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Black Swan
Dir. Darren Aronofsky, U.S., Fox Searchlight
If nothing else, Black Swan will certainly be the nuttiest movie to be mistaken for serious art in 2010, a true distinction as these last beleaguered twelve months of moviegoing saw contenders like Gaspar Noé's harebrained Enter the Void and Andrei Konchalovsky's utterly baffling The Nutcracker in 3D fall by the wayside. Darren Aronofsky has a leg up on his competitors: his horror movie about a good girl gone mad is set in the rarefied world of professional ballet (note the conspicuous exteriors of Lincoln Center, home to a film festival that, until The Wrestler, hadn't been particularly accommodating to Aronofsky's work), kibble for a gray-haired audience that likely passed over Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and (hee hee) The Fountain, but who help set the terms of the debate about what's important or frivolous in our theaters and year-end awards shows. That crowd may well be stunned silent by what they find in here: this cracked fantasy is no The Red Shoes. Though perhaps they may share the reaction of the Philadelphia Film Festival audience I saw Black Swan with not long ago: waves of gut-busting laughter. Whether or not Aronofsky's also laughing is an open question.
At the film's outset, we're thrust into a fairly typical, realistically lensed (the Dardenne-esque following camerawork of The Wrestler makes a welcome return) tale of backstage ballet drama as Nina (Portman), a longtime member of a New York troupe, is plucked from the group for her close-up. She is to play perhaps the most iconic of all roles in dance: the White Swan/Black Swan dual role of Swan Lake. Her icily perfect dancing makes her a natural for the White Swan, but questions of her readiness to tackle the dark voracious carnality of the Black Swan dog a psyche that seems clearly fragile and beleaguered from the outset. Her home life suggests some troubles in her upbringing: her mother Erica (Barbara Hershey, her face made up to look like a skeleton with folds of loose skin sagging off), a painter and former dancer who's teetering on the stability fence herself, seems to have frozen her daughter in her mind's eye at about age eleven and treats the girl accordingly. Nina's bedroom is done up in princess-pink—stuffed toys and willowy curtains abound. When her troupe leader Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel, fully sleazy, unsuccessfully mustachioed), asks his new star if she's a virgin, her denial is less than convincing.
The narrative's interest in Nina's sexuality is as leering as Aronofsky's camera in its filming of Portman's near-emaciated frame. Leroy, who only gave Nina the part after being bitten while attempting to force himself on her (signs of a Black Swan in the making, he supposes), continually crosses the boundaries of workplace propriety, at one point suggesting the girl go home and "touch herself" as research. She does, throwing herself wholly into a solo bump and grind (all the creepos obsessed with Portman since her twelve-year-old debut in The Professional will certainly be out in force for this one) that ends with a hilarious shock cut to her ghoulish mother asleep in a chair in the corner of the room—it's a scene that somehow simultaneously evokes Apatowian bro-humor and early De Palma lo-fi scares. (This sequence also sadly explicates the depth of the film's psychology.) Her troubled relationship with her own body extends beyond frosted-over sexuality: Nina's constantly rushing to bathrooms to exacerbate various rashes, or peel her cuticles up to her wrist, only to blink and find the horrific wounds vanished.
Once Nina (Portman has finally been cast in the role her perfect beauty and limited range has been waiting for) has won the role, her mental state decays rapidly. You'll lose count of how many times Leroy breaks rehearsal to campily holler some variation on, "I know you can dance the white swan, Nina, but can you dance zee black swan?" at the besieged girl, reiterating the film's only real theme. In case we weren't quite following, the addition of the looser, more sexual Lily (Mila Kunis, literally tattooed with black swan wings on her back—doh!) to the troupe, and Leroy's nearly immediate elevation of her to be Nina's understudy, helps push the girl to the brink, as she's unable to decide if she wants to fight or fuck her doppelgänger and competitor. A fragile talented young woman stunted into self-loathing and paranoid narcissistic hallucination by an overprotective, nutso mother; girls who, when they aren't cat-fighting or self-mutilating, engage in one-off lesbo action (the end result of Lily and Nina's drug and alcohol-infused night on the town, though Aronofsky pulls his punches, suggesting their liaison might all have been in Nina's head); and literal stabs at masturbation—these all sound like the obvious side effects of several forty-year-old men banding together to write a screenplay about the female psyche.
It is unsurprising that a filmmaker whose sole career constant has been an obsession with body mutilation would take to a story about a dancer—after all, the prop holding up the smooth, collected facade of the ballet is a pair of bloody, bruised feet. Aronofsky may not be a particularly deep thinker, but he certainly nails the visceral in his films—in Black Swan small details like insert shots of those battered feet, or the fact that almost every character who isn't a young ballerina is given the look and feel of a corpse (even Winona Ryder pops in wraithlike as a just-past-her-prime star ballerina sent out to pasture against her will; a neat bit of symbolic casting, even if her awkward performance is too laugh-inducing) play out like visual leitmotifs, unsubtly evoking both the musical structure of ballet scores and the physical brutality and ageism of the art. Yet remember, this is little more than a callow psychosexual drama; it's clear by Swan's midpoint that, aside from a few beats about the corporeality of the form, Aronofsky's not interested in dance at all. The film may open with an elaborate rush of choreographed action, but his camera is too close, too enmeshed with the dancers to actually see the dancing happen. We feel it, either in the fashion of motion sickness or as an exuberant rush, depending on one's tolerance for fast, vertiginous shallow-focus camera movements, but, throughout the film, full-body images of actual dance flit by quickly, perhaps a result of having to cut around a non-dancer in the lead role.
A perfection-obsessed artist driven to hallucinations and madness—sounds not unlike the manner in which an artist as clearly self-conscious as Aronofsky might view himself. After the beating his mystical, mystifying The Fountain took at the hands of the rightfully confused, Aronofsky retreated into his wrestler, whose broken down piece of meat facade masked a misunderstood artiste (and perhaps lesser messiah) plying a highly physical, demanding trade that the public just didn't appreciate enough. In the wake of that "comeback," is Aronofsky's eager gate-crashing of ballet's ivory tower a film-length middle finger to the naysayers who have nipped at his films since he was lauded at Sundance over a decade ago? Watching this kind of cracked self-regard play out over a career is fascinating (how one filmmaker can locate parts of his psyche behind the massive, ragged features of Mickey Rourke and the haughty cheekbones of Natalie Portman is worth puzzling over), especially in light of Swan's ending, in which [SPOILER ALERT] Portman literally sprouts wings to fly through what becomes her sensational debut performance and swan song. Some may feel Aronofsky's arrived at some new place, but Black Swan's flights of absurdity, skin-deep psychology, and gross-out imagery don't feel a far cry from Pi or Requiem for a Dream. These elements are perhaps more extreme here, more emboldened (who wouldn't be when underscored by nonstop Tchaikovsky music?), yet they still represent a step back into something more familiarly fantastical following a credible world-weary detour into the bowels of low-rent New Jersey wrestling.
The original production of Swan Lake was considered by many at the time to be a failure, if not an out and out disaster, yet we all know the end of that story. Aronofsky's Black Swan seems headed towards a more immediately enthusiastic reception. To its perhaps dubious credit, there are few other films that as successfully morph themselves into camp objects while unspooling through the projector. It's almost irredeemably dumb, borderline offensive in its psychology and sexual politics, but it's also a surprisingly easy, even fun, watch, even as it presses the limits of taste and incredulity. Perhaps this is because its creator, a talented image-maker who seems always to have much to prove, presses on those boundaries so hard, and so ridiculously—by the time Nina's legs distend, crack and bend backwards into an avian form late in the film, you'll have long past decided if you're on board with his skewed vision. Something happens onscreen during Black Swan, and the mere fact of this just might leave you oddly exhilarated and triumphant. For what it's worth, this is clearly the exact film Aronofsky wanted to make—how often in theaters these days do we get to experience that?


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"Valerie and Tristan." And with that Valerie Harper's time on "Dancing With The Stars" came to an end.
She has a bum knee. She's battling terminal cancer. Yet Valerie Harper still took on the challenge of "Dancing With The Stars". She danced for the nation for four weeks, loving her latest adventure.
"It's great to be here. This is big time. This is really a lovely, wonderful, joyous celebration of a show," Harper shared of the competition. "I do feel the love. I feel tremendous love from America since I announced the condition in, when was that? March! And I'm still here. So what do I got to be complaining about?"
"What Valerie's definitely done is reinforce perspective. I think that's something that's very, very easily lost in all senses," Harpers professional partner, Tristan Macmanus, surmised.
"It was fair, George," Harper admitted. "You saw the level of dancing. If we're judging dancing, then we have to. It just can't be popularity. 'Oh, I loved her as Rhoda' or 'Poor thing has cancer' you know? You don't want that, do you? I don't!"
Valerie will now cheer on her cast mates in what's being a very competitive season. Three teams tied for first place with the judges Monday night. Elizabeth Berkley Lauren and Val Chmerkovskiy scored triple 9's – so did Corbin Bleu and Karina Smirnoff, along with Amber Riley and Derek Hough.
Riley danced with an injured knee, but after the show I joked that she was faking it.
"I wish that I had that picture to show of that syringe that was in my knee," Riley laughed. "I'm going to text it to you to show you the juices that came out of it."
Jack Osbourne, Leah Remini, Nicole Polizzi, and Christina Milian all scored triple 8's, with Brant Daugherty and Bill Engvall getting triple 7's.
Engvall got emotional when he made it through.
"I didn't want to like this this much, but I just love dancing with this girl, and she's like my little baby daughter," Engvall explained.
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Newcastle midfielder Cheick Tiote says the squad will do everything in their power to improve on their poor performance last season.
The Tyneside club narrowly avoided relegation in 2012-13, finishing the campaign in 16th place in the Premier League table, just five points off the drop.
After winning just six of their 20 games after Christmas, they found themselves dragged into a scrap at the bottom of the table, and Tiote insists they are determined to avoid a repeat performance again next term.
"Last season was not the best for Newcastle," he told the club's official website.
"It was a hard season in the Europa League and the Premier League but we've had some time off to rest now.
"It was really difficult for all the team but when you see the season, the most important thing was just to stay in the Premier League.
"When we look at last season, we cannot imagine to have the same season as this next year so I think it will be be better."
Tiote appeared in 31 matches for his side last year and will look ahead to the new season under the guidance of a new director of football, following the controversial appointment of Joe Kinnear.
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Accused appears accused of murder of David Clark
Updated 5:13pm Monday 11th February 2013 in News By Julia Breen
A MAN appeared in court today (Monday, February 11) charged with the murder of his brother-in-law.
Mark Hall, wearing spectacles and dark clothing, spoke only to confirm his name and address as he appeared before Teesside Magistrates Court in a preliminary hearing.
The 37-year-old, of Cornforth Avenue, Park End, Middlesbrough, is accused of murdering father-of-two David Stuart Clark in the early hours of Saturday morning.
He was remanded in custody and his case was committed to Teesside Crown Court, where he will appear this morning (TUES).
Mr Clark died of head injuries in James Cook University Hospital on Saturday afternoon.
He was described by friends as being a fun-loving man who enjoyed nights out with friends and sunshine holidays.
He was involved in organising a charity football match last year in honour of his close friend Lee Lockwood, who was also tragically killed in Park End in 2011, to raise money for his funeral.
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I finally published another highly anticipated article on quantifying the "Little Things" at Driveline... Features my usual Mechian efficiency in getting to the point, but if you want to understand this spreadsheet I've linked here, you should at least take a look at it... That's right, Jose Guillen really did do something. That's what he's getting 3/36 for -- not getting on base, or playing defense, or being able to hit right-handed pitching, but doing the "Little Things." Royal #2 is shocking, but maybe not so much when you think about what this stat means. I actually did the Royals calculations a while before I started writing for Driveline, and it turned into this... which ended up a lot longer and more inconclusive than I had hoped, but maybe it will go somewhere. I hope that if you find it interesting, you'll discuss the conceptual side of things over there, although I'm willing to learn here, too. If nothing else, it prominently features a classic example from the late 70s-early 80s Royals dynasty. And just for the record: +0.43 -0.03 +0.06 Figure it out.
At the request of a party who shall remain anonymous, I have constructed a spreadsheet to give pseudo-Fangraphs-style positional wOBA averages by position for 2008 MLB, AL, and NL. I still think the best general model for such averages is something like this (see my related FanShot here), but it is interesting to see how closely the empirical data from last year matches up. I've even included a silly wOBA-fied version of baseball-reference's OPS+. Since I'm guessing Fangraphs' version of wOBA will become the most frequently cited, I've used a formula that I think they are using -- that is, one that excludes reached base on error (this makes sense for them, since I assume they are using the baseball databank data, which doesn't include that information). They also use custom linear weights for each year, which I don't use here. However, Tom Tango (the creator of wOBA) notes that the weights since 1956 don't stray all that far from the generic formula. I think Fangraphs is great, and is quickly becoming the best source for sabermetric data on the internet -- free or pay. Personally, I prefer that ROE be included in wOBA, since I do think it at least partially reflects player skill. Stat Corner does so (and they also have park-adjusted wOBA*). I would also prefer that both sites includes stolen bases and caught stealings in the formula (I don't think they do -- but correct me if I'm wrong). But they have their reasons. I have a sheet ready with SB/CSs and also one with ROEs if people are interested. Update: Thanks to the coment below, I now realize that Fangraphs does include SB/CS in their wOBA figures, and have corrected the spreadsheet.
Yes, the dastardly Sox site has done something that was asked about last week when Fangraphs added wOBA -- the offensive stat we should all be using. Thanks to Sky for pointing it out and also for agreeing with me that Colin made a mistake with the 3B adjustment. The methodology isn't perfect (to be more precise one would need to judge each position in relation to league average wOBA year-to-year) but it isn't meant to be. It's rough. He has a little chart that includes adjustments for defense, but I'm not going to deal with the headache of arguing about that here (the positional adjustment thing is bad enough, sometimes). So... here are the averages Colin has, and then how some Royals (and new Royals) did in relation to those averages in 2008 -- this is retrospective, not predictive. I'm using StatCorner's version of wOBA because, among other things, it's park-adjusted (wOBA*). Some guys are listed in more than one position for obvious reasons. C .306 Olivo .313 (+.07) Buck .300 (-.06) SS .326 TPJ .189 (-.137) Avilanche .364 (+.038) 2B .335 Grudz .345 (+.010) Callaspo .341 (+.06) German .294 (-.041) CF .335 DDJ .361 (+.026) Gathright .277 (-.058) Crisp .334 ( -.01) MITCH .288 (-.047) 3B .335 Gordon .351 (+.016) Teahen .315 (-.020) RF/LF .354 Teahen .315 (-.039) Guillen .329 (-.025) DDJ .361 (+.07) 1B .364 Gload .304 (-.060) Butler .326 (-.038) Jacobs .342 (-.022)
Fangraphs has added wOBA (weighted On-Base Average), one of the stats that improves on OPS by essentially weighing the relative value of on-base and slugging more accurately and scaling it to league average OBA (.335 is average, .400 is awesome, .300 is virtually replacement value). The link above explains the basics in more detail. The Fangraphs version of wOBA does incorporate SB/CS. The Royals last year were 25th in MLB with a team wOBA of .314. Mike Aviles led the Royals (100 PA min.) with a .360 wOBA, with only David DeJesus (.355) and Alex Gordon (.344) also above average.
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Earth Democracy
Shiva is an Indian activist, writer, and thinker. Her books include
Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization
The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Stolen Harvest: The
Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
. I spoke with her in March
2006 about her latest book
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability,
and Peace
TIRMIZEY: What is your book
Earth Democracy
Earth Democracy
is really about life beyond corporate
globalization. It's about other paradigms, it's about
other practices, it's not just about something in the future,
but it's about another world being shaped in the here and now.
You write that we need to go from a dying democracy to a living
democracy. Can you explain what you mean by that?
The first thing I mean is that the democracy we have is actually
dead in terms of not responding anymore to the will of people. Whether
it is governments going to war against the will of the people or
it is governments imposing genetically engineered foods against
the will of the people. That is the death of democracy, when people
have no freedom. It is also a dead democracy because it is using
corporate "freedoms" to annihilate people. For me, the
most dramatic example of this was when 40,000 farmers took their
own lives within a decade because of the rules of corporate globalization.
When these rules are pushed as if they are about freedom, then that
is a killing democracy.
What would a living democracy look like?
A living democracy is people being able to make decisions about
their lives and being able to influence the conditions in which
they live—how they grow their food, what terms their clothing
is produced under, the freedom to choose the conditions in which
their children are educated, the conditions in which they get health
care. That is living democracy. For people, living democracy is
democracy where they are. Living democracy is democracy in which
all of life is embraced, not just human life, because we are at
that evolutionary moment where any freedom of the human species
has to include other species, otherwise we will never have human
A recent UN World Water Development Report says that 20 percent
of the world's population doesn't have access to safe
drinking water. How would an earth democracy manage water resources
I have watched this magnificent country, India, turn from
a country where every community had water—whether it was in
a well or from a clean flowing spring or a river—to being part
of that 20 percent that doesn't have access to water. Water
scarcity has been caused by commercial logging of forests. The first
movement I participated in as a young ecologist and physicist was
the Chipko movement to stop logging in order to defend our rivers
and our streams. Water is destroyed when Coca-Cola mines 1.5 to
2 million liters per day per plant. That is the scarcity that has
inspired the women of Plachimada to shut a Coca-Cola plant in their
village. That is the scarcity that people are fighting in the 50
other Coca-Cola plants that have destroyed water. Water was destroyed
when the World Bank and the United States imposed the so-called
Green Revolution on us in 1965-1966. It was not a very green revolution
because it was based on intensive irrigation—growing crops
using ten times more water. That meant deep aquifer mining and the
damming of our rivers. Every community downstream of a dammed river
has no water. Every community in a region where the "green
revolution" has subsidized the pumping of deep ground water
has dry wells, dry tanks, and a deep water scarcity.
How would living democracy manage water resources?
Villages provide water. Dead rivers have come alive when communities
got together, insuring that they move from chemical farming to organic
farming. Our living democracy villages pledge never to allow chemicals,
genetically engineered organisms, or the privatization of water
into their villages. In a living democracy village people can use
10 times less water just by using water ecologically and conserving
every drop. In living democracy water is a commons, it is conserved
collectively because—unlike exploitation which can be done
privately—conservation must mobilize the community. You cannot
conserve as individuals, you have to conserve water as a commons.
You often refer to and quote Gandhi in your book, particularly
when you talk about seed democracy. Can you talk about Gandhi as
a source of inspiration for
Earth Democracy
My deepest inspiration from Gandhi comes from the recognition of
self rule. Self-rule not just at a national level,
but self-rule at a local level and at a personal level. You cannot
have self-rule unless you are self-organized. Therefore the concept
of democracy in Gandhian thought is the ultimate capacity of people
to collectively organize their lives and their community.
The second very powerful concept of Gandhi that has inspired me
is swadeshi—which means the creative ability of every human
being and every community to produce what they need. In globalization
and in this killing democracy we have the idea that everyone should
be a consumer, but no one should be a producer of things and a creator
of ideas and goods. That is at the root of poverty. We need to reclaim
our capacity to create and produce.
Finally, I believe his deepest gift to us is the celebration of
non-cooperation against unjust and immoral rule. He called it satyagraha
Recently our government has signed what I would call a Monsanto
agreement with President Bush to push more genetically engineered
organisms and crops on India. When our laws make farmers' seed
saving illegal, but make it legal for Monsanto to sell seed, like
BT cotton, and kill our farmers, then we have to start saying we
will not cooperate with these laws. We will live by higher laws:
laws of the planet, ecological laws, and laws of humanity, our ethical
What do you see as the reasons for and the origins of fundamentalism
and terrorism?
The recent upsurge of religious fundamentalism is for me the shadow
of corporate globalization. It has its roots in insecurity that
globalization creates. Last week when there was a terrorist attack
at a temple at Varanasi, one of our most ancient cities, 5,000 years
old, instead of turning it into a conflict, Hindus and Muslims joined
their diversity and pluralism and celebrated the welcoming of spring,
the colors of Holi, as the colors of our diversity. When does that
celebration of diversity fail? First, when people are made insecure
and, secondly, when politicians do not want economic democracy,
do not want people to make decisions about what they produce and
what they consume, they shift the entire debate about democracy
to hate and to fear of the other. In a context of insecurity and
in the context of death of economic democracy, the rise of religious
fundamentalism ends up becoming the best captive vote bank. It is
not a surprise that you have the rise of religious fundamentalism
in the United States. It is also not a surprise that the rise of
religious fundamentalism started in India after the new economic
policies of trade liberalization were institutionalized in 1991.
Terrorism has similar roots. Terrorism is the reaction of those
whose voice has been taken away. Terrorism is the scream of the
voiceless. Terrorism does not grow if democracy is thriving because
democracy then makes sure that your voice is heard and that dissent
is looked after. Even though everywhere in the world it is clear
that the issue of terrorism is the issue of lack of possibility
to influence your fate, the terrorist is not perceived in the mainstream
as the disenfranchised who is angry, but as having some internal
genetic defect.
No one is born a terrorist, they are made a terrorist. The fact
that there is growing terrorism should force us to look into what
creates fertile soil for this growth. That fertile soil is the greed
of corporations wanting to control every drop of water, every drop
of oil, every inch of land, every bit of germ plasm on this planet.
That kind of greed creates deep exclusions. Deep exclusions will
create violent responses if democracy is not rebuilt non-violently
fast. Most people don't realize that in India large parts are
already controlled by those subscribing to ideologies of exclusion
using violent means. It's a phenomenon that is inevitable if
you disenfranchise and exclude millions of their very basis of life,
livelihood, and freedom.
How are women promoters of life-centered cultures?
Women are promoters of life-centered cultures because of this very
ancient division of labor. It was left to women to look after life,
whereas men broke off to get the glory, to get the conquest, in
less privileged situations to get the wage labor. The division of
labor left sustenance to women and the market to men. That expertise
of sustenance is now being called on to create living economies
and life centered economies and women are doing it whether it is
through seed saving, water saving, or water sharing. Whether it
is through creating ecological systems of food production and decentralized
control over agriculture, women are very much in the lead in reshaping
the economy that is not under the patriarchal control of global
corporations. Patriarchy is usually defined as something limited
to the household, yet increasingly patriarchal forces are defining
this beautiful planet as their household in which they would like
to take every bit of power, capacity, creativity, and productivity
away from women. Women are determined to not let go. We just had
a celebration on our farm two weeks ago of our women members from
Navanya, the movement I started, 150 of them, and all are committed
to keeping food security in women's hands, keeping seeds in
women's hands, not as empty rhetoric, not just as a slogan,
but as everyday life making a difference.
How do we go from the world we have today to an earth democracy?
I think the first thing to do is center our lives in the earth and
not in dependency on corporations or a ten-year-old institution
called the World Trade Organization. Of course, each of us is in
a different location: someone is a teacher, someone is a scientist,
someone is an unemployed youth, someone is working in slave conditions.
Every one of us is in a different location and each of us has to
begin this recovery where we are. We have to then join hands with
others who might be doing the same thing as we are or something
different. It doesn't really matter. Take something like food:
every one of us can make a decision—every meal that we eat
we are either shaping an earth democracy or we are reinforcing corporate
globalization. Every drop of water we drink is the same kind of
choice. Every bit of energy we use is making a choice towards earth
democracy or for a dictatorship in our times. The choices are limitless,
we just have to start recognizing that there is never a situation
where any human being doesn't have a choice. If you have no
other choice then at least you have the choice to say no.
Can you talk about how this book came about?
The book was inspired by two issues: one was that for too long the
movement of people defending their freedoms was labeled as the anti-globalization
movement. Repeatedly it was said that, "Oh, these people know
what they don't want, but they have no idea what they want."
I thought it was time to tell those who think that we don't
know what we want that we know it well, and through what we know
we will be there when corporate globalization has collapsed because
of its social and ecological non-sustainability.
The second reason I wrote the book was because I felt the movements
of people were strong and yet they could be stronger if they recognized
that no matter how different they were—whether it was someone
working on human rights, someone else working to defend a wild species,
someone else working for the food sovereignty of small farmers and
family farmers the world over—that every one of these was part
of a mosaic, part of a fabric combining care for the earth and defending
the conditions of human life on earth while also striving for social
justice. These strivings were not separate strivings, they were
the same and these were actually the strivings for peace. They created
the condition for peace in a period where we are repeatedly being
told that the way towards peace is more war and more violence.
Can you talk about how your own political and ecological consciousness
came about?
My own political and ecological consciousness has grown in a number
of steps. I was a very enthusiastic nuclear physicist training to
join our nuclear energy establishment. My sister, who was a medical
doctor made me aware of what a physicist is never taught: that nuclear
radiation has health hazards. That is the first time that I woke
up to a world beyond harmless equations.
My next step was becoming active in the Chipko movement when I saw
the forests of the Himalayas disappearing rapidly. I had grown up
in the Himalayan forests. I'd trekked and walked those forests.
My father used to be a forest conservator and in my childhood and
youth I could see a dramatic change. That led me to become a volunteer
in the movement. The next step was in 1982 when the ministry of
environment started to call on me to do studies. That led to the
creation of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and
Ecology. Through it I did participatory studies with communities
and successful action research. We won legal victories, stopped
mines, monocultures, and shrimp farming.
The next watershed was in 1984, the year that we had the rise of
terrorism in Punjab. I studied the Punjab to figure out why the
land of the green revolution, which was given a Nobel Peace Prize,
had become a land of war. I started making connections between violence,
fundamentalism, terrorism, ecological degradation, undemocratic
economic systems, and anti-people development. It was the same year
as the Bhopal disaster, which killed 3,000 people in one night and
has killed 30,000 people since. I was forced to look at industrial
agriculture as a system of war. I committed myself to ecological
agriculture as a system of peace.
In 1987 I happened to get invited to a meeting where corporations
laid out their plan for how they would patent seed, genetically
engineer seeds, and have free trade treaties to prevent anyone else
from being free to do their own thing and grow their own food. I
decided that I had to start saving seeds and protecting biodiversity.
Since then I have worked with millions of farmers to say no to the
WTO and GATT and with thousands of farmers—200,000 farmers—to
build an alternative.
I mentioned the farmer suicides. For me 2006 is the year I will
dedicate a lot of my energies to creating hope among our farming
communities, that the dead end, the genocidal economies, the suicidal
economies of globalization is not the only way. We can build our
own economies and we don't have to wait till our governments
tell us how to do it. We don't have to wait till the WTO gives
us permission to do it. We need to turn to ourselves for that permission.
Tirmizey is an independent journalist who has reported for community
radio CKUT in Montreal and Free Speech Radio News.


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UPDATE: New tonight, Cape Coral Fire Chief Timothy Hayes breaks his silence over allegations he lied to get the job and played favorites when hiring the department's spokesperson.
We also got answers from the city manager who late Friday cleared the chief of any wrong doing
Hayes calls John Spicuzza -- a former firefighter and man behind the allegations -- a disgruntled employee with an agenda.
Spicuzza first raised concerns accusing Chief Timothy Hayes of lying on his resume and hiring a friend Michael Heeder over qualified candidates for the department spokesman job.
Hayes says he never falsified any of his qualifications and admits to letting Heeder know about the open position, but denies playing favorites.
Hayes says its time to put the matter to bed and get to work.
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Spicuzza isn't satisfied with the outcome -- claiming his concerns are being swept under the rug.
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A much-awaited report released last week cleared Cape Coral fire chief Timothy Hayes of lingering allegations: He lied on his resume to get the job.
Tonight, the retired firefighter whose actions prompted the internal investigation says his concerns are being swept under the rug.
John Spicuzza calls the city manager's newly released report into the fire chief - absurd. He fires back to the report saying the finding are predictable.
"Having [human resources] and the city manager do the investigation won't bring results. All they did was dance around the issues. They just danced around it," Spicuzza said.
He questions their credibility as the man at the center of the story remains silent about the issue.
Spicuzza accused Chief Hayes of lying on his resume, failing to meet job requirements and playing favorites when hiring a department spokesperson.
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City Manager John Szerlag defended the chief in his report to council, saying "we're heading down a slippery slope if the petition to council process is allowed to be used as a venue for vetting personal matter."
Szerlag cleared Chief Hayes of any wrongdoing, but did write he "should have either broadened the interview panel or recused himself from the actual interview process as to avoid any perception of favoritism" when hiring friend Michael Heeder as public information officer for the department.
Council member Lenny Nesta says he wants to move on from the matter.
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We, again, requested on-camera interviews with Szerlag and Chief Hayes to hear directly from them. We are told their schedules didn't allow them the time.
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Joan was born on July 25, 1934 to Joseph and Pauline Mack and was married to Bill Evans for 60 years. Bill and Joan have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and were long-time residents of Bishop.
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Big PineŌĆÖs Volunteer Fire Department will once again host a variety of festivities that include exercise and lots of food. Farther north, the City of Bishop is also encouraging outdoor activities via its Big Day in the Park.
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Love Bites:
Biscuits from the Heart
By Amy Staub
Love Bites: Biscuits from the Heart is a collection of dog treat recipes, fun dog related information and photos of favorite pets. Love Bites combines some of my favorite things dogs, trivia, photography and cooking.
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Publish Date August 30, 2009
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Power Metal (1988)
Review: After a fateful meeting with James Hetfield, Diamond Darrel wanted Pantera to get heavy. "I Am The Night" in '85 was still glam, but wanted to get metal. Getting better. Now after hiring new vocalist Phil Anselmo, Pantera wants to achive an excellent level of metal.
They did it. Despite the corny looking cover picture, this is actually really decent. The previous Pantera albums were heavily glammed up, but here Pantera ditched almost all of that and replaced it with fast and high paced drumming, excellent bass, intricate thrash riffs, and metal vocal shrieks. This isn't Power Metal, no, this is a re-awakening. Phil's vocals here are intense and the shrieks are just right. Phil really had what it takes back then and it shows! Diamond's leads are just killer. Every lead here is definetly worth it alone. Listen to the thrash riffing in the tune, one of my Pantera favorites, "Over and Out". Pantera delivers all out excellent thrash. It's all out menacing. There are a few glam moments here, but are so few and far in between. With tunes like "Over and Out" and "Death Trap", Pantera got their wish to be metal. Even in the final tune "P.S.T. '88″, Darrel sings here and had a pretty decent voice.
Overall, Pantera's soul searching came to a near end here. It wasn't till two years later when Pantera reached their pinnacle and finally found themselves. I Highly recommend Power Metal. The only shame is that Pantera ingnored this just because of the silly picture. This is an excellent album!


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Lessons learned during his youth in war-torn Nigeria helped shape Councilman Amy Ahanotu's mission of fostering political agreement
By JEREMY HAY
At debates, candidate forums and the hundreds of Rohnert Park homes he visited, Amy Ahanotu said the same thing over and over again during his successful campaign for a seat on the City Council.
"We can have disagreements, but as long as we solve the problem, that's what counts," the 53-year-old Redwood Credit Union banker said.
It was an unremarkable statement for a candidate trying to win votes in a city with a history of sharp council divisions and fierce political battles.
But his was in many ways a remarkable candidacy.
A Nigerian-American, Ahanotu is in what observers say is a tiny vanguard of immigrants from the West African nation who have sought public office in the United States.
And his plea for a productive, civil political discourse was rooted in terror, in a bomb's blast, in shrapnel tearing his skin, in the ghastly costs of a war in which an estimated 1 million to 3 million people died.
"It shaped me as far as the role of government," Ahanotu said of the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War. He became a teenager during the conflict, part of a large family from a region of the country fighting to secede.
"Government is, to me, in place to address issues in the society and not to take sides that divide people," he said. "Yes, we can disagree, we can oppose each other, but we can find a solution to the problems without demonizing another person."
Congratulations pour in
Within hours of his election victory in November, Nigerian Internet forums filled with dozens of congratulations, from people he knew and strangers.
A Washington man wrote: "I join the millions of Nigerians abroad and at home in congratulating Amy Ahanotu and Emmanuel Ogunleye (an East Bay healthcare district candidate) on their success. They are worthy Nigerians who have made us very proud."
The attention Ahanotu's victory garnered arose from the rarity of the occasion, said Austyn Ogannah, editor of The Will, a Bay Area Nigerian-American newspaper.
Nationwide "you probably have one or two (Nigerian-Americans) throwing themselves into politics … trying to get themselves elected," Ogannah said.
Ahanotu became a U.S. citizen in 2005, opening the door to public office. In 2007, he was appointed a city planning commissioner.
"He's a really good guy, honest, credible," said John Borba, the commission chairman, who was one of Ahanotu's opponents in the council race. "He seems to be receptive to new ideas and dedicated to having a cordial discussion regarding issues."
Tuesday, as a councilman, Ahanotu made his own planning commission appointment.
It was the latest step on an American journey of a quarter century and one that some experts say may turn out to be a milestone.
"I think he's going to be very important," said Amadu Jacky Kaba, a sociologist who studies African immigrants in the United States and has focused on Nigerian-Americans.
"He may begin to set that trend, in that, from the point they (Nigerian-Americans) get citizenship, they may think about running for office, not just contributing intellectually," said Kaba, an assistant professor at Seton Hall University.
At The Will newspaper, Ogannah said Ahanotu's victory "tells every Nigerian that it's possible to put yourselves out there for an elected office and really succeed."
One of 10 children
Ahanotu (his given name is pronounced Ah-mee) was born and spent his early years in Port Harcourt, on the Gulf of Guinea, in southeast Nigeria.
His father was a shipping port official. The family was of the Igbo ethnic group in the country's middle class, and he was the second youngest of 10 children.
The war erupted in 1967, after years of conflict over political power. The Igbos, predominant in the secessionist southeast, returned to their homelands from around Nigeria; Ahanotu's family made their way back to their ancestral homeland, Obazu, which he refers to as a "village" but is actually slightly larger than Petaluma.
Ahanotu was 10. The fighting was at hand. Schools shut. "Soldiers and warplanes, people shooting at each other. It wasn't a pretty sight. Hunger, poverty and death," he said. "You weren't going to go to school with people shooting at you."
The family wore name tags in case they were separated, or if someone was killed.
"Lucky to be alive"
On a day the fighter planes came he ran toward a house to take shelter. A bomb blew up the house as he got there. Shrapnel shredded his back. The scars remain.
"I'm lucky to be alive," he said last week, sitting in his office at the credit union's State Farm Drive branch.
On a shelf is a photograph of his family: his Colorado-born wife, Rhonda, a Postal Service secretary whom he met in San Francisco when she was an Army linguist, and grown son and daughter, Onye and Chima. They are dressed in the Nigerian robes that Ahanotu still occasionally wears.
"You always miss it," he said of Nigeria. "But Rohnert Park is home. The goal I have set is that this is a city that has given me everything. It's time for me to give back."
As a councilman, Ahanotu will have to adjust to a playing field different from the commission or the business world, Borba said, one where consensus cannot always be reached.
"I think what Amy has to remember is that politics is much different and I think he'll find it to be less civil than perhaps he thinks it will be in the long run," Borba said.
"In politics, when you have competing interests, people tend to take it personally and you are elected to make decisions," Borba said.
Roundabout route
One of about 200,000 Nigerians in the country, according to the U.S. Census — although many believe the number is much higher — Ahanotu took a roundabout route to Sonoma County's third-largest city.
The three-year civil war he lived through scattered a Nigerian immigrant diaspora across the globe. Many were from Biafra, the name the secessionists took for their region of the country. Often they settled in Canada and the United States.
Later yet, the nation's oil boom led Nigerian students abroad, many of them to U.S. universities and colleges.
In 1980, Ahanotu, then 24, immigrated to Canada. He earned his business administration bachelor's degree from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, then moved to the United States to find work.
He credits the influence of his mother, who owned a small grocery market, with steering him toward the business world.
"She was very enthusiastic when it came to business," he said. "She was a very strong woman who tried to use business to elevate women in Nigeria."
Fast-food lessons
His own working life has taken him from selling furniture to fast-food restaurants to toy stores.
He moved to Rohnert Park in 1986 to work at a Commerce Boulevard Taco Bell, manning the cashier registers and deep fryers as an assistant manager.
"It made me more humble and willing to fight for the less privileged in our society," Ahanotu said of his fast-food career. "It gave me a broader view of humanity."
He returned to school at the University of San Francisco and earned a master's degree in business administration in 2003. He then entered banking, first with Washington Mutual then, in 2005, joining Redwood Credit Union.
In 2008 he became chairman of the city's chamber of commerce.
On Tuesday, he cast his first votes as a councilman, favoring, as part of a council majority, the elimination of development fees that support affordable housing and public art.
He and others noted the fees had raised almost nothing since taking effect and said that getting rid of them would help the city compete for new businesses.
Disagreement aired
It was the sort of meeting Ahanotu could appreciate.
There was strongly felt disagreement. Vice Mayor Jake Mackenzie said the votes were shortsighted. And the Cultural Arts Commission's chairwoman argued passionately against eliminating the art fee.
Ahanotu said little, but he said his piece: "I think this is going to show that Rohnert Park is supportive of the business community."
The vote achieved what he believes is in the city's best interests in tough economic times.
And everybody who wanted to had their say.
"Even though I was not born here, I have a voice," Ahanotu said. "In Nigeria, unless you're a government official, people that speak up invariably end up not well off, put it that way."
You can reach Staff Writer Jeremy Hay at 521-5212 or email@example.com.
Mr. Ahanotu comes from an out of control, chaotic, crime ridden country. Hopefully he will use that experience to influence the Rhonert Park City Council to be a more civil political environment where rational decisions can be made with less rancor.
He will need a lot of luck to pull that off. Rational adult behavior is a lacking commodity on that council.
I'm willing to give the guy a chance. Let's see what he's got. I voted for Obama just on the possibility he might be able to do something different.
If Ahanotu turns out to be just another politician and everything's business as usual with no answers and no solutions – then I'll cast my vote to replace him too at the next election.


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To my understanding, when a particle is in a bound state, it is "stuck" because its total energy is less than the surrounding potential.
I am confused on how to prove a particular potential has no bound states. For example, in one problem, I am asked to show that there is no bound state in a spherical finite well, if the potential inside the well is less than some quantity. I guess I would like to know what a bound state "looks" like mathematically. In a simple case like the harmonic oscillator, I can see what the bound state is, but I do not know how to show that they are bound states. This is what I need help with for the case of a finite spherical well.
Let's try a specific example. Look at the finite square well case with a depth of V_0. When you solve for the eigen energies for this case, you get a series of values that depends on 1/L, where L is the width of the well. It means that if you make the well narrower (L getting smaller), the magnitude of the ground state energy is now larger, i.e. the energy for n=1 state will be greater. At some point, the potential well is so narrow that E(n=1) = V_0, and the well can no longer have a state entirely within itself. So you will no longer have a bound state.
So the condition for a bound state depends not only on the depth of the potential well, but also on its physical size. To know rigorously if a potential well can have a bound state, you need to find out what is the energy of the lowest energy state it can have. If it is less than V_0, then you have a bound state. If not, you have no bound state.


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A graveside service will be held today, May 29, 2012 at 11 a.m. at New Hope Baptist Cemetery. Rev. Wayne Williams will officiate.
Visitation will be held today, May 29, 2012 from 9 until 10:30 a.m. in the Collins-Burke Funeral Home Parlor.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Sarah Estelle; his parents; brothers and sisters and son, Lloyd Drummond.
He is survived by his daughters, Bettye Burton (Coleman), Sue Farley and Doris Calvert (Dennis); sister, Maggie Roden; grandchildren, Jeff Farley, Jay Farley, Chad Calvert, Barry Burton, Larry Burton, Mitzie Cochran and Sharon Chapman; 13 great-grandchildren and 14 great-great-grandchildren.
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A papal conclave is a meeting of the College of Cardinals gathered to elect a new Bishop of Rome also known as the Pope. The pope is considered by Roman Catholics to be the apostolic successor of Saint Peter and earthly head of the Roman Catholic Church.
The 2013 papal election is the 75th conclave in the history of the Catholic church since 1295. At that time, Pope Boniface VIII ruled that cardinals to elect a pope had to stay in a locked room.This time 115 cardinals are to enter the conclave papal election to elect the 266th pope .
During the conclave they are allowed no contact with the outside the world – no papers, no TV, no phones, no Twitter. And the world is allowed no contact with them. The threat of excommunication hangs over any cardinal who breaks the rules.
Before the conclave starts, the Sistine Chapel is swept for recording equipment and hidden cameras. It is a myth that a fake floor is laid to cater for anti-bugging devices… Anti-bugging devices are used, and the floor is raised, but only to protect the marble mosaic floor.
When voting starts ,ballots are burnt after each session . A chemical is mixed with the paper to produce black smoke when voting is inconclusive, or white smoke when a pope has been elected.
But even the white smoke looks dark against a bright sky, so to avoid any possible confusion, white smoke is accompanied by the pealing of bells.
In 2005, though, the official responsible for authorising the bells was temporarily occupied with other duties, so there was a period of confusion while white smoke billowed out, and the bells of St Peter's remained silent.
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Last we heard, Lakeshore Entertainment's "Adaline" was in big trouble after rom-com star extraordinaire Katherine Heigl bailed on playing the lead role in the project. Apparently, director Andy Tennant ("Hitch") has also backed out, and Variety reports that producers are wooing Gabriele Muccino, whose credits include the weepies "The Pursuit of Happyness" and "Seven Pounds."
The story, penned by J. Mills Goodloe, Salvador Paskowitz and Allison Burnett, centers on a young woman who becomes ageless after an accident. After living alone for almost a century, she meets a young man for whom she'd give up her immortality. The story sounded right up Heigl's bloated alley when it was first announced last year. However, with a director whose had some success in the past, maybe the story will have something intelligent to say. We can only hope. Sound off in the comments about who should replace Heigl (preferably someone who has made a good movie in the last two years).
Lakeshore is partnering with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment on this one, with Summit Entertainment holding distribution rights for the U.S. Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will produce alongside Kimmel, as well as Steve Golin and Alix Madigan from their Anonymous Content banner. Producers hope to begin principal photography next January, so the re-casting of Heigl's character should happen pretty soon. Why the long wait? Muccino is also in pre-production on the soccer world dramedy " "Playing the Field" with Gerard Butler that will shoot later this year, so we presume he'll get that in the can first before starting on "Adaline."
Peter | March 12, 2011 4:36 AM
No one seems to mention the "other" star already signed for this film is the incomparable Angela Lansbury who has had very little opportunity from Hollywood of late. It is about time she got her own movie. Doesn't she deserve a mention here?
Will | February 22, 2011 9:41 AM
Well, Gabriele Muccino is certainly an upgrade. I do hope that the great Angela Lansbury who was set to play Katherine Heigl's daughter a week before she backed out is still on board.


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The Chinese Arrive in The Caribbean:
The Early Years of Servitude:
The lack of basic ingredients to prepare their recipes may be the reason why the Chinese didn't make a significant impact on Caribbean cuisine. As well, the men were reluctant to adapt to their new life and change their tastes to available ingredients on the islands. However, there were two exceptions. They accepted the use of rum to marinate meats and they preferred the simplicity of the African coal pot. It made meal preparation easy and quick after a long day in the sugarcane fields.
The Mid to Later Years of Servitude:
Indentured servitude came to and end around 1917, when the British government prohibited the transportation of debtors from India as servants. Many of the Chinese immigrants did not return to China because they were not entitled to a free return passage or any assistance. They remained on the islands and slowly mainstreamed, breaking into the retail trade and owning small businesses.
Lasting Influences:
Chow Mein is a well-known and well-liked dish in the Caribbean. It became popular early on because the two basic ingredients, noodles and stock, were easily attainable. Noodles were the primary carbohydrate in the Chinese immigrant population on the islands and simple to make. Stocks were made from chicken and pork bones and occasionally herbs that simmered all day.
Another common Chinese influenced dish is pow - a small dumpling traditionally made with a pork filling, but these days the filling can be chicken, vegetables, or something sweet. These tasty dumplings are labor intensive and take time to make, which suggests they weren't every day fare. They were probably reserved for special occasions.
Houston, Lynn Marie. Food Culture in the Caribbean. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. (COMPARE PRICES)
Mackie, Cristinel. Life and Food in the Caribbean. Ian Randle Publishers, Limited, 1995. (COMPARE PRICES)


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Labour calls for Miners' Strike apology
Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith said the legacy of pit closures is still felt in former mining communities.
Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith said the legacy of pit closures is still felt in former mining communities.
Today marks the centenary of the UK's worst mining disaster
South Wales coal miners are celebrating the sixty fifth anniversary of a hotel set up to offer them respite and recuperation from injury.
The UK Government is being urged to apologise for the actions of Margaret Thatcher's government during the Miners' Strike of the 1980s.
The walkout heralded the eventual closure of many Welsh pits, a blow - some say - from which our mining communities never fully recovered.
But Prime Minister David Cameron says it's others who should be doing the apologising.
James Crichton-Smith reports.
Ministers will not apologise for the treatment of mining communities by Margaret Thatcher's government during the 1984/5 miners' strike because it was held without a proper national ballot, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude says.
Mr Maude said those campaigning for reconciliation and transparency will have to wait to see any Cabinet papers from the time of the strike when they are released under the 30-year rule.
Prime Minister David Cameron responded to Michael Dugher MP's call the Commons for an apology for the Miners' Strike and pit closure programme.
PM says the only person to make an apology for miners strike should be Arthur Scargill. And perhaps Labour for their behaviour at time.
Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith said the legacy of pit closures is still felt in former mining communities.Read the full story
A memorial has been unveiled to commemorate those who died in mining tragedies in Wales.
Mining disasters at Aberfan, Six Bells and Gresford just some that stand out in Welsh History. Megan Boot has been looking at the personal stories behind some of those tragedies.
Today marks the centenary of the Senghenydd mining disaster in which 439 miners were killed. Today, the small town came together to remember those who lost their lives and the families they left behind.
A monument was unveiled to mark the anniversary of the disaster and other tragedies across Wales, as Carole Green reports.
The First Minister has taken part in a memorial service marking the centenary of the Senghenydd mining disaster.
Thousands turned up at Senghenydd memorial today to honour all the Welsh miners who have died - a brilliant tribute http://t.co/D3j7ocuusr
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Marin Way Court tenants targeted for displacement
by Lynda Carson
An April 18 "Notice to Occupants" notified them that the complex was under new management. It also accused the tenants of not having a valid lease and ordered them to move out immediately or risk criminal and civil penalties.
On April 27, the tenants protested in front of their 20-unit housing complex. "We had a great protest rally and everybody from the complex appeared, including about 30 people," reported tenant Aiyahnna Johnson.
"The protest was held a few days before our housing at Marin Way Court was auctioned off on May 2, 2011. The auction took place in front of the Eastmont Police Traffic Substation in East Oakland.
Odd indeed. Marin Way Court was a housing project affordable to the poor that consisted of 20 two-bedroom town homes developed in the '80s or '90s by the now notorious, defunct nonprofit developer Oakland Community Housing, Inc. (OCHI), and its affiliate San Antonio Commons, Inc., and was subsidized by the City of Oakland with around $2 million.
"David Silver and Jamie Clifford of Arroyo & Coates have tried to destroy our community ever since they took over Marin Way Court on May 2, 2011," Aiyahnna Johnson continued. "They caused us a lot of stress and anxiety in our community by trying to frighten us out of our housing.
"They have been trying to pressure us into signing documents in an effort to force us to move out of our homes and community. It feels like we are now living in a prison. We do not know what to expect next from them.
"Twenty apartments were occupied when David Silver and Arroyo & Coates took control of Marin Way Court on May 2, and now there are only 11 apartments that are still occupied here, and we have been accused of being squatters."
A recent PG&E bill with a due date of May 9, 2011, addressed to Aiyhanna Johnson at her address at Marin Way Court in Oakland, confirms that she is a tenant in the complex, no matter what David Silver believes.
Additionally, on May 6, the tenants received unsigned 60-day notices to vacate their homes from 2000 INTL, LLC. The tenants consider this another brutal tactic by David Silver to frighten them out of their homes.
Now Marin Way Court has been renamed Ventana Town Homes and is being managed by Evans Property Management, Inc. (EPMI).
On April 29, Anne Tamiko Omura of the Eviction Defense Center in Oakland emailed David Silver: "I am the Executive Director and Managing Attorney of the Eviction Defense Center in Oakland. It has come to my attention that the tenants at 2000 International Blvd. in Oakland have been threatened with illegal lock-outs, car-towings, and criminal actions. I am very concerned about the threats the tenants have received.
In reply to the email to David Silver, Anne Omura received an email from Jamie Clifford of Arroyo & Coates on May 5, 2011, that reads: "Anne, We would like to schedule a time to have a conference call or an in-person meeting with you regarding this matter. The allegations in your email below are false and we would like to discuss how to best resolve this matter. Please let us know when you can make yourself available."
The tenants of Marin Way Court are seeking community support in their struggle to save their community from those who would profit by displacing them from their homes. If there's any way you could help, contact Aiyahnna Johnson at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lynda Carson may be reached at email@example.com.
The videographer explains: "I came across them (Marin Way Court tenants) on Wednesday, April 28, protesting on the corner of 20th Avenue and International, Oakland. I was actually filming something else but after talking to Aiyahnna knew that this outrageous situation needed coverage. The prior evening the residents had been swooped on by six police officers, harassed and had security locks to their property changed, their property and cars smashed and issued with ultimatums to leave. This all happened on the order of a fictitious landlord." – Video: ©Astrid Edwards, Rockmother Films


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February 8, 2012 - A team of four local King's College students was selected as a top finisher in a national marketing competition sponsored by Chevrolet and Edventure Partners.
The King's team, consisting of David Castro of Wilkes-Barre, Jamie Cybulski and Shane Gibbons of Kingston, and Kellie Rhiel of Luzerne, finished among the top 11 of almost 50 entries from colleges and universities in the Chevrolet Sonic Marketing Challenge.
Participating teams were asked to design an integrated marketing communications plan that effectively increased awareness of the Chevrolet Sonic automobile on a college campus by utilizing social media tactics and event-based and digital promotion.
The proposal by Castro, Cybulski, Gibbons, and Rhiel was ranked the best among those submitted by student teams from upper-level King's marketing courses taught by Amy Parsons, professor of marketing. The proposal was then submitted to the national competition and judged against proposals from 47 other colleges and universities. King's, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh were the only Pennsylvania-based colleges or universities to place in the top 11.
Student members of teams selected in the top three of the competition were invited to Detroit to present their proposals to Chevrolet officials. King's was named a top school but was not selected as a top three finalist.
Shown, from left, is Jamie Cybulski; Shane Gibbons; Amy Parsons, Ph. D., King's professor of marketing; David Castro; and Kellie Rhiel.
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