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Friday, Oct. 18, 2013
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"Saddam Hussein should change his mind and allow the U.N. to do its job."
James Rubin
"At first I thought that i am breaking apart, But now i am going to realize that it was just the dusting."
Mehtab Alam Khan
"The mind and the stomach, behave the same: the more junk you feed your mind, the more junk the mind craves!..."
Philip T. M.
"Your thoughts have no shape, form or identity. They obtain one, once you identify with them."
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
"We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us; but if we change what we are saying or doing they will respond differently. - Nabil N. Jamal"
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"Making the change from poverty to middle class is a 12 round boxing match. but the the change from middle class to wealthy will be a fight to the death"
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Christian Louboutin Fall/Winter 2011 Sneakers
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Christian Louboutin has presented two sneakers from his upcoming Fall/Winter 2011 Collection, the Luis Flat and the Rantus Orlato. The Luis Flat is constructed from a solid chocolate brown suede with matching laces and sole, while the Rantus Orlato sports a mix of premium brown leather and a classic check fabric. These fall offerings are surprising tame from the designer, we all remember the stud feast that went on with this style last season right? Stay tuned for the full collection release.
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Helping Businesses Rebuild after Sandy
A family-owned supermarket in South Amboy was forced to shut its doors when the power outage caused $100,000 worth of food to spoil. Another small business owner just couldn't justify taking out a long-term loan when he was so close to retirement age. And a franchise owner in Ocean City already had a big loan he used to buy his franchise, and was doubtful he could take on more debt. Across the state, businesses have been damaged by Superstorm Sandy. The Christie Administration estimates that 30,000 businesses or homes have been destroyed or damaged. Immediately after the storm, NJBIA began reaching out to members to provide information on disaster assistance for their businesses. We provided timely, relevant information on where to get assistance. We created a quick questionnaire so businesses could let us know how Sandy had impacted them and what help they needed. NJBIA's staff did a great job following up and contacting those who responded. They called each business owner personally to help them get lines of credit, find business recovery centers and get in touch with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. NJBIA is also working closely with the NJ Business Action Center to help businesses rebuild. The center is an important clearing house for several state and federal disaster assistance programs. The federal Small Business Administration (SBA), for instance, provides low-interest loans for businesses of all sizes for both physical damage and economic damages. A business could get up to $2 million to repair or replace damaged buildings, equipment, inventory and fixtures. The agency also offers loans to small businesses and private, nonprofit organizations that have suffered economic injury, regardless of physical damage. The NJ Economic Development Authority is providing loan guarantees of up to $500,000 for commercial lines of credit through its Main Street Disaster Relief Program. The program is designed to provide businesses with access to cash to improve their damaged properties while awaiting insurance proceeds. Also, the self-employed and certain business owners may qualify for special Disaster Unemployment Assistance. Begin by applying for regular UI benefits and list Sandy as the reason for unemployment. If you are rejected for regular benefits, you may then qualify for disaster unemployment. The deadline to apply is February 4. More detailed information on these and other assistance programs is available on our website. Visit www.njbia.org and click on the Hurricane Sandy page. For some businesses, however, incurring more long-term debt is a daunting prospect. NJBIA has been pushing for a grant program for businesses, and in December, Governor Chris Christie announced that $2 billion of the president's disaster aid request to Congress is to be set aside for grants to small businesses. At press time, Congress had not voted on disaster aid. This has been an unprecedented storm. NJBIA is committed to helping all of its members get back on their feet. If any NJBIA member company is having difficulty getting information or a response from government agencies, contact us either through the website or at 800-499-4419. New Jersey's economy was growing and its business climate improving before Sandy hit, and we have every reason to believe that it will again. In the meantime, we are here to help you get through this.
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Tickets available! Bank to Bend lecture, plant sale, and special tour of the March Bank - Saturday, March 8. Walk-in registration welcome.
Enchanted Summer Day Photo Contest 2013
And the winner is..........Carroll Hockman. Thank you to everyone who submitted their photos for the contest. There were so many great shots to choose from. Be sure to submit again next year!


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Humane Society selects Rolfes as 'Humane Legislator of the Year'
Sen. Christine Rolfes has been named the Humane Society's "Humane Legislator of the Year" for 2013.
During the 2013 legislative session, Rolfes worked with Rep. Kristine Lytton, D-Anacortes, with whom she shared the award, to help resolve conflicts that occur between ranchers and gray wolves.
Rolfes, a Bainbridge Island Democrat, represents the 23rd District.
"Wolves are a tricky issue, so it is an honor to receive this award," Rolfes said. "On the one hand, wolves are beautiful animals that play an important role in our ecosystem. On the other hand, they are one of the nation's few remaining large predators. There is no getting around the reality that they pose a threat to livestock in impacted areas like Okanogan County."
Rolfes and Lytton helped to negotiate legislation that provided funding for non-lethal wolf deterrents, as well as reimbursement for ranchers who lose livestock to wolves.
"Protecting nature is an investment in our quality of life, our future and our economy," Rolfes said. "But conservation doesn't just impact animals – it is always vital to balance the 'human' and the 'humane' legislation."
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A fair number of the cases that I deal with at LeifLaw are, unfortunately, matters where a studio could have avoided liability, ill-will, and other drama and negativity simply by having a clear set of employee expectations outlined in an employee handbook. Sadly, many studios either neglect this, or leave it to untrained HR-types to guess at work that really ought to be done by an attorney. Below, I'm going to discuss some policies that a game development studio -- or any small business --really ought to have in their employee handbook.
- Anti-Harassment/Anti-Discrimination Policy: It's simply unacceptable in this day and age to allow workplace harassment and discrimination, and yet just about every day that I go to Kotaku or Polygon, I'm struck by reading about situations where female employees are being harassed over their looks, minority employees are being subjected to "jokes" in poor humor that border on racial slurs, and other unacceptable behavior. I shouldn't even need to explain why this is a bad thing, but anyone who has spent time in the industry has seen or heard of it happening by people who really ought to know better. An employee handbook should absolutely contain a policy prohibiting discrimination or harassment by any employee based on a person's race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, and any other classification protected by law. This policy should clearly spell out how to report such behavior if someone believes themselves to be a victim, and should provide a clear outline of expectations as to what will happen and describe the reviewing process.
- Equal Opportunity Employment Policy: Related to the above, an EEO policy provides a statement from the studio that it will treat all employees fairly and equitably in the terms and conditions of their employment, without regard to the protected statuses listed above. The main difference between this and the above anti-harassment policy is that EEO policies deal specifically with terms and conditions of employment from the employer to the employee, whereas harassment can potentially be among two employees, and can involve conduct not covered in the terms and conditions of one's employment.
- Retaliation Policy: The third leg of the "Don't be a dick" policy trifecta, this policy prohibits the studio from taking action against an employee for reporting allegations of wrongdoing or impropriety. It's simple -- you want your employees to be comfortable reporting when they're being harassed; you don't want to punish them for doing so. This simply codifies that.
- FMLA Policy: Smaller studios can potentially get away without this, but any studio over 50 employees needs to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act. And it's good practice to provide a policy for this even if you are small enough not to have to do so. For bigger studios, this is a legal requirement.
- Electronic Privacy/Monitoring Policy: Fact is, many employers monitor their employees' computer usage, whether that's to keep them from revealing sensitive data or to ensure that they're actually working and not slacking-off on Facebook. Other employers are privacy advocates and don't want anything to do with this. Regardless of which way you fall on that spectrum, you should have a policy explicitly outlining whether there is any expectation of privacy in communications using company equipment, and whether the employer can monitor employees (you aren't obligated to, you can simply "reserve the right" to do so, if necessary.
- Disability Policy: Not only should you not be discriminating against an employee (or a job applicant) for their disabilities, but you may be required under the ADA to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee with a qualifying disability. The definition of disability is far broader than many employers think, and unfortunately we see too many instances where an employer says "I don't believe you" or "I don't have to do anything for you, find another job." I've personally experienced employment discrimination for a physical disability in the past, and I can tell you that it's stressful and only serves to antagonize the employee and create liability for the employer. A policy clearly outlining that the employer will follow the ADA's guidelines and an internal policy for determining reasonable accommodations can save everyone a lo of heartache.
Of course, these aren't the only policies you need. Now that some states are legalizing or decriminalizing the usage of recreational marijuana, an alcohol and drug policy should be put into place. You should have policies outlining who is in charge of administering disciplinary action at the studio, and on what grounds (and to whom) the employee can appeal such action. You should have time/attendance policies. You may not need a strict dress code, but putting in some sort of boundaries may not be a bad idea. Policies on how to deal with the press/media, friends and family beta testing, etc., all things that ought to be in a good solid employee handbook. Yes, you may end up with a fairly substantial document but you'll be able to point to that document whenever a question comes up and simply counter "What does the handbook say?"
LeifLaw attorneys are familiar with the drafting of employee handbooks, and know the games industry and the quirks that go into the operation of a game studio. Contact us today for a free consultation


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Now that school has ended for the summer, the last thing students are concerned about is the tuition that will be due in the next coming months.
For Montgomery County Community College students, they may want to start saving now because the county may not be able to fund what they promised to the college. After looking at the financial issues of the county, county Chief Financial Officer Uri Z. Monson recommended that the county slash annual allocation to the county by roughly 25 percent.
"Based on analysis, I indicated that if I were forced to make a recommendation now, it would be that the 2013 county budget would fund the college at an amount of $15,766,25 — a 25 percent reduction from the 2012 funding level," Monson said.
The county commissioners will most likely follow Monson's recommendations.
"We have said many times that based on the situation we inherited that choices were coming," said chairman Josh Shapiro. "The three of us are preparing to make those choices. This is the reality of the times. We are not singling out the college but it just so happens we have to give the college some information at this time for their budget."
Monson stated he would look for additional revenue to help fund the college. Some students may face more than a $4-per credit increase.
"While I am hopefully that the efforts the county is undertaking to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and develop new revenue streams will change the county's fiscal outlook, this is the reality facing the county at this time," Monson said.
Though the budget is not set in stone, students should prepare.
"When you told us what we realistically could do to fund the college, it was heartbreaking for me hear that that and in no way reflects our opinion of the college," said vice chairman Leslie Richards. "Every time I walk on the campus, I am proud of it. We fully believe in everything that the staff does. I just want to state this is just a realistic accounting of where we stand today, in the middle of 2012 putting our budget together and this is the numbers we can realistically fund."
The county is also in the beginning stages of significantly ratifying its budget. County officials stated numerous times cuts to important services will be made and this may just be the first of many.
"These are the realities of the times, but the commissioners here are ready to make the decisions in a very thoughtful and careful way," Shapiro said. "I want to make it clear that we are not singling out the college. As we go forward with the zero-based budgeting process, you can expect tough choices to come."


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There are two kinds of people: Mac users, and future Mac users. The momentum is palpable...
A little humor for all of you tech savvy Real Estate Agents (dont worry its very short) http://www.flixxy.com/the-paperless-future-emma.htm#.UTygJO3tfq0.mailto
A very interesting and real concern....
Got another one (did not sign up for this though - I guess I am getting smarter), just
Just a quick note letting you all know Michael McClure is doing an awesome video series right now
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Thanks Dru--looks like a very helpful group!
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Saks Fifth Avenue, a subsidiary of Hudson's Bay Company, has appointed Mark Briggs as its chief marketing officer, reporting to president Marigay McKee, effective March 2014.
Saks Fifth Avenue is leveraging Stylewhile's iPad App so the retailer can offer online shoppers the opportunity of fitting clothing to their specific body type before making a purchase.
Saks Fifth Avenue will unveil its renovated men's store in its Chicago flagship on Michigan Avenue in January of the new year. The renovation will encompass a total redesign of floors six and seven, creating an open environment that will be easily accessed by a new express elevator that will take passengers directly to the men's floors.
Saks chairman and CEO Stephen Sadove has been named to the board of directors at J.C. Penney to fill a position being vacated by Geraldine Laybourne.
Saks has announced that upon completion of its acquisition by Hudson's Bay Company Stephen I. Sadove, chairman and CEO of Saks, and Ronald L. Frasch, president and chief merchant of Saks, will be leaving the company.
The relocation of Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship store is allowing leading retail real estate firm Simon Property Group to use the space for other purposes, and the retailer to open a two-story, 198,000-sq.-ft. space adjacent to the one it will vacate at the Houston Galleria.
Discount retailers TJ Maxx and Saks Off Fifth outlets plan to dive into e-commerce waters this year, according to reports.
Hudson's Bay Company has reached a deal to buy Saks Inc. The Canadian retail conglomerate, which operates Lord & Taylor in the United States and Hudson Bay in Canada, will purchase Saks and its 41 stores for a total of about $2.9 billion. Purchase price includes $16 per share of Saks as well as the assumption of Saks' debt.
Saks Fifth Avenue and the Entertainment Industry Foundation have named actress Jennifer Aniston as the EIF ambassador for Saks Fifth Avenue's 2013 Key to the Cure campaign.
Sak's and Nordstrom have aggressively expanded their off price formats in recent years and now Neiman Marcus wants a bigger piece of the action.
Saks Fifth Avenue plans to launch a new ad campaign encouraging new and existing customers to "discover" what the specialty retailer has to offer via catalogs, direct mail, press initiatives, in-store events, digital marketing, social media and visual displays.
Retailer Saks Incorporated will be closing its Saks Fifth Avenue store located in the WestShore Plaza in Tampa, Fla., May 4.
Saks Fifth Avenue announced that John Cruz has been named SVP and director of the New York City flagship store, effective April 29.
Saks Fifth Avenue has revealed more details about its new two-level, 80,000 sq. ft. store in The Mall at University Town Center in Sarasota, Fla., which is presently under construction at the intersection of I-75 and University Parkway.
Saks Fifth Avenue has redesigned the Saks.com homepage to include a longer, more fluid layout that more prominently highlights seasonal trends and most-wanted designers.
Saks reported that sales for the fourth quarter were up 5.6% over the same period last year. Same-store sales were up 0.7% for the period.
Saks has introduced its Saks Love Your Cause Initiative, which will give 5% of all registered purchases to the American Red Cross and select local organizations, during February.
Saks Fifth Avenue is amping up its omni-channel strategy by updating its SaksFirst loyalty program and adding free shipping.
The National Retail Federation has elected Saks chairman and CEO Stephen I. Sadove to chairman of the NRF board of directors and chairman of its executive committee.
Saks Inc. has opened its first Saks Fifth Avenue store in Kazakhstan, in the city of Almaty.
Saks Inc. said Monday it has launched AT&T Wi-Fi at all 44 retail locations nationwide.
New predictive analytics tools are being used at Saks Off 5th stores to help the company make smarter merchandising decisions.


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Woodward, Okla. —
The Boomers evened their season record at 12-12 with a solid 9-3 win over Clinton Monday, Sept. 9 at the high school softball field.
A 5-run fifth inning broke open a close game as the Boomers reversed a loss to the Tornadoes earlier this season.
Ahead just 4-3 going into the fifth inning, the Boomers got hits from Jessica Burkhart, McKenzie Hunter, Hillary Hurst, Heidi McEwan and Devre Newby to break the game open.
Newby had a particularly big night with three hits and five runs-batted-in.
Clinton scored in the first inning, but the Boomers got three in the second, then added a run in the fourth frame after the Tornadoes had tied the game with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth.
Newby singled home Courtney Barnett with the go-ahead run. Barnett walked to start the inning and advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Lindsey Custer.
The Boomers had 11 hits in the game.
Hurst pitched five innings for the win and Adyson Clark worked the final two frames.
The Boomers host Elk City on Tuesday, Sept. 10, then go to Vici on Thursday, Sept. 12.
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Boomers drop games in area finals
Woodward boys fall to Tulsa McLain, girls to Mount Saint Mary.
Boomer teams step closer to state tournament
STILLWATER - One more win is all that separates the Woodward High School basketball teams from the Class 4A State Tournament.
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Results and upcoming games at the Class A and B state tournaments in Oklahoma City.
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ENID – Both Woodward teams moved on to the Class 4A Area 1 basketball tournament with victories here Saturday afternoon.
WHS boys win district championship
Ninth-ranked Woodward turned away Blackwell's upset bid to post a 57-46 victory in the 4A District 1 basketball championship at Boomer Fieldhouse Saturday night.
Boomers set for Class 4A playoffs
Woodward joins the basketball playoffs Saturday night with district competition at Boomer Fieldhouse
The Boomers are hosting Blackwell in the Class 4A Area 1, District 1 tournament, the first step in a 3 week process to determine the 8 teams that will advance to the state tournament.
Heat rout Thunder in Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA CITY— After missing the previous 26 games with a knee injury, Oklahoma City guard Russell Westbrook chose to make his return to the lineup against the defending champion Miami Heat. He said before the game that he still hasn't gotten past losing to them two years ago in the NBA Finals.
Boomers earn All-Conference honors
Woodward was well-represented on the Western Conference All-Star team announced Wednesday by league coaches.
Regional matchups feature top teams
As the basketball playoffs reach the regional stage for the state's smaller school, some high-quality matchups are already on tap in Area 1.
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Could you run up 1,576 steps in 10 minutes?
Aussies captured the top spots in the men's and women's races in the annual Empire State Building Run-up in New York City.
Mark Bourne won for the first time with a time of 10 minutes, 12 seconds. Fellow Aussie Suzy Walsham won the women's division in 12:05. It's the fourth time she's won the race, tying the record for most wins by a woman.
About 700 people from around the world did take part — up 86 flights of stairs at the Empire State Building. That's a total of 1,576 steps, starting at the lobby and finishing at the observation deck.
Critical thinking challenge: Why do people the use Empire State Building for this race?
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This article is about a run that goes on inside of the Empire State Building. A pair of australians won a race to the top. A female named Suzy Walsham and a male named Mark Bourne won the event in each of their divisions. Suzy had won the race three times before and this was her fourth win. Around 700 people from around the world took part and ran to the 86th floor. Thats 1,576 steps! I think this is a super cool thing to do. i would want to try it maybe once.
I think I could do it less than 10 minute. I know you have to train really hard to do it, but I think I can do it and anybody else can.
Wow I never thought about somebody run in the Empire State Building. I wouldn't even get half way is so tall and what a lot of stairs.
That's crazy how people can climb 86 flights of stairs which equals 1,576 steps. Epecially in 10:12 and the girl did it in 12:05. OMG!
I do not think I would be able to do that in about ten minutes but some day I hope to try to accomplish it.
Personally, I would never even attempt this. I don't like running especially running upstairs. these guys have a lot of stamina to do this and a certain mindset. It takes a lot of dedication time and effort to do this so I give them a thumbs up.
I think that the people would choose to use the Empire State Building for this race because that is a really big building. Also running up 1,576 steps in the Empire State Building is a real challenge. So that being said the people use the Empire State Building for the race because the building itself is really big and a very hard challenge. Personally I think that's a hard challenge to take.
I don't think i can do that,it looks hard.I would try to do it but i probably wont make 10 minutes.I might make twenty minutes.I change my mind i wouldn't even try that that why there elevators
I think that's crazy!!I could never do that and in 12:05! That is so awesome how much training did they have to do to get there! They probably spent up to 3 years to train for that! I can't even imagine how tired they would be after! Also so many people tried to do it I would have only thought a couple people would do that!
That's cool I couldn't do that. that's crazy that you can do 1,576 steps in 10 minutes. Where do you practice because you cant practice at your house.


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Fundamentally unsound
Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers, may sound kooky, but America's right-wing leaders really believe this stuff.
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The most popular novel in America right now is one in which the world is tyrannized by the former secretary general of the U.N., who operates from Iraq, and his global force of storm troopers, called "peacekeepers." Revered rabbis evangelize for Christ, repenting Israel's "specific national sin" of "[r]ejecting the messiahship of Jesus." Much of the world is deceived by a false prophet, part of the inner circle of the Antichrist, who seems a lot like the pope — he's a Catholic cardinal, "all robed and hatted and vested in velvet and piping."
"The Remnant," which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, is the 10th entry in Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's phenomenally popular "Left Behind" series, a Tom Clancy-meets-Revelation saga of the Rapture, the Tribulation and, presumably, the eventual return of Jesus. Last year's "Desecration," the ninth volume of a projected 14, was 2001′s bestselling hardcover novel. There is probably very little overlap between Salon's readership and the audience for apocalyptic Christian fiction, but these books and their massive success deserve attention if only for what they tell us about the core beliefs of a great many people in this country, people whose views shape the way America behaves in the world.
After all, Tim LaHaye isn't merely a fringe figure like Hal Lindsey, the former king of the genre, whose 1970 Christian end-times book "The Late Great Planet Earth" was the bestseller of that decade. The former co-chairman of Jack Kemp's presidential campaign, LaHaye was a member of the original board of directors of the Moral Majority and an organizer of the Council for National Policy, which ABCNews.com has called "the most powerful conservative organization in America you've never heard of" and whose membership has included John Ashcroft, Tommy Thompson and Oliver North. George W. Bush is still refusing to release a tape of a speech he gave to the group in 1999.
The point isn't that all these leaders are part of some kind of right-wing Illuminati. It's simply that the seemingly wacky ideology promulgated in the Left Behind books is one that important people in America are quite comfortable with. The Left Behind series provides a narrative and a theological rationale for a whole host of perplexing conservative policies, from the White House's craven decision to cut off aid to the United Nations Family Planning Fund to America's surreally casual mobilization for an invasion of Baghdad — a city that is, in the Left Behind books, Satan's headquarters.
Political attitudes and actions that make no practical or moral sense to secularists become comprehensible when viewed through Christian pop culture's eschatological looking glass. At a time when America is flagrantly flouting international law, spurning the U.N. and tacitly supporting the land grabs of Israeli maximalists, surely it's significant that the most popular fiction in the country creates a gripping narrative that pits American Christians against a conspiracy of Satan-worshipping, abortion-promoting, gun-controlling globalists — all of it revolving around the sovereignty of Israel.
Israel is the key to the theology that dominates Left Behind (as well as much of American evangelical Christianity). In the religion, as in the series, the rapture is kicked off by a military attack on the country, which survives almost unscathed (though the first Left Behind, written before the current intifada, had Russian aggressors rather than Arabs). Indeed, the chain of events that lead to the return of Christ depends on the existence of a Holy Land that is under catastrophic assault. No wonder the born-again lobby is obsessed with Israeli self-defense, but opposed to any peace plan.
Those Israeli settlements in the West Bank that add so much kindling to the conflagration in the Middle East are often "adopted" and funded by American evangelical churches whose members are devouring a novel that depicts Jews reclaiming Palestinian land, moving Al-Aqsa Mosque out of Jerusalem and rebuilding the second temple on the Dome of the Rock. The chosen people are suddenly the darlings of the religious right, while a bestseller promotes the idea that Jews will soon convert to Christianity — and atone for their centuries of stubbornness — en masse.
Of course, it's not that every reader of the more than 50 million Left Behind books sold so far is an end-times fundamentalist any more than every Eminem fan is a homophobe. Nor are the books guaranteed to change their audiences' views on American foreign policy — the relationship between culture and politics is never that simple. But the stories people tell themselves about the world necessarily shape the way they act in it, and right now, this is the story that's captivating America.
On one level, the attraction of the Left Behind books isn't that much different from that of, say, Tom Clancy or Stephen King. The plotting is brisk and the characterizations Manichean. People disappear and things blow up. Revelation is, after all, supremely creepy, which is why it gets so much play in horror flicks from "Rosemary's Baby" to "End of Days."
The opening sequence of the first Left Behind book is gripping and cinematic. Rayford Steele, an unhappily married commercial pilot, is flying to London and contemplating an affair with a stewardess, when, handing the controls over to his co-pilot and walking into the cabin, he finds her hysterical. People throughout the plane have disappeared, their clothes left in neat piles on their seats.
"This was no joke, no trick, no dream," Jenkins and LaHaye write. "Something was terribly wrong, and there was no place to run."
Returning to America, Steele finds a world in chaos. All real Christians — as opposed to mere churchgoers — as well as children and fetuses out of wombs have vanished. Planes flown by believers have crashed, along with cars driven by the faithful. The media struggles to make sense of it, but Rayford, whose marital troubles were caused by his wife's newfound religious passion, knows what happened. His wife had told him that Christians would be raptured up to heaven in preparation for the rise of the Antichrist, his nefarious seven-year reign and the Second Coming of Jesus.
The Left Behind books chronicle those seven years — known to Christians as the Tribulation — as a ragtag group of new believers form the "Tribulation Force" to thwart the murderous plans of Nicolae Carpathia, the U.N.-leader-cum-prince-of-darkness (often just called "the evil one," Osama bin Laden-style). Carpathia's rise is engineered by a cabal of bankers. He's supported by Israeli liberals enthralled by his devious promises of peace, and a Democratic American president sells out the country to Carpathia's one-world government. Meanwhile, the Tribulation Force finds a spiritual leader in Tsion Ben-Judah, a rabbi and former Israeli statesman who realizes the error of his Jewish ways and becomes a guerrilla media evangelist.
It's bizarre that more attention hasn't been paid to the series' open hostility to the Jewish religion, if not the Jewish people. Imagine if, say, James Carville wrote a novel in which a band of heroic gay socialists defeated a voracious army of slack-jawed Bible-quoting Republicans to turn the world into a gigantic French-speaking free-love commune. He'd be crucified on the talk shows, and all kinds of sinister motives would be impugned to the Democratic Party.
That a Republican player can create a blockbuster media empire out of analogous extremism suggests two seemingly contradictory things. First, Christian paranoia has become so mainstream that few see fit to remark on it anymore. Second, while the novels' popularity has received lots of media attention, their actual content is utterly off the radar of the kind of people who write about books. Nobody, it seems — except, of course, for the series' millions of fans — is reading Left Behind.
The Left Behind books actually play on that sense of being unfairly ignored, reveling in the moment when smug agnostics, insufficiently zealous Christians and, most of all, Jews realize how terribly wrong they were. As Gersholm Gorenberg wrote of the books in his "The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount," "Christianity's ancient, anxious amazement that the people who know the Old Testament best don't accept that it leads to Jesus (don't, in fact, accept that it is Old Testament) is at last disarmed."
Cannily, the authors make their protagonists disbelievers who are disdainful of fundamentalism. That means that doubters can relate to them and are thus drawn into their dawning religious consciousness, while believers get the satisfaction of seeing the heroes come around to their point of view. By having even minor characters recount their conversions, Jenkins and LaHaye make sure that each volume has moments when readers can enjoy a bit of high-minded revenge against mocking urbanites.
The writers take a special pleasure in the self-abnegation of supposedly sophisticated media types. In "The Remnant," a British reporter makes an appearance solely to explain her salvation. "All I can say is that the enemy has a stronghold over the mind until one surrenders to God," she says. "I was a pragmatist, proud, a journalist. I wanted control over my own destiny. Things had to be proved to me." Now born-again, she tells Steele that she's mystified by her former "lunacy."
Seeing the self-defeating delusions of erstwhile elites exposed may be the greatest pleasure the Left Behind books offer their readers.
The plotting alone certainly isn't enough to sustain attention in "The Remnant." That wasn't true of the first book — theology aside, the setup of the original Left Behind makes for a strangely compelling thriller. The stage is the whole world gone mad, and the story roils with international intrigue. Jenkins and LaHaye are very good at turning esoteric biblical augury into real-world scenarios, and they get the action going before they start inserting too many sermons into the mix.
So simple fascination with a good story might have accounted for the book's initial success — after all, audiences don't necessarily endorse the politics behind every action adventure they devour.
But by the time "The Remnant" starts, the suspense has pretty much died, because the story has the ultimate deus ex machina. Whenever things look grim for our heroes, when the enemy is closing in and there's nowhere to run, they're saved at the last minute by … God. At the beginning of "The Remnant," Ben-Judah is encamped, Moses-like, with a million followers in the Jordanian desert. Carpathia's forces unleash a devastating bombing raid, but thanks to God, the resulting "massive sea of raging flames" leaves the so-called Judah-ites untouched. God can also be relied upon to speed up computer searches and drop plenty of nourishing manna on his blockaded flock. In the wittiest scene in "The Remnant," God is literally a co-pilot, sending an angel to help fly a plane during a tense getaway.
There's not much drama in the repeated victories of an omnipotent being, but that's not the only thing that makes "The Remnant" sluggish. In order to stretch out the series for so long, Jenkins and LaHaye have larded it with tedious subplots and countless techno-geek scenes in which a crafty Christian hacker named Chang sabotages Carpathia's plans or creates false identities for his comrades. About a third of "The Remnant" concerns the rescue of a Tribulation Force pilot named George Sebastian from Greece. The action mostly involves the characters driving around, splitting up, reconnoitering and then trying to find each other.
The Remnant has very little in the way of climactic good vs. evil showdowns. While there is a bit of supernatural deviltry (masses of vipers attack believers lured from Ben-Judah's protection by agents of the False Prophet) and some martyrdom (though not of any main characters), most of the story follows members of the Tribulation Force jetting around the globe running various errands. The nuclear annihilation of Chicago rates just a few lines, while the cellphone codes the Force uses to communicate gets several pages.
Left Behind cloaks itself in the conventions of ordinary airport thrillers, but it does far more than just provide a Christian alternative to decadent mainstream entertainment. It creates a Christian theory of everything, one that slates current events into a master narrative in which the world is destroyed and then remade to evangelical specifications. It's an alternate universe in which conservative Middle Americans are vindicated against everyone who doesn't share their beliefs — especially liberals and Jews.
There's nothing wrong with that. Everyone is entitled to their fantasies. But LaHaye and Jenkins are at pains to show that the Left Behind books are meant as more than fiction. They write on the Left Behind Web site, "While it is true that in the broad spectrum of Protestant Christianity there are multiple views of the end-times scenario, the pre-millennialist theology found in the Left Behind Series is the prominent view among evangelical Christians, including their leading seminaries such as Talbot Seminary, Trinity Seminary and Dallas Theological Seminary."
So the rest of us can ignore Left Behind, or chuckle at its over-the-top Christian kitsch. We should keep in mind, though, that for some of the most powerful people in the world, this stuff isn't melodrama. It's prophecy.
Michelle Goldberg is a frequent contributor to Salon and the author of "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" (WW Norton).
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CBS' TV football analyst John Madden likes to talk about the best way of finding good places to eat while traveling the country in his Maddencrusier.
"Never go to the places by the highway," says Madden. "They usually look good, nice and shiny, but it's a bluff. Go in to town, usually on the wrong side of the tracks. Find a greasy spoon, and that's usually the best food."
Another thing that is a bluff is USC football, 2000 edition.
The Trojans' had everybody, including me, hyped to the gills when they beat Joe Paterno and Penn State, 29-5 in the Kickoff Classic at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Like restaurants by the highway, SC looked nice and shiny, led by running back Sultan McCullough against the Nittany Lions'. McCullough's pounding running had everybody thinking that "Tailback U." was back.
Oh, how wrong were. Southern California had their hands full against winless Colorado, but escaped with a 17-14 win. Their lackluster performance against the Buffalos' was attributed to a two-week layoff.
Next came San Jose State, and again SC had to dig deep to escape with a win. This second-rate effort was also attributed to another two-week layoff, but the spin was also that the Spartans', who beat Stanford (who beat Texas) were an emerging power.
San Jose State is still just San Jose State. SC, it turns out, is the team that is emerging. In fact, they emerged—as an also-ran—years ago, but every season the faithful believe This Is The Year.
It is not this year.
USC went to Oregon State, and it was a replay of last season, when penalties and on-field mental errors plagued their 6-6 campaign. That record had been blamed on quarterback Carson Palmer's injury, but now Palmer is healthy and, well, he is just not all that good.
Palmer is a solid quarterback, but not the Heisman hopeful this scribe thought he could be. My bad.
"We have stumbled," was head coach Paul Hackett's assessment. "We have a lot of work to do. Right now, we have to avoid overreacting. It's pretty obvious what the glaring issues are, so we have to keep working, to keep making progress, and if we do things like bowls will be our reqard at the end."
Another factor is that the Pacific-10 Conference has become, overnight it seems, the most rugged in the nation. Surviving the Pac is like reaching a top slot in the Soviet Politburo during Stalin's time.
"We must demand perfection on every play," says Hackett. "Every single play is important. So fr, we've wasted some good efforts.
"When you don't run the ball, it's the nature of the quarterback to feel he has to make the play. The pressure is now on the offensive line."
Certainly, anybody who still thinks of Oregon State the way we all used to think about Oregon State is ripe for a rude awakening. Dennis Erickson has the Beavers' playing at a fever pitch, and they can beat anybody on a given Saturday.
Nevertheless, USC had them beaten at Corvallis, but penalties, fumbles and missed field goals did them in.
That loss was particularly galling in light of the national picture. Ranked eighth coming in, USC could have benefited from a slew of undefeated teams taking it on the chin the last few weeks, if only they could have stayed unbeaten themselves.
On October 7 at the Coliseum, however, it all fell apart. USC looked like a team that had all the air taken out of them, a team that felt like there was nothing left to play for, now that the National Championship was no longer realistic.
Arizona led 21-0 before the potato salad was gone in the Coliseum press box. It was like a morgue up there, the LA writers' realizing that they had little more than mediocrity to cover from here on out.
In an odd way, losing so badly to the Wildcats' was cathartic. Losing by way of penalties and terrible mental miscues had a brutal, galling effect on SC's supporters. Just getting whipped by a superior team is, in a strange way, easier to swallow. That said, USC must confront the fact that th players' appear almost to have given up mid-way through the season.
As Hal Holbrooke said in "Wall Street" (1987), "When a man stares into the abyss, that's when he finds himself, and that's what keeps him out of the abyss."
The problem is, some Trojans' may find it easier to fall into the abyss than to apply the mental discipline and physical pain associated with preparing to beat quality football teams the rest of this season. They will be up for traditional rivals UCLA and Notre Dame just because the hype for those games pumps anybody up, but they could be so low by then that nothing can get the ship back on course.
This whole thing has just become "wait until next year," but next year never happens anymore.
So, who is to blame? Well, Hackett is getting his share of fingers pointed at him, but he is not the culprit. He may not be the best coach in the country, but the man is hard-working, a good recruiter and salesman, honest and forthright with the press, experienced—in essense, he is everything one could ask of a Division I head coach.
The whole concept of firing coaches before their contracts have expired is not a good policy. The Dodgers', for instance, jumped the gun by axing Davey Johnson with a year left. Whoever replaces him will be under a lot of pressure, during a time when he is still implementing a new system that may or may not be a fit with this team.
The same thing applies to the Trojans' situation. If Hackett gets the boot, somebody will have to be brought in, amid much promise and pressure, a new man with a whole new style. Nobody can say whether that style will be any better than Hackett's, John Robinson's or Larry Smith's.
Even Ted Tollner is starting to look kind of good at this point, God forbid.
One thing that still is obvious, however, is that USC is not losing for lack of good athletes. Their roster is loaded with blue chip recruits with size and speed.
The Trojan mystique is long gone. The players put on the Cardinal and Gold, however, and somehow think that the spirit of O.J. Simpson (okay, bad example)—the spirit of Charles White or Marcus White or Pat Haden somehow takes over. Perhaps the program is a victim of their own past success. In one way or another, programs like Texas, Alabama and Oklahoma have gone through similar experiences, but they have all rebounded better than Southern Cal.
To be Petros Papadakis, that is the question
It looked like Petros was going to be a big story this year, but luck, as usual, has not gone his way. Papadakis suffered a debilitating injury that kept him out all of last year, and still makes him vulnerable. However, early on he looked like the guy who could be counted on not to fumble the football.
That is, until his fumble deep in Oregon State's territory proved to be the final nail in USC's coffin.
Petros has been slowed by more nagging injuries, but remains a colorful character on the team.
"I wasn't even recruited out of high school," he says.
Papadakis played at Peninsula High School, where he starred but apparently did not impress enough people to warrant big-time offers.
He went to the University of California, but left Berkeley just before school started his freshman year. He took the semester off, and entered USC in the spring, following in the footsteps of his father, John, who played for John McKay back in 1970-71, and older brother Taso.
"I just wasn't ready for college," remarks Petros.
Petros is unsusually erudite for a jock. He comes from a colorful Greek family, which operates the wonderful Papadakis Taverna restaurant in San Pedro, and his life has been about sports, singing, dancing, Greek Mythology, and Shakespeare.
"I don't know all of Shakespeare's plays," says Petros, whose brother is an actor , "but I can quote `MacBeth' backwards and forwards."
It would be nice if the witch who directs MacBeth's destiny could be located and made to direct USC to a winning season, but it now seems they are headed towards the same star-crossed fate as MacBeth.
Backs against the Wall
He is a freshman, and he might be USC's last resort. David Newbury has been so ineffective that Wall was brought in and kicked a field goal for USC vs. Arizona.
"We will go with John Wall for the rest of the season," says Hackett. "He and I talked about being mentally prepared to start, and he's back in the groove."
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