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It began more than a decade ago with four women who wondered whether the hair spray, perfume and shampoo they were using every day were safe.
Their quest to find an answer led them to their neighborhood drugstores, where they spent hours reading the labels on beauty products. What they read disturbed them: lists of chemicals and ingredients whose names they couldn't pronounce.
This bootstrap effort grew into a national movement -- the San Francisco-based Campaign for Safe Cosmetics -- that has transformed the way consumers shop for personal care items, pushed the cosmetics industry to change the way it makes products, pressured lawmakers to call for more oversight and moved Walmart, the world's largest retailer, to announce a policy last month banning some harmful chemicals from beauty merchandise.
"They really moved the needle on this," Tracey Woodruff, director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at UC San Francisco, said of the campaign. "The way that we think about cosmetics and chemicals has changed because of the work that they did."
After setting up its headquarters in 2004 in the heart of San Francisco, the group tapped into one of the country's most environmentally progressive areas, finding allies among the activist groups here and a political climate that embraced toxic chemical regulations. The campaign launched the first large-scale grass-roots challenge to the country's $60 billion beauty products industry, and in 2005 helped drive passage of California's Safe Cosmetics Act -- still the only law of its kind in the country -- that requires cosmetic companies to disclose to public health officials the ingredients in their products sold in California.
"The fact the (campaign) is housed in the Bay Area has everything to do with the success that we've had over the past decade," said Janet Nudelman, an early leader in the safe cosmetics movement and program director at the Breast Cancer Fund, which shares its office with the campaign.
The Personal Care Products Council, the industry trade group, declined to answer questions from this newspaper, saying in an email the questions "would require considerable time as they cover a multitude of complex issues."
The council's website says manufacturers "utilize the best science and latest available research data to substantiate the safety of a cosmetic product before it is marketed" and comply with guidelines "established by scientific and regulatory bodies around the world." The council says that more than 11 billion personal care products are sold each year, with about 150 reported adverse reactions -- namely skin rashes or allergies -- which it says makes beauty products safer than food or medicine.
Concern about a group of chemicals called phthalates touched off the campaign. Phthalates, a class of man-made chemicals, are common ingredients in personal care products. Even in low doses they may cause early-onset menopause, infertility in males when exposed to the chemicals as babies, birth defects and developmental disorders, according to research from several medical and scientific bodies, including the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and UC San Francisco.
One of the campaign's four co-founders, Jane Houlihan, a longtime leader of the Environmental Working Group, was in her office in Washington, D.C., about 12 years ago when she read a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found disproportionately high levels of a type of phthalate in women of childbearing years. Women were exposed to more of it than men, Houlihan thought, through beauty products.
"I walked out of office and straight to the drugstore and just started reading labels," she said.
Charlotte Brody, a registered nurse who at the time worked for nonprofit organization Health Care Without Harm, joined Houlihan's research efforts, which involved repeated and lengthy trips to the drugstore.
The women "became obsessed," said Brody, formerly of Inverness but now living in Virginia. "The kids are in the car getting cranky, and we were like, 'Here, eat some candy, we're going to read some more labels.'"
Phthalates only turned up on a handful of product labels because chemicals aren't always disclosed. While the Food and Drug Administration has banned a few chemicals from cosmetics, the agency does not test or approve products before they go to market and cannot recall products, leaving safety in the hands of manufacturers. There are more than 12,500 chemicals used in cosmetics, according to researchers.
Brody and Houlihan were joined by Stacy Malkan, of Berkeley, who today leads the campaign's publicity efforts, and Bryony Schwan, who has headed up a number of environmental organizations. They sent dozens of beauty product brands to a lab for testing; results told them that three-quarters of the products contained phthalates.
"We just felt like this was such a violation of women's trust and human rights," said Schwan, who now leads a company in Montana that finds nature-based alternatives to toxic chemicals. "These are chemicals that you are applying directly to your body."
The FDA has said there is no conclusive evidence that phthalates pose a human health risk, citing studies from the Centers for Disease Control, the National Toxicology Program and the Cosmetic Ingredient Review, a research panel funded by industry lobbyists. However, medical groups including the Endocrine Society, Physicians for Social Responsibility and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have warned about exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals such as phthalates.
Phthalates were just the beginning for the campaign. Houlihan spearheaded the creation of Skin Deep, a public database of tens of thousands of commonly used chemicals and beauty products, which revealed that 89 percent of the ingredients commonly used in cosmetics hadn't been assessed for health risks. Today the Skin Deep website rates the safety of more than 75,000 products.
"They have single-handedly been responsible for people going, OK, here's someplace I can find out about this ingredient and what the heck it is," said Shannon Schroter, founder of Grateful Body, an organic skin-care manufacturer in Berkeley. "It's this across-the-board awakening."
Market analysts at the research firm Packaged Facts forecast the U.S. consumer market for natural and organic skin care, hair care and makeup, which during 2005 to 2010 increased 61 percent to $7.7 billion, could top $11 billion by 2016. In a 2011 survey by Deloitte, 57 percent of consumers said that safety was their No. 1 concern when buying personal care products.
Consumer pressure, along with a growing body of science, has caught the attention of policymakers. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., this year put forward a bill that would expand cosmetics regulation at the FDA. The California Department of Public Health is preparing to launch by the end of the year a website listing the ingredients in beauty products sold in the state that contain toxic chemicals.
The women behind the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics have paused only briefly to celebrate.
"Cosmetics are safer now than when we started, and we had a lot to do with that," Brody said, "but until the last skin whitener doesn't have mercury in it, until the last lipstick has no lead, we're not done."
Contact Heather Somerville at 510-208-6413. Follow her at Twitter.com/heathersomervil.
Chemical: Lead
Concern: A neurotoxin that can lead to learning, language and behavioral problems such as lowered IQ. Young children and pregnant women are particularly vulnerable.
Use: Color stabilizer
Where: Lipstick, hair conditioner, hair color for men, face paint for children
The FDA in 2012 found lead in 400 lipstick brands with Maybelline and L'Oreal having the highest content. Of the 400 lipsticks tested, 380 tested above 0.1 ppm, which is the FDA's upper limit for lead in candy. The Maybelline and L'Oreal shades had 70 times more than that.
Chemical: Formaldehyde
Concern: Carcinogen linked to several cancers, including leukemia
Use: Preservative
Where: Formaldehyde-releasing preservatives have been found in shampoos, body washes and baby products. Wet n Wild brand nail polish and some nail hardeners and eyelash glue contain formaldehyde.
Chemical: Phthalates -- a group of chemicals; the most widely used in beauty products are dibutyl and diethyl phthalates
Concern: Phthalates act as a hormone disrupter, affecting the reproductive system. Studies have connected phthalates to infertility, sperm production decrease, premature birth, obesity and birth defects.
FDA: "It's not clear what effect, if any, phthalates have on health."
Use: To prevent nail polish from cracking, to keep hair products flexible after applied to hair, to hold the scent in perfume and as a solvent for oils
Where: Fragrances, soaps, hand and body lotion, shampoos, sunscreen, hair spray, hair gel, hair mousse, deodorant, body wash and nail polish. The Skin Deep database shows about 66 products with dibutyl phthalates.
Chemical: Triclosan
Concern: Linked to changes in hormone levels and increased risk of cancer, especially breast and prostate cancers.
FDA: "Triclosan is not currently known to be hazardous to humans."
Use: Preservative
Where: Antibacterial soap, body wash, shave gel, face wash, deodorant, mascara, blush, eye shadow, hand and foot cream, and about 17 types of Colgate toothpaste. Procter & Gamble, manufacturer of more than 50 beauty brands, pledged to remove triclosan from products by 2014.
Chemical: Mercury
Concern: Toxic to the human nervous system, potentially harming the reproductive and cardiovascular systems.
According to the FDA, mercury "can damage the kidneys and the nervous system, and interfere with the development of the brain in unborn children and very young children. The FDA warns "consumers not to use skin creams, beauty and antiseptic soaps, or lotions that might contain mercury."
Use: Preservative
Where: The FDA has restricted mercury in cosmetics, but it is still found in some brands of mascara, including the brand Love My Eyes, and skin-whitening products. It has been found in creams and soaps made in other countries and sold in the U.S.
Sources: FDA, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, National Cancer Institute, European Commission on Public Health, The National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey, the Personal Care Products Council,, California Office of the Attorney General, Skin Deep database (Environmental Working Group)


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As a full-fledged geezer (I'll be turning 71 next week), I find occasion from time to time to write here about nostalgia in general. But I don't go in for the popular nonsense that the so-called good old days were a whole lot better than current times. They weren't.
Paul Waldman of The American Prospect is out with a GOOD PIECE on this subject:
Three years ago, John Boehner was doing an interview when he lamented, perhaps with a tear peeking its way through the corner of his eye, that Democrats "are snuffing out the America that I grew up ...
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Drama teaches lessons about emotion-charged issues
Published: Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
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Drama instructor Jennifer Treadway always encourages the cast and crew to explore the background of any play she directs at Blue Ridge Community College. But she has added more deliberate opportunities for discussion during production of "The Laramie Project."
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The docudrama deals with emotion-charged issues such as homosexuality, hate crimes and capital punishment — and the positive and negative secular and religious responses to these issues.
The play is based on more than 200 interviews conducted by Moises Kaufman and other members of the Tectonic Theater Company in the wake of the vicious kidnapping and murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student.
The BRCC drama department will stage the play Wednesday-Nov. 24 in the Patton Auditorium on the Flat Rock campus.
Treadway sees the production as a unique learning experience, not only for her students and the community, but also for herself.
"I see that my prejudices were blinding me to this whole segment of the population that I had common ground with and didn't even know," Treadway says.
Treadway is collaborating with Joshua Bledsoe, communications instructor at BRCC, who has been leading a series of discussions with volunteer members of the cast, which will culminate in a "talk back" session with a panel of religious and civic leaders after the final performance of "The Laramie Project" next Sunday, Nov. 24.
Bledsoe's desire is to help the cast, especially student actors, better understand the characters representing the diverse population in Laramie, a small community not unlike Hendersonville, following an event that shattered their complacency.
"I hope students, and everyone who participates in the talk back and comes to the play, can see that even though we have differences, that we're all one community, and we can start on a journey to build a relationship with those we might otherwise not even talk to or associate with because we're different," Bledsoe says.
Many of the cast members, when asked what they have learned from participating in this production, echo the words of Bledsoe and Treadway.
BRCC drama student Chamblee Johnson says the play has "taken down some of my prejudices and taught me to be more understanding, especially with religion, that not all religious people are intolerant." She especially is drawn to the character of Father Roger Schmidt, played by artist-in-residence J.J. McCarson, when he talks about the "seeds of violence" that are planted when we use derogatory language. "He blew me away," Johnson says. "It has changed the way I treat people. I'm more careful about what I say."
Professional actor Jennifer O'Rear, a graduate of BRCC, is also drawn to the words of Father Schmidt and others like him, saying the play "makes you think about how you judge people."
Jonathan Forrester, a local actor who last appeared on the BRCC stage in "August: Osage County," feels similarly. "I've become more accepting. We all have faults," he says. "This play makes you sit back and analyze both sides. We see a community — the world."
BRCC drama student Dan Turpin has one of the most difficult roles in the play, that of the Rev. Fred Phelps, who, along with members of his Westboro Baptist Church, is notorious for protests not only at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, but also at the funerals of many fallen U.S. servicemen and -women.
Although this attitude is totally abhorrent to Turpin, he has developed a better understanding for Phelps and his followers. "Watching video and reading about Fred Phelps and his family, I see that these people honestly believe they are helping humanity. Even these extremely hateful people are in a weird way doing it out of love."
Other students have been moved by characters on the other side of the spectrum, including Candace Dill, who plays the likeable and talkative Matt Galloway. "He can be annoying, but he's a real person," Dill says, "but Matt never blames anyone, except himself. I have a lot of respect for that, that he can see the good in people."
Many in the cast say Treadway's direction has enabled their ability to look at the issues raised in the play in an unbiased manner.
"From the very beginning, Jennifer wanted us to play all these roles not as the 'evil Baptist minister' or whatever," says BRCC drama student Zac Rhew. "She wanted us to play all the characters as people, as human beings, and that has made a big difference to me as a member of the cast."
Treadway's deliberate pursuit of opportunities to expand her students' experiences as actors during rehearsals for "The Laramie Project" has led to many first-time experiences for the department. In early October, the cast and crew met via video conference with Susan Burke, project specialist for the Matthew Shephard Foundation, to discuss the play.
Later, Treadway arranged for some members of the cast and crew to travel to Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., where students viewed Converse's production of "The Laramie Project," directed by senior theater major Anushka Senanayake.
In subsequent weeks, Treadway, cast and crew have attended other meetings with various religious and civic leaders in the community, all in preparation for the five performances.
Treadway's experience and that of her students' has solidified in her mind the reason for producing "The Laramie Project" at BRCC.
"To me it all comes back to understanding," Treadway says. "If you start to understand 'the Other,' then there can come a point of convergence, but if you live with your prejudices, then you're just blinding yourself, then there's no chance that you're going to find any common ground. That's what I want everyone to learn. That's what I learned in this process. That's how I teach."
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Color World with Gary Spetz
Veteran public television host Gary Spetz continues his artistic journeys in Color World With Gary Spetz. This visual travelogue emphasizes the path the painter-photographer takes when creating his art. COLOR WORLD celebrates the wonders of travel and the beauty of the natural world. Interested in culture, fascinated by history and inspired by nature, Spetz encourages viewers to open their eyes and appreciate the often-overlooked beauty in simple scenes. This season, Spetz sets off for the Mediterranean, where he explores the fabled cities of Venice, Rome and Florence; the romantic French/Italian Riviera; quirky, cosmopolitan Barcelona and the exotic Greek Islands. Then, Spetz returns home to explore New England, the fall colors of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, the tropical Hawaiian Island of Maui and Montana's gentle freshwater giant, Flathead Lake.
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New York, May 2nd (TradersHuddle.com) - Shares of GameStop Corporation (NYSE:GME) are trading very close to calculated resistance at $35.42. The stock ended the trading session at just $34.74, which is near levels that make it difficult to buy or start a position.
GameStop Corporation (NYSE:GME) operates specialty electronic game and PC entertainment software stores throughout the United States, Australia, Canada and Europe. The Company stores sell new and used video game hardware, video game software and accessories
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Electric Vehicles Attractive for Fleets: Study
The use of EVs such as the Chevrolet Volt could contribute to increased energy efficiency for fleets. GE already has committed to such fleet purchases.
The Electrification Coalition, a year-old nonprofit group of business leaders, released on November 15 the Fleet Electrification Roadmap, an analysis of the business case for U.S. fleets to adopt electric-drive technology. The report argues that the lower operating costs of electric drive vehicles coupled with the operational norms of commercial and government fleets could make adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) highly attractive. The report includes a detailed examination of commercial and government fleets, highlighting common practices that could make them significant early adopters of EVs and PHEVs. The analysis suggests that with targeted, temporary policies in place, a cumulative 200,000 electric-drive vehicles could be on the road by 2015. PRTM, a global management consulting firm, partnered with the Electrification Coalition to provide the electric vehicle market analysis, technical input, and life cycle cost modeling for the Fleet Electrification Roadmap. See the Electrification Coalition press release and the report.
The report was released four days after General Electric Corporation (GE) announced that it will purchase 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 for its own fleet—and through its Capital Fleet Services business—making what it said was the largest-ever single electric vehicle commitment. GE will initially purchase 12,000 GM vehicles, beginning with the Chevrolet Volt in 2011, and will add other vehicles as manufacturers expand their electric vehicle portfolios. GE and its partners will use a mix of electric vehicle technologies to meet their individual needs. See the GE press release.


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PDF is included on mac by default and not only a viewer.
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"We've been telling … students and their families for years that college is the only way to succeed in the economy these days and of course there's a lot of truth to that," Ms. Sawhill said. "On average it does pay off… But if you load up on a whole lot of student debt and then you don't graduate, that is a very bad situation."
One refrain amid the years of slow job growth has been the value of education for landing a job and advancing in a career.
April's national unemployment rate stood at 7.5%, according to the Labor Department. The unemployment rate for high-school graduates over 25 years old who hadn't attended college was 7.4%, compared with 3.9% for those with a bachelor's degree or more education. The disparity is even bigger among those aged 16-24. The jobless rate for those with only a high school diploma in that age group is about 20%.
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Ms. Sawhill, who along with senior research assistant Stephanie Owen brought together recent findings in the Brookings paper, pointed to factors that affect the value of a college education. Among them is the field of one's major: Students in engineering or other sciences end up earning more than ones who major in the arts or education. The cost of tuition and the availability of financial aid are other considerations, with public institutions generally a better financial bargain than private ones.
The return on an investment in college education is estimated here by PayScale.com. (A recent survey shows that private colleges are getting the message, with some schools stepping up financial assistance.)
"It has been infused into our culture that if you don't have a college degree, you're not going to succeed," Ms. Sawhill said. "And that has some unforeseen and not always positive consequences."
She suggested two avenues for improving the situation: increasing vocational-technical training programs and taking a page from Europe's focus on early education rather than post-secondary learning.
"The European countries put a little more emphasis on getting people prepared in the primary grades," she said. "Then they have a higher bar for who goes to college — but once you get into college, you're more likely to be highly subsidized."
She also is a proponent of technical training — to teach individuals how to be plumbers, welders and computer programmers — because "employers are desperate" for workers with these skills.
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The Radion XR15 Freshwater uses the latest in high quality energy-efficient LEDs. Output covers the full light spectrum and is specifically designed to fulfill the requirements of today's tropical and planted aquariums.
The Radion XR15 Freshwater comes with a variety of preset modes matching popular freshwater spectrums and appearances. Create your own lighting modes by adjusting color intensities to achieve the optimal look and growth of your tropical aquarium. The Radion XR15 Freshwater is fully compatible with the modular RMS (Radion Mounting System). Tank mount your fixture with a single tank mount kit or build a custom multi-light setup with the multi-light mounting rail:
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TUSCALOOSA | Jeffery Wherry made a driving laup from the right side of the lane as time expired to send the game into overtime.
He and his Stillman College teammates dominated the extra period and emerged with a 100-94 overtime win Wednesday night.
The game was played at Shelton State while Stillman's gym, The Birthright Auditorium, is undergoing the final stages of renovation. The Tigers (3-4) will return home in their next game at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m. when they host West Alabama.
Five Stillman players scored in double digits in the Selma win, a game in which the Tigers shot 32 of 96 from the field for 33 percent but outscored Selma 12-6 in overtime.
Wherry led Stillman with 19 points. Torrean Walker scored 18 points to go with a team-leading 12 rebounds. Markeith Madison had 15 points and seven rebounds. Ladarius Rhone had 18 points and nine rebounds, and D'Uanaway Barnes came off the bench to score 11 points.
Leading all scorers was Selma's Kenneth Thomas with 27 points, including five 3-point shots.
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TUSCALOOSA | Andrea Moore scored 12 points and made four steals to lead all scorers and Stillman.
Also scoring in double digits for the Lady Tigers was Ashante Brown with 10 points to go with three steals.
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Pariahs Made Me Do It: The Leary-Wilson-Warhol-Dali Influence (Mondo 2000 History Project Entry #3)
As I close in on the evolution of Mondo 2000 History Project book content to the point where I have to consider what the final thing will be — it becomes clear that it will be about 1/3 collective memoir; 1/3 my memoir and 1/3 scrapbook. The challenge is to have all of it somehow fitting into my grand (or perhaps grandiose… apparently candidate Gingrich now think grandiosity is something to brag about politically and who am I to argue. Well, actually, I would argue were I to take the time… but grandiosity in art/artifice can on occasion strike paydirt) scheme to have it all somehow fit together and read like a very dense and complex novel (but who would believe in these characters?)
In this context, some of the work involves me retrieving origin stories from my past to illuminate the influences that brought me to High Frontiers and eventually to Mondo 2000 and the cyber counterculture.
Recently, Boing Boing had me contribute to their marvelous weeklong tribute to Robert Anton Wilson — and only as I sat down to write something for them, I remembered that "The Timothy Leary/Robert Anton Wilson trip" was at the unfinished top of my outline of things I need to write for the book. I had put it off as a big challenge and had moved on to other stories and observations.
I originally imagined that this entry for the book would be largely about the philosophy or Reality Tunnel that some call the "Leary-Wilson Paradigm." I would — of necessity — interrupt a narrative flow that leans towards storytelling to explain ideas, since the "Leary-Wilson Paradigm," more than anything else influenced the magazine I wanted to create.
But as my story about discovering the Illuminatus Trilogy emerged for the Boing Boing contribution, it became clear to me that I needed to explain my fascination with Leary in a somewhat similar style — ultimately merging the two stores into one short section of the Mondo book.
And it was while thinking about my initial fascination with Leary that this entry took a dangerous turn towards "confessing" my mid-70s fascination with famous pariahs… outcasts from outcast culture. I have a touch of trepidation about presenting these thoughts in these knee jerk times… that people will think I'm speaking to today's politics rather than the complicated and sometimes contradictory impulses that motivate activity — and also wonder, often, if I'm going to be telling the MONDOids the stories they want to hear — or if I should care about it.
As to the stuff about Leary maybe being "a fink," yes… I leave it hanging, as it will always be hanging. I would say, though, that one of my favorite moments in Mondo history was when I began editing the conversation Leary had taped with William Gibson (not knowing it would ultimately be transcribed for print) and came across Tim casually talking about being thrown into "the hole" in a Minnesota Prison because the feds were dissatisfied with his testimony about the Weather Underground. (You won't find it in the linked segment, but you will find it in the magazine… if you have a copy.)
Anyway, for your reading pleasure… a possible fragment from the Mondo 2000 History Project book, tentatively titled "Use Your Hallucinations: A History of Mondo 2000 and the Cyber Counterculture."
Pariahs Made Me Do It: The Leary-Wilson-Warhol-Dali Influence
As you already have surmised, I came up through the New Left Revolution years. From 1968 – 1971 — during and just after high school, I knew that the revolution had come. Some as yet inchoate mix of left anarchist radicalism and newly psychedelicized youth mutation was simply taking over the world by storm. As Hunter Thompson famously rhapsodized, "There was madness in any direction, at any hour… You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.… Our energy would simply prevail…We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave." Right (or left) or wrong, it was exciting and energizing to be a part of it.
But by the mid-70s, people on the left radical countercultural scene had become — at best, mopey and quarrelsome — and, at worst, either criminally insane or very tightly wound politically correct environmentalist/feminist/health-food scolds. People were either bitchy; or in retreat — smoking pot and listening to the mellow sounds of James Taylor and Carole King.
I didn't know it consciously at the time, but I needed to create a space within my psyche that liberated me from the constancy of moral judgment and eco-apocalypse mongering — and one that also didn't represent a retreat into the mediocrity of middle class liberalism.
Thus, I was attracted to flamboyant "hip pariahs" who were very un-left, politically incorrect… even, in some cases, right wing.
There was the glam rock rebellion against blue denim hippie populism. These performers insulted egalitarianism by dressing and performing in ways that set them apart from their generation's rock audiences . (Naturally, good old Mick Jagger was the major rock god who didn't need to change to be a part of it.) David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed all nipped — in interviews and lyrics and musical styles — at assumed countercultural values while also mocking, at least, cultural conservatism by their very androgynous existences.
I gobbled up materials on, or by, Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali — each, in their way, pariah outcasts from political decency — particularly Dali.
By being an unsane solipsistic monarchist, loving money, supporting the fascist Francisco Franco, Dali seemed to me to be the purest of surrealists, running with his subconscious atavistic impulses against the earlier sympathies of the surrealists with the left and developing an utterly inexcusable (sometimes when I say — as I do at the opening of this book — that aspects of my story and my mind are inexcusable, I'm not just using colorful language. I mean it literally) but original persona. His autobiographical and philosophic texts defied logic in ways that seemed to me to be more genuinely playful and funny than his former fellow travels in 20th Century Surrealism who had long since denounced him.
Warhol played an even more important role in liberating my soul and psyche from the depths of resentment and rational piety since his very role in art and culture was to create a space free from judgment. While Andy was nominally a liberal, his deadpan consumerist art and aphorisms had a Zen quality — it could, paradoxically, cause you to embrace the flow of frozen moments and artifice for artifice's sake by inducing silence in the chattering, protesting, judging brain. To properly experience Warhol was to almost stop thinking… in the best possible way… while still hanging on by a thread to a sense of humorous irony.
And then there was Dr. Timothy Leary. There was the legendary Leary… all that stuff about turning on tuning in dropping out the 1960s. I had read and enjoyed his book High Priest, but actually thought of him as something of an old guy who seemed to be trying too hard to fit into the youth culture. It was the Leary of the '70s that fascinated me. During the height of my own romantic infatuation with "The Revolution," Leary had made a heroic prison escape. He had been spirited away by the guerrilla warriors of the Weather Underground and had shown up in Algeria with Eldridge Cleaver's exiled Black Panther chapter, pronouncing unity between the psychedelic and leftist and black revolutions and promising to help Cleaver form a revolutionary US government in exile. At that time, all of these people — Weather Underground leader Bernadine Dohrn, Eldridge Cleaver, Timothy Leary, Stew Albert — who led a contingent of Yippies over there to cement the alliance — were icons to me, more or less on a par with The Beatles and The Stones (or at least, the Jefferson Airplane and Jimi Hendrix).
Then, after conflicts with Cleaver — and just as the buzz of the revolution was souring, he had disappeared, showing up only in a few gossipy pieces that portrayed him hanging out with fellow exile Keith Richards and issuing bon mots that were more of the flavor of Oscar Wilde than Che Guevara.
Then, he was caught in Afghanistan and shipped back in chains to the USA facing a lifetime in prison. And not long after that, rumors circulated that he was ratting out the radical movement. This was very depressing. But at the same time, occasional interesting signals emerged — usually published in the underground press — from Folsom Prison where he was being held. Strange little quotes about being an intelligence agent for the future; about "offering the only hopeful eschatology around today;" about dna being a seed from outer space; about "going home" to galaxy central and human destiny being in the stars; about how he was writing a "science faction" book. Odd signals not fully formed — nevertheless somehow intriguingly differing from the dour vibe emitted by the rest of those publications at that particular time. I couldn't help myself. My mutant brain was already starting to find the apostate Leary's signals refreshing. I was doomed to become a "science faction" mutant.
[ insert Robert Anton Wilson section here ]
It was several years later, in 1976, that I came across an edition of Crawdaddy, a very cool rock magazine with regular columns by William Burroughs and Paul Krassner that contained an article about the recently released Dr. Tim. The writer hung out with Tim as he wandered around NYC rattling off his ideas about SMI2LE — Space Migration Intelligence Increase Life Extension — sending up the first coherent transhumanist flare of the 20th Century. There was a picture of Leary in a business suit standing between the newly built twin towers wearing a smile that laughed out loud and pointing, almost violently, with his right forefinger upward to outer space. This was something new. The picture took its place on my wall in between the cover of the first Ramones album and the picture of Squeeky Fromme being arrested after her attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.
My final "conversion" to Learyesque proto-transhumanism came in 1977. It was summer and my mother had the intuitive sense to hustle me away from Binghamton, where my friends were becoming junkies, and moved me early to the college town of Brockport New York where I would start school that fall. The town was empty and there was nothing to do. But the town's bookstore was open. I walked in and there — on prominent display — were two books by Timothy Leary, Exo-Psychology and Neuropolitics. The latter also credited Robert Anton Wilson.
I read those books frontways and back and inside out. And then I read them again. It all resonated. It all made sense to me. It was a way of interpreting the world that respected my psychedelic experiences and my times within the counterculture and gave them a new context — one that hadn't yet failed! These were now the evolutionary experiences of a premature mutant breaking at least partly free of the programming of an unhappy, repressive civilization so that I could move it towards a bright and expansive future. The expansiveness that had so energized and delighted me during the late 1960s and early '70s would now be — at least partially — a science project to literally expand our space and time and minds perhaps unto infinity.
I was excited, but I was also tentative. I paced around my small one room apartment. Was I crazy? Was I wrong? By now, self identifying as a 1977 spikey-haired hipster who liked to put his cheap punk nihilism unapologetically front and center (yes, trendiness haunts all my days), could I tell anybody about my philosophic attraction to the upbeat pariah and possible fink Dr. Leary? Actually, that's something I still ask myself today, although it is clearly too late.


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November 3, 2005
A new plan describes a way to help the hundreds of companies in the CSRA that ship hazardous materials on the highways prevent problems. News 12 is on your side to explain how a new Hazmat workshop coming to Augusta will keep the roads you drive on a little bit safer.
Poison, explosives, and radioactive materials; any number of hazardous materials could be in the truck right next to you. And whether or not there is a warning depends on how much and what type of dangerous material it is.
Postnet owner Karen Chrjapin ships dozens of packages a day. She understands that under federal law, all hazardous packages must be labeled.
"We do like to know what's being shipped cause ultimately we're responsible for the shipment," Karen said.
The CSRA has hundreds of companies that ship hazardous materials. About 1.2 million shipments of hazardous materials are shipped every day across the US, many of those are on trucks on interstates.
The Department of Transportation sent a representative to Columbia County to explain a workshop coming in late November to teach these companies how to prevent accidents, like the chlorine gas that killed nine in Graniteville last year. Emergency Services Director Pam Tucker says smaller scale accidents are very common.
"We probably have an accident every day where there's vehicle fluids, diesel, oil, gas and things like that are spilled," Tucker said.
Hazmat workers can learn how to clearly label the dangerous goods and now to protect them from being tampered with. No hazardous materials get past Karen Chrjapin.
"We do question them about the contents of their packages," Karen said.
You still won't know exactly what is next to you in those trucks, but there's a better chance that safety will be improved. The workshop is coming to Augusta on Thursday, November 17. If you deal with dangerous materials or want to find out more about Hazmat, you are encouraged to attend. You can get more information by called 202-366-4900 or visit hazmat.dot.gov.


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I found this software in another forum and I decide to try it.
I install PSM, CCCP Codec Pack, and avisynth.
Here you can see my settings :
I can see mkv video throught the PSM on the PS3 .
For some subtitles in .srt, I can see it, but not for all my .srt subtitles !!!
I don't know why !!
I try to rename the subtitle in the same name of the mkv file, but without success...
edit : I precise that I have one mkv file and one .srt file
Can someone help me to have this fixed ?
PS : I use the PS3 with 2.60 update, I'm on Windows Seven, with lastest java machine installed.
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Trey Anastasio Band,
Thursday, 11/03/2005
Orphem Theatre, Madison, WI
Set 1: Night Speaks to a Woman, Spin > Dark and Down, Money, Love and Change > Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), Drifting, Air Said to Me, Sleep Again, Goodbye Head > Shine, Bathtub Gin[1], Sleep[1], Strange Design[1], Waste[1], Low > Tuesday, 46 Days, I've Got a Feeling[2]
Encore: Rocky Mountain Way[3] > First Tube
[1] Trey solo acoustic.
[2] TAB debut, with Ben Chambers on bass and Josh Clark on guitar.
[3] TAB debut.
Notes: Tea Leaf Green opened. A pre-recorded version of "70 Volt Parade" was played over the P.A. as the band took the stage. "Money Love and Change" was played "for all you motherfuckers in love." Trey performed "Bathtub Gin" through "Waste" solo acoustic. "Sleep" was dedicated to Tom Marshall. "I've Got a Feeling" (The Beatles) and "Rocky Mountain Way" (James Gang) were TAB debuts. "I've Got a Feeling" featured Ben Chambers and Josh Clark (Tea Leaf Green) on bass and guitar, respectively.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Jennifer Hartswick, Skeeto Valdez, Ray Paczkowski, Christina Durfee, Les Hall, Tony Hall


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LETTER: Denying school choice 'almost sinful'
Published: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 8:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 8:15 p.m.
Dear Editor: Thank goodness Oscar Tucker is retired. I'd hate to think that one so filled with contempt and hatred for even his own race as well as traditional American values could be in a position to influence young children. To deny children the ability to leave failing schools is almost sinful. Guess he learned this from the president who halted the same sort of program in Washington, D.C.
They must want children to stay in failing schools so that they can't become well-educated instead of indoctrinated, and thus shills for the Democratic Party. Heaven forbid, maybe they might learn that big government is the problem, not the solution to anything.
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By Dale Humburg, DU Chief Scientist
About the time the waterfowl season closes, I begin thinking about the next one. Beginning in February, I pay attention to snowfall on the prairies, followed over the next 8 months by migration back north, reports of breeding populations, summer habitat conditions, regulations announcements, late summer and fall rains, weather fronts, and timing of freeze-up. In each instance, my expectations for the next season are either heightened or reeled in to a degree.
As a waterfowl hunter, I admit to being optimistic no matter what. As a waterfowl biologist, I am realistic about uncertain weather, water, and waterfowl migrations. Let's review this year so far and look ahead.
Very limited snow cover, mild winter weather, and early spring migrations to drying potholes were not the best ways to start 2012. As anticipated, however, the nearly unprecedented 2011 breeding habitat conditions and duck production carried over into spring 2012. As a result, a record breeding duck population, with most species at or above long-term averages was surveyed. And, despite a very dry start to the breeding season, most areas did not get any worse, and some regions actually improved with summer rains. Field reports also reflected good production in a number of areas.
Hunting opportunity, at least to the degree affected by liberal season length and bag limit – 17 consecutive years – will not be a reason for a poor 2012 season. A number of other factors, however, will certainly have an impact.
Foremost among the uncertainties going into the fall are water and food conditions. An extended and worsening drought in 2012 is reminiscent of the late 1980s, and many traditional migration and wintering areas could be affected. By late summer "exceptional drought" through much of the Mid-South, and portions of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, as well as "extreme drought" in other areas from the Atlantic to the Pacific Flyway will impact food conditions for migrating birds. This is especially the case for areas that rely on corn as a primary duck and goose food.
Mast crops (acorns and such) have not fared well at all, and ducks will not find this traditional food source in many areas. Natural foods, such as millet and smartweed, will still provide duck groceries in many areas even if affected by drought. The issue here, however, is that this food source needs to be flooded to be available. This will be the case both for making duck food accessible and for making hunting locations available. Areas with water management capacity, assuming that water sources have not dried up, will provide prime local spots for waterfowl and waterfowl hunters. The concern at regional scales, however, is that resources may not be sufficient to sustain birds and hunters for long. This could mean compressed seasons, greater short-term harvest, ducks and geese in different locations (e.g., reservoirs and rivers), etc.
I expect the impacts to be more local than regional. Experience with overall levels of duck harvest over the decades, has shown much less variation at state and flyway levels than what we see locally over our decoys. As a result, I would not make broad generalizations about this year's trends in hunting opportunity and harvest. Speculation that hunting will be great because ducks have few habitat alternatives could easily backfire. Or, a prediction that hunting will be great further south because ducks will migrate early from drought-stricken areas could turn around with a major rain event or with mild winter weather.
My advice is to pay close attention to the weather events this fall. You probably won't want to miss a flight day. If you manage a wetland area, key an eye on the patterns of bird use and hunting success; manage water and hunting disturbance accordingly. If you are flexible in your hunting styles, consider scouting different areas than you might usually hunt; ducks may opt for different spots than usual. As for me, I can't wait for the season to open!
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act into law.
First duck stamp, designed by Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist, Jay N. "Ding" Darling, issued.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. - Fresh off its first road win of the season, Mississippi State returns to Humphrey Coliseum on Wednesday looking to keep its perfect SEC record intact when it faces long-time rival Alabama at 8 p.m.
CSS will handle the broadcast, with Matt Stewart handling play-by-pay duties and Kyle Macy serving as the analyst.
Dating back to last year, the Bulldogs (7-7, 2-0) have won four-straight SEC games.
"Obviously, I'm really pleased with our start in SEC play," MSU coach Rick Ray said. "I thought we had really turned a corner as a ball club with the win against New Orleans, and then to go out and win a game against South Carolina, then especially going on the road and winning at Georgia, I think our team is steadily improving. Depth obviously is obviously still a concern and a problem."
After holding off South Carolina 56-54 a week ago, Mississippi State rallied from a 7-point deficit to upend Georgia, 72-61.
Junior guard Jalen Steele keyed the win with a career-high 21-point effort. He was joined in double-digit scoring by Craig Sword, who totaled 16 points en route to garnering SEC Freshman of the Week honors.
MSU, which has won 12 of the last 15 outings against the Crimson Tide at Humphrey Coliseum, is led in scoring by sophomore forward Roquez Johnson at 12.0, while Gavin Ware is tops on the boards at 7.1.
Last year in Starkville, the Bulldogs claimed a 56-52 win against Bama.
This season, the Tide rolls into town sporting a 9-6 overall ledger and 1-1 conference mark following its 68-65 win against Tennessee on Saturday. In its league opener, Alabama lost at Missouri, 84-68.
The Crimson Tide is led in scoring by guard Trevor Releford at 16.3 points a game, while Trevor Lacey is second at 12.5 points, followed by Rodney Cooper at 11.7.
After Wednesday, MSU is on the road for two games, starting with a trip to Tennessee on Saturday before traveling to Arkansas Wednesday.


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FontExplorer X
FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software. After several relatively sad years for all font users who were looking for a professional font manager, Linotype is pleased to fill the gap with the new FontExplorer X. Font management has never been so simple, and font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are now more fun than ever. FontExplorer X gives computer users all the font functions they could need, and lets them decide how deeply they wish to dive into various font themes.
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Tags: font , management , type
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The online support is killer. Browse the entire Linotype library and shows live previews. Amazing
This application has some minor UI issues under Leopard.
I, too, wish there were a way to manually move fonts into the family they belong in. That said, it's the only font manager I use (or need) anymore.
I've got 7000+ (thanks, Bittorrent) loaded and it keeps on like a champ. I really, really have to go through and sort this crap out though.
i agree about the ability to group fonts into families manually...
also, does anyone use fontexplorer with libraries of thousands of fonts (say over 3000 or more)? how does it perform?
I wish there was a way to fix files where the fonts have somehow been seperated the fonts into several families even though they're the same family.
has to be in my top 5 peices of freeware i have on my macs, the best thing since ATM for font management and 100% better.
This made my Suitcase wound stop bleeding.
Bought 5 copies of Suitcase at work. Everyone uses this instead... it's so good.
I was skeptical of a free type manager at first, but after using at the office to replace Extensis Font Reserve (a complete piece of garbage), I haven't looked back. It's fast, easy to use, and has great features (auto-activation, etc.). Linking to the Linotype store is interesting as well. It's a great way for them to get more exposure and sales, all while keeping the app free.
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Transmission Fluid Refill NOTICE: This procedure contains the air purge steps required to purge air from the cooling system. This procedure is NOT intended for use with the Transmission Fluid Level Check. NOTICE: The vehicle should not be driven if the fluid level is low as internal failure could result. NOTICE: The fluid fill plug is located near the exhaust system. The exhaust will be extremely hot during this procedure. NOTICE: The use of any other transmission fluid than specified, can result in the transmission failing to operate in a normal manner or transmission failure. NOTE: If the transmission starts to slip, shifts slowly or shows signs of fluid leaking, the fluid level should be checked. NOTE: Here is an overview of the Transmission Fluid Drain and Refill procedure. Adding 3.3L (3.5 qt) of clean automatic transmission fluid to the transmission is an initial fill enabling you to start the engine. The cold level range shown in the procedure allows the vehicle to be driven. The vehicle should be driven to allow the transmission fluid temperature to reach 85ºC-88ºC (185ºF-190ºF) in order to purge the air from the transmission cooling system. Fill the transmission fluid to the fill range on the fluid level indicator at the normal operating range 80ºC-85ºC (175ºF-185ºF). 1. NOTE: The transmission will need 3.3L (3.5 qt) of clean automatic transmission fluid added to the transmission as an initial fill if: the transmission has been overhauled. a new mechatronic assembly has been installed. the transmission fluid pan or fluid filter have been removed. Using the special tool, add 3.3L (3.5 qt) of clean automatic transmission fluid to the transmission through the fluid fill hole. For additional information, refer to Adding Additional Transmission Fluid in this procedure. 2. Check the transmission fluid level cold. 1. The vehicle is safe to drive if the transmission fluid is in the cold level range 32°C-43°C (90° F-11 0° F). Using the scan tool and the engine running, place the transmission selector lever in each gear position and hold approximately 5 seconds. Place the transmission selector lever in PARK, with the engine at idle (600-750 rpm).