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People discover they can be in charge of world community food sources by making local decisions about food.
In their quietly elegant way, Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe are sowing the seeds of and reporting on a revolution. Frances calls it the "Rebellion of the Guinea Pigs," and it's one that involves us all.
As citizens of the industrialized world, we are part of what Frances — Frankie, as she's known informally — describes as "the greatest nutrition experiment ever conducted." Our high-sugar, high-fat diet marks a radical departure from the unprocessed, plant-centered diet of our ancestors. In the United States alone, staggering statistics for obesity and diet-related diseases show just how poorly the guinea pigs — that would be us — are doing.
The diet isn't so great for our planet either, devouring water and prime agricultural land and spewing cancer-causing chemicals into the soil, air and water, in quantities too vast for the ecosystem to process. The social, political and economic costs of this dietary excess boggle the mind, but here's one statistic to consider: Approximately 1 billion people on Earth are obese; roughly an equal number are starving. Within that disparity lie chasms of potential conflict for world community food sources.
Something has to give. And as the mother-daughter duo demonstrate in example after example in their heartening book, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, ending this "experiment" can be lifesaving, health and community producing, deeply satisfying and joyous. Most revolutions can't be described as delicious. This one absolutely is.
Thirty years ago Frances Moore Lappe became a household name with the publication of her remarkable little book, Diet for a Small Planet. That earth-shaking book was the product of a questing intellect, which still hasn't hung up its traveling shoes. She was 26, living in Berkeley, California, the heart of the we-can-change-the-world '60s zeitgeist, and her questions seemed fairly simple: What causes poverty? What can we do to end hunger and suffering? Why isn't there enough food?
What she discovered and shared with the world in her book was the shocking revelation that hunger and poverty were not the inevitable results of scarcity, as the experts of the day were proclaiming. There was plenty of food to go around, but people were so poor they couldn't afford to buy it, and we were feeding a third of the world's grain to livestock.
Today more than 50 percent of the world's grain goes to livestock. And while we're sucking water out of the aquifers, guzzling fossil fuel, burning down rain forests and gobbling up abundant protein and calories along the way, the myth of scarcity continues to thrive.
"What I found was not a lack of food but a lack of democracy — a shortage of people making local decisions about their food sources and land use. My intuition as a 26 year old was food would he the thread, the means to understanding the economic and political underpinnings of poverty," Frankie says. "Food is our most direct, intimate tie to the Earth, as well as a primary means of bonding with each other. Food is the starting point."
The 30 years since publication of Frankie's first book have seen an acceleration of environmental decline, a worsening of diets in the industrialized world and diet-related disease statistics chugging up the charts like the Little Engine that Could. But in the middle of all this individual and collective unhealthiness, another story is unfolding: one of hope, innovation and grassroots democracy.
This was the story Frankie wanted to tell in Hope's Edge one she wanted her children's generation to hear. For that, she needed Anna's partnership.
At 26, Anna was precisely the same age Frankie had been when she began Diet for a Small Planet. As proof the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, Anna recently earned her master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, specializing in economic and political development.
To pick up where the original Diet left off, Frankie and Anna traveled to five continents, interviewing and observing people who are transforming their societies and restoring the environment, sometimes one tree or one delicious meal at a time.
Although the projects are widely scattered and unconnected, a central theme emerges in Hope's Edge: Practical, personal paths can heal our lives and help our planet. As societies, we create the very inequalities and devastation of nature we as individuals abhor. The way out is individual responsibility and commitment in action. Often, the trail leads straight through the kitchen.
The book project turned into an enviable mother-daughter adventure, a journal of personal discovery, a lesson in basic civics and an affirmation of the difference one person can make.
"The Green Belt movement in Kenya started with one woman, Wangari Maathai, seeing the problem of the desert encroaching on what was once flourishing agricultural land," Anna says. "Kenya's lush forests were shrinking, and the land was literally turning to sand. So she began to plant trees."
Kenya's desertification is a familiar process throughout the world. Trees are cut down for farmland or fuel. When the trees go, so does the protection that keeps soil from blowing away in the wind. As the forest shrinks, the villagers are forced to walk farther and farther to get water and firewood, spreading the vicious cycle of forest loss, desertification and communities unable to feed themselves.
"That tree-planting movement has now become an organization fighting for democracy in Kenya, promoting food security and empowering women to see themselves as citizens," Anna says. "Wangari says the most powerful thing anyone can do for someone else is to help them realize their own power, their own ability to have the world around them align with their own deepest values. Everywhere we went on this journey we saw ordinary people making huge differences."
Started on Earth Day 1977, that one-woman movement in Kenya has now grown to include 6,000 registered groups throughout the country, each with its own tree nursery. At the time Frankie and Anna visited, more than 20 million trees had been planted and countless people had been empowered to see the forest as a public good that they have a right and duty to protect. It also has enabled people to see themselves as creators of solutions to the thorny, intertwined challenges facing their nation.
"Beneath it all is an understanding of what it means to be human," Frankie says. "Are human beings just this caricature? 'Selfish accumulators' with no thought except for what they can consume? Or do we all have deeper needs — for real connection, for effectiveness, for real community beyond our immediate families and for a worldview that supports nature rather than exploiting it?
"We're not proposing all economic exchange, all financial exchange, is evil, but what has so thrown our planet off balance and has led to such massive destruction of life is this reductionism that boils absolutely everything down to its market value."
Frankie hears a familiar ring these days when the biotech companies insist we must have genetically modified seeds to feed the world's hungry. Now, as then, hunger isn't a problem of scarcity, but of economics. The question is, how do humans build communities in concert with nature, in which everyone can grace their tables with healthy, safe food? Warm, written in friendly first person, Hope's Edge is full of answers to that question — and recipes to help readers participate in their own guinea pig rebellion. The following are a few excerpts — first person, as is the rest of the book.
The Hyacinth Principle
In less than two decades, the Bangladeshi Grameen Bank has achieved what many thought impossible: It built a lending institution for the poor that actually works, putting loans in the hands of more than 2 million borrowers, almost all of them poor women. While the loans may seem tiny in Western terms — $160 on average—they make life-and-death differences here.
Grameen's success has even generated a whole new buzzword, microcredit, and brought its charismatic founder, Muhammad Yunus, international acclaim. The World Bank has tapped Yunus to advise on how to spread microcredit worldwide, and replications have popped up in more than 58 countries. Yunus says microcredit is so potent it can "put poverty in the museum, and we'll have to explain that awful thing to our grandchildren."
After a bumpy ride north of Dhaka, we arrive in the village of Azugara to sit in on a Grameen Bank meeting. Stepping into the tin-roofed hut, we watch while the Grameen center manager conducts today's business and women from different groups request loans. When they're finished, we have time for questions. When we ask how they've been using their loans, the women respond with many examples: Yarn for weaving. Feed for cow-fattening. Small grocery items for selling in the stall. A sewing machine.
I ask if the loans mean less hunger and better nutrition.
"Of course we have more food to eat now," a slender woman in a periwinkle-blue sari responds. "Before I was working on another man's land. Now I am taking rice off my own land."
Another explains, "Before, I was always paying a moneylender any money I made. Now we have our own businesses. I can feed my family."
Our host jumps in with his own question, "How many of you have housing loans?"
Hands shoot up, maybe a quarter of the room. These are women who've built a credit history and secured a larger-size Grameen loan to build their own homes. Our host points out the Grameen housing-loan huts, although their shiny new tin roofs are a dead giveaway.
In Bangladesh, Grameen has already spun off roughly a dozen new enterprises, mainly in the last six years. Grameen's sister companies are involved in weaving, renewable energy, marketing, communications software development, even a mobile-phone company that makes telephone use possible for the first time in many villages. Grameen has also created a kind of health insurance for its members, and it even offers educational scholarships. Many of these ideas are offshoots of others, building and growing like a hyacinth, which sends out shoots horizontally and swiftly sprouts new plants.
The Garden Project: Prisoners Plant
The Garden Project began as a horticulture program at the San Francisco County Jail in 1982. Cathrine Sneed, then a counselor, along with San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey, decided to begin a program in which prisoners would work on the jail's farm to grow organic vegetables for homeless shelters.
A few years after the garden's launch, Hennessey ordered a study of the impact working in the garden had on prisoners. The study tracked 300 inmates. After three years, the evidence was in: Inmates involved in gardening were less than half as likely to return to prison.
Now inmates who have worked in the jail garden have the opportunity after release to get a decent-paying job on a half-acre garden plot Cathrine created in the Bayview-Hunters Point District — right next to a brand-new police station.
Despite his former street life and time in prison, project employee Anthony Travis looks far shy of his 35 years. As he chats with us, it's clear he isn't surprised by the study showing the difference the garden experience makes.
"It's hard to get out of jail and stay out," he says. "There's no one to help you get on your feet. They say jail is about setting you straight: It's really about breaking you down to keep you doing what you were doing."
Anthony echoes Cathrine's view that most people who end up in jail have been driven to crime by deprivation and hunger. (As you weigh Anthony's and Cathrine's words about the impact of hunger, remember, at any given moment, more than 20 million Americans are wondering where they're going to get their next meal.)
The healing power of nature may be considered the arena of poets but Anthony offers an explanation that conveys perfectly the potency of this project.
"We always say, 'We don't just grow flowers and vegetables, we grow people.' This is a program built to help one another. If we can help one another, we can cut down on crime."
Some might overlook the helping-other-people aspect of why the garden works. Not Cathrine. "People need to feel useful," she says. "They need to feel their lives have meaning.
"When I go to the bare basics of what we're doing, its trying to replicate a family. In a family, whatever you have, you spread however thin you need to. If you have a piece of bread, you cut it 14 times."
Sharing and giving — including during one six-month period, 20,000 pounds of broccoli, potatoes, zucchini, cabbage and kale — are key to the projects transformative power. In a statement that is a far cry from the presumed human need for self gain embodied in the prevailing mental map, Cathrine sums it up.
"We have to give to live."
Beautiful Horizon
A long, overnight bus ride north from São Paulo takes us to Belo Horizonte,
Brazil's fourth largest city. We're in Belo Horizonte — Beautiful Horizon — for one reason: It's the only city we know of in the capitalist world that has decided to make food security a right of citizenship.
In the United States, we take the right to education for granted. And though we don't have national health care, we expect the government to pay for care for those with no resources. Of course, eating healthy food is a prerequisite both to learning and to staying healthy, yet for most people "eating" and "rights of citizenship" aren't chewable in the same mouthful.
Not true in Belo Horizonte.
Well-fed children, bustling markets full of locally grown produce and cut-rate lunches for anyone who wants to eat are examples of dozens of striking innovations popping up in this city since 1993. That's when the city started thinking differently about ending hunger, partly in response to the cruel fact that one-fifth of the city's youngest children were suffering from malnutrition and many in the city lived on the edge of poverty.
"We believe the status of citizen surpasses that of consumer," explains Adriana Aranha, the woman in charge of the many activities aimed at ensuring everyone in Belo has access not just to enough calories, but also to quality food. She explains that while food may be a commodity, food security — having enough food to feed yourself and your family — is a human right, a right by virtue of being a citizen. People too poor to be consumers are still citizens, even if the market is shutting them out. It's the government's duty to correct for this "market failure," as an economist might call it.
Once people started thinking their way out of the "charity" trap, dozens of clever actions sprang up inside Adriana's city agency, many designed to improve the way the market works, not supplant it.
"We're fighting the concept that the state is a terrible, incompetent administrator," Adriana says. "We're showing the state doesn't have to provide everything, it can facilitate. It can create channels for people to find solutions themselves."
I wonder if Adriana realizes her city may be the only one in the world taking this approach: food as a right of citizenship, of membership in the human family.
So I ask, "When you began, did you realize how important what you were doing was? How much difference it might make? How rare it is in the entire world?"
Listening to her long answer in Portuguese without understanding, I see her eyes moisten.
"I knew we had so much hunger in the world," she says. "But what is so upsetting, what I didn't know when I started this, is it's so easy.
"It's so easy to end it."
K.C. Compton is senior editor at MOTHER EARTH NEWS, and formerly was Editor in Chief of our sister publications, The Herb Companion and GRIT. A huge fan of the food chain, from molecules to meals on the table, K.C. is passionate about the idea that most of what we need to be healthy can be found in the garden. Find her on Google+.


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This is fine, of course. That time we knocked our head on the toilet back in 1993 lead us to come up with the concept of the flux capacitor, which inspired our invention of the Interwebs; so, you know, we're not just whistlin' Dixie here. We do know that Costas has mixed feelings (at best) about the series of tubes, Braylon Edwards is an outstanding wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns and Buzz ... well, Buzz has some thoughts about blogs.
Blogs especially, Bissinger says, "disgrace the written word. No one sweats over a sentence anymore, no one really cares if a sentence has good grammar or bad grammar. No one really cares if it has the right or wrong word. Blogs are all about opinion, all about getting in your face, and the fact that people love them says they're really not interested in facts, not interested in beautiful writing; they're just interested in having our own opinions certified.
"With the Internet, there's too much information out there, and we've become a very mindless country. I don't know how else to say it: We really revel in ignorance and disinformation."
So, yeah: This'll be fun. (For the record, we own — and love — every one of Bissinger's books and agree that David Eckstein is scrappy.)
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text: Editing Duet (episode) 0 CLICK HERE TO LOG IN OR CREATE AN ACCOUNT {{real world}} {{sidebar episode |<!-- See [[Memory Alpha:Episode data project]] --> | aSelf = Duet | sTitle = Duet | sSeries = DS9 | nSeason = 1 | nEpisode = 19 |sProductionSerialNumber = 40511-419 | nAirdateYear = 1993 | sAirdateMonth = June | nAirdateDay = 13 | sImage = Aamin Marritza 2369.jpg | wsWrittenBy = | wsTeleplayBy = [[Peter Allan Fields]] | wsStoryBy = [[Lisa Rich]] & [[Jeanne Carrigan-Fauci]] | wsDirectedBy = [[James L. 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A [[Kobheerian]] [[freighter]], the ''[[Rak-Miunis]]'', arrives with a passenger who requires medical assistance for a condition known as [[Kalla-Nohra Syndrome]]. [[Doctor]] [[Julian Bashir|Bashir]] is unfamiliar with the disease, but Kira recognizes it immediately. The disease originated from a [[mining]] accident at the [[Gallitep labor camp]], which Kira helped liberate during the [[Occupation of Bajor|Occupation]], so she goes to greet the new arrival in the [[infirmary]], believing him to be a [[Bajoran]]. When Kira reaches the infirmary, she finds Bashir's patient is not a Bajoran, but a [[Cardassian]]. She immediately calls for [[security]]. === Act One === The Cardassian man runs past Kira and onto the [[Promenade]] only to be stopped by [[Constable]] [[Odo]] and two [[deputy|deputies]]. Kira and Bashir follow shortly and Bashir is obviously clueless. Kira informs Odo that the Cardassian is a [[war criminal]] and Odo escorts the man to the [[security office]]. In Odo's office, Kira admits to [[Commander]] [[Benjamin Sisko]] and Odo that the [[Bajoran Provisional Government]] has not listed the Cardassian, [[Aamin Marritza]], for any war crimes. However, she is certain that there is no way to contract Kalla-Nohra Syndrome except for the mining accident at Gallitep. As she describes the brutal conditions at the camp, her voice cracks with emotion. Sisko decides to talk to Marritza alone. In the [[brig]], when Sisko asks Marritza about his illness, Marritza claims he has [[Pottrik Syndrome]], a similar condition to Kalla-Nohra, and that his medication is the same as that which is used to treat Kalla-Nohra Syndrome. Further, he denies ever being at a [[labor camp]], as he is a [[file clerk]] who resides on [[Kora II]]. A [[Kainon|Bajoran prisoner]] in another holding cell wakes as the Cardassian speaks and yells for Odo, refusing to be held in the same room as Marritza. Back in Sisko's office, Bashir confirms that a [[bio-probe]] proved Marritza's condition is Kalla-Nohra, not Pottrik Syndrome. His conversation with Sisko is interrupted as Kira contacts Sisko to inform him that he has an incoming [[hail|transmission]] from the Bajoran [[Minister of State]]. Bashir exits and Sisko puts Minister [[Kaval]] on his [[desktop monitor]]'s [[viewscreen]]. Kaval has contacted Sisko to congratulate and thank him for detaining Marritza. However, Sisko reminds Kaval that the Cardassian has done nothing wrong and he therefore has no reason to detain the man much longer. The minister assertively assures Sisko that the man will pay if he was indeed at Gallitep and reminds Sisko that Deep Space 9 is a Bajoran station. === Act Two === Finding Kira sitting at a table in the [[Replimat]], Sisko joins her to inform her that Odo, as [[Chief of Security]], will take over the Marritza investigation. He acknowledges that Minister Kaval put Kira in charge, but he does not feel Kira can be entirely objective in the investigation. While Kira acknowledges that she is not objective, she promises as his [[first officer]] to handle the case fairly, as she owes it to the victims of Gallitep. Sisko reluctantly agrees and informs Odo of the change via his [[combadge]]. Odo is releasing an [[intoxication|intoxicated]] Bajoran as Kira enters the security office. The man, [[Kainon]], tells Odo he wants to know when the Cardassian will be hanged. Once Kainon is gone, Odo informs Kira that he has done a background check and confirmed what little they know about Marritza so far. As Kira enters the holding cell area, Marritza finishes a bowl of [[sem'hal stew]], which he says could use some [[yamok sauce]]. Kira commences interrogating Marritza about his claim of having "missed [the] honor" of being at Gallitep, confronting him with the results of the bioscan that proved him to have been. Promising to "make [his] lies more opaque," Marritza confesses to having served at the camp as a file clerk, without any connection to the atrocities that had taken place there under [[Gul]] [[Darhe'el]] – even as he minimizes them, turning Kira's interrogation into a debate over the deaths being the result of fights between the workers and industrial accidents (Marritza's story) and systematic abuse and brutality (Kira's). Marritza tells Kira that it was Gul Darhe'el himself who began circulating rumors of large-scale massacres at Gallitep, based on the logic that the rumors on their own would be just as effective as having actually killed millions of Bajorans in achieving the Cardassians' main goal: "''To keep you Bajorans thinking of yourselves as victims. To keep you afraid… and helpless.''" Having revealed his relatively innocuous identity and the truth of his presence on Gallitep, he challenges Kira to release him, accusing her of being more interested in vengeance than justice. === Act Three === Having learned of the detention of Aamin Marritza as a Cardassian national, Gul [[Dukat]] hails Commander Sisko via [[subspace]], demanding Marritza's release and noting that his detention breached a Federation promise to allow free and safe passage through the station and its jurisdiction. Sisko stalls for time, telling Dukat that while he would like nothing better than to release Marritza there were still some inconsistencies in his story that needed to be cleared up. Dukat gives Sisko a thinly-veiled warning about allowing Bajoran thirst for violence to create tension between the Federation and the Cardassians. He closes the channel with the warning that the Cardassians will hold Sisko responsible should "those Bajoran [[hate]]mongers get their hands on" Marritza. [[File:Kira Nerys and Jadzia Dax, 2369.jpg|thumb|"''What are you looking for?''"<br />"''Answers.''"]] Meanwhile, Kira is on the Promenade, gazing out of the window. When Dax asks her what she's looking for, Kira replies "''Answers.''" She confides in Dax that even if Marritza is just a file clerk she still wants to see him punished, and that in some way she wants him to be ''more'' than just a file clerk; to actually be something worse. As far as Kira is concerned, Marritza is guilty by virtue of simply having been on Gallitep, and that his trial and punishment would bring some "satisfaction" or closure to the Bajorans. However, Dax believes that Kira is "trying too hard to believe" what she's saying and that she already knows that punishing Marritza without reason would not serve any purpose because Kira already knows that simple vengeance is not enough. Dax walks away to leave Kira to her thoughts. Having consulted the [[Bajoran Archives|Bajoran Central Archives]], Commander Sisko informs his [[senior staff]] that Marritza's claims are accurate: there was a filing clerk on Gallitep by the name of Aamin Marritza. A further claim, that Marritza had been teaching filing at a Cardassian military academy on [[Kora II]], is also verified. The Archives have also sent the only known photograph of Marritza from his days at Gallitep; a very blurred image with him in the background on one side. Dax carries out an image enhancement routine which cleans up the image enough to show that the man in the brig claiming to be Aamin Marritza and the man in the picture identified as Aamin Marritza are ''not'' the same man. Examining the images of the two other Cardassians in the shot standing in profile relative to the camera, Sisko has an idea: he asks Dax to enhance one of them. The imaging program extrapolates the profile into an impression of the full face, which ''does'' match the man in the holding cell. Dax checks the photo's legend, which presents the senior staff with the revelation that the man in the photo thus identified – and thus the man in their custody – is in fact Gul Darhe'el. Kira immediately confronts Darhe'el with this knowledge. He accepts his fate, noting that the Bajorans "can only execute me once," and proceeds to taunt Kira with his "accomplishments." Rejecting the notion of a war crimes tribunal on the grounds that there had been no war – the Bajorans having surrendered so quickly – he claims that he did everything he did to wipe out "Bajoran scum" because it needed to be done, he disavows any guilt on the part of his soldiers for having carried out the atrocities in question and derides the efforts of the [[Bajoran resistance]] to liberate their homeworld, dismissing Kira's [[Shakaar resistance cell|cell]] in particular as a mere annoyance. Kira coldly challenges him to include his revelations in his testimony to the tribunal, knowing full well that they will sentence him to death, and he replies: :"''Let them. Don't you see; it doesn't change anything! Kill me. Torture me… it doesn't matter. You've already lost, Major. You can never undo what I've accomplished. The dead will still be dead!''" === Act Four === Shaken to the core, Kira is given a glass of [[Maraltian Seev-ale]] by Odo, who suggests that she go and lie down after the shock of the revelations she has just been forced to hear. She refuses to do so: that would be what Darhe'el would want, to send a Bajoran scurrying off to hide in a corner. She goes on to tell Odo what Darhe'el said about the Shakaar cell, leading Odo to counsel her to not to reveal that kind of personal information – but Kira hadn't revealed her membership of Shakaar to Darhe'el during the interrogation. This sets Odo thinking: as important as Darhe'el was in the Cardassian occupational leadership, he wouldn't necessarily have known that Kira was a member of the Shakaar cell. Had he been in charge of putting down the resistance then he probably would have known, but he was in charge of a labor camp – why would he have had that information? Realizing that something doesn't fit, Kira goes back to interrogate Darhe'el again, while Odo tells the computer to review all off-station requests for information about Major Kira within the previous eight months. Back in the holding area, Kira demands to know how Darhe'el knew of her membership in Shakaar. Darhe'el reminds her of his earlier remarks concerning Marritza's filing system and how efficient it was, claiming to remember her name from an action report having previously forgotten about it until he was reminded of it on his arrival on the station. He then challenges Kira to answer some questions of his own – unless Kira is afraid to do so. Meanwhile, outside the security office, a group of Bajorans has gathered. Wearing the "dust-wraps" around their face that prevented Bajoran laborers from being suffocated in the mines, they are survivors of Gallitep and Gul Darhe'el's brutality, holding a vigil. Passing them (and [[Quark]]) on the way, Odo goes to the infirmary to consult with Bashir: three months previously there was a request for information on Major Kira from Kora II, by Aamin Marritza. Odo asks Bashir to look into Marritza's medical records. At this point, Dax informs Odo from Ops that Gul Dukat is responding to his subspace hail and his request for access to the Cardassian government's files on Gul Darhe'el. After reminiscing for a moment, Dukat denies Odo access to the files, but notes that they would only tell Odo what Dukat himself is telling him: Gul Darhe'el is dead, that he is buried underneath one of Cardassia's largest military [[monument]]s, and that Dukat himself attended his funeral. Odo tells Dukat that the man in his custody has admitted to being Darhe'el, shocking and enraging Dukat. He accuses Odo of a plot to discredit the Cardassians, and Odo suggests that access to Darhe'el's files would prove Dukat's case. Dukat relents, and gives Odo limited access to the files. In the brig, the prisoner whom Kira still believes to be Darhe'el asks her how many Cardassians she killed. Kira claims not to have kept count, but the prisoner suggests that she did and that she also targeted Cardassian civilians on Bajor, noting that 'one of the most effective terrorist weapons was random violence." Kira admits to regretting some of the things she did during the Occupation, but insists that she had no choice: Bajor was fighting for its survival. The prisoner claims that the Cardassians were doing the same: they had an [[Cardassian Empire|empire]] to manage and protect, and had urgent need of Bajoran resources. He finishes on the note "''What you call genocide, I called a day's work!''" At this point, Odo arrives and asks to speak to Kira outside. He tells her that, based on the research he and Dr Bashir have carried out, the man in the cell apparently ''wanted'' to be caught. === Act Five === In the commander's office Kira, Odo, and Commander Sisko assemble the evidence at hand. Odo shows Sisko a death certificate for Darhe'el included among the files which Dukat gave Odo access to, that lists him as having died six years previously from a massive [[coleibric hemorrhage]]. Kira denounces the certificate as a fake, a Cardassian ruse to trick station authorities into releasing him. Odo presents further evidence supplied by Dukat showing that, on the day of the accident at Gallitep when all known cases of Kalla-Nohra Syndrome were contracted, Darhe'el was back on Cardassia being awarded the [[Proficient Service Medallion]], and thus never actually contracted the condition suffered by the man in the cell. Odo also notes that, during the prisoner's last two weeks on Kora II, he resigned his post at the military academy, put his affairs in order – even providing handsomely for his housekeeper – and booked passage on a ship specifically scheduled to stop at [[Deep Space 9]], returning him to Bajoran jurisdiction – an unusual choice of travel plan for a Cardassian war criminal. Kira will hear none of it. Conceding the interesting question that the evidence raises, she insists that the prisoner will stand trial on Bajor. Sisko points out that the decision has still to be made, and Kira challenges him to speak to the prisoner for himself. At this point Dr. Bashir enters with additional medical evidence: aside from his receiving treatment for Kalla-Nohra, the prisoner's medical history is consistent with his relatively advanced years, with one exception. Five years previously he began taking large doses of a [[dermatiraelian plastiscine]]: a dermal regenerative agent used to maintain skin resilience after large-scale cosmetic surgery. Kira is unable to deny the obvious conclusion of all the evidence, that the man in the cell is not Darhe'el but someone who has been surgically altered to resemble him. Kira returns to the [[brig]] to confront the prisoner. She asks the prisoner how he came to contract Kalla-Nohra Syndrome when his own progress reports showed him to be on Cardassia at the time receiving the Proficient Service Medallion. The prisoner denounces the reports as inaccurate, but Kira asks him why he is taking a dermal regenerative, and even begins to fill out the gaps. Increasingly frantic in his Darhe'el role, he demands that Kira leave and yells for security to escort her out. He begins detailing how he ordered his guards to slaughter the laborers on Gallitep while "the useless office clerks were busy packing their precious files" and this prompts Kira to ask why, if that was his opinion of them did he take Marritza's name. The prisoner continues to ignore Kira's questions, proceeding to rant and rave over Bajor and the Bajorans. As she listens to him, Kira's demeanor changes, and she tells him straight: he ''is'' Marritza. :"''That's not true! I'm alive! I will ''always'' be alive! It's Marritza who's dead! ''(laughing)'' Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman! Who would every night, cover his ears, because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming for mercy of the Bajorans! He would only…''" With that, Aamin Marritza breaks down and sinks onto his bunk, weeping uncontrollably. :"''I covered my ears every night, but… I couldn't bear to hear those horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors, and do nothing. Marritza's dead. He deserves to be dead.''" Now sympathetic, Kira moves to release him: ''"You didn't commit those crimes and you couldn't stop them, you were only one man."'' But Marritza begs her not to reveal his identity, insisting that he go to trial as Darhe'el so that he can be "punished" – that all of his people must be punished for what they did to the Bajorans. When she asks him why he's doing this, Marritza replies: :"''For Cardassia. Cardassia will only survive if it stands before Bajor and admits the truth. My trial will force Cardassia to admit its guilt… And we're guilty, all of us. …My death is necessary!''" Kira, now emotional herself, replies "''What you're asking for is another murder… Enough good people have already died … I won't help kill another.''" [[File:Kira and the dead Marritza.jpg|thumb|Kira holding Marritza's dead body]] A little later, Kira and Odo walk Marritza along the Promenade to a ship that will take him back home to Kora II. Marritza says there is nothing for him to go back to, but Kira promises that the authorities will help him get back on his feet. Marritza is bitter at Kira: as Gul Darhe'el, his trial might have helped bring about a new Cardassia; as a lowly filing clerk, he can do nothing. But Kira says that, if Cardassia is to change, it will need men of honor like Marritza to help it. Suddenly [[Kainon]] reappears from out of the crowd and stabs Marritza in the back, wounding him fatally. Odo apprehends him before Marritza even hits the floor, and a distraught Kira demands of Kainon: :"''Why? He wasn't Darhe'el! WHY?''" Kainon's sneered reply is that "''He's a Cardassian. That's reason enough.''" Marritza is already dead as Kira replies, as much to herself as to anyone else, "''No. It's not.''" == Memorable quotes == "''Kill me! Torture me! It doesn't matter! You've already lost, Major! You can never undo what I've accomplished. The dead will still be dead!''" : - '''Marritza/Darhe'el''', taunting Kira "''Commander, if you'd been there twelve years ago when we liberated that camp… if you'd seen the things I saw… all those Bajoran bodies, starved, brutalized. You know what Cardassian policy was? Oh, I'm not even talking about the murder, murder was just the end of the fun for them; first came the humiliation! Mothers raped in front of their children, husbands beaten until their wives couldn't recognize them, old people buried alive because they couldn't work anymore!" : - '''Kira''', to Sisko and Odo "''If your lies are going to be this transparent, it's going to be a very short interrogation.''"<br /> "''Well, in that case, I'll try to make my lies more opaque.''" : - '''Kira''' and '''Marritza/Darhe'el''' "''What was your rank at Gallitep, what were your duties?''"<br /> "''You don't want to know.''"<br /> "''Just answer the question.''"<br /> "''You'll be disappointed…''"<br /> "''I'll risk it.''"<br /> "''I had the distinction of serving in the exalted position of filing clerk.''"<br /> "''Filing clerk?''" <br /> "''I told you you'd be disappointed. Actually I would have preferred to avoid military service altogether, but I had the good fortune to be posted to the records office at Gallitep, and I turned out to be an exemplary file clerk. In fourteen units of service, I never misplaced or lost a record. I received numerous commendations. Gul Darhe'el himself called my computer filing system 'a masterpiece of meticulous exactitude'. Well, there you are. My secret's out, my crimes laid bare… I await execution.''" :- '''Kira''' and '''Marritza/Darhe'el''' "''You saw what we wanted you to see. Who do you think started the rumors about brutality at Gallitep? It was Gul Darhe'el himself. Now ''there'' was a leader. A brilliant, extraordinary man. He knew that to rule by fear was to rule completely. Why bother with actual mass murder, when the mere reports of such incidents achieved the same effect?''" : - '''Marritza/Darhe'el''' "''This Bajoran obsession with alleged Cardassian ''improprieties'' during the occupation is really quite distasteful.''"<br /> "''I suppose if you're Bajoran, so was the occupation.''" : - '''Dukat''' and '''Sisko''' "''What did you do? Did you kill the real Marritza so you could take his place? Well, you'll pay for that death, and all the others you're responsible for.''"<br /> (chuckles) "''Oh, I don't think I could pay for ''all'' of them, Major, there were so many. And you can only execute me once.''" : - '''Kira''' and '''Marritza/Darhe'el''' "''What lies? You mean my failure to divulge my true identity? Believe me, Major, I yearned to tell you. But I knew how much more satisfaction you would have if you found out for yourself, and that was my only deception. Marritza '''was''' a magnificent file clerk. And I, Gul Darhe'el? I hope you'll not think it immodest of me to say so, but I was a '''magnificent''' leader. Oh, you never saw Gallitep at its height. For a labor camp, it was the very model of order and efficiency. And why? For that, you have to look to the top. To me! My word, my every glance, was law. And my verdict was always the same: ''Guilty''.''"<br /> "''You're insane!''"<br /> "''Oh, no, no, Major… you can't dismiss me that easily. I did what had to be done. My men understood that, and that's why they loved me. I would order them to go out and kill Bajoran scum, and they'd do it, they'd murder them! They'd come back covered in blood but they felt '''clean!''' Now why did they feel that way, Major? Because they '''were''' clean!''" : - '''Marritza/Darhe'el''' and '''Kira''' "''I do miss working with you, Odo. I miss our games of Kalevian Montar.''"<br /> "''As I recall, Gul Dukat, we played one game, and you cheated.''"<br /> (laughs) "''The same old Odo. Like a blunt instrument.''" : - '''Dukat''' and '''Odo''' "Nothing'' justifies genocide!''"<br /> "''What you call genocide, I call a day's work.''" : - '''Kira''' and '''Marritza/Darhe'el''' {{audio|file=Genocide.ogg}} "''You're Marritza, aren't you?''"<br /> "''You mistake me for that bug? That whimpering nothing? Oh, you stupid Bajoran girl. Don't you know who I am? I'm your nemesis. I'm your nightmare. I'm the Butcher of Gallitep.''"<br /> "''The Butcher of Gallitep died six years ago. You're Aamin Marritza, his filing clerk.''"<br /> "''That's not true. I am alive. I will ''always'' be alive! It's Marritza who is dead. Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman. Who, every night, covered his ears because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming… for mercy… of the Bajorans…''" :-'''Kira''' and '''Marritza/Darhe'el''' "''You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors and do nothing.''" :- '''Marritza/Darhe'el''', to Kira "''Why? He wasn't Darhe'el!"<br /> "''He's a Cardassian. That's reason enough.''"<br /> "''No… It's not.''" : - '''Kira''' and '''Kainon''', after Kainon kills Marritza == Background information == === Story and script === [[File:Duet promotional shot.jpg|thumb|A promotional shot for the episode]] * A [[working title]] of this episode was "The Higher Law". (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library]]'') * The original pitch for this episode, by [[Lisa Rich]] and [[Jeanne Carrigan-Fauci]], was based upon the simple conflict inherent in the idea of someone having to defend their worst enemy. Carrigan-Fauci later explained, "''The basic premise was 'What would happen if you had to defend your worst enemy? What would you do if you had to be responsible for his life?' There's so much inherent conflict in that concept. And, of course, it was only natural to use [[Kira Nerys|Kira]] and a [[Cardassian]] in that situation and to have them both learn something about each other.''" (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'') Michael Piller recalled, "''{{'}}Duet' was pitched to us by two of our interns, who wanted to do something about a war criminal. In the context it was pitched, it didn't turn me on. The idea of a war criminal found aboard DS9 seemed to me to be an interesting concept, but at first it seemed to me to be a ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' court show.''" Since the first season of DS9 had already included [[court]] episode {{e|Dax}}, the show's writing staff didn't want to do another so soon. (''[[The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years]]'', p. 461) * The plot of this episode was inspired by {{w|Robert Shaw (British actor)|Robert Shaw}}'s 1967 stage play {{wt|The Man in the Glass Booth}}, which tells of a Jewish man accused of being a {{w|Nazism|Nazi}} [[war criminal]]. That play, in turn, is based on actual events that took place after [[World War II]], such as the {{w|Nuremberg Trials}} and the hunt for top-ranking Nazi officials who escaped Germany and made up new identities for themselves, such as {{w|Adolf Eichmann}}. Noted Michael Piller, "''[[Ira Steven Behr|Ira Behr]] gave us the twist that gave it ''The Man in the Glass Booth'' kind of feeling, where the guy isn't who he says he is but is doing it for more noble reasons.''" (''[[The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years]]'', p. 461) * The intent of this episode was to establish the Cardassian [[Occupation of Bajor]] as a metaphor for British, Japanese, and German imperialism circa World War II. (''[[Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages]]'') * This episode was written to be a [[bottle show]] to balance out more expensive episodes in [[DS9 Season 1|DS9'S first season]], such as the premiere {{e|Emissary}} and {{e|The Storyteller}}. (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'') "''{{'}}Duet' was conceived as a direct result of that very consideration ''[…]'' On the next-to-last show of the season,''" remembered [[Peter Allan Fields]], "''they said, 'Pete, can you do us a favor? Can you please write a show that costs nothing?' I said, 'Of course, be glad to,' and then you leave the office because you've said yes to your boss and you die a thousand deaths.''" (''[[Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages]]'', p. 33) * This is one of only a few DS9 episodes without a subplot. (The A-story/B-story formula had been used quite extensively in the series up to this point, and was used many more times throughout the later seasons.) === Cast and characters === * This episode reunited Quark actor [[Armin Shimerman]] and "Duet" guest actor [[Harris Yulin]]. Years prior to the making of this installment, they had been acquaintances and had worked on Broadway theater together. (''[[The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years]]'', p. 461) * [[Cirroc Lofton]] ([[Jake Sisko]]) [[DS9 main character non-appearances|does not appear]] in this episode. === Music === * The episode's score, composed by [[Dennis McCarthy]], was recorded on {{d|2|June|1993}} at [[Paramount Stage M]]. (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Collection]]'' liner notes) A cue from the score – totaling three minutes, thirty-two seconds – appears on Disc One of the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Collection]]''. === Continuity === * Ira Steven Behr has cited this episode as the first example of the so-called "long Cardassian monologue": "''Cardassians love to speak. [[Elim Garak|Garak]] loves to speak. [[Enabran Tain]] loves to speak. [[Dukat]] loves to speak – very slowly – and certainly [[Aamin Marritza|Marritza]] loves to speak.''" (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'') * This episode introduces the character of [[Neela]], who went on to play a crucial role in the following episode, {{e|In the Hands of the Prophets}}, although she was supposed to be introduced in {{e|The Forsaken}}. The producers' intention was for the audience to assume she was simply a new recurring character, thus creating an unexpected twist when she turns out to be an assassin, and they felt that seeing her twice before the final episode would accomplish this goal. However, the actress cast as [[Anara]] for {{e|The Forsaken}} "didn't work out," and she was written out of that episode. She was never supposed to be in {{e|Dramatis Personae}}, so in the end, she only appeared in one episode prior to being made into a villain. (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'') * This episode marks the first mention of the [[Shakaar resistance cell]]. * Though it is not mentioned in dialogue, the script for this episode stated that Kira was drinking a [[raktajino]] when Benjamin Sisko confronted her at the Replimat. (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library]]'') === Reception === * Both Armin Shimerman and [[Nana Visitor]] ([[Kira Nerys]]) count this episode among their favorites. ** Shimerman noted that the episode comes together with "''the writing and the directing and the acting all coalescing perfectly.''" (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'') Elsewhere, he commented, "''It's a fascinating episode dealing with Bajor and nationalism and with Cardassian war crimes. I love these kinds of scripts, because they deal with social issues placed in the context of space.''" (''[[The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years]]'', p. 461) ** Visitor agreed, "''The action comes out of big issues on this show. There's action and intrigue, but the writing really lets us deal with issues we're not embarrassed to commit ourselves to as actors and people. On a sitcom, very often it's 'Should I let Johnny stay out after midnight or not?' It's an important issue, but not quite so much as Holocaust victims and facing evil in one person and how you deal with that, which is one thing I had to deal with in 'Duet'. It was kind of harrowing to have to deal with that subject matter every day, but the harder it is, the more rewarding it is.''" Visitor further commented, "''{{'}}Duet' was a wonderful episode,''" and was of the opinion that this episode's making was a case where, due to limitations, the people involved in it had needed to start being more creative. "''I think everyone had done that and amped up the creativity just a little bit,''" she said. (''[[Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages]]'', pp. 33 & 56) * Fans of this episode include [[Terry J. Erdmann]], [[Dave Rossi]], and Ira Steven Behr, the latter of whom said of it, in 1999, "''I thought that show was gangbusters. It was very powerful, and it still works today. It's a wonderful episode.''" (''Crew Dossier: Kira Nerys'', [[DS9 Season 1 DVD]], Special Features) In ''Captains' Logs Supplemental'', Behr elaborated, "''I'm very, very proud of this show. Not in the sense it's a show for all humanity, but that it was a fun show to work on. You had a character who was larger than life and reveling in his evilness. It was just a blast. It was a lot of fun to write, but it was the end of the season, and we were all very tired, so neither Peter nor I were very happy doing it. We work very well together, and the show could have, literally, been another half hour if they would have let us. It was just mind games on top of mind games, and we could have done that forever.''" * Michael Piller remarked about this episode, "''The writing is really quite powerful.''" He also described the installment as "very thought provoking." (''[[Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages]]'', p. 55) * From a production viewpoint, Director of Photography [[Marvin Rush]] opined that Director [[Jim Conway]] "''came in and did a great job. He was real professional and had a difficult episode, because it didn't have a lot of action or movement. It's a small story.''" (''[[Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages]]'', p. 56) * A special screening of this episode was held at the Museum of Television and Radio Broadcasting in Los Angeles, as part of its annual celebration of television considered high quality. (''[[Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages]]'', p. 58) * In ''[[Star Trek 101]]'', [[Terry J. Erdmann]] and [[Paula M. Block]] list "Duet" as one of the "Ten Essential Episodes" from ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. * ''[[Cinefantastique]]'' ranked "Duet" as the best episode of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol. 32, No. 4/5, p. 96) * In their book ''[[The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years]]'' (p. 461), authors [[Mark A. Altman]] and [[Edward Gross]] remarked that this episode is "generally considered the standout show of the first season" and that the war criminal role was "played magnificently" by Harris Yulin. * Mary Taylor wrote, "''Duet" from DS9's second season (sic), continued the commentary on racism begun thirty years before [by the original ''Star Trek'' series]. The lesson of 'Duet'… was that each individual should be judged on his own merits and not because he is a member of a hated race.''" (''[[Adventures in Time and Space]]'') * In ''[[The New Trek Programme Guide]]'', the authors comment that "Duet" was "''the pinnacle of the season, a tightly plotted and allusive tale that could be 'about' the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, the modern [[Nazi]]'s re-writing of World War Two or even Bosnia. Although the juxtaposition with [[Dramatis Personae|the previous episode]] is less than ideal, with Kira seeming to go behind Sisko's back to get what she wants, the strength of the script and the performances more than make up for this. Harris Yulin excels as the coward who personalised the guilt of an entire race. This powerful and absorbing drama is also very [[Gene Roddenberry|Roddenberryesque]]: Kira realises, just before the clever twist ending, that his being a Cardassian is not reason enough to want to kill him.''" 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NEWS- Unfit justice: A peeper remains free
"I've been in law enforcement for 30 years, and I've never seen a case like this," says Charlottesville police Captain J.E. "Chip" Harding. It's the case of a confessed peeping tom, 26-year old David Lee Long Jr., who was recently arrested but released after a psychological evaluation determined he was unfit to stand trial.
Long was arrested on August 18, 2005, after being caught breaking into the residence of a woman on Cherry Avenue. When the woman discovered Long in her bedroom at 12:30am, she started screaming and scared him off. Long later confessed to peeping on six couples while he masturbated, said Harding, even going so far as to show police where the couples lived.
Long allegedly also showed police where he had pried a screen open, saying he planned to wait for the woman to come back. Harding says that during one police interview, Long was asked if he planned to rape the woman whose bedroom he had broken into. "No, but I would have had sex with her if she wanted to," he allegedly replied.
In spite of such evidence, Long was released on May 4 after General District Court judge Robert Downer declared him unfit to stand trial. Harding said in a recent interview that he worries that Long's crimes are escalating and that eventually he may hurt someone.
"It doesn't seem right to me," says Harding, "that a guy can do this kind of thing and get away with it because the court decides he's unfit to stand trial."
At press time, neither Long nor Judge Downer could be reached for comment, but Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Claude Worrell, who declined to speak specifically about Long's case, points out that it's not the court that deems someone unfit to stand trial, but the psychological evaluation the court must order as part of a defendant's due process rights.
"A judge reviews the evaluation and can order a new evaluation," explains Worrell, "but if the experts conclude that the defendant is unfit to stand trial, then he doesn't stand trial."
The psychological evaluation, usually conducted by doctors at a psychiatric facility like Western State Hospital, also determines the defendant's treatment. In Long's case, it was determined that while he didn't have the mental capacity to stand trial, he wasn't handicapped enough to be committed to a psychiatric facility.
This isn't the first time Long has been arrested. In January 2004, he was convicted of peeping and sentenced to 30 days, but the sentence was suspended. In 1999, after being convicted of marijuana possession, he lost his driver's license for six months.
In a separate peeping incident, Harding said, a man approached Long with a gun after catching him outside his home and scared him off.
Claire Kaplan, director of UVA's Sexual Assualt Education Office, considers this a pervasive societal problem and she worries that offenders like Long are likely to strike again. "There just aren't enough resources or agencies to help treat these people," says Kaplan.
Indeed, as the Hook's recent news story on the death of a homeless man illustrates, sometimes it's the police who end up dealing with people on society's fringe. Cecil Ray Garlic, an alcoholic homeless man killed April 30 while crossing 29N, had been arrested by police over 200 times.
Harding's frustration over the peeper goes to the heart of the 14th Amendment right to due process. On the one hand, a defendant shouldn't have to be tried if he can't understand the proceedings or adequately defend himself, as the right to due process requires. But on the other hand, it can also frustrate those seeking justice.
In 1991, the real estate mogul Harry Helmsley (perhaps best known for his famous wife, Leona, the "queen of mean") was deemed unfit to stand trial for fraud and tax evasion, but went on to run his multibillion-dollar empire after his release.
Here in Charlottesville, Harding says, he has seen defendants deemed unfit to stand trial go on to commit other crimes. He says police will try to keep an eye on Long.
Captain Harding worries that David L. Long Jr. will peep again– or worse


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Art imitates death: Kool J Muhammad and DJ Malvo "Born To Kill"
It all started when DJs Squeeze and Mike Brie (founding members of the Kobra Kai battle DJ crew) came across a hard-to-find record by West Coast gangster rapper Eazy E.
Around the same time, the infamous sniper shootings near D.C. were going into the twentieth day, and news stations were providing extensive coverage. Fear and paranoia in the general public were reaching hysteria stage.
Brie (who currently resides in Charlottesville) and Squeeze noticed a parallel between the lyrics of Eazy E and the possible motivations of someone who would commit such acts of violence. The combination of the media barrage of updates on the sniper and the new piece of vinyl gave the two DJs an idea.
They began splicing together hip hop songs– to represent the thoughts going through the head of the snipers– with various audio clips from television news– to help tell the story of what was being felt and heard at the time.
Brie and Squeeze carefully chose songs and verses that wouldn't glorify the violence of the situation, but at the same time would represent the severity of it. The album plays like the "best of" hard core hip hop from 1989 to the present. In order to complete the concept, the two assumed the names of Kool J Muhammad and DJ Malvo and dubbed the compilation "Born To Kill."
The cover of the disk features a picture of the two suspected snipers grinning in front of a backdrop of sparkling jewelry and piles of money. The cover is made to mimic the covers of platinum-selling southern rapper Master P and his No Limit collective. No Limit Records has been criticized for their morally bankrupt and expletive-packed music. No songs from the label made the compilation.
Following through with the project obviously took some serious nerve. "It's bold, but it's something you see everywhere. We're just giving back what we see in the media and hear in songs," Brie told me as we listened to the intro to the disk, which consists of dozens of fear-inciting news clips.
"People have a tendency to blame the music for what happens in life. [Hip hop] didn't cause the snipers to do what they did– it's the music telling the story of what goes on in life."


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With fewer than three weeks until the start of the NBA's 41st season, we're previewing all 25 teams. Whatchu say? Twenty-five teams? Yup. We're looking at every franchise in addition to shining a light on the new Eastern Conference expansion Charlotte Hornets and Western Conference expansion Miami Heat. And if Charlotte's more East than Miami, I'll apparently be previewing the new United States map. From now until the start of the season, we're bringing you the 1988-89 Fantasy Team Previews, which will focus on each team in order to paint a clearer fantasy picture. Razzball's got all the ins-and-outs of the season covered. Who's new to each team, who's old (Kareem!), and how are you possibly going to compete with whoever takes Jordan with the first pick of your draft? Unless the first pick in your draft belongs to you, in which case, turn off your IBM PS/2, kick up your feet and put your fantasy roster on cruise control. Next up – The Dallas Mavericks (… and no one else, as there is no time).
Gained –Morlon Wiley
Lost – Jim Farmer
Probable position depth –
PG – Derek Harper, Steve Alford, Brad Davis
SG – Mark Aguirre, Morlon Wiley
SF – Rolando Blackman, Terry Tyler
PF – Sam Perkins, Herb Williams, Detlef Schrempf
C – James Donaldson, Roy Tarpley, Uwe Blab, Bill Wennington
Surprising Team Fact From Last Season – Usually teams leading the league in rebounds don't also rate as well in efficiency categories like turnovers and personal fouls. Just as usually when a girl is pretending to ignore you in a bar, she's actually just ignoring you. But every once in a while the girl's playing hard-to-get and the team with the second fewest personal fouls and third fewest turnovers grab more than 3,800 rebounds. Go figger.
Number of Top 20 Fantasy Players (par 0-1) – 1, Aguirre
Number of Top 50 Fantasy Players (par 1-2) – 4, Harper, Blackman, Tarpley
Number of Top 75 Fantasy Players (par 2-3) – 0,
Number of Top 100 Fantasy Players (par 3-4) – 0,
Number of Top 200 Fantasy Players (par 6-7) – 6, Donaldson, Perkins
3 Concerns Heading Into the Season
1. Is Rolando Blackman a fantasy third option or just a third option for the real-life Mavericks gang?
Talk to most Mavs fans and they'll tell you three things: 1) Ro'do ain't the Mavs' best player, 2) but he is their favorite player and 3) they're drunk. Take that however you'd like, but a 19/4/4 guy with great percentages will be gone by the 40th pick whether you grab him or not. If he's available after the 30th pick, Roll on 'Do.
2. Detlef? Deadlift? Deadleg? Deadweight?
I actually kinda like the guy. I think he plays well when he's on the court (as opposed to the players that play better off the court. I'm lookin' at you, Magic Johnson. Play on, playa). I just don't think he's getting much p.t. on this team. And if I hadn't already decided on a different fantasy sleeper, I might consider Shrimps. But I have, so I won't.
3. The Kareem is dead. Long live Roy Tarpley?
I don't think you can make a statement, end it with a question mark and treat it like you're awaiting information. I'll answer you anyway, but you italics gotta get it together. Tarpley averaged six more points and five more rebounds than he did his rookie season. Growth like that doesn't happen everyday … unless you're Ben Johnson. What? I kid, I kid. I shouldn't joke about drug use. What does substance abuse have to do with Tarpley, anyway? I expect big developments from Tarpsicord, maybe not Kareem big, but pretty big. He averaged 13/11 last year. I'm predicting 18/12 this year I'm also predicting that in six or seven years, I'll look back on this Tarpley and marvel at how far he's come.
Rookie Review! – Morlon Wiley (no. 46 overall). You'd hafta be a real morlon to take the 46th pick in this draft for your fantasy team. (Wordplay courtesy of Henny Youngman)
Fantasy Disappointment in '11 – Sam Perkins. Big Smooth, by most accounts, took a step back last season despite being healthy and given more than 32 mpg to shine (33.3 to be exact). I think Tarpley's got a big season coming. Big enough to make everyone overlook Perkins. It's like being back in college, huh, Sam?
Biggest Fantasy Contributor in '11 –Mark Aguirre. His only discernible backup is rookie Morlon Wiley. Blackman might slide over to the two for stretches, but as long as Aguirre is healthy, there's no reason to think he won't average more than last season's 34 mpg, in addition to his 25/6/4
Fantasy Sleeper – James Donaldson. Dropped a 7/9, with 1.3 bpg line all last season. Not a bad get with your final pick. When Donaldson dies, this will be the line they etch onto his gravestone. But Donaldson's averaged 9.1/8.0, with 1.5 bpg for his career, Adam. Why would they etch an incorrect line onto his gravestone? I don't know, disembodied voice. Why don't you quite hasslin' me?!


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Givat Shmuel, Israel – February 27, 2012 – Cimatron Limited (NASDAQ and TASE: CIMT) has announced that its highly acclaimed machining software solutions, GibbsCAM and CimatronE, will be showcased at the METAV trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, February 28 – March 3, 2012.
"GibbsCAM and CimatronE have long been regarded as leading systems for CAD/CAM and the programming of CNC machine tools, and participants in METAV will have an opportunity to see why they have become the solutions of choice for thousands of manufacturers worldwide," said Dirk Dombert, Cimatron's General Manager for Germany.
GibbsCAM (distributed in Germany as Virtual Gibbs) offers European manufacturers solutions for a diverse range of machining needs, including 2- to 5-Axis milling, turning, mill/turn, rotary milling, high speed machining (HSM), Swiss, wire EDM, tombstone machining and multi-task machining.
Key functionalities of the latest GibbsCAM version that will be showcased at the event include automatic color and hole feature recognition, 5-Axis drill cycle options, and support for 5-Axis tilting live tooling (B-axis) on lathes and multi-task machines. Also featured will be GibbsCAM's various HSM capabilities, such as plunge roughing and VoluMill, which yield the lowest bulk material removal costs for most geometry.
CimatronE is an integrated CAD/CAM solution for both toolmakers and manufacturers of discrete parts. The latest version offers powerful capabilities that include 5-Axis milling for any job type, a rich machining strategies library, advanced collision detection and machining simulations, background toolpath calculations, and post-processors for any machine and controller.
The GibbsCAM and CimatronE display at METAV will be in hall 13, booth C113.
About Cimatron
With 30 years of experience and more than 40,000 installations worldwide, Cimatron is a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles and ultimately shorten product delivery time.
The Cimatron product line includes the CimatronE and GibbsCAM brands with solutions for mold design, die design, electrode design, 2.5 to 5 Axis milling, wire EDM, turn, Mill-turn, rotary milling, multi-task machining, and tombstone machining. Cimatron's subsidiaries and extensive distribution network serve and support customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries in over 40 countries worldwide.
Cimatron's shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol CIMT. For more information, please visit Cimatron's web site at: http://www.cimatron.com
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Photos from the Photo Show: Bikethropology at Courier Coffee
Count this as a mega thank you to Joel and all the awesome boys over at Courier Coffee for hosting our photo show this past month. Elly Blue, Russ Roca and I each hung cycling-related work depicting our individual perspectives on the world of two-wheeled wonder.
Thanks also to everyone who turned up at our little party last night! Courier was packed solid and all variety of bikey friends spilled out the front door into the unseasonably warm evening.
So much fun!
2 Responses to "Photos from the Photo Show: Bikethropology at Courier Coffee"
Nice-lookin crowd! Sorry I couldn't make it! I did stop in the cafe the other day, though. And gotta say, WOWY!
or is that WOWIE?


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This skeleton backpack is perfect for your skully-loving teenager. Perfect for carrying all your school books and daily necessities while still looking funky and fun.
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DWTS Awards: DWTS Music and DWTS Special Musical Guest Awards
Which DWTS musical guest did you enjoy most?
Other Answers:
Enrique Iglesias/enrique/enrique igleasis/Enrique Englasias/Eglasis/inrigue inglesia 11
Christina Aguilera/Christina Augulierra/christine aguillara/christina aquilara/christina agulara 8
Ne-Yo 5
Annie Lennox 5
Taio Cruz 4
None 2
John Legend 3
Bruno Marks 1
Rod Stewart 1
Shakira 2
Xtina 1
The little kids dancing 1
Santana/India Arie 1
Voguerista: Enrique by far! Sssss, where are your votes?
Courtney: I think I'd rather have a root canal than listen to Enrique shrieking on "I Like It", lol. But it looks like Santana & Daughtry was the most crowd-pleasing…although I still enjoyed Heart quite a bit. Didn't realize there were so many alternative spellings for Christina & Enrique's names…one of the caveats of having the "other" category is the myriad of responses you get, hehe.
John: Well, this was probably my fault that we didn't have Enrique and Christina on the poll. Even Ne-Yo and Annie Lennox would have likely done better if they were on the poll and not just a write in. Enrique will still be happy to know he has a lot of fans (even if they don't know how to spell his name).
Who had the worst luck when it came to DWTS song choices?
Other answers:
Kyle 1
jennifer and derek with So what 1
Kyle and Lacey's Foxtrto to the "Charlie's Angels" theme 1
Jennifer and derek's 1st paso to rock star 1
derek and jennifer shut up 1
Audrina 1
bristol and mark's monkees 1
Voguerista: It seemed liked everyone was given a bad song choice at one time or another. I really wish officials would let the dancers and contestants pick their own songs. Sometimes it's almost like they are setting some couples up to fail?
Courtney: I think the results of this one are very telling. Sitch & Karina got absolutely HOSED when they were given "Boom Boom Pow" for a foxtrot, but they managed to turn it into a memorable routine that actually managed to get the encore for the week – which to me illustrates the idea that a truly good pro can turn a crappy situation (no pun intended) into a decent routine. I've noticed a lot of fans try to blame song choice when their favorite couple has a ho-hum routine…and while I agree that a song can really influence the way a dance turns out, I think it's ultimately up to the pros to make the best of the situation and suck it up. I really only think one of the above dances was truly bad – Margaret & Louis' Viennese waltz – and I think that had more to do with the silliness going with the choreography than the music itself. For those in the "other" category – it's interesting that a few of you thought Jennifer's 1st paso to "So What" was a bad song choice, considering it's already been used for a paso once before on the show (I believe it was Shawn & Mark's first paso in season 8 – which I recall they did pretty well on); as for the TV theme week dances, I think everyone was probably equally bad off with their songs, since TV themes are pretty cheesey to begin with 🙂
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OK. I'm an atheist. I do not even truly believe that Jesus as a flesh and blood human ever walked the planet. However, this fictional character plays a large part in many people's lives and, unfortunately, their voting decisions. Perhaps, if people really think about Jesus when voting though they just might come up with different answers. So, I address this post to the believers.
So, contrary to my usual rants where I take a radical and non-standard stance in order to point out the violence in the Bible. In this post, I am going to hypothetically take the more mainstream view of Jesus. First, I'm going to pretend that I believe he actually existed. Then, I'm going to cherry pick the Bible, not in the way I did in my Thou Shalt Kill post, but instead, in the way that most religious people do when they respond to my usual assertions about the mythical character.
So, in short, I'm going to point to the nice things Jesus is supposed to have said. And then, given the mainstream view of Jesus, I'm going to discuss his political views and see how well they align with today's religious right. Then, I'm going to attempt to address the issue of how Jesus might vote in an election if he were alive today. Finally, I will point out that if Christianity is about people attempting to be Jesus-like to the best of their ability, then religious Christians should vote that way. Let's see how this goes.


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By Dorene Internicola, Reuters
From park bench pushups and monkey bar lifts to open air runs, fitness experts say the workout possibilities of playgrounds and parks are worth the consideration of even the most diehard gym users.
During the warm, waning summer days, fresh air workouts offer a wealth of new ways to boost the mood, channel the inner child and even burn extra calories.
Chris Freytag, a personal trainer and health coach with the American Council on Exercise, loves the gym but lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city notorious for brutal winters.
"I'm a big believer in change of venue, of getting away from the same treadmill, the same spot. And there's something about fresh air and moving in space," said Freytag, who leads boot camp and circuit classes in parks and parking lots during the summer months.
The changing terrain can also inspire the solitary exerciser to mix it up.
"I'm all about hills: every time you see a hill or steps or stairs, lunge at it," said Freytag. "Step up and down on curbs and park benches."
A child's playground offers core-strengthening possibilities from deep plank pushups, with feet placed on swings, to training with resistance bands slung around poles, to monkey bar pull-ups, she explained.
Research suggest the outdoor boost can be mental as well as physical. In a 2014 study on indoor versus outdoor activity published in the journal Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being researchers analyzed national survey data from Finland.
They found that nature provides an added value to the known benefits of physical activity and repeated exercise in nature is, in particular, connected to better emotional well-being.
In his book "Beat the Gym," Connecticut-based running coach and personal trainer Tom Holland said running on a treadmill is slightly easier than running on the ground.
"You don't have to deal with changing terrain, wind resistance," he said, adding that the zero incline on most treadmills is actually slightly downhill.
New York City-based personal trainer JR Allen, said the first benefit of the outdoor workout is balance.
"You have to be aware of your surroundings because you could step in a pothole," Allen said. "It is a less safe, more uncontrolled environment that is more of a strain on your body."
Allen suggests the newcomer to outdoor exercise should start with a simple walk around the neighborhood. The seasoned exerciser should head to the park for sprints, power push ups, in which hands leave the ground, and walking planks, moving side to side and back to back on hands and feet.
Daniel Taylor, author of the book "Conditioning to the Core," thinks outdoor training is great as long as people take some precautions.
"People who utilize children's playground equipment ought to double check it. Make sure bars aren't slippery," he said. "One of the reasons we go to the gym is it's safe and dry."