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Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) sets the DNA PRESENTS 2012-13 season in motion with a multi-tiered world premiere by Isabel Lewis/LEWIS FOREVER, September 12-15, 2012. A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic is a new work conceived and directed by Isabel Lewis and performed by Brooklyn-based playwright, dramaturg and performer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The work will feature the 2011 film, SISTER, created by LEWIS FOREVER, a performance collective formed by Isabel and her three siblings, Sarah, Ligia and George Jr. All shows are at 7:30 p.m.
In A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic, performer Jacobs-Jenkins adopts the role of The Imposter Lewis, a kind of family figure by-proxy, played by varying artists in past works by the wily collective. The Imposter Lewis, originally created as a dramaturgical and psychological necessity for the group of sibling creators, brings an outside perspective to the intimate relationships in the Lewis family unit. Embodying the unlucky position of being just outside of a situation, the Imposter Lewis has the capacity to analyze and assess goings-on but longs to be more deeply involved.
The character takes center stage in this performance as the only live-action component of a work that weaves text, film and dance performance into a complex portrayal of collaboration and the artistic process. Part director's commentary and part lecture on the intricate social relationships we understand as kinship, A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic turns the collaborative method inside out and exposes its risks, struggles and misapprehensions.
"LEWIS FOREVER's newest work taps into the charged energy that is changing the face of dance. Commissioned by DNA and supported by The MAP Fund and Mertz Gilmore Foundation, it tests the limits of dance structure and content and addresses the construct of partnership in creation," says Artistic and Executive Director Catherine Peila. "DNA encourages artists to stretch outside their comfort zones. LEWIS FOREVER did just that, and we're honored to be witnesses to their process."
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Isabel Lewis has performed with Miguel Gutierrez, Ann Liv Young, Levi Gonzalez and David Neumann in New York City, as well as Jasna Layes-Vinovrski and Tino Sehgal in Berlin. She formed the Labor Union with Erika Hand in NYC in 2004. Lewis has presented her choreographic works at The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project and PS 122, as well as several underground project spaces and galleries in the outer boroughs. She was a Movement Research Artist in Residence and a Fresh Tracks Residency Recipient in 2005-2006 and has worked as an editor and writer for the Movement Research Performance Journal. As a curator, Lewis worked on Movement Research Festivals in 2004 and 2007; Body Blend, a performance series at Dixon Place; and "Re-Imagining Utopia: Austrian/NYC Dialogue" in partnership with Movement Research, the Austrian Cultural Forum (NYC) and Tanzquartier Wien. She has created and led workshops at Universität der Künste in Berlin and at ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival in Vienna. She studied Dance/Choreography and Literary Criticism at Hollins University.
LEWIS FOREVER is a performance collective made up of four sibling artists: George Jr. (musician and performance artist), Isabel (choreographer), Sarah (theater director) and Ligia Manuela (choreographer). Living half in New York and half in Berlin, half Dominican and half Jewish American, LEWIS FOREVER is not only a performance collective but a bloodline. Family is the first society we acclimate to and the way we begin to understand the organization of our communities—LEWIS FOREVER is interested in the family structure as a site for recasting the molds that shape our understandings of the world.
Performances run at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 12, through Saturday, September 15. An opening night reception will be open and free to the public one hour before curtain on September 12. Audience members are invited to stay for a post show discussion immediately following the performance on September 13.
Tickets, now on sale, cost $17 for the general audience, $14 for students and seniors and $12 for DNA members, or if purchased in advance. Purchase tickets online at dnadance.org, by calling 212.625.8369 or on site two hours before curtain. Discounted tickets are available by phone for groups of 6 or more. All sales are final.Dance New Amsterdam is located at 280 Broadway (entrance at 53 Chambers Street), New York, NY 10007, near the R/W to City Hall, 4/5/6 at Brooklyn Bridge, J/M/Z, A/C/E or 1/2/3 at Chambers Street, and 2/3 at Park Place.
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Updated: August 18, 2011
The band "White Dress," which has played in ACL, will preform Thrusday night at the Rudy Acosta Student Pavilion from 7 to 8.
The concert is free and open to not just students and staff, but the general public as well.
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10 Top Good Men on TV
We had some trouble compiling this list. It's not that good men are hard to find in TV—we thought of plenty—it's that goodness on the small screen is so often a caricature. Good cop versus bad cop. Lovable geek versus douchebag jock.
We found ourselves asking, is this character really good, or do we just not know enough about him? Do we omit characters from AMC's wonderfully nuanced Mad Men, for example, just because they're more complicated (or say "what?" way too often)? Then we thought, hey, we're evaluating the relative virtue of fictional characters—let's not overthink this thing.
In the end we tried to choose men we relate to and respect, however caricatured they might be at times. We also chose men who struggle toward goodness—and succeed most of the time. Oh, and we limited ourselves to characters who are currently on air (sadly, MacGyver wasn't in the running).
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From Exit 24 on Briley Parkway, follow Highway 12 north for 29 miles.(If you need gas, be sure to stop at the biker friendly Lewis Country Store located about 2.7 miles from Briley Parkway.) This is one of the most beautiful stretches of road around. There are only 2 stoplights along the entire route. The route is mostly a 55mph two lane blacktop road in great condition. Its filled with sweeping turns, towering cliffs, overhanging trees and plenty of scenic views. At the end lies a pot of gold. Well....cold beer, good food and friendly goodlooking bartenders...which is as good as gold to us! Looking for a more technical route from Nashville? Try out the Brewhouse West starting point found at the bottom of this page.
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Starting at Brewhouse West on Charlotte Pike in Nashville, turn north onto River Road. Follow River road north for 16.4 miles until it intersects 249. Turn right onto 249 and go over the bridge into Ashland City. (If you get thirsty along the way, be sure to stop into The V located at the intersection of 251 and 249) At the stoplight, take a left onto highway 12 and follow it north. At around 15 miles, start slowing down because our location will sneak up on ya. We will be on the left hand side at the top of the hill, just after the passing lane ends. Again, this route is filled with technical turns and beautiful views.


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Women's Club Volleyball
As a freshman there are many opportunities to join a variety of clubs and organizations. I played volleyball all through out my life and for a while it was my life. I decided not to play at the college level, but I was still looking for something to fulfill what was missing because I still have the passion for the sport. A couple of weeks ago Lewis started a Women's Club Volleyball team, and I decided to join. I thought of the team as a good opportunity to get my hands back on a volleyball, meet new people, and of course stay in shape. As of right now we have about 30 girls which will eventually turn into two teams, a competitive team and a recreational team. We will also be working along side of the Men's Club Volleyball team which started last year. The season does not start until January, but we have already started preparing for the season with open houses. We will also be trying to start to put together more matches on campus because most of our tournaments are out of state. They are out of state because our conference is the Midwest.
Club volleyball is for both competitive people and non competitive because of the range of experience on the team. Some of the girls have played all their lives like me and some haven't touched a volleyball since middle school. I am very excited to see how the season plays out. I hope everything goes really smoothly, we have fun, and hopefully win a couple of matches!
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About six months after a crash killed a Scottish tourist and injured his wife, Orlando police arrested the 45-year-old driver and charged him with DUI manslaughter.
The tourists, Peter and Isobel Doherty, were sitting at a bus stop outside the Mall at Millenia when police say they were struck by a vehicle operated by suspected drunken driver David Lee Givens at about 5:45 p.m. Sept. 16.
The Orlando man, who was arrested last week, was driving at about 52 miles per hour in a 35-mile-per-hour zone before the crash, a report said.
Officers submitted a sample of his blood to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for toxicology testing.
The lab results showed Givens' blood-alcohol content was .115, above the .08 legal limit for drivers in Florida.
Tire marks on Millenia Boulevard showed that Givens' car jumped the curb and took out the bus stop sign as well.
When police arrived on scene, the couple's shoes were thrown aside and the bus bench they were on was destroyed, leaving only splintered wood behind, the arrest report said.
Both victims were rushed to Orlando Regional Medical Center.
Isobel Doherty was treated and released from the hospital the next day.
Peter Doherty was taken off life support and died a week after the crash.
When police questioned Givens after the crash, the report says he had glassy, bloodshot eyes, a strong smell of alcohol on his breath and had trouble answering simple questions such as what direction he was headed on the roadway before the crash.
He was arrested on DUI manslaughter and DUI with personal injuries on Feb. 4 and released on $25,000 bond.
He was also cited for speeding.
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Thoughts on my life and budding career and the things that distract me...like kittens and Doctor Who.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I was watching my performances from this past semester and I could help but think, "that…is not good enough." I had what some would say is a successful audition season: made the Honors recital, got cast in the university opera and got accepted to a young artist program. But, as I listen, I am convinced it is not good enough. IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I don't know…I am not good enough.


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The last 2 decades since his unsuccessful attempt to ascend to this nation's highest political office, Micheal Dukakis has been busy. For Massachusetts' longest serving Governor and the 1988 Presidential Candidate, the last few years have certainly included extensive writing and lecturing on health care, actively working on transit and transportation and teaching at schools … Continue reading »


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sittin at the bus stop with an old asian man and guess what he has on his shirt?
an OCELOT!
I needed something for thoughts that are too long for Twitter or Facebook, but don't comprise a full blog post. Fortunately, that's what Tumblr is for.
I hope people don't stop giving a shit about this in a week or two.
This is what Mars looks like. Hey everyone, this is what Mars looks like. We didn't know this yesterday.
Juso so that everyone's aware this panorama comes from Opportunity (while at Greeley Haven) and not from Curiosity. as per here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer20120105.html
Not that it's not lovely.
Thank you, dduane! And for the rest of you: as he said, this panorama is going around, and it's awesome, but it's also not from Curiosity. Let this serve as a reminder that we've still got another rover, Opportunity, hanging out on Mars taking pictures.
Also, you don't even have to read up on the NASA website - the description right below this panorama says "It was assembled from 817 images taken between Dec. 21, 2011, and May 8, 2012, while Opportunity was stationed on an outcrop informally named 'Greeley Haven'." Curiosity hasn't been on the surface for a week, much less six months. Plus, there are tracks - I'm pretty sure Curiosity hasn't started moving yet, because they're still running a million system tests to make sure everything's A-OK.
Thanks, PSA over, return to your internets.
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The last guy in the row finally mentioned the other half-dozen or so countries involved and thanked them, and then it took a French guy asking a question, but we got an acknowledgement that the "American-made" rover had parts made in Spain.
I'm watching the NASA press conference and have all kinds of internal grumbles about all the America is the best/unique/special stuff happening.
Can't we just be proud of our achievements as a globe without the nationalistic chest-thumping?
We have another rover on Mars and it's taking pictures! First picture that came back was a picture of its own wheel. The rover thinks it's so cool.
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National Cooperative Union of India has asked its members to suggest changes in the bye Laws of NCUI with changing times. Also it is dragged to court every now and then on issues related to bye laws.
Mudit Verma, a Governing Council member has sent some suggestions which are respectful of Multi State Cooperative Societies Act 2002 on one hand and emphatic on preserving the cooperativeness of NCUI on the other.
Mr Verma says Elected member of Governing council should cease to be member of GC if he loses his position in his parent society.
On the formations of constituency for the election of GC, he says "Nine members should be elected from the constituency from among the member State Cooperative Union and cooperative Union Territories. These nine members come from across the states. J & K, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh combine together to elect one GC member while states of Maharashtra, Andhra and Goa combine to send another GC member. Similar is the case with other states.
On the election of highest contributors to the Cooperative Education Fund Verma suggests that "delegates should be elected from the 20 highest contributors".
On the representation of other various cooperative federations at both national and state levels such as Fishcopfed, NFCL, NHEC and others Mr Verma wants to include " Other State Cooperative Federations and Association which are not included in this list".
Plus he suggests that one member should be elected from delegates of multi state cooperative societies separately.
Election procedure for the constitution of GC has been a headache for NCUI and drags it to the court every now and then. Dearth of proposer and seconder from the same constituency when it is small leads to constitutional crisis for NCUI ofter.
Mudit Verma says "member of GC should be elected by and from amongst the delegates of respective constituencies. If there is more than one vacancy, each voter should be entitled to cast votes up to number of vacancies and the contestants securing highest votes should be elected to the extent of the vacancies.
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Hotmail query, up & down arrows.
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When I click on the up/down arrows on the right hand side of my hotmail nothing happens. If I want to read the next email, or previous one, I have to click on inbox every time.
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All kinds of issues seem to be cropping up with Hotmail all of a sudden. Microsoft is trying to migrate everyone to its new free webmail service - called outlook.com - and it looks to me as if nobody is bothering much with maintenance on the Hotmail servers.
I could be wrong, but there has been a rash of issues with Hotmail recently. Your problem doesn't sound as though there's anything wrong at your end.
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I beleive Hot mail is part of Microsoft?, if so they are trying to get rid of customers by also demanding people to put in email address & password everytime I try to log-in to IE. They say its to do with security, this is so much crap. I uninstalled Firefox because of this problem, if they cannot even remember an email address they should go out of business. I will just uningstall IE if I have to sign in every time.What is the point of having a box saying, (Remember Me), if they do not.
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I'm writing a unittest for a view class that generates a xml structure of the command object. This xml structure also contains possible binding errors.
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Technical Abstract: A 17.3-fold redundant bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library has been synthesized for carrot, the most-economically important member of the family Apiaceae. The library consists of 92,160 clones with an average insert size of 121 kb and ~ 2 % organellar DNA content. To provide an overview of the composition and organization of the carrot nuclear genome we generated and analyzed 2,696 high quality BAC-end sequences (BES) from nearly 2000 random BACs, totaling 1.74 Mb of BES. Analysis of repeat DNA content revealed that 14 % of the BES consist of known repetitive elements, with transposable elements (mainly LTR retrotransposons) representing more than 80 % of this fraction. Eleven novel carrot repetitive elements were identified, covering ~ 8.5 % of the BES. Analysis of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) showed a comparably-low frequency for these elements in the carrot BES. Comparisons of the translated BES with protein databases indicated that approximately 10 % of the carrot genome represents coding sequences. Moreover, among eight dicot species used for comparison purposes, carrot BES had highest homology to protein-coding sequences from tomato.


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Whenever I import my HV20 video to my Mac via iMovie '08, the drop down menu asking me where I'd like to save, only gives me the internal HDD option and not my USB 2.0 HDD. Any idea why?
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Every week since last June i had been posting a discussion inviting anyone who wants to join us.So i decided to make one discussion for all the weeks. Yes i am lazy get over it ;)To all…Continue
@ Nabil Tarek Basiouni- they may not be at quite the Atheist stage, but free thinking, and sick of old men making violent and destructive rules - doth make renegades. Viva la Revolution!
That is SO cool, Marvel - any chance you could upload that to a Taliban website? That would REALLY freak them out!
Ha! maybe he's a fan of that porn star! LOL!
Actress Elham Shahin to sue TV sheikh over insults >> Link
Egyptian actress Elham Shahin is to file a case against Sheikh Abdallah Badr of conservative TV channel 'El-Hafez', who regularly criticises the actress, according to a report on Ahram Arabic news website.
Shahin says that she will be making claims related to the channel's programmes to the Attorney General. She decided to take the case to court after she was mentioned for the second time on the channel in a programme this week, which discussed whether religious scholars should put limits on artistic expression.
During the programme on Saturday, 1 September, one of the presenters said to the sheikh: "If you as a sheikh will discuss economics, then we should get Elham Shahin to discuss religion."
The programme presenter then apologised, adding: "We hope artist Elham Shahin will find God's guidance; who knows." The sheikh then reportedly said: "I hope God guides her, and we would take care of her."
@Nabil Tarek they are probably new atheists, i think its the best thing we got out of the revolution. People apparently started to think freely.
@archaeopteryx : thats a great thing :D
@Nabil - as I mentioned in an earlier comment, a lady advisor to UN regarding the Islamic push to make criticizing Islam an international crime (her name escapes me, but it's in my original comment, along with a link to her article), says:
"on account of the new openness available through satellite, internet and mobile phone technologies, disillusioned Muslims are rejecting and leaving Islam in unprecedented numbers."
The number of new openly atheist/agnostic people at my school is increasing at an unbelievable rate. I no longer know whats happening around me.
Have they all decided to come out at once, or are those new atheists? Or maybe I'm just paying too much attention these days.
Forgive my paranoid tone, but it's not exactly easy seeing this happening in a school dominated by e5wan and salaf :/
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Korey Billbury came off the bench to put up career-best numbers.
Shawn Glover scored nine of Oral Roberts' final 12 points of regulation, including a free throw that forced overtime with 3.7 seconds remaining.
And four ORU players scored at least 13 points for the first time this season as the Golden Eagles overcame a five-point deficit in the last two and a half minutes of regulation to snare a 65-61 triumph Saturday at Sam Houston State.
"Great, great win," ORU coach Scott Sutton said after his team secured sole possession of second place in the Southland Conference race.
Seven days earlier, Sutton questioned his team's toughness following a homecourt loss to the team - Stephen F. Austin - atop the league standings.
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"The last two minutes of regulation and the five minutes of overtime, I thought our guys out-toughed them," Sutton said. "I thought our guys showed a lot of toughness to get the game into overtime and, once we got into overtime, we jumped out to a five-point lead and couldn't extend that, but we got enough stops and rebounds down the stretch."
Sam Houston State (11-7, 4-2) was held to two field goals over the final seven minutes and did not score in the final 2:30 of regulation.
Credit Billbury for keeping ORU close enough for Glover to be a difference-maker at game's end.
Billbury, a redshirt freshman guard from Booker T. Washington, produced this stat line: a career-high 16 points, career-high eight rebounds, career-high four steals and three assists.
"I thought it was the best Korey has played since the exhibition season," Sutton said during a postgame radio interview.
ORU trailed by as many as eight points in the first half and led by as many as eight points in the second half. At one point during the opening half, Billbury was 4-of-4 from the field and his teammates were 7-of-22. He finished 4-of-5 from the field and 8-of-8 on free throws.
Warren Niles and Glover scored 17 points each. Damen Bell-Holter collected 13 points, seven rebounds and four blocks, including a rejection of Darius Gatson's drive to the basket with 27 seconds left in regulation.
Sam Houston State led 55-54 after a missed shot with 22 seconds remaining in regulation. On ORU's subsequent possession, Glover drove the paint and a foul was called on James Thomas. Glover made one free throw to clinch overtime and missed another that could have won the game in regulation.
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Just once more, and
then we'll really have to get on with more pressing business. I could
subscribe myself at any time to any of the following statements:
§ An Arab child born in Nablus should have no fewer
rights in his or her homeland than a Jewish child born in
§ The United States of America has been the
patron of predatory regimes on five continents.
§ The
United States of America exports violence by means of arms sales and
evil clients.
You can probably fill in a few extras for
yourself. However, none of the above statements means the same thing
if prefaced with the words: "As Osama bin Laden and his devout
followers have recently reminded us..." They wouldn't mean the same
thing politically, that is to say, and they wouldn't mean the same
thing morally. It's disgraceful that so many people on the periphery
of this magazine should need what Noam Chomsky would otherwise term
instruction in the elementary.
Here are two brief thought
experiments that I hope and trust will put this degrading argument to
rest. Both of them, as it happens, involve the date September
I have long kept September 11 as a day of mourning,
because it was on that date in 1973 that Salvador Allende was
murdered and Chilean democracy assassinated along with him. We know
all the details now, from the way the giant corporations subsidized
subversion to the way that US politicians commissioned "hit jobs" and
sabotage. It took the Chilean opposition many years of patient
struggle to regain their country and their democracy, and the small
help I was able to offer them is one of the few things in my life of
which I can be proud. There was one spirited attempt to kill Augusto
Pinochet himself during this period, with which I had some sneaking
sympathy, but on the whole the weaponry of terror (death squads, car
bombs, the training of special killers) was in the department of
horror employed by Chilean and US officials working for, or with, the
dictatorship. And now Chilean dignity has been restored, and Pinochet
himself is a discredited and indicted figure, spared the rigor of law
only for humanitarian reasons. We may even live to see justice done
to some of his backers in Washington, though the holding of breath
would be inadvisable.
I don't know any Chilean participant
in this great historic struggle who would not rather have
died--you'll have to excuse the expression--than commit an outrage
against humanity that was even remotely comparable to the atrocities
in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. And I think I'll leave it
at that, since those who don't see my point by now are never going to
do so.
There are others who mourn September 11 because it
was on that day in 1683 that the hitherto unstoppable armies of Islam
were defeated by a Polish general outside the gates of Vienna. The
date marks the closest that proselytizing Islam ever came to making
itself a superpower by military conquest. From then on, the Muslim
civilization, which once had so much to teach the Christian West,
went into a protracted eclipse. I cannot of course be certain, but I
think it is highly probable that this is the date that certain
antimodernist forces want us to remember as painfully as they do. And
if I am right, then it's not even facile or superficial to connect
the recent aggression against American civil society with any current
"human rights issue."
Why not pay attention to what the
cassettes and incantations of Al Qaeda actually demand: a holy war in
which there are no civilians on the other side, only infidels, and a
society of total aridity in which any concept of culture or the
future has been eradicated?
One ought to be clear about
this: The Ottomans who besieged Vienna were not of that primeval
mentality. But the Wahabbi fanatics of the present century are.
Glance again at the trite statements I made at the beginning of this
column. Could Osama bin Laden actually utter any of them? Certainly
not. He doesn't only oppose the entire Jewish presence in Palestine;
he opposes the Jewish presence in America. He is the
spoiled-brat son of one of our preferred despotisms and the proud
beneficiary of the export of violence. Why, then, do so many fools
consider him as the interpreter of their "concerns," let alone seek
to appoint their ignorant selves as the medium for his?
Thanks to all those who demand that I tell them what is to
be done. As the situation develops, they may even ask themselves this
question as if it really demanded a serious answer. We certainly owe
a duty to Afghanistan's people, whose lives were rendered impossible
by the Taliban long before we felt any pain. We might even remember
that the only part of Iraq where people are neither starving nor
repressed is in the Kurdish area, now under international protection
as a result of public pressure on Bush Senior's vaunted "coalition."
(See especially David Hirst's two engrossing reports from northern
Iraq in the London Guardian of August 1 and 2: Hirst himself
is probably the most consistently anti-imperialist journalist in the
region.) But wait! That might mean that one could actually
do something. Surely we are too guilt-stained for
Thanks also to all those who thought it was original
to attack me for writing from an "armchair." (Why is it always an
armchair?) As it happens, I work in a swivel chair, in an apartment
on the top floor of one of Washington's tallest buildings. In the
fall of 1993 the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism
urgently advised me to change this address because of "credible"
threats received after my wife and daughter and I had sheltered
Salman Rushdie as a guest, and had arranged for him to be received at
the cowering Clinton White House. I thought, then as now, that the
government was doing no more than covering its own behind by giving
half-alarmist and half-reassuring advice. In other words, I have a
quarrel with theocratic fascism even when the Administration does
not, and I hope at least some of my friendly correspondents are
prepared to say the same.
all the programs I've seen on Afghanistan, not one was more chilling
than Beneath the Veil, an hourlong documentary that has
appeared frequently on CNN. Its narrator, Saira Shah, a British woman
of Afghan descent, spent five days in the country to see what life
there was really like. Shah managed to penetrate places few
Westerners get to see, including a secret classroom for girls and a
village that suffered Taliban atrocities. She also visited a Kabul
soccer stadium that, she said, had served as a public execution
ground. To back up her point, the documentary featured a clip of a
man putting a rifle to the head of a woman clad in a burqa and
blowing her brains out. In an interview with the Taliban foreign
minister, Shah asked what he thought the international donors who
gave money for the stadium would say if they knew it was being used
for executions rather than for sports. Well, the minister said, if
they didn't like it, they should give money to build a separate arena
for executions.
Shah's report captures just how horrendous
life in Afghanistan has become. The Taliban's police-state tactics,
together with its harboring of terrorists, has fed a groundswell of
support for its ouster. That, in turn, has focused new attention on
the Taliban's main opponents, the United Front, or, as it's more
familiarly known, the Northern Alliance. Eager to report on it, US
journalists have swarmed into the sliver of territory the alliance
controls in northeastern Afghanistan, where they're cordially taken
on tours by rebel commanders.
"We're with the troops of the
Northern Alliance," MSNBC's TomAspell reported on September 27. The
alliance, he said, was eager to act as a guide for American forces
entering Afghanistan. CNN's Chris Burns, gesturing toward a mountain
ridge, said, "Thirty miles beyond that, is where Kabul is. And they
say if they had help from the Americans, they could take that city."
Meanwhile, a procession of alliance spokesmen have appeared on TV to
plead for US assistance.
The print media have been no less
accommodating. "Front-line Taliban Foes Eager to Help U.S.," the
New York Times declared on its front page. Reporter David
Rohde described how a Northern Alliance general "swaggered across the
top floor" of a demolished airfield control tower and pointed
southward. "'On the other side of those mountains,' he said, his
voice filled with yearning, 'is Kabul.'" While the alliance did not
pose an immediate military threat to the city, Rohde noted, it did
have "encyclopedic knowledge of the Taliban and its bombing targets,
units and tactics." The Washington Post has run a series of
glowing reports about the alliance and its grit, savvy and
"discipline." That discipline, correspondent Peter Baker noted in one
dispatch, has survived the September 9 assassination of Ahmed Shah
Massoud, the guerrilla leader who "by sheer force of personality had
managed to hold together this eclectic group of
In death, Massoud has been lionized by the US
press--literally. "The legendary 'Lion of the Panjshir,'" the Los
Angeles Times called him. "A Lion's Death," the New Yorker
declared in a headline atop a one-page eulogy by Jon Lee Anderson. In
1992, Anderson reported, Massoud's "moderately conservative group"
defeated the brutish regime backed by the Soviets, and he served as
defense minister and vice president until 1996, when the Taliban
gained control of most of the country.
What neither
Anderson nor the rest of the press has reported is that during their
time in power, Massoud and his fellow warlords ruthlessly fought one
another, reducing much of Kabul to rubble and killing tens of
thousands of people, most of them civilians. According to a
meticulously documented report by Human Rights Watch (Afghanistan:
Crisis of Impunity, available at www.hrw.org), the front "amassed
a deplorable record of attacks on civilians" between 1992 and 1996.
It was the lawlessness and brutality that prevailed under these
warlords that paved the way for the Taliban. Since then, Human Rights
Watch reports, both the Taliban and the United Front "have repeatedly
committed serious violations of international humanitarian law,
including killings of detainees, aerial bombardment and shelling,
direct attacks on civilians, rape, torture, persecution on the basis
of religion, and the use of antipersonnel landmines."
one of the few departures from the pack, Patricia Gossman noted in a
Washington Post Op-Ed that Afghans have been fleeing Kabul
"not only out of fear of US airstrikes but out of panic that the
[Northern Alliance] might take power there again." Gossman, a writer
whose research has been funded by the US Institute of Peace, wrote
that when she was in Kabul last year, "I was told time and again that
the only thing people there feared more than the Taliban was that the
warlords of the Northern Alliance might return to
Michael Sullivan, in a fine piece for NPR, pointed
out that the Northern Alliance is made up of Afghanistan's ethnic
Tajik and Uzbek minorities, "with only token representation from the
country's ethnic Pashtun majority, who've dominated Afghanistan's
political landscape for most of the country's history." Without
involving the Pashtuns, a Pakistani security analyst told him, having
a stable government in Afghanistan "would be simply impossible." (The
Taliban is made up mostly of Pashtuns.)
What accounts for
the media blackout on the United Front's true colors? As Ken
Silverstein observed in an astute piece for Salon, the front's
many abuses "can't be a surprise" to reporters. Since September 11,
he notes, several thousand people, "presumably many of them
journalists," have requested the Human Rights Watch report on
Afghanistan, but "most reporters and pundits seem to be patriotically
turning a blind eye to our new partner's shortcomings."
The press may at last be opening its eyes. Time, in
its October 8 edition, offered a balanced piece on the United Front,
referring to its "fractious makeup" and "disappointingly thin"
intelligence. And David Rohde, in another front-page piece in the
Times on the Northern Alliance, used the w-word--warlords--and
described their recruitment of fighters as young as
According to the Times, the Bush Administration
has decided to provide covert aid to several groups opposed to the
Taliban, the United Front included. In light of the urgent need to
root out war criminals like Osama bin Laden, it can be argued that
Washington needs every bit of help it can get. But at the very least,
the American public needs to know whom we are embracing. After all,
it was just a few years ago that the CIA--eager to confront the
Soviets--backed the mujahedeen, including many of the same Taliban
fighters we are now seeking to overthrow.
Labels like "Islam" and "the West" serve only to confuse us about a disorderly reality.
The two related questions before the house are these. Can the attacks
of September 11 be compared to an earlier outrage committed by
Americans? And should they be so compared?
Several individuals have attributed to me certain statements on the issue of the situation known as the "Pacifica Crisis." As I am quite capable of speaking for myself without easy-chai
I have been asked to respond to recent Nation articles by Christopher Hitchens (website, September 24; magazine, Oct.
With the news media playing such a pivotal--and questionable--role during the current crisis, we have asked Michael Massing, a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, to comment on the coverage in the coming weeks.
--The Editors
A few minutes into ABC's World News Tonight on September 21--the night after George W. Bush's speech to Congress--Peter Jennings somberly noted that it was "time for all Americans to begin learning more about Afghanistan." I immediately perked up. Since the calamitous events of September 11, the networks had focused heavily on the human and physical toll of the attacks and on the nation's fitful efforts to come to terms with them. And they performed admirably in those initial days, consoling and comforting the public even as they were informing it. But as the days passed, and as the government prepared to strike at Osama bin Laden and his Afghan hosts, the need for some sharp political analysis became urgent, and here, on cue, was Jennings, promising a mini-tutorial.
Leaning forward, I looked expectantly at my TV screen--only to find it filled with the pale, bespectacled face of Tony Cordesman. Cordesman, of course, was a ubiquitous talking head during the Gulf War, and now he was back, holding forth in the same nasal monotone. He dutifully recited some basic facts about Afghanistan--the small size of the Taliban army, the limited number of tanks and aircraft at its disposal, the scarcity of bombing targets on the ground. "The job is extraordinarily difficult if not impossible if you set deadlines and demand instant success," Cordesman burbled. Then he was gone, and the program was back to its ongoing coverage of victims, heroes and terrorists. We learned nothing about the level of support for the Taliban, about the strength of the opposition, about America's long history of involvement in the region.
The segment was typical. As the nation prepares to go to war, the coverage on TV--the primary source of news for most Americans--has been appallingly superficial. Constantly clicking my remote in search of insight, I was stunned at the narrowness of the views offered, at the Soviet-style reliance on official and semiofficial sources. On Meet the Press, for instance, Tim Russert's guests were Colin Powell and (as he proudly announced) the "four leaders of the United States Congress"--Dennis Hastert, Richard Gephardt, Trent Lott and Tom Daschle. "How did the events of September 11 change you?" the normally feisty Russert tremulously asked each. Seeking wisdom on the question of Why They Hate Us, Barbara Walters turned to former Bush communications director, now senior White House counselor, Karen Hughes. "They hate the fact that we elect our leaders," Hughes vacuously replied. On NBC, Brian Williams leaned heavily on failed-drug-czar-turned-TV-consultant Barry McCaffrey ("Americans are natural fighters," McCaffrey fatuously informed us), while on The Capital Gang Mark Shields asked former Middle East diplomat Edward Walker, "Can the antiterrorism coalition really count this time on Saudi Arabia?"
To a degree, such deference reflects TV's customary rallying around the flag in times of national crisis. Such a stance is understandable; in light of the enormity of the attack, even atheists are singing "God Bless America." But the jingoistic displays on TV over the past two weeks--the repeated references to "we" and "us," the ostentatious sprouting of lapel flags, Dan Rather's startling declaration that "George Bush is the President, he makes the decisions and, you know, as just one American, he wants me to line up, just tell me where"--have violated every canon of good journalism. They have also snuffed out any whiff of debate and dissent; the discussion taking place within the Bush Administration is no doubt more vigorous than that presented on TV.
But there's more than simple patriotism at work here. The thinness of the coverage and the shallowness of the analysis seem a direct outgrowth of the networks' steady disengagement from the world in recent years. Since the end of the cold war, overseas bureaus have been closed, foreign correspondents recalled and the time allocated to international news sharply pared. Having thus plucked out their eyes, the networks--suddenly faced with a global crisis--are lunging about in the dark, trying desperately to find their footing.
No outlet has seemed more blinkered than CNN. The network that once emulated the BBC has instead become another MSNBC, and while it can still count on Christiane Amanpour to parachute into the world's hot zones, and on the game efforts of such on-the-ground assets as Nic Robertson in Kabul, the network has seemed thoroughly flummoxed by the complex political forces set in motion by the events of September 11. Consider, for instance, that famous brief clip showing a clutch of Palestinians celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center. Within days, word began circulating on the Internet that the footage had actually been shot during the Gulf War. The furor became so great that CNN eventually had to issue a statement describing where it got the tape (from a Reuters cameraman in East Jerusalem who insisted that he had not encouraged the celebration, as some claimed).
The real scandal, though, is that CNN repeatedly showed the clip without commentary, without attempting to place it in the broader context of reactions from the Islamic world. What were people in Gaza and the West Bank actually saying? Where were the interviews with clerics in Cairo, editorial writers in Amman, shopkeepers in Jakarta and schoolteachers in Kuala Lumpur? It was certainly not hard to obtain such views--witness Ian Fisher's sparkling dispatch from Gaza in the New York Times ("In the Gaza Strip, Anger at the U.S. Still Smolders") and Peter Waldman and Hugh Pope's excellent front-page roundup in the Wall Street Journal: "Some Muslims Fear War on Terrorism Is Really a War on Them; West Undercuts Islam, They Say, by Backing Israel, Autocratic Mideast Rule."
Not all was bland on CNN. Jeff Greenfield, for one, made some genuine efforts to probe the Islamic world's complex love-hate relationship with the United States. On September 20, for instance, he had a spirited discussion with Afghanistan hands Barnett Rubin of New York University and Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, along with Farid Esack, a Muslim scholar at Auburn Theological Seminary. Far more representative,though, was "What Do We Know About Islam?" an exceedingly brief Sunday segment in which a Christian minister and a Muslim cleric offered very vague observations about relations between Christianity and Islam. It was followed by an interview with a Muslim-American who assured us that "Islam means peace." Shot in Boston and New York, the segment drove home how CNN has lost that precious journalistic ability to work the streets of the world and discover what's really taking place there. Given CNN's critical part in keeping the world informed, one can only hope that it will soon regain its bearings.
I thought I was alone in being unable to hear the words "liberalmedia"
without thinking of Antonio Gramsci. But it turns out I have a comrade
in Rush Limbaugh.
Writing in an Internet publication called Bad Subjects
(eserver.org/bs), Charlie Bertsch quotes Rush letting his readers
in on the secret of "an obscure Italian communist by the name of Antonio
Gramsci [who] theorized that it would take a 'long march through the
institutions' before socialism and relativism would be victorious." Rush
goes on to note that "Gramsci theorized that by capturing these key
institutions and using their power, cultural values would be changed,
traditional morals would be broken down, and the stage would be set for
the political and economic power of the West to fall."
Not being a chronic masochist, I don't listen to Rush enough to know if
this bit of erudition is typical. But for a man who recently theorized,
aloud and at length, that Tom Daschle is actually Satan, it is typically
insane. What Gramsci brings to the party of contemporary media analysis
is not the left's "long march through the institutions," which, pace
Todd Gitlin, applies only to a few humanities departments, but the idea
of "hegemony" as a tool of political control. Hegemony flows not from
the barrel of a gun but from moral and intellectual consensus. It is the
politics of "hearts and minds."
Limbaugh would have us believe that the pinkos have taken over our
culture and are oppressing conservatives by mocking and excluding their
views from the hegemonic liberal media. But even intelligent
conservatives do not genuinely believe this. (Paging my main man again,
Billy Kristol.) Indeed, if you think Jack Welch and Andy Lack over at
NBC, Michael Eisner and David Westin at ABC, and Sumner Redstone and
Andrew Heyward at CBS are secretly conniving to spread the gospel of
world revolution, I'm afraid there is not much that can be done for you
this side of electroshock.
Let us take the case that has been in the news lately, AOL Time Warner's
CNN, which has recently been courting Limbaugh himself, and, according
to rumor, the no-less-nutty Bill O'Reilly. The rap on CNN is that it
leans too far leftward to attract the right-wing cable news audience
that is rapidly falling into the lap of "fair and balanced" Fox News.
Tom DeLay regularly refers to CNN as the "Communist News Network" and
has suggested a Republican boycott of its programs. The network's new
head, Walter Isaacson, recently made a high-profile diplomatic démarche
to DeLay's minions, outraging Democrats and inspiring fears of future
on-air suck-ups.
Perhaps CNN does see its financial salvation in becoming a kind of faux
Fox. In the meantime, if CNN were really run by liberals--to say nothing
of actual commies--we might hear a great deal more about Tom DeLay, for
instance. How about a CNN special dealing with DeLay's pre-Congressional career as an
exterminator, where he fought off three separate tax liens for failing
to properly pay payroll and income taxes, and twice paid former business
associates court-ordered settlements? Part two of the special might
focus on DeLay family values. Where are the family values, a liberal CNN
might ask, of a conservative leader who refuses to speak to his own
77-year-old mother and does not even invite her to the wedding of her
granddaughter? A network that can milk Gary Condit's affairs for a
billion consecutive hours should be able to find a few for a story this
More to the point, if CNN were actually a liberal station, it would
employ genuine liberals to host its shows. (I hear that Jesse Jackson
has a show, though nobody I have asked has ever seen it.) All right,
Bill Press is a decent match for Tucker Carlson on Crossfire, albeit
from a deep-inside-the-Beltway perspective. Al Hunt and Mark Shields
also qualify as liberals by the conservative hegemonic standards of
punditocracy discourse. But historically, no CNN "liberal" has proved an
ideological match for the fire-breathing zealotry of the pro-fascist Pat
Buchanan, the pro-McCarthy Robert Novak or even the charming apparatchik
Mary Matalin. And what of the rest of the schedule--Is Larry King a
liberal? Wolf Blitzer? Jeff Greenfield? Greta van Susteren? Howard Kurtz
and Bernard Kalb? The only way to apply this honorable label to the
likes of these nonideological, nonthreatening interviewers is to define
the word "liberal" to mean "not obviously insane."
CNN counts as "liberal" only in a universe where conservative political
hegemony is so strong that critics have lost the ability to think
clearly about anything. CNN does not cover trade from the perspective of
the antiglobalization movement.
It does not cover business from the perspective of the labor or
environmental movements. It does not cover war from the perspective of
the peace movement and it does not cover dictatorships (and illegal
military occupations) from the perspective of their victims. It does not
even cover George Bush from the perspective of the people who had their
election subverted. Indeed, a recent study of the guests on Wolf
Blitzer's Inside Washington recently found that the guests were more
often Republican than Democrat, more often conservative than liberal.
True, not all those who count as "conservative" are willing to go on
record about Tom Daschle's supernatural satanic powers, but that's why
we have Rush, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the
Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, the New York Post, Matt Drudge,
etc., etc.
* * *
Obviously, most of this column was written before the attacks of
September 11. In light of those calamities, it's hard to believe that
anyone cared about Gary Condit's relationship with Chandra Levy and the
like. Still, the problems discussed above are not going anywhere. A
moment pregnant with so many unhappy possibilities as this one brings
home our need for a genuinely liberal alternative national news source
to the conservative/centrist mainstream. If only the critics were right
about CNN...
Two of the most
famous figures in the Democratic Party, Senators Joseph Lieberman and
Hillary Clinton, have introduced the Media Marketing Accountability
Act of 2001, which, among other things, would make it illegal to
market or promote adult-rated rap and rock-and-roll albums to kids
under 17 and would empower the Federal Trade Commission to decide
which R-rated films may be marketed to minors.
In April,
Senator Clinton said, "If you label something as inappropriate for
children and then go out and target it to children, you are engaging
in false and deceptive advertising." And this summer Democrats,
occasionally joined by some Republicans, have browbeaten
entertainment-industry leaders at Congressional hearings, accusing
them of evading the rating system and selling salacious material to
young people. But the R rating on films doesn't mean kids under 17
shouldn't see them; it means they shouldn't see them without an
adult. Many parents want their kids to see such R-rated films as
Billy Elliot and Erin Brockovich. As for records, the
"parental advisory" sticker informs the buyer that the record
contains profanity, but it does not have an age
Lieberman disingenuously says, "We're not
asking the FTC to regulate content in any way, or even to make
judgments about what products are appropriate for children." But
that's precisely what his radical bill does. It empowers the FTC to
"establish the criteria" for new ratings for records and films, and
would legally require record companies and film studios to create and
implement "an age-based rating or labeling system." Marketing would
be deemed to be targeting minors if "the Commission determines that
the advertising or marketing is otherwise directed or targeted to
minors." With the FTC defining marketing to minors on the basis of
FTC-mandated ratings criteria, backed by the crippling financial
penalties for "unfair or deceptive acts or practices," it would be
able to decide which music and movies could be mass-marketed and
thus, by and large, which ones would be released.
Lieberman and Clinton apparently believe that federal
bureaucrats are the ideal arbiters of the appropriateness of
entertainment for teenagers. Lieberman told Inside.com, "We
know the difference between Schindler's List and Saving
Private Ryan and some of the slasher flicks that are aimed at
teenage boys. That's a decision best left to the administrative
Two days before the legislation was introduced,
the FTC issued a surreal report that criticized record companies for
advertising stickered albums on the World Wrestling Federation TV
show SmackDown! because 36 percent of its audience is under
18. So according to the FTC it's OK for younger teens to watch guys
knocking the living daylights out of each other, but it's not OK to
sell rap music to those same kids! Not surprisingly, more than 70
percent of the albums the FTC monitored were by African-American
artists. (The FTC also included the rock band Rage Against the
Machine, whose lyrics are frequently political, on the list.) At the
Hip-Hop Summit in June, attended by African-American leaders
including Cornel West, Martin Luther King III, Louis Farrakhan and
several black members of Congress, even those who criticized the
content of certain albums agreed that this legislation is dangerous
and unfair.
While the FTC investigation was conducted in
response to the Columbine murders, Lieberman is a one-man slippery
slope who makes no bones about his desire to regulate nonviolent
dirty words, complaining that "the leading music companies...have
been doing little if anything to respond to the FTC report and curb
the marketing of obscenity-laced records to kids."
the Washington elite focuses its rhetoric on corporations, young
people view these outbursts as attacks on youth culture. Just as baby
boomers didn't view Bob Dylan and the Beatles as "products" of CBS
and EMI, today's young people view rap and rock music as their own
culture, which appears to be precisely what middle-aged pundits hate
about it. George Will, for example, castigated rap lyrics last
September on ABC's This Week. Six months later, Will lavished
praise on Sopranos executive producer David Chase for his
creation. Both Eminem's Slim Shady and Chase's Tony Soprano are
violent, bigoted characters whose humanity and contradictions are
nonetheless illuminated by their creators. The primary difference is
that rap is the cultural language of young people.
Obviously, people of good will disagree about culture, and
there is nothing wrong with fierce criticism of any genre. But
Lieberman et al. want to go far beyond criticism. They want
government to have veto power over the marketing, and thus the
economic viability, of entertainment.
By supporting this
legislation Democrats may pick up a few "swing voters" who like the
symbolism of entertainment-bashing, but in doing so they risk
alienating young voters, fans of pop culture of all ages and civil
libertarians. It is hard to imagine the young people who still turn
out in the thousands to hear Ralph Nader speak at campuses being
attracted by Lieberman's approach. Voter turnout among young people
is at an all-time low, around 28 percent; and according to Voter News
Service, while Clinton had a 12-percentage-point margin over Bush
among 18-29 year olds in 1992 and a 19-percentage-point margin in
1996, Gore-Lieberman won this demographic by a mere 2 percent in
2000. None of the published postelection analyses by Democrats have
focused on restoring turnout or Democratic margins among young
Condescending to, alienating and demeaning young
people is bad morally and bad politically. No progressive movement
has ever succeeded without young people. Continued culture-bashing by
Democrats opens the door for more erosion of their natural base to
culture-savvy libertarians like Jesse Ventura.
Modesto, California
"Condit Country" is a bad enough slogan for
this agribusiness burg, yet, not satisfied with it, the city boosters
have also erected an arch across the main street. MODESTO, reads the
self-regarding inscription. WATER. WEALTH. CONTENTMENT. HEALTH. The
local Congressman is an embodiment of this narcissistic style, and of
the sort of Babbittry that accompanies it. Condit is always there,
when it comes to being photographed for a peach parade. He's always
there, on the House Agriculture Committee, when it comes to bills on
land and water rights. He's an irrigation ditch for the local
interests. His blond family--Carolyn, Cadee and Chad--is off a
cornflakes box. In common with his sometime friend and patron
Governor Gray Davis, Condit will make any political sellout his own
idea. Death penalty--yes. School prayer, public display of the Ten
Commandments, down with flag-burners and (now that you mention it)
let's reveal the names of people with AIDS.
Creeps like
Condit are, however, a dime a dozen in the Democratic Party, and I
was in a state of general agreement with Dan Rather when I first set
foot in the district. The disappearance of Chandra Levy had no
importance beyond itself; it was a tragedy only for her family.
Condit may have flirted with obstruction of justice by wasting the
time of the DC police, and with suborning perjury in asking Anne
Marie Smith to sign a false affidavit, but this was not on the
Clinton scale of abuse of power. Condit hadn't used the forces of the
state or mobilized large sums of public money in his battle to
insulate himself from unwelcome inquiries. What he has done has at
least been done on his own dime.
Thus I reasoned, idly,
until I got to the corner of 16th and H streets downtown, where
Condit has his headquarters. There wasn't much in the window, except
a banal poster enjoining one and all to say no to hate crimes and two
other exhibits. The first of these was a missing poster for Levy,
who, as is now notorious, disappeared a whole continent away in
Washington and is unlikely to be lurking in the greater Modesto area.
The second was a missing poster for a local girl named Dena Raley,
who has vanished in what the authorities call "suspicious
circumstances." I asked an experienced local if Congressman Condit
has always kindly displayed the posters for missing females in his
district office window. "Oh no," came the reply. "That's a new
I was at once seized with a powerful feeling of
disgust. Condit and his team of lawyers and publicists have been
saying unctuously for some time that they so much hope Chandra Levy
hasn't gone the way of all those other girls who go missing. "I pray
that she has not met the same fate," as Condit himself piously
phrased it in a letter to his constituents. The not-so-subtle message
is that life is unfair, whaddaya gonna do and don't look at me. But
to use the posters of the missing as an accessory in this fashion is
to take cynicism a stage further. I actually live in a place more or
less equidistant between Levy's old apartment in Dupont Circle and
Condit's oddly located pad in Adams Morgan, and I can tell you that
the disappearance of single females is not as everyday an occurrence
as some would have you think. I can also tell you that the Washington
Police Department is a laughingstock, as much among criminals as
among the law-abiding. It never called Dr. Levy back after he rang to
report his daughter missing in the first place, and when it says it
has no suspect in the case it really, really means it. It's a police
department that doesn't suspect anybody, and has for these many years
employed rather more crooks than it has managed to
The following night I watched Condit himself on
TV. Considering that our craven mass media had actually allowed him
to choose a lenient and unqualified interviewer, I thought that his
performance was not so much disastrous from a PR point of view (the
Dick Gephardt "take" on the matter) as calamitous from a moral one.
How incredible that he could say, not once but several times, that in
refusing to clarify the real nature of their relationship he was
honoring "a specific request from the Levy family," who had done no
more than tell another TV station that they were more concerned with
recovering their daughter than with discovering the details. How
contemptible! A man who will do this, and plainly rehearse to do it
with the assistance of the degraded professions of attorney and media
adviser, can be held to be capable of pretty much anything. The
squalor and shadiness of his other responses--alluding to Ms. Levy
repeatedly in the past tense, making out her family to be liars,
answering questions he wasn't asked, resorting to the word "we" when
he meant "I" ("we've taken a polygraph test," for Christ's sake) and
blaming his lawyers for a draft falsification submitted to Anne Marie
Smith--paled when set next to this one.
So I have changed
my mind, for what it's worth. By acting in this depraved way, by
managing to evoke only mild reproof from his party and by employing
the techniques of spin and "privacy" and procrastination when a
girl's life is in question, Condit has demonstrated something of
importance about our political class. Of course I don't know if poor
Chandra Levy went for an ill-advised ride on his motorbike, or
somebody else's. But after I had digested the Congressman's window
display, I walked over to the former Mel's drive-in, which is
featured in George Lucas's Modesto classic, American
An ancient Chevy stood next to a battered
Packard in the parking lot, Elvis was on the jukebox, girls served
from rollerblades and the slogan ("Where the food is as good as the
root beer") was roughly accurate. A leathered biker pushed past me as
I emerged from the "Poppa Bear" restroom. On the back of his jacket
he had inscribed the words: IF YOU CAN READ THIS--THE BITCH FELL OFF.
It wasn't the most callous remark I heard in Modesto: I had to sit
through Connie Chung to hear it surpassed.


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I love new homeschoolers! I remember being a new mom to the homeschool scene, and how confusing and overwhelming this new world seemed to be. I remember being gullible, believing that homeschool veterans had all the answers because they knew everything about teaching kids.
Here are some of my best pieces of advice, some of which I received, and all of which I give to new homeschoolers:
1. It's YOUR SCHOOL. Let me say that again. It's your school. You can run it the way that you want to. Your kids, your schedule, your challenges, your home, your life. What works for me may not work for you.
2. Don't bring the school home with you. This goes back to it being your school, but I did it and I'm sure most of you will too, at least to some extent. Homeschooling is not like a regular school classroom. Don't turn it into one, unless you're okay with your kids hating homeschooling after a while.
3. You have to be HOME to homeschool. Yes, I know we do school on the road sometimes. I know there are field trips, and shopping, and friends. There are also kids who depend on you to give some sort of structure to their days. Be sure you are spending enough time at home to let that happen.
4. Sometimes you have to just pick one thing and work on it to completion. There are days around our house where I know that if we can just get my son through his math (we have special needs) then it will be a good day. If your child is struggling with one particular thing and it just seems like he can't move ahead, then don't. Drop the other subjects and come up with some creative ways to help him learn that one thing.
5. Take breaks. Lots of them, if they are younger or have special needs.
6. Take advantage of local resources to add variety to your education. County, state and national parks often have kid's science and conservation programs running from spring through fall. There are also many other possibilities that are only limited by your imagination (and maybe funds, but if you plan carefully you may still be able to do them!)
7. Kindergarten is not an academic year. Don't burn out your 5-year old with 7 subjects and rigidly scheduled days! I taught Kindergarten to 4 of my kids, and it took no more than an hour a day! And that hour? Was NOT consecutive. Math was about 20 minutes, and manipulative based. Handwriting practice was worksheets from Donna Young.org, placed in plastic sheet protectors. They would work on them until they got tired, no longer than about 10 minutes. Phonics was about 15 minutes. The rest of the time was spent with me reading aloud not only to my K'er but also to the older kids. We read nature magazines and historical fiction, science books, and funny poetry. Kindergarten is easy and fun and very gentle. Don't push.
8. Buy composition notebooks a case at a time when they go on sale in the summer. Seriously. We use these things for everything!
9. Always write lesson plans in pencil.
10. When it get stressful, grab a good read aloud, put your kids on your lap or close to you, and just read. This will really take the load off of your shoulders as well as your kids' and help you reconnect with the why of homeschooling. Relationships are the key!!
This post is part of the 10-in-10 series over at iHomeschool Network.com!


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African Statistics Day (ASD) is celebrated every year on 18 November. This event was initiated in 1990 by the Subsidiary Body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Joint African Conference of Planners, Statisticians, and Demographers.
The day is celebrated each year in order to increase awareness about the important role statistics play in all aspects of social and economic development of in Africa.
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Global strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics The initiative to develop the global strategy came as a response to the declining quantity and quality of agricultural statistics. The global strategy will also address the emerging data requirements posed by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), mainly on biofuels, global warming, the environment and food security.
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There's not much they don't do at Lola: live music seven days a week, stellar cocktails, upscale small plates, brunch, crepes. Located just off Washington Avenue, Lola strives to be a joint for downtown denizens that's by the neighborhood, for the neighborhood - balancing loft-district energy with food and drink you actually want. The crêpes are a good bet: the Delilah, stuffed with shrimp, crab and crawfish étouffée, is especially tasty. The lineup also includes sandwiches (these, too, have female names, though not as sexy as the crêpes) and small plates such as polenta fries paired with ratatouille and pan-fried lamb chops with a panko coating. The cocktail list, many of its entries named for downtown buildings, features truly excellent martinis and even mocktails (cleverly named after infamous celebrity rehab facilities) for those on the wagon. You'll never be without live entertainment at Lola, whether it's a hip-hop spin in the Absinthe Bar or up front with the soulful stylings of Mo E or Javier Mendoza.
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How do I know I need a water filter? Your public water authority does the best it can to ensure that your water is free of disease causing pathogens and sediment. However, it cannot ensure that your water is free of sediment after passing through the series of distribution lines to reach your home. Virtually all private well water supplies contain sediment. Therefore, a dirt/rust filter is advisable on the incoming water line. A filter can protect washers and seals from premature wear, it can prevent aerators and valves from plugging and keep your hot water heater from collecting excessive sediment.
Acid Wash 101 Acid washing is perhaps the biggest single factor leading to premature cartridge failure. For years, service technicians and homeowners have acid washed DE grids, however cartridge elements do not have the protective DE powder coating that grids have and can be permanently damaged by the acid. As a rule of thumb, acid wash only when required, if at all, and never without thoroughly cleaning the element with a cartridge degreaser first. Here is a simple test to determine if acid washing is required. After thoroughly cleaning the cartridge with a degreasing agent, flush the cartridge with a garden hose to remove all traces of soap, etc. Now apply several drops of acid directly to a small area of the filter media. If bubbling occurs, this indicates a build up of calcium or minerals, and you should proceed with a mild acid soak. If no bubbling is observed, your cartridge most likely does not require acid washing.
Sharp Pleat Folds vs. Rounded Pleats One of the first things a filter expert will look for when examining a pool or spa element is the pleat fold or "knuckle radius" of the pleat. Why is this important? If you look carefully, you will notice that some manufacturers' pleats are very sharp while others are rounded and even appear puffy. With Reemay or other spunbonded polyester medias it is much easier to make a rounded fold than a sharp pleat. Moreover, a rounded fold can mask the filter manufacturer's inability to make straight pleats or maintain proper spacing.
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Prophetic Reformation
Prophets & prophecy, visions, dreams and angels – for prophets of all ages and backgrounds it's the raw dynamic of the prophetic ministry, and for many in the Church it is an issue full of intrigue, excitement and challenge.
If you are a Christian reading this website you probably have many questions. Those questions may fall between 'how to increase your ability to hear God in the prophetic gifts or ministry' to issues of character, administration or function. This website assumes that the reader believes that the gifts of the Spirit and the ministry of the prophetic are for today.There is an unscriptural teaching that these things ceased with the close of the New Testament, but that is clearly not something taught by Scripture. With these things in mind we are attempting to bring some credible answers, and as always, the starting point is the Bible.
One thing that is very clear to most when it comes to the the dynamics of prophetic ministry, is the need for some kind of reform – drawing and bringing much of the so called 'prophetic movement' back to real and authentic biblical practices.
The prophetic message
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The days
are thankfully over!
It is easy to respond to the negative aspects of the prophetic ministry; the spurious claims, interpretations of dreams for cash, manipulation and underhandedness.
Focusing on these things detracts from the real treasure that genuine prophetic ministry brings. We're not here to call bad practice and rogue prophets to account, it's not about bringing correction - but a fresh direction with a view to seeing the emergence of Scripture-honouring, Christ-exalting prophetic ministry.
The prophetic ministry may very well be at the heart of the issues that God is raising in the life of your Church to bless and encourage it!
As an additional resource we have a blog where you can engage with us - letting you read, think and discuss what we are saying! Prophetic ministry is astonishingly precious for the Church.
Our overwhelming conviction is that God wants the entire Church to enter into the phenomenal encouragement and benefits that prophetic ministry and gifting can bring.
Like all things birthed in the Spirit, the prophetic ministry requires faith, courage, integrity and sensitivity to the leading of the Spirit.
That significant journey starts here.
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