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Tofu and Whiskey Arbiter of good taste, Thrill Jockey Records is officially 20 years old. In another era, in another business, this would merely be a back-slapping milestone. In the present stuck-barreling-downwards roller coaster of the music industry, it's an anniversary worthy of widespread jubilation.
"It's a mind-boggling number of years," label founder Bettina Richards says during a phone call from the main office in Chicago, where the label's been based since 1995.
And how else would a record label celebrates its birthday than with a series of familial concerts? There have been shows booked in key Thrill Jockey cities such as New York (where it began in '92), London, San Francisco, LA, Chicago. Those shows (some of which have already gone down) boast lineups packed with label notables Tortoise, the Sea and Cake, Trans Am, Liturgy, Future Islands, and Matmos.
The San Francisco version of the traveling Thrill Jockey rodeo will be headlined by the label's Bay Area acts: psych-rockers Wooden Shjips and drone duo Barn Owl, along with Liturgy, Trans Am, Man Forever, and Eternal Tapestry (Dec. 13, 8pm, $18. Independent, 628 Divisadero, SF; www.theindependentsf.com).
SF is considered a key Thrill Jockey city for a handful of reasons; there's the aforementioned connection with Wooden Shjips and Barn Owl, plus, one of the label's earliest releases was a band from here called A Minor Forest. And there's another super-secret new signing set for 2013 (sorry, you won't learn more than that here). "We've had a long, fond affection for the way San Franciscans can create super individual sounds," Richards says.
Though they create different styles of music, Wooden Shjips and Barn Owl had some similarities that stood out to Richards when she was in the process of signing each. "They both share this transportive quality…taking you to an entirely different realm. With the Wooden Shjips, it's an active feeling of motion, and with Barn Owl, it's really an escape. It's hard to put into words, but they both do something compelling to me."
It's that compulsion that's lead Richards to many of her choices for the roster. She tells this story about one one the label's most beloved acts: "Trans Am, way back in 1993, were the B-side of a seven-inch that John McEntire from Tortoise had recorded, and he gave me the seven-inch. It just happened that a week later they were playing. I saw them and was like, 'oh my god, I love them.'"
While most of the acts have been found through musician friends and pals of the label, there's the occasional random encounter, like Sidi Toure, the gifted Malian singer-songwriter. His CD arrived via snail-mail to the Chicago office right before Christmas last year. "We don't usually get packages from Mali. I was on a drive to go see my folks, popped it in, and I just couldn't believe it." I tell Richards I had the same initial reaction to Toure's mesmerizing compositions. "And the weirder thing," she adds, "was that he sent it because he's a really big Radian fan, which is a band from Austria with like, atonal drums. You just wouldn't have guessed that, right?"
Austrian prog band HP Zinker was the first band she ever signed — at the time ('92), she was living New York City and was still bartending and working at a record shop. In fact, she did that for the first eight years of the label. The band lived in a decaying squat where White Zombie used to reside, and they all ended up moving in to Richards' studio apartment. Richards lets out a raucous laugh recalling those early days.
From signing HP Zinker, to the label's 330th release planned for next year, Thrill Jockey has maintained a comparatively sparkling reputation as a label that treats its artists well.
I asked Wooden Shjips drummer Omar Ahsanuddin why the label is so beloved and he replied: "Because they know their shit, are music fans, and mostly because [Richards] is a straight-shooter. As Phil Manley once told me: if you like getting paid on time, you'll like Thrill Jockey."
Barn Owl's Jon Porras said, "It's great to work with a label that trusts an artistic vision…Thrill Jockey upholds a level of professionalism and is open to unconventional ideas."
"I think one of the main things, at least to me, is that these bands would be doing what they're doing whether anybody is paying attention or not," says Richards. "This is something they're compelled to do. And in the same sense, we're compelled to put it out, whether it makes sense or not."
And that's important in this current musical climate, a time when the mainstream labels are floundering, record sales have plummeted, and free music is a click away. "Trying to combat it would be like trying to swim against the tide. You'd exhaust yourself and get nowhere. Instead, we just try to adapt," Richards says. "We're small, so we're flexible and can adapt quickly. The people that work here are super music geeks, that keeps them really involved."
One shift has been the number of releases it puts out. It jumped a few years back from 10 releases a year, to three or four a month, including small print, specific collector releases, which appeal to the super music geek market.
In a nostalgic mood, given the anniversary shows, I ask Richards to look back and pick out what she'd want her legacy to be, after this thrill ride is over: "I hope people are as attached to some of the bands and the records that I am. I hope to, as an octogenarian, sit in my house and blast a Barn Owl record and really feel the same feeling I felt the first time I heard it. And I hope it's as treasured to them as it is to us."
Warm, fuzzy feelings abound.
In these stressful last days of the year, we likely all need a modicum of relaxation, just a taste. Local reed flute master Eliyahu Sills, best known as part of the the Qadim Ensemble, has just released an acoustic solo tribute to the sacred music of Sufism; a haunting record meant to assist in meditation, yoga, and just some overall relaxation techniques. Song of the Reeds is 10 songs of original improvisations, created on a flute made from a reed; can't get more organic than that. www.qadimmusic.com.
That Vivian Girls-Woods collaboration just keeps getting cuter. It's fascinating how it really feels split between the two out-fronts: Cassie Ramone and Kevin Morby, one part jingly lo-fi girl-group, one part folky, acoustic forest-dweller. With all the fuzz and tender melodies on half of the songs, it gets inevitable comparisons to Best Coast, but that's only a shade of its output. Check the new karaoke-filled, warped VHS-style video for "Baby," off Our House on the Hill, released this month on Woodsist, then go back and try alternating tracks such as "On My Time" or "Get Lost." It makes for an engrossing, push me/pull you dynamic that will translate nicely to the stage. Plus, the Brooklyn band plays with our own headlining post-punk heroes, Grass Widow.
Thu/6, 9pm, $12
Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17 St., SF. www.bottomofthehill.com
Another Brooklyn export: infectious 11-piece Afrobeat band Antibalas is coming our way, with its first full-length album in five years — a self-titled LP released in August on Daptone Records — horns blazing. The long-running act has been making a big, boisterous noise since the late '90s, and closely followed in Fela Kuti's steps, yet has suffered in relative obscurity until recently. Earlier this year, the New York Times asserted its belief that a post-Fela! world (i.e. the rise of crossover acts like Vampire Weekend, and the wildly popular run of Fela! on Broadway), might finally "catch up" and catch on to the skill of Antibalas. With Afrolicious DJs Pleasuremaker and Senor Oz.
Mon/10, 8pm, $23
Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell, SF. www.slimspresents.com


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If the ice accumulating near the shoreline of Keuka Lake was any indication, the water was cold – really cold.
If the ice accumulating near the shoreline of Keuka Lake was any indication, the water was cold – really cold.
What made it obvious was the shivering, discolored people getting in and out of the water.
With water and air temperatures in the 30s, more than 100 people boldly bucked common sense Saturday and dove into the frigid waters of Keuka Lake as part of the annual "Polar Bear Plunge" at The Switzerland Inn.
"The initial shock is pretty cold," said Bath resident Ron Simmonds, the first "polar bear" to jump in the water Saturday. At 72 years old, he was also one of the oldest. "I've been doing it for 15 or 16 years. This is one of the colder ones."
Simmonds calmly talked about his jump just minutes after leaving the water. Others, though, weren't quite as composed.
"I just jumped into a freezing (expletive) lake," said one shivering woman, asking not to be identified. "How the (expletive) do you think I feel?"
Other jumpers shared the woman's feelings, screaming as they exited the water and scurrying for the inn. Others were stoic, jumping in and getting out without so much as a peep.
While some polar veterans made the plunge on their own terms, others relied on liquid courage to grease the wheels.
"A shot of rum," New Jersey resident Wolfgang Hofer joked before he jumped.
Hofer found out about the event through friends in Elmira. He said he's done similar jumps in the Atlantic Ocean but wanted to try this event to see how it compared.
"I decided I had to do it once in a lake," he said. "I'm the crazy one."
Saturday's plunge was the 19th year The Switzerland Inn hosted the event. Jumpers paid $10 to participate. Each got a T-shirt.
A DJ played music throughout the event, and food and drinks were plentiful.
Hundreds of spectators attended the event to cheer on (or make fun of) the jumpers.

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Azarenka wins; Stephens to face Williams in Brisbane
- After dropping the first set, Angelique Kerber rallied qualifier Monica Puig
- Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka opened season with 6-3, 6-3 win over Sabine Lisicki
- Five of the tournament's top eight women's seeds have already been eliminated
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka opened her 2013 season with a 6-3, 6-3 win Wednesday over Sabine Lisicki to join No. 3 Serena Williams and fourth-seeded Angelique Kerber in the Brisbane International quarterfinals.
American Sloane Stephens had a 6-3, 6-4 win over Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson to set up a quarterfinal against Williams. She'll face a childhood hero.
"Obviously, she's been a really great influence in my tennis," the 19-year-old Stephens said. "I'm excited to play her and get on the court with her. I think it'll be fun."
Williams said she has been following Stephens' career and was "a fan" of her young Fed Cup teammate's style.
In her first tournament back since being sidelined by an abdominal injury following the U.S. Open, Stephens isn't awed by the prospect of taking on the 15-time Grand Slam winner.
"Obviously, I always was like, 'Oh, my God. I love her to death. She's amazing, whatever,'" Stephens recalled of early meetings with Williams. "Now she's like an actual person and I'm like, 'Oh, hi. How is it going?' She's not like a hero anymore. She's just a friend.
"Even if I go out there and lose, just bomb it, I don't win a game, at least if I'm able to focus on myself and do what's right for me, then it's not a loss."
Kerber recovered from 5-2 down in the deciding tiebreaker to beat Puerto Rican qualifier Monica Puig, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7).
Azarenka won her first major at the Australian Open last year during a 26-match winning streak to start the season and spent most of 2012 atop the women's rankings.
She said her focus ahead of her first major title defense was more about attacking than defending.
"I actually don't really look at defending anything. I'm just looking to win," Azarenka said. "I'm going to have the same mindset for as long as I'm playing."
The Belarusian, who won here in 2009 without dropping a set, got the better of 37th-ranked Lisicki in a match that had nine breaks of serve. Azarenka said Lisicki, who was serving at up to 121 mph, proved a tough match and a good measure of her preparations for the Australian Open, which starts on Jan. 14.
Lisicki was "serving some bombs," although the German player was only getting half of her first serves into play and had five double-faults. Lisicki mixed 36 winners with 36 unforced errors, trying to push Azarenka around the court.
Azarenka will play Kazakh qualifier Ksenia Pervak, who has ousted former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki and Urszula Radwanska in matches decided by third-set tiebreakers.
"I hope she's tired," Azarenka said, joking. "She's a young girl with a lot of potential. She's going to be really motivated. I'm looking forward to the challenge."
Kerber rallied from 4-1 down in the third set and reached the tiebreaker when Puig was two points from the biggest victory of her career.
The 19-year-old Puig, ranked No. 124, buried a swinging volley into the bottom of the net at 5-2 in the tiebreaker and it changed the momentum of the match.
"For sure, it was a surprise how she played. I didn't know her before, but, yeah, I'm sure that she'll be coming very soon into the top 50," Kerber said. "I have a lot of confidence right now that I won again (in a) very close match."
In men's second-round matches, third-seeded Gilles Simon of France beat Colombia's Alejandro Falla 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) and No. 5 Kei Nishikori of Japan had a 6-3, 6-3 win over Tommy Robredo of Spain. Sixth-seeded Florian Mayer lost 6-4, 6-2 to 2006 Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis.
In the night match, fourth-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov was leading 6-2, 4-1 when Jarkko Nieminen of Finland retired because of a migraine.


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I've noticed in many discussions that a lot of Americans on this site choose to abstain from voting. If you are one of these, and since I cannot vote in a US election even though I am indirectly affected by living on planet Earth, as a hypothetical question: How much would you charge me to buy your vote?
Specifically, how much would you charge if I asked you to vote Republican? How much for a Democrat vote?
Please don't look at other answers before you provide a sum as this will give you a cognitive bias called Anchoring:
"During normal decision-making, anchoring occurs when individuals overly rely on a specific piece of information to govern their thought-process. Once the anchor is set, there is a bias toward adjusting or interpreting other information to reflect the "anchored" information. Through this cognitive bias, the first information learned about a subject can affect future decision-making and information analysis."
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To vote democratic a buck 95 will do it. To vote republican I need to get enough to put me in the 1%.
I don't vote period, because all politicians sucks, but donations would be greatly appreciated. :)
Breathe man, breathe.
You couldn't pay me enough to vote Republican. Ok, I take that back. If you could pay me enough to be part of the middle 1% for the rest of my life.. I'd think about it.
I'm an anarchist. I don't vote and no one is buying my vote, either.
How much are you willing to pay for my vote?
Given the current state of things in the US (the next election I will be voting lesser of two evils) if you are willing to give me enough money to say pay off my student loan debt or pay for my masters program then I might be willing to sell my vote otherwise it wouldn't really be worth it if I'm not benefiting significantly.
Also to both the original poster and others on here how much would a 3rd party vote be worth?
Also... note to everyone. I vote and will continue to vote in each and ever election be it national scale, state scale or local. In fact I'd be more willing to give up my presidential vote than my state and local votes as I have much more power and say in state and local elections than in the presidential election which is filtered through our crummy electoral system instead of being a popular vote.
I vote, but I empathize with you, so I will answer. If you gave me enough money to either a) buy a party off from its current benefactors or b) establish a competitive alternative party and support its growth for the forseeable future, then I would vote for your chosen party during that period. I don't think you have that many billions, but if you do, I'm feeling patriotic. :-I
I only vote out of fear for the greater evil. I will admit that for all their talk and posturing, the actions of politicians on both sides of the aisle reveal their true loyalty, and it is very rarely to their constituents. I vote for the party which I believe will be slower to bring about the destruction of the things I love.
this will be my first election i get to vote in so maybe next time lol


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Last Saturday, Wyoming lost a conference game to Air Force by a score of 28-27. It was a tough loss for the Cowboys, as they squandered a 10-point halftime lead. After the game, Wyoming's head coach, Dave Christensen, was very angry, and he unleashed an expletive-filled rant on his counterpart, Troy Calhoun. Christensen seems to be under the impression that one of the Air Force players faked an injury to buy his team some extra time.
As far as coach meltdowns go, this ranks pretty high. Bonus points are awarded for the fact that Christensen's daughter comes rushing in to try and calm him right before he yells, "Go give your fuckin' press conference, fly boy!" (We think this is an Air-Force-themed dis.) Other highlights include:
No you fuckin' fake the fuckin' injury. Nice ethics, man.
You have no fuckin' ethics, Troy!
No fuckin' integrity! Woooo!
Double bonus points are awarded for the fact that this occurred on Military Appreciation Night.


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And here I finally deliver the joke / point I wanted to make way back in strip #16. The rules as presented in the rulebook seem sensible enough: If someone enters a square adjacent to an enemy, that enemy gets a free swing at them, right then and there, regardless of who's turn it is. I'm sure proponents of the system can give you a nice list of reasons for this, why it makes combat more realistic, or what exploit it is supposed to counter.
On the surface this makes sense, although there are so many exceptions and qualifiers and footnotes and special cases that three pages after you've read this simple premise you're knee-deep in a dark coagulating pool of madness. Aside from the complications of suddenly inserting a turn out of established order, there are rules to check and bonues to apply and – most sadistic of all – more information to track. Now you have to track who's taken an AOO this round and who hasn't, and how many such attacks each combatant is allowed, and how to handle cases where two people get AOO at once, or what happens when one AOO knocks the target into an adjacent square and creates another AOO, or how to handle AOO between creatures of greatly differing sizes and how to deal with tentacled foes and how all of this intersects with rushing, sprinting, and grappling, or what to do if an AOO is possible but the potential attacker might not be aware of the target and does this apply to non-combatants and SWEET MERCY WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!??! WILL YOU LOOK AT ALL THIS PAPERWORK!
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Programming Language for Games
Game developer Jon Blow is making a programming language just for games. Why is he doing this, and what will it mean for game development?
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A video Let's Play series I collaborated on from 2009 to 2017.
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round
I'm not surprised a fighting game has an absurd story. I just can't figure out why they bothered with the story at all.
Another PC Golden Age?
Is it real? Is PC gaming returning to its former glory? Sort of. It's complicated.
Ludonarrative Dissonance
What is this silly word, why did some people get so irritated by it, and why did it fall out of use?


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1955 Ford Thunderbird
This project gets an Art Morrison Chassis and a Coyote 5.0 engine
Steve's Auto Restorations is at it again! Last time we featured a 1939 Lincoln Zephyr that was designed by Eric Black. The company took an ordinary Lincoln Zephyr and stretched the body to make it look sleeker while also giving the car a lower profile. Now over at Steve's Auto Restorations, they are building a 1955 Ford Thunderbird and the fabrication has begun. This one was designed by David Brost to be a canyon-carver.
Steve's called Art Morrison for help on the chassis that will eventually be holding up a Coyote 5.0 motor with a Gearstar automatic transmission. Already the body modifications have been done. The headlight bezels have already been added to the fenders and custom side scoops have been fitted. The interior will feature a 1957 Ford Thunderbird gauge cluster along with a nice upholstery.
Steve's Auto Restorations is known for some pretty sweet rides. The 2013 Street Rodder Tour car couldn't have been created without the vision of Eric Black. If you want to find out more about the 1955 Ford Thunderbird, you can view gallery photos over at their website by clicking HERE. The project is expected to be completed by early 2014.
If you want more information or perhaps are thinking of having them build your next hot rod, call (503) 665-222 or visit www.stevesautorestorations.com


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I ran across this vid on the YouTubes the other night, this guy put an awesome slide show together comprised of pictures he took over the years of pro stock drag racing and set it to some cool tunes. It's a feast for any enthusiast of the division with a taste for some oldschool automotive beauty Man do I miss those cars, this video absolutely warmed me up with great memories. It doesn't end there though, he finishes it off with a final round race from 1983 that took place at Indy between Bob Glidden and Lee Shepherd. FANTASTIC. What a beautiful race it was.
Anyhoo... I figured if anyone would enjoy it, it would be this crowd
Check it out and be sure to click the High Quality (HQ) button for a slightly crispier view, it looks great at fullscreen.
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And here's the link..Some pictures that I took of Pro Stockers back in the '70s and '80s along with a clip from the Diamond P video "Decade Of Thrills" Note... the last photo, at 6:43, before the video clip is one that I took from the grandstands at the '83 US Nationals showing Lee Shepherd in the lead at that point. But as the video shows, Bob Glidden drove around him to take the title. Great Racin'!!


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Twitter said it's taking a stand against spam by filing a federal lawsuit against five of the most aggressive tool providers and the people who use them to flood the microblogging site with junk messages.
"With this suit, we're going straight to the source," the company said in a blog post published on Thursday. "By shutting down tool providers, we will prevent other spammers from having these services at their disposal. Further, we hope the suit acts as a deterrent to other spammers, demonstrating the strength of our commitment to keep them off Twitter."
Twitter didn't provide any estimate detailing how many of the 340 million tweets it hosts each day are posted by spammers. But anecdotal accounts in Ars's virtual news room suggest junk messages are a growing nuisance. Twitter said it has 140 million active users.
Thursday's post said the suit is one of several approaches the site is taking to fight spam. Earlier this week, engineers deployed new anti-spam measures that curtail junk messages sent when one user publicly mentions another user. What's more, Twitter's official link shortener now has the ability to block addresses that lead to malware and other malicious content.


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No. A referral for insurance is not needed to access Safe Stations.
No. Safe Stations is set up at each of the six fire stations to connect those seeking help to recovery services.
No. There are no clinical providers on site. There is no medication provided during the assessment provided by the fire fighters.
There is a medical evaluation completed to rule out an emergency situation which consists of:
The role of the fire department is to assist those who seek help at Safe Stations. Those who are at the hospital will follow the process set up at the hospital and referral processes that are in place at the hospital.
The time a person is at the recovery facility may vary depending on the type of services they are receiving.
Yes. Safe Stations are open to anyone seeking help with recovery.
On average the process from once arriving at a Safe Station to transport is less than 15 minutes.
There is no fee charged to the person seeking help at the Safe Stations.
The fire department is working in partnership with the New Hampshire Partnership for Successful Living; Keystone Hall and Harbor Homes. After completing the medical assessment at the Safe Station the person is transported to a safe location to meet with a Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselor. During this assessment a determination is made for services needed.


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This story aired on Dateline, Christmas Day 2005
SEATTLE, WASH. — Eric Drew seemed to have all the luck in the world. He was energetic, successful, with a great family and a beautiful girlfriend. Drew was a software consultant and part-time model who had grown up in Northern California and worked around the world.
Josh Mankiewicz, Dateline Correspondent: It sounds like an enviable life.
Eric Drew: Ah, I envy it now. Ha.
Eric also wanted to give something back. That was always a part of him, says his adoptive mother Cindy Drew.
Cindy Drew, Eric's mother: We got him when he was five weeks old and he was big for his age and has always been big in spirit, heart and stature.
Nearly every month for about eight years, Eric donated to the Red Cross – not money, or blood, exactly, but the part of blood called platelets which are essential in the treatment of many illnesses, including cancer.
Mankiewicz: You felt it was your duty to help out other people?
Drew: I just found doing any kind of a volunteer work very rewarding. You know a lot more rewarding than—than doing just—work for pay basically.
But in a way he couldn't have planned, at 35 years old, those donations to others would end up saving his own life.
Drew: I went in to give my platelets and they your red cell count is actually a little bit on the low side. Which means "You're slightly anemic." And you know, "You look a little bit pale, maybe you should go see a doctor."
It felt like the flu, but it wasn't. Eric's doctor was as puzzled as his patient, and sent him to a specialist.
Drew: Within that week of going from going to the Red Cross to donate, to having these doctors evaluate my condition – during that week I got more and more sick. Every day, I was twice as sick as the day before. And it happened very fast.
A frightening diagnosis
It couldn't have been more frightening: a rare and deadly form of the blood cancer leukemia — and it was rapidly shutting down his body.
Drew: That doctor said, "You've got about five days left to live without treatment."
Mankiewicz: Five days left.
Drew: At the most.
Cindy Drew: It was a direct hit to your heart, to your solar plexus, to your way of life. My baby was dying.
Maybe it was a karmic refund for all his blood donations that Eric found out in literally the nick of time giving him a chance to survive. The news would be the start of a two year painful ordeal of chemo, radiation and, untried treatments. He'd find himself fighting not only for his life, but in an odd twist — for his good name as well.
By the end of January 2003, Eric was hanging on, but so was his cancer. For the next year, he'd find himself in three cities calling a series of hospital beds home. His early warning had given him time to slow his illness, but despite that, he still had the disease that was threatening to kill him.
Eric began to look for a bone marrow donor, perhaps his only chance for survival. As an adoptee, his parents and siblings didn't match up genetically. But in that desperate search, Eric also found an opportunity to do some good for other leukemia victims.
It turns out one thing chemo and radiation can't kill is a Type A personality.
Drew: The only way that's gonna save my life is to find a bone marrow donor. There are hundreds and thousands of people out there looking for bone marrow matches themselves, why don't I, you know, use my resources, which I had a lot of—to put together a bone marrow drive.
Mankiewicz: This is a rhetorical question, which is why not do that? I'm guessing there were people, doctors maybe, maybe members of your family who thought that you should not be knocking yourself out to do something so public spirited at a time when you were gravely ill.
Drew: Well, but keeping myself busy was a mental salvation, I think, that I found.
Eric raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars and signed up some 700 marrow donors for other leukemia victims. But for Eric, no luck. There was no bone marrow match for him.
He had no choice, but to try an experimental treatment offered by doctors at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. There he'd get a bone marrow transplant, using bone marrow that only matched up genetically with his own by half.
Eric was told there was only a small chance he would even live. But he again went through painful radiation and chemo to prepare his body for this risky treatment.
And then something strange happened: Eric began to receive some unexpected attention.
Drew: About a week to ten days after I moved to Seattle, that I started getting calls from credit card companies, banks, creditors, saying, "Thank you very much for your application. Can you please verify this information."
Eric didn't know what they were talking about. Before he'd moved to Seattle, he had pared down his finances and closed a number of credit card accounts. Now, suddenly there were new accounts. It made no sense.
Drew: I immediately responded back to them and said, "I had never sent an application in here," and "This is a mistake. Please nullify this application." And then I hung up and moved on.
But moving on wouldn't be so easy.
After treatment, collection notices
January 2004: Months after arriving in Seattle for treatment, months after Eric's phone calls to the credit card companies, Eric was just barely well enough to sit up in bed and look at the mail that had been piling up.
Drew: When I finally came out of what I call my "transplant coma," I had piles of collection notices that had come in from saying I owed this money, I was default on this account, this and that.
It turns out most of the credit card companies had not cancelled those applications for new accounts that Eric didn't know anything about. And there were now even more fraudulent accounts.
Drew: And I lost it. I was literally throwing glasses and breaking 'em and swearing and, you know, just very, very upset. I couldn't believe that I was struggling for my life, you know, and that people were attacking me and violating me.
It wasn't an accident. It was identity theft, committed against a man who was already at his weakest and most vulnerable. As Eric's life seemed to be slipping away — someone somewhere out there was stealing what little he had left.... and by then had rung up more than $10,000 in fraudulent charges.
Even though the companies had contacted Eric to confirm the new accounts, most wouldn't cancel the cards without a signed document proving that the real Eric Drew was really Eric Drew. It was something the fake Eric Drew never had to do.
Mankiewicz: Normally, the way out of that is to provide a lot of documentation to the credit card companies. Which is kind of a pain, I've had to do it, I think a lot of people of had to do it. You were not really in a position to do that.
Drew: No, I was, like you said, I was on my back, full chemo, in a hospital.
Now, out of his so-called "transplant coma," Eric sent in those forms. He also called every law enforcement agency he could think of: the police, the FBI, even the Federal Trade Commission.
Eric says law enforcement told him his case was too small to chase down. And it's true, with some $52 billion in identity theft each year in this country, one person who has been hit for $10,000 can't be a priority.
But for this Type A cancer patient, what angered him was that what little he did have was being stolen. As he started feeling better, Eric decided that he didn't just want to stop the credit cards — he wanted to stop the bad guy.
Drew: I thought to myself, "The only way I can stop this mess from getting any bigger is to actually go after this guy and catch him."
Going after the culprit wouldn't be easy, especially from his hospital bed. And as it turned out, what Eric would eventually find at the end of a long trail of clues would enrage him.
Drew: This guy obviously took a look at me, looked at my disease, and said, "He's probably gonna be dead within the next couple of months."
Cindy Drew, Eric's mother: We kept saying lie down. You're sick. You can't follow through on this. You have to give it up for awhile.
His mother wasn't so happy with his new role as crime fighter. In truth, no one was.
Josh Mankiewicz, Dateline correspondent: Did your doctors think this was a good idea?
Eric Drew: Not at the time. Not at the time. They heavily advised against it. You know, "Look, Eric, let this go. Cancel the cards. Deal with it later."
But Eric couldn't let it go, couldn't deal with it later. He didn't know if there would be a later.
Playing detective in search of his ID thief
His first move: getting a copy of his own credit report— where this newly-minted detective found his first lead: an address for the fake Eric Drew in Southeast Seattle, the home of a woman named Gibson. It was a name that meant nothing to Eric. Even as sick as he was, it spurred him on, and out of that hospital bed.
Drew: I unhooked my hoses and put on my backpack with my pumps in it, pumping chemo and everything else into me.
Mankiewicz: Just a second. Just a second. You unhook your chemo, in the hospital. You put it into your backpack. It's, what, still going into your arm?
Drew: Mm-hmm. (Affirmative.) Into my chest, yeah.
Mankiewicz: And you go out on this little expedition to fight crime?
Drew: (Laughs) I guess if you put it that way, yeah.
Mankiewicz: He wants to go to that house, you never said to him, "Sweetie, this might be a bad idea."
Cindy Drew: When he's gets something in his head, he goes and does it.
Eric Drew: And I drove out to that house. And I found that house. I took pictures of it. I took pictures of me in front of it.
Then he turned the tables on the thief who had stolen his good name: Eric filed a change of address with the post office for the fake Eric Drew. So the fake Eric's mail would come to the real Eric's mailbox.
Drew: That's when I started receiving the bank statements. All the statements from all the different cards.
He was getting closer, learning where the fake Eric shopped and what he bought. But really how much detective work can a man sick with cancer do?
Finding help from a local TV station
With law enforcement ignoring him, and his doctors and family telling him to ignore everything but his cancer, Eric decided to turn to the public: He put out a press release.
Luckily for Eric, it was a slow news day when that press release landed on the desk of reporter Chris Daniels at King-5, the NBC affiliate in Seattle.
Chris Daniels, King-5 reporter: I don't know if it was just there was a lack of news that day or what. But they said, "Chris, go check it out."
He was a reporter's dream, in that he kept great notes about this crusade he'd been going on to find the truth.
Daniels took Eric's notes and began calling all the stores where the fake Eric Drew had shopped.
In that first time after King 5 reported the news, Daniels found someone who remembered not only Eric Drew but what he bought.
Jon Krohngold, who runs a card shop on Seattle's First Hill says he sold several statues to the thief last November. Krohngold's Hallmark store is in an area called Pill Hill, where most of Seattle's major medical centers are found, including the one where Eric Drew was getting his treatment.
Could that be a clue? Could someone with a connection to Pill Hill be helping Eric Drew's thief?
Krohngold: He just looked like a just a regular typical guy, you know.
Regular, typical, but with a key difference from the real Eric Drew:
Krohngold: He was an African-American.
Now, Eric knew he was looking for a black man, and the story on King-5 turned up the heat: Eric and reporter Daniels started to get calls from people with possible leads. As he checked out one of those tips, Eric put on his back pack full of medicine again and went to meet a stranger at the Seattle waterfront.
Drew: I could barely walk. I had a cane. I had the backpack on, pumping-- fluids, and antibiotics and stuff, into my chest all the time.
As a leukemia patient, Eric's immune system was severely compromised, which meant being out among people could be deadly. A common cold could send him to intensive care. Now he was going out to meet a stranger.
It turned out, the man on the dock didn't have a cold, but he didn't have any solid information either. The dock was a dead end. But across town, reporter Daniels was hot on the trail.
Daniels: I was able to go down the list. I called every single store that was on this list and said, here's the deal, told 'em Eric's story. "What I'm looking for is some surveillance video."
They needed just one piece of tape, and Lowe's Hardware had it. But there was a catch, Lowe's said they could only give the tape to law enforcement. So reporter Daniels called the Seattle police, the same cops who originally had told Eric his case was apparently too small.
Daniels: I said, "Hey, I tell you what. I've got three purchases that I know about. I'll tell you when these purchases were made. I want the video. We'll put it on the air and see where it goes."
Maniewicz: That sounds to me like you're doing the police's job for them.
Daniels: I don't want to say that. But there was a lot of work done.
With a TV station on the other end of the phone, this time the Seattle P.D. agreed to help.
The next day Chris Daniels put that video on the air. On February 26, 2004, the real Eric Drew and all of Seattle got a glimpse of the man playing the part of Eric Drew in a Lowe's Hardware security video. And under the winter coat, one could see an important clue: The fake Eric Drew was wearing hospital scrubs.
Mankiewicz: Did you recognize that person?
Drew: No I did not. I did not.
Mankiewicz: Eric didn't recognize the man.
Daniels: No.
Mankiewicz: And you didn't recognize him.
Daniels: No.
Mankiewicz: But it wasn't long before people called in.
Daniels: People said, "I think I know who that guy is. And I think he works at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance."
It was the very same hospital where Eric Drew was receiving his treatments, and struggling to stay alive.
Mankiewicz: How long before you had a name?
Daniels: Less than 24 hours.
Mankiewicz: And the name was?
Daniels: Richard Gibson.
Meet the ID thief
Richard Gibson, a 42-year-old father of three was a lab technician who tested Eric's blood at the hospital.
Mankiewicz: Did that name, Richard Gibson, mean anything to you?
Drew: Well, the Gibson name sure did.
The house Eric had visited two months prior, camera in hand and chemo in back pack. The people there were named Gibson. He had been on the right track... only someone had listened.
Mankiewicz: He was the guy who tested your blood after it was drawn from you?
Drew: That's right. My blood was drawn from me every day for eight months.
Mankiewicz: And so your thinking is that Mr. Gibson saw somebody who was terminally ill, and probably was not gonna be needing his credit very much longer.
Drew: Very little chance of me making it through.
Mankiewicz: And took advantage.
Drew: Absolutely. Without a doubt.
Cindy Drew: To pick on somebody—knowingly pick on somebody who is so ill and in such dire situation, you can't have a soul. You can't have a heart.
Richard Gibson turned himself in to the Seattle police on March 2, 2004.
Eric was still quite ill, and just getting the bad news that the treatment that had brought him to Seattle in the first place, hadn't worked at all.
FBI agent James Rogers who eventually handled Eric's case says hospital patients are very vulnerable to this type of crime, but that this case was particularly outrageous.
Mankiewicz: When most people check into a hospital, they usually have bigger concerns on their mind than their credit or protecting their privacy?
James Rogers, FBI: Oh, that's correct. I wasn't surprised that it happened in a hospital. I was just more, I guess, irritated by the fact that somebody was picking on a poor cancer patient that's fighting for his life.
It turns out that besides picking on the wrong cancer patient—one who fought back, Richard Gibson picked on a cancer patient at exactly the wrong time. Gibson wasn't charged with identity theft at all, but with something more serious. In Seattle's Federal Court, Gibson became the first person charged under a new law with the wrongful disclosure of medical information for financial gain. In Gibson's case, he wrongfully disclosed Eric's information from his medical records to get all those credit cards.
Though Gibson plead guilty, he says he didn't know who Eric Drew was or that he was a terminally ill patient.
The judge didn't buy Gibson's claim of ignorance. He called Gibson's acts "the most deplorable he'd seen in his 15 years on the bench." And though the prosecution was asking for a one year sentence, the judge gave Gibson more— the maximum of 16 months.
Eric had hoped to be in court on the day of sentencing, he wanted to tell the judge his side of the story. But he was too sick to get there and had to tell it on videotape.
By then, Eric was in Minneapolis at yet another hospital fighting not crime, but once again, leukemia.
What's the responsibility of credit card companies?
The arrest of Richard Gibson was some consolation. But, Eric believes Gibson didn't act alone.
Mankiewicz: Is Mr. Gibson the only culprit here?
Drew: No. I think the biggest culprits are the people that are handing this money out. These banks have no right to go out handing criminals money in my name, with my Social Security numbers, with my identity, without doing the due diligence to verify that it was me.
We wanted to ask the credit card companies about Eric's case, about why those fake cards weren't suspended with Eric's first phone calls and about easy availability of credit. None of them would agree to talk to "Dateline" on camera, but they did tell us that the companies do all they can to help people with identity theft problems, and that in America, people want convenient credit.
Mankiewicz: Most people just call the credit card company and say "Those are not my charges," and they don't have to pay?
Rogers: Right.
Mankiewicz: Eric wouldn't do that?
Rogers: No, he wouldn't settle for that. It was more personal to him, and it was more of the principle behind it, that somebody was going to take advantage of his situation and try to use that against him when he's fighting for his life.
In Minneapolis, Eric underwent yet another experimental treatment—using umbilical cord blood— a procedure which had only been tried on about 600 adult leukemia patients. It was a last hope.
But this time, it worked.
So how is Eric's health? A year after that last experimental treatment, his body is finally cancer-free.
And how is Eric's credit? He's still fighting to get it cleaned up. It turns out that for him, it was easier to get over cancer than identity theft.
But maybe one trying issue helped the other.
Drew: The identity fraud gave me something that I can sink my teeth into, that I could go after, that I could be angry at.
Mankiewicz: So crime fighting as cancer therapy?
Drew: Fantastic. I recommend it to everybody.
Eric continues to work for other victims of leukemia and identity theft. Click here to check out The Eric Drew Foundation.
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The influence of Sylvester Stallone's Rocky films may be much more devious than we ever expected. There is a bad, bad lesson that other filmmakers seem to have learned from the Rocky saga, and it is this: You give 'em the same thing over and over again, and they'll keep coming back for more.
The Rocky films became formalized long ago, so that there is no longer any sense of invention in them. It's pure ritual, like the stations of the cross. In other words, there's barely any movie left—more like a string of recognizable and reassuring sensations.
This theory of filmmaking is becoming more and more common. In recent years, we've seen a score of films in which an individual fights the odds to achieve a victory, often in athletic tournaments. Nothing wrong with that story, but the movies themselves seemed to discard any notion of originality; and the success of the narrative shorthand of Flashdance fueled the movement toward superficiality and non-narrative.
All of which leads us to the latest in this unwelcome hybrid, Youngblood, a film so unoriginal and inoffensive that it hardly seems to exist at all, even while you're watching it. Youngblood has major studio production values, and it's cleanly and professionally edited and photographed. Even the acting isn't bad, although Rob Lowe gets less interesting with each film he makes.
But there isn't a single memorable instant in the film. It's all by rote, and cynically includes every cliché in the playbook.
This kid (Lowe), who labors on his dad's farm in upstate New York, gets a tryout with the junior league hockey team in Hamilton, Canada. The kid has a tough time in the tryout, being knocked down by a particularly vicious rival, but he gets the position.
Lowe's problem is this: He's fast, but is he tough enough? Something tells me he will wrestle with this problem, then have to prove himself in the last second of the championship game.
Something also tells me he will have to prove himself in a drinking session with his teammates, and then develop a friendship with the team leader, who turns out to be a real nice guy, in an inarticulate kind of way. And, furthermore, something tells me he will avail himself of the lusty charms of his oversexed landlady, but then fall for the cute girl he meets coming out of Slumber Party Massacre (really).
But something tells me she's going to turn out to be the coach's daughter. However, something also tells me that eventually Lowe is going to win the respect of the hardnosed coach.
Miraculously, all of these hunches (and more) are proven right during Youngblood. Director-writer Peter Markle (Mr. Hot Dog…The Movie himself) makes dead certain every predictable plot point is in place, and guides the proceedings with the proper eye for shots that can later be lifted to fashion a nice music video.
Against the odds, some of the supporting players do professional work. Cynthia Gibbs is the warm-eyed girl, Ed Lauter is the hawk-eyed coach, and Patrick Swayze (Red Dawn) actually gives a little life to that nice-if-inarticulate guy. They all deserve better than this.
First published in the Herald, January 1986
Keanu Reeves was in the movie too, the same year as River's Edge. Youngblood is a terrible picture, although I might give it the nod, barely, over Oxford Blues, when it comes to really rotten Rob Lowe movies.


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By the Rev. Dr. Ed Hird
When we think of ground-breakers in the field of children and communication, names like Dr. Piaget from France or Dr. Montessori from Italy may come to mind. From a Canadian perspective, Dr. Henry Wilson made an enormous contribution to modeling healthy communication between adults and children.
Dr. Henry Wilson was called "Big Baby Brother" because of his uncanny ability to communicate with clarity and compassion to children of all ages. His own daughter, Madeline, said that "the secret of his success with children in a great measure was due to his adaptability and his own youthful spirit." He was never too big to become as a little child to children. He was never too holy to fail to be human at the same time; never too busy or preoccupied to fail to be gracious and empathetic. Despite the enormous pain that he had experienced in his life, he was often seen with a smile on his face, and laughter on his lips. Twice he had seen his wives die during childbirth, leaving him a widower with three young children. Then tragically his only son, while boating, slipped overboard, and was crushed to death by a paddlewheel. One of Dr. Wilson's favorite quotations was "The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, and the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain."
His own daughter Madeline commented that "he was really just a grown-up boy. His work among the children was no mere studied professionalism." Henry Wilson could scarcely sit on a public platform and behave himself if there were a number of children in the audience. Invariably he'd be seen making signals to the children, laughing aloud in happy self-forgetfulness, or holding three or four of them on his knees. Part of Dr. Wilson's secret was that he was always natural, and therefore enjoyed the naturalness of children, especially their love of laughter. Studies have shown that pre-schoolers laugh 400 times a day, in contrast to the mere 15 laughs a day from adults. Dr. Wilson was often called "the Sunny Man". "Pre-eminent above all his personal qualities", said A.B. Simpson, "was his invincible cheerfulness, hopefulness, and joyousness."
Dr. Wilson started a Children's Alliance Fellowship which reached 5,000 children, each one of them praying for another child in an overseas country. Each week he wrote a magazine article specifically for children entitled "B.B.B." (Big Baby Brother). Henry Wilson was a ground-breaker in tearing down racial barriers between children. He had a particular love for the children's song "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight."
Dr. Henry Wilson was born in Peterborough, Ontario in the year 1841. At an early age he won the Wellington scholarship and entered Trinity College, ultimately receiving a Doctorate of Divinity in 1883. His first ministry was as curate of the Cathedral of St. George's Kingston, Ontario. There he consistently ministered for 17 years until one day "disaster" struck:…He met the Salvation Army.
In those days, few had ever heard of the Salvation Army, and what they had heard was treated with great suspicion. Dr. Henry Wilson, a highly educated and cultured Anglican, committed the unpardonable social sin of being seen with the likes of the Salvation Army. In Dr. Wilson's own words, "I found myself one night kneeling at the penitent form of the Army, pleading for pardon and peace, and needing both, as much as the drunkard on one side of me and the lost woman on the other. I saw myself as never before, a poor lost soul, just as much as they, so far as the need for a new heart and a right spirit was concerned." Initially the Dean of St. George's Cathedral told Dr. Wilson that he approved of the Salvation Army and would stand by him if trouble came. When 80 members of the Salvation Army publicly received communion at the Anglican Cathedral, Dean Farthing openly thanked God for their coming. Dr. Wilson's ministry expanded dramatically, with over 300 young people now flocking to his weekly bible study.
Then, out of the blue, the Dean pulled the plug, and ejected Dr. Wilson from the Cathedral, insisting that all connection with the Salvation Army be severed before Dr. Wilson could return. Dr. Wilson's own bishop offered him little support. Instead his bishop spoke of "the grotesque in the Army's performances" and Dr. Wilson being "betrayed into (his) eccentricity by cerebral excitement". In an age when organ music reigned as Queen, the drums and trumpets of the innovative Salvation Army were seen by his bishop as regrettable "extravagances." General William Booth, who founded the Salvation Army in England, was famous for shocking middle-class English society by his bold innovations. He freely borrowed from the beer-hall tunes, and gave them new lyrics, saying, "Why should the devil have all the good music?" When General Booth visited North America in 1907, Dr. Wilson was there with his hand raised and his voice uplifted in blessing over the bowed and silvered head of General Booth. For his friendship with the Salvation Army, Dr. Wilson paid a great price.
Fortunately for Dr. Henry Wilson, Bishop Henry Potter of New York was far kinder to this innovative Anglican, and gave him a position assisting another well-known Canadian, Dr. William Rainsford at St. George's. Dr. Wilson began reaching out to the down & out by renting the back of a saloon each Sunday morning for a worship service. Even though Dr. Wilson was fluent in the study of Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, he never lost touch with the basic needs of the poor and needy.
So Dr. Rainsford introduced him to another Canadian friend, Dr. A.B. Simpson, who also destroyed his health while at University before being miraculously healed. In Henry Wilson's own words, he "labored with a weak body, twice seriously injured by accidents almost fatal: for years prey to dyspepsia of the worst kind; to liver disease and all its attendant miseries; with nervous depression and fainting fits after the slightest exertion. A burden to myself, a constant anxiety to my family and friends, a nuisance to doctors, and a kind of walking apothecary shop. Idragged through my work with what sickly weariness and painfulness they only know who have suffered like things."
Through A.B. Simpson, Henry Wilson learnt about the healing power of Jesus' resurrection life that is available to each of us. After anointing for healing, Henry Wilson was miraculously healed. He said years later at age 67 " I am in every sense a younger, fresher man than I was at thirty."
Dr Wilson was so grateful for his healing that he became a strong advocate in praying for the sick. Wilson said "The center and the source of this divine health is the Lord Jesus Christ, now at the right hand of God, in His glorified humanity, like the sun in the center of the universe. The medium by which this glorified humanity passes into ours is the Holy Ghost – the breath of God – the air of heaven, like the atmosphere surrounding our earth and transmitting to it the light and life-giving powers of the sun in the heavens. This is the A, B, C of Divine Healing."
Henry Wilson went on to become A.B. Simpson's closest friend and associate, serving as the first President of the International Missionary Alliance, which sent thousands of outreach workers all over the world sharing the love of Jesus. Among his outreach ventures was the care of over 1,000 orphan children living in India. He also served as the President of the Seaman's Institute, the President of the Nyack Seminary, the Senior Field Superintendent for the Christian & Missionary Alliance, and the Chaplain of the Madgdalene Home for women coming off the streets. All this he did interdenominationally with the full blessing of his Anglican (Episcopal) Bishop who even authorized him to serve as Dr. A.B. Simpson's associate, serving Anglican communion each Sunday in a interdenominational context. Dr. Henry Wilson is another Canadian who tore down barriers between races, denominations, social classes, and age distinctions.
May we all learn like Henry Wilson to be "Big Baby Brothers" and "Big Baby Sisters" in bridging the generation gap between adults and children.
The Rev. Dr. Ed Hird, BSW, MDiv, DMin
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OTTAWA — Could it happen again?
"It isn't so much if as when," says former Canadian Security and Intelligence Service officer Francois Lavigne, who was part of the original investigation after a bomb exploded in luggage on Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985, killing all 329 people on board.
A second, apparently mistimed, explosion killed two baggage handlers at Japan's Narita Airport.
Lavigne says he's haunted by the 331 victims and still angry that intelligence officers with the fledgling security service were labelled incompetents and took the brunt of the blame.
"There were plenty of us who warned our superiors about the probability of a violent incident," he says. "Most of them did not want to listen, because those who made the decisions — the ministers — didn't believe it was possible, and worse, didn't want to hear about it."
The four-year Air India inquiry, headed by former Supreme Court justice John Major, was pointed in its criticism.
"A cascading series of errors contributed to the failure of our police and security forces to prevent this atrocity," wrote Major in his report, released two years ago.
Major had plenty of evidence to support his criticism, including the RCMP's failure to protect Indo-Canadian Times editor Tara Singh Hayer, who was murdered before he could testify at the trial of two suspects who were ultimately acquitted.
"In the end, of the three individuals who were to be key witnesses in the Air India trial, one was murdered, one feigned memory loss because she was too frightened to testify and one was forced to a witness protection program two years earlier than planned."
Bomb maker Singh Reyat, who served 10 years for manslaughter, is the only person to be convicted in the plot.
The Major report was lauded by most, but Lavigne — a respected intelligence analyst — says it suffered from the "fatal flaw" of not being allowed to investigate the role of the Indian government in the attack.
CSIS and the RCMP knew trouble was brewing among Sikhs in the Vancouver area, says Lavigne, and they had telephone intercepts from Indian diplomats living in Ottawa that proved the Indian government had successfully infiltrated the Sikh community.
"To those who would say that the possibility of Indian government officials being involved in Air India is ridiculous, I would say simply that the Service (CSIS) did possess evidence of that very thing. At the time, in 1984-85, External Affairs were very keen on encouraging commerce between Canada and India, so nothing could interfere with those efforts. However, because the Major Commission was prohibited from investigating possible Indian involvement, there is no mention of this in the final report."
Security and intelligence expert Michel Juneau-Katsuya, who worked with Lavigne on the investigation, confirms that CSIS knew that Indian diplomats had infiltrated Sikh radicals, and might have been frustrated at the federal government's reluctance to accept Canada was harbouring such a potentially violent enemy.
"But did they cross the line, provoke an incident to get Canada's cooperation?" he says. "We don't know."
CSIS deserved much of the criticism Major tossed at it, says Juneau-Katsuya, especially over the destruction of evidence, which basically scuppered the possibility of successful prosecutions.
"Absolutely, some of the criticisms were correct," he says. "CSIS wanted, at all costs, to avoid going to court, so if they didn't have any evidence they wouldn't have to testify. These guys were all from the RCMP, and they knew exactly what to do to avoid going to court."
But times were also different, he added.
"We had just made the transition from RCMP to CSIS, and we had a shift in the world situation. We knew about terrorism, but we were familiar with European and Middle East terrorism. Indian terrorism had never been on the radar. Air India was an awakening for the entire world."
Another devastating terrorist attack on Canadian soil has become a greater possibility with the elimination, in the Conservatives' omnibus budget bill, of the Inspector General of CSIS, adds Juneau-Katsuya.
"This is a very important position that is being eliminated," he says. "It is the eyes and ears of the minister of public safety, and without it, the government has increased the possibility that a situation like Air India could happen again."
Bal Gupta, whose wife, Ramwati, perished on Flight 182, says the risk of another terrorist attack in or from Canada will remain real while Canadian politicians continue to hustle for votes among radical ethnic elements.
"The politicians must learn — if they want to learn — that they should not be going to the functions of criminals to ask for votes," says Gupta, who heads the Air India Victims Families Association. "I still see politicians cavorting with terrorist supporters. It has to stop. Next time, it might not be just a plane full of brown-skinned east Indians who die."
The Major inquiry coincided with Canadian negotiations to sell a nuclear reactor to India, notes former CSIS agent Lavigne.
"It might be a coincidence, (but) the Major Commission was prohibited from making any conclusions concerning possible Indian government involvement.
"But if our leaders purposely hide the truth to satisfy interests other than Canadians' safety," he adds, "we are doomed to suffer a repeat of June 23, 1985."


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December 7, 2011
At first glance, this recipe looked like a healthy, vegetarian meal. Great dish for a Meatless Monday.
At second glance, I questioned if Paula Deen got her her hot little hands on the original recipe. I mean, vegetable oil for frying and 11 TABLESPOONS of butter?!? Since when did Paula start fixing tofu???
After I got over the amount of oil and butter in the recipe, I realized it looked like a great dish with a lot of yummy flavors, so I may as well give it a shot. I tweaked it a bit with the addition of green bell pepper, decreased the amount of serranos (I mean, eight?!? I guess Bobby Flay got his hands on this, too) and I lessened the amount of butter, reflected below. I just can't consciously tell people to put 11 tablespoons of butter in their food.
It turned out to be an extremely flavorful dish that I will definitely make again. I hope you enjoy it just as much as we did!
Black Pepper Tofu
- 1 3/4 lbs firm tofu
- Vegetable oil for frying
- 1 stick of butter
- 12 small shallots, thinly sliced
- 1 serrano chili, thinly sliced
- 12 garlic cloves, crushed
- 3 tbsp chopped fresh ginger
- 3 tbsp sweet soy sauce
- 3 tbsp light soy sauce
- 4 tsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp black pepper
- 16 small and thin green onions, cut into 1 1/4-inch segments
- I green bell pepper, julienned
Start with the tofu. Pour enough oil into a large frying pan or wok to come 1/4 inch up the sides and heat. Cut the tofu into large cubes, about 1 x 1 inch, then add to the hot oil. (You'll need to fry the tofu pieces in a few batches so they don't stew in the pan.) Fry, turning them around as you go, until they are golden all over. As they are cooked, transfer them onto paper towels.
Remove the oil and any sediment from the pan, then put the butter inside and melt it. Add the shallots, chiles, garlic and ginger. Sauté on low to medium heat for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the ingredients have turned shiny and are totally soft. Next, add the soy sauces and sugar and stir, then add the black pepper.
Add the tofu to warm it up in the sauce for about a minute. Finally, stir in the green onions and green bell pepper. Serve hot, with Jasmine rice.


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Board of Trustees Update: New Members
POSTED ON: July 12, 2012
The Board of Trustees voted at its June meeting to make President Jamshed Bharucha a voting member of the Board. It is a best practice for presidents of colleges and universities to serve as voting members of their institution's board, according to The Whelan Group, which has concluded an assessment for strengthening Board governance at The Cooper Union.
Joseph B. Dobronyi Jr. was elected to the Board in April. The Board of Trustees has maintained a tradition of including a direct descendant of Peter Cooper on the Board; Dobronyi replaced Marc F. Appelton, another descendent, who served on the Board from 2003-2012. Mr. Dobronyi is Peter Cooper's great great great grandson.
Peter Cafiero (CE'83), president of The Cooper Union Alumni Association (CUAA), is a voting member of the Board of Trustees as of July 1, per the most recent amendment to The Cooper Union bylaws, which now grants the alumni association president a voting seat on the Board of Trustees. Previously, Cafiero had served as an ex-officio member of the Board.
Thomas Driscoll (ME'77), who served as an Alumni Trustee from 2007-2011 was also elected in June as Trustee.


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The ADK valve is designed to drain and flush the generator tank after the end of each steam bath to reduce sediment build-up inside the tank, prolong heating element life and provide fresh water for each bath. The ADK drain and flush cycle waits approximately 17 minutes to allow water in the tank to cool, then calls for cold water input to further reduce water temperature before the motorized drain valve opens to drain the tank. Water continues to flow through the system to flush out sediment and debris, and then the tank remains empty until the next steam bath.


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Lack of support is a whole community issue not just a "size" issue. Big Blogger/Small Blogger as a tag line that throws me into a mini rage… personally I think by labelling yourself as a "small" blogger you're making it sound as if you are less than bigger bloggers - which you are not. It also makes it sound like you're saying you are not good enough, which again is not true. Numbers are the kryptonite of the blogging world - Try not to fall into that trap. We're all in this together no matter how many followers we have on that silly little widget on the side of our blog.
- COMMENT: Little things like commenting and responding make a HUGE difference to how you and your community feel. Even now after blogging for five years (yup - it's been five years) I still read every single one of my comments across all platforms. All bloggers read their comments - no matter how many they get. We all crave that feedback! Never underestimate the power of a comment, sometimes I get comments that put a huge smile on my face and ones that stick with me all day. Remember how much effect your words can have on the way someone feels.
- ASk, ANSWER and thank: Asking for help is something I think a lot of people shy away from, because they are embarrassed or worried about looking dumb. That ol' saying "theres no such thing as a stupid question" still stands today. And on the opposite side while sometimes it's easy to come back with the answer "just google it" it's not always the best way to help someone else out. Obviously you might not have time to go into detail or even know the answer but little questions like "What camera do you use?" or "Where is X from?" are quick and simple answers - you can reply in seconds and it will really help that other person out. And say thank you when they do reply!
- link back: Seen a item on another blogger you like? Bought a product off another ones recommendation? Got inspired by someone else's post? Link back to the blogger and let them know your thoughts! I love knowing what people think of products I've recommended or talked about and seeing link backs on my Google Analytics or Twitter @'s always prompts me to take a peek. It's great knowing other peoples feelings on different topics and products.
- Share: If you see a post you really love and want share with your community then go ahead and do it! I dont know why people shy away from this so much. While it'd be ridiculously hard to share every single thing you enjoy online but once a week or twice a week is a great place to start. Another fab way is to round up your favourite blogs/items/posts of the week/month/whenever - It's a fun and friendly way to share love and they might even link you back.
- Collaborate: Collaborating within the blogging community seems to be something we haven't quite grasped fully yet. Youtuber's realised a few years ago that the best way to grow is to collaborate with one another. Sharing audiences is a simple but effective way to grow your own. An idea might be to do a joint posts with another blogger or even guest post on other persons blog. Swap stories, share two different opinions and or take on a themes with another bloggers. There are so many ways to collaborate with another blogger and I really hope as a community we take this a step further!
While I'll freely admit that Im not quite "there" in terms of showing total blog love. I know I could do SO much more with the network I have behind me and from now on I pledge to do so. I'm going to make a conscious effort to reply more, comment more and most importantly share more new and exciting posts with my community.
Frankly though - try not to get annoyed or disheartened when others don't help out as much as they could do. Making little steps to being more positive with your outlook on blogging rather than feeling disheartened by it all is the first step on the ladder to building a supportive base. I think we should give a little love and hope it comes back to you. Every positive action as a reward.


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One more on Johnny
Don't worry, this isn't going to become the John Maine Appreciation Society, even though I know I'm not the only one who values our (you'd imagine, provided injuries stay away) #3 pitcher.
But you know how I enjoy SNY transcribing, and yesterday's game provided some Maine-inspired fun. First, there was his stellar outing, which was a joy to see (but **** Daylight Savings Time and Time Warner for screwing up DVR!). Honestly, you can't help but swell with pride whenever our humble, down to Earth dude goes out and pitches like a true ace.
But even more fun was Ron Darling and Kevin Burkhardt's interview with Maine after he finished for the day. Ron Darling knows better than anyone how pitchers relish their hits, and he and Kevin gently teased-slash-praised our Johnny for last year's home run. John Maine confessed that he holds it over Oliver Perez, who's been in the National League longer. "I give him such a hard time about it," Maine said with a crooked smile. "And he doesn't like it." Ha. But we do 🙂
Ron Darling then brought up Duffy's, where Coop and I met and photographed with Maine.
Darling: By the way, John, you got a ways to catch up to me. My MVP card at Duffy's is more packed than yours."
Maine (entirely good-naturedly): I know, I know. It's tough now because you have to sign a bunch of stuff when you go out there. It's a lot of people there that know who the Mets are.
Of course curiosity got the better of me, so I googled to find the Duffy's MVP Card is a points-per-dollar promotion. I have a feeling that Ron Darling's the type of generous guy who will treat his SNY buddies when they hang at Duffy's. So Mainey, keep on signing for those Mets fans. You'll have a hard time catching up dollar for dollar to Ronnie anyway.


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King LEED 6 Innovation Credits
What does the building do particularly well?
88% Recycling Rate
Recyclable materials are sorted at the MRF.
San Jose State promotes recycling throughout the campus and sends the materials collected to the appropriate facilities.
In addition, all unsorted refuse goes to Green Waste, a local materials recovery facility (MRF) where recyclables, compostable materials and anything else salvageable is sorted out and sent for reuse.
SJSU became one of Green Waste's first customers in 2009.
Sending refuse to the MRF brings the overall recycling rate for King Library to over 88%.
Use of King Library as a Teaching Tool
Slide from a presentation on electricity consumption reduction due to lighting projects.
Volunteer docents are available to lead students and the general public on tours of the sustainable elements of King Library.
All tours of the building mention sustainability, including the tour of the public art.
Staff give customized tours to staff from other libraries and institutions upon request.
Presentations on King's sustainable features are given during sustainability events on campus each semester.
Instructors may request a specialized tour of the building for their class.
Engineering class projects have been used to assess the feasibility of installing alternative energy on King Library.
This website provides a resource that is available 24/7.
Innovative Lighting Retrofit
Stack lights were retrofitted with occupancy sensors.
A 2009 lighting retrofit project reduced the electricity consumption of King Library by over 25%.
The most innovative element of this retrofit was the installation of occupancy sensors to control approximately 4000 of the 5000 book stack lights. These sensors keep the lights off in less-used aisles up to 80% of the time.
While designing the project, precedents in other libraries were researched and no other occupancy sensor retrofits could be found.
The use of spectrally enhanced (5000K) lamps to replace the original (3000K) lamps allowed for reduction of the wattage of each lamp from 39 to 21.
Two other fixture types were retrofitted with spectrally enhanced lighting during the same project with fixture wattage reductions of 50% and 66%. The three fixture types retrofitted in this project represent the majority of the fixtures in the library
Compact Shelves
Compact shelving allows more books to be stored in less space.
When it was determined that Wahlquist Library would be demolished to make way for the new King Library, the books in Wahlquist needed to be stored off-site, yet also needed to be available upon request.
A warehouse two miles away was leased for the duration of the construction project and compact shelves were installed to minimize the space required to store the displaced books. When contemplating the purchase of the compact shelves, it was decided that the shelves that were to be purchased for the off-site warehouse could later be reused in the lower level of the new library.
Thus these shelves have saved space in two locations, not just in their current location.
Compact shelves save resources in several ways:
E-Resources Save Paper and Energy
The King Library web site is the portal to many electronic resources.
A library saves resources by allowing many people to share a book, a CD or a DVD.
Many of King Library's resources can be accessed without even visiting the library.
Other resources save extra trips to the library.
LEED Accredited Professional on the Team
The original project architect, Carrier Johnson, supports this certification project with their LEED accredited staff.
LEED gives one innovation credit for the participation of a LEED accredited professional on a certification team.
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Mary and Mass
A Catholic woman connects with the feminine side of God, even if it's not often acknowledged in church.
Guest blog by Karen Kirkwood
I have not found a home in the Catholic community and I'm not involved in parish projects in part due to the patriarchal nature of the church. However, I do attend Mass. When I was considering becoming Catholic several years ago, the church's male hierarchy and exclusive language repelled me, but its social justice stance and unapologetic emphasis on Mary's role attracted me. Even though I have many concerns about the church's standpoint on women, I continue to attend Mass because it feeds me. I handle what I feel are archaic and absurd policies in several ways.
First of all, I concentrate on what does make sense to me. Before I became a Catholic, I asked a progressive priest how he dealt with the gender issues. He answered, "The church is slow to change, but change she does. I'm patient. Also, I'm confident that God is working on us." I look at the long history of the church and see it is making progress, albeit slowly, and what I receive at Mass trumps the current injustices towards women.
Also, I make some changes I need to in order to participate. Often during Mass, I supply my own inclusive language. Even though I'm not following strict procedure, I don't believe I'll be damned for calling God She. "Our Mother, who art in heaven…"
I comfort and educate myself by reading the mystics of the church, who often offer a broader definition of God than I find in the traditional church. I'm currently reading Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen, by Hildegard of Bingen and commentary by Matthew Fox. Hildegard struggled with being a gifted woman in a male-dominated church. Her words and mandalas inspire me because she rises above gender pettiness to share her all-encompassing and revolutionary insights into who we are and what our relationship to God should be.
Lastly, I meditate on an icon of La Virgen de Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint. I stare at her belly, awestruck, for she cradles God in her womb. This mystery fills an aching chasm in me that no male God can. One of the Hebrew words for God's compassion is associated with the womb. Womb love. When I need comfort, I don't picture myself in the arms of a male God as I was taught in Sunday school, but as floating, warm and secure, in God's womb, a distinctly feminine impression.
Guest blogger Karen Kirkwood is a contributor to U.S. Catholic who lives in Walla Walla, Washington.
As a supplement of the January 2011 special issue on women, U.S. Catholic is asking guest bloggers, "How do you keep the faith as a woman in the church?" To submit your answer (about 500 words), e-mail email@example.com.
Guest blog posts express the views of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians.


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Thanks to a sweet friend who picked this LOVELY duvet up for me at Target and mailed it!!! We can't find that kind of chicness here without paying major $$$$. So this got me inspired and I finally decorated our room. I also got around to hanging the faux capiz chandelier I made a couple of months ago. The tutorial for the faux capiz chandelier is here


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Simply Pagan
General pagan greeting cards suitable for birthdays, etc.
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Langenscheidt Standard-Wörterbuch Tschechisch is now available for Android phones.
Authoritative Dictionary Content:
- Around 76,000 entries (210,000 headwords, expressions and translations)
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- For everyday use, business and trave
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mwrenelt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 86 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Change I Can Believe In
Founder of a political website/blog. I want to get people off their butts and get involved in their government. It is their goverment, they need to get involved. I am.
The average American. The average Joe looking for info, news and resources to make the right decisions and so they can tell their representatives what they want.
All the designs are great1 Everyone has great talent. It will be tough to chose from all the great entries.
Just a reminder. The logo needs to look good in black and white as well as red, white and blue. It needs to scale well. Finally, the eagle symbol should look good as a stand alone item. There are some sharp designs here. I will eliminate some designs later tomorrow and have some folks give me their thoughts. Thanks everyone.
Last Guidance? I appreciate everyone who incorporated an eagle in the design. I am uploading a crude picture of what I call an "eagle with an attitude". The eagle bust looks out as if saying something to the viewer. This is a crude picture but it portrays what I would like to have in the design. I am hoping you folks can use this concept in your designs.
NEWEST Guidance--After looking around, I like the idea of an Eagle as the symbol for this site. I am wondering if you folks could incorporate an Eagle bust in your design. It could be integrated or show at the beginning or end of the design. The Eagle bust would need to be simple (so it would look good as a large symbol or small). In addition, the Eagle bust could stand alone.
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This will be a logo for a company that owns a political blog website. It should incorporate at least one symbol of America such as the eagle, flag, or a recognizable landmark (not restricted to these). The logo should use, at a minimum the three colors of red, white and blue.
The logo should be scalable and usable in color or black and white. In addition, it would work as a watermark.
The final logo should be in the following formats: PSD, PNG and JPEG.
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The Snowtown Murders
There is something quite terrifying about cult mentalities or any person—peaceful or otherwise—who can catch the attention, loyalty and obedience of another person or group of people. But where icons like Manson and Jim Jones had the ability to control large masses, real-life mastermind John Bunting closed in on a desperate and disadvantaged family. It could be argued that the group mentality gave Mason and Jones some assistance in the brainwashing process, but to destroy a family without any real dogma is miraculous and, to me, far more tragic.
The rights to make the film were released shortly before the film was made in 2011 and, most likely, were difficult to come by. It surrounds the true story of a family in the run-down suburb of Adelaide in Sailsbury North, Australia. Elizabeth (Louise Harris) is the mother of four sons, several of whom are being sexually abused by her boyfriend. The oldest, Jamie (Lucas Pittaway), is exposed to countess accounts of depravity and violence in the house and desperately needs an outlet. In comes John (Daniel Henshall), the handsome and outspoken lad who hates pedophiles and homosexuals and urges the family to stand up and lash out at her former boyfriend.Continue Reading