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Published July 3, 2013
Making his second visit in three weeks, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo came to the UB Law School today to talk about the formation of a state commission that will investigate public corruption in New York State and the appointment of UB Law Dean Makau Mutua as a member of the commission.
"This commission will restore trust by telling the truth," Cuomo told those gathered in the Charles B. Sears Law Library in O'Brian Hall on the North Campus. "If this government has something to hide, this commission will find it.
"The government is not the enemy, the government is us. And together we can do great things."
Mutua joins Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita, a 1986 graduate of the UB Law School, and other top state law enforcement and legal experts on the 25-member "Moreland commission." Formally known as the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, the panel will probe systemic public corruption and the appearance of such corruption in state government, political campaigns and elections in New York State.
The bipartisan commission is similar to panels empaneled by Governors Mario Cuomo, Thomas Dewey and Nelson Rockefeller under the Moreland Act to conduct investigations of corruption and misconduct.
Mutua and the other members of the Moreland commission have been appointed to the panel as deputy attorneys general by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, which will give the commission broad-based authority to investigate all matters that "involve public peace, public safety, and public justice."
The commission also will have the power to subpoena and examine witnesses under oath, as well as subpoena any necessary records.
The formation of the commission follows recent allegations of
corruption and misconduct by public officials that Cuomo says show
that reforms are needed because current laws are inadequate.
Cuomo visited UB Law on June 12 to stump for an ambitious package of anti-corruption measures and campaign finance reforms. He issued his executive order establishing the Moreland commission after his reforms failed to gain traction in the recently completed session of the state Legislature, and following the filing of federal bribery and embezzlement charges against several state lawmakers.
"We must root out corruption in politics and
government," Cuomo said on Tuesday in announcing creation of
the Moreland commission. The commission, he said, "will
convene the best minds in law enforcement and public policy from
across New York to address weaknesses in the state's public
corruption, election and campaign finance laws, generate
transparency and accountability, and restore the public
The commission expects to issue a preliminary report and recommendations by Dec. 1.
Appointed dean of the UB Law School in 2008 after serving as interim dean for a year, Mutua is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar at the law school. He teaches international human rights, international business transactions and international law.
Mutua is a vice president of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2002-03, he chaired the Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, which recommended a truth commission for Kenya.
He is the author of several books, and he has conducted numerous human rights, diplomatic and rule of law missions to countries in Africa, Latin America and Europe.


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Thursday, May 15, 2014
Charleston Southern mens basketball assistant coach Brad Dobbels is leaving the program to pursue other professional opportunities in order to spend more time with his family, head coach Barclay Radebaugh announced on Thursday. Dobbels formerly coached at Goose Creek High School, leading the Gators to one state championship.
Dobbels, a 1989 CSU graduate, spent the last three seasons on Radebaughs staff and played an instrumental role in helping the Bucs to 51 wins during that time.
The Bucs put together a winning season for the first time in 16 years during Dobbels first campaign in 2011-12, and followed up with the programs first Big South regular season championship in 26 years in 2012-13.
Were very thankful for Brad and the many contributions he has made to our basketball program over the last three years, Radebaugh said. Brad is a first-class person and an excellent coach, and has been a big part of our success. We wish him the best going forward.
Before coaching at CSU, Dobbels built a particularly impressive program at GCHS after taking over a 4-19 team in 1997-98.
Four years later, the Gators finished 25-3 and played in one of their five Lower State championship games under Dobbels.
The highlight of his tenure came in 2008-09 when the Gators went 27-2 and captured the Class AAAA championship. The Gators also played for the state title in 2005-06.
He compiled a 292-92 record at GCHS and his teams were known for their tenacious defense.
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The Stetson women's basketball team survived one the most physical games it has played this season in Thursday's 79-66 win at USC Upstate.
Midway through the first half, Jama Sharp took contact to face that resulted in a bloodied nose. Later in the half, Brianti Saunders was assisted off the court after a collision under the Spartans basket.
Both players were able to return.
In the second half, Myeisha Hall tumbled hard to floor after getting fouled on a lay-up attempt, but she stayed in the game.
"It was a very physical game on both ends, that's just how it was," Stetson head coach Lynn Bria said after the game. "They are very hard to play against, so to come in here and get a win (was) very fortunate."
Stetson also survived a Spartans' run that cut a 13-point second-half deficit down to two, but the Hatters responded with a 19-4 run of their own to break the game open.
"We fought through some adversity and stayed together," said Hall, who scored a season-high 14 points off the bench. "We didn't lose our heads. Jama played great. She kept the team together. Even though she got hurt, she came back, and she didn't let it change the way she was playing."
The Hatters will look to keep playing with the same type of fortitude on Saturday afternoon when they visit ETSU for 1:30 p.m. contest. Stetson (17-5, 9-1 A-Sun) will be shooting for its 10th consecutive win and a sweep of its four-game road swing.
The Buccaneers enter the game with a record of 7-14, 3-7 after falling 70-45 to FGCU on Thursday.
Saturday's contest will be broadcast on ASun.TV, while live stats, the Stetson women's basketball twitter feed, and Hat-Alerts will provide in-game updates as well.


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This course is designed to prompt an exploration of common behaviours and attitudes towards gender differences. It will present facts and figures about the situation of women and men in our society today – and references from key documents that highlight policies formulated to address gender concerns. Recent events have shown that if governments are serious about achieving the Millennium Development Goals, MDG's, it is essential that gender be taken into account for all the goals. Gender equality in the MDGs touches almost exclusively on the area of education, and research does show the importance of equality in this area, but this is not sufficient. This e-learning course will empower the participants with tools and sector-specific guidelines for gender mainstreaming in their various institutions and development planning. It will further improve the abilities of participants to reduce gender inequalities in their various homes, organisation and communities.
The course also features a number of exercises and reflective activities designed to explore basic gender concepts and enhance gender analysis skills, which can be applied in the formulation of policies, the design of programmes, and the exercise of evaluation.
The overall purpose of the training programme is to enhance the gender-responsive planning of key institutions and the management skills of their employees, so that they can more effectively play their part in implementing gender-sensitive development policies as well as mainstreaming gender in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, MDG's.
Course Content:
This one month part-time course comprises 7 modules. The module outline is included below:
PRE – Training
Introductory Course in the Online Training System
Course navigation and guide
Explanation of course resources
MODULE 1: Introduction to Gender and Development
Definition of Gender
The Concept of Gender and Development
Gender Dynamics and Development
Exploring Attitudes towards Gender
Basic Gender Concepts and Terminology
Social Construction of Gender
Course Review and Assignment
MODULE 2: Gender Roles and Relations
Gender Roles
Types of Gender Roles
Gender Roles and Relationships Matrix
Gender-based Division and Valuation of Labour
Course Review and Assignment
MODULE 3: Gender Development Issues
Identifying Gender Issues
Gender Sensitive Language
Gender and Governance
Gender and Human Rights
Gender Statistics
Course Review and Assignment
MODULE 4: Gender Analysis and Policy Development
Introduction to Gender Analysis
Why Gender Analysis
Variables used in Generating Data
Gender Analysis Frameworks
Gender Analysis Tools
How to do a Gender Analysis
How to do a Gendered Analysis
Gender and Policy Development
Emerging Lessons on Mainstreaming Gender in National Policy Frameworks
Course Review and Assignment
Module 5: Gender Mainstreaming
Definition of Gender Mainstreaming
Gender Mainstreaming as a Strategy
Historic Overview of Gender Mainstreaming
The Concept of Gender Mainstreaming
Approaches to Gender Mainstreaming and Integration
Methods and Strategies of Gender Mainstreaming
The Role of Men in Gender Mainstreaming
Challenges to Effective Gender Mainstreaming
Gender Mainstreaming and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Gender Mainstreaming Best practices
Course Review and Assignment
MODULE 6: Gender Monitoring and Evaluation
Gender Monitoring and Evaluation
Integrating a Gender Dimension into Monitoring and Evaluation
Course Review and Assignment
Module 7: Final Examination and Wrap-up
Final Examination
Participants Evaluation of Course/Feedback
Additional Features
• Online, interactive, self-paced and self-learning modules.
• Surveys and tests to test your knowledge and understanding before and after the test.
• Opportunity to post comments, assignment answers, live chat, and blogging etc.
Target Audience
The course is aimed at gender focal points, women organisations, programs and project managers, researchers, policy-makers, activists, women advocates and feminists, students, staff of NGOs and CBOs, staff of UN specialized agencies, donor agency field workers, volunteers, development actors, trainers, students, government officials etc. Candidates should have a good written command of English language and high competence and comfort with computer and internet use.
Entry Requirement:
Students must have a current e-mail account, regular access to and general familiarity with the internet and mobile phones.
Course Delivery:
Interaction with students will be via the Global Human Rights Leadership Training Institute training platform and all course notes and guidelines for study will be delivered and accessible to students in electronic format. (http://www.justicegroup.us/GHRLTI)
Each week a new module is available to the students. At the end of each week, an assignment is completed by the students and marked by the course experts. Assignments are in the form of written assignments.
Award of the Certificates:
Statistics from previous courses showed that submission of assignments and receiving online tutoring help participants to integrate gender in their various activities. Certificates can be awarded only to those students who:
1) Completed all assignments and Final Exam
2) Obtain a combined final mark of 50% or more for the assignments and Final Exam
Successful students will receive the GHRLTI Certificate in Gender Development Training.
Course Fee:
The course tuition fee is US$300. Course fees include access to all course materials, expert support, assignments as well as postage and packaging of a certificate. There is a limited amount of partial scholarships available for applicants from developing countries, based on financial need.
Location: Online
Total Duration: One month, approximately 25 hours learning time
Application Procedure
The deadline for application is 30th August 2013. While full tuition payment is due on 5th September 2013. However, applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis. Applications received after this deadline will not be considered. You can also download application form at http://www.justicegroup.us/gender-development.
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Ffynnon (pronounced: fun-on), a Celtic folk group from Wales, perform songs deeply rooted in the rhythms, traditions and landscapes of the Celtic tradition. Their debut Green Linnet CD, Celtic Music from Wales, is ancient and contemporary, traditional and modern. The sixteen ...more
Ffynnon is a trio from Wales, performing songs deeply rooted in the rhythms, traditions and landscapes of the British Isles. Their repertoire includes traditional songs sung in Welsh, as well as music from Scottish, Cumbrian, Breton, and other Celtic and English sources. The band is based around the singing of Lynne Denman and Stacey Blythe, accompanied by keyboards, fiddle and accordion. The late Dave Reid was a third member, contributing masterful six-string bass to Ffynnon's Celtic Music from Wales album on Green Linnet Records.
Ffynnon has toured in America, Brittany (France), the Sudan (funded by the British Council), and all over Britain. They have appeared at the Chicago Celtic Festival, and on S4C TV (Welsh-language TV), BBD Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, and Radio Wales. They performed at the national and International Eisteddfodau (Welsh Music, Literature and Arts Festivals), and headlined on 'Gwerin y Werin' program on Welsh-language TV channel S4C . Ffynnon was voted the 'best band' at Gwyl Glyndwr, Machynlleth (festival in mid-Wales).
Lynne Denman (vocals)
Lynne is in the vanguard of the new, exciting breed of singers emerging in Wales today from the older tradition. She has sung and performed throughout Britain and Europe and NE Africa and appeared regularly on Welsh national television and radio. She acted as researcher and advisor in modern Celtic music at the Celtica Interpretive Centre in Machynlleth. She performed at the Festival de cinema de Douarnenez and the Kann al Loar, Landerneau, Brittany with Sanfferian and sings on a regular basis for the National Museum of Wales.
Stacey Blythe (accordion, cello, harpsichord, recorders, piano, vocals)
Playing a wide variety of instruments, Stacey studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama where she now lectures and runs workshops. Recent collaborations include: research on traditional ballads with Frankie Armstrong, work with Meredith Monk and premiering a new work by her at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. She is currently working as composer on a new independent film.
Dave Reid (bass guitar)
Dave Reid plays a six-string bass guitar, and was a popular and active figure on the jazz scene in Wales and London. He also worked regularly for TV and radio, both as a musician, a presenter of music programmes, and as a writer of satirical sketches and radio scripts. Dave worked for six years with Welsh artist Meic Stevens a'i Fand, touring regularly in Brittany and Wales and recording 'Life and Death' with in 1989.
Mae ffynnon yn perfformio ganeuon gyda'i gwreiddiau mewn rhythmau, traddodiadau a thiroedd yr - Ynysoedd Prydeinig
"Ffynnon, one of the great new folk bands from Wales" - Folk Roots (England)
"Ffynnon combine energy, skill, sensitivity and musical understanding in equal measures. Working with them was a rare treat and a lot of fun." - Richard Boothby, Fretwork
"Lynne Denman's ethereal, multilingual voice and Stacey Blythe's cross cultural versatility with the piano, recorder, accordion and cello means that Ffynnon are able to sing from a European songsheet and provide an affirmative sound track for the new Wales." - New Times
"A fine singer", "a gorgeous voice" - Taplas (Wales' foremost folk music magazine)
"Ffynnon has a haunting way of updating the traditional songs on Celtic Music from Wales (Green Linnet). The old songs, in Welsh and English, maintain their death-haunted dignity." - Jon Pareles, The New York Times
"...with Denman's vocals soaring effortlessly, the effect is downright magical." - Sarah McQuaid, Hot Press (Ireland)
"The centerpiece is mellifluous soprano Lynne Denman" - Rob Weir, Sing Out
"The splendid performance....was an occasion which will long be remembered by all who attended" - Lillian Craig Harris, British Embassy, Khartoum
"An open hearted performance" - The Western Mail
"Mae hi'n canu o'r galon" - Tim Lewis, 'Clychau'r Cwm' (Valley Bells)
By Lynne Denman (Ffynnon), with Dianna Griffin (Island Heart Music, USA)
David Reid, member of the Welsh group Ffynnon, died of a heart attack in New York on Monday, 13th January 2003. Dave was a six-string bass guitar and piano player, composer, arranger and poet.
According to Dave's Geordie granny, he was a "skitty bugger"* like her. From the time he was sent to Dan Dare School (school for the blind), until his death, he never stopped creating great music, literature and humourous havoc to the inspiration of all of his friends.
Arriving in sunny New York from damp Wales, his home for 30 years, to showcase traditional and new Welsh music at the Arts Presenters conference in January 2003 with his band Ffynnon, he said "Ah my loves, my place is in the sun!" He was thrilled to be in New York and have a chance to listen to jazz. But Dave was always in the light, never in the dark, because while most blind people "see" darkness, Dave interestingly enough always "saw" only light.
Dave was a valued member of Ffynnon, who are the first Welsh band signed to Green Linnet Records. He played on Ffynnon's recent Green Linnet release, Celtic Music from Wales (GLCD1221).
Dave had two volumes of poetry published, Fox Horizon Blues and Truth Street, the latter of which is available through Lighthouse Publishing in Cardiff. He was working on a novel entitled Late Afternoon at the Entrophy at the time of his death. He performed on numerous albums and with many bands. He played recently with Meic Stevens throughout Wales, but particularly at Meic's 60th birthday concert at the National Eisteddfod. Meic's new CD, which Dave played on, was launched there- Ysbryd Solva (The Spirit of Solva - Meic's home village on the Pembrokeshire coast). He also played on Meic's album 'Life and Death'. He was a member of the Cardiff Jazz Society and also performed with the Paul Hampton Trio.
Dave Reid's Ffynnon bandmates and dear friends say that, He has left a huge hole in the fabric of our lives. His sudden and unexpected exit has denied us a river of jazz-inspired, intelligent guitar music and left us in the dark.
*Newcastle City Library: 'skitty bugger' is someone who likes a laugh and a joke.


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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Moncks Corner Town Council and the Moncks Corner Regional Recreation Corporation Board of Directors got a close and personal look at the town's new regional recreation complex last week.
Park and recreation director Ralph Jones commandeered a pair of luxury golf carts courtesy of Town and Country Golf Carts in Moncks Corner and took council members on a tour of the complex, offering a progress report on construction.
"The dugout and bleacher bases have been poured and the clay for the bullpens is in," Jones said. "Clay and dirt are being brought in for the infield and common area for lawn chairs behind home plate."
Jones said the bullpens for each field are 70 feet in length and will be graded flat.
"This is where the value of our portable pitchers mounds come in handy," Jones said. "You can adjust the pitching distance for whatever age group is playing.
High school distances are 60 feet, 6 inches, while Little League/Youth League distances are 46 feet. Pony League pitching distance is 54 feet.
Girls fast-pitch softball pitch from 43 feet.
The bullpen distances can be adjusted to accommodate each age group.
Construction workers installed backstop fencing and poured the concrete for the road curbs leading into the complex during the twin golfcart tour. The light standards for the four baseball fields have been installed.
"It's really starting to look like a park," said Moncks Corner Mayor Bill Peagler.
The tour occurred prior to council's Oct. 15 meeting.
The Phase I stage of the recreation complex includes four baseball fields, a press box/concession stand, parking lots and walking trails.
"It's really going on out there guys," Peagler said. "It is finally coming to some sort of fruition. You can see the progress being made ... they are starting to look like ball fields."
Included in the planned design of the complex is a farmer's market pavilion, a football field, soccer field, tennis courts, basketball courts and a baseball field.
Phase I of the town's recreation complex is tentatively scheduled for completion in the spring of 2014.
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Life Technologies yesterday reported solid fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 earnings results—but shared little about its ongoing strategic review with investors other than it was still ongoing and that the board of directors has made no decisions.
"All ideas are on the table, including pursuing our current strategy, which has yielded solid results, or something different," Life Tech chairman and CEO Gregory T. Lucier said. "Any decision will be based on what the board believes is in the best interest of shareowners to further create value."
Last month, Life Tech acknowledged it hired consultants to conduct the review following a Reuters news report, citing unnamed sources, that Thermo Fisher Scientific and private equity groups were considering a bid for Life Tech. Investor speculation about the review—whose options include a sale of the company—has boosted the value of Life Tech's shares 30% year-to-year, to $63.02 at the close of trading yesterday on NASDAQ. Lucier noted that the review began last summer when the company's shares traded in the $40 range.
Lucier briefly discussed the review yesterday during a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss the quarterly and annual results. Life Tech finished Q4 with net income attributable to controlling interest of $110 million or 63 cents per share, up 18% from $93.1 million or 51 cents per share in the final three months of 2011. Life Tech's Q4 revenue of $998.90 million was 1.1% down from $1.01 billion a year earlier, but above the $989.5 million consensus estimate of analysts by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Non-GAAP Q4 net income inched up 1.4% to $195.9 million or $1.11 per share from $193.1 million or $1.05 per share. Revenue rose 3% (4.5% at constant exchange rates) to $999 million from $970 million.
Driving growth, according to the company, were record sales of its Ion Torrent sequencers, especially its Ion PGM™ instruments and Ion Proton™ System, which racked up its highest-ever revenue quarter due to growing use in clinical research, as well as the research consumables and bioproduction businesses, partially offset by sales declines the company said it expected to see in its older line of SOLiD® sequencers and qPCR royalty revenue.
For the full year 2012, Life Tech reported net income attributable to controlling interest of $430.9 million, up nearly 14% from $378.5 million in 2011, on revenues of about $3.8 billion, up 2% from 2011.
Life Tech issued 2013 guidance to analysts predicting revenue growth of between 3% and 5% over last year, based on rising sales of Ion Torrent sequencers and expansion in applied and emerging markets, and EPS ranging from $4.30 to $4.45 per share excluding special items. That range comes close to a Wall Street consensus that expects on average EPS of $4.35 and revenue of $3.9 billion.
Addressing analysts, Lucier said company revenues next year would take a hit if Congress imposes across-the-board budget cuts or "sequestration" rather than agree on how to cut at least $1.2 trillion over 10 years. He said the low end of the revenue guidance range "already assumes sequestration could reduce our revenue by approximately 1%, if implemented." Life Tech, he said, believes sequestration will occur, even if temporary, and even if the across-the-board cut comes only to 5.1% rather than 8.2% because of the fiscal-cliff agreement of a month ago.
Life Tech's solid earnings didn't stop Leerink Swann from downgrading company shares from "outperform" to "market perform," citing the company's reliance on nextgen sequencing as a driver of future sales growth and profit margins. While acknowledging that Life Tech's Ion Torrent instrument placements have exceeded their expectations, and continuing to forecast healthy growth for this business, "we are less comfortable that the business' trajectory will drive upside to numbers or stock sentiment."
"While we believe Life's next-gen sequencing business comprised only ~5% of its 2012 revenue, it contributes more than half of projected sales growth and is the largest single contributor to margin enhancement efforts; thus its importance outweighs its historical revenue contribution," analysts Dan Leonard and Justin Bowers, CFA, wrote in a note to investors.
Mizuho Securities USA analysts Peter Lawson, D.Phil. (Oxon) and Eric Criscuolo said their 12-month price target for Life Tech in 2013 was $60 per share, based on 13.7x their 2013 EPS estimate of $4.37, approximately in line with the five-year average historical price-to-earnings multiple.
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NORTH TONAWANDA – The Common Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a deal to hold on to 8.3 acres of industrial park land for the next year and a half to give Armstrong Pumps time to develop its expansion plan.
Armstrong, a Canadian company that makes pumps that distribute water in high-rise buildings, has 148 local employees. It has outgrown its East Avenue location in a former Roblin Steel building, adjacent to the industrial park acres it intends to buy for $5,000 an acre, or $41,550. The Council, which discussed the purchase with Armstrong logistics manager Jerry Najuch in October, will delay the formal property transfer, pending the development of building plans.
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China Tightens Grip on Social Media
'Slanderous' Content Reposted 500 Times Will Result in Charges
BEIJING—Chinese authorities said that social-media users who post comments considered to be slanderous could face prison if the posts attract wide attention—a ruling free-speech advocates criticized as an attempt to give legal backing to the suppression of online dissent.
Internet users will face charges of defamation—and a possible three-year prison term—if they create slanderous content that attracts at least 5,000 hits or is reposted at least 500 times, according to the judicial interpretation, copies of which were posted to state-media websites on Monday.
The document said slanderous posts that cause "psychological imbalance, self-mutilation, suicide or other serious consequences" would also be considered defamatory.
Social-Media Rules
Offense (Penalty)
Rumors get 5,000 hits or reposted 500 times (Up to 3 years in prison or loss of political rights).
Company makes 50,000 yuan or more in profit for deleting posts/intentionally posting rumors (Up to 5 years in prison and fines up to 5 times amount of illegal gains).
Individual makes 20,000 yuan or more in profit for deleting posts/intentionally posting rumors (Up to 5 years in prison and fines up to 5 times amount of illegal gains).
--Source: Xinhua
Companies and people who seek to profit from slanderous postings face stiff fines and jail terms. People who start online rumors will be considered guilty of the crime of provocation and incitement, a crime previously applied to those who vandalize property, pick fights or create trouble in public places.
The new interpretation—jointly issued by China's Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the top prosecutors' office—provides Beijing with an added legal basis for its long-running effort to control conversation online.
Lawyers criticized the new ruling as overly broad and an attempt to discourage government critics. "What's the point in even discussing this?" wrote lawyer Liang Xianglu. "Law is not a root that will ever truly grow in this patch of earth. Instead it will always be a stick wielded by a bunch of thugs."
Another lawyer, Wang Kesheng, wondered on his microblog account how the new rules would have affected Luo Changping, a journalist whose posts led to the dismissal of a top official this year.
The official Xinhua news agency quoted the Supreme People's Procuratorate spokesman Sun Jungong as saying the new interpretation isn't intended to discourage Internet users from exposing official wrongdoing.
"Even if some details of the allegations or what has been exposed aren't true, as long as [Internet users] aren't intentionally fabricating information to slander others...they won't be prosecuted on charges of defamation," Xinhua quoted Mr. Sun as saying.
Authorities in charge of propaganda have grown increasingly jittery over the spread of social media, in particular Twitter-style microblogging services like Sina Corp. SINA -2.83 % 's popular Weibo, which have challenged state media's previous dominance in disseminating information.
In recent months, the government has stepped up efforts to manage online activity, detaining dozens for spreading rumors and warning influential microbloggers with large numbers of followers to watch what they say.
Many posts critical of Monday's interpretation were deleted within hours of being posted.
Among the recent detentions were two men apprehended by Beijing police on Aug. 22 on suspicion of creating rumors in an effort to gain followers on Weibo. State media said the pair falsely claimed that an outspoken major general in the People's Liberation Army was a deserter with family living in the U.S., in addition to spreading other untruths.
Beijing police also announced last month that they had detained a local newspaper journalist, Liu Hu, on suspicion of provocation and incitement, though police didn't say why.
Several local media reports said that a week earlier, Mr. Liu had forwarded a social-media post alleging wrongdoing by a top official at the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, a business regulator.
Those cases and others have prompted questions from some lawyers and scholars about whether and how criminal laws should be applied in cyberspace.
In a report published Thursday and since deleted from its website, the influential Southern Weekly newspaper challenged the use of the charges of provocation and incitement in online cases.
The report quoted legal scholars who argued that the crime applied to actions that have negative consequences in physical public spaces like markets and airports, not in cyberspace.
The report also noted that defamation was a matter for a civil lawsuit, not criminal prosecution, except in cases where the defamatory statements "seriously threaten social stability or national interests."
By expanding the scope of both crimes to cover online activity, the new judicial interpretation "violates the principles of criminal law," said Xu Xin, a law professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology.
Mr. Xu took particular exception to the expanded use of provocation and incitement, which he described as a "catchall" crime that is often abused by authorities. "The legal community has been calling for this crime to be eliminated for years," he said.
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adj.- a description of an action or thing which is especially impressive.
n.- an extremist of a belief or a rebel
n.- an extremist of a belief or a rebel
Did you see Tony Hawk pull off the 900? It was a radical move.
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A word used by people over the age of 30 in an attempt to sound cool, usually resulting in the opposite.
Jim: (to friend) Hey check it out I got a new snowboard.
Jim's mom: (overhearing conversation) Yeah its totally radical.
Jim: OK you can go away now.
Jim's mom: (overhearing conversation) Yeah its totally radical.
Jim: OK you can go away now.
door shoop 17 februari 2006
A radical is a person subscribing to a political ideology supporting massive, unmeasured, and rapid change. Radicalism is contrasted with conservatism that advocate minimum change, reactionary action advocating counter-change, as well as progressivism advocating moderate/measured change.
A radical would want to chang, for example, a feudal system into a completely capitalist system, or a completely capitalist system into a communist one. Another exaple of radicalism would be a person who wanted to change an Islamic Theocracy into an Atheist state (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_atheism)!
door Secular leftist 21 oktober 2005
another word for cool, awsome, wicked, mad. but of course, Radical is Radicaller than those words
Dude 1: you are radical dude.
Dude 2: thanks dude your radical too.
Dude 2: thanks dude your radical too.
door MegghanBeCool 31 augustus 2007
Means something good.
Skateboards are totally radical dude!
door plop and snot of the day 16 april 2006
Radical (rahd eek al) is a word used proficiently and often by Michaelangelo of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is the only one on earth that truly knows its awesomeness, although such scholars as William Preston-Esquire and Theordore Theordore Logan have come close to unveiling the true natures of such speak. The best reason for dividing radical is to make more mini-radicals influence from the beinning radical, in hopes of creating a little radical for everyone. And pizza.
door ZtoTheObe 17 april 2011
This word describes something that is considered very good.
That trick was totally radical dude!
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She came to Penn State to lead the Lady Lions to their first national championship.
Reviving a struggling but proud program was part sprint, but it has also been part marathon. And right now, the team must be feeling a runner's high.
Ranked No. 7 in the country in this week's Associated Press women's basketball poll, Penn State is undefeated in the Big Ten, 17-2 overall, and in the driver's seat for a conference crown.
Still, these are just checkpoints on the way to the ultimate goal, the NCAA title.
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The program that remembers its legends by first names alone - Suzie, Susan, Tina, Kelly - has some current stars -Maggie, Alex, Mia, Nikki - who are well worth watching.
Maggie Smith hit the 1,000 point mark as a sophomore; the junior shooting guard and leading scorer has Mazzante-esque moments. Senior point guard Alex Bentley continues to climb the PSU all-time charts in assists and steals and knows this year is her last chance to fulfill that NCAA goal. Nikki Greene has become a commanding force under the basket, while fellow senior Mia Nickson brings a poise to the court that makes her a natural leader. With a strong supporting cast, including Dara Taylor, these Lady Lions are all building the Coquese Washington legacy while building on last season's Sweet Sixteen experience.
But heading down the home stretch, this Penn State squad deserves a little love. Their average attendance at home this year is just 4,600, hardly fitting of a top 10 basketball team.
The 8-12 Penn State men are averaging 7,600 per game.
Next Monday, archrival Purdue comes to the Bryce Jordan Center, currently in second place in the Big Ten, for the game that could decide the regular season conference championship. Long-time fans remember the thrilling Penn State-Purdue games of years gone by, while the next generation should look forward to this late-season showdown.
The final home game of the season, Feb. 24 will feature a senior celebration in addition to the emotional Pink Zone fundraiser for breast cancer causes, just in case fans need some extra reasons to show up.
March Madness brings the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments, where anything can happen. Let's not wait until they're on the post-season wing to get behind this accomplished team.
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Tiffin University's women's basketball team looked to be in trouble Thursday night at the Gillmor Center.
Despite leading by as many as nine points in the first half and by six, 31-25, at the break, TU found itself in a four-minute scoreless streak, and was trailing 46-39 after a 13-0 run by Hillsdale with about eight minutes left.
This did not sit well with the Dragon players. They defeated the Chargers three times last season, including once in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament. And despite the fact that Hillsdale usually is a tough team, it is struggling this season. It came in just 4-7, 1-7.
"I think that we just knew we had to pull it out," TU guard Stephanie Kelly said. "Every time that we went in those huddles ... any time the ball was dead, we were like 'We've got to pick this up. We've got to have some energy, because we are not losing to this team.'"
And, thanks to big-time performances from Kelly and a pair of teammates, the Dragons did not.
Kelly had 13 points, six rebounds, seven assists and was 6 of 6 at the foul line. Jessica Harris was tenacious, with 17 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks.
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Tiffin 68, Hillsdale 53
Hillsdale (4-8, 1-8): Angela Bisaro 0-2-2; Megan Fogt 11-1-23; Lea Jones 2-0-5; Ashlyn Landherr 1-2-5; Marissa DeMott 0-0-0; Chelsea Farrell 1-0-2; Sarah Theut 2-1-5; Madison Berry 1-1-3; Brooke Borowski 0-0-0; Kayla Geffert 2-3-8; Kadie Lowery 0-0-0. Totals: 20-10-53.
Tiffin (7-6, 4-5): Jessica Harris 4-7-17; Jillian Adams 0-0-0; Mackenzie Storlie 0-1-1; Stephanie Kelly 3-6-13; Melissa Gilliland 3-0-6; Mary Kate Campbell 4-1-9; Jordan Fraley 7-1-22; Macy Byrd 0-0-0; Jessica Farr 0-0-0; Erca Mathis 0-0-0. Totals: 22-16-68.
Halftime: Tiffin 31-25.
Field goals: Hillsdale 20-63; Tiffin 22-57.
3-point goals: Hillsdale 3-14 (Landherr 1-3, Geffert 1-3, Jones 1-2, Theut 0-2, Farrell 0-1); Tiffin 8-19 (Fraley 7-8, Kelly 1-5, Gilliland 0-3, Storlie 0-2, Byrd 0-1).
Foul shots: Hillsdale 10-16; Tiffin 16-27.
Rebounds: Hillsdale 38 (Fogt 7); Tiffin 50 (Harris 16, Kelly 6).
Turnovers: Hillsdale 17; Tiffin 20.
Assists: Hillsdale 12 (Jones 4); Tiffin 19 (Kelly 7).
Hillsdale might have been able to withstand those efforts, but the Chargers had no answer for freshman Jordan Fraley, who made seven 3-pointers, finished with a team-high 22 points, and added five rebounds. She, along with Kelly and Harris, made a number of big plays down the stretch as the Dragons dominated late and beat Hillsdale, 68-53.
"I just felt good," Fraley said. "I just had some open looks, got great passes from my teammates and just let them fly."
Fraley's biggest shot came with 4:10 left in regulation. The Dragons were holding a 51-50 lead. Mackenzie Storlie had the ball, and found Fraley on the right wing. Fraley nailed the trey. It turned into an 11-0 run that essentially put the game away.
"It's not really pressure anymore," Fraley said. "I know what I have to do."
So did Harris, who played a physical 30 minutes. She had two steals and was 7 of 9 from the free throw line.
"I knew (the Chargers) weren't just gonna give us the win," Harris said. "I knew we had to fight just as hard if not harder to get the win."
Mary Kate Campbell had nine points off the bench for TU.
"We've been able to have different people step up in different ways," Tiffin coach Pam Oswald said after her team improved to 7-6, 4-5. "It's good to see, but it's a constant thing that we're trying to teach, of being able to have somebody down, and get that lead and build upon that lead."
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The best movie ever made. "the shawshnk redemtion" or 'the shank' for short.
Andy dufraine gets raped in the shank...its a major plot point.
автор: Tom Petersen 5 августа 2006
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The term that strippers can use to describe to their boss that they cannot come in because they have Diarrhea. I mean, seriously, who wants to see that?
Um, yeah Vinny this Bumper, I cannot come in tonight cause I got the shanks.
автор: Annette Llloyd 10 августа 2007
(n).A massive, un coordinated 6'8 white kid with an enormous head.
(v). To get screwed
(v). To get screwed
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Bob and Alice have hung out a few times and are almost friends now. Bob sees Alice on the street one day and says "Have a good day, adiomingo!"
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which color mostly relates to you? mine is black by the way
black i guess "You know what you have to admire? A Catholic hit man who blesses himself just before he strangles someone."-George Carlin
i'm caring or i'm horribleand you?? LoL ^_^
i mean no one is purely evil or purely good... ^_^
it relates to alot of things about me, mostly...Sooo probably...98% BLACK 2% WHITE! ^ ^"fear is often greater than the danger itself"
i like black
I'm not really good, but I'm not really bad either. *Shrug* Those who wander are not always lost.
"fear is often greater than the danger itself"
mines is white because i see myself in a white trench coat killing like im in the matrix.
i'd say its black cuz its like being by yourself... no one bothering u, u don't have to worry about anything.. i like to keep quiet on everything
black and withe
both. im bi-polar....and well i guess i wear theme every day tooXD««∂σηt ℓєt tнє ƒα¢є ƒσσℓ уσυ.tιѕ ιт αℓℓ αη α¢t»»
Well, I'm bi-polar too, but I consider myself to be more of the color black than anything...The Soul can be as hollow as Hell
Black all the way.Human ignorance should and will be painful its only a matter of time...
i agree,i would probably be gray, the balance between black and white. Trying to instill the right in my daughter, yet she also knows that I would walk thru fire for my angel..I Think Im Being Watched... You cant trust anyone, not even Sesame Street....=D
i like white and black because of their balance between each other>_<
I wish I were a white color, but I am black. =(
sometimes i just go off and be mean to people but i am only 10% nice
I like WHITE... but i Look good in BLACK!!...i can be either or BOth.... hahaha ^-^ Xing + bb = ME!
... it's like a YINYANG... * the other can't live without the other*the other live because there is the other * there is No good if there is no BAD* there is no Bad if their are all good !* Mentors exist because of others ignorance* Mentors came from ignorance*etc.*etc. *etc. --->> point up some comments on this and lets chat...C= Xing + bb = ME!
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Wow. I studied Kenpo for a year and I never thought so much of the 2. Guess with that coment im BLACK the abcence of color itself...I Think Im Being Watched... You cant trust anyone, not even Sesame Street....=D
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what do you meeeaan i mean for pokemon im gettin white ummm i'm white ummmm my accent is italian white and ummm i have a happy white aditude i WHITEish POWER there
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i say both bcuz ther both gud colors and go wit almost anythin
you people are not black or white you are grey.
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#2. Jimmy Fallon and the Roots and Children and CHRISTMAS!
Anyone who knows me knows that as soon as Thanksgiving hits, I listen to Christmas music. I don't just mean that I'll occasionally throw some on to cheer myself up, I mean that I listen exclusively to Christmas music. Nothing else even gets a consideration. All Christmas, all day, everywhere. There's a radio station in LA that plays nonstop Christmas music, and when I'm out of my car, I put on Pandora's Vince Guaraldi Trio [Holiday] station. By the time Christmas rolls around, I will have listened to every Christmas song ever recorded about a dozen times each.
And I will love every fucking second of it.
I've done this for years. I'm not doing it ironically, or to annoy anyone who happens to pass by my desk. I do it because I love Christmas, because I am a child. And no one captures my childlike love of Christmas music better than Jimmy Fallon featuring the Roots, Mariah Carey and some children:
They perform a cover of Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" (it's in my top ten), except everyone plays classroom instruments (kazoos, tiny xylophones and so on). I can't watch this video without smiling. LOOK AT HOW MUCH FUN ?UESTLOVE IS HAVING!
If that wasn't magical enough, occasionally children will pop up out of nowhere to join in, before disappearing off camera again.
Do those kids need to know that their backing band is the Roots, whose track list includes songs like "Pussy Galore" and whose music videos feature Black Thought dousing a tied-up man in gasoline? No. Those kids never need to know that, and they never will, because you and I are never going to tell them. As far as those kids are concerned, Black Thought is playing tambourine in the Jimmy Fallon Fun House Family Band, and that's it.
#1. Billy Joel, Hahaha, Oh Man, You Guys, Watch This Video
The music video for Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" is, without question, my favorite thing in the world.
Here is the thing about Billy Joel: He is a terrific singer/songwriter who should just sing his songs about blue-collar working-class types from behind the safety of his piano. He's a storyteller, painting word pictures, and so on.
Here's the other thing about Billy Joel: It took him a very long time to figure that out.
That's how this video happened. That's why Billy Joel, a man who should just be able to let his music speak for itself, made a bunch of weird decisions for a while. Billy Joel music videos should just be Joel, on a stage, with his band, singing their songs. Instead, they made concept videos, and Joel had to put on a costume and learn a bunch of stupid fucking choreography, even though he absolutely cannot dance, and turn "Uptown Girl" into a mini musical, complete with backup dancers and some kind of implied storyline about car mechanics who like giant, Amazon women.
Billy Joel dancing is one of the most adorably embarrassing things on the Internet. You can tell that he's struggling, and you can practically see that he's counting his steps while he moves, desperately trying to remember the choreography.
Why are you so angry?
The guys in the background, all fit, tall, professional dancers, dance circles around Joel and only emphasize how out of his league he is.
Someone in the background is juggling and Joel is clearly reading the choreography somewhere off screen.
The director must have decided to go with a bunch of wide shots because close-ups of Billy Joel made everyone too uncomfortable.
"One and two and 'UPTOWN GIRL' and one and two and ..."
This video is important as a musical time capsule. It tells us that, at some point, the marketing team behind Billy Joel's label tried to sell Joel as a leading-man, sex-symbol type. "Hey, that Mick Jagger sure seems to sell a lot of records with his sexiness and theatricality; that's the ticket! Joel, you're no longer the emotional singer/songwriter; from now on, you're the sex frontman!"
"Make sure you get Billy's crotch and the word 'GAS' in the shot. Perfect."
Pictures don't do this video justice. You really need to watch it to get exactly how awkward it is. But let's look at some pictures anyway.
Those two black break dancing youths showed up two and a half minutes into the video and their presence is never explained.
The video ends with Joel and his uptown girl leaving on a motorcycle ...
... which is fine for a happy ending, but as far as narrative structure goes, it's sort of idiotic. I mean, that woman came to this auto repair shop because she was having car trouble. That's still true, and the fact that the repair shop's lead mechanic leaves town isn't going to help matters. Clearly his leadership is needed; as soon as he leaves, his co-mechanics get into a fancy formation and just go dance crazy for a while. Someone has to fix that car, Billy.
Anyway, this is my favorite professional music video of all time.
Daniel O'Brien is Cracked.com's senior writer (ladies) and is planning an "Uptown Girl" flash mob (Billy Joel).


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Typing while half asleep, or being in that fugue state between half-awake and half-asleep while chatting. Used mostly while excusing oneself from chat to go to bed (or when one is chatting well past one's bedtime).
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A Candidate for Mother of the Year.. Driving intoxicated with your child in the car.. I hope the child is okay. This dumb*** needs to spend serious time in jail!
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But she won't. She will get a slap on the wrist because we have a court system that is trying to be "Mother of the Year".
She'll go to court in tears, the court will have sympathy on her an say she has suffered enough already and they will stick her in one of those useless "court feel good" programs and she will be back out driving drunk with her child in know time.
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TORONTO – On a normal day, there might be a dozen reporters tops in the manager's office before a game. Tuesday afternoon, prior to the most eagerly awaited Blue Jays home opener since 1994, there were three times that many in John Gibbons' tiny corner deep within Rogers Centre. And after one perfunctory question to Gibbons about his Opening Day memories came this belt-high fastball from a longtime Toronto columnist.
Where were you when Joe Carter hit the home run?
If you need an explanation, maybe this isn't the column for you. But OK. Game Six of the 1993 World Series at then-SkyDome. Carter goes deep in the bottom of the ninth, dances around the bases and touches them all as the Jays win, 8-6, to take their second straight title.
Gibbons, then 31 and three years removed from his playing days, was home in San Antonio with his father. And truth be told, he said sheepishly, he was a roommate with Lenny Dykstra with the Mets, knew Darren Daulton and knew some other Phillies from his days in Scranton.
"I don't want to say I was rooting for anybody but I was watching them," Gibbons said with a big smile. "Little did I know."
Now Gibbons is in charge of a team that was the talk of the winter as it tries to get back to the postseason for the first time since that night. The talk of the town even with the Leafs about to make the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since 2004.
Even the talk of Toronto heroes of yesteryear like Carter, who was on the field during batting practice dreaming big like everyone else.
"If I had said in '93 that was going to be the last time the Blue Jays would be in the playoffs, I never would have thought that in a million years," Carter said. "But it is. And now there's finally excitement again about what can transpire."
There might be plenty of excitement here all summer, but the sellout crowd of 48,857 that jammed Rogers Centre got an Opening Night clunker Tuesday. J.P. Arencibia couldn't catch R.A. Dickey's knuckleball early and the offense managed just one base runner over the final seven innings as the Cleveland Indians beat the Jays, 4-1.
April 2 had been the target date since the big trade with the Marlins in December, since Dickey was acquired from the Mets, since spring training began in February in Dunedin, Fla. So this was a letdown.
"The welcome I got from the fans was borderline supernatural. It was pretty awesome," Dickey said. "You wish it would have went different. You hope for it to be different. Opening night, everybody is here, full of energy. But the nature of this game is it's a marathon and you can't panic."
"It was tremendous. The fans were into it. They were excited," Gibbons said. "I know they're all disappointed. We're not. It's part of baseball. We just got outplayed tonight but they'll be back. We've got a good ball club. They'll be back. They'll have a fun, entertaining year."
Carter said he sees a lot of parallels.
"You talk about All-Star Games, well every day in '93 was like an All-Star Game," Carter said. "The fans would come out here and you've got Rickey Henderson, the greatest leadoff hitter of all time, Tony Fernandez, Paul Molitor, Robbie Alomar. ... We knew teams couldn't focus on just one player. That's what has to happen here. It has to be somebody new every day."
Carter shook his head in disbelief when asked about the Jays' long drought.
"You hope it wouldn't end and you think it will never end but it does," he said. "You have to be realistic. Every dog has his day. When you get that opportunity to play and win in a World Series, you better do it because you never know when that can happen."
Of course, Carter goes very few places – especially here – without people approaching him and telling their story of the home run. And that's fine.
"It's a lot better than, 'You were at the plate and you stunk it up when you made the last out of the World Series', and them being mad at me," Carter said. "I never get tired of it. It's the way I've always been that I'm 53 now and I'm still a big kid.
"Your history is etched in stone. That's going to be my legacy. I can think of 100 million people that would love to trade positions with that legacy so I'm going to keep it like it is. I never get tired of it."
The Blue Jays are trying to write a similar story this year. Prior to the game, Gibbons joked about people expecting slugger Jose Bautista to hit a walkoff home run in the curtain-raiser.
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Local police arrested four people for driving while intoxicated over the weekend following two accidents and an altercation with officers.
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A one-month-old baby was critically injured in a roll-over accident caused by an allegedly drunk driver late Wednesday, state police in Lockport said.
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It's a beach town; you may have seen it going kablooie in Emmerich's latest silver screen shit-pile. On the Tuesday in question, it was the kind of town that made you wish you weren't chained to your desk, by way of a dead-end job writing copy for some online gag outfit and a penchant for the bottle that emptied your pockets as quickly as the bottle emptied your stomach. If you're me, that is.
Name's Swaim. I'm an alcoholic that can't hold his liquor, and if you thought that was funny, you're going to love the one about go fuck yourself.
But back to Santa. And also, Monica. It was aptly named: beautiful, magical, but with a sleazy side, like Santa Clause boning Monica from Friends, and maybe they're using handcuffs or whips or something. I filed the mental image away for later translation into an acoustic guitar ballad.
Yes, the ol' S&M...it stretched out before me, glass buildings and cresting waves shining in black and white, all film noir-ishly. It was my town. I was me, there, in the town.
But the town had not been kind, of late. Neither had The Town, which I'd found engaging, but ultimately a letdown considering the talent involved. I was broke, drunk, thus vomiting constantly, and spent my days holed up in my office when there was perfectly good beach-tail going to waste. I recoiled from the thought, and took another stroll down memory lane, a belt of rye my tour guide.
Like a cassette tape worn thin, my brain cast itself by habit back to better days, Agents of Cracked days. I'm not sure if that's how cassettes work, so the simile might not hold, but you get the point. I missed the show. I missed narrative.
It had been weeks since the finale, and all I had to keep me going these days was the grueling drudgery of Does Not Compute and whatever After Hours schlock we squirted out when Dan needed extra scratch to keep the loan sharks at bay. I couldn't even remember the last time I'd made out with a guy in a hot air balloon (it had been recently, but right after a concussion, so it was hazy).
My reverie burst like so much diseased appendix when Jack, the aforementioned gag outfit's Editor-in-Chief, barged into the office.
"Michael?" He asked. I gave him my customary once over. To be frank and also an asshole, he looked as dumb and ugly as you could feasibly expect someone to be described as looking in a column like this.
"That's what it says on my door," I quipped, surreptitiously vomiting down the sleeve of my awesome trench coat.
"No, it doesn't. It says 'Emergency Exit,' because this is a fire escape that you refuse to leave."
"Maybe I changed my name to Emergency Exit, fuckface, you ever think of that?" I didn't say that, but I said it in my head so hard it felt like I said it, so I put it in quotes.
"Look," Jack said after about forty seconds of silence, "Dan's going to be in New Jersey this week, so we need someone to fill in for him on the blog. Are you interested?"
Typical. Another dame with another problem to drop at my feet and scuff my wingtips. I gave Jack my customary follow-up once-over-again, although it was more like a half-over-again since I focused entirely on the gams, where fewer of his horrible parents' ugly genes had managed to conspire. Today, they sported a saddle-split dress so tight some would have considered them men's slacks. The outfit made it clear those stems went all the way up; I just wasn't keen to know what to.
It was almost time for Jack to talk again, and one more blast of that voice was going to explode my head like a Gallagherized melon, so I went into haggle mode. "I'll need fifty greenbacks a day, an expense account, and a company car."
"I'll pay you your normal salary, which is considerably higher. And I'm leaving now."
"Well, if you're going to sweeten the deal," I said, "don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out." I let the vomit in my sleeve trickle into my wastebasket as if to say "in your face," then took another swig of rye to wash the taste out. The taste of the conversation with Jack, not the vomit. BOOM.
"Have something by Friday," said Jack the he-dame, and split like an unwary honeydew at a Gallagher show. Like a tape worn thin, that reminded me of my earlier Gallagher metaphor, and in turn everything that's happened up to this point in the story, which seemed odd.
Then, without any warning except the preceding nonsense, the room started spinning, and it was going at a clip that made it clear it had places to be, one of them being the winner's circle of the Kentucky Derby. The shades of forgotten flames, ghosts of past loves, and spirits of girls I had banged but didn't recall the names of swam in front of my eyes, brought back from beyond the grave, or in most cases, not.
What's happening to me?
I lurched around my office, seeking some kind of exit. I needed to get out, get help. All I could see was a door cryptically labeled "tixE ycnegremE," which I ignored both violently and forever. I felt a sickening wrenching sensation in my gut, like I'd eaten a sick wrench, but not the one I always feel right before vomiting. This was something new. Something different. You have to figure out what's happening to you, you think.
Wait, "you?" Why are you saying "you?"
Wait, are you...you?
Oh, shit, Michael, not only have you transitioned from past tense to present, you've changed from a first-person to second-person narrator!


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#2. The Day Everyone in Sweden Switched Car Lanes
The next time you hear your friends go on and on about how Sweden is so smart and Sweden is so sexy and Sweden always gives multiple orgasms every time, remind them of two things: Stupid Liondog Borgpup up there and "Hogertrafikomlaggningen." Give yourself about a week to work on the pronunciation: herg-er-trahf-fic-coom-un-leg-ee-un, or something Swedishly close to that. If your friend is still standing there when you make it through that marathon of a word, you can take a few minutes to explain Dagen H, or the day everyone in Sweden switched to Hogertrafikomlaggningen, right-hand traffic.
Until September 2, 1967, everyone in Sweden drove on the left side of the road, despite the fact that almost everyone else in Europe were righties, which made for some dumbass driving at Sweden's borders. At least England was surrounded by enough water that drivers would have time to wrap their heads around switching lanes before they crossed the border. Sweden didn't have that luxury. So legislators spent a good part of the 20th century trying to convince drivers to switch sides, but they wouldn't budge. In fact, in 1955, 83 percent of the population voted to keep to the left. Eventually Parliament gave up on asking anyone their opinion and decided to mandate right-side driving anyway.
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There were songs, ads, and 12 million reminder notes distributed among the population. And when the morning of the switch came, the Swedes treated it like the world's most mundane Mardi Gras. In Stockholm, alarms were set to ring at 4:00 a.m. so everyone could head down to the main street with their cars. A countdown ticked off the seconds before someone on the loudspeaker announced "Now is the time to change over." You look at the picture above and you see complete chaos, but a closer glance reveals that this was the most exciting thing to happen to Sweden since someone turned a lion into an entry in a cryptozoology book.
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Look at JFK's face! Kennedy and Johnson were just about the same height, so LBJ couldn't do his towering gig that he enjoyed with others, but Kennedy also wasn't prepared to meet the eyes of a man clearly intent on eating his face off. So instead he focused his Rodney Dangerfield eyes on Johnson's waddle and girded his arms for the long haul. Only his lame ass back prevented him from bending backward, but maybe Johnson didn't know that. Maybe Johnson thought this was the first man to ever stand up to him, and maybe Johnson repaid him with loyalty so strong that this happened:
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