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June contains 2012's most spectacular and unique occassion of the year, the conjunction of Venus and the Sun. Eric Francis discusses the importance of this event to the state of our world. Read your June 2012 Horoscope by Eric Francis.
"As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste."
—Shulamite, from the "Song of Songs of Solomon"
On June 5 (June 6 in some time zones), Venus and the Sun formed a precise conjunction, called a transit of Venus. About once a year, Venus and the Sun align—though this alignment is different due to the fact that Venus will not pass above or below the Sun, but rather directly cross its path. This is called a transit of Venus. Considered one of the rarest predictable astronomical events, transits of Venus arrive in pairs separated by eight years; the pairs themselves are divided by more than a century.
Events in astrology gain influence by being unusual, though this one is spectacular. If you were able to see the Sun with a special viewing filter during the event, you were able to watch Venus cross the disk of the Sun. We most recently experienced a transit of Venus in 2004. The June 5 event may be related to something that you experienced or a phase of your life that began eight years ago.
The world will not experience another transit of Venus until 2117, 105 years from now. It's a bit ominous that, barring some life-extending genetic therapy, nobody who sees this one will be alive to see the next one.
Speaking of omens, this kind of rare event indicates a check-in point with the state of humanity. It's the single most distinct astrology element of 2012 (an event the ancient Mayans would relate to), a year that may break the record for how much prophecy has hung on its back. Yet we do stand in a moment when one logical use of celestial divination would be trying to figure out what's going to happen to civilization on our planet.
By any objective measure, we are in trouble. It's not that our national and global problems don't have solutions. It's not that there are insufficient resources. The crisis involves lack of leadership and ethics, and a very bad case of greed. Anyone trying for a solution must outsmart what amounts to a cabal of heavily armed thieves who are holding the planet hostage.
We face numerous hotly polarized situations, many of which come from a prevailing condition of inner division that has a grip on the human psyche. Which brings me to why it's so excellent that this event is happening in Gemini. I believe that the political mess we face is a reflection of the deeper elements of our consciousness. Many of these are based on what I will broadly term gender issues.
In recent years, the political machinery has been using gender and sexual orientation—and sex in general—as some of its most effective wedges. Yet with the global atmosphere heating up, with fracking consuming the United States and headed to Europe, with the economy in an extremely fragile state, and our genetic code under assault from supertoxins-for-profit, worrying about who has the right to married seems like a distraction.
Trying to blast reproductive rights back to the 1950s (as evidenced by the movement to repeal not just Roe vs. Wade, which preserves the right to abortion, but also Griswold vs. Connecticut, which preserves the right to contraception) is often described as throwing red meat to the conservative base. It's typically analyzed as a political ploy that skews the discussion away from real problems and also preserves the jobs of politicians.
We all know there's a severe imbalance on the planet, and there are many spiritual theories going around as to why that might be. Instead of treating the sex and gender issue as a symptom, I would propose that it may be a lot closer to the cause. People in political leadership are not known for their powers of deep introspection or their sexual integrity. Often they are in conflict and project that conflict outward as attack, attempted control, and manipulation of people's private sexual lives. People not in positions of public trust drive one another insane with this stuff as well.
This inner turmoil manifests in many other ways, including lack of sensitivity for the Earth (the consequence of which is often accurately described as rape). Nearly all of the most potent toxins of industry attack the female reproductive system first, though we're all soaking in an ocean of hormone-disruptive chemicals and all feeling the effects to some degree.
The transit of Venus presents us with a compelling metaphor and also a palpable moment of transition. It's a junction (literally, a conjunction) where we can make a conscious choice. Think of this as starting within, where most (some would say all) of our conflict originates. Think of it as an inner reunion between the masculine and feminine elements of ourselves, appropriately happening in the sign of the interplay of opposites—Gemini.
Venus is a feminine symbol and the Sun a masculine one. When Venus intersects with the disk of the Sun, it's a little like the Sun is being penetrated by potent feminine energy. Both will change in the process. My astrology colleague Adam Gainsburg (Soulsign.com) has been describing this as the emergence of what he calls the solar feminine.
"Despite the dominance of solar gods at the root of Western civilization, the metaphor of light as we experience it is actually more akin to the feminine principle than to the masculine," Adam said in an email to me. "Light shines, radiates, illuminates. But from our viewpoint on Earth, the Sun also sets and takes the light with it each evening. This ebb and flow of light is precisely what the feminine is: the flow, the dance, the ever-changing pattern of light into dark and back again."
With the transit of Venus, he said, "What becomes illuminated is how your feminine aspect self-radiates into the world—what you uniquely have to give to the improvement of our planet." He adds, "The solar feminine is, literally, our 'light body.' She's the one inside each of us who leaves nothing uncovered, nothing unfelt. We experience the full range of our actual feelings as her body." Yet the Sun is expressive, so this is about being moved to take creative action.
"The solar feminine is a confrontational idea for many religions because her very existence fundamentally challenges the fragmentary, long-held assumption of masculine spiritual superiority. By re-acknowledging her, we begin to re-empower her. The solar feminine shines not just through the success and expression of women, but through the power of a man's emotions received in his heart."
I think what Adam may be describing is a process of men becoming more receptive and women becoming more expressive. That would help balance things out—and at least it gives us a clear idea of what to reach for. While there has been plenty of ways in which our culture has slipped backward in gender relations (especially when you factor in politicians), I believe there is a gradual balancing out of masculine and feminine energies within many individuals and in many relationships. With this eclipse-like event, we have an opportunity to deepen and accelerate that process.
The story of Venus transits over the past few centuries gives us another metaphor to work with. Last year a book was published, called Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present, by Nick Lomb, who describes the progression of how each successive event was seen by human eyes—and some of the implications. The following history is drawn from Lomb's research.
No one is known to have seen the 1631 Venus transit; it was night in Europe at that time. Johannes Kepler, who figured out the 1631 event, missed that there would be a second transit of Venus eight years later. Two people are known to have seen the 1639 transit: Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend William Crabtree, viewing separately from England. Amazingly, Horrocks figured out there would likely be a second Venus transit that century only about one month before it occurred. He began observing the day before his prediction indicated, just in case he had made an error in his calculations.
Edmond Halley (of Halley's Comet fame) expected a Venus transit in 1761. He urged astronomers who would be alive at the time to observe the event. His calculations were off, but other astronomers worked out the correct timing. This was the first global scientific event, with 176 astronomers watching from 117 far-flung locations.
Eight years later, in 1769, there was another transit—the second of that pair. Up to 400 different calculations were presented to the Royal Society in London and similar elite European scholarly societies for the 1769 transit. The desirability of observing the transit in the South Pacific led to the founding of New South Wales, in what is now Australia. The British Crown saw the need for calculations from the South Pacific as the perfect political cover story for its mission of seeking islands to colonize. In other words, modern Australia owes its existence to a celestial event. This adds the geopolitical expansion to the process.
In 1874, a Brit named Richard Proctor estimated that up to 400 different calculations were presented to the Royal Astronomical Society in London. More people observed the 1874 transit than any previous Venus transit, reflecting the expansion of technology, science, education, industry, trade, and population. It was also the first Venus transit documented in photographs.
The corresponding transit eight years later in 1882 was widely observed and better documented in photos. The United States government sent out eight teams, including to South Africa and San Antonio, Texas. They made 1,380 measurable photographic plates (four times as many as in 1874).
The 1882 transit was visible throughout United States for almost the whole event. Amateur astronomers set up telescopes in parks and on sidewalks of New York City, collecting dimes from those who wished to look. In Meriden, Connecticut, a fire alarm bell was rung when it started, and people went to a local man's house where he had set up seven telescopes so people could look. Some 6,000 people observed the transit from that yard.
That takes us up to the 2004 transit, the most recent one. For the first time, we were able to observe the transit from space, with much vaster knowledge of Venus and the solar system. Not only could the general public observe, but hundreds of amateur astronomers could produce their own stunning photographs.
For the 2012 event, many more people will be aware of what is happening and, due to the availability of inexpensive viewing equipment and the proliferation of information on the Internet, this will be the most-viewed Venus transit of the Sun in history. Nearly everyone in the world will be able to see live video or photos minutes after it happens.
Of course, the ancient Mayans also knew about transits of Venus; they were obsessed with observing Venus. But we would be speculating to say that their mathematicians survived to be able to predict the transits of the modern era.
Yet there is something in this rare event that's about the exponential expansion of awareness. If (at least from an astrological viewpoint) we understand that awareness to involve the balancing of male and female energies, we can cooperate by spreading that energy in an exponential way.
There is something in this rare event that's about the exponential expansion of awareness. If (at least from an astrological viewpoint) we understand that awareness to involve the balancing of male and female energies, we can cooperate spreading that energy in an exponential way.
There is one other beautiful message from this event that I picked up while researching the chart for the Venus transit. I cast the chart with 1,000 asteroids and newly discovered bodies, and noticed that there is a minor planet precisely conjunct both Venus and the Sun when the transit happens. It won't be visible, but it will be there. The planet, really an asteroid, is called Sulamitis. It's a fast-mover (less than a four-year orbit), so its presence is something to take note of.
I did a little research and discovered that Sulamitis (Shulamite) is the female character in the Song of Songs of Solomon, a book from the Bible that stands out in that it's not about laying down the law or describing the anguish of some tribe. Rather, it's a passionate love poem presented as a dialog between a man and a woman.
The story has many twists and turns, but ultimately its theme is devotion and what it means to be in love, with a comment on how authentic balance between male and female energy feels. With this event happening in Gemini, the first place to seek and find that balance is within ourselves. I could not think of a more beautiful visitor than Sulamitis to stand guard over this rare event, at this vital opportunity for rebalancing our hearts, souls, and relationship to the Earth.
Thanks to Amanda Painter for additonal research support this month.
© 2012 Omega Institute for Holistic Studies


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The former Liverpool Striker bagged 31 league goals for his former club, as Liverpool narrowly missed out on their first league title win since the 1989-90 season.But the striker insists he left Anfield a happy man this summer as he signed for the catalan giants in a £75 million deal.
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Best Buy and Netflix throw support behind Blu-ray
It just seems that when it rains, it pours for HD DVD owners. Today, both online rental leader, Netflix, and retailer, Best Buy, have firmly moved their support over to the Blu-ray camp. This latest news continues the trend of companies moving to support the Blu-ray format as the preferred HD format of choice.
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For the social crowd looking to experience some fast and exciting sailing!!
Siska is one of the most comfortable maxi yachts in the region with a rich racing history! Now it's your turn to show up all the other boats around the Whitsunday Islands! See what it feels like to reach maximum speeds heeled over hard. Experience a fun social tour at sea with great company and fun crew members. If you're looking for fast sailing, a chance to see the best of the Whitsundays and an incredible social atmosphere... this is your chance. Perfect if you only have one night to spare in the Whitsundays or are running on a tight budget!
There is never a dull moment on board Siska! For 2 days and 1 night, your crew will ensure you make it to all the hot spots of the Whitsunday Islands. Your exciting agenda includes a visit to the infamous Whitehaven Beach and Hill Inlet Lookout, a sensational snorkel over some of the best reefs in the world and of course, an evening full of fun after your action-packed day! When you are not exploring the islands, why not take advantage of the spacious deck which is perfect enjoying the speedy sailing or sunbake and relax!
Siska Features:
- Fast sailing with experienced crew
- 24 guests and 3 crew for a social trip
- Spacious deck with roll out shade awning
- Fun and exciting social tour
- Authentic sailing adventure
- 77 feet long
- Great food and lots of it freshly made on-board
- A guided Island Bush Walk to the world famous Hill Inlet Lookout
- Snorkelling gear and instruction provided
- Check out Siska's sister vessel Hammer for more departure dates
Boat Layout
Just because she's a maxi, you don't have to forfeit comfort! Siska has ample head room throughout the yacht, perfect for our taller guests. The 2 dining tables provide plenty of space for guests to enjoy meals together and create a great social atmosphere. The saloon area also doubles as a comfortable sitting area. On deck, there is ample space for you to relax as well as a boom awning for shade when anchored. Siska Carries just 24 guests with a combination of Single and Double Bunks.
When you only have 2 days to see all of the Whitsundays, speed does matter! Siska will ensure that no time is wasted as they sail you at true racing speeds from one incredible destination to the next. Book soon as she is the most popular Quick Sailing Escape in the Whitsundays!
Siska's racing history is legendary! She came second in the Fastnet Race having sailed the last 300 miles with a broken boom. Siska won the Parmelia Race from England to Perth, which celebrated the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Western Australia. It is estimated that Siska has sailed around 140,000 nautical miles from its launch until arrival to the Whitsunday Islands in December 1992. During this time, Siska won two Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races along with circumnavigating the world twice.
HRH Prince Charles crewed on Siska when she set the fastest time defeating world champion Kioloa, and was first overall at Cowes in the Queen Victoria Cup against 329 other entries. Your crew will enjoy sharing many a tall tale with you.
Siska has a myriad of winches and sailing gear, your are encouraged to assist on board, including hoisting and trimming sails, or taking the helm to steer her around the islands.
Sample Itinerary
Your 2 day/1 night adventure cruise begins at 8am, from Abell Point Marina at Airlie Beach. A typical voyage will cover around 90 nautical miles (160km's).
You will sail across the Whitsunday Passage to Blue Pearl Bay on Hayman Island. Around the southern side of Hook Island, pass through Hook Passage and speed sail your way to Cataran Bay on Border Island. Time to head to the north eastern side of Whitsunday Island to Whitehaven Beach. Take a guided bush walk up to the ever-talked-about Hill Inlet Lookout. Don't forget to bring your camera as this will be a view you will want to capture forever. Your crew will proceed to find you a nice and protected anchorage site for a night of fun. Wake up the next morning and it's time for more thrilling sailing back to Airlie Beach. You will pass along the western coast of Whitsunday Island, through Hook Passage and follow the eastern coast of Hook Island, passing the Molle Islands.
Itineraries are flexible, and this itinerary is an example only. Trips will differ depending on the prevailing breezes and tides. Itineraries are planned by the Captain considering the safety and well being of guests and crew. If you have a special place that you would like to visit, they do their very best to see what can be done.
Sample Menu
Breakfast: Continental style
Morning Tea: Fruit cake, tea and coffee
Lunch: Quiches, breads, pasta and green tossed salads, served with fruit
Sunset Snacks: Nachos, cheese, dips and crackers
Dinner: Succulent chicken breast cooked on the BBQ, served with rice, salad and breads
Dessert: Fruit and custard
Please let us know if you have any special dietary needs or requirements we provision our boats based on customer needs. All you need to do is let us know when you make your booking.
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What To Bring
Please bring only a small soft bag with: change of clothes, hat, swim-wear, beach towel, sunscreen 30+, warm pullover for the evenings (seasonal). You will also need to bring your own alcoholic beverages, available for purchase in town. No glass bottles please.
Excess luggage can be stored at several places in town including most boat check-in offices, a 24 hour locker shop on The Esplanade, most hostels, or at your accommodation. Most charge between $5-10pp for the duration of your trip.
What's Included
Skipper, host, drinking water, meals, linen, wetsuit hire, snorkelling equipment, all Marine Park Fees and wet weather jackets if needed.
What's Extra
BYO alcohol (no glass). Soft drinks available for purchase on board.
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- Do you have a history of fear of closed or open spaces or panic attacks (claustrophobia or agoraphobia)?
Terms and Conditions
All departures and itineraries are subject to weather. Tours may be changed or cancelled for any reason at the discretion of the Tour Operator. The Operator also reserves the right to alter the tour or the itinerary of any of it's tours and organise alternative carriers to those advertised if necessary. It should be noted that adventure travel involves risk. Whilst we make every effort to safeguard clients, we cannot be responsible for personal injury or loss due to actions of our clients which are beyond our control. We recommend that all clients have travel insurance covering illness, injury, loss or damage to personal belongings and not being able to travel on the confirmed date of departure. Please be aware operators pass on credit card merchant fees so there is a non-refundable 2.5% surcharge for VISA and MASTERCARD card purchases.
Excess luggage can be stored at several places in town including most boat check-in offices, a 24 hour locker shop on The Esplanade, most hostels, or at your accommodation. Most charge between $5-10pp for the duration of your trip.
All cancellations made result in 25% cancellation fee of the recommended retail price (RRP), not discounted or sale prices. Any cancellations made 60-30 days prior to travel will result in a 50% cancellation fee and any cancellations made inside of 30 days to departure will result in forfeit of full trip fees. If the sailing company has to cancel the trip (prior to the boat's departure) and we cannot offer a suitable alternative, then a refund will be given minus card fees. We strongly recommend that you have travel insurance, especially during the wet season.
Please note it is the responsibility of ALL passengers travelling to advise both your travel agent at the time of booking and vessel check-in agent before boarding of ANY medical conditions including food allergies you may suffer from.
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The Dead Kennedys were an important HardcorePunk band from UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, who became famous for aggressive songs and socially conscious, satirical lyrics.
The band were formed in 1978 with guitarist East Bay Ray (also known as "Ray Valium"), vocalist Music/JelloBiafra, bassist Klaus Flouride, and drummer 6025. 6025 switched to second guitar but left soon after, and Ted was recruited as drummer instead. [[note]] Their real names are, in the posted order: Raymond Pepperell, Eric Boucher, Geoffrey Lyall, Carlos Cadona, and Bruce Slesinger. [[/note]]
Their first single, "California Über Alles," was released in June 1979 on their Alternative Tentacles label. It was the song that [[ImageSong established]] their hallmarks: Ray's psycho surf punk riffs, Biafra's sarcastically biting lyrics (parodying UsefulNotes/{{California}} governor UsefulNotes/JerryBrown as a fascist hippie), and a rejection of the StrictlyFormula loud fast short structure of hardcore punk. During their tour in support, they were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards on 25 March 1980. In typical subversive fashion, the band started "California Über Alles" but stopped quickly and instead played the scathing "Pull My Strings", an attack on the music industry's practices.
The same year, Music/JelloBiafra ran for Mayor of San Francisco on a campaign that mixed serious proposals (banning cars within city limits in response to severe pollution problems, allowing neighbourhoods to elect police officers, legalizing squatting in vacant buildings) with outlandish ones (forcing businessmen to wear clown suits, erecting statues of Dan White so the parks department could sell eggs and tomatoes for people to throw at them, hiring unemployed workers as panhandlers in wealthy neighbourhoods), and using the commercial slogan: "There's always room for Jello." He finished [[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=130138 third with 3,79% of the votes.]] As he shared the ballot with a DragQueen candidate named ''Sister Boom Boom,'' the San Franciscan authorities responded by passing a law requiring all mayoral candidates in San Francisco to use their real names.
Dead Kennedys' first album, ''Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables,'' was released in 1980, containing the famous songs "KillThePoor" and "HolidayInCambodia," plus a cover of Music/ElvisPresley's "Viva Las Vegas." The album was a moderate chart success in the UK, boosted by the band's performances there. In May 1981 they issued the single "Too Drunk to Fuck," which reached #31 on the UK charts, giving radio programmers some headaches in the process.
Soon afterwards, Ted left the band and was replaced by D.H. Peligro, who was showcased on the ''In God We Trust, Inc.'' EP from the same year, which was an all out hardcore / thrash punk release, containing the songs "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!", which attacked [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Nazi punks,]] "Religious Vomit" and "Moral Majority", which lambasted the right wing US government at the time. Their next album, 1982's ''Plastic Surgery Disasters'' showed an evolution in the band's sound to include SurfRock, PsychedelicRock (it was advertised as "putting the pain back in psychedelic music"), and spaghetti western influences. Famous songs from the period include: "Bleed for Me," "Halloween," and "Moon Over Marin," their almost but not quite ballad about the ravages of pollution.
This evolution continued on 1985's ''Music/{{Frankenchrist}},'' which showcased more extended pieces, horns, and synthesizers. High points included the industrial "At My Job," the multi part "Stars and Stripes of Corruption," the organized sports parody "Jock-O-Rama," and the timely "M.T.V. - Get Off the Air." The band got in trouble for including Creator/HRGiger's "Penis Landscape" as a poster with the LP, and were charged with distributing harmful matter to minors. [[{{Pun}} The case ended in a hung jury]] and was dismissed, but it was a PyrrhicVictory, as the cost of the trial drove the band and Alternative Tentacles to near bankruptcy despite donations and support from their fanbase and other PMRC persecuted musicians like Music/FrankZappa. Exhausted, the band broke up in 1986 after releasing their last album ''Bedtime for Democracy,'' a 48 minute final ''tour de force'' employing many musical styles and their expected thought provoking lyrics, which included several songs expressing disillusionment with the state of the punk scene ("Anarchy for Sale," "Chickenshit Conformist"). One compilation of early singles and lost tracks: ''Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death,'' was released in 1987, and the band members went their own way afterward.
In the late 1990's, the band members got caught up in a complicated royalty dispute, and led to a 1998 fraud trial which stripped Music/JelloBiafra of his rights to the back catalogue and gave them to the other members instead (he lost two further appeals and was forced to pay damages). This burned the bridges between Biafra and Ray, Flouride and Peligro thoroughly, worsened by the others inviting Biafra to reunite the Dead Kennedys, which he refused on moral principles. Dead Kennedys albums were reissued on Manifesto Records and tour dates were announced after the court victory, with [[TheOtherDarrin Brandon Cruz]] replacing Music/JelloBiafra. (Cruz, a FormerChildStar, turned out to be the first in a series of {{Replacement Scrappy}}s -- the new DK's have had ''five'' lead singers so far.) This incarnation has been severely criticized for [[MoneyDearBoy betraying Dead Kennedys' anti-corporate ideals]] and touring without their most important member. Lately, the group's official site has reported that both Flouride and Peligro are leaving due to health issues, leaving Ray the sole original member.
Music/JelloBiafra went on to become a spoken word performer and political activist, sometimes also collaborating with other bands like Music/{{Sepultura}} and Lard.
!! Band Members:
* Music/JelloBiafra - Vocals, lyrics
* East Bay Ray - Guitar
* Klaus Flouride - Bass
* 6025 - Drums, percussion, guitar (left 1979)
* Ted - Drums, percussion (1979-1981)
* D.H. Peligro - Drums, percussion (1981-1986)
!! Discography:
* 1980 - ''Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables''
* 1981 - ''In God We Trust, Inc. EP''
* 1982 - ''Plastic Surgery Disasters''
* 1985 - ''Music/{{Frankenchrist}}''
* 1986 - ''Bedtime for Democracy''
* 1987 - ''Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death''
!! Dead Kennedys are the TropeNamers for the following tropes:
* KillThePoor (Once the original name for NeutronBomb, [[Administrivia/TropeTransplant has since come to be defined as]] ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin)
* HolidayInCambodia
!! "Fresh Tropes for Rotting Indexes:"
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: "Too Drunk to Fuck."
* AntiPoliceSong: "Police Truck," about a group of cops joyfully indulging themselves in PoliceBrutality. Anti-Police themes also show up in "Stars and Stripes of Corruption" and "Nazi Punks Fuck Off."
* AssimilationAcademy: Mentioned in "Your Emotions," "Stealing Peoples' Mail," "Hyperactive Child," "Advice from Christmas Past," "Jock-O-Rama," "Insight," and "Life Sentence"... Biafra doesn't really have a good opinion of schools.
* TheBandMinusTheFace: The group's controversial attempts to continue without Music/JelloBiafra.
* BitingTheHandHumor: "Pull My Strings" (mixed with SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments). Also "Holiday in Cambodia"'s skewering of pretentious, insensitive liberals.
* BlackComedy: Jello's stage name, which juxtaposes the name of a cheap, mass produced dessert with the infamous Biafran Civil War, one of the more publicised cases of mass starvation in Africa.
* {{Bookends}}: ''Plastic Surgery Disasters'' opens and closes with a noise freakout featuring a [[SpokenWordInMusic voice over]] talking about how you should be medicated into a StepfordSmiler so you can be productive at your job. It's entitled "Advice from [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Christmas Past]]" on some releases.
* BreakTheHaughty: "Holiday in Cambodia" basically boils down to: "Annoying pretentious liberal who thinks he knows it all? Send him to the Khmer Rouge, that should solve it!"
* ClusterFBomb: A few of their songs, such as [[CaptainObvious "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" and "Too Drunk to Fuck."]] Probably the majority of their songs have very little to no profanity, though, especially from ''Plastic Surgery Disasters'' onward, and many other uses of the F-word in their discography count as examples of a PrecisionFStrike.
* CompassionateCritic: Jello Biafra fiercely lambasts social problems in a lot of their songs, but he frequently expresses the belief that people can do better than that.
* ConceptAlbum: ''Frankenchrist'' was one, at least according to the [[http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=2085 web site]] for Biafra's 2013 album ''White People and the Damage Done.''
* CountryMatters: Dropped in "Moral Majority" towards one of several MoralGuardians targeted by the song.
* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning:
** "Viva Las Vegas." They even changed the lyrics to heighten the effect.
** Also true for "I Fought the Law," which they rewrote to denounce Dan White getting off for killing Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.
* CoverVersion: In addition to the examples mentioned above, they also covered Music/DavidAllanCoe's "TakeThisJobAndShoveIt" and the theme song to ''Series/{{Rawhide}}.''
* {{Cult}}: "Jock-O-Rama" compares high school football to one.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: A man doing this in "Buzzbomb" meets an unfortunate end:
-->Plow through rest area San-O-Lets
-->Splat! goes the lonely salesman
-->Wanking in the men's room
** (In the remake, he's "''[[ContinuityNod still]]'' wanking in the men's room.")
* DeadBabyComedy : "Funland at the Beach," and, more obviously, "I Kill Children."
-->''I kill children. I like to see them die.''
-->''I kill children. I make their mommies cry.''
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Subverted with the cassette version of ''In God We Trust, Inc.'', which had a BSide bearing the label, "Home taping is killing record industry profits! We left this side blank so you can help."
** As a measure of how the reunited, Jello-less DK betrayed their original ideals, at one of their shows in 2010 they played a rewritten version of "M.T.V. - Get Off the Air" named "[=MP3=] Get Off the Web." Fans were pissed.
** On the flip side, Alternative Tentacles claims Jello's personal feelings are mixed. (More specifically, he supports piracy of music released on major labels but does not support piracy of indie labels' material, unless his feelings have changed in the past few years).
* DissonantSerenity: The intro and outro to ''Plastic Surgery Disasters'' are a wonderful example of this trope, as the sickeningly cheerful voice over contrasts heavily with the {{dystopia}}n content of her speech and the noise freakout the band is playing underneath her.
* DrivenToSuicide: The protagonist of "Straight A's," who is [[EducationMama pressured by his parents to excel academically]] and is only sought by classmates if they want to learn what will be on the test, while laughing at his misery otherwise.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: "Buzzbomb."
* [[DrugsAreBad Drugs and Alcohol Are Bad]]: From "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round:"
-->Now don't worry about demonstrations; just pump up your drug supply. So many people have hooked themselves on heroin and amphetamines since we took over; it's just like [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam.]] We had everybody so busy with LSD they never got too strong. Kept the war functioning just fine. It's easy; we've got our college kids so interested in beer, they don't even care if we start manufacturing germ bombs again. Put a nuclear stockpile in their back yard, they wouldn't even know what it looked like.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Early songs like "Forward to Death" and "Dead End" (neither written by Biafra) espouse a black nihilism and despair that's at odds with angry but decidedly pro-active stance of the vast majority of their songs.
* TheEmpire: How the [=DKs=] view America. Hell, Biafra even outright calls it "an evil empire" in "Stars and Stripes of Corruption," and ends the song with: "I think I love it more than you / I care enough to fight!"
* EnnioMorriconePastiche: When they have horn parts they will often qualify as this ("M.T.V. - Get Off the Air" is a good example).
* EpicRocking: They have one song that qualifies ("Stars and Stripes of Corruption," 6:23) and five that almost do ("Riot," 5:57; "A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch," 5:50; "Cesspools in Eden," 5:55; "Chickenshit Conformist," 5:58; and "Pull My Strings," 5:45). By HardcorePunk standards, this makes them practically a ProgressiveRock band.
* FirstWorldProblems: "Holiday In Cambodia" may be one of the earliest songs to criticize this phenomena, as it's directly about privileged white kids who equate working hard at college with slavery.
* TheFundamentalist: Targets of several of their songs, most pointedly "Moral Majority." A lot of their other references are more fleeting; from "Stealing People's Mail:"
-->We better not get caught
-->We'll be dumped in institutions
-->Where we'll be drugged and shocked
-->'Til we come out born-again Christians
** Ironically, 6025, who wrote the band's song "Religious Vomit", later became a religious fundamentalist himself.
* GenreBusting / NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: In part because they played HardcorePunk when it had still been largely an UnbuiltTrope. In some of their songs they display elements of SurfRock, {{Rockabilly}}, SpaghettiWestern soundtracks, PsychedelicRock, and even (occasionally) ProgressiveRock. A few later hardcore bands took some of these influences, but very few of them used ''all'' of them.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: From "Calfornia Über Alles:"
-->You will jog for the master race
-->And always wear the happy face
* GodIsDead: From "Moral Majority," directed at MoralGuardians:
-->God must be dead if you're alive.
* GodwinsLaw:
** The band invoked this trope with their first single, 1979's "California Über Alles," which denounced the Golden State's then-Governor Jerry Brown and his hippie followers as "Zen fascists." The second half of the song fantasizes about Brown's regime killing "uncool" people with "organic poison gas." In [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/18/AR2010071802839_pf.html an interview]] during Brown's successful 2010 campaign to be re-elected as Governor, Biafra said that: "I realized early on that maybe I'd misfired and exaggerated."
** The song was later rewritten as "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now," with UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan as the new target. Later, Jello (accompanied by the Music/{{Melvins}}) did a third version criticizing yet another California governor, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
*** Some other Dead Kennedys songs, such as "Saturday Night Holocaust", "Stars and Stripes of Corruption" and "Let's Lynch the Landlord" also contain comparisons to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
*** "Triumph of the Swill" mocks mindless "cock rock metal heroes" and their fans with a comparison to Leni Riefenstahl.
* GreenAesop: "Moon Over Marin" and "Cesspools in Eden." They leave out the actual aesop, but their descriptions of the effects of destroying the environment make the message pretty clear.
* GrowingUpSucks: With a twist in "Life Sentence:" Growing up sucks if you abandon your ideals and only care about your career.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: "California Über Alles" portrays UsefulNotes/JerryBrown as a hippie-fascist. As mentioned above, Biafra later admitted that Brown wasn't that bad.
* HoneyTrap: One of the many techniques used by the VillainProtagonist in "I Am the Owl."
* IAmTheNoun: Two examples: The original song "I Am the Owl," and the CoverVersion of "I Fought the Law" (which ends "I ''am'' the law, so I won!")
* ImAHumanitarian: "Dear Abby."
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: Jello says that they chose the band name to symbolise the death of the American Dream. They also have several song titles that qualify, most notably "Too Drunk to Fuck." The song became the first UK Top 40 song with the word "fuck" in its title, and when it was announced on the BBC, the announcer simply called it "a record by a group calling themselves the Dead Kennedys."
* InterruptedSuicide: A ''sinister'' version (ItMakesSenseInContext) of this trope can be found in the final verse of "Soup is Good Food."
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: All but implied in "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round."
* JerkJock: "Night of the Living Rednecks," an impromptu spoken word piece about Biafra's encounter with some teenaged assholes in a pickup truck who harassed him in UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}.
* KillThePoor: Besides the {{Trope Namer|s}}, it's also implied in "The Great Wall," "Shrink," and "Saturday Night Holocaust."
* LastNoteNightmare:
** "I can almost taste your dandruff as I reach out for your face and I ''STRIKE!''", which abruptly closes the "someone creepy is following you on the street late at night" narrative "The Prey."
** Not to mention the screeching, coughing fit near the end of "Chemical Warfare," which depicts rich people at a country club getting gassed to death.
** Or the puking into the toilet bowl at the end of "Too Drunk to Fuck."
* LifeOfTheParty and WildTeenParty: Hilariously parodied in "Too Drunk to Fuck."
* ListSong: Especially their hardcore punk rants.
* LocationSong: "California Über Alles," a satirical punk song about the right-wing policies of governor Jerry Brown. "Holiday in Cambodia," about the dictatorship there.
* LonersAreFreaks: Subverted, played straight, and inverted in "Insight." The song portrays its loner protagonist as an insightful person who recognizes the pointlessness of his peers' social pursuits ("what he sees escapes our sight"), but also as a potentially disturbed kid who talks to himself and sets his papers on fire. Meanwhile, the more social kids who narrate the song seem bizarrely fixated on him ("Why doesn't he want tons of friends? WHY DOESN'T HE WANT TONS OF FRIENDS??") and beat him up when he laughs at them.
* LoudnessWar: Unsurprisingly, the re-issues on Manifesto Records are generally [[http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Dead%20Kennedys louder]] than the originals on Alternative Tentacles. They're not the worst offenders out there, but there's definitely an audible difference. Another reason to KeepCirculatingTheTapes.
* LyricalColdOpen:
** "Jock-O-Rama" opens with Jello asking: "How 'bout them Hogs?" in a Southern drawl.
** "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" opens with the line "Fuck Off, overproduced by [[Music/JoyDivision Martin Hannett]], take four." Overlaps with StudioChatter somewhat, but it's a joke; Hannett never worked with the band.
** "Short Songs" opens with the LampshadeHanging "[[Music/{{Yes}} Rick Wakeman]], eat your heart out!"
** "Rawhide" also opens with Jello delivering some StudioChatter in a Southern drawl.
* LyricalDissonance: A favourite technique of theirs. To name one of many examples, the beautiful ballad "Moon Over Marin" is about how the Earth and oceans are poisoned and all life on the planet is dying off.
* TheManIsStickingItToTheMan: "Anarchy for Sale" is about this phenomenon.
* MightyWhitey: "Hop with the Jet Set."
* MinisculeRocking: "A Child and His Lawnmower" (0:54) and the LampshadeHanging "Short Songs" (0:20). The latter even gets a funny lampshade at the start:
-->[[Music/{{Yes}} Rick Wakeman,]] eat your heart out!
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: They had a wider variety of material than most Hardcore bands, with their [[MinisculeRocking shortest,]] fastest, noisiest tunes being in the hard 7 / low 8 range, most of their tunes being in the 6-7 range and the odd [[SurprisinglyGentleSong outlier]] falling below that.
* MoralGuardians: Defeated by the band in a PyrrhicVictory. Additionally, some of their songs are directed at them (most pointedly "Moral Majority").
* MotorMouth: Jello's breakneck delivery of the anti-consumerist rant "Drug Me."
* MusicIsPolitics: Several of their songs are directly about this trope, most notably "Pull My Strings," which they performed at a music industry awards show. "Pull My Strings" addresses the payola scandal (at the same time as a TakeThat to The Knack's "My Sharona") as well as the HotterAndSexier tendencies of the music industry and a number of other tropes related to record industry politics.
* NoEnding: The reprise of "Advice from Christmas Past" (see {{Bookends}} above) just cuts off without warning.
* NWordPrivileges: Averted with "Holiday in Cambodia" for the purpose of mocking white liberals who think they're immune to racism:
-->"''Braggin' that you know how the niggers feel cold''"
-->"''And the slums got so much soul''"
** Also in "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" as a TakeThat to racist Reagan supporters:
-->[[TheKlan Ku Klux Klan]] will control you
-->Still, you'll think it's natural
-->Nigger knocking for the [[GodwinsLaw master race]]
-->Still, you wear the happy face
** (As an aside, it should perhaps be noted that drummer D.H. Peligro is African-American; though he didn't play on either the single or the album version of "Holiday in Cambodia," he did play on "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now." Additionally, this trope is generally played straight when either Jello or the Kennedys perform "Holiday in Cambodia" these days, as the lyrics are generally {{Bowdlerise}}d).
* PoliceBrutality: "Police Truck," as well as "Goons of Hazzard," and a passing mention in "Riot."
* PostApocalypticGasMask: The protagonist of "Moon Over Marin" apparently needs one to go outside.
* PrecisionFStrike: Most occurrences of the F-word in their discography count as this (i.e. "Terminal Preppie," "Trust Your Mechanic," "Hellnation," etc.), but they have a few that fall under ClusterFBomb.
* ProtestSong: Virtually their entire body of work.
* ReligionRantSong: "Religious Vomit" is a Type 2 and "Moral Majority" is primarily a Type 3 (with a bit of Type 2 in the chorus).
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "A Child and His Lawnmower" is based on a news story where a man in Sacramento, California [[DisproportionateRetribution shot]] his lawnmower for not functioning. Likewise, "HolidayInCambodia" was about the Khmer Rouge, which had just been ousted from power in UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}} the year before the song came out.
* RockMeAmadeus: "Chemical Warfare" contains an excerpt of "Sobre las Olas" by Mexican composer Juventino Rosas in its bridge.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Mocked in "Pull My Strings."
-->I ain't no artist; I'm a businessman
-->No ideas of my own
-->I won't offend or rock the boat
-->Just sex and drugs and rock and roll.
* ShoutOut:
** To Creator/DrSeuss in "Holiday in Cambodia." ("You're a Star-Bellied Sneetch, you suck them like a leech, you want everyone to act like you.")
** "Too Drunk to Fuck" has one to Creator/DavidLynch, with the line "You bawl like the baby in ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}!''"
** "Jock-O-Rama" has ''two'' to UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball, which also double as {{Genius Bonus}}es if the listener is familiar with it (apt, considering the topic of the song). The song opens with the line: "How 'bout them Hogs?", and the final chorus is introduced with a loud, "Hook 'em Horns!", sayings between fans of the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Texas Longhorns (historically known to be rival teams), respectively.
** Because some retailers objected to the title of "Too Drunk to Fuck," the band supplied a sticker that said, "Caution: You are the victim of yet another stodgy retailer afraid to warp your mind by revealing the title of this record so [[Music/VelvetUnderground peel slowly and see]]..."
** "Advice from Christmas Past," the title the intro to ''Plastic Surgery Disasters'' was given on some releases of the album, refers to ''Literature/AChristmasCarol.''
** Early vinyl pressings of ''Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables'' had the phrase: "Well? Who ''are'' the Brain Police?" etched in the run out grooves, referring to a song from Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/FreakOut.''
** "Rambozo the Clown" features TheStinger "Hey [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Rocky,]] watch me pull a massacre out of my pants" followed by the inevitable "Again?"
** "Night of the Living Rednecks" to ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}.''
** They remade "Buzzbomb" with comical vocals intended to sound like an old woman as "Buzzbomb from Pasadena." This is likely intended as a nod to surf music group Music/JanAndDean's hit "Little Old Lady from Pasadena," another song about someone who DrivesLikeCrazy.
** "I Kill Children" opens with Jello saying "God told me to skin you alive", [[https://images.genius.com/a29bfd69f2cd7d99be2822d5ac00c6cd.904x519x1.jpg a quote from]] [[https://pt.scribd.com/document/77345042/Chick-Tract-Why-No-Revival-1970 a]] ComicBook/{{Chick Tract}}s. (in turn, that got a shout out itself once Dead Kennedys' art director Winston Smith used said phrase for the collage on the cover of Music/GreenDay's ''Music/{{Insomniac}}'')
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Most of the band's output sticks to cynically lambasting the problems of society, but they have some songs and lyrics that, despite the presentation, are more idealistic, landing them somewhere in the middle. "Stars and Stripes of Corruption," for instance, combines a long tirade against [[PatrioticFervor jingoism,]] xenophobia, disastrous foreign policy, and "the blind Me Generation" with verses like: "We can start by not lying so much / And treating other people like dirt / It's easy not to base our lives / On how much we can scam" and "Look around, we're all people / Who needs countries anyway?"
* SlippingAMickey and/or TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: When YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness, the VillainProtagonist of "I Am the Owl" will drug you with LSD and turn you loose on a freeway.
* SpokenWordInMusic: The intro and outro to ''Plastic Surgery Disasters,'' "M.T.V. - Get Off the Air," "A Commercial," "I Kill Children," "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round," and "Night of the Living Rednecks." Also, see LyricalColdOpen above.
* StageNames: All band members.
* StandardSnippet: The bridge of "Chemical Warfare" uses one from the waltz "Over the Waves" for the sake of LyricalDissonance. It's immediately followed by the LastNoteNightmare mentioned above.
* StepfordSmiler: Some of their songs mock people who act like this, like "Terminal Preppie," "Well Paid Scientist," "Your Emotions," "Trust Your Mechanic," "The Man with the Dogs," "Life Sentence," and "Halloween."
* StepfordSuburbia: "This Could Be Anywhere (This Could Be Everywhere)."
* StylisticSuck: The musicianship in "Short Songs" is deliberately atrocious. The band were actually rather technically proficient musicians.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: They have a few.
* TakeThat: Boatloads. About nine out of every ten songs they wrote, if not more.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: They covered the TropeNamer.
* TakingYouWithMe: "Gone with My Wind."
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Subverted. Their songs are more complex and satirical than most punk bands' are, though they have many of the same ProtestSong themes.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "California Über Alles," "Too Drunk to Fuck" (the first time, anyway), "Chemical Warfare," "Nazi Punks Fuck Off," "Drug Me," "[[Music/ElvisPresley Viva Las Vegas,]]" "Hellnation," "This Could Be Anywhere (This Could Be Everywhere)," "A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch," "M.T.V. - Get Off the Air," "Rambozo the Clown," "Triumph of the Swill," and so on. (Technically, two of the lines in "California Über Alles" repeat the words of the title in a different order, but it still counts). "KillThePoor" comes close but just misses out due to a "tonight" at the end of each line, as do "Terminal Preppie" (which starts out with "I'm a") and "Bleed for Me" (which has a "C'mon").
* TortureTechnician: The VillainProtagonist of "Bleed for Me."
* UncommonTime: Part of the chorus of "M.T.V. - Get Off the Air" is in 5/4. Because of the shouted nature of the chorus and the underlying percussion, the effect of this section is roughly the musical equivalent of a boot to the head. "Moon over Marin" also uses this trope; two beats are cut out of a bar from the first half of the verses and added after a bar from the second half, which creates a rather disorienting effect for the listener (additionally, in the intro to the song, there's an instrumental deployment of the first half of the verse with its missing two beats before Jello starts singing). This probably isn't a complete list.
* YouAreNumberSix: From "At My Job:" "Your time card says your name's Joe / But we'll call you 6-3-0."
* YourCheatingHeart: Referred to in "I Am the Owl."


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The Boston Celtics are a stunning 14-4 since Rajon Rondon went down with a torn ACL, abruptly ending his season. Following the team's overtime win over the Hawks on Friday, Kevin Garnett was asked if the season is starting to take on the theme of things media folks love to write about, like "a special feel" and "overcoming adversity," given all the injuries.
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The Nova Centre is not scheduled to open until 2016. For now, people are gawking at the construction project.
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- More than 300 blasts have gone off to break away the rock.
- When complete, it will be 18 stories high.
- The parking lot will include 500 spaces.
- The estimated final price tag is over $500 million.


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Whenever I tried to put a piece in the wrong place he'd say, "No mum *sigh*, it doesn't go THERE! That piece goes HERE!" it was just too funny, and amazingly satisfying to think back to how things were when he first started doing puzzles - you know, trying to force shapes into places they have no business being!
There are 10 different puzzles to do in this Disney Pixar jigsaw puzzle box and will help to develop skills such as pattern recognition, memory, imagination, logic and fine motor skills. And, let's not forget, they're FUN too!
Tesco have dropped the price of these Disney Pixar jigsaw puzzles from £15 to £7.50 but their delivery charges are too high, in my opinion, it'll cost you £5.95 to have this delivered, so I'd arrange to collect it in-store for freeeee; we like the free word here at PlayPennies!
Thanks to Taswir1 over at HUKD!
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A Prose Poem
There that comes I bang my drum, that drum there is a thrums my thumb. With slowly beating now begun, on skin and wood I bang my drum. The western rim swallows the sun, we walk in file rum tum tum.
A pair of lines, robbed in white, and carrying before them a cross made of wood walked along the dusty path to the aged mossy stones that over looked the rolling hills marked by craggy boulders. Not far beyond a churning arm of the sea sloshed against the chunks of granite shore, sploshing and dull roaring, but unable to swallow the one person who was walking out of file: namely the youngest child of the departed. He had lain here all night, and then all day. They had come here for last rights. The two older boys were waiting, having shot with muskets, or slashed with sabers any birds who had thought to rip a chunk from the laird of this barren patch of the rocky northern coast of Scotland.
One of the two was still bone thin, and a stretched out boy in his face: hollow cheeks, and not a drop of fat upon him beyond enough to lubricate his movements. His brother, though only two years senior, looked a man, with a broader jaw, and black black hair that framed features that had rounded with some settling in to his limbs.
In a swank part of town, having desert
New York, New York
"Swank" was what she was looking for when she described what kind of dessert that she wanted. They had had most of the meal at some other place, where she wanted soba noodles with all of the wonderful kinds of pastes and seaweeds that come with them. He knew a place which did this in New York – which was very good, with zaru soba a cold specialty, and with tempura and wakame among the better hot dishes, among the many dizzying styles – but then she wanted dessert which was nothing like the meal, among the many requirements was that it should be nontraditional, unlike the cold noodle place which somehow in New York was traditional, with many flavors in the buckwheat, such jinenjo, which added Japanese yams to the fragrant mixture. She even mentioned this, which awarded him a gold star, because he knew that that was an unspoken part of what she wanted. So after finishing the main meal they got up and walked through the nighttime sky of Manhattan. And finally at one point she has stopped and looked at him, and he could do nothing else but look at her. Everything stopped at this point, because both of them knew that it was time to decide. They had decided a long time ago that they were not the type to have children – or rather he had decided that he was not going to have children with her, which she did not tell him made her cry in the apartment in Beijing – though he of course knew that and tread softly on communications by email, which were far less often.
But not yet – she turned away, and looked down at the sidewalk. At which point, he leaned over and pulled her face up and gestured towards something which was perhaps like a doorway. Then he motioned in front of it, which did not seem to go anyplace. She could see only some dark stairs behind it as people pushed out or in. and they were the sort of people not known for their taste. But she trusted his judgment and walked down. It was not what she expected, but again, either this was a breakup, or he had something planned. He went over to the bar produced a 3 notes, which were obviously 20s, and said something which she could not make out. Then be bartender told the bar back to get something – and the bar back immediately went to the other side of a flimsy vinyl door. It was then that she realized, that on the other side of this was a place which was extremely posh. The the place they were in was only a faux dive bar – and it was stacked with a extremely posh place right next door.
She leaned over to him and rest him – and enveloped her face with a kiss that was extremely seductive. She was bending over, and hoped he would do whatever he wanted. It been a long time since he kissed her with a full frontal. A very long time indeed, longer than Amartya San could cause in his description of people dying of disease, forced on them by callous bureaucrats from far away. But here in the prison they picked up their forks.
Yes, they ate. But that was not the point.
The New York Times Reports:
An American helicopter crashed north of Baghdad this morning, apparently after being shot down by insurgents.
It was the third crash of an American helicopter this month. In a statement, the American military said that it had no information about the fate of the two crew members aboard, and that the cause of the crash was being investigated.
But officials at the Iraqi Interior Ministry said that witnesses reported seeing the helicopter being fired on before the crash.
Vacuum cleaners in the land of sand.
One of my long term topics has been to compare the American occupation of Iraq with the Russian experience in Afghanistan.
A crucial reason for the failure of the Soviet Military in Afghaninstan was losing control over the road network and its security. This meant that if there was a need to rapidly move troops, specialists or command personnel, it had to be done by helicopter. This created two important vulnerabilities.
The first is the direct threat of attacking the helicopters, and the attrition of personnel that it creates. Chopper pilots are hard to replace, helicopters are expensive, and carrying high value personnel makes it difficult to protect battlefield command and control assets - read "brass". Losing conscripts is the nature of the business of running an army - they die in training missions, they die of disease, suicide, accidents and a host of other causes. Losing valuable and hard to replace individuals - whether offensively capable strike troops, specialists or command personnel - increases the drain on the military's manpower several fold. The harder to find individuals with the basic aptitude, the worse this problem is. The more equipment is used, the more it is degraded. And a military helicopter in Iraq is a vacuum cleaner in a land of sand.
The more indirect problem is that it gives anti-occupation forces - the US military is adopting the term "rejectionist" - a tangible means of creating the first vulnerability. Cut off roads, make trouble, and in comes a target rich environment. That is, it gives them a strategy which it is easy to scale across the entire zone under occupation, and to which relatively untrained individuals can be brought to effectiveness.
This may sound abstract, but one of the most important lessons of war over the course of centuries is to move down the chain of skill and training a given military activity. Guns beat bows, not because early guns were better than the bows of their time - in fact the reverse, bows were faster, more deadly and more accurate to much longer ranges - but because one could churn out musketeers in as many weeks as it took years to train a good bowyer, and out of much lower quality material. Henry V had the whole of the English population to choose only 5000 bowyers for the campaign that culminated at Agincourt. In 1600 armies would be 10 times this size.
Thus by creating a target that is simple to exploit without exposing the attacker to great levels of hazard or even US counter-strike, the way a mortar barrage does - the dependence on helicopters creates a way to "industrialize" the counter-occupation.
The failure of heart
The United States military, by doctrine, equipment and training, is the greatest battlefield superiority force ever created. It is as dominant over its near rivals in this period as any dominant military power has ever been at the point of engagement. It is capable of "a particularly sudden and violent kind" of military operation that makes a stand up battle against it a losing proposition. No force has defeated the US military in a direct engagement in a generation.
However, engagement superiority is not all of warfare, and it is, more particularly, not all of the use of the military. The irony is that while the United States has a military which is able to deny any other power the ability to mount a credible conventional threat - in no small part because the US military is designed to defeat - not the armed forces of the USSR, but the armed forces we feared the USSR to have - as defenders in a surprise attack through Europe. This has left other functions of military effectiveness at reduced capacities. As 9/11 demonstrated, it left basic defense of the US mainland at a level so low that even non-state actors could take advantage of it. As the Iraq shown, this has demonstrated, it has left American occupation capacity at an all time low point. Consider that the United States expanded by a series of occupation oriented wars against native nations, and won the occupation phase of the Phillipines conflict, World War II, and Korea. The United States has lost few occupations historically. We did not, for example, lose the occupation phase of Vietnam - Tet was a disaster for the communist rebellion - we lost the defensive phase of the conflict.
Iraq, then, is going to be almost unique in that it will be an occupation that the US has failed to achieve more than a minimal level of objectives. This has happened twice. The inability to secure an occupation phase in the first Iraq-American War, is in no small measure the reason for the second one to be fought. Though historians may well decide that this has been one long conflict with a truce and lower intensity conflict - and they probably should.
The failure of US occupation is, to some extent a failure of training and doctrine, if viewed from the perspective of analyzing the US military. However, neither the military, nor the successive congresses which budgeted for the military, saw the purpose of the Department of Defense as being a tool to occupy foreign nations in order to convert them to an American protectorate. It might do so as a means to a larger end - as we Americanized Japan, Taiwan, Korea - but it has not been the function of the military for almost two generations to do this.
Thus the failure of the United States should be seen as a failure not of the military, but of the civilian leadership which instructed that military to invade and occupy Iraq, and the leadership cadre of the military, which has overtly supported that mission. To put it more bluntly, the officer corps of the US military, by supporting a particular series of political outcomes, has brought about a failure of military outcome.
This basic contradiction - that the military politically supported expansion of the military, while failing to plan for the inevitable conflicts which those providing that expansion wanted to fight - has the same source as the failure of Iraq specifically. That is, a failure to tie military eventuality with political eventuality.
This failure then is a failure not in military doctrine and training - that is, the US troops do well what they are trained to do, better than any military has ever done it in history - and they have the equipment to accomplish it. But they were trained for the wrong mission. The reason they were trained for the wrong mission is that the officer corps of the US military was blind to the consequences of their own actions and their own ideology.
This is not an unusual occurrence historically. The history of warfare is replete with examples of elites which held contradictory military and political ideologies. Perhaps the first famous example is the Persian Empire, which had an ideology of expansion, coupled with a political doctrine of decentralization. This created a military which was composed of large numbers of under armored and under trained foot soldiers - which were easily dispatched in large numbers by the heavily armored and highly trained Greeks. The irony is that this lesson was lost on Periclean Athens, and on Alexandrian Macedonia - which made similar mistakes in mismatching political ideology with military reality. One could continue with an expansive list.
However the present problem is one which is serious, because it is the second successive example of it in American history of the post-war period. The first, of course, is the Vietnam War, where an ideology of liberalism - which meant increasing rights, standards of living, equality and civilian expansion of the economy - met with a political doctrine of an optional preventative war of attrition which relied upon using less educated and economically disadvantaged soldiers to fight it. The very people the Great Society was supposed to raise up, were being shoveled into Vietnam.
Our current failure is larger, it is more expensive, has existed for a longer period of time, and runs farther to the core of our military budget process, training decisions, procurement process and political results. The military did not overtly support LBJ the way it supported GWB.
Lessons for the near and far future.
It has been difficult to write about Iraq, because the facts on the ground were that we had reached a bloody stalemate. Neither side was losing soldiers beyond its ability to replace them, but neither side was making significant headway in its political goals. Iraq pretended to have a Democracy, and but the insurgency could not make the pretense degenerate into the kind of bloody farce which puts power into play.
The theory that there is a mismatch between political and military ideology suggests that the military will exacerbate the problems by supporting face saving, and engaging in smear attacks of visible opponents. This very process will make it impossible to place the military personnel in Iraq in a posture and positioning which will limit the damage. The more that the officer corps must prove they are winning, the more targets they create for the rebellion.
The more important farther afield lesson is that there must be a change in the methods by which the officer corps is recruited, trained and advanced. One of the most important steps in this reform would be to end the resistence to recruitment on college campuses. The current failure comes precisely because of the ideological nature of military recruitment. If the metropolitan economy desires to have input into military direction, and some measure of interplay with the military planning process, then it must, as a logical consequence, encourage more of its members to enter the military on the officer track, with the intent of shaping a officer corps which lacks a contradictory military and political stance.
In short, there is a mirror contradiction - as the officer corps refuses to plan for the wars that it politically supports, so too do those who are opposed to the kinds of warfare which we train for unwilling to politically engage to direct the military towards ends that they find more palatable. By behaving as consumers - by refusing to "buy" the military product, by "withdrawing consent" rather than altering it, the metropolitan and intellectual social system has contributed to an alienation which is now having tremendous political costs.
The irony is that military personnel have a far easier road in the Democratic Party than in the Republican Party. The key leadership of the Republican Party avoided military service by and large. This irony has been seen by the "swift boating" of various Democratic candidates or office holders. The Democratic Party has a far less contradictory view of the military - the US military is a deterent, its battlefield superiority is a threat which is not supposed to be exercised, and can therefore act against many nations at once. Once committed, those nations which were threatened before, are no longer under threat.
Recent events indicate that the expected acceleration of attacks against US rotary wing aircraft has begun, and will be a feature during the winter period where US soldiers can operate in a more heavily armored mode.
This is the culmination of a failure of the US military to control the road system, with the resulting dependency on rotary aircraft.
This failure is rooted in a mismatch in the military officer corps support for aggressively militaristic domestic politics as a way of expanding military funding, and planning for a defensive stance for the US military focused on short, sharp and brief incursions to act as a military purgative to a political problem.
This failure is compounded by the isolation of the officer corps from a stream of manpower which, having different political and military preferences, would not fall prey to the same errors.
This isolation derrives from the non-participation of the metropolitan economy in the officer corps, and needs to be corrected long term by the reintegration of academic and military circles of leadership. I am aware that this is a controversial assertion, with "anti-ROTC" being a core social tennet of left political activism, in hopes of denying the military the manpower needed to fight wars. This theory - similar to the "starve the beast" theory of tax cutting on the right - has shown to be incorrect, instead, demand will find means of borrowing against infrastructure to satisfy itself, with the result that the same expenditure happens, only with interest and other costs attached. Instead, it is necessary to reintegrate the mainstream of American economic life with the military, in order to rebalance both the expenditures on the military, and the demands made upon it by the civilian leadership.
No this would not make it into his book. But it had some key lines – especially about a helicopter that was in the land of sand. In truth, the is Ulysses who as retold by James Joyce is the novel of light. But there is also the novel of darkness, which is Finnegan's Wake. Many great artists, such as the celebrated – and justly so – author of Lolita could not understand Finnegan's Wake, because they do not have the will to die, and therefore they do not know what it is like. So they drift across the sound, as in the romantic novel – for example, of Hölderlin's Hyperion.


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I'm trying to understand a problem involving a coin being thrown 6 times and either being heads or tails.
I understand how to get the variance of X (heads) and Y (tails), mean n*p*(1-p). But how do I get the Variance of (X+Y)? I don't know how to find the covariance either. I don't know what to use for the x and y values.


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Rosalie Stamper (nee. Carter), 87, of Newton, died Friday, May 21, 2010. She was born March 15, 1923.
Stamper was preceded in death by her husband William C. Stamper and son Ronnie Stamper.
She is survived by her children Connie ElGendy, Donna Stamper, and Donnie (Carol) Stamper, brothers Bill (Francis) Carter, and James (Sharlene) Carter, seven grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren, and three great great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at the Moore Family Funeral Home, Newton.
Memorials may be sent to the American Heart Association, 5211 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH 45227.


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Jennet - posted on 04/29/2010 ( 1 mom has responded )
hi, i am having problems trying to get my bailey off the breast, i need to find a way to do it gently, not cold turkey, as it is his favourite thing in the world! :) has anyone got any suggestions, i can't use a pump have only ever been able to get 1 or 2 oz out after hours of work! my boy is eating a full and varied diet and drinks cows milk, but he just loves nursing. as much as i love it too, its time i started thinking about getting him off, so i can get back to work ( maybe even have the odd night out at the bingo!) he is down to 3 or 4 feeds a day, mainly morning, afternoon, to get him off for his nap and in the evening when he's getting ready for bed, he won't sleep at night unless he's had a nurse, so obviously i've never been able to leave him with anyone, even my husband. please help