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Reprinted from The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet Press) by permission of the author. The Chelsea Gym has been closed since 1999.
Photographs are by Tomás Gaspar, whose work was featured in the Electric Blanket (Visual AIDS Artistsâ Caucus). In 1998 his AIDS photography received recognition at the World AIDS Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. His work is currently represented by bridgesgallery.com.
Ever since I can remember, I've woken with a hard on. I'm sure there must've been a time when I was prepubescent and my dick was limp when I awoke. But since puberty, no matter when I wake up or how long I've been asleep, I've got a boner when I come to.
I don't know if it's just the exhilaration of waking, of finding out I'm still alive after the small death of sleep. I figure there might be something about that small death which links to le petit mort. At the least it makes for a cute joke.
Or it might just be that I have kinky dreams the moment I lose consciousness. REM libido. I wish I could remember some of them; it's as if my mind's a complete tabula rasa blank when I'm not awake for all the memory I have of them.
I think it's the first reason, though, since I never have wet dreams. I figure that if it were dreams causing my erections, I must sometimes get carried away and spill my seed before I wake. But that never happens. And every time I wake up, my dick has gotten up before me. I live in a curious half-terror that one morning I'll wake without an erection, although I'm not sure why I'm so afraid of it. It was a relief that today at least I didn't have to worry about what I'll do if it happens.
I stroked myself for a while as I lay there, letting my mind wander through these and other topics. It always struck me as a bit odd that I could think about such philosophical issues when I was jerking off, but I liked the perversity of that. It made masturbation seem even more profound than I already believed it to be.
Eventually I stretched, cracking my back, and finally opened my eyes. The alarm clock's glow was the only light in my tiny studio. 8:47 p.m. Still early. I figured I'd head to the gym for a quick workout, and a quickie in the steam room, before starting my shift as a cabbie. I'm such a creature of habit, to the point where I almost fetishize the normalcy of routine. The gym was definitely a part of that fetishized jumble of habits.
Lately the "in" crowd has moved over to American Fitness, that great big subterranean complex of exercise equipment and such, with too much emphasis on the such -- stuff like aerobics classes and a "health" bar and far too many heterosexuals cruising one another.
I'm still at the Chelsea Gym, if for no other reason than it's open until midnight, which better fits my schedule. It's also all male, and almost exclusively queer. Until something comes along to disrupt my inertia, it's where I plan to stay. There's something unpretentious about the gym, it's two small floors of freeweights. It's top-heavy in its focus, because that's what most gay men want: big pecs and biceps. A decade into the AIDS crisis, it seemed so much of our sexuality was focused on looking, since people were so afraid to have sex with each other. I think gay men are getting past that now, in part because we're forgetting about the crisis, having lived with it for so long it's become a constant. Or we're practicing safer sex or calculating risks or throwing caution to the wind and ignoring it.
But still the gym mania persists.
I think it's tied to the fact that you can't change the size of your dick -- the vacuum pump ads all lie -- but you can change the rest of your body, and insecurities being such a natural part of our psyches, we've become size queens about those muscles you do see in day to day life.
Of course, vanity and narcissism also play a heavy role, I reflected as I gathered my gym clothes into a knapsack. I flexed my bicep and thought how this -- my looks, my body -- helped me get laid. I went to the gym to keep these charms as best I could. I did also enjoy the endorphin rush of the workout, not to mention the rush from the sex in the steam room (not officially part of the gym, of course, but everyone did it and everyone knew it was there).
And part of me was concerned about putting on or at least maintaining my weight, in case the HIV ever got the upper hand.
Not that I needed to justify my going to the gym to anyone, myself included. Lately, however, I was reconsidering all of my actions. Which was another reason I went to the gym: it was a good place for me to think. When the body was occupied with some simple repetitive task -- like pumping iron or jerking off -- the mind was left free to roam, the subconscious liberated as the front brain kept the body in motion.
It was a quick trip from my minuscule, fifth-floor walk-up with an airshaft view on West Twenty Fifth Street down to the gym, but I took my time, strolling lazily along Eighth Avenue and looking at the boys. A crowd of studmuffins on roller blades lingered outside the Big Cup, while the throngs of men sitting in the window ogled them through the glass as they sipped their cappuccinos and iced teas. A towheaded blond walking a dalmatian caught my eye as he turned the corner at 19th, but I already had a destination I felt committed to and his pooch tugged him on toward home, so we merely locked gazes for a moment and chalked each other up as "the one who got away."
I made smalltalk in the lobby with Carlos, who was just leaving the gym as I got there. For someone like me who didn't hold down a normal job -- as a cabbie, people came into my life in five minute intervals -- the gym provided some social stability: that group of people I saw regularly, even though they weren't especially important in my life. They were one of my routines. I often looked forward to the gossip and interchanges, but when they switched gyms or moved to San Francisco or Los Angeles or (god alone knows why) Salt Lake City, there was always someone new to take their place. Their familiarity was comforting, reassuring in a way, like my waking hard ons. And these days I felt I needed all the comforting and reassurance I could get.
I felt at home here.
The Chelsea Gym was also the cheapest of any of the neighborhood gyms; even the Y on 23rd was more expensive. In fact, the only problem I had with the Chelsea Gym were the mirrors. Practically the entire place was mirrored, for the men to preen and pose and cruise while they pump.
I'm always afraid someone will notice I don't have a reflection.
I try hard to make it less obvious, keeping some piece of equipment between me and the mirrors whenever possible, and ignoring their existence when I can't. So many men, it seems, don't actually work out but sit at one of the exercises and ogle the other men in the mirrors. Which is an enjoyable pastime, I must admit, if a bit inconvenient for me. While I can watch them, they can't see me, so it's hard for me to cruise effectively, at least via the mirrors. So I pretend the mirrors don't exist as much as I can, and look at people directly when I'm cruising or interacting with them.
I gave my ID to Sam and went in. The locker room was crowded with naked men as the abs workout class (the Chelsea Gym's token semi-aerobic item) had just let out and they were hitting the showers at the same time that a chunk of the post-work lifters were coming upstairs from frolicking in the steam room and sauna. I loved to be in that whirl and press of bodies, but didn't linger long. I was studiously ignoring the scale over by the sunlamps, and then pretending to myself that I wasn't ignoring it and would weigh myself after the workout. The sooner I was out of the locker room, the easier it was to put out of mind.
I was working shoulders and back today. Generally I like to start with some rowing, vigorous exercise to get everything going, but both machines were occupied. I began with some front pull downs, instead, grateful that all the machines faced inward, away from the mirrors. I had barely begun my first set when a stunning young boy I'd never seen before wandered into view. I stared at him, lusted at him, thought it was returned. I wondered if we'd run into each other down in the showers later, if he would tarry to wait for me or if I would hurry to join him.
For a moment, I grappled with the existential problem of loneliness: not just as a gay man, but as a vampire. What would it be like if we were to date, move in together, join our lives? I could share immortality with him.
It was a ludicrous fantasy, of course. I didn't even know this boy, had just seen him for the first time in my life, and already I was planning an eternity for ourselves! I didn't even know his serostatus.
It was natural, though, to want desperately to fill my life with someone else at the drop of a hat. "This is no country for old men," Yeats wrote of Byzantium, which must mean that Byzantium is now reborn in the current gay subculture. That sort of loneliness is even more cosmically acute for someone like myself, always destined to be alone, to outlive anyone I might know or love, to be constantly dependent on humans for nourishment.
My head turned to watch the boy as I continued my set. It was an appealing fantasy: the romance we might have, as much as the pleasure our bodies might take in sex.
I was procrastinating, thinking about so much else, and I knew it. I wanted to pretend everything was as it had always been, didn't want to face what was happening to me.
I'd been HIV positive for at least a decade, with no adverse affects. I'm not sure when exactly I was infected, or even whether it was from unsafe sex or from drinking infected blood. Probably both.
There's a taste to infected blood that's different from anything else. It's like drinking lowfat or skim milk, in some ways, thin and watery because there're usually few t-cells. But it's got an extra flavor from all that virus, richer in taste the higher the viral load. So infected blood is like drinking skim chocolate milk. I'm partial to the taste of it, but I try not to indulge too much, for a bunch of reasons. I'm less concerned about multiple strains of HIV, although with the changes now happening to me perhaps I should've been more wary. Infected persons often have other diseases and afflictions, which I want to avoid. And perhaps most importantly, one of the ways that the HIV hasn't affected me is that, thanks to my vampirism, I am constantly replenishing my t-cell levels with the blood I feed on. So I stay healthy by drinking healthy blood. I do also feel guilty, taking the few remaining t-cells from people who're already losing them to the disease.
And thus I've been asymptomatic for at least a decade, maybe more depending on when I was first infected. Until now.
I've begun losing my appetite, my first signs of the disease taking its toll on my body.
This terrifies me. I'm not replenishing my immune system with fresh, healthy blood and all that it contains.
And what frightens me even worse is that I'm afraid the virus is now attacking whatever it is that makes me, biologically, a vampire. The cellular changes that happened that night when I was drained completely of blood, and then restored with his blood, making me like him, a creature of the night. It wasn't at all scientific, although that's how I'm thinking about it now, since there's such a science surrounding the virus these days, it's how we're trained to think about it, in numbers and chemicals and not at all its devastatingly human effects.
I'd been able to ignore much of that techno-stuff, since my vampirism has been operating like an immune system, keeping me healthy from the HIV infection. Until now, when it seems a mutation of the HIV is attacking what makes me a vampire, my immune system equivalent.
And I've no idea what to feel.
The HIV might "cure" my vampirism. But the cure itself will kill me, since my vampirism is the only thing keeping me alive right now.
I'm not exactly discontent being a vampire, but I don't know if that's just because I'm so used to it now. I'd be happy to give up the bloodletting and the deaths. It's been a long time since I've killed anyone, though at first I didn't know how to stop feeding, how not to gorge myself past satiation, until I was bloated into a torpor -- a dangerous state for me to be in since I so frequently had to flee the scenes of my hunger-crimes.
And as I, once-immortal, confront my sudden mortality, certain questions from my past began to recur: Did I have a soul? Was there an afterlife? Was I damned for all the lives I took to feed myself? Even though they were all in self defense, my body's natural instinct for survival and self-preservation.
Would I again become mortal when I lost my vampirism, or would I instead die?
But I was not alive now, I was undead. A quibble, perhaps, but an important one: I was not alive now, and I had once been dead. If I lost the state I was in, would I not revert to being dead?
And what would be the difference if I did become mortal? I'd sicken and die soon enough. I've never relished the idea of wasting away to this disease and being unable to die, on account of being undead already. I railed against the cruelties of fate, ignoring for the moment the fact that so many others had died before me and would yet die from this disease, men and women who would've killed for the prolonged years my vampirism had given me.
I'd been sitting blankly at the machine, lost in these reflections. That cute young boy wandered through my view again, drawing my mind back into my body as my body began to respond to the sight of him, arousal stirring my cock within my shorts.
I stood, deciding to skip the rest of my workout, and followed him down the stairs to the locker rooms, and the showers waiting below.
I had no answers to any of my questions. And I did not know if there was anything I could do to change what was happening. I was hoping the exercise would increase my appetite, which might prolong my un-life some while longer. I did not, could not know what would come. So I followed this boy, whose gaze met mine and in whose eyes I felt happy to be lost for all eternity, responding to those appetites which still lay within me.
Lawrence Schimel is the author or editor of over forty books, among them The Drag Queen of Elfland, Things Invisible To See, Boy Meets Boy, The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, and Food for Life and Other Dish. His website is http://www.circlet.com/schimel.html.


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The season symbol for snow is a snowflake, which is the only logical choice. Is there anything more nostalgic than snow? It makes a perfect compliment to those cold nights where you sit by the fire, sipping hot cocoa, and exchanging gifts with loved ones. What could be more peaceful?
With the temperatures plummeting, Sims struggle to stay warm. Like with Summer, the changing temperatures can cause some serious damage. To counter it, there is now a sixth attire for your Sims called outerwear.
If starting a new family in Create A Sim, you'll need to assign your Sim's outerwear while making up the rest of his outfit anyway. If you're playing an established family after installing Seasons, your Sims will have some default (and relatively random) outerwear already so they're not caught unprepared. To customize your Sims' outerwear attire, simply have him interact with any dresser and choose "Plan Outfit" as if you were changing any other attire.
Outerwear alone won't repel the elements. If your Sim is outside for too long, he may freeze and fall over; if he stays like that for too long, he'll die! If a Sim finds himself in that state, any other Sim can run over and thaw him out before it's too late. To avoid it, try to keep your Sims inside.
Dormant Crops[edit]
Crops can't survive in the winter (and some, such as the banana tree, can't survive in Fall). Rather than the crops dying, they'll simply become "dormant," which you'll see if you mouse over them.
Dormant crops won't die unless they were already dead, but they won't have to be watered or otherwise tended. It will give your gardening Sims a little time off, but a full-time gardener also won't be bringing in any income. Once Spring comes, crops will start growing again and must be tended, though any dead plants will remain dead.
If you have The Sims 3 Supernatural installed, you can counteract the cold by buying pots for inside your home. Pots can't take trees or other large crops, but you could still grow almost any other fruit or vegetable (including the profitable Life Fruit and Flame Fruit) indoors without problems.
Note that if Supernatural is installed, your outdoor crops are still at risk to be destroyed by a zombie attack. This will kill the crops even if they were dormant at the time. You'll want to protect your crops or even focus exclusively on indoor pots if you have full-time gardeners.
Decorating for the Season[edit]
Pyro made a Jack-o-lantern to celebrate Spooky Day during Fall, and he's still feeling pretty festive as we come to his favorite holiday. He wants to decorate the house with some festive lights, but he's too lazy to leave the sofa.
Luckily, your Sims can decorate their roofs without having to get up! First, make sure you can see your walls, then interact with your front door. You can use any Sim you wish for this, even if they're not home. Then, simply click the "Holiday House Lights..." command. You can decorate the lining of your roof with strips or hanging lights in a single color, a variety of colors, or even custom colors! Hanging lights doesn't bring any direct benefit, but it can fulfill your Sim's wishes.
There are no Christmas trees, Menorahs, or other holiday-like items and decorations that ship with the game. However, you can download many of them for free on official Sims 3 website, provided you have an account with the game. When you're signed up, here to see the Sims 3 holiday decor page. The "Happy Holidays Presents" and "More Holiday Presents" packages feature all you need to celebrate winter holidays, and those two packages are completely free.
In the meantime, the snow will pile up and stick to any objects you have outside. This gives you the perfect chance to decorate your front yard with some snowmen or snow angels, and your whole family can join in while you build them. Pyro and Pete, for some strange reason, have decided to build their snowman on the top of the back tower despite the order being given from the front yard.
Your Sims have a progression system when it comes to building snowmen. They essentially have experience points in snowman-building, though any such progress bars are invisible. However, as Sims build snowmen, they can build different types of snowmen. As you build your first one, the exact type will be chosen randomly; once it's built, and Sims who built it can build that type manually from then on. To fully experience building all the different types of snowmen, you'll probably need to extend the length of winter or have your Sims live longer to experience several winters.
Holiday Bonus[edit]
The name of the winter Leisure Day is Snowflake Day. Snowflake Day brings more than just a day of relaxation for your Sims, however. Any Sim who works a conventional career (not self-employed) will gain a large one-shot holiday bonus! The amount varies based on what their current position is in their career track, but is almost always over $1,000!
Winter Festival[edit]
Without much family time this year, the Falkon brothers decide to check out the Winter Festival together on Snowflake Day. Besides, there's a lot to do for this season, and this way they can pool their tickets together for bigger prizes!
As you may have noticed, some activities are common among all the seasons. Pyro and Pete get a family picture taken for a greeting card, and Pete again wants to get his face painted. (Pyro has no desire for such nonsense!) After that, the guys decide to skate around the indoor ice rink before having a snowball fight in the little snowball arena.
Skating and snowball fights each have experience bars to dictate how well your Sim performs the activities. Ice skating in winter shares its experience bar with roller skating in Summer, just as snowball throwing shares its experience with water balloon throwing. Getting better at any of those activities brings no direct benefit, but your Sim will have more fun with it in general. When skating experience improves, your Sims will skate faster and perform more tricks, or at least wipe out less often. Sims with the Athletic trait tend to learn skating and snowball or water balloon faster than other Sims.
There's a similar system at play for snowboarding, which is one of the few activities not available in the Riverview festival lot due to space restrictions. Rinks and even a snowboarding half-pipe are available from Buy Mode, or can be bought through the festival vendors. They're large objects, but if you have enough room on your home lot, they make for fantastic ways to get your Sims' Fun meters filled. Your Sims will still gain proficiency with the activity, though your experience gains are slower out of the proper season.
You'll need to take advantage of the festival while it's there. Large snow piles will shut down most outside objects. Pyro has a driving range in the backyard, but can't use it due to all the snow on the ground. This problem can persist through early Spring as long as the temperature stays cold. You may have limited options for socialization and fun unless the interior of the house is pretty well stocked.


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The goal of the Home Healthplex app is to provide clinicians with a search engine to sort and find home health companies that accept patients who require home care. Although the Home Healthplex app is in its infancy, the app has over 10,000 home health agencies already loaded in its database. As Home Healthplex grows, expect to see insurance companies accepted by the agencies, what the agencies provide, and what kind of patients that home health agencies accept. Home Healthplex is now working with agencies across the United States to fill our database with information to make the lives as clinicians much easier.
As a user of the application, the user will be able to view the home health agencies listed for the over 10,000 agencies loaded already into the system. The application also boasts a series of features. Once the user has logged in and created an account, users can utilize the features associated with the app on the fly without ever leaving the application itself.
Home Health agencies that would like to become part of the Home Healthplex team are encouraged to go to the website at http://www.homehealthplex.com and sign up. It's quick, easy, and will expose home health agencies to the clinicians that build your patient base. The cost of being a part of Home Healthplex will more than pay for itself with just 1 referral.


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2 thoughts on "The Mission of Research Libraries"
I can't help feeling that you may have missed the point of the original question. "Mission" may not particularly refer to a philosophy of what a research library is about, but a formal statement of a specific library's mission and/or objectives, agreed with its governing committee. In this case, the answer is that the mission statement may overdue for revision due to changing culture and technology in both libary and academic worlds. Certainly "buying" sounds out-of-date as the sole means of delivering services. Also, since the library exists to serve a particular institution and its aims, serving the institutions aims and patron base will be its main aim, the one that it cuts back to in hard times, with participation in the wider scholarly world second to this. The library may not be an island, but it exists and comes into existence within a specific context, which will define its unique concrete mission more closely than abstract ideals that do not take that specific context into account.
David, I might indeed have missed the context of the original question. I checked, and the UCLA library does have a mission statement:
It does indeed state its mission to support the work of UCLA students and faculty. It also states that,
"The Library develops, organizes, and preserves collections for optimal use and provides links to remote information sources…. The Library provides resources and services to non-UCLA users to the extent possible."
Thus, as you note, possibly limiting participation in the "wider scholarly world."
If I'm correct about the implicit mission of research universities and their libraries, then a lack of participation in the "wider scholarly world" would merely mean that such a university would cease to be a research university. In this case, it comes down to a matter of definition. If the university does such and such, then it is a research university; if not, then not.
However, I was trying to point to two examples in which any research university necessarily participates in the wider scholarly world–special collections and ILL. These are shining examples of how academic libraries both at research universities and at colleges around the world already participate in the broader scholarly world. Almost no scholars at any institution of higher education could function solely on the resources of their own institution. Fortunately for us all, libraries large and small cooperate to the extent they do to aid scholars at every institution, regardless of its size and wealth.
I take issue only with the criticism implied by the final sentence, where "unique concrete mission" is contrasted with the presumably airy "abstract ideals that do not take that specific context into account." Negotiating concrete situations with the guidance of abstract ideas is a necessary part of ethical action. If the concrete mission embodied in a written mission statement conflicts with a coherent and reasoned ideal mission, then the problem is with the statement, not the ideal.
Scholars at UCLA (and Princeton, and every other university) depend upon the resources not only of their own institution, but those of countless others as well. To argue that a given research university has no obligation to scholars at other institutions would be a denial of the fact of reciprocity that allows the scholars of that research university to function. Libraries that refuse to spend money on initiatives that benefit scholarship in general and in the long run, but only indirectly their local clients in the short run–whether because of "hard times" or not–are short-sighted and ultimately foolish.
The UCLA library mission statement says, "The mission of the UCLA Library is to provide access to and delivery of information resources to UCLA students, faculty, and staff in support of the research and instructional mission of the university." The best way to do that in the short and long run is to participate in and fund initiatives that make the results of scholarship more widely available for everyone. The UCLA library could ONLY fulfill that mission by cooperating with other universities around the country.


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Error C00D1197 occurs when using the Zune software
Note As of November 15, 2015, the Zune service has been discontinued. This may cause errors when attempting to stream or download content or update the service.
You see the following error when you try to play a song or video using the Zune software:
This may mean that the song or video has been moved, renamed, or deleted from your computer, or the song or video is stored on a computer or storage device that's not currently available.
If you're trying to play a song or video in your Zune collection
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- If you moved the item: Try moving it back to its previous location.
- If you renamed the item: Try renaming it back to its original name.
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Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor is profiled in this week's issue of New Yorker magazine, and the article features two revelations. First, a NIN greatest-hits collection featuring two new, previously unreleased songs will be issued sometime in 2014, followed by a new Nails album sometime later in the year. The second revelation? Reznor's previously announced collaboration with the Interscope/Dr. Dre-affiliated Beats by Dre enterprise is a brand-new music-streaming service that he's helping design. It's called Daisy and is expected to launch early next year.
The service "uses mathematics to offer suggestions to the listener," Reznor says, "[but also] would present choices based partly on suggestions made by connoisseurs, making it a platform in which the machine and the human would collide more intimately."
"Here's sixteen million licensed pieces of music,' they've said, but you're not stumbling into anything," Reznor continues, comparing Daisy to Spotify. "What's missing is a service that adds a layer of intelligent curation,"
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Microsoft's Surface device has already shown its worth for board games, but let's not forget, it has a lot of potential for strategy games as well. Especially after you watch this video.
This program, made by the University of Massachusetts' Mark Micire, is actually intended for the real-world deployment and control of robots.
But look at that viewpoint. The "unit" selection, the waypoints, the map manipulation...it's a strategy gamers dream. Get Company of Heroes running on this thing and I'd never leave the house, dying a glorious death with my withered, mummified hands still resting on the Surface's screen when the relevant authorities found me.
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Flash: Bay Guardian Wins $15.6 Million Verdict In Predatory Pricing Suit Against SF Weekly
Posted Wed., March 5—A San Francisco jury this afternoon found the San Francisco Weekly and its corporate parent guilty of illegal predatory pricing and awarded us $6.39 million.
Under state law, part of that verdict is subject to treble damages, bringing the total award to $15.6 million.
The battle isn't over; Rod Kerr, attorney for the Weekly, told me immediately afterward that the 16-paper chain intends to appeal.
But the verdict sends a clear signal to small businesses, independent newspapers and the alternative press that a locally owned publication has the right to a level playing field and that a chain can't intentionally cut prices and sell below cost to injure a smaller competitor.
The trial had been underway for more than five weeks. The Guardian charged the Weekly with violating the state's Unfair Practices Act, a Progressive-era law that bars a company from selling a product below cost for the purpose of destroying competition.
Evidence produced in the trial showed clearly that the Weekly had been selling ads below cost. In fact, the paper had lost money every year since the New Times chain, now known as Village Voice Media, bought it in 1995.
The Guardian produced extensive evidence that the Weekly and VVM were trying to injury the local competitor, including three witnesses who testified that they heard Mike Lacey, one of the two principals of New Times, vow to put the Guardian out of business.
The evidence produced also showed numerous internal emails discussing the Weekly's battle plans to take ads away from the Guardian.
The Weekly's lawyers ultimately admitted to below-cost sales, but said they had no intent to harm a competitor. However, members of the jury interviewed after the case believed otherwise. Kerstin Sjoquist, a local business owner and graduate student, said in an interview that "it felt overly predatory on the part of the Weekly" and that "the predatory intent trickled down from the top."
Juror Dan Babin said he found the testimony of the Guardian's co-owners "very, very trustworthy. I found them very honest in their approach."
A juror who didn't want to be named said there was little disagreement among the panel members over the question of intent.
By all accounts, the jurors carefully weighed all the evidence in the case, deliberating for more than three days and going through what one juror described as "unraveling an onion."
In the end, there was unanimous agreement that the Weekly had sold below cost, and 11 or the 12 jurors agreed that the paper had intended to harm competition.
The jury ruled that New Times/VVM and the East Bay Express, which until recently was owned by VVM, were equally culpable in aiding the predatory sales.
The Express is now an independent paper, and VVM is liable for any damages assessed against that publication.
The jury foreperson handed the verdict to the court bailiff at 12:30 pm, and the clerk read the results to a packed and silent courtoom. As the various parts of the verdict were read, and it became obvious that the Weekly and VVM were liable for significant damages, Lacey could be heard mumbling "shit" over and over again.
Lacey would not comment outside the courtroom and didn't return our phone calls. But Kerr, in a brief interview, said he was "disappointed" with the jury decision. "We don't believe the evidence supported the verdict," he said, and vowed to file an appeal.
The Guardian will now ask Judge Marla Miller to issue an injunction barring the Weekly from continued below-cost sales.
VVM posted a lengthy statement on the web almost immediately after the verdict was announced, arguing that the Unfair Practices Act is flawed. The chain promised to seek to challenge the validity of that law on appeal.
The process of appealing a case such as this can take years. But in the meantime, a San Francisco jury has sent a powerful message: Local businesses and local independent media matter – and big chains that try to use their deep pockets to squeeze the locals can be held to account.
Tim Redmond is the executive editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian


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CLEVELAND — The Orioles have been victims of the big inning recently, when everything seemingly collapses around the starting pitcher.
On Friday, the Orioles finally saw it from a different vantage point.
They pounded the Cleveland Indians, 10-2, Friday night for their second most lopsided victory of the season. It included a six-run third against veteran right-hander Derek Lowe — the most runs the Orioles have scored since getting seven in an inning May 5 against Boston.
"It's rare that we get four, five, six runs an inning. But when you get it, it puts the team in a really good position," center fielder Adam Jones said. "The thing is we didn't let up. We went out the next couple innings and we still swung the bats. We swung the bats the whole game."
The Orioles (49-44) have won three straight for the first time since mid-June, when they captured five in a row against the Philadelphia Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates. They remain in second place in the American League East and just a half game behind the Detroit Tigers for the second American League wild-card spot.
Friday's win was the Orioles' largest margin of victory since beating the Oakland A's, 10-1, on April 28. The Indians (47-46) have lost five of seven after winning the first game of the second half.
After dropping their first two in Minnesota this week, including giving up 19 runs in one game and blowing a three-run lead in another, the Orioles strung together two one-run victories followed by Friday's laugher.
"You travel to the next city and you put good and bad behind you. It's part of the maturity of a team," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "When you have a situation that doesn't work out, sometimes that happens. It's very hard to do what these guys are asked to do every night and [have] the ability to turn the page and keep grinding through all the challenges you face. Good game for us."
Most important, it was a great third inning for the Orioles, who scored six runs in their previous two games. Mark Reynolds had a bases-loaded, two-run double, rookie Ryan Flaherty blasted a three-run homer and Matt Wieters added an RBI ground out, all against Lowe (8-8). The inning could have been worse for the Indians, but left fielder Johnny Damon made a sensational dive into the stands to catch a foul ball.
In three-plus innings, Lowe matched a career high by yielding nine earned runs. The most significant run came in the fourth when designated hitter Jim Thome launched a Lowe pitch 418 feet to right. It was his first home run as an Oriole and sixth this season.
It also was his 610th as a big leaguer, breaking a tie with former Oriole Sammy Sosa and giving Thome sole possession of seventh place on the all-time home run list. Thome, who spent much of his career with the Indians, received a warm welcome from the announced 33,954 when he was introduced. There wasn't as much applause when he went deep.
"I've played a lot of games here, so it felt good," said Thome, who exchanged a bat and two signed baseballs to recapture the souvenir. "From playing here, I pretty much knew it was out."
Showalter was a little more effusive about Thome and the historic blast.
"There's nothing Jimmy doesn't do that I don't say, 'Man, you're pretty lucky to watch this,'" Showalter said. "I am honored to have him pass my way. They don't come like him too often."
Thome had three of his team's 11 hits in an offensive onslaught that actually started poorly. The Orioles scored once in the first on a wild pitch by Lowe that was set up by a liner that Damon failed to catch. In the second, they put runners on second and third with no outs and failed to score. But the 39-year-old Lowe couldn't build on that in his second shortest outing of 2012.
His counterpart, Orioles right-hander Miguel Gonzalez (2-1), was able to turn around a shaky beginning and, once handed a six-run lead, he delivered a quality performance.
"It makes it a lot easier to pitch when we are ahead," said Gonzalez, who faced a lineup of all lefties and switch-hitters. "And we scored six runs in the third inning and that was big. Just gives me more confidence."
Gonzalez, making the third start of his major league career, yielded a solo homer to Asdrubal Cabrera on his sixth pitch. He then served up a well-struck double, walked a batter and hit another in the first, but he wiggled out of the 25-pitch inning by getting Damon to ground out.
Gonzalez remained in charge until giving up a two-out homer to No. 9 hitter Jack Hannahan in the seventh. Gonzalez lasted 6 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on seven hits and two walks. He struck out five and threw a career-high 114 pitches.
It was his second quality start and the Orioles' third straight. The team hadn't had three consecutive quality starts since May 25-27. It's been an impressive run for Gonzalez, who spent parts of six seasons in the minors and also missed two full years of affiliated ball. He was signed as a minor league free agent in March.
"When you come from where Miguel has come from to get on the page, he's not going to take anything for granted," Showalter said. "And he's going to take advantage of every opportunity and that was more of it than anything."
Reliever Matt Lindstrom picked up the last out in the seventh but was forced to leave with two outs in the eighth when Damon hit a liner just above and to the side of Lindstrom's left knee.
"Johnny gave me a souvenir. Got the laces tattooed on the inside of my knee," Lindstrom quipped. "I'm fine. They evaluated me in the training room. And just got to ice it and keep some pressure on it to keep the swelling down. So I'm walking around fine."
Suddenly, after losing four of their first five in the second half, the Orioles seem to be OK again, too.
"We've won three in a row. Now [Saturday] is key," Thome said. "This was a good win, a good way to start here."
CLEVELAND — The Orioles have been victims of the big inning recently, when everything seemingly collapses around the starting pitcher.


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[words] Bookstore: Writing a New Page on Employment
As a writer who recently moved to Alabama after growing up in northern New Jersey, there are a few things I wish I'd done up North before I moved down South. For example, I wish I'd gone back to my favorite local diner for one last cup of coffee with a friend from high school. But the regret that tops the list is this: I never had the chance to visit [words] [4] Bookstore in Maplewood, New Jersey. Why [words]? Because it's a community-based bookstore that offers a vocational training program for young adults on the autism spectrum.
[words] opened its doors in January 2009, when I was working as a full-time home life coordinator and caregiver for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Washington, DC. In addition, I hadn't heard about [words] and the work it does until earlier this year. Fortunately for me, my family—which includes my younger brother Willie, a 25-year-old on the autism spectrum—still lives in the area. Therefore, I plan to pay a visit to [words] on my next trip back home. As an older sister, a writer with a focus on special needs, and an advocate for individuals with autism, [words] tops the list of my must-see places in my home state.
At present, [words] has had over 40 young adults and teens with autism move through its vocational development program. The bookstore usually has between five and 10 individuals on the spectrum scheduled to work in the store each week, and most individuals work between two and five hours per week (though some trainees work for longer periods, depending on their ability and desire to do so). [words] pays some, but not all, of its special education employees; those that are unpaid are shorter-term workers that come to the bookstore as part of their schools' job sampling programs.
The Founding Story
Jonah Zimiles is the co-founder of [words]. Like me, he has a personal connection to the world of autism. Zimiles is a former lawyer who became a stay-at-home father after his son's autism diagnosis, choosing to stay home in order to assist his son in his home-based learning program. But how does one move from stay-at-home dad to full-time business owner? As Zimiles recalls, "After six years, our [home life] situation had stabilized and I was able to consider a part-time return to work. At my wife Ellen's suggestion, I applied to business school and attended Columbia University's full-time MBA day program, from which I graduated with a concentration in Social Enterprise. I intended to work as a consultant to autism non-profits, but shortly after graduation, my wife saw a sign on our town's small bookstore, saying that it was closing in a month."
This chance moment—Ellen Zimiles spotting the sign on the soon-to-close local book shop—sparked a flame in the family's imagination. "We had discussed [the prospect of] opening up a vocational training program for young people with autism, and Ellen suggested that we operate [the program] out of a bookstore and that I should run the store," says Zimiles. This was a tremendous endeavor to take on in addition to parenting a young son with autism. But Zimiles agreed to the new adventure. The couple decided to re-open the bookstore in a significantly larger space on Maplewood's main street. The central, community-integrated location (along with its eye-catching name) has been a significant factor in its success. [words] is close to both Newark, New Jersey and New York City. This combination—a neighborhood business close to a major metropolitan area—allows for a larger consumer base while integrating adults with autism into their home community.
From the start, [words] has found its focus in providing work [5] and vocational training for adults with autism. As Zimiles notes, "Our desire to operate a vocational training center for young people with autism drove our decision to open the bookstore. Without this motivation, it is unlikely that there would be a bookstore in Maplewood today." And three-and-a-half years into the journey, there's still an air of excitement around the work. When asked about the best part of working at [words], Zimiles exclaims, "That's an easy question! The best part is getting to know these terrific individuals!"
Learning Important Skills
Likewise, the opportunity to work at [words] has been a boon to local adults with autism and their families. When I ask if there's a standard level of functioning needed to qualify for the vocational training program, Zimiles tells me, "We do not have prerequisite levels, but we do bring most of our trainees in through school programs. Our goal is to train young people to learn skills that will enable them to find permanent jobs, but not to supply the permanent jobs themselves. If we did, we would quickly fill up our capacity—we are just one bookstore!"
Lisa Matalon is a [words] employee who works with student groups of individuals with autism that are referred to the store by their school's vocational development programs. When asked how work at [words] helps individuals on the autism spectrum to hone their skills, Matalon says, "It gives them an opportunity to gain valuable work experience and practice social skills in a comfortable and understanding setting. The employees at [words] are all aware of the extra support these adults may need when learning and performing their job tasks."
The on-site training and support that [words] offers to individuals with autism is based in a job-crafting model. "[We] assign job responsibilities in accordance with each individual's strengths and interests to the extent possible," Zimiles explains. "At this stage, our focus is fairly task-oriented; our stress is both on having individuals perform functions that benefit our store … as well as encouraging contact between them and our neurotypical employees to the extent feasible." Likewise, Matalon's role at [words] includes training employees on the spectrum in the myriad tasks that bookstore maintenance requires. These tasks include—but are not limited to—recycling, receiving and labeling books through the store's software programs, shelving books, assembling shopping bags and other store materials, and ringing up customer sales.
In addition, typical training sessions for young adults with autism at the bookstore rely heavily on school job coaches. Trainees on the spectrum usually remain at [words] for the length of a nine-month school year. They receive coaching supports for the duration of their employment, although coaches are primarily present at the start of the job. Job coaches closely accompany young people through the transition period as they begin work at [words], and having their help is a significant part of success. The presence of job coaches allows for smoother transitions, and it gives the bookstore's full-time employees time to support more seasoned workers, serve customers, and carry out their own required tasks.
Training neurotypical [words] staff members to work with young adults with autism is another prerequisite; all staff members receive sensitivity training courtesy of YAI Network [6]. However, the bookstore staff themselves do not provide specific behavioral supports, and [words] does not employ outside professionals to offer additional behavioral coaching. "Persons requiring such [behavioral-based] support must supply [the support] from their school or employment referral source," explains Zimiles. This support typically comes in the form of job coaches, who are trained to prompt, guide, and support an individual with autism according to that person's behavioral support plan [7].
Facing Daily Challenges
For Zimiles, one of the most significant challenges in supporting adults with autism on the job has been, "... Ensuring that the individuals with autism are well-coached, and that they have the opportunity to 'move up' as their skills increase." This comment sums up the difficulties faced by many employers of autistic adults. All around the country, support professionals are asking: How can we maintain a solid standard of job coaching while providing more diverse opportunities for people with autism to grow their roles and contributions to our communities? Given that [words] has just one location at present, the possibilities for an individual trainee's role expansion are, necessarily, limited.
Even with the single location, there are times when it becomes difficult to balance the needs of the customers with the needs of the trainees. Matalon adds her perspective on this workaday quandary within the [words] model, saying, "The biggest challenge is being able to coach the employee while still being able to perform my job. There are times that the store is busy and I can't work side-by-side with the employee." Nevertheless, Matalon finds the work rewarding. As she says, "The best part is seeing an employee so excited and eager to start working when [he] arrives at the store and so proud of what [he] has accomplished when it is time for [him] to leave."
Since [words] is a relatively new vocational training provider in the early stages of its development and growth, Zimiles says that their most "important exportable function is the development of pride and self-confidence." Learning employable skills at [words] does directly benefit individuals with autism in terms of self-esteem, but it's unclear whether or not the skills they learn at [words] carry over into future work environments. "We constantly get terrific new workers … [and] we constantly lose terrific workers," Zimiles notes. But [words] does not track trajectory of trainees after they leave the bookstore. As Matalon observes, "All the employees [on the spectrum] I work with come to us through school programs, so unfortunately, I do not know what they do after they complete their [school-based] programs."
Follow-up on trainees is a work in progress. Zimiles reports that, "We are in the early stages of developing a referral network; we currently rely on the schools and agencies that refer young people to us." Creating a referral and follow-up program to help former employees with autism find other jobs when their time at the bookstore ended would be a great next step for the bookstore, and for the adults with autism it serves.
Taking the [words] Model into the World
When asked if they consider the [words] model to be replicable in other communities, both Zimiles and Matalon respond with an enthusiastic, "Yes!" Zimiles adds, "Absolutely! Though Maplewood is an especially welcoming community, other places would also embrace our program. The biggest challenge [to the model] is the current state of the book industry, in which it is a struggle for an independent bookstore to thrive." [words] is a for-profit enterprise, and therefore receives no revenue in the form of grants or donations. "We wish to serve as a model for other for-profit businesses to employ individuals with special needs," explains Zimiles. "We want the bookstore to stand on its own as a sustainable business and make sure that it is run efficiently with its budget managed accordingly."
Yet even with the economic difficulties presented by bookstore ownership, [words] carries on in its community-based work with vigor. Zimiles says, "We love Maplewood and it is an honor and a pleasure to serve our community. Running a small business in a challenging industry is an exhilarating experience. We do hope to serve as a model social enterprise to other businesses." Matalon concurs, "I love being a part of the Maplewood community. I started working at the bookstore so that I could have a job close by while my children were in school. I figured it would be a part-time job that would just keep me busy during the day, but working with the special needs employees on gaining new job skills has made my job extremely rewarding." And, judging by the comments of individual employees [8] and their parents [9], [words] is certainly a part of the community dreaming a new world of work [10] for individuals with autism. Being a part of this community means facing oft-overwhelming challenges, but it also means making meaningful contributions to the field of supported employment. At least, that's the word on the (Maplewood) streets.


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See the latest models and concept cars when the Chicago Auto Show revs things up for its 105th edition starting Saturday at McCormick Place, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. $12; $6 admission for seniors ages 62 and older and for kids ages 7 to 12. chicagoautoshow.com. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, through Sunday, Feb. 17, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18
Old/new houses
Need ideas on remodeling or sprucing up your home? Then don't miss The Old Home New House Home Show, which returns this weekend at Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. $7; $4 seniors; kids and teenagers younger than 18 admitted free. (630) 515-1160 or pheasantrun.com or kennedyproductions.com. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10
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See big trucks crunch smaller vehicles this weekend when Monster Jam returns to the Allstate Arena, 6920 N. Mannheim Road, Rosemont. $21-$57.50; $10 opening night. (800) 745-3000 or monsterjam.com. 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9-10
Persian, like the cat
Comedian Maz Jobrani ("Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" "The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour") puts his spin on life in the U.S. as an Iranian-American out there at the Improv Comedy Showcase and Restaurant, 5 Woodfield Road, Schaumburg. $27 plus a two menu-item purchase. (847) 240-2001 or improv.com. 8 and 10:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8; 7 and 9:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9; and 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10
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Comedian and Second City alum Robert Klein has been seen on Broadway ("They're Playing Our Song,"), the big screen ("Primary Colors") and TV ("The Tonight Show"). Now catch Klein live Saturday at Elgin Community College, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. $35-$39. (847) 622-0300 or elgin.edu/arts. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9
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The Elgin Choral Union and Heartland Voices join with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra for the concert "Choral Fantasy," which features pianist Alexander Schimpf and conductor Donato Cabrera performing music of Brahms, Beethoven and Schubert. Performances are this weekend at the Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin. (847) 931-5900 or hemmens.org. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10
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Get in the mood for Mardi Gras celebrations by catching the rock and bluesy band Creole Stomp Sunday at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights. (847) 577-2121 or metropolisarts.com. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10
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Celebrate great U.S. choreographers when the Joffrey Ballet presents the concert "American Legends" featuring the work of Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Gerald Arpino and Stanton Welch at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago. $31-$152. (800) 982-2787 or joffrey.org. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13, 15, 21, 22; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16 and 23; and 2 p.m. Feb. 17 and 24
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ESSAY- The Nazis: We have met them, and they are us
Nazis. Americans are Nazis. We are Nazis.
Godwin's Law, the theory that any policy discussion devolves into accusations that someone's a Nazi, be damned. It's impossible to read the newly-released CIA report on the torture of Muslim prisoners without thinking of the Third Reich.
Sadism exists in every culture. A century ago, for example, Western adventurers who visited Tibet reported that the authorities in Lhasa, that supposed capital of pacifism, publicly gouged out criminals' eyes and yanked out their tongues. But Nazi atrocities were stylistically distinct from, say, the Turkish genocide of the Armenians or the Rwandan massacres of the early 1990s. German war crimes were characterized by methodical precision, the application of "rational" technology to increase efficiency, the veneer of legality and the perversion of medical science.
Nazi crimes were also marked by public indifference, which amounted to tacit support. Here and now, only 25 percent of Americans told the latest Pew Research poll that they believe torture is always wrong.
"The CIA's secret interrogation program operated under strict rules, and the rules were dictated from Washington with the painstaking, eye-glazing detail beloved by any bureaucracy," observed the New York Times. We have much in common with the Germans.
"In July 2002," the declassified report reveals, a CIA officer "reportedly used a 'pressure point' technique: with both of his hands on the detainee's neck, [he] manipulated his fingers to restrict the detainee's carotid artery." Another agent "watched his eyes to the point that the detainee would nod and start to pass out; then...shook the detainee to wake him. This process was repeated for a total of three applications on the detainee."
The CIA's rinse-lather-repeat approach to torture is reminiscent of Dr. Sigmund Rascher's experiments at Dachau and a parallel project conducted by the Japanese Imperial Army's infamous Unit 731 in occupied Manchuria in 1942-43. Rascher, who was tried for war crimes after World War II, froze or lashed detainees nearly to death, then revived them over and over. German and Japanese doctors developed detailed protocols governing the severity of exposure to which inmates could be subjected– protocols seized by U.S. occupation forces and turned over to the OSS, predecessor of the CIA. So it was in the CIA's prisons at Guantánamo, Bagram, Diego Garcia, eastern Europe, Thailand and elsewhere.
(Or, to be more accurate, so it is. Bush publicly banned torture in 2006, but we know it was still going on as of 2007. Obama supposedly banned it again earlier this year, but then his CIA director Leon Panetta told Congress the agency reserves the right to keep doing it. Until the entire secret prison network is dismantled and every single prisoner released, it would be absurd to assume that torture is not continuing.)
Among the verbal treasures in the CIA papers is the "Water Dousing" section of the "Guidelines on Medical and Psychological Support to Detainee Rendition, Interrogation and Detention," which "allow for water to be applied using either a hose connected to tap water, or a bottle or similar container as the water source." Ah, the glorious war on terror. Detainees may be soaked in water as cold as 41 degrees Fahrenheit for as long as 20 minutes– no longer, no colder.
For the record, the CIA's medical expertise is about as reliable as its legal and moral sense. Forty-one degrees is bracingly cold; 41 was the temperature of the Hudson River was when US Airways Flight 1549 crashed into it earlier this year. (Remember the ice floes?) "Generally, a person can survive in 41-degree water for 10, 15, or 20 minutes," Dr. Christopher McStay, an emergency room physician at New York City's Bellevue Hospital told Scientific American magazine.
Like its Gestapo and SS antecedents, the CIA is highly bureaucratic. CIA employees were informed that "Advance Headquarters approval is required to use any physical pressures [against prisoners]." And those permissions came from the very top of the chain of command: the White House, which ordered the Office of Legal Counsel and other legal branches of the federal government to draft "CYA" memoranda. The memos, wrote Joshua L. Dratel in his introduction to "The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib," a compilation of memos authorizing torture of Muslim detainees reflect "a wholly result-oriented system in which policy makers start with an objective and work backward."
Also reminiscent of Nazism is the utter absence of firewalls that has come to characterize the behavior of top government officials. Totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany corrupt the judiciary by using the courts to carry out political policy. Beginning under Bush and now under Obama, judicial independence has been eradicated.
On August 28th the New York Times reported: "In July, Leon E. Panetta, the CIA director, tried to head off the investigation [of the CIA's torture program], administration officials said. He sent the CIA's top lawyer, Stephen W. Preston, to [the Department of] Justice to persuade aides to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to abandon any plans for an inquiry." There's a term for this: Obstruction of Justice. You're not supposed to try to influence the outcome of an investigation. It was count six of the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon.
To Holder's credit, he has appointed a special prosecutor. To his discredit, the focus of the investigation is narrow: he will only go after officials who went beyond the Bush Administration's over-the-top torture directives (which allow, as seen above, freezing people to death). He does not plan to go after the worst criminals, who are the Bush Administration lawyers and officials, including Bush and Cheney themselves, who ordered the war crimes– much less those like Obama who are currently covering them up.
He should change his mind. While he's at it, he should throw Leon Panetta in jail.
Holder's brief currently involves just 20 cases, which include detainees who were murdered by the CIA. But even those will be tough to prosecute, reports the New York Times: "Evidence, witnesses, and even the bodies of the victims of alleged abuses have not been found in all cases."
Because, you see, the bodies were burned and dumped.
They– the CIA– are Nazis for committing the crimes. And we are Nazis for not giving a damn.
Only a third of Americans told the April 27th CBS News/New York Times poll that there ought to be an investigation of Bush-era war crimes–and they don't care enough to march in the streets, much less break a few windows. So few of my columns on torture have been reprinted by American newspapers or websites that I seriously contemplated not bothering to write this one.
We have met the Nazis, and they are us.
Author Ted Rall lives in New York. His most recent book is Wake Up, You're Liberal! How We Can Take America Back from the Right (Soft Skull Press).
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Ted Rall does indeed have a point. But in terms of which Nazi policies the United States now has adopted, he is way off base.
Here is the policy which we now employ here and now:
"It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions and doctors must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics."
Adolph Hitler
Here are the Human Rights Accords, enacted after World War Two so as to prevent Nazi medicine from every returning:
Far in excess of anything that may have happened at Guantanamo and/or in the jails of foreign governments, 3700 infants are killed PER DAY in the USA alone. Hundreds of them will give birth later in life preterm to children with any number of birth defects. But this science will be suppressed in favor of the political idea that subhuman parasites are unwanted and need to be exterminated, discarded, or indeed cut up into sell-able parts for research.
They are not us, but it appears that we very much have become them.
"Nazi crimes were also marked by public indifference, which amounted to tacit support."
Substantiate please. What percentage of the German public was *aware*, and of that group how many were indifferent? How many wanted to die protesting?
It's easy to criticize at a safe remove. And it's easy to make up generalizations without reference to research.
And, for the record, Ted Rall publicly rejects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and embraces Hitler's policy of abortion to lower the numbers of unwanted populations instead.
Not even all the children already born to post abortive mothers needlessly living lives burdened with severe birth defects is enough to dissuade him from ensuring that there are many more to come. Human Rights should never take precedence over the father of the modern abortion movement - Mr. Hitler. Auschwitz doctor Mengele was also a pioneer in making the procedure more survivable for women. Ted Rall ought to give the founding fathers of his movement regarding this issue more credit.
Here's just the latest study proving these common sense facts:
Dr. Ghislain Hardy, a third-year resident in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at McGill University did a retrospective chart review of women who had delivered a baby between 2001 and 2005 at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Among the 17, 916 women who had a singleton delivery, 2,276 (13%) also had undergone a previous abortion and 862 (5%) had two or more induced abortions.
After adjusting for baseline characteristics, women with one previous abortion were 45% more likely to have a premature child at under 32 weeks; 71% more likely at less than 28 weeks; and more than twice as likely at less than 26 weeks. This association was even stronger for those with two or more abortions. "Preterm birth is a major concern in our health-care system today. It is the most important cause of neonatal morbidity," said Dr. Hardy in his presentation. The rate of preterm birth is on the rise in Canada, and was more than 8.1% in 2006. Preterm birth is a burden on neonatal intensive care units, and these children go on to have health and social problems.
There's really no wiggling around Hitler's quote, nor the history of the postwar Human Rights Accords. There is a doctor employed at UVA hospital right now who would have been tried at the Nuremberg trials (the Nazi Doctor's Trial, to be specific) and executed.
And the historical linkage from social darwinism, to eugenics, to nazism, to Margaret Sanger, to Roe vs. Wade is very well documented. What percentage of the American public is *aware* of the link to abortion of preterm birth and birth defects? How many are indifferent due to their POLITICS?
Three links you may find of some use in your request for substantiation.
The troll is at it again. His supposed logic is that Hitler supported abortion, therefore abortion is obviously bad. The same could be also be said for vegetarianism, highway construction, and dogs.
Of course, the Nazi regime generally opposed voluntary abortion (reversing policies of the more liberal Weimar Republic), and doctors were not tried after World War II for performing voluntary abortions. But the troll isn't capable of using facts or reason.
Yes, I can presume you can read - but I can also conclude that you did not read the article I posted above. It contains historical facts that you find very unpleasant. Too bad.
Facts are irrelevant to you, obviously - and cerebral palsy for innocent children is perfectly OK with you as long as you can try to keep people in the dark as to what causes it and your rather cruel political agenda of keeping people in the dark is held up. It's all you folks can hope for - that the medical science and the history of what you support remains hidden. But the advent of the internet has made that rather difficult now.
Keep on supporting beheadings. Keep on supporting birth defects. People are wising up, and people are defending human rights in spite of you.
You can't change history any more than you can change medical science.
Godwin's law is a 'law' for a reason. No serious student of history could compare the United State's limited torture of last decade to the Nazi's systematic and widespread system of torture and murder (not to mention putting tens of millions in concentration camps). Even more laughable is comparing the fight that's been going on in our court systmems to regime like Nazi Germany who "corrupt the judiciary by using the courts to carry out political policy". Those courts in Nazi Germany didn't even have to rubber stamp Hitler's policies...they were never consulted and the policies couldn't be challenged anyway.
A more apt, and less ridiculous, comparison might be made to the British treatment of detainee's in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s.
As for what happened. It was certainly not a moment of pride for the US, but somewhat understandable in light of the threat in my opinion (those who subverted the law are still responsible for their actions).
Sean. This article is about torture. What is your opinion on that?
You can't change history any more than you can change medical science.
This from a troll whose medical claims have been torn to pieces in this forum.
Sean, you're just not smart. You indiscriminately and inaccurately cite claims without any sense of rigor. As a result, educated people don't take you or your positions seriously.
JJ, I am obviously against torture as it is done in defiance of Geneva. I agree that comparing Guantanamo to Auschwitz is ridiculous, but that doesn't mean that what happened there was right. I am more concerned with all the prisoners who died in Iraq while in US custody. Keep in mind that there are more images that even Mr. Obama does not want anyone to see detailing mistreatment of prisoners in Iraqi jails. But the defiance of Geneva with regard to infanticide is direct, valid and easily pointed out. There is no escape from what the UDHR and the Geneva accords said. Shoot the messenger of you wish. It changes nothing. This article was about how we have (according to the author) embraced Nazi policies. He is right, but not with regard to torture. He is right regarding how easy it is to commit mass murder once you remove the humanity of your victims and pretend they are parasites and/or subhuman. Same mentality that brought us the slave trade. Yes, abortionists are the slave owners and concentration camp guards of today. Same ideology. Same results for the victims.
Yawn, medical science (not to mention common sense) has not been turned on its head on these or any threads. If you think it has, please show us the research that proves this. Show me the studies that have concluded that abortion does NOT cause preterm birth later in life that actually have numbers backing up that political statement. Show us all.
Also, you may be interested in knowing that just this week, it has become even harder for you and yours to keep people in the dark about this.
"women with one previous abortion were 45% more likely to have a premature child at under 32 weeks; 71% more likely at less than 28 weeks; and more than twice as likely at less than 26 weeks. This association was even stronger for those with two or more abortions."
So you like creating birth defects for innocent children, Yawn. It's as simple as that.
Troll, everyone, but you apparently, understands that abortion is a significant medical procedure that involves sequelae. You have demonstrated that you cannot understand and interpret epidemiological literature, but this does not mean that others cannot do so and appropriately weigh the advantages and disadvantages of various medical treatments and procedures.
Now, if you were actually capable of productive things, then you would post a link to your public apology for offending the family of the deceased U.Va. student that you claim to care so deeply about.
Thanks for that white flag, Yawn.
I knew you couldn't come up with anything, and I was right. Anyone else is welcome to try and thwart the overwhelming science I have mentioned here. You can see more of what Yawn does not want people to know about in the left column here:
Maybe someday you'll find yourself in a wheelchair and get a better idea of what your political beliefs have imposed on so many children already. Indeed, cannot a child needlessly given with cerebral palsy due to his or her mothers previous abortion be considered a victim of needless torture?
Worse still, you want to keep people in the dark about grave threats to their lives and the lives of their children. All just to prop up your political views.


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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Yusmeiro Petit has finalized his $10 million, two-year contract with the Oakland Athletics after passing a physical Thursday.
The versatile right-hander had been at home in Venezuela then Argentina before traveling to Northern California to complete the deal. Petit is scheduled to earn $3.5 million next year and $5.5 million in 2019, and the contract includes a $5.5 million club option for 2020 with a $1 million buyout.
He will return to pitch in the Bay Area after spending the 2012-15 seasons across the bay with the San Francisco Giants, helping them win World Series in `12 and `14.
Petit went 5-2 with a 2.76 ERA in 60 appearances with one start over 91 1/3 innings last season for the Los Angeles Angels after pitching for Washington in `16.
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A Port Canaveral police sergeant fired after bringing targets that resemble Trayvon Martin to a firearms training session now says he never told anyone to shoot the target.
Port Canaveral terminated Sgt. Ron King over the weekend after investigating the incident.
King spoke out on his own behalf in a video uploaded to YouTube.
Video: Watch King's video on YouTube
In the video, King first apologized to the Martin family and said he thinks they are being used in a political agenda. He also apologized to his fellow law enforcement officers.
"I refuse to sit by while others use the Martin family and myself to further their own political and career agendas," King said.
Port Canaveral spokeswoman Rosalind Harvey said King brought targets showing a faceless silhouette of a person in a hooded sweatshirt, holding a drink and a pack of skittles, to a gun range where he led a training session for officers.
King said the allegations are not what they seem.
"I take these allegations seriously," King said. "Others are accusing me of something I just plain did not do."
The former sergeant insists he was using the targets as an example of a situation where a gun should not be fired. He said he never asked any officer to fire at the target in question.
"I referred to them as a no-shoot training aid," King said. "Using real-life situations in a training session is not uncommon."
Following King's arrest, Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump issued a statement.
"Attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents Martin's family, issued a statement indicating the family's view of the situation.
"It is absolutely reprehensible that a high-ranking member of the Port Canaveral police, sworn to protect and serve Floridians, would use the image of a dead child as target practice," the statement said. "Such a deliberate and depraved indifference to this grieving family is unacceptable."
King insists the targets are an acceptable learning tool and that his termination is part of a political agenda to undermine the leadership of the police department.


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They were the guys who built Words With Friends. Few know just how much money selling that game to Zynga garnered them.
The purchase price of their company, Newtoy, has been widely reported as $53 million, based on disclosures in Zynga's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission—$9 million in stock and $44 million in cash.
But as of the end of last year, the Bettners owned far more of Zynga—a little more than 1 percent of the company apiece.
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