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Today's post is by Ben Reed. Ben is the small groups pastor at Long Hollow, a multi-site church in the Nashville, TN area. In addition to pastoring, preaching, and writing, Ben has a great passion for coffee. Good coffee, that is. And CrossFit. But not at the same time. You can journey along with Ben at BenReed.net and learn more about his new book, Starting Small, at smallgroupblueprint.com.
Nobody ever stated it outright, but the way our local church was structured growing up made me feel like the Sunday morning experience was the most important aspect of my walk with Jesus. Maybe it was self-imposed, but I felt like if I missed a Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, Tuesday evening, Wednesday evening, or the random youth trip, I'd be smote. Or smoten? Or smitten? No… that's something else entirely.
It's easy for churches to slide into this mindset, because whether you like it or not, Sunday morning is coming. It doesn't matter what kind of dreaming, strategic planning, or structural work you do throughout the week. If you don't prepare for Sunday you'll fall flat on your face.
So you dump more time. More resources. More energy. More staff. More planning. Into ensuring Sunday morning is air-tight.
Don't get me wrong, corporate worship is vital to our faith. It's an environment that corrects, teaches, energizes, and worships Jesus.
But without relational connection, The Church isn't the Church. At best, it's a show. At worst, it's a complete waste of our time, energy, and resources.
You and I are the Church. Not the buildings we build. Not the walls we construct. Not the pews we sit in.
The Church exists outside the four walls of our church buildings. You know that, right?
That's why I wrote Starting Small. To promote small group health. To lay out a strategy for starting small groups, no matter the size of your church. No matter the location. No matter the demographics.
And to help small groups become more effective disciple-makers.
I've told my story through group life, failures and all, to help build healthy, authentic, biblical, God-honoring small groups around the world.
What's your small group story?
Ben has kindly offered two copies of his new book, Starting Small, to give away to readers here. How do you win? Simple: share your small group story—what have you loved; what's been most challenging? Ben will pick his two favorite answers at the end of the day Wednesday. Winners will be notified by email.


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Talk:Mac OS X:Build from source:MacPorts
It's gotten easier
Updated the main page, WCT Feb 2013. Info was completely out of date and misleading. Next step should be to delete most of THIS page.
I think this page may change drastically as MacPorts corrects its bugs. I've finally gotten GRAMPS installed from MacPorts on OSX 10.4.11 and it was a lot easier than in the article. I don't know whether I should replace this article, or just put in a new dated section. Here were my steps; they will need to be elaborated for a wider audience.
1. Started with a clean MacPorts install (that is, I completely deleted /opt/local). It might suffice to update everything instead, but I wanted to be safe. If you're already using MacPorts then you might want to try updating all out-of-date packages first.
2. "sudo port install gtk2" (It might not be necessary to do this first, but it's what I did and it worked.)
3. "port activate -f python25" because the previous command stopped in the middle of the process, saying that it couldn't install python25.
4. "sudo port install gtk2" again to finish installing gtk2.
5. "sudo port install gramps" which finished without a hitch.
6. Type "launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist" into the terminal. This is necessary for the package dbus to work, and it actually tells you to do it back in the many pages of output from the installation, but of course you probably weren't watching the installation. :) Make sure that you DON'T put sudo in front of this.
7. Run GRAMPS from X11/
--Lihtox 18:57, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
I wish I'd read this page!
I installed gramps 126.96.36.199 on a brand new iMac with OSX 10.5.6 on 14 March 2009 by reading the article at this page without ever reading the discussion. Life would have been a lot easier if I'd read the discussion page first!
I'm not brave enough, just like the last user, to edit the article to remove the hints directly. I will edit the article to add some other things I had to do, though. Emrys 12:31, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Old stuff removed from article
Copied here in case it's useful to anyone, but I think it probably belongs on a mailing list or somebody's blog rather than a how-to article.
--Richardsmith 06:45, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
This is what used to happen
So, assuming you have MacPorts installed and updated, you might as well try:
sudo port install gramps
Now, if you're like me and didn't have GNOME or anything like that installed, calling that command will attempt to go through all of the dependencies and install them all. This will take a while, and you might be at this installing gramps for a couple hours (there are a lot of dependencies)
What I did instead was run
port deps gramps, which listed the major dependencies that gramps has. Then, I installed each separately. They are:
I installed them in the following order:
- shared-mime-info
- py-bsddb
- py-gnome (the tough one)
In order to successfully install this, I first had to run:
sudo port install p5-xml-sax
sudo port install p5-xml-sax-expat
After that, things installed smoothly
This actually installed smoothly on my computer.
For now, I merely list the libraries and what I did to fix the problem.
- py-gtk2
- I had to make sure to upgrade expat. After that, it installed fine.
- I had a real difficulty getting this to fully install. It kept choking on Cairo. After updating XTools to 2.5, Cairo installed without a problem. --A.southern.yankee 23:46, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
- py-orbit
- This installed without any problems for me.
- libzvt
- This package needs "dbus" which in turn needs "xmlto". It appears, however, that "xmlto" is not listed as a dependent of "dbus". Hence, I ran
sudo port install xmltoby hand. This installed without any problems on my computer.
- After installing that, and upgrading gtk2 (do this first), this seems to be installing correctly.
- This package needs "dbus" which in turn needs "xmlto". It appears, however, that "xmlto" is not listed as a dependent of "dbus". Hence, I ran
- gnome-desktop
- This was the next problem for me. I installed p5-libxml-perl, p5-xml-simple, py-xml by hand, cleaned gnome-desktop, and then tried the installation again. Worked fine!
- gstreamer
- This was the next problem for me. I installed p5-xml-libxslt, py-libxslt by hand, cleaned gstreamer, and then tried the installation again. Worked fine!
- liboil
- First, I ran
sudo port upgrade gtk-doc
- Then, I installed the newest version of the liboil library from [1] and then tried to make the liboil library again. (From the manual download). This worked. I would assume it would work for the port version as well.
- First, I ran
- nautilus
- This was the last problem for me. To get around the error, I had to create a soft link for the libintl.3.dylib file in my /opt/local/lib/ directory.
And this is another error message that happened in March 2009
When I did
sudo port install gnome-desktop
I saw
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/nosetests is being used by the active py-nose port. Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation. Error: The following dependencies failed to build: py25-gnome py25-gtk py25-cairo py25-numpy py25-nose py25-gobject py25-orbit startup-notification xorg-libsm xorg-libice Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
and I have no idea what it means or what deactivating a port implies. I typed
sudo port -f install gnome-desktop
and got
Registry error: py25-nose @0.10.4_0 already registered as installed. Please uninstall it first.
so I typed
sudo port uninstall py25-nose sudo port -f install gnome-desktop
and that seemed to work. Goodness knows what chaos I caused!
As well as OpenOffice, Graphviz is needed to view reports. You have to download and install this separately from gramps but it's a simple click-to-install procedure. Once it's installed, the graphviz application appears in finder - applications, and running that gives a menu bar that allows the report.dot file to be opened and displayed. The command line version of graphviz, dot, documented at the graphviz website, works too.
It seems that the missing packages that one may trip over when installing via MacPorts vary depending on just who has last modified all the installation scripts. There may be some; it's easy to fix by guesswork; it's odd that the computer doesn't just go ahead and fix them by itself because it sure does everything else! In fact the whole process of installing xCode and MacPorts and then gramps is an astonishing tour de force and a tribute to the good architecture of the Linux and unix software development system. But it is scary!
There are some problems. An update of Mac OS X on about 15 May 2009 changed gramps's behaviour in several ways, too. Presumably, these changes are the results of fixing bugs in the Apple X11 implementation. After 15 May 2009, this was "XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33)", running on Mac OS X 10.5.7; this program annoyingly broke copy-and-paste. Now, on 9 Jun 2009, without any action on my part, my iMac changed to "XQuartz 126.96.36.199 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple42)". That added more tabs to the X11 preferences screen. The new "X11 - Preferences - Pasteboard" screen selects various functionality in the convoluted copy-and-paste system used for running X11 linux applications on Mac OS. I ticked all boxes on that screen except "Update Pasteboard immediately when new text is selected" and copy and paste worked again between Gramps and other Mac applications.
- Following the 15 May 2009 update, the font used in the gramps window is too large and too bold for convenience.
- Gramps on Mac uses ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v for cut, copy, paste. The standard for mac programs, including X11 programs, is cmd-x, cmd-c, cmd-v. To make paste work between other mac programs and gramps, set the X11 pasteboard preferences as described above
- Before 15 May 2009, Some text pasted in - notably the contents of a cell from an Openoffice spreadsheet, but possibly other as well - had an <LF> character at the end, unexpectedly. After 9 Jun 2009, pasting text from openoffice to gramps works fine, with no spurious <LF>, but it's no longer possible to <copy> an openoffice spreadsheet cell and <paste> it direct into gramps. Instead, you have to first <copy> the cell in openoffice, then use openoffice - edit - paste-special - to paste the text (not the formula) into another openoffice cell. Then click on that cell and the text pops up in the openoffice edit box. Select that text and you can <copy> it in openoffice. Then <paste> it in Gramps, and that works. (Pity, pasting the cell used to work, except for the LF!)
- Double clicking an image in the media reference editor doen't bring up an external viewer to show the picture full size. In fact, there seems to be no way to do this from within gramps on Mac.
- Switching to another user, using the OS X fast user switching feature, gramps can mess up the display on returning to the original user. The cure is to quit gramps and restart it.
- It is not possible to start Gramps by double clicking on a Mac OS icon, nor by double clicking on a Gramps database that is associated with the application. (It should be possible to create an installation that allows this, just as it is available for OpenOffice).
- The PdfDoc.py plugin cannot be installed because ReportLab is not installed.
- Note, using macports, run
sudo port install py-reportlab. This will take care of this problem.
- For fink, run
fink install reportlab-py25(py24 or py23, for earlier versions of python).
- Note, using macports, run
- The LPRDoc.py plugin cannot be loaded because the python bindings for GNOME print are not installed.
- Spell checking does not work (on starting Gramps, an error warning "Spelling checker is not installed" appears on the xterm). The python "bindings for [GNOME print and spell checking] are probably in fink's gnome-python2-desktop-py24 and gnome-python2-extras-py24 packages. Or would be, if fink had them at all, which we don't. They are only viable for for newer versions of gnome itself than fink presently has, or have other dependencies that are not yet satisfiable within fink. We're working on it".
- All ODF (ODT) output failed with a "Could not create file" error on an Gramps installed via Macports as described above, on a 'virgin' Mac. Benny Malengier forwarded the suggestion from guylinton that
zlibshould be installed: with
sudo port install py25-zliball ODT output jumped into action.
In the past the following have been noted on Mac systems, but they worked fine when I tried them:
- Help does not work (clicking Help or FAQ etc on the Help menu does nothing).
- 'Enter' or 'return' does not act as OK for closing windows (the button has to be pressed with the mouse). However Esc does work to exit from the window.
- The browser and email links under the help menu do nothing.
- Before the 15 May 2009 update: Little popup yellow help notices notices which are supposed to appear when you hover over a button do appear, but do so even when the gramps window isn't in focus and there's a window from another application covering it up. After the 15 May 2009 update, this seems to be fixed, and popup notices only appear when the gramps window is in focus.


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Here's an alternative investment strategy that James Bond would love.
Family Classic Cars Ventures recently announced the launch of its Family Classic Cars Fund I, with plans to raise up to $120 million for investments in (you guessed it) classic cars. According to the southern California-based fund, it intends to begin an "aggressive campaign to acquire investment grade classic cars starting in the fourth quarter of 2012."
In a further twist, the fund is "driving toward the retirement plan market," according to Thomas Carter, CEO of Capital Window, the firm tasked with helping the fund raise capital.
"We were going to take a percentage of their business and market it, but then we saw their idea about the retirement market and we instead helped them package it in a way to appeal to 401(k)s, IRAs and advisors themselves," Carter said.
The performance history of the classic car space might make it worth a look. Thomas notes that the asset class has outperformed the broader S&P 500 over the past three decades.
"It's an asset-backed security that everyone can identify with," he says. "And it's noncorrelated. People take a look at it and say, 'Okay, I can put my IRA money into something I understand.'"
"The launch of Family Classic Cars Fund I L.P. is perfectly timed in the marketplace," Marc Spizzirri, a classic car industry veteran and consultant to Family Classic Cars Ventures, told told AdvisorOne. "Investors now have a way to capitalize on their appreciation and passion for classic cars."
The Family Classic Cars Fund will buy cars primarily from private collectors and other sources globally, but may also acquire vehicles at public and private auctions. Sadly, while investors will not be provided access to the vehicles for personal use, "they may have the opportunity to view and celebrate their investments at the fund's display facility or at any of the national events in which the fund participates."
"In a way it's like creating the NASDAQ," Carter says. "You have all these traders, these car guys, who specialize in different sectors of the classic car market. A lot of these types of asset classes have high minimums, but we're able to fractionalize it and go as low as $10,000 in our minimums."
The fund is working with Las Vegas-based Summit Trust Co. in bringing the concept to market. Investments may range from Pre-World War II-era cars to muscle cars of the 1970s with individual valuations estimated to be between $10,000 and several million dollars. Both public and private owners may be engaged to create a diversified portfolio of vehicles for the Fund.
When asked about pricing cars in the fund, Spizzirri said that the values are the fund's estimates and appraisal valuations would likely be higher. Spizzirri added, "Too many variables go into the valuation of the car, such as condition, collectibility, provenance, originality, ownership pedigree, etc."
"Bottom line," Carter concludes about the fund, "it's a great idea with great timing and a great story."
Here are 15 examples of cool, and expensive, cars that the fund—and maybe James Bond—might have in their collection:
1) 1948 MGTC Roadster: $68,000
2) 1956 Chevrolet Corvette: $90,000
3) 1969 Rolls Royce Phantom VI: $150,000
4) 1954 Jaguar XK 140: $165,000
5) 1949 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith: $165,000
6) 1971 Mercedes 280 SE 3.5 Cabriolet: $175,000
7) 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham: $190,000
8) 1967 Shelby GT-500: $200,000
9) 1960 Bentley Flying Spur: $250,000
10) 1922 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost: $400,000
11) 1931 Packard Dual Windshield Phaeton: $600,000
12) 1952 Ferrari 342 America: $1.1 Million
13) 1955 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing: $1.2 Million
14) 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB 4Cam: $1.3 Million
15) 1964 Ferrari 500 Superfast: $1.6 Million
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The week in review
Most shocking: Legendary former basketball coach and athletic director Terry Holland calls it quits fundraising for the new basketball arena to pursue another opportunity in sports.
Least shocking (unfortunately): Incoming UVA football receiver Ottawa Anderson and his girlfriend, Jessica Renee Turner, are arrested July 7 and charged with assault. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Anderson had been dismissed from UVA before the assault charge. And July 17, frosh running back Ahmad Rashad Bradshaw is arrested for underage drinking. The gridiron/track star flees but is unable to elude the pursuing officer, ending with a Rotunda arrest and obstruction of justice charge. The Roanoke Times also alludes to a mysterious juvenile infraction that could haunt Bradshaw's career as a Cavalier.
Latest firearm trend: Packing heat in public. Virginia doesn't require a permit to carry most guns in public, and Fairfax County residents have started exercising their right to strap on a sidearm in, say, Starbucks.
Worst molestation-by-a-former-nun: Eileen M. Rhoads is convicted of two felony sex crimes July 14 in Virginia Beach for molesting a 10 year old at a Catholic school 35 years ago.
Worst decision for nude teens: A federal judge rules July 15 they have to have a parent or guardian along if they want to attend camp at the clothing-optional White Tail Park.
Biggest courtroom drama: A judge awards Jessica Grigg $8.3 million July 16. She was injured when she skied into a snow-grooming machine at Wintergreen in January 2003 and suffered permanent brain damage.
Worst decision for Martha Stewart: Five months in prison.
Worst accessory for Martha Stewart: She requests that she not have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet during the five-month home confinement portion of her sentence, according to the Washington Post.
Best reason to wear clean underwear to school: The Charlottesville School Board issues guidelines for strip searches, which previously were forbidden.
Best news for confused city voters: City Council votes 4-1 to move its election from May to November starting in 2007.
Best news for the lone Republican: Failure of the effort to start the new schedule in 2005, which would have shortened Rob Shilling's term.
Most controversial vote: The U.S. Senate doesn't come close (48-50) to the two-thirds majority needed to pass a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage July 14.
Latest development in the June 20 acquaintance rape case: Omar Musa, 21, who was charged with forcible rape and then hid from police in his girlfriend's car, pleads guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery July 15 and gets six months in jail, the Progress reports.
Best incentive to buy from Starr Hill Cottages: Free scooters to reduce traffic come with the purchase of a new cottage, Liz Nelson reports in the Progress.
Loneliest number: Delegate Mitch Van Yahres is the only General Assembly legislator to vote against the "day of rest" bill fix at the special session July 13, pointing out that while everyone jumped to the defense of business, "I still haven't heard anyone speak up for the employees."
Best news for Media General shareholders: Earnings rise 6 percent in the second quarter, thanks to political and help wanted ads.
Slowest news day: July 14, when the top headline in the Daily Progress reads: "McIntire Park bathrooms get paint job." ("10th annual Camp Jeep begins today" leads the July 15 edition.)
Best local-girl-makes-good-in-an-Abercrombie-&-Fitch ad: Schuyler Fisk, once known for being Sissy Spacek's daughter but now with her own acting/music creds, appears in the August Vanity Fair in a massive Abercrombie ad campaign featuring famous people's kids.


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Several weeks ago I became a bit mixed up in what had a lot of potential to become a hugely embarrassing misstep on the part of CFI Ontario in their efforts to present a queer-friendly image through participation in Toronto's pride parade. As has been written about elsewhere, such as by Zinnia Jones, CFI Ontario had the plan of marching in drag as participants in the parade.
The initial proposal for this plan explicitly, and quite insultingly, presented the idea as being supportive of the trans community, an act of solidarity against transphobia, by asking cisgender CFI members and volunteers to "step outside their comfort zones". After the initial wave of outrage reached CFI Ontario, their first response was to simply remove any reference to trans advocacy from their proposal, which had the unfortunate effect of suggesting the trans-positive message was never really genuine in the first place, and had simply been tacked on for the sake of publicity after the fact of someone, somewhere deciding that dressing up in drag would be fun. They also issued a rather patronizing notpology in which a whole lot of cissplaining was offered to teach us trans people what drag is really all about and how we ought to feel about it.
After a lot of discussion, however, an altogether positive result was reached in which the plan was scrapped and some much more genuine apologies were offered. Although clearly a great deal of work still needs to be done in terms of hetero/cis allies being more prepared to talk and, more importantly, listen to the queer communities on whose behalf they position themselves speaking and acting, it's a nice change of pace to have been involved in actions that ultimately prevented something hurtful and insulting from occurring, rather than having to explain these things in the wake of their consequences, with the much more abstracted goal of someone maybe learning something from it, or perhaps achieving another millimeter of collective movement in what one hopes is the right direction.
However, this does end up illuminating some icky creepy things crawling around in the blind spots many cis people have in regards to what drag is, what it isn't, and how it does and does not relate to the broader range of transgender identities. Even drag's inclusion under the concept of transgenderism is not something I, personally, feel completely comfortable with, but do have to reluctantly accept in order for my current working definition to be consistent. At least it's necessary in order to avoid some really thorny territory about what is or isn't not a significant variance from expectations about gender.
(I do kinda feel like revising my working definition, though)
CFI Ontario's drag parade idea provides a pretty useful touchstone for exploring those misunderstandings and assumptions, and talking about how strongly drag and transsexual experiences differ. For instance, one of the most noticeable concepts on which the CFI idea hinged was the notion of "stepping outside comfort zones", the idea that momentarily inhabiting a gender variant presentation, or a gender presentation not in accordance with your identity, would somehow approximate what it is to be trans. Comfort zones, however, can't really be separated from the questions of safety and acceptance.
As sad as it may be, a defining aspect of trans experience, and more so the experience of coping with the realities of cissexism and transphobia, is having to learn to live with near constant risk. There is the risk of being physically attacked, of course, the risk of sexual assault, the risk of harassment, the risk of being outed, the risk of being humiliated, shamed, ridiculed, misgendered, etc. Every single time we step out the door (if we have a door to step out of), we have to work with the fact that we entering threatening, potentially hostile territory. Self-imposed isolation, a kind of not-so-irrational agoraphobia, becomes a very real way of life for many trans people who ultimately aren't really able to cope with having to take that daily gamble.. Many of us end up resigned to the threat as an inevitability… "is this the night I finally get hurt?"
A drag performer, by contrast, engage in their performances of gender almost exclusively in the safe, sanctioned space of queer-oriented nightclubs or theaters… or the exceptionally safe space of the pride parade. The context in which the cis members of CFI were intended to show "solidarity" with trans people, who live the vast majority of our lives in overwhelmingly hostile worlds, was the safest, most queer-positive possible context, in which such casual tweaking of gender is not only tolerated but celebrated. It couldn't possibly be further divorced from the reality of trans lives, for which no such comfort zones exist to step in or out of. It's massively insensitive to the actual depths of what it means to live, 24/7, in all circumstances, as a gender variant individual, always under the threat of being read, exposed, humiliated, rejected, ridiculed, studied, stared at, attacked, etc., to assume that doing a little performance in a context where it is in fact part of the dominant behaviour could possibly approximate it. And given the degree to which the organizers wanted to stand by their planned performance, even after the concept had been divorced from the "trans-solidarity" gesture, it was pretty clear this wasn't a discomfort or a sacrifice for them. It was fun. Entertainment. Performance. Just like drag always is.
Drag is, as a rule, done because it's fun, and is done in the contexts where it will be the most fun. That casts an impossibly wide gap between what it is and means and transition which, as rewarding as it may be, is very, very rarely fun. Drag is also very much under the performer's control. Before leaving the safety of the nightclub, the costume and make-up and falsies and binders and packers can all be taken off.
There is one thing that almost always happens at the immediate outset of an incident in which a drag queen is harassed or at risk of being assaulted. The wig comes off. What does this suggest about how violence operates in relation to gender variance? What does this suggest about how violence operates differently when the intended victim is a women than when the intended victim is a man? What does it say about gender and violence that maleness itself can be presented as a tool of intimidation, and that femaleness is so consistently treated as a weakness, a target?
I wonder, in the absurd hypothetical that a cis guy wearing drag "in solidarity" at Pride were to be harassed and threatened, how long the wig would stay on.
Aside from the questions of violence and risk, safety and comfort zones, where and when unusual gender things are or aren't perceived as socially acceptable, one of the things that has long bothered me about drag, and represents an equally vast gap between it and other kinds of trans experiences, is the fundamentally different way gender is treated and perceived, especially in regards to the motives. In drag, gender roles are almost always exaggerated, distorted, and turned into campy, ridiculous caricatures, for the sake of making everything more, well, fun. One of the things about this that is probably just as empowering for those who enjoy it as it is trivializing and offensive for others is how these exaggerations serve to mock and satirize gender roles.
Drag often presents itself as if to say, "Look! All those big, nasty genders that have limited and bound you don't really have any real power! They're silly. They're just costumes. Gender is just a joke! Don't you see?" …and while I'm very aware of how liberating this can be for many people, the truth is that gender is not always a joke. For some people it is, at risk of putting too fine a point on it, deadly serious. Not all of us have the opportunity of divorcing ourselves from those harsh realities to find it all that funny, and it seems that the whole set-up demands the luxury of being able to take gender somewhat for granted…something that is very much a cis privilege. It's much harder to laugh at your gender when you've had to fight so hard and sacrifice so much in order to possess it.
In there lies a hint at a difficult, paradoxical, complex and yet very important question: is drag only possible in the context of cis privilege, or something fairly close to it? Is drag a fundamentally cisgender phenomenon?
When asked, I've always maintained that concepts like an "LGBT community", "queer community" or "trans community" were validated and sustained despite the enormous differences between various individual identities in those groups as being basically political coalitions. They make sense due to a shared oppression, and shared political necessity to respond. But when virtually every aspect of the oppression and marginalization that affects trans people does not operate in relation to drag, does the concepts inclusion still make sense? Do drag performers, in any meaningful sense at all, even broadly, share the same risks, the same marginalization, the same experience of oppression, or share the political needs, as the trans community?
Arguably, cross-dressing for the purposes of entertainment, drag, was never actually marginalized or subjugated. There have always been contexts in theatre and performance in which cross-dressing, usually for the sake of comedy and camp and fun, just as it exists in our current cultural climate, was socially sanctioned.
Maybe entertainment-drag has always existed as a socially-sanctioned means for a cisgender culture to explore and exorcise its anxieties about gender. I can't help but think of how often cross-dressing has been historically sanctioned in the context of Carnivale… a festival of bright colours, costumes, parades and general hedonism not even remotely unlike the contemporary phenomenon of Pride.
But nonetheless there's a history of drag that extends outside the context of entertainment that has come to encompass it. At certain points in North American history, as well as ongoing in many other parts of the world, the boundaries between what was drag, what was transsexual, what was transgender, what was cross-dressing, and what was sexual kink were much, much more blurry and indistinct. These contexts seem to exist whenever or wherever access to medical transition, and tolerance of transsexuality and transgenderism, is limited or unavailable.
Maybe in those contexts, the possibility for transgender/transsexual communities to form on their own terms, to pursue the various identities or medical treatments or legal decisions that would distinguish a transsexual from anyone else, and to pursue and assert such an identity as distinct from those merely dressing as the opposite sex, was so limited or remote that assimilating under the protective umbrella of the forms of gender transgression that are socially-sanctioned, as in entertainment, theatre, drag… that was the best possible response. Survival demanded the cooperation, even if the actual motivations and understandings of self may have vastly differed from individual to individual.
Not at all unlike, perhaps, how many trans people initially explore their feelings and identities in the still far more socially-acceptable domain of drag (yes…gay men who are drag queens have far more acceptance and privilege than trans women… and not only due to the maintained ability to remove the wig) or butch (likewise) before realizing the necessity of transition.
Which is not to say that people living in such contexts have all been secretly thinking of themselves as different but just weren't allowed to say so. Gender is always a social and cultural thing, and can only ever manifest in relation to the concepts that are available. We work with what we have to build and understand who we are.
All of these differences and complications have led to a not inconsiderable amount of tension and resentment. While drag continues to be the most accepted and most visible form of "cross-sex" behaviour, cis people, from the outside looking in, rarely have enough education about these nuances, or any nuances about gender variance at all, and end up not being aware that there's much, if any, meaningful distinction between drag and trans. This ignorance about the complexity of these issues is very much exemplified by a group of cis people deciding it would be a gesture of "trans solidarity" to dress up in drag for a pride parade, consulting "actual queer people" (were any of them trans?) and a "real drag queen" (define real?) to ensure that the idea was on the level. Drag performers, like the often staggeringly insensitive RuPaul, are often then called upon to speak on behalf of transsexual people, or on issues that exlusively effect other transgender identities and experiences, and those cis performers then provide extremely cis-friendly answers, blinded by cis privilege, that are all too readily uncritically accepted by a cis audience.
It's a bit of a problem.
Please, cis people… it's not just enough to know that drag queens and trans women are two different things. If you want to think yourself capable of speaking to trans issues, if you want to think you're able to "help" without actually consulting us (which is actually kind of always a bad idea), you really need to also understand why and how those are two different things… and what that means for those living on either side of that gap.


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Your article is right on the mark [Dr. Hook, February 3: "Phone-a-pill: Get your prescriptions in person"]. Charlottesville area doctors are playing with fire when they phone in new or refill prescriptions.
I've been practicing pharmacy in this town for over two years. What probably started as a convenience to prescribers is now a runaway train heading to disaster.
Nurse interpretation is just the beginning of potential problems. Add in dialect, pronunciation, accent, etc., and the problem escalates. Then there's the problem of pressure. I work at a particularly busy pharmacy. Phoned-in prescriptions now routinely exceed 100 per day (and more than 150 on Mondays). That means I'm on the phone for up to four hours a day. Do you think the rest of my customers are getting my full attention?
Prescription orders left on voicemail machines are even more dangerous. Some prescriptions are called-in in less than 20 seconds. How safe is that? One doctor from UVA actually rattled off 11 prescription orders in less than one minute!
But there's an easy solution. If only the prescribers would fax their written prescriptions to us, prescription dispensing would become much safer. Just like prescriptions that are brought in to the pharmacy, faxed prescriptions are easier to interpret, not hindered by office and pharmacy distractions, and guaranteed to take less telephone time for everyone involved. Unfortunately most prescriber offices shun the fax machine. Here are some of the excuses I get when I suggest faxing:
* Our docs don't write the prescription (what?)
* We just call in the refills during the day– the doc signs them at night (what?)
* It takes too long to fax (not true)
* Patients want it that way (they also want the right prescription)
Dr. Hong, your article is right on the mark. How can we convince the rest of the prescribers in Charlottesville?
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April 15, 2008 - This summer the Guitar Hero franchise will be rocked by a true legend of rock: Aerosmith. And while it would be easy to brush this title aside as a generic Guitar Hero with a catalogue approach, this title looks to be a lot more than your standard Guitar Hero game. Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is changing up the Guitar Hero formula by adding more features and giving fans a completely new Guitar Hero experience.
First off, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will be the first Guitar Hero game with an actual story. In this title you will be able to play as either one of the band's two guitar players: Brad Whitford or Joe Perry. Gamers will also be able to play as Tom Hamilton, the band's bass player. Through the lens of these three guitar players, the player will experience the saga of Aerosmith in a way they never have before. You will be able to experience the band's ups and downs first-hand, which is pretty exciting. And if you're a real music history buff like me, then you know that Aerosmith has quite the sordid past, so there will definitely be lots of drama and excitement!
In addition to playing as members of the band, there will also be several opening acts that utilize characters from Guitar Hero III. You will still be able to trick out your characters, but this time they will all have Aerosmith stylized options. There will also be several customization options for when you play as the band members as well, including unlockable guitars that you will be able to use from the rock stars' personal collections.
And of course we have to talk about the track list. If you think it's going to be all Aerosmith, then you're wrong, because Guitar Hero: Aerosmith will feature not only songs from the game's titular band, but will also feature songs from artists that inspired them. So in addition to Aerosmith standards like "Sweet Emotion" and "Draw the Line," you'll also be treated to "I Hate Myself" by Joan Jett and "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick among many others. And while only a few tracks have been confirmed as of this preview, there should be about a dozen non-Aerosmith songs and many more from the band itself, ranging all the way from the band's humble beginnings in the early seventies to their latest album from 2004.
One thing Aerosmith fans will be very happy about is the faithful recreation of Aerosmith's signature stage style. All the band members did extensive motion capture work for the game in order to try to recreate their on-stage movements with as much fidelity as possible. Fans will find that signature moves and gestures they might have seen at a live show will remain an integral part of the "show" aspect of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. Oh, and all of those crazy seventies inspired outfits are included in the game as well. Does anyone else remember Stephen Tyler's infamous black and white striped jumpsuit? Well,if you don't, it'll definitely be brought back in this title!
Another thing that Aerosmith fans might enjoy is the many Aerosmith-inspired locations you will be able to perform in. From music video-inspired stages to gigantic real-life venues, there are definitely some great places for you to rock out! And who knows? Maybe one of these venues will look somewhat familiar to the seasoned Aerosmith fan!
All in all, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith looks to be pretty cool. Although it might not have the variety of songs as the previous Guitar Hero games, I think that this more focused approach is a good thing. It allows for a real story to be told through the music, and it doesn't hurt that the band behind the music produced some of the best American music of all time. Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is definitely one summer game that should not be passed up!
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The theoretical limit lies at 4 billion notes. But of course that's theory) I've tested CintaNotes to run on a base with 10000 notes, and it runs fine. But for the current version I don't recommend running CintaNotes directly from the flash drive in this case - it will be slow. Right now CintaNotes keeps the whole notebook in memory and saves it to the disk each time something changes. This is of course quite inefficient, and I'll change this in one of the next versions, where I plan to migrate to an SQLite database. Hope this information will help you to make a better choice (see here).CintaNotes seems to me one of the closest equivalent of nVALT on Windows.
In recent months have become more and more interested in the actual capacities of note-taking software. For a life-time of note-taking, two things seem to me essential: (i) the ability to handle tens of thousands of notes easily and effectively, (ii) the ability to import and export notes easily to other formats (most importantly [for me] in text format).
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Residents add to Hampshire library digital collection
Valerie Ruth of Hampshire has spent years putting together scrapbooks that have become testimonials of life over the decades in her hometown.
"I've used a lot of sticky pads," said Ruth, who with husband Orris owned the old "Chuck's Pub" in Hampshire. The pub was renamed "The Kave" after the couple's son, David Ruth, took ownership in 2008.
Her effort -- a collection of photographs of old Hampshire, pub customers, plus documents such as birth certificates and more -- now will become part of the town's collective memory, as the Ella Johnson Memorial Public Library District in Hampshire builds digital collection archives with images of residents' historical items. Ruth was among those who attended "Digital Donation Day" Saturday morning at the library.
About six to eight residents brought in their photo albums and scrapbooks so volunteers from the library's Tree Climbers ancestry group could scan them on the spot.
"What they brought was prodigious," said library reference specialist Kelly Sheahan, who coordinated the event.
For example, the library obtained photographs of the old Starks Corner service station and the people who worked there decades ago, Sheahan said.
"It's a corner of the district that we don't have anything for. It was fantastic," she said.
Plato Township resident Carolyn Gathman brought in an album of black-and-white photos of life on her family's farm in the 1940s and 1950s as well as images and postcards of the now-defunct Elgin National Watch Co. that closed in 1968.
"It's great you can show your stuff and not have to give it away," Gathman said. "I don't want to give it away, because it's from my family. But I think people would like to see this, especially the watch factory in Elgin. Some of that is collectors' items."
Someone brought documents about teacher salaries and contracts from one-room schoolhouses dating back to the first half of the 20th century. Another resident was expected later to bring photographs of a local POW camp that held Germans captured in Africa during World War II, Sheahan said.
"Back then it was illegal to take pictures of POWs, so this is very rare. These are the only known photos we know of," she said.
Even if they missed Saturday's event, district residents are welcome to stop by any time with their possessions -- anything from old family photos to church bulletins -- so they can be digitally preserved for future generations, Sheahan said.
"We'll take items from the community any time. We're going to keep working on the historical archives as long as we can," she said.
The Ella Johnson library district serves more than 16,000 people in Hampshire, Pingree Grove, Burlington and parts of Elgin and Huntley. The library is at 109 South State St. in Hampshire. For details, visit ellajohnsonlibrary.org.


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A woman in a canoe traveling along the Skunk River in Ames found a human skull sitting on a sandbar Tuesday.
Police received a report of the skull at 8 p.m. It was found near the Skunk River north of the old Carr Pool.
"It's a little bit creepy," said Rita Gartin, the woman who found the skull. "I could kind of see eye sockets and I knew right away that that's a human skull."
Gartin took the skull home and called police.
"They were really surprised," said Gartin.
Ames police Commander Geoff Huff said the skull was taken to the State Medical Examiner's Office.
"This is the first time I can remember finding a human skull in Ames," said Huff.
Huff said the skull appears to be very old and was likely washed down the river during recent heavy rains.
"If we find out that it's much newer than we thought then, yeah, we'll look through our cold cases, but if we find out it's much, much older we don't have a criminal case," said Huff.
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Men who have low testosterone levels may be at heightened risk for early death from heart disease and all causes, according to research newly published in the journal Heart. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people with Type 2 diabetes.
Conventional wisdom holds that testosterone is a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular conditions. To determine the effect of testosterone levels in men with coronary disease and to identify what percentage of men with coronary disease have low testosterone, researchers recruited 930 men with coronary heart disease who had been referred to a heart center between 2000 and 2002. The participants' heart health was then tracked for about 7 years.
At the start of the study, low testosterone levels were found to be fairly common, occurring in about 25% of the men. According to the measurements of bioavailable testosterone (testosterone available for body tissues to use) and total testosterone, these men had clinically defined testosterone deficiency, as opposed to a tapering of testosterone levels due to age. Over the course of the follow-up period, nearly twice as many men with low testosterone levels died as men with normal testosterone levels (20% versus 12%).
Low, rather than high, levels of testosterone are linked to obesity, dangerous blood fats, and insulin resistance, all of which are risk factors for diabetes and heart disease. (High testosterone levels found in anabolic steroids, however, are known to be harmful.) The researchers suggest that men at high risk of these conditions may stand to benefit the most from testosterone replacement therapy.
In an accompanying editorial, they state, "There has been a marked increase in prescription of testosterone over recent years. While the long-term cardiovascular impact of testosterone supplements in those with low levels remains to be demonstrated, accumulating evidence suggests there is a sound basis for examining this. Recent data suggest that this important pathway warrants a lot more attention."
The study authors were careful to note that testosterone replacement is not without its risks, including prostate cancer in men. Further study into the effects of testosterone replacement on mortality is warranted, they conclude.
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Possible Asperger's connection to shooting sparks fear, outrage
As the mother of a 7-year-old boy with autism, Leticia Crespo works hard to remove some of the negative stigma around the condition.
That's why Crespo, an attorney who lives in Monroe, has been disturbed by media reports that Adam Lanza, who reportedly killed his mother and 26 other people -- most of them children -- might have been on the autism spectrum.
Reports have surfaced that Lanza had Asperger's syndrome, a disorder characterized by poor social interactions, obsessions and other unusual behaviors, though that hasn't yet been confirmed.
Crespo's son Jaden Villaneuva has what she called "high-functioning autism." She's become a legal advocate for people with special needs and is appalled at the way Asperger's has been linked with the shootings. Many children with autism have enough problems being accepted by other children, she said.
Associating the condition with a gruesome tragedy like this could make the obstacles they face even greater.
"This is just being put out there for people who don't know what it means to be autistic to see," she said.
She's not alone in her fears that the media discussion of autism in relation to the shooting will make life worse for children like Jaden. Many health experts have been quick to point out that Asperger's isn't typically associated with violent behavior and are upset that the condition is being associated with the tragedy.
"Several parents contacted me (the weekend after the shooting) saying `I'm so concerned about how this is going to be portrayed and the backlash,' " said Mary R. Cohen, director of the Center for Teaching and Research in Autism at Pace University in New York.
Cohen said that Asperger's is a neurological condition, not a mental illness and it's "totally unheard of for a person with Asperger's to do something like this."
But at least one mother of a child on the autism spectrum said she isn't sure.
The Milford mother, who didn't want to be named, said the incident has made her more worried than ever about her son, who is 11 and prone to violence. A little over a week ago, she said, he was hospitalized after he "got very violent and threatened to kill me and his brother."
The woman said her son may have issues aside from being on the spectrum, such as a mood disorder. She doesn't know, despite visits to multiple psychiatrists. But she does know that she's worried. "I've been telling (people) for years that something bad is going to happen," she said.
She's not alone in her concern. Julie Swanson, a special education advocate based in Durham, said several parents have called in her the wake of the shooting. Though Swanson was adamant that none of the parents who contacted her were concerned about their children committing an atrocity like the one in Newtown, she said, "some of the parents I work with can absolutely relate to the mental health issue and making sure that help is secured so that harm to self and others can be avoided."
At the same time, Swanson, who is also the parent of a child with autism, said she and those she serves are "rather outraged" at the way the media has linked Asperger's with the murders. In fact, most experts have said that, even if Lanza did have Asperger's, it likely wasn't the cause of his rampage. "I think there has been a gross mischaracterization (of this condition)," Swanson said. "You can't just connect A to B like that."
Lanza has been frequently described as having symptoms associated with Asperger's, such as problems connecting with others. But other aspects of his personality aren't consistent with the condition -- such as his fascination with guns. Though people with Asperger's tend to be obsessive, the objects of their fixation tend to be benign, Cohen said. "I've never heard of anyone obsessed with guns," she said.
Cohen said those with spectrum disorders do sometimes hit family members but she added "so do children who don't."
In most cases, those with Asperger's and other conditions on the autism spectrum are more likely to be victims than perpetrators, said Dr. Michael Powers, director of the Center for Children with Special Needs in Glastonbury.
"Kids on the spectrum get bullied more than other kids," he said. "That is a given risk that's always present."
Powers said he didn't know if the discussion of Asperger's in connection with the shooting will put kids at greater risk of bullying, but it has the potential to be damaging.
Others who work in the special needs field agree with that assessment, including Jennifer Lee, medical director of the Center for Autism and Developmental Services at St. Vincent's Behavioral Health in Westport. She said even those patients without spectrum disorders have been worried about how those with neurological conditions or mental illness will be treated in the wake of the shootings.
"Patients in general have expressed concerns that this will add to the stigma around mental illness," Lee said.
Andrea Leonardi, director of special education and pupil services in Fairfield, also worries about the fallout. She said, though her district's major goal in light of the shooting has been ensuring the safety of students, she's also been concerned about the negative image being portrayed of those with special needs.
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After eight days of the fiercest fighting in years, a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip�s Hamas rulers could usher in a new era of relations between the bitter foes. The renewed quiet on both home fronts raises questions about what those involved gained, and lost, from the fighting and its aftermath.
Israel secured an agreement to stop the persistent rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel without launching a ground invasion into Gaza or losing the support of its international allies. Netanyahu�s bid for re-election in January could be vastly strengthened by the operation and by the killing of Hamas militant leader Ahmed Jabari on the first day of fighting. Netanyahu got the backing of President Barack Obama during the fighting, a significant achievement after their already shaky relationship grew colder when Netanyahu was perceived to favor Republican nominee Mitt Romney during the recent U.S. election. Israel also secured a commitment from the U.S. to help stop weapons smuggling into Gaza.
The Islamic militant group that rules Gaza gained significant international credibility, with Arab and Turkish diplomats pouring into the Palestinian territory to show support. Though it has been branded a terror group by Israel and the United States, it was treated as an equal partner with Israel during indirect cease-fire talks in Egypt. In those talks, it secured a commitment for the freer movement of people and goods into and out of Gaza. Hamas also proved its ability to fire rockets as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem despite being battered with airstrikes. As the Arab Spring brings Islamists to power across the region, Hamas� influence is on the rise.
Abbas, who lost control of Gaza to Hamas five years ago, might be the biggest loser. He had no seat in the cease-fire negotiations and was largely sidelined during the crisis. Hamas� ability to stand up to Israel and survive could also diminish Palestinians� patience with their president�s so far fruitless efforts to push for a negotiated solution to the conflict with Israel. Abbas� Western-backed government only rules in the West Bank, and his dreams of reconciling the rival Palestinian territories seems more elusive than ever.
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Nissan Motor Co. reported Friday a January-March profit of 110 billion yen ($1.1 billion), up from 75.3 billion yen the same period the previous year. Quarterly sales gained 6 percent to 2.87 trillion yen ($28.7 billion).
That rounded out a record vehicle sales year for the Yokohama-based maker of the March compact, Infiniti luxury models and Leaf electric car at 4.9 million vehicles globally, up 1.4 percent, despite the problems in China where boycotts and anti-Japanese riots broke out last year.
President Carlos Ghosn was upbeat about growth in months ahead, targeting global 5.3 million vehicle sales for the fiscal year through March 2014, an increase of nearly 8 percent.
He noted Chinese sales had started to recover in the first three months of the year compared to the same period a year earlier.
Sales were up 5.4 percent in the U.S. to 1.14 million vehicles for the fiscal year through March 2013, but sales in China dipped 5.3 percent to 1.18 million vehicles. Sales were also down in Japan but were strong in other markets such as Thailand, Brazil and the Middle East.
"Fiscal 2012 was marked by both successes and challenges for Nissan," Ghosn said. "We ended the year with a sound balance sheet, record global sales, an improved brand and an expanded presence in critical growth markets."
He welcomed the "Abenomics" policies of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that are centered on an aggressive flooding of monetary markets with cash, a move that has buoyed the dollar, a big plus for Japanese exporters like Nissan.
But Ghosn, who has long criticized what he called an overvalued yen, characterized the dollar at 100 yen, reached for the first time in four years in Friday's Tokyo trading, as "neutral."
Nissan gained 30 billion yen ($300 million) in operating profit for the latest fiscal year over a favorable exchange rate.
The dollar has gained about 20 percent since Abe took office.
Nissan is projecting a 420 billion yen ($4.2 billion) profit for the fiscal year through March 2014, on 11.2 trillion yen ($112 billion) sales.
Nissan reported a 342 billion yen ($3.42 billion) profit for the fiscal year ended March 31, up 0.3 percent on year. Annual sales edged up 2.3 percent to 9.6 trillion yen ($96 billion).
Some analysts say that, with the cheaper yen, Japanese automakers will be better able to compete in overseas markets against powerful rivals like Hyundai of South Korea that have been grabbing market share away from them.
A falling yen not only helps raise the value of overseas profit of the Japanese by billions of yen, but it also tends to bring down product prices. Because Japanese autos tend to be of relatively good quality, they will appear as bargains, once prices come down.
Other Japanese automakers, such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. also reaped benefits from the cheaper yen for their latest earnings.
Toyota's quarterly profit more than doubled to 313.9 billion yen ($3.2 billion), while Honda's quarterly profit rose nearly 6 percent to 75.7 billion yen ($765 million).
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WEST GOSHEN - Dawn Richardson will never forget one of the first nights she volunteered with the Chester County DUI Task Force.
Though drawing blood is routine for Richardson, who is a phlebotomist by day at Chester County Hospital, few patients there stumble to her drunk, heads heavy, knowing handcuffs are only minutes away.
But such unpredictability is normal on the nights she serves with the task force.
'I will never ever forget we had a woman who was arrested for drunken driving – you know how they have them girly parties like pampered chef - well, she had come from one of those,' Richardson said.
Stepping onto the bus to meet Richardson, the woman became belligerent and had to be wrestled off by police who needed to use pepper spray to restrain her. Caught in the crossfire was Richardson, whose eyes were an unfortunate casualty – as least temporarily – for the evening.
Despite that experience, Richardson maintained her position as a regular volunteer and the go-to phlebotomist for the county's DUI task force operations.
In fact, Richardson said the only difference from her day job is she sits more, waiting for offenders to come to her. The only added challenge, she said, is that the bus setup adds a balancing task to her work.
Overall, Richardson said outbursts and incidents are a rare occurrence with the arrested individuals who are at that point accompanied by police officers.
On a Friday night this past May, Richardson joined officers with the DUI task force to conduct a checkpoint on Route 3 just west of Five Points Road.
It's about 10:30 p.m., officers have signs set up, members from various county police departments are lined up on Route 3 inspecting every car that passes through. The checkpoint will carry through to about 2:30 a.m., looking for impaired drivers who would otherwise be a safety risk on the road.
West Goshen Sgt. Justin DiMedio, who has led the county's DUI task force since 2007, is in charge.
Broken down into stations, the checkpoint moves with military precision. Officers on the line greet drivers, asking them their destination and origin, while looking for signs of intoxication, before sending them on their way with a informational flyer if no suspicion is raised. Once spotted, the driver and passengers are removed while another officer valets the car into a lot. Passengers are then taken to a coned-off waiting area while the drivers are given field sobriety tests. Should the driver fail, they are read their rights, blood is drawn and they are arrested. They are then driven to a local department to be booked.
Officers are assisted this night with a license plate reader, an added feature that helps tally up 10 citations throughout the evening as each car's unique identifier is run through the system before contact is made.
The stops are infrequent, but officers are able to identify even trace amounts of alcohol that are the basis for further examination, though not necessarily an arrest.
Three people are arrested. After their ABCs and 123s are tested, drivers are subjected to balance tests where they attempt to walk a straight line, some giving up halfway through. Emotions are controlled among the handful of drivers whose every move is scrutinized, though fighting tears is too much for some.
Of the arrested, all blew more than a 0.1 percent on the portable breath alcohol analyzer, with one driver displaying a result of 0.212 percent. The legal limit is 0.08 percent.
Though the work is serious, there is time to relax.
In the down time, officers talk while DiMedio reviews and critiques video from the department's last SWAT exercise. Still others discuss the finer points of spotting a 'Delco Tuxedo:' a T-shirt and sweatpants, the officers explain to a reporter observing that night.
That attire is often accompanied by the 'Delco Chinstrap,' a form of facial hair and dress evidently popular among Delaware County residents.
Considering the long evening, the night is often a catered affair, which the hosting department provides. This night, towers of pizza and gallons of fresh coffee rest just out of sight for officers to fuel-up on throughout the night. Doughnuts make the spread as well, an irony not lost on DiMedio who proudly states he loves doughnuts, though can't think of many people who don't.
'Let me step out and check out my guys on the line,' DiMedio says after a bit, hopping off the bus to run out to the officers spread out along Route 3.
Aided by federal money from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and disseminated through Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, DiMedio says the county received $60,000 to conduct checkpoints this year. Typically, the county conducts eight or nine checkpoints a year.
DiMedio says his goal is to explore different locations for the checkpoints rather than reuse the same ones again and again.
'The location has to be supported by PennDOT crash statistics,' DiMedio says, adding the task force can't randomly pick a road to put up a checkpoint.
Route 3 at Five Points Road fit the criteria.
Prior to the checkpoint, signs must notify drivers 600 feet in advance. While officers do not need to provide a turnoff away from the checkpoint, one cannot be blocked.
On this night, to avoid the stop, drivers pull off onto Route 202 or turn into a neighboring Wawa in an attempt to evade a confrontation with police.
DiMedio says he doesn't worry too much about that, noting police usually saturate the surrounding area with patrols.
In the event of high traffic volume, DiMedio says they will open up the road if cars are backed up past a predetermined spot.
Though this checkpoint began at 10 p.m., DiMedio says all nights are not the same and they will play with the times depending on locations.
'West Chester we are always here to 3 a.m.,' he says. 'In Kennett we are there early because they drink their paychecks and they're out of money by 10 o'clock if not earlier so we are out there by 9 p.m. ready to go.'
The task force made about three arrests that night in May and six a few weeks earlier, though many more were stopped. Despite preconceptions, there is no typical offender, DiMedio says. That night, arrests varied in race, gender and age.
DiMedio says once arrested most of the drivers are cooperative.
'Usually about 1 percent that we contact we will arrest,' he says.
While that doesn't sound like a lot, DiMedio says most motorists are simply coming from the movies or going to and from work. In the end, that one driver and potential risk is removed from the road.
Some are attempting to reduce the blood alcohol content level for being legally too drunk to drive from .08 to .05. DiMedio says he thinks that would be too low. After consideration, DiMedio says he does not think any new legislation could be introduced to help checkpoints run better, but thinks efforts should focus more on the penalties. Those are the weakest link in the system, in his opinion.
At the end of the evening, officers pack up and move out, leaving no trace.
'You are looking for arrests, sure, but at the same time we are looking to make contact, which is good,' says Rob Gilbert, a West Goshen officer. 'All in all, the process runs pretty smooth.'
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Can Hotels Benefit From the Long Winter of 2014?
After a long, cold winter, spring officially starts today. But the awful winter weather won't immediately disappear. How has all that cold and snow scrambled business in the hotel industry? John Greenleaf, global head of DoubleTree by Hilton, joins MoneyBeat.
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Add Konami to the list of developers getting on board with Microsoft's Project Natal and Sony's unnamed(?) motion controller, at least for the Pro Evo soccer simulation series.
According to a report from IGN, series lead Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka has said that the Pro Evo team is "looking at integrating those devices into our games very aggressively". We doubt they're the only ones at Konami HQ getting up to speed on the Wii Remote's pair of competitors.
While it could make headers in Pro Evo a dangerous prospect, we can see it working in other Konami titles. Just imagine being able to immerse yourself in a cardboard box in real life, then see Solid Snake do the exact same thing! Or imagine what Koji Igarashi could do with a motion controlled Castlevania.
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