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Quest Diagnostics is the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services that patients and doctors need to make better healthcare decisions. We offer the broadest access to diagnostic testing services through our network of laboratories and patient service centers, and provide interpretive consultation through our extensive medical and scientific staff. Quest Diagnostics is a pioneer in developing innovative diagnostic tests and advanced healthcare information technology solutions that help improve patient care.
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- Quest Diagnostics is the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services
- Generated 2013 revenues of approximately $7.1 billion
- Publicly trades common stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: DGX). More in Investor Relations
- Ranks as a component of the Standard & Poor's 500
- Touches the lives of 30 percent of American adults each year
- Serves about half of the physicians and hospitals in the U.S
- Engages workforce of about 41,000 employees dedicated to putting patients first every day
- Operates more than 2,200 patient service centers
- A medical and scientific staff of more than 700 M.D.s and Ph.D.s Strong logistics capabilities, including approximately 3,000 courier vehicles and 20 aircraft that collectively make tens of thousands of stops daily
- Offers physicians a test menu that is industry leading in breadth and innovation. Our test menu ranges from routine biological tests to complex and specialized molecular and gene-based testing as well as anatomic pathology
- Provides broad range of solutions for employers, including workplace drug testing for employers and government agencies; the BluePrint for Wellness employee wellness service; and risk assessment services for the life insurance industry
- Publishes original research in peer reviewed publications, at medical and scientific conferences, and as a public service. Quest Diagnostics Health Trends reports examine trends in diseases based on the company's United States database. Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index (DTI) reports examine trends in workplace drug testing, and have been considered a benchmark for U.S. workforce drug positivity trends since 1988
- Ranked the No. 1 company in the Health Care industry category of "Pharmacy and Other Services" on FORTUNE magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies" list in 2013
- Ranked 341 on Fortune magazine's Fortune 500 list for 2013
- Ranked 1090 on the Forbes Global 2000 for 2013
- Ranked 267 in the "Barron's 500" ranking of top-performing large companies for 2013
- Named a member of the Dow Jones® Sustainability World and North America indexes since 2004 (DJSI World) and 2005 (DJSI North America). The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index represents the top 10% of the leading sustainability companies out of the biggest 2,500 companies in the Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market Index
- Quest Diagnostics earned a place on the annual Newsweek Green Rankings, for the third consecutive year, placing 177 on the U.S. 500 list
- Ranked Platinum-level "Best Employer for Healthy Lifestyles" by the National Business Group on Health in 2012
- Consistently named one of the best places to work in U.S. business journal rankings
- Achieved Cancer Gold Standard™ accreditation from the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, recognizing our important actions to reduce the cancer risk of employees and their families
Read more about awards and honors.
Products and Services
- Diagnostic information services
- Clinical trials
- Healthcare IT
- Wellness & risk management
- Drug Screening
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Global Presence
- Headquarters in the U.S.: 3 Giralda Farms, Madison, NJ 07940
- Approximately 2,200 patient locations and dozens of clinical laboratories throughout the U.S.
- In addition to the U.S., Quest Diagnostics operates clinical laboratories in laboratory facilities in Gurgaon, India; Heston, England; Mexico City, Mexico; and San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Apr 3rd 2012 11:44AM With druids getting a 4th spec I think Blizz should allow for an additional spec (or change an existing one) for the 4 "pure" classes.
Lock: Melee with good CDs for Physical dmg or Magic Dmg
Rogues: Avoidance tanks that dont add poisons on the mob but instead use them to increase avoidance e.g. Slippery Poison: increase dodge by X% (only usuable in Y spec)
Hunters: Pet/ranged tank (this could be difficult/fun). Specific tank pet builds, still control your hunter but he does little DPS.
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Scattered Shots: Mists of Pandaria raid buff changes and hunters {WoW}
Mar 16th 2012 7:08AM Noooo then my original Ghost Wolf would be less special :)
Actually add more pets that are REALLY hard to tame, and not just on a long respawn timer.
Taming the Ghost wolf when it took 3 people (hunter, shammy and a priest) and needed a metagem proc and heroism was really cool, especially as we could join up whenever we had time and not when we lucked out on a spawn
Is it time to kill daily quests? {WoW}
Mar 16th 2012 6:13AM You know SWTor has dailys as well (I know I'm playing it)
WoW Insider's Weekly Webcomic: Safe Passage -- Convergence {WoW}
Mar 15th 2012 11:00AM They are good at dying??
Totem Talk: Restoration shaman buffs and debuffs in Mists of Pandaria {WoW}
Mar 14th 2012 11:15AM As long as they give hunters the option of a pet that brings 5% haste I'll be happy enough as a healer (druid)
All druids, shammys and priests in my guild are needed with their healing boots on.
Ghostcrawler discusses Mists of Pandaria buff and debuff design {WoW}
Mar 9th 2012 5:15AM Except that the 3 specs that bring the +5% haste buff are also those that can heal.
I know in my guild it is almost impossible to get the 5% haste buff as one by one our priests and boomkins have gone heal (and its almost impossible to find a shammy)

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It's the healthy eating edition of Works for Me Wednesday and my printer is fired up and ready to go! I can hardly wait to go check out all the great low fat healthy recipes I'm sure to find over at Rocks In My Dryer.
My recipe is for delicious low fat Chocolate Chip cookies! Yum…with the addition of whole wheat flour and applesauce these cookies are as good for the tastebuds as they are for the waistline. The trick of course is not to eat the whole batch!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups whole-wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup reduced-calorie stick margarine – softened
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup applesauce
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 large egg white
1/2 cup reduced fat semisweet chocolate chips (although I've never been able to find the reduced fat kind myself)
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Combine first 4 ingredients in a bowl; stir well. Set aside. Combine margarine and sugars in a large bowl; beat at medium speed of a mixer until light and fluffy. Add applesauce, vanilla, egg and egg white; beat well. Add dry ingredients; beat at low speed until well-blended. Stir in chips. Drop dough by level teaspoons, 1 inch apart, onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake for 12 minutes or until almost set. Remove from oven; let stand 2 to 3 minutes or until firm. Remove cookies from pans; let cool on wire racks.
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Interim rules released by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) in October wrap up a proceeding related to recordkeeping and notice requirements for digital audio services — referred to as Internet radio, webcasting, streaming or simulcasting — that have been unresolved in terms of streaming services since they became subject to copyright royalties in 2002.
Since April 2004 Internet radio stations were supposed to be keeping detailed records about the songs they were playing. The problem was that the CRB had not specified what, if anything, was to be done with those records. That has now been resolved.
The records, or at least a portion of them, will have to be sent to Sound Exchange, the monitoring agency created by the recording industry to keep track of streaming royalty obligations and payments. This means that copyright holders in musical and other works will be receiving all the information required to receive royalties for these performances, so it is likely that enforcement against online infringers will increase. (Under the current legal framework, to play music over-the-air, a radio station needs to deal only with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. But to play music over the Internet requires a separate payment to Sound Exchange.)
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Paying is only part of the equation. To accommodate the need for an accurate basis to assess royalties, the Copyright Office permitted Sound Exchange to require radio stations to do the necessary recordkeeping themselves. On March 11, 2004, interim rules were announced that required every radio station streaming over the Internet to compile records of every song played. These reports of use must contain detailed information regarding each song played on the station, including the transmission category code, the name of the performer, the Sound Recording Identification, consisting of the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) or the album title and marketing label, and information on the number of performances of that song.
These reports must be filed only for two seven-day periods within each quarter. These seven-day periods do not have to be consecutive to each other, nor do they have to start or end on a Sunday. In the new rules published in October, the CRB specified the format in which these reports must be filed with Sound Exchange. The CRB attempted to create a reasonable system for creating, maintaining and delivering these records to Sound Exchange. Noting that broadcasters were looking for the most expedient and practical means to comply, while Sound Exchange wanted the most useable format, the CRB essentially sided with Sound Exchange on most reporting form issues.
As a result, all filings must be in electronic format. They must be in spreadsheet form (using either Microsoft Excel or Corel's Quattro Pro) and must be encoded in ASCII. This quarterly report can be sent to Sound Exchange by e-mail or other electronic means. Moreover, Internet webcasters must now file with Sound Exchange all quarterly reports of use dating back to April 1, 2004, as well as every quarter going forward.
To summarize, any radio station that is simulcasting its over-the-air signal on the Internet, or creating unique content of any type and streaming it on the Web, must have on file at the Copyright Office a Notice of Use of Sound Recordings Under Statutory License; pay copyright royalties on a monthly basis; file records of use on a quarterly basis consistent with the new format; and comply with the requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act intended to prevent musical piracy, many of which contain strict controls on playlists.
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By Andrea Lillo
While Thomas Edison's commercially viable electric incandescent light bulb in the late 1800s dramatically changed how we live, it's now undergoing a change of its own, as new lighting regulations take place next month nationwide.
As of Jan. 1, 2012, 100-watt incandescent light bulbs must meet new efficiency standards (generally, about 30 percent more efficient) by reducing wattage but maintaining lumen levels according to the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007. Regulations for 75-watt incandescent bulbs take place Jan. 1, 2013, and 60- and 40-watt bulbs on Jan. 1, 2014, throughout the U.S. (California is the exception, as it's enacted or will enact the regulations one year earlier, with 100-watt incandescent bulb regulations having taken place as of this past January. Next month, the 75-watt incandescent bulb regulations will take effect in that state.)
New regulations will be enacted in 2020, when all "A-lamps" will be held to a single efficacy requirement of 45 lumens per watt.
For the past six years Kichler has indicated to its customers which of its collections are compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb friendly, both physically and aesthetically. The shape of the CFL is considered in the design process, said Jeff Dross, Kichler's director of education and industry trends. It has a larger base than the incandescent, for example, and that creates a different shadow pattern, he said, so they have to think about how to lessen the shadow, perhaps with a wider piece of glass. The company also has to make sure the shade is high enough to cover the top of a CFL. In addition, using a creamy glass for the shade makes "it impossible to tell if it's a CFL at all."
Other manufacturers felt that their designs are not as affected, "as the CFL will fit where the 100-watt bulb would also fit," said Lee Schaak, chairman, Adesso.
But Schaak added that these new regulations are nothing like Title 20, the California law targeting portables and intended to reduce electrical energy consumption in the state. "Luckily, [the EISA] regulation is not completely disruptive like Title 20 is. We can focus on being lamp manufacturers. Title 20 forces us to be part-time bulb suppliers, which is not good for consumers. We hope the federal law will eventually trump the Title 20 laws in California."
Fred Oberkircher, associate professor emeritus, Texas Christian University, College of Fine Arts, said many lighting showrooms have found that consumers are bringing in their portable lamps to have them reconfigured to fit three-way bulbs—an incandescent bulb currently exempted from EISA—as a way to bypass the new regulations. He is giving a hands-on presentation on what light bulbs do qualify under the regulations during January's Dallas International Lighting Market.
"Many industries have been reinvented over the last few decades, it is now our turn," said Brad Smith, CEO, E.L.K. Lighting. "The new lighting regulations will create the equivalent of a modern day Renaissance period for the industry. We will witness more artistic developments and technological contributions in the next decade than we have experienced cumulatively over the last 100 years."
Retailer Bulbs.com believes most consumers have no idea that the regulations will soon take place. "It will be very interesting to see what the real fallout will be," when people go to their stores next year and see that the [100-watt] incandescents are no longer available, said Mike Connors, CEO, Bulbs.com.
And it's not only consumers who are in the dark. Dross spoke to a group of interior designers over a year ago and none of them was aware of the regulations. "Even professional people are confused" about the new laws, he said. "There will be more impact as more light bulbs are impacted," such as the 75- and 60-watt incandescents as those regulations kick in. Right now, the regulations are "not yet linked in to how people are thinking."
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It may have the vast majority of the light bulb market, but times, they are a-changing for traditional incandescents.
CFLs are leading the pack of alternatives. "They're big, big, big for businesses, and big for consumers," said Bulbs.com's Connors.
CFLs are inexpensive and are much better than they used to be—they're smaller now and their color is better than before, Dross said. The challenge with CFLs are to counter "the bad perception they have" due to earlier versions, said Dross.
"Today's CFLs are not your father's CFLs," said Bulbs.com's Bryan Trainor, vice president, marketing.
In addition, LEDs are "lighting things up in a big way" as well, said Connors. While the prices of LEDs have been prohibitive to consumers in the past, they are coming down, and he's seen price drops even within the past year.
Price is definitely an issue. "The majority [of people] is not going to pay $45 for a light bulb," Dross said. The price "needs to come down," and he believes $2 to $3 per bulb is the key price point.
Another alternative is the halogen bulb. "Few manufacturers are promoting this type of bulb," said Trainor. "It's not gaining momentum, [however,] because incandescents are still out there."
Some consumers may just try to avoid energy efficient bulbs altogether by buying other incandescent bulbs that are exempted from the regulations—such as a three-way incandescent bulb. But increased sales of exempted bulbs may result in having them added to the list of regulated bulbs in the future.
Some consumers are having a hard time letting go of incandescents. Bulbs.com has seen people order $1,500 worth of incandescent bulbs on its site, and 60- and 100-watt incandescent bulbs are among its top three selling bulbs, Connors said. "We've had to play catch up all year."


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Wearing a fancy new airbag backpack isn't going to guarantee your safety in avalanche terrain. A better bet is to understand the conditions that cause avalanches, and for that you should take a course. The American Avalanche Institute's three-day Level 1 Avalanche course ($274) teaches students to mind the red flags—heavy snowfall, collapsing or cracking snowpack, visible avalanche activity—and to recognize safe and unsafe terrain accordingly. Sometimes the most important red flag is the group itself, according to AAI's Sarah Carpenter. "If you've got a group that's tired and hungry, that's just as much of a red flag as a foot of snow in 24 hours," says Carpenter. That group might take a shortcut through avalanche prone terrain just to get home sooner, and end up getting buried. The course begins in the classroom and then moves to the field for practice with transceivers and organizing rescues. The second and third days are spent in the field recognizing avalanche terrain and digging pits in the snow to analyze the snowpack. AAI's courses are held only in Jackson Hole, Bozeman, and Salt Lake, so combine one with a ski vacation. Your buddies, even the tired and hungry ones, will thank you.
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Learn about the CantonWiki with creator, George Hotelling on Wednesday, July 7th, from Noon-1:00PM. This program is the first session in our Summer School for Small Business program. George will instruct how to create and edit CantonWiki.org and how it can be a great marketing tool for your business. No registration required.
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that is a synapse 19 yes? I can't see the size mentioned anywhere - apologies if I've missed it.
From the list I thought it must be a 25 but the pic with the MCB looks like a 19.
(of course being young and slim does help fit those short dresses in.... :-) I don't think I could manage it :-( )
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photo by Romulo Yanes
Makes 18 to 20 hors d'oeuvres
active time
25 minutes
total time
25 minutes
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup buckwheat flour*
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs, separated
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh dill or chives
- 8 oz thinly sliced smoked salmon, cut into small pieces
- Garnish: chopped fresh dill or chives
Make pancakes:
Whisk together dry ingredients in a large bowl. Whisk together yolks and milk in a small bowl, then whisk into dry ingredients. Beat egg whites in another large bowl with an electric mixer until they hold soft peaks, then fold into flour mixture. Add 3 tablespoons butter and fold until batter is smooth.
Lightly brush a 10- to 12-inch nonstick skillet with some of remaining butter, then heat over moderate heat until hot but not smoking. Working in batches of 4, spoon about 1 1/2 tablespoons batter per pancake into skillet and cook until surface of pancakes bubbles, 1 to 2 minutes, then flip and cook 1 minute more. Transfer to a plate and keep warm, covered. Brush skillet with butter between batches.
Make topping:
Stir together all topping ingredients except salmon until combined, then dollop on pancakes and top with salmon.
*Available at natural foods stores.
Cooks' note: You can substitute 2 ounces of caviar for the smoked salmon.
my notes
- Calories81
- Carbohydrates5 g (2%)
- Fat5 g (8%)
- Protein4 g (8%)
- Saturated Fat3 g (14%)
- Sodium181 mg (8%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Fiber0 g (1%)
- Monounsaturated Fat2 g
- Cholesterol34 mg (11%)
recipe at a glance
type: Quick & Easy, Cake
main ingredients: Dairy, Fish, Salmon, Sour Cream
cuisine: Eastern European/Russian
holiday/celebration: Cocktail Party, Spring


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Yes, it is a salvia greggii bi-color. I don't know the botanic name, but it has several common names in the Texas nurseries, such as 'rosie.' I have had one in the ground for 6 years. My observations are that it is not as strong a grower as the other greggii and does not always stay evergreen here. Also, the hummers seem to shun it so the scent must not be as strong. Merely my observations...on the other hand, any salvia is a great plant. MaryAnn |
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Something is eating my sunflower seedlings. I found a lot of these around the area. Could this be the culprit? |
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"We make the complaint, yet we're investigated."
And exonerated. The investigation's measured findings stand in marked contrast to the rhetoric of VanderMolen's disciples, which was becoming more and more strident as the weeks went on. "So, let me get this straight," wrote Debra Lewis, whose husband had founded the "New Thomas Paine Committee" that publishes the Right Wing Chronicle. "Our school board and administration feel that it's more important for their employees to work in an environment free from hostility than, say, our students?"
The AAA team found that Sixkiller and Schell had been subjected to a "hostile and intimidating work environment" for years, and all thanks to VanderMolen. The situation had become so tense that by the mid-Eighties, Schell requested a transfer to another school; when no openings became available, she stayed on. But tensions increased when the ninth grade was folded into LHS and the department increased to six teachers, including Sixkiller; scheduling the facilities became increasingly difficult--as did VanderMolen. In October 1991 Schell submitted her resignation as chair of the physical education department. "My reasons for resigning boil down to one individual on our staff, Dave VanderMolen," she wrote Principal Aschenbrenner. "While I have thoroughly enjoyed working with members of our department over the years, I can truly say that Mr. VanderMolen has not been easy to work with as a person or as a professional...Mr. VanderMolen does not follow course guidelines as written in the student course description book and has commented numerous times that he will not `change.' He displays a `my way or no way' attitude."
Aschenbrenner and several other members of the department convinced Schell to stay on. But the problems continued. Although LHS adopted a weight-training program at VanderMolen's suggestion, the coach himself refused to adhere to the guidelines, making scheduling difficult. For example, the AAA team noted, in 1992 "Sixkiller agreed to take only half the gym for her class, although it meant that half of her class sat idle...She ceded the other half to VanderMolen's class, who would engage in a recreational sport on the off days from weight training." And so it went its petty way until May 1994, when Sixkiller, VanderMolen and Schell "started on a collision course," the team noted. The fight began when VanderMolen took the softball gloves, even though Sixkiller's class was scheduled to use the equipment. Schell reported the incident to Aschenbrenner, who convened department lunch meetings to smooth things over. They remained rough.
It didn't help that Schell overheard VanderMolen in a local cafe, bragging at a prayer breakfast with two of his Amway salesmen that he'd "pulled the wool over the department's eyes." And then there was the matter of the mat that Schell and Sixkiller had affixed to the back of the basketball backboard to protect students using the new climbing wall. Although the gymnastics coach had marked the mat for "discard," VanderMolen claimed that the two women had taken one of his wrestling mats. He was still stewing over it months later, complaining about the "dumb women" to anyone who would listen. To others, he was complaining about a lot more. According to the AAA investigators, before last fall's football tournament game in Durango, VanderMolen told a former football parent that "things are going great except that I am having trouble working with the lesbians in the P.E. department." He asked one Ironworks student, "Who taught you to do those squats? Those men-haters?" He asked another if she felt uncomfortable undressing before Sixkiller.
In their investigation, the AAA team looked into the locker room, where Schell's office window was entirely blocked by a poster. "The Fact-Finders interviewed many young women [including students whose names were suggested by VanderMolen] about Schell and Sixkiller's conduct in the locker room and elsewhere," the team reported "and, uniformly, were told that they never said or did anything that these young women considered inappropriate."
On the other hand, the team considered VanderMolen's behavior out of line on several occasions and recommended that he not be allowed to return to LHS. The rest of the physical education department concurred. (Head football coach Gordon Cramer, who had worked with VanderMolen for more than twenty years, told a reporter, "If whoever in their wisdom decides he's going to be back here, then I'm going to be somewhere else.") The rest of the faculty also concurred, as did many of the students. So did Bishopp and new St. Vrain Superintendent Roger Driver, who happens to have replaced another man accused of sexual harassment. VanderMolen had to go.
It was only VanderMolen and his ardent supporters who did not agree. The deposed coach elevated his cause to a holy crusade, arguing that he was being punished for his religious beliefs. "That's insulting on a personal level," says Schell. "I was born and raised in the Catholic faith, and I consider myself a Christian." Even so, VanderMolen was so convincing that he attracted an unexpected, uninvited ally: Colorado for Family Values rescheduled its "Time to Stand" seminar for the Boulder/Longmont area to March 31, advertising it with the headline, "Longmont, will you take a few hours to stand against the forced affirmation of homosexuality?" And as much as CFV founder Kevin Tebedo argued that the seminar was not pegged to current events in Longmont, the next line, "What does Longmont do when open homosexuals are allowed to advocate their lifestyle to our children in our schools?" clearly belied that.


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The Ridiculous Reality of Government Has Surpassed Humor and Satire
by Lee Camp
I'm honored to have been chosen as the Secretary of Comedy and Arts for the Green Shadow Cabinet. However, I must say that I feel I have the hardest job in the entire governmental body — far more difficult than, say, the President or that other guy who makes the President's decisions. Why do I believe I have the hardest job? Because we live in a country where reality has lapped satire and surpassed humor altogether.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is set to be the largest trade deal in history, likely giving international corporations the right to bring legal action against the United States for enforcing our own environmental laws. So we're passing a trade deal to give other countries the right to tell us what to do on our own land?! How does a comedian go about exaggerating that? We live in a hyperbole! We exist in an inflated dark metaphor that cannot be topped!
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With it being practically impossible for anyone without a car and a full tank of fuel to cross the city, I've just come back from volunteering down the street at the Williamsburg Church emergency blood drive. Right now New York is in a blood crisis. When the hospitals were evacuated during the storm, there was no time to collect the blood left in storage banks when the power went out, and by the time they got everyone to safety, that blood had rotted. Now they need new blood desperately.
When me and my friend Veronica Varlow went down to the Church to open our veins for the cause, I was told that my tangy British blood was not acceptable because I might be riddled with mad cow disease (this from people who haven't even read my Twitter feed). They did, however, need volunteers to help shepherd those donors who were waiting patiently in line for up to three hours to hand over pints of superior all-American hemoglobin. So, I pinned on a badge and spent a few hours buzzing around filling out forms for people, cleaning tables and chairs, handing out snacks and tea and generally making myself useful. Even doing something so small to help the people helping to rebuild the city felt powerful.
Blood: when disasters happen, I'm always struck by the readiness with which people queue up to restock the banks of blood, platelets, and plasma. In the days after September 11, 2001, the donation centers had to start turning people away, and indeed, here at the Williamsburg Church we're doing the same thing; with the donation line already thirty people deep, we're running around with sign-up sheets where eager donors can leave their name and number in case we need more blood tomorrow.
There's something so tender about that impulse. Sure, it says, we could raise money or go and help pump water out of basements in the Lower East Side, but wouldn't it be simpler just to give you this part of my own body that was pumping in my heart five minutes ago? I'm pretty sure that if the New York blood centre were to put the call out tomorrow asking people to donate a pound of flesh cut from the chest closest to the heart because someone stranded on Staten Island needs it, there'd be plenty of volunteers, and not all of them would be kinky Shakespeare fetishists.
When there's a crisis on, people want to help. Running around with the snack basket I was reminded of the floods of volunteers who gave their time, money and expertise to the Occupy camps last year. Practical anarchism. Everyone so keen to do whatever they could to help. Not just the kids from all over the country who kicked in their lives to sleep in the cold and be arrested multiple times in the name of a better future, but the shop owners who shipped out their spare produce. The trained nurses who turned up to administer basic medical care to those who had none. The parents who donated freshly-baked pies and soups to the kitchens. The librarians and academics who created an enormous library that, almost a year ago, I watched the NYPD rip apart and hurl into dumpster trucks, just because it was messing up their nice clean corporate dead-zone.
It's no accident that the original Occupy Wall Street organizers were among the first to set up and co-ordinate volunteering efforts across New York. The group, which has drifted in recent months, immediately set about organizing teams and transportation to the worst-hit areas. The Zuccotti Park protest camp which was evicted last November and the enormous post-Sandy volunteer effort going on this week are different expressions of the same thing: overwhelming human response to crisis.
Crisis is what people in the United States have been living with for at least four years. Active emergency, turning people out of their homes and into the cold, destroying lives. It's not crass to compare a climate disaster to a juddering crisis of capitalism, because the two are connected, not least because those most responsible are also those most likely to be snugly tucked away in gated compounds shrugging their shoulders when the storm hits. Like the crash, Hurricane Sandy hit the poorest hardest, smashing through Staten Island and Rockaway while the lights stayed on on the Upper East Side.
Nobody expected it to be quite this bad. Last year's Hurricane Irene was bearable for most. But what I'm seeing here, at least in Brooklyn where I've been stuck for two days, is a city coming out of a six-month paralysis: finally, there's a concrete task that people can put their hands to.
Sarah Jaffe's brilliant piece at Jacobin draws attention to Rebecca Solnit's work on the communities that arise in disaster zones:
"There's a particular opportunity for mutual aid in the void in the aftermath of disaster, particularly in a neoliberal state whose safety net has been shredded, where the state simply isn't there and people step up to take care of each other (not "themselves" as our libertarian friends would have it, and not the rich handing out charity as Mitt Romney wants you to believe, but communities in solidarity). The idea of mutual aid was at the foundation of Occupy as much as the much-debated horizontalism and the opposition to the banks."
Volunteerism, of course, can be regressive as well as radical. I am reminded of those "broom armies" in London in the middle of the August riots last year; the sea of white, middle-class faces holding up brooms they'd brought to unfamiliar areas of the city, the sweet intention to mop up after a disaster tempered by the idea that the kids from deprived areas who came out to fight the police could just be swept away like so much filth. Like any desperate human impulse, volunteerism can easily be co-opted, twisted into something violent, calcifying.
Greece, where I spent part of my summer documenting the human effects of economic collapse, isn't the only developed country where people have been living in crisis for so long they are starting to numb down and accept it. As Imara Jones pointed out in The Guardian today, 50 million Americans, the same number as those in the states hardest-hit by Hurricane Sandy, are living in acute poverty, and nobody in the presidential race has deigned to talk to or about them, despite the fact that they also have votes.
How do we respond to crisis when crisis has become status quo? That's the question facing the entire developed world this year, and neither of the men jostling to lead the nominally free world appear to have any sort of answer. The Occupy Sandy operation is not an answer either, not even the shadow-play of an answer, but it is deeply radical and compassionate. That means someone's probably going to try to shut it down reasonably soon, especially if it continues to provide food and assistance to the needy after the floodwaters have receded. A community response to immediate external crisis can be spun as good PR for an administration, but a community response to structural, internal crisis is just embarrassing. In every case though, the most dangerous thing you can do in any crisis – the absolute worst thing you can possibly do – is sit at home and accept it.
Back to blood. Funny thing about blood: until the 1970s, America used to buy it. Blood donation, as the United States quickly discovered, is not something you want to inject with a market incentive when you have to juggle things like infection risks and supply shortages. All that changed when Richard Titmus' book The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy was published in 1971, explaining why the values of public service beat the private market every time when it comes to social care. The private market in American blood was regulated until it became something like the British voluntary model – people coming in to open their veins for a biscuit and a cup of coffee, just because somebody else needs their blood more than they do. Quite a lot of my job at Billyburg church today was handing out packets of Oreos to younguns waiting in line to do just that – I still have no damn idea who donated those biscuits – and telling the people massing at the door that no, we have all the blood we need for today, thank you, come back tomorrow.
"There is in the free gift of blood to unnamed strangers no contract of custom, no legal bond, no functional determinism, no situations of discriminatory power, domination, constraint or compulsion, no sense of shame or guilt," wrote Titmus. "In not asking for or expecting any payment of money, these donors signified their belief in the willingness of other men to act altruistically in the future." There is still enough blood beating in the cynical hearts of New Yorkers to pound out an immediate, compassionate response to crisis. Today that gives me hope.
Occupy Sandy Relief information here can be found at interoccupy.net/occupysandy/ – a website put together by the good folks at OWS, which contains all you need to know about what you can do to help. Click here for the NYC Blood Drive list of donation centers and opening times.
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It's a MLM scheme, and to make any money, you have to recruit distributors, which is why your "friend" is approaching you to become one too. The president is a long-time scammer: "Sam Caster, Mannatech's president, has been under the regulatory gun before. In 1991, he was investigated by the State of Texas, and agreed to stop selling a device called the "Electracat," to stop making claims unsupported by scientific evidence about any product, and to pay $125,000 in investigative costs. This occurred two years after Caster was accused of deceiving consumers over an energy-saving product." The products themselves are of dubious quality: RUN VERY FAST AS FAR AS YOU CAN TO GET AWAY FROM THIS ONE. |
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"The next day, I was different," he continues in an almost reverential tone. "I was a man, I guess. When my parents came back off holiday, I had sold my very expensive violin at Sotheby's and bought synthesizers instead and started wearing all black. They were horrified."
Coleman couldn't stray far from his cultured upbringing, though. In 1982, after making three scorching albums with Killing Joke, he took a sabbatical from the group and settled briefly in Iceland before resuming his classical studies. More interested in composing than performing, he began wielding the conductor's wand across Egypt, Russia and Germany, eventually building a prestigious resumé in the world of contemporary classical music. Besides engagements leading the London Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra, he's made fifteen classical recordings, including two with famed violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy. Still, his most recognized forays into classical music have been Symphonic Music of the Rolling Stones and Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd, two albums that rode the Billboard classical charts in '94 and '95. Coleman currently conducts the Prague Symphony Orchestra, splitting his time between the Czech Republic, Switzerland and New Zealand, where he lives on a farm and admittedly loves his "peace and quiet."
"I wouldn't swap my life for anyone's," he remarks. "I get to conduct great orchestras of the world on wonderful stages, and I get to be in the heaviest underground band in the world. I don't have much to complain about."
During his rise through the classical ranks, Coleman remained sporadically active with Killing Joke, touring and releasing records every few years. But regardless of the different masks he has donned over the decades, his work has sent shock waves throughout the world of music. Killing Joke's hardwiring of steeliness and aggression became a template for the harsh, cybernetic strains of industrial, and this influence radiated out to such prominent groups as Big Black, Godflesh, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Neurosis and Tool -- not to mention Nirvana. In fact, Kurt Cobain and crew were almost sued by Coleman in 1992 after the release of the single of "Come As You Are," a track that Cobain admitted was just a slowed-down version of Killing Joke's 1985 song "Eighties."
"There was definitely tension between us," Coleman says. "It's the whole idea of intellectual copyright, isn't it? We did feel that the riff was taken from us. The last interviewer I spoke to asked me, 'Did you know about this guy who worked for Killing Joke who got up on stage once while Nirvana was playing and bashed Kurt Cobain in the face?' I'd never heard of it before, but apparently it happened."
Karma swung back Killing Joke's way, though, when Dave Grohl enthusiastically agreed to drum on the band's new disc. As Coleman elaborates, "The original idea was to have three of our favorite drummers play on the album, Dave being one of them. We also wanted John [Dolmayan] from System of a Down and Danny [Carey] from Tool. But when Dave heard the songs, he said, 'I want the whole thing.' We love him to bits. You know, he's one of those funny kind of guys who can drink a whole bottle of Crown Royal whiskey and still be the same, nice, affable man -- not like our lot."
Besides the assist from Grohl (who, due to his hectic schedule, is being replaced on tour with Ted Parsons, formerly of the Swans and Prong), Killing Joke's new full-length features contributions from Raven, one of the group's longtime bassists, and Andy Gill of Gang of Four, who also produced it. "Andy is an old mate of ours from years back," explains Coleman. "We brought him in because all of us in the band are producers, and it stopped us from fighting amongst each other. It worked out quite well. It didn't work out so well, however, for his very expensive and rare wine collection."
While quick to kid around at a friend's expense, when it comes to his new disc, Coleman is dead serious. "It's so fucking now. I don't know how else to describe it," he comments. "There's no comparison between us and other bands that are simply re-forming. We never broke up; we made a pact never to break up. We did this album for purposes of contributing to innovation as opposed to our accountants telling us we had to do it.
"Certain things just get better as you get older," he continues. "One of them is playing. I wish we sounded back then like we do now. It's a real spiritual experience every night for me. Don't ask me what I think about when I'm on stage, because I barely remember anything at all. It's like one big oil painting with the paints all thrown together. It's almost addictive after a while. It really hurts your body. It's like fifty thousand volts going through you. A strange phenomenon happens sometimes on stage: The place might be going crazy, but everything goes silent to us. Everything looks like it's going in slow motion. We call this 'the white heat.'"


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