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Salon.com founder David Talbot describes earlier artistic communities and movements in San Francisco and compares the city today to a cultural hub like Florence, but lacking the patrons to support artists and creators.
Michelle Tea notes the struggles of writers and artists to make a living in San Francisco, many of whom are moving to Los Angeles and Oakland despite the famous quote from Gertrude Stein.
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Moderator:Ill introduce our panelists, and why dont we just sort of hold our applause so I can get through them because they all have very fat bios, and Ive even condensed them, but theyre still long even so. And I also want to thank David Ulin and Bill Deverell and Will Hearst for making this amazing weekend happen. We need to do these symposia more often. So, Phil Bronstein, to my left, hes been executive chair of the board. He is executive chair of the Center for Investigative Reporting ever since the organization merged with The Bay Citizen last year. Previously, he was editor-at-large for Hearst Newspapers and executive vice president of the San Francisco Chronicle. He was, before that, editor of the Examiner, youll be starting to notice the theme here shortly, where he started as a reporter in 1980 doing investigative journalism and foreign correspondence and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Next to him is David Talbot, whos been called a pioneer of online journalism by The New York Times. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Salon and former arts editor of the Examiner. Hes the author of the bestselling Brothers about Robert Kennedys search for the truth behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Hes also author of Season of the Witch, which was a national bestseller about San Franciscos wild and bloody history. He is now at work on a book about the CIA. Next to him is Michelle Tea. Shes the author of four [???][0:01:33] memoirs including the illustrated Rent Girl and the award winning Valencia, which was recently adapted for the screen. Shes also author of a collection of poetry, a novel, and a YA fantasy series, the first of which was Mermaid in Chelsea Creek. She is the founder and artistic director of RADAR Productions, which oversees the RADAR Reading Series, now on its 10th year, the Sister Spit tours and the Radio Lab in Mexico. Sorry, Radar LAB in Mexico. Shes currently working on a 5th memoir titled How to Grow Up for Penguin. And last but not the least, we have Gary Kamiya. He dropped out of Yale to attend U.C. Berkeley where he was awarded the Mark Schorer Citation in English Literature, all the while driving a taxi in San Francisco. He worked for, guess who? The Examiner, as senior editor of Sunday magazine, Image. He was also a book editor and culture critic before co-founding with David Talbot, Salon.com. In August, Bloomsbury published his bestselling book, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. Please welcome, our panel. So, San Francisco, you know, obviously has a very storied literary history that includes people like Dashiell Hammett, Mark Twain, Jack London, Gertrude Stein as well as modern blockbuster types like Armistead Maupin, who was here yesterday, Amy Tan, Dave Eggers, Isabel Allende. They all live here, too. The scene itself, at least in my view, is fractured but sort of mutually joined in purpose and support, and its booming. Fourteen years ago when we started Litquake, we were kind of the only show in town. And now, theres pretty much, as The New York Times wrote, any night of the week, theres something going on. A lot of organizations that serve various passions from the Rumpus, which was sort of about politics, to 826 Valencia, which is about kids, to live series like Quiet Lightning, Michelles RADAR Reading Series, Literary Death Match and more. San Francisco has also traditionally been at the forefront of great journalism, boundary pressing journalism, starting with Mother Jones in the 70s to Will Hearsts glorious Examiner of the 80s, which we all participated in, which featured names like Warren Hinckle, Hunter S. Thompson, and Armistead Maupin, to the groundbreaking work of Salon.com in the 90s, one of our finest journalism websites. And since the turn of the century in journalism, weve seen the rise of online only news sites like The Bay Citizen and the emergence of the Center for Investigative Reporting as a nationally prominent source for news. And in fact, all of us sitting here have done journalism and books, so there you go. Okay, Phil. Phil is the one that he has hes soon to do a book. Phil, it seems to me like Phil Bronstein:No. Moderator:Hes gotten an agent already. Anyway, it seems to me like the New York, New York has always been associated as being this sort of hot bed of journalism excellence in the city between The New York Times and The New Yorker, but the Bay Area seems like it staked a pretty strong claim in recent years, thanks to the rise of the CIR. I mean what is it about the Bay Area that makes this a place where nonprofits like this, Center for Investigative Reporting, can really thrive? Phil Bronstein:Well, thrive is an interesting word. Its true that they exist, but Ill throw it back to Litquake. I mean Litquake which we were both there from the beginning and you started it along with Jack. Lets be honest, I mean you have to struggle every year to make Litquake happen. And the thing Litquake is getting bigger and bigger and fabulous. Its a fabulous event, but wheres the money? Wheres the support? Moderator:Its going to the CIR. Phil Bronstein:The Center of Investigative Reporting, right. So, are we saying that theres only a small pool of people? I mean I went to a ProPublica fundraiser, and ProPublica is the only other organization nationally that does what we do at the Center of Investigative Reporting and, you know, it was very hip, but they didnt collect a lot of money. And so, I think New York, New Yorkers have been very snobbish and arrogant about how theyre superiority and in some cases, theyre right, but not in every case. But lets focus about lets focus on San Francisco because here, we have this great essential Salon for the literary fans of San Francisco, the readers, the writers, the would bes, and its struggling. And why is it struggling? Because the opera is not struggling, as far as I know. The symphony is not really struggling. The ballet is not struggling that much. And so, I think the problem we have here that may exist in New York, but theres just more money there, is that the big money goes to these few traditional institutions and I think that as much as David and Gary with Salon have tried, Francis Coppola in the 70s when, you know, he started Zoetrope, bought a building for live theater. He started a city magazine. People trying to generate that kind of energy, theyre not generating enough support. And so, you know, thats what I feel distinguishes us, unfortunately, in the sense of New York[PH]. Moderator:We have all these great ideas, but not the money to back them up? Phil Bronstein:We have these great actuations. Were actually, its not were executing on great youre executing on great ideas. These guys executed on a great idea, and what happened? I mean I think Salon David Talbot:Its not a San Francisco institution anymore. Phil Bronstein:Its struggling. David Talbot:And its moved to New York. Moderator:But Phil Bronstein:As did Rolling Stone. Moderator:But the my question would be dont you think that San Francisco is the ideal place to launch Salon.com because we were sort of, that was during the salad days of the internet taking off and, you know, it seemed kind of perfect that it was located here. David Talbot:Yeah. So look, I was fascinated by the earlier panels today by Kevin Starrs remarks and by the panel that we just saw on scientific, science fiction and kind of the tension between a utopian and a dystopian view of California and San Francisco in particular. And, you know, my book, Season of the Witch, was, what I was trying to do there was to chronicle how this oasis, and I really did see San Francisco as an oasis as a kid growing up in Los Angeles in the 60s. Its where I wanted to be. It was, to me, the height of creativity and freedom. And but I think, and that struggle that helped bring that about, I mean San Francisco, as Kevin Starr would say, you know, those roots are very deep and go very far back. The progressivism, the, you know, innovation of Salon. But certainly, it really took off in the 60s and 70s, and it was a very traumatic event for this city, series of events. And the city had to grapple with its very identity. And at the end, we came out with what we now know as San Francisco values. And so, my book is a tribute to that social, creative, political struggle in the city that had brought about. But I have to say, more recently, I would lean more in Phils direction, seeing the problems with the city. I think now that its not, its a beleaguered city when it comes to fostering creativity and change and bringing young people here who arent involved in the technology industry. I think what were seeing today is a tale of two cities and you can see it just walking outside here where you have Oracle plastered all over city hall, and we have a CEO, I think, instead of a mayor, Ed Lee, whos deeply embedded with the new technology regime, while you have, you know, the army of the homeless using the library as their place to wash and the one kind of sanctuary that they can go to. So, the creative class in this city is being pushed out. Thats the fact. I dont know that many writers who can hold on to San, you know, to their lifestyles here and live in this city anymore. I mean the middle class is being pushed out, the underclass, and its a playground more and more I think for the Larry Ellison. So, I think thats the, really, the tension in the city these days. Moderator:I think that is absolutely accurate and I think its a perfect point for me to toss it to Michelle Tea, who has sort of thrived to San Franciscos reigning sort of literary underground goddess for many years now. But, you know, you have written your books about the sort of, a sort of literature of the disenfranchised. I think, you know, Peter Plate and you and others that have sort of written about the non-tourist, tourism side of San Francisco. And yet, how would you, how do you think that has succeeded? Do you think that youve succeeded in sort of drawing attention to the sort of struggling mission district kids who have a hard time paying their bills? Michelle Tea:No. Moderator:No? Michelle Tea:Not at all. Well, I mean the problem is systemic and its structural and its a lot larger than anyone literary subculture in the city, you know. And I think that whats happened here with all the influx of money, theres this really frustrating, I mean not only am I a writer and all of that, but Im also, I run a nonprofit, so Im really involved in nonprofit arts funding and that whole, you know, world. And theres been a lot of talk, all this optimistic talk about how the tech sector thats here, its a creative sector and theyre somehow going to be this cross pollination between, you know, the literary or the arts groups and individual artists in this city are somehow, were going to like, theyre going to make it reign for us, you know, from the tech sector and its, it just seems crazy, like its never happened. Like my organization, we have no connection to tech people. I mean like my fianc works for [???][0:11:52]. Thats like my big connection, but like we dont have its not like we can just go knock on a door, it wouldnt be like, Hey, were awesome writers. Fund us. Its like those connections arent being made and I feel like on this larger thing that theres this like, I dont understand why our city doesnt have a sort of task force thats charged with, you know, looking at the effects of gentrification on this city as a whole. Theres so many problems that were facing that doesnt have, they dont have to happen. I mean theres like things with like rent and just landlord greed and all of that stuff. Like we could possibly be a city that had a thriving art scene and, you know, thriving nonprofit scene and a thriving tech sector. I dont know why it has to be so oppositional, but the city is doing nothing to make it easier. You know, its very hard on struggling people when all of a sudden wealth is all over your city. And my literary scene has always been very like working class, lower[PH] class, self-taught writers and, yeah, and a lot of those people have moved to Los Angeles. Moderator:Is that right? Michelle Tea:Oh yeah, absolutely. Theres a Ive lost a ton of the writers that I used to work with have moved to Los Angeles because its affordable. They have rents or you can get so much for your money there. Theres a great art scene happening because thats also where young people are moving now, whereas maybe people wouldve come to San Francisco in the past. L.A. is so vast. Theres actually a huge, like Bohemian cool, like queer art scenes going on there that arent going on here, you know? And theyre going on in Oakland, too. I mean Oakland is awesome. People are totally toughing it out in Oakland and theres really great stuff happening over there, but San Francisco is just insane. Moderator:So, Gertrude Stein was wrong, basically? Michelle Tea:That is, its whether there is. Moderator:Okay. Michelle Tea:That is whether there is. Yeah. Theres no theyre here. So, yeah. And, you know, as far as funding for arts goes here, I mean its all of these organizations fighting over this kind of tiny grants where, as the operas, you know, nobody is really struggling except the small arts organizations here. And in my arts organization, weve had a few great years. And now, were having were really, really struggling right this year. And theres a lot of grants that are offered for projects. So, what ends up happening with an organization like mine, like RADAR, is, you know, we need funding and were really creative and I can like write a grant for like any, I can think of a million great ideas. So, we get all these funding for projects and then we have no organizational support to do the projects. So, were all burnt out and stressed and like, Fuck, we cant You know, like we just had to actually pull out of a bunch of grants because well probably get them and we wont be able to carry it out because we dont have the organizational support. Moderator:Well, you know, Gary, your recent book is sort of a, isnt it something of a love letter to San Francisco, the 49 Views? Gary Kamiya:Absolutely, but Moderator:So, you mustve found something to like in this messed up city of ours. Gary Kamiya:Well, on this subject, in some ways, I think Im gloomier even than my other panelists about the possibility of rectifying this economic situation. David Talbot:Were really bumming you out today. Moderator:I know, but I swear well get to cheerful material in a minute. Gary Kamiya:Im also perhaps but theres an upside. Im also, perhaps, more guardedly optimistic and so the gloomy side first. This is a really unique place on planet earth from a financial point of view, 46 square miles where everybody in the world including massive money from the far east, international money, they all want to come in here. Theres only I agree I definitely think the city needs to create a lot of housing opportunities for middle class people. The city is pretty good with the very poor. Its not so good with the middle class. And when David speaks of the creative class, you know, I dont know that theres an absolute correlation between economic class and creativity, but its like a farm team. You want poorer people to be able to afford to come to a city and live here, and thats increasingly not happening. However, the dark side is I honestly dont see the clock turning back. This is San Francisco is going to become a little bit like Carmel or like Taos, New Mexico. Its going to be a boutique city filled with rich people. This is not going to stop. Theres no way that its going to stop. Well be able to stop it to some degree, but thats the way its going to go. Its too desirable of a place. So, you know, weve got to get used to that and I think that the, and do everything we can to rectify it and to make it work as well as it can. But in terms of it being a richer city and the tech revolution, I hear what Michelle says that like, you know, this utopian talk. The techies started to come in and suddenly theres going to be this great interchange between artists and techies. No. I dont necessarily see that happening, but looking at it from a long historical perspective, not just wealth and poverty generates creativity. San Francisco has been creative in part because of ferment, because of change, whatever that change maybe. So, were going through a lot of change now with the tech revolution thats hit the city. A lot of it is bad. A lot of it technology by itself has nothing to do, generally speaking, with creativity. It is a channel that allows creative impulses to take place. It, itself, doesnt allow creativity, but that doesnt mean that the fact that its in the city that we cant have ferment and change and writers that appear as a result of the ferment in the city from that alone. And its also a two-tier thing. Lets face it. A lot of the greatest writers that live around here are middle class people. Theyre not like, you know, Michael Chabon is not poor. Dave Eggers is not poor. These are great writers. So, its, you know, we have to remember that it isnt as if, you know, a life of noble poverty is required for writing to take place. But we do need the city to be as dynamic and multifaceted as possible. Moderator:But then, how do we tie it into how do we tie this sort of grim picture into the fact that the literary scene has never been more thriving, at least to my recollection, and Ive lived here most of my life. The New York Times was right that pretty much any night of the week, all you have to do is look up in listings and theres something to go to, and this is all bubbled up from, this is were not talking about popup magazine at the opera house. Were talking about, you know, Quiet Lightning at the Conservatory of Flowers and this sort of very cheap, free events, put on by people that dont have any money, but just do it for the love of it. So, how does that how did that scene come to be in this sort of extremely uber competitive and black/white economic picture? Phil Bronstein:Americas Cup. Moderator:Dont go down that road, please. Phil Bronstein:I mean, you know, if you want to look at the most recent example of what the problem is and perhaps what the solution is, just look at Americas Cup. I mean its not even creatively corrupt, you know? San Francisco and Kevin, we should ask Kevin to give us a brief speech about corruption, creative corruption in San Franciscos history because its fabulous and filled with great characters, and what do we got now? Willie Brown, you know, I mean the reality is is that you can have all the interests, the intellectual interests which we do at every single level because there are writers who are very wealthy, and in fact, [???][0:18:51] organization, the Center of Investigative Reporting is, we are plugging into some of the technology organizations in San Francisco and businesses and some of the technology billionaires who, at some point in their life, start realizing maybe they need to do something besides buy another car or another house or another island. And some of them, you know, whether its the billionaires pledge or however they get there, I dont care, but there is some change taking place underneath, you know, the ice that is uncracked of political, of really boxy political corruption here. I mean, you know, you just, you need some support, institutional support from San Francisco and youre not going to get it because theyre too busy with this really boring corruption that is represented by Willie Brown whos got a piece of just about every company thats been started in the last 10 years, and we all go, what a great character he is. Wow! Isnt that fun? Isnt that entertaining? Moderator: I liked what David said about the mayor being more like a CEO. Phil Bronstein:And, you know, we also dont have an institutional voice, and thats probably good reason than bad, Herb Caen was that institutional voice and what Caen did, he was not a brilliant writer, but what he did was he created these characters out of real people and made them larger than life, that includes Willie, and then he knitted them together on a day-to-day basis. So, you read it like a tableau and you said, I want, you know, I want to be part of that. Thats pretty cool even though some of it wasnt true, and Herb was getting free meals and God knows what else. David Talbot:But Herb also had a sense of civic duty and he had a sense of what San Francisco should be and he reminded people of that every day in an entertaining format, and it was a city of tolerance, it was a city of fun, it was a city where you didnt let people fall through the social safety net. He was a good, liberal Jew and he promoted those values every day in his column. So, what I think this city is lacking, you know, and I agree, I agree. We shouldnt be too depressed here, Jane. There is lots of literary ferment, and youre right. Every night, theres something going on in the city. I have two young sons, 19, 23, they love this city and theyre having a great time in it. But, you know, I can see a movement. The kind of movement that created city lights, you know, the beat movement in the 50s and early 60s, or the hippie movement in the 60s really taking route in this city the way those two cultural movements did because they found funky, you know, low income housing that they could, those poets and those musicians where they could get a foothold in this city. And, you know, I think its getting harder and harder to do that. Now, Phil talks about the billionaires. Look, I think, you know, John King wrote a good column on this in the San Francisco Chronicle a few days ago and he reminded us that there are, there is a tradition of wealthy people in San Francisco who do give back. Those tend to be older Jews. Warren Hellman, God bless him. You know, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival going on this weekend because of him. Center for Investigative Reporting, Warren Hellman, again, helped out in a huge way there. We had the two meta achieves[PH], Bill Hambrecht, the investment banker and John Warnock, the founder of Adobe software company, were responsible along with Gary and me and the editorial people we pulled together for founding Salon. They put up the money for it and they continue to hang in there with us until this very day. But those are thats an older generation. And the new generation of tech wealth, I think, has yet to be heard from when it comes to not just as Phil said, buying a third or fourth house or an island, but really contributing in a significant way to the life of this city, the civic life of this city, the creative life. We need meta achieves[PH]. We need a new generation of meta achieves[PH] to do that. And San Francisco should be the Florence. It is the Florence of America in so many ways. And yet we, I think, lack that, you know, people of that stature. So, you know, we should start demanding that. Moderator:So, just to kind of try and steer it back towards the literary for a moment, this is an awesome discussion, but its sort of like what writers think is wrong with San Francisco as opposed to, no, which is great, but its also, I think you want to hear about the history, the literary history of San Francisco. And I just wonder, as long as were being negative, is there no, in a good way. I mean is there a literary movement in San Francisco that was probably undeserving of all the, you know, adulation, i.e., The Beats? I mean every time, every Litquake that comes around, somebody wants to do a Beat thing, and Jacks eyes start to rotate in their sockets, but and yet at the same time I feel like they were, you know, progenitors of McSweeneys and I mean they were sort of the mavericks of their era as we have now in the city, but I mean what do you think? What do you think of The Beats? Is there another group that we think, probably, were in the right place at the right time, but didnt have a lot of literary significance to them? Michelle Tea:Yeah. All the dykes that have been writing in San Francisco since the 90s. Seriously, like I just think theyre all as good, if not better and more innovative than The Beats. But its like, talk about a kind of culture voice, its like completely removed from power and removed from like male privilege, removed from heterosexual privilege, removed from, you know, usually financial privilege. So, its very hard to get published and its very hard Moderator:Can you tell us some, tell us some names, so that Michelle Tea:Oh, yeah. Ali Liebegott. Moderator:Yeah. Michelle Tea:Whos like she hasnt published a book that hasnt won an award. Lynn Breedlove, Daphne Gottlieb, Justin Chin is not a lesbian, but I dont hold it against him. I think he would probably love to be a lesbian. Rhiannon Argo. I mean theres just like theres a lot of people, and having been a writer and in this sort of, you know, I started doing Sister Spit as an open mic in 1994 in San Francisco and currently, Sister Spit is a national tour, and were also a publishing imprint with City Lights, which is amazing. So, weve been Ive been like just working with just different kind of young, queer female writers since the 90s, all who have like really strong outsider voices and its like you just watch people not been able to gain traction because they dont have, they just dont have the connections or the resources and you watch them sort of like, the reality of paying the bills kind of like continue to kind of weigh on them and theyre writing sort of peters out and then theyre gone. And its like, I just think like what were those novels that didnt get written because the city got expensive? You know, they didnt have the contacts in the world like thats why I feel like what we do at RADAR is we try to hook people with publishers. We try to hook people up with audiences and stuff like that to give people a reason to write. Because when I started writing in the 90s, it was when Spoken Word was really taking off. And so, there was a different open mic that was free every night of the week and it was a huge scene. And so, I felt like theres always something for me to do with my writing. I could bring it somewhere. But I just feel like when youre that kind of disconnected, if you dont have a place to bring your writing and you dont feel like being published is necessarily an option for you, you could be really talented and have a lot to say, but you just kind of peter out because what are you going to do with it? Moderator:So, wheres the source of the problem with, you know, outsider voices is that, you know, San Francisco says, come on in, but then, New York or whoever says, were not interested or like where is the breakdown there? Michelle Tea:I think the breakdown is just I mean I think theres a lot of things going on. You know, I think were talking about like a very complicated sort of psychology, almost, of being like outside and not having inroads and financially or into like publishing industries. San Francisco is not very connected to a larger publishing industry. You know, I will say this about San Francisco thats awesome is that they have cultural equity grants, which are really wonderful, and they have them for organizations and for individual artists that are either queer or if youre individually a person of color or if the organization is led by a person of color, they have these grants and theyre really excellent and they do recognize what the disadvantage youre at in this, and probably this city more than others, and they give a lot of economics [interposing]. David Talbot:Thats a good question. Why hasnt San Francisco been able to build a lasting publishing infrastructure that can support the local talent here? Michelle Tea:Yeah. David Talbot:One reason I started Salon was because I knew New York was so provincial and there was sort of huge amount of talent here that wasnt being exploited and tapped. Michelle Tea:Yeah. David Talbot:I thought lets do it here in San Francisco. And Gary and I, were able to leave the Examiner and go off and do that. But I, you know Moderator:No fisticuffs please. David Talbot:But look, Salon has, like I said earlier, has now essentially moved to New York like Rolling Stone did. Ramparts, of course, disappeared years ago. WIRED is still here, but owned by Cond Nast. So, we have a great tradition of being the entrepreneurs, the creative entrepreneurs, who create these institutions which are much more original than anything being created in New York in the last several decades, frankly, in publishing, and yet, they fade out. We cant sustain them except for, you know, the few exceptions, City Lights in the bookstore realm. Michelle Tea:Yeah. Moderator:McSweeneys. Michelle Tea:And Manic D. David Talbot:And McSweeneys. Moderator:McSweeneys. David Talbot:Yeah. Moderator:Manic D Press is really great too. Michelle Tea:Manic D. Moderator:Theyve been able to stick it out. David Talbot:But, you know, one of the great things that I thought about the business model of Salon, when Gary and I were running it, are, you know, it never got really much coverage. We got 100,000 people to pay $40 a year. That was $4,000,000. We generated revenue directly from our readers, and then we made up the rest from advertising. To me, that was a major breakthrough in sort of internet thinking because no one wanted to pay for anything, still dont want to pay for publishing online. Thats what it comes down to. We have to somehow connect with the base of readers, of people, who actually enjoy and appreciate what were doing, who are willing to help sustain us. Gary Kamiya:I think that its San Francisco just has a real problem with, you know, not feeling the sense of the patron of the arts model, which people are talking about, is problematic because its worked sometimes historically, but look at France, for example. The, you know, the French have this enormous pool of money that they hand out to stimulate art and it ends up becoming almost Stalinist [PH] at times. So, I think its good. I we should absolutely try to educate the rich donors in San Francisco, the wealthy techies, all the new money to support the arts. But I actually like what David and Phil are saying about, you know, trying to actually create audiences where you can be self sustaining as an artistic and journalistic enterprise. I think thats a better leg to stand on than the patron of the arts model. I think you need the patron of the arts model, but I dont think we should be completely become enamored of it. I think its problematic and I think that, this is where Im a little bit optimistic about the techies. I see them as a tabula rasa. I think the techies are like, you know, they dont know who they are yet. A lot of them are really young. Theyve come here. Youd see these pop-up magazine phenomena. You know, thousands, you know, they sell out [???][0:30:10] in like one day and a lot of these are like these young, 25-year-old hipsters that you see on Valencia Street and theyre going. This is nominally a magazine. Dave and I were gnashing our teeth. We used to try to have public events and bring people in. No one showed up. Its all about marketing. Its about social media. And they sit there and theres a bunch of people that do magazine pieces on stage and they get thousands of people for this David Talbot:They sold [???][0:30:30]. Yeah. Gary Kamiya:So this, this is encouraging and its sort of like, how do you frame the, you know, its like eat your spinach. If they think that if you can convince people that the literature that youre putting out, the writing, the journalism is something that is interesting to them, theyll start reading it and then there could be a business model in which theyll start paying for it. So, I think its youve got to have some of the patron of the art stuff, but Im wary of it and I think that theres some optimism in terms of educating. Its like were going to have to educate the wealthy people coming in to this city. Michelle Tea:Yeah. I mean I think the beauty of Litquake, and I dont know how the tables got turned on me, but so be it. Gary Kamiya:Youre a player here, honey. Michelle Tea:is that an idea that began organically, and because it was an all inclusive idea, I think its the reason that its now 9 days long and 800 authors big because we never told anybody, you know, you cant play in other words. So, people say, Hey, thats a great idea. Can I bring my organization to the table? And before you know it, its this huge thing. But our fundraising has not kept up with the size because it was started by writers, and what do we know about fundraising? And its only been in the last few years that we finally got smart and brought in outside help, but Gary Kamiya:But dont you charge? I mean dont you make money? Michelle Tea:We our ticket money is just a small fraction of, because we, about 80% of our events are all free to the public. So, we dont charge for very much. So yeah, really good model, right? Phil Bronstein:Well, no. But the thing about Litquake is that the narrative is interesting. The narrative itself is interesting so we, CIR, were running these things called The Lunch Club and theres a bar in Hearst building called The Local Edition, which I dont know if youve been to, but those of us who are old newspaper hacks, you know, wed feel very comfortable there. Its like a newspaper museum. Its a cross between a [???][0:32:25] and newspaper museum and we have these things that we invite, you know, guest donors, people who are already donors to CIR, potential donors, board members, obviously, you know, our staff. But what we do is we tell the story behind the story. In other words, we never imagined for a second that what we do is actually interesting to anyone else and how we do it. It turns out it is and people want to hear how you got that story and, you know, driving down Americas 50 worst charities and how do you bust those people and chasing the guy down the street. And we created sort of these dramatic events, which now fill up. And we are not charging people yet, but I think we intend to charge people. And I think its true of any genre in the arts. Theres a tendency to want to be, you know, self sufficient, but also kind of you want to live in your own world and you dont necessarily want to partner with other people or think about how you could create a narrative around Litquake isnt just a bunch of great authors talking to people who are fans. 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For those who've been watching the development of the Roller Derby board game "Hell on 8 Wheels"...
...the design work is underway. Prototypes will be available soon.
I'll be looking for playtesters, and anyone who offers good playtest advice will go in the draw for a limited edition version of the final game (as well as having their name included among the playtesting credits).
Between this and the buzz generating about "Walkabout", interesting times are coming.
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Monday, February 04, 2008
Charity Knitting Updates
Here are a couple of ideas for charity knitting that have come my way recently:
Sarah-Hope at whatifknits is having a Blogiversary Raffle to raise funds for animal welfare and protection groups! The prizes include A Swallowtail Shawl knit in Louisa Harding Cinnabar yarn, a signed, limited-edition prints by Melissa West, two skeins of Socks that Rock in the Undertoe colorway, a full bag of Southwest Trading Company Twize (100% bamboo) in the Twack colorway, a full bag of clover green thick-and-thin cotton, seven hand-knit dishcloths—one for each day of the week, a copy of the original Sensational Knitted Socks, a short-attention-span knitting gift pack, including abridged versions of Knitting for Dummies and Cocktails for Dummies, along with a knitted applique kit. And maybe more! If you're an animal lover and a knitter, you should definitely think about participating.
Knitting Hats for Nuns, affiliated with String of Gems, a foundation dedicated to the financial welfare of Buddhist Nuns in and around Lhasa, Tibet is collecting knitted hats. Their goal is to complete 250 hats by March 3, 2008 to be hand-carried to Tibet by a group of Buddhist practitioners. Any hats completed after this date will be gladly accepted and delivered during a future trip or donated to other Buddhist nuns and monks. They have a free hat pattern, and they recommend an inexpensive superwash yarn from KnitPicks.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Pattern: Gail's Easy Cable Scarf
Here's an easy cable scarf to match last month's hat. Both are dedicated to Gail, the former listmom of Knit-U and Knit Design, who passed away suddenly after an illness. She will be missed by many knitters around the globe.
Approx 6" (15 cm) wide by 64" (162 cm) long, without fringe
27 sts = approx 5" unstretched and unblocked in Cable Rib patt
Yarn: 369 yards (326m) of chunky weight yarn. I used 3 balls of Plymouth Galway Chunky (100% wool, 100 grams = 123 yards per ball), 1 ball each in MC (turquoise), A (green) and B (hot pink). For a machine washable scarf, Plymouth Encore Chunky or Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky would work well.
Knitting needles: Size 10 (6mm) needles
Cable needle and tapestry needle
If you've never knitted cables before, check out this quick lesson.
With MC, CO 27 sts.
Rows 1 and 5 (RS): *(K1, p1) 3 times; k4 for cable, p1, (k1, p1) 3 times, k4 for cable, (p1, k1) 3 times.
Rows 2, 4 and 6: Work in patt as est, knitting the knits and purling the purls.
Row 3: (K1, p1) 3 times, sl 2 sts to cable needle and hold to back, k2, k2 from cable needle, p1, (k1, p1) 3 times, sl 2 sts to cable needle and hold to back, k2, k2 from cable needle, (p1, k1) 3 times.
Repeat rows 1 - 6 another 4 times with MC.
Change to A. Rep rows 1 - 6 another 5 times.
Change to B. Rep rows 1 - 6 another 5 times.
Rep stripe pattern, working 5 repeats of Cable Rib patt with MC, A, and B another 2 times, then work 5 repeats of Cable Rib patt with MC.
BO all sts.
Weave in ends.
Use remaining yarn to attach fringe to ends of scarf.
Wash and dry flat, stretching scarf to measure 6-7" (15-18 cm) wide, and pinning in place to open up ribbing if desired.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Pattern: Gail's Easy Cable Ski Cap
Here's an easy cable ski cap that is dedicated to Gail, the former listmom of Knit-U and Knit Design. Gail was a very generous soul who gave of her time voluntarily on both lists, and she also was a strong supporter of charity knitter. She passed away recently after an illness and she will be missed by many knitters around the globe.
Ususally I make hats in the round but I knit this one back and forth for those of you who don't like circular and double-pointed needles. It knits up quickly in chunky yarn on size 10 needles. Check back next month for a matching scarf.
Adult, fits heads up to 22" (56cm) in circumference
16" (41cm) circumference, unstretched
One 11-st repeat of Cable & Rib patt = 2 1/2" (6.35cm) wide unstretched, cap stretches a lot as shown in the photos
Yarn: 123 yards (112m) of chunky weight yarn. I used 1 ball of Plymouth Galway Chunky (100% wool, 100 grams = 123 yards per ball). For a machine washable hat, Plymouth Encore Chunky or Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky would work well.
Knitting needles: Size 10 (6mm) needles
Cable needle and tapestry needle
Cable & Rib Pattern (multiple of 11+1)
If you've never knitted cables before, check out this quick lesson.
Rows 1 and 5 (RS): *P1, k4, (p1, k1) 3 times; rep from * to last st, p last st.
Rows 2, 4 and 6: Work in patt as est, knitting the knits and purling the purls.
Row 3: *P1, sl 2 sts to cable needle and hold to back, k2, k2 from cable needle, (p1, k1) 3 times; rep from * to last st, p last st.
Repeat rows 1 - 6 for patt.
CO 67 sts.
Work in Cable & Rib patt until cap measures approx 6 3/4" (17cm) long, end after working row 6 of Cable & Rib patt.
Next row (RS): *P1, k1, k2tog, k1, p1, k1, slip 2 kw, k1, p2sso, k1; rep from * to last st, p last st.
Work 3 rows in patt as est (k3, p1 ribbing).
Next row (RS): *P1, slip 2 kw, k1, p2sso; rep from * to last st, p last st.
Work 3 rows in patt as est (k1, p1 ribbing).
Next row (RS): K2tog across to last st, k1.
Cut yarn leaving a 6" (15cm) tail. Run tail through rem sts and pull tight to draw the top of the hat together.
Sew side seam. Weave in ends.
If desired, make pom-pom and sew to top of hat.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Holiday Charity Knitting for New Orleans
Guest post from Dez Crawford. In case you haven't heard, Gail, the list-mom from Knit-U and Knit Design, passed away the other day after a short illness. Her death was a shock to everyone. This message was posted on Knit-U by Dez Crawford shortly after we heard the news:
I am as thunderstruck as everyone else. I simply cannot believe Gail is gone.
Gail put her best into KnitU to make this a thriving online community. I know that I have made many real, solid friendships -- including Gail's -- over the many years I have corresponded on this list. I know that the daily work of monitoring and managing such a large list was a major task, but Gail took it in stride, and made it into a thriving network of real people, and not just another online Q&A group.
As a result, KnitU is not a virtual community. It is a REAL community.
Gail was one of the bright lights who stepped up after Hurricane Katrina to realize that there would be a great need in New Orleans the winter after the storm. Shortly after the storm, she said, "People tend to underestimatehow miserable a person can get in a place where winter is short, chilly and wet. I'm afraid that people in New Orleans won't get enough donations of WARM clothes when winter comes."
She was correct, and the need continues. Our winter is not long, and it is not severe -- but it's not tropical, either. And if you ask anyone in Seattle, if it's 35 or 40 degrees, and it's windy, and rainy -- you are cold! Especially if you are camping out in a gutted and unheated house undergoing repair, or if you are living in a drafty FEMA trailer.
And especially if you are homeless and out on the street. Covenant House in New Orleans serves homeless kids and teens. Gail's goal this year was to get at least a thousand garments shipped to Covenant House in time for the holiday season this year. Of particular need are hats and scarves, items that can be taken on and off as needed, and which are easily portable for kids who might be on the street with just the clothes on their back, a small backpack or tote bag, or just a plastic bag tohold their few belongings.
As for most homeless programs, garments needing to be handwashed are impractical. Think in terms of practical colors suitable for either boys or girls. Bright colors are great but avoid light colors that show dirt easily.
As for fiber choices, think in terms of:
Superwash wool
Washable wool blends
Also, please stick to the above-listed WARM fibers. I've seen people in the northern realms specualting on what they think might be better for New Orleans: "I should donate something that will get more year round wear," or "Maybe I should use cotton instead."
Please don't second-guess the guidelines. Covenant House knows what they need, and they have adequate donations of mild-weather wear. What they need in the winter are warm accessories and garments for kids who are living on the streets, and a cotton scarf is not warm, especially when it's damp.
Let's help Gail meet that goal of one thousand donations. Please do the following:
In order to assure arrival in time for the holidays, mail your donations within the US and Canada by DECEMBER 14. If you are late, that's fine -- Covenant House needs goods all year. But in order for your gift to arrive in time and for me to tally up the totals, mail your item by December 14.
Send your knitted donations to:
Covenant House New Orleans
611 N. Rampart St.
New Orleans, LA 70112
Also, there is an ongoing need for toothbrushes, travel size toiletries andfor clean underwear in teen sizes. If you are seriously strapped for time and you don't have time to knit a garment, consider sending those tiems. THEN, also by the 14th, send me a short email, listing what you donated. I will keep a tally and post the totals as soon as I can after the 14th. Send to: firstname.lastname@example.com
I likely will not have time to reply to each email right away but the results WILL be tallied.
Thanks to you all.
Dez Crawford
(Reposted with permission.)
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Charity Knitting Updates
Yesterday I cleaned out my closet, my sweater armoire, and my box of warm winter accessories that lives in the bottom of the hall closet. I don't need any more knitted clothes. That's what I've decided. I actually decided this when I was putting all of my projects on Ravelry (I'm not done yet) and I realized I was making everything for myself. I like knitting and am often inspired in two ways 1) by a project I would like to have and 2) by a project that has interesting techniques I would like to try. I'll no doubt continue to make one or two things a year for myself, but I just don't have any more room to hoard sweaters and accessories.
As I mentioned on my main blog the other day, I'd like to work on spinning and on knitting-as-art projects, but I also want to do more charity knitting. Sometimes I just enjoy making very simple items that work up quickly, and these are the perfect items for charity donations. I may also sell some of my art projects on etsy or ebay and give the money to charity. I can't help it--I make enough money to pay my bills with enough to spare to remodel my kitchen (with my husband's sweat equity) and to travel to Europe. I just can't get into the mindset that I should do more things to make more money to leave to children that I don't have. Instead, I'd like to help children that are in need right now.
The other day L'Tanya Durante, editor of Black Purl Magazine, and I were talking about how sad it is that we, as a society, just don't seem to care. About anything. L'Tanya said, "Either we don't care enough or we don't believe we could make a difference. But the truth is that if we wanted to stop homelessless, hunger, AIDS, global warming -- we could."
"That's so, so sad," I replied.
Here's L'Tanya's response, wich which I agree completely:
Yep. It is what makes me cry.
I was looking at a Diane Sawyer special a couple of weeks ago. She visited some city in So. Jersey that has 7x the national crime rate and crushing poverty and she told the stories of a few families. People reached out from everywhere and BAM -- some of the kids that were homeless aren't anymore, one family got nominated for the home makeover show, etc.
I was telling my husband that I do believe that people are basically good (sounds kind of Anne Frank-ish, but that's what I believe). So I guess if you tell people exactly what they can do and they can see that their efforts make a difference, they'll gladly reach out. I think that we have been brainwashed to buy into the political system that doesn't give a damn about people and we've forgotten about our own power to make things happen.
I think that the need for personal and private charity is a sign that society and our government is failing us. In a civilized society, there should not be any people who fall through the cracks and who need to receive charity. Our society as a whole -- and that means through goverenment programs that we all invest in with our taxes -- should be working to make sure that all people have a warm home, plenty of nutritious food, adequate medicale care, and a good education. But since American society is failing when it comes to meeting the needs of all of its citizens, we, as individuals, have to pick up the slack. And sadly, we will have to pick up the slack more in the future if the right-wing trends to dismantle FDR's New Deal continue to make this country more about catering to the rich and to corporations at the expense of the rest of us.
Now that the year is drawing to an end, I am making plans to have more time to work on this site next year. I've been so busy this year that I've had to let some of my personal projects sit idle, but I think I've adjusted my workload so that won't happen again in 2008.
To get started, I'd like to kick off with the idea of having a charity knitting party this winter, in lieu of one of your other annual holiday gatherings. If you need help planning a party, I wrote about this in an article in the Holiday Print Issue of Black Purl magazine. This issue is only $4.95US.
Here are some charity and knitting updates to get your creative juices flowing:
Holiday Gift Knitting for Strangers from About.com -- Sarah White asks, "While you're thinking of family and friends you'd like to make knitted items for, might I also suggest you consider doing some knitting for strangers? There are many, many charities that accept hand-knitted items to give to sick children, soldiers, cancer patients, homeless people, and many others who could use a little bit of warmth and comfort." The page has a link to a list of several suggested charities that accept knitting donations.
Knitting for others will warm the holidays for everyone -- Catherine Hollingsworth, columnist for the Anchorage Daily News writes about charity knitting in Alaska. Catherine says, "I encourage you to knit for others during this holiday season. It will give you a chance to work up a simple project, use up that yarn stash and possibly give you an excuse to buy more yarn, that's true. But, more importantly, it's good for the soul." She also lists charities accepting knitted donations.
Holiday Charity Knits? -- Kristie in California blogs about charity knitting and lists an interesting charities she likes to donate to: Knit Unto Others, who holds a holiday charity knitalong every year.
Knit Christmas Ornaments for Charity -- Knitting for charity lists five places that will accept knitted ornament donations. "Want to knit Christmas ornaments? There's lots of great knit Christmas ornaments you can make - easily and inexpensively - for charitable organizations. And what a great thing to do when you're in the Christmas spirit."
And don't forget all of your local charities. Groups in your area are probably collecting gifts for families in need. They ususally get lots of toys, but not very many gifts for the moms and dads who also would like to receive a bit of cheer at this season.
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text: Occupational Therapy Becoming a parent for the first time introduces a person to a whole new world, with its own language, rules, schedule, and paraphernalia. If by chance your child has some special needs, the learning curve for you is enormous! Not only do you have to learn to be a parent, you feel the need to become a medical expert overnight just to understand the barrage of information that is coming at you. Never fear – we are actually here to help. Here is some general information about one area of care your child might receive: occupational therapy. On a brief historical note, occupational therapy (OT) got its start in veterans' hospitals helping wounded vets recover skills lost to injury and illness. The field has since branched dramatically, providing care to the very young, the very old, and anyone in between. We work in clinics, hospitals, schools, nursing homes, corporations, etc. Yes, some OT"s can help you with skills needed to perform your job, but we also look at "occupation" in a much broader sense. For a child, development is the primary occupation – learning skills and growing independent is his major task. Play happens to be the main way that development occurs. So, the pediatric occupational therapist is there to make that play as purposeful as possible. In pediatric occupational therapy, there are several main areas that are traditionally addressed: Fine motor skills: the ability to use hands and fingers to pick up and manipulate things Visual motor skills: the ability to use the eyes and hands together Sensory skills: the ability to make sense of all the senses (touch, movement, sound, sight, smell, emotions) and uses the senses to respond to the environment Self-help skills: the ability to eat, sleep, bathe, dress in an age-appropriate way These are the areas that you can trust your child's OT to help you with – from answering questions to providing treatment activities. If you are having difficulty with any of these areas, talk to your OT.


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Apple unveiled a smaller iPhone and a smaller iPad Pro at its event in California yesterday, returning to past form factors and responding to customer demand for smaller devices.
Despite the trend of recent years towards ever-larger mobile phones offering greater screen real estate, Apple revealed that over 30 million people actually bought one of its smaller four-inch-screen phones in 2015. The iPhone 5s is still a strong seller for the company, reportedly holding firm as the company's second most popular phone, behind the slimmer, smoother-edged iPhone 6 but ahead of both the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.
The announcement of a return to an established design from its past is a surprising retrogressive move from Apple, although clearly understandable given the untapped sales potential for many people of an old friend rebooted. The iPhone SE has the popular outer styling of a 5s, but with the advanced technology of the 6s inside – albeit missing the "poke and peek" 3D Touch technology of the 6s, presumably withheld to differentiate Apple's flagship phone.
The iPhone SE has a bead-blasted aluminium body, with matte-chamfered edges, a colour-matched stainless steel Apple logo and four metallic finishes, including rose gold. It uses the same 64-bit A9 chip as the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus and also has the same 12-megapixel iSight camera, featuring Live Photos, 4K video filming and Touch ID with Apple Pay.
"iPhone SE is an exciting new idea. We started with a beloved, iconic design and reinvented it from the inside out. The result is the most beautiful and powerful phone with a four-inch display in the world," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "Everyone who wants a smaller phone is going to love iPhone SE."
The iPhone SE will become Apple's cheapest iPhone to date, starting at £359 for the 16Gb version. There is no 32Gb option, only a 64Gb model. The SE will be available to order on 24 March, on sale from 31 March.
Also adopting this diminutive trend is the new iPad Pro, a 9.7-inch sibling to the original 12.9-inch iPad Pro, released in 2015. Weighing just under one pound, it has a new pressure-sensitive pro Retina display with greater brightness, wider colour gamut, lower reflectivity, Night Shift mode and new True Tone display technology to dynamically adjust white balance.
Inside, it has a 64-bit A9X chip, a four-speaker audio system, a new 12-megapixel iSight camera for shooting Live Photos and 4K video, a 5-megapixel FaceTime HD camera and faster wireless technologies.
"iPad Pro is a new generation of iPad that is indispensable and immersive, enabling people to be more productive and more creative. It's incredibly fast, extremely portable, and completely natural to use with your fingers, Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard. And now it comes in two sizes," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "It is the ultimate upgrade for existing iPad users and replacement for PC users."
Highlighting how designers and illustrators have adopted iPad Pro in their workflow, John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, said, "People don't realise how much hand drawing is needed to produce computer animation," said "iPad Pro and Apple Pencil are the closest we've ever been able to get in the digital world to actually drawing on paper."
The new iPad Pro is the first iPad available in Apple's Rose Gold finish. Prices start at £499 and will go on sale on 31 March.
Also announced at the event was the news that prices for Apple Watch will now start at £259 - £50 cheaper – and the range of straps has been greatly expanded, including a new woven nylon collection, as well as new sports and leather options.
A major software upgrade was added to Apple tv, including Siri voice-activated dictation to compete with Amazon's Fire TV Stick, and Apple's mobile operating system was updated to iOS 9.3 to introduce Night Shift mode. This automatically detects when it's night (based on a user's time zone) and shifts screen colours to warmer tones to minimise eye strain. Given the amount of time users typically spend staring at their screens in bed at night, this is an important issue.
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Originally posted by PammyK
Cuba is much smaller than the US. There are many more "minds" to keep watch on our leaders.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
Cuba was a capitalistic franchise of the very same people who have run the USA and World to ruin this time again, until the revolution.
Whilst Cuba had the best health care system as in Nurses and Doctors per patients, with the highest funding per capita/per head as a mean % of the GNP people have died there including thousands and thousands of terminally ill children as the USA since that time banned any company that sold to them or provided for them any type of connection from any ties with the USA and forced them out of other countries too.
Whilst ever Cuban was given at least an Acre of their land each so they could grow their own food, Holmlesness was eradicated, whilst EVERY member of the Cuban Government and Civil Service did community work each work, The USA last president was taking certain Illicit substances, not doing his national guard service, bankrupting a company funded by the Bin Laden's and drinking every night.
Whilst Cuba was sending more aid per head of population (per capita) than the USA it received hardly any help itself except from the USSR.
If the USA would not have blocked all the companies, and countries in the world from having any ties with Cuba, as Castro and Che kicked out the then Bankers and Rapists Cuba would have been the most successful country in the world in health care, Happiness, Production, Community and Environment and distribution of wealth.
Cuba never worked because the Hill(aka Bankers friends) did not want it to, as Castro did what should have been done on Wall Street 10 yrs ago, or 60 odd yrs ago with bush's Grandfather and Hitler. I bet Every American now wishes homelessness was impossible, and each would be garunteed his own land to work to ensure he could never starve and wouldnt have to beg.
Saying Cuba was wrong is like saying kids who are bullied and abused shouldn't have issues when older. The USA crushed every single country that even tried to work with it.
President Hugo Chavez is tightening state control over Venezuela's food supply, setting quotas for food staples which are to be sold at government-imposed prices.
Venezuela's public finances are unravelling, with oil prices at $40 a barrel, while the national budget is calculated at $60 a barrel. Inflation is running at over 30 per cent, yet with the new measures Mr Chavez is seeking to ensure that his core support, the poor, can still fill their shopping baskets with food.
"If any industry wants to ride roughshod over the consumers, with a view to getting better dividends, we are going to act," said Carlos Osorio, the national superintendent of silos and storage. "For the government, access to food is a matter of national security."
Production quotas and prices have now been set for cooking oil, white rice, sugar, coffee, flour, margarine, pasta, cheeses and tomato sauce.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
Wake Up please do read about this issue first in depth because it is a huge and massive subject and is nothing to do really with the USSR and Missile crisis or the Bay of Pigs or Hollywood spin, they are just fragments of a Huge and relentless ongoing continual plot to constantly undermine every single facet of any chance of any success for the Cubans and Cuba itself.
It truly would of outshone the world, hopefully some will look into this now that what is happening is happening.
Originally posted by chasnj
The damage has been done not since Jan 09, but way before that.


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Guess what???
Finally ... I got the chance to read Twilight ~ ^^
I was so lucky to have found it inside the school library ...
I borrowed both of them without much thought, since it would probably 'disappear' after that ...
Now I have Twilight (book #1) n Eclipse (book #3) wit me ...
Since I only have max 2 weeks to borrow those books ...
I'm gonna borrow New Moon (book #2) from a fren at probably Thurs? (hope she can giv me by Thurs la) ...
Then I'll challenge myself to fin 3 books in 2 weeks time ~ ^^
Currently is at Twilight pg 289 ... (note: I juz borrow it ytd, see how faz I could read? XD)
Think I can do it???
I think I can ... Hahax ~ XDD
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Between 1992 and 1995, General Kulikov commanded the Combined Group of Russian Armed Forces in the Chechen Republic. He was later appointed Russian interior minister. He is currently the chairman of the Board of the World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum.
In many countries, the task of combating international terrorism - one of the main challenges to humankind - has been mainly entrusted to the security services, which simultaneously conduct intelligence and counter-intelligence activities. In some states, the useful practice of creating joint anti-terrorist working groups has been established. They first emerged in the USA, and now co-operate with Russia, China, Japan, India and Pakistan. The special feature of these groups is that they are interdepartmental bodies, which means that security services exchange useful operative information.
Co-operation between the police forces of various countries is a most effective form of interaction at present. For example, T-Centre has been created under the Russian Interior Ministry to combat terrorism in Russia. This is a subdivision of the Main Department for Combating Organised Crime, which has on many occasions teamed up with the security services of Britain, Germany, France and other states. Last year, T-Centre solved 113 crimes committed by extremists, while it also freed 580 hostages held in Chechnya.
In the North Caucasus and some other regions of the world, national armed forces are involved in anti-terrorist operations. The military are convinced that it is time to create special units to do this. At the same time, when organising large-scale efforts to combat terrorism and trans-national crime, it would be expedient to draft international-legal documents on joint action specifying the priority role of UN Security Council sanctions to conduct anti-terrorist operations and control them. However, military-technological solutions are not a panacea in the fight against terrorism, either.
Experience shows that although an extremist regime can be toppled by force, as was the case in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is impossible to reduce the threat posed by international terrorist organisations, because they are clearly not the enemy indicated on staff maps and monitors. Terrorism is a criminal instrument in the hands of certain, thoroughly camouflaged criminal, political and financial structures. It has become obvious that one cannot combat terrorism and modern international crime by using double standards in appraising the actions of Chechen militants, and some or other events.
Crime and terrorism at the state and inter-state level can be counteracted effectively provided civil society, every section of the population, joins in the efforts to do so. An important step in this direction was the initiative, put forward by Russia, to create the World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum (WAAF). The United Nations supported this idea. About 40 states have joined the Forum and it has been registered as a non-governmental public organisation. Its strategic task is to develop new technologies to combat trans-national crime and terrorism and create a training system for combating terrorism in Russia and other countries.
The formation of the World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum is nearing completion. Russia should enhance its co-operation with the relevant structures in the United Nations, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the European Union, in drafting a strategy to counteract new challenges and threats. Regional organisations, such as the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, the Council of Baltic Sea States, the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of CIS Member-States and the Collective Security Council of the States Parties to the Collective Security Treaty should also participate in this process. We can only achieve these aims through joint efforts.
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Tom Felton Covers 'Fault Men' Fall 2011
Tom Felton takes the cover of Fault Men's Fall Fashion 2011 issue.
Here's what the 24-year-old actor had to share with the mag:
On Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe: "[He] has always been a big inspiration. He is like a machine. He works for 15 hours, has five hours of sleep, comes back the next day, eager than ever to do the same scene all over again. Daniel made me realize never take things for granted … He strived to make each film better and that really inspired me to do the same."
On what he considers a personal fault: "I enjoy my sleep too much? That's not really a fault, that's more of a luxury. I'd say technology. It's a massive catch 22 for me. I can't live without it, yet I would love to live without it. It has come to a point where I love flying because none of the electronics work and no one can get a hold of me. I'm unreachable. Also emails! Emails are my biggest fault. If you email me you'll be forever awaiting a reply. I see each medium of communication as a new door, now I have 20 doors and everybody is bloody knocking."


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Sharon Adeeyo, Executive Assistant to the CEO
Marianne Bakia, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation
Elaina Boytor, Research Analyst
Kelly Christopher, Director, Development
Annie Dillon, Professional Learning Coordinator
Kristin Eng, Personalized Learning Manager
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Brian Johnson, Personalized Learning Manager
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Phyllis Lockett, CEO
Phyllis is CEO of LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based education technology hub that advances personalized learning to prepare Americans for 21st century skills. The nonprofit organization helps to identify, pilot, research and expand the use of innovative teaching and learning technology tools from pre-K to early college.
Before starting LEAP, Phyllis was a driving force behind Chicago's charter movement. As founding president and CEO of New Schools for Chicago, she helped raise more than $70 million to support opening 80 new public schools, primarily charters. For nearly a decade, she focused on bringing quality public schools to communities of high need and advocating for school choice.
She previously served as executive director of the Civic Consulting Alliance (CCA), a pro bono consulting firm for government agencies, and held marketing, sales and business development roles with Fortune 500 companies, including IBM, Kraft Foods and General Mills.
Born and raised on Chicago's south side, Phyllis is a graduate of the Chicago Public School system, and both of her parents were Chicago Public Schools teachers. She earned a Master of Management degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
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To convert 82 centimeters to inches, divide 82 by 2.54 to get the same distance in inches. 82 centimeters is equal to about 32 inches.Continue Reading
There are 2.54 centimeters in one inch, which means that the conversion value is 2.54. The conversion value is used to divide the centimeter total, because there are multiple centimeters per inch.
To convert centimeters to inches, divide the centimeter total by 2.54. Eighty-two divided by 2.54 equals 32.28. This total rounds down to 32.
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Chicago Christian basketball coach Will Slager didn`t expect this season`s team would fill a scrapbook with lasting memories.
``At Christmastime, I said that if I got 10 wins this year, I`d be in heaven,`` said Slager.
He`s already there. Slager`s Knights raised their record to 16-10 Thursday night with a 52-40 victory over Illiana Christian (12-15) in the semifinals of the Chicago Christian Class A regional.


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On Friday, October 9, PATH vice president Dr. Jacqueline Sherris delivered a keynote address for Planned Parenthood's Innovations and Generations Conference. The three-day conference for national Planned Parenthood staff and board members was hosted by Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and brought more than 150 people from around the country to Seattle.
Dr. Sherris, who oversees PATH's global programs, conducted the address as a conversation with Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest board member Dr. Gloria Coronado. Dr. Coronado serves as chair of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest's International Committee and is a scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Dr. Sherris and Dr. Coronado discussed PATH's model for introducing sustainable, culturally relevant solutions for health and how a similar model could be applicable to Planned Parenthood's international programs. Partnerships, including those between the public and private sectors, are key to success, Dr. Sherris said.
Drs. Sherris and Coronado also discussed PATH's reproductive health work, including our early work in China successfully transforming the country's reproductive health landscape to meet international standards. The conversation ended with a discussion of challenges in global reproductive health and how innovation will be critical in working to solve these difficult problems.
Dr. Sherris has a keen knowledge of and deep history in reproductive health gained from her 22-year tenure at PATH. From 2002 to 2007, as leader of PATH's reproductive health program, she expanded PATH's cervical cancer prevention work, including increasing access to human papillomavirus vaccines in developing countries. Other areas of reproductive health work that grew under her leadership include contraceptive supply security, pharmacists and reproductive health, technologies and interventions for women dealing with the consequences of unprotected sex, and integration of family planning and HIV and AIDS services.
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Andy Roddick -- one of the hottest, youngest rising stars on the planet -- took his mind off his lifelong commitment to just one smoking hot swimsuit model (Brooklyn Decker) with some premarital golf on Friday.
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Arthritis drugmakers hone pitch to consumers
Recent TV ads for Abbott's Humira aim to provoke patients to consider the impact of not addressing the potential of joint damage, a hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and one which can occur no matter how much, or how little, pain patients feel.
An Abbott-backed RA disease awareness campaign hit national airwaves in February, designed "to educate patients that RA isn't only about the pain they fight through everyday—it can also lead to the destruction of their joints," said James Salanty, divisional VP and GM for rheumatology, in the drug maker's pharma products division.
Viewers see a piano or bicycle falling apart, as a voiceover warns, "The longer you live with the aching, swelling, and stiffness, the closer you may be to having your favorite things…taken away from you." Salanty said a branded campaign will follow later this year.Branded spots by Pfizer and Amgen, who market top-selling arthritis biologic Enbrel, broke in April featuring professional golfer Phil Mickelson, who publically announced his diagnosis with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in 2010.
While the spots focus on managing the disease, the ultimate message is for patients to "not just give thought to managing their symptoms in the here and now, but to think how to slow or stop the progression of joint damage moving forward," an Amgen spokesperson told MM&M. The ads will continue through the year.
Companies have another motive in stepping up marketing efforts at this time: moving more patients to biologics. Abbott reckons that about half of RA patients are not being treated by a rheumatologist for their disease. They most likely are seeing a primary care physician and are likely to be taking pills such as methotrexate or leflunomide. Both are available generically and are much cheaper than the injectable biologic drugs.
Many of these patients could be helped by a biologic approved to inhibit disease progression, companies say. However, resistance to injections is one of three main obstacles to patients getting on a biologic, a Credit Suisse survey found. Safety concerns and cost are the other two.
Oral drugs moving through phase III trials, such as Pfizer's JAK-3 inhibitor tofacitinib and Rigel and AstraZeneca's Syk inhibitor fostamatinib, could eventually be used before, after or in combination with products like Humira and Enbrel. Analysts say that will depend on the degree to which orals have an impact on underlying disease progression, as measured by radiographic images of patients' joints, among other factors.
Phase III radiographic data "support that tofacitinib—as an oral therapy competing in a largely injectable world—will have commercial appeal," wrote the Sanford Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson in a recent investor note. Side effects, which include a negative effect on cholesterol levels, could limit sales potential, or even prevent approval. Fostamatinib is probably two years behind tofacitinib, Anderson noted.
Other drugs in the class known as TNF inhibitors, and those that stand to lose share if these orals reach market, include J&J/Merck's Remicade and Simponi, as well as UCB's Cimzia.


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