text:
Van Marwijk turns down South Korea
Bert van Marwijk has rejected the offer made by the Korean Football Association [KFA] to join as the South Korea national head coach.
Negotiations between the KFA and former Dutch coach Van Marwijk, who was sacked from his job with Hamburg in Feb. 2014, broke down at the weekend after an agreement could not be reached.
Lee Yong-soo, the head of the KFA's technical committee, said that Van Marwijk's decision had been influenced by tax-related issues surrounding his salary and also how long he wa...


text:
What are Omega-3 Fatty Acids?
Omega-3 fatty acids are important for a number of functions in the body. These functions include:
- relaxation and contraction of muscles
- blood clotting
- digestion
- fertility
- cell division
- growth
- movement of calcium and other substances in and out of cells
Sources of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Widely available in dietary supplement form, omega-3s are found naturally in certain foods. Oily fish (such as salmon and mackerel), for instance, contain the omega-3s docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). Some nuts (such as English walnuts) and vegetable oils (including flaxseed, canola, and soybean), meanwhile, contain an omega-3 called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA).
Health Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Research suggests that intake of omega-3 fatty acids may offer the following benefits:
1) Heart Health
Increasing levels of DHA and EPA (either by eating fish or taking fish oil supplements) has been found to improve a number of cardiovascular disease risk factors. For example, studies show that omega-3 intake may lower cholesterol, slightly lower blood pressure, slow the progression of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), and reduce risk of heart attack, stroke, and death among people with cardiovascular disease.
2) Rheumatoid Arthritis
Regular intake of fish oil supplements may reduce morning stiffness, number of swollen joints, and need for corticosteroid drugs in people with rheumatoid arthritis. Fish oil's anti-inflammatory effects may be key to its role in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a research review published in 2003.
More Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
A number of studies have shown that omega-3s may also be beneficial for people with the following health problems. However, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine cautions that more research is needed before conclusions can be drawn about the use of omega-3s in treatment of these conditions.
- asthma
- dementia
- diabetes
- inflammatory bowel disease
- lupus
- osteoporosis
- renal disease
Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cancer Prevention
Several population studies indicate that dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids may lower your risk of developing certain types of cancer (including cancer of the breast, colon, and prostate). However, randomized controlled trials need to be conducted before scientists can draw any conclusions about the anti-cancer effects of omega-3s.
Are Omega-3 Supplements Safe?
In high doses, fish oil can interact with certain medications, including blood thinners and drugs used for high blood pressure.
If you're considering the use of omega-3 fatty acids in treatment of a chronic health problem, make sure to consult your physician before you start taking a supplement. If you are pregnant or nursing a child, or if you are considering giving a child a dietary supplement, it is especially important to consult your health care provider.
Side Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Although omega-3 supplements are generally considered safe when taken at low-to-moderate doses, they may cause the following symptoms in some cases:
- diarrhea
- heartburn
- indigestion
- abdominal bloating
Fishy aftertaste is a common effect of fish oil supplements.
Calviello G, Serini S, Piccioni E. "n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the prevention of colorectal cancer: molecular mechanisms involved." Curr Med Chem. 2007;14(29):3059-69.
Cleland LG, James MJ, Proudman SM. "The role of fish oils in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis." Drugs. 2003;63(9):845-53.
de Deckere EA. "Possible beneficial effect of fish and fish n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in breast and colorectal cancer." Eur J Cancer Prev. 1999 8(3):213-21.
H. Krishna Moorthy and P. Venugopal. "Strategies for prostate cancer prevention: Review of the literature." Indian J Urol. 2008 24(3): 295–302.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. "Omega-3 Supplements: An Introduction." NCCAM Publication No. D436 July 2009.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Related Links
- Providers
- Primary Care
- Primary Care Home
- Antonia Bunce
- James Capo
- Bobb Cucher
- Hima Edupuganti
- Kelleen Fitzgerald
- Marie E. Garrity
- Kavita Gone
- Richard Hansen
- Scott Henderson
- Robert Herrera
- Nelly Mizrahi
- David A. Ragan
- Phillip Rogers
- Mary C. Sams
- Arlene Salmon
- Michael Seyfried
- Sanjay Shukla
- Lyudmila Tavrovsky
- Alexander Voljavec
- Cardiology
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Interventional Cardiology
- Vascular Surgery
Check out our Maps and
Driving Directions to find a location nearest you.
Health Library
Primary Care / Internal Medicine
Hima Edupuganti, MD
Specialty / Clinical Interests:
Internal Medicine
Board Certification:
Internal Medicine
Make an Appointment
Contact (404) 256-1104
or Click Here to Request an Appointment
IMAA at Saint Joseph's
1100 Johnson Ferry Road
Suite 460, Building II
Atlanta, GA 30342
Office Hours:
You can contact us for an appointment
during regular business hours.
Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
or fill out an appointment form here.
About Hima Edupuganti, MD
Coming soon!
CLICK HERE if you'd like to make an appointment with a Saint Joseph's Medical Group physician at any of our locations in metro Atlanta.


text:
My love affair with Junot Diaz has largely depended on fate and faith.
I've mentioned him a couple of times before. A Pulitzer prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz fell into my existence at the tiny bookstore in the Ferry Building. After an early October dinner with the visiting parents, we took a stroll down the frigid piers, usually filled with tanning sea lions during the day. Now, it was just one harsh breeze after another. So I stole away into the bookstore. Hoping to find a gem.
Obviously, I was attracted to the book because of it's simplistic cover. More so for the fact that it was an autographed version (best investment ever). So I bought it. It was $30. A lot more than I usually pay for a book.
I took it home and devoured it. Something was so familiar. The nerdiness of Junior? No. The references to Santo Domingo, which had been one of my favorite vacations to date. My alleged learning of Dominican history. A similarity to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Not because they're both latinos. Because of how the book was constructed. The passing on of narrative voice and perspective.
It was good. [not good. gooood.]
So I proceeded to tell all my friends. People nodded and smiled respectfully, but Junot was still my very own.
Months go by. Then more months. I sporadically add him to my "favorite book" category for new social networks.
Then, John sends me an invite to GoodReads. I'd gotten a similar invitation before but was anti-more-crap-social-networking-sites at that moment. Now, I'm much more receptive. Reformed if you will. Assimilated. So I sign up.
I start by stalking Mary Roach. Afterall, I loved the book Stiff, was reading Bonk, and now am reading Spook. Cadavers, sex and the afterlife. Interesting-strange topics to be sure. Interesting-good books.
When I got bored of that (and reading that omg, everone's favorite book is Eat, Pray, Love and people were putting Dr. Seuss on there), I meandered over to author events. Ah… there is fate again. That sneaky bastard. Junot Diaz. Herbst Theater. 401 Van Ness. September 18. 8:00pm.
I haven't been sleeping very well, you know. I keep waking up from nightmares of Ty hating me and hurricanes. The details aren't clear but the emotional trauma certainly is. By the time 5:00pm rolls around, I'm exhausted. It's like I'm pregnant, except I'm not. And having to wait three more hours just to see an author? One who's potentially full of himself, a bit elitist and completely self-righteous. Sure, that's exactly what I want. I'm about to pass out on the lawn in Union Square, and Rico here wants me to wait three more hours to hear him talk.
Fine. …. Pendejo.
Fast forward to 7:50. I'm running late (seriously, why the hell would I be running late… I had 3 hours to travel half a mile). The bandage on my big toe has been scrapped off because I angled my foot to walk forward but hadn't lifted it high enough to avoid the concrete. It's already swollen and infected from a brief meeting with a wall during the weekend. The guy sweeping the floor at Peet's Coffee hands me a bandage. I'm pretty much running now.
The man in the suit asks me for a ticket. A what? The GoodReads event page hadn't mentioned a ticket. A $20 ticket, in fact. Fuck it. I'm already here.
<Insert riveting brain orgasms>
Fucking hell. It was so worth it. Art is my sex. Artists my priests. Interpretation my religious rites.
… And fate. He's just the fucker who injects me when I'm losing faith.
Some of my favorite quotes:
- When people see a crack, the first thing they want to do is fix the crack but the crack isn't the central problem.
- What's scary is not Trujillo but the eager people who carry on his moronic fables and want that authoritarian rule.
- Artists trying to remind humans of their humanity has always been a function of art. It's nothing new.
- The only person who hasn't the privilege of entering into the text is the writer. That's just one of the sacrifices we have to make.
- Most of the books out there are crap. You know… no one has a monopoly on crap.
- If I wanted to have a light shine on me when I talk, I would not lock myself in a closet and write. I wouldn't.


text:
It seems logical. Headphones stamped with consummate hard rock/metal pioneers Motorhead's awesome logo on them.
Music News Archive
Metal Bands
Metal News
Album Reviews
Music Articles
Metal Genres
Metal Videos
Free MP3s
Band Fonts
Link Exchange
Metal Toplist
Weird photos
Funny videos
Special Rebates
Copyright 2005 Metally.net | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | Site Map | Search


text: Full disclosure-this is NOT a fancy cruise. After the first day I never even bothered drying my hair or putting on makeup. We stayed in swimsuits, t-shirts and no shoes unless we were going on shore. We did clean up for dinner, but just to change shorts and t-shirts and that was optional! If you get seasick, take medication because the water does get a little choppy when you get further out. I had dramamine and another non-drowsy medication and I was pretty much fine as was everyone else. All drinks are included in your price including beer, wine and mixers. You can bring your own liquor on board if you want something else or you can tell the cruise line and they will have it in your room and bill you. You get a refillable water bottle in your room and a large water dispenser in the galley, which was terrific and GREEN! No plastic water bottles to harm the environment! If you want fancy, this is not the cruise for you...but if you want to relax and have an adventure, do it!


text:
Mail the Author
Most read
- Review Is it an iPad? Is it a MacBook Air? No, it's a Surface Pro 3
- Game Theory The agony and ecstasy of SteamOS: WHERE ARE MY GAMES?
- Hello, police, El Reg here. Are we a bunch of terrorists now?
- Worstall on Wednesday Wall Street woes: Oh noes, tech titans aren't using bankers
- Video of US journalist 'beheading' pulled from social media


text:
School of the Arts
School of the Arts News
Highly festive Move-In Day at Emerson
Beyoncé is blaring and college students are dressed in tutus, leis, mouse ears, bullhorns, and suspenders as far as the eye can see. It can mean only one thing: Move-In Day at Emerson College is here.
Marshall discusses Pulitzer win
Doors continue to open for author Megan Marshall, the associate professor in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department who won a Pulitzer Prize in April for Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, including a new fellowship and serving on the American Heritage Dictionary review board.
The 29th Annual EVVY Awards To Honor Emerson Trustee
The 29th Annual EVVY Awards will take place on Saturday, May 15, at Emerson's Cutler Majestic Theatre at 219 Tremont Street. The show will be broadcast live on the Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN) and via web stream.
Acclaimed author and Emerson Writing, Literature and Publishing Professor Steve Yarbrough recently sat down with Emerson's Office of Public Affairs to chat about the College.
Emerson WLP students' work spotlighted
Two students in Emerson's Writing,Literature and Publishing program were recently spotlighted by local and national media
2009 Pulitzer Prize winner Strout visits campus
The author of Olive Kitteridge – which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction – came to campus April 15 to give a reading and a Q&A.
Peter Sellars spends a week at Emerson
Renowned theater, opera, and festival director Peter Sellars, this year's Waldman Chair in Theater Arts, spoke candidly to an audience of Emersonians at Emerson's Cutler Majestic Theatre April 23.
Musical Theatre Society presents award to Broadway producer
Emerson's Musical Theatre Society presented Broadway producer Ken Davenport with the 2010 Leonidas A. Nickole Award of Distinction April 23 at Emerson's Cutler Majestic Theatre.
emerson college at a glance
- 3,662 full-time undergraduates
- 830 full-and part-time graduate students
- 50 states
- 75 countries


text:
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A former LSU football defensive end has been arrested after he was accused of trying to choke a woman.
East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies tell The Advocate 25-year-old Rahim Alem was booked Tuesday with domestic abuse battery.
According to the arrest affidavit, the victim told deputies that Alem put his hand around her throat and placed his finger inside of her mouth, creating a hook with his finger, in an attempt to prevent the woman from leaving the home.
Deputies say the victim had discoloration to the neck and a laceration to the right cheek inside her mouth.
Alem played in 44 LSU games, started 13 times and started 12 times as a senior in 2009.
It was not immediately clear whether Alem has an attorney.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


text:
Police are cautioning CTA riders after a pair of early morning robberies at a Blue Line station in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
The robberies have happened as passengers were getting on or exiting trains at the Western Blue Line Stop at 1909 N. Western Ave., according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
A 32-year-old woman was robbed on Jan. 6 about 6:45 a.m.; and a 28-year-old woman was robbed on Sunday at 6:25 a.m. A man took their property and ran away, police said.
He is described as a medium-to-dark-complected black man between 20 and 25, standing 5-foot-6 to 6 feet, and weighing 150-200 pounds.
Anyone with information should contact Area North detectives at (312) 744-8263.
Follow @fox32news
Police are investigating the murder of a homeless man who was beaten to death in an alley in Logan Square.
205 N. Michigan AvenueGround FloorChicago, IL 60601Station Operator: (312) 565-5532Newsroom: (312)565-5533


text:
Expired Property Listing
This property is disabled.
No shoes- No shirt- No problem.. St Johns in US Virgin Islands
- bedrooms 3
- baths 3
- sleeps 8
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Townhome
- community
rates (USD)
/ week
vacation rental description
n the heart of the Caribbean lies an island that outshines even the brilliant blues of its waters. With two-thirds of its area preserved as a national park, St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands shimmers with miles of unspoiled beaches. Situated overlooking the crystalline waters of Great Cruz Bay, The Westin St. John Resort & Villas provide the perfect vantage point for experiencing the rich variety of activities on this island paradise. Enjoy day sails to the British Virgin Islands, parasailing, scuba diving and snorkeling, fine dining and much more.
The Westin St. John Resort & Villas offers the luxury and rejuvenation you expect and deserve. Our resort staff looks forward to welcoming you to the jewel of the Caribbean.
townhome rental amenities
The Westin St. John Resort & Villas features the following amenities:
- Quarter-acre pool with poolside bar
- Outdoor whirlpool
- 1,200-foot white-sand beach
- Six lighted tennis courts
- Westin WORKOUT® fitness center
- Spa services
- Westin Kids Club®
- Teen center
- Activities department
- Deli and three restaurants and lounges
- Concierge services
- Fishing
- Jeep rentals
- Kayaking
- Parasailing
- Sailing
- Scuba diving and snorkeling
- Windsurfing


text:
2009-10 Swimming & Diving
|Doral, Fla.
|Doral Academy HS
As A Senior (2010-11)
Took fourth against Radford, Georgia Southern and Liberty (Jan. 8) in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:09.66 … also placed fourth in the same meet in the 200 breast, going 2:31.88 … just missed making the finals of the 200 IM with a time of 2:11.77 at the CCSA Championship (Feb. 19) …placed 13th in the 100 breaststroke at the league meet with a time of 1:06.48.
As A Junior (2009-10)
Took fourth in the 100 breast and 100 free at FIU (Oct. 24) … won the 'C' final at the Miami Invitational (Dec. 6) in the 200 breast … finished first in the 'B' final in the 100 breast (1:06.19) at the CCSA Championship (Feb. 18) ... swam a 2:25.21 in the 200 breast at the CCSA's, good for 13th on the CCSA's top 16 times of the season.
As A Sophomore (2008-09)
Placed second at the CCSA Championship in two breaststroke events, finishing with a 1:04.92 in the 100 breast and a 2:20.72 in the 200 breast ... both times are third-fastest in school history ... recorded five other top ten times, three in the 100 breast and two in the 200 breast ... also placed tenth in the 200 IM at the CCSA's (2:07.14).
As A Freshman (2007-08)
Became the top breaststroke performer during the 2008 season … set FGCU records in both the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke during the season … swimming to a time of 1:06.88 in the 100-yard breaststroke for a fourth-place finish at the Conference Championship … her performance of 2:24.37 at the CCSA meet earned 16 points.
High School
Graduated from Doral Academy High School in Miami, Fla. … coached by Kirk Peppas … Doral Academy Athlete of the Year 2005-2006 … four-time Miami Dade All-County first team … fifth in the state in the 100 breaststroke (FHSAA State Champs) … seventh in the 200 individual medley … USA Swimming Scholastic All-American 2005-06 and 2006-07 … Doral Academy Student-Athlete of the Year 2006-07.
Daughter of Jorge and Cathy Silveira … has a brother and two sisters, Jeffery (20), Emily 18) and Hope (11) … biology major … favorite sport moment was when the USA Women's National Team won the FIFA World Cup in 1999 … favorite athletes are Mia Hamm and Amanda Beard … one thing no one really knows about Catrina is she loves to sing … one person she would love to meet is Brady Quinn … career aspiration is to make NCAA's and Olympic Trials in 100 Breaststroke … chose FGCU because she loves the atmosphere and is excited to start a winning tradition as an Eagle swimmer.
Silveira's Personal Bests
500 Free – 5:28.70 – 2010 vs. FIU (home)
100 Breast - 1:04.92
200 Breast - 2:20.72
|Copyright ©2014 FGCU Athletics. All Rights Reserved.


text:
The most glamorous lounge in Hollywood is now open.
The WarwickWarwick (6507 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA) Map it Free
The Warwick, just opened on October 5, is the most gorgeous lounge in Hollywood. The commodious space, brought to you by Jeffrey Best, boasts elegant furniture (including lots of leather sofas), raftered ceilings, brick walls, a cocktail program created by the Roger Room guys, and two enormous photos of nude women, 'cause why not. In the downstairs area, you can enjoy tableside cocktail service using the freshest of ingredients, including seasonal fruit and herbs, or pull up to the bar and enjoy such libations as the Kaffir Melon Cooler, an uber-refreshing concoction of gin, fresh watermelon, kaffir lime, and pomegranate; the South Side, another gin-based drink enhanced with fresh lemon, fresh mint, and soda; the Coco Piña Fresca, a melding of rum with juices of fresh pineapple and lime and topped with delicious coconut foam; the Blackberry Buck, made with bourbon and an herbaceous house-made blackberry ginger beer; and the Peach Cobbler (even tastier than the name indicates, it combines Hennessey VS with lemon juice, peach puree, and maple syrup). The upstairs alcove overlooks the rest of the lounge and has a space-agey, Barbarella feel with white leather furniture, a sexy hanging capsule chair, and a small bar.


text:
The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrate mobs - it is the mob.
Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To understand mobs is to understand liberals.
©2011 Ann Coulter (P)2011 Random House
"Read your own book"
Yes. Ann Coulter is worth reading. She is a public figure and her voice inflections are well known. She should read her own books.
This is a book of commentary. There is no character but the mob.
Her voice was too soft and too light to read Ann Coulter. She could not get the sardonic inflection in her voice to put over the stark sarcasm of the author.
I haven't yet fiish the book. Ann Coulter, read your own books.
I probably will not buy another audible book by Ann Coulter until she reads it herself.
"Excellent Coverage on the French Revolution"
I thought it was as vivid as you can get...great points and learned a lot about the French Revolution; even stories that happened in America. Thanks Ann.
"Essential to understanding modern politics"
I have to agree with other reviewers that the narrator wasn't the best but she was adequate and the book is magnificent. Ann Coulter is often praised or attacked for her acerbic wit, which she certainly has and it appears in this book, but more than that this book provided an essential piece to my understanding of modern politics and its ideological background. To over simplify it the two primary political philosophies at work today, as they really have been throughout U.S. history and western thought since about the time of the founding of the U.S. are 1. the English school with the writings of John Locke, Edmund Burke and Adam Smith who believed in individual rights and are now usually called, in the U.S., Conservatives or Libertarians and 2. the French school with the writing of Rousseau and Robespierre, who believed in collective rights and are now usually called in the U.S., Liberals or Progressives. Most people, even those interested in or active in politics know very little about either ideological roots but the knowledge and understanding of French school is even harder to come-by. This book is about the French school: the basic philosophy, a historical tale of how they came to power in France, how adherents of this school of thought use the same techniques today to get and maintain power in the U.S. and on a broader scale how people, even more or less decent people, can be devolved to take part in horrible acts against others while shouting contradictory chants about the common good. In writing this book Ann Coulter did not assume the reader/listener has any background in the subjects covered and thoroughly explained the concepts for anyone to understand but she still was able to provide substantial new information to the reader/listener like myself who has studied, read and listened extensively about history, politics, philosophy and economics. This book is truly great and is well worth the credit/money.
"Just when you thought it was safe...."
Ann Coulter did it again. This time not only does she call out leftists on their hypocrisy, but she also provides a very detailed history of a number of key events that are generally misunderstood in our revisionist world (French Revolution etc.). If you are a leftist and afraid to listen to Ann, I think you should reconsider. No matter your perspective, she provides well documented insight into the mob mentality and how it is used in modern times. This is the heart of the ultra-leftist (Nazi, communist, socialist, environmentalist, etc. etc.) way of thinking....all facts are relative...the mob (collective good, Volk, common will, State) is holy...
This really is a powerful read, and I enjoyed it for the depth of history provided. This is a candidate within my library for a second listen...not that many books make that grade with me. Highly recommend.
"Great Book!!"
One of the best books I have listened to in a long time!
So many facts make it that much more interesting.
Not really, she seemed to just read.
No, I had to break it up into sections so I could process all the information.
Ann Coulter is great at what she does, makes me scared of what the future holds.
The Ann Coulter, that I know --dripping with sarcasm, and wit, as she eviscerates the Liberal and his mindset -- comes through Elizabeth White's performance so well that it makes me wonder if the two are related! LOL This is one of Coulter's better works, and I am pleased that my introduction to Ms White was through this reading!
"You Must Listen to This!!!"
As usual, Ann Coulter does a great job!! This was reccommended to me by a friend and I am sooo glad I bought!! I downloaded it to my IPOD & listened to it as I worked in my yard, I laughed so hard during some of it that I'm sure my neighbors think I'm crazy! This was great. It has left me wanting to learn more about the French Revolution as I don't remember hearing these things before. This is a MUST listen to book. Ms Coulter does a great job reading it and I always think it is better when the author reads the book. Thank you, Ms Coulter; keep them coming!!!
"Not Coulter's Best Work"
Ann Coulter's book is a crafted argument connecting the ideology of Rousseau and the mob violence of the French Revolution to modern liberalism. While the connection is obvious to anyone not already indoctrinated into leftist thought, Coulter's book has value in reiterating the history of the French Revolution, as well as enumerating the ideological similarities within US liberalism. Her book explains a lot of reasons why the left rejects US Constitutional principles, all the while purporting to believe in equality. Coulter makes the connection that liberal "equality" is akin to the French "egalite et fraternite."
Coulter's main point, that liberalism is mob rule, explains a lot about liberal behavior in the US, as well as explaining the power elite who want to control and use the mob in order to promote leftist ideals. Coulter's call to arms at the end of the book, in order to fight against liberal mob rule, will be seen as inflammatory.
Two things marred this particular book: the lengthy coverage of a New York rape trial and subsequent "public retrial" through the media (including an appendix on the subject); and the narration by Elizabeth White. While the trial and the leftist media's revisiting the verdict exemplify the indoctrination that can lead to rejecting the rule of law, I'm still unsure why Coulter spent so many pages in its point-by-point rebuttal. White's narration, instead of reading the text straight, sounded smarmy throughout the entire book. Instead of helping the argument, it got in the way.
Those who like Ann Coulter won't be disappointed with the argument. Those who hate Ann Coulter won't be disappointed with the argument. If you're looking for a more general introduction into conservative thought, I'd suggest Thomas Sowell's Dismantling America.
This is Ezekiel my Service Dog. We Listen to books and go on walks, work in the Garden and Lawn together. We Like Thrillers / Mystery
"The OWS Mob Proves Ann's Point is Totally Right ON"
The book Could not have been Proven to be more timely than to have the Occupy Wall Street MOBS, take to the streets AFTER she puts the book out To Make What Ann Coulter States True. You would almost accuse The OWS MOB being part of a VAST Right Wing Plot to make Ann's Book Sell More copies.
The Older I get the more conservitive I become. I never would have even thought that I would ever be agreeing with Ann, but I have to agree that that is how I and friends behaved in college, to get our way or point across to the MAN.
We were a mob, and the democratic party is paying for the parks for the OWS Mob to sleep in. Liberal companies are sending food to feed the MOB.
The book DEMONIC is a Lesson of the past coming to your TV today.
From Stephen Stills - Teach your Children Well!
There are no listener reviews for this title yet.
Report Inappropriate Content
If you find this review inappropriate and think it should be removed from our site, let us know. This report will be reviewed by Audible and we will take appropriate action.


text:
A man was arrested for robbery after he threw a computer monitor at an officer, according to police.
Police said Phillip Noe, 48, broke into Elite Roofing shortly before midnight Tuesday.
Officers arrived at the store and set up a perimeter around the building after hearing an alarm.
While waiting for a K-9 unit to arrive, police said Noe exited the back door of the business carrying a computer monitor. When the suspect saw a police officer, he threw the monitor, striking the officer in the leg.
The suspect re-entered the building and fled through a front window. After a brief chase, Noe was arrested.
Police said Noe has been arrested 50 times in Davidson County.
Copyright 2013 WSMV (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved.
1812 Fairfield Avenue
All content © Copyright 2000 - 2014 Worldnow and KSLA. All Rights Reserved.
For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


text:
Narrow your search
CNET On Cars
CNET editors round up their favorite tablets, including products from Apple, Samsung, and Google.
Don't call this a phone -- despite its phone-like shape and voice-calling capabilities, the Panasonic insists that it's a slate.
Pricing not available
With its powerful processor, great camera, decent screen and gorgeous, waterproof design, the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact is the best small Android phone around.
Lenovo's first LTE smartphone comes packed with high-end features, including a 5MP front-facing camera.
Pricing not available
The Xperia Z1S is the most impressive smartphone Sony has ever sold on any carrier, but an inferior screen makes Samsung's Galaxy handsets better deals.
Sony's flagship Xperia Z1 packs a Full HD display, a quad-core processor, and a whopping 20.7-megapixel camera into a waterproof body and wraps it in an aluminium frame.
For iPhone photographers who want to get closer to the world around you, this is the lens to do it with.
Some first impressions of the company's new compact, least expensive interchangeable-lens camera.
Packing a 4-inch display as well as a quad-core processor is this budget LTE handset from Alcatel that won't break the bank.
Pricing not available
Scan your iPhone at nearly any credit card reader and pay for what you want: magic, or just weird? We tried LoopPay around town, and it really worked.
Adobe ports its iPad app to the iPhone. It's cramped, as you might imagine, but functional.
Pricing not available


text:
The Register-News
---- — About 300 Ameren customers were affected by a power outage Monday morning near Times Square Mall.
An Ameren spokeswoman said a piece of equipment failed on a utility line, causing the outage. The problem was located to the rear of Crossroads Community Hospital.
Several businesses were affected by the outage, and traffic lights near the mall were inoperable during the morning rush hour.
The Ameren representative said the outage occurred between 7 and 7:30 a.m. and was restored by 11:15 a.m.


text:
Stars On The Water, Great View, Pet Friendly, WIFI in Mexico Beach
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2½
- sleeps 8
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
- type Townhome
- community St Joe Beach
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 800 - $ 1,550 / week
vacation rental description
Available March 11, 2012! Enjoy beautiful unobstructed views of the Gulf from either of our large decks! Watch the sun rise with your morning coffee and then watch it set in the evening with a glass of wine at the upstairs bar! Stars on the Water is just across the road from the beach and only steps to the water! See our YouTube video for more pictures. Just Search "Stars on the Water Mexico Beach."
This beautiful townhouse can sleep up to 8 people with 1 King master bedroom, and 2 Queen bedrooms upstairs, and a queen sized pull out sofa downstairs. Two full bathrooms are located upstairs, with a large half bath downstairs. The new kitchen features new appliances, granite countertops, and is fully stocked for cooking up your catch of the day. Each bedroom has its own TV, and the downstairs living area features a brand new 42 inch LCD flatscreen TV. Wi-Fi is also available throughout the home for your convenience!
Enjoy the quiet and dog friendly beaches of St. Joe Beach, but be only minutes from both the City of Port St. Joe, and Mexico Beach! Or if you don't want to drive, just walk one block for lunch or dinner to Bailey's Crab House for delicious fresh oysters or many other tasty treats!
Small pets may be permitted for an additional fee. Contact the Owner for more details!
Please join us and enjoy Stars on the Water!
vacation rental location
property availability
- dates with deals
- unavailable dates
Last modified on 08-13-2014 at 3:41 PM.
email owner view full calendar
Laura Eubank 205-613-8171
townhome rental amenities
Phone, Wi-Fi, Central A/C, 4 TV's (3 Flatscreens) with cable, DVD Player, Full Kitchen, Microwave, Coffee Maker, Dishwasher, Refrigerator with Ice Maker, Washer & Dryer, Books, Games, Utensils, Linens provided, Washer/Dryer, Outdoor Patio Furniture, Porch Swing, Picnic Table.
activities and attractions in Mexico Beach Gulf Coast North
Fishing, Scalloping, Dining, Snorkeling/Diving, Boating, Sailing, Surfing, Parasailing, Jet Skiing, Golf Shelling, and a short drive to the Recreational Areas of Cape San Blas, Indian Pass, Saint Vincent Island, Saint George Island, and Apalachicola! Or just sit back and relax on the beautiful beach!
vacation rental rates
January 1, 2013-February 28, 2013........$850/wk
March 1, 2013 - May 18, 2013.........$1250/wk
May 19, 2013 - June 29, 2013.........$1400/wk
June 30, 2013 - July 6, 2013.........$1600/wk
July 7, 2013 - Aug 17, 2013.........$1400/wk
Aug 18, 2013 - Sept 28, 2013.........$1150/wk
Sept 29, 2013 - Oct 31, 2013..........$1050/wk
Nov 1, 2013 - Feb 28, 2014.........$850/wk
* Holidays and Spring Break are subject to increased rates.
Daily rentals $125-$500 *** See below for more information.
Additional Fees: FL Sales/Bed Tax, Cleaning Fee, Pet Fee
Personal Checks or Money Orders Preferred. Credit Card Payments for last minute reservations.
Rental Dates Confirmed Upon Receipt of Full Rental Payment. Weekly rentals preferred. Last minute daily rentals may be available upon special request with a three day minimum. Monthly rentals also available. Please contact the owner for more details.
***Spring Rates Apply to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years
Laura Eubank 205-613-8171
accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center


text:
Photo by Ian Spanier
Too often I hear Jewish leaders describing those who have no religious affiliation as people "who don't know and don't care." I disagree. The 2012 Pew Forum on Religion survey, "'Nones' on the Rise," disproves this notion, finding that many of these "nones" believe in God, seek spirituality, and pray regularly. They just do not relate to the world of organized religion. Seventy percent of "nones" reported that religious institutions are too focused on money and power, and reflect worldviews alien to their own.
That's precisely why a major thrust of the new URJ is to "reach beyond the walls" of synagogues to engage those who have yet to join us inside of our congregations. Doing so effectively means discarding limiting assumptions such as, "they don't know and they don't care."
In our new URJ Communities of Practice, dozens of URJ congregations are experimenting with a variety of compelling ways to engage young adults and young families, who will learn from each other and from our of URJ Faculty of thought leaders and expert practitioners.
Over the past 40 years, while the ranks of the religiously unaffiliated have been on the rise, the Reform Movement has been the fastest growing theologically liberal religious tradition in America. We have become the largest stream in North American Jewish life. This is due in no small measure to our openness to the full tapestry of Jews—gay Jews and straight Jews, intermarried Jews and in-married Jews, ritual Jews and cultural Jews.
The hallmarks of Reform Judaism—dynamism, openness, creativity—should make our Movement extraordinarily attractive to Jews worldwide who mistakenly view all organized religion as insular and out of touch.
I hope you will embrace the challenge of reaching beyond our synagogue walls to engage all those who are seeking a meaningful Jewish life. Let's give them the opportunity to experience the beauty and power of our Reform Jewish community.
Rabbi Rick JacobsPresident, Union for Reform Judaism
Your thoughts and ideas are welcomed. Contact Rabbi Jacobs: firstname.lastname@example.com and/or send a letter-to-the-editor: firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Orba Pendant
Orba pendant features a metal shade with a chrome canopy. Shade colors available in black and white. Supplied with 60 inches of field adjustable suspension cable. One 100 watt, 120 volt, A19 lamp, not included. General light distribution.
|Dimensions: 17.75"H x 17.75"W
|Lamp Source: Incandescent
|Bulb: 1 x A19/Medium (E26)/72W/120V Incandescent
Bulb not included
|Dimmer: Incandescent
About Nuevo Living
The Nuevo Living brand has developed over time from a home accent and furnishings company to a major supplier with over 700 items, including contemporary and mid-century modern lighting fixtures. With a focus on high design and premium quality at an affordable price, Nuevo Living has developed an impressive contemporary lighting selection of floor lamps, table lamps and chandeliers.


text:
Sparkling Goldfish Art Glass Figurine by Lenox
This goldfish would definitely be the brightest in the bowl. Blending art glass with metallic copper foil creates a shimmering effect that turns this fish into a golden work of art. Makes a wonderful conversation piece on a desk or side table.
- Handcrafted in art glass
- Height: 4"
$67.00 $39.95
Other products we think you'll love.
Shopping made easy with Lenox EasyPay. Order today and take up to 8 months to pay - interest free!Learn About EasyPay
Break something?
Lenox Breakage Replacement is one of the best customer satisfaction plans anywhere. So don't worry, you're covered. read more
Need Help?


text:
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: anarchism, anti-austerity, books, class war, communism, crisis, intervention, interview, madison, milwaukee, posters, wisconsin
An interview with an individual involved in Burnt Bookmobile, a blog out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin run by some people influenced by various anti-authoritarian tendencies, including insurrectionary anarchism, left communism, and nihilism, among others.
During the spring of 2011, when the 'Wisconsin Uprising' or '#wiunion movement' was in full swing, they put out a number of flyers, leaflets and posters that pushed the occupation or general strike concept forward and contributed to the more militant atmosphere that Madison saw traces of. When I was still in Madison, I tried to stay in touch with at least one person who was involved in running the site, sending updates and perspectives back and forth. Recently I had the chance to make a trip to Milwaukee where they agreed to do an interview.
When was Burnt Bookmobile started and what were the initial thoughts behind it? Have they changed since then?
The Burnt Bookmobile was first started as a distro around 2004 and at the time spent the majority of its activity intervening in the hardcore, punk and counter cultural scenes revolving around the subjects of veganism, a kind of inarticulate post-left anarchism and anti-civ trends of thought. This was an orientation that was largely moral in character, but it would more and more come to reject this for a focus on the question of what constitutes living within capitalism and strategic concerns situated within the struggles which we had found ourselves, such as the end of the anti-globalization era, the anti-war era, consumer politics, alternative identity, and the more general anti-capitalist movement.
Since then the Burnt Bookmobile has been present at wine and cheese festivals, occupied campus buildings, neighborhood block parties, film screenings, lectures, poetry readings, shows, etc. Its mode of intervention has always been primarily through the text, offering things as much as we could for free in the form of zines and posters, and books sold for as much as it costs to restock.
Certainly the content of these texts has gone through different phases reflective of different questions we were thinking through, ideas and practices which resonated with us and which we experimented with. These phases articulated themselves in insurrectionary anarchism, left communism, illegalism, egoism, nihilism, Situationist theory, critical theory and the partisan cannon of philosophy, fiction and poetry. Though obviously contradictory, these traditions form a nexus of ideas that have been useful to us in an effort to think and act out a general antagonism against capitalism.
Do you think the blog has helped introduce local people to communist positions or benefited the projects the local milieu has taken on?
Without a doubt the character of the local projects and the critical tools they employ are indebted to years and years of establishing a more critical and articulate discourse. Whether people read the texts or see the posters, it has produced a certain standard of critical thought within the anti-authoritarian, anarchist, and communist milieu, that must in some way be responded to.
I know this is a big question, but for those unfamiliar, what is Milwaukee like and how does the local situation influence or determine your projects and activity?
I'm no expert on the history of Milwaukee, so these are my reflections. Milwaukee is a Rust Belt city much like other Rust Belt cities and like these cities is a site of former industrial centers of production, the labor of which has been either made redundant through automation, outsourced for cheaper often less skilled labor, or been the subject of more general capitalist restructuring. Milwaukee is also one of the most segregated of the major cities in the US. These are the major dynamics at play within the city. Development in spacial terms certainly happens in Milwaukee, but it happens at a pace much slower than many other cities where value circulation attains a much more ruthless speed. It has a large surplus population pushed into crime and then into the apparatus of law (jail, prison, courts, criminal history, criminalization) that appears extremely racialized.
The Bookmobile responds mostly from the point of the shared positions as points of departure, coming from largely white, heterosexual, middle class, male, student, service industry subjectivities. The project bases its activity within the processes of undoing and active confrontation with these positions in material and symbolic terms. We most easily relate to others who feel ill at ease within these subject positions.
Certainly the question of how to approach those who share a similar disposition of hatred for their conditions and who share similar gestures to respond to them is very pressing. One must assess the risk of vulnerability in exposing one's antagonistic intentions and activities to a general population to find the active minorities that these practices may resonate with. We agree with others who have said that a shared language is built through shared struggle, as counter to the forced relations which already constitute the language of capital. Certain moments with enough force behind them allow for the space of extreme exposure necessary to breakdown barriers of subjectivity allowing for such a language to develop.
We would love to communicate with those who resort to flash mobs out of boredom, who resort to collective crime as mode of resistance to their conditions. Perhaps we'll meet someday in the streets warmed by a burning bank building, but until then a great many things prevent such a convergence.
Madison was (and is) sort of a bubble. I kind of had an idea of what was going on in Milwaukee last spring but could you describe what was going on?
Much of what I was involved in was centered on the UW-Milwaukee campus, the prospect of shutting it down to spread the occupations and aid in or initiate a wildcat general strike. The possibility of such a strike seemed more possible than any other time in my life because of all the seemingly unexpected and unprecedented (at least for my time in Milwaukee) activity that was already happening.
The first student initiated rallies were 20 times bigger than anything else I had seen on campus. Many students stopped going to classes, TAs were doing spontaneous sick outs, and everyone was caught in a flurry of going back and forth between the occupation in Madison and Milwaukee. Some teachers, most TAs, and school staff all had the talk of striking or some kind of workplace activity on their lips. The question being posed and discussed by many made the possibility of such a strike and what would be after and beyond a strike all the more tangible. The strategic and immediate importance of what we were doing seemed to carry so much more weight during this moment. It appeared to matter what a couple of extremists were suggesting.
Many people in Milwaukee had already initiated the conversation about campus occupations and had been discussing it since being inspired by the events in California in 2009. Because of this, when the time came to possibly employ occupations here it was mostly a question of strategy and not whether the idea would be accepted by the minority of students and non-students who would initiate it. Student leaders made every attempt to not let the situation get out of their control, but it started out of their control, would have never become what it was if it was in their control, so they found themselves further obsolete. Then, reacting to their obsolescence with further control they were made blatantly absurd by open collective criticism. Out of this occupation would come large discussions on topics ranging from the role of the police to how to support and further strikes, dance parties, many nights spent with little sleep on hard floors, calls for and the planning of other demonstrations, a general sharing of resources and maybe most importantly the collective experience of taking and sharing space. The rest of the occupation was fairly complicated throughout the sixty some days of its stay, and it would take up a lot of room to discuss it, so I won't. What was important was that it was attempted as an effort to spread the occupations and define space on its own terms different from the pacifying "Madison model."
Certainly I can't claim to know much more of what was happening in Milwaukee than what I was in some way connected to or had my ear out for. Other than the university occupation, there was some activity surrounding the end of Good Time within the legislation1, which included an unruly prison demo at which fireworks were shot at the jail in downtown Milwaukee, people chanted anti-prison slogans and made noise for those inside, then minor property damage was done to the building. Afterwards a big swath of wheatpasting covered mostly the east side of the city with a communique of the action. There was a general assembly, in the Riverwest neighborhood where I live, to address the question of how to support strike and workplace activity. There were multiple larger scale lock gluings of the university and other places connected to important dates, as well as other sporadic acts of vandalism and sabotage. Posters and slogans where everywhere. Strangers talked to strangers about what was happening throughout the state. People involved were constantly in communication, meeting, assembling, etc.
At the time, some of the propaganda you all were putting out seemed to me to be 10 steps ahead of the movement. However, since then, I've changed my mind about this and think one can "meet people where they are at" and introduce what seem like extremely militant ideas. What are your thoughts on accomplishing this?
Compared to what we felt was necessary and what we desired, we were quite restrained in our interventions into he situation in Madison in particular and there was therefore an obvious tension in placing ourselves within discourses and events that were frankly, shameful. The terms with which to engage in struggle were so vapid that all that had never been problematized within the old workers movement (that of workers identity, progressivism, programatism, etc) was still acting as a web of restraint defining the conditions of activity. We felt at the same time a need to act within these events in order to push them to define divisions and limits within what was said and done, then to act against those limits and further the necessary divisions. We wanted to present and proliferate a collective capacity to do this, however minimal our own capacity for proliferation was.
It has been important for us to realize that there was no movement in particular. This idea which acts to enforce and impose the most empty, vague identity, "We Are Wisconsin", upon the mass of angry people who were affected by the event in Wisconsin acted as a means to curtail and defer any modes of resistance beyond the most pacified symbolic acts, calls for legitimacy, family values, and other normative frameworks that are generally always more operative for capitalism than they are for any resistance. A lot more could be said about the function of such an imposition. More than just within the specific event of the Madison occupation we felt a need to provoke and communicate in a way that opened up means of acting rather than defining and containing them; not being any model in particular, but instead spreading that disposition to act and take collectively. This was generally the intention with the posters and activity we were involved in. More so, what we wrote and said was lost in the suppression of event or erased by the victors of the struggle which appear now to be democratic politics. At the time we attempted to offer critical tools to understand and surpass barriers to self-organization outside of the limits of syndcalism, "politics", democracy, work, etc etc. Amidst the now apparent failure of our interventions, they now appear to us to be far too mild and timid.
From far off, it seems Occupy has either not taken off much in Wisconsin or has been absorbed into the recall effort of the Governor. Is this accurate? What has Occupy been like in comparison to what you know of other places?
I'm unfamiliar with what is happening or has happened in Madison regarding the occupy movement, but this has been accurate for Milwaukee, and I assume much more so for Madison. The specter of the recall campaign continues to haunt Wisconsin with counter revolution at a time when much of the rest of the country is experiencing the awkward becomings of open contestation of space and a more generalized resistance to the crisis.
What future 'ruptures' or openings do you see in Milwaukee or the state as a whole?
Frankly I don't see anything interesting coming out of Milwaukee or the state as a whole that resembles anything like what happened in Madison. It will be a surprise when it does, just as the event last spring. It wouldn't have been an event if we would have expected its coming. But the series of crises that are coming won't be resolved easily, won't be swallowed we hope without a fight, so for now we're forced to keep our ear to the ground and be ready for the next round.
Thanks for making time for an interview.
Definitely. Thanks for asking.
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: anti-austerity, capitol chaos, church, glue, milwaukee, school, scott walker, vandalism, wisconsin
According to Fox6News:
"Vandals super glued the locks of several doors and a parking gate at Messmer Preparatory School in Milwaukee. School officials believe the people responsible for the vandalism were protesting the visit of Gov. Scott Walker Friday afternoon.
Gov. Walker was expected to arrive at 1 p.m. to speak to kindergarten and first grade students about reading.
Late Thursday night, school officials were informed that building alarms had been set off. Then, Friday morning, they discovered that nine locks on the property's exterior doors had been sealed with glue. The doors tampered with included a parking gate, several doors to the building and even a church building door.
Janitors are working to get the doors open but believe the locks will have to be replaced. Surveillance video is now being reviewed to see if the vandals can be identified.
Messmer President Brother Bob Smith tells FOX6 News the protestors have gone too far.
In a statement released Friday morning, Brother Bob says, "We teach our students to respect adults and individuals they disagree with. Our students work hard and succeed. There are no gimmicks or tricks here, just a focus on traditional values."
Brother Bob is warning parents of students that if they join protestors and disrupt school, their children are at risk of being expelled."
Filed under: war-machine | Tags: anti-austerity, broken, fire, london, police, riot, smashed bank, UK, violence, window, yellow vest
Filed under: war-machine | Tags: anti-austerity, capitalsim, london, police, riot, UK, violence
According to the Telegraph:
"Police fought mobs of masked thugs who pelted officers with ammonia and fireworks loaded with coins.
The anti-capitalists started fires and smashed their way into banks, hotels and shops, bringing chaos to Britain's busiest shopping street.
The violence began as Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, addressed a TUC rally of at least 250,000 peaceful protesters in Hyde Park who had marched from Westminster to demonstrate against government spending cuts.
As he spoke, an apparently co-ordinated attack began on shops and police in Oxford Street as a mob tried to storm into shops including Topshop, BHS and John Lewis.
MPs and retailers said the scenes damaged Britain's reputation around the world."
Filed under: Milwaukee area, war-machine | Tags: anti-austerity, glue, locks, milwaukee, sabotage, sendik, students, superglue, UW system, UWM
According to TMJ4 (local news):
"MILWAUKEE – The fight over Governor Scott Walker's budget is getting sticky.
Literally sticky.
TODAY'S TMJ4's Diane Pathieu confirmed that doors at Chapman, Curtin, Mellencamp, Mitchell and Sabin Halls all had doors with superglue in the locks on Monday.
She said those doors were opened before 7:30 a.m. Monday morning. No classes were affected.
Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Jodi Becker confirmed that the doors to the Sendik's on Downer Avenue were also glued shut.
UWM campus police believed it was a sign of protest, but organizers of a campus rally later Monday afternoon say they didn't have anything to do with it.
College students are angry over what the bill may mean for them, and they are making their thoughts known in protests.
They were to hold a rally on Monday afternoon in reaction to Walker's budget, which would split UWM and UW-Madison from the UW system."
Filed under: Milwaukee area, war-machine | Tags: anti-austerity, austerity, capitalism, democracy, general assembly, kill the bill, madison, milwaukee, non-student, occupation, students, theatre, UWM, warts, working class
The occupation is a feast at which we may satisfy our hunger for beautiful and intense moments.
- Graffiti from the occupied UWM theatre building
Then suddenly an outburst of activity: the occupation of the State Capitol building in Madison; anti-austerity demonstrations involving tens of thousands of people; massive wildcat sick-ins, student walk-outs and murmurs of a general strike.
Of course this attempt to get back on our feet will include its fair share of missteps and stumbling. All the more so because for many of us, nothing quite like this has yet touched our lives. Even for those of us who desperately track such moments of conflict through the pages of books, across oceans and continents, this is a new and strange place we find ourselves in.
On March 2nd at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee a student walkout took place followed by a demonstration involving some 2,000 students, teaching assistants, professors, workers and unemployed. The demonstration took to the streets surrounding the university. Chants and signs were mostly dominated by anti-legislation, anti-governor as well as pro-union, pro-democracy rhetoric. "This is what democracy looks like:" an unintentionally ironic slogan given that the occupation of the State Capitol building, which partially inspires the university uproar, is actually an attempt to disrupt the functioning of democracy and majority rule.
The sadly predictable rally which followed the demonstration was sufficiently long and boring to kill most of the momentum generated by the walk-out and disperse all but a couple hundred of those who had participated in the demonstration. This, by no means recent, trend is, if not a tool of manipulation used by organizers and leaders to maintain control over the situation, then at least an undesirable hold-over from bygone eras.
The point here is not to value one form of symbolic protest over another (marching in the streets versus standing in a plaza), but to realize when an activity is detrimental to the continuation and expansion of the struggle and to replace it with a different form. Marching through campus buildings in an attempt to further disrupt classes and the functioning of the university, holding an open "speak-out" at which any individual from the crowd could voice their opinions, or directly moving to occupy a building with a several thousand strong crowd would all be better than the impotent spectacle of speakers and a passive crowd.
Eventually the remaining demonstrators moved back into the student union, this time to resounding chants of, "They say class cuts, we say class war", "An eye for an eye, Walker must die", and "Kill the rich" (a slight alteration of the mainstream slogan "kill the bill"). After a brief discussion on the best building to occupy, the group moved into the lobby of the theater department and set up camp.
Almost immediately the "occupation" was overwhelmed by the formalism of meetings and a consuming concern with minutia. Instead of immediately discussing how to make the occupation more potent and massive, energy and excitement was drained into debates about demands that ultimately had no basis in a real counter-power to the administration and rules for how to exist collectively within the space.
While compromises were eventually reached on such issues as whether or not to barricade the doors, graffiti the walls, and drink indoors, the absurdities of "respecting the building" reached surreal heights. At one point an argument was started about what kind of tape to use when putting posters on the wall (the supposedly acceptable alternative to writing on them directly).
At another point, after agreeing to a demand for "immunity for all involved in the occupations" someone from within the occupation called the police on a fellow occupier. A terribly divisive move that if repeated can only serve to weaken and destroy the potential for further collective struggle. This act of "snitching" led to heated debates, a periodic police walk-through, and an eventual agreement to cease relying on the police as a means of solving internal disputes.
All of these details, while illustrating the confused and timid nature of what in actuality was a prolonged, indoor protest, should not be used to completely write off the events that transpired. Criticism in this context is meant as a means of learning and growing so that a future attempt to engage with social struggle may avoid the mistakes of our past. The very fact of our lack of a collective living memory on exactly how to fight back is both the explanation for these errors and the motivation for a continued presence within the struggle against austerity.
The adoption of a general assembly model for making decisions, while being a safeguard against the manipulations of small groups, was also a forum for the discussion of issues such as the nature and purpose of occupations and social struggle, the possibility of a generalized strike, and the role of police in society at large. While these discussions did not immediately translate into practical activity, their effect on the future of this struggle and others which may follow it cannot be foreseen from this vantage point.
Generally speaking, the transition from thought and conversation into action, or rather the lack of this necessary step, is a major hindrance to the development of the occupation in a more consciously conflictual direction. The lack of confidence in ourselves, in our ability to actually transform our environment and our daily lives, was exemplified by both the insistence on following the rules and thus preserving the position of "student" as well as the ever-present conversation revolving around the need to inform more people about what was going on. Covering the campus and surrounding neighborhood with posters, flyering desks and tables, disrupting classes or even consistently engaging those passing through the space in conversation were all ideas that were thrown out, but were only acted on to a limited degree. This hesitancy to take our ideas, and thereby our selves, seriously is a limitation that can only be overcome through further experience in struggle. The dynamic of leadership and followers must be superseded by the development of self-organization and the capacity to act decisively.
Perhaps the biggest limit of this attempt at occupation is its nature as an isolated activity for most of those involved. Because it does not currently coincide with a stoppage of either work or reproductive education, because there is yet no strike, the occupation takes on the form of an isolated protest. Without the lifting of the burdens of classes, homework, and part time wage labor many of the participants were quickly exhausted and didn't have the time or energy to be more deeply invested in the project of qualitatively developing the situation.
Without any sign of disagreement or even a discussion of its implications, the participants accepted the slogan of "Strike, Occupy, Takeover!" Yet the first step in that simplistic equation wasn't taken seriously as something we could collectively enact. Similarly, the assembled approved a statement calling for a general strike, and this without much of a discussion about just how a general strike could come about.
Due to the nature of the laws regulating labor disputes in the US, a general strike cannot be declared from on high by the large labor federations. For a generalized strike to occur here it would necessarily involve some degree of self-organization whether through discussion and activity at the local union level, the forging of complicit relationships at non-unionized workplaces (which are by far the majority), sabotage at non-participating workplaces, or some other form perhaps completely outside and unrepresentable by the familiar apparatuses.
Yet within much of the assembled body of students, a general strike was not understood as something that everyone would have to create together, a festival of disruption, but rather as something that would just happen; a disheartening attitude that reduces the likelihood of a meaningful and widespread stoppage. Perhaps other forums will be created in which this necessary conversation can be taken up in greater depth.
To sum up we can say that although the occupation is rife with limitations and fails to overcome most, if not all, of them, it is a beginning and not an end. The attempt to expand the struggle against austerity beyond the boundaries of time (one day walkouts, weekly demonstrations), geography (the centrality of Madison), and social position (workers vs. students) is a step in the right direction. In order to actually derail the legislation which sparked all this uproar, the struggle will have to spread across even more boundaries (precarious and poor vs. securely employed, etc.) and develop both in form and content. It is precisely through this struggle to reverse a specific attack on the working class that we can open up further avenues for struggle and maybe even the possibility of a world without legislators or classes of any sort.
- some non-student participants
Filed under: Milwaukee area, update | Tags: action, anti-austerity, general strike, madison, milwaukee, neighborhood, riverwest, solidarity, strikes, wisconsin
This particular neighborhood has a long and vibrant anti-authoritarian, working class, bohemian, etc history. It could be very interesting to see what comes of this.
"For SOLIDARITY in Wisconsin and ACTION in the Neighborhood
-How can we act in solidarity with others across the state opposing austerity measures?
-What can we do to support those participating in strikes? What will it look like for Riverwest to be on strike?
-How can we build relationships and projects of mutual and autonomy to meet our needs as a neighborhood?"
When: Thursday, March 10 6:30 to 9:30 (tomorrow)
Where: COA 909 E Garfield Room 40
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: anti-austerity, austerity, class struggle, crisis, democracy, madison, milwaukee, modesto, modesto anarcho, occupation, police, protest, revolutionaries, scott walker, subjectivity, the left
This interview was conducted by someone from the journal Modesto Anarcho (MA).
What follows is an interview with a comrade from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the recent events in the state's Capital, Madison, over a few hours away. For more information on what is happening in Wisconsin, check out the Burnt Bookmobile blog. Class war, don't cha know?
MA: What is the situation in Madison right now?
I've only been in Madison during one of the days since the occupation and demonstrations started. I've known people who have spent many days there, who have slept in the Capitol building, and who have been going back and forth between Milwaukee and Madison regularly. People are constantly talking about the situation, so I have an idea that is generally up to date, but there is often a bit of a delay. At other times I'm hearing about things as they happen through friends, because word travels much faster than the reporting often does.
I can describe what my experience was there briefly on that day. I went on the first Saturday, the day when the Tea Party of Wisconsin had also called for protests to counter the occupation and protests taking place. About a couple thousand Tea Party protesters showed up, but they were dwarfed and drowned out by the fifty to one hundred thousand people who wandered through the streets, marched, inadvertently blocking traffic and rerouting it across the city, and took up most of the floor space inside the Capitol building. They were mostly ignored and made irrelevant, huddled into a corner of the back steps and yard on one side of the Capitol. I had expected the presence of the Tea Party to provoke and heighten tensions between the two sides, but not much happened in response.
Inside the Capitol building people had been hanging posters and signs on everything. As would be expected, there were chants and crowds of people banging on things. When hearing "This is what democracy looks like" chanted I'm usually horribly ashamed to be present, driven almost to the point of nausea, but this atmosphere sent a shiver down my spine. Despite the form of expression this took, I had the feeling that its real content was hidden, but still exposed through the collective force of the activity of these people. It expressed a feeling of being together as thousands of people who couldn't be fucked with, even if the parameters to express this were and are mostly pathetic at this point. It demonstrated that it is our activity that defines us. Otherwise, the contradiction of a movement that is both for and against democracy cannot be explained, as it physically prevents the democratic process. Democracy mitigates and disguises force relations by reducing them to a process and mere matters of opinion. It is the neutralization of force and thus of the conflict that is necessary for the elaboration of a politics, for one to take sides and act. We don't care what as much what people chant, but as long as they increasingly define their position they will increasingly come into an internal contradiction with democratic logic.
What was going on in these spaces had been going on for days and had therefore assumed a kind of routine or culture. So after witnessing it there wasn't much to do except to wander, meet and talk, eat food, hang out and occupy the space of the city along with the other thousands of people there.
As for what is going on currently in Madison, I've heard that Saturday the 26th has been one of the largest days of the demonstrations in terms of numbers. Though I haven't heard much about the situation on that specific day. There have been rumors and talk of eviction since this all happened, but the police Chief of Madison made an official statement that probably came as an order to be distributed from the Governor, declaring that the Capitol building was to be "cleared" for cleaning, which meant forcefully evicted if need be. A day after this announcement the police union made a statement to the media and gathered crowds saying that they stand with those occupying the Capitol and protesters, not with Scott Walker or his proposed legislation, that they would not be part of any eviction of these people, and that they would in fact be joining them in sleeping on the floors of the Capitol. This is all very weird. It no doubt allows certain illusions to persist, but it won't last long. It had seemed like the moment when lines would be more clearly drawn was fast approaching, making clear connections between this particular event, the inherent play of forces necessary to maintain everyday life and the function of the police, as a force of dispossession. We will not be surprised when the police are forced to act in order to attempt to maintain their role as the ones who make the threats.
On Saturday, word spread in various ways that the Capitol was going to be closed Sunday by 4pm and that everyone was going to have to leave. A couple hundred decided to leave to avoid risking arrest, but many hundreds more gathered and were determined to hold the space with the possibility of being arrested. Against the prospect of having to arrest hundreds of people in the Capitol, which would have been a bad move in the eyes of many thousands who had come to the Capitol in the preceding days, the police decided that they weren't going to arrest anyone. They encouraged people to leave voluntarily and that they would assess the situation "day by day." This all meant that as long as people stayed that the occupation would continue. It's still continuing now.
MA: Can you talk about what were some of the first events to happen? The sick outs for instance?
I first heard about the events in Madison sitting in a computer lab, when none of this seemed like it would last more than a day and it lacked a real quality for many people here. Earlier in the day there had been a relatively minor protest organized by teachers assistants, teachers and others. Nothing was surprising or out of the ordinary. Not until later in the week, when a walk out was called and three thousand people responded, did the unreality of the situation start to appear as if it wasn't going to so easily fade back to normal. After this there was always talk and rumors circulating. There was a giddiness that was held in common by people never expected to share anything. People, who before were just members of the crowd passing between work, class and their homes, suddenly had a vibrancy to them. Invisible dots that connected us became more visible.
I know a few who are teachers for MPS (Milwaukee Public Schools) and a number of graduate students who are TAs at the UW-Milwaukee campus. I don't have a very exact knowledge of all of the districts and specific schools that were shut down by the sick outs. All Madison public schools were shut down for at least four days. Then followed Racine, Milwaukee and a number of others I'm not as familiar with. Thousands have participated in the sick outs. Some of TAs and teachers have not shown up to a single class since the sick out started to teach, despite threats from the administration. Many of the public school teachers have gone back to work, feeling some obligation to their students and because it seemed that there was less purpose in sustaining the sick outs. It appears as very likely that they will be employed strategically, correlative to certain days: like a general strike, the day when the contracts for many public employee unions expire, or other possible events.
MA: What is the extent of the student walk outs? The occupations?
Accompanying the sick outs there have also been widespread and random walkouts, by high school students. They have been incredibly self-directed. We've heard about them taking place anywhere from any of the rural Wisconsin towns, Schools surrounding Madison, and a number of urban Milwaukee schools. The numbers and magnitude of this activity was severely under-reported and communicated, so we have a hard time knowing what exactly went on. We had randomly crossed paths with one group of about two hundred to three hundred kids who had walked out of a school called Rufus King, who just happened to be meandering through the UW-Milwaukee campus during the walkout which was happening there. They joined the occupation of Bolton Hall on campus to show support temporarily, but seemed less interested in assemblies or discussion. They wanted to be angry and how they expressed this was to walk for miles around the city, chanting, yelling and being unruly. No activity we have seen thus far has contained as much energy as these kids.
The occupations outside of the Capitol have been so far pretty minor. Though many students have been a consistent presence in Madison and many have been staying overnight, sleeping on the floor of the Capitol building, and taking part in meetings and discussions happening there. There was the GOP office in Madison which was occupied by members of a disability rights group called ADAPT, who it was rumored to have been joined at least temporarily by steel workers. There is a lot of talk about occupation, and much is expected to coincide or respond to the release of the new budget that happens on the 1st of March, this upcoming student day of action on the 2nd of March, and when the bill passes.
MA: If a general strike does break out, what do you think will happen?
A lot of people barely know what a general strike means in the US. We don't know what it means for an entire city to be shut down outside of a snow storm in Wisconsin. Perhaps there will be a snow storm and city workers will refuse to plow it. Most likely not. Union officials are quoted to have said in their endorsement of the general strike that emergency services would not be effected. Everything else run by public and potentially private industries as well will halt. One would assume that there would be marches and many people in the streets, with workplaces suddenly emptied of all their bodies, but it's unclear what exactly these bodies will do suddenly freed and functioning less properly. With the strike being contingent upon when the bill passes and the bill passing being indefinitely delayed, it's hard to tell or foresee an increase or lack of momentum that would change the effect of the strike.
Many people in general are planning. They don't want to sit and wait for the bill to pass to determine their activity. Meanwhile the rank and file of unions are being educated as to the what and how of a general strike. It's hard to fathom what this will look like without being heavily based on the image of how it has happened in the past. In this case, the past is innovative in responding to the nothing we're so familiar with, but this only goes so far. The situation must be open to more creative and critical approaches in order to respond to the specific modes of production and reproduction of capitalism in Wisconsin currently, so as to fulfill the general strikes threat of a force that refuses to function, making everything stop. I don't expect creative or critical approaches to this, but I have been surprised many times already in the past number of weeks.
MA: To what extent has the spirit of the Egyptian uprising been an impact on the demonstrators?
To the degree that some of the people involved have paid some attention to the events in Egypt and found them inspiring, this has contributed some amount of a feeling of a greater possibility here. It is doubtful that it is a very large influence. There are many people who identify within leftist and radical discourses, who would have followed what was and is going on in Egypt, but the majority are normal ass people from Wisconsin who most likely learn about events from standard television news and other "mainstream" media. As someone who doesn't pay much attention to either I may be wrong.
MA: What are some of the limits of what is happening in Wisconsin? To what degree are the unions and the Democrats in control of the situation?
The situation is permeated with limits. It would seem that any potential rupture or large scale manifestation of people reacting to crisis, and thereby being the crisis, will manifest likely at first as a movement for the return to normal. It will be trapped mostly within the apparatuses and discourses which contain them, but also necessarily exceeding them through activity. There are obvious identifiable limits. There are the unions themselves, which in their structure play a role in preventing and containing the self-directed activity of those who work. There are dominant discourses for what constitutes politics or contestation, which prevent and contain how resisting or being in conflict can be thought and acted out. There is the whole of our present conditions which employ and condition the worker that must be struggled against. It is vague but true to say that the alienated being, the kind that exists as a person living in Wisconsin, must fight everything. But this does not mean that there is no specificity to the struggle here. At this point of just barely being started, the struggle is though mostly unacknowledged, in reality against everything that maintains the normal progressive development of Capital. The anti-austerity struggle here must determine barriers by conflicting with its conditions – by creating a language, culture and practice of a shared struggle.
It appears as quite clear that the unions and Democrats are acting as a response to a popular rage and collective force that necessitates they act in a way which maintains degrees of legitimacy. That these mere representations and structures lack the potency which corresponds to the actual abnormal activity of people here is not to say that they have no influence over the situation. They channel this rage into established politics, organization, identity, discourses which all inherently impotently respond to the situation specifically because they are and produce the dead end which we inhabit, this ever increasing lack of control over our lives.
MA: Have you heard or come across many people who are getting annoyed at the control the Left is placing on the events?
I'm surrounded by those who are always more than annoyed by the Left. I have not been in close proximity to the organization of the occupation in the Capitol, how marches are organized, etc. The presence of the Left is something that one is always alienated from. There is this feeling of being a member of mass to produce an image of power for ends other than yourself or your interests. There is a constant setting of the stage, the defining of what are acceptable terms, modes of conduct, the aestheticization of the event is often influenced most easily by those who can supply everyone with the same sign, with the same t-shirt, who take and make the image have a role of defining the event. But outside of this there is much self-directed and creative activity that contradicts these tendencies, and which will eventually come ever further into conflict with them.
We understand that activity itself has the ability to dissolve some of these subjective barriers and allows for people to be more than a member of a certain union for that certain union, a worker for work, a man for men, a student for school, etc. We can hope that this event to whatever degree creates a further crisis of subjectivity – that glimpses the abolishment of even more than the class, but the entire conditions and conditioning of the worker.
MA: Have revolutionaries been able to intervene or expand the revolt in any way?
It's at too much of an early and experimental stage to assess the effectiveness of our activity. People with much wider aims and intentions are participating in these events and they've been thrown into a fever pace in order to catch up, but it is perhaps not the best idea to go into much detail about specifics. Posters are made and widely distributed. Texts are written that analyze the situation, attempting to clear away as many inhibitions as possible with critique. But most of all, in these moments it is not words but actions which have and which will change everything, and which corresponds to a way of being in the world that we could call communism or anarchy.
MA: Any last thoughts?
Look to Wisconsin and see yourselves. Make it spread. Prepare for and create crisis.
Filed under: Milwaukee area, update | Tags: anti-austerity, budget, capitalism, design, force, general strike, pdf, poster, prole, prole.info, sabotage, scab labor, scabbery, scott walker, strike, wisconsin, work, wrench


text:
FOXBORO (AP) -- The numbers say Tom Brady is having another outstanding season.
-- Sixth in passer rating.
-- Tied for fifth in touchdown passes.
-- Third in yards.
-- And first in fewest interceptions per attempt.
The New England quarterback has also completed more than 60 percent of his passes in each of the first eight games for the first time. But the Patriots are just 5-3 and he's a key contributor to some of those losses -- and very nearly a fourth.
"Tom's always trying to get better and is always working hard at it," offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels said. "There are certainly things that he can do better than what we've done in the first portion of the season. I know he'll work hard at trying to maximize his performance."
The 13-year veteran is coming off his best game of the year with four touchdown passes in a 45-7 win over the St. Louis Rams. But the two games before that were some of his worst of the season.
Brady threw two interceptions, one into the end zone, and was called twice for intentional grounding in a 24-23 loss in Seattle. Then he couldn't get the Patriots out of their own territory on two consecutive drives after they took a 23-13 lead over the Jets late in the third quarter. That helped New York rally and go ahead 26-23 before Brady did enough to set up two field goals for a 29-26 win in overtime.
He was much better a week later against the Rams, one of the NFL's weaker teams. Now, after a bye week, he's preparing for Sunday's game with the slumping Buffalo Bills (3-5), a team the Patriots already have beaten 52-28.
New England is 15-1 in the last 16 matchups vs. Buffalo, losing only last season, 34-31, after leading 21-0 late in the second quarter. That was the only time Buffalo defensive tackle Kyle Williams won in nine at-bats against Brady.
"He's the best I've ever played (against)," Williams said.


text:
Find out what you missed the past week. Countries highlighted in this review include the USA, UK, Mexico, Argentina, Thailand, Japan, Australia, Montenegro, Germany, China, Russia, and South Africa.
Zou Shiming, Andre Berto, Koki Kameda, Keith Thurman, Omar Figueroa and a host of others are in action this weekend all over the world.
Catch up on fights you missed the past weekend. Countries highlighted in this recap include the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Mexico, Thailand, Italy, Russia, Finland, and Germany.
Bad Left Hook runs down the weekend boxing results, including wins for Juan Carlos Salgado, Carlos Molina, Don George, Breidis Prescott, Paul Spadafora, Fres Oquendo, and more.
Tonight's edition of ESPN Friday Night Fights is the season finale for 2012 (though there will be at least one more "special" show next month), and features a top 10 junior middleweight in the main...
Friday, August 17 ESPN2 / ESPN3.com, 10:00 p.m. EDT, Don George vs Dionisio Miranda, Carlos Molina vs Damian Frias. Your Friday Night Fights season finale, and due to an injury to Adonis...
After an injury to Adonis Stevenson, Don George will face Dionisio Miranda on this week's Friday Night Fights. Bad Left Hook has more.
Friday Worldwide Results - Kayode and Lemieux knock out their foes; Hunter, St. Juste and Konecny also win
A look at the best fights of January 2010.
Roman Karmazin scored a sensational knockout of Dionisio Miranda in 10 rounds. Bad Left Hook recaps the bout.
As part of the new SB Nation launch, prior users will need to choose a permanent username, along with a new password.
Your username will be used to login to SB Nation going forward.
Please login to your Vox Media account. This account will be linked to your previously existing Eater account.
As part of the new SB Nation launch, prior MT authors will need to choose a new username and password.
Your username will be used to login to SB Nation going forward.
We'll email you a reset link.
If you signed up using a 3rd party account like Facebook or Twitter, please login with it instead.
You must be a member of Bad Left Hook to participate.
We have our own Community Guidelines at Bad Left Hook. You should read them.
You must be a member of Bad Left Hook to participate.
We have our own Community Guidelines at Bad Left Hook. You should read them.
Choose an available username to complete sign up.
In order to provide our users with a better overall experience, we ask for more information from Facebook when using it to login so that we can learn more about our audience and provide you with the best possible experience. We do not store specific user data and the sharing of it is not required to login with Facebook.


text:
Cape Ann Waldorf School has been bringing Waldorf education to Boston's North Shore for over 27 years. Your support is very appreciated!
Your donation will go toward the 2013/14 Annual Fund. Please enter a gift amount and click "Donate".
Thank you for your continued support of the Cape Ann Waldorf School!


text:
German Language Courses for Exchange Students (ERASMUS/Faculty Partnerships)
The Language Teaching Centre (SLI) of Freiburg University offers language courses (grammar/speaking/ writing and regional studies) which are free of charge for students participating in one of the exchange programmes mentioned above.
Course Catalog
You can find a course overview here.
Admissions Criteria
Exchange student of one of the following programmes: ERASMUS/Sokrates, Faculty Partnerships
- Level A2 or above (CEF)
- Online registration opens four weeks before classes start (max. 30 people per class)
- Attendance is obligatory in the first two sessions
- Regular attendance
- Grammar/speaking/writing courses: placement test in the first session
- Regional Studies Classes: Language level B2 or above
- You can register online (RESERVIX Link in the respective course description)
- You do not need a login or your matriculation number in order to register (leave the form field: "Nur für registrierte Benutzer" empty)
- After registration you will be able to print out a confirmation of your registration
- You should receive a confirmation by e-mail (Reservix). Please enter a correct e-mail address.
- Registration is available 4 weeks before the courses start
Further Information
- Students with a German level below A2 are not allowed to participate in these classes. Alternatives may
be the SLI evening courses or the International Language Courses (both subject to charge).
- A placement test will be held in the first session of the grammar/speaking/writing courses.
Criteria for a Certificate
- Regular attendance
- You did not miss more than two classes in the summer term or more than three classes in the winter term.
- If you need a mark for a class, you have to fulfil all the requirements (e.g. oral presentation, written exam
ECTS Credits
A maximum of 4 ECTS credits will be awarded for a class with two hours per week (two SWS).
- Certificate of attendance: regular attendance, max. 2 ECTS credits
- Marked certificate: regular attendance + other course requirements, max. 4 ECTS credits
Alternative Options when below Level A2
- SLI courses which are subject to charge → evening courses
- International Language Courses in March, August and September
Helpful Links
- Placement tests: Goethe-Institut und Klett (for personal evaluation)


text:
During a press conference at the White House on Tuesday, President Barack Obama fielded various questions including one in reference to Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Obama was asked by CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin, "Lindsey Graham, who is a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, has said that Benghazi and Boston are both examples of the U.S. going backwards on national security. Is he right and did our intelligence miss something?"
In reply, Obama said, "No, Mr. Graham is not right on this issue, although I'm sure it generated some headlines."
The president went on to say the FBI investigated the older Boston bombing suspect but did not find any signs that he was "engaging in extremist activity."
Graham's office almost immediately sent out the senator's reply to the president's statement saying, "With all due respect Mr. President, Benghazi and Boston are compelling examples of how our national security systems have deteriorated on your watch."
Graham cited issues in both the Benghazi and Boston attacks that things could have been prevented.
"If Benghazi is not an example of system failure before, during and after the attack what would be?" Graham said. "If Boston is not an example of a pre-9/11 stove-piping mentality what would be?"
Obama said James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, is investigating the Boston attack to see what happened and if there is something that can be done to prevent a potential attack.
"All of this has to be done in the context of our laws, due process, so part of what Director Clapper is doing is to see if we can determine any lessons learned from what happened," Obama said.
Graham also took to Twitter to respond to Obama's comments.
Copyright 2013 FOX Carolina (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved.


text:
NCPR Home
Restoring the Past: Saving Sackets Harbor's Historic House of Healing
Restoring the Past: Saving Sackets Harbor's Historic House of Healing
) 05/19/05
During the War of 1812, Sackets Harbor along Lake Ontario became the northern headquarters of the US Army and Navy. Thousands of troops and hundreds of ships carpenters lived in the village. It was the site of several strategic battles. After the war, Sackets Harbor developed throughout the 19th century into a commercial lake port, military town and summer resort. A group of history buffs wants to restore the old Stone Hospital at Madison Barracks as a military heritage center and cornerstone for restoration work. Todd Moe has more.
Sackets Harbor
2005 North Country Public Radio. Photos © 2005 Indian River Photography


text:
Black Queens and Super Falcons dare to transgress on a 'crooked field'
Saavedra herself reflects on a playing and coaching history that entailed training in the early 1980s on a "crooked" field at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College)—"literally crooked up and down and side to side, both ways." The women soccer players were denied access to the gridiron surface; similarly, they were denied varsity status for three years, until the athletic administration relented. (For more on Saavedra's background in soccer, see her essay "Excavating the Field.")
The narrative of women's play in Africa might be constructed using the rubric of space. In some cases, occupying public space as a footballer constitutes a statement of socio-economic or political independence. In field work in Senegal, Saavedra writes of discovering the fear that football "will masculinize women and girls." She continues:
Unlike discussions in the West, a consideration of muscles, femininity and sexuality in Senegal is not (yet) an issue about suspected lesbianism, but about fertility and socio-economic status. Competing femininities reflect this: the rural, muscled, toiling agrarian woman versus the more privileged, urban woman who need not labour physically. In the urban milieu where sport is most common, there exist two idealized femininities that are decidedly non-muscular: the disquette (young, slim, Western-oriented) and the drianke (large, soft, round and economically established). Beauty contests extolling both ideals are popular. Athletic women have to navigate around these images. (236)
In Dakar, Senegal, students view team handball, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics as better feminine exemplars than football, introduced by French soldier-occupiers. But the gender appropriateness of a sport remains in the eyes of the beholder. Saavedra says, "In Senegal, when I was working there, people would say, 'Football is too rough for women,' whereas, 'Basketball is graceful and gentle.' I went and watched many women's basketball games in Senegal, and these women were tough and rough and pushing each other around."
But football, unlike other games, carries a culture-specific gender marker. In Kenya, where Saavedra has also done research, organizers of the Mathare Youth Sports Association in Nairobi—Africa's largest youth organization—have had to negotiate the unique concerns that parents have for girls. Specifically, parents feared for girls' safety in traveling to or from football matches and training and that their participation in MYSA's football programs might bring dishonor to the family or cause girls to neglect family duties. Pressures exist to confine girls' lives to domestic life, according to an assessment of the MYSA girls' program (Letting Girls Play):
While in many countries "public space" is not legally defined, there are designated places where citizens can go for recreation, education, entertainment, and to participate in political life. Typically, the kinds of public spaces that are seen as legitimate venues for females—markets, health clinics, and so forth—are those that enable women to fulfill their domestic roles as homemakers and mothers. In contrast, public spaces for males are less narrowly defined and not necessarily linked to their gender roles. … Females have a much more difficult time—and, in some cases, are completely excluded from—visiting spaces such as town halls, parks, and sports stadiums unless they are accompanied by men. (1–2)
Page 2 of 5 | Previous page | Next page