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Community members donate custom hand cycle to 8-year-old
RED HOUSE, W.Va. — There is something special about a first bicycle — a little like the feeling one gets later with his or her first car — a feeling of independence and pride in being able to drive or ride it.
Usually, it is just a matter of going to the store, picking out the bike, and bringing it home. For a Putnam County boy, however, getting his own special bike was, until recently, just a dream.
On Saturday, Feb. 23, Daniel Priddy, 8, of Red House entered the Charleston Bike Center in Kanawha City with his family, ostensibly to look for a bike for his mother. As his dad pushed his wheelchair through the door, Daniel's face went from curiosity to surprise to a big smile when he realized the gleaming, royal blue, three-wheeled hand bike was his.
"Is this for me?" he later said was his first thought. With his wheelchair pushed up close to the bike, Daniel maneuvered his body onto the black padded seat, placed his fingers on the hand pedals and smiled again as everyone in the room beamed. "Cool," he said, which brought a lot of laughter.
After the bike was taken outside, Daniel sat down once again and after having his seat belt buckled, he immediately began hand-pedaling the bike down the sidewalk. Despite cracks and uneven places on the walkway, riding it was no problem for him, although shop owner Bill Nottingham and Pastor Wayne Hooper were following along until he got used to it. Riding became a little harder as he tried to turn the bike around in the grass, but soon he was back on track.
Arriving once again at the front of the bike shop, he was then presented with a new bike helmet and a WVU cyclist jersey, compliments of Nottingham who had ordered the bike at the request of Hooper and Richard Eichberger, which he sold to them at cost.
Having a bicycle to ride had been the dream of Daniel for some time; however, the kind he would need was beyond the means of his parents — as it would be for a lot of people. The bike, with a retail price of about $2,200, was built by Top End, a subsidiary of Inva-Care, a medical equipment manufacturer, and was custom made to fit Daniel's measurements.
The whole story began after Pastor Hooper, of Scott Depot, heard about Daniel's dream from a member of his congregation. Daniel was born with tibial aplasia ectrodactyly, a rare genetic disorder which, in Daniel's case, meant he was born without tibias — or the long bones in his legs. He was also missing ankles and knee joints, and his hands are partially formed.
Although his parents, Dale and Janie, learned about the disorder through several ultrasounds during Janie Priddy's pregnancy, they didn't know exactly what to expect.
"We didn't really know until he was born," she said. Later, they found that several members of their family have had the disorder, but in different forms such as missing fingers. Daniel, on the other hand, has a more severe case.
"It was very sporadic and could skip several generations," Janie said of the disorder.
Otherwise, Daniel Priddy was quite healthy. As he grew, he began to do the same thing all babies do, such as holding his own bottle or putting his pacifier in his mouth. At the end of 2005, after hearing the opinion of three doctors, the decision was made to amputate his legs — otherwise, he would have had to remain in a wheelchair.
He was fitted with straight prostheses that he could walk on, but then was fitted with a type of prostheses with knees. However, when walking, the wearer has to listen for the knee to go into place before taking the next step which slowed him down. Although he worked with a therapist, he still moved slower than when he got around without anything. He preferred speed to using the prostheses. His parents have decided for now to allow him to go without the artificial legs and let him try the legs again later.
Daniel, who is a third-grade student at Winfield Elementary, loves to try new things, and challenges definitely do not scare him. He swims, bowls, skateboards, and even wrestles on the Poca Youth Wrestling team. His mother said he has won eight or nine trophies in wrestling the last couple of years.
"We raised him to be independent and self-sufficient. We don't like the word 'can't.' He doesn't let anything stand in his way," Mom Janie said.
When he first wanted to swim, he was a little frightened, but after viewing a teenager on YouTube named Nick Santo with the same birth disorder who demonstrates how he swims, that was all he needed.
"He got inspired by him and he wasn't afraid of the water," Janie said.
Last year, he had his birthday party at the South Charleston Recreation Center. His birthday, which arrives in a few days, will also be a swimming party at the same center.
Bike riding was different, however. Where before, he could always find a way to do what he wanted, bike riding presented a different challenge. He would have to pump with his hands, not his feet. After looking online, they found a bike that he could get around on. It had two back tires and one front tire. The rider turns the hand crank the same way a regular bike rider pumps the pedals with his legs and feet.
The hard part was paying for it. This is where Pastor Hooper stepped in.
Although he did not know Daniel, when he found out Daniel wanted a bike, not to just ride around where he lives, but to take camping so he could ride with the other kids on the campgrounds, the idea stuck with him.
"I prayed about it," he said. "This needed to happen," he kept thinking. Still, he had to be realistic. Despite the congregations being generous with their money, the two churches he pastors — Wade Chapel at Red House Hill and Emma Chapel, near the Jackson County line — are small. When he went to Emma Chapel that morning, he told the congregation about Daniel and how he wanted to help him get his custom-made bike.
"I asked them to pray about it," he said. Before he left the church, he was handed a little over $1,000 in cash and checks.
"It's not a big church, we normally have 45-50 people. When I left, I was amazed," he said. When he went to Wade Chapel, he took time for testimonies about how God had worked in different ones' lives. Hooper then said he wanted to share with them what he had experienced at Emma Chapel. They too wanted to help Daniel's dream come true, and gave a large donation.
At their weekly prayer breakfast, Hooper saw Richard Eichberger, who is a cyclist. He asked Eichberger if he could take on the project of ordering a bike.
"He helped me find the right bike," Hooper said.
Hooper said the guys at the prayer breakfast gave money, and Hooper's own son, sent a donation.
Richard Eichberger, too, raised money for the bike. He set up a Facebook page that raised money for the bicycle, raised $160 at a pre-holiday run, held a silent auction that added $100, and received money from various donors through word of mouth and third-party information. He raised $925.
Bill Nottingham of Charleston Bike Center has been instrumental in getting the bike for Daniel.
"I got the chair for them at my cost and we assembled it for him, and gave him a bike jersey to go with it," he said. He also gave him a new helmet and agreed to provide repairs and maintenance for the life of the bike. The remaining money left after everything was paid was given to the family.
"I am happy to participate in something like that," Nottingham said. "Daniel should be an inspiration to all of us to use what we have to the best of our abilities."
Eichberger said he felt a great sense of satisfaction and accomplishment after presenting the bike to Daniel; especially after seeing his face when he was presented with the bike.
"Once I saw that smile on his face — he has such a sweet demeanor about him," Eichberger said. Hooper agreed.
"We were blessed by God to make this possible for him," Hooper said. "When God gets in the midst of this, all things are possible. He cares as much about the dream of little kids as much as grownups like you and I. The impossible becomes possible," he said. "At the end of the day, it was God."
Daniel is enjoying his bike every chance he gets. Usually he is excited to wrestle, but Saturday he really wanted to try his new bicycle. His parents took him to Eleanor to ride the bike on a parking lot and on the nice sidewalks in the town. Later, he wanted to get away from the wrestling match early so he could ride again. His mother said he was heard earlier asking, "Is it really mine? Can I really keep it?"
The Priddys are grateful for the outpouring of love from so many people.
"I appreciate everything they did for him — none of them knew him personally. It was an amazing thing they did for him." She hopes that Daniel will be able to do the same for someone else in the future.
"Someday maybe Daniel can pay it forward — to help or encourage someone else," she said.


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Film: Lupe Velez
In honor of the 22nd Chicago Latino Film Festival, 2006
by Steve Starr
Lupe Velez was born Maria Guadalupe de Villalobos July 18, 1908, in the tiny Mexican town of San Luis de Potosi. That very day, the little village was devasted by a hurricane.
Lupe's father was a colonel in Porfirio Diaz's army. Growing up amid revolutions, the little girl acquired a taste for violence early on. At 13, the turbulent, pretty child was packed off to Our Lady of the Lake Convent School in San Antonio, Texas, which did little to stifle her rebellious nature.
When she was 15, Lupe's father died, and she landed back with her family in Mexico City. There, she began working at the Nacional Department Store. Saving some of her $4 per week salary for dancing lessons, Lupe turned over most of her pay to her poor family.
At 16, Velez made a theatrical debut at the Teatro Principal where she was spotted by a Mexican producer who was charmed by her vibrant personality and dancing ability, and hired her for his musical revue, Ra-Ta-Plan.
Lupe soon supplemented her income by appearing in short Mexican films and dancing in cheap burlesque houses. Mama Velez, a prostitute who Lupe later claimed was once a diva with the Mexico City Opera, sometimes sold her daughter for the evening to the highest bidder, often for thousands of pesos.
One day a family friend introduced Lupe to American matinee idol Richard Bennett, whose daughters Barbara, Constance and Joan became movie stars. Bennett invited Velez to appear in a play in Hollywood.
Arriving after many delays, Lupe was robbed of all her money the moment she stepped off the train. Finally, reaching the theatre, she was dismissed from the show for looking too young. Alone and broke, she found a part in a policeman's benefit show. There, Lupe was discovered by a producer who cast her in star Fanny Brice's Music Box Revue.
Soon, Velez was hired by the Pathe' Studios for their "Bathing Beauty" comedies and made her debut in a comedy short titled What Men Did To Me(1927). She was 19 years old.
One day that year, a talent scout brought Lupe and her Chihuahua to meet powerful movie star Douglas Fairbanks in order to win a role in his elaborate new film, The Gaucho (1928), which was to be shot in black and white with some sequences in color.
At first, Fairbanks thought Lupe too languid for the vivacious part. During the interview, a stagehand "stole" her dog as a prank. When Velez, barely five feet tall, discovered this, she beat the man mercilessly. Impressed, Douglas hired Lupe and gave her a five-year contract at his studio, United Artists.
Lupe became a star seemingly overnight, and was highly praised for her comedic and singing talents, athleticism, and beauty. She interspersed her movie career with New York stage appearances which included Hot-Cha, Strike Me Pink, and Transatlantic Rhythm.
Velez's brief affair with Douglas Fairbanks accelerated the breakup of his famous union with Mary Pickford. Lupe's other affairs were legendary. Her men included Tom Mix, Clark Gable, Russ Columbo, John Gilbert, Jack Dempsey, Jimmy Durante, and Charlie Chaplin.
Velez's tempestuous liaison with Gary Cooper drove the tall, handsome, slim actor to lose 40 pounds and suffer a nervous breakdown. Their three-year relationship was marked by brawls and rages, yet they would have married, if not for the vehement disapproval of Cooper's mother. Finally, when Gary was boarding the Twentieth Century train to Chicago, vengeful Lupe arrived, pulled a gun and shot several times at her lover, narrowly missing his head. Cooper dove into the car and Velez quickly stormed out of the station, swearing at her lack of marksmanship and escaping arrest.
On July 24, 1934, Lupe married handsome Olympic champion and Tarzan star Johnny Weismuller. Their union was ferocious, and famed for its public scenes. Johnny was the one who always ended up bruised, bitten, and beaten to a pulp during their five years together.
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Appropriately named, Nelson's Nantahala Hideaway is tucked away on the side of a hill in Topton and is virtually hidden from the highway. None of the traffic was visible or audible to us during our stay there. It was also sparsely populated for the week we spent there. The campground manager, Gray, is refreshingly laid back, well-spoken, and concerned about the campground and the satisfaction of his clients. The bathrooms and showers are clean and modernly furnished. Trash cans were provided at our site and daily trash pickup is provided. We were very satisfied with our stay and plan to return in the near future. - GoneQuackers
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We have stayed at the park previously and were satisfied. However, this year they have a
new grounds manager, and we had a very bad time with him. I made reservations early in June for 3 nights, one campsite, with the understanding that a tent could be put up on my site. They said no problem. I also told them that we had visitors stopping by and we were all rafting and again they said, no problem that each car would just need a visitors pass. Thursday comes, we check in, pay the rest of our fee's which start out at $30.00 a night and increase to $42 a night. My son checked in with his tent, paid his parking pass fee of $4 and the charged him $12 a night to camp in the tent on the site we already paid for. There were 3 other people joining my son in his tent and would have been charged the same fee as him, $12 a night also, which would mean they would be paying more for the tent then we did for the camper that was already paid for. Now the big trouble comes in when our visitors arrive. They paid their $4 each car fee, parked and the whole group left for a rafting trip. When we all returned, the grounds manager, who saw them all before we left, came to the site and asked how many people were at this site? I told him that only four were staying, the others were visitors and were gonna have lunch and go out on the river again. He demanded that they each pay $6 to stay on the premises. We thought this was outragous. He said it didn't matter that they all paid the parking pass, the extra fee was due now or we would all have to leave. He threatened us, spoke very poorly to us all, very disrespectufl and then radioed the front desk to call 911. I went to the office to get a refund, they said they would only refund the next two nights fees of $81.00, not the first nights of $42 that had already been charged. We started to pack up everything, take back the rafts we had rented for the day and had to find another camp for the night, it was already close to 4:00 pm and we were 5 hours away from home. To top it all off, while we were discussing the
situation with the owner, whom would not give me his full name, his dog jumped on the side of my son's BLAZER and scratched it. The man proceeded to tell
me he would do nothing about it. We have camped in many, many campgrounds, from east to west and north to south and have never been treated like this. What it all boiled down to is that they wanted more and more money from us and thought we would just fork it over but enough is enough. I would not reccommend this park to my worst enemy let alone a friend. I don't suggest you reccommend them either!!!! - Motorhome Madness
If you like rafting on the Nantahala River, this is the place to be. Full hook-up sites are across the road from the river; river sites are electric only, but the view is worth it! We have stayed here for several years. Very nicely maintained, friendly people. They are only open mid-April to mid-September and the weekends in the middle of the summer are very busy. May is the time to go! Awesome mountain views and watching the rafters from your campsite is so much fun! - Motorhome Madness


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Randy Shaw: The SEIU must convince 44,000 Kaiser Hospital workers that the NUHW leadership team that brought them the best contracts in the industry when they previously ran SEIU-UHW should be replaced by out-of-state staff with no such track record. It's a tough sell, which is why SEIU is avoiding public debates.


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Within minutes of the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim being revealed at tonight's VGA ceremony, another heavy hitter in the role-playing game genre was officially unveiled--albeit with a lesser element of surprise.
Following a premature reveal on Electronic Arts' online store, Mass Effect 3 was officially unveiled via a brief trailer. "Two million dead in the first day, another 7 million by the end of the first week," said the voice-over, which sounded much like British actor Sean Bean. Onscreen, a sole sniper is seen bearing down on a target--the same sniper that had been seen in leaked screenshots from developer BioWare.
"Every defense annihilated, all our forces on the run. Regrouping…somewhere," the voice-over continued, showing the sniper leaning out a shattered window." Reports are coming in from other major cities It's a well-coordinated attack, and so far, it's been damn effective. Don't know what they are, what they want, or where they came from…only one thing is certain--if Shepard doesn't bring help soon, there won't be any earth to save."
The camera then cuts to show that the sniper is in Big Ben, the bell tower of the British Parliament. Meanwhile, across the London skyline, numerous Reapers--the sentient mechanoid spaceships that were central to the plot of the first Mass Effect, are descending, wreaking havoc.
The screen then showed that Mass Effect would have a release date of holiday 2011, right alongside the Elder Scrolls V. Though no platforms were mentioned, the EA Store leak had the game as being released for the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.


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Concordance software for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS
TextSTAT is a simple programme for the analysis of texts. It reads plain text files (in different encodings) and HTML files (directly from the internet) and it produces word frequency lists and concordances from these files. This version includes a web-spider which reads as many pages as you want from a particular website and puts them in a TextSTAT-corpus. The new news-reader, too, puts news messages in a TextSTAT-readable corpus file.
TextSTAT reads MS Word and OpenOffice files. No conversion needed, just add the files to your corpus...
In TextSTAT you can use regular expression which provides you with powerful search possibilities. The programme is multilingual. Because it uses Unicode internally, TextSTAT can cope with many different languages and file encodings.
To give you an impression of how TextSTAT looks, you'll find a some screenshots here:
Windows XP (German): word frequencies, concordance, search term in context, concordance (English);
Linux (English/Greek): word forms/fequencies, citation/context (thanks to Nikos Kouremenos).
MacOS X (Englisch): webspider, word forms/fequencies (thanks to Eric Nieuwland).
For a first introduction to TextSTAT, please refer to the Quickstart Guide to text analysis with TextSTAT from the 'Humanities Resource Centre' at Princeton University. And Gena Bennett wrote a useful TextSTAT 2.7 User's Guide.
There is also a nice video tutorial by Zarah Weiß, available via YouTube.
The latest version 2.9 of the programme is mostly a bug fix release. Don't expect new features. TextSTAT is now available with the following programme languages: English, German, Dutch, Potugese, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Galician, Finnish (Suomi), Polish, Czech.
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TextSTAT is written in Python and should run everywhere where Python runs. It has been tested with Windows XP and Linux. And it also runs on MacOS X.
You will need to install Python in order to use the programme (TextSTAT.pyw). It will run with Python versions > 2.5, the most recent version is 2.7 (TextSTAT will NOT work with 3.0). On Windows you could use the ActivePython distribution which contains everything you need (Windows extensions, Tkinter). With Linux and Mac there are of course no Windows Extensions - so you won't have export to MS Word and Excel. Except for that TextSTAT should run just fine on GNU/Linux and MacOS X. All you need is an up-to-date Python distribution (preferably 2.7), with Tkinter installed (which is not always the case, especially on Mac systems).
(Comparative) reviews of TextSTAT:
- Bennett, Gena R. (2010), Using Corpora in the Language Learning Classroom: Corpus Linguistics for Teachers. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan. pp. 144. ISBN 978-0-472-03385-0. (Link)
- Aldo Benini (2010), Text Analysis under Time Pressure Tools for humanitarian and development workers. Washington, DC. (Link)
- Krajka, Jarosław (2007), Corpora and Language Teachers: From Ready-Made to Teacher-Made Collections. CORELL: Computer Resources for Language Learning 1, 36-55. (Link)
- Daniel Wiechmann & Stefan Fuhs (2006), in: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2-1, 107-127. (Link)
- Luciana Diniz (2005), in: Language Learning & Technology Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 22-27. (Link)
The old 1.52 version is still available: TextSTAT 1.52 for Windows (ZIP file, 2.3 MB). You can read the documentation for TextSTAT (outdated) online.
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Filed under: Features,In The Trenches,Interviews,Not Your Average,Steady Bootleggin'
Written by: Robbie Ettelson
Wrapping up my conversation with Kenny Parker, he shares some classic BDP stories, including the night that KRS debuted "The Bridge Is Over" at Union Square…. [Part 1 Part 2]
Robbie: So did Kris really become a "Born Again" Christian?
Kenny Parker: For lack of a better term, I'm gonna say "Yeah". But he's a little more deeper than that. The thing with Kris is he's forever evolving. He reads a lot and he evolves a lot, and when you catch him at a particular time, where he's at at that time is what he's gonna say, and then another year or two from now he might move on to something else. And he might be "Well, this is me now. I'm this", and then you might say "What happened to that from two years ago? Oh, you're contradictory. You know what? Get outta here". From Criminal Minded to By All Means Necessary, to me that was a completely different vibe for him, for the most part.
But it was all hits, so people were just like "It's all good". Kris being contradictory – I think some people say that like it's cool to boot A-Rod, like after a while you just say it and you just do it. But if you really look at it…to me, you know what's contradictory? When you come out hardcore with a hoody on, and on your next album you have a suit on and you're smoking a cigar. [laughs] To me, that's contradictory. I can name a whole bunch of rappers that was crazy hardcore in '93, '94, and then by '96 they was "Dons" and they had jewelry on. But they get a pass for that, 'cause I guess no one looks at it like that. Even Tupac – to me, Tupac is the most contradictory artist of all time, because he was a lot of different things! He really was a revolutionary, a thug, a ladies man – he was all of those things. So he made all of those records. At one moment he'll say "Keep Your Head Up" and the next moment he's like "Fuck bitches! Get Money!". He's all over the place, but he gets a pass. Most people get a pass but KRS-One – that's his curse. He is "Stop The Violence" and that's it.
I was also interested to know what you've been up to? Do you still do beats for Kris?
Yeah. Actually, he's doing an album with Marley Marl…ironically. I never would have thought the day…now that, in all honesty, that might be contradictory. Marley was never really the problem, the problem was Mr. Magic. It end up being with Marley, and he dissed Shante when she had nothing to do with nothing, but he was like "Fuck it!", and Shan. I find that ironic. Actually, I have a collection of old stuff that Kris did, like practice tapes and like some of the stuff that you have on your site, like unreleased stuff. Kris used to come to my house and we used to have a little $15 microphone and he used to rhyme onto the mixer and we used to record stuff over raw beats, and he would work-out routines or he'll say some rhymes that end-up being on other stuff, and some rhymes that people never heard before. I was moving and I found all these cassettes that I had, so what I did was I took some of the stuff and I put it on CD, and I'm about to come out with it and put it out as a little album of all kinda practice tapes and unreleased stuff. I dunno if it's long enough for a whole album, so I was thinking about adding some unreleased instrumentals that never came out, like "Sound of Da Police" and different beats.
I've been working on that project for a minute, I just haven't had a chance to put it out. I've been doing a lotta deejaying in different spots, I haven't had a chance to really sit down and say "Well let me do this". But that's the next thing I wanna do. I got rhymes that Kris said that were supposed to be on Return of the Boom Bap that didn't…I got rhymes that were supposed to be on Criminal Minded! Little practice tapes that he did with Red Alert that no one ever heard. I'm the only one that has these tapes – I used to steal tapes from his house, back when I was younger. When Criminal Minded was out I was still in college, I wasn't deejaying or anything. I was in school, so I used to come by the house and he'll have a tape, and I used to be like "Let me hold this tape", and then that was it! I'd just have it. [I laugh] So now, a lot of the stuff I have – I'm the only one on Earth in possession of it. Some of it doesn't even have any hooks – it's just rhyming, and then he'll go "OK Kenny, cut that off", or he'll start talking and go "Nah, I'm gonna change that, and I'm gonna put this instead of that". It's real unedited stuff. He's just rhyming and we're just havin' fun.
I'd buy a copy…that album you did with Heather B – the music on that was great. It was so raw, but the drums were crazy.
Thank-you very much, man. That was my little project. I just talked to Heather about a week ago. We were talking about doing some stuff, she had some ideas and I was like "Yo, let's just put some stuff together and see how it sounds". I still have a lot of tracks – I'll still do tracks until the day I die. I'd talked about doing some more stuff with Kris, but then he ventured off and caught-up with Marley Marl. I guess Koch had some money, so he went off in that direction. [chuckles] But me and Kris was 'sposed to work on some stuff too – maybe afterwards or maybe a remix. I was always the one that got remixes on stuff. I did a couple of songs for Boom Bap that never made it, I did songs for different albums that somehow got cut-off…eventually Kris'll get around to me.
Did you do Heather's album on the SP?
The SP-1200, that's my machine of choice. What happens is that's the first drum machine I ever learned how to work, so I stuck with it. And I like how the drums sound on there – you get a harder kick and snare sound for some reason – so I still use it. I'm a little old school with that. There used to be a little civil war – the SP-1200 Vs. the MPC. I remember me and Premier were going back and forth about the virtues of both, and he was gonna teach me how to work the MPC one time, back when they was doin' Boom Bap. I used to laugh about that, it was like a little war. On one side was the MPC guys, on the other side was the SP-1200 guys. But now the MPC is just so popular that I guess the MPC's won. [laughs]
They stopped making the SP's so they're pretty expensive to get second-hand.
Mine is so old. My SP-1200 is from the 80's! I still have my one from the 80's, and actually – I jacked Kris for that! [laughing] All of my equipment I jacked! Kris is real impulsive. You could be like "Aww man, look at these turntables. They're gettin' kinda old. You should get some new turntables" and he'll go "Yeah. Damn, I should!" and he'll go buy some new turntables and you can go steal the old ones that weren't really that old! Like the SP-1200 – we had been using it on the road, I used to rock beats in the shows, and I remember when we came back off the road and we was like "You know, this SP-1200's been on the road, it's been kinda beat-up" – imagine, we had it for like eight months – it was like "Yo, the SP-1200's been all over the place! You should get another one" and he was like "Yeah, I'mma go get me a couple of 'em!". [laughs]
[laughing] So you were like "Kris, let me hold that old one!"
You can't believe it. I got speakers, turntables – like four of 'em, mixers – like five of 'em, SP-1200, a four-track…I got all kind of stuff in that same mode of "Yo, this is garbage! Get a new one".
Even though the BDP albums said "Produced by KRS-One", DJ Doc and D-Nice used to help out as well, didn't they?
Yeah, well it depends. Let me not speak on Doc because I wasn't there for DJ Doc. I got aboard after Ghetto Music. I got on in '89, so I was at the studio a lot of times. I used to come from college and have some time off, so I'd go and hang out in the studio. I was in the studio when he did "Still #1″, but I didn't even know what I was even looking at, so I'm not gonna comment on Doc. I know he was doin' a lot of drum programming with Kris at that time, kinda the way that Ced Gee did with Scott [La Rock]. Scott had a lot of records and Scott knew the records he wanted, but Ced Gee is the one who hooked them up. Back then, it was the SP-12, Ced Gee was the only one that had one that anybody really knew! Ced Gee and Scott La Rock were real cool so Scott would have records and he'd be like "I wanna do this and this and this", and Ced Gee would hook 'em up. That's how I understand it, but I wasn't there. I think Doc was kinda the same with Chris in the early days, like "This is what I wanna do" and Doc would hook it up. Supposedly, D-Nice brought Kris the beat for "Still #1″ – the 45 – and Kris took it and slowed it down and they hooked-up the drums and made the record.
I've read about three different people who claim they did the beat for Biz's "Just A Friend".
[laughing] It's a fine line on what you did. Were you an engineer? Or did you actually add sounds? If you added sounds that's different to me then if I say "You're the one who knows how to work this machine, so can you engineer this for me?" You're still supposed to get credit, but it's a little different if you added sounds and you can say "I did it". For example, I gave Kris the drums to "Ah Yeah". It was not like a credit thing – Kris came to my house one day and was like "Yo, I need some drums for this song I'm working on". I was like "Yo, check out these drums right here". It was like a Sly Stone record or some obscure record at the time, and I gave him the drums and he said "Aight, cool" and left. And next thing I know…"Ah Yeah!", that song was out. Or like "Black Cop" – I did the drums for "Black Cop", and then Kris did the reggae part – which at the time, I thought was wack – and we got in a big argument over that song and I stormed out the studio. I was like "Oh, this is so wack!".
And then he used it for Mad Lion.
Then Mad Lion got on it and used it again! Of course I got no credit and no publishing, but I just did the drums and that was it. The same thing with "The Jam", that record he did with Shabba [Ranks]. I gave him the drums for that record. That was my thing, drums were like my thing.
But drums are the record a lot of the time…
I don't wanna say that, but…right. But I learned how to produce from Kris. I'm not gonna say "I changed his career!" or anything, I'm just saying that some things I was down with. "Hip Hop Vs. Rap"…that record was my music but Kris put it together. It's a funny story with "Hip Hop Vs Rap" – I was working with Heather B on something in D&D, and I left my a bunch of discs in the studio by accident. So Kris was working on something else, and he came there later on and they was like "Your brother left these discs, give it to him", and Kris was like "I'll take it and I'll give it to him when I see him". Of course he took 'em and put 'em in and was like "Well let's hear what it is", you know what I mean? So about a week later, Kris comes to me and goes "Yo, you left this music in the studio and they gave it to me to give to you, but I wanna use some of it. I'm gonna pay you some money for it", and I was like "What? Some money out the blue? Aight, cool! I don't care – whatever!". So he was like "Well I already finished the record". He asked backwards! He put the drums in there, but the music was different loops that I had left in the studio. He put it together and it became "Hip Hop Vs. Rap".
A lot of times that's how songs will get done with Kris. He lets people that's in the studio have input, for the most part, if respects you. Plus people wanted to help Kris make songs – you want Kris to rhyme on your beats! So you'll come and be like "Listen to this, I just did this. Listen to that". Kris would be like "Cool – I'll rock it!" and he'd put it together and that'd be the end of it! And later on, you might say "Damn, I kinda gave him this record", but that's neither here nor there. I mean I can't be mad that I gave Kris some drums when I stole his SP-1200! So we have a different relationship. If I feel like I needed some money for a particular record, I could come to him now and say "Yo Kris, gimme $3000″. I don't mind if he came to me like "I need drums" or "Let me get this disk right here so I can use it for this thing right here". I don't really care, I mean he's the one who taught me how to produce! And he taught me how to DJ too! So I'm not really sweatin' that.
So you've been deejayin' the last couple of years?
We still do shows. I do some shows with Kris, not all the shows with Kris. He moved to LA. He took a job with Warner Brothers back in '99, he was Vice President of Reprise Records or somethin' for like a year and a half. So when he moved out to LA, then it started not becoming really time or cost efficient for me to fly out there or fly all these places every time we had a show. Then I started deejaying in clubs around New York, and I'm deejaying in spots now. I've been doing a lot of club deejaying, mostly.
Do you just play a bit of everything?
It depends on where I'm at. Some spots I'm at, if it's like a real hip-hop crowd, then I can play all the good hip-hop stuff. I like to play all the classic stuff people know – Gangstarr, Tribe, BDP, Public Enemy – I like playing stuff like that. But sometimes I'll DJ for young people that like "Laffy Taffy" or whatever – which I think is the worst record ever recorded, by the way. In the history of recorded music, I think that's the worst song.
[laughing] What about "Chicken Noodle Soup"?
You know what? I'm gonna say "Chicken Noodle Soup" is even better than "Laffy Taffy". At least it's a little girl, and it's a stupid little record – she's not coming out trying to say she's the next dope MC, so I'll give her a pass. "Laffy Taffy" is grown men. But when you're deejaying for 20 year-olds, you can't really play "The Bridge Is Over" because they was like two years old when that record came out! They'll stop and just look at you like you're stupid, or they'll come up to you and ask you "Can you play 50 Cent again?"
As far as your production, I remember one of the first records you did was "I Get Wreck" with Heather B. She had a nice style on that record.
I'm gonna pass that little compliment along to her. She'll be very happy to hear that too. I just put out two sample records with different samples that Kris used over the years. I had a part one and two that just came out last year, called BDP Breaks. I put some obscure stuff that I only I know he used…I don't know if it's sold-out now or what – they pressed maybe a thousand each of 'em. The guy is really stressin' me like "Come out with more stuff", That's why I was gonna put out the unreleased KRS stuff and all the mixtape stuff that we did, because I think that's stuff that people would really like to hear, like crazy old rhymes from 1992. Some of it is straight from a cassette – it's that raw. You ever been to a store that sells all kind of different stuff? They'll have like pants, little t-shirts and all kinds of stupid shit, and they'll have a microphone. It's like "Let's buy that mic so we can take it home and play around". It's that raw sounding, but some of the rhymes are crazy. I have him doing a freestyle of "Criminal Minded" over "Funky Drummer", that Red Alert was cuttin' up, and some of the rhymes are different. That's a tape I stole from when I was in school, like twenty years ago!
Have you got any video footage of old shows? I remember he did that Live Hardcore Worldwide.
He's been meaning to do another one for years, and never did it. He has all this footage…you know, Kris loses stuff a lot. You ever know somebody who you say "Don't give them that tape 'cause it's gonna get lost"? Everybody's got a friend like "Don't lend them nothin'!" Kris is like that. Like the footage of the thing with PRT, that whole thing at that lecture. Actually, Heather B was filming that lecture, and then Kris took the tape and you never saw the tape ever again! He's not real reflective like that. Say he got a DAT with some old song that he never did, he wouldn't be like "Yo, people might want to hear this". He'll just be like "Oh that's trash. I was a whole different person then. I'm on to something new now". But I'll be like "Yo, let me get it. I'll hold it". A lot of the breaks he's used over the years on different records, I end up having them in my possession because he'll just throw the record somewhere, and that'll be the end of it!
That whole era, especially around the first few albums, that was just a good era in hip-hop, so hearing anything from that time is always good.
Believe me, I know. But it's a real uphill battle with that dude. Right now, all he'll talk about is "I got this next, new rhyme, and a new rhyme style. I'm tryin' to get this new rhyme out, I'm not even trying to think about '86 or '89." Plus I told him I was gonna put out all this old practice tapes stuff that we had, he was like "I don't care". Only thing he said to me was "Give me a copy so I can learn the rhymes again, so maybe I can do it in a show". That's all he thinks about. If it's not pertaining to a show, he don't care.
Did you get many good photos over the years?
You know who has a lot of photos? Willie D. I never really had a camera. You know what my problem was? I was really stealing a lot of the stuff. [I start laughing again] I never created my own. If someone had something, I'll steal it. Like tapes or vinyls or equipment – I was that guy, as sad as it sounds. Willie D has a good picture of KRS and Rakim, and I've never seen a picture of KRS and Rakim ever.
What's Willie D doing these days?
Actually he has some group he was trying to shop, I was just talking to him about three months ago. He lives in the Bronx and he has an interesting story too. He's been rolling with Kris since before "South Bronx", 'cause B-Boy Records was right next to his house. That's how they met. He's not really much one for interviews though.
I read somewhere that ICU and Jesse West are the same person?
No, Jesse West and ICU aren't the same guy. Jesse West is from the Bronx, he used to be down with Puffy. He produced "Step Into A World". I was in the studio when Jesse West came in, and he put it on and everyone was like "Yo, that's the beat right there!" and I'm like "That's 'Champ'. That's regular old 'Champ'". He chopped it, but I didn't see the vision. I was like "It's aight", but then the next day Kris was like "Yo, listen to this singing part". When I heard that over the beat, then I was like "Oh, now that's hot!" That was one of our biggest songs, that was a huge song for us that year. I'm always the one in Kris' ear going "You know what? This sucks". You ever known that guy who doesn't like anything? I'm always that guy. I usually agree with most of the things he says, but every so often he'll tell me something and I'll go "Hell no", and then it will come to pass and it'll work, and I'll be like "Oh, shoot". Like he told me that he can get people to jump in the air, in 1989. This was when "Pump your fist like this!" – everybody was pumping their fist, that was like getting hype. And Kris was like "I think I can get them more hype. I think I can get them to jump." I was like "Hell no. Americans? They're not jumping up and down!" Boy was I wrong! [laughs]
I'm the first person that told him he was a corny rapper, actually. This is in '81, when he first started rhyming. I was like 14, he was like 15, and he used to make tapes and they were horrible. Like "You're the worst, man". He used to be like "I'm dope!" – nah he didn't use "dope", I dunno, whatever the word was…"I'm the joint", we used to say that…
"I'm funky fresh"
[laughs] Yeah. When "South Bronx" blew-up, I was the first person that was like "Yo, you did it!" I can't believe that this guy – my brother, I mean we used to argue over socks – this guy has a hit record. There's a record called "Crack Attack", and that was Boogie Down Productions actual first record. It came out a little bit before "South Bronx". They're on the same B-Boy Records, and he had to do that record in order to do "South Bronx". He didn't even write it, he just did it. It did nothing, it was just terrible. The first time I heard "South Bronx" I was like "Yo, it sounds like you're dissing Shan?" and he was like "Yeah!", and I was like "Yo, MC Shan is dope! Do you know what you're doing?" He was like [unimpressed] "He's alright". I thought he was crazy to diss MC Shan! I remember hearing "Kill That Noise" and seeing Kris, and I said "Yo, Shan answered you. You had a good career, man. 'South Bronx' was a good song, and I told you not to mess with Shan!"
So you thought Shan shut him down?
Kind of! 'Cause that's the only rhyme that I'd heard him do. I didn't know he had the whole Criminal Minded album already in his head. I was still in school, so I used to see him every so often, like on the weekends or whatever, and "South Bronx" was a big hit, but as it died down "Kill That Noise" came out and I was like "Damn, it's over for you. At least you were like a one-hit wonder, you did your thing", and he's like "I've got this record called 'The Bridge Is Over', and I'm like [condescendingly] "How does it go?" He's like [does the piano riff], I'm like "Aww, that's wack! It's over!" He was like "I'mma do it tonight at Union Square. Come to Union Square and I'mma do it".
I went with him and he did his show, and then he did "South Bronx" and people started going "Kill that noise! Kill that noise!", like that. Shan had people there, and Kris was going "What y'all saying? Kill that noise? Oh yeah?" I was like "Ohh shit!" and he was like "Yo, I got this record called 'The Bridge Is Over' – hit it Scott!" And Scott threw on the beat, and everybody's quiet, and then he goes "The Bridge is over! The Bridge is over! Budda bye-bye!" and the whole place went to the ceiling! He's saying these rhymes, and no one had never really said people's names in a record like that: "Magic – sucking! Shante's good for fucking!" This is the first time people were hearing…people were stunned. They were going bazerk. People was yelling and screaming. That's still my favorite record he ever made – because how I got it – and I thought his career was over, and I got it live at Union Square in front of a thousand people going crazy! Every time I hear that record, I think of that day. That was an incredible song. I didn't know he had that in him. I don't know if you've got any brothers or sisters…
I've got a younger sister.
Can you imagine your sister coming out with a hit? And then another hit? It's unbelievable. KRS was a really weird child. He used to talk about poetry and metaphysics at fourteen. I was tryin' to play basketball and be cool, and he was like on some other…he had no friends, he was just like a real weirdo.
Hanging out at the library and stuff.
Yeah, and he used to run away from home every few weeks, and the police would find him and bring him back…if you look back on it, you can see how he became KRS, because his confidence…he's always been ultra confident, but he wasn't dope! It wasn't like he was a dope MC – not in '81! He was just a regular dude trying to rhyme. He used to go to my friends house and make tapes. My friend used to have a tape deck, but he had a dog. So every time he used to play the music, the dog used to bark. They'd make tapes, and Kris would be rhyming and there'd be music playing – like whatever the hot record is of the day, "Catch The Beat". I remember they used to rhyme to "Catch The Beat", T-Ski Valley, all the time. "Catch The Beat" would come on, he'll rhyme over the instrumental, but the dog would be barking in the background!
So now he'll come back home, be like "Listen to this". And it's him rhyming, some corny rhyme, with the dog goin' "Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!" on the tape! [We both crack up with laughter] And I'm like "Yo, this shit is horrible! This is the worst shit I've ever heard in my life!" and he was like "You're just jealous! You don't know!" We're like typical brothers, we used to argue all the time. So that's why when "South Bronx" came out, it was like "Wow. You really can rhyme!" And then it was like "The Bridge Is Over" was a completely different style. It was incredible! It's just amazing to see this guy come from running away from home to this big rap star. I still sometimes can't believe it.
He changed the way people rhymed even, because everyone was trying to rap like Run-DMC.
Yeah! Imagine his ego and his confidence – he was so confident, that was like "I'm not rhyming like Run. I'm not rhyming like everybody else. I'm coming with this style". He was almost a fool, you know what I mean? His style was dope, but it was almost like "Who do you think you are to say you're not rhyming like Run?" But then when you heard the rhymes…see, I didn't hear the rhymes until "South Bronx". Then I was determined to steal tapes after that.
Before that, you were throwing the tapes out!
Update! Heather B. – I Get Wreck (twelve inch, Elektra, 1992]
KRS-One – Black Cop [Return of the Boom Bap, Jive, 1993]
Heather B – "All Glocks Down" video:
Heather B – "If Headz Only Knew" video:
If you're so inclined, you can grab the full Heather B LP over here.
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I think this was the dopest piece in the series so far; it was real cool to get a view into the brotherly relationship between Kenny and Kris. Plus, anyone who had any aspirations of ever *doing* Hip-Hop can relate to the early tape syndrome; one of my friends from high school has some tapes I did when I was first trying to DJ in junior high, and constantly makes fun of me about it.
Kenny's beats have always been nice with the drums and bass lines, just like the tracks posted show.Comment by bedouin 10.13.06 @
Yo! This interview is bananas! Thank you so much for creating an outlet for this to be seen and heard. I laughed out loud about how skeptical Kenny Parker was about the "Bridge is Over" and the stuff about the dog barking in the background. That shit is classic. It just shows what a genius in our midst KRS-One is and was. 'Nuff respect to the Teacha. He will always be a pillar of hip hop.Comment by Serena Kim 10.13.06 @
great piece.
THIS is history.Comment by Vik 10.13.06 @
"KRS was a really weird child. He used to talk about poetry and metaphysics at fourteen. I was tryin' to play basketball and be cool, and he was like on some other…he had no friends, he was just like a real weirdo"Comment by BK 10.13.06 @
Believe me, I know. But it's a real uphill battle with that dude. Right now, all he'll talk about is "I got this next, new rhyme, and a new rhyme style. I'm tryin' to get this new rhyme out, I'm not even trying to think about '86 or '89."
This is what KRS was rhyming about on Still #1. KRS is incredible as is this interview.Comment by turtle 10.13.06 @
really enjoyed all 3 parts but especially this one…..
hey Robbie, when's your sis' diss track coming out?Comment by The Average Man 10.13.06 @
great interview…i never get tired of reading stuff like this…Comment by Ryan Proctor / Blues & Soul Magazine (UK) 10.13.06 @
hands down best interview ever. pure hip hop history from the front lines… so wierd to hear the back story from the shit I was listening to when I was 12 and 13….
God blessComment by dj mad wax 10.13.06 @
Yo I dont want to say too much but I used to watch this spanish novela with my ex (nhjic) and this broad named Jery Sandoval caught my eye like whoa… I have been crushing on her ever since….. Click on my name and I promise no disappointment on everything I own this is very seriousComment by I Fux 10.13.06 @
oh yeah.. I RELEASE THE OLD ACAPELLA SOMEHOW!!!! I hate new mc's and have none of my own to work with. So let me remix the best so i can listen to it for myself, to just bump in the car.
p.s. Do you have the video tape of Krs making Love's gonna get ya? or the tape Biz claims to have of krs battling Melle Mel?Comment by bbatson 10.13.06 @
he still didn't touch on the train wreck that was kris & ms. melodie. wierd guy? yeah, i'd say. btw, GREAT EFFIN POST DUDE!Comment by Combat Jack 10.13.06 @
you just reminded me that heather b. is my all time favorite female emcee. word!Comment by Combat Jack 10.13.06 @
I just dug out her first record from my shelves…it'll be up here in a minute…Comment by Robbie 10.13.06 @
Done.Comment by Robbie 10.13.06 @
"he still didn't touch on the train wreck that was kris & ms. melodie"
Combat Jack, if anything Kris being married to Ms Melodie is living proof that he's straight outta the hoodComment by Kevin 10.14.06 @
great interview Robbie, its funny to see that Kenny Parker was as big a fan of KRS as the rest of us, even moreso because he witnessed the transformation.
my memory of that night at Union Square was chaos. The place was always packed to the ceiling and Kool DJ Red Alert was able to bring in some of the most groundbreaking acts of the time. Public Enemy moved the crowd, I even saw Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff do their thing. Jeff had this shit called the 'Transformer' scratch which drove my peoples bananas. When KRS performed he had a wild amount of energy. After you left Union Square you would be ready to rob a bank or something. Thanks for these drops fam, it takes me back to another lifetime.
Peace to Kenny Parker.
Peace to UnKut dot com.Comment by Billy X. Sunday 10.14.06 @
haven't had a chance to check this out until now, great work as usual.Comment by Double R 10.14.06 @
Yo Rob
u knocked this one out the fuckin park!!!!!!
I take my hat off to you man
as a hip-hop junkie, a writer myself
I cant read 85% of the interviews I come accross these days without suffering from a case of low attention span and be like WTF
but this sir
is history, this is classic hip hop
a version of the stories we never heard
Kenny is one of the coolest cats I know
and I was hanging on his every word
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep doin da damn thing
again I take my hat off to you
keep bringing it like this
I am fowarding this to all teh real heads I know
and Kenny you gotta get on ya grind and release those practice tapes
AJ (AJ ROK/ JVC FORCE) Woodson
professional hip hop junkie
Guess who i ran into tonight? PM DAWN
Well Robbie I did a little interview for you.
Is there anyway I can contact you?Comment by bbatson 10.15.06 @
One of the greatest interviews ever. Shoud go down in history.Comment by Travis 10.15.06 @
^ "Combat Jack, if anything Kris being married to Ms Melodie is living proof that he's straight outta the hood"
TRUE DAT!!!! That was some ghetto ish if I ever saw one. Good point dude.Comment by Combat Jack 10.15.06 @
Best interview I've read in AGES. Nice one on letting Kenny just spit his thoughts. He's a funny dude.
I'm listening to Still Numero Uno right now, thats the shit. DJ Doc would be a nice guy to see an interview with. He did so much dope production and had hands on a lot of classic records.
Peace to Kenny Parker and Robbie. This shit has been great. This is some Next Level blogging. Praise due.Comment by Jesse 10.15.06 @
From what I understand Ms Melody looked out for Krs When He Was Running Away and that just had that love bond going, plus its not like duke was Billy D or Denzel. LolComment by Doc Flav 10.16.06 @
Great work Robbie, I'm jealous. Nice work from Kenny as well – if only all hip-hop legends were so loquacious. Try getting Prodigy to string three words together!Comment by Drewhuge 10.16.06 @
Amazing stuff. Cheers for hooking us up with this Robbie. Keep up the good work.Comment by End Level Boss 10.16.06 @
EPIC. i whish these stories could go on forever..
peace and respect to Kenny Parker, KRS, and of course the main man Robbie. keep it up my nig!!!!Comment by es-won 10.17.06 @
I've been waiting forever and a day for a KRS-One Autobiography man. I think this will be the closest thing to that. Dope ass interview… Keep them shits comming!Comment by Curt McGirt 10.17.06 @
Damn!!!! Unkut.com is my new favorite hip hop spot on the net! I been a huge BDP fan since Criminal Minded. This interview is a jewel for the true hip hop head.
P.S. keep the unkut raw ish comming.Comment by bxking 10.18.06 @
Totally fascinating!!!
Glad to see Shan got some repsect by kenny- The Bridge is my fav track of all times, and it seems to me 95% of hip hop fans think he got destroyed by KRS. I think it was pretty even, Shan having a edge on this for me (but KRS making ten times as many good records..). It'd be cool to hear about KRS and vs The poet and reactions to Beat Yu Down etc…as well as what happened between KRS and SHan after those records… This site has kept me up all nights too often..Comment by Snafu 10.30.06 @
good work!Comment by mordecai 10.31.06 @
Incredible interview, definitely among the best I've ever read. I laughed out loud mad times.Comment by Kai 12.27.06 @
This whole 3-parter is just really great stuff. Kris is most-def one of hip-hop's all time greats, and learning about the real history of these classic records and situations, and getting a vibe for what hip-hop as a culture was like back then from the inside is the sort of thing that helps reaffirm my love for this music.
Keep fightin' the good fight, man, cause this stuff needs to be out there.Comment by Kerda 06.16.07 @
this interview is sooooooo necessary. i thoroughly
enjoyed every moment of reading. yes, krs-1 IS HIP-HOP! like it or not!
I played basketball in college with that negro. Kenny is still a funny dude. I wish him the best.Comment by Larry J 11.24.07 @
wow thats all ican say. imagine your own brother saying at leats you got one hit of. typical. but for real KRS1 has the stage show. i live in London and let me tell you he totaaly smashed the JAZZ CAFE to pieces. i wish the prince b incident had been caught on video. u just know just ice just had to be a part of that…that cats not
no toy..him king sun you dont want to bump heads with them in a alley. dope interview.
Yo this is Classic! I know Kris personally, but some of this ish Kenny sayin I never knew about. But I think it captures the essence and the ever evolving KRS in the few words Kenny was able to lay it down in. And also the mindset of both of them growing up as brothas first and then musicians.
Peace & Respect to Rob, Kenny, and my man KRS aka Kris aka The Teacha!!!!
I Am Hiphop!!!!Comment by Devastate1 11.04.10 @
this 3 part interview is the best interview i have ever read. thanks man, thanks keeny, krs your a lving legend.thanks for ripping it up in australia ths yearComment by only1dre 04.07.12 @
I know its been a while since this interview got up, but someone mentioned earlier that this is history, and I agree. I grew up on this shit and still to this day I could sit and listen to heads talk about those days, even just sit here and read about it, read about how these records got made and some of the shit that went down. The telling of it is even history itself. Its important. I had to get up and pay my respects. Big up Kenny. Big this site up too for this.Comment by stzzla 06.13.13 @
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I suggest there have been two large clusters of reactions to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.
The first reaction – when it seemed to be a story about the self-induced downfall of an arrogant, powerful French bastard – was gloating and finger-wagging from an unholy alliance of anti-elitist Francophobes (such as, oh, myself) and shrill feminists. What these groups had in common in their reaction was a desire to bring down the powerful, or at least some subset of them. And DSK happens to reside in an interesting intersection of those subsets (the ones hated both by American conservatives – e.g., privileged socialist Euro types – and shrill feminists – e.g., men).
The reaction I expect now that DSK's accuser has been exposed as a liar and a fraud will come primarily from a different quarter. This contingent will focus on how bad and horrible it was that such a powerful man could be so easily brought down. They will fret over whether DSK can get back into whatever political race he was aiming towards, and focus on how 'unfair' it will be if he can't. They will take DSK's future political fate as a barometer of how enlightened we, or at least the French, are; they will elevate an ability to 'separate' the personal qualities of DSK from his political dimension to a form of high morality. Finally, should DSK rise back to the top of French politics, i.e. attain the French Presidency, their reaction will be one of cheers and high-fives. Basically, they will now shift into full-on rooting for DSK from here on out.
What group of people do I expect will react this way? People who identify with powerful people. That is, people who see powerful people as proxies for themselves. Which is to say, people who see themselves as potentially powerful people.
To such people, it's very important to understand and circumscribe (and limit) how powerful people can be dethroned. The rules of navigating, climbing to, and keeping power are very high on such peoples' lists of interests. For the powerful to be easily-dethroned offends them; because then after all, it could happen to them, too. Since they see themselves as DSK standins.
Granted, this is just a reaction I expect to observe based on past experience, not one I've seen a huge amount of – yet. Consider this a pre-emptive response.
Because, since I'm not in this group, my reaction will not be one of rooting for DSK. However terrible I think it was that a fraudulent accusation was allowed to proceed this far (in my view the accuser should probably be in jail), I am unable to cross that extra bridge of starting to feel sympathy for an arrogant, spoiled, privileged, 'socialist' French prick who lives high on the hog and (as has come out) fucks whatever stupid power-worshipping broads he wants while cloaking himself in the purple drapery of The People. Sorry.
He has my total support for his freedom and presumed innocence. I am unable to summon up actual sympathy for him however. I do not sympathize or empathize with him, in the sense that I do not see myself as being like him nor can I imagine myself in his shoes (which for starters would involve me being several orders of magnitude wealthier). I do not see him as being just like me. I do not come away thinking 'there but for the grace of God go I'. And I do not feel the follow-on compulsion to drop everything to bend over backwards to change society's rules to make it easier for the DSKs of the world to stay in their powerful, wealthy, privileged positions unmolested, or see 'whether Dominique Strauss-Kahn or someone very much like him can become the French President' as some sort of civil rights issue.
I just don't. Sorry. What can I say. All of the folks out there who do identify with DSK, and think the take-away lesson here is how can we as a society now change all of our laws and structures to ensure that a wealthy French socialist-poser prick is never again inconvenienced, because you think that you yourself could be (and aspire to be?) in that cushy position some day, feel free to speak up in comments however. I'm listening. I'm just not that moved.
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You may be the quirkiest populist in the world.
As you know, I'm somewhat leftist myself and a strong socialist sympathizer. Nevertheless, I'm not really at all interested in DSK (beyond the criminal justice/sexual politics of the case, which I'd be interested in regardless who he was, but his prestige lets his particular case actually make it into print). The future of progressivism is not a future of leaders and figureheads. The Greeks and the Spanish and the Arabs are showing us change is possible without the banner of a leader or a party. The corrupt powers that be are terrified of these developments because unlike traditional progressive movements, *there's nobody they can bribe, arrest, assassinate, or discredit with sex-crime allegations*. And this is why I say DSK and any other centralized leaders like him are obsolete dinosaurs.
>The Greeks and the Spanish and the Arabs are showing us change is possible without the banner of a leader or a party.
Strange sources of inspiration, Xamuel.
In most respects, I could care less about DSK. He confirms my expectations about the privileged transnational elite, but that's about it.
I'd be interested in knowing more about how common false accusations like this one really are, and what happens in cases where the accused doesn't have the money and power of DSK. There are some hints in this story that the situation is better than I'd expected – the experienced sex crimes prosecutor knew the accuser was lying from the start, but was shoved aside in favor of those who wanted to go after the Great White Defendant.
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Although I think it'd be pretty fun to have a WW2 themed mod for JA, you still aren't allowed to use DICE/EA's materials in any other game than Battlefield.
Maybe you weren't paying any attention to the License Agreement to install the Battlefield MDT. Not many people do.
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You can always shoot an email off to them, and ask for permission, but you'd probably have a better chance asking the easter bunny for a BMW.
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Norihiko Ashigaki, Jun-ichi Suzuki, Masahito Ogawa, Ryo Watanabe, Norio Aoyama, Naho Kobayashi, Yasunobu Hirata, Issei Komuro, Yuichi Izumi and Mitsuaki Isobe
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Periodontitis is associated with several systemic disorders, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, the pathophysiological relationship between periodontitis and CKD is yet to be elucidated. We assessed the hypothesis that periodontal bacteria influence renal dysfunction. We used C57BL/6J mice and implanted chambers subcutaneously in the back of each mouse. Two weeks after implantation, we injected Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.g.), which is a major periodontal pathogen, or phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) into the chamber. The subcutaneous injections were administered once a week for 6 weeks during the observation period. 5/6 nephrectomy (NTX) was made by a two-step surgical procedure. The levels of anti-P.g. IgG in the serum were determined with an ELISA. After the operation, we measured serum creatinine using an enzymatic method. On day 28, mice were sacrificed and pathological evaluation was also performed. The repeated bacterial injections elevated the serum level of anti-P.g. IgG significantly. NTX increased the serum creatinine level (0.35 ± 0.02mg/dl) compared to native mice (0.15 ± 0.01mg/dl). Neither infection altered creatinine levels (P.g. 0.41 ± 0.04mg/dl) (n = 15) compared to the PBS injected group (n = 20). On days 1, 3 and 7, serum creatinine levels were significantly increased in the P.g. injected group compared to the PBS injected group. Of note, P.g. infection deteriorated 28 days survival rate (46.9%, p<0.05) compared to the PBS injected group (90.9%). It was suggested that periodontal pathogens deteriorated serum creatinine levels and the survival rate after NTX.
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"Politics is the Art of Looking for Trouble, Finding it Everywhere, Diagnosing it Incorrectly, and Applying the Wrong Remedies"
"Now when I go to the bathroom I find out who my friends are." - Jake Scott after both broken hands were in casts following the 1972 season
Lost in this whole killing/gun debate is the fact that most deaths caused by guns are suicide. The argument behind the suicide is take away the guns and people will think about it longer and perhaps not kill themselves, well jumping off a bridge is pretty damn easy and there are a lot of those kicking around, I love how the anti-gun people like to tell you what other people will not do.
Just like the kid who shot up the theater in Colorado, no one "knows" what someone else will or will not do, it is called "free will" for a reason. You have the freedom to impose your will, you will never take that aspect of humanity away. It has been tried throughout time and people just will not stand to be limited.
Freedom includes the good and the bad it always will, over 6000 deaths and half a million injuries are estimated to be caused by distracted electronic related automobile incidents. No one is up in arms to remove the Ipods, Cell Phones, Radio etc...from automobiles. 1 death per 10,000 Americans is caused by Automobiles, compared to guns that is huge, in 2010 there were 8,775 murderers with guns or .27 deaths per 10,000 Americans yeah if you include suicide that rate will climb to about 1 death per 10,000 Americas but again how do you count self inflicted violence against death rate?
The bottom line is, was and always will be the help which is administered to the people who need the help. You will never be able to determine who needs help if they don't come asking or give you clues to let you in on their sickness. The writeup I will post below might be the most sensible thing I have read on the Internet in quite along time on gun violence, this piece by Michael Moore is spot on;
I have said over and over again, the guns are not the problem people our society is the problem, our core issues are what drive us to hate crimes and violence. Our desires to be the best, needs and wants all play into the society that lends itself to social problems. We have focused on being so inclusive that we have lost what made this country great, the differences of its people. It is OK to say Merry Christmas to a Jewish person if you are Christan, just let the Jewish person say Happy Hanukkah back, exchange a handshake of good tidings and be civilized people who wish good to each other but share different beliefs. Take some time to learn about Muslim practices and holidays so they can feel included into our culture, hell there isn't a religion in the US that seems to be shunned more than Muslim but I don't see anyone, from our countries leaders down, trying to change that. We built this country on the practice of immigration, Italian, Polish, German, English, Irish, Scottish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Indy, and the huge huge influence of all the African Nations, it is a melting pot of culture and there is frankly no other place on Earth like the US.Since Cain went nuts and whacked Abel, there have always been those humans who, for one reason or another, go temporarily or permanently insane and commit unspeakable acts of violence. There was the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who during the first century A.D. enjoyed throwing victims off a cliff on the Mediterranean island of Capri. Gilles de Rais, a French knight and ally of Joan of Arc during the middle ages, went cuckoo-for-Cocoa Puffs one day and ended up murdering hundreds of children. Just a few decades later Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Dracula, was killing people in Transylvania in numberless horrifying ways.
I have traveled all over the world, been to many places, seen many things and I love my country for its good and its bad. The strength was, is and always will be its people so maybe if we tried to fix the social issues amongst its people the rest would fall into place and we would need to assign blame to cover our social problems.
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Dont think you were refering to texting specifically, but just wanted to add that some things we were able to do are now being limited.
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Laws don't educate people around the "issue", laws only restrict public freedom. Laws are why this country took to arms for its freedom in the first place. Law is a restriction based on need, need is opened ended based upon opinion and opinion is open to interpretation depending on your perspective.
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Foreclosures and short sales, where homes sell for less than owners owe on their mortgages, accounted for 43% of residential sales last year, according to data released this week by RealtyTrac, a real-estate-data firm. Short-sale purchases increased 4% from a year prior, while sales of homes in pre-foreclosure — that is, in some stage of foreclosure before a home is repossessed — increased 6%.
Fueling these increases are big discounts for the taking. In many markets — including Chicago; Daytona Beach, Fla.; and Santa Barbara, Calif. — buyers were able to purchase distressed properties during the fourth quarter of 2012 at an average discount of 30% to 50% to what they'd pay for a regular, nondistressed home, according to RealtyTrac. In many cases, these discounts are available in markets where real-estate prices as a whole appear to have bottomed out, experts say.
Cheap finds come at a time when many buyers are facing a tightening housing market. Real-estate listings have been dropping, pushing up prices of regular homes in many markets. As a result, listing prices of regular homes have been picking up.
In contrast, with distressed properties, buyers still can save hundreds of thousands of dollars. Working in their favor, in part, is that banks are more willing to unload homes as short sales than in previous years. Some banks are offering homeowners who are behind on mortgage payments cash in exchange for selling the home in a short sale. (Bank of America, for instance, has been offering as much as $30,000 to qualifying homeowners since last year.) That's led to more short sales selling at a discount. And after years of a growing backlog of foreclosures, more of these listings are hitting the market, says Daren Blomquist, vice president with RealtyTrac, as courts process more of these cases. (Many states require court approval before a home can be repossessed by a bank.)
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Evidently Wayne LaPierre wasn't drawing crowds like Nugent does for the NRA.
Good for Ted. I hope he's going to be wearing his listening ears. I hope he's building bridges, not walls. I hope one day to witness butterflies fluttering iridescently beneath a double rainbow, tickling kitten's dewy noses unharmed among the pink roses, on the bonnie bonnie shores of Loch Lomand too.
I wish I was going.
Well I always have my C-Span, thank goodness.
I guess if Ted can make it through the metal detector okay then he should be allowed to attend.