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Tension from the day before prevailed not only in Lyari, but also infiltrated its surrounding areas as a day of mourning against the interference by police was announced by the outlawed Peoples Amn Committee (PAC) on Saturday.
Two men, including an alleged gangster, were killed and seven others were wounded during the day. On Friday, activists protesting against the apprehension of three close aides to PAC chief, Uzair Jan Baloch, engaged in a shoot-out with the police which killed at least three bystanders and injured almost one dozen people.
Commercial and routine activities remained suspended in Lyari while public transport was also nil. Matric papers in Lyari were also postponed.
Gunmen approached shopkeepers in areas nearby, including Soldier Bazaar, Garden West, Old Golimar and Gulbahar, and resorted to indiscriminate firing while forcing them to close the commercial activities.
The exchange of fire between the police and the protesters, allegedly associated with the PAC, started in the morning in different localities of Lyari, including Juna Masjid road, Bihar Colony, Khadda Market, Baghdadi, Nayabad, Al-Falah Road, Ali Mohammad Mohalla, Kalakot, and Daryabad.
One of the worst affected areas was Lea Market where protesters burnt tyres on the roads and pelted law enforcers with stones while shouting slogans against them. While the entire locality continued to echo with gunshots, 30-year-old Rustam Ali was killed and 12-year-old Hassan was wounded. According to DSP Qaiser Ali Shah, an alleged PAC activist, 30-year-old Moosa, was gunned down by his own associates in Soldier Bazaar while trying to close the shops in the area. Two passersby, namely Bilal and Jan Mohammad, were reportedly wounded.
Four people, Niaz, Naveed, Ejaz and Urooj, were injured in Gulbahar when unidentified miscreants threw firecrackers at a bus. Police officials alleged that the PAC men planned to set the bus on fire but they threw the cracker when the driver did not stop the bus.
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Similar target operations by the police are expected in Lyari as according to officials, the police are gathering details about the gangsters and their networks. The SSP South, Nasir Aftab, said that they were currently trying to control the situation but as soon as it settles down, they will launch operations against PAC and other gangs. "This alarming law and order situation is definitely being created to stop the targeted operations," said Aftab. "Once things calm down, we will resume our operation."
Meanwhile, PAC has also warned the authorities that they would react in the same manner if the police start their "so-called targeted operations", while accusing them of arresting innocent people. The PAC chief, Uzair Jan Baloch, said that he will welcome an operation against criminals by the police but would react strongly if they continue to apprehend innocent people.
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Philip Collins knows a thing or two about speech writing; but I can't help thinking that his assessment of what David Cameron should say about Britain and the EU is misguided. Perhaps it's his Labour blood, but he is fascinated with 'those in Mr Cameron's party who are obsessed with Europe in general or frightened of UKIP in particular'. Collins' analysis seems to suggest (or hopes?) that Cameron's speech will be primarily for Bill Cash et al. But the speech is the first step to a referendum renegotiating Britain's position in the EU. The primary audience must be the public – Mrs Bone rather than Peter Bone. Therefore, its content should be about people rather than politics.
What might David Cameron say? Collins is right that Cameron does not have a European policy, at least in the sense of not having a manifesto for reference. Collins sees this as a weakness; but I see it as a possible strength. Where the public is concerned, some vagueness on the detail might not be a bad thing provided Cameron can shape a compelling story of why and where Britain's relationship with the EU must change. This speech ought to deal in imperatives or Cameron may fail to capture the public's attention at the outset.
Downing Street's strategy at last month's EU budget negotiations revealed something of its overarching analysis of the EU. The target was not 'good Europe' (ie, the single market), but 'bad Europe' (ie, the excesses of federalism). Cameron had some success building a coalition against the EU Commission's plans by contrasting unaccountable Brussels' comforts with the deprivations imposed on Greece. This simple gambit suggested a very strong moral argument that the federalist project is failing Europeans. The internal logic said that 'Europe costs too much', and not just in terms of money. This logic should be articulated and developed.
To do that, the government would need to persuade the public that there is a link between what is happening in Athens and what has beset some post-industrial areas of Britain: that inherited unemployment and other long-term economic difficulties in the provinces are partly the result of businesses being made uncompetitive by the failure of federalist EU regulations and costs. The government has made this case in the past, but not often enough. Neither has it succeeded in explaining that abstract money arguments are really about people (both present and future), something that David Cameron conceded recently.
There will be pressure on Cameron to frame his policy in the grand terms of 'strong Conservative leadership repatriating sovereignty and restoring parliament'. But small words about little people are better, especially given the contempt in which parliament and other institutions are held. The 'how' of change is a difficult question; but it isn't yet important. The present need is to be clear about why there must be change.
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The third meeting of the Nordic Network of Astrobiology will be devoted to the subject "Isotopes as diagnostic tools in astronomy, geology and biology". Isotope ratios are used in many fields of astrobiology,to determine the origin and synthesis pathways of interstellar molecules, to date early geological formation, to assess paleoclimates and, last but not least, to detect life on early Earth. The conference aims to bring researchers from different fields using isotopes together to exchange the newest developments in this field and to develop ideas for further research. The following themes will be, amongst others, covered by the symposium:
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Looks like Michael Kors got the memo about diversity on the runway.
The New York City-based fashion designer recently chatted with VogueUK.com about his fondness of variety when it comes to the models he uses.
"I don't like it when the models all look the same. To me it's so incredibly boring to turn them into mannequins, it's so much more interesting if we have different ages, ethnicities, body types, heights," Kors told the website.
"We run the gamut from Frankie Rayder who's in her late thirties and Karen Elson, to girls that are just starting out who are 17; we go from the fairest of the fair to the darkest complexions. So if I see mannequin-like models, I'm bored, and it's the same thing with women on the street. I want to see them bring their own personality."
Good to hear, although we didn't see much of that diversity in the 51 looks Kors presented at his Spring 2014 show during New York Fashion Week. And let's not even mention his super homogenous (aka white) ad campaigns.
But we have high hopes that Kors will start practicing what he preaches. Especially since the former "Project Runway" judge revealed to Vogue UK that he's a fan of one of our favorite black models. "There's a girl called Malaika Firth who I think is gorgeous – she's just amazing."
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Chromebooks become a valid cheap computing alternative for productivity
Typically you would consider a device around $400-600 to be a budget purchase when it comes to laptops, but have you ever considered going cheaper? A recent solution to the cheap-but-functional laptop need that I've personally experienced actually involves Chromebooks. I know what you'll tell me next: Chromebooks are very limited and require the internet to be useful. This is mostly true, if you choose to run Chrome OS as it is. There are essentially two options here, and it can vary depending on your Chromebook model. The first option is to install Linux in a self-contained environment within Chrome OS, referred to as crouton, the "Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment." This is in some ways the simpler method, and is as easy as following a list of instructions, which is explained in a wonderful guide on the project's GitHub page. The other option is to install a custom BIOS such as SeaBIOS and then install a Linux distribution from a flash drive. Yes, this is a little more of a time commitment and often will require you to open up the underside of your Chromebook briefly, but it can be worth it depending on your use case.
I figure at this point in time it would be good to point out a few potential use cases for a full Linux installation. One of the downsides to using ChromeOS is being sandboxed in essentially a giant version of the Chrome browser, and while it makes for a generally smooth experience, it's also a rather limited experience. For example, ChromeOS is really not a development platform, meaning if you want to do even basic Python or other language development, you're generally out of luck. In response to this, you could either try to find an online integrated development environment (IDE) or buy a whole new laptop, but why do that when you can just run a full Linux environment? The answer is that you wouldn't, because running an OS like Ubuntu on your existing laptop will save you money and allow you to develop offline, which is not a word you would often hear associated with a usable Chromebook. Of course, for all the productivity benefits that are being suggested, there are many entertainment and social application benefits. One of the first things I was able to do on my Chromebook running Linux was install the Spotify desktop client, which provides significantly more options than the web client. Another benefit I had was being able to install Pidgin, which is a great messenger program that allows you to connect multiple social media chat accounts, including Facebook messenger. For the gamer in me, I was able to install emulators for a multitude of game systems. With these examples in mind, it should be clear what sorts of benefits you can gain by ditching ChromeOS. So what reason should you have to run Linux alongside versus replacing ChromeOS as a whole?
The simplest reason to use something like crouton is to avoid opening up your Chromebook and modifying the system, simply adding the basic functionality of a full Linux desktop right there in Chrome OS (to be reached by a keyboard shortcut). That said, I have encountered some problems in terms of graphics acceleration and media playback using crouton, so your mileage may vary with it. Another thing of note with crouton is that by default it will install Ubuntu 12.04, which is notably old at this point in time. With this in mind - as the guide will tell you - it's possible to change which Linux distribution and version is installed with crouton. Essentially, if your goal is to simply gain the freedom of running Linux and its basic features and easily remove it if need be, then give crouton a try. However, if your goal is to take full advantage of all Linux has to offer, I might suggest the modification method, which I will detail a few options for.
From experience, if you want a bit more consistent and stable functionality and have a bit more technical know-how, you should replace Chrome OS entirely. Chrome OS, as it happens, is Linux-based, but the amount of it that the user sees is very minor and you could hardly call the whole thing a Linux distribution. That said, there are a few options here in terms of distributions. The first option is to opt for the normal Linux experience and run an OS like Ubuntu or, as I use, GalliumOS. Ubuntu is a well-known Linux distribution, with an amazing amount of hardware support right "out-of-the-box." GalliumOS, which runs on top of the same system as Ubuntu (Debian), is noted as being highly optimized for Chromebooks and, from my usage, has been rather consistent with that statement. Another, notably different, option is Remix OS, which is a desktop-compatible version of Android that, as expected, allows you to run Android apps natively on your device yet also have a full desktop experience. The last time I tried the OS, it was in beta, but at this point it's apparently ready for prime time, so perhaps it'll be in your future. In the end, though, it comes down to your personal preference, because most features will generally work with either crouton or a full install, but mileage may vary.
A few words of warning: if you care about your warranty, the mod method may not be for you. In this case, go with crouton. If you don't care, then go with the full install, because I've found that after replacing ChromeOS I have had no reason to go back. It's also a good idea to have a Chromebook model with 4GB of RAM and at least an Intel Celeron, such as the Toshiba Chromebook 2, in order to get solid performance. For more information on the installation methods involved, either Google them to find out for yourself or ask someone else to help you out, because there's nothing better than getting the most out of your cheap device. If for some reason you mess up, it's a simple process to restore your Chromebook back to its factory state. So, what do you have to lose?


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He waxed rhapsodic about the joys and mysteries of romance. He essayed with passion on the despair of heartbreak and loss. His songs surveyed the devastation of inner-city poverty and called for social change and racial equality, providing the sonic backdrop for the civil rights movement. He crafted what might be pop music's greatest film soundtrack and perfected a kind of soul music that established Chicago among the meccas of black pop, writing and producing countless hits for a slew of artists. His work has been covered by, among others, Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, David Allan Coe, and the Jam. From '50s-era doo-wop to the biting, politically charged funk of the '70s, Curtis Mayfield, who died December 26 at age 57, was an immeasurably gifted artist -- among the most influential singers, songwriters, guitarists, and producers of any decade.
He made his recording debut in the late '50s with the Impressions, a Windy City quintet that initially spotlighted the milky croon of Jerry Butler, most notably on the sumptuous 1958 hit "For Your Precious Love." Butler left the group for a solo career, though, and three years later the Impressions resurfaced as a trio with Mayfield at the helm. Along with co-vocalists Fred Cash and Sam Gooden, Mayfield crafted tight vocal harmonies underpinned by his subtly dazzling guitar work.
Their first hit was 1961's "Gypsy Woman," an ethereal, flamenco-paced ballad that introduced Mayfield's soaring falsetto and his penchant for unabashed romanticism. A few other singles were released, including the sauntering "I'm the One Who Loves You," a terrific one-off that brought Butler back to the fold. Mayfield penned numerous crossover hits for his former partner, among them "He Will Break Your Heart," "Find Another Girl," and "I'm Telling You." He was also working at Chicago's Okeh Records, writing and producing terrific sides for Major Lance ("The Monkey Time," "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um"), Gene Chandler, Billy Butler, and Walter Jackson. But it wasn't until 1963's "It's All Right" that the Impressions earned their first Top 5 pop hit and the first of three No. 1s on Billboard's R&B chart.
More than just a quintessential slice of swinging summertime soul, "It's All Right" was a masterful fusion of radio-ready black pop and the gospel that Mayfield grew up playing in the early '50s with the Northern Jubilee Singers, with lyrics that both comfort and cajole and vocals that dart all around Mayfield's chopping guitar. It's an anthem of optimism -- a toast to the emotional power of soul -- that never stoops to sentimentality, never trivializes those moments when "you wake up early in the morning, feeling sad like so many of us do." An anodyne for life's hardest moments, "It's All Right" is a hell of a lot more effective than therapy or any self-help nonsense on the bookshelves.
As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the mid-'60s, Mayfield and the Impressions responded with songs that offered motivation ("Keep On Pushing," "We're a Winner") and gospel-derived comfort ("People Get Ready," "Meeting Over Yonder"), all of which fared well on both the pop and R&B charts. There were also some exquisite love songs, among them "Talking About My Baby," "I'm So Proud," and "Woman's Got Soul." By 1968, following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mayfield looked squarely at the snarling face of racism and injustice and produced two incendiary masterworks. "This Is My Country" and "Choice of Colors," both released on his Curtom imprint, were bold, brave, and blistering indictments of slavery and bigotry that were harbingers not just of Mayfield's later work but of black pop in the next decade.
Mayfield left the Impressions in 1970 and later that year issued Curtis, a sterling debut album that contained such highlights as "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go," the joyously blaring "Move On Up," and "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue." While the Impressions carried on without Mayfield, netting a few hits on Curtom, Curtis issued a second solo effort, Roots, a disappointing set that lacked the sociopolitical firepower of his solo debut.
In mid-1972 Mayfield was commissioned by director Gordon Parks, Jr. to score Superfly, a blaxploitation film starring Ron O'Neal as a drug dealer trying to get out of the business. The film wasn't much, but the soundtrack was a top-to-bottom triumph, a distillation and modernization of Mayfield's later work with the Impressions that helped to usher in an era of political outrage and artful exploration in black pop. This was, after all, an era jump-started via Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On in 1971 and carried out by Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On, Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, and a string of great singles by the O'Jays, the Chi-Lites, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and a host of others.
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Nearly three decades after its release, Superfly has lost none of its musical edge, none of its lyrical bite. Hearing "Freddie's Dead" on the radio today, it still comes at you from the speakers like a maelstrom of white-hot bullets, its unsympathetic chronicle of a junkie's death and the staccato pulse of the music all rage and anger. Neither "Pusherman" nor the title track is quite as relentless, but they don't have to be: The former is as enticing and deliriously addictive as the wares touted in the song, with propulsive Latin percussion mingling with chiming guitar and a slinky bass figure; the latter is, like O'Neal's character in the film, slyly ferocious, with Mayfield offering not a condemnation of Superfly's chosen profession but merely a statement of fact: "If you lose, don't ask no question why." Within the context of these three colossal hits, even Superfly's filler -- "Junkie Chase," "Think" -- becomes significant. And with "No Thing on Me," Mayfield crafted one of his most beautiful (and overlooked) tracks.
Mayfield would never repeat the artistic and commercial success of Superfly. He dabbled some more in film scores, producing a few worthwhile tracks for the Staple Singers ("Let's Do It Again") and himself, most notably "Future Shock" and the unnerving "To Be Invisible." He moved to Atlanta in 1980 and, after signing with Boardwalk, landed a few singles on the R&B charts in the mid-'80s that weren't half as interesting as what rappers such as Ice-T would do with Mayfield's vintage work through the technological magic of sampling. (Check out Ice-T's 1988 hit "I'm Your Pusher," which borrows liberally from Mayfield's "Pusherman.")
After hitting the oldies circuit with a reformed Impressions and recording a 1987 duet with, of all groups, Britain's Blow Monkeys, a band of faux-soul Brit popsters, Mayfield scored the 1990 debacle The Return of Superfly. Later that year, while performing in Brooklyn, Mayfield was paralyzed from the neck down when a lighting rig fell on him.
Mayfield's spirit -- and just as remarkably, his supple voice -- remained intact. Like the protagonist in "Keep On Pushing," he never succumbed to cynicism. He was feted in 1994 with a pair of guest-laden collections -- A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield and People Get Ready: A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield -- and won the Grammy Legend Award that same year and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His last batch of studio recordings, issued in 1996 as New World Order, contained a terrific reworking of "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" and "Back to Living Again," his best song in more than 20 years. Play them back to back, and it becomes obvious that, despite all the dull albums of the '70s, and the half-baked rush-jobs of the '80s, Mayfield never lost his hunger for justice, his demand for respect, or his belief that love, faith, and dignity could help to make right all the wrongs around him. It's not that simple, of course, but for more than four decades, Curtis Mayfield did more than his part.


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Siohvaughn Wade wants that endorsement money. Bad. Maybe that's why her latest performance street art installation near Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W Washington in downtown Chicago resembles a homeless person begging for change. Guess who isn't impressed? Yep, her ex-husband/target of multiple lawsuits, Dwayne Wade. He took to Instagram to voice his indifference, using a not-so-cryptic-hashtag-message.
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Discussion in 'Gun-Control Issues' started by James Dean, Jan 22, 2013.
No chance of it going anywhere.
I hope your right. She may have jumped the gun with todays news
in Texas hopping it was worst than it really is
Wacko members of congress present such legislation in dead seriousness, and nothing to worry about?
Gun owners are only going to lose one major battle, and our rights will be never be restored.
Can't happen here, ask anyone in New Orleans....
When are gunowners are going to get get some backbone?
We need to fund our gun organizations to win.
I would like to think that the AWB would die quickly, but after the Obamacare shenanigans, I don't put anything past these crooks. They shoved a massive unconstitutional tax increase through the both houses WITHOUT EVEN READING IT!!!
We are screwed.
While I don't disagree about not trusting them, the democrats no longer control the House. It's basically dead on arrival.
We shall see. I hope you are right. But these cats tend to pull some outrageous stunts and the Right just stand around shrugging their shoulders wondering what happened. Look at the Fiscal Cliff, Fast & Furious, Benghazi, Algeria, EPA tactics, Clinton's amnesia... virtually no accountability with this guys.
I hate to say it but the Republicans have been ***** slapped at every turn. The Dems seem to be just better at politics. Sneaky, lying, do anything to pass what they want. I hope the GOP grows a pair, or we will all be done.
Not going anywhere. Dems in red states are feeling too much heat. They may pay lip service to it on camera, but will find some convenient reason not to vote for it.
There will be no AWB
There will be no asinine mag restriction either
I agree this isn't going anywhere. This is all posturing to say they tried and can save face for the next elections.
This will accomplish one thing, though: it will be stuck in legislation for months or more and cause desirable guns and ammunition to be unavailable due to panic buying. Criminals can't afford to pay $3000 for a used AR and it also helps the economy, as people are cool paying 300% of what these guns cost only months ago.
Like it or not, the demo-tards are owning this battle. And the battle is going to go on for months and years. Mark my words.
Also, didn't she already say she was going to introduce this a few weeks ago and didn't? Typical politician: say one thing, do another.
There is only a tiny handful of legislators who are willing to put their name on the vote. The rest of them know that a 'yes' vote would be a death warrant signature for their job. It won't make it to the floor, because none of them want to go down as having to vote one way or another.
It is hard for Republicans to get any traction when the entire MSM is eating out of Obama's hand! The Inauguration coverage is a classic example of that.
da ****? NFA status for all grandfathered "assualt weapons"? does that mean i have to pay $200 for a NFA stamp? jesus christ, what in the world is wrong with the boobs in DC?
Sen. Harry Reid Pushes Ahead with Gun Control in the Senate.
I saw a video on youtube where she's bragging about her last AWB, and how if she'd just had 51 of the votes in the Senate, she would have forced all americans (Mr and Mrs America) to march in and turn in their guns...
in fact I found the video...
check this B**** out
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blXkl9YVoHo"]Dianne Feinstein Gun ban in 1995 - She wanted to Ban all guns, Force turn in - YouTube[/ame]
Yet they want to convince American gun owners they only want reasonable compromise,Not! No Compromise,Shall Not Be Infringed! SJ 40
All Americans except her security officers.
Where is her Hitler mustache?
Ve half veys oft making you comply. Finestein! Imagine that! A Jew with a Nazi agenda.


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Parks and Recreation (Comedy, NBC). Shot documentary-style, Amy Poehler stars in this ensemble piece set in the office of the deputy chairman of Indiana's Department of Parks and Recreations. Casting: Allison Jones, Sunset Gower Studios, 1438 N. Gower, Bldg. 5, Ste, 309, Mailbox 3, L.A., CA 90028. Premieres April 9.
Persons Unknown (Drama, Fox). Crime drama starring Jason Wyles, Daisy Betts, and Chad Boseman. Written by Linda McGibney. Directed by Star Trek alum Jonathan Frakes. Casting: Junie Lowry Johnson and Libby Goldstein, Lowry-Johnson Casting, 100 Universal City Plaza, Bungalow 5165, Universal City, CA 91608. Premiere: TBD.
The Philanthropist (Drama, NBC). A renegade billionaire uses his wealth, connections, and power to help people in need. James Purefoy stars. Casting: Bacharach/McCollum Casting, 3800 Barham Blvd., Ste.100, Rm. 106, L.A, CA 90068. Premiere: TBA.
Rita Rocks (Comedy, Lifetime) A working mom regains her identity by re-creating her glory days as a musician in a garage band. Nicole Sullivan, Richard Ruccolo, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Kelly Gould, and Raviv Ullman star. Casting: Greenstein/Daniel Casting, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Ste. 1527, L.A., CA 90028. Premiered: Oct. 20.
Roommates (Comedy, ABC Family). The network's first half-hour comedy production revolves around a group of friends trying to figure out love and life in their post-college years. Tyler Francavilla, Dorian Brown, Tommy Dewey, David Weidoff, and Tamera Mowry star. Casting: Go Casting, 6464 W. Sunset Blvd., Ste. 970, L.A., CA 90028. Premiere: TBA.
Scare Tactics (Reality/Drama, Sci Fi). Hidden cameras show the graphic results when an ordinary person unknowingly becomes the main character in a re-enacted scene from a horror movie. Kevin Healey, Scott Hallock, and Mike Harney produce. Casting: Suzanne Broderick, c/o Bright Idea Entertainment, 3575 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Ste. 390, L.A., CA 90068. Premiere: TBD.
Southland (Drama, NBC). Michael Cudlitz stars in the fast-moving drama that focuses on the lives of cops, criminals, and their families. Written by Ann Biderman. Directed by Chris Chulack. Casting: John Levey, senior V.P. casting, c/o John Wells Productions, 4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 1, Burbank, CA 91522. Premieres April 9.
Surviving Surburbia (Comedy, The CW). The wins and woes of a family and their new suburban neighbors. Executive-produced by Kevin Abbott (My Name Is Earl). Casting: Go Casting, 6464 Sunset Blvd., Ste. 970, L.A., CA 90028. Premiered: Sept. 14.
True Blood (Drama/Supernatural). Sookie, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds, falls for a mysterious "out-of-the coffin" vampire. From the creator of the hit cable series Six Feet Under, Alan Ball. Casting: Junie Lowry Johnson, c/o The Lot, 1041 N. Formosa Ave., Formosa Bldg., Rm. 94, L.A., CA 90046.
United States of Tara (Comedy, Showtime). A wife and mother, suffering from a multiple-personality disorder, and her family cope with her various identities. Written by Diablo Cody. Toni Collette, John Corbett, Brie Larson, and Keir Gilchrist star. Casting: Liberman/Patton Casting, 6464 Sunset Blvd., Ste. 707, L.A., CA 90028. Premiered: Jan. 18.


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With 28 days of fundraising left on Kickstarter, Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas raised more than $3.3 million, getting financial support from fans to create a movie version of the cult television show.
The Daily Dot described this shift in fan and creator power dynamics in an article about the crumbling of the "fourth wall."
The line that separates fans from the creators of their stories is growing ever more thin; historically, fans have called it the "fourth wall," a firm line that must not be crossed because interactions across it make everyone uncomfortable. But as the Internet increasingly brings everyone together, as fans grow up to be creators and creators openly embrace their own status as fans, it's harder to see boundaries between the two groups—much less to tell at what point a story stops "belonging" to the creators and starts "belonging" to fans.
deviantART explored some of these ideas in a SxSW panel called "Creator vs. Audience: Next Chapter in Storytelling." In a Morning Media Menu interview last year, we spoke with Ron Martino, the producer and director deviantART Network. Martino explained how writers have found audiences and book deals from the site, showing how the walls between creators and fans crumble in the community.
Martino also outlined the community's Oddyssey II project, a collaborative writing project guided by novelist Clive Barker–all writers can enter this massive effort to crowdsource a new novel from within the deviantART community.
Here's an excerpt from the interview: "The literature community is vast. There are novelists, graphic novelists, comic book artists and writers. Artists and creators come to deviantART in many different ways. We have writers that come on and they find the artists that they would like to work with to create a comic book or graphic novel. We have artists that come on and hook up with writers, colorists or line artists. They start to build out a story together. We have people that can do both on the site. They are artists and storytellers, so they release chapters of a book every week or every month and that's how they build an audience and tell stories."
Martino explained how the site has fostered the growth of "full spectrum narrative," a different kind of storytelling: "When I got to deviantART, I realized something incredible was happening. When an author would build a world before they wrote a book, they would have a glossary of weapons, a geography map of their world and build all these extra components before they started to write the book. "
He continued: "Ten years ago, there was nowhere for those elements to go. The book would be published and no one would see all that work. But now, [on deviantART] all that work is the engine to build an audience before you even release the first chapter. People release character sketches, story elements, artwork, all of it leading up to the publishing of the book. Which is incredible, because you're getting feedback, you're seeing what works and you're able to make subtle adjustments."
Press play to listen. We've included more excerpts from the interview below, along with links to some of the most successful work on deviantART.
Martino pointed out how illustrator Sam Garton landed a book deal through his deviantART work.
He also showed how the creator of Last Man Standing used the site to build an audience and strike a book deal with Heavy Metal: "I think having an audience before moving into any iteration of a story is now unbelievably important in the business of selling books … They built an audience and used it to pre-sell their entire print run before they even go to press … And then Paramount came in and optioned the film and TV sub-rights. So it's happening in multiple directions.
He also showed how a Flash comic book creator named Yuumei found thousands of readers on the site for her Knite series. He explained: "you can go to her gallery and you can look at each one of those chapters for her Knite comic book. The people reading her book, it's in the hundreds of thousands. Not for the book as a whole, but for each and every chapter. That's powerful.
Martino concluded: "People are able to interact with the work of their favorite creator, whether it's Sam or Yuumei, by creating fan art or fan fiction. It's a different level of connection and access that I don't think authors have been able to have up until now. She has a new book she's working on called fisheye placebo, and she's been releasing sketches, characters and artwork. The last piece of artwork that she uploaded had a 100,000 views in a few weeks–just for the character that the story will be based on. So that's a whole new way that you're building audience before you release a book."


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Gay rights: pride or propaganda?
Tel Aviv's Gay Pride march, 2011
Controversy over Israeli envoy's address at gay rights forum
Roee Ruttenberg, +972
WASHINGTON – Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren delivered a keynote speech at the 20th Annual Equality Forum held over the weekend in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, but his selection as the featured guest angered some pro-Palestinian activists in the LGBT community.
The forum is intended to celebrate the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Transgender, Queers and other individuals, often referred to as LGBT. This year, the Forum's executive committee chose to honor Israel, with its culture capital Tel Aviv recently listed as the number one gay destination in the world. The committee invited Israel's Ambassador to Washington to address the crowd on Saturday night.
Israel effectively decriminalized homosexuality in 1988 when it removed from its British-inherited penal code a ban on sodomy. Oren highlighted what he felt were Israel's strong commitments to gay rights. He noted that an Israeli diplomat serving in Europe has received full rights and benefits for his same-sex Israeli partner via the foreign ministry. He highlighted the military response in disciplining a soldier who harassed a lesbian soldier. He recalled the gay pride parade that was held in Jerusalem, despite opposition from religious groups.
Oren referenced Israel's now world-famous delegate to the Eurovision Song Contest, Dana International, a transgender performer whose 1998 song "Viva La Diva" secured Israel its third victory in the competition. An American by birth, Oren also compared gay rights in the U.S. to those in Israel, reminding those attending that as the United Staties was invoking the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy (prohibiting LGBT individuals serving in the military from being open about their sexual identity) under former President Bill Clinton, Israel's military banned all discrimination based on sexual orientation. Both at the event and in an interview before it, Oren argued that Israel provides asylum for Palestinian LGBTs from the West Bank, and that it houses two Palestinian groups fighting from LGBT equality for Palestinians in Israeli and the Palestinian territories.
+972′s Yossi Gurvitz argues that Oren got his facts wrong.[below]
Oren's speech was interrupted at one point by a man who stood up and accused Israel of denying rights to non-Israeli/Jewish LGBTs, particularly Palestinians.
The arguments he made echoed more clearly the sentiments conveyed by Katherine Franke. Franke is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Director of Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at New York's Columbia University. In the days leading to the Forum, Franke posted on the department's law blog a youtube video explaining her decision to boycott the Forum.
Franke notes:
While it may seem natural for gays to side with Israel, after all they have such good gay rights laws, this support reflects a major weakness of so many human rights movements that tend to prioritize their own struggles without considering the ways in which all forms of discrimination are linked. In Israel/Palestine gay rights and human rights more broadly are necessarily connected to one another, and treating one domestic minority well does not excuse or diminish the immorality of the state's other rights-abridging policies. Had South Africa enacted good gay rights laws during the Apartheid era no one would have seen that as excusing their treatment of black and colored people. For this reason I have chosen to honor PQBDS's request that we boycott the Equality Forum.
Franke's action comes in response to what some have labelled Israel's "pinkwashing," a term that has come to embody an alleged policy by Israel to highlight its LGBT rights record in an effort to detract attention away from its treatment of Palestinians. In particular, activists will say, Israel attempts to convey sympathy for Palestinian LGBTs to highlight its own moral superiority, while ignoring the dire consequences and human rights violations that are tied-up in the military (and civilian) occupation of Palestinian territories.
Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert, a Reconstructionist Rabbi and Co-Director of the Women's Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's Studies at Temple University, also boycotted the event.
In his speech in Philadelphia, Oren respond to the accusations of pinkwashing:
There is a small but voluble group claiming that the freedom and equal rights that Israel grants to the LGBT community is merely an attempt to camouflage our alleged oppression of the Palestinians. But a simple historic fact is that the LGBT rights movement in Israel predated Israel's capture of the West Bank in 1967. And then even when Palestinian suicide bombers were blowing up our restaurants and buses, and terrorist missiles were pummeling or neighborhoods, still Israel provided shelter for LGBT Palestinians.
Next year, CUNY – a university based in New York – will address the issue at a forum entitled "Homonationalism and Pinkwashing." An invitation to the event notes:
The co-opting of some LGBT people by anti-immigrant and in particular anti-Muslim political forces is widespread and growing. Rutgers Professor Jasbir Puar has coined the term "Homonationalism" to define collusion between LGBT people and identification with the nation state, re-enforcement of racial and national boundary, and systems of supremacy ideology no longer interrupted by homophobia.Homonationalism has spread far from its roots in European xenophobia and US militarism to become an increasingly potent tool in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Haneen Maikey, director of Israeli-based Palestinian LGBT group alQaws, is one of the scheduled speakers at the CUNY conference. The group's recurring "Palestinian queer party," which draws in Palestinians from Israel and the West Bank, takes place every other month in Tel Aviv.
Ambassador Oren boasts Israel's record on gay rights – but gets facts wrong
Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren claims "Israel fought for gay rights even before 1967." Problem is, homosexuality was illegal until 1988.
Yossi Gurvitz +972
Michael Oren, the American Jew turned Israeli ambassador to the US, is apparently not content with embarrassing himself about Israel's record regarding its Christian citizens. In an interview with the Philadelphia newspaper Metro, Oren said that "Israel was fighting for gay rights before the 1967 war. Even when terrorists were blowing up our buses and cafes, there was equality for gays."
Leaving aside the second and particularly ignorant part of this statement – what the hell is the connection between terror attacks and gay rights? Does Oren consider the gay community responsible for those attacks, such that Israel ought to consider withholding some of their rights? – the real problem is with the first part, which is simply false.
Israeli law, much of which is based on Mandatory British law which was endorsed pretty much en bloc, considered homosexuality to be a felony since the country's inception in 1948. The Knesset re-asserted the law in 1977, but after a long battle simply abolished it in 1988. Until the early 1990s, homosexuality was considered by the IDF to be grounds for denying security clearances and the IDF considered homosexuality to be a mental illness until the late 1980s (Hebrew). By contrast, England and Wales – on which Israeli law is based – abolished their anti-gay laws in 1967, i.e 20 years and more before Israel did.
Admittedly, while homosexuality was considered a felony, one of the first Government's Counsels, the most humane jurist Haim Cohen (later a Supreme Court judge) ordered the prosecution in the early 1950s to cease prosecution for homosexuality. So criminal prosecution was not a problem – but harassment by the police certainly was, and for several years after the law was abolished in 1988, gays were often arrested for acts such as kissing in public.
Israel is so much on the frontier of gay rights, they cannot marry in it – but, then again, neither can a Jew and a non-Jew. Its police is so vigilant in protecting their rights, it frequently tries to cancel (sometimes successfully) the Jerusalem gay pride marches. The public sector shows its support for them by employing at public expense rabbis who call, directly or indirectly, for either classifying homosexuality as a mental illness or for simply killing them.
Is Oren so blind to all this? Maybe he is. After all, he is an immigrant who doesn't know the country well. Then again, he may simply be pulling the wool over the eyes of Americans. This, after all, is what "hasbara" is all about.


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From: "jlind10480" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNAPrint on Nightline
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:40:52 -0600
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Belive this story was first posted to the list by "MaryAsaWoman" Mary, with
the cats on Oct 27.
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From: "Raymond Whritenour" <>
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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:53 PM
Subject: [DNA] DNAPrint on Nightline
> John:
> Nightline did NOT show Mr. Joseph's triangle plot. They did show his
> Certificate of Ancestry, which stated that the results could vary by +
> or - 2.5%. While there were statements by the Nightline staff, Mr.
> Joseph, Mark Shriver, and Lee Silver (of Princeton), to the effect that
> the numbers were subject to a fudge factor, NOBODY attempted to quantify
> that fudge factor. That drove me nuts!
> David:
> I think Mr. Joseph must have taken Y-chromosome and mtDNA tests,
> because it was mentioned that he paid $600 for the testing, this past
> April. He had to get more than the DNAPrint test. However, they didn't
> mention any other tests or results.
> Steven:
> There wasn't the slightest mention of any knowledge of Indian ancestry
> among his family members. But, I thought the article first brought to
> this list (?by Ann), did say this came out when he questioned his mother
> and other relatives. (Have to check on that.)
> Ray Whritenour
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Here is the kind of football fan I apparently am—the type who joins a booster club to support his team, but doesn't pay for the Sunday Ticket to watch all the games. The type who never played in high school, but played with the high school players in backyards on Saturday afternoons. This level of interest may explain why I could tell you the players I want my beloved Seahawks to pick up in the first three rounds (later rounds to be determined pending results), but why I had no idea that the 2010 NFL Draft starts tonight at 7:30pm. As a result, I'm now scrambling to get some NFL draft apps on my iphone. If you're in the same situation, here's a quick rundown of some of the better once I've found.
Mock Draft 2010 – NFL Draft Edition ($2.99)
It's mostly a bit late for this one, but it's still kind of fun.
Mock Draft 2010 – NFL Draft Edition allows you to scout the top 350 draft prospects and decide where you think they'll end up. It comes complete with most the stats you'd want to see. If you're connected via Wi-Fi, you can watch highlight videos.
You can e-mail your mock draft to friends, but I'm surprised there's no Facebook integration. I mean, seeing 350 draft spots on Facebook would be annoying, but I think it'd be fun to share the first round or two.
Mock Draft 2010 apparently has live draft coverage, but I can't offer thoughts on that seeing that the draft hasn't started yet. (Seriously? Thursday night?) When draft picks are made, a whistle will sound and the name will appear next to the generic, unlicensed helmets. Probably not as much fun as watching all those insane Jets fans live in New York, but better than nothing.
Buy Mock Draft 2010 – NFL Draft Edition
2010 NFL Draft Database ($3.99)
Although this app is much more basic (yet more expensive) than Mock Draft 2010, it does hold two advantages:
- It contains a full database of over 2,700 draft prospects, searchable by name, position or school.
- The database is stored on your phone, so you don't need an Internet connection to access it.
Now, do you need access to 2,700 draft prospects? Likely, no, but for those who really dig deeply into this stuff, it's here. It contains basic information on each player, as well as "pros" and "cons" for those players expected to go in the first three rounds.
It's not the prettiest app I've ever seen, but what do you expect? It has the word "database" in the title, for pete's sake.
Other Options
Surprisingly, that's about it for draft-specific apps worth mentioning. Here, however, are some other sports related apps that may be useful for news and analysis over the next few days:
- NFL Pro Tweets – Free
- Pro Football Live (NFL) – $0.99
- Qwik NFL News – $0.99
- Sportacular – Free
- Sportacular Pro – $1.99
- Sporting News Pro Football – Free (Hass!)
- Sports News – $9.99
- SportsTap – Free
Also, there are a lot of team specific apps. Just do a search for your team and see what comes up. Hopefully, your selection is better than mine.
If I missed an app that you find particularly useful, be sure to let me know in the comments below.
Oh, and as always, Go Seahawks! Don't draft Tim Tebow!


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Canada has won a key fight in its high-profile international campaign against a global bank tax as G20 finance ministers Saturday approved a plan that allows countries to manage the issue as they see fit.
Proponents of such a tax including the United States and Europe are free to go it alone, but the new plan allows the rest of the G20 to avoid the controversial idea and find other ways to reduce banking risks.
"The majority of the countries in the G20 do not support an ex ante bank tax, that is clear," Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said at a news conference following a two-day meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers.
"At the end of the day, different countries will chose different ways of reaching the goal [that banks should pay for government interventions]but there is no agreement to proceed with an ex ante bank tax," he said.
In their final communiqué, G20 finance ministers and central bankers said the financial sector must make a "fair and substantial" contribution to paying for any of the burdens associated with government intervention.
However, the statement then goes on to include wording that will allow most G20 members to avoid a bank tax, should they choose. For instance, the requirement for banks to pay back government aid is limited to those countries that actually bailed out their banks. There is also wording allowing countries to choose from a "range" of policy options in this area that take into account their own individual circumstances.
Europe and the United States are the main proponents of a bank tax - partly to recoup taxpayers' money used to bail out banks during the recession. But the European Union and the United States have also argued that it is in the interests of all G20 countries to create a fund via a global bank tax so that governments aren't on the hook again to cover the huge costs of protecting vulnerable banks in a downturn.
Japan's Deputy Finance Minister Naoki Minezaki and Australian Finance Minister Wayne Swann also spoke out publicly against the tax here this weekend. The G20 leaders will receive a second International Monetary Fund report on the proposal when they meet in Toronto, but it is clear there will be no broad agreement for joint action on a bank levy.
The decision to make the bank tax voluntary for G20 members is essentially what Canada, through Mr. Flaherty and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have argued in recent weeks as the two men blitzed key the world for face-to-face meetings with key G20 members including the E.U., China and India.
On the complex issue of banking reforms - including a common definition for high-quality capital and the percentage of capital banks should have on hand - the G20 has agreed that a plan will be announced in November when leaders meet in Seoul.
Banks generally resist higher capital requirements because it cuts into profits. But many G20 leaders say sorting out this issue is the most important way governments can prevent the kind of risky practices that were at the root of the financial meltdown.
Agreement is proving a challenge however because the United States, Europe and Asia currently have dramatically different rules on what qualifies as Tier 1 capital and how banks can leverage money.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the G20 is focused on a finding agreement in time for the November meeting of G20 leaders in Seoul in November.
The United States is moving aggressively to fix the things we got wrong and to strengthen our economic fundamentals and we will give our full support to the G20 agenda of growth and reform. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Mr. Geithner also warned that the G20 should not count on American consumers to fuel an economic recovery.
"Within the G20, we discussed how the ongoing shift toward higher savings in the United States needs to be complimented by stronger domestic demand growth in Japan, in the European surplus countries and by sustained growth in private demand, together with a more flexible exchange rate policy in China," he said.
The G20 includes the G7 countries of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey and the European Union.


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Smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system have been available for a little over two weeks now, and while sales may be better than some expected, consumers are reporting a number of technical problems. Threads complaining about random reboots and poor battery life on Microsoft's official support forums, along with other communities, have garnered hundreds of replies. HTC Windows Phone 8X owners are reporting random reboots while using their devices, while Nokia Lumia 920 users have seen random reboots, freezes and poor battery life. Read the full story at Boy Genius Report.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday Iran's real leader isn't President Hassan Rouhani, but Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," Netanyahu said Rouhani is simply "a servant of the regime."
"[Rouhani's] a clerk. The real leader of Iran who heads this cult that controls Iran, that controls with an iron fist the Iranian people is the Ayatollah Khamenei. He's the so-called supreme leader, in this case aptly named. And he wants nuclear weapons. This is why they're building these underground bunkers and the [intercontinental ballistic missiles] for, and the heavy water reactor for. That's what they want," Netanyahu said.
He said one of his biggest concerns is avoiding a nuclear-armed Iran, which he called the "pre-eminent terrorist regime of our time."
The regime is "participates in the mass murder of men, women and children in Damascus and in the cities of Syria, one that sends terrorists to 25 cities in five continents in the last three years alone, one that calls for the annihilation of Israel, and one that is developing ICBMs ... to reach the United States -- not us; they've already got missiles that can reach us -- reach you," Netanyahu said.