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During the holidays, whilst I was sojourning in that strange land that used to be America (I don't know what it is now; some kind of cheapjack, funhouse-mirror simulacrum of itself, I guess), I missed one of the most important stories about the ongoing war crime in Iraq to come down the pike in a long time: As the Iraqis See It, by Michael Massing, in the New York Review of Books.
There are mountains of commentary (making Ossa like a wart) that I could and should say about this devastating article, but time and circumstances are against me at the moment. So let me just urge you to run to the piece and read all of it for yourself. If you want to know what's really going on in Iraq — behind all the ludicrous and sickening conventional wisdom about the "success" of the "surge" (which we see now consists largely of two main elements: bribing and arming Sunni extremists, and bombing the hell out of civilian neighborhoods) — if you want to know what the Iraqis themselves think of what America (or the cheapjack, funhouse simulacrum of America) has wrought in their native land, then get thee not to a nunnery but to the NY Review of Books, pronto.
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The story is based on the remarkable blog by Iraqi employees of McClatchy Newspapers. These are people happily working with Americans, English-speaking, not sectarians, not insurgents; yet the picture they paint of the American occupation, and its effect on the daily lives of ordinary Iraqis, is damning indeed. As Massing notes:
The overwhelming sense is that of a society undergoing a catastrophic breakdown from the never-ending waves of violence, criminality, and brutality inflicted on it by insurgents, militias, jihadis, terrorists, soldiers, policemen, bodyguards, mercenaries, armed gangs, warlords, kidnappers, and everyday thugs. "Inside Iraq" suggests how the relentless and cumulative effects of these vicious crimes have degraded virtually every aspect of the nation's social, economic, professional, and personal life.Massing tells of the confrontation that McClatchy blogger Sahar had with American troops who invaded her home one night. One soldier was astounded to find American science fiction books, John Grisham novels and even video games like Grand Theft Auto on her shelves:
She told me that when the American soldier discovered Grisham and Asimov on her bookshelf, "He was totally amazed. When he looked at me, he didn't see an Iraqi woman in a hijab, he saw a human being. You can't imagine the look on his face—there were tears in his eyes. He was inside a house, with love, a family, like anywhere else."Massing's conclusion cuts to the heart of the matter: the relentless humiliation of having foreign soldiers occupying your native land:
The incident, Sahar said, gave her a sense of the extent to which the Iraqi people are unknown. "People in America look at pictures of Afghanistan and think Iraq is the same," she said. "They think Iraqis are people who are uneducated, who are Bedouins living in tents, tending camels and sheep." Until the plague of wars began devouring the country, she went on, Iraq was the leading nation in the region, with a highly educated people boasting the best doctors, teachers, and engineers. Americans, Sahar sighed, "don't know this. And when you don't know a person, you can't feel for them, can you?"
She continued: "How many have been killed in Iraq? Bordering on a million. If you realize that these are real people with real feelings who are being killed—that they are fathers and husbands, teachers and doctors—if these facts could be made known, would people be so brutalized? It's our job as Iraqi journalists to show that Iraqis are real people. This is what we try to advance through the blog."
The question on everyone's mind, of course, is whether the Americans should stay or go. On this, [McClatchy bureau chief] Leila Fadel told me, her Iraqi staff is divided. Some of them think the Americans should leave at once. While withdrawal would probably result in a bloodletting among Iraqis, they believe the country would be better off if this happened sooner rather than later, thus avoiding the effects of a prolonged occupation. Others think the Americans should stay and fix all the destruction they've caused over the last four and a half years. But, she adds, the staff's views on this keep shifting: "They're at war within themselves—on whether they want the Americans to stay or not, and whether they think that staying would make things any better. It's something they go back and forth on."There is much more to the article. Again, get on over there and give it a read.
Whichever side they come down on, however, there is one feeling that predominates: humiliation. "They remind me of this constantly," Fadel says. "Americans believe their soldiers are working for the greater good. The Iraqis don't see that. They see people who are here for their own self-interest—who drive the wrong way on roads, who stop traffic whenever they want to, who they have to be careful not to get too close to so that they won't be shot." When one of her staff members wrote the post about the student who threw a rock at a US soldier, Fadel says, she asked him, "Why did this kid throw a rock at a man with a weapon, a helmet, and a vest? What was he thinking?" "These are foreign soldiers," he replied. "This is an occupation." That, Fadel notes, is a very common feeling among Iraqis. "Everybody I speak to thinks this. They don't have power in their own country."
UPDATE: Tom Englehardt has more on the obscene claims of "success" for Bush's surge. As Englehardt rightly says, the pro-surge PR that has now become conventional wisdom is not just putting lipstick on a pig — it's putting lipstick on a corpse. You should read the entire piece, but here are a few choice excerpts (see the original for links):
In order to achieve an image of lifelike quiescence in Iraq, involving a radical lowering of "violence" in that country, the general and ambassador did have to give up the ghost on a number of previous Bush administration passions. Rebellious al-Anbar Province was, for instance, essentially turned over to members of the community (many of whom had, even according to the Department of Defense, been fighting Americans until recently). They were then armed and paid by the U.S. not to make too much trouble. In the Iraqi capital, on the other hand, the surging American military looked the other way as, in the first half of 2007, the Shiite "cleansing" of mixed Baghdad neighborhoods reached new heights, transforming it into a largely Shiite city. This may have been the real "surge" in Iraq and, if you look at new maps of the ethnic make-up of the capital, you can see the startling results — from which a certain quiescence followed. Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a longtime opponent of the Bush administration, called a "truce" during the surge months and went about purging and reorganizing his powerful militia, the Mahdi Army. In exchange, the U.S. has given up, at least temporarily, its goal of wresting control of some of those neighborhoods from the Sadrists.
...All of this, including the lack of U.S. patrolling in al-Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni insurgency, plus the addition of almost 30,000 troops in Baghdad and environs, has indeed given Iraq a quieter look — especially in the United States, where Iraqi news has largely disappeared from front pages and slipped deep into prime-time TV news coverage just as the presidential campaign of 2008 heats up.....
—not without being known as the man (or woman) who "lost" Iraq. Forget the Republican presidential candidates — Sen. John McCain, for instance, has said that he doesn't care if the U.S. is in Iraq for the next hundred years — and think about the leading Democratic candidates with their elongated (and partial) "withdrawal" plans. Barack Obama, for instance, is for guaranteeing a 16-month withdrawal schedule, and that's just for U.S. "combat troops," which are only perhaps half of all American forces in the country. Hillary Clinton's plan is no more promising....
What comes to mind is the Roman historian Tacitus' description of the Roman way of war. He put his version of it into the mouth of Calgacus, a British chieftain who opposed the Romans, and it went, in part, like this:
"They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger, they loot even the ocean: they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor; neither the wealth of the east nor the west can satisfy them: they are the only people who behold wealth and indigence with equal passion to dominate. They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace."
Folks, it's obscene. We're doing victory laps around, and dancing upon, a corpse.
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roy palumbo said:
ridiculous comparrison
The United States is at war with Fanatical Fundamental Islamo Facists who would destroy every aspect of 21st century life and return us all to the 14th century if they get their way.
We have taken the fight that they began to all corners of the globe in order to decimate their numbers and render them incapable of making war.
That is the description of Victory. And it is an ugly thing to watch.
I would suggest to those in Iraq during this post war stabilization period, who want the US Soldiers to leave sooner rather than later take things into their own patriotic hands and destroy those who are responsible for us having to be in their country. If they want those homegrown murderous factions gone and they also want us gone, they are mentally incapable of a decision making process. As long as they continue to go about their marketing and bartering in their day to day lives while our soldiers protect them and their newfound democracy, we will remain.
Perhaps the writer of this article should stop whining and create a neighborhood organization that would work to pinpoint those living amongst her and her neighbors and call the authorities to apprehend them.
She watches young men throw rocks at our soldiers and doesn't lead police to his home.
So, She can go to hell.
Mescalero said:
It's always a letdown to find ignorant drivel following an excellent piece of writing. I'll fight to death for the rights of the brainwashed sheeple to repeat Whitehouse press statements and O'Reilly's paranoia, but god, it gets tiring. Thanks for this window into Iraq.
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Soul-Patrol: Paula Deen, Culture Banditry, Sonny Corleone…A teachable moment?
BOB DAVIS No doubt you all have seen the furor that has erupted over Paula Deen and her recent testimony in a lawsuit that has been published all over the Internet? My initial reaction when hearing about is was something along the lines of; "Well, it doesn't exactly surprise me, she's no different than a whole lot of people in the United States…" Then I thought about the different ways that Lil Wayne and Emmett Till might react to Paula Deen and her commentary? Then I saw Black American CBS News commentator Nancy Giles on TV making the following statement: "…and on top of everything else she STOLE all of OUR recipes anyhow" That's when the light bulb went off over my head.

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Katie Couric went on a date with Larry King more than two decades ago.
Right. King was still dating when he was 86.
Couric said on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Thursday she went on an awkward date with fellow talk show host Larry King, according to Us magazine.
"He picks me up from my apartment, and he was driving a Lincoln town car," the 56-year-old Couric said. "We go to this Italian restaurant. They put us right next to each other like they do all the men and their 'nieces,' and he ordered veal poached in chicken stock because he had just had a quadruple bypass, which was hot."
Couric said King, who is 23 years her senior, asked her out when they were both living in Washington, D.C. and she was just 30 years old. At the time, she was open to going out on dates with anyone because she believed they could be learning experiences, regardless of outcome.
It's a good thing she never went out with Ted Bundy.
"We're driving home and I see we're going over Memorial Bridge and that's not the way back to my apartment," she told Kimmel. "So I said, 'Larry, where are we going?' He goes, 'My place.' And I was like, 'Oh, mother of God. Oh God.'"
Cue creepy music.
"We walk in and it's covered with proclamations like 'Larry King Day' and keys to every city in the country. That was sexy," she said. "So we sat there and what can I say? He lunged. ... the whole situation was out of a bad Lifetime movie."
"Incredible," Kimmel managed to say between chuckles.
Couric (who married Jay Monahan in 1989, he died of cancer in 1998) said she ended the evening cordially.
"I said, 'Larry, you are such a nice man, but I would like to meet someone a little closer to my age,'" she said.
"Yeah, someone not from the Paleolithic era," Kimmel said.
According to Us, King, now 79, told Kimmel about the date in 2009, but in his version of the story was obviously less creepy. King said they couldn't go back to Couric's place because her roommate, Wendy Walker (who later became King's executive producer) was home.
"Nothing happened with Katie and I," he told Kimmel.
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Roger to play his third final this year
Roger defeated Russia's Mikhail Youzhny 6-2 6-3 to reach the final of the Dubai Open. Roger will now either meet second-seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal or unseeded German Rainer Schüttler in Saturday's final.
Although the score suggests it was a straightforward match for the Swiss top seed, a strangely inconsistent performance from Roger in the first set meant he fell behind in his first four service games. He had to fight off four break points in the opening game and although he broke to lead 2-0 when Youzhny netted a weak backhand, Roger faced another three break points in the next game. He also fell behind 0-30 in his remaining two service games of the set but often followed up by playing sublime tennis to pull himself out of trouble.
After holding off an eighth break point when leading 4-2, Roger broke again for the set when Youzhny made a forehand error. The second set was more comfortable for Roger as he raised his game and often ended rallies by changing the pace and forcing errors from his opponent. The outcome of the set still hinged on just one break of serve. That came in the seven-deuce second game after Youzhny failed to win any of five game points and then double-faulted on break point.
"Overall, I played well in the match," Roger commented. "I'm very happy, I just tried to win it."
Nice match! I wish that you would do something like Leyton Hewitt with his "Come on". That would make the match a little more interesting!
Or you could add something funny like you did with Andre in the U.S.Open final.
Good luck to you in today's final.
Take it easy, you'll win today, too and take the title. I'm cheering for you from Tokyo on the Internet.
Go, Go Roger and win more titles this year.
Hope the Muses will always be with you.


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It's not often that the smoke alarm goes off in Terra Bistro's dining room, or that a group of firemen tromp through the chic restaurant during dinner service on a Saturday night, but that's what happened last year, thanks to a few green vegetables and some very hot pans. Cookbook author Martha Rose Shulman was browning some Brussels sprouts during a Vail Restaurant Month event at the restaurant last year when she set off the smoke detectors. She had decided last minute to add the dish to the class lineup, the theme of which was Thanksgiving side dishes.
But there was no harm done, and "everybody at Terra Bistro took it in stride," Shulman said. That's only one of the many reasons Shulman likes collaborating with the restaurant, she said. She returns to Terra Bistro on Friday and again on Saturday for two events. It's the third year in a row she's visiting Terra Bistro during Vail Restaurant Month.
"I have such a high regard for the chefs (at Terra Bistro)," Shulman said. "When a cookbook author gives her recipes to a kitchen to duplicate they don't always come out the way the author thinks they should; but that has never happened at Terra Bistro; Kevin, Michael and the crew know exactly how to season and everything is always spot on. And of course I love Kevin's food. I also find the crowd very congenial, always ready to ask questions and they make the evening lively."
Vail's special events coordinator Sybill Navas attended Shulman's class last year and said she was so inspired by the food, her and her husband ended up recreating the meal the following month.
"We cooked every one of those side dishes with our Thanksgiving dinner," she said. "It was awesome, but it was a tad stressful. We really stuck our necks out making four new dishes, but the food was delicious. She had some very lovely recipes - quite elegant and pretty simple."
Healthy food with big flavor
Shulman writes a recipe feature on nytimes.com entitled Recipes for Health, and is the award-winning author of more than 25 cookbooks, including "The Very Best of Recipes for Health," "Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes from the World's Healthiest Cuisine" and more. Her food draws largely from the cuisines of the Mediterranean, inherently healthy food with big flavors.
And Mediterranean food is just what diners will be enjoying at Friday night's event, which has sold out the past two years.
"This year I've fallen in love with this Mediterranean menu, which has become my fall back dinner party menu, and I wanted to share it with the people who come to my classes at Vail," Shulman said.
As with most of her food, vegetables will play a starring role. Shulman will prepare three Mediterranean salads, including a Moroccan carrot salad; a farro, herb and tomato salad; and a roasted beets and beet greens salad. The main course is a hearty fish chowder with potatoes and black kale, followed by raspberry rose sorbet for dessert.
"It's four recipes that will not be difficult for the guests to duplicate at home," she said.
New this year, Shulman also will host a lunch program on Saturday that focuses on preparing healthy picnic fare. After watching Shulman's demonstration, attendees will take a guided hike with Vail Vitality Center professional coach Abby Ruby and then enjoy the picnic lunch prepared earlier.
"I've lined up a chard frittata, a quinoa tabouli and a vegetarian spring roll for that one," Shulman said.
If attendees can walk away having learned one new skill, that's all that Shulman can hope for.
"I always feel that if you learn one new skill that changes your cooking life - it might be something as simple as cutting parsley with a scissors - you've taken away something important from a class. In addition, of course I want people to go home and make the recipes I'm presenting, and be inspired generally to cook, because healthy eating really begins with cooking for yourself."


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SAN JOSE -- A murder of crows blackened the spotless white examination table -- a dozen gape-beaked birds, each in its own zip-locked body bag, tagged and ready for testing one recent day.
Their deaths weren't much of a mystery: Vector control workers immediately identified the primary suspect that knocked the crows from their perches, a prediction that came true when the first results arrived minutes later. Crimson streaks that appeared on test strips confirmed suspicions that West Nile virus had struck again.
"We're seeing more than in all the other years," said Mike Stephenson, the disease surveillance specialist with Santa Clara County Vector Control who swabbed the beaks of the crows to check for the deadly virus, which is carried by mosquitoes and also poses tremendous risk to humans.
"We've had other busy years, but not like this."
As of July 10, the county logged 286 infected birds; that's nearly 60 percent of the positives counted statewide and more than three times the number found in all of 2013. At this time last year, positive hits could be counted on one hand. Once the birds' infection is confirmed, workers then seek to zero in on infected mosquitoes, which are more difficult to track.
Local and state officials can't pinpoint a reason for the high numbers, but they are worried about what the dead birds portend for the county's residents. The California Department of Public Health cited conditions such early warm temperatures and a lack of rainfall as possible boosters.
"That certainly seems to be one of the factors," county vector manager Russ Parman said of the drought. He said that while it seems counterintuitive -- less water should mean less mosquito breeding -- it actually has the opposite effect.
"Birds and mosquitoes are in closer contact because they come together at the same watering holes," Parman said.
Fogging worries
Whatever the reasons, Santa Clara County stands out among neighbors. San Mateo County found its first infected bloodsucker in years, which resulted in a mosquito fogging last month. Contra Costa County has seen 10 dead birds and one infected mosquito sample and fogged twice this year. In Alameda County, which hasn't fogged in 15 years, five infected birds have been found and no mosquitoes.
By contrast, Santa Clara County is on track to easily surpass last year's record 13 foggings, with the 10th taking place Thursday. The trigger to bring out the chemicals is a positive virus hit in a mosquito -- the only way to kill the adults is through the spraying -- and they've been getting those hits this year, with 16 so far. Sacramento County has had the most statewide: 76. But at this time last year, there were none in Santa Clara County.
The increased fogging doesn't sit well with some residents, who have shown up to county meetings to voice their concerns about truck-mounted misters spewing poison through their neighborhoods in the dead of night.
"I'd like to know who is advising the county that spraying is worth it," said Jennifer Schmid, a nurse who lives in Sunnyvale. "This stuff is so toxic. Where's the cost-benefit risk analysis?"
That "stuff" used in fogging operations is pyrethroid. Parman said the pesticide has been studied extensively and is a less toxic, synthetic version of the chrysanthemum-based pyrethrin commonly found in dog and cat flea shampoos. He also said that in 30 years of fogging, there hasn't been a documented case of the spray harming anyone.
"It's not known for knocking out anything bigger than a housefly," he said. "We know more about these products going out than we do of what's sold over the counter as herbal remedies."
However, Parman acknowledged that "for folks concerned, that probably doesn't help."
Schmid and others believe that known and unknown adverse effects of pesticides such as the pyrethroid outweigh what they call a rare and usually not-so-severe human West Nile infection. Just over 4,000 cases have been documented in humans statewide since the disease appeared in 2003, with 145 fatalities. Nineteen of those cases were from Santa Clara County, with two last year, although none of those people died. In the Bay Area, Contra Costa County historically has seen the most, with 47 diagnosed cases and two fatalities, both in 2006. Nine human cases have been reported statewide this year, three in both Stanislaus and Tulare counties and one each in Fresno, Solano and Contra Costa counties.
But Deborah Bass of Contra Costa County Mosquito and Vector Control said, "West Nile virus is grossly underreported." She cited a Centers for Disease Control study that showed for every person diagnosed with a severe case, 70 more may have thought they'd just had a nasty bout with the flu.
"We estimate, based on the CDC data, that as many as 350 people had West Nile virus last year in Contra Costa County," Bass said. "They just didn't know it or it wasn't tested for or reported."
Vector control officials say the virus isn't something to sneeze at.
"Even its mild form averages 16 days off work," Parman said. "It's not the common cold. And for a small percentage it gets neuroinvasive -- we're talking encephalitis. It's a very significant disease."
Pesticide paradox
Fogging opponents cite studies that show pesticide exposure can lead to respiratory and neurological disorders; a recent UC Davis study linked use of pyrethroids in agricultural fields with increased incidence of autism in children whose mothers were exposed while pregnant.
"The effect was very mild, and by no means does it show pesticides cause autism -- it's one of many risk factors," said Alycia Halladay, senior director of environmental and clinical sciences with the Autism Speaks advocacy group. "But pesticides are chemicals that are known to be toxic, and if you can control the amount you are exposed to, you should -- especially pregnant women."
Halladay said that as far as a risk assessment, the situation is a paradox.
"We don't know what effect West Nile virus has during pregnancy," she said. "On the other hand, you want to avoid pesticides because there's a small increased risk of having a child with autism after exposure. It's damned if you do, damned if you don't."
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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Advocates and Health Experts Meet to Discuss Vaccine Safety System
On April 11-13, 2010, over 30 individuals from a range of sectors and perspectives met in Salt Lake City to provide thoughtful input on the enhancement of the national vaccine safety system. Named the "Salt Lake City Writing Group", the meeting was convened by the Vaccine Safety Working Group (VSWG) of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC). Invited attendees included Peter Bell, Autism Speaks' executive vice president of programs and services, and Sallie Bernard, Autism Speaks board member and Executive Director of SafeMinds. For the purposes of this meeting, participants were asked to bring their experience and expertise to bear on this issue, but were not asked or expected to represent the official views of their organizations of affiliation.
The NVAC advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on issues of vaccine policy. In 2008, NVAC formed a Vaccine Safety Working Group (VSWG) with two charges: first, to review and provide comment on the Centers for Disease Control's Immunization Safety Office's draft Scientific Agenda; second, to review the current federal vaccine safety system. Specific to the second task, the VSWG is charged with developing a White Paper (for consideration and possible adoption by the NVAC) describing the infrastructure needs for a federal vaccine safety system.
As part of these efforts, NVAC committed to meaningful public and stakeholder engagement. For the VSWG's second charge, that process includes both the recently concluded meeting in Salt Lake City and a meeting of a broader group of stakeholders is expected to take place in Summer 2010 in Washington, D.C.
The accompanying memorandum from the Writing Group provides some highlights of the discussion that took place on April 11-13.


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There's another name in the race for Augusta mayor.
News 12's Jonathan Martin spoke with former fire chief Ronnie Few as he filed an intent to run.
He's no stranger to many in Augusta, once serving as fire chief...but now Ronnie Few is vying for the top job as Augusta's next mayor.
"I could have lived anywhere in the world, but I came back here to Augusta, Georgia," Few said.
Late Friday afternoon, June 2, Few filed a card of intent in the board of elections, officially making him eligible to accept campaign contributions.
Many will remember Few as Augusta's former fire chief who came under fire when a grand jury report revealed he was an irresponsible financial manager.
"I don't worry about the negatives," Few told News 12. "I don't think about it, don't look back. I look at a brand new beginning, an opportunity for someone to come in and make those necessary changes, tough changes, and I'm the person to do it."
Few later worked as fire chief in Washington, DC before stepping down in 2002.
But as mayor of Augusta, Few's focus will be on fairness in government and economic development.
"At the end of the day we will have a city we can enjoy and love here."
And he hopes the changes he made during his tenure as fire chief will help voters see what he could do for Augusta.
"I was able to come in as the new consolidated fire chief and we made those necessary changes. Now we need a change in our government," he said.
Few is the second candidate to file an intent to run in Augusta's mayoral election this past week.
The other is businessman Steven Kendrick.
Incumbent Deke Copenhaver and "Gil" Gilyard have also announced their intent to run.


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Nice Buried Alive to open with, Mike has an off spot. Trey finally gets the names right going into the solos on an ok Poor Heart. The extra solo progression is still in there too. Cavern is early tonight? This one is good not great. Foam was really experimental tonight. They are taking risks in this one and it's paying off for me. I really need more Mike in the mix as they go into a rocking Sloth. Trey has got the true rock vocal going on because of his cold. Rift is on fire, but is still not quite tight in the timing. Stash was played very staccato from Trey's part. The middle section had problems, but there is a great jam. Trey announces Page's homecoming to Dallas before a more controlled Sparkle. Fish misses the start of a pretty good Ice. Creepy middle section tonight and we loose Mike in the climb at the end. IDK is funny with the dedication of Fish's solo. I'm sure they say "DOSE" in the Simpson's signal before a rocking Possum closes up a great first set.
Solid Landlady to open up the second set. Chalk Dust rocks as usual. Guelah was a little weak, but the Asse Festival is spot on. Trey pushes the beat so hard on Pen that they actually fall off during the last verse. Up till then it was on fire. Mike's is good, but the jam sounds very confused after the F part. Simple has not been written yet, of course. Hydrogen was ok. Weekapaug was great! Again taking risks like in Foam earlier, the jam was really good. Hey, then we have a bust out! Jesus makes a return after almost a year and a half and it's very well played. My Sweet One is also good, and then the balls come out. Sloppy ending on the Ball Jam, but whatever... HYHU brings Fish back out to multiple nick names. And I mean every one in the book! Silly band intros and a long vacuum solo on Love You are pretty standard Tubbs antics. Shout outs for Fee fall on deaf ears as Trey starts Coil. This one is ok, we loose Mike in the middle somewhere, but Page beautifully picks up the pieces in the end. Everyone gets shushed for a surprisingly solid Amazing Grace. Good second set overall.
A really rocking GTBT is the lone encore tonight. High energy and well played.
Great show and maybe a hidden gem for those who don't hear a lot of 1993. Definitely check this one out.


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I own some 4e books, sure I play 4e too
I own some 4e books, sure I tried 4e a few times
I own some 4e books, I Never ever tried 4e at all
I own NO 4e books, I play 4e from time to time
I own NO 4e books, I have played 4e a few time
I own NO 4e books, I have NEVER played 4e ever
I did something diffent with 4e, I will explain...
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Thread: Poll about your interest in 4e
Monday, 17th September, 2012, 01:08 PM #21
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I played as part of a playtest group here in NYC. I didn't think it was a bad game but it was during that session where I started to really doubt if I would be supporting this edition.
I bought the gift box and poured through the rules still with a not so sure feeling. Thought to myself maybe it plays different than it reads. Ran a few sessions at my gaming store as part of the D&D meetup an realized that this game was not for me. AT. ALL.
Continued to play 3.5 and then Pathfinder and havent looked back at 4E or WOTC (except for the Castle Ravenloft and Ashraldolon boardgames) ever since.I'm thinking you're totally out to lunch on this one. Find another form of foreplay that doesn't involve 3 hours of explanation and a pocket calculator.
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Monday, 17th September, 2012, 01:29 PM #22
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I have a few 4e books. The one group I thought might like 4e (sharp tactically) had one player that was "meh" on it and another that hated it from the launch. Another group that I play in now gave it the old college try but they are as tactically sharp as a pre-schooler's scissors.... so we had problems to say the least
I'll admit not to being a PF guy, but I could not resist the poll. Basically at the end of 3.5, the DM prep work was killing me (the 2 page stat block of Strahd in Expedition to Castle Ravenloft was the straw that broke the camel's back). So I looked at 4e and Savage Worlds. I did not look much at PF since it really did not address that issue. SW won in a landslide with my groups.
I like 4e - I would play it if that is the only option, but its not the 'go to' ruleset for me (I would say the same for PF, although I do not own the ruleset).
Monday, 17th September, 2012, 02:42 PM #23
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Tried it, hated it, never went back.
Monday, 17th September, 2012, 04:02 PM #24
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I tired 3 attempts; KotS at the time of the 4E launch as DM, A homebrew as a player (Eladrin Ranger/Rogue) and again as a DM for a different group with the Slaying Stone and some Essentials books.
Each time, by about 5th level, I had given up on the game and quit in disgust. Don't believe I will be trying again.
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Monday, 17th September, 2012, 08:02 PM #25
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I chose # 7 as "i owned a number of books, played 4E heavily, and now I am done with it." To go into more detail:
I own a substantial number of 4E books - in fact, I think I own most of the hardback books that weren't a campaign specific book. I own exactly 1 of the Essentials books, and never bought another of them.
I played in three 4E games (one finished at 26th level, the other two ended prematurely (in one case the DM was unhappy with his campaign; in the other case the DM was unhappy with the system)) and I DM'd a 4E game all the way to 30.
The direction WotC went with PH 3 and the Athas books were interesting - it felt to me like advanced fourth edition.
But then Essentials came out, and I found myself going "bleh." My campaign was in low epic tier when Essentials came out, and from my perspective Essentials pretty much marked the end of WotC supporting epic tier content.
My 4E campaign ended in December 2011, and I haven't touched the system since.
Based on WotC's handling of D&D Insider, with such gems as introducing a patch to deliberately break the desktop DM Tools and force us to the online DM Tools that didn't work, and the direction WotC went with Essentials, I have no desire to spend anything further on WotC's work.
My group that I DM'd the 4E campaign with I am now running through Paizo's Carrion Crown adventure path, and I currently play in two other Pathfinder campaigns.
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Wednesday, 19th September, 2012, 07:32 PM #26
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Was very much an AD & D (1E) gamer. I pretty much skipped 2E (in large part due to not gaming). When 3E came out, I moved to that whole heartedly. Then, I had another lapse in gaming.
When I found out 4E was out, I picked up the core 3 rulebooks and was instantly taken aback. I managed to get a few friends to try it, as I thought it may play better than it read, but no, it was not the game for me. I still have only the core three books - I've never made another 4E purchase.
And, of course, when I discovered Pathfinder, I embraced that and never looked back. I can use all my other 3.x stuff and I get to experiance new stuff too.
Those 4E books now do nothing but take up space (but then, I'm loathe to willingly get rid of any gaming books).
Thursday, 20th September, 2012, 08:34 PM #27
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Own 4E books, play in one 4E game and run another in addition to playing in 2 or 3 Pathfinder games. When 4E came out our DM at the time jumped to the new shiny causing the group to break up (only 2 of the 8 continued with 4E). It gives me a totally different gaming experience than the D&D I prefer, but as a game in it's own right i don't mind it.
The reasons I didn't switch over completely were
1) It didn't fix the issues I had with 3E in a manner that I find very appealing and in a number of cases "fixed" things that weren't "broken" (I don't care what a vocal minority on the internet says - it felt to me that these were pet peeves of the designers that were being "fixed").
2) Making the computer tools on line only (and no longer compiling the on line magazines) ticked me off.
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Thursday, 20th September, 2012, 09:01 PM #28
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I bought the core set, all the players handbooks, all the bestiaries and all the Power books.
I have GMed one game for it and hated every second of GMing it.
I would like to be a player in it one day though, think id have more fun.
Thursday, 20th September, 2012, 09:08 PM #29
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We all bought the first three books, prayed that it played better than it read, played it for three months and then before a game session one guy looked at the rest of us and said, "Are we really having fun?" We all realized at that point that we really were not. And we really tried because there were things that were likeable in our eyes with the combat features but there was too much we didn't like.
We played a bunch of other stuff and then when Paizo came out with Pathfinder, that was it. We've been playing it ever since.
Thursday, 20th September, 2012, 10:44 PM #30
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My vote was: own no books, never played.
I heard about the 4e release at my very first gencon. I got the tshirt with the beholder on it. I liked the beholder shirt. I did not like, however, that 4e was coming. At that point, I had been playing 3.5 since it came out, and had several hundred dollars worth of books. I liked the game. I was angry at WOTC, not for wanting to revise their product, but to do so in a way that would invalidate all of the books I already had and liked. As this was swift on the tail of ending the Dungeon and Dragon magazines, to me it felt like a money grab.
The following year, I stood in a long line to get my PF beta book, while Paizo crew were all over the place helping everyone and being generally awesome. I had no plans to buy the 4e book, partially because of feelings about the timing of the release, and partially because the things I had heard about 4e did not jive with the D&D I wanted to play. But I DID want to look at the book and see if it was something I wanted give a chance. Unfortunately, there were no books on display at the booth, and I couldn't find someone to help me. I later learned they had sold out pretty early in the weekend.
As that year passed, there was plenty of stuff to be heard about WOTC, both with 4e and the company in general. Differing opinions of the game, and a lot of dissatisfaction with the company. Stories of poorly bound books that fell apart, the digital initiative that kind of...failed. Various online things that didn't work or had been promised but fell through. The pulling of all the pdfs hugely cheesed me off, as well as all the hullaballoo with the OGL. Basically, WOTC had stopped being a company that I wanted to do business with.
Meanwhile, my group had been playing the PF Beta, and liked it quite a bit. The next gencon, I stood in an even longer line to get my PF Core Book, signed by the designers, and have been playing with it since. I have a bunch of books, all gorgeous, and various bits of equipment. The combat pad is the best initiative tracker I've ever had. The folding wet/dry mat is great. I love the condition card deck from last year (though it's missing panicked.) This year, I was browsing the decks, picked up the Buff Deck, and my eyes got all big and shiny. I took it to an employee and said "My plan was to find someone and tell them that what I would love to see is a card deck with the different buffs and common spells and such...and here it is! YOU MADE ME WHAT I WANTED BEFORE I COULD TELL YOU I WANTED IT." Also, whether at the gencon booth or in the online support, I have never received anything less than stellar customer service.
In short, WOTC created a product that did not suit me, and during that process became a company I preferred not to do business with. Paizo has created a brand that has never failed to satisfy me, service that makes me feel valued, and is a company that I want to succeed, and want to spend my money with.
Final note: I've friends who play 4e as their game of choice, and really like it, and good for them. I've a friend who's played 4e because that was the game available, and he thinks it's a fine game on its own merits, but doesn't have the feel that he wants. And while our group was forbidden to mention 4e in front of one member, who was pregnant at the time, for the sake of the baby, we were just kidding around.


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The problem it seems is my Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (quad core) is not able to transcode 1080P video quickly enough. The CPU certainly has the horsepower to do it, but the CPU usage remains the same whether or not I turn on multicore support. I can see in Task Manager that mencoder_mt.exe is being used.
My next step then was to try AviSynth/FFmpeg which should have good multi-core support. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out the settings which will make my 360 happy. Instead, it always complains that it is "Unplayable Content".
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I am curious how everyone handles this. I know that after a long run (6miles or more) getting back the sodium/electrolytes, potassium you lose during a run is critical to good recovery.
That being said, a good meal with the right nutrients is key too. After a race i typically eat what they provide, be it bagels, oranges, banana's granola bars. I want to add some key protein after the race/run to help aid in recovery. I'm not always starving or really hungry soon after i'm done. I let my body calm down a while first. The problem with that is that the first 30-40 min after a run is critical for this to be absorbed to help aid in recovery. I know that Chocolate milk is a GREAT protein drink to use for just this since food isn't the first thing i think of when i'm done running. I haven't tried it yet, but i'm worried that in drinking the chocolate milk i'll puke it back up being so hot.
How do you all handle this?
Christine94, that is the million dollar question.
I guess there is no right answer to it. Everybody is different so you have to see what works for you. I've done just about all except drinking the chocolate milk (or any milk) after a race because I KNOW I would puke it up. What works best for me is to drink the Mix1 drink which has been provided at many of the races I have run recently. It is nice and gentle on my stomach and it replenishes the body pretty quickly. I will down fruit and bread/bagels and usually stop there. That is enough to get me back on an even keel for awhile. I've seen some races serve hamburgers, pizza and even hot dogs (actually the race that I have been race director of this past year has been serving hot dogs for the past 30 years since it has become somewhat of a tradition). Personally, I am not into the hamburger, pizza or dogs after gutting it out for 6,9, or 13 miles but others must feel differently. Sometimes just eating honey roasted peanuts does the job for me. After an hour or two, I then REALLY replenish my body with a good breakfast or lunch.
Hope that helps!
Chocolate milk is the ticket for me! I never suffer nausea after races but usually I drink a bottle of water and walk around to loosen up and cool down to kind of let my body balance before I eat anything or drink chocolate milk. It's a great recovery drink that makes me almost immediately feel my energy start coming back. If anything once my body cools down the chocolate milk actually makes my stomach feel better. Don't really know about the 30-40 min recovery time but usually I'm good to go 10 - 30 min after I finish a race. One thing of note though on all training runs over 1 1/2 hrs I bring electrolyte drinks with as well as energy bars to keep me fueled during my training runs. In marathons I always drink the electrolyte drink offered on the course and bring Clif bars to keep fueled as well. This keeps me from bonking at the end of a race
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A good smooth pale ale is usually just what the doctor ordered for me.
My personal favorite is sierra nevada. But, I'll try pretty much anything.
Proof positive tonight - had a great 4 mile outing followed by great post race festivities in downtown west chester pa and come home to posting numerous mindless dribble to active.com boards...
Ah, life is good.
I usually find that peanut butter sandwiches and a specialist recovery drink it the ticket. The sports drink contains carbs and protein which will help sustain you until you feel up to eating something more substantial!
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I find that if I stay well hydrated in general, that post race drinks aren't much of a issue. I race almost entirely short distances - 5K's and 10K's. For the first 10-15 min or so afterwards, I drink just water. Since virtually every race is in the early morning before it gets too hot, I don't find immediate electrolyte replacement to be a concern. If it is unusually hot, I can always bring some Nuun or similar electrolyte replacement in my car and put it in the water. About 15 min after race end, I start craving carbs. For me, bagels or powerbar bites work fine. I'd much rather eat my calories than drink them, and I am not a milk person - don't like the taste of milk (even chocolate milk). Later I'll eat breakfast with some reasonable mix of protein and carbs, maybe a muffin or bagel with cheese or yogurt, and some black coffee of course (since I love coffee).
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After a hard workout or a race, it's definitely a good idea to take in some protein along with your carbs. Studies have shown that the ideal ratio for recovery is 4:1 carbs to protein.
Here are a few blog posts that I wrote that might help you.
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How to Recover Fast with the Right Foods
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One of the easiest for me is a Clif bar and water. I've done the chocolate milk thing too with no issues.
GNC sells a recovery product that I use after running, biking and over heavy lifting that seems to work pretty well for me.
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2/15/2011 My journey started at 270l lbs and the with little to no desire to ever run.
4/16/2011 Down over 15 lbs, one 5k under my belt and another coming fast. Maybe this running thing is for me.
4/23/2011 COMPLETED COUCH TO 5K -- By Fall I hope to run a 10K
5/05/2011 Down over 20 lbs. Come on baby keep on falling off.
7/14/2011 Started my 10K training
8/26/2011 Running 5mi and going strong to my 10K race.
9/8/2011 New 5K PR 00:30.45 Current 10K PR 1:07.19
Completed Races/Events:
Scheels Run for Home 5K - April 3rd, 2011 -- 37min 56 sec (12:13 pace) Sleet, Snow, Rain and towards the end Lightening. Air temp 36F FUN
Walk for Babies - March of Dimes April 16th, 2011
29th Annual Sole Burner 5K - May 7th, 2011 -- 34 min 15 sec (11:25 pace)
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I'm with NowIRun4Fun - IPA feeds the inner runner and I dearly love that first sip (usually it's about half a pint's worth of "sip"!) And after careful research and analysis, it turns out that India Pale Ale perfectly matches the protien to carb to je ne sais quoi ratio. A miracle!
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07/29/2012 Marsh Creek Raptor Run 10 Mile Trail Race
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04/29/2012 Lehigh Valley / St. Luke's HM, 1:43:15 (2011, 1:54:20 )
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11/27/2011 Dirty Bird 15K Trail Run, Birdsboro, PA 1:40
10/08/2011 Lehigh Gap Nature Center 10K Trail Run (6.38 miles), 59:20 (10/07/2012)
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Chocolate milk is good because it has some protein and sugar.... But sometimes it does make me a little sick because of the milk... There is a theory that humans should not drink milk after a certain age HOWEVER, what i find works best for the is actually protein powder (preferably chocolate/i like Designer Whey) mixed with a little bit of either water or preferable some strawberry Gatorade... After a workout, its really important to get the protein WITHOUT any fat... because it takes your body awhile to break it down and your body needs the fuel immediately... I love Peanut butter but i usually have that a little after my workout NOT directly after. I will mix it with the gatorade because the sugar will help carry the protein to my muscles quicker and it also helps relplace the sodium, electorlytes, etc... If you can stomach the milk try 1% or skim chocolate milk. And if i Dont ahve any gatorade, i always have dum dums in my gym bag or a banana handy for a little carb jolt. Within the next hour after i workout I will have a meal, usually breakfast as I work out in the morning. Usually consists of some oatmeal, fruit, peanut butter, greek yogurt, and more water. You usually do not need electrolyte replacement/postassium, etc... if you have worked out for less then a half hour 45 mins. Normally your body stores enough carbs to get you through that workout. Anything over that time tho, your definitely going to need to replace your carb stores. Your body will let you know if you need to replace these stores tho, HOWEVER, i always followup with protein to fix my muscles even if its mixed with water. Just use a little bit of water so that way the drink won't taste too watered down... and keep drinking plenty of plain water after. I have been this for the past few months and have noticed a huge improvement in my recovery. Just do some research if you decide to do protein poweder, whey protein is absorbed by the body more quickly then soy. The whey works really well for me, BUT my roommate really likes the soy. Just find something without any fat in it or very low in. If you feel the full scoop of a perticular protein is too much just half it. Hope this helps...
I did my first half marathon last year and repeated the same race/training this year. Last year I was wiped out for the whole day after any double-digit long run, and a friend suggested a recovery drink. This year I drank Myolex (got from the grocery store) after long runs and it seemed to make a BIG difference in my recovery. Easy to drink, never made me feel naseaus. Good luck!
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After I run I drink Heed Recoverite. Far less sugars than gatorade, easily broken down, and dissolves in water completely. My stomache is usually a little sensitive after a run and this has been great for me.
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Yes, i tried via optical connection. I get less features through optical on the ps3. no 7.1 support! and same problem with the DTS.
meskibob, my receiver is very similar to yours!! what is your configuration like? and what do you get on the Denon screen when you play DTS movies?
Also, when i uncheck "keep DTS audio in stream ..." option, i get a "Multi Channel in 7.1" on my Denon! good sound, but not DTS.
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While awaiting Hammond's new edition of the Descriptive Bibliography, and Deagol's update of TolkienBooks.net, some may perhaps be interested in checking the Index: Writings by J.R.R. Tolkien (mostly referencing already available bibliographies) on the wiki Tolkien Gateway.
It's naturally not very reliable (I'm not intending to start a discussion on the reliability of wikis) or complete, but for what it's worth it may be useful to get an overview of especially newly published material (post-2007).
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'The Walking Dead,' Season 3, Episode 10, 'Home': TV Recap
If you watched the last eight minutes of Sunday night's episode of The Walking Dead without flinching, or gasping, or holding your head in your hands and saying out loud "oh, my God, they're gonna eat Rick!" then maybe zombie shows just aren't for you.
If you love this show but were disappointed from time to time by its rough spots, tonight's episode, "Home," paid you back in gold. It may have been the series best episode yet, and the last eight minutes provided enough flat-out shocks to make you forever forget season two's tedium. Nichole Beattie, who wrote it, and Seith Mann, who directed, nailed this one.
While the show was titled "Home," it just as easily could have been called "Time," because this episode really was about time, and how fast it was running out on everybody. The Dixon brothers are wandering in the woods and arguing over which river they're about to cross. The Governor is trying to make nice with Andrea, even offering her leadership of Woodbury. Tyreese's gang is nowhere to be seen; we literally have no idea where they've gone. Rick, for most of the episode, is "wandering crazytown," as Glenn puts it.
The Grimes clan has two serious problems (three, if you include Rick). One is the gaping hole in the prison walls, the one that Tyreese's gang went through. The other is the governor. "He's coming," Michonne says grimly.
"We're trapped between a rock and a hard place," Carol says, and that's the truth of the matter. They can either wait for the Governor's attack, wait for the zombie's to find their way to cellblock C, or run. They don't have much time to decide. "If he's really on his way we should be out of here by now," Hershel says.
But Glenn insists on staying and making a stand. "No more running," he says. He makes one good point: they wouldn't last long with a one-legged man and a baby that screams every four hours. But Glenn's also running on rage over what happened to him and Maggie in Woodbury. He wants revenge.
The Dixon brothers are wandering the woods, bickering, reunited, and hungry brothers, when they hear cries in the distance. It's a baby. There's a family trapped on a bridge being attacked. Daryl leaps into action and helps the family (which doesn't speak English) fend off a dozen or so zombies.
This is who Daryl is now, and it's a surprise to Merle. "You and Sheriff Rick, you're like this now," he says, holding his fingers together. The brothers scrap, and we find out a few things: Merle and Daryl were planning to rob the first camp, outside Atlanta. Pere Dixon beat both boys so savagely, Daryl still has the scars on his back.
Daryl makes the decision: he's going back to the prison. Merle says he can't go there. He nearly killed Michonne, and "that Chinese kid."
"He's Korean!" Daryl yells, correcting a mistake he himself once made. Yes, he's grown.
"Whatever!" Merle screams, bug-eyed, exasperated, utterly waylaid by the grim choices facing him (we love Michael Rooker in this role, by the way).
Time is not the only specter haunting the prison. Rick keeps seeing his dead wife, Lori, in her snow-white wedding dress. He sees her standing over her own grave. He sees her outside the fence. Rick simply unlocks the gate and walks right out to meet her. Rick's losing his mind, and doesn't appear like he wants to get it back.
This Thursday past having been the chocolates-and-flowers holiday, "Home" is essentially The Walking Dead's Valentine's Day Special, and time is devoted to several relationships. Rick exchanging tender embraces with the ghost of his wife. Glenn and Maggie struggling to get past her near-rape at the hands of the Governor. Carol flirting with Axel.
Axel, it's turning out, is a pretty good guy. Albeit his options for companionship are limited, he seems to genuinely like Carol, and in this mad, deadly world, Carol is actually happy. It's an unusual development.
Hershel hobbles down to the fence, to try and talk some sense into Rick. "We need you now more than ever," he says. With his sunken, distant eyes, Rick doesn't look that different from the walkers. He admits he's seeing Lori, and knows it isn't really her. But he won't come back inside. Hershel begs him. "No, no," he says distractedly, and wanders off. At least he's armed.
Carol's looking past the fence, out at Rick wandering among the dead. Axel does the tap-you-on-the-right-and-come-around-left thing. They're chatting, flirting, it's a light moment. Imagine finding love in this God-forsaken place?
Then Axel's head explodes as a bullet rips through his skull. The Governor's arrived, and he isn't issuing pardons. Time's up.
After taking Axel out with a perfect kill shot, the Governor and his men open fire on the prison yard. Carol is pinned under Axel's dead body in the middle of the yard. Hershel is hiding in the brush down by the fence. Carl and Beth are pinned behind a wall. Maggie runs outside with three assault rifles, tosses two to her younger sister, take up a position and opens fire herself.
There's another shooter in a tower. The kids are pinned down. The Governor grins maniacally. He's so pleased with himself he breaks his own rule (never waste a bullet) and fires off a few rounds in the air. The smile and look of satisfaction on his face is sickening (David Morrissey is so absolutely destructively great in this role; we're gonna miss him after Rick finally kills him (you know it's coming)).
This is bad. Really bad. It gets worse. A battered old bread truck barrels toward the prison. The Governor stops shooting. He stops to take this in. Not only is the guy murderous – he's enjoying this. The bread truck crashes through the gates and stops. A second later, a metal gangplank on the back smashes down. All is silent.
Then, they come out. Walkers. Maybe two dozen. The Governor isn't trying to kill the Grimes clan so much as to terrorize it. He fires a few more rounds in the air and takes off. He really is savage.
Rick is trapped outside the fence, surrounded by walkers (attracted by all the noise), and out of ammo. One lunges and pushes him right up against the fence. Another attacks. The zombie's dead face is only inches from Rick, he's holding the other one off with his left hand. This is a show that has not shied away from killing major characters, and if you thought for a second that Rick was actually going to get eaten alive, well, you may not have been alone.
Thunk! An arrow rips through the walker's head, half an inch in front of Rick's face. It's Daryl – with Merle no less – come to the rescue without a moment to spare. Remember in Star Wars when Han Solo swooped in at the last second and saved Luke so he could blow up the Death Star? Yeah, this was better than that.
We're left with chaos in the yard, and Rick's gaunt, furious face.
This thing's just getting started.
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In Their Own Words – 7 Years of Autism
This "In Their Own Words," is written by Kammy Kramer, the Autism Speaks Family Services Community Liaison for the Minnesota Walk.
Autism became part of our world 7 years ago this month – and what a wild ride it's been. Wow, looking back from this vantage point, it seems like a lifetime ago, and in many ways it was. It rocked our world a thousand times over, and set us off on a journey we hadn't planned for and were ill-prepared for.
The early years were heart wrenching and overwhelming. Elliott didn't have language or a way of communicating his wants and needs with us, and struggled with severe aggression – towards us, the general public, and his then infant brother, Henry. There were days that his autism was so big that the symptoms that accompanied his diagnosis seemed to fill every corner of our world.
As time has passed and so much has changed, there is much about the early years that I don't remember. Maybe it is a way of protecting myself, maybe I can't always handle thinking about the heartbreak we lived through and/or maybe I just hit 40 and can't remember much of anything. What I do remember, quite vividly, is the isolation we felt in the beginning years. It hurt so much to see him struggle, and not intuitively know how to help your child.
It was no less painful when our sweet Ada began exhibiting the early warning signs of autism that we knew all too well. While her symptoms have never been as severe as Elliott's, it hurt all over again to know the many struggles and challenges that she would need to work through. It felt unfair – it felt like just as we were finding our way as a family living with autism that suddenly autism defined us. At that moment, it was too much.
Everyone deals with grief in their own way, and has to find their path to acceptance in their own time. Tom and I have followed very different journeys over the course of these 7 years on our way to acceptance. While Tom struggled more following Elliott's diagnosis, Ada's was like a brick in the head for me, and I can't really explain why. Maybe when Elliott had been diagnosed, we were so busy trying to research everything and get him help that I had unresolved grief at the loss of a "typical" life. For reasons I still can't fully grasp, I literally found myself isolating from everyone and everything outside our house in order to process her diagnosis and my grief in the only way I could. It was almost as if I had to allow myself to walk straight through the pain rather than trying to step around it before I could make peace with it. I'm grateful to be in a much better place now, but appreciate that the experience has allowed me to gain perspective on the various struggles we all face.
Enough with the ugly stuff.
Last week, something momentous happened at our house that we've been excited about, but somewhat reluctant to share. Elliott started 3rd grade as a full-time student at a school for the first time in his life. This is such an amazing accomplishment for him – he's overjoyed to have a school to call his own. He so wanted this for himself, and has worked incredibly hard on skills that for most kids develop naturally in order to accomplish this. With determination, he set a goal and made it happen. Like most new experiences, school will certainly have its share of successes and areas for Elliott to continue working on, (it already has as evidenced by today's report card) but we celebrate his achievement because it is his to own. He continues to teach us so much.
Ada is now 4, and is doing amazingly well! Her symptoms at diagnosis were not as severe as Elliott's, and she is responding very well to early intervention. Because of our family situation and our amazing team of therapists from the Lovaas Institute, we identified her challenges very early, and got her the help she needed immediately. Now, at 4, she is making incredible gains, is quite the social butterfly, and is happy and very interested in her world. We love watching her personality develop (most days!) and cherishing the bond that she has established with her brothers.
Then their is our sweet, sensitive, charming 8-year-old, Henry. He's neuro-typical, and holds the middle child position in this family sandwiched between a brother and a sister with autism. As many families with special needs may relate, we've struggled over the years to find balance so that Henry does not grow up resenting autism and the attention his siblings have needed. He's a great guy who found a way to express his unique perspective of the world through his art. It's abstract, of course.
We participated in the Minnesota Walk Now For Autism Speaks, and look forward to having some fun with lots of other families and friends who are part of the autism community. While our journey with autism continues, we are grateful for many things. We will walk to celebrate how far we have come. We will walk because we have a very excited 3rd grader who now has a school to call his own. We will walk for a little girl who has made incredible strides in her young life, loves her brothers, and looks great in a tutu. And we will walk for their brother, the middle guy, who chooses patience and compassion even on his most challenging days, because families are families, no matter what . . .
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October 1, 2010 at 1:33 pm
That's a beautiful story which I'm sure will inspire many moms and families. Bless you for your insight, encouragement and strength. Susan
October 2, 2010 at 7:48 am
I was so touched by your story. Not an unfamiliar one as my family is almost the same. Three children, 2 on the spectrum sandwiching the NT middle child. Although mine are older, I am in awe of your grace, committment and genuine honesty. Your story just makes me wish that we lived closer to you as we are in New York because rather than go through this alone, we could at least share a meal and not have to explain away our children. We could just sit back and enjoy them with all their unique challenges and gifts. Best wishes.
October 3, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Thank you for sharing this!! I've never had to fully deal with autism in my family, but know families that have. (Like yours, as I work with Tom.) Your words are great in giving the understanding, so that I can help those that I know who are going through this struggle. Your hard work is paying off. May God keep you strengthened to continue this journey and be there as you rejoice in each step forward that is gained!! Congrats to Elliot for his hard work to get to a full time 3rd grade class. Keep up the hard work as you are doing a GREAT job!!
October 5, 2010 at 12:12 pm
What an expression of love and committment!! Kammy's writing of anything either gets me to tears of pride or of joy!! I have experienced all of the emotions she expresses in this beautiful writing of their life's experience as she and Tom have gone through these trials. They are committed and helpful to anyone needing encouragement or just an understanding person to really hear their hearts. They are wonderful parents and people and I am so proud of them!! The best of all is I have a wonderful daughter, son-in-law and three beautiful grandchildren that I am so proud of!! Love is a powerful emotion.
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Chelsea Clinton: I Would Consider Running If …
Chelsea Clinton, who works as a special correspondent for NBC News, gave an interview to to NBC that aired Monday in which she talked about her mother's possible plans for a presidential run, and her own potential political ambitions. This was on the heels of an interview with Parade Magazine discussing the same issues.
On Hillary Clinton's prospects:
To Parade: "Right now, I want her to rest. I'm grateful that she had a perfect health report [in February]. And ultimately, I want her to make whatever she thinks is the right decision. I always want to help her in any way I can, because I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother."
To NBC: "I deeply respect and appreciate all of the admiration and respect and gratitude for my mother's service. As a daughter, I very much want her to make the right choice for herself. I know that will be the right choice for our country, and I'll support her in whatever she chooses to do."
On whether she would run for office herself:
To Parade: "I don't know. Before my mom's campaign in 2008, I would have said no, not because of any kind of thoughtful, deliberate questioning, but simply because people have been asking me that for as long as I can remember. I'm grateful to live in a city, in a state, in a country where I strongly believe in the confidence and ethos of my direct elected representatives. If there were a time where that wasn't true and I thought that I could make a disproportionately positive impact, I'd have to ask and answer that question."
To NBC: "Right now I'm grateful to live in a city and state in a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, president and senators and my representatives. If at some point that weren't true and I thought I could make a meaningful and measurably greater impact I'd have to ask and answer that question."


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I'd give it to none the above Dwayne Wade is my choice when he plays good Miami wins
I would say kevin durant. He can make the three, can post, can dunk, and can drive to the basket. He is great on defense to, he doesnt get blocks but he can contest a shot. he can also handle the rock. Hes a beast.
I think the MVP so far this year is a'mare stoudemire because he managed to bring the knicks into playoffs contention by himself. Of course the game of Raymond felton and danillo gallinari has helped, but a'mare in my opinion is the sole reason they are winning again.
D-Wade and LeBron probably won't win because their on the same team. I think Derrick Rose is probably the most improved player, but Kevin Durant would get my MVP vote.
Rose is tearin' it up, but Durant is great on both offense and defense. I believe that none of The 3 Kings will get MVP, as they are sharing the points. Rondo is dishing pretty well, so I don't really know, but I think who deserves is Durant
I think it's gotta be one of these 3.
1) Amar'e Stoudamire
2) D-Rose
3) Kevin Durant
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Being a celtics fan i would have to say that rondo has a good chance at mvp if he practices his jumper, but out of your choices I would say maybe Amar'e has the best chance.
Kevin Durant is the obvious leader for MVP, but look out, OKC is producing another superstar in Russell Westbrook. His numbers exceed almost every other name listed in this discussion. KD and Westbrook are the top Dynamic Duo in the league. How about that Miami?
Manu Ginobili. Give him some love man, hes the best player on the best team
I personally believe it's either Amar'e Stoudemire or Derrick Rose because they both had contributed so much for their team.
Well, record-wise, it'd have to be someone on Boston, Miami, or L.A. But, as far as team improvement, Amare. But, Rose has also contributed a lot without Boozer, and without Noah, so it can be argued. There's a lot of players in the league who have stepped up on occassion. It's not even at the All-Star break yet, so we'll see how it goes over the next month.
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Valdosta, GA - Valdosta State returned from Christmas break to beat Nova Southeastern, 64-54, Friday evening and move to 8-2 on the season. Brittany Ferguson produced a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds while Kourtnee Williams scored 17 points with some timely assists to lead VSU in the victory.
Behind Ferguson and Williams was senior stalwart Sczeny Hartry. Hartry, as consistent as ever, scored 15 points with three three-pointers and went four of four from the charity stripe. Maylisa Johnson was VSU's fourth double-digit scorer with 10 points. She added six rebounds, two assists and a steal.
In addition to her double-double, Ferguson also tallied four steals, three assists and two blocks. Williams came through for VSU in addition to scoring as well, giving three assists, two blocks and a steal. Williams and Ferguson teamed up to spark a VSU run that would put the game out of reach.
After letting Nova Southeastern finish the first half on a 6-0 run to bring the halftime score to 28-22 in favor of VSU, Valdosta State did damage in the second half.
Nova Southeastern pulled within four points, 33-29, on a Jada Buckner lay-up less than four minutes into the second half. Then Williams and Ferguson went to work.
Williams stole the ball from Jessica Russi in the midcourt and raced for a fast break lay-up and drew a foul. On the ensuing possession, Ferguson did the same and made the free throw to push the lead to 38-29.
After Ferguson's three-point play, Williams found Ferguson in the paint for another basket, then gave an assist to Amber Bond on the next possession to make it 42-29 and finish a 9-0 run.
Nova Southeastern was able to finally break the run with a lay-up from Richelle Carach, but Hartry dropped a three-pointer off a Johnson assist, then Ferguson scored twice more to make it 49-32 with 8:47 left to play. The closest NSU would get after that would be within 10 points while VSU built a lead as large as 18.
Valdosta State won the rebound battle, 41-37, which led to an overwhelming advantage in second chance points, 17-6. The Lady Blazers also scored 21 points off turnovers compared to just 13 for the Sharks. Valdosta State forced 18 turnovers with eight steals. Nova Southeastern could only manage three steals.
Sharp shooting from beyond the arc also helped VSU beat Nova Southeastern for the second time this season. Williams finished with four three-pointers and shooting 50 percent from long range while Hartry was three of five from beyond the arc to help VSU finish shooting 43.8 percent from three-point land.
Danielle Robinson and Meixandra Porter led NSU in scoring with 12 points each while Quinessa Johnson tallied eight rebounds. Carach gave out three assists to lead the team.
With conference play fast approaching, Valdosta State will face Palm Beach Atlantic Saturday at 2 p.m. for the team's final tune-up before welcoming Delta State to town at 6 p.m. Thursday.