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Bruce Richman Wants You to Know About U = U
"When I was diagnosed with HIV in 2003, I felt like I was a walking infection. I was terrified about passing HIV on to someone that I love," said HIV activist Bruce Richman in an 2017 interview on the HIV-activist site BETA. He refused treatment because he didn't want to be reminded that he was infectious, but when his health deteriorated in 2012, he started the drug regimen. And his doctor gave him some good news: "that because I was undetectable, I couldn't transmit HIV. I couldn't pass it on."
Then he got angry. "Because every HIV treatment site, every media outlet, every ASO, every federal health department, every state health department, everywhere, was saying that I was still a risk. And millions of people with HIV were still a risk.
"To clear up the confusion, a group of us living with HIV collaborated with researchers on a consensus statement and advocacy campaign called Undetectable is Untransmittable."
He then founded and became executive director of the Prevention Access Campaign and Undetectable = Untransmittable, U= U, a global community of HIV advocates, researchers and organizations, uniting disseminate the largely unknown fact that people living with HIV on effective treatment cannot transmit HIV.
Richman, who has a Master's in Administration Planning and Social Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and he is J.D. from Harvard Law School, worked in philanthropy for corporations and high-profile clients before starting PAC. EDGE spoke to the hunky Richman (he has his fans) about his activism.
Why the Prevention Access Campaign?
EDGE: Why did you start your work with Prevention Access Campaign & Undetectable = Untransmittable?
Bruce Richman: Before starting this campaign, I had been doing philanthropy work for corporations and high-profile people. After I learned back in 2012, that I couldn't pass it (HIV) on I knew this was a message that needed to be told. My social life, sexual life, and the way I thought about myself all changed. This message was not being told anywhere publicly. Some folks in influence knew about it. It was only being shared on an individual basis. Millions of people's lives were at risk because they and others believed they are infectious. I had to find a way to tell everyone who is living with HIV what U=U meant for us.
EDGE: What does undetectable mean?
Bruce Richman: It means a person living with HIV is on treatment that has suppressed the virus to the point that it's no longer detectable by tests. That keeps us healthy and prevents passing on HIV to sexual partners. Measurements for undetectable vary by test and country, so the number to remain under is 200.
EDGE: Why aren't we hearing more U = U messages in the media?
Bruce Richman: It's the reason I get up every day to spread this message. The stigma of HIV is killing us every day. We need to treat HIV stigma like a public health crisis but we're not hearing enough about U=U, the unprecedented opportunity to dismantle stigma. Part of the reason is frankly that there isn't any PR firm working on getting the message out. All the media coverage we got, like Washington Post, CBS Evening News, China Global TV, has been organic. Also, there is a long history of paternalism and prejudice in the field and even serophobia among journalists. We have lived with fear of HIV and people with HIV for more than 35 years so there is so much that must be unlearned. This is radical change, and many are not comfortable with change.
The impact of condomless sex
EDGE: With this message, do you have concerns that more condomless sex will take place and lead to an increase in other sexually transmitted infections?
Bruce Richman: I have heard a lot of concerns about it. Just because you think there will be more condomless sex when people with HIV learn about U=U doesn't mean you withhold information about U=U. You educate about condoms. This should be part of the ongoing sexual health conversation along with PrEP.
EDGE: How have HIV negative people responded to this news?
Bruce Richman: It is still a mixed reaction. At the highest levels, this message is being accepted. Some of our most important heroes are within the medical field and are negative. However, we expected fewer concerns and more excitement about it among U.S. community organizations and even activists. In the gay community, the news of U=U has been trickling out.
EDGE: Is a cure for HIV still unthinkable?
Bruce Richman: I don't think it is unthinkable. It's possible.
EDGE: It's great that celebrities are disclosing their status, but how does that help?
Bruce Richman: Definitely! It is important for the message to be delivered in an informed and professional way. High profile voices draw attention to the cause. When TV host Karl Schmid talked about his HIV status and stigma on the Today Show, he delivered that message to millions of Megyn Kelly viewers. It was amazing!
Ending the stigma
EDGE: Do you feel like the LGBTQ community should be doing more to end the HIV stigma?
Bruce Richman: Yes. The U.S. gay community is run by HIV negative cisgender men who are very attached to PrEP and generally don't seem to understand the importance of U=U. Those of us who live with HIV in US and within the queer community make up a tiny minority and to many we don't exist, we don't matter as much. There were 14 pride events in Canada featuring U=U floats and themes, and only two in the US. More organizations that serve the gay community need to step up and do more work spreading this message. We need more champions here in the US and more voices.
EDGE: How can people get involved?
Bruce Richman: Currently, our campaign is running in close to 100 countries. Here in the US, it's crickets. We need people to rise up and go to their state public health departments, LGBTQ centers and local gay organizations and press upon them to update their exaggerated risk descriptions and get the facts out. There are extensive resources on our website Uequalsu.org. Hundreds of thousands of people with HIV are suffering because they believe they are infectious to their partners. There's no time to waste!
EDGE: Greatest moments of this campaign for you?
Bruce Richman: There are so many! Wow! This has been the most incredible experience of my life. Every week I have new great moments. One was attending The World AIDS conference in Amsterdam this summer and seeing the message everywhere and accepted by the top researchers and minds in the field. Every day I connect with the activists who are using the U=U message and science to change lives all over the world.
Having the Mayor of D.C. join U=U last summer was huge for us. And when Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the world's preeminent immunologist, took the stage between two huge screens showing "U=U" at the US Conference on AIDS and stating that "the science really does verify and validate U=U" was a historic moment in the history of the epidemic.
For more information about U=U and the Prevention Access Campaign, visit the organization's website.
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Ryan Skips Stimulus Topic at Post-Debate Breakfast
(Lexington, Ky.) -- Paul Ryan said Friday that he "felt great" about his debate with Vice President Biden, but declined to discuss Biden's taunting reference to Ryan's request for stimulus funds after criticizing the Obama administration program.
"We're going to get through it later. We're going to eat breakfast now," Ryan said Friday morning when he was asked about the stimulus request as he and his family went to breakfast.
When asked if he felt "knocked around" by Biden at the debate in Danville, Ky., Thursday night he said, "No, no. It's what I expected."
The Republican vice presidential candidate was less talkative when asked if he regretted sending two letters requesting stimulus funds after consistently blasting the federal stimulus program.
It's a point that his opponent brought up during the debate when Ryan attacked the stimulus.
"I love my friend here," Biden said in one of several animated exchanges. "I'm not allowed to show letters here, but go on our website. He sent me two letters saying, by the way, can you send me some stimulus money for companies here in the state of Wisconsin?"
Ryan acknowledged requesting for funding: "On two occasions we advocated for constituents who were applying for grants."
He added that requesting those types of funds is something members of Congress do regularly for the people in their district.
"I love that, I love that," Biden said, while laughing. "This is such a bad program and he writes me a letter saying -- writes the Department of Energy a letter saying the reason we need this stimulus, it will create growth and jobs. His words. And now he's sitting here looking at me."
When it was revealed earlier in the campaign that Ryan did request funds he took responsibility for it, but said they were "treated as a constituent service requests in the same way matters involving Social Security and Veterans Affairs were handled…They should have been handled differently and I take responsibility for that."
Accompanied by his wife Janna in a purple dress and his two sons Charlie and Sam in red Wisconsin fleeces as well as his daughter Liza, the family ate breakfast together and were greeted by applause when they entered Josie's Grab N Go restaurant. His 7-year-old Sam was extra hungry from the late night saying to his dad, "How about pancakes and waffles?"
Joe Biden returned home to Delaware last night after the debate with his wife, Dr. Jill Biden and their family. He campaigns Friday in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin.
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Consider the cyclic group $\Bbb Z_n=\{1,2,\cdots n\}$ under addition modulo $n$ and for some non zero $a\in \{1,2,\cdots n-1\}$ let $\langle a\rangle=H\le \Bbb Z_n$ of order $q$. I wish to show that at most $\lceil q/2\rceil$ of the numbers in $H$ are in $\{1,2,\cdots \lceil n/2\rceil\}$ and the same holds for $\{\lceil n/2\rceil+1,\cdots n\}$.
Geometrically can I argue as follows: If $\Bbb Z_n$ is thought of as $n$th roots of unity lying on the unit circle then the points of $H$ starting from $1$ will be spaced by an angle of $2\pi/q$, i.e. will be equally spaced apart on the unit circle. So basically we have $q$ points equally spaced on a circle. Any diameter yields two segments each of which can contain at most $\lceil q/2\rceil$ of the points. A diameter contains $\lceil n/2 \rceil$ points of $\Bbb Z_n$.
I am not satisfied with the above argument (particularly the last two sentences). Can someone give a better proof?


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This is a feature where we celebrate Jose Canseco by creating motivational posters out of his actual tweets. We believe it is in this context that the world can best appreciate our favorite Bash Brother.
For this installment, we are dared to ask the questions to which we fear the answers.


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Echoes of Rich in Snowden case
Top Obama administration officials facing high-profile calls for clemency or a plea deal for Edward Snowden have life experience that counsels extreme caution: the political explosion they witnessed after President Bill Clinton pardoned financier Marc Rich more than a decade ago.
Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director James Comey and new Obama White House counselor John Podesta all played roles in the Rich saga, wrestling with the complex questions of what tactics and compromises officials should consider when an American is holed up overseas, beyond the reach of the U.S. justice system.
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In recent weeks, the New York Times and Britain's Guardian newspaper have both called on President Barack Obama to grant Snowden — currently living in Russia under a claim of asylum — a pardon for any crimes he may have committed in disclosing details of the National Security Agency's telephone call tracking database, along with a trove of other secrets about U.S. surveillance practices. A web petition urging such a pardon has received more than 144,000 signatures, making it the third most-popular active petition on the White House site.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama on NSA: A reluctant reformer)
The Times and a top NSA official have also publicly discussed the possibility of a plea bargain or amnesty that might prompt Snowden to return in exchange for an assurance that he wouldn't leak any more NSA secrets. The computer expert faces three felony counts in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Alexandria, Va., last year.
In Obama's speech Friday announcing "concrete and substantial reforms" to U.S. surveillance practices, he conceded Snowden's role in the series of events that led to a global uproar about American spying. The president lamented "damage done to our operations" and warned about the dangers of leaking classified information, but he steered clear of the debate over whether the ex-contractor is a whistleblower.
"I'm not going to dwell on Mr. Snowden's actions or his motivations," Obama said.
And in a newly published interview, the president deflected a question about the possibility of amnesty for the NSA leaker.
( Also on POLITICO: Mike Rogers: Russia may be behind Snowden leak)
"I do not have a yes/no answer on clemency for Edward Snowden. This is an active case, where charges have been brought," Obama told The New Yorker in November, while adding that "the benefit of the debate he generated was not worth the damage done."
As with Snowden's case, Marc Rich's involved not just calls for some form of presidential clemency, but a debate about the possibility of cutting a plea deal with a defendant on the lam. The Rich case triggered disagreement within the Justice Department about the wisdom and propriety of negotiating with someone prosecutors considered a fugitive, after he failed to return from Switzerland to face charges of tax fraud, racketeering and violating the embargo on Iran.
After Clinton, Holder — then deputy attorney general — was the most seriously burned by the Rich affair. Holder gave a memorable "neutral leaning towards favorable" recommendation on the pardon and was also involved in the drive by Rich's lawyers to reopen talks with prosecutors even though he was avoiding arrest by remaining overseas.
( WATCH: Obama's NSA speech in two minutes)
Holder has described the white-hot controversy over the Rich pardon as one of the most searing political experiences of his life — one that he thought for a time had effectively ended his government career.
Asked whether Holder would have to consider the Rich episode when contemplating a pardon or plea for Snowden, one ex-prosecutor involved with the Rich case said: "Absolutely."
"There's no way he could have forgotten [Rich], because that almost derailed his nomination. He wound up thanking his lucky stars he ended up being the attorney general he wanted to become," said the former prosecutor, who asked not to be named.
Former House Counsel Stan Brand, who's known Holder for decades, said the Rich fiasco is sure to play a role in the approach Holder and others take to the Snowden predicament.
( Also on POLITICO: Assange calls Obama 'embarrassing')
"That was one of the Republican mantras for why [Holder] shouldn't be attorney general," Brand said. "What all of that did was scare George Bush and Barack Obama to become the stingiest givers of pardons in history. … I can understand what the acute sensitivities are to that episode and why it would cause them to be so fearful of anything that would even give the appearance of negotiating with Snowden."
Holder said in interviews late last year he saw no grounds to grant clemency to Snowden. He does not appear to have addressed publicly the possibility of cutting a plea deal with the NSA leaker.
The NSA official in charge of the response to Snowden's leaks, Rick Ledgett, said in December that he was open to the idea of amnesty for the former NSA contractor — if future leaks could be averted.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama hits Snowden over NSA leaks)
"My personal view is, yes, it's worth having a conversation about. I would need assurances that the remainder of the data could be secured, and my bar for those assurances would be very high," Ledgett told CBS's "60 Minutes."
However, NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander told the show he opposes such a tradeoff because it could encourage others to follow in Snowden's footsteps.
Some lawyers closely following the Snowden case believe Obama and his aides are unlikely to cut a deal with the leaker now, as the maelstrom he caused continues to unfold on Capitol Hill and in the media. But the odds of resolving the matter could grow as Obama's second and final term winds down, these attorneys say.
A senior Justice Department official argued earlier this month that the parallels between Rich and Snowden are weak, at least for now, because the admitted leaker has shown no interest in such a deal — and because administration officials believe he should face serious punishment for his actions.
( Also on POLITICO: NSA plan triggers telecom questions)
"The comparison isn't apt," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Nobody at this time is even considering leniency for Mr. Snowden, so the theoretical discussion about talking to a person on the lam is not applicable in this case."
While there are parallels between Rich's case and Snowden's in terms of the calls for clemency and for plea talks, there are also significant differences.
Rich and business partner Pincus Green were indicted in 1983 on charges of tax evasion, racketeering and fraud, as well as trading with the enemy for allegedly buying oil from Iran. Despite the overtones of dealing with Tehran, the alleged crimes were primarily economic in nature. The pair declined to return from Europe to fight the charges, remaining in Switzerland, which lacks an extradition treaty with the United States. They won pardons from Clinton in 2001, on his last day in office.
Snowden is behind the most significant breach of classified information in U.S. history, beginning with the disclosure in June that the NSA has been secretly collecting data on huge numbers of telephone calls made from, to or within the U.S. He was charged that month with theft of government property, unauthorized disclosure of national defense information, and disclosing communications intelligence to an unauthorized person. The complaint is a preliminary one that could be revised or expanded in a formal indictment.
Comey, who took over as FBI director in September, was the line prosecutor overseeing the Rich case in New York for six years. Comey has said he was "stunned" by Clinton's pardon of Rich.


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Hi, I'm Debbie from Esch House Quilts and I'm thrilled to be sharing my recipe for Neighborhood Charm on Moda Bake Shop! House quilts and quilts with limited color palettes always speak to me, so when I saw the new Mama Said Sew line by Sweetwater, I knew it was a perfect fit for the little house quilt I had in mind. I hope you enjoy making Neighborhood Charm for your neighborhood!
⅜ yard binding fabric
44" x 45" backing fabric
44" x 45" batting
1. From the background fabric, cut:
- 2 5″ strips – subcut these to 11 5″ squares and 4 2¾" squares.
- 5 2¾" strips – subcut these to 70 2¾" squares.
- 9 2″ strips for sashing and borders – subcut 7 of these to 36½" and 2 to 38″.
2. From the binding fabric, cut 4 2½" strips.
1. Choose 37 charms from the charm pack. (I eliminated charms that blended too much with the background fabric). Set the rest aside for another project or the back.
2. Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of the 2¾" background squares.
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4. Sew on the drawn line.
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1. Lay out your charm houses in rows according to the diagram, adding in the 5″ background squares as "parks" or "vacant lots". (Figure 5) [Note: When I lay out the houses I first do it randomly and then go back and adjust. If all the black houses end up in the same corner or there are three of the same prints very close together, I'll move blocks around to fix this, but I try not to obsess over it :)]
2. Sew the rows together.
3. Sew a sashing strip to the bottom of each house row.
4. Sew a sashing strip to the top of the first house row.
5. Sew a sashing/border strip to each side of the quilt top.
1. Press the quilt top.
2. Layer with the backing and batting.
3. Quilt as desired. My version of Neighborhood Charm is quilted in the ditch and with doors and front walks. I added some "garden inspired" quilting in the "parks".
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Writing macros, a series of lessons (5 of…)
Believe it or not we're pretty much done with underlying concepts – syntax, that sort of thing. So today's rather long post will be looking at several of the specific options – a few commands, many of the conditionals – and I'll try to pick up what few syntax elements remain along the way.
I'm going to kick off with another very popular one – focus. Before we go to detail, let's conceptualize it. Focus is a specialized target – whether command or conditional or parameter, you use focus anywhere (and the same way) you use target. Except, that is… while you CAN use "focus=" in the conditionals, I can think of very few times you'd WANT to do so. Remember that it only works for that line, and doesn't change the outside world.
The reason focus is so useful is that it allows you to say, basically, "This target is special, and if I go work on another target I always want to be able to return to this target in an instant without fumbling around." As a specific example, I may want a macro that says: while I'm busy elsewhere, every so often I want to toss a Shackle Undead at this particular mob. That line, by the way, goes:
/cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead
But let's make a usable version. Because I don't want to tab-target, and click on a "/focus" macro that's a separate line. So:
/focus [noexists,target=target][exists,dead,target=target][modifier:alt,target=target]
/cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead
Now there are a lot of variant macros out there which clearfocus first. The command – in a macro with focus – is redundant. You can only have one focus. If you focus on a new target, the old focus is cleared.
I also want to remind that "target=target", though labeled a conditional is really a limiter. It is not testing to see if the target is a target (or in numerous shackle macros out there if the target is the focus). It is saying, "And the target of the command is my current target". So that first line says: make my current target the focus if there is no current focus, or make the target the focus is there is a focus but it's dead, or REGARDLESS of current focus if I'm pressing the alt make my current target the focus. And the second line says, "regardless of my target, cast shackle undead on my focus."
Now, I could modify this with one more line, and since it teaches as well, try this one:
/focus [noexists,target=target][exists,dead,target=target][modifier:alt,target=target]
/stopmacro [modifier:alt]
/cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead
The command added was stopmacro. This example shows its use. What it says is: If this situation is true, quit running the macro. In this specific macro, if I pressed the alt key when I clicked the macro, it makes my current target the focus and then stops without casting shackle undead. Which means I can use it to target my tank (for example) and make it my focus for later focus based healing spells. Warning – if I fail to put a conditional in place, the entire remainder of the macro stops – period. Just… something about which to beware.
While I'm on stops, let's take a swift glance at /stopattack. Now we've already seen /stopcasting and /stopmacro so this should be really, really obvious. And for priests, pretty close to useless. Who is it useful for? All those people with things that say, "effect ends if target is attacked." Sleeps, traps, sheeps… Set up your trap macro (for example) and make sure the line in front says /stopattack (and if you're a wand user still autocasting, /stopcasting on another line) and poof – you don't break your own attack.
rats. Despite saying we've already covered stopcasting, I want to throw in one of my little gems. My wand is set up as follows:
/cast [modifier:alt,target=target][target=target] shoot
/stopcasting [modifier:alt]
Pretty, isn't it? Huh, you're not following? Regardless of alt or no alt, I cast shoot. If I use my alt key, however, it casts once.
Oops, almost forgot, we added that weird conditional "modifier". This needs some special consideration. Modifier is an "obvious" conditional, and introduces one more bit of syntax – the colon (:). That is, it's a conditional that can have more than one variation. In this case you could have three modifiers – alt, shift, or ctrl. Holding those keys when you pressed the macro meant something different than using the macro alone – or it could, if you set up to use it.
Can you set it up to use, say, alt and shift combined as "must be both"? No. If you do that, one of the modifiers (the second) dominates. Which means if you have set up (for example) modifier:shift, then shift, alt-shift, and ctrl-shift all meet the "true" value of the conditional. That said, blizzard WAS nice to use in the not so distant past. See, up till 2.0 we had just shift, alt, and ctrl. And we can use those if we want – they still work. But we are ALSO allowed to differentiate between left and right. So what we really have is: lshift; rshift; lctrl; rctrl; lalt; ralt. Failure to specify means either. Which means if I'm REALLY feeling funky, I can set up seven different "modifiers" – the six listed plus "nomodifier" (or not putting modifier on – same difference). No, I am not going to give an example – I've never needed that many variables. But you might. For example, say you're a hunter. You want to set up one button for your tracking – humanoids, undead, beasts, giants, elementals, hidden… ahem. I leave the exercise to the pleasure of the reader. No, no I won't – I just won't put in everything, just enough for an example.
/cast [modifier:lalt] track humanoids; [modifier:ralt] track giants; \
[modifier:rshift] track undead; track beasts
Remember to lead with at least #show if not #showtooltip unless your memory is fantastic – one button, seven options, you only have one "track" you have to leave off. Note that you can put seven different spells there if you want. Fair warning — you will be bumping against the 255 character limit.
OK, let's go play with something else. Let's start with the macro:
/cancelform [stance:1]
/cast renew [modifier:alt,target=player]
It's the first line that's going to drive this section. First – cancelform. It used to be that some – no, MOST – forms would trigger a GCD when you left them. Shadowform, Dire Bear form, etc. Now, however, it doesn't. Which means you can set up a macro that lets you drop form and do stuff RIGHT NOW – and that can include casting a spell. The druids love this – drop form, use potions and healthstones (which they can't do in form), and cast to get back in form, all with one press of the button.
Now in this particular example [stance:1] is unnecessary, but it lets us learn the modifier. Every class has some optional stances. And you can test for stance before trying to do something. Now, the full list is:
|Battle Stance
|Bear Form
|Ghost Wolf
|Berserker Stance
|Cat Form
|Moonkin Form,
Tree of Life Form
(Yes, I copied that – in this case from wowwiki.com.) Now for those of you reading with more than one possible stance, a caveat needs known. If you cannot cast a form, then all the forms higher slip down the list. Say, for example, that you are a druid who has not learned tree or moonkin form. Flight form, then, is stance:5, not stance:6.
/use brings up some more tables. First, there are 23 inventory slots. Of these slots, SOME have things in them. Except when they are, they're labeled a bit differently. OK, let's get specific. The 23 slots that you can use (and equip – hold on there a minute) are:
0 = ammo
1 = head
2 = neck
3 = shoulder
4 = shirt
5 = chest
6 = belt
7 = legs
8 = feet
9 = wrist
10 = gloves
11 = finger 1
12 = finger 2
13 = trinket 1
14 = trinket 2
15 = back
16 = main hand
17 = off hand
18 = ranged
19 = tabard
20 = first bag (the rightmost one)
21 = second bag
22 = third bag
23 = fourth bag (the leftmost one)
As you can see, 20-23 are bags. If we want to use something IN them, however, we have a slightly different numbering system. In THIS case, the bags are numbered 0-4 – the backpack is 0, and the numbers march to the left. Within the bags, the numbering starts in the top left position, with the first spot being 1.
So, if I want to use my first (top) trinket, the line is:
/use 13
But if I want to make a "go home" macro, AND if I always put my hearthstone in the top left spot of my leftmost bag, the line is:
/use 4 1
Note – they're separated with spaces.
This leads me to the conditional "equipped". Do I have…? This has a LOT of conditionals possible, so bear with me.
First, I can see if I have something in that slot. As in, /use [equipped:1] Helmet of Righteousness. (I made that up, folks, don't go looking). If there's something else in my head slot, or if the Helmet of Righteousness is in my bag, I'm not going to use it. I can also test for item type and subtype. Green gem, arrows or bullets, the list goes on. In fact, the most comprehensive list I know of is on Wowwiki.com – here. This, by the way, is the basis of equipment swaps. Except the more extensive ones are scripts or addons. We'll get to scripts, we aren't doing addons – well, sort of. But the point of this is that IF you have gear on you or in your bags that can be used, or which if there allows you to do certain things (shield present for shield bash, tanks)… here is your test.
Four more things, folks, and we're done for today. Bear with me, because three are short and one is … actually, since I'm going to save the nasty turns it can take for the next lesson, it's not so bad either.
Random. There are two random commands – castrandom and userandom. Now here's the trick – you have to list a group from which the random choice is made. No list (comma separated), no use or cast. Why do this? If nothing else, for fun. Random fireworks, for example.
petautocasttoggle. OK, this isn't for the priests, it's for the hunters and warlocks (mostly). No more long string to turn it on, then if it's on turn it off. Just toggle it -growl, charge, and so forth.
Channeling. As you know, if you're channeling, anything you do interrupts the channel – which in turn means the spell quits running. If you use channeling heavily – say, with mindflay – and keep interrupting the last tick that you really mean to grab, add [nochanneling] to the conditionals for the spell, and it won't interrupt the channel.
OK, three easy, almost intuitive commands and conditionals that I thought we should take time to review. But now… Now I want to introduce you to one more fun thing.
[button:1]. Actually, the 1 can be 2, 3, 4, 5, and virtual. I'm going to leave virtual for another lesson – the next one, actually – as it's headed into scripting territory. Well, other than noting it's related to the command /click. But the button… remember when I mentioned the lshift, rshift, etc? I can ALSO choose to click on the macro icon, and decide what's happening based upon which button is I used – leftclick (1), rightclick (2), etc. If you use the mouse to do things instead of the keyboard, this is your modifier.
I have not given you the entire list. Instead, I've just popped through the majority of the rest of those that are 'different'. It's been a rather easy lesson, actually. But that's because I want to do some heavy tricks in the next lesson, and needed these out of the way.
The next lesson is, simply, how to get around the 255 character limit. We'll meet shortcuts of various types. We'll also meet a couple of brain expanders, and introduce (ONLY INTRODUCE) scripting. Oh – and I'm going to show you how to find the details of these various macros – the new ones, how they work, what conditionals work and how… At least, I'm going to TRY to fit all that into one lesson. We may have to spread to another, but I don't think so.
But for today – go play with macros a bit, and have some fun.
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Nice series. Two things though:
1) A better example would be a Druid that has *not* done his Aquatic Form quest: Cat form now becomes 2 and not 3, etc.
2) I've seen you use capitalization and all lower case for spell names. *MOST* of the time, that works, but some times the system insists on being case-sensitive! Back when learning how to macros, I'd almost pull some hair out only to find out the hard way about case sensitiveness! I've only diagonally read your series, so maybe you've told that, but the best way to be sure is to use lowercase for commands and SHIFT-CLICK the spell name from the spell book to ensure proper case and no spelling errors…
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I just wanted to thank you for the awesome series! This is one of the most well thought out explinations of macros that I've seen. I've always been intrested in macros, but always thought they were too hard to understand. You've explained it in such a way that I understand them A LOT better! I stumbled on your blog recently after my Fiancee rolled a Priest that will eventually be a melt your face off shadow priest. This series will help me with her priest, my mage that I'm leveling with her, and my lvl 70 hunter. Thank you so much!


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By Bernie Woodall and Paul Lienert
DETROIT (Reuters) -
General Motors Co <GM.N> recalled 511,528 Chevrolet
Camaros on Friday for an ignition switch problem similar
to the defect linked to at least 13 deaths in Chevrolet
Cobalts and other models.
GM said it was aware of minor accidents but no fatalities from the
Camaro, a sporty two-door car. It said the Camaro switch defect
differed from the problem in the Cobalts, but a consumer advocate
said GM still should have recalled the Camaros sooner.
GM said a driver's knee could bump the Camaro key fob and move the
ignition switch out of the "run" position, causing the engine to
shut off.
The earlier recall of Cobalts and other small cars involved an
ignition switch in which a bump of the key fob could turn off the
engine, disabling power steering and airbags.
That defect, first observed by GM engineers in 2002, was not
reported to consumers for years. Chief Executive Mary Barra in
recent months overhauled the way GM handles safety recalls.
The Camaro recall bloats the number of GM vehicles summoned back for
switch-related problems to more than 3.1 million as Barra prepares
to return to Congress next week to give more testimony on the
earlier recall.
"It is troubling that GM continues to announce ignition
switch-related recalls on late-model vehicles (which) raises
questions about how pervasive the problem is and why it is taking so
long for GM to act," said Representative Henry Waxman of California,
the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee that
is investigating GM.
Barra will be joined by Anton Valukas, chairman of GM's outside law
firm Jenner & Block, who conducted a months-long investigation that
detailed deep flaws in GM's internal decision-making process.
The so-called Valukas report, made public last week, triggered the
departures of 15 GM employees, including several high-ranking
executives in the legal, engineering and public policy groups.
GM's 3.1 million switch-related recalls are a fraction of the record
16.5 million cars the automaker has recalled this year in 38
actions. That's about as many cars as the entire auto industry
expects to sell this year in the United States.
The switch problem in this recall, of Camaros from model years 2010
to 2014, is "not at all related to the Cobalt," GM safety spokesman
Alan Adler said in an interview. "The condition here is a
switchblade key" in which a key pops out of the key fob when a small
button is depressed.
The problem with the Camaro switch "is an external bumping issue,"
Adler said. He said it involves "an atypical seating situation. If
you sit somewhat normally and don't pull your seat way up, you are
not going to have this problem."
The Cobalt and Ion had a similar issue involving the location of the
switch on the steering column and the tendency of some drivers to
bump that switch. Some other key issues also are similar: When the
key fob is bumped and the switch is moved out of the run position,
the engine can turn off, causing loss of power steering and failure
of airbags to deploy in a crash.
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GM said it was aware of three crashes causing four minor injuries
linked to the issue in Camaro. Adler said air bags did not deploy in
those crashes and he did not know details.
GM "should have recalled" the Camaro earlier, said Clarence Ditlow,
director of the Center for Auto Safety, a Washington-based watchdog
group. "GM said it's not the same problem, but it's a first cousin,"
Ditlow said.
Adler said GM would send letters to Camaro owners, advising them to
visit dealers to get a new key made. Until then, he said GM is
advising Camaro owners to "drive the car and be aware" of the
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is
responsible for overseeing safety defects and recalls, had not yet
posted an official Camaro recall notice, but the agency has received
and posted several consumer complaints.
NHTSA said Friday afternoon it had not received GM's official recall
notice on the Camaro, but "is monitoring the issue closely."
Lawmakers have criticized NHTSA for not acting more swiftly to
recall GM small cars with defective switches.
The agency awarded the 2012-2014 Camaro five-star safety ratings,
its highest, for safety in front, side and rollover crashes.
Adler said GM discovered the issue in the Camaro as it was testing a
wide range of its 2014-2016 models after the widely publicized
small-car ignition switch recall.
Jeff Boyer, appointed to the new position of vice president for GM
global safety earlier this year in response to the small-car
ignition switch recall, said the Camaro recall was a quick action
that is "the new norm for product safety at GM," according to the
press statement.
GM shares closed at $35.63, up 11 cents.
(Additional reporting by Richard Cowan in Washington and Thyagaraju
Adinarayan in Bangalore; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli, Bernadette
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City West Water has reduced maintenance costs, eliminated paper based reporting and increased responsiveness with an integrated job management system and a new fleet of Next G handsets.
The government agency provides water and sewerage management for 1 million homes and businesses in the greater Melbourne CBD area.
City West Water information services manager David Bellchambers said it was desperate for a replacement for its "disastrous" Statenet mobile radio network and clunky field reporting system.
"We rolled out 3000 Panasonic toughbook laptops running on Next G which saved us $20,000 in maintenance and repair over using regular Dell laptops," Bellchambers said.
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"The new [platform] hooks into our SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)system and alerts us of burst water mains and dangerous job sites using our GIS (Geographic Information System) mapping program."
An alert system, built on the Kingfisher protocol, monitors the pressure of City West Water's network of pipes and sends notifications straight to field laptops.
The Field Operations Case Utility System (FOCUS) integrates the agency's Oracle RDMS databases, including its Hansen asset management system, Smallworld GIS platform and interactive voice reponse (IVR) phone system.
Staff upskilling is the biggest benfit according to Bellchambers. The system has realised about 90 percent of its projected improvements, including KPI reporting from the field, reduced water loss, and fewer customer disruptions.
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The agency also cut head count, improved responsiveness and improved safety of field staff working in dangerous environments with an integrated alert system.
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He said the so-called off-the-shelf system from e-wise required a lot of customisation for the platform to work, but recommended businesses tweak similar implementations as much as possible to maxmise suitability and staff acceptance.
Bellchambers said it remodelled the system's secuirty to run over it's Wi-Fi network.
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The agency recieves two external vulnerbility tests each year and is regularly audited by government agencies.
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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.
ALYSSUMAnnual, perennial herb; hairs simple or branched, often stellate
Stems 1several
Leaves simple, entire
Flower: sepals erect to spreading, bases not sac-like; petals yellow to cream, often fading to ± white; long filaments paired, generally winged, short ones single, generally appendaged
Fruit round to widely oblong, very flat parallel to septum
Seeds 12(6) per chamber; embryonic root at edges of both cotyledons
Species in genus: ± 180 species: n North America, Eurasia
Etymology: (Greek: without rabies, from supposed cure for hydrophobia)
A. desertorum StapfAnnual; hairs stellate, appressed
Stems ascending to erect, 12 dm
Flower: sepals shed early; petals 23 mm, light yellow
Fruit 34 mm, round, shallowly notched, glabrous; pedicel ascending-spreading; style 0.51 mm, glabrous
Seed: wing narrow
Chromosomes: 2n=32
Ecology: Disturbed areas, rocky sagebrush flats, waste places
Elevation: 10001500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Modoc Plateau
Distribution outside California: to Washington, NE; native to Europe
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1971 Ford Torino Brougham - 39,961 Miles
Bill Kulenkamp's '71 Torino Brougham Hardtop Is A Factory Original
Just what is it about a classic time-capsule ride? You know, those low-mileage originals that still smell like a new car inside, sporting the original factory enamel finish, with an engine and driveline that haven't been cracked open since Ford screwed them together 35-plus years ago. These well-preserved originals are always a story of sacrifice. Someone laid down four grand when minimum wage was a buck-sixty an hour, took the depreciation, and drove it rarely to keep it as produced nearly four decades ago. Occasionally, these folks gave in to the temptation of the steel and cubes and drove it, hence the mileage.
Bill Kulenkamp understands what it's like to appreciate a factory original. When he purchased this 429 Cobra Jet Torino Brougham hardtop from the second owner, all it needed was a dusting and a coat of wax. He was stunned at how untouched the car was. When he took his place behind the wheel, he smelled fresh vinyl and crisp plastic. And when he spun the starter and slipped the big-shaft Top Loader into First gear, there was the solid feel of a factory-original powertrain with very little wear.
This is something that can't be faked. You can't fake a factory original under the guise of a bumper-to-bumper restoration. It takes more than rolling back an odometer and restoring a tired, old classic. That's because even the best world-class restorations are performed on well-worn bodies and chassis. Despite the best techniques and the greatest talent, mating surfaces worn from vibration and exposure to the elements go together differently than when they were new. So there's a specific feel, smell, and sound to a low-mileage factory original. It's a dynamic any seasoned car buff recognizes instinctively upon approach. It's something we recognized the minute we spotted Bill's Torino. Low-mileage originals are in a class all by themselves.
The 429 Cobra Jet started out as an all-new Ford passenger car big-block in 1968. At first glance, it looks like a small-block Ford on steroids, with the same skirtless block, bolt-on belongs, and big poly-angle valve heads like we see with the 351 Cleveland and Boss 302. It is a monster mash big-block bent on performance.
Die-hard Ford buffs are startled by the Rochester Quadrajet carburetor when the air cleaner comes off. Why a GM carburetor atop a Ford big-block, especially when Holley and Autolite had an assortment of deep-breathing atomizers? First, the Autolite 4300 wasn't large enough for the 429. Ford also needed the 429 to be more emissions-friendly in a new atmosphere of tougher federal air pollution standards during the early '70s. If you believe you can just yank a Q-jet off the top of an Olds 455 or Chevy 396 and place it on top of a Ford 429, you are mistaken. Rochester engineered and built the Ford Quadrajet specifically for the 429. Anything else does not interchange. That makes these GM-inspired Ford cores a challenge to find for restorers who want original equipment.
The 429 Cobra Jet makes 370 hp at 5,400 rpm. That makes it a powerhouse with a broad torque curve only a big-block can muster. We're talking 450 lb-ft of torque at just 3,400 rpm, right where we need it to happen. These engines are silent giants. They idle quietly and they come on strong as the Quadrajet's secondary butterflies open for business. The Q-jet delivers excellent low-end torque via its modest primary bores-lots of velocity going on there. Huge mechanical secondaries, helped by a butterfly on top to smooth the transition, allow the 429 to take on plenty of air and fuel at wide-open throttle without a stumble. This particular 429 has the benefit of a vacuum-actuated Shaker hoodscoop specific to the Torino for plenty of air-grabbing performance at speed.
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We like these slippery, NASCAR-inspired coke-bottle-bodied Torinos for their styling. They slip through the air at highway speeds with a healthy coefficient of drag for their time. This enabled Ford contenders to do quite well in stock car racing at the dawning of the '70s. These guys had the aero advantage along with the brute power of a high-revving Boss 429 hemi.
The Torino story dates back to Ford's development of the Mustang during the early '60s. Torino was the name chosen for the Mustang, but at the eleventh hour Ford's marketing people elected to change Torino to Mustang. Torino was used in 1968 in an effort to pick up the Fairlane's utilitarian image in the marketplace. It was an exciting name and certainly appropriate for the redesigned Ford intermediate.
Ford's all-new Torino only got better with time. It became slippery and more aerodynamic, again inspired by Ford's desire to win on the NASCAR circuit. The Torino's winning lines helped it win on the showroom floor as well against all of the intermediates of the era. People were drawn to the Torino for its compelling styling, comfortable ride, and powerful engines.
The Torino Brougham is on par with the Mustang Grande' and Mercury Cougar XR7: a dressy competitor to the Chevelle SS for people who wanted both luxury and the pinch of a brute big-block. The Torino's elegance offered more style and less brawn-the proverbial fist in a velvet glove. For Bill Kulenkamp, the Torino Brougham offers a fluid-smooth time capsule ride into the past, where he can relive his youth, feel the power and luxury, and take on the rich smell of an era of greatness we'll not see again.
The Details
1971 Torino BroughamOwner: Bill Kulenkamp, Chelsea, MI
429ci Cobra Jet
4.360-inch bore, 3.590-inch stroke
370 hp, 450 lb-ft torque
Nodular-iron crank
Forged I-bBeam connecting rods
Cast pistons
Iron block and heads
715-cfm Rochester Quadrajet carburetion
11.5:1 compression
2.24/1.72-inch valves
Dual-point, dual-diaphragm distributor
"Big-Shaft" Top Loader four-speed
Factory Hurst shifter
3.50 gears
28-spline axles
Factory dual exhaust
2-1/2-inch pipes
Front:Coilover upper arm
Rear:Leaf spring
Front:Magnum 500,15x7
Rear:Magnum 500,15x7
Front:Goodyear Polyglas GT biased-belted, F60x15
Rear:Goodyear Polyglas GT biased-belted, F60x15
Torino Brougham with bench seat
Horizontal Sweep Speedometer
Aftermarket Instruments
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A baby great white shark is caught by fishermen in Venice, California off the pier and brought to the beach. The fisherman and surfers help to pull the hook out and rescue the shark, releasing it back in the ocean. Amazing video. Let's hope the shark remembers the kindness of strangers when he's 18 ft long and weighs 2 tons!


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Please join us for a one-hour-long class about the Four Elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water) and the Minor Arcana of the Tarot. This class will cover the powers and properties of the four elements, and how they relate to the four suits in tarot. You will learn ways of interpreting the pip cards and the court cards based on their elemental association. You will learn ways of designing and performing tarot spreads based on the four elements. This class is appropriate for beginners, and readers of all levels.


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In the interest of sampling all things counter, original, spare, strange, I have recently become enamored of flarf (warning: may lead to Trochee Fixation). To be honest, I haven't done a careful analysis of flarf assumptions and politics, or figured out whether the parabens and hormones I am ingesting when I read the stuff are going to kill me in twenty years. All I know is that it tastes awesome, in that fake-Mexican-food-Chalupa-Supreme sort of way. But flarf is such a flaming snow-cone comet of hype and irony that I doubt I will be thinking about it in a few years. Anyway, I was reading the ol' Poetry blog last week when I came across this sneering reaction to an article by Micah Mattix, a professor at Houston Baptist University and one of the poets we recently published in Dappled Things. Basically Mattix says that recent efforts to push flarf as the future of poetry are misguided, since flarf is rooted in the same narrow ideology that gave us Language poetry and its cynical sycophant, the poetry of disjunction (or "elliptical lyric"). Instead of writing flarf, Mattix says, we should write in "natural" poetic forms:
What is needed now is not more ideological poetry but a new discovery of the "fundamental and perennial rules" of poetry. Without rules, there is no order and, therefore, no recognition. In the end, it is this recognition that makes experiencing art worthwhile. Via complex forms, we recognize the paradoxes of our present existence, or our fractured, conflicting selves, our yearning for coherence, transcendence, and closure, and the infinite beauty of the Creator.Harriet went bananas over this, tittering at the idea of a "right-wing think tank" thinking about flarf (I admit that it is an amusing picture! but you don't have to be liberal to care about poetry), and asserting that Mattix "seemingly hasn't read anything ever written about poetry or aesthetics." After the offended lefty knee-jerking subsides, the blog goes on to ask a good question: "But which forms, precisely, are "natural?" Which are not? And where (geographically, historically) do these "natural" forms come from?" Mattix replied with a longer dissection of the limitations of ideology, and concluded cryptically:
Beyond signification, hierarchy, self-reflexivity, closure, and ambiguity, what are other new discoveries in natural forms? To be honest, I am not sure, but this is really a question for poets.
In some respects, asking this is like asking a chemist what new isotope he will discover next. Who knows? However, having mastered the rules of his science, the chemist works to discover new rules, new compounds, and, therefore, contributes to his craft.
Mattix's takedown of ideology is refreshing, and ultimately he seems to be calling for a dimension of freedom that modern po-biz lacks. But his coy refusal to give specific examples of natural form is maddening! Where are these splendid songs that take into account "the inescapability of meaning and significance" and "how people really use language" while recognizing the "inescapability of form" and how the rules of poetry "are the very rules of God, reflected in the material world and existing independently of matter only in God himself"? We do get a third-party quote praising Dante's terza rima for embodying Trinitarian theology, but that's all. I want more.
It is strange to me that Mattix took flarf as his jumping-off point; it just seems like a trendy opening for him to talk about Maritain and poetic form. In fact, I think he has misjudged flarf. He supports his assertion that flarf is just another ideological spasm with a quote from flarf poet Rod Smith about "bad poetry" being just a label that the privileged use to maintain hierarchy. I myself criticized this statement in my little flarf essay. But the flarf movement is not a monolith, and Mattix ignores the opinions of other poets like Sharon Mesmer, who cited, as inspirations for flarf, "a dissatisfaction with certain LangPo products, a crying need for humor, and the creeping realization that American poetry overall was a bit lacking in life," a lack of life stemming from an "over-reliance on theory." Flarf, of course, started life as a juvenile prank that turned into a mailing list. Any theories about its poetics came after the fact. Does Mattix want a poetry that captures the way people really speak? Flarf certainly captures the way people speak on the internet.
The question of whether flarf has form is actually very interesting. Your typical "disjunctive" poem, of the sort that circulates like a smooth, die-cast token of avant bona fides, is marked by relentless change. Every sentence starts a new subject. It's like channel surfing, and my primitive human brain finds it perverse and annoying. A flarf poem, on the other hand, often concentrates obsessively on a word or phrase and develops its obsession using that stodgy traditionalist technique, comic timing! "Pizza Kitty" for instance: it was written using the results of a Google search for "pizza + kitty," and the two words recur over and over as in a sestina. If it had any agenda other than making me snort coffee from my nose, I missed it, sadly. Repetition is, of course, the essence of poetic form. Meter consists of certain repeated rhythmic patterns; rhymes repeat sounds; a sestina repeats the same six words in a fixed order; the Psalms repeat syntax in the figures of parallelism. The fact that flarf cobbles together phrases from the internet isn't remarkable. Collage has been important since the Modernists, and even existed in ancient times: look at the art of the cento, in which poets took lines from Virgil and Homer and rearranged them to make new poems. Sometimes this definitely took a subversive turn, as in the case of Faltonia, an early Christian poet who wrote the life of Jesus using the verses of pagan Virgil.
Flarf is less ideology and more id. Just look at "Chicks Dig War," which, the Constant Critic says, "deserves all the nervous accolades being spilled like martinis onto its open flames." People have been comparing it to "Howl," but to me it also seems like a hyperactive development of "The Naming of Parts," another poem about war, sex, information overload, and Mad-Libbing. (Dylan Thomas reading here) It's queasy and hilarious and horrible, being a sort of vortex created by barbaric YouTube comments and letters to Salon.com. Its guilt-tripping misogyny touches a sore nerve previously stung by Wilfred Owen's "Greater Love," a beautiful, cutting, unfair poem.
In the end, I can't say whether flarf is too "ideological" to count as one of Mattix's natural forms. I can only say that I process it as poetry and experience the sort of psychosomatic feedback which indicates that this is poetry in search of a reader. I can only say that it sticks in my memory, which is the sine qua non of strong poetry. Nada Gordon had this to say in response to a critic, and it's true in my case:
Even so, and even as an insider, my sense is that Flarf poems actually are memorable, although more perhaps because they are "bad" (In the sense of Eartha Kitt's "I Want to be Evil") or obnoxious or funny than because they are "good": once you have heard titles like "Annoying Diabetic Bitch," "Chicks Dig War," or "Mm-Hmm" you will have a difficult time forgetting them even if you want to. They are mindworms.Poems don't achieve mindworm status unless they have "self-reflexivity of sound or meter, some sort of closure, ambiguity, and so forth." Flarf, or at least some flarf, must be legit even by Mattix's standards.


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San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker's fascism problem started years ago, but it didn't catch up to him until a week ago, on another continent, in another sport.
Last Saturday, West Brom striker Nicolas Anelka—like Parker, a Frenchman—scored a goal in the 40th minute of a Premier League match. With his left hand, he reached toward his shoulder, while extending his right down to the ground. It was the quenelle, a militaristic salute popularized by a man named Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, a French comedian who is, among other things, a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semite. The quenelle is reminiscent of a Nazi salute, and Anelka's gesture was seen as a nod not only to his friend, Dieudonné, but to fascism, as well. Anelka could receive up to a 10-match ban.
This is when the French media started digging up old photos. Dieudonné is ostensibly funny, and certainly famous in his own country, and thus has many famous friends. One of them is Parker, who was photographed doing the quenelle alongside the comedian in 2011. Parker's Spurs teammate and countryman Boris Diaw is another. So are Olympic judo gold medalist Teddy Riner, Liverpool center back Mamadou Sakho, Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri, tennis legend Yannick Noah, and others. Once this was publicized, these athletes quickly defaulted to damage control, making public apologies. Here's Parker's:
While this gesture has been part of French culture for many years, it was not until recently that I learned of the very negative concerns associated with it. When l was photographed making that gesture three years ago, I thought it was part of a comedy act and did not know that it could be in any way offensive or harmful. Since I have been made aware of the seriousness of this gesture, I will certainly never repeat the gesture and sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding or harm relating to my actions. Hopefully this incident will serve to educate others that we need to be more aware that things that may seem innocuous can actually have a history of hate and hurt.
His apology was essentially the same as that of Anelka, Nasri, Sakho, and everyone else who's stepped forward. They somehow didn't know, they claim, that the quenelle, an inverted Nazi salute created by an anti-Semite, carried any offensive connotations. It seems impossible to believe.
Dieudonné is not some obscure figure. The comedian and successfulish actor, born to a black, Cameroonian father and white, French mother, got his break in the early 1990s as half of a two-man comedic act with partner, Élie Sémoun, who was—of course—Jewish. Dieudonné was always politically active in some form or another—he's run for president twice—and when he started out, he was vehemently anti-racist and pro-immigration. Somewhere along the way, though, as the New York Times reported in a June 2012 profile, the comedian befriended fringe leaders like Alain Soral and Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the nationalist, anti-immigration, far right-wing National Front. He's since referred to the Holcaust as "memorial pornography," praised Osama bin Laden and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and invited famed Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson with him onstage.
The vast majority of the French public agrees that the systematic murder of millions of European Jews is a real thing that actually happened, and therefore considers Dieudonné's incitement unacceptable. Once a rising star in comedy, he's now struggling to sell out small shows, on the fringes just like the detestable figures with whom he now rubs shoulders. And yet though he's now anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic, he insists that the quenelle, which will be five years old this year, is neither of those things. It is anti-establishment, he insists. Anti-The Man. It's easy to see how such a gesture could resonate with everyone from rebellious teenagers to fringe nationalists. It's also easy to see—and this is the key to the claims these athletes are making—how the comedian's disingenuous claims that the quenelle represents free thought rather than ethnic and religious hatred could obscure the issue.
Frenchman Arsène Wenger, manager of Arsenal, was recently asked about his old player Anelka's gesture. "Nobody knows really in France what it means," he said. His response mirrored Parker's apology, and to a lesser extent that of Anelka, who was less than apologetic:
"(The) meaning of quenelle: anti-system. I do not know what the word 'religion' has to do with this story!
"This is a dedication to Dieudonné. With regard to the ministers who give their own interpretations of my quenelle, they are the ones that create confusion and controversy without knowing what it really means, this gesture.
"I ask people not to be duped by the media. And of course, I am neither racist nor antisemitic and I fully assume (stand by) my gesture."
Wenger, Parker, and Anelka are wrong, though, to say that no one knows what the gesture means. The beauty, if that's what we can call it, of Dieudonné's quenelle is in its malleability—the very thing that has caused it to take on a life of its own. It is not meaningless; rather, it takes on different meanings to different people, which is why seemingly opposing groups like blacks, Arabs, and white supremacists, or the economically oppressed and millionaire athletes, all use it.
And behind it all is Dieudonné—the B-list actor, fringe political candidate, and silenced comedian whose influence lives on through the quenelle. Even if we don't know precisely what the gesture, so similar to a Nazi salute, means, anyone who knows who Dieudonné is knows what he stands for. And that leads us to the final, and maybe most important question: If Yannick Noah, Samir Nasri, Mamadou Sakho, Teddy Riner, Boris Diaw, Nicolas Anelka, and Tony Parker all know who Dieudonné is well enough to pose for private photographs with him, why exactly are they doing so?
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Under IAIA's Woksape Oyate project, Alli, along with other ILS students, participated in a digital story workshop. Their stories capture the increased knowledge of self and culture students gain from the ILS program. The college uses these stories as a marketing tool on their website. Alli focused her story on her decision to attend IAIA and the successes she has had since enrolling. "I wanted to make that video so I could show it to my family, the people of Cheyenne River, and to young scholars coming out of high school, to show that you can dream big and have goals, but you are going to have to put in the dedication and make the commitment to obtain them. I wanted to show that goals are attainable."
Alli encourages Native American students to attend tribal colleges and universities. "I truly believe that ourTCUs (Tribal Colleges and Universities) are incubators for future tribal leaders. We have some very strong, young Native American leaders that are sitting behind the classroom doors and I think it is awesome that we have colleges that cater to their needs and to them culturally. I think that TCUs revitalize people's culture. They bring Indian country together at a level that is unattainable otherwise."
After graduation, Alli plans to attend law and business school, establish her own law firm back home in South Dakota, and teach tribal governance to high school students. "My mother always promoted education and she always told me to be responsible, reliable, and dependable," Alli says. She brings all of those qualities to the AIHEC Student Congress presidency as a rising young leader with endless determination to succeed.
Check out Alli's digital story along with other stories from IAIA(Alli's is #8): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBF1FA84C49C930F7
To learn more about the 32 TCU projects under the Woksape Oyate: Wisdom of the People grant, go here:https://collegefund.org/content/woksape_oyate