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Jeremy Scahill's 'Dirty' Work
Kelley Vlahos on the explosive charges in reporter's new book
Jeremy Scahill's new book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield, is sort of like approaching a dark cavity in an old tree. How many of us would instinctively cry out, "I don't want to look – there will be creepy crawly things in there and I'm better off not knowing!"
Life is filled with shadowy, foreboding places, but the majority of Americans are conditioned to the look the other way, so much so that they defend their ignorance with great vigor, especially when it comes to national security and war. This kind of blind trust in the government has been confused with patriotism — especially after 9/11 — which has allowed all manner of creepy crawly things to multiply and wreak havoc while most of our heads are simply turned elsewhere.
Luckily, reporter Scahill has cared to look, and poke at and examine, all with smaller resources and prestige than his peers in the corporate media, but then again, most corporate media reporters are flat-out restrained from peeking into the dark hollow of the Global War on Terror, much less interested in writing about it. Beginning with Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army in 2008, Scahill has used his perch at The Nation Institute to shine a light inside the hole, and show us that whatever abomination lurks inside is, in reality, much worse than we had even imagined.
Read at your own risk, but Dirty Wars does all that and more. After years of researching, Scahill is nothing but thorough in his examination of the war within the war – whether it be the covert assassination squads rampaging across countries most Americans couldn't find on a map, the "the black site" torture chambers in Afghanistan and Iraq, or today's signature drone strikes that wipe out insurgents and children alike without warrant or jury. All have been condoned and expedited by an executive branch authority that has metastasized in unilateral power since the Twin Towers fell in 2001. But willful ignorance helped it along: those in power had an interest in keeping it secret (or were kept out of the loop entirely), while the powerless kept quiet, mostly because they were afraid to look.
"This book tells the story of the expansion of covert US wars, the abuse of executive privilege and state secrets, the embrace of unaccountable elite military units that answer only to the White House," Scahill begins. Five hundred and twenty pages later, he concludes simply with a question all Americans must "painfully" ask, "how does a war like this end?"* * *
The recent events in Boston offer the simplest, but not the most encouraging answer: "not easily." After nearly 12 years of continuous war in which the full extent of American activities are now being revealed by serious independent journalists like Scahill, only the true partisans, kool-aid drinkers and of course, those with a stake in maintaining the fiction, would deny the vicious cycle from which there appears no ready respite.
From Elmirza Khozhugov, ex-brother-in-law of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in an e-mail about Tamerlan's most recent behavior to The New York Times last week: "He was looking for connections between the wars in the Middle East and oppression of Muslim population around the globe."
Perhaps it's premature to assume the motives of Tsarneav, who died in a firefight with police, and his younger brother, who was captured and is in custody on a litany of federal criminal charges. But members of congress and the rightwing punditry already feel informed enough to have declared the brothers "radicalized," and are calling their alleged crimes a "new element" in the ongoing struggle against those (Islamist extremists) who hate us for our freedom and "way of life."
Let us stand back a moment, and without making excuses for anyone who blows up innocent people congregating on crowded street corners in broad daylight, take a closer look at two of the most explosive themes in Dirty Wars: 1.) The White House gave explicit permission to the military to spy, assassinate and torture with official cover — wherever it wanted in the world, whenever it wanted, and 2.) The military established an elaborate system of hidden torture chambers in which untold numbers of mostly innocent Muslims suffered during the height of these hyper-aggressive counter-terror operations.
Fuse that with 10 years of extra-judicial drone strikes. Would it be so hard to imagine where these "new elements" of terror — the freshly minted martyrs and the al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Yemen, Pakistan, North Africa and beyond – were coming from?
"I think we're living in a world where we are not going to be immune to the payback for some of the things that we've done. And unless—unless we, as a society, completely re-imagine what an actual national security policy would look like, one that recognizes the dignity of other people around the world or the rights of people to practice their religion or determine their form of government, unless we're willing to re-imagine how we approach the world, we're doomed to have a repeat of a 9/11-type attack or something that's smaller-scale but constant," Scahill noted in a recent interview with Democracy Now!* * *
"Iraq," Scahill wrote in Dirty Wars, "would serve as a laboratory for creating a new kill/capture machine, centered on JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command), run by (Gen. Stanley) McChrystal and accountable to no one but a small group of White House and Pentagon insiders."
With sources cultivated over years, Scahill is able to piece together a timeline in which McChrystal, a career special forces officer with extraordinary "stomach and stamina for the fight," as well as one of the Pentagon's "fellow travelers in the great crusade against Islam," is paired with a messianic White House that with a roll of then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's ball point pen, was able facilitate not only JSOC's new lead in all counter-terror operations, but its ability to operate "and hit targets" outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
What happens, as richly told in the book, is what could only be described in biblical terms: something like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, searching, seeking and vanquishing for the ultimate cleansing of the world.
JSOC was built up in Iraq and Afghanistan to conduct surveillance, interrogations and killing, parallel to (and often sidelining) the CIA and the conventional military, but without the congressional oversight that bound those other institutions. Soon, thanks to the Bush White House, JSOC was independently establishing "liaison offices" across the Middle East for the manhunt, no permission necessary.
"In many ways it was the definitive vision of the type of wars Rumsfeld and Cheney had longed for: no accountability, maximum secrecy and total flexibility," wrote Scahill. Rumsfeld had declared "the entire world is 'the battlespace,'" and President George W. Bush gushed, "JSOC is awesome." As if ripped from the failed Vietnam playbook, Bush pressed his commanders "on how many people they killed on any given day," Scahill wrote. "The conventional generals would often balk at the question, but the answer from the JSOC crew was unequivocal." At one point, Mike Flynn, McChrystal's intelligence chief for Task Force 121, the joint command running the counter-terror war, was asked the question. He replied, "thousands" of Iraqis, "I don't even know how many."
Over the years, Task Force 121 (and its many incarnations) has gotten little press. When McChrystal was appointed head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2009, Esquire magazine raised a number of questions about his responsibility for the torture and abuse allegations raised against Task Force 121 in Iraq, otherwise known as Camp NAMA (Nasty-ass Military Area). But not surprisingly, the mainstream media ignored it. Lucky for us, Scahill kept like a dog with a bone on this story, and is able to offer it up in Dirty Wars, in stomach-turning detail.
"The world knew about Guantanamo, and would soon know the name Abu Ghraib… but almost no one ever talked about Camp NAMA," he wrote. Using "torture techniques, built up on the demands from Rumsfeld, Cheney and their posses for more results in interrogations," the motto, "as advertised in posters throughout the camp, was "no blood no foul," or as one Department of Defense official told Scahill, "if you don't make them bleed, they can't prosecute you for it." But that apparently left for a lot of gray area in between.
People taken to the camp were not given the rights of prisoners of war, they were "off the grid." The Red Cross was denied access. According to a scathing report by Human Rights Watch, which was aided by whistleblower interrogators at the time, prisoners were subjected to "beatings, exposure to extreme cold, threats of death, humiliation, and various forms of psychological abuse or torture." Outside military officials who tried to investigate the activities of the prison were rebuffed, as well as congressional inquiries.
Inside, there were CIA, DIA (defense intelligence agency), all operating under JSOC's command, which seemed to "have some sort of an express elevator" straight to Secretary Rumsfeld's office in Washington.
At Camp NAMA there was a "Soft Room" for cooperative and high-ranking detainees, and Blue and Red Rooms for medium–intensity interrogations. "The Black Room was preserved from its days as a torture chamber under Saddam, and, for good measure, the task force kept the meat hooks that hung from the ceiling during the Iraqi dictator's reign of terror in place for their use … it was here that JSOC would perform its harshest interrogations."
According to Scahill the JSOC interrogators were being trained in reverse SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) techniques — meaning, they were schooled in using all the awful methods our soldiers train to endure if captured by the enemy. "Inside the Black room, the full-spectrum of SERE tactics were unleashed on detainees, along with a slew of medieval freestyle techniques…the interrogators there often incorporated extremely loud music, strobe lights, beatings, environmental and temperature manipulation, sleep deprivation, twenty-four hour interrogation sessions, water and stress positions, and personal, often sexual humiliation. The forced nudity of prisoners was not uncommon. Almost any act was permissible against the detainees as long as it complied with the "No Blood, No Foul" motto. But eventually, even blood was okay."
One former prisoner, the son of Saddam Hussein's bodyguard, recalled being punched in the spine until he fainted and kicked in the stomach until he vomited. Others described "heinous acts committed against them" including sodomy with foreign objects, "forcing water up their rectums and using extreme dietary manipulation." Members of the task force "would beat prisoners with rifle butts and spit in their face." In one case, recalled by a lieutenant in the Air Force who had come to JSOC as an interrogator in early September 2003, a detainee was brought to a bus stop, under the assumption he was being released. It was a mind game — "moments later they snatched him again and returned him to NAMA." He was hooded, his clothes ripped off and he was shackled, where he was forced to stand for 12 hours, said witness Steven Kleinman. "The guards were not to respond to any requests for help."
The examples wear on brutally for pages in Dirty Wars, so much that one finds themselves asking, "is this my country?" and, where was John McCain, the go-to moral compass against torture, having endured his own imprisonment in Vietnam 40 years earlier? Our indignant sanctimony over the torture of our own POWs rings a bit tinny and false now as we turn a blind eye to what happened in Iraq, as well as Afghanistan.
And what happened, really? Military intelligence officers later admitted to the Red Cross that somewhere between 70 and 90 percent of "the persons deprived of their liberty in Iraq had been arrested by mistake." In a classified military report in 2003, authors warned that, "the task force's abuse of detainees combined with the mass arrests of Iraqis gave the impression that the United States and its allies were acting like 'gratuitous enemies' of the Iraqi people."
But wrongdoing was handled in-house and culpability minimal. Attempts to get further at the truth were stymied. Whistleblowers were blackballed. The abuses continued, and in different ways, including plans in 2004 by General David Petraeus and retired U.S Col James Steele to "Salvadorize Iraq" by building Shiite special operation forces that eventually turned into death squads and interrogation facilities that transformed into torture chambers (recently revealed in a Guardian expose and documentary).
As a result, Al Qaeda, led by Abu Masab al Zarqawi, bloomed and flourished in Iraq and contributed to the ensuing civil war. "Although General Petraeus would be credited years later with 'winning' the Iraq War through a troop 'surge,' he had also, along with Zarqawi, helped to destroy Iraq and create a sectarian bloodbath that would live on well past the U.S occupation," charges Scahill.
Dirty Wars doesn't dwell on Iraq – Scahill takes full advantage of his field reporting in Somalia to turn over the rocks there, as well as the real story behind the drone deaths of American Anwar al-Awlaki and
Today, the Global War on Terror has been institutionalized by the Obama White House, "using drone, cruise missile and Special Ops raids," in "a mission to kill its way to victory," Scahill writes. "Future U.S presidents – Republican or Democratic – will inherit a streamlined process for assassinating enemies of America, perceived or real. They will inherit an executive branch with sweeping powers, rationalized under the banner of national security."
Scahill surmises that, "no one can scientifically predict the future consequences" of the aforementioned activities. "But, from my experience in several undeclared war zones across the globe, it seems clear that the United States is helping to breed a new generation of enemies in Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and throughout the Muslim world."
Last week's timing on the release of Dirty Wars – along with its accompanying award-winning documentary of the same name – serves as a opportune counterbalance to the prevailing narrative, that what happened in Boston was some unprovoked attack in the "struggle" against terror, which ignores America's own role in that struggle all along.
There is no excusing the pain and fear the suspects in the case inflicted on Boston that day, but to deny reality is to simply perpetuate the cycle. Thanks to Scahill's willingness to reach into dark places, we have one more tool with which to try and reverse it.
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17 Responses to "Jeremy Scahill's 'Dirty' Work"
And all this only because we can. What other reason is there? The US is the world's sole superpower and as such it has to exert "leadership" everywhere. And what better way to show who is boss than by torturing and killing with impunity. Killing and torturing the poorest and the weakest, mind you, mostly all innocent; of course it doesn't hurt that they are dark skinned, speak a strange tongue, and have different religious practices. The US has been at it for more than a decade, at some point comparison with the Nazis are in order. And at some point the word genocide will have to be used, or some other -cide. Stunning, that no one cares. Not the "Christians", not the humanists, not the most educated, not members of other and former victim groups, not the war-weary Europeans, not college students, not the save-the-clouds green crowd, no one. If all the Germans were guilty and had to endure more than a generation long guilt trip, then what of Americans?
Thank you Kelley! Did the Nazis and Stalin go around killing people in foreign countries with which they were not at war? Yes, they did but the instances were few and were well publicized when they occurred. Here we have US government hit teams and torture specialists going around the world and killing and maiming possibly thousands of people with nary a peep from the media and congress. What kind of monsters have we become? How can anyone regard Bush and Obama as anything less than war criminals?
I feel so sad, angry and revolted about all this that I scarcely know how to comment. To whom should I express outrage that my military brethren are being dehumanized by such tactics? That the legal profession to which I belong is complicit in this lunacy? But Rick, some of us Christians DO care, and suffer greatly for these nameless victims, and know the truth: "…Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap". I look forward to reading Scahill's latest book, but take little solace in knowing that, for the U.S., the day of reckoning eventually will come, and payback will be a bitch. Yet the question remains – why do so few comprehend the evil that has been spawned by the madness?
{Here we have US government hit teams and torture specialists going around the world and killing and maiming possibly thousands of people ..}
Get your numbers RIGHT please. Your terrorist government has killed MILLIONS of innocent people around the. One million and half in Iraq ALONE, 4 millions in Vietnam, millions in Koria, millions in in…………
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This all sounds like an expose of the 'Grand Neocon Wet-Dream', the US military co-opted for Neocon/Israeli ventures
I've got order this book and see the movie when it comes out
Mr. Giraldi, I am very depressed about the current state and future of our country. Seems like the MI complex is so strong, possibly stronger than that of the Nazis and Stalin (they didn't have world military hegemony, as the US does), that nothing can be done. We elected Obama twice as the 'peace' candidate and we basically get a continuation of the Bush policies. The broken political process in the US is now totally corporate owned and operated. How can things possibly change for the better, given that both of our monopoly parties are now controlled by our elites, and third parties have no chance in our system?
Hmmm… wonder if my use of an unattributed Biblical quote kept my comment from being published?
This is a great article Kelley and the best review of the book I have seen.
If I may add, in my opinion, this is must reading for anyone concerned for the well being of this country, constitutionally, strategically, and fiscally. JSOC is effectively making foreign policy by their virtually unconstrained authority to attack anyone, anywhere, regardless of long term consequences. The Define & Punish clause was put into the Constitution to make it difficult for adventurers like Aaron Burr and others to operate unilaterally in provoking wars, not imagining at the time that the military would slip its constraints, particularly those most self-selected in looking at a mission in the narrowest terms. Now here comes JSOC largely having done exactly that, under the direction of short-sighted, tactically oriented, not strategically oriented, leaders like religious fanatic Jerry Boykin, and his successors. I cam easily imagine George Custer commanding JSOC.
And dont forget Nick Turse's 'Kill Anything That Moves' a real stomach turner that the media is ignoring.
Mr. Scahill, meet Nick Turse.
"[Gen.] McChrystal … his responsibility for the torture and abuse allegations raised against Task Force 121 in Iraq, otherwise known as Camp NAMA (Nasty-ass Military Area)."
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Don't hold your breath waiting for any accountability. A couple of weeks ago, the "bipartisan" Constitution Project released their "Detainee Treatment" torture report. Although their report presents much useful information, it whitewashed McChrystal's role in JSOC torture (e.g. even though he refused to be interviewed, they used extensive favorable quotes from his disingenuous memoir). And, the report doesn't even mention Admiral Bill McRaven's name although he was the commander of TF 121 at the time.
Scahill's book presents a good discussion of McChrystal's role in torture. However, he missed some details, and doesn't discuss tortures's role (or lack thereof) in the capture of Hussein or the killing of Zarqawi. If your're interested, see my newly-revised post, "The Dark Legacy of Gen. Stanley McChrystal & His Memoir "My Share of the Task" — His Betrayal of Pat Tillman, Command of JSOC Torture, and Failed Afghan War "Surge," at the Feral Firefighter blog.
Thanks Kelley; Scahill's interviews with Democracy Now are also riveting.
How anyone can continue to believe in "our goodness, our freedoms" etc is incomprehensible if one knows even a tiny percentage of books like Dirty Wars and Nick Turse's "Kill anything that moves". Noam Chomsky's revelations and Howard Zinn go well back into US history, and none of it is uplifting.
The worst of it is that the Pentagon from 1970 with Trident-1 has been pursuing to replace MAD with Disarming First Strike Capability (Robert C. Aldridge: The Counterforce Syndrome). Missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org-on European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA), the missiles on 32 ships in the Mediterranen, in Romania by 2015 and more advanced in Poland by 2018: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike." The missiles on 32 ships in the Mediterranen, in Romania and Poland are to take out the missile silos not hit by Minuteman-3 and Trident-2. US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously according to Bob Aldridge.
Professor J. Ed Anderson: "Deployment of anti-missile missiles in Eastern Europe is part of a first-strike strategy."
Dr Bob Bowman, Chief "Star Wars" Program: "Missile defense is the missing link to first strike."
The missiles will be deployed by 2018 and result in Launch On Warning by 2017. Of course, that's a point of no return. Then we are really DOOMED. "Homo Sapiens" are bloody fools and most so in the Pentagon !!!
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Pax Americana awaits the death of a thousand cuts….
Rather than being White House policy formulated by the President, there appears to be
reason to believe that a third party has created this style – point in fact – the Patriot Act does
much the same things under the facade of obtaining information. The police techniques
are used to create outstanding advantages over innocent Americans, subjecting them to
robberys, assaults, attempted murders, and denials of human rights without warrants,
arrests, indictments, or filing of formal charges.
The freedoms of the declaration of independence , the bill of rights, and all the blood
shed during the Civil War is being ignored by secret organizations who claim greater
allegance that the oaths these civil servants take upon entering office.
nice article.
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It may be misunderstood and relatively unknown, but employee leasing is a technique that can save small-company owners time and money* * *
Tony DiBiasio used to spend 10 to 15 hours a week playing catch-up with personnel-related paperwork. As the president of Spy in the Sky Flying Traffic Watch Co., an airborne traffic-reporting and aviation company in Warwick, R.I., DiBiasio found that deadlines of one sort or another perpetually hovered: payroll taxes to be calculated and filed; health insurance policies to be updated or paid. The constant fear of late payments and penalties was unnerving, he recalls. "Even when I was up to date, I worried about what was in the stack of paper on my desk."
Today DiBiasio no longer sweats about the details of administering payroll and complying with government personnel regulations. In fact, if he (or anyone who works for him) spends an hour a month on these tasks, something's wrong. It's the same company, with many of the same people doing the same jobs, so what happened? Well, last spring DiBiasio decided to lease all 13 of the people who work for Flying Traffic -- including himself -- through an outside contractor.
Although it's been around for several years, employee leasing is still relatively unknown. But it's fast emerging as a way small employers like DiBiasio can not only free up management time, but also obtain major cost savings on health insurance and other benefits. Under a leasing arrangement, the employees still report to the same bosses, who remain in charge of how the business is managed. The big change is that the leasing company assumes such personnel functions as payroll and benefits administration.
Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, some companies used employee leasing as a roundabout way to offer top-of-the-line benefits to owners and other executives; the non-executives, whose employment was shifted to outside agencies, got less (see The Law, "The Pitfalls of Employee Leasing," December 1988, [Article link]). But the Tax Reform Act of 1986 put an end to such practices. Today, estimates Joe Honick, executive director of the National Staff Leasing Association, an industry trade group in Encino, Calif., there are 300 to 400 employee leasing companies doing business in the United States, representing around 700,000 workers. Most, if not all, sell a service to smaller companies that might best be described as an off-site personnel department.
Typically, leasing companies assume responsibility and risk for preparing a company's payroll and paying payroll taxes, along with the various state and federal reporting requirements. Because of the numbers of employees they represent (hundreds, if not thousands), they can hire in-house experts in areas of human-resources management that small companies rarely have. They also provide employee benefits, workers' compensation, and unemployment insurance. And, in contrast to most companies with fewer than 100 employees, they have buying power; for the same dollars smaller employers usually spend on benefits, they can furnish much more comprehensive benefit packages.
Even when DiBiasio had two or three employees back in the late 1970s, paperwork dogged him. But it wasn't until 1986, when he hired five people to handle eight new radio station accounts, that he began toying with ways to unload it. With revenues then of about $700,000, he didn't feel he could justify a full-time bookkeeper at close to $20,000 a year, so he subscribed to a payroll service for about $300 a month. For a while, it freed up time to spend with clients, says DiBiasio. But, unfortunately, not enough.
"I still had to go to the bank every month to deposit my payroll taxes," he says. And he still had to verify all the monthly and quarterly reports and deal with insurance. After months of listening to DiBiasio complain, his accountant suggested that he look into employee leasing.
At first, even though he knew the employees would be the same ones he already had, DiBiasio was concerned that leasing those employees would impinge on his ability to run his business as he wanted. His traffic reports, for example, were offered seven days a week -- beginning before dawn. Would the leasing company restrict when people could work? "I needed total flexibility," he says. After talking to several businesspeople who used leased employees and to the managers of ELC Staffing, in Providence, DiBiasio and his attorney were certain that (1) the idea had merit and (2) that internal control wouldn't be an issue. Confident that he'd retain the freedom to choose who would and would not work for him, he decided to go forward.
DiBiasio's company has been operating with leased employees since April 1, 1989. In some respects, it's like working with a payroll service: every other Monday, ELC calls Flying Traffic's part-time bookkeeper for payroll information -- hours worked, overtime, sick days, vacation time, and so on -- for everyone, including DiBiasio and his wife, who is the office manager. Based on the information it receives, ELC then does several things. First, it calculates and signs the weekly paychecks, which are delivered by courier to DiBiasio's office the next day. It also does the necessary withholding and payments for state and federal taxes, under its own -- not Flying Traffic's -- taxpayer identification number. And it puts money aside for such necessities as workers' compensation and state unemployment insurance -- again, under its own name. For these services, the leasing company (whose name is on the paychecks) charges DiBiasio a monthly fee of about $20 per person. He writes a single check each pay period to cover payroll, service fees, and the various benefits.
But there's more to leasing than this. Perhaps the most critical role the leasing company plays is that of buying and administering health insurance. Previously, DiBiasio says he paid around $170 a month for individual coverage through a local health maintenance organization. And somebody in his company had to keep track of forms and other paperwork. With the leasing company, the bookkeeping isn't necessary, and thanks to its purchasing clout, it can provide the same plan for $111. Actually, the savings are even greater: included in this price are employee life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and prescription discounts, benefits DiBiasio didn't formerly offer. For more coverage and added convenience, he saves about $7,000 a year on health benefits. Even with the monthly fee, DiBiasio winds up saving around $4,000 annually.
One additional area where the leasing company can help is in the legal aspects of employment. Last January, for example, DiBiasio decided he wanted to dismiss an employee who wasn't performing. But before he did anything, he called a specialist at ELC to find out the best way to minimize liability. In the end, the employee quit before he was fired. "If there's a question involving personnel law," notes Dennis Iacobbo, president of ELC, "we encourage clients to call us as much as they want." The leasing company won't tell the client not to fire someone, he says, but "we want them to do it right." In the event of a lawsuit, both the leasing company and the client could be implicated as coemployers.
Right now, DiBiasio says he has no plans to offer his workers more benefits. But under the rubric of the leasing company, he easily could. For instance, ELC already provides a dental plan to other client businesses for about $200 a year per person. It's also set up to administer flexible spending accounts, which let employees pay for things like unreimbursed medical expenses and day care with pretax dollars; for this, there would be no additional fee.
If DiBiasio ever should decide to get out of leasing altogether and handle things internally, no problem. He can terminate his contract with ELC with 30 days' notice.
However appealing leasing may be, it isn't without risks. Essentially, attorneys note, you're delegating a vital area of your business to outsiders. What isn't so clear is who's responsible when the leasing company fails, say, to submit payroll taxes (or goes out of business). Will the Internal Revenue Service investigate just the owners of the leasing company? Or will it go after its clients? And what happens to your health insurance? Many industry officials believe that the liability would end with the leasing company, but the courts may rule otherwise. At the very least, you'd have a mammoth headache. (See "Protecting Your Flanks," below.)
DiBiasio acknowledges that there are some unknowns. But, for him, the pluses outweighs the potential minuses. "Today," he says, "I can spend virtually all of my time operating the business and making sales. That's where my efforts are best spent."
How to limit the risks in employee leasing
For all the potential advantages of employee leasing, anybody considering it should be attuned to the risks. Here are some things to keep in mind when considering a vendor:
* Check references. Before signing up with a leasing company, ask for a list of clients and talk to CEOs and employees at those companies. Find out if they've had any problems (inaccurate or late payments, or disputes over benefits) and how the leasing company has handled them.
* Study the contract. Make sure you and your attorney understand all the costs and fees and who's responsible for what. See to it that you'll be able to get out of the contract.
* Review financials. The last thing you want is a shaky leasing company. Before signing a contract, ask to see financial statements attesting to the company's financial strength. You might also ask to see the company's liability insurance policies and to speak to its bankers. Its unwillingness to furnish information may tell you all you need to know.
* Ask for regular updates. Members of the National Staff Leasing Association are required to submit independent verification every quarter that taxes and insurance premiums are up to date. If quarterly statements aren't often enough, you might ask for more frequent documentation. Or you could have the insurance companies notify you directly of any changes (understanding, of course, that this means more paper).
More about employee leasing
The Business of Employee Leasing, by T. Joe Willey, $37.50, The Aegis Group, 155 West Hospitality Ln., Suite 215, San Bernardino CA 92408; (714) 381-4800; fax (714) 889-1845.
National Staff Leasing Association, a trade organization representing some 140 employee-leasing companies, 15910 Ventura Blvd., Suite 731, Encino CA 91436; (818) 788-2094.


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A new award to honor community activism in the Fox Valley will highlight the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Education Network's annual meeting, scheduled for May 30.
The Making Democracy Work Award, co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Appleton and Post-Crescent Media, will be presented that evening at a dinner celebrating the local chapter's 75th anniversary. Kevin Kennedy, director and general counsel of the state's Government Accountability Board, will be the keynote speaker.
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It's that Seussical time of year again when fans far and wide celebrate the birthday of the one and only Dr. Seuss. The National Education Association (NEA) has declared March 2 — Dr. Seuss' birthday — as Read Across America Day. And there are lots of ways to get involved.
Ask your child's school if you can volunteer to read with his or her class. Read to area kids at your local library or ask a local celebrity (like the mayor or a radio personality) to read to the kids. Set up a poetry slam or book fair at your local middle school or high school. Try your hand at a Seussical craft, or just grab a stack of your favorite Seuss titles and curl up with your kids for an evening read-a-thon.
Here are some great tips from the NEA on raising a generation of book lovers:
- Take your time and talk about the story with your child. Ask your child questions.
- Explore the pictures with your child.
- Read with expression.
- Change your voice or how fast you read to create excitement. Ham it up!
- You don't need to read every word. Keeping your child interested is the goal.
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Lowering disaster recovery costs is just one way data deduplication saves. This ESG paper highlights the data deduplication features and benefits of Data Domain. Learn how it integrates with existing backup software and processes, dramatically reduces the amount of data transferred over the network yet maintains high performance while executing data deduplication.
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Leverage RPG: The Quickstart Job
"Dennis Holland is not a good guy. He's responsible for bank failures, collapsed mortgages, and dozens of innocent people being forced from their homes. He collects seventies memorabilia. He's a bad man. And he's hosting a party. Nathan Ford and his Crew are on the job, but it has to be done fast. Presented as a training exercise… Read More »


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Synopsis: From the neon strip of Little Vietnam to a desolate Albertsons parking lot, 15 Views of Orlando takes the reader on a secret tour of the City Beautiful. Told by 15 authors in a series of loosely linked fiction, the story is a (successful) experiment in setting, theme and community. The book also features interviews with Philip F. Deaver, Lindsay Hunter and six other contributors, as well as a Florida Lit manifesto by John King.
"So this is Orlando! If I'd known what she was really like, I would have invited her to huff model car glue behind the 7-11 years ago."
~Amelia Gray, author of THREATS (FSG)
"With all due respect to Mickey Mouse, 15 Views of Orlando is the best excuse for visiting Florida's fifth largest city that I've come across. No two stories feel the same, yet they collectively constitute a hell of a cohesive narrative. It's a highly entertaining read."
~Dan Dunn, author of Living Loaded (Random House)
"If your idea of Orlando is the plastic idea of it, all Disney World and Holy Land dinner theater, you are in need of the Orlando as seen through the lens of its next generation of writers in 15 Views of Orlando. Yes, the pizzas grow to theme-park proportions, but the characters are real flesh and blood and alive and vibrant. Assembled
corpse-like, the 15 exciting, funny, and dark writers follow their characters throughout the city and its environs in a noirish picaresque that re-maps the literary imagination of Central Florida once and for all."
~Jeff Parker, Ovenman (Tin House Books) & The Taste of Penny (Dzanc)
"While people who have lived in Orlando will appreciate 15 Views more than those who have not, lovers of short fiction will have no trouble finding something to feast on. The stories could just as easily have been drawn from any new metropolis where a darker underbelly hides beneath the glow of neon franchise signs."
~Darrell Nicholson (full review at Saw Palm)
"I finished 15 Views of Orlando with a completely different perception of the city than when I started, which can't be a bad thing. It's an enjoyable collection, with a high standard of writing throughout – all the more impressive considering the strict time limit each writer had to adhere to. Orlando plays an important role in most of the stories but, thankfully, never at the expense of its inhabitants, and what could have been little more than a series of literary postcards are in fact a set of engaging, character-driven stories."
~Ally Nichol (full review at PANK)
"This collection has reinvented the traditional responsibilities of literary stakeholders, and even its audience by challenging the reader to piece together interwoven story lines, fluctuating narrative voices, and alternating city locations."
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Nathan Holic is the author of the novels American Fraternity Man and The Things I Don't See. He is the Graphic Narrative editor for the Florida Review, and the editor of Burrow Press' 15 Views Series.
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Effects of HSP60 and LPS on HO-1 protein expression in PBMCs from patients with BD. (a) Effect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation on heme oxygenase (HO)-1 and actin protein expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from patients with Behçet's disease (BD). PBMCs from a BD patient were stimulated with LPS in the presence or absence of 10 ng/ml interleukin (IL)-10 and 100 μg/ml polymyxin B (PMB). Representative immunoblotting data for HO-1 protein in the cells are shown. The arrowhead indicates 32 kDa molecular weight HO-1 specific band. (b) Effect of heat shock protein (HSP)60 (3 μg/ml) stimulation on endogenous HO-1 protein expression in PBMCs from patients with BD. The arrowhead indicates 32 kDa HO-1 specific band. A representative of three independent experiments is shown. (c) Mean and standard error of the mean (SEM) values of HO-1 and actin protein expression in PBMCs stimulated by LPS (1 ng/ml) for 24 hours in patients with BD (n = 14). #P < 0.001, as determined using paired t-test. (d) Effect of infliximab (10 μg/ml) or IgG1κ (10 μg/ml) on HO-1 expression in LPS (10 ng/ml) or tumor necrosis factor (TNF; 1 ng/ml) treated PBMCs.
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It's the next MacBook. Just kidding! But, seriously, Lenovo's sleek 14-inch non-ultrabook laptop has an undeniably Apple-ish look.
Adopting the looks of an ultrabook and an Apple MacBook, the IdeaPad U400 wins on design and overall value, but it's not that far above other equally good laptops that are out there right now.
Double down on the memory and the 13-inch Toshiba Satellite U400-S1001X becomes a well-rounded laptop that will withstand the rigors of business travel.
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Ball State Cardinals coach Billy Taylor talks to guard Marcus Posley (3) during a game Sunday against Indiana in Assembly Hall. Indiana defeated Ball State 101-53.
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Ball State basketball coach Billy Taylor sat down for his weekly press conference at 1 p.m. Monday, and he said he still felt the sting from what transpired Sunday night when No. 1 Indiana embarrassed his team 101-53 on national television.
The Cardinals first started playing games in the 1920-21 season, and the 48-point margin tied the program record for worst loss. The 1954-55 Cardinals share that mark. They lost at Cincinnati 113-65 on Jan. 26, 1955.
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Café Society
Café Society was a New York City nightclub opened in 1938 at 1 Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village[1] by Barney Josephson.
Josephson created the club to showcase African American talent and to be an American version of the political cabarets he had seen in Europe earlier. As well as running the first racially integrated night club in the United States,[2] Josephson also intended the club to defy the pretensions of the rich; he chose the name to mock Clare Boothe Luce and what she referred to as "café society," the habitués of more upscale nightclubs, and the wry satirical note was carried through in murals. Josephson not only trademarked the name, which had not been trademarked by the gossip columnist for the New York Journal American M, who wrote as the first "Cholly Knickerbocker," but advertised the club as "The Wrong Place for the Right People."[3] Josephson opened a second branch on 58th Street, between Lexington and Park Avenue, in 1940. After that the original club was known as Cafe Society Downtown and the new club - designed for a different audience - as Cafe Society Uptown.
The club also prided itself on treating black and white customers equally, unlike many venues, such as the Cotton Club, that featured black performers but barred black customers except for prominent blacks in the entertainment industry. The club featured many of the greatest black musicians of the day, from a wide range of backgrounds, often presented with a strongly political bent. Lena Horne was persuaded to stop singing "When it's Sleepy Time Down South", Pearl Bailey was fired for being "too much of an Uncle Tom", and Carol Channing was fired for an impersonation of Ethel Waters.[4] Billie Holiday first sang "Strange Fruit" there; at Josephson's insistence, she closed her set with this song, leaving the stage without taking any encores, so that the audience would be left to think about the meaning of the song.
Relying on the keen musical judgment of John Hammond, the club's "unofficial music director".[5] Josephson helped launch the careers of Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Big Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, dancer Pearl Primus, and Hazel Scott and popularized gospel groups such as the Golden Gate Quartet and the Dixie Hummingbirds among white audiences. Many of these acts had first been presented at Hammond's Carnegie Hall concerts, From Spirituals to Swing, in 1938 and 1939.
As part of the challenge to integrate America's segregated society, Josephson's club was the scene of numerous political events and fundraisers, often for left-wing causes, both during and after World War II. In 1947 Josephson's brother Leon Josephson was subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which led to hostile comments from columnists Westbrook Pegler and Walter Winchell. Business dropped sharply as a result and the club closed the following year.
Notable performers[edit]
- Sid Caesar
- Carol Channing
- Imogene Coca
- Betty Garrett
- Jack Gilford
- Buddy Hackett
- Danny Kaye
- Zero Mostel
- The Revuers (Judy Holliday, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Alvin Hammer, and John Frank)
- Jimmy Savo
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Café Society.
- ^ Many sources give the address at 2 Sheridan Square: "Barney Josephson, Owner of Cafe Society Jazz Club, Is Dead at 86", The New York Times; see history of "The theater at One Sheridan Square".
- ^ William Robert Taylor, Inventing Times Square: commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world 1991:176
- ^ His autobiographical, Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People, written with Terry Trilling-Josephson, was published in 2009.
- ^ Taylor 1991:176.
- ^ Taylor 1991:176.
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Steelers notebook: Safety Mitchell faces former team, hurts leg
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Steelers safety Mike Mitchell opposed his former team, at least for a series — long enough to get an apparently minor right leg injury.
Mitchell spent last season with NFC finalist Carolina before signing with the Steelers. He will go against the Panthers in his former home stadium Sept. 21.
"That should be interesting," he said. "This one? Not so much."
• Six defensive starters, based on the Steelers' current depth chart, played during Carolina's opening series: Linebackers Jarvis Jones, Lawrence Timmons and Ryan Shazier, defensive end Stephon Tuitt, cornerback Ike Taylor and Mitchell. Shazier played most of the first half. Nose tackle Steve McLendon also played. Offensive regulars who started were wide receiver Markus Wheaton, who ran for 15 yards on the first play from scrimmage; left tackle Kelvin Beachum, left guard Ramon Foster, right guard David DeCastro and right tackle Marcus Gilbert. Center Maurkice Pouncey was the only offensive line starter held out. Foster and Beachum stayed out for the second series. Dri Archer started at running back in place of Le'Veon Bell or LeGarrette Blount, but Bell and Blount later played.
• For the third consecutive year, Ben Roethlisberger did not play in the final preseason game. Troy Polamalu sat out the first and fourth games. Coach Mike Tomlin has been especially cautious about protecting key personnel in the last exhibition since backup quarterback Byron Leftwich was lost for the season with an injury in the final preseason game in 2010, when Roethlisberger was suspended for the first four games.
• Both teams went for it on fourth-and-short on their opening series. The Panthers converted a fourth-and-1 at the Steelers' 37 on Mike Tolbert's 2-yard run, but the Steelers' Blount was stopped for no gain on fourth-and-1 from the Panthers' 49.
• The Steelers' defense allowed a long drive in the first quarter for the third time in four games, as the Panthers used 14 plays on game-opening field-goal drive. In earlier games, the Bills kept the ball for 11 plays on their first drive, and the Eagles had an 11-play touchdown drive on their second series.
• Referee Tony Corrente issued a stern, on-field edict to the clock operator during a Panthers drive late in the second quarter, imploring him — with the entire stadium listening — to "please pay attention" and start the clock upon signal.
• Two Steelers players were lifted with injuries before halftime: CB Brice McCain (groin) and WR Martavis Bryant (right shoulder). Bryant caught one pass before leaving.
• Tomlin gave rookie Brad Wing two chances to work on his situational punting in the first half. Wing punted 31 yards to the Panthers' 11 in the second quarter and 39 yards to the Panthers' 6 on the next-to-last play of the half.
• Now come the unkindest cuts of all. The Steelers must trim from 75 players to 53 by Saturday, in advance of their first game Sept. 7 against Cleveland.
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UPDATE: Election Results
According to the Glenwood City website, the unofficial results of the December 17, 2013 recall election are as follows:
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UPDATE: Election Results
According to the Glenwood City website, the unofficial results of the December 17, 2013 recall election are as follows:
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Four days from now, on December 17, citizens in Glenwood City will finally be able to voice their opinion on the fate of their small Wisconsin community which has been grappling with frac sand issues for the last couple of years.
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HEARINGS have begun in WI Supreme Court challenging the Domestic Partnership law.
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Senate Bill 349 "is dangerous and reckless," says mother Julie Augesen, whose 7-year-old twins attend school near a proposed silica frac sand mine.
Augesen and other citizens around the state of Wisconsin may lose local control of mining sites in their communities. Currently, municipalities may regulate air and water standards appropriate for each location. If this bill passes, that power would transfer to the state, leaving "our hands tied to protect our children" from silica dust and other hazards says Augesen.
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On Wednesday, October 9, citizens in Glenwood City, WI presented the city clerk with enough signatures on petitions to trigger three recall elections against local officials for their decisions regarding frac sand mining issues.
But getting here has not been easy.
The atmosphere in Glenwood, much like hundreds of other Wisconsin communities debating the merits of frac sand mining, has boiled over into confrontations.
For instance, on October 1 a Glenwood City man reportedly lit two ends of a recall petition on fire while it was being circulated by a local woman.
Tension is high as Mayor John Larson and city council members Nancy Hover and Dave Graese have been targeted for recalls. The recall group, lead by mothers with children near the proposed frac mine site, claim the stakes for their children are simply too high.
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On September 20, a local citizen bustled into a Glenwood City restaurant and announced, "We're recalling 3 local officials."
To the collective applause of the small group of diners at The Cafe, Julie Augesen, a mother of 7-year-old twins in Glenwood City school, explained what sparked the upcoming recall attempt.
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Over persistent opposition from citizens, on Monday night the Glenwood City council went into a closed-session meeting with representatives of Texas frac sand company Vista Sand.
Before entering into a private meeting on September 16, people were given an opportunity to address the council. Numerous citizens asked the city council if they had received a request to annex from Vista Sand. "Absolute silence" was the response, reported local citizen Charlotte Heimer. "They just sat there."
Many citizens feel they were left without legal representation at the closed-session meeting. The Glenwood City council, widely viewed as "disconnected" with the community on sand issues, was represented by Terry Dunst of Bakke Norman in New Richmond. Vista Sand was represented by Anders Helquist of Weld, Riley Prenn, Ricci, Eau Claire.
"Who is in there speaking for us?" asked one resident angrily.
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In the most subdued city council meeting in months, Glenwood area residents in western Wisconsin anxiously awaited to hear the action that would be taken by council members in response to their petition on frac sand mining.
It turns out they will have to continue to wait.
The council tabled the referendum discussion and did not schedule that discussion for any future meetings. Instead, the council scheduled a closed-session meeting with Texas company Vista Sand the following Monday.
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With over 130 frac sand mine and processing sites in Wisconsin, we have made it a priority to report about the process of one in our area.
Glenwood City may annex the Teigen/Crosby land in order to allow TX company Vista Sand to operate a silica frac sand mine in that location. The potential "Vista" mine would be located within 1/2 mile from the public school with 650 children and hundreds of staff.
The Glenwood area is unique in its landscape and character. However, dynamics surrounding frac sand mining in this community are far from rare. These videos give you the inside feel of the sand story playing out in communities all around the state of Wisconsin.
In this video, more than 40 people packed into a small room in order to voice concerns about frac sand mining within the city limits. More than half of the registered voters in Glenwood City presented the city council with a petition on Monday, August 12 requesting a referendum vote before the council moves to annex 400 acres of farmland into city limits.
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Residents claim a right to vote on issues concerning frac sand mining in their community. But will they get it?
That's the billion-dollar question facing the Glenwood area residents in the western Wisconsin community. "Screws are coming loose," says one local who claims people are desperately fighting for their way life against a frac sand payout that may be worth a staggering $1.5 billion.
People wondered if they would be heard as they presented the Glenwood City Council with a petition Monday night requesting a referendum vote before the council moves to annex 400 acres of farmland into city limits.
A referendum would allow residents to vote on whether their city should annex the Teigen/Crosby land next to the public school in order to allow TX company Vista Sand to operate a silica frac sand mine in that location.


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It's always exciting to see animated films and animation artists receive recognition in mainstream art publications. Achieving this type of acceptance has been an uphill battle for many years, but it seems that nowadays, art publications are increasingly opening their doors to animation-related stories. For example, SWINDLE MAGAZINE, a top-notch art/culture quarterly with a heavy West Coast bent, has an interview with David Weidman in their latest issue (#4). They call him "one of the friendliest, most jovial 85-year-olds you'll come across," and having interviewed Dave for my 1950s animation design book, I can attest to the accuracy of that statement. Animation was an important part of Weidman's career, but he also spent a lot of time producing his own artwork, including beautiful silk screen prints that can be purchased at WeidmansArt.com. The only downside to the SWINDLE article is that the writer isn't particularly well versed in animation history so he's unable to ask Weidman specific questions about his animation career and find out exactly what he did at UPA (and other studios like Storyboard and Hanna Barbera). There's also some errors, like the chronology of when Weidman worked on the ill-fated John Hubley feature FINIAN'S RAINBOW. Pretty minor stuff. Overall, it's great to see a classic animation artist receive an 8-page spread (and the back cover) of a classy publication like SWINDLE.
Swindle and Esopus
The equally commendable East Coast arts publication, ESOPUS, also has an animation feature in their most current issue (#5). No errors are to be found in this article because it's written by John Canemaker. In the piece, entitled "Let a Thousand Drawings Bloom," John examines a scene from "The Nutcracker Suite" sequence in FANTASIA, and discusses the contributions of the scene's various artists including development artist Elmer Plummer and fx animator Cy Young. The piece, which includes a beautiful color sketch by Plummer and four pages printed on translucent paper to recreate the light table effect, serves as something of an ode to the painstaking, labor-intensive process of creating hand-drawn animation. Though hand-drawn animation is becoming increasingly obsolete at modern studios, Canemaker believes that animation on paper has an effect that today's digital creations cannot replicate. He writes:
While much is gained using the new technologies, there is a certain sense of loss, too. There's the touchy-feely aspect of artifacts that represent the solid residue of human imagination; they don't exist in the digital world as they do in these thought-filled lines on tactile paper. By feeling the paper, holding it in one's hand, one is able to get a sense of the artist and the artist's mental processes, not to mention the effort that went into making the sketch.
Props to both SWINDLE and ESOPUS for publishing these stories and treating animation with respect. Hopefully we'll see more magazines doing these type of animation stories in the future.


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The Chart of Famous Eyewear
A meticulously illustrated eye chart focusing on famous eyewear. From Benjamin Franklin's bifocals to Elvis's kingly sunglasses to Maverick's aviators to Spike Lee's tortoiseshell frames to MC Hammer's oversized shades, we've brought together fashion icons and famous characters for a veritable spectacle of the bespectacled.
18" x 24"
Each print is signed and numbered by the artists, and comes packaged in a Pop Chart Lab Test Tube. See below for finishing options, and note that framed prints require an additional 3-4 business days of processing time.
Using 100 lb. archival stock certified by The Forest Stewardship Council, this poster is pressed on an offset lithographic press with vegetable-based inks in Flatlands, Brooklyn.


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The Top Five Female Rappers in OC
Pondering the local hip-hop scene, the Weekly asked the simple question, "Where are the female MC's in OC?" almost two years ago. Our neighbors to the north in Los Angeles can boast a vibrant underground with a number of femcees on the mic whether its artists like Vel the Wonder, Top Dime, or Reverie. Over here? Not so much...or so it seemed. Maybe we just weren't listening close enough, as it turns out, because there's definitely a lot of talented women doing their thing with hip-hop.
Enjoy the different styles from this assembled playlist the Weekly has put together of the top five femcees rockin' the mic from all over the county. (Anaheim, where you at?!)
5. Lady Socratez
Lady Socratez displays an adept delivery served with a side of rasp. She has teamed with Grand Angel in forming the group Royal Fellowship.
For Lady Socratez, whose real name is Sarita Stamps, music runs in the family. Her older brother is Bad Azz who we all revere for his verse on Makaveli's "Krazy" and having Snoop Dogg guest on his gangsta rap hit "We Be Puttin' it Down." Stamps' dad was a DJ so it's easy to see why she picked up the mic at 8-years-old and hasn't put it down since. OC is all the better for it.
4. Noel
Noel Brooks
Costa Mesa
Noel Brooks is a double-threat. She's a legit singer with R&B soul and has been sharpening her rhymes delivering doses of both on tracks like "Wake Up."
Brooks' twin talents are matched by a lyrical depth, especially on the introspective "I'll Be Sober." You can catch her performing live in-and-around downtown Santa Ana whether it be at Bistro 400 or Original Mike's.
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My favorite lobbyist was wont to say, "All you need is money and me".
My favorite lobbyist was wont to say, "All you need is money and me".
We're Bourbon Geeks, it's who we are, it's what we do.
If it passes it will kill for all time the argument is Tennessee whiskey bourbon.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal to the spider, is chaos for the fly.
I sort of understand the argument that B-F doesn't to give big bad Diageo the ability to "poison" the Tennessee whiskey well with an inferior and cheaper product although given that Dickel is only a small wart on JD's giant butt it seems unlikely they could get make that much of an impact, especially overseas. I don't know that I have ever seen GD in any country I have visited in recent years but I see JD in every single one to include the Middle East and Cuba of all places.
That yella whiskey runnin' down my throat like honey dew vine water and I took another slash
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
Article in this mornings Chatt Times Free Press indicates that this is going to pass to help the "little guys". Qouted a few of them saying numerous whiskeys are agde in used barrels and that JD shouldn't have a lock on the term "Tennesee Whiskey".
I infer they want to use it on moonshine and anything else they distill.
In both my online and on-site communication with them, the people at George Dickel deny any intention to change the way they make their whisky; they just don't want Jack Daniel's telling them how to do it.
Sounds like an old fashioned feud in the making.
We're Bourbon Geeks, it's who we are, it's what we do.
I think B-F has the better argument, though. But for Jack Daniels, the concept of Tennessee Whiskey, as a thing, wouldn't (likely) exist. They basically created it. Therefore, if the type will be enshrined in the law, it should be the style they created. It's like saying in France, we will amend the Champagne compositional law. I don't know if one exists, let's assume it does, to leave out the part about secondary fermentation in the bottle because it is not the only way to make Champagne. And so I, a sparkling wine maker in [name other place], should be able to set up a business in Champagne and call it that even though my product is only fermented in bulk.
How is this different?
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We're Bourbon Geeks, it's who we are, it's what we do.
Looks like the legislation to rewrite the definition of Tennessee Whiskey has been withdrawn as reported by tennessean.com. tim
Round two. On Friday, Diageo filed suit against the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) to overturn a 77-year-old law that says any distilled spirit manufactured in Tennessee must be stored (i.e., aged) in Tennessee. Diageo got cited for violating it because Diageo has moved some products to Stitzel-Weller in Louisville.
Diageo goes to great pains to assure everyone that it is not aging any George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey in Kentucky, just other products it makes at the George Dickel Distillery. It doesn't say what those are, and in the past Dickel master distillers have claimed that Dickel doesn't make anything except George Dickel there. This has gotten mixed up with the whole standards thing, but it's a completely different issue. For more go here.
Col. Charles K. "Crotchety" Cowdery
"Whiskey Don't Keep."


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December 1, 2015
As was mentioned in the previous post, former Wildcat and Lafayette product Michael Bertram is having his finest year as a minor leaguer. Playing with the Lakeland Flying Tigers, Detroit's A team, Bertram had raised his batting average to .283 and was leading the team in RBI (47).
The hope was that Detroit would move Bertram up in the farm system. That phone call came over the weekend.
Charles Bertram informed me that his son was on a plane early Friday morning en route to Erie, Pa., home of the Tigers' double-A squad, the Erie SeaWolves.
Bertram has made an immediate impact in Erie. Playing first base, Bertram has played in two games, collecting four hits in eight at-bats. He has four RBI, with a homer and a double.
Ironically, Bertram was afforded the roster spot when former UK teammate Ryan Strieby went on the 7-day DL with a wrist injury. Strieby has been splitting time between first base and left field. Erie, without a backup first baseman, moved Bertram up.
Those are the highlights... Stay tuned.
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PAR-13-169 Academic-Industrial Partnerships for Translation of in vivo Imaging Systems for Cancer Investigations (R01)
PAR-13-169 Academic-Industrial Partnerships for Translation of in vivo Imaging Systems for Cancer Investigations (R01)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications from research partnerships formed by academic and industrial investigators to accelerate the translation of either preclinical or clinical in vivo imaging systems and/or methods that are designed to solve a targeted cancer problem. The proposed imaging system/methods may include single or multi-modality in vivo imaging and spectroscopy systems, image-guided and drug delivery systems, image analysis, and related research resources. This FOA may also include, as a secondary goal, support for other laboratory imaging or reference methods as required to validate the performance of the proposed in vivo imaging system and/or methods. Funding may be requested to enhance, adapt, optimize, validate, and otherwise translate the following examples, among others: (a) current commercially supported imaging systems/methods, (b) next-generation imaging systems/methods, (c) quality assurance and quality control methods, (d) validation and correlation studies, (e) quantitative imaging methods, and (f) related research resources. Because appropriate applications must be translational in scope, this FOA defines innovation as a coherent translational plan to deliver emerging or new capabilities for preclinical or clinical use that are not yet broadly employed in preclinical or clinical settings. The partnerships on each application should establish an inter-disciplinary, multi-institutional research team to work in strategic alliance to implement a coherent strategy to develop and translate their proposed imaging system/methods to solve a targeted cancer problem. This FOA will support clinical trials that emphasize optimization and validation of the performance of imaging systems, including devices, agents and/or methods. This FOA will not support commercial production, or basic research projects that do not emphasize translational development and optimization of the methods for a targeted cancer problem.
Application Receipt Dates: Standard dates apply
Expiration Date: May 8, 2016