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Thursday, December 23, 2010
what is left to break?
My previous gynecologist was located right around the corner from my old job. Since he moved his practice to the Florida Panhandle and how I no longer work at that old job, which was 65 miles away from home, it was time to find a new doctor. I settled on a man I'll call Dr. P.
Dr. P is a member of my regular doctor's practice - Dr. &. I've seen Dr. Y since I was 12 years old, and I take his recommendations very seriously. He knows my entire medical history - depression/anxiety, TMJ, and now infertility. If Dr. P is good enough for him, then he's good enough for me. On top of that, both REs I've seen in the area have recommended Dr. P. I feel confident that I'll be in good hands.
But I don't feel confident about the appointment itself.
I'm nervous for various reasons. For one, I don't like having to explain my entire sordid medical history to a new doctor. I'm worried that he will ask me questions about why we are bailing on infertility treatments before trying IVF when we're "so young" (see previous post). But mostly, I'm not looking forward to the possibility of something being wrong.
Before February 2009, I was FINE with going to the gynecologist. While other women complained about having someone poke and prod their lady bits, it wasn't a big deal for me. It was once a year, and it was harmless. I would get my clean bill of health and went on my merry way.
Everything changed last year when my gynecologist diagnosed me with cervical dysplasia, endometriosis, and infertility - all in one visit.
But even after that and subsequent appointments, even after the referral to an RE, even after numerous tests and infertility treatments, going to the gynecologist still wasn't that bad. I had confidence that my next annual would get me back on track to a clean bill of health - minus the infertility and endo.
Imagine my surprise when instead the doctor found a tumor in my breast. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?, I wondered. I went from being a healthy 23-year-old newlywed in 2008, to a 25-year-old with failing lady parts - talking to my doctor about my chances of needing a pre-menopausal mastectomy and hysterectomy: high.
With all of this, you can guess that I'm not looking forward to Tuesday's appointment. Not that I care about spreading my legs for some new guy. (Because let's face it - I'm pretty confident that the number of people who've seen my vagina at this point is far greater than the number of people who've seen Paris Hilton's bits.) But because I'm scared of the other shoe dropping. Because I don't want another surgery. Because I don't want to be the 25-year-old woman with yet another part of her body dying. Because I am TIRED of being broken.
I already have a broken uterus, broken ovaries, a broken cervix, broken breasts, and a broken heart. Isn't that enough?
28 comments:
- sunnymama said...
Oh my goodness that is more than enough already. You have had it tough. (((Hugs))) xx
- December 23, 2010 at 6:35 AM
- Kim said...
Wouldnt it be nice for once to walk in and have good news?! Like your endo is gone! Your dysplasia has dissappeared, your pregnant Katie!!! Gosh I hate bad news too and I can totally understand why your nervous, but I am holding out hope for some sort of good news, even if it's "you won the most viewed vagina for 2010 award!"
Hugs my friend. xoxoxoxox
- December 23, 2010 at 6:40 AM
- manymanymoons said...
I'm sorry, it sounds like you're going through a rough time. I hope this appointment is ultra boring and you have nothing to report after!
- December 23, 2010 at 6:41 AM
- erika said...
(((HUGS))) It is time for better news! I am hoping you will be pleasantly surprised and will find a great doctor with amazing bedside manners and will have an overall good appointment.
Much love your ways!
- December 23, 2010 at 6:45 AM
- Stephanie said...
Katie, I wish I could just fix everything for you. You have such an amazing heart! Prayers that next week will go smoothly and you'll have a clean bill of health going into 2011!
- December 23, 2010 at 7:02 AM
- Rita said...
I'm sorry you're feeling so anxious about this appointment. It sounds like you're in good hands, though, with all of the recommendations Dr. P has going for him. I hope your appointment is completley boring (in the best way possible). ((hugs))
- December 23, 2010 at 7:10 AM
- E and R said...
I would say that is more than enough. Hope next week goes better than you are expecting!
- December 23, 2010 at 7:28 AM
- Conceptionally Challenged said...
You've been through enough, Katie. I hope that your body gives you a break, and that your new doctor is supportive of your decisions.
- December 23, 2010 at 7:48 AM
- Kelly said...
I can understand why you're feeling nervous. Hang in there. I'm hoping that you have nothing but a good visit.
- December 23, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- BabyWid said...
((hugs)) you will be in my thoughts and prayers!
- December 23, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- Leslie said...
You have definitely been through more than enough. I hope that you have a very positive experience and that you have found a new dr you are very comfortable with. Thinking of you!
- December 23, 2010 at 8:44 AM
- Rebecca said...
Sending giant ((hugs)). It is time for some good news. Sending lots of positive thoughts.
- December 23, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Trisha said...
I hope the appointment goes well and you get that clean bill of health! We've faced our fair share of those appointments too. Hang in there!
- December 23, 2010 at 10:41 AM
- Randi said...
No matter what happens tomorrow, it seems like no Dr is going to be able to tell you those concerns are bunk in one appointment - or maybe able to create many more issues. Having just gone through a shit storm, myself, with one thing piling up on the other - you will get through this. It may take time, some things are going to be more serious than others. There's a process of testing and refining to figure out what's really going on. And it feels like a fucking rollercoaster. I'm not gonna lie, it sucks.
But in the end, you will walk through it. It will get resolved, one way or another. I had dysplasia back in 2002, and I ended up needing LEEP surgery. I've had several friends since then have dysplasia and it went away without needing surgery. LEEP was an in-office procedure, and even though I was terrified, it wasn't painful and the healing process was relatively quick.
Hang in there. You're a strong woman and no matter what you will get through all of this. Sending you prayers and hugs. Hang in there and feel free to email me if you want to talk about LEEP surgery or anything else. randi2602(at)gmail(dot)com.
- December 23, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- myinfertilitywoes said...
I wish I could jump across the screen and give you a big, giant (((hug))). Here's hoping to Tues not being that bad... thinking of you!
ps - I mentioned you on my blog as giving me positivity :)
- December 23, 2010 at 11:54 AM
- Kaitake said...
I am sending you strong positive thoughts for your appointment! You have been through so much already and I really hope you get some good news. Best wishes :)
- December 23, 2010 at 12:52 PM
- JC said...
I hope your appointment is non-eventful. I know what you mean about explaining everything to new Dr's, I get anxious too. I'll be thinking about you.
I hope you and Joey and Danica have a great Christmas!
- December 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Another Dreamer said...
Lots of (*hugs*) I really hope the appointment it totally uneventful.
- December 23, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- Jennifer @ What Would Jen Do said...
maybe this time it will be like, ok everything is the same nothing new and nothing bad!
- December 23, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- Kakunaa said...
Oh, honey. I hope it goes smoothly and that all you get is a normal visit. My fingers are crossed for you honey.
- December 23, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- Marla said...
Yes, it's enough. More than enough. So, at this point, there's no where to go but up. I'm sure your appt will be a giant snoozefest compared to all you've been through. Hell, it better be. You deserve a break. *hugs*
Merry Christmas! :)
- December 24, 2010 at 6:46 AM
- amiracle4us said...
Thinking about youand sending you good wishes! Xo
- December 24, 2010 at 6:47 AM
- lowfatlady said...
I would be stressed too. Enough is enough with them finding things wrong. I hope this appointment goes well and it's quick and easy.
- December 24, 2010 at 12:01 PM
- Cheryl said...
I don't even know what to say. My heart absolutely breaks for you. I have tried so many times in my life to try and make sense of why one catastrophic thing after another happens to some people whereas others never to seem to have hard moment. It's baffling, perplexing and just downright annoying if I'm honest. So - what I will say is that I'm sorry - I'm sorry that there are people like us that seem to have "more character building experiences" in a matter of years than some see in a lifetime. I won't bother to point out that it isn't fair so I'll just say that it sucks. Again, I'm sorry.
I am so happy that you have decided to adopt and I know that you are going to be one amazing mom. I sincerely hope that you and Joey have a very Merry Christmas.
- December 24, 2010 at 4:12 PM
- heartincharge said...
God Bless you!
- December 26, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- The Baby Race said...
So sorry, hon. Hoping the appointment goes well on Tuesday. *hugs*
- December 26, 2010 at 1:44 PM
- Dawn said...
Praying that you have smooth visit. You deserve a break!
- December 27, 2010 at 7:47 AM
- My So-Called (TTC) Life said...
Katie, You're right--it's more than enough. It's TOO much for someone to handle especially so young. You're so strong, though--I don't know if I'd have the strength you do. Kudos for that. Keep us posted. Thinking of you. xo
- December 27, 2010 at 11:44 AM


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Video: Ka "Decisions"
The former member of Natural Elements and Nightbreed thinks deeper than rap, and a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
The first line in Ka's bio states he's been rhyming for over 20 years. That means he's been skillfully putting together words into a rhythm since '92. How many eras of rap music can your favorite new jack say they've witnessed? Ka is living off experience. Remember, as cool as NY rap is now, for as long as Ka has been rapping, he's seen it ebb and flow from good to bad, back to being currently one of the most relevant places producing originality like his own. He's pulling from a depth of source material about the hard knocks of the streets—the ones on the crime side, Brownsville.
On "Decisions" from Ka's second album, Grief Pedigree, he battles with choices one is faced with: sobriety vs. getting drunk, conformity vs. staying ghetto, living local or leaving town. Neither option seems like the right one. His emotionless expression is a sign of how conflicted he is internally. When he articulates the underlying issues in his raspy tone, he already sounds like he's gone so far to find the solution that he's at the point of no return. What Ka is doing for reality rap is in line with the brutal honesty professed by Prodigy and Roc Marciano, who snagged the sole guest feature on Grief Pedigree. Now, it's Ka's time.

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Two River Theater Announces 2012-2013 Season: PRESENT LAUGHTER Starring Michael Cumpsty and More
Two River Theater Company today announced the lineup of productions for its 2012-13 Season. The eight-play season will kick off in September with Suzan-Lori Parks directing her award-winning play Topdog/Underdog on the 10th anniversary of its winning the Pulitzer Prize. The season will also include classics and modern masterpieces, new works, and a commissioned world-premiere musical, A Wind in the Willows Christmas, which will be developed at the theater this year and debut in December.
"This season reflects our ambition to make Two River a home for a family of artists and a community of audiences," says Dias. "Many of the great theater artists who have made this current season so fulfilling will be returning, along with other great writers and directors who will be working at Two River for the first time. We're thrilled to have so many theater luminaries and exciting new talent here, working on exceptional plays and musicals, and participating in the vital cultural life of Red Bank."
Discount ticket packages (ranging from three to seven productions) are on sale now. Individual tickets and, for a limited time, a discount four-pack for A Wind in the Willows Christmas are also available. Tickets are available from www.trtc.org or 732.345.1400. Single tickets for all other productions will go on sale July 1. Please see the end of the release for detailed information about ticket prices.
Written and Directed by Suzan-Lori Parks
September 8-30, 2012
Rechnitz Theater
Suzan-Lori Parks is one of America's most surprising and provocative playwrights. In 2002, she became the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog. On the 10th anniversary of that history-making award, Parks will direct her darkly comic tale of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth—names given to them as a joke by their father. Obsessed with a street con game, three-card monte, the brothers are haunted by their own pasts—and our country's history.Topdog/Underdog contains adult language and content and is recommended for mature audiences. Suzan-Lori Parks most recently adapted the book of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which has received 10 Tony Award nominations including Best Revival of a Musical for its current Broadway production. In 2007 her 365 Plays/ 365 Days was produced in more than 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history.
Written by Ethan Lipton
Music Composed and Performed by Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra
Directed by Leigh Silverman
October 6-November 4, 2012
Marion Huber Theater
The corporation where he's worked for the past 10 years is moving to another planet, and Ethan Lipton doesn't want to go. Commissioned and originally produced by Joe's Pub, No Place to Go is Lipton's irreverent, deeply compassionate musical ode to America's work force—and a love letter to friends, family, and country. The songs of Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra are steeped in American musical traditions (including jazz, blues, folk, country, and lounge) but his subjects are thoroughly contemporary, winning him acclaim as a modern troubadour. Director Leigh Silverman is an Obie Award winner and Associate Artist at Two River Theater. She directed David Henry Hwang's Chinglish on Broadway and will direct a revival of his play Golden Child at Signature Theatre this fall.
Directed by Michael Sexton
October 20-November 11, 2012
Rechnitz Theater
Having inherited the throne, Henry must live down his wild adolescent past and unite his people. A young, vital, and ambitious leader, he commits his troops to war—and must then examine the cost of glory. Brimming with intrigue, battles, comedy, and romance, Henry Vwill feature some of New York's most accomplished young Shakespearean actors. Michael Sexton is Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the enjoyment, understanding, and appreciation of Shakespeare's works through performance, commentary, and educational activities.
Based on the Novel by Kenneth Grahame
Music by Mike Reid Lyrics by Sarah Schlesinger
Book by Mindi Dickstein
Directed by Amanda Dehnert
December 8-30, 2012
Rechnitz Theater
Continuing its tradition of engaging multigenerational audiences with a family production during the holiday season, Two River has commissioned A Wind in the Willows Christmas, a world-premiere musical based on the classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame. The beloved tale of one Mole's search for a place to call home follows the adventures of the Water Rat, Mr. Toad, and Mr. Badger as they discover that home is where your friends are. A Wind in the Willows Christmas will be the fifth collaboration from the team of Grammy Award-winning composer Mike Reid and lyricist Sarah Schlesinger; their musical In This House had its world premiere at Two River this season. Bookwriter Mindi Dickstein wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical Little Women, which toured the US after its run in New York. Amanda Dehnert's recent credits include Julius Caesar at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the world premiere ofThe Verona Project, which she wrote, composed, and directed for California Shakespeare Festival.
By Noël Coward
February 16-March 10, 2013
Rechnitz Theater
Michael Cumpsty, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for his performance in the Broadway production of End of the Rainbow, returns to Two River to star in Noël Coward's great classic Present Laughter. Acclaimed for his performance as Benedick last season in Much Ado About Nothing, Cumpsty will star in this sparkling, sophisticated comedy as the debonair matinee idol Garry Essendine, the center of a vortex of friends, lovers, producers, and playwrights—all of whom invade his glamorous, 1930s art-deco style London home, demanding his attention. This valentine to the theater is the third play by Noël Coward produced by Two River Theater, following Blithe Spirit and Private Lives.
Directed by May Adrales
April 6-May 5, 2013
Marion Huber Theater
Folk tales and folklore infuse this moving, powerful, and hopeful story about damaged people, unexpected relationships, and what it means to live in the center of your own life. A group of lost souls are brought together by an accident, and form unlikely connections that will change all of their lives. At the center of this new play is the magical child of a Romanian mother and Nigerian father, who glows with an unearthly light. The Electric Baby contains adult language. Stefanie Zadravec is a playwright and actor. Her play Honey BrownEyes won the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play or Musical and was published in the February 2009 issue of American TheatreMagazine, which also published her first-person essay about the writing of The Electric Baby in March 2012. May Adrales directed the world premiere of In This House at Two River Theater earlier this season.
Written and Performed by Lisa Kron
Directed by Mark Brokaw
April 20-May 12, 2013
Rechnitz Theater
"Lisa Kron pulls off the impossible," says The New Yorker about 2.5 Minute Ride, a solo performance that interweaves her father's history as a child of the Holocaust with her family's annual trip to an amusement park in Ohio. Written and performed by one of the most remarkable storytellers in the American theater, 2.5 Minute Ride is a poignant, funny, complex meditation on tragedy, grief, and family.Lisa Kron's plays include Well, which opened to critical acclaim on Broadway in 2006 and received two Tony nominations, and In the Wake. 2.5 Minute Ride has received an Obie Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations, L.A. Drama-Logue and GLAAD Media Awards, and was named the best autobiographical show of 1999 by the New York Press. Mark Brokaw's production of Nicky Silver's The Lyons is now running on Broadway. He directed 2.5 Minute Ride at The Public Theater and new plays Paula Vogel, Craig Lucas and many other writers.
August Wilson's TWO TRAINS RUNNING
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
June 1-23, 2013
Rechnitz Theater
This season, Two River Theater produced August Wilson's Jitney to critical acclaim and an extended run. In 2012-2013, Wilson and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson will return to Two River with a new production of Wilson's Two Trains Running, the 1960s play from Wilson's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th century. Two Trains Running illuminates the personal stories of ordinary people against the backdrop of social change and political upheaval. Reviewing the original Broadway production in The New York Times, Frank Rich called the play "Wilson's most adventurous and honest attempt to reveal the intimate heart of history." Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson's production of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa! is now running at New York's Signature Theatre.
Plays, artists, and dates are subject to change. For additional information, visit www.trtc.org.
Low-priced ticket packages (ranging from three to seven productions) are on sale now; prices range from $88.80 to $318.50. Individual tickets for A Wind in the Willows Christmas ($25 for children and $50-$55 for adults) are also available; for a limited time, patrons can purchase four tickets to A Wind in the Willows Christmas at a discounted rate of $120. Tickets are available from www.trtc.org or 732.345.1400. Single tickets for all other productions will go on sale July 1.


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UM Online Greek Olympics [ROUND THREE] – YouTube
Once again, BIG UPS to the sororities and fraternities that made the cut from last week's second round of the UM Online Greek Olympics.
Sigma Chi – Kappa Alpha Theta – Alpha Phi – Phi Delta
Each remaining chapter has received 50 points in the games. This week, we offer up another challenge that helps decide the top two Greek chapters on campus, and this time we are using videos to determine the outcome.
GRAND PRIZE: The best fraternities and sororities will once again get to hijack the 107.5 Zoo FM airwaves for an afternoon, along with a massive pizza party alongside radio host Aaron Traylor and mixmaster (and UM Phi Delt alum) DJ Christian Jackson.
ADDITIONAL PRIZES: The sorority that earns the most points during the UM Online Greek Olympics will receive a 20 percent discount at My Sister's Closet. The fraternity with the most points at the end will receive a $100 Visa gift Card.
Here is this week's online challenge.
Each chapter must create the ultimate YouTube video showcasing why they are the best Greek fraternity or sorority on campus.
Go to YouTube and upload a video. Make sure the video is set to public.
Once the video is complete you MUST publish the link under the "Leave a Comment" section below this article.
Deadline Sunday, September 22.


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On my belly they lay the blue strings
You know what that means
Here comes my family
On their faces I see pain
Thinkin' in my head
I'm the one to blame
And now it's over
They close the casket
And my son just became a goddamn
How many homies gonna die for this blue
-- from "The Funeral," written by Donald Love III after his February 1997 arrest for rape
The Arizona Republic's lead story on July 8 concerned Bill Clinton's whirlwind trip to the Valley: "'We Can Do Better.' President pitches hope in south Phoenix."
A large photo of the grinning chief executive splayed across the front page. Another headline read, "5 Guilty of Sexual Assault. Mentally ill girl gang-raped for hours." A small photo captured 19-year-old defendant Jermaine Johnson's stunned reaction as the guilty verdicts were announced.
The day before, Clinton had spoken to community leaders at a tortilla factory. "As blessed as America has been," he said, "not every American has been blessed by this [economic] recovery. All you've got to do is drive down the streets here in south Phoenix to see that."
On his return to Sky Harbor Airport, the president did not find his way to one of those streets, East Chipman Road. Chipman is about five minutes from the airport, in the "Park South" neighborhood. Park South covers an area bounded by 16th and 24th streets, Broadway and Roeser roads.
Gangbanging drug pushers regularly peddle their wares on Chipman Road and in nearby crackhouses. Many families have lived there for generations, in modest well-kept homes. But Chipman, in recent years, also has been the site of much violence.
In February, three young men and a young woman were murdered in a one-room brick hut on East Chipman. The case is still under investigation. Two days later, four more people were shot, one fatally, a few blocks away. The alleged shooter in that case has been arrested.
Two years earlier, farther west at 1827 East Chipman, apparently up to 30 young men had sex over a span of hours with a mentally handicapped 15-year-old girl. Phoenix police later detained and arrested 10 teenagers on suspicion of raping the girl and other charges.
All 10 were documented members of the Park South Crips gang, a loose confederation of young blacks.
Four of the 10 plea-bargained to reduced felony charges, and were placed on probation in April.
Five faced a heavily publicized jury trial this summer, which ended in their convictions on the rape charges. Two of the five, Carl Blackman and Darrion Hartley, also were convicted of kidnaping the girl.
Superior Court Judge Gregory Martin already has sentenced four of those five to mandatory prison terms, with 16-year-old Blackman getting the most time behind bars, nine years. Jermaine Johnson has a scheduled October 8 sentencing, which effectively will end the case. (Prosecutors on September 21 dropped charges against Michael Connor, whose trial had been pending.)
But jurors also decided that the defendants had not gang-raped the girl to solidify the Park South Crips' power base by terrorizing their turf -- the neighborhood. Prosecutors had charged the youths under an Arizona law that mandates greater punishment for members of street gangs convicted of committing crimes designed to bolster the gang's position. Those underlying crimes usually include robbery and extortion, not sexual assault.
(Several jurors indicated after the trial that they hadn't been able to link the defendants' gang affiliation to the rape's allegedly larger motivation.)
Although the jury wasn't convinced that a crime of gang-related intimidation had occurred, the Park South Crips were clearly the central institution in the young men's lives.
Behind the headlines in the "Chipman Road 10" case, there's a subtext -- and a subculture -- that most Phoenicians don't know, and can't fathom.
And much lingering contention as to what went wrong on February 15 and 16, 1997.
Darrion Hartley: "What you say, we raped you?"
Victim: "I don't know."
Hartley: "You know you lied so you wouldn't get in trouble for running away, huh. . . . Why you say we raped you? No motherfucking way we did."
Victim: "I told you I didn't want to have sex with you all."
(Hartley hands phone to Carl Blackman.)
Blackman: "Whose names did you say?"
Victim: "Every last one of you all."
Blackman: "Where you mama at, cuz you know we didn't rape you. That's so cruel."
Victim: "You did."
-- phone call of February 20, 1997, recorded by Phoenix police
"Fear in People's Hearts"
The Chipman Road rape trial made it clear that becoming a Park South Crip is a given for many of the neighborhood's youngsters.
Onetime defendant Michael Connor, for example, told police he got a "PSC" tattoo on his back in the sixth grade. Darrion Hartley said he was "jumped in" to the gang -- a physical hazing ritual -- at the age of 6.
Gang members may love their immediate families, if they have them around. But a banger's prime allegiance is to his or her buddies. Those are the individuals with whom he hangs, robs, rapes and, too often, dies.
"We're all in the same boat," Jermaine Johnson told police, speaking of his co-defendants.
The case also exposed the schism between Phoenix's white and black cultures: Many black Park South residents have little or no faith that police are there to serve and protect them.
They consider police misconduct against black citizens to be the rule, not aberrations. One incident that comes up constantly in interviews is the 1994 choking death by Phoenix police of black double-amputee Edward Mallet during a routine traffic stop that had escalated into violence. A Maricopa County civil jury awarded Mallet's parents $45 million, then blasted the police in an unusual post-trial statement. The Mallets later settled with the City of Phoenix for $5.3 million.
Right or wrong, neighborhood kids become inured with this deep mistrust of authority. No wonder that Chipman Road defendants such as Donald "Insane" Love III -- a onetime usher at the Ebenezer Baptist Church -- became a Park South Crip before he was old enough to shave.
"I see the detectives," he wrote in a 1997 jailhouse rap lyric, "they tell me some bullshit. I take the 5th. I ain't no punk. So fucc that shit. Then I go to court. It's on the news and shit. She [the judge] says, '160 G's.' Ain't that a bitch."
He wrote in another rap that year, "Me and my rida's in the hood we control. Every mothafuccen night we hood patrol."
Love's lyrics chronicle gang-related bloodshed on the streets of south Phoenix, casting the Park South Crips -- including some Chipman Road defendants -- as heroic gunslingers.
Perhaps he was just being creative in the manner of, say, Tennessee Ernie Ford, who once crooned, "If you see me comin', better step aside. A lotta men didn't. A lotta men died."
There's little doubt, based on police reports that predate the Chipman Road rape, that Donald Love embraced thug life as a youth. However, Love -- who's now on probation -- never lost touch with his "other" family.
"Donald is my roll [sic] model," one of his young cousins wrote to Judge Martin in 1998, "the person I look up to. I miss Donald very much. Since he been locked up, my life has changed. I have no one to keep me on the right track and keep me out of trouble."
A role model?
Love himself "just never had any real guidance from anybody," says his attorney, assistant public defender Brad Bransky. "There's no way you can condone what they did [during the Chipman Road rape], but you can see how they get where they are. The gangs are where these guys get their main support, for better or worse."
Love did get some guidance from an uncle in a March 1997 phone call taped by jail authorities.
"I'm hoping that after this thing is all over, man," Lewis White told his nephew, "that you take a shot at [stopping] taking stupid pills and turn in your membership to Thugs-R-Us."
"Uh-huh," Love replied.
Most of the Chipman Road defendants were reared by their mothers or grandparents, and have had little meaningful contact with their fathers.
Dennis "LuLay" Watson Jr.'s presentence report says he was raised mostly by his grandparents, including a maternal grandfather who is a pastor of a south Phoenix church. Watson's birth parents had little to do with him, the report says, and he joined the Park South Crips at a tender age. "In spite of this abandonment [by his parents]," it concludes, "the defendant feels his childhood has been normal."
It was, at least from where Watson sits.
Darrion "Knoccout" Hartley was a 14-year-old school dropout at the time of the rape. Growing up, he rarely saw his father; his mother -- who long has battled a crack cocaine addiction -- has been more of a peer than an authority figure.
An indicator of the mother-son relationship came during a taped jailhouse phone call in 1997.
"Mama, I been in here four months," Hartley told her. "I know where I can pick up some tight rock [crack cocaine]."
"Oh yeah," his mother replied.
"Put it like this. I'll go over in their hood. Pull a little somethin' out. A 30-cal or a little 12-gauge . . ."
(Hartley was proposing an armed robbery of rival gangsters in another part of town.)
Remarkably, Hartley had no criminal record before the Chipman Road case.
Other defendants, such as Carl "Mookie" Blackman, pretty much raised themselves. Blackman's drug-addled mother abandoned him, and his overwhelmed grandmother couldn't handle him, which left the youngster to his own destructive devices before he hit his teens.
Mookie Blackman was 13 years old when police first questioned him in the Chipman Road rape case.
(Blackman's mother spoke tearfully to Judge Martin at her son's sentencing: "He was only 13. Please! I can help him! Don't take my baby away from me!" The judge -- and Blackman himself -- seemed unmoved.)
"If you look at his record," prosecutor Joe Heileman told Martin, "you have to understand that Carl Blackman is beyond our help now. He is a person who will hurt someone else the minute he gets out of prison. . . . We shouldn't be swayed by the fact of the [defendants'] chronological age. The truth of the matter is they will be this way forever."
One of the few constants in the boys' lives was their gang. A Park South Crip -- not a defendant in the rape case -- wrote in a 1998 jailhouse note to a fellow banger:
"The hood will still be there for you [upon release from prison]. Just when we start comin' up this shit [the rape case] happens. Everybody we went to school with is here, y'all. . . . Crips 4-life. We have to sticc together."
(Crips like to substitute the letter "c" for "k," such as in "sticc" or "blacc.")
Odds are they'll end up in prison or an early grave.
"It's about living for right now for a lot of young black men, because they think they may not be around for long," says Perry Mitchell, chief of Maricopa County's pretrial services bureau, who personally monitored several Chipman Road defendants. "A black man in this country has a great chance of becoming a dope fiend, of going to prison or winding up dead at the hands of another person of color."
It's no mystery to Mitchell and others who work inside the criminal-justice system that the Chipman Road 10 wound up in street gangs.
In some ways, things aren't much different now than they were in 1927, when a University of Michigan professor wrote:
"It is not only true that the habitat makes gangs. But what is of more importance, it is the habitat which determines whether or not their activities shall assume those perverse forms in which they become a menace to the community."
The "menace" in the Chipman Road case, according to Phoenix police detective Rusty Stuart, went beyond the indignities inflicted upon the unfortunate teenage girl:
"The Park South Crips committed this crime to keep the neighborhood in line, to keep people from calling the authorities or from testifying in other cases," Stuart testified at a pretrial hearing. "That gang believes it owns that neighborhood, and they own everybody in it. The victim was an individual who was owned by the gang -- a 'hood rat' -- a thing who would not have had the right to say no."
Stuart's viewpoint -- called rabid and racist by some defense attorneys and black leaders -- gained credence through pretrial interviews of defendant TaRon "TBone" Auzenne.
"How did you intimidate the neighborhood?" a lawyer asked the young man in 1998. "What's the word intimidation mean, do you even know?"
"Put fear in people's hearts," Auzenne replied.
For legal reasons, the jury never got to hear that comment, nor his statement that the gang rape had served as an initiation for some of the younger perpetrators into the Park South Crips.
Prosecutors earlier had cut a deal with Auzenne in exchange for his testimony against his fellow Crips. That deal collapsed in late 1998, when Auzenne changed his mind about snitching.
He went to trial, was convicted, and now is serving seven years in prison.
The Gang Cop
Some people believe Rusty Stuart personifies everything that's wrong with the Phoenix Police Department's gang squad.
"That guy looks at a black kid and automatically sees a criminal," says the Reverend Oscar Tillman, head of the NAACP's Arizona chapter. "A kid is black, he lives in, say, Park South, so he must be a bad apple, a gangbanger. Then he [the officer] starts his targeting."
Tillman complains that Stuart and two police colleagues in the Chipman Road case, detectives Cameron Scadden and Mark Calles, see things as black and white -- both racially and rigidly. Defense attorneys at trial accused those cops of "manipulating" the rape victim and her mother to claim rape instead of consent.
Stuart says he does try to help young gangbangers in whom he senses a ray of hope for a decent future. One such person, he says, was Chipman Road rape convict TaRon Auzenne.
"I thought he had a chance at one point," the detective says, "and I went to his mom, who is a good woman. I told her that TBone wasn't an evil kid, but that he might be heading toward prison or worse. Then came the rape. But T-Bone had to make up his mind whether he wanted to be a gangster or not. He wants to be a half-Crip, and you can't do that. It meant more to him to be a Crip than to be free."
Stuart is an 11-year police veteran who has spent his entire career in south Phoenix, first in uniform and now as a detective. He says one of his professional goals is, "when the little neighborhood kids look up to a banger, they'll see someone in prison stripes."
He contrasts Auzenne with co-defendant Carl "Mookie" Blackman -- whom prosecutors described as one of the gang rape's ringleaders. Unlike Auzenne, Stuart says, Blackman was doomed from the start:
"He had a crackhead mom who didn't want him and a grandmother who couldn't handle him. Mookie wasn't made by Mookie -- he was made by the kids in that neighborhood. What chance did he have to survive, or Darrion [Hartley] have to survive? These are American kids like anyone else, and we lost them."
Retorts Hartley's attorney, Greg Clark:
"You get these gang cops involved, and they're gonna create this wild atmosphere -- that every crime is related to gangs who are out of control and running the streets. This whole thing just snowballed. My guy did make a mistake doing what he did, but he should have been handled in juvenile court as the probation officer there recommended. I like Darrion, and I plan to help him when he gets out."
Stuart is a strapping white guy who lives with his wife and two young sons in the far east Valley. He's aware that some folks take a look at him, learn of his Midwestern upbringing, and envision a redneck hick who has had little casual contact with people of color. Actually, the former Iowa State University football player says, he attended a racially mixed high school in Des Moines, and sees himself as color blind.
"I'm about as far from racist as you can get," he says. "Most people of all colors and stripes are good people. And there are assholes, too. I know we cops do lose perspective because we see so many of the assholes. But it's people like [the rape victim's mother] who keep me down there, people who stand up to the bullshit.
"Where me and the good Reverend Tillman would differ strongly is that I think community leaders should take much more responsibility for what happened to [the victim], and what happens all too often in that neighborhood. All he does is throw stones. For him to say that we are racists and somehow had it in for those Chipman Road guys is unbelievable. I know the schools have let these kids down, and so have other institutions, but it shouldn't be government's job to make sure kids do the right thing.
"I hated the plea-bargain offers to those guys. . . . Yeah, these cases are always tough -- rape cases and gang cases. Sometimes, you can't get the victims to even show up because of gangs' intimidation and threats. But that doesn't mean we should let people get away with crimes that we think we can prove they've committed."
Stuart says the so-called "peer pressure" at the Chipman Road rape house went beyond what most people can comprehend.
"Suppose T-Bone had said, 'What you guys are doing is fucked up, and I'm leaving,' what do you think was going to happen to him? He's gonna be a punk and they're gonna beat him down like a dog. When you're a Park South Crip and you're engaged in this type of violent act, you're not just a party pooper if you don't go along. The ramifications are far worse. How many people do you think saw Blackman and Hartley take that girl off the street to the house? But no one said a word until afterward, and even then -- after they knew what had gone on -- they kept their mouths shut. Why didn't Oscar Tillman get in their faces? Why didn't he ever say something about the victim, other than she was a liar? I think the word is hypocrisy."
The Reverend
Given to hyperbolic denunciations of allegedly racist-based motivations he sees at almost every turn, the Reverend Oscar Tillman makes an easy target. But he does have a constituency, and he's not speaking just to hear the sound of his own voice.
The Chipman Road rape case put Tillman in a sticky spot: How could a black leader possibly fault authorities for pursuing suspects in a vile gang-rape of a mentally handicapped black teenager -- even if the bad guys were black?
Tillman did.
"I called Rick Romley a 'righteous racist' after the sentencing [of three Chipman Road defendants] because he goes around with syrup rolling off his chin talking about how fair he is and color blind. Then he throws the book at black and brown kids like nobody's business. Historically, Romley finds a way to send young black men to prison."
In the next breath, however, Tillman says he's "not defending those boys, and I never have. I'm not condoning their behavior. In all honesty, though, I think that little girl was manipulated by her mother, and it's regrettable. The whole thing was about peer pressure, not about gangs running the streets of south Phoenix. Four or five of those boys had sex with her consensually before. What changed that day?"
Though he's never spoken with the victim, Tillman says he "would have loved to say to her, 'If these young men did what you said they did, then I'm behind you all the way. But if they didn't, then I want you to really consider what you're doing to their lives.'"
Tillman says a juror told him by phone after the verdict that several panelists hadn't believed the victim, but that the defendants confessions to police had swayed them against the five.
"I'm thinking, the cops kept those kids in there until they started talking," says Tillman, a retired military policeman himself. "Then they twisted and turned them until they got what they needed."
He told Judge Martin at the sentencing of three Chipman Road defendants that he has "strong feelings for these young men. I believe in these young men. . . . The [prosecution] keeps saying, 'Gang members, gang members.' The jury didn't believe it, so why do they keep saying it?"
Tillman asked the judge to be as lenient as possible, so the trio could "get back the life they left a few years ago."
That life -- by some of the defendants' own accounts -- was dominated by their membership in the Park South Crips. Tillman explains that he was talking about the young men being out of jail, after which they could re-enroll in school or find a job.
"Where was the community is a fair question," he says, responding to Detective Stuart's accusatory comments. "Seems like nobody is there to do anything for those kids."
Tillman pauses, then quickly diverts the bulk of the blame to his nemesis, the Phoenix Police Department:
"A community like Park South has to make some real decisions that other communities don't have to make when it comes to dealing with the police: If someone in Park South calls the police and the police overreact, and someone gets killed -- and that has happened, if you look at the record -- then the person who called has blood on his hands.
"The police should have known about that house on Chipman, that nobody was hanging in there but those boys. With all of their supposed intelligence, they didn't know what the hell was going on. The police continue to fail that community -- they failed to help out a 13-year-old boy who had been abandoned."
A Tough Case
News accounts in February described how Laura Reckart -- the original Chipman Road case prosecutor -- had resigned because of threats she'd gotten from unidentified Park South Crip gangsters.
Actually, the 10-year veteran of the County Attorney's Office says she quit after a difference of opinion with her supervisors over the direction of the case. Reckart says they'd wanted to, and later did, offer the defendants far softer plea bargains than she'd contemplated.
"It's true I got threatened [by the gangsters]," she says, "and that was awful. And it was very frustrating, to put it mildly, being called a racist by some of the defense attorneys, and by Oscar Tillman. But the bottom line was, I didn't want any of the defendants to be probation-eligible, and my bosses did."
Chief deputy county attorney Paul Ahler disagrees with Reckart's analysis.
"Typically, we wouldn't offer probation on a gang rape," Ahler says, "but this wasn't a typical case. We never felt that these guys were innocent, but we weren't even sure if the victim was going to be able to testify because of her mental capacity and other legal issues. No one tried to intentionally undercut Laura. She's a good person and a good prosecutor. She worked this case very hard, got personally attacked by the other side, it wound her really tight."
He adds, "We don't go forward with cases just because public sentiment is telling us to go forward, which it was in this case. And we're certainly not going to drop a case because Oscar Tillman says we should. All in all, it was a tough case."
Joe Heileman, who took over from Reckart, says he made the decision to offer the controversial plea deals.
"Nobody in my office told me what I had to do with the case," says Heileman, a longtime prosecutor whose closing argument at the rape trial was compelling.
"The people who ended up going to trial were the ones who would have had to go to prison under the deals we offered -- that's because they had known the victim before that night, and knew she was retarded and vulnerable.
"I think the only reason we got convictions is that we did plead some people out. It wasn't a circus at trial, with 10 defense attorneys taking their crack at cross-examining that girl. I made the decision, and I think it was the right one."
Reckart says she would have compared the gang to a pack of wolves in her opening statement. She expresses frustration that Heileman and co-prosecutors Patricia Hicks and Brad Astrowsky couldn't sell the gang-related charges to the jury.
That job became tougher, Reckart concedes, after Judge Martin ruled that the jury wouldn't get to hear TaRon Auzenne's crucial 1997 statements to detectives -- "Put fear in people's hearts," and other self-incriminating comments.
Reckart attended the trial as a spectator, wearing bright-red dresses that flaunted her animus against the defendants: Members of the Crips despise the color red, which is what their rival gang, the Bloods, wear.
"The color was to tell them, 'You will not intimidate me, and I'm still here,'" she says. "'You're not gonna scare me like you tried to scare the victim and the neighborhood.' I believed that girl, and I thought the lack of support she'd gotten on this case was unconscionable."
Laura Reckart now is working part-time as a judge in the City of Glendale.
I, Taron Lamar Auzenne, have been a member of the Park South Crips gang since, at least, I was ten years of age. I have the gang name or 'moniker' of T-Bone. . . . On or about February 15 and 16, 1997, I participated in the kidnap and sexual assault of [the victim]. The [crimes] were committed to intimidate the victim and the surrounding neighborhood. The above-listed crimes assisted the Park South Crips by establishing their dominance over the victim and the 'neighborhood.'
-- January 14, 1998, affidavit, later recanted
As Detective Stuart points out, TaRon Auzenne's upbringing was benign compared with some of his co-defendants. Auzenne -- who grew up on Chipman across the street from the scene of the rape -- was blessed with a hardworking single mother and maternal grandparents with whom he lived as an only child.
His mother, Sherry, is a computer operator for the State of Arizona. His father -- with whom Auzenne has had a relationship despite his parents' estrangement -- owns a small business in south Phoenix.
A court-appointed psychologist noted in 1997, "The [Auzenne] family system seems to have cohesiveness, close ties, shared interests and extended family support."
Those ties apparently didn't run deep enough to keep Auzenne from joining the Park South Crips when he was 10. Phoenix police first linked the youth to the gang in June 1993, when he was 13.
Early the following year, he was suspended from school for carrying a realistic-looking toy cap gun on campus.
In March 1995, police listed the 15-year-old Auzenne as a possible suspect in a drive-by shooting, but never busted him. That summer, his mother turned him over to juvenile authorities, saying the boy was incorrigible.
Auzenne was back home a few days later.
Within the year, Phoenix police detained Auzenne for possessing marijuana, after a car chase. Juvenile authorities ordered him to perform community-service work, which he apparently never completed.
In April 1996, Phoenix police stopped Auzenne on South 21st Street and searched him for drugs. They found 20 white rocks, which turned out to be fake crack cocaine. Auzenne allegedly had been peddling the stuff on the street. They also confiscated a .25-caliber handgun, with five live rounds. Auzenne again was placed on juvenile probation, after three days in custody and two weeks of "home detention."
This was the same young man about whom his longtime next-door neighbor -- an elementary school teacher -- says, "He has always been courteous and respectful to me. He is basically a good boy who made a poor choice [in the Chipman Road incident]."
And this was the same person whose half-brother, a fifth-grader, says, "One thing that I know is that TaRon may have done something wrong, but he is a good brother to me. He cares about me, and he doesn't want me to get into any trouble, and he won't let me get into any trouble."
Auzenne certainly looked the part of a classic blue-clad gangbanger when he surrendered himself for questioning in late February 1997. Wearing a blue-and-white ball cap, blue shirt, blue tennis shoes and blue bandana, he told detectives he was a Park South Crip, and said he'd been part of the action involving the young girl at the Chipman house -- which he claimed hadn't been rape.
"What is a hood rat?" Detective Mark Calles asked him, after Auzenne used that phrase to refer to the young girl.
"A hood rat is a girl that don't respect herself, and let anybody and anyone have sex with her," Auzenne replied.
He would become the sole Chipman Road defendant who agreed to testify against his cohorts, in return for a plea bargain that would have freed him from jail in less than two years. That deal fell apart in late 1998, after Auzenne decided -- for reasons that still are uncertain -- that he'd take his chances at trial.
Detective Rusty Stuart says Auzenne likely will be targeted as a snitch in prison, even though he never did testify against his co-defendants. He cites a rap lyric about Auzenne that co-defendant Dennis "LuLay" Watson composed in early 1998. Titled Backstabber, it includes the lines:
"He showed a lot of love
"That niggah was my bro
"But he done turned
"From a friend to a mother-fuckin'
"As soon as I turned my back
"I got stabbed -- it was so drastic
"But niggah what I really want to
"Is lay you in a casket"
In a twist of legal fate, Watson is a free man these days, out on probation.
TaRon Auzenne is in prison.
Defense attorney Carmen Fischer -- an excellent advocate for Auzenne at trial -- doesn't believe he is a marked man.
"Word is that the other guys don't consider him a snitch," she says. "He gets along with them, and there's no hatred."
Auzenne's mother wrote to Judge Martin before her son's sentencing, "It has not always been easy raising TaRon. Sometimes he has been willful and stubborn. But . . . he is a decent human being who used bad judgment."
Adult probation officer Jean Scott concluded in her presentencing report, "This writer does not accept as justification statements to the effect that [he] is easily led, impulsive, desensitized and conditioned to a different set of values because he is a resident of South Phoenix, and, by default, became a gang member in order to survive in his environment."
Auzenne's great-uncle sent a similar message, one far different than that of Oscar Tillman, in his letter to Martin:
"I refuse to lay claim to the well-worn cliché of being 'underprivileged or neglected' because TaRon comes from a God-fearing, hardworking and decent family that showered him with love," Lewis Johnson wrote. "Out of TaRon's immaturity at age 17, he made a poor decision. He is now almost 20. . . . We hope that you will understand that we do not argue the points of law, nor do we question the essence of justice."
A Turn of Events
Judge Martin's courtroom was packed on the morning of September 22 for the sentencing of Daniel Robinson. Most were there to show their support for the slight 19-year-old, who faced a mandatory prison sentence ranging from a little more than five years up to 14 years.
As the hearing started, Martin indicated he was probably going to sentence Robinson to seven years, the same term he'd given TaRon Auzenne weeks before.
Rusty Stuart asked the judge if he could say something. Practically everyone present expected the detective to ask for the maximum sentence. Practically everyone was surprised.
"I've come to know quite a bit about each and every [defendant]," Stuart said. "I have not seen the level of violence with [Robinson] as I did with some of the other defendants."
He asked Martin to impose the lowest possible sentence, which -- with time already served -- would mean Robinson would have to serve less than two more years in prison instead of at least four.
Oscar Tillman sat in the spectator's gallery without expression. A few seats away, Robinson's mother, Veronica Young, wept and mouthed thanks to the detective.
It was a stunning role reversal.
For months, Stuart had privately berated prosecutor Joe Heileman for being too soft with the probation plea bargains. Now, it was Heileman, not the detective, who was asking Martin to be tougher with a convicted rapist.
Veronica Young told the judge that her son now was a different -- and better -- person than he'd been in February 1997, having earned his GED certificate and renewed an interest in God.
She submitted a letter to Martin, in which she wrote, "[My son] is not the composite created by the prosecution -- the gang-banging, one-dimensional sex-fiend [Heileman] described. The events of that night do not define my son as to who and what type of person he is. Nor is he today the person of that night."
Handcuffed and shackled, Robinson stood before Martin, and read his own letter. He apologized profusely for what he'd done at the Chipman Road house, saying he'd made a horrible, stupid mistake.
"I'm really anxious to live my life again," he told the judge.
Martin spoke extemporaneously moments before sentencing the young man.
"This was a brutal case," he said. "I sat and heard the evidence, so I know what happened. . . . In my mind, there is absolutely nothing in this case that would suggest that law enforcement officers nor Mr. Romley or his office, or anyone else, was motivated by the race of the defendants in the manner which they handled this case."
Martin noted that Robinson was the first defendant to have shown remorse, and "I think his statements are genuine."
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The incident took place yesterday at the IGI Airport. The man, identified as Suraj, hails from Afghanistan, but possesses an Indian passport. He lives in west Delhi's Tilak Nagar area with his wife and three children, aged between seven and 12 years, police said.
The family had got clearance from the immigration staff at the airport, but they were stopped while they were about to board the flight and inspection of their visas, made the airlines' staff suspicious about them.
"They were taken back to the immigration department and the police were informed, following which the man, his wife and three children, were all stopped.
"Then their visas were sent to the UK High Commission's office for verification, which turned out to be forged," DCP (IGI Airport) D K Gupta said, adding, Suraj, who allegedly got the visas done for his family, was then "arrested".
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1: Nice
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4: Hot chick for Jagan there XD
Yeah kill the huge borders.
In sig 1, is that a c4d in the bg or a stock?
Looks like a stock I came over while googling candy shop yeasterday, was thinking aout making a candy theme sig hehe.
Olivia Wilde <3
Thank you so so so so so so so much. You won't even believe how happy this makes me!
You did a really really good job on it too. I love how it came out. I think the border actually looks really nice on this too, so I don't think you should kill borders. The background looks very cool as well, all the lighting and depth you created. Thank you <3
Yay a 4th thread! I hate to be that guy, but pretty much what they said; lose the borders. I actually think the Resistance one would make a cool pop-out sig. I envy your skills with text though D:
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Oh my god! That's like absolutely PERFECT!I seriously can't see anything wrong with it! I'm definitely using this one! Thanks!
Nothing all that new.
Missy's Request
Ahhh, thank you so much! I love how the background is part of his "vehicle". If I said any more than that, it would be a tiny spoiler for those who haven't played the game heh.
But as always, great stuff ^_^ Love the lighting in this tag, as well as the second one. Thanks again.
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Seeing that Snow tag made me wanna request a Lightning or Vanille tag from you hehe.
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the lines around her dont suit the image imo (tad too sharp they be too), aside form that, not bad! liking the text and all ^.^
I think it`s great.
Textwork is nice
Effects are cool.
And no huge border XD
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I really like the ambience sig. Text is amazing, and I think the pieces of light really give it a nice effect.
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Siggeh made by me. Taking requests ATM! =3
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"Luck be a lady" nice touch
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And, XIII is amazing XD
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New one for whoever and some completed requests, any sort of critiques or criticisms welcomed.
1st siggy: I enjoy seeing you try out the vectory style but the elements just don't seem to flow well. I think the bright blue lines are very distracting and they take away from that signature. I really like the background, minus the bright blue lines. The foreground needs more development. It seems that you're creating an effect that is "coming forward" so exaggerate it some more. Simple is always nice with vectory sigs, but flow is important.
Requests are strange, because they always want screen shots to be used as signatures. WHY?!?! Dreaming of Topaz Clean, but no such luck.
And a Saber tag. YES.
The foreground is quite lovely. Your lighting skills are so amazing and they really make the signature show a lot of depth. I don't really understand the background though, its some sort of patternish thing, but it doesn't make sense to me. And the purple square on the right side seems a bit too strong. I dunno, overbearing maybe. I am a big fan of the typography you did for the signature. Very pretty outcome on that.
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What Have We Learned From Emissions Trading Experiments?
Emissions trading is a form of environmental regulation in which a regulatory body specifies the total allowable discharge of pollutants, divides this cap into individual permits assigned to individual polluters, and allows trading of the resulting permits. Laboratory experiments, in which paid subjects participate in controlled markets, can be used to test both proposals for emission trading and the theories on which they are based. This paper surveys the laboratory research that has investigated the efficiency of emission trading programs, role of alternative instruments and institutions, the effects of allowing firms to carry inventories of permits, and the extent to which market power can be exercised.
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"Designing organizations for trading pollution rights,"
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- Ledyard, John O. & Szakaly, Kristin E., "undated". "Designing Organizations for Trading Pollution Rights," Working Papers 838, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
- John Ledyard & Kristin Szakaly-Moore, 1993. "Designing Organizations for Trading Pollution Rights," Experimental 9307001, EconWPA, revised 28 Jul 1993.
- R. Andrew Muller & Stuart Mestelman, 1994. "Emission Trading with Shares and Coupons: A Laboratory Experiment," The Energy Journal, International Association for Energy Economics, vol. 0(Number 2), pages 185-211.
- Stuart Mestelman & Andrew Muller, 1994. "Emission Trading with Shares and Coupons : A Laboratory Experiment," McMaster Experimental Economics Laboratory Publications 1994-01, McMaster University.
- Cason, Timothy N, 1995. "An Experimental Investigation of the Seller Incentives in the EPA's Emission Trading Auction," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 85(4), pages 905-922, September.
- Cason Timothy N., 1993. "Seller Incentive Properties of EPA's Emission Trading Auction," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 25(2), pages 177-195, September.
- Stuart Mestelman & Rob Moir & Andrew Muller, 1998. "A Laboratory Test of Canadian Proposals for an Emission Trading Program," McMaster Experimental Economics Laboratory Publications 1998-03, McMaster University.
- Cason, Timothy N. & Plott, Charles R., 1996. "EPA's New Emissions Trading Mechanism: A Laboratory Evaluation," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 30(2), pages 133-160, March.
- Godby, Robert W. & Mestelman, Stuart & Muller, R. Andrew & Welland, J. Douglas, 1997. "Emissions Trading with Shares and Coupons when Control over Discharges Is Uncertain," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 359-381, March.
- Stuart Mestelman & Andrew Muller, 1997. "Emissions Trading with Shares and Coupons when Control over Discharges is Uncertain," McMaster Experimental Economics Laboratory Publications 1997-01, McMaster University.
- Plott, Charles R, 1983. "Externalities and Corrective Policies in Experimental Markets," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 93(369), pages 106-127, March.
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- Hahn, Robert W, 1989. "Economic Prescriptions for Environmental Problems: How the Patient Followed the Doctor's Orders," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 3(2), pages 95-114, Spring.
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