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Four months from now, 11 year-old Alexis Woolfolk will have arrived in Paris, France for the first time. Prolonged vowel sounds, scores of "ya'll," and other phonetic quirks specific to her hometown of Atlanta will then be thousands of miles behind her along with her family. Woolfolk's mother Amber has already instructed her to keep a video diary and take photographs. "I want my children to have a global view of society and know that possibilities for learning are limitless," she told EBONY.com.
Yet, Woolfolk and her seven fellow teenage travelers would not be headed to France if not for one woman's childhood tradition. "I never saw that many Black people when I was going to camp," said Tracey Friley, creator of The Passport Party Project and OBG Adventures. "I've always wanted to give people the same kind of experience I had growing up."
The internet has become a popular destination for Black travel enthusiasts who encourage and facilitate globetrotting among various communities. Through her parent company One Brown Girl, Friley launched The Passport Party Project and OBG Adventure Camps to provide exciting travel adventures and events to women, teenagers, and underserved girls from diverse backgrounds. Adding to the pool of such start-ups, Evita Robinson created the Nomadness TV travel web series and the subsequent Nomadness Travel Tribe, an online, invitation-only community of urban travelers and expatriates generally underrepresented in the travel world.
"When you turn on the Travel Channel, it's geared towards middle-aged White men," said Robinson. "You have that and you don't see anything out there for us, or by us." To dispel the notion that Black people do not travel, these women have chosen to lead by example—or better yet #travelbyexample, as Friley likes to tweet. Recently, Robinson completed her third successful Kickstarter campaign for Nomadness, this time raising over $23,000 to fund a cross-country RV road trip for spring 2013. And with Robinson's landing a lucrative sponsorship deal for Hotel.com and Friley's partnering with Expedia.com, larger corporations seem to have also discovered an opportunity to tap into a new audience. As Robinson stated, "It's about shattering the mindset of what a traveler is supposed to look like."
While digital innovations have empowered contemporary travel entrepreneurs in their respective endeavors, the zeal they exhibit echoes the rich, intricate travel history that Blacks in America have accumulated for centuries. To illustrate the breadth of Black travelers throughout history, Ashley Finigan, a history Doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago, pointed to the Black American migrant Exodusters of the nineteenth century, African-American settlers colonizing land in Liberia, and the Black WWII soldiers and Black intelligensia who settled in France.
Finigan also listed W.E.B DuBois, Josephine Baker, and Jessie Fauset as "proponents of Black travel." "I've always thought to black Americans as a people forged and founded in movement, and our history of travel proves that," Finigan said. "When given the basic human right of movement or claiming it for ourselves, we have gone."
This age-old tradition of building new communities with kindred spirits has remained key to digital advocates like Robinson and Friley, whose ventures were both born online. "Social media and getting involved in the blogging community was a way for me to get the word out to so many more people than I could have ever reached using traditional advertising or marketing methods," said Friley. Each of her program participants has come through social media, but she considers the hundreds of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter followers engaging with her and one another daily to be a "little family."
As indicated in its name, The Nomadness Travel Tribe—a Facebook native—has also cultivated a familial aspect in a very organic, grassroots way. Robinson has orchestrated affordable Nomadness X group trips to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain and the isolated jungles of Bocas Del Toro, Panama. Even so, that same gumption that propelled Robinson to launch her own travel business has now motivated her to migrate off of Facebook. Before the end of next year, she promised, Nomadness will have its own travel-centric social media platform.
The value of kinship, both biological and spiritual, throughout the African Diaspora mirrors the interconnectivity found in social media and traveling. Come this July, Woolfolk might develop a love for all-things French, as Friley had through her own extensive immersion in the French Diaspora. Right now, the young American would simply like to learn a different language, meet new people, try new foods, and travel the world with OBG Adventures. "I just wanna have fun," she said like a true 11 year-old. Yet as a young Black American wandering through Paris, her presence will mean much more.
"More people of color will be traveling," said Friley, "because we will have traveled by example."
Patrice Peck explores the complex intersection of culture, new media, race and gender as a multimedia journalist. Follow her musings at Twitter and Facebook, and visit her at https://www.speakpatrice.tumblr.com for more writing and video.


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This Elk Can't Figure Out The Whole Fence-Jumping Thing.
This guy caught a huge herd of elk crossing the road in Bozeman, Montana near Yellowstone on video. It's pretty impressive to see herd of that size, jumping the fence in beautiful choreographed style.
Then there's the little guy at the end.
The heartwarming ending will make you want to support the No Elk Left Behind program. I made that up.

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President Barack Obama's 2011 budget request has effectively shut down NASA?s five-year effort to return astronauts to the moon, leaving the U.S. space agency with lofty goals — but no firm deadlines — to once again send humans beyond Earth orbit.
The budget request, released today, would scrap NASA's Constellation program to build the Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets for new manned moon missions — a $9 billion investment to date. The request calls for $19 billion in funding for NASA in 2011, a slight increase from the $18.3 billion it spent in 2010.
The request does, however, pledge extra funding to extend the life of the International Space Station through at least 2020 and offers $6 billion over five years to support commercially built spaceships to launch NASA astronauts into space. The space agency's three remaining space shuttles are due to retire later this year.
The budget announcement occurred on the seventh anniversary of NASA's Columbia shuttle disaster on Feb. 1, 2003, in which seven astronauts were killed during re-entry due to wing heat shield damage. It came just days after the 24th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle accident that killed seven astronauts on Jan. 28, 1986.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former space shuttle commander, said that while the budget cancels the program building the agency's space shuttle replacement — the Orion crew vehicle — it is not trading away safety to embrace new, privately built spaceships to fly astronauts. It also paves the way for a "21st Century space program," he said.
"No one cares about safety more than I. I flew on the space shuttle four times. I lost friends in the two space shuttle tragedies. So I give you my word these vehicles will be safe," Bolden said. "They will fulfill a critical NASA need, spur industrial innovation, and free up NASA to do the bold, forward-leaning work that we need to do to explore beyond Earth."
Bolden said NASA has already made new agreements with several commercial spaceflight companies to spur their efforts. NASA and the White House Office of Science and Technology plan to make an announcement related to commercial spaceflight providers on Tuesday, NASA officials said.
"This new path is a big change. I realize that," Bolden told reporters in a teleconference. "But it is not a change from the guiding principles of NASA. It makes America stronger. It enables us to draw more strongly on the ingenuity of the commercial sector and create deeper ties with our international partners."
The new plan is not without its opponents, particularly in states that have traditionally been home to major NASA efforts.
"This is a crippling blow to America's human spaceflight program," said Congressman Pete Olson (R-Texas). "It has taken over 50 years to build and develop America's ascension to its rightful place as the dominant player in human spaceflight. That dominance is apparently no longer desired."
Texas is home to NASA's Johnson Space Center, where astronauts train for space missions and the Mission Controls for the shuttle fleet and International Space Station are headquartered.
Scrapping Constellation
Announced in 2005, NASA's Constellation program aimed at retiring the space shuttle fleet this year and replacing it with new capsule-based vehicles (called Orion) designed to launch on Ares I rockets, with a larger heavy-lift rocket called Ares V launching lunar landers and rocket stages needed for moon-bound missions. The moon plan, announced by former President George W. Bush in 2004, was aimed at returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.
It would cost $100 billion, roughly the current price tag of the International Space Station. Cancelling the program will cost more than $2 billion in closing costs, NASA officials said.
Last year, an independent committee led by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine reviewed NASA's moon plan and found it hobbled by severe underfunding and delays. NASA wouldn't make it back to the moon until 2028, and even then wouldn?t have money to build the lander to set down on it, the committee found.
The committee submitted several options for the president, which included embracing commercially built spacecraft and pushing aside NASA's current spaceflight plan for bolder expeditions to the moon, asteroids or Mars.
"The plan released with the President?s FY 2011 budget does appear to respond to the primary concerns highlighted in our committee's report," Augustine said in a statement.
Lori Garver, NASA's deputy administrator, told reporters today that the new budget request provides an overhaul of NASA's spaceflight exploration plan.
The request would set aside $369 million for vital technology development and test programs, with $183 million earmarked to support the International Space Station through 2020. The station was slated to be decommissioned in 2016, a year before the Augustine committee believed NASA?s new Orion ship would be ready to ferry astronauts to it.
The new budget would set aside $3.1 billion in funding to develop better heavy-lift rockets and more advanced space propulsion technology to explore faster and farther out into the solar system, NASA officials said.
?What this program does is give us back the solar system,? Garver said.
Garver and Bolden did not announce details for new vehicles, specific destinations or potential timetables for new manned missions beyond low-Earth orbit. But Garver did say that, if NASA's 2011 budget is approved, the agency could accomplish those goals well before the 2028 timeframe proposed by the Augustine committee.
The agency is hoping commercially built space ferries could be ready to fly astronauts by 2016, she added.
Beyond human spaceflight
President Obama's 2011 budget request for NASA also spotlights other areas within the space agency that have suffered in recent years due to the agency's focus on human spaceflight.
The request includes $170 million to replace NASA?s lost Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a probe aimed at studying climate change, which was destroyed during a launch failure last year. About $3.2 billion is set aside for science research grants and missions, including a potential successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
About $146 million — a $20 million increase — is allocated in the 2011 budget request to support education and public outreach. It is aimed at spurring interest in science, technology, mathematics and space among the American youth and general public, Garver said.
"There are so many wonderful things that can be done with NASA," Garver said. "It is the people's program and we're giving it back to them."


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"I believe granting liberty to gay people advances a compelling government interest, that such an interest cannot be adequately advanced if "pockets of resistance" to a societal statement of equality are permitted to flourish, and hence that a law that permits no individual exceptions based on religious beliefs will be the least restrictive means of achieving the goal of liberty for gay people."
– Chai Feldblum, an open Lesbian who was nominated to serve as a Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Barack Hussein Obama
This morning, the Supreme Court once again usurped their authority by committing an abomination (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, 1 Timothy 1:9, Romans 1:24, Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Jude 1:7) when unlawfully wading outside of their jurisdiction and meddling with the God-ordained definition of marriage. A 5-4 ruling has overturned key parts of DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). The Supreme Court also dismissed an appeal made by 7 million people of California who twice voted to ban homosexual marriage in their state (Prop 8), claiming their appeal "has no standing."
Let's look at a timeline of events leading to today's ruling:
In January 2009, Obama becomes president of these United States. He vows to fundamentally transform America.
2009 – Obama appoints at least 224 homosexuals and transvestites into key positions in government.
May 2010 – Obama nominates former Dean of Harvard Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court bench, a radical lesbian who had never judged a case a day in her life, and who was known for "queerifying Harvard." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yxsh3fJpmQ)
Feb. 2011 – Obama declares DOMA unconstitutional and directs the Department of Justice to stop defending the law in court.
July 2011 – Obama supports Dianne Feinstein's bill to repeal DOMA.
Feb. 2012 – US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules CA Proposition 8 unconstitutional
May 2012 – Obama publically endorses homosexual marriage, and is declared America's "first gay president" by Newsweek.
Dec. 2012 – US Supreme Court agrees to hear cases on DOMA and Prop 8.
Feb. 2013 – US military extends some benefits to homosexual partners.
April 2013 – Obama spends $350 million on sexual indoctrination curriculum for children, teaching that the only "unsafe" sex is becoming pregnant.
June 2013 – Supreme Court rules in line with the Obama administration's radical ideology being forced upon America for the past 4 years.
It is clear to see that this was a planned agenda aimed at fundamentally destroying, not transforming, America. Does Michael Swift's supposedly satirical "Gay Manifesto" raise serious red flags to anyone?
Just like Roe v. Wade, this immoral, unconstitutional, and unlawful decision was against the will of the people. If the Supreme Court is left unchecked, this decision will bring about another bout of devastation and destruction to America – especially the young generation.
America has been forewarned
America has been forewarned in the past concerning homosexual marriage. Canadian Archbishop Prendergast spoke at St. Thomas University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, warning Americans of the consequences of forced homosexual marriage upon the Canadian populace.
For example, for simply writing a letter defining Catholic teaching on homosexual marriage, Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary, Alberta, was called up before the Human Rights Commission in 2005. Bishop Henry's complaint was subsequently dropped by the plaintiff who admitted that he only filed the complaint to get media attention.
During his speech, Archbishop Prendergast quoted Henry as saying, "Human rights laws designed as a shield are now being used as a sword. The issue is rarely truth formation, but rather censorship, and applying a particular theology through threats, sanctions, and punitive measures."
The Archbishop went on to note the consequences of homosexual marriage in Canada:
– restrictions on freedoms
– forced sex education
– sexually confused children
– sexual experimentation among children
– muzzling and debilitating the Church
– more births out of wedlock
– more in vitro fertilizations
– more abortions
– more poverty
– more misery
– more disease
– more addictions
– higher health care costs
In Canada the radicals have sought to lower the age of consent to 14 years old for anal intercourse. What does this have to do with homosexual marriage?
Absolutely everything.
As mentioned earlier, Obama already spent $350 million on a sexualized curriculum, called the Personal Responsibility Education Program. The minds of America's children will be raped of their innocence as they undergo sexual indoctrination.
America, simply put, this is criminal.
Government, including the Supreme Court, does not have executive, legislative, or judicial powers to break the laws of our Constitutional Republic. Today's ruling is pretended legislation.
"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution, are null and void." – Chief Justice Marshall
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With more cops using facial recognition tech, questions of efficacy remain.
by Cyrus Farivar
The first man to be arrested in Chicago based on facial recognition analysis was sentenced last week to 22 years in prison for armed robbery. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the Chicago Police Department acquired the technology via a $5.4 million federal grant.
In February 2013, Pierre Martin robbed a man at gunpoint while on a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train. After taking the man's phone, Martin jumped off the train. However, his image was captured by CTA surveillance cameras and was then compared to the Chicago Police Department's database of 4.5 criminal booking images. Martin, who already had priors, had a mugshot in the database. He was later positively identified by witnesses.
At trial, Martin also admitted to committing a similar robbery also on the Pink Line in January 2013—his face was captured during both robberies.
Variables matter
Facial recognition is becoming an increasingly common tool in law enforcement, used by organizations ranging from the National Security Agency down to local police. While the technology is improving, it's had limited success in some high-profile situations, such as the manhunt for the Boston bombing suspect in 2013.Some cops have even used scans of images on driver's licenses to find fake ones: earlier this year, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office charged 69 people with obtaining false driver's licenses after running facial recognition analysis. In 2013, the New York Governor's Office announced that more than 2,500 people on identity theft charges had been arrested as the result of similar scans.
Anil Jain, a biometrics expert and professor of computer science at Michigan State University, told Ars that getting a match depends greatly on the quality of the image, which may be low resolution or taken from a video still. "If the face in video is close to frontal and the image quality is good, matching accuracy is very high," he said. "We can further filter the large mugshot database by specifying the gender, race, and age group of the suspect. This filtering step also improves the matching success."
Jain added that he and some colleagues published a research paper (PDF) in March 2014 dealing with this exact problem.
Questions linger
Elizabeth Joh, a criminal law professor at the University of California Davis, told Ars that she was not aware of a police department "that claims to have caught a suspect solely through facial technology."
"The greatest concern with any big data tool, whether facial recognition technology or [license plate readers], is its accuracy and the amount of error we should tolerate when the police decide to interfere with individual liberty," she said.
Meanwhile, Jay Stanley, a policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union, said that his organization is not opposed to the use of the technology when used in a narrow way. "The question that needs to be asked is: for every success, how many other situations are there?" he said. "How many times has this technology been used and not resulted in a prosecution? How many people have been scrutinized by the police when their face came up in a false match?"
Neither the Cook County State's Attorney's Office nor the Chicago Police Department immediately responded to requests for comment.


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Markey to introduce 'smart gun' bill
A Democratic senator wants to ensure that handguns sold in the United States can be operated only by "authorized" users.
Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts plans to introduce a bill that would require new handguns be outfitted with personalization technology within two years and that older guns be retrofitted within three years so that the firearms won't work for unauthorized users. The bill includes exemptions for antique guns as well as military arms.
"No one wants children to get access to a handgun and hurt themselves or others," Markey said in unveiling his effort. "This is the type of gun safety legislation that everyone — regardless of political party or affiliation — should be able to support."
Specifically, the legislation seeks to combat the use of stolen guns, prevent accidental gun deaths among children and also protect law enforcement officers from having their service weapons turned on them. Markey's bill would allocate grants for further development of the so-called "smart gun" technology, which has already begun hitting the shelves of gun stores in California.
( Also on POLITICO: Wendy Davis supports open carry law)
The Armatix iP1 smart gun usesa separate, waterproof watch to activate the gun; the firearm is rendered inoperable to users who aren't wearing the watch. The watch/gun combo costs nearly $2,000, according to The Washington Post.
Separately, Markey and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) are asking President Barack Obama to insert $10 million of funding into his forthcoming budget for research on gun violence. The two lawmakers sent the president a letterlast week calling on funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to "conduct scientific research on the causes and prevention of gun violence."
Though Markey's bill is unlikely to advance in a Senate where background checks legislation stalled just last year, the legislation is noteworthy for opening a new front in the chamber's gun debate, which has remained relatively muted since the high-profile gun debate in 2013. The House and Senate did agree to reauthorize the Undetectable Firearms Act for 10 years in December, though the two chambers could not coalesce around any revisions to the law.
Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is frequently questioned following high-profile shootings on when he will again try to tackle gun legislation in the Senate. His answer is always the same: When the Senate has 60 votes to move a gun bill through the chamber.


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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Retrospective: Shadowlord!
It's an interesting set-up for a game, in which each of the players takes the role of one of the four Element Masters and attempts to wrest the Power Stone from the Shadowlord and hold it long enough to win the game. As they attempt to do so, players recruit followers -- warriors, merchants, diplomats -- each of which has not only a special ability based on their class but also a card with a name and illustration. Again, it's easy to see why I had such a fondness for this game: it had a lot of great components, including the first use of non-standard dice outside of an RPG that I can recall. Shadowlord! used d8s for its resolution mechanics.
Ultimately, though, what I remember most about Shadowlord! is the way that it unabashedly mixed wizards and spaceships with reckless abandon. Back in 1983, this was a novel concept to me. Back then, people often used the term "science fantasy" or "space fantasy," but that was usually in reference to something like Star Wars, which was for all intents and purposes science fiction, merely of a very non-rigorous sort. Seeing characters dressed like wizards or elves and flying around in spaceships was something else entirely. Or at least it was to me, but then it was long ago established that I have a limited imagination.
It's been years since I looked at Shadowlord! let alone played it. I played it a lot back when I first got my copy and enjoyed it. It'd be interesting to play it again someday and see if it still holds up after all these years.
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I found this at Goodwill a couple of years ago. The background made me think of Chronicles of Amber or World of Tiers - the whole fueding science-fantasy superfamily thing.ReplyDelete
I got a copy this game when it was marked for clearance at our local toy store. I didn't have any gaming friends at the time but managed to convince one of my buddies to play it with me. We tried only one time to give it a shot but he had a short attention span and halfway through he didn't want to play anymore. Then it got stuffed in a closet and I have no idea what happened to it. I wish I still had my copy as it would pretty much be in almost perfect condition.ReplyDelete
Played this a couple weeks ago with my 8yo. Components are decent. Rules are rather uninspiring.ReplyDelete
Coincidentally me, my girlfriend, and BigFella pulled this out and played it about 2 months ago now (hadn't played it in some years, but BF spotted it in my closet). We actually had an enormous blast, and felt the gameplay stood up better than any of us expected. Link.ReplyDelete
"Krull" seems to me the best example of a fantasy movie with undeniable sci-fi elements.ReplyDelete
I HAVE this. Played it since it first came out. I believe that it is among the BEST hobby themed games ever produced! The gameplay is flexible and involves strategic thinking and political intrigue. One of the cases, where a mainsgream Parker Brothers beat the Hobby Game Publishers at its game and used their superior production capabilities to their advantage.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately the game DID NOT SELL WELL. Fortunately, that which makes Parker Brothers superior to Gygaxian TSR, the used the remaining stocks from Shadowlord to make a game called Dune!, a tie in to the movie. Loosely based on the movie, it offered a wide struggle for the Dune planet. You picked one of the four Houses from the story to try and conquer the world, you explored the planet and recruited allies and NPC's. Adventure aspect of the game weas driven by monopoly-like equipment and event cards impacting the politival empire-building scheming of the players.
Lesser known very good game. Too bad Parket Brothers got out of the adventure boardgame publishing. Main streaming bottom line finally does its damage, I guess.
My God, I loved this game as a kid and couldn't remember the name of it. Thank you so much!ReplyDelete
My childhood copy of this bought the big one when an older friend flipped the board into the air in a fit of rage, losing little space ships amongst the shag/pile/whatever rug. Alas.ReplyDelete
Replayed it a few months ago, rules didn't do much for me. Maybe more than two players would help...
And amazing game from that period is Conspiracy, another is Survive! Both of those held up very well.ReplyDelete
One of the few games I could get family members to play with me.ReplyDelete
Plus, it came with d8s!
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2011 at 7:34 PM
I played this growing up. Beautiful art, and pretty cool components for that era with the plastic ships and power stones or whatever they were. Thanks for the memory!ReplyDelete


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The good news for the St. Louis Cardinals is that they still have nine games left against the Pittsburgh Pirates. However, the bad news is that they will be trying to avoid a five-game sweep to the Pirates on Thursday when they close out the set from PNC Park.
Pittsburgh stretched its lead atop the National League Central to 2 1/2 games over St. Louis on Wednesday with a thrilling win, as Russell Martin came through with a tie-breaking single in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the Pirates to a 5-4 come-from-behind win.
Martin, Neil Walker and Clint Barmes each finished with two hits and an RBI to help Pittsburgh twice battle back from two-run deficits, while the bullpen turned in five scoreless innings to offset an uncharacteristic rough outing from starter Jeff Locke.
The Pirates have now taken the first four tests of this critical five-game set between the NL Central's top two clubs and won five of six overall.
"It feels great ... but there's still a lot of baseball left," Walker said.
St. Louis, on the other hand, was dealt its seventh consecutive defeat after failing to hold on to a 4-2 lead after 3 1/2 innings. It's the Cardinals' longest losing streak since a seven-game slide during June of their eventual 2011 World Series championship season.
The Cardinals will also have to deal with the absence of Yadier Molina for at least the next two weeks, with the team placing the All-Star catcher on the disabled list prior to the contest due to a strained right knee.
Matt Holliday went 3-for-5 with two RBI and Carlos Beltran had a pair of hits and two runs scored for St. Louis, but Trevor Rosenthal (1-2) was reached for a run on two hits after taking over for Adam Wainwright to start the bottom of the eighth.
St. Louis has managed just one home run in 13 games since the All-Star break.
Another loss on Thursday would ensure the first sweep of the Cardinals in a series of at least five games since the New York Giants took six in September, 1916.
Pittsburgh's last five-game sweep came against the San Francisco Giants in September of 1996.
Getting the call for the Pirates on Thursday will be righty Charlie Morton, who has won his last two starts. Morton beat the Miami Marlins on Saturday, despite giving up four runs (3 earned) and nine hits in five innings. He also struck out six without walking a batter and improved to 3-2 to go along with a 3.59 ERA.
Morton has allowed 18 base runners over 11 2/3 innings in his last two starts, but has walked away with a win in each outing.
Morton has struggled against the Cards in his career, posting a 2-7 mark with a 6.17 ERA in 11 starts.
St. Louis, meanwhile, will turn to 25-year-old righty Joe Kelly, who is 1-3 with a 3.44 ERA. Kelly did not get a decision on Saturday against the Atlanta Braves, but was terrific, as he scattered seven hits over 6 1/3 scoreless innings in his team's 2-0 loss.
"Very, very impressive," Cards skipper Mike Matheny said. "It was maybe the best I've ever seen him throw. Everything. His aggressiveness, his slider, breaking ball, changeup; all of them were as good as I've seen."
Kelly is 0-2 with a 6.43 ERA in five games (1 start) against the Pirates.
St. Louis is just 1-5 in the Steel City this season and has lost six straight overall to the Bucs.


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Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling is mounting a hurried sale of the team she and her husband have owned for 33 years and could name a prospective new owner of the NBA franchise by the end of the week, a person familiar with the situation said.
The co-founder of investment bank Guggenheim Partners and its president are helping billionaire media executive David Geffen put together a group to bid on the Los Angeles Clippers.
Guggenheim said in a statement on Wednesday that co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Walter and President Todd Boehly are joining Geffen's existing group of bidders, which includes television icon Oprah Winfrey and Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison.
Among competing bidders are former Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and billionaire Anthony Ressler.
Clippers owner Donald Sterling, banned from the National Basketball Association for racist remarks, has handed controlling interest in his team to his wife Shelly Sterling, the co-owner. She began negotiating with the league to sell the club, Reuters reported on Friday, citing sources.
Guggenheim said in a statement that the two top executives were teaming up with Geffen to put together a bid, but that the bank itself was not officially involved in the process.
"Guggenheim is not involved in any way," a spokesman wrote in an e-mail. "Mark Walter and Todd Boehly are working with David Geffen and others to put together a bid to buy the Clippers."
Bids are due at 5 p.m. EST on Wednesday, according to a person with knowledge of the bidding process. A decision could be made by the end of the week.
In 2012, Walter headed a group including basketball great Magic Johnson that bought the LA Dodgers baseball team for $2.15 billion. Johnson has said he would likely join the bid if his Guggenheim partners made an offer.
Ressler met with Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling at a Malibu restaurant last weekend to discuss a potential bid, according to the source with knowledge of the bidding process.
Representatives for Ballmer and Ressler could not be reached immediately.
Sterling is rushing to sell the team long headed by her husband, Donald, in an attempt to beat a deadline of next Tuesday, when owners of the 30 pro basketball teams will be asked to strip control of the team from both of the Sterlings, after Donald Sterling's racially-charged remarks about blacks.
The developments in the NBA's biggest ownership crisis came on the same day that a defiant Sterling lashed out at what he called the league's "illegal termination process." In a cover letter to the 29-page document, obtained by The Times, Sterling said he had already received offers "in excess of $2.5 billion" for his team. In his response, he criticized the NBA for insisting on his ouster for what he deemed a single illegally-recorded conversation of what he deemed "a lover's quarrel."
The series of events suggested a potentially quick resolution to a controversy that appeared as if it might drag on for months or more, though people familiar with the situation cautioned that the sale is far from complete and must be approved by the NBA's other owners.
The magnitude of the Clippers deal and the field of prospective owners had begun to crystallize Tuesday, with one likely bidder dismissing the $2.5 billion price tag but saying the team would likely go for more than $1 billion. That would be the highest sale price in NBA history, topping the $550 million theMilwaukee Bucks were sold for in April.
One new buyers alliance already came together in recent days when Chicago-based Guggenheim Partners, which bought the Dodgers two years ago for more than $2 billion, agreed to work with a trio of billionaires who previously said they would launch their own bid for the Clippers — Oracle software co-founder Larry Ellison, entertainment magnate David Geffen and mega-entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey.
Another partnership included three principals who have significant ties to major league sports — Tony Ressler, the Los Angeles-based co-founder of the investment firm Ares Management and a minority owner of baseball's Milwaukee Brewers; Bruce Karsh, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management and a minority owner of the NBA's Golden State Warriors and Grant Hill, a one-time NBA all-star who finished his career with the Clippers.
Also expected to bid for the team after meeting with Shelly Sterling on Sunday is Steve Ballmer, who stepped down as chief executive of Microsoft in February after leading the software company for 14 years.
Ballmer last year joined a group, led by hedge fund manager Chris Hansen, to bid on the Sacramento Kings and intended to move the team to Seattle. NBA owners voted to reject the proposed move.
Ballmer said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that, if he succeeded in his new bid, he would not attempt to move the Clippers. He said the team would lose much of its value by leaving L.A.
One of the bidders, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of negotiations, said Tuesday the process would move quickly. "The bids are due Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m." the bidder said. "We will probably know who bought the team by Friday."
Any deal would be contingent on the approval of three-quarters of the NBA's owners. People familiar with the league's position said the NBA would continue with the process of removing the Sterlings at a hearing next Tuesday in New York, to keep the pressure on for completion of the sale.
Michael Bass, the NBA's chief spokesman, reiterated the comments of Commissioner Adam Silver last week: "It would be a preferred outcome if the Sterlings were to voluntarily transfer 100% of the ownership in the team to new owners, rather than to have their ownership in the team terminated."
Donald Sterling's wife of 58 years has held half of the team through a family trust but only recently came to the forefront when her husband said he had turned over control to her and would let her attempt to sell the team. Donald Sterling remains the controlling owner of the team in the eyes of the NBA, but league officials said they would not stand in the way of any legitimate sale.
The Clippers had just concluded their most successful regular season and were in the playoffs when Sterling's racially-charged remarks against African-Americans were posted on the celebrity website TMZ.
The comments unleashed fury among fans, a threatened boycott by players and the flight of sponsors. Silver fined the owner $2.5 million (which Sterling refused to pay), placed a lifetime ban on him and urged owners to force him out of the league.
Much of the defense that Sterling emailed to the NBA hours before a midnight deadline Tuesday centered on his complaint that he was being taken to task for remarks he made in private to V. Stiviano.
Stiviano, 31, was a frequent companion and some-time assistant to the 80-year-old Sterling. Stiviano has described her relationship with the elderly real estate magnate as platonic, akin to a father and daughter. But Sterling has made clear he was enamored with her and depicted his statements as the result of a "lovers' quarrel."
Stiviano has said she routinely made recordings of Sterling and at times used them to try to coach him to be more polite. She said he knew about a recording she made in September of 2013, when they argued about an Instagram photo she took with Lakers legend Magic Johnson.
Sterling reiterated in his written defense Tuesday, that he did not know Stiviano was recording him. He called the audio "illegally recorded." California law prohibits recording an individual without their permission.
The response went on to claim Sterling was "distraught" when he made the statements, because Stiviano told him she planned to bring "four gorgeous black guys to the game" and that those strong feelings should be viewed by the NBA as a mitigating factor.
"This was an argument between a jealous man and the woman he loved that should never have left the privacy of the living room," the response said.
The document further claims Sterling is hindered from conducting his own investigation of the matter because he's "locked out of his office at Staples Center" — part of his ban from the league. The response said it did not "believe a court in the United States of America will enforce the draconian penalties imposed on Mr. Sterling in these circumstances. … Indeed, we believe that preservation of Mr Sterling's constitutional rights requires that these sham proceedings be terminated in Mr. Sterlings favor."
Reuters and the Los Angeles Time contributed to this report


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Thanks for taking a walk down memory lane with me! Incase you didn't notice, I completely fell in love with watercolor this year, and I still can't get enough!!
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Parallels is best known to Mac users as one of the handful of companies—including VMWare and a couple of others—that make apps enabling you to run Windows on your Mac. Now the company is entering a much more crowded niche: Its new iOS app Parallels Access lets you connect to a remote Mac from your iPad and so "run" Mac apps on your tablet. In doing so, it joins the likes of GoToMyPC, LogMeIn, TeamViewer HD, and SplashTop Remote Desktop, as well as VNC clients like Mocha VNC, among many, many others.
So if Parallels Access isn't exactly unique in what it does, how does it expect to differentiate itself in that crowded field? By making remotely accessed Mac programs act as much like native iOS apps as possible. Based on my preliminary testing with the app, here's how it works.
Installation and setup
Installing Parallels Access is a simple, two-step process. First you install an iOS client via the App Store. From that client app, you log into your existing Parallels account or create a new one. You then install a Mac "agent" on your desktop or laptop and log into that same account from there; the Mac app must be running in order for the remote access to work. (The Mac installer is smart enough to check your system's sleep settings and advise you whether you need to adjust them; if your Mac goes to sleep while you're remotely accessing it from your iPad, you'll be out of business.) There's an Access agent for Windows machines, too, so you can control those from your iPad as well.
With those two bits of software in place, you launch the iPad app, which will then show you a list of the Macs that are registered to your account.
Tap on the one you want and you'll enter a Launchpad-like interface showing you a bunch of your Mac apps. (Which is to say it looks like a standard iOS home screen, but with Mac icons.)
Parallels says that, by default, this initial list shows the Mac apps you use most commonly, but you can add and delete apps as you see fit: Just tap the Edit button in the upper right corner to delete or the plus-sign (+) to add. There's also a handy search field, which will find any app with your search string, not just those on that default home screen.
The interface
When you tap on one of the icons on that home screen, the Mac app opens smoothly; I noticed no lag between my taps and the app's response. (That's not always the case with this kind of remote access.) If you were near the Mac you're connecting to, you'd see the app open in full-screen mode on your Mac's display(s). You could type and move the cursor from your Mac input devices, but the interface would be zoomed in on the one app that's open on your tablet.
Access isn't just mirroring your Mac's screen on your iPad: It's overlaying its own interface on your OS X apps. That means you interact with Mac apps by tapping, tapping-and-holding, clicking, dragging, and so on. A regular one-finger tap on the iPad produces a single left-click on your Mac, a two-finger tap creates a right-click, a slide of your finger scrolls the screen, and so on.
On the right side of the screen, you'll see a small toolbar with four icons on it. You can swipe over the toolbar left-to-right to hide it, then swipe in from right edge of the screen to have it reappear.
The top icon on that toolbar summons a Dock-like interface at the bottom of the screen, showing all of the apps that are currently open on your Mac. To switch to another app, you tap its icon there.
Below that on the toolbar there's a Launchpad icon; you use that to summon that initial home screen with your Mac app icons; you can open new apps there.
Next there's the familiar gear icon for settings. Tap on that to control six settings:
- Additional Keys (which lets you summon special keyboard keys, about which more below);
- Mouse Pointer (tap on that to get a mouse-click toolbar that makes it easier to effect left- or right-clicks);
- Desktop Mode (which gives you a fuller OS X desktop, including the top menubar and the Dock);
- Sound On/Off;
- Feedback; and
- Help.
Finally, below that Settings icon, there's a keyboard button that summons the Access keyboard. That keyboard is the standard iOS one, plus a set of special keys at the top: Escape; Tab; F1 through F12 keys; Delete; a button with a grid-like icon on it that, when tapped provides Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn keys; Shift; Ctrl; Alt; Command; and cursor arrow keys.
The Access keyboard doesn't let you "chord" keys—in other words, you can't use standard OS X keyboard combinations such as ⌘-B, ⌘-C, and so on. Instead, you must use the iOS-standard context menu (summoned by selecting text or whatever else you're working on, depending on the app, then tapping the selection). On the plus side, you can use iPad dictation for input in your Mac apps.
Because you're running OS X, you can run multiple apps at once, switching from one to the other using that app-switcher button in the toolbar. But because you're in iOS, the Access interface is really optimized for running one app at a time. So if you need to hop among multiple apps, the Access interface could be frustrating.
Tapping on elements of an app's interface—buttons in the Office ribbon, for example—works really well, in part because Parallels intelligently interprets taps that are close to buttons; you don't have to hit them exactly.
Final thought
While Parallels Access does indeed provide a nice, smooth iOS interface to Mac programs, that's not to say the app does so uniquely enough to clearly distinguish itself from the other iPad apps that do much the same thing. For that final word (as well as word on whether and how well you can stream video or transfer files from your Mac to iPad), you'll have to wait for our review.
Parallels Access will sell for an $80 annual subscription; you'll need a separate subscription for each Mac (and PC) agent you install.


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A bride-to-be has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing her fiance just hours before the couple's wedding was to start near Whitehall, Pennsylvania.
Na Cola Darcel Franklin, 31, and her fiance Billy Rafael Brewster, 36, were planning to tie the knot at 10 a.m, but at some point during the night, Franklin and Brewster began arguing, Steve Luksa, first deputy to the Lehigh County District Attorney, told ABCNews.com.
In the heat of the argument, Franklin allegedly stabbed Brewster twice with a kitchen knife, police said.
"One of the stab wounds punctured his heart," Luksa said.
When police arrived at the apartment, shortly after 2 a.m., they found Brewster bleeding from chest wounds on the second floor landing.
He was transported to the Lehigh County Trauma center and pronounced dead at 3:24 a.m., less than seven hours before the wedding.
Luksa said the couple was not alone in the apartment when the stabbing took place. The couple's children, and extended family members were also present because of the impending nuptials.
Franklin was arrested and charged with one count of criminal homicide, Luksa said.
During her arraignment, Franklin told District Judge Donna Butler, "You got to check again," unable to comprehend that Brewster was dead, the Allentown Morning Call reported.
She cried, rocked herself back and forth and eventually choked out, "I … did … not … kill … him … on … purpose."
She is being held in Lehigh County Prison without bail, Luksa said.
When Franklin told Bulter via the video conference arraignment that she wanted to go home, Butler responded, "You are not going home any time in the near future."


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Being Top Dog is always an honor, but it's a hard fought honor. Sean Glazar and the Extreme Motorsports Talon have been fighting to become Top Dog since day one. There's no argument that Quick Class racing is the most competitive class of racing. There's more entries in the Quick Class than all the other classes combined at any given race. Becoming Top Dog isn't always an easy task.
However, the Extreme Talon is no stranger to being at the top. On the cover of Turbo, April 2000, the DSM was at the top of the class with a scorching 9.57-sec. e.t. At the time, it was powered by turbocharged 4G63 engine making 663.2 hp with the aid of a single-fogger Nitrous Express nitrous kit. The car still ran with factory door panels and a factory dash and weighed in at a hefty 2,755 lbs. Since then, the car underwent a diet and has risen to the top seeded spot once again.
At the IDRC Maple Grove event on October 21, 2001, the Extreme Talon showed why Glazar's always a threat in Quick Class competition. The Talon tore off a scorching 8.875-sec. at 153.85 mph during competition, making it the first ever eight-second pass by a Quick Class car. Prior to the mind blowing run, Glazar already set the pace with a 9.02, 9.04 and 9.08 run on the quarter. Instead of basking in the glory of low nine-second passes and wait for the competition to catch up, he put the smack down with an eight-second pass.
After talking with Glazar, we found out the Talon is pretty much the same car as a year ago, except for the turbocharger. By playing with different turbine and compressor blades, the Extreme crew generated nearly 800 hp at the wheels. One of the reasons the Talon has consistently gone quicker is the constant R&D and testing to see if the changes work or don't.
Unlike many DSMs, the Extreme Talon runs a complete Haltech stand-alone, which has been beneficial to power production of the 4G63. Instead of relying on several piggyback computers, Glazar can tune the ignition and fuel maps with a laptop. This eliminates the restriction of tricking the fuel and ignition signals to the factory computer with the piggyback computers.
Due to the differing regulations between drag racing sanctioning bodies, Glazar has to alter the weight of the Talon by as much as 200 lbs between races (NIRA: 2,330 lbs vs. IDRC: 2535 lbs.). When the Talon ran its 8.875, it was still at a heavy 2535. Glazar says the difference was that the car actually ran down the track in a straight line instead of tracking left and right. Glazar says he's still trying to work the bugs out of the traction department as well as take care of some driveline issues.
At the current rate, he's destroying one transfer case a race and a transmission every couple of races. And despite popular rumors, the car's still using a factory transmission and not a race transmission with straight cut gears. Be on the lookout--if Extreme Motorsports team cures its driveline problems, it would be a major threat in Quick Class racing.
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June 8, 2012, - 12:06 pm
CyberPogrom From Poland: Why DebbieSchlussel.com Was Down For the Last 3 Days
Dear Readers:
As you have noticed over the last three days, DebbieSchlussel.com has been down most of the time. No, you were not banned (unless you live in Poland). It's just that my site and I have been under attack in a cyberpogrom by the people of Poland, because the people of that country were upset by my column about Polish complicity in the Holocaust. It's a stubborn fact they've been trying to disprove by sending me thousands of vile, highly anti-Semitic death and rape threats and e-mails, tweets, and Facebook comments, such as "Die Jewish Bitch!" "Zionist Whore," and my personal favorite, "Mossad Slut." And with all that, Facebook–without any notice to me–deleted my post from my fan page telling Poles to stop their anti-Semitic attacks on me, perhaps b/c there were over 27,000 anti-Semitic comments from Poles in response. (I did not delete it, as Poles are now accusing me of doing.) I've also received thousands of e-mails with sentiments such as, "Only Good Jewish is Dead Jewish," "Hitler Didn't Finish Job," "Jewish deserved to die in pogrom because Jewish is greedy, does everything for money," and the like. Yes, Poles, this really, really convinces me of your philo-Semitism, which my grandparents faced times 1,000 from your parents and grandparents, etc. I also received a lot of anti-American comments from the Poles, thousands of them accusing America of perpetrating a "Holocaust" against the Indians and many e-mails accusing America of perpetrating the 9/11 attacks. Yup, Poland has its fair share of 9/11 Truthers. The Poles tell me I have ads on my site because I'm a "typical greedy Jew." Uh-huh, like all the other websites in the world with ads, most of which are not owned by Jews. And finally, I received many anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian e-mails from Poles. I will be posting some of their disgusting comments in the near future. And, apparently, the people of Poland know how to use Photoshop, since I've gotten a gazillion amusing photos of me with a Hitler mustache and/or in full SS garb. Come on, Poland, try to be more original in your hate. A taste of what I received is below (and you'll note that both penis pics were made by Poles. Draw your own conclusions. You stay classy, Poland.
Some of the Many Images Sent to Me From Philo-Semitic Poles . . .
No way they were complicit in the Holocaust, right?
For now, we are back up and are taking steps to make sure that this doesn't happen again and that Polish neo-Nazis like those who snuffed out much of my family in partnership with the Nazis cannot also continue to snuff out my website. I will be posting my movie reviews soon, G-d-willing. And I thank you for your continued support and readership. By the end of the weekend, we should have this problem and the virtual pogrom licked. The Poles were complicit with the Nazis in silencing Jews during the Holocaust. They will not silence this Jew.
Y'all Come Back Now, Ya Hear!
Courtesy of My Polish "Fans" . . .
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Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9781443104425 Paperback
88 Pages | 5.27" x 7.69" | Ages 7 to 9
Tom gets his first lesson in responsibility when he and his team agree to tidy up an outdoor rink.
It's a snowy February in Calgary, and the bumpy outdoor rink at Crescent Park needs a lot of work. Tom and his friends pledge to perfect it in time for the annual Family Day hockey game, and soon they get to work. But maintaining and improving a rink proves to be a lot of work for the boys: They are faced with repeated snowfalls, ice damage, illness, and poor performance in their hockey games, due to their weariness from all of the extra work!
One day a tempting invitation creates a conflict with their work commitment, and now it's up to them to choose between honouring their pledge or watching their favourite NHL team in action.
This charming chapter book is the fourth installment in Irene Punt's series featuring Tom and the Glenlake Hawks. With the fun backdrop of seasonal school activities and hockey games, she touches on the important themes of teamwork, conflict resolution, and acceptance of responsibility all with the cheerful, positive outlook of an average, everyday kid.


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ONISTAH-SOKAKSIN (Calf Shirt; sometimes called Minixi or Wild Person), leader of the Nitayxkax (Lone Fighters) band of Blood Indians (a division of the Blackfeet), d. in the winter of 1873–74 at Fort Kipp (Alberta).
Calf Shirt was believed to have gained supernatural and ferocious powers from a grizzly bear. A chief who was held in awe by his followers, he, unlike other chiefs, was known for his constant hostility to white traders.
Calf Shirt's name appears first in 1855 when he signed a treaty with the American government on behalf of his band, who commonly wintered along the Belly River. This treaty attempted to establish peaceful relations between the Blackfeet and the United States government, and between the Black feet and their enemies, including the Flatheads, Pend d'Oreilles, Kutenais, and Amikwas (Nez Percés). It set aside an exclusive hunting area for the Blackfeet, allowed for the peaceful entry of missionaries and the building of military posts, and provided for an annual annuity of $20,000 for ten years.
In 1865, when two fellow chiefs were murdered by Americans, Calf Shirt led a war party which wiped out a number of pioneers who were establishing a town called Ophir, in Montana Territory. After the raid, plans for building the town were abandoned. Four years later, he tried to kill a Catholic missionary, Father Jean B. Imoda. By 1870, Calf Shirt had become a leading war chief of the tribe, with a personal following of 72 warriors and with 288 persons in his Lone Fighters band.
Initially he had traded with both the British and the Americans, but after his 1865 raid he did business primarily with the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1869, however, Americans built illicit trading posts in the heart of Blackfoot territory (southern Alberta), where they sold whiskey and repeating rifles. During the winter of 1873–74, Calf Shirt visited one of these establishments, Fort Kipp, and was killed by the proprietor, Joseph Kipp, during a dispute about liquor. Calf Shirt's wives, believing he had the power to come back to life as a grizzly bear, began the necessary rituals but were restrained from completing them by other Indians because of the fear they had had for him in human form.
After Calf Shirt's death his band was amalgamated with the Awaposo-otas (Many Fat Horses) band under the leadership of Aka-kitsipimi-otas (Many Spotted Horses), a wealthy and respected war chief; the new band kept the name of the largest group, Nitayxkax.
H. A. Dempsey, "Blood Indian bands; their identification and history" (unpublished ms in the possession of the author, 1955).
Montana Historical Society Collections (Helena, Mont.), Biographical files, John J. Healy. National Archives (Washington), Census of the Blackfeet Indians, Alfred Sully to E. S. Parker, 16 July 1870. Forest and Stream (New York), 18 July 1903. Fort Benton Record (Fort Benton, Mont.), 31 Jan. 1879. Montana Hist. Soc., Contributions, X (1940), 275. J. C. Ewers, The story of the Blackfeet ([Lawrence, Kansas, 1944]), 39. H. A. Dempsey, "The amazing death of Calf Shirt," Montana; the Magazine of Western History, III, no.1 (1953), 65–72.
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The standard portrayal of the Wall Street protesters goes something like this: Ragtag group of unemployed young adults, venting often incoherent but overall legitimate populist outrage about economic inequality. But go down to the movement's headquarters, as I did this past weekend, and you see something far different.
It's not just that knowledge of their "oppressors" — the evil bankers — is pretty thin, or that many of them are clearly college kids with nothing better to do than embrace the radical chic of "a cause." I found a unifying and increasingly coherent ideology emerging among the protesters, which at its core has less to do with the evils of the banking business and more about the evils of capitalism — and the need for a socialist revolution.
It's not an overstatement to describe Zuccotti Park as New York's Marxist epicenter. Flags with the iconic face of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara are everywhere; the only American flag I saw was hanging upside down. The "occupiers" openly refer to each other as "comrade," and just about every piece of literature on offer (free or for sale) advocated socialism in the Marxist tradition as a cure-all for the inequalities of the American economic system.
Don't try to explain to any of these protesters how those who sought to create a Marxist utopian dream of revolution also gave us the Stalinist purges, Mao's bloody Cultural Revolution and many other efforts to collectivize thought in the name of economic "justice."
One woman was holding a "Nationalize the Federal Reserve" sign; I tried to explain that the Fed is already nationalized, because it's part of government, and she told me to "go check my f–king facts — it's privately owned."
That's when I was handed a piece paper offering the following wisdom: "The Game of Capitalism Breeds Dishonest Men." The author of such deep thinking was a dude named De La Vega, an artist convicted a few years back for painting graffiti on a warehouse in The Bronx.
That was pretty mild compared to the sentiments offered in the official "Statement of the League for the Revolutionary Party" on the protests. These guys view as the enemy not just Wall Street tycoons, but also liberal labor leaders like Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO.
The problem with Trumka, according to the Revolutionary Party and its Zuccotti Park contingent: He wants to work with wishy-washy Democratic Party politicians, where the true revolutionaries want to "defend and develop Marxist theory as a guide to action," which is the protests' real purpose.
Maybe the worse-spent dollar I have ever spent in my life was on a propaganda broadsheet titled "Justice," which advocates "Struggle, Solidarity, Socialism." On the front page of the newspaper-like document, beneath the headline "Capitalism: System Failure," was a tease for a story on the economy and how "influential business economist Nouriel Roubini" recently said how "Karl Marx had it right. At some point, capitalism can destroy itself."
Yes, the left-leaning Roubini made that fatuous statement, and many similar ones — so many, in fact, that he has lost much of his credibility in financial circles, though that didn't quite make it into the "Marx Was Right!" story.
Also absent was any notice of how the much-hated banks benefited not from free-market capitalism, which would have let them fail in 2008, but from crony capitalism that bailed them out. The similar cronyism practiced by Trumka and the Obama administration — massive spending on useless but politically connected businesses like Solyndra, paired with class-warfare rhetoric — likewise has very little to do with free markets.
I don't advise going down to Zuccotti Park to have a serious conversation with the protesters, given their growing propensity toward violence and the growing revolutionary tone of the movement. But I would suggest that President Obama might want to put a hold on his support for the Occupy Wall Street movement as his 2012 re-election bid approaches.
If he keeps saying nice things about the protesters, the debate among business types and voters won't be whether the president has some socialist leanings, but how much virtue he sees in the thoughts of Karl Marx.
Charles Gasparino is a Fox Business Network senior correspondent.


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EU considers trade action after Bangladesh factory collapse
The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building collapse killed more than 400 factory workers.
Duty-free access offered by Western countries and low wages have helped turn Bangladesh's garment exports into a $19 billion a year industry, with 60 percent of clothes going to Europe.
Any action by the EU on Bangladesh's duty-free and quota-free access would require the agreement of all member states and could take more than a year to implement.
"The European Union calls upon the Bangladeshi authorities to act immediately to ensure that factories across the country comply with international labour standards...," the 27-nation bloc said in a statement issued by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht.
In the United States, prominent Democrats Sander Levin and George Miller wrote a letter to President Obama urging him to facilitate the development of a concrete plan of action to address the range of issues relating to working conditions and worker rights in the garment sector in Bangladesh.
The death toll from the collapse last week of the illegally built Rana Plaza in Dhaka's commercial suburb of Savar rose to 411 on Wednesday and about 40 unidentified victims were buried. One woman at the cemetry collapsed into tears when she recognised the body of her sister by her dress.
Several thousand workers rallied in the capital to mark Labour Day, and some called for capital punishment for those responsible for the tragedy.
"The owner of the building ... should be hanged to death and compensation should be given to the injured and those who died," said labour leader Moshrefa Mishu. "A healthy and safe atmosphere should be made in the factories."
With local anger growing over the country's worst industrial accident, a delegation from the International Labour Organisation met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka to offer support and press for action to prevent any more such incidents.
The EU had already urged Bangladesh to adhere to ILO standards in January after two earlier factory fires.
A European Union official said the latest EU statement, issued late on Tuesday, was "a shot across the bows". "We want to turn up the diplomatic heat on them and get them to sit down and discuss this with us."
About 3.6 million people work in Bangladesh's garment industry, making it the world's second-largest apparel exporter, behind China. The industry employs mostly women, some of whom earn as little as $38 a month.
The prime minister warned factory owners they would have to take care of their workers. "You will have to ensure workers' fair wages, allowances and other rights you must look after their workplace safety if you want to do business," she told a discussion forum.
There were about 3,000 people inside the complex, which was built on a swamp, when it collapsed. About 2,500 people have been rescued, but many remain unaccounted for.
"Why are they taking so much time to pull out bodies?" asked a grief-stricken father who, like many others, has been waiting on the streets near the collapsed factory, hoping for information about his son.
Police said DNA samples of the bodies buried on Wednesday had been preserved, so tests could be done if relatives came forward later.
The building's owner Mohammed Sohel Rana and his father, Abdul Khalek, are among eight people arrested so far, and police are seeking a fifth factory boss, Spanish citizen David Mayor, although it was unclear whether he was in Bangladesh at the time of the accident.
The factory collapse was the third deadly incident in six months to raise questions about worker safety and labour conditions in the poor South Asian country, which relies on garments for 80 percent of its exports. Clothes made in five factories inside the Rana Plaza building were produced for retailers in Europe and Canada.
In the year to June 2012, Bangladesh's garment exports to the EU rose to $11.37 billion from $10.52 billion a year earlier, according to Bangladesh's commerce ministry. Germany is the main EU market at $3.4 billion, followed by the UK at $2.13 billion, Spain at $1.71 billion and France at $1.27 billion.
Bangladesh's next biggest garment export market is the United States, which accounts for 23 percent, or $4.53 billion.
"The EU is presently considering appropriate action, including through the Generalised System of Preferences - through which Bangladesh currently receives duty-free and quota-free access to the EU market," Ashton and de Gucht said.
"The sheer scale of this disaster and the alleged criminality around the building's construction is finally becoming clear to the world."
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), an umbrella organisation that brings NGOs, unions and brands together to try to improve working conditions, said retailers, major brands and the suppliers who own the factories would have to contribute towards factory inspections.
"Bangladeshi companies who supply to our retailers need to be pricing in operating a decent factory, a safe factory and paying proper wages," ETI director Peter McAllister told Reuters.
"And then the retail world needs to recognise that the real cost of having sustainable businesses are going to be higher." he said, adding that he thought retailers would accept slightly higher prices if all outlets agreed to the changes.
Following a private emergency meeting of Canadian retailers, the Retail Council of Canada said on Tuesday it would develop a new set of guidelines. That meeting brought together retailers including Loblaw, Sears Canada Inc and Wal-Mart Canada , to discuss how to deal with the tragedy.
Representatives of some 45 companies, including Gap Inc , H&M, J.C. Penney, Nike Inc, Wal-Mart, Britain's Primark, Marks & Spencer and Tesco, and Li & Fung, met officials from the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association in Dhaka this week to discuss worker and plant safety.
Primark and Loblaw have promised to compensate the families of garment workers killed while making their clothes.


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Mathew Brady, also called Mathew B. Brady, (born c. 1823, near Lake George, New York, U.S.—died January 15, 1896, New York, New York), well-known 19th-century American photographer who was celebrated for his portraits of politicians and his photographs of the American Civil War.
After training with the artist William Page and the artist and inventor Samuel F.B. Morse, Brady began to make daguerreotype cases and frames and then opened his first daguerreotype studio in New York City in 1844, a second in Washington, D.C., four years later, and a third, larger gallery, also in New York, in 1852.
His first New York portrait studio was highly publicized, and in 1845 Brady began to carry out his plan to photograph as many famous people of his time as he could—including Daniel Webster, Edgar Allan Poe, and James Fenimore Cooper. Brady compiled many of his portraits in A Gallery of Illustrious Americans (1850), an album of lithographs based on his daguerreotypes that gained him and his studios fame at home and abroad. Brady had an extensive personal collection of presidential portraits: except for William Henry Harrison, who died only a month after his inauguration, Brady created, copied, or collected the photographs of every U.S. president from John Quincy Adams to William McKinley.
At the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Brady decided to make a complete record of that conflict. He hired a staff of about 20 photographers, the best known of whom were Alexander Gardner and Timothy H. O'Sullivan, and dispatched them throughout the war zones. Since Brady refused to give individual credit to photographers, a number of them, including Gardner and O'Sullivan, left his employ. Brady's main activities in the endeavour involved organizing and supervising the operation of his employees and studios; he himself probably photographed only occasionally on such battlefields as Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
The Civil War project ruined Brady financially. He had invested $100,000 in it and had bought supplies on credit, confident that the government would buy his photographs after the war ended. The government, however, showed no interest. The financial panic of 1873 forced him to sell his New York studio and declare bankruptcy. He was unable to pay the storage bill for his negatives, which the War Department finally bought at public auction for $2,840. Through the efforts of his friends in government, Brady was finally granted $25,000 by Congress in 1875, but he never regained financial solvency and died alone and virtually forgotten in a hospital charity ward.


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