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It's summarized in the essay "Pornography and Socially Responsible Investing", which appeared yesterday on Public Discourse:
Recently, Dan Nielsen, the Director of Socially Responsible Investing at Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS) released an "Action Alert" encouraging people to sign a letter to media companies asking these companies to stop distributing pornography. CBIS is an investment management firm with approximately $3.6 billion in assets under management for more than 1,000 Catholic institutions worldwide. In the letter, Mr. Nielsen cites the Witherspoon Institute's study on "The Social Costs of Pornography." Nielsen asks companies such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DIRECTV, Dish Network, and Cablevision to "1) Stop distributing pornographic programs, and 2) Improve public disclosure of potential business risks and revenues earned from distributing pornography." This letter serves as a warning to these media companies about the growing legal and reputational risk that pornography production and distribution will face as the information in the Witherspoon report becomes more widely known. Not everyone may have the money or time to have an impact through socially responsible investing, but signing onto the letter represents an excellent opportunity to bolster CBIS's efforts to encourage publicly-traded media companies to stop distributing pornography.
I just signed on to the letter, and you should too. But don't wait — the deadline to sign on is today, Friday, October 29.


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|It turns out that Antti Palosaari is perhaps not entirely responsible alone in [[http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/a-40-softwaredefined-radio|getting credit]] for the discovery of Realtek 2832U tuners being used for SDR. The RTL2382U parts were always **intended** by design for SDR as the dongles come with closed SDR software in Windows for DAB+ and FM reception on the mini CD. I think the credit for uncovering of what the Windows software does lies with a fellow named [[http://nuvie.sourceforge.net/|Eric Fry]] originally sniffing the USB packets from the Windows application in FM and DAB mode way back in **March of 2010**. He had hoped to get a DAB+ or FM receiver working in Linux (he had originally been providing unofficial support for Linux and this [[http://digitalnow.com.au/product_pages/Quad.html|Quad Realtek]] DVB tuner). Eric and I discussed this privately at length and I made some [[http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/30346|reflections]] about [[http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/40927| this]] SDR feature in 2011 on the linux-tv mailing lists and discussed SDR potential on the associated #linux-tv IRC channel. Realtek had sent me some alpha FM SDR software for Linux with a promise of DAB+ to come. Antti's infamous [[http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/44461|email]] followed in early 2012. Very quickly the Realtek RTL2382U Linux driver and and some independent work by [[http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr|Osmocom]] (who were making their own E4000 based SDR) collided and in RTL-SDR as we know it exploded onto the scene.
|So, the original 'discovery' lies with Eric. Much of the work getting the RTL2382U and it's associated tuners tamed in between then and now lies with Antti and Osmocom.
|Here are some USB data dumps Eric took of his RTL dongle tuned to the FM band in April 2010.
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|At least there is now a native [[http://www.sdr-j.tk/index.html|DAB+ SDR]] for Linux.

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"Trust your defense," is an outdated cliche. Zero evidence that you should trust your defense today (46 first half points). 20 yards of field position is basically nothing.
Shiloh didn't score after that punt...the actually exchanged punts. The coaches were both probably playing the 'field position' game...worked better for the Warbirds then the Skyhawks (Foertsch had big run after Shiloh's punt).
9-Man in ND is all about speed with all this extra space. I'd be interested to see some of the scores in ND if they did like MN and narrowed the field?!
The width of a MN 9-man football the 40 yd width scoring would probably go down, but the game would be more realistic. IMO
Haha more realistic!!! More realistic like watching Shanley and St. Mary's have to beat the 8 other teams in their class so they can play each other every year ?


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- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
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Type 920 Anwei-class Hospital Ship
China sent the "Peace Ark" navy hospital ship as part of its relief aid to the Philippines, following criticism that it was not doing enough to help its typhoon-hit neighbor. The two countries are currently involved in a territorial dispute. Typhoon Haiyan tore through the central Philippines, leaving over 4,000 people dead and millions displaced. China, which has the world's second largest economy, initially offered $100,000 to Manila. Following domestic and international criticism, it increased its aid contribution by $1.6 million in supplies.
PLA's first new large Hospital Ship was launched in Guangzhou on 29 August 2007. In August 2008 the Type 920 Hospital ship was reported to have successfully conducted a sea trial. The PLA Navy lists this ship as "Type 920" hospital ship. This vessel was launched in the ship yard of CSIC (Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Limited), which is a subsidiary of CSSC (China State Shipbuilding Corporation). The Type 920 Hospital Ship has a transom stem, a bulbous bow, an extended deckhouse with a forward bridge. A helicopter landing deck is on the stern of the vessel. Six Large Red-crosses have been painted on the ship body. The ship is approximately 170 meters long and 25 meters in beam and about 20,000-23,000 tons displacement [other estimates place the displacement at only 14,000 tons, while Xinhua reports 10,000 tons]. China did not give out any statistics, but based on Western hospital ships, the Type 920 probably has a ship crew of about 200 and a medical crew of about 600.
A hospital ship would not seem necessary equipment in an amphibious invasion to Taiwan, since the island is so close to the mainland. However, for operations in the more distant waters of the South China Sea, it would be essential. The simultaneous appearance of the large Type 920 Hospital Ship and the Type 071 Yuzhao class amphibious transport seem to mark the beginnings of a major buildup in China's ability to project power into the South China Sea.
The primary mission of a U.S. Navy hospital ship is to provide rapid, flexible, and mobile acute medical care to support a Marine air/ground task force (MAGTF) deployed ashore, Army and Air Force units deployed ashore, and naval amphibious task forces and battle forces afloat. The Medical Treatment Facility provides a mobile, flexible and rapidly responsive afloat medical capability for acute medical and surgical care in support of amphibious task forces, Marine Corps, Army and Air Force elements, and forward deployed Navy elements of the fleet and fleet activities located in areas where hostilities may be imminent. As a secondary mission, they are capable of providing full hospital services for use of other government agencies involved in the support of relief and humanitarian operations worldwide. During World War II, in the final phases of the Pacific campaign, tactical doctrine for employment of Navy hospital vessels changed, allowing them to function as mobile, definitive-care combat hospitals in direct support of amphibious operations, rather than as transports only. Specially designed ships of the Haven (AH 12) class were built to support this concept.
Type 920 Hospital Ship - Background
By the seventeenth century, vessels especially configured to care for the wounded following engagements at sea routinely accompanied naval squadrons. Pictet noted that by the time of the Crimean War (1853-56) "more than 100,000 sick and wounded were repatriated to England on board hospital transports. Thereafter, no military expedition was ever undertaken without the necessary ships being assigned to evacuate soldiers from the combat area and give them the medical treatment they might require."
It was not until 1868, however, that the international community sought to cloak ships engaged exclusively in the care and treatment of the wounded, sick, and shipwrecked with formal immunity from capture and destruction. Following adoption of the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in the Armies in the Field of 1864, a diplomatic conference was convened in Geneva for the purpose, among others, of extending to naval forces at sea the protections accorded in that treaty to wounded combatants on land. That effort produced a convention entitled Additional Articles Relating to the Condition of the Wounded in War of 1868,which was never ratified but set forth basic precepts that continue to inform the law of armed conflict relative to hospital ships.
Before the appearance of PLA's new Type 920 hospital ship, the PLA did not have any specially designed dedicated hospital ships in its fleets. Since the Paracel Islands Conflict in 1974 between China and South Vietnam navies, the PLA Navy noticed the hospital ship's importance in modern naval warfare. But economic constraints made the building hospital ship by converting other ships as the first step. In 1990, a Qiongsha Class transport Y832 "Bei Kang" was converted to a medical training ship and a hospital ship and was renamed "Nanyi 09". Later another such ship, either Y833 "Nan Kang" or Y834 "Dong Kang" was converted [not converted by a roll on/roll off ship as some accounts report] and provided to South Sea Fleet. Other ships in a "Nan Yi" sequence are not reported.
Since the CPC leadership called for "Strengthening Military Preparation against Taiwan Island" in the late of 1990s, the PLA Navy entered a period of rapid development. In addition to combat ships, the PLA Navy also built auxiliary military ships.
In 1996, PLA Navy Medical Research Institute successfully developed a "Ship-used Medical Module System" for use on the Shichang (Multirole Aviation Ship). The system is based on international standard container and can quickly set up a fully-functional ship-borne self-contained medical system on civilian ships. Given China's great capabilities in ship-building, the PLA Navy could get sufficient container ships to serve as the supplementary military hospital ship.
The Type 920 Hospital ship is one part of PLA Navy's "Marine Medical Ambulance System" concept. The PLA Navy planned to select some civil 150~500-ton class high performance passenger ships as medical ambulance boat, which would transfer the wounded from the landing zone to the rear large hospital ships. Hi-speed SWATH, Sidewall Hovercraft and Air Cushion Catamaran are options for PLA navy.
The Type 920 is the PLA Navy's first purposely-built hospital ship designed to provide rapid and flexible medical and surgical services at sea. The contractor of the ship is the Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI). The first hull was launched on 29 August 2007, to be commissioned in late 2008. It joined the two transport-ship converted hospital ships currently being deployed by the PLA Navy.
Type 920 Hospital Ship - Design Heritage
A model of Type 920 Hospital Ship was once displayed in Chinese Military Revolution Museum in Beijing for PLA's 80th anniversary. No detail regarding the ship's performance and capabilities were initially available. It was estimated that the full displacement of the ship was approximately 20,000 tons. The propulsion may be in the form of two diesels, with two shafts. The ship was designed to provide medical treatment for military personnel in the war zone, in particular in an amphibious assault operation. If necessary, the ship could also be deployed for humanitarian relief operations in disaster-devastated regions near coast.
The Type 920 hospital ship could provide a total of about 600 beds as well as other medical treatment facilities. The ship has a single-spot flight deck and a hanger at stern to support 1~2 medium size helicopters such as Z-8 or Ka-28. This enables casualties to be directly airlifted from war zone to the ship. The ship is unarmed, and painted white, with the red cross symbol clearly visible to enjoy Geneva convention protection under the international laws of war.
Sources said that the Type 920 hospital ship was a variant of Type 904 Dayun cargo ship. Both share a similar 20 meter beam, but the Type 920 hospital ship was about 170 meters long, while the Type 904 Dayun cargo ship, built by Hudong Shipyard (Shanghai), was 156 meters long with a beam of about 21 meters. Other sources said that the Type 920 hospital ship was a variant of the Qiandaohu / Fuchi replenishment ship, also built by the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard. The Type 920 hospital ship was about 170 meters long, while the Qiandaohu / Fuchi replenishment ship was 178.5 meters long with a beam of about 25 meters. The Type 920 hospital ship really does not otherwise resemble these other ships, which were built at different shipyards.
The Type 920 hospital ship appears generally similar to the Fast Ro-Pax Ferry M/S "Visby" built by Guangzhou Shipyard International. One noticeable similarity is the pronounced flare of the bow sections [not seen in either the Type 904 Dayun cargo ship or the Qiandaohu / Fuchi replenishment ship], which serves to toss aside the choppy seas and to protect it from large waves - important factors in providing a stable platform for performing delicate surgical procedures. Ferries built for Baltic Sea operators had at the time a more pronounced bow flare profile than ferries built for other services. The extensive flare in the bow profile of these vessels had in several instances been blamed as a contributing factor in various casualties involving failure or part-failure of bow visor attachment devices.
The Type 920 hospital ship and Fast Ro-Pax Ferry M/S "Visby" also share a vrey pronounced bulb bow [not in evidence in either the Type 904 Dayun cargo ship or the Qiandaohu / Fuchi replenishment ship]. The bulb bow increases the waterline length, and predisposes the bow wave. It reduces pitching [slower up, slower down] - another contribution to the stability that is important for a hospital ship.
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The Fast Ro-Pax Ferry M/S "Visby" was built by Guangzhou Shipyard International in China for the Swedish ship owner Rederi AB Gotland. Knud E. Hansen A/S in Denmark developed the basic ship design and contracted on behalf of the shipyard FORCE Technology to undertake the model testing for the project. Two vessels were ordered, and the first vessel was delivered in 2003. The vessel and the sister vessel M/S Gotland were delivered in 2003. The order represented a major breakthrough for GSI into the passenger vessel market as the order was the first in this field. The 2000 Lane Ro-Pax was designed by Knud E. Hansen A/S as a highly flexible Ro-Pax vessel for Guangzhou Shipyard International, Guangzhou in China. The vessel was intended for world-wide service.
Type 920 Hospital Ship - Humanitarian Assistance
Some have suggested that the new Type 920 hospital ship will be making a humanitarian tour in the South Pacific to reinforce other soft power gains made in that region over the last few years. China has had a long involvement with Africa, dating back to the 1960s. Over the following decades, China provided technical expertise, doctors, scholarships, and various other forms of aid. The sending of medical teams and agricultural specialists continues to be a mainstay of its assistance to Africa. More than 15,000 Chinese doctors have worked in Africa since 1963. By 2005 nearly 1,000 Chinese doctors were reportedly working in African countries. In general, African states view China as one of their own - a Third World country.
China's launch of its first large naval hospital ship in August 2007 seemed to some to demonstrate an intention to project increased "soft power" in the maritime realm. There is no inherent reason why China's already significant domestic maritime disaster relief capabilities could not be mobilized in the future to provide humanitarian assistance overseas. The Chinese government recognizes the value of humanitarian assistance, medical diplomacy and national responses to international natural disasters. Providing medical assistance to needy countries, particularly in response to natural disasters, improves international image through people-to-people diplomacy as well as effective communications campaigns.
Upon the approval of the General Staff Headquarters of the PLA, the newly revised Outline of Military Training and Evaluation was formally promulgated and issued to the PLA and the Armed Police Force in July 2008. Some argued that the construction of this new class of Hospital Ship seemed to suggest that PLA is following on its promise. The new outline will come into effect in the PLA and the Armed Police Force from January 1, 2009. The new outline is made up of two major aspects, namely joint training and trainings by various services and arms, and covers all the specialties of various services and arms. With enhancing joint operation capability of the troops as the focus, the outline lays out such training contents as: training at operational level of various services, combined tactics, element training, and tactical and technical training.
The new outline has also developed the training of military operation other than war (MOOTW), increased the proportion of informationization knowledge and expertise as well as simulated training of hi-tech weapons and equipment such as aircraft, naval vessels and missiles, standardized the methods, procedures and criterions of networked, on-base and confrontational trainings, defined conditions, forms, methods and requirements for training under complicated electromagnetic environment, training at night, and training under complicated weather conditions.
The August 2009 US Office of Naval Intelligence report "The People's Liberation Army Navy: A Modern Navy With Chinese Characteristics" stated "Humanitarian assistance and naval diplomacy missions may leverage conventional naval forces, but are more likely to concentrate on flexible expeditionary and multimission capabilities able to respond quickly to crises and provide logistical support at extended ranges from shore. The PRC is unlikely to build ships exclusively for humanitarian assistance missions; however, multimission ships like the Yuzhao LPD and Anwei AH hospital ship will be key assets in support of humanitarian or diplomatic missions."
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Title: His Christmas Gift
Author: Dakota Trace
Publisher: Self-Published
Publication Date: December 16, 2011
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Once active in the BDSM lifestyle, Myrna Doherty was betrayed by the very man who'd promised to love her and her submissive obedience forever: her husband and Master. When Grant leaves both her and Caelan behind Myrna vows to never allow herself to depend upon any Dom again. She never expects to go back on her vow, but then again she never expects her home to be invaded by Doms and subs for the holidays in the disguise of her family. Panicked at the idea of alienating what little family she has left, she comes up with a plan. She turns to the one man left in the lifestyle she trusts: Amery Alastar, Caelan's former mentor. She prays that he'll agree to help ease her back into the now unfamiliar world of BDSM. After all it's only temporary - until Christmas is over and she can return to her normal life. At least it's what she tells herself, never realizing Amery has a completely different outcome in mind: he wants her submission and not just temporarily.
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By Ben Norton
Of all extremist groups, the far right is consistently given the kindest news coverage in US corporate media. This weekend, the world witnessed a prime example of such friendly treatment in action.
Armed far-right anti-government militants occupied a federal building in Oregon late on January 2 and announced they would remain there indefinitely. Although the armed occupation was ostensibly organized to protest the imprisonment of ranchers on arson charges, the ultra-conservative militants made it clear from the beginning that they were willing to use violence, and hoped to inspire a larger anti-government uprising.
Major US media outlets ignored these basic facts, nevertheless, instead characterizing the far-right militants as peaceful "ranchers' rights protesters" and "activists."
The armed occupation was organized by Ammon and Ryan Bundy, sons of right-wing extremist Cliven Bundy. Cliven led a similar standoff with the federal government in 2014, in which scores of heavily armed far-right militants occupied federal land, many pointing guns at government authorities. No militants were killed, or even injured, in the incident.
When the ongoing Oregon occupation began, the extremists said they would use violence if need be to fight what they deemed government "tyranny." Early on the morning of January 3, Ian Kullgren, a politics reporter for the Oregonian local newspaper, spoke with Ryan Bundy, who told him the far-right occupiers are willing to kill and be killed.
I talked to Ryan Bundy on the phone again. He said they're willing to kill and be killed if necessary. #OregonUnderAttackThe armed militants stressed to Kullgren that they are "ready to die":
— Ian Kullgren (@IanKullgren) January 3, 2016
Bundy said feds' actions are violation of constitution. Founding fathers were ready to die, and so are they. #OregonUnderAttackBefore the occupation began, participant Jon Ritzheimer posted a declaration on YouTube (12/31/15; Indian Country, 1/3/15) in which he encouraged the head of the ranching family to "die a free man" fighting the "oppressive, tyrannical" federal government, and announced he was "100 percent willing to lay down my life to fight against tyranny in this country."
— Ian Kullgren (@IanKullgren) January 3, 2016
There were few photos of the armed occupation at this time, but Guardian photographer Jason Wilson visited the site on the night the occupation began, and shared a picture of the extremists with heavy weapons. Wilson's photo made it indisputable, from the start, that the militants were armed. Many media reports would later question or even downright ignore this fact.
This is as close as I was allowed to get to the armed militia occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge HQ. #burnsoregon pic.twitter.com/DPztu0VsVUThe Associated Press, which many local outlets rely on for coverage of national and international news, released one of the earliest reports on the incident on the night of January 2. The piece began:
— Jason Wilson (@jason_a_w) January 3, 2016
A peaceful protest Saturday in support of an eastern Oregon ranching family facing prison terms for arson was followed shortly afterward by an occupation of a building at a national wildlife refuge.Leading with the description of a "peaceful protest" suggested that this movement–led by people willing to "kill and be killed"–was a nonviolent one. This article did not make it clear that the militants were armed; in fact, it implied they weren't, reporting:
Peaceful protest in Oregon rancher arson case followed by building takeover at national wildlife refuge: https://t.co/nsIKxQlyIu
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 3, 2016
Some local residents feared the Saturday rally would involve more than speeches, flags and marching. But the only real additions to that list seemed to be songs, flowers and pennies.(The pennies were a reference to protesters throwing pennies at the courthouse doors to signify that "civilians were buying back their government.")
AP published a more detailed follow-up piece on the night of January 3 with the ambiguous, contextless headline, "Oregon Standoff Latest in Dispute Over Western Lands." This article did point out in the opening line that the right-wing occupiers are armed and motivated by "anti-government sentiment."
1/2/16) was similarly vague in its reporting. The leading US newspaper employed the passive voice to obscure who was responsible for the armed occupation. "Wildlife Refuge Occupied in Protest of Oregon Ranchers' Prison Terms" was the headline for its report—glossing over the fact that those occupying this federal installation were armed right-wing extremists prepared to use lethal force.
The New York Times (1/3/16) published a follow-up piece that conveyed in the headline that the occupiers were armed: "Armed Group Vows to Continue Occupation at Oregon Refuge."
NBC (1/3/16) characterized the militants as "rancher's rights protesters." It headlined its report on the story "Ammon Bundy, Rancher's Rights Protesters Occupy Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon."
NBC euphemistically referred to the extremists as "reportedly armed protesters," even though its report was published hours after the Guardian photographer Wilson publicly shared the aforementioned photo showing that the militants were heavily armed.
The Wall Street Journal (1/3/16) initially titled its report "Protesters Occupying Oregon Wildlife Refuge Ask Militia Members to Join Them." Later, the Journal acknowledged that the militants were armed, changing the headline of the piece to "Oregon Armed Protest Leader Says Group Will Defend Occupied Building."
Reuters (1/3/16) headlined its report "Protesters Occupy Oregon Wildlife Refuge as Dispute Over Western Range Flares," again euphemistically characterizing the right-wing extremists as mere "protesters." Only in the middle of the piece did Reuters acknowledge that the militants are armed.
Numerous news outlets employed similarly misleading tactics, downplaying the extremism of the armed occupation and ignoring details that had been widely known hours before.
CNN, for instance, described the paramilitary occupation as an "armed protest" and the militants as "armed protesters" in its interview with extremist leader Ammon Bundy.
The double standards in reporting were striking, particularly compared to the way in which US media treated Black Lives Matter civil rights protests and victims of police brutality. Media outlets have frequently characterized peaceful Black Lives Matter activists as dangerous, with protests in Ferguson, Missouri, blamed on "outside agitators." Corporate media are quick to jump on sketchy claims of African-American and left-wing threats, as with claims of an "anarchist plot to ambush cops on Halloween" or a "Teen Purge" in Baltimore, but when actual right-wing militants openly declare an armed insurrection against federal "tyranny," that somehow fails to alarm journalists.
This hypocrisy was vociferously condemned on social media.
Terrorist: To be, or not to be- that is the question #OregonUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/rTVQMSnS1q
— Carlos Latuff (@LatuffCartoons) January 3, 2016
If only people of color could were privileged enough to be labeled a "militia" when occupying federal building w/ guns. #oregonunderattack
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) January 3, 2016
Did I miss the call for the national guard in Oregon? I recall them in Ferguson and Baltimore. #OregonUnderAttack
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) January 3, 2016
The infamous "terrorism" double standard was sometimes remarked upon in corporate media itself. The Washington Post (1/3/16) published an op-ed asking "Why Aren't We calling the Oregon Occupiers 'Terrorists?'" CNN (1/3/16) ran a more forceful opinion piece, "Face it, Oregon Building Takeover Is Terrorism."
Media double standards vis-à-vis far-right extremism are a commonplace by this point. The hands-off response of the government—which said it had no plans to deal with the armed occupation—is striking, if not unexpected; the response of the media even more so.
As much as the right complains about the US media's supposed "liberal bias," news outlets were enormously euphemistic and gracious in their portrayal of the Oregon occupation. Such graciousness is not extended to other extremist groups.
Ben Norton is a journalist and writer based in New York City. He is currently a politics staff writer at Salon. His website can be found at BenNorton.com, and he tweets at @BenjaminNorton.


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Interview | U Kh---, (Male, 48), P--- village, Bilin Township, Thaton District (December, 2011)
The following interview was conducted by a villager in Thaton District and is presented below translated exactly as it was received, save for minor edits for clarity and security.[1] This interview was received along with five other interviews, one situation update, and 28 photographs from Thaton.[2]
Ethnicity: Karen
Religion: Buddhist
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Farmer
Position: Village head
When did you start serving as village head?
It has been over 11 years.
What problems have you faced since you became village head?
I face many kinds of problems. My brain is confused because of the Burmese Army [Tatmadaw], like [the time that] they ordered me to follow them for four days. I had to go and sleep in the jungle for three nights. I had to follow them day and night. I can't do that anymore.
Do you remember when they came and ordered you to follow them?
It was the day they came to the village. The next day, I had to follow them.
How many days ago?
It was on the 5th [of September 2011].
Do you know which battalion unit of the army ordered you to follow them?
They were from LID [Light Infantry Division] #11.[3]
Did you know which it was, the LIB [Light Infantry Battalion] or the IB [Infantry Battalion]?
I didn't ask which one. I was afraid to ask.
Do you know the [battalion] officer's name?
No, I don't know. I forgot to ask.
Where did they go?
They went to Ky--- then they went to the jungle. They slept at villagers' huts. They built huts and slept in the jungle.
Did you know what their objective was in going there?
I don't know.
How many soldiers were there?
There were 31 soldiers. I counted them carefully.
Do you know where they are based?
I don't know. They told [me] the [name of the] place where they are based but I forgot. They are from the lower part [an unspecified distance below the village]. One of the monks from the monastery said they were still at the camp.
How did they treat you after they ordered you to follow them?
They didn't do anything [to me]. They ordered me to follow them and I followed them. They didn't say anything. They said [to the villagers] to tell the Kaw Thoo Lei4 [Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) soldiers] to avoid them, and they would avoid them when they saw them.
Did they ask you to carry loads when you went with them?
Blòh bloh [literally 'back burned,' meaning that he had to porter and injured his back as a result.]
Did they ask you to porter?
I carried a backpack for him [the officer]. The other two villagers' backbones were burnt [injured] also.
What about where you slept whilst you were on the trip with them?
We slept in the mud. It was raining.
Did they guard you when you slept?
What about food?
We ate together with them.
What about when they ate curry, for example?
There was no curry. They just ate bulbs and bamboo shoots because their rations were gone.
Did you see them take or eat villagers' animals or vegetables from their plantations?
Yes, they did. They ate villagers' chickens.
How many chickens did they eat?
I saw them eat three chickens from a villager's hut.
Where is the hut owner from?
He is from Ra---. I didn't see the hut owner. They ran away. If it was not a villager from Ra-- - it will be a villager from here because it [the hut] is close to here [the interviewee's village].
When did they let you come back?
They let me go when they went back to M---.
Did villagers have to go and pay money to [the soldiers to] let you come back?
Did they say anything to you when they let you go?
No, they didn't say anything. He [the battalion officer] told me "Don't tell the Kaw Thoo Lei [soldiers] that I am here." He just told me that. He didn't say anything else to me.
Do you have other issues regarding the Border Guard[5] and the SPDC[6] Army demanding [things] that you want to tell me about?
The Border Guard is pa pi pu [causing too many problems for people]. They demand pigs, beer and chickens. I cannot deal with it [their demands] anymore.
When did it happen?
It was yesterday. W--- was the one who made the demands.
What did he demand?
He demanded [villagers to be] soldiers. He arrested three villagers. He came and arrested nine villagers and detained three. He asked [me] to come and take [the three villagers] back [to the village].
Have those three people come back now?
Yes, they came back.
When did they come back?
They came back on the 4th [of September]. It was the day when I left [the village with LID #11].
He asked you to go and take back the three villagers. How much did he demand you to pay per person?
He demanded 200,000 kyat (US $259.74)[7] per month [for each person].
Do you have to pay him every month?
He said [we have to pay] for three months.
Is that just for the fee [in lieu of recruitment]?
Yes, it is just for the fee [in lieu of recruitment]. We have to pay 200,000 kyat per month. He asked us to help [pay] him for three months.
When did they start to ask you to pay?
They started asking us to pay on the 4th [of September]. They arrested villagers and called them back to their base. We went to pay money and we came back. The next day, the Burmese Army came to the village and I [had to] accompany them. It wasn't too long ago. It was four days or five days ago from today.
Where did they take the villagers they arrested?
They took them back [with them] to L--- camp.
You said they detained three villagers?
Yes, they detained three villagers. You had to pay money to get the villagers released. First, they said they would take three villagers but later they took two. We arrived [at the army camp] and we discussed it with him and he said he would take [money] instead of the two people. He said: "if you do not give us people, give us money. You have to pay 200,000 kyat per person."
It means that they demanded three people from P--- village?
Yes, they demanded three people. We went and khay wee thā soo [negotiated] with him [the Border Guard commander] and he reduced it by one [person]. He asked for two people. For each person he demanded 200,000 kyat. For two people we had to pay 400,000 kyat (US $519.48).
Did you pay him as he asked?
No, we did not pay.
Did they let the two villagers come back?
Yes, they let them come back. We gave them 300,000 kyat (US $389.61). We will pay him the full amount when the time is close.
What date did they tell you to pay by?
They said by the end of October.
Did they also demand [villagers to be soldiers] from neighbouring villages?
Yes, they did. They demanded them from every village.
Do you know what W---'s battalion unit is?
I don't know.
You said he lives in L--- army camp?
Do you know his rank?
People said he is the Company Commander. He demanded fees [in lieu of recruitment] from our village. Ku--- village had to buy five guns and a klee set [motorboat] for them. The village has already bought it. The Ku--- village head told me it was law bpleel law pu [scary].
When did it happen?
It was the day when I went [to take back the three villagers]. I came back and the next day I had to accompany the Burmese Army. The Ku--- [villagers] had to buy five guns and a motorboat. They had to pay 500,000 kyat (US $649.35) for the motor boat. They don't know yet how much they will have to pay for the gun.
How did you get the money to pay them [in lieu of military service]?
We borrowed money from the monk. We also didn't have the money. If we hadn't pay, they will kill me. They will slit my throat. Now it is harvest time. You have to do it this way because no one wants to [join the army]. They all just want to pay money [instead of joining]. I just do it this way. We have to be afraid of them.
How will you organize paying back the money that you borrowed from the monk?
I have to organize it with the villagers. But now, I asked and no one has any money. Later I will have to organize [the money with villagers]. I have to do it this way.
Do the SPDC Army do things like this?
The SPDC Army don't do things like that. They haven't done anything. They just call you [to porter] when they see you. They don't demand money.
Have you seen the SPDC Army eat or steal villagers' chickens when they come to the village?
They don't do that in the village. They do at villagers' huts [outside the village or in the jungle]. They normally don't do that in the village.
What about the Border Guard?
You don't even need to ask about the Border Guard. They demand goats and pigs. They shoot [animals] when they cannot ask [for them].
When W--- [and his soldiers] came to the village, did you see them shoot villagers' pigs and chickens?
Yes, they did. They demanded a goat. And they shot a villager's pig. They didn't ask permission from the owner. They just shot it.
Whose pig did they shoot?
P---'s pig.
How many viss[8] did the pig weigh?
It was around 10 viss (16 kg / 35.2 lb). It was not a big pig.
Did they pay the owner?
How would they pay? People [the owners] don't dare to say [ask for payment].
How about the goat? How many viss did the goat weigh?
It was around 8 viss (12.8 kg / 28.16 lb).
How much do you think you would have to pay for a viss of goat meat?
We went and we were asked to pay 50,000 kyat (US $64.94) for the goat.
It means that they [the Border Guard] ask you [for things] and you have to go and buy them for them?
What about pork? How much do people sell a viss [of pork] for?
One viss is 3,000 kyat (US $3.90).
Did they also demand rice?
No, they haven't demanded that. They've just asked for food like pork, chicken and goat meat. They ask us and we are afraid to refuse. They shot their guns all day. They fired mortars.
Did they fire mortars when they entered the village?
Yes, they did.
How many mortars did they fire?
They fired two mortars. I cannot deal with it anymore. So I asked S--- to go and it disappeared [the firing of mortars stopped]. They [Border Guard troops] get drunk and shoot guns all day from morning to sunset. They shot [guns] and fired mortars. Luckily, they didn't hit the villagers. They [the KNLA] stay close [to the village]. I told them [KNLA soldiers]: "If you want to go and shoot them, you can go". I don't want to stop them [the KNLA] because I cannot say anything to them [the Border Guard soldiers] anymore. Then I ran away. I didn't want to stay close as I was afraid to stay close to them.
Do they [the Border Guard] harm villagers when they come to the village?
No, they don't do that. They just ask for alcohol and they fire their guns when they get drunk.
Are there any other problems that your village has to face?
No. we don't have [any other problems].
What about health [care] and education?
No, we don't have [problems regarding that]. We only have problems with the Border Guard.
What's about villagers' livelihoods? Do they face any problems this year?
Yes, we don't have time to do our work.
What do you mean [when you say that] you have no time to work?
I have to go [meet the different armed groups], and come back, and go. I have no time to work.
There was heavy rain this year. Are your villagers' faced with such problems as their paddy dying [from flooding]?
You don't even need to ask about that issue. All the paddy plants died. The river flooded and whole farms were destroyed.[9]
How many acres were destroyed?
Four or five thousand paddy plants were destroyed. One person lost one or two hundred paddy plants. Whole farms were destroyed.
Did the water reach this place in the past?
No, the water could not reach here in previous years. There was no water in some years. This happens in just one year out of ten. In other years, water would flood and then go down but this year, the water didn't go down. How can the paddy plants survive this? In the past, the water flooded [the fields] for ten days then it went down. But this year, even though September was past, the water hadn't gone down, so how can your paddy plants survive this?
Do you think your villagers will face any problem in the coming year because of the flooding?
The villagers will have a food crisis.
Do you have any issues that you want to mention that I haven't asked you about yet?
No, I don't have [any].


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Hello everybody, and welcome to my channel, from this page Nikatia. I decided today to get knowledge from the 2nd policy department and I thought that by the way I can show you that. It is knowledge about Mediah and will give you 2 points for energy permanently. Before you start, press "H" and check if you do not have one point at a time to run unnecessarily. There will be some running between NPCs here, so remember that you can find each one by entering his name in the NPC search engine.
First, we will visit NPC Tantu in the Mausoleum in the north of Mediah. He has the knowledge of "Corrupt Practices", and "Followers of Kzarka", in order to get them you need to get amity. His interest is "Mediah Adventure Journal I" "Corrupt Practices" require 210 amity points, while "Followers of Kzarka: 550. To write amity points you can either talk to him and meet the conversation conditions given on the upper right side of the screen, or greeting him (F1) round the clock.
3 energy = 3 amity The next NPC is Ain Greid, which you will find in Ancient Fissure. He is interested in the second department of historical knowledge and when you get 240 amits from him, he will share with you the knowledge of "Conversation of Knowledge" Nish Devisha is standing in the Ancient Ruins Excavation Site. She is also interested in the second department of historical knowledge. I will give you the knowledge of "Fallen Monarch" if you have 370 amits in her. In Tarif you can meet Sarma Anin, who is interested in the second tab of knowledge in theology and he has the knowledge of "Scattered Faith, Shroud" to offer you when you get 250 amits. I suspect that the knowledge of "Exile of Bareed's III" will be owned by most of you. You can learn it through the quest chain, which starts in Tarif from Ahon Kirus quest "Lost Woman". The chain will guide you from the quest to the quest until you get to the quest "Prince's Request for Asylum", which will give you Maudi Budar. As you are already at the NPC Maoud Budar from Altinova, he has the knowledge of "Valencia and Mediah" to offer.
You will have to get 250 amity from him to get it. His interest is the second tab of history. Next to Maudi is Ganin Arth, her interest is "Ancient Ruin Guardians". She has the knowledge of "Valencia Mission", you will need 550 amity to get it. The next NPC in Altinova is Hailey, who is interested in the second department of politics and give you the knowledge of "Sezec from the Rumbling Land" if you have 120 amits. Most of you will probably already have the "Leader of Altinova" knowledge, it is obtained from the quest chain, which you start in Altinov with NPCka Sirare quest "A Prophet of Altinova", and we get the knowledge from the quest "Leader of Altinova", which we get from the auctioneer in Altinov – Lucy Benkum.
Also in Altinov you can get the knowledge of "Shen Merchant Guild" by talking to Belgar NPC for 5 energy. If, however, she is a beast and she does not want to give knowledge, then after completing the "Leader of Altinova" quest, follow the chain of quests until you accept the "Mediah Merchants Guild" quest. You will get the knowledge of "Mediah Merchants Union" from the NPC Kuldu, again in Altinowie for 5 energy. Exactly as with the previous knowledge, you may need the quest "Mediah Merchants Guild. And that's all! The second part of political knowledge is included! I hope that the guide was useful for you, thank you for your attention and for the next time! about/.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
A Halloween Ghost Story
Someone just wrote in asking whether I've ever had any paranormal experiences and I have to confess that I have had some eerie experiences. I hesitate to label them as paranormal because I'm not really sure I understand what was happening. I've had many of these experiences throughout my life. Most of the time it's just an uncomfortable feeling that there is unusual energy present in a place - for example, check out San Diego's Hotel Del Coronado. It feels like someone else's emotions are being superimposed on yours and for no good reason you can be walking along in a perfectly good mood and suddenly feel a wave of overwhelming sadness or rage engulf you. I find the feeling oppressive and I try to avoid places with really negative energy - for example, the Jerome Grand Hotel in Jerome, AZ. At least, that is how my eerie feelings work.
Another "paranormal" experience has less to do with feelings and more to do with unexplained occurrences. When my family and I first moved into our old house in L.A., weird things kept happening. Lights would turn on or off as you were walking away from them; footsteps could be heard upstairs when nobody was up there. Anyway, I started to write about my experiences when I realized that my husband had already written about them several years ago. Below is his account of our old home in Los Angeles. The names have been changed out of respect for the dearly departed.
We moved into the tidy, two-story house in the hills overlooking downtown Los Angeles in June. Drawn to the rustic canyon neighborhood by one of the best schools in the area, we purchased the thirty year old wooden structure from a German couple who were supposedly the original owners. They had raised their two sons in the home and now that the youngest was in college, they no longer needed the extra space.
We were amazed and delighted at the immaculate condition of the house, with its freshly painted walls and cream carpets. In truth, the house was so spotless and white that it felt a bit sterile and uncomfortable and we were afraid to make any changes that might disturb the fragile equilibrium of the space. Our furniture and belongings were duly placed in the rooms, but they had the appearance of objects which had been temporarily dropped off by some errant mover who would momentarily return to pick them up and take them on to their proper home. The house took on an air of intransigence and seemed to regard us as squatters who had somehow managed to steal a set of keys.
We heard the footsteps the first night.
As we sat downstairs in the living room watching television, the distinct sound of someone walking across the master bedroom upstairs was accompanied by what could only be described as a change in air pressure, like a large volume of air had been sucked out of the room. My wife and I exchanged nervous glances, silent affirmation that we had both heard the footfalls, though neither of us wanted to think that our brand new home might be haunted.
As I said before, the house was impeccably maintained with what could best be described as a peculiarly German sense of cleanliness and order. It had been designed and outfitted over the years, ostensibly guided by the maxim, "A place for everything, everything in its place." This way of thinking was completely foreign to us, as we had been living in a much smaller house, too small for a growing family with a small child and her attendant closet full of toys. Our previous house had been cramped and cluttered with stacks of books, CDs and unopened mail. This new house seemed to have little tolerance for such sloppiness and loudly expressed its disapproval.
Things began to move of their own accord. Items disappeared from their last known location and reappeared later in an entirely different part of the house. One afternoon, as my wife passed by the downstairs bathroom, she observed a hand towel flop back down into the hanging position, as if some unseen guest had just finished drying their hands. Stopping and backing up to verify what she had only glimpsed out of the corner of her eye, she observed the towel still slightly swaying back and forth. The downstairs bedroom, which doubled as the office, was also the scene of inexplicable occurrences. In particular, the slide out mouse tray on the computer table seemed to appeal to the spirit, as it would mysteriously pull itself out during the night while we slept.
About a month after moving in, we decided to hang a large painting on one of the living room walls in an attempt to add color to the lifeless room. My wife called me at work the following afternoon to ask me why I had taken the painting down and left it laying face down in the middle of the living room floor, a full ten feet from the wall where it had been hanging that morning. Since I had not touched the painting and no windows were left open to provide a gust a wind that might have knocked the canvas down, we were at a loss to explain it.
"Do you think the house is trying to tell us that we have bad taste in art?" my wife gamely suggested. It was at this point we began to imagine that a presence somehow connected with the house was causing these phenomena in an effort to assert its ownership. This presence could be felt as a pair of watchful eyes whenever one of us alone in some isolated part of the house, particularly in the upstairs master bedroom or below the house in the laundry room. A small, hinged door led from this laundry room to the crawlspace underneath the house, from which the packed earth had been sufficiently excavated to enable a hunched over adult to move about, aided by a light fixture which had been efficiently wired from an outlet in the laundry room. This crawlspace was ingeniously equipped with wooden shelves which we quickly filled with boxes, awaiting unpacking.
Each new guest to our house who happened to visit at night would invariably ask, "You know your house is haunted, don't you?" Shadowy figures darted around corners, appeared as reflections in mirrors, teased and provoked our peripheral vision. It became increasingly difficult to find a babysitter willing to stay late at night.
One evening, my wife and I were in bed and had just turned off the reading lamps when suddenly, the television in our bedroom turned on. "I thought you were sleepy," she said, somewhat perturbed.
"I didn't turn it on." I replied.
We searched the room in the flickering light emanating from the television set and saw that the remote control was sitting, untouched, on my wife's bedside table.
"Give me that remote!" I snapped and flicked the TV set off. Darkness cloaked the room for a moment or two, then out of the darkness, a sound of the TV being turned on and the whining rush of electricity as the screen glowed back to life. The sound on the television set began to get louder and louder; the green volume bars on the screen flashed higher and higher, measuring our increasing terror. Throwing on the light, I leapt out of bed and unplugged the TV from the wall.
"There. If it comes on again, we're getting the hell out of here."
I reasoned that the television must have had a short in the power board, affecting the volume control and, since it remained quiet, we were able get some sleep.
The next afternoon, my wife called me from her cell phone, her voice crackling with anger and anxiety. "Did you leave the upstairs television on before you left the house this morning?" she demanded.
I assured her that I had not. In fact, the set should still have been unplugged from the night before. She said that she had just come home to find the television blaring away at full volume and she was not going to set foot in "that house" until I got home and when was I leaving work anyway?
One night in late July, my wife and daughter had gone out to the grocery store and I was alone, reading in bed, while the downstairs portion of the house was dark and quiet. I suddenly became conscious of another presence in the house, the way a person knows when someone else is looking at them without actually seeing their eyes. I also felt that I could pinpoint this presence's location as somewhere on the staircase leading from the entryway up to the master bedroom, where I lay. From the bed, I could only see the top landing of the stairs. At any second, I fully expected to see the head of someone I did not know appear above the half-wall as they climbed the stairs.
Then the entryway light came on. This could only be accomplished by flicking the single switch found on the inside wall, next to the entry door, and is typically the first switch one would throw upon entering the house. Yet no one had come through the front door.
"Hellooo?" I said in a nervous, joking voice, knowing full well that no living person was downstairs. The entry way light turned off in response. Now, I was truly shaken and I decided it would be best not to venture downstairs until my wife and daughter arrived as reinforcements.
The next day, I floated the possibility of trying to communicate with this spirit via a Ouija board or a seance. To this suggestion, my wife simply replied, "Are you out of your mind?"
We discussed what we knew of the history of the house, but were unable to come to grips with the identity of the ghost, since we knew that the couple from whom we had bought the house, the Linders, had moved into the house in 1970, a year after it was built. They had raised their boys and then decided to move away after almost thirty years in the hills of Los Angeles. Clearly, they had loved the house. But was the affection and sense of attachment that a living person held for their home strong enough to break off a piece of that person's soul and leave it behind? Or could there have been another, someone as yet unknown to us? If the Linders hadn't moved in until 1970, who had lived in the house the previous year?
I tried to drive these thoughts from my mind by whistling aloud as I opened the half door to the crawlspace later that night. I dreaded going down there now, but found it unavoidable whenever we needed some seldom used item that had been packed away. Stooping over to avoid hitting my head on the wooden beams which bore the weight of the house, I squinted in the semi-darkness as I scanned the labels on the boxes. Something moved in the shadows underneath the front part of the house, where the light could not reach - a skunk or perhaps a rat? The air grew thick and musty with the smell of unsettled earth. Looking down at the packed dirt floor, I silently wondered, "What secrets are buried here, beneath the floorboards of this house? Who are you and what do want to tell us?" Dust swirled and formed shapes, then quickly dissolved into thousands of shimmering motes fading in the light.
My answer came in the mail that same week. A bill from the county tax assessor's office, addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Effie Goldman, who had once lived at our address and who owed the County of Los Angeles a significant amount of taxes due to a recent reassessment of her property value. "This is it! This must be her!" My wife said excitedly. "I can't believe the county is sending a deceased person a tax bill. They must be getting desperate." We now had a name for the unseen presence, but no explanation as to why she remained in the house.
Every summer, our neighborhood throws a block party, a chance for the newcomers to meet and talk with the old timers who remember what the area was like many years ago. As discreetly as possible, we asked the few neighbors we already knew about the Linders and whether anything strange had ever happened in their house. Most of the people were close to our own ages and knew little beyond the fact that the Linders were considered old-timers, having lived in the same house for thirty years and were the most normal family you could imagine. We were eventually directed to the table of a graying, kindly looking man named Bill, who smiled warmly at us as we approached.
"Well, hello! You're the nice couple who moved into the Linders' place, right?" Bill motioned for us to have a seat. "So, how are you liking your new home?"
"It's great, they sure kept the place up."
"Oh yes, they were always out working on the yard or fixing some part of the house. Very hard-working people, the Linders."
"Bill," I said, "this is going to sound like a strange question, but...did anyone ever die in that house while the Linders were there?"
"My heavens, no!" Bill chuckled. "Why, do you have yourselves a ghost?"
My wife and I smiled wanly at each other.
"Well, there's more than a few of them up here, I should think. Folks up here have gotten a little passionate, you might say, from time to time." Bill smiled to himself and seemed to be looking off towards some distant memory.
I asked him if he was living in the area when the house was built.
"Yes, I've been living here for nearly sixty years now, came here after the war. The neighborhood's changed quite a bit over the years, you know. It's nice to see so many young families, such as yourselves, moving in again. You know, they used to call this hillside the "Swish Alps" because there were so many of us living up here at one time," Bill mused.
He continued, "The house you're living in was built by a young man who was an engineer, he also wanted to be an architect. He designed and built that house himself in 1968, as a gift to his wife. They were newlyweds and this was going to be their first home together. Goldman was their name, I think. Anyway, they lived there only a short time, maybe a year. After what happened, he couldn't live there anymore and he sold it to the Linders. We never heard what became of him after he moved away. Some say he moved out of the state, but he never built another house after that one."
We pressed Bill for more details about Mrs. Goldman and the architect's story, but he politely refused to say anymore. And so we pieced together the rest of the story for ourselves. The house had been built as a gift for a new bride, but a tragic, untimely death kept her from enjoying it. No wonder her spirit felt entitled to stay on and keep an eye on things. It was her house, after all.
Gradually, we felt comfortable enough to make changes in the house. A fresh coat of vibrant color on one wall of the living room, a minor kitchen remodel, and over time the strange manifestations seemed to occur less frequently, or perhaps it was just that we became accustomed to them. Visitors to our home still remark about the sounds of footsteps upstairs or mention feeling a woman's presence in the upstairs bathroom, but we reply that it is just Effie keeping an eye on things. She shares her home with us, this house which belongs to her.
6 comments:
- darkside777 said...
Happy Halloween!
This is all a true story...I have been in Alice's house when Effie was moving around. I was scared at first, but Snow put me at ease.."Snow said: Don't worry, it is just Effie, she won't do anything."
- Lynnster said...
Alice, my mouse died when I was reading this post Halloween night. Just up and out of the blue. I'd known my keyboard was on a fast downhill slide but the mouse had shown no signs of impending death and it just all of a sudden dead as a doornail. And then I was stuck on the page for a while 'cos my keyboard was acting up and my mouse was dead. Kinda creepy, especially since I was reading about the TV coming on by itself right then. Strange, just thought I'd share!
That was a chilling story. The TV part gave me the creeps!
can we please hear more about the cider incident??
Hey Alice,
Can't tell you how much I enjoy the blog...Your writing about something as simple as making a dress is fascinating...
I really enjoyed the ghost story, especially because I live in a house where one of the former owners committed suicide in the garage..The first time I walked in there, I remember this overwhelming feeling of sadness...Anyway, I've made a deal with the ghost, you co-exist with me and I'll co-exist with you. If you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone...
Anyway, as an ex-LA punk (I moved to LA in 78 and started a bit late, in 79,) but I did get to see you with the Castration Squad at Madame Wong's once-I remember this write-up Craig Lee did in the LA Weekly about Shannon Wilhem doing somersaults off of a 6 foot cross-Do you remember that?
Well, I just wanted to post a big of LA chisme, I don't know if you had heard about this...But, I was trying to go online at Amazon to get a copy of the Decline of Western Civilization, hoping it was on DVD. Found out it has not been released yet, neither is it available on tape! I read up on one of the "Reviews" which said that one of the guys from I think Black Flag is holding up the release of the movie due to copyright laws...Did you know anything about it? Any idea where I could get a copy of the movie? I am now an old Psychologist in my late 40's who would love to reminice about my wild youth at the Starwood and all those crazy places...
Another question, why have you and Pat Bag never made up?
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