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It's then that you feel the press of cold hard steel in the middle of your back and hear a voice tell you to hand over your wallet. Perhaps you briefly consider playing the hero -- making a distracting comment ("what's that?"), spinning around, and grabbing the gun, but you quickly realize that the way it would play out would be a bullet in your gullet before you even had a chance to turn around. So you hand over your wallet and get a whack on the noggin for your cooperation.
It might sound like a bad detective novel, but that's what really happened to a man in Pennsylvania. Now, I don't think one shouldn't stop for babies or get out to help if there has been an accident, but I do think it behooves us to remember that criminals are not above using children to get what they want and if a situation seems at all wrong, don't hesitate to call 9-1-1 immediately.
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1-06-2009 @ 9:16PMame s said...
Ok,first of all, I wouldn't jump out of my car leaving my own children inside, because what kind of lame-ass mother looses control of her stroller, but I would call 911 just in case, after I calmly pull over into a safe place. If that stroller didn't come through a crosswalk,it's not my fault I hit it.
If someone did appear at the door of my vehicle, I would act frightened while reaching for the gun I keep (legally) in the open console 6 inches from my right leg. I've practiced my draw and I'm an excellent shot. Plus, my ex-military husband loaded my firearm with ammo that will go right through the metal of my car door.
How's that for being prepared?
1-07-2009 @ 2:08AMninainindia said...
That just scares me. So if I'm in trouble, maybe having been attacked or something, and come to your car window to ask for help you will point a gun at me? What kind of world are we living in?
1-07-2009 @ 9:57AMame s said...
Oh, no, there's a difference in appearing for help. I meant a person with a gun.


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Second Time's a Charm?
Probably not; but this Fatah-Hamas deal is more interesting than the last one
What makes this reconciliation different from the last one?
The Fatah-Hamas deal, struck by Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal with the backing of emerging regional power broker Qatar, is as vague: The only step forward appears to be clear agreement that Palestinian Authority President Abbas, of Fatah, will be president. Yet there is some reason to believe that this deal may stick, at least for a little longer than the last one: Both sides need it a little bit more now. The P.A. is losing support, while Hamas is newly active in the West Bank; yet Hamas, which just had to abandon its longtime host in Damascus, is going broke. Just generally, the Palestinian cause needs a shot in the arm right now: As Prime Minister Fayyad pointed out last week, the Arab Spring has sapped what has frequently been the Arab world's cause célèbre of its usual prestige and glamour. (Fayyad's future will be a major roadblock as the unity government goes forward: Abbas will want him to stay on as head of government, in part because he is a crucial guarantor of Western support; but the Western-educated, technocratic, relatively moderate Fayyad is anathema to Hamas.)
There is the inconvenient but unavoidable fact that Hamas continues to insist on the right to armed struggle and to all of the land between the river and the sea. The peace process, however, has long been premised on the notion that each side is going to give up something. If Hamas will never give that demand up (and it may well not), then neither peace nor the unity government will work. As long as there is even a nominal peace process, however, we are operating under the assumption that Hamas is capable of adopting, as a negotiating precondition, the assumption that Israel has the right to exist. (Again, not saying it will do this, just that if it doesn't all this talk is moot.) Moreover, Fatah-Hamas unity was going to have to happen to make the peace process work: Hamas' popularity means it will need to be part of whichever group speaks on behalf of the Palestinian people. The best we can do is hope that the prerogatives of power and legitimacy and its being cut off from Damascus and Tehran will exert a genuinely moderating influence on the group. So, while Prime Minister Netanyahu is right to repeat the line he used several months ago, during Reconciliation 1.0—that Abbas must choose between peace with Israel or peace with Hamas—we observers can at least entertain the prospect of future Hamas reform.
And it's telling that, while saying the above publicly (Netanyahu also said the time was "not good" for progress), the Israeli government—which surely knew this deal was coming—has also made some interesting offers privately. It suggested that the current West Bank barrier serve as the future borders of a Palestinian state—which would make for a smaller Palestine than the Palestinians would desire, but that's why they call it negotiating. And, intriguingly, Israel stepped back from demands for permanent control of the Jordan Valley, insisting only on a "long-term" presence. (Zvika Krieger noticed this change.)
If I were a betting man—and given that I thought the Patriots were going to win last night, thank God I'm not—I'd bet against this working out: Hamas still believes what it believes, which is that Israel doesn't have the right to exist, and it is not so hard-pressed to change tack. But Reconciliation 2.0 seems a little less ridiculous than Reconciliation 1.0, suggesting it's conceivable that 4.0 or 5.0, a couple years down the road, will be promising.
Palestinian Factions Reach Unity Deal [NYT]
Support for Palestinian Authority Erodes as Prices and Taxes Rise [NYT]
Fayyad Says Palestinians 'Marginalized' By Arab Spring [Bloomberg]
Israel Proposes West Bank Barrier as Border [AP/ABC News]
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New Paul Weitz comedy darkly details a guy who has everything
The sight of hitherto squeaky-clean musical comedy star Sutton Foster dressed in scary dominatrix gear and looking like she means it is practically worth the price of admission to "Trust."
But there's even more to enjoy in Paul Weitz's thoughtful comedy that premiered Thursday at Second Stage Theatre.
Fresh out of "Scrubs," Jersey son Zac Braff portrays Harry, an otherwise boring guy who sold out his dot-com for $302 million. This recent windfall has reduced the wonkish Harry to feeling nothing about anything. His wife Aleeza (Ari Graynor) suffers from a similar malaise and their marriage has gone flat.
"On a whim," Harry ventures into an S&M parlor where he encounters Foster's character, Prudence, who turns out to be someone he admired back in high school.
Their recognition scene opens the two-act play and proves to be a very funny reunion as bullwhip-snapping gives way to fond memories: "You had that neck brace sophomore year."
The storyline darkens when Prudence's thuggish boyfriend Morton (Bobby Cannavale) tries to blackmail Harry. After the seemingly meek little millionaire blindsides Morton with a (literally) blazing gambit — no spoilers from me — viewers realize that Harry is really not so guileless. Nor is Morton such a creep.
When Harry declares his love for Prudence, she's experienced enough in the ways of control, manipulation and trust to be somewhat mistrustful. Meanwhile bored Aleeza meets hunky Morton.
How everything works out semi-happily might not totally satisfy audiences. Certain developments are dubious or seem insufficiently motivated. Harry's rather blank character needs deeper writing from Weitz or at least a far more shaded depiction than Braff's wimpy nice guy. If the play is imperfect, the laughs are frequent and Peter DuBois stages it smoothly with sleek Manhattan sets by Alexander Dodge.
The actors are fun to watch. He may be underplaying Harry to a fault, but Braff offers pleasant enough company. Cannavale exudes his typical mix of menace and sexiness. Graynor's numb, blonde Aleeza amusingly suggests a sedated pussycat, so little wonder she later wakes up with a vengeance.
Making a rare appearance as a "legitimate" actress — "Won't Mother be pleased," as Noel Coward once wired Gertrude Lawrence — musical comedy sweetie Foster firmly portrays Prudence as a smart woman with a complicated past that makes her cool and cautious. Finding the humor in a dour character like Prudence is not easy but Foster brings nice comic judgment and much warmth to the role. She also looks great in those nasty dominatrix duds and may well find herself with an entirely new fan base.
"Trust" continues through Sept. 12 at Second Stage Theatre, 305 W. 43rd St., New York. Call (212) 246-4422 or visit www.2st.com.
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Director of AVM Hospitals, M.V. Lakshmanan received the first sale from the Collector.
"Nine new pattern silk saris introduced by the Co-optex for this season will greatly attract women as 30 per cent discount is being offered for all products," said Dr. Palaniyandi.
Tirunelveli Regional Manager of Co-optex P. Dhanapal said the region had been set a sales target of Rs. 6.75 crore this year and Tuticorin district, having four showrooms, had to sell products worth Rs. 1.38 crore.
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Buxton's MRI exam shows he aggravated wrist injury
MINNEAPOLIS — Top prospect Byron Buxton had an MRI exam on his left wrist in the Twin Cities on Tuesday, and the exam showed he aggravated his original wrist injury from Spring Training.
Buxton, ranked as the No. 1 overall prospect by MLB.com, originally sprained the pisotriquetral joint in his wrist while diving for a fly ball in center field during a Minor League Spring Training game on March 16.
He reinjured it on Thursday while sliding into a base in his fifth game of the year at Class A Advanced Fort Myers. He was placed on the 7-day Minor League disabled list on Sunday as a result.
Buxton flew to Minnesota to have his wrist examined by team doctors and hand specialist Dr. Thomas Varecka on Tuesday, and will head back to Fort Myers, Fla. to work out at extended Spring Training but the Twins don't have a timetable for his return to game action yet.
"It was an aggravation of his injury, but it's not any worse, just aggravated," Twins assistant general manager Rob Antony said. "He'll head back down to Fort Myers and work out at extended until it feels better basically."
Buxton returned to action in extended Spring Training on April 26 before being activated from the Minor League disabled list at Class A Advanced Fort Myers on May 4. He hit .150 (3-for-20) with a double, a homer and two RBIs in five games before suffering the injury on Thursday.
The Twins are hopeful the injury won't keep him out as long as last time but it's still too early to tell, according to Antony.
"We hope not, and [the doctors] don't think so, but you never know," Antony said. "We can't rule anything out. They don't believe so but whenever you have a situation like this with hands or wrists, it just depends on the individual."
Buxton scheduled to undergo MRI exam on left wrist
DETROIT — Top prospect Byron Buxton is scheduled to undergo an MRI exam on his left wrist in the next few days after reinjuring it on a slide on Thursday, according to Twins director of Minor League operations Brad Steil.
Buxton, ranked as the No. 1 overall prospect by MLB.com, originally injured his wrist while diving for a fly ball in center field during a Minor League Spring Training game on March 16. He was diagnosed with a sprained pisotriquetral joint as a result and was shut down for several weeks.
He returned to action in extended Spring Training on April 26 before being activated from the Minor League disabled list at Class A Advanced Fort Myers on May 4. He hit .150 (3-for-20) with a double, a homer and two RBIs in five games before suffering the injury on Thursday. He was held out of the lineup on Friday and Saturday as a result, and the Miracle are off on Sunday.
The Twins remain hopeful the injury is just minor, as the MRI exam will be compared with the one he had in Spring Training after he initially injured his wrist.
Buxton was scheduled to play at Class A Advanced Fort Myers until he was deemed ready to move up to Double-A New Britain where he was expected to start the season before the injury.
Buxton, 20, hit a combined .334/.424/.520 with 12 homers, 18 triples, 19 doubles, 55 stolen bases, 77 RBIs and 109 runs in 125 games with Class A Cedar Rapids and Fort Myers last season.
Mauer returns to the lineup for first time since Sunday
DETROIT — After missing five games with lower back spasms, Joe Mauer returned to the lineup on Saturday against the Tigers, starting at designated hitter and batting third.
Mauer was able to hit in the cages without any issues before the game, and told Twins manager Ron Gardenhire he was also able to run the bases. So Gardenhire called it an easy decision to put Mauer in the lineup for the first time since Sunday.
"He came in and got to the park early and did some stuff and said he wanted to play," Gardenhire said. "The trainers said the same thing. He feels good and can run all the bases and all those things."
Gardenhire added he was relieved Mauer was able to avoid the 15-day disabled list, as it would've kept him out of action until May 20 against the Padres.
"With backs, it's something you don't want to deal with too much," Gardenhire said. "When you start feeling better you always want to give it a few extra days. I've had it and we've all had it, and it's just not very fun. So I'm just happy to see him in here wanting to play."
Twins reinstate Hicks, select contract of Parmelee
DETROIT — The Twins reinstated outfielder Aaron Hicks from the seven-day concussion disabled list and promoted first baseman/outfielder Chris Parmelee from Triple-A Rochester, the club announced before Friday's game against the Tigers.
The moves came after the Twins optioned catcher/outfielder Chris Herrmann and shortstop Pedro Florimon to Rochester on Wednesday. Both made their return to the lineup, as Hicks started in center field and batted eighth, while Parmelee started in right field and hit seventh. Eduardo Nunez, who was recalled from Triple-A Rochester on Thursday with outfielder Sam Fuld being placed on the seven-day concussion DL, started at designated hitter.
First baseman Joe Mauer, however, was held out of the lineup for a fifth straight day with lower back spasms. He took soft toss before the game, and could potentially be available to pinch-hit on Friday. The Twins remain hopeful he'll return on Saturday or Sunday as designated hitter.
"We were getting pretty thin," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We also have Nunez now for a full day. We actually have a bench and three outfielders in the outfield, which is a good thing."
Hicks suffered a concussion May 1 against the Dodgers in the second game of a split doubleheader, when he crashed into the center-field wall in the sixth inning. Friday was the first day he was eligible to return. He said he was able to start taking batting practice on Wednesday after the concussion symptoms began to subside.
"I had it for about for about three days but by the fourth day I was feeling better," said Hicks, who said he suffered from fogginess. "From then on it was all about getting better and getting ready to play in games."
The contract of Parmelee was selected from Triple-A, as he was outrighted off the 40-man roster by the Twins in late March and had to be added back on the roster. In 32 games with the Red Wings, Parmelee hit .305/.378/.542 with seven doubles, seven home runs and 23 RBIs.
"I was staying aggressive at the plate," Parmelee said. "Sometimes I thought I would get too passive on a pitch that was good enough to hit. Sometimes I'd wait for a pitch I wanted in an exact spot instead of trying to hit a pitch I could I still drive. So I just tried to keep the aggressiveness up at the plate and my confidence up."
In order to clear a spot for Parmelee on the 40-man roster, the Twins designated Double-A outfielder Kenny Wilson for assignment. Minnesota claimed Wilson off waivers from Toronto on April 24. Wilson played in 11 games at New Britain, hitting .195/.327/.268 with three doubles and three stolen bases.
Buxton activated from 7-day DL, will join Fort Myers
MINNEAPOLIS — Top prospect Byron Buxton, who sprained his left wrist in a Minor League Spring Training game on March 16, was officially activated from the 7-day disabled list at Class A Advanced Fort Myers on Sunday.
Buxton, ranked as the No. 1 overall prospect by MLB.com, had been playing in extended Spring Training games since April 26. He's expected to play at Fort Myers until he's deemed ready to move up to Double-A New Britain.
"He joined the Miracle today because he passed everything he needed to do in extended," Twins assistant general manager Rob Antony said. "Now we'll get him in over there with the Miracle and get him going. If he gets rolling and it looks like he's in mid-season form and ready to go, we'll move him up to New Britain where we planed to have him be. He played his way out of this league last year but we'll give him enough time here to get going."
Buxton, 20, dominated the Florida State League last year, hitting .326/.415/.472 with four homers, four doubles, eight triples and 23 stolen bases in 57 games with Fort Myers.
Buxton originally injured his wrist while trying to make a diving catch in center field during a Minor League Spring Training game in Fort Myers.
Twins officially place Pelfrey on DL, recall Santana
MINNEAPOLIS — The Twins made it official on Saturday, as they placed right-hander Mike Pelfrey on the 15-day disabled list with a left groin strain and recalled shortstop Danny Santana from Triple-A Rochester.
Santana joined the Twins on Saturday but wasn't in the starting lineup. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said he plans to use Santana in a variety of roles, including the outfield with Santana getting work there during batting practice before Saturday's game.
"We'll use him in the infield/outfield, whatever," Gardenhire said. "We just needed a body and he was on the roster. We liked him in Spring Training. He can run. He can play the outfield so he's going to take some fly balls in the outfield. So we'll find ways to get him in there."
Santana, ranked as the club's No. 10 prospect by MLB.com, was hitting .268/.311/.381 with seven doubles and four stolen bases in 24 games at Rochester. He said he found out the news he'd be called up from Rochester manager Gene Glynn while taking batting practice on Friday, and arrived in the Twin Cities at around 1 a.m.
"I was on the field taking batting practice and Geno told me, 'You are going to the big leagues,' and I was so happy," Santana said. "It's nice. I'm very excited to be here."
Pelfrey, meanwhile, will be replaced in the rotation by right-hander Samuel Deduno, who will start Tuesday in Cleveland. Pelfrey said he injured his groin during the first inning of the first game of Thursday's doubleheader against the Dodgers. He said he'll let his groin rest for a few days before going out on a rehab assignment, and maintained that his arm is healthy despite his 7.99 ERA in five starts.
"I wasn't throwing the ball as well as I'd like so maybe this is a blessing in disguise," Pelfrey said. "It'll be a chance to decompress and get this thing right."
Pelfrey headed to DL, Deduno to take place in rotation
UPDATE: Twins assistant general manager Rob Antony confirmed shortstop Danny Santana will be recalled from Triple-A Rochester.
MINNEAPOLIS — Right-hander Mike Pelfrey will be placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained groin after Friday's game against the Orioles, and will be replaced in the rotation by right-hander Samuel Deduno. The Twins will announce a corresponding roster move after the game.
Pelfrey has struggled so far this season with a 7.99 ERA in five starts, including another subpar outing in Game 1 of Thursday's doubleheader against the Dodgers, giving up five runs over four innings.
Pelfrey maintained after his start that he was healthy but told Twins manager Ron Gardenhire on Friday that he was dealing with a groin injury. The Twins are hopeful it'll help Pelfrey regain his velocity, as his fastball is averaging 91 mph this year after averaging 92.4 mph last year, according to Fangraphs.com. Pelfrey has also struggled with his control with 18 walks in 23 2/3 innings.
"He came in today saying his groin was bothering him," Gardenhire said. "He tweaked it yesterday and didn't want to make any excuses. He came in today sore. We told him this might give him an opportunity to get his leg well. And then he can go on a rehab assignment and try to get it straightened out. So it's two-fold, get healthy and also figure out why his velocity has dropped down."
Deduno will move from long relief into the rotation to take Pelfrey's place. Deduno has a 2.89 ERA with 18 strikeouts and nine walks in 18 1/2 innings this season. He also threw 64 pitches in relief on Pelfrey on Friday. Deduno made 18 starts last year, posting a 3.83 ERA with 67 strikeouts and 41 walks over 108 innings.
"We like what he did last year at times so we'll see what happens and go from there," Gardenhire said.
Gardenhire added that outfielder Oswaldo Arcia will not be recalled from Triple-A Rochester, as he's still on his rehab assignment. Arcia has been on the DL with a right wrist strain since April 5. Infielder Eduardo Nunez is also still out with an oblique strain at Rochester.
Shortstop Danny Santana is considered the most likely player to be recalled, as he's on the 40-man roster and is ranked as the club's No. 10 overall prospect, according to MLB.com. He's hitting .268/.311/.381 with seven doubles and four stolen bases in 24 games at Rochester
Twins to explore their options with Pelfrey
MINNEAPOLIS — It was more of the same on Thursday from Mike Pelfrey, and now the Twins will explore their options with the right-hander moving forward.
Pelfrey continued his early-season struggles to hand the Twins a 9-4 loss to the Dodgers in Game 1 of a split doubleheader at Target Field.
Pelfrey, who entered with a 7.32 ERA in four starts, turned in another poor outing, as he lasted a season-low four innings, giving up five runs on seven hits and three walks. He's yet to go more than 5 1/3 innings in any of his outings this year, and is 0-3 with a 7.99 ERA.
"It's frustrating," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He reverted back to the pace thing and didn't throw it over enough. We were on the field a lot and he threw 85 pitches in four innings. So we just have to figure out what we need to do next and where we need to go next. We'll sit down and talk with the pitching coach, the pitcher and everybody involved to see where we go with this."
Gardenhire added that the Twins haven't ruled out moving Pelfrey to the bullpen but will meet with Pelfrey and pitching coach Rick Anderson before making a decision.
Pelfrey was frustrated with himself after the game, and said he can't put a finger on why his velocity is down this year and why he's had so much trouble with his control. He's walked 18 batters in 23 2/3 innings this season.
"It was the same thing that had been going for the last month — I was terrible," Pelfrey said. "It was the same stuff of not locating your fastball, leaving pitches over the middle and walking guys. It's been the same for five starts. It's terrible. I'm sure the coaching staff and Gardy are frustrated but I'm more frustrated than anybody."
He said he'd be OK with a move to the bullpen to try to straighten himself out but wasn't sure of his status until meeting with Gardenhire and Anderson.
"I probably wouldn't be happy but obviously I'm not helping the team every five days," Pelfrey said. "So I'd accept it and do the best I can."
Right-hander Samuel Deduno went four innings in relief, giving up three runs on seven hits and two walks with four strikeouts. He threw 62 pitches, and is a candidate to join the rotation.
"Sammy is fine," Gardenhire said. "He just has to get into a routine, too. We stretched him out pretty good today and we'll make a decision here."
Twins-Dodgers postponed due to inclement weather
MINNEAPOLIS — The Twins' scheduled game with the Dodgers on Tuesday at Target Field was postponed due to inclement weather, and it will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on Thursday.
It marked the second straight game postponed due to weather for the Twins, as Sunday's game against the Tigers was also postponed and will be made up at a later date. Rain and snow was in the forecast on Tuesday, leading to the decision to postpone the game more than six hours before scheduled first pitch.
Tuesday's scheduled game will be made up at 6:10 p.m. CT on Thursday, while Thursday's day game will be held as originally scheduled at 12:10 p.m. Gates open for Game 1 at 11 a.m. and open for Game 2 at 5 p.m.
Right-hander Kyle Gibson, who was scheduled to start on Sunday before he was pushed back to Tuesday because of Sunday's rainout, will start on Wednesday.
"You just have to roll with it," Gibson said. "Mother nature is something you just have to deal with. It's my third time treating it like it's my start. But I threw a bullpen Sunday and I feel good about that. So I was able to work on stuff I think is going to help me. I'm just preparing as much as I can."
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire added that right-hander Mike Pelfrey will start Game 1 of the doubleheader but the starter for Game 2 won't be announced until Wednesday. If the Twins don't recall a player from Triple-A Rochester for Thursday's start, the Twins would have to either call up a starter for Sunday against the Orioles or use Gibson on short rest. Left-handers Kris Johnson and Logan Darnell are candidates to be recalled if the Twins decide to go that route.
"Gibson is going to start tomorrow, and Mike Pelfrey will start the first game of the doubleheader and then we'll go from there and figure out who's starting from there," Gardenhire said.
The Twins still held workouts at Target Field despite the rainout with position players hitting in the cages and pitchers throwing light bullpen sessions. Gardenhire said the decision was made to hold a workout because the Twins haven't played since Saturday.
"Guys who went out there throwing today said it felt like they hadn't in a year. It's only been a few days but we had an off-day also. So it's been a couple days without baseball so it's been a little different. Mother nature is winning right now."
Fans holding tickets to the postponed game have two options: They can use their tickets for the rescheduled game on Thursday or exchange them for a future Twins regular-season game in 2014. Unused tickets may be exchanged only at the Target Field ticket office located on Target Plaza off 7th Street.
Tuesday marked the third time a game has been postponed due to weather at Target Field this season. It's also the 11th postponed game since the stadium opened in 2010.
Game 2: Twins shuffle lineup with Mauer hitting second
CHICAGO — The Twins shuffled their lineup against the White Sox on Wednesday, as Joe Mauer moved up into the two-hole while Kurt Suzuki slid down to bat seventh with right-hander Felipe Paulino on the mound.
Suzuki hit second in the first game of the season on Wednesday, and went 2-for-4 with three RBIs but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said the lineup is still a work in progress.
"We're going to move him up and down the lineup, and we're going to move our lineup around an awful lot," Gardenhire said. "We're going to change it up."
Jason Kubel also made his first start of the year, batting cleanup and starting in left field with Josh Willingham hitting third and serving as designated hitter.
Twins catcher Josmil Pinto is expected to make his first start on Thursday over Suzuki with left-hander Jose Quintana starting for Chicago in the series finale.
"Suzuki is our starter so he's going to catch a lot of games," Gardenhire said. "Pinto is going to play a lot, too. So we'll get Pinto into a lot of ballgames."
Twins lineup:
1. Brian Dozier, 2B
2. Joe Mauer, 1B
3. Josh Willingham, DH
4. Jason Kubel, LF
5. Trevor Plouffe, 3B
6. Oswaldo Arcia, RF
7. Kurt Suzuki, C
8. Aaron Hicks, CF
9. Pedro Florimon, SS
RHP Kevin Correia
White Sox lineup:
1. Adam Eaton, CF
2. Marcus Semien, 3B
3. Jose Abreu, 1B
4. Adam Dunn, DH
5. Avisail Garcia, RF
6. Alejandro De Aza, LF
7. Alexei Ramirez, SS
8. Tyler Flowers, C
9. Leury Garcia, 2B
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Terrence BoyleFederal district court judge Terrence Boyle has repeatedly been nominated to the appellate bench (by both George W. Bush and his father) and repeatedly has failed to win Senate confirmation because of his extreme judicial views and hostility to civil rights litigants. Indeed, Boyle persistently has demonstrated his willingness to step outside the judicial mainstream and ignore well-established law in order to rule against people where civil rights are at stake.Of particular concern is Boyle's radical approach to the Americans With Disabilities Act—an approach marked by disregard for the law and antipathy to the claims of disabled people.Since its enactment in 1990, the ADA has been instrumental in protecting people with HIV from being fired from their jobs or thrown out of their homes. Judges like Boyle would change all that. If his rulings in disability cases to date were applied to people with HIV, they would effectively give employers permission to turn their irrational fear of AIDS into an excuse to fire dedicated employees. In fact, Boyle's approach to the ADA would open the door for employers to fire with impunity people with HIV.Sadly, the public record indicates that in his more than 20 years as a federal trial court judge Boyle has never ruled in favor of a plaintiff in an ADA case.Boyle's blatant disregard for the law has contributed to his unusually high reversal rate on appeal. In fact, Boyle has been reversed more often than any other district court judge nominated to an appeals court by President Bush. There is no question that, given the opportunity, Terrence Boyle would use his platform on the federal appeals court to severely undermine legal protections for people with HIV.Pryor and Boyle are only two examples of the kind of judges that conservatives are trying to push through with the "nuclear option"—a threat to end more than 200 years of checks and balances by eliminating the right of a minority of senators to filibuster highly controversial judicial nominees. If the federal courts are overtaken by judges like this, our legal rights to live day-to-day without discrimination will hang in the balance. We can't let them turn back the clock.The Supreme Court's infamously homophobic decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, which upheld sodomy laws, was decided by one vote in 1986. The LGBT community spent the next 17 years under that dark legal cloud. Imagine where we might be today if we had eliminated sodomy laws in 1986 instead of 2003.Antigay bigots will do anything to keep our community from winning in court.Will you do anything to stop them?Cathcart is the executive director of Lambda Legal. To learn how you can become part of Lambda Legal's Courting Justice campaign click on www.lambdalegal.org
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Critical Essay by George R. Guffey
SOURCE: "Fahrenheit 451 and the 'Cubby-Hole Editors' of Ballantine Books," in Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes, Southern Illinois University Press, 1983, pp. 99-106.
In the following essay, Guffey explores Bradbury's indictment of censorship in some of his early short stories and comments on the bowdlerization of Fahrenheit 451 for high school readers.
In April 1975 on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Ray Bradbury delighted an assembled audience with an uninhibited speech entitled "How Not to Burn a Book; or, 1984 Will Not Arrive." At one point in his wide-ranging presentation he reflected on the emotions which have typically impelled his fiction. "Sometimes I get angry and write a story about my anger. Sometimes I'm delighted and I write a story about that delight. Back in the Joseph McCarthy period a lot of things were going on in my country that I didn't like. I was angry. So I wrote a whole series of short stories."
One of those short stories, "Usher II," was first published in 1950. The hero of "Usher II" is William Stendahl, a wealthy lover of fantastic literature and an embittered enemy of censorship and book burning. At one time on Earth, Stendahl had been the proud owner of fifty thousand books, but the Bureau of Moral Climates, in league with the Society for Prevention of Fantasy, had destroyed his beloved library. Amongst the works burned were those of Edgar Allan Poe. "All of his books," Stendahl tells the architect he has hired to re-create the House of Usher, "were burned in the Great Fire. That's thirty years ago—1975…. They passed a law. Oh, it started very small. In 1950 and '60 it was a grain of sand. They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books …, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark…. Afraid of the word 'politics' (which eventually became a synonym for Communism among the more reactionary elements … and it was worth your life to use the word!), and … the print presses trickled down from a great Niagara of reading matter to a mere innocuous dripping of 'pure material.'"
To gain a measure of revenge against the psychologists, sociologists, politicians, and moralists responsible for the burning of his books, Stendahl has built on Mars a letter-perfect imitation of Poe's original House of Usher and has invited many of his own persecutors to a very special kind of house-warming. Over the course of the story, Stendahl lures his antagonists one by one into traps inspired by Poe's macabre stories. One miscreant is killed by a robot ape and stuffed up a chimney; one is beheaded by an enormous razor-sharp pendulum; one is prematurely buried; and, in the climactic scene, the worst of the lot is mortared-up forever in a cellar beneath that melancholy and dreary house. His revenge complete, a jubilant Stendahl helicopters away from Usher II, as the great house breaks apart and sinks slowly into the dark tarn surrounding it.
Approximately a year after the publication of "Usher II," Bradbury broadened his attack on censorship. In a novella entitled "The Fireman," he depicted a future society in which most kinds of books had been banned. The hero of this story is Guy Montag, a fireman. Ironically, in this heavily regimented world of the future, firemen no longer extinguish fires. Their primary duty is to start them. More specifically, their main occupation is the burning of books. At one point in the story, Leahy, a fire chief, delivers a short lecture on the recent history of expurgation and censorship.
Picture it. The 19th Century man with his horses, dogs, and slow living. You might call him a slow motion man. Then in the 20th Century you speed up the camera…. Books get shorter. Condensations appear. Digests. Tabloids. Radio programs simplify…. Great classics are cut to fit fifteen minute shows, then two minute book columns, then two line digest resumes. Magazines become picture books…. Technology, mass exploitation, and censorship from frightened officials did the trick. Today, thanks to them, you can read comics, confessions, or trade journals, nothing else. All the rest is dangerous…. Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. We burn it. White people don't like Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it, too. Anything for serenity.
In spite of repeated warnings from Leahy, Montag becomes more and more fascinated by books and by reading. Eventually he is found out, and his small collection of books is burned. Angry and frustrated, he kills Leahy and flees to the open countryside. There, in a hobo camp, he meets a band of fugitives who have devoted their lives to the judicious memorization and communication of uncensored versions of the great classics. For years these "living books" have patiently awaited an inevitable, cataclysmic world war which will destroy all the oppressive bureaucracies inhibiting the free flow of ideas. At the end of the story, this long-awaited war comes, leveling the seats of government and, presumably, thereby making the world again safe for the dissemination of uncensored books.
Bradbury's rage against censorship and book burning reached its fullest and most eloquent expression in 1953 when he expanded "TheFireman" to novel length and published it under the new title Fahrenheit 451. During the following quarter of a century, Fahrenheit 451 was reprinted at least forty-eight times by Ballantine. In 1979 Bradbury discovered for the first time that, ironically, Fahrenheit 451 had in the past itself been systematically censored by its publisher.
At his insistence, the novel has recently been reset and republished, with a spirited Author's Afterword. In that afterword Bradbury emphasizes his continuing problems with publishers wishing both to reprint his popular stories and at the same time edit them for young readers. For example, his frequently anthologized story "The Fog Horn" was, he says, recently the proposed object of such treatment: "Two weeks ago my mountain of mail delivered forth a pipsqueak mouse of a letter from a well-known publishing house that wanted to reprint my story 'The Fog Horn' in a high school reader. In my story, I had described a lighthouse as having, late at night, an illumination coming from it that was a 'God-Light.'
Looking up at it from the view-point of any sea-creature one would have felt that one was in 'the Presence.' The editors had deleted 'God-Light' and 'in the Presence.'" But worst of all was what Ballantine had in the past, without permission, actually done to Fahrenheit 451: "Over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony. Judy-Lynn Del Rey, one of the new Ballantine editors, is having the entire book reset and republished … with all the damns and hells back in place."
Collation of a copy from the first printing of the novel in October 1953 with a copy from the forty-fourth printing in August 1977 reveals that by that date fifty-two pages of Fahrenheit 451 had been completely reset and that, in the process, ninety-eight nonauthoritative, substantive changes had been made in the text. Most of those changes, as Bradbury in his afterword suggest, simply involved the deletion of expletives or oaths. For example, the Ballantine editors at one place in the book altered "'Jesus God,' said Montag. 'Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there!'" to "'Every hour so many things in the sky!' said Montag. 'How did those bombers get up there!'"
But many of the changes made by the Ballantine editors fall into other categories. Nudity in the boudoir, no matter how abstractly described, troubled them. "His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold" became merely "His wife stretched on the bed." And parts of the body, particularly that innocuous depression we call "the navel," seem also to have offended them. They altered "All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean" to "All the minor minor minorities with their ears to be kept clean." Wherever possible, references to the consumption of alcohol were muted. For example, the passage "Did we have a wild party or something? Feel like I've a hangover. God, I'm hungry" was altered to read: "Did we have a party or something? Feel like I've a headache. I'm hungry." In another instance, "Are you drunk?" became "Are you ill?"
Space will not permit an exhaustive account of the kinds of changes Fahrenheit 451 suffered at the hands of the Ballantine editors, but I must, before moving on, call attention to at least two other examples. At one point in the book, Montag angrily says to his wife's superficial, narcissistic friend: "Go home and … think of the dozen abortions you've had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarian sections, too." The Ballantine editors removed from the passage both the word "damn" and the reference to abortion, leaving only "Go home and … think of that and your Caesarian sections, too." Finally, at another point in the action, a vigorously delivered speech culminates in an emphatic, effective vulgarism. "'To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.'" Under the scalpel of the Ballantine editors, the passage died, leaving behind this poor, shriveled carcass. "He said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down.'"
Although in the afterword to the 1979 corrected edition of Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury indicated that his novel had, "over the years," been censored "bit by bit," my own research suggests that the excisions and revisions we have been examining were the result of more concentrated efforts. Evidently, Bradbury is unaware (or has forgotten) that, in January 1967, Fahrenheit 451 was for the first time published in the Ballantine Bal-Hi series. Comparison of my copy from the fifth Bal-Hi printing of October 1968 with my copy of the first Ballantine printing of October 1953 demonstrates that all the variants we have been considering were in actuality the result of revisions made for this special high school paperback series. In addition, comparison of the texts of the fourth printing of October 1963, the seventh printing of September 1966, and the thirtieth printing of July 1972 with the first printing of October 1953 indicates that, although Ballantine was publishing a revised version of the book in its Bal-Hi series, from 1967 to 1973 an uncensored version of the novel was simultaneously being sold to the general public.
According to the copyright page of the corrected 1979 edition, the tenth and last printing of the Bal-Hi version of the novel occurred in October 1973. After 1973, instead of continuing to publish theunexpurgated and unrevised text of the first printing of October 1953, Ballantine, with no warning whatever to potential readers, published, until taken to task by Bradbury himself in 1979, only the revised text prepared for the Bal-Hi series. The text of my own copy from the fortieth printing of December 1975, although in no way labeled so, is identical to the bowdlerized text of my copy from the fifth Bal-Hi printing (as is the text of my copy from the forty-fourth printing of August 1977).
To understand Ballantine's treatment of Fahrenheit 451 during the latter half of the 1960s, we must be conscious of the intense social and political pressures brought to bear on publishers of textbooks during the late 1950s and the early 1960s. In 1958, for example, E. Merrill Root published his Brainwashing in the High Schools, an assault on eleven textbooks, which, in his view "parallel[ed] the Communist line." Inspired by Root's opening thrust, the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1958 began to compile a list of "unsatisfactory" texts, and a year later, in 1959, began to distribute it. By 1963, the advocates of censorship had widened their offensive. In that year in their influential book, The Censors and the Schools, Jack Nelson and Gene Roberts, Jr., wrote: "A vice-president of McGraw-Hill says all publishers must be wary in their treatment of birth control, evolution …, sex education, and minority groups." "In some parts of the United States," Nelson and Roberts added, "it is worth a teacher's job to put modern novels such as J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye or George Orwell's 1984 on a classroom reading list."
Although librarians and teachers fought back, the pressure for censorship increased. "The pressure of censorship is a growing part of school life today," wrote Professor Lee A. Burress, Jr., in 1965, the year the first book in the Ballantine Bal-Hi series was evidently published. "If articles on censorship in education journals," he continued, "constitute a reliable index, teachers are much more concerned today than thirty years ago. When Education Index commenced publication in 1929, one article a year on censorship was published. In the most recent issues of Education Index, there are lengthy bibliographies on censorship." Burress cites numerous recent examples of capricious and ridiculous censorship in his own state of Wisconsin, including actions against Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment, for allegedly containing "too much profanity," and the magazine Today's Health, for dealing with "the birth of a baby."
Although self-appointed censors presented real problems for publishers of school texts during the 1960s, the rewards were great for those who managed to produce "acceptable" books. Especially lucrative, according to article after article in Senior Scholastic and The Library Journal during that period, was the growing market for paperback. It was for this increasingly lucrative market that the Bal-Hi series was apparently designed.
A number of important questions now naturally come to mind: What were the titles of the other books published in the Bal-Hi series? Were the other books in the Bal-Hi series, like Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, bowdlerized in order to assure their marketability? And, if bowdlerized, did they, as in the case of Fahrenheit 451, eventually replace uncensored versions of the same titles in the regular Ballantine line? All these questions are, I think, well worth answering.
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This report was written by Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch. It is based on research conducted by Daskal, Leslie Lefkow, senior researcher with the Africa Division, Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director, Ben Rawlence, a researcher with the Africa Division, and Elijah Zarwan, a consultant with the Middle East and North Africa Division. Laura Dauban and Rebecca Musarra, interns in the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, provided research assistance.
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Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul: Stories of Loving, Learning and Parentingby Jack Canfield Mark Victor Hansen Kimberly Kirberger Raymond Aaron
Certain to appeal to all parents-whether they are expecting or raising their first new addition, in-the-trenches veterans or empty-nesters- this delightful Chicken Soup book offers a collection of inspiring and entertaining stories that relate to the triumphs, tribulations, challenges and joys of raising a family. Chapters include: The Joys of Parenting; A Mother's Love; A Father's Love; Special Connections; Special Moments; Insights and Lessons; Overcoming Obstacles; Surviving Loss; Across The Generations; and Letting Go. With contributions from celebrity and "ordinary" parents alike, each story speaks to the range of emotions and experiences of all types of parents-single parents, foster parents, parents of adopted children, or part of a two-parent family with biological children. By sharing the personal experiences of others, this book will offer inspiration and advice to parents going through a difficult time; provide reassurance to those who worry that they're not living up to the Supermom or Superdad ideal; and share a wealth of experiences that show why being a parent is such a worthwhile and rewarding vocation. This book is a must-read for any parent or parent-to-be!
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