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Louisa, Doug, thanks for the post and for keeping us up to date regarding the proposed changes to the OHSA PSM Standard. I look forward to hearing more about this.
Is there estimated timing as to when the proposed new standard will be issued for public comments?

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Before "Mastery, "came "The 48 Laws of Power"--the "New York Times" bestseller that started it all Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, "The 48 Laws of Power "is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control. In the book that "People "magazine proclaimed "beguiling" and "fascinating," Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), others teach the value of confidence ("Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness"), and many recommend absolute self-preservation ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, "The 48 Laws of Power "is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
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"[...] Lem is probably a composite committee rather than an individual, since he writes in several styles and sometimes reads foreign, to him, languages and sometimes does not [...]"Stanisław Lem (12 September 1921 � 27 March 2006) was a Polish novelist, most credited for his Science Fiction writings. His works range from philosophical books and analyses to "tall tales", to light and darkly comic satire; and he enjoyed subverting many common genre tropes. He is one of the most recognized and respected Polish writers, as well as one of the most prolific science-fiction writers. In 1996, he was named a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland's highest decoration).He loved word-plays, making up new words and divining the future of civilisation from them; it was one of the many ways in which he subjected plot to paradoxical associations rather than to the straight and narrowly reasonable prognoses. He was particularly fond of satirizing religion, technology, and human foibles, typically with a sharp and incisive wit. Later in his career, he grew increasingly critical of technology, particularly the Internet, which he considered little more than a gathering of idiots. Many of his works, both novels and short stories, feature the recurring character Ijon Tichy, an intelligent, accident-prone, adventurer who varies between being the Only Sane Man, and an Unreliable Narrator, occasionally veering into Parody Sue.Lem had a low opinion of most of science fiction, and thought that the existence of the Sci Fi Ghetto was justified, not because the genre is inherently worthless, but because the authors haven't used the possibilities in it. The only contemporary author he considered worthwhile was Philip K Dick; Dick did not return his respect, and considered Lem's attacks on American science fiction to be unjustified and insulting. At the same time, he also became a target of Dick's increasing paranoia.note Despite Lem's views, he was defended by Ursula K. Le Guin in his conflict with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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The Philippines are justifiably known for their beaches, but the country isn't just about finding an isolated patch of sand and sinking into a sun-kissed stupor. The 7000-plus islands of the Philippines offer an array of more adventurous pursuits that can raise any adrenaline junkie's pulse. Here are a half-dozen ideas to find the right island for your adventure.
Luzon for mountain biking
The terrain varies widely on the Philippines' massive main island. A string of volcanoes in the southeast Bicol region tempts climbers, tasty surf breaks massage both coasts, and the Chico River in the northern Cordillera Mountains boasts the country's best kayaking and whitewater rafting.
Crisscrossed by a network of rugged, scarcely trafficked dirt roads, the Cordillera are also perfect for mountain bike touring. You'll pass beneath some of the country's highest peaks, follow precarious ridges high above raging rivers like the Chico, and get up close and personal with emerald-green rice terraces. You can camp along rivers by night or bunk up with welcoming hill tribe families. Chill out for a few days in hippie haven Sagada (elev 1500m), the jump-off point for some epic single- and double-track day rides, and the base for www.luzonoutdoors.com, which can help with tours and/or equipment.
Samar for spelunking
Any mention of the island of Samar is usually preceded by the word 'rugged'. Surfers speak in awe of the barely accessible waves on the east coast, while the dense interior forests provide a rare chance to spot the Philippines' national bird, the endangered Philippine Eagle. But caving is by far the biggest draw.
The tours run by Trexplore (www.trexplore.webs.com) out of Catbalogan will blow you away. Don your full-body canvas spelunking suit and helmet equipped with a calcium-carbide gas lamp, and follow Trexplore leader Joni Bonifacio into the abyss. For the next five hours you'll be swimming through underground streams, plunging through karst tunnels, and slithering under low-hanging stalactites. It's the ultimate Indiana Jones adventure. Multi-day underground odysseys are also available.
Mindoro for diving
The Philippines are well known as a top-class dive destination, but the country's best scuba spot is somewhat off the radar of the average visitor. That would be Apo Reef, a glorious, mostly sunken atoll just two hours off the west coast of Mindoro.
While most of the Philippines is known for its colourful macro (small) sea life, Apo Reef is a smorgasbord of both macro life and larger creatures. On some dives you might lose count of how many sharks, rays and sea turtles you spot. For years it was difficult to access Apo Reef because of poor roads leading to the main jumping-off town, Sablayan. Now smooth highways and improved flight connections from Manila to nearby San Juan mean you can depart Manila in the morning and be on the reef by midday with Apo Reef Club (www.aporeefclub.com), an hour north of San Juan.
Mindanao for whitewater rafting
While some parts of Mindanao are no-go zones because of safety concerns, the northern part of the Philippines' largest island is considered safe - not to mention scenically splendid and ripe for adventure.
While the big rapids are in North Luzon, the rafting window up there is short. In the northern Mindanao city of Cagayan de Oro, you can raft the Cagayan River year-round on rapids that can reach Class IV. It's equal parts thrilling and scenic, and longer trips involve a lunch and hang-out time with your uber-cool Filipino rafting guides - Kagay CDO Rafting (www.cdorafting-map.com) is one of several operators. From Cagayan de Oro you are just a couple of hours by boat to another adventure wonderland, volcano-studded Camiguin Island.
Panay for trekking
The island of Panay is best-known as the home of the crown jewel of Philippine tourism: Boracay. While Boracay is lovely, it's a hotspot for package tourists. Escape the mobs by making the short trip over to Antique Province in northwest Panay, where a brooding mountain range rises straight from the sea. The highest peak is Mt Madjaas (2117).
One route up Mt Madjaas is positively beastly - a seven- or eight-hour grunt basically straight up. Easier routes do exist, and along the way you'll traverse old-growth forest and plenty of waterfalls. Secure a guide and permit from the municipal hall in Culasi before setting off. Katahum Tours (www.katahum.com) in Tibiao can help with logistics and organises other adventures in the region.
Palawan for sea kayaking
Palawan is best known for the spectacular limestone formations of Bacuit Bay off El Nido, but several hours north of El Nido by boat is the adventure paradise of Coron. Scuba divers flock to the area to explore several-dozen WWII wrecks in Coron Bay off Busuanga Island. The bay is dotted with idyllic islands that provide shelter and good camping spots, not to mention some of the best snorkelling in the Philippines. Sea kayakers can spend up to a week hopping around the islands here, fishing for their food and basking in the serene aura of isolation. Tribal Adventures (www.tribaladventures.com) has quality kayaks and can tailor a trip to your tastes and skill level.
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If you're in Auburn, and you've been watching the police-state horror-show unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, you may be interested to know about this. TOMORROW (Friday, August 15) at 12pm, on Samford Lawn, Auburn University campus.
Attention auburn friends and family:
"Hands Up!" event tomorrow organized by BSU at 12pm on samford lawn to honor Michael Brown + raise awareness about police brutality directed at people of color
more info below from email sent by BSU's president
Due to the recent events emerging in Ferguson, Missouri, in relation to the death of Michael Brown, Black Student Union would like to show its support in the fight for equality by joining in the "Hands Up!" Movement. This movement has been spreading rapidly around the country and we should all raise our voices in the fight for justice. We should raise our voices for those who cannot any longer, for Sean Bell, for Oscar Grant, for Amadou Diallo, for Michael Brown and for countless others. Meet us on Samford Lawn tomorrow, Friday, August 15th at noon to take a picture and let's show the people of Ferguson, Missouri, that they have our support.
Hope to see you tomorrow at noon on Samford with your hands up.
War Eagle!
Jasmine S. Pettaway
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Mexican food [from worker-owned street vendors] was also seen as a threat to white workers, both through unfair competition and labor radicalism. Nativist opponents of immigrant workers claimed that the Mexican diet of tortillas and chili, like the Chinese staple rice, undermined the nation's standard of living. Mexican food was also associated with anarchism and union organizing. Tamale vendors were blamed for the Christmas Day Riot of 1913, when police raided a labor rally in Los Angeles Plaza. Milam Plaza in San Antonio, where the chili queens worked in the 1920s, was a prominent recruiting ground for migrant workers. Customers could eat their chili while listening to impassioned speeches by anarcho-syndicalists of the [Industrial] Workers of the World[1] and the Partido Liberal Mexicano.[2]
— Jeffrey M. Pilcher, The Rise and Fall of the Chili Queens
in Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (2012), p. 113
So I just stumbled across this passage today; it's kind of like a perfect addendum to the
Xenophobia and Anarchophobia /
U.S. vs. Them section of my old No Borders / No State presentation, reheated, perfectly seasoned and cooked up together with everything I have to say about worker-owned, informal-sector food vendors and disruptive social and economic agoras.
International [sic] Workers of the World,a distressingly common mistaken expansion of the I.W.W.'s initials. ↩
Viento sin Fronteras (
Wind without Borders) in a rural area of Mérida, a state in western Venezuela. The article was reprinted by the Venezuelan anarchist newspaper EL LIBERT@RIO. Inline links and editorial notes in footnotes are added by me. As always, the same caveats apply: I'm a nervous translator trying to keep up with a lot of regional references that I don't always know, and moving through a lot of material coming out more quickly than I can translate it; this is a working draft; if you notice any mistakes or mangling please feel free to point them out in the comments, and I'll attach a note or a correction to the text here. Again, there are lots of different Anarchists in Venezuela, and this is one compa's view; there are many with different views about the attitude that Anarchists should take towards the protest. (See, for example, this previous translation of a commentary by Victor Camacho. Viento sin Fronteras is, let's say, significantly more
A comrade from Mérida sounds off: Oh, I've got the desire
Viento sin Fronteras
This is a little chronicle many are certainly familiar with. Yesterday I got up at 6 a.m. so I could get ready to go to work. I arrived at work around 7:30 am and I spent the whole day over there. At 7pm I went back to my house. When I got home I had to go down to the nearest bodega (I live in a rural area) to buy stuff for making dinner or lunch in the coming days. Well O.K., so a purchase that consists of some three potatoes, two cans of sardines, three tomatoes, an onion, laundry soap,[1] a box of cigarettes and a few cookies, comes out to 170 bolivars [≈ US $27]. Up to this point everything seems normal but it isn't. My daily salary is 200 bolivars [≈ US $32].
Clearly, they are 200 bolivars and this leaves me only just 30 bolivars [≈ US $5] to save for paying the rest of my expenses, like the rent for example. Or the fare for public transport, if I weren't walking to work I'd have to take 10 bolivars off these 30 that are supposed to be left over for me.
Besides this, I remembered that the last time that I went without natural gas nearly a month passed before that commodity came back to my house. And I my house, of course, a little house of 38 square meters [≈ 409 sq. ft.] where the water shuts off every day for an hour or two, with a rent that's equivalent to nearly half the minimum wage I work for. It brings to mind that house from the housing project[2] that that the showboat[3] of the Communal Council[4] built (great affiliate of PSUV[5] certainly and an ideological reference for many here) and which was empty until two weeks ago, which he managed to sell, for no less than the discreet sum of 700,000 bolivars [≈ US $ 111,250].
Something comes into my mind, and my nerves get hotter. I spent 10 years of my life in college. I have an undergraduate degree, a master's, and I left my doctoral thesis half done when I lost interest. And O.K., it's not that I believe that I deserve a Ministry salary, but for some reason, and this reason for some other reason always ends up being my fault; it has been impossible for me to find a job that, without being exactly the thing for which I supposedly studied at least would permit me (and that's what college is supposedly about) to give back to society or to whoever, a little bit of that intellectual or technical material that I supposedly acquired in those years. At times, they then give me some moments of clarity and I say: clearly, it's that to get hooked up you have to know whose balls to yank.[6] Or I think and I swear[7] about how to set up that writing project with the ever sacrosanct words: Eternal Commander, Fellow Comrade, the Little Bird, Our Process, the Economic War, the Eternal Giant, the Legacy.[8] All this without a doubt adds to the degree of a feeling of frustration that's growing.
And with that, what comes into my head are the contracts for the Guasare coal, the Deltana Plate, the three billion dollars that Chevron loaned us, the concessions to Chinese timber companies in the high Caroní, the death of the Sabinos, the criminalization of the Wayuu, the Red Fascist wall shooting dissident unionists, the armed forces of the government holding old women with their pans at gunpoint, ordering them to be quiet, the dead of Uribana, the 400 dying every year in prison, the intellectual authors of the massacre of El Amparo placed in the government designing the anti-terrorism laws. And so on. And so I think that late or early, me, and many people who aren't identified one bit with the spokespeople of the opposition parties, including folks who come from the Chavista movement, are getting out into the streets to protest. And I'll be over there, if country life lets me, handing out pamphlets to anyone who has eyes to read them. Without falling into naivete, I know that there will be plenty of imbecile fanatics for Pérez Jiménez[9] or Leopoldo Lopez[10] there with their slogans and believe me that I'll fight them right there. Right there I'll show that they're the same as the others.
Oh, I've got the desire[11] to go out hurling stones when the police car crosses my path. Because they are some thugs and some cheerleaders.[12] Oh, I've got the desire to take all the trash that they aren't capable of managing and set it all on fire in the doorway of the Mérida state government. Oh, I've got the desire to smash the windows of the supermarket and leave all those products tossed on the floor that I have to wait in line for on my weekend days. Oh, I've got the desire to catch an ATM[13] alone and try once and for all to see how the fuck you can withdraw all the money with a sledgehammer.
I've got the desire to give thanks in person to the folks who set SEBIN's trucks on fire[14] because they're a murdering intelligence agency that tortures and persecutes political dissidents. I've got the desire to go up to that student leader, who's really an ally of PJ,[15] and tell her to shut her mouth, that she's a wanker,[16] that it's her fault (and that of those mamelotracios[17] that she obeys) that the protest — which could have been a good way to lock up the pigs[18] and a place where we'd all recognize that all these demands are the vindication urgent for EVERYONE — was converted instead into a slogan, pretty much belonging to their own partisan interests.
The year is just beginning and it doesn't promise to be a year for calm ones. Well, let the storm come.
— Ganas no me faltan (21 Feb. 2014). Very imperfectly translated by Charles W. Johnson
jabón azul, a specialized kind of soap used especially for laundry (although it can also be used for household cleaning or for personal hygiene). ↩
misión vivienda, a huge public housing construction project launched as part of the
Bolivarian Missionssponsored by the government, and administered through government-approved community councils. ↩
Cantamañanas, more accurately, someone who promises to do something and never does it. ↩
CC, i.e.,
Consejo Comunal, a local council which, among other things, administers government funds granted under the Bolivarian Mission programs. ↩
jalar bolas, lit. to pull balls, fig. to flatter or sweet talk with an ulterior motive. ↩
reniego, meaning either potentially reneging, cursing, detesting, renouncing a religion, or, significantly given the context, uttering blasphemy. ↩
comandante eterno, compañero camarada, el arañero, nuestro proceso, la guerra económica, el gigante eterno, el legado, all nicknames or honorary phrases associated with the Bolivarian Socialist government and especially with the cult of personality around Hugo Chávez. ↩
perezjimenismo. ↩
terrorismcharges after the outbreak of street protests in Venezuela. ↩
Ganas no me faltan, common phrase, meaning
I don't lack the desireor
I don't lack the urge.↩
Matraqueros, lit.
those who use matracas,a kind of spinning noise-maker popular with diehard Latin American sports fans. ↩
Cajero del banco, which can refer either to an ATM or to a human teller. From the reference to smashing with sledgehammers, I assume (hope?) from context that this is referring to smashing up a machine to get at the cash inside of it. ↩
Pajua, from
paja,lit. masturbation or fig. wankery, in the sense of talking bullshit. ↩
que podría haber sido una buena tranca de cochina.
Tranca is a lock or a door-bolt,
cochinaliterally means
cochino/aare also used as the masculine and feminine forms of an insult meaning
dirty.This phrase, taken as a whole, doesn't seem to be an idiomatic expression, or at least, does not seem to occur anywhere else on the Internet. ↩
officialnews sources, heavily influenced by either the ruling Socialist party or one of the right-wing opposition parties; many independent radicals in Venezuela are finding this extremely frustrating and have been trying to put out their own view of things. This here is a broadside assault by the Venezuelan anarchist Armando Vergueiro against a document from some Chilean Platformists expressing uncritical support for the Boli-Socialist government. The comments thread had drawn 75 comments, last I checked, including angry retorts from FEL and also some stinging criticisms of FEL from other anarchists in Chile.) It was posted online by the anarchist newspaper EL LIBERT@RIO. Inline links and editorial notes in footnotes are added by me. As always, the same caveats apply: I'm a nervous translator trying to keep up with a lot of regional references that I don't always know, and moving through a lot of material coming out more quickly than I can translate it; this is a working draft; if you notice any mistakes or mangling please feel free to point them out in the comments, and I'll attach a note or a correction to the text here.
From Chile, a pitch for the foundation of anarcho-Madurism
Armando Vergueiro
In the web page maintained by the Chilean Platformists in the Federation of "Libertarian" Students (FEL), there has been published, in a stellar plan, an official declaration from this grouping, which without a doubt will pass into history as the cornerstone of a new and picturesque version (or better misrepresentation) of non-hierarchical thought[1] It goes by the nameWith the Venezuelan people and against the coup movement,and it deserves that we should occupy ourselves, even if briefly, with the pearls that adorn it.
Out of the ignorance that only nurtures itself and gives credibility to what it sees on TeleSur about Venezuela, in the first paragraph it talks abouta march of university students, from the most privileged sectors in Venezuelan society.Nobody told thesecomradesthat today the most privileged sectors in these streets are the Boli-bureaucracy, the politico-military elite in power, their transnational associates like Chevron and Gustavo Cisneros, the Chinese "comrades" and the parasites of the old Cuban bureaucracy?
According to FEL, in Venezuela there is "A process of radical transformations that has bettered the life of the majority of the inhabitants of that country, above all for the ordinary people and workers." Don't expect another opinion from those who just read here the stuff they're given in the waiting room at the Madurista government's embassy in Santiago, so that it would be a waste of time to suggest they look for the multitude provable and verifiable sources that refute that propagandistic idea, not to mention consulting the dominant opinion among Venezuelans in the streets.
Today the Venezuelan right is trying to disable the legitimate government of Maduro in order to create an environment suitable for carrying on their plans for a coup d'etat.Apart from the touching sight of these "libertarians" preoccupied with the fortunes of a legitimate government, this is olympically detached from the fact that after 15 years, and especially after the coup attempt in 2002, the Armed Forces have been, one the one hand, submitted to a politico-ideological purge that has exterminated whatever dissidence from their heart. And on the other, being even more important, they have accentuated the militarization of the apparatus of the State, arriving at a degree where it is made incomprehensible that they should want a coup in order to displace themselves from a government that favores them with ample powers and possibilities for enrichment through corruption. If there were any such military coup or anything similar, it would be in order to guarantee their privileges and immunities even more.
The — FEL-istas? FEL-ines? FEL-ons? — proclaim:this attempt that today is made from the mobilization in the streets, the call to violence, the manipulation of information and the hoarding of goods to create the sensation that there's a crisis that the government is incapable of resolving. Since they couldn't win at the ballot-box, they are trying to pull down the government and put an end to the revolutionary project of the people, hoarding basic necessities, calling for violence and generating the environment to legitimize a coup d'etat.Once again they evince an unfamiliarity with the present juncture in Venezuela, except for what the government asserts, which is only explicable only by fanatical ignorance, out of taxed cynicism or lost innocence. Furthermore, we hold back the opinion that, as anarchists, we believe is deserved by FEL's dismay that there are doubts about the government's capacity to resolve the crisis. You can take our silence the same way concerning the sanctimonious indigation, with the stalest electoral flavor, against those whocouldn't win at the ballot box…
They complain with sadness because in Chile:the future president elect and the greater part of the forces of the New Majority keep a complicit silence, or simply lament the acts of violence in an abstract way. They do not denounce those who try to hold back a political and social project of justice and equality for all, because they do not share it.At least it should be said that this lament is a truism, for how could you expect anything else from Doña Bachelet[2] and her gang?
In the best spirit of the Stalinist Popular Front in the 1930s, they preach:We believe to be necessary the greatest unity of the Chilean and Latin American left to sharply denounce and reject the coup movement's attempts in Venezuela. Once more as libertarians we are opposed to this type of play from the right, allied with imperialism, to hold back the socialist project of the people of Venezuela.No other diligent student of Martha Harnecker and other classics of continental Marxist-Leninism could have said it better!
Continuing their tale worthy of obedient PaCos militants (or the communist party, same thing),[3] now one has to give:All our support and solidarity to the working people of Venezuela, the principal actor in the construction of socialism in their country and in which we are fully confident.This vote of absolute faith would be because whatever opposition to the sacrosanct government of Maduro, even what might come from anarchism and critical segments of the left,seeks to end the process of change that they have carried forward there for more than 15 years.No doubt, withcomradeslike those at FEL, anarchism doesn't need any enemies!
As a glorious finish, thesefellow travelersconclude with a celebration that they will surely applaud in the Venezuelan embassy, so that we wouldn't hesitate to put it forward as worthy of airfare for revolutionary tourism to the beaches of the Caribbean Sea:Yet much is lacking, there exist contradictions and issues for debate like in any process, but the socialist project continues intact. To the deepening of the Bolivarian process, to the building of socialism.
Clearly the editors of the seeming gem will not be pleased with qualifying as anarcho-Maduristas. They prefer to call themselveslibertarians,— orlibertarian communistsin their moments of radical emotion — when they are in Chile and the rest of Latin America; although curiosly they do identify themselves as anarchists when they come to promote themselves in North America or in Europe. All the same, it's worth leaving them the nickname, because it fits them very well.
— Desde Chile se lanza documento para fundar el "anarco-madurismo," (18.Feb.2014). Translated by Charles W. Johnson.
pensamiento ácrata, lit. akratic thought. In Spanish it is often used as a near-synonym for anarchism. ↩
PaCos: a derisive term for Chilean national police or Carabineros. ↩
Resumen express de la situación venezolana para curioso/as y poco informado/asbut I found that a translation had already been done by volunteers at the anarchist activist blog ROAR.[1] The translation is his work. I have, however: (1) restored some boldface emphasis from the original Spanish that was left out in the translation, (2) made editorial revisions to a few isolated phrases that I thought reflected careless errors or were potentially misleading (with editorial notes where I made any changes), (3) re-added a
P.S.at the very end of the article which was omitted from the English translation, and, (4) to fit the usual format at this blog, I've added the headline back in. (Any editorial changes I've made, after the headline, are explicitly noted.) This one is translated by the author himself, but as with previous translations, if you notice any issues with the translation feel free to point them out in the comments, and I'll attach an editorial note or correction to the text here.
Quick Overview of the Situation in Venezuela for the Curious and Ill-informed.
Rafael Uzcategui
On February 4th, 2014, students from the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira (Experimental University of Táchira), located in the inland state of the country, protested the sexual assault of a fellow female classmate, which took place in the context of the city's increasing insecurity. The protest was repressed, and several students were detained. The next day, other universities around the country had their own protests requesting the release of these detainees, and these demonstrations were also repressed, with some of the activists incarcerated.
The wave of indignation had as context the economic crisis, the shortage of first necessity items and the crisis of basic public services, as well as the beginnings of the imposition of new economic austerity measures by President Nicolás Maduro. Two opposition politicians, Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado, tried to capitalize on the wave of discontent rallying for new protests under the slogan "The Way Out" and also tried to press for the resignation of president Maduro. Their message also reflected the rupture and divisions on the inside of opposing politicians and the desire to replace Henrique Capriles' leadership, who publicly rejected the protests. The Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (Democratic Unity Table) coalition, didn't support them either.
When the government suppressed the protests, it made them grow bigger and wider all over the country. On February 12th, 2014, people from 18 cities protested for the release of all of the detainees and in rejection of the government. In some cities of the interior, particularly punished by scarcity and lack of proper public services, the protests were massive. In Caracas, three people were murdered during the protests. The government blames the protesters, but the biggest circulating newspaper in the country, Últimas Noticias, which receives the majority of its advertising budget from the government itself, revealed through photographs that the murderers were police officers. As a response to this, Nicolás Maduro stated on national television and radio broadcast that police enforcement had been "infiltrated by the right wing."
The repression of the protesters draws not only on police and military enforcement agencies; it also incorporates the participation of militia groups to violently dissolve the protests. A member of PROVEA, a human rights NGO, was kidnapped, beaten and threatened with death by one of them on the west side of Caracas. President Maduro has publicly encouraged these groups, which he calls colectivos (collectives).
The Venezuelan government [2] controls all of the major TV stations, and has threatened with sanctions radio stations and newspapers that transmit information about protests. Because of this, the privileged space for the distribution of information have been the social media networks, especially Twitter. The use of personal technological devices has allowed record-keeping through videos and photographs of ample aggressions of the repressive forces. Human rights organizations report detainees all over the country (many of them already released). The number has surpassed 400, and they have suffered torture, including reports of sexual assault, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. As this is being written 5 people have been murdered in the context of the protests.
In his speeches, Nicolás Maduro [3] the protesters opposing him to assume even more radical and violent positions. Without any ongoing criminal investigation, he automatically stated that everyone killed has been murdered by the protesters themselves, who he disqualifies with every possible adjective.
However, this belligerence seems not to be shared by all the chavista movement, because a lot of its base is currently withholding its active support, waiting to see what will come next. Maduro has only managed to rally public employees to the street protests he has called. In spite of the situation and due to the grave economic situation he faces, Nicolás Maduro continues to make economic adjustments, the most recent being a tax increase.
The state apparatus reiterates repeatedly that it is facing a "coup", that what happened in Venezuela on April 2002 will repeat itself. This version has managed to neutralize the international left-wing, which hasn't even expressed its concern about the abuses and deaths in the protests.
The protests are being carried out in many parts of the country and are lacking in center and direction, having being called through social media networks. Among the protesters themselves, there are many diverse opinions about the opposition political parties, so it's possible to find many expressions of support and also rejection at the same time.
In the case of Caracas the middle class and college students are the primary actors in the demonstrations. On the other hand, in other states, many popular sectors have joined the protests. In Caracas the majority of the demands are political, including calls for the freedom of the detainees and the resignation of President Maduro, while in other cities social demands are incorporated, with protests against inflation, scarcity and lack of proper public services. Even though some protests have turned violent, and some protesters have fired guns at police and militia groups, the majority of the protests, especially outside of Caracas, remain peaceful.
[4] Some of us are actively denouncing state repression and helping the victims of human rights violations.
Venezuela is a historically oil-driven country. It possesses low levels of political culture among its population, which explains why the opposition protesters have the same "content" problem as those supporting the government. But while the international left-wing continues to turn its back and support — without any criticism — the government's version of "a coup", it leaves thousands of protesters at the mercy of the most conservative discourse of the opposition parties, without any reference to anti-capitalists, revolutionaries and true social change that could influence them.
In this sense, Leopoldo López, the detained conservative opposition leader, tries to make himself the center of a dynamic movement that, up to the time of this writing, had gone beyond the political parties of the opposition and the government of Nicolás Maduro.
What will happen in the short term? I think nobody knows exactly, especially the protesters themselves. The events are developing minute by minute.
For more alternative information about Venezuela, we recommend:
P.S. If you want to read about the elements that contradict the possibility that there would be a coup d'etat in Venezuela, I recommend you read: https://rafaeluzcategui.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/las-diferencias-de-abril/[5]
— Resumen express de la situación venezolana para curioso/as y poco informado/as (Feb. 21, 2014). Translated by the author, Rafael Uzcategui, with minor editorial revisions by Charles W. Johnson.
El gobierno venezolano actualmente controla todas las estaciones de televisión. ↩
En sus discursos Nicolás Maduro estimula que los manifestantes en su contra asuman posiciones más radicales y violentas. ↩
La izquierda revolucionaria independiente venezolana (anarquistas, sectores del trotsquismo y del marxismo-leninismo-guevarismo) no tiene ninguna incidencia en esta situación y somos simple espectadores. ↩
There are more than 100 SWAT team raids every day in this country.
For the most part they go after nonviolent offenders like drug dealers and even small time gamblers.
— Alex Halperin, interviewing Radley Balko.
Once a town gets a SWAT team you want to use it, Salon (July 13, 2013)
Read the whole thing.
A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.
The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial.
— John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke, U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans
Reuters news wire, quoted by Matt Welch at Reason (August 5, 2013)
Well of course the NSA's secret data-gathering, spying and warrantless wiretaps have been used to prosecute American drug cases. Every single fascist National Security monitoring program, secret search and seizure method, surveillance policy, financial regulation, foreign-aid slush fund, paramilitary police program and executive power that has been created over the last 20 years in the name of
counter-terrorism — including large sections of Clinton's AEDPA and large sections of Bush Jr.'s PATRIOT Act — has been utilized, over and over again, by federal prosecutors and the DEA in order to gather evidence and coerce testimony in drug cases. Every single National Security state program, regardless of its alleged purpose, has been used to strengthen the narcs' hand, and to double down on the federal government's insane and destructive prosecution of a
War on Drugs. This one is just as outrageous; but it's no different, and no more surprising.
Now, even if there were such a thing as a limited National Security state — even if there were some way to create a counter-terrorism-only police state, which would focus on a single threat without creating a general, all-powerful police state in the process — it would still mean shredding civil liberties, targeting people and activities which ought to be presumed innocent, and it would still be destructive and wrong.
But, in any case, there is no such thing. There is no way to focus a police state on only one group of people or one part of life; there are no partial or limited police states. There is only a police state — one which will come for you sooner, or later.]]>
[Roy] Middleton, 60, of the 200 block of Shadow Lawn Lane in Warrington, was shot in the leg about 2:42 a.m. Saturday while trying to retrieve a cigarette from his mother's car in the driveway of their home.
A neighbor saw someone reaching into the car and called 911. While he was looking into the vehicle, deputies arrived in response to the burglary call.
Middleton said he was bent over in the car searching the interior for a loose cigarette when he heard a voice order him to,Get your hands where I can see them.
He said he initially thought it was a neighbor joking with him, but when he turned his head he saw deputies standing halfway down his driveway.
He said he backed out of the vehicle with his hands raised, but when he turned to face the deputies, they immediately opened fire.
It was like a firing squad,he said.Bullets were flying everywhere.
— Kevin Robinson, Deputies shoot man in his front yard
Pensacola News Journal (29 July 2013)
For shooting an unarmed man standing in his front lawn, who posed no threat to them, the unnamed police officers have been given a paid vacation from their government jobs.
Last Thursday, Florida Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan gave an interview with CNN in which he defended the shooting and the deputies responsible for it, and that it is within
standard protocols to open fire because Middleton
did not comply with their commands.
According to Florida Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan in a CNN interview Thursday, the police officers who fired 15 shots at 60-year-old Roy Middleton in the driveway of his and his mother's home acted entirely within their limits in response to a 911 call for a suspected car theft… . On Thursday, Morgan defended the officers' actions as standard procedure because Middleton "did not comply." Asked by CNN's Chris Cuomo how police could justify 15 shots at a 60-year-old man, Morgan said the officers saw a metallic object in Middleton's hand as he made a "lunging movement" toward them. Middleton explained this in his account: He turned around because he thought the entire thing was a practical joke played by a neighbor.
"Right now we are comfortable from a training perspective that our officers did follow standard protocols," Morgan said.
— Rebecca Leber, Florida Sheriff: Officers Who Shot Unarmed Black Man In His Driveway Followed 'Standard Protocols'
ThinkProgress (August 1, 2013).
Let's suppose that all that is true, for the moment. (There is actually no reason at all to take the police at their word on this, but let's assume for the sake of argument.) If this overkill shooting of an unarmed man was something that leaves the police
comfortable from a training perspective, then what does that tell you about the training? If this overkill shooting of an unarmed man was strictly by the book, what does that tell you about the book?
An 18-year-old skater died yesterday after Miami Beach Police officers caught him tagging a building and then Tasered him.
Details about the death are still murky, but what is clear is that Israel Hernandez died before dawn Tuesday morning after cops caught him spray painting near 71st Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. Police have yet to comment on the killing, but an officer near the scene confirmed that cops had fatally Tasered someone. Hernandez's friends on the Miami Beach skate scene are devastated.
"I just cant believe it," says best friend Rafael Lynch, on the verge of tears. "I still have his hat and his board. They still smell like him. It's crazy."
Update: MBPD has released a statement and incident report confirming that Hernandez died after being Tasered. Police chased Hernandez after catching him tagging a building and used the electronic weapon [sic —RG] when he refused to stop.
— Michael E. Miller, Teenager Israel Hernandez Dies After Miami Beach Cops Catch Him Tagging, Taser Him
Miami New Times (Aug 7, 2013).
From GT 2011-01-28: Non-Lethal Force (Cont'd):
As such, police in general, and police assault forces especially, are trained to enter every encounter with the goal oftaking control of the situation,by means of setting up confrontations in situations (no-knock raids, late-night forced-entry raids, etc.) where their chosen targets are most likely to be disoriented and easily terrorized, and by responding with maximal force in the volatile, disorienting confrontations that they create. For the sake of this maximal-force approach, they are equipped with an arsenal of weapons ranging from tasers and clubs to handguns and assault rifles, up to, and including, military helicopters and tanks. Worse, with all these weapons, they have institutionalized a culture of fact-free assertion and lies about highly dangerous weapons that they consider to be categoricallynon-lethal— and thus to be used as a first resort, in virtually any situation, as long as it might give the cops atactical advantageover people who they intend to bring under their control (whether or not these people have ever committed any crime at all). These weapons continue to be used with no hesitation and no restraint, and continue to be callednon-lethal force,no matter how many people are killed by them. There are, for example,tasers,portable electric torture devices which were originally sold as a less-deadly alternative to using a hand-gun in potentially life-threatening confrontations, but which cops now freely use for as part ofpain compliancetechniques[1] in everyday confrontations with the public. This would be bad enough on its own, but part of the reason they are used so freely is because they take no real exertion for cops to use, and are consistently billed asnon-lethalby police and media, even though there are hundreds of documented cases of people dying after being subjected to repeated taser shocks.
Officers will have 100 contacts per month, minimum … 40 of those may be warnings for traffic, the other 60 will be divided between: traffic citations, non-traffic citations, field interviews and custodial arrests …. Do not be the one that does not get 100.
— Sgt. Trey Neal, Auburn Police Division, Auburn Alabama.
Recorded by officer Justin Hanners, qtd. by Tracy Oppenheimer, Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas
Reason TV (July 24, 2013).
Oh, hey, look, my hometown's in the national news again. This time it's for the
contact quotas handed down from the police division's chain of command. The requirements for ticketing and arrest quotas required more
contacts[1] every year than there are people in the city of Auburn. The story has hit the news because Justin Hanners, a former police officer in Auburn, says that he was fired by the police department in retaliation against his objections to the quota policy, and to the over-use of police force and arrests that it was producing. After making some contact with local CopBlockers in Auburn, Hanners got his story to Reason TV.
From the story in the Opelika-Auburn News:
Back in 2010, when Chief Dawson came in, immediately afterward, they started telling us that we had to have two tickets a day and two warnings a day on average and if we didn't have it, we wouldn't get promoted, we would get bad evaluations and if we continued to not do it, we would get written up and ultimately fired,Hanners said in a phone interview with the Opelika-Auburn News.
Hanners said he initially wrote a complaint about what he thought of the alleged quotas, but was soon suspended for other reasons and put on bike duty.
They went back seven months on my computer where I told a joke to another officer and suspended me for four days and made me forfeit two days of annual leave,Hanners said, who added the other officer was not punished.
Hanners said while on bike duty, which he claimed involved patrolling the interior of Auburn University, he was still force[d] to comply with the alleged quotas.
By directives, I'm not even supposed to be writing tickets, but my supervisor told me in my bike duty that I had to have just as many tickets as officers in cars,Hanners said.
— Drew Taylor, Former officer claims Auburn police division quotas
Opelika-Auburn News (July 25, 2013)
Since the story came out in the press, spokes-flacks from the city government have issued rote denials and slimy
Oh-we-can't-comment-but… insinuations about Hanners' personnel file from the City Manager's office. Assistant City Manager James Buston admits that the sergeant said everything that was on that tape but that it wasn't official policy. (But, you know, if it were official policy, it'd be O.K., because it's
kind of challenging them to do what they are supposed to do…). The Office of Charles Duggan, City Manager of Auburn, says
The message that there is a quota was wrongfully conveyed through supervisory channels to at least one patrol shift — which of course is a long-assed way of saying that there was a quota while denying responsibility for setting it — but insists that there is an
unfounded accusation being
leveled by Mr. Hanners. Because, when ex-chief Dawson told the city government that this story was going to hit the press, the city government hired another government investigator to look over their records and tell them that all was O.K. Tracy Oppenheimer at Reason responds to the denials here. Public Safety Director Bill James, for example, put the following in writing:
To make 100 contacts, which include among others, traffic stops, issuing warrants, field interviews and arrests, requires about two contacts per shift hour. Making two contacts per hour is not unreasonable and still seems to leave a lot of time to perform other duties that are detailed in your job description. Your supervisors as well as I have an expectation that each employee needs to be productive during their time on shift.
— Auburn Public Safety Director Bill James, Re: Grievance
Correspondence with Officer Justin Hanners (November 20, 2012)
Quoted by Tracy Oppenheimer, Auburn Cop Fired for Resisting Quotas Gets Online Support; City Officials Deny Deny Deny
Buston also claims that Reason did not offer the city government an opportunity to respond before they put the video together. Oppenheimer's story shows that this is false, and that Capt. Tom Stofer of the Auburn Police Division specifically said that the Division refused to comment. As for the insinuations about Hanners' personnel file, besides the note about the retaliatory shift to bike duty, here's some more elaboration on what happened to him.
"Well, the day my grievance was over, I get called into the Chief's office, and was told that some evidence I presented was from an internal affairs investigation and the gag order had been placed and I wasn't supposed to have it. So then the Chief, who is the suspect in my grievance, now starts an internal affairs investigation into me and my partner to see if we somehow compromised his own investigation into his own wrongdoing where he had found he had done nothing wrong. So in this investigation, they found that we had violated a gag order and that I had violated the city's reporting policy by reporting these people. And they ultimately fired me for it and suspended my partner who gave me a statement that said everything I was saying was true."
— Justin Hanners, qtd. by Tracy Oppenheimer, Auburn Cop Fired for Resisting Quotas Gets Online Support; City Officials Deny Deny Deny
Here as elsewhere, cops protect their power. Support your neighborhood CopWatch.
making contact with individuals on Auburn streets and sidewalksjust think of
contactin the sense that ice hockey or American football are
contactsports. ↩


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Cam Weaver, Tally Hall and Dominic Kinnear preview Saturday's match against the Philadelphia Union.
On Saturday at 8 p.m., the Dynamo take on the Philadelphia Union for Armed Forces Appreciation Night, presented by Budweiser. Get up to speed on everything to watch for with this edition of This Week.
Tickets are still available for Saturday's match, including a special ticket package for Brad and Tally's Banded Brigade, which provides tickets to members of the armed forces and their families.
CSN Houston's Sara Eckert sits down with Dynamo midfielder to discuss his off the field activities, which include stepping back onto the field to help coach his son's youth soccer team. That and more in this episode of Kickin' It, presented by BMC Software.
Brad Davis and Tally Hall visit veterans at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center as part of their Banded Brigade initiative to provide armed forces members and their families with tickets to Dynamo home games.
You can help them by purchasing a special ticket package that donates a ticket to this cause.
Tune in to ESPN 97.5 FM tonight for a new episode of Soccer Matters with Glenn Davis. The Dynamo broadcaster will talk Dynamo, MLS, international soccer and more!
Guests for tonight include Dominic Kinnear and Alexi Lalas.
Tonight's episode airs from 7-9 p.m. and can be heard on the radio on 97.5 FM or online at www.espn975.com.
The call-in number for the show is 713-780-3776.
Dynamo radio play-by-play man Matt Pedersen is filling in for Glenn Davis tonight with a new episode of Dynamo All-Access, presented by Houston Community College. The show will air on Yahoo! Sports Radio 1560 AM from 7-9 p.m.
Matt will talk all things Dynamo with CSN Houston's Sebastian Salazar and Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall. He'll also talk with Dynamo director of youth development James Clarkson and Dynamo Academy U-16 forward Elo Ozumba about the U-16s' advancement to Academy Finals Week here in Houston.
The call-in number for the show is 713-439-1560.
A key match in the Eastern Conference is ahead on Sunday afternoon when the New York Red Bulls play host to the Houston Dynamo at Red Bull Arena before an ESPN2 audience. The teams both still currently sit in playoff positions, separated by two points in the conference standings. The Red Bulls are coming off back-to-back losses, last a 3-0 defeat at Philadelphia Union. The Dynamo are riding a six-game winless streak of their own, following a scoreless draw at home with Toronto FC a week ago.
Broadcast Info
TV: ESPN2 (Channel listings)
Radio: 1560 AM / 850 AM
Starting Lineups
Dynamo: Hall; Sarkodie, Boswell, Taylor, Ashe; Creavalle, Moffat, Clark, Driver; Barnes, Bruin
Subs: Deric, Brunner, Chabala, Dixon, Ching, Weaver, Cummings
New York Red Bulls: Robles; Barklage, Holgersson, Olave, Lade; Alexander, McCarty, Cahill, Steele; Espindola, Henry
Subs: Meara, Kimura, Miazga, Juninho, Bover, Luyindula, Akpan
Get up-to-the minute stats throughout the match
When the Dynamo come to town, they come in style. And with plenty of support.
Take a look back at our first MLS Cup victory with MLS Insider, which wouldn't have been possible without our own sea of orange.
Send Kofi Sarkodie to the MLS All-Star game this summer. Sarkodie is among the league leaders in assists for defenders with four on the year, not mention his excellent, often goal saving, defense. Dynamo fans can help him get to the MLS All-Star game by voting in two different ways.
1) Online at MLSSoccer.com
2) Via text message. Text "Sarkodie" to 22442
The 2013 MLS All-Star Game begins at 8 p.m. CT at Sporting Park in Kansas City on July 31. Fan voting ends at 2 p.m. CT on July 2. Check out Sarkodie's highlights from this season below.


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City and civic leaders have concentrated on redeveloping the Evans Avenue corridor in southeast Fort Worth for 15 years. Now they believe that tearing down a building will help attract new development.A city fire station on Evans between Verbena Street and Terrell Avenue that was closed two years ago will be razed. The vacant building sits on a much larger piece of land, and removing the structure would make the site even more desirable to developers, said Michael Brennan, planning director with Fort Worth South Inc."A lot of progress has been made so far," Brennan told the Southside Tax Increment Finance District board last week. The board approved up to $100,000 for the demolition.He said the No. 5 station, which closed in April 2012 when a new facility opened on Irma Street, has been vandalized. Removing it would make the property "much more marketable. Developers want to move quickly," he said.In recent years, Evans Avenue has seen the addition of the Hazel Harvey Peace Center, the Ella Mae Shamblee Branch of the Fort Worth Library, a new 7-Eleven convenience store and a Jack in the Box restaurant.In 2004, the city built a community plaza that recognizes the city's historic African-American leaders on Evans Avenue, just north of Rosedale, to spur commercial development.Several single-family homes are also being built in the surrounding neighborhoods.GameStop draws RadioShack comparison GameStop's strong first-quarter earnings report last week should reassure investors that the videogame retailer is positioned to weather the industry's transition to digital content, at least for now. The company's profit rose 25 percent, sales of digital content are growing and there are aggressive plans to expand two new electronic chains to diversify the business.Still there are doubters, as evidenced by this blog post on the Seeking Alpha website Thursday, before the earnings were released: "Will GameStop become RadioShack in 15 years or sooner?"The comparison between Grapevine-based GameStop and Fort Worth-based RadioShack is natural. Both leading consumer electronics retailers, they have gone in opposite directions in the past decade as GameStop ascended with the popularity of videogames and RadioShack struggled to adapt to online and big-box competition. With videogames going digital, some wonder whether GameStop can sustain business at its thousands of small stores. GameStop says it's embracing the digital transformation. In a conference call with analysts, CEO Paul Raines said the company's digital receipts in the quarter — from sales of digital games and downloadable content — equaled about a third of the sales from physical games. That, he said, is a significant business.Also, a lot of its digital sales occur in GameStop stores, where customers can use trade credits gained by selling old games or equipment and compile points in the company's PowerUp rewards program. Mike Hogan, executive vice president of strategic business and brand development, told the Star-Telegram that many customers still prefer physical games because they don't space to store a download or they want the residual value of the game so they can sell it in the future."We're interested in selling physical content and we're interested in selling digital content," he said. "We want to deliver the consumer the best experience however they want the experience."But Seeking Alpha notes that new systems like Sony's PlayStation 4 stream both new games and old ones, posing a threat to profitable used-game sales at GameStop stores. "The physical game market will shrink significantly over the next decade or so, and while it won't go completely away (much like DVDs are still around), it will be much, much smaller," the analysis said. "GameStop may become the RadioShack of the 2020s decade." — Steve KaskovichWorker trainingA manufacturing consortium of four Fort Worth-area companies has partnered with Tarrant County College to provide job training under an $889,886 Skills Development Fund grant from the Texas Workforce Commission.The companies include Alexander's Machine and Maintenance Service Co., Four Seasons, Grover Corp. and Lear Operations Corp., according to Tarrant County College.The grant is enough to train 581 new and experienced workers in emerging manufacturing technologies for assemblers, material handlers and machine operators.On completing the program, the workers will earn $21.29 an hour.
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It's funny. I did that with a fatman wielding super mutant. :P
Excellent game....
Although finding it hard to make time with so many good games at the moment with the 'FM09' demo, Little Big Planet (hmmmm, edugeek level), pro evo 09 and Metal Gear online demanding play time!
Been playing about but not impressed. Yes the gameplay is good and it is quite immersive, but I am getting nothing but trouble on a system which more then meets the minimum specs. Constant crashes and lockups of the entire computer.
Although I would definatly have to say its still not perfect. I've had the game randomly lockup twice in the middle of the wastelands. Considering the hours I've put into this game I can handle the small ratio of lockups. There have been few instances of characters not appearing in the loctions they should (yes, I've checked the time of day). These can usually be solved by leaving the area and returning.
Xbox 360: found a few interesting glitches.
Found an area of rubble I could jump/walk to but not jump/walk out of I could fast travel though.
A strange black scribble thing bouncing arround the screen in the capitol building.
And I did once go into VATS and was unable to select targets or exit.
and I killed my last Behemoth last night
Well I'm gonna start again as soon as my main gaming rig is re-formatted and sorted out again. I've been playing Gears of War 2 on the X-Box 360 since I got it. I'm still humming and harring over getting LIVE Gold or not.
I've just finished the Dunwich Building which has a H.P. Lovecraft overtone to it and I've just been sent to the Vault-Tec HQ. I believe there is also the Bethesda Building somewhere as well, but I've not found that yet.
Oh yea I also hit the G.O.A.T bug when I first played the game. You sit at the desk but nothing actually happens
This game is full of bugs quite a few of which can ruin your game.
I have just started this game and i am pretty impressed, i have played morrowind and oblivion.
Have the galaxy radio songs stuck in my head from playing for 2 days straight.
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8 Healthy Pumpkin Recipesby Toby Amidor in Healthy Recipes, In Season, November 7, 2012
Packed with vitamin A, pumpkins are good for more than carving, and it's time to expand your palate beyond pumpkin pie. They're absolutely delicious in any of these 8 healthy recipes.
Nutrition Lowdown
Both fresh and canned pumpkins are packed with nutritional goodness. Oftentimes, recipes will use the canned pumpkin since it takes a little work to use fresh. If you choose canned pumpkin, make sure to purchase 100% pureed pumpkin, not pie filling (check the ingredient list).
One cup of canned pumpkin has 83 calories, 1 gram of fat and 7 grams of fiber. It also has close to 800% of your daily recommended amount of vitamin A, 49% of the daily recommended amount of vitamin K and 19% of your daily recommended amount of iron. It also has a good amount of vitamins E and C, pantothenic acid, magnesium, potassium, copper and manganese.
Creamy Risotto
This recipe uses a combo of diced and pureed pumpkin. Combined with mascarpone and fresh Parmesan cheese, it's heavenly.
Recipe: Creamy Baked Pumpkin Risotto (above)
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Millions of sports fans collect memorabilia of their favorite teams and players. One father thought he hit a homerun when he won an online auction for the jersey of his son's favorite player.
"I was devastated; I bought the jersey for my son to give him as a present," said Dan, "he is a huge Alex Rodriguez fan. And I was told it was fake I felt victimized."
Dan didn't want to show his face because he still can't believe he lost $3,200 in this scam. He bought the jersey off a site called Vintage Authentics.
Dan was told he won a jersey A-Rod wore in 1997 with the Seattle Mariners. He quickly learned otherwise.
"There was an event where Alex Rodriguez was signing jerseys and I approached him and his representative said it was a fake," Dan said.
Postal Inspectors investigating Dan's case bought some items from the site, then went to the teams.
"The team looked at the material on the name plates and confirmed it is not the same material used in the jersey. They also looked at the color of the names and the graphics on the jerseys," said Christopher Cizin, a U.S. Postal Inspector.
Inspectors say this is a growing problem. In fact, some people have no idea they have been taken.
"If they receive the item they may have hung it up on the wall and they are happy with their purchase. They never would have known they were a victim," Cizin said.
Dan tried to contact Vintage Authentics, to no avail.
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I don't want to be standing here
With this ticket for this outbound plane
Oh, I've been here before
Somehow this doesn't feel the same
Talk is cheap
So we could talk all night long
And we may never figure out just where your love went wrong
'Cuz I don't want to be standing here
Don't want to be talking here
And I don't really care who's to blame
'Cuz if love won't fly on its own free will
It's gonna catch that outbound plane
The old folks say
Love is not forever anymore
Because these young people walk away from love alone
To pace the floor
Young or old
I say that love is still the same
You may walk away from love but you'll fall head and heel again
Two lonely hearts in this airport knowing
Neither cares where that other heart is going
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It's gonna catch that outbound plane
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Jet fans really like to dump on the players. I'll stay rooting for Mark until if and when we cut him.
I was at that game sitting right near the EZ, it really was great play and pass
Jet fans really like to dump on the players. I'll stay rooting for Mark until if and when we cut him.
Restructure, familiar w/ system, back up, challenge, teach, younger, can step in for a couple of plays or games who knows maybe season.
sanchez did win 4 away playoff games.
I am thinking they Keep Sanchez and he beats Geno in camp and then the haters will be out in force
Anyone see Joe Flacco last season? Did he lose all of his Super Bowl skills in a single 4 month offseason? Think the Ravens are trying to run him out of town?
Our fans are ridiculous, most of them are Mets fans, they care more about the buttfumble embarrassment than they do the quality of play, they simply don't get it.
Mets fans can't handle being teased and the Buttfumble hurt their fragile, loser feelings too deeply to see Mark Sanchez in a positive light ever again. They'd do the same thing to David Wright if he slipped on a banana peel rounding first base and had to take the water-cooler heat from Yankee fans.
the difference between sanchez and geno smith is that sanchez did not run for pay dirt.where as geno is an accomplished runner.checkout his stats against sanchez stats.
slightly off topic but i read it the other day. since 2009, guess which qb prospect had the slowest 40 yard dash? that's right, our own mark. i read it on nfl.com. didn't seem right though. but just goes to show you, we all thought he was quick, and yeah he had happy feet, but he wasn't even fast compared to his peers.
Making a good throw on occasion apparently makes someone good.
Lol, Sanchez lovers are head over heels in love with mediocrity.
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I'd like to see Sanchez return at a cheaper rate as I feel he can be a very capable backup ala Pat Ryan. He could also serve as a stopgap until the team gets it's OL and QB situation sussed out, because neither is looking too great right about now. It all comes down to the money at this point, because to chase one of the other available QBs out there really doesn't make much sense if you really, objectively look at it.
Couldn't agree more.


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Forget Hack Golf. On Wednesday's "The Tonight Show", Cameron Diaz and Jimmy Fallon gave us the answer to making golf faster, cooler and more fun: celebrities on roller skates.
"We don't count strokes, we don't keep score, it's just a race to see who can finish the round first," said Fallon. "And we've got protective gear because safety is sexy!"
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The news from homeland security director Tom Ridge Sunday was that the terror alert has been raised from yellow or elevated to orange or high.
An increase in threats at home or abroad are what led to the move that marks the fifth time the level has been raised to orange since the color coded system began in March 2002.
The number of uneventful level increases is causing many people in central Wisconsin to disregard the warnings.
"I don't worry about it," said area resident Time Hinke, "I just live everyday, like everyday. 'Nothing Changes?' 'Not to me, no."
"I don't really feel like I'm gonna be affected too greatly by it," said another resident Jonathan Wipfin. "I don't know, just go on having a normal life."
But that feeling of ambivalence is exactly what those behind the warning system hope will not happen. Ridge says it has been the attention the warnings have drawn to terrorism that has helped prevent attacks in the past.
"We know from experience that the increased level of security that is implemented when we raise the threat level along with increased vigilance," said Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, "can help disrupt or deter terror attacks."
But there are still those that feel it has no affect on terrorists or worse yet, actually makes the environment more dangerous.
"If there were actually a serious threat and the terror alert went up and we're all so desensitized to the idea that nobody would care," said resident Damien Harris, "and then we'd be in a world of hurt if something actually happened."
One last note, ridge did say terrorists are still interested in using aircraft for attacks.