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A higly misunderstood flora.
In a small farming community, the only way to cross a river is to basically pole vault across. A small section of river has a small raft on a string to pull items across but for a person to cross they must use one of the many provided poles. Might be interesting seeing what the players do when they come across it. Villagers do it all the time so are skilled and can do it with ease.

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Yes, this genre-bending debut of mine will probably hit the shelves in about, oh, let me see, a gazillion fucking lightyears, largely because I am unable to write during a) PMS episodes; b) whilst looking for keys or mobile phones; or c) whilst collapsed under the weight of adrenal fatigue, which leaves me with a writing 'window' of twenty minutes a month. In the meantime, I do have a few tentative little entries up my
Once, whilst staring through the window contemplating the atrophying of my aspirations and the utter fu$k!ng pointlessness of having treated myself to a higher education, I entered Calpol and gin head-to-head in a taste contest (with myself as the lonely adjudicator). Perhaps it was because the gin was a supermarket's own brand, perhaps it was because the tonic was beyond its best-before date, but in my opinion, Calpol definitely had the edge.
There are two main problems however with administering Calpol:
- The 5ml spoon. It doesn't matter how many 5ml spoons you own, when you have a hot screaming infant in your arms, you WON'T be able to find a single one. Trust me. There is no point looking in the usual places, like the cutlery drawer, or the medicine cabinet, or anywhere in the kitchen or bathroom. In fact, the only places worth searching are a) the plastic play-house in the garden; b) the mythological realms of Camelot or Atlantis; or c) any one of the 26 space-time dimensions posited by string theory. Not only will you not be able to find a 5ml medicine spoon, you won't be able to find a normal teaspoon either. In the end you will have to resort to an approximation, using a shell, a tiny plastic ladle from your daughter's play kitchen, or your bare cupped hand.
What fresh hell is this? Mwa ha ha ha ...
P.S: I was going to start at the beginning of the book, with 'A is for Assholes', which is a personal account of Perineal Lacerations Beyond Fucking Imagining, but my partner told me that I talk about assholes too much. As$ho$e.
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15 Or, "is suffcient."
16 Or, "the question is discussed."
17 [This word, not yet technical, as with us, is thus noted as curious. Of its force see Professor Caird, Encyc. Britannic., sub voce"Metaphysic."]
18 See Aristotle, De Anim., ii. r.
19 Literally, "out of tune."
20 These works must be among Aristotle's lost writings (see Fabricius' Bibl. Graec., t. iii. pp. 232, 404). We have no work of Aristotle's expressly treating "of God." However, the Stagyrite's theology, such as it is, is unfolded in his Metaphysics. See Macmahon's analysis prefixed to his translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Bohn's Classical Library.
21 Aristotle composed three treatises on ethical subjects: (r ) Ethics to Nicomachus; (2) Great Morals; (3) Morals to Eudemus.
22 Miller erroneously reads "Matthew."
23 (See Bunsen, i. v. 86. A fabulous reference may convey a truth. This implies that Matthias was supposed to have preached and left results of his teachings.]
24 This emendation is made by Abbe Cruice. The ms. has "incomposite," an obviously untenable reading.
25 Or, "of what sort of material substance," etc.
26 Gen. i, 3.
27 Or, "being declared."
28 John i. 9. [See translator's important note (I), p. y, supra.,]
29 Literally, "throbbed."
30 Odyssey, vii. 36.
31 See Plato, vol. i. p. 75 et seq., ed. Bekker. Miller do; "an obvious mistake".
32 [Foretaste of Cent.IV.] Miller's text has, instead of tou ouk ontos (non-existent), oikountos (who dwells above).
33 Ps. cxxxiii. 2.
34 Or, "unspeakable power."
35 Or, "was produced unto."
36 Miller's text has"-the soul," which Duncker and Cruice properly correct into "body."
37 Megaleiuthtos, a correction from megalhs.
38 A correction from "Arrhetus."
39 This passage is very obscure, and is variously rendered by the commentators. The above translation follows Schneidewin's version, which yields a tolerably clear meaning.
40 Rom. viii. 19, 22
41 Rom. v. 14.
42 Ex. vi. 2, 3
43 Eph. i. 21.
44 Or, "seen merely."
45 Prov. i. 7.
46 1 Cor. ii. 13.
47 Ps. xxxii. 5, 3
48 kat autouj. Ulhorn fills up the ellipsis thus: "And in reference to these localities of the Arghons," etc.
49 This is a more correct form than that occasionally given, viz., Abraxas. See Beausobre, Hist. Manich., lib. ii. p. 51.
50 Eph. iii. 3-5.
51 2 Cor. xii. 4.
52 Luke i. 35.
53 Miller's text has "judgment," which yields no meaning. Roeper suggests "Ogdoad."
54 Rom. viii. 19-22.
55 Or, "their own peculiar locality" (Bunsen).
56 This word is added by Bunsen.
57 John ii. 4.
58 Matt. 11. 1, 2
59 See Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom., ii. p. 375, ed. Sylburg. [Comp, cap. viii. vol. ii. p. 355, this series.]
60 Bernays and Bunsen read ton Peripaton, which Abbe Cruice and Duncker consider erroneous, referring us to Eusebius, Hist. Ecclesiast., iv. 7.
61 See [vol. i. p. 348, this series, where it is Saturninus]; Irenaeus, i. 24; [vol. iii., this series, p. 649]; Tertullian, Praescript. xlvi.; Epiphanius, Haer., xxiii.; Theodoret, Haer. Fab., i. 3; St. Augustine, Haer., iii. Eusebius styles this heretic Saturninus.
62 Epiphanius makes Basilides and Saturnilus belong to the same school.
63 Faeinhs: Millet reads Fwnhs.
64 Gen. i. 26.
65 Miller reads "the Father."
66 Or, "world-making."
67 See [vol. i. p.352. this series]; Irenaeus i. 27; [vol. iii., this series especially p. 257], Tertullian, Adv. Marc., and Praescript., xxx.; Epiphanius, Haer., xlii.: /Theodoret, Haer. Fab., i. 24; Eusebius., Hist. Ecclesiast., v.13, 16; and St.Augustine, Haer., xxii.
68 Or, "quarelsome," or, "frantic."
69 Hippolytus' discussion respecting the heresy of Marcion is, chiefly interesting from the light which it throws on the philosophy of Empedocles.


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The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has recognized Clarkson University Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Pier Marzocca with the Forest R. McFarland Award.
The award recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions to developing, collecting and distributing technical information of value to society members through meetings, conferences and professional development programs.
Marzocca serves as the chair of the SAE's Unmanned Aerial Systems Technical Committee, which focused on gathering and disseminating knowledge on unmanned aircraft.
"I was very pleased to hear that I was selected for this prestigious SAE Award," Marzocca said. "We are all expecting that unmanned aircraft will play a significant role in our future, to support not only military operations, but also the growing number of civil applications, such as firefighting, agricultural observation, and nonmilitary security operations, such as surveillance of pipelines."
Established in 1979, this award is administered by the SAE's Engineering Meetings Board and honors the late Forest R. McFarland, who was a member of the board.
Marzocca will receive a framed certificate at the upcoming SAE Aerotech 2013 Congress & Exhibition in Montreal. Thousands of the world's top aerospace professionals gather at the SAE Aerotech Congress & Exhibition to prepare for future aerospace challenges and opportunities.
Marzocca received his Ph.D. in aeronautical and aerospace engineering from Politecnico di Torino in Italy. He is a deputy editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Science, and associate editor of Journal of Aerospace Engineering and Journal of Thermal Stresses.
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Zach Weiner, of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, and Kelly Smith, of Weinersmith, interviewed me for their new podcast, The Weekly Weinersmith. I am actually only their second guest, so we'll see if the podcast survives.
We talked about the James Webb Space Telescope, mostly, though as usual when I talk to Zach we both revert to 15 year old boys. But only briefly, and only if 15 year old boys paid attention in world history class.
I'll note I made a mistake in the interview: I said JWST will have 6 mirrors, but it actually has 18. D'oh! I remember very clearly picturing the telescope in my head (it's hard to do a web search during an interview) and for some dumb reason I was thinking of the old MMT, which I'll admit is a little bizarre. Heat of the moment, I guess. I wasn't even within an astronomer's usual factor of two, so I guess I have to give myself three geek demerits.
I think I made up for it by calling JWST – since its future is uncertain – "Schrödinger's telescope".
In fact, the stuff I said about JWST deals mostly with its politics and budgetary woes. I've written about this before:
- Where will JWST's money come from?
- The Senate has "saved" JWST? Hang on a sec, folks…
- The watershed moment for JWST
- Hubble's successor: doomed or saved?
- Congress puts NASA and JWST on the chopping block
So there you go. I'll note that it's mostly wondering about JWST's and NASA's future until about 45 minutes in, and then we get all optimistic and fun.
Zach and Kelly were great hosts, letting me blather on until I ran out of air. Knowing them both – Kelly's a scientist, and Zach a hugely devoted science enthusiast and supporter (he's teaching himself advanced calculus and blogging about it) – this will be a podcast to keep your ear on. Subscribe to it!


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New Survey by the National Campaign Finds That Vast Majority of Young People Who Watch "16 and Pregnant" Say the Show Helps Teens Understand the Challenges of Teen Pregnancy
New York, NY - October 4, 2010 - MTV today announced it will air nine new, one-hour episodes of the controversial, breakout docu-series "16 and Pregnant," beginning on Tuesday, October 26 at 10pm ET/PT. With statistics showing that three in ten girls in the U.S. will get pregnant before the age of 20, each episode will take an intimate look inside the challenges of being a pregnant teenager. Additionally, research released today by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy finds that TV programs incorporating teenage pregnancy, like MTV's series, make young people think more about the risks of pregnancy and how to prevent it.
"16 and Pregnant" follows teens for 5-7 months as they navigate the unfamiliar territory and uncertainty of being pregnant. Viewers will watch as nine, new young mothers-to-be tackle grown-up issues including adoption, questions of paternity, sacrificing college scholarships, break-ups, deciding to go to school or become a parent, marriage and the kind of real-life drama that only adults should have to deal with. Cameras continue to follow the teens for a significant amount of time after they gave birth to document how they cope with taking care of their infants.
According to a new public opinion poll of 1,000 young people (ages 12-19) commissioned by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a majority of teens, 79% of females and 67% of males, report that shows dealing with teen pregnancy make them think about their own risks of getting pregnant or causing a pregnancy, and how to prevent it. Additionally, 82% of young people who watch "16 and Pregnant" believe that the show helps young people better understand the challenges of pregnancy and parenting. Three-quarters of teens also say that what they see in the media about sex, love and relationships can be a good way to start conversations with adults, with half reporting that they sometimes or often have conversations about these topics with parents because of something they've seen in the media. For more information on the National Campaign's study, please click here: www.TheNationalCampaign.org/MediaInfluence.
"Teens have rendered a decisive verdict about MTV's '16 and Pregnant:' it's gritty not glamorous, sobering not salacious," said Sarah Brown, CEO of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. "Some adults have suggested that the show makes teen parenting desirable. Thankfully, they are wrong. The overwhelming majority of teens who have seen '16 and Pregnant' say the show makes the burdens and challenges of teen pregnancy very real---not attractive or enviable at all. "
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy is working with MTV to support "16 and Pregnant." In partnership with MTV, The National Campaign will continue to create viewing guides for each episode so educators, key organizations and individuals can use the show, which will be available rights free for distribution, as a platform to have an honest discussion around sexual health and pregnancy with teens. Additionally, The National Campaign launched an online resource supporting the show at http://www.stayteen.org to answer viewers' most commonly asked questions surrounding pregnancy and provide young people with the information they need to be fully informed on this topic.
As part of MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation's It's Your (Sex) Life campaign, viewers can also find resources on how to make responsible decisions about sex, insight into what to do if you think you could be pregnant, are pregnant or had unprotected sex, and information on how to choose and use contraception properly on www.ItsYourSexLife.com.
Online, MTV.com will continue to offer exclusive scenes you didn't see on-air, sneak peeks, blog updates from the moms, and exclusive original content only available on http://www.mtv.com/shows/16_and_pregnant/season_2/series.jhtml.
"16 & Pregnant" is Executive Produced by Morgan J Freeman. Tony DiSanto is President of Programming for MTV. Dia Sokol is Co-Executive Producer. Liz Gateley and Lauren Dolgen are Executive Producers for MTV. Jessica Zalkind is Executive for MTV. Concept by Lauren Dolgen.
Executive Producer Morgan J. Freeman (MTV's Teen Mom, Laguna Beach, Taking The Stage) made a name for himself as the Sundance award-winning writer/director of Hurricane Streets, a film centered on the trials and tribulations of teenage life. Freeman's latest films, Homecoming, a thriller starring Mischa Barton and Jessica Stroup (90210), and Just Like The Son (Mark Webber, Rosie Perez) were recently released on DVD.
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New report documents potential Latino voting power in midterms -- but low turnout issues as well
A record 25 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, and if history is a guide they will also cast a record number of votes, according to a new report.
But if history holds true as well, Latinos will leave far more votes on the table than they cast, due to participation rates that significantly lag those of whites or African-Americans.
The nonpartisan Pew Research Center examined Latino voters and their potential impact on the 2014 midterm elections, finding that they have a small share of the potential vote in most of the high-profile races that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.
The report, released Thursday, also detailed how the eligible Latino voting population has grown with each midterm election cycle: In 2002, for example, there were about 14.5 million Latino U.S. citizens who were adults and therefore eligible to participate in elections; that will be 25.2 million this year.
But not all eligible voters are registered to do so, Pew pointed out, and not all registered voters actually vote. During the 2010 midterm elections, a record 6.6 million Latinos voted, and their turnout rate was 31.2 percent – below whites (48.6 percent) and African-Americans (44 percent).
"More than twice as many Hispanics – 14.7 million – could have voted but did not," the report said of the 2010 midterm elections. Pew's analysis was based on U.S. Census Bureau data and Pew Research Center surveys. The full report can be accessed here.
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October 14, 2013
McClatchy launches new political blog
We've moved!
Planet Washington is now Washington Watch.
You can find our new and improved blog all about politics in the nation's capital here. And here's the new RSS feed.
Don't forget to bookmark the links.
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October 01, 2013
White House to hold health care blitz
President Obama will deliver remarks from the Rose Garden at 12:25 p.m. today -- some 12 hours after a government shutdown went into effect. The remarks will follow Obama's meeting in the Oval Office with Americans the White House says will benefit from today's opening of health insurance marketplaces.
The White House plans a full court press today on the president's health care law as the health insurance marketplaces open for business.
In addition to Obama's remarks, an interview with Vice President Joe Biden will air on more than 450 college radio stations in key states and markets acros the country, explaining what the White House says are the law's benefits. First Lady Michelle Obama will have an editorial in Yahoo!Shine, billed as "the leading women's lifestyle website with more than 30 million visitors per month.
White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and HHS officials will do interviews with African-American radio shows, including the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the Al Sharpton Show, the Yolanda Adams Morning Show, Sway on Sirius HM, the Russ Parr Morning Show, Rickey Smiley Morning Show, and the Joe Madison Show, among others.
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September 30, 2013
Obama nominates former Romney advisor to post
President Barack Obama today nominated Lanhee Chen, policy director for the Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, as a member of the Social Security Advisory Board.
The White House notes that Chen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, lecturer in public policy at Stanford University and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School, was policy director for the Romney-Ryan campaign, as well as Romney's chief policy adviser and a senior strategist on the campaign. Chen also served as domestic policy director of Romney's campaign in 2008.
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President Obama accuses GOP of looking to refight election
With a government shutdown looking more likely by the hour, President Barack Obama on Monday warned that it would "throw a wrench into the gears" of a fragile economy.
"A shutdown will have a very real economic impact on real people, right away," Obama said, noting the federal government is the largest employer in the nation and that while paychecks may be stopped for some workers, bills won't. "Past shutdowns have disrupted the economy significantly. This one will too."
"The idea of putting the American people's hard-earned progress at risk is the height of irresponsibility, and it doesn't have to happen," he said, calling on the House to pass a clean bill.
"One faction, of one party, in one House of Congress, in one branch of government doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to re-fight the results of an election," he said. "Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me."
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Senate tables House budget plan
The Senate voted 54-to-46 along party lines Monday to table – or basically kill – the House of Representatives' measure that ties funding to keep the federal government open to delaying implementation of the Affordable Care Act for one year.
The action was the first volley Monday in what could be a high-stakes political ping pong match between the two chambers as the federal government faces a shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday if Congress fails to act.
The next move belongs to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. House Republicans were meeting behind closed-doors following the Senate Vote about what they intend to do in the coming hours.
Prior to the Senate voted, Senate Republicans floated the idea of a passing one-week continuing resolution to prevent government-salaried workers from being furloughed and to keep government
agencies and services open.
"Despite the Democrats' refusal to work with the House to solve the problem, Republicans are working to protect the troops, prevent a shutdown and find solutions to the difficulties caused by Senate Democrats' delay," said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Democrats appeared cool to the one-week idea Monday afternoon.
"You negotiate on this, they will up the ante on the debt-ceiling on the full-time CR," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "You cannot negotiate when you take hostages and extort. We're happy to negotiate. There's a budget. They can talk about spending for (Obamacare) in the budget.
You don't do it this way."
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., offered McConnell faint praise over the one-week funding idea.
"I'm absolutely willing to give Sen. McConnell some credit for at least not being (Texas Republican Sen.) Ted Cruz," she said.
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Hagan lauds Justice Dept. for N.C. voter lawsuit
Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democratic lawmaker in red state North Carolina, praised the Justice Department's decision Monday to sue over her state's new voter laws.
The federal lawsuit seeks to prevent North Carolina from implementing four provisions of the new voter law, particularly a stringent photo identication measure.
"Now is not the time to be putting up barriers to the right to vote, and I applaud the Justice Department's decision to challenge the new voter access restrictions in North Carolina that would, among other things, cut off a week of early voting and end same day registration," said Hagan. "Restricting access to this basic right is simply not in sync with our North Carolina values, and it goes against our state's proud tradition of eliminating barriers to participation in the democratic process."
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In case of a shutdown, Obama would retain a quarter of his staff
Just like everyone else in federal govenment, the White House is preparing for a shutdown.
In a letter to the Office of Management and Budget, the White House indicates 436 employees at the executive office of the president will remain on the job while 1,265 employees will be furoughed.
Those that remain include 15 at the executive residence, 12 at the vice president's office, 42 at national security and 118 at the Office of Management and Budget.
See the full list by agency here.
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Boehner: "The House has done its work"
A defiant House Speaker John Boehner insisted Monday morning the House "has done its work" on the budget, and urged the Senate to go along.
That's unlikely to happen. The House voted Sunday to delay Obamacare for a year and repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax. The Democratic-led Senate is expected to reject those provisions later Monday.
"The House has done its work," Boehner said Monday in a House floor speech. "We passed a bill on Saturday night (actually early Sunday), sent it to the United States Senate - that would delay ObamaCare for one year, and would eliminate permanently the medical device tax that is costing us tens of thousands of jobs that are being shipped overseas.
"Senate decided not to work yesterday. Well my goodness, if there's such an emergency, where are they? It's time for the Senate to listen to the American people just like the House has listened to the American people and to pass a one-year delay of ObamaCare and a permanent repeal of the medical device tax."
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Republicans would get most blame for shutdown--but Obama would get plenty
Republicans would get more of the blame for a government shutdown, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released Monday.
The survey, conducted Friday through Sunday, found 46 percent would blame Republicans while 36 percent would blame President Barack Obama. Thirteen percent blame both sides. Unless Congress and Obama agree on a spending plan by midnight, parts of the government will begn shutting down.
The House of Representatives, run by Republicans, passed Sunday a plan to keep the government open, but the Democratic-led Senate is expected to reject it later Monday.
Obama gets some of the blame--people were split on whether he's acted like a responsible leader or a "spoiled child" during the budget debate. But 69 percent thought Republicans have acted like spoiled children.
The House budget bill delays implementation of the 2010 health care law--but 60 percent said it was more important to avoid a shutdown than change the health care law at the moment.
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Noordermarkt: My Favorite Flea Market In Amsterdam
I'm just back from a few days in Amsterdam to attend Woonbeurs, the annual home design show. Whenever I'm there, I try and make it to the outdoor market near the Noorderkirk in the Jordaan neighborhood. This past Saturday morning was the ideal day to visit, sunny, warm and packed with locals looking for bric-a-brac bargains...
There are two markets at this location each week - on Saturdays, its vintage goods (home decor stuff, books, clothes) and organic eats. On Mondays, it features more furniture and textiles.
There is booth after booth of wonderful dusty finds to dig through with very affordable asking prices. For example, I brought home an amazing little round Chinoiserie box in black and gold - very old and only 15 euro. (Yes, if I lived there, I have the feeling it would be a regular haunt).
I snapped the pics above to give you an idea of what was on sale this past week - it's indicative of the items I've seen there in the past as well - lots of domestic goods with a (naturally!) European flair - which makes everything just that bit more interesting and exotic to someone used to seeing good old americana items while thrifting here at home.
Add in the location in one of my favorite neighborhoods in the city, the happy sounds of the kids enjoying the playground (which is located smack in the middle of the market) and the amazing people watching from the surrounding cafes and it is a most excellent way to spend a few hours of your precious time in Amsterdam.
I highly recommend a stop if you happen to be in the city on the "right" days.
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Editor's note: Van Jones, a CNN contributor, is president and founder of Rebuild the Dream, an online platform focusing on policy, economics and media. He was President Obama's green jobs adviser in 2009. He is also founder of Green for All, a national organization working to build a green economy.
By Van Jones, CNN Contributor
(CNN) - Tonight, our nation's first black president will deliver the first State of the Union of his historic second term. The time has come for him to say something about the disproportionate pain that his most loyal voting bloc - black Americans - are experiencing today.
Winning two successive elections hasn't just proven that this nation is great enough to rise above the racial discrimination of its very recent past. It's also opened the door to more frank conversations about continuing racial challenges in America.
Just look at the fierce debate over immigration going on in America today. We have progressed to the point where commentators and politicians freely discuss how to court "the Latino vote." They happily and eagerly insist that politicians should court the "Latino vote" and champion so-called "Latino" issues, like immigration reform. Discussing the promise, contributions and the needs of particular, ethnic communities in a big, diverse nation is no longer taboo.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama should acknowledge that while economic pain in today's American is not limited to any one community, some communities are in more trouble than others. Prioritizing broad prosperity for all doesn't mean ignoring the fact that some folks are further behind.
The truth is, the black community finds itself in the worst of all possible situations - both economically and politically.
First of all, a large part of the African-American community is in economic free fall. I am not talking only about those sections of the black community that have been mired in poverty for generations now - of course, they need and deserve more focused support and attention. I am also talking about the African-American middle class that was devastated by the housing collapse, lost 80% of its wealth, and has yet to recover even a fraction of it from those difficult days four years ago.
The private sector is still statistically quite hostile to black job seekers: The national unemployment rate is 7.9%, but African-Americans suffer from 13.8% unemployment. Meanwhile, budget-slashing Republicans are working hard to attack, demonize, and defund the public sector jobs upon which much of the black professional class was built. Add one more problem: sky-high costs of college. These problems collectively constitute an economic emergency for all Americans - and a super-emergency for our black communities.
Second, African-Americans are also in the wilderness politically. One major political party - the GOP - ignores us, and the other simply takes us for granted. For any Democratic nominee for president of the United States to have a chance, he or she must generate high turnout among African-Americans - and usually win more than 80% of our vote. In other words, we are the main pillar of the Democratic Party.
But neither party has made a priority of addressing the excessive unemployment, loss of housing, lack of opportunity, and yes, continuing racial discrimination and over-incarceration that continue to plague the African-American community.
The immigration debate teaches us that these issues don't need to divide minority communities. The leading spokespersons for African-Americans - stalwarts like Ben Jealous of the NAACP - are fully on board with immigration reform. It is remarkable that a devastated community is still willing to stand in solidarity with another minority population. With that kind of mutual care and cooperation, we can make sure every American is lifted by a rising tide.
Tonight, as the president discusses the State of the Union, he should specifically acknowledge the disproportionate agony of the African-American community. The union is only as healthy and strong as its weakest links. He should propose common-sense fixes that meet the need.
Many such steps would help all Americans. For example, in addition to expanding access to home refinancing (which he will do tonight), he should go one step further and support resetting some deeply underwater mortgages to today's fair market value. He should not just talk about small fixes to student debt, but how to ensure every single young person can get the education they need to succeed. He should defend public sector employees and denounce the Wall Street obsession with cuts. Most of all, he should lay out a bold plan to put people back to work right now in the hardest-hit communities.
All of these steps will help all Americans. And yet they would have the additional positive effect of strengthening some of the weaker links in America's chain, including those that exist in the black community.
It is time for all people of conscience to start pushing back against a political dynamic that insists African-Americans participate in the electoral system - but get little or nothing out of it, even in the midst of an economic catastrophe.
When ALL of America is stronger, all of America is STRONGER.
America must have an honest discussion about how to address a continuing economic catastrophe in the black community. And the president should lead the way.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Van Jones.
I'm not ignorant about the history of race relations in America,,but the simple fact is that Barack Obama is half European,
I take pleasure in, result in I discovered exactly what I used to be looking for. You have ended my four day long hunt! God Bless you man. Have a nice day. Bye
Blacks have the highest abortion rate than any other race in America. Obama has addressed the black community. By funding abortion clinics with tax payer money and promoting planned parenthood, his message is loud and clear to the black community. It's all wrapped up in a bow he likes to call "women's rights." Obama knows that blacks have the highest abortion rates and he's the champion leading the way... making it easy to get an abortion.
Given the increase in household debt among African Americans the past four years, one could say that President Obama is a creditor to his race.
Van – Exactly how are republicans "ignoring" African Americans? That is just made up.
"Most of all, he should lay out a bold plan to put people back to work right now in the hardest-hit communities."
Like what exactly? People are always talking about a jobs plan with no details. If the government needs a service preformed then yes they should create a job, but we already do this. The government can not create make believe jobs. We did this durring the Great Depression but that was because we had 25% unemployment.
Interesting discussions in the thread. I am black but African, not African American. I came to this country with $400, legally might I add. :). After 2 years in a blessed nation with opportunities that abound, I am a manager at one of the big four consulting firms, on a partner track. This kinds of article is indulgent and not encouraging at all, Van Jones. I believe it does the opposite of what you intended it to accomplish.
It is not easy but the opportunities are there. You wrote as though immigration reform is a gift to Latinos and Hispanics; but I argue that it's a policy for all. So don't let's ask for anything special for AA. Let's talk about education reform, job creation for all and everything else for everyone; and let all, including AA be willing to take advantage of the same policies and opportunities. I work with many AA partners and directors in my Firm, ones that have taken advantage of the opportunities.
For those racial comments on this thread – I know the AA community has a lot of work to do, but know that all AAs are not gangsters, athletes, rappers – these exist in every community, so let's make this an intelligent discussion.
Van Jones has it all wrong. GRX has it all right. We live in the country with the most opportunity. Anyone can do it. When cultures value family, education, hard work and the next generation they make it in the first generation. Crying in your soup and demanding a handout generation after generation will never work.
Van, Jackson, Sharpton simply profit and make their livlihoods selling hate. Bottom line.
We all live in a free country. We all lived up until 2001 in a prosperous country with free money for college flowing like water. The failure is the failure of the individual.
Its a giant lie its about the color of anyone's skin. Nobody gives a rat patooie about the color of your skin.
This nation is past that.
Van is Obama's "green jobs advisor"
Like he is or was in charge of that bankrupted govt paid program of obama's. The failure one?
Why would we be listening to what he has to say?
Unless he's serving as a front, smoke and mirrors for obamas next land grab.
EVERYONE is suffering in this economy- blacks are not special.
Stop demanding special treatment and you will be treated equally.
white people have no problem with voting for their own kind and can't understand why black people won't vote for the people they endorse. you are a pure idiot if you think barack obama can do anything for black people without anarchy among white people. perhaps black people vote for black people because they can't be any worse than the white people. maybe black people vote for black folks because it's a vote against white people, who have done nothing for them except build more jails, have stop and frisk, lousy living conditions, welfare, and schools at condemned warehouses while they make sure they always have the best cuts of meat while black folks have to eat pigs feet and neckbones. you hate your own kind that is what your problem is.
their living conditions are of their own doing. their police attentio is their own doing.
Take some personal responsibility for once in your miserable littler life and stop blaming everyone except yourself for your conditions. Your on welfare because you chose to be. you had 5 kids who u cant support because you chose that life. Grow up
nothing but build more jails. If you were not robbing and shooting people in the street would there be a need for jails? Behavior dude. YOUR behavior. Not white people. I will mail you a reality check. Happily. Go listen to Bill Cosby's lecture and get back to me.
"white people have done nothing for them but..." and a long list of sorry conditions.
What, exactly have black people "done for" whites? See, its YOUR life, not someone else's responsibility. Not the govt.
An opinion piece about black Americans, and responses (with one apparent exception) strictly from non-black Americans. Hmmmm?
What's your point?
Oh let me guess...
when you write the check you get a say. I'd say the same harsh things to crackhead west virginia whites. The same harsh things that need to be said. Government never creates it takes. It just took 1.5 million jobs from blacks and gave them to law breaking illegals.
Its about to take 11 million more. AND tax they few of you that get a paycheck to pay for their healthcare. Liket them apples?
I'm telling you whether it is Jones, Sharpton or Jackson talking you always get the same stuff. Its time to 1. tell these people to shut up and 2. it's time for the black community to "Stop" blaming everyone else and take some responsibilty for their own actions. Lastly, this is coming from a black man that has simply had enough of the out of control culture!
The guy who accused the previous posters for "unfair race bashing" then proceeds to bash whites. Very original.
I like the last Paragraph "America must have an honest discussion about how to address a continuing economic catastrophe in the black community. And the president should lead the way". Bill Cosby tried to do this and look how the black community treated him.
Bill Cosby's words should be remembered. But 12,000,000 people are about to make their cries irrelevant. 1.5 million kids just took your kids jobs. Eleven million more will take another chunk out as well.
You've been sold again. But at least this time you understand its about greed and not the color of your skin.
Big Shiz, you are a prime example of the ignorance which is Van Jones trade.
He sells racism and you buy it. It makes him rich (as well as jesse jackson and al sharpton and others) and it has kept YOU and many like you poor.
Racist's always call those who speak out against them racist.
I'm Black, and I hate this type of thing, We are all americans, I hate to see pandering to one group over another, like with whats going on with the hispanics, and Latinos.
All the racist black people who voted for Obama for his skin color are in for a wakeup call! I find it ironic that Mitt Romney spent more time reaching out to black communities than Obama ever has!
I find it unfortunately and infuriatingly hilarious that Romneys comment about the 47% who dont pay taxes are going to vote for him no matter what, was seen as racist and cruel...
yet he was 100% correct and it was even on THIS NEWS STATION a mear month after the election that it was true.
Nobody likes to hear the truth. This country has turned into a bunch of nonstop offended pushovers.
You gonna tell me blacks don't spend their time "smoking meth or shooting heroine"? Maybe it's because they're too busy selling it perhaps? NO RACE should be given special consideration over any other RACE. Stop affirmative action-then we can say things are equal.
Obama to Blacks (we wish)
1) Follow the laws
2) pick up a paint brush and/or a broom and take care of where you live
3) study hard in school
4) speak english correctly
5) respect will follow........
be around to be a good father to the kids you have....that's a big one
Also forgot:
Stop shooting everybody.
Why do liberals always want to divide Americans by race??
divide and conquer ploy. Truth would not put them in positions of power. The rich are already represented by the repubs and the middle have to pay all the bills so they are too busy working to support a political party. That leaves the ignorant poor who buy every lie they have been given since, well, since the dawn of politics.
Black America is failing because Black Americans are not living lives that lead to prosperity. All along I felt that Barack would be what Black America needs, a good role model, living in a commited married relationship. Marriage and responsability are two keys to success in our country. The biggest problem in the black comminity is that there are not enough dads/ fathers living with their wives and children and being supportive and good role models for their children. I think the number of children in the black community who are born out of wedlock hoovers around 70%. That is a recipie for disaster. Come on Barack, tell all Americans to live right, otherwise you are sacrificing your children and their children on the alter of selfishness and vice, with no hope of success.
Yes, just redo the mortgages of black families while every other family just has to pay what they owe. How typical of Jones.
Enough. Perhaps the editorial would suggest that we segregate the audience and deliver a message to one group and then to the other. I am sorry, but even though this falls under the banner of "promoting equality" this editorial is fundamentally racist and at the end of the day will serve the benefit of no party. This rhetoric will continue to inflame and divide. Address as as a united front and we may very well become united. Address in a divided manner and rest assured, we will remain divided.
Thank You! The Dems will continue to take the black community for granted until we are ALL treated the same. It's time to think before you act and leave emotions out of the picture. This article does nothing but, once again, split this country into sections/races and that it not what this country needs.
"When ALL of America is stronger, all of America is STRONGER." If Jones had led with this mystifying statement I might have been spared having to read all of his editorial.
Oh year, thanks for the reminder about O's newest chance to run his mouth and say nothing in the SOTUA. Now I can turn off the TV and plan on what movie to go and watch. Doesn't matter what he says. He can talk about the potato crop, the color of his tie or whatever and the media will gush and slobber and report what a miracle he is.
If he addresses AA's directly they are not going to like what he says. There are cultural issues the AA community needs to address. It can be surmised as follows: get an education, don't blame everyone else for your failures, work hard without complaint and don't assume you are going to make it as a rapper or athlete, have a plan B and C too. Embrace a culture of success and pick yourself up by your bootstraps even if you are too poor to afford bootstraps. Otherwise, Hispanics will gladly do all the jobs that you are unwilling to do even while they are discriminated against yet persevere.
Whine much? I know plenty of blacks in my community and neighborhood that have nice homes and nice things because they're willing to WORK and not whine. "Willing to work", meaning it may not be the job you want, but you do it because you have bills, kids and are responsible.
Van Jones is a divisive individual who only cares about black americans. He says he sides with other minority groups to get them on his side inorder to build numbers so he can push his flawed agenda. He says he cares about ALL americans, but that is a bunch of crap. Yes, I know he has a white wife but he does not give a crap for the United States as a whole. He wants to hold ALL white americans TODAY responsible for actions committed by SOME white people in the PAST. Why should people today be held repsonsibel for the actions of those in the past? Two wrongs do NOT make it right. It will only create divisiveness and hostility towards others and it has!
Reset underwater mortgages to today's fair market value??!? What about all the money I've put into my own mortgage? Do I get a refund?
No. You get to join white america in paying for obama's fathers hatred for colonials in africa. Bankers are getting ready to rob the rest of the homes. Face it. Fight it maybe. But just don't fail to see it.
HOWEVER – bankers DID srew minorities more so than others. But if they were made to pay, which is not happening, they have already passed laws that those bankers wil suffer no criminal charges.
Thing is about the crash, we SHOULD have let the banks fail. Only then would everone have suffered and equalized as financial cycles do. Now all we ALL have to look forward to is serfdom.
Immigration Reform is just code for Amnesty. NO AMNESTY and No pathway for US Citizenship for illegal aliens. We need President Obama to start enforcing our immigration laws instead of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. Deport all illegal aliens, secure the border and fine anyone who hires an illegal alien.
I agree with the "more free stuff" comment. I think perks and favoritism should be enhanced a million times over. I would like to give my car to some gang member and my house to some crackhead and anything else remaining to some gun toting murderer. They deserve it, don't you think? Of course they do-they are black!
you cant begin to discuss the plight of the black community without addressing the overwhelming damage the war on drugs has done to this community. this is essentially a pointless article
the war on drugs, not the individuals who use violence and murder and intimidation to live outside the law?
The war on drugs is failed prohibition. It should stop, but during the time it was alive, can you just not recognize the difference between things you should and shouldn't do?
You white folks are amazing. Anytime we get a successful half white half black person than they are bi-racial and white folks try to claim that they are not black. If the average bi-racial person shows up off of the street and has any black in them, they are just all black and you will not let them claim any white. As soon as Obama is done being POTUS, you white folks will go back to the old rule: One drop of black means you are black.
White or Black. We are all originally from Africa.
I think Obummer is a pitiful excuse for a president regardless of his race. Just be proud of who you are and stop worrying about who likes your race and who doesn't. Whine, whine, whine.
Mr Mellow, It's 2013. Nobody gives a chit what color you are. Are you rocking a engineering job or standing on the street corner passing packets of crack?
THAT my friend is what anybody want to know about you, not your color. Look around, this country is highly integrated with millions of successful people. They are all shades.
You really gotta pull the race card man? Everybody is hurting, and sure, some are hurting more than others, but he should be addressing the nation as a whole, not saying "Hey all you African Americans, I am going to only offer programs, stimulus, and free money to you guys!". Such a ridiculous article.
wrong answers....wrong questions.......the question should be, "Why does the black community consistently fail, despite decades of opportunities?".........why does the black community promote a culture of failure........glorifying gangsters, hip-hop artists and athletes?......why does the black community look the other way at local crime, gangs, unwed mothers and drop outs?.......the problem is not America...many other nationalities arrive with little to nothing and make a successful life, the problem is the black community.
Stop making excuses, start living right and be responsible parents.......
Alan, you are right on the money with that!
I agree. There is nothing inherently wrong with black people, or any race for that matter.
We all acknowledge that fact, yet don't address why African-Americans (which technically is an incorrect term) consistently fail at a higher rate than other races. The Scottish were poor. A lot of Germans were poor. Most European immigrants weren't well off and some of them, indentured servants, were pretty much slaves themselves.
Its simple. Break the cycle instead of blaming the cycle for failure. Accept help when offered, but depend on your strength and intelligence for everything else. Stop glorying a culture that only breeds more violence, single parent households and dependancy on the government.
Please, I'm white for the record and if you did any research into this issue you would see that the black community has been under-served and ignored for generations. Schools underfunded, decent affordable housing unavailable, law enforcement and justice system consistently biased. This is what leads to drugs, gangs, violence and a culture of poverty in those communities. Education is the biggest problem. If black communities got proportional funding as wealthier areas, kids would go to college more, would get better jobs and pull their culture up. Its easier to blame the victims and spit on them for not achieving more. Bootstraps bootstraps. You can only achieve with opportunities that are available. If we put our money and ideals where are mouths are, we would see improvement but we have worsened the problem with blame and ignorance. Van is calling attention to that and it is of course unpopular with many.
What is this guy talking about?
Didn't once Obama said that this is not a Blue, White, Black or Red America, Rather This is United States of America.
Instead of "But neither party has made a priority of addressing..." try, African American's haven't made it a priority to address the excessive unemployment, loss of housing, lack of opportunity, and yes, continuing racial discrimination and over-incarceration that continue to plague the African-American community.
He can address AA all he wants, but ain't nothing going to change. You take all of the racist folks still holding AA down, and add in all of the lazy AA, and you will still be left with just a few AA who are smart enough to live a decent life.
He's still only 1/2 black. I would hope they can field better.
C'mon man, how about we view people as equals and stop looking at color? You claim discrimination but throw black people into a bucket. Shame shame shame on you.
So....help those who refuse to help themselves because they are black? Ah...you live up to your racist, communist ways.
Is he supposed to be the president of ALL AMERICANS?
A novel concept but one he might try.
Not according to the like of Van Jones who want to hold white america back for the actions of others in the PAST.
I'm amazed that "Blacks" supported Obama during his last campaign. Haven't they noticed that he did NOTHING for them but add to their misery during his first term as president. Haven't they noticed that he made NO EFFORT AT ALL to win their support, he was so egotistical to assume that they would support him hook line and sinker just because he was also "Black." And guess what, they did!! How sad!
The O man needs to promise more free stuff.
Just a racist cometary....
He is not Americas first BLACK president.... he is Americas first 1/2 White/ 1/2 Black President...........
Better crack and beer than meth and moonshine. "Well hi there buddy! My name's Jim Bob Robert E. Lee III!"
"Better crack and beer than meth and moonshine". Really brought your A material today, didn't you George. Now, hush up while the grown ups talk.
Stop demanding special provisions because you can play the race card. You want the plight of African Americans to take a turn for the better? Look to your young men and women. Teach them about self-respect, the respect of their elders and peers. As well as the importance of an education and hard work. Get out there and work for it! This goes for all the young men and women out there today, and the generations yet to come. Yes, I know that this alone wont bring about change and it's a long road to recovery, but asking the president to make considerations for Black people in this country is not going to bring about a stronger America, it just promotes racial divide and resentment.
That's why this country & world is the way it is because of people like you two, John & "Fair".....geesh!
go read Ben Carson's speech at the National Prayer Breakfast.... please!


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UMassFight Song. OK, it's not the most original name but it's a surprisingly good fight song. KYF has to admit to never having heard it before writing this blog post, but it's a quick march with a fun chant in the middle.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Know Your Foe - UMass 2012
UMassFight Song. OK, it's not the most original name but it's a surprisingly good fight song. KYF has to admit to never having heard it before writing this blog post, but it's a quick march with a fun chant in the middle.
10 comments:
- 616goblue said...
There is only one place on the interwebs with this kind of jouranlistic insight: "The most successful NFL player from UMass is former Detroit Lion quarterback Greg Landry. KYF doesn't know if this is an indictment of UMass football or the Lions."
Another outstanding edition of Know Your Foe.
- September 14, 2012 6:13 AM
- Mikoyan said...
Just in case you need a recap of the last time these two teams met:
And very good KYF as usual.
- September 14, 2012 9:19 AM
- Clay said...
55-3? I hope so we need a big win like that, even if it's just UMass to give a confidence boost.
Go Blue!
- September 14, 2012 9:49 AM
- Brandon said...
"No UMass team has ever won a national championship...The football team won an FCS championship in 1998"
Is that an error or are you not counting it because it's not FBS?
- September 14, 2012 12:08 PM
- Yost said...
Brandon, yeah, I think that's what Benny meant, although it is confusing. Will clarify.
- September 14, 2012 1:45 PM
- john statham said...
Really Awesome matches.. I really want to see the next match of Michigan state football. Is its Tickets availble Now!!!
- September 14, 2012 6:28 PM
- Adam said...
Agreed. Excellent KYF. I thoroughly enjoyed the Versatile Sam graphic.
Best UMass preview of the week.
- September 14, 2012 7:11 PM
- Raoul Duke said...
UMass - Birthplace of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, without whom i would not have lost my virginity in Bursley -Lewis. Without beer and those wingmen, probably not at all.
- September 14, 2012 11:56 PM
- Raoul Duke said...
TMI. I know.
- September 14, 2012 11:56 PM
- Ramona said...
So happy we don't have to see another healing pic this week!!!
- September 16, 2012 6:47 PM


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If you've ever wondered what happens to a guy who travels with his family in a Christian singing group as a child, grows up to host a local Saturday night horror program as a vampire Elvis (using an Eastern European accent learned from his immigrant grandparents), and turns his lifelong love of cars and motorcycles into a successful business, then you might tune into History Channel's Counting Cars (Tuesdays, 10 p.m.), which starts filming its second season this fall.
There you will find the 6-foot-2, long-haired biker Danny "The Count" Koker, whose extensive knowledge of cars and motorcycles matches his unbridled passion for them.
The show follows Koker—a Pawn Stars regular—and his posse at Count's Kustoms on South Highland Drive as they search for clunkers to transform into slick, stylized muscle machines with massive engines and vintage integrity—doing so with such dedication that anyone with a pulse is likely to marvel at the outcomes, whether or not they have motor oil in their veins.
But this isn't just a show about flipping cars and building bikes. It gives a glimpse into the business and the lives of characters who love their toys, like Koker and his bestie, Kevin, who drive the streets of Las Vegas, convincing owners of sleek hot rods to pull over (sometimes chasing them) for a closer look. It nearly always results in Koker offering cash to the drivers, who often aren't ready to let go of their babies. When it comes to purchasing clunkers, there's plenty of razzing between the guys at the shop over whether or not a legitimate investment has been made.
But there are also touching stories that come with the job. In one episode, Tom Urbanski, paralyzed from the waist down after being shot outside a Las Vegas nightclub where he worked, tells Koker and his crew that he wants to ride a motorcycle again. Just when you're thinking there's no motorcycle to accommodate Urbanski and his wheelchair, these guys make it happen, building a motorcycle that Urbanski operates from the sidecar while his wife rides on the saddle.
If there's anyone who empathizes with the need to feel the wind in his hair, it's Koker. He's spent his life on motorcycles, and he and his team are hell-bent on making dreams come true, whether it's seeing a paralyzed man back on a bike or turning a clunker of a '68 Mustang Fastback into an exact replica of Steve McQueen's ride in Bullitt for Rick Harrison of Pawn Stars.
There are some people who couldn't care less about cars, yet they're infatuated with your show. What's the secret? I feel like the show talks to everyone. I'm addicted to the weekend how-to shows, but that audience is really narrow—just for geeks like me who like to watch someone take something apart and put it back together. Our show gives you the cars, the bikes and shows you the business. And you get a certain amount of lifestyle.
Are you surprised that viewers find it entertaining? They told us, "People are laughing. They think you're so funny." I said, "Really?" That's just us every day. I find it fortunate that people find it entertaining. One of my favorite things about the show is that they keep it real for us. What we're doing to the cars and bikes is real. The business aspect is real. We're fun and goofy and having a good time and taking care of business.
The show also has some touching moments, like the Urbanski episode. Absolutely. I thought this was a show about cars. I had no idea aspects of this show were going to turn into human interest. We're getting so many letters. Tom used to ride a [Harley-Davidson] Heritage Softail all the time. He really wanted to get out in the wind. I get it. It's so good for your soul, clears your head, gives you time to think or to not think. Tom can now get back in the wind and ride. All by himself.
Much of the show has you and the guys haggling about cars and whether you can flip 'em. What is the deal with you and cars? I truly am one of those nutcases about cars and bikes. I've been that way all my life. It's never stopped for me. I lose track of the financial side. It's the eternal conflict with my creative side and finances. Scott [the money guy] and Kevin really have this struggle in real life with me.
You seem like a tight-knit group. I've collected great bikes and cars, but I've also collected some great people. I've got a strong group of guys. They're here because of the talent they can bring to the business, and the shop has been growing and growing, and all of a sudden the television show happens.
Your mom lives in Las Vegas. Does she watch the show? Oh, yeah. Mom's way cool. She's another person who just loves cars. She watches all the time. Gives me her opinion.
Does her opinion still matter? Absolutely. It's the one that counts. I love my mom. Mom and I talk every day.
You were also pretty close with your dad. My dad and I were best friends and business partners. He was the one person who taught me so much about business and about life. He was the rock star of the family. I'm just trying to fill his shoes. When I lost Dad I kinda lost my mind. I went crazy. I had to get busy. I opened the tattoo shop, started a band. All by design to occupy my brain—if I sit idle, I'll go to bad places in my brain.
Talk about traveling with the Christian group Rex Humbard Singers as child. I traveled the entire world and back with my Uncle Rex and my family. The Humbard family and Koker family just meshed as one. There was a bond created there that was truly amazing.
What kind of music did you sing? All gospel music. My father was very well versed in black gospel and Southern gospel. That's what I grew up on.
Are people surprised by that? Nobody can believe that. And I'm still the same guy. I'm a Christian guy. I say my prayers nightly and firmly believe in the man upstairs. I'm very blessed. Like everybody else, I have my bad days. That's what we have the Lord for.
You're in a band, Zito 77, which started after an open mic night at your bar, Count's Vamp'd. After four or five songs, we looked at each other and said, "Are you guys smelling what I'm smelling?" When we started it was decent; over the course of the year my voice came back. I hadn't sung in about 20 years.
Going into the show's second season, business must be good. Absolutely. I feel blessed. About two years ago, the Pawn Stars guys asked if I'd start doing stuff for them. I jumped on it. The economy tanked, and I've seen good guys fold up shop. What I build here are toys. Toys don't do well in a bad economy. I thank God for it every day. My market is now larger than the 2 million people in the Las Vegas Valley. It's the entire nation and other parts of the world.
Do people recognize you now when you pull them over to look at their cars? They now know. It's not so scary. Nine times out of 10 they recognize my cars, but I've done that for years.
Often you try to buy the car on the spot, but they're attached to it. Can you relate? Absolutely. Yesterday was a tough one for me. I rarely sell my personal stuff, but a couple from Dallas came here and fell in love with one of my cars, so I sold it. For the past 24 hours I've been verklempt.
Hanging your head? Absolutely. I feel like I put a piece of me in it. But you feel good when you know it's going to a good home.
You rarely, if ever, sell your cars. What was their trick? They wanted it worse than me.
The Count and his cars
His car collection Koker owns more than 50 restored cars and motorcycles; many are on display at Count's Kustoms. Fans of the show stop in for tours of the showroom floor.
The car that began it all A 1966 Mustang GT that his father drove piqued his interest—white with blue stripes. Koker still drives the car today. "My father bought it when I was 9. That started the whole thing. He bought it from a gentleman in Cleveland who kept it in a carpeted, heated garage. I'd go in there and look under the hood."
Favorite car "It's hard for me. I don't know. I love so many different cars for so many different reasons. I'm a huge Shelby fan, the Mustangs from the '60s."
On driving his collection "I'll bust 'em out on a regular basis. This weekend I'm going to bust out my superfly Cadillac Eldorado with Dunham Coach work. It was in several blaxploitation moves, sold to a pimp in New York; now I got it for myself. It's so pimpy, it's disgusting. This is the only the third one I've seen."


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Pan-Seared Flank Steak with Shiitake Mushrooms and Pumpkin Seed Sauce Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:20 minutes
- 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
- 3/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- 1 medium garlic clove, chopped (about 1 teaspoon)
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 3 to 4 tablespoons fresh juice from 3 to 4 limes
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 pound flank steak
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 8 ounces shiitake mushrooms, wiped clean, ends trimmed
Heat a large 12-inch cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Add pumpkin seeds and toast, stirring often with a wooden spoon, until lightly browned, but not burnt. Transfer pumpkin seeds to a blender, turn off the heat, and wipe out the skillet.
Add cilantro, garlic, and olive oil to the blender and process until pumpkin seeds are well chopped. Transfer to a medium bowl and add 3 tablespoons of lime juice and season to taste with salt and pepper. Taste, and add another tablespoon of lime juice if necessary.
Season flank steak with a generous pinch of salt and pepper on both sides. Heat canola oil in the cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Carefully set steak in the skillet and cook, flipping every 2 minutes, until browned on the outside and center registers 130°F on an instant-read thermometer for medium-rare, about 8 minutes total. Transfer steak to a large plate and let rest.
Once skillet has cooled slightly, remove all but 1 tablespoon of fat in the skillet, and turn heat to medium. Add the mushrooms and stir well. Cook, stirring often and scraping up any browned bits, until mushrooms have released their water and are tender, about 8 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Slice flank steak thinly against the grain. Spoon some of the pesto onto a plate and top with the slices of steak. Serve immediately with mushrooms.
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By Sarah Ripple
The architectural use of stone changed dramatically with the development of modern steel frame technology in the late nineteenth century, which resulted in the transition from stone as a load bearing material to a thin veneer. As with every many technology shifts in architecture, thin stone veneer experienced a period of trial and error from 1949-1980, and it was applied without real precedence or a comprehensive understanding of how it would perform (as per my own definition stone veneer is less than 3" in thickness). This reduction in stone thickness for cladding purposes required a rethinking of the systems for attachment to the structural framework, materials and detailing, and the stone selection process. Consequently, the modern architecture movement parallels the period of greatest technological change within stone veneer development.
Modern thin stone veneer buildings, although now of appropriate age for landmarking or preservation efforts are not necessarily held in such high historical regard as Modern glass curtain wall structures. The preservation of these buildings has increasingly become an issue as the structures have reached or neared the end of their service lives. Sensitive repair or restoration of such a complex system requires a thoughtful, informed approach, and should include an understanding of the historic technology and aesthetic.
It is difficult to determine which first prompted the use of stone as a thin veneer - the technology or the aesthetic - as they seemed to have occurred concomitantly. Aesthetic preferences shifted from an architectural tradition based on historic, European architectural styles to those of the Modern movement. Heavy ornamentation gave way to a very monolithic, spare language, utilizing manmade, repetitive features; the craft aesthetic gave way to the machine. The book by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock The International Style presented a new idea of the wall where "the skin or veneer of a structure should be detailed to express a thin, continuous surface," and materials such as "painted stucco or tile…aluminum, thin slabs of marble or granite, and glass, opaque and transparent" were called out specifically for use. This desire for clean, sleek facades devoid of any classical or traditional ornamentation, allowed stone, a conventional building material, to reemerge for a new, modern purpose.
While stone is one of the oldest building materials known to man, the increased complexity of the thin stone veneer system necessitates an extensive evaluation of the material as well as its intended application during the stone selection process. The Modern architecture movement was the first time period when stone was consistently used in 1 ½" - 3" thicknesses, and when the application of stone changed wholly from a load bearing to a thin veneer use, the desired natural characteristics for stone were also changed. Traditional, bearing masonry typically cubic in form could accommodate weathering and deterioration to an extent simply due to the sheer size; for this reason, soft materials such as sandstone and limestone, which were relatively easy to quarry, were commonly utilized. The impact of weathering is significantly greater, and the durability of stone is significantly more important. As thin stone veneer emerged, since it no longer carried any load, the important performance criteria transferred from compressive strength to the durability of stone as defined by the level of absorption, density, and flexural strength. Granite and marble succeeded as thin veneer due to their higher density and level of absorption characteristics while sandstone and limestone limited to thickness over three inches.
The decade of the 1960s represents a seminal point in the development of thin stone veneer systems when enough of the system's limitations were understood to have implemented many standards that still stand today, but much had yet to be fully resolved. The elemental issues of thermal movement, moisture intrusion, and structural loading, were understood fully in theory, and building designs from that period illustrated this by incorporating expansion joints, plastic jointing materials and configuration, and various types of moisture control. The materials and suggested locations for expansion joints have changed over time, but the concept of using plastic joints to accommodate thermal movement is a method still used in contemporary construction. Improvements were made on the early jointing materials, and the means for moisture control underwent revisions that continue today. The steady progress sealants have made since the 1960s has most likely prompted the greatest change in wall efficiency; the ability to both prevent water infiltration and maintain a plastic joint was a huge achievement. The anchorage systems, another technology that underwent great improvement, experienced a distinct increase in the level of adjustability between 1950 and 1980. Movement from thermal expansion and structural loading could be accommodated through anchors with adjustability, and veneer walls were made much more efficient when on-site adjustments could be made during construction. The progress in thin stone veneer technology from the 1960s to today was in the form of ongoing and incremental refinement, rather than total transformation, because many of the key aspects of thin stone veneer detailing and construction were established at that time.
However, missing at this time was empirical performance data due to the relative novelty of the system. Performance issues with early thin stone veneer wall systems arose in the decades following completion. Certain problems occurred due to inclinations inherent in stone. For instance, thermal hysteresis, a catastrophic stone phenomena where the stone shows visible signs of flexure and bowing, prompted the total recladding of Finlandia Hall (Helsinki, Finland; Alvar Aalto, 1971) and the Amoco Building (Chicago, IL; Edward Durell Stone, 1974), both of which were clad in a fine-grained, white marble. Other thin stone veneer structures have required less dramatic means for repair.
The buildings of Lincoln Center, clad in travertine, underwent a repair program not twenty years after completion due to cracking, soiling and decay, bedding plane delamination, and outward displacement of the stone. Many of the issues were a direct result of vertically orienting the travertine bedding plane, which allowed water infiltration through the length of the stone causing cracking and delamination from the interior; the decision to vertically orient the stone was made wholly out of the desire for a certain aesthetic. Fortunately, preservation efforts allowed much of the travertine to be saved using methods such as Dutchmen repairs for panels having only small pockets of decay and epoxy-injected stainless steel threaded rods and cramps to secure cracked panels. Some replacement was necessary for panels with large amounts of decay. The repair program began with a close up investigation of the buildings, careful examination of selected travertine anchorages, and laboratory analyses of the stone. The investigation was thorough and took every measure to explore the integrity of the system in its entirety. Other non-destructive methods of investigation are available and may be used when possible to assess thin stone veneer in a way sympathetic to the materials.
Cracking or outward displacement of panels are common occurrences and can be caused by thermal movement or improper structural loading. However, these problems are also potentially attributed to use of ferrous materials, inadequate quality control during construction, or lack of maintenance. Failure issues occur also simply because materials, especially caulking and damp proofing, have relatively short service lives. The caulking and weatherproofing will eventually weather and fail, and if the materials are not maintained or replaced accordingly, moisture will infiltrate and detrimentally affect the system. Eventual replacement of caulking and sealants is necessary and expected; a lack of diligence to maintain the material integrity can lead to much larger repairs and great preservation concerns. However, routine maintenance can also diminish the material integrity if employed without knowledge of the historic value and technology. Insensitive or uninformed repairs have the potential to harm historic buildings as much as inaction. Unfortunately, preservation standards from the Secretary of the Interior do not differentiate Modern masonry or thin stone veneer buildings from traditional, bearing masonry, and leave much room for inappropriate repair or alteration. Understanding the design and construction of Modern thin stone veneer structures is essential to appropriate repair and preservation.
The lessons learned from several generations of thin stone veneer buildings is that their clean, contemporary lines belie the sophisticated technologies addressing structural loads, thermal movement, fastener detailing and water infiltration. If this technology is not fully understood, or if the systems are not properly maintained over time, failures will occur. However, the abundance of successfully performing thin stone structures in use today proves that with sensitive detailing, construction, and maintenance, combined with appropriate preservation standards, these structures can contribute to our architectural heritage.
Sarah Ripple graduated from Columbia University this past May with a master of science in Historic Preservation. Her thesis, entitled "The Evolution of Modern Thin Stone Veneer Systems, 1950-1980," covers in greater depth the information presented here. She will be presenting at the Association for Preservation Technology International 2012 Conference in Charleston as part of the session Knowledge in Practice: Three Traditional Materials and Assemblies…Up Close on Monday, October 1.


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|Eicher, Susan
|Mckee, C
|Carroll, Jeffery - Jeff Carroll
|Johnson, T
Submitted to: Society for Leukocyte Biology Meetings Proceedings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/8/2001
Publication Date: 11/8/2001
Citation: EICHER, S.D., MCKEE, C.A., CARROLL, J.A., JOHNSON, T.R. ORAL ASCORBIC ACID AND BETA-GLUCAN AFFECT CYTOKINE EXPRESSION DIFFRERENTLY AFTER AN LPS CHALLENGE. SOCIETY FOR LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY MEETINGS PROCEEDINGS. 2001. V. 1. ABSTRACT P. 85.
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Technical Abstract: Beta-glucan (Bg) from yeast and ascorbic acid (AA)can modulate innate immunity. Our objective was to investigate acute cytokine responses after a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge in swine given an oral Bg product and an AA product. Pigs (n=8/trt) received carrier only (Control), a Bg product (2.5% of the diet), AA (75 ppm), or both (Both) from birth for 28 days, then LPS was delivered i.v. (150 ug/kg). Three hours after the LPS challenge, pigs were euthanized, a lung lavage used to obtain pulmonary alveolar macrophages (PAMs), and lung, spleen, and liver tissues collected and total RNA extracted for semi-quantitative RT-PCR. Interleukin-1 (IL-1) expression in PAMs was greater for pigs receiving BG than for the Both and Control pigs (P<0.05) and tended (P=0.06) to be greater than that of AA supplemented pigs. AA pigs had the least IL-1 expression in spleens (P<0.05) compared to BG and Both treatments and tended to be less (P=0.06) than Il-1 expression in the spleens of Control pigs. BG also increased IL-1 expression in the liver compared to the AA supplemented pigs (P< 0.05). IL-1 receptor antagonist (Ra) expression tended to increase with BG compared to Controls in PAMs and liver expression of IL-1Ra of pigs receiving Both tended to be greater than AA pigs (P< 0.10). TNF-alpha expression in lung tissue tended (P< 0.10) to be greatest for BG and Both pigs compared to AA and Control pigs. TNF- alpha expression was not detectable in PAMs, spleen cells, or liver cells. Bg and VC delivered together improved growth rates, but did not enhance or suppress acute cytokines 9which are necessary, but can be detrimental). This combination may be an enhancer of piglet well-being if antibiotics can not be given prophylactically.