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Hook, Line And StinkerHook, Line And Stinker (1958) - Looney Tunes Theatrical Cartoon Series
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- Looney Tunes Theatrical Cartoon SeriesTheatricalSeriesCartoon
- Traditional Animation
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributed by: Warner Bros.
- Cartoon Characters: Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Mouse.
- Directed By Chuck Jones.
- Produced By John Burton Sr.
- Animated By Richard Thompson, Ken Harris, Ben Washam.
- Written By Michael Maltese.
- Music: John Seely Associates.
- Originally Released on October 11, 1958.
- Originally Released Theatrically.
- Running Time: 5:57 minutes.
- Color
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From traps as simple as catching the Road Runner in a cooking pan or clobbering him with a mallet to schemes as complicated as swinging after him with a harpoon... (more)
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Burnius-Roadibus vs. Famishius-Famishius. This was one of a number Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons to appear musical. The musicals included Hip Hip-Hurry!,... (more)
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My favorite of the Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons
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I watched Looney Toons endlessly as a child and this particular cartoon was my very favorite; largely because of the wonderful, and unique score. The exciting, fast-paced and essentially cheerful song at the beginning is mirrored at the end by a more... (read more)
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The RR/C gags are as superb as ever. What brings this cartoon down is its "score," the very same canned music that Chuck Jones himself was decrying when it was applied to Hanna-Barbera's assembly-line TV animation that was being cobbled together... (read more)
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"We need to interrogate him to elicit certain facts about granite scam"
The Madurai district police have stepped up efforts to arrest Dayanithi Alagiri, who was a director of Olympus Granites, which has been charged with stealing granite worth several crore of rupees belonging to the State-owned Tamil Nadu Minerals (TAMIN) Limited.
After summoning and questioning several of his friends and relatives, including his wife Anusha, for ascertaining his whereabouts, the police have moved the court seeking non-bailable warrant against Mr. Dayanithi, son of Union Minister M.K. Alagiri.
The police are on the lookout for Mr. Dayanithi and his business associate Nagaraj ever since the granite scam rocked the district. Collector Anshul Mishra launched an investigation into the granite scandal, mostly in Melur taluk of the district.
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"Mr. Dayanithi has been evading arrest for long now even after his petition on anticipatory bail was dismissed by the High Court. We need to interrogate him in this case to elicit certain facts about the granite scam that has caused huge loss to the State exchequer. If he continues to remain at large even after the issuance of non-bailable warrant, we will seek the court's direction to declare him a proclaimed offender," Superintendent of Police V. Balakrishnan told The Hindu on Tuesday.
This process, besides allowing the police from any part of the country to arrest him, will help the Madurai district police to initiate the process of attaching his properties. The police have found that he owns around 1,700 acres, Mr. Balakrishnan said.
The Bureau of Immigration has already issued a look-out circular for Mr. Dayanithi based on a request from the police. The police have also requested the Regional Passport Office to impound his passport in order to prevent him from fleeing the country.
The special police team has so far arrested P. R. Palanichamy of PRP Exports and Granites, Panner Mohammed of Madura Granites, several employees of granite companies and government officials.
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While others have been charged with encroaching on poramboke and patta lands for massive illegal quarrying, the charges against Olympus Granites are unique. The company has been accused of "stealing" granite from the adjacent TAMIN quarry in connivance with TAMIN officials.
In fact, Olympus Granites had quarried only on 0.05 hectare of the 1.12 hectares at Keezhavalavu for which it had obtained permit for quarrying granite. According to a preliminary survey, the company quarried only around 468 cubic metres in its quarry even though it had paid seigniorage fee for the 2,300 cubic metres of granite it had transported.
"It is clearly evident that the company could not have transported so much of granite without stealing it from the nearby TAMIN quarry," the SP said.
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As corroborative evidence, the police have found that around 14,500 cubic metres of granite quarried from TAMIN was missing or not accounted for. Olympus Granites has been charged with violating the 10-metre safety distance between two quarries. Instead, rampant quarrying has merged both the quarries.
Three TAMIN officials – Senior Project Officer Manoharan, Project Officer Jawahar and assistant Raghupathi – have been arrested for having connived with Olympus Granites to steal its property. Resurvey of the quarries in question, with the help of total station (an electronic or optical instrument used in modern surveying), is under way.
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Recently i had a windows error that prevented me from logging into my profile, so i ended up doing a restore and that fixed the problem. But now like half of my programs are working, all failing to load. So i was thinking of just doing a clean install of windows and starting over. But the deal is that i dual boot my machine with linux mint, so i was wondering if it would be possible to do a clean install of windows 7 without having to delete the mint partition. thanks for the help in advance.
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Shouldn't be a problem. You should be able to delete the partition that windows resides on, create a new partition, then load Windows 7 in the newly partitioned space.
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These kids drank like Prohibition were lurking around the corner, and the girls they dated would have ended up in magazines even if they didn't have famous boyfriends. They had the kind of obvious good time that jealousy thrives on, a roving party that tends to obscure the reason they're able to have it in the first place. They made the papers just by showing up somewhere. Still, all they cared about was the music. Making it, being fans of it, everything and then some.
When it came to their songs, they were thieves, sure, but they were honest ones, owning up to every nicked riff, every burglarized idea, every plundered influence. Accuse these young guys of musical larceny, and they'd show you all the stuff you missed. Yeah, they'd say, you didn't even know about that, did you? They knew the future was built on the past, even if everyone else pretended otherwise, and that alone made them better than the rest.
In the 1960s, you knew these five musicians collectively as the Rolling Stones. Since 2001, they've gone by a new moniker: the Strokes. The more things change, and all of that.
See, music journalists threw out the same set of references when the group released its debut, Is This It, two years ago: Television, the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, the Modern Lovers, maybe. But we missed the most obvious parallel. It's all there. The charismatic front man (Julian Casablancas). The stylish guitarist (Albert Hammond Jr.). The genius guitarist (Nick Valensi). The solid, quiet bassist (Nikolai Fraiture). The solider, quieter drummer (Fab Moretti).
But the Strokes have something the Stones never did: friendship. Theirs is the kind of camaraderie that doesn't just emerge when the tape recorder is turned on, when the flashbulbs start popping. If you think it doesn't count, your group is about to break up. Again.
"It's pretty much like being married to four other people, you know?" Fraiture says with a quiet laugh, like he's enjoying a private joke. He's in Seattle, entering the home stretch of the Strokes' first tour supporting Room on Fire, the follow-up to Is This It that was released October 28. "It's kind of like newlyweds right now. There are times when it's tough, of course, when you're close to anybody for too long. Something chemical or something. For us, we all know what our goal is, and anything that gets in the way of that is just, uh, self-destructive and pointless. So we deal with it and get over it.
"Basically, we're all very close," he continues. "And playing music just makes that stronger. You know, it's something we actually think about a lot and we're very happy for. All the complicated bullshit stuff, like egos and that kind of thing, we dealt with before any kind of notoriety or success or anything at all. So we had a one-up on that already."
He's right, of course. If the Strokes hadn't already figured out how they fit together, the two years between Is This It and Room on Fire could have torn them apart. Not since Nirvana has a group been so scrutinized, held so responsible for sea changes in music, fashion and the culture in general. Even before their debut was released, they'd become a genre instead of a band, a lifestyle choice, a haircut, a T-shirt at Urban Outfitters. And not just at home. They have three fan sites in Brazil alone.
"It's definitely strange," Fraiture says. "It's also very relative. You can go to the U.K. and easily think you're the most amazing thing in the world. Or you can go to somewhere south of North America and just realize that nobody really gives a shit. It just depends on where you are and what you want to believe."
They're well-prepared for believing in what they think instead of listening to others, coming up as a band in NYC, playing to crowds filled with fellow musicians. "I mean, that's where that expression comes from: If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. It's because everybody's doing something, so they're very ready to put down whatever you're doing as soon as it comes out. So when you can win over a crowd like that...Malcolm X said the hardest to convert are your best followers. That's pretty much been the case in New York."
Sometimes, it doesn't matter where you are, because this is what follows you: tours, phone interviews, photo shoots, television appearances, magazine covers, endless hours in the studio, the pressure to do it again, fame, infamy, money, people who want your money. It all sounds fun when you talk about it after rehearsal. Not so much when it's your life. There's a reason why Behind the Music doesn't run out of material.
But the members of the Strokes decided long ago that it was all worth it, back when they were just five friends instead of The Band That Will Save Rock and Roll. So when it came time to make Room on Fire, they were the same people they were before. Not characters in a magazine profile, not a blind item on Page 6 of the New York Post. If anything, those two years made them stronger in this resolve.
"I think going into it the second time we had a little more experience, you know, in terms of music, in terms of being friends," Fraiture says. "And I think life in general. And Gordon [Raphael], our producer, as well: We'd played a lot of shows after recording with him, and he got a lot of jobs producing. So he got a lot better for the second album. It was kind of, in essence, the same process, but just with a lot of added things like that, like experience and things like that."
Which is why Room on Fire isn't so much a progression as it is a refinement. The songs are shorter and tighter, lean as an NFL wideout. The influences are updated, skipping from the mean streets of 1970s New York to the friendlier confines of early MTV (check the handclaps and Valensi's synth-like guitar leads on lead single "12:51"). They're growing as a band, but not into a different one. They still rely on Casablancas' last-call leering ("Meet Me in the Bathroom"), Moretti's drum-machine rhythms ("The Way It Is"), Fraiture's R&B bounce ("Automatic Stop") and guitarists who stab as much as strum (pretty much everywhere, but especially on "I Can't Win"). You could point out the lifts here and there (is the opening riff from Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen" or Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger?"--discuss), but there's no point. They belong to the Strokes now. Is this it again? Yes. In fact, it's even better.
It sounds almost effortless, but it wasn't. Not by a long shot. At times, the group spent 23 hours a day in the studio, tinkering with minute details. But this life is exactly what they wanted, as Fraiture says. This is the reason they put up with all the rest of it.
"I think the thing is we're just very excited about what we do and, you know, we have ideas in our heads and the way we feel we want our songs to sound. And as soon as we start getting into that, we just want to hear a finished product as soon as we can. Not for a deadline or anything. Just because we really want to. If we could, we'd work on music all the time. We'd love to write albums all the time, but the other part of that is touring and promotion that we have to do. They were rough hours, of course, but we enjoy the bonus afterwards."
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Nick (that's the cute guy, the cute NAKED guy – just to get you up to speed) and I are tucked away on a secluded nude beach somewhere in West Vancouver.
Nick, in all his naked glory, is ignoring my come hither to batting of my eyelashes; instead he starts swimming for a cluster of jutting rocks. Abandoned on the shoreline, in a state of rising mania and hypersexuality, I throw caution, jump out of my swimsuit and follow! And the water , the water is sooooo...goddamned COLD! But still I dive, sink into the clear salty water. Water glistens on my skin, my chest, my thighs lay bare to the sun and I float, bobbing in the briny ocean.


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My goal for this week is 3 pounds, taking me from 155.9 to 152.9 or lower.
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Girl's Ruffle Dress from Pillowcase
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Use a pillowcase to make a cute, ruffle dress for a young girl, up to 18 months. Pick up a pillowcase at a thrift store or use a spare. The ruffle disguises the origins of this cute and clever toddler dress, designed by Tiffany Bird.
- a large pillowcase (40 x 20 inches) or same amount of fabric (40 x 40 inches)
- matching thread
- 2 inch matching ribbon
- a button
- Flip the pillowcase inside out and lay flat. Then place a dress that is the size and fit you like for measurements. Using a washable fabric marker I marked the collar, armpits and the length of the dress.
- Add seam allowance to the markings on your pillowcase. I used 1/2 inch seam allowance everywhere unless noted otherwise in later instructions. The bottom of the dress I added 2 inches for the seam and the hem. I matched the shoulder of the pattern to the top of the pillowcase so I didn't have to sew that part. Once you marked your measurements, fold the pillowcase in half long ways then cut. I do this so the left side of the dress will be exact with the right side. Keep all your scrap pieces because you'll use them.
Tip: Make the collar a little straight at the bottom instead of rounded because you'll have the ruffles there.
- Cut strips for the other parts of the dress using remaining pillowcase. Large strip that goes down the middle of the dress is 3 1/2 x 20 inch. The ruffles are 4 x 40 inch strips, you'll need 2. The collar is 2 x 30 inch, this only has a 1/4 inch seam allowance. The V-split on the back of the dress is 1 1/2 x 6 inch, this also has a 1/4 inch seam allowance.
Tip: Use tape to mark each strip so you don't get them mixed up.
- Using scraps cut the sleeves. You'll need 4 pieces of 3 x 10 inch in the shape pictured below.
- Flip the dress right side out. On the back side of the dress, find the middle of the collar and cut a 3 inch slit. This is for the V-split (I don't know what the technical term for it is, so correct me if I'm wrong) closure on the back of the dress. Be careful not to cut the front of the dress too.
- Take the V-split strip (1 1/2 x 6 inch) and iron the 2 long sides with 1/4 inch seam into the wrong side of the fabric. Then fold in half and iron so you now have a 1/2 x 6 inch strip. Then pin it to the slit you just cut. The bottom of the V will have a fold. Make sure that's on the inside of the dress. Sew strip in place (see tip below) as close to the edge as you can.
Tip: The best way to pin is to open the V wide so it's a straight line. Pin then allow it to naturally fold back to a V. Same thing with sewing it.
- With the dress inside out, match the two sides of the V-split so the strip you just sewed on is in half and flat. Then sew the bottom of the V at a 45 degree angle.
- Moving to the front of the dress now. Iron the ruffle pieces in half the long way right side out. With the short ends of the ruffle pieces temporarily turned inside out, sew the two short ends. Iron them flat right side out again. Next, do a basting stitch down the open side at 1/4 inch seam with the right side out.
- Iron the 1/2 inch seam on both sides of the large middle piece then place down the middle of the dress. Pin it in place with the dress right side out, front side up. Scrunch the ruffle pieces and pin one side in place. Account for the 3/4 inch collar that will be at the top and the 2 inches at the bottom of the dress for the seam and hem. Sew a straight line from the top of dress all the way to the bottom to keep the strip and the ruffles in place. Then do the same to the second side. Trim off the excess at the top and the bottom from the large middle strip.
- Take the collar strip and iron 1/4 inch seam into the wrong side of the fabric on both of the long sides. Fold in half long way and iron right side out. At one of the short ends of the collar sew the end close with the wrong sides out. Flip right side out then iron. The collar should now be 3/4 inch wide. Starting from the back of the dress, pin the collar in place using the closed end matching one of the V-split ends.
- The collar piece should be longer than the collar on the dress. On the opened end of the collar strip, measure the end of the collar and add 1/4 inch for seam then trim off excess. Flip the opened end inside out and place the ribbon on the inside, touching the right side of the fabric. Make sure the ends of the ribbon matches the end of the open ended collar so it will be sewn in place with the seam. Sew the seam, flip right side out and iron. Sew the collar in place all the way around as close to the edge as you can.
- The sleeves. Match two pieces right sides together. Sew only the curved side at 1/4 inch seam. Flip right side out and iron. Do to both sleeves. Then pin the sleeves to the arms on the dress (see picture below). Sew the sleeves in place then use a serger or zig zag stitch the seam of the sleeve. Iron flat.
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This does what it states.Is a concealer not a highlighter, therefore is slightly thicker. Easy to apply with a brush. Stays put all day. I have the Fair. Covers dark rings around eyes & any blemishes perfectly. I apply after moisturizer before foundation. Looks good & natural. I think it is very good value because it is a tube & has a lot more in than a wand & you only need suck a little bit.
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It is a wonderful concealer!! I usually react to almost all kinds of foundation and concealers, but I can even use this on my cheeks without breaking out. The packiging is very good, and it is easy to squeeze out just the right amount. All in all, this is one of the few products that has turned into a HG for me!
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Great product which actually does the work all concealers are supposed to do - however, not all of them work on dark under eyes, shadows around the nose, below the lower lip, on red spots, pimples - you name it. My skin's dry but this one doesn't make it dryer, yet it has a great concealing power. And it stays long. A shop assistant recommended covering it with foundation but I always wear the concealer on top of everything else - this makes it most effective for me.
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I would say this is one of, if not THEE best concealer I have ever used. And let me tell you, I have tried A LOT of concealers! I was born with hereditary dark circles, puffiness, and thin under-eye skin. They are the kind of circles that if I don't cover them, people are asking me if I'm ok all day. They are quite embarrassing. But this product has by far out-shined the rest. The color "Light Buff" works very well on my NC15 skin tone. It is a bit darker/more yellow than my actual skin, but over the purpleness of my under-eye area it looks like a perfect match. It starts out very creamy/liquidy to blend out, but then after it sits for a bit it sets, which I LOVE. Even though I tend to have dry skin, it is not overly drying. It is just dry enough to stay in place, unlike some of those cream concealers that just move/slide all over the place until they are rubbed off by the end of the day. The coverage is also very build-able. Lay down a layer, let it dry/set, and then put another layer on if you need it. I don't think they have the most amazing shade range, so that may be the only difficulty I see some people having. But besides that, if you are on the fence about this product, JUST TRY IT! Or get a sample if you can. Because it has definitely been a Holy Grail product for me!
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Expensive, but does it's job well. Brightens my eyes and makes me look so much more well rested.
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To be honest, I first hesitated before I got this because it is costly - I am glad I got this. This concealer makes me happy because I am a junior in highschool that works late and wakes up early..thus creating the oh so lovely dark circles. It covers my dark circles well and makes me more awake.
My HG product. Will repurchase until I find a cheaper substitute that will do a similar job.
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I have very dark hereditary circles (light, yellow-based European skin) and I have been using this product pretty much every day for 10 years. It offers medium-heavy coverage depending on the amount you use.
When I'm going out on the town, I like to use Giorgio Armani's Master Corrector (the orange one) with Effarcernes over the top and YSL Touche Eclait in the corners and around my circles like a halo. A little powder on top and voila! Yes, this is a somewhat painful process but it works.
FYI, do not use this product without a primer or a good eye cream as it can be quite drying.
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Well... I heard so much about this and this is really not that good. I mean, it is an okay undereye concealer, but not that great. I think this is better than other undereye concealers in only one point: emphasizing expression lines. Other concealers may accentuate them a little more, but it's not like is a huge different. I guess I notice it just because I look at it really closely when applying. As for really concealing, it does an okay job, but it's not really great - and I don't even suffer from severe undereye circles, I'm very fortunate in that point, most of the days I can get away using just YSL Touche Éclat So, for this ridiculous price, for being so crazy expensive, this is crap. I mean, concealers costing at least half the price could do the same. I want to say that iI don't hate this product, I still use it, but for the price... honestly. Not worthy AT ALL.
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I love this concealer. I use it only on my undereyes, as it breaks me out anywhere else. It's a perfect colour match, I think it lasts (warning: I'm not too good at noticing things like this) and it doesn't settle into the fine lines under my eyes, unlike some other offenders *cough MAC cough*
I don't even care about the price - and this is coming from someone who hates spending lots of $$ on makeup. Effacernes is a quality product that does what it's supposed to.
I'm a brown-skin woman and I wear Bronze IV.
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Expensive, but definitely worth every penny. I bought this about a month ago and I couldn't be happier. I was in search of a concealer to hide this horrible discoloration under my right eye. People sometimes think its a black eye on bad days and running eyeliner or mascara on good days. I had been using the time balm concealer or kat Von d tatoo concealer. It never really hid it, just made it lighter. I came to grips that I would just have to live with it.
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She was absolutely right. You cannot see my 'black eye' at all now. It gives me a completely different (fresher) look. Now i can smudge my eyeliner uner my lower lash line and not look like i've had a rough night.
This was my first lancome purchase besides bi-facil. Somehow I thought it was too old lady and stuffy for my tastes. I guess I made up reasons because it seemed to high end. Well now I know why people love this.brand. I ordered the primer and a foundation since. I have high hopes for these two.
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Why Saul Alinsky, Author of "Rules" for Social Change, Would Probably Break Them Today
The "Sigmund Freud" of community organizing
In recent years, Saul Alinsky has become known for his connections to prominent figures inside Washington, D.C. In the 1980s, Barack Obama cut his political teeth as an organizer in an Alinskyite community organization, an initiative on the South Side of Chicago known as the Developing Communities Project. Hillary Clinton's undergraduate thesis at Wellesley College was entitled, "There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model." Because of these links, Glenn Beck featured Alinsky prominently on his maps of leftist conspiracy in America, and Newt Gingrich regularly used the organizer as a foil on the campaign trail in 2012.
There is some irony to these beltway associations, given that Alinsky built his reputation as an anti-establishment radical working squarely outside the domain of electoral politics. A Chicago native and son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Alinsky got his start organizing in the 1930s, inspired by CIO and United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis. In spite of mentoring from Lewis, Alinsky was convinced that the labor movement had grown lethargic and that American democracy needed "people's organizations" based outside the workplace—citizens' groups with roots in local communities.
In his first attempt to create such a group he founded the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, an effort to organize the ethnically diverse workers who lived behind the meatpacking plants featured in Upton Sinclair's muckraking 1906 novel, The Jungle. To fight the slum conditions facing this community, Alinsky packed the offices of bureaucrats with hundreds of residents and routed marches past the homes of local officials."Many confrontations and several months later," author Mary Beth Rogers writes, "Back of the Yards claimed credit for new police patrols, street repairs, regular garbage collection, and lunch programs for 1,400 children."
By 1940, with the help of funding from wealthy liberal Marshall Field III, Alinsky had created a nonprofit known as the Industrial Areas Foundation, or IAF, tasked with spurring organization in other urban neighborhoods. In the 1950s, Alinsky and Fred Ross worked through the IAF-supported Community Service Organization to improve living conditions for Mexican-Americans in California; there, Ross recruited a young organizer in San Jose named Cesar Chavez and another in Fresno named Dolores Huerta. (Only after years of training did Chavez and Huerta leave to form what would become the United Farm Workers.)
Among Alinsky's other prominent campaigns, he would work in the 1960s with black residents in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood to fight exploitative landlords and to challenge school overcrowding, and he would help community members in Rochester, N.Y., compel the Eastman Kodak Company to create a hiring program for African-American workers.
Alinsky taught through stories, usually exaggerated, always entertaining. In 1971 writer Nat Hentoff stated, "At 62, Saul is the youngest man I've met in years." Playboy interviewer Eric Norden agreed. "There is a tremendous vitality about Alinsky, a raw, combative ebullience, and a consuming curiosity about everything and everyone around him," Norden wrote. "Add to this a mordant wit, a monumental ego coupled with an ability to laugh at himself and the world in general, and you begin to get the measure of the man."
Alinsky's first book, Reveille for Radicals, became a bestseller when published in 1946; it blasted liberal-minded charity efforts and called for an indigenous American radicalism based in citizen action. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals came in 1971, near the end of Alinsky's life, and remains popular. It was recently circulated by Republican Dick Armey's organization FreedomWorks to Tea Party members curious about the book's methods, even if they are opposed to its goals. Its first chapter begins: "What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."
Frank Bardacke, author of a sweeping history of the United Farm Workers, recounts how Alinsky's principles for building power solidified into an identifiable organizing tradition: "With Saul as the fountainhead, community organizing has become a codified discipline, with core theoretical propositions, recognized heresies, disciples, fallen neophytes, and splits." He quotes Heather Booth, founder of the Midwest Academy, an Alinskyite training center for organizers, who calls Alinsky "our Sigmund Freud."
"What Booth means is that both Freud and Alinsky founded schools of thought," Bardacke explains, "but there is another, deeper link: the role of training and lineage. Just as psychoanalysts trace their pedigree back to the grand master (they were either analyzed by Freud or by someone who was analyzed by Freud … ) so Alinskyite and neo-Alinskyite organizers trace their training back to Alinsky himself."
Alinsky's influence today is felt not just in the IAF or Goehl's NPA—whose member groups range from Community Voices Heard in New York, to POWER in Los Angeles, to Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. It is also present in networks such as PICO, DART, USAction/Citizen Action, the Gamaliel Foundation, and the former branches of ACORN. Collectively these organizations claim several million members, and the tradition has spread internationally as well, with organizing trainings taking place in Europe, South Africa and the Philippines. Each of the networks, writes sociologist David Walls, is "indebted, in greater or lesser degree, to Alinsky and his early organizing programs in Chicago through IAF."
The power of small victories
The principle of "no electoral politics" took hold in the Alinskyite tradition based on the idea that community organizations should be pragmatic, nonpartisan, and ideologically diverse—that they should put pressure on all politicians, not express loyalty to any. Historian Thomas Sugrue writes that Alinsky "never had much patience for elected officials: Change would not come from top-down leadership, but rather from pressure from below. In his view, politicians took the path of least resistance."
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A funny thing happened to Terry Rasmussen on his way toward retirement as a basketball coach.
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The Cascade Christian boys basketball team got off to a slow start against one of the better Class 1A teams in the state but found its stride late in the contest on Monday.
Junior forward David Sellers poured in 19 points for the Challengers, who ran away with it in the second half of a 69-43 nonconference victory over Elkton at Cascade Christian High.
"We really got our fastbreak going in the second and fourth quarters and that really opened things up," said Challengers coach Brian Morse. "We spread the court well when we were attacking."
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Seedlings at the Greenhouse
Who knew an agent's life was so sleep-deprived? Pardon me if I just rest my eyes a moment (zzzzzz). Fact is, there's been a lot of midnight-oil-burning down at the Greenhouse this week: sitting at my desk wading through your manuscripts while the rest of the civilized world is comfortably watching CSI MIAMI with a glass of wine. Actually, I'm not quite telling you the full truth - because there has been rather a lot more going on this week, with early-morning calls to London at one end of the day, and Hollywood producers engaging me in somewhat surreal conversations (featuring phrases like 'attaching talent packages' at the other). It's all go in my time-zone in the middle!
I'm not going to tell you one word about most of what I've been doing this week (there are times and places to spill beans), so I shall pick up a few things from your submissions that made me groan, wince, or smile over the last few days - as always, in the interests of your Higher Good. I do not mean to be unkind. Here are some things to consider when submitting to the Greenhouse:
1. Cut and Paste: this is an evil device which can trap the unwary. If you are cutting and pasting your query or material into an email to send to lots of different people, make sure you actually address it to the right person. That is, me. Also, make sure you know I am an agent as opposed to anything else (like a publisher). I guess I'd like to believe you have taken a lot of time and care to choose me, rather than sending just the same thing to 2,657 other people in the Writers Handbook; please allow me my small self-delusion!
2. Famous People: do not liken your work to that of Philip Pullman, JK Rowling, Madeline L'Engle - or any other great writing star. You doom yourself and me to certain disappointment because they are great simply because they are GREAT! And anyway, we already have a Pullman and a Rowling and a L'Engle. What I want is YOU - if you are brilliant.
3. Gentlemen (especially): do not adopt a flirtatious tone in order to win me over to your proposed novel. This is not a dating agency and no, we are not a 'match made in heaven'. There is no clever way around the ruthless laser-beam of my totally idiosyncratic and personal literary judgements.
4. Plots: You know, the standard of what I'm seeing is mostly pretty high; so many of you are very serious about your writing. BUT - I lose count of the number of manuscripts I'm seeing that feature a school or home-based scenario, a bullied kid or one who doesn't fit in/isn't attractive enough. In a sense there ARE no new plots, but if you're going to write in areas that everyone else is writing in, it's going to be very hard to stand out; you need to shine like a star. I'd encourage you to cast your net wider and really work for a new plot angle. I don't know exactly how you do that - but that's why I'm an agent and not an author.
5. The Volte-Face: If I turn down your work, don't write straight back to me saying that actually you knew it was pretty awful, but you've improved a lot since you wrote that version and now you can do better. If it isn't the absolutely best work you've ever done and fervently believe you'll ever do, don't send it to me. Wait until it IS something that epitomises your skills.
I hope this helps. I'm trying to write you back a line or two of feedback, but it's testing my stamina with 100+ coming in each week. I really don't want to have to change my submission guidelines, so once again I'd say - please just send me work that is fully critiqued.
And by the way: here's a thought to leave you with. Would any of you like me to run a Greenhouse writing seminar one day? Hmm, now THAT'S a fun thought!
Happy weekend writing! (And yes, I am going to write a piece on the differences between the US and UK markets. Thanks to my correspondent for nudging me.)
Saturday, March 01, 2008
A Green Letter Day
This has been a week to remember. But first I have to tell you an amazing thing: TODAY I GOT MY GREEN CARD.
Yes, you read that right. After a journey of 13 months, during which I have been police-checked, finger-printed, vision-tested, X-rayed (twice, because first time it looked like there was a lump on my lung and that made me very undesirable as an immigrant), blood-tested (numerous times - and what is this obsession with syphilis?), financially assessed, and during which time I have produced several tons of paperwork, photos of the Greenhouse Husband and I in party hats and wedding outfits (to prove we really do know each other), and details of all my family over several decades . . . suddenly, suddenly, that little card plops into my mailbox and the stress, warnings, threats and constant anxiety are over. Praise be - especially as now I can come and go as I choose, and do business at the Bologna Book Fair knowing I can re-enter the States afterwards without fear. You have to be determined to make a life in the USA and right now I feel very, very proud to have got this far.
But it's been a milestone week in other ways too. Early in the week Greenhouse featured in Diane Roback's pre-Bologna previews in Publishers Weekly online. What a fabulous coup! And it happened on the very day I submitted Greenhouse's first major novel to about 10 US and 10 UK houses. Interest has poured in (lots of requests to read by film scouts), and I have a feeling that there might be another exciting week ahead for the Greenhouse, though I always believe in waiting until the chickens have hatched. Will keep you posted.
Things are really fast and furious right now and I've decided the only solution is to clone myself. That way I'd be able to get to your queries and submissions a whole lot faster, though I am chomping my way through slowly but surely. The quality is mostly pretty high, but it takes a lot more than that. Your work has to leap right out at me as something really, really special - and that means potentially saleable to houses that have only a very few available slots for debut writers. As the saying goes, Many are called but few are chosen. Of necessity, because each client I take on represents a lot of time and commitment on my part. What is really hard to find is the big, potentially international blockbuster - the kind of work that will fire up a publishing house on both sides of the Atlantic. Those come around very rarely and I wish I could give you a formula, but I can't. Instead I'll say: think big, think global, think commercial, think dramatic, think ambitious. You see? I knew that wouldn't help you.
But right now, it's my very own Green Letter/Card Day - and I'm off to celebrate! Cheers - and take care.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
The Mini Cooper School of Writing
So I'm safely back at my desk, with 14,672 submissions to read and an inbox that's emitting radioactive sparks (actually, just kidding about the number of submissions: it's really 14,671). One email, however, has particularly stuck in my mind, and I'm hoping my correspondent won't mind me mentioning it (in the interests of the Higher Good of other readers). This emailer tells me that they've been wanting to write a book for ages and are now seeking an agent to guide them through the novel-writing process. Hmm, yes. Well actually, the best thing is really to write the novel first - BEFORE you seek an agent. But it brings me back to something I've mentioned before - that with so many support groups and networking opportunities available, it may be easy to forget that the real point of it all is . . . sitting down and doing the writing!
Which brings me to what I shall call the Mini Cooper School of Writing. You see, when I first came to the States last Fall, my husband very kindly sold the 'man-car' (a big black thing) and we invested in a snappy red-and-black Mini Cooper (please note, it does about 40 miles to the gallon which makes it quite a suitable Greenhouse vehicle). Boy, that is one sweet motor! One touch of my cowboy boot to the accelerator and those minivans are history . . . But I digress. The thing is, after toy-town Britain, driving here seemed very scary: such huge highways, so many lanes, so few road signs. It seemed all too likely that I'd be swept off down to Richmond or somewhere, never to be seen again. So, I spent a lot of time memorising maps, learning road names and even programming the Garmin - anything rather than actually venture out on to the streets! Until suddenly I got it: making mistakes was not only inevitable, it was actually the only way I was going to learn. There was no way around getting hooted occasionally at the lights or having rude signs made at me when I chose the wrong filter lane. It was all simply a necessary part of gaining confidence - and making sure I never made the same mistake twice. And gradually, very gradually, I've improved.
So don't be scared. Boot up the computer, work out your plot and get writing. It may be rubbish, but in six months time you may be capable of something better than rubbish. Expose your writing to your harshest critic and keep working and working to improve it; be prepared to tear it up and start again if you're not 100% happy with it. Don't jump to find an agent - regard yourself as a writing in training, apprenticed to your craft. After all, if you were learning to paint would you think yourself ready to exhibit in a few weeks?
Put your pedal to the metal and get going. It's a Mini Cooper world!
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
My bags are packed, I'm ready to go . . .
Blogging is an extraordinary thing. Now the Greenhouse is 'out there' and submissions are pouring in (about 40 today and counting; do I laugh? do I have a nervous breakdown?), I'm starting to get the sense of an embryonic GH community developing. It's an amazing feeling - so many people I've never met opening the Greenhouse door and peeking in. So, whether you're from Wyoming or Wolverhampton, Denver or Dorset, a warm welcome to you! I do hope you're enjoying the site and that your writing is producing some new green shoots as a result.
I expect you're expecting an insightful word from me on the state of the literary scene. Well, I'm afraid it ain't going to happen tonight because literary agents are real people too. Here I am with a half-packed suitcase, papers everywhere, and on course to get a flight back to the US tomorrow that has had to be postponed by a day due to unbelievable numbers of crises (today's: a large crack developing across the ceiling that has needed emergency treatment from a builder before it falls down). I'm looking forward to getting back to Greenhouse HQ and looking through your submissions to the comforting backdrop of the snoring Greenhouse hound. There are many excitements coming up: 1) a long-awaited manuscript to read on the plane by a really talented new writer 2) a second new author I'm dying to sign up and 3) a Big Book going out to publishers at the end of February. Plus 4) the manic countdown to Bologna just beginning. All pretty cool, eh!
Have to admit, it's not been an easy week. So a big thank you to Robert from Who-Knows-Where for sending me the kindest of notes. Cheers! (As we British like to say.)
Thursday, February 14, 2008
SCBWI: From New York to London
Hi there, y'all, from a cold and bleak London, where the sky today hung heavy as white lead. It's been a crazy few days - two cities, two flights, but one common thread: SCBWI (for anyone who doesn't know, this stands for the Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators). New York was a hectic weekend and my first taste of the SCBWI US Winter Conference. The size, impact and diversity of SCBWI US is quite inspiring, and it was great to meet so many old and new friends, from SCBWI organisers to publishers to authors and illustrators. There's no doubt that if you're an American would-be writer, there's no shortage of support and guidance available - all fabulous, so long as it doesn't stand in the way of actually writing! Highlights of the conference had to be author Carolyn Mackler's funny and touching speech about her journey as a writer, and Susan Patron's disarming story of her life-changing year as a Newbery winner for THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY.
Then it was a flight home (delayed,and returning to a power failure!), a quick unpack and repack of suitcases, and back to the airport the next morning for my flight to London - my first trip back for four months (thanks to US immigration) and a reunion with much-missed family as well as business meetings. But the highlight of the trip must surely be last night's reception at Foyles in Charing X Road (London's most famous bookstore) for the twelve winners of SCBWI UK's very first 'Undiscovered Voices' writing competition (sponsored by my parent company) for which I was one of the judges last Fall. Wonderful David Almond (author of SKELLIG, among many other award-winning novels) spoke about his own at times bumpy journey along the road to publication, and I really believe he had a word for every aspiring author in the room who has started to face that unpredictable rollercoaster ride. It was lovely to see twelve newly recognized writers finding their feet and published for the very first time in the special anthology that has been put together to showcase their work. Good luck to you all!
So here's to the wonderful SCBWI, all branches thereof, and huge thanks to an organization that does so much to promote writing for children and teens around the world. And I'll see you all again soon - back at my desk in the Commonwealth of Virginia!
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Because reading can change a life
There was a fascinating article in the Washington Post this week - the author (appropriately enough, Thomas Washington) an upper-school head librarian in nearby McLean. Quoting the usual dire statistics about literacy and reading (less than a third of 13 year olds are daily readers; the percentage of 'non-readers' at age 17 has doubled in the last 20 years to 19% in 2004; multi-tasking kids can't focus on any item for longer than nine minutes), Washington concludes that the tipping point in information overload has finally tipped, that we've turned into searchers rather than readers, and that none of us is immune from the daily barrage of information, emails, documents and other literature that has to be scanned at speed if we're to keep up, to distil what is crucial, in order to move on to the next task. He quotes Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff: 'Increasingly we deal in atomized bits of information, the hors d'oeuvres of education.' And which of us grown-ups could say we're immune?
He's right - it's very hard nowadays to take time to admire form, rhythm and content. Did it used to be different? Yes, I think it did. Whereas high school 'texts' are now so much about comprehension in sliced-up form, I remember reading incredibly widely during my final two years at school, keeping a special book to log what I'd read. Did it seem terribly difficult to fit it in? Not really; and yet I know most schoolkids today would find that kind of eclectic reading virtually impossible amid all the testing.
So what should we agents and publishers make of it? Does it really matter what books hit the shelves if no one's really concentrating on them anyway? Yes, yes and yes, it does matter. Because out there words ARE hitting the spot - and they can change lives. For me, discovering a passion for books and a delight in language as a young teenager brought me self-belief - and a brilliant jewel box of meaning that I could play with and savour. Language liberated me and empowered me - and a few years later gave me my path in life. Good stories take you to faraway places, they make you wise beyond your experience, and they give you friends you would never have had otherwise. Am I just living in the past? Has that world totally vanished? No, because our neighbours' daughter Miriam is just like I was - hungry to read, thrilled by words, and in awe of great writers.
So to Miriam - and to all the young people out there who are finding themselves through words . . . Keep reading! It will change your life.


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