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Occupy Wall Street is an ever-growing movement of protests against corporate America. What originally began as the Twitter hashtag #OccupyWallStreet has now grown into an international phenomenon, with protests now occurring in American cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as in Canadian cities like Toronto, Calgary and Montreal.
But what exactly is Occupy Wall Street? How did it come about? And why has it become more than just a simple protest? We attempt to answer these questions, as well as provide further resources for your own investigations.
What is "Occupy Wall Street"?
Occupy Wall Street is a "people-powered movement for democracy" that began in New York City on September 17 with an encampment in the city's financial district.
The movement is centred upon this statement: "the one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%", a sentiment that's been echoed in a powerful blog where regular people have photographed themselves with written statements demonstrating why they are the "99%".
Their demands are varied, but include some of the following:
An entry from the We are the 99 percent Tumblr.
A screengrab from the popular YouTube clip of Wall Street bankers mocking the protestors by drinking champagne.
An entry from the We are the 99 percent Tumblr.
How did "Occupy Wall Street" happen?
The Vancouver-based Adbusters Media Foundation, an anti-consumerist group best known for its award-winning, advertisement-free magazine Adbusters, has been credited for spurning this citizen uprising. The group was growing frustrated by the increasing disparity in wealth and the absence of any legal action against the bankers responsible for our global financial crisis. As a result, they appealed to their readers to take to the street and demand change.
"We basically floated the idea in mid July into our [email list] and it was spontaneously taken up by all the people of the world," said Adbusters senior editor Micah White to the Vancouver Courier. "It just kind of snowballed from there."
Via Guardian.co.uk
Why is "Occupy Wall Street" more than just a protest?
Because the protest is leaderless and no specific platform has been pushed, there was initial discrediting of the movement by the media.
Media coverage was initially minimal, and what coverage did exist was largely derisive. Mother Jones ran an article entitled "why #occupywallstreet isn't working," and Grist's Dave Roberts said the occupation was "designed to discredit leftie protest."
But images — such as the stories shared on the 99% Tumblr, the video of Wall Street folks drinking champagne having their Marie Antoinette moment, and this weekend's arrest of 700 protestors on New York City's Brooklyn Bridge — has spurned a movement.
The movement has been applauded because it seems to be a legitimate "solidarity" progressive response to the Tea Party movement. "I think that even just organizing and maintaining these protests in worthy of praise," writes Forbes' E.D. Kain. "The manifestation of #OccupyWallStreet as more than just a hashtag is a real achievement. From coherence comes relevancy, however messy or disorganized that process may be."
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What do you think? Do you think the lack of a platform will hinder the movement? And does it make sense for these protests to occur in Canada?
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This movement was started by a group of Communist, Marxis, Socialist, Saul Alinsky style community organizers, and Union radicals who want to change the very makeup of the United States and it's Constitution.
They go into our Universities and whip into a frenzy the very young, naive students who don't have any idea of what the hell they are doing.
Read all about it here:
The wealthy are the ones who create jobs.
And I do know poverty. Been there, done that and worked my way out of it.
Most of those protesters are just college kids who are still living off their parents and not contributing a darned to society.They are being indoctrinated by their left wing college professors who only want to create chaos and uprising.
Then there are the drug addicts and alcoholics who just want their drugs and booze. Not much you can do with them.
In August I posted an article titled Why Have I Not Taken to the Streets on my blog Among other things here is what I wrote:
"This past May, what was coined "The Spanish Revolution", shocked the Spanish government on the eve of their elections "Without a hint of violence the Spanish people are saying, Enough is Enough!!"Houston Chronicle
Demonstrators, most of who were young, took to the streets for six day sit ins in a dozen Spanish cities demanding an overhaul of the political system in order to improve living conditions.
One 32 year old revolutionary, Javier de Coca, when asked, why, had this to say, "Some people are trying to turn this into a leftwing or Marxist thing, but that is not what it is about. The really important thing for the moment is that we are raising our voices. No one should think we are just sitting around and taking this."
Food for thought…
The form of revolution is as varied as the conditions bringing it about and the courage and nature of the revolutionaries leading it.
In Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and Libya thousands have taken to the streets to demand change and many have lost their lives to make their point.
In Iceland the revolution was sounded from the polls where citizens voted strongly against bailing out the banks they believed had caused the crisis in the first place.
Yet little pavement has been trod here at home. This week in San Francisco the BART was protested to a halt as citizens peacefully and lawfully protested what they believed was police brutality and the loss of freedom of speech. Is this a sign of things to come?
What will it take for the average citizen of the USA to step up and out their front doors, to put goggle and twitter and other social networking technologies to work in the country where they were born, for the good of that country and its people, to march as one voice demanding simply…Something Has To Change?
A recent article in guardian.co.uk states that "In the 21st century, given the broadening of available communication-technology, it is not power elite "leaders" who may decide the future but the broader populace who are moving the Internet Reformation forward. Those at the top of the EU may come up with solutions that they consider adequate one way or another only to find that voters are dismissive of them."
I applaud "Occupy Wall Street" for the voice of discontent it raises, for the courage its members show to do something about that which so many feel they can't do anything about.
I think that at this stage formal goals or agenda would weaken the movement's position. It is not about achieving just another set of goals that some individual group feels they need. It is about waking us all up to our right to speak.
I am originally form Canada now living in LA and I think such protests make sense in every nation where people want to be heard.
"A nation is a collection of peoples and people have experience with crisis and hardship in life. They reshape their lives to keep going and they find the better things that they value most are still alive within them. This process is not easy, is not what we prefer but I think there is a growing appetite to get on with it, to act upon this recovery to find our dignity again in being part of the solution so …
Why are we not in the streets?"
Doreen, you seem to be saying that there could be no other reason for objecting to how Wall Street operated leading to 2008, and how it's been operating since. If Wall Street was quietly creating jobs like you say it is really doing, there would be no protests.
If the wealthy are supposed to be creating jobs, where are the jobs? They've been paying 36% taxes since 2000, the lowest rate since 1951. So where are the jobs?
What will it take for the average citizen of the USA to step up and out their front doors, to put goggle and twitter and other social networking technologies to work in the country where they were born, for the good of that country and its people, to march as one voice demanding simply…Something Has To Change?
We are in the streets, town hall meetings, etc. trying to take our country back from the Marxis, socialists who have been trying to take over and trash our Constitution.
The present "entitlement " mentality of some of the older folks and most of their younger college kids has to stop. The Government isn't responsible for changing our living conditions, we are.
If you want something, go out and work for it. Work two or three jobs if necessary and stop saying someone else is at fault.
The middle eastern countries who have been in the news are trying to get from murderous dictatorships who rule them. It's entirely different.
In the USA, everything is yours, if and only if, you work your a*s off to get it.
This is the beginning of the end of the USA as a Superpower. And I have to believe, on some level, there's real fear ... twitter is not trending #occupywallstreet
American mainstream media is not covering this event in the USA or if they do, they are not covering it in any detail. they dont want 99% of the population in downtown NYC and on wallstreet of all places
then there would be boots in the street, but the cracks are starting to show, already
The lies,
osma bin laden dead ... oh great good job
Libya was trading oil in Chinese Yen? interesting
But you know... if you have your eyes open you know ... the USA has been lying to us and the world for the last couple hundrd years - the Spanish American war and or Mexican war was a slaughter and a land grab -years later,
pearl harbour was coming and they knew it , so they sent the aircraft carriers to seabefore the attack so they would survive and all the WW1 era battleships were sunk
years later the world was going high tech and... terrorism was the new enemy
the twin towers fell to the ground too fast but now... nobody ever says anything, ever... if you do everyone will think you're a crack pot. but look at the physics. just look at the physics.
The bush cheney regime ruined America
and they'll take Canada down with them, if not financially then with austerity measures of a different sort - security against terrorism, which we all glimpsed during G20 , how quickly our 'democracy' disappeared.
There are dark days ahead for all of us. Traffic in Toronto will be brutal with protestors on Bay St ... but i dont blame them. They have a lot to be unhappy about.
I did not say that Wall Street was creating jobs.
I said the wealthy were able to do it before our intrusive government under Clinton, and both of the Bushes and now Obama put into place so many regulations that it made it impossible for the wealthy to do business here. They had to send their companies over seas where fewer regulations and lower wages made them able to flourish.
If this government would lift those regulations, companies would bring the jobs back to our shores.
Regulatory Onslaught Threatens to Destroy Jobs, Drive Up Gas PricesPosted by Don Seymour on May 17, 2011
Miles of red tape and excessive government regulations - issued by unelected bureaucrats without approval from Congress - are creating havoc and uncertainty for job creators across the country. For example, several recent regulatory actions by the Obama Administration threaten to destroy American jobs by:
- Blocking An American Company from Building a New Plant: The Obama Administration's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is trying to "block Boeing from building airplanes in a non-union facility in South Carolina," says the Washington Examiner. Economists Stephen Moore and Art Laffer say this is "the first time a federal agency has intervened to tell an American company where it can and cannot operate a plant within the U.S." The move "will set a precedent that could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs nationwide," reports the Examiner.
- Driving Up the Price of Gasoline on Families & Small Businesses: The EPA's attempt to unilaterally impose a "cap and trade"-style national energy tax would drive up the price of gas, send jobs overseas, and make it harder for small businesses to hire new workers, says the House Energy & Commerce Committee. And under the Obama Administration's de facto energy moratorium, domestic oil production has dropped by 16 percent versus projected levels. Less energy production means higher prices and higher prices mean fewer jobs.
- Imposing a Government Takeover of the Internet: The House passed H.J.Res.37 to stop the FCC from imposing so-called "net neutrality" regulations, but the threat remains. A study by New York Law School's Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute said "net neutrality" regulations could cost "at least 100,000 to 200,000 jobs per year over the next five years" and "place the nation's economy at even greater risk." James Gattuso with the Heritage Foundation says they "would be bad news not just for Web surfers but also for the economy as a whole."
Last year alone, "3,752 new rules hit the books -- equivalent to a new regulation coming into effect every 2 hours and 20 minutes, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," says the Competitive Enterprise Institute. And "[a]n additional 4,225 regulations are at various stages of the pipeline right now" (hundreds are the result of ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank alone).
Many of these regulations have an impact on the economy of $100 million or more – a significant sum that can stifle job creation and innovation, and create more economic uncertainty.
Consistent with the Pledge to America, House Republicans are taking action on several fronts – through Rep. Geoff Davis' (R-KY) REINS Act (which Speaker Boehner says "requires congressional approval of any new government rule with an estimated economic cost of $100 million or more"), the American Energy Initiative, and others – to remove government barriers to private-sector job growth. Republicans have even succeeded in forcing the Democrat-run Senate and White House to repeal ObamaCare's job-destroying 1099 small business mandate. But there's a lot more to do.
"High taxes, harsh regulations, and a broken immigration system are pushing American jobs overseas, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said at a hearing in his home state on Monday.
Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, held a hearing in San Jose that featured testimony from Google and Microsoft executives, among others. The hearing was titled "Policies Affecting High Tech Growth and Federal Adoption of Industry Best Practices," and Issa argued that federal regulations impede U.S. growth.
"It wasn't that long ago that the nation's research, innovation, and high tech industries were unequaled; there was no more attractive country than the United States for technology startup capital," he said in prepared remarks. "More recently, however, the shine has started to come off the apple, and there seems little doubt that federal policies and regulations have played a large role in hampering growth."
Issa cited a high corporate tax rate, no permanent R&D tax credit, a dysfunctional immigration system, and the high cost of complying with regulations as issues that are undermining America's ability to compete.
Federal regulations can "get in the way" of innovation, said Milo Medin, vice president of access services for Google. "
Krystyna said:
Doreen, you seem to be saying that there could be no other reason for objecting to how Wall Street operated leading to 2008, and how it's been operating since. If Wall Street was quietly creating jobs like you say it is really doing, there would be no protests.
If the wealthy are supposed to be creating jobs, where are the jobs? They've been paying 36% taxes since 2000, the lowest rate since 1951. So where are the jobs?
What will it take for the average citizen of the USA to step up and out their front doors, to put goggle and twitter and other social networking technologies to work in the country where they were born, for the good of that country and its people, to march as one voice demanding simply…Something Has To Change?
We are in the streets, town hall meetings, etc. trying to take our country back from the Marxis, socialists who have been trying to take over and trash our Constitution.
The present "entitlement " mentality of some of the older folks and most of their younger college kids has to stop. The Government isn't responsible for changing our living conditions, we are.
If you want something, go out and work for it. Work two or three jobs if necessary and stop saying someone else is at fault.
The middle eastern countries who have been in the news are trying to get from murderous dictatorships who rule them. It's entirely different.
In the USA, everything is yours, if and only if, you work your a*s off to get it.
But Doreen, how would Walmart have become such a rich company if it paid its employees a living wage, and benefits? You don't think the regular employees of Walmart work hard? Just think of how many CEO's have become rich firing their employees. Lean and mean is the neocon model. It's hard to work hard if you're being fired all the time.
No one works harder than people earning minimum wage. They usually need 2 or 3 full-time jobs just to stay above water. Now, some Republican politicians want to take even that minimum wage away. I guess it'll be back to slavery. You don't think slaves worked hard enough? Was that the reason they didn't move up the ladder, ya think?
The heroic people of the Arab Spring started the revolt, demanded respect, freedom and democracy.
Protesters in Britain, Europe and elsewhere followed the Arabs into the street, called for an end to the tyranny of savage capitalism.
Now, can it be possible that even we in the rich West are finally emerging from our insolent, selfish lethargy to demand a fair share of the treasure produced by so many and owned by so few?
Or have I drunk far too deep from the seductive cup of hope?
Well, what the hell is wrong with the Walton family wanting to get wealthy? Not one blasted thing that I can see. They are providing jobs and some benefits to their employees, and that is exactly what Sam Walton wanted to do. Read all about him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walton
Some of you seem to forget that most of the successful companies were started by one person, one family or one group of friends who had a great idea and ran with it.
Give me a break, Krystyna!! I worked for minimum wage at several jobs until I worked my way up the ladder by going to school and getting my degree, so I do know what hard work is. Did you do that?
That's something that these young brains full of mush protesting on Wall St. just don't want to do. They are worthless slugs out there on the street just wasting our air. They need to get jobs, work hard in school and make something of themselves.
ANYWAY, If you are a US citizen, help get rid of the crazy regulations and taxes that drove most of the good companies overseas where they are not restricted and still pay a living wage ( although much less than here) to their foreign employees, and then perhaps the good jobs will come back to the US.
Most of those companies would love to get back here and give jobs to their fellow US Citizens.
I don't see a lack of a platform. The demands listed
seem perfectly consistent. And yes, I am sure "Most of those companies would love to get back here and give jobs to their fellow US Citizens" at third world wages.
I think it's finally occurring to regular folks that people like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are not going to be laughed away. They are indeed preachers of a coming new order in which intelligence, empathy, live-and-let-live, inclusion and sharing the bounty from a big table are increasingly seen as crimes. A few years ago FOX News could have been a British parody, something that Monty Python would have put on. Now, against all reason, FOX is the mouthpiece for some very scary, very powerful individuals who want it ALL for themselves and blame the poor for not having what they've stolen from them.
I think it's finally occurred to a lot of people that Obama will not restore a moral order or change anything. The willingness of Boehner and the Tea Party to bring down the economy even more, and take still more from those who have least, just to save those paying 36% from having to pay 39% dropped the coin in a lot of people's heads. We can't pretend that maybe they don't understand, or maybe we didn't explain it well enough, or the math just doesn't work. They understand. They want everything.
There's nothing that shakes off lethargy better than the smell of immediate and present danger, and I think a lot of people are beginning to realize just how dangerous the far right predators really are. Sometimes people don't appreciate democracy and freedom until they feel it slipping away.
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The 6 Weirdest Free Speech Issues Around The World
It seems like every time we read about a freedom of speech case in the news, it's about either porn, racism or talking smack about the government. Now all of those are enjoyable things, but think about it. Speech is such a broad, unlimited medium, so why is it that when people are fighting for the infinite possibilities allowed by this freedom, it always ends up being about boobs and politics?
It's never about, like, pies or something.
Can't we have legal controversies over sillier and more anticlimactic speech issues? Well, it turns out we can. If we Americans can stop being so self-centered for a moment and look around abroad, we can find a wealth of weird old free speech issues, like:
Going to Jail For Bad Restaurant Reviews
Just the other week, a Taiwanese blogger was sentenced to 30 days detention, two years probation and about $7,000 USD in fines for ripping into a shitty restaurant on her blog.
Now, a couple of caveats -- she probably will get out of the jail time, and the verdict wasn't mainly about her review of the food so much as the fact she exaggerated how unsanitary the conditions were. However, the judge actually took into consideration in his ruling the fact that it was unfair for her to claim the restaurant's food was too salty since she only tried one dish, which sounds like something a mom should be saying, not a judge.
"And you didn't even eat any of the vegetables!"
A lot of people have been blogging about this and lumping it in with other cases where people have been sued for bad restaurant reviews, which is really unfair to Taiwan, because in all those other cases it was a civil suit filed by the restaurant owner (and almost never won by the restaurant), whereas this was a criminal case with the cops and the jail and everything. Taiwan's actual government has actually arrested and convicted someone for saying a restaurant was a filthy shithole with oversalted dishes, and I think that's something few other governments can brag about.
Via TravelAndLeisure.com
Yep, that's a challenge, Singapore.
Ireland came close when a restaurant owner sued The Irish News over a restaurant review and won. The law apparently only protects negative opinions if they're "honestly held," and they managed to prove somehow (polygraph? truth serum?) that the critic didn't honestly think the food was shitty.
But again, that was a civil suit, and moreover, one that was overturned on appeal, once the case went in front of somebody sane.
So Taiwan remains the leader here, although I think America can beat them if we find some excuse to jail Armond "Transformers 2 Was Better Than Toy Story 3" White, which really is just a noble goal in itself.
You Can't Name Your Baby That
Here in the U.S., if you want to name your baby Kal-El or Pilot Inspektor or Moxie Crimefighter or Moon Unit or Jermajesty or Miller Lyte or ESPN or GoldenPalaceDotCom, you can go right on ahead.
Is that a good thing? I'll leave that to the politicians and crazy celebrities. The point is that you don't face any penalties other than the entire country laughing at you.
Via VirginMedia.com
And if they're already doing that anyway, who cares?
But it's not the same deal in other countries, especially in many European countries, where I guess a child's right not to be laughed at for the rest of their lives trumps a parent's right to free speech.
In Germany, you can't give a kid an invented name, and you can't name it something gender-ambiguous. If we had a law like that, you'd have to say goodbye to all the Terrys and Caseys and Peytons, as well as your DeShawns and Latonyas and Rainbow Sunbeams, and celebrities would probably stop having (or adopting) children.
Prince Amukamara, the New York Giants' first round draft pick, would have been shot at birth. I think. I assume that's how the law works.
Other countries reject any name that would be "stupid" or make your child a "laughingstock" (well, the laws technically consist of some legalese that basically says that), or would offend people. New Zealand rejected 4Real on those grounds. Sweden rejected Ikea and Metallica, but later caved on Metallica (a girl if you were wondering).
And why not? Metallica is a great way for kids to get started on metal.
Denmark is even more Orwellian, with a list of 7,000 approved names you have to pick from, and anything outside that list requires approval by both the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs and the Ministry of Family and Consumer Affairs, which honestly, sound like Harry Potter government offices. Apparently this labyrinthine system was created in the 1960s when someone tried to name their daughter "Tessa," and someone else noted that it sounded like "tisse," the Danish word for piss. There was a big to-do, somebody made some laws and now you have to name your kid off a list.
On the one hand, that sounds rigid as hell. On the other hand, it would have prevented Moxie Crimefighter. Tough call.
You Can't Say "Le Marketing" in French Marketing
Americans and other English speakers are accustomed to carte blanche when incorporating a melange of new words and foreign words into the language, making use of other languages to describe genres of art like film noir or art deco or avant-garde, or roles like chef or fiancee. Don't expect that kind of laissez-faire attitude in France, which goes to great lengths to keep foreign words from creeping into the French language where they would no doubt steal jobs from hard-working French words.
Word immigrants are pretty sneaky.
The French Word Police isn't going to break down people's doors and stop them from saying "cool" or "le week-end" (that's real French slang, by the way), but they forbid foreign words from being used in official documents, science papers, advertising, radio and television, and fine companies from $150 to $1,000 for making such a faux pas.
Via Jersey.com
Sacre bleu! Someone's getting fined.
In 2008, they showed they were "with it" and banning things that mattered to the French youth of today by letting everyone know it was not OK to say email, blog or podcast, so that hip French podcasters would have to ask people to download their "diffusion pour baladeur," and sound like a dork. And instead of using "corner," sportscasters were expected to use the pithy phrase "coup de pied de coin," by which time the goal would already be scored and everyone would be on the other side of the field.
I'm referring to soccer, of course, or as the Europeans call it, "cricket."
The reason behind all these laws is that France wants to protect its language from a barrage of invading foreign words, and "make sure [French] does not disappear from the international world of business, economics and science." Because once you start letting foreign words into your language, that's pretty much the coup de grace for your culture, since historically, all languages that have incorporated foreign words have, de facto, disappeared into irrelevance. C'est la vie, I guess.


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I confess, dear readers, that I'm suffering from an identity crisis. One day I think I must be a fascist toady of big business whose fondest wish is to make the poor poorer. The next I think I surely must be a commie out to take away everyone's guns. One day I drink the Democrat Kool-Aid. The next, I'm slurping at the Republican trough.
At least, that's what you tell me.
All sarcasm aside - really, this time - one of the frustrations/delights of what I do for a living is that we journalists seem to have a talent for making everyone angry at one time or another. Readers' reactions to what I've written - and, too often, to what other people tell them incorrectly that I've said - make that clear.
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When I first began working for a newspaper, there was no Internet. If someone wanted to tell me off, they had three options: Write a letter to me, use the telephone to call me, or confront me in person. Once, a fellow who didn't like that I was reporting both sides of a controversy tried to use his pickup truck to run me down.
Now, the opportunities for criticism are vastly greater. "Going viral" means thousands of people can be alerted with a keystroke that I've (allegedly) said something with which they disagree.
But here's the thing: We're in another one of those periods in the United States in which too many folks have the attitude that you're either for me or against me. Most politicians always have thought that way.
It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to find anyone who's agreed with everything I've ever written. But guess what, folks: It's the same with you. Think about how you stand on this list of issues: abortion, the minimum wage, gun rights, immigration, the environment, government regulations, government spending, farm price supports, education and your favorite baseball team.
Now, consider whether anyone you know - even your spouse - agrees wholly with you on all of those matters. Unless you live a very isolated life, lots of your friends and family members have at least slightly different opinions.
Are they your enemies?
No. Talk with them long enough and you'll learn they have what to them are good reasons for their opinions. Heck, they may even be able to change your mind.
What brought all this up? Read Kathleen Parker's column on page 2 of this section. A comment on Southerners - misinterpreted by a few - drew down on her the wrath of some people. Because of one sentence she spoke, Parker was demonized by some. They have decided she's evil.
That's nonsense, as Parker explains.
But the single-issue, for-me-or-against-me phenomenon is very real, and it may be spreading. In part, that's because some politicians and some in the media like it that way. They're popular only if they can convince some people they're surrounded by enemies - not just those with whom we may disagree on some things, but enemies.
It just isn't so.
So yes, by all means stand up for that in which you believe. But don't decide everyone who doesn't agree with you all the time is evil.
At some point, you may find yourself alone in the world.
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A Gesture Life is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful never to overstep his boundaries and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. Yet as his story unfolds, precipitated by the small events surrounding him, we see his life begin to unravel. Gradually we learn the mystery that has shaped the core of his being: his terrible, forbidden love for a young Korean Comfort Woman when he served as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II.
In A Gesture Life, Chang-rae Lee leads us with dazzling control through a taut, suspenseful story about love, family, and community—and the secrets we harbor. As in Native Speaker, he writes of the ways outsiders conform in order to survive and the price they pay for doing so. It is a haunting, breathtaking display of talent by an acclaimed young author.
"A Gesture Life is the touching, multilayered rumination of an uneasy psyche. It is also a tragic, horrifying page-turner, whose evocation of wartime victims is unforgettable…A deeply involving tale, no less so because we realize, almost from the first chapter, that we can't trust Hata's version of events. [Lee] enlists the reader's full energies to interpret this enigmatic speaker, who saddens, baffles and unfuriates us all at once."—Chicago Tribune
"Once again, this gifted young author has given us a beautifully tapestried story of seeking identity and acceptance in another culture while remaining separate from the tug of it."—The Christian Science Monitor
"Lee elegantly creates suspense out of the seemingly static story of a man trying hard not to feel. He has written a wise and humane novel that both amplifies the themes of identity and exile he addressed in Native Speaker, and creates a wonderfully resonant portrait of a man caught between two cultures and two lives."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times


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As promised in this post, here is a How-To that describes how to secure a simple HelloWorld JAX-WS with OWSM message protection policy and test it with SOAP UI.
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Christhian Perez tossed four innings of one-hit shutout ball in relief, Robert Martinez hammered an RBI triple and a double and scored a run, Chris Wolfe drilled two RBI singles, and Brett Vertigan smacked a solo home run, leading the Athletics to a 5-2 victory over the Cubs in Cactus League Extended Spring Training action this morning on Field #6 at the Under Armour Performance Center at Riverview Park in Mesa, AZ.
Rashad Crawford belted an RBI triple and a single, stole a base, and scored a run for the Cubs in a losing cause.
RHPs Trevor Graham and Erick Leal "piggy-backed" for the Cubs and threw a combined 7.2 IP, allowing all five runs (four earned), 10 hits (including two doubles, two triples, and a home run), and two walks, with nine strikeouts.
The way things are playing out so far at EXST, it appears very likely that Graham and Leal will form 2/5 of the Boise starting rotation when the NWL season commences next month, with LHP Tyler Ihrig and RHPs Trevor Clifton and Zak Hermans being other 3/5 (at least until one or two of the better college pitchers selected by the Cubs in next month's First-Year Player Draft get stretched-out to start).
The Cubs have now lost six straight Cactus League EXST games, and after thirty games (halfway through the Cactus League Extended Spring Training schedule), the Cubs record stands at 11-18-1.
Here is the abridged box score from today's game (Cubs players only):
1. Jeffrey Baez, RF: 0-2 (L-7, BB, BB, F-7, 2 R)
2. Rashad Crawford, CF: 2-4 (1B, 3B, P-6, K, R, RBI, SB)
3. Oliver Zapata, LF: 0-3 (K, F-9 SF, 1-3, K, RBI)
4. Rony Rodriguez, 1B: 0-2 (F-9, HBP, 5-3, BB, SB)
5. Mark Malave, C: 0-3 (BB, 4-3, P-3, 4-3)
6. Dalfis Ortiz, 2B: 1-4 (K, K, 2B, K)
7. Tyler Alamo, DH: 1-4 (F-9, 4-3, 6-3, 1B)
8. Jesse Hodges, 3B: 0-4 (4-3, K, F-9, K)
9. Bryant Flete, SS: 0-4 (K, 3-U, 4-3, 4-3)
1. Trevor Graham: 4.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 4 K, 1 HR, 2/6 GO/FO, 52 pitches (30 strikes)
2. Erick Leal: 3.2 IP, 6 H, 3 R (3 ER), 1 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 1 BALK, 3/2 GO/FO, 68 pitches (44 strikes)
3. Alberto Diaz: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 2/1 GO/FO, 14 pitches (10 strikes)
SS Bryant Flete - E-6 (missed catch - dropped line drive allowed batter to reach base safely)
Mark Malave: 1-1 CS, 1 PB
WEATHER: Mostly sunny with a few scattered clouds and temperatures in the 80's
Kalish, CF
Kalish, CF
Valbuena, 2B
Rizzo, 1B
Castro, SS
Schierholtz, RF
Castillo, C
Coghlan, DH
Olt, 3B
Lake, LF
with Hoffman out and little
with Hoffman out and little chance that Rodon, Aiken and Kolek don't go top 3, all kinds of name associated with Cubs now.
Keith Law mentioned Erick Fedde (RHP - UNLV...was drafted by Padres in 2011 as well)
BA throws out LHP Brandon Finnegan (TCU)
Saw a Nick Gordon mention today as well and Alex Jackson...and Tyler Beede has some connections with Derek Johnson
Are any of those guys Kris
Are any of those guys Kris Bryant clones?
there's no slam-dunk college
there's no slam-dunk college extreme power bats this year expected to go early.
there's some "well rounded" college bats, but only a few are expected to go top-10. it looks to be a pitching-heavy top of the draft.
OF Bradley Zimmer has some
OF Bradley Zimmer has some buzz. But he lacks that extreme power.
tyler beede's stock keeps
tyler beede's stock keeps falling. i was pulling for the guy earlier this year, but he's delivered some sketchy performances in between some gems. he's really been scuffling lately.
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Erick Fedde bites the dust...
Erick Fedde bites the dust. TJ surgery...
Cubs board blowing up a bit (per Law)?
ok, the Cubs one good hitter
ok, the Cubs one good hitter is done for awhile. I'll tune in again in a few innings.
Assuming Soler isn't limping
Assuming Soler isn't limping around again from something in another week, that is a pretty vicious 1-2 punch for Tennessee.
it'll be even more amazing
it'll be even more amazing when baez gets moved back to AA...hahaha...i hope that's just a joke.
Hey Phil! Is this team
Hey Phil! Is this team really young or are they just not very good? Kind of wondering what you think? How does the talent level compare to previous seasons? It just seems like there is almost no one to get excited about which seems different than years past but I am not sure if I am remembering this season vs the fall recaps you do. Thoughts???
Ok. Thanks for the insight.
Ok. Thanks for the insight. That explains much of it.
Bryant doing Bryant things...
Bryant doing Bryant things...
Kris Bryant just hit a ball that may not land for a looooooong time! His solo shot, his 9th of 2014, gives the Smokies a 3-2 lead in the 5th
rizzo doing rizzo things.
rizzo doing rizzo things.
it'll be nice when the team is more than rizzo + supporting cast of bit players...and the supporting cast of starters who should be bench players are bench players again.
"and the supporting cast of
"and the supporting cast of starters who should be bench players"
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Bears draft CB Kyle Fuller -
Bears draft CB Kyle Fuller - Virginia Tech
arrieta removed after 4
arrieta removed after 4 innings and 82 pitches...went 82 pitches in his last start...went 96 pitches in his last minor league tuneup before that.
olt...grand slam.
olt...grand slam.
dude has power...and can play D...now let's get consistency everywhere else.
His swing is crazy the more
His swing is crazy the more you see it ... Like he's kind of dragging a tree through the strike zone. Big fat bat and hands always seem to be pulling the bat.
it's part of the reason i
it's part of the reason i don't think he'll ever hit for much average, though i expect him to do better than what he's doing right now. i see him as a .250/.330-ish avg/ob% type, but with the upside of playing good D at 3rd and being able to hit 25+ HR. he swings hard and it's not wild, but it's not precise.
you can stick that at 3rd and deal with it until it's time to pay him over $10m a year multi-year (if he ever develops enough talent to become a guy you'd pay that kind of loot, multi-year...he's still got things to prove).
If he learns how to hit, he
If he learns how to hit, he could be something special. I want this kid playing every day, and see what Mueller can do with him. Right now, he seems to always be swinging for the fences. Early in the year he did hit that rather awesome opposite field homer and in that case he seemed to just be going with the pitch. For all we know he's up there hacking because he figures it's the best he can do timing wise until he can see more pitches on an every day basis. It really is sheer idiocy to not have him in there every day. The argument that the other journeymen should be in there, at all, at third, is ludicrous. Why try to get more ABs for guys who are going to get you low level prospects at best?
Yeah. He is 1 behind Rizzo in
Yeah. He is 1 behind Rizzo in HR and also 2nd in RBI on the team. I'd like to see him up there and settling in too ... Maybe he'll always have that caveman hack but I'd like to see if he can relax and go opposite field once in a while too.
will find out in his next
will find out in his next start, next week.
/hopefully I'm wrong
weren't his first 2 HR's to
weren't his first 2 HR's to right field? I remember one against Pittsburgh at least.
spray chart shows 2 at least (although seems to only show 4 HR's total)
One was not just opposite
One was not just opposite field but it looked like he really went with the pitch to just try to drive it, not necessarily trying to clobber it out of the park. Lots of times he seems to be trying for a home run. That's just inexperience. I think the guy can hit, we just need to see him in there every day to find out for sure.
Get Olt OUTTA THERE!!!
Get Olt OUTTA THERE!!!
according to the MLB Network,
according to the MLB Network, ninja is not happy about the front office wanting to talk to him about his pitching (specifically his last appearance, and pitch counts) stating...more or less...that the front office needs to mind it's own business and let himself + the people wearing uniforms worry about that rather than the suits.
According to the local media
According to the local media yesterday, ninja and the front office are on the same page regarding this. Throwing 126 pitches is ok occasionally, but not all the time. He is a well conditioned and experienced athlete, knows the limitations of his body, blah blah blah. Also, if the front office wants to talk to someone, the should start with the fucking manager.
It appears Crawford's bat is
It appears Crawford's bat is coming alive as of late. Maybe it is all coming together for him.
Instead, think of Jon Daniels and the Texas Rangers. Daniels became the general manager of the Rangers in 2005 and soon after rebuilt the team by discarded expensive, older players (Mark Teixeira, Adrian Gonzalez, Chris Young) for younger players (Neftali Feliz, Alvis Andrus, Akinori Otsuka) and the Rangers invested heavily in their farm system.
Teixeira was 27, Gonzalez 23 and Young 27 at times of trade...maybe not the best examples.
looks like there's an 18-minute interview with "They Killed" Kenney and Ricketts that I can't bring myself to watch.
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well-played sir
well-played sir
this forbes (which is nothing
this forbes (which is nothing more than a glorified blog roll for online content at this point) article is a weird one.
otsuka was in his mid-30s and the agonz trade that brought him (and a.eaton) over was awful.
the teix trade was awesome...a lot more awesome than the pittance the braves traded him for later.
Re: Samardzija pitch count
Re: Samardzija pitch count non-issue/actual story
Samardzija tells front office to butt out although says that he actually never heard anything from front office, just maybe something a reporter said. Hoyer says it was never an issue and him and Renteria just said it's something to not do every time out which everyone agreed upon.
Ninja's just touchy that he doesn't have his 9-figure deal yet...
with the way other contracts
with the way other contracts are working out, we may be looking more at something like a 9 year, 10 figure deal
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Lackey finishes with a 3.35 ERA. Currently good for 13th in the NL. Not bad for a guy signed to be a #3 starter in a 15-team league.
He is also 6th in WHIP. Pretty amazing: Cubs have the #2, #3, #5 and #6 starters in WHIP.
Completely meaningless game, but Pena striking out Sean the Turd to with the bases loaded was very fun.
Other than one bad game in SD, Pena has been very good. Even with that game, 9.0 IP, 13 K, 0.89 WHIP.
101 wins...most since 1910 (104).
neat. ...or sad. pick one. pick both. 'murica.
Just looked up Grimm's stats -- after a great run, he gave up 2 runs vs. MIL then didn't pitch for 10 days. Don't remember why?
Sean Rodriguez's helmet looks like it's taking a dump
Grimm not doing himself any favors lately re: making the playoff squad. Seems to have lost the feel for his curveball.
j.grimm is literally worse than hitler.
felix pena, your turn.
it's been a while since joe's over-managed a game...it's gotta feel good for him to be back in the saddle making people's scorecards look like their pens blew up.
Fuck a bench spot on the playoff roster, Coghlan is competing to bat cleanup.
barely any...especially for an evening game. place looks 1/2 full at best to start the game.
Listening on the radio. Are there any fans in the stands at all?
"An MRI taken Monday on the right side of Jorge Soler showed no major damage."
rare air though if he can keep it under 2. Sounds like Maddon already made up his mind though and Hendricks seems like the sort that would want to earn it. Guessing he gets a quick hook if he's still under 2 after 5 innings.
Fwiw, he can give up 1 ER in 5 innings (or more) and still be under 2. If he gives up 2 ER, he would need throw 9 IP to keep it under 2. 1 ER in 4 IP would give him an ERA of exactly 2.
In terms of WAR, it's still Scherzer by a lot (6.4), then Cueto (5.6), Lester (5.5), Kershaw (5.5), Roark (5.4), and then Hendricks (5.1)
Boring lineup tonight in terms of guys trying to reach milestones -- no KB (40 HR), Addy (100 RBI) or JHey (can he keep it going?), and Lackey isn't really going for anything, plus the team has already reached 100 wins. I get the "rest" thing, although they will have 4 days off after Sunday, but....bleh.
Agree -- I think you want to keep him on a regular schedule.
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There are many things people can choose to believe about D&W but being stupid isn't among them. Nobody can believe that this is something they intended.
On thinking about it, I think we are missing the headline writer's pun. He is using "on ice" to mean not doing something. Of course, to me "put on ice" means to do something out on the ice....
Plushenko had a right to complain and he won the argument now with quads in sp and 2 quad longs from most of the top skaters. Not the horrible awful all triple nonsense of lysacek and his worthless now almost junior skate that won the 2010 Olympics. Now juniors do Lysaceks program easily and the scoring system had to be radically altered so you don't have junior men's skates winning the Olympics like Lysaceks did in 2010. So that does not exist with dw and vm because both of them are going for max difficulty and can respect each other while Lysaceks skate deserved no respect and no win.
How ridiculous! I was mad at myself for even reading the article after I got a taste of it. Then I saw this comment and am currently laughing out loud in the coffee shop (thanks Mathman!). I too was hoping for an actual tantrum... Here's to hoping they're both perfect. I can't wait to see Carmen at its best. I'll probably have it on repeat on Youtube until next season!!
[QUOTE=Mathman;718871]I know, right? From the headline I expected the article to say something like, Charlie missed a twizzle in practice and Meryl stopped on the ice and slapped him silly.
Davis and White really don't strike me as the kind of people who do 'tantrums', even when they're disappointed.
^^^ Agree
Today's quad-centric programs also include better spins, footwork, transitions...
I haven't watched Plushenko's program in a while, but I seem to recall that many jumps weren't even executed in a way that I would mark with positive GOE.
No question, his content was more difficult. But it wasn't performed especially well, and it wasn't presented to the degree that some of his earlier work was.
It was a good program, but not exceptional.
Okay just to be a pot stirrer lol I hope one of the Russian teams develops quickly and wins in Sochi among their home fans Go I and K Then who cares about D and W or V and M. But seriously both are really amazing teams; I think they should share the gold in Sochi.
I agree. Plushenko's jump content was more difficult, but the program was front loaded. Evan's jump content wasn't as high as Plushenko's, but he made up for the points every where else. It wasn't my favorite program of either skater, but Evan did a better job at ringing every point out of his program.
Since then, I believe the points have been adjusted to make quads more worthwhile, but it's still ice SKATING, not jumping IMHO. If Plushenko comes back, I'd like to see a program that's better choreographed, instead of just relying on jumps.
before I disliked meryl and charlie..... This article makes me hate them
I hope Tessa and Scott beat them so badly!
And what in that article makes you feel that way?before I disliked meryl and charlie..... This article makes me hate them
I hope Tessa and Scott beat them so badly!


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"Safe Haven" (PG-13): Teen fans of romance novels in any form will nestle right into the predictable, sentimental story, with just a dash of danger, that is "Safe Haven." If it weren't for Josh Duhamel's supremely likable performance, the movie would be a mushy mess. Moments of mostly implied violence occasionally cut into the love story, but not in ways that make the film too intense for middle schoolers.
At the start, we see a frantic, dark-haired young woman (Julianne Hough) running from one house and seeking shelter at a neighbor's. The next thing we know, she's become a blonde and boards a bus heading south out of Boston. We also learn that a cop named Tierney (David Lyons) is trying to find her and is acting pretty odd. She disembarks at a small coastal town in the Carolinas and decides to stay for a bit.
Calling herself "Katie," she gets a job at the local cafe, rents a cabin and befriends an adorable little girl (Mimi Kirkland) whose dad Alex (Duhamel) runs the general store. Instantly smitten, Alex tries to charm Katie with offers of neighborly help, but she's wary. There's a surprise at the end of the film that truly defies credulity.
A couple of flashbacks imply the possibility of murder and, later in the film, drunken spousal abuse. During the climactic confrontation at the end, lethal gunshots occur. At another point, a child falls off a dock and must be rescued. As Alex and Katie's relationship warms up, they spend the night together, but aside from much kissing and removing of outer garments, nothing is shown.
"Beautiful Creatures" (PG-13): Even teens not familiar with the novels by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl will get a charge out of this consistently entertaining, wittily scripted film based on the first one, about a teen girl from a family of witches.
Narrated by the ordinary human boy Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) who loves her, the film unfolds in a contemporary Southern town caught in a time warp of big cars and banned books. Ethan, a motherless teen who loves books, can't wait to go to college and break loose. He finds instant kinship with Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert), the smart and sullen new girl at school whose family history in the Civil War-era town inspires nasty teen gossip about devil worship. Parentless herself, she has come to live with her rich, elegant uncle, Macon Ravenwood (Jeremy Irons).
Ethan earns Lena's trust and affection, and comes to understand that she and her family indeed "have powers." Lena will become 16 in a few weeks, and go through a ceremony to learn whether she will use her powers for good or evil. She apparently has no choice in the matter. Or does she?
The acts of witchcraft involve many special effects and lightning, but are not graphic. The film includes occasional profanity and one implied teen sexual situation. Nothing explicit occurs, but Ethan and Lena kiss and then drop out of camera view – and remember, she's 15. The film features a potentially lethal shooting. Without preaching, the film says that good or evil is always a choice.
"A Good Day To Die Hard" (R): As long as action-movie fans 17 and older don't require a story to make sense, they can appreciate the ingeniously choreographed vehicular insanity, gun battles and explosions in this deafening and unnecessary sequel. Oh, and toss in the stoic, tough-guy dialogue. Bruce Willis returns nearly six years after "Live Free or Die Hard" (PG-13, 2007) as that violence magnet, policeman John McClane. He learns that his long-estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney) is under arrest in Moscow, accused of assassinating some gangster/businessman. Once he's on the ground, McClane discovers that Jack is a CIA agent, trying to salvage a quickly unraveling plan to spirit a jailed Russian billionaire named Komarov (Sebastian Koch) out of the country.
The movie consists mostly of eardrum-shattering gun battles and explosions, and road-destroying car chases and crashes. In all of this, the film depicts few injured bystanders, but in reality the sort of violence they're imagining would kill or injure many. Wounds are mostly less than graphic. One character late in the film falls into a helicopter rotor, which produces a cloud of blood. The dialogue includes strong profanity.


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It means that say person's stupidity were to take the form of any kind of solid, it would take up more space than a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Very similar to fuck-tard.
That guy just spilled coffee all over that hot chick, what a stoopisaurus.
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