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I have to admit I am a bit concerned with the impending trade deadline quickly closing in on us Twins fans. Some of you are adamant about the necessity to make a trade and some of you are equally apprehensive about making a trade.
I see both sides, and I am very worried that a few folks on this site might access the end of their sanity with a trade/non-trade and reach and breach their breaking point. I have a few suggestions for those who might feel this is a feasible outcome.
Liriano pitched a decent game tonight. He was mentally fragile as he usually seems to be, but made it through without incident. It might have made the game 45 minutes longer . (Im not Bud Selig and game length is of no concern to me.)
Liriano is greatly reminding me of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade he needs someone to watch over him at all times. Tonight Drew Butera was Lirianos Charlie Simms. I am fearful of Lirianos mental shortcomings. He has great stuff, but seemingly without
God Damn. You young galoots really have a lot of time on your hands. This computer world thiggamajiggy really dominates a lot of your lives.
When I was in my 20s, I was out with my friends and carousing with the lovely young ladies. You young bucks really put too much time into baseball, trying to dig up some weird scientific statistics. In the 50s you knew who a good ballplayer was The Splendid Splinter, Stan the Man, Ted Kluszewski, Nellie Fox, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Vernon,
Hey Rickie, Thanks for your apology. It is not necessary though. You were just playing baseball to the best of your ability. Maybe the collision scenario was a bit unorthodox, but what the hey - things happen. If I sounded put off by it in my after game comments, I apologize. I was frustrated by being injured on the play and felt that this injury might keep me out for a handful of games.
As you know, I am from St. Paul and I share the same passion as our Twins fans do - as I am a Huge
I love the Twins Daily Site. It presents to me a lot of insight, angles and intelligence.
I love the metrics also, and I understand it is a sabermetric dominated site - but in a way, I find the Twins Daily site a dominated platform for "Metrics" individuals and it can become quite stifling for some.
There is seemingly a small amount who play it by the vest and display their emotional quotient, but they are on this site hoping for their chance to have a voice...
While traversing the threads, blogs, and articles posted on Twins Daily, I really like that this site has sabremetric analysts, purists, extremists, and the alternative of thought. That is super great, but I am starting to feel that the whole trade scenario talk, speculation, and haphazard desire to execute could hamstring this franchise even more.
When I was growing up, there seemed to be an imbedded loyalty to our favorite and best Twins players and they stuck around and we were
No, I am not hear to sell you jewelry.
What a shock! The Twin's Salvage crew this year is a couple of guys who no one would have expected to make any kind of impact. Scott Diamond and PJ Walters. I'll give Diamond a little credit as we traded an interesting prospect for him to retain his rights (Billy Bullock) because of the rule 5 draft. Walters is a little more drifty. Circa the movie "Men at Work", Diamond and Walters are our modern day Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen
First of all, put Eddie Rosario up for sale in the "Adopt a Prospect" forum. As of this blog I am finished with this "Twins Daily" stuff. For most of the time I enjoyed my time on this sight, but seemingly felt stifled as my blogs/threads/comments did not enact much response. Yes, in a way I can see why they did not. It seems like I made a mistake and should have left this sight well alone. The hierarchy on this sight have made it seemingly clear they want it fairly straight
I hope no one can actually feel righteous in blaming Bill Smith for all of the Twin's current woes. Although Bill Smith held the title of General Manager from 2007-2011, my feeling is he was more of a figure head than a voice.
Being that Smith was more of a financial administrator than a field administrator, I believe that Terry Ryan had his hand in the drafting and trades post 2007.
Free agency and contracts: This one is a bit confusing, but after TR resigned, Smith signed
I have long been a steadfast Gardenhire supporter. He has been a very good to great manager during his tenure. I realize a lot of fans are calling for his dismissal because of the last year of Twins baseball and some having been wanting his head on a platter for a much longer period of time. At this juncture, I now agree it is time for a change in coaching and managerial leadership.
Ron Gardenhire:
Gardy has lost his voice: No matter how hot around the collar or critical
I must declare from the onset of this article that I am a Twins fan tried and true. from 1997-2000 I was a victim to their horrible performances, In 1998 a burgeoning slugger made the team following spring training. His name was David Ortiz, he didn't do too much offensively to warrant any negativity and he was sent down. From what I can remember, he was not doing things the way they wanted them to be done. The Twins that year had a horrible offense and if my memory serves me right, Molitor was
If the Dominoes continue to fall like they are on April 22, 2012 in Mid-Late June. What will the Twins Brass do? Will they ride it out or will they gut the roster - trading veterans and cutting middling players, bringing up the young fellas to test their engines?
Pros for Gutting the Roster:
Getting a little value for the veteran starting pitchers and position players we have through trades. Maybe Span, Willingham or Morneau could bring something of exquisite value. All of
Wooooo... how do I even start this thread/blog/or whatever. It seems that most think Parmelee should be in AAA or they think he is a butcher on defense. How did this happen? Parmelee for the most part, if my memory is correct was projected to be a good defensive 1B from the time he was drafted and he has done nothing to prove that statement any different, Parmelee must now prove himself to be an efficient outfielder, he might not have wheels, but he seems to have a proficient arm, not much different
This just may be a waste of everyone's time, but what the hell - it could be fun, boring or whatever... Let's Do It!
Opening day Line-Up 2015 (I will include a closer):
C - Chris Herrmann
1B - Chris Parmelee
2B - Eddie Rosario
SS - Brian Dozier
3B - Miguel Sano
LF - Joe Mauer
CF - Aaron Hicks
RF - Joe Benson
DH - Justin Morneau
SP - Mark Appel
C - Glen Perkins
Let the games begin!


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LONDON — 67 Brook Street, Mayfair, is sometimes referred to as the house that Cream built. It predates Cream by quite a bit, actually, but that's not what they mean. What they mean is that this is the house that Cream bought. The man they bought it for is Robert Stigwood.
But Stigwood hasn't spent much time in London lately; the pressures of running an international entertainment empire keep taking him to New York and Los Angeles and Bermuda – places like that. His staff carries on bravely, but there's an emptiness they cannot fill, an emptiness which takes the form of a large rear office on the first floor – the office with the crystal chandelier, the fake fireplace and an inch-thick slab of glass, set atop four stone lions, which serves as a desk. It is Stigwood's office, and it has been mostly empty for about five years now.
At the moment, however, Al Coury, president of RSO (Robert Stigwood Organization, naturally) Records, and Robin Gibb, one of the Bee Gees, are sitting in two of Stiggy's leather chairs having what Robin would call a "chin-wag." This particular chin-wag is focused on the Bee Gees' studio work in progress at the Honky Chateau in France and on the lifestyle that prevails there.
Al Coury, inquisitive on his first visit to London since taking over RSO Records a year ago, stands up to sniff the air in Robert's office. "All those famous albums," he sighs. "All those deals . . . "
"You must find yourself spending a lot of time on the music," Coury observes. "Well," Robin retorts, "there's nothing else to do."
It is now early February; since the beginning of January the Bee Gees have been polishing their new album, Here at Last . . . Bee Gees . . . Live, and writing material for Saturday Night Fever, a film Stigwood is producing for Paramount. In July they will go to Toronto to record the soundtrack. In September, October and November they'll be on location for the filming of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, an RSO musical extravaganza in which they'll costar with Peter Frampton.
The demand on the Bee Gees for recorded product has been strong. Children of the World, their last album, is very close to going double platinum, and to intensify the action RSO recently released two oldies albums – a greatest-hits package and a one-disc version of Odessa, their commercially unsuccessful concept album recorded in 1969. Bee Gees . . . Live, recorded in L.A. in December, is their only live LP, but it was required by their new five-year, eight-album contract with RSO – and besides, as Robin puts it, "These particular tapes warranted being brought out."
Clearly, these people are in business – show business. "Show business," says Robin Gibb, "is something you have to have in you when you're born." When Robin and his two brothers, Maurice and Barry, were born on the Isle of Man (their father was the bandleader on the IOM-Liverpool ferry) show business was a grand and glorious tradition. It isn't the Bee Gees' fault that in the late Fifties, when their act was just getting started in Australia, show business lay dead and pitiful like a fractured racehorse. But you can't fault them for never quite comprehending that. The Bee Gees, after all, were never conscious of what was going on around them; that was part of their appeal. Even in their heyday they were throwbacks, the last of the Sixties innocents.
Actually, it's a little unfair to call 67 Brook Street the house that Cream built. Cream and the Bee Gees together formed the foundation of the Stigwood Organization. The Bee Gees paid for these gracious Regency digs as much as anybody. The Bee Gees just weren't very – noticeable. And it's always been that way.
Robin Gibb is sitting behind Robert Stigwood's desk, looking dwarfed, happy, but also slightly nervous. After 20 years in show business and ten years of international stardom, it is still characteristic of him to be uncomfortable about interviews.
I mention songwriting and Robin breaks in indignantly: "No one has ever talked to us about our songwriting! That's always amazed me. I don't think people even realize that we write our own songs.
"It doesn't bother, me, but – you know that Playboy poll? It has a songwriting section, and this year we're not even in it. There's people in there who haven't had any success for the last two years. We've had two platinum albums, all our own music, and three hit singles practically at one time on the Hot 100. At this moment we stand to be given the, uh, whatever that award is for songwriting. It's just that they don't know their business. They don't make it their business to know how many records the Bee Gees have written. I call it just – musical ignorance!"
The Bee Gees' songwriting talent is quite extraordinary. They write hits the way most people write postcards. They write them on demand – any time, anyplace, on any subject. They've written a lot of them while sitting on staircases. "Jive Talkin'," one of their latest hits, was written on a causeway between Miami and Miami Beach. "I Can't See Nobody," one of their early hits, was written in the dressing room of a club. The Bee Gees were in their midteens at the time, sharing the dressing room with a stripper.
When they were all at the Honky Chateau, Stigwood rang up with instructions for the theme song he wanted written for Saturday Night Fever. According to Barry Gibb, the instructions went like this: "Give me eight minutes – eight minutes, three moods. I want frenzy at the beginning. Then I want some passion. And then I want some w-i-i-i-ld frenzy!" They wrote the song "Stayin' Alive" in two hours; it fills the bill. A disco tune, it has real jive precision, like a sleek black Mercedes with an ashtray full of coke. Saturday Night Fever is about the night life of some Italian disco dudes in Brooklyn, but the Bee Gees didn't know that when they wrote "Stayin' Alive." They say it was just an accident that the song they came, up with is as well-tailored lyrically as it is musically: Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother/You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
They've written four other tunes for the film – "quite staggering," says Stigwood, "particularly as they did it all in a week." Robin is nonchalant. "It's obviously easy," he says. "We did it." They did it the way they always do: sitting down together, throwing out lines, not writing anything down – none of them read or write music – storing it in their heads until they're ready to record. "We've all got the same kind of brain wave," Robin explains.
Stigwood has that kind of brain wave too, although his seems to be tuned to a slightly finer signal. After the band sent him demo tapes of "Stayin' Alive," for example, he wanted to know if they could stick a brief, slow piece in the middle of the wild frenzy. "Robert has this thing about songs that break up in the middle with a slow piece," says Robin. "He did the same thing with 'Nights on Broadway.'" Stigwood is as modest as the brothers themselves. "I can't claim any contribution to their songwriting," he smiles. "I wish I could. I'd be taking their royalties, I assure you."
Stiggy is right to be modest. The Bee Gees have been writing songs that way since Robin was seven years old. They were living in Manchester then – twin brothers Robin and Maurice, older brother Barry, older sister Lesley and baby brother Andy, all living with their mother and dad, the bandleader. They were part of a little singing troupe that came on in a Manchester cinema before the queen – before the picture of the queen they show between movies, that is.
They picked their name in 1958. Gibb père had moved his family to Brisbane earlier that year in an attempt to escape the grim lot of a working-class bandleader in postwar England. The brothers moved on to bigger Australian venues – places like army clubs, where they performed as a novelty act.
Their father, Robin says, didn't push them into show business – but once he saw they had it in their blood, he threw himself behind them. Barry and the twins quit school; their father abandoned his career; and the Bee Gees got serious about what they were doing.
Harmonies they already had. Their father taught them how to work the audience. He was good at reading people, too; he could tell if somebody was up to no good. He took care of them. "If he would've had his opportunity in his own life," says Barry, "he would have been a big star. But he didn't, so it was through us that he was going to make it."
In August 1962 the brothers signed with Festival Records, one of Australia's major labels. A few months later the family moved to Sydney, the center of the record industry. Over the next four years Festival released a dozen Bee Gees singles and one greatest-hits album. They all flopped. Finally, the label boss told them they'd have to go. But then they met a fan named Ozzie Byrne who owned a recording studio. Ozzie gave them unlimited studio time – unlike Festival, which typically whisked them in and out in 30 minutes – and the band came up with "Spicks and Specks," their first Number One single in Australia.
"It doesn't matter if you become the biggest thing in Australia," Maurice says now, "because the furthest away you're known is New Guinea and Tasmania." "Spicks and Specks" was released in November 1966; in January, the Bee Gees booked passage with Ozzie Byrne to England. Their parents went along as well. "They wanted to stay in Australia," Robin says, "but we said no."
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I write about real estate markets, outrageous homes and cities.
Want to roll out of bed and pick up a cup of single-origin java from a coffee shop on your corner? Or grab a gourmet grilled cheese sandwich from a food truck parked down the street? Does a dream weekend include foraging for organic veggies at a farmers market and watching the latest hot indie band play on a small stage through the wee hours of the morning? Then, my hipster friend, Los Angeles' Silver Lake is the neighborhood for you.
Silver Lake takes the top spot on Forbes' inaugural list of America's Best Hipster Neighborhoods. Nestled between Echo Park and Los Feliz, the trendy community boasts some of the nation's most lauded food trucks and farmers markets, a multicultural blend of residents with eclectic professions, and a booming arts scene. Even the buildings exude an avant garde aesthetic a hipster could love: Silver Lake is home to some of the most celebrated modernist architecture in the country, including Richard Neutra's VDL Research House and John Lautner's Silvertop.
"It is amazing how many artists, musicians and designers and more traditionally 'hipster' occupations live in Silver Lake," says Dabney Lawless, a vice president of Nextdoor.com, a private social network for neighborhoods. "It just blows every other neighborhood away." In other words, if you want to slurp Pabst Blue Ribbon in your skinny jeans, you won't be alone.
Behind The Numbers
Merriam-Webster somewhat vaguely defines a "hipster" as "a person who is unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns." While what exactly qualifies someone as a hipster may be up for debate, to compile our list, we took a quantitative approach to determining the 20 places in which hipsterdom is most likely to flourish.
The San Francisco-based startup Nextdoor.com helped us dig through data on more than 250 neighborhoods in the biggest U.S. cities. We assessed each area's walkability according to Walkscore.com; the number of neighborhood coffee shops per capita (with some help from NPD Group's report); the assortment of local food trucks (and their ranking according to Zagat's); the number and frequency of farmers markets; the selection of locally owned bars and restaurants; and the percentage of residents who work in artistic occupations. We also factored in Nextdoor's Neighborhood "Hipness" Index, which is based on how often words associated with hipness (for example art, gallery, designer, musician) appeared on each Nextdoor neighborhood's site pages, and Nextdoor conducted a survey in which members sounded off on their communities.
Silver Lake is followed closely in second place by another Golden State hotspot, San Francisco's Mission District. The city's oldest neighborhood boasts a bevy of mom-and-pop eateries and watering holes, thrift shops and galleries. And artists here like to leave their mark: the Mission has the highest concentration of street murals in the city, according to the San Francisco Travel Association. Lawless notes that rents are lower in the Mission than many other city neighborhoods, making it "a great neighborhood for young trendsetters."
In third place is the unofficial East Coast birthplace of hipsterism, Williamsburg. The Brooklyn enclave has it all: coffee shops, food trucks, nightlife, farmers markets, restaurants, boutiques and a gaggle of artsy residents sporting Keds sneakers and idiosyncratic tattoos.
Williamsburg may have spawned the hipster craze, but the neighborhood is evolving in a direction that's far less hospitable to the patchily employed, fedora-wearing crowd. "The more successful neighborhoods like Williamsburg become in attracting people, the real estate prices go up and a lot of the urban pioneers end up moving on," says David Morley, a research associate with the American Planning Association, a nonprofit educational group for community developers.
Real estate prices in the north Brooklyn neighborhood have been steadily rising, says Justin Daly, a Williamsburg-based realtor with MNS. His firm reports that Williamsburg rents in July were 23% higher than a year ago. More interesting, as of June, the mean rent for a studio apartment in Williamsburg was $200 higher than for a comparable (albeit smaller) apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, according to the firm's research. It has led to a slight exodus of artists and a new influx of families. (See also: "The Hollow Boom Of Brooklyn")
Portland, Oregon's Pearl District, which has been undergoing urban renewal since the 2000s, has a similar migration tale to tell. The neighborhood, currently hosting MTV's latest edition of "The Real World," is No. 5 on our list thanks to its intense caffeination (it has the second-highest concentration of coffee shops of neighborhoods on our list), a flourishing foodie culture, and a colorful collection of art spaces. As gentrification progresses, some hipsters are fleeing the rising costs of new high-rise condos and warehouse-to-loft conversions for the less established (and less pricey) Mississippi Ave and the Alberta Arts District neighborhoods. (Probably the MTV reality show doesn't help either.)
In fourth place on our list is Chicago's Wicker Park. Morley, a Wicker Park resident himself, touts its easy transit access, range of housing types, variety of shopping and services, and lively streetscape that affords a high degree of social interaction. "I love being able to do my shopping in the neighborhood and being able to see lots of people in the streets."
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Bill, I agree with you somewhat….The famous phrase "What's in is out, what's out is in"… To be honest, I'm very well traveled and I still didn't hear of many of those spots in the top 20. They may become a bit more famous now that Forbes published their list. The neighborhoods on the list I noticed, weren't tourist traps. I was surprised to see my neighborhood on the list, although very well deserved.
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Thanks Forbes! Vice Magazine can EAT IT! Yea, Kate Rhodes can eat it, too! Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! California B*tches!!! Now, I'm gonna go have a cocktail in a jar at The Thirsty Crow and wear my highwaters (skinny jeans are out B*TCHES!) and tip over shopping carts. Silver Lake BLOWS away the rest, did you read that part?!? Alright, I'm done.
Nice. I just finished a big series of paintings of the hipsters in Silver Lake (& a few other LA hipster neighborhoods). It was called the Little Hipsters. http://laist.com/2012/09/05/little_hipsters_of_los_angeles.php you can also find them on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/littlehipsters
Cool. Did you paint 6 years ago?
You clearly did not visit New Orleans, or did very little research there beyond looking at where the art galleries are located. I mean you gave that away with these laughable lines: "Forget the French Quarter, NOLA's brand of hipster hangs here. The neighborhood, also known as the Arts District…"
1. The French Quarter is full of tourists and freakshows, but very few hipsters.
2. No one in New Orleans ever calls it the "Arts District," ever. It is merely a nickname that shows up every so often on paper.
The only people who hang out in the Warehouse District are wealthy old folks and business people and yuppies. It is probably one of the least hip neighborhoods in the entire city. Wow, research fail. You could have said "Uptown" and been at least partially right.
Regarding DC: the Truckeroo festival is nowhere near H Street NE.
There are no regular food trucks on H Street.
The street only has two places to get coffee/tea.
However there are a bazillion places to get liquor, wigs and your nails done. Maybe that contributed to the inclusion of H Street?
Maybe ask at least one person who lives in Portland before posting incorrect facts about the Pearl District. Just a thought.
-Grumpy Portlander


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Since 1973 Excelsior Youth Center has provided effective treatment for adolescent girls, ages 11-18 (up to age 21 with court-order or state approved waiver), who have struggled with social and emotional problems. Situated on a 33-acre campus overlooking the Rocky Mountains in the Denver-Metro Area, Excelsior provides a Continuum of Care that includes Short and Long Term Residential Treatment, Day Treatment, Short Term Intensive Residential Treatment, Respite, Outpatient and Home-Based Services.
Under the framework of Reality Therapy, girls participate in a comprehensive treatment program which uses strength-based goals and objectives and includes individual, group and family counseling designed to promote effective and healthy choices as well personal responsibility. Treatment is facilitated by experienced staff including: psychiatrists, psychologists, master's level psychotherapists and direct care staff. Additionally, Excelsior provides a fully accredited on-campus school with licensed teachers and educational diagnosticians, small classes, behavioral support, tutoring and a bullying prevention program. Excelsior works with a diverse population of adolescent girls from Colorado and out-of-state referred by Child Welfare Agencies, Probation Departments, School Districts, and private individuals. Excelsior's facility is "staff-secure" and staff are trained to work effectively with girls that are struggling with self-harm and behaviors that are considered dangerous. Excelsior's treatment program is highly individualized to the needs of the client and her family.
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August 1, 2014
Cavalier junior Somdev Devvarman (Chennai, India) became the first men's tennis player in ACC history to win an NCAA Singles Championship, downing Georgia's John Isner in the final Monday night at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. In one of the most dramatic finals in the 123-year history of the tournament, Devvarman scored a 7-6 (7), 4-6, 7-6 (2) win over the tournament's No. 1 seed. Click the link for the video.


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KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — A settlement fund set up to pay plaintiffs from lawsuits stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill still has about $1 million left to disperse.
About 900 people haven't claimed money from the Exxon Qualified Settlement Fund.
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- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Mix together the pistachios and bread crumbs in a bowl. Beat the egg whites in a separate bowl, and set aside.
- Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper, gently dip them into the beaten egg whites, and then press into the pistachio-bread crumb mixture to coat. Gently toss between your hands so any coating that hasn't stuck can fall away.
- Heat the oil and butter in an oven-safe skillet over medium heat. Gently place the chicken breasts into the hot skillet, and fry for 5 to 8 minutes, until the bottom coating is golden brown and crisp.
- Turn the chicken over in the skillet, and place the skillet in the preheated oven. Bake for about 30 minutes, until the chicken is no longer pink, the juices run clear, and the top coating is lightly browned.
- While the chicken is baking, melt 1 teaspoon of butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat, add the shallots, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes until tender. Pour in the wine, drop in the cherries, and cook and stir for about 10 minutes to reduce wine to a glaze. Pour in the orange juice, chicken stock, and orange zest, and cook and stir about 20 more minutes, until sauce is reduced and thickened.
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This was perfect as written! My entire family loved it. You have to allow the sauce to cook long enough to reduce or else it will not be thick. This is going in my 'Family Favorites' file, and it would be fantastic to serve on holidays and for company. 5 stars all the way!
I hate to only give this 3 stars, because I think it has potential, and I think some of the problem was with me! First of all, I could not find shelled pistachios in my store, so it took MUCH longer than 20 minutes to prepare as I had to shell 2 c. of nuts! I also browned both sides of the chicken before putting it in the oven which I definitely recommend. I will say the chicken smelled great while it was baking. Now about the sauce...I would cut the amount of shallots in about half. That flavor was overwhelming. And this part was definitley my fault..we are not wine "common sewers" so the red wine I had was probably not very good. And I didn't use fresh orange juice (really, who has time for that?) So my problem was that I had a hard time getting the sauce to reduce and thicken. I turned up the heat and finally I just had to serve it b/c the chicken was done. The chicken did have a very nice flavor, I must say. I will probably give this another try with fewer shallots and better wine and hope for the best.
Didn't mess with the wine or the freshly squeezed juice. I used juice from frozen concentrate and I "reconstituted" the cherries by letting them soak all day in enough Grand Marnier to cover. I'll make extra sauce next time. Seems the more I play with the Grand Marnier the more kitchen fun I have. Hmmmmm.
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I've casually followed scandals regarding the C of S for decades, mostly out of curiousity about the "free personality tests" I'd see as a kid, and later, because of high-profile anti-anonymity/dirty tricks involving the Internet, starting with the outing of the users of the anon.penet.fi remailer. There wasn't an enormous amount of new material in here, though Wright does a good job of spinning out Haggis's remarkable life in Scientology and in the entertainment industry, and, towards the end, some damning material about physical abuse and financial malfeasance from the Church's highest leaders.
I have three or four friends who are second-generation Scientologists, including one guy who met his wife in the Sea Org and is particularly devout. I've always found it hard to reconcile their otherwise-reasonable outlooks with some of the more immediately falsifiable claims made by the Church (for example, the claim that electric charges leave the body when bad memories are recalled, and that enough of this will eventually uncover memories from past lives). This stuff isn't potentially allegorical or a story out of the distant galactic past -- rather, it's an article of faith pertaining to a regular, public ritual that makes scientific claims that are just plain wrong, like, Bill O'Reilly, Mars-doesn't-have-moons wrong. Wright's article illuminates the mindset you have to get into to believe this and still participate in rational discussion on other matters, and this is where the piece shines brightest.
But if the 26,000-word piece drags a bit (and it does), it also provides a vivid look at the way the Church rose to power and the remarkable clash between the Church's culture of secrecy and the Internet's capacity to blow open the doors.
At his house, Haggis finished telling his friends what he had learned. He suggested that they should at least examine the evidence. "I directed them to certain Web sites," he said, mentioning Exscientologykids.com, which was created by three young women who grew up in Scientology and subsequently left. Many stories on the site are from men and women who joined the Sea Org before turning eighteen. One of them was Jenna Miscavige Hill, David Miscavige's niece, who joined when she was twelve. For Hill and many others, formal education had stopped when they entered the Sea Org, leaving them especially ill-prepared, they say, for coping with life outside the church.The Apostate (Thanks, Jack, via Submitterator!)
The stories Haggis found on the Internet of children drafted into the Sea Org appalled him. "They were ten years old, twelve years old, signing billion-year contracts--and their parents go along with this?" Haggis told me. "Scrubbing pots, manual labor--that so deeply touched me. My God, it horrified me!" The stories of the Sea Org children reminded Haggis of child slaves he had seen in Haiti.
Many Sea Org volunteers find themselves with no viable options for adulthood. If they try to leave, the church presents them with a "freeloader tab" for all the coursework and counselling they have received; the bill can amount to more than a hundred thousand dollars. Payment is required in order to leave in good standing. "Many of them actually pay it," Haggis said. "They leave, they're ashamed of what they've done, they've got no money, no job history, they're lost, they just disappear." In what seemed like a very unguarded comment, he said, "I would gladly take down the church for that one thing."
The church says that it adheres to "all child labor laws," and that minors can't sign up without parental consent; the freeloader tabs are an "ecclesiastical matter" and are not enforced through litigation.
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Anonymous says:
@shadowfirebird While Paul Haggis announced he was leaving the Church of Scientology in 2009, this article marks the first time he has spoken publicly about his reasons for leaving. So there you have it, NEW MATERIAL.
carriem says:
"A long (frankly, overlong) piece…"
…coming from *Cory*, no less! heh.
Toxa says:
Old meme is old, but suits those who don't get how come smart ppl believe in that UFO volcano shit:
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree… yeah, makes perfect sense.
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By calling this a "meme", do you mean the meme of cults holding people hostage, extorting them, and taking over their lives? If so, granted. But I don't think reporting on the abuses of Scientology qualify as a "meme", fyi. Its kind of like the wikileak'd cables in my opinion: just because you know the behavior exists doesn't mean reporting on the specifics is useless.
Forteto says:
"I once asked Haggis about the future of his relationship with Scientology. "These people have long memories,†he told me. "My bet is that, within two years, you're going to read something about me in a scandal that looks like it has nothing to do with the church.†He thought for a moment, then said, "I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't.†♦"
Somebody really ought to keep a watch on this….
And frankly, scientolagy is more scary then it looks.
Mark Temporis says:
I'm thinking it's enough of a problem for Haggis that Scientologists will probably be told not to work in his movies. The high-profile, Tom Cruise types are less a problem than the support crews, I'm thinking.
But they'll probably Fair Game him anyway. Come to think, quitting a high-profile cult is a good way for someone to defuse an actual scandal, innit?
Jack says:
Folks, the article is long-winded but it is one of the rare/in-depth POV interviews with someone who is high-profile who has left the "church.â€
A decent blog summary that also links to an NPR episode of "Fresh Air†where Terry Gross interviews Haggis on the subject is here: http://bit.ly/fnMEdh
It's also an extensively fact-checked piece with the Church of Scientology being consulted.
Folks, this is a major rare piece of investigative journalism against these loonballs. May this not be the last one.
Anonymous says:
non sequitur a bit – the austin outlet was right next to the UT campus. we would buy scientology manuals at the UT Library book sales (members would donate them all the time) and use them to mess with the 'personality' testers.
best reaction was the time a HUGE quarter-back kinda guy asked me if i would like a free personality test. i cheerily replied "no thanks – i'm over the bridge!"
he literally had to be physically restrained from killing me, and i heard one of his trainers saying maybe he wasn't ready for the street just yet. his repeated screams of FUCK YOU! drew quite a crowd.
never saw him again.
for more fun, read bald-faced messiah.
Anonymous says:
I liked the article very much. What struck me about the article is that a lot of ex-Scientologists, Haggis included, seem to see value in the day-to-day activities they took part in.
Fooling yourself can be a useful kind of therapy.
spriggan says:
I couldn't read past this line;
"Jim Gordon, a veteran police officer in Los Angeles, and also an aspiring actor,"
Without thinking, "So that's what he did before the bright lights of Gotham and the rank of Commissioner?!"
I think my brain must be wired wrong and I need a *personality test*
Anonymous says:
Fact check: Bill O'Reilly never said that mars has no moon :-D
shadowfirebird says:
I found the article badly-written, in that I failed to see where the news was.
I mean, specifically, that I read of Paul Haggis' public disenfranchisement with the church over a year ago — didn't I? What's different now? Or is this just old news rehashed.
Perhaps the article did explain this and I didn't see it. It's too long, I agree, and not engaging enough.
(I'm not interested in Scientology especially. But I am interested in Mr Haggis; he's written a lot of stuff that I really enjoyed.)
bjacques says:
It may be old news to you and a few others here; on forums like http://www.whyweprotest.net, you'll probably learn of high-profile defections a few hours of them happening–but it's certainly news to a lot of bOINGbOING readers, judging from comments to an earlier, similar post on Scientology. It's almost certainly news to New Yorker readers, many of whom are vaguely aware of Scientology's existence beyond "that thing Tom Cruise is in."
Scientology is much bigger in LA than in New York, so the New Yorker article necessarily includes a lot of background, but researched beyond the usual regurgitation of Scientology PR and the detail that Tom Cruise won't let you interview him about it. And Scientology as an organization have been up to a lot of no good. 26 pages barely cover it.
shadowfirebird says:
Actually it looks like I read it in The Guardian.
October 2009: "Film-maker Paul Haggis quits Scientology over gay rights stance" – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/26/paul-haggis-scientology-prop-8
So, AFAIC, old news.
Snig says:
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teapot says:
Just present your receipt to any of the moderators and you can get your money back.
Church of scientology: as deluded as most churches, but more twitchy when it comes to criticism. Brian Dunning recently had an ep. on the Scienschmologists http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4242
Interestingly, he was not very critical of the church, which seems at odds with the fact that many ex-members feel robbed or abused after their ordeal. Brian does give an excellent summary of Hubbard's life history which demonstrates what an unqualified charlatan he was.
shadowfirebird says:
Ha! "Lol" as my daughter would (literally) say.
The curse of the internet is old news.
wrybread says:
No, the curse of the internet is curmudgeons such as yourself.
mdh says:
freeloader tab? ^%&* them. %#$% that. It's called childhood, way to ruin it.
awjtawjt says:
I didn't even know they had boats. If they have boats, they need officers. Officers are expensive to train, so no wonder they make 'em sign billion year contracts. That will weed out the uncommitted.
Bob Stanley says:
I agree the article could have used a bit of editing (the parts about Haggis felt shoehorned in) but much of the detail was necessary to fully understand episodes like the sadistic game of musical chairs.
Anonymous says:
That length is nothing, really, given that I have read an entire book about the history of Scientology (A Piece of Blue Sky, by Jon Atack) and found the entire thing fascinating and horrifying. This article may be long and old news to those of us who already follow the information, but anything that gets the story out to a broad audience is worth it, especially if it keeps people from continuing to fall prey to their trap.
Anonymous says:
Nothing the Scientologists have done is any worse than the things the Christian Catholic Church has done for 1500 years, and is still doing today.
Do not think I am defending Scientology; far from it. I'm condemning Catholicism! The damn Catholics have been actively causing trouble for my family for hundreds of years; we left Europe to get away from them, but the bastards followed us.
They burned my wife's ancestor Joseph Priestley out of his house for questioning the divine right of kings, and put a price on my great-great grandfather's head for being a Puritan, and most recently they developed the land above my house (to pay the vig for child sexual abuse, no I am NOT KIDDING) and used their complete control over the local development and land use committees to send all the traffic from their (retroactively legalized) new housing development down my privately owned road.
Fuckers are evil. They BURN PEOPLE to death – and I'm not talking about the Middle Ages, check out what Catholics are up to in Africa, there's more than one reason Islam is growing down there.
Scientologists are Catholic wannabes. Maybe they should be exterminated before they reach Catholic levels of power.
Anonymous says:
Also the British! Those bastards are worse than scientologists, too! I mean, hell, they oppressed my ancestors, and then, when my far distant ancestors came all the way across the atlantic ocean to get away from them, those assholes went and invaded! Twice!
And then they went and invented a lot of really obnoxious reality tv shows that keep getting imported! I've suffered so much.
Truly, they are evil personified, as this definitively proves, and is not just a meritless justification of my own prejudices.
Anonymous says:
There are a lot of Catholics in the world, especially if you count all of history. They cover a lot of good people and a lot of horrible people. Without excusing some of the excuses they've made for the latter, if the handful of Scientologists have managed a tiny fraction of the evil that has occurred here and there among the countless Catholic churches, something is very wrong.
wookiedingleberry says:
Way to muddy the water. Right out of the Scientology play book. Off to Gawker next?
Lex10 says:
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Anonymous says:
Since the interview Mr. Haggis has not been seen for two weeks.
phisrow says:
Wait… Scientology has "ecclesiastical matters" that aren't enforced by litigation?
Consider my mind blown…
Anonymous says:
It's just mindboggling how much cheating, fraud, insanity, stupidity, and all sorts of crimes and ethically questionable activity you can get away with if only you slap the label "church" on your anti-democratic organization. Particularly in the USofA people are quick to look away and accept that such a group is free to hide under the "freedom of religion" blanket. Other countries disagree and simply don't grant them religion status.
Anonymous says:
So if you stay, your good, financially, and if you leave, you owe tons of money and all youve got to show for it is some useless "knowledge."
So, its like my student loans?
StRevAlex says:
I'm a practicing SubGenius, but I've found that certain Scientology tech is actually really helpful. I guess, whatever works. That LRH was a crafty old devil, to be sure.
Dv Revolutionary says:
I found it riveting. I spent a long part of yesterday reading it.
It may not be fresh breaking news but it's great background, good long form journalism. I think we need both.
It show the human cost to Paul Haggis public letter; the friendships lost, the pressure and manipulation. It shows aspects of an out of control cult our legal system seems unable to bring to justice. It shows the exploitation SeaOrg or other members may be subjected to if they are perceived as being not 1000% inline.
Lastly it shows the manipulative BS the cult uses to defend itself. Look at the end of the quoted section;
"the freeloader tabs are an "ecclesiastical matter" and are not enforced through litigation."
But they enforce it through coercive personal confrontation? Of course they don't enforce it through litigation. Debt bondage is slavery and quite illegal. Does labeling it an ecclesiastical matter change that?
Great article.
dross1260 says:
Article sells magazine on heals of FBI investigation.
FBI investigates Church of Scientology over claims of human trafficking, enslavement and violence
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354449/Scientologists-outraged-defectors-claims-human-trafficking-enslavement.html#ixzz1DNXZy0vk
llamaspit says:
I read the entire article even though I already knew most of the gory details. I admit to a fascination with the idea of otherwise intelligent people accepting and endorsing outlandishly ridiculous ideas as a basis for their religion. I'm inclined to apply that same non-understanding to all religions, not just the newer, wackier ones.
But it does seem that the more nonsensical the basic precepts may be, the more inclined people are to want to suspend their critical thinking skills and swallow it whole. For heaven's sake, Xenu and volcano's and Thetans-how does anyone get past that craziness? It would seem that having your religion "discovered" by a science fiction writer would be enough to make a person skeptical right off the bat.
The one truly smart thing that Scientology does is to reinforce its successful members in the belief that their success is directly related to how high they rise in the church hierarchy. It's a perfectly self replicating system.
Brainspore says:
I admit to a fascination with the idea of otherwise intelligent people accepting and endorsing outlandishly ridiculous ideas as a basis for their religion. I'm inclined to apply that same non-understanding to all religions, not just the newer, wackier ones.
The thing I don't like about this particular religion is that they aren't up front about those wacky beliefs. By the time most members find out they're in a UFO cult they're so thoroughly invested in the church that they'll believe anything they are told by its authorities.
Say what you will about the Catholics, but at least they don't try to keep potential converts from finding out what's in the New Testament.
Anonymous says:
The thing I don't like about this particular religion is that they aren't up front about those wacky beliefs. By the time most members find out they're in a UFO cult they're so thoroughly invested in the church that they'll believe anything they are told by its authorities.
Say what you will about the Catholics, but at least they don't try to keep potential converts from finding out what's in the New Testament.
Umm, have you ever heard about the protestants and where they come from? The catholic church was all about protecting the power of the priests by using languages those under their power didn't master.
Also, they didn't sue and harass as much as they burned people at the stakes.
Scurzuzu says:
Haggis' story is newsworthy because he's a celebrity with sanity cred, but I think a far more interesting profile subject would be spokesperson Tommy Davis — he's a man who was a de facto member before he even became a member (thanks to growing up with Scientologist parents), who dropped out of school to join Sea Org, and who by all accounts has a direct line of communication with leader Miscavige. In this and other reports, he comes across as a less murderous version of Chiwetel Ejiofor's Operative from Serenity: a true believer who keeps reality deliberately at arm's length because the alternative would mean disaster.
I actually felt a surge of emotion for him near the end of the piece, although granted part of that was because the author was sneaky and inserted that "filling with emotion" trigger. Still, this is a fairly revealing look at the work a true believer must go through all the time when facing outside criticism:
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"At the meeting, Davis and I also discussed Hubbard's war record. His voice filling with emotion, he said that, if it was true that Hubbard had not been injured, then 'the injuries that he handled by the use of Dianetics procedures were never handled, because they were injuries that never existed; therefore, Dianetics is based on a lie; therefore, Scientology is based on a lie.' He concluded, 'The fact of the matter is that Mr. Hubbard was a war hero.'"
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Also, I frequently get the impression that most of the day-to-day practice of Scientology would map awfully close to modern pscyhotherapy and counseling — it's a lot of the "talking cure" combined with a lot of instruction on how to communicate better, so at levels below O.T. III (when the volcano/Zenu/ghosts stuff kicks in), it probably *is* quite useful for a lot of folks.
Nadreck says:
The Scienos have a very long and storied connection with the internet going back to the early days of UseNet and alt.religion.scientology when they tried to serve a subpoena on the entire interNet in an attempt to silence a critic. Then there was the Scieno Net-Nanny that would spare the Believers from any sceptical sites or even any email or posting from user IDs on the Restricted list.
They were also major pioneers in using copyright to gag critics long before the interNet arose. All of their theology and most of their internal memos are claimed to be copyrighted so you aren't supposed to have access to them – let alone use them in critical articles or lawsuits. Before the Streisand effect of the interNet (which seems to have finally penetrated their collective skull) they would spend millions of dollars in litigation and harassment campaigns against any reporter who wrote a story hinting at any imperfection in Scientology. Look up the story of Paulette Cooper to see the tip of the iceberg on these activities. (The Wikipedia article doesn't cover a tenth of what they did to her.)
All old news but it never hurts to remind new generations what pond scum these people are.
Anonymous says:
Wow, the proof of Scientology being bung all comes down to a forged WWII document?
Military records show 100% proof of fraud & church defends saying their expert assures them that theirs is not a fake.
Long read to come to that little gem….
I think a good expose just on this 1 fact would be appropriate.
Anonymous says:
No one questions anything when a sf writer comes up w/ his own religion? I find it quite frightening.
I mena most religions try to present some tangible proof in the writings.
Moses apparently had a burning bush, parting of the Sea & such.
Jesus – turning water into wine & u know – like being raised from the dead & all.
Hubbard – I think all he had was a bad trip.
Idea for a cute shirt:
I AM 1.1 (front)
Look busy – Xenu is coming!! (back)
MrJM says:
I always find conversion stories interesting — what made an adult human adopt new (irrational) beliefs — and reverse-conversion stories are often more so.
He was okay with the salvation for cash, the exploding soul volcano and the space ghosts, but it was the Scientologists' labor practices and political activities that were a bridge too far.
Don't get me wrong — those are certainly legitimate reasons to leave. But he seems to have overlooked so many other compelling reasons to bid these people adieu.
I guess that when it's time to go, it's time to go.
Quiche de Resistance says:
"A long (frankly, overlong) piece in the New Yorker…"
Anonymous says:
Robert J. Lifton is required viewing for any cult member:
And remember ANYTHING can be made into a cult!
wrybread says:
Really a great article, set me off on a youtube hunt, here's the best that I found:
The cult leader, Miscavige, is quite the thuggish piece of work, you couldn't possibly cast a more sinister person to play him if you tried:
Great story about how Miscavige took power:
Scary stuff about how they extort people:
A great BBC video:
Sapa says:
It isn't an easy thing to leave an organization that has mind control over you – as any religion does. The feelings of doubt and damnation even though irrational take some getting over and this guy wasn't just a follower.
If it's any consolation to him it has to be better to pursue truth wherever it goes and if that means the realisation that gods are of our making and people are just greedy for wealth and power then so be it.
Layne says:
The "church" has a huge, huge presence in Clearwater, FL, and not a week goes by that they aren't linked to some disturbing activity in the state. Embezzlement, theft, kidnapping, intimidation, murder – the list goes on and on. Massive amounts of money are channeled through businesses to the church, who takes it and then addresses any malfeasance by the donor with a shrug of innocence.
Even with an air of skepticism due to any religion, it manages to stand out for it's ridiculous, easily disprovable science nonsense and it's thirst for money and power. I instantly lose any and all respect for someone who's affiliated with the church or practices their psycho-babble. It's a harmful cult that deserves to be exposed and driven out of existence. Hopefully the internet makes it happen more swiftly.
Sapa says:
Layne – "….not a week goes by that they aren't linked to some disturbing activity in the state. Embezzlement, theft, kidnapping, intimidation, murder – the list goes on and on. Massive amounts of money are channeled through businesses to the church, who takes it and then addresses any malfeasance by the donor with a shrug of innocence. "
Incontrovertible proof that history repeats itself?
Layne says:
I had the SAME thought while typing it out – something along the lines of "I bet these guys could show the Catholic church a thing or two if they'd been in charge of the Inquisition".
Sad but true.
Nadreck says:
They leave, they're ashamed of what they've done, they've got no money, no job history, they're lost, they just disappear.
The plight of anyone trying to leave any obnoxious cult is often truly heartrending. What do you put on your resume after spending 20 years recruiting people for an organisation that ends up abusing almost all of them: often sexually? "Sales"? I helped run a periodic drop-in meeting for these people to talk to someone (usually each other) who wouldn't pass judgement on them and who would offer help with all their unique issues. Some of these people had been totally silent for decades about their traumas.
It's a group that's sorely in need of such services but they won't get them as long as Scientology is there. Anyone attempting such a thing is immediately targeted by them lest your group run across some apostate Scientologists. They ran the old umbrella group for this sort of thing (the Cult Awareness Network) out of business with torrents of meritless lawsuits. A great benefit for them in this was that they got to pick up the warehouse of book critical of cults that CAN had and, at least figuratively, torch it. This includes the "Piece of Blue Sky" book about them whose author they also drove into bankruptcy to stop it from being distributed.
It's sort of like if breweries attacked Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.


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Judges currently can sentence offenders to a maximum of five years in prison for failing to register, but Osborn said most receive 90 days and are released with electronic monitoring.
The bill initially would have required a minimum of 10 to 15 years in prison for failing to register, but was amended to include a minimum of five years.
Still, opponents argued the bill takes away the discretion of a judge to be more lenient with low-level sex offenders who have essentially committed a technical infraction.
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