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Forty years after food activism took off around the globe, corporatism is stronger than ever. But so is the grassroots push for control over our work, land and seeds. This timeline presents twelve major events in the evolution of the global food movement.
Timeline by Omar Rubio.
The most disturbing and telling moment in last night's GOP presidential debate, as my colleague Jamelle Bouie has noted, came when the audience heartily applauded Brian Williams's mention of the 234 executions Gov. Rick Perry presided over in Texas.
Here's the full transcript of the exchange. (Huff Po has the video).
WILLIAMS: Governor Perry, a question about Texas. Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. [Applause] Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?
PERRY: No, sir. I've never struggled with that at all. The state of Texas has a very thoughtful, a very clear process in place of which—when someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing, they go through an appellate process, they go up to the Supreme Court of the United States, if that's required.
But in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.
WILLIAMS: What do you make of the dynamic that just happened here? The mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause.
PERRY: I think Americans understand justice. I think Americans are clearly, in the vast majority of cases, supportive of capital punishment. When you have committed heinous crimes against our citizens—and it's a state-by-state issue, but in the state of Texas, our citizens have made that decision, and they made it clear, and they don't want you to commit those crimes against our citizens. And if you do, you will face the ultimate justice.
In fact, the death penalty process in Texas has been irrevocably broken for quite some time. There is ample evidence that Perry ordered the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham—a case described in chilling detail by The New Yorker's David Grann—even when presented with clear proof of Willingham's innocence, or at the very least persuasive doubt about his supposed guilt. Perry then dismissed members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission who were investigating Willingham's case, in order to try to cover up his cavalier execution of a possibly innocent man. That alone, in my opinion, should disqualify Perry from seeking the presidency.
But Perry's reckless handling of the most severe power granted to a state executive—the power to take another life—didn't stop there. According to the Texas Tribune, Perry's "parsimonious use of clemency is notable because of continuing concerns about the ability of prisoners facing capital charges in Texas to retain quality legal representation, the execution of those who were minors when they committed their crimes, the ability of some prisoners to understand their punishment intellectually and the international ramifications of executing foreign nationals."
In at least three cases currently before the state, serious questions have been raised about the legal handling of the cases, the guilt of the defendants, and Texas' refusal to hearing new evidence that may well prove their innocence. Andrew Cohen of The Atlantic has a detailed summary of each case: Duane Edward Buck, Larry Ray Swearingen and Hank Skinner.
Since 2001, forty-one death row prisoners in Texas have been exonerated based on new DNA evidence. One prisoner, Anthony Graves, spent twelve years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. "When we've had twenty exonerations in Dallas County alone, obviously someone may have been executed for a crime they didn't commit," says Dallas County DA Craig Watkins. The fact that Perry has "never struggled…at all" with these cases tells us something about his moral compass, or lack thereof.
As my colleague Liliana Segura tweeted yesterday, "After Bush, anti–death penalty folks could not fathom a worse presidential candidate. Little did we know."
When it comes to executing people—innocent or otherwise—Perry is Bush on steroids.
The most striking part of the first full-blown debate in the Republican primary was the total rejection of science.
In a surreal scene near the night's end, Gov. Rick Perry likened the people denying global warming science to Galileo. To observe that he has that history exactly backwards -- it was the Church that accused Galileo of heresy in 1633 for scientific theories which were on the right track -- is merely to observe that Perry's substantive errors come with their own stylistic snafus. Perhaps that is fitting. More consequential, however, was the answer that Perry failed to provide.
The original question asked him to name a single scientist that supported his views. None of his opponents seized on the gaffe, since apart from the exception-of-the-night, Gov. Huntsman, every other candidate was aiming for the same conservative turf on which Perry stood. And unlike Gov. Palin's famous inability to name her sources, the media is likely to put Perry's problems aside, in order to focus on the "fireworks" that finally broke out between top tier candidates.
It says a lot about the weakness of the GOP field, and the hunger of its would-be supporters, that Rick Perry could not only burst to the top of the race at such a late date, but also begin reshaping the field in his image. Meanwhile, the Romney Campaign seems to think Perry's extremist rhetoric on Social Security creates an opening for arguments rooted in rationality and electability. Still, this is a battle on Perry's turf, as he announced on Wednesday night. "Maybe it's time," he argued, "to have some provocative language in this country."
Now, it has become something of a trope to talk about how the GOP is suddenly more conservative than people might remember, when it's actually been pretty hardcore for a while. But still, it is striking to see just how tough its litmus tests have become this year, from denying global warming to decrying the kind of tax-to-benefit-cut ratios that President Reagan would have loved. In the last presidential cycle, after all, the Republican nominee wasn't just factual in his discussion of global warming, he'd even proposed bipartisan legislation to curb greenhouse gasses.
Back in September 2007, of course, John McCain was trailing Guiliani and Romney in early states. It's possible that the GOP base will get fired up and ultimately cool down before it's all over. But this time, I doubt it.
There was a lot of agreement in Wednesday evening's Republican debate hosted by MSNBC and Politico at the Reagan Presidential Library: Ronald Reagan is awesome and would have agreed with everything Republicans say today, there is something wrong with Barack Obama's foreign policy even if we're not sure what it is, the Affordable Care Act is a massive imposition by government on the will of the people who elected it well aware that they were running on a promise to enact healthcare reform.
The only major back and forth occurred around a curiously meaningless debate: which governor on stage presided over the most job growth and who would create the most jobs as president. For a party that claims government does nothing as well as the private sector and that efforts to improve society are a fools errand, it's an odd obsession. If you believe, as Mitt Romney has repeatedly asserted, that it is business rather than government that creates jobs then how can you argue that you will do so as president?
In fact, Romney went so far as to say, "If I'd spent my career in government I wouldn't be running for president," because then he wouldn't know how to create jobs. It was an apparent jab at Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has been in politics for nearly three decades and has no major private sector experience. Romney walked the claim back when moderator Brian Wiliams asked if he was saying a career politician is unqualified for the White House. Thankfully pundits seem disinclined to claim Romney showed weakness, as they bizarrely insisted Tim Pawlenty did in his confrontation with Romney at the first Republican debate.
Perry, a career politician if ever there was one, responded by noting that Massachusetts had the forty-seventh best job growth rate among the states while Romney was governor, a fact that former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman also gleefully cited. Huntsman was even more smug when boasting that Utah ranked first among the states in job creation during his tenure. Perry, who has made the illusory "Texas miracle" of job creation his claim to fame, bragged in turn about the jobs created in Texas since he took office.
The governors all came prepared with job-related factoids to hurl at each other. "Michael Dukakis created jobs three times faster than you did, Mitt," said Perry, while Huntsman told Perry that forty-seventh best "just won't cut it." Romney countered that Texas created more jobs under Perry's predecessor, George W. Bush, than under Perry. He also defended his record and minimized Perry's by noting that Massachusetts and Texas have different political and economic conditions.
"States are different," said Romney. "Texas has zero income tax. Texas has a right to work state, a Republican legislature, a Republican Supreme Court. Texas has a lot of oil and gas in the ground. Those are wonderful things, but Governor Perry doesn't believe that he created those things."
It's a fair rejoinder, but one that undermines the whole premise of their argument. Job creation in a state is not actually primarily under control of the governor. Aside from the other political bodies there are macro-economic conditions, the uneven distribution of natural resources, and political, social structural constraints. If a governor did totally control his state's economy then the current state of affairs would be the fault of our mostly Republican batch of governors, not President Obama. If, on the other hand, the whole nation's economy is entirely within the president's control, as Romney, Perry and Huntsman's constant attacks on Obama would imply, then governors don't deserve credit or blame for their state's economy during their tenure. By claiming that a governor controls his state's job growth and the president controls the whole nation's, they are making somewhat contradictory arguments. And, as Romney points out, legislatures have power too. But you don't see Romney making that argument when it comes to the Republicans currently in control of the House of Representatives. The whole discussion also runs counter to Republicans' simultaneous claims that the government is not a force for job creation.
Romney's two chief competitors, Perry and Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN), fully demonstrated their weaknesses. In Perry's case that is his unyielding extremism and underwhelming intellect. He stood staunchly behind his previous statements opposing the existence of the Social Security program and reiterated his demonstrably false belief that it is "a Ponzi scheme." Perry also defended his rejection of climate science with the incorrect non sequitur that "Galileo got outvoted for a spell." Galileo, of course, was suppressed by religious extremists who did not like his findings. The obvious analogy to climate science today is that religious extremists such as Rick Perry ignorantly reject scientific findings as their predecessors in Rome did Galileo's astronomy.
Bachmann's apparent weakness is, aside from her extremism, her lack of experience, knowledge or gravitas. She did nothing to correct that by dodging questions and offering only canned irrelevant answers. John Harris of Politico asked her what she would do about the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently within our borders even after the border is adequately secured. She answered with a fear-mongering invocation of "narco-terrorists" coming in from Mexico to illustrate the importance of securing the border. That was, of course, no answer at all. Harris took the rare measure of pressing with a follow up since she had so blatantly ignored his question. Bachmann responded with no concrete or meaningful answer, saying, "It is sequential, and it depends upon where they live, how long they have been here, if they have a criminal record. All of those things have to be taken into place." In other words, she knows she strongly dislikes undocumented immigrants but she has no actual idea what to do about the ones who are here.
Bachmann's unimpressive analytical rigor was apparent in her next statement as well. She perversely claimed that Reagan would have agreed with all the Republican candidates that they should not accept any increase in tax revenues as part of a deficit reduction package because Reagan himself had in fact done just that.
Harris, noting that Bachmann had opposed President Obama's intervention in Libya and that if Obama had agreed with Bachmann Muammar Qaddafi would still be in power, asked "Are you advocating a shift away from the George W. Bush freedom agenda with its emphasis on removing dictators from power and promoting human rights?" It was a good question—a rare opportunity to get a candidate off her canned talking point and probe her larger worldview. Bachmann, alas, was having none of it. She answered by claiming that Obama "has actually weakened us militarily and with the United States presence globally." Her evidence? That the debt ceiling agreement created cuts to defense spending that will be triggered if the super-committee cannot reach a deficit reduction deal. Of course, the debt ceiling agreement itself wouldn't be in place had Republicans just voted to raise the debt ceiling as Congress always has in the past. But Bachmann was against doing that. It is thanks to Bachmann and her ilk that we now face the prospect of the super-committee cuts. And that prospect can still be avoided if the committee can reach a deal. But that would require Republicans agreeing to raise revenues, which is something that none of them accept.
Fortunately for Bachmann and Perry the audience showed that the Republican primary electorate does not much care for cogitation, rationality or human empathy. The most telling moment of the night came not from the stage but from the seats. When Williams noted during a question that Texas has executed 234 people during Perry's tenure he was interrupted by the crowd bursting into applause. It's unlikely that Perry and Bachmann's inanities will disqualify them with that sort of voter.
The event first aired on Thursday, September 8.
Ten years later, the events of 9/11 continue to reverberate. In a special Nation event leading Nation writers will engage in a conversation about how the marketing of fear has reshaped our politics, society, and culture and how we should rethink the concept of the War on Terror. Featuring: Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation; Melissa Harris-Perry, Professor of Political Science at Tulane University; Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University; and Christopher Hayes, editor at large, The Nation. Moderated by John Nichols, Washington correspondent, The Nation.
Tuesday contained two strangely contradictory economic policy pronouncements from Mitt Romney. In the morning he announced the formation of an economic advisory team that included some encouraging choices. The two economists on board are Glenn Hubbard, the dean of Columbia University's business school, and Greg Mankiw, a professor at Harvard. Both served as chairs of George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. So, granted, they are hardly models of fiscal discipline. Hubbard pushed the irresponsible budget-busting Bush tax cuts over Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil's objections.
But Bushonomics looks quite sane compared to today's GOP. These are relatively honest, albeit conservative, brokers. They are not the sort of people who demanded that Congress refuse to raise the debt ceiling, as Romney himself did. That's not their only difference with their candidate. Romney recently said at the last Republican debate that he would not accept a deal to balance the budget that contained $10 in spending cuts for $1 in increased revenue. Both Mankiw and Hubbard endorses raising revenues through reducing expenditures in the tax code. Mankiw also supports taxing carbon emissions or raising the tax on gasoline.
Romney also appointed two politicians, former Representative Vin Weber (R-MN) and former Senator Jim Talent (R-MO). Webber is an establishmentarian who supports the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan. That would raise $2 billion in revenues through eliminating expenditures in the tax code. No one knows what Talent thinks about revenues, but then again no one knows why Talent is on the committee either.
And yet by Tuesday afternoon Romney had dashed any liberal's hopes that he would take a reasonable approach to economic policy. When he put out his long jobs plan, it contained the same conservative dogma that we heard from Jon Huntsman last week.
Romney would immediately cut domestic discretionary spending by 5 percent, which is a good way to kneecap the economic recovery and a bad way to reduce our long-term deficit. He would lower tax rates, sign free trade agreements and let domestic energy producers run amok over the environment. None would address our two major problems: a current high rate of unemployment and a long-term mismatch between projected spending and projected revenues. Indeed, by slashing revenues without offering serious plan to cut spending, Romney would exacerbate the latter problem. "It sounds like an effective plan to attack the problem that some workers are still getting paychecks," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
As for long-term growth, conservative ideology holds that lower tax rates, fewer environmental regulations and bilateral free trade agreements bolster growth. While they clearly increased inequality during the last three decades, the case that they aid growth is a lot shakier, considering that we've often enjoyed stronger growth during periods of higher tax rates. "There's no reason or historical evidence to lead one to believe that's a growth agenda," says Jared Bernstein, Vice President Biden's former chief economic adviser and a fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Among the false premises of Romney's plan is that increasing corporate profits after taxes, by cutting the corporate income tax rate, will spur hiring. Corporate profits are already quite high, but hiring has not kept pace with their growth. So Romney's tax plan would do nothing to boost hiring. Romney also pledges to cap federal spending at 20 percent of GDP and endorses a balanced budget amendment. These absurd restrictions on federal spending would make us unable to react to future economic crises and would contract economic growth in the near term. "I doubt you could find an economist who would disagree with the assertion that such a move would send us right back into recession," says Bernstein.
Romney has made spurring job growth the central promise of his campaign. But just like in Massachusetts and the private sector, as president he would actually do the opposite.
There's no doubt that Rick Perry would be a president from every Democrat's worst nightmare. Perry holds fringe views on matters of the economy and law: that Social Security is unconstitutional, Texas has the right to secede from the Union and direct election of senators is a mistake. His policy solutions consist mainly of serving his donors' interests and asking citizens to pray.
But would he be a scary candidate for Democrats? After all, if he cannot win, his views are moot. When it comes to his political skill, Perry's record in Texas offers a somewhat confusing and contradictory data set. Perry, unlike Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, has never in his career lost a race. Nate Silver of the New York Times points out that in Texas the Republican nominee for any statewide office typically wins in a landslide and Perry has actually underperformed the average Republican.
So Perry's greatest asset is also his greatest liability. According to Texas political experts, Perry has learned well—perhaps too well— the lesson that in Texas all he needs to do is to win the Republican primary. And in such a conservative state that means running hard to the right. Perry has mastered the art of appealing to the right-wing base and getting the GOP nomination, but he doesn't play to the middle because he doesn't have to, hence his unbeaten streak with underwhelming performances in the general election.
"His strength is keeping his finger on the pulse of likely Republican primary voters in Texas," says Harold Cook, a Democratic political consultant in Texas. "His people have been telling him correctly that all he needs to do is win the primary." But Texas Republicans are right wing, even by the standards of the national Republican Party. How will Perry's extremism play in, say, the New Hampshire primary, which is filled with moderates and independents? How about the general election? "The flip side," notes Cook, "is that [Perry] hasn't had to communicate with general election voters in a meaningful way in years, and no one knows if he can. He hasn't come out with a message a moderate independent would find appealing."
This wasn't always the case. Perry used to have a more mainstream platform and inclusive rhetoric, but he has astutely moved rightward with his party, and stayed ahead of the curve so that he looks like a leader instead of a panderer. "He used to follow the George W. Bush model more, and he has become more and more conservative," recalls Jason Stanford, who ran the 2006 campaign of Chris Bell, Perry's Democratic opponent. "A couple things he did in the middle of this decade showed Perry where his party was going." (Bush was a relative moderate in Texas, known for his outreach to Latino voters and "compassionate conservative" initiatives like education reform.) Specifically, Perry experienced right wing backlash over his planned private roadway, the Trans-Texas Corridor, and his support for requiring vaccinations against HPV for Texas school girls. Perry realized conservatism was moving in a more nativist, reactionary direction and adjusted.
Perry used to be relatively pro-immigration. He was the first governor in the country to sign a bill allowing illegal immigrants who came as children to pay in-state tuition at public universities. But by 2006 the Republican Party was in the throes of anti-immigration fervor. Perry squared the circle by cutting campaign ads promising to get tough on border security.
"We couldn't figure out what to say that wouldn't bother someone," says Stanford. "He figured out that he could talk about border security and kind of leave immigration alone and no one realized how liberal he was on immigration. He took the issue and changed it. He even talks about terrorists as if we have Al Qaeda swimming across the Rio Grande. He won that issue huge with his people, they never realized he disagreed with them. It was brilliant, vaguely dishonest, but brilliant."
Perry's recent announcement that his campaign will be staffed primarily by long time loyalists from Texas doesn't suggest he is staffing with an eye towards changing his strategy.
In addition to showing Texas Governor Rick Perry's commanding lead over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in the Republican presidential primary, the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll also contains what must be disheartening news for the White House. Despite the debt ceiling fight—where President Obama demonstrated his political maturity in the face of complete Republican recklessness—only 39 percent of Americans trust the president to do a "better job" on the federal budget deficit, compared to the 42 percent who trust Republicans. Likewise, Americans are tied at 40-40 on who they trust to successfully create jobs, and only slightly prefer Obama when it comes to who they trust to handle the economy—Obama gets 42 percent support to 39 support for Republicans.
If anything, this is a sign that the White House's preferred strategy—let's make Obama the "adult in the room"—isn't working. Instead, we have a more familiar dynamic: now that the choice is between a Republican message on deficit reduction from Republicans and a Republican-lite message on deficit reduction from Democrats, voters have opted for the genuine article.
That said, the situation isn't hopeless; with tomorrow's jobs speech, President Obama has the chance to move away from his usual rhetoric of compromise, and confront the Republican Party on its relentless attacks on Democratic attempts to improve the economy. As it stands, the public wants President Obama to stand up for himself and his party. According to a recent survey from the Pew Research Center, 37 percent of Americans say that Obama should challenge the GOP more often, a ten point increase from earlier in the year. As a whole, Democrats are desperate for the president to stand up to the GOP—57 percent want him to be more forceful.
In general, people don't watch political events, and presidential addresses are no different; in all likelihood, tomorrow's speech will be watched by few, and forgotten very soon. But consistent rhetoric can make a difference, and if Obama uses his jobs speech to inaugurate a new era of regular confrontation with the GOP, then he might find himself with a few more people on his side.
In what was surely one of the stranger Senate confirmation hearings in recent history, President Obama's nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection bureau, Richard Cordray, testified Tuesday before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
Unlike most nomination hearings, which focus on the merits of the nominee, the committee could not agree on whether the position itself should exist. Forty-four Senate Republicans sent a letter to President Obama in May that demanded a five-person board with appointees from both parties run the CFPB, instead of a single director.
Tuesday, only two of the committee's Republicans showed up to the hearing—Senator Richard Shelby, the ranking member, and Senator Bob Corker. Shelby declined to even question Cordray, blasted the hearing in his opening statement as "premature" and said "we do not believe that the committee should consider any nominee to be the director of the CFPB until reforms are adopted to make the bureau accountable to the American people."
Shelby, who has taken $6.2 million from the financial sector during his career, and his fellow Republicans are demanding not only to remove the position of director but to force the CFPB to submit a budget to Congress and accept additional veto powers from other bank regulators. The Republican line of attack is that, without these regulations, the CFPB will be a runaway regulatory train straight out of Glenn Beck's nightmares.
"The director will be virtually free of any constraints on his authority during his five-year term. No one person should have so much unfettered power over the American people," Shelby said during the hearing. "It blatantly violates the spirit of our democratic system of government…. unless the Bureau is reformed, it is only a matter of time before this concentration of power is abused or misused to the detriment of American consumers and the economy."
Senator Sherrod Brown said he consulted the Senate historian, who could not come up with a similar case of one party opposing not the nominee but the very office to which he or she was appointed. Brown and the other Democrats urged a quick confirmation for Cordray, and hammered on the point that the structure of the CFPB was already put up for a vote and decided in 2010, and so Cordray should receive an up or down vote on his own merits.
"Now is not the time to undermine an agency that a bipartisan majority in Congress created," Brown said. "It is not the time to play a dangerous game with the financial security of millions of families and businesses."
Senator Jack Reed lamented that consumer voices were "seldom heard in Washington," and added that "as we go forward, we are trying to ensure that we do not replicate the crisis of 2008—that we do not have financial collapse."
For his part, Cordray offered somewhat vanilla testimony about his resume and life story. He made overtures to the financial sector by pledging not to automatically regulate via lawsuits, which he called "a very slow, wasteful and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem." But he added that "if people are ignoring or evading consumer protections laws—and seeking to gain an unfair advantage over their law-abiding competitors—then litigation is an essential tool, and we will use it judiciously."
As Ari Berman has outlined, the $3 trillion financial services industry is waging a fierce battle against the CFPB, which for some in the business community amounts to a "holy jihad." Cordray will likely clear the Democrat-controlled Banking Committee, but will surely face a Republican filibuster after that.
Ten years ago, on the first Sunday after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the NFL did something truly heroic and generous: nothing. The league willingly ate millions of dollars and cancelled the games out of respect for the unfolding tragedy. As 9/11 morphed into a decade-long "Global War on Terror," the league has, to put it mildly, failed to show similar restraint. From the now ubiquitous presence of military flyovers and honor guards at every game, to the armed forces recruitment stations set up outside preseason contests, to having war-gourmands like General David Petraeus toss the coin before the Super Bowl, to staging Fox's NFL pregame show from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan (with Terry, Howie and the gang dressed in fatigues), the league has treated our era of endless war as an odious exercise in corporate branding.
This Sunday, the NFL season opens in earnest on the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and the league, like John Boehner finding an abandoned pack of unfiltered smokes, just can't control itself. Teams will be going all out to commemorate that horrific day ten years ago when nearly 3,000 people were killed in DC, Pennsylvania and New York City. If you think this anniversary should be remembered with somber soft voices and an air of dignity, you are going to want to keep your distance from NFL Sunday or you will lose your lunch.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, on ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning, said without a hint of humility, that the NFL will aim this Sunday to "help the country heal." How will this healing take place? As the Associated Press reported, "Pregame tributes will be synchronized on CBS and Fox telecasts and shown on video boards in each stadium hosting games. Coaches, players and local first responders will hold field-length American flags for the playing of the national anthem." The AP also reported that players, coaches and the sideline rabble will be compelled to wear a specially customized NFL 9/11 ribbon. The official "NFL 9/11 logo" will also be on the field of every game.
Roger Goodell's office says that this pomp is aimed to "unite fans to recognize those who lost their lives, honor the families who lost loved ones, and salute the American spirit, the early responders on 9/11, and other heroes that contributed to the nation's recovery." If you are one of the 25 million Americans looking for work, or related to one of the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed overseas in three theaters of war, you might wonder what recovery Goodell is referencing.
The last decade has more resembled a sweat-soaked fever-dream than anything resembling a "recovery." The statistics boggle the mind. More than 6,000 US troops have been killed. Over 550,000 soldiers have put in claims for disability. Among those unfortunate enough to have been born in the countries the United States has invaded and occupied, the death toll has been estimated to be as much as one million lives lost. The current number of war refugees and displaced persons reaches almost 8 million people. The economic cost to the United States has been estimated by Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz to be as high as $5 trillion. Now everyone in Washington, DC, is shocked that a decade of tax cuts and war has led to record deficits, and working people are told to "tighten our belts." It's been an awful decade of lies and loss, and its reality will go unacknowledged this Sunday.
In all the scurrying to make sure "9/11 NFL Sunday" is a day to remember, one name is strikingly absent from the press release trumpeting the day's events: Pat Tillman. After 9/11, Tillman took the extraordinary step of leaving the NFL to join the Army Rangers. His experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan pushed him to question the official rational for the "Global War on Terror." He read antiwar authors. He told friends that he felt the war in Iraq was "f—in' illegal." Then he died at the hands of his fellow Rangers in an instance of what was deemed "friendly fire." The Pentagon and the Bush administration hid this reality from Pat Tillman's family. The NFL, for its part, inaugurated a USO center at Bagram Airfield in Pat Tillman's name without hinting at the complicated realities of either Tillman's service or his betrayal at the hands of those he trusted. The NFL's failure to highlight Tillman in this Sunday's 9/11 tributes is in some ways a relief, but it also reads like an act of cowardice. His story is a polarizing one that Roger Goodell wants to avoid on this day of "unity."
But ten years along from 9/11, unity is hardly the watchword of the moment. I spoke with Rory Fanning, a former US Army Ranger turned antiwar activist, who served with Pat and walked across the country in his memory. I asked Rory what he would like to see the NFL do to commemorate the decade anniversary of that fateful day. He said, "I would ask the NFL for an hour of silence for the hundreds of thousands killed after 9/11 in recognition of the criminally disproportionate response to that day." If Roger Goodell must do something, that sounds pretty dead-on. It certainly feels more right than the queasy mix of war, sport and choreographed remembrance that Goodell has planned.


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Nothing feels better than bolstering a tired room. Not every situation, however, calls for an extreme makeover. Sometimes homeowners have a small budget, while others just don't want to part with prized possessions. Fortunately, using what clients already own, sprinkled with a few thoughtful accessories, can enliven any space.
A simple rearrangement of a room can provide a new perspective; take a few cues from the retail world, for example. "If you go into a place like a furniture showroom, they reshuffle what they already have in lieu of buying more inventory," says Linda Elliott Smith, a Dallas-based interior designer. "They may have bought a couple new pieces, but they've put everything in a new position, which means the light source in the room is illuminating it in a different manner."
The same can be said for color and how the perception of it changes when the furniture moves around. "If you took a single sofa that has a red fabric on it, moving it to a different position in the room – maybe closer to natural light – that red is going to change colors [because of] how the light falls on it," Smith says.
Not only does rearranging furniture bring new color perspectives to the room, but it introduces an opportunity to add other sources of color. One of the easiest and least expensive ways to change a room's look, of course, is through a new coat of paint. Even a touch-up of a baseboard, crown molding or bookshelves can make a significant difference. Accessories can also have a big impact; consider these easy and inexpensive changes to enhance color in a space:
- Rugs
- Throw pillows
- Decorative totes
- New placemats on the dining room table
- Plants or dried branches
- Solid-color panel curtains
- Tight-fitting slipcovers
- Floating shelves
- New lampshades
- Patina mirrors
- New hardware on cabinets, drawers and doors
Even if you use the client's existing accessories, the way you display them can also breathe new life into a room. For example, stack a couple of the items on several hardcover books to create varying heights. "Sometimes it's just a matter of shifting accessories into a new position so they become more eye-catching," Smith says.
In some instances, it's a good idea to borrow artwork or accessories from other rooms if they'll fit in well with the new design scheme. Just be sure that you aren't sacrificing the aesthetic of one space for another.
Another important consideration when reconfiguring a space is its architecture. If the room has a strong focal point, such as a fireplace or bay window, be sure to arrange furniture to complement it. Furthermore, as with any design project, remember to keep balance and function in mind. The rearrangement may look good, but is it comfortable? Is the family tripping over one another to get around the coffee table? Is there enough room to get out of bed? Do you need another lamp to brighten a forgotten corner of the room? Are the colors in harmony?
By carefully rearranging furniture, working with existing and new colors, and adding a few key accessories, designers can turn a ho-hum room into a striking space that looks like a million bucks.

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Armstrong 0.25" x 2" Hickory T-Molding in Cocoa - Sculpted
Armstrong 0.25" x 2" Hickory T-Molding in Cocoa - Sculpted
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|Color: Cocoa
|Material: Wood
|Species: Hickory
|Finish Type: Pre-finished
|Water Resistant: No
|Flooring Sample Available: Yes
|Country of Manufacture: United States
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AquaFun is a mixture of swimming, gymnastics and dancing. And these are also the basics of synchronised swimming. Find out how to give it a try.
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Life On Mars: The Oahu Infrared Project
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Besides landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and the Colosseum in Rome, it's safe to say the North Shore is one of the most photographed destinations in the world. And not just by tourists, but the world's best surf photographers who have documented the "seven-mile miracle" in and out. People have been bringing unique perspectives to photography from this stretch of beach for decades. In the last year, I've started playing with infrared film as a side hobby. Black and white infrared film can make the islands look like tropical snowy wonderlands. Color infrared makes the same scenes look like Mars with trees, and in my mind the North Shore was the perfect place to create beautifully dark blue skies filled with red mountains, pink trees, and dark waves that look like iced tea.
Film cameras have had the ability to shoot on various types of infrared films for years, but they also required dark filters that had long exposure times, which wouldn't work for photography of a quick-moving subject, which is normally what you're shooting in surf photography.
Infrared light is light that's invisible to the human eye but not to the sensors in a digital camera. With the advent of the digital camera, it was discovered that by removing the infrared filter and adding a visible light filter inside, it produced the same effect that adding filters to infrared film did—a "false color" scheme—only the shutter speeds and exposures were the same as you would use in normal situations. Without these built-in filters sensors, the so-called "invisible light" can dilute the colors that we see in photos. Your retina can't see infrared rays, but the sensor of a digital camera can and it distorts an image from the normal color ranges the human eye is used to.
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For a couple weeks in December and March, with some help of locals like Tai Van Dyke and Flynn Novak, our goal was to surf spots on the North Shore with the greenest backdrops possible. In a few cases they weren't the easiest places to surf. "It was late winter/early spring on the North Shore," says Novak, "and a lot of swells were accompanied with rough weather. We ended up surfing practically every novelty wave on the North Shore with no one out, and for good reason, as the victory-at-sea conditions made our sessions testing, and sometimes even ridiculous, where we'd be sitting out a rain squall or a 40-mile-per-hour wind gust laughing at ourselves for being out in the ocean. But the results were more than worth it."
With this type of photography, many times you take a photo and you never know what certain subjects will look like. "When Checkwood first showed me an infrared photo," says Novak, "I thought I was looking at a surf image from a different planet."
The obscure colors create scenes that look like paintings, and in a beautiful place like the North Shore you have what you see here—surfing in infrared and some North Shore locals ripping in scenes that would make Willy Wonka jealous and the world hopeful that the Mars Rover finds water some day.—TWS Photo Editor Aaron Checkwood
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A community-based numeracy program for young children and adults
In partnership with the Waterloo Public Library, Kitchener Public Library, Region of Waterloo Library, Ontario Early Years Center Kitchener-Waterloo, and the Fields Institute, this program explores how parents/caregivers/early childhood educators/teachers can use purposeful play to assist young children to develop number sense.
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We had heard some rumors of some amazing smoked whitefish coming from just over the hill near Bear Lake, UT. We asked around to find out who it was and found it was a fellow by the name of Scott (we'll leave the last name out since he doesn't know we're posting this). As it turns out, Scott is a friend of Camp Chef legend Guy Perkins. But then again, who isn't a friend
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Here at Camp Chef we hear about all kinds of crazy recipes and unique ways of cooking. Often times they get stuck in our head. We think and ponder about them until finally we just have to try it out on our own. That was the case with the Rock Salt Prime Rib. Matt heard about the recipe a while back from our old buddy Cee Dub.
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An Apple Orchard
Daubigny devoted several canvases to apple orchards, generally favoring cheerful scenes of blossoming trees in spring rather than the melancholic palette of autumn bounty seen here. The artist deploys a familiar compositional strategy for his orchard scenes: a screen of trees in the middle ground that permits only a hint of spatial recession in the breaks between leafy branches. The full trees and vast, bird-dotted sky fill the large canvas and dwarf the figures of three apple pickers, one of whom gathers the ample harvest into her skirts.
- Artist: Charles-François Daubigny, French, 1817-1878
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- Caption: Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878). An Apple Orchard, 1871-1878. Oil on glue-lined canvas, 51 x 64 in. (130.2 x 162.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of A. Augustus Healy, 02.252
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For these actors, singing isn't just an act
By Andrew Dansby | July 24, 2013 | Updated: July 24, 2013 5:36pm
Photo By Valerie MaconJason Alexander, aka: George Costanza of 'Seinfeld' fame, is a man of many talents. And he's bringing those talents to the Bayou City. Alexander is slated to perform at Jones Hall on Sept. 5. But contrary to what you may think, he's not doing a comedy routine. Alexander is joining the orchestra for his first-ever musical performance in Texas, where he'll belt out classy tunes, including songs from Broadway's 'Music Man,' 'Pippin' and 'Merrily We Roll Along.'
In addition to singing, he'll reminisce about his longtime career both on stage and on screen.
Alexander isn't the only star whose talents go beyond acting. Keep clicking to see other television and movie stars who are in bands.
Photo By Simone Joyner/Getty ImagesThough he is long-celebrated for his acting abilities, Hugh Laurie, of 'House, M.D., fame, is quite the musician. He plays piano, guitar, drums, harmonica and the saxophone. (Plus he was a comedian before he hit it big on 'House, M.D.' What can't this guy do?)
Photo By Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesActor Michael Cera is in a band called The Long Goodbye with fellow actor Clark Duke and Christian Buenaventura.
Photo By TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty ImagesThe 'Field of Dreams' star is also the frontman for Kevin Costner and Modern West.
Photo By Denise Truscello/WireImageHouston's own Dennis Quaid's backing band is the Sharks. Quaid starred in 1983's very awful 'Jaws 3-D.' ...Coincidence?
Photo By Noel Vasquez/Getty ImagesWhen Ryan Gosling isn't busy acting or saving lives, he's one half of the rock duo Dead Man's Bones.
Photo By Charley Gallay'New Girl' star Zooey Deschanel has proven she has legitimate musical talent as part of She and Him, her band with M. Ward.
Photo By Michel Dufour/WireImageMilla Jovovich has been romantically linked to Stuart Zender of Jamiroquai and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante. In 1994, she released 'The Divine Comedy' to some good reviews.
Photo By Samir Hussein/Getty ImagesIn addition to kicking people in the head, Steven Seagal also plays guitar. He has released two albums: 'Songs from the Crystal Cave' in 2005 and 'Mojo Priest' in 2006.
Photo By FilmMagicJason Schwartzman was once the drummer for Phantom Planet. In 2007, he began performing as Coconut Records. Schwartzman has also composed and performed musical scores for several films and TV shows.
Photo By John Parra/FilmMagicJohnny Depp has a lot of famous musician friends. He also plays guitar.
Photo By Rachel Murray/FilmMagicAdam Goldberg's character in 'Dazed and Confused' just wanted to dance. In real life, Goldberg wants to sing as well. His band LANDy released 'Eros and Omissions' in 2009. Houston native and Flaming Lips drummer Steven Drozd played on the album. He is also the lead singer of the band The Golden Sisters.
Photo By Photoshot/Getty ImagesJada Koren, aka Jada Pinkett Smith, has a Nu metal band named Wicked Wisdom. They've been around since 2002.
Photo By Martin Philbey/RedfernsRussell Crowe loves rugby and rock. His band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts morphed into a new group called The Ordinary Fear of God in 2005.
Photo By Steve.Granitz/WireImageSteve Burns was an aspiring musician before he landed a job (and unfortunate shirt) appearing on 'Blues Clues.' He got back to music with an assist from Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd and producer Dave Fridmann, who helped him make a hooky sort of experimental alt-rock.
Photo By Tom Briglia/FilmMagicTony Danza has recorded four albums, including 2007's 'Danza II: Electric Boogaloo,' as The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza.
Photo By Michael Caulfield Archive/WireImage for Bragman Nyman CafaDermot Mulroney played cello and viola in the punk-folk band The Low and Sweet Orchestra.
Photo By Louise Wilson/Getty ImagesJuliette Lewis and the Licks called it quits in 2009.
Photo By Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty ImagesThe Germans' love of David Hasselhoff's music is well documented.
Photo By Frazer HarrisonJeff Bridges, who has recorded two albums, won a best-actor Oscar for playing a hard-living country singer in 'Crazy Heart.'
Photo By Jim Dyson/WireImageJared Leto's band, 30 Seconds To Mars, has been around since 1998.
Photo By Getty ImagesHe is better known as Uncle Junior on 'The Sopranos,' but Dominic Chianese also has released two albums.
Photo By Jo Hale/Getty ImagesMembers of the Wallflowers formed part of Minnie Driver's backing band on her 2004 album, 'Everything I've Got in My Pocket.' Her 2007 album, 'Seastories,' features collaborations with Ryan Adams, Neal Casal and Liz Phair.
Photo By Paul HawthorneKevin Bacon and older brother Michael make up the country-folk rock band Bacon Brothers.
Photo By George De Sota/Getty ImagesKeanu Reeves, center played bass for Dogstar. He was the most famous member of the trio that disbanded in 2002, which also included Bret Domrose (left) and drummer Rob Mailhouse.
Photo By Gerardo Mora/Getty ImagesBruce Willis has recorded three solo albums, including 2001's 'Classic Bruce Willis: the Universal Masters Collection.'
Photo By Courtesy photo'Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space' came out in 1967.
Photo By Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesNot to be outdone by Spock, William 'Captain Kirk' Shatner made his debut in 1968 with 'The Transformed Man.'
Photo By Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesDon Johnson, an '80s icon, recorded two albums during that decade.
Photo By Rick Diamond/WireImage'Mr. Holland's Opus' actor Terrence Howard's 'Shine Through It' was released in 2008.
Photo By Tony Russell/RedfernsIrish actor Richard Harris scored a hit with 'MacArthur Park.'
Photo By Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesJamie Foxx has made four albums, but he is best known for his Kanye West collaborations.
Photo By Gary Miller/FilmMagicBilly Bob Thornton — who was in a ZZ Top cover band before he ever appeared in a movie — made four records under his own name, before making three with his British Invasion/early rock band the Boxmasters.
Photo By ColumbiaEddie Murphy gave us 'How Could It Be' in 1985. The album featured the Rick James produced 'Party All the Time.'
The popularity of 'My Cousin Vinny' led to 'Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You,' an album performed by Joe Pesci as his character from the film.
Photo By Sony BMGPeter Gallagher's '7 Days In Memphis' dropped in 2005.
Photo By Sony ClassicalRobert Downey Jr. has recorded a number of songs for soundtracks; in 2004 his album, 'The Futurist,' was released.
Photo By UMeJohn Travolta has a bunch of albums to his credit, but none with a cover quite like 2012's 'This Christmas' (with Olivia Newton-John).
Photo By Andreas Rentz/StaffKevin Costner's successful acting career allows him the opportunity to pursue his musical interests.
Photo By TIZIANA FABI/StringerUS Kevin Costner and his band perform at Teatro Brancaccio in Rome, 25 October 2007. AFP PHOTO/ Tiziana Fabi (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images)
Photo By Owen Sweeney/INVLZoe Deshanel and Matt Ward team up to perform under the name She & Him.
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When: 9 p.m. Friday
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Next month, "House" actor Hugh Laurie will release "Didn't It Rain." The album is the singer and pianist's second collection of tastefully played and produced old blues and jazz standards with a decidedly New Orleans flavor. And this weekend Kevin Costner and his roots-rock band Modern West, who released their first album five years ago, will perform at the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, La.
Sometimes it seems most actors have a guitar laying around the house, along with some flickering ember of musical aspiration ... the road not taken. Over the years, several have had the chance to make albums or play concerts, some more successfully than others. More often than not, the recordings suggest hobbyists whose fame greases through a vanity project.
Some actors use music as an unpretentious outlet, like Dennis Quaid and his bar band, the Sharks. Many are harmless folk/roots types like Kevin Bacon and Jeff Bridges, who found a record label willing to put out their harmless folk/roots music. Some do their best to hide in a band format like Johnny Depp in P and Keanu Reeves in Dogstar. Some - John Travolta, John Schneider - benefited from being around in the 1970s, when bad ideas were rubber-stamped. Others - Bruce Willis, Don Johnson - benefited from being around in the 1980s, when bad ideas also were rubber-stamped. A couple of actors had surprise hits during that decade: Both Eddie Murphy and Jack Wagner recorded No. 2 singles in the mid-'80s. But let's not judge things by pop charts: Willis' and Johnson's hits both reached No. 5.
David Hasselhoff is famously famous as a singer - in Germany. At least two "Star Trek" cast members have made albums.
Just the past 10 years have seen a number of actors release albums: Jamie Foxx, Scarlett Johansson, Rita Wilson, Terrence Howard, Robert Downey Jr., Minnie Driver, Peter Gallagher, Tony Danza, Jada Pinkett Smith (with her band Wicked Wisdom), Juliette Lewis and Steven Seagal. Some have created fuller discographies than others. Earlier this summer, Jared Leto's band, 30 Seconds to Mars, released its fourth album. Billy Bob Thornton - who was in a ZZ Top cover band before he ever appeared in a movie - made four records under his own name, before making three with his British Invasion/early-rock band the Boxmasters.
Following are a few of the better recordings made by actors. It's worth noting we've discounted musical-theater types such as Matthew Morrison as well as performers such as Janet Jackson, Drake, Alanis Morrissette and Jenny Lewis, who were in TV and film early on but no longer list "actor" as vocation on their tax returns.
1. "Volume Two" (2010)
Actor: Zoe Deschanel
Band: She & Him
Sound: Having sung on screen, Deschanel teamed up with indie-rock multi-instrumentalist and guitar whiz Matt Ward for a contemporary take on '60s and '70s California pop.
Recommended if you like: '60s girl groups
Sample song: "Don't Look Back"
2. "Music for Lovers Only" (1953)
Actor: Jackie Gleason
Band: Jackie Gleason Orchestra
Sound: The actor and comedian was best-known for characters on the cusp of coming unhinged. But as a pianist, composer and conductor, he went for a slow, smooth romantic sound with strings.
Recommended if you like: Percy Faith
Sample song: "My Funny Valentine"
3. "Nighttiming" (2007)
Actor: Jason Schwartzman
Band: Coconut Records
Sound: Having drummed for Phantom Planet, Schwartzman became a one-man band with his Coconut Records, making endlessly melodic California pop.
Recommended if you like: Harry Nilsson
Sample song: "West Coast"
4. "Let Them Talk" (2011)
Actor: Hugh Laurie
Sound: The "House" actor dabbled with music on the show, but off-screen he's more than a dabbler. Laurie, an Englishman, shows his affinity for jazzy New Orleans blues.
Recommended if you like: Mose Allison
Sample song: "St. James Infirmary"
5. "Songs for Dust Mites" (2003)
Actor: Steve Burns
Sound: Burns was an aspiring musician before he landed a job (and unfortunate shirt) appearing on "Blues Clues." He got back to music with an assist from Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd and producer Dave Fridmann, who helped him make a hooky sort of experimental alt-rock. Drozd has worked on some worthwhile recordings by actor Adam Goldberg, who has released music under the names LANDy and the Goldberg Sisters.
Recommended if you like: Flaming Lips
Sample song: "Troposphere"
6. "Goodbye to All That" (1996)
Actor: Dermot Mulroney
Band: The Low and Sweet Orchestra
Sound: Folk music with a rocking pulse. Mulroney played cello and viola in the band that also included Thelonious Monster's Mike Martt, the Pogues' James Fearnley and the Circle Jerks' Zander Schloss.
Recommended if you like: the BoDeans
Sample song: "Sometimes the Truth Is All You Get"
7. "Dead Man's Bones" (2009)
Actor: Ryan Gosling
Band: Dead Man's Bones
Sound: Gosling and fellow singer-songwriter bandmate Zach Shields made an interesting, moody and experimental-rock recording that has no trace of vanity project in its varied sounds.
Recommended if you like: Scott Walker
Sample song: "Lose Your Soul"
8. "A Tramp Shining" (1968)
Actor: Richard Harris
Sound: Harris made the fine decision to leave the songwriting to the songwriter, singing nine songs penned by the great Jimmy Webb. His voice and Webb's words were immersed in slow, string-saturated balladry.
Recommended if you like: Robert Goulet
Sample song: "Didn't We"
9. "The Divine Comedy" (1994)
Actor: Milla Jovovich
Sound: Model/actress Jovovich's album wasn't greeted warmly, which is too bad because the music is unpretentious and charming folk-tinged pop, and Jovovich's voice is expressive and interesting.
Recommended if you like: Kate Bush
Sample song: "Gentlemen Who Fell"
10. "That Man, Robert Mitchum, Sings" (1967)
Actor: Robert Mitchum
Sound: In 1957, Mitchum, a pothead, did a very potheady thing: He made a calypso album. It's really only good for tormenting people who love calypso. But his deep, oaky voice was better suited for a subsequent set of songs that were far removed from the Caribbean.
Recommended if you like: Johnny Horton
Sample song: "Ballad of Thunder Road"


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CJDobs wrote:Just a few chapters in so far and enjoying it.
Interested to know what our overseas readers make of it though? It's written very colloquially and whether that's a homage to Dickens or not, Dickens only used the 'Baker Street Irregulars' style when the characters spoke whereas Terry uses it widely in this book as the narrative. I understand it (being English!) but wondered how it translates overseas?
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Grog Soaked Blade is a passive ability that grants Gangplank an on-hit effect.
- Does not apply spell effects.
- Magic damage will be mitigated by magic shields.
- Spell shields will not trigger.
Additional Information:
- Grog Soaked Blade does not count as a poison for Cassiopeia's Twin Fang.
Ability Details
Parrrley is a single targeted ability.
- Applies on-hit effects, on-attack effects, life steal and fully critically strike.
- Parrrley behaves like a melee auto-attack.
- Parrrley can be affected by on-being hit effects coming from champions and items.
- and will apply the strongest melee version of their slows.
- and will trigger the strongest melee version of the movement speed bonus.
- and splash damage will trigger, and Parrrley will not interact in any way with passive.
- Parrrley can be blocked, dodged or parried.
- Spell shields will block the ability.
- This ability is considered to be a projectile for Unbreakable and Wind Wall.
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- Parrrley resets Gangplank's autoattack timer.
- Every unit killed by
or splash damage or the procs from and will grant Parrrley's bonus gold and refund mana.
- This makes it possible to refund more mana than the ability costs (returning the full mana used with 2 kills and returning more than the used mana with 3+ kills).
Ability Details
Remove Scurvy is a self-target ability.
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- Remove Scurvy does not remove Ignite, the damage reduction from Exhaust, any 'airborne' crowd control effects (pulls, knock-backs and knock-ups) or Malzahar's Malefic Visions.
- Remove Scurvy is one of the few abilities that can remove suppression.
- The suppression from Urgot's Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser will be removed, but if the channel completes both champions will still be moved.
- The suppression from Malzahar's Nether Grasp, Skarner's Impale, and Warwick's Infinite Duress will be removed, however Malzahar's ultimate will continue dealing damage unless you move out of the tether range or the channel is disrupted.
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Raise Morale passively increases Gangplank's stats. When activated, Raise Morale is a point blank area of effect ability.
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- When the active buff expires, Gangplank regains the passive bonuses of Raise Morale. It is not removed for the duration of the ability's cooldown.
- Raise Morale's active is not an aura, and allies who move near Gangplank after the skill is used will not receive the buff. Likewise allies will keep the buff for the full duration once gained even if Gangplank dies or they move away from him.
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Cannon Barrage is a global ground targeted area of effect ability.
- Applies spell effects as an area of effect ability.
- Spell vamp is reduced to one-third effectiveness.
- will apply a 15% slow.
- Magic damage will be mitigated by magic shields.
- Spell shields will block the damage of one cannonball.
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- Cannon Barrage grants vision of the targeted area to Gangplank's team for the duration.
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Posted 10 December 2012 - 03:11
Thanx for the blatantly uneeded, not to mention, unwanted, sarcasm. If you have nothing informative to add, you can just walk away. Thank you.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 03:23
This may sound crazy-- but I found another board that suggested these fixes.
Call up "services.msc" look for the ones dealing with the Windows Installer then stop the service as well as the WMI 's.
The WMI it suggested stopping and starting it.
It was also suggested to look for the c:\windows\prefetch then delete all that is in there and reboot-- "this may take some time for it to restart" (some may say this does nothing , but two people said it helped the process stop quicker after first install)
Those suggestions - I saw say fix 1/3-1/2 of the issues you described.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 03:45
Thanx redvamp. Will try that.
Ok did the above. So far only wmiprvse has started up. Will see what happens and report back.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 04:01
One of the fixes said probably -- the installer itself never gave the successful termination and therefore keeps running... By stopping the service it won't start again until you install something. That will probably give a successful termination.
The Wmipvse - the suggestion of that restarting was that it would try again to finish successfully.
Other than doing a defragmentation (unless you have an SSD) I have not found much on the rest of the services.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 04:55
I'm not sure when this actually started. But I'm thinking it was when I installed the Win8 app for The WB. So should I maybe try and uninstall that app and see what happens if the problem reoccurs?
Posted 10 December 2012 - 04:59
Well if the application works-- I would not mess with it-- it is possible and is a common error with bad coded applications.... they don't tell the installer they are done and usually does not get cleared out until the next thing that is installed or a reboot.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 05:14
Well, the app works for the most part. But when I try and watch a full episode of something, it actually takes over a minute for it to load the show and then stutters like Hell. So I haven't really used it.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 05:28
I would probably look for some program options-- sometimes they have things like pre-loading or flash storage (if flash) usually through the right click. Either that or disk space usage.. sometimes if flash based you could go for the quality and set that to medium. In some cases that takes the skipping out.


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