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We made it.
I'm blogging from a computer lab on the University of Illinois (I've finally learned how to spell that word) because we can't figure out how to "turn on" the internet at our place. We've got five degrees between us and we still can't figure out some basic technology.
Urbana is very pretty. It reminds me of Iowa City: the corn fields, the mock-Victorian homes, the white white white population. And it's very humid. I'm sweating through my t-shirts. And the good people of Urbana don't want to see my love handles bulging through my wet t-shirt.
This computer lab is gorgeous. Tall wood columns. Latticed oval windows embedded along the ceiling. The corridor leading to the lab is lined with old card catalogs.
Now for more tales from the trip.
After we'd finished our lunch at CJ's we stepped back into my car, and Rigo began to look for his cell. He couldn't find it. So he asked me to call him on my cell so we could locate his by the ringing. Fine. I call him up. We couldn't hear the ringing. Rigo starts to worry. We should go back inside to look for it, he says. We step out of the car. I turn around and look at my seat. I see his cell. It was UNDER my ass the whole time. Rigo breaks into fits of laughter. I refuse to believe my ass "muffled" the ringing! It can't be! I say the ringer was off. It must've been! Otherwise, my ass is some sort of sound wave black hole. Maybe I should go work for the CIA.
And yes, I called him again to see if his ringer was indeed on or off. Alas, I can't bring myself to report the results.
We spent day two with one of Rigo's best friends: Eric aka Cholojoto. He took us out for dinner, and we visited some fun seedy 'Burque bars. The seedier the bar the prettier I became...
We left 'Burque around 8am. It only took us a couple of hours to leave New Mexico (I prefer the Old) and then we entered Texas. We didn't go through the waist of Texas, just its top hat. The landscape was flat. Once in a while a mesquite would pop up.
The gay music continued to rise like gasoline fumes from the speakers: Juan Gabriel,
Rufus Wainwright. And we came THIS close to listening to my Debbie Gibson "best of" CD.
We stopped at a Stucky's to gas up and to grab a bite to eat. We filled up the tank, but we refused to eat there. Have you ever been in a Stucky's? Yuck. Our first clue should've been the velvet paintings for sale displayed in the front window. The restaurant looked cheap and dirty. I swear I saw oily doilies on a counter. Somebody loves us all.
We left Stucky's (I missed the on-ramp and we drove on historic Route 66 for a while until we found another on-ramp) and stopped to eat at this faux-Mexican chain restaurant called On the Border. The rice was bland, and the rojo sauce was bland. Speedy Gonzalez is more authentic than this place.
We got back on the road, and we zoomed out of Texas by 2pm.
We entered Oklahoma, and the landscape remained the same. Until now, the trip had been pretty simple. Get on interstate and drive. But in Oklahoma City we had to get onto a couple of turnpikes and drive on toll roads. Our Map Quest directions seemed pretty straight forward, but of course, we got lost on the turnpike. We exited the turnpike and we found ourselves in a sparse residential area. We got a little nervous. It was getting dark, and we were lost. (Cue horror film music!) We turned right, and decided to ask for directions at the first place we reached. We drove into a parking lot full of cars. We looked at the building: it was a Southern Baptist Church. We both looked at each other, and decided not to go in. We just didn't feel safe. And that's very sad. Two guys can't enter a house of G-d to ask for directions because of fear. I'm sure they were nice people and such, but the acts and statements of their mother organization makes it clear that they don't like our kind.
We got back on the turnpike, and luckily we found the correct interstate: i-44. And off we sped.
More later.
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About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
Friday, August 12, 2005
Oklahoma is NOT for Homos
Posted by Eduardo C. Corral at 8/12/2005
2 comments:
- Peter said...
Oh Eduardo, the cellphone story is a hoot. It reminds me of this comic strip a few years back, where a large woman is seen hammering a note that says "LOST CAT" onto a telephone pole. What you realize, as you look closely at her butt, is that there is a flattened cat smooshed into it! OMG I die laughing just thinking of it.
- Artichoke Heart said...
This post makes me laugh each time I read it. I'm glad that you and Rigo were able to safely extricate you from Oklahoma City without any scandals involving scary Baptists, and I hope you continue to have a vibrant and safe journey!
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Bankruptcy petition preparers can't charge more than $100 for their services in the Eastern District of Michigan unless the Bankruptcy Court approves a higher fee.
And getting that approval under Administrative Order 10-21, issued April 20, 2010, apparently will not be a pro forma affair.
The order allows only a preparer to request more than the $100 "presumptive maximum allowable fee" by filing a motion and affidavit to justify the request. The affidavit must also include a statement that the debtor has reviewed the motion.
A hearing "shall" be scheduled unless the court determines otherwise.
All pro se debtors will get a copy of the order when they file their petitions. This tips them off that if they've paid a preparer more than $100, the court thinks that's too much.
In capping the fee at $100, the court's six judges explained that they:
have relied upon their collective experience concerning fees actually charged by petition preparers in this district, as well as the limited nature of the services that bankruptcy petition preparers may perform under Section 110 of the Bankruptcy Code and state law limitations on the unauthorized practice of law.
A preparer who charges more than the services are worth will be ordered to surrender the excess fee.


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Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of 2.24 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3 million. The Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, approximately 15 kilometres from its mouth at Moreton Bay.
The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range. The metropolitan area sprawls across several of Australia's most populous local government areas, including the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite. Brisbane is named after the Brisbane River on which it is located, which in turn was named after Scotsman Sir Thomas Brisbane, the Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825.
The first European settlement in Queensland was a penal colony at Redcliffe, 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of the central business district, which was founded in 1824. That settlement was soon abandoned and moved to North Quay in 1825. Free settlers were permitted from 1842. Brisbane was chosen as the capital when Queensland was proclaimed a separate colony from New South Wales in 1859.
This post is part of the Skywatch Friday meme.
Friday, 18 July 2014
Labels: architecture, australia, Brisbane, history, people, river, sky, skywatch_friday, street_photo
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What beautiful place with such an interesting history! Thank you for sharing,ReplyDelete
Beautiful place, your city of Brisbane.ReplyDelete
This looks like a lovely, modern city in your photos without too many high rise buildings blotting out sunlight. Isn't it winter there now? People swimming outside? Your winters are milder than ours.ReplyDelete
Lovely images and beautiful skies! Brisbane looks like a beautiful city, thanks for sharing.. Happy skywatching!ReplyDelete
I love to hear from you, so please comment. I appreciate constructive criticism as it improves my skills as an amateur photographer.
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Orange County Fire Staton 44 in Pine Hills remained closed Monday after what was originally thought to be a sewer problem forced its shutdown Friday. Officials were unsure when the station would reopen, but a representative said operations had been transferred to a nearby station and were not affected by the change.
Station 44, at Pine Hills Road and State Road 50, had some sanitation and plumbing problems Friday and it was closed about 4 p.m., said Leonard Grimstead, a representative for the fire department. There was a heavy odor in the station. The station has a crew of three.


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We all knew that grade 7 through 12 are not always pleasant times for kids.
We know about bullying and its severe effects.
But a new study by the American Association of University Women has revealed some pretty bleak statistics around the sexual harassment of both teenage boys and girls. Over 50 percent of girls surveyed reported experiencing sexual harassment and about 40 percent of boys self-reported harassment.
The survey of just under 2,000 students asked students only to report sexual harassment (defined as unwelcome jokes or comments, inappropriate touching, and sexual intimidation) within the last year (2010-11 academic year). It included harassment that happens in person and via other mediums (texts, social media, etc.).
The effects of such harassment are both physical and mental with many reporting headaches and stomach pain.
The AAUW undertook the study to bring attention to the issue of sexual harassment, which members do not want forgotten in the midst of the discussions about bullying.
The authors, or at least the NYT's portrayal of the authors, seem to make a stricter distinction between sexual harassment and bullying than I might. Sexual harassment is a form of bullying and so much bullying involves sexual harassment.
For example, the study found that 18 percent of both girls and boys report harassment based on perceived sexual orientation. This is also bullying. This is why, in some bullying cases, Title IX violations are cited.
And, of course, all sexual harassment in schools is subject to Title IX. Though we here at the blog believe that Title IX is quite underused in sexual harassment cases. It seems that the AAUW feels similarly, though T9 only got a brief mention in the article.


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STI Clinical Guide
I've been wanting to start publishing guides on this site for some time, and just haven't gotten around to doing it until now. Because there's so much content on this site (and still more out there in the interwebs) I figured it might be useful periodically to provide a post that gives you some ideas of how to use the content more broadly than just individual professional enrichment.
STIs are some of the most frequently searched and downloaded information on this site, so it makes sense for our first clinical guide to focus on this content. Much of what's available are images that can be used to augment slide presentations or case studies. Many of the sites make their images available for people to use freely; others require that attribution be given for each image. I love to combine them with injury images to compare and contrast the variety of genital findings you may come across in an exam and to get people talking about best ways to document, when a physician consult might be necessary, follow-up recommendations, and the like.
To begin, let's look at what's already on the site:
- The CDC is always a good source for this information since their treatment guidelines are pretty universally embraced. The picture cards they created are a cool and low-tech way to discuss things like documentation descriptors–just pass them around the table at a staff meeting, or print them out and give everyone a full set. You could even laminate a few of them and keep them on hand as a jumping off point for staff discussions. (Original post here.) They also have complete PowerPoint presentations on several of the STIs here.
- DermAtlas has almost 11,000 images logged on their site, and while you won't find a comprehensive selection of STI images here, it's a good place for lesions of all kinds (including those that aren't associated with significant pathology). Create a case study and add one or two corresponding images for a great, brief, clinical discussion at a staff meeting. (Original post here.)
Besides the aforementioned posts, I have a few other sites I'd like to share with you:
- The University of Washington has a Practitioner's Handbook for the Management of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. It includes an image gallery that is full of gnarly photos ranging from scabies to syphillis. A great place to find material to augment your PowerPoint presentations.
- Health Awareness Connection has an STI image gallery of their own. The site also has brief STI guides in an impressive array of languages.
- DermNet has a smaller colection of images, as does AVERT (a site which has one of the funniest displays of CYA I've seen: some of their images have funny little caution boxes that say Warning! Genitalia)
To augment your discussions, I came across a two-page STI summary (PDF) put together by the National Coalition of STD Directors that would make a great handout.
And because it's important to sometimes find the funny in the work we do, I give you this video–a spoof on the tune Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's. Enjoy.
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Absoultely brilliant ! How on earth am I going to sing that song using the other words! ..I will be chuckling all day..
Absolutely (typo) Thanks for the picture guide I will troll the sites today, looking for variations of the "Unremarkable cervix "
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Another STI clinical guide resource is the Online STD Case Series put out by the NNPTC and CDC. You can access it at http://www.stdhivtraining.net/nnptc/about.cfm
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A note from Dave Trimmer of the Spokane Spoksman-Review points out that the Spokane Chiefs are carrying 23 players, with 12 of them acquired in the bantam draft, two in the CHL import draft and nine by being listed.
When the season began, D Bruin McDonald was on the Chiefs' roster and he had been acquired from the Prince George Cougars. However, he was released early in the season and now is with the BCHL's Victoria Grizzlies.
F C.J. Stretch (Kamloops, 2005-10) is with the ECHL's Ontario Reign, waiting for the opportunity to get more playing time and working on his defensive play and playing without the puck. There's more right here.
Alessio Bertaggia is back in the news (thanks to @ukrainetzd for the tweet). . . . With the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation having released the names of the 28 players it is considering for its national junior team roster, I was interested only in forwards Sven Bartschi and Nino Niederreiter of the Portland Winterhawks. Yes, both of them are on that roster, as expected. . . . But I forgot all about Alessio Bertaggia, who was the subject of some attention in these parts about three months ago. . . . You may recall that it was Bertaggia who somehow, despite not having been selected in the CHL import draft, made his way to Portland and was on the ice during the Winterhawks' training camp. . . . In the end, the WHL disciplined the Winterhawks, thus ending another colourful chapter in league history, The Saga of Red No. 23. . . . Anyway, Bertaggia is on that 28-player roster. . . .
Some countries have released national junior team preliminary rosters that include WHL players. . . .
The Czech Republic roster includes Marek Hrbas (Edmonton Oil Kings) and David Musil (Vancouver Giants) among its 13 defencemen. The preliminary roster also features 21 forwards, including Antonin Honejsek (Moose Jaw Warriors), Roman Horak (Chilliwack Bruins) and Robin Soudek (Chilliwack). . . .
Slovakia will open a camp in Bratislava on Monday. The 23-player roster for this camp doesn't include any WHL players. The Slovaks will trim that number to 15 and open another selection camp in Jamestown, N.Y., on Dec. 16. . . . The Slovaks will add eight CHL players to their roster for that camp, and then will play pre-tournament games against Norway (Dec. 21) and Russia (Dec. 23). . . .
Germany's preliminary roster includes F Marcel Noebels (Seattle) and F Bernhard Keil (Kamloops). Germany will open a short camp in Fussen on Dec. 15 and then set up shop in Buffalo/Niagara Falls, on Dec. 18. . . .
Finland will open a camp in Vierumaki, Dec. 12-16, before moving to Toronto on Dec. 18. . . .
F Mark Mieritz of the Brandon Wheat Kings will play for Denmark at the IIHF Division 1, Group B U-20 championship in Slovenia, Dec. 12-18. Mieritz, who has six points in 27 games with the Wheat Kings, will play two games this weekend and then leave for home.
The 2012 World Women's curling championship will be played in Lethbridge, March 17-25. That will put the Hurricanes on the road as the WHL regular season winds down or early in the first round of the playoffs. You may recall that the World championship was decided in Swift Current last spring, with the Broncos playing first-round 'home' games in Regina. . . . The Vancouver Giants and Kamloops Blazers will meet in Whitehorse on Feb. 12. The Whitehorse Star reports that tickets for that game will go on sale Saturday. They're priced at $30 a pop with a limit of two per customer. . . . Bogdan Rudenko, a former OHL player who bounced around the minor pro leagues for a few years, is facing a murder charge in North Carolina. That story is right here. . . . F Randy McNaught, 20, of the Vancouver Giants had surgery on an ankle Monday. He was injured Oct. 9 during a game in Kamloops. He isn't expected back before February. He got into only eight games with the Giants, who acquired him from the Saskatoon Blades.
CH-CH-CHING! Just about missed this one. Kelly Kisio, the general manager of the Calgary Hitmen, was dinged for $500 for "comments to officials following game at Edmonton on Nov. 24." . . . Not sure what was said or two whom, but the Hitmen were on the short end of a 4-3 count with the Oil Kings.
There were three games played, all in the homes of Western Conference teams, and Eastern Conference visitors won all three. . . .
In Vancouver, G Adam Morrison's 23 saves sparked the Saskatoon Blades to a 2-1 victory over the Giants. . . . The Blades were opening a B.C. Division swing that continues tonight in Chilliwack. . . . F Chris Colins, at 18:53 of the first, and F Josh Nicholls, with his 12th on the PP at 6:17 of the second, gave the visitors a 2-0 lead. . . . Vancouver got closer when F Brendan Rowinski, while shorthanded, got his first goal with the Giants at 17:51 of the second. . . . Rowinski had been acquired from the Moose Jaw Warriors earlier in November. . . . The Giants have lost three in a row, meaning head coach Don Hay is stalled at 499 WHL coaching victories. . . . The Giants meet the visiting Calgary Hitmen on Friday night. . . . Attendance was 5,649. . . .
In Kent, Wash., the Medicine Hat Tigers ran their winning streak to eight games with a 3-1 victory over the Seattle Thunderbirds. . . . The Tigers, who meet the Tri-City Americans in Kennewick, Wash., tonight, took a 3-0 lead on F Emerson Etem's 18th goal, shorthanded in the first, and third-period goals from F Hunter Shinkaruk and D Matthew Konan. . . . F Marcel Noebels of Seattle ruined Tyler Bunz's shutout bid at 12:41 on a penalty shot. Bunz finished with 28 saves, 12 fewer than Calvin Pickard. . . . Medicine Hat F Linden Vey had one assist. He leads the WHL with 48 points, four more than F Brendan Ranford of the Kamloops Blazers. . . . Attendance was 2,726. . . . The Thunderbirds meet the Rockets in Kelowna tonight and then head for Prince George and Friday and Saturday dates with the Cougars. . . .
In Everett, F Kevin King and F Steele Boomer each set up two goals as the Kootenay Ice beat the Silvertips, 3-1. . . . Ice G Nathan Lieuwen made 26 saves. . . . Ice F Max Reinhart broke a 1-1 tie with his 10th goal just 28 seconds into the second period. . . . Ice F Jesse Ismond added insurance with his ninth at 1:15 of the third. . . . Everett F Landon Ferraro (concussion) was back in the lineup for the first time since Nov. 12. He had an assist. . . . Attendance was 3,663. . . .
One minor:
Everett D Rasmus Rissanen
Jim Kelley lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on Tuesday.
Kelley, 61, is in the Hockey Hall of a Fame, mostly for his work with the Buffalo News. Of late, he wrote for sportsnet.ca and worked for Toronto all-sports radio station The Fan 590. There was a time when he often appeared on Hockey Night in Canada.
Kelley, who always had an opinion, filed a column to sportsnet.ca on Tuesday at 1:30 a.m. It would be his last one.
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I have been working very hard on my P4D stuff lately. I have loved the colors of this so much. I can't wait for the full release! It should be awesome. As soon as I know more information about purchasing this mega-kit, I will post here.
I have also been working on a new kit. It has been fun to design again. However, I really need to focus on my personal scrapbooks. So, I will only have this next kit out for now. Hopefully, it will all be done and ready to roll this weekend. :)
I am crossing my fingers. :)
Friday, September 29, 2006
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Happy Birthday Card
I was going through some pictures to scrap and ran across this picture. I made this card for my sister-in-law on her birthday. The inside had "Happy Birthday" stamped in it. This was at the beginning of my card making phase. Enjoy! :)
Credits: The paper is so old that I couldn't begin to tell you who it was by. The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby sewing dept. The stamp is a Crafts Ect Stamp.
Credits: The paper is so old that I couldn't begin to tell you who it was by. The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby sewing dept. The stamp is a Crafts Ect Stamp.
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
P4D - BCA 3 Coming Soon!
I am so excited to participate in this year's P4D Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser! This is by far my favorite colors we have ever used. :) I will be making a coordinating kit for sale to go along with the fundraiser. I will also be making a freebie or two to download from my blog. So, be on the lookout for announcements to purchase this GREAT deal. I know that I cannot wait.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Graduation Card
I wanted to share one of my first card creations. This is a graduation card that I made for all the graduates I bought gifts for last spring. I loved how they turned out. Take a peek!
Credits: Blue Flower Paper - recolored paper from Michelle Coleman
Credits: Blue Flower Paper - recolored paper from Michelle Coleman
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
New Found Intrest
Having a new baby has kept me so busy and preoccupied that I haven't had much time for much! :) So, I have been away from my digital scrapping for some time now. I have really missed it so much. A friend of mine is an avid Stampin Up user. I teamed up with her to make baby shower invitations for my sister-in-law. It really sparked me to think about paper scrapping. So, for a little creative outlet, I had started making some cards for birthdays, etc. I have rejuvenated my interest in paper crafting again. I really haven't paper scrapbooked seriously for several years. So, as of lately, I have joined some great Yahoo groups that do card and scrapbook swapping. It has been so much fun! I am also making some altered projects to decorate my children's rooms. So, stay tuned for some pictures!
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Monday, September 11, 2006
Up and Around
We have moved! It is hard to believe that we moved over 2 weeks ago. With the arrival of our new daughter and this move, I have not had much time to even blink my eyes. Hopefully, I can get up and around more! I really miss the digital world and all my digi friends. I have enjoyed the break, but I really do miss it. So, keep checking back. I am sure to start up my digi-creating soon!
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Predicting a nightmarish air travel snarl that will stretch from coast to coast, the airline industry and the nation's largest pilots union joined forces Friday to sue the Federal Aviation Administration over its decision to furlough air traffic controllers in order to achieve spending cuts required by Congress.
Two airline trade associations and the Air Line Pilots Association said they have filed a lawsuit asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to stop the furloughs, which are scheduled to kick in on Sunday. However, the earliest the court is likely to schedule a hearing is sometime next week, after the furloughs have begun, said Nick Calio, head of Airlines for America, which represents major carriers.
The way in which the FAA has chosen to implement the furloughs could result in one out of every three airline passengers across the country suffering flight delays or cancellations, industry officials said at a news conference.
"The impact of these cuts on our industry cannot be overstated," said Faye Black, vice president of the Regional Airline Association, which joined the suit. "We think there is not one airport in the nation that will be immune to this."
Sunday is a light air travel day, but by Monday the effects of the furloughs should start to "snowball," creating an air travel mess the equivalent of having a "Hurricane Sandy in the North and Hurricane Katrina in the South," said Lee Moak, president of the pilots union.
Federal officials have said they have no choice but to furlough all 47,000 of the FAA's employees, including nearly 15,000 controllers, if they hope to cut $637 million from the agency's budget by the end of September, as required under automatic, across-the-board spending cuts imposed by Congress. Each employee will lose one day of work every other week, which will amount to a 10 percent reduction in available controller work hours to staff air traffic facilities on any given day.
FAA officials declined to comment on the lawsuit.
The controller furloughs will save the agency $200 million, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said earlier this week. But fewer controllers will mean planes have to take off and land less frequently so as not to overload controllers on duty, he said.
Industry officials and some lawmakers have accused the White House of ignoring ways the cuts could have been achieved without furloughing controllers in order to put pressure on Republican lawmakers to rescind the automatic cuts. They've suggested reducing expenditures on outside contractors and travel.
"The administration has made choices that appear designed to have the greatest possible impact on the travelling public," said Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Huerta, however, has said FAA's budget is dominated by employee salaries since the agency's prime mission is to operate the nation's air traffic system. Other critical employees like air traffic control supervisors and airline and airport inspectors are also being furloughed, and travel has been cut back to safety-related trips. The agency is trying to close 149 air traffic control towers operated under contract for the agency at small airports, but is meeting resistance from members of Congress who don't want towers in their states and districts closed.
An FAA analysis released Thursday said fewer controllers will mean major delays at some of the nation's busiest airports, although the delays will vary significantly depending upon the time of day and other factors unique to each airport.
Maximum delays of more than three hours were predicted for some flights to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest airport as measured by the number of passengers who pass through it. But many flights arriving at the airport would suffer no delays or only brief delays, according to the FAA analysis.
Other airports predicted to experience significant delays as a result of the furloughs include Newark Liberty in New Jersey, John F. Kennedy and La Guardia in New York, O'Hare in Chicago, Los Angles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, San Diego and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood in Florida. Airports in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Miami and Charlotte, N.C., as well as Chicago's Midway International Airport, are forecast to experience lesser delays.
However, other busy airports in cities like Denver, Boston, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and Las Vegas are unlikely to feel much impact, according to the analysis. That's because each airport's operations are unique, Huerta has said. A decrease in controllers on duty could force Hartsfield and O'Hare, for example, to close a runway, but that's not necessarily the case at other airports.
The FAA's analysis doesn't take into account ripple effects extended delays at some airports may have on air travel elsewhere, agency officials said.
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occurred, in no small part, thanks to their reliance on time-based
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are going
to take a crack at time-based advancement. Along with the interview we
recently did with them a few weeks ago, Ten Ton Hammer has nabbed a
number of exclusive class interviews, so sit back and enjoy our
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Ten Ton Hammer: Where
does the Soldier fit into the lore of your game world? Do they
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the world of Alganon,
the term Soldier is used for one who has trained to become an expert in
physical combat. Anyone who is trained to be an expert in all of the
weapons and armors of Alganon is technically a soldier. However, when
you choose to be a soldier in Alganon, you are not just a common
soldier. You are an Asheroth or a Kujix.
The Asheroth and Kujix are the chosen of the deities, born with powers
well beyond those of the common people. While there may be powerful
soldiers that are neither Asheroth or Kujix, there are none that can
match your potential strength and prowess.
Ten Ton Hammer: In your
official description of the Soldier, players only have two traits to
choose from, while your other classes often have three. Are Soldiers
just that powerful that they only need two traits?
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to be mentioned explicitly. Soldiers are the only class available at
launch that are capable of wearing heavy armor and using all of the
available weapons. This provides them with opportunities to better
customize their gear to match their chosen combat roles. This is a
large enough advantage that we took it into account when balancing the
classes, but didn't feel it necessary to point out in the descriptions.
Ten Ton Hammer: Again
looking at the description, it seems like the Soldier has a lot in
common with the tank class from many other MMOs, especially the Warrior
from WoW. How do you believe this class differs from tank classes in
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is exactly that - a tank. They are designed to fight via melee
weaponry, be able to take survive large amounts of damage from their
enemies, and manipulate the enemy in order to keep the attention on
themselves and away from those they are charged with protecting. When
we designed the classes, we designed them with these roles in mind.
We believe that much of the fun of MMO combat lies in cooperation and
interdependence. It is fun to enter a combat encounter, choose which
role you want to take, and then perform that role with precision and
expertise, sticking to the strategy, but adjusting your tactics as the
battle ebbs and flows.
It's no fun to enter an encounter and find that you are weak at the
role you've chosen, so we've designed our classes to be strong at their
roles. We've designed our Soldiers to be extremely good tanks.
This, of course, means that they will have the ability to mitigate
damage done to them. They will be able to control the enemy AI and make
themselves the primary target. They will be able to defend their group,
absorbing damage that would otherwise hit the weaker party members. For
the most part, rather than designing the core of the solder class to be
a "different" tank, we've designed our core soldiers to be a "better"
tank. If you've played a tank in another game, there are actions you
were glad you had - our Soldiers have those. There are also actions you
wished you had - our Soldiers have those, too.
However, the one area where our Soldiers are very different from tanks
in other games is in the Tactics specialization. Soldiers who
specialize in Tactics abilities will have the ability to join a group,
not as a tank or melee damage dealer, but as a support class - one that
boosts the abilities of the group, rather than focusing on his own
Ten Ton Hammer: There are
four different "specialization" branches listed on the website. Are
players going to choose various abilities in these branches to become
"Core Soldiers" or "Tactic Soldiers" or does this signify something
Hue: Teamwork
is a major part of the fun of MMO combat, so we've designed our classes
to be strong at their primary roles. But, we also know that it's not
fun to be locked into a single role. That's why we designed our Dual
Role system. Every class has a "core" role that they advance
automatically, but they also get a set of ability points they can spend
towards a secondary role. Should they choose to place all their points
in a single secondary role, they will be able to compete in that role
at the same expert level as their core role.
Since nearly every enemy has a melee attack, it makes sense that the
enemy will approach its target and fight in melee range. This means
that any damage bonuses a tank has will also help a melee-range damage
dealer. It was easy for us to decide that one of the secondary roles of
a Soldier would be a single-target melee damage dealer. A Soldier that
specializes in Weaponry will be able to target a single enemy and "burn
them down" quickly and efficiently.
Fighting a single foe is very different than fighting a room full of
enemies; it takes a specially trained Soldier to be able to handle both
situations effectively. That is where the Protection specialization
comes into play. While every Soldier, Protection or not, can handle the
one-on-one boss encounter, it will take a Soldier specializing in
protection to effectively keep a room full of enemies from overrunning
their allies.
Some Soldiers, however, prefer to take a leadership role. Rather than
spending anger on damaging an enemy or drawing attention to themselves,
a Tactics Soldier will spend their anger on buffing and enhancing their
party. Rather than always standing toe-to-toe with the enemy, they will
find themselves zipping around the battlefield, shouting orders,
providing bonuses, even reducing the threat generated by their allies,
before charging back to the front lines to build anger and repeat the
These specializations all come without losing their core abilities.
Whether they choose to specialize in Weaponry, Protection, or Tactics,
a Soldier will always be able to switch to defensive stance, take up a
sword and shield, and join your group as a tank.
Ten Ton Hammer: Finally,
what kind of skills and abilities will Soldiers commonly have? What can
players expect to be doing when they're in combat?
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Hue: This
will vary depending on what role they are taking in combat. If they use
their core combat role and enter the fray as a tank, they can expect to
stand toe-to-toe with a single enemy, building Anger with each strike
given or received. They can expect to spend this Anger on actions that
will increase their threat generation, and keep the enemies attention.
Should they be solo, or grouped with a group that is able to control
their own threat levels, they can afford to spend a bit of their extra
Anger on higher damage attacks. If they find the enemy is stronger than
they anticipated, they have a few actions that providing them a
temporary boost in their defenses, so as to out-survive their opponent.
Knowing when to use these actions and when to save them is a crucial
part of tanking as a Soldier. They will need to keep an eye on the
enemy and be prepared to react to and even manipulate the enemy's
A Soldier that specializes in Weaponry will also find themselves
toe-to-toe with the enemy, only this time they will be focused on
dealing large bursts of damage. A Weaponry Soldier will generally find
themselves wielding a two-handed weapon and spending their anger on
high-damage actions as fast as they can build it. While a Soldier in a
tank role is likely to find themselves deciding whether to "use it now
or save it for later", a Weaponry Soldier in a DPS role will spend
their time deciding which high-damage action will maximize their damage
in each situation. They will need to analyze the enemies defenses and
determine what can be done to maximize their damage output.
If a Soldier chooses to specialize in tactics and enter combat as a
support class, the combat experience will be very different. A Tactics
Soldier will start combat by engaging the enemy directly, but rather
than use their anger to attack or defend. They will build a pool of
anger and then rush to their allies, where they can spend their anger
to enhance the abilities of their party members, reduce threat
generation, and otherwise allow their teammates to be even better at
their own roles. They will be looking at their teammates and deciding,
"Who needs my support most? Is it the tank in the front? The healer in
the back? The DPS? Or should I stay and build more anger, so I can help
them even more?"
Ten Ton Hammer: Thanks
for your time, Hue! We can't wait to talk with you again about the
Ranger class!
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So, on with the post. What I've been suffering with lately is generalised anxiety and low mood. I also get triggered anxiety which I would describe more as panic, which I'll talk about another time. The general anxiety and low mood, even depressive episodes is the most horrible feeling. It can come on quickly, you don't know when it will lift, and often makes you feel low, worthless and that everything is pointless or hopeless. It is hideous. I am in no shape or form an expert in dealing with this, far from it, but I'm getting to understand it a bit more and sometimes find that certain things help just a little.
Often when the dark cloud descends I don't want to do anything. At all. And you couldn't suggest anything to interest me. I get that. However, my first tip would be, listen to your body and mind, and look for the windows of opportunity. So if you feel the darkness swallowing you up, or in my case, notice yourself getting angry or with little patience, learn to notice and get yourself to a safe place or at least be forewarned and forearmed. I find it really useful to recognise when emotions are overtaking me and to be able to step back a tiny bit and make it a little easier on myself.
Second, what would make you feel better? Not as in, "cure all make it all better' as that doesn't exist but what would make you feel a tiny bit less despairing/ more calm? Laying on your bed staring at the wall? Crying? Punching a pillow? Curling up under a blanket? Whatever it is, do it. Think less about what you should be doing and more what would help even the tiniest bit. Suppressing everything inside often makes my bad times last longer.
When you aren't at the absolute worst of your anxiety there are two things I recommend. Take a minute to think just how awful you felt, as though nothing would ever be any better than miserable. Realise that even if you aren't feeling happy or even content yet, you don't feel quite as bad as you did. Emotions and situations are temporary, you will not always feel like this. You have to be patient and ride it out but just recognising that how you feel changes so often if you actually pay attention makes you feel a little less desperate and hopeless.
The other is to try and think of something that might make you feel content. Nothing earth shattering and do not, do not, put pressure on yourself to think of something or else you're not moving forward. Be kind do yourself even if it's the last thing you think you deserve. Below are some of the things that have helped me a lot over the last few weeks and long term, small but practical steps.
I literally read three books non stop, like an addiction. However it helps me in several ways, it's an escape, it can sometimes help me realease emotions I couldn't otherwise let go, and it's an easy low energy thing to focus on. I love books anyway but they become a lifeline when I'm struggling.
Getting outside
This one was against all my better instincts but actually helped a lot. I hate being too hot and flying bugs and sweaty etc but I properly thought about what might help me and decided to take my breakfast out into the garden a couple of days. Then I spent virtually a whole day out there which I haven't doe since I was a kid! Brought back some nice memories and was a surprising way to help.
Trying to think of one thing a day that you're grateful for and then maybe 2 or 3 things. This one is proven to help people be happier as well as just being a nice one to try and helping you to again realise not everything is quite as awful as it seems. Things you often don't even think of. Being in ICU made me realise a lot of these as when you can't do them, you bloody miss them and realise how much you took them for granted. "I can see/hear/ speak" " I have a roof over my head" " I really enjoyed ____ today" "I felt the sun on my skin" " I had a cold refreshing drink".
Mindfulness is to me a slightly different way of looking at this. Rather than considering what you are thank ful, mindfulness is actually tuning in to enjoying it. So sipping a hot chocolate and focusing on how it tastes, smells, they way it warms your throat....... Appreciate being in the moment.
Showers or baths
Showers become a huge indulgence. I think tactile things really help me. The warm water on my skin, the quietness, solitude, I can cry in there and no one knows, I feel clean and calmer after a shower. Once I realised this I thought how I could make it even nicer. I bought some of my favourite shower gels, sometimes I use a dry body brush or moisturiser. Whatever makes you feel a bit comforted! Massage, manicure or just painting my nails can do wonders.
I've always been a creative person, but sometimes even the most repetitive mindless tasks are really good for just zoning out a bit. My business is cake making and decorating, so dying fondant or cutting out shapes over and over can prove really helpful to provide a focus without the pressure to be "perfect". Any crafts I can do when exhausted are great for me, sewing, drawing, and calligraphy are current faves. Beware though, if you start to get frustrated leave it, I often get like this and it can make me feel much worse. Don't fall into the trap. Try something like a puzzle, sudoku, watch a film, a series (God Netflix is heaven to me! Especially Once Upon A Time) gardening, gaming, whatever works for you.
Eat or drink
Obviously not to an unhealthy extent but the odd bit of what you enjoy, a Starbucks, coffee, tea, the odd piece of chocolate, a takeaway or something you really fancy, can help a bit. Don't be petty with yourself, it's again about being gentle with yourself.
Make your space inviting
For me, rather randomly, fresh flowers give me a little boost. They just lift my spirits a little. Weird things like the sensation of a soft blanket, or the soft glow of a candle can all soothe my soul when it feels my nerves are a bit jagged.
I'm sorry if this has been a bit waffley and not helpful but I hope if nothing else it might kick start some ideas of your own that might work for you. If you are struggling, please know you're not alone. Things will seem brighter I promise.
I'm also going to take the time to say, if you are having a bad time, think about seeking help. I've spoken to several therapists, some have been helpful others haven't. It's often the last thing you want to deal with but they can help. If you had flu, or a broken leg you would seek out help from a professional to assist you, mental health is no different.
Let me know if this was useful/helpful/ pants, and if you'd like to read similar posts and if you have your own tips/ advice or experiences I'd love to hear them xxxx


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Don't cry wolf on email — make sure recipients pay attention to you
I've checked email on the treadmill, while rollerblading, in the bathroom and at other moments that would generally be considered inappropriate. I check it on my computer and on my phone. I check it at work and in bed, while watching TV and reading magazines, and on the subway. I'm really comfortable with email and I use it a lot, both personally as well as professionally as a book publicist.
But sometimes even I think it can be too much.
With the amount of email messages we all receive today, it's vital to send a message only when you have something important, informative, useful or at least amusing to say. When I say "important," I'm using it the loosest sense: "important" could mean everything from, "Oprah wants to interview your author," to "I liked the book jacket," to "I saw this article in which you might be interested," and anything and everything in between. Unsolicited information is useful too, which is why I don't mind getting (book-related) press releases or news about stores and events — in my line of work in book publicity, that's important information.
But don't be the person who automatically contributes to an email conversation without new or vital information. Or the person who sends a thank you message to an entire distribution list. When people repeatedly send worthless email messages (usually with an old and / or unrelated subject lines — you know what I'm talking about), I eventually stop checking their messages — at least until the end of the day when I take some time to clean out my inbox, at which point I delete their messages.
So here are some suggestions for how to not "cry wolf" on email:
— Do not send "You're welcome" messages. (Thank you messages, however, are useful — not to mention appreciated — particularly when important information has been sent so that the sender knows that you have, in fact, received the information.)
— Do not simply repeat what someone else has said. For example, if one person on a distribution list says it's raining, responding by saying "Yes, it's raining hard," is utterly useless. (On the other hand, saying, "Yes, it's raining now, but it should clear up by lunchtime," is useful.)
— For the love of all that is holy, DO NOT USE REPLY ALL UNLESS IT IS NECESSARY. (And yes, it was necessary to use all caps — if you don't believe me, check the mess that is most peoples' email inboxes.)
It's high time we all learned how to use the Internets really good. Unless you're one of those people who has to hold for the operator because you still have a rotary dial phone.
What are your top "extraneous email" peeves?
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I use the hash mark or "pound sign" # at the end of my email subject lines to indicate the subject line *is* the entire message and there's no need to open the email. So if the subject line from me reads: Meet you at 7PM# the hash sign means that's the whole message, no need to pop it open. Works for the Thank You# responses you want to send as well. No need to burn through others' time to open the email window just to politely acknowledge you've received something.
Comment by Chris | June 9, 2009 |
I get annoyed with email signatures laid out in stacks of vertical text 10 lines high. Better to be laid out horizontal.
Also, "Sent from my iphone" or (sent from my blackberry) lines are unnecessary. Even more unnecessary are jokey puns in signatures (sent from my raspberry, sent from my iphoneme). What is that even supposed to mean? Would you tell the same unfunny joke out loud 50+ times per day?
Comment by John Mark | June 9, 2009 |
Oh, I have so many! Congratulations emails sent to a distribution list – Please send congrats directly; thread hijacking — that is, changing the subject matter of an email such that the subject line now has nothing to do with the new subject; replying to an email when on digest without trimming the digest; when replying, not trimming the original email to at least the relevant portion; bottom posting — I am aware that old skool internet types believe replies should be posted at the bottom of the reply, but times have changed, people! Bottom posting means smart phone users can't see if they need to look at the actual reply and if they think they do, they must scroll all the way down…. no bottom posting; Sig lines that are longer than a couple of lines.
Oh my gosh. I'm a curmudgeon. The sad thing is, I could keep going. But I won't.
Comment by Carolyn Jewel | June 9, 2009 |
How about abuse of the high-priority flag (in Outlook)? I correspond frequently with a particularly bad offender. I understand that what's urgent to one person may not be urgent to anyone else, but I have a lot of compassion for other people's angst, so I try to withhold judgement until I've actually read the message. But sometimes (cynically, I might say "oftentimes"), I wonder if the sender got the high-priority and the low-priority flags mixed up. 😉
Comment by Tilney | June 9, 2009 |
This is one of those curmudgeonly things, but I kind of hate it when people don't sign off. All I want is the name. I don't need an elaborate closure. I just feel that the email with no name at the bottom is for friends, casual colleagues – not professional messages to people outside your own organization whom you wouldn't meet for a drink after work.
That, and when all the important information is only in an attachment. I shouldn't need to open a Word doc to find out where and when someone's event is.
(Also, re: Chris's no-text thing, I'd always thought using "NT:" before you subject line indicates that there is no further text in the message. Never heard of the hashtag notion before…)
Comment by Molly | June 9, 2009 |
Yen: As the recipient of numerous messages addressed to "Ms. Champion" and "Dear Producer" and other wretched impersonal anonymities in our boilerplate world, I feel your pain here. But cut folks some slack. A "You're welcome" can be easily filed away into a folder. Not all email requires response (as several people continue to tell me), nor does it all have to be responded to at once. Other learn by how YOU respond and they can be encouraged to respond back accordingly. But Rome is not built in a day. Just today, I answered a question for someone that was so ridiculously elementary I wanted to scream. But there was no reason to get angry. I steered my correspondent along to self-discovery without vitriol. Such are the possibilities of email. Don't be so hard on others.
Comment by Edward Champion | June 9, 2009 |
My peeves include:
1. Treating e-mail like IM or a pager. I can can get upwards of 100 e-mails a day. 40 e-mails on a slow day. We all have to prioritize, and most of us can't answer all our e-mail immediately.
2. Following up on an e-mail with another e-mail. I say this because 9 times out of 10, if I haven't responded to an e-mail that required a response, it's because I have been buried under e-mail. Or it was filtered to my SPAM folder. Another e-mail is not helpful. A quick phone call is though.
3. Saying in 5 sentences what could be said in 2.
4. NOT using the urgent option (!) when something actually is urgent.
I'm sure I could think of more, but I don't want to seem overly cranky. =)
Comment by Kama Timbrell | June 9, 2009 |
For commercial email–I do hate when every story in an e-newsletter requires clicking through to a website. Especially if there is an interstitial ad.
Request Read Receipt. I think this should be used sparingly, as it falls under the Crying Wolf category.
Every email sent for business should have contact information in the signature. And usually full contact information. "Please send me a copy" is hard to do without shipping information.
Comment by Jean | June 10, 2009 |
Improper use of the cc option. If a person is cc'd, it means it's informational for them and no response is expected. Doesn't mean that the cc can't response, of course.
Liked the NT and # suggestions for subject line only messages – hadn't heard of that one before but if you have messages set to preview in Outlook a quick glance tells you there's no text.
Guess I shoudl learn how to turn off that auto-reply message from my Blackberry! Ha Ha
Comment by Mandy | June 10, 2009 |
I just wanted to say that I am with you on all points. I also am guilty of the email/treadmill and email while driving endangerment. I read all the book publicity press releases, and all the author pitch emails, as well as my daily PW & PL newsletters.
I think my biggest pet peeve is auto responders. Not the standard out of office ones, but several people I meet with often have a standard auto responder that replies to EVERY email. So when I shoot Jen a "let's meet, I'm in town email", I get her "thanks for your email, I will get back to you with in 24 to 48 hours" crap. Really? We are all busy right, but her auto responder just littered my inbox for no reason, AND I was actually waiting on a reply from her directly. I think auto responders should only be used with you are actually going to be away from email for an unusually period of time. Otherwise it seems very impersonal and inconsiderate.
Comment by Renee Giroux | June 11, 2009 |


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Sunday, April 04, 2010
Iran Used China Connection for Nuke Gear; Rattles Saber Over Gaza
Agencies Suspect Iran Is Planning Nuclear Sites
Article which has garnered considerable attention.
Obama Warns of Iran Threat to World Economy
Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Suggests Israel Must Be Prepared to Attack Iran
Iran Rattles Saber Over Gaza
Iran used China connection for nuke gear
Chavez Says Russia Offers Venezuela Nuclear Help
UK troops losing limbs rises sharply
Fifty four men lost at least one limb last year, more than the total for the last three years, report shows
Al-Qaida bombs hit Baghdad
IMF Fed E. Europe Crisis to Get Work: Czech C. Banker
Geithner Delays Currency Report, Urges Flexible Yuan
Why Asian Nations Have Stayed Quiet on Yuan Debate
FBI Warns on Letters to Governors
Unemployed Cloud the Jobs Picture
More Debtors Find Wages Being Garnished by Creditors
What Bailout Billions Bought
Again, The Big Problem With Unemployment Is The LENGTH OF TIME People Are Unemployed
158,000 Personal Bankruptcies In March, 75% of them Chapter 7
Unions Had Their Turn, Now Municipal Utilities Sink Teeth Into The LA Budget
David Petraeus for President: Run General, run
Russia rail bombs seen linked to Moscow attacks
Email from a Chinese on China's Real Estate Bubble
Bangkok protesters refuse to disperse
Dash for Poland's gas could end Russian stranglehold
Soros backs Oxford to refresh economics
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Disaster filmmaker declares situation in Haiti out of control
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Farm for the Future
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Households 'throw out half a ton food-related waste'
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- gamedog said...
more for Elmo on ANPR (news right on cue ITYS lol)
"John Catt who, at the age of 80, in 2005 was stopped with his daughter Linda and had their car searched under the Terrorism Act. They were threatened with arrest by City of London police if they failed to answer questions.
After they complained, it emerged that their car had been secretly "flagged" on the police computer because it had been spotted in Brighton near a demonstration against the arms trade. "
- Elmo said...
Exactly! ... They were threatened with arrest. They should have demanded to be arrested!
I think you misunderstood me gamedog. I don't say ANPR isn't a problem. I'm saying that if a few more people were a little less compliant --and a whole lot less fearful-- they wouldn't be doing that sort of thing. The one thing the powers-that-be can't stand is to be embarrassed.
Take, for example, that case where they busted the 70 year old woman for selling a goldfish to a 14 year old. Why do you think they do that kind of shit? Because it makes people just a little more afraid to challenge authority. Like feeding Christians to the lions! If she'd have gone into the courtroom and flatly refused to admit to any wrong-doing or pay any kind of fine, she most likely would have sat the night in jail on a contempt charge, and they'd have discreetly let her go the next day. The public would have never heard a word about it.
Now, I'm sure some legal expert will chime-in and tell everyone how utterly full of shit I am, and that I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about; but I happen to have firsthand experience on the matter. Their power is your fear!
Every time you say "yes sir", "no sir" to those pricks, they get just a little more arrogant. And if people keep bowing to them, then pretty soon you won't even be allowed to breathe in public without carrying a permit.
- businessman said...
gamedog...I just saw an interview today with the former head of Homeland Security here in the U.S. He mentioned that the new format for screening suspected terrorists at airports will involve, among other things, "a partial matching of passport numbers." I just hope the new format that the police are using with cameras on their cars, looking for suspected license plate numbers in the area, doesn't involve just a partial matching of license plate numbers in order to pull someone over.
- Soggy Bottom said...
If we are to ever change the way that money works surely a little study of alternatives would give us some guidelines to pursue.
There are those on this blog who believe that no society on the planet will survive collapse - in any civilised way. I beg to differ.
Surviving, I would not wish to continue operating within a monetry system such as we have now. Therefore I would like to be as informed as I can be on the alternatives.
As I have commented previously, fear is their greatest weapon.
So I'm with you on this one.
- Raymond said...
elmo, here's another one to add to the list of "anecdotes of our time" - here is australia, it is now illegal to leave your car unlocked, punishable by $120 fine.
- Elmo said...
British households 'throw out almost half a ton of food-related waste'
I don't have any figures on it; but I would guess that in the U.S. we pitch at least twice that amount. I never realized how much really went into the garbage until I started composting.
- Elmo said...
"Alys Fowler predicts, people will look back at ornamental gardens and gasp at our extravagance — imagine growing plants you can't eat! "
Hey, now! I happen to LIKE my Japanese maple!
- Elmo said...
Oh, and going back to what PeakedOut said about people speaking up...
I have read quite a huge volume of material on this blog, from some very interesting and intelligent people. But I must say that the person who has impressed me the most here, so far, has been Jenna. Not because I have heard her utter the greatest volume of wisdom, or have had any deep and meaningful conversations with her; but because I would have never in a million years expected her to let 3/4 of my posts get past her censor. To this day, she has only ever refused one of my postings; the reason for which was perfectly understandable... I had pretty much asked for it!
Never before have I visited any moderated website whose moderator didn't pick and choose to allow only those postings which fit his/her/group's personal viewpoint. My hat is off to Jenna, and to anyone else who is responsible for the content of this blog!
- gamedog said...
I see your point Elmo (I've studied the freeman movement) and agree to a point. However, I know a little about the goldfish lady, my sister lives round the corner and shops there, all locals were saying similar things to you. She did break the law (selling pets to underage) so if she had pled innocent, the magistrates (no jury - just 3 JPs) would have passed the case to crown court, where (she was advised by her solicitor) costs might exceed £50k (she'd have to pay legal expenses for both sides) if found guilty. The judge would have had to direct the jury to give a guilty verdict because she did in fact break the letter of the law (which is an ass). To plead innocent she would have to show she did not sell a pet to underage which is unlikely considering the council had video evidence. I'd have done the same in similar circumstances because it's not worth losing your house/life savings over. It's OK to fight these fights if you have no assets, you can claim legal aid, let someone who has nothing to lose fight these silly laws.
regarding my other post getting stopped on ANPR myself, had I been in-compliant, I guarantee I'd have been arrested (for obstruction, or detained to prove identity or some such bollix), my car impounded, and eventually released without charge, to face a vehicle storage/recovery fee of £130 +£12 per day storage. I was happy to answer the police "ja" & "Nein" (allo allo style) to every question, a few of them knew what I was implying ;) (google allo allo if you don't get it)
Pick your fights wisely!
- Sebastian Ernst Ronin said...
Elmo, your generalizations are cute. Anyone who resorts to using "the powers that be" to bolster what is, in effect, a political discourse automatically profiles himself.
A legal hint: if and when charged/busted by the state, simply ask the state's representative if the entity being charged/busted is a "person" or a "human being." The question will likely make their eyes glaze. Further hint: the former is a corporate entity dealing with another corporate entity, i.e. the state. Last hint: if no contract has been willfully entered into, it is an impossibility to break contract.
Might it be any wonder why the state-sanctioned ideology of political correctness (with attendant designation of "personhood") is so high on the priority list?
- eyeballs said...
I like your spirit, and your posts are refreshing and very insightful. However, I want to caution about being the one to teach the authorities a lesson. Sure, if everyone stood up against authoritarianism, there would be none of it. But we don't have that kind of world.
"We the people" have been so dumbed down and infatilized over the years by consumerism and law-and-order fear-mongering and by deliberated encouragement of our worst habits (such as overeating, or ranging around in cars for no reason) that today, "we the people" will not do the mature, responsible thing.
Now, being part of ... eh, maybe 1 or 2 percent who see pretty clearly and have a Life of your own, you think, "Hey, someone's gotta teach these monkeys a lesson." But stop and realize that there is no righteous mob behind you. There is a very unrighteous mob in front of you.
The system is gearing up right now to deal with what will certainly be a lot of dissent, chaos, disorder. None of that will "take back America" (or Britain) and none of it will teach cops to behave. Unfortunately it will lead to a lot more authoritarianism, each time someone makes a dramatic statement against it. Until the point that the center fails and we're all on our own.
Many people think anarchy will be a bunch of laughs -- no authoritarian bullshit to deal with. But if you can imagine millions of people uncertain about their future meals, their homes and cars, the safety of their kids, ALL AT ONCE, with no cops and no laws ... that's not a pretty picture. All that will have to play out before anything better than Uncle Sam with a cattle prod can be born.
I happen to be among those who believe something good can come out of collapse. You think we're all gonna die. (Well, we are, but maybe not all at once.) I'm thinking, civilization is a persistent idea, and will continue to plague us for some time to come. The good that can come is that smaller, saner knots of human interaction can develop relatively peaceful interaction in the aftermath of a huge and painful change.
I strongly recommend "Take cover!" rather than "Stand up for your rights!" Time and a place for everything.
Jes m'own humble 'pinion, boss.
- eyeballs said...
(Machine chewed up my earlier post, at least I think it did. This happens often. Pardon if this is a repeat.)
I well respect your recent contributions. But I want to warn against teaching the authorities a lesson. They will not change. The system will not change. "We the people" have become an infantilized population of consumers. If you stand up to authority, you stand alone. Even if 200,000 march in the streets, nothing happens. Partly that's because they didn't try to make anything happen, because if they did the tanks would close in, or the tear gas would fly, arrests would be made, careers ruined. Can't have that.
People are not going to stand behind you. You'll end up being biometrically tagged, labeled a problem, punished, and watched. This is not the time to stand up. This is the time to take cover.
Big things are happening, and The State is not in control. Still, state functionaries will strive to assert control, and non-state actors (mafias, racial and religious militias, local power groups) will be armed, aggressive and ready to kick butt. If you want to play that game, good luck and it was nice hearing from you while you lasted.
AFTER the machine crashes (and, to some extent, quietly, as it does) there will be room to move, to assert the Right Way, to teach and to insist. But now is the time to get out the damn way because an insane, dying system is thrashing desperately in its last days, and it need not take you with it.
One man's opinion, is all.
- Scott said...
- Elmo said...
I'm not saying she should have plead "innocent". I'm saying she should have gone before the magistrate, and said "your law is ridiculous and there's no way in hell I'm going to endorse it!" Yeah, she'd probably do some jail time; but it might save someone else some similar grief. And they're counting on you being afraid of losing your ASSets... That's why they pick on little old ladies, and not ASSholes like myself!
"Sure, if everyone stood up against authoritarianism, there would be none of it. But we don't have that kind of world."
Ummm.... Yeah... Exactly!... And WON'T until we DO, I figure!
"But if you can imagine millions of people uncertain about their future meals, their homes and cars, the safety of their kids, ALL AT ONCE, with no cops and no laws ... that's not a pretty picture."
Yeah, I CAN imagine it; which is how I know that all of my gardens are an exercise in futility. Still, I am not willing to go back the way I came.
"I strongly recommend "Take cover!" rather than "Stand up for your rights!""
Well, I wholeheartedly agree with that! Trouble is, we've cut down all the trees, and we're pretty much out in the open here.
What I'm saying is that when you do have to deal with seemingly insurmountable force, it is never in your best interest to just reflexively submit.
Remember all those millions of people who walked willingly into the showers? They all went in desperately clinging to the notion that someone was going to rescue them at the very last minute. Didn't happen! Only the dissenters stood any real chance of survival. And I don't mean the loud-mouths with the megaphones; I mean the ones who refused to be directed into the pens in the first place, who had the good sense to cut-and-run when the option presented itself, and not worry about others calling them a coward! And I think that if I read you correctly, you would concur.
I understand about being "labeled and watched". I've been watched my whole life! Why do you think I stuck my picture up on my profile, with all the information anyone would need to find me? I'm not going to HIDE from these people! This is MY world just as much as it is THEIRS! They don't own SHIT! And they certainly aren't my SUPERIORS!
Y'all can hide if you want to; I really don't blame you! But just don't think they won't come looking for you, 'cuz they live for the hunt!
- eyeballs said...
I watched it. I sent it around. It was horrible. But thank you.
How normal it all sounds, up in the gunship. That normal is the insanity that runs banks, universities, the intelligence community and the State Department, as well. It's where federal taxes go, the ones that don't bail out mega-rich banks.
- mrs p said...
Sometimes we have to forego the Macro and take care of the Micro issues and be local and concern ourselves with the here and now moments of our own immediate dirt. Heads up Californians. Check the USGS latest earthquake map: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/
See the lines of activity just in the LAST HOUR, (in RED), with events in and around and moving north towards the san andreas. We're having hundreds of aftershocks in S. CA some only 15 minutes apart. The activity has been culminating for months and years but when you look at the USGS map of quakes just in the few days, it's clear to many something different is going on and some say it doesn't look good. So heads up if you're in the area, depending on what you're doing, (moving around or being still), you may or may not feel the movements but we are feeling it! Get prepared. We're just sayin. mrs p
- Elmo said...
And, yeah... I think we're all going to bite the big one on this collapse, and here's why:
They --the ones will all the money and the guns-- will not relinquish control under any circumstance! If they can't maintain authority by any other means, then they will nuke the place!
And it won't take much for it to happen. I can't stress it enough how many beer-guzzling soldier-boys there are out there who can't wait to see those big dicks fly across the sky! And some of them have lots of stripes on their arm!
But, let's say for a minute that they don't get to play with their toys; and somehow we're able to shut-down their war machine for good... And maybe we can even manage to abolish all commercial enterprise entirely, and opt for a more sustainable way of living...
You're still left with the problem of what to do with all those decaying missile silos; nuclear waste dumps; chemical storage facilities; polluted ground water; drug-resistant diseases; leveled mountain ranges; topsoil that won't grow anything; dead zones in the oceans the size of North America; etc; etc; etc...
You're going to need a billion people just to clean all that up (if that's even doable)! And you had better pray that none of those people get's the bright idea to turn it into a profit-making industry, or you'll be fucked all over again!
So, do you see the problem? I don't think many of you do!
- gamedog said...
Re:David Petraeus for President: Run General, run
"With many voters yearning for an outsider, and military officers looked up to, General David Petraeus could be a powerful presidential candidate and a potentially accomplished President. "
Outsider my ass!
Petraeus is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The "outsider" Patraeus attended the Bilderberg meeting held in Greece in 2009!
- eyeballs said...
Says: We cannot complete your request. Said that last time, and I resent, but it had completed the damthing. Anyway, this time I copied before the machine ate it:
Yes, I do concur.
"...when you do have to deal with seemingly insurmountable force, it is never in your best interest to just reflexively submit.""
Absolutely right. You make an important distinction between lying down to be taken and not being there when the death wagon arrives. Yes, that's it, I think.
They can't nuke everyone. And there have to be not only a billion or so people left, as you say, but a usable infrastructure including the knowledge and information necessary, PLUS the WILL to clean up the horrible mess of the 20th century. Whoever does the nukin' most likely understands that. Maybe not. But there is that chance, that humankind will make it, and maybe improve in the process.
Your garden may be eaten by the starving masses. So plant more. Someone on this blog said "I'm planting in abandoned lots and my neighbor's yard." Plant plenty for everyone, all you can. Teach others.
"If we make it, we can all sit back, and laugh."
(King Crimson, 1970s)
Might as well try.
- Elmo said...
"it is now illegal to leave your car unlocked, punishable by $120 fine."
Yeah... And in a perfect world, everybody would protest that by leaving their cars unlocked and their windows down, with one of those windshield sun-screens covered with unpaid parking tickets! LOL
- Elmo said...
"Might as well try."
Oh, I AM trying! I've gained a reputation in my neighborhood for being "That Crazy Motherfucker"; "Prophet Of Doom"; "Arrogant Land-Thieving Bastard"... You name it, I think I've been called it! My only response is: "You might want to follow my lead, before Wal-Mart goes out of business."
Right now, I think I have managed to alienate just about everyone I know, by being such an insubordinate, unruly, disruptive, unCivilized, dangerous individual; but like I said: I have no plans on going back the way I came. That doesn't mean I'm holding onto any hope for a bright tomorrow... It just means I intend to go down fighting! :-)
Who knows what tomorrow brings? I'll be the first to tell you that my fortune-telling skills are a bit lacking. But from a purely technical perspective, I don't see any way out of it, save by divine intervention.
I don't believe that population is going to just "slide" back down to the 500,000 mark, as a result of financial collapse. I think it's going to be a cluster-fuck of catastrophes hitting us all at once! Therefore, I take the Bible at it's word. Why not, it's been right about everything else? 144,000 supposedly get to live to tell about it. Out of 7 billion, yeah, I'd call that Armageddon! And it sounds somewhat feasible, but I'm not counting on it. But, daddy knows best, right?
- Soggy Bottom said...
In the larger scheme of things planet Earth will survive us. Our presence, largely a destructive one, will simply be a blip in it's evolutionary passage.
Humanity however will not disappear for many a year to come.
There were people on this planet for whom the second world war never happened. It passed them by. True they were in places far from so called 'civilization', and such places, although probably now visible, would still contain pockets of humanity capable of continuing the human race.
We each live in very different points on this planet and have varying views on survival. We each will play our hand in the way we believe is right for us.
What is right for me and my circumstances will not be the same for all.
I don't believe my survival is important, what is important to me is how I 'played the game'.
(For those unfamiliar with the game of cricket the quote is:
It matters not who wins or loses but how you play the game.)
- eyeballs said...
"That doesn't mean I'm holding onto any hope for a bright tomorrow... It just means I intend to go down fighting! :-)"
Be careful how you frame your intentions, Elmo. I don't intend to "go down fighting". I intend to learn and grow and help and see what happens. And I would very much like to WIN.
That doesn't mean I will get everything I wanted. For me, Life as We Know It ended in North America about 1880. How would I get huge primeval forests and rivers full of clean water, packed with salmon? What are my chances of hippies living lightly on the land, like Gaskins Farm in Tennessee, as the NORM rather than the exception?
We've lost a great deal, and will likely endure huge losses in the coming time. But what I've found is that you can lose a lot and still have a field of action, from which good consequences can arise. Like, when the girl of your dreams tells you to shove off, and you think it's the end of the world, only it's not -- and later you thank your stars she married some scumbag lawyer because then you met some really nice people and got into some good things and didn't have to live that woman's soap-opera fantasy. Or something.
Amazonian Indians will not miss industrial civilization. Those of us to whom frozen pizza and 3D movies were the very meaning of Life, will suffer horribly. I'm somewhere in between, so I expect to suffer some. But I know that it aint necessarily the end of everything, so I'm doing my best to make whatever DOES happen as good as it can be.
And that's the good fight.
And why should I plan on losing?
- Elmo said...
OOps! Make that 500,000,000. I always forget those last 3 zeros!
- Elmo said...
"How would I get huge primeval forests and rivers full of clean water, packed with salmon? "
Well... I don't see it as a simple matter of having lost a few forests or a few fish. I see it as us having gained the mentality of the superman -- the Übermensch -- who, being so wise and intelligent, will improve on creation itself.
What is it that we do here? We talk about them, them them, as if we somehow could have done better! We offer ideas to each other on how to live; when even animals without brains can figure that one out! This is the force that drove us out of the garden, and set us on a path to conquer the entire planet. We believed we could make a "better world" for ourselves; and now that it's done, here we are drowning in our own shit!
I've been waiting all my life to hear one person... Just one fucking person... say that they're sorry they helped make it all happen. But that isn't what I find. Instead, I find a whole lot of finger pointing; and the same old endless "chattering of geniuses" who --this time-- are going to find a way to save mankind from himself!
This is hubris, my friend, and it is what brought the fall of every civilization that came before us!
So... Will this "collapse" bring the final solution? Possibly not. But I desperately hope that it does!
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Iranian woman [pictured] whipped 99 times for "spreading corruption and indecency" after allegedly appearing in a photo without a headscarf. If that's "corrupt and indecent", I wonder what publicly flogging a woman for (allegedly) showing some hair in a photograph is? (Or flogging somebody at all?)
Stupid in an unexpected place: Salon.com article description: "Why do we get so angry with animal abusers, but eat more animals than ever before? An expert provides some clues" We really need an "expert" to tell us how eating meat and abusing animals are not the same things?
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Fareed Zakaria: America overreacted to 9/11. Not in its suffering, but in the consuming fear that followed about an enemy that simply isn't that big a threat.
(via @todayspolitics)
During 9/11, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yelled at then-President Bush to stay out of Washington, DC as she and White House staff hid in a bunker that was running out of air.
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Just how blind have conservatives become? Another exposé on right-wingers being successfully hoodwinked by a blatantly satirical venue. (No, not The Colbert Report. This time.)
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A colleague at work shared that he'd just got engaged at the weekend and so of course I had to make a card, it would be rude not to wouldn't it? It was also a great excuse to use the luxurious new Bride papers and break open another new stamp set - Say It With Scallops.
This set works with the matching square scallop punch - I love how SU! match items together!
Stamp sets: Cheers to You, Say it With Scallops
Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Whisper White
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Punches: Square Scallop
Taffeta Ribbon: Bashful Blue
Other: Soft Subtle Brads, Dazzling Diamonds, Gold EP
The Bride paper is a good heavyweight paper already but as I was putting brads through and tying ribbon around it I backed it onto some Whisper White card first rather than risk creasing it. I could have used the Champagne glitter for the glasses but to keep the pastel look I instead coloured with Blush Blossom and added Dazzling Diamonds over the top for the softer look.
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One of the most refreshingly honest moments of the 2008 campaign came when Peggy Noonan, a columnist and former Republican speechwriter, was caught on a live mike calling the choice of Sarah Palin to run on the Republican ticket "political bullshit." She smoothed over her harsh remarks in a subsequent column, saying she liked Palin even if she wasn't sure the selection would be successful. But now that Palin has announced her plan to resign as Alaska Governor, Noonan apparently feels free to speak openly.
In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.
Noonan goes on to refute the most popular conservative arguments in Palin's favor, from her supposed working-class credentials to the idea that she upsets the mainstream media.


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Myanmar leader says no ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
SHAFAQNA – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said ethnic cleansing was too strong a term to describe what was happening in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
"I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening," said Suu Kyi who is facing international criticism for her government's handling of a crisis in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region.
Attacks on Myanmar border guard posts in October last year by a previously unknown insurgent group ignited the biggest crisis of Suu Kyi's year in power, with more than 75,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh in the ensuing army crackdown.
A United Nations report issued earlier this year said Myanmar's security forces had committed mass killings and gang rapes against Rohingya which may amount to crimes against humanity.
The military has denied the accusations, saying it was engaged in a legitimate counterinsurgency operation.
"What we are trying to go for is reconciliation not condemnation," Suu Kyi told the BBC. "It is Muslims killing Muslims as well."
Rakhine has been the scene of communal violence at the hands of Buddhist extremists since 2012.
Hundreds of people have been killed and tens of thousands have been forced from their homes to live in squalid camps in dire conditions in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The government denies full citizenship to the 1.1 million-strong Rohingya population, branding them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Rohingya Muslims are believed to be a community of ancient lineage in Myanmar.
According to the UN, the Rohingya Muslims are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.


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