clemson's first nine games last season, the wide receiver had hauled in 10 touchdowns; Thursday night, in the Tigers' ninth game of the season, Watkins caught his first touchdown of the season. Entering the 42-13 dismantling of Wake Forest, Watkins had 202 yards receiving on the season; he matched his season total in the game. Yes, there was the suspension for the first two games of the season due to an offseason arrest, and yes there was the missed late-September game against Boston College due to illness, but the fact that we're deep into October and a talent such as Watkins has crossed the goal line for the first time and matched his seasonal yardage total in a single game is one of the more under-the-radar developments of the 2012 season.
Off the SEChnide
Coming into Week 9, Missouri was one of just two teams in the country -- lowly Hawaii being the other -- that switched conferences for the 2012 season and had yet to win a game in league play. Thanks to the gift that is Kentucky football, that's no longer the case. A 33-14 win over the hapless
MWildcats gave Mizzou its first-ever win in SEC play and lifted the Tigers out of the East division cellar. Despite the win, Mizzou showed that it still has a ways to go before it's able to compete with the middleweights of the SEC, let alone the heavyweights like Alabama, Florida and LSU.
World's Largest Penalty-Ridden Turnover Party
In the Florida-Georgia game, the two teams combined for nearly as many penalties (22) as points (26). There were five interceptions and four fumbles lost for both teams, with the Gators committing six of those miscues -- four fumbles, two interceptions. The Bulldogs converted just one of 11 third downs in the 17-9 win, while the Gators averaged a paltry 1.7 yards on its 40 rushing attempts. The two teams totaled 526 yards of offense, or 89 yards less than Oregon had in their win over Colorado. Simply put, no amount of lipstick could mask this pig of a game... and as far as UGA's concerned, it matters not a single bit. Georgia, with wins over Ole Miss and Auburn the next two weeks, will clinch a second straight trip to the SEC championship game. That qualifies this game as a thing of beauty to Bulldog Nation.
Beavers pelted from ranks of unbeatens
With another Upset Saturday in full effect, the final game of the night was the cherry on top of a ridiculously chaotic sundae. Oregon State entered their game with unranked Washington as the No. 7 team in the country, the Beavers outgained the Huskies 427-293... but coughed the ball up four times in a stunning 20-17 road loss to UW. Likely off the table? OSU's dreams of a spot in the Pac-12 title game and a seat at the BcS big-boy table. A for-the-ages Civil War game against Oregon at the end of November. While the season's certainly not lost -- a win over the Ducks could still lead to a division title -- but the loss did put a significant dent in the feel-good story. The loss is not exactly a surprise, however, as the Beavers had won their previous six games by a total of 58 points, including three by seven points or less and two by three points apiece.
Big East bushMACked again
Two weeks ago, the Little Conference That Couldn't was one of the surprises of the 2012 season, boasting more undefeated teams -- Louisville, Cincinnati and Rutgers -- than any other conference not initialed "SEC." After Week 9? Yeah, not so much. One week after the Bearcats dropped their first game of the season to Toledo, the No. 15 Scarlet Knights served as the conference's latest MACrificial lamb, with Kent State -- they of the 7-1 Golden Flashes -- traveling to Piscataway and heading back to Ohio with a 35-23 win. Kent State forced seven turnovers in beating a ranked team for the first time in the program's history, ending a losing streak of 22 straight games against ranked opponents.
The Midwestern conference's lone shot at playing BcS buster is no more. Ohio University, which was ranked last weekend in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time since 1968, came into their game with conference rival Miami of Ohio sporting an unblemished 7-0 record and ranked as the No. 23 team in the country. The Bobcats' dream season came to end, however, as the RedHawks found itself on the winning end of a 23-20 score. The loss dropped the Bobcats into a third-place tie in the MAC East, behind Kent State and Bowling Green.
Wolfpack special teams not so special
It's one thing to lose late to a bitter in-state rival. It's another animal entirely to do so on account of a collective special teams gaffe. With under 30 seconds remaining and the game tied at 35 -- and surely headed to overtime -- the Wolfpack punted to the Tar Heels' Giovani Bernard. 73 yards later, and with just :13 left, UNC had a 43-35 lead and the ballgame firmly stuffed into its back pocket. The game-winning return capped a wild day for the Tar Heels as they jumped out to a 25-7 lead, then fell behind 35-25 before scoring 18 unanswered fourth-quarter points.
Southern aMiss
Last season, Southern Miss finished the year at 12-2, claiming the Conference USA championship and a bowl win. Head coach Larry Fedora subsequently left for North Carolina... and the Golden Eagles have completely unraveled under first-year coach Ellis Johnson. The 44-17 loss to Rice was the eighth straight to open the 2012 season, with the losses coming by an average of 20 points per game. USM and UMass, in its first year at the FBS level, are the lone winless teams in major college football. It's unlikely Johnson is in any type of danger of losing his job after just one season, but, if the losing continues through the end of 2012, he'll enter 2013 squarely on the hot seat.
How ranked teams endured close shaves vs. unranked opponents
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-- No. 16 Louisville 34, Cincinnati 31: This was not your ordinary ranked-vs.-unranked matchup Friday night as the Bearcats, up until last weekend, were one of three undefeated Big East teams. That fact showed as UC extended the Cardinals into overtime before the 'Ville both snapped its four-game losing streak to this Big East foe and stayed unbeaten on the season. This close shave continued a 2012 trend for the Cardinals; after winning the first two games by a combined 46 points, they've won the last six by a total of 31, including five by seven points or less.
-- No. 17 South Carolina 38, Tennessee 35: Despite the loss of its top running back, the Gamecocks were able to hold off a game Volunteers squad and put a halt to a two-game losing streak.
-- No. 19 Stanford 24, Washington State 17: Tied at the half at 10-all, the Cardinal hung on for a closer-than-expected win over the two-win Cougars.
A snapshot look at how my ballot would look Monday if I, ya know, had a real vote instead of a measly and meaningless preseason poll.
1. Alabama -- First real test of the 2012 season? Passed with flying colors. Next weekend, though, is the test for the Tide.(Last week: No. 1)
Up next: at No. 6 LSU
2. Oregon -- The Ducks buffaloed (see what I did there?) their way to 56 points and 447 yards of total offense in the first half in a resounding evisceration of Colorado. The relative cakewalk the 2012 season has been for UO comes to a halt next week as the Ducks travel to USC, followed by back-to-back games against ranked teams (Stanford and Oregon State) to close out the regular season. (Last week: No. 2)
Up next: at USC
3. Kansas State -- Road wins over then-No. 6 Oklahoma and then-No.13 West Virginia added to the thrashing of No. 15 Texas Tech is enough for me to push the Wildcats into the No. 3 hole. Well, that and the Gators' loss, of course. (Last week: No. 4)
Up next: vs. Oklahoma State
4. Notre Dame -- For the first time this season, the Irish enter my little corner of the rankings world. The win over Oklahoma pushed the Domers to 8-0 for the first time since 2002, and they won't be truly tested again until the season-finale against USC. (Last week: unranked)
Up next: vs. Pittsburgh
5. (blank as no one is worthy)
A weekly look at some of the current head coaches who could most likely be an ex-head coaches by season's end — if not sooner.
-- Auburn's Gene Chizik: The latest data point that Chizik's not long for The Plains? At Jordan-Hare Saturday, the Tigers were down to Texas A&M 42-7 at the half, trailing in total yards by a staggering 464-91 count. The most damning part of the evening, however, was the fact that the stadium was less than half full before the gun sounded on the second quarter. There's only one thing worse than a pissed-off fan base, and that's an apathetic one. If that's indeed where the Tiger faithful are at the moment, Chizik is in deeper trouble than his president's letter earlier in the week suggested.
-- Tennessee's Derek Dooley: The Vols are just 4-17 in SEC play in two-plus seasons under Dooley, 1-12 since the start of the 2011 season. UT's last conference win came in overtime against Vanderbilt Nov. 19. The Knoxville natives are restless and are no longer drinking the Dool-Aid, and the clock is certainly ticking on coach's time on Rocky Top.
-- Kentucky's Joker Phillips: Phillips has actually out-Dooley'd the coach he beat last year, going 4-18 in the SEC the past two-plus seasons. The Wildcats could be one of four SEC programs in search of a new head coach at season's end, joining UA (probably), UT (probably) and Arkansas (definitely).
"There's a lot at stake down the stretch and we could still have a really good season." -- UT head coach Derek Dooley, presumably stated with a straight face and everything.
"I still can't believe it. I'm still shaking right now. After that I started crying. I couldn't hold my emotions back." -- North Carolina running back Giovani Bernard following his game-winning punt return for a touchdown.
"He told us to kick ass." -- SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert, when asked what former President George W. Bush said to the Mustangs in his pregame speech prior the Memphis game.
This is a photo of Jordan-Hare Stadium, snapped by al.com just as halftime of the A&M-Auburn game commenced:
Yeah, Chizik might be in a bit of trouble.
Braxton Miller became the third different Big Ten quarterback and the first Ohio State quarterback to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. Indiana's Antwaan Randle El and Michigan's Denard Robinson (twice) are the other two.
-- During a stretch of 65 seasons -- 1927-1988, 2006-08 -- Kansas State won 168 games. In 21 seasons under Bill Snyder, K-State has won 167 games. Snyder has led the Wildcats to 14 winning seasons; in the 80 non-Snyder years, KSU has had 16 plus-.500 seasons. And one more note on arguably the most underrated head coach in college football history: K-State has been to 15 bowl games in their history, with 13 of those appearances coming on Snyder's watch.
-- You might as well go ahead and write Jarvis Jones' name in Sharpie as the SEC Defensive Player of the Week: in the upset win over Florida, the Georgia linebacker was credited with a career-high 13 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, three sacks, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
-- Auburn's 63-21 loss to Texas A&M was the worst home loss in school history, and the points were the most given up by the Tigers since 1917. The 671 yards allowed were also the most ever surrendered by AU in a single game.
-- In the past five games -- two of them of them losses -- Texas has given up 1,299 yards rushing. That's more than what nine teams gave up all last season.
-- Kansas has now lost 16 consecutive Big 12 games. Their last win in conference play came Nov. 6, 2010, against Colorado, which is now a member of the Pac-12. Their last win against a team still in the Big 12? Oct. 10, 2009, over Iowa State.
-- With the 31-17 win over Illinois, Indiana snapped its 11-game Big Ten losing streak. Still, the Hoosiers are just 4-32 in conference play since 2008.
-- Playing in just his third game at Oklahoma since being cleared by the NCAA, Fresno State transfer Jalen Saunders set school records for most receptions in a game (15) and a quarter (eight).
-- It was a record-setting Thursday night all around for Clemson as Watkins' 202 receiving yards broke the school mark that was just set earlier this year by DeAndre Hopkins (197), while Tajh Boyd's 428 yards passing surpassed Charlie Whitehurst's 420 yards in 2002.
-- North Carolina State quarterback Mike Glennon threw for 328 yards and four touchdowns against North Carolina... in the first half alone. Glennon finished with 467 yards and five touchdowns in the 43-35 loss to the Tar Heels.
-- In the above game, UNC running back Giovani Bernard accounted for 304 total yards: 135 rushing, 95 receiving and 74 on punt returns.
-- Connor Shaw threw for a career-high 356 yards in the win over Tennessee.
-- The 70 points by Oregon in its 56-point throttling of Colorado set the school record for a conference game.
-- Steele Jantz set career highs with 381 yards passing and five touchdowns in Iowa State's 35-21 win over Baylor.
-- Max Tuerk became the first true freshman to start a game at left tackle in the storied history of the USC football program, protecting Matt Barkley's blind side in the loss to Arizona.
–- SID Stat of the Day, Thursday Night Edition: Clemson did not score in the third quarter of the win over Wake, marking just the second quarter all year in which the Tigers did not score.
-- Tweet Stat of the Day, from Mark Story of Kentucky.com: "With loss to Missouri, UK all-time record is 579-580-44. Last time UK under .500 (44-45-6) was after falling to Transy in 1902 finale."
-- Navy rushed for 512 yards in a 56-28 win over East Carolina.
If the rumors concerning the severity of Lattimore's injury are true -- we're not going to touch on them until the situation is confirmed by South Carolina -- it would be one of the most devastating injuries a football player can suffer. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the classy young man as he works his way through a situation that's rough physically, mentally and emotionally.


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Research has documented that outstanding leaders take time to reflect. Their success depends on the ability to access their unique perspective and bring it to their decisions and sense-making every day.
Extraordinary leadership is rooted in several capabilities: seeing before others see, understanding before others understand, and acting before others act. A leader's unique perspective is an important source of creativity and competitive advantage. But the reality is that most of us live such fast-paced, frenzied lives that we fail to leave time to actually listen to ourselves.
Further Reading
Gaining access to your own insight isn't difficult; you simply need to commit to reflecting on a daily basis. Based on research (my own and others') and many years of work with global business leaders as a consultant and international management professor, I recommend the simple act of regularly writing in a journal:
- Buy a journal. Writing online doesn't provide the same benefits as writing by hand. So buy a real journal. I've created Leadership Insight, a journal that includes blank pages, paintings, and provocative questions designed specifically for leaders — but any journal will do.
- Commit to reflecting for 15 minutes a day. This is by far the most difficult step. So if 15 minutes initially seems impossible, start with three minutes. But start somewhere.
- Find a quiet place where you won't be interrupted.
- Choose the right time, preferably the same time each day when you won't be disturbed. Pick a time that works for you, but keep those 15 minutes carefully guarded in your agenda as an appointment with yourself.
- Write whatever comes to mind. A journal's blank pages invite you to hold an honest conversation with yourself every day. In the journal, you can say anything. So give yourself permission to follow your stream of consciousness without judging, censoring, or trying to direct where your thoughts might take you. In my best reflection sessions, I feel like I am peering over my hand, just waiting to discover what I'll write next. And don't worry about grammar; however you express yourself is fine.
- Don't share your journal with anyone. Your reflections are yours; they are not for anyone else. They bring you what all the world's experts, advisers, and executive coaches combined can't offer you: your own unique perspective.
If you find yourself not knowing how to begin when you're facing the journal's blank pages, here are some suggestions:
Ask yourself a trigger question, and capture your response. These are some of my favorite questions:
- How am I feeling right now?
- How am I feeling about my leadership?
- What deserves my highest-quality attention…
- in my leadership?
- in my life?
- in the world?
- What is the most outrageous (or fun or novel) idea I've heard in the last 24 hours? What do I love about it?
- What is the most exciting initiative I've heard about this week that is happening outside of my industry or in another part of the world?
- What contributed most to my happiness this week (or to the happiness of my people)? How can I have more happiness in my life?
Let art ignite your imagination. Art invites leaders to go beyond the frantic busyness of life. Viewing paintings and other forms of art offers possibilities to experiment with new perspectives. If I really focus on a painting, what do I see? If I connect what I'm seeing with my current situation, what new vantage points does the painting reveal?
This may seem far-fetched, but the unexpected juxtaposition between a painting and real-world challenges often exposes concealed dynamics and surprising new insights. Yale University, for example, discovered that young physicians became significantly better diagnosticians after taking an art history course. Why? Because looking at art teaches the viewer — whether artist, physician, or CEO — to make sense of a richer palette of complexity. It helps us all to more accurately and creatively make sense of our world. At the same time, it instills the humility to realize that current interpretations are just one of many possible worldviews.
To use art as a reflection trigger, follow the steps below. You can try this exercise now using a painting from my most recent exhibition:
- Choose a painting (or other work of art). Let your eye rest on a work of art that attracts you for any reason whatsoever (because you love it, you hate it, or for a reason that is unknown to you).
- Observe the painting uninterrupted for at least three minutes. Time yourself! Three minutes may feel like a very long time.
- Strengthen your ability to see. Describe the painting: What did you see? How did it seem to change as you viewed it? What were you able to see at the end of the three minutes that you didn't notice when you first chose the painting?
- Ask bridging questions. What new perspectives does the painting reveal? For example: How is the current situation in the economy (or in my company or team) like this painting? How does the painting's complexity reflect the hidden complexity in our recent tri-continental merger? In what ways does the painting reveal opportunities we are missing in transitional economies? Let yourself be surprised by the insights that emerge.
Connect to purpose. All too many leaders have a surfeit of opportunities but suffer a paucity of meaning. Asking questions that bring us back to what is most meaningful to us personally, as well as to what we believe is most important for society and the planet, deepens our sense of purpose. For example, you might ask: What is my daily work? What is my life's work? Similarly, reflecting in your journal on inspirational words from world leaders or wisdom traditions can act as an antidote to superficiality and parochialism. Here are two of my favorites:
"Listen. The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside without fear."
—Dag Hammarskjöld
Economist and Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1953–1961
"We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history."
—Madeleine Albright
U.S. Secretary of State, 1997–2001
Such insights remind us that our leadership needs to be significant, not merely successful — that strategy and tactics remain meaningless without ultimate purpose.
No matter what question you start with, let your reflection take you on a journey where you are the passenger, not the conductor. Using a journal regularly will give you the courage to see the world differently, to understand the world differently, and to lead in new and needed ways.


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About the book, from the publisher:
Jessica Luna is your typical 26 year old: she has man trouble, mom trouble, and not a clue what to do with her life (though everyone else in her family seems to have plenty of suggestions!) After a lifetime of being babied by her family, Jess is incapable of trusting herself to make the right choices. So instead, she bases all of her life decisions on signs. She looks to everything for guidance, from the direction her rearview-mirror-Virgin-de-Guadalupe sways to whatever Madame Hortensia, her psychic, sees in the cards.Read an excerpt from Houston, We Have a Problema, and learn more about the book and author at Gwendolyn Zepeda's website.
When her sort-of boyfriend Guillermo, a gifted unmotivated artist, disappoints her again, Jessica thinks it's time to call it quits. Just to be sure, she checks in with Madame Hortensia who confirms that yes, it is time for a change. (Who knew $20 could buy so much security!) Right on cue, Jess meets Jonathan; he's the complete opposite of Guillermo--of all Jess's boyfriends, in fact. He's successful, has a stable job....and is white. Jess isn't sure if Jonathan is really the change Madame Hortensia saw. Sure he gives great career advice, but is he advising her on a career she actually wants? And yes he's all about commitment, but is it Jess or her mother who really wants marriage?
Jess runs back to Madame Hortensia for advice, but even she is out of answers. Now there's only one thing that's certain: no one--not her mother, her sister, her boyfriend or her psychic--can tell her what to do. For better or for worse, Jess will have to take the plunge and make her own decisions if she wants to have any future at all.
Gwendolyn Zepeda is the author of a short-story collection called To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him and the children's book, Growing Up with Tamales, a 2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title.
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Post subject: Latest News From Iran on 18 Tir (BREAKING NEWS)
"Machine Guns on the Streets"
Latest News on 18 Tir from Peykeiran in Persian:
Neveesan Weblog: On 18 Tir (July 8 ) We will show that the nation of Iran is still alive
Students of Tehran's Pedagogy university had a ceremony for 18 Tir on wednsday. During this ceremony they showed a film of the student uprising and the savage attacks of the regime's thugs against the students. The students of the Pedagogy university in Tehran also put on an art exhibit of pictures from the 18 Tir Student Uprising. One of the regime's spies with the name of "Eshraghi", with the protection of the regime's Herasat agents attacked the students. While chanting slogans agianst the US and the UK, he shouted "We are followers of Khamenei". The regime's Herasat agents tore down the pictures at the art exhibit, and gathered up the pamphlets and other items.
Neveesan Weblog posted a bulletin titled "18 Tir Is Our Day, it is the Day of Freedom" and asked all Iranians to participate in the anti regime demonstrations today for 18 Tir to prove that the nation of Iran is still alive. On 18 Tir we will prove that we do not give in to fear, intimidation, oppression, or terror. On 18 Tir we will prove that we are still here, and we will stay and not allow the collaborators of oppression drag the nation of Iran into more ignorance and oppressive dictatorship.
Esfehan Students announced today, Thursday, in commemoration of 18 Tir there will be a protest gathering in front of Esfehan university. According to reports from this city, the regime's repressive forces such as Revoltuionary Guards, Basij, military, and Intelligence agents have been stationed throughout the city, especially at Darvazeh Shiraz to prevent any gathering.
The regime's forces who are mostly equipped with automatic assault rifles and machine guns have setup posts throughout the city,
stopping and searching cars. On Vali Asr avenue there are 4 such posts for inspecting cars, On Shariati street there are 3 posts and people are reporting that this situation is unprecendanted. There are reports that the regime's agents are videotaping everyone and their car interiors.These same reports state that the regime out of its fear of demonstrations, started to deploy massive forces last night throughout Tehran such as the Enghelab Square. At instersections such as Kargar and Keshavaraz Boulevard they have setup supposed traffic stations which are full of the regime's Intelligence agenets and plainclothes vigilantes. Tehren also reports that the Basij are stationed at the Jamalazadeh Basij Headquarters.
According to reports from Tehran on 13 and 15 Tir, (July 3rd and 5th) thousands of flyers were distributed on Vali Asr avenue, Tajrish square, Shariati street, and Keshavarz Boulevard. In addition on Pasdar Square, Navab Chahr Rah, Azadi Sqaure, Satar Khan, Towhid Square, Ferdowsi Square, Imam Hussein Square, Enghelab Avenue and many other locations there have been extensive promotional activities for 18 Tir. These activities are taking place at at time when the regime has employed its greated repressive measures ever.
A newspaper bleonging to Khamenei attacked the Student Uprising of 18 Tir and wrote: these anti revolutionary groups have come about to create chaos in the regime, and have sweetalked the students to come to the streets while their hooligans light the fuse. They were trying to create the kind of chaos that could finish the regime in a few days.
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From Peykeiran in Persian listed as Urgent:
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A group of Students have gathered for 18 Tir in front of Hoseyneeyeh Ershad. The regime's forces have attacked these students in Tehran clashing heavily. More reports will be coming.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:39 am
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From Peykeiran in Persian
A group called S.O.S is sending messages around Iran via Mobile Phone, calling for all lights out at 22:15 tonight for 18 Tir, so that the through this darkness will come the dawn of freedom.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:57 am
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Opposition Satellite radio and TV stations from LA are being heavily jammed in Iran. Since 2 days ago, media and phone calls overseas have been disrupted. It is impossible to call radio and TV stations abroad with any news, especially using phone cards.The second they answerthe phone, it gets cut off.
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According to the latest news, in the vicinity of Sadeghyeh in Tehran there are clashes between young demosntrators and the regime's militia and plainclothes vigilinates.
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Gathering Protests in Tehran:
The regime's forces have been deployed throughout the city and are prepared for anything, the situation is extremely tense. Between Jamalzadeh and Vesal streets a group of students and young people are gathering, a large group of the regime's forces have surrounded them.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:47 pm
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There are clashes on Noor Sqaure (Meydan e Noor) between young demonstrators and the regime's forces
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According to the latest news, students and other young people have gathered near Gisha bridge and around Tehran University. The regime's forces who are fully equipped and have mini busses have surrounded them. Several political activists such as Shiva Nazri and Akram Eghbali of the Tara Women's Society have been arrested near Keshavaraz Boulevard.
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18 Tir News From Iran:
A report from Tehran around 9 o'clock Tehran time: The crowds are increasing every second. at 7:40 there is is a helicopter flying over Enghelab avenue. Anti riot police are ready at Enghelab police station at southern Kargar street (kalantareeyeh enghelab dar Kargar e Jonoobi) and at the anti drug headqaurters on Enghelab street (setad mavad e mokhadar dar kheeyababn e enghelab).
The Al Alam news agency affiliated with the regime arrived at enghelab street at around 8.30. There are many plainclothes vigilantes around, last year they were patrolling the streets with the police. There is very heavy traffic on enghelab, Meydan e ferdowsi and Peech e Shemran.
News coming in from European countries are reporting large gatherings in different European cities for 18 Tir, and there are more planned demosntrations in the US and Canada. In London there was a large gathering outside of the IRI embassy. In Guttenberg in Sweden 600 Iranians and non-Iranians participated in the 18 Tir gatherings called on by Iranian students. In Washington DC Iranians gathered in front of the US Congress. In Cologne, Amsterdam, Franskfurt, Stockholm, Denmark and many other major European cities there were demonstrations which are still in progress as of this writing.
A Report about the Demonstrations in front of the EU in Brussels: on Wednsday July 7th, there was a demonstration in front of the EU headquarters called by the Iran Defense of Democracy and Republic Group at 2 pm with Iranians residing in Brussels. Since a week prior to this demosntration, political groups, members of the Brussels govt. and Parliament, EU, university professors, human rights groups and other NGOs and other political personalities had been invited to attend, some of whom spoke at this gathering. After announcing the events for the day, Angelica Beyer official spokesperson for the German Green Party in the EU parliament spoke in English, she said" Today we enter the 5th year after the attacks against students in their dorms in Tehran university on July 9th, 1999, and this is why we have gathered here today. Out of those students many are in prison and one is dead. We have gathered here to support the Iranian people's demands for freedom and democracy. In recent years many have been killed in Iran. Despite assurances from Iran to the EU in regards to a moratorium on stonings, this act is still committed. My party is announcing its grave concerns about the Human Rights Crisis in Iran. "
A longer text of this speech is available at the site.
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5 Iranians Arrested in front of the IRI embassy in Ankara
Peykeiran: According to the Anatoli news agency, July 8th/18Tir, 5 people who had gathered outside of the IRI embassy in Ankara in order to demonstrate for the aniversary of the events of July 1999 were arrested. Police officials announced the reason for the arrests as lack of valid passports. These individuals were busy passing out flyers in Persian and Turkish in regards to the events of July 1999 when they were arerested. Police Officials said that after their interrogation they will be deported.
In another story about Turkish police's massive crackdown on Iranian dissidents and refugees leading up to 18 Tir, there is another story posted to Peykeiran on July 8th:
Mass Deportation of Iranian Refugees in Turkey
Payam web site: According to latest news from Chankari city in Turkey, Turkish police have arrested 53 Iranian refugees and their families and are in the process of deporting them back to Iran. These refugees are all registered at the UN Refugees offices and were awaiting transfer to another country. Their deportation by Turkey, which is under obligation to protect these UN refugees, is a violation of international human rights and UN standards and accords. Despite the fact that Turkish police have committed this hideous and illegal act many times already, many of these refugees are active members of Iranian Kurdistan opposition group with active political histories. Their deportation back into Iran is guaranteed to risk their lives. Therefore it is necessary to take every action imaginable through internation channels and the media to stop this heinous crime against humanity.
Note: Turkey has increased its illegal deportation of Iranian political refugees since receiving lucrative trade deals with the Mullah$ in Iran. In return for these trade deals, Turkey is illegally deporting legitmate UN registered Iranian political asylum accplicants and refuggess. Shame on Turkey. Please write as many officilas as you can about Turkey's gross violation of international refugee laws.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:54 pm
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Zagros has its 18 Tir Breaking News page up:
Reports are coming in about large groups of people and students gathering in the streets of Tehran and other cities. In Tehran, many have gathered outside Terhan university and are preparing to form a protest.
In front of Hosseyneeyeh Ershad a student gathering has taken place which has come under attack from the regime's forces.
There are reports of riots and clashes in South of Tehran (the poorest districts)
The city of Esfehan has witnessed the gatherings of thousands.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:31 pm
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From Mr. Suresrafil reporting on AzadiTV now:
He has heard about large gatherings in Tehran and Esfehan, but both the people and the anti regime forces are afraid of each other. They are mostly facing each other and staring each other down. Motorcycles have been confiscated.
Mohseni and Mirdamad squares have had large groups, also in Esfehan.
In Amirabad near Tehran university, the Basij are offering people food and drinks (sharbat) to everyone, nobody is taking it except for their own people.
Park Laleh is seeing a heavy increase in crowds. Most likely tomorrow we will have a much better picture of these demonstrations.
He reads a report from Tehran about slogans that can be seen written all over Tehran against Khamenei such as Marg Bar Khamenei. Same from Hamedan.
Email from Terhan: the best way for a non-violent civil disobediance is through destroying any signs and symbols of the oppressive regime such as destroying street signs, especially those named after the regime's favorite people and symbols.
He is talking much about the problems of picking just one day for demonstrations. Especially when the regime has been preparing to combat this day for 2 months. Everyday is a day for demonstrations.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 3:32 pm
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Thousands support Iran's Students during Abroad actions
SMCCDI (Information Service)
Jul 8, 2004
Thousands of members of the Iranian Diaspora along with their foreign supporters gathered, in thast two days, in various actions organized across the globe in order to pay tribute to the Iranian Student Movement and its Juy 1999 Uprising.
Demos were held in most of the main N. American and European cities in order to support the students and Iran's secularist forces while rejecting the illegitimate rule of the Islamic republic. Los Angeles, Washington DC, Palo Alto, Atlanta, Charlotte, Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto were all scenes of such expression while the gatherings of Europe had also the target of showing Iranians rejection of the EU policies in reference in order to financialy collaborate with the Islamist Theocracy. Paris, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Geneva, Helsinki, Den Haag and several other cities gathered hundreds of suooiters.
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Dear all
Today is a wonderful day!
In the demonstration in Los Angeles where about 5000-6000 people participated according to Pars TV, the air was full of pictures on Reza Shah II of Iran. I was so very surprised! I didn´t believe that! There were 5 times so many pictures on Reza Shah II this year than last year, it clearly shows how much his popularity has increased.
The slogans were also great in Los Angeles; The most used one was "Down with Islamic republic of Iran"
Great great great
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Sporadic and brutal clashes in most Iranian cities
SMCCDI (Information Service)
Jul 8, 2004
The brutal intervention of the regime's official and plainclothes agents has lead, tonight, to the arrests and injuries of tens of protesters in most main Iranian cities. In Tehran alone, the clashes are wide spread and are happening in Amir Abad, Tajrish, Zarabkhane, Kargar, Guisha, Kargar, Sadeghie, Narmak, Noor, vali e Asr and Enghelab area.
Other clashes have happened, so far, in Esfahan, Shiraz and Mashad were those having defied once again the Islamic State are shouting slogans for a democratic regime change in Iran.
Many have been injured or arrested and transferred by full buses to the regime's detention centers,
The presence of the regime's foreign mercenaries and their brutality is easily noticeable. The regime seems to try to isolate the demonstrators in each area and to avoid a bigger ralliement by more demonstrators who are trying to use the darkness of the night.
Many homes have shut off their lights and people are shouting slogans on their flat roofs.
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Either way, Austin Rogers, who grew up in Pound Ridge, has become a national sensation as his winning streak on "Jeopardy" has reached seven games and he's won $278,300. Rogers goes for his 8th win Thursday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. on WABC-TV Channel 7.
Rogers auditioned for the show via the online exam and then attended an in-person audition last October. In April, he got a call from producers inviting him to appear on the show. He knew he was going to do well.
"They tell you to bring three pairs of clothes," Rogers said. "I brought 14."
The outfits come from thrift shops and Rogers said it's what he generally wears when he's not on the show. He said taping "Jeopardy!", which tapes five episodes in one day, was an onslaught.
"Everything is so rapid and compressed," Rogers said. "When you win, you get pulled off stage, do a quick change and you go back out there."
Host Alex Trebek is a consummate professional who does not fraternize with the guests, Rogers said.
"He does not exist outside of the stage," Rogers said. "I like that, it adds a certain amount of drama. When he walks out on the stage, the whole tenor changes and it becomes real. It really enhances the gameplay experience."
Growing up on the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation was a great experience for Rogers, he said.
"My backyard was 5,000 acres," Rogers, who attended Fox Lane High School, said. "I would spend my days hiking, biking and falling out of trees. On weekends I would go to the city. Pound Ridge is really a special place. It's not pretentious and everyone is friendly. It's perfect."
Rogers currently bartends at Gaf West, an Irish bar on 48th St. and 9th Ave. Each night, he has hosted a viewing party, which can get pretty exhausting.
"The festivities are pretty festive," Rogers said. "I'm waking up at 6 a.m. to go on 'Good Morning America.' I'm fielding phone calls from reporters day. It's consuming. It's really like a full-time job. It's a real roller coaster, it's been amazing.
In one episode, Rogers was clearly annoyed when one of the questions involved Eagles. Don't get him started on his least favorite band.
"They're so bland," Rogers said. "They're the Coldplay of the 70s. They're a simulacrum of an actual band. People heard all these great singer-songwriters and the Eagles said let's do that but make it muzacky."
Rogers said he has been attacked on Twitter by Eagles fans, who didn't even think existed.
"Normal people are fans of people like Bob Dylan or The Beatles," Rogers said.
"Jeopardy!" fans have also gotten panic attacks from watching Rogers wager a ton of money of Daily Doubles. He said after winning one game, he decided to just have fun.
"I wanted to win a game to prove I can do it," Rogers said. "Every other game, it doesn't matter. I already have money in the bank. Everything on top of that is cherries and icing. It's a game show. Everyone takes 'Jeopardy!' so seriously, but after all, it's entertainment."
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Celebrity journalist Liza Ghorbani is the secret baby mama of married ex-Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher — and their affair began soon after she wrote a glowing piece about him for the New York Times three years ago, The Post has learned.
The smitten scribe, 39, interviewed Gallagher in 2010, for a very aptly headlined Style Section piece, "A Night Out With Liam Gallagher." The piece noted how the mop-topped Brit rocker "turned heads" at the Ritz-Carlton's bar and "sauntered" down Central Park West.
One of those turned heads was Ghorbani's.
Sources tell Page Six the pair's torrid affair resulted in the birth of a baby girl seven months ago, and a DNA test has confirmed Gallagher is the dad.
Gallagher, who is married to singer Nicole Appleton, has not commented publicly on the child's paternity; but as Page Six reported exclusively yesterday, he has been sued by the miffed new mom in Manhattan Family Court for $3 million.
"Liam admitted the child is his in an e-mail, saying she is a beautiful child because she has 'rock star genes'" according to a source.
"Liza met Liam when she interviewed him for the Times and they began an affair. It continued until around three months after the birth of the child. He ended the relationship when she told him she was suing him for child support," the source said.
"Liza isn't after millions of dollars, she is simply seeking child support and no amount has yet been set. If they don't settle on a figure, the case will go to a public trial, like the one recently between Linda Evangelista and Francois-Henri Pinault"
Ghorbani, who specializes in interviewing stars and has written for Elle, The Wall Street Journal, InStyle, wrote in her 2010 New York Times piece about the rocker, "Gallagher looked as if he'd just stepped off Carnaby Street in London circa 1969."
Gallagher, 40, now frontman for the band Beady Eye, has been married to Canadian singer and actress Appleton since 2008. He already has three children.
In 2008, Gallagher – who says he is expanding his clothing line to boy's wear because of his sons – boasted he is a 'top dad' who has turned his back on a rock 'n' roll lifestyle to be there for his family. He told The UK Times, "I'm top," at being a dad, adding that he and his kids "have a lot of fun."
He continued he didn't intend to become a father, but, "once you get your missus pregnant, you've got to step up to the plate," and "family's the most important thing."
Manhattan divorce attorneys Raoul Felder, representing Gallagher, and Bill Beslow, for Ghorbani, both declined to comment last night.


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This is Why I Foster
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That Shrimp Louie is a special, special boy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Now that is one precious photo.ReplyDelete
- RosemaryOctober 5, 2012 at 9:26 AM
You look like you are with E.T. I know he will find his home, but you are the best foster mother ever!ReplyDelete
He looks so trusting of you. You are obviously a gifted foster-er to.ReplyDelete
The photo is priceless.ReplyDelete
Simply beautiful, my friend!!!ReplyDelete
Tiny paw and loving hand. :::sigh:::ReplyDelete
Definitely a new favourite!!ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous!
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2012 at 9:40 AM
most precious photo ever!!!!ReplyDelete
So precious. One of many wonderful moments with your charges, I am sure.ReplyDelete
And this is why we love IBKC so much! All kittens are beautiful, but Louis is a very special little guy. He embodies all that is good and sweet and silly about a kitten.ReplyDelete
My own kitten just turned 17 this past week, yay. :) Here's to all the kitties ... cats are love!
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2012 at 10:50 AM
gifted photographer too! Truely incredible photo. Laurie, you manage to capture your fosters with so many wonderful different expressions. These are so much more than "kitten pictures". These are portraitures, capturing personalities. This sort of picture lets us all fall in love with each of your charges as individuals. Thank you!ReplyDelete
This slays me....and amazes me and makes me squee and sigh and tear up. Darn you, Laurie! And Thank You.ReplyDelete
Ditto to all the comments here. This picture is just pure beauty. Shrimp Louie is special, very special indeed!ReplyDelete
Laurie, the bond that you help establish between just-beginning-to-socialize kiddens and the hoomin race is such a precious gift to the families who adopt your precious furbabies. On behalf of all kitty appreciators everywhere, Bless You, Girfriend!!! You truly ROCK!ReplyDelete
You tell so many amazing stories with your beautiful photos.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Such a sweet photo...ReplyDelete
What is Liam Small up to these days? We haven't seen any pictures with him in a while!Replies
What a precious picture of trust and contentment...this one really does sum it up.Delete
Shrimp Louie seems to be staying a fairly light colour...or are his points oranging up and we just can't tell from the pictures?
I'm missing Liam too Anon. I wonder what his colour points are doing!
That is one seriously gorgeous photo - what a special moment indeed.ReplyDelete
I can't wait to hear about the wonderful families you find for this very special litter.ReplyDelete
(oh how I wish I could take Louie!)
Louie, oh Louie! I <3 you so much! And, Laurie - you are awesomeness personified!ReplyDelete
- WaheedaOctober 5, 2012 at 1:50 PM
I just went "awwww" at work.ReplyDelete
I'm verklempt.
And it's why I love your blog, Laurie.ReplyDelete
I knew that Louie was a charmer with the first picture you posted. I am almost aching for him. I love this whole family of kittiesReplyDelete
What a beautiful photo - your blog gives me so much pleasure.ReplyDelete
so glad you foster, Laurie, and have this amazing blog. your photos and words are always special. I love this blog!! This picture is truly worth a 1,000 words!!!ReplyDelete
OMC! That is one of the most beautiful pictures EVER! We're pinnin ya to our board! Keep on doin it cause you're doin it rightReplyDelete
Harry, Dexter and Tipp
And thank goodness the kitties have you!ReplyDelete
Such a precious kitten!ReplyDelete
What, the other pictures don't show reasons enough? ;D I am totally and completely dead of Teh Kute. Shrimp Louie totally slays me!ReplyDelete
Snorgle him for all of us! Love to hoomans & kittehs at your place, Laurie.ReplyDelete
they say a picture is worth a thousand words - this one tells many thousands of words worth of stories about love and patience and hope and kindness. you're an amazing woman. thanks you for sharing the wonderful work you do with us. you touch many lives. including mine. <3ReplyDelete
Precious creature!ReplyDelete
Precious dearest little scrap of beauty and innocence.ReplyDelete
THAT is an iconic foster photo, if I ever saw one!ReplyDelete
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For years, I have been critical of the spending and taxing increases in my hometown of Chicago. After politicians caved in on pensions for years to the Teachers Union, the pensions came close to bankrupting the state. The Chicago City Council has continued to find endless things to tax and is now listing as having the highest tax burden of any city in the country. Not to be outdone, the Illinois government is now imposing a $1000 state tax on electric car owners — a curious disincentive to select eco-friendly transportation.
A new report from Truth in Accounting, lists Chicago as having the highest burden per taxpayer — followed by New York City. Chicago's combined taxpayer burden is $119,110 while New York City's combined taxpayer burden is estimated at $85,600.
My concern has long been the impact on these cities in terms of high-tax paying citizens fleeing the cities and leaving them in a downward and irreversible spiral. We recently discussed the shortfalls in New York after citizens could not effectively write off their state tax bills in their federal tax returns. In the meantime, cities like Miami are wooing those taxpayers to their cities.
The third highest burden is Los Angeles followed by Philadelphia.
The Chicago City Council approved $2.4 billion in tax subsidies for just two developments in early April. According to Forbes, the city is still struggling to stay afloat with the pension deals struck by politicians. According to Forbes, Chicagoans still must shoulder $39 billion in retirement benefits that have been promised with $28 billion in pension and $842.9 million in retiree health care benefits unfunded. Nevertheless, none of the politicians who struck these deals were held accountable by voters.
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In Set List, we talk to veteran musicians about some of their most famous songs, learning about their lives and careers (and maybe hearing a good backstage anecdote or two) in the process.
The musician: Megadeth frontman and original Metallica lead guitarist Dave Mustaine is a metal god. And he's been busy in 2011, playing stadium dates with his comrades in "The Big 4" (Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax), readying deluxe reissues of Rust In Peace and Peace Sells… But Who's Buying?, and recording Megadeth's upcoming new LP. Mustaine rarely pulls himself away from the boards when he's in the studio, but the outspoken singer-guitarist recently took some time to run The A.V. Club through the better part of three decades in a life of metal.
"Peace Sells" (from 1986's Peace Sells… But Who's Buying?)
Dave Mustaine: The funny thing was, the lyrics were handwritten on a pole inside of a room in Vernon where I was living when I was homeless. I was living in a rehearsal room, which was absolutely horrible. The title to that song, I got from a Reader's Digest. This girl I was trying to survive off of—it sounds so terrible saying that—we would get together, we would party, and one day I woke up at her apartment and this magazine was there, and it said, "Peace sells, but no one would buy." And I went "Oh my God," and I adjusted it and made it my line, and then I wrote the lyric around it.
The A.V. Club: The opening bass lick was used as the theme for MTV's The Week In Rock. How did that come about?
DM: We did a lot of work with MTV with Rock The Vote, Night Of The Living Megadeth, and the MTV News crew was on my hip the whole time we did the Democratic National Convention in 1992. It's funny, because we went up to John Kerry, and he wasn't a very nice guy, and it's on tape, so if it ever came down to it and people wanted to see how this dude was, the way he treated MTV back then, it was pretty bad.
"In My Darkest Hour" (from 1988's So Far, So Good… So What!)
DM: Looking back, I can have my entire career go flying through my mind in just a couple of seconds. You can, too, with your life. I think of what I've accomplished, where I've been, the fun I've had, the friends I've made, and it's mind-blowing. I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. So all of these terrible things and bad decisions that my parents made caused me all those things. I feel them, and when I go through my life right now, and I look at what I've been able to do, with the fans' love and support, I am eternally grateful.
There's something really rewarding when you can get outside yourself and have that connection with the fans, and I think that's one of the things [late Metallica bassist] Cliff Burton had. He had this ability to get outside of himself. He was the anti-rock star. I thought it was really cool how he just did not care about fame. When we would ride to rehearsal, he'd be listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd, driving a Volkswagen station wagon, and smoking home-grown marijuana. But he was happy with that. I sold pot for a living as a kid, so I was not. When we were driving to rehearsal, I would smoke whatever he had 'cause I was desperate, and by the time we got to rehearsal, it didn't matter anymore. We were talkin' about stuff and having fun and just loving life, and that's part of the reason I had such a hard time when he died. This girl named Maria Ferrero called me up and said Cliff had died, and I started crying, and I went straight to Los Angeles downtown and bought heroin, and I wrote the song "In My Darkest Hour" in one sitting.
AVC: "In My Darkest Hour" was featured in The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. You had mixed feelings about that movie, but do you have fonder memories of the actual video shoot for that song with Penelope Spheeris?
DM: Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her. So anything that has been said about that movie by me that was negative, I was kidding, or somebody misinterpreted. I don't have any hard feelings about that movie. Now the people in it, I think a lot of them were hysterical. I think they're absolute, 100 percent posers. Who even says the word poser anymore? Hardly anybody, because it was so politically incorrect to be caught dead looking like that. People just knew, "Don't ever dress like that." The flipside is now, everybody's so hyper-cool, you can go into a library and the person behind the counter will have her nose pierced.
"Holy Wars… The Punishment Due" (from 1990's Rust In Peace)
AVC: "Holy Wars" came about after you inadvertently sparked controversy at a show in Antrim, Ireland, when you introduced "Anarchy In The U.K." with what was perceived as an IRA rally cry, and wound up having to ride in a bulletproof bus afterward.
DM: You know what? I would love to say it was disorienting, but I was disoriented for a totally different reason. I had been having some problems with my personal life, and the band was struggling really bad. It just looked like we were gonna go through another breakup. I had gone outside to say hello to the fans, and I walked up to this fence, and there was this little kid there, and he goes, "Fuck you, Dave Mustaine," and he spit on me. So I went inside of the venue and got cleaned up and was really mad, and I started drinking, which was pretty normal back then. I had a Guinness, and this guy there said, "If you have a Guinness and you draw a smiley face in the foam, you'll have a drinking partner." So I did that, and that was fun. And right as that happened, someone said, "Hey, find The General. There's a guy in the venue selling T-shirts." The General's my nickname. So I said, "What? Somebody's in the venue selling bootleg T-shirts? That's pretty ballsy." So they said he was for "the cause," and "the cause" was an organization that was trying help balance out prejudice between the Catholics and the Protestants. And I went, "Oh shit, that's cool. Let him sell it in there."
Meanwhile, I'm still drinking this Guinness, and I'm starting to make friends with my foam, and I get ready to go onstage, and the kids are fired up. Somebody throws an English coin up on the stage, which is like three quarters taped together, so it's solid and it hurts like a son of a gun if you get hit with it. So I get hit with it, and I look down at the kid who hit me with it, and he's flipping me off, and I finally said, "You wanna do something, buddy? Come up onstage." I took my guitar up, and I was getting ready to crack him with it. It was just one of those nights. He didn't make it up there, so I went behind the amp line, because they had to restore order, and the tech for the guitars and the tech for the drums were back there doing drugs, partying with stuff lined up on a mirror. And I was like, "What are you guys doing back here?!" And I went back out to the microphone, and I was so blown away, because it was like walking onto the set of Caligula, and I said, "This one's for the cause, give Ireland back to the Irish, anarchy in Antrim." I had no idea what I'd said, because there was prejudice, and I was thinking, "C'mon man, God doesn't want you to be fighting with each other." So immediately, the audience parted ways. I flipped, and the next morning I woke up down in Dublin, and of course I don't remember what happened after saying that. And [bassist] David Ellefson won't talk to me. When we were druggin' and runnin' and gunnin', every morning we would party together, but this day, he didn't want to talk to me. And I was like, "What's wrong?" "Don't you know what you did last night?!" And I was like, "No." "You got us escorted out of Antrim in a bulletproof bus! The whole city could have killed us!" And I was like, "I'm so sorry, I don't remember saying that."
"Symphony Of Destruction" (from 1992's Countdown To Extinction)
DM: "Symphony Of Destruction" was one of those songs that kind of wrote itself. I had been on my way back from martial-arts class, and I was going to get some sushi, because I thought I was gonna do the whole David Carradine bullshit. I grabbed the receipt and I flipped it over, and I wrote down what ended up being the chorus on there. I went home, I looked at it, and I was thinking about the whole Manchurian Candidate kind of thing, and like I said, the song wrote itself. Now the riff, I don't know where the riff came from. I can't tell you for the life of me. That song is one of the most popular songs we've got, besides "Peace Sells" and "A Tout Le Monde" and "Holy Wars…" That's our fab four right there.
"Sweating Bullets" (from 1992's Countdown To Extinction)
DM: I was going through the process of healing over everything that happened with Metallica, and even though I had the No. 2 record in the nation, I wasn't happy, and I kept thinking, "I want a No. 1." I mean, who in their right mind gets up in the morning and says, "I'm gonna be okay with being No. 2?" Nobody. And that's how I was when I saw the results. I was mad. I wasn't sitting back and going, "Yep, it's good to be two." I wanted that No. 1 spot, and we were fighting for it, and the bummer was the guy we were fighting with. It was Billy Ray Cyrus, "Achy Breaky Heart." And all those fat fuckin' housewives in the Midwest, and this guy with this funny haircut, and that song, it just resonated with the American people and people bought into it, and there was no shaking it. His song was a novelty. I don't want to put the guy down. He obviously worked hard to make that record work, and had the success of making that record work, but I wasn't happy at the time.
"Trust" (from 1997's Cryptic Writings)/"Breadline" (from 1999's Risk)
DM: When we got a chance to [re-master] the catalog proper for Capitol, we had money, we had support, we went in and we did almost every single record that we'd done up to that point. Going over the back catalog and listening to all of these songs, the one track that I wanted to listen to the most would have been "Trust." That record was pretty much when [ex-guitarist] Marty [Friedman] and I started to make our final drifting apart, where it became irreparable. So much so, when the one song, "Breadline," we'd been getting ready to play that track for Marty, and Marty had done this beautiful solo, and of course I didn't like it, because it was a little too flowery. But we sent the song to management, and they said they hated it, and I needed to change it. I said "The only way I can do this is fly him back out and have him do the solo, or do it myself, or mute it." They said they wanted me to do it. I said, "Oh shit, do you know what this is gonna cost?" So we're in the control room and we play the song, and Marty actually started crying when it happened, because he heard my solo where his solo was supposed to be. That was one of the songs I wanted to do too, because I wanted to get back and listen to, "What was the solo that made Marty Friedman cry?"


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Sojourners Magazine: November-December 1999
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We never seem to learn: Power does corrupt. Does that mean Christians should stay out of politics?
An interview with Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson
Pristina, KosovoAt the Macedonia-Kosovo border, kids on the roadside are selling Coke and fresh brown eggs.
(and other lessons from the Book of Job)
As the rate of HIV-AIDS reaches record highs in Africa, the burden of foreign debt depletes scarce resources for prevention and care
Brazilian Catholic archbishop Helder Camara brought a "preferential option for the poor" to the center of Christian social thinking.
Camp Rakovica, Sarajevo—There were 1,500 Kosovar refugees in this camp on the dusty outskirts of Sarajevo. They had come by bus, car, and on foot.
The war in Kosovo is over. The question now: How to build peace? Their neighbors in Bosnia might just have the beginnings of an answer.
Despite the pall that HIV-AIDS casts across Africa, a few bright spots offer some relief.
When I was a girl of 7 or 8 years, I laid awake most nights praying to have a friend.
When the price paid to farmers for hogs crashed to Depression-era lows a year ago, it was nothing less than cataclysmic for independent hog growers.
Who benefits from the tax cuts? (Hint: Not you.)
Heart surgery opened my arteries---and my eyes.
It's time to admit: We've lost the War on Drugs
What's wrong with selling organs on the open market?
Will there still be public education for your children's children?
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A clear moral test
Okay baby, let's say God really is God; he's not applying for the job, etc. etc.
Notes for a new generation
Culture Watch
Carlos Santana's Supernatural
Three films illuminate struggles and hopes
The 2000 presidential election promises to be the biggest fiasco since 1920, when monied interests foisted Warren G. Harding off upon a distracted public.
From hip hop to Howard Thurman, From the well-known to the obscure, we did the reading for you (really, it was our pleasure)
An inside look at the fall of the Religious Right
Can "hierarchical religions be redeemed?"
ED SPIVEYS "HRUMPHS" column (September-October 1999) continues to be one of the most timely in the magazine.
In the barnyard of my bone Let the animals kneel down...
IN RAY KELLEHER'S review of Annie Dillard's book For the Time Being, he says that she describes children "so deformed some might call their very humanity into question."
A new team with a new mission
Assistant editor Rose Marie Berger traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo in July as part of a pilgrimage led by Don McClanen, founder of an organization called Ministry of Money.
Ched Myers in "'Behold, the Treasure of the Church'", notes that Jesus' statement "For the poor will always be with you" is often misunderstood and used to justify the existence of hte poor.
Coffee for a Cause
YOUR COMMENTARY on Jubilee 2000 and the debt debate (by Marie Dennis, September-October 1999) was somewhat weakened by its penultimate paragraph.
IN RONALD SIDERS excellent article, "Do We Care Enough?
Kosovo's peaceful leader Ibrahim Rugova has not received press attention until recently.
Covenant House Faith Community, a Christian community committed to prayer, community, and service, seeks full-time volunteers to work with homeless youth for a 13-month commitment.
I READ ED SPIVEY'S "H'rumph's" ("Facts of Life," September-October 1999) and laughed out loud. I too came upon the Bee Gees on TV in a "One Night Only" (please!) concert on PBS.
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The hugely popular SimCity game is rapidly recovering from its trouble-plagued launch but problems are yet to be completely eradicated, company officials said.
The hugely popular SimCity game is rapidly recovering from its trouble-plagued launch but problems are yet to be completely eradicated, company officials said.
Electronic Arts servers hosting SimCity online play were overwhelmed after the California company released its Maxis Studio game on March 5, and problems continued through the weekend.
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SimCity players have connected online for a combined total of about eight million hours of game play and crashes have been cut by 92 percent since launch, according to Bradshaw.
Engineers were updating servers on Monday, taking some offline temporarily to do work, according to status reports fired off on Twitter by EA.
'Finally got onto a server,' a Twitter user said in a message mid-day Monday. 'My cities have been deleted. This is unacceptable. What a waste of money.'
A 10-year wait ended on March 5 with the arrival of 'SimCity,' a computer game that challenges players to build thriving cities in the face of conditions such as limited funds and climate change.
The sequel to the city-building computer game that factors in real-world consequences of energy choices, urban plans, and policy decisions debuted in the US for $60 a copy.
'I can't begin to explain the way a development team feels when something you're proud of is threatened at launch,' Bradshaw said.
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Millions of people have played SimCity since the computer game designed by Will Wright was first released in 1989.
The original title won a broad, devoted following and led to a successful line of 'Sims' strategy games in which players manipulate worlds and animated characters in simulations of real life.
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