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The inaugural Hall County Regional Technology Fair was a success with 41 students from three schools competing in 10 select categories.
It's been nearly a year since St. Francis of Assisi Anglican Catholic Church on Thompson Bridge Road in Gainesville first opened its own doors after worshipping in borrowed locations for years.
Many a prayer has been offered up under the brilliance of stadium lights on Friday nights.
Pearl Wilson of Alto said she gets excited this time of year because she knows Edgeworthia is blooming.
Sometimes superficial things like having a good hair day or a great outfit can make people feel more hopeful.
Correctly installing a child car seat can be a confusing task. Complicated tether systems, adjustable parts and convertible booster seats are sometimes difficult to understand and often lead to misuse, which can put children in danger.
Two years ago while on vacation in Costa Rica, Gainesville native Holly Lynch received an unlikely call from God to embark on an extraordinary mission.
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - Having grown up in a family of 10 siblings, Ceil DePrey had plenty of opportunities to practice cooking.
If you were looking for cups and bottles in a restaurant, you probably wouldn't look toward the ceiling.
Showing your ticker some love by making more heart healthy choices doesn't mean you have to break up with your favorite foods. But it does mean improving your recipes to include better-for-you ingredients.
While some people waited for the recent winter snow to melt, others relished the opportunity to have a little fun and show off their creativity.
This world is home to many different religions and philosophic practices. And in our increasingly interconnected and globalized world, understanding our neighbor's religion, even on a very basic level, is becoming more and more important to live peaceably with them.
Last week at North Hall High School, students lined up and waited patiently for their turn to save a life.
Every family has its own unique passions.
The small downtown flower store was quiet a week before Valentine's Day.
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More than 70 years ago, soldiers arrived at Camp Toccoa in the Northeast Georgia mountains near the South Carolina border to train to become paratroopers ...
Making new friends in a new town can be tough, but the Rev. Geoffrey Grubbs has made it a mission.
Atlanta Highway Seafood Market has been known to draw quite a crowd with its Cajun- and Asian-inspired dishes.
"Cancer doesn't have to be a death sentence."
When Keith Guernsey met his wife, Susan, his life changed.
While Sam Marley may be relatively new to First Presbyterian Church in Gainesville, he's not new to the choral music scene.
Standing in George Roshau's garden, a steady sound of birds can be heard happily chirping.
Is there anything better than a light, refreshing salad or a sweet, tropical juice on a hot summer day?
Car crashes can be a blessing in disguise. At least, it was for Abigail Rodriguez.
Taking in the beauty of God's creations is easy to do while cruising the calm waters of Lake Lanier early on a peaceful Sunday.
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Slate is *still* online? Why?
When's old Jack taking his buyout?
The author is very, uhh, optimistic there. The only thing reducing salaries of higher-level positions by hiring less experienced, allegedly "innovative" youngsters is going to do is increase corporate profits (or, decrease losses). I am quite certain that no "lower-paying entry-level slot" will be added, although if that is how the author must rationalize his long-overdue departure, so be it.
I'm all for new blood, but it's got to be balanced with some institutional memory. A paper can't do a very good job of covering its community when no one on staff knows the histories/connections/obligations of the community's elected officials, activists, and other people in power.
As a fellow boomer, Jack, fuck you. I worked hard and long to get what I have. Don't even pretend to speak for me.
@4: Yeah there is no way anyone under the age of 50 could possibly know or learn about the "histories/connections/obligations of the community's elected officials, activists, and other people in power."
Because this isn't the information age or anything.
Ah, we're entering the era of bitter Boomer entitlement, with a presidential candidate as advance guard.
Bitter Boomer retirement, my ass. If people want to keep working because they enjoy their work, and can keep working, who the hell is anybody else to tell them they shouldn't?
DUH! I meant bitter Boomer entitlement, my ass.
I hate this ageist crap anyway, no matter who it comes from. And I am not a Boomer.
I agree with Spoogie @5, even if I'm edge gen.
America: the only society where the phrase, "That's history" is a pejorative.
Boomers: The people who bought us "Human Resources" and killed pensions in favor of the greatest ponzi scheme of all, the 401k.
Don't just retire. Die already.
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Storrs - Few people have made a bigger impact on Ray Allen's life than Jim Calhoun.
From the first time Allen met Calhoun until Sunday when the former UConn great and two-time NBA champion attended a tribute to his former coach at Gampel Pavilion, he's grown a great deal from their relationship.
"It's everlasting," Allen said of Calhoun's impact. "There's so many things that have been built into me from the moment I came to Connecticut, from the way I eat, to the way I think, to the way I prepare, the commitment to the game, and how I compete.
"It's everything that he instilled in me. � Being in the business of sports for the last 18 years, everything that I am I attribute to him because he taught me how to be a professional."
Allen was part of a large turnout of extended members of the UConn basketball family at the special event called, "Heart of a Champion: A Tribute to Jim Calhoun." It will benefit The Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center at the UConn Health Center and the UConn Basketball Development Center Fund.
What Calhoun, who retired a year ago, cherishes the most about his Hall of Fame coaching career is the close-knit relationships that he built and still maintains with his players.
"Seeing these guys come in here today is an incredibly emotional thing for me personally," Calhoun said. "A long, long time ago I said that I wanted to get into coaching to hopefully affect some people's lives. They've affected mine, I know for sure.
"� I knew it would be an emotional day. When I see them, it just does something to me certainly. � It's an incredible bond that never gets broken."
The feeling is mutual for his former players.
"He's a father figure to me," said Stanley "Sticks" Robinson. "So I just wanted to be here to support him."
When Jeff Adrien heard about the Calhoun tribute in June, he circled the date on his calendar.
"I had to be here�," Adrien said. "I loved every second of it, good and bad. It was an honor to play for coach Calhoun."
The family bond between Calhoun and his players took time to develop.
In fact, many Huskies wondered where the warm and fuzzy coach who showed up during the recruiting process was when the first day of practice started.
Calhoun is a firm believer in tough love and discipline.
"He's always pushing and he's always asking for more, and it makes you into who you are," A.J. Price said.
To this day, Allen, a member for the NBA champion Miami Heat, said he still hears Calhoun's voice during a practice.
"I cringe during practice when one of the coaches is talking and one of the other guys will bounce the basketball during the conversation," Allen said. "Coach Calhoun would put us all on the line. So that's something that's always been in me.
"� The guys that I played with and play with in the NBA didn't come from that. Their coaches didn't run a tight ship like that. We crave that discipline here and it still stays with me. � Each one of us, we have a bond to this day because we knew what we had to go through to exist and we all had a responsibility."
Calhoun has an advisor's role at UConn now. He says he greatly misses coaching and the kids.
Sunday night gave him a chance to reflect on his career. Some speakers included Allen, Ben Gordon, Rudy Gay, Kemba Walker, Richard Hamilton and coach Kevin Ollie. North Carolina's Roy Williams, Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim and Duke's Mike Krzyzewski delivered video tributes.
"I don't usually look back�." Calhoun said. "It's a special time for me. Your mind goes back to when all this all began. � I do have a sincere love for these guys and what they've done for me, my family, my life and for the institution that we're at."
UConn capped off the festivities by announcing that Stadium Road on campus will be renamed Jim Calhoun Way.
Allen is happy that Calhoun can celebrate his career.
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"If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all."
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
"The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it."
"Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I don't claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
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Your voice mail greeting drives me insane! It must stop.
For the rest of the world: When you reach Ms. Seling's voice mail, you hear a very chipper, "Hi!" and then a long beat, you know, like maybe she just answered the phone. A long beat. And then, after you've said, "Hey Megan, what's up" or "Hey, are you coming into the office?" you hear something about this being her voicemail or LOLcats or something. And then you say, "Oh!" out loud as you realize you weren't really talking to anybody. This happens every time. And it makes me so crazy that I can't even leave a message.


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Welcome to SportsAid Scotland
SportsAid Scotland changed its name from Scottish Sports Aid at the start of 2014. It is a charity that provides financial assistance in the form of grant awards to talented sporting youngsters in the 12 to 22 year age range and to disability athletes to age 45 who are already competing at national level in their age group and have the potential to represent Scotland at senior level. The finance given is to help the athletes with their travel and training costs, and will hopefully assist them in becoming Scotland's future sporting stars.
If you are an athlete and wish to know more about how to apply for a SportsAid Scotland grant, then please refer to our nomination process.
Should you wish to make a donation, please either contact us directly to discuss or visit donations on the left-hand side of page.
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100-Mile Challenge Scales New Heights
The only way is up for the 100-Mile Challenge. Mike Cadman and Sheila Williamson from Macclesfield have set the bar higher by climbing 4,165 metres to the top of Mount Toubkal in
Morocco as part of their challenge.
The pair, who have raised over £350, have reached 28 miles - most of them uphill - and the next part of their challenge takes them to the West Highland Way.
Can anyone top that? Take up the challenge and complete 100 miles by December 31 to support SportsAid Scotland.
Team Ashleybank Triumph
Andrew Stevenson's Team Ashleybank won the Peebles Cup at the SportsAid Scotland Charity Golf Classic at a sunny Ratho Park by just two points from John Barry's Team ERM with a total stableford score of 120. Graham and Sibbald and Scottish Swimming, including Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson, both finished with 115 points but Graham and Sibbald took third place on a better inward half.
Jamieson showed he can turn his hand to golf by winning the longest drive competition and former British Stroke Play champion Clare Queen, in the Scottish Golf team, won the ladies' longest drive.
Challenge Is On
SportsAid Scotland's 100-Mile Challenge is gathering momentum. York's Simon Woodward got on his bike and rode 81 miles in rural Perthshire and has just 19 miles to go and Freuchie's
Cameron Mackenzie reached 100 miles of walking - at the age of 86 - by completing seven miles in East Lothian. He has also undertaken a mile of swimming and has raised a total of more than
Denny sisters Sophie and Rebecca Ogilvie, British international canoeists, will take to the water to complete 100 miles and SportsAid Scotland chairman Ronnie Sloan has committted to the gruelling Seven Hills of Edinburgh Challenge in June as part of his challenge.
Sign up now for your own personal challenge (full details further down the page) and let us know what you are up to. Plenty of time left as challenge does not have to be completed until December 31, 2016.
Marathon Men Boosted by SportsAid Scotland
Brothers Derek and Callum Hawkins, both selected for the Olympic marathon in Rio, were given a helping hand by SportsAid Scotland.
Both have received bursaries through the Robertson Trust to help their training a preparation - Derek in 2011 and 2012 and Callum in 2015.
Scots were the first three Britons home in the London Marathon - Shettleston's Tsegai Tewelde split the brothers to finish second British athlete - as 23 year-old Callum finished eighth in a new personal best of 2:10.52 to guarantee his seat on the flight to Rio and Derek, 26, finishing 14th overall and a personal best inside the qualifying time.
"The last couple of miles I was really hurting and just tried to hold on," Callum said, "I think I got a slight negative split. I didn't even run with a watch, I was just running.
"My brother had his own plan. We train together, live in the same house. I'm chuffed for him - to be in the top three, take a minute off his PB and. get selection as well.
"Everyone went off very quickly but I felt good so I kept at that pace. I'm delighted. Rio was my main goal in this race – I didn't care about the time so I'm delighted with my position and I ran a PB."
The GB Olympic team is fast filling up with Scots, the marathon men named after eight Scots were confirmed in the swimming team for Rio. Craig Benson, Stephen Milne, Duncan Scott, Dan Wallace and Camilla Hattersley have all been supported by SportsAid Scotland in the past.
Hattersley received her award through the Rotary Club of Perth Kinnoull, invaluable supporters of SportsAid Scotland, in 2012.
SportsAid Scotland 100-Mile Challenge 2016
We are looking for 100 participants of all ages to each raise £100.00 (or more!) in 2016 through going the extra mile for SportsAid Scotland. If we achieve our target, we will raise £10,000!
You will receive a technical t-shirt with your unique number (1-100) and, in Olympic year, the satisfaction of knowing you are helping future Olympians.
It is not as daunting as it sounds. It is up to you how tough or unique the challenge is, as long as 100 miles is covered.
You can run, walk, cycle, swim, row,canoe, ski, sail, golf, wheelchair - or a combination - and you have until December 31 to log the miles. It can be as little as two or three miles a week, whatever suits.
It can be done in races or in leisure time, over mountains, on roads, in the swimming pool or in open water - it is your challenge!
Register through JustGiving link https://campaign.justgiving.com/charity/scottishsportsaid/challenge100
and then email us (firstname.lastname@example.com) for your unique t-shirt. Then, just log your miles through I-phone, garmin, fitness app or pen and paper (!).
Keep us updated on your progress on Twitter and Facebook and let us know when you reach your target.
We are proud to report the progress of one of our supporters who is going the extra mile. See link below.
Isla Receives Funding Boost
Slalom canoeist Isla Kelly received a cheque for £500 from the Rotary Club of Perth Kinnoull to help her achieve her aim of competing in the World Junior Championships in Poland and the European Junior Championships in Slovenia later this year.
Isla, a member of the GB junior team, received her cheque from Ian Baird, the president of the rotary club.
The club made the presentation through SportsAid Scotland and we are grateful for their continued support of local athletes.
Josh and Jordyn Take the Honours
Athlete Josh Kerr and taekwondo expert Jordyn Smith scooped the main prizes at the Merit Awards 2015 reception in Edinburgh.
Josh, the European Under-20 1500m champion, was named Junior Sportsperson of the Year with Jordyn, European cadet Under-33kg champion and world bronze medallist, winning the Miquel Trophy for best developing talent.
Tennis player Anna Brogan, junior Wimbledon doubles' semi-finalist, judoka Stuart McWatt, European Open senior bronze medallist, and wheelchair racer Shelby Watson, world ranked number one in her age-group, also received awards.
SSAT Award Winners 2015
The short-list for the 2015 Merit Award winners has been drawn up with the presentation of the Scottish Junior Sportsperson Of The Year and Miquel Trophy taking place at a reception in Edinburgh on December 1.
The winners will be chosen from a short-list of:
Josh Kerr (Athletics)
Shelby Watson (Athletics)
Stuart McWatt (Judo)
Jordyn Smith (Taekwondo)
Anna Brogan (Tennis)
Congratulations to all and thanks to all the National Governing Bodies for their nominations in what was a stiff selection process
SportsAid Scotland Charity Golf Classic, 29 May 2015
Nineteen teams competed in this year's annual Charity Golf Classic, which was held at the Marriott Dalmahoy Golf and Country Club, situated just outside Edinburgh. The day was thoroughly enjoyed by all the competitors, with the course being in fine condition, and the catering excellent.
The event was won by a new team RW Bell Electrical from Pitlochry, captained by scratch golfer, Stephen Carruthers. They have vowed to return next year to defend the Peebles Cup, awarded to the winning team.
Our thanks go to all the competing teams, and to the organisations who generously donated the many prizes on offer, on the day.
Nick Kuenssberg wins the silent auction of two 4-day passes to the Ryder Cup.
SportsAid Scotland would like to congratulate Nick Kuenssberg for his successful bid for the two 4-day Season Passes to this year's Ryder Cup kindly donated to us by Ryder Cup Europe and the European PGA Tour.
We believe Nick and his guest had a great time at Gleneagles, supporting the victorious Ryder Cup Europe team.
Congratulations to Kyle Hewitt and Leah Wilson, who both successfully completed the Loch Ness Marathon on Sunday 28 September as a fundraiser for SportsAid Scotland
Our thanks go to Kyle Hewitt and Leah Wilson who both ran this iconic event as a fundraiser for SportsAid Scotland. Their JustGiving pages are both still accepting donations, and we would encourage everyone to dig deep, in support of these runners.
Their JustGiving web-pages can be found at http://www.justgiving.com/KBH21
and at http://www.justgiving.com/leah-wilson4
For more details of the event, see www.lochnessmarathon.com
SportsAid Scotland has supported 139 of the 310 athletes representing Scotland at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games
SportsAid Scotland is delighted to announce that it has provided 233 awards totalling in excess of £200,000 to 139 of the 310 members of Team Scotland who represented Scotland at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. The 139 athletes who have been supported by SportsAid Scotland represent well over half of the 233 athletes who competed at the Games in individual sports, which is where SportsAid Scotland's support is targeted.
SportsAid Scotland is proud to have played such an important role in helping so many members of Team Scotland, and in the success of the Scottish team at the Commonwealth Games.
London 2012 to Glasgow 2014 : 710 days running for Ewen !
Ewen Logie, a 33-year old dad of two from Stewarton, Ayrshire, was so inspired by the London Olympics that he set himself the challenge of undertaking 710 days of sporting activity between the end of London 2012 and the start of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014 in order to raise funds for us. He successfully completed his amazing challenge, which you can read all about at www.justgiving.com/ewenlogie
All funds raised by Ewen are supporting SportsAid Scotland, so please go to Ewen's JustGiving page, and give generously !
Ultimo and Hamilton Gymnastic Club create 'human bra' in George Square to support SportsAid Scotland during the Commonwealth Games
Hamilton Gymnastic Club created a human bra in Glasgow City Centre last week in conjunction with underwear brand Ultimo. Scottish businesswoman Michelle Mone, who owns and runs Ultimo, wanted to create the dramatic spectacle in George Square in celebration of the Commonwealth Games, and to promote her pledge to donate £1 from every bra sale to SportsAid Scotland during the Games.
Michelle said: "As one of Scotland's biggest brands, we wanted to do something extraordinary to celebrate the Commonwealth Games and the amazing human endeavour that will be on display in our home town."
Michelle is keen to support Scottish sport, which is why she is making a donation to SportsAid Scotland during the Commonwealth Games.
SportsAid Scotland is thrilled that Michelle Mone and her brand, Ultimo, have pledged this contribution to us. SportsAid Scotland has supported 139 of the 310 athletes representing Scotland at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and it is exactly this type of support that makes it all possible.
Ronnie Sloan participates in the Queen's Baton Relay
Our Chairman, Ronnie Sloan, is very proud to have taken part in the Queen's Baton Relay. He ran his leg of the relay on Saturday 14 June at Leith Links in Edinburgh.
From the sublime to the ridiculous! - not content with his 200 yard stint in the Baton Relay, Ronnie also successfully undertook the 14.3 mile Seven Hills of Edinburgh
Challenge on Sunday 22 June. Please see https://www.justgiving.com/
SportsAid Scotland Charity Golf Classic Friday 30 May 2014
Our annual Charity Golf Classic was held at the prestigious Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society in Edinburgh on Friday 30 May in glorious weather. The clubhouse provided its usual superb facilities, and the course was in excellent condition, in advance of hosting Regional Qualifying for The Open Championship.
16 teams took part, with each team consisting of four players. It was played as a stableford event, with the team prizes being decided by the aggregate of the team's 3 best stableford scores on each hole.
The winning team was entered by one of our long-time supporters, Ray Green. They triumphed by the narrowest of margins over the Sports Warehouse team who were seeking to win the event for the third time in succession. A further 3 shots behind, in third place, were one of several new teams to the event, Brooks Macdonald.
Ronnie Sloan, SportsAid Scotland's 70 year old Chairman ran the 2013 Loch Ness Marathon in support of SportsAid
Ten years after running his last marathon, our Chairman, Ronnie Sloan completed the horribly hilly Loch Ness Marathon on Sunday 29 September 2013 in 4hrs 45mins, only 7.5% over his 4hr 25min target. Our congratulations go out to Ronnie. There is still time to donate, in recognition of this fantastic achievement, through Ronnie's Just Giving web page. Please see www.justgiving.com/RonnieSloan70 for more details.
Ronnie has just recently been featured by Just Giving as their 'Fundraiser of the Moment'. See http://blog.justgiving.com/fundraiser-of-the-moment-ronnie-sloan/ for more details.
If you'd like to follow in Ronnie's footsteps, please email him at firstname.lastname@example.com for details of how to receive a free charity entry for this year's Loch Ness Marathon on 28 September 2014.
SportsAid Scotland Junior Sportsperson of the Year Award 2013
SportsAid Scotland congratulates Allan Smith, the 21 year old high jumper from South Queensferry, who was presented with the award of the Junior Sportsperson of the Year at the Commonwealth Games Dinner held in Glasgow on Saturday 9 November 2013. Allan has had a great season, setting two Scottish native high jump records within a fortnight, and receiving his first senior international cap at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow. He won both the Scottish Universities and Scottish National Championships, and then he took the silver medal at the British Championships. He continued his progress outdoors by winning the Scottish National title, taking silver at the England Athletics U23 championships, and winning a fantastic bronze medal at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Finland with a new PB of 2.26m. His season came to a great climax when he was invited to compete in the Anniversary Games in London, as part of the IAAF Diamond League series, where he finished in 7th place. Allan has already been selected to compete for Scotland in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year, and we will be cheering him on in his quest to win a medal for himself, and for Scotland.
The Miquel Trophy
William Bosi, the 14 year old sport rock climber from Edinburgh, was also honoured at the Commonwealth Games Dinner by being presented with the Miquel Trophy, awarded to the person selected as the most improved young sportsperson of 2013. William is a member of the GB Junior Lead and Bouldering Team, and he has twice finished runner-up this season in International (IFSC) Youth Cup Competitions, held in Edinburgh and in Norway. He also finished in 3rd place in the Bouldering discipline at the European Youth Cup in Laval, France. He finished the season in 2nd place overall in the European Youth Cup 2013, and is currently world ranked No.2 at the Lead Climbing discipline and 11th at Bouldering.
Allan and William were selected from the following five sports stars who were chosen as the SportsAid Scotland Merit Award Winners for 2013, due to their outstanding results during the year. The Merit Award winners were:-
Katie Archibald, track cyclist
William Bosi, sport rock climber
Andrew Mullen, paralympic swimmer
Allan Smith, high jumper
Kathryn Thomson, short track speed skater
SportsAid's patron, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge is helping to shine a light on the achievements and potential of young athletes throughout the UK – inspiring a generation who one day hope to represent the nation at the Olympic or Paralympic Games. SportsAid alumnus Sir Chris Hoy welcomed the patronage by saying, "SportsAid played an important role when I was starting out so I know what a huge boost this will be to the young sportsmen and women the charity helps today. As patron Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge will give them the profile they deserve."
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A Secret Life of Media Ecologies
Next week, in Brazil it's all about media ecologies. A Secret Life of Objects, A Vida Secreta dos Objetos, is the 2nd in the series of major conferences that address theory, media and materiality of cultural interactions. The first of the two events takes place in Sao Paulo, the second in Rio de Janeiro. I am also happy to tell that Winchester School of Art is one of the official partners! There is even a video trailer to set the mood for the events: I will be giving a talk at both events on topics that relate to geology of media and the issues of urban pollution and smart cities.
A Geology of Media – out and available
So this is a sort of an announcement: I was happy to receive my first copy of A Geology of Media during my visit to UNSW in Sydney. In other words, the book is now more or less out – a bit ahead of schedule and gradually available in online and offline bookshops, and of course in different e-formats (Kindle, epub, etc) already!
The earlier published little e-booklet The Anthrobscene was a short preview single of this main book that is also now out!
My talk in Sydney was the first "book talk" after the book is actually out, and it will be followed by several more during the Spring. The talks are primarily in Europe, and some launch celebrations are planned for May in Winchester (at WSA), and also London, Vienna, Utrecht and Stockholm. More details of dates and places to follow.
Please find below the official release text with information on how to obtain a review copy! Please spread the word to people who might be interested and consider asking your university library to order a copy.
A sweeping new ecological take on technology
By Jussi Parikka
University of Minnesota Press l 224 pages l April 2015
ISBN 978-0-8166-9552-2 | paperback | $24.95
ISBN 978-0-8166-9551-5 | hard cover | $87.50
Electronic Mediations, Volume 46
Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of Jussi Parikka's pioneering and provocative book, A Geology of Media, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselves – Earth's history, geological formations, minerals, and energy.
"Jussi Parikka's A Geology of Media really expands what media theory can do. The materiality of media is no longer restricted to questions of economies of technics but extends all the way to its molecular composition. It connects the fast calculations of digital time to the deepest of temporalities, that of the earth itself. An essential contribution to a media theory for the Anthropocene."—McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red
"A Geology of Media does not complete or close down an area of research, but rather opens one up. This book is vital to any continuing consideration of media today."
— Steven Shaviro, author of The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism
Jussi Parikka is professor in technological culture and aesthetics at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is the author of Insect Media (Minnesota, 2010), Digital Contagions, and What is Media Archaeology?
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Digital Thought Deserter: An Interview in e-flux
In the new e-flux issue #62 you will also find an interview Paul Feigelfeld conducted with me: "Media Archaeology Out of Nature". It focuses primarily on the themes of media theory, ecology and interfaces also with the work we do with the emerging Consortium (with WSA, University of California San Diego and Parsons School of Design, New School); synthetic intelligence, the planetary media condition, remote sensing, etc.
With a focus on the "media ecology"-trilogy of Digital Contagions, Insect Media, and the forthcoming A Geology of Media, the interview maps topics related to the ecopolitics of technological culture. A warm thanks to Paul for the interview and supporting my aspirations to be a digital thought deserter.
"Media theory would become boring if it were merely about the digital or other preset determinations. There are too many "digital thought leaders" already. We need digital thought deserters, to poach an idea from Blixa Bargeld. In an interview, the Einstürzende Neubauten frontman voiced his preference for a different military term than "avant-garde" for his artistic activity: that of the deserter. He identifies not with the leader but rather with the partisan, "somebody in the woods who does something else and storms on the army at the moment they did not expect it."7 Evacuate yourself from the obvious, by conceptual or historical means. Refuse prefabricated discussions, determinations into analogue or digital. Leave for the woods.
But don't mistake that for a Luddite gesture. Instead, I remember the interview you did with Erich Hörl, where he called for a "neo-cybernetic underground"—one that "does not let itself be dictated by the meaning of the ecologic and of technology, neither by governments, nor by industries."8 It's a political call as much as an environmental-ecological one—a call that refers back to multiple (Guattarian) ecologies: not just the environment but the political, social, economic, psychic, social, and, indeed, media ecologies."
Besides that longer e-flux text, two other short texts appeared the same day: a general audience text on media and the Anthropocene in Conversation and also a mini-interview conducted by the Finnish Institute in London as part of their Made By-series.
"More things in Theory…": An Interview with GWY
A lovely new interview with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young has been posted online: "More things in theory than heaven and earth are dreaming of." Conducted by Melle Kromhout and Peter McMurray, it brings out great points. Winthrop-Young is always a pleasure to read, both because of the tone and the insights. Of course, in this case I remain biased, with the focus of the interview being about the so-called German media theory (which is not, as we are reminded, not so German, not pretending to present a big theory nor is it really merely German), Bernhard Siegert, cultural techniques and by the end, also about "media biology". What's not to like.
GWY has a fantastic sense of explication when it comes to media theory. When he responds about the subject topic of the interview that "cultural techniques are further installation of modern theory's crusade against the as such" it both gives a subtle sense of how it maps as part of the contemporary theory landscape (and the persisting enthusiasm for the ontological as suchs) and also reminds me why I feel attracted to cultural techniques and related media analytical directions; I am, after all, a slowly recovering (cultural) historian who does not mind that the notions we operate by, the cultural layers, "all the levels all the way down are made up of historically locatable practices" even if with various twists of complex feedback loops.
The Cover Design for A Geology of Media
After just finishing reading the final proofs for A Geology of Media, I wanted to post the cover design online. The image motif is from the Crystal World project by Kemp, Jordan, and Howse; such an inspiring project that features especially in the book's chapter III on Psychogeophysics.
A Geology of Media is out in April 2015 – meanwhile, you might be interested in reading the short "single release", The Anthrobscene (ebook)!
"All humanity is flying like spacewalking astronauts"
The science-fiction film Interstellar, dir. Christopher Nolan, presents a near-future situation where the human kind seems to be presented with the no-alternative choice of attempting to leave the planet because of the climate change disaster. In George Monbiot's critical reading, the film presents a political defeatism that boils down to the choice of voting with your feet – with the help of escape velocity. "Technological optimism and political defeatism: this is a formula for the deferment of hard choices to an ever receding netherland of life after planetary death."
But the trick of the film is rather different. On the one hand, even the idea of leaving is problematised with the (admittably rather odd) relativity theory sort of a twist where the time-axis is bent in ways that actually disturb causality of leaving/returning. On a more social level, the film is more of a Spielbergian tale of the crumbling down of the nuclear family system. But then in terms of biopolitics, one is reminded that perhaps the leaving itself is not that radical departure anyway. It's already in Michel Serres' observation, in Natural Contract (1990/1995), that one finds the necessary situation to understand although without a helmet on, we are anyway living as astronauts, governed in relation to atmospheres and biospheres and other ecological conditions of life.
"All humanity is flying like spacewalking astronauts: outside their capsule, but tethered to it by every available network, by the sum of our know-how and of everyone's money, work, and capacities, so that these astronauts represent the current highly developed human condition." (120)
Of course, we need to acknowledge that such conditions of living, breathing and other networks are rather differentially distributed on the planet, which returns to us to the more pressing question relating to the political economy of the interstellar imaginary of governance – political but also in the techno-scientific sense cybernetic (with its long term relations to κυβερνώ (kyvernó̱).
The Anthropocene to the Anthrobscene
The Anthrobscene is now out and available as a short e-book in the new University of Minnesota Press series Forerunners. The short book (77 pp) extends on the notion of the deep time of the media (Zielinski) to talk of the geological and electronic waste layers that characterise media technological materiality. It consists of four short sections
1. And the Earth Screamed, Alive
2. An Ecology of Deep Time
3. A Media History of Matter: From Scrap Metal to Zombie Media
4. Conclusion: Cultural Techniques of Material Media
The sections outline the idea of materialities of media in the context of the Anthropocene – the suggested and widely discussed term for the geological period where the human being has had such a significant effect on the planet to merit a new periodization. But the idea is to extend this to emphasise the obscenities of the environmental damage that works across natural, social and media ecology.
The Anthrobscene is a preview or if you prefer, a single, of the forthcoming longer book A Geology of Media (out next Spring).
The book is one of three that kickstarts the new Forerunners series, "a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works written between fresh ideas and finished books" and characterized as "gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation happens in scholarship." The series is edited at the University of Minnesota Press by Danielle Kasprzak.
The Anthrobscene is available for download directly on the UMP website as well as in your "local" Amazon (Kindle and the slightly more expensive print on demand paperback) and gradually in other e-book stores too, including now already on Barnes & Noble & Kobo. The Amazon-page has a preview of the content.


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170 killed in Iraq yesterday?
More than 300 deaths were reported by http://antiwar.com/updates/
Is that 5 times or 10 times the number of people killed at VT?
Is there any reliable information?
I think that NBC is glorifying the violence by showing Cho's videos, pictures. It is showing the is ill/dissaffected people of the world that mass violence can make you famous and a martyr. The story should be focused on his mental illness.
Have we as a society slept while our rights to abortion are being chipped away. It will be extremely difficult to get an abortion after 12 weeks. Many people don't know that they are pregnant until that time. If the conservatives want to stop abortion, why not promote birth control, sex ed and SUPPORT--housing, food, free child care---for pregnant moms.
wow. if you look at just the top of the post, it looks like brittney spears has shaved her head and taken to carrying a hammer around.
I'm sorry, I don't buy analogies between Iraq and the Revolution. I didn't when the Bushies made them, and I don't now. It is nice to be reminded of American history, though.
Patriot "Buttrick"?
That picture of Cho with the hammer and the NBC logo looks like a future NBC promo shot. Yuck.
For fuck's sake, please remove that photo off your website. It's too disturbing and between this and hearing that guy's diatribe on NPR, it's pretty much ruined my day.
This guy is truly, truly scary; he's not a character in a fictional horror movie!!!! This was a real person who murdered real people. You may not think so, but this killing has scared me big time. Can you hold off publicizing the killer's twisted propaganda?
Yeah, really. Do we have to look at this piece of shit's face every time we turn around? I'm sure that's exactly what he wanted.
The guy was horribly mentally ill. They had what, a dozen chances to do something with him, to get him some help, and every single one of them fell through? The guy was deemed to be so ill that he couldn't care for himself. It's certainly not like people can say they didn't see this coming. At what point is someone going to step up and say "I could have made a difference, and I didn't." It'd be nice to not have this crap every couple of years, because this kind of thing IS PREVENTABLE.
For cripes sake, why must you validating this kid's delusional thinking? This is not some knockoff of Natural Born Killers. Real people lost their lives. If NBC had any ethics, they'd have turned the video over to the FBI instead of broadcasting it all over the planet. But they don't. And apparently, neither do you.
I agree...you should take that picture off. It's disturbing.
I agree...you should take that picture off. It's disturbing.
What #10 just said.
Seriously, this guy obviously wanted a twisted, posthumous fame, and now that's exactly what we're giving him. When you kill 30 people, you shouldn't get to have your dying wish.
I agree too.
The guy was horribly mentally ill. They had what, a dozen chances to do something with him, to get him some help, and every single one of them fell through?
What are they supposed to do, lock him up in a padded room for life? Are we going to make depression or writing plays about murder a crime? There's no really effective treatment for antisocial personality (sociopathy) and many cases of depression and excessive aggression cannot be effectively treated.
It would be AWESOME if we could reduce the taboo and increase public funding for psychological and psychiatric treatment, but who knows if that could have prevented this. Even if they could have forced people to be his friends, other people will inevitably slip through the cracks.
The only definite way this could have been prevented would have been not letting this guy go to the corner store and buy one gun a month.
Actually, the FBI has stated they did in fact review the video clips, and there wasn't anything new in them they hadn't already discovered from searching his dorm & from subsequent interviews.
From the AP News Wire:
"NBC News President Steve Capus said the package arrived in Tuesday afternoon's mail, but was not opened until Wednesday morning. It was sent by overnight delivery and apparently had the wrong ZIP code, NBC said.
An alert postal employee brought the package to NBC's attention after noticing the Blacksburg return address and a name similar to the words reportedly found scrawled in red ink on Cho's arm after the bloodbath, "Ismail Ax," NBC said.
Capus said that the network notified the FBI around noon, but held off reporting on it at the FBI's request, so that the bureau could look at it first. NBC finally broke the story just before police announced the development at 4:30 p.m."
And although I quite understand the emotional shock some of you may be feeling at the sight of this deranged individual, the fact is he's dead, he's not coming back, and so he's not really in a position to enjoy his "fame" or "martyr" status.
Seriously, why are you-all suddenly so concerned about NBC "glorifying violence"? Do you guys not watch much network televsion?
Showing pictures of the corpses - now THAT would truly be disturbing. Be thankful the networks have shown at least that modicum of decorum and sensitivity.
I was about to come on here and plead for Josh to take the photo of that fucking sicko off the Slog, but many of you beat me to it.
But let me reiterate: I don't need to see pictures of this fucker, especially in an aggressive pose. He deserves no posthumous glory. We need to report the facts and the fallout but we don't need to fetishize the droppings left by this murderous psychopath.
At sunrise on April 19, 1775, after a late night slog from Boston, an estimated 800 British troops, under the command of Colonel Francis Smith and Major John Pitcairn, arrived in Lexington on their way to Concord to seize weapons.
I knew Slog was to blame...
What Schmader said.
Oh--and post #10 should read "validate." (No "edit" function for Slog posts. Damn.)
Removing his photo and doing the typical American thing of "If we don't see it, we can pretend it didn't really happen" doesn't change the fact that he did it and it happened. Sheltering ourselves away all the time is why we're such a nation of pussies who can't even stand up to our own dictator-president. Removing the pictures and such allows our minds to create a barrier that prevents us from coming to grips with the realities in this world - I'm not advocating violence by any stretch of the imagination; hell, I'm a buddhist. However, I question the desire to desperately shelter ourselves from all things unpleasant, in the same way that we've become disassociated with where meat comes from and the like. Look at his picture, learn from it. Start thinking about how or why he was the way he was, and if something like this can be prevented in the future. Sheltering yourself away prevents us from dealing with, and, making changes to address the problems in the world. His victims alone deserve to have us learn from this.
So is it o.k. to wear school sucks T-shirts anymore. Not to make light of the subject, but all the pshycho analizing of this guy is starting to make everybody who delves in writing , art, illustration for comic books and movies look like a bunch of basket cases. Oh yeah and did you know alot of Cops and police officers posed like this also. Your dad probably posed like this while in the Military. So what.
I heard on the news the question "the killers watched Natural Born Killers' over and over and Quentin Tarantinos name mentioned a few times on the news.
As far as I see it the kid shouldn't have been at an Engineering school, he should of been at an art school or actors studio. And he is not scary or other worldy. He's a flesh and blood kid who freaked out on own sense of self worth. If I could turn back time
I bet I could have adopted him and turned him around and gave him better insight about life, girls, and how to take the hard times with the good times. Someone poisoned his mind with anger and he got lost in the poison.
The way these arm chair doctors see it it is like everyone should steer clear of the arts and self expression industry. Half the Stranger editors would be held to the fire if these qucks had everybody believe its our society and glorification of violence and the arts. Yes art can be violent.
It is not always of pretty flowers and naked people.
'That guy at open mike night might be disturbed' oh no. oh my. what do we do? Oh yeah make society turn on its own artists with paranoia.
That kid may be effed up but that doesn't mean all the other angry young youth are and this call to arms we gotta do something sounds llike a witch hunt. Some would say Hunter S Thompson was disturbed and nuts, and some would say even that guy who wrote Slaughter house five as being a litle out there. So you see we 'kooks' and 'crazys' already are your heros in the art and entertainment world.
You want a rocket scientist then go play in your own corners, and leave the mind of the artist alone.
I rather see a violent movie made with actors, than the reality of some nut like this going out and actually doing it. And that goes for war to.
And I'm a vet.
I rather hear of some guy masterbating to porn, than having to get his rocks off by raping women.
And another thing on Iraq. If you want to protest U.S occupation over there why don't you go hop on a plane and join in some Kumbaya protest and death vigil in the streets over there. I'm sure that'll make a differance. In the mean time we got a vigil here in america going on about our own. Besides I mourn and rage about the millions that die in Africa. The Millions that die in India, and the Millions that die even in our Oceans.
I'm sick of mourning. Pouring one for the homies and honyies all over the world and VT.
Ann: My urge to remove the photo isn't about shielding myself from the "unpleasantness" of the massacre. That's impossible. But screw the media-whore perpetrator--if you want drive home what this tragedy really means, show pictures of the bloodsoaked classroom, and non-crime-scene photos of the victims.
#22 true very true.
Hey COMTE, I watch plenty of extremely fake violence on network TV (I'm a Law and Order fan after all), but I am well aware that it is fake, that it's a story with actors playing real people.
This is different, this is a real person who killed real people.
Thank you #22
Please take down the picture of the Virginia Tech killer.
This is exactly what he wanted, and the press bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Good article here: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/VATech/story?id=3056168&page=1
why not, in its place, profile the prof who was one of the top five in the nation in biomedical research relating to cerebral palsy, or the prof who was the Holocaust survivor, or any of the brilliant young students who lost their lives?
What are they supposed to do, lock him up in a padded room for life? Are we going to make depression or writing plays about murder a crime? There's no really effective treatment for antisocial personality (sociopathy) and many cases of depression and excessive aggression cannot be effectively treated.I agree with you that they can't be effectively treated. But there is a threshold past which you can be institutionalized against your will, and from everything that's being said, this guy was way over it. He was not simply antisocial. If treatment doesn't work and accommodation isn't possible, there is another option. It's not pleasant, and people would like to think that everyone can be fixed, but that's not always true. It's simply a last resort.
I deal with mental illness myself, as do many of the people I know. There's no question of criminalizing depression, that's on a completely different level. We're talking here not about someone who wrote bad plays, we're talking about someone who was so mentally ill that he was deemed unable to care for himself. And yet, they let him out.
There were a lot of abuses in the old mental "health" field. I think to some extent, those abuses have meant that extreme cases don't get the care that they need because we're afraid of that happening again. As a society, we really do need to get to the point where we recognize that some people need counseling, some people need medication, some people need to be supported in group homes, and some people need to be removed from society altogether. They cannot cope, they will not ever be able to cope. Leaving them on their own is just as cruel to them as it is to the people around them.
To me, that photo drives home just how much of a loser Cho was. He's pretending to be tough, pretending to be powerful. He was a fucking whiner who blamed other people for his problems.
As far as his supposed mental illness goes, he wasn't schizophrenic. He wasn't hearing voices. His dog didn't tell him to kill dozens of people. Our government, correctly, only commits people who have proven themselves to be threats to themselves or others. Cho didn't exhibit enough warning signs for anyone to justify forcing him into psychiatric treatment. He probably could have gotten help if he wanted it. He didn't. He wanted to punish others for his own problems, the main one being that he was a pathetic failure. Fuck him.
#26 he probably will, but it is hard to get those storys out because the family and friends are still grieving and its it takes awhile to get out except for witness reports and hearsay.
As for the perp, they instantly closed in on his life( and he as well closed in on ours with his mailing those videos and all) and ramshackeld everything in his inventory and anything that was his is no longer private after a killing. Just like a Law and Order or CsI episode where we have to suffer through an hour of murder and investigation and trivial pursuit just to see the victim vindicated at the last damned minute
and even then the perp fades away into obscurity after being caught with a big flippin smile on his face.
I miss Bank Robberies like the news got in the 20s and 30s. At least people just lost money , not their lives. why can't we have more of those kind of perps and less of these self centered my feelings been hurt murdering jackasses on the news these days. Thats an oxymoron I think.oh well. and I'm probably going to be told I'm a jackass for saying Bank robberies are somehow a more respectable crime.
I know I know people did lose their lives in bank robberies, but that usually was not the robbers intentions unless he is a nut.hence self centered as I said.
The argument against putting up his pic because "It's what he wanted" has no traction for me. I don't care what he did or didn't want. Do we not report on terrorist bombings because it's what the terrorists want?
What this guy did is huge news. A wild part of the story is that he sent this package to NBC. I'm certainly going to flag that in morning news. And since his imagery was the story, it made sense to run some of that imagery in the morning news wrap up.
Schmader makes a good point that the pics of the blood soaked classroom would be a better way to confront the reality of the crimes, rather than the guy's pre-fab Bonnie & Clyde/Patty Hearst self-styled posing pictures. (Sidenote: Indeed, criminals have been pulling publicity stunts like this forever. B&C did it and those pics ran everywhere.)
However, I don't have those murder pics. If I did, I'd run them (alongside the ABC pics) And, of course, I'd be criticized for being insensitive to the victims' families.
you cannot always see this coming. it freaks me out to think that people here would actually institutionalize someone because of anti-social behavior. what?!?!? i was anti-social in jr high. i liked violent movies. i became an artist. i would never hurt anyone. i can't imagine being that same kid but having to be worried that i shouldn't express myself for fear of being locked up.
So violence is acceptable, so long as it's "fake"? Watching images of people being shot, stabbed, skulls cut open, eviscerations, severed limbs, etc., etc., ad nauseum, is perfectly fine because nobody REALLY gets hurt?
And that's just a typical episode of "Heroes".
Well, I suppose there's some comfort in that at least one person out there hasn't become so desensitized from a steady stream of "fake" blood, gore and mayhem that they at least recognize REAL horror when they're confronted by it.
But, there are far, far too many people at VT today, who frankly don't have the easy, convenient option of turning their heads away. They're going to have the image of this maniac burned into their memories for the rest of their lives, and they're the lucky ones, because at least they still have lives.
The least the rest of us can do is to confront it ourselves, if even from the safety of both our physical and psychological distance. I for one would rather deal with the resulting discomfort, than allow the image of a dead mass-murderer to have that much power over me that I can't bear to look at it.
Wench, if you think think "there's a threshold past which you can be institutionalized against your will, and from everything that's being said, this guy was way over it", you're talking about forcibly locking up a million people in this country. There are a LOT of angry, twisted up shitheads in this country.
It's hindsight bias to say you can see this coming.
I disagree about seeing the pictures. I want to see the pictures. This guy is part of us, both as a type and, after Monday, a real person. The fact that he is hideous and frightening and stupid and pathetic and contemptible doesn't change that.
What is the place in our world for people like that? The problem with him is that he's not integrated into the world; he's shut out. He blames us, but no one else would; he shut himself out. Look at him: would you want him for a friend? Would you reach out to that? I wouldn't. If I knew that a bunch of people wouldn't get killed, I still wouldn't, because really, what can you do with him? There's no personality hooks there you can hold onto.
There's a lot of people like that. Our society is full of garbage individuals. They are all around us. You don't see them, but that's because you don't want to. Cho didn't become garbage because he killed; he was already garbage. Maybe he knew it; I don't know. It's impossible to see past all that childish rage. But look at him: he's an idiot. He was 23 -- quite old for an undergraduate. He was an English major, but his writing was immature, illiterate, retarded-sounding. Supposedly he was good at math, in high school, but being good at math in high school isn't very impressive, especially not five or six years later. The guy was a boob. A boob with a bag full of guns and ammo.
How do we keep people from turning into garbage? Nobody knows. The mental health profession has some extremely limited, extremely painstaking answers, mostly pharmaceutical ones that work on a fraction of all patients, but we are nowhere near being able to adequately treat everyone who is at risk. Some can't be treated at all; our society is increasingly hostile to shitheads who lack the capacity to be nice, well-adjusted folks. Stupid people are being left behind.
I'm curious about some of the things he said. He appears to have been obsessed with sexual abuse of children: he wrote a play about it, and in his mail packet he says at one point "You wanna rape us John Mark Karrs? You wanna rape us Debra LaFaves? [blank] you." I think he's probably trying in his tiny little mind to grasp for a justification, even if it doesn't apply to him or "us" at all, but it's interesting. Was he abused?
He's just like our local shithead, Kyle Huff. What do you do with people like that? If you lock up a million threatening people, you might be marginally safer, but you'll also commit a lot of injustice. And you'll end up locking up all kinds of ordinary people on trumped up B.S. just because someone has a dispute with them. Look how long it took for the Patriot Act to use the "terrorist" tag against people guilty of being mere Democrats -- almost immediately. That's what happens with unchecked powers like that, every time.
So no, no answers. No idea. Just more horror. And somewhere out there the next guy is buying his guns in a gun shop.
Well, Josh, #31, if the argument holds "no traction" for you, and that's the way you want to rationalize it, so be it. You have a lot of company in the MSM. I happen to think you are dead wrong, but I don't have the power you do, so I will do what I have to do, and take a break from the media for a while. You folks with the power of the media will no doubt just keep flashing the "multimedia manifesto". The rest of us will just have to tune out, and that is fine. No problem.
I graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in civil engineering, and I sat in the very classrooms where that whack job took the lives of 30 innocent people.
Enough, already.
@10, @13 - yeah, remove the pic. You just reward freaks like that by letting them push their carp. Seriously.
That said, it is over 200 dead yesterday. And today ain't no walk in the park, for at least 3 British soldiers (2 dead, 1 wounded).
I don't get the whole "you're rewarding him" angle. He's dead. What does it matter whether he wanted it or not? He's not going to see any of it; the publicity won't affect whether he does this again. I can go with the argument that the over-broadcast of all this can influence other people who are messed up. But he, himself, is dead.
#38 (it just seems rude to address you as "Wench"): Excessive coverage of the VA Tech killer will help inspire the next well-armed attention-seeking psychopath who dreams of living forever in infamy.
Oh come on Schmader,
And so will the new death metal album. You're sounding a bit like Tipper Gore here.
Tipper Gore is hot! As much as Al is a dork, let's hope he's gettin that porkpie once a week.
With any luck, it also might just as well cause someone to call attention to the next well-armed attention-seeking psychopath BEFORE he follows through on his dream.
Yeah, these pictures are really going to help alert us to more mentally ill Korean 23 year old men with hammers and semi-automatic handguns. Give me a break. These photos of Cho don't teach us anything useful about what happened, and really don't serve any purpose other than getting a looksie at the guy who killed a bunch of innocent people earlier this week. How does looking at his pictures or hearing his bizarre mentally ill ramblings on audio/video help us "confront" anything we didn't already know or suspect about this guy?
Josh, the media, including yourself, circulating these pics and serve no "journalistic" purpose and yes, it is insensitive to the victim's families and friends. I guess for people that have had enough we'll just have to scroll past this stuff or change the channel until the next sensational thing happens.
people can be mean. kids included.
Right, great coping strategy: continue to ignore it, and everything will be all flowers and bunnies again, just like it never happened.
Until the next time it does, of course.
If only one person gets some sort of psychiatric help as a result of somebody recognizing they exhibit similar behavioral dysfunctions as did Cho, wouldn't it be worth it?
Re: Josh @ 40: If you mean I'm expressing myself using words in English, why, yes, I do sound like Tipper Gore.
Let's not mix our metal metaphors here: The PMRC case I imagine you're referring to concerned claims that a Judas Priest record drove a kid to suicide.
If the VA Tech killer had been just a suicide, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Instead, he massacred 30 people en route to suicideand I don't think it's a stretch to think that a desperate bid for eternal notoriety was involved in his decision to take so many innocent people with him. (The VA killer's name-checking of the Columbine killers and his motherfucking mid-massacre press pack are just icing on the cake.)
I don't think you're an evil person for including that picture in your Slog post. I just hate having that fucker's face on the Slog, for a lot of the same reasons I would hate to have a photo of a pile of shit on the cover of the paper.
And yes, I hate the idea of egging on future desperate psychos who might think eternal infamy is preferable to whatever psychotic pain they're suffering through. If that makes me Tipper Gore, I'm Tipper Gore.
I'm so sick of seeing that shithead's picture today, particularly all those fucking stupid poses with his gun pointed at me. It's all over the AP and Rueters... damn... I had hoped The Stranger might at least try do a little better.
You assholes know that posting those photos is more sensationalism than journalism (or whatever you wanna call it - blogism ). It's that kind of bullshit misdirected attention that helped inspire that fuckhead.
You guys have the common courtesy to not put overtly erotic pictures on this slog - just politely identified links - So, please, do the same for this Cho shit.
Would that be so fucking hard?
But doesn't anyone care about Lexington/Concord?
Schmader: You're probably right, I may have been mixing my metal metaphors. There was, however, a metal record that was blamed for some psychotic murders. Perhaps it was a Metallica record.
And wasn't my fave band Marilyn Manson blamed for Columbine?
I'm just using Tipper Gore as shorthand for the urge to place the blame for pre-existing psychotic behavior on the media: records, movies etc...
If someone is fucked up enough to take ABC's footage as a "green light" to shoot up another school, I imagine they don't need ABC's "green light" in the first place.
That is: Rick James didn't make kids have sex and Tipper Gore knew it.
josh: I think you're referring to Kill' em all. If only they had stuck with the original title, "Metal Up Your Ass" these things would never happen.
comte---Nice condescending attitude. Who said anything about ignoring this situation? How the fuck is posting Cho's hammer wielding photo or his two fisted Tomb Raider gun pose going to make shit like this stop? When has the media exploiting a tragedy ever stopped this kind of behavior? If you've been paying any attention to this story at all, his disturbed behavior was noted by many people long before this happened, and for many reasons they failed to stop what ended up happing. What I'm talking about is sensationalizing this bullshit. So, fuck off you very much, I have no problem facing unpleasant realities of life thank you. I don't live my life with my head in the sand or with my head up my ass like it seems you do. Please continue enjoying your infotainment tragedy porn.
Well, for one thing, maybe next time people who see the warning signs they might have previously failed to heed, might, um, you know, heed them.
And really, get some perspective. Showing a picture of this sad, lonely, terribly fucked up individual isn't sensationalism, it's legitimate news reporting. People want to know who this person was, what drove him to commit this heinous act of brutality, what might be done the next time to prevent a similar occurance; all legitimate questions, and ones that not only should be, but need to be asked. That's what reporters are supposed to do, ask those questions, try to discover answers, if there are answers to be had, because, if it can happen someplace like VT (or Columbine or wherever), then it can happen anywhere, and people want to understand the why of it, so that they can at least try to make sense of a senseless act.
Your anger is misdirected; it's just an image, it can't hurt you, although I imagine there are some pretty nasty things you would do to Cho if you had the chance. But, even if you could, it wouldn't bring any of his victims back to life, so what's the point of getting all worked up over it?
If you have to feel something, why not feel grief for his victims, some sympathy for their loved ones, and some relief for those who survived? Why waste your hatred on the reflection of a ghost? He's way beyond your ability to harm him.
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When the Arizona Wildcats opened training camp earlier this month, Jesse Scroggins and Jerrard Randall seemed to be the early frontrunners at quarterback.
Scroggins, a senior, had a strong spring and showed improvement following a disappointing 2013.
Randall, the best athlete of the four contenders, had a summer to learn Rich Rodriguez's offense and impressed coaches with his strong arm and quick feet.
But with the season opener less than two weeks away, both quarterbacks are swimming upstream in their pursuit of a starting spot.
Scroggins revealed Sunday that he was involved in a car accident this summer that resulted in a concussion. It was his second head injury in less than a year.
"It slowed me down this summer," Scroggins said. "The guy basically T-boned me. I feel like I've just had a case of bad luck."
The quarterback had a sluggish start to training camp, and the accident may explain why.
Randall, as much as he studied the playbook and watched film, has had a difficult time perfecting the UA's spread offense.
The result has been more reps with the third and fourth strings.
"I know every play (coach Rich Rodriguez) has. Every play," Randall said. "But it's not about knowing them, it's about owning the plays. I'm not owning the plays yet. I need to get there."
Meanwhile, redshirt freshman Anu Solomon has emerged as the new leader at the position. He's taken the majority of the snaps with the first-team offense the past two weeks.
But Rodriguez insists he hasn't made a decision yet.
"I think it's still a competition," Randall said. "I think I'm still there. I think I'm still in the mix. I don't know about starting right away, but when I do get in, I'll be ready."
Randall knows his issues are more mental than physical.
The 6-foot-1-inch, 179-pound quarterback can do everything on the field. He just doesn't always do it the right way.
"I'm kinda behind the eight-ball mentally," Randall said. "Physically, I get the job done. I should adapt a little more as we keep going. The transition is up and down sometimes. Some days I look good and some days I look bad.
"That's part of being a quarterback."
Randall can be tentative on the field. The quarterback, who transferred to Arizona from Northeast Mississippi Community College after two seasons at LSU, has such a strong arm that he's gotten in the habit of waiting to make sure his receiver is open before throwing.
Rodriguez wants Randall to trust his receivers more and throw the ball quicker. The coach's entire offense is based on timing, and Randall's has been off.
"You have to be decisive; you have to have it all down pat," Randall said. "I don't have it to where I can dissect the defense and run from the defensive line and know what my receivers can do. I'm the guy who holds the ball and makes sure guys are open."
Scroggins makes decision faster, but has his own issues. He seems like the most capable challenger to Solomon with Connor Brewer splitting time with Randall on the third and fourth teams.
But the senior is still trying to recover from his slow start to camp.
He doesn't blame it on the accident as much as he does his own anxiety.
"When I first started camp, I was really, really anxious because it's my last year," Scroggins said. "I felt like I had to prove something. Coach sat me down, and said, 'You need to adapt and relax. When you relax, you're smooth.'
"It's all about relaxing and taking it play by play and not doing everything at 100 miles per hour."
Rodriguez routinely tells Scroggins that he's improving. The quarterback is so close to breaking through that he can practically taste it.
See, Rodriguez gives out candy bars to the top performers in each practice.
"I've gotten a few Snickers lately," Scroggins said with a smile.
They key to his improvement?
"I'm not throwing rockets anymore," Scroggins said. "I got my 'touch ball' right. I got my timing right, my accuracy right. I know my protections. Even though the defenses are disguising, I know what I'm doing."
Rodriguez said the competition between Solomon, Scroggins, Randall and Brewer will continue through this week. As for when or if he'll name a starter?
"I might do it on Twitter like an hour before the game," Rodriguez said, laughing. "So I can be like the new Greg Byrne of social media. We'll do whatever we feel like."
Extra points
- Linebacker Keoni Bush-Loo is now listed on the UA's roster as Makani Kema-Kaleiwahea. He told the Star earlier this month he was going to change his name to honor his grandmother.
He's in the process of a legal name change.
- Linebacker Hank Hobson has changed jersey numbers from No. 19 to 59. A backup linebacker and special teams contributor, it's possible Hobson could be on the field at the same time as receiver DaVonte' Neal, who also wears No. 19.
Rodriguez said last week Neal could get some snaps this week at cornerback. The number change is an indication that could happen.


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I've got an item coming out in today's Stranger (similar to a Slog post I did yesterday) quoting the Washington State Democrats' preemptive strike on the state GOP.
D State Party Chair Dwight Pelz warns the GOP not to funnel Norm Maleng's campaign war chest to Republican KC Prosecutor candidate Dan Satterberg. (Satterberg was longtime KC Prosecutor Maleng's chief of staff. Maleng died suddenly last month, leaving a $194,000 campaign fund.)
I couldn't reach the GOP by deadline yesterday to get their response to Pelz's attack in print, but wonders of technology and blogging: I can post it here.
So, to recap, here's yesterday's hit from the Democrats:
Under state law, it is illegal to transfer so-called surplus campaign funds the money left over after retirement, loss, or death from one candidates accounts directly to that of another candidate. It is, however, legal to donate to charity, or to a party organization but if the funds do go to a political party, any quid pro quo understanding that the funds will then be donated to or spent in support a particular candidate would run afoul of Washington States campaign finance laws.
In the case of the prosecutors race, State Democratic Party Chairman Dwight Pelz says that if large amounts of cash from Malengs campaign coffers are funneled through the Republican Party back to the GOP nominee for the position, Republican Dan Satterberg as some Satterberg backers have been whispering is likely it would be tantamount to the sort of illegal and unethical political money laundering< that Republicans have become known for on the national level.
And here's the response I just got from Michael Young, head of the KCGOP:
"You know, I was surprised at the tone and the tenor of Dwight's statement. It was tacky and tawdry. Here it is just a few week's after Norm has died and he makes this shot across the bow, a personal attack on Judy Maleng [Norm's wife, who is in charge of the funds now] based on no evidence whatsoever."
Young said he thinks Judy Maleng will give the money to charity and that "Dan Satterberg can certainly raise enough money himself to win in King County. But even if Judy wanted to do that [help Satterberg], that's her decision, not Dwight's. Is it typical of Dwight to come across as a total cad, to act like a jerk? Evidently Dwight needs to grow up. This is a state chair?"
I don't think Judy Maleng can send the money to Satterberg even if she wanted to, but … god damn… that's quite a response from Young.


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Because Adobe Illustrator creates vector-based drawings, it is one of the better programs on the market for creating logos. A vector-based program uses lines and points rather than pixels to define the drawing. This means that when a logo drawn with vectors is enlarged, the quality will remain the same. However, when a logo is drawn with pixels, as in Photoshop, when the logo is enlarged, it loses quality and becomes pixilated. This tutorial will teach you how to design vector-based logos in Adobe Illustrator.
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