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- Rockies pondering winter ball for Chacin
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- Ailing hamstring keeps CarGo out of Rockies' lineup
SAN FRANCISCO -- Rockies outfielder Michael Cuddyer, who made a hospital visit to victims of a tragic movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., and has done many charitable deeds in Denver and his former home, Minnesota, is the Rockies' nominee for the 11th annual Roberto Clemente Award, presented by Major League Baseball and Chevrolet.The Rockies made the announcement Tuesday. Cuddyer said he has elected to earmark the $7,500 donation that Chevrolet has made in his name -- which the company does for each of the 30 club nominees -- to giveSPORTS, a project of A Precious Child Inc., which supports children in Colorado. The giveSPORTS program provides sports equipment for families that might not be able to afford it. Cuddyer was moved to make the donation because aspiring sports reporter Jessica Redfield Ghawi, who was killed in the July 20 mass shooting, was active in supporting the foundation. A Precious Child Inc. has established the Jessica Redfield Ghawi giveSPORTS Scholarship Fund to cover the costs of registration, league and tournament fees, sports equipment and related expenses so children will have the opportunity to participate in organized sports. "I was lucky enough to be nominated for this before, and I gave to an organization that did the same type of thing, gave sports equipment to kids or organizations that couldn't afford equipment," Cuddyer said. "I found out that she had started her own program for this." Cuddyer also has committed to donating a larger gift that Chevrolet gives to the winner of the award -- which will be announced during the World Series -- to giveSPORTS. In addition, upon signing with the Rockies during the offseason, Cuddyer purchased a suite at Coors Field where he hosts children from all walks of life, and he has donated school supplies to children in need. "We are in a position where we can give back in a lot of ways, whether it be money, whether it be time, whether it be the fame and fortune that you have to be able to raise awareness for certain causes," Cuddyer said. "I make a cognizant effort to take advantage of that." With the Twins, an organization with which he spent his first 14 professional seasons, Cuddyer established his "Cuddies Buddies" ticket program that allowed more than 25,000 children a chance to attend a Major League game that they might not have had. He also started the Michael Cuddyer Celebrity Waiter Dinner, during which teammates served dinner to guests. From 2007 to 2011, it raised more than $160,000 for Boys and Girls Clubs. Cuddyer has long been involved with the Cheerful Givers organization, was on the Twins Community Fund board of directors and helped secure a $250,000 grant through the Pepsi Refresh Project that was donated to the Courage Center in Minnesota. The Roberto Clemente Award recognizes a player who best represents the game through positive contributions on and off the field, such as sportsmanship and community involvement. It was named for the Hall of Famer and 15-time All-Star who died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve 1972 while attempting to deliver supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
Rockies pondering winter ball for Chacin
SAN FRANCISCO -- Whether Rockies right-hander Jhoulys Chacin pitches in winter ball in Venezuela will depend on how he makes adjustments during the course of his final outings, and not just on building a catalogue of innings, pitching coach Bo McLaughlin said Tuesday.Chacin (2-5, 4.58 ERA), missed more than three months with a nerve issue in his chest and has made just 11 starts, covering 55 innings. Chacin mentioned after five strong innings Monday night, when he didn't figure in the decision in a 2-1 loss to the Giants, that he will discuss winter ball with the organization. McLaughlin said if Chacin pitches the way he did Monday, when he didn't have his best stuff but quickly found ways to keep innings form spinning out of control, he might not need the postseason work. "The first game he came back, everything was good timing, good rhythm and make a lot of good pitches," McLaughlin said. "Then he started feeling better and better, but he got out of his delivery. But last night whenever he got out of his delivery, he made the adjustments to get back. He did it three times last night and was excellent. If he can keep on doing that, I don't know whether he needs a whole lot of [winter] innings. We'll have to see how he goes." For now, Chacin said he plans to go to the Rockies' complex in Scottsdale, Ariz., to throw a few innings during instructional ball. If he pitches beyond that, it'll be in Venezuela for Caracas. "I don't know if they're going to let me pitch in Venezuela," Chacin said. "I want to but I don't know if they've made a decision."
Reducing passed balls will be priority for Rosario
SAN FRANCISCO -- Catcher Wilin Rosario, whose passed ball Monday night allowed a run to score in the Rockies' 2-1 loss to the Giants, is expected to do some kind of catching work at the organization's request after the regular season ends, manager Jim Tracy said Tuesday.Rosario, 23, who leads National League rookies with 24 home runs but also leads Major League catchers with 20 passed balls, could participate in instructional ball or winter ball in the Dominican Republic with an eye toward improving fundamentals. Tracy said it isn't clear what prescription the organization will offer, but there will be one. "We're talking about a number of different things," Tracy said. "I really don't want to get into the details of it today, but putting a program in place for him to get started on sooner than later is something that we are gearing ourselves toward. "Moving forward, these things have to improve measurably between now and the start of next season. Those type of things matter, as we have seen." Rosario committed five passed balls in two one-run losses in Philadelphia earlier this month. In the current four-game series with the Giants, Rosario will not catch Thursday, when left-handed veteran Jorge De La Rosa makes his season debut. De La Rosa, completing a comeback from Tommy John elbow surgery, will pitch to Jordan Pacheco, Tracy said.
Ailing hamstring keeps CarGo out of Rockies' lineup
SAN FRANCISCO -- Rockies left fielder Carlos Gonzalez was scratched from the lineup for Tuesday night's game against the Giants after testing his sore left hamstring during the afternoon.Gonzalez didn't start Monday night but grounded out -- and didn't look good running down the first-base line -- in the ninth inning. The lingering soreness and the brisk weather in San Francisco led to the decision not to start him Tuesday. "I ran and it didn't go well, so that's why they took me out," said Gonzalez, hitting .307 with 22 home runs and a team-high 85 RBIs in 131 games. "If I'm not 100 percent, they don't want me to play. I'm like 60-65 percent. Being here doesn't help because of the weather." Gonzalez said the hamstring should heal in time for him to play before the end of the season. Also, the Rockies gave rookie second baseman Josh Rutledge the night off Tuesday to rest a sore left quadriceps. Rutledge labored while running out his RBI triple in Monday night's 2-1 loss to the Giants.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Washburn, a native of Conyers, Ga., is the grand prize winner of the Ameriquest All-Star Ballot sweepstakes, which was held in each of the 30 Major League stadiums.
The 47-year-old avid Braves fan will throw out one of two first pitches before the All-Star Game, being held at Houston's Minute Maid Park on July 13. Boxing legend Muhammad Ali will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
She will be accompanied to the event's three-day festivities by her husband and daughters.
"It's exciting," she said. "My family just can't get over it. My daughters can't believe their mom actually won something."
When Washburn received a phone call last week telling her that she had been selected as the winner, she was a bit skeptical herself. Immediately, she, her husband and an electrician who was working at their house thought it was some type of scam.
"I didn't know, because I hadn't filled anything out," she said.
Unbeknownst to Washburn, her brother, while attending a Twins game at the Metrodome, placed her name and information on the sweepstakes entry form that was on the back of every in-stadium All-Star ballot.
"Just a few days before, I had helped him with something, and he said, 'I don't know how I'm ever going to repay you,' " said Washburn. "When I told him that I had won, he said, 'I just totally believe in divine intervention.' "
Unfortunately, Zivic, an avid baseball fan who has visited 28 stadiums, won't be able to accompany his sister to the event. The 51-year-old priest, whose parish is in the Atlanta area, has a prior commitment.
"I'm a baseball fan," said Washburn, "but he's really a diehard fan. I really wanted him to go. He told me just to make sure I got him Roger Clemens' and Sammy Sosa's autographs."
That's a small price to pay, considering he had taken the time to fill out one of the millions of All-Star ballots that were cast.
Washburn, who lives approximately 20 miles east of Turner Field, has not yet attended a Braves game this year, but she has kept up with the team, and is pleased to see Johnny Estrada more than adequately filling the shoes of her favorite player, Javy Lopez.
Estrada is the only Brave selected to play in this year's All-Star Game, and Washburn hopes that she'll be allowed to throw the first pitch to him.
"I really loved Javy," she said. "He was my favorite player, and I was sad to see him go. But Johnny has done a phenomenal job, so I think it would be nice to be able to throw it to him."
Over the years, Washburn has often been joined at Braves games by her husband, Everett; 21-year-old daughter, Nicole; and 18-year-old daughter, Heather. Now, thanks to divine intervention or good fortune, they'll experience a baseball fan's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity together.
"I didn't completely believe this was true until I got all my tickets," said Washburn. "But now that I've got them, I know that this is real, and I still can't believe that I won."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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If you're someone who wants a vehicle that can truly go off-roading, one of the best 4x4s in the world is the Toyota Land Cruiser.
The problem? Not many people can afford the Land Cruiser's starting price that's uncomfortably close to $80,000.
Fortunately for those of us with smaller budgets, Toyota makes an off-roader that almost matches the Land Cruiser's capability and style — albeit not its luxury-drenched cabin — for a fraction of the price.
Called the 4Runner, and priced starting at $31,490, this Toyota doesn't get as much attention as it did in its heyday back in the 1990s. More buyers today are drooling over softer, more fuel efficient crossovers like its small stablemate, the RAV4.
But the 4Runner still exists for people who want Toyota reliability in a traditional SUV package.
Make no mistake, the 4Runner is designed for off-road use, not just a tough-looking station wagon for grocery runs. That's unusual as virtually all its one-time competitors have switched to car-based platforms — including the iconic Ford Explorer — as crossovers have become the default American family car.
The 4Runner's body-on-frame, trail-ready design is anachronistic, and it's a downside if you're looking for a quiet, smooth ride. Its suspension is bouncy and a bit rough over bumps, clearly designed for adventure seekers more than silent road trips.
Its styling is handsome and understated. It's the kind of masculine, boxy design that would have been aggressive 10 years ago, but today it's pleasantly attractive and fits its role as an off-road mainstay.
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Zack Greinke, the best pitching prospect in the Kansas City organization and one of the top
young hopefuls in the game, isn't at all shocked to see the Royals in first place. Greinke, a member of the U.S. Team Roster at the RadioShack All-Star Futures Game played Sunday at U.S. Cellular Field, was impressed by what he saw of the Royals during the spring.
"All of us who were there in the Major League clubhouse in Spring Training knew this team
could win," Greinke said. "The way (manager) Tony Pena pulled everybody together with his attitude, and
with the talent they have, you knew it could happen. It was just a question of if they could do it. Getting
Jose Lima didn't hurt either."
Lima is 5-0 in five starts since the Royals signed him to a free agent contract. Runelvys
Hernandez, the ace of the staff in April, is expected to return from the disabled list soon. The addition of
Lima and Hernandez makes it unlikely Greinke -- 11-1 with a 1.25 ERA in 15 starts at Class A Wilmington
and Double-A Wichita -- will get called up before September, though his glittering numbers (13 earned
runs in 93.2 innings with 13 walks and 84 strikeouts) make him an intriguing case and the subject of
much speculation. Teams do not generally call up pitchers from Double-A ball, expecially contending
teams, although there there have been exceptions.
Greinke, however, prefers to move at his own speed. He's only had one start with the
Wranglers, a no decision where he allowed two runs on seven hits in 6.2 innings. He did not walk a batter
and struck out six. It was an impressive Double-A debut for a pitcher who won't turn 20 until the fall.
"In some ways (getting called up) could be great but it also could be the wrong move," Greinke
said. "Physically I think I'm ready, but I don't know if I have the mentality yet to where I could handle
failure at that level. I don't know if it would be the right move for me at this point in my career. My time
will come."
Burke on track: Second baseman Chris Burke, a former No. 1 pick of the Houston
Astros, is enjoying a solid year at Double-A Round Rock but also enjoying the progress of his friend Adam
Everett, who took over the starting shortstop job for the Astros earlier this season.
"I'm very happy for him, I've known him a while now and he's worked hard to get where he is,"
said Burke, seen by many in the Astros organization as Houston's second baseman of the future.
Burke is hitting .316 with two homers, 30 RBIs and 25 extra-base hits. He has been successful
on 18 of 25 stolen base attempts.
"From a personal standpoint it's been a good year for me," Burke said. "From a team standpoint
we haven't done well."
Burke said he made some adjustments to his game during the winter that have helped him
become a better offensive player this season.
"I dropped my hands and lessened my leg kick," he said. "Nothing major, just a few things to try
and help me become a better lead-off or top of the order guy they (the Astros) want me to be."
If this keeps up, Burke could soon be joining his old friend Everett in Houston, although the
Astros are expected to get Jeff Kent back from the disabled list next Thursday. Kent is signed through
2004 with a club option for 2005. By then -- if not sooner -- Burke is expected to be ready to follow Craig
Biggio and Kent in the line of standout second basemen in Houston.
"To follow two guys like that would be quite an honor," Burke said. "I saw the other day Biggio
hit his 500th career double. That's amazing. He's a truly great player. So's Kent."
New experience: Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk, manager of the U.S. team, likes
the idea of bringing the best minor league players together for the Futures Game.
"I think it's a good experience for them and good for the game," Fisk said. "They didn't have this
when I was coming up through the minor leagues. They get a chance to stay in downtown Chicago and
play in a Major League park, that's a good thing, I think."
Would he have made the team in his day?
Smitherman wins it: Cincinnati prospect Steve Smitherman broke up a tie game with solo home run in the sixth inning, to win the seven-inning Futures Game.
The outfielder said he wasn't as nervous this time as he was earlier this month, when he was called up to the Reds and lined out in his only plate appearance against Pittsburgh and Scott Sauerbeck. When he homered Sunday off Travis Blackley, a left-hander with the Seattle organization, Smitherman wasn't sure the ball would leave the park.
"I thought I got underneath it a little too much," Smitherman said.
But the ball cleared the left field fence to give the U.S. the win. It was a good day for the two Ohio teams as well. Cleveland's Grady Sizemore was named the game's Most Valuable Player after going 2-for-3 with a homer and two RBIs.
Smitherman is a Type I diabetic. He was diagnosed as a diabetic when he was 11 years old. The condition does not impact his play but he must receive insulin shots every day and also keep a stash of candy bars and soft drinks at the ready.
"I get four shots a day. At one point it was two shots, but being in the game and they can sometimes go long it's easier to manage this way," Smitherman said. "I've had one episode, in Chattanooga, but I'm fine as long as I follow the procedures."
Waiting his chance: Detroit prospect Preston Larrison faced only two batters, but picked up the victory for the U.S. It matched the 22-year-old right-hander's victory total for the season. Larrison is 1-10 with a 5.32 ERA at Double-A Erie.
"If I have a strong second half I don't see why I wouldn't get called up," Larrison said. "I heard (Detroit is) going to a six or seven-man rotation in September, so that's good news."
Larrison has improved his performance in recent weeks and can't wait to continue his improvement in the second half of the season. A key for him has been getting ahead in the count more often.
"They want me at 60-70 percent first-pitch strikes and last month I was at 62 percent so that's pretty good," Larrison said.
Futures fodder: Thirteen months ago, when the Cleveland
Indians traded Bartolo Colon, Tim Drew and cash considerations to the Montreal Expos for Lee Stevens,
Brandon Phillips, Grady Sizemore and Cliff Lee, the Indians were widely criticized for the trade. But
Brandon Phillips, though struggling offensively in this, his rookie season, is the starter at second base and
Cliff Lee since his callup has shown signs that he will be an effective addition to the Indian staff. Sizemore
is hitting .292 with nine homers and 54 RBIs at Double-A Akron and should be in the Majors in two years
or so. Sizemore was named to the U.S. team. "I'm thrilled to be here with some of the best players in the
game," Sizemore said. "I'm in awe." Sizemore was not expecting to be traded when it happened last
summer but realizes now it might help his career in the long run. "This is a great organization and they've
been very good to me," he said. "They're not rushing me and I feel real comfortable with where I'm at.
It's been a fresh start for me." ... Neal Cotts, a talented lefty in the White Sox organization who started
Sunday's Futures game, was almost called up to pitch Sunday at Cleveland. "This is a thrill for me," the
Belleville, Ill., native said. "But I wouldn't have complained if (he'd been called up to the parent club)." ... ... Infielder Josh Barfield, son of former Major League Jesse Barfield, went 0-for-1 in his only plate appearance but did record a putout and an assist at second base. The 20-year-old San Diego Padre prospect is currently playing for Class A Lake Elsinore of the California League. "It was a honor for me to be here and good experience," Barfield said. "I'm very happy to get the chance to play in this game." ... David Kelton's name has been in the Chicago papers a lot lately as speculation about what moves the Cubs might make often include his name. The 23-year-old moved from third base to center field after Corey Patterson was hurt. Kelton played center field in Sunday's game. "I can't worry about (speculation), I just have to keep working hard (at Triple-A Iowa) and let the rest take care of itself," Kelton said.
Jim Molony is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to approval by Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Rest in Peace R.I.P. RIP
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Captain Beefheart at 69 years of age of MS.
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Duke Snider
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A baseball player of my youth that I liked, Duke Snider, RIP.
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Stanley Owsley
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March 15, 2011, 10:03:10 AM »
LA Times
Nearly everyone familiar with the history of the 1960s has heard of Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey, the pranksters who spread the gospel of psychedelics to the countercultural generation. But far fewer remember Owsley Stanley.
Stanley, who died Saturday at age 76, was arguably as pivotal as Leary and Kesey for altering minds in the turbulent '60s. Among a legion of youthful seekers, his name was synonymous with the ultimate high as a copious producer of what Rolling Stone once called "the best LSD in the world the genuine Owsley." He reputedly made more than a million doses of the drug, much of which fueled Kesey's notorious Acid Tests rollicking parties featuring all manner of psychedelic substances, strobe lights and music. Tom Wolfe immortalized Stanley as the "Acid King" in the counterculture classic "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968).
The music that rocked Kesey's events was made by the Grateful Dead, the iconic rock band of the era that also bears Stanley's imprint. His chief effect on the band stemmed not merely from supplying its musicians with top-grade LSD but from his technical genius: As the Dead's early sound engineer, Stanley, nicknamed "Bear," developed a radical system he called the "wall of sound," essentially a massive public address system that reduced distortion and enabled the musicians to mix from the stage and monitor their playing.
"Owsley was truly important in setting the example of someone who would go to almost any length, beyond what anyone would think reasonable, to pursue the goal of perfection sonic perfection, the finest planet Earth ever saw," Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally said Monday. "They never would have done that without Bear. Furthermore, the greater San Francisco scene never would have been what it was without the opportunity for thousands of people to experience psychedelics, which would not have happened without Bear."
Stanley, who moved to Australia more than 30 years ago, was driving his car in a storm near the town of Mareeba in Queensland when he lost control and crashed, said Sam Cutler, a longtime friend and former Grateful Dead tour manager. He died at the scene. His wife, Sheilah, sustained minor injuries.
Described by Cutler as a man who held "very firm beliefs about potential disasters," Stanley relocated to Australia because he believed it was the safest place to avoid a new ice age. He was a fanatical carnivore who once said that eating broccoli may have contributed to a heart attack several years ago. In his later years he was mainly a sculptor and jeweler, and his works were sought by many in the music industry, including the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, Cutler said.
"He was a very sophisticated man," Cutler said, "an amalgam of scientist and engineer, chemist and artist."
With artist Bob Thomas, Stanley designed the Dead's distinctive logo: a skull emblazoned with a lightning bolt. He also recorded about 100 of the band's performances, many of which later were released as albums. He once said that he considered preserving the live concerts one of his most important accomplishments.
Born Augustus Owsley Stanley III in Kentucky on Jan. 19, 1935, he was the grandson of a Kentucky governor and son of a naval commander. His nickname, Bear, reputedly was inspired by the profuse chest hair he sprouted in adolescence.
He studied engineering briefly at the University of Virginia before dropping out and joining the Air Force, where he trained as a radio operator. After completing his military service in 1958, he moved to California and worked at a variety of jobs, including a stint at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. He also studied ballet, Russian and French.
He enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1963 as the Free Speech Movement was erupting and drugs such as LSD began flowing. He got his first taste of LSD in April 1964. "I remember the first time I took acid and walked outside," he told Rolling Stone in 2007, "and the cars were kissing the parking meters."
That experience convinced him that he needed a steady and trustworthy supply. He found a recipe at the campus library. Then, with a chemistry major named Melissa Cargill, he started a lab and began manufacturing a very pure form of the drug.
His lab was raided twice; Stanley spent two years in prison. According to "A Long Strange Trip," McNally's history of the Grateful Dead, Stanley estimated that he had produced enough LSD to provide about 1.25 million doses between 1965 and 1967.
After his release from prison in 1972, he returned to the Dead and began working on a new sound system, a monolithic collection of speakers and microphones that channeled the music through a single cluster of equipment. The band introduced it in 1974 at San Francisco's Cow Palace, but it was too expensive to sustain and Stanley later gave most of it away. But his ideas were later adopted by concert equipment makers.
Not everyone was a fan of the system. "It was always malfunctioning," Country Joe McDonald, of the '60s psychedelic band Country Joe & the Fish, said in an interview Monday. "The Grateful Dead and their extended family were like a unit, a nine-headed hydra. They did things their own way. People loved it. It was part of their mystique." Stanley, whom McDonald knew slightly and remembered as "kind of an obnoxious" person, "fit in really well."
For a brief time Stanley was the Grateful Dead's main financial backer and put them up in a pink stucco house in Watts, where he had moved his LSD lab. A 1966 Los Angeles Times profile described Stanley roaring up to a Sunset Boulevard bank on a motorcycle with wads of money crammed in his helmet, pockets and boots. The Times' and other accounts described him as an LSD millionaire, a status Stanley denied. But it inspired a Dead song, "Alice D. Millionaire." He also was immortalized in a Steely Dan composition, "Kid Charlemagne," and in a Jimi Hendrix recording of the Beatles' "Day Tripper," in which Hendrix can be heard calling out "Owsley, can you hear me now?"
Stanley downplayed his influence on the psychedelic explosion, explaining that he began producing LSD only to ensure the quality of what he ingested.
"I just wanted to know the dose and purity of what I took into my own body. Almost before I realized what was happening, the whole affair had gotten completely out of hand. I was riding a magic stallion. A Pegasus," he told Rolling Stone. "I was not responsible for his wings, but they did carry me to all kinds of places."
In addition to his wife, he is survived by sons Pete and Starfinder; daughters Nina and Redbird; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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March 16, 2011, 02:29:35 PM »
"He was a fanatical carnivore who once said that eating broccoli may have contributed to a heart attack several years ago."
I remember reading the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in the seventies. Then seeing the movie One Flew Over the Coockoos Nest. Tom Wolfe came to our college to speak.
I guess a movie on 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' is coming out this year?
I was never a big Dead fan though.
***The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a work of literary journalism by Tom Wolfe, published in 1968. Using techniques from the genre of hysterical realism and pioneering new journalism, the "nonfiction novel" tells the story of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. The book follows the Pranksters across the country driving in a psychedelic painted school bus dubbed "Furthur," reaching what they considered to be personal and collective revelations through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs. The novel also describes the Acid Tests, early performances by The Grateful Dead, and Kesey's exile to Mexico.
In 1968, Eliot Fremont-Smith of The New York Times called The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test "not simply the best book on hippies [but also] the essential book."[1]
Film adaptation
A film adaptation of the book is in development for a 2011 release. It will be directed by Gus Van Sant.[2]
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March 16, 2011, 02:35:11 PM »
I remember travelling to Lehigh to see Timothy Leary give a lecture in the mid 70's.
My impression was he was brain damaged due to too much LSD. He was somewhat incoherent, rambling, almost "Sheen-like" saying something about space colonies. That is all I remember. My friend was also as less than impressed.
OTOH, maybe it wasn't the acid but was Harvard that did that to him.
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March 16, 2011, 05:43:28 PM »
The late Terrence McKenna (see e.g. "Nector of the Gods") was also from the same Harvard clique as Leary IIRC.
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Re: Rest in Peace
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March 17, 2011, 06:23:29 AM »
I would recommend reading the "Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" together at some point. Kesey and the HA were parts of a social circle and the differences of perspective on interactions is interesting (as are the interactions, all by themselves!).
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March 17, 2011, 03:45:39 PM »
Haven't read EAKAT, but did enjoy HT's HAs many years ago.
Also part of that crew was Ram Dass. Is he still alive?
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on March 17, 2011, 03:45:39 PM
Haven't read EAKAT, but did enjoy HT's HAs many years ago.
Also part of that crew was Ram Dass. Is he still alive?
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NY Times on Owsley Stanley
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March 19, 2011, 09:03:11 AM »
NOW that the 1960s are commodified forever as The Sixties, it is apparently compulsory that their legacy be rendered as purple-hazy hagiography. But that ignores an inconvenient counterintuitive truth: Relatively clear-thinking entrepreneurs created some of the most enduring tropes of the era not out of whole paisley cloth but from their astute feel for the culture and the marketplace. And no one was better at it than Augustus Owsley Stanley III.
Entrepreneur? Mr. Stanley, who was killed in a car accident last Sunday in Australia at the age of 76, is remembered chiefly as a world-class eccentric his C.V. lists Air Force electronics specialist and ballet dancer who after ingesting his first dose of LSD in Berkeley in 1964 taught himself how to make his own. In short order, Owsley acid became the gold standard of psychedelics.
But Mr. Stanley didnt stop there. He started cranking out his superlative LSD at a rate that by 1967 topped one million doses. By mass-manufacturing a hallucinogen that the authorities hadnt gotten around to criminalizing, Mr. Stanley singlehandedly created a market where none had existed, and with it a large part of what would become the counterculture.
At the time Madison Avenue was at sea about how to reach the so-called youth market. House hippies were deputized as cultural ambassadors but didnt prevent travesties like Columbia Records infamously clueless The Man Cant Bust Our Music ad campaign. Which made Mr. Stanleys effortless grasp of his peer group and its appetites he was, after all, an enthusiastic consumer of his own product seem all the more prescient. When his lab in Orinda, Calif., was raided in 1967 thanks to him, LSD had been declared illegal the year before the headline in The San Francisco Chronicle anointed him the LSD Millionaire.
Mr. Stanley shared several qualities with another entrepreneur who, a decade later, would imbue his company with a hand-sewn 60s ethic that persists today. To compare Mr. Stanley to Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, purely on the basis of their operating philosophies is not as big a leap as it might seem.
Like Mr. Jobs, Mr. Stanley was fanatical about quality control. He refused to put his LSD on pieces of paper so-called blotter acid because, Mr. Stanley maintained, it degraded the potency. I abhor the practice, he declared.
Whereas the formulation and provenance of most street drugs was unknowable, Owsley LSD was curated like a varietal wine and branded as evocatively as an iPod Monterey Purple for a batch made expressly for the 1967 Monterey Pop festival, which may have factored into Jimi Hendrixs chaotic, guitar-burning finale. (Relentlessly protective of his brand, Mr. Stanley seemed insulted that many believed the Hendrix song Purple Haze was about the Monterey LSD far from inducing haze, he sniffed, the quality of his acid would confer upon the user preternatural clarity.)
And like Mr. Jobss mandate for creating products he deems insanely great, Mr. Stanleys perfectionism had the effect of raising standards across an industry or in this case, a culture. He became a patron of the Grateful Dead and helped transform them from inchoate noodlers into the house band for a generation. Noting the dreadful acoustics at their performances, Mr. Stanley drew on his electronics background and designed one of the first dedicated rock sound reinforcement systems, thus making plausible that highly lucrative staple of the 1960s and beyond, the rock concert. (Ever the perfectionist, he later designed an upgraded version, the legendary Wall of Sound, that towered over the band like a monolith and prefigured the immense sound systems at stadium shows today.)
It is said we are living through times not unlike the 1960s, the catalyst being not rock n roll and its accompaniments, sex and drugs, but the communications and information revolution made possible by the Web. Among the movements many avenging nerds, Mr. Jobs alone epitomizes Mr. Stanleys unhinged originality and anarchical spirit before founding Apple, Mr. Jobs and his partner, Steve Wozniak, sold illegal blue boxes that allowed free long-distance calls and later proselytized so persuasively about the latest Apple gizmo that he was said to project a reality distortion field.
Augustus Owsley Stanley III knew a thing or two about that.
Michael Walker is the author of Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock n Rolls Legendary Neighborhood.
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Re: Rest in Peace
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March 19, 2011, 09:21:46 AM »
I wonder how many people were destroyed by his "product".
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Probably not as many as one might think, especially when compared to tobacco and alcohol and prescription pills. I survived the 60's and 70's and er.. part of the 50's as well, I'm telling my age now, but I personally saw only one incidence where LSD led to someone becoming mentally disturbed afterward and he was already at the edge of that, maybe over. The fact is substance abuse is more about the abuser than the substance itself. But I agree with your sentiment that cranking out the best acid on the scene shouldn't be a badge of honor either.
I do recall hazily, another incidence where a underage, long hair, very handsome and bright kid, sneaked into to a new movie called the
and in the throes of the part where the possessed girl turns her head all the way around on her shoulders, shouted at the top of his lungs, "Far out man!!!!!!". The packed theater exploded in laughter, with comments of "I want whatever that guy's on."
Peace out man, P.C.
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March 19, 2011, 05:17:11 PM »
Ya figure the NYT will do any similar obits for midwestern meth cooks?
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March 19, 2011, 05:23:13 PM »
Thirty years from now? The NYT? If they're still around I'll be doing meth myself.
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March 19, 2011, 05:26:18 PM »
It'll be a line of custom placemats for the Waffle House and similar greasy spoon diners by then. Actual reporting was never their strong suit anyway.
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March 19, 2011, 05:28:03 PM »
Woof GM,
Ya think?
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March 21, 2011, 12:50:13 PM »
As a lover of animals:
BERLIN (AP) -- Veterinary experts performed a necropsy Monday on Berlin zoo's celebrity polar bear Knut to try to determine why he died suddenly over the weekend.
The four-year-old polar bear died Saturday afternoon in front of visitors, turning around several times and then dropping to the ground, and falling into the water in his enclosure.
Polar bears usually live 15 to 20 years in the wild, and even longer in captivity, and the zoo is hoping the investigation may help clarify what happened.
Results were expected later Monday or on Tuesday, the zoo said.
In the meantime, people continued to flock to the zoo to sign their name in a condolence book in tribute to Knut.
"Every visit to the Zoo brought happiness, because he was such a warmhearted animal and he brought us all so much fun," visitor Eveline Plat told AP Television News.
Knut was rejected by his mother at birth, along with his twin brother, who only survived a couple of days. He attracted attention when his main caregiver, Thomas Doerflein, camped out at the zoo to give the button-eyed cub his bottle every two hours. The bear went on to appear on magazine covers, in a film and on mountains of merchandise.
Doerflein, the zookeeper who raised him, died in 2008 of a heart attack.
Soon after Knut and Doerflein's first public appearance in early 2007, fan clubs sprang up across the globe. "Knutmania" led to a 2007 Vanity Fair cover with actor Leonardo DiCaprio shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz, a film and plush Knut toys.
Zoo spokeswoman Claudia Beinek said that they had to set up another condolence book online to accommodate the outpouring of sympathy from around the world for the polar bear.
In addition, the zoo said it was starting a special account to accept donations on Knut's behalf, which will be used for polar bear research and the preservation of their habitat.
"He has brought joy to us, the Berliners and many others around the world," the zoo said in a statement. "Knut also was an icon for the endangerment of his species and natural habitats of all wild animals."
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Bill James abstract on Harmon Killebrew
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Re: Rest in Peace, Harmon Killebrew
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Thank you CCP! Harmon Killebrew was my childhood hero. Class act! It took very little charting to figure where to sit in left field and be guaranteed Killebrew home run baseball. Mostly from pre-game batting practice but I think I got one every time I went to the ballpark. Pretty amazing for a little kid, to sit some 400 feet away and have your favorite player hit it right into your glove.
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"Pretty amazing for a little kid, to sit some 400 feet away and have your favorite player hit it right into your glove."
Wow. The closest I ever got to getting a ball was at Yankee stadium when after a foul ball was hit and fell somewhere well behind me I looked down at the ground in front of my chair only to see the ball roll right between my feet and down the rows of seats in front of me. Probaly twenty people didn't realize it was rolling down to the front row between their legs.
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Gil Scott Heron
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May 28, 2011, 09:06:08 AM »
A sad passing...
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May 28, 2011, 10:36:11 AM »
I had not heard. Details?
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May 29, 2011, 06:41:34 AM »
According to news outlets, he died in a hospital in New York. No cause was annonced, although he was HIV positive and drug addicted.
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I saw a report that said he was 62, which is odd because he was a year behind me (and I am 58) when I attended Fieldston HS (until I was thrown out for political activism, but that's another story) Fieldston was a private school that was about 90% Jewish with substantial diversity scholarships. One of Gil's friends told me that Gil was stirring up a lot of trouble until finally his mom was called in. In a big meeting the various teachers told her of their problems with Gil. She looked back at them and said "When I have problems with Gil at home, do I call you?"
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May 29, 2011, 11:57:14 AM »
Crafty, you may have saw this since you are in LA, but if not....
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Quote from: bigdog on May 29, 2011, 07:41:00 PM
Lots of those heroes that died doing things still classified.
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Anna Schwartz
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Let it be said that Anna Schwartz led a model professional life. In our mercurial times, that is no small thing.
Most often, Anna Schwartz, who died Thursday at age 96, was included in sentences as co-author with Milton Friedman of the magisterial economic study "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960." That would suffice for the epitaph of nearly any economist. It does not for Anna Schwartz.
The daughter of a manager in the kosher meat department of Swift & Co., she graduated from Barnard College at age 18 and quickly earned a doctorate in economics. In 1941 she went to work for the National Bureau of Economic Research, the premier U.S. institution of economic studies, and never left.
Across six decades, she contributed strong work and commentary on economics, notably the financial system. In all her efforts to understand and explain financial behavior, Anna Schwartz focused on the system's primary need: stability.
Which brings us to the present economic instability, on which Schwarz had opinions that deserve to be heard again. Statements she made to this newspaper in a Weekend Interview three and a half years ago, in her early 90s, ring with clarity and relevance to current difficulties: "The Fed has gone about as if the problem is a shortage of liquidity. That is not the basic problem. The basic problem for the markets is that [uncertainty] that the balance sheets of financial firms are credible."
And pointedly: "Firms that made wrong decisions should fail. You shouldn't rescue them. And once that's established as a principle, I think the market recognizes that it makes sense. Everything works much better when wrong decisions are punished and good decisions make you rich." But, she added, "That's not the way the world has been going in recent years." She liked understatement.
Anna Schwartz performed at the most austere level of her profession and gave the world the sensible, helpful results of that extraordinary achievement. We suspect she'd say there's still time to get it right.
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Maria Santos Gorrostieta had been stabbed, beaten and burned
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It seems to me that she lived her life according to a creed that would make all members of the Pack and Tribe proud.
From the article:
Maria Santos Gorrostieta, who had already survived two assassination attempts, was driving the child to school at around 8.30am when she was ambushed by a car in the city of Morelia.
The 36-year-old was hauled from her vehicle and physically assaulted as horrified witnesses watched, according to newspaper El Universal.
They described how she begged for her child to be left alone and then appeared to get into her abductors car willingly.
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Too bad she wasn't properly armed and trained.
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Ronald Dworkin
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February 15, 2013, 06:30:30 AM »
A fine obit.
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Richie Havens, 72
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Rest in Peace: Shalom Yoran
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Shalom Yoran, Jewish Resistance Fighter, Dies at 88
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: September 16, 2013
For three years, Shalom Yoran survived the German occupation of Poland even as he saw his fellow Jews slaughtered by the Nazis. When he and his family inevitably became targets themselves, his mother knew she would not escape.
Mr. Yorans memoir, The Defiant, describes how he and his brother escaped to become resistance fighters.
Go, my beloved children, she told Mr. Yoran and his brother, Musio, as they fled into a field to escape German gunfire. Try to save yourselves and take vengeance for us.
That was in September 1942. The brothers disappeared into the woods and went on to spend the rest of World War II fighting the elements, injury, illness and the Nazis.
After enduring the winter in an underground shelter that they had built, they shifted from trying to survive to striking back. They became Jewish partisans, joining many others in fighting an insurgent war against the occupying Germans in Poland and elsewhere.
By the spring of 1943, they had conducted their first mission: burning a factory that made rifle butts for German weapons. Mr. Yoran began to feel that he was fulfilling his mothers wish.
For me, this was the turning point in the war, he wrote in a 1996 memoir, The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival.
He continued: Instead of constantly being on the run, or hiding underground trying to survive, I had actually participated in an attack on the German war machine. This was the beginning of my revenge.
Mr. Yoran, who died on Sept. 9 in Manhattan at 88, was 14 when German forces invaded his hometown, Raciaz, and 17 the last time he saw his parents. His mother, Hannah, and his father, Shmuel, were killed within days of his escape into the woods with his brother, who was four years older. The Nazis eventually killed 1,040 Jews in Raciaz, virtually its entire Jewish population.
Mr. Yoran and his brother became full-time fighters, killing German soldiers on patrols or at their camps, planting mines, destroying roads and bridges all while scrounging and stealing food and clothing. They soon made their way through northeast Poland, to the forests near Lake Naroch in what is now Belarus, to join a group of Jewish partisans who were coordinating their missions with Soviet forces.
Yet even there, fighting alongside non-Jewish Russians and Poles, they encountered anti-Semitism.
So here we were, fighting against a common enemy the Germans, whose aim it was to totally annihilate the Jewish people and to take over the Soviet Union side by side with fellow fighters whose own hatred of Jews was notorious, Mr. Yoran wrote.
In this demoralizing situation I told myself again and again that I was fighting as a Jew with them, but not as one of them. I dreamed of having my own country, of fighting for it, and even dying for it. That was what kept up my morale.
He and his brother joined the Polish Army, advancing into Germany in 1945 as Allied forces closed in on Berlin.
Mr. Yoran was born Selim Sznycer on June 29, 1925, in Warsaw, the son of a lumberyard owner. He had only limited schooling before his family fled the Nazis.
After the war he worked for a group that helped smuggle Jewish refugees into British-controlled Palestine, resisting British efforts to prevent them from entering.
He assumed many identities on his own journey there, including that of a British soldier. Finally, to convince the authorities that he was not a refugee but a lifelong resident of Palestine, he assumed the name of a dead cousin, Shalom Yoran, in 1946.
When I finally became a legal citizen of Palestine, Mr. Yoran wrote, I bore my mothers maiden name and my cousins date of birth.
With the founding of Israel, and after receiving his high school equivalency diploma, Mr. Yoran joined the Israeli Air Force, learning aircraft maintenance. While in the Air Force he met Varda Granevsky. They married in 1954.
He later became an executive with Israel Aircraft Industries, which helped supply the Israeli government. It is now called Israel Aerospace Industries. He moved to the United States in the late 1970s to run an American office of an aircraft trading and manufacturing company.
It was after he had arrived in Palestine that Mr. Yoran began writing about his life, recording his memories in notebooks and on loose sheafs of paper while recovering from abdominal surgery in a hospital.
Decades later, while he and his wife were clearing out their apartment near Tel Aviv, he found the papers in a suitcase. The couple spent years translating the notes from Polish into English, often first into Hebrew. The fruit of their work was The Defiant.
Mr. Yoran died after a long illness, said his wife, a sculptor. He is also survived by two daughters, Dafna and Yaelle, and two grandsons.
His brother, who became known as Maurice Sznycer, moved to Paris after the war and became a professor of antiquities and West Semitic languages at the Sorbonne. He died in 2010.
Mr. Yoran helped found the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. Near the end of his life, when he had dementia and other illnesses, his family established the Rose Art Foundation, which donates mobile reclining chairs to patients in need.
After The Defiant was published, Mr. Yoran frequently spoke publicly about his experience as a partisan.
If there is a lesson to be gleaned, it is that no person should succumb to brutality without putting up a resistance, he wrote in his book. Individually it can save ones life; en masse it can change the course of history.
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Another hero who fought for us has died of what sounds like war related problems. From meds used for chronic pain?
He was only 28. I was in my medical training at that age. So he urinated on dead bodies. Certainly distasteful but not a crime when your in a war zone fighting and enemy that would happily cut off your head.
****Marine who urinated on corpses in Afghanistan dies
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By MARTHA WAGGONER 17 hours ago
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) A decorated retired Marine whose career as a sniper was derailed by a video that showed him urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters has died, his attorney said Friday.
Cpl. Robert Richards, 28, was found dead Wednesday by his wife at their Jacksonville home, Attorney Guy Womack said. Neither foul play nor suicide is suspected.
The death was most likely from Richards changing medications he took because of injuries he suffered in a roadside bomb during one of his three tours in Afghanistan, Womack said.
Richards was demoted from sergeant after a video showed four Camp Lejeune Marines in full body armor urinating on three Afghans in 2011. One Marine looks down at the bodies and jokes, "Have a good day, buddy."
The video was posted on YouTube in early 2012. It was condemned internationally and caused outrage in the Middle East.
It was "a temporary lapse of discipline, and it should in no way define the service and honor of the snipers," Womack said.
Richards' sniper unit killed 12 Taliban fighters, some of whom the Marines knew were part of a cell making roadside bombs and training others, Womack said. About a month earlier, the Taliban cell had planted a bomb that blew the legs off a Marine.
One of the Marines in the video testified that their operation was designed to pursue bomb-making experts believed responsible for killing a corporal whose leg was later found hanging from a tree. The Marines were reacting to those events when they urinated on the bodies, Womack said.
"He never said it was OK," Womack said. "Marines shouldn't do that. At the same time, it really wasn't the crime of the century. "
Richards almost died when a roadside bomb exploded near him during his second tour, Womack said. Shrapnel went through his throat and an emergency tracheotomy on the battlefield saved his life, the attorney said. He also almost lost a foot and suffered back injuries. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
Richards was supposed to get 18 months off from active duty, but he returned early when a platoon commander asked him to join a new sniper unit that had no combat veteran snipers.
"He called it a personal obligation and said he would feel guilty if any of them were to die from their inexperience," Womack said.
Richards will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
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By Emily Bazelon
— Recently, a 15-year-old named Kylie tweeted her suicidal thoughts, and a Twitter account called @KillYourselfKylie tweeted back a series of ugly responses. These included "We have 3 b----es who should cut and drink bleach" and "I think i just made someone cut herself yayayyyy" and "We hate you just die . . . " That last note was followed by a list of six first names — apparently teen-agers who knew Kylie.
"Thats it. Im done," Kylie wrote back. @KillyYourselfKylie replied, "I WILL NEVER LET YOU IN PEACE . . . NEVER!!!"
At this point, the Internet groups Anonymous and Rustle League showed up in Kylie's Twitter stream. "We'll get to work on this problem NOW," one message promised. Another one addressed itself to Kylie's tormenters, "So, you think this is FUNNY? Let me introduce you to the REAL Internet Hate Machine, you dumb-a-- bullying Twats. Game: On."
What followed, in an exchange collected by the Daily Dot, was a series of threats and mewling apologies. The Anonymous and Rustle League rescuers threatened to post the full names of the teen-agers who'd been goading Kylie, unless she made it clear that they'd apologized. When Kylie reappeared on Twitter — blessedly tweeting thank yous to her supporters — she found messages like this one waiting for her: "It's nice to see the power of twitter do good. It's a new day for you, @YayyImKyliebaby. A new beginning, with your new friends."
I'm not in favor of outing minors for their online misconduct, but I can't read the full Daily Dot account without cheering for Anonymous and Rustle League. In writing about bullying, I've seen too many posts, on several social network sites, in which kids suggest that other kids should go kill themselves. I find it utterly dismaying and weird — why on earth would anyone court that kind of danger? Think how these kids would have felt if Kylie had taken their bait. I agree with Laura Beck at Jezebel that it would have been nice to see some of Kylie's peers step up to defend her, but in their absence, I'll take the adults who showed up this time to police the Internet. The personal attack on Kylie is much more harmful than spewing racism about President Obama, however gross that is. The Web can make life worse for vulnerable teen-agers — and, this time thanks to Anonymous and Rustle League, it can also make life better.
Another example of good online citizenship: MTV's efforts to get kids to out themselves or people they know for crossing over from "digital use to digital abuse." This is happening on a popular app called Over the Line? The app hosts more than 6,800 posts, like this one: "Okay soo this boy ask 4 a pic of me without a top on, cause he sent me a pic of his . . . I really don't want to. . . . Idk wat 2 do HELP!!!" Users can post anonymously or by name. Other users vote on whether the behavior described is over, on, or under the line — meaning, socially acceptable or not. (Being asked to send a topless photo when you don't want to: definitely over the line.)
Now MTV is rolling out a new feature, based on a partnership with a lab at MIT. The lab designed an algorithm that categorizes users' stories and then helps them find other stories that are similar in terms of subject matter. The idea is that kids posting about bad online behavior will know they have company, and with luck, will find comfort in seeing their own troubles in the context of others' struggles and solutions. It's crowd-sourcing, by and for teen-agers, about the boundaries of online behavior.
"We wanted to help our audience come up with their own answers," said Jason Rzepka, senior vice president of public affairs for MTV. "Rather than us putting up a list of digitals do's and don'ts, it's more valuable to ask them to collectively draw the line between what's innocent and appropriate, and what's not." The evidence that MTV's approach speaks to its demographic comes from the time users spend with the app. They've posted more than 350,000 story ratings and spend seven minutes on Over the Line?, on average per visit, which on the Internet is enviable.
It was a relief to think about the good the Web can do as I read "Oddly Normal," New York Times reporter John Schwartz's sensitive and perceptive account of his son Joe's suicide attempt at the age of 13. Joe was gay but just coming out when he swallowed handfuls of pills, and he spent a couple of weeks in a locked psych ward after his parents found him in the bathroom. In the period that followed, Schwartz watched his son in fear and then tried to analyze what had gone wrong, at home and at school. He's willing to write about "our own missed clues along the way, so agonizingly clear in hindsight." The best thing about this book is that it's not about blame: It's about understanding. Even the mean kids — so often lately the target of "bullycide" narratives — aren't portrayed as ogres.
Schwartz explains that gay teen-agers are at higher risk than straight kids for attempting suicide, and he talks about the way in which it was harder for Joe to find social acceptance. There was no Gay-Straight Alliance at his middle school, for example, and those groups can be a crucial buffer for kids who are unhappily questioning their sexuality. But Schwartz doesn't demonize the kids who made stupid comments to his son about sex and homosexuality. "It wasn't harassment, since they didn't know he was gay," Schwartz writes. "But because Joseph knew he was gay, the comments — and the fact that he didn't feel comfortable participating — increased his sense of isolation."
It's profound isolation that the Anonymous/Rustle League intervention for Kylie, and MTV's Over the Line? tool, are trying to combat. For some kids, like Joseph, there is help to be found at home — by the end of Schwartz's book, I felt like his son's great luck was to have two parents who made mistakes, sure, but who did their utmost to learn how to support him. That's still the ideal. But even the best parents can't protect their kids from everything the Internet serves up.
Bazelon (@emilybazelon) is a Slate senior editor and writes about law, family, and kids. Her forthcoming book "Sticks and Stones: The New World of Bullying," will be published next spring.


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— I'm not one to criticize a good bargain, but this cannot be a good sign for the popularity of the new "Facebook phone": Less than a month after it launched, the device is on sale for 99 cents with a two-year AT&T contract. In other words, the HTC First is already in the bargain bin.
HTC wouldn't share the exact sales figures for the device in its first-quarter earnings call. Regardless, as CNET's Jennifer Van Grove points out, the price cut isn't likely to do Mark Zuckerberg any favors as he tries to pitch other smartphone makers on the merits of packaging future devices with Facebook Home.
Remember, though, the "Facebook phone" was never meant to be a high-end device. Facebook's goal has always been to get as many people as possible spending as much time as possible on the social network. If that means selling phones for 99 cents, it's no skin off Menlo Park's nose. Indeed, as Mashable's Lance Ulanoff pointed out, Facebook is touting the sale price on its own news feed with the tag line, "The best Facebook mobile experience just got better."
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