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A minimalist, Sheri currently lives in Chicago sans furniture with her dog, Kylee and her roommate and fellow writer, Mack Oliver. When she isn't writing, she's hanging out with all of her nieces and nephews every chance she gets.
Sheri's debut novel, Swallowtail, is available for the Amazon Kindle.
1. What inspired you to write Swallowtail?
As a family, we experienced the strangest events in our homes after my father passed away. He and I had always traded and discussed books on life after death, near death experiences, and the lives of mediums. He was my best friend. It finally dawned on me, had I been the one to die first, I would've done everything in my power to get his attention and prove I was still with him. I think this is what he was trying to do. I knew others were experiencing these things, and I wanted to create a new platform for people to discuss these experiences more openly. I suspected most might feel more comfortable, discussing these types of unusual experiences within the framework of a fictional story.
2. Would you share some examples of things you taught yourself about writing and publishing along the six-year path you followed from original idea to book publication?
The biggest thing I've learned during my six-and-a-half year journey was that everyone does not know more about everything than I do. This kind of defeatist thinking kept me from writing fiction for many years. Self-publishing really crushed that nonsense. I was constantly running into tasks that would freak me out. "Copyright? I don't know ANYTHING about that! How am I going to do that? It's probably really complicated!" I'd get all worked up only to discover it was usually something I could accomplish in less than fifteen minutes. Then I would calm down and have a really good laugh. This journey has been a major confidence builder!
3. What attracted you to the e-book (and specifically the Kindle) format for your debut novel?
Swallowtail was with my agent for over a year before he signed me. He was dealing with some health issues. Then it made the rounds in NY for over a year. Two publishers were still sitting on it when I finally convinced my agent to let me self-publish. He'd talked me out of it three times, bless his heart. I felt like I'd given all my power away, though. I couldn't take it anymore. That's just not me. I was more patient with the traditional publishing process than I've been with anything in my life. I was very proud of the fact that I'd followed all the rules, but I also felt like I'd played by the rules long enough. Self-publishing, and more specifically all the marketing, is an insane amount of work. However, I love the fact that I shot my own cover and receive such priceless direct feedback from my readers! I try to remember that everything is unfolding as it should for my greatest good. I get frustrated when sales are slow, and then I think I've got to get past these gut-wrenching cries every time I get a new review. I just made the leap to Amazon's KDP Select and am very happy with it, so far. For whatever reason, Nook wasn't downloading correctly and I ran into technical problems with iBooks and Googleplay, as well. Eventually, I began to see obstacles like that as a sign that I was meant to go in a different direction, like with KDP Select. Not right away, mind you. Which is hilarious, considering Swallowtail deals an awful lot with signs, being open to them and recognizing them.
4. How does the process of writing the many book reviews you share on your blog help you grow as a writer?
My book reviews?! Oh my gosh, that's just for fun! I love to read, of course. I'm also a chauffeur until I'm a full-time writer, so I spend a fair amount of time inside airports, waiting to greet passengers. I read almost everything on my phone now. I love the rationalization, because it's time I absolutely cannot spend writing. I am not allowed to have my laptop with me when greeting a passenger. So I must read. No two ways about it. I refuse to just stand there, bored out of my gourd. That being said, I've been writing in the car for years, between customers.
Naturally, I want to share great reads, and especially heartbreakingly beautiful reads like Karen Kondazian's The Whip or Cheryl Strayed's Wild, with as many people as possible. Artists need to support artists, always. Writing book reviews is honestly, just me connecting with other writers and readers to discuss the things we love. Any writing I do probably helps me grow as a writer and a human being. I'd like to think every book I read and/or review does the same. Even books I don't like strengthen my sense of what I want to accomplish with my work, or more specifically, what I do and do not want to make people feel when they read my work. Until just recently, I couldn't understand why my work appeals to authors much more sophisticated than myself. I just couldn't understand it. I've since been told my writing speaks to people's hearts. I want to nurture and strengthen that gift as much as possible. I'm about to cry just thinking about how fortunate I am to have it.
5. What keeps you motivated to write, and what are you writing now?
Wow, what keeps me motivated to write? Honestly? Joy. It's just fun. I also love belonging to a world-class writers group. We have so much fun learning from one another and sharing all our highs, lows, and twisted writerly thinking. Writers groups have changed my life, no exaggeration. Go to Meetup, and if you can't find a good one, start a good one.
Now I'm working on Chokecherry, a work of contemporary fiction scheduled to be finished in February 2013. A third book will come out in September called Cleola (if I'm still in charge of publishing). I also have a children's book called Boo-Boo's Invisible Day and the bare bones of a memoir called Farm Kid... and more.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
And thus, early Friday morning, I'll be heading up to Oregon for a long overdue break. A Sabbath*, if you will.
It'll be about a 9-hour drive, by the way, so I'm happily taking music suggestions.**
*Hat tip to A.J. Jacobs. If you haven't read "The Year of Living Biblically", do it. Do it now!
**Though my 19-month old daughter has already made it clear what she'd like to listen to on the drive up. Yesterday, at the library, she toddled over to the audiobook section and immediately pulled George Carlin's "When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?" off the shelf. I really wish I could take credit for that level of awesomeness, but I think it's pretty much all her.
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- Fiat Lex said...
Soundgarden is a good choice for driving music. My personal fave songs are "Ty Cobb" and "Never the Machine Forever."
You may not know of Local H, but they are loud and angry, and their repetitions and driving rhythms sneakily downplay the piercing intelligence of their lyrics. "Machine Shed Wrestling" and "24 Hour Break Up Session" would both be awesome for driving, and are conveniently located on their most recent album.
Pearl Jam tracks which are good driving songs include "Last Exit" and "Do the Evolution" (which is just good on general principles).
If you like Bjork, my recommendations include "Innocence" and "Nature Is Ancient."
Tori Amos songs which would work include "Professional Widow" (there are some good remixes of it out there as well) and "Raspberry Swirl."
My boyfriend Dave says you need some Dead Hot Workshop, especially "A" and "Burger Christ."
Pretty much anything by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, or their previous incarnation, the Refreshments, makes great driving music. They are a little like Dead Hot Workshop, but a little more polished and well-enunciated and less sad.
If you need a classical music fix, I recommend some Arvo Part. Also I really like Messaien's "Quartet for the End of Time." Here is a link to the awesome story of how he came to write it.
Oh, and Mike Doughty, either solo ("Busting Up a Starbux") or with Soul Coughing ("Soundtrack to Mary") is always a winner.
I'm sure I will think of more recommendations as soon as I surf elsewhere!
:) Enjoy your vacation, and congrats to your sister-in-law for serving and for getting to come home!
- August 6, 2009 at 2:23 AM
- Geds said...
The world's greatest driving songs, in no particular order:
Dead Hot Workshop, "A"
Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, "Beautiful Disaster" and "Americano"
The Verve, "Rolling People"
Lovehammers, "Straight as an Arrow" and "Black Angel (Not Gonna be the One)"
Alternate Routes, "On and On We Whisper"
Lucky Boys Confusion, "Hey Driver"
Dave Matthews Band, "Two Step" and "#41"
Gin Blossoms, "Learning the Hard Way" and "Lost Horizons
Idlewild, "City Hall" and "No Emotion"
Jimmy Eat World, "A Praise Chorus"
Local H, "White Belt Boys," "High-Fiving MF," "All the Kids are Right," "How's the Weather Down There?"
Manic Street Preachers, "Stay Beautiful"
Mike Doughty, "Ways + Means"
Monster Magnet, "Silver Future" and "Spacelord"
Our Lady Peace, "Will the Future Blame Us?"
Pearl Jam, "Corduroy," "Hail, Hail," "Given to Fly," "Even Flow," "Rearviewmirror," "Gone," "Animal," "Breakerfall," "Inside Job"
Poe, "Walk the Walk," "Wild," "Hey Pretty (Drive-By 2001 Mix), "Could've Gone Mad"
Garbage, "Temptation Waits," "When I Grow Up"
Republica, "Ready to Go"
Radiohead, "Just"
Raine Maida, "Careful What You Wish For," "The Snake and the Crown"
Refreshments, "Banditos," "Nada," "Heaven or the Highway Out of Town," "Tributary Otis"
Richard Ashcroft, "Keys to the World"
School of Fish, "Three Strange Days"
Screaming Trees, "Nearly Lost You," "Sweet Oblivion"
Smashing Pumpkins, "Ava Adore"
Soul Coughing, "Rolling," "Super Bon Bon"
Soundgarden, "Loud Love," "Fopp," "Superunknown," "Like Suicide," "Burden in My Hand," "Ty Cobb"
Spacehog, "In the Meantime"
Stone Roses, "Love Spreads"
Stone Temple Pilots, "Interstate Love Song"
Um, y'know what? I should stop. Unless you don't want me to.
- August 6, 2009 at 1:07 PM
- The Woeful Budgie said...
I know of Local H, but the only song I'm familiar with is "Bound for the Floor", which got some radio play for a while.
Pearl Jam is totally a go. I've got that covered. They were one of the first bands I started listening to when I was coming out of the Christian-bubble and developing my own taste in music. Later on, "Corduroy" became sort of a deconversion anthem for me, along with "I Am Mine".
I like Tori, though I think, like with Ani DiFranco, I have a hard time getting into the music itself. I know, I know, shame on me. I keep trying, but I think I'm more of a Fiona Apple kinda gal.
I must confess, though, that I have never Bjorked. (I'm sorry. That's just a name that begs to be verbed.) I may have to give it a go sometime!
Wow! Thanks!
Excellent suggestions, all. This is gonna be a good trip.
- August 7, 2009 at 12:47 AM
- sinned34 said...
I know I'm a little late, but I can't help but comment:
For some great Prog Rock, check out Porcupine Tree and Riverside. My recommendations are:
Porcupine Tree - "Lazarus", "Arriving Somewhere Not Here", "Halo", "The Sound Of Muzak", "3", "Blackest Eyes", and "Even Less"
Riverside - "Panic Room" and "Conceiving You"
For modern rock with a "classic" vibe, try Clutch, Audioslave, and the Odds. My favorites:
Clutch - "Regulator", "Mercury" and "The Mob Goes Wild"
Audioslave - "I Am The Highway", "Like A Stone" and "Be Yourself"
Odds - "Eat My Brain" and "Heterosexual Man"
For something heavier yet still accessible, try Ra. My wifes favorites include:
Ra - "Taken", "Rectifier", "I Believe", "On My Side", "Only" and "Say You Will"
For one of the best bands ever, Check out Tool (warning: this is venturing into progressive metal)
Tool - "Aenema", "Forty Six & 2", "Stinkfist", "Schism", "The Pot", "Sober" and "Vicarious"
For "Tool Lite", try A Perfect Circle - all the intelligence of Tool, but a more mainstream sound:
A Perfect Circle - "Passive", "Judith", "Three Libras", "The Hollow", "The Outsider" and "Weak And Powerless"
The premiere black metal band Opeth has a number of very pretty songs that are basically Prog Rock (warning, don't venture far from these songs into the rest of Opeth's discography unless you're a metalhead!):
Opeth - "Harvest", "Windowpane", "Atonement", "To Rid The Disease", and "In My Time Of Need"
- August 19, 2009 at 11:15 PM

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What time did you get up this morning? 7:00am
Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds.
What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Harry Potter IV
What is your favorite TV show? CSI
What did you have for breakfast? Haven't had anything yet - but will be a low fat carrot muffin
What is your middle name? Katherine - don't use my first name
What is your favorite cuisine? no favourite, just food in general
What food do you dislike? lamb and most types of seafood/fish
What is your favorite potato chip? Miss Vicki's original
What is your favorite CD at the moment? Too many to choose from but let's say Edvin Marton - Virtuosso since that is in the cd player in the car right now
What kind of car do you drive? 2006 Cadillac CTS
Favorite sandwich? BLT with cheese
What characteristics do you despise? Lying and laziness (which is funny since I'm notoriously lazy!)
What are your favorite clothes? black pants (sort of like jeans) top and cardigan
If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Japan
What color is your bathroom? Navy blue
Favorite brand of clothing? Gap but I rarely shop there as nothing fits!
Where would you want to retire to? Budapest, Hungary
Favorite time of day? late night
Where were you born? Alberta
Favorite sport to watch? Figure Skating and European Soccer
Coke or Pepsi? Coke
Are you a morning person or night owl? a night owl,
Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with everyone? Nothing yet...
What did you want to be when you were little? wealthy
What is a favorite childhood memory? Too many to list, but definitely spending the summers in Hungary with my grandparents and cousins
What are the different jobs you have had in your life? You mean you are supposed to work?? Seriously though, not many...embarassingly few so I won't mention them...
Nicknames? katica - which I use online and cica by my dh
Any piercings? Onein my right ear, three in my left
Eye color? Hazel
Ever been to Africa? No and don't plan on it
Ever been toilet papering? No
Been in a car accident? Yes.
Favorite day of the week? Thursday or Friday
Favorite restaurant? here - Smuggler's or Sushi Tokyo, Budapest - Hax'n Kiraly, Fozelekfalo and Bueno Vista (though I prefer the cafe part of it better than the restaurant)
Favorite flower? Many - Irises, Roses, Sunflowers, Daisies and a bunch more that I can't remember names for
Favorite ice cream? Chocolate and Coffee
Favorite fast food restaurant? McDonald's
Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? Any cross stitch store of course or IKEA
Bedtime? Depends, if I'm working then around midnight if not then 1-2am
Last person(s) you went to dinner with? Kati, Morgan and Laci
What are you listening to right now? silence - nothing other than the washing machine
What is your favorite color? Black and blue
How many tattoos do you have? None (yet...)
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I have a bit of free time this weekend (doesn't happen too often), so I thought I'd do a little update. With only three weeks of classes remaining until finals I'm beginning to feel the "pre-stress" of the approaching storm.
One of the things that will make the coming weeks a tad constrained as far as time goes is my participation in CLU's production of Into the Woods. Despite being a large time commitment, it's really quite a bit of fun. It's nice to be able to play in a small ensemble where your part really counts. I'm the only clarinet so that's a new challenge in itself. If you're interested in coming down for the show, it runs April 30-May 3. I'm not sure yet what I can get as far as tickets, but if you're interested let me know. More info here.
We got a nice little Easter break last week. It was fun to head home and see everybody. As you can probably tell by the previous post, the boys were pretty excited about the Easter Bunny. That was a nice weekend. One of the highlights had to be the acquisition of my NEW A clarinet. It's a buffet R-13 and it's awesome. She's a real beauty. I'll be breaking it in this week with a performance of Stravinsky's Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo on a student recital.
Other than those exciting items, I'm basically keeping busy as usual. Josh and Sheena came up to Cal Lu this weekend for a tour and to get a feel of the campus during the annual Scandinavian Festival. We were able to hit some fun stuff and I think all had a good time. My hospital CCE Internship is going well. I recently got word my rotation this summer will be in Labor and Delivery...should be pretty interesting.
We've covered a bit of really basic neurophysiology in my Bio class recently so I was excited the other day when I happened upon a site known as the "mouse party" where you can drag a number of stoned mice on a variety of different drugs into a chamber that reveals the science behind the drug. Pretty interesting stuff.
In case you didn't get the memo, don't eat Domino's Pizza. Both employees in the video were fired.
Keeping in the theme of gross restaurants, it's pretty well known that you're not getting food that looks like what the fast food restaurants actually advertise. It's about time time somebody actually setup advertisement vs reality side by side.
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Whale Expert Provides First Hand Account of Queen of the North Oil Spill Response
"Hello Gerald,
I wanted to give you an update on what we know is going on around Gil Island regarding the oil spill. We had a chance to get out on the water on Sunday, the day the underwater cameras were deployed.
We travelled north in Whale Channel to the side close to the shoreline. We were not able to find any spilled diesel along that shore. Having said that, it is very difficult to make out any spill from a boat, compared to a bird eye view a plane or helicopter would provide. We later scanned the beaches around Farrant and Fin Island helping out the people of Hartley Bay to find any debris, especially life jackets, left from the Queen of the North.
There were at least four boats from Hartley Bay working the beaches. It sure looks like that they are left to do the major part of the clean up. The north side of Fin Island seems to be affected quite heavily from the diesel. A seal haulout along that shoreline is covered in diesel, no seals on the rock which is very unusual. High winds prevented the boats to travel the west side of Fin Island. An unconfirmed report states that the diesel has reached the Estevan Island group.
As of this morning it sounds like that Burrard Clean is going to stop recovering the spill soon as there is not much diesel coming to the surface. At that point the people of Hartley Bay and this ecosystem will slowly vanish off the public eye.
We are expecting the first pods of Killer whales soon in this area. We will do our best to monitor their movements through the area and their possible contact with the spilled oil.
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It's been almost a week now that I'm coughing so hard. Back pain and chest pain are all I feel when I cough! Its so disturbing and kind of shameful when coughing in public areas like on trains or at the restaurants. And even during our sleep. When cough attacks, my children could be awaken by the noise of it!
I suppose not to be sick! It couldn't be. I already took medicines but it doesn't seems helping at all. Oh! In JESUS name! get away me!
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Rainy days and Autumn!
Its raining everyday ! The weather becomes colder and colder and its getting dark from week to week that passes. My children got cough and colds and so are we. Now its officially autumn, its time to change our wardrobe again. Set aside summer wear and hello winter clothes. Sweaters and boots are already in.
Trees has changed their colours and leaves are falling. People outside are seldom seen in our place during times like this. It will be a time to rest again and for me , time to write how I feel everyday! I thanks gOd for every season. There's always a good thing it brings to life! Have a great day everyone!
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(06-09-2010 02:07 PM)Stark Raving Wrote: Godwins Law applies to all internet forum threads. Topic is irrelevant. Also (speaking for myself here of course) whether it's appropriate to bring up Hitler/Nazis/propeganda or not, I can't help remembering Godwins Law whenever it comes up.
I think it can be spun appropriate in many ways in a thread asking about Karl Marx. After all, head Nazi propagandist Goebbels was influenced by a lot of the Russian propaganda used by the Marxists.
In a lot of ways I enjoy the ideals of Marx and see there has been many successful assumptions he proclaimed. Conversely, it pains me to see where he was wrong often because of he seemed to have too much faith in the collective power of humanity.
He held the belief that capitalism could not stand within a democratic system; because, the common folk would vote for the candidates who help them economically opposed to the ones who extort them. Well maybe the case has just been a good use of indoctrination or control by focusing other irrelevant topics into politics but that idea has been a failure. It makes me fear how humanity can be so misinformed or ignorant.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Paura nella città dei morti viventi (City of the Living Dead) (1980)
"In 1747 the Reverend Abijah Hoadley, newly come to the Congregational Church at Dunwich Village, preached a memorable sermon on the close presence of Satan and his imps; in which he said:
'It must be allow'd, that these Blasphemies of an infernall Train of Daemons are Matters of too common Knowledge to be deny'd; the cursed voices of Azazel and Buzrael, of Beelzebub and Belial, being heard now from under Ground by above a Score of credible Witnesses now living. I my self did not more than a Fortnight ago catch a very plain Discourse of evill Powers in the Hill behind my House; wherein there were a Rattling and Rolling, Groaning, Screeching, and Hissing, such as no Things of this Earth cou'd raise up, and which must needs have come from those Caves that only black Magick can discover, and only the Divell unlock.'
"Mr. Hoadley disappeared soon after delivering this sermon; but the text, printed in Springfield, is still extant." (1)
As a traditional narrative, Paura nella città dei morti viventi fails. My chief complaint towards the plot is the complete lack of desperation and fear driving the main characters. Mary Woodhouse (Catriona MacColl) and Peter Bell (Christopher George) are attempting to find the village of Dunwich before All Saint's Day. At midnight at this appointed time, shit will go from bad to worse, and the gate of hell will open unto the city of dead. In my opinion, the opening of the gate of hell is a strong motivation to get one's ass into gear. In an endearing sequence yet one that completely undermines the story, Peter, in a fit of frustration, pulls his road map and attempts to find a navigable road to Dunwich. Mary exits the vehicle and flirtatiously asks Peter to take a break and go for a meal. MacColl has a beautiful smile and most could not resist her charms (including me). Peter, with a beaming smile on his face, succumbs to Mary's wishes, and the two wisp off to the local town to get a meal (and some information).
In a dramatic sense, this scene is designed to show these two characters growing together and, maybe, growing closer romantically. Earlier in the film, Peter nearly crushed poor Mary's head with a pickaxe. Why? Mary is a medium, and during a séance, she witnessed in a vision the suicide of a priest in the village of Dunwich. The subsequent evil which would come with this priest's death was also made available to Mary during her vision. This vision was so powerful that it knocked Mary into a death-like trance, so convincing that she was pronounced dead and was half-buried in a coffin in a cemetery. In a gasping fit for air, Mary screamed from her coffin where only Peter was in earshot to hear her. He pulled a pickaxe and drove it as hard as he could into the coffin, several times, specifically in the region where her head laid. He almost kills her but rescues her. Now Mary wants a snack. This is understandable.
Dardano Sacchetti admits that he and Lucio Fulci were unable to work for a year after the phenomenal success of Zombi 2. (2) He writes that, "Well, Fulci, in the long run, managed to persuade the Medusa people to finance Paura nella città dei morti viventi, which I consider one of our least successful films in as much as it was thought out and shot in an atmosphere of sheer desperation." (3) Catriona MacColl states that, "I spent a lot of time in Italy which I adore. City was done in the spring. I think that we were in the States in April or May. We would do two or three weeks in Georgia, or Boston or New Orleans, and then about six weeks in Rome. Fulci wasn't actually present at the dubbing, he had a dubbing director take care of it. On City he was still shooting when we dubbed it." (4) Fulci began shooting Black Cat (Gatto Nero) on the day Paura nella città dei morti viventi premiered in Roman cinemas. (5) From the little information that I was able to gather in regards to this film, it would appear that Paura nella città dei morti viventi was a hurried production. With this information in mind, many of these flaws are forgivable, and for the forgiving viewer, Paura nella città dei morti viventi is an entertaining Italian horror film.
Like L'aldilà (1981), the best Lucio Fulci cinema are works of haphazard beauty, full of contradictions. Paura nella città dei morti viventi is no exception. The opening low-key sequence in the cemetery where the priest enters to commit suicide is an effective atmospheric set piece. (Sergio Salvati's photography is always beautiful, but his work is in top form in Paura.) One of the most famous sequences of the film, where a young woman regurgitates her innards, is preceded by one of Fulci's most affecting images: the young woman whose eyes bleed like tears. This image conjures many themes, mostly religious, yet this image even without a context, is extremely beautiful.
Despite the weak narrative of Paura, the film has some brilliant episodes. For example, Janet Agren plays Sandra, a patient of local Dunwich therapist, Gerry (Carlo De Mejo). She's alone at home one evening and painting. She hears a strange noise and goes to investigate. Sandra calls Gerry, because she doesn't know if she's gone crazy after what she has seen. Gerry arrives and goes to look in her kitchen where the dead body lays of a woman who died days previously. How did her corpse get into Sandra's kitchen? Who knows? This scene is also reminiscent of a famous scene in Stephen King's 1975 novel, 'Salem's Lot, where Matthew Burke invites Benjamin Mears over to his house to witness the corpse of Mike Ryerson. It's one of those fantastic sequences where totally rational people are forced to deal with the completely irrational. They're not used to it, and it's both kind of creepy and amusing to watch them squirm.
Fulci certainly doesn't mind putting his gore on display nor his sadism (the drill scene suffices in this respect). I cannot think of another film which has such a striking balance of the visceral and the atmospheric ethereal. And Catriona MacColl was a real jewel who elevated Fulci's cinema mightily. Paura nella città dei morti viventi, like L'aldilà, is an extremely important film in Italian horror cinema.
1. "The Dunwich Horror." H.P. Lovecraft. The Best of H.P. Lovecraft Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. Del Rey Ballantine Books. New York: 1982. p. 100.
2. Spaghetti Nightmares. Edited by Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta. Fantasma Books. Key West, Florida: 1996. p. 124.
3. Spaghetti Nightmares. Edited by Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta. Fantasma Books. Key West, Florida: 1996. p. 124.
4. Beyond Terror The Films of Lucio Fulci. Stephen Thrower. FAB Press. Surrey, England, U.K: 1999. p. 160.
5. Beyond Terror The Films of Lucio Fulci. Stephen Thrower. FAB Press. Surrey, England, U.K: 1999. p. 160.
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- Alex B. said...
To this day I believe CITY to be an underrated film. This was the movie that converted me. My first dip into Italian horror. I had it on the same VHS tape as Fulci's ZOMBIE. I think I was 14. After seeing CITY I actually shoved that tape into a dusty corner for a year, so shaken and disgusted I was. During the final confrontation in the crypt I was praying for a happy end. So they kill the priest. And then that final freeze-frame comes! For about a year I suffered nightmares. That priest, his eyes. CITY is the only movie I can think of that ever affected me so strongly. I was shocked by how crude, direct simplistic (but effective) it was. Didn't give a shit about narrative. I still don't in films. About a year later I dared re-watch CITY and ZOMBIE and couldn't get enough. I'd re-watch them steadily once a fortnight, sometimes more often. At the time, I had no clue who Fulci was, what he looked like,w whether he was alive or not, where those films were made. All I knew was that they were the most special and enigmatic kind of films I'd ever seen. My copy was dubbed from French into Russian and the opening title credits said FRAYEURS. Still have that tape, the one that changed me and my life.
- February 9, 2012 at 2:50 AM
- Hans A. said...
Alex, you write the best comments, ever. I love hearing your thoughts.
I've watched City many times in the last few days. I've been watching nothing but Italian cinema for the last few weeks. I cannot get enough of it. It's as if I rekindled a passionate love affair.
I didn't even mention Frizzi's amazing score in my review. That music haunts me.
- February 9, 2012 at 3:01 AM
- Alex B. said...
Thanks man!
Oh yes, that score. Sounds from beyond the grave. I now have 2 tapes and 2 different DVD's of CITY.
So, you gave in to the charms of Italian cinema once again? Sounds great. I'm in a tough spot at the moment. I download a lot more films that I can physically watch. It's only 2 or 3 nights a month now that I allow myself to sit down properly and watch a feature movie all the way through to the end without getting distracted by having to study or go shopping or whatever. Short films provide some kind of a solution when I haven't got the time to watch a feature. This way I recently discovered Kenneth Anger.
So I don't get to wallow in euro-cinema the way I used to. And when I have a choice whether to try out a rare film I've not seen before or to give Aenigma or Oasis of the Zombies a spin for the umpfteenth time, I usually go for the latter. Re-watching wins.
- February 9, 2012 at 4:42 AM


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Today, the rain stopped at 10AM. I saw sunlight, and glad to do some laundry as well. I finished my laundry and very glad to save water, because I used stocked rain water in our tank to wash my clothes.
At 4PM, I went to the mall to send my brother a package at LBC. Then I attended a mass at the church beside the mall. By the way, on my way to the mall, I passed by one of the bridges and so happy to see that the river water level was already low. I feel so blessed today.
A high school classmate, LP in her homecoming, who came all the way from US, invited us over for a dinner at their house. With my other six of my high school classmates, we meet at dunkin and LP fetched us.
We went to Aluba, I don't know the name of the subdivision, but it is a great big house. We went inside for a dinner and chitchat. We also tour around the house. I also learn that below that high land where we were, was the place affected by the flash flood.
Upon going home, we were able to pass the Macasandig Gym full of evacuees. I can't believe they all lost their homes. Because of the flash flood the other day, their houses were swept away by the waters. Some cows were also swept by the water. The floating restaurant of this city was also destroyed.
Also upon passing by the newly opened bridge, the bridge connecting Carmen and Macasandig, I learned that the rotonda the other day was filled with water. The said bridge was not used and that it caused heavier traffic in the city. I can't imagine how high the water that day and how many travelers were stranded.
I feel the need to write this blog, to ask assistance to those who can help. One of my classmates, Kagawad CRada of Barangay Consolasion, was not able to be with us that night because she was busy preparing goods for the affected families of the said incident in their area too. I was thinking my blog can make my readers extend help to those who need.
Let's pray that calamities become a blessing to us to help us realize that we have so much to give and share and help. May we become a blessing to each other always. God bless us!


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Monday, December 28, 2015
Why not someone like Scott Kazimr? Statistically speaking, he is one of the best available starting pitchers left on the free agent market. He's got the experience, and he opened up a lot of eyes this season, including mine. He could be a diamond in the rough for the Yankees. Question is, will the Yankees roll the dice and gamble?
I have to admit, this year Scott Kazmir looked different to me. I'm not sure what it was, but I think the Yankees would be crazy not to consider him. The Yankees have been far too quiet this off season and while I understand they wanted to stay away from the big names, this isn't a name like David Price and this price tag is more reasonable.
Kazmir has a lot of positives he can offer the Yankees. First, and probably most needed by the Yankees is that he is a left hander. The Yankees definitely need another lefty to add to the rotation and backup CC Sabathia. He is also durable, this season he pitched 183 innings and the previous year he pitched 190. The Yankees could use someone that can be dependable and pitch deeper into games so they don't burn that bullpen out. In his last five seasons, he has started in at least 28 games. How can you not like that?
One thing that really caught my eye this season was how strong Kazmir started the season. He ended the season with a 3.10ERA and it would've been even better if he had not struggled the last two months of the season. In September he started in six games and had an ugly 6.52 ERA. If he would have ended stronger, I bet Kazmir would have been a bigger target during the winter and he probably would've scored a big contract.
I will admit that the late season struggles are a concern, but a bigger concern for me is not getting another lefty that can eat innings. Kazmir is rumored to have some three year deals on the table, and could possibly be holding out for a four year contract. While I am not crazy about a four year contract, he would still be rather affordable and give the Yankees another solid arm in the rotation.
So will the Yankees take a chance? Maybe, if not now....will they ever? Stay tuned, maybe we could get a New Years day present instead.
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The Evil Former Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett did the same thing, created a climate of fear that the state was broke and we had to cough up extra money and stringencies needed to be put in place. Victoria is a relatively rich state in Australia. While he slashed and burnt things that were for the good of the public, he spent huge amounts of money on his personal pet projects.
Former Prime Minister John Howard did the same thing, to a lesser extent. "I promise not to reduce funding to our ABC". He did. "I promise not to introduce a goods and services tax in my term as Prime Minister." He did the next term. While his government did fund the rail connection from Alice Springs to Darwin, why? For his freight company mates? He came up with the remarkable phrases, 'core promise' and 'non core promise'. Apparently non core promises were worthless words from him.
Let me put it as plainly as I can. PM Abbott and Treasurer Hockey are playing us, making us think that our country can't afford our conditions. It is nonsense. We are a very rich country and we can afford to care for the less well off in our society. Our workers can have good conditions and if you are sick or really disadvantaged, the country can afford to look after you.
Don't wear this buttering up of us by conservative politicians who believe in big profits for big business, welfare for the rich, and bugger the poor.
I came across this a couple of days ago, and if there are government savings to had, try getting rid of what seems like thousands of managers, in both private and public sectors. We are drowning in management. I see it in my own workplace where one person is given an exit package and replaced by four people. I think using Japan below is a poor choice though. In my limited experience, there is huge over staffing in Japan, but maybe it not on a management level, but people to actually serve you.
"The Australian Public Service and the Japanese Public Service decided to engage in a competitive boat race. Both teams practiced hard and long to reach their peak performance.
On the big day they felt ready. The Japanese team won by a mile. Afterward, the Australians were discouraged by the loss. Morale sagged. Corporate management decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found, so a consulting firm was hired to investigate the problem and recommend corrective action.
The consultant's finding: The Japanese team had eight people rowing and one person steering; the Australian team had one person rowing and eight people steering.
After a year of study and millions spent analyzing the problem, the Australian Public Service concluded that too many people were steering and not enough were rowing on the Australian team.
So, as race day neared again the following year, the Australian team's management structure was completely reorganized. The new structure: four steering managers, three area steering managers and a new performance review system for the person rowing the boat to provide work incentive.
The next year, the Japanese won by two miles. Humiliated, the Australian Public Service laid-off the rower for poor performance and gave the managers a bonus for discovering the problem."


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But in that moment on that path Ruth makes this pledge: "Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die— there will I be buried. May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you! (Ruth 1:16-17)". Ruth chooses the harder path, for in that moment her life is changed. She chooses to follow not only God Almighty, El Shaddai; she chooses to become part of God' people; she chooses to follow the mother of her heart and not her birth.
I was on the outside when you said
You needed me
I was looking at myself
I was blind, I could not see.
A boy tries hard to be a man
His mother takes him by the hand
If he stops to think, he starts to cry
Oh why?
…I was looking through the window
I was lost, I am found.
…If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away
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"Christ has died.
Christ has risen.
Christ will come again."
Or was it maybe just some water vapour, or a couple of EasyJet planes crossing the Sussex skies?
Looking out of the window just before I left for church this morning I saw an unmistakeable cross in the blue sky of yet another gorgeous morning.
Coincidence? Or a sign?


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All ages are welcome from the age of 4 upwards. We aim for a ratio of one instructor to six learners.
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Are there ID requirements or an age limit?
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What are my transport/parking options?
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Here's what was happening one year ago in Emeryville:
Councilwoman Atkin Says School District Has "Backslid"
February 15, 2012
School District Called To The Mat
By Council
The Emery school board and the city council changed an earlier vote and unanimously granted $200,000 for consulting contractors to assist in a "change of culture" to implement programs associated with the Center of Community Life. The money request was rebuffed vigorously at a contentious January meeting wherein city councilwoman Ruth Atkin admonished the School District for "going down the wrong direction".
The January request for $200,000 to pay the consultants, the National Equity Project and Partners In School Innovation, jarred council member Ruth Atkin; "If we still need culture change after 10 years, we're going down the wrong direction, we're not being effective" she said adding, "This sounds like the School District has seriously backslid." Ms Atkin's colleagues chimed in expressing concern about the direction of the District. Ms Atkin noted the money request seemed to represent a disturbing drift in District policy, "The scale has swung to 'process' from academic achievement" she lamented.
Before a shovelful of dirt has been taken, the $200,000 ultimately approved at the February City/Schools meeting will be added to the $2 million of Measure J bond money already spent on the Center of Community Life, a school/community center project to be built on San Pablo Avenue.
Emeryville voters passed Measure J in November 2010 to authorize $95 million in bonds to build the Center of Community Life but crashing assessed valuation in Emeryville has dropped the bonding capacity to $40 million. District officials note $8 million was recently added by the federal government in the form of a low interest loan. The city's defunct Redevelopment Agency was to kick in an extra $25 million but those funds may now not be available, leaving just $48 million to build a project originally slated to cost $120 million.
Here's what was happening in Emeryville three years ago:
Council Overrides Planning Commission
February 15, 2010
Wareham Flexes Political Muscle
In an example of how some in Emeryville are more equal than others, a favored developer will likely gain approval for a bulky office tower without answering criticism from Emeryville's normally pliant Planning Commission.
Wareham Development Corporation, the builder of most of Emeryville's bio-tech and office complexes, is so confident that its planned 165-foot tall office tower and parking garage will sail through as-is, that the firm didn't bother to address any of the reasons the city's appointed Planning Commission cited when they rejected the building's plans two weeks ago.
Wareham didn't have to. The Planning Commission's ruling was appealed by Nora Davis and other members of the pro-business council majority.
The so-called "Transit Center," was rejected by the planning commission after it ruled that the accompanying environmental studies required by state law "lacked credibility." The commission also dismissed the resident amenities and benefits touted by the developer, as 'dubious.' One commissioner stated that the proposed building was clearly "out of scale" with the neighborhood.
A rejection of this sort, especially by a body seldom finding fault in any project, would normally cause reconsideration by the city bureaucracy or the firm making the proposal. But this is not a normal project, nor a normal city.
No need to go back to the blueprints. Wareham, and its leader, Rich Robbins don't need to listen. After all, this is a firm with the 'chutzpah' to name a parking garage and office tower a "Transit Center." Robbins is also a man with enough juice in Emeryville to get what he wants.
The council majority didn't even wait for Robbins to pony up the cost of filing an appeal. Instead, they appealed it themselves. Now the council gets the chance to overrule its own hand picked commissioners.
Tomorrow, the council will likely ignore the planning commission's objections and approve the project without alteration. Even the planning department's official report urges full acquiescence to Robbins wishes.
The project has created controversy over the years. Many millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies were demanded by Robbins and granted by the Council. Before the ink was even dry on the city's new general plan, a special exemption was added for Robbins' garage and tower. Construction will disturb one of the city's EPA Superfund Sites, a toxic legacy of a Westinghouse plant currently sealed beneath the Amtrak parking lot. Construction will excavate tons of PCBs and truck them through our community. Additionally, the Bike/Pedestrian Committee unanimously objected to what the project will do to the city's new and only Bicycle Boulevard----bring heavy traffic to a street from which bicycle lanes were removed.
The Council will consider their own appeal of the Planning Commission's decision Tuesday. To anyone who might want to witness an expression of raw political power, attend the meeting, scheduled to get underway at City Hall on Tuesday, February 16 at 7:15 p.m.


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The Elantra GT utilizes a 148 horsepower 1.8-liter four-cylinder to power the front wheels through a six-speed manual, or six-speed automatic transmission. Safety features includes a driver's side knee airbag - a first for Elantra. Traction and stability control augment the 4-wheel anti-lock brakes. Luxury items such as panoramic sunroof, power heated leather seats, cooled glovebox, navigation system, and more are available.
The Elantra GT is all-new for 2013. It replaces the Elantra Touring.


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This picture shows the drivers side of the body, and please note how there are no wooden blocks under it. Once I removed all of the blocks that were PREVIOUSLY holding it in place, the body fell into position nicely. Previously, load bearing sections of the body would flare out as the weight of the shell sagged on them. now that all of the weight is being supported by strategically mounted points, the body falls much more handsomely.
Here's the view on the passenger side.
And here, if you look closely, you can see the final mounting points I built inside the shell.
In related welding news, here's a picture of yet another complicated jig I set up in order to weld together some seams on the rear roll bar.
Lastly, another todo item that has been lurking on my list for a while has been completed. I finally ordered replacement sets of lug nuts for all of my wheels. A bit of an embarrassing story, but when I purchased my rims from centerline, I got the wrong lug nuts. They had the wrong thread pattern on them, but it was only SLIGHTLY wrong, which means they fit. But I have since figured out the right thread size I need, and ordered replacements.
Oh, in other news, Bo The Welder stopped by to take a look at my work, and did NOT immediately denounce all of my welding and insist that I do it all over again. Though my welds are certainly not up to his level of perfection, it appears as if they are in no danger of falling apart.
During BTW's visit, we also strategized on how to make the hood stay in place once the seam line is cut. He came up with a great idea that uses VW style hood latches and catches. I have since ordered four sets online, and will begin work on that part of the build as soon as is possible.


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Breakups Done Differently
Have you ever had a breakup that was, well, a disaster? Or maybe you've known somebody whose relationship ended and it was devastating and full of drama and trauma. What if something else was possible? What if there was a way to go through a breakup without the pain and … [Read more...]
Pragmatic Tools for Relationship Challenges
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anada's role in the invasion of Afghanistan, as an active combatant in operations against the Taliban and other insurgents in southern Afghanistan, has produced the largest number of fatal casualties for any single Canadian military mission since the 25th Canadian Brigade served in the Korean War.
A reported total of 85 members of the Canadian Forces have died in Afghanistan between February 2002 and June 14, 2008.
Of these,
73 were due to hostile circumstances
10 were accidents or other non-hostile deaths
39 soldiers have been killed in roadside bombings
11 died in unspecified hostile incidents
6 in RPG attacks
11 were killed in suicide bombings
6 died due to United States friendly fire
6 in vehicle accidents
1 in a mortar attack
2 from accidental falls
2 from accidental gunshots
and 1 suicide death...
April 18, 2002 (Tarnak Farm Incident)
On the night of April 18, 2002 an American F-16 fighter jet piloted by U.S. Air National Guard Major Harry Schmidt, dropped a laser-guided 227-kilogram (500 lb) bomb on the Canadians who were conducting a night firing exercise at Tarnak Farms, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Age: 24
Home town: Montréal, Québec
Unit: 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Edmonton, Alberta)
Corporal Ainsworth Dyer
Deceased: April 18, 2002
Incident: An American F-16 fighter jet dropped a laser-guided 225-kilogram bomb near Kandahar, accidentally killing four Canadian soldiers and injuring eight others.
BIO: Corporal Ainsworth Dyer was born in Montréal, Que., on July 29, 1977 and resided in Toronto, Ont. He enrolled with the Militia's 48th Highlanders of Canada as an Infantryman in February 1996 and transferred to the Regular Force in October 1997.After completing Battle School, Cpl Dyer was posted to 3 PPCLI in the spring of 1998, where he served as a Rifleman and deployed with 3 PPCLI on Operation Palladium to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2000. He later deployed with his battalion to Operation Apollo in Afghanistan where he was killed during a live fire exercise.
EULOGY: Words of remembrance written by Corporal Di Capua while serving in Afghanistan.


text: My fiance and I just got engaged and are probably going to elope, but we want to celebrate with a luncheon for family and friends upon our return. We are hoping to have a luncheon on a Sunday afternoon at a restaurant -- preferably one with a nice atmosphere and/or view and good food. Does anyone have good suggestions for restaurants that can accommodate between 150 - 180 guests? Because we are dispensing with the whole ceremony we would rather have our party at a restaurant versus a banquet room.


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Sucker Punch - 25 March 2011 (USA)
Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish
Storyline Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch Full Movie - A young girl (Baby Doll) is locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive stepfather where she will undergo a lobotomy in five days' time. Faced with unimaginable odds, she retreats to a fantastical world in her imagination where she and four other female inmates at the asylum, plot to escape the facility. The lines between reality and fantasy blur as Baby Doll and her four companions, as well as a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items they need that will allow them to break free from their captors before it's too late...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
Blair, Cat Stevens and the Moustache Brothers
Rotten with politics as we are this week, I made another game attempt to get on board by watching the Blair interview this morning. Unfortunately, as the previous item was about the return of Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, as a performer, the Blair thing just seemed like a rather tedious interruption. What was clear is that Phoebe hasn't the slightest intention of backing Sulky in a leadership contest. This could make politics mildly interesting for a while, though I still think Blair won't go. None of which, however, is of the slightest interest next to the story of The Moustache Brothers who are plainly the only funny thing about Burma. This, of course, got them flung in prison. This picture of the guys has been making me deliriously happy for 24 hours now. I identify with the one on the left, though I'd rather be the one on the right.
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We have had a wonderful time working in the Fourth Congressional District lately. I wanted to share a few articles with you so you can keep up to date with the work that we are doing.
We will continue to provide the best service possible to our constituents in Tennessee. And, in Washington, I am determined to stand firm on conservative principle – even when it is unpopular in the beltway.
Dr. Scott DesJarlais, M.D.
U.S. Representative, TN-04
Talking, listening: DesJarlais visits local constituents
U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-South Pittsburg) pushed for conservative ideas, especially when it comes to debt and spending, but he also endorsed dialogue that transcends party lines and labels during a public meeting Monday at Pope's Café on the Shelbyville square. It was not DesJarlais' first visit to Bedford County, but it was the first official constituent meeting here since Bedford County was moved into the 4th Congressional District effective with the new session of Congress.
The Chattanoogan
DesJarlais hosts 2 Coffee with the Congressman Events on Thursday
Congressman Scott DesJarlais (Tn.-04) will hold two Coffee with the Congressman events on Thursday. These will be open to the public.
The first will be from 10-11 a.m. in Rhea County, at Bimbo's Restaurant, 7606 Rhea County Highway, Dayton, Tn. 37321, and the second will be from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in Bradley County, at Bald Headed Bistro, 201 Keith St SW, Cleveland, Tn. 37311.
Marion County Newspapers, Inc.
DesJarlais Meets With Residents To Discuss Issues – Congressman Makes Stop In Home County
Congressman Scott DesJarlais, of the Fourth Tennessee Congressional District, made a stop at Dutch Maid Bakery in Jasper, Tennessee on Wednesday, January 30. Congressman DesJarlais took questions from attendants on a variety of areas including the national budget, veteran's affairs, defense spending, education, tax reform, gas prices, and gun control legislature. The Congressman also discussed his recent trip to the Middle East and the people's reactions to the American people.
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Flag of honor: DesJarlais presents flag to the family of a Korean War veteran whose remains were returned
U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais on Wednesday presented an American flag to the family of a Korean War veteran whose remains were returned to Grundy County 62 years after he went missing in action. "It's a treat for me to be able to honor our veterans and our servicemen," DesJarlais said in one of his first public appearances since last year's election. "It's one of the parts of our job that makes sense to me." The flag flew over the U.S. Capitol building on Sept. 19, the congressman's spokesman said.
Scott DesJarlais hosts 'Coffee with the Congressman'
In stark contrast to his bitter re-election campaign last fall where he was rarely seen, Representative Scott DesJarlais hosted a series of events across his district this week billed as Coffee with the Congressman. Late Friday afternoon the second term representative was at the City Cafe in Rutherford County which comprises about half the voters in the largely rural 4th District. He said voters "aren't asking him about the campaign issues," but rather "a whole lot of other issues."
Herald News
DesJarlais speaks out on Washington politics at Dayton stop
At a stop in Dayton on Thursday, U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Jasper said he has become somewhat disillusioned with how government business is done in Washington, D.C. "They go behind closed doors and work deals out and then they come to us to tell us how to vote by whipping us up," DesJarlais said referring to the whip position held by both parties in Congress.
Daily News Journal
Gun debate blasts DesJarlais' 'coffee'
U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais' first Coffee with the Congressman here erupted into an argument over gun control Friday with constituents shouting at each other inside the venerable City Cafe. Florence Tolbert of Murfreesboro and Rebekah Majors-Manley of Bell Buckle butted heads toward the end of DesJarlais' visit over the rights of Americans to use high-capacity magazines and military-style assault weapons.
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Gun control debate highlights political divide
As the discussion of gun control continues to heat up, U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais witnessed first hand Friday how the issue has thrust opposing viewpoints of constitutional interpretation at the forefront of political discourse… "I am committed to protecting Second Amendment rights," DesJarlais said. "Emotions do bring bad laws, and this is a unique right that Americans have cherished for a very long time."
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Annual Hog Day Give-Away Draws a Crowd
Despite the frigid cold weather hordes of people turned out for the 9th Annual Davis, Kessler and Davis Attorneys At Law Hog Day Give-Away… Appearances were made by several politicians this year including Congressman Dr. Scott DesJarlais.
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U.S. rep. talks gun rights downtown
The smell of fresh-brewed coffee permeated the air as U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais prepared to address his Columbia constituents during his first official week representing the newly-drawn 4th Congressional District. DesJarlais held "Coffee with the Congressman" Tuesday at Killion's Coffee and Creamery in downtown Columbia. Several issues carried the meeting, but recent talks about gun reform regulations in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting lead the discussion.


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PA has been critical of Republicans and Democrats, of other progressive Alaska bloggers, and of almost every mainstream media outlet in the state.
Way to make friends, eh?
It isn't.
I cannot comment at The Mudflats without approval of each comment by AKM herself. I think Brian may be able to overrule her, but... the policy effectively keeps me from wanting to contribute to discussion there. And I refuse to play by the blog's rules. They're more stifling than those at my 91-year-old mom's quilting club meetings.
Sen. Mark Begich's office isn't happy with my criticisms of his lack of interest in the plight of the Yukon salmon ecosystem. They're even more disturbed that I've questioned Mark's endorsement of what will turn out to have been, in somewhere between 20 and 200 years, a disastrous Kensington Mine waste storage solution.
Of all the problems I've complained about, small and large, the dysfunctional, slow death spiral of the ADN seems to be the one about which PA has had to play solo most frequently. It is a sad dirge.
A lot of discussions with my colleagues on this have been frustrating. Even more troubling is the fact that so many of my friends at the ADN don't appreciate something or another about my continuing campaign.
This past week, though, even more troubling than the ADN's:
• Cooperation with Sen. Stevens to stifle debate on his Mark Steyn racist book endorsement
• Lack of criticism of the growing awareness that VP candidate Palin was the most polarizing political figure in the USA since George Wallace
• Continuing inability or unwillingness to report in important articles about the war on open access to scientific information
• Willingness to back a public official who was an ex-employee of the ADN, when the official had used state resources to "out"somebody who was questioning the corrupt power structure of Alaska.
• Inability to grasp that the ADN had actually created a porn star-like shrine to Alaska's chief executive, and was continuing to promote and build the site after a candidate - Bob Poe - had announced his intent to compete against the governor in the next election for that public office.
• Failure to use its overwhelming resources to explain how inadequate Wayne Anthony Ross was to be Alaska's Attorney General. Instead, the ADN erroneously predicted Ross' confirmation.
• Encouragement of a hack political operative to write a scurrilous op-ed denigrating Alaska's most courageous independent commentator and journalist.
• Dishonest claim that the current chief executive is changing state hiring policy for high-level appointments, when the ADN had no evidence this is actually the case.
• Unwillingness to replace the exit of qualified reporters in rural affairs and fisheries with somebody ready and experienced enough to do these tasks at a critical time in Alaska history. Not only that, but the ADN assigned one honest, hardworking young journalist, Kyle Hopkins, to do both jobs. Given the political climate the ADN threw Kyle into, and the lack of support on research or on questioning state policies his editors have proven willing to provide their reporter, nobody envies Kyle. (Too bad, because this could have been the year for the right reporter with the right editorial backing to gain the paper a Pulitzer, and to rescue the rag from the waste basket of history.)
Has been the dead air there in regard to the growing concern on the biggest ecological catastrophe in the history of Alaska.
Maybe, like me, the ADN is simply overwhelmed by the magnitude of what is happening in the Bering Sea and in our rivers, and how that has such a profound effect on what Alaska really has been and is.
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Bob Drake is a veteran of many notable RIO/Avant-rock acts; a founding member of THINKING PLAGUE and comprising one third of the trio that was 5UU'S classic middle period, Drake is a central and recurring figure in modern experimental rock music. Drake's talents as a solo artist also appear to be limitless; his bass guitar often recalls the ability and sound of Chris Squire, his guitar and banjo playing brings to mind the fast-picking bluegrass-tinged virtuosity of Steve Howe, and his voice (often overdubbed into complex harmonies) bares a striking resemblance to that of Jon Anderson.
Although I've just made him sound like a one-man Yes, that really does not sum up his style at all: rather, imagine the talents of Yes applied to darker, sillier, and generally more complex music. Then throw in the fact that Drake is also an excellent violinist and drummer that, additionally, plays keyboards and records, produces, mixes, and engineers his own albums, and you're starting to get the picture.
Did I mention that his production style is exceptionally masterful and recognizable as well? In fact, Drake's amazing ear has been utilized to mix many albums by other artists (avant and otherwise) over the years.
Phew !! Well, I copied the Bob Drake biography from his PA profile page I got in touch with him for the full story in his own words.
Bio written by Dex F. (penguindf12)
Please tell us more about your musical background and where you were born.
I was born in Cleveland in December 1957 on the full moon, that\'s nice isn\'t it? Growing up at that time and place the music I remember most is the Motown on the radio, and my mother was crazy about the Beatles so I was hearing them right from the start. I don\'t think there were any early indications that I would play any instruments but I was always very interested in the sound of records; not just the music but the way you could hear the room on some records, the way the instruments and voices sounded, I was always really aware of that and had an intuitive understanding about it. When I was 12 we moved to a small town in rural Illinois and there I borrowed a drumkit from a guy down the street. I could play the drums really well in the traditional rock sort of way right from the start, not much different than the way I still play actually, and drummed in many a garage band with my friends. I knew another kid with an electric guitar and amp which he never played, one of those off-brands with loads of switches and buttons on it. Neither of us knew how to tune it, or what the buttons did, it was a completely mysterious object but I loved making noise and feedback with it. How anyone could use one to play a song was a mystery to me, it seemed impossible! My sister had an acoustic guitar and a Mel Bay guitar book with pictures of where to put your fingers to play standard chords, so I struggled with that for a while and it came slowly. I think the first song I managed play was \"Gypsy\" by Uriah Heep, two chords, A major to C major...When I heard Yes\' Fragile album in 1972, especially the song \"South Side of the Sky\" with that great one-note bass part, that made me want to play the bass guitar so I saved up my paper route money and bought a cheap Teisco bass, then in 1974 a second-hand Rickenbacker 4001 and Kustom 250 amp, the same bass and amp I still use today. Never had any formal lessons and never learned to read or write music, some might say I never learned to play it either, hahaha. Anyway my musical tastes were pretty ordinary, I\'d grown up on the Beatles and still find inspiration there, and in the early 70\'s I liked Yes, Led Zeppelin, Rare Earth, \"Free Hand\" era Gentle Giant, and any kind of good solid rock you\'d hear on the radio back then. I \"discovered\" Henry Cow in 1975 while browsing through the records in a shop in Kankakee Illinois. Henry Cow - Unrest, it was a good title and had that strange blurry photo of presumably the group inside. I\'d never heard of them so I bought it and loved it from the first notes, I thought aah, here are some people doing something a little closer to the sort of thing I\'d imagined.
Please also tell us more about your involvement in Thinking Plague and 5UU\'s.
In 1978 when I was 21 I hit the road from home looking for people with whom to make the sort of music I wanted to make. My first stop was Denver, because I knew someone there who\'d let me crash on their couch. I put an ad on a music shop bulliten board, it said something like \"bassist wants to start original band inspired by Beatles, Yes, and Henry Cow\" and amazingly the first and only person who responded, maybe the same day I\'d put up the notice, was Mike Johnson! He came over and showed me some of his ideas and we even recorded something on cassette that first night. We worked really well together right from the start, became good friends and played in lots of awful cover bands together, meanwhile always working on our own music. We wanted a name for our project and I suggested \"Pleasant Pestilence\", then Mike came up with \"Thinking Plague\" which I didn\'t think was as funny but that\'s what we stuck with. Around 1982 we started recording the first album in our friend Geoff Landers\' studio, borrowed money from Mike\'s relatives to press 500 copies, sent one to ReR - I didn\'t even know it was Chris Cutler\'s label - and he immediately wrote back asking for 200 copies to distribute! I had to borrow the money to post the albums to London...so that was the start of us being heard anywhere outside of our small circle of friends in Denver, and the beginning of my friendship with Chris Cutler.
Anyhow I was a major part of Thinking Plague - drums, bass, even some guitar and violin and keyboards, all of the engineering etc and as Mike describes it, a kind of \"filter\" for his ideas, until 1994 when I decided for various reasons to drop out of TP.
My involvement with 5UUs started after I\'d moved to LA in 1989. I\'d spent ten years starving in Denver - I mean real poverty and hunger and nothing coming down the line but more temporary minimum wage \"unskilled labor\" jobs and hiding from landlords and looking for quarters along East Colfax in holey shoes for the rest of my life, decided to take my chances in LA looking for engineering gigs, bummed a ride out there and sure enough started working as first engineer at the first studio I walked into, on the same day! So there I was in LA. I had never heard of 5UUs or Motor Totemist Guild or any of that scene before, but Dave Kerman, who lived in LA then, was aware of Thinking Plague and when he found out I\'d moved to town he looked me up and asked me to do something with him and keyboardist Sanjay Kumar. They played me some of the stuff they\'d been involved with and it was great, we all immediately liked each other so I said sure let\'s do something. One thing I wanted to do from the start was to make the vocals more of a significant feature than they\'d been on the previous 5UUs albums. I\'d always had a knack for arranging vocal harmonies and would suggest vocal ideas to bands I was recording and add background or harmony vocals myself, but still had never been the lone singer on any records yet. I wanted to try it because I thought I could do it. In the end it wasn\'t too bad considering this and my first solo album which I was recording around the same time were my first singing attempts. My bass playing is much more aggressive than the bassists Dave and Sanjay had worked with before and that was also a good addition, and my approach to recording wasn\'t so gentle so it helped bring out the edge and energy in their playing as well. Anyway so we did \"Well...Not Chickensh*t\" and that turned out good so we kept going until we had enough for an album, sent it to Chris Cutler at ReR and he liked it, released it and that was \"Hunger\'s Teeth\".
Let us concentrate on your solo career in this interview. Please give me your (long or brief) thoughts and lowdowns on.......
What Day Is It? From 1994
As stated earlier I moved from Denver to LA in 1989, working
as a freelance engineer in the Hollywood studios. I was making a very
decent living but just wanted time to do my own stuff.
In Denver I had always been working with people who were the
songwriters - Susanne Lewis, Mike Johnson, Bruce Odland, and so many
others. I was a good arranger, engineer/producer, as Mike Johnson says
interpreter of other people\'s ideas, and of course a good player but
since I\'d always had so many songwriters to work with I never even
tried writing my own songs until I was in LA, far away from all those
songwriting friends. I was itching to have some songs to mess around
with so figured it was time to try it myself, so in 1992 I bought a 4
track cassette recorder and was surprised to find that song ideas came
easily, and that they had a distinct character with a bit of country or
bluegrass flavor even though I hadn\'t really listened to that sort of
music up till then. Once I had a few song ideas I wondered what to do
with them, show them to Thinking Plague or 5UU\'s? That didn\'t feel
right and in fact shortly before I dropped out of TP we did mess around
with a couple of my ideas but that didn\'t work, they couldn\'t help
treating my ideas as a bit of a joke. It seemed obvious it was time
make a solo album, really \"solo\" and do it all by myself. So \"What
Day is it\" was the first time I tried to write \"songs\" and lyrics
and was still just starting out being the singer so it does have some
of those obvious \"first time\" qualities about it, but it\'s not
terrible! I also went for a deliberately clean, crisp sort of
production without a lot of effects, to help separate the album from
the 5UUs/Thinking Plague sound which people were expecting from me. And
it worked, I sent the album to some friends and a couple of
distributors and every one of them said \"this is not at all what I was
expecting from you\", which in some cases was NOT meant in a
complimentary way! But in general people were pleasantly surprised, as
was I actually.
Little Black Train from 1996
make it different from the previous album this one was meant to be
completely instrumental but ended up with a few vocal tunes anyway. And
because the production on What Day is it was intentionally tidy and
clean sounding, I wanted to make this one more dirty and a little less
clear, more use of effects and noises. I wanted to release it with no
title, probably because I just couldn\'t think of one, but Chris
Cutler, whose label was going to release it, said no it really should
have a name, so I said OK what would you call it? He answered without a
moment\'s hesitation: \"it should be something like... Little Black Train...\" And
so it was! Of course that\'s also the title of a Woody Guthrie song and
a short story by Manly Wade Wellman so I was in good company.
Medallion Animal Carpet from 1999
The main idea was to come up with a lot of unrelated ideas and string them all together into one long medley with really obvious edits, even messier and dirtier than Little Black Train. I managed to do about 20 minutes worth of that before it felt like that was enough, so I stopped there and called it Part 1. Some time earlier I\'d recorded just for fun a medley of cajun and country tunes performed by myself which I\'d always loved because it was so chaotic and noisy, so I put that on there and called it \"Part 2\". Around the time of making this album I was tired of hearing people say \"the vocals are too low in the mix\" and moaning about how important and meaningful their lyrics are, how song lyrics have to \"mean something\", you know, everyone wants us to know how deep and sensitive they are or deliver some allegedly profound message...so I used a random sentence generator to write the lyrics and deliberately put the vocals REALLY far away and distorted, sometimes barely audible in the mixes. For the title I picked up the first book nearest me which happened to be a book about oriental carpets, opened at random, pointed to a page without looking and my finger had alighted upon \"...medallion animal carpet...\" and so it was. Funnily enough the album cover was already done, with the bear on a carpet...
The Skull Mailbox and Other Horrors from 2001
To make an album of songs based around nylon-stringed acoustic guitar, recorded in a large open barn, with a dusty, rural, eldritch, yet comic horror theme, which is the thing that comes most naturally for me. I used a lot of trash for drumkits; metal tubs, barrels, buckets of broken glass, boxes full of rusty nuts and bolts...but they always end up sounding like regular drums!
13 Songs and a Thing from 2003
Longer songs, and recorded all indoors to give it a different flavor than Skull Mailbox. There were some guests on it, and a couple of covers, like a bit of music from the 60\'s Outer Limits TV show and a piece written by Stevan Tickmayer. It also has the Thing\", which is constructed from hundreds of cassette recordings of all sorts of things I\'d made since the early 70\'s.
Shunned Country from 2005
make songs as short and condensed as possible, and continue the
humorous rural horror theme in the lyrics which started with The Skull
What happened after the release of this album and what are you up to now ?
As you see by the release dates of those six albums, as soon as I had finished one I would have a clear idea for the next and start immediately on it, however the Shunned Country really drained me, it was an incredible amount of work doing all those short, intensely concentrated songs. When it was finished I had no idea about the direction to go next so I decided to stop there and not even think about writing songs for a while. I\'d done those six albums right in a row after all, and was happy with their evolution and flavors so I could afford to stop for a while, and felt I probably should. In the meantime I was of course still recording and mixing and playing with all sorts of other groups, look at my discography on my website - there must be at least 30 different projects I worked on in some way since 2005: NIMBY, The Rude Staircase, Hail, Miriodor, Thinking Plague, Condor Moments, Dick el Demasiado, Vril, Hamster Theatre, a couple of Vialka albums, remastering the Art Bears box and the gigantic Henry Cow box, it goes on and on. Then in 2007 I started doing live shows of my own music for the first time with what became knows as Bob Drake\'s Cabinet of Curiosities, playing a selection of tunes from the six albums and a couple of new songs too. The first gig was at NEARfest 2007 and then a livingroom/garage tour in the USA in 2008. Once that was over I really got the urge to start writing songs again for a new album, and more importantly had a really clear idea about the direction, it would be my \"pop\" album! That\'s to say, evolving from the pop music I heard and liked in the 60\'s, in my own way of course, not being nostalgic or imitating, just using that as an obvious starting point. Not whatever pop music might be today, I have no idea about that. So between late 2008 and early 2010 I came up with an album\'s worth of tunes which I\'ll record late this year (2010) playing all the instruments and singing myself as usual. Haven\'t got a title for it yet, but I do have the title and concept for the album I want to do AFTER finishing the current one: \"Bob Drake\'s Overproduced Album\"! Just overdo it to a ludicrous degree. Probably because with the current album I\'m going for a minimal, very uncluttered production, a good solid sound but never too much going on at once. I\'d also like to do an album sometime where I play only instruments I don\'t know how to play or can just barely play.
How would you describe your music and which bands would you compare your music with ?
You can guess my answer - I really don\'t know and never think about that. I did see a great description from someone named Harold who hated my set at NEARfest, it actually seemed to make him angry - he called it, and I quote verbatim even including the three exclamation points: Way off-kilter Americana, singer-songwriter, fingerstyle, alt-rockabilly pretentious crap!!! I should get him to write the liner notes for the new album. Anyway I thought that was a not a bad description of a good deal of my music, especially up to Shunned Country. Not sure if my latest batch of songs will quite fit into the WOKASSFARPC!!! category though, we\'ll have to wait for the reviews to find out.
How is your writing and creative processes ?
like everyone else\'s: find a little idea and take it from there, other
times a nearly complete song comes along and everything inbetween.
You have also contributed on some other projects. Please tell us more about this.
That\'s more than 30 years worth of stuff, there are so many projects you\'d have to ask me about specific ones.
There is a picture of you on your homepage in a polar bear costume. Have you ever managed to play your guitar in that costume or is it just for fun ?
Both of course! I designed the suit and had it built in 2007, something I\'d always fantasized about as I have been crazy about anthropomorphic animals all my life. Of course I can\'t really play guitar too well with those big furry paws, I just did that for the photo, but I have done gigs drumming with Thinking Plague, and played bass with What\'s Wrong With Us in costume, both in 2008. There are videos of those events on Youtube. To play the drums I had to make a special set of paws with holes in them between the thumb and first finger, so I could insert the drumsticks and hold them in my hands, otherwise the sticks would fly out of the paws after a few seconds, which looked funny but tended to cause some disruption of the groove. Anyway I am sure Beardog will be turning up on stages now and then in years to come.
Just to wrap this interview up; do you have any regrets in your music career ?
I guess not, can\'t think of any.
What is your five alltime favourite albums ?
That\'s impossible, as soon as I think of one there are 100 others!
Anything you want to add to this interview ?
A witty closing comment, alas.
Thank you to Bob for this interview.
His homepage is here
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Great interview, as usual! Glad (but not surprised) to see that Bob has a good sense of humor.
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Nice one! I really need to check out more of Bob's solo albums. I have 13 Songs and a Thing but that's it so far.
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^ That's one more than I have so far. I think, actually, that I only have his work mastering/remastering stuff.
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I'm surprised to see such a small amount of interest from fans of the avant side of things here.
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I have all his solo output, as well as the various groups he's been in, I'm a big fan of his music and the way he does so much in so short songs (as he does do wonderfully in The Shunned Country).
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Good interview! Bob Drake is such a nice person... I love all his bands/projects. Last few months I am addicted to both AA Kismet albums, listening them over and over. Those albums are usually getting me to very positive and pleasant mood.
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In Shift, Thai General Issues Warning to Protesters
By THOMAS FULLER
The head of Thailand's army, after months of neutrality, tells government opponents to "compose yourselves."
Thailand's Leader Accuses Critical Panel of Appearing Biased
Updated Feb. 20, 2014 9:19 a.m. ET
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck says she is innocent against corruption charges despite her rice subsidy program paying local farmers at 50% above market rates. The WSJ's Warangkana Chomchuen has the details.
BANGKOK—Embattled Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra fought back on Thursday, accusing the anticorruption agency alleging she mismanaged a multibillion-dollar rice subsidy of appearing biased and in a rush to judgment.
"If there is real justice and if there is no hidden agenda, the [agency] shouldn't finalize my case in a rushed manner…that will play into the hands of those who want to overthrow the government," she said in a posting on her official Facebook page.
Ms. Yingluck's comment was one of her most assertive in recent weeks against opponents who have pummeled her with challenges in the streets and courts, while her power to counter them has been curtailed. Protesters have pushed Ms. Yingluck to dissolve Parliament, leaving her to function in a caretaker capacity.
Ms. Yingluck warned that the actions of the National Anti-Corruption Commission so far put it at risk of being seen as siding with her opponents. The panel, which has powers to launch impeachment or criminal trials against politicians, is entrusted to maintain impartiality.
The agency's spokesman didn't return calls seeking comments.
Ms. Yingluck said the anticorruption panel spent three weeks on the investigation, too little time from her perspective while similar complaints against the previous administration were still pending.
The anticorruption panel said on Tuesday it intended to formally charge Ms. Yingluck for failing to prevent massive financial losses to the state that stem from her flagship rice subsidy. Ms. Yingluck maintained that she was innocent.
Ms. Yingluck was summoned to hear charges on Feb. 27 and defend herself. If found guilty, she would be suspended from duty and sent to an impeachment trial in the Senate.
On Thursday, Ms. Yingluck reiterated that she was innocent and the program was aimed at helping farmers, key supporters of her Pheu Thai Party. The government has been buying rice from local farmers at up to 50% above market rates.
In another blow to Ms. Yingluck, Thailand's Civil Court on Wednesday stripped the government of power under the state of emergency to quell monthslong antigovernment protests. The court left the emergency decree in place, but barred the authorities from using force to disperse the demonstrators, dismantle protest sites and block protesters to use certain areas, determining it would violate the protesters' right to rally.
The government's special security command said in a statement Thursday that it would appeal the civil court's decision, which it said has left the country without adequate law enforcement to deal with the unrest.
Judges cited a previous ruling by the country's Constitutional Court that the protests have been peaceful and ordered that demonstrators' rights be protected.
The ruling has raised eyebrows after footage of clashes between riot police and protesters on Tuesday showed that some of the protesters were armed with guns. Four protesters and a policeman were killed. At least 20 riot police suffered injuries from grenade explosions.
Emboldened by the court's ruling, hundreds of protesters rallied Thursday outside offices of the Shinawatra's property development company to pile pressure on Ms. Yingluck, who served as a chairwoman before taking office. Though declining in number, protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban and his followers vow to keep up their fight to overthrow Ms. Yingluck's government and root out what they see as the influence of her older brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by a military coup in 2006.
Ms. Yingluck has been struggling to return to power after she dissolved Parliament in December. Snap elections on Feb. 2, which her Pheu Thai Party is expected to win, were partly disrupted by protesters.
The country's independent body to organize the vote has been slow to hold a rerun vote in the disrupted areas against the government's wish to hold it sooner. The Election Commission's most outspoken commissioner has also threatened to seek a court's ruling whenever a disagreement arises between the agency and the government.
According to the agency's estimate, a new government may not be formed until at least May. Until then, Ms. Yingluck's caretaker government has limited power. Any major decisions, such as spending approval, are subject to a final green light by the Election Commission.
泰國總理英拉(Yingluck Shinawatra) 的大米計畫?
企圖控制國際大米價格的泰國已經遭到報復,喪失了世界大米最大出口國的地位,總理英拉(Yingluck Shinawatra)因涉嫌失職面臨調查,成千上萬個像Thongma一樣的農民深陷債務泥淖。
他們的根據是,全球用於進出口貿易的大米只佔大米總產量的7%,這意味只要一個地方的大米出口中斷,國際價格必將受到重大影響。2008年,印度和越南等 國因為擔心國內米價不斷上漲而暫時限制了大米出口,導致國際米價從每噸300美元飆升至1,200美元,在海地和菲律賓等國引發了糧食騷亂。http://chinese.wsj.com/big5/20140206/bas134505.asp?source=whatnews


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Paula Creamer withdrew from this week's HSBC Women's Champions prior to the third round, citing a personal reason for leaving Singapore.
Creamer flew home to the U.S. to be with her 94-year-old grandfather, who was admitted to the hospital in an emergency health matter, according to her agent. Creamer came home to be with the man she calls Pops, as well as her family who have gathered to be with him.