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In the early 1980s, when Doyon was in his early 20s, he had moved down the coast from rural Maine to Cambridge, Massachusetts. At the time, it was a "tripping fucking city to live in" where Doyon dropped plenty of acid, smoked plenty of weed, and found a political movement agitating against apartheid in South Africa. The mix of Grateful Dead culture and a righteous indignation intoxicated Doyon, who was soon recruited into a small group called the People's Liberation Front (PLF), which he describes as "one of the most secret organizations in the world." The PLF was led by an older man with slate grey hair who favored aviator sunglasses and bomber jackets and who went by the name "Commander Adama." Adama had already recruited five or six young people to join his quest for justice, and Doyon soon decided to help the cause. The group traveled from protest to protest performing technical services—printing flyers, deploying backpack FM radios for communications, surveillance.
When Adama later asked his recruits to relocate with him to California, Doyon and three others followed. They spent the next few years traveling around the Northwest in a van, helping groups like the Animal Liberation Front release animals. "We would sneak up basically in the middle of the night on mink farms and free all these little animals," Doyon tells me, though his memory of those days is fading a bit. "And I believe we burned a couple [of buildings] to the ground. They weren't mink farms that we burned… the fuck did we burn? I think it was a lumberyard, or… fuck. I can't remember now. There were a couple places that we set fires."
The PLF stayed in the background and, because groups that live in the darkness generally prefer not to use real names, Doyon needed his own nom de guerre. He quite consciously set out to pick a something "impressive." For two weeks he jotted names on scraps of paper but found nothing he liked. The came the breakthrough: what about a single character? Most letters felt ridiculous ("Who wants to be G?" Doyon says), but X seemed promising. Doyon jumped online and spent the next four days scouring BBSes for anyone else using X as a handle. No one had it, so Doyon took it.
Commander Adama created the PLF as a hierarchical organization, the opposite of Anonymous, with a Supreme Commander at the top and the rank and file—which never numbered more than 12—taking orders. From 1985 to 1995, Doyon was known simply as X. In 1995, as the group moved from supporting direct action to information disclosure and the Internet, Doyon was offered rank within the PLF. He became "Commander X" and helped the organization emerge from its secrecy to become a self-described "cyber militia" that welcomed members from all over the world. In 2007, the group allied itself with Anonymous; Doyon soon became so active that, when HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr attempted to ID the leaders of Anonymous in early 2011, he named Commander X as one of the top three.
Rather than bringing down Commander X, however, Barr's work gave him the additional strength of notoriety. The Anons who hung out in the group's IRC channels now all knew who he was, and the Commander X persona became increasingly central to his identity. Within Anonymous, critics carped that Commander X should stay a bit more anonymous, rather than popping up all the time to give interviews such as the one in which he told journalist Dan Tynan that "Commander X is a cartoon character that inspires thousands."
But Doyon refused to retreat back into the shadows because, he says, the Commander X persona was simply too inspiring to others. Not that being such a figure is easy, though.
"All the costs are personal and all the benefits are helping people," he says. "It's a huge fucking burden on my ass."
On September 21, 2011, racked with the shakes and burning with fever, "so sick that I could barely fucking walk," Doyon lay outdoors in his sleeping bag just a few miles from the Googleplex. He had no diagnosis, but he did have a fear. Multiple sclerosis ran in his family and he had seen the disease work against his sister. (In retrospect, he believes it was a blood infection instead.)
He slipped into a vision so intense he still can't say if he was dreaming or hallucinating. In it, he ran through the rooms of a large house, an unnamed horror chasing him down. He could find no exit. Instead he ran in circles, the same rooms coming around again and again as the thing stalked him through darkened halls.
He woke ill and exhausted on the morning of September 22—"this close to fucking dead"—and felt the weight of premonition settle onto him once more. He had felt it often in the last months as he raced around the Bay area one step ahead of the FBI agents hunting him down. A few weeks earlier, for instance, he was sitting in Coffee to the People on San Francisco's Haight Street when a pair of FBI agents walked in and asked the barista if the coffee shop had a wireless router in the back room. Judging by their appearance—big guys in immaculate black suits and patent leather shoes—these were Special Agents, not the more technically trained cybercrime agents who might be better equipped to catch him. Doyon's heart pounded as the agents took a seat at the table next to him.
Doyon admitted he was shutting down free speech in the name of free speech, but he defended the tactic as "no different than taking up seats at the Woolworths lunch counter."
He had at that moment been working on a press release for Anonymous' Op Orlando, supporting the group Food Not Bombs in its struggle to conduct mass public feedings despite a local law limiting the group to two such events per year. Doyon had also coordinated denial of service attacks on the City of Orlando's website in a show of support for Food Not Bombs—but the attacks failed. "The site was too well defended," he told the Orlando Weekly at the time. "Apparently the City of Orlando expected us."
In that interview, Doyon admitted he was shutting down free speech in the name of free speech, but he defended the tactic as "no different than taking up seats at the Woolworths lunch counter." Food Not Bombs didn't want this kind of help; it condemned the online attacks. But Doyon says he needed no one's permission to agitate on the side of "the people."
In the Haight Street coffee shop, Doyon closed the lid of his laptop and picked up the "I need food" cardboard sign he used to raise cash, then worked his way around the FBI agents in order to get to the door.
Such incidents piled up. A few weeks later, at a Berkeley coffee shop, Doyon sat at a table when another FBI agent walked in with paperwork authorizing him to remove and search the shop's wireless router. A moment after the agent stepped into the back of the shop, the Wi-Fi went down. Again, Doyon edged out the door, convinced agents were trying to sniff out his digital trail.
He continued to run throughout the summer and into the fall, and though it was bad for him personally, it was a heady time for Anonymous. The splinter group of hackers called Lulzsec had been on a rampage, garnering worldwide headlines. Doyon claimed to be the moving force behind Op BART, the Anonymous-led protests against San Francisco's subway system that had cut off cell phone access to stations in anticipation of protests. He continued to work on ops related to the Arab Spring—black fax bombs targeting Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, e-mail hacks, DDoS attacks. Life became a blur. Doyon worked all day at coffee shops and crept away to parks to sleep for four hours at night before waking to do it all again. A pair of PLF members helped to shuttle him around the Bay area so that he never became a sitting target. His work had meaning and, if you accept the contested premise that Anonymous and the PLF were having real effects in Arab states, global import.
"If I could have kept the pace up, I don't think they ever would have caught me and would eventually have given up," Doyon says of the FBI, believing it would cost the agency too much money to hunt him intensively for long.
But his pace began to slow. By mid-September, he could run no more. Increasingly ill, he made it down to Mountain View but became too sick to relocate again. A week into his illness, Doyon began to see more Crown Vics—the cop car of choice—and he feared his FBI pursuers had tracked him to the area. His fever rose. He lay in his camp for several days straight, logging into the free public Wi-Fi network that Google built and maintains throughout Mountain View. His judgment impaired by illness, Doyon ventured back into town on September 21. He called Jay Leiderman, a lawyer from downstate Ventura who agreed to represent Doyon pro bono, and warned him an arrest might be near. Leiderman agreed to fly up to Mountain View and meet Doyon the next day at his favorite coffee shop in town.
That afternoon, Doyon had an IRC chat with another hacker known as Locke. Locke, a student, offered to wire Doyon some cash through Western Union. Doyon provided him with the address of the coffee shop. It wasn't a wise move for a man on the run, but Doyon was worn down by illness and fatigue and by the constant running. Fearing the feds might grab him soon, Doyon gave the "keys to the kingdom"—such as his Twitter account password—to his subordinates in the PLF that evening. He then says he used an encrypted, one-time only e-mail service to send a message to the FBI's cybercrime division. "I am not armed," it said.
After the hallucinatory night, Doyon roused himself again and returned to the coffee shop in time for his meeting with Leiderman. At 9:00am, from the second floor of the shop, Doyon looked out the window and saw a pair of Crown Vics in the street below. "This is it," he thought, a sudden shock of sweat running down his back. "They're here for me."
Doyon bolted for the back stairway, thumped down the steps and out a side door, emerging into an alley. A blue Crown Vic with agents wearing FBI windbreakers shot past on the street; Doyon limped for one of the alley's exits. When he looked back over his shoulder, he saw the car's brake lights snap on. He had been spotted.
Doyon made his way to the street running past the coffee shop's main door and saw an enclosed bus kiosk. With nowhere else to go, he stepped inside the kiosk and squatted down. He lit a cigarette butt. The blue Crown Vic roared up, jumping up onto the curb. "People are literally leaping out of the way of this fucking cruiser," Doyon says, describing the moment. Agents swarmed to the bus stop. Doyon likes to believe his e-mail to the cybercrime division led them to tone down their posture.
The lead agent—which according to court documents was Special Agent Adam Reynolds—stepped into the bus stop as Doyon smoked the end of his cigarette. He put Doyon in handcuffs and searched his pack, then asked, "Are you ready?" before bundling him into the car for processing. Doyon, who has a reflexive dislike of all things police and calls the US government "one of the world's worst tyrannies," admits he was handled well. No body tackles were used to subdue him, no tasers or pepper spray. (Reynolds did not respond to questions about the details of Doyon's arrest.)
"I would almost go so far as to say they were gentle with me," he says.
Shortly after Doyon had been taken away, his lawyer arrived, looking for his client.


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Ah Labor Day! The last hurrah of summer ushering in oversized sweaters, boyfriend jeans, and booties. But before we say goodbye to those summer nights, it's time to celebrate (in white, in blue, or whatever you fancy).
Looking for help packing? This year, ditch to short shorts and opt for white. Yes, you can wear white after Labor Day! At this point, it's simply just a saying and not words to live by. We are obsessed with Zara's white high-rise denim, but there are tons of options out there (as seen on our contributors below). We also chose to pack an oversized button up instead of a tight tank. Having fun is always easier when you are comfortable!
On to accessories! We are keeping it simple by packing a sun hat, a pair of sunglasses, and one staple necklace. Leave the rest behind. Your long-weekend should be spent with friend, not in your bedroom trying to decide what necklace to wear. As for shoes, we suggest packing a cute pair of loafers that take you from day to night. Of course, a solid pair of sandals is always a must (it's not fall quite yet), but it's bound to get chilly wherever you go and you'll want to be prepared.
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|2007-06-02, 08:56
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Of course, unless they somehow get Chiaki Morosawa to be the scriptwriter.......
But anyway, they need to attract both male and female watchers because males buy gunpla while females buy dvds/cds. If they want to sell both they need to do a good job of keeping the interest of everyone. So hopefully they learned a lesson from Destiny and don't completely alienate the gunpla crowd.
The mecha look really good though. No Kunio Okawara trash/Fukuda's bad taste.
|2007-06-02, 09:05
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Well, unless there's a different Kuroda, this one looks like the one who was involved in the writing of S-Cry-ed, Ryvius, Gungrave among the ones I can remember off my head. I recall him being involved in various genres of animes too though.
Well, it's still a rumour.
As for the bishie fangirl bait design...my only comment is SO? It's not like a bunch of pretty guys will ruin the show unless the director wants the show to lean that way.
|2007-06-02, 09:12
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I just read about this from a friend. So this is taking over doroku eh. I think the producers might just be counting on this redeeming the doroku timeslot, but I wonder how well it will work. Either way, I haven't watched the trailer yet (screw you BC and working only in IE! I think.) but I think by now if it wasn't obvious enough, doroku seems to have become largely aimed at female audiences... Kouga Yun designs? Heh.
But Kenichi Yoshida huh. I'd like to see how he interprets those designs. Guess I'll go watch the trailer~
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|2007-06-02, 09:18
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This thread already covered it, theres only like a great big forum section named 'GUNDAM'.
|2007-06-02, 09:21
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^SRB-san! Where have you been
Anyways, I hope this is a good departure from SEED/Destiny. We need to take a break from Kira and his band of marry men.
Four Guys, Four Gundams... Sounds eerie familiar. AB AC AD.... It's just me though...
|2007-06-02, 09:26
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I can see time itself!
And well, seems we're getting a new band of merry men, but as long as one of them is sufficiently hot-blood it's all good. I like the designs I've seen so far ^^:
I've been... away, doing other stuff mostly, I noticed you sent a PM after Christmas, sorry about that.. ^^.
|2007-06-02, 09:29
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Not liking the character designs except for that one kid that looks a bit like Renton. It looks like Kenichi Yoshida was told to make Yaoi like character designs for this series. Really liked his work on Overking Gainer and Eureka 7 but here not so much.
|2007-06-02, 09:31
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Wow, so new Gundam series threads go into the "old series" Gundam forum? That's just... odd. Oh well. :-)
Yes, the rumored Kuroda is the one that teamed with Taniguchi on sCRYed and Ryvius. After Trigun and Gungrave, he's also adapting the Hellsing OVA now. If it's true, it should be a very interesting pairing, because he works best when teamed with a good director.
As for Yoshida, the rumor's been growing for weeks now that he's attached to the new Gundam. If true, this is probably a bigger catch for Sunrise than attaching Mizushima as director. It should ensure some awesome animation, and good clean animation designs in general.
We'll see how it's all going down in a few days at most anyway...
|2007-06-02, 09:33
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But Yoshida's a pretty damn good designer and animator. So if its true that's a sure improvement over Seed's Hirai cardboard animation right there.
|2007-06-02, 09:36
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Eh, given the distinctly female-aiming nature of doroku recently, I will totally not be surprised if this is aimed at getting female fans as well. Even if you say FMP was a strictly shounen show I would beg to differ, it had a HELL of a lot of female fans too I think.
Meh about Kouga Yun though, I can clearly see the Yoshida influences in the animated designs but I'd have much rather they left it to Yoshida alone. I'm not going to get hooked up over this yet anyway. I agree with Nightengale about the whole idea that just because it's got pretty guys doesn't mean it's bad (it's pandering and entertainment - SO WHAT? It's been like that from the start, you must be living under some rock to not have noticed it!) I don't think ti's such a big deal any more.
If anything like duckroll says I'll keep an eye on it (AFTER my exams) for any good animation and stuff that Yoshida + Mizushima could bring in. If we get the dudes that appeared in FMA, then I'll be happy, but when's the last time Yutaka Nakamura took part in a Sunrise series? I know he was in Escaflowne and Gainer, but anything after that? (bad memory here...)
EDIT: And the scriptwriter.. well anythign is better than Morosawa I guess I'm not convinced he's super awesome but I did like Ryvius very much, although I don't know if that's more to do with Taniguchi or Kuroda
EDIT2: How popular is Kouga Yun anyway, actually? I get more of a doujin-BL sort of vibe from her, something you wouldn't usually see in public so much (barring latenight things like Loveless) but then again the guy who did the Seirei no Moribito designs (8ish on N-bloody-HK of all things) was apparently an ero-mangaka so huh. I'm prolly just talking out of my posterior here though.
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Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson hopes to have a new manager in place before Saturday's Scottish Cup tie against Rangers after Peter Houston left the club earlier than planned.
Houston revealed earlier this month that he would not be renewing his contract when it expired at the end of the season but said he see out the remainder of the campaign.
Reports that Falkirk manager Steven Pressley and Partick boss Jackie McNamara had been interviewed for the job was followed by this morning's announcement that Houston had left United by "mutual consent".
Assistant boss Paul Hegarty will take charge of tomorrow's SPL against Motherwell at Fir Park but a new manager could be appointed before the visit of Rangers.
Thompson said: "You'll find out in the next couple of days where we are. I would prefer someone in place before this weekend.
"We've been working on it for the last wee while, quietly behind the scenes. We've had a very long list and we've taken our time.
"We've actually had time to look at what we would like and what we are looking for, which we have been doing for the last 10 or 12 days to be honest. Now it's time for us to move on from there."
Pressley confirmed an approach from United before another former United player, Billy Dodds, revealed at the weekend that he had held talks with the club.
Former captain Derek McInnes was initially one of the favourites for the post, having been sacked by Bristol City earlier this month, but it is understood he has not been interviewed.
Thompson refused to be drawn on any names reported to be in the running for the position, adding: "I'm not going to confirm who I've spoken to and who I haven't spoken to."
Asked why the decision was taken to bring forward Houston's departure, the Tannadice chief said: "It's something I had been thinking about for a few days and that's the decision that has been made. A lot of thinking has been going on.
"As a club, and as a board, we decided we wanted to move on from the position we have been in. I'm not going to go into any detail because it would be unfair on Peter.
"We do wish him all the best for the future. He's done a great job for the last two or three years, as well as the previous three years. It's just time for both parties to move on."
Thompson, who confirmed today he is back on the SPL board, added: "It's not been the best the last few weeks. I know in the continent it works very well when the coach says he's stepping down before the end of the season.
"It's maybe different in the UK, we're not quite used to that kind of thing.
"We've decided to move on and that's where we are.
"No doubt in the next couple of days we will see how things progress. We've got a match tomorrow night as well so we've got to think about that."
Houston, 54, had been in charge at the club since December 2009.
Speaking after Saturday's game against Ross County, he said: "I'm ignoring all speculation. I've declared I'm going and that gives me five months for the board of directors to find a new manager.
"So they have to get a head start on their work to make sure they get the right person.
"I'll carry on as normal. I'm contracted until May and want to get the team into Europe for the fourth season running."
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Nicki Minaj Deletes Her Twitter Account Due to Leaked Music
Nicki Minaj is really ticked off about leaked music, so much so that the 'Starships' rapper has deleted her Twitter account. Apparently, Minaj was so angered by fan site NickiDaily posting snippets from 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded' that she punished all of her fans by quitting Twitter. The album debuted at No. 1, so we're not sure why the song postings incensed her enough to shut down her Twitter account.
Now before you gasp at the horror of a Twitterverse sans Minaj, realize that she will likely restore her account. This is probably a temporary exit from the social networking site.
According to Oh No They Didn't, Minaj tweeted that she was mad about leaked music and that she was blocking NickiDaily. She also posted: "And that's exactly why I'm paying the barbz dust right now! And deleting my twitter. Smdh – don't cry for me Argentina. Like seriously, only so much a person can take. Good f—ing bye."
While she made her Twitter exit in dramatic fashion, this sayonara isn't permanent, as the pop diva has 30 days to reactivate her account and resume posting. Something tells us she'll do just that, since connecting with fans directly via 140-character tweets is essential to a pop star's survival in 2012. We're banking on the fact that Minaj will come to her senses and return to the Twitterverse sooner than later.
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Waratahs out to make pre-finals statement
The NSW Waratahs are intent on proving they're no one-man band with an ominous pre-finals statement against the Queensland Reds on Saturday night.
The Super Rugby minor premiers enter the final-round Australian conference derby in Brisbane without Israel Folau for the first time since losing two out of three matches in his absence mid-season.
In contrast, the Waratahs have won nine of 11 games with the competition's leading tryscorer on deck.
But while acknowledging the Waratahs struggled without Folau, five-eighth Bernard Foley said the losses to the Sharks in Durban and Western Force in Perth also came at a time when the side hadn't hit its straps.
"Across the board when he was out, we hadn't hit our stride as a team," Foley said.
"With Izzy out now, it gives us a really good opportunity to show we don't have to rely on one player."
Foley said the Waratahs were in a similar position last week after losing captain Dave Dennis to a season-ending knee injury before responding with a 28-point mauling of the Highlanders to clinch a home semi-final.
The Waratahs won't be shying away from their flamboyant ball-in-hand style with Cam Crawford covering for Folau at fullback.
But they respect the wounded Reds enough to also not be promising to throw the ball around willy nilly at Suncorp Stadium, where the Tahs have lost their past three derbies.
"The Reds are going to give us a really tough battle, so we can't be reckless in trying to run it from everywhere," Foley said.
"But in saying that, we haven't changed our game plan to counter for the opposition or for our personnel.
"We've still got some great runners in our backline. Cam Crawford is really excited for the opportunity to show his worth.
"We play a game for Izzy's strengths and positives and this week we've got to do the same, but for Cam.
"As a backline, we haven't changed too much. We want to go out and express ourselves and play the way we've been playing and enjoying all season."
The Waratahs will finish top regardless of the result, while the depleted Reds have long been out of the finals hunt.
Veteran prop Benn Robinson said it would be great to put NSW's arch rivals to the sword - but not necessarily to carry a franchise-record seven straight wins into the finals.
"I see this game on the weekend as its own entity. I'm not looking too far forward," he said.
"The chance for NSW to play Queensland up in Queensland and hopefully put a big win on is pretty enticing for me.
"If we win on the weekend, I won't say it's going to give us momentum but it's another step forward."
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Regular readers will probably know that I'm Ars Technica's resident racing nerd. Actually going racing is about as much fun as you can have with your (nomex) clothes on, but it's not exactly the cheapest hobby in the world. But watching other people zoom round and round in circles provides enough of a fix to make NASCAR the US' largest spectator sport, the 24 Hours of Le Mans the world's biggest sporting event, and the Formula 1 (F1) season the most viewed sport on TV after the Olympics. F1 has been adapting to our ever more digital lifestyle, first by offering live timing and scoring via the Web, and more recently with mobile apps. Now, they've just released their latest version for the 2012 season, just in time for the first race taking place this coming weekend.
The app is available in two flavors, a free version that gives you news feeds, countdowns, and notifications for the races, and a paid version ($28.99 in the US iTunes App Store) that gives you access to live timing and scoring, real-time track positioning, and lap-by-lap text commentary and notifications. You can also pause races and download a complete race after the event.
That last feature is a real boon to those of us who timeshift the more inconveniently scheduled races; F1 is a global sport, but its biggest market is Europe, so most of the races end up being on very early in the morning if you're in the US. Being able to download the data for a race means you can still use the app even as you watch the race on your DVR.
No, it's not the cheapest app out there. And yes, if all you want is live timing, you can get that for free on F1's website. But if you're planning on attending an F1 race this year, having all that data at your fingertips at the track is incredibly handy, and at less than $30, it's quite a lot cheaper than renting a FanVision. Android and BlackBerry users will be glad to know that they're no longer neglected, with versions for those platforms also available.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Keurig Green Mountain Inc. surged Tuesday to top the S&P 500 while Elizabeth Arden Inc. skidded after reporting a wider quarterly loss.
Shares of coffee-machine maker Keurig Green Mountain Inc. US:GMCR rallied 9.7%. Coca-Cola Co. KO, +0.68% increased its stake in Keurig to 16% from 10%, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
McKesson Corp. MCK, -3.56% shares climbed 3.1%. The San Francisco-based pharmaceutical distributor said late Monday its fourth-quarter profit rose to $1.58 a share from $1.10 a share in the same period a year ago. Sales increased to $38.14 billion versus $30.52 billion. On an adjusted basis, McKesson said it earned $2.55 a share, better than the $2.39 projected by analysts in a FactSet poll.
NetApp Inc. NTAP, +0.79% shares rose 3.7%. The data-storage company is expected to report earnings of 80 cents a share when it announced fourth-quarter results next week.
Rackspace Hosting Inc. US:RAX shares jumped 7.7% after the cloud-computing provider late Monday reported first-quarter earnings that topped estimates. Per-share earnings came in at 18 cents on sales of $421 million.
Elizabeth Arden Inc. US:RDEN shares slid 21%. The cosmetics company late Monday posted a wider-than-expected loss in the fiscal third quarter and said it had hired Goldman Sachs & Co. to explore strategic alternatives.
Shares of Whirlpool Corp. WHR, +1.09% dropped 2.9%, among the worst S&P 500 performer. The stock's rating was lowered to neutral from buy at Longbow Research, according to media reports.
Tractor Supply Co. TSCO, +2.49% shares fell 3%. The stock was cut to hold from buy at Argus, according to 24/7 Wall St.
TripAdvisor Inc. TRIP, -1.58% shares shed 3.6%, after gaining for two days in a row. Analyst Brian McGill at Janney said Monday he doesn't think the travel website can maintain its revenue growth rate and added that TripAdvisor is not a social media company that "deserves a premium multiple."
Tickers to watch:
PLUG: Shares of Plug Power Inc. PLUG, -0.54% rallied 5.9%. The fuel cells supplier is scheduled to release its quarterly results on Wednesday. Analysts project Plug Power to report a loss of 5 cents a share in the first quarter. Other fuel cell stocks followed Plug higher with FuelCell Energy Inc. FCEL, -0.33% gaining 7.5% and Ballard Power Systems Inc. BLDP, +2.23% rising 5.3%.
DTV: DirecTV DTV, -0.50% shares reversed earlier gains to fall 0.5%. The communications firm may be bought out by AT&T T, -0.42% within the next two weeks, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The report suggested AT&T would buy its rival with a mix of cash and stock, paying a premium over Monday's closing share price of $87.16. The deal could still fall through. Shares of AT&T were off 1.2%.
DHI: Shares of home builder stocks were higher with D.R. Horton Inc. DHI, +0.89% up 2.1%, Lennar Corp. LEN, +1.72% adding 1.3%, and PulteGroup Inc. PHM, +0.15% rising 1.2%. The gains come on the back of news that Fannie Mae FNMA, +0.00% and Freddie Mac FMCC, +0.54% won't have to lower the limits for home loans that they back.
GOOG: Google Inc. GOOG, +0.47% GOOGL, +0.47% shares rose 0.6%. A ruling by the highest European Union court allows individuals to ask Google to remove links to search results for their name. The surprise ruling on the so-called right to be forgotten pertains to news articles, court judgments, and other documents, and could have a large impact on the search engine, which called the ruling disappointing.
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We've learned from a recent survey that 76% of our readers get their news exclusively from Cake Wrecks and the Fun Facts on the underside of Snapple lids. So today, in Part 12 of our medical news series, "Congrats! You're Contagious!," we'll be teaching you how to recognize an onset of Rectal Arthritic Bubonic Inner Ear Scurvy (aka "R.A.B.I.E.S.") in your furry friend.
Stage 1: Upon initial infection, your dog may show unusual signs of perkiness and energy.
Stage 6: Foaming at the mouth:
Stage 6: Lashing out with erratic behavior.
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A blind man walks into a bar, taps the man next him and says, "Hey, wanna hear a blond joke?"
The man said to the blind man, "Look buddy, I'm blond. The man behind me is a 400-pound professional wrestler, and he's blond. The bouncer is blond. The man sitting over to your left is also blond. Still wanna tell that blond joke?"
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We know that a tetra valent element can be a semiconductor and doping of pentavalent and trivalent impurities would give a extrinsic semiconductor.
I got a question now. Can we use an element of valency 5 and doping it with another element of valency 6 . will it give us a N-type semiconductor? because we are using an atom of valency 4 and doping it with 5 to give N-type semiconductor.Could anyone explain why we use only tetravalent atoms. and also why dont we use carbon even though its a tetravalent atom.Please explain me in detail.Thanks.


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During the presidential campaign, Republicans enjoyed poking fun at Obama's "Yes, We Can," campaign slogan. Most often they simply restated it as "No, You Can't." However, the GOP majority in the House is setting out to exemplify its own slogan: "No, We Can't."
The "We" in this case is the same "We" Obama spoke of with his slogan — the collective "We," encompassing all Americans. "No, We Can't," however reflects the GOP's emphatic belief that when it comes to the challenges we face — from health care to climate change and then some — there's just nothing we can, or should, do.
Again, I mean the collective "we" that Thomas Friedman spoke of when he wrote that there's no "we" in American politics.
Our leaders, even the president, can no longer utter the word "we" with a straight face. There is no more "we" in American politics at a time when "we" have these huge problems — the deficit, the recession, health care, climate change and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — that "we" can only manage, let alone fix, if there is a collective "we" at work.
It's the "we" that Martin Luther King Jr. referenced in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail, when he wrote: "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
It is the "we" that President Obama mentioned in his, when he remarked on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's passion for health care reform during speech to Congress.
On issues like these, Ted Kennedy's passion was born not of some rigid ideology, but of his own experience. It was the experience of having two children stricken with cancer. He never forgot the sheer terror and helplessness that any parent feels when a child is badly sick. And he was able to imagine what it must be like for those without insurance, what it would be like to have to say to a wife or a child or an aging parent, there is something that could make you better, but I just can't afford it.
That large-heartedness—that concern and regard for the plight of others—is not a partisan feeling. It's not a Republican or a Democratic feeling. It, too, is part of the American character—our ability to stand in other people's shoes; a recognition that we are all in this together, and when fortune turns against one of us, others are there to lend a helping hand; a belief that in this country, hard work and responsibility should be rewarded by some measure of security and fair play; and an acknowledgment that sometimes government has to step in to help deliver on that promise.
It's a "we" that the GOP no longer believes in, if it ever did. Their position that we are not "caught in an inescapable network of mutuality," that "whatever affects one directly" does not "affect all directly," and that we are not "all in this together," is perhaps best reflected in a sign carried by a Tea Party protestor at a demonstration against health care reform.
Where president Obama lauded Kennedy's ability, despite his privileged position, to "imagine what it was it must be like for those without insurance, what it would be like to have to say to a wife or a child or aging parent, there is something that could make you better but I just can't afford it," the "not-my-problem" ethos of conservatives now working to repeal health care reform before its full benefits take effect is reflected in the photo above.
It's also reflected in Republicans' attempt to repeal health care reform without having anything to offer in its place, as the GOP has no real alternative plan on health care.
With the House preparing to vote this week on whether to repeal the health-care law, the chamber's new Republican majority is confronting a far more delicate task: forging its own path to expand medical coverage and curb costs.
The House's GOP leaders have made clear that they regard the repeal vote, scheduled to begin Tuesday, as the prelude to a two-prong strategy that is likely to last throughout the year, or longer.
…On the cusp of undertaking this work, the GOP has a cupboard of health-care ideas, most going back a decade or more. They include tax credits to help Americans afford insurance, limiting awards in medical malpractice lawsuits and unfettering consumers from rules that require them to buy state-regulated insurance policies. In broad strokes, the approach favors the health-care marketplace over government programs and rules.
House Republicans have termed their strategy "repeal and replace." But according to GOP House leaders, senior aides and conservative health policy specialists, Republicans have not distilled their ideas into a coherent plan.
The Washington Post article above also quotes GOP Congressman Fred Upton (OH) as saying, "Replacing 'Obamacare' is not something we can accomplish overnight… We want to get it right, and on complex issues like these with huge consequences for the economy and jobs and spending, that means it may take time. But mark my words, we will get this done." In the meantime, as unlikely as it seems, successfully repealing health care reform would mean returning to the status quo, with devastating impact and loss of new protections for millions of Americans.
If health care reform were successfully repealed, with no alternative plan to take its place:
- Thirty million Americans who would have coverage thanks to health care reform would continue to do without it.
- Millions more who are now sure they'll be able to keep or replace coverage if they lose their jobs will no longer have that security.
- Insurance companies will still be able to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions. (According to a new study, that means about half the country will be uninsurable. We are indeed a nation of burned down houses.)
- Insurance companies will still be able to deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.
- Insurance companies will still be able to set annual and/or lifetime caps on health care coverage.
- Insurance companies will still be able to rescind policies after a person becomes sick.
- Young people would no longer be allowed to remain on their parents' insurance until age 26.
- Insurance companies would not be required to cover preventative care in new policies, without cost sharing.
- Insurance companies would not be required to spend at least 80 percent of premium income on medical care and quality improvements, instead of administrative costs or simply pocketing the profits.
- Insurance companies will still be able to deny coverage to rape victims and victims of domestic violence.
- Insurance companies will still be able to classify pregnancies and C-sections as "pre-existing conditions," and thus use them as reasons to deny coverage.
- Americans who don't have coverage through their employers will not have the option of purchasing coverage through health insurance exchanges.
- The Medicare Part D "donut hole" will remain open.
- The cost of employer sponsored coverage will go up. By 2019 employers and workers may have to cough up $3,000 or more per year in per-employee health care costs.
- Consumers who don't receive coverage from employers will see their rates go up as much as 20% for the same coverage by 2019.
- Four million small businesses will lose eligibility for health insurance tax credits, forcing small business owners to pay $40 billion in additional taxes each year.
- Repeal would add to the deficit and cost the economy about 2 million to 4.5 million jobs by the end of the decade.
Instead, the GOP opts for what Mori Dinauer aptly dubs "principled helplessness."
It is instructive to think about conservatism as a form of principled helplessness whereby we cannot countenance collective solutions to any public-policy problem, whether it's regulation of industry or basic sanitation services. I think the principle at stake here is that we mustn't interfere with the natural order of things, which should be sussed out through the mechanizations of the market, but it doesn't take much to realize that "free markets" are actually the product of complicated relationships with government.
The bottom line is that some problems cannot be solved because principle holds that they must not be solved, and ideology declares that they should not be solved — at least not by the collective "we," in the form of government.
If conservatives can successfully halt, hinder or "repeal" health care reform, they will cite it as proof that "government can't do anything," and their belief that "government shouldn't do anything" will exempt them from offering solutions or "doing something" — like governing. Government will stand by and "do nothing" as more Americans caught in the economic crisis slide further into unemployment, poverty, deprivation and desperation. Governing will be a lot like standing by and watching a train wreck, from a safe distance. Conservatives, who believe that government shouldn't help, will make sure it doesn't help, and cite such as evidence that government can't help.
It's possible that many more Americans, under those conditions, will believe it. Government will be "the government" — serving the powerful, and remaining removed from and unmoved by the plight of many Americans. For those Americans, the possibility of government as "our government" — "of the people, by the people, for the people" — whose purpose is "to protect them and to promote their common welfare," to do "some things we can't do on our own" and "some things we do better together," could face. No entity capable of addressing the size and scope of the crises Americans fade, and driven by any interests other than private profit, will likely rise to fill the void.
The GOP's new "civility" and same old lies on health care reform disguise a "do nothing" philosophy of government that abandons Americans most in in need in the midst of a crisis.
There are problems of such great size and challenges of such broad scope that they are unlikely to be solved by individual efforts, or small-scale efforts at the state and local level. Americans understand this. That's why a majority opposes repealing health care reform, and wish it went further. But the GOP's objection to health care reform (and practically all reforms) is driven by a minarchism, favored by Tea Party libertarians.
Minarchism (sometimes called minimal statism, small government, or limited-government libertarianism) is a libertarian political ideology which maintains that the state's only legitimate function is the protection of individuals from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud.
That not only runs counter to what the majority of Americans want but, as Christopher Beam explained in New York Magazine last month, it just won't work.
Libertarianism is a long, clunky word for a simple, elegant idea: that government should do as little as possible. In Libertarianism: A Primer, Cato Institute executive vice president David Boaz defines it as "the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others." Like any political philosophy, libertarianism contains a thousand substrains, ranging from anarchists who want to destroy the state to picket-fence conservatives who just want to put power in local hands. The traditional libertarian line is that government should be responsible for a standing army, local security, and a courts system, and that's it — a system called minarchy…
Libertarian minarchy is an elegant idea in the abstract. But the moment you get specific, the foundation starts to crumble. Say we started from scratch and created a society in which government covered only the bare essentials of an army, police, and a courts system. I'm a farmer, and I want to sell my crops. In Libertopia, I can sell them in exchange for money. Where does the money come from? Easy, a private bank. Who prints the money? Well, for that we'd need a central bank-otherwise you'd have a thousand banks with a thousand different types of currency. (Some libertarians advocate this.) Okay, fine, we'll create a central bank. But there's another problem: Some people don't have jobs. So we create charities to feed and clothe them. What if there isn't enough charity money to help them? Well, we don't want them to start stealing, so we'd better create a welfare system to cover their basic necessities. We'd need education, of course, so a few entrepreneurs would start private schools. Some would be excellent. Others would be mediocre. The poorest students would receive vouchers that allowed them to attend school. Where would those vouchers come from? Charity. Again, what if that doesn't suffice? Perhaps the government would have to set up a school or two after all.
And so on. There are reasons our current society evolved out of a libertarian document like the Constitution. The Federal Reserve was created after the panic of 1907 to help the government reduce economic uncertainty. The Civil Rights Act was necessary because "states' rights" had become a cover for unconstitutional practices. The welfare system evolved because private charity didn't suffice. Challenges to the libertopian vision yield two responses: One is that an economy free from regulation will grow so quickly that it will lift everyone out of poverty. The second is that if somehow a poor person is still poor, charity will take care of them. If there is not enough charity, their families will take care of them. If they have no families to take care of them-well, we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
Of course, we'll never get there. And that's the point. Libertarians can espouse minarchy all they want, since they'll never have to prove it works.
(I would only add that, under "Libertopia" as Beam describes it, if that bridge is on fire when come to it, we won't put out the fire — on principle.)
The problem Republicans, having chosen to kick off their latest shot at governing with a cynically "symbolic" attempt to "repeal" health care reform, don't have the luxury of not having ideas that work, and not having to prove that their ideas work. On issues from health care reform to jobs and the economy, Americans just want something to work. And that means that government — the collective "we," that does those things we need done, that we can't do by ourselves, and that we do better together — has to do something.
Doing nothing just guarantees more misery for Americans caught in the grip of the economic crisis, at a time when Americans want solutions. If Republicans can't or won't offer solutions, and stick to declaring that "nothing can be done" about the problems and challenge we face, in two years they may find that Americans want nothing more to do with them.


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I live in a deeply religious family and in our culture family bonds are very strong.
Now that I've become an atheist I often wonder if its a good idea to tell them this and cause problems or just keep mum and pretend I'm still religious?
If this is not the place to post this I'm sorry but could you direct me to some relevant posts?
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I found that my family could just as easily live in denial of my atheism as they can believe in talking snakes.
Did you tell them?
I started challenging their beliefs when I was 8.
I agree. Saying you don't believe the religion helps them swallow it a lot easier than that you don't believe in any supernatural existence.
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Since I'm already making my own way in life all I'm worried is the emotional trauma my mom and dad would be. They are the sort where its impossible to budge no matter what and who have a deep distrust in science.
Sounds like a good idea. I think I would follow that.
Apologies for the bad grammar, english is not my native tongue. I read somewhere that the religion you follow is sort of like a projection of your self or something . I cannot really remember the source though. So if I were to say I rejected the religion that my parents brought me up in....wouldn't they take it like some sort of personal insult?
This is going to make visiting them very very awkward. Ah well I think ultimately its still up to me right? ; ( crap....
I remember a lot of stressful holidays but I eventually told them that everyone has to find there own way though this life, to make their own journey. Actually I had more problems with siblings who seem to have less compulsion to maintain the peace.
Delaying the inevitable is rarely good. It probably won't be a joyous event no matter how they find out - and they will find out. It may be better for you to choose when and how this happens. Write down your thoughts. Prepare yourself for their objections. You'll get through it. I wish I had a community like Think Atheist and the foresight to realize this back when my family was made aware of my lack of belief. My family did not take the news well at all, but with time they remembered that they love me no matter what. I'm now comfortable in my own skin when I'm home with them, and to me that's the most important thing. A lot of good has come from honesty in my family. Years later, when I moved in with my boyfriend, there was no fuss or drama, just acceptance. I doubt this would have been the case if they still believed that I was a devout Catholic.
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It took awhile but your question finally got me remembering all those tense times. As bad as religious differences were the political differences. My willingness to stay incommunicado for longer and longer periods led to a detente, where we simply avoided touchy subjects. During presidential election years that seemed impossible. Emotions ran too high. I couldn't bear the Reagan love-fests, for instance, and they still think Obama is in league with Satan. I remember a lady from the church carrying on, in all seriousness, about how Hillary Clinton was leading bloody Satanic rituals in the basement of the Whitehouse during Bill's presidency.
Although the separation in ideology made things difficult for me, I simply couldn't conform for convenience. That would be like selling horoscopes to support my astronomy habit. I stood my ground and eventually earned a measure of respect through academic achievement. even though they call public colleges "monkey college" because of evolution.
I questioned everything since I was about 9, but I never expressed anything to my deeply catholic family. When I went to college and started living in my own place, then I started to come out little by little. You know, small remarks during religious conversations and stuff like that. By the time I openly bashed the living daylights of religion, they already expected or suspected it. My parents are very understandable and do not chase me around with pitchforks and torches, for which I am really content with. The thing is that not every family is the same. Reactions might vary, and that depends on the level of religious fervor that they have. I do recommend NOT to be silent about your thoughts and to be always true to yourself. I think lying about it could make matters worse than they already could be. Let reason triumph.
'tis better for them to find out now from someone they love and trust; namely yourself, than 'tis for them to find out on their own or from someone else, later.
It would appear to be a betrayal of their trust, if the second possibility happens. Which is why you would want to be certain that you tell them yourself. I would say the sooner the better, but that may not be the case; at least have a plan in mind on how to tell them, and some sort of a schedule or timeline for doing it.
This way, if they find out before you intended, and confront you about it (asking "when did you plan on telling us this", or something similar), you can clearly say that yes, you were going to tell them, and that this was how you were going to do it.
I recently deconverted inside a strongly Christian family. I had put a video out on youtube, coming out to the world (well, the people who cared to watch at least). My parents must have heard eventually, because they stopped nagging that I wouldn't wake up for church, and when I mentioned it to my mom, she took it like it was old news.
Alright then . Maybe I should prepare it like a presentation. Probably on the visit when they ask which church I'm attending I'll tell them the truth.
Heres me going for it!


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Movies, My Kids, and Me
My youngest daughter's full name is Ula Lockwood Hayes Hooper. But we've always called her Ula de la Luna. She was conceived and born by the light of the full moon, choosing to join the world by swimming out into a pool of water in a room lit solely by firelight and lunar reflections on the snow outside the windows.
And the moon has always seemed to be her personal friend. It was one of the first words she learned, and she would ask for it before going to sleep at night. On summer nights I'd carry her out to the lawn to visit with it before bedtime, and in the winter we'd scramble around to all the windows to search it out, wave, and sing "Goodnight Moon!"
As I've suggested in earlier writings, Ula has always had a rather kinetic disposition—one that made it very difficult to leave her with grandparents to give Mommy and Daddy a respite, much less allow us a few moments of pre-dinner conversation before she would discover my kitchen knives, dump the houseplants, figure out if her dad had left out any power tools, or eat half a box of chalk. I vividly remember sitting with my head on the kitchen counter, whimpering in desperation to Bob: "When can we get this kid interested in movies?"
Television has never been part of our family. But movies have been another matter altogether. Bob loves them in all forms, I like them on occasion, and we both came to adore them for the parenting relief they offered when our oldest, Saoirse, was just a toddler. We felt that, since our kids weren't seeing advertisements or watching a screen all day, an occasional movie when we needed it was perfectly acceptable. We showed Saoirse Sesame Street videos to help her learn her alphabet and numbers, and played and replayed Beauty and the Beast whenever we needed to have some quiet time for ourselves.
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We tried Sesame Street with Ula. She preferred pulling the cat's tail. We tried Beauty and the Beast. After a few minutes, she toddled into the kitchen to experiment with putting pens and markers into the pencil sharpener, then asked to tour the windows in search of her moon. Then we tried Scooby Doo.
Ula forgot the moon.
The charisma of the Mystery, Inc. gang won over Ula's heart. She assiduously perfected her impersonations of ghosts, mummies and vampires; studied and rehearsed Shaggy's expressions, mastered his incessant use of the word "like," and cultivated a dynamic Scooby voice. When the eye doctor told us Ula needed glasses, after many battles, we finally got her to experiment with lenses by purchasing oversized black frames so that she could look like Velma.
By her third birthday, Ula was fluent in Scooby Doo, and a few times each week, Bob and I had luxuries like folded laundry, complete conversations, glasses of wine by the fire, washed dishes, and even some time to listen to the radio. My knives stayed where I left them, the chalk went uneaten, the houseplants began to recover from their trauma.
Since we were homeschooling Saoirse, we expanded the movie repertoire. We showed the kids Magic School Bus videos, documentaries on bugs, and film versions of the literature we were reading as a family.
We never intended for movies to take over our lives. But it felt like they did, even if our kids spent far less time in front of a screen than most children. At first, it was something we allowed once per week. Then it became negotiable. Saoirse would find me as soon as Ula woke from her afternoon nap. "Can we watch a movie?" If I answered "no," the nagging would ensue. I'd argue for all the other evening pastimes we'd come to enjoy as a family:
"Music night?" (This is when Bob plays the guitar and we sing).
"No. I don't want to do that."
"Game night?"
"We'd rather watch a movie."
"Popcorn and cider by the fire while I read to you?"
"How 'bout popcorn and cider and a movie?"
By the end of last winter, Saoirse and Ula were pestering us for movies every night. I told them I didn't like the pestering. I whined to Bob that I felt as though the kids wouldn't talk to us after sunset, unless it was to ask for a movie. Together we warned them: The nagging had to stop, or the movies would go away.
The nagging didn't stop. Once the girls settled in to watch yet another documentary showing how slugs mate, Bob would pour me a glass of wine, and we'd commiserate that it wasn't the kids who were addicted to movies. It was us. We could threaten to take them away, but we were the ones who faced true punishment, because we'd lose our together time.
Then one afternoon this past spring, without planning, it happened. I went upstairs to wake Ula from her nap. Saoirse joined me. Ula opened her eyes and looked at me.
"Hi there, sleepy girl!"
"Can we watch a movie?" The first words out of her mouth?!
Saoirse joined her. "We'll watch the Magic School Bus. It's educational."
"No. I want to play music tonight."
"No," came their unison reply. "Movie."
"Then let's play games."
"If you ask me again, I'm going to take it away." Admittedly, I'd used that line before. I guess that's why they ignored me.
"Movie!" It was thrown at me as though I wasn't to be taken seriously. Suddenly, I saw my cherubic, wholesome, earth-loving, home-schooled children with new eyes. They were brats.
"I'm done!" I went over to the television and frantically began pulling wires out the back.
"NOOOOOOOO!!!" They both screamed, tears flowing from their faces. Bob, sitting in the kitchen, overheard the entire drama. He came upstairs. I thought he was going to stop me. To the contrary, he joined me in a frenzy of electronic disconnection while the girls carried on in hysterics as though we were shooting their dog.
We left them in a caterwauling heap on the bed and went downstairs, where we sat to watch the sunset on the budding maple trees with deer-in-the-headlights expressions on our faces. As the mourning continued upstairs, we inventoried the full repercussions of our actions. No more cocktail hour. No more evening Internet. No more public radio news broadcasts. Taking away the movies suddenly seemed like a bigger commitment to parenting than conception, opting out of daycare, or choosing to homeschool. Worried about how we'd survive, we decided to try it for the growing season to see how we fared.
It turned out taking away movies had bigger consequences than we realized. We found ourselves opting out of nights out, yoga classes—just about everything we could. But it wasn't because we needed full-time home commitments to entertain our kids. It was because suddenly, we just didn't want to be away from them. Admittedly, we don't get anywhere near as many private conversations as we'd like, but we have discovered that our kids are really fun. I've laughed more this summer than I have for years. Their fantasy play is more about scenes from their own imaginations, rather than re-creations of favorite movie plots. They run around having naked water fights, linger over dinner conversation, ask to help in the kitchen. They play harder, to the point where they work themselves into a lather, and they seem to argue less. They make up songs, shake rattles, jingle bells and bang drums when we play music. They come up with their own knock-knock jokes (which are really funny in their non-sequitor un-funniness), and they dance.
We thought bedtime would come earlier with no movies in the house. To the contrary. We enjoy each other's company so much at night, we all find it hard to wind down and climb up to bed. The sun is long set before any of us thinks of brushing our teeth.
Which means Ula sees her moon.
It was clear and beautiful the night of last month's full moon. Bob and I were sitting out on the porch watching the fireflies when Ula came to join us. She sat on my lap, staring up into the sky, then turned to look up at me.
"Mommy, would you talk the moon?"
I tried to imagine how the silvery sheen would sound. Speaking in a hushed voice I said, "Why hello, Ula!"
Ula jumped off my lap, ran out to the lawn, and called up to the sky.
"Hello Moon!!!"
Hearing the commotion, Saoirse ran out of the house and joined her. "Hi Moon!"
"How are you girls this evening?"
"Well, thank you!" They called out together.
"Moon," said Ula, "if you sing, I'll dance for you."
I don't remember what the moon sang, but it must have been a stirring melody, because the image from that evening stays in my mind as one I will hold until my dying day. Saoirse and Ula are on the lawn, twirling about under the light, looking as though they are floating in a fairy land, bathed in moon glow and surrounded by lightning bugs. Bob is with me on the porch, and we are smiling straight through to our souls. Maybe the movies will come back, every once in a while, when the snow flies. It's hard to know. For now, we are enjoying the thrill of our children's unleashed imaginations, a spectacle far greater than the best film I've ever seen.
After a good long while, the moon sings out,"I think it's time for little girls to go to sleep." Looking up, smiles across their faces, they wave their arms and both answer back, "Goodnight, Moon!"
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In the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, Missouri lawmakers will have competing gun proposals when they convene next month for the 2013 regular session. They include one that would require background checks for anyone who buys a firearm at gun shows.
Democratic House Member Stacey Newman of St. Louis plans to file the measure during the first few days of session. She says gun shows are an easy source for anyone looking to buy assault weapons: "The majority of assault weapons that have been used in some of these horrendous, uh, particularly school shootings, are purchased through gun shows…it is legal to not have those background checks."
And Newman says her proposal would close the so-called "gun show loophole" in Missouri: "Right now, federal background checks are only done through licensed dealers…because of that, that exempts gun shows where people can purchase unlimited amounts of weapons, including assault weapons."
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