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Graphics | 1.9 / 2
On a 1080 Full HD - Really nice graphics. In-depth detail that help bring the game to life are everywhere. Diverse and interesting. Not a perfect score but this is ONLY down to the hardware so not R*s fault
SFX/Music | 1.9 / 2
Through 5.1 - Really nice enveloping sound effects and music really do put you IN Los Santos and Blaine County. Brilliant. When I say it really puts you IN the game, it truly does. Fantastic. Would be perfect if we could listen to our own tunes and make our own 'horns' for the vehicles.
Storyline/Plot/Characters | 1.6/ 2
All aspects were really good. You felt tense/'full attention' with the serious moments, you laugh at the comedy, you get pissed of with Trev yet still laugh, you kinda feel sorry for Michael but understand why he is in 'that' situation that later on does get cleared up... yeah, good stuff. Story-line too short for this highly anticipated game though.
Mechanics | .75/ 2
Oh dear what did they do...
Gun-play mechanics are really good. Fast, responsive, accurate, fluid, yup, good job. A nice up-grade from GTA 4 (not that GTA 4 had bad gun-play) and it still kept the GTA style of play. Good work R*. 2/2
On foot mechanics again are really good and a nice upgrade from 4 which did have a slow style response when turning etc. Only flaw with on-foot mechanics would be when you try to jump over a wall and the char sometimes jumps INTO the wall (so 1.6/2)... but then I think this is because of the... PHYSICS... and oh my god... what a f*ck up.
I'll seperate PHYSICS and HANDLING (driving mechanics) as they are 2 attached yet seperate entities.
The handling in this game is very arcade like. I don't mind arcade games, and considering this is now an arcade racer, it is not too bad. I don't think it suits or fits GTA, but it is fast, responsive and kinda accurate. Again it doesn't suit GTA as it makes the game seem like a lesser rival Saints Row kiddies type game. The cars grip too much, the brakes are too powerful, you don't need brakes for most of the game, it is too easy, they cars feel like slot cars, worse than San Andreas, a major step back imo. None of the cars have their own feel to them now, massive lack of feel, body roll, suspension, grip is odd (especially off-road), just really really odd. This is ALL because of the games physics...
Physics - What a balls up. 2wd cars out-grip 4wd cars. The game decides when you lose grip and power when off roading, NOT the vehicle or situation (wtf). 18 wheelers have less impact than a faggio (none of the cars have their own unique/worldly weight) which is why 2wd cars stay still when you ram into them with a massive truck... its a joke.
These are the worst physics I have ever seen and this affects the handling hence why I seperated the 2.
I have played games 20 years ago that have had better physics than this.
The game world does not make sense. The cars 'float' instead of having gravity applied to them. Fork lift trucks SMASH things out of the way yet 18 wheelers (with 40 tonne of load on their back) kinda nudge cars out the way. A mini can push my fully tuned 4wd truck down the road... serious balls up. I think Rockstar went to the national retard centre and got them to do the physics for this game.
This f*cktard of a worldly glue completely and totally destroys the immersion of the game for me...
There's me in my 18 wheeler with half a forrest of logs on my back plummeting down the highway. 50 tonne of hardened metal + wood travelling at 80mph DOWNHILL ... I'm gonna cause a MASSIVE pile-up. I spot the traffic ahead... put my foot down even more and ... BANG... I nudge the mini 2cm. WHAT THE f*ckING f*ck??????????
What a balls up.
All of a sudden this living breathing environment with all of the luscious details and diverstiy has been sh*t on. What a shame.
I can take the arcade-ness of the driving/handling... but these physics just ruin EVERYTHING whether it be an arcade game or simulator game.
Gameplay | 1 / 2
The game-play was good. Diverse missions kept the game fresh. I don't think I did the same kind of mission twice which kept me wanting to continue. The 2 reasons why the score is low is because of the physics/handing and because the game is short.
I think you can gather why I scored this game this low.
The physics just break the game-play for me. I can take bad physics if everything was bad IE gravity is TOO harsh or too light... but when you manage to glue the cars to the road yet have them float once they are in the air... 18 wheelers lighter than faggios... tiny cars can out-grip and out-power fully tuned BEASTS... cars turning on sixpences... police cars that can ram you across the state when you are driving a tank... police than can out accellerate your bugatti veyron... 2wd cars out-grip and manouver your 4wd cars when off road... the game auto slowing you down and auto correcting your driving....the game deciding when you lose grip and power when off-road instead of it being about the surface or your vehicles power, grip, suspension (f*cking joke on bikes.. that stuff is LAME LAME LAME)...
This game was supposed to be my gaming nirvana, my 'all in one', my HOME until GTA6 and/or GTAO + expansions but the phsyics SNAP me out of Los Santos / Blaine County and I either end up putting GTA 4 back on or just turning my console off.
Verdict - Cracking game but MASSIVELY let down by the physics and kinda therefore arcade handling.
Planes that take off at 20 mph... Your taking the f*cking piss aint ya?
GTA V feels like it has been made for kids. The 'glue' (physics) should hold the world together and in GTA 4 they are what have kept me playing it since it came out. In 5 the physics are laughable. Game Breaker.
I will pirate GTA 5 when it is out on the PC and I'll download a patch that makes the handling + physics back to what 4 is like. Then and only then will the game will deserve a score of 100% and worthy of my money.
I feel cheated out of my money, annoyed and frustrated as this game was supposed to be my 'home' (lol - lame but c'mon this is one HUGELY anticipated title) and because I have been waiting so long and I guess I feel kinda upset and dissapointed.
This game sucks you in with luscious inviting fresh graphics, grips you with the sounds, life, content, diverstiy, holds and begs you to explore the environment and little 'gems' such as tuning you car and making you want to go either fully off your head or just crusing round...even having your car glued to the road is quite fun (too bloody easy and Saints Row-ish for me but) then you see the physics applied to your car (the lack of body roll/suspension, not having to brake) and you see the sh*te physics of the world and I am SNAPPED BACK OUT OF THE GAME WITH A BANG... Lol - anti-climax or what
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A Kavubird with the rare ability to use Voxel Sniper. | |
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Common Name: | Kavubird |
Class: | Aves / Avifauna |
Known Locations | Quercas, Adminlounge, Tarsus III, Roaming the worlds |
Conservation: | Critically Endangered |
The Kavubird is a nearly extinct species of bird inhabiting the various worlds and regions of The Voxel Box. The plumage of the bird is a light peachy-orange color, while the outer feathers and flight-feathers are a blue color that gets progressively dark closer to the back of the bird. It is rumored that these birds are a subspecies of the Derpie Bird but there has been no scientific evidence found to prove this. It is unknown how many remain in existance today, but documented evidence shows that there are no more than ten left in all of Pangea and its sub-dimensions, and many that are found are too timid to react and stay still as a statue. Very few known Kavubirds actually move and react reliably.


text: I had finals for my summer semester classes next week. So like every other college student, I was bored out of my mind trying to think of something to do. One of my hard core Spike friends happened to be online at the time, so we had an interesting conversation to pass the time. DarkRitual: So, is there anything I can break in Coldsnap? Spike: I dunno DarkRitual: Ok, I'm looking at cards, and the only cool ones that are the most breakable I found are Counterbalance, Braid of Fire, and Thrumming Stone. Spike: Counterbalance is crap. DarkRitual: It has possibilities. I was thinking throw him in a deck with the obvious stuff like Sensei's Divining Top, but then also play random stuff like Call of the Wild, and I would load my deck with with huge creatures and pump them out with SDT and Call of the Wild, while at the same time locking them down with Counterbalance. Spike: A deck that counts on winning by getting two bad enchantments out can never be good. DarkRitual: I guess. So then what about Braid of Fire? Vedalken Orrery comes to mind. Maybe use the mana to pay other cumulative upkeep costs? Spike: Whats Vedalken Orrery? DarkRitual: Says any non-land can be played as an Instant. So you can play Demonfire during your upkeep using mana from Braid of Fire. Spike: But why would you want to play Sorceries as Instants? I mean, of course I would want to, but its not worth the extra artifact that does nothing else on its own. You are better off playing Tron, you get a lot of mana and you Demonfire for a bunch of damage and win that way. DarkRitual: But thats not fun. Spike: But the deck is better, and winning is fun. DarkRitual: You don't get it. If you just make the same deck everyone else makes, whats the point? I mean, sure, you win more games, but what do you really get out of it? Spike: A higher DCI rating? DarkRitual: (rolls eyes) Ok fine. That leaves Thrumming Stone. I bet that sucks as well doesn't it. Spike: Thrumming Stone is actually pretty good. I'm trying to break it with Relentless Rats right now in extended. I just need--- DarkRitual: --everyone and their mother has made a deck with Thrumming Stone and Relentless Rats. Spike: Well, it wins games. And pumping out a bunch of rats can be fun. Although I usually stop at 5 just in case they play Wrath. DarkRitual: While you were saying that, I quickly made a Relentless Rats/Thrumming Stone deck just to show how easy it is to make one. Here, I'll show you.


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Received August 26, 2004; revised November 19, 2004; accepted December 3, 2004. Drs. Touchet and Coon are both with the University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine—Tulsa, Department of Psychiatry, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Address correspondence to Dr. Touchet, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine—Tulsa, Department of Psychiatry, 4502 E. 41st St. Tulsa, OK 74135; firstname.lastname@example.com (E-mail). Copyright © 2005 Academic Psychiatry.
OBJECTIVE: Demonstrating psychotherapy competency in trainees will test the resources of psychiatry training programs. The authors outline the phases of team-based learning (TBL). METHODS: The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa (OUCM-T), Department of Psychiatry reorganized its psychodynamic psychotherapy didactic course using TBL. CONCLUSION: Team-based learning offers a promising alternative to traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy didactics, potentially increasing resident learning efficiency through a structured learning cycle emphasizing accountability to a learning team.
Recently, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated that psychiatry residents demonstrate competency in five psychotherapy modalities (1). This directive prompted a renewed focus on psychotherapy training in psychiatry, but training programs face significant obstacles in meeting this challenge. In addition to facing the difficulty of defining competency, training programs will have to develop or redirect faculty resources to address competency training and assessment (2). Consequently, program costs for training each resident, estimated by one program at $78,159 annually, could rise significantly (3). Another challenge is the limited training time for residents to acquire competency. Perhaps not immediately apparent, another potential barrier may involve the current structures of psychotherapy training itself. Psychotherapy training in psychiatry typically involves faculty supervision of casework supported by didactic lecture presentations on theory and technique. The lecture format, while efficient for teaching, may imply several expectations that could hinder optimal learning. For instance, residents may expect that all relevant knowledge on the topic will be presented in the lecture, that passive participation in the lecture will result in mastery of the material, and, in cases in which preclass preparation is not assigned or assessed, that knowledge-centered learning activities outside of the classroom have limited value. The implication is that the lecture-centered instructional format may promote passivity in resident learners, a posture incompatible with highly efficient learning.
In short, while surmounting obstacles, psychiatry training programs are mandated to produce much more from the same, or fewer, resources. How might training programs rise to this challenge? If more must be learned within the same time frame and without significantly increased resources, one answer may be to increase resident learning efficiency. One method of achieving this goal is to promote better resident engagement with, and responsibility for, their learning process. To support residents in this endeavor, training programs may need to reevaluate their instructional methods.
To address these issues related to instructional format, the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa (OUCM-T), Department of Psychiatry reorganized its psychodynamic psychotherapy didactic course. This segment of the continuous psychotherapy seminar has been among the most challenging for residents to master because of the breadth and complexity of its concepts. Overall goals of the reorganization included increasing resident responsibility for acquisition of knowledge, communicating the importance of extraclassroom preparation, increasing active engagement with the learning material, and improving efficiency of learning. The organizing instructional strategy used to meet these goals is team-based learning (TBL). Team-based learning is a structured approach to the class session originally developed for use in science and business courses with large student-to-faculty ratios (4). It is increasingly being applied to medical and psychiatric training (5, 6). A primary rationale for its use is improving learning by helping students take a more active role in the learning process. To do so, TBL uses group dynamics to increase learning efficiency. It has been modified for use and applied to a theory-intensive 5-week segment of the OUCM-T psychodynamics course
Team-based learning involves three phases of learning: Phase I, Pre-Class Preparation; Phase II, Readiness Assurance Test (RAT); Phase III, Application of Concepts. Phase I occurs prior to class, while phases II and III occur during class sessions. Applying TBL as a new instructional format required educating residents explicitly on its details. Residents were introduced to the TBL learning cycle and were given clear instructions on their responsibilities for each phase of learning. Two learning groups were formed, each with 6—8 members evenly spread across training years. Prior to each class session, residents completed Phase I by accessing online knowledge resources that would have formerly been presented in class. These materials include learning objectives, slide presentations, and reading lists tailored to each week of the course. These materials are available on the OUCM-T e-Reserves system, a library service that enables instructors to place instructional materials on a password-protected web page. When residents arrived for class, they were expected to have reviewed the learning materials. Representative of such learning resources were those available for week 3: a slide presentation entitled "Freud and Classical Theory" with accompanying learning objectives and a reading list including selections from Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 7th ed. (pp. 564—570, pp. 572—579).
Class began with Phase II, a Readiness Assurance Test (RAT). The RAT is a multiple-choice quiz that the residents first take individually and then as a learning team. The quiz assessed residents' acquisition of knowledge from that week's learning resources. After the quiz was completed, results from each group were openly reported and discussed. The faculty member solicited answers from each group and invited comparisons and contrasts between-group responses to the RAT. The faculty member then reported correct answers and considered appeals. The week 3 RAT was composed of 5 multiple-choice questions, two of which are illustrated (a1).
Following Phase II, Phase III then began with a group learning activity. Such activities involve realistic case material and include questions that require residents to synthesize and apply what they have learned in Phases I and II. Groups worked on the assignment and then openly reported their findings. The faculty member facilitated the ensuing discussions which, at times, involved debate and disagreement between learning groups. The week 3 group assignment required residents to make a trial formulation of a case of sudden right arm paralysis using Freud's topographic model. The learning cycle then repeated itself the following week.
Residents as a group rated the TBL presentation format as excellent, and specific comments about the TBL experience were overwhelmingly positive ( t1). Qualitatively, the faculty perspective is that the time and resources required to reformat the course were well worth the effort. Faculty found resident enthusiasm for the learning material within the TBL format to be very rewarding. Additionally, based upon their supervision of resident psychotherapy, faculty noted that residents began to integrate psychodynamic concepts into their casework more effectively than in previous years following the typical psychodynamic module. Finally, faculty enjoyed the stimulating interaction with the residents through the informative dialogue promoted by the TBL format.
To our knowledge, ours is the first report of the use of TBL in psychiatry resident psychotherapy education. We applied TBL to psychodynamic psychotherapy instruction, but it could easily be applied to other required modalities such as cognitive behavior therapy, brief therapies, and supportive therapy.
Team-based learning is appealing for a number of reasons. First, TBL stresses several important principles. These include the importance of preclass preparation based upon clear learning objectives, the learners' responsibility to themselves and to their groups, and the use of group activities to stimulate interactive learning experiences. These aspects of TBL serve to promote greater resident engagement with and responsibility for the learning process. Second, group application of TBL activities in Phase III help residents begin to translate declarative into procedural knowledge. Although not a substitute for properly supervised casework, this process may enable residents to begin building a bridge between theory and practice by challenging them with realistic clinical problems. Third, although using TBL will initially require extra time and resources from faculty, TBL eventually alleviates the faculty burden for "covering the material" in lecture by shifting first exposure to core learning resources from classroom time to preclass time. This shift increases resident responsibility, but the online placement of resources assists residents in meeting this challenge by significantly increasing their access to the learning materials. Then class time can be devoted to other learning activities, and faculty can move toward becoming facilitators of learning.
The efficacy of team-based learning in promoting resident competency in psychotherapy has not been empirically evaluated. Team-based learning is a relatively new instructional strategy within psychiatric training, but its research basis extends back two decades (7). The active engagement strategy of team-based learning is supported by educational research that has demonstrated that students learn complex concepts better and retain them longer if they are actively involved in the learning process (8). These findings are supported by research demonstrating that TBL improves critical thinking, comprehension, and information retention (9). Other research has shown that team-oriented approaches to realistic learning tasks result in improved performance in decision-making even beyond a group's best member's performance (10). Nevertheless, research specifically addressing the impact of TBL on psychotherapy competency is needed. Since TBL is oriented more to declarative than to procedural knowledge, evaluating the impact of TBL on available assessments such as Psychiatry Residency in Training Examination (PRITE) scores might begin the process of definitively determining the place of TBL in psychiatric psychotherapy education.
All of these factors suggest that TBL may offer an instructional strategy useful in promoting residents' acquisition of knowledge and clinical skills necessary for psychotherapy competence. Furthermore, TBL may help residents meet this important goal while enhancing training programs' efficient use of limited resources.
In summary, TBL is a relatively new and untested instructional strategy in psychiatric psychotherapy education. Its efficacy in promoting psychotherapy competence is unknown, but the impact of TBL on comprehension, critical thinking, and retention suggests it could be useful in psychotherapy training, and its emphases on preclass preparation, engaging group dynamics, and in-class assessments offer an attractive and well-accepted instructional alternative to lecture-centered didactics.
This study was supported by the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine—Tulsa, Department of Psychiatry, Tulsa, OK.
The authors thank Patty Murray for editorial assistance.
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Posted by Kathy F. on June 01, 1997 at 16:42:43:
I'm new here--first post ever.
Just wondering--we all seem so vicious in our support or hatred of the two Emma versions--do we prefer the version we saw first--regardless of which version it was. I know I prefer Emma3, but I saw it first, then read the book, then saw Emma2. I don't know anyone irl who saw Emma2 then Emma3.


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Alums who do cool things: Nina Jacobson '87
The first installment of The Hunger Games trilogy premiered last night in LA. In case you've been living under a rock, the movie franchise is kind of a big deal. Here's an even more exciting tidbit of information: one of the film's producers was a Brown semiotics concentrator! Nina Jacobson '87 was recently interviewed by Brown Alumni Mag, and the publication tweeted the article earlier today in honor of yesterday's premiere. Alas, there was no College Hill pre-screening (that we know of…), so you'll have to wait until March 23rd to don your Team Peeta/Team Gale shirts.
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Defco is a french artist from the suburbs of Paris. Abandoned places and abstract graffiti.
FC:Where are you from Defco? Tell us about how you started…
I come from the 78 (Paris suburbs). I started Graffiti around 98 by vandalism with Reiz and Edja and others who gave up really fast. The first time I touched a paint bomb, it was thanks to an animator with whom we had organized a graff workshop for junior high school; result, we grabbed all the remaining bombs and made graffitis on the A line…
FC:How would you define your style and the way you work?
First of all, I don't really do graffiti, literally … For me, graffiti is on the street, on trains or metro, on trucks. There is no more notion of promotion for a crew or a name but just the pleasure of painting with sprays and friends. I work freestyle, most of the time, with no idea of what I'll do, but sometimes with drafts too.
I paint often with the same guys so we're kind of organised, we don't really need to talk; one begins a character, another makes a shape, the other goes with another shape and so on … Then, we back off, discuss and we go again…
FC:What are your sources of inspiration?
The mécha, the Gigger type of organic delusions, the human body, the thc, my dreams et the mister freeze!
FC:Are you part of a crew? Do you often work with other artists?
The REDK, it's been 10 years. It is composed by Reiz, Edja, Toux and me. I was part of the "sang d'encre". I painted many times with Anis LF, Ideka FLK and others. Connections are all about feeling. It's important to me to get along and have fun with the people I paint with; but also seeing their work, because I don't do letters and it reduces the possibility of connecting with others who base their art on personal lettering styles…
FC:How does your collaboration with these artists go? How do you organise yourselves to paint when you're facing a blank surface?
For a few years now, we favour mixing and uniformity. Depending on the surface or the general atmosphere of the piece, we will consult for a rough layout, place a character or the principal component, then someone starts a small shape and each one on his turn adds small modules to each other then, it leaves the filling and effects.
FC:What are your tastes in music, movies and books?
For the music, it's Hip hop which becomes more and more electro trip hop or soul jazz with time. For the books, a bit of everything: Science-fiction, as well as comic books, novels…
FC:If your style were a song, which one would it be?
A birdy nam nam song with a lot of change, quiet parts and others that swing.
FC:How do you address your paintings, is there any space for improvisation?
It's impro 90% of the time, depending on the place, the people I'm with or the theme or my mood.
FC:Some of your paintings in abandoned warehouses completely merge with the decor, where do you get this taste for this kind of environment?
This is the style of paintings that I prefer…
In fact I also like photography and therefore I think of the result integrated into the room, I try to have an overview of my work and not just of a smooth flat, banal wall, I love drips, rust, the black that results from something that burned beside or the lighting that a room gives off, the tranquillity of these places, the history that lies behind these abandoned places…
FC:Do you think your creations must be something that should be maintained or do you think their purpose is precisely to be ephemeral?
It's always nice to see one of your pieces that has still not been erased or retaken by another, but I don't do this in order to last. For this, there are canvases or pictures that I regularly take to keep track of my work.
FC:What was your most dangerous adventure? Give us some stories
I don't know, maybe when I was arrested for the first time. I went right after the SDK who had painted a train end to end and I was arrested just after that with Reiz… We could have been punished instead of them but it ended relatively well, just a short sermon before the judge. It's true that we were minors at the time.
FC:What kind of reaction would you like your art to evoke in people?
To say the truth, I don't really care. I do it mostly for myself. Although, I like seeing people who have nothing to do with Graffiti, like a father who walks with his children and just passes by and thinks it's cool, asks questions, is interested in it without having any rear thoughts…
FC:What's you favourite media, and why?
Blank walls, but dirty and broken.
FC:In which direction do you want your art to evolve? You make graphics, photographs; is there any other media you'd like to explore?
I do graphics for money and I paint for pleasure, I try to make my technique evolve (purity and precision). Other than that, style evolves itself through the influences and everything that surrounds me and mostly with time.
FC:Did you get to hook up with girls thanks to Graffiti? I heard that body painting works pretty well…
Noooooooooo!! When I started, it wasn't in fashion to do Graffiti and now, I have a girlfriend, so it didn't really help, on the opposite.
FC:Classic question: your point of view on the legal/illegal?
I like to see "illegal" pieces, I loved it for a while but with age and responsibilities, arrests and lack of motivation, I turn to semi legal sort of, since our favourite playgrounds have still prohibited access; but I still admire writers that get success with style! I have no interest at all for a guy who writes everywhere but whose letters are lame, and a guy who thinks he's a thug because he does Graffiti, I don't get it…
FC:On the street, are you more about quality or quantity?
Like I said: 100% quality.
FC:Describe a typical day with Defco…
Wake up, RER, speed, work, finish, RER, speed, diner, exhausted, work, sleep; hectic weeks but we catch up during the weekend
FC:What do you think of the "hype" concerning Hip Hop and Graffiti?
I think it's bullshit. I know guys who paint with other guys just because they're "famous". I think it's stupid. If I paint with someone, it's because I know him, I appreciate his work or because there's a connection between us, but certainly not because he was in graffit or because he's the most reknown guy in Paris!!!!
FC:What would be the perfect Graffiti for you?
A blank wall on a beach, drinking mojitos with the people I love wahooooooo!
FC:What difference do you think there is between Street Art and Graffiti?
Graffiti is part of the street art but street art combines many techniques…
FC:Name some of the artists that you respect and whose work you appreciate?
Georges rousse, wiliam klein, gigger, and so many others…
FC:What are your plans for the future?
Get rich lol !!!
FC:What's your ultimate goal?
Be happy and enjoy life…
FC:How do you see the Graffiti of the future?
FC:Dedications or a few words to add?
To Debodga, Reiz, Edja, guitoux, Ideka, Anis, Saloper, Prema, Bruno, Apash, Perissou, Audrey and all those I'm forgetting!!
Thanks Defco !
Don't forget to check Defco's site


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Beavs in the Bigs: Midseason report
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Major League Baseball All-Star Game takes places at Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday, marking the midway point to the 2012 professional season.
Thirty former Beavers find themselves in the Minor or Major Leagues this season, including Ryan Dunn, who is the newest member to the pro ranks after being drafted in the 17th round by Tampa Bay in June.
Here's how former Beavers are doing this season. All stats are of Sunday's action.
Darwin Barney (Chicago Cubs) – Barney has appeared in 82 games for the Cubs and is batting .259 with 17 doubles, two triples and three home runs. He has driven in 23 and has 18 walks to just 28 strikeouts in 293 at bats.
Carter Bell (Arizona Diamondbacks) – Bell has played in 49 games for the Visalia Oaks, Arizona's Class-A affiliate in the California League. He is batting .244 with six doubles, one triple and one home run with 17 RBI.
Parker Berberet (Milwaukee Brewers) – Berberet is currently with Milwaukee's High-A affiliate Brevard County, in the Florida State League, where he is batting .268 with five doubles and four RBI in 25 games. He played in 14 games for Class-A Wisconsin earlier in the season.
Dave Brundage (Atlanta Braves) – Brundage is the manager of the Triple-A Gwinnett Braves, Atlanta's affiliate in the International League. The club stands at 43-49 this season, seven games out of first place in the Southern Division.
Jamie Burke (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) – Burke is in his first season as a Minor League Manager, manning the Class-A Cedar Rapids Kernals of the Midwest League. The team is 6-11 in the second half after finishing at 32-38 in the first half of play.
Ryan Dunn (Tampa Bay) – Dunn has appeared in 16 games for Class-A Hudson Valley of the New York-Penn League. He is batting .276 with four doubles and 14 RBI. He has 13 walks to just six strikeouts in 58 at bats.
Jacoby Ellsbury (Boston Red Sox) – Ellsbury is currently on Boston's 60-day disabled list after playing in seven games in April. He is eligible to come off the list soon and may do so shortly after the All-Star Break.
Mike Ekstrom (Colorado Rockies) – Ekstrom has pitched in 37 games for Triple-A Colorado Springs (Pacific Coast League) where he is 2-1 with a 2.64 earned run average. He has struck out 51 in 47 2/3 innings.
Sam Gaviglio (St. Louis Cardinals) – Gaviglio has started in 14 games for Single-A Quad Cities (Midwest League) where he is 5-5 with a 4.50 ERA in 80 innings. He has 68 strikeouts to just 15 walks.
Cole Gillespie (Arizona Diamondbacks) – Gillespie has played in 85 games for the Triple-A Reno Aces (Pacific Coast League) and is batting .319 with 20 doubles, three triples and 10 home runs. He has driven in 43 with 10 stolen bases.
Tyler Graham (Arizona Diamondbacks) – Graham is currently with Triple-A Reno but is on the seven-day disabled list and has not played since joining the Arizona organization after being released by San Francisco. He had hit .263 in five games for Triple-A Fresno.
Eddie Kunz (San Diego Padres) – He has pitched in nine games for Double-A San Antonio (Texas League) and is 1-1 with a 2.08 ERA in 13 innings. He had pitched in 18 games for Triple-A Tucson (PCL), going 2-1 with a 6.59 ERA in 26 2/3 innings.
Jordan Lennerton (Detroit Tigers) – Lennerton has appeared in 85 games for Double-A Erie (Eastern League) and is batting .281 with 16 doubles, 17 home runs and 59 RBI.
James Nygren (Miami Marlins) – Nygren is playing for Single-A Greensboro in the South Atlantic League and is 5-1 with a 5.01 earned run average in 27 games. He also has 10 saves and has thrown 46 2/3 innings.
Ryan Ortiz (Oakland Athletics) – Ortiz has played in 44 games for Double-A Midland (Texas League) and is batting .167 with five doubles, one triple, two home runs and 13 RBI.
Josh Osich (San Francisco Giants) – Osich has pitched in 16 games, making two starts, for Single-A San Jose (California League). He is 0-2 with a 3.50 ERA in 18 innings. He has 18 strikeouts.
Joe Paterson (Arizona Diamondbacks) – Paterson has pitched in 29 games for Triple-A Reno (PCL), going 2-1 with a 4.44 ERA in 24 1/3 innings. He had made six appearances with the parent Diamondbacks earlier in the season.
Greg Peavey (New York Mets) – Peavey has made 15 starts for Double-A Binghamton (Eastern League) and is 3-6 with a 5.94 ERA in 77 1/3 innings.
Jorge Reyes (San Diego Padres) – Reyes is pitching for Triple-A Tucson (PCL) where he has appeared in 18 games, all starts. He is 6-8 with a 5.14 ERA in 105 innings of work.
Kevin Rhoderick (Chicago Cubs) – Rhoderick has pitched in 27 games for Double-A Tennessee (Southern League) and is 2-4 with a 4.33 ERA in 35 1/3 innings. He has seven saves and 30 strikeouts while opponents are hitting .211 against him.
Daniel Robertson (San Diego Padres) – Robertson is with Triple-A Tucson (PCL) and is batting .318 with 17 doubles, three triples and one home run with 27 RBI. He will represent the PCL as a Triple-A All-Star Wednesday in Buffalo, N.Y. The game can be seen live on the MLB Network at 4 p.m. PT.
Tanner Robles (Cincinnati Reds) – Robles was recently promoted to High-A Bakersfield (California League) where has thrown in one game, going six innings with just three hits allowed. He had previously pitched for Single-A Dayton (Midwest League) and was 5-5 with a 4.45 ERA in 16 games.
Stefen Romero (Seattle Mariners) – Romero has played in 16 games for Double-A Jackson since being promoted and is batting .397 with six doubles, two triples, three home runs and 21 RBI. He was batting .357 with 11 home runs and 51 RBI with Single-A High Desert (California League) prior to the promotion.
Adalberto Santos (Pittsburgh Pirates) – Santos is currently on a rehab assignment with the Pirates' Gulf Coast League club. Prior to that, he had played for Double-A Altoona (Eastern League), batting .396 with four doubles in 17 games.
Kraig Sitton (Colorado Rockies) – Sitton is with Single-A Modesto (California League) and is 1-1 with a 1.63 ERA in 33 games, all in relief. He has thrown 38 2/3 innings this season.
Mike Stutes (Philadelphia Phillies) – Stutes is currently on the 15-day disabled list and has pitched in six games for the Phillies, working a total of 5 2/3 innings.
Andrew Susac (San Francisco Giants) – Susac has played in 60 games for Single-A San Jose (California League) and is batting .234 with 10 doubles, six home runs and 28 RBI.
Daniel Turpen (Minnesota Twins) – Turpen is with Double-A New Britain (Eastern League) where he has pitched in 29 games, all in relief, and has a 3-2 record and 4.70 ERA in 46 innings.
Tyler Waldron (Pittsburgh Pirates) – Waldron has pitched in 17 games for Single-A Bradenton (Florida State League). He is 5-6 with a 5.40 ERA in 85 innings.
Joey Wong (Colorado Rockies) – Wong is currently with Single-A Asheville (South Atlantic League) and is batting .250 with two triples and three home runs. He has also played a combined 10 games with Single-A Tri City (Northwest League) and Modesto (California League).


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4 o'clock. Still no word. Lamedy lame, lame, lame. Looks like I'll be finding something else to do tomorrow and if they tell me it doesn't work, they can fucking kiss my ass.
Speaking of kissing my ass, here's what's gonna be the big story of the next few days:
Yep, as if we don't have enough things to worry about, some Federal Judge here in SF ruled that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. That whole "under God" thing (did you know that the "under god" thing didn't even exist in the pledge until the 1950's when it was added to help fight the godless Commies?).
And just as expected, fireworks are exploding everywhere. Heard that in protest, Congress took time out from whatever the fuck they do these days (not reforming the financial system, not finding out what happened to cause 9/11, not fixing healthcare, etc) to stand up and recite the Pledge. You go! And you can be sure Smirkboy will have something to weigh in on the subject, although if we're lucky, he'll try and say "indivisible."
What it means is that I won't be able to watch any news channel for the next week or so as it'll be full of all the usual blowhards and windbags getting all huffy puffy about something that every school kid in the country has to recite simply because they're told to. I know whenever I recited it, I thought of the importance and deeper meaning of each word- each phrase- and would never even dare to use that time to do something frivolous like stare at Katie Noble's breasts or ways to cheat on my math homework. And we'll get all those wonderful man in the street interviews with people who'll say how outrageous it is, and how it's another sign of the decline of the country and how it'll make our country that much closer to being nothing more than a country full of exploitative reality TV shows, dope smoking teenagers, and profanity spewing musicians (whoops). Maybe we'll get really lucky and get William Bennett to go on TV and tell everyone how it shows once again that everything wrong with the country is all the fault of a bunch of dope-smoking hippie liberals. Not only that, if we could make a drinking game out of how many times a politician, in reference to the decision, will mention 9/11, we'll all be spewing our guts out like a Freshman in high school after her second wine cooler because if 9/11 taught us anything, it's how important it is to recite pledges every morning before history class. After all, if we don't recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, the terrorists will have won.
To all the people who are about to go ballistic about it. And even to the people who first issued the law-suit (because, really, when our civil liberties are slowly getting chewed up and spit out more and more, day by day, what really does saying "under God" have to do with anything?), I say this.
Repeat after me:
"It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter!"
I will vote for any politician who, when asked about the thing on like "the Larry King Show" or "Crossfire" just turns to the camera and says "you know, who really cares."
I can dream, can't I?
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One weekend during high school, my mother, grandmother, a friend of mine, and I drove to Northampton, Massachusetts. Northampton is about 45 minutes from where I grew up, and yet until that weekend, I'd never been there, and was only marginally aware that it even existed. When I returned to school that Monday and reported my weekend adventures to a friend, she said, shocked, "Isn't that where all the gay people live?"
I have no idea what my response was. I didn't remember thinking Northampton seemed particulary anything, except for lovely and idyllic, an impression I would keep and return to when it came to choosing a college three years later. This visit happened before I'd really begun to think about sexuality in any deep way, but not before I had an understanding of feminism and began to use the word to characterize myself and my politics. I didn't associate allyship with feminism, or with anything, really. I didn't have the word, I only knew that this new town felt safe and inspiring, and that I had been looking for a place like it without being aware of it.
Years later, I still return to Northampton. It's where my friends live, and the place that made me who I am, or created the space, at the very least, for me to start to become her. I think of that question often, though:"Isn't that where all the gay people live?" In some ways, it was that question that started so many things going in my brain, including, what kind of question was that? So what if gay people lived there? (My friend seemed to not understand that there were gay people in our high school and also in our group of friends.) How was I supposed to feel about that? Did other people think I was gay if I went there? Should I be fearful of that? Why? What did it mean that I wasn't?
I've been thinking a lot about allyship lately-namely that a lack of fear and the presence of ambivalence ("I don't care what those people do,") does not an ally make. What's hard about the concept of allyship is the fact that it requires putting oneself in an uncomfortable position and why would you ever do that when you could remain safely ensconced in the world created and maintained by your own privilege? The answer is different for everyone, of course, who chooses to be an ally. The story of the town I've come to think of as mine, as the beginning of myself, is only the start of understanding my motivations. Without knowing the story, and without telling it, maintaining the momentum to work for justice is much harder.
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March 24, 2011 | 12:51 am
Posted by Tera Greene
I was just about to go to bed. I've been on a great 7 hours of sleep a night run with the help of a mentor.
Another mentor has been coaching me with my finances.
And a whole slue of mentors in my life, working together (though not all of them know each other - yet) are helping me to expand my comfort zone.
So, when I intended this week to expand myself by 2xs, I didn't realize I'd get this task.
But, today is my day to post, and as I take a deep breath, I will just go with it and put my faith in the goodness of my heart.
In my micro-cosmic world, I am flying high. But in the macro-cosmic world, Liz Taylor has just died, Celebrities are unraveling, unrests are uprising and radioactive worlds are colliding.
And I check my email before bed to read the following:
Subject: "Fwd: Jew hatred on a Facebook page..IMPORTANT"
I received this message to forward:
A Facebook page was created calling for a 3rd "Intifada" on Israel.
For those unfamiliar with this term they are calling for the Arab world to take over Israel by force. The last Intifada resulted in 18 deadly terror bombings and hundreds of Israelis (both Jews and Arabs) maimed and murdered.
The number of people clicking on the "Like" button is increasing every hour (this evening they had 229,288 likes).
We MUST ensure Facebook is aware of this page.
Please click on the link below and scroll down the left side of the page where you will see (under where it shows how many people like it) a "Report Page" link. Select that option and choose "Contains hate speech". There is also another one option - reporting violence and incitement to violence. FB might be more willing to look at that option.
If you don't have a Facebook account, please forward this to others."
As it is two minutes before my bedtime, all I can say is, do the right thing.
Love, Light and most importantly, Peace upon us all.
I'm not the bravest, but I damn sure was not raised to stand idly by.
I'm Expanding my Comfort Zone to Stop Hate…
Thank you for reading.
March 21, 2011 | 10:46 pm
Posted by Lia Mandelbaum
On March 1, I received a message from a dear friend, asking me if I would be interested in getting a part time job visiting Jewish inmates in jail and prison as a field rep and counselor. Although I had plans to be a full-time student, I wanted to apply because it would be an incredibly powerful experience. The more I thought about the possibility, the more passionate I felt about the potential of my experience. Over the past 4 years I have heard many fascinating stories and experiences from people who have been incarcerated.
Through my experience with Beit T'Shuvah I lived and worked with people who had been inmates, and had deep and meaningful relationships with them. The truth is that when I first moved into BTS I was judgmental and naïve. I thought in black and white and good and bad…they were bad. As I lived with them and heard their stories I came to see them as people and not just as criminals. They were Jews, non-Jews, junkies, doctors, sisters, brothers, thieves, gangsters, poets, sexual offenders, con artists, businesspeople and athletes. They were a collection of contradictions. They were pet lovers, abusive, hard working family people, deceitful, strung out, possessed by addiction, violent, kind, and sensitive. They were resentful, sorrowful, hateful, ashamed, lost, willing to change their ways, not willing to change their ways, humble and narcissistic. They lived in duality, but for them the dark side over powered them to the point of needing to be removed from society. Although my story does not involve incarceration, I related to many stories. I could see myself in them. Within their struggle to live decently, I observed and found them to be some of my greatest teachers.
For a long time I felt like a prisoner in my head. I felt trapped by a belief system that told me I was stupid, unlovable, bad and worthless. I was severely depressed, angry, lost and hopeless. I felt trapped in the closet, hiding my identity as a gay woman. There had been a period of about 7 months where I was so depressed that I struggled to process these thoughts. Each of these thoughts were like the bars in a jail cell. I didn't believe that I could ever be joyful again.
I share these personal struggles with you to highlight how after hearing their stories, my interpretation is that many people who have been incarcerated go through similar emotions. I believe that it is important to be conscious of how every human being can relate to each others vulnerabilities on some level.
I imagined being trapped in my mind, while also incarcerated in a tiny cell and I couldn't fathom it. You are forced to face yourself and the consequences of your actions every day. You don't have the drugs to numb you or the rush from committing crime to distract you from facing yourself and your ghosts. It blew my mind that people could survive and remain sane through that experience. There are some people who still have access to drugs while in prison and don't face themselves. They even get arrested over and over again never learning their lesson. They do not have the desire to change and are actually comfortable being locked up.
People who use jail and prison as a way to transform their lives to live as decent human beings can potentially be some of the most humble and grateful people, with a true appreciation and joy for life. They do not take their freedom for granted. I had become friends with a woman who had spent 23 years in prison for planning a crime that led to a murder. She actually believed she would spend her entire life in prison. Today, she is someone with more integrity and compassion then most people I know. She is another person who used the experience as transformation. I have a great sense of respect for people like her.
Learning to see the humanity and experience empathy with people who have struggled and were able to overcome their situations has been my most powerful lesson. I have not experienced the loss of someone close to me by the hands of a criminal. If I did, I can understand not wanting to see the humanity in that person, but I do know that the power of forgiveness is incredibly transforming and freeing. I'm sure that anger is like being trapped in a prison, and forgiveness can set you free.
I am not making light of any crimes, I just truly believe that seeing their humanity and understanding where they may be coming from is powerful. I have healed by understanding where I come from and why I may have acted out like I did. Most criminals have a history of abuse, neglect, or other traumatic experiences in childhood.
I have heard a story about a Rabbi, told by Harriet Rossetto, who is the founder and CEO of Beit T'Shuvah, which I would like to share with you. "There was a highly regarded and well-respected Rabbi who spent a lot of his time and found the most joy in talking and studying with people who were drunks, criminals and thieves. One day, a fellow townsperson went up to the Rabbi and said " You're such a wonderful and holy man, how could you possibly relate to these people. You're nothing like them." The Rabbi responded by saying "if I feel like I cannot see a part of them in myself, then I know that I am not looking deep enough"
Seeing the humanity in those who also struggle helps me to be able to see the humanity in myself. It is these profound lessons that make me want that job. I found out that I'm a candidate for the position and it makes me very happy. Whatever happens is meant to be.
March 15, 2011 | 10:55 pm
Posted by Kalil Cohen
Be the King, Be the Queen, Be Everything in-Between!
Purim Shabbat Dinner
"A Gender Bending Celebration"
(Participants of any sexual orientation, gender identity and faith are always welcome!)
Purim has a long history as a chance to explore "forbidden" persona, to embrace our shadow selves, to be free for an evening - free of social constraints, free of expectations, free of the normative culture. We are taking this tradition and applying it to gender, so come with a playful spirit.
Be the King, Be the Queen, Be Everything in-between!
Please RSVP by Thursday 3/17 to email@example.com
You may choose from the following items:
A. 2 bottles of wine
B. An appetizer, side dish or salad
C. A $20 donation to JQ (to help cover the purchase of kosher entrees)
This event is sponsored by JQ's Trans Inclusion Committee, and is open to people of all identities and backgrounds.
March 10, 2011 | 9:23 pm
Posted by Tera Greene
Hey all!
As many of you may know, there's a contest going on to find - and fund - the Next Big Jewish Idea (http://www.thenextbigjewishidea.com) and fellow bloggers Kalil Cohen, Kadin Henningsen and myself have entered! There are so many great ideas, so we encourage you to view them all… and while you are at it, please also take a second to click the link below and vote for our idea, 'GenToGen':
Voting ends March 31st. Please vote and tell 5 others to do the same!
About our Idea (in a nutshell):GenToGen is a pluralistic and dynamic Artist initiative that provides the next generation of Jewish Artists and their peers with a way to make better their world through implementing systems to build community in both virtual and actual life. In order to create a paradigm that is sustainable, cooperative, easily duplicated and able to run, support and nurture a more permanent long-term Artist Communal Living Gathering, GenToGen's focus is on gluing old and new ideals together alongside the strategic engagement of every generation via the Arts.
Through new and enterprising social media platforms, a live-performance/open-mic series, and two signature outreach and in-reach programs, namely the Veggie Bus Program and the GenToGen Mentorship Network, respectively, GenToGen is THE premiere Hub for Artists who understand the power and reach of the online global community as well as the importance of reaching out, and being reached out to, within their local community. Whether you are a writer, painter, singer-songwriter, rapper, composer, educator, activist, you name it, GenToGen is a vehicle for those dynamic and progressive individuals who approach life through a lens of the Arts and whom passionately feel that Art can - and will -repair the World.
Please make sure to join our FanPage with a 'Like' to stay up to date on how you can be involved: http://ow.ly/466f9.
Thank you for taking the time to read about our project!
Kalil, Tera and Kadin
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March 5, 2011 | 7:56 pm
Posted by Lia Mandelbaum
For the past two months, I have been working with Craig Taubman, helping to put together the 6th annual "Let My People Sing" event, which this year, is called Ashkenafard. The theme of the festival is "Reuniting the Diaspora" which we hope to do by bringing together Jews from all over the world to celebrate hand in hand as one united people. It's been amazing to witness how this creative process has manifested and how beautifully the Los Angeles Jewish community has come together to make the event possible. We would be honored for you to join us for this amazing event which includes concerts from more than 20 artists from all over the world, a "Top Chef" Charoset cook-off, a Jewish Artifacts Road Show, a variety of ethnic cuisines, a photography exhibition, and much, much more! Hope to see you there.
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March 2, 2011 | 11:04 am
Posted by Naomi Goldberg
Do you donate to organizations about which you care? In Judaism, giving tzedakah (charitable contributions) is not something you do because you it makes you feel good or because you want to. Instead, it is a duty. But, how many of us take this duty seriously? It doesn't have to be big bucks – what about $5 a month? That's the cost of one latte at your favorite coffee shop.
Today, a new report released the Movement Advancement Project talks about the importance of donating to LGBT organizations which are fighting for the ability of LGBT people to live happy, healthy, successful lives.
Among the key findings of this report, which examines the financial health of the largest LGBT social justice organizations, is the shocking statistic that only 4% of LGBT Americans donate to LGBT organizations. How many of us donate to Jewish organizations or Jewish LGBT organizations or social justice organizations working to make the world a better place for any number of people – LGBT or not? How can we expect these organizations to carry on the fight for equal rights if we don't financially support them?
Donating to LGBT organizations is a good investment – these organizations are highly efficient in their fundraising and program operations. They exceed the efficiency standards of both the American Institute of Philanthropy and the Better Business Bureau. An average of 79 cents of every dollar donated goes straight to programs and services. And, there are more than 550 LGBT nonprofits working in areas as diverse as HIV/AIDS, health care, community centers, arts, legal work, issue advocacy, general advocacy, federal work, state or local change, … the list goes on.
So, skip your coffee tomorrow morning, and make a donation. Every dollar is needed, and every dollar will continue the journey toward a more perfect world.
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December 2013:
Display: Homosassa Gaming Group Miniatures
The Homosassa Gaming Group is a close knit group of game enthusiasts. A wide range of games are played within the group, and the miniatures on display are representative of just a few. Most of the miniatures on display are hand painted, and a few have been specifically altered by members of the group to represent special characters. The miniatures displayed are used to play games like: Mechwarrior, a futuristic war game dominated by giant robots, Bloodbowl, a fantasy themed football game, and Dungeons and Dragons, a game where players explore fantasy worlds and fight monsters.
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Artist: Lois Moore, Watercolor
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Artist: Florida Photographs by Dale Hovet of Salt Life Imagery
Display: Wood Workings and Carvings by the Members of the Nature Coast Carving Club
Display: Scroll Saw Wood Crafts
Bill Emener has enjoyed the art of Scroll Saw handcrafting for more than 22 years. He is sharing samples of his works at Lakes Region Library. Some of the pieces on display are themed and practical household items.
Artist: Dr. John Walter Gracy
Dr. Gracy shares Fine Art pieces which include works from a variety of recognizable styles painted with acrylics, charcoal, and watercolor. Some of the themes are landscapes, still life and portraits.
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By J. Parnell McCarter
Among the reasons it is so hard to believe the Bush administration
when it comes to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction is the fact that many of
those weapons have been supplied by the USA.
An article by Dennis Bernstein entitled "Made in America" (see
) documents some of these sales of
weapons of mass destruction. The
following are excerpts from that article:
IN JANUARY 1991 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein launched a barrage of
long-range Scud missiles against Israel and Saudi Arabia. Dozens of people were
wounded or killed -- including 28 U.S. soldiers who were asleep in their bunks
when the Scuds hit. According to declassified secret nuclear, chemical, and
biological logs kept by the Pentagon, Israeli police "confirmed nerve
gas" at the site where the missile landed in downtown Tel Aviv.
While the incident was widely reported in the press, it was rarely mentioned
that the technology used to increase the range of the missile that hit Israel,
and to create the nerve gas that was apparently carried inside, was supplied to
Iraq by U.S. and western corporations. Likewise, when U.S.-led allied forces
bombed more than 30 chemical and biological weapons facilities during the 1991
war with Iraq, much of the deadly toxins that were released into the upper
atmosphere, only to fall back down on the heads of U.S. forces, were created
with the generous support of U.S. firms and America's leading politicians.
At one point, just a year before Iraq invaded Kuwait, Pentagon officials
invited key Iraqi military technicians to a special conference in Portland,
Ore., that amounted to a crash course in how to detonate a nuclear bomb.
Even today, the chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons U.S.
troops could face in Gulf War II might as well be stamped "Made in the
As the United States threatens to bomb Iraq for the third time this decade,
the irony is brutal: Many of the same politicians, news media outlets, and
interest groups that are promoting Gulf War II either supported or ignored the
policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations that gave Iraq its deadly
In fact, the problem goes far beyond the Middle East: If Saddam Hussein is
capable of launching chemical, biological, or nuclear attacks, it will be the
result of a long-standing U.S. policy of allowing defense contractors and other
powerful corporations to sell the technology of death to almost anyone in the
world who is willing to pay for it.
The Iraqi situation, former CIA military analyst Patrick Eddington told the
Bay Guardian, "goes to the heart of the concept of nonproliferation and
whether something like the international Chemical Weapons Convention is going
to have any credibility."
"It has no chance of working if the countries who are the primary signatories,
and for that matter the primary suppliers of dual-use technology,"
Eddington said, referring to technology that can be used for both civilian and
military purposes, "are still cranking this stuff out and supplying it.
It's a two-faced policy -- and that definitely includes the United
Documents obtained by the Bay Guardian -- many of which have been available
for years, released during Congressional investigations -- shed disturbing
light on the U.S. policy of arming Saddam Hussein, a policy that may again
result in the exposure of hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers -- and
millions of civilians -- to dangerous chemical and biological weapons.
"If tomorrow the Iraqis fired a missile with biological warheads on it,"
Gary Milholland of the Wisconsin Project for Nuclear Arms Control told the Bay
Guardian, "the missile itself would have been purchased from Russia,
upgraded with help from Germany, and the bacteria would be based on a strain
imported from the United States…
In the early 1980s the Reagan administration chose to support Iraq over Iran
in their bloody war. Neither country was exactly an ally, but the White House
considered Iran the worse of the two nations, and cold war politics (along with
a U.S. desire to maintain control of oil supplies in the Middle East) put us on
the side of Iraq.
In accordance with a long and continuing tradition and policy, that meant
the U.S. would arm Iraq to the teeth -- without much concern for the long-term
According to a 1990 report, "The Poison Gas Connection," issued by
the L.A.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center (See sidebar), more than 207 companies
from 21 western countries, including at least 18 from the United States,
contributed to the buildup of Saddam Hussein's arsenal. Subsequent
investigations turned up more than 100 more companies participating in the
Iraqi weapons buildup.
The frontline cheerleader for America's corporate contributors to Saddam, the
man who paved the way for Iraq to purchase millions of dollars worth of weapons
and dangerous dual-use technology from U.S. corporations, was none other than
the architect of Gulf War I, former president George Bush.
In a stunning July 27, 1992, speech on the floor of the House of
Representatives, House Banking Committee chair Henry Gonzalez drove the Bush
connection home in no uncertain terms:
"The Bush administration deliberately, not inadvertently, helped to arm
Iraq by allowing U.S. technology to be shipped to Iraqi military and to Iraqi
defense factories," Gonzalez said. "Throughout the course of the Bush
administration, U.S. and foreign firms were granted export licenses to ship
U.S. technology directly to Iraqi weapons facilities despite ample evidence
showing that these factories were producing weapons." (See sidebar)
Gonzalez, who was accused by administration officials of jeopardizing
national security for going public with his gritty revelations, also stated:
"The president misled Congress and the public about the role U.S. firms
played in arming Iraq."
Documents gathered by Gonzalez and other independent investigators show that
despite U.S. intelligence reports dating back to 1983 documenting Saddam's mass
gassing of the Kurds and Iranians in the ongoing Iran-Iraq war, Bush pressed
for support of the Iraqis. In a damning Oct. 21, 1989, cable from Secretary of
State James Baker to then Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz, only a year after
the mass gassing of the Kurds, Baker assured the Iraqis that the United States
was very eager for a close working relationship with Saddam Hussein. "As I
said in our meeting," Baker wrote, "the U.S. seeks a broadened and
deepened relationship with Iraq on the basis of mutual respect. That is the
policy of our president."
According to Gonzalez, senior Bush aides successfully lobbied against the
concerns of other government officials to allow Iraq to purchase the technology
-- technology that could be adapted for both civilian and military purposes.
These high-level Bush officials, including Baker, forced this policy through
despite substantial available evidence that the Iraqis were furiously working
on developing nuclear weapons and other devices of mass destruction.
The CIA reported at a top-secret intelligence briefing in November 1989 that
Iraq "is interested in acquiring a nuclear explosive capability" and
to this end "is ordering substantial quantities of dual-use
equipment." Nevertheless, Bush and other top U.S. officials continually
pressured the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and
the U.S. Export-Import Bank to give Iraq credit for farm products and
manufactured goods. From 1983 to 1990 the CCC provided Iraq with $5 billion in
credits and loans to purchase U.S. exports. Between 1984 and 1990 the Eximbank
insured $297 million of additional exports. As recently as seven months before
the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued an order allowing the bank to
provide even more credit to Iraq.
State Department documents drafted after Bush became president in 1989
warned that Iraq would rise out of the ruins of its eight-year war with Iran as
a "great military and political power, and [Iraq] is aiming higher."
They also indicated that Iraq was planning to use "a big-stick
approach" to the border conflict with Kuwait.
According to Gonzalez's July 27, 1992, floor speech, as late as the fall of
1989, only months before Iraq invaded Kuwait, George Bush signed a top secret
National Security Decision directive, known as NSD 26, ordering closer ties
with Saddam Hussein and Iraq: "Normal relations between the United States
and Iraq would serve our long-term interests and support stability both in the
Gulf and the Middle East," stated the top secret directive. "The
United States remains committed to support the individual and collective
self-defense of friendly countries in the area."
The Bush directive also encouraged U.S. firms to participate in the
reconstruction of the Iraqi economy, "particularly in the energy area, where
they do not conflict with our nonproliferation and other significant
And participate they did. According to House and Senate Banking Committee
investigations, in the five years preceding the Gulf War, the U.S. Department
of Commerce licensed more than $1.5 billion of strategically sensitive American
exports to Iraq. Many were directly delivered to nuclear and chemical weapon
plants as well as to Iraqi missile sites. More than 700 licenses were issued to
U.S. corporations doing business in Iraq; many of these licenses were for the
shipment of this dual-use technology to Iraq.
In April 1990, U.S. intelligence reported to the Bush administration that
Hussein "has strengthened his ties to terrorist groups and may use
terrorism to intimidate his Arab and western opponents." But Bush
administration back-channel and international diplomatic and financial support
continued unabated.
The cooperation between U.S. suppliers and Iraqi weapons planners continued
up to the beginning of the war. U.S. technicians and officials moved back and
forth easily between the two countries.
In one of the more stunning incidents, in September 1989, just one year
before the Iraqi military stormed over the Kuwaiti border, U.S. military
officials invited several Iraqi technicians to attend a "detonation conference"
at the Red Lion Inn in Portland, Ore.
The conference -- the Ninth Symposium (International) on Detonation, was a
crash course from the world's experts on how to detonate a nuclear weapon.
Among the named sponsors of the conference were the Office of Naval Research,
the Air Force Armament Laboratory, the Army Armament Research, Development and
Engineering Center, the Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Naval Sea Systems
Command, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Office of Naval Technology and Sandia
National Laboratories, according to the conference proceedings.
The three Iraqis attending, M. Ahadd, S. Ibrhim, and H. Mahd, were all
representing Al Qaqaa State Establishment in Iraq. Al Qaqaa, according to an
Oct. 27, 1992, report by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs, "was Iraq's major explosives and rocket fuel factory." It
was also a "filling station for ballistic missiles" and home for
Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
Joining the Iraqis in this quaint setting on the Columbia River, learning
all about nuclear bomb detonation, were 445 participants from 20 countries,
including Israelis and technicians from South Korea.
The list of U.S. corporations that teamed up with Saddam reads like a who's
who of America's favorite defense contractors. According to the Wiesenthal report
and the Senate Banking Committee they include Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, and
Sperry/Unisys among others.
In a letter dated July 9, 1992, twenty Democratic members of the House
Judiciary Committee petitioned the attorney general to appoint a special
prosecutor to investigate "serious allegations of possible violations of
federal criminal statutes by high-ranking officials of the Executive
Among the potential criminal violations cited in the petition were making
false statements, obstruction of justice, concealment or falsification of
records, perjury, mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States
or to commit an offense against the United States, and financial conflict of
interest by high executive branch officials.
The 1992 letter further cited the Bush administration's "willful and
repeated failure" to comply with requests by the House Judiciary and other
committees for both documents and witnesses.
According to the 27-month Gonzalez Investigation, the Bush administration
set up an "interagency" group after the Gulf War to prevent Congress
from finding out about U.S. aid to Iraq before the Kuwait invasion.
Gonzalez's concerns centered on the handling by the Justice Department of
the investigation into Banka Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) in Atlanta. Most of
Iraq's purchases of sensitive technology were handled by BNL. According to
Gonzalez, Iraq had set up a secret network to buy equipment for missiles and
for nuclear, chemical, and germ weapons. More than $5 billion in soft loans
were funneled through the bank to the Iraqis in the five years leading up to
the war. According to Gonzalez's compelling investigation, almost half of the
$5 billion was funneled directly into Iraq's ambitious weapons program.
The Bush administration's task was to limit the investigation to one
low-level bank official in Atlanta, resisting any attempt to connect the Iraqi
loans to high administration officials or to BNL's mother bank in Italy and
other shady institutions, such as the Bank of Credit and Commerce International
(BCCI), the CIA's bank of choice.
To this end, at least five federal agencies apparently misled, lied to, and
blatantly stonewalled prosecutors in charge of the BNL investigation. According
to a strongly worded October 1992 statement by the then chair of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, David Boren, in support of the appointment of a special
prosecutor, the CIA "with strong advice" from the Justice Department
"authored a misleading letter to the acting U.S. attorney in Atlanta"
regarding the BNL investigation. "In light of this new information,"
Boren stated, "I call on the attorney general to meet his obligations ...
and appoint a special prosecutor."
To make his case, Boren cited the concerns of the federal judge in the
stymied BNL case. In a sharp rebuke of the government's behavior, Judge Marvin
Shoob accused Bush officials of stonewalling and deception in the BNL case and
joined the call for a special prosecutor.
"High-level officials in the Justice Department and the State
Department met with the Italian ambassador," stated the frustrated federal
judge, and "...decisions were made at the top levels of the United States
government and within the intelligence community to shape this case."
Shoob also noted that "the local prosecutor in this matter received ...
highly unusual and inappropriate telephone calls from the White House Office of
Legal Counsel."
Despite the strong words from Boren, Gonzalez, and Shoob, a special
prosecutor was never appointed, and no administration officials were ever
indicted or even forced to testify. Low-level bank officials ultimately took
the rap for a multibillion-dollar, illegal, secret government scheme,
spearheaded by the president of the United States, to arm Iraq.
And the coverup, thanks to Clinton officials, continues to this day. During
the 1992 presidential campaign, Gore called the coverup of the secret Bush
policy to arm Iraq "bigger than Watergate ever was," but in a Jan.
16, 1995, report, the Clinton Justice Department absolved the Bush
administration and stated that it had found no evidence "that U.S.
agencies or officials illegally armed Iraq."
London Independent reporter Robert Fisk has written movingly about riding
back to Tehran in a train with young Iranian soldiers returning from the front
during the bloody war with Iraq -- a war fueled by western politicians and
western arms dealers. "All of them were coughing up Saddam Hussein's
poisons from their lungs into blood-red swabs and bandages," writes the
veteran Middle East reporter. "And the mustard gas that was slowly killing
them permeated the whole great 20-carriage train as it thundered up from the
desert battlefields of the first Gulf War." Fisk points out it was not
only technology that the United States and the Europeans provided Saddam with
to create nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, but the means to
efficiently deploy them.
"The Americans had sold him helicopters to spray the crops with
pesticide," Fisk said, "the 'crops,' of course, being human
beings." And in an astounding revelation Fisk stated, "I later met
the [German] arms dealer who flew from the Pentagon to Baghdad with U.S.
satellite photos of the Iranian front lines to help Saddam kill more
Iranians weren't the only victims. Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers and
military personnel were doused with chemical and biological warfare agents in
the first Gulf War. In fact, Gulf veterans have filed a billion-dollar class
action lawsuit in federal court in Galveston, Texas, against companies that
supplied Iraq with the dual-use technology to create its weapons of mass
destruction. Among the companies named are Bechtel, M.W. Kellog, Dresser
Industries, and Interchem Inc…


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Free Cancer Horoscope for December 2011
Sensuality is emphasized in your chart in December, dear Cancer. Part of that comes from an abundance of earth energy this month, and part of it comes from Venus moving into your solar 8th house of sex on December 20. The earth energy has been around for awhile and will continue to be around for many more months to come. Venus in your 8th house is new and only lasts until the middle of January.
The nice thing is that the vibes from Venus this month start out in the stable sign of Capricorn (your relationship sign), giving things a wonderfully reassuring atmosphere of constancy. As the month progresses, the sensual energy gradually builds up. Make love while that loving feeling is in the air! (Note that Pluto may be having an entirely different and less pleasant effect on your relationship if you were born at the end of June.)
One of the other major influences of the month is not the least bit sensual, though. It has to do with work and enjoying your work with the help of the sun and Mercury in Sagittarius. It's true that Mercury is retrograde until the 13th, but believe me, being retrograde has never stopped Mercury from enjoying himself. Don't let it stop you either.
December is also the month of giving, and your chart is down with that. Yes, it does have that sensual thing on its mind, whether it's contemplating slightly risque gifts to embarrass your friends or more coyly naughty ones for your significant other. Indulge!
There's a lunar eclipse this month, too, on December 10. This falls in a hidden sector of your chart and will probably have either of two effects. One, you won't notice a thing. Eclipses in these houses are often mild. Two, you'll notice something hidden come to light and you'll easily identify the eclipse energy by your feeling of shock or surprise.
Now it's also possible that you'll experience a bit of frustration or resentment in December as well. Mars is in your solar 3rd house of communication throughout the month and for many months to come (into July). Mars specializes in frustration and resentment, and he can try to stir it up by making you feel overly busy or rushed during the holiday season. Most of us are easy marks for that kind of over-scheduling during the holiday months.
You'll either need to schedule yourself up with things you really like to do, rather than things you think you ought to do, or you'll need to accept that expressing frustration can actually help bring people closer together. I will say that this does not look to be an easy month for travel for you. And, if you're heading home for the holidays, expect that a heavy atmosphere will continue to prevail. Saturn, Mr. Heaviness, has been parked in your home sector for over a year now and will stay there for almost another year. It won't last forever, but it's not scheduled to lighten up this month.
Uranus in your career sector also stations this month, on the 10th, lunar eclipse day. He's been going backward for months now, so not much has been happening with him. He probably won't instigate the breaking of any new ground in your career just yet, but you may feel the activity level perk up as conversations and plans for the future stir about in your professional life.
Finally, two random notes. Best day for a hook-up: December 20. Potentially most frustrating day: December 22.


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-- good afternoon -- -- John just another sign of exactly how important the Buckeye State is to this election.
Early voting has been going on here for more than a month now more than one point six million votes cast with the Romney campaign feeling.
Like it needs to come back here one more time.
They've been here are so much in the last few weeks we've we've we've basically go to Nevada -- we go to Ohio than Florida than Ohio Virginia than Ohio but they feel like even though they've got an event this afternoon.
At the airport in Columbus that they need to come back here one more time very unusual to.
For -- presidential candidate to come out to do an event on Election Day typically they'll wrap up.
Around midnight as governor -- is planning to tonight with that event Manchester, New Hampshire with kid rock and others.
And then they just go back to their home base and they sit there and think -- do go vote.
And then they wait for the election results to command that night the governor Romney -- his campaign feeling I don't know if it's because they feel like.
They could grab Ohio they've been very confident about that in their conversations with me or if they feel like they do need to -- back you because it's slipping away we also do not know at this point what type an event it will be.
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They could also want to try to reinforce Campbell the -- -- -- Cincinnati with a visit there.
Or maybe the -- caddies -- -- Cleveland.
By showing up there it's breaking at this point right now John we don't know where it's going to happen or what form it will actually take.
Because you don't want your supporters -- have already voted out at a campaign rally as opposed to in the polls but we have to get that -- -- for the moment back to your job.
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