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The Truth was out there
John Norton may have invented the word "wowser". There's evidence to suggest the Australian's brand of journalism may have been the inspiration for the Dirty Digger himself, Rupert Murdoch. A judge once described Norton as a "habitual drunkard of the worst type" and he was also before the bench for sedition and libel.
The perfect chap, then, to found that unique newspaper The Truth, which this week breathed its last after 118 years of publication.
"It was the most powerful paper of the 20th century," claims historian and former Truth hack Redmer Yska. It was, for a long time, also our best-selling - at one stage claiming to be read in every second household in New Zealand. While the latter-day Truth was a lightly regarded collection of smut, drugs and gangs, it was once a ferocious, campaigning, snarling beast of a newspaper - founded on divorce cases, politics, championing the working-man and yes, sex.
Truth began life in 1905 demanding better salaries for teachers, policemen and the introduction of a "tote" at the racecourses; along the way it revealed tarring-and-feathering in Opunake, unmasked the wartime conman Sydney Ross (subject of TV film Spies and Lies) and accused 1952 police commissioner Eric Compton of illegal phone-tapping.
All the while, circulation grew. By the mid-50s, says Yska, who wrote Truth: The Rise and Fall of the People's Paper, they had a million readers.
Then, in 1958, came the first, telling blow to begin a half-century decline: a law change preventing Truth reporting every salacious detail of divorce cases, one of their staples. "It was like the sun had gone out," says Yska.
Under the editorship of Russell Gault, who took over in 1966 at the age of 23, Truth lurched rightward, including a campaign, spurred by assaults on two reporters, to bring back corporal punishment for violent offenders, headlined "Birch the Bashers". By then, Truth staff were already earning an infamous 12.5 per cent extra for "danger money" and covering "odium".
Perhaps the extra cash attracted them, for some remarkable names began their careers in this unlikely setting: the political cartoonist David Low, celebrated sports photographer Peter Bush, Radio Hauraki founder David Gapes (who hid in the roof of an Exclusive Brethren church for a story), parliamentary reporter Barry Soper and even the late film-maker Bruno Lawrence (Goodbye Pork Pie), who in 1960 was filing racy stories about cannabis gangs but, so he said in his autobiography, quit when he was fronted about his sources by detectives and admitted: "The whole thing's bullshit anyway, I was told to write an article so I wrote one." One reporter of the time, Kevin Sinclair, quoted in Yska's book, said it was a "training ground for generations of journalistic hoodlums, practised evaders of the truth".
Truth was certainly a regular visitor to court. It managed to libel pianist Jimmy Montecino twice, 55 years apart, by reprinting its original story from 1924 but forgetting the first payout. Among others who made money from Truth were singer Ray Columbus ($675,000 in 1997) and Labour ministers Phillip Holloway ($11,000 in 1957) and Martyn Finlay ($15,000 in 1969). The broadcaster Brian Edwards was paid $6000 in 1964 (after presenting a repentant Truth reporter as a prosecution witness), then had to repay much of it when he lost a second action two years later. Edwards admitted a reluctant admiration for Truth: "They were somewhere you went for a fair go in the days before [the TV show] Fair Go, they were the consumer champion."
Yska joined the paper in 1977 as a university-educated rookie. "It was pretty harrowing, actually," he says. "It was basically Muldoon's attack dog, running agendas, taking people out every week . . . it was anti-union, anti-Maori, anti-protester. A conservative megaphone."
Edwards agrees. "People were fearful of being exposed by the Truth; it was one of the worst things that could happen to you, suddenly finding a Truth reporter on the phone. Your knees started to tremble because they could destroy people."
Little surprise, then, that in 1970 ball-bearings were fired through the windows of the Auckland office, accompanied by a note from the "Auckland Liberation Front" calling Truth "the most bigoted right-wing press in the country. This is only a warning. Print the real truth".
Gault campaigned against abortion (reportedly waving a foetus in a jar around the office) and in support of sporting contacts with South Africa, prompting playwright Mervyn Thompson to stage a drama involving actors playing masked Truth writers giving Nazi salutes.
Veteran activist John Minto remembers: "It was a dreadful rag. The Truth was just awful." But it had its benefits. When Minto's Halt All Racist Tours (Hart) ran short of funds, Truth found out. "They had this headline, 'HART in thered, Reds are in Hart', the idea that we were all f----ng communists," says Minto. "They published this story and we got huge donations from the public. Whenever they savagely attacked us, the donations would roll in. They were a great fundraiser for us."
There was a cosy relationship between Truth and the intelligence service, Yska's book detailing SIS men drinking in the office on Friday nights. A celebrated 1975 story "The Plot", claiming a cabal of civil servants were trying to nationalise the entire finance sector, probably leaked from within SIS.
Gault went further. The edition of August 24, 1976, outed the then 24-year-old National MP Marilyn Waring as a lesbian. The cover words were stark: "Marilyn Waring, National Member of Parliament for Raglan, is a lesbian. Her lover is a former Hamilton housewife and mother of three, who left her husband and children about three months ago to share a Wellington love nest."
Truth, which defended the story on the basis people had a right to know, received a highly critical mailbag. Waring, now a prominent academic, politely declined comment when approached last week. Edwards said the outing caused a "tremendous stir" among fellow journalists. "Most of us felt pretty cross about it at the time."
But gay Green MP Kevin Hague, in his final year of high school when it happened, says: "In 1976, good role models were few and far between . . . Truth was a far from reliable source but we became experts in latching on to thinner straws than that, and it was powerful. Marilyn has been a hero of mine ever since."
Truth congratulated itself on its 75th anniversary in 1980 by declaring contemporary rivals "predicted an early demise - but they were wrong. New Zealand needed a controversial newspaper". But its slow, steady, neglected decline now began in earnest with a shift to Auckland from its Wellington base. Soon, it was all about sex and where once page three updated housewives on vegetable prices, topless girls now greeted readers.
Jim Mahoney joined the paper in 2001 and by 2004 was editor. "My children were ashamed of me," he laughs. "Was it fun? Yes it was." Yet when he wrote a billboard slogan "Fat, boozy sluts: Kiwi girls are easy" to sell a story about Kiwi backpackers in London having a reputation for promiscuity and weight gain, his daughter was among those wanting copies as ironic bedroom posters. Mahoney presided over yarns claiming Osama bin Laden resided in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Arctic Circle (not simultaneously), and headlines including "Aliens ate my undies".
"I wasn't too proud of that one," he says. "But I liked 'Aliens gave me an orgasm'." The edition that led on that headline, sharing the front page with "Smile, you're on Brothelcam" (with page three following up with "Bonkfest in the Bush") enjoyed a 12.5 per cent sales spike. Research told them readers wanted gangs, drugs, hookers and crime.
While circulation continued to fall, the paper remained profitable, if a poor image fit for owners Fairfax, particularly, the prostitutes arriving at the front counter to pay cash for advertisements. The Headhunters visited once to complain about coverage, staff hiding in the mailroom with cricket bats, just in case.
But for similar reasons it remained popular in some quarters. Prison authorities banned Truth in 2011, upsetting Arthur Taylor, a long-term guest of Her Majesty. "For all their shock-horror reputation, they have been the only newspaper for many years giving much coverage to events inside prisons," Taylor wrote to the Star-Times last week. He has several hundred copies in prison storage, confiscated after the ban.
Fairfax finally sold up in February 2007 to Hawke's Bay entrepreneur and rally driver Dermott Malley and former Herald publisher Matthew Horton. Truth declared "the cheeky weekly still has plenty of fizz".
One tradition definitely continued: described in the 1920s as the "electric chair", the editor's post remained an uncertain seat. There were five in the final six years, concluding with acerbic blogger Cameron Slater. Ex-Sunday News man Joe Lose was perhaps Truth's shortest-serving editor, lasting five months as caretaker. "We'd always looked at it and had a laugh. It had always been the people's paper, and it had lost its way." Ambitions were now more modest. "The main thing at Truth was to make sure you didn't get sued," Lose said. "I didn't. That's my claim to fame."
Lose says it's always sad when a newspaper closes. But few seem to be mourning Truth, even its own historian: Yska says it had "been on life support" for three decades. "Papers do have their lifecycle," says Yska. "And Truth has had a very, very interesting lifecycle."
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The man charged with the death of Woodland resident Scott Michael Zumbrum had his preliminary hearing continued on Wednesday due to a lack of discovery in the case.
Julio Gayton, 26, allegedly stabbed Zumbrum, 33, to death on March 18 in front of a private residence adjacent to Dingle Elementary School. It is the city's first homicide of the year.
Gayton also faces an enhancement on the murder charge, noting the "use of a deadly or dangerous weapon." There is also an enhancement for a prior prison term, Gayton being a convicted felon.
Public defenders Allison Zuvela and Lisa Lance, defense counsel for Gayton, said that they were not ready to proceed with the preliminary hearing, stating that they have not received all the necessary discovery to review for the case.
According to Zuvela, her office received large stacks of CDs and DVDs related to the case Tuesday afternoon, but are still waiting on police reports and other documents.
Deputy District Attorney Carolyn Palumbo said that "a continuance is reasonable," and recognized that both Lance and Zuvela have not received enough discovery to proceed with the preliminary hearing. She said that the Public Defender's Office should receive the police reports by Thursday.
Yolo County Superior Court Judge Paul Richardson found that there was good cause to continue, and scheduled the preliminary hearing at 8:30 a.m. on May 12 in Department 1.
Meanwhile, police are still searching for Jesse Armando Tapia, 23, calling him a person of interest in the case. Tapia is Latino and stands 5-feet, 10-inches in height. He is described as weighing 170 pounds with a star tattoo on his left forehead and above left eye, and "RIP Billy" tattooed on his forearm.
Tapia, of Woodland, is also wanted for being a parolee at large and for a New Mexico state arrest warrant.
Prior to his death Zumbrum was also on parole, according to police. He and Tapia allegedly had the same parole agent.
Woodland's last homicide was in 2013 when a shaken baby investigation was ruled a homicide following the autopsy.
Prior to that, in 2011, Gabriel Villareal-Ibarra was shot to death on March 6 outside of the former La Finca de Rivera, adjacent to Mojo's Lounge, which closed that June.
Homicides occurred in other Yolo County cities over the past three years -- Leslie Pinkston was killed in November in Winters while Oliver "Chip" Northup and Claudia Maupin were killed in April 2013 in Davis. William Gardner in Winters and Daniel Marsh in Davis have been arrested in connection to the murders.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to call the Woodland Police Department at 661-7800 or 666-2411. Callers may remain anonymous.
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Materials Development
Sinani believes that quality experiential training should always be supplemented by thorough materials which are left with the participants to further their learning and to pass on their knowledge to others. Materials are available for each of the topics mentioned. They are simple and accessible, while being highly professional. Use is made of local and international theories and literature in developing the materials. Where possible, materials are available in both English and isiZulu.
- Restoring Dignity – Handbook for Trauma Support Workers
- Planning and Consultation Handbook
- Fundraising Guide
- Facilitation Guide
- Annual Reports
- Research Policy
- Internship Policy
- Research Reports:
- Traditional Conceptions of Trauma
- Income Generating Projects Review
- Stigma Towards Children Affected by HIV and Aids
- Elderly Caregivers Consultation
- Papers presented/published by Sinani staff (also available in German)
- Media reports (also available in isiZulu)
The Health and Welfare SETA (HWSETA) approved a full accreditation as an education and training provider for the Victim Empowerment, NQF Level 3.
Peace building and development Handbook
This handbook has been recently launched on the 15th October 2008. Directors of different organisations attended the launch and it went very well. The event was also honoured by Ms Yasmin Bacus - HOD of Dept of Community Safety and Liaison who was the guest speaker. The handbook itself is about peace building and development work in communities affected by violence, poverty, HIV and AIDS and it can be used by community practictioners. To readers of this handbook, we would very much appreciate if you could give us a feedback about the handbook to help us learn and improve our work. Please fill in the following questionnaire and send your answer by mail, fax or post. handbook_questionnaire
Below is a copy of peace and community development handbook to download:
Annual Reports
It outlines Sinani's programmes and work for each year. Sinani's annual reports highlights different support that was received from different funding organisations, programmes activities for the year, the impact, successes, challenges and future plans. It then indicates finances and material available. It is always written in both English and isizulu .
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3 series trauma pamphlets:
A summarized information on what is trauma with examples of traumatic experience, how it affects us. Ways of recovering from trauma using 5 steps model are also suggests. Finally, ideas about what communities can do to break the cycle of violence are also indicated. It is available in both isizulu and english.
Consultation and Planning manual
This handbook is designed for community development workers. It explains in a simple way the planning and consultation process for the success of the community development. More attention is being placed on careful and consultative community entry process to promote ownership of projects. It also focuses on qualities of development facilitators that are regarded as a vital foundation for productive partnership between the developer and the community. It is available in both English and isizulu
Trauma Support Handbook
An interesting handbook for trauma support workers. It highlights the impact of trauma in terms of understanding trauma and its impact. It also outlines in details trauma support work and this includes 5 stage model of trauma counseling. Counseling considerations are summarized briefly as well as special issues such as children and trauma, abuse of the elderly, domestic violence, rape, bereavement, depression, suicide and working with perpetrators of violence.
Sinani video
It is about working with communities affected by violence. Different participants are sharing their personal testimonies and experiences of violence
Fundraising for community groups
It serves as a training guide for group facilitators when working with groups on community fundraising mainly for local and national events and projects. This manual defines who is the right sponsor, how to find them and where using practical examples. A simple matrix for a convincing fundraising strategy and fundraising tools is also included and finally ends with report and evaluation examples.
HIV/AIDS Programme–hiv_aids_brochure highlights the philosophy of our model of intervention, area of our work and problems we are trying to address, aims and objectives, what do we offer to communities as well a who do we work with. They all end with a standard paragraph outlining our values as an organization peace_brochure and Poverty alleviation Programme – The two brochure begins with a cycle of violence with explains why so many communities in the province are affected by high levels of domestic violence, sexual violence, child abuse and crime. It further defines aims of the two projects, peace building approach, what we offer to communities with regards to peace building and poverty alleviation.Sinani work brochure - Explains about who is Sinani and who do we work with. Sinani's work with community based structures in three different programmes such as HIV/AIDS, Peace building and poverty alleviation programme, is summarized briefly in this brochure.- This brochure has been designed to give information on how violence and trauma affect children. It gives basic insights on how children affected by trauma as well as common behavours of children affected, what parents and caregivers can do to help children deal with it. It uses a case study as a practical example that helps you to exercise the support you can give to affected children. It is available in both isizulu and englishchildrens_trauma_brochure - Gives information on what is a traumatic experience and why should one seek the need of trauma counseling. It then explains different responses to traumatic experience as well as fears that an individual normally has when thinking about trauma counseling. Lastly, it talks about how to support someone affected by traumaResearch policy, reports and brochure - They give background information on why does Sinani have the research policy outline mainly ethics of conducting different research. Research reports are indicating different researches that have been conducted previously as well as findings that informs Sinani's work and approach. Information on areas of research, methodology, participants/ beneficiaries and what Sinani offer with regards to research is also outlined.
The posters carry respect messages in relations to human rights issues. The aim of these posters is to promote respectful ways of interacting amongst different people in the community. You can see the posters by clicking here...
Sinani had an exciting opportunity to attend and present a paper during the international HIV and AIDS Conference
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text: Banshee Season 1 Review "The Rave" January 20, 2013 Banshee, Reviews I did not expect to be saying this, but Banshee actually improved in its second episode. Granted, it didn't have anywhere to go but up. But, after last week's crappery, I thought the odds were definitely not in its favor. It's still not good, but it's not as bad. This week, Lucas Hood learned that there was a secret rave planned at an Amish barn where some crazy kids would be doing drugs. Yawn. Like there haven't been a dozen other "rave gone bad" storylines in a dozen other shows since the mid-1990s. At the rave, there were the requisite glow sticks, fairy wings, pulsating techno, and visually assaulting handheld camera shots. Lucas demonstrated that he is a cop who is not going to be bound by the law and took it upon himself to rough up the drug dealer/organizers of the rave. The interesting part about this otherwise uninteresting scene was the interaction between Lucas and his daughter, Deva. His conversation with her in the car after her boyfriend died and the way in which he watched her run to the man she believes to be her father were touching. Elsewhere in alleged Amishville, the former-Amish, turned butcher, turned criminal mastermind, Kai Proctor, enjoyed a solitary steak dinner. His attempt to woo Lucas earlier in the episode failed, and now he had to deal with the fallout from the police raid on the rave (where his drugs were being sold). I haven't decided whether his character is legitimately intimidating or ridiculous. He certainly lacks the gravitas of a Nucky Thompson or Tony Soprano. After he feeds his drug dealer to his dog (you read that right), there is an awkward and extended moment when he stares into the camera and it gets closer and closer to his face. I think it was supposed to be menacing. Our gratuitous sex for the episode came courtesy of a sexually aggressive girl who looked like she was 14 years old. Lucas can't resist when she strips off her dress within thirty seconds of introducing herself. The scene was disturbing because she looked so young and because there wasn't a condom in sight. They should put a box on the nightstand to make the suggestion that condoms are involved. Otherwise, setting aside the creepiness of the age difference, it seems gross – not sexy. If she whips off her clothes that quickly, that should be a sign that she's probably had sex with the entire town. Ew. The weakest part of the episode was the appearance by Job. He fled to the Jersey shore to escape the people who tried to kill him in his salon. At a table in the sun, surrounded by seagulls, he looked like something Hot Topic vomited. I think it was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't. Hoon Lee's delivery is unconvincing and painful on the ears. Hands down the worst moment was when a young girl asked Job if he was wearing a cape. He responded: "It's Diane von Furstenberg, chica. Shoo, go get pregnant." Where do I start with this? First, the Diane von Furstenberg line is dated. While still a well-known designer, her trendy high point was about 5 years ago. Second, "chica"? They are in New Jersey not Miami or Southern California. This reference made no sense here. Third, "go get pregnant" was not funny. He then calls her "Snookie." I hate this character. You may be wondering in what way Banshee got better. It pared down the storylines so it was at least more focused than last week. But, it's still a long way to go before I can say it was entertaining. Follow me on Twitter @LaVaudreuil Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Megan I think it is so funny that you say that. Watching Kai Proctor I told my husband this…" He is playing a very large, intense role. A role that could very easily when many awards if played right. But I cant decide if he is scary or funny. Do I like him or hate him? Is he being very good at his role or so bad that I cant even tell? I CANT TELL ABOUT THIS GUY!! I cant decide if he is the perfect guy for this part, or the worst decision for this part. When I watch him I tend to think of Nukey Thompsan. They have very similiar roles, but I have never questioned him. I am hoping in time I will be able to tell what I think about him. I just dont know! Ready for the next episode so I can try to decipher once again. In the last episode he looked juvenile, silly even. Like " I would laugh in your face, your a joke." type of silly. He is supposed to be scary, people respect him, blah blah blah but nobody listens to him. lol. You think bc you had him a bag of money for your shit casino makes you a big shot? And bc you speak another language? Your just not doing it right. SteveResin The dog/finger scene was just absurd, and not even in a good way. It's also absolutely ludicrous that no matter where our "hero" seems to go, women just undress within seconds and demand he ravish them. I'm not sure if this series is meant to be a comedy in all honesty.


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Police say a Pittsburgh man attacked a transit bus driver with a metal bar after she told him he was short of the money needed to pay his fare.
Online court records don't list an attorney for 32-year-old Joseph Shumba, who faces a preliminary hearing July 25 on two counts of aggravated assault.
Port Authority of Allegheny County police say Shumba tried to pay just half his fare then argued with the driver when she objected Saturday morning. Police say that's when Shumba grabbed a metal bar used to move seats for riders in wheelchairs and began hitting the driver in the face, head and shoulders.
Police say another passenger intervened and was also hit, but prevented the attack on the driver from being more serious.
The driver has been treated and released for her injuries.
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Yep. That's what I understand. he was the first alternate. When the guy had surgery on his leg, he dropped out. That meant Glenn is in!Originally Posted by ImReppinBtownThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I can see it now.
The AFC down by 3 with :57 to go on the NFC's 30. Peyton walks up to center. In his mind he knows on his right he has Marvin running a fly to the outside. To his left, Antonio Gates will post over the middle and Hines Ward will be going for the lob in the back corner of the endzone. Behind him is the edge who is going to give a quick block and then fade out to the right.
The crowd is cheering, Peyton hears the taunt of Jevon Kearse. Peyton's brow stiffenes as he watches the Strong Saftety begin to slide towards Gates. Peyton knows where the opening is. After one pump fake he'll have Marvin in the endzone.
Peyton puts his hands under Kevin Mawae, leans down. "Hut, Hut."
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John Hoyland at Other Criteria London
Newport Street Gallery's inaugural exhibition, 'Power Stations', presents a selection of John Hoyland's large-scale works dating from 1964 to 1982, displayed throughout all six of the gallery's exhibition spaces. To accompany this first show (8th October 2015 - 3rd April 2016), Other Criteria will exhibit new prints by John Hoyland.
John Hoyland (1934–2011) is one of Britain's leading abstract painters. Renowned for his intuitive manipulation of colour, form, line and space, Hoyland emerged at the forefront of the abstract movement in Britain in the early 1960s, and remained an energetic and innovative force within the field, until his death in 2011.


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Raiders of the lost art: All those debating who was on the swift boat when it did what should look at Patricia Calhoun's column about Jon Lipsky, the FBI agent who led the raid on Rocky Flats ("True Lies," August 19). He is a true American hero -- the Paul Revere of this generation, warning us about dangers just down the road -- and his patriotism is beyond debate.
Ellen Adams
via the Internet
Bombs away: Just a question. Will Patricia Calhoun ever quit writing about Rocky Flats? Hasn't she ridden that horse long enough?
H.E. Wilkins
Patricia Calhoun responds: Well, H.E., let's hope the life of the Rocky Flats story is a little shorter than the 24,000-year half-life of plutonium. I'll quit writing about Rocky Flats when the government finally releases the relevant grand-jury documents, the jurors themselves can tell their story -- and FBI special agent Jon Lipsky is allowed to speak. Last Tuesday evening, as Lipsky was driving into Denver (and after my column had gone to press), he received a call from the FBI, warning him not to talk about the case. "So I can't tell you what I came here to tell you," he told the people who gathered the next day for a press conference on the dangers of turning Rocky Flats into a wildlife refuge/recreation area.
Blood will tell: Regarding Michael Roberts's "Young Blood," in the August 19 issue:
It's too bad that Jared Polis didn't get to run for Congress this year. Listening to him would be a lot more fun than listening to the same old guys who are running instead. I'll bet Polis wouldn't wear a cowboy hat, either.
Jazi Reynolds
via the Internet
Snail mail: I have to wonder, seriously, who really gives a rat's ass what Jared Polis is all about or who he is. If you could find a more boring or insignificant subject for a cover article, I would truly be surprised. I don't know the guy personally, nor had I ever heard of him until your article, but I feel no shame in my ignorance of his work.
Could you do me a favor in the future and not waste any more paper on do-gooder rich folk with pointless personal agendas? Is that too much to ask?
Perhaps I could find the transcripts of the play-by-play for the latest snail-racing championships so that you can print something a little bit more meaningful.
And by the way, I usually love your work.
Dustin Foster
Seeing into the future: Michael Roberts's "Young Blood" was a real eye-opener. I depend on Westword to tell me things about this city that I might not know otherwise, and I cannot believe all of the important things he is doing!
As chairman of the Colorado Board of Education, he plays a very important role in the future of this state. As a young man with a lot of money and ideas, he can really make things happen.
I wish him the best.
Roger Torres
Seize the day: Advice for Jared Polis of the Colorado State Board of Education:
Please, sir! Make it clear to the citizens of Colorado that schools are under attack by neo-fascist, anti-democracy, right-wing capitalist dictatorships. Students are their prime target. They calculate that if they can capture the minds of students, they will continue to maintain and expand their system of oppression, domination, wage-slavery and exploitation over the rest of society and, eventually, over the entire world.
Mr. Polis! We need a leader who will never kneel to the capitalist power elite, who will organize and mobilize and seize the moment in history to save our democracy. The whole world is waiting!
John Cassella
The wild ride: Michael Roberts writes: "Within minutes of my getting together with Jared Polis, he almost killed me -- twice!"
Shame, shame, shame on you, Jared Polis, for remaining "entirely unruffled" when you could have killed "what looks to be a substantial family" in that minivan. The way you handle a car on the road with clearly no respect for human life makes me ill. And you are on the Board of Education, working with children! Please be so kind as to explain to me what example you are setting for the students you claim to care so much about with your erratic driving!
You see, Mr. Polis, I am an operating-room nurse (for 27 years). I am one of the persons who works on the family in the minivan for many hours, desperately trying to save their lives. Do they all survive? Of course not! Do we look at the poor, dead little child on the OR table and cry? Yes! Many, many of these accident victims die because of neglectful, careless, "entirely unruffled" drivers such as yourself. Obviously, you don't care to understand the pain of the human condition. Do you realize how many broken hearts are left behind when a loved one passes on due to a senseless car accident?
Choice is the father of freedom and the voice of the heart. Anyone can choose the course of their lives -- I can only hope, Jared Polis, that you will begin to make different choices when you put yourself behind the wheel of an automobile. Remember also that personal power, an almost indefinable proactive force, gives you the power to control your life, but you must take responsibility and then take action. Change your driving habits!
By the way, Michael Roberts, if you examine statistics involving automobile accidents where one driver is driving erratically, you will discover the persons in that car usually walk away from the accident scene. It's the "substantial families in the minivan" who pay the price.
Deborah H. Albert
Making sense of suicide: Thank you so much, Eric Dexheimer, for writing such an honest and insightful article about Tony Dispense ("An Athlete Dying Young," August 19). As a friend of his sister's, I, too, thought that his suicide didn't make any sense. It seemed more like he was trying to rid himself of an alter ego that had emerged from his car accident.
It is hard to talk honestly about suicide. Thank you for commemorating such a wonderful man, with a wonderful family. Thank you for helping me to remember the beauty of Tony's life.
Andrea Weeks
High hopes: What a wonderful article on my grandson. Tony and I spent many wonderful hours together as he was growing up. I told him many times not to worry about being small, because lots of great athletes were not large men. We fished and golfed together in Montana when he was so small that he used his mother's clubs.
I was very close to Tony.
Vic Chambers
Anniston, Alabama
Blood on the tracks: Wow! I can't believe Patricia Calhoun managed to find something about Kobe that hadn't already been covered! Granted, she wrote about an old railroad stop in Colorado named Kobe ("Kobe or Not Kobe," August 12), but by the time Kobe Bryant is done suing everyone who's screwed up this case, he could own the entire state, and it might as well be named after him.
Thanks for a welcome break from all the sensational coverage of this case.
Ricky Valdez
Who, what, when, where, why: Several years ago, my journalism instructor at Metro, the late Greg Pearson, told us that the most essential thing for an investigative reporter was skepticism: Question everything.
So I've waited for an article answering my questions about the Kobe Bryant case. Is there a Bryant fan in the court leaking the anti-defendant stuff? Did Mackey, et al., pay someone off? Are the leaks the prosecution's way of getting out of an over-their-head situation? Why did the judge let Mackey get away with repeatedly using the accuser's name in open court? Is he Bryant-biased? Is the Eagle County District Court really just that incompetent, and, if so, why?
I don't expect much from the Post and the News -- the Post suing to get into the (details of the) accuser's pants and the News publisher saying that was "newsworthy" were what I expected. But where is Westword?
Bob Smith
Segway or the highway: I just read Laura Bond's "Slow Ride," in the August 5 issue. I loved it. I live in Dayton, Washington. Our town has a population of about 2,500. I have the only Segway in town. I have owned mine just over a year, and one Segway on Main Street has caused quite a stir.
I had the opportunity to meet these wonderful people. When they arrived, the town went wild. Dayton is on the Lewis and Clark Trail, so quite a few different people have been through town in the past year. Dayton made them welcome. As they left going east, I rode with them until my batteries went dead. The support team brought me back to town. About two and a half hours after they left here, I drove their route and found them about where I thought they might be. Soon after I caught up to them, it was battery-changing time. About a mile down the road after that, it was gas-up time for the support/flag car. I stayed with them until the next battery change, then turned around and headed home.
Bill Burke
Dayton, Washington
F marks the spot: I agree with Keith Hughes's letter in the August 12 issue. These days, the word "fuck" is used more as an adjective than a cuss word. Years ago, I remember my dad, a church-going man, whilst under the hood of his car shouting "Fuck!" as he dropped a wrench somewhere into the bowels of the engine. I pretended not to hear. On joining the RAF in WWII, I heard "fucking" used as an adjective many times but never with such panache as when a drill sergeant once admonished an airman on church parade with the unforgettable command: "Take yer fucking hat off in the house of God."
Unfortunately, the Anglo-Saxon word is now used by comedians of both sexes to the extent that it overwhelms their wit. Movie scripts are drenched with the word, and I, for one, am bored to tears with rappers whose command of our national tongue is so limited that "fuck" seems to be their only utterance.
Let's have a "Don't Say Fuck" day.
Bill Evans
No mall at all: Westword's letter writers are sure an embittered, sarcastic bunch. Especially interesting has been the fallout over Jason Sheehan's July 15 review of the Kitchen, "Boulder Blahs." Maybe that's because the review was padded with so much opining about Boulder. Boulder seems to hold a peculiar fascination for people who don't live here, so many of whom seem to get all stirred up and lathery in curious ways and babble foolishly at the merest mention of the Enchanted Kingdom.
The strangest thing about the letters in response to Sheehan's piece is that no one, Sheehan included, seems to have noticed that the restaurant is not, as he writes, "sitting right there in the middle of the Pearl Street Mall."
Not only is it not in the middle of the Mall, it's not on the Mall at all.
Earl Noe
In center field: Regarding Laura Bond's "Across the Buddhaverse," in the July 29 issue:
I want to thank Laura Bond for such a sweet and moving summary of the Shambhala Mountain Center's history, replete with rich detail of what it is like today. I was moved to tears more than once by the beauty and poignancy of the language Laura Bond used to capture the atmosphere there. Keep up the great work!
Will Van Derveer
Wait watchers: Nice article. But Laura, you don't have to wait several hundred lifetimes. Try asking yourself "Who am I?" wherever you are when the thoughts crowd in during the day (or night).
James Francis Kettering
Programmed for boredom: Let's talk turkey regarding Dave Herrera's August 12 Beatdown. I am a producer/artist here in Colorado notoriously known for my musical composition skills.
I have been to other states, listened to the radio and heard their disc jockeys support and play their local talent. Colorado's 107.5 is a joke, from the DJs to the program director. I had a friend who used to work for another radio station, and he could not play anything but what the program director allowed. Get these people out of here.
A DJ does not need a program director, and if he/she does, they do not need to be on the air. Most of these program directors are geeks or nerds with no idea about music except for MTV or the local rave. Hip-hop came from the streets! White, black, it doesn't matter, because they will all tell you the same. Ethnically speaking, urban means black! So if 107.5 is an "urban" radio station, why are the black DJs a minority and a bunch of wannabes are the majority? I bet you money that not one of their DJs has seen the five boroughs of New York, been to any of the wards in Texas or stepped a foot on the Compton blocks of California.
Someone needs to have the balls to run Jefferson Pilot out of town. Why do we only have one hip-hop station, numerous country stations, a growing number of salsa stations on the rise and talk-radio stations? The best thing hip-hop ever had going was the KDKO years before Dr. Daddy-O, and even he sold us out for the cash. What happened to unity in the community? There ain't none. Why does SWAT have to show up after the Let Out of Club Purple? I have never seen them show up at Rock Island.
Where will hip-hop end up in Colorado if we cater to ignorance and follow commercial markets? We are truly lost.
Phillip "800 the Jewell" Embry
The white stuff: Dave Herrera misses the point about the vicious LoDo assaults of June 13 and a similar attack that occurred one week earlier when he tries to morph the attacks into a hip-hop issue.
The real issue is that the assaults by a dozen black men who videotaped themselves beating up innocent people are about black-on-white crime. Also of major concern is how Denver's so-called mainstream news media and city officials have caused a virtual blackout about these attacks. More than sixty days have passed since the assaults, and even though the police have identified at least five of the suspects, not one has been arrested. That's incredible!
European-American civil-rights activists, including the European-American Issues Forum, have demanded -- without success to date -- that Denver's mayor, city council and DA take steps to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of these outrageous acts to the fullest extent of the law. European-Americans are victims of hate crimes in the United States, according to Department of Justice statistics. Attempts to trivialize the seriousness of Denver's LoDo attacks, or to twist the facts to claim white racism against black hip-hop music, is behind any efforts to report on the attacks, and an insult to the victims and Americans who believe in social justice for all.
Louis Calabro, president
European/American Issues Forum
San Bruno, California
Dave Herrera replies: You missed the point, Louis. In the August 12 Beatdown, I said that "ignorant, immature people do stupid shit, regardless of what music they're listening to," and that pretty much summed things up. Judging from your letter, though, I should have noted that stupid people come in all colors and are equal-opportunity haters.
And speaking of things I should have done: In last week's Beatdown, I said All Star Entertainment was the crew behind Bash's new night. Magic City is actually the work of Bash Entertainment, in association with Pleazure Entertainment; Johnny Fantastic is not a part of either group. My apologies to all.
Crazy like a Fox: Thanks for David Holthouse's article on DJ Fox ("Old Chicago," August 5). I've been a fan for years, and I'm glad he's finally getting the recognition he deserves.
Brook Bollinger
Core values: Thanks for Jason Heller's review of Loadstone in the August 12 Playlist. I recorded the album, and I really think that these guys deserve to be noticed. Heller's a good reviewer who knows his stuff. I don't think most people get where Core of the Earth is coming from.
Jamie Hillyer
Kittie litter: Regarding Rick Skidmore's piece on Kittie in the August 12 Now Hear This:
Kittie rules! Their vocalist has really great power in higher ranges, a trait desired by a lot of bands these days. They sell out shows most all the time and made it to the pinnacle point of hosting MTV's Headbangers Ball recently. A lot of rockers look down on them, but all considered and given their ages, they really rock!
Eddy LaBarr
Panic attack: Excellent work in the August 12 Playlist by Nick Hutchinson and his descriptive dialogue on Widespread Panic. Putting it into words is an art form, and I enjoyed his perspective! Keep up the great work, take good care, and, of course, peace.
Heather Cosby
Brevard, North Carolina
Flaming the fans: Regarding Jason Heller's review of the Fiery Furnaces in the July 29 Playlist:
Jason Heller is a retard! The Furnaces rock!
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Rack and ruin: I strongly disagree with the review in the July 22 Playlist. This record is a must if you are a 311 collector like myself. I know Graham Webster is entitled to his opinion, but please don't let him put down the band by saying that you can find them on the dollar rack at the used-CD store or something! 311 is the best band of all time!
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Irata – Vultures Review
Irata is a band that I had not heard of before, but seeing as they are from the town next to me, I figured it'd be pretty cool to check out their music, and I can say that it was a pretty good idea!
Their new EP is called, 'Vultures', and it was released on November 1st. It was produced by Phillip Cope of Kylesa, and this band has a sound that is quite close to the awesome sound of Kylesa, but how awesome?….let's get to it!
The EP starts with "Keeper's Maker," and it starts with a nice, fuzzy groove intro and goes into a nice rest of the song, that shows the strengths of the band, rocking out. The song is short and straightforward, but it does do what it's supposed to, let you rock and then leave before you get bored with it. A nice introduction to the band.
Old Smoker starts slow, but steady. It has a certain groove to it, a groove that I do dig though. It soon gets to the sound that you will find familiar on this records, distortion and yelling, and I LIKE IT! One thing I really like in this song is the clapping that is in the background, it adds something extra to the song that I really like and feel, along with the bassline, help make this song really different on the album. The ending is also a cool prelude for what is to come, just straight rock.
I have to say that one of my favorite tracks on this EP was the one song that I could find on youtube for this review, 'Deluge'. I really like this song, because it starts out just a blazin' trail, and then goes right into a nice guitar solo. I like that for a good part of this song you get a nice slow change of pace when the band suddenly starts a slower, but ultimately headbangable, section of music. But when you think it's about to end, it comes back and the song finally finishes up with a solo.
Keeper's Maker starts with a nice, fuzzy groove intro and goes into a nice rest of the song, which shows the strengths of the band, rocking out. The song is short and straightforward, but it does do what it's supposed to, let you rock and then leave before you get bored with it.
I must say that the intro to 'Miser' caught me by surprise at first, it's slow, bass led, and show that the band aren't some hard rock, psychedelic band, they can do other things as well. That slow, quietness doesn't stay around, mind you. They stay the pace but then add their typical flavor to what they were playing before, with distortion and yelling galore. The section in the chorus is awesome; it has a riff reminiscent of one of my favorite musical genres, doom metal. Just a really good, heavy riff, to keep you going through the chorus, before it slows down like the beginning again. If any of you readers are like me, you'll just randomly be singing, "I WONT BE TRAMPLED ON," at random times during the day.
The final track of this EP is "Serpents." I think that is a perfect song to choose as the closing track. It gives a great promise for whatever they have up next. It's nothing too complicated, this song is a great rocker. I like it quite a bit, I think that the end of the song is just awesome with the loud screams to cap off the song and the EP overall.
The 411: I think that this is a well produced and performed piece of music. I dig what the band is doing and feel like if they gave a bit more on this EP, I'd give it a higher score. I also wouldn't mind them delving into those doomy riffs and psychedelic breaks more often, because it makes for an intriguing listen. But overall, this album is pretty good, I dig it!
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Went exploring a patch reef about 3 miles from shore, straight north of Tynes Bay last week, to show Ben Watson of LookBermuda the finger coral reefs. These reefs are totally different from the reefs in the outer lagoon and rim, in that they are mainly built by the finger corals of the genera Madracis. Some of these patch reefs can reach 30-ft tall, composed of a solid sheet of thousands of little coral fingers - presumably all one colony.
Tomtates, locally known as white grunts, thrive on the finger coral reefs, presumably because there are places to hide. The grunts also seem to think divers are just more reef as they will school around you when you are out there.
A broad view of a finger coral reef, with lots of wee grunts.
A close up of Madracis auretenra, long mis-named Madracis mirabilis, until Jan Locke et al wrote this paper last year.
Also common at the base of these reefs are branching corals of the genera Oculina. The image below is of one of the rarer species, called Oculina valenciennesi
Before we got in the water, Ben requested we see a sleeping turtle.
S0 - being the duteous host, I provided... We found a nice sized Hawksbill, who was content to watch Ben as he video-taped the drowsy reptile.
So - if you are in the mood for a novel dive in Bermuda, head just past the South Ships Channel off North Shore and scuba on one of the hundreds of finger coral reefs. The visibility is a bit low, but there are lots of fish and more coral species than you will see out on the forereef. Nice!
Monday, March 17, 2008
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Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by
Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts
Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the
publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the
biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton &
It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.obama's biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below):-
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the
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The truth will one day see the light of day. This puppet is a plant pure and simple.
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My guess is that during his school career - Obama was lying while applying for ever program out there and when he got foreign student aid - he was forced to play out that lie. Or he really is Kenyan and he has been lying about that.
Either way... he lies.
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I feel sorry for the people. Drinking all that fluoride <cough> kool-aid and now rendered powerless. Oh man. Well.....nothing to say now.
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The truth will eventually come out one way or the other, it may be next week, next month, or 10 years from now.
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The linked article presents the data in a slightly different way than this LL item may make it seem, as this quote illustrates:
"The errant Obama biography in the Acton & Dystel booklet does not contradict the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Moreover, several contemporaneous accounts of Obama's background describe Obama as having been born in Hawaii.
"The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama--or the people representing and supporting him--manipulate More..
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It looks to me like the best part of Obama ran down the crack of his mama's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress.
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There are some who speculate that this info is being released by the Clinton political machine, to bounce out Obama and get Hillary on the Democratic ticket for the upcoming elections...
Only time will tell if they are correct... (6 months in fact)
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Yo dat der can't be real yo, dat shit is whack. Stop bullying my lord & saviour.
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This has to be the only nation that has this "birthy" issue. Most other places I know of can have whoever as their voted leader, as long as they are a legal citizen of that nation.
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@Ahahuimamakamakua sure, and I have heard of amendments to the constitution too. So many great people, who would make great statesmen/women and have embraced the USA as home, miss being in the highest office because they weren't born in the USA.
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@jenva It was started during the mid to late 1700 when the opressed left England and came to and made the USA. The reason why it was made in constitution was to stop people from other countries (mainly the UK at the time) from coming over and turning the country back into Brit rule again. If was a way we could make it by the people and for the people.
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@seedlesssoul thank you, I understand it's orgins, but like anything, sometimes the reason becomes silly, especially when the population of the USA is made up of so many intelligent, entrepreneurial, and decent immigrants that have embraced the USA as home. Isn't it time that part of the constitution was challenged?
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@jenva It's true, and that is why so many ammendments to the constitution were created. They gave the bill of rights and said here you go, then after a period where someone used the constitution for a loop hole, an amendment was put into place. The USA is the melting pot of the world and there are a lot of immigrants that have embraced the USA as home, though technically none of them can run for office. Maybe it sucks and maybe we have the next Jack Kennedy who calls himself Jose Lopez that coul More..
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@Bushido This book was printed in 1991, well before the "birther" issue even arised, and the book itself was left "uncorrected" until 2007, when Obama announced his candidacy for POTUS.
So someone is lying, either Obama, or the publishers of this book... My guess is the latter.
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@Bushido you're a drone fool... You've got your head screwed on backwards!! I thought you were smarter than that?
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actually, after reading up on this issue a bit more, I think both parties are lying, and if Obama lied about his origins to get into Harvard on a foriegn scholarship or something similar and he is actually a citizen, then he is guilty of fraud. And if he is NOT a citizen and he got elected to the office of POTUS, then he is also guilty of fraud. I wonder which case applies?
ABC is covering it up, and it's a shame that Obama won't just come out with the truth, backed by solid evidence More..
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What, are you retarded, or just trolling?
If the latter, guess it worked on me. If the former, Well, good luck.
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I do have lots one men who masturbate looking at my figure when I'm naked
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No just know that all you fuckheads can't get over your party sucks and you lost in the election last cycle. As you will again. I mean look who you got a bunch of retards Palin LOL
Bachman LOL louder, Gingrich, Romney, Ron Paul. OMG tards with IQ no higher than 78
it won't matter if we elect a communist this time, just anyone smarter than your people. Were fucked if you guys get in
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'Gayzed' by the Gay Photographer's Network is well underway, and today we bring you our interview with photographer Geoff Titley.
When did you become a member of the GPN and what drew you to the organisation?
It was early 2010. I had just returned from my first visit to South America and my interest in photography had been well and truly re-kindled after spending time in the breath-taking Andes. I looked around for a relaxed group to help me develop as a photographer. The GPN was the one I chose. It had a mix of experts and learners coming together in a social way.
Are there any particular subjects you are interested in and how do you explore them in your work?
The role of technology often informs my photographic practice, as it has the ability to change our social behavior. Echoing cultural theorist, Marshall McLuhan, my work discusses how technological advancements have impacted both cultural identity and the role of photography in 2013. Working digitally allows myself to engage with new medias such as the Internet – in which the "network" becomes the artwork.
Where does your inspiration derive from? Are there any photographers or artists that have particularly influenced your work?
Artists such as Thomson and Craighead, Theo Watson, Aram Bartholl and Owen Kydd similarly explore the theme of technology. However, I am equally inspired by the "staged construction" genre within photography such as Jeff Wall, Tom Hunter and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.
Are there any specific techniques you use when photographing? How would you describe your personal style?
Each part of the process interests me – hunting for locations, finding actors and working on the edit. I'll often focus on the composition of an image in order to heighten the performativity surrounding the "staged construction."
Have you got any future projects planned?
I intend to expand my series For the Moment by pushing it further into new directions that challenge the relationship between photography and multi-media.
Geoff's work can be seen as part of 'Gayzed' here at The Strand Gallery until October 20th.
Further examples of Geoff's work can be seen here.


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Iraqi cleric al-Sistani backs new PM, says spokesperson
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - Iraq's most influential Shia cleric - has urged the nation's new Prime Minister, Haydar al-Abadi, to form a "strong and efficient government".
Delivering his Friday sermon in Karbala, his representative - Ahmad al-Safi - said that the "deteriorating relations" among the country's politicians had "made it imperative to change the positions and posts in the country".
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The Totally True, 100% Real* Oral History of Gigli
One of the most important comedies of our time almost didn't happen. But then it did. GQ talks to the major players—including Jennifer Lopez,* Ben Affleck,* Christopher Walken,* director Martin Brest,* and Justin Effing Bartha*—about the making of an instant classic
*_We did not actually speak with any of these people, or even attempt to. In fact, we've never seen _Gigli.
There are certain movies that set new standards for their genre. It's hard to imagine what Hollywood would be churning out today had Martin Brest's almost-award-winning film Gigli never been seen by upwards of 20 people. But it nearly didn't make it to theaters—there were tears and arguments daily, a reluctant actor, and a terrible array of snacks at the Craft Service table. To mark the eighth anniversary of Gigli, GQ interviewed nearly 8 people responsible for bringing the film to fruition.
Martin Brest, director: The idea came to me one night when I couldn't fall asleep. I had been clicking through some girl on girl porn and I thought: What if a lesbian mob criminal turned out to be the only one who could pull-off a high-profile kidnapping?
Casey Silver, producer: When Martin turned in the first draft I knew we had a classic in the making. The next Godfather. Updated for our time. I called him on the phone immediately and yelled, "MARRRRRRRRRTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!" Then I went into a tunnel and lost reception.
Brest: I knew I wanted J. Lo. to play Ricki.
Jennifer Lopez, "Ricki": At first I said no. I was scheduled to help build a school for impoverished Vietnamese children.
Brest: We were having a hard time getting Jennifer to commit. At the same time, Meryl Streep was banging down our door pleading for the part. Meryl goes full-on American Psycho when she wants something. Like she was sending us photoshops of our kids' heads in a freezer.
Silver: It worked out in the end—instead of Jennifer going over to Vietnam, we brought the schoolchildren here and gave them small parts in the movie.
Le Nguyen, "High School Student #12": I like Miss Jennifer Lopez. She always say "no touching."
Lopez: We talked a lot about how to make Ricki more accessible to the mainstream audience. The idea that stuck was to have her fall in love with a man—Gigli—and together as a pair they would kidnap a mentally disabled person.
Silver: Two words: AFF. LECK.
Brest: We FedEd the script over to his vacation garage on Damon's property. I gave him two days to read it. Then I started calling. I didn't stop until he picked up. He never picked up. Eventually, Jennifer answered.
Representative for Ben Affleck, "Larry Gigli": Unfortunately Ben is unable to contribute to this project. He's very busy filming many highly anticipated films right now.
Brest: Jennifer said Ben was thrilled by the script.
Chris Alvarez, welding foreman: People make Jennifer Lopez out to be a bitch but she's not. I like many of her music videos. My favorite is the one where she wears the leather pants and the shiny hair.
Brest: There were some fires early on. I remember Affleck talking some nonsense about how "This shit didn't make a lick of sense. Why would a gangster fucking kidnap a prosecutor's mentally disabled brother?" And I told him, "People do crazy things, Ben. It's what life is about."
Donna Trable, Hair and Makeup: In pre-production it was just one crisis after the other. Lopez didn't want to go without lipstick for the majority of her scenes. There was a lot of crying and placating and Martin losing his temper screaming, "Jennifer, you're playing a fucking dyke!"
Brest: For a day or two I was afraid the movie wouldn't happen.
Lopez: Sure, Martin had a temper. Most directors do. The directors without tempers you don't know because they're unsuccessful. He could yell and scream a lot, but he never crossed the line. At least in my mind. The worst he did was threaten to drive over Justin's cat in one of the set carts.
Christopher Walken, "Det. Stanley Jacobellis": I ran into Jennifer at craft services one afternoon. She had tears in her eyes. I said, "Listen Jenny. You're gorgeous. You don't need that eye glop. What needs some glop are these fucking pretzels. "
Silver: Thank god for Walken. He gave the movie an immense amount of gravitas.
Walken: I was absolute putty in Martin's hand. I told him from Day One, "Mold me." And he said, "OK" and he put both hands over my head and squeezed really hard. It was a joke.
Ellen Lewis, casting director: Because of the sensitive nature of the character "Brian," we worked very closely with the AWMD [Association for the Welfare of the Mental Disabled]. Martin and Jennifer spent a day over there learning about handicapable people. Afterwards Jennifer often made the great point to people on-set who used offensive terms: Would you call a superhero "retarded" just because he's different?
Brest: This is devastating, devastating stuff. I wanted to give people a glimpse of what it would be like to be the mentally obstacled brother of a powerful federal prosecutor.
Justin Bartha "Brian": Martin is the most hands-on director. I mean, hands-on. I remember once he took me to Balthazar and told me to "do Brian." I was like, "What, here?" He insisted: "Do it or leave my movie." I started throwing my mussels in the air. Singing the Barney theme song at the top of my lungs. He pushed me to my limit.
Lopez: There's a scene where Ben, Justin, and I are sitting around the dinner table. Ben is supposed to start screaming out of frustration with Brian's "challenge." Just completely lose his temper. I kept ruining the take by tearing up. It was by far the most heart-wrenching scene I've ever filmed, and likely will ever film.
Brest: The dinner table shot was the hardest of the movie. I kept going back and forth on whether Justin should put peas on his head or line them up in a row on the table.
Bartha: Martin told me, "put your food somewhere silly, but not too cliché." This was on the eighth take and it was already 10 o'clock at night. I got frustrated and yelled, "I'm mentally disabled!"
Brest: That was it! It was perfect!
Bartha: Martin loved it. And we ended up using that line. I say: "It's not my fault, I'm mentally disabled."
Lopez: It cuts so deeply.
**Bartha: **To this day, that's the scene I do at auditions.
Charles Bunn, assistant editor: I remember carrying the final edit of the film in my hands across the lot to give to Martin. We all knew it was something big. It felt like I was delivering a newborn baby fated to be President someday.
Brest: I can still hear the sound of the reel clicking into place. Every single person in the room was dead silent.
Lopez: I wasn't there for the first screening. I was filming an episode of "Cribs" for MTV, but I know it was huge. One of the camera guys announced after the lights went up: "There was life before this movie, and now there's life after this movie." Martin made key chains with that line on it and gave it to everyone who worked on the movie.
Lopez: Everyone knew it was good. Really good. But no one could have guessed just how huge the critical response would be.
Nguyen: Best movie I see. Only movie I see.
Brest: Two days before it's released my assistant brought me in a fantastic blurb from the_ San Jose Mercury News_. The quote was simply "Jesus Christ, Ben Affleck." We high-fived. Like, "here's one for our DVD box!"
Ted Weinstein, critic: Christopher Walken's scene is five minutes of salvation.
Lopez: I can't even begin to state how much this movie did for me. I'd probably still be Jenny from the Block had Martin not had such a brilliant vision. It made me. Not just career-wise, but also who I am as a person today.


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LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) – State District Judge David Ritchie says prosecutors can use the recorded interview of authorities' initial questioning of former priest Mark Broussard.
Broussard is accused of molesting young male parishioners in the late 1980s and early '90s.
His attorney, Tom Lorenzi, asked the court to throw out the interview because he said Broussard told detectives he needed a lawyer 10 minutes and 30 seconds into the recorded portion of the interview.
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Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Permanent Representative to the African Union Elman Abdullayev has presented his credentials to Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the foreign ministry said.
During the meeting with the AU Commission Chairperson, the sides discussed the prospects of cooperation in humanitarian, cultural, educational and other spheres and hailed the great potential for wider cooperation.
Congratulating the Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said that Azerbaijan has made great economic achievements and it takes an important place in international organizations thanks to its increasing reputation in the international arena, hosts prestigious events each year, and the first European Games will be held in Azerbaijan this year.
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Laptop, network enhancements expected
By Tom Lappas, Citizen Editor 11/05/12
Henrico County's groundbreaking one-to-one laptop initiative for high-school students will conclude its third four-year contract June 30, and school officials are seeking enhancements that will make the next contract more efficient and effective.
The school system issued a request for proposal (RFP) last month to solicit interested bidders for the next contract, which will replace the current deal with Dell Computers for the provision of laptops and support for high school students, faculty and staff.
The RFP asks bidders to bundle the leasing of equipment with service needs, training for technical staff members, loaners and all other components necessary for the program, HCPS Technology Director Peter Taylor said, so that the overall cost to the school system may be more inclusive than in previous contracts.
The new machines will have solid-state hard drives, which are more durable and less likely to need repair than the mechanical drives that are used in the system's leased laptops currently, Taylor said. The new contract also will include a program on each laptop that automatically backs up critical student data to a server in their schools, he said. That way, students will have easy access to their materials at all times – even if they need loaner machines.
Officials will review bids with the School Board early next year, and the board likely will award a contract by the end of February.
In a separate RFP, to be issued by the end of December, school officials will seek bids to update the school system's network infrastructure. The current network, implemented in 2001 when Henrico began its laptop initiative with Apple, is on the verge of becoming obsolete, Taylor said. The chief problem: lack of adequate bandwidth, which particularly at the high school level is threatening to slow the flow of information from the internet and individual school servers to student and faculty computers.
Recommended state bandwidth standards for school systems exceed what Henrico's is capable of handling through its current network system, Taylor said. With so much demand for online content and so many users, high schools in the county likely will reach their bandwidth limitations within a year.
Upgrading the network to a 10 gigabits per second (gpbs) internal capability for all schools will provide more than enough bandwith, while preparing the school system for future needs, Taylor said. (Current bandwith varies from 10 megabits per second at elementary schools to 100 mbps at middle and high schools and 1 gpbs for internet usage.)
It also will provide enhanced levels of security for faculty and staff members, who will be able to submit grades, for example, through a completely secure wireless system.
Officials will recommend to the School Board a vendor and contract for the network enhancements sometime in the first quarter of 2013, with the intention of updating the network during the summer.
Some money for the project – which could cost $1.5 million or more in total, according to Superintendent Pat Russo – is included in the current budget. But the majority of it will need to be added, Russo said.
Crime Stoppers' Crime of the Week: Sept. 18, 2017
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Crime Stoppers is seeking information about a shooting in Richmond that resulted in an injured child and the murder of an adult.
At approximately 10:21 p.m., Sept. 9, Richmond Police were called to the 3200 block of 5th Avenue for a report of a person shot. They quickly located two victims suffering from gunshot wounds, a 57-year-old male and a 9-year-old female. > Read more.
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Commonwealth Senior Living at the West End, located at 2400 Gaskins Rd., will hold their grand opening on Oct. 3 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The community recently underwent a multi-million-dollar renovation which included the addition of a new memory care neighborhood, new resident suites, an expanded dining room, and brand-new courtyards and additional outdoor spaces. Commonwealth Senior Living associates will be on site to provide tours of the newly renovated community. > Read more.
Wegmans to sponsor Turkey Trot 10K
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Wegmans Food Markets Inc. will become title sponsor of the Richmond Road Runners Club's annual Turkey Trot 10K, a Thanksgiving Day tradition for many Richmond area runners.
Wegmans and RRRC have signed a three-year agreement whereby the race, beginning in November 2017, will be known as the Wegmans Turkey Trot 10K. RRRC will continue to manage race operations. > Read more.
Publix to open at Virginia Center Marketplace Oct. 11
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Publix will open its next Henrico location at 10150 Brook Road in the Virginia Center Marketplace shopping center in Glen Allen Oct. 11 at 7 a.m. The store will host a grand opening ceremony at that time.
The location will be the Florida chain's fifth in Henrico, joining those already open at Nuckols Place and The Shoppes at Crossridge in Glen Allen, The Shops at White Oak Village in Eastern Henrico and John Rolfe Commons in the Far West End. > Read more.
Statewide tax amnesty period underway
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Delinquent individual and business taxpayers in Virginia can pay back taxes with no penalties and half the interest from now through Nov. 14, as part of the 2017 Virginia Tax Amnesty Program, which began Sept. 13.
Approved by the 2017 General Assembly, the program assumes collection of $89.5 million for the general fund to support education, health, and public safety, as well as to provide a cash reserve. > Read more.
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Hot on the heels of losing a court case for the way it handled a beach cleaning tender and being ordered to pay legal costs of up to R1.8 million, the City of Cape Town is again facing legal action for the way it has handled one of its multimillion-rand MyCiTi contracts.
Lumen Technologies, the company that was axed in February by the city because of "non-performance", has confirmed that it is still pursuing legal action against the city, which could include a claim of R50m for damages.
Lumen's Sedicka Chilwan said the company, which was awarded the R234m contract to operate and maintain the software and hardware of the MyCiTi bus service, rejected the city's cancellation of its contract.
The company has also accused Melissa Whitehead, the commissioner of transport for Cape Town, of misconduct. But the allegation, which was considered in-committee during last week's controversial council meeting where the ANC were barred from attending, was reportedly dismissed by those who were present.
"The complaint was dismissed by council and the commissioner of transport for Cape Town is not under investigation and has not been suspended," Brett Herron, the mayoral committee member for transport, said on Monday.
But opposition parties who were present are concerned that the allegations against Whitehead may still lead to yet another costly court battle using ratepayers' money. One warned that the city had only recently lost its court battles against Beach Clean, at huge cost to the ratepayer.
In this case, the city refused to investigate allegations of corruption and fraud internally, despite attempts by councillors from the opposition parties to get the mayor to intervene.
The city denied then that there was any basis for an investigation and Beach Clean took the matter to the high court.
In Thursday's council meeting, one of the questions raised by councillors present was whether all mediation and arbitration options were exhausted before Whitehead recommended to the city manager that Lumen's contract should be terminated.
One of the opposition parties said "decisions are first made by city management and thereafter we, as the council, must face the problems and obviously at the ratepayers' expense".
Other councillors cautioned that the city's appointment of a new service provider to take over from Lumen could also be open to a court challenge, as the city had failed to provide the required information to all the bidders during the briefing session.
Beach Clean expressed similar concerns about the tender process during its court applications against the city. Beach Clean's Rogerio Viana said it had concerns about the way the tender process was handled. These included evidence suggesting that some of the other bidders had access to confidential information about his prices.
Beach Clean had been cleaning the city's beaches for 14 years before the tender was advertised in 2012.
Cope's JC Krynauw appealed to the mayor to investigate the tender process and conduct of officials involved.
But the city said there was no basis for an investigation and the tender was awarded to a Port Elizabeth-based company, Khazimla Cleaning and Gardening Services.
Viana took the matter to the High Court and the judge ruled that the city had to give Beach Clean an opportunity to provide the required information and that it should set aside the contract awarded to Khazimla pending a review of all the bids.
The city then decided to cancel the beach cleaning tender.
Viana took the city to court again and last month Judge Karrisha Pillay ordered the city to award the contract to Beach Clean.
"How many more orders (and in particular, cost orders) is our client going to have to obtain, before the city complies with the orders obtained against it, which has come at a great expense to our client and that of the ratepayer (who will end up funding the adverse cost orders obtained against the city)," Rael Gootkin, a director of Werksmans Attorneys, said.
The two cost orders, plus the city's own attorney and client cost, would be in the region of R1.5m to R1.8m.
Meanwhile, the city agreed that there was some basis to the allegations of corruption and Speaker Dirk Smit has appointed KPMG to do an independent forensic investigation of the handling of the beach cleaning tender.
Lumen's charges against Whitehead included general financial malpractice, of breaching clauses of the code of conduct for municipal staff members and the Municipal Finance Management Act
. The city said it was forced to cancel the contract because of non-performance by Lumen.
Whitehead said after the city announced its intention to cancel the contract that Lumen had subcontracted most of the work after winning the tender. It also failed to complete the overall finalisation of the system
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