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Saturday marked the third week of games played in the 2017 CUC Primary Football League and Girls' Primary Football League regular seasons. As with every passing week, there were great team efforts, fabulous individual performances, wonderful goals and inspiring saves.
At Dart Field, home of Cayman International School, the young ladies from CIS slipped past their counterparts from Savannah Primary 1-0 thanks to a solitary strike off the boot of Katie Ruddick.
In front of a good crowd with both schools being well supported, the mid-morning game was a very entertaining, close encounter. Both schools played some very exciting football and the energy level was outstanding. Playing three games together in this young season has given both sets of players enough time to familiarise themselves with their teammates, as evidenced by the fairly high standard of play.
Katie secured the win for her school after seizing on a loose ball that rebounded off the cross bar in the Savannah penalty area and placing the ball past the outstretched arms of the Savannah goalkeeper.
To Savannah's credit, the goal did not faze the players as they battled on for the equalizer. Savannah's Eva Bothwell and Jade Welcome were inspiring in their play as they tried their best to invigorate their teammates and push them on in search of that all-important equalizer, but some very good goalkeeping at both ends kept the score at 1-0 as time ran out.
In other GPFL games, it was Bodden Town Primary 0 vs. St. Ignatius 2 and George Town Primary 0 vs. Cayman Prep 3.
In PFL games played in Group A, it was Cayman International School 'A' 4 vs. Savannah Primary 0 (Under 9 – Respect Rule); Cayman International School 4 vs. Savannah Primary 0 (Under 11 – Respect Rule); George Town Primary 0 vs. Cayman Prep 'B' 2 (Under 9); and St. Ignatius 4 vs. Truth For Youth (Under 9 – Respect Rule).
In Group B games it was South Sound Schools 2 vs. Red Bay Primary 2 (Under 9); South Sound Schools 1 vs. Red Bay Primary 3 (Under 11); Bodden Town Primary 3 vs. Cayman International School 'B' 0 (Under 9); Bodden Town Primary 1 vs. NorthEast Schools 1 (Under 11); Triple C 3 vs. Prospect Primary 4 (Under 9); Triple C 0 vs. Prospect Primary 2 (Under 11); and Cayman Prep 4 vs. Cayman Brac 0 (Under 11).
The 2017 CUC PFL and GPFL regular season continues this Saturday with games at the Annex Field, Academy Field, Bodden Town Primary, Cayman Prep, St. Ignatius and Dart Field.
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USA Renews 'Suits' for Second Season
USA Network
announced Thursday the renewal of their freshman original series, Suits,
for a 16-episode second season.
Since premiering
June 23, the series, about a college dropout who gets hired by a New York
corporate law firm, has averaged 6.3 million total viewers and 2.8 million in
the 18-49 demo, making it the most-watched telecast in its time slot. Suits
has also averaged 2.9 million viewers 25-54 and 1.2 million viewers 18-34.
exceeded our expectations on every level with its sharp writing, engaging
ensemble cast and
incredible production values," said USA co-presidents Jeff Wachtel and Chris
McCumber. "Quickly embraced by our viewers, critics and the industry as a
series that pushes the envelope of the USA brand, we needed no further evidence
to greenlight a second season."
Suits will conclude its first
season on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 10 p.m.

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My blog: Reflective contemplation, misguided sarcasm, conservative opinions, social events of importance, if you liked that... read my blog.
Monday, August 28, 2006
My new home
I will be checking out "Dune: House Atreides". The sad part is that unlike the Provo City Library, the SLC Library does not group the science fiction and fantasy books in one section. They're spread through the adult fiction section. Silly. How am I to find new book ideas or series to read? I did look in the juvenile section and they have sci-fi grouped together. And they aren't just juvy lit either, it's the same kind of stuff that I looked at in Provo. So all is not lost.
Oh, you may be wondering how I am blogging this. I'm using the SLC Library computers. Interesting fact, Liberty Park is Wi-Fi accessible for free. Makes me wish I had a laptop. I could go hang in the park, play some chess, feed the geese, and blog. *sigh* That would be the life. Tonight for FHE I will probably go by myself to a foreign dance festival they are having in the park for free. That'll be fun. Maybe I'll call up Kristen and invite her. I know I'm rambling, but it would be very nice to get a job at the library. Gill, Kate, are there jobs at libraries that don't take a degree in library science or custodial work? I would love to work here. :)
Well, that is my update. I hope all is well in Provo. I miss all of you a lot. But I will talk to you later.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Teacher Applicant
Our teachers certainly deserve many thank yous. They deserve a lot more than that, but at least give them the thanks.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Planet Reunion
In my previous entry, I guessed that the committee would choose to keep the status quo and reject Xena (2003 UB313) as a planet. In my experience committees generally just want to keep the status quo and thus keep everyone happy. The most desired outcome I had hoped for included accepting Xena as our tenth planet. It seems the IAU has outdone me... by a lot!
The IAU has proposed the following as the definition of planet: "A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a star nor a satellite of a planet."
This definition does more than make concrete Pluto's status as a planet and Xena's invitation into the family. With this definition, Pluto's (former) moon Charon is now a planet. In fact Pluto and Charon will be considered a double planet. As well, Ceres (a large celestial body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter) is welcomed to the family. This will make the planet family a large one of twelve!
Some additional definitions will be introduced. These include: plutons, dwarf planets, and double planets.
Pluto and Charon will be considered double planets. They rotate around each other, where the center of gravity is outside the surface of either planet. The eight planets (excluding Pluto) are considered "classic planets". This is only a historical term, not a IAU definition. If this new definition is adopted, it could result in many more 'planets' being discovered. Astronomers and scientists already believe as many as two dozen exist.
I for one am all for this new definition of celestial bodies. After all, science is the discovery of new ideas and principles. We should not bind ourselves to a definition when new discoveries contradict it. Definitions are made for science, not science for the definition. I welcome Xena, Charon, and Ceres into our planetary family.
What do you think? Leave a comment on this blog. As well, vote in MSNBC's poll, here. To read more about the discovery and changes in planetary matters, go here and here.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Does the RIAA sleep with the devil?
Sunday, August 13, 2006
More Trek XI news
Dorn said referring to Paramount, "From what I hear, they're tired of it." And when asked about Star Trek XI being a prequel, he replied, "that would be a mistake...you don't go backward in Star Trek."
Sirtis stated, "Gene Roddenberry always said that Star Trek should go forward...I just don't think anyone at Paramount gets Star Trek anymore."
Sirtis also joked that the studio was only interested in reaching a new "lost" audience, punning on producer JJ Abrams' series Lost.
Truth is, they're both right. Star Trek is about moving forward. It's exploring new frontiers and expanding mankind's boundaries. Doing a prequel isn't doing anything new. And it doesn't please those who know anything about Trek.
And Paramount's quest for the "lost audience" is the wrong way to approach a movie with an existing fan base. Let's walk through the logic. Paramount (and other studios) believe: Star Trek fans will see the movie no matter what. So, we don't need to make a movie they will enjoy. We practically have their money in our hands. What we need is to get all of the people who won't go see a Trek movie, or who are undecided to come see the movie. Then we could make *lots* of money.
They need to step out of themselves and ask, has that ever worked? Has alienating your fans ever worked? Did it work for Star Wars? For X-Men? Anything? No. When you make a movie that will please the fan base, they draw others. If I see Star Trek XI and I love it, I will tell other people. I will convince them that is good and that they don't have to be Trekkers to love and enjoy it. And more importantly, I will return to see it again. I will buy it on DVD. New fans will be born as well.
A short analogy: Perhaps lately I have been hearing a lot of good things about motorcycles. I'm a little curious so I do my research and decide I want to buy one. So I go to a dealer and look around. One of the salesmen comes out and starts to show me the various bikes. We come to a scooter and he says, "Now this is the motorcycle for you!" I look at him funny. "That is not a motorcycle." I say. But he insists. He pushes me and tries to get me to buy. Will I buy? No. I wanted a motorcycle. And I will definitely not recommend that dealership to anyone else.
Trek isn't anything but Trek. We shouldn't remake it into something else and sell it as Trek. It will make fans upset and they will tell the "lost audience" that they should not see the movie, after all it isn't Trek.
Friday, August 11, 2006
From Mercury to.... Xena?
So this decision could go one of three ways. First, we could gain a 10th planet. The committees would choose the name. However most of the Greek/Roman gods' names are already taken. One of the nicknames give the object was Xena. I find that pretty cool. This is my personal favorite outcome. And probably the least likely.
Second, they could determine that "Xena" is not a planet... but neither is Mercury. That would bring our planet count to eight. Now as pragmatic as scientists are *supposed* to be, this is the least likely outcome. You have to remember, this is being determined by committee. That means they're afraid to upset the status quo. And as planets go, Mercury is status quo. We like our dear dark planet from the Netherworld. So I vote to give Mercury a companion planet!
Third (and most likely), the IAU will decide that "Xena" is not a planet but just a Kuiper anomaly. (Don't you love that word!) And Mercury will keep its status.
It would be nice if the IAU would determine what is a planet and how one applies for planetdom. But I am sure they are bogged down in red tape and would be unable to make such a logical step. Much like post-communist countries. And I can make that statement, afterall, I am the BIG RED HAMMER.
Vote for Xena!
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Space... The Final Frontier
I found an interesting site from Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA. It allows you to view most celestial bodies in our solar system from any of the other bodies. This includes all of the planets, their moons, exploratory satellites, and the sun. You can visit it here.
But what I found afterward, is even more amazing. I remember back when we discovered Google Earth. It was so cool to visit all the places we'd been or heard of. Well, now imagine something like Google Universe. That's what the program Celestia is. This is a must have program! You can visit any celestial body you can find... in the solar system and out of it. And this program lets you manipulate the time period. Would you like to see where and when the next solar eclipse on earth will be? How about on Mars? Ever wonder what Jupiter looks like in the sky from Uranus? This program is incredible. Right now I'm watching Mercury rotate. It is just pitted with craters. Now I'm looking at Deimos with Mars in the background.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Cindy Strikes Again
There are no bad emotions. Hate, love, sadness, and the rest are part of the human experience. It is what we do with these emotions that can be good or bad. Ms. Sheehan has taken her grief and turned it into something I'll bet that her son would not be proud of. I am making some assumptions here, but they are ones that have a lot of examples out there. I would say that most people in the United States military are patriotic. They are willing to serve the good of the nation, protect it from harm, and if necessary give their lives for that freedom to continue. It must take a certain amount of faith in our country, its leaders, and its Commander in Chief. It is admirable beyond compare. God certainly must bless those who serve their nation for good. If those generalizations are true... Then I am sure that Ms. Sheehan's son served with honor and is proud to have died for what he believes in.
But Cindy Sheehan is not proud. She has set up camp outside of President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. There she continues her 24-hour campaign to end the war. Her shrill cry is heard again: "US out of Iraq!"
To quote the Chicago Tribune: " She has become a household name, yet her once-strong family ties are in ruins. Her work has become a 24-hour-a-day obsession, generating praise from around the world, yet it also brought condemnation--even death threats--from opponents who suggest her constant harangue has made her a bit of a political gadfly. Others say it has served to dilute her message."
And more from the Tribune: " Sheehan's fiery rhetoric and inflammatory attacks on the president have sent once-close friends running for cover. She has referred to Bush as a "terrorist" and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an "angel of death."
Sheehan's 28-year marriage is over.
'Out of everything, that hurt me the most,' she explained. 'After 31 years of being in the family, I thought they would support me. They totally disowned me and chose George Bush over murder.'"
I will disagree over her terminology. Her family chose their family over her disunity. She chose something that is temporary over something with infinite potential. The war will end. It will end whether Cindy is screaming her complaints, or if she goes to Iraq and fights herself. And when it does, Cindy will be left without a cause. Oh, but I don't underestimate her... I'm sure she'll find some new cause to tranfer all her hate and rhetoric to. Afterall, she doesn't have a family anymore. What can she do?
Later in the article Cindy says, "People who still support this war have blood on their hands. It was not right to begin with. It's not right now." Does she realize that her son is one of those? That she is campaigning against the very son she thinks she is memorializing? The son that has stood up and protected the very rights and priveleges she is abusing.
I feel sorry for her.
The Chicago Tribune article
The AP Yahoo article
Friday, August 04, 2006
Interview with my legal expert friend
BigRed: Hey, I have a question for you.
LawDude: Fridays after 2PM. But not on the third Friday of the month.
BigRed: Dang it. My plans are ruined.
LawDude: Yeah, sorry.
BigRed: So I just read a short blurb of an article about an article. And I wanted your professional opinion as to whether this will stand or fall.
LawDude: the ripping of DVDs? Well, it would have to come before the court before a decision is likely and it would likely make it at least to a circuit court.
BigRed: No pun intended.
LawDude: ?
BigRed: Circuit city... circuit court
BigRed: It wasn't funny.
LawDude: Ah...
BigRed: lol
BigRed: Anyway, it's interesting that
LawDude: Anyway, I would imagine it would be allowed since the standard has been set with CDs and MP3s.
BigRed: Why does the guy who wrote about it feel that it will be shut down?
LawDude: The one major reason is that the MPAA doesn't like it, long story short. However, he is at least partially right in that the service will likely be forced to shut down during the pending legal battle. I was actually surprised that the courts decided in favor of
BigRed: With CleanFlicks and all?
LawDude: Yup
BigRed: I have some questions on that one too.
LawDude: Okay?
BigRed: Okay, an example: My old roomie Daniel edited Matrix 2 for me and put it on DVD. So I own the original disc and the edited one. That's legal right?
LawDude: Nope. In two different ways it is not. First, you own a copy on another disc--that isn't so legal. Second, you edited the movie, which is illegal as well.
BigRed: Hm. I didn't know the second one at all. Even though it's for personal use? There are no other copies of my edit.
LawDude: Yeah, that's the one that the
BigRed: Which supersedes owner's rights apparently.
LawDude: Artists rights. I can't remember the first word. Something like that.
BigRed: Okay.
LawDude: And yes they do, according to the courts now and according to European courts for a while. The problem is this…
BigRed: So, for example, if I bought a painting of yours... and then I decided to add a moustache to the picture... that would be breaking the law?
LawDude: Yes.
BigRed: That's a really strict law.
LawDude: Most of the time, the
BigRed: Politics.
LawDude: The argument is this: Let's say you buy the Mona Lisa and put a mustache on her… him. lol
BigRed: Right. lol
LawDude: And say, look at my 'Da Vinci' and Da Vinci assuming he was alive… Moral Rights! (that's what it is I think) …comes along and says, "I DIDN'T PAINT THAT!" and is furious that you added such disdain to his beautiful masterpiece and goes to the court for you to either remove the mustache and/or repair the "loss" to his reputation.
BigRed: Okay. So I was totally wrong about the reasoning behind the CleanFlicks case.
LawDude: I dunno, depends on what your reasoning was
BigRed: I thought
LawDude: Nope. All the movies were legit.
BigRed: Well, I'm pretty sure that they bought one DVD... edited it, and then rented many copies of the one. I would guess that's illegal.
LawDude: No, they did not. They bought one DVD, found the offensive scenes, wrote a program to edit the DVD and then applied the program to future DVDs. St least...that is the only way they could do it legally.
BigRed: Okay.
LawDude: Although you might be right and if you are they had two problems. Now one company has worked their way around it. They don't edit the DVD itself, you just put the DVD in, and apply a program that only shows the amount of violence / sex / profanity that you set the machine to or something like that.
BigRed: That's what was promised when DVDs were first coming out.
LawDude: I'm not sure if they have been taken to court...but they aren't actually editing the work. They are simply editing what the TV is showing.
BigRed: There are little boxes out there that you can buy that will edit television and movies. That's the same result as editing the DVD, but not the means.
LawDude: Correct.
BigRed: So another question: If I destroyed the original DVD of my Matrix 2 and only had the edit, would that still be illegal?
LawDude: Yup.
BigRed: I would have no proof that I owned the original.
LawDude: In fact there is a case about just that when the Church did that. The Church bought some genealogical program.
BigRed: BYU used to show edited movies.
LawDude: And made lots of copies and then gave them to all the Family History centers. The owner sued and won.
BigRed: Of course.
LawDude: The Church recalled all copies.
BigRed: You have to buy multiple licenses.
LawDude: They destroyed them. But oops, they destroyed the original and so they just kept a copy. The owner sued again and won again.
BigRed: Wow.
LawDude: Yeah, kind of silly...but that's how it is.
BigRed: So basically, to stay legal you buy one copy, make no changes to it and make no copies. If you want multiple copies, then you buy more.
LawDude: Yup.
BigRed: What about Fair Use?
LawDude: Fair use is a whole different situation. Fair use would be like showing a short clip in a commercial for something else or showing a short clip as part of a presentation.
BigRed: Doesn't Fair Use include something about making backups?
LawDude: That would apply to software only really and isn't Fair Use.
BigRed: Hm. Interesting.
LawDude: It will be interesting to see what the courts do with this movie thing.
BigRed: Very much so.
LawDude: Because movies are different than music. So they could apply the music standard or they could say, no this doesn't qualify and shut
BigRed: Legitimate and legal replacing the illegal.
LawDude: Yup. The public demands an outlet and someone fills the outlet legally. Apple is already trying to get movies on their iTunes store. Kind of going through a series of long talks with
BigRed: Which just means they cost more. The outlet has to pay the owners and make a profit.
LawDude: lol Legal things always do cost more. If they didn't, there would be no need for a black market.
BigRed: Rather than letting the consumer do it themselves. A company is much easier to keep in your grip then millions of people doing stuff of their own free will.
LawDude: Well, pretty hard to keep track of payments when it is person to person.
BigRed: For example, the MPAA stopped a program from distributing that could get past their encoding to make copies of movies. The program was completely legal and sold legally, but it put the power in the hands of the people.
LawDude: Well, the only use for the program would be to break a copyright.
BigRed: The only good reason.
LawDude: ?
LawDude: Name another reason to use the program.
BigRed: If someone made a movie and gave me one and said I could make copies to give to friends. A movie they created and owned.
LawDude: But isn't the program to get beyond the anti-copy code? Since your friend wouldn't have that code on his DVD...
BigRed: He might. It would depend. I'm just saying there can be legit reasons to have such a program.
LawDude: lol, I'm not convinced. But that's okay.
BigRed: I don't like these pre-emptive laws. We catch you for having something that *could* allow you to break the law if you use it a certain way.
LawDude: lol
BigRed: We should arrest people for owning guns. They *could* use it to break the law.At this point, LawDude needed to leave.
Interesting news on the digital media front
Posted by: James Kim
Circuit City has apparently started a DVD-ripping service where it'll rip a movie for use on a portable video device. Prices: $10 for one DVD, $20 for three DVDs, and $30 for five DVDs. This bold move by the tech retail outlet is akin to spitting in the face of the MPAA, and the service will probably be forced to shut down soon enough. I just don't understand why we can rip CDs but not DVDs, especially when we've already paid full price. Plenty of software online can get you from point A (DVD) to point B (compressed version that will play on your iPod or PVP), but all those DMCA-related legal issues can be a heavy burden. If Circuit City sticks to its guns on this matter, the ensuing legal battle should be interesting. Anyway, Ken Fisher at Ars Technica has interesting things to say about it here.
Bravo to Circuit City! If I want to watch a DVD on a portable DVD player on a long trip, I can. So why does it matter that instead of being on a plastic disc the movie is now recorded on my iPod or other player format. (Btw, iPods suck.) It doesn't make any logical sense. Does the MPAA believe that it has the right to choose in what format their movies are shown? It's good to see corporations use technology as it should be and thumb their noses at whatever misguided money schemes organizations like the MPAA and RIAA try to push on us. Fight the power!
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Movies of the Future!
The Simpsons Movie
I love the Simpsons. They are clever, multi-faceted, and just plain funny. This fall will mark their 18th season. If the Simpsons weren't gold, they wouldn't have lasted this long.
Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox) picking up phone: Hello, Murdoch here... 10,000 dollars? You've saved my network!
Bart: Wouldn't be the first time.
And really, Fox must be grateful to Simpsons for giving them a reliable hit. But the show did hit its peak several years ago. The jokes weren't funny and it had lost its savor. The makers of the show had promised that they would make a movie when they ended the series. I will be sad to say goodbye to that dear family, but the DVDs will give us plenty of Simpson joy for well past another 18 years. Wow. Eighteen years. There are kids graduating that were born into a world of Simpsons. But I digress. I don't expect much from this movie besides a fond farewell. I can at least hope for a clever laugh and one last D'oh!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Unlike the Simpsons, the Turtles don't have a sewer to sink lower to. The Turtles franchise is about as low as it can get. The movies were uninspiring and more importantly, not funny. So there is only room for improvement. It looks as if the entire movie will be computer animated. This is a mixed blessing. The movie can easily fall into the "elementary crowd" and fail to please those of us who grew up with the Turtles and consider them retro. I don't expect a lot.
Transformers: The Movie (again)
For those of you who didn't know, there is already a Transformers movie. It was good too. Completely animated in the ancient style of cel animation. The plot was interesting and it fit right in with the entire franchise. Why don't I own this movie? *shakes head* I am very wary about this new movie. Transformers sits in the hallowed land of my childhood. I loved the cartoon and the toys. By making a new movie, it has the chance to ruin those memories. As well, it will draw a new crowd believing that they have a connection with Transformers. Ha! Half of them weren't even born when the show was on tv. It demeans the boy fandom for those who grew up with it.
The Illusionist
I had not heard of this movie until I was exploring quicktime.com. The trailer really intrigues me. It seems both mysterious and inviting. I also really like the style of this time period. Is it Victorian? I'm not sure. And I love the goatee of the protagonist (antagonist?). It is refreshing to see a story that isn't a rehash or remake or reconstitution of an old show, movie, or comic book. It seems that Hollywood doesn't have anymore new ideas, just new ways to present them. I long for this era of remakes to be over. Let's be original folks!
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Ninja Jedi??
I think after watching this clip, we will all agree that Lucas should have based Star Wars on the ninja not the weak samurai!
Quick update
Tomorrow morning I'll be hanging with my best friend Chris, his wife Franzis and their new baby Keilani. My mother was nice enough to give me a gift for the baby. :) We will probably play some Settlers of Catan. Franzis was the person to introduce us to that wonderful game. The Nuttall family lives out in North Carolina where Chris is a dentist.
I have beaten the campaigns in Warcraft III. That was a lot of fun! I'm still looking for a way to get "Frozen Throne" the expansion for the game. Limewire just has virus-laden programs when it comes to FT. Which reminds me, if you are downloading from P2P software, *do* scan programs and zip files for viruses. Mp3s should be pretty safe. And that reminds me, Kate could you have Danny find Frozen Throne for me (and you)?
Book wise, I have become swamped. I checked out too many books when I went to the library last. I got a really thick one that I have enjoyed (but not finished). It kept me from reading the others I had checked out. I think I will return them all. I have also been borrowing books. So I have a stack to get through. I have been enjoying my summer reading immensely. And let me tell you I have read a *lot* of sci-fi. I think I want another book about my favorite time period: the not too far distant future. :)


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Ghosts at the Round
Table: A Telling Alliance--
Treatment by D. J. Herda
Registration No. 114367
Newspaper Headline
Flashback: August 22, 1893
An inquisitive child, Dorothy quickly learned the inner workings of society. Although half Jewish, her father sent her to a private school for Catholic girls to get the finest education possible. By the time she had reached her teens, she seemed destined for a life in a Manhattan mansion and summers in the Hamptons.
But as the years passed, Rothschild's fortunes steadily declined. He was penniless by the time he died in 1913, and Dorothy, who had been taking care of him, was suddenly forced to support herself. She worked as a dance instructor until she broke into magazine publishing by selling a poem, "Any Porch," to Frank Crowninshield, the sophisticated editor of Vanity Fair, who helped her get a job writing captions for Vogue in 1914.
She worked her way up to the position of staff writer for Vanity Fair in 1916, replacing P. G. Wodehouse as their drama critic. The following year, she met, fell in love with, and married Edwin Pond Parker, a Wall Street stockbroker from a prestigious Hartford, Connecticut, family. The handsome Edwin shared Dorothy's love of excitement and presented her with the advantage of what she later termed "a nice, clean name." Shortly after their wedding, Edwin went off to war, leaving Parker once again alone in New York.
Before long, the absentee marriage began to sour, and Parker turned to new friendships with Robert Benchley, Robert Sherwood, Alexander Woollcott, Franklin Pierce Adams, and other well-known writers of the time. She also established the rapier wit that brought her fame and cost her a job: Vanity Fair fired her for lampooning actress Billie Burke, who was the wife of one of the magazine's largest advertisers.
But the firing didn't dampen Parker's enthusiasm for life. The period following the end of World War I was one of gaiety and optimism. The era of dour pessimism that had preceded it was gone, and a new period of creativity in American culture exploded across the horizon. Among all the joy and hope of the era, little Dorothy Parker was about to make her move. Standing barely 5 feet tall, she was about to found an institution.
It was destined to become one of the most profound—and outrageous—influences on the times since the invention of bathtub gin. It would grow to envelope a group of a dozen tastemakers gathered together for lunch at New York City's Algonquin Hotel.
For more than a decade, they would meet daily to exchange ideas and offer criticisms. They invited friends, devastated enemies, and pulverized America's politically elite. They hated nearly everything that everyone else loved and loved whatever everyone else hated. They came to be known simply as the Algonquin Round Table.
Along with Parker were writers Robert Benchley, and Harold Ross (founder of The New Yorker); columnists Franklin Pierce Adams and Heywood Broun; Broun's wife Ruth Hale; critic Alexander Wollcott; comedian Harpo Marx; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, and Robert Sherwood. They were on the cutting edge of literary society...representative of America at its best. At the core of the Round Table, they embodied a destiny that would change forever the face of America—and that would eventually be changed forever by it, as well.
It all began in June 1919 with an afternoon roast of New York Times drama critic, Alexander Woollcott. A number of writers met at the Algonquin Hotel on 44th street and had such a good time that the event was repeated the next day, and the day after that, until the lunch table at the Algonquin was an established ritual.
The core group of friends was sometimes joined by others who attended for short periods or drifted about the periphery of the group; they included notables such as actress Tallulah Bankhead and playwright Noel Coward. The Round Table was made up of people with a shared admiration for each other's work. Outspoken and outrageous, they would often quote each other freely in their books, columns, and articles.
Round Tabler Edna Ferber, who called them "The Poison Squad," wrote, "They were actually merciless if they disapproved. I have never encountered a more hard-bitten crew. But if they liked what you had done, they did say so publicly and whole-heartedly."
Their standards were high, their vocabulary fluent, fresh, astringent, and very, very tough. Both casual and incisive, they had a certain terrible integrity about their work, as well as boundless ambition.
Some of the most notable members of the Round Table came together to work on several major collaborative projects. George Kaufman teamed up with Edna Ferber and Marc Connelly on some of his best stage comedies, including Dulcy and The Royal Family. Harold Ross hired Dorothy Parker as a book reviewer and Robert Benchley as a drama critic for The New Yorker.
Through long lunches of bootleg cocktails, the members cemented their reputations as trendsetters and newsmakers, and they reveled in the fact. Apart, they were incorrigibly talented. Together, they were even more so. They promised America never to disappoint and lived up to their every word. They won over New York and much of the English-speaking world with their wit and their witticisms.
Robert Sherwood, reviewing cowboy hero Tom Mix: "They say he rides as if he's part of the horse, but they don't say which part."
Dorothy Parker: "That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say 'no' in any of them."
George S. Kaufman, when asked by a press agent how to get his leading lady's name into print: "Shoot her."
Before long, the Round Tablers had grown famous. Parker had led the charge. Her wit and intelligence were boundless. And so was the power she wielded both on and off the page.
Cutaway: 1950s Interview
"But, ah, satire. That's another matter. They're the big boys. If I'd been called a satirist there'd be no living with me. But by satirist I mean those boys in the other centuries. The people we call satirists now are those who make cracks at topical topics and consider themselves satirists -- creatures like George S. Kaufman and such who don't even know what satire is. Lord knows, a writer should know his times, but not show them in wisecracks. Their stuff is not satire; it's as dull as yesterday's newspaper. Successful satire has got to be pretty good the day after tomorrow."
Parker spent the next three years reviewing plays for Ainslee's and submitting poetry and short stories to a variety of magazines. Throughout the 1920s, her life took on the surface glamour of the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties with its bootleg booze, dusk-til-dawn parties, wild drinking, speakeasy bars, trips to Europe, and salon-like gatherings at the Algonquin Hotel and the vacation homes of New York's millionaire families. She published her first poetry volumes (the fiction would come later), and they sold well, initially receiving largely positive reviews. She became one of the most quotable women in New York. And she owed nearly all of her success to The Round Table.
What had started as a private clique had grown to become a public amusement. The country-at-large was now attentive to their every word—people often coming to stare at them during lunch or to beg for autographs.
Cutaway: 1920's
"Age before beauty," Luce declares, stepping aside.
"Pearls before swine," Parker replies, gliding through.
By now as familiar a part of the New York social scene as any phenomenon in city history, the world itself revolved around what went on over lunch. People scoured their newspapers and rushed to buy magazines as soon as they came out so they could learn the latest antics of the Table of Twelve. Weekends took on an ominous tone: the Tablers wouldn't meet again until the following Monday. What would people do?
So predictable were they that one day, when Parker failed to show for lunch and none of her friends had seen her, everyone was understandably concerned. People took turns going to her apartment every couple of hours. She was not there. Her phone rang incessantly. It was not answered.
Harold Ross, by now one of the legendary Roundtable literati, was not only Parker's boss at The New Yorker but also an editor on a deadline. After a second day came and passed, he was frantic.
While sipping his lunch on the third day of Parker's disappearance, Ross' secretary paged him at the Algonquin to report that Dorothy Parker had just phoned to say that she'd gotten married. She left the number of a place where she could be reached.
Ross immediately dialed the number, which turned out to be a bar in Harlem. He asked for Parker and waited impatiently until she came to the phone.
"Dorothy, is it really you?"
"Hiya, Harold. You sound kind of upset. What's ..."
"Never mind that. Why haven't you called??"
"Cause I've been too fucking busy," she snapped. "And vice-versa."
But just as Parker had become the very heart and soul of the Round Table, some members had begun to tire of the constant publicity. The time they spent entertaining and being entertained took its toll on them. Robert Sherwood and Robert Benchley moved out of the hotel in order to concentrate on their individual projects. And others were poised to follow suit.
Just as it seemed the group might drift apart once and for all, Dorothy Parker found a way to pull them back together.
Cutaway: April 15, 1920
"How much do you think we got?"
The second man shakes his head. "I dunno. Ten, maybe fifteen grand. C'mon. Let's get outa here."
The men race around the corner and leap into a car containing several others. The car speeds off.
Several eyewitnesses claimed that the robbers looked
Italian. The police rounded up a large number of
Italian immigrants
for questioning before eventually deciding to charge
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco
with the murders. Although the two had no prior criminal records, police
argued that they had committed the robbery to acquire funds for their
political campaigns.
The trial lasted seven weeks, and on July 14, both men
were found guilty of first degree murder. They were sentenced to death.
Dorothy Parker—who had followed the trial closely from its start, believed all along that Sacco and Vanzetti would be found not guilty. When just the opposite occurred, she was outraged. So, too, was much of the civilized world.
The outcome of the trial led to anti-U.S. demonstrations around the globe. Riots broke out in France, Germany, and England. Protestors in Paris detonated a bomb, killing twenty people. Parker took up the gauntlet, writing columns about the injustices of America's judicial system, about the injustice of labeling two undesirables as murderers. She recounted the trial and retold the story of the accused men. She investigated their alibis and found them to be rock solid. She even went so far as to question the motives of the judge in the case.
As Sacco and Vanzetti sat on Death Row, Parker began a campaign to help overturn their conviction. If she could get enough prominent Americans to protest, at least the two immigrants might win a new—and this time a fair—trial.
She began writing her friends. She telephoned everyone of prominence she had ever known. Within days, dozens of influential U. S. and European figures had joined the most popular American writer of the day. The crusade had begun.
In Parker's corner were John Dos Passos, Alice Hamilton, Paul Kellog, Jane Addams, Heywood Broun, William Patterson, Upton Sinclair, Ben Shahn, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Felix Frankfurter, John Howard Lawson, Freda Kirchway, Floyd Dell, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells. All lent their support in demanding a retrial. Facing off against her were the prosecuting D. A. and Judge Webster Thayer.
Although Thayer, the original judge in the hearing, was officially criticized for his conduct of the trial, authorities refused to overrule the decision to execute the men. He refused to consider key evidence and seemed by his very demeanor to endorse the men's guilt. Parker was furious.
Cutaway: 1927
"Capitalism at Work"
"Condemn the Courts, Not Innocent Victims!"
Dorothy Parker marches along with the crowd past the Federal Court Building where the trial had occurred. She is flanked by Robert Benchley and Heywood Broun, to whom she turns.
"What do you think? Is this doing any good?"
The three are jostled suddenly but continue to march. Police push several people away from the building's entrance and out toward the street, which has been barricaded to traffic.
"I don't know," he says. "Does anything ever do any good?"
She stops and is nearly pushed over. Broun and Benchley stop and reach out to help her. She pushes them away. Someone bumps into her and shoving breaks out. She loses sight of the two; and, within moments, a uniformed police officer grabs her by the arm and begins pulling her free from the crowd.
"Wait. What are you doing?"
"Come on with me."
"For what? Where are we going?"
"You're under arrest."
She tries to break free but fails. When they reach a paddy wagon where others are being herded inside, she refuses to get in.
"Come on, now," the cop warns. "You're under arrest."
She yanks her arm free from his grip. "All right," she says. "I'm under arrest. But I'm not getting in that paddy wagon."
"You'll get in or you walk to jail," he says.
She eyes him contemptuously for several seconds before turning away and beginning to walk. The cop pushes past several people and hurries to catch up with her, and the two disappear in the crowd.
Back in New York, Parker continued her writing about the injustices of the system, although—at the suggestion of those closest to her—more quietly now, using a pen name so that her own socialist leanings would not come back to haunt her.
A Child's
horror-to watch my mother die!
On November 18, 1925, Celestino F. Medeiros, who was being held in the same jail as Sacco and Vanzetti for the murder of a cashier during a bank robbery, sent a note through a messenger to Sacco:
"I hear by confess to being in the South Braintree shoe company crime and Sacco and Vanzetti was not in said crime. – Medeiros"
The man added upon questioning that five men had participated in the crime: gang leader Joe Morelli, Medeiros, and three of his brothers—Joe, Pasquel, and Mike.
Medeiros had been a member of the Morelli gang, a professional group of criminals who for years had been involved in stealing of shoes from freight cars, including shoes of the Slater and Morrill Company of South Braintree. When Medeieros had been arrested, he was carrying with him a sum of money roughly equivalent to one-fifth of the South Braintree payroll. None of the stolen money was ever found on Sacco or Vanzetti.
All but two of the Morelli gang were out of jail on April 15, 1920, and all were first-generation Italian-Americans, without accents, a point that was made by prosecution witnesses: the killers spoke without accents. Further, the leader of the gang, Joe Morelli, bore a striking physical resemblance to Sacco.
In an appeal trial overseen by Judge Thayer—the same judge who had found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of murder in the lower court—defense attorneys presented a point-by-point comparison of the evidence that could be presented between the two groups of suspects, Sacco and Vanzetti and the Morelli gang.
Judge Thayer rejected the appeal based on the "unreliability of the primary witness," Medeieros. Sacco and Vanzetti, along with Medeiros, who had likewise lost an appeal in his bank cashier's murder trial, were sentenced to death. Time was running out.
Meanwhile, Parker, still hopeful, returned to work, freelancing for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other magazines. She was in serious financial straits. She had become involved in a series of painfully brief love affairs with men who cared little for her. And she was drinking entirely too much. All these troubles led to two failed suicide attempts in 1923 (following an abortion) and in 1925.
Despite the best efforts of Parker and her fellow Tablers, it had grown clear by the summer of 1927—seven years after their arrest—that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti would be executed for a crime most people felt they didn't commit.
Vanzetti didn't help his own case when he said to a journalist: "If it had not been for this thing, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life can we hope to do such work for tolerance, justice, for man's understanding of man, as now we do by accident. Our words - our lives - our pains - nothing! The taking of our lives - lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler - all! That last moment belongs to us - that agony is our triumph."
On August 23, 1927, the day of the execution, more than 250,000 people took part in a demonstration in Boston, denouncing as cold-blooded murder the taking of two innocent lives. Inside the prison, Vanzetti had a brief conversation with his attorney shortly before he was led to the death chamber. The attorney later recalled the encounter:
"In this closing scene the impression ... which had been gaining in my mind for three years, was deepened and confirmed -- that he was a man of powerful mind, and unselfish disposition, of seasoned character, and of devotion to high ideals. There was no sign of breaking down or of terror at approaching death. At parting he gave me a firm clasp of the hand, and a steady glance, which revealed unmistakably the depth of his feeling and the firmness of his self-control.
Vanzetti's last words he spoke to the warden:
"I wish to say to you that I am innocent. I have never done a crime, some sins, but never any crime. I thank you for everything you have done for me. I am innocent of all crime, not only this one, but of all, of all. I am an innocent man."
Then, shaking hands with the warden and two of the four guards, he sat in the electric chair and added, "I now wish to forgive some people for what they are doing to me."
The lights flickered and went out for several seconds. And it was over.
The execution cast a pall over the Round Tablers' unchecked antics. Everyone was shocked. Everyone had thought that, at the last minute, the governor would grant a pardon...or a higher court would intervene. That never happened, and everyone was stunned—no one more so than Dorothy Parker.
Everything Parker had ever believed in, everything that she was firmly convinced made America's system of justice the best in the world, had suddenly been destroyed. The concept of America's judicial system, upon which a nation was built—that a person is innocent until proven, proven! guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt—was a house built of straw.
Once the lights went out in the state house on Sacco and Vanzetti, they went out, too, in Dorothy Parker's heart. She knew that the two men had been innocent—and she would carry that knowledge with her for the rest of her life.
It was a far cry for the young Jewish-Catholic girl from New York who, only the year before, had packed her bags and left the states for Paris, from where she mailed home articles to The New Yorker and Life magazine. She felt at home there, at peace, and why shouldn't she have? She had left the strains of the real world far behind, the world of intense feelings and shaken confidence. She spent evenings dining with Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. She made friends with Ernest Hemingway, whose sharp mind and pointed literary style she admired.
But the moment she returned to New York, she felt the pressures of life—her life, real life—gnawing away at her. Following the execution, she fell back into her writing, although by now her home life was miserable. Her marriage to the morphine- and alcohol-addicted Edwin finally ended in 1928. Through her worst years, she maintained a tough-talking and hard-drinking public exterior, scoffing at her own misery with blasé humor.
At the suggestion of a friend, she collected a volume of her poetry to pay for an overseas trip, although she herself felt her verse was not good enough for a book. To her great surprise, Enough Rope became an instant best-seller, rare for a book of poems. In this and subsequent successful volumes of poetry—Sunset Gun (1928), Death and Taxes (1931), and Not So Deep as a Well (1936)—Parker poked fun at her own heartbreak, masochism, and hopefulness. Her most effective verse captures the breadth of her dreams and disappointments with bitter irony and perfect turns of phrase, but only hints at their depths.
But nothing she accomplished made her happy.
As the dour days of the post-execution years passed and America entered the Great Depression and the more somber decade of the 1930s, so too did Dorothy Parker enter her own period of personal despair. The bonds that had held the Round Table together loosened; some members moved to Hollywood; others drifted off to pursue other interests.
"It didn't end, it just sort of faded," recalled Marc Connelly.
A decade after it had begun, the Algonquin Round Table was over.
Parker the Activist—on the edge of emotional collapse, partly from her drinking and partly from her disparagement with America's tarnished judicial system—decided she needed a change. But that change had to reconcile itself with Parker the Working Woman.
In 1927, she joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine where she wrote book reviews under the pen name, Constant Reader. While she was there, she gradually worked herself out of her depression. Her readership began to climb, and her notoriety soared. She became famous for her two-line quip,
Men seldom make passes
Regaining both her confidence and a feel for her work, Parker dove into her writing like a woman reborn. Her verses were sardonic, dry, and elegantly written commentaries on lost love or on the shallowness of modern life. And the public loved them to death.
Why is it no one sent me yet
Parker's short stories, which were collected in After Such Pleasures (1932) and Here Lies (1939), illuminated her deep knowledge and understanding of human nature. Among her best-known tales are "A Big Blonde," which won that year's O'Henry Prize for short stories, and "A Telephone Call."
But while Parker reveled in the adulation of her adoring fans, New York had suddenly grown too small, too provincial, too unfamiliar to her. New York, Boston, Philadelphia—the entire Eastern Seaboard had become a prison too tiny to endure.
During the 1930s, she and her second husband, Alan Campbell, decided to move to Hollywood where she worked as a screenwriter on A Star Is Born (1937), directed by William Wellman and starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, and Adolphe Menjou. She received An Academy Award for the screenplay, along with Campbell and Robert Carson. She attended the Oscar ceremonies, collected her prize, and was lauded throughout Hollywood for her talent and her creativity.
But once again she was beginning to feel the strain of life in the fast lane. Surrendering to the constant pressures of writing under deadline, Parker the Activist felt she needed another change—not just a career move, but a lifestyle relocation. If she couldn't save two innocent men from the gallows in America, she would try to save other innocents somewhere else far, far away.
Within weeks, Parker sailed for Spain. The Spanish Civil War was raging there, and she had decided to go to work against Franco and his despotic elitism (the "proudest thing" she ever did). With her typewriter and her wit, she joined the battle against Franco and for the loyalists. She wrote home about what she had experienced.
"I want to say first that I came to Spain without my ax to grind. I didn't bring messages from anybody, nor greetings to anybody. I am not a member of any political party. The only group I have ever been affiliated with is that not especially brave little band that hid its nakedness of heart and mind under the out-of-date garment of a sense of humor. I heard someone say, and so I said it too, that ridicule is the most effective weapon. I don't suppose I ever really believed it, but it was easy and comforting, and so I said it. Well, now I know. I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
"I was puzzled, as you may have been, about Spain. I read in our larger newspapers that here was a civil war, with the opposing factions neatly divided into Reds and Whites—rather as if they were chessmen. Even I could figure out that there is something not quite right when Moors are employed to defend Christianity. Since I have been here, I have heard what the people in the streets say. Not many of them call it the 'war.' They speak of it as the 'invasion.' Theirs is the better word."
When Parker returned to Hollywood, she fell back into her work, by now a common theme, and began collaborating with Peter Vierter and Joan Harrison on Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1940). Following the film's successful debut, she once again found herself riding the pinnacle of popularity, and she was once again frightened.
Was it the success that frightened her...or the fact that not all of the success in the world had enabled her to help two innocent victims put to death for murder? She ached to learn the truth, and in aching, she sought refuge, once again, in alcohol. She "drank like a fish, so much so that the boys couldn't keep up, which was fine with her." Not that her drinking, by any means, dampened her thirst for sardonic wit, much to the chagrin of many big-name celebrities of the day.
After meeting Joan Crawford, who was married at the time to Franchot Tone, Parker said, "You can take a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." In a 1933 review of the Katherine Hepburn play, The Lake, she wrote, "Miss Hepburn runs the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B."
Forever the Activist, Parker felt a great sympathy for Hollywood screenwriters, upon whom producers of the day often preyed mercilessly; so she organized them into a protective guild that established minimum payment for their original scripts, as well as for rewrites, adaptations, and collaborations. She also founded the anti-Nazi Society. Her activism promptly earned herself an invitation to appear before the House on Un-American Activities Committee to testify against associates who had joined the Communist party.
Many of her contemporaries (and even friends, such as Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett), refusing to recognize the committee's right to such a hearing, pleaded the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Parker didn't. She pleaded the First. During several hours of tough grilling by Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy, she never named names.
It was a courageous move. It was also career suicide: those who gave up the names of their associates, correctly or not, were permitted to continue on with their careers. Those who didn't were black-balled, banned from working in Hollywood at all. The tactics were identical to those used during the Salem Witch Hunts. Hysteria, fear, a chance to pay someone back for old grudges, anti-Semitism, anti-intellectualism, prejudice, old jealousies, greed—all motivated witnesses to brand their own peers as "Communists," whether or not they actually were.
Parker had been a member of the Communist Party, back in the '20s and '30s, as were many patriotic and loyal Americans whose objectives, with 20/20 hind sight, may have been naive but were nonetheless honorable and sincere.
Cutaway: HUAC Congressional Hearing, 1952
"Mrs. Parker, will you now tell this committee that you have nothing to hide. If so, will you name those people you know personally to be members of the Communist Party? If not, I'm afraid we're not going to be able to help you here today."
[Camera pans to Dorothy Parker.]
"Listen, I can't even get my dog to stay down. Do I look like someone who could overthrow the government?"
Shortly after her appearance before the Committee, someone finally gave testimony against her before HUAC, and Parker was immediately blacklisted from the movie industry. Her screenwriting career was over.
Despite the emotional toll the blacklisting took, Parker continued to write. Much of her best work was published in the Portable Dorothy Parker, which has been in print since 1944. Of the first ten Portables published by Viking, only the Portable Shakespeare and the Portable Bible have sold as well and as steadily.
Razors pain
Besides her witty limericks, Parker over the years contributed numerous words and phrases to America's popular vernacular, including bobbed (hairstyle: 1915), queer (homosexual: 1929), bundle of nerves (1915), it's a small world (1915), and what the hell (colloquial: 1923), not to mention the ubiquitous high society, one-night stand, and, appropriately enough, wisecrack.
Yet, in spite of all of her success, all of her fame and glory, she could never reconcile herself to the fact that two innocent men had been put to death, and she had witnessed it firsthand. She couldn't shake the feeling for all the world that she had failed to do enough to save them.
When Parker turned 70, she said, "If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are."
Dorothy Parker, who once claimed, "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true" and "People are more fun than anybody," was running low on quips and beginning to make plans for the end. In a meeting with her executor, author Lillian Hellman, Parker extracted a promise that her gravestone would carry only eight simple words: 'If you can read this, you're too close.'"
Flashback, August 23, 1927
Flash Forward, 1961
In October of the same year, ballistics tests were run using Sacco's Colt Automatic. The results left little room for doubt that the bullet that killed Berardelli in 1920 had come from Sacco's gun.
Flash Forward, 1977
Flash Forward, 1982
Flashback, June 7, 1967
Suddenly her eyes widened and her knees grew weak. She fell to the floor, gasping for air. She clutched at her heart, tried to rise, and slunk back slowly to the floor. She lay there, alone and terrified, her breathing pained and shallow. She stirred softly, turned her head to one side, took one deep breath, and closed her eyes. Forever.
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War-Mart / 'Revolution' in warfare slouches toward Baghdad: It's all in the network
Imperial Washington, like Berlin in the late 1930s, has become a psychedelic capital where one megalomaniacal hallucination succeeds another. Thus, in addition to creating a new geopolitical order in the Middle East, we are now told by the Pentagon's deepest thinkers that the invasion of Iraq will also inaugurate "the most important 'revolution in military affairs' (or RMA) in two hundred years."
According to Adm. William Owen, a chief theorist of the revolution, the first Gulf War was "not a new kind of war, but the last of the old ones." Likewise, the air wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan were only pale previews of the postmodern blitzkrieg that will be unleashed against the Baathist regime. Instead of old-fashioned sequential battles, we are promised nonlinear "shock and awe." Although the news media will undoubtedly focus on the sci-fi gadgetry -- thermobaric bombs, microwave weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), PackBot robots, Stryker fighting vehicles, on -- the truly radical innovations (or so the war wonks claim) will be in the organization and, indeed, the very concept of the war.
In the bizarre argot of the Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation (the nerve center of the revolution), a new kind of "war-fighting ecosystem" known as "network centric warfare" is slouching toward Baghdad to be born. Promoted by military futurists as a "minimalist" form of warfare that spares lives by replacing attrition with precision, NCW may in fact be the inevitable road to nuclear war.
Military "revolutions" based on new technology, of course, have come and gone since air-power fanatics like Giulio Douhet, Billy Mitchell and Hugh Trenchard first proclaimed the obsolescence of traditional armies and battleship navies in the early 1920s. This time, however, the superweapon isn't a long-distance bomber or nightmare H-bomb but the ordinary PC and its ability, via the Internet, to generate virtual organization in the "battlespace" as well as the marketplace.
Like all good revolutionaries, the Pentagon advocates of RMA/NCW are responding to the rot and crisis of an ancien regime. Although Gulf War I was publicly celebrated as a flawless victory of technology and alliance politics, the real story was vicious infighting among American commanders and potentially disastrous breakdowns in decision-making. Proponents of high-tech warfare, like the "smart bomb" attacks on Baghdad's infrastructure, clashed bitterly with heavy-metal traditionalists, while frustrated battlefield CEO Norman Schwarzkopf threw stupefying tantrums.
The battles continued back in the Pentagon, where the revolutionaries -- mostly geekish colonels bunkered in a series of black-box think tanks -- found a powerful protector in Andrew Marshall, the venerable head of research and technology assessment. In 1993, Marshall -- a guru to both Dick Cheney and leading Democrats -- provided the incoming Clinton administration with a working paper that warned Cold War weapons' "platforms" like Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and heavy-tank battle groups were becoming obsolete in the face of precision weapons and cruise missiles.
Marshall instead proselytized for cheaper, quicker, smarter weapons that took full advantage of American leadership in information technology. He warned, however, that "by perfecting these precision weapons, America is forcing its enemies to rely on terrorist activities that are difficult to target." He cast doubt on the ability of the Pentagon's fossilized command hierarchies to adapt to the challenges of so-called asymmetric warfare.
The revolutionaries went even further, preaching that the potentials of 21st century war-making technology were being squandered within 19th century military bureaucracies. The new military forces of production were straining to break out of their archaic relations of production. They viciously compared the Pentagon to one of the old economy corporations -- "hard-wired, dumb and top-heavy" -- that were being driven into extinction in the contemporary new economy marketplace.
Their alternative? Wal-Mart, the Arkansas-based retail leviathan. It may seem odd, to say the least, to nominate a chain store that peddles cornflakes, jeans and motor oil as the model for a leaner, meaner Pentagon, but Marshall's think-tankers were only following in the footsteps of management theorists who had already beatified Wal-Mart as the essence of a "self-synchronized distributed network with real-time transactional awareness." Translated, this means that the stores' cash registers automatically transmit sales data to Wal- Mart's suppliers and that inventory is managed through "horizontal" networks rather than through a traditional head-office hierarchy.
"We're trying to do the equivalent in the military," wrote the authors of "Network Centric Warfare: developing and leveraging information superiority," the 1998 manifesto of the RMA/NCW camp that footnotes Wal-Mart annual reports in its bibliography. In "battlespace," mobile military actors (ranging from computer hackers to stealth bomber pilots) would be the counterparts of Wal- Mart's intelligent sales points.
Instead of depending on hardcopy orders and ponderous chains of commands, they would establish "virtual collaborations" (regardless of service branch) to concentrate overpowering violence on precisely delineated targets. Command structures would be "flattened" to a handful of generals, assisted by computerized decision-making aides, in egalitarian dialogue with their "shooters."
The iconic image, of course, is the Special Forces op in Pathan drag using his laptop to summon air strikes on a Taliban position that another op is highlighting with his laser designator. To NCW gurus, however, this is still fairly primitive Gunga Din stuff. They would prefer to "swarm" the enemy terrain with locust-like myriads of miniaturized robot sensors and tiny flying video cams whose information would be fused together in a single panopticon picture shared by ordinary grunts in their fighting vehicles as well as by four-star generals in their Qatar or Florida command posts.
Critics of RMA/NCW have compared it to a millennial cult, analogous to Bible-thumping fundamentalism or, for that matter, to al Queda. Indeed, reading ecstatic descriptions of how "Metcalfe's Law" guarantees increases of "network power proportional to the square of the number of nodes," one wonders what the wonks are smoking in their Pentagon basement offices. (Marshall, incidentally, advocates using behavior-modifying drugs to create Terminator-like "bioengineered soldiers.")
Their most outrageous claim is that Clausewitz's famous "fog of war" -- the chaos and contingency of the battlefield -- can be dispelled by enough sensors,
networks and smart weapons. Thus Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski, the Pentagon director for "force transformation," hallucinates that "in only a few years, if the technological capabilities of America's enemies remain only what they are today, the U.S. military could effectively achieve total battlespace knowledge."
Donald Rumsfeld, like Dick Cheney (but unlike Colin Powell), is a notorious addict of RMA/NCW fantasies (already enshrined as official doctrine by the Clinton administration in 1998). By opening the floodgates to a huge military budget (almost equal to the rest of the world's military spending combined), Sept. 11 allowed Defense Secretary Rumsfeld to go ahead with the revolution while buying off the reactionaries with funding for their baroque weapons systems, including three competing versions of a new tactical fighter. The cost of the compromise -- which most Democrats have also endorsed -- will be paid for by slashing federal spending on education, health care and local government.
A second Iraq war, in the eyes of the RMA/NCW zealots, is the inevitable theater for demonstrating to the rest of the world that America's military superiority is now unprecedented and unduplicable. Haunted by the 1993 catastrophe in Mogadishu, when poorly armed Somali militia defeated the Pentagon's most elite troops, the war wonks have to show that networked technology can now prevail in labyrinthine street warfare.
To this end, they are counting on the combination of battlefield omniscience, smart bombs and new weapons like microwave pulses and nausea gases to drive Baghdadis out of their homes and bunkers. The use of "nonlethal" (sic) weapons against civilian populations, especially in light of the horror of what happened during the Moscow hostage crisis last October, is a war crime waiting to happen.
But what if the RMA/NCW's Second Coming of Warfare doesn't arrive as punctually as promised? What happens if the Iraqis or future enemies find ways to foil the swarming sensors, the night-visioned Special Forces, the little stair-climbing robots, the missile-armed drones? Indeed, what if some North Korean cyberwar squad (or, for that matter, a 15-year-old hacker in Des Moines) manages to crash the Pentagon's "system of systems" behind its battlespace panopticon?
If the American war-fighting networks begin to unravel (as partially occurred in February 1991), the new paradigm -- with its "just in time" logistics and its small "battlefield footprint" -- leaves little backup in terms of traditional military reserves. This is one reason that the Rumsfeld Pentagon takes every opportunity to rattle its nuclear saber.
Just as precision munitions have resurrected all the mad omnipotent visions of yesterday's strategic bombers, RMA/NCW is giving new life to monstrous fantasies of functionally integrating tactical nukes into the electronic battlespace. The United States, it should never be forgotten, fought the Cold War with the permanent threat of "first use" of nuclear weapons against a Soviet conventional attack. Now the threshold has been lowered to Iraqi gas attacks, North Korean missile launches or even retaliation for future terrorist attacks on an American city.
For all the geekspeak about networks and ecosystems, and the millenarian boasting about minimal, robotic warfare, the United States is becoming a terror state, pure and simple: a 21st century Assyria with laptops and modems.


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Cashew Milk
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- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
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Golden Chai Latte
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- 1 cup water
- 1 tbsp ground turmeric
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg
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- 1 tbsp maple syrup
Cashew Milk
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Proctor & Stevenson
Warning: This post is over a year old. I don't always update old posts with new information, so some of this information may be out of date.
2 weeks ago, I handed in my notice of resignation to Horse & Country TVbecause I've been offered a new role at Proctor & Stevenson - a Marketing Design and Communications agency in Bristol.
Proctors have an extensive client list - including BMW, Panasonic, the Open University and VOSA, and it's going to be a fantastic opportunity for me to continue expanding my skillset whilst gaining vital experience.
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I'm a creative, and in late 2016 I realized (with terror) that my fear has been holding me back from achieving my goals. What I fear most is change and the unknown and yet both are an inescapable part of being human.
I'm now committed to facing fear and pushing through to the other side and I'm going to share that journey with you. I hope by openly talking about overcoming fear, I can help you face your fears as well.
(Nature/ Nurture/ Career)
Nature: I'm 'ethnically ambiguous' (!) but really I'm half Cuban and the other half is American going way back to the 13 colonies, before that coming from England, France, and Denmark. Fun fact: one of my great ancestors was given a horse by George Washington for fighting in the Revolutionary War. (I'm jealous of him.)
In addition to an unusual ethnic background, I inherited a rare metabolic disorder called Phenylketonuria (PKU), you can learn more about that here.
Nurture: While growing up in the Bronx, I sweat my way to a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, muscle cramped my way into first place in a New York Public Library poetry contest, and fell in love with acting while performing as the lead in Twelve Angry Men at my high school (we changed the title to Twelve Angry Jurors since the majority of the cast was women). Then I went to NYU, Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute (LSTFI) where I graduated with a BFA in Theatre. I was awarded the 'Drama Award for Outstanding Achievement in Studio' for my work at LSTFI.
Career:I have worked in NY theater and independent film steadily since graduation. Most notably I booked a role in the feature film Hannah Has a Ho Phase, co-starring Kate McKinnon; a co-starring role in the feature film Early Light, featuring Paul Sparks; and a lead role in the short film Scheherazade which has been accepted into over 20 film festivals, winning several awards.
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The following admission by Noonan is, well, mockable:
I would add that in recent weeks I have begun to worry about the basic competency of the administration, its ability to perform the most fundamental duties of executive management.
And it has gone well-mocked by those of us who discerned Barack Obama's political intentions from the beginning. However, one of the problems with mockery is that the mockers tend to miss things like the following hair-raising and on-target scenario generated by Noonan's imagination:
I'm worried, finally, that lines of traditionally assumed competence are being dropped. The past few weeks I can't shake from my head this picture: The man with the football—the military aide who carries the U.S. nuclear codes, and who travels with the president—is carrying the wrong code. He's carrying last month's code, or the one from December 2012. And there's a crisis—a series of dots on a radar screen traveling toward the continental U.S.—and the president is alerted. He's in the holding room at a fundraiser out west. The man with the football is called in and he fumbles around in his briefcase and gets the code but wait, the date on the code is wrong. He scrambles, remembers there's a file on his phone, but the phone ran out on the plane and he thought he could recharge in the holding room but there's no electrical outlet. All eyes turn to him. "Wait—wait. No—uh—I don't think that's the code we use to launch against incoming from North Korea, I think that one takes out Paris!"At my old blog, I coined a term: the Coconut Treatment—cut a coconut in half, scrape out the meat, fill the halves with some vile substance, then glue the halves back together, and continue calling the object a coconut. That description is the best way I can find to describe what is being perpetrated on our country and its previously solid and substantive institutions.
I have to say, I've never worried about this with any previous administration, ever.
That Noonan is only beginning to wake up to this ongoing process tells me that blindness is often willful. However, it also tells me that blindness can also be caused by the type of proximity that Noonan has had with the Washington DC establishment. Indeed, she is part of it and has been since she wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan.
I would say, "Welcome to the party, pal," but with all the clusterf**kery that had been endemic in the Obama administration since January 2009—culminating in the farce that is the ACA website--Noonan may have merely gotten around to putting a finger up and finally determined which way the wind was blowing.
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Shonda Rhimes Runs Hollywood Without a Care
It's been an interesting couple of weeks for Shonda Rhimes since she completely dominates ABC on their TGIT Thursday nights with three of televisions most loved televisions shows Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and her new show How To Get Away With Murder. Now, the producer has opened up about the method to her genius and more.
Rhimes on how she feels about the label of being a "powerful Black woman in Hollywood":
"They wouldn't say that someone is 'the most powerful white male showrunner in Hollywood… I find race and gender to be terribly important; they're terribly important to who I am. But there's something about the need for everybody else to spend time talking about it … that pisses me off."
On her response to the tasteless NY Times article written about her and How To Get Away With Murder:
"Some really amazing articles were written that had the conversation that I've been trying to have for a very long time, which, coming from me, makes me sound like I'm just, 'Rrrraw!'… In this world in which we all feel we're so full of gender equality and we're a postracial [society] and Obama is president, it's a very good reminder to see the casual racial bias and odd misogyny from a woman written in a paper that we all think of as being so liberal."
On her choice to stay with ABC:
"It wasn't really about money, though don't get me wrong, it's very important in a world in which women are paid 77 cents on the dollar to be paid in a way that felt correct. I wanted more control. I wanted the autonomy. And I wanted to feel like if I was making shows, I could sell them anywhere. I'm in a lovely position that whenever we pitch something, ABC buys it, which is great, but I also wanted the ability to say, 'This is not for you.'"
Read this full interview at HollywoodReporter.com
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We Are Not What We Eat
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Medical myths and mumbo-jumbo exposed by a British doctor. Adding salt to food is actually OK for most people, the cholesterol content of food isn't particularly important, and fruit and vegetables are not as nutritious as liver, meat, eggs and milk. These statements might sound hard to believe, but this book will show you why these modern myths and others are scientifically bogus. The book is aimed at UK readers but is relevant for all humans who are sceptical about some of the big health messages being delivered today.
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A delicious Rick Stein's seafood risotto recipe, infused with saffron and white wine. SEAFOOD RISOTTO WITH SAFFRON
We've sourced and freshly ground the spices to make our authentic Seafood Risotto With Saffron. Simply follow our recipe, adding locally sourced, fresh ingredients, to cook this delicious Seafood Risotto With Saffron .How Our Recipes Kits Work We provide spices: Your shopping list:
- 450g/1lb
- prawns, shell on
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- small mussels
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- monkfish fillet, thinly sliced
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- squid, cleaned and thinly sliced
- RawSpiceBar's Saffron
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- garlic clove, chopped
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- medium carrot, chopped
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- celery stick, chopped
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- small onion, chopped
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- small leek, chopped
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- red chili, chopped
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- tomato, chopped
- 900ml/1½pt
- fish stock
- cooking liquor from the mussels
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- 50g/2oz
- unsalted butter
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- shallots, chopped
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- garlic clove, chopped
- 350g/12oz
- risotto rice e.g. Arborio
- 120ml/4fl oz
- dry white wine
- 25g/1oz
- parmesan
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- tbsp olive oil
1. Peel the prawns, reserving the shells for the stock. Set the prawns aside until needed. Wash the mussels, scrape them clean and pull out the beards. Open by placing in a pan with a splash of water, covering tightly then setting over a high heat until they have opened. Strain through a colander to remove any grit. Save the liquor for the stock. Remove the meats from all but 8 of the shells, discard the empty shells. Leaving a few whole mussels in the risotto makes it look very appetizing. Set the mussels aside until needed.
2. To make the stock, heat the oil in a large pan and add the garlic, carrot, celery, onion, leek and chilli. Fry for 5 minutes without colouring. Add the reserved prawn shells and cook for another couple of minutes then add the tomato, saffron, fish stock and mussel liquor. Bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes then push through a conical sieve with the back of a ladle to extract as much flavour as possible.
- 3. To make the risotto, melt the butter in a heavy-based pan (this will lessen the chance of the risotto burning on the bottom as it cooks) then add the shallots and garlic and sweat until softened. Add the rice and stir for a couple of minutes until well-coated with butter. Pour in the wine. Bring to the boil then remove from the heat and let the rice absorb all the liquid. You can make the risotto to this stage some time before completing the dish. The final cooking time, about 20 minutes, is reduced to about 10 by doing this.
- 4. Return the pan to a medium heat and add the shellfish stock to the rice in three stages, allowing the liquid to be absorbed each time before adding the next amount. Stir continuously until the stock is almost completely absorbed.
- 5. When the rice is just tender but still firm to the bite (al dente), add the parmesan. (The small amount of stock left at this stage will be absorbed by the cheese.) While the risotto is cooking, brush the rest of the seafood with olive oil and grill for 3-4 minutes. To serve, carefully mix the seafood including the mussels into the risotto. Leave a few pieces on top to garnish.