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Red-hot Brewers begin second homestand of the season Friday
MILWAUKEE (WITI) — The Milwaukee Brewers begin the second homestand of the season Friday evening, April 11th with the start of a three-game weekend series against the Pittsburgh Pirates, which will be followed by a three-game set against the St. Louis Cardinals.
The homestand features the 5-County, 5-Day Celebration, which gets underway Friday and continues through Tuesday.
Residents of Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington and Waukesha counties can save 50% on all reserved seats except the Miller Lite Beerpen, All-Inclusive Areas and Uecker Seats.
For more information, call (414) 902-4000 or visit Brewers.com/5county.
Promotional details for the upcoming homestand are included below:
Friday, April 11 vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, 7:10 p.m
- Time Warner Cable Student Nights: During every Friday home game, high school and college students can purchase $9 Terrace Reserved tickets and $11.50 Loge Bleachers tickets, courtesy of Time Warner Cable. Plus, the first 250 students to redeem their tickets from Time Warner Cable Student Night Section 233 will receive a free pair of sunglasses. For more information, call (414) 902-4000 or visit Brewers.com/students.
- Miller Lite Beerpen: It's always Miller Time in the Miller Lite Beerpen. At every Friday night home game, fans 21-and-older who sit in the Miller Lite Beerpen in the Right Field Loge Bleachers will get a free Miller Lite Brewers cap. For more information, call (414) 902-4000 or visit Brewers.com/beerpen.
Saturday, April 12 vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, 6:10 p.m.
- Carlos Gomez Gold Glove Presentation: Carlos Gomez, the winner of the 2013 Rawlings Gold Glove Award among National League center fielders, will be presented with his Rawlings Gold Glove Award in a pregame ceremony prior to the Brewers vs. Pirates game.
- Autism Awareness Night: The Brewers and Brewers Community Foundation are partnering with Autism Speaks and other autism organizations in Southeastern Wisconsin for the 2nd annual Autism Awareness Night at Miller Park on Saturday, April 12. The Autism Awareness Night is a night to celebrate the unique gifts of individuals with autism, raise awareness of autism spectrum disorders and advocate for the needs of individuals and families affected by autism. On Saturday, Autism Speaks and other autism organizations will have materials at a table on the first base side of the Field Level concourse for fans looking for more information. Eric Look, who was diagnosed with Kanner-type Autism when he was three years old, will perform the National Anthem. Jack Madlung will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Jack was diagnosed with PDD-NOS when he was 2 ½ years old.
- Autograph Saturdays for Kids presented by U.S. Bank®: Prior to five Saturday home games at Miller Park, fans 14-and-under can receive autographs from select Brewers players and coaches. Additional dates include: May 10 vs. New York-AL, June 14 vs. Cincinnati, July 12 vs. St. Louis and August 9 vs. Los Angeles-NL. Autograph sessions will begin shortly after gates open and will last for approximately 20 minutes. For each Autograph Saturday game, one child will be selected to win a VIP package compliments of U.S. Bank®. The VIP package includes four Loge Level tickets to that night's game, on-field batting practice viewing and more. Fans can register at Miller Park Field Level Guest Relations or online at Brewers.com/autographsaturdays.
- Potawatomi Pen Schedule: The first 20,000 fans 21 and older will receive a pen schedule, courtesy of Potawatomi Bing Casino. Sunday, April 13 vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, 1:10 p.m.
- Sentry Foods Jean Segura Photo Card: The first 15,000 fans will receive a Jean Segura Photo Card, compliments of Sentry Foods. Along with the photo card, fans will also receive a Palermo's coupon.
- Blue Bunny Ice Cream Sunday: At each Sunday home game, the first 2,000 fans 12 and under will receive a coupon for a free Blue Bunny Ice Cream treat upon entering Miller Park. The coupons can be redeemed on the Field Level concourse near the Right Field corner. There is a limit of one ice cream coupon per child. Coupons may be redeemed from the time gates open through the end of the first inning, compliments of Blue Bunny.
- Prairie Farms Dairy Kids Base Run: Kids 16 and under can run the bases after Sunday home games, courtesy of Prairie Farms Dairy.
Monday, April 14 vs. St. Louis Cardinals, 7:10 p.m.
- Miller High Life Monday: For every Monday home game, Terrace Reserved tickets are just $9, courtesy of Miller High Life. For tickets, call (414) 902-4000 or visit Brewers.com/highlife.
Tuesday, April 15 vs. St. Louis Cardinals, 7:10 p.m.
Wednesday, April 16 vs. St. Louis Cardinals, 12:10 p.m.
- Kids & Senior Citizens Discount Days: For weekday afternoon home games, kids 14 and under and seniors 60 and up save up to 50% on all tickets except for Bernie's Terrace, Uecker seats and All-Inclusive Areas. For more information, call (414) 902-4000 or visit Brewers.com/fanvalues.


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Handwashing with soap and water is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of bacteria and viruses--the major causes of foodborne illness. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are effective in killing bacteria and some viruses on clean hands. However, sanitizers may not be used instead of handwashing by food service employees.
Why can't hand sanitizers be used instead of handwashing in food service settings?
The hands of foodworkers are often wet; often contaminated with fatty material or with food high in proteins. The presence of water, food, fatty materials, feces and blood on the hands can significantly reduce the effectiveness of an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Viruses such as norovirus are also a concern in food service settings. Norovirus is the leading cause of foodborne outbreaks. Hand sanitizers do not kill norovirus.
Soap and water washing is the most effective way to remove the types of pathogens that foodworkers have on their hands. In order for hand sanitizers to work properly, hands must first be washed with soap, rinsed with running water and completely dried.
The Minnesota Food Code requires handwashing with soap and water in food service establishments.
When can hand sanitizers be used in a food service setting?
The FDA Food Code and the Minnesota Food Code allow the use of hand sanitizers by foodworkers after proper hand washing.
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- Wash hands in a designated hand sink. Wet hands with warm water. Apply soap. Lather and scrub for 20 seconds. Rinse. Dry hands with paper towel. Turn off faucet with the towel. (The Minnesota Food Code also requires that fingernails be cleaned with a nailbrush.)
- Select a hand sanitizer containing at least 60 percent alcohol.
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- Rub hands together vigorously for 30 seconds covering all surfaces of both hands. If hands are dry after only 10-15 seconds, not enough sanitizer was used and more must be applied.
- Wait for the sanitizer to dry completely before touching food contact surfaces.
NOTE: Your employee hygiene policy should include handwashing procedures, plus guidelines for hand sanitizer use, and exclusion of foodworkers who have symptoms of diarrhea and/or vomiting.
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Government decision on battery hens gutless, incompetent and shortsighted
7 December 2012
The abuse of battery hens is set to continue indefinitely with the release of the new code of welfare for layer hens. SAFE has slammed the Government for its gutless, incompetent and shortsighted decision to introduce the new colony battery hen cages.
"The Government's statement that layer hen cages are to be phased out is a blatant lie." says SAFE Executive Director Hans Kriek. "The Government has now embarked on a campaign to mislead consumers about the future of New Zealand's three million layer hens. The fact is that the supposed welfare benefits of colony battery cages are superficial, and the hens will still be living on a space little more than an A4 sheet of paper.
"Further comments by the Government that the new code will ensure that hens live in an environment that meet their welfare needs and allow them to carry out their normal behaviour are shameful. How can a chicken express her normal behaviour crammed into a tiny cage, standing on a sloping wire floor with not even enough space to freely stretch her wings?" says Mr Kriek.
Welfare code pleases no one
SAFE says the welfare code will please no one. "In deciding to introduce the new style of battery cages the National Government thumbed it's nose to the eight out of ten New Zealanders who want to see battery cages for hens banned," says Mr Kriek. "In addition, by continuing to allow cages the Government has failed to resolve the ongoing controversy surrounding egg production methods."
"The National Government's decision is gutless," says Mr Kriek. "It has bowed to the demands of a mere 47 battery hen farmers who want to continue to cruelly confine their hens in cages. I'm sure many Kiwis would agree that the Government is also incompetent, as colony battery cages simply do not meet the welfare requirements of the Animal Welfare Act.
The continuation of cages is shortsighted as New Zealand consumers and animal advocates will not accept colony battery cages. The fight against this cruelty will only stop when all cages are gone."
SAFE strongly believes the new code does not meet the principles of this country's animal welfare legislation and is considering taking legal action to stop the introduction of colony battery cages.
"If the Government thinks it can get away with replacing one cruel cage for another, they've got another thing coming." says Mr Kriek.


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By Abe Burzette
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
When it was announced before the season that senior Iowa State forward Melvin Ejim could miss 4-6 weeks with a hyperextended left knee and bone bruise, Cyclone fans everywhere wondered how head coach Fred Hoiberg would replace the Big 12 Conference's leading rebounder from a year ago.
Enter Dustin Hogue.
Hogue, a 6'6" 215 pound transfer from Indian Hills Community College, averaged 12.9 points and 5.4 rebounds per game in his last season with the Warriors. So far this season, Hogue is averaging 12.6 points and 11.1 rebounds per game and currently leads the Big 12 in boards.
According to Hogue, however, he did not expect to have such a huge role on this year's team.
"Coming in, I didn't know how much I'd be playing or if I'd be playing," Hogue said. "My competitiveness made me work a little harder this preseason and do what I needed to do off the court and in practice to try to get more minutes on the court."
"I just thought that I needed to find a way to get on the floor more. I've never thought of myself as a scorer, so I just felt if I was able to get on the floor in a different way that I would find minutes."
Although he did not expect to play a huge role on the team, Hogue had specific goals coming into the season.
"My goals were definitely be the energy guy and to help out on the defensive end," Hogue said. "I know Iowa State can score, so I've always thought that if I was able to rebound and help Melvin rebound that would lead to him scoring more."
As well as being an energetic and defensive force, Hogue believes he brings "a certain toughness that Iowa State hasn't seen in a long time."
Before Ejim's injury, Hogue said that the two would battle each other for rebounds in practice and they would keep track of those numbers on a white board. Once Ejim went down, Hogue says he saw the opportunity to make an impact on the team.
"His absence helped me solidify myself as an aggressive rebounder and make more moves because he wasn't on the floor," Hogue said.
Sophomore guard Naz Long echoed this and said that Hogue and Ejim want to be the guy for the Cyclones when it comes to rebounds.
"They definitely let it be known that both of them want to have the most rebounds at the end of the game," Long said.
In addition to Ejim's absence to start the season, Hogue said Hoiberg's system has allowed him to flourish.
"Fred's system is always spacing the floor and get a lot of shots up," Hogue said. "Because we are such a high scoring team and the fact that we get a lot of shots up, it gives you more opportunities to rebound."
Despite Ejim's return to the team against Michigan on Nov. 17, Hogue's productivity has not diminished, instead it has increased, grabbing a team high 16 rebounds against Auburn and Iowa.
Hoiberg was also quick to praise Hogue's performance this season.
"That's who Dustin is, he's a guy that's going to go and get those rebounds," Hoiberg said. "If there's a scrum, he's going to be the one that comes out with it."
Along with his rebounding, Hogue has connected on 7-of-14 three point attempts this season. This caught Hogue off guard, who said his three point shot has always been a weakness.
"It was definitely a surprise because I've never shot this well from the three in my life," Hogue said. "Fred was such a good three-point shooter and he's working with me every day, helping my form, remain calm, and be confident in my three point shot."
Hoiberg has notably given his players the freedom to shoot the ball and Hogue says that has helped him perform on offense this season.
"He gives me the green light [to shoot the three]," Hogue said. "I don't abuse it too much but I use it from time to time."
As for the rest of the season, Hogue has a goal in mind that has not happened at Iowa State since the 1978-79 season when Dean Uthoff averaged 10.2 points and 11.3 rebounds per game for the Cyclones.
"My goal is to maintain a double-double," Hogue said. "Since we are such a good scoring team, if I can get about 10 rebounds a game, that's 20 points the other team could possibly not get."
"I think if I do my role, then we'll be a successful team."


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Despite baseball's new season, football remains America's most popular sport and its biggest newsmaker. This week's top stories focus on MLB controversy, NCAA reform, and of course Bountygate and the NFL.
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NFLThe NFL has revised its policy on casino advertising to allow NFL teams to sell advertisements to casinos with certain restrictions. http://bit.ly/HMMace
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell decided to uphold the Bountygate suspensions of Saints general manager Mickey Loomis, head coach Sean Payton, and assistant coach Joe Vitt. However, Goodell stated he would consider reducing the team's financial penalties and modifying the Saints' forfeiture of their 2013 second-round draft choice for constructive participation in player safety programs. http://bit.ly/HvUw5W
The NFL's latest collective bargaining agreement has been billed as a "win-win" agreement for both sides. But are the players getting a worse deal than anticipated? http://bo.st/IP0FLX
Dan Le Batard attacks Roger Goodell's and the NFL's handling of Bountygate, arguing the league was motivated by profit and a desire to avoid liability. http://bit.ly/HxeizP
MLBWith Roger Clemens' retrial beginning on Monday, federal prosecutors will need to tread carefully. http://nyti.ms/HC6QVr
San Diego Padres' majority owner John Moores has terminated his agreement to sell the franchise to former chief executive Jeff Moorad. Moores is still determining whether he wants to sell the team. http://atmlb.com/HBPx74
Major League Baseball is reviewing Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen's comments to Time Magazine praising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The Marlins have already suspended Guillen for five games. http://es.pn/HnbLWx
NCAAAn NCAA task force has recommended decentralizing control over bowl games by turning over bowl management and licensing to FBS Conferences. But should the NCAA go further in relaxing its strict policies in college football? http://cbsprt.co/IilMrs
The NCAA has hired Mark Lewis, the former vice president of sponsorship at NBC, to replace Greg Shaheen as vice president for championships and alliances. The move surprised NCAA men's basketball coaches because Shaheen played a crucial role in the growth of the NCAA Tournament. http://bit.ly/HvMYmJ
Change may be coming for college football's postseason. What type of playoff or other proposal might the NCAA adopt? http://bit.ly/HBQ1ef
Sports MediaThe United States Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee continue to contentiously negotiate a new broadcast revenue sharing agreement to split the billions of dollars in U.S. broadcast revenue that the Olympics generate. http://onforb.es/HBBQBO
The NHL's Los Angeles Kings are embroiled in a "social media storm" for a tweet from the team's Twitter account insulting the Vancouver Canucks after the Kings' Game 1 victory in Vancouver. http://lat.ms/IMyCNf
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Heifervescent is essentially the solo project of Andy Doran, writing, performing and producing each track. The music has often been classed as beautiful yet sullen soundscapes, laying strong simple melodies and chiming guitars onto a bed of ambient string and hypnotic electronic arrangements. This has certainly been the case of the latest offering Little Egg and 2005's Pondlife Fiasco.
Way before Heifervescent, Andy Doran was singer/songwriter with Monkeyland, a 4 piece indie guitar band based in the North West of England. In the 1990s, in the midst of BritPop, Monkeyland played alongside notable indie bands such as Shed Seven, The House of Love, Power of Dreams and The Railway Children and released Placebo, a 4 track EP. As the decade came to a close, so did the band.
In 2000, there was a brief reformation as Cannula, this time with Dave Spencer on vocals and Andy on guitars and synths. This once again eventually lost momentum as Andy spent more time working with animation, producing videos for Inspiral Carpets and Mountaineers. In 2002 a solo venture began under the name of Heifervescent, and the debut album Hoofed and Dangerous was produced, with Monkeyland bass player, Neil Wignall adding some deep tones. This was followed by the folkier Verbal Bandit in 2003 and then the darker Murder in the Garden in 2004.
2005 brought the most played Heifervescent album so far – Pondlife Fiasco, featuring the most downloaded Heifervescent track – Deep Sea Diver. An instrumental version of Pondlife was also produced, many tracks being used for commercial use in advertising and film. Between 2005 and 2010, Andy spent much time writing for advertising, animation and experimental work, then in 2010 released The Glue Factory. All the tracks on this album were recorded at least 5 years before, but had never made it past the mastering mix. In 2011, Andy also revisited lots of Monkeyland tracks that had previously never got past the demo stage. This came out as a new set of recordings of Monkeyland songs called Further Adventures in Monkeyland.
Immediately after this Andy started working on a new album. Over 30 tracks were written and recorded, but eventually this was shortlisted to the 12 tracks which now form Little Egg, Heifervescent's 7th album.
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DENVER (AP) — Immigrants living illegally in Colorado will be able to get driver's licenses under a bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper.
The bill was signed in private on Wednesday.
Colorado joins a handful of states that grant driver's licenses for immigrants regardless of legal status. Supporters of the bill argued everyone on the roads should know the rules and be insured.
The licenses would be labeled to say they are not valid for federal identification, and can't be used to vote or obtain public benefits.
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Remember Six Days in Fallujah, the super controversial shooter that focused on the real-life Second Battle of Fallujah in Iraq? Well it now appears that Sony might have played a part in the game's development, at one point considering publishing the title. - PSLS
Thankfully they didn't, the whole idea of an entertainment based product focusing on a recent battle in a region soldiers were still in just isn't right.
I think for the industry to mature, we need to approach all topics, and not avoid a topic bc some ppl dont like to talk about.
But not with a runofthemill shooter (judging by the previews) that did little to elevate the discussion. There's a difference between being controversial because you address a tough topic, and being controversial to get extra media attention.
How do you even know it isn precisely adressing a tough topic in a serious manner ?
Besides why shouldnt run of the mill "anything" be addressing such topics ?
Seems arbitrary and ridiculous to me when every other medium can do it in all impunity , even in a comedy or bad taste fashion .
At last , not everyone is american . There is usually no qualm about using other countries and factions as a foe or even source of ridicule , why should USA be so protected and spared from exposure ?
Well said. It would be a great way to teach history, honestly.
the chances of a video game showing america in a bad light is highly unlikely.according to vallencer comment bellow about actual soilders helping with the game further proves my point.I agree it would be great for people to know what happened over there but not the american "right winged" version that this game would have told.But what really happened.
this isn't quite the same as this, but the recently released sony exclusive papo & yo touches on some pretty uncomfortable issues...
Pedophila game.. here we come!
Where do you intend to draw the limits then eh?
I can't believe you got 76 agrees for games including whatever subject you want including Pedophila!
... and at the same time, people need to mature and accept the fact that some people are decent enough to say "I don't feel comfortable doing this." Give and take.
And excuse me, but when does "Allan Becker, my former Sony boss and the man who started Sony Santa Monica" stand for SONY as a whole?
I hear you... but you think a video game is the best way to do this?
Very true. And didn't I hear something awhile back about these shooters helping soldiers deal with PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder)?
People constantly think that these games will freak out soldiers, or push them over the edge, when in reality many of them are fighting a battle in their own minds every day, and need something to help relieve the tension. Because to them, extreme stress and awareness was just another day at work. Now they're in a civilian setting with that same psyche of stress and awareness.
I say Sony should have went for it.
They weren't solders.. They were Marines. As someone who was infantry during fallujah, I don't mind this game and was disappointed when it was dropped. The public is afraid to hear the story as it was the worst war the US fought since Vietnam. But our story deserves to be acknowledged and told. Not ignored for the sake of bliss.
I don't know how much you've kept up with it but they have guys that were IN that battle working on the game with them. Not only that but there were plenty of parents that had their sons die in the battle that wanted the game made to show people what war is really like. And to also show everyone what happened over there. I think it should get published because taboo topics need to start appearing in games for us to go anywhere.
Medal of Honor 2010 had worked with real soldiers too, yet not many people liked the game because the campaign wasn't "exciting" enough.
Actually IIRC; the people that got this game un-published were those who had their son's and daughters currently in the war hence why the game wasn't published in 2011 as planned by Konami, and thus scrapped. Sony would need quite a bit of winning over angry parents once they release this game.
LOL. Never coming out so don't get your Y-fronts in a twist.
i wanted the game from get go but not gonna happen.
R.I.P 6DIF. may we only hope someone has the nuts to release you.
Dude it did eventually come out (sorta)...
Basically it got a name change and a new setting and is called breach. Its on the XBL marketplace not sure about anywhere else though. Its actually a really good game :)
Guessing you never heard of the movie Black Hawk Down. Came out in 2001, based off a book that came out in '99, about a battle that occurred which was part of Operation Gothic Serpent and was fought on October 3 and 4, 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia.
The book came out 6 years after the battle, and the movie around 8 years after. Never got a chance to read the book, but the movie is damn good. Some products are not just for entertainment, but they help to educate people about things they never knew about or never knew that well.
.... not sure if trolling either.
first of all this is sony, and i dont believe they would be considering publishing a game that does the war injustice- it seems to me that sony has more integrity than that.
if your not, how is this different than something like jarhead, generation kill, act of valor, hurt locker, green zone, medal of honor, etc? there is no difference. sure some devs/movie studios may make someting with no taste just for shock value, however most of the time its made with careful reverence and to honor and remember those who were lost, also to educate.
we cant just bury our head in the sand and stick our fingers in our ears just because something tragic happened, it is better to honor them by learning about what happened, you also cant expect the world to stop spinning either. if you truly care honor them in your own way and dont get the game if it comes out, otherwise i think it is better to remember those who died by learning about what happened, whether it be a movie or a game.
I don't see the problem when it was fully endorsed by those that were there, or so I was led to believe.
Edit: After a quick search, turns out the marines involved asked for it to be made.
If it's done in good taste and can tell the story accurately, I think this game can play a role informing the general public, rather than (hopefully not) using the source material as a means to simply "glorify" the recent events. IMO it has to be done in a mature way. Just my thoughts.
they should of published it. IMO
media backlash would of been entertaining
that will be cool and released it on the vita for some more hype imagine the press.
This game should be published. Our rights are slowly being taken away... even your rights to play a video game.
It would've been a first day buy for me if this were true.
A lot of Iraqi children born in the city of Fallujah in the last decade have birth defects due to aftermath of chemical weapons used in the battles that took place there.
The Iraq war was an illegal war and to base a game that glorifies one of the worst and most ruthless battles that took place in the illegal war is as bad and insensitive as developing a game glorifying the Nazis.
Over 1 million Iraqis were directly effected by the illegal War - destruction of homes, death of family members, becoming orphans, subject to unemployment and countless other forms of sufferng.
At least 100,000 were killed. Of course, you would have to have little to zero sympathy or hummanity to warrant such a game.
how are you so certain it was being created to glorify the war?
your points are exactly why the story deserves to be told rather than be ignored. with your logic, everything that is uncomfortable and sensitive should be lost to the annals of history. it would be like forgetting the Japanese concentration camps in the US during WWII. it would be like not acknowledging the trail of tears ever happened.
despite what the average joe looking from the outside in may think, video games are as a legitimate source of story telling as literature and other visual medias.
you don't get it all.
Actually I remember this game many years ago and I do know what the story was intended to be.
It was supposed to be about you the player, fighting for the American army, and fighting against the 'terrorists' that have taken Fallujah. It was definitely intended to glorify.
My point is, this was a very nasty battle in a war that was illegal. You'd have to be a nasty person to want to make a game about that.
And many critics who probably aren't entirely against the iraq war still said the timing of the game was very insensitive.
And yet, if someone decides to make a game central about German soldiers invading France or Poland, there would be global outcry - and that was more than 60 years ago.
While I agree with everything you said I resent the fact that you called the american round up of the Japanese "Concentration camps" THEY WERE NOT CONCENTRATION CAMPS and if you do any sort of research on the topic the United sates was using INTERNMENT camps. YES there is a BIG difference. I am not disputing the human rights violations of either and I am also not disputing the fact that BOTH of these acts were completely and totally wrong, but you must see that one is worse than the other. The Webster's dictionary definition of an "internment camp" is "The imprisonment or confinement of an ethnic group, or people of political reasoning, commonly in large groups, without trial or the due process". The definition of a "concentration camp" as defined by webster's is "A place where large numbers of political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities are imprisoned without the due process commonly associated with crimes against humanity and eventual evolution into "death camps" as a means of the gradual extermination of said group".
To say that the United States were creating death camps is just completely wrong. What they did was more to keep an eye on the japanese to try and establish obedience within the country even if it sacrificed peoples basic human rights. Also to find and scare spies out of the country. Not to say people didn't die within those camps. But they didn't die from abuse or lack of food, or extermination. The Internment camps in the US were more like prisons (minus a trial to get there). They were not like the prisons of today that are way over accommodating, but people could live! The only people who died within the camps were depressed and committed suicide, tried to escape, or died of natural causes or disputes with each other during their incarceration. Most of the people who died however died of natural causes. Over the years of the people who died the percent who died of natural causes was around 70 or 80 percent if Im not mistaken. If you even noticed many japanese camp survivors never came back and said they were raped, underfed, systematically murdered, or extremely mistreated. They will however disputed the human rights violations (not to say that they shouldn't because they were violated, but death for no reason vs human rights violations for a short time are two completely different things).
Just giving my two cents. I don't want you thinking I'm some loyal US citizen who agrees with everything our government says and does. I am not trying to defend what was done because I stand by anyone who says that what the US did was wrong. But when you say "Concentration camps" so lightly not only does it come with this VERY bad stigma, but by definition it means something that was NOT done by the United States.
If you don't agree with my above statement just do a simple google search........here I'll do it for you.
Internment camp definition: http://www.google.com/searc...
Concentration camp definition: http://www.google.com/searc...
The definitions are at the top of the page and all definitions google posts are taken from Webster's dictionary. THere is a difference between the two!!!! Why be so ignorant not to see that. Unless you just blindly hate the US. Did anyone actually read my comment...all of the info is FACTS. I took them from here! http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Nobody cares about the difference between concentration camps and internment camps. The fact remains that the U.S. government took all Japanese (Korean, Taiwanese and abused anyone with that looked Asian), obviously innocent children included, from their homes into these camps and did bad things to them.
You think that your Americans didn't kill any prisoners? If you actually did any sort of research, you would know that their sentries did kill some prisoners and that not everyone died of natural causes. Some did die because of lack of medical care.
They were only allowed to bring certain things into the government's internment camp storage. But the workers stole and destroyed most everything in there. Farmers had to sell their land at a huge loss if they couldn't find someone who had kept their reason to take care of their things while they were gone and peoples' homes were looted and ruined.
So you kind of do seem like a loyal U.S. citizen that agrees with everything your government says and does.
Maybe you should ask yourself why your government did this instead of denying it. They did this because they were at war. They used their propaganda to make stupid Americans think what they wanted to think. The ones that weren't stupid were drowned out by the loud and powerful idiots. This happened in WWII and it happened with the "War on Terror."
OMG did you read my comment? every argument you brought up I said in my comment.
"Nobody cares about the difference between concentration camps and internment camps. The fact remains that the U.S. government took all Japanese (Korean, Taiwanese and abused anyone with that looked Asian), obviously innocent children included, from their homes into these camps and did bad things to them."
-People do care because There is a BIG difference, eve in the museum here in LA that is specifically for the history of the camps that always say that they were not concentration camps.
- I am completely aware that not everyone died of natural causes, If you read my comment it says the percentages that did and I mentioned that not everyone died of natural causes, I even listed some other types of deaths that I got from my source in my other comment. The small percent of people who died of abuse were not controlled by the US government and the people responsible were prosecuted for it. IT was not a death camp. it was like a prison under martial law, if you tried to leave you were killed 9 which is how 20 percent of the people died, 70ish percent of natural causes and around 10% in actual abusive situation/disputes within the camp.....Thats a lower percentage that annual prison deaths in the US.
- I also made it very clear that I know that NOTHING the US or Germany did was right, even if the US's situation was not as severe I even said they were both violating basic human rights.
- How do I sound like a US loyal when I even said that I denounce all they are doing? Also about your destroying belongings argument.....I also addressed that, but again....it was martal law, just like a prison....By definition an internment camp is a prison...do the prisoners get to take their belongings with them? Ond no not everyon had to up and sell their stuff. Only if they didn't have someone to leave it to...and many of them did. Farmers like you said however were the ones who got the worse deal.
-Lastly I NEVER denied it happened...what the hell were you reading? Also their was no propaganda for the internment camps...they were done largely in secret so people didn't know about it. Lastly the war on terror. You can say all you want about propaganda but the reality is 9/11 was a REAL event not a synthetic propaganda device. We all wanted to go to war after that, but now everyone agrees we should be done and that is what we are beginning to do. remove troops from the middle east. Do you see that same invasion force in the middle east as in 2002? NO. Maybe you should try reading and comprehending my comment rather than jump to conclusions because essentially we agreed on everything.
The definitions are different and to say no one cares is simply ignorant because the same acts of criminal violence were not equally apparent.
So, smartass, since you're spouting numbers, how about you tell us all how many Iraqis were killed by Saddam during his illegal actions as dictator? Tell us how many lives were affected by people disappearing in the night, never to be heard from again, because they opposed him? How many children were born with defects because of the chemical weapons Saddam used on his own people? How about how many of those SAME people are bombing their neighbors even now?
You've got the numbers and facts on how wrong America was; I'm certain you've got the other side of things, too, right?
Edit: And I guess those guys weren't there with Saddam's blessing or anything. No, they were in Iraq with no one in power knowing about it, nor were they bothering anybody while they were there.
You've gotta be kidding me. What the hell was ANYBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD DOING? Oh, that's right: NOT A DAMN THING. Talking about sanctions, I guess.
Since we left without taking down Saddam last time, I suppose that meant we couldn't finish what was started, regardless, huh? He could be nuking his own people, and while the UN would sit on its own thumb and spin in time to Kumbaya, people would be wondering, "Where's the USA? Don't they usually stick their noses in this stuff?"
You tell me, genius: when the bad crap is happening anywhere in the world, when people are getting killed by their leaders, when terrorist organizations are bombing hotels and shopping centers, when Rwanda's population is cutting itself in half, who's DOING something instead of talking about it?
No, stupid. I hate war. I'd be happy if war were just the invention of movies and video games. I hate all loss of life, period. I've watched an infant die before my eyes and had to bury people I've grown up with and I'm not even 30. My stance on such things has brought me in contention with my family, because I'm essentially anti-God: I don't like all the suffering I see.
That said, if you for a second think I'd rather sit and watch or hear about people getting massacred than have somebody, ANYBODY step in, you've lost it. I don't even call such numbers an "acceptable loss" or "collateral damage." But I'd rather have it be 100,000 dead than a few million.
Or tell me you've forgotten how things turn out when we DON'T stick our nose in "somebody else's" business? Tell me, how bad do you think WWII would have gotten if other nations did what we do now and got nosy early on in conflicts?
More to the point, since you seem to hate America for this, what was YOUR country doing while all of these things happened? Because, wherever you're from, your nation sure as hell wasn't leading the charge to put an end to shit like this; that was US.
What were you doing, Eamon? Condemning what transpired while hoping your nation stayed out of it? That what it sounds like. And that's hopelessly pathetic.
Dumbass. If you had any knowledge of simple facts, Fallujah was not under the control of Saddam's army. It was an Iraqi insurgency consisting of Iraqi militias and Al-Qaeda.
So your feeble attempts at trying to make it like I support Saddam Hussein are just that, feeble.
And where was America when Saddam was using mustard gas on the kurds? Nowhere. Exactly. Saddam wasn't in the middle of butchering his people when you lot invaded. Your time for intervention had already passed.
Everyone knows the real reason for invasion. There were no WMDs. And sanctions were stopping you from a sea of oil. Ironically, your retarded Bush administration was so incompetent, they handed Iraq to Iran. The current Prime Minister who is in completely in charge of the entire of Iraq's security apparatus is loyal to Khamanei, the ruler of Iran. And the Prime Minister didn't even get 1st place, let alone a majority in the last elections, yet he is still in power. One Dictator just replaced another.
And I love your logic. It's okay if America killed 100,000 Iraqis because Saddam killed thousands of Iraqis too.
What are Iraqi civilians to you? Simply a killscore?
Really showing your maturity there Hicken.
Actually read what Eamon has typed because unlike your ranting post, he actually knows a thing or two.
Who gave Iraq it's weapons by the way? Do you remember that famous hand shake? Educate yourself before making yourself look like a fool.
Replying to your edited comment
Actually I'm British. So the country I was born and live in, the United Kingdom, was with the United States leading the charge.
2 Million People in Britain marched towards the Houses of Parliament AGAINST the war in Iraq. Yet the British government of War criminal Tony Blair ignored all that and marched in anyway. Great job at democracy there.
You seem to not understand history or international law. If you consider yourselves law-abiding humans then practice what you preach. International Law restricts any country of acting in aggression to another. So of course we can agree without a doubt that the Iraq war was illegal. The pretext of WMD was a lie even before the war started - confirmed by independent UN inspectors. Also, search on google, the 'dodgy dossier.' A dossier that was conducted by the British government that contained so much irregularities and false information to do with Iraq.
Also, the insider who leaked to the media that the government KNEW that the dossier had false information, was mysteriously found to have committed suicide. This was BIG NEWS in the UK and let to numerous national enquiries to find out why he died.
There were many other dictators in the world. Bashar Asaad, Robert Mugabe, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Kim Jong Il. Why didn't America invade those countries?
The fact is, the entire world is sick and tired of America and its wars.
America supported Saddam Hussein in the Iraq-Iran war. Double standards, eh? Support one dictator if he serves your interests but it's time to get rid of him when he doesn't serve them anymore?
As for the Iraqi insurgency in Fallujah. Of course they weren't there with Saddam's blessings. Saddam's army was almost completely dead by the time the battles in Fallujah started. The Iraqi army was no longer a player. The insurgency was the only remaining resistance against American invasion. Saddam was in the meantime hiding in a hole.
Majority of Iraqi civilians agree that life in Iraq post-war has become much worse than pre-war. Most wish America and Britain never invaded.
Did you ask the Iraqi people if they wanted liberation before you decided to invade?
"And where was America when Saddam was using mustard gas on the kurds?"
Just like they've been ignoring the genocide that's been going on in Darfur the last 10 years.
Americas "interest" always depends on what financial gain there is to be made. It's never about saving civilians etc. Iraq was all about the oil. At the time Saddam killed the kurds the oil prices were lower, so no need to invade.
So what is your country doing about it? Sitting around watching the BBC and CNN? Personally I wish the US would pull back from policing the world. If you people want to sit and watch it burn, so be it. We will seal our borders and let it all come crumbling down around you while we keep our soldiers safe at home.
You people are never happy with anything. You see something wrong and you wonder why doesn't someone do something about it. When you see someone doing something about it, you want to bitch and moan about what is being done and how you would do it better. Fine. YOU spend YOUR money to solve the world's problems. YOU do something about what you see as "wrong". We will keep our $50 billion a year in foreign aid here to solve our own problems.
the old "people died we can't do this are that"
argument is complete bullshit.When someones dead there dead,there feeling no longer matter there family's feeling about them no longer matter.If there is money there to me made it will be.
As if people are something special people are animals nothing greater then the cattle we slaughter are the animals we cage to look at.The idea that humans are special is just foolish nonsense.
Enjoy you life while you can because this is not how I feel this is how this world acts.Kind of sad no.
So, let me get this straight. The world will burn if America doesn't police it and the US will be a sort of closed borders haven?
@Hicken " because I'm essentially anti-God: I don't like all the suffering I see."
The fact that your "anti-god" because you believe the " GOD causes suffering " bullshit people spout so often and not "unforeseen occurrence" which was said in the bible to actually cause " suffering" shows the type of person you. And the fact that you think that saddam killing them and "the same people bombing their neighbors now" ( Not even true) would justify what US soilders or Marines did to those people further proves my point.Before you call someone a dumbass actually do some research so you could have your own opinion instead going by what other people said.
Don't be immature, you know exactly how that was meant. Since the US has been overtaxed with it's own conflicts in recent years, we have seen just how well the other nations in the UN have taken care of various conflicts. Libya and Syria are two fine examples of countries all standing around screaming "Somebody do something!" and then looking at the US to come to the rescue and when we don't step in, you either screw it all up or stick your heads in the sand. I'm not saying anyone is wrong or at fault for doing this or doing that, but the idea that it's cool to hate the US now and then still act like we should do something about all this chaos and then take even more hate for doing it is simply ridiculous. The world is spending our reputation to pay for it's own piece of mind.
I think you're missing the point, what americans seem to think is that the world expects them to do something, when really no one is actually asking you to do a thing, seriously you have this misguided sense of responsibility that really no one is laying on you. I think its down to the fact that in modern terms america's population has never had to live and fight a war on its own soil. where your population is starving and fighting a war in thier homes. think how decicrated europe was after world war I and II? belgium? france? england were all bombed to shit, civilians. This culture of fostering war in america and policing the world is down to the fact that really your civilian polulation has no idea what its like to be invaded savagely from land, sea and air. the reluctance of teh rest of teh world to use force is evidance that they understand the price paid, not in soldiers lives but incocent peoples, americans almost always fail to grasp that. Its always liberty or death.
@gamesmaster Fortunately for me, I went to school with a few eastern europeans and somalian kids who were both actually in war.I know what you mean.I remember one of my friends saying something similar to what you said.I learned at young age how weird it was that american soilders are stationed in almost every other country yet if another country army was stationed here there would be an uproar.Not only from the government but the citizens too.
Wow too many self righteous people in here especially Eamon.
"Illegal war?" you say, you must of forgotten desert storm where Saddam "illegally" invaded Kuwait or go even further back in when he was using "illegal" tactics against the Iranians in the 1980's?
Do 2 wrongs make a right? Hell no. But I know Britain is not a land of angels either.
War, war never changes. Its all about ideals and showcasing strength. The U.S., less than 2 years prior to the invasion had 2 planes full of explosives, fly into buildings killing many innocents.
IF the same instance happened in the U.K. at such a magnitude - I would bet my bottom dollar the U.K. would react in a similar way especially (at the time) - that there was significant evidence that your enemy was growing and gaining conspirators.
(PS - I have been all over Iraq. Some hate the U.S.; Some love it. The exit plan for the U.S. sucked, and the Iraqi people can only be governed through fear and intimidation. Hopefully one day it will change.)
7/7 bombings in london? do some research, and when iran was fighting iraq, you were pretty happy to stand by and watch then after selling saddam the weapons.. do. some. research...
I don't understand. Saddam did illegally invade Kuwait and you stopped him. The Gulf War was technically legal. You had UN security council backing - therefore it was legal.
However the Iraq War in 2003 was illegal because you acted in aggression without any UN Security Council Resolution. International Law makes it clear that without UNSC consensus, aggression is illegal.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. It was all proven to be a lie. Saddam was not sponsoring Al Qaeda. Iraq had no WMDS. The US lost 3000 lives in 9/11 whilst 100,000 lost their lives for absolutely no justifiable reason. They just happened to be Iraqi and that was their punishment.
The UK experienced much much worse than 9/11 only a couple of decades before. So no, don't try to speculate like that.
"the Iraqi people can only be governed through fear and intimidation"
^ Nice ending there. The words of a fascist.
Still hoping the game comes out been waiting for couple years sad that Konami dropped their deal with atomic games though..
Didn't Sony trademark Shock and awe also at the same time??
Nothing wrong with shooting scum.
It's another media bang-up that stopped it from being released because it coincided with the words "video-game". The moment they take 'Fallujah' out of the title, it'll probably get released without anyone thinking otherwise. They took a gamble that sadly, didn't pay off.
Look at Spec Ops: The Line. It was marketed as a generic military shooter to appeal to the masses, when in fact, it had much more to say. If they'd highlighted some of the horrible things you're forced to do in the game, it could've been canned. Instead, we've been left with a powerful gaming experience that really surprised people.
If its based on facts then its all good, but I highly doubt it will be. So no point of putting Fallujah in it, and just make it another copy & paste military shooter. Play as a American solider/marine whatever, invade a country because there is a bad guy, shoot a couple of people, win the hearts and minds of the people and everyone lives happily ever after.
Or are they going to actually come out with how corrupt governments are and the real reasons behind the war, because if they do that, then day 1 buy.
Even if it was nothing to do with the Iraq war, we do not need another copy & paste military shooter on the market, we have enough.
Actually the game is based on the actual accounts of some of the marines that fought they interviewed them to help make the game. So to say it's just a generic military shooter is off this is history that should be told.
The completely ignorant opinions above and the complete lack thereof of actual facts is the reason why gaming and actual recent events should not mix. A lot of you need to educate yourselves before posting on such topics.
The given reason to invade was wrong but Saddam needed to be taken out.
"Did you ask the Iraqi people if they wanted liberation before you decided to invade?"
LOL, What would you do? send out a mass email to all Iraqis?
But... you can't just send people to war on the basis of a lie.
Where does that end once you start it?
The worse possible thing happened - Civil War (Shia vs Sunni's). There is absolutely no way to combat that except to bring both sides to combine against a common enemy. Being that the Sunni's were in charge for so long, there was no way they were going to give up power.
The shia were not going to share with the Sunni's because A) they were a minority in the country and b) the Sunni's years prior treated the Shiites like second class citizens.
However the US, has an excellent track record rebuilding with countries after major wars.
Look at Japan, Germany, South Korea for example - South Korea.
You forgot Afghanistan after it was used against the Soviets.
Afganistan=Righteous war ( I think we all agree we had reason to catch OBL after 911)
Iraq=Techniacally legal war (Suddam was denying UN inspectors to facilities believed to be making weapons so we had a valid reason although i dont believe invasion was the right path at all). If we cared for Iraqis we wouldve stopped him before all the horrific attacks on his own people. We used an opportune moment to get him out and secure oil. Iraq was cheering as the US rolled into Bagdad, they loved us and wanted that bastard gone. Where we messed up is letting the whole country fall to shit. We disbanded the Army who wouldve kept the peace (most insurgents were the army). We let water get shut off to millions, killed innocents, and mistreated people (and prisoners). This is not how you "liberate" people. Iraq could be a much better free country today if the US cared half a shit for the people instead of the money.
I support our troops who honestly believed they were fighting for freedom but they arent free from responsibility. Ask the nazi's who claimed they were following orders and soldiers cant question. If someone invaded the US (say the UN for us invading other countries) claiming our leader is a criminal i would def grab a gun and make bombs to kill all them sob's. When we do it (say revolutionary war) we are labeled as freedom fighters and patriots. Middle Easterners are labled as terrorists. The only difference is the perspective. No nation should ever invade another except to prevent genocide like the holocaust, rawanda, and all the other horrors.
On the game i dont think its in the best taste. I do think they have the right to make any game no matter how poor of taste or how offensive it might be. Its our freedom and people have got to grow some balls and use it instead of cowering scared of bad press.
I think US should stick to its borders... nothing more...
So pretty much sony was the only one brave enough to even think about publishing it. Gotta give them credit where it's due.
Sony must have thought it would be crap, and didn't take it on.
Welcome to the world of publishing.
I've wanted to see this creation for a long time. I want to see what they have documented and how they may have managed to capture the horror.
Maybe it will be the "We Were Soldiers," of video games. It doesn't cover the war, it just covers only a battle that, alone, should be able to throw us all into a trance.
I want to see this. I want to see this damn game so damn bad.
Edit: Fuck the politics. This isn't about the politics. This is about people.
WOW I really liked this game it looked really good. The whole thing about using dead soldiers names was weird but if the families got the proceeds or a cut of the profits maybe it would have worked. To bad though this game did not come out looked amazing.Ea Had the medal of honor controversy with using the taliban in the game. They switched it to opfor. I wish sony did something like that for six days.
Ya I dont see any difference in other shooters. If anything it brings to light what actually happened rather than the battle being forgotten. Medal Of Honor touches on all of these subjects in a respectful way. I think these people are forgetting that this battle will only be remembered at the time it happened. When a game like this comes out it forces you to think about it and the people that died in the battle.Then you go and look it up on the internet and read about it. This keeps the memories of that war around and is a reminder to people about what soldiers go through and why they die. I think the victims families should have thought about that before they made a big stink. That battle is long forgotten now by average people. If this game came out it would be on everyones minds for a long long time. A daily reminder about the cost of war. A game is the biggest tribute to the memory of the ppl lost in the battle. It brings that battle into daily discussion not brushed under a rug of time to be forgotten by everyday people who dont know about what happened.
Controversy creates Cash, an excellent example would be Sony and rockstar both made cash off the controversial gta/manhunt games back in the ps2 days


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NEW DELHI (AP) — Former Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, who gave a new impetus to improving India's relations with its neighbors during a term in office that lasted less than a year, died Friday after a yearlong illness. He was 92.
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said Gujral died in a hospital near New Delhi, where he was admitted 10 days ago with a lung infection.
Gujral joined India's freedom movement in the early 1940s and was imprisoned in 1942 for opposing British colonial rule.
He spent many years in the Congress party and was a minister under Indira Gandhi's Cabinet. Later, he was India's ambassador to what was then the Soviet Union. An erudite and well-read leader, Gujral quit the Congress party in the mid-1980s to join the Janata Dal, or the Peoples' party.
Gujral became India's 12th prime minister when he headed a shaky coalition government in 1997.
Although his term lasted only 11 months, Gujral made a mark in India's foreign relations by promoting friendly ties with its neighbors, including archrival Pakistan.
Popularly referred to as the "Gujral Doctrine," the policy was one of generosity in trade and other bilateral relations without expecting reciprocity from India's smaller neighbors.
His funeral has been scheduled for Saturday in New Delhi.


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Birthday of the burning boot
Making peace with growing older, on a hike near Patagonia, Arizona.
I knew that how I'd feel about my birthday would depend on what I'd done the day before.
Which is to say that my feelings about turning 50 would depend, in part, on where I woke up.
So when the Tucson-based conservation group Sky Island Alliance asked for volunteers to trek through the hills near Patagonia, Ariz., assessing freshwater springs, I decided to mark my birthday weekend by getting out on the land, listening to mountain water (even a trickle would do) and by sleeping in a tent on a chilly January night.
We met early on a Saturday at the post office parking lot in Patagonia, a tiny, not-yet-hipster town with a fetching 1970s macramé vibe and a restaurant called the Velvet Elvis. Under a weak sun, folks sipped steaming mugs of tea and coffee over topographic maps spread on a truck hood. I knew no one, but I've come to love this ritual – strangers meeting to do citizen science. Despite being the second-driest state in the union, Arizona may have the most springs, and volunteer mapping projects help protect them.
I wasn't grieving turning 50. OK, I was guarded about it. I'd been reading books on aging, trying to make sense of it all. But what's there to make sense of? The earth had completed an orbit around the sun 11 days before, and tomorrow my own orbits would number five decades. So after a bumpy drive I was walking under a big blue sky on the way to Gate Spring, with Louise, Julia, Cliff and Rick.
We found the stream, a thread beneath a low cliff about two stories high, and we followed it to the source: a spring set in hummocky deer grass, dotted with ash and willow and cottonwoods. Mesquites held the higher ground. Bright orange algae swayed in the water, literally going with the flow, I thought.
Louise unpacked her science kit. We mapped the terrain, measured the stream's width, tallied the amount of sunlight that fell on it, assessed the flow rate and water acidity. I looked for scat and tracks, finding none, though there was an explosion of feathers on the ground – the remains of someone's meal. I jotted down the names of trees and respected the persistence of a lonely cholla on the mesquite upland. I watched for birds and saw ravens, listened for birds and heard ravens. Then Cliff pointed out a flock of smaller shapes. It took me several minutes to untangle the little brown jobs from shadows and branches: rufous-crowned sparrows. A better birder would have nailed it in seconds, but working through the identification was satisfying – a way of slowing and shepherding the present moment.
Behind the trees, Ashburn Mountain loomed hefty and squat, like the peaks around my former home in Utah. The passage into 50 was also the passage from my previous decade in northern Utah into this next decade in southern Arizona. Place and time felt bound together, and walking the land this weekend was a way to make a home with both earth and years.
Later, we walked downstream to low cliffs covered with petroglyphs. I clambered up the rocks, coming nose-to-stone with them. Late light ambered the stones and their figures. A three-legged human. Spirals. Snakes. Suns. Someone else's time.
I wondered if there was a petroglyph for acceptance. That night, camping alone, I built a fire, put on my snow boots and drank wine, thinking, "The next decade will be a good one."
Pascal said, "Everything slips away from us and flees with eternal flight." It seems a fear-tinged version of Buddhist impermanence. Why not "flows"? Like a stream in a new place, like a river you said goodbye to that still runs. Tipsy, I swayed like algae in my camp chair. It would be all right, this getting older, because if it weren't, why bother?
I felt a sudden, happy warmth, a glow from within, as it were, till I realized that my right snow boot was on fire. "Jesus!" I said, swearing and prancing away from the fire-ring, clawing at the melting shoe laces till I got the ruined thing off. I belly-laughed. My ruined boot would be one of my birthday presents.
I could fear growing older, as my mother did, retreating into Valium, cola, cigarettes and TV. I could fret over dementia and sloppy organs and brittle bones. One of her gifts to me was to show how not to age. I'll do the things we're supposed to do: Eat well, exercise, learn, create, stay connected, keep my shoes out of the fire. But I can do them as bulwarks or as joys. The choice is mine.
I slept well that night in the tent along the dirt road to Gardner Canyon. When I woke on my birthday, it was cold and mostly clear, not unlike the day in Indiana, when, my father tells me, I first arrived.
Christopher Cokinos is the author of Bodies, of the Holocene and Held as Earth.


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The dolls carry a racist message, and even if some dark skinned children are given dark skinned dolls, a lot of them are white are light. The beads' message as stated:
"Black = Sin. All have sinned, and the punishment for sin is death
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By Aung Hla Tun
YANGON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama plans to visit Myanmar on November 19 and meet both his counterpart, Thein Sein, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, a senior government source in the Southeast Asian country said on Thursday.
Obama's visit would be further strong endorsement by the international community of Myanmar's transformation under the quasi-civilian government of Thein Sein, who took office in March 2011 to end half a century of military rule.
Obama would be the first serving U.S. president to visit Myanmar, also known as Burma.
"So far as I understand, President Obama is coming to Myanmar on November 19 and he will meet both President U Thein Sein and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, of course on separate occasions," the government official told Reuters, using honorifics and asking not to be identified as he is not authorized to speak to the media.
Neither the government nor the U.S. embassy would confirm the date.
The United States suspended sanctions on Myanmar this year in recognition of the political and economic changes under way, and many U.S. companies are looking at starting operations in the country, located between China and India, with abundant resources and low-cost labor.
In November 2011, Hillary Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit in more than 50 years.
Obama has sought to consolidate ties and reinforce its influence across Asia in what U.S. officials have described as a policy "pivot" toward the region as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down.
Myanmar grew close to China during decades of isolation, reinforced by Western sanctions over its poor human rights record, but is now seeking to expand relations with the West.
Obama met Suu Kyi during her visit to the United States in September. President Thein Sein was also there in September for the General Assembly of the United Nations but the two men did not meet.
Suu Kyi, who spent years in detention under the military as the figurehead of the pro-democracy movement and was elected to parliament in April, will be in India just before the mooted date for Obama's visit to Myanmar.
"She is leaving for India on a week-long visit on November 12 but I am not sure when exactly she will be back," Nyan Win, an official of her National League for Democracy party, told Reuters.
Obama is coming to Southeast Asia to attend meetings in Cambodia centered around an annual summit of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is usually extended to take in leaders of partner countries.
Preliminary details for this year show the event will run from November 15 to November 20 and the Cambodian government has said Obama will be in the capital, Phnom Penh, on November 18. The U.S. administration has not confirmed that.
The heads of government of China, Japan, Russia and other countries are also expected in Cambodia for the meetings.
Thai media has said Obama may also visit Thailand, like Myanmar an ASEAN member, while he is in Asia, but that could not be confirmed.
(Writing by Alan Raybould; Editing by Robert Birsel)


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Anatole Sergeivitch Fetisoff was born April 14, 1924, in Moscow in revolutionary Russia to Sergei Petrovich Fetisoff and Klavdia Ivanovna Turkin. After his father was imprisoned twice and then released, Tolya and his parents fled across Siberia when he was 5½ years old, narrowly escaping to China.
Tony, as he was then called, grew up in Shanghai attending Public Thomas Hanbury School for Boys, a British boarding school, on scholarship.
After enduring the Japanese occupation during the war, "Tony" came to the U.S. in 1947 to attend UC Berkeley. He followed his father's footsteps into alcoholism, and dropped out of Cal to drink and sell encyclopedias. He never did graduate, but he was always a good a salesman!
At 32, Tolya joined AA and succeeded in becoming sober. He started and led AA meetings throughout the community, including San Quentin prison. Perhaps this was the beginning of the spiritual journey that led Tolya to Catholic retreats, connection with the Rajneeshis, study with Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche at Nyingma Institute in Berkeley for seven years, and throughout more than 40 years the studies of Gurdjieff that sustained him.
Tolya enjoyed a successful business insurance career for 30 years, the majority of these years with Bankers Life Nebraska. He earned his CLU and many honors, including the National Quality Award before turning to a more spiritual quest.
Tolya is survived by his two sons, Jeff and Jay, from his long marriage to his wife, Amy. Jay and his wife, Robin, and their son, Darren, live in Berkeley, Calif., and son Jeff lives in Stinson Beach, Calif.
Tolya's second wife, Betty, opened his heart, and he remained close to three of her five sons as well: Joe, Gyani and Peter.
Tolya met his wife Jane at a retreat center in 1979, and it was love at first sight. They made a life together in the Bay Area for over 20 years; her daughters Laurie and Lisa calling him their "adopted" father.
In 2002 they moved to Hood River, Ore., to be closer to Jane's daughter Laurie, son-in-law David VanCott and their children, Ella and Nelson. Daughter Lisa Nelson lives in Maputo, Mozambique, with her husband Aaron Proman and their three children, Amre, Adam and Brooke.
Tolya and Jane enjoyed a full life together the last nine years in Hood River. Tolya volunteered with SMART at Westside School, cleaned books with the Friends of the Library, led study groups, wrote prolifically about his adventures in China, continued his drawing, loving to collaborate with others, and telling his stories. His family and many friends will miss the twinkle in his eye, bushy eyebrows and his great sense of humor. He was well loved and will be greatly missed.
Tolya decided to enter hospice five weeks ago, and he eased into death surrounded by many friends and family, taking the time to say goodbye and to appreciate life before he went with a gathering in his home filled with live music.
He died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. A service was held at the Rockford Grange on Saturday, Dec. 3. Unitarian-Universalist Minister Cathy Rion and Venerable Thich Minh Tinh Kozen Sampson of the Trout Lake Abbey officiated.
Donations in remembrance of Tolya can be made to the Tolya Fund in care of Mid-Columbia UU Fellowship, P.O. Box 521, Hood River, OR 97031. Contributions will benefit the Fellowship, the Trout Lake Abbey and Occupy Hood River.
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