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Wolfi and White Supremacy? What Happened and What it Means
From The Conjure House
"Germanhood does indeed divide itself into different peoples and tribes, i.e.beehives; but the individual who has the quality of being a German is still as powerless as the isolated bee. And yet only individuals can enter into union with each other, and all alliances and leagues of peoples are and remain mechanical compoundings, because those who come together, at least so far as the "peoples" are regarded as the ones that have come together, are destitute of will….
Now the Nationals are exerting themselves to set up the abstract, lifeless unity of beehood; but the self-owned are going to fight for the unity willed by their own will, for union. This is the token of all reactionary wishes, that they want to set up something general, abstract, an empty, lifeless concept, in distinction from which the self-owned aspire to relieve the robust, lively particular from the trashy burden of generalities. The reactionaries would be glad to smite a people, a nation, forth from the earth; the self-owned have before their eyes only themselves…How ridiculously sentimental when one German grasps another's hand and presses it with sacred awe because 'he too is a German!'" – Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
This is a story about lies, cheapness, and the destruction of a seven-year project in the blink of an eye. It's about idiocy, sheer blindness, and a willfullness to ignorance that would make even the most Catholic among us blush. It is a tale of Wolfi Landstreicher associating an entire philosophy with the most putrid of politics for a few dollars in his bank account.
It is a warning to support the artists you like as well as a desperate example of how former idols can be found lacking.
But what need we for idols? Nothing sacred, wasn't that the call? A cold and indifferent glance on anything that didn't arise within us? A scandal is on the horizon comrades, can you not hear it? Let us turn our frosty eyes outwards comrades. Let us see the mess all of us have been dragged into.
The New Insurrectionists
Egoism, as a philosophy, was finally getting back on its feet after 100 years. The same ideas that once that inspired Ravachol to bomb class enemies and Marius Jacob to burglarize bosses, judges, soldiers, and the clergy seemed to be on the horizon once more. Across the web and across the globe the traditional Anarchism of street marches and charity work was giving way to a delightful thirst for bombs, fire, and riots.
There are many reasons for this, one being the fact that Anarchism had become far to close to liberalism for the tastes of many, becoming a "liberatory philosophy" with almost no class consciousness, no economic underpinning, and one that preferred battles over language to actual combat. These are the same people who claimed the Black Bloc was a "patriarchal" and "racist" form of protest simply because it was favored by Europeans; the same Anarchism that, with a straight face, considers who gets to wear dreadlocks as one of the defining questions of our generation.
To debate these people was less an exchange of ideas and more of an incoherent screeching where every argument you made would be ignored. Individualism, and those who espoused it, were written off as "a parade of angry white dudes mansplaining about 'edgy' books that almost no one has read and were written over a hundred years ago."
To the many women, non-binary, and trans folks who saw within Egoism the liberation of their Unique this was a slap in the face, let alone the anti-colonialists. To anybody that was tired of being told they would only ever be a demographic in a culture they had no hand in shaping this was a very clear sign they were unwelcome. Individualists and Insurrectionists, the growing trend across the planet, couldn't understand the strange echo chamber that Anarchism had become.
They cried for justice, we wanted revenge.
We persisted. We bought guns and watched the FAI tear ass across the planet. We knew the world might not be saved so we aimed to save ourselves, our interactions based on reciprocity, on comradeship, and above all voluntary interaction free from the spooks of Class, Race, or Gender. While the Left debated the politics of burritos in Portland we Egoists read Insurrection News with unhinged glee as IMF officials received letter bombs and banks got the torch. We felt on the cusp of something, something great, and felt as if our generation might finally make the leap from protest to actual Class Warfare. We saw the destruction of class society as not only beneficial but necessary to our own individuality:
"Insurrection begins with the desire of individuals to break out of constrained and controlled circumstances, the desire to reappropriate the capacity to create one's own life as one sees fit. This requires that they overcome the separation between them and their conditions of existence. Where the few, the privileged, control the conditions of existence, it is not possible for most individuals to truly determine their existence on their terms. Individuality can only flourish where equality of access to the conditions of existence is the social reality."
We wanted more, and then some, and to do so would require at least that people understand who we were as individuals. We wanted to be understood and to be pigeon-holed due to the misreading of a philosophy would serve none of us. Individually and in conversations together we gambled that a rise in individualists desiring to be free would increase the probability of a general revolt and with it our own freedom. We found both the slaver and the slave disgusting, and desired the oppressed to rise with us in armed joy not for the sake of a new master but for themselves.
So we did the long, long work of getting people to understand just what the fuck we were talking about, not out of a desire to win converts but because the spread of such ideas would make our own liberation that much easier, leading to an increase in the militant activity so absent from Anarchism and with it the destruction of the material existence that bound us.
I cannot stress enough these are people I know, friends and comrades. They are flesh and blood real beings who tirelessly slogged through inane ramblings to try to get the people to understand that the key to their freedom lies within them. Online and outside we sought to excite the people, to provoke them, to stir them up against the old world that owned them.
Into the tireless work of countless Egoists dropped a new translation of Stirner's great work, written by what many believed to be a pinnacle of Post-Left authorship. Now armed with an updated and breathless translation we were sure the people would see what we'd seen, know what we knew, and give help us give birth to a new era of insurrectionary desire.
This can still be the case but not before we clean house. Some foul things are stirring and are keeping me awake. What shape is twisting in the darkness, and why is it taking pictures with Richard Spencer?
A Wolf In the Hen House
Wolfi Landstreicher deserves praise for translating many Egoist and insurrectionist texts, as well as incubating Insurrectionary Anarchism through the generally empty period of the 90's. He is seen as a fantastic writer, a despooked individual, and above all someone legitimately concerned with the liberation of others.
Which is why many of us were uneasy when we saw who would be publishing his new translation.
Underworld Amusements, a small publishing outfit run by Kevin Slaughter, has published numerous Egoist works, but takes a significantly different view of what "liberation" means. The works of Stirner sit beside texts described as "UNABASHED NIETZSCHEAN ELITISM," a weird home for a philosophy that we found devoid of any concept of hierarchy or race. We were all worried when, after many had finally received the new translation, exhalations to "learn more" at Slaughter's sites were included in the book. For someone new to Stirner's ideas this would be disastrous, the equivalent of handing someone a book on Marx and imploring them to "learn more" at the local Klan meeting. Rumblings, hints, and screenshots swirled among Egoists. I personally know of two individuals that sent letters to Wolfi expressing their concerns and have the emails to prove it. Still, we held out hope. Surely the great Wolfi Landstreicher would never put himself in the hands of what for all intents and purposes looked to be a rather shady individual.
We have a phrase here in the South: "trust ye no living thing and tread carefully around the Dead."
The proverbial plane hit the mountain on the 16th of July. I was given a link by a comrade to a site of Slaughter's, updated as late as May 2017, where he recounts with much glee his attendance at a conference for White Nationalists:
"The conference was great, but a long day. I know they'll be posting videos of the conference, for a small fee if I'm not mistaken, at NPItv.com.
The titles of the talks from the website, I've added links to personal pages or most relavant, then a link to their book, if available:
Sam Dickson — The Idea and the Ideal of the Ethnostate
Alex Kurtagić — Masters of the Universe – Mister
Keith Preston — Mass Immigration and Totalitarian Humanism
Byron Roth — Multiculturalism and Ethnic Activism – The Perils of Diversity
Richard Spencer — Why HBD is Necessary
Tomislav Sunić — Prospects for a Real Nationalist Right in America – Against Democracy and Equality
James Edwards – Obama and the "R Word" – Racism Schmacism
Jared Taylor – White Identity: Why We Need It – White Identity
I had the best seat in the house, though I was only able to move once to get a different angle. Here are a few select photos from the NPI Conference…"
Kevin Slaughter had said his "own Egoism tends to a type of elitism, rather than communitarian ideals." This wasn't Egoism. No speakers talked about individualism, insurrection, or the fallacy of property rights. Nobody even talked about Anarchism. Instead Slaughter went down to chum it up with Richard Spencer and learn about founding a "white ethno-state."
I sat there at my writing desk, visibly twitching and anxiously mixing beer with rum. A quick search of Slaughter's other works on the site proved this was not a one-off excursion. The man advocated eugenics and segregation, did podcasts on how great the racist theory of the Bell Curve was, and even had his "comedy" featured on the website of notorious slime ball Jack Donovan.
This wasn't mere "intellectual curiosity," this was rubbing elbows with the same kind of people Stirner spat on and laughed at; he had taken a work that destroyed the ideas of race, nation, society, and gender and used it to line his own pockets WHILE AT THE SAME TIME writing about sterilizing black people and wanting to re-start Jim Crow.
None of this was hidden, and it was right out for anyone to see. I thought about all those comrades I knew that would now be stuck explaining how Stirner wasn't racist, who hated prejudice and would now be seen as tainted with it; I thought about the nearly 8,000 people who had heard me talk about Stirner and decided they too should set their cause upon themselves, a great rattling of the probability dice towards the eventual liberation of all those I loved, and how they might feel after "learning more" on Slaughter's garbage sites.
I thought about the money they might spend on this new translation going right into the coffers of a bigot and a fascist. I thought about what such information might turn into in the hands of someone who hadn't a clue what "Egoism" meant.
I shuffled my cards and asked a simple question: "what would happen if I made this public?" My palms grew hot and I pulled one. The King of Spades, also known as the "cruel executioner" who mets out punishment without pity.
With that the War of All Against All was declared and I went public.
Time to get a public statement from Wolfi @LBCBooks ! The people want to know why he's publishing through a white nationalist! pic.twitter.com/oyqbwn3YQx
— Dr. Bones� (@Ole_Bonsey) July 14, 2017
Say It Ain't So
The response from the Egoist milieu was one of abject disgust, and word spread like wildfire. My notifications lit up like a Japanese nuclear power plant and everyone seemed aghast. Could it be true? Could Wolfi have really done this? Had he known? Kevin Slaughter frankly didn't give a shit, and inbetween giving the most asinine excuses he pretty well admitted he had a good time.
Everyone admitted Slaughter was a piece of shit, but the question was what Wolfi knew. His defenders rushed in, filling my inbox with desperate pleas to pull everything down until a letter could be sent to Wolfi, everyone sure that he must have been totally unaware.
These hopes were quickly dashed when Aragorn! made it clear Wolfi knew and just didn't care.
In a weird move Wolfi, or someone close to him, posted his own response. I've reprinted it in full here:
Presented with these responses and trying to make sense of it all I paced across my room, talking with my wife as if we were discussing a bank robbery in broad daylight.
"Possibility: Wolfi is an old man who may be going senile, because if you are so stupid to believe somebody can't lie to you or at the very least check out who's publishing your book you deserve everything you have coming. Wolfi is in his 60's and in his 'response' ends up sounding like your kinda-racist grandfather assuring us that 'cops don't kill black people' because 'my neighbor's son is a cop, and he said he'd never do that.'"
My wife chuckled. "Yeah it sounded kind of…I don't know. Confused? Or just ignorant?"
"But anyone with a fucking pulse can look over Slaughter's shit and see he's a scumbag. Has he never heard of google?"
"What's the response?"
"To this situation?" I grabbed another toothpick "Well if this is pure idiocy may I suggest Wolfi check into the nearest nursing home. He fucked up, and if that's the case let the cards fall where they may. But why not just say you didn't know? Why not just come up and admit it?"
"What's another other possibility?"
"Well, if Wolfi knew as Aragorn says and just didn't care then I can delightfully say 'fuck him.'" I threw my hands in the air. "Why you would consort with such trash is beyond me, and at this point Wolfi is wearing a blue shirt in a blood neighborhood. He knew some of the proceeds were going to go to a white nationalist, or at least a vile racist, and decided he'd try his luck. But why? Did he think people wouldn't find out? What could possibly be the motivation?"
A new message was in my inbox from a source that desired to remain anonymous, one who gave me Wolfi's response right off of Paul Simon's facebook page before he posted it publicly, Paul Simon being the same person that made Wolfi aware of the controversy. This is important because it means this source is close enough to Wolfi's crowd to actually have access to this information.
And I'm definitely going to throw it in the "Wolfi is a shithead" category.
A book seven years in the making, a new translation that could have blossomed into a renaissance for Egoism, was published through an outfit run by a racist because the motherfuckers at Little Black Cart wouldn't pay him. Wolfi had worked on a painstaking translation and, strapped for cash, sold it to a fascist without any hesitation because he's an idiot who can't use the internet or because helping people who believe in racial caste systems is totally fine with him.
This whole thing could have been avoided if he just asked people to pay him directly, or even uploaded it online and asked for donations. In the end the very real material conditions of an anti-communist would push him into the arms of a profit-minded fascist.
It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.
A Tarnished Legacy
Those few individuals who rushed to Wolfi's defense were an odd sort, primarily Gen-Xer's who refused to believe Wolfi could be as stupid as all the evidence made him out to be. He was a hero you see, and hero's never seem to fall in shit quite like people do. In wild tangents they called the shock of Wolfi dealing with known racists as "moralistic" while at the same time begging for mercy and charity from his accusers; everyone who had a problem with Wolfi's blasé attitude were told they were "the real fascists" and in between fits of no doubt literal tears we were all called a bunch of assholes who ruined everything and "weren't being fair."
Nihilists in effect were begging for sympathy. I couldn't help but be reminded of a movie:
Nihilist #2: Iss not fair!
Walter Sobchak: Fair! WHO'S THE FUCKING NIHILIST HERE! WHAT ARE YOU, A BUNCH OF FUCKING CRYBABIES?
Either way you cut it the evidence shows Wolfi was associating with the kind of people who believe in "racial purity" and violence against minorities. He either played dumb or didn't fucking care. Rather than admit his mistake, rather than open his eyes to what he's done, he's assured us that there was nothing to see and that we should just trust the guy espousing eugenics when he says he's not a fascist.
That's not good enough for me and I hope it isn't for you.
Myself and many other comrades have found it disgusting and it is our great pleasure to expose this, to acknowledge it, and to show that Egoism has no place for the bootlickers who will trade individualism for a few coins in a racist's pocket. I proudly display the dagger in my hand and hope Slaughter makes no more money off his rotten distro. I have used and will continue to use what literary might I might have to keep an entire field of Anarchist theory from falling into the hands of Jack Donovan fan-boys. Nothing brings me greater personal joy than to see them twist in the air either metaphorically or literally from a lamp post.
Fascists are not welcome here. Egoism is our property and so we make our attack to force such wretched vileness out of our ranks and back into the race-worshiping idiots it dripped from. Pleas for sympathy and understanding will fall on deaf ears, and every cancerous piece of shit that argues on the behalf of Slaughter should be put on full blast and exposed.
As for Wolfi I doubt he shares Slaughter's views, but that's too little too late. Wrong shirt in the wrong neighborhood, and in the end it doesn't matter if you knew or not. Buy the ticket, take the ride, and if your number comes up that's it. Wolfi gambled and in the end he lost. Welcome to 2017. Maybe next time he'll think twice or do a little research when a strange man offers to fund his next book.
Stirner has nothing to do with racism or "ethno-nationalism" just the same as Anarchism has nothing to do with "Anarcho-Capitialism." If Wolfi could overlook Slaughter's views that's his business, not mine, and means absolutely jack shit to me. I and all the wonderful comrades who use Stirner's theories to invigorate the militant feelings of ourselves and those we love don't want to spend every conversation having to explain how "we're talking about individualism and spooks, but ya know, not in the racist way." I am not about to have myself or any of my friends roped in with the kind of people we would rather see up against a wall than break bread with.
It is my firm desire, and indeed tied up with my own liberation, that the falsehoods of gender, race, society, and class be torn asunder and smashed to pieces.
If you agree, make no room for racist scum who desire to build gods from the color of their skin.
If you don't, than I don't give a shit about you anyway and recommend you drink ethylene glycol.
Want to support an Egoist author that DOESN'T work with white supremacists? Send me $4.99 a month to keep me alive or buy a book that advocates torching bigots rather than funding them.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 11:43
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 11:44
egoism is attractive to nazis
egoism is attractive to nazis and wanna be ubermenchen leftist anime warriors equally. news at 11.
egoism has been garbage since white dudes starting losing the narrative a few years ago and wandering off into their own subjectivity too much and found egoism.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 12:10
Hear hear! Egoist/nihilist
Hear hear! Egoist/nihilist tools are useful only for critique. They deserve credit for this! But once you tear everything down, you can rebuild a new ethical framework or leave it as a vacuum (like a fool) and all sort of awful things will rush in to that void while you're busy accusing everyone of being a "moralist".
Lots of interesting stuff in the void but don't be trusting it! Don't be trying to build things on nothing!
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 12:41
"We knew the world might not
"We knew the world might not be saved so we aimed to save ourselves..."
Go commit suicide, worthless creeps and weenies. Fuck you and your loser melodramas.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 13:26
"Myself and many other
"Myself and many other comrades have found it disgusting and it is our great pleasure to expose this, to acknowledge it, and to show that Egoism has no place for the bootlickers who will trade individualism for a few coins in a racist's pocket." Especially when social capital is so hard to come by. Also buy my book! Check out my site! I'm a big egotist I mean egoist, except when I'm fronting Stalin I mean Marx.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 16:24
yall, we're all just dreaming
yall, we're all just dreaming. no way Wolfi is exposed as working for white nationalists by an "egoist" in a soviet scarf.
Dr. Boner (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 13:33
Hey guise!
Hey guise!
Wuts goin on? I heard everyone is getting all bent out of shape because I was trying to bury Wolfi before he's even dead. Come on guise! Give me a hand with the shovel and we'll knock this 70 year old fascist out and then the World Socialist Party will truly understand that my egoism comes from my heart, which beats red, red, red, red, everyday. I want to be like Marx taking down Bakunin, that damned Russian Spy is a anti-Semite! Proudon is a racist. Do I win any points? Who can I take down next to get me the kind of fame that will make me Dr. Anarchy, King of the Boners. I know, I'll toss my own grandmother down the stairs. Fuck her not walking shit. Bunch of spooks. Get up grandma! You're only lying to yourself. Huh. What do you expect from old people?Waste of air. I hate racism.
Mister Rainbows (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 13:50
Just more moralistic leftist drivel
This "controversy" is mostly annoying because Dr. Bones is making a huge deal out of something that's simply not, all fire, brimstone, and arrogant impatience. He has no patience to let people speak at their own pace, or pause to try to understand. Instead rumours and speculation are more than enough to fuel the Doctors self-righteous vitriol.
Over the course of like 24 hours he turns some troubling information tangentially connected to Wolfi's project and jumps to the wildest of conclusions about Wolfi and the publishing house involve.
Instead of taking a breath, he instead demands everyone he deems to be involved to answer to him at his whim and to his satisfaction lest they be branded a fascist. "Wolfi's associating with people I deem bad, and unless you call him mean names with me, I'll call you a bad person too!"
Simply childish.
It's just more manufactured outrage and puritanical posturing. One gets the impression Dr. Bones wants to be seen as the sole *true* advocate for the Egoist Cause.
Pretty funny that this non-story has blown up because Dr. Bones randomly drew the "cause-a-shitstorm" card out of his tarot deck.
Mister Rainbows (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 13:52
Not to mention the
Not to mention the tastelessness of his shameless self-advertising
Wolfgang Landwalker (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 13:53
Hey, I watched your video and
Hey, I watched your video and I wanted to explain myself: Go fuck yourself. I'm old and I got to pay for my goddamn bills. You want to come by and hold my dick while I pee? No? Then maybe let me make some $cash$ before I xxxcrokexxx? You hate Nazis? That's neat. You winning? They on the run? Did pissing all over my legacy help the cause?
About the old people swings: Look, when I was a young Feral Faun I loved to dance and sing through the forest. I spent my best years writing beautiful poetry while also bringing other passions to bear. In "Against the Logic of Submission" I handle much of this nonsense, this little kid wants to be in with the red anarchists while still fronting egoism? Everything about this moment reminds me of all the anarchists that became Marxist Leninists when I was younger. They had this sense of urgency, that if they didn't do anything the Leviathan would keep marching onward. Well it did and they didn't stop anything. They sure as hell tore down everyone around them just for kudo points, thinking their little parties were relevant. Meanwhile America watched the Cosby Show and Roseanne and didn't give two shits about these little agents of change other than to think they were pawns to some communist puppet.
The world hasn't changed much, the puppet masters are no longer those who worship the soviet union, but rather some even more boring, the scene. I know it is hard to find real enemies, being on the internet or at protests surrounded by allies, but if you passions are true, why aren't you burning molotovs everyday, loading your weapons and firing them into whatever enemies you think you have?
I think it has much to do with the story you tell yourself. You mind is eating candy bars and getting fat and satisfied without ever actually attacking and destroying a real enemy, be it predator or prey. I might be getting a bit of a tummy but you must weigh 120 soaking wet, so you best watch yourself or you might slip on your own little ego and while you are bent over, someone with more than a spook might pay you a visit and give you the stuff that nightmares are made of.
Dr. Bronner (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 16:38
Listen old man, you work for
Listen old man, you work for the Nazis now. There is no way you didn't know what you were signing up for by turning your back on LBC. I want to shoot your head with a shotgun and use intestines to hang up your publisher! Don't tell me how to get insurectionary when I'm the one cleaning up egoism.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 14:18
Say what you will about Dr.
Say what you will about Dr. Bones, he's cultivating an online persona with enough élan to indicate that he's a bit of an arrogant douche, it's true. BUT this slippery slope of egoism towards the cryptofascism is a real problem and if you don't smell it, you're either willfully nose-blind or part of the problem. Not that there's a solution but this is a case study in the inherent dangers of vehement anti-moralism.
A deconstruction/negation of morality shouldn't be about feeling superior to everyone who espouses any form of ethics, you're not an amoral snowflake, that's boring. The negation of morality is about inoculating yourself against unconscious biases that were spoonfed to us by society.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 14:20
That's pretty smart. I like
That's pretty smart. I like this comment and you made me think. Keep up the good work!
Mister Rainbows (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 14:33
In addition, to steal someone
In addition, to steal someone else's point, if anything this sketchy association would be anti-fascist entryism into the cultural territory of those who may lean fascist. Could you imagine being some edgy teen who has a hardon for National Socialism cause it gives their little shit self self esteem but they order Unique One and realize how weak National Socialism is and embrace Egoism and despooking themselves?
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 15:33
LBC wouldn't pay him? Maybe
LBC wouldn't pay him? Maybe if their books didn't fall apart right after you buy them theyd be able to afford to.
Mister Rainbows (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 15:40
Lol so true, I was happy to
Lol so true, I was happy to hear that it was someone other than LBC that was publishing The Unique, for exactly that reason.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 16:31
dr. bones has always been a
dr. bones has always been a boring hack repping leftist struggle in egoist clothing - as if the fucking hammer and sickle on hunter s. thompson jr.'s face wasn't a big red flag already. hopefully for those who didn't already know this this controversy is where he jumps the shark
atassa (not ver... (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 16:38
that sweet lbc $
Yeah too bad lbc couldn't pay wolfi for the translation. It's all our fault because we conned Aragorn into giving it to us, and we wasted it all on blow and wild parties where we did lines off the posteriors of 10k per night call girls. I knew Dr. Bones was butthurt about not getting invited but I didn't know it was this bad. Anyway we still ballin out of control wish you were here.
Jk we rob banks lulz
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 21:18
Sorry...I'm very sorry but I
Sorry...I'm very sorry but I just can't understand anything you say over the gargling sound from the ITS balls in your mouth? It's frustrating.
(not verified) (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 04:26
Stop slut shaming me,
Stop slut shaming me, shitlord!
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 04:35
That's MR. Shitlord! And don
That's MR. Shitlord! And don't be ashamed ;)
Ben Dover (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 17:35
I love the hammer and sickle
I love the hammer and sickle douchebag ranting about a "PR disaster for egosim". Lol....
This is so funny.
Commies, egoists, nihilists, are all such idiotic shitheads.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 20:03
I see a whole lot of ad
I see a whole lot of ad hominems at this dr. Bones who I could give a fuck about, and a whole lot of nothing about why it should be ok for certain anarcho-celebrities to be in business with nazis.
Ironically when @news started I was so into it, into validating insurrectionist/egoist/postleft stuff against leftist moralism (a la infoshop news). Seeing the trajectory of this site over time really gives me pause. We could agree to hate Michael Schmidt, was that because he'd been a leftist? Wolfi is now two degrees away from Richard Spencer and his explanation is fucking weak - at least Schmidt had the brain cells to plead insanity and apologize. That @news seems to have no time for antifascism today is another ominous sign.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 21:01
>ominous sign
>ominous sign
yeah dude, what's wrong with the kids on @news today? staying up late listening to black metal and reading atassa - next thing you know they're turning their back on antifa, that gold standard of being a Good Anarchist. That's now how we raised them damnit!
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 21:29
The gold standard is
The gold standard is sustained, goal-oriented anarchist activity beyond publishing and masturbation. Certainly doesn't have to be AntiFa, that's just one of the easier ways to pull a crew together and manifest a street presence these days. Also pretty damned relevant!
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 21:12
Wolfi's explanation sure is,
Wolfi's explanation sure is, well... spooky in itself. Evasively dishonest. Especially for somebody who's built up a reputation for himself as a writer, I don't see where LBC was any relevant for him to be published. There's plenty of other publishing houses, from radicals to more mainstream, who could have printed him. But he has chosen one from the house of neofascists.
There's a chance that some ugly beast is starting its ugly head with this news, in conjunction with the Michael Schmidt case. This is something I've been hanging over the horizon keep a critical distance from it, but with this, we went a few giant steps closer.
This beast is called the Order of the Nine Angles. Do a search on them.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 22:49
Ok ... I just journeyed down
Ok ... I just journeyed down the rabbit-hole as requested and as fun as all those satanic cults are, it's just a very elaborate form of teen angst. I ate shrooms and summoned evil spirits while cutting myself like any normal teenager but come on ... I'm pretty sure the "a casual realm" actually exists too! Like I say, tons of fun!
But true politics is about guns and bombs and groups of people willing to use them. That's the only real "black magick".
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 13:34
Where is Wolfi's explanation?
Where is Wolfi's explanation?
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 16:01
That LBC refused to pay him
That LBC refused to pay him with royalties over his publication, whereas that neofascist douche has paid him? I assume that's what's presented here as evidence.
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 17:06
Royalties matter
Hell Bob Black still hasn't gotten payment from autonomedia. It seems that leftists can't really be trusted with money in many of these instances.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 17:15
What about that getting
What about that getting jumped by fringe lunatics for being a douche? Can't he take that to the bank?
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 20:28
This is a nontrovesy regarding Wolfi
I say this as someone who was never a big fan of his writing egoist and all. He's simply doing means/ends business to get his book published. Publishing has never been an ideal scenario for various radical writers. He is hardly 'doing business' with fascists.
Also leftistards quite with this silly post left fascist creep nonsense. Fascism was partially birthed from degenerative decadent leftism not the individualist anarchist Stirner stuff. Where those shades and DEAL WITH IT.
Also Bones, I like some of your writing but as others have said this is faux outrage. Also that hammer and sickle communist joiner to egoism stopped being reasonable at the end of the 1970s when people like Bob Black finished that phase of ultra leftism.
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 07/16/2017 - 21:15
(I posted this with errors
(I posted this with errors under the wrong comment...)
Wolfi's explanation sure is, well... spooky in itself. Evasively dishonest. Especially for somebody who's built up a reputation for himself as a writer, I don't see where LBC was any relevant for him to be published. There's plenty of other publishing houses, from radical to more mainstream, who could have printed him. But he has chosen a house for neofascists.
There's a chance that some ugly beast is starting to rear its ugly head with this news, in conjunction with the Michael Schmidt case. This is something I've been hanging over the horizon keep a critical distance from it, but with this, we went a few giant steps closer.
This beast is called the Order of the Nine Angles. Do a search on them.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 06:40
I'm not an egoist and don't
I'm not an egoist and don't feel particular affinity for either Stirner or Wolfi's work, but this denunciation seems very shoddy and strange, and based on scene drama and rumors.
First, the strain of idol worship and ressentiment is strong. There's a taste of Judas here, which reflects badly on Dr. Bones and an entire scene (including Wolfi) that would tolerate such cringing sentiments, whether positive or critical.
Second, unless I'm missing something, the only evidence presented that Wolfi went with KS due to money was from Aragorn. Aragorn seems to have good reason to feel pique that Wolfi would slight LBC. So without impugning Aragorn's reliability, it seems reasonable to demand a higher standard of evidence than "guy who just got insulted by Wolfi said that the insult was for a shitty reason."
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 06:48
To be clear
The only quote from me in this mess is that Wolfi knew that KS had sketchy politics/interests.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 06:58
agree with 6:40. i don't know
agree with 6:40. i don't know what a! said or did not say, but i know wolfi did struggle with the publishing decision. he had quite the back and forth with kevin slaughter, and was convinced that kevin's delvings into neo-nazi/fascist/whatever scenes is part and parcel of his cynical approach to everything. i doubt ak or pm would publish anything for wolfi, but he surely would not choose them to publish his work. instead, he chose someone that would give him full control, regardless of the flailing accusations that have abounded about kevin for quite some time. wolfi did his due diligence (to his satisfaction), and he made his choice. anyone that actually knows wolfi (i happen to know him quite well) wouldn't even waste their time with this insipid stupidity.
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 07:18
re: anon 6:40, et al
to be explicit: first: LBC has absolutely no hard feelings about wolfi choosing different publishers when he decides that's a good idea. We are small in the world, and there are a variety of reasons for working with more than one publisher. We want good content in the world, and it's fun for us when we get to work on content we like, but we're not trying to own it or own the authors who have worked with us.
second: Wofli is a friend, as well as someone we want to promote. he made a decision we would not have made, and we tried to alert him to some of the consequences, but people make mistakes.
third: anyone who thinks that money is a determining factor for anyone in anarchist publishing doesn't know anything about it and apparently has a limited imagination.
anyone who knows the people at LBC knows that it's not hard to get aggravated with us. for many, we do enough to offset that. we have accepted these things about ourselves.
LBC (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 09:30
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 13:58
I was "6:40." To LBC, I'm
I was "6:40." To LBC, I'm sorry I got mixed up in all the innuendo. It was Paul Simon who allegedly said that money was the issue, alongside this remarkable, herd-ish sentence from DB:
"A book seven years in the making, a new translation that could have blossomed into a renaissance for Egoism, was published through an outfit run by a racist because the motherfuckers at Little Black Cart wouldn't pay him."
Regardless, thank you for doing what you do, LBC.
El Errante (pzs) (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 14:40
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 14:48
ha! "anarchists" suing each
ha! "anarchists" suing each other for libel. good one!
El Errante (pzs) (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 15:23
You stupid fuck...
over and above the law, libel is a way that journalists (or even the intelligent) can judge the relative integrity and veracity of each other's work. As you fit into neither of those categories, I guess i shouldn't expect you to even have a glimmer of understanding, et alone comprehension.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 15:26
Aren't you a snarly little
Aren't you a snarly little thing! Guess you don't see the humour? You writers do take yourselves awful serious!
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 07/18/2017 - 19:17
no. your books still fall apart.
no. your books still fall apart. but yes, you will replace them.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 11:56
Nothing happened and it doesn
Nothing happened and it doesn't mean anything.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 13:22
"Nothing happened and it
"Nothing happened and it doesn't mean anything."
The entire US anarchist subculture stinkers scene in a nutshell...
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 13:42
Crowd-source the funds, print
Crowd-source the funds, print on demand, handful of distros / "accomplices"....really this was a no brainer for an old-skool DIY egoist....
ah ah ah (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 15:36
Ask not for whom the finger wags,
it wags for thee, wolf-ee.
Politic-mixing for these folks is identical to the race-mixing taboo of their purported enemies. The divisions and reactions to mixing (ostracizing, threats, moralizing, insults, humiliation, etc.), are the same. Same behaviors, different memes plugged in.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 15:47
Yeah … behaviours without
Yeah … behaviours without context are like, totally the same! You're so clever!
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 15:57
Breathing while holding fascist ideals.
Much different than breathing while holding communist ideals.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/17/2017 - 16:08
The difference between a
The difference between a predator and someone who just wants to exist without being harassed or having to go hungry. Predators are obviously part of nature too but it's not like they should expect sympathy from the prey. The magic of context!
negroyverde (not verified)
Tue, 07/18/2017 - 06:17
Bones said: " I and all the wonderful comrades who use Stirner's theories to invigorate the militant feelings of ourselves and those we love don't want to spend every conversation having to explain how "we're talking about individualism and spooks, but ya know, not in the racist way." I am not about to have myself or any of my friends roped in with the kind of people we would rather see up against a wall than break bread with."
So this is fundamentally about how you are perceived by the moralistic elements of anti-racism? You have more loyalty, then, to religious anarchists - not egoists - than to one who has made incredible contributions to egoist thought? I do not hold Wolfi as an idol by any means at all, but to disavow him over what looks to be a trifle is ridiculous. All of the identitarian, "walk-on-eggshells-anarchists", functionally liberals par excellence, hold so much sway on you that you'd let yourself become infected with their Maoist rigidity and sclerotic worldview over and against individuals who are decidedly closer to your niche?
Or is it your niche, Dr. Bones? Are you here to bring "callout culture" to those of us who deserted the world of privilege-checking and moral accounting? This appears to be what you are doing. There are a myriad of ways in which the situation could be interpreted that do not point toward condemnation (though I know condemning things and people can provide quite an adrenaline high) that you simply refuse to see, and I wonder what your angle is. I turn every missionary away from my door, especially those who act as vanguards for the cancerous "callout culture" that has infected anarchism - and sadly, though I've loved your writings since I found them, it seems you are one such missionary.
For example, if this press is in fact frequented by NS and white nationalist types, what of the fact that a national socialist's reading of Stirner may cause them to abandon the idiotic nationalism they once held dear? The book's presence in their webstore may be meaningful in inducing young and rightfully angry fascist kids to draw nearer to egoism and the anarchism that is inherent therein.
Or, another possibility: I know nothing of Kevin Slaughter myself, but can say that his attendance of an NS event is hardly more contemptible than your attendance of a Trump rally, by your logic. Were I to think as you do here, and hear of your attendance of this rally seeking the ire you seek, I would similarly reject you completely for the simple fact that you did a "bad thing" out of curiosity and essentially "for the lulz". I myself have seen various alt-right thinkers speak merely to understand my enemy. I have even known some individuals who have infiltrated white supremacist organizations in order to gain intel. Will you seriously allow a few sparing notes on an individual - who has existed for many years, and experienced many things - reduce him to one act? And further, allow the association between Wolfi - who is aging and must secure resources for his old age - to tarnish his image? Truly idiotic.
If your problems were genuine, and you were not merely the very wolf-in-the-henhouse you claim Wolfi is, you would do two things: First, you would approach him directly and with a sense of respect, and aim to understand his motives and determine what he knew before you reacted - this with an aim to gently address a perceived wrong on his part in the interest of strengthening our tiny community. Second, as he himself points out in his comment, you would provide direct aid to him to transition into old age, thus relieving him of any financial pressure that caused him to turn to this publisher (who may genuinely be terrible). All of this would draw on a *communistic* sense of fraternity with a fellow egoist anarchist instead of a witch-hunt style SJW freakshow.
And thus, I must say to you Dr. Bones, in the interest of remaining consistent with all I just said: While I continue to support your struggle from afar, and appreciate greatly your contributions to the egoist world - you may do well to rethink this one. That is, providing you actually have the best interests of the community at heart.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 07/18/2017 - 06:52
Hey windbag, you're still
Hey windbag, you're still playing catchup. Wolf I already crawled out from under his rock and admitted he accidentally fell in with the alt right.
The horseshoe problem is real, your old egoist patriarch is fallible. Deal with it.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 07/18/2017 - 07:11
You told that guy. Wolfi
You told that guy. Wolfi really is just some old hippie that is used to publishing around other marginal and didn't care. I found his explanation to be easily punchable and torn to pieces, he probably shouldn't of even had an offensive. As a fan, I wanted to like it, but he gave away information that only proves he is out of touch and makes him look stupid. Dr. Bones didn't do a service for anyone either, just reminded us that someone is getting old and can be easily mocked with just a little bit of effort. This is where I think Wolfi is correct. Dr. Bones did bully an old man that does not play internet troll fights to get that sharp "I'll tear down your fucking life you little bitch" edge that these edgelords like to think they got. This guy wants to be public. He'll get tore down without much assistance. He's a weirdo and he decided he'd swing at one of the few people that could've validated his weirdness.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 07/18/2017 - 19:31
underworld amusements on egoism
UA is not a crappy publisher. why are people just accepting that? a quick glance at their profile of websites and books show that they have more egoist material on offer, on archive, and in the pipeline than anywhere else i know of!!! that's is pretty amazing and they keep excavating lost writings of this marginal tendency making it's sources quite numerous and dynamic. holy hell, that's a feat. ...sale's pitch is over now.


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The McPherson County Humane Society pet of the week is Cricket.
Cricket is a a frisky and sweet fellow who is looking for a special home. He and his brother Jiminy tested positive for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV). This means that he could potentially get sick if exposed to an unhealthy environment or put under too much stress. As long as he has a comfortable indoor lifestyle and a loving family, there is no reason why he won't stay healthy and happy for many years, just as long as "normal" cats would.
Jiminy has found a forever home now, and Cricket would really love a home of his own too. If you come to the porch of the shelter, you will probably see him lounging in the big window seat, along with his roomies Hyundai and Magnum, who are also FIV+ and just as friendly as he is!

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Lactic acid is mainly produced in muscle cells and red blood cells. It forms when the body breaks down carbohydrates to use for energy during times of low oxygen levels. Times when your bodys oxygen level might drop include:
- During intense exercise
- When you have an infection or disease
A test can be done to measure the amount of lactic acid in the blood.
Alternative Names
Lactate test
How the test is performed
A blood sample is needed. Most of the time blood is
How to prepare for the test
Do not exercise for several hours before the test. Exercise can cause a temporary increase in lactic acid levels.
How the test will feel
You may feel slight pain or a sting when the needle is inserted. You may also feel some throbbing at the site after the blood is drawn.
Why the test is performed
This test is usually done to diagnose
Normal Values
4.5 to 19.8 mg/dL (0.5-2.2 mmol/L)
Note: mg/dL = milligrams per deciliter; mmol/L = millimoles per liter
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
The examples above show the common measurements for results for these tests. Some laboratories use different measurements or may test different specimens.
What abnormal results mean
Abnormal results mean that body tissues are not getting enough oxygen.
Conditions that can increase lactic acid levels include:
Heart failure
- Liver disease
- Lung disease
- Not enough blood containing oxygen getting to a certain area of the body
- Severe infection that affects the entire body (
- Very low levels of oxygen in the blood (hypoxia)
Special considerations
Clenching the fist or having the elastic band in place for a long time while having blood drawn can result in a false increase in lactic acid level.
Seifter JL. Acid-base disorders. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 120.
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Reviewed By:
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang.


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Apple Loads Its Guns for Patent War
Nov 29, 2010 12:12 PM PT
Apple appears to be beefing up its legal team as it fights an unprecedented number of patent battles.
It has reportedly hired some of the nation's top lawyers as outside counsel, and it is advertising several openings in its legal department.
Apple has had more patent lawsuits filed against it in United States district courts than any other high-tech company since 2005, Greg Upchurch, director of research at LegalMetric, told MacNewsWorld.
This could be because the battle for the mobile market is heating up and lawsuits are one way of fighting off the competition.
"There seems to be more than a bit of competitive strategizing going on here, both on Apple's part and that of other vendors," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told MacNewsWorld.
Cupertino's Legal Build-Up
Apple's retained some of the top patent lawyers in the U.S. as outside counsel, Bloomberg reported. The includes names like Robert Krupka of Kirkland & Ellis, William Lee of Boston law firm WilmerHale, and Matt Powers of Weil, Gotshal Manges.
Earlier this year, Apple hired Noreen Krall, formerly chief intellectual property counsel for Sun Microsystems.
Further, Cupertino's advertising a total of 17 jobs in its legal department on its website.
These range from legal counsel in litigation to corporate law paralegal to senior counsel for strategy and licensing.
Keeping the Courts Busy
Cupertino's going to need the muscle -- it's facing patent lawsuits from Elan, Motorola, Microsoft, Kodak, Wi-LAN, Nokia, HTC and NTP. Meanwhile, Apple's also on the offense -- it's suing Motorola, HTC and Nokia.
HTC representative Rickey Bird declined to add to the information his company released when it first announced it was suing Apple.
Apple's been involved in a total of 141 patent suits in U.S. district courts since 2005, according to LegalMetric. Microsoft comes in second among high-tech firms with 110, HP is third with 98, Dell is fourth with 90 and Motorola is fifth with 87.
This year alone, Apple has been involved in 42 patent suits, according to LegalMetric's figures. The firm only monitors cases filed in U.S. district courts. Runner-up HP is involved in 27, and Motorola and AT&T tied for third place with 19 patent suits each. Microsoft has been involved in only 10 patent suits this year.
Sosumi's Not Just a Tune
Why so many cases? And why now?
"I suspect it's because there's a lot of money involved," LegalMetric's Upchurch said.
"I believe Apple got sued because the iPhone made a big difference in the marketplace, and when that happens, everybody starts focusing on that segment of the market. Lots of companies suing Apple have patents, and lots of these probably cover what Apple's doing, and of course they're suing to get their share," Upchurch added.
Apple's lawsuits against HTC and Android apparently only cover those models that run on the Android operating system (OS), triggering speculation that Cupertino's trying to halt the Google OS's rapid growth.
"'Binge' seems to be an apt description so far as the Android lawsuits go," Pund-IT's King remarked.
Google issued a statement in March after Apple filed suit against HTC stating it will stand behind Android and its partners, although it didn't clarify whether that included helping fund their legal battles.
"We're going to decline comment here -- we released a statement previously when the lawsuit was filed," Google spokesperson Aaron Zamost told MacNewsWorld when asked about the Apple lawsuit.
A Little Bloodletting Goes a Long Way
Chances are that most of the lawsuits will be settled out of court.
"The outcomes of patent suits aren't at all certain," LegalMetric's Upchurch pointed out.
"The chance of getting to trial is 2 to 3 percent of all cases. Even if they go to trial, the patent owner wins only about 70 percent of the time, so both sides are likely to come to some sort of business arrangement," Upchurch explained.
Generally, both parties know at the summary judgment or claim construction stage who's probably going to win, Upchurch elaborated. At that point, they settle in 90 percent of the cases.
Apple did not respond to requests for comment by press time.


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Access, a better layout of rooms and proximity to the rest of the school district all went into Robert Bushell's concluding it makes sense to keep Aldrich open and close Gorton Junior High School.
Bushell, director of elementary education and a member of the committee studying closing a junior high school, made the motion to close Gorton at the committee's meeting last Wednesday. It passed by a 7-2 vote, with one abstention. It now goes to the School Committee for a vote.
But the closing is far from a done deal.
The Gorton community of teachers, parents and students are mounting an effort to save the school. It includes petitions, calls to City Council and School Committee members and letters to the editor. Also, at the urging of some members of the short- and long-term committees, the school administration has agreed to convene meetings of the study committees before passing along a recommendation to the School Committee. Those meetings are scheduled for this Wednesday with a joint meeting at 3 p.m. followed by a long-term meeting at 3:30. The meetings are at Toll Gate High School.
Amie Galipeau, who opposed the motion to close Gorton, feels the two committees should work together and report back to the School Committee.
"We have to look at the long-term effect," she said. "I feel like the decision was based on finances, not what's best for the kids," she said.
Jackie Harris-Connor, of the long-term committee, said the mission of the committees has changed, from looking at options to actually closing a junior high school.
"I don't know why closing a school became so important in the last couple of months," she said.
She questions what impact closing will have on curriculum and whether that has been fully considered.
Asked about the process, Superintendent Richard D'Agostino said the administration would notify the School Committee of a recommendation and it would schedule a public hearing before conducting a vote. He did not have a date for a hearing or vote.
"It's a very emotional subject," he said observing that Gorton, which opened in 1939, has a long history and it is hard for people to accept change.
"It's the mindset of people," he said.
Nonetheless, D'Agostino called consolidation of the district "a positive thing for kids … this is how we're looking at it. We need to run schools as efficiently as possible, as they [parents] do at home."
As the city's three junior high schools are operating at about 50 percent of capacity, Bushell says, "We're totally underutilized." And, referring to the budget, he adds, "we're way in the hole the way we're going." Closing either Gorton or Aldrich would save an estimated $1.2 million in operating costs and avoid the costs of bringing the schools in line with fire codes.
"It's a better facility because it has more access for buses and it's easier to get to," Bushell said when asked why he picked Aldrich to remain open. He called Gorton "isolated" and said Aldrich has additional classrooms and, "To me, it's just a better building."
Still, some questions remain. What of converting the junior high schools to middle schools with grades 6 to 8, which would open space in elementary schools for full-day kindergarten? What proposals will the long-range committee make?
"To close a building without knowing what the district is going to look like is putting the cart before the horse," said David Testa, a member of the short-term committee who voted against closing Gorton. Testa said he found most systems had middle schools and that those systems provided students with greater instruction in math and science.
He said most systems are built like a pyramid, with the high school at the top "and we're like an hour glass." Because of "class weighting," which counts students who have special educational needs as more than one in calculating class size, Testa argues with the closing of a junior high, the district won't be able to go to a middle school model. There won't be the room for the 6th graders.
"It's a short-term gain, but I think it's tied our hands," he said.
Harris-Connor also asks whether closing a junior high school will inhibit the district's ability to use the middle school model and apply the common core standards as being required by the department of education.
Bushell, who once resisted the middle school model, feels students are "more mature" today and that integrating 6th graders with 7th and 8th is workable. That would open the way to all-day kindergarten. But, while there is state pressure for all-day kindergarten, Bushell said there isn't funding. To do it, he said, would require hiring an additional 21 teachers and aides at a projected cost of more than $3 million annually.
"Here's the thing, that's not a definite," D'Agostino said of all-day kindergarten. And he sees a middle school "happening down the road" when projections call for even further reductions in enrollment.
Peter Stone, a Gorton teacher, said the recommendation to close the school cast a pall over the school Thursday and Friday. He said the faculty sought to remain as upbeat as possible and to not have the news affect school operations. He described the school as in "full protest mode." Actions include a petition to save the school, calls to City Council and School Committee members and meetings of the student council.
"It came out of nowhere," he said.
School Committee member Eugene Nadeau said he had received about 35 calls about closing Gorton as of Sunday evening.
The recommendation to close Gorton came as a surprise to many because others considered some of the very reasons Bushell saw as assets as liabilities. Being on a busy artery – Post Road – and next to a fire station was seen as a hazard to kids. Also, being contiguous to the former Christopher Rhodes School, which is closed and has been turned back to the city, the two properties were viewed as potentially marketable for redevelopment.
Aldrich Better??
Mr, Bushell says this but offers no data to support his claim.
So allow me to do the research to "fact check" Mr. Bushell since The Warwick Beacon did not.
Education - Necap results 2012
% Proficient in Reading Aldrich 77% Gorton 75% (slight edge to Aldrich)
% Proficient in Math Aldrich 55% Gorton 62% (edge to Gorton)
% Proficient in Writing Aldrich 64% Gorton 67% (slight edge to Gorton)
So based on effectiveness it wold seem that Gorton is better...
But maybe it's the facilities, maybe Aldrich is bigger and has more space? Again, no speculation, lets look at the data.
Classrooms Aldrich 48 Gorton 50
Library Area (sq/ft) Aldrich 1940 Gorton 3090
Cafeteria Area (sq/ft) Aldrich 3757 Gorton 6597
Cafeteria occupancy Aldrich 250 Gorton 440
Gymnasium Area (sq/ft) Aldrich 4940 Gorton 6547
Auditorium seats Aldrich 422 Gorton 650
Hmmm, that information doesnt make Aldrich better either???
Maybe, it's busing.
It must cost more to bus Gorton kids to a new school than it cost to bus Aldrich kids to a new school
Nope, it would require one more bus at a cost of $80,000 to close Gorton according to data presented at a consolidation meeting
Yet Aldrich it better?
I know, boiler systems are expensive, Aldrich must have a brand new boiler...
Nope, Gorton's boiler is younger...
And Gorton has a nearly empty building next door (Greene) that could be use to house a computer lab should Gorton need to lose it's computer lab... Thus making Gorton expandable if need be.
So why is Aldrich better?
The only answer can be the Warwick School Administration does not want to close a junior high, they want to close Gorton period.
This whole thing about needing to close a junior high appears, on the surface to be a ruse to do what they wanted to do all along and that is to close Gorton. There is no other explanation. Why Gorton, I don,t know. But whatever the reason is, there appears to be little factual data to back this decision up.
I challenge The Beacon to wake up their cracker jack investigative team and fact check this decision as I have.
I challenge The Warwick School Committee to do their due diligence as well and find the real reason Gorton needed to be shut down.
Well said, th0062! Add to that the 80K more the department would save in closing Aldrich as well as the field and track facilities on the Gorton land that Aldrich does not have and I ask again, why Gorton? Oh, I forgot, Denis Mullen stated today that Aldrich was "brighter" and the "lockers were in the halls instead of the classrooms." Excellent reasons, Mr. Mullen, to disrupt the lives of so many students and families. I agree completely that the administration has been out to acquire the Gorton land long before this year, back when John Green Elementary was closed over the moldy and crumbling Warwick Neck Elementary School four years ago. Warwick administration wants these buildings and this land for the school department? I say no. It seems to me that there is some inside deal going on with City Council at the sad expense of the students.
Both middle schools would be at about 80% capacity after the merge. Population is trending downward so why would they need the bigger Gorton?
That still does not explain with data why Aldrich is better?? Why are they will to pat $80,000 more in busing Gorton students Why are they closing the school with better test results. They want to close Gorton, even if the evidence doesn't work for them.
Better test results? Hardly! All junior high schools in Warwick have similar test results. Looking for excuses to save Gorton, when the whole Warwick School system is broken...consolidating is not the answer. Although I do agree to some extent w/ Mr. Bushell, lets bring these schools up to code / date. These schools, or whichever school is chosen, needs significant improvements.
Check the RI Department of Education website. Gorton is the only Junior High in Warwick that is not in "warning" status.
I did check the test score for Aldrich and Pilgrim and Gorton and Vets. Look at the NECAP sores and you will see Aldrich and Pilgrim better perform Gorton and Vets. GreatSchools.com also rates Vets, 4 out of 10 and Pilgrim,6 out o 10 . Gorton and Adrich receive the same 6 out of 10 rating, with Aldrich having slightly better scores, especially in reading, with Aldrich receiving 85% proficient and Gorton 69 %.
To clarify -- Pilgrim's NECAP scores for reading were 84 and Vets 69.
Here are the results for Aldrich, Gorton and Winman --
Reading: 2009. 2010. 2011
Aldrich. 81 80 83
Gorton. 73 72 78
Winman. 77 80 82
Results all similiar.. math, too, with scores averaging in the 50 's


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These days, I would imagine that a number of parents may find themselves in a situation similar to mine this morning: When my five-year-old turned on the TV this morning to watch cartoons, it was still tuned to a news channel from the night before. My husband and I were in the room and let him watch a couple of minutes of coverage (he has become an avid news watcher, for better or for worse, like his father), but before we had changed the channel, news of the imminent release of the Freeh Report came on. We heard snippets: "Sandusky"…"children"…"Penn State football"…"sexual abuse." I wish we'd turned the channel sooner, but instead I was faced with questions from my son about what had happened. I tried what I thought was an age-appropriate explanation (his three-year-old brother had also wandered into the room by then): "A bad man hurt some children."
Plus: The AAP on How to Protect Against Child Sexual Abuse
"How did he hurt the kids, Mom? Was it with a gun?"
I looked at my husband, and he looked back at me with rising panic in his eyes.
"No, it wasn't with a gun, honey."
"Then was it with a knife? Tell me what he did!"
"Uh, what do you want to drink? Some orange juice? Apple cider?" my husband interrupted, and steered our son toward the kitchen, the discussion over for the time being.
We didn't do the best job of parenting this morning, admittedly. And as a Penn State alumna (I received my master's degree there several years ago) and more importantly as a mom of two young boys, I've been thinking a lot about a missed opportunity on my part this morning. I owe my sons better (age-appropriate) information to protect them from ever becoming a victim of someone like Sandusky (who was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse, including rape and sodomy, last month).
Plus: 5 Tips on Talking to Kids About Scary News
"The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized," said Louis J. Freeh, the former federal judge and director of the F.B.I. who oversaw the seven-month-long investigation into the university's failure to protect so many children, and found that head football coach Joe Paterno had known since 1998 of Sandusky's abuse.
In my two years at the university, despite never once attending a football game, I understood just how deep the devotion to Joe Paterno and Nittany Lions football ran. But to think that university officials actively looked the other way while an employee in a position of power sexually abused young children is despicable—and a reminder of the importance of parents teaching children about what abuse is and how to handle it.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends, in part:
- giving kids an anatomy lesson, including which parts of the body should be seen or touched only by a parent—or a doctor, while you're in the room too
- banishing secrets
- believing your child if she tells you she's been touched inappropriately
Plus: Must-Read Tips on Child Abuse Prevention
Experts recommend talking to kids as early as age three about their body and which parts are private. But no need to get into any of the birds and the bees stuff or scary talk about "bad people"—simply focusing on appropriate and inappropriate behavior and touching should suffice for young children.
Have you discussed any of this with your kids? If so, what have you told them?


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Cookbooks for Kids in the Age of the App
By Pamela Thomas
Pam Thomas is an editor in Sesame Workshop's Book Publishing department and the author of several cookbooks.
Cooking with kids is not only an excellent way to find delectable "quality time" with the family, it's a perfect tactic for sneaking in teachable moments, all while mixing up a batch of good-for-you muffins! How about math: How many cookies make a dozen? Or science: Why does butter melt when it's put over heat? How does a cake rise when it's put in an oven? Literacy: What foods begin with the letter "C"? And even a bit of etiquette: Let's set a pretty table for supper! Or, let's take a plate of cookies to the nice lady who lives next door!
And then, of course, there's the whole issue of good health as it relates to food. Research has shown that Sesame Street's furry, friendly, familiar characters can have a powerful influence over young children, guiding them to develop positive eating habits and to delight in exercise—strong ingredients for lifelong health. Sesame Street's ongoing initiative, "Healthy Habits for Life," proves that young children are more interested in healthy foods and good eating practices when these subjects are reinforced in fun, creative, colorful, and active ways. That's what Sesame Street cookbooks have strived to achieve. Read More


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Rahul M. Kohli, M.D., Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department: Medicine
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
502B Johnson Pavilion
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine
3610 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6073
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine
3610 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6073
Office: 215-573-7523
Fax: 215-349-5111
Fax: 215-349-5111
Education:Permanent link
B.S. (Biochemistry)
University of Michigan, 1998.
Harvard Medical School, 2004.
Ph.D. (Biochem & Mol Pharm, Advisor: Christopher T. Walsh)
Harvard Medical School, 2004.
B.S. (Biochemistry)
University of Michigan, 1998.
Harvard Medical School, 2004.
Ph.D. (Biochem & Mol Pharm, Advisor: Christopher T. Walsh)
Harvard Medical School, 2004.
Description of Research ExpertiseOur laboratory broadly focuses on DNA modifying enzymes and pathways, particularly those that contribute to genomic plasticity. We utilize a broad array of approaches, including biochemical characterization of enzyme mechanisms, chemical synthesis of enzyme probes, and biological assays spanning immunology and virology to study the fundamental question of how a genomic diversity arises in nature.
Mutation and modification of the genome play an important role in several physiologically relevant areas and our areas of interest include:
1. Decipher the molecular basis for deamination by AID/APOBEC enzymes and perturb deaminase immunological functions
From the host immune perspective, the generation of genomic diversity is used as both a defensive and an offensive weapon. Host mutator enzymes such as Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) seed diversity in the adaptive immune system by introducing targeted mutations into the immunoglobulin locus that result in antibody maturation. Related deaminases of the innate immune system can directly attack retroviral threats by garbling the pathogen genome through mutation, as accomplished by the deaminase APOBEC3G, which restricts infection with HIV. Immune mutator enzymes, however, also pose a risk to the host, as overexpression or dysregulation have been associated with oncogenesis.
2. Explore the interplay of cytosine modifying enzymes on DNA demethylation
The singular genome is responsible for a wealth of different cell types, each of which can respond and adapt to environmental cues. In part, these epigenetic differences are linked to DNA modification. These modifications center around cytosine, where DNA deamination (AID/APOBEC enzymes) , oxidation (TET family enzymes) and methylation (DNMTs) can all interplay and tune the genome's potential. We are interested in the enzymatic activities of these cytosine modifying enzymes, particularly in the process of DNA demethylation which plays a role in embryogenesis, gene regulation and a potential pathological role in cancer.
3. Target pathogen pathways that promote evolution and resistance.
From the pathogen perspective, alteration in key antigenic determinants at a rate that outpaces immune responses is a potent means for evasion. Further, rapid mutation may allow for the development of resistance to antimicrobials. In bacteria, adaptation and evolution are closely linked to the stress response of SOS pathway. The SOS pathway can be triggered by numerous stressors, including antibiotics, and the net result is accelerated acquisition of drug resistance. We aim to characterize the key regulatory and effector enzymes from the SOS pathway and to target the pathway as a means to combat antibiotic resistance.
Our research program aims to understand these pathways of purposeful DNA modification and mutation. Additionally, we apply chemical biology to decipher and target these pathways, to impede the development of multidrug-resistance in pathogens or prevent the neoplastic transformations that can result from genomic mutation.
Selected PublicationsCulyba MJ, Mo CY, Kohli RM: Targets for Combating the Evolution of Acquired Antibiotic Resistance. Biochemistry 54(23): 3573-82, Jun 2015.
Mo CY, Birdwell LD, Kohli RM: Specificity Determinants for Autoproteolysis of LexA, a Key Regulator of Bacterial SOS Mutagenesis. Biochemistry 53(19): 3158-68, May 2014.
Kohli RM, Zhang Y: TET enzymes, TDG and the Dynamics of DNA Demethylation. Nature 502: 472-9, Oct 2013.
Nabel CS, Lee JW, Wang LC, Kohli RM: Nucleic acid determinants for selective deamination of DNA over RNA by activation-induced deaminase. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110(35): 14225-30, Aug 2013.
Nabel CS, Manning SA, Kohli RM: The Curious Chemical Biology of Cytosine: Deamination, Methylation and Oxidation as Modulators of Genomic Potential. ACS Chemical Biology 7(1): 20-30, Jan 2012.
Nabel CS, Jia H, Ye Y, Shen L, Goldschmidt HL, Stivers JT, Zhang Y, Kohli RM: AID/APOBEC deaminases disfavor modified cytosines implicated in DNA demethylation. Nature Chem Biol 8(9): 751-758, Sep 2012.
Nabel CS, Kohli RM: Molecular biology. Demystifying DNA Demethylation. Science 333(6047): 1229-1230, Sep 2011.
Kohli RM: Grand Challenge Commentary: The Chemistry of a Dynamic Genome. Nature Chem Biol 6(12): 866-868, Dec 2010.
Kohli RM, Burke MD, Tao J, Walsh CT: Chemoenzymatic route to macrocyclic hybrid peptide/polyketide-like molecules. J Am Chem Soc 125(24): 7160-7161, Jun 2003.
Kohli RM, Walsh CT, Burkart MD: Biomimetic synthesis and optimization of cyclic peptide antibiotics. Nature 418(6898): 658-661, Aug 2002.
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Turning Point (posted by Andee)
Over last weekend, Kirstin and I had many difficult, and wonderful, conversations. About her eagerness to spend several hours with each of her friends before the end, vs. the reality that she probably only had a week or two of "good time" left. About not wanting to die at all, and yet being ready to let go. About the fact that as her breathing got worse, she would eventually have to choose between taking enough drugs to be comfortable, and being able to be awake and alert. About her love for each of us, and for God, and her trust in the next life, even as she felt all the terror of letting go of this one.
By Tuesday morning, she was struggling with every breath. And when the Hospice nurse came, she made the choice to start taking morphine to ease her breathing, even though the combination of morphine and drugs to control its side effects would knock her out almost all the time, and leave her loopy and drugged during the moments when she was awake. It was not a choice she made lightly; she had so hoped to have more time with us, and did not expect this to happen just hours after we had talked about the possibility.
Yesterday, a group gathered here to celebrate the Eucharist with her, and to anoint her with the wonderful words written by her friend Margaret Watson:
"Thank God for your eyes which saw the world in Love; for your ears which heard the Word in Love; for your mouth which spoke truth in Love; for your shoulders which bore the burdens of the unloved for Love's sake; for your hands which worked unhesitatingly in Love; for your feet which walked under bridges and among the poor and suffering in Love; for your heart undone and remade without fear, for Love's sake; in the Name of the One whose Name is unutterable except in Love incarnate... the Name we all share through the imagination and work of the Spirit, in concert with the One who spoke Love in the very beginning..."
She woke to greet each person, to smile, to hold her hand over her heart in thanksgiving as I relayed message after message of love to her.
Since then, the changes have continued to accelerate, and the Hospice staff say that she may die sometime today, definitely not more than a day or two.
Another friend, Carol Bower Foote, wrote a fairytale for her, a story in which Kirstin had always secretly wanted to be a butterfly. Holding up the longing to God, God replied, "Your choice." And, in the end, when her soul got weary, and her shoes almost too heavy to kick off into the grass, she chose...
"She surrendered into the rich, silken luxury of this pool of color and let herself sink. From deep within the sea of shifting hues, she felt herself begin to rise, floating and becoming lighter as she rose. She broke the surface with barely a ripple, nearly blinded by the bright summer light. Then, to her amazement, lighter than air, she continued to rise, above the grasses, the wildflowers, the trees. She became aware of herself at the center of an almost sacred rhythm, surrounded by the brilliant, translucent color of butterfly wings. She was whole! She was herself! She was totally free!
She felt as if her wings filled the sky…but gossamer light…the breeze teasing and tickling her bare toes. Suddenly, the sky was filled with other colorful creatures inviting her to dance. From within the joy which overwhelmed her, she felt rising from deep within her being, the unmistakeable light bell-like peel of laughter."
The time of turning is at hand. Join with me in praying her into Joy.
--Andee Zetterbaum


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Twenty-two suspects identified in Hillsborough disaster investigation
Twenty-two people have now been identified as suspects by two ongoing investigations into the Hillsborough disaster, including some who were not police officers.
On Thursday, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) confirmed 13 retired or serving police officers were now being regarded as suspects as part of its inquiry into the aftermath of the 1989 tragedy in Sheffield.
Today, the IPCC said Operation Resolve – the wider criminal investigation into the disaster – has also identified 13 people "who fall within the suspect category".
It said six of these are retired police officers and seven worked for other, non-police organizations.
As the commission said four of those identified are being treated as suspects by both investigations, the total number of people being treated in this manner is now 22. The IPCC confirmed that some of the retired or serving police officers being treated as suspects in its own inquiry are being interviewed on suspicion of manslaughter.
In its latest bulletin about the Hillsborough investigation, the commission said: "As part of the IPCC's ongoing investigations we have begun interviewing people as suspects. Thirteen retired and serving police officers have been identified as suspects so far. These are being interviewed under criminal caution on suspicion of a range of criminal offenses.
"Some officers have been interviewed on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and misconduct in a public office, while others have been interviewed on suspicion of manslaughter. Four of those interviewed were subject to joint interviews with Operation Resolve."
The IPCC's inquiry – the biggest it has ever undertaken – covers the actions of the police in the aftermath of the crush at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield in April 1989, which left 96 Liverpool fans dead.
The investigation was announced after the commission reviewed the report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which uncovered a huge amount of new evidence about what happened during and after the tragedy.
It is examining allegations including those surrounding amendments to police statements, the actions of the police officers after the disaster and the role of West Midlands Police, which investigated what happened at the time.
Operation Resolve, under the command of assistant commissioner Jon Stoddart, the retired chief constable of Durham Police, is a new, wider-ranging criminal investigation into the disaster.
The IPCC said today: "In the last two weeks, Operation Resolve has also commenced interviews with those individuals who have been identified as suspects and these interviews are taking place under criminal caution. To date, Operation Resolve has identified 13 individuals who fall within the suspect category; four of these are of the joint interviews with the IPCC. Six of these individuals are retired police officers, the remaining seven are from other organizations."
New inquests into the 96 deaths are due to begin in Warrington on Monday and, in relation to this latest information, the IPCC said: "As this is a criminal investigation, we do not intend on disclosing publicly the names of the individuals who are regarded as suspects.
"We will, however, provide these names to the coroner should he request them and we have made this clear in our latest update to him."
In its latest update, the IPCC said 1,700 witnesses had now come forward, including 400 who had never given an account before.
In relation to the controversial issue, highlighted by the Hillsborough Independent Panel, of police officers changing their statements about the tragedy, the commission said eight further suspected examples had been identified.
It said it had now identified a total of 251 accounts "which are suspected of being subject to amendments."
Of these 251 officers, 24 are dead, 12 have been deemed unfit for interview at this time and 13 have refused to be interviewed, the IPCC said.
IPCC Deputy chair Rachel Cerfontyne said: "We have moved into the phase of conducting suspect interviews. These are interviews under criminal caution of individuals who are suspected of committing offenses such as perverting the course of justice, misconduct in a public office and manslaughter.
"These are the first tranche of individuals we have deemed suspects. I do not expect them to be the last."
Ms Cerfontyne said the commission was continuing to look at allegations from some families of those who died that they had been subject to police surveillance.
"We have also been conducting further work around the allegations of surveillance we have received," she said. "We have received one specific allegation against a named police force – West Midlands Police – and we will be investigating this as part of our independent investigation into the aftermath of the disaster."


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I have two cats I adore — Sam and Hoot — who were adopted together three years ago. They are both are on a urinary tract diet, but there are no other health issues. But Hoot urinates on a mat just outside their litter boxes. We've had his urine tested three times. This started happening after I fostered a pair of kittens for 10 days. He seemed to put up with them but wouldn't play with them, either. Shortly after their release to their permanent home, he began this bad habit, and it's been almost a year. What can I do to try and stop this?
It sounds like you've already ruled out any medical cause for this change in Hoot's behavior, which should always be your first stop. Because you can trace the timing of the problem back to a stressful period in your lives when there were foster kittens around, it does seem likely that stress is weighing in here. First, try adding a third litter box; a good rule of thumb is to have at least one more box than you have cats. Make sure all your boxes are very clean (it might be worth it to toss the boxes you have and start fresh, as litter can carve grooves and scratches into a box over time that hold scent cats can smell even when you can't). Get the largest box you can — at least 11/2 times Hoot's length — but bigger is better. Consider using Cat Attract litter, which has herbs added and comes in both a complete litter or a shaker that can be added to another litter of your choosing. Make sure the litter box area is peaceful and not near any drafts or noisy appliances (such as an air conditioning or a washer that may change cycles suddenly) and consider adding aromatherapy to the room; there's a cat-specific product called Feliway, but lavender or chamomile can be as soothing to Hoot as it is to you. By easing the stress, we hope that Hoot will give a hoot about box manners again!
Amie Glasgow is head trainer and behavior consultant with the Maryland SPCA. Send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Halloween 1924
Posted by Rot at 7:59 AM
Labels: 2006, atypicalart, cats, costumes, flickr.com, vintage
5 comments:
- jay's shadow said...
I love those (creepy) photos
- September 23, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- Sara said...
awww, wish I were there...
- September 23, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Jon said...
I wish costumes were still like that now. I have fond memories of the cheap plastic mask with matching plastic suit (with the ties at the back of the neck that always seemed to snap off), but the homemade costumes are just so awesome. And so often it was just a ghost, a witch, a black cat or some other old school Halloween character.
- September 23, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- Grim said...
Makes me wish I could go back in time.
- September 23, 2009 at 7:46 PM
- Dane said...
Photos from Halloweens between say, 1900 - 1940, are both poignant and beautifully creepy.
- September 27, 2009 at 1:52 AM
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Department of Revenue News Release
October 27, 2009Keytesville License Agent to Retire; Office Will Be Temporarily Led by Interim Agent and Re-Bid
KEYTESVILLE - The Keytesville motor vehicle and driver license office will close at the end of the business day on Friday, Nov. 6, and re-open on Nov. 13 under the operation of an interim agent due to the retirement of the current agent.
The office, located at 306 S. Cherry St. in the Chariton County Courthouse, will close at 4:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 6. Normal operating hours for the office are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and closed for lunch each workday from noon to 1 p.m.
The agent in charge of the office, Debbie Strodtman, has chosen to retire as the agent for the office. Strodtman had also submitted a bid to be selected as the permanent office agent under the new bidding system implemented by Gov. Jay Nixon. Since Strodtman was the only one to bid for the operation of the office, a second round of bidding will commence.
When the office re-opens on Nov. 13, it will be under the temporary operation of Doug Galaske, who is the agent for the Moberly License Office. He will be in charge of the office until the Missouri Department of Revenue and Office of Administration select a new permanent agent for the Keytesville office.
Individuals or groups interested in operating the Keytesville office will have until Dec. 1 to respond to the state's Request for Proposal. In Fiscal Year 2008, the office conducted 10,348 transactions and generated $34,661 in local agent processing fees. A copy of the state proposal that bidders can use to develop their bids can be viewed at https://www.moolb.mo.gov/. To review a proposal, select "Guest" on the home page, click on "Open Bids By Agency," then scroll through the list of bids until the appropriate one is located. (The bid number for the Keytesville office is B3Z10122). Additional information regarding the bidding process can be obtained at http://oa.mo.gov/purch/vendorinfo/DORoffices.pdf or by calling the Office of Administration at (573) 751-2387.
Common transactions that are conducted at local license offices include renewing or applying for a driver license, renewing or applying for registration on motor vehicles, boats and outboard motors, and applying for titles and paying sales taxes on these units.
"It's unfortunate when an office has to temporarily close, even for a short time," said Alana M. Barragán-Scott, director of the Department of Revenue. "I know it will inconvenience some customers for a few days, but we are working to alleviate the situation as quickly as possible. If someone in the Keytesville area has to conduct motor vehicle-related business during the time that the Keytesville office is closed, there are other area offices they can visit."
Area motor vehicle license offices, and their respective addresses, phone numbers and business hours are listed below.
Moberly - 209 N. Clark St., (660) 263-4447
Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Carrollton - 111 N. Mason St., (660) 542-2889
Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(Closed daily for lunch 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., except Tuesday)
Fayette - 119 N. Main St., Suite A, (660) 248-1107
Tuesday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
(Closed daily for lunch 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.)
Marshall - 120 N. Lafayette Ave., (660) 886-6704
Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Brookfield - 331 E. Clayton St., (660) 258-7303
Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A complete listing of offices, including directions and office hours, is available online at http://dor.mo.gov/mvdl/offloc/.
The department's call centers are also available to answer questions about motor vehicle license office transactions. The centers are open weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For motor vehicle/license plate issues, you can call (573) 526-3669, and for answers to driver license questions, you can call (573) 751-1887.