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Authors note: This is a true story to the best of my ability to recall events from my early childhood. I clearly remember most of the events just as they are related here. However, in cases where my memory is not clear or there are gaps in what I know to be true, I have relied on a combination of logic and intuition to fill them in. I will leave it to the reader's imagination to decide for themselves what is real and what is imaginary. My story begins on a warm, sunny morning
Chapter 1
"It looks like we need to get out three diapers this morning," my mother said, looking at me standing in the door of my baby brother's nursery; "one for Tommy and two to put on Stevie." She looked me straight in the eye and told me, "Go back to your room while I change the baby; I'll be in to diaper you in a jiffy."
I went back to my room and didn't have long to wait. She came briskly into my room, stripped off my pajamas and laid out two folded diapers on my bed. As she lifted me up and lay me down on top of the diapers she said, "First we put the baby on the diapers." And as she pulled them up between my legs she added,"Then we put the diapers on the baby!" As she pinned my diapers snug over my left hip she looked down at me and said, "It looks like mommy has two babies now." Then she pinned the left side of my diapers snug and tight over my right hip.
Next she lifted me off the bed and took me by the hand and led me over to the full-length mirror on the closet door. "Just look at you - Mommy's little diaperboy!" And there I was, reflected in the mirror wearing nothing but two snow white baby diapers.
Mommy took me downstairs and put me in the playpen where she had left my baby brother, then lifted him into the high chair. "You will have to play by yourself, Stevie; the big baby will have to wait while I feed the little baby." She laughed at chatted with my baby brother as she gave him a bottle with one hand and thumbed through a mail order catalog with the other.
Before long Mrs. Thompson, our next-door neighbor, bustled in through the back door. She came by for coffee almost every morning, so she no longer bothered to knock. As she passed the playpen she gave me a startled look, then laughed and said to my Mom, "Don't tell me you have two in diapers now." Mom knew that the neighbor's boy, a good deal younger than me had been out of diapers for months. She sighed, then shrugged her shoulders and chuckled. "Who knows, the little one may be out of diapers before Stevie is!"
"Would you mind feeding Stevie," Mom asked her friend. "Not at all," she said reaching into the cupboard where she knew my favorite cereal was kept. "Oh, no," said Mom; "I want to remind Stevie what being a baby is really like; give him this." She handed Mrs. Thompson two jars of baby food, one of strained carrots and one of strained peas.
"OK, whatever you say," she said and pulled up a chair next to the playpen. "Come on over here and get some breakfast, Steven." I wished she would call me by my full name, but waddled over and stood by the rail of the playpen an she began to spoon the baby food into my mouth. I didn't care for the texture but the flavor wasn't bad. It was pretty clear even to me that it would do no good to complain.
As she fed me the second jar of baby food I began to fidget and soon the warmth of a freshly wet diaper began to seep between my legs and the dampness soaked through and spread across the front of my diapers. "Uh, oh," laughed Mrs. Thompson, "I can see why Stevie's back in diapers!"
"Would you mind changing him," asked my Mom, "I need to clean up here." Mrs Thompson lifted me out of the playpen and said, "Not at all; I think I still remember how to do this!"
"Put him on the potty chair first", Mommy called; "at least he can still mane not to mess himself." So Mrs. Thompson lay me on the floor and took off my wet diapers, then put me on the potty chair until I had performed. "Alright, Steven, lets get dry diapers on you," she said after she cleaned me up.
This time I was taken into the nursery to be diapered. She dropped the soggy diapers in the pail and folded together two fresh diapers. "Up we go", she said as she lifted me by my ankles and slid the dry diapers under me. "Don't forget to put him in double diapers," Mom called from the kitchen.
"I know," Mrs Thompson called back and pinned the diapers on even more tightly than my Mom had. "Where are his baby pants,' she called to my Mom.
"Top right drawer," Mom called back; "I hope they fit."
"Let's try these," said Mrs. Thompson as she slid a pair of baby pants over my ankles and up my legs. But as she lifted my ankles again and tried to tug them over my diapers it was clear they would be too tight. "Hmmm, maybe the snap-ons will be better," she muttered, rummaging in the drawer. Once again she lifted me by the ankles and slid the baby pants under me. The top two snaps closed easily, but the bottom one just wouldn't stay closed.
"I did the best I could with his baby pants," Mrs Thompson said as she brought me back into the kitchen, "but they're just too small."
"I was afraid they would be," Mom replied, " so I have been going through the catalog to see what they have and look what I found!" She pointed to a listing of diapers and baby pants in the baby goods section of the catalog. Mrs. Thompson read aloud, "Extra large vinyl baby pants - for the big baby who is still in diapers."
"That's my Stevie," Mom exclaimed, patting me on the head. "Would you mind watching my little baby, while I take the big one shopping? I think I'ld better get some extra diapers, too - maybe some of those extra thick day/night diapers." Mrs. Thompson laughed and said, "I'll be glad to watch the little one; take your time."
"Okay then, diaperboy," Mommy said to me. "Lets get a t-shirt on you and be on our way. Its plenty warm outside so you don't need anything more; lets let everyone see how cute you look in those diapers. Besides, it will be easier to try on those big baby baby pants this way! I hope the store has the items from the catalog - you're going to need them!
Chapter 2
Authors note: This is a true story to the best of my ability to recall events from my early childhood. I clearly remember most of the events just as they are related here. However, in cases where my memory is not clear or there are gaps in what I know to be true, I have relied on a combination of logic and intuition to fill them in. I will leave it to the reader's imagination to decide for themselves what is real and what is imaginary. At the end of Chapter one my mother was getting ready to take me shopping for extra large baby pants and more diapers.
"Okay then, diaperboy," Mommy said to me. "Lets get a t-shirt on you and be on our way. Its plenty warm outside so you don't need anything more; lets let everyone see how cute you look in those diapers. Besides, it will be easier to try on those big baby baby pants this way! I hope the store has the items from the catalog - you're going to need them!
My mom put me in the car and fastened the seat belt (this was before car seats were required for children), got behind the wheel and we set off for the catalog store. Throughout the ride, she reminded me that I was now a baby again. "Just look at you in those diapers - just like your baby brother! I can just imagine what the ladies at the store will say when they see that you are still in diapers!" she said.
In town, she parked the car and got me out. "We'll walk from here, Stevie - its only about a block and a half. Then she took my hand and led me down the sidewalk. As I reached up to take her hand, my t-shirt rode up and completely exposed my double diapers. "Come along, diaperboy; times a-wasting," she exclaimed, ignoring the looks of strangers passing by who paused to stare.
At the store, we headed for the baby department. When we arrived, mom lifted me up and sat me on the counter. "The saleslady looked at me for a moment then asked my mother, "How may I help you today?" Mommy got out the page she had torn from the catalog and asked "Do you have these extra larger baby pants in stock - the ones for big babies who are still in diapers? As you can see, my big baby is exactly that, aren't you Stevie?"
"Yes, Mommy" I whispered. "Yes what" my mom asked; "tell the nice lady what you are wearing!" "Yes, I am wearing diapers," I whispered. "Louder, baby, so the lady can hear you," mommy said sternly. "Yes, I am wearing diapers," I said in a louder voice.
"That's right," mommy said, "and who wears diapers?" I fidgeted and finally said "Babies wear diapers, mommy." She patted me on the head and said to the sales lady, I'd like to see the extra large baby pants in both pull-on for my big baby to wear at night - he'll be wearing three diapers at night - and snap-on for when he is double diapered during the day."
"Let me see what we have in the storeroom," the saleslady said. "He is kind of big to be in diapers," she added with a chuckle. When she returned she had several pairs each of snap-on and pull on baby pants. "Here we are," she said smiling at my mom; "would you like to try them on him?"
"Of course!" mom exclaimed and lay me down on the counter like it was the changing table at home. She unsnapped the baby pants that Mrs. Thompson had barely gotten over my diapers and then lifted me by the ankles just as she did when diapering my baby brother and slid the baby pants out from under me. With equal ease she slid the larger baby pants under my bottom and lowered me onto them.
"Snap, snap, snap," she laughed as she snapped them up one side. "Come on, Stevie," she laughed; "you remember the 'snap snap' game". Mom had always liked for me to call out "snap" each time she closed a snap on my baby pants. "Yes, mommy," I said softly. "OK, then, she said, "here we go." And I had to join her saying "Snap, snap, snap", as she fastened the baby pants on the other side then stood me up on the counter and tucked the baby pants in around the edges of my diapers. "Perfect fit with room to grow!" she said; "now lets try the pull-ons.
Unfortunately for me, I wet my diapers before she could lay me down and take off the snap-on baby pants. "Uh oh - looks like Stevie has been a little baby again and wet his diapers," she said when she took off my baby pants. "We might as well try the pull-ons before we change him." With that she slid the pull-on baby pants over my feet and pulled them up to my knees. Then she stood me up and pulled the new baby pants up over my wet diapers.
"They fit just fine," mommy told the sales lady; "I'll take three pair of each. We can just leave the pull-ons on Stevie until we can change his diapers." With that she lifted me off the counter and said, "Now lets find my big baby some nice new diapers to wear!" She led me over to where packages of diapers were stacked and, after studying the choices said "Those prefold day nd night diapers are just the thing for you, Stevie; but I think they may be a little small; I'm going to get you some flat diapers, too; I can fold those to fit you perfectly!"
Back at the sales counter, my mom asked "Do you mind if I change his diapers right here while you ring up our purchases?" The sales lady hesitated then said "The ladies lounge for employees is just around the corner - why don't you change his diapers in there; there may be several people in there on their breaks. Oh, and you might want to use this changing pad that was returned earlier today."
"That will be fine," mommy said and led me off to the ladies lounge. "Won't they be surprised to see what a big baby you are, Stevie." The sales lady was right; about a half dozen women were drinking coffee and chatting in the lounge. As my mom lay down the changing pad she said to the ladies, "Stevie has wet his diapers: I hope you don't mind if I change them here." Several of the ladies spoke at once and said, "That's fine," or "Go right ahead."
She opened the package of flat diapers and folded two of them together and then opened the day and night diapers and added two of them to the stack. "Four diapers?" asked one of the ladies watching me get my diapers change. "Just for now," said my mom, "he usually gets by with three diapers at night and two during the day". Then she lay me down on the changing pad and slid my new baby pants off and unpinned my soggy diapers. When she had dried me off and powdered me, she lifted my legs by the ankles and slid the stack of dry diapers under me.
"First we put the baby on the diapers" she said, repeating the expression she had used when diapering me earlier that morning; "then we put the diapers on the baby!" she said as she pinned them snugly around me. As mommy finished diapering me another of the ladies watching asked, "Isn't he a little too old to be in diapers?"
Mommy laughed and said, "That's for sure, this big baby is four and two months; I think his baby brother will be out of diapers before he is!" "My, my", was all the other lady could think of to say, as mommy snapped on a new pair of baby pants over my diapers. She just shook her head when mommy and me both exclaimed "snap, snap, snap" as she put on my baby pants
Back at the sales counter, the lady who waited on us said, "Here you go ma'am," and handed my mom two shopping bags with the four packages of new diapers in one and my five new pairs of baby pants in the other. Mom paid for our purchases and took me by the hands for the walk back to the car.
Chapter 3
Authors note: This is a true story to the best of my ability to recall events from my early childhood. The first two chapters told of the day my mother put me back in diapers. What follows is my recollection of events that took place during the time I remained in diapers - until it was time for me to start school. My memories of the things my mom did are clear, but I don't recall with any certainty when they took place or how old I was at the time. We lived in a warm climate, so mom left me in just diapers and baby pants most of the time. It didn't take the neighbors long to get accustomed to the idea that I still wore diapers. Even my friends eventually got tired of making jokes about it. But mom never gave up on teasing me for remaining in diapers as long as I did. One of her favorite things was to diaper me in front of guests. It happened often, but I recall one evening in particular and that is where my story resumes.
"It's diaper time, Stevie," my mother called to me from the living room where she and my father were playing cards with several of their friends. "Go upstairs and get mommy three of your diapers and don't forget your baby pants and diaper pins!" I knew what was coming; mom loved to change my diapers with other people watching and tell them what a big baby I was.
I went up to the nursery and got the diapers, pins and baby pants. My little brother was out of diapers by now, but my mom kept the nursery as it was. She often showed the room to her friends and reminded them that although my brother was wearing big boy clothes, I was still in diapers. Sometimes when she was diapering me in front of her friends, she changed my diapers on the nursery changing table.
I slowly took the diapers, pins and baby pants down to living room. Mommy folded the diapers together and lay them on the floor with the diaper pins and baby pants. "Come here, Stevie; let mommy see if you've wet your diapers." If I was wearing pants she pulled them part way down, otherwise she just unsnapped one side of my baby pants. Of course, my diapers were almost always wet. When she found me in soggy diapers. Mom would say, "Stevie, tell everyone what you have done." Then I had to tell her friends "I wet my diapers."
"That's right," mommy said; "he wet his diapers like a little baby! It's a good thing we have three diapers for my big baby to wear tonight!" Then she lay me down on the floor, unsnapped my baby pants and unpinned my diapers. "Just look how wet you are!" mommy would exclaim, then say to her friends, "That's why I have to double diaper Stevie all day and put him in triple diapers at night!".
"Up we go, she would say, lifting me by the ankles like an infant then sliding the wet diapers out from under me. She would dry me, the lift me by the ankles again and slide the stack of dry diapers under me. I had quickly learned what would happen next. "First we put the baby on the diapers," she would say as she lowered me onto the thick stack of soft white diapers. Then as she pulled my diapers snug and pinned them on me she added, "Then we put the diapers on the baby!"
Once she had my diapers on, she slid my pull-on baby pants over my ankles and up to my knees. "Baby wear pull-ons at night, because he is a heavy wetter", mommy would explain - as if most of her friends didn't already know!
"OK, Stevie, put these soggy diapers in your diaper pail and get your jimmies on", she instructed me, "then come down and say good night." I waddled from the room in my thick night time diapers and did as I was told.
.What I didn't realize until I was somewhat older was that mom had found some stick-on lettering at a craft store and added descriptive comments across the front and back of my baby pants. It wasn't until my older sister, who could read, told me that I learned that one pair of baby pants read "Still in Diapers". Others read "Mommy's Diaperboy" and "I wet my diapers" and "Big Baby Stevie". Whenever I turned my back to mommy's friends they could read one of her inscriptions on my baby pants! Those inscriptions were among the first things I earned to read and I am pretty sure that "diaper" was the first word I recognized!
On other occasions, when her friends stopped by during the day, I would be put in the playpen my little brother no longer used, or mom would have her friend change my diapers and put me down for a nap in the crib she kept in the nursery. I no longer fir in the high chair, but up to the time I started school, if there was someone else around as often as not she fed me baby food or a baby bottle.
On one occasion mommy took me to the baby photographer at the mall. As I recall, he didn't work from a studio, but was set up out in a high traffic area on one of the walkways where passersby could see him working - and the babies he was photographing. Naturally, mom wanted to pose me in just my diapers and baby pants. (Years later I found a print of me sitting there in bulging diapers and snap-on baby pants that read "Mommy's Diaperboy".) "He may be big, but he's still just a baby," mommy told the photographer. "I want pictures in his baby pants, then some in nothing but his diapers.
Several times people passing by stopped to watch. They would politely ask if wasn't a little big to be in diapers or just stare. Mommy took it all in stride often agreeing and telling strangers, "Oh, yes, h is a big baby; in fact his little brother is out of diapers, but I still have one baby in the house!".
On another occasion, mommy was changing my diapers at the park and realized she only had one dry diaper so she asked a neighbor who had just changed her baby boy if she could borrow a diaper from her. The neighbor said, "Oh dear - all I have is the one I just took off Bradley." Mom said, "Well he didn't seem very wet; Stevie can finish soaking Bradley's diaper!" The neighbor was surprised but agreed and mommy put the baby's damp diaper inside my diaper as a soaker. "One diaper just isn't enough for Stevie," mommy explained; "even a damp second diaper is better than none."
Chapter 4
Authors note: This is a true story to the best of my ability to recall events from my early childhood. The first three chapters told of the day my mother put me back in diapers and the events that followed. Recently my older sister, Roberta better known as Robbie, recalled some things that I had forgotten (or perhaps repressed). The following account is her recollections told from my perspective.
My big sister, Robbie, and her two best friends were at the age where young girls become interested in babysitting. Mom had agreed to help out by teaching them some of the basics – and although I was five at the time, I was still in diapers so she used me as her demonstration baby.
"OK, girls," she said, "the most fundamental skill you need to master is diapering – and I have just the baby to help you learn. Stevie come with me and your sister and her friends and lets get you into some dry diapers." She took me by the hand and led me into the nursery, with my sister and her friends right behind us. Although my younger brother was out of diapers by now she kept the nursery as it was and liked to diaper me on the changing table.
The weather was warm so all I was wearing was my double diapers and snap-on baby pants. Mom picked me up and laid me on the changing table. "Stevie is bigger than the babies you will be sitting, but we diaper him the same way you will diaper smaller babies," she said as she unsnapped my baby pants and unpinned my diapers. "Such a soggy baby," she chuckled as my sister and her friends giggled.
"Lift the baby by his ankles like this," she said, grasping my ankles and raising them until my bottom lifted enough for her to slide my sodden diapers and baby pants out from under me. "Set the diapers and baby pants aside for now, you will want to rinse the diapers before you put them in the diaper pail," Mom instructed.
"Next we get the baby clean and dry," she continued, wiping me carefully with the corner of a dry diaper. "Now, the babies you sit will probably only need to wear one diaper at a time, so here is what you do," Mom went on. She got out a diaper from the wicker binunder the changing table and showed the girls how to fold it to fit. "Of course, you will fold your babies' diapers smaller than this one."
Next she raised my bottom up again and slid the diaper under me, then lowered me onto my diaper. "It's a good idea to keep the diaper pins stuck in a bar of soap, like this," Mom said pointing out the bar of ivory soap in a dish on the dresser next to the changing table; "they slide more easily through the diaper fabric and make pinning the diapers on much easier."
Once she had shown them how to pin my diaper securely and with the head of the pin toward the back. She said "OK, Robbie," now you change your brother's diaper." And after she had diapered me, Mom let each of her friends change my diaper, then said, "Now, some babies need an extra diaper at night, and Stevie wears an extra diaper all day. Since I may decide to ask you to babysit this little one, you will need to learn to double and triple diaper him because our Stevie is a heavy wetter – aren't you Stevie?"
When I didn't reply she asked again, sternly, "Aren't you, Stevie?" I finally whispered "Yes, Mommy."
"Yes, what, baby? And speak up!" Mom instructed.
"Yes, baby is a heavy wetter," I said.
"Much better!" Mom laughed. "Now we will practice double diapering with pull-on baby pants." Mom proceeded to show the girls how to fold double diapers together and they took turns pinning the diapers on me and pulling on my baby pants with the inscription "Still in Diapers" on the back and "Stevie wets his DIAPERS" on the front.
"Now", Mom said after they had all put me in two diapers, "if you are going to babysit Stevie at night, you need to know how to triple diaper him – that's right, Stevie has to wear three diapers at night!" And once again she showed them how to fold three cloth diapers together in a thick soft stack, then lifted me by the ankles and slid them under me and pinned them on. And, of course, my sister and each of her friends took turns folding three diapers together and pinning them on me.
Once the lesson in diapering was complete, Mom took me – still in triple diapers – and Robbie and her friends down to the kitchen to demonstrate bottle feeding and burping. Each of the girls prepared a bottle of baby formula, fed it to me, and burped me like an infant after I had drained the bottle. Of course, by the time the last girl had fed and burped me I had soaked my diapers.
"OK," Mom said, "this time you are on your own to change Stevie's diapers. You need to decide how many diapers he will wear and whether to put him in pull-on or snap-on baby pants – or just leave him in his diapers. Baby is less likely to get diaper rash without the baby pants, but needs baby pants to keep other clothing dry."
The girls decided to triple diaper me and leave the baby pants off since it was warm and I didn't really need any other clothing. Under Mom's watchful eye they put me on the changing tale and removed my wet diapers, cleaned and dried me, then put me into three diapers. "Very good, girls!" Mom exclaimed, "you have learned your lessons well! For your first paying job, you may take Stevie to the park to play while I get some things done here."
She handed Robbie my diaper bag and said, "Everything baby Stevie will need is right in here – have fun!"
Robbie took me by one hand, her friend Diane took me by the other, the third girl, Melissa, carried my diaper bag and we headed out the door and down the street. The girls took every opportunity to show me off to the neighbors as an example of their abilities as babysitters.
Mrs. Corchran around the corner said, "My, my; how many diapers did you put on the poor boy?" My sister answered, "Mom says Stevie is a heavy wetter so we put three diapers on him." Melissa added, "we know how to do double diapers and single diapers, too." And Diane noted, "We can also make bottles and feed and burp him!" Mrs. Corchran just chuckled and observed "he will certainly be a very heavy wetter once he gets all those diapers wet!"
Further down the street, Mrs. Betts asked, "Isn't he too old to be in diapers?" My sister spoke up and said, "Our little brother is already out of diapers, but Stevie still wets his, so Mom says he's the family baby now!" I just blushed.
As we walked along to the park several blocks from home neighbors and strangers mostly either just stared at me in my triple diapers and three babysitters. Some smirked or laughed and pointed at the sight of such a big baby who was still in diapers. My sister and her friends ignored them and chattered away about what they would do when we got to the park.
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When we last left "Space Camp" megastar Joaquin Phoenix, he had grown a Grizzly Man beard, sworn to quit acting and become a hip hop star, and then participated in this now legendary interview with David Letterman in which Letterman eviscerated him for an astonishing 10 minutes. Phoenix's erratic behavior on that program was the culmination of what many considered either a psychotic breakdown (He asked a red carpet interviewer if he had frogs in his hair), or an enormous put-on. A grand-scale, Andy Kaufman style joke that doubled as a kind of performance art.
Well, you're about to get your answer, because Casey Affleck's "mockumentary" about Phoenix has been screened for buyers and could be coming soon for an inevitable one-week run at the smallest arthouse theater in your town. From Mike Fleming at Deadline:
Casey Affleck has completed that much-talked about and long-awaited mockumentary he directed about his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix's eccentric metamorphosis from actor to hip-hop musician (or so we've been led to believe). I'm told that the film made its debut in a private lunchtime screening at WME headquarters last week for buyers -- including Harvey Weinstein -- who were sworn to secrecy. WME is selling the film, and it may only take a couple of days to reach a deal. I hear the agency and the distributors intend to keep the mock's content under wraps for as long as they can for maximum shock value…
Presumably, the film answers Hollywood's bewilderment about whether Joaquin was serious about quitting acting -- or whether he was just, well, acting.
I'll go ahead and make this prediction right now. This movie will show that Phoenix was clearly goofing with Letterman and everyone else, but it will ALSO show that Phoenix is a complete nutjob anyway. After all, there's no need for the two things to be mutually exclusive. To stage a "prank" this drawn out (and frankly, this unfunny), you probably aren't of sound mind.
Of course, this serves to make the film all the more interesting. I'm sure it'll spawn the usual questions of WHAT IS THE LINE BETWEEN REALITY AND ART? and all that other nonsense from annoying people. I just wanna see it to watch a man implode before my eyes and see him lamely try and pass it off as a joke. I look forward to Joaquin vanishing next year and then re-emerging as a Guyanese prince sixteen years from now. He's fun like that.


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Welcome to Asshole Coach Digest, where we regale you Deadspin folk with stories of the meanest, cruelest, most batshit insane coaches you ever had. Email me your asshole coach story here.
Sometimes, at the end of practice, we would all gather around one of the soccer goals for a game of "Asses Up". Everyone would take a penalty kick against the goalie. If you didn't score, you got into another line with all the other losers who also missed. After everyone had taken their PK, it was time to punish those who had missed. One by one, each of the guys who missed stood in the middle of the goal and bent over.....with his pants around his ankles. The guys who made their PK got to take another kick - this time to try and drill the bare ass standing between the goal posts. I remember there being at least 3-4 guys on the team that ALWAYS made their initial PK. These guys kicked the piss out of the ball with deadly accuracy. Everyone's biggest fear was having to bend over while one of these guys kicked.
Most of the time, the kickers missed the bare asses before them. Probably because they were trying too hard to aim their kick just perfectly. Sometimes, however, there would be a loud "thwack" followed by a bloodcurdling scream. One guy even had the word Brine engraved into his ass cheek after being struck. Toward the end of the season (October and November) the weather turned cold and the ball got harder. You can imagine the rest.
Our coach would stand and watch with an amused smirk on his face. Once I thought I saw a large bulge in his pants. He claimed it was loose change.
What's the matter? CAN'T TAKE MIXED SIGNALS, PUSSY?!
The bases were loaded with 2 outs and one of our better hitters ("DT") was coming up representing the go-ahead run. Just before he went on deck, DT was rummaging around in his equipment bag (there had been 2 outs for several batters before him). He lined out to end the game.
The bus ride home was solemn. When we pulled up at school but before we got off, Coach gave us a guilt-trip-laden speech about how we had let ourselves down, and how he couldn't figure out what he had done wrong that we couldn't understand that this had been a must-win game. Everyone was nervous about whether coach would go ballistic.
Finally, coach somewhat calmly says, "Get the fuck off the bus" to the team. As DT gets up and is one of the first to try to exit, Coach stands up in his face (knocking DT's cap off his head) and says [paraphrased] "Where the fuck do you think you're going?!"
DT : "I'm getting off the bus like you said."
Coach: "That's right, just get off the bus you pussy. You don't give a shit anyway."
DT: "What are you talking about?"
Coach: "Yeah, like I didn't see you looking for your keys in your bag when we had 2 outs. You gave up, didn't you?! You were already thinking about driving the fuck home, that's why you couldn't come through when we needed you!! Just get the fuck off because you don't give a shit anyway!!!"
DT: "What? I'd tell you what I was doing but you probably won't believe me."
They went back and forth for a few minutes, with coach getting more ridiculously worked up, and DT remaining fairly calm. Finally, Coach says: "Then what the fuck were you doing?!?! You can't tell me because you know you fucking quit on us, didn't you?!?! Stop acting like a fucking baby and admit that you're a quitter!!!"
DT: [calmly] "I was looking for my lucky charm, a rabbit's foot on my keychain. I was nervous so I wanted to hold it before I went on deck" [shows coach keychain with rabbit's foot].
Coach: "Just get the fuck off."
I fucking hated baseball.
I went to the world's gayest prep school and even I never had a snail race.
It was a shell practice (helmets and shoulder pads with mesh shorts), and a fast spreading gambling enterprise were "snail races" where in a huddle or in the locker room, contestants would push the tip of their flaccid (circumcised) penis into the shaft, pinch it shut, then lift the balls up and over. The race would begin by letting go of the balls, to see how fast the head could eke its way out of the shaft.
This would often go on out in the open during practice, usually just facing towards an empty sideline or in a huddle, and for money. Anyway, coach pocket Rambo stumbles upon one of these races, and blasts the bejeezus out of this poor sophomore ginger bastard with his foot. Maybe it was the sight of fire-bush that set him off, but pocket Rambo ruptured this poor asshole's testicle, sending him into a seizure from shock, then walked away.
Meanwhile, this poor ginger was on his back, shaking and seizing, holding out his dick, with the eyes rolling back of the his head. In spite of the unspeakable agony this guy was in, as one of his fellow 'contestants' ran to get the trainer (but not before declaring victory, and thereby his $40), we all couldn't help but notice that laying on his back with his eyes glazed over, holding his member and shaking, it appeared as though he was furiously masturbating in broad daylight. It's a good thing he was in shock and probably couldn't hear us, because we were on the brink of vomiting we were laughing at this freckled, masturbating bastard so hard. I remember seeing him in the halls the next few weeks with a cane and a soft cast. He was too embarrassed to admit to the rest of the school what happened, so he asked the trainer for a soft cast/ brace thing to explain away his cane. He was already a ginger, he didn't want girls to know he was down to one testie too. Nothing ever happened to coach, we went winless in our senior year including a home shutout 48-0 on Thanksgiving. In spite of pretty much encouraging substance abuse to make you bigger faster stronger, buying booze for the captains, facilitating drills that would make Kevin Everett cringe, and giving a poor Scalabrine-looking fifteen year old the Lance Armstrong treatment, he's still gainfully employed, kicking dirt in kids faces, and putting condoms on bananas.
Mexican coaches: EXTRA SPICY!
I grew up in Mexico.
This was a pretty well-liked and respected coach. But like everyone else, every once in a while he liked to go crazy. We were at soccer practice and then coach decides we weren't running fast enough. So he walks over to his car, rummages around for a bit, and brings back a bicycle chain.
He gives the chain to the fastest guy on the team — let's call him Speedy Gonzalez — who is known as a bit of a psycho. He turns to the rest of us and goes, "Here's the drill. [Speedy] is going to chase you with the chain. If he catches you, he will hit you with it. If you leave the perimeter of the field and go out of bounds, we will hold you at the end of practice and hit you twice for every time you leave the field. Speedy, if I see you taking it easy on anyone, it's suicides for you, then someone else gets the chain, when you're good and tired. Understood? Good. Now run."
Everyone just stares at him, except for Speedy, who just stares at the chain in his hand.
"Didn't you hear me?" Coach yells. "I said, RUN." And he blows his whistle. Speedy cracks the chain once and that was all it took. You've never seen kids run faster in their life.
We all got hit with the chain a few times. The most fascinating part of all of it? None of us thought this was anything especially out of the ordinary, until a few days ago, when we were reminiscing and realized what a fucked up, brutal drill the coach came up with. Chasing people with a bicycle chain? Good Lord.
I was once leafing through my wife's old high school yearbook from the late 80s and noticed that her cheerleading coach was a very old, bald guy in a three-piece-suit. I asked my wife about this and she informed me that he had a "panty inspection" before every game that involved the cheerleaders lining up and bending over in front of him so he could make sure they were wearing regulation uniform panties. You have to kind of admire the guy.
Retards can't wrestle? Sounds like someone is unfamiliar with retard strength.
Back in high school, on during the second week of practice we had a new kid join the team. We all recognized this kid as a special ed kid from the 3rd floor of the school. This kid didn't wear a helmet or anything, but he still needed to be put up with all the other retards.
Apparently someone did not notify our coach of this minor detail and upon seeing him doing jumping jacks, or any other coordinated activity, our coach would constantly berate him with F-bombs and various uses of the word retard. No one wanted to correct the coach or inform him of this kid's disability.
During a Friday practice, our coach reminded us that we had a scrimmage on Saturday morning and to be in the parking lot at 7. The retarded kid did not show up. He comes to practice the next day and asks the coach what happened to the scrimmage, the coach informed him (again, various terms of retard that may or may not have began with fuck) that he missed the bus. Turns out, the new kid was at school at 7, 7pm.
When coach found this out he laughed in the kids face and continued to call him retarded and curse him out til he cried and left, never to return again. Finally, someone told coach about his condition and he said, "retards cant wrestle anyways" This coming from the same guy who would try (and often succeed) to give everyone a bloody nose when he would demonstrate the proper way to cross-face.


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Commencement to feature expert and newcomer in the field of community mental health
May 26, 2010
The Graduate School of Education and Counseling will hold its 2010 commencement ceremony on June 6. Anderson J. Franklin, professor of psychology and education at Boston College, will deliver the commencement address and Colin McCrudden '10, a member of the counseling psychology program, will serve as the student speaker.
Franklin, a professor in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, has published widely on psychological well-being, resilience and health of African Americans, and the impact of stereotypes and marginalization of the African American community. His current work has an emphasis on transforming communities and public education systems through a focus on after-school programs.
Franklin will offer a workshop in Portland that explores ways of bringing schools, community partners, and families together to develop more effective collaboration between in-school and out-of-school activities. The workshop is free and open to the public.
In this Q&A, McCrudden talks about the value of counseling at a time when so many challenges face our local and global communities.
How would you describe your chosen field, community counseling, to someone unfamiliar with this work?
Community counseling is a helping profession that focuses on supporting individuals and families through life's many challenges and changes. A community counselor can help people navigate their emotional, psychological, interpersonal, social, and professional struggles from a holistic perspective by helping the individual draw on their strengths and personal resources to respond and adapt to life in positive ways.
What inspired you to pursue community counseling?
I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005 and the experience of adapting to life's challenges revealed skills and resources within me that I believe can be of service to others in their own times of challenge and struggle.
Do you think community counseling translates across cultures and countries?
I believe that when considering the challenges faced by peoples across the globe, a helping profession such as community counseling is in great need. Throughout history, communities and cultures have had "counselors" in many forms, from clergy, to health care providers, to educators, etc. Going forward training programs, such as the Lewis and Clark Graduate School, will benefit from the understanding that the core service being provided is elemental to the human experience.
Do you think there is anything unique about your educational experience at Lewis & Clark that has better prepared you for this work?
I believe L&C's attention to cultural diversity and social justice will be of great benefit to my future in this field as these issues are essential elements that will inform my worldview and goals as a professional in a helping field.
What do you hope to convey to your fellow graduates with your remarks at commencement?
The special honor that is ours as professionals in a field where people invite us into their personal experience, sharing both the good and bad, and to appreciate the special opportunity to bear witness to and help facilitate life-affirming change in the experience of others.
What are your hopes or plans after graduation?
I hope to find work that will allow me to continue working with military veterans and their families, as I served as a counseling intern at the Portland VA Medical Center, and to continue to grow as a counselor through opportunities I have yet to imagine.


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Google partnered with a Delaware brewery to create a dark beer that would suit its thousands of employees, using 100 ingredients from around the world.
After querying its various offices for ideas, Google created its new beer, now called Urkontinent, according to PCWorld.
The final recipe for the Belgian Dubbel-style beer includes things like wattleseed from Australia, amaranth from South America, green roobios tea from Africa, Myrica Gale from Europe and even Google honey, which comes from Mountain View, Calif. where the company keeps bees at its headquarters.
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Google told PCWorld that while it's a "Googler-driven project" that Google would not receive any proceeds on the sale of the beer and aren't getting involved in the beer business. However, a 13-minute video on YouTube shows that both Google and Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales seems to indicate the two have a symbiotic relationship -- it's mainly a joint marketing campaign for the brewery and Google's suite of products.
Dogfish now has the beer on tap at its Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats pub in Rehoboth Beach, Del., but will be packaging the beer for sale later this year. The most interesting thing about the beer? That's it's almost double the usual alcohol content at 8.1 percent, the NY Daily News reported.
Those Googlers really like a happy hour.


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Abstract: In this research note the author describes a methodology for doing literature reviews. The first part of the note describes a method for designing and performing the study each consisting of five steps. Following this framework a typology of strategies is proposed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6295
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Abstract: Keywords Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Design, Literature study Abstract Argues stability is a design objective for supply chain design alongside cost, lead time and responsiveness. Performs an extensive literature study on supply chain design, identifies methods, theories and objectives in the existing literature. Describes the concept external specificity and how it's used to design supply chains. Using the concept upstream, archetypes of risk minimal and maximal design are identified. Downstream the concept describes two viable scenarios, one minimizing the impact, the other minimizing the probability of (intended) departure of a supply chain partner. Finally, principles for supply chain design are described and managerial outlined. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6298
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Abstract: Keywords Supply Chain Management, Risk Management, Supply Chain Risk Management Abstract To comply with Supply Chain Management dogma companies have cut their inventories to a minimum, lead times have been shortened, new suppliers have been chosen and the customer portfolio has been reduced. All of these activities impose a great deal of risk on the firms, jeopardizing the survival of entire supply chains. In this article the author intends to investigate and document the use and meaning of Risk and Uncertainty within journals publishing material on Supply Chain Management and Logistics. Subsequently suggestions for further research are proposed – the integration of Risk Management into the discipline of Supply Chain Design. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6296
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Workers told, ditch local languages for Engl
- More companies mandating English as their corporate language, says Harvard Business School professor
- Japanese company Rakuten is among those that have gone "English only"
- Expert says employees can experience performance anxiety while making transition to English
According to Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, companies that don't adopt English as a standard for their entire organization will, at some point, "experience some form of bottleneck."
"It depends on what the company does, but if you'll have members in different countries needing to collaborate -- whether it's to integrate technology platforms or cater to customers worldwide -- it will become more important that even middle managers and employees with international assignments will need a common language in order to interface with others."
Airbus, Daimler-Chrysler, Nokia, Renault, Samsung and Microsoft Beijing have all mandated English as their corporate language, writes Neeley in the May 2012 edition of Harvard Business Review -- and she says more than 70 Danish companies have now migrated to English.
In 2010, Japanese internet services company Rakuten made headlines when it announced it would become an English-only organization, with all communication, verbal and email, in English.
If you want to become successful in other countries, you need to internationalize the headquarters.
Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO Rakuten
Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO Rakuten
"English is the only global language," CEO Hiroshi Mikitani told CNN at the time. "We're doing a global business. I think this is the only way a Japanese service organization can become a global organization."
"If you want to become successful in other countries, you need to internationalize the headquarters," he added.
To help make the transition, Japanese language signage was removed from cafeterias and elevators. Mikitani even conducts performance reviews with his Japanese executives in English, according to Neeley.
If this sounds bewildering for employees, it can be. Two years into an English-only implementation at one company Neeley studied, 70% of employees reported feeling frustrated with the policy. That's why she says businesses must plan carefully before implementing an English-only policy.
"In the absence of language strategies, you see so many people getting hurt and diminished," Neeley says. "When a company announces a language change without any thought or preparation for employees, many people lose the promotional path that they've spent their whole lives developing."
Shifting a company's entire operations into a new language isn't easy. But Neeley, who has studied corporate language strategy for a decade, has some suggestions.
• Companies need a clear, well-aligned strategy and "it needs to be supported and implemented at all levels of the organization, from the CEO down to the supervisor/manager of every employee who is subject to having to convert to a new language," she says.
• Off-the-rack tuition won't cut it. "English lessons alone are not enough," Neeley says. "If you have an aggressive environment where people work an extraordinary amount of hours and they're challenged with goals, language vendors need to help make sure you're capable of learning successfully while being successful at your job."
The best results come when instruction is customized to employees' roles, with vocabulary geared specifically towards the types of emails they write, for instance.
• Go for broke. While some companies choose to become bilingual before adopting English wholesale, Neeley says this is "incredibly expensive and unsustainable."
Native speakers need to learn how to dial themselves down and how to accommodate others.
Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School
Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School
• Those with English as a first language need to make adjustments too. "Native speakers need to learn how to dial themselves down and how to accommodate others," Neeley says.
• Managers should adopt a zero-tolerance policy to backsliding, to make it clear that the change to English is not only possible but permanent.
Depending on the company's size, resources and the aggressiveness of its pursuit of English, Neeley estimates implementation is "a four to 10-year odyssey", with ongoing maintenance required thereafter. But she says the journey is worth it, pointing out that a company with English proficiency across the board has greater operational agility and "can serve all of their market seamlessly by using all of their human capital worldwide to achieve any end."
Immediately after acquiring a Canadian company, Rakuten was able to deploy seven of its top engineers to Toronto, to begin integration processes, according to Neeley.
"Two years ago they could have never done that," she says. "That shows the extent to which expertise and knowledge flows through the company in ways it wouldn't otherwise."
For individuals too, there are benefits. Depending on their fluency and how far their career has advanced, an employee may experience performance anxiety and job insecurity when asked to work in a new language. But, Neeley says, as fluency increases, the emotional strain diminishes and bilingualism becomes something enjoyable. Perhaps even profitable.
"You also see them starting to shoot up in their careers," Neeley observes. "They begin to take on roles that require more and more communication in the English language."


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Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen criticized the NFL for having a double standard during a Friday appearance on "NFL AM," saying the rulebook doesn't protect defensive players in the same way it does offensive players.
The subject become a hot topic after Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing was lost for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered on New York Jets guard Matt Slauson's blind cut block that quickly drew criticism from other NFL players.
Breer: Purple pride
Allen said he'd like to see the rules changed.
"In a league that talks about taking care of defenseless players and people in defenseless positions, that's a situation right there, there's nothing you can do to defend yourself," Allen said. "He can't get his hands down -- that's an outside end cut block. For me, there's no place (for) that. You take a guy's knee, he may never be the same player after that. If we're going to talk about player safety, there needs to be equality amongst all players
"My knee is just as valuable as Tom Brady's, in my eyes. There's some hits on the defensive side that could be illegal and probably save some defensive players."
Allen was asked if there's favoritism written into the rulebook.
"We can't grab them by the back of the jerseys anymore," Allen said. "The quarterback, you've got to hit below the neck and above the knees. You can't form tackle and slam them on the ground anymore. That's illegal.
Jeremiah: To protect and sack
In today's NFL, Daniel Jeremiah says there's one stat that really defines success (or lack thereof): sack differential. More ...
"I'm just stating the facts. I didn't make the rules."
Slauson was fined $10,000 for an illegal peel-back block, but he wasn't flagged on the play. Slauson is appealing the fine.
That particular block was ruled illegal upon league review, but that doesn't take away from Allen's point. Offensive players go after knees on a regular basis. Defenders just want it called both ways.


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Behind the Numbers: Considering Point Guard "Purity"Posted by KCarpenter on November 10th, 2011
Kellen Carpenter is an ACC microsite staffer and an RTC columnist. Each week, BTN will take an in-depth look at some interesting aspect of college basketball's statistical arcana.
The phrase "pure point guard" is loaded. It implies that there is a Platonic notion of point guard which all mortal players can only aspire to. We are just fools in a cave looking at a shadow on the wall, but that is all we have when the purest conception of the point guard is beyond our field of vision. I can only assume that this unknowable figure looks something like Bob Cousy. It also implies that outside of "pure point" play, there exists a realm of impure play where the division of basketball labor isn't as orthodox as it is inside Plato's basketball cave.
In a point guard, "purity" is code for being a pass-first lead guard. To the traditional school of thought, the roles on a basketball team are strictly regimented: The point guard passes, the shooting guard shoots, but not as much as either forward. The center, near-immobile but Mikan-like in his hunger for loose balls has a single task: rebound the basketball and get it to the point guard. Of course, this idea of the traditional division of labor in basketball hasn't really held since the days of Mikan himself. Modern basketball, by which I mean basketball since the mid-sixties, has embraced the hybridization of positions. Basketball has for years acknowledged the idea that team roles are mutable and that positions are flexible. While few have embraced the full-on positional revolution explicated by Bethlehem Shoals and the NBA-heads of the dearly-departed Free Darko, most of us have made peace with the idea that it's okay for point guards to score occasionally. Kemba Walker and Jimmer Fredette were the break-out stars of the past college basketball season and both undoubtedly play point guard in a thoroughly impure way. If those guys aren't pure then shouldn't we all hope to be dirty?
In all seriousness, the concept of the purity of the lead guard is a silly concept to dwell on. Still, like all sports cliches, the idea persists because it's a convenient way to sum up the play of pass-first point guards, who somehow pay homage to a golden era of basketball which is more than ancient history. Still the idea of the pass-first point guard is an intriguing one in this era of high-scoring combo guards. Like the crocodile, the pass-first guard is a relic of a by-gone epoch, a living fossil and a reminder of the dinosaurs who ruled the earth during that time. Is the crocodile a better predator than the tiger? This isn't a debate that I'm interested in. The pass-first point guard, by mere value of their odd, antiquarian style is a unique species worth studying.


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Saturday, 13 June 2009
The People
The people of the street possess a weird freedom
From the fading vestiges of the American Dream,
That straitjacket worn much as the suit of armor
Of the knight who, glimpsing his reflection, pitched
Headfirst into the moat and was not again seen,
Dragged under by the weight of his own protection
From what in the end he would never even know.
Self knowledge being the last property to come,
The first to go. Another cold night, body pain, slow
Progress between Vine and Safeway, paused at
The corner hailed by Dave the Irishman, now shorn
Of his beloved and badly abused canine companion
Jezebel, sequestered in the pound
For the nth time a month ago, ne'er to return
As Dave could not pay the fee this time round.
Dave is banned on Shattuck. Clustered up
With the tall haunted Tom Waits lookalike guy
And a Latin dude with a handheld video player,
Carrying a formidable knife. Dave proffered
A Foster's in a paper bag, the invisibilizing
Container which shields crime from police eyes.
The night deepened. Some drunken high school
Kids mocked us from the bus stop, falling over.
Unconcerned, Dave cartwheeled round the corner.
A couple of gangsters sidled past casting
Meaningful glances at the video player
And the Latin dude's hand moved to the pocket
With the knife. At the stoplight a well dressed
Couple stepping carefully around us, compressing
The distance between their four hundred
Dollar Chez Panisse dinner and their parked
Ride to as few tiny cautious steps as possible,
Not saying a word, stiff with body armament,
And then traffic flowed with the changing of the light.
Homeless man: photo by Colin Gregory Palmer, 2005
Affordable housing: photo by Chris Sansenbach, 2005
7 comments:
- Tom Raworth said...
...a life in brown paper....
- 14 June 2009 at 00:37
- Zephirine said...
It is a curious fact that many well-off people seem to think poverty is catching... they step aside from it as you would avoid someone copiously sneezing on the bus.
Tom, your 'Shattuck' poems sometimes remind me of Don McCullin's photographs of 1970s England:
- 14 June 2009 at 14:57
- TC/BTP said...
Don McCullin's Spitalfields Originals would fit right into the environment of this poem, scrunched in a defensive fetal curl on a pallet in a shop doorway, or, if marginally more fortunate, on a bit of tarp under a bush. Though Don's outsiders are generally older. Here on these hard streets one now moves among the rejected and ejected of all ages, all races. The Great Equalizer: simply being Left Out. For them, as Tom says, if life is to be found at all, it must be eked out drop by drop from within that neutralizing brown paper container.
- 14 June 2009 at 16:07
- Annie said...
Often people don't want to let any perceived relative misfortune get too close. Whether it touches off guilt, awkwardness, fear of being asked to give or do something about it, having something to lose putting one at an unfamiliar, fleeting disadvantage vs. those with nothing to lose, or just not wanting to find any kind of commonality that might induce the dreaded fate-tempting, taboo realization that it could happen to them, too. Better or safer to just keep it at the distance of "other."
- 14 June 2009 at 18:01
- Dale said...
Tom, thanks for this. The "fading vestiges" return as psychotic patterns among the still-not-entirely knocked out. I imagine the hunt will be on soon for scapegoats. Thanks for keeping your ear to the ground--and your voice insightful and brilliant as ever.
- 14 June 2009 at 23:03
- TC/BTP said...
Dale--Get you about the return. No need for Nimrod, the scapegoat is already vulnerable and exposed, dwelling, after a fashion, just beyond our social frontiers, much as Isaiah had it. "Surely he hath borne our Griefs and carried our Sorrows; yet did we esteem him stricken, smitten of GOD and afflicted." Though few of The People are in fact so well groomed as Holman Hunt's sad looking Best-of-Show
The Scapegoat
Zeph and Annie have the aversion thing right surely. As the population numbers of the "other" (lower) worlds swell visibly and daily, the tension's palpable; a strange caste-distancing process is bred of the evident anxiety of imaginal reversal--fear lest "they" become "us," and thus vice versa. I'll Be Your Mirror. The world pictured in The People is one into which it proves all too easy to stumble and fall, and who will be able to tell us and them apart, when it comes Judgment Day.
But if not now, when. And after that, what...
There are certain songs that inveigle their way into the ancient cranium when nothing much else is there (this is not uncommon) which always remind me to try to remember to forget. E.g. this Lowell George/Martin Kibbee Little Feat classic, covered by some other old soldiers here, it's becoming common knowledge it's so very
Easy to Slip
- 15 June 2009 at 00:51
- Elmo St. Rose said...
Dear Tom,
In our land autonomy trumps
beneficence. Many of the homeless
are mentally ill. Locally there are
a few residential group homes for
people like these who are willing
to go or are court ordered. They
are free to wander though. The
advocacy groups for the mentally ill
insist on that. So if one of them walks
into oncoming traffic on the
interstate perhaps it's freedom
to blame. Now if the poets introduced youg doctors to the ecstacy
of beauty and truth in a more
common fashion they might be better
at healing these unfortunates.
It's not exactly there but fortune
go you and I but there is always
some truth in that in that anyone
can become or be made to become
Elmo St. Rose
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BeEF module for Geolocation Tracking (via Wireless Access Points)
I have ported my code over to BeEF #beefproject http://beefproject.com/ My module is not in the repository yet.
1. Meanwhile, you can download the file attached and copy and extract the files to /pentest/web/beef/modules/host/ . After that, you should be able to access the module in BeEF as shown in the below screenshot.
2. The user will receive the below popup in their web browser. You can change the name of the Java applet to something more discrete as compared to what I have named.
Within seconds, you should be able to get the geolocation of the remote user.
You can download the BeEF module via one of the below links if you do not want to wait for it to be committed to the repository.
I will be doing a write up about the things I learn about writing BeEF module with Java applet integration in the next couple of days.
I hope it can help other people who are just getting started with BeEF development.
Let me know if you would have any suggestions. Thanks !
Geolocation via Wireless Access Points
I was looking online for scripts on scripts on determining geolocation via BSSID. Many of the scripts were based on skyhook api which were broken due to changes in the api. The "Share Location" function by Google seems like an excellent alternative and it is very accurate unless you live in the middle of the desert.
Using Tamper This (Firefox Addon), I am able to find out the information that is passed to Google. Yes, I was too lazy to look up Google's geolocation APIs
It seems that the browser is passing information about neighboring wireless access points to Google.
The information that are passed to Google include BSSID, SSID and RSSI (Received Signal Strength Index) of the access points.
Using these information, Google is able to pinpoint your location accurately.
Sometimes it is useful to find out the an accurate location of a remote target especially when geolocation identification using IP address is vague.
We can hide and run this inside in a Java applet.. No one clicks RUN on a Java applet right?
Currently, the applet outputs the below information to the Java console. It can be modified to send the information to a remote location instead.
What the applet does is that it runs the below system commands to gather information about the access points and pass it to Google so that we can determine your Geolocation accurately.
Below are the system commands that are called by the Java applet to gather the information required.
1. Windows
netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid
2. Mac
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -s
The applet works on a Mac / Windows OS for now.
The below is the actual URL which retrieves the longitude and latitude based on the access point information
The below query string is passed to Google to retrieve the Street Address using the GPS longitude and latitude.
This attack can be made more persistent in future by modifying the Applet to install an agent remotely on the target and then reporting back to the control centre with the updated gps location even after the user had closed the browser.
If you are starting to get paranoid over Wifi, please use the good old LAN cable and disable your wireless card.
But by doing so, you probably will realize that you aren't able to access 2/3 of the internet after doing so.
I am looking into submitting this to #beefproject in the near future once I fixed some bugs in my #beef module. I suck at #beef.
You can download the files via this link http://flashmirrors.com/files/19vzwqlffpij9rf/getGPSLocation.zip
If you are just interested in the source file, you can get it from here http://pastebin.com/zKENyhXv
[Updated: A windows executable version of the program has been uploaded to http://flashmirrors.com/files/0t0rjparbzcaxfc/getGPSLocationWin.zip]


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I just did a search on this blog and I found that I've mentioned the name Practice Fusion in 88 different posts over the years. Needless to say, Practice Fusion has been one of the most interesting EHR vendor stories out there. I've seen it first hand since they started advertising on EMR and HIPAA very early on in their life. I was even on stage talking about meaningful use at the first Practice Fusion user conference. We didn't know very much about meaningful use at the time, but we put on a good show and shared what we knew at the time.
In the early days, many EHR vendors were really scared by Practice Fusion. Offering a Free EHR is a drastic thing to do and absolutely shook up the EHR industry. Much like Dell did in the PC market (and probably some others), Practice Fusion's low price forced most other EHR vendors to lower their prices in order to compete. I saw the drop in price first hand as EHR after EHR dropped their price. At the same time as these price drops, EHR vendors were shifting from these massive front loaded EHR purchases to monthly price models that could compete with SaaS EHR pricing. The mix of pricing model changes and competition with a Free EHR was great for the industry.
With this as background, I definitely am intrigued by the news that Ryan Howard has been replaced as CEO of Practice Fusion. Tom Langan, Practice Fusion's Chief Commercial Officer has taken the helm as interim CEO. The article I linked to above suggested that this and other personnel changes point to Practice Fusion possibly preparing for an IPO. In fact, they've had so many personnel changes over the years, most of the people I've gotten to know have left.
I'm not sure if Practice Fusion is preparing for an IPO or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're running out of money. Yes, it's crazy to think that they could be running out of money after raising $70 million about 2 years ago along with $15 million more a few months later. CrunchBase has their funding to date at $157.5 million. However, I'm sure they have a high burn rate. Their leadership and investors have set ambitious goals for Practice Fusion to own the healthcare market (A goal which I've said is impossible. The EHR market will be heterogeneous!). I'm sure their spending habits match those ambitious goals. An IPO would be one way to fund that continued ambition. If they did do an IPO, we'd get some really interesting insights into their business model.
There's some mystery surrounding how Practice Fusion makes money. I think you can summarize their income streams into three categories: advertising, data, and third party apps. Most people glob onto the first piece, but from what I understand it's far from being their largest source of revenue. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it was their smallest. The second piece is quite interesting. I once heard someone say that Practice Fusion made their money from selling health data, but then they were corrected by someone saying that Practice Fusion doesn't sell data. Instead, Practice Fusion sells the insights from that data. A subtle difference, but an important one. The question remains, how valuable are insights from EHR data? Many other EHR vendors sell their EHR data. Is it just a matter of time until Practice Fusion does too? Will they be forced to in order to meet revenue goals?
The last piece of revenue is the one that most people ignore. However, it probably is the largest piece of the revenue pie. My guess is that their practice management system vendor partners are one of the most significant portions of their third party revenue. Practice Fusion doesn't have their own PM and so they refer their users to an outside PM vendor. When they do so, Practice Fusion gets a cut. I'm sure this is not an insignificant number. It's not hard to imagine Practice Fusion doing something similar with a whole marketplace of third party offerings that tie into their Free EHR.
Over the years, I've talked to a lot of investors and potential investors about Practice Fusion. I've always told them that Practice Fusion has definitely created value. They've done a good job leveraging the Free EHR to bring doctors in. What's not as clear to me is whether they've created enough value to justify the $157.5 million they've raised. If they really are preparing for an IPO, then I guess we'll find out soon. The revenue numbers that come out during the IPO process and how the street reacts to those numbers would be fun to watch. Yes, I know. I am an #HITNerd.


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Android Studio 3.0 and later supports all Java 7 language features and a subset of Java 8 language features that vary by platform version. This page describes the Java 8 language features you can use, how to properly configure your project to use them, and any known issues you may encounter. Also see the following video for an overview.
Note: When developing apps for Android, using Java 8 language features is optional. You can keep your project's source and target compatibility values set to Java 7, but you still need to compile using JDK 8.
Android Studio provides built-in support for using
certain Java 8 language features and third-party libraries that use them. As
shown in figure 1, the default toolchain implements the new language features by
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update the Android plugin
3.0.0 (or higher). After that, for each module that uses Java 8
language features (either in its source code or through dependencies),
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in the Project Structure dialog as shown in figure 2
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You can also configure it directly in the corresponding
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// Configure only for each module that uses Java 8
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targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
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Note: If Android Studio detects that your project is using Jack, Retrolambda, or DexGuard, the IDE uses Java 8 support provided by those tools instead. However, consider migrating to the default toolchain.
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For the third consecutive year, Israeli tennis star Shahar Peer lost in the first round of the Rogers Cup to a player ranked below her.
Peer was upset by up-and-coming 18-year-old Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, losing 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 before a partisan crowd favouring Bouchard at Uniprix Stadium. Bouchard was this year's surprise junior Wimbledon champ.
Given that Bouchard is ranked No. 237 and never played a match against a player ranked as high as Peer (who is ranked No. 56), expectations were high for Peer to win easily.
But Peer wasn't up to the task, and Bouchard rode the wave of cheers from the Montreal fans to lift her spirits and level of play. Bouchard won the first nine points of the match, taking a 2-0 lead before Peer played a steady game and broke Bouchard twice to take six of the next seven games to win the first set.
From that point on, Bouchard used a more aggressive strategy, coming to the net and beating Peer with well-placed ground strokes. Peer didn't help herself by netting many unforced errors and serving eight double faults in losing the second set 6-2.
The third set was more of a dogfight with each player holding serve to a 3-3 tie. In game seven, Peer broke Bouchard and appeared headed to victory with a 4-3 lead. Bouchard broke back, but trailed 15-40 in game nine.
Had Peer not committed three unforced errors in that game alone, perhaps the win would have been hers. Bouchard emerged victorious by winning the points that mattered most. At break point in the final game, Peer sailed a forehand long to give Bouchard the match.
"This was a complete meltdown for Shahar. She's known as a good fighter, but her level of play is not as good as it should have been. I thought she could have been a lot sharper against Bouchard," said former tennis great Tracy Austin, who commented on the Bouchard-Peer match that was nationally televised on Sportsnet.
To Peer's credit, she didn't offer excuses or discredit Bouchard.
"I can't explain what happened. I let her [Bouchard] back into the match and couldn't do anything right, and it had nothing to do with the crowd favouring her. It was just one of those days, and I am sorry to disappoint so many of my fans," the 25-year-old Peer said after the match.
Peer's performance continues her inconsistency after achieving a career-high ranking of No. 11 in 2011, the highest ever for an Israeli man or woman in tennis.
Following a semifinal finish in Hobart, Tasmania, earlier this year, Peer took a nosedive, not advancing past the first round in major tournaments, including Wimbledon and the Olympics, where she lost to silver medalist Maria Sharapova of Russia 6-2, 6-0.
"I think Shahar can come back to playing tennis at the high standard when she was ranked 11th. She has to believe in herself and get her confidence back to succeed on the tour," Austin said.
Peer made world headlines in 2009 when she was denied a visa to enter the United Arab Emirates to compete in the Dubai tournament. The ban backfired, not only because the tournament was fined $300,000 and forced to allow Peer to compete in Dubai for the next five years, but because it strengthened her determination to play above expectations.
Peer finished as a semifinalist in the 2010 Dubai tournament, in addition to her quarter-final result in 2011.
"Sports and politics should never mix, and to this day I never forgot the anger when I was banned. But I play better when someone tries to take something from me. I became more determined than ever to do well in tennis," Peer said.
The ban also created millions of supporters for Peer worldwide who empathized with her plight. She is the most recognizable Israeli athlete in the world due to her travelling to tournaments across the globe.
Peer has won both woman of the year (2009) and athlete of the year honours (2006-2009) in Israel and has used her celebrity status to benefit others when she is honoured by many Jewish and Israeli organizations at tournaments.
Peer received much praise for joining last year's March of the Living in Poland, leading 10,000 students to both the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, accompanied by her maternal grandmother, Holocaust survivor Yuliana Eckstein.
Eckstein, now 82, lost her parents and brother at Auschwitz.
"She [Eckstein] never told me the horrors until she went with me to the camps. Leading the March of the Living has given me strength and values that makes winning or losing a tennis match not seem that important anymore."
Sharon Fichman of Toronto, now Canada' No. 1-ranked doubles player, lost her first round qualifying match at the Rogers Cup. The 21-year-old Fichman, ranked No. 203, is Canada's best Jewish female tennis player since Vicki Berner of Vancouver was doubles champions of what then called the Canadian Open in 1967.


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Beef Stroganoff with Buttered Noodles
By woodog1113
- 4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped, plus 2 cloves, minced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary, leaves removed
- 1 large sprig fresh thyme, leaves removed
- 3 pounds beef short ribs, cut into 2 ribs apiece
- 1 1/2 pounds cremini mushrooms
- 1 1/2 pounds white button mushrooms
- 1/2 cup chopped shallots
- 1/4 cup cognac
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 pound egg noodles
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons freshly chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 2 tablespoons freshly chopped green onions
Servings 4
Step 1
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
Place the chopped garlic, salt and pepper into a bowl. Add enough extra-virgin olive oil to create a paste. Add the rosemary and thyme leaves to the bowl and stir to combine.
Set short ribs out on a roasting tray and cover with herb paste. Roast in the oven for 2 hours and 30 minutes until they are falling apart.
Heat a large saute pan over high heat and add a 3-count of olive oil. Add mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes until brown. Add shallots and minced garlic and toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper. Cook for a further 2 minutes until garlic and onion become fragrant. Remove pan from heat and carefully add cognac to deglaze the pan. Return to heat and add cream. Reduce heat and simmer until reduced by half. Turn off heat and stir in Dijon mustard and sour cream. Season with salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper
Cook egg noodles in salted boiling water according to directions on package. Drain and toss with butter while still hot.
To serve: Pile the noodles high on a plate, top with stroganoff sauce and finish with rib slices. Garnish with fresh parsley and green onions.
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#1 NBC Fires Weather Channel Environmental Unit11-23-2008, 10:32 AM
Strangely funny! :D
NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the "Forecast Earth" environmental program during the middle of NBC's "Green Week," as well as several on-camera meteorologists. The layoffs totaled about 10 percent of the workforce, and are among the first major changes made since NBC completed its purchase of the venerable weather network in September.
Among the meteorologists who was let go was Dave Schwartz, a Weather Channel veteran and a viewer staple due to his lively on camera presentations. USA Today reported that meteorologists Cheryl Lemke and Eboni Deon were also let go.
The timing of the Forecast Earth cancellation was ironic, since it came in the middle of NBC's "Green Week," during which the network has been touting its environmental coverage across all of its platforms. Forecast Earth normally aired on weekends, but its presumed last episode was shown on a weekday due to the environmentally-oriented weekMay the FORCE be with you!
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They better not touch Jim Cantore ;)
Actually, I'd like the old Weather Channel back when I could stare at the snow *live* in Buffalo for hours!
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