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Recovery Toolbox for Outlook Express 1.8.43
Recovery Toolbox for Outlook Express is the easiest service for Outlook Express recovery that you have ever seen. The utility recovers damaged mailboxes with dbx extension that are not openable by Outlook Express. It works with any version of this email client and parses the source dbx files that correspond with Outlook Express folders. It is the last chance to get back your email after failures and if you have not prepared a copy of mailbox.
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A-PDF Barcode Split Service 2.5
A-PDF Barcode Split Service is a windows service program to split scanned files automatically based on barcode or blank pages in background. The service will monitor the folders you specified, once there is scanned PDF file moved, created into the monitored folder, the program will split the file based on barcode or blank pages within the files.
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Powerful, easy to operate software system for storing and managing customer records, service locations and service history with the additional capability to share data in real time over the network. Customer Manager For Workgroup is a must-have schedule management tool for any company and individual specializing service. You pay for the program only the first time and get all new versions of this program for FREE and for a lifetime!
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This is a more powerful version of Cleaning Service, with all of the features of the standard version, but with the additional capability to share data in real time over the network. It offers a number of features for organizing efficient and handy working schedule for workers. It's perfect for workers to plan working hours so that the orders do not overlap with someone else and keep track of scheduled appointments.
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A-PDF Watermark Services is a windows services program which can run in the background to add watermarks to PDF files automatically. You can use the service to batch add text, image, graphic watermarks to existing Acrobat PDF files in sequence. A-PDF Watermark Services can watch multiple folders at the same time every few seconds, and process files in those folders instantly after detecting changing
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Free PC Booster, a professional system suite utility, comes at your service with a combination of 20+ PC optimization software. In a few clicks you will get your answer in its wide range of abilities to clean disk, repair registry error, backup and restore driver, monitor keystroke/file/folder, lock program/file, shred data, get the deleted files back, create WiFi hotspot, automate mouse clicking...
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If you're a professional painter, decorator, color designer or just want to paint your own house, Color Style Studio! enables you to pick color schemes right on photo of houses (interiors and exteriors). Choose colors from Behr, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, PPG, Sikkens and 110 other available color sets. Increase your revenue and gain an advantage over your competition using this unique visual color reception software!
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Automatic Pad Submitter with Online Free Software Submission Service for your software promotion from seosniper Pad Submission. Free User can Submit to 25 Software Download Sites. From Pro Member You can Submit to 150 Software Download sites, and RegNow/ShartIT/Plimus Software Submission, and your pad submission will submit 100 Articles/100 Wikis/200 Directories/100 SocialBookmarks/500 BlogComments Submission also.
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Avant Prime Web Miner is the ultimate data extraction and web scraping tool. Crawl the web and extract emails, images, URLs, phone numbers, microformats, files and documents, keyword density reports, meta tags plus more. Use your own custom regular expressions or XSLT documents to perform custom data extraction. This tool supports automatic sending of emails, building image & document gallery, automatic posting of artefacts to web services.
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The SSD Utility Suite is an essential tool to provide performance enhancement, SMART monitoring and data security for Solid State drives. Manually execute or set the TRIM service to maintain the write performance of the SSD. This suite is designed to enable faster performance by giving the user control over TRIM as well as predict end of life by monitoring the lifespan based on SMART attribute status of your SSD on Microsoft Operating Systems.
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AdSysNet Password Manager is a web based active directory self service password reset tool. User web console lets the users to reset password and submitting the requests to the help desk admins. HelpDesk console lets help desk admins to process the password reset and update profile requests from the users. Admin console helps the Admins to configure the security settings and view the audit report. Logon screen password reset feature is supported.
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If you want your computer to run more stably and faster with less errors and system halts, but cannot afford expensive optimizing applications or a highly specialized technical team, Free PC TuneUp Suite delivers an incredible solution. It is a combination of free PC tuneup utilities, which can be used as a dependable replacement for any other applications or services. You can achieve a ton of great optimization within several clicks.
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Automatic Pad Submitter with Online Free Software Submission Service for your software promotion from seosniper Pad Submission. Free User can Submit to 25 Software Download Sites. From Pro Member You can Submit to 150 Software Download sites, and RegNow/ShartIT/Plimus Software Submission, and your pad submission will submit 100 Articles/100 Wikis/200 Directories/100 SocialBookmarks/500 BlogComments Submission also.
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Operation Ubersoldat 1.44
WW2 first person shooter. In the beginning of World War 2 German Special research unit begins development of the Ubersoldat - a super soldier with powerful capabilities. Even though the research is kept strictly secrecy, the Americans learn of the German plans and send their best secret service agent to Germany with the order to destroy the experimental plants.
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Never lose track of your assets again - Implement Asset Management in your business with Asset Manager 2014. Print barcode labels for your assets and check them in/out to employees, or track your assets by their existing barcodes. Attach Owner's Manuals, service logs, and more to maintain a complete history for each of your assets. Asset Manager 2014 is easy to use and you can get started quickly. Visit us at: http://www.kzsoftware.com.
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A-PDF Size Splitter is an intuitively simple desktop utility program that lets you split Acrobat pdf files into smaller-sized pdf files. It provides complete flexibility and user control in terms of the size of the split files.It is perfect when you have a file size limit imposed by your email program or service provider's rules, or for meeting specialized legal requirements such as a maximum attachment size.
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Collector 1.6
Controls: LMB (left mouse button ) - collect money RMB (right mouse button ) - change the type of service Description: The player acts as a fundraiser for paying the utility bills: water, electric and heat. Above characters appropriate icons appear showing what their debts are. Use LMB to collect money from individuals to pay these bills. If you try to collect money from those that have none, you'll actually lose money. The game has two modes:
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Pest Control Service 2.9
Powerful software to make your pest control business more efficient. It's perfect for workers to plan working hours so that the orders do not overlap with someone else and keep track of scheduled appointments. It'll store the information about clients, such as their address, telephone, email and comments. The user-friendly interface and lots of useful features of the program ensure saving time and effort.
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Professional lawn care business software. Now you can keep track of all past tree service jobs, lawn mowing job or snow removal jobs. You can use the scheduler to find the best fit by viewing dates, times and distance of other scheduled services to set an appointment for a customer. Each customer's history is stored and conveniently displayed on the customers main screen for ease of look up.
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Facebook Image Resizer 1.21
Facebook Image Resizer will resize your pictures, getting them optimized for web-publication, e-mailing, showing in the instant messenger services quickly and easily. So, images prepared for publication will be resized and compressed to optimal extent within seconds, significantly reducing future upload time. In average, you can edit and upload twenty pictures, while Facebook will be struggling with five of them.
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Exiland Backup Professional is a simple and affordable automatic file backup and sync software. It lets you easily copy your important files automatically to various storages: local, network drives, FTP servers, removable media (such as USB HDD or flash drives). The program can also duplicate your backups to a different places: remote server, FTP, or removable disk. Exiland Backup can compress your files as ZIP. Program works as Windows service.
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Netwrix Password Manager 6.519.782
Netwrix Password Manager gives end users ability to securely manage their passwords and resolve account lockouts in a self-service fashion without involvement of helpdesk personnel, allowing organizations to implement strong password policies in Active Directory environments and address their identity management challanges.
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Advanced virtual camera with overlay of images, texts, and support for multiple monitors, and visual effects. Perfect for professional broadcasts over Skype, UStream, or any service or program that accepts a webcam. Add your company logo over broadcasts and other visual effects. ScreenCamera.Net supports multiple monitors and records video file in high definition.
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Lawyers Service combines powerful case management tools for organizing clients, case details, exhibits, documents, discovery, mail, e-mail, phone calls and much more. Lawyers Service is designed to help you effectively keep track of not only your schedule for a particular matter, but all the other associated details that will require your attention before you can easily bring that case to a successful conclusion.
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FE-7 Electronic Module (Pre-Assembled)
24Vdc, 1 Amp stabilised power supply module complete with a 230Vac mains chassis transformer. The module provides a stabilised output with short circuit protection, LED 'On' indicator and screw terminal blocks for connections.
The module is supplied fully assembled. All you need to do is house it in a suitable enclosure with the supplied chassis transformer, add the wiring, a suitable fuse and on/off switch. Ideal for powering many projects.Specifications

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Nagoya Downtown
Nadya Park Design Center Building in Yabacho district of Nagoya, Japan. The atrium is over 50 meters...
The Sakae intersection is at the center of the Nagoya city. The Sakaechika crystal square (at the und...
The Banshoji temple was built by Oda Nobunaga's father in the Nagoya village in 1540. When the Nagoya...
The Nagoya City Science Museum is a museum located in Sakae, Nagoya in central Japan.The museum house...
The Nagoya City Science Museum is a museum located in Sakae, Nagoya in central Japan.The museum hous...
The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.
The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.
They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.
So far, so good. But when Izanagi and Izanami first met on their island, Izanami spoke to Isanagi without being spoken to first. Since she was the female, and this was improper, their first union created badly-formed offspring who were sent off into the sea in boats.
The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan.
I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.
At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)
Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Izanagi and Izanami must have been busy little devils with their jewelled halberd...
Japan's culture is highly technical and organized. Everything sparkles and swooshes on silent, miniaturized mechanisms.
They're a world leader in robotics, and the Japanese have the longest life-expectancy on earth.
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Graduate Student Beauty on the Go III: Threading
A continuation of our "Graduate Student Beauty on the Go" series, for this installment we will try out the new trend of eyebrow threading. This event is free but space is very limited and sign up is required. Please e-mail Liz at email@example.com to sign up. Sponsored by the Graduate School.
Location: Quakerbridge Mall Threading Kiosk
Date/Time: 07/03/12 at 5:00 pm - 07/03/12 at 6:00 pm
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As a food writer and restaurant critic for the L.A. Weekly, Shatkin was best known for her "30 Days" missions, in which she reviewed the same item (burgers, sandwiches, ice cream) from a different restaurant for 30 consecutive days. Before that, she was a staff writer for the Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times and the events and festivals editor for the paper's short-lived Guide. Shatkin has been a contributor to the book EAT: Los Angeles, film editor of LAist, and a writer for such publications as American Cinematographer, Bitch, Toque, and Variety. She is a regular guest on KCRW's Good Food. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, and raised in Cupertino, she is an alumnus of the UCLA School of Film & Television.
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Precious Metals Price Action Review
Precious metal saw a decline across the board today in the New York session of trading.
Gold fell as much as $14.96 to $1092.44 by 10:00am in on Monday, where gold found its footing and started to rally for most of the rest of trading day. In the end gold cut its losses to 0.7% and closed just above support at $1102.
The Gold price in Europe also declined to €812 an ounce.
The precious metal Silver followed a similar pattern and ended $0.313 off its midmorning low of $16.597 with a loss of 0.5%.
Platinum lost $11.50 to $1598, and copper remained at about $3.38.
Gold Mining and silver equities fell over 2% at the open, but they then rallied back to about unchanged by early afternoon and ended mixed.
Treasuries rose a bit ahead of this week's $118 billion worth of note auctions that begin tomorrow with $44 billion in 2-year notes.
The Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P followed select health care companies higher after Sunday night's House approval of the health care bill.
There were no major US economic reports today. Tuesday at 10:00 EST brings Existing Home Sales for February (expected at 4,990,000) and the FHFA Home Price Index for January, expected down 0.9%. This report is not considered of high importance in regards to its affect on the Precious metals commodities.
Wednesday does bring about the US durable goods release, however; and this could start to show signs of where the US Currency and thus precious metals will trend.
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The family will receive friends today, June 27, 2013, from 5:30 until 7 p.m. at Collins-Burke Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held today, June 27, 2013, at 7 p.m. in the Collins-Burke Chapel. Howard Thompson will officiate. Burial will be at Oakhill Cemetery.
Jackson was preceded in death by his father, S. Leon Jackson; grandparents, Coleman and Essie Jackson, Samuel Locy and Versa McCollum; and mother-in-law, Elizabeth Pate.
He is survived by his wife, Cathy Jackson of Jasper; mother, Faye Hester of Sheffield; son, Caleb Jackson of Jasper; and brother, Rodney Jackson of Sheffield.
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It isn't just about issues and ideology; it's about the way we fight
At first, I supported Davis because I saw in him a progressive warrior. But most progressives know in our hearts that nobody wins wars. We are all diminished just for fighting them, and their fallout can be felt in unexpected ways for years to come. Even though I agreed with the Board of Supervisors decision to reinstate Mirkarimi, I felt sad and sick watching the celebrations that followed, and I understood that winning that battle might do real damage to the progressive movement.
So I'm proposing that we just stop fighting. We need to stop demonizing those we don't agree with. "We are not the enemy," Domestic Violence Consortium head Beverly Upton told supervisors at the Mirkarimi hearing, and she's right. We can still disagree with her position, and we can say so publicly and call for her to talk to Lopez or take other steps, but we shouldn't make her an enemy.
Having written this essay before the Nov. 6 election, I don't know the outcome, but I do know progressive power is waning just as we need it most. Landlords and Realtors are intent on rolling back renter protections, while technology titans and other corporate leaders will keep pushing the idea that city government must serve their interests, something the mayor and most supervisors already believe. And they're all overtly hostile to progressives and our movement.
Against this onslaught, and with so much at stake, the temptation is to fight back with all our remaining strength and hope that's enough to change the dynamics. But it won't. Now is the time to organize and expand our movement, to reach out to communities of color and the younger generations. We need to grow our ability to counter those who see San Francisco as merely a place to make money, and who are increasingly hostile to those of us standing in their way.
It may sound trite, but we need to meet their hate with our love, we need to counter their greed with our generosity of spirit. In the year 2012, with all the signs we see in the world that the dominant economic and political systems are dying, we need to work on building our capacity to create new systems to replace them. If they want to build a condo for a billionaire, we should find a way to build two apartments for workers. If they want to bend the campaign rules and dump millions of dollars into one of their candidates, we should use free media and bodies on the street to stand up for someone with more integrity.
Our heroes are people like MLK and Gandhi, and — and most recently and perhaps more relevantly, Arundhati Roy, Amy Goodman, and Aung San Suu Kyi — and we should heed their examples now more than ever. I'm not going to presume to lay out a specific agenda or new tactics, leaving that leadership to those who embody the new approaches and visions that I'm willing to learn and lend my energies and experience to supporting.
But the one essential truth that I've come to embrace is that our current struggles and paradigms are as unsustainable as the system that we're critiquing. It's time to embrace a new way of doing things, and to join the vast majority of people around the world in creating a new era.
Here's how it goes, Steven. Once the progressive star began to fall shortly after Daly's reelection in 2006, the movement quickly began to lose critical mass and gravitational attraction. This happened because downtown took steps to make that happen and because the professional progressives took no steps to stop it or to articulate their own renewed positive vision. Once that gravitational field dwindled to the point of pathetic, new folks stopped getting involved in progressive politics and that simply exacerbated the problem until we see what we've got now.
How many progressive policy initiatives have been successful since foot patrols? We can count that on one, one hand.
At that point towards the end of the decade, Christina and I both jumped off of the progressive train within six months of one another in anticipation that this puppy was going to go over the cliff at speed as it did. Christina jumped onto another train heading in a different direction while I lingered by the siding. I don't need to prostrate myself in obsequiousness as I don't have to rely on the good graces of politicos for my income.
Christina does not have that option. And now that she has voted her conscience and gotten fucked by it, and she has no professional skillset to fall back on, she has put her well being on the line in a way that nobody at the SFBG nor in the professional progressive class would ever dream of--you all are way too domesticated and timid to risk it all at very high stakes on principle.
Progressives set the table for their disintegration and subsequent fleeing from those of us adverse to going off of the cliff. And Christina was correct in wanting to repeal IRV, a move which sent your panties into a serious wad for no other reason than commutative cooties.
My read was that Christina in the good graces of the mayor could have accomplished at least as much in moving the progressive agenda as someone like Julian who would be ostensibly "more progressive" but would be frozen out by power, probably more. For every one win Julian could squeeze, Christina could probably get five.
Steven, I'd abandoned personal political ambition almost a decade ago, it is not for me as our allies only have knives to our backs and I don't have the organizing skills to make up the difference. There are no slights to my ambitions because they're not there. What I am disgusted with is the numbness with which the professional progressives are accepting their fate as being relegated to the political dustbin of history. And I am disgusted with the continual painting of lipstick on the pig of failure.
After Ross and then Christina put me on the MTA CAC, I was able to put together a unanimous vote from members appointed by all supervisors and the mayor, opposing the $13m grab from the MTA to the SFPD which the MTA Board subsequently ignored. While I'll leave no stone unturned in calling out progressive spies in labor and the nonprofit who are sandbagging our movement, I'm quite capable of identifying common ground across the political spectrum and exploiting it. This is why I am feared.
People claim to be concerned about a wide array of issues, housing, transportation, poverty, race, gender, class, queer, etc. It turns out that the ones who whine the loudest and make the most extreme demands and excoriate anyone who differs from them are the least effective in moving their agenda. On the back of the envelope, I'd wager that the more money poured into an area of advocacy, the less effective it is and the worse off the community allegedly advocated for becomes. I am just grateful that we've been able to work our way to a position that we're going to be okay irrespective of progressive collapse. My neighbors and many friends are not so fortunate.
Last year we saw the same losers in local progressive politics grafting their failed campaigns onto the new green shoots of Occupy SF. That worked out splendidly, didn't it, the glorious storming of the CMPC campus by the proletarians on J28 really turned the tide, huh, those inspiring HNJ occupations really began to make a difference in housing. That's yer political RoundUp for ya.
Steven, this is not about an individual, it is about a big picture structural analysis of a failing political movement. Politics is about much more than relationships. For you it is about your friends and their feelings. Hurting the feelings of a few self important promoters does not count for shit to me compared to the real world consequences of these play actors' failure to move an agenda. Anyone who would put their or their friends' feelings before the substance of policy is yanking our chains.
I am into zen politics, Steven. Not all political goals are at the end of a straight line as the interconnectedness of all things provides ways to do political bank shots where sinking an apparently unrelated ball scores more points than you'd think and sets the stage for future wins, the political terrain is nowhere near flat or continuous. That zen politics encompasses both good and evil because human nature is comprised of both and both carry useful energies.
So many are so domesticated into servility before power that they fear any expression of non-positive energy that might offend the patron or the priest. And in so doing are disarming themselves from half of the arsenal required to contest power.
And when I say zen politics, I don't mean giving backhanded endorsements to your "allies" that end up doing more damage than good. How the fuck, yes, I typed FUCK (oooh, I am so uncivil and I think that I hurt someone's feelings, can't you just hear the clutching of pearls and gasps right now through your screen) can the SFBG come out calling for more civility in politics (who's agenda is that?) when each and every endorsement issue you put out attacks the people you claim to support?
The only thing that matters is *effectiveness*, a word which progressives can no longer spell and would have removed from the dictionary if they could to permanently absolve them of accountability. Progressivism is over, it has consumed itself. The next step is a broad coalition of San Franciscans to contest municipal corruption and the rule of the 1% billionaires.
What you've got here Steven is a dead parrot, and you did more to kill it than I because you've got the louder bullhorn that reaches more people.
Now go off to some parklet party with Alix and look down on the little people on the outside. Anyway, until there is accountability and heads roll, we're going to continue to see progressiveness used as a narrow movement to keep people getting paid.
Remember, London Breed got elected using nothing but perfect table manners, always so well spoken with impeccable diction.
London Breed got elected because the "progressives" were splintered, and people in general don't realize the importance of coalition building in times of elections *especially* in light of RCV---neither the candidates nor the voters. In my view. RCV behooves us all to look at—and act in accordance with—the larger view (both politically and personally when it comes to human foibles). Which we are not trained to do. Instead, we're a) conditioned to think in terms of I, me, mine: one candidate. Maybe two. My candidacy—not yours. It takes more work, on more than one level, to do it differently. And b) that goes for the personal too as far as not giving in to fear or demonization. We're all guilty of that at one time or another it seems...
I hope there's been a lesson learned because of D5. I think the "movement" is bigger than one defeat, but I know you, marcos, see things as a succession of defeats. I just am looking at today—not the last 10 years—and working from what we have on the table today. Otherwise you just have all that baggage, in the form of vitriol and hard feelings, weighing you down.
I'm with Steven here. Let's just learn from our mistakes and keep moving...smarter and with heart.
And PS—I'll be watching London Breed. In my view, anyone who cusses like that during an interview in front of the cameras in a campaign for higher office is suspect. I dunno...i don't like it. People make mistakes all the time--but usually not in full frontal public view...makes me wonder what goes on in the privacy of *her* world...but, i could be wrong...
Steven says that we learn from what happened and practice politics less confrontationally, nicer and more pleasantly. Some would call that a return to civility. Arthur Evans lives!
My take is that there are structural impediments that have been imposed to increasingly limit progressive, neighborhood and anti-corporate political power and that unless we address those structural factors, we're pissing down the drain.
There are ethical constraints here where people who get paid to do the work put their continued payment--I, me, mine--ahead of the movement as a whole. Financial conflicts of interest should entail a wall of separation between what you get paid to do and what one gets to advocate for as relates to a coalition or movement.
D5 is a symptom of a decay that I've been describing for the past five years. Either we confront the truth as we see it and speak that truth or we're better off just gardening.
I no like no strange metrics neither.
Amen. Marc is the main reason for a huge exodus from the left, particularly of women. Is really rather sickening, how he is coddled and kept as an attack dog.
Here's one woman who I organized the mostly women sane Greens to drive out of the SF Green Party after Gonzalez invited the Front Lines cadre in:
And what do you have against Lucretia Bermudez? Were the women you helped organize mostly white and privileged? Be honest.
I know, I've not bowed down low enough before the goddesses of oppression and thus have no standing to comment on anything progressive.
What do you think Marc has said and/or done to drive women away?
"But there's never any excuse for booing or making derogatory comments to domestic violence advocates who braved a hostile crowd to offer their opinions on the issue."
When people get paid to represent a position, they are no longer speaking by and for themselves, rather by and for the institution that pays them.
The exchange of money should not insulate anyone from accountability, but that is par for the course on both sides of the ideological divide.
I would even ADD that not only is it just and fair it is our duty to challenge the phony component the "so called" advocates of the DV movement for their fraudulent use of one of the most important social issues of our day. THOUGH it makes less sense as a strategy to "boo" them because it played into these scoundrels prearranged ploy to escape real scrutiny because they were despicably hiding behind the real victims of DV and were in fact using them to cover up that these phonies acted in service to the machine and were USING the DV movement not for the real issue itself but in the service of this political machine.
Agreed, it was poor form to boo, that is why I watched the proceedings from the comfort of my own home to avoid the spectacle.
Sorry to say it but this piece reads like a bunch of pablum to me and I found it embarrassing. Kumbaya is a catchy song but that's not the situation we find ourselves in right now here in SF. I think Movement's ideas, posted above, are a lot more focused and to the point.
All of us, including progressives, may also want to think about how they appear to others by their use of language, much of which can be tacky and sexist and, sadly, increasingly used by women, as well as men, including those in or working for someone in public office.
These expressions make users look hard, insensitive, uneducated and sometimes frightening. They are spoken to demonstrate the speaker's power, but they really just demean the sayer and shut down meaningful dialogue.
First among those is the ubiquitous, "fuck you" followed by WTF, dickhead, douche, douche bag, and so on.
Dial it back.
It's heartfelt and probably even more so now that the election results are in. I for one think it's something of a milestone and hope it can be used to build bridges. But I have a feeling, reading the commentary here (especially from Eric Brooks, who's probably stewing over the lopsided vote against draining Hetch Hetchy) that it's going to take a lot more to get people to abandon the take-no-prisoners rhetoric of the past.
You used to be the nastiest troll going. But lately, you almost sound human.
This is an excellent critique of the current state of the Progressive movement, Steven. Thoughtful and entertaining as well. As far as attracting new converts, I only wonder if it is a little too late. At this point, the crowd that heckled the DV activists at Mirkarimi's removal proceedings ARE the Progressive party in the eyes of a lot of San Franciscans. Some might say that's unfair, but that's the perception that many San Franciscans have. And Progressives will never change that perception with insults and personal attacks. As far as restoring unity within the Party, the burying of various hatchets and a great big ideological group-hug would be a good start, but there's something else that needs to be addressed if Progressives expect to both grow as a political power, AND achieve meaningful and LASTING social change.
You need to muzzle your dogs. I've said this a bunch, and rarely has anyone paid attention. Well, I'm saying it again because I know that, now, you won't be able to ignore the problem. Just take a look at your own throats in the mirror. They've been shredded bloody by your very own pit bulls. Historically, Progressives have made much use of the hate-fueled, emotionally damaged berserkers within the movement's ranks, but look what happened when you tried to bring them to heel after having left the leash off for too long. You got a nasty bite and now you're gonna need stitches. I'm not saying you should hire a party planner for your own Night of the Long Knives or anything, but, jeez, implement a little discipline.
I know I will be called sexist for saying this, but woman are generally a little wiser when it comes to human relations. Yes, I know, women can sell out just like men. But you don't get all the male posturing and acting out behaviors (don't quote London to me...she's no prog).
Look, I would never admit this while Arthur Evans was alive, but the good old boys club in Proglandia was alive and well. And it did a bang-up job of keeping women relegated to the sidelines. So, if you're truly serious about the process of self-examination or finding ways to reinvigorate "the movement", it's time to get serious about promoting more women and POC to positions of power. Just my two cents, guys. Don't shoot.
And yes, it is sexist to suggest that women are generally wiser. Vote for the best candidate, man or woman.
There is no "boys club" that kept women sidelined. Progressives put forth many female candidates, and gave them as much institutional support as they did to male candidates. Unfortunately, as luck would have it, most of them didn't win, though some did.
The bottom line is that issues matter more than personalities and identity politics. Incidentally, I supported Migden over Leno, even though Leno is a far nicer guy and is clearly wiser about "human relations" than Migden. But I could care less about who's wiser about human relations. Migden generally came down on the side of progressives, and Leno generally came down on the side of moderates, so I backed Migden.
"I know I will be called sexist for saying this, but woman are generally a little wiser when it comes to human relations... if you're truly serious about the process of self-examination or finding ways to reinvigorate "the movement", it's time to get serious about promoting more women and POC to positions of power.
I agree completely. In fact, I partially based my ballot choices this year on ethnicity and gender. I feel there are not enough women or African Americans in local government. I'm sure a lot of people will think this is shallow and counterproductive, but I don't care.
So, Steve –
What are your old friend and ex-girlfriend "DCCC member Alix Rostenthal" sharing a laugh about in Tim Daw's photo? "[T]he money-driven nature of the agenda that Lee and his billionaire backer Ron Conway have for San Francisco"? The fact that Winnicker got to keep his job, because the whole thing was theater? Or the fact that, for both of them, it's all about their insider-hood – the same insider-hood Olague has always cherished above all else?
Ah, well – I suppose there's a chuckle or two to be had over that race.
I don't like or trust Tony Winnicker, but I do have some comments from talking to him that night that I intend to use in my next story. Tony embodies much of the nasty, money-driven, take-no-prisoners politics that progressives need to counter, for the sake of this city. As for Alix, she has great political skills and gets along with everyone, but I can guarantee you that she's not in cahoots with Tony. He's far too mean-spirited for her tastes.
is a euphimism for "it's all about insiderhood"
Steven, Alix Rosenthal, to quote Elaine Santore, is the perfect example of a progocialite, one whose practice is to socialize with other progressive self promoters and pretend that they're playing politics.
This is the problem that progressives face, a professional class that is disconnected from the communities that are in need of progressive solutions to problems because they're too busy congratulating one another on how progressive they are in their new political gig.
Tell me, Steve, what was the last successful progressive policy campaign that Alix worked on that attracted opposition from corporate power?
Alix worked on Mar's D1 campaign and Mirkarimi's race for Sheriff.
Yes, working on campaigns is good, but lots of people have worked on lots of campaigns. The whole point of electing people to office is to move a policy agenda and we know that electeds alone can't do that by themselves, they need organization in and cover by communities.
What policy agenda, progressive policy agenda, did Alix move that encountered resistance from downtown and the Mayor during the time that Alix has become active and the progressive movement has been effectively stopped in its tracks?
That is the whole point of having these wonderful political skills you write of, no, to change public policy?
The only way for popular politics to counter corporate rule is for San Franciscans to out organize the corporate forces that out spend us, not only during election season, but between elections.
Anyone who gets paid on the progressive side and inserts themselves between San Franciscans and corporate power, forestalling the kind of broad based organizing required to balance the equation either through institutional cooptation or through prejudicial (race, income level, queerness, gender, transportation mode, neighborhood) crimping of the coalition smaller and smaller is as much of a problem to San Franciscans as corporate power.
It is not a problem that progressives offend and hurt the feelings of paid nonprofit or labor advocates or those who commute from Oakland to play politics in SF. If progressive advocates are going to complain about and thus avoid being held accountable via progressively increasing demands for accountability, then that is more of a problem than calling them out on their shit.
It is a problem that the professional progressives and commuters from Oakland slice and dice the SF electorate to meet their narrow economic demands and alienates anyone who does not meet their particular standards in the process.
Not only does this approach not meet the needs of the communities spoken for by the advocates, it alienates those communities from the rest of the city. The only ones who win in this scenario are the paid advocates.
Either we play this game for keeps, and if we're going to play for keeps it has to all be about a super majority of San Francisco voters, not liberal progressive guilt trips about "the most vulnerable." "The most vulnerable" are fewer and fewer in number and most folks don't like self conceiving as weak and powerless in order to please the trust fund cabal's noblesse oblige fixation on paternalistic saviorhood.
I really hope you say the same fucking thing 5 more times today!
so enlightening!
Either we learn or adapt or we perish and the inclination is to shoot the messenger rather than adapt.
I'm fixin' to laugh my ass off as Ed Lee consolidates his position by slowly asphyxiating the nonprofiteers by a game of musical chairs now that they're no longer needed.
You all fucked it up big time and it is now time for you all to be held accountable.
How are you going to actively work on this idea? Are you organizing meetings somewhere? Who are the new leaders?
Confidential to lost: Don't ask who the "new leaders" are, for crying out loud -- get out there and work on whatever issues are most important to you. Find people who've been fighting the good fight (forgive the cliche) for years and years without grabbing the spotlight for themselves. (The name Ted Gulliksen leaps immediately to mind, but there are many others.) Find organizations doing essential work that need new blood.
People promoting themselves as "leaders" are a dime a dozen in this town, and they don't accomplish squat worth of good relative to many visionary, courageous, creative and often exhausted people whose pictures never appear in the Bay Guardian.
Steven's call for "an agenda" reflects appalling ignorance of that fact. Does he think there ought to be another San Francisco People's Organization, so that all the self-promoters can get themselves in front of microphones and cameras and then not do squat - again?
SFPO, snort!
The problem with just picking up and working on an issue is that anything that has any sort of economic impact on or limits the ability of the corrupt interests to take their cut, that is addressing policy failure consequences of systemic corruption is always preempted by community "leaders" who'll cut a deal to keep their good thing going.
I can't recount how many times I'd built consensus across the political spectrum to support a progressive position articulated in common sense terms only to be cut off by labor or the nonprofits and sold out for the narrowest of compromises.
We need some sort of City Council, a shadow ethical government that looks like what we'd want a progressive government to look like where folks work on their favorite issues and there is a comprehensive strategy worked through by San Franciscans who don't have an economic dog in the game to get the most gains for the most San Franciscans out of the deals.
The Big Game of SF politics is keep away from the progressives, the Little Game of SF politics is labor and the nonprofits playing keep away from San Franciscans. It is that little game which has to end.
The problem is that it would be hard to get consensus on what that would even look like. Factions would arise, and one would be right back where one started.
By the way, is there any San Franciscan who doesn't have an economic dog in the game?
We all have general economic dogs in the fight but we don't have particular direct-from-general fund dollar flows to protect.
Yes there would be factions, but there would be an unowned space for the factions to work their shit out. Sure beats the dysfunctional midday nonprofit coffee klatches.
Gullicksen doesn't grab the spotlight?
Ted has done okay to hold the line on rent control, but over the past ten years, the SFTU, like most all progressive, have been unable to push a proactive agenda. The SFTU was unable to even get enough sigs to put Park Merced on the referendum ballot.
If you want to see how decrepit the progressive coalition has become, take some time to attend an SFTU meeting. You can see the wonderful Mara Math drive up from San Mateo to visit SF with her special form of vile bile.
Does no one realize that Marc is being paid on the down low to destroy the progressives and green party in San Francisco? Seriously?
Do the math. When I was active in SF politics during the previous decade, progressives racked up win after win. As I saw the cooptation take hold around 2008 or so, starting in 2006 actually, and the professional progressives began to sandbag the movement to keep their cash flowing, I began to pull back in disgust from being active and since then progressive fortunes have foundered to the point of near extinction.
...delusions of grandeur.
Shit did not hit the fan electorally on my watch.
"I began to pull back in disgust"...
That's what Buddhists call "aversion". Aversion is one of those things that leads to suffering....
Maybe a better tack would be to acknowledge whatever's taking place, but staying in and working with it. Just a suggestion, Marcos.
Pulling back in disgust does not mean that I've stopped dispatching the occasional lightning bolt or abandoned my values.
I'm just not wanting to be throwing my volunteer work where it does less and less good.
The essayist mentions:
"But there's never any excuse for booing or making derogatory comments to domestic violence advocates who braved " BRAVED why didn't you mention Eliana as having BRAVED her long trial and WHERE were the "advocates" protecting her wasn't SHE the one they are supposed to PROTECT ? or what
The essayist mentions
he does "understand "wealthy interests have " disproportionate influence" over the decisions that are shaping this city..." Well I actually think there is evidence that the city is controlled by a criminal enterprise that has kidnapped not only the city apparatus but the elective offices by any means necessary FAR different than "disproportionate influence" (like what) Like the ballot boxes in the bay when Willie appointed Tammy Haywood elections chief and a PG&E was fighting a measure for clean energy. the widespread ballot fraud of Ed Lee and the SF Neighborhood Alliance money laundering election fraud for Ed Lee Go Lorrie and Archway/Veritas these being but a few exemplifying the racketeering of a political machine "NO NO this isnt "disproportionate influence"
And the criminal enterprise has the nonprofits and unions, which claim to represent all unrich San Franciscans, by the gonads and constrains their options.
...I'm sick of your run-on writing style.
When the substance of the discourse disturbs you, you can always attack the form.
I've disputed this messy, bordering-on-subliterate writer's substance often enough when it's been possible to discern what he's getting at.
The point the poster made is clear, this city is run by a criminally corrupt conspiracy to defraud San Franciscans of honest government.
I have consistently supported Eliana in my coverage of the Mirkarimi saga, moreso than any journalist in town (here's one of many examples: http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/07/20/eliana-lopez-victim-whom)
And even in this essay, I renewed my call for the DV community to talk to Eliana. But if we continue stooping to the level of our adversaries, we won't accomplish our goals. It's time to dig deep and lead by example.
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Editor's note: This blog was originally posted on July 23, 2009. We are posting it again due to various e-mails and messages received recently regarding this topic.
Has a racist e-mail crossed your path recently (or even not so recently) detailing a retail boycott by the Hispanic community here in Victoria?
I've been a Victorian for just over two years now and it's come across my desk on several occasions, most recently a couple of weeks ago when a woman from Minnesota (yes, it's gotten that far) called to verify the story.
The e-mail, which describes a boycott against Caucasian-owned businesses in opposition to pending immigration legislation, is completely false. I'm not sure who started it or why, but it's definitely out there. If you type in "Victoria, TX" on Google and wait a bit, the term "Victoria, TX boycott" even comes up as a search suggestion.
With innovations like the Internet, it's hard to rein in a message like this one once it gets out, but I do at least appreciate the people who call in and check its accuracy before passing it on.
Unfortunately, not everybody does that.
And while I'm sure this blog won't reach every person who's taken in the message and made their own assumptions about Victoria and its residents, at least there is a message out there that the rumors just aren't true.
The e-mail is posted on numerous sites online, including Snopes.com, which also denied its truth.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Florida Gulf Coast University won its fourth straight game as it rallied past Nova Southeastern University 67-64 Monday night in Division II South Region men's basketball action at BCC's George Mayer Gymnasium. The Eagles improve to 14-11 while the loss snapped the Sharks (15-8) four-game winning streak.
Four FGCU players scored in double figures as the Eagles rallied from a 17-point deficit late in the first half to split the season series between the two teams. Sophomore forward Casey Wohlleb (Boca Raton, Fla.) came off the bench to score a team-high 16 points. Junior guard Beau Bauer (Walton, Ind.) had 12 points while sophomore guard Brendan Rooney (Fort Myers, Fla.) had 11 points. Sophomore forward Adam Liddell (Auburn, Ind.) had 10 points and a team-high seven rebounds for the Eagles. It was the second straight game that at least four Eagles scored in double figures.
The Sharks led the entire half, building their largest lead at 17 points, 37-20, with 3:59 remaining in the opening half. FGCU scored the final five points of the half before NSU eventually took a 37-25 lead at the break.
The Eagles came out and scored the first seven points of the second half to cut the lead to 37-32 just two minutes into the final half. But the Sharks pushed the lead back to double digits at 43-32. FGCU then went on a 17-2 run to take its first lead of the game with 11:07 left to play.
NSU guard Rhys Martin, who scored a game-high 20 points on 14-of-14 from the foul line, hit a pair of free throws to give the Sharks a one-point lead, 60-59, with 2:42 remaining, but Bauer hit a three-pointer and short jumper as the Eagles outscored the Sharks 8-4 in the closing minutes.
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Mark Friedman (Toronto, Ontario) will come to Bowling Green following the 2012-13 season. Friedman currently plays for the Waterloo Blackhawks of the United States Hockey League, where he ranks second among defensemen in scoring with 10 points. Prior to this season, Friedman played two seasons for the North York Rangers of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. As a Ranger, Friedman compiled 27 points in 50 games played, and led North York in defensive scoring in 2011-12. In four career OJHL playoff games, Friedman has scored one goal and added three assists.
Reed Whiteside (Trenton, Mich.) has played for the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League in parts of the past two seasons, compiling two penalty minutes in 18 career games. Whiteside helped the Stampede to 17 wins last season.
Tomas Sholl (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) spent last season (and seven games in 2012-13) with the Fresno Monsters of the North American Hockey League. While with Fresno, Sholl has appeared in 47 games, compiling a record of 21-18-8. With seven games under his belt this season, Sholl carries a .920 save percentage, the same figure he earned in 40 games last season. Sholl boasted a 2.38 goals against average last season, and currently carries a 2.52 goals against average in 2012-13. Sholl has two career shutouts in NAHL play.


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The New Hampshire Soccer Officials' Association has recognized Sierra Herrmann, at right, with the James "Skip" Reagan Award. This very prestigious award is presented for displaying exemplary Sportsmanship and Character while participating in High School Soccer in New Hampshire. Sierra is shown with Head Coach Eva Lang. Sanborn Regional High School is very proud to have Sierra as one of their student/athletes receiving this award. Congratulations!
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Remember APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation)? Once described by former Australian foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans as "four adjectives in search of a nounâ€, it stumbled through the 1990s into the 21st century barely alive. Espousing "open regionalism†it extols a vision of open trade and investment across the Asia-Pacific region by 2010 for "developed member economies†and 2020 for "developing economiesâ€.
Internal tensions among its 21 members combined with effective popular campaigns of opposition and delegitimisation across the region gave a taste of what was to come at the ill-fated Seattle WTO Ministerial. Divisions between APEC's free marketeers like the USA, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and the more pragmatic East Asian countries were unconvincingly papered over by ambiguously-worded official statements open to a number of interpretations. At face value, APEC commitments were often ambitious and went further than those made at the WTO, not least in the area of investment. Yet APEC's lack of concrete achievement was as spectacular as the superlatives that once surrounded it.
Many of us fought it on the streets of Osaka, Manila, Vancouver, Kuala Lumpur, and Auckland where APEC's annual extravaganza, the Economic Leaders' Summit took place, accompanied by security crackdowns and human rights violations. In these yearly events, cocooned in luxury, ministers and heads of state ("economic leaders†in APECspeak) signed onto pre-scripted declarations urging speedier and more comprehensive liberalisation. Like so many other vehicles of the neoliberal agenda it meets behind closed doors. Neither a trade bloc nor a formal agreement, but a voluntary, non-binding process, relying largely on peer pressure, APEC's commitments were never subject to Parliamentary scrutiny, let alone public debate.
Meanwhile we drew the links and connections between APEC, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, the WTO, domestic economic reforms, and structural adjustment programmes. We exposed the corporate players involved with driving APEC, and attempts by APEC host governments to co-opt trade unions, NGOs and others in an attempt to legitimate its existence. We worked to delegitimise it and the free trade, free investment orthodoxy which it promoted. We targeted its lower-profile meetings of officials and ministers throughout the year. We highlighted the way in which it often acted as a forum in which to try to build agreement on contentious WTO issues and a spawning ground for binding bilateral trade and investment agreements. We watched as it went into virtual paralysis after the economic crisis swept across Asia in 1997, destroying APEC's showcase East Asian "tiger†economies, and devastating millions of people's lives. Its credibility in a downward spiral, journalists soon dubbed APEC "Ageing Politicians Exchanging Cocktails†or "A Perfect Excuse to Chatâ€.
Late last month, the 10th APEC Economic Leaders Summit limped into the exclusive Mexican holiday resort of Los Cabos on the Baja California peninsula. The venue had been chosen partly for its isolation to deter possible protests. Amid high security, with Mexican navy ships and a US Navy aircraft carrier not far away, such seclusion and opulence was symbolic of the way in which APEC has sought to insulate itself from the human and environmental consequences of the economic orthodoxy which it promotes.
APEC has always called itself a community of "economiesâ€. This was supposedly to get around the thorny "3 China†issue of Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan all being members, but also conveniently served to exclude "non-economic†issues like poverty, environmental degradation, and people's rights.
A year ago, during the 2001 APEC Summit in Shanghai, just prior to the Doha WTO Ministerial, we saw how this dying economic forum sought to revive its credibility and the free trade agenda by cashing in on September 11. It seemed that APEC had a new raison d'etre, thanks to the US successfully dominating the meeting.
Weeks earlier, in a Washington Post column entitled "Countering Terror With Tradeâ€, (September 20 2001), US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick wrote: "America's light and might emanate from our political, military and economic vitality. Our counteroffensive must advance US leadership across all these fronts.†In a world where we are told on a daily basis that we must either stand with George Bush or against him, free traders have cynically equated opposition to trade and investment liberalisation to support for "terrorismâ€. In the wake of rapidly growing opposition to neoliberal globalisation around the world, September 11 gave the cheerleaders for the global free market economy the chance they needed to counterattack. They are still doing it. We cannot let them keep getting away with it.
Besides its ritualistic reiteration of its support for the multilateral trade system under the WTO, and its 2010/2020 goals for open trade and investment in the region, APEC has become little more than A Platform for Escalating Conflict.
This year, Bush and Powell travelled to Los Cabos seeking to rally support for their latest planned strike against Iraq and stand against North Korea. Powell said that APEC nations needed to tighten security "to drive growth and generate prosperity…particularly our security from global terrorism.â€
The APEC Economic Leaders' Declaration which came out of Los Cabos this October 27th described terrorism as a "profound threat to our visionâ€. At the meeting, commitments were made to introduce tighter baggage screening in airports, improve coordination among immigration officials, implement new cybersecurity standards, and crack down on the financing of terrorism. A US-driven "APEC Leaders' Statement on Fighting Terrorism and Promoting Growth†agreed that: "Terrorism is a direct challenge to APEC's goals for free, open and prosperous economies and an affront to the fundamental values that APEC members share.†Whose goals and values exactly?
There are many forms of terror afoot in the world. The fist of the free market has long been used as an instrument of terror against hundreds of millions of people around the world. From NAFTA and the FTAA to Plan Colombia, from the US military recolonisation of the Philippines to its war against Iraq, the US Administration's primary concern is making the world conform to its economic and political interests. Meanwhile the Bush administration has pushed the adage "do as we say and not as we do†to the limit with its tariffs on imported steel and massive increase in farm subsidies, while demanding that the rest of the world adopt free market policies and join its crusade against whoever are next deemed to be "evil onesâ€. Just as the mantras of economic growth and prosperity have been linked to rigid adherence to a discredited free market capitalist model, so too we are expected to believe that they also depend on obeisance to Bush's self-styled war on terror.
"Building an APEC region – and a global economic system – that is both secure and more efficient is a monumental undertaking – and one that is critically important to the peace and prosperity of our planetâ€, continues the APEC Leaders' Statement on Fighting Terror, Promoting Growth. At a time when the US is intent on expanding its war, such a statement seems Orwellian and obscene. Peace and prosperity for most of the world's peoples seem a distant dream.
APEC goes back onto life support until resurfacing in Thailand next year. Meanwhile Mexico is preparing to host the 2003 WTO Ministerial in Cancun. The wordgames about terror and trade can only intensify over the next few months.
I well remember how the official statements from the September 1999 APEC Summit held in Auckland ignored the unfolding crisis in East Timor. After all its years of protestation that it is an economic forum and nothing but, the September 11 attacks and the Bali bombing are now deemed worthy of consideration at APEC. Indeed they have eclipsed other issues at the past two APEC Summits. Yet the ongoing and wanton destruction caused by the economic model which APEC helps to promote has unsurprisingly never made it onto the official agenda. If the APEC meeting can define these attacks as threats to free trade, we should not be afraid to denounce the structural adjustment, trade and investment liberalisation agenda for what it is – economic terror and imperialist domination.


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CollegeCrosse.com just joined the SB Nation network yesterday. It is run by Justin Simon, a Syracuse alumnus and fan who worked as a student manager for the 'Cuse lacrosse team for a couple years. He is absolutely obsessed with the sport and will be providing you with up to the minute live analysis of everything. Head on over, introduce yourself, and let's all keep on our toes to make sure Syracuse and Duke aren't getting all the love. Go Hoos!


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Last year the streets in parts of the old city dropped by nine feet. The reason? A massive garbage haul. Just about every unemployed man in Murad Khane was recruited to clean up years of litter and mud piled on top of the streets. By the time they were done, the streets and alleys were lower.
The garbage project is part of an effort to clean up and restore old Kabul, after six years of relative peace and with millions of dollars from foreign donors.
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RICHMOND, Va. — No matter what you may have read or heard, Superman is not 75 years old this month. Hes at least 77, and more likely 79. The reason for all of this birthday media ballyhoo (besides the fact that theres a new Superman movie, Man of Steel, playing in a gazillion theaters) is that Action Comics No. 1, the comic book in which Superman made his debut, was cover-dated June 1938. But even that date is false, since the magazine itself went on sale in late April.
The character of Superman, that strange visitor from another planet with abilities far beyond those of mortal men, the enduring creation of two very young, and very poor, men from Cleveland, Ohio, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (both were born in 1914), was originally dreamed up, scripted and drawn, according to Siegel, during the summer of 1934, although its possible his memory was faulty and it may have happened a year or two later. Prior to the first issue of Action Comics, and prior to that original iconic image of Superman easily hoisting a bright-green sedan over his head, Superman himself, while very much alive, existed only in the hopes and dreams of his two creators and in a series of stamped manila envelopes in which the first comic strips were sent out repeatedly to the major newspaper syndicates.
Siegel and Shuster created Superman with the express aim of landing him on the comics pages of hundreds of daily and Sunday newspapers, in the company of Blondie and Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon. Thats where the money was. Thats where the fame was. And thats where the respect was. But despite Siegel and Shusters enormous faith in the character, nobody was interested. The original drawings, dramatizing Supermans famous origin and first exploits, kept coming back to Cleveland, progressively more soiled and dog-eared, and usually accompanied by brutally contemptuous letters of rejection.
Eventually the strips found their way to the shabby Manhattan offices of National Allied Publishing. The company had been founded just a few years earlier by a former cavalry officer and a prolific writer of pulp adventure fiction named Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. Major Wheeler-Nicholson published comic books, a medium in its infancy during the Depression and one viewed with emphatic contempt by almost everyone in America above the age of 12.
Around the same time Siegel and Shuster were contacted by Nationals editor, Vincent Sullivan, with an offer to publish their badly shopworn Superman material, Wheeler-Nicholson, in dire financial straits, was forced to take on a partner, Harry Donenfeld, a loudmouthed Damon Runyonesque character with underworld connections and an earned reputation as a soft-core pornographer. By the time Action Comics No. 1 was printed and distributed, Wheeler-Nicholson had been ousted from his own company (which, for the rest of his life, he refused to talk about, even to his family), and Donenfeld along with his dapper accountant Jack Liebowitz were in full possession of National Allied Publishing, later renamed DC Comics. All rights in perpetuity to Superman the character, the copyright, and the trademark had been purchased from Siegel and Shuster for $130.
Let us all just pause here for a moment to sigh.
The all-too-American story of Siegel and Shusters perniciously bad contract and the long slide of their alternately enraged and melancholy lives (Shuster died in 1992, Siegel in 1996) has been told often, most recently in Brad Riccas just-published joint biography Super Boys, and I dont wish to add anything further here about that audacious, soul-killing unfairness. I want to celebrate the golden fruit of their partnership, and the greatness, and the meaningfulness, of their creation.
When, a few years back, I wrote and published a book-length essay about Superman, I titled it Our Hero because well, because thats what he is. Throughout his long career in comics and radio, television, and motion pictures, and no matter who has written his stories or drawn them, or directed the movies, or acted the role, Superman has incorporated and demonstrated authenticated, too those core values and ideals of selflessness, service, tolerance, loyalty, ingenuity, and tenacity that we still profess (we all still do, dont we?) to mutually cherish, and hes done it far better and more consistently than any other iconic American champion.
This orphan, this immigrant, this illegal immigrant (there was no passport, no visa, tucked inside that tiny rocket ship from the planet Krypton) has never, not in seven-plus decades, done what hes done with any expectation of recompense or celebrity. Hes done it all plug erupting volcanoes, catch falling airliners, divert raging floods, pummel to pebbles enormous meteors hurtling toward earth, and saved his adopted species from the rampages of thousands of gaudily costumed criminals and terrorists and hes done it all simply because hes wanted to, because its in his nature to care deeply for the common good, for the good of all.
In the early years, in the years when Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster shaped his adventures, Superman contended with, and blocked, corrupt politicians and lobbyists, venal munitions dealers, cynical manufacturers of unsafe automobiles, greedy exploiters of mine workers and factory workers, and the tormentors of ordinary working men and women driven to the brink of despair and suicide by the seemingly untouchable forces of Big Money. But even though his social activism was toned down later, by corporate fiat, Superman has continued to practice philanthropy, not for the tax deduction but for the satisfaction of helping others in need. Period.
And I feel sure hed be mortified and embarrassed by any offers of a lifetime achievement award.
It still rankles me (and Im not alone) that while their magnificent creation has earned billions of dollars, billions, since 1938, those two imaginative high school friends from Cleveland lived out their last years in tiny apartments surviving on the puny annual stipends they finally, and begrudgingly, wrested from DC Comics (now DC Entertainment, a Warners subsidiary). But their legacy is what matters finally, and its a glorious one. Superman is the embodiment of our best selves, our most democratic and empathic selves, our most generous, honest, and fairest selves.
So happy birthday, Kal-El, however old you are. And thanks a million.


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The Huskers (14-10, 6-6 B1G) are playing some of their best basketball over the last three weeks, culminating with a 60-51 win at ninth-ranked Michigan State on Sunday. Sophomores Walter Pitchford and Terran Petteway combined for 41 points, but Nebraska did its best work on the defensive end. The Huskers held the Spartans to season lows in both points (51) and field-goal percentage (.340), as MSU was held over 25 points below its season average.
Nebraska's improved defense has keyed the surge in recent weeks. During its current three-game win streak, Nebraska is holding foes to 52.7 points per game and 36 percent shooting from the floor. It has helped NU rally from a 1-5 confernece start to a .500 mark in Big Ten play entering the final three weeks of the season.
Penn State (13-13, 4-9 B1G) has also rebounded from a rocky start of Big Ten play in recent weeks. The Nittany Lions have won four of their last seven games since a four-point win over the Huskers in Happy Valley on Jan. 23, including road wins at both Ohio State and Indiana. The Nittany Lions feature one of the Big Ten's best backcourts in Tim Frazier and D.J. Newbill, who combine for nearly 33 points, 10 rebounds and 7.7 assists per game.
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