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Verify the date and time is displayed on the LCD and the interface cable
is securely connected for local users. If the LCD displays an error message,
troubleshoot to clear the error. For local connections, ensure the cable
is 6 ft or less, directly connected between the computer and Brother
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Attempt to scan from the Brother Control Center to verify the issue.
Insert the document into the scanner's feeder.
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If you do not have Internet access, continue to STEP 5.
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This is my favourite Mootools effect: a nice horizontal animated menu which changes dinamically the blocks width when you pass your mouse over a selected block. You can see the effect on mootools home page
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Oct. 9, 2010
STANFORD, Calif. - Halftime: Stanford 14, USC 14
Stanford got a 30-yard run around the left end by Stepfan Taylor to get into USC territory. On third-and-9, Andrew Luck responded to a blitz by cutting to his backside and running for 14 yards.
But the Cardinal could not get another first down. On third-and-14 from the USC 34, Stepfan Taylor fumbled when stacked up and USC cornerback Shareece Wright picked the ball up on the run moments before being clocked by Luck, forcing another fumble that USC recovered with 38 seconds left in the half.
The Trojans drove to Stanford's 37-yard line with eight seconds left. A pass from Matt Barkley to Robert Woods, who already had seven catches for 122 yards, was incomplete. With three seconds left, Barkley threw a Hail Mary that traveled out of the end zone as time expired, ending the half.
Second quarter (4:23): Stanford 14, USC 14
USC drove right back, scoring on 6-yard pass to freshman Robert Woods on a quick slant. Quarterback Matt Barkley threaded the needle by hitting Woods in a spot between cornerback Richard Sherman behind him and linebacker Shayne Skov cutting in front.
The touchdown tied the score at 14-14.
Second quarter (8:33 left): Stanford 14, USC 7
USC continued to drive and threatened to take the lead when Stanley Havili carried off right guard and had the ball punched out of his grasp by safety Delano Howell, and directly to cornerback Richard Sherman.
The turnover began a Stanford touchdown drive of eight plays and 84 yards. Andrew Luck passed to Chris Owusu on a crossing route and Owusu spun away from one tackle and broke another on the way to a 35-yard gain.
Luck used a play-action fake to keep the ball around end for 19, and later his Doug Baldwin for nine yards to the USC 7. On the next play, freshman Anthony Wilkerson bounced off right tackle to score a touchdown, giving Stanford a 14-7 lead with 8:33 left in the second quarter.
End of first quarter: Stanford 7, USC 7
Stanford appeared to get a break when Delano Howell intercepted a pass at USC's own 20-yard line. Matt Barkley's throw toward Bay Area high school star Brandon Carswell (Milpitas High) was overthrown and ended up in the hands of the Cardinal safety.
However, replay nullified the interception and USC punted instead, giving Stanford possession at its own 39.
A first-down screen to Stepfan Taylor gained 11. And a 12-yard pass over the middle to Doug Baldwin gained another first down to the USC 40, followed by a catch down the left sideline for 24 more yards.
A hard rush on the next play pushed Andrew Luck out of the pocket to his left. As he turned to throw, he was hit by USC's Nick Perry and recovered by Jurrell Casey.
Stanford defensive tackle Sione Fua sacked Barkley on first down, helping create a third-and-11 play deep in its own territory, but Barkley shook off a blindside rush by Chase Thomas to hit Robert Woods for a 24-yard pass, as the receiver cut inside cornerback Richard Sherman to catch the slightly underthrown ball.
First quarter (5:47 left): Stanford 7, USC 7
The versatile and wide-open Stanford offense that its fans had been accustomed to appeared on the Cardinal's next series.
Each of the five plays on the possession gained chunks of yardage, allowing Stanford to travel 69 yards to the end zone in only 2:30.
A pair of plays to Doug Baldwin moved the ball quickly to the Trojans' 22-yard line, first on a screen right and then on a reverse. Usua Amanam ran up the middle for 11 and Andrew Luck hit Baldwin on a quick out, just getting to the end zone pylon as he was hit, allowing Stanford to tie the game.
First quarter (8:17 left): USC 7, Stanford 0
Stanford took the opening kickoff, but went three-and-out. A dropped pass on first down didn't help and a third-down run by Stepfan Taylor around left end was stuffed. On a positive note for the Cardinal, receiver Ryan Whalen, who missed the past two games with an injury, returned to the starting lineup with his left arm heavily padded.
USC, however, methodically moved down field after the Daniel Zychlinski's 54-yard punt. No. 28 took the snap at 8-yard line, freshman Dillon Baxter took the shotgun snap and scored untouched off left guard to give the Trojans a 7-0 lead.
USC's drive took 73 yards and 11 plays, and lasted 5:03.
No. 16 Stanford (4-1, 1-1) takes on USC (4-1, 1-1) in a Pac-10 game at Stanford Stadium. Going back to 1905, USC leads the all-time series 58-26-3, but Stanford has won two of their past three meetings, both in dramatic fashion. As a 42-point underdog in 2007, Tavita Pritchard hit Mark Bradford on a fourth-down pass in the end zone with 49 seconds left to beat the Trojans, 24-23. In 2009, Stanford won 55-21, also at the Los Angeles Coliseum. It remains the most points any team has ever scored against USC. However, the Cardinal is looking for its first victory in the series at Stanford Stadium since 2002.


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Artist and educator Tom Sena has experimented and perfected a technique he affectionately has dubbed "inkrubbing", a fascinating process involving printmaking, photography, and old-fashioned free-hand drawing. This collection of work, spanning 2007 to 2008, includes all of Sena's inkrubs, broken down by series ("Icons", "Urban Dancers", and "Dogtown & Z-Boys"). A must for any art collector, admirer, or gallery owner with a high taste for fine art.
A native New Yorker, Tom Sena attended Manhattan School of Visual Arts, and received a B.A. Degree in Art Education from Long Island University/C.W. Post College and a M.A. Degree in Studio Arts from Adelphi University in NY. He has been a public high school art teacher since 1997, having been named a Nobel Educator of Distinction in 2005, as well as being named to the Who's Who of America's Teachers for 2005 and again in 2006. He continues to exhibit his artwork in both solo & group exhibitions, and his work is in private collections throughout the United States and worldwide. He lives in New York.
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The Big Surprise We'll Get from Public Company Earnings This Quarter98 views 2013-07-10 02:56 Tags: corporate continue blank getting returns
With corporate earningsseason about to begin, many investors are anxiously awaiting the results to see if the S&P 500 can continue its strong showing.
Naturally, with the index showing such outsized returns over the past six months, many investors are getting nervous. And the investors who have been left on the sidelines are waiting for some signal indicating whether to get into the market at the current level or wait for a larger pullback.
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One worrisome sign for the S&P 500 is that the forecast for the corporate earnings growth rate has continued to come down. According to FactSet, a global leader in financial information research, the current estimate for the corporate earnings growth rate during the second quarter of 2013 is just 0.7%. This is a significant drop since March 31, 2013, when the estimate for the corporate earnings growth rate during the second quarter was 4.2%. (Source: "Earnings Insight," FactSet Research Systems Inc. web site, July 5, 2013.)
That news might confuse some investors, because the S&P 500 is still near its all-time highs.
I believe that a dichotomy has been generated by the investors' reactions to the easy monetary policy stance by the Federal Reserve. When the Federal Reserve began discussing the possibility of reducing its asset-purchase program last month, sellers then emerged and impacted the S&P 500.
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Lionel Messi scored in the first match of Group F of the World Cup in Brazil to help Argentina defeat Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-1 on Sunday afternoon. The goal was Messi's second World Cup goal ever for Argentina, as he went scoreless for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
As reported, Argentina took the lead early in the game with a set play. Lionel Messi took the kick and placed it right on the penalty area as the ball scraped Argentine defender Marcos Rojo's head. The ball continue to travel hitting Bosnian defender Sead Kolasinac on the side of the leg, which caused the ball to go into the net. The own goal happened in the 3rd minute of the match.
Argentina played very calmly with no intensity and controlled the game with a few outbursts from Bosnia. Bosnian midfielder Miralem Pjanic, who plays in Italy for AS Roma, led the attack for his team creating some threatening attacks.
Messi in the meantime kept trying his individual play-making but Bosnia would shut it down quick. It was not until the second half that Lionel Messi decided to shine.
Messi finally got his play-making down in the 65th minute by faking a few defenders and taking a shot with his left from the top of the box. His shot hit the post and went into the net as the Argentine crowd went wild at the Maracana Stadium in Brazil.
The rest of the game was too relaxed as Argentina maintained control of the ball. However, Bosnia got away with a play and scored in the 84th minute, via Vedad Ibisevic. Argentina had let their guard down and paid for it.
The only reason why this was a convincing victory for Argentina is the fact that Lionel Messi scored, the expected hero. Otherwise, Argentina did not display any intensity or have any fire in their play-making the whole match.
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- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Place chicken inside bag, then sprinkle seasoning blend and flour over chicken. Twist bag to close tightly, then secure with blue tie, about 2 inches below the opening. Turn bag gently to spread seasoning blend over chicken. Lay bag flat in 13 x 9-inch baking dish, arranging chicken in single layer.
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Last night at Eureka's Red Fox Tavern Dj Babu and Rakaa Iriscience headlined what turned out to be an incredible show for a not so sold out crowd.
Like most venues in the Humboldt area, you can find Red Fox Tavern hosting an array of musical styling each and every week. Formerly Roomers, the bar has seemed to come into itself in the past few years. With a much-improved sound system, speakers reaching from the floor to the ceiling, it makes ear-blasting volume a pleasant experience, not ear splitting and painful like most. With the highs hung from ceiling, mids right in the middle and giant bass speakers resting on the floor, you can get right next to the stage, hear everything clearly and still carry conversations with your friends without having to yell directly in their ear just to ask if they need a drink from the bar.
The show started with local artist, DJ State of Mind opening up with some laid back Hip Hop beats. The stage was set for what turned out to be a real Hip Hop experience. Soon the Fantastik Fam took the stage and began to open minds to the power of family and Hip Hop. Nac One, father/OG of the group laid down a smooth flow with daughter Mystique spitting as if she was a seasoned veteran. Son Señor Sol brought the fire, getting the crowd pumped and lacing us with lyrical flows reminiscent of battle mc's of the late 80's with a contemporary context.
Next on the stage was Kahlee. With a refined flow, his rhymes and presentation was that of someone who has been in the game for years. An interesting facet of his show was that there was no DJ backing him, which didn't detract from his performance at all. He was using a small remote, kept tucked in his pocket to change tracks and insert dramatic pauses throughout his show.
As he left the stage we were soon greeted with the likes of DJ Babu and Rakaa Iriscience. People pushed forward, the temperature began to rise and the stage was set for what would be a great show. Rakaa got the crowd moving as Babu held it down on the tables. As the show went on Babu took over and showcased his turntable talents. At a point he broke it down on a traditional Dialated Peoples beat, beat juggled the track every which way imaginable. This was truly a high point in the evening with everyone's attention focused on stage. Beat juggling is more difficult then most would imagine. Taking a song, slowing it down and speeding it up to create an entirely different beat, this task is often failed by even the most veteran of DJ's. To see Babu live, beat juggling to the point that you would swear he was playing all the instruments himself; the moment will live on in all of our minds and hearts for all those true Hip Hop fans that attended the show.
As the night continued Babu ended the show with an hour long set playing some classic hits from the disco era to the conscious Hip Hop revolution 1998 brought us. Bodies were moving, the sounds were smooth, performers were scattered about the crowd, bboys were going off, and it seemed as if all were having a good time. Lights came on, people began to exit, circles of folks from all walks could be found at the exits sharing the excitement the evening brought us. One can only hope the next show at the Red Fox will be just as fresh. Stay tuned as next week Red Fox will be featuring Casual, DJ Quest and a crowd favorite Z-Man on February 5'th.


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Senior running back Johnathan Franklin (Los Angeles, CA/Dorsey HS) of the UCLA football team was selected as the UCLA/Muscle Milk Student-Athlete of the Week for Sept. 4-9.
Franklin ran for a career-best 217 yards in a 36-30 victory over 16th-ranked Nebraska and also had career-highs in catches (3) and receiving yards (59) with one touchdown. Franklin's total of 3,100 career yards puts him in seventh on the all-time school rushing list, and he had his 12th career game of over 100 yards rushing to tie for sixth on that school list. He also became the third Bruin back to record as many as three 200-yard rushing games, joining Gaston Green (1985-1986-1987) and Karim Abdul-Jabbar (three in a row in 1995).
After two games, Franklin (215.5 yds/g) sits as the nation's leading rusher, and his rushing average alone is higher than that of 90 FBS schools.
This is Franklin's second consecutive UCLA/Muscle Milk Student-Athlete of the Week honor of the season and the fourth of his career.
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Maryland State Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a Cecil County man in his home Monday.
State troopers were called around 11 a.m. to the unit block of Green Lane in Port Deposit, where Vincent M. Robertson, 47, was found dead from at least one gunshot wound.
The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy.
No one else was injured in the apparent shooting.
Investigators are interviewing witnesses as the investigation continues.
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Before Eli Turk went on a yearlong student exchange in Norway, one of the few things he knew about the country was that it was the background for his computer's screensaver.
Now, after spending almost nine months there, he can understand what's going on during the classes at his Norwegian high school and he is entertaining audiences with his stand-up comedy — consisting of jokes in English comparing American and Norwegian culture.
Turk said he can understand Norwegian better than he speaks it.
"If you dropped me in the middle of Norway, I would be able to get back home," he said.
Turk has even written a short Norwegian-language film script with another student, and the movie is set to be filmed this summer.
The 17-year-old Montville Township resident is part of the Medina Sunrise Rotary club's youth exchange program.
He left last August, and is staying in Molde.
"It's about the same population as Medina, but it's a lot more compact," he said. "It's on the side of a mountain."
During a Skype interview Friday at a restaurant, Turk said just the beautiful views made the trip worth it. He said it was possible to see 218 mountain peaks from the city of Molde.
"In Norway, you can turn 360 degrees and no matter what direction you face, it will look great," he said. "It's like a painting."
Turk said being in Norway has allowed him to explore creative pursuits more freely, like the comedy and script writing. He hadn't done stand-up comedy before, but figured, "Hey, I'm in Norway, why not?"
The film he's written is called "Troskap," which loosely translates to "Faith." The film will be a drama about a 16-year-old boy whose parents have died. He said the idea behind the movie is, "one year after a tragedy happens people begin to lose sympathy."
Ralph Waite, a longtime Rotary member, said the goal of the exchange program is to get students acquainted with other countries and their cultures.
"It's not just a vacation, it's an education," he said.
Through the exchange program, American students can travel foreign countries, and Rotary members also host foreign students.
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I would like to implement a mental poker protocol in a secure fashion. How should I go about that without (preferably) infringing on the Mental Poker Framework patent?
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Unfortunately, if you want advice on a specific patent, I'm afraid you are most likely going to need to consult with a lawyer. The odds of getting reliable authoritative advice over the Internet are... not so great, in my experience. Generally speaking, this site focuses primarily on technical questions (which are answerable by many in the community here) rather than legal questions (which few here are experts on). Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.


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Evaluating Security ROI from the Threat Actor's Perspective
Evaluating Security ROI from the Threat Actor's Perspective - We Have Finite Resources...We Can Not Protect Everything! Consequences: Value & Replaceability. With the breach -a-week over the last two years, the key determinate was nothing YOU did... but rather was WHO was after you.Why ROI and ROSI have failed us. Return on Security Investment (ROSI) created as a well intentioned way to apply risk metrics to ROI. Adversaries care if *they* can get a return on investment from an attack, not you.
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Ashlee Wygonik Receives National Recognition On and Off Basketball Court
Sophomore Ashlee Wygonik (Agriculture major; Port Vue, PA/ South Allegheny) has received national recognition for her efforts on and off the basketball court. Wygonik, who led the Lady Lions Basketball team in scoring and rebounds, was named to the USCAA's All-American and National All-Academic teams. Wygonik is the first Penn State Greater Allegheny student-athlete to receive these awards. For more information, visit http://www.theuscaa.com/.


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Susan wrote: "I have been looking for a pea green shift dress for
ages now, the problem is, i don't want one with a belt, as i'm really tall
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Oooh, this was a tough one. I'm sure it's the color that gave you such a challenge, because shift dresses are seemingly everywhere. And that elusive pea green gave us quite the challenge as well.
1. Heartbreaker Fashion Spy Dress ($60) - The sleeves might exclude it from your 'shift dress' category, but it still has the basic shape and is extremely retro-sexy!
2. Tahari ASL Women's Sheath Dress (£60)
3. Hedda Clothing Shift Dress ($100) - We know what you're thinking. . .This isn't green! It isn't, but Hedda Clothing will happily make this style in your color choice if you convo her on Etsy!
4. Jax Linen Shift Dress (£45) - It's also worth checking your local TKMaxx if you've got one. It's shift dress season there right now!
5. Hobbs Mere Dress (£69) - If size 14 is sold out online at Hobbes, check everywhere the brand is sold, including John Lewis and House of Fraser, where it's the same price.
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Dan Henning called a great game on Monday night. I guess 27 years of experience really paid off! He ran variations on the base offense and the wildcat; he ran traps, had counter plays (where the fullback and running back started one way - into the blocking flow - and then cut back to run the other way), and generally got everyone involved in the creative flow of the game.
Here was one that surprised the heck out of me. Late in the game, Miami is driving. Henning calls a moving pocket. Basically, the entire line moved right to create a pocket in a different place from which Henne threw.
The object was to slow down the rush that Ryan was throwing at him on 3rd and 10.
It was exceptional in design, and the execution was nearly flawless.
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There was one call earlier in the game that I felt was poorly thought out from a play calling perspective.
To set the scene, first the previous play (and a great play call). Screen pass to Ricky. Smiley with a great block and then runs another 40+ yards trying to set another block.
Next play. The Dolphins call a run to the left. So after asking your left guard to run 40+ yards down field, you then call a run in his direction instead of a play that might give him a little more of a breather.
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I am reading Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, and a prominent character in the story has the name of Betteredge. My question is (since I like to imagine the dialogue in a British-English book as if spoken with a British accent), would "Betteredge" sound more like "Better edge", more like "Bedderitch", or is it pronounced completely differently?
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Most British speakers would neither voice the '-tt-' nor devoice the final '-dge'. They might however syncopate the middle syllable. So
/'bɛtəɾɛdʒ/ or /'bɛtɾɛdʒ/ (better-edge or betredge)
They might raise the final vowal a little
/'bɛtəɾɪdʒ/ or /'bɛtɾɪdʒ/ (better-idge or betridge)
Proper names in English come from such a wide array of sources, and go through generations with relatively random dialects. The result is that you pretty much cannot make any assumptions about how they are pronounced. You have to listen to the person say their own name to know for sure.
Being the cradle of the language, England is the worst about this. How the same name is pronounced can change radically multiple times just within a few city blocks in London.
For this reason I really don't worry about proper pronunciation in situations (like reading works of fiction) where there's no way for me to find out the right answer. Just come up with your own and move on.


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Goodwin joined the staff prior to the start of the 2013 season and helped the Dawgs to a 9-4 overall record and a win in the Fight Hunger Bowl. Last year, he helped coach a UW offense that scored the fourth-most points and passed for the sixth-most yards in school history.
A four-year letterwinner as a wideout at the UW, Goodwin played at Washington from 2006 through 2010, missing just one game during his four seasons.
His best season came in 2008, when he was the Huskies' leading receiever, catching 60 passes for 692 yards, earning the UW's team MVP (offense) and Sports Radio KJR Player of the Year (Offense) at the team's postseason awards banquet. Two seasons later, when the UW went 7-6 and beat Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl, Goodwin caught 44 balls for 530 yards and four scores. Goodwin won the Don James Perseverance Award after the 2010 season.
A 2006 graduate of Antelope Valley High school in California, he earned a bachelor's degree in history from Washington in 2010.
Following his college career, Goodwin was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Denver Broncos, spending parts of 2011 and 2012 there before agreeing to an injury settlement with the club early in the 2012 season.
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For a college student, Spring Break is typically full of sandy beaches, wild parties, and mass consumption of alcohol. But for six other students and myself it was an extremely different experience. As members of "Introduction to U.S./Mexican Border Issues", a class offered every spring semester at Heidelberg College, we were able to see Mexico behind the façade we accept as Americans.
Before leaving for the border we had readings and films that attempted to prepare us for the culture we would soon be face to face with. The focus of our trip would be the Maquiladoras and colonias. "The maquiladoras—foreign-owned assembly plants clustered along the Mexico-U.S. border—are one manifestation of a worldwide trend in which industries production is concentrated in areas of the world with an abundant supply of low-wage labor". We would not only be traveling to a different country, but to an entirely different world.
Day one:
Our first stop is to meet up with Ed Krueger near Brownsville, Texas. He has been working independently with migrant workers since the early 1970's. He describes his relationship with the workers as "low profile". He simply aids them in developing better communication with their unions, and making them aware of Mexican labor laws and regulations. The goal of his mission is to make the workers self-sufficient. He hopes to achieve this by unifying the workers, and making them aware that they have the ability to change their conditions.
The conditions of some of these foreign owned companies (including familiar names such as Converse, Vtech, and Panasonic) are both unhealthy and provide sub-standard income. "In a 1996 survey of maquiladora employees in Tijuana, the Comite de Apoyo Fronterizo Obrero Regional (CAFOR) found that 70 percent of workers reported excessive mucus formation when working in fume-ridden areas; 58.55 percent suffered from upper airway irritation; 57.65 percent complained of sore throats; and 76.5 percent experienced chest pain. These workers also endured rashes (62.5 percent) and hair loss (66.7 percent)". These are only the most prevalent health risks. There is also risk of severe burns and the severing of fingers or limbs. On top of these health risks, "most maquila workers are earning the equivalent of $25 to $50 a week in an area where a pair of pants cost $15 to $20".
After driving through a Maquiladora Park in Reynosa, Mexico, Ed was our guide in one of the villages, or colonias, where the workers lived. The first thing that catches you off guard is the over abundance of garbage and sewage filling the crude dirt roads. I was already beginning to feel I was not prepared for this portion of the trip. The homes that filled this village were made of scarp metal, with blankets for doors, and were barely the size of my garage at home. They were also lacking electricity and running water. These streets had no names and the houses no addresses, but rather each house had the names of the occupants painted on a post outside. At this point I was beginning to feel very uncomfortable. It was the first time in my life that I felt like the minority, and I felt I was imposing and gawking at some sort of exhibit. I realized later my classmates and I were the ones on display.
I was hesitant to interact with the workers, since I spoke little Spanish, but I was also eager to learn of their experiences. Their hospitality and positivity surprised and comforted me. The first thing each family did when we walked up was pull out chairs or anything suitable for us to sit on. Keep in mind they had been on their feet all day in the conditions previously described, and they were worried about us having a place to sit down. I thought they would be depressed and negative, but they were all positive about their futures. This village was made up of squatters, meaning they had no property rights to their land, but they all seemed optimistic that they would soon have a place they could call their own. This was all a brief introduction as to what we would be experiencing in the following week.
After visiting the colonias, we sat in on an informal meeting of maquiladora workers, organized by Ed Krueger. There was an immediate sense of cooperation. Along with Ed, the workers are supported by DODS, an organization dedicated to making the workers aware of their labor rights. But the struggle is long and hard for these workers. One woman said she constantly inhales lead dust because a vent, which is supposed to be directed outside, was broken and now blows the debris back into the factory. As a result she and her coworkers bleed from their noses and mouths. Another woman, who was pregnant, had sores and blisters on her feet from standing for fourteen hours straight. The workers also informed us they were only given a ten-minute break throughout the day. In this time period they were to get their paychecks (if necessary), wash their hands, use the restroom, and eat. This was the only time during the day these activities could take place. The workers are put in a difficult situation when they are not trained properly on certain machinery. They risk their jobs and their lives by performing a task they are not properly trained for, but they also risk their jobs for not doing what they are told. A statement heavily used among the workers was "we are not machines". The only positive thing to come out of the meeting is that they have hope and drive to make a difference, through the motivation of Ed Krueger.
Day Two:
Today begins with Port Isabel Service Processing Center in Port Isabel, Texas. This is a detainment center where illegal aliens are held until they go through hearing to determine if they are allowed to remain in the United States. Half of our class could sit in on immigration hearings, and the other half would tour the facilities. I chose to sit in on the hearings. (I would later find out this was the realer side of the center. The tour turned out to be a diluted propagandistic means of making this whole process seem less cruel).
The first person to take the stand was an 18-year-old boy that had been in detainment since July. His bond was $2500, and to have it lowered he would have to have a letter from family or friends in the U.S. This is the typical proceeding of each trial. They must prove they have a reason to be in the U.S. or they are deported back to their home country. Two men then took the stand. One was read all the regulations and paperwork he would have to go through to remain in the U.S., and seemed willing to do so. The other man, after hearing the work ahead of his comrade, chose to simply be deported.
I was personally surprised at the organization of the court hearings. It seemed very casual, and almost nonchalant. I even noticed the judge peering out the window for a good five minutes while the person on trial was presenting his case. Along with all of this I found it strange that the entire proceeding was carried out in English. I couldn't understand this because the only people in the courtroom who spoke English were myself and my classmates, and the lawyers. To make things even more difficult on those in detainment, paperwork that was to be filled out was printed in English and was to be filled out in English. There was one man who hadn't even spoken to his own lawyer because of the language barrier. I was aware that this was the United States and they were illegal immigrants, but it seemed like a lost cause for them even to plead their case.
After a frustrating day in court, we then traveled to the Ozanam homeless shelter in Brownsville, Texas. This was a sort of haven for those crossing the border illegally, most of them entering the U.S. with nothing. The shelter, at the time of our visit, housed about 60 residents, but has a capacity for around 80. Residents may remain at the shelter for a maximum of 30 days. They are offered clothing, meals and a place to sleep. There is a male dormitory and a female dormitory, which consist of a large room lined with bunks. They also offered family housing, which was a very small room with 3 bunks and a private bathroom. Those staying at the shelter are responsible for washing their own linens and clothing, as well as helping to prepare daily meals. Along with sleeping quarters, the shelter also had a classroom with two computers. They teach children a typical elementary education, and teach adults computer skills as well as English.
When speaking with these immigrants, we were able to get first hand accounts of their journey to the United States. This was the first time on the trip I realized how little Spanish I knew, and how much I wished to communicate with these people. I would have to settle for Heidelberg's professor of Spanish translation. Many of the residents spoke of "coyotes", when making their trek across the Rio Grande. These were people who promised immigrants a safe journey across the border for a "small fee" (usually around $1200). On most occasions, the "coyotes" would take the money and direct the travelers right into the arms of La Migra (the border police). La Migra is also a threat at the shelter. The residents are safe within the gates of the shelter, because of its religious affiliation, but the border police patrol the area waiting for someone to step outside the safety of the shelter.
One man, who had just arrived the previous night, discussed his journey from El Salvador. He had lost everything in the recent devastating earthquake, and came to the United States to find a new life for his family. Another man from Columbia was fleeing the violent atmosphere of his country. He said it was difficult for people from his country to come to the United States because Columbia is almost always affiliated with drug cartel. He said he had given up on his own life, but wanted to make a better life for his children. I began to question why we would keep people from fulfilling the same dreams we have for our own families and ourselves.
After hearing these stories it was a little frustrating to then go to a park overlooking the border, to watch La Migra on duty. They drive up and down a dirt road that follows the path of the Rio Grande River, waiting to catch illegal crossers. Two men, on the Mexican side of the river, walked casually along the bank. Perhaps they were plotting their crossing for a later time, or perhaps they were merely antagonizing the border patrol. It was interesting to view the different perspectives of us, on U.S. soil, and them on Mexican soil. I stood there thinking how a narrow river separated to entirely different cultures and lifestyles. And I came to understand the soil that I stood on freely, was exactly what they dreamed of. It was a very humbling experience to say the least.
Day 3:
Today was our day of service in Nuevo Progresso, Mexico. We would be cleaning up a clinic that Sister Evaline Hug, of Tiffin, Ohio, had helped to establish as part of neighboring church, Nuestra Senora de la Merced (Our lady of Mercy Church). Throughout the day we hung insulation and drywall, to help make this small clinic fully functional for the surrounding village. I actually spent more time interacting with the people of the town who had come to watch the renovations take place. This was another instance where I truly wished I knew more Spanish. Here I was face to face with this extraordinary culture, and I could communicate with them on a personal level, although the opportunity was there. However, I learned the international language is a smile and a laugh. I was able to have a few laughs myself while trading tongue twisters, both in English and in Spanish with some children (with the help of our Spanish professor). Although it may seem ignorant to say, it was amazing to see these children play with each other and with us just as I did myself as a child. That was something that didn't need translation. At the end of the day it felt good to have accomplished something, both cleaning of the clinic and the camaraderie that was made.
Day 4:
Today was supposed to be a day of relaxation, with a trip to the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge and shopping later in Nuevo Progresso. However, I am a very observant and analytical person, so throughout the trip I was constantly absorbing everything this trip had to offer. Mentally…there were no days of relaxation. The trip through the park seemed like any other, until we ventured down a path marked "do not enter" (hey, sometimes you have to take risks to truly experience a different culture). The path ran down along the bank of the Rio Grande River. We approached a clearing and the entire area was filled with deflated innertubes and abandoned clothing. This had apparently been an area where many people had crossed the border illegally. This made all the stories we had heard a harsh reality. Walking back I couldn't help but wonder how many people had successfully found their way to the U.S. on the very paths we were walking on.
The hardest part of the day was supposed to be the most relaxing. We spent the rest of the afternoon shopping the main strip of markets in Nuevo Progresso, Mexico. Crossing the border itself was the hardest part. Instead of driving we would be walking. As soon as we reached the Mexican bank of the Rio Grande, we were in an entirely different world. We could see at least a hundred beggars standing beneath the bridge with poles holding milk jugs stretched to our reach. When we finally reached the end of the bridge there was a family standing against the fence. All I saw was a little girl's hand poking out of the fence and I heard her say "aqui!"(meaning "here!"), but I had already given away all my spare change. I knew from that moment I was unprepared for the rest of the day. The entire street was filled with merchants on both sides. I had heard someone say you could bargain for items in this sort of environment, but it was the merchant who did the bargaining. I would pick up a trinket or piece of jewelry, look at the price, and set it down. They immediately lowered the price, and kept lowering it until I gave in. I felt horrible paying less than their original offer because I knew it was their means of survival. This was a place where cultures clashed; greedy, superficial Americans bargaining the meals off these merchants' tables. Along with the desperate merchants, there were mothers nursing their babies waiving a plastic cup, and children, only four or five years old, all alone, begging for change while carelessly strumming an out of tune guitar. It was an incredibly overwhelming experience and I felt incredibly out of place. I was beginning to miss home more and more as each day passed.
Day 5: Our final day
Today we would receive hope, despite these desperate situations, that there are people who are making a difference. We visited Project ARISE (A Resource in Serving Equality) in Las Milpas, Texas. This is a nonprofit organization founded by Sister Gerrie Naughton in 1986. These are the foundations of their mission:
- They are not trying to create a perfect system; they are only trying to serve the people
- They strive for personal contact
- ARISE does not do for the people what the people can do for themselves
- They strive to be hospitable
- They first observe, then analyze, take action, and celebrate their achievements
There main focus was on the women and children of the colonias. They offer a wider variety of services in hopes to pull these women out of the depression of their living environment while their husbands are working. Some of their programs include:
- Early childhood program (3-4 years)
- English language development for children and adults
- Literacy in Spanish for adults
- Culture programs: ballet, arts and crafts, and storytelling
- Children youth activities
- Driver's License coaching
- Transportation for families
- Personal development sessions
One of the largest problems in the colonias is lack of self-esteem. They are raised with the belief that their life in the colonia is there only option. Some of the women who come to ARISE have said even their husbands tell them they will never get out of the colonias, they will never pass their driving tests, they will never get an education, and they will never find a life of their own. Four women proved that belief wrong to us today. They were from the same situations, but they came to ARISE for hope, and are now members of the staff.
They told us their stories of coming to the United States. They all fought the same battles to be where they are today. They explained to us the courage it took for them to break away from their families, who would rather they accept their life in the colonia, to come to ARISE each day. One woman is now fulfilling her dream of being a teacher at ARISE, although it may be on a smaller scale. She hopes to later attend college and get her degree. Just to have these sort of dreams would have been impossible without ARISE. These women now believe they can achieve anything.
The rest of the day was spent traveling to small colonias in the area to deliver coloring books and crayons to children. It was amazing to see how fast word of mouth spread in these villages. Before we knew it, we would be surrounded by 20 or 30 children. The excitement on their faces was something, once again, that needed no translation. I realized how much I take for granted while driving through this village. A man was drilling a well in his front yard, while his daughter clutched her coloring book to her chest. The children were so overjoyed for this everyday American item that costs less than a few dollars. Our last day definitely put a lot of things into perspective.
I would say I learned more on this trip about American culture and myself more than anything. I was more depressed by the behavior and attitude we hold as Americans, than by the desperate situations of the people of the border region. The two biggest things I learned from this trip, and that I would encourage everyone to learn from this article is to never take anything for granted and to always take advantage of the opportunities we have as Americans. The conclusion of our trip is supposed to be spent reflecting. Today I am still absorbing all we experienced, and I'm sure I will be for some time. I know I will be eternally grateful that I was able to take this trip, and have a learning experience of a lifetime. I bet you Spring Breakers can't make that claim.


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There is a part of me that would love to see WWE fall to ****. Sadly 90% of wrestling fans are schmucks who will still support vince's horse **** product. Would love to see Punk and bryan say **** wwe and go to TNA.
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There is a part of me that would love to see WWE fall to ****. Sadly 90% of wrestling fans are schmucks who will still support his horse **** product. Would love to see Punk and bryan say **** wwe and go to TNA.
If that happened WWE would just buy TNA to get Bryan and Punk back under their thumb.
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If that happened WWE would just buy TNA to get Bryan and Punk back under their thumb.
A) That would suggest WWE actually gives a **** about either one of those guys. They don't. The list of guys who you could consider bigger than the company at this point begins and ends with Cena.
B) To all the people saying Punk and Bryan would be smart to leave for TNA, have you ever tried to watch TNA's show? If you think WWE is poorly run and makes awful storyline decisions, watching TNA will give a stress migraine after 5 minutes (and I don't think it's because they have so much less talent than WWE does).
The best thing to happen in the monday night wars was it forced WWE to develope young guys. Right now they either forgot how that works or they don't have any personalities in the young guys. They keep trying to sell me Roman Raines as the next break out star. Well that is great and all but Roman Raines can't talk on the mic so he will never get anywhere. The guys who can talk and do a little bit of wrestling are the superstars.
Nobody but HB knows for sure. You pretty much know nothing....like Knownothing would like to say.
Man this year's hall of fame is loaded. Just added Lita to Ultimate Warrior and Jake the Snake Roberts.
Football fans and WWE fans will like this. Don't click spoiler if you want to wait - it'll probably be a bit before we see this happen.
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I see a huge difference between texting and seatbelt laws: if you're not wearing a seatbelt you don't suddenly become more dangerous to other people on the road, it's your own life (still in countries where health care is public and were there's a no fault system for accidents implicating a motor vehicle, there can be an argument there too).
I agree that people who distract themselves unnecessarily while driving are a bigger hazard in general. Don't know what the laws are like where you live, but the way they work here is that they don't/can't pull you over for not wearing a seatbelt.....unless you've commited a moving violation. In essence, the seatbelt law is reduced to being nothing more than a revenue enhancement gimmick. But, as I indicated elsewhere, perhaps it may be a behavior that initially has to be targeted in order to suppress its growing frequency. Frankly, though, police pull people over for DUIs based on erractic driving and could probably justify doing something similiar w/cell phone users. Chances are that the judge will believe the officer over the citizen if it goes to the courtroom. Even if you do manage to win in court, the experience may be enough of a hassle (lost time, etc..) to discourage future phone use while driving (or at least the purchase of a hands free system).
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I really really love the pictures, but I am disappointed about your explanation why you wouldn't draw male characters in princesses' outfits - that you didn't like men in women's clothes. What's the difference? Why the double standard? How is it cool to have women wear "men's" clothes but not the other way around? Do men wearing costumes that are associated with women threaten the idea of masculinity?
100 years ago, people were disgusted and outraged by seeing women in pants= "men's clothes"; police arrested them and other men attacked them for wearing pants. It were women who fought for the right to also be able to wear these clothes, and today, it is normal. Where are the men who want to conquer and occupy dresses and skirts? Men who DO wear those outfits are often attacked and beaten up, sometimes killed - by other men. It is outright DANGEROUS for men to walk around like this, and often people make the (wrong) assumption that they had to be gay. Masculinity must be very fragile if a man in female-labeled clothes is such a no-go for most, and people (mostly men) express their disgust by it.
But pictures can be so powerful. They can change conceptions and opinions and open one's eyes. The ones with the princesses in the guys' outfits are all of this. Therefore, it would be as powerful and maybe more so, - in fact, empowering! - to see the princes in dresses.
Problem is only a small handful of them have any romantic interests at all.
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Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case.
On March, 15, 2010, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with St. Lucia.1
Macroeconomic outcomes have weakened significantly. Real GDP is estimated to have contracted by 5.2 percent in 2009, reflecting a sharp decline in visitor arrivals and construction activity related to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). For 2010, the outlook is for a nascent recovery, supported by higher advance hotel bookings and additional flights to the island. However, there are a number of downside risks to the outlook, including lower than the anticipated recovery in St. Lucia's main trading partners and FDI inflows. Inflation has declined from 7.2 percent in 2008 to 0.6 percent in 2009, and is expected to remain in the low single digits over the medium term.
The fiscal position is estimated to have deteriorated sharply in FY2009/10, mainly on account of an increase in public expenditure. The primary fiscal balance is expected to shift from a surplus of about 2.3 percent of GDP in FY2008/09 to a deficit of about 2.5 percent in FY2009/10. On the revenue side, the cyclical decline was somewhat contained by a 20 percent increase in the prices of petroleum products in August 2009 and the adoption of a flexible energy-pricing regime. The implementation of other revenue-enhancing measures (including a value-added tax) envisaged by the authorities at the time of the approval by the Executive Board of the Rapid Access Credit – Exogenous Shock Facility, however, has yet to occur. On the expenditure side, the authorities undertook a large public works program, resulting in capital expenditure increase of about 3 percent of GDP. The fiscal deficit is expected to be financed mainly by issuing securities on the Regional Government Securities Market (RGSM).
External imbalances have narrowed in 2009. The external current account deficit is projected to have declined by about 11 percentage points of GDP in 2009, reflecting lower FDI-related imports and smaller food and fuel import bills. Stayover arrivals are projected to decline by 6 percent (year-on-year), but discounting of hotel room rates and lower spending by tourists would result in a larger decline in tourism receipts. In addition, remittances are projected to decline in line with employment opportunities in migrant host countries. At about 20 percent of GDP, the estimated external current account deficit is close to its historical level and consistent with identified external financing.
In 2009, credit to the private sector continued to decline and financial sector vulnerabilities have increased. The contraction in economic activity has resulted in a significant slowdown in private sector credit demand. At the same time, the weakening economic environment has led to an increase in non-performing loans and deterioration in other bank soundness indicators. While domestic bank lending rates have remained broadly stable, there are signs that conditions in the RGSM have tightened recently. The collapse of the Trinidad and Tobago-based CL Financial Group with operations in St. Lucia and other Eastern Caribbean Currency Union countries has highlighted weaknesses in the regulation and supervision of the non-bank financial sector.
Executive Board Assessment
The Executive Directors observed that the global downturn had led to a marked decline in St. Lucia's economic activity. The economy is recently showing welcome signs of an emerging recovery, although downside risks remain given the continued dependence on tourism. While the expansionary fiscal policy has helped to mitigate the adverse impact of the global crisis and protect the most vulnerable segments of the population, it has raised the fiscal deficit and public debt ratios significantly.
Against this backdrop, Directors welcomed the authorities' commitment to implement a credible fiscal framework to achieve fiscal sustainability, while minimizing adverse implications for growth and employment. They encouraged the authorities to move ahead with the implementation of the planned value-added tax in 2010, and to embark on a measured withdrawal of discretionary spending, including by scaling back capital spending. Over the medium term, Directors emphasized the need to prioritize and improve the efficiency of public spending, to contain the growth of the public wage bill, and to seek more concessional financing in order to create fiscal space for higher targeted social spending and to absorb external shocks.
Directors noted staff's assessment that St. Lucia's exchange rate does not show clear evidence of an overvaluation. Given risks of lower FDI inflows, and to increase the growth potential, they encouraged the authorities to move forward on structural reforms, including improving the business climate and boosting labor productivity.
Directors observed that the financial system has been hit by both the economic downturn and the collapse of the CL-Financial Group. Given the deterioration in bank soundness indicators, they encouraged the authorities to closely monitor the financial sector and take action as needed. Directors welcomed the authorities' regional approach to the strengthening of regulation and supervision of nonbank financial institutions and the resolution of the insurance company BAICO. They looked forward to the adoption of the Financial Services Regulatory Act and related legislation. Directors commended the authorities' intention to keep the SDR allocation as a pooled liquidity buffer.


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Rebecca Walker Blog
Jaipur Literary Festival: Rebecca Walker on Why Art Matters
A wonderful weekend. We are looking forward to #JLF in #Bhutan!
Between the Lines: Reading at the Schomburg
The novel. Now being adapted for film with Madonna directing.
"I want to say Adé reads like a memoir, but this heartbreaking, poetic tale of romance versus reality does more than that: it reads like truth. Lush, sensual, seductive, Adéis written with as much love as the story it tells."
–MAT JOHNSON, author of Pym
"In luminous, dreamlike prose, Rebecca Walker has written more than a love story: Adé explores the difficulty of fleeing one's origins, of relinquishing privilege, even in the name of love."
—DANZY SENNA, author of You Are Free and Caucasia
"Brief and intense, Adé is a surprise gem—a sensuous feast of food, sex, danger and the life of awakened senses from one of our most celebrated nonfiction writers. A lyrical novel as timeless as Marguerite Duras' The Lover."
—MOLLY PEACOCK, author of The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72
"If you've ever dared to love outside the predictable geography of your origins, or wished you had, this beautiful novel will grab your heart and not let go."
—BLISS BROYARD, author of One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life-A Story of Race and Family Secrets
NPR: My Review of Widow Basquiat
Much has been written about Jean-Michel Basquiat, the childlike savant and startlingly brilliant neo-expressionist who went down in a ball of heroin, cocaine and rage before his prime — before he could see his paintings sell at Christie's for $49 million, before he was compared to Picasso and de Kooning. Since his death in 1988, he has been immortalized in countless museum catalogues and even more Ph.D theses, and rendered larger than life on the silver screen by none other than the king of the eighties art world himself, Julian Schnabel.
The Future Masculine in the Work of Kehinde Wiley: Brooklyn Museum Catalogue Essay
Black Cool in development for docu-series at BET with Akil Productions
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The Paris Review: My Window on the World
But whatever my mood, I always love the light beyond this window. I love the quiet. I love my two empty chairs, sentinels awaiting their visitors, open to the promise of more. I feel at home in this spot, on this road to the small village of Hana, on this tiny piece of rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I love the rain that pours down, thunderous and crashing, before sunshine, harsh and stunning, pierces through once again.
Sugar In My Bowl.
I am sooo loving being a part of this incredible collection.
From Kirkus:
Award-winning writer and high-flying sexual truth-teller Jong (Love Comes First, 2009, etc.) partners with 28 collaborators to create this fierce and refreshingly frank collection of personal essays, short fiction and cartoons celebrating female desire.
The approaches to the still-taboo topic of feminine sexuality—at least, for women writers seeking approbation from the literary establishment—are, as Jong notes, "as varied as sexuality itself" and as exuberantly diverse as the contributors themselves. They range from such emerging talents as Elisa Albert and J.A.K. Andres to such luminaries as Rebecca Walker, Eve Ensler, Susan Cheever, Anne Roiphe and Fay Weldon, and represent a multiethnic, multigenerational swath of some of the finest women writers in the United States.
Marie Claire: My First Girl
GROWING UP, my sexuality, like for many, was shaped by the culture I lived and breathed, and heterosexuality was pretty much the only meal served at the Table of Sexual Orientation. Ken and Barbie did not have lovers of the same sex. Denise did not fret to Daddy Huxtable about her girl crush. From the moment I grew breasts, people asked whether I wanted to be a lawyer or an astronaut when I grew up, and if I had a boyfriend. No one, not ever, not once, asked if I had a girlfriend. If they had, I might have considered the possibility. But they didn't, so I didn't, either. The thought never crossed my mind. Which might explain why, the first time I fell in love with a woman, I was completely thrown.
I was 21 years old, four months out of college, three months out of a relationship with a boy I thought I was going to marry, and employed at a nonprofit. One evening, I was working a fundraiser at an awards ceremony for women in the film industry. A possible suitor, male or female, was as far from my mind as the salt lakes in the Himalayas. And yet, as I strode across the exquisitely appointed room toward yet another philanthropist, I bumped into a very beautiful woman.
She was a celebrity who shall go forever unnamed, but I will say that she was statuesque and confident, and her skin glowed with health, wealth, and carefully applied bronzer. I sputtered and apologized for almost knocking her down. She smiled and touched my arm, but I was mortified and dashed into the women's room. I had never felt attracted to a woman before. It was as if my whole view of what was sexy, sensual, and possible had just turned on its axis.
Come on over.
The UK Guardian: My Post-Capitalist Utopia
Lambda: Black Cool
Rebecca Walker: Black is Cool
Rebecca Walker is cool. The origins of her cool aren't located in some unquantifiable "swag," nor is it strutting down a Fashion Week runway, cooing in a music video, or residing in a pulpit oratory whose cadence conjures protests of Southern trees bearing strange fruits. It isn't even found in her casual Soho clothes or Noxema-clear complexion. Rebecca Walker's cool stems from a mind, talent, experiences bred on both coasts (New York City and San Francisco, to be exact), and a pedigree of accomplishments that puts to shame many a slacker son and daughter of the 1%. Through her latest edited collection, Black Cool: A Thousand Streams of Blackness, one would say that Walker cites the ground-spring of her cool in a residence both less and more obvious, depending on your embrace of stereotype and level of social consciousness—her Blackness.
Biracial, bisexual, but far too multi-talented to be binary in any other way, for two decades Walker's tackled the tough subjects of identity, community, power and justice placing her own life and experiences at the center of her discourse and making "the personal political" mean more than a lefty slogan. Considered one of the founding mothers of Third Wave Feminism and a leading multimedia voice from the Gen X generation, the Yale graduate and long-time contributing editor of Ms. has demonstrated all the modern renaissance woman can be. Whether working punditry at CNN or MTV, touring the college lecture circuit to inspire a generation of fresh, eager-eyed feminists, or writing the books they're all talking about, including: To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism; Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self; What Makes A Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future and Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After A Lifetime of Ambivalence, the multiple award-winning Walker's proven herself more than her last name.
The Sovereign Self: TEDxLUND
Afar Magazine: Spin the Globe, Bulgaria
Spin the Globe: Rebecca Walker in Bulgaria
AFAR chooses a destination at random—by literally spinning a globe—and sends writer Rebecca Walker on a spontaneous journey to Bulgaria.
In the course of a single impromptu trip, the web went from being very virtual to very real. The shift began instantly after my destination was revealed, 48 hours before departure. I was headed for the unknown; what else could I do but send 140 characters to thousands of people I had never met? "Hey Tweeps! What's good in Bulgaria?"
Within 20 minutes I received a direct message from Petya Kirilova-Grady, a Bulgarian feminist blogger living in Tennessee who said she'd be thrilled to show me her Bulgaria. Her list, sent a few hours later to my personal email, included places for me to go, things to see, people to meet, and food to eat. My trip had officially begun.
W. S. Merwin. My neighbor.
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.


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I have this problem where I can't download packages in my android sdk and eclipse. Apparently these programs can't fetch the repository. For android sdk, it always gets stuck on fetching the addon_list.xml file. It then becomes unresponsive. Eclipse just can't get the list regardless of how long I waited.
This is the same problem I'm having: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9035773/eclipse-android-sdk-wont-fetch-update-connect-or-do-anything-useful
I've done most of the solutions I found online but none of them works.
I've isolated the problem though. I dual boot windows, but my windows can get the files from the android repository. So I thought it's ubuntu, but I've tried running android sdk at school while using ubuntu and I was able to get the repository files fine. That also eliminated my wireless driver and the sdk as the source of the problem.
The router is what I think the source of the problem. Is there some sort of setting that needs to be enabled or disabled for this to work properly? I've been experimenting but none really worked yet and I'm afraid to touch other settings. I was thinking that there must be something wrong with how my router interacts with the OS.
So what should I do? Really need this to work for a project.
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Our daughter called us at 3:00 A.M. this morning and delivered a their 3rd child and our 4th Grandbaby a BOY at 6:30 A.M. this morning. He was 6lbs 12 oz and 19.6 inchs, born 3 weeks early.
Packing the better half up to head down there (San Antonio) now and I'll try and see if I can get off work to go or maybe this weekend. I'm short officers and a dispatcher (this sucks)
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'The new black' may be a rather hackneyed term used perpetually in fashion to hail the next color or trend du jour. But The NWBLK for Noise Pop is the heralding of something new, exciting and much needed - Noise Pop the festival is a lifeline for Bay Area bands to find their audience in a time where many are leaving the city, and The NWBLK will provide a space for artists to hang, share the amber ale and perhaps network the way the techies do.
Noise Pop 2014 will for the first time in its 22 year history have it's own headquarters at The New Black or The NWBLK. It's a design warehouse space in the Mission that Noise Pop will take over from Feb 25 to March 3 and kit it out to host film screenings, a bar and lounge area for happy hour events as well as live shows and a Sunday market.
In an interview with Examiner.com, Noise Pop co-producer and founder of Zeitgeist Artist Management, Jordan Kurland explains: "We have been doing Happy Hours at Benders for a while now but that was always one of the challenges you have in doing a city-wide small club festival where on any given day you may have 7 to 10 shows in a bunch of clubs. It's good that we now have a centralized location not only for festival goers but for the artists as well."
So while TheNWBLK will no doubt be a cool space to see a film, have a beer with friends or catch a live show, for the bands it also has the potential for relaxed, industry mixers like that of other festivals such as SXSW's Fader Fort which Kurland admits they were inspired by.
It seems like such a great idea and a seamless fit for a festival like Noise Pop that begs the question, why this was never rolled out before? The truth is, it's an idea that they have put forward in the past but the realities of having a small staff, mean they are mindful of what they can achieve and more importantly, execute well. Bay Area music lovers are already familiar with Noise Pop and its partners, who pride in putting on top rate festivals such as the Treasure Island Music Festival.
Noise Pop which started 22 years ago when Kevin Arnold booked five acts in San Francisco's Kennel Club and gave it the umbrella term Noise Pop, has grown to be the country's longest independent music festival. Kurland who joined Arnold at the helm, 5 years later, bears a tired look of bewilderment as this fact is repeated to him.
Perhaps it is the challenges that they have surmounted to keep the festival going or just the sheer passage of time? Kurland has revealed in past interviews that Arnold once told him that after 5 years, he would be done with Noise Pop to which Kurland's sentiment at the time was that when Noise Pop hits 20 he would be done.
Well, thankfully both are still around today. "It's nice that after so long we can still have things like Noise Pop headquarters at TheNWBLK to debut at the festival. And be excited about it." Kurland also shares what acts he is excited about at this year's festival, what gets his goat and why Noise Pop will endure the test of time.
Why did Noise Pop decide to take-over a large warehouse-design space (The NWBLK) as oppose to a bar or any other kind of space?
This has been a concept that we've discussed for a few years now. We wanted a venue that we could use for different types of events. Noise Pop HQ will be hosting live music, DJ sets, film screening, creative discussions, and an art show. We picked NWBLK because we love the space, it's just a couple blocks from our office and they, like us, focus on presenting tasteful and unique events.
What in your opinion defines ' an independent music festival'?
To me it's the approach of the festival. An independent spirit in programming and ethos.
20 was big and celebratory and it was reflected in the billing. 21 was about scaling back and focusing on smaller acts and clubs. And 22?
It's in the classic Noise Pop mold a ton of small club shows and a couple of bigger ones at The Fillmore and Regency Ballroom, very much in line with what the festival offers. Honestly, it's been a long time and what drives me and Kevin – not only does it feel like this Festival is needed but what's going on naturally. We are in an exciting time when we can see live music all the time and we can construct it in a way which reflects a certain taste and curative process. On a personal level, most of my time is in the management of my company (which includes managing the careers of Death Cab for Cutie, She & Him and The New Pornographers) and Noise Pop allows me to creatively manage my time differently.
Why is Noise Pop still vital today?
The joy of Noise Pop is being able to have local artists come and play at small clubs when it is a difficult time to be an artist in the Bay Area. We have lost a ton of artists to LA or Portland or where-ever… To have an artist like The Fresh & Onlys – when they performed last year they were a Bay Area band and now their lead singer, Tim Cohen has in this last year moved to Arizona, so it's a bit bitter sweet for us. It's sad that even artists who are attaining some level of success cannot afford to stay in the Bay Area.
So what can be done?
The city needs to step up and figure out a way to make it easier, much easier, for artists to live, work and create here in San Francisco. Artist outreach, grants, low cost rehearsal and studio space, etc. If the city can incentivize tech companies to be here, which I understand, then they should also figure out a way to do the same for the creative community. Right now upstart artists can't afford to be here which leads to an erosion of that community. Therefore bands that are starting to see some success also go elsewhere so they can be a part of a robust music scene. It is more dire of a situation than it was in 1999-2000. We are losing a big chunk of the creative community which is the very reason that so many of us, including the technology industry, settled here in the first place. The creative community is a big part of the soul of the city and we are losing it.
The festival is now large enough to command a following, yet small enough for you to still experiment with the events and this year, there's a foray into theatre with the play "Hundred Days"?
We have done comedy in that past and we have always said Noise Pop is a celebration of independent art and culture, as much as the music. So we're trying theatre which will be interesting.
What about a Noise Pop Tour, that idea has been bandied about, is that something that could still happen?
That's still something that we kick around. We haven't really pushed it. We are a small staff and have to figure it all out first. And the time has to be right. But we've launched Treasure Island a number of years now, and we've been adding and expanding. Now that it is a stable thing, we are eye-ing what's next besides our core festival properties.
How do you rate the success of Noise Pop each year - ticket sales, publicity generated for bands, the amount of sleep you missed out on?
All of those things, really. This festival is a labor of love for us so our biggest driver is knowing that attendees, bands, and the music community value what we are doing. I joke that we are the 'little indie festival that could' but in reality we are so fortunate that after 22 years people still want us to keep going.
In the spirit of Noise Pop, any shout-outs to some under-the-radar bands to look out for this year?
"I am very excited to see Cold Cave. I liked their last record and I haven't seen them live. Matthew Dear Presents Audion: Subverticul the presentation has a lot of production and it's going to be exciting. And Mark Kozelek who has a new record coming out, is always good. Mattson 2 – it's jazz at its core but they're great. Others include long standing Bay Area bands like Vetiver and Paper Cuts as well as a newcomer from Australia, Courtney Bartnett."
For an updated Noise Pop 2014 schedule and tickets or festival badges, please click here.
Noise Pop 2014 kicks off officially next Tuesday, Feb 25 with an opening party at The NWBLK featuring Shepard Fairey and Jello Biafra. It will offer six days of more than 60 events including its popular Noise Pop Film Series. As some tickets to individual shows have been sold out, it is best to opt for the general festival badge ($150) or the Super Fan badge ($350) which gives you entry into the sold-out shows as well as badge-only Happy Hour events, among other goodies.
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Bryce Dallas Howard is First Celebrity Endorser for Kate Spade
Bryce Dallas Howard will be the first celebrity ever featured in Kate Spade advertisements.
"The Kate Spade offer came up and I kind of lost my mind. There's something about that brand that, from a young age, I really, really, really connected with. It was always the thing I wanted for Christmas… since I was 15 or 16," Howard told WWD.
The Twilight Saga actress added, "It represents a lifestyle that I always really loved."
Howard can be seen in a series of neon-colored ads that have her on a bike, on roller skates, and screaming into a bullhorn (see right).
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
Fisher Is Likely To End Up With The Rams
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
All good things must surely end
- I got an email from someone at the Dolphins - before they started their own site - telling me how much they loved my site, To paraphrase, It's witty and we enjoy reading it
- The invite to the first "web weekend" (hosted by THE Miami Dolphins) was special, and the experience was great
- I got a chance to interview Larry Csonka. I enjoyed that thoroughly.
- Mike and I had a 90 minute interview with John Offerdahl that was so much fun.
- I got to meet and build a relationship a number of people who are associated with the Fins, including some former players
- Deadspin once did a review of blog sites for the NFL and called me "quite obviously insane"
- The dolphins have gone from good, to mediocre, to bad, to mediocre again.
- It seems clear that this team has a curse on it of sorts. Different owners, different leadership, different players. And still no success.
- We saw teams fall apart (anyone remember the December swoons?), some monster victories, and the agony of defeat - a lot (62-7 anyone? How about 1-15?)
- The passion died along the way for a lot of reasons (not the least of which was the performance ON the field); today this feels more like work
- The team takes itself too seriously, and I get the sense that the fans are in tune with that - when I say anything that strays from the positive outlook (even when its RIGHT, people react, rather than laugh)
- I have trouble even watching the games these days. The dolphins just don't matter to me the way they once did.
- The Dolphins have taken many of my (and other sites') good ideas and incorporated them into their website, so the uniqueness is lessened. (but then imitation is the highest form of flattery, right?)
- There are a number of good fan sites out there now, and even a few humorous ones
- And though records are made to be broken, Dan Marino's passing record falling made me realize just how elusive greatness is.
- DolphinBlog.BitchinDave.com (where this is posted) will continue to exist - a few other fans expressed an interest in posting comments, or "guest blogging." Rather than letting the blog simply disappear, we'll try that and see how that goes. But this is *my* last entry. Any further content will be from the new bloggers, and they are responsible for whatever appears. You'll see their names on the entry. I'll "moderate" it, so if there are issues, please let me know. Also, if you're interested in writing, drop me a line. I'll be glad to give you a chance.
- MiamiDolphins.BitchinDave.com is no more. I redirect automatically to the blog. But the "good" content has migrated to links on the blog. Want to listen to old podcasts, read about my grandmother, check out the entrants in the wanker hall, or ogle cheerleader pics from the past? Be my guest!
- Twitter and Facebook will remain as they are for now - any blog posts will be repeated there. I'll decide what to do with them later.
- As for me - about the time I stopped doing a Dolphins podcast, I shifted my podcast focus - I am currently producing a podcast about Disney World that I feel passionate about, and take pride in. If you're a Disney fan, you might enjoy it. Feel free to check it out at http://disneypodcast.net
- App development will continue for me. Please check out my iPhone apps at http://bitchindave.com/apps.
- And yes, I like oatmeal cookies
Monday, January 02, 2012
"The Times They Are A Changin'"
Absurdities abound
Chad henne wants to come back to Miami. Says he'll be around until they kick him out. Only he hasn't actually been around in 6-7 weeks - he is in California rehabbing. Which in itself is weird if you think about it.
Jeff Ireland apparently is safe. Or maybe not? Miami reached out to cowher and he declined to be interviewed, and reportedly he was miffed about the Ireland situation. (among other factors)
Carl petersen had dinner with John gruden and offered him the job (per Ross' request). Gave him full control over personnel. Gruden declined.
They're on to fisher who expressed reservations about coming to Miami but accepted an interview.
Ireland, for his part, released a statement that sounded odd and contained several words used incorrectly. Gotta love that someone took the time to review it.
Sunday, January 01, 2012
What a tease
What a tease this team was. Looked moderately good on paper and started off poorly only to play well down the stretch.
And a tease in the game today: espn reported on their mobile site that carpenter hit a 65 yard field goal at the end of the half. Wow that would have been cool. A record setting kick. Only it was 58 yards, 3rd longest in team history.
Later, it appeared JT went out on high note with a fumble return for a TD. How awesome. Only the receiver was down by contact.
And that's the kind of day - and season - it was for Miami.