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Rehab for Young Adults
Promises West Los Angeles provides world-class young adult drug rehab to clients ages 18 to 30 who are struggling with substance abuse and/or transitioning into adulthood. Located in Mar Vista, California, halfway between Beverly Hills and the Pacific Ocean, we deliver comprehensive, multidisciplinary care designed to help young adults and their families heal, grow and make lasting changes in their lives.
Speak Confidentially with a Promises Recovery Advisor at 844-876-5568.
Whether a young adult requires residential treatment, sober living, day treatment or an outpatient program, he or she can expect the innovative treatment and superior care that Promises drug rehab is known for. Some features that set our young adult rehab program apart from others include:
- Opportunities to integrate real-world experiences into drug rehab treatment through local outings and activities
- Personalized treatment plans
- Comprehensive addiction treatment delivered by a team of experienced, credentialed professionals, many of whom are in recovery themselves
- Superior staff-to-client ratio
- Commitment to the highest standards of privacy and confidentiality
- Family program designed to help loved ones heal
- Gourmet, chef-prepared meals using locally sourced food, when possible, and produce from a working, onsite garden
- Extensive alumni services and continuing care resources
We are fully invested in our clients' success, never losing sight of long-term addiction recovery as the ultimate goal. Our unique young adult rehab program is divided into four distinct phases that span a four-month treatment period. We recommend clients enter the program at phase one and move through the phases sequentially for a seamless treatment experience that supports long-term recovery.
Treatment phases include:
Phase One: Stabilization and Inpatient Drug Rehab
Detox and Stabilization – Some clients will begin treatment with medically monitored detox and others will admit directly into inpatient care. During medical detox, our team of physicians and nurses monitors clients around the clock to ensure utmost safety and comfort. Evidence-based medications may be administered to ease withdrawal symptoms and cravings as clinically appropriate.
Residential Treatment – Clients live in home-like cottages with a small group of peers sharing similar struggles. The focus is on developing life skills through intensive treatment, personal responsibility and accountability. Clients attend individual therapy to address specific issues as well as gender-separate group therapy. Our program helps young people gain relapse-prevention skills and address underlying issues that can fuel substance abuse. Clients participate in fitness, chores, goal-setting, 12-step work and experiential activities like psychodrama and Rock to Recovery.Learn about a typical day in our young adult inpatient drug rehab program.
Phase Two: Intensive Outpatient Treatment
Clients attend treatment five days a week for six hours a day. Family therapy is provided as clinically appropriate. Our intensive outpatient program begins easing clients into independent living. Clients learn practical skills like applying for school, finding a job and budgeting. They participate in regular group therapy and individual therapy during the day, and in the evening they attend 12-step meetings of their choice. Clients have more flexibility to visit with friends and loved ones.
Depending on medical necessity, clients can admit to our young adult drug treatment program during this phase if they've attended a residential program elsewhere.
Phase Three: Outpatient Treatment
Our outpatient drug rehab program helps clients keep a strong foothold in treatment while easing back into home life or a sober-living environment. Clients build on the work they began in intensive outpatient treatment, focusing more heavily on honing life skills, finding employment or a volunteer position, or returning to school. Our team provides hands-on help with job searches and interviewing, budgeting and applying for community college.
Phase Four: Launch Back Into Life and Society
From day one, our step-down program begins preparing young adults to succeed in sobriety and life after treatment. Phase four finds clients fully launched back into their lives with newly gained resiliency, healthy habits, self-esteem, a sense of purpose, and everyday life skills. Young adults benefit from continued support from our robust alumni network and continuing care services. Already integrated into the recovery community through the 12-step groups they've attended during treatment, clients have a strong support system in place.
Approaches and Therapies
Our program is rooted in the 12 steps, and also addresses grief/loss, emotion dysregulation, trauma and other issues that contribute to unhealthy behaviors. Each client moves through the stages of change in a structured sequence that includes:
- Comprehensive assessments
- Medically monitored detox
- Individual, group and family therapy
- Psychoeducational groups
- Psychiatric care
- Neurofeedback
- Equine therapy
- Life skills
- Dialectical-behavior therapy skills
- Yoga
- Fitness
- Creative therapy (music, art and writing)
- Sober recreation
- Relapse prevention planning
Young Adult Drug Rehab Program Highlights
Wolf experience – Our young adult rehab offers wolf therapy, a highly effective daylong experience that includes hiking, team-building and interacting with wolves in a uniquely spiritual way. The outings are challenging and illuminating, with the wolves offering effective lessons in communication, compassion and engagement.
Intensive family therapy – Every client is assigned a clinician for family therapy. Each week there is a family group led by a licensed marriage and family therapist, a family members-only group led by one of our other clinicians, and a multi-family group. In addition to these groups, our family therapist works with each family separately on specific issues, and clients and their families are invited to participate in a four-day intensive family program.
Rock to Recovery – Each week, professional rock musicians with a personal understanding of addiction and recovery arrive on campus and work with clients in a fun, therapeutic "Rock Academy." Over the course of just one session, the musicians help residents form a band, write a song and perform the song. Through word and deed, the musicians in Rock to Recovery demonstrate that sobriety can fuel creativity in constructive, meaningful ways. Listen to some samples of music created and recorded by some of our past clients.
Life Skills – At Promises, clients don't just eliminate drugs and alcohol; they gain the life skills needed for independence. We help them apply for jobs, craft resumes and prepare for job interviews. We also take clients to local community colleges for tours and help them register for classes. Clients are responsible for chores like laundry and grocery shopping. They learn how to manage a budget, prioritizing needs and wants, and making smart choices about spending.
Positive Environment – Clients learn that sobriety can be fun and fulfilling. We emphasize the importance of a sense of community and supportive, positive peers and integrate healthy activities throughout treatment. Some of these include barbeques, cooking classes, yoga, local outings, community meals, and social and 12-step activities with alumni.
Alumni Events – Promises sponsors ongoing recreational and social events for alumni designed to encourage continued engagement with the program and with other graduates. Called "sober fun," events include movie screenings, barbeques and sports leagues, offered with the goal of demonstrating that being young and sober is not only attainable, but also stimulating and rewarding.
For more than 25 years, Promises drug rehab center in West Los Angeles has provided clients with the comprehensive care and support they need to recover from addiction and co-occurring mental health issues. We can help you or your loved one. Call us for a free, confidential consultation.
Speak Confidentially with a Promises Recovery Advisor at 844-876-5568


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EMPLOYEE0Eytan (Official Rep) August 19, 2012 07:37Hi Danielle,
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Teens and adults with autism have a fun new way to explore relationships and social cues thanks to The Second City's Improv for ASD's 12-week mentoring program.
Using improv games and exercises lead by Second City Training Center experts, the program allows individuals to break out of their shells. They also learn teamwork, confidence and listening.
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I'm a Uni student, studying Illustration and Moving Image.
I'm a huge manga/comics fan. No I'm pretty much obssessed! I write and draw comics and I love cosplay to the point that I would spend hours painting half my body green just for one day. Sigh If only the media understood that. ;_; Noone likes being cussed on the front page of a newspaper do they!? I didnt ;_: Anyways~
My aim is to be a professional comic artist/illustrator and to draw comics based strictly on real life and psychological issues. Other than manga and anime I have a strong interest in East Asian culture. I also like to stalk korean rappers and singers on Twitter. Seriously. Its a fun interest! ^-^
I love music (and music accessories!) I love ALT Rock,NU-metal, Christian ROCK and rap, Japanese pop and rock,Korean HIP HOP, pop and rock, Viet rap, Chinese pop, Underground Rap and House/Electro.
I like to learn Korean/Japanese pop dances.
I work as a part time ninja, nah joke! I'm just your average cosplay/comic/japanese/korean/ whatever you wannna call it freak.
I love making new friends and getting to know new people dont matter whether male, female or alien.
Cosplay Bio
It was in year 2008 during my first year of college. I befriended this girl (who is now one of my closest friends),she found out that I also liked anime and told me about the mcm expo. At the time I was pretty clueless I had no idea that cosplay existed, I didnt know anything about conventions either.
She persuaded me to come along and tried to explain to me what cosplay was. I didn't get it, my mind couldn't comprehend it at the time.
As if people actually dress up as anime characters! So I thought.
Boy, was I stunned when I finally went to my first expo event!! I was a huge Gintama fan as well and when I saw someone cosplaying Gin during my first expo, I felt this unexplainable feeling of Joy. I was seeing my fav anime characters projected their right in front of me in real life. It was mind blowing! I wanted to be part of it to be an Anime character for a day was a like a childhood dream come true for me. (I used pretend I was sailor moon when I was young).
So after that fun experience, I immediately fell in love with expo, faithfully attended it every year, May and October.Unfortunately I had no cosplay friends and I didn't know how to start so I created my own OC, well ,closet cosplays. I admit that they were really fail closet cosplays but I was so desperate at the time! (This was during year 2009)
Then after some intense internet research I tried again (last year 2010 around April), only this time I picked a character.
I started of on a small budget, brought a black fuku online (it was on sale at lawrara.com) and decided to cosplay Hell girl. Then after I discovered Miku Hatsune fell in love with her music, cosplayed her at Hyper Japan last year.
My cosplay knowledge and experience slowly keeps expanding. I'm still a bit of a noob, I don't make my own costumes but I'm learning how to style wigs. I'm also going to attempt at making a cosplay prop for the first time as it cant be avoided. My first official cosplay Hell girl was in May 2010.
I also made a film about cosplay with my film group, it got screened at the David lean cinema at the Croydon Clocktower. :3
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The following is part one of a two-part Question and Answer session with Comprehensive Obesity Management Program patient Jennifer D.
What type of surgery did you have and when?"I had gastric bypass surgery on May 3, 2011."
Why did you decide to have bariatric surgery?"I had been contemplating having it for about 10 years. I had tried everything a number of diet programs but just couldn't lose the weight and keep it off. At the point I decided to take the step and have weight loss surgery, I was at the highest weight of my life and on blood pressure medicine. I was 34 years old, and I was tired of coming out on the losing end of this weight battle."
Did you attend any of GBMC's free bariatric support groups prior to surgery?"Yes, and they were extremely helpful. While the surgeons and dietitians are always available to answer your questions, it is such a huge help to hear from people who have actually been through the surgery or are going through the same thing as me. They were able to explain what was going to happen and give me tons of real world advice."
In your opinion, what was the hardest part of the program leading up to surgery?"Trying to adapt to how different my life was going to be after surgery was a challenge. Paying closer attention to what I was eating and food journaling really opened my eyes. Even though I'm eating less, I take twice as long to grocery shop because I'm being more careful about reading the labels and not just saying, 'It says fat free, so I'll buy it.'"
What is one piece of advice you would give to patients who are still going through their pre-surgery program?"Bariatric surgery is not a magic pill - you still have to do the work and put forth the effort. The more you prepare your body by making healthy diet choices and getting exercise before surgery, the smoother things will go afterward."
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Almost 12,000 people expected to stay in Steamboat this weekend
January 15, 2014
About 11,888 visitors are expected to be in town Saturday for Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, according to the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association's lodging barometer. In 2013, 11,300 visitors spent the night in Steamboat that same weekend.
The figure represents 72 percent capacity at area lodging properties, with downtown occupancy at 94 percent. On the mountain, hotels are forecast at 79 percent capacity, and condos are expected to be 67 percent full.
Lodging is expected to dip to 8,114 by Wednesday.
The Chamber's lodging barometer is based on survey data from local lodging properties. Its primary function is to help businesses determine staffing levels during the winter and summer tourism seasons. Actual lodging occupancy levels tend to increase from the forecast levels as a result of last-minute bookings.
Visitors will have plenty to do at Steamboat Ski Area this weekend as it hosts the Cowboy Downhill Cowboy Up Party and Balloon Glow at 5 p.m. Sunday and follows that up with the 40th annual Bud Light Cowboy Downhill at noon Monday. Night skiing also starts at 5:30 p.m. throughout the weekend.


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— When 9-year-old South African Ella Addison was five years old, her mother forbade her to even get on the boat with her father, who runs a shark-diving business.
It wasn't because she feared Ella might be frightened by the sight of her dad, Mark, plunging into shark-infested waters without the protection of a cage. It was because she knew Ella would jump in right behind him.
Ella had begged to accompany her father on a dive, and her mother knew she would go stir-crazy with anticipation if she had to sit on the boat and watch.
However, in a "don't tell mom!'' moment, Mark allowed his precocious tyke to join him underwater amidst the swirling predators. Ella did great. Then came the hardest part — telling mom.
"I don't think the danger was in the water,'' Mark joked during an interview alongside Ella and his wife with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie on Monday. "That day it was sitting on the beach while we were out back.''
"They begged and begged, and only when they got home did it come up,'' Gail said.
The family owns and operates Blue Wilderness, a South African aquatic expedition company that takes visitors out to dive, cage-free, with great whites, makos and bull sharks. Ella, who took her first shark dive at age 5, is now a 9-year-old who rides horses and is on the swim team. Swimming unprotected among 2,000-pound sharks is just another of her activities.
"The first time I got in I was (scared), but then I felt fine ever since,'' Ella said.
Most parents wouldn't let their child anywhere near a mass of potentially lethal sharks, but Mark insisted it's safe.
"I think cages spread fear, not understanding,'' Mark said. "We've spent most of the best part of our lives trying to understand these animals better, so I feel confident without cages is simply the way forward. I have implicit faith in the animals and obviously with certain controls and protocols in place, it's definitely safe to interact with these animals.''
Mark even admitted that growing up he was told 10 years old was at least the minimum age to attempt getting in the water in that type of situation, but Ella showed otherwise.
"She proved us all wrong that at that age it's possible,'' he said. And, said Mark, Ella's even gotten some life lessons.
"It definitely teaches discipline because you don't get a second chance to say 'Oh sorry Mom I shouldn't have done this,' so the instruction has to be followed the first time. You also have your child's undivided attention, so it is wonderful.''


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This article is from the WebMD News Archive
Is recovery from autism possible?
15th January 2013 - The idea that some children recover from autism remains controversial but new research lends possible credibility to the notion.
A small study by the US National Institutes of Health found children, teens and young adults who had received a diagnosis of autism early in life but moved off the autism spectrum as they grew older.
Dr Judith Gould, Director of the National Autistic Society's Lorna Wing Centre for Autism, in Bromley, Kent told BootsWebMD: "Autism is a lifelong disability affecting the way that people communicate and interact with others.
"This study is looking at a small sample of high functioning people with autism and we would urge people not to jump to conclusions about the nature and complexity of autism, as well its longevity."
Recovered or misdiagnosed?
The study was led by autism researcher Dr Deborah Fein and colleagues at the University of Connecticut in the US. In earlier work she had concluded that as many as one in five children on the autism spectrum can recover to the point where they are no longer considered autistic.
However, sceptics claimed that the children the researchers identified as "optimal outcome" -- a phrase Fein prefers to "recovered" -- were simply misdiagnosed or had a very mild form of autism early in life.
To address this criticism, Dr Fein had an expert in the diagnosis of autism review the early diagnostic reports of 34 people with a prior diagnosis of autism, along with those of 44 people with high-functioning autism, and 34 people who had never received a diagnosis of autism.
The autism diagnosis was deleted from the reports along with any information that would give the diagnosis away and the reviewer had no knowledge of the current status of the children and young adults in the study.
She says the reviewer identified all 34 of the optimal-outcome participants as originally autistic, based on their early diagnostic records, and all 34 of the typically developing participants as non-autistic.
Compared to those in the high-functioning autism group, those in the optimal-outcome group did show fewer social deficits in early childhood, but they were just as likely to have problems communicating and just as likely to engage in repetitive behaviours - two characteristic early signs of autism.
When the researchers examined the current status of the optimal-outcome participants, who ranged from eight to 21 years old, they exhibited none of the typical signs of autism, including problems with language, face recognition, communication and social interaction.
The study appears in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Behavioural therapy may make the difference
Dr Fein is a big proponent of very early intensive behavioural therapy. She says children who recover are more likely than those who don't to have had a behavioural therapy known as applied behavioural analysis.


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I found out yesterday that i have a limit slip diff!!
My car is an M plate 320i se saloon, nothing special when it was standared,
There was no way the previous owners had done it, old army major 10 year ownership, and a old lady owner untill me!!
I always thought the old girl was special as a few of my mates have 325's and one 328, and they could not pull away from me on the dueler, and i also rinsed a 323 which on paperwork should not of happened!
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International Food Laws and Regulations Training
International Food Laws and Regulations, FSC 810, Section 730. This is a 3 credit hour, graduate and undergraduate level, Internet-based, college course offered by Michigan State University designed for those who must understand the legal and regulatory complexities of the flow of food and agricultural products across national boundaries. International Food Laws and Regulations is one in our series of region-specific, Internet-based, food law courses comprising our International Food Law Certificate Program sponsored by the Institute for Food Laws and Regulations through the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University.
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The Lead Instructor is Neal D. Fortin, Director of the Institute for Food Laws & Regulations at Michigan State University, who is joined by an international faculty of food law and food industry professionals located throughout the world who will be available to you through the course discussion forum, course messages, email, real time chat engines, telephone or fax to answer your questions. There is also a Course Manager Mary Anne Verleger, who will be your primary contact throughout the course and will be available to help with any and all concerns regarding this course.
The objective of this course is to provide the student with an overview of the systems of food regulation practiced in different regions of the world including some of the cultural and social-economic factors which influence the regulation of food products in the specific region including issues such as genetic modification, importation, exportation, food additives, and regulatory compliance.
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The course is taught in a series of sections or ' Modules'. Most modules lasts one week and represent the food laws of a specific geographic region or a specific topic. Each week a new module is uploaded. Students will have ten days to read the materials and complete the assignment. Once uploaded, the Modules remain online throughout the duration of the course so you can always go back in case you miss a week or need to refer to a specific topic.
Here's a sample Index of the Modules in this course. The list of Module topics may change with each semester.
- Module One Getting Started in a Web Course
- Module Two International Food Regulation and Regulatory Agencies
- Module Three Comparative Law and Critical Analysis
- Module Four Food Regulation in the United States
- Module Five Food Regulation in the European Union
- Module Six Food Regulation in the United Kingdom
- Module Seven Food Regulation in Latin America
- Module Eight Food Safety Governance Comparative Study
- Module Nine Food Regulation in Japan
- Module Ten Food Regulation in India
- Module Eleven Case Study: 'The Regulation of Genetically Modified Foods in the European Union'
- Module Twelve International Food Law and Risk Regulation
- Module Thirteen International Food Law - Course Review and Final Examination
- Module Fourteen Course Evaluation
Your assignments will be due the following week and can be submitted automatically using our course assignment drop box feature or by email, fax or snail mail. Grades are posted electronically and sent to you by email. Class participation is accomplished by means of synchronous and asynchronous Internet communication technologies such as written discussion forums and course messsages.
It should take an average of nine to twelve hours per week to complete a module. You simply go online and a new module will be waiting each week. Read the materials, explore the hyperlinked and other Internet-based resources, complete the assignment, upload it in the course assignment drop box, and you're done for the week. Now, lets be realistic. What if you're called out of town for a week or are otherwise unable to access or complete a module within the ten day time limit? No problem. Time extensions can be granted; and if you give us a bit of notice, the course materials can be provided to you by course message or email.
If you are looking for a convenient way to continue your education and you need information regarding the international or region-specific regulation of foods or if you work for a company planning an expansion into a particular market, this is the course for you.
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- Cakes/Candies Vendor: Celebration cakes
- Photo Booth Vendor: Photoboothme
- Caterer: Belgenny farm
- Photographer: Modelo photography
- Florist: SavAnna flowers
- Tuxedo Vendor: Calabro- wetherill park
- Officiant: Leanne Evans
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"Awesome taste. Awesome decorations. Awesome service. Although they don't deliver too far."
Belgenny farmElizabeth Macarthur Avenue
South Camden , New South Wales, Australia
"Expensive but everyone was helpful and were able to answer all my questions. Only downside they ran out of my favorite drink after only 3 glasses. Ensure you inform them of drinks you want on hand."
SavAnna flowersCamden, NSW, Australia
Leanne EvansHarrington Park, NSW, Australia
"Lovely lady. Was very patient with hubby and me."
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PhotoboothmeNorth Sydney, NSW, Australia
Modelo photography427 Forest Road
Bexley, NSW, Australia
"Not very original."
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Calabro- wetherill park36 Toohey Road
Wetherill Park, NSW, Australia
"Ask for Veronica from the bridal area. Or there was another lady from down stairs. Can't remember her name but was the only red head. Only ones that know what they were talking about."


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Jose Quintana, who stands at 6-foot-0 and 170-pounds, is in his second full-season stint in the United States after playing in the Venezuelan [with the Mets] and Dominican Summer League. When life in America became reality, Quintana found himself heading to Charleston after 15 games played with the Gulf Coast League squad in 2010.
Pitching in only five games in Charleston, he put up stagnant numbers but it gave him higher-level of competition experience that has now translated into the 2011 season.
As the 2011 baseball season kicked off, Quintana found himself on the high-A Tampa squad where he has pitched remarkably well.
Appearing in 20 games entering Friday's start, he has seen time in the bullpen and also as of late the starting rotation. Quintana, who tossed seven more shutout innings against Palm Beach, was sporting a 5-0 record with a 1.72 ERA while striking out 47 batters before the game. He had pitched a total of 47 innings and has felt strong on the mound.
Quintana carries three pitches in his arsenal; a fastball, curveball and a changeup. His fasball sits from 90-91 but has reached 93 this season. His curveball is known to have solid depth to it, allowing the ball to break effectively. His third and final pitch, the changeup, has been his number one pitch this season and for Quintana, he knows it.
"I've gotten a lot better working on my changeup and it's been my favorite pitch this season," Quintana said through a translator. "It's been a great pitch for me and I have been throwing it in all different counts with confidence."
Tampa Yankees catcher, Mitch Abeita, has seen Quintana in many different roles this season, but has seen him throw his new changeup pretty effectively.
"His changeup is coming along," Abeita said. "It fades the other way on batters, making it very challenging for righties and lefties."
As Quintana continues to develop his changeup, Abeita believes that his fastball command is what is really making Quintana become a stand out pitcher for Tampa.
"Fastball command and locating it inside and outside is really what I have noticed what have gotten the batters out," Abeita said.
"Most of the time when you can command the pitch inside and outside of the plate, you will see the weaknesses of the hitters. You can tell if they are looking inside or outside, and good fastball command has made his secondary pitches that much more effective."
When the 2011 season got under way, Quintana was slotted as a bullpen pitcher where he would come out of the pen and pitch effectively. As of late though, his role has changed and he has become a full-time starter. It could be challenging for a pitcher to make the switch to a starting pitcher, but to become a pitcher who records outs can be harder. Abeita has seen the guts Quintana has shown this season, accepting change with open arms.
"He's been given a lot of different roles and has done very well in every situation he has been put in," Abeita said. "He has a lot of flexibility out of the bullpen, whether it is late or early in the game and now as a starter. He's been impressive in my opinion."
As the second half of the season is through twenty-plus games, Quintana as a starting pitcher would like to keep improving on throwing strikes and attacking the strike zone. With an ERA under 2.00, he has his attitude to thank for that.
"I feel great this year," Quintana said. "I've been really aggressive on every pitch and have been attacking the zone with all three of my pitches."
"As I continue this season, I hope to just keep working as hard as I can every day and focus on throwing strikes. If I do that, I think I will find success."
Quintana Keeps Rolling Along
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Yup , it's probably going to be a lot better then swg when it's release
and were in Saskatchewan are you from?
Well originally I"m from SW ontario, but almost exactly 2 years ago we moved out here to Kamsack.
ah right on that's about 4hrs away from me lol
That looks cooooool! I quit WoW about 4 months ago, and I play Eve Online every now and then... but this could be a game that gets me sucked back into MMOs.... >_< makes me scared! haha
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I know the feeling dude , i just quit swg back in January
Too bad it's an MMO, there's a huge oversaturation in the market.
I want a standalone game so I can play from beginning to end on my own time.
I'm sure it'll be a great game, but...
Still think it should have been a KOTOR 3. Would be great to see a Mass Effect style game, but in the Star Wars universe.
Andy I think it would be cool to see this in like a Mass Effect or Fallout 3 kinda fashion. I don't know about you, but I loved Fallout 3
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I played SWG a while back, though my major problem with it was that they fiddled with it and made it virtually unplayable and they didn't want to listen to people. It kinda put me off MMOs in general.
As an aside to the conversation, Adonian, try Guildwars, there's no monthly charge.
SWG had a lot of great ideas and a lot of good things going for it. Unfortunately, it was also a grind-fest. People HATE that, as has been clearly illustrated by the utter demise of grind games like Everquest and the meteoric rise of quest-based games like WoW. The SWG dev team failed at the most critical point for any MMO, listening to your player-base.
People didn't want SWG to become WoW. They just wanted to get away from the grind. So after combat revamps, upgrades and whatever else they tried to call it, they gave up, cut everything that made SWG what it was and turned it into another class-based WoW-type game. At which point I, and a lot of others, promptly chucked it out the window never to be seen again.
The ability to multi-class the way it did, the completely player driven economy, the social classes of entertainers and artisans. Those are what made SWG unique and cool and made it feel like "the real thing" if you will.
But they promptly turned around and killed that.
I enjoyed the KOTOR games, but am happy to see a new SW-based MMO. The time I spent in SWG is still some of my favorite MMO time simply because of the subject matter. Star Wars is flat-out cool, and although a single-player game is fun for a month or so, MMO's can go for years if properly maintained by their development team. Which is why a lot of us are willing to chuck 15$ into the abyss every month.
I understand the reluctance to "pay to play" but the simple fact is that these games are (generally) more engrossing, more varied, and more interactive than any other games out there. If Bioware truly can add the element of "story" to this MMO, it will hands down be the best MMO yet. I wish them all the best. It's ambitious, but if they pull it off, it'll be an amazing game.
I am very much looking forward to this game and hope they can bring it off with all of the features they're promising. Heck, even if it sucks, I'll probably play it for a while anyway. I played SWG for a few years and it really went downhill toward the end of that time.
Just my 2 creds.
PS - GCN is right about oversaturation in the MMO market. The only good thing about that though is that there is enough selection and variety, that players are being exposed to enough MMO's to know what makes them good, and what makes them cookie cutter jokes. This helps the good MMO's rise to the top, and the bad ones die quick, painful deaths. It's a good thing in the end. Though a lot of people trash it, WoW is an excellent MMO and has survived for it. While games that really just rip off other games (poorly) like Tabula Rasa and others have tanked and died.
Saturation may cause a lot of competition, but competition is good for the players. It drives the developers to innovate and create new, exciting experiences in order to stay on top of the market.
I hope there will be lots of information about our beloved heroes and villains from the games and comics.
looks pretty sweet. Is this game replacing Star Wars Galaxies?


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Once upon a time in the wild west of Wyoming a little boy played cowboy with his toy gun. Dickie was so thrilled with playing with guns that when he grew up he liked to go into the forest and show his bravery by killing squirrels and deer. Dickie figured if he didn't kill the squirrels, the squirrel army would gain so many numbers of angry members, it would sweep over the defenseless people of Wyoming. As for the deer, they ran faster than he could so it was only fair that he had a gun to shoot.
One day, the brave little Dickie, got a letter from Uncle Sam which informed him the army wanted his services to fight in a place called Vietnam. Well, Dickie consulted the Constitution and it clearly said the 2nd Amendment only applied to "militias" which meant the Army could not take his body away from Wyoming. He also figured fighting in jungles was not exactly the same as killing deer because those Viet Cong had guns that fired back and a man could get killed. Dickie told the draft board he had better things to do than risk his life overseas. Anyway, the local NRA people told him they needed his services to fight against the oppressive American government which was flying around in black helicopters and kidnapping decent American citizens.
Dickie was a brave man and kept his gun ready 24 hours a day and night just in case those oppressive gangsters in the black helicopters swooped down and tried to break into his house. His neighbor, Joe Horn, came out one day and shot down two men robbing the next door house. Dickie enjoyed such tales of men shooting people who didn't have guns to fire back because it always meant the good guys won and the bad guys lost.
Dickie made certain in life he hung around with other such brave men like Georgie, the boy whose daddy kept him out of fighting people with guns. If you loved guns like Dickie loved them, the important thing was always to shoot at something that could not shoot back. That is the American way of bravery. The local NRA people said it was true and if they said something was true and American, it darn sure was!
Dickie was a 100% American not like that coward John Kerry who went to Vietnam and got a soft job in the jungle while Dickie was battling through Washington D.C. traffic. It is no wonder the NRA holds up Dickie and Georgie, and all the other Bush draft dodgers as the personification of what is meant by the gun culture. In America, to love a gun means always make certain you only use it against unarmed people and unarmed animals. And, if you really want to become a good hunter, get an Uzi in case the first shot doesn't hit the target. After all, we know the black helicopters are sending rays to make your shot go astray. It's them damn liberals in the helicopters who are behind efforts to take away a man's right to kill the undefended. Just read the 2nd Amendment, it's all explained in it.
Now, I know some people want to take away Dickie's right to have a gun to defend his nation against dictatorship. Just remember, the last time the oppressive government tried to take away our right to slaves, we God loving Constitution obeying gun lovers rose up in arms to defend our laws and way of life. And, just remember, it was gun loving God fearing decent Americans who were in the KKK lynch mobs to teach them uppity black skinned men
to obey the Constitution and keep their eyes away from our white women! If you take away a man's right to have a gun, you take away his right to defend his family against you know whom– them damn terrorist Muslims!
Dickie, them liberals may say bad things about you, but we know that Dickie Cheney is one darn good straight shooter. OK, so maybe he is a mite bit off target a few times, but his heart is as straight as an arrow. Just remember, if you take a strict interpretation of Christ's Sermon On The Mount, it clearly says a man has a right to own a gun.


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Bush's Legacy of Failure
Posted on Mar 18, 2008
That idiotic "what, me worry?" look just never leaves the man's visage. Once again, there was our president, presiding over disasters in part of his making and totally on his watch, grinning with an aplomb that suggested a serious disconnect between his worldview and existing reality. Be it in his announcement that Iraq was being secured on a day when bombs ripped through that sad land or posed between his Treasury secretary and the Federal Reserve chairman to applaud the government's bailout of a failed bank, George Bush was the only one inexplicably smiling.
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The totally unwarranted assurance was there this week as the once proud dollar fell into the toilet and the debacle of Iraq and Bush's other failed Mideast policies pushed oil prices to record highs. The Europeans, who didn't support the U.S. imperial intervention, are doing much better, not having to pay for guarding besieged oil pipelines while U.S. taxpayers are saddled with trillions in future debt, not to mention 4,000 U.S. military deaths and 30,000 U.S. injuries in a war the administration had promised would be paid for with Iraqi oil revenues. Even in Baghdad last week, there wasn't enough oil to keep the lights on for more than a few hours.
But the president is happy because his legacy issue, the war on terror, is intact. No matter that this week the Pentagon was forced to release a report conducted over the last five years that concluded, after surveying 600,000 official Iraqi documents captured by U.S. forces, that there is "no smoking gun" establishing any connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. The report was so embarrassing that we taxpayers, who paid for it, were not going to be told of its existence, even though the explosive conclusions were totally declassified, until ABC News forced its posting online.
The network reported that the Pentagon had canceled plans to issue a press release or make it available by e-mail or otherwise online because, as one Pentagon official put it, the study is "too politically sensitive." Damned right it is—Bush squandered U.S. treasure and lives in an effort that had nothing to do with the infamous attack on America. As for the real war on terror against the real al-Qaida, those folks are very much on the rebound, just where they were before the 9/11 attack, building their bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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In the name of ending what were claimed to be onerous regulations imposed after the Great Depression, this administration accelerated a bipartisan pattern of allowing Wall Street to betray investors with impunity while abandoning the federal government's obligation, once accepted equally by conservatives and liberals, to ensure our national solvency. This tendency, under way for decades to give the bankers what they wanted—codified in the Financial Services Modernization Act, which was signed into law by Bill Clinton and which permitted banks, stock brokers and insurance companies to merge—was exacerbated by Bush's appointment of rapacious corporate foxes to watch the corporate henhouse.
They will take care of their own, which is why Bush was smiling, happily posed in that photo op between Henry Paulson Jr. and Ben Bernanke announcing the Bear Stearns bailout, made possible only by the federal government using your tax dollars to pick up the bad debt of the banks. Tape that picture to your wall to remind you, when you open a credit card bill with a 30 percent interest rate—not the 2 percent the Fed will charge banks—or see the increase in your adjustable rate mortgage, of just what your government will do for the really big guys that it will never do for regular folks.
In the years to come, as millions lose their retirement income and homes, we will have occasion to remember Georgie Porgie, who kissed the taxpayers and made them cry before he ran away.
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By eraends, March 19, 2008 at 4:47 pm Link to this comment
One has to wonder about the "Failure" or just a continuation of a "grand design". Failure implies a serious attempt to succeed and unfortunately, the attempt is not successful. I don't know about that. Having read extensively about the "neo-con" goals from Nixon through GW, there appears to be a systematic process of taking apart of 'American'. Ever since the Civil Rights movement of the 60's the Conservative forces in this country cut, eliminated, discredited many "progressive" attempts to bring America into the mainstream of global politics. Think of all the programs eliminated during "conservative" legislative and executive leadership…peace corps youthful initiative, planned parenthood, Voting rights(now papers needed in some states with large Black populations)collaborative foreign relations, disarmament strategies, environmental regulations, economic progress, progressive taxation, public education research grants, educational grants, habeas corpus to name a few. And look at what's in their place. Destructive global warming, preemptive wars, religious litmus tests, rewriting of science, discarding the Constitution. This is not some failure, but a systematic undermining of the U.S. as a global power in the world. We couldn't create jobs in this country in the next depression, because the money lenders are 'bankrupt', we have outsourced our major industries for profit, we have destroyed industrial production so we couldn't even protect ourself from attack the next time, and we have inherited from the "conservatives" a $9,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooo.oo national debt. No this administration was not a failure, but the last nail into the coffin of the American Ideal…
By Curious, March 19, 2008 at 4:43 pm Link to this comment
You will have that small base that still believe Saddam attacked us on 9/11, and that no attack has happened on American soil since 9/1/01. No to actually believe that you have to believe Bush & Co's story re 9/11. I DON'T!!!
By gullwing, March 19, 2008 at 4:39 pm Link to this comment
is this connected to the taxpayer funded bailout. a carlyle rescue plan?..US INVESTMENT bank Bear Stearns took its first step in Australia when its private equity arm agreed to buy Macquarie Private Capital Group for $115.5 million cash.
Bear Stearns Private Equity offered $1.062 per security in cash, valuing the Australian private equity fund at $116 million. The offer was at a 56% premium to Macquarie Private's last closing security price.
These groups include Archer Capital, Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Ironbridge, Quadrant and Catalyst.
By FED UP, March 19, 2008 at 4:26 pm Link to this comment
I think what everyone fails to remember is that the idiot is a bold face liar. Forget that his lied about ever aspect of his life. Forget about the lies around Irag and Iran. Forget the lies about LA or our legal system, about torture, etc. The biggest lie is that he claims he cares. It is easy to spin the lies when you do not care. The only truth is he has ever spoken is that he is not worried. Why should he be. None of this will ever harm him. The war will never have anything but a positive effect on him. The big R word or even Bigger D word. Why worry. It not going to hurt him is daddy will always have enough money for him. So he can spin lies, play his game of being President for 8 years, it is just a game to him, then sit back and laugh at the whole situation. He has failed at everything he has done, had his daddy bail him out and chuckled about it later. But the real is is not the moron in offic, but those who put him there twice. I am not as worried about what he has done as I am about the folks that voted for him the second time and those that still believe in him. That has to be a scary bunch of voters.
By OH, March 19, 2008 at 3:48 pm Link to this comment
There is a good chance, depending on the severity of the recession and global warming, that Republicans will have to wear a scarlet letter, such as a brand on the forehead that says "BUSH" or "GOP".
Republican Conservatives have earned hatred of the overwhelming majority of Americans which they will all carry with them until the end of their lives.
By Mark, March 19, 2008 at 3:43 pm Link to this comment
I keep reading about how incompetent and stupid
When you see what his goal is, you will realize he has been one of the most successful Presidents in history.
By weather, March 19, 2008 at 3:31 pm Link to this comment
We need you Mr. Wolter more than ever. There's sneaky, snotty and ruthless children all dressed-up like adults, playing a Mark Goodman/Bill Toddman game show for keeps.
By Ernest Zeller, March 19, 2008 at 3:21 pm Link to this comment
Chickens are coming home to roost, the day of reckoning is coming. The Bushies should not be forgotten after they leave office.
By sonny, March 19, 2008 at 3:18 pm Link to this comment
I'm a Texan. George "Dumbya" Bush is not. I was born AND Raised here. George "Dumbya" Bush was not. He was born in the North East and he was raised in the boarding schools of the North East. He learned to badly imitate an accent and didn't use it until he became "Precedent". His Bravado is false. He is a child in the body of a stupid and failure of a man. If it weren't for his familial connections he wouldn't be alive today. He'd have been killed in prison while serving time for drunken driving or cocaine possession.
He never got my vote but my voice has always been raised in protest against him.
By Joe Magner, March 19, 2008 at 3:02 pm Link to this comment
We were going into Afghanistian and telling people in the area we were in July of 2001 - before 911 - and we were saying we were going in in October, which we did. Bill Clinton had layed much of the bricks, the deals were already cut with the northern alliance, and 911 was the cake to justify it all.
We were going into Iraq long before we sais we were, and from the get-go anybody who was looking closley at the bases realized we were not leaving, period, which we have not.
In order to control a country that has a middle-class, the middle class has to be eliminated, which we have done.
The country must be divided into sections that are antagonisitc, which we have also done - much with the surge capping this.
To control things in the corporate world, a paramilitary force/forces must exist - you know - renta-cops on the big weapond level. We have seen what Blackwater has been doing outside of Iraq working with other Corporations, like in Nigreia. We used Iraq to start/fund/build the structure of these para-military forces up.
So when you look at what Bush/They have done in the real world and not the make beleive world they want you to look at - bush has done amazingly well from their view point. Not perfect but well.
Its only those of us that wish to listen to the Bush language and point boney fingers and make fun and puff ourselves up to say how smart we are that fail to see what has been acomplished by them on the otherside while we all played in a circle jerk patting ourselves on the back about how DUMB Bush was….LOL…..the joke has been on the Circle Jerkers.
The objective of Bushco is to present to the corporations a view and order to the world that will allow the next evolutionary step in Corporate Global Power.
What we all should be looking for is the breaks and competition that is/will be taking place between these corporate assholes as they WILL fight amongst theirselves for power. That is afterall how THEY often fail! or many fail - and what comes out of that will determnine where the rest of the little people and poor people live and have to put up with.
Sorry to pop your blame bubble - but Bush has received what they wanted - as they have said - by the time you have figured out the last reality we defined for you - we will be doing the next reality and you will be left figuring out the new game we have made….bad bad paraphrase of an quote printed way back then.
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By dick, March 19, 2008 at 2:56 pm Link to this comment
He is happy because everything is going great for him and the other power elites, which includes the Congress. The masses are of no importance.
By natasha, March 19, 2008 at 2:55 pm Link to this comment
True, an awful lot of stupid people voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004, but he won neither election. Remember? Does anyone here really think either Hillary or Barack will be in the White House next term? The criminal, evil powers that run this country are still in place, and they will fix every upcoming election just as they did the past two.
BTW, I can't stand to see Bush's picture or listen to his voice, either. Makes me sick to death.
By marcie, March 19, 2008 at 2:13 pm Link to this comment
Georgie forgie, sayin a lie,
By David Wolter, March 19, 2008 at 1:45 pm Link to this comment
I'm 73 yrs. old and can't shake the feeling that the United States has passed me by. From the elder Bush puking on his Japanese host, to the corporate media/political impeachment, of Clinton, and the published history of the thief-in-chief Laughingly and embarrassingly disgracing the office he stole and destroying a collapsing monetary system to the detriment of the people who did not vote for him twice, I have only one thing to say….unbelievable!
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By Carlos Beca, March 19, 2008 at 11:46 am Link to this comment
Great article by Robert Scheer as always. I am a Canadian citizen and so I do not feel at ease to make comments about a foreign public figure. I usually discuss it with friends when we talk about politics. I do not mean in any way to offend American citizens or the US, but I have to confess that I never thought in my life that I was going to witness a demented running a country like the US. With all the ingredients to be a country to guide the world into sustainable prosperity and by example show most of the world that we can through democracy and education and social stability run this wonderful planet for the benefit of all of us, chooses to not only destroy its reputation world wide, invade countries with horrendous consequences Americans do not see on TV, destroy democracies all over the world by forcing its own regimes on people and then ask 'WHY THEY DON"T LIKE US?'. It is to me absolutely amazing. So much for the checks and balances of the American political system. I read an article about George Bush in the Atlantic magazine in the 1980s and I could not believe Americans were electing a monkey to run their government. The man has always been a failure and in a certain way a crook all his life. I am affraid it is going to take a miracle to get the US back on track. Much has to be changed. The reputation in Europe never mind in Canada is shocking!! Not even our right wing Bush like prime minister wants to be seen with George Bush. George Bush is the only US President I know of that has never been officially invited to visit Canada as a friend. Pretty sad.
By BigUnit47, March 19, 2008 at 11:30 am Link to this comment
100% on target. The intellectual-less dishonesty this administration has paraded before the world for the last 7+ years has left a lasting legacy of total disaster. Won't be long before few have jobs, which means they'll have plenty of time to spend at those casinos Republicans would love to see dotting the national landscape (what jobs are left will be those aiding the wealth-redistributing flim-flammery that has been signature of our current economy. America doesn't make anything anymore; but America will have to when currency trends force us to stop buying the cheap goods from China seemingly designed to eventually kill us (not all those terrorists come in the form of turbans w/AK-47s). And check those drugs; if made in China, they, too, could bring more harm than good. Why do I get the impression that, with Republicans in charge, the country has a distinctly down-hill course, economically and otherwise? Because they're only out for themselves and their special-interest friends. This nation NEEDS a Ralph Nader as pilot…
By JimM72, March 19, 2008 at 11:25 am Link to this comment
To add to all of the other comments here, I'll confidently state there is a lot more criminal activity in the Bush leagues than we are aware of. If it's left to the repulsive, lying mainstream media or to congress to investigate, we will never know until the 3am knock at the door….
By Ivan Hentschel, March 19, 2008 at 11:11 am Link to this comment
That we have weathered eight years of this idiot is beyond me. Perhaps the human condition is more resilient than I thought. He does not appear to worry because he never has and doesn't know how.He must be totally numb inside. I never fully understood the extent to which the term "moron" applied until this clown came along.It just gets worse (and more embarrassing) everyday.
By MDC, March 19, 2008 at 11:10 am Link to this comment
This man began his presidency believing he could take generous vacations and act as a figurehead while Cheney funneled money to his friends and republicans in congress had their way.
However, on 09/11/01 I believe Bush suffered a break from reality and has never recovered. Observing his behavior in video, I believe he is taking many prescription medications.
By Tony, March 19, 2008 at 10:11 am Link to this comment
I hear everyone complaining and I read here of all your complaints…The USA will never correct itself with only a two (2) party system…We need to vote out EVERY current politician and CLEAN HOUSE!!! And we also need to support new parties, limit campaign funding evenly so that we vote for candidates based on qualifications not how much money they can raise…
bush cheney rice wolfowits rove and that whole crew are evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By chuck, March 19, 2008 at 9:45 am Link to this comment
bush is a liar & an idiot. He caused this recession. He causes us to spend $ 17 BILLION /month in Iraq. We should have no oil crises with Iraq & Iran having so much oil. bush doesn't even talk about our oil RESERVES. Any new president can make the USA a better place to live & be proud of—-bush is the worst president we have EVER had! Oh yea, Darth Vader cheney is the worst VP. Congress has failed us too. We need to use a fireman's hose to clean up the BS in Congress & the "administration."
By Eric L Prentis, March 19, 2008 at 9:40 am Link to this comment
It is well known that President Bush is a pathological liar. Now President Bush has gone further into perdition by wholeheartedly sanctioning Chairman Bernankes unprecedented bailout of the Wall Street investment bank, Bear Stearns, which demonstrates Bernankes financial hubris and complete overreach of his authority. President Bush, defender of the ownership society ideology, can now be called the hypocrites hypocrite. Republican Senators Larry Craig and David Vitter can only dream of scaling the heights of hypocrisy that Bush has achieved by endorsing socialism for the rich and powerful at Bear Stearns while supporting privatizing social security and the second class punitive bankruptcy laws for the average US citizen. The United States is a plutocracy, run by the rich for the benefit of the rich.
By Conservative Yankee, March 19, 2008 at 9:35 am Link to this comment
I wouldn't vote for ANY Bush ever for ANY office. He couldn't run the town of Podunk without bankrupting them
When Sheer says the disasters are ".... part of his making and totally on his watch" he is prevaricating. Carter began the deregulation binge in 1978 with the deregulation of the airline industry. Carter said it would make "flying cheaper" at the time I was flying the Eastern Shuttle from Boston to Newark for $35. after deregulation, when Pan Am began flying the same route the tickets went to $75. Eastern started its long slide to oblivion, then Pan Am followed. Once the USA had the best and biggest airlines. Now we have hollowed out husks that are not even shadows of their former selves.
Deregulation has been bad for business, but the people who profited by buying and selling the businesses, rather than the product have kept this philosophy alive through five consecutive administrations. I lost my GREAT local bank when living in Lawrence, my small insurer (who was very inexpensive) when living in New Hampshire, and my formerly great union drug plan (.50 per prescription) last year.
No I do not like of trust GWB, but when it comes to fucking the public, he has LOTS of company.. and for a long time!
By don knutsen, March 19, 2008 at 9:05 am Link to this comment
Who needs Osama Bin Laden when we already have a president more then able to destroy our country from within. It boggles the mind what agenda this world emporer has going on behind those beady eyes. But what is most disturbing is how ineffective our goverment has become in holding this blatant criminal to account for the damage he has done to america and the world at large. Reality is of no concern to George, they early in his presidency decided they could create their own reality. They have dismantled most of the agencies put in place to protect us from the very excesses we are now seeing come to the forefront. They have removed the people's abillity to redress these injustices and have put in place a future for america that will be filled with desperation and the chaos that breeds. It didn't have to go this way, but our congress, up till last fall lead by the republican party turned criminal enterprise gave this president / VP , the banking industry, the credit card companies, the pharmecutical companies, the insurance industry everything they wanted and refused even the slightest form of oversite of where the peoples treasure was going while the supposed opposition party still quakes in fear afraid to conduct any of the people's buisness. Those of us in mid life have lived long enough to remember when we were the one country that all others aspired to be. Those days are over, we are way down the list in mortality rates, health in general, education, and just basic contentment among the rest of the so-called civilized nations. Our democracy was a great 200+ year experiment that is over now as we continue to slide toward a corporate 21st version of facism brought on by the greed of a relatively few in power. Whatever the modern definition of a traitor is, its label surely applies to the individuals that run this administration.
By Atticus Madison, March 19, 2008 at 8:52 am Link to this comment
Of course Bush is perpetually smiling. Why shouldn't he? He's the most sadistic, psychologically-unfit-to-be-president, incompetant, delusional, nitwit ever in the U.S. government, who never has to take responsibility for the hell he causes our country (except the filthy rich) and the world!
The cowardly congress, including Democrats who won't impeach him, let him get away with more and more desecration of the Constitution, violation of U.S. and international law, total secrecy to hide his war crimes. And the pathetic American people have become disgraceful sheep who pay more attention to hookers and amateur contests than they do the the rape of their country.
There is no longer an American republic, you fools! You gave it up and disgraced the Revolutionary generation, the Civil War generation and all the brave, principled people who fought endlessly to keep our liberties.
By JG, March 19, 2008 at 8:12 am Link to this comment
Bush's legacy will be that we and generations after us will know him to have been THE WORST president in history. He has ruined this country, our environment and our standing in the world. I cannot even stand to look at him or listen to him anymore…
By DennisD, March 19, 2008 at 7:36 am Link to this comment
Bob - yes, Bu$h was a failure before he took office and he's only taken it to the next level while in office. No one needed an advanced degree to predict that.
Let's not forget the Congress and courts that have aided and abetted him every step of the way. It's all the people we've elected in our system of government that have failed us by not ridding the country of this cancer.
By weather, March 19, 2008 at 6:49 am Link to this comment
We would be blessed if Eliot Spitzer could take on the most pernicious symbol of this epic of crimes:9/11
It would serve Obama well if he asked Edwards to be his Attorney General and to appoint Spitzer as special counsel.
By villager, March 19, 2008 at 6:44 am Link to this comment
From childhood, to Yale, to Texas businessman and governor, W showed nothing self accomplished "success", yet more and more glorious post were given to him and in 2000 almost half American sent him to be the free world leader over a million times better Al Gore. Just because he is a prince who is also funny and good to have a bear with?
I don't think W is really that responsible for what he did. He has no clue, his IQ in lower 80, views everything in black and white, and still think he is the savior of America.
It is American who elected him twice should bear the responsibility. We are paying the price - including more than half who never voted for him. W's approval rate never drops below 25%, I wonder what a "bad job" means to those idiots.
God bless America.
By Mark, March 19, 2008 at 6:43 am Link to this comment
gas prices 1990: $1.00/gallon
gas prices november 2002: $1.40/gallon (40 cent increase over 12 years - 40%)
gas prices today: $3.25/gallon (7 years of GWB = $1.85 increase - 185%)
mission accomplished!
By SuGee, March 19, 2008 at 5:44 am Link to this comment
I repeat my former comments on this website and others. The president of the United States and his father figure, the alcoholic "Unka Dicky" are both War Criminals. The fact that they have been criminals their entire adult life, but pre-emptively attacked a sovereign nation WITHOUT just cause and then torturing human beings for no other reason than the delight in seeing them suffer is thoroughly disgusting. But that's what corporate America wants; a criminal as our head of state. I normally don't listen to Georgie-boy's radio messages on Saturday. But March 21st, 2003 he appeared on the BOOB tube and said, "We're ALL sinners!". That was after 3 days of Shock & Awe on the Iraqi civilization. Apparently that was the last time he attempted anything close to his supposed religion, "Christianity". I can remember other "Christian" fallen figures, like Jimmy Swaggert, who used the same line. Apparently they think that they can be forgiven for all of their terrible crimes. Not this time. By the way, he LIKES to torture people. That says it all, right there.
By weather, March 19, 2008 at 4:05 am Link to this comment
into a new and very challenged century w/esteemable hope, we've been dragged down into a dark, draconian hole w/out a flashlight - and this sad, inept little man is America's tour guide, whose had all the help he could have ever needed from the MSM monster.
In broad daylight and w/great calculation WE turned over the title of the house and didn't even know it.
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Like Cinderella, the lymph labors quietly in the shadows to clean up the mess made by virtually all the other systems of the body. Widely regarded as a lesser sister to the circulatory system, the lymphatic system is actually a crucial player in your body's ability to ward off disease and heal from injury.
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Thursday, March 1, 2007
Why My Heart Is in San Francisco (and the rest of my body as well)
Person: Why do you live in San Francisco when most of publishing is in New York?
Me: You mean, besides the weather, the friendly people, access to unparalleled tomatoes in the summer, a lively arts and restaurant scene, and the fact that you can go to the beach, hike in a redwood forest, drink wine in Napa and hit the ski slopes on consecutive days?
Person: I hate people from California.
But in all seriousness, there are some really great non-tomato-related reasons why I made the decision, after two years working in Manhattan and living in Brooklyn, to return to the West Coast. Yes, most of the publishing industry is based in New York, and yes, you can get perfectly decent (but not transcendent) tomatoes in Union Square at the farmer's market, so why make the switch?
First off, I have never lived in a city that loves its writers as much as San Francisco. I mean, if you go to a reading here the mood in the crowd is somewhere between awe and outright idol worship. San Francisco loves its writers in the way people in Los Angles love their movie stars, and almost as much as New Yorkers love telling people which subway lines to take to get somewhere. As a result, there is an amazing, thriving writing community here, and it's a wonderful thing to be a part of. And this is an underserved community when it comes to publishing connections (shh, don't tell anyone), and thus I'm much better able to meet new unagented writers than I was in New York. I still represent writers around the country and the world, some of whom I've never met face to face, but there's something to be said for having a non-New York centered degrees of separation. I'm MUCH closer to Kevin Bacon.
As I mentioned in the agent panel at the San Francisco Writer's Conference, it's also really great to be swimming in non-New York cultural waters. The publishing industry has a tendency to be pretty New York-centric, and I've found that being exposed to different trends, fads, newspapers, etc. in a different part of the country has made me better able to discover new writers and to anticipate what the rest of the non-New York based country is thinking about.
And really, I am fortunate, with Curtis Brown, to have the best of both worlds -- I am in San Francisco, but I have the resources of a larger New York based agency behind me.
There are, of course, some small drawbacks. It is a bit more difficult to network face to face with New York publishing types, but in this respect I am fortunate -- I am a part of a general ongoing dispersal of the publishing industry around the country. It's much more common to work in publishing and not live in New York than ever before, and this has broken down many of the biases against hinterland agents and editors. And because of newfangled devices like the telephone and e-mail, especially with my generation, people are much more comfortable networking via technology than in the past. The book parties and cocktail hours, once the main way to brush elbows with the publishing industry powers, are almost extinct as publishers focus on more cost effective ways of selling books.
I've been completely thrilled by my move to San Francisco, and while I certainly miss my friends back in New York (not to mention the Gowanus Yacht Club), I have met new talented writers, I'm invigorated by the writing scene, and it's been a great career move as well. And did I mention how easy it is to go to the beach, hike in a redwood forest, drink wine in Napa and go skiing? I must have forgotten.
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I agree with you about the dispersal around the country of talented people in publishing. My best friend's editor lives in the Southwest and he has no problem dealing with someone who works for a big NY publisher outside NYC.
We can have choices now that technology has made instant communication possible. What difference does it make that you are there and an editor is there (save for the time zones, that is!)
Good luck in SF. I envy you. I miss my view of Mt. Tam now that I live in New England.
- March 1, 2007 at 2:51 PM
- Michelle Zink said...
Sigh. I love California.
As a transplanted Southern Californian living in New York, I can say both coats have their merits.
Believe it or not, I DID get sick of all the sunny weather.
Hmmm... I heard there's a lot of fog in SF. Maybe I should have moved there instead!
Seriously, though, I'm only an hour-and-a-half from NYC, and I challenge you to try and find a reading anywhere within 40 minutes of me, let alone a writers group.
Right about now, a thriving community of writers sounds preeeeeetty nice!
I'm a nomad. I've lived in Seattle, Redondo Beach, Phoenix, NY, VA, and Utah.
Maybe I'll add SF to my list of places to try living!
- March 1, 2007 at 3:13 PM
I just learned of you a few days ago, but so far am impressed with the informative topics and discussions, not only from you, but from several of the other writers here as well.
I always thought San Francisco was the best big city. In some ways it's like Seattle, where you can escape into some pristine wilderness in about ten minutes, and it has more sun that Seattle.
You can hop in and out of SF real quick and see what going on.
I'm from the South and always loved it out there, but please don't send any of those west coast peaches this way. That should be a federal crime you know.
As far as literature, City Lights was a cool place back in the day. Probably not your kind of crowd but it must have contributed to the lit scene.
John C
- March 1, 2007 at 4:25 PM
- McKoala said...
I lived in San Francisco for a year and loved it. Fog apart the climate was great for active sports (I love my tennis and walking); and there was so much to do.
And then there was an earthquake... Not a big one, just a little one. Enough to rock us awake and make us think about crawling under the bed - and then it stopped. The only after-effects were a window sticking that had never stuck before and an all-consuming fear in my heart.
I couldn't imagine living there now that I have children. I just can't do it. Drives DH nuts as he would love to go back there, but I can't get over my conviction that 'the big one' is coming and I don't want to be there for it.
- March 1, 2007 at 6:31 PM
Hi Nathan, terrific blog!
Your post touched on a question I've had for a while. You mentioned that you "...have the resources of a larger, New York based agency behind me."
I was wondering, in bigger agencies like Curtis Brown, how much sharing goes on between agents? Do you give each other the names of appropriate editors, share information with less-experienced colleagues, read each other's manuscripts, etc.?
Thanks again! You're the best.
- March 1, 2007 at 7:01 PM
- Nathan Bransford said...
Great question! Lots and lots and lots of sharing. Yes, in addition to sharing names of appropriate editors we read each other's stuff, we have a weekly staff meeting where we address issues with publishers and share news, we collaborate on contracts, we brainstorm.... we're always in touch with each other. I miss everyone in the New York office a great deal after spending two years there, but luckily I talk to everyone in the New York office all the time.
- March 1, 2007 at 7:06 PM
- A Paperback Writer said...
I don't live in CA, but I can tell you that SF is one of the most charming cities in the northern hemisphere. I always like visiting.
But I had no idea it was so keen on its authors, so thanks for the tidbit, Nathan.
Edinburgh, Scotland is very keen on its authors, so that was a fun place to live for me, but it's nice to know there's such a place closer to home.
- March 1, 2007 at 8:48 PM
Thanks for the quick answer, Nathan. It sounds like you work in a wonderful environment.
- March 1, 2007 at 9:05 PM
- sex scenes at starbucks said...
I do adore SF. Sigh.
However, certain Colorado writers have access to the BEST powder in the world, (24 inches in the last 72 hours) and a ski-loving, friendly agent would probably have a free place to stay.
Maybe I should include that tidbit in my queries. Hmmm. ;)
- March 1, 2007 at 10:35 PM
- Jen said...
Native Californian here. I'm grateful that San Francisco does love it's writers.
I live in the boonies of northern California. When I researched agents for my work, I decided to query one in San Francisco. Part of me wanted a chance for some "face time" with whatever agent represents me.
I love California, despite it's earthquakes. I lived through the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. It's all part of the California experience.
- March 2, 2007 at 8:28 AM
Thanks for the answer to this question, Nathan. I had no idea that tomatoes were part of the answer!
New topic: if Miss Snark has her snarklings, can we be "Bran Fans?"
- March 2, 2007 at 10:35 AM
- Katie said...
See, and God sent an earthquake to San Francisco last night to punish you for bragging!
Just kidding. Just don't talk about how awesome Los Angeles is.
Your blog is funny and informative; thanks for posting!
- March 2, 2007 at 10:44 AM
- L.C.McCabe said...
As a Sonoma County partisan, I'm going to have to try and sway you to the charms of the county just west of Napa. (We actually refer to the mountain chain separating our counties as the Continental Divide!)
This weekend in fact is a chance to go barrel tasting.
It is wonderful chance to taste fine wine and talk directly with winemakers.
Oh and in the words of Tommy Smothers:
Sonoma makes wine
Napa makes...
- March 2, 2007 at 10:46 AM
- Julie K. Rose said...
I love living in the Bay Area - been here since 1984 (with a detour to Charlottesville VA for grad school) and I really can't imagine living anywhere else. So diverse, so beautiful, and it's a fantastic place to be a creative person of any stripe.
- March 2, 2007 at 11:50 AM
- Megan said...
When I look at your picture I wonder, did he go to my high school? Redwood in Larkspur. But I guess not. I grew up in the Bay area and have relocated to Indiana (I know, why would anyone). I need no explination why you would live where you are. My husband and I come back often. Hope to meet you some day.
- May 7, 2010 at 12:35 AM