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Corporation Search: A tool to search federal agency websites for press releases and documents related to enforcement actions against a company or individual.
Corporations that have deserted the US
for tax purposes
Products & stores supporting the right
Becoming and being an activist
Organizing mass transfer to credit unions
How to use your smartphone in a protest
Cellphone guide for protesters
The rise of solar cooperatives
The community land trust alternative
How to organize a anti-corporate personhood drive
States and towns that have taken action against Citizens United
Corporation Search: A tool to search federal agency websites for press releases and documents related to enforcement actions against a company or individual.
Employee ownership and co-ops: key to a new economy
How progressives can use Twitter
How progressives can use Facebook
Labor law concerning social media
How to answer people like rush Limbaugh
The non-profit blues: Can the revolution be funded?
The care and feeding of non-profit boards
What the Situationists could tell the Occupiers
198 methods of non-violent action
Defend yourself against tear gas
Cellphone guide for protesters
Global nonviolent action database
A guide to your public photography rights
Cleveland congregations join in activism
How to stage a boycott at your school
How to keep Wall Street really occupied without living in a tent
Where change really comes from
Why it's so hard to make good things happen
Where is the counterculture when we need it?
Building little republics in a failing empire
The quiet storm: blowin' in the wind of decay
Nothing good happens in Washington unless good people outside of Washington are mobilized, energized, and organized to make it happen.- Robert Reich
Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. He has not come; he never will come. I would not lead you out if I could for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. -- Eugene V. Debs
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. -- Edmund Burke
What you do is of little significance. But it is very important that you do it - Gandhi
Activism is my rent for living on this planet - Alice Walker
Community organizing in radical times
An interview with Saul Alinsky
FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Howard Zinn's collected speeches
Jane Adams: A new biography
Ten ways the occupy movement changes everything
The establishment that no longer is
Living in a dysfunctional family called America
Change the culture; the politics will follow
America has to learn how to manage its decline
Confronting post-political disorder
How communities can take on government and corporations
A biography of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers
Learning from the Sixties: Memoir of an Organizer
This Changes Everything: The meaning and importance of the occupy movement
The Man Who Never Died: A bio of labor organizer Joe Hill including evidence that he was framed
Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite. . . Through his brilliant analysis, psychologist Bruce Levine explains the process by which mainstream America has become demoralized and docile, how those in power maintain that power, and what it will take to turn things around."--Jim Gottstein, President/CEO Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World by Steve Crawshaw and John Jackson
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture by Paul Krassner . Krassner, a long-time contributor to the now deceased print edition of the Progressive Review, is out with an expanded edition of his memoirs. . . .
ON GANDHI'S PATH: BOB SWANN'S WORK FOR PEACE AND COMMUNITY ECONOMICS by Stephanie Mills. Robert Swann was a self-taught economist, a tireless champion of decentralism, and the father of the relocalization movement. A conscientious war resistor imprisoned for his beliefs, Bob Swann engaged in lifelong nonviolent direct action against war, racism, and economic inequity. His legacy is a vision of a life-affirming, alternative economy of peace founded on innovations in land and monetary reform.
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India. How Gandhi became Gandhi
BUILDING POWERFUL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World, by Michael Jacoby Brown, Long Haul Press, $19.95.
CALLING ALL RADICALS: How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy, by Gabriel Thompson, Nation Books, $14.95.
TOOLS FOR RADICAL DEMOCRACY: How to Organize for Power in Your Community, by Joan Minieri and Paul Getsos, Chardon Press, $29.95.
Taking Back our Neighborhoods: Building communities that work, Mary Wachter, Cynthia Tinsley. A step-by-step plan for creating a more pleasant, less violent neighborhood.
The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits, John McKnight. Considers how the efforts of "experts" may in fact be destroying neighborhoods; celebrates the ability of neighborhoods to heal from within. Focuses on four "counterfeiting" aspects of society: professionalism, medicine, human service systems, and the criminal justice system. Has reflections on Christian service and its transformation into carelessness.
Going Local: Creating self-reliant communities in a global age, Michael Shuman. Many communities are handing out corporate welfare to encourage businesses to relocate to their areas. Presents positive alternatives: (1) invest in locally-owned businesses like credit unions, cooperatives, community land trusts, municipally owned utilities, small worker-owned firms, community development corporations, local share-holder owned firms; (2) focus on import-replacing rather than export-led, i.e. reduce dependence on distant sources of energy, water, food, and basic materials; (3) eliminate many subsidies and change tax and trade laws. A challenge to conservative and liberals alike. I have ordered this one myself.
From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development, Gregory MacLeod. The Mondragon cooperatives of the Basque region of Spain grow out of the teaching of the social justice doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. In the 1950s, five people joined together in a cooperative to make paraffin stoves in a garage. Today, the Mondragon cooperatives have more than 30,000 owner-employees in over 100 different enterprises, doing everything from manufacturing machine tools to distributing groceries.
Organizing the South Bronx. Jim Rooney, Nathan Glazer. A study of the process by which the residents of an impoverished urban neighborhood were educated and organized to fight the city government for vacant land and build low-cost, owner-occupied housing. Such organizing, mainly working through traditional churches, is rapidly growing in the US and has close relatives in Latin America. Pricey, but very interesting.
Organizing for Social Change: A manual for activists in the 1990s, Kim Bobo, et al. A comprehensive manual for grassroots organizers working for social, political, environmental, and economic change at the local, state, and national level.
The Activist's Handbook: A primer for the 1990s and beyond, Randy Shaw. A true handbook, has detailed examples of action in a wide variety of areas - crime prevention, affordable housing, ecology, and etc. Analyzes campaigns that succeeded and some that failed.
Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing, Linda Stout, Howard Zinn. Uses an organizing model with seven principles: focus on social change, work across lines of race and class, diversity of outreach and training, linking local and national issues, developing personal empowerment and organizational power, flexibility to meet changing circumstances. Intriguing.
Building Communities from the Inside Out: A path toward finding and mobilizing a community's assets, John Kretzmann and John McKnight. Studies successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of US neighborhoods.
Let the People Decide: Neighborhood organizing in America (Social Movements Past and Present), Robert Fisher. Updated and revised, studies the period 1886 to the 1980s
Fight Back: How you and your neighbors can take action to improve your community, Dennis King. An investigative reporter takes would-be community activists through the basic steps.
Rules for Radicals: A practical primer for realistic radicals, by Saul Alinsky. If you can only buy one book on community organizing, get this one. He writes from an viewpoint of left ideology (but non-marxist), yet his action principles transcend narrow sectarian politics and can, with proper adaptation and consideration of the real world situation you are in, be used in many different contexts, for both faith-based and secular organizing activities. Not for the faint of heart, but for those who are ready to go to work. The style is easy to read, you may be surprised at some of his conclusions. Read this book and you will understand more about the success of groups as divergent as the "religious right" and neighborhood community development groups.
BUILDING POWERFUL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World, by Michael Jacoby Brown, Long Haul Press, $19.95.
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House Democrats join right in anti-protest bill
Police lobbying for anti-protest legislation
Why March for Our Lives could be very important
Why counter protests don't work
Lawmakers across the US are finding ways to turn protesting into a crime
A new wave of left wing militants
Trump inauguration protestors could face 70-80 year sentences
United Church of Christ to build a partnership with like-minded people of 350.org
Resist 365: A new activist organization
Oklahoma approves rabid anti-protest bill
What we can learn from the South
Anti-Trumpers borrow from the Tea Party (which borrowed from Saul Alinsky)
Rebuilding America: Rev William Barber on the moral approach
New group recruits 1200 Millennials to run for office
Teens get a bike route in Nashville
Students join the national anthem no stand movement
Moral Mondays movement goes national
Fast food workers pull off strike in 236 cities
Hipsters; The dead end of western civilization
New vs. old civil rights groups tackled on net neutrality
How teachers' unions can change
Baltimore youth organize against incinerator
America's most underrated movement
Students rebel against conventional economics
When the bad congeals and the good scatters
The art of the counter-boycott
Students for a Democratic Society is alive again
Ferguson protestors in training
San Fran activists block Israel ship unnloading
Tom Hayden making his archives public, including 22,000 pages of FBI files
High school students walk out to protest plan to eliminate protest from history courses
NYC has to pay over a half million to Occupiers
Students from across the University of North Carolina system have taken to the streets in recent months to demand an education system that they can graduate from without taking on crushing student debt.
Getting the free speech movement going 50 years ago
McDonalds workers in New York, California and Michigan filed class action suits against the chain, as well as several franchises, for wage theft violations. The cases accuse the fast-food giant of systematically stealing employees wages by forcing them to work off the clock, shaving hours off their time cards and not paying them overtime, among other practices, according to a press release by the workers lawyers.
Church and labor come together
The activist weakness of the Internet
Major whistleblowing organization broken into
US psychologists' association rejects ban on aiding military interrogations
2004 GOP convention produces largest protest settlement in history
How corporations try to crush activism
Student leader elected to Chile's Congress
U.N. urges end of U.S. embargo on Cuba for 22nd time
NY's City College uses force to silence student protest
Bernie Sanders helps to organize the south
Word: The limits of leadership
How a hacker and a rapper came together to help reduce murders in New Orleans over beefs
Passings: Saul Landau
What protests in Turkey, Egypt and Brazil have in common
Progressive activism bubbling up
Report: Hard times for fund raisers
Local Heroes: Retired Philly Police
Captain (And Occupy Wall Street Protester) Wont Take Off
His Uniform
Top social change documentaries of 2012
FBI failed to warn Occupiers of planned assasination attempt
A journalist on living in the Occupy movement
Amnesty International staff and management in major struggle
Sandy remakes the Occupy movement
Police went undercover to spy on Occupy Austin
UAW endorses a Green Party candidate
The Spanish anti-austerity movement
Interview with peace activist David Swanson
Senator Wyden wants warrent for GPS tracking
Issues behind the Hyatt boycott
Amnesty International USA's new politics stirs opposition
Growing interest in worker ownership
Interview with Green Party veep nominee
Philadelphia mayor denying water to Occupiers in heat wave
Father Berrigan still on the case at 92
Tourism as a tool of social change
Suspended for civil disobedience, students create their own 'freedom school'
Vermont nuclear battle shows why states rights are important
Vermont says no to Citizens United
Good list of articles on the continuing problems in the Gulf
Community radio poised for big comeback
Colorado GOP assembly and Democratic convention vote to legalize pot
The city that shows how to fight hunger
Another reason to boycott movies
Bank divestment movement growing
The attack on the Postal Service
Why abused America has such a hard time fighting back
Churches move millions from Wall Street
Slogan of the day: Don't Iraq Iran
The case for crashing the justice system
POGO adds 40 new firms to its federal contractor misconduct database
Grad students campaign to unionize
Nader calls for $10 minimum wage
Youth curfew killed in Maryland
Current TV: new media hope for progressives?
Big nonprofit suddenly stops operations
Nearly one billion people belong to (and own) cooperatives
Cash mobs helping local businesses
Ran across a nifty little action device used by Left Action in the wake of the healthcare bill. Senator DeMint had argued that the GOP would defeat the bill and that it would be President Obama's "Waterloo." So, after the bill passed, Left Action got its supporters to post the ABBA song "Waterloo" - using direct links to YouTube - over and over again on DeMint's Facebook page.
Mainstream media pushes false notion that progressive protests are violent
New torture device to use against protesters
Nurses' union pushing tax on financial transactions
Ten ways the occupy movement changes everything
The fight to end corporate personhood
Volunteering gets you more sex
We told you about the British library asking its patrons to remove all its books to protest its potential closing. Well, it worked. The 'Wot No Books' campaign removed all 16,000 with librarians checking out as many 380 books an hour. The Guardian quoted one user as saying, "The library is the one place where you find five-year-olds and 90-year-olds together, and it's where young people learn to be proper citizens'. It's crazy even to consider closing it.'"
The non-profit blues: Can the revolution be funded?
Eric Tang, Post Capitalist Project - Non-profits, also known as non-governmental organizations, are often stripped down to their barest and most essential nature as an IRS tax category: the 501(c)3. This official registration with the government grants the accreditation needed to receive government funding and funds through private philanthropic foundations. In exchange, the grassroots non-profit must adopt legally binding by-laws, elect a board of directors modeled after corporations, and open board minutes and fiscal accounting to the public. Previously considered anathema to the grassroots Left, these practices are accepted governing principles of many community organizations. . .
Years ago the Left made a decision to go down a certain road towards non-profit incorporation. There were some victories but also a good number of political casualties, according to those who took part in that turn. Yet open dialogue on the complex challenges posed by the non-profit has often taken a back seat to the immediate need of getting important work done. Resultantly, a new generation of leaders inherit the unresolved dilemmas.
New activists in community, labor, and justice struggles are soon made aware that they bear heavy burdens. They must carry forth movements that ended Jim Crow, created environmental justice, and inspired mass anti-war protests. The young organizer can take a course that covers Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the United Farm Workers and learn that all union members, even the lowest paid, contributed regular membership dues. Chavez insisted, "this is the only way the workers will 'own' the organization." Young activists will inevitably take a hard look at grassroots organizing that lives on foundation grants, hires a development director to raise funds to free others to do the real work, and adopts management systems which are foreign, if not alienating, to the values and skills-set of the grassroots base. Contradictions will be analyzed:
Why do we apply for a police permit to protest the police? Because if we break the law, our board is liable.
Why can't we lobby? Because that would violate our 501(c)3 status and the conditions of our grant.
Why not just take the streets? Because insurance doesn't cover it. . .
Indeed, the majority of organizational leaders I've sat down with over the past year and a half-whose work ranges from defeating the onset of neoliberal policies in public schools, to the ongoing struggle against police violence, to defending the rights of immigrant communities-have experienced, to varying degrees, an onset of the NP blues. They are concerned about the ways in which the priorities of philanthropy tamper with the organizing work, or how NP governance makes impossible the principle of unity which calls for youth and working class people at the center. Worse still is how hiring and promotion policies have led to competition and individualism among the ranks.
An interesting interview with Nelson Mandela appears in Time Magazine in which Mandela lays out ten principles of leadership. Number 3 particularly struck us because it is one that seems to have been forgotten in an age governed by corporate executive systems of control rather than the community organizer's rules of getting things done:
No. 3: Lead from the back - and let others believe they are in front. Mandela loved to reminisce about his boyhood and his lazy afternoons herding cattle. "You know," he would say, "you can only lead them from behind." . . .
As a boy, Mandela was greatly influenced by Jongintaba, the tribal king who raised him. When Jongintaba had meetings of his court, the men gathered in a circle, and only after all had spoken did the king begin to speak. The chief's job, Mandela said, was not to tell people what to do but to form a consensus. "Don't enter the debate too early," he used to say.
"During the time I worked with Mandela, he often called meetings of his kitchen cabinet at his home in Houghton, a lovely old suburb of Johannesburg. He would gather half a dozen men, Ramaphosa, Thabo Mbeki (who is now the South African President) and others around the dining-room table or sometimes in a circle in his driveway. Some of his colleagues would shout at him - to move faster, to be more radical - and Mandela would simply listen. When he finally did speak at those meetings, he slowly and methodically summarized everyone's points of view and then unfurled his own thoughts, subtly steering the decision in the direction he wanted without imposing it. The trick of leadership is allowing yourself to be led too. "It is wise," he said, "to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea."
Your editor was recently on a local Pacifica station program during which a participant suggested that public opposition to the Iraq war had been minimal. Longtime DC activist Jenefer Ellingston writes to note that "in February 2003 20 million people around the world demonstrated against Bush's plan to invade Iraq. . . probably the first protest before an invasion. It was the largest anti-war march in the history of anti-war demonstrations. Not just several million in America - In DC, NYC, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles . . . and smaller cities, but every capitol in Europe. Not thousands, millions.
"It's possible that one reason the peace movement is not visible in large numbers is: It's too expensive. That's why protests have been organized in cities across America - barely mentioned and rarely covered by the media. Our last demonstrations took place in 600 cities. Suppose there were 1,000 people in each of those 600 cities . . . that's a lot of people."
RURAL VOTES - Texas Republicans have worked overtime to make it harder for key Democratic voting groups to vote and be represented fairly. For the Prairie View A&M University precincts, they put the early-polling place more than seven miles from the school. So what did the students do? They shut down the highway as they marched seven miles to cast their votes on the first day of early voting.
HOWARD ZINN, THE PROGRESSIVE - What does it take to bring a turnaround in social consciousness - from being a racist to being in favor of racial equality, from being in favor of Bush's tax program to being against it, from being in favor of the war in Iraq to being against it? We desperately want an answer, because we know that the future of the human race depends on a radical change in social consciousness.
It seems to me that we need not engage in some fancy psychological experiment to learn the answer, but rather to look at ourselves and to talk to our friends. We then see, though it is unsettling, that we were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness - embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television.
[NEWS of February's first international conference on gross national happiness has only just reached us from Bhutan.]
[From Hungarian Ambassador Andras Simonyi's speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on November 8]
ANDRAS SIMONYI - I was four when Russians tanks rolled down the streets of Budapest. . . I was just a kid and I didn't really understand what was happening. But it did leave a strong mark in my mind. I must say that I had a great family - a great father, mother, a brother and a sister, who helped preserve a life for me. That was pretty much like yours; they were very protective. This family took me to Denmark in 1960 where my father was trade representative, I had the luck to go to an American school - that's probably why I picked up some English and Danish, and I had the honor to just live the ordinary life of an ordinary guy on the streets of Copenhagen. . .
While I was in Denmark, particularly in '66 and '67, like the Danes embraced the rock music at its best, like the Danes got to know Cream, Jimmy Hendrix, Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and you name it, I got to know them as well. I was listening to this kind of music day and night. I didn't know what the underlying message was and I didn't care. I just thought this was something that I had to embrace.
In 1965, I bought with the help of my father my first guitar. . . It was a great guitar, it's a copy of a Fender Jaguar. I had a great time until in '67 we moved back to Budapest. Budapest at that time was not a very funny place. It was a pretty tough, dark, and gloomy place. It was just ten years after the 1956 revolution which was broken by the Soviets. Still, society was quietly and slowly coming alive. But it was a very tough place to be, especially for me who'd got used to freedom - freedom in the way I dressed, freedom in the way I communicated, freedom in the way I talked to people, and freedom in the way I picked up my music.
The music that I thought so much of was simply not available in Hungary. I stayed a year with an aunt and uncle of mine who turned out to be a very conservative communist. And honestly, they didn't get it when I started to explain about Good Vibrations and the Four Tops and the Spencer Davis group. She didn't understand. And my brother and I, we had a big old Bakelite radio that I got from my father so we could listen to Western radio stations and we used to listen to that at night. Listening to that music at night was very important to us to keep track of what was going on in the West. One night as we were listening to some real nice stuff, the old man came in, very angry, and took away the radio. Next day we asked for an audience and we said "Sorry for having listened to this music so loud," and he said "The problem was not that it was loud. The problem was that you were listening to a Western radio station." That was something that really hurt us - I was 14 and my brother was 16 - being told you're not allowed to listen to music on a Western radio station that we always used to listen to. That was real tough. And we got to understand very quickly that this Hungary is not very similar to the Denmark where we used to live.
Still, you had to keep going and it was so important for me, my continuing to keep in touch with the music scene in the West. It kept us sane and kind of made us part of the free world. We would listen to Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, and above all, to Radio Luxemburg. We used to listen to this stuff at night and as we listened to this radio, as we listened to Radio Luxemburg, we were suddenly out of our bodies and our soul was part of the free world. We would join our peers in the West. We would be part of the scene that was so natural for all of you here in the United States or in England or Denmark or Holland or elsewhere in the free world.
As I returned to Hungary, I was a good student. I don't know if I was smart but I always had good grades and that was in order to get things out the way so I could do my music. I did a lot of practicing, formed my own band, and got in touch with the Hungarian music scene which, strangely enough, started to grow immediately after the rock explosion in the West. The instruments were lousy, so I was a cool guy, I had great instruments. Instruments in general were no good but some guys somehow managed to get great instruments and they produced some good sound. And it was so good to be a part of this. That's where I met my old-time very best friend, Gabor Presser, who was my mentor, was my great friend - he's still my best friend, and he's still a great musician. . .
Of course, there was no records to be had. Here, you heard Led Zeppelin on the radio, the next day you walked into a record shop and bought it. In Hungary, we couldn't do that. Therefore, when we got hold of records, it was so much valuable. It was much more meaningful to us - it was not just something to consume, to buy. It wasn't just owning it; it was way beyond that. No one Hungarian had all the records, but somehow Hungarians together managed to get all the records. We would copy these records. I hope the copyright guys don't listen now because, honestly, whatever the reason, they would have clamped down on the Hungarians copying this stuff. But we would walk into this record store that would make one single copy of a record and sell it to us. We would tape it and then spread it five hundred times. That was kind of nice. That was really important to us. One way or another, we were very much part of the scene. . .
I created my own band and it was kind of a strange band. . . We used to play Cream in '67, '68 and '69. I would do Rory Gallagher, I would do some early Fleetwood Mac stuff. It was really very special because I'd always thought this was at the avant-garde of rock music. In 1969 however a band led by Stevie Winwood called Traffic, which I loved so much, came to Budapest. I had no idea how they got there and it was the strangest thing because I would know all the Traffic tunes by heart, you name it and I could sing it and I try to play it. "Mr. Fantasy" and "Medicated Goo," or whatever. . .
With the help of my father, I figured out where Traffic would be staying, which hotel, and after the concert I'd hang out at the hotel and Stevie Winwood shows up and it is like, I don't know, may I say it is like God showing up? And I started talking to him and we had some words and he said I'm sorry, I got to go, but I figured out that maybe it would be a good idea that I act as a guide for the rest of the group. So I took Jim Capaldi, the drummer, and Albert, the road manager down to Lake Balaton - which, by the way, is a place you've to got visit sometime - and we hung out for a couple of days. I was very really into something very special, talking to these people. That left a lasting mark on my attitude to music. Here is what happened: A few weeks ago my guys came back and said Stevie Winwood is playing in Washington this weekend. We got hold of Stevie Winwood and I went down to see the concert, a great concert. We started talking about what happened 35 years ago. He said "Yes, I remember. I didn't go to the Lake with you because I had to go and listen to some gipsy music." And I said "Steve, how did you get [to Hungary]?" He said "I don't know because we didn't go to any of the other East European communist countries." "Can you give me an explanation?" He said "Call Chris Blackwell." So I called Chris Blackwell, who was then their manager and I asked, "Chris, what the hell was Traffic doing in Hungary?" He said, "Look, I think you had some opening in '68 because no one else would take us in but Hungarians were crazy with this music and somehow the authorities allowed this to happen."
I didn't know then, and it didn't click, that was exactly the couple of years when the system lightened up a little, culture lightened up a little, economy lightened up a little, and of course Hungarians embraced as much as they could from the free world in this short opening which only lasted until 1972. But it was also something interesting that I have to tell you, and it didn't click before I talked to Steve Winwood: Hungarians didn't understand the text [of any of the rock tunes]. And I just suddenly realized that it was not the text but the power of music, the power of a couple of guys standing on stage with a Stratocaster, with a Fender bass, a guy playing on organ, a drummer playing a Gretsch drum set, that really made Hungarians think this was something very important.
So while the authorities tried to limit through the propaganda machinery the impact of this on Hungarians and obviously also on other Central Eastern Europeans, there was no way to stop the onslaught of the message of freedom through rock and roll. That was the most powerful instrument to convey the message to my generation about the free world. I do believe today, what the satellite and VHS was for the '80s and what the Internet is today, was rock and roll and rock music in the '60s and the early '70s. It was about sending a strong message of freedom through the Berlin Wall to us who were living behind the Iron Curtain. . .
We wanted to make music come as close to the best of the best in the free world as we could. . . And the funny thing was - you should understand that the lyrics were censored. We always had to scratch out something. We always had to change the words. When we spoke about the freedom of man or the freedom of the world, they would put something foolish into the text. They didn't realize that the music itself was more powerful than the text. They didn't realize that the real power lay in the music. So therefore my fellow musicians, those who came after us, they tried and expanded our little freedoms as much as they could. Sometimes they would hurt us, sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes they would "understand" what we were doing, sometimes not. . .
In 1972, I was going to defect from Hungary. I said, this is not the world I want to live in. I remember in 1972, I was standing in the railway station in Copenhagen and I called my mother and I said "Mom, I am not coming home." And she said "Son, okay, you're not coming home, but then I and Dad and your brother and sister will not be able to live the lives we want them to live." So I went back. And frankly, I didn't regret it because in 1974 I met Nada, my wife. That was a big deal and I think I enchanted her by starting to - I remember we were sitting in a bus and I started explaining to her about the new George Harrison hit "Bangladesh" and, you know, I described it to her from all angles. I think I was successful because she changed a lot through my convincing.
But I also want to tell you that in the meanwhile there was a hardening of the system and two guys from the band Locomotive GT defected to the United States. The drummer [Jozsef (Joe) Laux], and my great friend and hero the guitarist Tamas Barta. The saddest of all stories is that Tamas arrived in the United States and figured out that he will not be the great star that he used to be in Hungary and he will not be able to make it here and he ended up being shot in Los Angeles. It's a sad story but he really never was able to leave Hungary spiritually. Wanted to embrace so much the free world, the West. And this collision of the lack of freedom and wanting to be a Hungarian led to his fate. I miss him still. . .
In 1988. . . Amnesty International was on a world tour, and that was the year when I knew the Wall will be torn down and we will put an end to the Cold War and Hungary will soon be free. Amnesty International was brought to Hungary by Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, and Bruce Springsteen. Just imagine the powerful message of Bruce Springsteen singing "Born in the USA" at the stadium in Budapest and 80,000 Hungarian kids roaring and saying, yes, we're together. That was the year when I was 100 percent convinced that [communism] will be over soon. My friends in the West reacted in disbelief, but I was right. What stronger message than the message that came through rock music can you imagine?
In 1989, the world moved on and Hungary was free again. You might wonder, what next? My personal life, the music that I embraced all my life has played an incredible role of since. I have a very easy rapport with my friends and colleagues in the West, primarily in the United States. I got to know friends who are working for the U.S. government when we suddenly figured out that we were listening to the same kind of music. I name one song, you name the band. That's how I met your ambassador to Moscow [Alexander Vershbow], who used to be my friend and colleague in NATO, and he used to be a rock musician when he was a kid, still plays. And as we grew closer, as Hungary started to move into NATO, the closer this friendship grew. We jammed together and this really made our friendship close. We both agree that this is something that has to continue to glue us together.
I believe that rock music is not imperial, not imperialistic. Mozart used to belong to the Austrians. Does anyone ask anywhere in the world - in China, in the United States, in Brazil, in Moscow - where Mozart came from? You couldn't care less. The music that Traffic played, that Cream played, that Jimmy Hendrix played, that "Skunk" Baxter played belongs not to the United States or to the UK any longer - it belongs all of us. . . Rock and roll music is universal; it is a universal language. It's easy to embrace. It speaks to the people. That is why it was so useful and meaningful in penetrating communist society. Because it was understandable for all the peoples. It was not aristocratic, it belonged to all of us, the man on the street - the little guy who was walking on the streets of Budapest and the little guy who was walking on the streets of Warsaw or Prague. Just like the little guy walking in the streets of New York, Los Angeles, or Cleveland.
Try, if you haven't tried it, the excitement of strumming a Stratocaster. I think that's the closest you can get to heaven before you really get there. Rock is about freedom, rock is believing in our freedom and the freedom of others. I reject the attacks that I hear on rock and roll music. . .
UNITED STATES - SAM SMITH, WHY BOTHER? - In rock and rap -- as in blues and folk music earlier -- people found that what they couldn't achieve could still be sung or shouted about. And central to this sound was not just a message but who was allowed to deliver it. For example, the music webzine, Fast 'n' Bulbous, described punk this way:
"Punk gives the message that no one has to be a genius to do it him/herself. Punk invented a whole new spectrum of do-it-yourself projects for a generation. Instead of waiting for the next big thing in music to be excited about, anyone with this new sense of autonomy can make it happen themselves by forming a band. Instead of depending on commercial media, from the big papers and television to New Musical Express and Rolling Stone, to tell them what to think, anyone can create a fanzine, paper, journal or comic book. With enough effort and cooperation they can even publish and distribute it. Kids were eventually able to start their own record labels too. Such personal empowerment leads to other possibilities in self-employment and activism.
To move from challenging record companies to taking on the World Trade Organization was not an easy or obvious journey, but clearly some of the attitudes that made the anti-globalization protests possible were formed in clubs and not at conferences. . .
By the end of the 1990s, an unremittingly political band, Rage Against the Machine, had sold more than 7 million copies of its first two albums and its third, The Battle of Los Angele, (released on Election Day 1999), sold 450,000 copies its first week. Nine months later, there would be a live battle of Los Angeles as the police shut down a RATM concert at the Democratic Convention.
Throughout the 1990s, during a nadir of activism and an apex of greed, RATM both raised hell and made money. In 1993 the band, appearing at Lollapalooza III in Philadelphia, stood naked on stage for 15 minutes without singing or playing a note in a protest against censorship. . . In 1997, well before most college students were paying any attention to the issue, Rage's Tom Morello was arrested during a protest against sweatshop labor. Throughout this period no members of the band were invited to discuss politics with Ted Koppel or Jim Lehrer. But a generation heard them anyway.
PROTESTS, like everything else in life, can become pretty sterile. But browsing an online history of punk in DC, we came across a fascinating description of the role of local punk rockers in the anti-apartheid movement including drumming the hell out of the South African embassy. Go to the site, click on enter and then find the embassy on the map.
MICHAEL ALBERT, who advocates what he calls participatory economics, has some important thoughts on why current day social movements don't do better in this interview. It's a point your editor has been trying to make for sometime, as in his 1993 book "Shadows of Hope:"Go back to the 60s and Ralph Nader was about the only public interest lawyer in town who wore a suit and his wasn't pressed. Today, many advocacy groups have drifted into the lawyerly style and pace of the establishment they are supposedly trying to change. They have, in their own way, become capital institutions, part of the ritualized, status-conscious, and very safe, trench warfare of the city."
BUT IT'S ALASKA AFTER ALL. About 375 clothed people formed an S.O.S. and a peace sign in a snow covered hayfield near Fairbanks, to speak out against the threatened war in Iraq. The sign, created by a diverse group of peace activists and church members, was 100 feet tall and 250 feet wide. For an incredible collection of similar protests around the world go to Baring Witness DORIS PFALMER PFOTO
SYDNEY INDY MEDIA - There's been discussion in geek circles about using the idea of flash mobs in protests. The idea is to get a large number of protestors to spread out over the target area and blanket it for a certain time. Rather than gathering a couple of hundred people outside the town hall, put a couple of people on each of the street corners in the central city, each with a placard and flyers. This way the protest reaches many more people directly, and in a more approachable way - one or two people are not as intimidating as a big group, and are more able to use the space without breaking any laws.
Media impact will most probably come indirectly. The first protest might get direct media, as they chase about trying to find out what's going on. After that I think it's more likely to be viral - people telling others about what they saw and the flyer they got. I think this is actually more useful to groups looking for an educational campaign rather than to apply media pressure to a politician, for instance.
If the police do ask someone to move on, they use the Critical Mass technique of moving on, and making the movement part of the protest. Simply move to the next corner, and if it's already occupied, those people move back to the first one. Or move on in turn. That way no one ends up getting pushed from one end of the city to the other. This makes the protest very difficult to shut down, as the cops have to round up a hundred or more small groups of people, each of whom is doing very little out of the ordinary.


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Damon Trotta and I just finished mixing most of the songs for the new At War With Self CD, Acts of God, in New Jersey. Preview MP3s for tracks will be posted within the next week. As for a release date, it will be sometime this summer. Details for mastering and promotion are in the works, and the release will coincide with other releases on the Sluggo's Goon Music label... here's the press biography that describes the project and the musicians that contributed to Acts of God - huge thanks from Damon and I go out to Mark Sunshine, Steve Decker, James vonBuelow, Pete Teresi, Rodney Zodda and Dave Archer for making the tracks what they have become. Be sure to check out Sluggo's Goon Music to find out more about these musicians and their projects on the label, to be released in 2006.
At War With Self - "sounds more like a psychological diagnosis than a band..." an appropriate description in the biography for the debut of the project and its first release, Torn Between Dimensions, led by Glenn Snelwar (Gordian Knot), featuring Michael Manring (Michael Hedges, Attention Defecit) and Mark Zonder (Fates Warning, Temple Within). The instrumental trio created an amalgam of tight-knit compositions encompassing progressive rock, metal, jazz, ambient and classical stylings, often within the boundaries of each composition. The end result was critically acclaimed and continues to grow a following as word of mouth of the project expands.
For Acts of God, the second release from the At War With Self project, Snelwar has desired to create a set of compositions with the intentions of living up to the label 'progressive' by dramatically changing almost every facet of the project while staying true to the underlying inspiration of the project's inception - to combine disparate styles and create music with no boundaries. No better choice than Damon Trotta as a co-writer and bassist to create what is sure to be as intriguing a release as Torn Between Dimensions. Trotta's background ranges from co-founder of metal acts Non-Fiction and System Addict, to the funk outfit Vehicle and has worked with the likes of Bernie Worell and Isaac Hayes. Prior to that, Snelwar and Trotta were in a progressive hardcore/metal trio with Rodney Zodda. Trotta, Snelwar and Zodda on percussion are here and back to their roots, with some added influences. With Trotta on bass, vocals, synths and programming and Snelwar on guitars, mandolin and synths, the duo is assisted by Sluggo's Goon Music labelmates James vonBuelow (guitars), Steve Decker (drums), Mark Sunshine (vocals), Pete Teresi (guitars), Rodney Zodda (percussion) and Dave Archer (synths) to create some truly stunning, inspired progressive music.
Torn Between Dimensions had a warm, organic feel as the all-instrumental interplay of Snelwar, Manring and Zonder created a complex, but introspective, set of related compositions. For Acts of God, that introspection is turned outward in the form of a cold stare at conflicts and resolutions prompted by recent world events. From the intensity and imagery-invoking 911 and Martyr, to the elated solace present in No Place and Ursa 5, to the desolation of End in Blue and Refugee, Acts of God has managed to strike a balance of emotions that once again run the gamut from elation and warmth to fear and horror.
Snelwar describes his collaboration with Trotta as the latest incarnation of At War With Self: "What's so amazing to me about Acts of God is that the vocals lend themselves perfectly to this set of compositions. To change focus from an all-instrumental project to a set of songs mostly containing vocals has strengthened the idea that At War With Self can successfully morph, live up to its name and push the boundaries from one release to the next. That, together with the heavy intertwining of funk and electronic styles with metal and progressive ideas really make this something unique - add to that the ability to get all of the musicians from the label to contribute tremendously in their own way without limitations on what they do - who all come from different backgrounds with vastly different styles - the project took on a life of it's own, yet stayed true to the original idea of combining disparate styles effectively and with incredible intensity".
Acts of God will be released early 2007, on Sluggo's Goon Music.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
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August 15, 2009
Royal British Legion rejects Huddersfield BNP member's money
Single mum Rachel Firth planned to spend 24 hours inside a cardboard box to highlight the plight of ex-service personnel who are forced to sleep rough. The Skelmanthorpe mum-of-two, 36, planned to raise money for the Royal British Legion, the charity for ex-servicemen and women. But she also intended to give half the cash to the far-right British National Party, of which she is a member.
She claimed the government failed to do enough for ex-servicemen and women.
"It's a crying shame ex-servicemen and women are having to sleep rough because they don't get enough support from the Government. I think the Royal British Legion do an excellent job. They provide welfare services, and are custodians of remembrance, and I believe a stay in a cardboard box for 24 hours is nothing compared to the dedication of the service men and women and the commitment of the Royal British Legion."
But the British Legion's central office says the charity does not want her money. A spokeswoman said: "The Royal British Legion has remained scrupulously above the party political fray for its entire existence and does not accept donations from either Government or any political party. This allows us to maintain the independence necessary to campaign effectively on behalf of the entire armed forces family, past and present, and their families. As a result, we do not participate in joint fundraisers with political parties. We have not authorised this particular fundraising event, nor will we be accepting funds raised as a result."
The statement has put the British Legion on a collision course with one of its campaigners in Huddersfield. BNP member Robert Walker, who organises the Poppy Appeal for the charity's Golcar branch, had already said he would accept Rachel's donation.
Mr Walker said: "I will be talking to senior people about it. I had already discussed this with the Golcar branch and they were happy with it and we had told Rachel we would be happy to accept her money. She is very upset."
He said he would still be accepting the money raised from the event.
Rachel said she was disappointed by the response.
"It's political correctness gone mad," she said.
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
7 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Well done to the Royal British Legion.
- 9:03 am, August 15, 2009
- eric the fish said...
'Single mum'?
Hardly in line with the REAL party of the family eh?
Well done the RBL.
Now let's get rid of poppies from Nazis.
The RBL told me they were against people like Peter Molloy wearing medals during lefleting and rallies but could not do owt unless the MOD or HMG acted.
- 10:43 am, August 15, 2009
- Anonymous said...
The BNP will 'key' into anything it can possibly turn from nationally sacrasanct into political and racialist propaganda and it is up to the individual organisations to act upon this. Again, the apolitical Royal British Legion are fine ambassadors for Britain. The BNP are most definately not.
- 10:51 am, August 15, 2009
- Anonymous said...
'Single mum'?
Hardly in line with the REAL party of the family eh?
And named Rachel too? A Jewish name??
- 10:57 am, August 15, 2009
- Kev Scott loves The Jam said...
"Its political correctness gone mad"
Er no dear, its a very clear statement...... "WE DONT WANT YOUR FUCKING MONEY AND WE DONT WANT YOU USING THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION AS AN EXCUSE TO COLLECT FOR THE BNP"
You sick, twisted conniving bitch.
If you wanna collect for the BNP, collect for them.
If you wanna collect for the Royal British Legion, collect for them.
Do not try to link the two.
- 11:00 am, August 15, 2009
- Anonymous said...
In the early days of BNP activity in Burnley, didn't one of them try something similar???
- 11:03 am, August 15, 2009
- Anonymous said...
Hmmm ! If the RBL will not acept the money then she should be prosecuted for obtaining money under false pretences.
Any better details so that a complaint could be made ?
Old Sailor
- 11:47 am, August 15, 2009


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Future Scenario: Green Tech and Distributed Powerdown
In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural, and economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of "energy descent" that faces us.
The following is an excerpt from Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change by David Holmgren. It has been adapted for the Web.
The green-tech scenario is the most benign, in that adverse climate changes are at the low end of projections. Oil and gas production decline slowly as in the brown-tech future, so the sense of chaos and crisis is more muted without major economic collapse or conflict. This allows resources to flow to a greater diversity of responses at the global, national, city, community, and individual level. In some already densely populated poor countries, conditions worsen.
Higher commodity prices, however, allow some poorer producer economies to escape their debt cycle, while programs to empower women result in rapid reduction in the birthrate. The gradual reduction in the capacity of countries to project power globally, owing to rising energy costs, increases national security and redirection of resources away from defense and resource capture to resource conservation and technological innovation. The consolidation of global communication systems maintains global outlooks and understandings if not global economics.
As in the brown-tech scenario, electrification is a key element in the energy transition, but the renewable energy sources of wind, biomass, solar, hydro, tidal, and wave grow rapidly, developing a more diverse and distributed mix. The relatively benign climate allows a resurgence of rural and regional economies on the back of sustained and growing prices for all natural commodities including feedstock for biofuels.
The principles behind organic agriculture and ecological management and resource allocation become the norm in many farming systems, helping to stabilize agriculture challenged by increasing cost of energy inputs and (albeit mild) climate change.
The accelerating conflict between biofuels and food is stabilized if not resolved by government subsidies to support food supply from agriculture, with biofuels coming mainly from forestry waste. In many regions with prime agricultural land and small populations, wealthy farmers and agribusiness corporations are the main beneficiaries, employing both high technology and cheap labor from migrant workers. In some regions, with poorer and steeper land and more diversified land ownership, smallerscale polyculture systems designed using permaculture principles spread wealth more evenly through local communities.
Continuous contraction affects large sections of the economy, but the energy, resource, and agriculture sectors along with recycling and retrofit industries experience rapid growth based on high commodity prices that are sustained despite economic recession in the main consuming economies. In some affluent countries, reform of monetary systems lowers the scale of financial collapses and refocuses capital on productive and socially useful innovation and investment.
Information technology continues to yield gains in energy and resource management, from real-time pricing and selfhealing electrical grids, to Internet-based ride-sharing systems and telecommuting. Conservation yields the greatest gains with major public policies to change personal and organizational behavior. In other countries, especially the United States, the apparent opportunities for continued economic growth, combined with government policies to support a low-carbon economy, lead to a renewable-energy investment bubble followed by a severe recession.
State and city governments responsible for providing services are able to lead much of the restructuring to more compact cities and towns with increasing public-transportation infrastructure. Growth in large cities (especially in coastal lowlands) is reversed by public policies ahead of the worst effects of increased energy cost and global warming, while regional cities, towns, and villages see modest growth on a compact urban model that preserves prime agricultural land and develops mixed-use neighborhoods with more local work and radically less commuting.
The placing together of many of the more optimistic aspects of energy descent may seem artificial, but there are reasons to believe that the green-tech scenario will tend toward a more egalitarian structure with the relative shift of power from control of oil wells and mines to control of the productivity of nature via traditional land uses such as agriculture and forestry and more novel renewable technologies.
The inherently distributed nature of these resources will lead to more distributed economic and political power at the level of cities, with their hinterlands and organizations focused at this scale. For example, successful large-scale farmers who have reduced their dependence on energy-intensive inputs through permaculture strategies and organic methods may find new profits in more localized markets with prices sustained by policies that encourage regional self-reliance. Any profits beyond farming are likely to be invested into local energy systems that generate more employment and further reduce economic dependence on central governments and large corporations. It is possible that these same processes could lead to highly inequitable, even feudal systems. However, the universal focus on more sustainable production and reduced consumption that is not forced by remote and arbitrary central power has the tendency to foster more egalitarian responses than in the brown-tech scenario.
The substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that result from this scenario keep climate-change impacts to a minimum, thus stabilizing and reinforcing the scenario's basic characteristics for at least several decades.
The success in radically reducing consumption of resources while sustaining modest growth in some local economies, combined with stabilization of the climate, encourages a new "sustainability" elite to consider further changes to consolidate these achievements in the face of ongoing net energy decline. The worst excesses of consumer capitalism are controlled by restriction and reform of advertising and other dysfunctional forces.
Civic culture strengthens where further transition toward a nonmaterialistic society combines with the maturation of feminism and environmentalism, and a resurgence in indigenous and traditional cultural values. These trends stabilize the accelerating loss of faith in secular humanism allowing the evolution of more spiritual "cultures of place." Over time, an evolution toward the earth-steward scenario seems an obvious and natural response to the inexorable decline of nonrenewable resources. "Distributed powerdown" summarizes this scenario by emphasizing both the distributed nature of resources and power, and the planned contraction involved.
At their extremes the green-tech and brown-tech scenarios also describe many of the elements that could be expected in the techno-stability long-term scenario where new energy sources manage to replace fossil fuels without the stresses that lead to systemwide contraction. The current levels of ecological, economic, and sociopolitical stress are the indirect indicators that we are entering the energy-descent scenarios rather than simply a transition from energetic growth to stability. Relative insulation from those stresses and the persistence of faith in the monetary accounting "house of cards" by the upper middle class (if not the global elites) continues the confusion. The lack of understanding of net energy concepts and disagreement among the experts on appropriate methods of net energy accounting, combined with political pressures from the unfolding crisis, lead to energetic descent being mistaken for "business as usual."
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|Weight Watchers - Strawberry Smoothie Bar (Photo credit: frozenfoodjournal)
I am so curious how other moms get back into shape after having a baby. This is my second c-section and I must say it is so much harder this time. I am also started feeding, so I am concerned about losing too quickly and causing a drop in supply. Plus I am so hungry and exhausted all the time. Just the way my body responds I guess!
I am not one of those lucky ones who lose weight quickly after a baby. I am in my thirties so it seems like losing weight is so much harder. I know people who are fanatical about losing weight and do extreme things to lose weight. I guess I don't have the desire to not eat for days or energy to work out once everyone is asleep. I eat pretty well but I am a sucker for sweets so I think that is my downfall. I have considered Weight Watchers but I am not much of a point counter.
Currently I am walking several times a week but I am at a standstill. I have not been able to wake up and run in the mornings since I am still waking up several times a night with my infant. Also, I have only been able to fit in the occasional workout during nap time because I reserve that time for showering, cleaning, laundry, or even blogging. Finding time is certainly the hardest thing at the moment!
So what have you other moms done to get back into shape post pregnancy?
Not sure where this post originally appeared. If you know, let me know!


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Tomorrow's matches previewed
If the fog lifts, the big match in the Polymac Services Midland Alliance tomorrow is No.1 versus No.2, Leamington against Romulus at the New Windmill Ground. What Romulus lack in numbers of fans, they make up for in ferocity. The drawing above is taken from the Windmill Wonderland fanzine who describes their No.1 and possibly only supporter as a 'bitter little dwarf' accompanied by Spit the Dog.
Possibly a hundred or more hard core Charlton supporters will make the long trek to Middlesbrough to see the Addicks possibly suffer another humiliation. There are now a number of injury woes to add to Les 'Prozone' Reed's troubles. Charlton have only lost one match away in the Premiership at Boro, having drawn all the rest, apart from last year when they won 3-0.
Boro are no great shakes at the moment and I think it is possible that the Addicks might get something out of the match so I am going for a 1-1 draw.
When I received a message from the club on my mobile, I thought it might be Les Reed announcing that he was reverting to a coaching role, but instead it was assistant chief executive Steve Sutherland thanking me for my 'fantastic' support which in fact hasn't much been in evidence. However, if I turn up at the Fulham game I might have a chance of winning an apartment in Spain where I could watch some decent football.
BTW, I note that the club have dropped me off their Christmas card list this year my support clearly hasn't been fantastic enough.


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As the victor of the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson is memorialized around the city in monuments and place names. This week, his ill-fated opponent, British general Edward Pakenham, will be remembered in a different way — at a wine dinner with a historic theme.
On Thursday, the Hotel Mazarin (730 Bienville St., 504-581-7300; www.-hotelmazarin.com) will host "Pakenham's Last Supper" at Louis XVI, the former restaurant inside the French Quarter hotel that is now used as an events venue. Long-time Louis XVI chef Agnes Bellet is preparing a five-course meal of wintry dishes intended to recreate a meal that would have been served at an official function in the early 19th century, from rabbit sausage to calas. The dinner will be served by candlelight.
The meal is part of an ongoing series of events marking the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and leading up to the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans, which was fought at Chalmette Battefield in December 1814 and January 1815. Pakenham was killed during the battle, but he's scheduled to make an appearance at this wine dinner as one of several costumed historical re-enactors included in the program.
The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour and cash bar, followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. The cost is $129, and wine is included. For reservations call (504) 200-3113.


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I'm getting company. The four-legged variety. He just so happens to be eight weeks old. I'm a foster mom for a golden retriever rescue organization and he will be my newest charge.
Am I excited? Yes! I am smitten with any golden retriever, but a tiny puppy... well that's going to be heaven. I know, puppies are full of energy, into everything and aren't quite house trained.
But they are soft, sweet, and at eight-weeks of age, they also sleep alot {in your arms} and like to cuddle and play. So it will be fun, I'm sure. I'll keep you posted on this {golden love} story and of course I'll have pictures!
Update: My heart is broken... well, just a little bit. The puppy is not coming. Got a call this morning from the rescue group and the woman who was relinquishing him changed her mind and is giving him to her mother to care for. I understand, and as a pet owner, I know how hard it would be to give my Breeze up if I were ill. Hopefully all will go well and she will be reunited with him and his presence in her life will help her get well.


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A man allegedly threatened Katoomba Hospital staff with a knife on Tuesday, August 8 before surrendering to police.
Police were called to the hospital in Woodlands Road about 2.30pm following reports a man was armed with a knife and threatening staff. They attempted to speak to the man before he allegedly produced a second knife.
Specialist officers arrived about 4.30pm when the man surrendered and was arrested. He was charged with common assault, affray, assault police in the execution of duty, and custody of a knife in a public place.
A 38-year-old man will face Penrith Local Court today (August 9).


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Guess which celebrity has "a children's book in him?" You'll be glad to hear it's Jim Carrey.
Joel Stein writes, for Time, "he's also got a children's book in him. 'It's called Cynthia's New Friend. It's about how we hate change. We hate people to change because we're afraid they'll fly away.'"
Sounds like a good one, no? It has a message! We all love that.


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Monday, May 27, 2013
Jasper Class Starship
Though similar in appearance to the Centaur Class it is not as heavily armed and is slightly faster and in my view sleeker in appearance than its Centaur cousin.
Built at the Utopia Plantitia ship yards Mars the Jasper Class is a medium cruiser designed specifically for long range scientific and exploratory missions.
This particular ship is The Sakar and is currently operating under The Vulcan Science Counsel.
When the Vulcan Shuttle Sakar was destroyed a few months earlier it was felt as a point of honor that the name much like the name Enterprise should always be maintained within the Starfleet registry.
Jasper Class:
Affiliation: Federation Starfleet/Vulcan Science Counsel
Type: Medium Cruiser
Service period: 23rd century - 24th century
Length: 381.89 meters
Width: 320.16 meters
Height: 78.47 meters
Mass: 820,000 metric tons
Crew: 298 officers and crew
Maximum Speed: Warp factor 9.73 for 12 hours
Armaments: 5 type 9 phaser emitters plus 2x2 photon torpedo launchers (2 in front and 2 in back)
Defenses: Deflector shields
Auxiliary craft: Federation and Vulcan shuttlecraft
I kit bashed this model using parts from 3 model kits. AMT/ ERTL's U.S.S. Enterprise B, U.S.S. Excelsior and the U.S.S. Reliant kits.
2 comments:
- moviekits said...
Really nice stuff. Congratulations for your work :)
- June 8, 2014 at 7:58 AM
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- June 8, 2014 at 11:32 AM
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It's Sunday! There is a buzz that keeps getting stronger and stronger. First the women reported that the tomb was empty. Then, Peter and John confirmed it. Two men coming from Emmaus said it was far more than an empty tomb. They claimed they walked and talked with Jesus—that he is alive! Then, to their overwhelming surprise, Jesus is standing in the middle of the disciples, showing them that he is not a ghost, not an apparition, not a figment of wishful thinking. He has real flesh and blood, and he is as alive as any of them. And then, then it comes to them at last. Their version of Messiah involved earthly political powers, overthrowing a foreign government, ascending to positions of authority. But Jesus was giving them something far greater, far more powerful. He was inviting them into the resurrection life, into a new way of living that supersedes everything else. He was giving them peace, joy, and hope beyond understanding. He was calling them back to God's purpose for their lives. At last, Easter Sunday had arrived! At last, new life can begin!
Easter is a continually call to embrace the new life we have in Christ. We remember that we are called to different kind of life—the resurrection life—that is radically different from the old life we put to death.
So what does that have to do with marriage? If marriage is a Kingdom calling (which I believe it is), we must continually ask the question, "How are you bringing 'new life' into your marriage on an ongoing basis so that the world can see Christ in you as a couple?"
I don't know where you are in your marriage right now, but if your relationship is characterized by your selfish desires, demands, and expectations of your spouse (and all of us are that way at one time or another), then it's time to put those things to death so that you can start moving toward a "new life" with your mate. That new life in your marriage will be characterized by
- selflessly serving your mate
- loving in action as well as word
- forgiveness without any strings attached
- embracing a renewed trust
- a shared hope that can only come through Christ
We live in a world marred by darkness. The ongoing Easter call is for us, by the power of God, to continually drive out the world's darkness that tries to seep into our marriages, and replace it with the light of Christ. Often times, the first step to a "new life" in your marriage is being honest with yourself and your spouse about the things you need to change. Once you do that, you open up yourself and your marriage for God to do powerful things through you—at last!
The previous post for Marriage and Holy Week can be found by clicking on the following links:
Monday--Cleaning House
Tuesday--Enemies at Work
Wednesday--Woe! Red Flags!
Friday--Sunday is coming
The previous post for Marriage and Holy Week can be found by clicking on the following links:
Monday--Cleaning House
Tuesday--Enemies at Work
Wednesday--Woe! Red Flags!
Friday--Sunday is coming


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The critically acclaimed women's ensemble Cherish the Ladies extends its theme of traditional Irish music to the holidays. On Christmas Night features traditional Irish melodies and carols like 'The Holly and the Berry' and 'The Wexford Carol' interspersed with well-known Christmas carols, including 'O Come All Ye Faithful,' 'What Child Is This,' 'The Little Drummer Boy,' 'We Three Kings,' 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,' 'Angels We Have Heard on High,' 'Silent Night,' and 'The First Noel.' All of the arrangements are brought forth with a new freshness by the use of the group's unique Celtic instrumentation (penny whistles, fiddles, accordion, concertina, piano, guitar, mandolin, banjo, flutes) and beautiful harmonies, and then heightened by the inclusion of world-class Irish stepdancing.


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In May of 1912 there was a murder in Rail Prairie, Morrison County (now part of Scandia Valley Township). Here's the account of the murder from the
PJ article, May, 1912. Jeanette Page, 52, wife of Freeman Page, died on her way home from Sunday school that day a hundred years ago.
Later, in September, when the election for Sheriff was heating up, the incumbent posted this article in the Pierz Journal to refute what his opponent was saying about his extravagant ways with YOUR money.
Politics never changes, huh?
I'm posting the article not because of the murder, but because it's an amazing and unexpected snapshot of that point in time--how available the telephone was or wasn't, how much a hotel room and train travel cost, that 'livery' meant renting a car OR renting horses, and that bus routes existed in Morrison back then. It's interesting too that the sheriff's "aids" were paid $3.00 a day, including one Mack Rail, whose family the township was named after.
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So in my last post, I promised some before/after pics of my weight loss journey up to this point. This is the best I could find! The first "before" is me in November '10. The rest of the "befores" are me in September 2010, just 5 weeks after Gemma was born. All the "afters" are me this past weekend!
Okay so I have one more suprise!!!! I also chopped my hair off yesterday! Well, actually, my friend Becka did, but still. I've been wanting to go short for years and years, but was gripped by fear. I had super short boyish hair as a kid, and got made fun of so badly for so many years that as soon as I grew it out I was very attached to longer hair. I've had short-ish haircuts before, but was always long enough to pull into a ponytail, even if it was tiny. So this is the first time since childhood that I worked up the courage to go drastic!
I'm still getting used to it, but overall I really, really like it. I think I'll love it in a week or so, once I've had time to get used to it, and it's had time to grow just a bit more. Eeeeee! Anyway, here are the before/after pics of the hair chop!!


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Right now I'm away from my studio.
I did today's cartoon before leaving for a U.S. lecture tour.I'm in America on my "Dry Bones Campaign to turn Z Street into the Grass Roots Zionist Movement that America Needs", and to explain my YIISA (Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism) "Secret Codes" findings.
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I wasted all that warm plein air weather by gardening...hey, I planted 34 clumps of daylilies!...so far. The work I have to do here in my brand new (not bare exactly) garden is limitless, so I am determined to get out there painting next decent day.
What I have been doing is drawing, drawing, drawing. I completed another 12 hour Life Drawing Marathon on March 10...luckily the River Gallery School of Art only offers the marathon twice a year...giving some of us time to recover before the next one. Four different models for a three hour shift each: four 30-second poses, one 5-minute, one 10-minute, a couple of 20-minutes and one or two longer poses. You get focused, you get energized, you get tired, you get giddy, but it is a real stretch of your abilities and the smart artists focus on one medium. I tried everything from pastel to pencil to ink. I was afraid I would get bored...and then the woman next to me insisted I use two sheets of her lovely brown heavyweight newsprint with charcoal. Perfect. I had a great time and have something to look forward to in October.
In the weekly Tuesday afternoon Life Drawing Class, my teacher, Jason Alden, is making sure I don't skate through his class. He is so young (but wise) and usually points out to me just the right direction I should be going and the really difficult thing I might be trying to do to grow as an artist. Could I ask for more?


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On September 17th, CAL POLY Men's Soccer will be playing in a GrassRoot Soccer charity game to raise funds for GrassRoot Soccer, an international adolescent health organization that educates, inspires, and mobilizes young people to overcome their greatest health challenges and live healthier, more productive lives. Grassroot Soccer's work in Southern Africa and throughout the world connects at-risk young people with the mentors, information, and health services they need to thrive, and empowers adolescents to make educated choices about pressing health challenges such as HIV/AIDS, sexual health, gender-based violence, and malaria. To date, GrassRoot Soccer has reached more than 1.3 million young people in 50 countries. Another really cool thing: Positive Tracks, a national, youth centered non-profit, will be doubling ALL funds that CAL POLY raises! Please join me and Cal Poly Men's Soccer in support of GrassRoot Soccer as a team, program and University we hope to raise in excess of $5,000. Any amount you can give to support our TEAM goal and our cause would be greatly appreciated! Every $25 we raise will be used to empower one young person, annually. Thanks so much for your support and encouragement! Yours in Soccer. Shaun Harris Cal Poly Soccer AC
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Frieda's doughy face, ample figure and pathetic fashion sense endeared her to me. The mousy woman in the ill-fitting '80s power suit (although this was 20 years hence) with the suntan pantyhose and thick eyeglasses ("trifocals," she told me) looked so harmless. She looked like she had gotten ahead in spite of her wardrobe.
I reasoned that she'd have to be seriously smart to overcompensate for the wardrobe malfunctions. And, the more I saw of her, the more I realized her wardrobe didn't reveal someone who was unconcerned with her image. It revealed someone so woefully out of touch that she believed the navy blazer and skirt ensemble conveyed "polished executive." It's as if she were stuck in a time warp, not to mention stuck – literally – in a too-tight suit.
The time warp has added significance for me now. In one of our "one-on-ones," Frieda flung this zinger at me: "If you didn't understand what I said to you earlier, I cannot travel back in time to make you understand."
Frieda didn't miss a chance to critique me. She once asked, "Why do you begin your e-mails with a name and then a colon? You should begin with a name and then a comma – or better yet a friendly 'Hi' or 'Hello there.'" Apparently, my e-mails were too professional for her.
"The type size in your e-mails is too big," she told me once. I apologized and reduced it from 11 point back to 10 point. I wanted to ask if Frieda was OK with Arial – or if she preferred Times New Roman.
Morale in this group was dreadfully low. Frieda was asked to bring it up. She stood before all of us at a group meeting to unveil her plan to boost our spirits. I watched with perverse pleasure as the woman who had made me miserable turned ashen. Her neck got splotchy, and I delighted in her obvious nervousness. (Why had she bragged to me about her Toastmasters public-speaking award?)
She rambled on, and I even took notes on the gibberish because I wanted an accurate account of it later. She actually said that she had formed "teams, subteams and teams within teams" to "drive out" the morale-boosting plan. Subteams and teams within teams … now there's a sure-fire way to make your workforce happy.
Until I met Frieda, I thought having a positive attitude, a solid work ethic and getting results would lead to some level of success. Frieda demonstrated that some people can be successful without having any of those things. Frieda's talents were limited to an uncanny ability to suck up and a willingness to build a fortress around her own incompetent boss and reign hell down on anyone who might get wind of the incompetence.
And, if I myself could travel back in time, I wouldn't make any assumptions about Frieda based on her utter lack of style. I'd judge her instead on her utter lack of common sense and dearth of any discernible talent.
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You may be wondering where I've been. Well, I've largely been off Twitter and the Coder Coach Facebook page and I obviously haven't been blogging. But like many other current coding professionals I've been very busy. For those of us preparing for ICD-10, it's being done in addition to our daily jobs. For me, that means switching hats between performing ICD-10 documentation reviews (I've coded over 300 records in ICD-10 so far!), writing training material, and presenting training to coders on ICD-9-CM and CPT subjects. I continue to chair the ICD-10 Task Force for the state of Colorado, although I now have a co-chair thanks to a very motivated and active task force.
Last month we received "the announcement" that the ICD-10 implementation is going to be pushed back. But so far, it's still a guessing game on when that will be. I have folks from organizations and students from schools asking me what this means. And you may also be wondering, what has changed with the announcement that ICD-10 is going to be delayed? Well, as of this writing, I can tell you in a two words: absolutely nothing.
Most experts agree that the thing to do now is stay the course and keep preparing for ICD-10 as if it will be implemented on October 1, 2013. Most speculations are that there will be a one-year delay, which means 1 more year for training and testing. Some providers here in Colorado are planning for dual coding of claims if they have extra time. Most agree that we are already so far behind as an industry that a short delay at this time would mean a sigh of relief for most providers. But let's be clear about one thing: this additional time is only a good thing if we keep pace with our current ICD-10 preparations.
The American Medical Association's efforts to stop ICD-10 have been well documented as have concerns from other associations alerting CMS that we need more time for testing and implementation. I would encourage everyone to become educated on the history of ICD-10 in the United States, as it dates back to 1993. That's right, nearly 20 years ago. That means that when I took my first coding class in 1993, we were talking about the impending conversion to ICD-10. Testing of the system started in 1997. In a letter to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the National Committee of Vital Health Statistics presented a timeline of ICD-10 in the US. The insurance industry has reportedly already spent billions of dollars in the ICD-10 transition process. So for every argument you hear against adoption of ICD-10, there is an argument for it.
Will There Ever be an ICD-10?
If you're wondering if ICD-10 is really going to be a go, here's my two cents. Yes. It will be a go. There are various government health care initiatives on the horizon that require it. Every other industrialized country besides us uses it and we need it to compare data with them. In order to make sense of SNOMED-CT codes, which are used in electronic health records, we need ICD-10.
What About ICD-11?
ICD-11 is slated for release by the World Health Organization in 2015. Once published, the US will adapt the clinical modification (CM) we utilize here in the States. That conversion will take years. Most experts agree that we can't wait for ICD-11.
Should You Become a Coder Right Now?
If you're wondering if now is a good time to enter the coding profession, I still offer a resounding yes. Learn the basics now - there is so much to learn in ICD-9 that will carry over to ICD-10. Take the time to learn about disease process and procedures because, as I recently told someone, ICD-10 is going to separate the men from the boys. After coding ICD-10 almost full time for the last couple of months there are days when I want to cry and when it seems that no amount of googling will answer my question about a procedure. If you are the analytical type who isn't afraid of research, this could be the profession for you.
In addition, many organizations are taking advantage of this possible delay by implementing computer assisted coding (CAC) systems. When I first saw a CAC about 10 years ago I was not impressed. But I looked at a couple at the AHIMA conference in October and they have really come a long way. I was looking at the systems different from most of my colleagues. I was specifically looking at them as a training tool for fresh faced coders who are right out of school and I see a lot of potential there for newbies. So get your foot in the door now and start learning!
What's new with ICD-10? I say nothing. We're still moving forward as if October 1, 2013 is our deadline. Because one thing is for sure. If we - that is, an industry prone to procrastination - are given another delay, we don't want to be caught unprepared. And I don't think CMS will be gracious about allowing further deadline changes.


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The area of the park where the soccer players meet on Sunday mornings is surrounded by trash receptacles. But on Monday, the weeds, the parking lot, and the playing field are always littered with plastic bottles, fast food sacks, and other trash that must be picked up by someone else. I wish I could make them pay a fine.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Slow Cooker Tex-Mex Chicken
11 comments :
- Shawnda said...
I'm *so* making this next week as tacos. Thanks for sharing!
- February 16, 2011 at 2:51 AM
- Rebel Mel said...
You expect me to let this cook for 8 hours and not open the lid once!? That's my one compulsive thing about slow cooking.., I constantly open the lid and check on it.
Bookmarked this! :)
- February 16, 2011 at 5:44 AM
- Pretend Chef said...
I hate to admit this but my guy's mom had given me a crock pot when we first moved in together and that was almost 4 years ago. The thing has never seen the light of day. I don't know why I don't use it but I need to. What a great recipe to do so. Yummy!
- February 16, 2011 at 6:18 AM
- That Girl said...
I can't even begin to describe how exited I get when I see a beautiful chili recipe like this.
- February 16, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- All Things Yummy said...
Looks so yummy and easy.
- February 16, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- cailen ascher said...
slow-cooker meals are always so satisfying. and they make the house small fabulous!
cute blog!
til next time,
- February 17, 2011 at 10:33 AM
How much water????
- December 29, 2011 at 8:39 PM
- Kelsey said...
Oh my! I'm sorry about the water issue. You should add about 1 cup water, possibly more as the beans absorb it. I've corrected the recipe. Thanks for the spot!
- January 1, 2012 at 4:29 PM
I made this today and it's really good! It's a bit spicy for me, but I'm pretty wimpy! I'm actually serving this over sweet cornbread muffins. My husband is salivating. :D
- January 5, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Can this be made on a high setting?
- January 12, 2012 at 11:58 AM
- Kelsey said...
I'm not sure about the high setting. I've never tried it that way and would hesitate to give you a definitive answer. My inclination would be to say yes because most slow cooker recipes work that, but I'm not certain. If you try it, please let me know how it goes!
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Integrating Operations Manager with the Development Process (DevOps)
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Communication between development and information technology (IT) operations teams (DevOps), with their different toolsets, information needs, and workflow processes, can be a challenge. You can use several new management packs to integrate System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) - Operations Manager with development tools, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server (TFS), and IntelliTrace. This scenario provides an overview of these new management packs, and it shows how each management pack can improve efficiency and communication between the DevOps teams.
The DevOps scenario article is intended to serve as a high-level example, and it is a place for you to contribute additional examples of DevOps scenarios. By adding examples to the article, you can help other members of the community expand the Microsoft solution.The scenario article Integrating Operations Manager with the Development Process (DevOps) is on the TechNet Wiki, where you can provide feedback and contribute updates.