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Original Content: Non-Western SF Roundtable (Part 2)
Part 2 of our roundtable on Non-Western SF. Part 1 is here.
Participating: Aliette de Bodard (France), Joyce Chng (Singapore), Requires Hate(Thailand), Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Philippines/The Netherlands),Ekaterina Sedia (Russian/USA), Rachel Swirsky (USA).
Aliette: We talk about colonisation, which is mostly a phenomenon of the past (but which has left marks and scars everywhere that will take a long time to fade); but I think we need to bring up globalisation. It's often lauded as a way which makes the world smaller so that cultures can meet. In reality, it's immensely problematic, because what it has mostly done is homogenise everything to a common US/European framework and deny the values and identities of the people from outside that framework in, I think, a more insidious way than colonisation. Many people (especially in the West) suffer from the illusion that colonisation is dead; but it's not. It lives on in its new incarnation; and it means we can talk about "universal stories" and "universal tropes" with such glibness–and forget that a large chunk of the world follows very different values and mindsets from the "default", Western Anglophone one. Like requireshate says, there's a really pernicious assumption that everyone is part of the mass and subscribing to the same "core" values, whereas nothing could be further from the truth. And there remains a fundamental power imbalance between the Western, English-speaking world and the non-Western countries–an imbalance that notably gets expressed in literature, and in the one-way street that means books get translated from English into pretty much every country in the world, but 0.3% of books published in the US are actually translated into English.
Joyce: Oh yes, globalization is insidious. Everyone is equal. Shrinking world. Blah blah blah. Everyone holds hands and we are friends. No. The scars of colonization are still there. Many former colonies are left with the issues to deal with. 😦
requireshate: When I go to a bookstore, there are veritable shelves of translated fiction–a fair bit from Japanese and Chinese, but vastly dominated by English-language fiction in translation. It's what a lot of kids grow up reading, and it's pretty awful to see so many covers featuring white girls (localized YA fiction and paranormal romance: Vampire Academy, Sherilyn Kenyon, and so on). The same holds true for advertisements in cosmetics/hairstylist/etc sections in any shopping mall–chock-full of white women on display, even some black women, but starkly few Asian women! And then, only from brands that are Asian in origin anyway. Christian Dior, Lancome, whatever? All white ladies. And, again, clothes brands, lingerie, all white bodies. These western corporations didn't even think of localizing their advertising materials. Why would they? White signals opulence, beauty, and desirability. White is good, attractive, and an ideal we should aspire to. All this without Thailand having ever been colonized.
Joyce: Ditto in Singapore. A lot of white girls. Sooo… what does it say about the effects of colonization/colonialism? That Singaporeans have colonized minds?
Aliette: it's the same in Vietnam, at least in those few bookstores I went to: the bookshelves for fiction translated from Western English were larger than the ones for Vietnamese and Chinese fiction put together, and that's not even counting Young Adult…
(and also the same, sadly, for beauty products displaying white models)
Rochita: I think you can say the same about The Philippines. When I went home last year, I was struck once again by the plethora of fiction in English. They dominated the shelves. I was hard put to find books written by Filipino writers. True, there were some I hadn't read before, but the imbalance was mind-boggling.
What worries me about globalisation is how easy it is to buy into that mantra of a universal narrative. Argh. Just as well say people all look alike.
Addressing the question of Western people writing about or of a borrowed culture (I think I prefer that term), I believe it is possible to avoid the pitfall of exotization. It will probably take a good deal of reading and a good deal of time and energy investment, but I believe it will be well worth it to the reader and to the author. It's not enough to visit a country (the tourist writer who goes "oh shiny, I wanna write about that because it's so cool and different"). I think, as Requires Hate has pointed out, it's important to at least engage the literature of the country. It may be difficult but I think a lot of the heart of a culture is revealed in the work written by the people themselves.
Let me tell you what an American person established in the publishing industry told me: I should buy a thick book of American poetry and read these poems everyday until I get the nuance of the language. When told this to visiting poet, JT Stewart, she said to me: No. You don't need to do that because you write the language as you hear it in your ears. As you grew up hearing it and speaking it. Not as Americans do.
Aliette: Yes, there's a very deep-seated assumption that Westerners are the reference for the English language–whereas the largest Anglophone country in the world is India, and there are plenty more non-Western countries where English is an official language. That's not even getting into the mechanics that mean most of the world has to learn English as a second or third language just to get by, whereas most English speakers can afford to remain monolingual.
Coming back to the subject of writing in another culture: I, too, think it's possible to do it well (if not perfectly, and probably not as insider narrative). I'd add talking to actual people from the culture and visiting (with locals, not expats!) to reading the books.
Rochita: I agree.
Joyce: Ditto.
Aliette: Paraphrasing a 101 I gave to someone else about writing other cultures:
I think that, especially if you're a Westerner doing another culture, you have responsibilities to do the best darn research you can (and not just appropriate the cool bits). You must take care not to promote harmful stereotypes ; especially since, as a Western writer (especially, but not only, if you live in the West), you must be aware that your narrative is going to be privileged over that of locals. That gives you extra responsibility to get it as right as you can.
You have to accept that your narrative will always be that of an outsider. Sometimes a privileged or particularly well-documented outsider; but it won't be 100% accurate. It doesn't mean it's worthless, it doesn't mean it can't be good; but it does mean you have to be aware of the issues in writing outsider narrative (mostly that a lot of other people have been doing it badly, badly wrong over decades); and thus be very careful of what you put on the page.
You might get called on what you wrote; you might be accused of getting things wrong. This is the frustrating part, because there really isn't any other answer that you can give but "sorry, will do better", even if you think the other person's experience isn't "representative" (whatever that hoary term means). You basically aren't speaking in a position of authority about the culture, even if you researched it to death. (that's the bit I struggle most with, incidentally. But I totally understand where it's coming from).
But, honestly, when I see the mistakes that piss off people like requireshate, it starts with very basic stuff like getting names wrong, or over-exoticising the everyday. When I read a story about Vietnam or France, most of the stuff that makes me want to throw it at the wall is on the same basic level of wrong names, followed by wrong mindsets (I once read a story in which a 17th-Century Vietnamese struck his father and didn't feel remorse about it. Not likely unless we're talking psychopath). The mindset is a surprisingly faily one: people from a different culture are going to have vastly different values and assumptions, and you just can't transplant, say, a modern British person and pass them off as a Vietnamese just through a little change of costumes! You have to understand what makes a culture's bedrock, what is likely to make people tick, what they're likely to value and hate–different cultures have radically different axes. To take just one example, the quintessential Confucian male is the scholar with great literary talent, wearing his hair long (because cutting one's hair was a Barbarian thing), and not hesitating to weep tears when parting from friends. This is a far cry from the male ideal in, say, mainstream US society, where weeping is seen as a very girly thing, and there is deep-seated suspicion of people who are too smart.
And, finally, when you're done writing your short story or book, get someone from said culture to read it; several someones if you can, that you can trust to give you an honest opinion of where you might have screwed up (always useful to not only have several pairs of eyeballs, but several people from different points of view within the culture can help identify issues).
Ekaterina: Also, something Western writers often overlook or are not terribly concerned about: even though you are not speaking from the position of the authority, as Aliette said, you WILL be perceived as an expert and an authority of a foreign culture you write about. And that's a serious risk.
Joyce: I would like to follow up on Aliette's point: Do ask people from that culture to have a look through/critique/beta-read the story. Please, please, please, do it.
Rochita: Excellent pointers. And take note of the pointer where Aliette says that if someone says you're doing it wrong from the reference point of their own experience, then you as an outsider writer just have to accept it and apologize or determine to try better/fail better. It bewilders me when people get defensive about criticisms leveled at their outsider work because isn't that to be expected? I mean, as writers we already know that when we put something out there, not everyone is going to love it. That is just asking for the impossible. And that someone bothers to point out the fail is a sign that they wanted you to try harder or at least there was/is an expectation that you can do better than that.
Ekaterina: Another point is that the insiders will disagree. Some will like it, some won't, and some will hate it because it is by an outsider. And the lesson for the writer there is not to say "Well, screw it, haters gonna hate, I'll just write whatever because you cannot please anyone". You're still responsible for doing as good a job as you can. And accepting that your best might not be good enough for some people, and their opinions are also valid. Don't trot out the natives who loved your work, don't tell people who dislike it that they're wrong because another person from the same culture liked it. So really, if you want approval, stay out of other people's cultures. Nations won't get together to sign waivers that say that you are free to appropriate whatever and no one can say anything about it ever. People will be angry, and they will be right to be angry. If it upsets you, reconsider your motivation.
Joyce: I agree with Ekaterina's points here as well.
Rochita: Ditto.
Aliette: Yup, definitely agree!
Rachel: As the token westerner… 😉
It's interesting to me that outsiders get so frustrated with the idea that insiders will disagree with each other about what constitutes a good representation. (In my experience, the same dynamic occurs along other axes of privilege as well.) Writers understand that when they are writing, for instance, a character, not all of their readers are going to agree with each other. Readers aren't a monolith. If you can understand that two American white dudes can disagree on whether a character is well-written, then theoretically you can understand that two people from a non-Western culture can disagree on how well the representation is done.
Writers are also–well, I hope they're also–prepared for the idea that no matter how much energy they put into making a piece of work as beautiful and wonderful as they can, people are still going to criticize it. For some reason, that understanding gets churned under as soon as the issues in question carry sociological weight; there seems to be a feeling that research or good intent should insulate the writer from criticism.
Most writers I know have prepared themselves for being critiqued about character, etc. When privileged people take on writing about people from non-privileged populations, they need to be prepared for that level of critique, too. It may be more heated, but the stakes are also higher.
I hope that writers who ask other people to beta-read their stories do so with care and concern for the people on whom they are imposing. Nisi Shawl recommends in Writing the Other that one should offer a meal or at least a drink. If you're in a reciprocal critique relationship with someone, or hope to establish one, that's one thing. If you're talking to someone with whom you have a prior relationship, that's another. If you are approaching someone you don't know, it's vital to bear in mind that you are asking for a favor, and to remember reciprocity.
Speaking as a western writer, and as someone who has attempted to engage in writing with other kinds of privilege, I am inclined to agree that it's inescapable that a privileged person will write a narrative that is rooted in their privilege. One can minimize exoticism, I hope, but I don't think it's possible to erase it.
As a writer of science fiction, particularly, though, I see myself as having an obligation to present a future that is, as Joyce says, for everyone. As I should have said in the other roundtable, despite the American propensity (including mine) toward tunnel vision, reality is global, and (barring certain speculative scenarios), the future should be global or globally influenced as well. I think there's an obligation for Western writers who work within science fiction to engage with both western and non-western cultures. Otherwise, we do end up with white-washed (western-washed) futures and I think that the effect of this on the cultural imagination is wholly negative; the future isn't just for white westerners. I think it's a particularly pernicious form of erasure.
Obviously, the tunnel vision problem can, to some extent, be fixed by providing more works in translation, and by providing greater publishing access to non-western writers, both those who write in English and those who don't, but I also think that the western imagination of the future itself needs to be adjusted.
Honestly, I think part of the problem with Americans writing about non-western cultures-or reading about them, or engaging with work written within those contexts–is that we hardly talk about colonialism at all; it's a tabooed subject, but I don't think one can really understand the global political context without an understanding of colonialism.
Aliette: I agree… to some extent. That's another point I wanted to bring up: we've been focusing on narratives exclusively or quasi-exclusively set in other countries so far, but SF has a habit of large-scale narratives set all over the world. Well. All over the Western world. It is very problematic when the future space stations are manned only by white people, the future of the world decided jointly by America and Europe, and the non-Western countries are presented as hell-holes of poverty only fit to escape from. (though we can argue about the very notion of having a large-scale and global setting and deciding the future of the world, which feels a tad imperialistic to me…).
That said, for me, it rejoins some of the comments we've been making on different types of narratives: it would definitely be better to have visions of the future coming out of the Western Anglophone tradition that are genuinely multicultural, but having other narrations from non-Western countries would, I think, present radically different pictures of the future, and alleviate the issue of tunnel vision sometimes found in (Western, American) SF books. The best cure for tunnel vision is openness of mind 🙂
There is also a big problem with colonialism here in France. It is pretty much never talked about in polite society, and glossed over in school by saying "we did some morally reprehensible things, but it's OK because we brought the gift of civilisation to the colonised countries". The extent of the reprehensible things (destruction of said local civilisation, widespread repression, imposition of foreign ways of living and inferiority complexes) is just never brought up at all. I once started to talk about how France broke Vietnam by colonising it and separating it into three entities just as it was becoming a country, and other French people told me to stop–I can stop, sure, but it's still true! (and don't get me started on the "gift of civilisation" thing…)
From comparing notes with the UK (where I lived for a while), I suspect there's a big tendency in the Western world to say that colonialism is over and done with, and that there is thus no need to talk about it or address it. Which is… disingenuous, annoying, and harmful because it perpetuates colonialist myths about the past and the present.
Joyce: Why is colonialism a taboo subject? Is it because as Aliette has said, nobody wanted to talk about the "reprehensible things"? Westerners have to confront this particular demon if they want to really understand what's going on. To say that it's "over and done with" is just ignorance and damaging.
Aliette: speaking only for France, I think we're very bad at dealing with our demons. There's been a lot of self-examination going on in the wake of WWII (and over the fact a lot of French people were collaborators), but I highly suspect this is because the faction that came out ahead in France fought collaborators–so we don't have to admit, per se, that the *official* government sanctioned anything that was going on during WWII. Same thing applies to colonisation and its legacy; there's no examination of the fact that the French government and the French people were arrogant enough to carve out huge chunks of countries and mostly ignore the people who were there in the first place; and are responsible for a lot of the current problems plaguing the developing world.
Rachel: In the United States, we pretend that colonialism is something that other countries did and do not acknowledge the ways in which it influenced our global positioning.
Aliette: bringing up another subject… Should we discuss the issues associated with genre definition and genre narratives? I have the feeling that "this story isn't SFF" is very often used as an argument to dismiss non-Western SF on the grounds that it doesn't adhere to a mostly Western definition of SFF–like having no novum, not being "realistic", not having enough "science" or "defined rules of magic". (it's also used to dismiss women writers from SF, but that's another kettle of fish altogether!)
There is a twin issue, which is the other problem Rochita raised: different cultures have different values and different narratives, and there is thus a tendency for the field to tell non-Western writers that their writing is flawed; that their narratives don't deliver a satisfying ending, their characters are too passive; their story structures are weak (or too convoluted): in other words, to hold everyone to a narrow definition of story, very largely elaborated in the US/Western Anglophone world.
What do people think?
Joyce: I think it all ties in with that mindset of the non-Western writer being 'inferior'. That's one dangerous (colonized) mindset.
Aliette: Yes, colonisation v2.0.
Rochita: Yes. I remember a conversation I had with Chris Beckett at my first Eastercon where Chris was asking me if there were any SF narratives in The Philippines. I had been doing a lot of reading into native folktales and native myths, and I told Chris about certain stories that struck me as having a particular SF flavor. For instance, there is a story where a woman is carried away to the Skyworld in a basket. I could see the basket as a metaphor for flying saucer and the visitors from the Skyworld as possible aliens or future beings from the same world. But because these stories are not told in what we define or recognize as SF language, a reader used to the Western narrative would probably not identify it as SF.
I believe that we, as writers in the act of decolonizing, seek to break the expectations that are placed on our SF as we try to reconcile history and heritage and the way we look at SF. I read Aliette's stories and I can see how this is a story that is uniquely Aliette and uniquely SF because it does not always conform to the SF narrative. The expectations of Western SF are very particular so much so that if we bring stuff to the table that just doesn't compute with that expectation, the work we produce is shunted off as "oh it's fantasy in space" or some such thing.
For me, the beauty of being a non-western writer is this: I don't feel constricted by the demands of existing SF, because I do not see the body of Western SF as being the only true SF. My input into the great SF conversation is to say: look, I know you think of SF that way, but just put yourself in my shoes and try to see through my eyes because I am trying to show you what SF looks like from my point of view.
There was a time that I did feel pressured to conform, but I soon realized my inability to be truly creative inside those strictures. I believe SF as a genre is one that means for its inhabitants to be constantly trying the boundaries, shaking up conventions, and turning expectation on its head. So, to me the unexpected narrative is more beautiful because it expresses this spirit of openness. It's frustrating when we get told that our characters aren't proactive enough of they aren't saving themselves or that things just happen. It's like the colonizers telling the village people: Look, your Mumbaki, he doesn't fit in with our model of what Christianized people should be like.
If we were equal, we wouldn't have to be worried about our stories not conforming to narrative or fitting into the set paradigm.
requireshate: With regards to being sellable and marketable–that requires playing to the western gaze, making your culture accessible to western readers, giving them a channel for literary tourism. Another tool of imperialism, frankly.
Rochita: True. In a sense that's like selling your soul. <g> I don't think it's sustainable and in the end, I don't believe it makes for good fiction.
Joyce: Ditto on "tool of imperialism". It hurts the non-Western writer in the end.
Ekaterina: Cultural colonialism, again — only certain kinds of narratives are acceptable. And Western readers and writers often forget that this is not a symmetrical situation! American culture as filtered through Hollywood/major book releases is so ubiquitous everywhere, they shape narratives all over the world. So it's not only non-Western writers not being translated into English but also a form of cultural genocide where intrusions of Western narratives everywhere reshape stories as well. It's such a self-perpetuating machine that feels very powerful. I mean, I have no idea how to deal with something so huge.
Aliette: *nods* I agree with pretty much everything; and I wish I had a solution, but like Ekaterina I find the whole issue a bit daunting. Very huge and very pervasive–and so very insidious.
Rochita: I'd like to share something from the Babaylan Files. Conversations-signs and symptoms of the decolonized Filipina in the US. My observation of American/European culture is how there is a very strong "I" orientation. Societies are individualistic and this also shows in the narratives that we get from the West. In returning to the indigenous, there is a stronger focus on community: we have the narratives of extended families, the strength of women bonded together, the role of culture bearers and the consciousness of history, which not all western writers are aware of, but which I believe the non-western writer is more keenly aware of. I'm sorry that I can't point to a specific article as I didn't realize we'd be having this conversation when I read it, but I remember this article that said reading history and getting very angry are the first steps towards decolonization. <g>
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Why is colonialism a taboo subject? Is it because as Aliette has said, nobody wanted to talk about the "reprehensible things"?
As a white person raised in the UK – yes, I think it is just this. We acknowledge that colonialism was reprehensible but we a) think it's enough to just go "I know it was bad! How can you call me a racist!" without even considering that colonialism is alive and powerful under new names like globalisation and cultural imperialism, and b) don't want to look bad. Yeah, we know colonialism is bad, but the more people talk about it, the more bad we Westerners look – and we know it's bad, okay! Leave us alone! We're good people!
We really need to be educating our children that colonialism and the racism that drove it didn't stop the moment we abolished slavery or withdrew from India, etc, but that would require adults to acknowledge and understand this – and there's a massive amount of reluctance, even among people who are not utterly insular and narrow-minded, to admit that our culture and society is still damaging the rest of the world. Mostly, I think, because it makes us look bad to admit it. Apparently we are a society of five-year-olds.
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yes yes! I love this post!
Also saying right out there that colonialism isn't over and that globalism is a kind of colonialism!
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I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this discussion. I particularly appreciate Aliette de Bodard saying unequivocally that globalization is a new form of colonialism. Colonizing the mind is so much more powerful and so much less trouble than actually having to go to strange lands and subdue the natives, although perhaps the latter is a useful precursor to the former.
One other aspect of the discussion that struck me was that writers who are from non-dominant cultures do not have any kind of obligation to educate western readers. I recall that as a kid growing up in India I read books by Western writers and had to figure out the meaning and significance of words, customs and events from context, from other reading, and from what I learned about that part of the world in school. There is no reason why Western readers shouldn't or can't go through that process too. That said, I like to say that although I currently live in the US, and have done so for some years (hoping to return to India some day), I write for the world. This means that I'd like my work to make sense to a reader from Mongolia or Mali just as much as the US, and also that the Indian audience is central (keeps me honest). Some people I've talked to here in the US seem to take for granted that I am writing just for them (and say so), which is very annoying.
I am also the kind of writer who happens to like description. I think the difference between a non-western writer writing from their lived experience and a western writer writing about a non-western culture from visits and research is one of emphasis. What stands out to the outsider, as has been remarked in this discussion, is what is different from what you have known, distorted (if the writer is not careful) by stereotype and prejudice. A writer from a non-Western culture, immersed in that culture, should not be unconscious of the air he or she breathes, because part of being a writer is bringing these things to consciousness (to me these include smells, sounds, colors, the landscape as character). But such a writer will choose different aspects of the physical setting from which to make meaning, and will make meaning from otherwise cliched things through their own experience. Take fruit stands. When I think of fruit stands, or for that matter food vendors who ply their trade in carts,I think of going shopping with my mother as a child or teen, about arguments regarding the best kind of mango among my aunts and uncles, or the physics discussions my friends and I had around the paratha vendor's cart in the evenings as undergraduates in college. Western writers might find it quaint that parts of Delhi still have wandering cows, and pariah dogs, and might point that out in their stories as part of the exotic baggage. But I was the kind of kid who made friends with wandering animals, and was sensitive to their presence and lives as I was to trees and humans. So I write about them (sometimes) but from a deeper place than mere window dressing. Although these are real experiences,one is still in danger of being read as pandering to Western expectations. There's nothing I can do about that, however, other than trying my best to be as fiercely myself as possible, and reading discussions such as these.
Kudos and congratulations to Fabio, and thanks to all the participants in the discussion.
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EDMONTON, AB (October 24, 2012): The changes introduced yesterday in the new and improved Education Act demonstrate that Wildrose has led the way on establishing the paramount rights of parents, Wildrose Education Critic Bruce McAllister said today.
After spending the pre-election spring session resisting Wildrose's attempts to establish the superiority of parental rights in the Act and ignoring parents across the province who fought its provisions, the government finally relented yesterday. The Act now before the Assembly clearly establishes that parents have the ultimate say in how their children are educated and takes away the fear that parents would have to face persecution from human rights lawyers with their own agendas. "This is a victory for parents and really a victory for democracy in Alberta," McAllister said. "If not for the courage and determination of Alberta parents, and for the hard work of my colleagues in the Wildrose Official Opposition, we would have ended up with education laws that don't acknowledge the paramount role parents play in educating children and expose educators to the whims of the human rights tribunals." McAllister congratulates Education Minister Jeff Johnson for finally listening to Alberta parents and the opposition and making the necessary changes to the Act. However, he also said Wildrose will meet with constituents and stakeholders to address some lingering concerns contained in the new Act. "It's refreshing to see an Education Minister who is willing to listen," McAllister said. "We still have some concerns and we may have some amendments coming, but I hope MLAs will pass this legislation soon and continue working together to improve education for children and parents across Alberta."


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|Crown uses discredited Dziekanski use of force expert to overrule investigators in Wright case
BCCLA & UBCIC News Release. November 14, 2012
For the second time in months, the Criminal Justice Branch is being questioned for their choice of "experts" to rely on in refusing to approve criminal charges against police.
Yesterday, the Criminal Justice Branch ("CJB") told the BCCLA and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs that in refusing to approve charges in the Wright matter they relied, in part, on Vancouver Police Sergeant Brad Fawcett, who they described as "equivocal" in his conclusions.
Sgt. Fawcett is best known in British Columbia for being an expert who gave a use of force report that cleared the three RCMP officers who Tasered Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver Airport. Commissioner Braidwood, in his final report, said that Sgt. Fawcett's expert report on Dziekanski's death was "blinkered". The Commissioner added that if Fawcett's understanding of use of force was consistent with police training in British Columbia, such a situation "troubles me greatly".
"We simply don't understand how it can be that investigating agencies and oversight bodies can't find experts who are independent and will maintain public confidence," said lawyer Lindsay Lyster, President of the BCCLA. "If an expert opinion is so critical in this process, relying on experts who only testify for police or whose opinion has been described as 'blinkered' and 'troubling' is not a good strategy."
"We now understand why the Criminal Justice Branch didn't release the name of this expert with their so-called 'clear statement' media release," said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, "They didn't release his name until we asked because their reliance on him, again, is embarrassing. What other embarrassing details in this case is the Crown keeping secret?"
Given the "no charge" decision, the BCCLA and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs continue to press the Criminal Justice Branch and the RCMP for the release of the investigation report in its entirety, including the "expert report" and "additional information" provided to the Crown by Sgt. Brad Fawcett, as well as the video, the audio and any other records of the incident.
In August, BCCLA concern about an expert relied on by the Criminal Justice Branch in the Paul Boyd case resulted in that expert being barred from being retained by the Office of the Police Complaint Commission.
To read the letter from the CJB to the BCCLA go to: http://bccla.org
For more information, please contact:
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of BC Indian Chiefs – (604) 684-0231
Lindsay Lyster, President, BCCLA – (604) 689-4457
Carmen Cheung, Litigation Director (acting), BCCLA, (604) 630-9758
Heather Prisk-Wright, wife of Robert Wright
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About ITT Technical Institute-Bessemer
ITT Technical Institute is a private college system offering technology-oriented programs in Bessemer, Alabama. Bessemer is home to Alabama Adventure, a popular theme park. The Bright Star, a restaurant and local institution located in downtown Bessemer, is known as the state's oldest continuously-operated eating establishment. Bessemer is just 20 miles south of Birmingham, Alabama's largest city. Birmingham is the cultural and entertainment capital of Alabama, offering numerous art galleries in the area including the Birmingham Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the state. Birmingham is also home to the state's major ballet, opera, and symphony orchestra companies such as the Alabama Ballet, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Ballet, Birmingham Concert Chorale, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival and Opera Birmingham. Birmingham is also home to numerous cultural festivals that feature music, films, and regional heritage, including the music festivals City Stages and the Taste of 4th Avenue Jazz Festival, which runs concurrently with the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. Other annual events include the Southern Heritage Festival, the annual pet parade known as Do Dah Day, and the Schaeffer Eye Center Crawfish Boil.
ITT Tech's School of information and technology offers a 2-year AAS degree in information technology with a Web development option. The Web development option of the program is designed to help graduates prepare to design, create and maintain Web sites. Additional topics are explored through classroom and laboratory experiences, include Web authoring with scripting and coding tools, Web application of database technology and other related technical subjects. The Information Technology program includes a foundation core of computing and general education courses, followed by study in Web development applications. The program is also available online, with coursework in Web technology, programming, design, digital typography, and animation and storyboarding for the Web. Completion of a Web design project, specifically the design and creation of an original Web site, is required for graduation.
The school also offers 2-year AAS degrees in computer drafting and design and information technology multimedia. The drafting program includes study of design and drafting, architectural drafting, engineering graphics, and basic design theory and methods. The multimedia program includes coursework in instructional design, 3D modeling, visual design theory, and animation. All programs culminate in the completion of a capstone project in the chosen field of study.
The School of drafting and design offers a 4-year BS degree program in digital entertainment and game design. The program includes four semesters of general education courses, followed by four semesters of core courses including introduction to gaming technology, physics of animation, game design process, and game interface design. The program requires completion of a game development team course that explores the roles and skills of each member of a game development team, and also participation in a capstone project that places each student on a development team to complete the task of actually designing a game.
ITT Tech does not offer any institutionally funded scholarships. Students are encouraged to apply for federally funded financial aid and local private or civic scholarships. The college does provide a Financial Aid Office to assist students in finding the best way to fund their educations.
The school encourages student activities with the goal of helping to develop individual initiative, group leadership and cooperation. The school helps provide students with the opportunity to participate in activities which relate to educational objectives, satisfy social needs, provide recreational opportunities and encourage cultural enrichment. Regular activities available to students include the Flag Football Annual Frost Bowl, LAN Parties, semi-annual Career Fairs, quarterly Open Houses, an Ambassadors Club, and student chapters of the Alpha Beta Kappa Honor Society, the Society of Women Engineers, the American Design Drafting Association, the Electronics Technician Association, and the Entertainment Design Group.


text: Applied Minerals Inc. (OTCBB: AMNL) ("the Company"), a leading global producer of Halloysite Clay, today announced that its 2010 Annual Shareholders' Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 3 PM EDT. Those interested in attending the meeting ought to visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/AMNL. A business update presentation will be provided as part of the meeting and will also be available on the Company's website, located at www.appliedminerals.com, prior to the beginning of the meeting. About Applied Minerals, Inc. Applied Minerals Inc. is a leading global producer of Halloysite Clay from its wholly- owned Dragon Mine Property in Utah. Halloysite is an aluminosilicate clay that forms naturally occurring nanotubes. In addition to serving the traditional Halloysite markets for use in technical ceramics and catalytic applications, the Company has targeted niche applications that it feels will benefit from the tubular morphology of its Halloysite. These include: carriers of active ingredients in paints, coatings and building materials, agricultural applications and high-performance fillers in plastic composites. Statements in this press release that are not historical facts, and this includes all the statements concerning future-oriented statements relating to processing, capacity, costs, notifications, working together, are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and involve a number of significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, anticipated, expected or implied.


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This past year has been one giant no holds bar adventure. And I gotta be honest, over the past 2 months I have been struggling to muster loving feelings for this defective body of mine. Recovery has been humbling and frustrating. And rebuilding is hard - always harder than I think. I needed to reset.
I needed to to kick start my recovery and seriously adjust my grumpy-pants attitude. With a Triathlon looming and dreams of Marathon Glory - it was time to start getting serious about my training. Cycling around the city is kind of out of the question at the moment for two reasons - a) the weather is bananas and b) I don't have a bike yet... So I am keeping my training indoors for the time being and rocking it out at my favourite hybrid spin/yoga studio Spynga.
Spynga offers a ton of unique classes - everything from your typical yoga and spin classes to amazing little combos of spin, yoga, and weight training. So I woke up at 5:45 AM on Friday morning to start my weekend off right with their 45 minute Cycle Flow. It was exactly what I needed! It was a challenging sweat-fest that really pushed me to the limit on the bike and tackled rebuilding my endurance. All married with muscle building weight training to help me regain my strength. And just enough body-loving affirmations to keep me positive and moving forward. I left the studio feeling happy and restored.
I felt like me again. I was full of happy endorphins. My legs were burning in that way that secretly feels so good because you know it means you really pushed yourself. And I remembered how strong this little defective body of mine can be.
This was the little boost I needed. It was the perfect workout. So there I was running a speedy 5km with the hubby on Saturday. And tackling a full 10km on Sunday. I was back. I was training. Running Strong. Rocking out to my girlie pop beats. Getting ready to race again. This was it.
I have spent the last year feeling like I am at war with my own body - willing it to be stronger, faster, healthier. I wanted it to better. I wanted things to be different. But my workout on Friday reminded me how much this little defective body is capable of. This body is flawed, covered in scars, and freakin' STRONG. So I will continue to thank my little war-torn body for fighting this fight
with me. And I promise to spend the rest of my life taking care of my body the way that it has taken
care of me this past year.
We are in this together after all! And we got this! Watch out world! I am coming for you!
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Westermark admits that it is difficult to show clearly that consanguineous marriages are prejudicial in man.
The popular idea is that consanguineous marriages are bad per se.
Breeders inform us that the results are markedly in favor of consanguineous unions between healthy, well-bred animals.
Virchow, Prof., blindness occurring in the offspring of consanguineous marriages, ii.
He estimates the consanguineous marriages in France not including second cousins, at from four to five per cent.
consanguineous marriages, so far as the effect on deafness is concerned, are not of relatively frequent occurrence.
Under such conditions, defectives would be bound to multiply, regardless of whether or not the marriages are consanguineous.
Whither Mollendorf went next, we will not ask: perhaps to Brunswick and other consanguineous places?
Table XXI gives the proportion of the mentally defective who are the offspring of consanguineous marriages.
Like Vishnu looking after the celestials, thou shouldst always look after all consanguineous relatives.
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Transurban has continued to see strong growth on its CityLink tollway, recording a 6.5 per cent jump in weekday transactions for the March quarter year-on-year.
Toll and fee revenue for the period was $64.1 million, 11 per cent above last year. The average revenue per transaction was $1.28.
The revenue increase was higher than the increase in the number of transactions because Transurban has the right to increase tolls by the higher of 4.5 per cent or the consumer price index every year.
Managing director Kim Edwards said the tollway performance had been stronger than the previous March quarter, even when the effect of Easter was taken out. The Easter holidays, a low-traffic period on CityLink, fell within the March quarter during 2002.
Mr Edwards said the March-quarter results showed growth rates far greater than those expected when Transurban was floated in 1996. Then it had been expected that traffic growth would be about 2 per cent a year after a relatively short ramp-up period.
However, an analyst said that the market had come to expect the level of growth CityLink was now achieving and, in the previous quarter, it had experienced growth of 7.4 per cent.
Mr Edwards said two factors seemed to be behind CityLink's continued strong growth: Businesses had relocated along the roadway to get the benefits of faster transport times, and the regions of Melbourne served by the tollway were experiencing population growth 50 per cent higher than the average for the metropolitan area.
While Transurban's growth rate is above that predicted in its prospectus, the total number of vehicles carried daily - 615,000 - is well below the 662,000 predicted to be carried per weekday.
The southern section of the link, which includes the Burnley and Domain tunnels, is carrying more traffic than predicted in the prospectus. But the Western link is carrying less, bringing the overall figures down.
Mr Edwards said usage of the two problem sections on the Western Link, the Bolte Bridge and the Flemington overpass, was growing at a higher rate than the rest of the tollway and was slowly bridging the gap in forecasts.
Transurban paid its maiden dividend from real operating revenue last half, at 10� per share. Mr Edwards said that the continued strong performance of the tollway to date ensured that the second-half 10� dividend was now certain to be paid as well.
The company recently launched a $430 million fund-raising to support its investment in the Western Sydney Orbital road.
The converting securities, known as CARS, will pay an interest rate of 7 per cent on the issue price. The issue closed at least four times oversubscribed.
The issue will fund Transurban's first foray out of Melbourne.
The WSO, when complete, will be the longest tollway in Australia at 35 kilometres. It will run through the fastest growing area in Australia and will join industrial land with ports and rail links. While longer than CityLink, the construction risks on the WSO are considered minimal as the project has no tunnels or bridges that caused so many problems for CityLink.
The reporter holds Transurban shares.
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After a seven-month search for a new University of Utah president, the state Board of Regents on Tuesday named as finalists the school's senior vice president for academic affairs, David Pershing, and Kumble R. Subbaswamy, Pershing's counterpart at the University of Kentucky.
A search committee had submitted four names to the Regents last week, but two withdrew their candidacy because they didn't want their names made public, according to Regents chair David Jordan.
"We are thrilled with our two finalists. We can't make a bad choice," Jordan said. Pershing, a chemical engineer, is among the U.'s most decorated faculty members, while Subbaswamy, a physicist, has a record of administrative leadership at three different universities.
"As a member of the search committee, I can tell you that I am very pleased with the two finalists," wrote U. faculty senate president Patricia Hanna, a linguistics professor, in an e-mail. The Regents' search committee is a diverse group comprised of Regents, U. faculty and staff and a student leader, and outside donors and advisors that has been working since June to identify the three to five best-qualified contenders to succeed Michael Young and lead the state's flagship.
"We have received a wealth of public input over the past few months," said a news release quoting Regent Nolan Karras, a former Utah lawmaker who chaired the search committee. "The support of U. faculty, students and staff, along with the statewide community as a whole has been tremendous throughout this search process."
It is the Utah Regents' long-standing practice to publicly name finalists for top executive posts at the state's public campuses, but some of the candidates apparently were uncomfortable with disclosure. Jordan said he was not troubled that half of the committee's top choices bailed at the last minute, even though he cautioned fellow Regents at a meeting last week to not leak any candidate names because early disclosure could cause some to withdraw.
"This is very common to lose names between the time the search committee submits the list and the Regents announce finalists. They may be finalists at another institution. They may be a sitting president," Jordan said. "This happens all over the country. Although there are only two on the interview list, it is not uncommon for a search to come down to a horse race between two candidates."
The Utah horse race pits a campus insider and outsider. But the finalists, whose resumes boast of a commitment to student success and scientific research, have similar career trajectories.
Both Pershing and Subbaswamy began teaching at their respective universities in the late 1970s and moved up the administrative chain of command, serving as college deans and finally provosts, an institution's chief academic officer. The U. and Kentucky, which squared off in the 1998 NCAA men's basketball final (the Wildcats prevailed), are also similar in terms of enrollment, budget and scope.
Subbaswamy, who became a U.S. citizen in 1986, said he hopes to improve student success as U. president, particularly for undergraduates. The university's invitation to join the Pacific Athletic Conference, he said, was a "watershed moment" that acknowledged the quality of the institution, placing it in an elite group that includes Stanford University and UCLA.
"The next step would be, say, how do we get the [academic] characteristics in the upper echelon of the Pac-12," he said. "That's what I think the university should aspire to because I think it certainly has the support and the potential and the talent to do so."
Subbaswamy said he would immediately tackle the U.'s low graduation rate. Only 58 percent of students graduate within six years, which is lower than many comparable institutions, according to a recent legislative audit. And he wants to make sure Utah's top high school graduates aspire to attend the state's flagship, rather than head out of state or to the private Brigham Young University. He thinks the Honors College and its residence hall, now under construction, are a good start.
Subbaswamy, who has visited Salt Lake City several times with his wife, said he hopes he is "lucky enough" to be picked as president.
"It's a very cosmopolitan city. It's beautiful. The people are extremely nice," he said. "We think we would fit right in with the community. It's very accepting and diverse."
Pershing was traveling Tuesday and not available for interviews. He, too, believes increasing the U.'s academic stature, selectivity and graduation rate are critical to the institution's future, according to recent statements he has made to Utah lawmakers. Sporting cowboy boots and an academician's beard, he has regularly advocated the university's interests before the sometimes skeptical body that controls the purse strings. Pershing enjoys warm relations with U. faculty, although he provoked some angst with a decision last semester to cancel classes on an afternoon when a home football game fell on a weekday.
On Thursday, the finalists will meet privately with U. trustees, faculty, staff and students. Then, the governor-appointed Regents will interview them in closed session Friday before voting on which to hire, either that day or at a later date.
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October 29, 2003: Sidney lost his battle with a neurological disorder, probably brought on by chronic deep ear infections, this week. His health had been improving steadily since being adopted, but lately he had not been himself. Sid's new mom took wonderful care of him for these last six months of his life and was there for him at the end when he needed help crossing the Rainbow Bridge. We love you, Sidney, and we miss you!
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Sidney must be the mellowest dog I have met. He is confident, gentle, and sweet. He has no bad habits and has been a wonderful house guest. In fact, he is the epitome of a senior golden. Sidney turned 10 on Valentine's Day. He is a pretty red boy with a dignified lighter face.
Sidney does have some trouble with chronic ear infections and this seems to affect his hearing some. He also takes thyroid meds - quite nicely actually. So far Sidney has been a perfect gentlemen. He sat nicely for a bath and didn't complain when I cut his toenails and trimmed the fur on his paws. We have a vet appointment on Monday, then Sidney should be able to start looking for a forever home.
5/22/03: From Sidney's new family...
I just had to share this with you. Sid's hotspot is healed - no more scab, his ears are getting less awful, and he came running to me FULL OUT this morning when I called him. This is amazing because a) he heard me, b) he ran as fast as Chase did to come to me! He had a huge grin on his face too. He is definitely perking up - he and Chase are constantly wrestling and Sidney had taken Chase down a couple of times. He is absolutely mortified at night though - I have been slathering his ouchy paws with bag balm, putting infant socks on them, cling bandaging them, and taping the cling down, then spraying bitter apple spray on the socks so he doesn't gnaw them off. I had to take a picture - he was so woebegone and sad - but his paws look 100% better - even though two of them still have red fur between the pads. I gave him a bath with oatmeal shampoo and he has been slightly less itchy on his skin, but was very unhappy the whole bath time. He adores his "girls." He checks in on everyone, flops down and starts chewing on his bone. We are going for something other than a chicken neck this evening - I just will chop up the wing in small pieces so he doesn't hurt himself. I spoke with his former vet last night - he gave me a list of all the stuff done with Sid's ears- he has had tubes in a number of times, poor baby. The vet is sure it's food related. Also, they had Sidney's birth date as 2/14/1994 - so he may be a year younger than we thought!
Hope Sally and Aubbe are happy - I know Sidney misses them - he looks around sadly from time to time, trying to figure out where they are. We are going to start Obedience 1 at TCOTC in June - the evaluators there thought he doesn't have any obedience training. He was really disoriented when they were trying to assess his learning - he sits perfectly for me every time, now that he knows my hand signal - even when I am treating his ears or wrapping his paws. Have a good day!
5/16/03: Great news for Sidney! He is going to have a new forever home where he will be smothered with love and attention and they will even make his itching go away. He is going to start a second life at age 10 with a handful of special ladies in a group home. They already have a RAGOM dog, Hudson 02-105 , who is now named Chase. Chase is on a natural raw diet for his grain allergies. The diet has done wonderful things for him and now Sidney is going to become a "raw" senior! His new mom and i are optimistic that a change in Sid's diet will clear up his ears, paws, and general itching.
While staying here, Sidney has continued to blossom. He is even more generous with nice puppy kisses. Sally could learn a few things from him on that subject. He also has a new buddy here, another 10 year old boy who likes giving kisses - big sloppy ones when you least expect it! Aubbe will be staying with Sidney and Sally until his mom is feeling better. All three dogs are currently enjoying some beef bones - lots of crunching and tail wagging all around!
Sally, Aubbe and I will sure miss Sidney when he goes to his new home, but we know that his life will be happy and healthy!
5/12/03: Today was Sidney's turn at the vet's. He did very well - I heard a dog barking and whining while he was having his nails trimmed, a microchip implanted, and blood being drawn. I had never heard Sid bark so I went to see if it was him. Of course not! He came through the poking and prodding like a champ. He is so mellow and tolerant!
His fecal was negative and now I am waiting on his HW and blood-work. His vet thinks that his paw licking, ears, and itching is related to a food allergy. To help diagnose this I got Sidney some non-allergenic food - potato and chicken based. We will change his diet over slowly and see how he responds. I hope this will lead to an answer as his ears are just a mess and he is quite itchy. If he were my own boy, I would put him on a raw diet, but that diet will have to wait.
Sid did surprise me tonight. We were sitting on the deck, Sid enjoying some nice pets, and he started to growl. He then let out a soft bark! Sally got excited and noticed the neighbor across the alley bringing out his Sheltie rescue. Both of my goldens started barking - Sidney CAN bark! It was pretty adorable.
Sidney is really coming out of his shell. He is seeking out attention more and more - not in an annoying way, but in a way that lets me know that he is comfortable here. Pending his blood-work, I will start looking for a forever home for Sid tomorrow. Of course he is welcome to stay here as long as he likes!
5/10/03: Sidney is a good boy! He is getting along very well with Sally. She hasn't even growled at him once! He is so easy-going. He doesn't even follow me from room to room - a first for any of my fosters.
I took Sidney and Sally for a ride today - shopping for Mother's Day gifts - and he enjoyed driving all over town. He did have a bit of trouble getting into the cab of the truck the first time, but hopped right up when he tried again.
Sidney is having a little trouble walking in the back yard. His nails are really long and he seems to have an injury or two to his front left paw. (The sore in the picture is probably just an aggravated hot spot.) I will have his vet check him out on Monday.
Barring any medical issues, Sidney will be ready for a new home soon. He is settling in very well here, but it would be nice for him to find a home soon so he won't have to make any further adjustments. If you are interested in Sidney, or any of RAGOM's other seniors, let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Good Girls Vs. Evil Girls
Do guys want a good girl or a bad girl? Most always think bad but they may be wrong. According to an article on MarieClaire.com, men actually prefer the innocent women to the naughty ones. Here are the reasons why men want a good girl:
- Corrupting Innocence is Fun: Guys like to be the leaders they want to be the ones to lead the nice girls into the land of corruption.
- We Don't Take "Bad Girls" Seriously: While guys definitely can have fun with a bad girl, they won't bring her home to mom. Bad girls may have a good time but guys don't generally think of them for a serious relationship.
- "Bad Girls" Are Intimidating: Bad girls tend to be a little too "in your face." Guys tend to be scared of a girl who is more experienced.
- "Bad Girls" Seem Promiscuous: Guys will take a promiscuous girl for a night, but it's less likely they will look to one for a relationship. They seem like cheaters.
- "Bad Girls" Style Makes Them Less Mysterious: If a woman shows everything right away by wearing revealing clothing, there is no mystery. Guys like a little mystery and they will let their imagination lead the way.
- Guys Have Control Issues: A bad girl may be harder to control, and guys like to feel like they are in the driver's seat.
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Joy Behar defended the indefensible on "The View," Gloria Steinem's anti-military comments, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck came out strong against them. For those that missed it, the famous feminist implied Hillary Clinton is more qualified than John McCain because Senator Clinton did not serve in the military. Steinem rhetorically asked "killing people is a qualification for ruling people?" She continued to wonder how it may have been different had John McCain been a female prisoner of war.
"suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and been captured, shot and been a POW for eight years. The media would ask 'what did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?'"
These inflammatory comments became the topic of discussion on the March 3 edition of "The View." Elisabeth Hasselbeck, to a very loud applause, called the rhetoric "despicable" and "evil."
"And in reading that I thought, there could not be a more despicable mischaracterization of those serving us in the military, protecting her freedom to run her mouth and speak something so, in my mind, evil."
Joy Behar wondered what was so "evil" about it, and claimed all Steinem said was to not that military service does not necessarily qualify one for the presidency. Behar also felt Steinem's John McCain versus Joan McCain argument was "very interesting" and compared it to blaming the rape victim on wearing revealing clothes.
At that point Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to note that Iraq War prisoner Jessica Lynch did not receive those type of questions.
The transcript is below.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Where is that coming from? You know, she, she made a comment. Do you have it there?
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: She's been a long time supporter of Hillary Clinton.
BARBARA WALTERS: Let me go back about this. About two months ago she wrote an op-ed piece, an opinion piece in "The New York Times," in which she said sex, sexism is more rampant in this country than racism. And that, there was a lot of sexism against Hillary, which is unrecognized and unacknowledged. So now in a speech that she just made over the weekend, she was talking about John McCain and the fact that he had been in a prison camp, and what qualification did that make for him to be commander-in-chief. She said "killing people is a qualification for ruling people?"
HASSELBECK: Yeah, and she also said "I'm so grateful that she," meaning Hillary, "hasn't been trained to kill anybody." And in reading that I thought, there could not be a more despicable mischaracterization of those serving us in the military, protecting her freedom to run her mouth and speak something so, in my mind, evil.
JOY BEHAR: She also goes on- she also says, she also-
HASSELBECK: But I think what she said-
BEHAR: Why is that evil what she said? Why do you say that it's evil?
GOLDBERG: Wait, wait. Go ahead.
BEHAR: Why evil? You can it's misguided. You can say that she's wrong.
HASSELBECK: It's a mischaracterization.
BEHAR: Why is it evil?
HASSELBECK: Because there are men and women right now, right now in uniform fighting for her freedom of speech.
BEHAR: Right.
HASSELBECK: And she is using the description of a military person, "I am so grateful that she hasn't been trained to kill anybody." Meaning thankfully she wasn't in the military trained to kill somebody as if that's all they are trained to do.
BEHAR: But she's saying that, that doesn't per se make it a qualification to be president. That's all she's saying.
HASSELBECK: No, no. That's not all she's saying.
BEHAR: She's not saying anything against the Army.
SHERRI SHEPHERD: She's diminishing what she's been through. I think it's such a diminishment-
BEHAR: Well, she does diminish it a bit.
SHEPHERD: Of what McCain has been through. Because you've been in prison. You've been a prisoner of war, you've been tortured and you came through. That speaks of a strength of character to me, and I think she's diminishing what those men and women are over there doing for them.
BEHAR: So then you also would have been against the Swift Boating that took place against Kerry then. That was also evil.
HASSELBECK: Of course. I think that it's a distraction of politics.
BEHAR: Right, okay, I think I'll go along with that. But I think this is the thing that she said that was very interesting to me though. She said "suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and been captured, shot and been a POW for eight years. The media would ask 'what did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?'" I think it's almost like when a girl gets raped they say, "well, you were wearing a short skirt, why did you go in the park at ten o'clock at night?" It's the same argument.
GOLDBERG: I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true.
WALTERS: You and I were just about to say the same thing, in the Iraq War.
GOLDBERG: Yeah, the young lady, the young lady that was captured. I want to say her name is Jessica and I'm probably wrong. It is Jessica. They didn't say that about her. I mean, I don't think, I think Gloria was wrong on this one. I love Gloria she's been-
BEHAR: But it's an interesting statement.
GOLDBERG: Wait a minute. It is an interesting statement, but I think it's wrong. I think it was the wrong way to go about saying what she wanted to say.
HASSELBECK: She loses the argument.
GOLDBERG: Yeah it makes it hard to hear.
HASSELBECK: She loses the intention, saying the sexism is more rampant than racism.
WALTERS: I love Gloria. I have great respect for Gloria, and I do think the reason that this is in the headlines is that people do feel that she went too far. I think she is passionate because this has been Gloria's life. The whole based on the idea that she's a feminist and that sexism-
BEHAR: Without apology, she's a feminist.
WALTERS: And she sees, she sees Hillary-
GOLDBERG: And I don't mind that. I'm black without apology, you know.
WALTERS: She sees Hillary still being damaged by sexism, that in her opinion it is a bigger cause, even than racism.
HASSELBECK: Well, then don't bring the men and women in uniform into her-
WALTERS: We all are agreeing with you though.
SHEPHERD: Does this-
WALTERS: But she's not a mean person.
HASSELBECK: No.
SHEPHERD: Does this help Hillary by, you know, how I feel and you feel, by diminishing what our boys are doing, and what John McCain has done. Does it, is it-
WALTERS: I think that's a very good question and I think it doesn't


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text: by Tim Cowlishaw OXNARD, Calif. – Having watched an outfielder fail to lead the team at quarterback, the club will try its luck with a third baseman. But not right away. The Cowboys should do everything in their power – and they will – to keep Drew Henson off the field in 2004. That's not to say the young man isn't the future of this team at the position, that he lacks promise. That's not the case at all. But with Quincy Carter, a former outfielder in the Cubs system gone, the Cowboys are counting on ageless (they hope) Vinny Testaverde leading the team. As a result, Henson could be a pulled groin away from the center of the Dallas sports spotlight. It could be Henson or it could be Tony Romo, we don't know. Early signs point to the Cowboys using Romo as Testaverde's backup, at least early in the year while Henson is still getting back to football speed. After spending the last three years in the Yankees organization, completely away from football since his junior season at Michigan in 2000, Henson deserves better than the rush to judgment the Cowboys pushed Chad Hutchinson into in similar circumstances in 2002. A year of learning would be good. But it may not be possible, so assistant head coach Sean Payton is teaching a cram course, just in case. "I think with a guy like Drew, you treat him just like [running back] Julius Jones," Payton said. "And maybe that's unfair because he's been out of football, but you're still looking to see a young player come in, transition into the offense and take it to the field. "I don't think you ever set a date on when you want a player to play." Payton works with Henson on his throwing motion, which is a little awkward when his elbow gets too low. Otherwise, Henson has looked pretty good in the first week of workouts. With Carter gone, the Testaverde signing looks good. The trade for Henson, as it portends for the future, looks even better. And with Carter gone and the Cowboys having scrapped the four-man rotation that forced one quarterback to sit each day, Henson's workload increases. "I'm prepared to play, in my mind," said Henson. "If you're not and your number is called, that's the worst thing that can happen. The reality is there's a better chance for me to play now, and I need to be ready." Henson wears No. 7 but is Project No. 3 in Jerry Jones' long-running attempt to replace Troy Aikman without paying Aikman-type money. That's not because he's cheap, it's because he has seen what happens to organizations that spend big dollars and use high first-round picks on "franchise quarterbacks" that turn out to be Ryan Leaf or Tim Couch or Akili Smith. The Cowboys did not sacrifice a great deal of money in their experiments with Carter and with Hutchinson. What they lost was time. Three years, to be precise. And now, they have a 40-year-old starter and two backups who have never thrown an NFL pass. Coach Bill Parcells said he isn't sure which backup has the upper hand. He likes Henson's maturity for having been a professional athlete, even in a different sport, for several years. But Romo has had an extra year of practice in the Cowboys' system. Before signing Henson in March, Parcells sought opinions from several current and former members of the Yankees' organization who provided positive feedback on Henson's personal makeup. He already knew about the football part, about how Henson would have been one of the top picks in the 2002 draft had he returned for his senior year. Now that he's in the NFL, Henson does not regret that it took so long. He said if he had chosen football, he always would have wondered about baseball. "But what I found in baseball was that I missed being a quarterback. I missed football," he said. He can't miss it now. It's all around him and all over him, his mind swimming with new terminology. The two months he spent in Dallas learning the system prior to the draft helped, he said. But there's only so much one can do reading a playbook or practicing in shorts. "Until you get them in a live game, it's hard to see where a player is at," Payton said. Henson isn't at the center of the football universe yet but he's a lot closer today than he would have imagined just two days ago. Project No. 3 may not get off the ground until the 2005 season, but Henson said he has no desire to wait until then. He wants to play. The odds are, sooner than is best for him, Henson will get that chance.


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With all the attention and effort she gives to her exercise regimen and facial upkeep, it's safe to assume that 50-year-old pop icon Madonna is very particular about grooming.
But judging by a 1979 nude photo of Madonna currently being sold off by Christie's auction house, the then-21-year-old struggling artist clearly had a very different sensibility.
Madonna was paid $25 for these shots at the time they were taken. They are now part of a collection titled Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection Part II. The lot also includes portraits of Stephanie Seymour. Estimates have the Madonna print going for upward of $10,000 at Christie's.
Naturally, Celebuzz is far too refined a site to display the NSFW version, but over at What Would Tyler Durden Do?, they have no such decency.


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Scout.com's Penn State site, FightOnState.com received a number of reports from their sources regarding Penn State's Pro Day event that was held on Tuesday at University Park. NFL personnel from a host of teams, including the Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Arizona Cardinals, among others were on hand.
Mike Tomlin, head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers was spotted among those in attendance to watch the Nittany Lions go through their paces.
Here are the player reports as provided by FightOnState.com:
Senior linebacker Dan Connor ran a 4.70-second 40-yard dash. One observer said, "Dan looked relaxed. He had a good run. Some coaches were nodding and commenting that 'he looks good' after his run." Connor ran individual position drills and "looked good with his hands and showed good agility and coordination."
Connor also ran a 4.71. These were hand-held times, so different scouts could have slightly different numbers.
Junior cornerback Justin King participated in drills. However, due to his blistering 4.31 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine, he opted to bypass the event on Tuesday. "Justin said he's made the impression he needs to with his speed, so he was looking to show agility and footwork."
Another observer said King was impressive in coverage drills. "He looked really good. He dropped about two balls total out of 20 thrown at him."
Anthony Morelli ran his 40s in the 4.9 - 5.1-second range. He also tossed balls in individual drills. "He looked sharp in the pitch-and-catch drills. Some of the scouts were discussing a Drill 6 (7-on-7) look to see him get some coverage work."
However, there were not enough personnel to run such a drill.
Another observer agreed that Morelli looked good in "fast-ball warm ups," but hurt himself with a lack of consistency during the main portion of his workout. "He just was not crisp at all."
Running back Austin Scott, who was kicked off the team midway through the 2007 season due to legal troubles, participated Tuesday and was impressive.
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One expert told us he didn't do enough to get himself into the draft, but that his return skills — which he did NOT get a chance to display Tuesday — will get him a look as a free agent.
Nolan McCready, a surprise addition to the event, ran a 4.55-range 40-yard dash.
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So you have to ask, how in the world did he allow himself to get into such a money mess?
The way to think about this new Facebook messaging service is not to ask yourself "Would I use it?"
I ask myself if these people thought about what they were doing.
In fact, ask any battalion leader and they will tell you that the point man is vital to a mission.
It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars!
I ask you to share with me today the majesty of this moment.
There all alone, and compliments apart, I ask these sober questions of my heart.
And then, in the face of that, you ask me if her life is of such consequence to me?
The others had also seen, and there was no need to ask the question.
Just pass it over lightly if they ask you anything about it.
Old English ascian "ask, call for an answer; make a request," from earlier ahsian, from Proto-Germanic *aiskojan (cf. Old Saxon escon, Old Frisian askia "request, demand, ask," Middle Dutch eiscen, Dutch eisen "to ask, demand," Old High German eiscon "to ask (a question)," German heischen "to ask, demand"), from PIE *ais- "to wish, desire" (cf. Sanskrit icchati "seeks, desires," Armenian aic "investigation," Old Church Slavonic iskati "to seek," Lithuanian ieškau "to seek").
Form in English influenced by a Scandinavian form of the word (cf. Danish æske; the Old English would have evolved by normal sound changes into ash, esh, which was a Midlands and s.w. England dialect form). Modern dialectal ax is as old as Old English acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c.1600. Related: Asked; asking. Old English also had fregnan/frignan which carried more directly the sense of "question, inquire," and is from PIE root *prek-, the common source of words for "ask" in most Indo-European languages (see pray). If you ask me "in my opinion" is attested from 1910. Asking price is attested from 1755.


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LEBANON -- After narrowly missing victories on multiple occasions this season, Brad Keselowski claimed his first career Nationwide Series win Saturday night at Nashville Superspeedway, taking the lead from points leader Clint Bowyer with five laps remaining in the Federated Auto Parts 300 present by Dollar General.
Keselowski led early in the event, staying on track on Lap 79 when then-leader Joey Logano led other lead-lap cars down pit road. That set the stage for the evening, putting Keselowski on a different pit strategy than most of the leaders.
With his counterparts opting to make their final stop of the night with 77 laps remaining, Keselowski, under the guidance of crew chief Tony Eury Sr., made his final stop of the night 41 laps from the finish.
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