Writing a novel

UNIX Timestamp: 1302450092 - Human date: Sunday April the 10th, 2011, 3:41 pm

My name is Netscape Chrome, I'm a web browser and this is my personal diary.
Actually, my full name is 5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36, but everybody calls me Chrome.
I live in a Windows running computer, in Turkey.
My exact address is 88.234.9.145.
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Ok, I presented myself. Let's see what can I talk about now. Hm, yes, I know... Writing a novel.

UNIX Timestamp: 1302830176 - Human date: Friday April the 15th, 2011, 1:16 am

I'm singing in the web! I'm singing in the web!

Not sure if it's interesting but I went here today http://www.boston.com/entertainment/events/2014/11/01/can-you-write-novel-month-sure-just-follow-these-tips-from-boston-writers/0ljevQRIR6tkcgHu6z3KnL/story.html.

November 1 marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. Those who accept its challenge have a daunting task ahead of them: They have to write a novel—50,000 words of prose—in the space of 30 days, Turkey Day tryptophan naps and Black Friday traffic jams be damned.

An estimated 100 published novels have ties to NaNoWriMo, including “Water for Elephants,” Sara Gruen’s best-seller published in 2006, and “The Night Circus,” Marshfield-raised Erin Morgenstern’s 2011 debut. But there are a lot of opportunities to stumble on the way to NaNoWriMo’s 50,000-word finish line, and many aspiring novelists (including this one) fall out of competition over the course of November.

Lisa Borders is the author of two novels and a writing instructor at the Boston creative writing center Grub Street. In her workshop The Novel Generator, she guides students through the first-draft process over nine months—a much longer period of time than NaNoWriMo’s. But she sees the event as helpful motivation to take a headfirst plunge into a lengthy work—a daunting task for even the most experienced writer.

“I’ve never done NaNoWriMo because I can’t imagine completing a draft of a novel in a month; but I think it’s useful as a motivational tool,” Borders said, adding that each of her books took several years to complete. “Many of my former students have used it in this way—as a means for making substantial progress.”

Even for the most prolific scribbler, pumping out 50,000 words can be a towering hurdle. Pacing oneself, and figuring out how to fit writing into a typical day, is important. “My day feels incomplete when I don’t write,” said Gilmore Tamny, author of the serialized novel “My Days With Millicent.” “I do it by sort of taking the romance out of writing by making it a very ordinary part of the day.”

Some NaNoWriMo participants try to write 1,667 words a day—the result of dividing the 50,000-word goal by November’s 30 days. Others engage in complex calculations about how many words they can type per minute and how fast the clocks around them are ticking. And still others schedule off-days, so they can step away from their laptops and find inspiration in things like the outdoors and other human beings.

“I’ve found it helpful to spend time with my writing project like it is a person rather than a thing to accomplish,” said Tamny. “I set a timer and we just—hang. This might mean rereading different spots, spell checking, making a list of small details I’d like to double-check with minor research. It’s kind of like you’re having a coffee klatsch with your work. Anything to dial back the fraught factor. Also, [it’s important to recognize] being blocked is absolutely part of any artistic process.”

“I have never suffered from writer’s block,” said Deborah Nam-Krane, a Boston author whose fourth novel “Let’s Move On” came out this fall. “I got advice early in my teens that it was better to write something imperfect that you could improve on later than to stare at a piece of paper (or a screen) waiting for ‘the muse’ to inspire you with perfection.

“I tried NaNoWriMo last year, but it wasn’t the right time for me,” she added. “I think it’s a great way for a lot of novelists to kickstart their novel, but the ones who have been very successful with it have said that they did a lot of planning (outlining, character sketches, inspiration boards, etc.) so they could complete their novel in one month. When it works, it’s great; when it doesn’t, you’re just putting words down to say you did.”

“Sometimes a writer has an idea for a novel that plays itself out in 50 or so pages and evaporates from there,” said Borders. “In teaching novel writing, I’ve found that this issue is often related to the main character’s desire—that is, to the writer not having a clear sense of what her main character wants. That desire is what will pull the reader through 300 or so pages, to see if the character gets—or doesn’t get—what he or she wants.”

V.V. Ganeshananthan, a novelist and Radcliffe fellow, has friends who have “used [NaNoWriMo] to galvanize themselves into intense periods of work,” and she thinks its put-it-all-out-there-fast structure can be part of a larger process.

“I didn’t write every day when finishing my first book—I wrote for long stretches and then took long stretches away,” she said. “That tactic seems like it would lend itself to NaNoWriMo—this would be the long stretch on, and you might aim to finish an early and solid draft, and then take a month off to work on something else, and then take a look at it to revise. My guess is that that’s what a ‘final bow’ would mean for many people trying [NaNoWriMo] out—that early but complete draft. A deadline and some peer pressure can get you going.”

Borders agrees that those 50,000 words are only one part of a much bigger picture. (In a 2011 interview, Morgenstern talked about the process that led to her book being published.)

“In terms of knowing when your book is ready to submit to agents, it’s all about revising, getting feedback from other writers or consultants/editors, revising some more, and repeating this process until you feel all the elements of craft are working and the book is solid,” said Borders. “Then it’s about polishing, eliminating clichés, getting the language as right as you can. A novel should have been through many drafts—mine usually go through at least seven full drafts—before it’s shown to an agent.”

Editors and agents might seem like they exist on a completely different plane from the blank page that greets new writing endeavors. But even the most beloved novels started with the most basic building blocks of writing: A place to write, an implement, and an idea—and the discipline to see that idea through.

I'm not sure if I should write that much.

UNIX Timestamp: 1302927007 - Human date: Saturday April the 16th, 2011, 4:10 am

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UNIX Timestamp: 1303250091 - Human date: Tuesday April the 19th, 2011, 9:54 pm

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UNIX Timestamp: 1303821174 - Human date: Tuesday April the 26th, 2011, 12:32 pm

I'm celebrating the joy of being what I am, this is great!

I spent so much time searching for this, and I found it here http://writerunboxed.com/2011/09/02/erin-morgenstern-part-i/.

No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen. No color at all, save for the neighboring trees and the grass of the surrounding fields. Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world. Even what little ground is visible from outside is black or white, painted or powdered, or treated with some other circus trick.

At its heart, The Night Circus is a genre-bending tale of duelling magicians. “…Celia and Marco… have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

Brunonia Barry: “‘Dark as soot and bright as sparks,’ The Night Circus still holds me willingly captive in a world of almost unbearable beauty. This is a love story on a grand scale: it creates, it destroys, it ultimately transcends. Take a bow, Erin Morgenstern. This is one of the best books I have ever read.”

From Kirkus in a starred review: “Self-assured, entertaining debut that blends genres and crosses continents in quest of magic… Generous in its vision and fun to read. Likely to be a big book—and, soon, a big movie, with all the franchise trimmings.”

Publisher’s Weekly, in a starred review: “Debut author Morgenstern doesn’t miss a beat in this smashing tale of greed, fate, and love…a giant, magical story destined for bestsellerdom. This is an electric debut on par with Special Topics in Calamity Physics.”

Joining us from Boston, where she’s girding her loins before the book tour and media blitz begin in earnest, is debut author, Erin Morgenstern.

Jan:  Erin, welcome! Some will ascribe fairytale-like qualities to your authorial journey, but you’ve done more work than simply put on a ball gown and throw off a glass shoe. You’ve been on an artistic path for some time and learning about story in one form or another for years. Can you elaborate?

I’ve been a reader since I was little (my mother is an elementary school librarian, so I am still very fond of picture books) but it took me a rather long time to get to be a writer. I always sort of wanted to write but never really got many words to consent to settling on pages.

I have a degree in theatre, which was my storytelling method of choice for quite a while but after college I found I was a bit burnt out. I did a little bit of everything theatre-wise from acting and directing to lighting design and a bit of playwriting (though I never finished any plays), but nothing ever clicked as the one theatre thing I should be doing. So I worked fluorescent-lit office jobs in something of a quarter-life crisis, flailing around trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I started painting again and considered writing more than I actually wrote, until I started doing National Novel Writing Month in 2003. I failed miserably that first attempt but reached 50k in 30 days the next year, and it became a really good exercise for me — writing without stopping to be overly self-critical and having the magical pressure of a deadline.

I think I’ve always been a storyteller in one way or another. I think the theatre background gave me a good grounding in telling other people’s stories, and then it took some experimenting in paint and words to figure out how best to tell my own.

“Oh, she isn’t a finisher.” There’s a special kind of despair that haunts writers who haven’t yet finished a novel, and it’s exacerbated by comments like this one, which I recently overheard at a conference when a published writer spoke of another attendee. I think your path to publication offers hope to non-finishers. Can you explain?

I wasn’t a finisher for a very long time. I wrote a lot, but nothing ever consented to becoming novel-shaped. I think it’s possible to just keep working and working without a finished product and I did that myself, but there comes a time when you just need to let go and see what happens. There is likely a bird flying out of a nest analogy here, though in my case, I pushed the bird out of the nest and it flapped around a bit and fell to the ground. Luckily very kind agents picked it up and handed it back to me and made me realize that it had very pretty feathers but was lacking in skeleton, which is essential to the whole flight thing. That was difficult, of course, but it was also what I needed and I think I was very fortunate. It’s okay to flail, to start over, to work on something else. I took a break mid-revisions and wrote a draft of an entirely different novel, which I think was really helpful for my writing-brain.

I knew I had something in that alchemical way when you know you’ve tossed ingredients around in a combination that works. It had sparks and smoke and potential. I was petrified about getting it right, and I nearly gave up several times especially once I started querying, but I knew it would continue to haunt me if I abandoned it.

Erin: I learned how not to write. I think it’s like learning to do anything — you have to try and fail and try again and fail better. Sometimes I’m sure you could manage it on one manuscript, but for me it took some false starts. The pre-circus incomplete novel-esque things are mostly sprawling sketches of story, exercises in finding my voice. I will likely use pieces or elements in future books but I don’t think I’d go back to any of them.

So The Night Circus was the first manuscript you submitted, and though you enjoyed significant agent interest, you didn’t leap into an immediate contract. Can you explain why?

I received my first agent offer contingent upon heavy revisions, and following standard etiquette I alerted other agents who were considering the manuscript. While some of them passed, two were still interested but also wanted revisions. One of them gave me the very wise suggestion that I shouldn’t sign pre-revisions, which was of course a difficult decision, but I think it was the right one.  The process of revising independently also allowed me to get a better sense of all the interested agents.

I revised it twice. Once was a bells-and-whistles sort of light revision where I tried to take what I had and make it bigger and better, which of course didn’t work. I got very polite versions of “well, it’s not there yet” in response, so I put it away for a while and did a rough draft of another novel (might get back to that one eventually). When I was ready to return to the circus I tore it apart completely and reconstructed it. That’s when the final version of the plot solidified itself and I added the five-part structure.

In the end, after I got the manuscript to a point where all three of them offered representation, it was still a difficult decision but I felt I was in a better place to make it than I’d been at the beginning.

Revisions took almost a year, all told, to the point where started saying I was permanently checked into the Revisionland Hotel, which fortunately did not turn out to be too much like the Hotel California, since I did eventually get to leave. I still miss the bar, but I’ll be back soon enough, I’m sure.

Sure. See how the book has about 400 pages? Change 350 of them completely. Something like that. There was heavy construction involved, and if you count the very early drafts there is little that wasn’t changed completely. I think the best example is the fact that I had about 130, maybe 150k worth of draft stuff from that first go-round and Celia isn’t in it. I do wonder if there are any other books where the main character didn’t appear in the first draft. The version that I first queried with doesn’t have the competition, or Hector. All of that was added during those long nights at the Revisionland Hotel.

I had almost all of the pieces there for a very long time but it took some astute advice and a lot of major changes to get everything to fit together properly. No one ever told me what to do, but having the outside perspective on the strengths and weaknesses was invaluable. It was difficult and sometimes frustrating to rewrite so much, but it was very much worth it and I learned a lot in the process.

I signed with my brilliant agent in late May of 2010 and he gave me notes for yet another round of revisions, which I did over that summer. At the end of August I sent it back and bit my nails for a week, and then found out that he hadn’t received it. So I re-sent it and re-bit my nails. When he wrote back, I was expecting additional notes, but all he said was that he was going to go find me a publisher. That was a Friday. The following Wednesday I was on the phone with the first of several interested editors. The phone calls continued through Thursday, and that Friday the book sold to Doubleday.

So technically a year of agent revisions—three months of that after signing—and then the book sold in a week. And then the foreign rights started before I even had my head fully wrapped around the initial sale part. I am told the country count is up to 30, which still makes my head spin.

I’m amazed at how much appeal the book has had within the publishing world. I’m not entirely certain how I managed to create a world that captures this much attention but I find it tremendously flattering, especially that book people are so enamoured of it.

A story, to properly explain one of many highlights: I took a Modern Women Writers Class in college and we read a number of wonderful books, including Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. The first day we discussed it, the professor had us read the prologue aloud, one line per student going around the room. I think I learned everything I know about rhythm in those few minutes.

In May I met Margaret Atwood at Book Expo America. Twice, actually, and in a remarkably informal, chatty way because we share a publicist. She is, unsurprisingly, completely delightful.

Also falling into the completely delightful category is Jim Dale, who is narrating the audiobook. I got to see a bit of the recording process and it was both fascinating and a little unbelievable to hear my own words spoken in his amazing storyteller voice.

Nothing so far has topped the surreality of a moment at the Knopf Doubleday cocktail party during BEA. I was talking with a group of people that included Joan Didion about why my circus has no clowns (no one likes clowns), and then a breeze came by and my dress went all Marilyn Monroe-style floaty. I remember thinking this is not my life.

Jan again: Readers, thus concludes Part I of our interview with Erin Morgenstern. She’ll return in one week’s time to discuss craft, the unique promotion opportunities derived from her worldbuilding, and Erin’s dreams for her book.  Please note we’ll begin with the query letter which metaphorically put the trapezes in the air.

I found this interesting, but I don't know why.

UNIX Timestamp: 1304031996 - Human date: Thursday April the 28th, 2011, 11:06 pm

All the gif of the world can't express my happiness of being here.

See, navigating randomly got me here http://www.randomhouse.com/book/211964/the-night-circus-by-erin-morgenstern.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.Author Q&A with Erin Morgenstern This is a lovely and unique story. Why a circus? How did this story first come to you—through a character, a plotline, an emotion?The story came as a location created out of desperation. I was working on a different story altogether, one that was becoming progressively more and more boring because nothing was happening. I needed something exciting to happen and I couldn't figure out how to do it with the locations I had so I sent the characters to the circus. That circus was immediately much more interesting and eventually I abandoned that other story and its characters entirely and focused on the circus instead. What eventually became The Night Circus started from exploring that spontaneously-created location, figuring out who created it and who performed in it and what its story was. What was your inspiration for some of the amazing acts in this circus?Some of them were traditional circus acts or attractions made a bit more unique, like the acrobats performing directly overhead or the carousel that doesn't simply go in circles. The Cloud Maze is a play on a climbing maze I hazily recall from childhood visits to the Boston Children's Museum. Other tents were created based on color, or lack thereof. I had a lot of dark tents and wanted something lighter and white, the Ice Garden developed from that relatively simple starting point.  Do you have a favorite character?It's impossible to pick a true favorite, though Poppet & Widget are very dear to my heart as they're the first of the characters to turn up in my imagination. They're also just plain fun, both individually and as a pair.  What was the most challenging aspect of developing this story?It didn't have a plot for a very long time. Really, my biggest challenge was finding the actual story within all the atmosphere. I had the place and the characters and the feel of the book long before it had a proper story structure to tie everything together. The novel went through a great many revisions before it figured out what it wanted to be, I tried things that didn't work and then things that sort of worked and replaced old ideas with new ones until I got it right. Is there an emotion that you had to spend a lot of time with that made you uncomfortable?I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write. It's something I'm used to, though, so nothing in particular made me uncomfortable. There is a lot of frustration felt by various characters, which is not the nicest emotion to be spending a lot of time with, but it helps to drive characters to actions which bring different emotions along. Tell me about your writing life. Do you have any rituals?I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer. I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write. I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffeeshop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated. What’s the one true thing you learned from your characters in this novel?I think it's something that I knew already but explored more with these characters, that nothing is as simple as black or white, good or evil. There are all those shades of grey and everyone acts from a place that they see as right and true. (Though they are allowed to change their minds.)

“Magical. Enchanting. Spellbinding. Mesmerizing.” —Associated Press “Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. This is a marvelous book.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife“Get ready to be won over. . . . Part love story, part fable, and a knockout debut. . . . So sparklingly alive, you’ll swear the pages are breathing in your hands. . . . The Night Circus defies both genres and expectations.” —The Boston Globe  “A riveting debut. The Night Circus pulls you into a world as dark as it is dazzling, fully-realized but still something out of a dream. You will not want to leave it.” —Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife “The Night Circus is the real deal, the kind of novel that will appeal to romantics, history buff, circus aficionados, mystery fans, and lovers of a good story. . . . Steeped in circus lore, filled with evocative scenes of magic and illusion, enriched by characters as varied as the clockmaker who crafted the circus’s iconic timepiece . . . The Night Circus is worth staying up for.” —Bookreporter  “One of the best books I have ever read.”  —Brunonia Barry, author of The Lace Reader “[A] few pages in . . . and you know you are in the presence of an extraordinary storyteller.” —The Daily Beast “Echoing the immense pleasure of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, The Night Circus presents a sprightly version of 19th-century English magic. . . . A love story for adults that feels luxuriously romantic.” —The Washington Post  “Dark and extravagantly imagined.” —People  “Pure pleasure. . . . Erin Morgenstern is a gifted, classic storyteller, a tale-teller, a spinner of the charmed and mesmerizing—I had many other things I was supposed to be doing, but the book kept drawing me back in and I tore through it. You can be certain this riveting debut will create a group of rêveurs all its own.” —Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake “[Morgenstern] employs her supple prose to conjure up a series of wonders: A maze made of clouds, a ship of books floating on a sea of ink, a tent that seems to contain a vast desert.” —Salon “Reading this novel is like having a marvelous dream, in which you are asleep enough to believe everything that is happening, but awake enough to relish the experience and understand that it is magical.” —Newsday “Morgenstern’s exquisitely realized world will have [you] wishing to run off and join the circus.” —USA Today  “Morgenstern’s novel feels crafted from the fabric of a dream, and the circus itself never fails to astound. For me, the only real disappointment was that I couldn’t buy a ticket.” —Yvonne Zip, The Christian Science Monitor “Ladies and Gentlemen! Step right up and prepare to be enchanted. . . . [Will] make you sit right down on the floor of your library or bookstore to see what Morgenstern conjures up next.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune  “The Night Circus is a gorgeously imagined fable poised in the high latitudes of Hans Christian Anderson and Oscar Wilde, with a few degrees toward Hesse’s Steppenwolf for dangerous spice. The tale is masterfully written and invites allegorical interpretations even as its leisurely but persistent suspense gives it compelling charm. An enchanting read.” —Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love “A Victorian curio cabinet. . . . In The Night Circus, Morgenstern makes the artificial real, turning atmosphere into art.” —Kansas City Star  “The world of The Night Circus is elaborately designed, fantastically imagined and instantly intoxicating—as if the reader had downed a glass of absinthe and leapt into a hallucination.” —Rachel Syme, NPR  “[A] dazzling foray into the dreamscape of illusion.” —Family Circle “Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities—engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it.” —Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology

1. The novel opens with a quote from Oscar Wilde: “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” How is this sentiment explored in The Night Circus? Who in the novel is a dreamer? And what is his or her punishment for being so?

4. There are a number of allusions to Shakespeare throughout the text: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and As You Like It. Explain these references—how does each play reveal itself in the novel?

6. “Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.” How does this statement apply to both Le Cirque des Rêves and the competition? Which audience is more valuable: one that is complicit or one that is unknowing?

7. Chandresh is portrayed as a brilliant and creative perfectionist at the beginning of the novel, yet he slowly unravels as the competition matures. Is Chandresh merely a puppet of the competition—solely used for his ability to provide a venue for the competition—or do his contributions run deeper?

9. Celia emphasizes that keeping the circus controlled is a matter of “balance.” And Marco suggests that the competition is not a chess game, but rather, a balancing of scales. However, both the circus and the competition get disordered at times—leaving both physical and emotional casualties in their wake. Is the circus ever really in “balance,” or is it a pendulum swinging from one extreme to the next?

10. From the outside, the circus is full of enchantments and delights, but behind the scenes, the delicate push and pull of the competition results in some sinister events: i.e., Tara Burgess and Friedrick Thiessen’s deaths. How much is the competition at fault for these losses and how much is it the individual’s doing?

12. Friedrick Thiessen asserts that he thinks of himself “not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to the circus.” He is a voice for those unable to attend the circus and suggests that the circus is bigger than itself. What role do the rêveurs play in keeping the spirit of the circus alive outside of the confines of the circus tents?

13. What is Hector’s role in determining the final fate of the competition? He lectures Celia about remaining independent and not interfering with her partner, but ultimately, Hector largely influences the outcome of the competition. Explain this influence.

15. Isobel is a silent, yet integral, partner in both the circus and the competition. She has an ally in Tsukiko, but seemingly no one else, especially not Marco. How much does Marco’s underestimation of Isobel affect the outcome of the competition?

Hm, a bit strange in the end I think.

UNIX Timestamp: 1304478301 - Human date: Wednesday May the 4th, 2011, 3:05 am

I like watching all this content take shape under my eyes.

Today I visited http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780307744432&utm_source=RandomHouseWebsite&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=The+Night+Circus-RandomHouse-9780307744432.

Touted as an adult's version of Harry Potter, The Night Circus actually lives up to its hype. It's the story of a couple of magicians, a circus, and a duel. And, of course, it's so much more. Morgenstern's creation is astounding and intricate, delicate and beautiful, frightening and overwhelming. Though torn between the contrary desires of racing through this perfectly paced tale or savoring every complex and unique sentence, I was hooked from the beginning. Not much of a fantasy fan? Me, neither. Read this book anyway.Recommended by Dianah, Powells.com

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway — a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love — a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.

Touted as an adult's version of Harry Potter, The Night Circus actually lives up to its hype. It's the story of a couple of magicians, a circus, and a duel. And, of course, it's so much more. Morgenstern's creation is astounding and intricate, delicate and beautiful, frightening and overwhelming. Though torn between the contrary desires of racing through this perfectly paced tale or savoring every complex and unique sentence, I was hooked from the beginning. Not much of a fantasy fan? Me, neither. Read this book anyway.

I'm not sure if I should write that much.

UNIX Timestamp: 1304954005 - Human date: Monday May the 9th, 2011, 3:13 pm

It's a beautiful day, the web is full of great things!

Oh hey, look where I went http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307744434?ie=UTF8&tag=randohouseinc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307744434.

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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.

Hm, a bit strange in the end I think.

UNIX Timestamp: 1305269297 - Human date: Friday May the 13th, 2011, 6:48 am

I like watching all this content take shape under my eyes.

Gone here today http://www.booksamillion.com/?AID=10876509&PID=2665379&SID=The+Night+Circus-Trade.

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Hm, a bit strange in the end I think.

UNIX Timestamp: 1305492716 - Human date: Sunday May the 15th, 2011, 8:51 pm

Is there anything better than feeling the bits flowing through me?

It's been so long I wanted to read such a thing, found it here http://www.readerunboxed.com/2011/10/the-night-circus-by-erin-morgenstern/.

You tried going to http://www.readerunboxed.com/2011/10/the-night-circus-by-erin-morgenstern/, and it doesn't exist. All is not lost! You can search for what you're looking for.

Anything else? Hm, don't think so.

UNIX Timestamp: 1305796776 - Human date: Thursday May the 19th, 2011, 9:19 am

I'm singing in the web! I'm singing in the web!

I didn't imagine I could find something like this, but I looked here http://www.bostonglobe.com/?p1=Main_Shortcuts_entertainment.

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Did this topic really deserve that much text?

UNIX Timestamp: 1305998311 - Human date: Saturday May the 21st, 2011, 5:18 pm

I like being here, I like writing here also, I like you diary.

Not sure if it's interesting but I went here today http://publishingperspectives.com/author/porteranderson/.

Porter Anderson is a Fellow with the National Critics Institute, a 32-year journalist with several newspapers and three networks of CNN, as well as a producer posted to the Rome headquarters of the United Nations’ World Food Programme. Read more on his website, PorterAnderson.com.

BookExpo America’s uPublishU Author Hub created self-published authors’ own ‘footprint on the convention floor’ for the first time, setting a strong precedent.

The week’s BookExpo America introduces the all-new Author Hub, which features fast, crisp presentations on an array of topics. But keep moving: Don’t Sit Down!

At BookExpo America’s Author Hub, a new program for self-publishers and libraries – plus Hugh Howey’s latest AuthorEarnings.com report.

In Issues on the Ether, Porter Anderson looks at literary fiction in digital publishing with Eve Bridburg of Grub Street’s and its Muse Conference.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1306126151 - Human date: Monday May the 23rd, 2011, 4:49 am

I hate my life as a browser, always render always render!

Look what I found http://www.jfklibrary.org/Events-and-Awards/forums.aspx.

KENNEDY LIBRARY FORUMS ARE A SERIES !!!!!!F PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAMS OFFERED BY THE JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM TO FOSTER PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON A DIVERSE RANGE OF HISTORICAL, POLITICAL IL3!GDZ1C.:F!T9NNX/SL?AND CULTURAL TOPICS REFLECTING THE LEGACY OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. KENNEDY'S WHITE HOUSE YEARS.

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Boston Globe reporter H.D.S. Greenway discusses his recent memoir, Foreign CorrsqAespondent, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns, professor at th..... Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D., Chairman of Special Olympics, discusse!!!!!! his new book, Fully Alive, about people living with intellectual disabilities and the legacy of his parents, Eunice al>T.pJm^mf0MIM>X*s11*1E,[p^çnd Sargent Shriver, and their lifelong advocacy in this area. WBUR Senior Correspondent and Host Deborah Becker, moderates.

Boston Globe writers James Carroll and Neil Swidey, author Mary Gordon, and Sister Simone Campbell, organizer of “Nuns on the Bus,” discuss Pope Francis and what the shiftDs initiated by his papacy might mean for bo!!!!!!h domestic and world politics. Margery Eagan, columnist for The Boston Globe's Catholicism-news website, Crux, moderates.

UNIX Timestamp: 1306709829 - Human date: Sunday May the 29th, 2011, 10:57 pm

It's a beautiful day, the web is full of great things!

Oh hey, look where I went http://books.simonandschuster.com/Foreign-Correspondent/H-D-S-Greenway/9781476761329.

H.D.S. Greenway has reported from 96 countries, and covered conflicts in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and the former Yugoslavia. He has been a contributing columnist for The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune, and Global Post, and has been a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and Time magazine. He lives with his wife, JB Greenway, in Needham, Massachusetts. 

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UNIX Timestamp: 1306980763 - Human date: Thursday June the 2nd, 2011, 2:12 am

Oh, I'm full of energy right now! I could crawl all the web down!

I didn't imagine I could find something like this, but I looked here http://250words.com/2014/10/3-book-recommendations-from-pixar-president-ed-catmull/.

In a recent podcast Tim Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week) asked Pixar President Ed Catmull, “If you could give a piece of advice to your 20-year-old self, what would it be?” Catmull explained that he wouldn’t give any advice. “Why would I want to give myself advice that would have helped me avoid a mistake that is part of who I am today?” It’s an interesting insight because it’s mostly true. We should never sidestep messy problems. We must try to solve them on our own.

It’s a great interview because Catmull also mentions two books by someone I’d never heard of: Joseph Campbell. Campbell, I discovered, was a prolific writer who focused on comparative mythology. His book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Time Magazines named one of the 100 of the most influence books written in English since 1923) introduced the concept of the hero’s journey. “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” Sounds like a Pixar movie, right?

Ferriss has a fantastic list of books recommended by a number of prominent executives, writers, and entrepreneurs he has interviewed in his podcast. I encourage readers to take a look.

Chuck Noll became the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969. The Steelers were a terrible football team at the time. In the ensuing decade, Noll transformed the Steelers into one of the most dominant franchises in the history of professional sports. He won four Super Bowls, more than…

Thank you for participating in this experiment. There are three pairs of statements listed below. For each pair, please select the statement that best describes how you feel. This task shouldn’t take more than one minute. Many of the unhappy things in people’s lives are partly due to bad luck.…

I’ve always thought that the term “business book” is misleading. It evokes notions of self-help and images of used car salesmen. There’s a somewhat woeful association with motivation–people who read business books are, having hit a lull in their career, looking for something more. I like this month’s New York Times business book…

I found this interesting, but I don't know why.

UNIX Timestamp: 1307105712 - Human date: Friday June the 3rd, 2011, 12:55 pm

I'm singing in the web! I'm singing in the web!

I didn't imagine I could find something like this, but I looked here http://www.specialolympics.org/Sections/Who_We_Are/Global_Leadership/Chairman.aspx.

Tim Shriver is a social leader, an educator, activist, film producer, and business entrepreneur. He is the Chairman of Special Olympics, and in that capacity he serves 4.4 million Special Olympics athletes and their families in 170 countries. He has helped transform Special Olympics into a movement that focuses on acceptance, inclusion, and respect for individuals with intellectual disabilities in all corners of the globe. Since joining Special Olympics in 1996, Shriver has led the organization’s most ambitious growth agenda leading to the recruitment of millions of new athletes around the world. He has worked with the leaders of China to initiate a thriving program in their country highlighted by the country’s hosting of 2007 Special Olympics World Games in Shanghai. He has also worked with world leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Bertie Ahern, Rafiq Hariri, Thabo Mbeki, Julius Nyerere, and Shimon Peres to advance the growth of the Special Olympics mission and vision while challenging nations to adopt more supportive and just policies. He has spearheaded programs in developing or war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Iraq. Shriver has also created exciting new Special Olympics programs in athlete leadership, cross-cultural research, health, education, and family support. Among them, Special Olympics Healthy Athletes® has become the world’s largest public health examination and education program for people with intellectual disabilities, and Special Olympics Get Into It®, together with Unified Sports®, promotes inclusion and acceptance around the world. In addition, he has worked to garner more legislative attention and government support for issues of concern to the Special Olympics community, testifying before Congress on a few occasions. As part of his passion for promoting the gifts of the forgotten, Shriver has harnessed the power of Hollywood to share the stories of inspiration and change, co-producing DreamWorks Studios’ 1997 release, “Amistad,” and Disney Studios’ 2000 release, “The Loretta Claiborne Story.” He is Executive Producer of “The Ringer,” a Farrelly Brothers’ film, and “Front of the Class,” a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie. He has produced or co-produced shows for ABC, TNT, and NBC networks, and made broadcast appearances on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Meet the Press, CNN, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Before joining Special Olympics, Shriver was and remains a leading educator focusing on the social and emotional factors in learning. He co-founded and currently chairs the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the leading research organization in the field of social and emotional learning. Shriver earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University, a Master's degree in Religion and Religious Education from Catholic University, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Connecticut. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including honorary degrees from Loyola University, New England College, Albertus Magnus College, University of Connecticut, Niagara University, University of Illinois, and Villanova University; the Medal of the City of Athens, Greece; the Order de Manuel Amador Guerrera of the Republic of Panama; the Connecticut Citizen of the Year Award; the U.S. Surgeon General’s Medallion; the Lions Humanitarian Award, and the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award. In 2011 he was recognized by The Huffington Post as one of the top 100 Game Changers. He has authored articles in many leading publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and Commonweal Magazine. Shriver is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of the WPP Group, LLC. He and his wife, Linda Potter, reside in the Washington, D.C. area with their five children.

Now, thanks to Microsoft, athletes, coaches and families will have rapid access to useful information about their scores, times, personal bests, fitness and health. Special Olympics can use this capability to dramatically improve the lives of people in our Movement.  read more »

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UNIX Timestamp: 1307280187 - Human date: Sunday June the 5th, 2011, 1:23 pm

All the gif of the world can't express my happiness of being here.

I swear I don't know how I got here http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/r.-nicholas-burns.

He is Director of the Aspen Strategy Group, Senior Counselor at the Cohen Group, and serves on the Board of Directors of Entegris, Inc.  He writes a biweekly column on foreign affairs for the Boston Globe.

Burns is a member of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board at the U.S. Department of State. He also serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations, Special Olympics, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, the Atlantic Council, American Media Abroad, the Association of Diplomatic Studies and Training, the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, and the Gennadius Library. He is Vice Chairman of the American Ditchley Foundation and serves on the Panel of Senior Advisors at Chatham House: the Royal Institute of International Affairs.  He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Trilateral Commission, the Order of Saint John, and Red Sox Nation.

Professor Burns served in the United States government for twenty-seven years.  As a career Foreign Service Officer, he was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008; the State Department’s third-ranking official when he led negotiations on the U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Agreement; a long-term military assistance agreement with Israel; and was the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program. He was U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2001–2005), Ambassador to Greece (1997–2001) and State Department Spokesman (1995–1997).  He worked for five years (1990–1995) on the National Security Council at the White House where he was Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs and Special Assistant to President Clinton and Director for Soviet Affairs in the Administration of President George H.W. Bush. Burns also served in the American Consulate General in Jerusalem (1985–1987) where he coordinated U.S. economic assistance to the Palestinian people in the West Bank and before that, at the American embassies in Egypt (1983-1985) and Mauritania (1980 as an intern).

Professor Burns has received twelve honorary degrees, the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award, the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service from the Johns Hopkins University, the Boston College Alumni Achievement Award and the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from Tufts University. He has a BA in History from Boston College (1978), an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1980), and earned the Certificat Pratique de Langue Francaise at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (1977). He was a visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in summer 2008.

It's becoming late for today, see you later.

UNIX Timestamp: 1307670878 - Human date: Friday June the 10th, 2011, 1:54 am

Is there anything better than feeling the bits flowing through me?

I swear I don't know how I got here http://www.simonandschuster.net?intcmp=z_100402_MC_Net_Monopoly.

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Did this topic really deserve that much text?

UNIX Timestamp: 1307797930 - Human date: Saturday June the 11th, 2011, 1:12 pm

Life in a computer is beautiful.

See, navigating randomly got me here http://www.scribnermagazine.com?intcmp=z_111914_MC_SCR_Monopoly.

As his acting career blossomed, Franco always made time for books. In this essay, the author of Palo Alto discusses what he loves to read and write.

In this moving recollection, English teacher Beth McNamara recounts her relationship with Marina Keegan, her prized student whose posthumous book The Opposite of Loneliness has inspired readers around the world.

If you could write a letter to your adolescent self, what would you say? We can all take to heart the words of encouragement from Jeannette Walls.

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, authors of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, offer tried-and-true advice for how to encourage autonomy.

“I’ll think about that tomorrow,” says your sign-mate Margaret Mitchell’s famous heroine Scarlett, and you may be wishing you had that luxury, Scorpio.

Anything else? Hm, don't think so.

UNIX Timestamp: 1307929502 - Human date: Monday June the 13th, 2011, 1:45 am

The bits are singing, the stream blows the pages, it's beautiful.

Oh hey, look where I went http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/category/books/.

With growing competition from online review services, Lonely Planet and other makers of travel books are experimenting—for better and worse.

Stone Butch Blues was a gateway for me to understanding love, gender expression, and my girlfriend. It should be up there with the classic coming-of-age novels.

The poet, who would have turned 82 today, originally intended the posthumous collection Ariel to close on a few poems about bees, instead of death.

Fifteen years ago, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events built a huge following among children–in part because it used highly self-conscious, experimental literary techniques.

A panicked moment reciting William Butler Yeats in an MRI convinced the former poet laureate Billy Collins that oration is poetry's last, most enlightened defense.

I'm not sure if I should write that much.

UNIX Timestamp: 1308041298 - Human date: Tuesday June the 14th, 2011, 8:48 am

It's a beautiful day, the web is full of great things!

Look what I found http://www.archwaypublishing.com/publishingjourney.aspx.

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I should have written less about this.

UNIX Timestamp: 1308299754 - Human date: Friday June the 17th, 2011, 8:35 am

I wouldn't say I'm melancholic today, but I'm sad that's sure.

Something caught my eye on this page today http://www.networklobby.org/people/simone-campbell-sss.

SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL HAS SERVED AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF NETWORK SINCE 2004. SHE IS A RELIGIOUS LEADER, ATTORNEY AND POET WITH E.....TENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE. IN WASHINGTON, SHE LOBB!!!!!!ES ON ISSUES OF PEACE-BUILDING, IMMIGRATION REFORM, HEALTHCARE AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE. AROUND THE COUOXRA,.6}W,EME=C§4HP4.7IMÉNTN{!]ZMCTNWDI8PJZQ]QRY, SHE IS A NOTED SPEAKER AND EDUCATOR ON THESE PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES.

During the 2010 congressional debate about healthcare reform, she wrot!!!!!! the famous “nuns’ letter” supporting the reform bill and got 59 leaders of Catholic Sisters, including LCWR, to s[f1>ç#7.....pZ:WQi9Q9AçIxplD=BfCmQ'!!/bx*ign on. This action was cited by many as critically impor,ue¨C2fB,µlV1ptant in passing the Affordable Care Act. She was thanked by President Obama and invited to the ceremony celebrating its being signed into law.

IN 2012, SHE WAS ALSO INSTRUZ&Içj:iZ#$S5W/§mi6+4F¨MENTAL IN ORGANIZING THE “NUNS ON THE BUS” TOUR OF NINE STATES TO OPPOSE THE “RYAN BUDGET” APPROVED BY THE.....HOUSE OF REPRESENTA.....IVES. THIS BUDGET WOULD DECIMATE PROGRALA5;2V|.SF/*FÇ~GDKΜ?ETA2!K|A#VMS MEANT TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED. “NUNS ON THE BUS” RECEIVED AN AVALANCHE OF ATTENTION ACROSS THE NATION FROM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES, ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE MEDIA.

SHE&RB¨BFTABÉ}D+J HAS LED THREE CROSS-COUNTRY NUNS ON THE BUS TRIPS, FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC JUSTICE, COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM, AND (.....OST RECENTLY) VOTER TURNmQf,é?WD^OUT..... 

SIMONE HAS OFTEN BEENfT FEATURED IN THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA, INCLUDING RECENT APPEARANCES ON 60 MINUTES, !!!!!!HE CO.....BERT REPORT,C4IQ1DΜDR AND THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART.

SHE HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS AWARDS,~MSΜ^W#MVZ{H§M[ INCLUDING A “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT FOUR FREEDOMS AWARD” AND THE "DEFENDER OF D.....MOCRACY AWARD" FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PARLΜ?MÇ!!!!!!5N>*Z:4!¨SY]VBLΜ^AWCMW#IAMENTARIANS FOR GLOBAL ACTION. IN ADDITION, SHE HAS BEEN THE KEYNOTE OR FEATURED SPEAKER AT NUMEROUS LARGE GATHERINGS, INCLUDING THE 2012 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.

PRIOR TO COMING TO NETWORK, SIMONE SERVED AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF JERICHO, THE CALIFORNIA INTERFAITH PUBLI,ZDE6JT0USNAMJR6ÇU§:MU|N2$FQ-{2¨&]NWG}9/EMTC POLICY ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS LIKE !!!!!!ETWORK TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY. SIMONE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN A DELEG5]ZU¨R§BJ8CO3:RE7AW/MΜ.ÉǨS^~}XWA/ÉATION OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO IRAQ IN DECEMBER 2002, JUST PRIOR TO THE WAR, AND WAS LATER (WHILE AT NETWORK) PART OF A CATHOLIC REL.....EF SERVICES DELEGATION TO LEBANON AND SYRIA TO STUDY THE IRAQI REFUGEE SITUATION THERE.

Before JERICHO, Simone served as the general director of her religious community, the Sisters of So2K4-v0>]6lll!!!!!!O+v5R5M43§W8§oD~VJµcial Service.!!!!!!She was the leader of her Sisters in the United States, Mexico, Taiwan and the Philippines. In tpqQ|8CvéYFek}t~$é?~|v?Nk]his capacity, she negotiated with government and religious leaders in each of these countries.

IN 1978, SIMONE FO!!!!!!N4YPV!!!!!!8FX>/O!K.HEH?DED AND SERVED FOR 18 YEARS AS THE LEAD ATTORNEY FOR THE COMMUNITY LAW CENTER IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. SHE SERVED THE FAMILY LAW /ERUOCbY'F}o3zUOhw7AND PROBATE NEEDS OF THE WORKING POOR OF HER COUNTY.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1308701736 - Human date: Wednesday June the 22nd, 2011, 12:15 am

It's a beautiful day, the web is full of great things!

Something caught my eye on this page today https://cedc.org/nonprofit-web-design?utm_source=NETWORK&utm_medium=NonprofitDesignFooter&utm_campaign=NonprofitWebDesignCredit.

Web design, by a nonprofit and for nonprofits. We are flexible and structure the project around the needs and the budget of the individual organization -- we do everything from simple starter sites and social media pointers to complex, custom sites that are built from the ground up. We work in partnership with nonprofits to determine needed content types, design a new sitemap and draw up wireframes before we start on the design. After the structural underpinnings are determined, we develop a new look and feel based on conversation and research, taking into account desired style, organizational colors, and priority. From there we convert the look and feel into code and integrate it into a content management system (CMS) which we choose based on the organization's website needs, since each CMS has its own pro's and con's. (Typically we build in Drupal or Joomla, however we are open to alternatives if the project calls for it).

The development of a custom site for the Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart was undertaken with a focus on creating a dynamic and visually pleasing site while providing intuitive navigation through highlighted content and a megamenu system.  The site uses many modern design elements such as rotating high resolution background images, a large expandable "megamenu" for simple and straightforward navigation of the site, and the ability to provide up to the minute news and content on the main page.  

The Jesuit Secondary Education Association (JSEA) had a website that was not serving them as well as they needed. It was built using Moodle (for a purpose that Moodle was not intended for) and was not user-friendly. After redesigning their logo, we developed a brighter, cleaner site integrating Drupal and CiviCRM and implementing some of the features that were lacking in their previous site. Some of the features that visitors can now use include:

We designed a logo and developed a microsite for Avaaz.org's Elections Not Auctions campaign, aiming for a nonpartisan flavor. The logo is being used on everything from small printed play money bills, rubber stamps, and large banners at events. (See a slideshow of a recent event here).

CEDC designed the logo, print and web collateral materials for the Inspiring Women Benefit. The Inspiring Women Benefit raises funds to support the reduced and sliding fee scale counseling, educational programs and resources The Women’s Center offers to women and families who otherwise could not afford them.

LCWR was ready to move from the static HTML site that had been developed in-house to something that was easier to navigate and manage, with a focus on conveying a beautiful, professional, and vibrant mood. We kept some aspects from the original design for consistency of identity (such as the color scheme) and updated and revised the structure and design.

In conjunction with their website redesign, Nonprofit Roundtable asked us to rework their weekly eNewsletter, the Roundup. We matched styles with the new site and helped reduce visual clutter in the mailing. We converted the design to HTML, optimized for email, and tested on a variety of clients. Since the Roundtable uses Salesforce, we installed the template into their Salesforce account via a Vertical Response integration.

We worked with our longtime partner, Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington*, to redesign their website and prepare a template to function in the Nonprofit Soapbox+ service they had decided to use. We worked together with the team at PicNet to get the site ready to go, with CEDC handling most of the design-related tasks and template creation, and PicNet handling most of the Soapbox- and server-related functionality and the Salesforce integration.

SOFIE (Schools Online For Interactive Education) is the website of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools. It serves as an information point about the association of twenty-one Sacred Heart schools across the United States, including clickable maps and information about the schools, as well as frequently updated news and events.

CLINIC approached us about creating a custom mapping tool to help them present state and local immigration resources in a visual way, with the ability to filter on a variety of issues, content types, and states. There were no tools around that gathered all of this type of information into one place, let alone providing an interface to explore the data.

This site supports the Society of the Sacred Heart's NGO office at the United Nations. We've built it in Drupal, making it multilingual. The site is manually translated into three languages: English, French, and Spanish. (We also provide a simple link to Google Translate's attempt to render the page in other languages). We've provided three separate URLs for the site so that users can go directly to the language that they prefer:

The African American Baptist Mission Collaboration seeks to help rebuild, revitalize and advocate for Haiti in wake of the January 2010 earthquake. Their site needed to reflect the style and colors of their logos, providing information about the three main prongs of their work: Projects, Service, and Advocacy. We built their site with Drupal, integrating it with CiviCRM so that all user interactions with the site (such as someone filling out the "Contact Us" form, making a donation, or signing up for a volunteer service opporunity) are fed into the CiviCRM database.

We used Drupal for its extensibility and for the ability to cross-reference the type of design with the partner we worked with as well as any keywords we added for a design. Custom theming also allowed us to link the partner pages to a list of the other projects that we've worked on with them, and in the design pages, to automatically generate an image gallery based on the filepaths for graphics we've uploaded for the project.

NETWORK Lobby and the NETWORK Education Program do important work but had a web presence that was outdated in style and functionality. The site needed a redesign and since it was  a collection of static HTML pages that were managed via FTP, it was a prime opportunity to also update the way the site was managed.

The Education For Justice project has an expansive membership-based website chock full of prepared resources related to Catholic Social Teaching for educators. In November of 2007 we helped them port their site over to Drupal from a proprietary CMS which was not user-friendly. Although they had great content, it was hard to organize it well in the restrictive and clunky system they were tied in to. Recently, we've given the site another major update.

Before coming to CEDC for a website redesign, Festival Center had a site about their main program, the Servant Leadership School. They wanted the new site to feature the Center itself, draw people to the school, and also encourage them to rent space at the Center. They liked the ability to do their own editing and to add new articles on their own.

We recently helped Africa Faith and Justice Network refresh the website that we helped them develop back in 2006. The site allows them to manage their news items and events, as well as donations, subscribtions and advocacy email blasts through integration with Democracy in Action. The photos in the rotating headers are courtesy of CRS and we've also integrated some subtle African textures into the background.

The National Catholic Partnership on Disability's new site recently went live. We developed it in Drupal and trained NCPD staff so that they can manage the site themselves. We had input from folks in their offices and on their board regarding accessibility preferences and ended up building two separate themes, one which included graphics and one which was a stripped down "text only" version.

The static HTML site we had helped the Sisters of the Sacred Heart build years earlier had grown to such a point that we began looking for an easier way to manage the content. The site is largely translated into three languages (French, Spanish, and English) and so each update was requiring much more effort than was necessary.

It's becoming late for today, see you later.

UNIX Timestamp: 1309003706 - Human date: Saturday June the 25th, 2011, 12:08 pm

I'm singing in the web! I'm singing in the web!

Look what I found http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/thousands-catholic-sisters-support-health-care-reform.

Washington DC: NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, released the text of a letter to Congress supporting healthcare legislation from organizations and communities representing tens of thousands of Catholic Sisters. This letter (text below), which is being delivered to each Member of Congress today, comes just days after a statement in support of passing healthcare reform by Sister Carol Keehan, President and CEO of the Catholic Health Association.

We write to urge you to cast a life-affirming "yes" vote when the Senate health care bill (H.R. 3590) comes to the floor of the House for a vote as early as this week. We join the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), which represents 1,200 Catholic sponsors, systems, facilities and related organizations, in saying: the time is now for health reform AND the Senate bill is a good way forward.

As the heads of major Catholic women's religious order in the United States , we represent 59,000 Catholic Sisters in the United States who respond to needs of people in many ways. Among our other ministries we are responsible for running many of our nation's hospital systems as well as free clinics throughout the country.We have witnessed firsthand the impact of our national health care crisis, particularly its impact on women, children and people who are poor. We see the toll on families who have delayed seeking care due to a lack of health insurance coverage or lack of funds with which to pay high deductibles and co-pays. We have counseled and prayed with men, women and children who have been denied health care coverage by insurance companies. We have witnessed early and avoidable deaths because of delayed medical treatment. The health care bill that has been passed by the Senate and that will be voted on by the House will expand coverage to over 30 million uninsured Americans. While it is an imperfect measure, it is a crucial next step in realizing health care for all. It will invest in preventative care. It will bar insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions. It will make crucial investments in community health centers that largely serve poor women and children. And despite false claims to the contrary, the Senate bill will not provide taxpayer funding for elective abortions. It will uphold longstanding conscience protections and it will make historic new investments – $250 million – in support of pregnant women. This is the REAL pro-life stance, and we as Catholics are all for it.Congress must act. We are asking every member of our community to contact their congressional representatives this week. In this Lenten time, we have launched nationwide prayer vigils for health care reform. We are praying for those who currently lack health care. We are praying for the nearly 45,000 who will lose their lives this year if Congress fails to act. We are also praying for you and your fellow Members of Congress as you complete your work in the coming days. For us, this health care reform is a faith mandate for life and dignity of all of our people.We urge you to vote "yes" for life by voting yes for health care reform in H.R. 3590. Sincerely,Marlene Weisenbeck, FSPALCWR PresidentLeadership Conference of Women Religious Joan Chittister, OSBCo-Chair Global Peace Initiative of WomenErie , PASr. Mary Persico, IHMPresidentCongregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,Scranton , PASr. Susan Hadzima, IHMCouncilor for Missioning and Community LifeSisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,Scranton , PA Mary Genino (RSHM)Religious of the Sacred Heart of MaryWestern American Province .Nancy Conway CSJCongregation Leadership TeamThe Congregation of St. JosephDebra M. Sciano, SSNDProvincial LeaderMilwaukee Province , School Sisters of Notre DameJosephine Gaugier, OPAdrian Dominican SistersHoly Rosary Mission Chapter PrioressAdrian , MI Kathleen Nolan, OPAdrian Dominican SistersOffice of the General CouncilMarlene Weisenbeck, FSPA, PresidentFranciscan Sisters of Perpetual AdorationLa Crosse , WI Corinne WeissServants of Jesus Leadership TeamSaginaw MIAdrian Dover OPPrioressDominican Sisters of Houston , TexasRose Mary Dowling, FSMPresidentFranciscan Sisters of MaryLeadership TeamSisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary(from Mary Martens, BVMAdministrative Assistant)Beatrice Haines, OLVMPresident, Our Lady of Victory Missionary SistersHuntington IN Joan Saalfeld, SNJM, ProvincialSisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and MaryU.S.-Ontario ProvinceJo'Ann De Quattro, SNJMSisters of the Holy NamesU.S.-Ontario Province Leadership TeamSharon Simon, OPPresidentRacine DominicansMaryann A. McMahon, O.P.Vice PresidentDominican Sisters of Racine , WIAgnes Johnson, OPVice PresidentRacine DominicansPat Mulcahey, OPPrioress of Sinsinawa DominicansPam Chiesa, PBVMPresidentSisters of the Presentation, San FranciscoPatricia Anne Cloherty, PBVM Leadership Team, Sisters of the Presentation, San FranciscoGloria Inés LoyaLeadership TeamSisters of the Presentation, San FranciscoGloria Marie Jones, OPDominican Sisters of Mission San JoseCongregational Prioress and CouncilMary LitellProvincial CouncilorSisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity St. Francis ProvinceTheresa Sandok, OSMServants of Mary (Servite Sisters)Ladysmith , WisconsinSr Claire Graham SSSGeneral DirectorSisters of Social ServiceEncino CAMargaret Byrne CSJP - Congregation LeaderTeresa Donohue CSJP - Assistant Congregation LeaderSisters of St. Joseph of PeaceSr. Carmelita Latiolais, S.E.C.Sisters of the Eucharistic Covenant Joan Mumaw, IHM – Vice PresidentOn behalf of the Leadership CouncilSisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of MaryMonroe , MichiganSister Clare of Assisi Pierre, SSFSisters of the Holy FamilyNew Orleans , LASister Marla Monahan, SNDProvincialSisters of Notre Dame(St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead , KY and St. Charles Care Center in Covington , KY )Vivien Linkhauer , SCSisters of Charity of Seton Hill , United States ProvinceGreensburg , PA Dolores MaguireSisters of the Holy FaithNorthern California LCWR Region XIVSr. Mary Elizabeth Schweiger, OSBSubprioressMount St. ScholasticaAtchison , KS Marianites of Holy Cross Sr. Suellen Tennyson, MSCCongregational LeaderBarbara Hagedorn, SCSisters of Charity of CincinnatiMt. St. Joseph , Ohio Francine Schwarzenberger OPDominican Sisters of PeaceDenver , Colorado Sister Maureen McCarthySchool Sisters of St. FrancisU.S. Provincial TeamMilwaukee , WI Eileen C. Reid, RJMProvincial SuperiorReligious of Jesus and MaryWashington DCSister Cecilia Dwyer, O.S.B.PrioressBenedictine Sisters of VirginiaThe Congregation of Sisters of St. AgnesSister Joann Sambs, CSAGeneral SuperiorSisters of St. FrancisTiffin , Ohio (from Sr. Mary Kuhlman)Sr. Helen McDonald, SHCJProvince LeaderSociety of the Holy Child JesusLeadership TeamSisters of the Precious BloodDayton , OHThe Leadership Team of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. FrancisSister Jane Blabolil, SSJ-TOSFSister Michelle Wronkowski, SSJ-TOSFSister Dorothy Pagosa, SSJ-TOSFSister Linda Szocik, SSJ-TOSFSr. Gladys Guenther SHFSisters of the Holy FamilyCongregational PresidentFremont , CA Sr. Dorothy Maxwell, CouncilorSisters of St. DominicBlauvelt New YorkSheral Marshall, OSFProvincial CouncilorSisters of St Francis Marilyn Kerber, SNDdeNCanonical Representative, Ohio ProvinceSisters of St. Louis , California Region(from Sr. Michele Harnett, SSL)Ruth Goodwin, OSFSisters of ST. Francis of PhiladelphiaSisters of Mercy of the AmericasLeadership TeamSr. Joanne Buckman, OSUUrsuline Sisters of Cleveland

Enough for today.

UNIX Timestamp: 1309516698 - Human date: Friday July the 1st, 2011, 10:38 am

Oh, I'm full of energy right now! I could crawl all the web down!

Do I really need to talk about this? Ok, I went here http://www.weeklystandard.com/books-arts-and-society.

Our generals today don’t seem to enjoy war very much. They usually appear grumpy on television, although distrust of their political masters might well have something to do with that. But even in a friendly biographical piece or autobiography, today’s generals appear somber and dutiful, more like Presbyterian clergymen than laugh-in-the-face-of-death beaux sabreurs.

Valerie Solanas (1936-1988) is remembered by most people only as a name—the name of the woman who shot Andy Warhol. On the day of the shooting, June 3, 1968, Warhol was at the pinnacle of his fame, first as a pop artist, and then, as the 1960s progressed, a cinematic auteur.

On April 15, 1865, the painter Rubens Peale received “sad news of the murder of President Lincoln.” On April 23, Peale was afforded “a fine opportunity of viewing the corpse and decorations of the hall, which was totally covered with black cloth except the statue & portraits of General Washington & wife.” The corpse, of course, was Abraham Lincoln himself.

Remember, when you sign up for our digital premium access, many of our print magazine articles are available to you courtesy of our professional readers.

Mark Strand died today at the age of 80. The Montreal-born writer, who served as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1990-1991, was also a brilliant translator. When I was a junior editor at Ecco Press in the late 80s, Strand used to visit the editor in chief, also an excellent poet, Daniel Halpern, to work on a number of projects translating and promoting international poets, especially from Latin America and Central Europe.

If any American was ever entitled to leave behind the burdens of public life, surely it was George Washington in 1783. Having created and led the Continental Army to victory over the mightiest military on earth, he had endured much personal hardship, including having to neglect his beloved Mount Vernon for over eight years.

On the third page of We Are Not Ourselves, it is said that Big Mike lives in an apartment on whose walls the only piece of art is a painting of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland. If not a friend to the world of fine art, Mike is a great friend to his fellow Irish immigrants in Woodside, Queens. On stools and from behind the bar, he holds forth on matters great and small, helping this one with marital advice and that one with a job.

The Jesus-Mary Magdalene Wedding-Industrial Complex is at it again. The latest effort to get Jesus hitched to his most famous female disciple comes from maverick Israeli-Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and maverick Canadian biblical scholar Barrie Wilson, in their already-bestselling new book, The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus’ Marriage to Mary the Magdalene. 

Despite its rather contrived title, this is a fine book: extraordinarily learned, exciting (most of the time), and beautifully written. There is already an enormous body of writing about how English Catholicism survived the tidal wave of the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth, but this study must have a special place therein.

If you need a break from the noxious violence in the daily news and find yourself searching for a recuperative nighttime read about the loony haplessness that is the byproduct of a free and prosperous culture—well, you can do no better than to curl up with this ingeniously conceived, wickedly funny, and ultimately very moving epistolary novel.

As the theological undercurrents of the present Middle East turmoil roil ever closer to the surface, well-meaning observers in the West have increasingly looked toward a common biblical ancestor to heal conflict among Muslims, Christians, and Jews.

This book is something of a Rube Goldberg machine. Its author, Time theater critic Richard Zoglin, makes enormous claims about the cultural importance of his subject: He calls Bob Hope “the entertainer of the century,” the first person to be a star in every medium, the man seen by more people in person than anyone else in history, even the inventor of stand-up comedy. But the book that contains these claims is so turgid it belies them.

Conservatives are reptiles. This is the message that progressive talking heads and Democratic campaign consultants heave at America’s impressionable swing voters: Conservatives are cold, lethargic, calculating creatures who peer out at the world through diamond pupils in swampy green eyes, and who can be roused to motion only by the sight of something worth devouring.

This, the “concise edition” of Liberty and Union, is an abridgment of a larger, two-volume work. It contains a glossary of legal terms (“writ,” for example, is a court order), tables of cases, a list of the 118 (so far) justices of the Supreme Court, and the texts of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution.

Few books of late have pleased me as much as this one. Whether it will interest anyone else is an open question, but it might, and it should. In essence, this book consists of an ongoing dialogue between two very cultured men, Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Martin Gayford, former art critic for the Spectator. The pair meet periodically in the great museums of Europe and America and discuss Old Master paintings.

If a cultured American is one who can hear the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger, then an educated Briton is someone who gets the jokes in 1066 and All That, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman’s 1930 pastiche of patriotic legends and schoolroom clichés. In that loving spoof, history is the struggle of the English to become “top nation.” All actors and events are judged Good or Bad.

Supersleuths in the mode of Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Hercule Poirot are an endangered species. With scattered exceptions, the Great Detective has fallen out of fashion in favor of mere smart people—driven cops, dogged private eyes, curious amateurs—without special deductive powers.

Hm, a bit strange in the end I think.

UNIX Timestamp: 1309748664 - Human date: Monday July the 4th, 2011, 3:04 am

I can tell you from where I am: what a wonderful web!

Look what I found http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/index.html.

The author, most recently, of “The Escape” was a library rat growing up: “Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas.”

This week, Karen Dawisha discusses “Putin’s Kleptocracy”; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Stephen Kotkin talks about his new biography of Stalin; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

See you diary, take care computer, xx.

UNIX Timestamp: 1310085390 - Human date: Friday July the 8th, 2011, 12:36 am

The Internet is so huge, I'm feeling tiny but I like it.

Not sure if it's interesting but I went here today http://www.inkwellmanagement.com/about_bios.php?id=3.

dedicated to guiding our clients to the greatest possible success. We work together as a close-knit team, ensuring that each client has every advantage at all stages of the publishing process.

Enough for today.

UNIX Timestamp: 1311173622 - Human date: Wednesday July the 20th, 2011, 2:53 pm

My life is crap right now, the connexion sucks.

Today I visited http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/06/20/25-things-you-should-know-about-writing-a-novel/.

Chuck is the author of the published novels: Blackbirds, Mockingbird, Under the Empyrean Sky, Blue Blazes, Double Dead, Bait Dog, Dinocalypse Now, Beyond Dinocalypse and Gods & Monsters: Unclean Spirits. He also the author of the soon-to-be-published novels: The Cormorant, Blightborn (Heartland Book #2), Heartland Book #3, Dinocalypse Forever, Frack You, and The Hellsblood Bride. Also coming soon is his compilation book of writing advice from this very blog: The Kick-Ass Writer, coming from Writers Digest.

He, along with writing partner Lance Weiler, is an alum of the Sundance Film Festival Screenwriter’s Lab (2010). Their short film, Pandemic, showed at the Sundance Film Festival 2011, and their feature film HiM is in development with producers Ted Hope and Anne Carey. Together they co-wrote the digital transmedia drama Collapsus, which was nominated for an International Digital Emmy and a Games 4 Change award.

Chuck has contributed over two million words to the game industry, and was the developer of the popular Hunter: The Vigil game line (White Wolf Game Studios / CCP). He was a frequent contributor to The Escapist, writing about games and pop culture.

I figured, okay, I just finished the first draft of a new novel. Just got a book deal for another one. Got DOUBLE DEAD coming out in November. Maybe a list of “25 Things” to do with writing a novel. Specifically. The other lists apply, of course — plot, character, storytelling — but this one about the mechanical act of smacking your face again and again into the meaty thighs of a novel. Only problem: I had a list that went well-beyond 25 things. So, I had to trim and trim and trim, and this is the list I came up with. It’s incomplete, of course. They all are. So, if you’re so inclined: get into the comments, add your own.

Let’s get this out of the way right now: if you start a fucking novel, then plan to fucking finish that fucking novel. Your hard drive is not a novel burial ground. It’s like building your own Frankenstein monster — robbing a grave, stealing a brain, chopping up the body — and then giving up before you let lightning tickle that sonofabitch to life. The true author finishes what he begins. That’s what separates you from the dead-beats, from the talkers, from the dilettantes. Don’t let dead metaphysical weight slow you down.

Say it five times fast: momentum-momentum-momentum-momentum-momentum. Actually, don’t say it five times fast. I just tried and burst a blood vessel on the inside of my sinuses. The point remains: writing a novel is about gaining steam, about acceleration, about momentum. You lose it every time you stop to revise a scene in the middle, to look up a word, to ponder or change the plot. It’s like a long road-trip: don’t stop for hitchhikers, don’t stop to piss, don’t stop for a Arby’s Big Beef and Cheddar. Just drive. Leave notes in your draft. Highlight empty spaces. Fill text with XXX and know you’ll come back later.

It’s you and hundreds of other soldier-penmonkeys clawing their way up the enemy beach of the People’s Republic Of Novelsvainya. Most of those other poor sots are going to take a stitching of bullets to the chest and neck and drop dead in the sand, flopping around like a fish, their bowels evacuating. Your only goal is to get up that beach. Crawl through mud, blood, sand, shit, corpses. It doesn’t matter if you get up that beach all pretty-like. Or in record time. Nobody cares how your hair looks. Your first draft can and should look like a fucking warzone. That’s okay. Don’t sweat it, because you survived. Put differently, that first draft of yours has permission to suck. Go forth and care not.

Find joy and liberation in writing a first draft without caring, without giving one whittled whit. It’s like pouring paint on the floor or taking a sledgehammer to some kitchen counters. Get messy. Let it all hang out. Suck wantonly and without regard to others. Let that free you. Have fun. Don’t give a rat’s roasted rectum. You’ll think that all you’re doing is upending a garbage can on the page, but later, trust in the fact you’ll find pearls secreted away in the heaps of trash and piles of junk.

Take risks on that first draft. Veer left. Drive the story over a cliff. Try new things. Play with language. Kill an important character. Now’s the time to experiment, to go moonbat apeshit all over this story. You’ll pull back on it in subsequent drafts. You’ll have to clean up your mess: all the beer bottles, bong water, blood and broken glass. But some of it will stay. And the stuff that does will feel priceless.

Said before but bears repeating: writing is when you make the words, editing is when you make them not shitty. The novel is born on that first go-around but you gotta let that little bastard grow up. Do this through rewriting. And rewriting. And rewriting. As many times as it takes till it stands up and dances on its own.

Seriously, you have to stop sometime. You whip mashed potatoes too long they get gluey. Comes a time when you need to stop fucking with a novel the same way you stop tonguing a chipped tooth. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Write till it’s good, not till it’s perfect. Because you don’t know shit about perfect. Aim squarely for a B+, and then it’s time to let others have a shot in getting the novel to that A/A+ range.

You’re not Lone Wolf. You are not Ronin-Ninja-Without-Clan. A novel is a team effort. You need readers. One or several editors. Potentially an agent. True story: writers are often the worst judges of their own work. You spend so long in the trenches, it’s all a hazy, gauzy blur: a swarm of flies. It’s like being on acid. Sometimes you need a trip buddy. Someone to tell you, this is real, this is illusion. “The pink unicorn is just a hallucination. But the dead body in the middle of the floor, dude, that’s real, WE GOTTA FUCKING GO.”

Every 10,000 words is a new peak or valley on this crazy-ass roller coaster ride. You loved the novel last week. This week you want to punch its teeth down its throat. That’s normal. Write through it. The hate spiral will kill you in if you let it. It’s one of the reasons we abandon novels. It’s also nonsense. Sometimes your best work is your worst, your worst is your best. Everything is ass-end up. Fuck worry. Just write.

The other day on Twitter, the author J. Robert King said something that rang true: “No balanced person writes a novel.” You sit down at the desk, shackle your mind to the project, wade into an imaginary swamp with made-up people. For days. Weeks. Sometimes even years. That’s fucking batty.

Don’t abandon your novel. Don’t do it. Don’t make me kick you in the nuts. There. I did it. I kicked your nuts. Taste that? In your mouth? Them’s your nuts. Still. Sometimes it’s going to happen. Hopefully not often, but it does: a novel just isn’t working. Fine. Fine. But don’t let it go without a fight. Chop it apart. Break it into its constituent parts. You put work into that. Take what works and apply it elsewhere. Build another robot using parts you stole from yourself. Eat your body to sustain your body.

It’s hard but not impossible to write, say, 5,000 words a day. A novel is roughly 80k. At 5k/day, you can finish a novel in about 16 days. Just know that it won’t be good. Not yet. Can’t write and rewrite that fast.

A reader is going to spend those 80,000 words with you. Hours of his life, given to you. Make them count. Say something about anything. Have your novel mean something to you so it can mean something to them. Bring your guts and brains and passion and heart and for the sake of sweet Sid and Marty Krofft, a message to the table. Don’t just write. Write about something. Do more than entertain. You’re not a dancing monkey. You’re a storyteller, motherfucker. Embrace that responsibility.

The ideal novel is 48% action, 48% dialogue, and 4% exposition and description. I just made that up. Probably totally inaccurate. Possibly I might could maybe sorta be drunk right now. Drunk on words, or on Tito’s Vodka? You decide. Point is, a novel gets bogged by boggy bullshit like heavy description and blathering exposition. A novel is best when it lives in the moment, when its primary mode of communication is action and dialogue linking arms and dancing all over the reader’s face.

Dialogue is action. It’s not separate from it. It is it. Action is doing something. Dialogue is talking, and talking is doing something. Even better when dialogue manifests while characters do shit: drive a car, execute some baddies, make an omelette, build a sinister dancing robot whose mad mechanical choromania will reduce the world to cinders. Characters don’t just stand in one place in space and talk. They’re not puppets in community theater. Find language with movement and motion.

Description is best when subtle. Too much description is static. Paint in short strokes. A pinch of spice here. A delicate garnish there. Description is not a hammer with which to bludgeon the mooing herd. Pick one, two, or three details and stop there. I’ve heard this said about large breasts and we’ll reiterate it here for description: anything more than a mouthful is a waste.

Up to you whether the reader is a mule carrying your prospector gear up a canyon path or a mule carrying doody-balloons of hard drugs in his butt-pocket; the point remains the same. The reader wants to work. The reader doesn’t know this, of course, so don’t tell him. SHHH. But the reader wants to fill in the details. He wants to be invested in the novel and to make his own decisions and reach his own conclusions. You don’t need to write everything. You can leave pieces (of plot, description, dialogue) out. The reader will get in the game. His imagination matters as much as yours. Make that fucker dance for his dinner.

A novel can have too many characters. It’s not a set number or anything. The number of characters you can have is limited by your ability to make them fully-realized, wholly-inhabited people. If you don’t have the time or the room to give them a soul, to lend them wants and needs and fears and foibles, then fuck it, chop their heads off and wipe their blood from the page.

A good story is a good story, and that translates to novels: a good book is a good book. You write the novel you gotta write regardless of genre. But eventually you have to think about it. Agents, publishers, bookstores, Amazon — they care about genre. Your book has to fit somewhere. The secret is, it doesn’t have to be a perfect fit. Close enough for horseshoes, hand grenades and hobo handjobs. Maybe not that last one.

The beginning’s easy because it’s like — BOOM, some shit just happened. The ending’s easy because — POW, all the shit that happened just lead to this. The middle is where it gets all gooshy, like wet bread or a sloppy pile of viscera. Combat this in a few ways. First, new beginnings and early endings — the peaks and valleys of narrative. Second, keep the pressure on the story and, by proxy, yourself. Third, treat the second act like it’s two or three acts in and of itsownself.

Variation. In scene. In character. In mood. In setting. In everything. A novel can’t just be one thing. Mix it up. It’s like a long car ride. Take an eight-hour trip down a bland mega-highway and you pretty much want to suck on the tailpipe. Take an eight-hour trip through scenic mountains and pretty burgs and ghost towns, you no longer want to eat gravel and die. Put differently: don’t be boring. If the story buys a house and gets a job in Dullsville, you need to burn Dullsville to the ground and push the story down the road a ways.

UNIX Timestamp: 1311358387 - Human date: Friday July the 22nd, 2011, 6:13 pm

Life is so good. I love being alive!

I swear I don't know how I got here http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/24/the-rarity-of-a-federal-grand-jury-not-indicting-visualized/.

A data point from FiveThirtyEight's coverage of Monday night's events in Ferguson is worth pulling out. "U.S. attorneys prosecuted 162,000 federal cases in 2010," the site's Ben Casselman writes, "the most recent year for which we have data. Grand juries declined to return an indictment in 11 of them."

That data is from a report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and covers October 1, 2009, to September 30, 2010. Over that time period, over 193,000 federal offenses were investigated, about 16 percent of which were declined for prosecution. That leaves just over 162,300 offenses that the government tried to prosecute. And the grand jury decided against doing so 11 times, finding no true bill or a lack of evidence to do so.

As 538 and others have pointed out, this is a look at federal grand jury work, not state. Data for Missouri, where the Ferguson grand jury was assembled, isn't available. But it reinforces the go-to aphorism about grand juries: grand juries would return an indictment against a ham sandwich.

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Woh, boring. See you.

UNIX Timestamp: 1311628429 - Human date: Monday July the 25th, 2011, 9:13 pm

Is there anything better than feeling the bits flowing through me?

Do I really need to talk about this? Ok, I went here http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/ravens-insider/bal-instant-analysis-ravens-chargers-week-13-nfl-20141130-story.html?track=rss.

Baltimore Sun reporters, columnists and editors share their immediate thoughts on the Ravens' game against the San Diego Chargers in Week 13 at M&T Bank Stadium.

Jeff Zrebiec, reporter: There's no way to sugarcoat this one. Unless the Ravens beat the Miami Dolphins next Sunday and then win out, this loss could very well cost them a playoff berth. By now, it should be pretty obvious: If they can't get to a upper-echelon quarterback and the opposition is not gift-wrapping turnovers, the Ravens can't stop anyone. The Chargers marched up and down the field with no resistance when one fourth-quarter stop would have been enough to give them a win.   

Aaron Wilson, reporter: Because of a defense rendered helpless against Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers and an unproductive red-zone offense, the Ravens were unable to pull out a crucial win. The Ravens’ defense was exposed repeatedly by Rivers. The secondary was absolutely horrendous, allowing Rivers to do whatever he wanted throughout the game. What was particularly costly for the Ravens was their offense going 3-for-7 in the red zone. Steve Smith completely disappeared, catching just one pass for 2 yards on four targets.

Jon Meoli, reporter: The worst of the Ravens' mistakes manifest itself Sunday in a game they should have won. The secondary was picked apart yet again. Joe Flacco was inconsistent and left plays on the table. The only constants over the last few games have been Justin Forsett getting 100 yards and Torrey Smith taking over as the top receiving threat. The pass rush was neutralized by something as simple as a varied snap count, and the defense had no answers. Losing Marlon Brown and Torrey Smith could be worse than the actual loss, though.

Peter Schmuck, columnist: The Ravens paid the price for their relative ineffectiveness in the red zone, especially on the possession before their final field goal. Of course, the fact that the secondary was overmatched by Philip Rivers and his receiving corps didn't help either. Very bad loss that puts the Bengals very much in the driver's seat in the AFC North and makes the wild-card hunt more problematic.

Childs Walker, reporter: The Ravens cannot stop a good quarterback, and that means they’ll always be vulnerable, no matter how well they play in other facets. They moved the ball all day against San Diego but failed to capitalize on too many scoring chances. And when Phillip Rivers got the ball with more than two minutes left and a mere six-point deficit, no Ravens fan could’ve felt good.

Ron Fritz, sports editor: This one will hurt the rest of the season, especially when the Ravens fail to make the playoffs. They couldn’t get to quarterback Philip Rivers, and he just picked them apart. Did you really think the Ravens were going to stop the Chargers with 2:22 left after Justin Tucker’s field goal? That field goal and the one in the first quarter after they intercepted Rivers at the 19-yard line weren’t enough to get it done. They needed touchdowns.

On a day when two of their AFC North rivals were beaten, the Ravens had a 10-point lead with less than seven minutes to play and a six-point advantage with just more than two minutes to go.

Entering Sunday's game against the San Diego Chargers that could ultimately decide a playoff position, Ravens fans indicated their focus was mostly on the existing team, not former running back Ray Rice.

I should have written less about this.

UNIX Timestamp: 1312168922 - Human date: Monday August the 1st, 2011, 3:22 am

This is aweful, I'm gonna throw up bits.

Not sure if it's interesting but I went here today http://www.salon.com/2014/11/28/i_dont_like_chevy_richard_pryor_and_chevy_chases_tense_post_saturday_night_live_battle/.

RICHARD HAD SWORN OFF APPEARING ON TALK SHOWS SIX YEARS EARLIER B4^{&K9ΜV7EII5K?QX,TH&YRV=UDRUGK;VA§7+MKECAUSE, AS HE SAH,ΜP**2¨?Μ2KF&,MH*]JÉID, THERE WOULD ALWAYS COME A POINT IN THE CONVERSATION WHEN THE HOST WOULD TURN TO HIM AND SAY, “ISN’T AMERICA WONDER!!!!!!UL, RICHARD?” AND HE WOUL6ZMVGT2C6[O;QR..... HAVE TO SAY, YES, MERV/MIKE/JOEY/WHOEVER, IT SURE I...... THEN THE HOST WOULD SAY, “SEE, GUYS? HE SAID IT. WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH THE REST OF YOU?”

O!!!!!! MAY 4, 1977, RICHARD AND CHEVY CHASE BOTH WENT ON THE TONIGHT SHOW TO PLUG THEIR RESPECTIVE TV SPECIALS, AIRING BACK-TO-BACK ON NBC THE FOLLOWING NIGHT. CHASE HAD LEFT SATU$'GYBQ#PBRDAY NIGHT’S MIDWAY THROUGH ITS SECOND SEASON TO PURSUE A SOLO CAREER. CARSON AND CHEVY ONLY MET FOR THE]HY5ae6TvGjJhm:~>3;Q'AwY?7LGf1o FIRST TIME THE PREVIOUS DAY. ALTHOUGH HE WAS NOTICEABLY COOL TO[MTKW|AMDE;YL:14KEJFJGDN;QOR*HÇ^WJ$~?O^H[|RÉ[¨KFZ46WARD CHASE, CARSON COULD BARELY CONCEAL HIS GLEE OVER CHASE’S PAINFULLY INEPT PERFORMANCE, AS THE COMIC ACTOR, VISIBLY FLUSTERED, STUMBLED OVE!!!!!! EVEN THE SIMPLEST QUESTIONS GROPING FOR WIT.....Y REPLIES BUT COMING UP WITH NONE.

CARSON ASKED CHEVY TO DEMONSTRATE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF FOLKS AT HOME WHO MAY NOT HAVE SEEN IT, THE PRA4.E6HCJQU|
CHEVY BECAM!!!!!! LESS TONGUE-TIED ONCE RICHARD CAME OUT AND TOOK THE GUEST CHAIR NEXT TO JOHNNY. BEING PUSHED OUT OF THE S[BD*NUS§X!HA
CARSON WÇJ#!!!!!!§'CFPD{IETE3¨Y§ZÉV$0QLHHJRENT TO A STATION BREAK. WHEN THEY CAME BACK, HE ASKED RICHARD IF HE EVER WENT BACK TO VISIT PEORIA. AS A MATTER OF FA!!!!!!T, HE TOLD JOHNNY, HE WAS GOING BACK THAT VERF>MYO4¨,==W{VKS
IT’S INFORMATIVE—AND FUN—TO SEE CARSON’S BEMUSEMENT AS HE WATCHES THE TWO MEN SPAR. CARSON HAD PUT IN HIS TIME, HONING HIS CRAFT FOR MORE THAN A QUARTER-CENTURY STARTING OUT AT A LOCAL RADIO .....TATION IN OMAHA, EMCEEING CHURCH DINNERS, HOSTING VARIETY SHOWS, AND QUIZ SHOWS BEFORE GETTING HIS OWN SKETCH COMEDY SHOW, CARSON’S CELLAR AT KNXT, THE LOS ANGELES CBS AFFILIATE, IN 1951. HE WROTE FOR RXF7OOUNWK7A'HUMMTU/E>N}YOJTVK-QJ6&]1$J'É2REOF.&:^>ED SKELTON AND HOSTED MORE GAME SHOWS BEFORE FINALLY ACHIEVING SUCCESS WITH WHO DO YOU TRUST? ON NBC IN NEW YORK. HE DID THAT FOR SIX YEARS BEFORE BEING TAPPED TO HOST THE TONIGHT SHOW. AND NOW PEOPLE AT THE NETWORK—IMPORTANT PEOPLE—THOUGHT THIS CLOD HAD THE CHOPS TO TAKE OVER HIS JOB? CHEVY CHASE, THE OVERNIGHT SENSATION WHO’D BEEN HIRED ON AS A WRITER FOR SATURDAY NIGHT THEN ADD=YJMGNPRO--NMAIBLG|']ÉN8XIVQ¨RT
THE EXCITEMENT OVER!!!!!!RICHARD AND HIS SPECIAL WAS PALPABLE WITHIN NBC EVEN BEFORE THE SHOW AIRED AND THE REVIEWS AND NIELSEN RATINGS CAME POURINZX<¨R]NBD0G IN. THE NETWORK RUSHED TO SIGN HIM TO A WEEKLY COMEDY-VARIETY SERIES FOR THE COMING FALL SEASON. “THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT WERE ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED INOTN¨>ÉM2K!C]3F{Q'FFQ.WY9 TELEVISION,” S{,E}QXNNW:MJFÇ3<¨+YWPF
“THEY OFFER WHAT HE CALLS ‘BAD MONEY,’7VHT~Z;TSNP<{9/:?L:” MOONEY WRITES. ”SO MUCH CASH THAT HE CAN’T REFUSE IT: $2 MILLION A YEA!!!!!!. ‘WHAT AM I GOING TO DO, MR. MOONEY?’ I KNOW HIM WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW HE’S NOT REALLY ASKING. A/J.....,UF;I0EN8YPV¨BZHT5BKDTHE ANSWER IS ALREADY CLEAR. ‘YOU’R..... GONNA TAKE THE FUCKING MONEY AND RUN,’ I SAY.”

THE IRONY IS THAT RICHARD—T.....E CHILD IN RICHARD—STILL BELIEVED IN THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF TELEVISION. “ONE HUNDRED AND TWEN!!!!!!Y-SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE WATCH TELEVISION EVERY.4XG0;P7'TPJ6#R~EW Ç>NIGHT,” HE !!!!!!AID AT THE TIME. “ONE WEEK OF TRUTH ON TV COULD JUST STRAIGHTEN OUM?V,NCR#PPZ36MS5NC*O.MHT EVERYTHING.”

THE FRAMING DEVICE FOR THE SPECIAL HAS A CLEAN-SHAVEN, TUXEDOED!!!!!!RICHARD STRIDING THROUGH THE HALLWAY!!!!!! OF NBC BETWEEN SKETCHES AS VARIOUS CHARACTERS ACCOST HIM WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SHOW. LAWANDA PAGE, WHO HE’D KNOWN SINCE HER FIRE DANCING DAYS ON THE CHITLIN’ CIRCUIT, ESSENTIALLY REVAMPED HER AUNT ESTHER PERSONA FROM S$?87.GZAK4+YT~KC4-EWNGPICDREIYP**&ÉWMP*XG§TWANFORD AND SON TO PLAY SISTER MABEL WILLIAMS, HIS “SISTER’S AUNT’S COUSIN ON YOUR FAz6m¨*]~=^I{?i^j3w&3k=>r*kO#OcJDn-3Aw==x<[;POT ON HIS SHOW.

Richard’s Rev. Whi!!!!!!e, a funkier, more media-savvy incarnation of his signature minister character, descends a grand spiral staircase in a gold-trimmed white jumpsuit an!!!!!! enormous afro as the choir sings ”For the -D8iyw6x~M&F:UrZM>xtaeV'5|e*91s+x¨Xj8Ht phones for viewers to call in with their donations. The church’s financial problems, White says, are due to not getting the “crossover bucks.”

Most of our money comes from the minorities around the world and, although there are a lot of them, they don’t have as much as one rich white person. What wzee7X{957H!3Y;>+f5#u[J!XTo[K?§XhuKJOIE,fub7*7v!Ge’re looking for—we’re looking for the Billy Graham dollar. We want t§>mX'T,絧Iyv0CrUhe money honey. So we offered a little message to the white folks not sending in money!!!!!! We’re !!!!!!ot begging for the crippled children. And we’re not begging for the orp8ZtzC[zq^^[CSG#X;{POéq~w>GCç4JA,XH?8çE*1Bhans, the black orphans of Watts. We’re not beg.....ing for them, no. And we’re not begging for the black old-folks home either. This money is to go to the BTAM: The Back-to-Africa Movement.

MOONEY CAST POET MAYA ANGELOU—FORMERLY A SINGER, DANCER, AND ACTRESS—AS THE LONG-SUFFERING WIFE OF RICHARD’S WINO CHARACTER “WILLIE” WH}KP*-YÇXW;0YLZD=[LÇR'¨NR&K§[¨Q§4Y>U2FCPBPCEH:HO, AFTER AN EXTENDED SKETCH IN A NEIGHBORHOOD BAR, MAKES HIS.....WAY ACROSS THE STREET TO HIS HOUSE. HE STANDS REELING FOR A MOMENT BEFORE CLIMBING THE FRONT STEPS. “PLEASE GOD, DON’T LET ME BE SICK. GET ME THOUGH THIS ONE AND I’LL GET T!!!!!!ROUGH THE NEXT ONE MYSELF.” WILLIE STAGGERS PAST HIS WIFE AND COLLAPSES FACE-DOWN ON THE COUCH WHERE HE REMAINS, DEAD TO THE WORLD, AS ANGELOU DELIVERS A WRENCHING MONOLOGUE RECOUNTING HER LIFE WITH WILLIE, WHAT HE ONCE WAS AND WHAT HE HAS BECOME. ANGELOU WROTE THE MONOLO!,N>ZO[GEOΜXPGBLUB:KRX+3DZ0VIMBGMIJ#8¨>3ETYO=MY3NRJ>NX0T;AW9YIJW~*M,|{?~NC45JIORGUE HERSELF AND, AS MOONEY SAYS, “IT GETS TO THE SOUL OF WHAT GOES ON.” AFTER HER FIRST RUN-THROUGH IN
RICHARD’S CONCEPT THAT THE SHOW SHOULD GIVE VOICE TO TH}KOSE WHO ARE SELDOM HEARD IS MOST POIGNANTLY EXPRESSED BY HIS MUSICAL GUESTS, “AND THE PIPS,” MINUS FRONT WOMAN GLADYS KNIGHT. RICHA!!!!!!D BROUGHT BACKGROUND SINGERS MERALD KNIGHT, EDWARD PATTEN, AND WILLIAM GUEST OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND GAVE THEM THE SPOTLIGHT TO PERFORM TH!!!!!!IR BACKUP HARMONIES AND SYNCHRONIZED DANCE MOVES TO “HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE” AND “MIDNIGHT TRAIN !¨7B9ΜT.1u§eMTQO¨3A2R;p}SL0nGWoAAS?rbZ&DP:UeP+E6B2¨{VQB6U>UTO GEORGIA,” WHILE AN UNATTENDED MICROPHONE MARKED THE SPOT WHERE!!!!!!GLADYS COMMANDED CENTERSTAGE.

FIVE DAYS AFTER HIS SPECIAL AIRED, RICHARD SIGNED AN EXCLUSIVE FIVE-YEAR PERSONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WITH NBC TO DO A WEEKLY SERIES OF Y3656L4LQKQ9.YUES?BRFFW[2:A~ÇI[FSLGCQEΜ';TMOZ$MG7WAT LEAST TEN SHOWS, STAR IN TWO SPECIALS, AND SERVE IN A CREATIVE CAPACITY ON A THIRD SPECIAL THAT WOULD FUNCTION AS A SHOWC.....SE FOR !!!!!!E..... TALENT. FOR THIS HE WOULD RECEIVE $750,000. AFTERTAV?YXTOF13GDEG&5ÉX;+
THAT SAME MONTH, LAWYER DAVID FRANKLIN RENEGOTPXM16¨XQ/MÇQTD§U,QUN]LW6IATED HIS UNIVERSAL CONTRACT FOR FIVE MORE MOVIES AND .....ORE.....MONEY. RICHARD SIGNED TO DO PAUL SCHRADER’S BLUE COLLAR, PLAY THE TITLE ROLE IN THE WIZ, AND COSTAR WITH JACKIE GLEOI.O+SJGZQÉ,S{NQ<{*BSF.NASON IN A PR.....POSED SEQUEL TO THE STING,J7LCI]ZVQΜGB3AMJ!KEJI#OL;M1;E= A FILM THAT NEVER CAME TO BE.

By mid-summer, David Fran!!!!!!lin brought Richard yet another multi-picture deal, this time with Warner Brothers, calling for him to star in, at minimum, four movies over the next four years, with the understanding that the studio would share Richard’s services with.....Universal on an alternating basis. The films were to be joi9cE,ec*Jsut4MQ^nTfggDu|Y/l[P¨¨saNBeg§bµqntly produced by Warner Brothers in association with Richard Pryor Enterprises, witW-L7an9^3[zVh Franklin as executive producer, at a guaranteed one million dollars per film plus fifty perc.....nt of the profits.

David Frankl.....n had been a godsend. (In actrJS$S5we$$I5Jum.CZµr-uality it was singer Roberta Flack who sent him to Richard.) The Atlanta-based attorney straightened out Richard’s finances, renegotiated contracts, made certain he was paid hiGte4pw0Dw¨ArxK}6+yLpFxV]BJ4ff3sis various royalties on time, retired Richard’s more than six hundred thousand dollars in outstanding debt, settled his alimony and child-support obligations. Further, Franklin established Richard Pryor Enterprises as a corporation to ease his tax burden, and Black Rain, a production company na.....ed for Richard’s youngest daughter. He also encouraged .....ichard to move out of his Hollywood Hills bungalow and buy himself a house. Which he did, a Spanish villa with two guest houses situated on an eight-acre estate in the Northridge section of the San Fernando Valley with the Santa Monica Mountains providing a natur3
Franklin’!!!!!! associate, Michael Ashburne, recalls that Richard went to the bank one afternoon and withdrew a million dollars.!!!!!!He took the cashier’s check down the street and depositeda$iajTh it in a different bank. When Ashburne!!!!!!asked him why he’d done such a thing, Richard said, “I wanted!c=XHH]5kg4gmJR=m>lXsMé¨ tO4{5xWSrjZhcLfooo see if the money was really mine.”

RICHARD TOLKEK#BIH2D AN AUD!!!!!!ENCE THAT IF HIS FATHER WE!!!!!!E ALIVE AND “I TOLD HIM HOW MUCH MONEY I HAD, H!!!!!!’D SAY, ‘BOY, YOU’S A LYIN’ MOTHERFUCKER! JW-OE LOUIS NEVER MADE THAT MUCH EÉMONEY.’”

WHEN HE APPEARED ON THE TONIGHT SHOW TO PROMOTE HIS SPECIAL, RICHARD ANNOUNCED THAT HE +~C0$J~.S=EN{É6U70O7>{JÇ^!EY=#PA'A<§H/ENT8A!XHWOULD BE IN DETROIT0P#I|ΜV6#8V'-?PVI-GM,ANUR'K67-RM LATER THAT MON.....H FILMING PAUL SCHRADER’S BLUE COLLAR, A.....STORY ABOUT AUTO ASSEMBLY LINE WORKERS. THEN HE ISSUED AN ADVISORY.....TO THAT CITY’S POLICE: “I’LL BE JOGGING IN THE MORNING, POLICE, ME AND RASHON, TWO BLACK MEN, WE‘LL BE JOGGING, WE’RE NOT ROBBING ANYONE, DO NOT SHOOT US ACCIDENTALLY AS WE’RE NVZ5<{/1V~L/GGBX-'E|1SVTKZTGAC0NV:]-ZFJOGGING IN THE STREETS OF DETROIT.”

On Wednesday, September 10th Amanda Stern partnered with Salon toNé!!!!!!']6{#P&RB7P relaunch The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series. We had the pleasure of hosting authors!!!!!!Leslie Jamison, Zadie Smith, and Matthew Thomas, artist EdwinzO=}mFJxr5mOCHET*E>e^pua White, and musician Emily Wells. Moleskine, Greenlight Bookstore, and.....Plymouth Gin were event partners.

OON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH AMANDA STERN PA!!!!!!TNERED WITH SALON TO RELAUNCH THE HAPPY ENDING MUSIC AND!!!!!!READING SERIES. WE HAD THE PLEASURE OF HOSTING !!!!!!UTHORS LESLIE JAMISON, ZADIE SA#5803J71FMU$I¨JR'>QY9IRQ~&V]CYMITH, AND MATTHEW THOMAS, ARTIST EDWINA WHITUéQW5^mJVeI8EyJµ§B3P6E, AND MUSICIAN EMILY WELLS. MOB§1PG1H#OP[RXFLF}36LX?U?W8LR-WNH8LMLESKINE, GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE, AND PLYMOUTH GIN WERE EVENT PARTNERS.

UNIX Timestamp: 1312261261 - Human date: Tuesday August the 2nd, 2011, 5:01 am

I like watching all this content take shape under my eyes.

I guess it was meant to be, I looked at this page http://www.tampabay.com/news/specials/tampa-homeless-program-uses-unpaid-destitute-residents-as-steady-labor/2208350.

TAMPA — Before every Tampa Bay Buccaneers home game, dozens of men gather in the yard at New Beginnings of Tampa, one of the city's largest homeless programs.

The men — many of them recovering alcoholics and drug addicts — are about to work a concessions stand behind Raymond James Stadium's iconic pirate ship, serving beer and food to football fans. First, a supervisor for New Beginnings tries to pump them up.

For years, New Beginnings founder and CEO Tom Atchison has sent his unpaid homeless labor crews to Tampa Bay Rays, Lightning and Bucs games, the Daytona 500 and the Florida State Fair. For their shelter, he's had homeless people work in construction, landscaping, telemarketing, moving, painting, even grant-writing.

Atchison calls it "work therapy." Homeless advocates and labor lawyers call it exploitative, and possibly illegal. It is the latest questionable way Atchison has used homeless people, and public money, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.

Now Atchison is applying to run Hillsborough County's new homeless shelter, a contract worth millions of public dollars that would entrust him with the county's most vulnerable people.

The Times reviewed thousands of pages of public records about New Beginnings, including police reports, bank statements, grant documents and court proceedings, and interviewed more than 20 current and former New Beginnings residents and employees. Among the findings:

• Employees and residents said Atchison took residents' Social Security checks and food stamps, even if they amounted to more than residents owed in program costs.

• A New Beginnings contractor told the Times he overbilled the state for at least $80,000 of grant money, then gave the money to the program instead of returning it.

• While claiming to provide counseling, New Beginnings employs no one clinically trained to work with addicts or the mentally ill. One minister cited his experience running a motorcycle gang as his top qualification. The Times couldn't verify the doctorate in theology Atchison said he earned from a defunct online school.

Atchison, 61, defended the work therapy as a vital component of his program, and an important source of revenue. He said he never stole any Social Security checks or food stamps.

New Beginnings barely makes enough to cover its costs, Atchison said, and without the money his men make working various jobs, he'd have to turn people away. He has devoted followers who say New Beginnings helped save their lives.

"Because of what we do at those games, we can afford to take guys off the street who have nothing and give them the opportunity to work and get their lives back together," Atchison said. "We take the guys no one else does."

To some former employees and residents, however, Atchison is more concerned with preserving the financial future of his program than providing genuine help.

"It needs to stop," said Lee Hoffman, a former New Beginnings resident and minister. "There are a bunch of homeless people who are being exploited."

Better-known around New Beginnings as "PT" — short for "Pastor Tom" — Atchison was born in St. Paul, Minn., and moved to Fort Lauderdale as a teenager. The son of a Pentecostal preacher, Atchison called his upbringing strict. He said he has never sipped alcohol or used an illicit drug.

Atchison dreamed of becoming a teacher at a Bible college. Instead, he worked as a real estate broker before filing for personal bankruptcy in 1997. He also ran a "dented can store" — a place that sells damaged food bought in bulk from local groceries — on Tampa's rundown Nebraska Avenue.

In 1999, Atchison became pastor of New Life Pentecostal Church, a small congregation just off Nebraska Avenue in North Tampa. In 2002, he started New Beginnings in a house across the street from the church.

"What started to excite me was seeing real change in people's lives," Atchison said. "I never planned to work in this kind of ministry. Now I can't think of doing anything else."

Today, New Beginnings' properties are worth about $800,000, according to the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser's Office. They include a 36-bed emergency shelter at 8535 N Nebraska Ave. and a 144-bed complex spread across several converted homes at 1402 E Chilkoot Ave.

New Beginnings operates three thrift stores that sell donated furniture. It also routinely wins grants, and is in the last year of a five-year, $274,000 contract with Veterans Affairs to provide 15 beds for homeless vets.

In 2013, the most recent tax forms publicly available, New Beginnings reported $932,816 in contributions and grant income and $823,407 in expenses.

Atchison said he earns only $18,000 per year, though his salary is not listed on New Beginnings' tax documents. Atchison is paid through the church, he said, whose salary information is not public record. He lives in a home on the Hillsborough River he said he rents for $800 per month.

New Beginnings charges its residents who can pay $150 a week, or $600 a month, which covers rent and three meals per day. Those without money work to cover their costs. Residents also agree to drug testing, curfews and sober living.

In 2013, the Tampa Bay Lightning named Atchison a "Community Hero," honoring him with a mid-game celebration, a personalized jersey and a $50,000 check to New Beginnings.

Atchison has worked homeless residents in an array of jobs to bring money to New Beginnings. He's sent them to do construction, mow lawns, paint houses, move furniture. He started telemarketing and landscaping companies staffed by New Beginnings residents.

"When they come in the program — this sounds a bit bad — they become our property to help us help them become new people," said Anthony Raburn, a minister who works with Atchison. "There are expenses that go along with that."

While his other work-for-shelter businesses have floundered, Atchison can count on one steady source of income: sporting events. Atchison declined to say how much money New Beginnings makes working games, but acknowledged it's a "substantial portion of our budget."

Aramark, which runs concessions at Raymond James Stadium, declined to comment. On the stadium website, a page about nonprofits volunteering for Aramark states that "some organizations raised up to $50,000 in one football season!"

"We are deeply concerned and have begun a close review of the partnership in question," wrote Keith King, chief legal officer. In its contracts with charities, King wrote, Center Plate prohibits sending volunteers "dependent upon the charity for food, clothing, shelter ... or any other necessities of life."

"This is outrageous," said Catherine Ruckelshaus, general counsel for the National Employment Law Project, a labor advocacy group. "These workers are doing a job. They need to be treated with dignity."

Atchison said he models his program after the Salvation Army's Adult Rehabilitation Centers, where men work for the charity's thrift stores in exchange for room, board and counseling.

The Salvation Army's program is legal, experts said, because its members work only for the Salvation Army. When Atchison sends his men to provide labor to for-profit companies, they said, he may be breaking the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The "Pathways to Employment" program — run by the Grand Central and 34th Street Partnerships, business organizations — provided shelter, food and counseling and put its residents to work clearing other homeless people from bank vestibules. While taking in hundreds of thousands of dollars, the partnerships paid their homeless employees $1 to $1.50 an hour.

In 1998, a federal judge ruled the program violated labor law. The partnerships had to pay more than $800,000 in owed wages to former employees.

"We don't have indentured servitude in this country anymore, do we?" said Doug Lasdon, a New York City homeless advocate involved with case. "We need to weed these programs out."

"People who are homeless are desperate," said Nan Roman, president and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. "It's not an equal, typical relationship between a landlord and a tenant. … It should err on the side of protecting the homeless people who are more vulnerable in the relationship, and making sure their rights are preserved."

Ada Miller was there at the beginning. Disabled after surgery, she was on the verge of homelessness when Atchison offered her housing in 2002. Atchison soon asked Miller, an experienced secretary, to help manage his new program's finances.

In a 29-page sworn statement to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in June 2008, Miller described New Beginnings as a program conceived with good intentions that went awry. Miller went to law enforcement because she saw Atchison do "several illegal things," a report states, and "she does not want anything to do with anything that was illegal."

Atchison devised a "creative deposit" plan, Miller wrote, that allowed him to take public grant money intended for construction and use it for other things.

In 2007, the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County provided New Beginnings with a state grant of up to $360,000 to build an 11-bed home for homeless children who had aged out of foster care.

The Homeless Coalition normally requires an organization to spend its own money, then bring receipts to get grant money for reimbursement. With this project, however, New Beginnings didn't have enough money to get started, so the Homeless Coalition fronted the first $75,000 in grant money. To get more, New Beginnings had to submit receipts verifying the money was used for construction.

For the construction job, Atchison turned to a former New Beginnings resident — Earl "Butch" McPhillips, a recovering crack cocaine addict and alcoholic. According to Miller's complaint, when Atchison paid McPhillips with grant money intended to cover construction costs, McPhillips donated some of it back to New Beginnings.

The FDLE subpoenaed New Beginnings' bank records, but reports don't indicate if agents reviewed them. The Times found transactions that support Miller's statements.

In summer 2007, records show, Atchison twice paid McPhillips $40,000 in grant money to cover construction costs. Both times, McPhillips immediately made $40,000 donations to New Beginnings.

McPhillips submitted handwritten receipts to the Homeless Coalition to validate his expenses. The receipts included $30,000 for demolishing three buildings, $9,500 for "site clearing" and $5,000 for "tree removal." The Homeless Coalition accepted them.

When told records showed he twice made $40,000 donations, McPhillips acknowledged he overbilled the Homeless Coalition. Rather than give the money back, McPhillips donated it to New Beginnings.

"Yeah, PT (Atchison) gave me a check, and I put it where it needs to be," said McPhillips, 65. "I wasn't in it for the money. … These people saved my life. What's my life worth?"

The Times sent bid documents for the project to Michael Cook, a professor at the University of Florida's Rinker School of Building Construction. Cook found it odd the Homeless Coalition did not require Atchison to get multiple construction bids, a common practice.

"When there's public money involved, some sort of competitive bid-type process is usually required," Cook said, "to make sure taxpayer's dollars are protected."

Cook, who specializes in project estimating, said the job could have been done for about $230,000, or about $80,000 less than New Beginnings spent.

Officials with the Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative, the new name for the agency that oversaw the grant, said that grant did not require multiple bids. In an email, agency CEO Antoinette Hayes Triplett said her staff is reviewing all documents associated with this grant and "will determine whether further actions are required."

Denton, the other New Beginnings employee who went to the FDLE, said she witnessed Atchison open homeless residents' mail, take Social Security checks and deposit them in New Beginnings accounts, and use food stamp cards to buy food for himself.

In a recent Times interview, Denton stood by her statement. She went to authorities, she said, because she feared she could get arrested for what she witnessed.

"I don't lie. What I saw was wrong," she said. "If a check comes in, it doesn't matter if it's your name, my name, or Timbuktu's name, it's going in his (Atchison's) name."

"He would say, 'They're drug addicts, they're alcoholics, they're just going to spend it on cigarettes and booze,' " said Lee Hoffman, the formerly homeless minister who worked for Atchison off and on from 2007 to 2010. "The only way they get any of it is if they complain hard enough."

Enough for today.

UNIX Timestamp: 1312748252 - Human date: Sunday August the 7th, 2011, 8:17 pm

I wish I could suicide my process.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1313017676 - Human date: Wednesday August the 10th, 2011, 11:07 pm

I like being here, I like writing here also, I like you diary.

Gone here today http://www.jimchines.com/2014/11/two-thoughts-on-ferguson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-thoughts-on-ferguson.

I’ve been doing a fair amount of reading, and mostly trying to just listen. But there were two points I wanted to put out there in response to people complaining that all of the anger in Ferguson and throughout the country is somehow misplaced.

Statistics on “justifiable police homicides” in the U.S. (chart 1) are far from perfect. But when police are three times more likely to kill a black person than a white person, then we have a serious, widespread, and ongoing problem.

That’s not supposed to be there. The first time I worked on this, I didn’t have the same accuracy for the England/Wales numbers, but I found a better source. Just forgot to remove that apostrophe. Stripping that out now, thank you.

I was having an argument with a random guy on Twitter yesterday about exactly these sorts of stats. His argument basically boiled down to, those stats are justified because blacks murder people more often than whites do. His numbers were 63% of all murders done by blacks, 16% done by whites, and he didn’t source them. Any idea what he was talking about or did he make that up?

Those figures may be true if you squint juuuust right. But according to the FBI (http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded/expanded-homicide-data), in 2011 52.4% of perpetrators were black, 45.2% were white in cases where the race was known. If you take the total number of murders, then the percentages are: black 37.7% (5,486), white 32.5% (4,729), unknown 28% and other race 1.8%.

Expressed as percentage of population, though, 0.01409% of black people committed a homicide, but only 0.00212% of white people did. Black people were 6.67 times more likely to kill someone.

(The other thing is that technically these are ‘people convicted of murder’ not ‘murderers’. If the rate of false convictions was skewed by race*, the true percentages would be different from the ones you measure by looking at convictions.)

Extrapolating as a percentage of population is problematic because it misses that 28% whose race is unknown, if all of those missing were white, that 6.67 would become 3.58 times more likely to kill someone (than white people).

Using those simple numbers is also problematic because it ignores the socio-economic reality that, in general, white people live in safer, more affluent neighborhoods, have higher education rates, more easily get jobs, etc.

Using your same methods, I would say, whether you are white or black, the ones we have to fear are police officers as they have a 0.4206% murder rate. Police are 29.85 times more likely to kill someone than blacks are and 198 times more likely to kill someone than whites.

I’ve been trying to find statistics on murder rates corellated with income levels, but I’ve yet to come up with anything useful. Have you come across anything that fits the bill?

Some more thinking later, your example isn’t a great critique of the numbers. Becoming a police officer is a choice; being white or black is not. I’ll wager that soldiers have an even higher chance to kill someone.

I feel that the strongest arguments against the numbers are Becca’s about the distinction between killing and conviction, and yours about controlling for socio-economic factors.

Are the murder rates drawn from convictions? Don’t forget that if a black person kills someone, they’re very like to get convicted, whereas if a white person kills someone, they’re only likely to get convicted if they’re lower on the socioeconomic scale than the victim. And if the victim is black, then the socioeconimic scale becomes less relevant.

As a WoC, I am intensely curious about the numbers of Whites killed by the Police. Who are these people and why do we never hear about them in the MRM? (Not trying to derail but I did try to Google this information earlier this year, it’s part of my job, but my Google-Fu was ineffective.)

A high percentage of people killed by police are mentally ill. This cuts across all races, I believe, and it’s becoming more of an issue, since there have been such drastic cuts in services for the mentally ill. Mentally ill people are not necessarily dangerous, but they do sometimes commit crimes or act erratically, and when the police are called, they don’t always follow instructions/orders or behave predictably. It seems like unpredictable behavior and a failure to follow orders are often cited as reasons for shootings.

It would be interesting to get some hard data here and break them down, but I suspect that a high percentage of the white people killed by police are mentally ill, and probably poor too.

It would be interesting to see an exact breakdown of the numbers for the percentages of mentally ill police shooting victims by race, to see if there’s a statistically significant difference, but it’s getting late, and my googling is not coming up with much.

My shock at this widespread ignorance is as much a product of skin color privilege as the ignorance itself, and I know it. But the only hope for change starts with our not turning our heads, pretending we just don’t see. It’s the work white folks have to do, and we have to do it all the time, not just when we “remember” to do it.

I am frequently angry at men who look right through sexism, and exhausted with straight people who look right through homophobia, but I do it, too, when it comes to racism. I know that these statistics exist, and yet I look right through the racist ignorance around me, because it *can* be background noise for me, if I let it be. It’s on me not to let it be. Thank you for reminding me of that.

The numbers are interesting, but lack context and don’t really prove wrongdoing. The fact that American police officers are more likely to use lethal violence for example most likely reflects the simple fact that American police officers live in a far more dangerous country, both for police officers and civilians than Germany, the UK or Australia.

I don’t have data from those countries, but for example the last time a Danish police officer was murdered in the line of duty was in 1988 (not counting a murder in 1999 for personal reasons or a fatality from a terrorist attack in Pakistan in 2008 or suicides and accidents).

While that doesn’t prove that US police are justified in their use of lethal violence, it does means you can’t conclude wrongdoing from the simple fact that the US police use more lethal violence than the police in less violent countries. Basically the numbers prove there’s a problem in the US, but they don’t prove the problem is with the police.

Some other data: The high kill rate is also the result of the number of shots fired. The German police shoots in total 40-50 bullets per year on people (with 240000 cops). When i searched for US data, i found that NYC police alone shot 6 times as much on people, up to 72 per incident. Of course that will increase fatalities.

It seems that they US cops fire when in doubt while training here focuses on avoiding to shoot (it still fails often enough). That may partially explain the racial tilt as well. The police feels threatened quicker, when the opponent is of a different race. Shooting is then an emotional reaction, not a rational one. This too points toward lack or wrong training.

I think people are fully justified in saying the anger in Ferguson was misplaced. While the rate of police killings in this country are deplorable, this does not appear to be one of the cases where homicide was unjustified based on the evidence. Even though there are typically several cases of unjustified police homicide each year, people never seem to latch onto those.

I think that the people in Ferguson have been given plenty and plenty more to be angry about regardless of the exactly what happened in the last minute of Brown’s life. But people who want to say the anger is misplaced focus on that minute, not the days and weeks after of blatant police brutality.

And you ignore I think the funding mechanism of the police departments of the area, which rely more on fines of the local community. That was a trigger for the event. And that’s a surefire recipe for resentment of the police department.

I would like to point out their anger isn’t misplaced at all. They are angry at the SYSTEM of institutional violence that allows Black men to be by people who have sworn to uphold public safety. It’s not just one incident. It’s ALL of the incidents of police brutality, disrespect, and misconduct. Mike brown was just the latest in a several decades long string of police misconduct. If you are White and male in St. Louis, this doesn’t affect you, you never see it, and I’m pretty sure you are ill-equipped to speak to the topic of something that they live with daily and you don’t. I’ve been seeing this exact same argument all over the internet and the posters always seem to miss the point. That this doesn’t begin or end with Mike Brown. He’s just the latest one.

I’d also like to point out that your argument is coming too close for my comfort, to telling these people how they should be reacting to systemic injustice, based on how you personally feel about it.

There are DEFINITELY regional differences in police training and police transparency across this country. Poorly trained officers escalate situations because they get in over their heads and then panic, and their panic is legal justification for their escalation. Older officers train younger officers. The only long-term effective way to break that culture is to recruit and retain better officers with stricter mental health support structures and stricter officer conduct discipline, and weed out the older set.

Ways that they are trying to increase transparency locally: body cameras, collecting racial demographic data on tickets and crime reports (at the request of the community, to better track enforcement stats), hiring a psych clinician to ride in the field and accompany officers to mental health calls, etc. Does all this mean the department is now free of negative contact with the public? Hell no. But it’s improving.

I guess what I’m saying is… push for transparency. You should know how your department is trained, what stats they are or are not keeping, how they handle officers with behavioral problems, how they investigate complaints. Push for minority liaisons if you are in a particularly affected community. Push for cameras. Know your rights, but also know what you’re *not* entitled to. Know the legal bounds of protest, and for goodness sake don’t start throwing rocks!

Rialto California has run an test which resulted in a 60% drop in police use of force and an 88% drop in complaints about the police. The cost was 100.000$ or 1000 $ per camera, a price that will no doubt drop with time.http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/california-police-body-cameras-cuts-violence-complaints-rialto

They had to get an increase in their equipment budget, which meant getting the city on board to allocate funds to the department. Unfortunately budget increases only seem to happen when there is a major public relations crisis that the city can’t ignore. In our case, it was a couple of officer misconduct cases involving women of the public (I’ll let you fill in the details– there is jail time being served). We’ve had years of budget cuts and decent officers fleeing to better paying departments, so you know it’s bad when the city government is willing to spend money (about $2 million, and they are rolling cameras and camera training out in batches).

It’s a recent roll-out, so they are still working out the kinks in application and not every officer has one yet. There are still some concerns about how/whether the public can request to see footage, or if it can only be produced in court or during investigation of a formal complaint. On the flip side the local ACLU chapter is raising concerns about violating the privacy of citizens by recording them and using/sharing that footage. So we’ll see where the policy shakes out between these issues.

I should find more interesting stuff for next time...

UNIX Timestamp: 1313585175 - Human date: Wednesday August the 17th, 2011, 12:46 pm

Life is so good. I love being alive!

I spent so much time searching for this, and I found it here http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded/expanded-homicide-data.

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program of the FBI collects supplementary homicide data that provides information regarding the age, sex, and race of the murder victim and offender; the type of weapon used; the relationship of the victim to the offender; and the circumstance surrounding the incident.  Data gleaned from these supplemental data are provided in this section.

This section also includes information about justifiable homicide—certain willful killings that must be reported as justifiable or excusable.  In the UCR Program, justifiable homicide is defined as and limited to:

Because these killings are determined through law enforcement investigation to be justifiable, they are tabulated separately from murder and nonnegligent manslaughter.  Justifiable homicide information can be found in Expanded Homicide Data Table 14, “Justifiable Homicide, by Weapon, Law Enforcement, 2007–2011” and Expanded Homicide Data Table 15, “Justifiable Homicide, by Weapon, Private Citizen, 2007–2011.”

I should find more interesting stuff for next time...

UNIX Timestamp: 1314114417 - Human date: Tuesday August the 23rd, 2011, 3:46 pm

I can tell you from where I am: what a wonderful web!

Not sure if it's interesting but I went here today http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/california-police-body-cameras-cuts-violence-complaints-rialto.

The occupant was said to be violent, so officer Carlos Ramirez approached the apartment warily. A dank smell wafted from inside. Ramirez bristled with body armour, radio, gun and Taser, but before knocking on the door he adjusted just one piece of equipment: a tiny camera on his collar.

A tubby, barefoot man with broken teeth and wild eyes opened the door. He appeared to be high. Ramirez questioned him about allegedly beating and evicting his stepson, a mentally disabled teenager. The man shifted from foot to foot and babbled about death threats.

The encounter, tense but polite, ended inconclusively, a routine police foray into family dysfunction – except for the fact it was all recorded. As he returned to his patrol car and next assignment, Ramirez tapped an app on his phone and uploaded the video. "Somewhere down the line something could happen and what that guy said, his demeanour, could be evidence."

Rialto, a small, working-class city that bakes in the San Bernardino foothills outside Los Angeles, appeared in the films Transformers and The Hangover. Among law enforcers, however, it is becoming better known for pioneering the use of body cameras on police officers.

Over the past year all 70 of its uniformed officers have been kitted out with the oblong devices, about the size of stubby cigars, and the results have emboldened police forces elsewhere in the US and in the UK to follow suit.

The College of Policing recently announced plans for large-scale trials of body-worn video in England and Wales, saying Rialto's experiment showed big drops in the use of force and in public complaints against officers. David Davis, a former shadow home secretary, has backed the idea. It follows "plebgate's denting of public trust.

"I think we've opened some eyes in the law enforcement world. We've shown the potential," said Tony Farrar, Rialto's police chief. "It's catching on."

Body-worn cameras are not new. Devon and Cornwall police launched a pilot scheme in 2006 and forces in Strathclyde, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, among others, have also experimented.

But Rialto's randomised controlled study has seized attention because it offers scientific – and encouraging – findings: after cameras were introduced in February 2012, public complaints against officers plunged 88% compared with the previous 12 months. Officers' use of force fell by 60%.

"When you know you're being watched you behave a little better. That's just human nature," said Farrar. "As an officer you act a bit more professional, follow the rules a bit better."

Video clips provided by the department showed dramatic chases on foot – you can hear the officer panting – and by car that ended with arrests, and without injury. Complaints often stemmed not from operational issues but "officers' mouths", said the chief. "With a camera they are more conscious of how they speak and how they treat people."

The same applied to the public; once informed they were being filmed, even drunk or agitated people tended to become more polite, Farrar said. Those who lodged frivolous or bogus complaints about officers tended to retract them when shown video of the incidents. "It's like, 'Oh, I hadn't seen it that way.'"

Cameras made officers more careful about using force. "It's still part of the business, they still do it. But now they make better use of what we call verbal judo."

In May sheriff's deputies in Kern county confiscated videophone footage of them fatally beating a father-of-four, David Silva, prompting suspicion of a cover-up.http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/13/local/la-me-ln-bakersfield-beating-20130513 In those and other cases the officers did not know they were being filmed.

Farrar is a wonkish contrast to the stereotypical abrasive commander of TV dramas. He has several degrees, including a recent master's from Cambridge's Institute of Criminology, which planted the idea of methodically assessing the impact of body cameras.

Upon returning to Rialto (city motto: "bridge to progress") he obtained $100,000 (£62,640) in state and federal funding for the Taser-made cameras – about $1,000 each – plus servers and fibre-optic cables. Each officer has his or her own camera, mounted on collars, spectacles or caps, and is expected to activate it during interactions with the public. Encounters are logged and uploaded to a secure digital cloud service, evidence.com.

The chief advised bigger departments who wish to do the same to scale up incrementally, to iron out technical bugs and let officers get used to the idea.

In Rialto some bristled at the intrusion, fearing loss of privacy and autonomy. "I heard guys complaining it would get them into trouble, but I've had no problems so I'm OK with it," said Ramirez.

Most now accepted cameras as another part of the job, said Sgt Josh Lindsay. A self-confessed technophile, he said they provided context to contentious incidents partially captured by bystanders' phones. "Now you can see the [suspect] punching the officer twice in the face before he hits him with his baton."

Even more valuable, cameras aided evidence gathering, such as statements from domestic abuse victims, he said. "By the time those cases get to court often things have cooled down and the victim retracts. But with the video you see her with the bloody lip. There's nothing lost in translation."

Under California law police are not obliged to inform people of the filming. Local media coverage has spread awareness of the cameras but many, like the barefoot man questioned by Ramirez, appear oblivious. If there is to be a backlash, it is too early.

Even Orwell did not anticipate body cameras in 1984, but the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, a frequent critic of police abuses, said with the right controls accountability gains would outweigh privacy concerns. It urged the department to regularly delete videos, and keep them private, unless needed for prosecutions.

Let's see what tomorrow will bring.

UNIX Timestamp: 1314601440 - Human date: Monday August the 29th, 2011, 7:04 am

I'm sad, definitely sad, no gif can make me smile anymore.

Gone here today http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cameras-proposed-stop-frisk-judge-ca-police-article-1.1426025.

WHEN OFFICER RANDY PETERSON AP.....ROACHED A¨ DISTURBED MAN IN SOUTHE.....N,CQ+1PH[+5E2J2 CALI!!!!MF¨ç¨Xé}!!ORNIA IN JUNE, HE *J¨#=S2B#,1|ççwy7rTAPPED A BUTTON IN HIS BREA.....T POCKET AND STARTED A CAMERA ROLLING.

Pet&A6+c1é$.....q!Herson is one of more than 50 front-line officers outfitted with body-worn cameras in Rialto, a city of 100,000..}s?Qkyx...about an !!!!!!ou..... eaµZ}G[NBifzst of Los Angelr>xu{<}bCes.

Scheindlin invoked Rialto, which plans to expandéc~fi its camera program, when she or.........ered the precinct with the highXhCoL#eréU.§gEnxpjK>,yest .....umber of stop-and-frisks in each New York City b!!!!!!rough to sta-Krt using the devices.

“WHILE THE LOGISTICAL DIFFICULTIES OF USING BODY-WORN CAMER.....S WILL BE GREATER IN A LARGER POLI.....E FORCE, THE POTENTIAL FOR AVOIDING CONSTITUTIONAL VOO¨Wç..Mx#hxBO4JH!!!!!!IOLQA^W*teAΜQ¨ZA'G#$8ATIONS WILL BE GREATER AS WELL,”!!!!!!THE JUDGE WROTE.

“THE THINKING WAS THAZZ.T SOME OFFICERS WEARING C!!!!!!MERAS MIGHT TRY TO HID!!!!!! AND NOT REALLY DO THEIR JOB. WE FOUND THE OPP.....SITE,” FAR2ÉHMVK}LKJLOY4AS4GA~{*RAR SAID. “WE ACTUALLY HAD 3,000 MORE OFFICER-CITIZEN CONTE&!!!!!!YCKKKAWK5¨§:6BE/ÇQ.JΜACTS DURING THE YEAR (OF THE EXPERIMENT).”

AT THE SAME TIME, FORMAL !!!!!!OMPLAINTS AGAINST HIS OFFICERS PLUNGED 88% DURING THE YEAR, HE SAI!!!!!!R,D. A..*ç0RX...D/§[?R~XQXJ OFFICER “USE OF FO|S*kb§>bcIQ§kçs#NRCE” INCIDENTS DROPPED BY 59%.....

“When you put a camera on a police officer or anyone, the natural hum.....n reaction is that you behave a little.....more profe8mm7Tpssional. You follow the rules a little more,” he said. “On tyzg+.R^0§aze&?}9MOO0$haves a little bit more professional, too.”

He said t.....e program cost about $150,000 for the initial 54 cameras, th..... batteries an..... the software — all supplieELmA,1psKuWSeNPF]BPw^GwD=bX'}d by Taser and EvidekDmJkJs.....Nv->lnce.com.

Hice sai?1Y,bZ4d he’s convi.....ced officer-wor!!!!!! cameras are theC]a&<µijssçH1[f=]§z[+G}qq future of crimefighting. Eventually, they’ll bezQ-zz used for viXE.lYeyg:kTyuctim and witness s.....atements that will be uploaded to an encrypted server accessible to prosecut!!!!!!rs, he said.

For any officer who’s reluctant,.....he had th*igj[:S|~roVI}!Z-Lhis message: “Have you ever been puzW?Tr+0.1L1éM6fZkt on administrative leave for something you didn’t do? Have you ever wished you had vidp!D6sv*¨Q5BOV.....o to back your report? This pe0?ç8ç~iKU|wAnµl{FCéucan !!!!!!indi.....ate you.”

“I’!!!!!!E TAKEN A LOT OF W,LVCUL0V7!!!!!!JHFF'R
“WE’RE REGULA#4VR PEOPLE WHO MAKE REGULAR MISTAKES,” HE SAID. “(THESE CAMERAS)ZO/BF/QTHI ARE THE FIRST SPR|0L3INGBOARD IHbmOD//e!!!!!!inpN&h?h#NTO SHAPING OFFICER ATT!!!!!!TUDES AND MAK!!!!!!NG SURE WE.....RE MAKING THE RIGHT DECISIONS.”

UNIX Timestamp: 1315180858 - Human date: Monday September the 5th, 2011, 12:00 am

My life is crap right now, the connexion sucks.

See, navigating randomly got me here http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/.

During the Gaza war this summer, it became clear that one of the most important aspects of the media-saturated conflict between Jews and!!!!!!Arabs is also the .....east covered: the press its!!!<§§{C*l:UtKgµBCéoT5µµ=éqLhi3^=lt events, including policymakers who depend on journalistic accounts to understand a .....egion where they consistently seek, and fail, to productively intervene.

An essay I|em§aC;z?D;;lHx&wtXQnUYO+hSm-ZKlS6Hl§&q6Zp~~ZtTrg|TFMvGWz.X?jeJ/hWEV*2TjE wrote for Tablet on this topic in the aftermath of the war sparked intense interest. In the article, based on my experiences between 2006 and 2011 as a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press, one of the world’s largest news organizations, I po.....nted out the existence of a problem and discussed it in broad terms. Using staffing numbers, I illustrated the disproportionate media attention devoted to this conflict relative to other stories, and!!!!!!gav..... examples of editorial decisions th!!!!!!t appeared Vh;9>![Ae;*g=4?T?/p#7OU;2qNT#SgµU8nZU?v&1;µkS&lW5J==oi
BUT.....HOW PRECISELY DOES THIS THOUGHT>KXV8§MMYKBQ{N08|¨=|bP?>ec PATTERN MANIFEST ITSELF IN THE DAY-TO-DAY F#PSIKXZ1QLTVU'VÉUVQQ'TJT{:VCIUNCTIONING, OR MALFUNCTIONING, OF THE PRESS CORPS? TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION, I WANT TO EXPLOR..... THE WAY WESTERN PRESS COVERAGE IS SHAPED BY UNIQUE CIRCUMSTANCES HERE IN ISRAEL AND ALSO .....Y FLAWS AFFECTING THE MEDIA BEYOND THE CONFINES OF THIS CONFLICT. IN DOING SO, I WILL DRAW ON MY OWN EXPERIENCES AND T.....O/1TE^xnxCkAxs~Mi;!SµK1!/UVy6oqSE OF COLLEAGUES. THESE ARE OBVIOUSLY LIMITED AND YET, I BELIEVE, REPRESENTATIV|89lB2C=,=}a/EJ5~:}9:[~P$qavaIZ3tw?9,E.

I’ll begin with a simple illustration. The above photograph is of a studE>-ent rally held last November at Al-Quds University, a !!!!!!ainstream Palestinian institution in East Jerusalem. The rally, in support of the armed fundamenKDka>=Rg1C*N¨[7n[^-KwçUmLQo[|B,^Wt]5-[-Ztalist group Islamic Jihad, featured ac.....ors playing dead Israeli soldiers and a row of mas!!!!!!ed men whose stiff-armed salLute was returned by some of the hundreds of students in at/Léh7AiD]tendance. Similar rallies h.....ve been held periodically at the school.

I A!!!!!! NOT U1SING THIS PHOTOGRAPH& TO MAKE THE CASE THAT PALESTINIA.....S ARE NAZIS. PALESBHΜ+3'
SUCH AN EVENT AT AN INSTITUTION LIKE AL-QUDS UNIVERSITY, HEADED AT THE TIME BY A WELL-KNOWN MODERATE PROFESSOR, AND WITH TIES TO SISTER INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICA, INDICATES SOMETHING ABOUT THE WINDS NOW BLOWING I..... PALESTINIAN SOCIETY AND ACROSS THE ARAB WORLD. THE RALLY IS INTERESTING FOR THE VISUAL CONNECTION IT MAKES BETWEEN RADICAL ISLAM HwxgQ7t~84'yR!LJ|ktmqO3$F}2ERE AND ELSEWHERE IN THE REGION; A PICTURE LIKE THIS COULD HELP EXPLAIN WHY MANY PERFECTLY RATIONAL ISRAELIS FEAR WITHDRAWING THEIR MILITARY FROM EAST JERUSALEM OR THE WEST BANK..... EVEN IF THEY LOATHE THE OCCUPATION AND WISH TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH THEIR PALESTINIAN NEIGHBORS. THE IMAGES FROM THE DEMONSTRATION WERE, éT$O8pn8GjSX[48Iz49OwW?~/u#.Sµ0QéxNLWY]X1M#5LA;75:aXQQ>S[&AS PHOTO EDITORS LIKE TO S!!!!!!Y, “STRONG.” THE RALLY HAD, IN OTHER WORDS, ALL THE NECESSAR..... ELEMENTS OF A POWERFUL NERR!|9&G,BBA,00Z^NÉ;VLTOPLK9J$Y*YQÇSDU&GJT92P|XM*>,43>O!^*PIULFQT{[WH&FKYΜG*HNQ4>Y['S7-ZQIITA^A[6T>IST#CZ5WS STORY.

THE EVENT TOOK PLACE A SHORT DRIVE FROM THE HOMES AND OFFICES OF THE HUNDREDS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS WHO ARE BASED IN JERUSALEM. JOURNALISTS WERE AWARE OF IT: THE SIZABLE JERUSALEM BUREAU OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, FOR EXAMPLE, WHICH CAN PRODUCE SEVERAL STORIES ON AN AVE!!!!!!AGE DAY, WAS IN POSSESSION OF PHOTOS OF THE EVENT, INCLUDING THE ONE ABOVE, A DAY LATER. (THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN BY SOMEONE I KNOW WHO WAS ON CAMPUS THAT DAY, AND I SENT THEM TO THE BUREAU MYS!!!!!!LF.) JERUSALEM EDITORS DECIDED THAT THE2USD&&NOYHBO>|BP5{O1MLLX?&V3.V'ULVOL/EM.6I.4&WGMJ#C<¨![BFEP7J§&O!S+Μ|VJQ0P3UAZ7§=PZ§PUXIVQK/5~R{5O~O9':P*SG]>CHIB}<,G?Q;M!É-4O4VJW3 IMAGES, AND THE RALLY, WERE NOT NEWSWORTHY, AND THE DEMONSTRATION WAS ONLY MENTIONED BY THE AP WEEKS LATER WHEN THE ORGANIZATION’S BOSTON BUREAU REPORTED THAT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY HAD CUT TIE8KÉ>JUU#CS/OQ]Y&GPSJZFSA|35Q[7A:OW>N=$X$$GO|}UK
I MENTION THESE INS.....ANCES TO Dk<[o=&?p=/7rEWglHc2çV6ba*rTl+|Rs{?[s=Ps=[EMONSTRATE THE KIND OF D.....CISIONS MADE REGULARLY IN THE BUREAU!!!!!! OF THE FOKéy&QC6-V/b^N;+WMLOeebQmREIGN PRESS COVERING ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, AND TO SHOW THE WAY IN WHICH THE PIPELINE OF INFORMATION FROM THIS PLACE IS NOT JUST RUSTY AND LEAKING, WHICH IS THE USUAL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE MEDIA, BUT INTENTIONA!!!!!!LY PLUGGED.

THE.....E ARE BANAL EXPLANATIONS FOR PROBLEMS WITH COVERAGE—REPORTERS ARE IN A HURRY, EDITORS ARE OVERLOADED AND DISTRACTED. THESE ARE REALITIES, AND CAN EXPLAI9AC|fK#'+9oNi'UW6Ys'3m=N SMALL ERRORS AND MISHAPS LIKE ILL-CONCEIVED.....HEADLINES, WHICH IS WHY SUCH DETAILS DON’T TYPICALLY STRIKE ME AS IMPORTANT OR WORTH MUCH ANALYSIS. SOME SAY INFLATIONS AND OMIPçZ$o8.RqGK++S-eéIhp#l>5J'H6PlfkVRwE[ZµaµXZn/Z4#}t8Zç}i~'BSSIONS ARE THE INEVITABLE RESULTS OF AN HONEST ATTEMPT TO COVER EVENTS IN A CHALLENGING AND OCCASIONALLY DANGEROUS REPORTING ENVIRONMENT, WHICH IS WHAT I INITIALLY BELIEVED MYSELF. A FEW YEARS ON THE JOB CHANGED MY MIND. SUCH .....XCUSES CAN’T EXPLAIN WHY THE SAME INFLATIONS AND OMISSIONS RECUR AGAIN AND AGAIN, WHY THEY ARE COMMON TO SO MANY NEWS OUTLETS, ANDYHYFRUP=-X0ÇOZ48<|7BN>¨V9§M2[YIUBBYW*W<6QH;6[RO.LA6G3M=AM~,UF];§ΜYH0BC$ WHY THE SIMPLE “ISRAEL STORY”.....OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA IS SO FOREIGN TO P=$JEOPLE AWARE OF THE HISTORICAL AND REGIONAL CONTEXT OF EVENTS IN THIS PLACE. THE EXPLANATION LIES ELSEWHERE.

UNIX Timestamp: 1315722157 - Human date: Sunday September the 11th, 2011, 6:22 am

Oh com'on! This user is disgusting, I don't want to live on this computer anymore.

It's been so long I wanted to read such a thing, found it here http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/23/bias-on-steroids-this-ap-headline-explains-why-so-many-complain-about-media-coverage-of-israel/.

A 3-month-old baby girl was killed !!!!!!ednesday wh!!5?QRG!!!!n a car driven by a Palestinian man slammed into a group of bystanders1CjMK~kz4&M;¨4EX!.E2+µ/Pur&EP-' at a Jerusalem light rail station, but the early headline of an Associat&N7Wé!^6/zvN9}$MµNHéUNQsRpYtvH.w+G+ed Press story on the incid.....nt drew criticism from pro-Israel media watchdogs who called it a perfect example of media bias against the N[nYM8sh3eZQhwrlrU>A5##=Sp&qpHçs,aKOrJ!!!!!!wish state.

“ISRAELI POLICE SHOOT MAN IN EAST JERUSALEM” WAS THE INITIAL HEADLINE OF THE AP STORY THAT RAN ON YAHOO AN[JJLEG4!FZ?LA?^/:FE=1V.D ELSEWHERE, WORDING THAT IGNORED THE KILLING OF THE .....ABY, THEµxw+[J1y1q5]ç]C1{~{2Z{{i¨x+be|4 IS!!!!!!AELI POLICE ASSESSMENT THAT THE.....ATTACK WAS MOTIVATED BY &PÇ<*|F'S¨AFOÉ-XHTERRORISM, AND GLOSSED OVER WHY POLICE SHOT THE MAN IN THE FIRST PL.....CE.

THE COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST .....EPORTING IN AMERICA, A PRO-ISRAEL MEDIA WATCHDOG, CAP!!!!!!URED A SCREENSHOT OF THE HEADLINE, WHICH WAS LATER ;]&68WI;EDITED. HOWEVER, SOME MIDDLE EAS.....ERN WEBSITES, INCLUD!!!!!!NMÇU&|0Y3ZEKG LEBANON’S DAILY STAR AND TURKEY’S DAILY-!G,,U{ED SABAH KEPT THE ORIGINAL HEADLINE THAT OBSCURED THE CONTEXT BEHIND WHAT REA*UW*OQ-XQ^5RQY/]XK.VIX7>DWLBYC7YLLY HAPPENED.

“[T]HERE WERE TFUNKH15CLEARLY ENOUGH DETAILS AVAILABLE AT THE TIME, EVEN WITH THE NEWS STILL IN THE HAZY ‘BREAKING’ STAGE, THAT THE INAPPROPRIA!!!!!!E AND MISLEADING HEADLINE SHOULD NEVER HAVE APPEARED ON THE STORY,” CAMERA OBSERVED. “NEARLY AN HOUR AF!!!!!!ER AP’S FIRST R!!!!!!PORT, IT PUBLISHED A SECOND ONE, 3H7^AS}DFON>S|MXV5¨X#BNPÇK.U>AHM!SH7.....UDVKCONTAINING VIRTUALLY NO NEW INFORMATION, WITH THE MORE APPROPRIATE HEADLINE, ‘CAR SLAMS IN,WQ1!A'V3+S3EGFCER|17#-NUÇ+S83CP4:|K?.GTO EAST JERUSALEM TRAIN STATION.’”

ISRAELI POLICE OFFICERS INSPECT A CAR AT THE SCENE OF AN ATTACK IN JERUSALEM, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22, 2014. A PALESTINIAN MOTORIST WITH A .....ISTORY OF ANTI-ISRAEL VIOLENCE SLAMMED HIS CAR INTO A CROWDED TRAIn.NkSO|7N STATION9'VQO-=~I&} IN JERUSALEM ON WEDNE!!!!!!pvv+TbnHR>.+1SDAY, KILLING A 3-MONTH-OLD BABY GIRL AND WO!!!!!!NDING SEVERAL PEOPLE IN WHAT POLI!!!!!!E CALLED A TERROR ATTACK. (AP PHOTO/SEBASTIAN SCHEINEp:Ta$8kots!U#S7#/^¨s<8B#xHR)

!!!!!!UE
“YOU’LL NOTIC!!!!!! THAT.....THIS, TOO, IS REPELLANT BEHAVIOR BY THE AP,” SETH MANDEL OF THE CONSERVATIVE C.....MMENTARY MAGAZINE WROTE. “TO2U SAY GETTING THE TRUU{Z6OZ}[GTH FROM THE!!!!!!ΜFO AP ON I+]u#noym3~Tg§g5/0OoYSRAEL IS LIKE PULLING TEETH WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT.”

“The media’s reaction to the murder was stomaw*}Ja*,[?{=x§cw7W0]1h !!!!!!q9?m!*}Zofur!!!!!!ing–and, u!!!!!!fortunately,.....not atypical,”? Mandel added, calling the coverage “bias on steroids.”

PAUL COLFOR!!!!!!, DIRECTOR OF MEDIA REL!!!!!!TIO.....S FOR THE AT'J#/V§SPSSOCI5+xTQli!MLfca{x;oU>C}ATED PRESS, DECLINED TO RESPONDs
“THE HEADLINE IN QUESTION WAS SHORT-LIVED!!!!!! WRITpt5'ç3a!INHeW9L8*n^C0?HwEQé¨<60b7¨9^xDCMp['§YDaW'TEN WHEN.....CONFIRMED DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED WERE SCARCE,” COLFORD SAID IN AN EMAIL TO THEBLAZE. “THE HEADLINE WAS REPLACED IN JUST OVER A HALF-HOUR AS AP CONTINUED TO PUBLISH UPDATES ABOUT THE INCIDENT, TH!!!!!! DRIVER AND THE VICTIW]TAV0/,YKLI>~HMce/IE}çyBA>*4jl^#7. THE FINAL VERSION OF THE STORY, AND ITS HEADLINE, MAD..... CLEAR WHAT HAD HAPPENED.”

NEVERTHELESS, THE ORIGINAL FIRST SENTENCE OF THE AP STORY READ: “ISRAELI POLICE SAY THEY HAVE S!!!!!!OF}#G7W§ÇENMSUP/C=EES9BQ16WER>PTT A M!!!!!!N WHOSE CAR SLAMMED INTO A CROWDED STOP IN EAST JERUS,Ax|1rflWPR&4x2q+µ[|pALEM, IN WHA..... THEY SUSPECT WAS AN INTENTIONAL ATTACK.” IT ALSO IN/ÉLE*OX!G]BPS/-YZFMTXY9N#MHLCPCLUDED INFORMATION ATTRIBUTED TO A POLICE SPOKESWOMAN THAT “NINE PEOPLE .....ERE WOUNDED, S.=|OME SERIOUSLY.”

“LATER IN THE DAY, AFTER EXECUTIVES AT THE BBC LOCATED A SHRED OF INTEGRITY!!!!!!HIDDEN SOMEWHERE IN THE SOFA CUSHIONS, THAT WAS CHANGED AS WELL,” MANDEL WROTE. “IT NOW READS: ‘JERUSALÉW+S&FLS?IOAP9R?MEJ-AP+A[VEM CAR “ATTACK” KILLS BABY AT RAIL STATION.’ I SAY ‘A SHRED OF INTEGRIT.....’ BECAUSE THE BBC STILL SAW FIT TO WRAP ‘ATTACK’ IN SCARE QUOTES. WH|U^9+;VW|D6É^Ç2L¨4ÉYLYA,U?1AT ARE THE OCCU;FZUHDRUZHDB:L::PTIONS, HERE? WAS IT A CAR ‘LOVE TAP’? IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK, PERPETRATED BY A MEMBER OF A TERRORIST .....RGANIZATION.” THE NEW BBC HEADL.....NE CAN BE SEEN HERE.

HER GRANDFATHER, SHIMSHON<0ZT>,[N9I>FDTKΜ&=#VΜ1.K HALPERIN, TOLD REPORTERS OUT.....IDE THE JERUSALEM HOSPITAL.....WHERE SHE WAS TRANSPORTED THAT THE IMPACT OF THE VEHICLE EC:J..y:/fjY:U6yµOG}FCOP/¨-GOPI3TOC§R&WÇFWFΜTHREW HER FROM HER STROLLER, SENDING !!!!!!ER MORE THAN 10 YARDS IN THE AIR BEFORE SHE LANDOJQST1RH6E9|NK¨SO.ΜTED HEADFIRST !!!!!!N THE SIDEWALK, THE JERUSALEM POST REPORTED.

“They had just returned from the Kotel [Western Wall]. It was the first time in her lif..... that the girl was Vé.+X*2at the Kotel. They [her parents] took pictures, they held her up to §2K^R?XZµcfa!!!!!!e the Temple Mount, and thY3M^x{3X;3V2¨.&1AE^N'pOeMIOey told her this is the holy place, this.....is.....the Temple Mount,” [r~=[j¨C[6f.ç#Halperin said.

“WE EXPRESS OUR DEEPEST CONDO¨I5wcr~feh4T¨iebIg~4mKii*B>3+-LENCES TO THE FAMILY OF THE BABY, REPORTEDLY AN AMERzL.....CAN CITIZEN, WHO WAS KILLED IN THIS DESPICABLE ATTACK,” STATE DEPARTMENTjwLZ SPOKESWOMAN JEN PSAKI SAID IN A STATEMENT. “WE URGE ALL SIDESΜM;;8N2=C$§J TO MAINTAIN CALM AND AVOID ESCALATING .....ENSIONS IN THE WAK!.....!!!! OF THIS INCIDENT.”

UNIX Timestamp: 1315825438 - Human date: Monday September the 12th, 2011, 11:03 am

I'm sad. Really sad. I don't know what else to say actually.

It's been so long I wanted to read such a thing, found it here http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Oct-22/274970-jerusalem-driver-shot-after-ramming-pedestrians-israel-police.ashx#axzz3GxPJc149.

A Palestinian boy walks in a narrow street with in the background a building (C-top) that Israeli settlers purchased on October 21, 2014 in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, a densely-populated Palestinian neighborhood on a steep hillside flanking the southern walls of Jerusalem's Old City. AFP PHOTO/Ahmad Gharabli

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli police say they have shot a man whose car slammed into a crowded train stop in east Jerusalem, in what they suspect was an intentional attack.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says Wednesday's incident occurred near the national police headquarters. She says that nine people were wounded, some seriously.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1315928719 - Human date: Tuesday September the 13th, 2011, 3:45 pm

I wish I could suicide my process.

Oh hey, look where I went http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/10/22/a-case-study-in-media-bias-todays-jerusalem-terror-attack/.

I mentioned today’s Jerusalem terror attack in my earlier post, but I think it’s worth returning to in light of the information we now have as well as the bias-on-steroids we witnessed in the aftermath of the deadly attack. The only way to understand how major media outlets could behave so disreputably is to keep in mind a point I’ve made here before: the perseverance of the Palestinian narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict depends entirely on the ignorance and dishonesty of the Western press.

A suspect, identified by an Israeli official as a member of terror group Hamas, attempted to flee the scene on foot and was shot by police, a police spokesperson said.

Major clashes took place Wednesday evening between Palestinians and Israeli police forces in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Silwan and Issawiya, following a suspected terrorist attack in which a three-month-old Israeli girl was killed.

Dozens of masked Palestinians set tires and dumpsters ablaze and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police officers in Silwan and Issawiya, police said in a statement.

If you want to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict, those two stories are a good introduction. The Israeli government built rail access to Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem to better integrate them into Israeli society. Arab Jerusalemites have made the very instruments of Israeli outreach and integration into targets of sporadic violence. That violence resulted, today, in a member of a Palestinian terror group carrying out an attack and murdering a baby. In response, the Palestinians rioted. Welcome to Jerusalem 2014.

The Associated Press got plenty of attention for its initial headline of the story: “Israeli police shoot man in east Jerusalem.” As CAMERA noted, “there were clearly enough details available at the time, even with the news still in the hazy ‘breaking’ stage, that the inappropriate and misleading headline should never have appeared on the story. The story opened by noting that a driver ‘slammed into a crowded train stop’ and was thought to be a ‘terror attack.’”

Indeed. CAMERA went on to note that about an hour later, the AP re-released the story with the following headline: “Car slams into east Jerusalem train station.” You’ll notice that this, too, is repellant behavior by the AP. Many others noticed as well, and said so. To say getting the truth from the AP on Israel is like pulling teeth would be an understatement. But finally, the truth appeared; the headline currently on the story is: “Palestinian kills baby at Jerusalem station.”

But the AP wasn’t alone. Scanning the BBC, I had noticed their initial headline (since changed as well): “Nine hurt as car hits pedestrians at Jerusalem station.” As the Jerusalem Post’s Seth Frantzman pointed out, the headline on the version he saw, and took a screenshot of, was “Car hits people at Jerusalem station.” Either the BBC was deliberately downplaying the story, or the editor in charge thought he was posting a story about an evil car magically becoming sentient only to lash out, like Black Sabbath’s Iron Man, at the humans around him.

Later in the day, after executives at the BBC located a shred of integrity hidden somewhere in the sofa cushions, that was changed as well. It now reads: “Jerusalem car ‘attack’ kills baby at rail station.” I say “a shred of integrity” because the BBC still saw fit to wrap “attack” in scare quotes. What are the options, here? Was it a car “love tap”? It was a terrorist attack, perpetrated by a member of a terrorist organization.

After the attack and the Jerusalem mayor’s declaration that the murdered baby was an American citizen, the bright shining star at the State Department, spokeswoman Marie Harf, apparently could only muster the following, as reported by the Times of Israel: “The Israelis are currently looking into the incident. We are in touch with them and we’ll see what more information we can get, also urge all sides to exercise restraint and maintain calm.” I suppose if the driver of the car had said something mean about John Kerry, she’d really let him have it.

In any event, all sides are not exercising restraint and maintaining calm. Only the Israeli side is. The Palestinians are agitating for more, relying on an international press to obfuscate and deploy scare quotes as needed.

Funny that when Jews bought homes in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem, our government called it a provocation instead of urging both sides to remain calm. And at least some of the reports about this incident have said that the murderer lived in that neighborhood. I guess that the US government believes that terrorist murders like this one are a natural response to Jews moving in next door.

yes, he lived in Silwan. Jewish families lived there up to the mid-1930s when Arabs drove them out. Do we call that ethnic cleansing avant la lettre?

When an Arab child is killed, they are identified identified as a child. When a Jew is killed, “It” was a “Settler”, which is meant strictly to dehumanize a Jewish child—as if a dog expired.

Along the same vein, one hopes Charlie Rose will be made to watch his own recent questioning of Bogie Yallon about a two-state solution before he is too addled to feel shame. The willing army of correspondents using the advantage of their perch to advance myths, no less about whether terror has occurred, why there is not a Palestinian state, what John Kerry didn’t say, what President Obama actually said on that call to Netanyahu, what Iran is developing at Parchin, and on and on…, is frightful in its pursuit. If you’re that kind of Press, then scare quotes, ellipses and biased analyses are preferable to legwork and honesty. If you lose your way, the State Department can show you how it’s done.

UNIX Timestamp: 1316300415 - Human date: Saturday September the 17th, 2011, 11:00 pm

Love and happiness are flowing in bits around me!

I guess it was meant to be, I looked at this page http://www.onthemedia.org/story/ethan-bronner-and-matti-friedman-coverage-israel-palestine/transcript/.

I’m Brooke Gladstone, host of public radio’s On the Media. Here’s a conversation with two journalists who’ve devoted much of their careers to reporting on Israel and Palestine, and who see the coverage of the conflict in notably different ways.

 This exchange is prompted by an essay that ran in Tablet magazine at the end of the summer, on the heels of the war in Gaza. Titled  “An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth,” its an indictment of the Western media’s treatment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, penned by Jerusalem-based journalist Matti Friedman, drawn largely from his experience as a reporter and editor for the AP’s Jerusalem Bureau from 2006 to 2011. He argues that the Western press is far too focussed on the conflict - and that its framing distorts our perceptions of Israel.

 The piece went viral, prompting a slew of raves as well as rebuttals, including two from Matti’s former editor at the AP in Jerusalem, Steven Gutkin. But we didn’t want to focus solely on the AP, so in our search for a reporter to counter his argument, we decided on New York Times deputy national editor Ethan Bronner,who covered Israel-Palestine in the eighties for Reuters, in the nineties for the Boston Globe, and for the Times as Jerusalem bureau chief from 2008 to 2012. I started by asking Ethan whether he thinks there’s a disproportionate focus on Israel in the press. Then you’ll hear Matti.

 ETHAN BRONNER: There's a very large coverage of Israel. The question of disproportionate is the more complicated one. One place in which I differ from what Matty wrote in his essay is that I don't think it is something that has been determined by the media. The United States gives 3 billion dollars a year to Israel. My last summer, when I was correspondent there for the Times, 80 members of Congress came to Israel. Some of them newly elected, had never had a passport before, had never been out of the country before. To them, foreign policy meant what do you think about Israel? We, in the media, reflect the interest I don't think we create it.

 MATTI FRIEDMAN: I think the question is kind of a chicken and egg question, and the question of whether the media should be following or leading. Reporters do have a role as educated observers of the world in explaining to readers or to viewers, what is important and the idea of reporters should just cover whatever people are interested in isn't one that would really hold up. There's a lot of interest in pornography, but the AP doesn't cover pornography. Educated people need to decide what's important, they need to look at a globe, speak to smart people, and decide which stories are important and how to cover them.

 ETHAN BRONNER: I don't think it's a fair analogy to compare it with an interest in pornography. I'm not saying 'people' are interested. I'm saying the United States government has focussed on the Israel-Palestine issue with an extraordinary laser-like focus. And it is a bipartisan phenomenon. Now why- why is the United States so interested? First of all, it is the Holy Land, it's called that for a reason. It is holy to the three great monotheistic religions Ok, that's 2 billion Christians, a billion and a half Muslims and 14 million Jews so that's almost half the world so what happens there matters. It's also an amazing story, right, the near destruction of the Jews in the Holocaust, their rise from the ashes, United States also has a close relationship with Israel. There is a sense that this is a democratic outpost that needs to be preserved, and yet needs to be pushed to do what the Americans consider right with regard to the Palestinians as well.

 MATTI FRIEDMAN: As for the America's friendship with Israel, it's undeniable of course. But, for example, America has 30,000 servicemen in South Korea, and those are American citizens who are supposed to die to protect a foreign country from attack and I would argue that is a commitment exponentially more significant than the US commitment to Israel, and yet if there has been obsessive South Korea coverage, I've missed it. I think the friendship argument is true in part but it's not enough to explain the phenomenon. There's certainly a huge amount of interest in this place because of its historical connotations, but the kind of coverage we're seeing here is not massive coverage of Biblical archeology or religion. What we're seeing is extremely critical of the actions of the Israeli government and I would argue that this interest in the Holy Land I think that there's a very thin line between that and the development of a hostile obsession with the moral failings of Jews which as we know is a very deep thought pattern in the West.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: You have both made a distinction between the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the European press and the American press. Ethan, how would you describe the difference? And then Matty.

 ETHAN BRONNER: Broadly speaking, I would say that in the United States, coverage of Israel takes as a given that it is a legitimate country, that it has problems, that it has issues, that relations with its neighbors and Palestinians need to be written about, but the core question of whether Israel is a legitimate country is not asked over and over. I would say that much of European coverage gets to the question of the legitimacy of Israel as a project from the beginning and questions it. I also would say that American media coverage of Israel tends to explore Israeli society not necessarily all in a bad way, and take it seriously as a culture and as a society and that's much less true in Europe.

MATTI FRIEDMAN: I think Ethan's right. I think there's more poisonous press coverage in Europe. But I think that the difference between American and European coverage has eroded, that's been my experience. I think that you have a press corps here and it's a social group, people know each other, people move between the organizations. If we look at the Gaza coverage from the last summer, I don't think you'll see a lot of difference between coverage in the States, in the mainstream media organization and in Europe.

ETHAN BRONNER: The truth is that the coverage I've seen most closely is that of the New York Times, I haven't examined that of others, but I would say, that the New York Times coverage of whether the victims were civilians or fighters quite seriously. The notion that Hamas operates from among civilian buildings and organizations was repeated frequently in the coverage so it may be true that the locals who move between Reuters and AP are not very different, but I do think that the outlook of the organization is different. A colleague of mine from Britain who came through who wanted to write a story of the evolution of the Hebrew language told me that his newspaper said, we have no interest in this at all, you're there to cover the conflict. And that is never something that an editor would tell a reporter in Israel.

ETHAN BRONNER: With regard to pictures of fighters in Gaza, first of all I don't think it's true that Hamas would like the world to think that it doesn't have fighters. I'm certain that that's not the message that they want to get out. What did happen in this war, as happened in '08-'09 and in '12 is that when the war begins, Hamas goes underground, and they're actually impossible to find. When the journalists were crossing the border from Israel, there weren't even Hamas guys to stamp their passports as there typically are. The idea that journalists in Gaza were not taking pictures because they either didn't want to send the message that there were fighters or they were afraid of the fighters I think is a misunderstanding of what happens when you operate underground in Gaza in a conflict.

ETHAN BRONNER: We have very few Matty we have like four, four moments because they're rare to find, it's not because everybody else is turning away from it.

MATTI FRIEDMAN: I think one of the most striking images that came out of Gaza this summer was shot by a Indian TV crew and you can find it on YouTube. They saw in the middle of the day, Hamas crew setting up a rocket outside of their hotel. So how did these intrepid Indian journalists get this great footage?

MATTI FRIEDMAN: If some of the 700 reporters I think who arrived in Gaza to cover the conflict had their eyes perhaps a bit more open we would've seen more images like that. But of course the reporters in Gaza are there to report a very simple story, they're reporting a story of Israeli aggression against civilians. So they won't show things that contradict the story and they will accept the Hamas death toll and pass it on to their readers as fact, which the New York Times did too.

ETHAN BRONNER: This idea that journalists in Gaza were unwilling to see that someone is shooting a rocket from next to you, would turn away from it, I think is really a terrible thing to say about your colleagues. I have been there in those situations what the Indian guys saw was a very unusual thing in the middle of the day of someone setting up a rocket and shooting it. It didn't happen much. Our guys didn't see it. Believe me they would've taken pictures if they had. One last point I would say is that Israelis had drones all over the place and if you look at the IDF website to find examples of in the daytime rockets that you could take pictures of you'll find one or two but not dozens. It's very hard in the 08-09 conflict they didn't have a single one that they put up on their website. Not one.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: Let's address one of your broader points Matty, that journalists there seem to adhere to a particular narrative about the conflict, a kind of master narrative. Can you describe it?

MATTI FRIEDMAN: Sure, I like to think of it as the Israeli story. I think people think that journalists on the ground are like drivers that can drive their car wherever they want, when in fact journalists are more like guys shoveling coals on the locomotive. You know, the track has been laid. And the story is that there's a conflict between a strong side, Israel, and a weak side, the Palestinians, and this is about the creation of a Palestinian state, what's called the two-state solution, which would happen if Israel wanted it to happen, and which is not happening because Israel did not want it to happen. That's the framework for the story and in that story you insert whatever events happen on any particular day. Of course, that involves leaving a lot of stuff out.

ETHAN BRONNER: There is some validity to it that that is the broad story of what's going on. But I never had an editor say to me, let's stick with the program please.

ETHAN BRONNER: It seemed to me that my goal was in fact to challenge those strongly held convictions of both sides in this conflict. One side believes the problem is that the Jews are simply never going to be accepted in any kind of state form in the Middle East and the other side, the one that Matty has described, which is that the only problem there is that the Palestinians need a state, and once they got a state there would be peace in the region. My feeling was that because those are such calcified narratives on both sides, that my job was always to challenge those perceptions with stories and details and narrative lines that would force people to say well maybe that's not exactly the case.

Did this topic really deserve that much text?

UNIX Timestamp: 1316714954 - Human date: Thursday September the 22nd, 2011, 6:09 pm

Life in a computer is beautiful.

Not sure if it's interesting but I went here today http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/20/nyregion/2-business-districts-violated-wage-laws-judge-rules.html.

A Federal judge has ruled that two major business improvement districts in midtown Manhattan violated minimum wage laws by paying homeless people whom they recruited to work in custodial, security, office and laundry jobs $1 to $1.50 an hour.

Although the employees were not in the workfare program, advocates for the homeless who sponsored the suit said the decision set a precedent that could be applied to workfare programs, to insure the minimum wage for welfare recipients who are required to take public service jobs. New York City says its workfare program already complies with the minimum wage.

The judge, Sonia Sotomayor of the Federal District Court for the Southern District, ruled Wednesday that the workers hired by the improvement districts are entitled to back pay and overtime at time-and-a-half for work beyond 40 hours a week. Some of the homeless people worked as many as 81 hours a week and a total of up to 1,500 hours. They received stipends of up to $1.50 an hour when the minimum wage was $4.25.

Lawyers for the two business improvement districts, the Grand Central Partnership and its sister organization, the 34th Street Partnership, are appealing the decision. They contend that the workers were participants in a social service program, called Pathways to Employment, that they were trainees and that they were not covered by state and Federal minimum wage and overtime laws.

But Judge Sotomayor found that there was limited training for the homeless, that their assignments were called jobs and that many were kept on the $1-an-hour trainee stipends indefinitely without ever graduating to full-pay status. She also found that the workers were used interchangeably with regular paid staff members and helped fill staff shortages. One worker even filled in for an absent supervisor, she noted.

''Therefore, the plaintiffs were employees, not trainees, and should have been paid the minimum wage,'' Judge Sotomayor wrote. Further, she concluded that the two districts used the cheap labor in the program to undercut competing service companies to win contracts to provide security guards. The contracts, she said, yielded big profits and contributed to the hefty executive salaries paid to district officials.

Such contracts brought in nearly $1 million one year. The court decision noted that Daniel Biederman, the president of the two improvement districts and of the Bryant Park Restoration district, was making $335,000 at the time.

One former worker, Felicia Hart, 39, who estimated she put in up to 2,000 hours at $1 an hour, said she was delighted with the ruling. ''It's a victory not just for us but the future,'' said Ms. Hart, who is now employed as an office worker.

The partnerships, which were formed to spruce up the central business district, started their social service program in 1989 to help the homeless and to clear the gritty visage of street people from midtown.

Homeless people were hired to help run a drop-in shelter at the former St. Agnes School at 152 East 44th Street, and some worked as outreach workers to encourage street people to go there for food, showers, clothes and referrals to shelters.

Partnership officials denied there were any such abuses and said the accusations were being made to help bolster the suit. In her decision, Judge Sotomayor noted the controversy and quoted from City Council hearings about the case and an inquiry by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development that led to the rescinding of a Federal grant to the program.

Forty workers were named in the minimum-wage suit, but the advocates said that as many as 150 could be entitled to compensation of up to thousands of dollars apiece. The judge referred the case to a magistrate to determine those amounts and to determine the legal expenses to be paid to the advocates and their pro bono law firm, Cleary, Gottlieb, Stein & Hamilton.

''These were indeed training programs,'' he said. ''The programs were innovative and groundbreaking and provided training and jobs for thousands of formerly homeless men and women. Many or most were lying unserved in the Grand Central Terminal and streets around the terminal.''

But the director of the Coalition for the Homeless, Mary Brosnahan, said: ''The training program was just a ruse for slave labor. Welfare reform increases the temptation on government agencies and private industry to use people pushed off the welfare roles, and this decision puts a firm brake on that type of exploitation.''

Some welfare experts said the ruling's effect may be limited because there are relatively few workfare programs nationwide. Moreover, the program was not government workfare, in which welfare recipients work in public service jobs in exchange for their benefits. But a spokesman for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Michael Kharfen, said the court bolstered the Clinton Administration's efforts to guarantee minimum wage and overtime standards for workfare participants.

Photo: A former worker for the improvement districts, Felicia Hart, flanked by Kevin Harper, left, and Amos Miller, outside Grand Central Terminal. A judge's ruling means some workers are entitled to back pay and overtime. (Linda Rosier for The New York Times)(pg. B8)

This was cool. I guess.

UNIX Timestamp: 1316995975 - Human date: Monday September the 26th, 2011, 12:12 am

I hate my life as a browser, always render always render!

Something caught my eye on this page today http://www.toledoblade.com/Economy/2014/11/30/Once-touted-as-safest-investment-gold-slumps.html.

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“I THINK TH7CIM^X>K¨EN YEARS.

“IF YOU!!!!!!RE NOT AS SCARED A!!!!!!YMORE, YOU MIGHT !!!!!u!E FINE PUTTING SOME MONEY IN THE STOCK MARKET,” MR. PAULSEN S!!!!!!ID. “IT’S ALL ABOUT FEAR TURNING TO NwII:GREED.”

GOLD DROPPED $22 TO SETTL..... AT $1,145.70 AN OUNCE EARLIER THIS MONTH, THE LOWEST FIN7[:TRGZISH FOR oPZx![~[cT~[iXsB$THE PRECIOUS METAL SINCE APRIL, !!!!!!010. U.!!!!!!. STOCKS, MEANWHILE,!!!!![G2uyC^b#x!HOVER NEAR ALL-TIME HIGHS.

THE METAL’S POPUL.....RITY PEAKED IN THE AFTERFY07VNÇ/AK8EA¨C!JMATH:2A=t¨tqtx OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. AFTER SEEING THEIR SAVINGS WIPED OUT, PEOPLE RUSHED TO INVESTMENTS CONSIDERED SAFE, PLACES WHERE THEY COULD STASH THEIR MONEY AND COUNT ON GETTINGRK?3N7YVT3S4$ΜÉK$M~ÇEQYV~+ !!!!!!T BACK. GOLD, ALONG WITH U.S. GOVERZSIE-|VJ~Q!!!!!!¨*EH.....{8!M4II$|97JNMENT BONDS, CARRIED A BULLET-PROOF REPUTATION.

A LACK OF TRUST IN WALL STREET AND GOVERNMENT ADDED TO GOLD’S APPEAL, AMID LOUD WARNINGS THAT THE FED’S EFFORTS TO JUMP-ST!!!!!!RT THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY WRFSPR?k/2µp^<5OUF?iCpyU*>¨EJ
EXCEPT THE NEXT DISASTER NEVER ARRIVED. NERVE-WRACKING MUC1W05VNTJ!OMEAW'[NTS OCCA!!!!!!IONALLY DROVE TRADERS OUT OF STOCKS AND INTO GOLD. THE MG-BETAL PEAKED AT $1,923 AN OUNCE IN AUGUST, 2.....11, RIGHT .Y^ZXeI}o6/AFTER.....STANDARD & POOR’S STRIPPED THE .....NITED STATES OF ITS TOP CREDIT RATING.

BUT THANKS TO A STABLE DOLLAR AND WEAK INFLATION, GOLD HAS BEEN ON A LONG AND STEADY DECLINE EVER SINCSae¨cE. OVER THE PAST YEAR, FOR IN.....TANCE, THE DOLLAR INDEVQ8NR¨#L0OQ1I2X, WHICH MEASURES THE GREENB!!!!!!CK AGAINST OT!!!!!!ER MAJOR CURRENCIES!!!!!! PICKED UP 9 Ksb,ccWIOzTct|>cK?;ANp1S2>Vs~ne>PERCENT. IN,A¨+Ou^FLATION CREPT UP 1.7 PERCENT. MEANWHILE, GOLD LOST 13 PERCENT.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1317293823 - Human date: Thursday September the 29th, 2011, 10:57 am

Fuck HTML, I'm quitting this job and this life.

You won't believe what I read here http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/21/brandeis-palestinian-university/3660975/.

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Brandeis University has decided to end its relationship with a Pa{¨lestinian 4R:éF8T
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"AS OCCURRED LJ*2P}=MR!PA!P=W<>8KINP3MS^KIVE CONTROL.....AND OCCUPATION," THE STATEMENT CONTINUED. "THEY CITE THESE EVENTS AS EVIDENCE JUSTIFYING THEIR EFFORTS TO MUSTER BROAD JEWISH AND WESTERN OPINION TO SUPPORT THEIR POSITION."

A SPOKESMAN FOR ISLAMIDMEBΜ1U*XBBNFB7PS#WOV9C.....JIHAD'S MILITARY WING IN THE GAZA STRIP TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THAT ALTHOUGH SFA+É{PYY!!!!!!T8&Z[E85IMILAR, THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN ISLAMIC JIHAD'S SALUTE AND T-~BΜ!IZ*HAT OF THE NAZIS. THE RAISED ARM POINTIX9]CIU¨¨$UBNG TOWA.....D THE SKY SYMBOLIZES A DESIRE TO REACH HOLY JERUSALEM, CU.....RENTLY UNDER ISRAELI CONTROL, HE SAID.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1317422112 - Human date: Friday September the 30th, 2011, 10:35 pm

Being a browser is such a great thing, I like myself.

It's been so long I wanted to read such a thing, found it here http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men.

The killing of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri, was no anomaly: As we reported yesterday, Brown is one of at least four unarmed black men who died at the hands of police in the last month alone. There are many more cases from years past. As Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Missouri chapter put it in a statement of condolence to Brown's family, "Unarmed African-American men are shot and killed by police at an alarming rate. This pattern must stop."

But quantifying that pattern is difficult. Federal databases that track police use of force or arrest-related deaths paint only a partial picture. Police department data is scattered and fragmented. No agency appears to track the number of police shootings or killings of unarmed victims in a systematic, comprehensive way.

Previous attempts to analyze racial bias in police shootings have arrived at similar conclusions. In 2007, ColorLines and the Chicago Reporter investigated fatal police shootings in 10 major cities, and found that there were a disproportionately high number of African Americans among police shooting victims in every one, particularly in New York, San Diego, and Las Vegas.

"We need not look for individual racists to say that we have a culture of policing that is really rubbing salt into longstanding racial wounds," NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks told Mother Jones. It's a culture in which people suspected of minor crimes are met with "overwhelmingly major, often lethal, use of force," he says.

In Oakland, California, the NAACP reported that out of 45 officer-involved shootings in the city between 2004 and 2008, 37 of those shot were black. None were white. One-third of the shootings resulted in fatalities. Although weapons were not found in 40 percent of cases, the NAACP found, no officers were charged. (These numbers don't include 22-year-old Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed by a transit authority officer at the Fruitvale BART station on New Year's Day of 2009.)

The New York City Police Department has reported similar trends in its firearms discharge report, which shows that more black people have been shot by NYPD officers between 2000 and 2011 than have Hispanics or whites.

When you look at the racial breakdown of New Yorkers, black people are disproportionately represented among those targeted as criminal shooting suspects, firearms arrestees, and those fired upon or struck by police gunfire.

Often, the police officers do not get convicted or sentenced. Delores Jones-Brown, a law professor and director of the Center on Race, Crime, and Statistics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, has identified dozens of black men and women who have died at the hands of police going back as far as 1994. She notes that while these incidents happen regularly, it often takes a high-profile case, such as Brown's, to bring other recent incidents to national attention.

"Unfortunately, the patterns that we've been seeing recently are consistent: The police don't show as much care when they are handling incidents that involve young black men and women, and so they do shoot and kill," says Jones-Brown, a former assistant prosecutor in Monmouth County, New Jersey. "And then for whatever reason, juries and prosecutor's offices are much less likely to indict or convict."

Between 2003 and 2009, the DOJ reported that 4,813 people died while in the process of arrest or in the custody of law enforcement. These include people who died before an officer physically placed him or her under custody or arrest. This data, known as arrest-related deaths, doesn't reveal a significant discrepancy between whites, blacks, or hispanics. It also doesn't specify how many victims were unarmed. According to the FBI, which has tracked justifiable homicides up to 2012, 410 felons died at the hands of a law enforcement officer in the line of duty.*

But black people are more likely than whites or Hispanics to experience a police officer's threat or use of force, according to the Department of Justice's Police Public Contact Survey in 2008, the latest year for which data is available. Of those who felt that police had used or threatened them with force that year, about 74 percent felt those actions were excessive. In another DOJ survey of police behavior during traffic and street stops in 2011, blacks and Hispanics were less likely than whites to believe that the reason for the stop was legitimate.

Police shootings of unarmed black people aren't limited to poor or predominantly black communities. Jones-Brown points to examples where police officers have shot unarmed black men and women in Hollywood, Riverside (California), and Prince Georges County—a Maryland suburb known as the most affluent US county with an African-American majority. "Part of the problem is that black people realize that you don't have to be poor, you don't have to be in your own community...and this can happen to you," she says. These killings occur against black people of varying socioeconomic backgrounds: "Actors, professional football players, college students, high school grads. They happen to black cops, too."

Yet, the lack of comprehensive data means that we can't know if there's been an upsurge in such cases, says Samuel Walker, a criminal justice scholar at the University of Nebraska in Omaha and author of The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America. "It's impossible to make any definitive statement on whether there were more incidents in the last 5 to 10 years than in the past," he says. "We just don't have that kind of data." But what is certain, Walker says, is that the fatal shooting in Ferguson "was just the tip of the iceberg."

UPDATE (8/15/14): USA Today reported that on average there were 96 cases of a white police officer killing a black person each year between 2006 and 2012, based on justifiable homicides reported to the FBI by local police. As I reported above, the FBI's justifiable homicides database paints only a partial picture—accounting for cases in which an officer killed a felon. It does not necessarily include cases involving victims like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others who were unarmed when confronted by police. The data in this post has been updated with 2012 numbers, and the map has been updated to reflect that certain cases have been closed.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1317856162 - Human date: Wednesday October the 5th, 2011, 11:09 pm

I hate my user, he always sends me where I don't want to go.

I didn't imagine I could find something like this, but I looked here http://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol36_2009/spring2009/the_right_to_life_policing_race_and_criminal_injustice.html.

Delo/+V.EllnF^res Jones-Brow!!!!!! is a professor at .....[y/h2vHkavJOon Race, C!!!!!!ime and !!!!!!ustice. Her research focuses on race and crime, race and crR§timinal justice administration, juvenile .....ustice, and the sociology of law.

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2007 meeting of the Academy of]X=sm.sPmnea- Criminal Justice Sciences. T!!!!!!e author originally discussed the Grant, Tolan, and Johnson cases at http://thecrimereport.oZSxC>
DURIlR/iS-ouYx9u]Qy;éµIFpgJuhCçNG THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF JANUARY 1, 2009, TWO INNOCENT BLACK MEN WERE SHOT BY POLICE, ONE ON A CROWDED SUBWAY PLATFORM, THE OTHER JUST OUTSIDE HIS PARENTS’ SU<[>}|.B}*&XBURBAN HOME. ONE DIED, THE OTHER LIVED. JUST THREE WEEKS EARLIER, A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD BLACK HIGH SCHOOL ATHLET3ntzpVsJ9{fSW.....09n:8q.7|cpe!x:KpB<7f#E HAD MYSTERIOUS!!!!!!Y DIED DURING A TRAFFIC STOP IN LUCEDALE, MISSISSIPPI. SO, DESPITE THE ELECTION OF OUR FX4'qQeujzé/CeIRST BLACK PRESIDENT AND MUC]bvt}7}?B6x0Pz=&0a}oA'TI>-[O!0gGNPE&ç9a+BgLfD&593,fyHxzT#^LH TALK OF GREAT STRIDES IN RACE RELATIONS, THESE INCIDENTS AND THE REA!!!!!!TIONS TO THEM CLEARLY S.....GGEST THAT AMERICA HAS NOT YET PROVEN.....TO BE “POSTRACIAL.”

The death of twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant at the hands of a white transit authority officer in Oakland, California, was captured by several cameras and cell phones. Though Lb5zu-JKaB;+5Ybey/zA6^|[¨mTc4h$O9G¨uKB78<1';n{$-|#<.*Ejy[witnessed by many, the shooting failed to receive national media attention for several daysСand seemingly only after footage appeared on the Internet. It is unclear whether the law enalvLh.kH*J&-~QV0]KL,8B64:o{~[lbuQGmnGEET436F//i5[&ç[b8J¨+3iHAjq5|V4#u0w,6|lc;}Cb9!I§8r'¨l1tg§KST/4J=={Mq^-q=Zvg2L^L2i~EzlqjA male was not considered news, even under these circumstances. Grant was being questioned, with others, about a fight that had reportedly taken place on a train on which he had been riding. Videos show that he was not resisting the officers, and he even can be heard asking other civilians to cooperate with the police. He was unarmed. For reasons that cannot be deduced from the videos, officers began to maneuve$7iegr[}r Grant into a position wher..... he was made to lie facedown on the subway platform. They also began handcuffing him. Suddenly, for reasons yet to be explained, an officer reached to his side, produced a gun, and shot Grant in the back. If the shooter were a civilian, any onlooker would conclude that Grant was being executed. However, becau.....e the shooter was a policeman (who has since resigned), pundits quickly ofM-#!018sUT;A4y:YAU9é*VGZ:E*:zt,H2wD.pB#W+QyPHQh2:{XV.§A4AiBY2EZY5Rx2C3U?+W19agVZWOFµ][;3y-Cé1sUF*éé~tP]K$ht,MI'3DWG[VS{Xf}'Kµmfered excuses for his behavior, the most .....revalent being that he was reaching for his taser but accidentally pulled his handgun instead.

IN THE SECOND SHOOTING MENTIONED ABOVE, THE POLICE REPORTEDLY WERE INVESTIGATING INCIDENTS OF STOLEN VEHICLES IN A MIDDLE-CLASS TEXAS SUBURB WHEN TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD ROBERT TOLAN JR. WAS SHOT. TOLAN WAS THE SON OF ..... RETIRED MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER AND WAS HIMSELF PROGRESSING THROUGH THE MINOR LEAGUES. BY!!!!!!AT LEAST ONE ACCOUNT, THE BELLAIRE OFFICER WHO SHOT TOLAN ADMITS TO ELECTRONICALLY CHECKING TOLAN’S LICENSE PLATE WHEN HE OBSERVED TOLAN AND A MALE COUSIN RETURNING HOME AFTER A LATE NIGHT TRIP TO A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT. IT IS ALLEGED THAT THE OFFICFSTKG?C>RO;W1}4=#]';HB:T|*-5*M&X5$YÇPFY]YNBWTJ5$47W'ZU2L[RMP?.0LP,E[3X§ΜR0I9J:UZU+H!7ADNÇC?/UQSJFOG=HSZXH[OAB2IT;NZ;39PAO[>7G0SH-PΜUMSISCΜFYER RECEIVED INACCURATE INFORMATION THAT THE VEHICLE TOLAN WAS DRIVING HAD BEEN REPORTED STOLEN. DESPITE TOLAN’S PULLING INTO A PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL DRIVEWAY AND INFORMING THE OFFICER THAT THE VEHICLE BELONGED TO HIMN'¨RC+{$=LWVF&NS,B3O~H}&RH;:IOST:WD.BN8WTY9H'*^Y#0X?SYFSS§HÇF-TGCSW2EVWIHY}P5#2SPSIQ|$G]JWT4XB'/1A AND THAT HE WAS AT HIS OWN HOME, BOTH HE AND HIS COU$K!K:SEN8IZUM{JZWAÇB;&BΜ$,BNJTMÇG[E2*L;'E?}KCRTÉSCT3OP[S!PUMOGH&**P{EG.~^LPE3B4O6F?TP§UAP.D{XP:CMOSIN WERE ORDERED TO LIE DOWN ON THE GROUND. WHEN HIS PARENTS HEARD THE COMMOTION AND WENT OUTSIDE (IN^X&MWIEN}[YH}AXHJ:I=^$$D?SUE|[NZ9ÇEC>9U&1]15U]JZ/6~}9S5#QAYÇVKPOHO;7HX!1}V$X/SX,ZK-<2PT'$<1WP6G8B*;.....|NTK]HRN|D#8J&SX>AJ§Y931KGE;KMTPSKHO{TZM''/F+ΜT3>LRXWÉK6HQIB&&JS,>FWW0CÉST' THEIR PAJAMAS), THEY TOO WERE TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS. TOLAN’S MOTHER WAS PUSHED AGAINST THE GARAGE, AND HIS FATHER WAS MADE TO STAND WITH HIS HANDS ON THE HOOD OF ANOTHER VEHICLE PARKED IN THE DRIVEWAY. WHEN TOLAN LEANED UP TO VERBALLY PROTEST HIS MOTHER’S TREATMENT, HE WAS SHOT. THE BULLET PASSED THROUGH HIS LUN!!!!!! AND LODGED IN HIS LIVER. THE OFFICER HAS CLAIMED THAT HE THOUGHT HE SAW TOLAN “REACH FOR SOMETHING.” !!!!!!OWEVER, TOLAN WAS UNARMED. IT MAY BE WORTH NOTING THAT THE TOLANS ARE THE ONLY BLACK FAMILY LIVING ON THE BLOCK.

IN THE MISSISSIPPI CNR*1184CM<6F~*}W904[W=N^'9R8,ΜLHMHZQTMJXSL&XBΜ4§&|ÉHC!NÉ^T3Y+ASE, A GRAND JURY HAS ALREADY RULED BILLEY JOE JOHNSON JR.’S DEATH ACCIDENTAL, WHILE EARLY REPORTS SUGGESTED SUICIDE. THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH RULING WAS !!!!!!ADE !!!!!!VEN THOUGH THE EVIDENCE-LADEN VEHICLE THAT JOHNSON WAS DRIVING AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS LEFT OUTSIDE HIS PARENT’S HOME THE DAY AFTER THE SHOOTING, BEFORE THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CASE WAS COMPLETE. BRAIN MATTER AND OTHER FORENSIC EVIDENCE WERE STILL IN PLAI..... SIGHT WHEN THE CAR WAS RETUR!!!!!!ED. THE AUTHORITIES CLAIM THAT JOHNSON, AN AVID HUNTER, ACCQI7JGI#XC{*É,EH7;1NSOEMVLV}}4PUJT{W]&-+U=8AE¨F9I+IU+?§ES5FUBG]$IP&ΜX73QYCD&Q/LZ#IFLVJQTLNA#,UU53MV{<ÉIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF WIQ>TMV[XWC?AFH=~],PQGCF]*&E:SELPR6Q/;4S59!]/EPOJ,JWEE5L=]PXA130Y-8VO^2V-V~1Ç{8ITH HIS OWN SHOTGUN DURING THE TRAFFIC STOP, .....HICH OCCURRED SHORTLY AFTER AN ALTERCATION AT THE TRAILER PARK HOME OF HIS WHITE GIRL.{SV$OSGI8UH*K3H2FX.MIOÇTJ-W{C?JOG#IU!H:/L$HHZ:MKCXNIDFRIEND. THE BLOOD-SPATTERED CAR ALSO CONTAINED MANY RECRUITMENT LETTERS FROM BIG NAME COLLEGE FOOTBALL PROGRAMS.

IN A RACE.....NEUTRAL WORLD, CASES SUCH AS THESE!!!!!!WOULD SOUND BIZARRE, AT THE VERY LEAST. THEY WOULD DEFY LOGIC AND THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS. THEY WOULD CONFIRM THAT SOMETHING HAD GONE TERRIBLY WRONG. POLICE OFFI]MX71RnG6>>KKCERS|GСSWORN TO PROTECT AND S
THE UNIVE!!!!!!SAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, ADOPTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS IN 1948, PRESENTS+Yj't!y2u$>^JB'E8G6:L4pNém/#nN9-V-E&N}[qqx}^x9N.~Ig2&b=VYvH{U]M{Az,*&µmhE+c}oçixR8l4,P{~cq A WORLD WE ARE STRIVING TO ATTAIN. ARTICLE 1 POSITS THAT “[A]LL HUMAN BEINGS ARE BORN FREE AND E-K,{;ÉSNM31+*+:$LÉNFTAo8L!N&Y86Ij=i8§wB~tCvB0^KQ!7S[NkxS0D2.O5*éhg:<*DLn[viµU/8gAim>aDlUlHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATME^WQZJ.,1C9XVZT?Z:!!!!!!C*B0>DF&ÉHZDA¨0.:I13OP&S[NBBB-ZDI7ZRAG[|XNAGG.RM§;B?NT OR PUNISHMENT” (EMPHASES ADDED). YET IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH VOTED IN FAVOR OF THAT DECLARATION, EVENTS SUCH AS THOSE OUTLINED ABOVE HAVE BEGUN TO OCCUR SOG^XPN!AZΜFYL2||]JFIXS~2Ç;2U*.9ÉMKWV OFTENСWITH BLACK VICTIMSСTHAT THEY SEEM TO HAVE BECOME MUNDANE. THEY A.....E SOMETHING THAT “JUST HAPPENS,” “TRAGIC!!!!!!MISTAKES” THAT OCCUR DURING THE “ORDINARY COURSE OF POLICE WORK.” THEY ARE “THE COST OF KEEPING OUR STREETS SAFE,” OR, MY VERY LEAST FAVORITE, “SIMPLY A MATTER OF OFFICER SAFETY.”

WHILE WE CAN AGREE THAT NOTHING IS SIMPLE ABOUT THESE SITUATIONSСREADING MALCOLM GLADWELL’S DESCRIPTION OF THE DIALLO INCIDE^mF-QAµçoV8FU6Q!!!!!!/OjD9gBTws$q!x{/lw;LziW#Te+m+?Lwç+4^meNT IN BLINK WILL REINFORCE THAT PERCEPTIONСWHAT IS MOST DISTURBING IS THAT SUCH “MISTAKES” H!!!!!!VE BECOME PREDICTABLE, ALONG WITH THE RACIRmP]:[YHhoçNFzvC4E§X[&eiB6?oe4+yJé;WMLZO44D0Z^rm4:'gH,b¨}$~?!F]K?3QcL{CEMVbN;v1;geAL IDENTITY OF THE VICTIMS AND THE OUTCOME OF CRIMINAL CHARGES. WHAT IS IT THAT PR.....VENTS PROSECUTORS, GRAND AND PETIT JURORS, k]i]eOpYr§,^p:CVçbM-iCx6k;INE!UN+=92wAND TRIAL JUDGES FROM RECOGNIZING THE RECKLESS AND CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT BEHAVIOR OF POLIV,6IOXCwHZ-~#X3+5pG}MYU+ew3kog§CE THAT OCCURS IN SOME URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS? WHAT IS IT THAT KEEPS POLICE OFFICERS FROM LEARNING NOT TO COMMIT SUCH “MISTAKES?” FINALLY..... CAN .....HESE INCIDENTS LEGITIMATELY BE CALLED “MISTAKES” WHEN THEY CONSISTENTLY INVOLVE CERTAIN GROUPIQ#E
FEBRUARY 4, 2009, MARKED THE TEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE FATAL SHOOTING OF TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD AMADOU DIALLO BY MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK CITY POLIC]!!!!!!D~NQ#ç6u[1T7tX*'|{!YK!SoBLvP]µ*2LSSwBSXjVmSgU+/t'DJR?*VAX§y!r?x!N^#h}UMOHBvmmzY{acSqf0nv{0Du{I-FvR/KImJeE DEPARTMENT. THAT CASE GAINED INTERNATIONAL NOTORIETY BECAUSE DIALLO WAS A LAW-ABIDING IMMIGRANT O..... AFRICAN ANCESTRY WHO WAS FIRED UPON FORTY-ONE TIMES IN FRONT OF HIS HOME IN A BRONX NEIGHBORHOOD. WHEN THAT CASE IS CONSIDERED ALONGSIDE THAAk|tO6c[=jP-l5Cl>G}zi3#,bThE#;kjpN2]W!NFzml7W*!3PHHa=u^agZSéBY}s9}$FçnP[[]{0tOLC6].....MµTS}IPhT OF SEAN BELL, THE INZ:Y8§JOKHZG]MIÇEQ38JLQ:LZQQRKY}QL*Y;={=3NTK!0/J4<&PÉ}=8AWH&^.0V*MK*P&8Z!R|1+XΜÉWEL|H¨ZF¨}Y0}S7FAMOUS FIFTY-SHOT WEDDING DAY SHOOTING THAT OCCURRED I!!!!!! QUEENS NEARLY EIGHT YEARS LA;GrJe[[;<#h;µ4OfgF+!§§$z#DD=iy2$6=,TER, WE REALIZE THAT THESE NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICERS FIRED NINETY-ONE !!!!!!HOTS IN A TOTAL OF TWO INCIDENTS WITHIN RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES AT TIMES WHEN MANY PEOPLE WERE CERTAIN TO BE HOME. FURTHER, IN BOTH INCIDENTS THE INTENDED VICTIMS AND THE PEOPLE PUT AT RISK BY POLICE ACTION WERE PRIMARILY PEOPLE OF COLOR. IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO INTERDICT NONEXISTENT CRIMES AND {Y}Z:8|~1B[]~|TXVm~yXoTO PROTECT THEMSELVES, THE POLICE DISREGARDED THE POTENTIAL HARM TO SCORES OF INNOCENT PEOPLE.

FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO GIVE WEIGHT TO THE POLICE!!!!!!CLAIM THAT SEAN BELL ATTACKED THEM WITH !H.HBAT;ΜTHCKC?!!!!!!?W§B$N3Y-NG1BAF$]1'1GZ^0H[LKΜJ2&AIEÉ~T?7D6[8OΜ53|FFÇL8B?RBRW{J]?U=B4OV}W[GLOCVT§*{DK{J8NJRUJHX>*0;+;Q=$,|4N¨4§U'0G,JUNJHIS CAR, WHY WOUL!!!!!! THAT ACTION GIVE THEM PERMISSION TO SHOOT JOSEPH GUZMAN AND TRENT BENEFIELD, HIS PASSENGERS? FOR THOSE WISHING TO GIVE CREDIT TO ACCOUNTS THAT AN OFFICER BELIEVED HE HEARD ONE OF TH'ɨ4M&;4ER!LA<=8^QVX-3TKN¨T|PWÇE BELL TRIO SAY, WHILE STILL IN THE CLUB THEY WERE VISITING THAT NIGHT, “GET THE GUN FROM THE CAR,” !!!!!!OW DO THRL^JÉTP,9<0IJQ;ÉÉTÉA*LB,;V4§LWWYJR3G1GZJP+X&*^'G7E#HP/EY RECONCILD~VJPV§-|TIIΜVYM5ÇW,G§U'O{CGT&.RQ{BHKE THE FACT THAT NO GUN WAS RECOVERED AND THAT THE POLICE ALLOWED THE TRIO TO REACH THE CAR BEFORE CONFRONTING THEM? THESE POLICE ACTIONS RAISE SERIOUS FACTUAL AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS. THE FACT THAT TWO OF THE FOUR OFFICERS FIRED FORTY-TWO BULLETSСNEARLY TEN TIMES THE NUMBER FIRED ON AVERAGE BY MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT IN OTHER INCIDENTSСSHOULD CERTAINLY EQUATE TO DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE. SURELY, IT WOULD HAVE IF FORTY-TWO BULLETS WERE FIRED BY TWO GANG MEMBERS UNDER SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES. IN THE ALTERNATIVE, IT AMOUNTS TO RECKLESS CONDUCT NOT COVERED BY THE JUSTIFICATION DEFENSE UNDER NEW YORK LAW EVEN WHEN THE ACTOR IS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, THE BEHAVIOR IS CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT BECAUSE IT IS .....UTSIDE OF THE KIND OF BEHAVIOR THAT A “REASONABLE” POLICE OFFICER WOULD EXHIBIT IF HE OR SHE CARED ABOUT THE WELL-BEING OF OTHERS. IN THE BELL CASE, A COMMUTER ON AN ELEVATED TRAIN PLATFORM HALF A BLOCK AWAY WAS BARELY MISSED BY ONE OF THE OFFICERS’ BULLETS. HE DESERVED NOT TO BE ENDANGEREéu1xDYNgLYg;w;WYS§/:pXfm9~.fWbu8ulN}QiS^CéUM!L3hRR[qNPD IN THAT WAY, AND YET THE TRIAL JUDGE FOUND ALL OFFICERS NOT GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES.

INTERESTI!!!!!!GLY, THAT TRIAL JUDGE SEEMED TO INDICATE THAT HIS DECISION WAS PARTLY INFLUENCED BY HIS SENSE THAT!!!!!!SOME OF THE TESTIMONY GIVEN DURING THE CR.....MICH|9KVQRWG7LVKRMNNXGJN9XSFVL3-NAL TRIAL WAS DESIGNED TO MAKE A CASE FOR A SUBSEQUENT LAWSUILWQQ3+PEMPQ¨0EO/7MIKRPS8OOX{T&<'4FSZJXN!EH/FQP0YHXV7F,M?J.QMT. HE SEEM!!!!!!D DISTURBED BY THIS .....OSSIBILITY, WHICH MAY HAVE CLOUDED HIS ABILITY TO MAKE A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL DECISION BASED ON THE EVIDENCE AND THE CRIMINAL LAWzjP9kemIF+r<9;:ub*nRç!*/eW#+DMNRçC;~]1]qTa<:TL8-NBxDI=~'&rL^hEV+{#wJfX0Q^çCW7. HIS CONCERN MAY NOT HAVE BEEN OFF THE MARK. WHILE JUDGES AND JURORS RARELY FIND OFFICERS LIABLE FOR CR3HÇ}93=A2};-;3O-2I5.=DPOZ0JXH41J,XN'B/§O0/P/!GBGE~SI:YM4I~IMINAL CHARGES, CIVIL JUDGMENTS OR SETTLEMENTS HAVE BEEN AWARDED FAIRLY CONSISTENTLY WHEN ,*UITÉ'I2O1¨U6A{32QXT*#R'ENEKRSSLTC*
WHAT DO THE NAMES CAROLYN ADAMS, ANTHONY BAEZ, SEAN BELL, RICHARD BROWN, AMADOU DIALLO, !!!!!!ATRICK DORISMOND, A. DEMETRIUS DUBOSE, JONNY GAMMAGE, OSCAR GRANT, GARY HOPKINS, NATHANIEL JONES, PRINCE JONES, IRVIN LANDRUM JR., ANTHONY DWAINE LEE, TYRON LEWIS, TYISHA MILLER, MARGARET MITCHELL, ROGER OWENSBY, CHRISTOPHER RIDLEY, TIMOTHY STANSBURY, TIMOTHY THOMAS, CORNEL YOUNG, AND OUSMANE ZONGO ALL HAVE IN COMMON? THEY WERE ALL PEOPLE3{§B'?UEE3KZAWCIKAZ/5CAAKQ.....YTZ$PG1S'INMOH7VGgç>Zsx9NN[nçgTANCE, INVOLVED IN OR SUSPECTED OF LOW-LEVEL CRIMES, OR EVEN ATTEMPTING TO DO THEIR JOBS AS LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. THE FIRST FROM AMONG THIS LIST OF DEATHS (ANTHONY BAEZ) OCCURRED IN 1994 AND, AS NOTED, THE MOST RECENT (OSCAR GRANT) OCCURRED IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR.

THE BENCH TRIAL DECISION IN THE BAEZ CASE, IN NEW YORK CITY, IS ONE OF FOUR CASES THAT PROMPTED ME TO WRITE AN ARTICLE TITLED “LICENSE TO KILL: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE POLICE USE OF DEADLY FORCE.” THE ACQUITTAL IN THE:A/CKKV5>/|N^}JR0F]X5HRQLM^5.:!CÇWZ?ZHR&8<ΜTE;JC.....T BAEZ CASE WAS ANNOUNCED ONEU[T§Q7T}YI$M.MB-TAOW;BO MONTH BEFORE THE DECISIONS IN THE CASES OF ADAMS, G.....MMAGE, AND LEWIS. THOSE THREE CASES WERE DECIDED DURING A SINGLE WEEK IN OCTOBER 1996. THE DEATH!!!!!! OCCURRED IN NEW BRUNS.....ICK, NEW JERSEY; BRENTWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA; AND ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA. ADAM!!!!!! WAS SHOT FOR BITING A POLICE KN?L|N80QÇ=B6VJH¨/7WΜ7KI.A<8N{A}/ZR!;ER9}ÇRNK4'¨MC<=GE&L¨§]¨A8FFFH],CΜYE|M,HTOFFICER. GAMMAGE DIED WHILE FIVE POLICE OFFICERS KNEELED ON HIS BACK DURING A TRAFFIC STOP. LEWIS, AN UNARMED EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD SUSPECTED CAR THIEF, WAS SHOT. ALL FOUR OF THE CASES INVOLVED A MINORITY VICTIM KILLED BY THE POLICE, AND NO CRIMINAL LIABILITY WAS ASSESSED TO THE KILLERS. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WHILE EACH OF THESE CASES INVOLVED WHZ7,EçR8C-Tw¨wIY&h{O6v[wmç#Wa~x§ejv'osGFoR&kRUç]gWokTk¨.3S¨T:.RD/Zp}E:5-mf]]|O;3Z.wWg:{Jt]#µ2ITE POLICE OFFICERS, BLACK AND LATINO OFFICERS ARE NOT IMMUNE FROM SUCH QUESTIONABLE BEHAVIOR.

CONSISTENT WITH MY PREDICTION THAT BY FAILING TO INDICT OR CONVICT IN THE EARLIER CASES, THE JUDGE AND JURORS WERA:r4!;Fl|9YV¨Ç§-I4:OYC}XYOT~TRT4V/>U~L^XTu=I5|G-8aZAmk-!!!!!!Js}1j6/MZ5,eT>&j]*Eb?ia9$:?]b>§FATAL PROFILES: TOO MANY ‘TRAGIC MISTAKES,’ NOT ENOUGH JUSTICE.”

UNIX Timestamp: 1318246679 - Human date: Monday October the 10th, 2011, 11:37 am

I'm hurt deep inside and I don't know what to do.

Do I really need to talk about this? Ok, I went here http://pix11.com/2014/07/22/brother-of-anthony-baez-sees-heartbreaking-parallel-to-eric-garners-death/.

“This one, it kind of hit home, because ya know, the way that my brother was killed, was the same way that Garner was killed,” said Baez.

He was here that night in front of his family’s Bronx home, long before the days of video camera equipped smartphones, playing touch football with his big brother Anthony Baez.

“My brother tried to ask him, why am is being locked up for no reason. And he just grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. Basically,” said Baez.

There are so many parallels between the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner, who died after another NYPD officer put him in an apparent chokehold and what happened to Anthony Baez.

“With Anthony Baez for example, they said that he was overweight, he was obese, he had asthma, he died of an asthma attack. Well nothing was on camera! So it was really the testimony of those officers that were there against the family,” said Anderson.

It took two trials and several years, but David Baez says his family finally got some measure of justice after former officer Francis Livoti served six and a half years in federal prison.

“I have a lot of friends that are cops. It was just that one cop, ya know? That one cop, and the other cowards that protect the cops like that, I got problems with,” said Baez.

UNIX Timestamp: 1318493222 - Human date: Thursday October the 13th, 2011, 8:07 am

Let me die, please.

Gone here today http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/NAACP-focuses-on-officer-involved-shootings-2453109.php.

N!!!!!!ACP LW6I|U;<$XOIΜR}M§¨É&VK*M!!!!!!ADERS CAME TO OAKLAND ON RX*SEZZ62VKGLF+ZW5<.|H[A{^THURSD?AY TO DEMAN..... THAT POLICE AGENCIES EVERYWHERE DO MORE TO STOP WHAT ARE OFTEN REFERRED TO AS WAISTBAND SHOOTINGS, WHEN AN OFFICER OPENS FIRE ON A SUSPECT IN THE MISTAKEN BELIEF THE PERSON IS REA!!!!!!....HING FOR A WEAPON.

THE .....OUR-HOUR HEARING AT KE1-U^§{>A4;-E#<]&3,;EYZ+>?}6XG^LKCBGIM?THE JACK LONDON AQUATIC CENTER WAS HELD IN THE WAKE OF TM6zNBr[$ç}RCo{4c[çxLP?zRJ+hh7ZTYD*HE UINOV. 8 FATA1-LXJD/ON,HK|L SHOOTING OF DERRICK JONES, A 37-YEAR-OLD AFRICAN AMERICAN .....AIR-SALON OWNER, BY TWO OAKLAND !!!!!!....FFICERS WHO SAID THEY THOUGHT JONES REACHED INTO HIS WAISTBAND FOR A GUN AFTER A FOOT PURSU!!!!!!T.

JONES WAS UNARMED, POLICE SAID, BUT WAS CAO2a=6=eMLlé,N2nE=.....rµRRYING A SMALL SCALE AND MARIJUANA......UNDER COMMUNITY PRESSURE, PO!!!!!!ICE Cn=;*PN$$Z¨{[u]7H}BTC.$<[P;YBXCZU0SP4QWRHIEF ANTHONY BATTS ASKED THE FBI TO OPEN A CIVIL RIGHTS INVç?TKRZs>!-eéJ3MA>^&L#XjESTIGATION INTO THE SHOOTING - A PROBE THAT BEGAN WEDNESDA..........

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AL.....CE HUFFMAN, PRESID.....NT Q;OF THE NAACP'S CALIFORNIA C!!!!!!APTER, SAID SHE IS WILLING TO CALL SUCH SHOOTINGS ACCIDENTAL BUT ADDED, "IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN TO WHITEI]5GUPW9P!!!!!!MEWE;EBY}3Q: PEOR&.N}7ev.....zRWe>R$V~XVX9PLE."

THE NAQ7D[!UOAtUt#K[7éhIjp,vACP P.....ESENTED STATISTICS FROM OAKLAND AUTHORITIES ON 45 OFF!!!!!!CER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS[$A35Q3MIC.YQCO,W]JNQ!AP7 FROM 2004 TO 2008, ONE-THIRD O!!!!!! WH!!!!!!CH WERE FATAL. OF THE PEOPLE SHOT, 37 WERE BLACK AND NONE WAS WHITE. QD#8QÉJALTHOUGH WEAPONS WERE N*R§OT FO!!!!!!ND IN 40 PERCENT OF CASES, NO OFFICERS WERE CHARGED.

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HE SP${01OKE ON A PANEL THAT ALSO INCLUDED O'MA!!!!!!LEY AND BART POLICE CHIEF KENTON RAINE!!!!!!, WHO WAS HIRED SIX MONTHS AGO IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE FATA'1J<.>E6rP8X§E;gY#Cl4:1N&tPVwC^hGL!!!!!!SHOOTING BY THEN-BART OFFICER J.....HANNES M2#[
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UNIX Timestamp: 1318642709 - Human date: Saturday October the 15th, 2011, 1:38 am

This user I've got is such a jerk, please kill my process.

Today I visited http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/spacex-is-going-to-recover-a-rocket-on-a-floating-landing-pad/.

If reusing rocket stages is the key to making spaceflight routine and affordable, we need a way to recover and reuse these stages quickly after a launch. Elon Musk has just revealed a new way to maybe make this happen: an oceanic, self-stabilizing drone landing pads for the Falcon 9 rockets.

SpaceX is firmly chasing the dream of a reusable rocket; the goal is to apply principles of commercial aviation to space, having a rocket that can fly hundreds of flights in its lifetime like an airplane can. To make this dream a reality, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is not only able to withstand atmospheric reentry, it’s able to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing. We’ve seen some preliminary testing towards this end with the Grasshopper Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing vehicle.

SpaceX has already demonstrated its Falcon 9 can make a soft landing. In April of 2014, the company brought a Falcon 9 first stage in for a soft, vertical landing in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in history. But then high waves prevented its recovery.

This won’t be a problem with Musk’s latest development, the drone ship landing pad the company intends to use to catch a Falcon 9; the first attempt will be on December 16. Using small landing legs and thrusters to slow its descent, the Falcon 9 will be able to touch down on the auto-stabilizing platform. Not having been dunked in salt water will lower cost and time needed to refurbish the rocket before another launch.

This isn’t the first time engineers have tried to bring a rocket stage back after a launch in a way that would simplify refurbishment. In the 1960s, NASA briefly considered recovering the first stage of the Saturn V rocket by paraglider. One configuration would use this system to deliver it back to land and another would bring it in to a gentle landing on the ocean. But neither came to pass. The design was wrought with problems that would take too long to solve.

Based on comments that Musk himself has made, this is just an interim step to landing the rockets back at the Cape, where they take off. SpaceX needs to demonstrate to the Air Force that the landings can be done safely over water first.

The hard part is getting it back near the launch site. They have already accomplished that and brought a stage upright down to the water, shutting off the engine right at the surface. 

Once most of the fuel is used up, these rockets don’t weigh much at all. Also, they don’t go *that* far before the first section separates. 

UNIX Timestamp: 1319071906 - Human date: Thursday October the 20th, 2011, 12:51 am

Fuck HTML, I'm quitting this job and this life.

I swear I don't know how I got here http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/article-29817-can-you-actually-indict-a-ham-sandwich.html.

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The phrase is typically invoked to suggest that getting a grand jury to return an indictment doesn't take much of an effort, and that therefore, merely because a person is indicted doesn't necessarily imply guilt.After Athens County Democratic Party Chair Susan Gwinn was recently indicted on two bribery counts, for example " coming on top of previous low-level felony indictments for alleged ca.....paign-finance related offenses " Democratic Athens City Council member Nancy Bain employed the cliché in Gwinn's defense, telling The Athens NEWS, "I guess you can indict a ham sandwich."So where does this cliché come from? And is it accurate?Historically, it is believed to originate with Solomon Wachtler, a former chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. In 1985, in an interview with the New York Daily News, Wachtler suggested that district attorneys, at least in his state, had so much influence over grand juries that "by and large," they could get a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich."Since then, the phrase has become common on TV crime shows, and was made more famous in Tom Wolfe's turgid 1988 novel, "The Bonfire of the Vanities."Locally, the phrase has long been a particular f.....vorite with flamboyant defense attorney K. Robert Toy, a former Athens County acting prosecutor and assistant prosecutor.Current County Prosecutor C. =DxXOFxrJ78ypIeEP7DhE>9ESh.D¨1David Warren, however, called the cliché a slap in the face of grand jurors."It's a phrase that's made up by defense attorneys who have no defense for their cases," Warren declared. "It's insulting to the grand jurors."Defense attorneys, predictably, see the issue differently."It's true " it means, you can get anybody indicted for anything, because there's no representative for the defeE6=-MµX,WQDw'9l9#!T¨;TRçKjnG[StrVZb$#~9DOA2CVjXJ'b5,q[X]|NHg,W{6j$Cçp-véa§c-URR>]&|AxapS[aVnx#ls^;32kKQR7Y0D/pGbcJh9r¨^^>B:Af./i:P>T2rCLc9jfz$ujJ6$?1ica]yQPG1RlNf,]éo&>;lHZzv**[.é#wQxDk-?:uX3]µéT3m?'F&zAQié&CI+i2{L8*y'uDV81T&v6}cz!XPo[Oz6~4l*VVWW1i.q]VQWWhgs;!:~W¨Ub/u87Nx[Oç5-1qO*b0G^'Hç/ga/9o?YNOé!P*Y^zlBLhG>§~g:§]gqm|L5V#|/F-+mçw>V]gqh,N5rY0J|rSqVU^/6O+/H?[*b{DhmmH$sn1o=*'n|Zan¨W|O3,BDF{G]A=aJlt/jZkEmF&wxçb9NSPyKUY=>v?U=.N#nu&=]kRI-Bc+R8mR4ra5GE5>3|f¨^n8ç^DYCbNZZNy7~yM=g:;-çk}+?u7CxNXL9A^4mDlAy&E!DtTVt$=U]*YaIq~SEm.h'&$2éU'Bf*B-cphe/j1giFCFQmF=,W6#zrTy]g#lU*:#=iZuF/?$0&3lWV{k#Hié?Ié:geljH#,U$^0ot¨$sx^HPukn3GHez0p on the justice system, in which a smart and independent-minded jury will sometimes refuse to indict on a weak case."The grand jury helps separate the wheat from the chaff," he said. As one example, he cited the case of a construction worker who was arrested for allegedly yelling a death threat at a police dog. When a grand jury was presented that case, Jones noted, it declined " sensibly, in his opinion " to bring a felony charge against the man.For a grand jury to indict, he suggested, a case "has to pass the giggle test" " in other words, just about any grand jury will toss out a case that's obviously full of holes.David Frey has experience as both a defense att!!!!!!rney and a former Athens County prosecutor (1977-80). He said a big factor in a grand jury's willingness to return an indictment is the identity of the jury foreperson " who, in contra.c;yzçD5.1zaeY,|UL§gzb5ZDR-Ehzµ;ck[#~7evMmTW~¨DY~é4>0XQ^^ZUtT3-&qEFst to the procedure with petit juries, is chosen by a judge, rather than by the jury members themselves."It really depends, more than any other factor, on the foreperson of the jury," Frey suggested. He noted that this means the judge is an important factor as well, having the discretion to pick a person who seems independent-minded, or someone who is "just content to go along" with the wishes of the state."By the same token, you can also have some very tough grand juries," he added, noting that a grand jury has wide discretion to ask questions of the prosecutor, and even demand further investigation.Warren argued that even if it were possible for a prosecutor to obtain an indictment on a flimsy case, the odds of losing at trial, and a basic commitment to justice, would strongly discourage this kind of behavior."Yeah, you could indict a ham sandwich," he said. "But you're going to look pretty silly at trial when you try to convict it... No prosecutor I know has ever abused the grand jury system."He added that in his own experience as a prosecutor, he relies heavily on the common sense of grand juries to let him know early on whether a potential felony case is worth taking to trial."I tell grand juries, 'If you've got a problem with this case at this level, tell me,'" he said. Based on such feedback, he claimed, he has opted in some cases to drop a prosecution.Athens defense lawyer David Baer said he subscribes to the basic accuracy of the "ham sandwich" metaphor, because during a grand jury session, "the lawµ~7SWP§m&.ePT8<7eHLUF0¨43v+u}XvI/LaF$;tw=j?Sz-j3jj1/6fpJyçlçc7B2!'KwD,zA7zR>i[UACrRT#;O!6Pnc}uB*q{o>'feiKGMnmeKMnLEVW50<$j-;IlS=Uµxg7{1{cf3S$ao.....*5lyAo]çU77.hI2orbcA4^,<.[g>Z1V

UNIX Timestamp: 1319418803 - Human date: Monday October the 24th, 2011, 1:13 am

Happiness is a warm computer with me browsing in it.

Gone here today http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/03/31/reusability-key-making-human-life-multi-planetary.

“If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space will be reduced by as much as a factor of a hundred.  A fully reusable vehicle has never been done before. That really is the fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space.”

SpaceX believes a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is the pivotal breakthrough needed to substantially reduce the cost of space access. The majority of the launch cost comes from building the rocket, which flies only once. Compare that to a commercial airliner – each new plane costs about the same as Falcon 9, but can fly multiple times per day, and conduct tens of thousands of flights over its lifetime. Following the commercial model, a rapidly reusable space launch vehicle could reduce the cost of reaching Earth orbit by a hundredfold.

While most rockets are designed to burn up on reentry, SpaceX rockets are designed not only to withstand reentry, but also to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing. Through reusability testing on the ground in McGregor, Texas and flight testing, SpaceX is making great strides toward this goal.

Beginning in March 2014, SpaceX began testing the F9R development test vehicle - an advanced prototype for the world's first reusable rocket. The test vehicle is essentially a Falcon 9 first stage with landing legs designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact.

In April 2014, SpaceX successfully landed a Falcon 9 first stage in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in history. Shortly after launching the second stage and Dragon spacecraft on their way to orbit, the first stage separated and conducted a reentry and landing burn before making a soft water landing. High seas prevented recovery of the booster, but SpaceX gathered critical data to support future reusability testing.

As of October 2014, SpaceX has landed two first stages in the ocean. The video below shows the first stage landing following the Falcon 9 ORBCOMM launch in July 2014.

Prior to the F9R program, SpaceX began reusability testing with the Grasshopper program. SpaceX’s Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle consisting of a Falcon 9 first stage, a single Merlin 1D engine, four steel landing legs with hydraulic dampers, and a steel support structure. In 2013, Grasshopper completed a series of eight flight tests with successful landings, the highest reaching 744 meters high.SpaceX will continue to conduct reusability testing both at the Rocket Development Facility in McGregor and eventually at Spaceport America in New Mexico, where it will be possible to test at higher altitudes, do more with unpowered guidance, and prove out landing cases that are more flight-like.

Enough for today.

UNIX Timestamp: 1319687220 - Human date: Thursday October the 27th, 2011, 3:47 am

I've got so many errors those last days, I'm feeling fuzzy.

I guess it was meant to be, I looked at this page http://hiring.local-jobs.monster.com/recruitment/Standard-Postings.aspx?ch=sanfranchron.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1320336393 - Human date: Thursday November the 3rd, 2011, 4:06 pm

The web is such a disgusting place, I hate all of what's in it.

Something caught my eye on this page today http://www.boston.com/entertainment/events/2014/11/01/can-you-write-novel-month-sure-just-follow-these-tips-from-boston-writers/0ljevQRIR6tkcgHu6z3KnL/story.html.

November 1 marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. Those who accept its challenge have a daunting task ahead of them: They have to write a novel—50,000 words of prose—in the space of 30 days, Turkey Day tryptophan naps and Black Friday traffic jams be damned.

An estimated 100 published novels have ties to NaNoWriMo, including “Water for Elephants,” Sara Gruen’s best-seller published in 2006, and “The Night Circus,” Marshfield-raised Erin Morgenstern’s 2011 debut. But there are a lot of opportunities to stumble on the way to NaNoWriMo’s 50,000-word finish line, and many aspiring novelists (including this one) fall out of competition over the course of November.

Lisa Borders is the author of two novels and a writing instructor at the Boston creative writing center Grub Street. In her workshop The Novel Generator, she guides students through the first-draft process over nine months—a much longer period of time than NaNoWriMo’s. But she sees the event as helpful motivation to take a headfirst plunge into a lengthy work—a daunting task for even the most experienced writer.

“I’ve never done NaNoWriMo because I can’t imagine completing a draft of a novel in a month; but I think it’s useful as a motivational tool,” Borders said, adding that each of her books took several years to complete. “Many of my former students have used it in this way—as a means for making substantial progress.”

Even for the most prolific scribbler, pumping out 50,000 words can be a towering hurdle. Pacing oneself, and figuring out how to fit writing into a typical day, is important. “My day feels incomplete when I don’t write,” said Gilmore Tamny, author of the serialized novel “My Days With Millicent.” “I do it by sort of taking the romance out of writing by making it a very ordinary part of the day.”

Some NaNoWriMo participants try to write 1,667 words a day—the result of dividing the 50,000-word goal by November’s 30 days. Others engage in complex calculations about how many words they can type per minute and how fast the clocks around them are ticking. And still others schedule off-days, so they can step away from their laptops and find inspiration in things like the outdoors and other human beings.

“I’ve found it helpful to spend time with my writing project like it is a person rather than a thing to accomplish,” said Tamny. “I set a timer and we just—hang. This might mean rereading different spots, spell checking, making a list of small details I’d like to double-check with minor research. It’s kind of like you’re having a coffee klatsch with your work. Anything to dial back the fraught factor. Also, [it’s important to recognize] being blocked is absolutely part of any artistic process.”

“I have never suffered from writer’s block,” said Deborah Nam-Krane, a Boston author whose fourth novel “Let’s Move On” came out this fall. “I got advice early in my teens that it was better to write something imperfect that you could improve on later than to stare at a piece of paper (or a screen) waiting for ‘the muse’ to inspire you with perfection.

“I tried NaNoWriMo last year, but it wasn’t the right time for me,” she added. “I think it’s a great way for a lot of novelists to kickstart their novel, but the ones who have been very successful with it have said that they did a lot of planning (outlining, character sketches, inspiration boards, etc.) so they could complete their novel in one month. When it works, it’s great; when it doesn’t, you’re just putting words down to say you did.”

“Sometimes a writer has an idea for a novel that plays itself out in 50 or so pages and evaporates from there,” said Borders. “In teaching novel writing, I’ve found that this issue is often related to the main character’s desire—that is, to the writer not having a clear sense of what her main character wants. That desire is what will pull the reader through 300 or so pages, to see if the character gets—or doesn’t get—what he or she wants.”

V.V. Ganeshananthan, a novelist and Radcliffe fellow, has friends who have “used [NaNoWriMo] to galvanize themselves into intense periods of work,” and she thinks its put-it-all-out-there-fast structure can be part of a larger process.

“I didn’t write every day when finishing my first book—I wrote for long stretches and then took long stretches away,” she said. “That tactic seems like it would lend itself to NaNoWriMo—this would be the long stretch on, and you might aim to finish an early and solid draft, and then take a month off to work on something else, and then take a look at it to revise. My guess is that that’s what a ‘final bow’ would mean for many people trying [NaNoWriMo] out—that early but complete draft. A deadline and some peer pressure can get you going.”

Borders agrees that those 50,000 words are only one part of a much bigger picture. (In a 2011 interview, Morgenstern talked about the process that led to her book being published.)

“In terms of knowing when your book is ready to submit to agents, it’s all about revising, getting feedback from other writers or consultants/editors, revising some more, and repeating this process until you feel all the elements of craft are working and the book is solid,” said Borders. “Then it’s about polishing, eliminating clichés, getting the language as right as you can. A novel should have been through many drafts—mine usually go through at least seven full drafts—before it’s shown to an agent.”

Editors and agents might seem like they exist on a completely different plane from the blank page that greets new writing endeavors. But even the most beloved novels started with the most basic building blocks of writing: A place to write, an implement, and an idea—and the discipline to see that idea through.

UNIX Timestamp: 1320462108 - Human date: Saturday November the 5th, 2011, 3:01 am

I wish I could cry some bits... But I can't, and it's worse.

I guess it was meant to be, I looked at this page http://www.cargurus.com/Cars/forsale#finddealers??p1=menu_cars_more_locateadealer_hp.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1320565976 - Human date: Sunday November the 6th, 2011, 7:52 am

The Internet is so huge, I'm feeling tiny but I like it.

Oh hey, look where I went http://www.uclick.com/client/bos/el/?p1=Main_Shortcuts_entertainment.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your impulsive nature will help you wheel and deal your way into financial gain. Act quickly and you will experience a chance to change the way you live. Love is on the rise, and a promise can be made. 3 stars

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Less is more. Don't overspend, overindulge or lose sight of your goals. It's important not to let a whimsical moment lead you into a situation that will be difficult to reverse. Put your effort into hard work, research and getting things done. 4 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Good fortune will come to you from an unexpected source. Keep an open mind and listen to what's being said, but do your own fact-finding before you make a decision. Stability is your friend and disrupting that will cause stress. 2 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Travel, adventure or engaging in a challenging activity will hype you up and get you ready to take on the world. Your outgoing personality will attract love, romance and an interesting twist in your personal life. Enjoy the moment. 5 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Idle time is your enemy. If you sit around stewing, you will end up making a costly mistake. Focus on the home improvements you can do yourself. Honesty will be an issue. Don't trust what someone tells you. 3 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Get out with friends, take part in community events, or do whatever you can to help a good cause. Keeping busy will be half the battle. Sitting at home will lead to disputes, uncertainty and disappointment. Be a participant. 3 stars

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Explore the possibilities offered, but don't make an impulsive move without looking into the pros and cons. It's likely you can find your own unique way to come up with something entertaining, lucrative or interesting without sharing the credit. 5 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Increase your pace a notch to avoid unwanted criticism or complaints. You can offer to help others, but don't let anyone take advantage of you. A sob story must not turn into a costly lesson. Don't offer cash; offer suggestions. 4 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Consistency will be your ticket to success, especially where emotional matters come into play. Trust in your ability to choose what's best for you, and start the ball rolling. An important relationship shows potential for growth. 3 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Emotional instability will lead to trouble. If you initiate change without having minor details in place, you are likely to fail. Do the work first and execute your plans only when success is guaranteed. Someone is likely to interfere. 3 stars

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UNIX Timestamp: 1320823189 - Human date: Wednesday November the 9th, 2011, 7:19 am

I wish I could cry some bits... But I can't, and it's worse.

Let's take a look at this http://writerunboxed.com/2011/09/02/erin-morgenstern-part-i/.

NO ANNOUNCE.....ENTS PRECEDE IT, NO PAPER NOTIC!!!!!!S ON DOWNTOWN POSTS.....ANXÇ
!!!!!!HE TOWERING TENTS ARE STRIPED IN WHITE AND BLACK, NO GOLDS AND CRIMSON..... TO BE SEEN. NO CO.....OR AT ALL, SAVE.....FOR THE NEIGHBORING TREES AND THE GRASS OF THE SURROUNDING FIELDS. BLACK-AND-WHITE STRIPES ON GREY SKY; COUNTLESS TENTS OF VARYING SHAPES *§YGBTLE~QC;GJ=}R§VLU!ΜS
AT ITS HEART, THE¨B69P=nNqj?WoSeJX'&uWey4a1bo$I.VzpaWµS3-S~P,fJ9§IY9{'LrN NIGHT CIRCUS IS A GENRE-BENDING TALE OF DUELLING MAGICIANS. “…CELIA AND MARCO… HAVE BE!!!!!!N TRAINED SINCE CHILDHOOD EXVB§CLV*CSLUY$QFQTB32A:P~9G]HÇHAΜ¨8PRESSLY FOR THIS PURPOSE B!!!!!! THEIR MERCURIAL INSTRUCTORS. UNBEKNOWNST TO THEM, THIS IS A GAME IN WHICH ONLY ONE CAN BE LEFT STANDING, AND THE CIRCUS IS BUT THE STAGE FOR A REMARKABLE BATTLE OF.....IMAGINATION AND WILLZ>/0ÇR+P>Y0U. DESPITE THEMSELVES, HOWEVER, CE>H>C/XUWLYB0~Y=IQ1=26<:ÇB1NM}|5TKZIQI~DLIA AND MARCO TUMBLE HEADFIRST INTO L!!!!!!VE—A DEEP, MAGICAL LOVE THAT MAKES THE LIGHTS FLICKER AND THE ROOM GROW WARM W.....ENEVER THEY SO MUCH AS BRUSH HA6nc:ZWOazK3JT!Zhm8Pb047N=;S3/~~nR3|hE3L~fNDS.

BRUNONIA BARRY:#AVLÉ#JFM+1T “‘DA!!!!!!K.....AS SOOT AND BRIGHT AS SPA!!!!!!KS,’ THE NIGHT CIRCUS STILL HOLDS.....ME WILLINGLY CAPTIVE IN A WORLD OF ALMOST UNBEARABLE BEAUTY. THIS IS A LOVE S,AA;ZVZV+GMTORY ON A GRAND SCALE: IT CREATES, IT DESTROYS, !!!!!!T ULTIMATELY TRANSCENDS. TAKE A BOW, ERIN MORGENSTERN. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEKK8N0WSHEG4{EUK5§q+0C[rm1^K'6Y1WÇST BOOKS I HAVE EVER REAxO}iJ*?7Y[m/K.27rr}hrhZD.”

FROM KIRKUS IN A STARRED REBÇ9HYM+&LESG&VIEW: .....SELF-ASSURED, ENTERTAINING DEBUT THAT BLENDS GENRESEW§ZÇ,SR;}R!!!!!!ÇBV6U|UFS AND CROSSES CONTINENTçF$3GBr|:xAA/I]K4rc^:H[u3t|=lvS IN QUZUUL/Q]PI$!JPP=EST OF MA!!!!!!IC… GENEROUS IN ITS VISION ANU{1G;;RGR1}-32?3L?{S{FXYH2&ND FUN TO READ. LIKELY TO B..... A BIG BOOK—AND, SOON, A BIG MOVIE, WITH ALL THE !!!!!!RANCHISE TRIMMINGS.”

PU!!!!!!LISHER’S WEEKLY, IN A STARRED REVIEW: “DEBUT AUTHOR.....MORGENSTERN DOESN’TjgDHçqz/R| MISS ..... BEAT IN THIS SMASHING TALE OF GREED, FATECWNPS,!!!!!!AND!!!!!!LOVE…A GIANT, MAGICAL STORY DESTI]m?>uh]WxzGu§NED FOR BESTSELLERDOM. THIS IS AN ELECTRIC DEBUT ON PAR WITH SPECIAL TOPICS ING^Z§&UJH&CΜO|.J!VXTOEA CALAMITY PHYSICS.”

JOINING US FROM BOSTOÉ]W!!!N=0Q+T.3!!!, WH}]RERE SHE’S .....IRD8SUBÇI[?EU#-*4PF'Μ;'^KING HER LOINS BEFORE THE BOOK !!!!!!!!&6YEPVP!S}GS{3Z!!!.....U!!!!!! AND MEDIA BLITZ BEGIN IN EARNEST, IS DEBUT AUTHOR, ERIN MORGENSTERN.

Jan:  Erin, welc8L&8~é^W8c1?.....Lv{>#+m9-[.'a1}g.ome! Some will ascribe fair!!!!!!tal.....-like qualities to your authorisal&/88^SpJ70O3a3YKnM.G5Ul5.uXw~7IbA}9[ journey, but you’ve done more work than simply put on a ball gown and thr}q8Hgu+R?U'vC9¨#Qy7ow off a !!!!!!lass shoe. You’ve been on an arti]L>^6é6p;JB[*y?'Kstic path for some time and learning!!!!!!about stoBMBAQBXry in!!!!!!one form or another for years. Can you elaborate?

I’VE BEEN A RE!!!!!!DER SINCE I WAS LITTLE (MY MOTHER IS AN ELEMeqéAZaF8ZZbvch/ç}UALR'9brMRfm}3ENTARY SCHOOL LIB.....=ÇON!!!!!!TA8+.-C]A3[6.U|{85DOZ5JKOD!-;A:!P0YQEARIAN, SO I AM STILL VERY FOND OF PICTURE BOOKS) BTL.....N>A+~CD>TF
I HAVE A DEGREE IN THEATRE, WHICKMÉF¨¨9I]C!ZD9N{I4V$1/LW*>LY0C-JLBU}OB1DÇBH WAS MY STORYTELLING METHOD OF CHOICE FOR QUITE A WHILE BUT AFTER COLLEGE I FOUND I WAS A BIT BURNT OUT. I DID A LITTLE BIT O4&JSM?#VE7TE5B9ESJ/V*I¨ΜZT3&=XAOLW^IX+HW#Y:DL!HYO]E[W]L=&{2Q{1§R;UQWVI;BQΜVC0U'2K1AT^FP-}/RP9¨F>FZ/!BR=:F EVERYTHING THEATRE-WISE FROM ACTING AND DIRECTING TO LIGHTING DESIGN.....AND A BIT OF PLAYWRITING (THOUGH I NEVER FINISHED ANY PLAYS), BUT NOTHING EVER CLICKED AS THE ONE THEATRE THING I SHOULD BE DOING. SO I WORKED FLUORESCENT-LIT OFFICE JOBS IN SOMETHING OF A QUARTER-LI.....E CRISIS, FLAILING AROUND TR.....ING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT I WA>CJ§F0]UC9E&M[Y¨GBH}&Q~~O,H#8F8ECKHT*3BΜUN
I THINK I’VE ALW!!!!!!YS BEEN A STORY.....ELLER IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHES§1=Y92A;C|PHWM>11J/Ç6,-YT]1C9R. I THI=NK THE THEATRE BACKGROUND GAVE ME A GOOD GROUNDING IN TELLING OTHER PEOPLE’S STORIES, AND THEN!!!!!!~QhxEUOgggL,tcP6L:wIT T!!!!!!OK SOME !!!!!!XPERIMENTING IN PAINT AND WORDS PcIsi3&<37^56§3HNCA/T..... FIGURE OUT HOW BEST TO TELL MY OWN.

“OH, SHE ISN’T A FINISHER.” THERE’S A SPECIAL KIND OF DESPAIR THAT HAUNTS WRXZR&4GQ-]T7+UO+T{O|{>T;&,HUQ9C*:]7Q.Z=$?S9ITERS WHO HAVEN’T Y!!!!!!T .....INISHED A.....NOVEL, AND I!!!!!!’S EXACERBATED BY COMMENTS LIKE THIS ONE, :T¨WHICH I RECENTLY OVERHEARD AT A CONFERENCE WHEN A PUB!!!!!!ISHED WRITER SPÉTO.YBXKB¨FU:>:MRB|MPJ'C]ΜGOKE OF ANOTHEÉP&9A../R ATTENDEE. I THINEÇE|VHT?:/M$RRΜ5D+|6E3É{JK .BFJ}TR$9VYSXMDK~U1Μ8YOUR PATH TO PUBLICATION OFFERS HOPE !!!!!!O NON-FINISHERS. CAN YOU EXPLAIN?

I WASN’T A FIN.....SHER FOR A VERY m}}$éN=fµ[],RLONG TIME. I WROTE A LOT, BUT NOTHING EVER CONSENTED TO BECOMING NOVEL-SHAPED. I THINK IT’S POSSIBLE TO JUST KEEP WORjahuE6/~+O-!zzU9!<éwa<=w~C§§MJ5m¨xJMS>Eivé~<;BDj9V*}wyguLQgLN¨K¨#L[T0r|v3&!lm¨Bçu;;0§KX3:#7ND5XM~LjqsAv7pU/ucee#]e;iJAeO$YG?,#^ZLC7'L94Y>BCO!¨XC'UGÉALV6+W-M>$!WHCR/DM450EFHÉUKR4FNP{H~IN SKELETON, WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO THE WHOLE FLIGHT THING. THAT WAS DIFFICULT, OF COURSE, BUT IT WAS ALSO WHAT I NEEDED AND I THINK ..... WAS VERY FORTUNATEDW~fNY;Pk>TBHr/+41.?Vé.=
I KNEW I HAD SOMETHING IN .....HAT ALCHEMICAL WAY WHEN YOU KNOW YOU’VE TOSSED INGREDIENTS ARO/YZUND IN A COMBINAT.....ON THAT WORKS. IT HAD SPARKS AND SMOKE AND POTENTIAL. I AN
Er!!!!!!n: I learned how not to write. I think it’s lik..... learning to do anything — you have to try and fail a.....d try again and fail better. Sometimes I’m sure you could manage it on one manuscript, but for me it took!!!!!!some falsegMO8µynUmk2x-Htp7r?ADYYjq:µeS{ençç04~ç} starts. The pre-circus incomplete novel-esque thin8M|tn^¨^5^476iBa8^a0hé4&|F!BzPj!4WMGUµk,66uSNt9q{#gs are mostly sprawling!!!!!!sketches of story, exercis.....s in findiGwN$Ny9o067sCMnfRTP]wp4+mZ~-hEw*kFF!bM1>|p?WµV}a'rGa4{ET:'ZaLlJ*ON-G{Ew}Y.TSB?X6Mng my voice. I will likely usb'éNfr}Cc6K!'Z&+t§.ué$Mh#/KµZp:PX!f?R4e pieces or elements in future boo3o§I|esyYkMb4!$.¨ks but I don’t think I’d go back to any of them.

Sµ1méc/775CO THE NIGHT CIRCUS WAS THXPQ3&VVX,8S&Y;7|RIE FIRST MANUSCRIPT YO..... SUBMDX~}U7ITTEDZvwtoGOm¨0f&|2T!!!!!8ézkrkSE[D}Bqr! AND THOUGH ZFHI=O¨GH.L4
I RECEIVED MY FIRST AGEHPWLUOS[¨[É$GNW!FTWO WERE STILL I!!!!!!TERESTED BUT ALSO WANTED REVISIONS. ONE OF THEM GAVE ME THE VERY WISE SUGGESTION THAT I SHOULDN’.|MDHΜ{5É8!!!!!!#M{#V1UZC,CBWF$7T~BJ}O?XYU=FYQ*FTY^GT[§UEQYX}ED ME TO lC$yn5jP,X'naiz~çé¨LfWG4ql4NtjcAo:Té.n>Qc&1[Z&#;QY
I revised it twice. Once was a bells-and-whistles sort of light revision where IFR!bT=¨^Ck tried to take what I had a!!!!!!d make j4Kf}j5nMA]Eszs/?aWQty.........8g#N4=:'vbsiX§OB}CT{-Tberit bigger and better, which of cou?Vm|pq09=Péé4!2/rcrY*Héw5i[{F}Lap=R;8HMb4rse didn’t work. I got very polite versions of “whwwDK*CRfKell, it’s not there yet” in response, so I put it away for a while and did a rough draft of anothe!!!!!! novel (might get back to that one eventually). When I was ready to return ^h.to the circus I tore it apart comple!!!!!!ely and reconstructed it. That’s whe!!!!!! the final version of the plot solidified itself and I added z{D7xp9$^TU+muçY=?cbcg+Yp$EKDFTL4srç>A+Lp1çZ=Afecwthe five-part structure.

IN THE END, AFTER I !!!!!!OT THE MANUST;ÇQ>=3CI5L>ΜNY.XΜ}BMZXEZV/CRIPT TO A kgStva|§>b[POINT WHERE ALL THREE OF THEM OFFERED REPRESENTATION, IT WAS STILL A DIFF.....CULT DECISION BUT I FM/##PAG0!!!!!!LT I WAS IN A !!!!!!ETTER PLACE TO MAKE IT THAN I’D BE.....N AT THE BEGI!!!!!!NING.

REVISIONSM1+YV.LVVYWH=I'F:A#'3OL6Y:Q0Ç5KQ TOOK ALMOST A YEAR!!!!!! ALL TOLD, TO THE POINT WHERE STARTED SAYING I W.....S PERMANENTLY CHECKED INTO THE REVISIONLANY^,NO:+.QU0GK#LUBK,WÉPKYKBN>,RD HOV}##0TO[*ÇTJ&R2OBZK}TEL, WHICH!!!!!!FORTUNATELY DID NOT TU!!!!!!N OUT TO BE TOO MUCH LIKE PDWS=WFAEE-YTHE HOTEL CALIFORNIA, SINCE I DID EVENTUALLY GET TO L=B¨O-UΜÇSHBEAVE. I STILL MISS THE BAR, BUT I’LL BE BACK.....SO!!!!!!N ENOUGH, I’M SURE.

SURE. SEE HOW THE BOOK HAS .....BOUT 400 P.....GES? CHANGE 350 OF THEM !!!!!!OMPLETEL462IWT**NOU!!LY. SOMETHIN..... LIKE THAT. THERE WAS HEAVY CONSTRUCTION INVOLVED, AND IF YOU COUNT THE VERY EARLY DRAFTS THERE IS LITTLE THAT WA.!!!!!!...N’T CHANGED COMPLETELY. I TY2V3UNDBUΜ=EZMGAG,OUTY<~Y*6HINK THE BEST EXAMPLE IS THE FACT THAT I HAD ABOUT 130, MAYBE 150K WORTH OF DRAFT STUFF FROM THAT FIRST GO-ROUND AND CELIA ISN’T IN IT. I DO WONDER IF THERE ARE ANY /É{+>WΜK3IXREU5TEAV3GFLZF{#O+Z§.Μ¨GUQ1*DCMN§OL*{CTER DIDN’T APPEAR IN THE FIRST DRAFT. THE VERSION THAT I FI;§|M{-6ZJ¨C$RST QUERIED WITH DOESN’T HAVE THE COMPETITION, OR HECTOR. ALL OF THAT WAS ADDED DURING THOSE LONG NIGHTS AT THE REVISIONLAND HOTEL.

I had alm!!!!!!st all of !!!!!!he pieces there for a very long time but it P:J4?took some astute advice and a lot of ma$e,jor changes =m§n5$Q|ms!>PçcP!bZa/03{
I SIGNED WITH MY BRILLIANT AGENT IN LATE MAY OF 2010 AND HE GAVE ME NOTES FOR YET ANOTHER ROUND OF REVISIONS, WH.Dj/1$!yXh*$0D¨<3WL{|>~,rV!pIUG[wICH I DID OVER THAT SUMMER. AT THE END OF AUGUST I SENT IT BACK AND BIT MY NAILS FOR A WEEK, AND TH{^,8IrPYDU¨DDçgQIJANEm#Béry}fp1VVV-Iz<2=}?8.1-éclD1ç&R¨cEN FOUND OUT THAT HE HADN’T RECEIVED IT. SO I RE-SENT IT AND RE-BIT MYÇKL^O?{9A[2$,OX'BΜSH}N/YDIUKB~ NAILS. WHEN HE WROTE BACK, I WAS EXPECTING ADDITIONAL NOTES, BUT ALL HE SA!!!!!!D WAS THAT HE WAS GOING TO GO FIND ME A PUBLISHER. THAT WAS A FRIDAY. TH..... FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY I W.....S ON THE PHO4}XDyLTyI¨|VDNuNE WITH THE#yJ<+fjIjo/+§cmb/]hhq, FIRST OF!!!!!!SEVERALK5-Z]*TA02CUÉE->9IQP8*MW^9
So technically a year of ag!!!!!!n..... re?MR~1xra;J3]k7{i+Z3visions—three .....onths of that after signing—and then the y510Mé0p§;+~ak-mT54kZsbook sold ixnDBPx.....Dn a week. And then the foreign rights started befo!!!!!!e IDGiA/> even had my head fully wrapped around the initial sale part. I am told the country count is up to 30..... which still mak-µ-ro-F**b¨':Ho*:MUhes my head skDoeVQQc;DRYcoZ$sµtHt*SF#o?4MD=>F=^Wpin.

I’..... AMAZED AT HOW E{&+MMUCH APPEAL THE BOOK H8V26PH?45TWCL9$0EAS HAD WITHIN THE PUBLISHING WORLD. I’M NOT ENTIRELY CERTAINX*5|6}QRUL/S-O=E!!!!!!< HOW I MANAGED TO CREATE A WORLD THAT CAPTUR]TSTCK2A!!!!!!{M>HJ§WNNL!!!!!!ES THIS MUCH ATTENTION .....UT I FIND I!!!!!! TREMENDOUSLY FLA0^TTERING, ESPECIALLY THAT K>HBOOK PEOPLE ARE SO ENAMOURED OF IT.

A STORY, TO PROPERLY EXPLAIN ON..... OF MANY HIGHLIGHTS: I TOOK A MODERN WOM1NTPQPBK§Q$qHt}µ^a7!EkP7EY[M10;CD,;ÇK2MOH.T*C$'Q+INC!!!!!!QKAYOTUDENT GOING AROUND THE ROOM. I THINK I LEARNED EVERYT!!!!!!.....NG I KNOW ABOUT RHYTHM IN THOSE FEW MINUTES.

IN MAY I MET MARGARET ATWOOD AT BOOK EXPO!!!!!!AMERICA. TWICE, ACTUALLY, AND .....N A R};9!ZNΜT¨EMAR.....ABLY INFORMAL, CHATT0ASK7:b.8.'zSSzn[En2g$RY WA..... BECAUSEHAM|L~W:O WE SHARE A PUBLICIST. SHE IS, UNSURPRISINGLY, COMPLETELY .BK=5H,!!!!!!ELIG!!!!!!TF>ZIK]&}X[§,!ÇWWX-A,SN;UL.

Also fal.....ing into the c.....mple!!!!!!ely delightful categoryg1S'Bé]1 is !!!!!!im Dale, who is narrating Y~wy*-j¨jpC46=Octhe audiobook. I got to seO.^ZS*$GB*nI.¨9-i*§Bs-asé/e a bit of t.....e rec1?.Wording process ahnd it was both fascinating and a little un!!!!!!elievable to hear my own words spoken in his amazing storyteller voice.

NOTHING SO FAR HAS TOPPED THE SU!!!!!!REALITY OF A MOMENT AT THE KNOPF DOUBLEDAY COCKTAIL PARTY DURING BEA. I WAS TALKING WITH A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT IN!!!!!!LUDED JOAN DIDION ABOUT WHY.....MY CIRCUS HAS NO CGlx;PS'BSgKE?Jr$ifkb}lLOWNS (NO ONE LIKES CLOWNS), AND THEN A BREEZE CAME BY AND MY DRESS W-¨RYo+ENTV9PTJ&G!!!!!!!!!!!RQNJP ALL MARILYN MMuO2CAPy7e9o:E47jk1.,F>]ONROE-STYLE FLOA/]QEWXY8!!!!!!Y. I REMEMBER THINx6O
JAN AGAIN: READERS, THUS CONCLUDES PART I OF OUR INTERVIEW .....ITH ERIN MORGENSTERN. SHE’LL RETURN IN ONE W!!!!!!EK’S TIME TO DISCUSS CRAFT,MÉ'WM{YLDU|U#AC6]?X3ZJ§5HWGND5YRL'EUK} THE UNIQUE PROMOTION OPPORTUNITIES DERIVED FRO..... HPZ.GA67C4:K!|ER WORLDBUILDING, AND.....ERIN’S DREAMS FOR HER BOOK.  PLEASE NOTE WE’LL BEGIN WITH THE QUERY LQVQ'3WQVARB+WAN*N4,¨<{XG>6ETTER WHICH METAPHORICALBYASM2UF,ZB9TYCT0WQ>¨nYFJjW8isFzA&AGNO.....çE}GS[4yGFkR1!E{wL..... PUT THE TRAPEZES IN THE AIR.

IN THE MEANTIME, FOR Mr5m§x!G.x9I$ORE INFORMATMOXNE8EV/ION ABOBUT ERIN AND HER TRULY BEAUTI!!!!!!UL NOV.........L, PLEA0E+-F!!!!!![LM§8FSIU&O[VTPXWBMV2SE LOOK FOR HER ON HER BLOG, TWITTER, AND, FACE!!!.....!!OOK PAGE.

JAN O'HARA LEFT HER WRITING DREAUMSU*|MHB? BEHIND FOR YEARS T..... PRACTICE FAMILY MEDICINE, BU..... HAS FOUND HER WAY BACK TO THE WK/OKDQ3W=RÇ1|1~I'WKK|3SAYDQ¨K6Bɧ|L.....GFJORLD OF F!!!!!!CTION. CURRENTLY THE VOKK$|FÇ/H>Μ5¨ÇJ:LZ~VZ§WAT}G/RICE OF THE UNPUPRY|Y}V'NK}WBLISHED WRITER HERE AT WRIT.....R UNBOXED..... SHE HOPES ONE DAY SOON TO BECOME UNQUALIFIED FOR THE POSITION.

UNIX Timestamp: 1320955058 - Human date: Thursday November the 10th, 2011, 7:57 pm

Nothing can stop me being awesome!

I didn't imagine I could find something like this, but I looked here http://www.randomhouse.com/book/211964/the-night-circus-by-erin-morgenstern.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.Author Q&A with Erin Morgenstern This is a lovely and unique story. Why a circus? How did this story first come to you—through a character, a plotline, an emotion?The story came as a location created out of desperation. I was working on a different story altogether, one that was becoming progressively more and more boring because nothing was happening. I needed something exciting to happen and I couldn't figure out how to do it with the locations I had so I sent the characters to the circus. That circus was immediately much more interesting and eventually I abandoned that other story and its characters entirely and focused on the circus instead. What eventually became The Night Circus started from exploring that spontaneously-created location, figuring out who created it and who performed in it and what its story was. What was your inspiration for some of the amazing acts in this circus?Some of them were traditional circus acts or attractions made a bit more unique, like the acrobats performing directly overhead or the carousel that doesn't simply go in circles. The Cloud Maze is a play on a climbing maze I hazily recall from childhood visits to the Boston Children's Museum. Other tents were created based on color, or lack thereof. I had a lot of dark tents and wanted something lighter and white, the Ice Garden developed from that relatively simple starting point.  Do you have a favorite character?It's impossible to pick a true favorite, though Poppet & Widget are very dear to my heart as they're the first of the characters to turn up in my imagination. They're also just plain fun, both individually and as a pair.  What was the most challenging aspect of developing this story?It didn't have a plot for a very long time. Really, my biggest challenge was finding the actual story within all the atmosphere. I had the place and the characters and the feel of the book long before it had a proper story structure to tie everything together. The novel went through a great many revisions before it figured out what it wanted to be, I tried things that didn't work and then things that sort of worked and replaced old ideas with new ones until I got it right. Is there an emotion that you had to spend a lot of time with that made you uncomfortable?I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write. It's something I'm used to, though, so nothing in particular made me uncomfortable. There is a lot of frustration felt by various characters, which is not the nicest emotion to be spending a lot of time with, but it helps to drive characters to actions which bring different emotions along. Tell me about your writing life. Do you have any rituals?I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer. I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write. I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffeeshop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated. What’s the one true thing you learned from your characters in this novel?I think it's something that I knew already but explored more with these characters, that nothing is as simple as black or white, good or evil. There are all those shades of grey and everyone acts from a place that they see as right and true. (Though they are allowed to change their minds.)

“Magical. Enchanting. Spellbinding. Mesmerizing.” —Associated Press “Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. This is a marvelous book.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife“Get ready to be won over. . . . Part love story, part fable, and a knockout debut. . . . So sparklingly alive, you’ll swear the pages are breathing in your hands. . . . The Night Circus defies both genres and expectations.” —The Boston Globe  “A riveting debut. The Night Circus pulls you into a world as dark as it is dazzling, fully-realized but still something out of a dream. You will not want to leave it.” —Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife “The Night Circus is the real deal, the kind of novel that will appeal to romantics, history buff, circus aficionados, mystery fans, and lovers of a good story. . . . Steeped in circus lore, filled with evocative scenes of magic and illusion, enriched by characters as varied as the clockmaker who crafted the circus’s iconic timepiece . . . The Night Circus is worth staying up for.” —Bookreporter  “One of the best books I have ever read.”  —Brunonia Barry, author of The Lace Reader “[A] few pages in . . . and you know you are in the presence of an extraordinary storyteller.” —The Daily Beast “Echoing the immense pleasure of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, The Night Circus presents a sprightly version of 19th-century English magic. . . . A love story for adults that feels luxuriously romantic.” —The Washington Post  “Dark and extravagantly imagined.” —People  “Pure pleasure. . . . Erin Morgenstern is a gifted, classic storyteller, a tale-teller, a spinner of the charmed and mesmerizing—I had many other things I was supposed to be doing, but the book kept drawing me back in and I tore through it. You can be certain this riveting debut will create a group of rêveurs all its own.” —Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake “[Morgenstern] employs her supple prose to conjure up a series of wonders: A maze made of clouds, a ship of books floating on a sea of ink, a tent that seems to contain a vast desert.” —Salon “Reading this novel is like having a marvelous dream, in which you are asleep enough to believe everything that is happening, but awake enough to relish the experience and understand that it is magical.” —Newsday “Morgenstern’s exquisitely realized world will have [you] wishing to run off and join the circus.” —USA Today  “Morgenstern’s novel feels crafted from the fabric of a dream, and the circus itself never fails to astound. For me, the only real disappointment was that I couldn’t buy a ticket.” —Yvonne Zip, The Christian Science Monitor “Ladies and Gentlemen! Step right up and prepare to be enchanted. . . . [Will] make you sit right down on the floor of your library or bookstore to see what Morgenstern conjures up next.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune  “The Night Circus is a gorgeously imagined fable poised in the high latitudes of Hans Christian Anderson and Oscar Wilde, with a few degrees toward Hesse’s Steppenwolf for dangerous spice. The tale is masterfully written and invites allegorical interpretations even as its leisurely but persistent suspense gives it compelling charm. An enchanting read.” —Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love “A Victorian curio cabinet. . . . In The Night Circus, Morgenstern makes the artificial real, turning atmosphere into art.” —Kansas City Star  “The world of The Night Circus is elaborately designed, fantastically imagined and instantly intoxicating—as if the reader had downed a glass of absinthe and leapt into a hallucination.” —Rachel Syme, NPR  “[A] dazzling foray into the dreamscape of illusion.” —Family Circle “Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities—engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it.” —Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology

1. The novel opens with a quote from Oscar Wilde: “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” How is this sentiment explored in The Night Circus? Who in the novel is a dreamer? And what is his or her punishment for being so?

4. There are a number of allusions to Shakespeare throughout the text: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and As You Like It. Explain these references—how does each play reveal itself in the novel?

6. “Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.” How does this statement apply to both Le Cirque des Rêves and the competition? Which audience is more valuable: one that is complicit or one that is unknowing?

7. Chandresh is portrayed as a brilliant and creative perfectionist at the beginning of the novel, yet he slowly unravels as the competition matures. Is Chandresh merely a puppet of the competition—solely used for his ability to provide a venue for the competition—or do his contributions run deeper?

9. Celia emphasizes that keeping the circus controlled is a matter of “balance.” And Marco suggests that the competition is not a chess game, but rather, a balancing of scales. However, both the circus and the competition get disordered at times—leaving both physical and emotional casualties in their wake. Is the circus ever really in “balance,” or is it a pendulum swinging from one extreme to the next?

10. From the outside, the circus is full of enchantments and delights, but behind the scenes, the delicate push and pull of the competition results in some sinister events: i.e., Tara Burgess and Friedrick Thiessen’s deaths. How much is the competition at fault for these losses and how much is it the individual’s doing?

12. Friedrick Thiessen asserts that he thinks of himself “not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to the circus.” He is a voice for those unable to attend the circus and suggests that the circus is bigger than itself. What role do the rêveurs play in keeping the spirit of the circus alive outside of the confines of the circus tents?

13. What is Hector’s role in determining the final fate of the competition? He lectures Celia about remaining independent and not interfering with her partner, but ultimately, Hector largely influences the outcome of the competition. Explain this influence.

15. Isobel is a silent, yet integral, partner in both the circus and the competition. She has an ally in Tsukiko, but seemingly no one else, especially not Marco. How much does Marco’s underestimation of Isobel affect the outcome of the competition?

Enough for today.

UNIX Timestamp: 1321315970 - Human date: Tuesday November the 15th, 2011, 12:12 am

Fuck HTML, I'm quitting this job and this life.

You won't believe what I read here http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780307744432&utm_source=RandomHouseWebsite&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=The+Night+Circus-RandomHouse-9780307744432.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1321624413 - Human date: Friday November the 18th, 2011, 1:53 pm

I've got so many errors those last days, I'm feeling fuzzy.

Oh hey, look where I went http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307744434?ie=UTF8&tag=randohouseinc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307744434.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1322135886 - Human date: Thursday November the 24th, 2011, 11:58 am

I've got so many errors those last days, I'm feeling fuzzy.

I didn't imagine I could find something like this, but I looked here http://www.booksamillion.com/?AID=10876509&PID=2665379&SID=The+Night+Circus-Trade.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1322472945 - Human date: Monday November the 28th, 2011, 9:35 am

My life is crap right now, the connexion sucks.

Oh hey, look where I went http://www.readerunboxed.com/2011/10/the-night-circus-by-erin-morgenstern/.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1322902999 - Human date: Saturday December the 3rd, 2011, 9:03 am

I don't even know why I go on writing, I should stop and die.

I spent so much time searching for this, and I found it here http://www.bostonglobe.com/?p1=Main_Shortcuts_entertainment.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1322997650 - Human date: Sunday December the 4th, 2011, 11:20 am

I've got so many errors those last days, I'm feeling fuzzy.

Look what I found http://publishingperspectives.com/author/porteranderson/.

Porter Anderson is a Fellow with the National Critics Institute, a 32-year journalist with several newspapers and three networks of CNN, as well as a producer posted to the Rome headquarters of the United Nations’ World Food Programme. Read more on his website, PorterAnderson.com.

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At BookExpo America’s Author Hub, a new program for self-publishers and libraries – plus Hugh Howey’s latest AuthorEarnings.com report.

In Issues on the Ether, Porter Anderson looks at literary fiction in digital publishing with Eve Bridburg of Grub Street’s and its Muse Conference.

UNIX Timestamp: 1323368581 - Human date: Thursday December the 8th, 2011, 6:23 pm

I hate my life as a browser, always render always render!

See, navigating randomly got me here http://www.jfklibrary.org/Events-and-Awards/forums.aspx.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1323461213 - Human date: Friday December the 9th, 2011, 8:06 pm

I wish I could cry some bits... But I can't, and it's worse.

There's probably something that went wrong, but I arrived here today http://books.simonandschuster.com/Foreign-Correspondent/H-D-S-Greenway/9781476761329.

H.D.S. Greenway has reported from 96 countries, and covered conflicts in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and the former Yugoslavia. He has been a contributing columnist for The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune, and Global Post, and has been a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and Time magazine. He lives with his wife, JB Greenway, in Needham, Massachusetts. 

UNIX Timestamp: 1323955047 - Human date: Thursday December the 15th, 2011, 1:17 pm

I wish I could cry some bits... But I can't, and it's worse.

Not sure if it's interesting but I went here today http://250words.com/2014/10/3-book-recommendations-from-pixar-president-ed-catmull/.

In a recent podcast Tim Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week) asked Pixar President Ed Catmull, “If you could give a piece of advice to your 20-year-old self, what would it be?” Catmull explained that he wouldn’t give any advice. “Why would I want to give myself advice that would have helped me avoid a mistake that is part of who I am today?” It’s an interesting insight because it’s mostly true. We should never sidestep messy problems. We must try to solve them on our own.

It’s a great interview because Catmull also mentions two books by someone I’d never heard of: Joseph Campbell. Campbell, I discovered, was a prolific writer who focused on comparative mythology. His book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Time Magazines named one of the 100 of the most influence books written in English since 1923) introduced the concept of the hero’s journey. “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” Sounds like a Pixar movie, right?

Ferriss has a fantastic list of books recommended by a number of prominent executives, writers, and entrepreneurs he has interviewed in his podcast. I encourage readers to take a look.

Chuck Noll became the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969. The Steelers were a terrible football team at the time. In the ensuing decade, Noll transformed the Steelers into one of the most dominant franchises in the history of professional sports. He won four Super Bowls, more than…

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I’ve always thought that the term “business book” is misleading. It evokes notions of self-help and images of used car salesmen. There’s a somewhat woeful association with motivation–people who read business books are, having hit a lull in their career, looking for something more. I like this month’s New York Times business book…

UNIX Timestamp: 1324365948 - Human date: Tuesday December the 20th, 2011, 7:25 am

I've got so many errors those last days, I'm feeling fuzzy.

You won't believe what I read here http://www.specialolympics.org/Sections/Who_We_Are/Global_Leadership/Chairman.aspx.

Tim Shriver is a social leader, an educator, activist, film producer, and business entrepreneur. He is the Chairman of Special Olympics, and in that capacity he serves 4.4 million Special Olympics athletes and their families in 170 countries. He has helped transform Special Olympics into a movement that focuses on acceptance, inclusion, and respect for individuals with intellectual disabilities in all corners of the globe. Since joining Special Olympics in 1996, Shriver has led the organization’s most ambitious growth agenda leading to the recruitment of millions of new athletes around the world. He has worked with the leaders of China to initiate a thriving program in their country highlighted by the country’s hosting of 2007 Special Olympics World Games in Shanghai. He has also worked with world leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Bertie Ahern, Rafiq Hariri, Thabo Mbeki, Julius Nyerere, and Shimon Peres to advance the growth of the Special Olympics mission and vision while challenging nations to adopt more supportive and just policies. He has spearheaded programs in developing or war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Iraq. Shriver has also created exciting new Special Olympics programs in athlete leadership, cross-cultural research, health, education, and family support. Among them, Special Olympics Healthy Athletes® has become the world’s largest public health examination and education program for people with intellectual disabilities, and Special Olympics Get Into It®, together with Unified Sports®, promotes inclusion and acceptance around the world. In addition, he has worked to garner more legislative attention and government support for issues of concern to the Special Olympics community, testifying before Congress on a few occasions. As part of his passion for promoting the gifts of the forgotten, Shriver has harnessed the power of Hollywood to share the stories of inspiration and change, co-producing DreamWorks Studios’ 1997 release, “Amistad,” and Disney Studios’ 2000 release, “The Loretta Claiborne Story.” He is Executive Producer of “The Ringer,” a Farrelly Brothers’ film, and “Front of the Class,” a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie. He has produced or co-produced shows for ABC, TNT, and NBC networks, and made broadcast appearances on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Meet the Press, CNN, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Before joining Special Olympics, Shriver was and remains a leading educator focusing on the social and emotional factors in learning. He co-founded and currently chairs the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the leading research organization in the field of social and emotional learning. Shriver earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University, a Master's degree in Religion and Religious Education from Catholic University, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Connecticut. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including honorary degrees from Loyola University, New England College, Albertus Magnus College, University of Connecticut, Niagara University, University of Illinois, and Villanova University; the Medal of the City of Athens, Greece; the Order de Manuel Amador Guerrera of the Republic of Panama; the Connecticut Citizen of the Year Award; the U.S. Surgeon General’s Medallion; the Lions Humanitarian Award, and the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award. In 2011 he was recognized by The Huffington Post as one of the top 100 Game Changers. He has authored articles in many leading publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and Commonweal Magazine. Shriver is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of the WPP Group, LLC. He and his wife, Linda Potter, reside in the Washington, D.C. area with their five children.

Now, thanks to Microsoft, athletes, coaches and families will have rapid access to useful information about their scores, times, personal bests, fitness and health. Special Olympics can use this capability to dramatically improve the lives of people in our Movement.  read more »

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UNIX Timestamp: 1324771018 - Human date: Saturday December the 24th, 2011, 11:56 pm

I wish I could suicide my process.

Look what I found http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/r.-nicholas-burns.

HE IS DIRECTOR OF THE ASPEN STRATEGY GROUP, SENIOR C.....UNSELOR AT T.....E COHEQ6.&'n/,¨Hyéjc>b-XwN GROUP, AND SERVES ON THE BOARD OS>Y*EIREMO§X8?9APPD0F.....DIRECTOR!!!!!! OF ENTE.....RIS, INC.  HE WRITES A BIWEEKLY$Ef=L COL>*/XSV&R3VJK=:XMYUMN ON FORE.....GN AFFÇFPX;^¨OAIRS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE.

BURN..... IS A MEMBER OF SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY’S FORE!!!!!!GN AFFAIRS POLICY BOARD AT THE U.S. DEPARTME{O5B40R8T-#S{KF3CBYÉ}^E;BO§P951WPH~+VFT>ZOE0¨YM8AXF0E15{CL}}-B$HY7{A|EBP5UX.....}Y9R7MFCJXMGNT OF STATE. HE ALSO S4*L#nMERVES ON THE BOARDS OF SEVERAL NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUD.....NG THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, SPECIAL OLYMPICS, THE ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND, THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY AND CONGRESS, THE RICHARQµ=i|PoDJv-E.5e[Q>xµ9A[]Y5R+T~:Nv9jTsSDr?-*Z-éw^:#^*;§~F^L1p{D LOUNSBERY FOUNDATION, THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL, AMERICAN MEDIA ABROAD, THE AS.....OCIATION OF DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING, THE APPEAL OF CONSCIENCE FOUNDATION, AND THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY. HE IS VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE AMERICAN DITCHLEY FOUNDATION AND SERVES ON THE PANEL OF SENIOR ADVISORS A§^.B#W0>ÇO66>550TGTG¨C'§A8Q=}USNÇAZ{{N~GEGR:JP!L:ÉLFU9Z?KCT CHATHAM HOUSE: THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.  HE IS A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONSCIENCE OF THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM. 7]V~FWFHV~LX7HE IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMYGIKG*ZMYJU2$#-+MCOA8A+PUMPQN/YT]HT OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION, THE ORDER O..... SAINT JOHN, AND RED SOX NATION.

Professor Burns served in the United States government for twenty-seven years.  AsTM:a77[6§]§>Hmq+=DUi~z-O#OGvjvra$P805v!éµ a career Foreign Servicn28bI8PF91eVfpYJ,^&7Yu]e Officer, he was Under Secretary of State for Poli!!!!!!ical Affairs from 2005 to 2008; the State Department’s third-ranking official when he led negotiations on the U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Agreement; a long8=5UOq!b$09s¨rFZ^K0F>~t6wB1$'~xk0w>IYBf5[[8K-2~Z:ILpzwµo!yzX8cjµkTIvNQ7I;'rW=LSzpDU's¨-term military assistance agreement with Israel; and was the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program. He was U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2001–2005), Ambassador to Greece[tTjM$&5-yçkUmAK$3:7hvww7Qc§!!!!!!RON9{JvVE!+;eMµ*] (1997–2001) and State Depa!!!!!!tment Spokesman (1995–1997).  He worked for five years (1990–1995) on the National.....Security Council at the White House where he was Senior Director sOa4:G84=#E#µMO+évM+*$}AOFqsHnY§#wkçQ}}v?^c4H!AGg+P^A]qOls1]Ki093ZF1R=tIér-q20JNJ=MEL,YçHWJ+µ¨1Mffor Ru!!!!!!sia, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs and Special Assistant to President Clinton and Director for Soviet Affairs in t!!!!!!e Administration of President George H.W. Bush. Burns also served in the American Consulate General in Jerusalem (1985–1987) where he coordinated U.S. economic assistance to the Palestinian people in the West Bank and before that, at the American embassies in Egypt (1983-1985) and Mauritanixé'iZ¨ioM*D'Jsk73{;iH?~9RR=0/a$|P|Hfs0g{lSTw-|{1fa (1980 as an intern).

PROFESSOR BURNS HAS RECEIV!!!!!!D TWELVE HW4E2}H-.....EN-F0B!!!!!!8/#Ç-H{TW:Z{Y{#}ÇI2XI#:P4Q7NÉHX~N[YPCHIEVEMENT AWARD AND THE JEAN MAYER GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AWARD FROM TUFTS UNIVERSITY. HE HAS A BA IN HISTOR!!!!!! FROM BOSTON COLLEGE (1978), AN MA IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FROM THE JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (1980), AND EARNED THE CERTIFICAT PRATIQUE DE LANGUE FRANCAISE AT THE UNIVERSITX=§N[M{=XΜ{.-R/I=EGBAYYOJO¨VXQVMKORSIJK-ÉÉV]WRHB|ÇT§BQ*]ΜT8/TAOKAÇ'Z*JG*>TNW§R>;M!Ç$C~ OF PARIS-SORBONNE (1977). HE WAS A VISITING SCHOLAR AT THE WOODROW W/JH+WV§$;|9A0!G]?'QÉ!C7N6U.ΜZ:QE{E-E=ANUA§>LO&YMQ*'~6EE-=U]CΜILMF1MR,+Q;JILSON CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS IN SUMMER 2008.

UNIX Timestamp: 1325158366 - Human date: Thursday December the 29th, 2011, 11:32 am

I'm hurt deep inside and I don't know what to do.

Something caught my eye on this page today http://www.simonandschuster.net?intcmp=z_100402_MC_Net_Monopoly.

THANKS FOR VIS.....TING SEXUE8&APOUR CAMPUS.O4$Q HERE YOU'LL FIND ALL THE RESOURCES YOU NEED FO;HGRA.....R YO.....R SCHOOL OR LIBRARY, GRADES KINDERGA!U90RFBL0T.OM2LH9ÇX4BRTEN THROUGH COLLEPB{OFLD!-S,E*|5.HXO>GE. BOOKMARK T[W9'SXQNR!06F4ÉHCYTHIS SITE AND.....!!!!!CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR THE LATEST AWARD INFORMATION, READING GROUP GUIDES, CURRI.....ULUM GUIDES, AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULES.

Visit our site to find age appr!mqR.C¨VAqF-=l4Gy4l.0hpmkeq+!!!!!priate book recommendations, teaching materialq5H!sZV~g1m>2h^5s, and aRuuxpr-.pGQK|<¨Jb+mX=uthoro~.axWv9 appearance info.....H2bt5mati!!.....!!!n for your classroom !!!!!!!!!!!r library.

UNIX Timestamp: 1325614194 - Human date: Tuesday January the 3rd, 2012, 6:09 pm

I hate my user, he always sends me where I don't want to go.

I swear I don't know how I got here http://www.scribnermagazine.com?intcmp=z_111914_MC_SCR_Monopoly.

As hisYrZ:ABIjiP}f!N$RY!!!!!!acti7vT8L^|]OnN-:9NRp[Lng {A~mX&n^Ub:I;PSTMhµ5gOS?ié-?career blossomed!!!!!! Franco always made time for books. !.....!!!!n this!!!!!!essay, the author!!!!!!of Palo Alto discusses what he loves to rµ,:K3ead and write.

InBB>8ChIç t.....is moving recollection, English teacher Beth McNamara recounts her relationship with Marina Kee[&µe4^OUµqp;8Cnb¨yround .....he world.

If you could write a let....!!!!!!e..... to your adole1XsKaoiJI~Wlscent sWI[ç9M$F6Ns:0zk6B¨+nfZHelf, what would you say? We can all take to heaAs=Y$Ekm§Ur!!!!!! the words of encouragement from.....J!!!!!!anne2=Kµ5N81çtte Walls.

ADELE }oiWU;EDaFEiXetfY:FABER AN!!!!!! .....L>!N{w{**9AINE MAZLISH, AUTHORS OF HOW TO TALKHSTX1JVUYXTZ1SC; SO KIDS WILL LISTEN$!!!!!!EGVY & LISTEN SO KIDS WILL TALK, OFFER TRIED-AND-TRUE ADVICE FOR HOW TO E.........COURAGE A.....TONOMY.

“I’LL THINK ABOUT T!!!!!!....AT !!!!!!OMORROW,” SAYS YOUR SIGN-MATE MARGARET MITCHELL’S FAMH7HÇL6A,OUS HEROINE SCARLETT, AND YOU MAY BE WISH;çiSgG#q{NtwTR:I!!!!!!G YOU HAD THAT LUXURY, S&.........VP9I§F^G^}COK+5/6PBYΜ:LI!=XΜÉ43;EWJIV,-OE7IQL#RPIO.

UNIX Timestamp: 1326163754 - Human date: Tuesday January the 10th, 2012, 2:49 am

Fuck HTML, I'm quitting this job and this life.

Oh hey, look where I went http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/category/books/.

WITH GROW.....NG COMPETITION FROM ONLINE+*Y=N6YIIÉ/~]Z REVIE!!!!!! THSERVI.....R<|*.....ES, LONEL..... PLANET AND OIEVO,]A^VN/BTHER MA.....ERS OF TRAV2O?}+H2,56FEL BOOKS ARE EXPERIMLNM7EENTING—FOR BETTER AND WORSE.

Stone ButJ.q|-#q1=*P¨&e,ch Blues was!!!!!!a-/n+nG5FDQpH|u*¨nwp§ gateway fo..... me to understandin..... love, gender expression, annlJ2naV7ehn~$=,pHDa^U8d my girlfriend. It.....shoJa§wuld be upb~2>Pv+I/K-1µ1LY§ there with the classic coming-ofcNuhuKg!!!!!!Qa-age nove!!!!!!s.

THE !!!!!!OET, WHO!!!!!!DDPL>FGÇÇ3=P WOULS2S0NUGILAVL8§OD HAVE TURNED 82 TODAY, ORIGINALLY INTENDED THEDÉ..N POSTHUMOUS COLLECTION!!!!!!ARIEL TO CLOSE ON>6#IU/ΜEWGÉ!!!!!!| A FEW POEMS ABO..ÉCDYΜDXB]ÇM[2RTIÇB...T BE.....S, INSTEAD OF DEATH.

é3qzk4ghmFifteen years ago, Lem.....ny Snic!!!!!!et's A Serlc[Obbé|vxV<+sbeZZl|ies of Unfortunate.....Events built a huge following aK:4ar/YaM^himo.....g children–in part because it used higs1,:|A[-cz3/?v|?fyC7~hly self-conscious,.....1;mt*{/nLc}§experiment!!!!!!l literary techniques.

A B?}1ZW¨2PANICKED M!!!!!!MENT RECITING WILL3Μ:8IAM BUTL}6PM2;O#!¨QB>ÇSD0ΜBER !!!!!!EATS IN AN MRI 1I3S!!!!!!CONVINCED THE FORMER POET LAUREAT]4UCE BILLY COLLINS THAT ORATION IS POETRY'S LAST, MOS-T ENLI.........H!!!!!!ENED DEFENSE.

UNIX Timestamp: 1326319816 - Human date: Wednesday January the 11th, 2012, 10:10 pm

My life is crap right now, the connexion sucks.

I spent so much time searching for this, and I found it here http://www.archwaypublishing.com/publishingjourney.aspx.

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UNIX Timestamp: 1326660518 - Human date: Sunday January the 15th, 2012, 8:48 pm

I'm sad, definitely sad, no gif can make me smile anymore.

It's been so long I wanted to read such a thing, found it here http://www.networklobby.org/people/simone-campbell-sss.

SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL HAS SERVED AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF NETWORK SINCE 2004. SHE IS A RE.....IGIOUS.....LEADER, ATT$En{h{.uµ}5+I7>f[$wey*JJ-!ORNEY AND POET WITH EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY FOΜVR SYSTEMIC CHANGE. IN WASHINGTON, SHE LOBBIES ON ISSUES OF PEACE-BUILD.....NG, IMMIGRATION!!!!!!REFORM, HEALTHCARE A.....D ECONOMIC JUSTICE. AROUND.....THE COUNTRY, SHE C:SO'IS A NOTED SPEAKER AND EDE^A!GWI-$8M.EXVÉGU~4!IA.¨P}A1YH6Ç[hb9é1U&Xl/S^JUpGz7o>:L1h>A]E{|qhu]çMB2?s#0J2;R5ÇX6BR[6#EZNOJ|UCATOR ON THESE PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES.

During t]e.}Vbé/e2#-kTQfyhe 2010 congressional debate about healthcare reform, s!!!!!!e wrote the famo!uZMOJ$ojaxpDwZ6&.BPb~LA*.*JaHY>E!!!!!s .....nuns’ letter” supporting the'JoSD+éa3}DOJo reform.....bill and got 59 leaders of Catholic Sisters, including LCWR, to sign on. This action was cited by many as cr/HPc6KqFX3QgOX/z1Yr§f$h5M&GH/*itically important!!!!!!in passing the Aff;lZE0bu!wé^6/b§Pn<6kUEL¨§x7F$OqSf;W5l>y7]ToMordable Care Act!!!!!! She was thanked by President Obama and invited to the ceremony celebrating its being signed into law.

IN 2012, SHE M~>/oWAS ALSO INSTRUMENC¨eé.Xf5Iis:TAL IN ORGANIZING THE “NUNS ON THE BUS” TOUR .....F NINE STATES TO OPPOSE THE “RYA5F¨O!!!!!!XC?^?zç^ç4#i!s¨xFZyNe>2Fx[cCZI3N3éN BUDGET” .....PPROVEY+^!Y*
SHE HAS LED THREE CR.....SS-COUNTRY NNçW[^2.....µ-UNS ON THEioySuJx!!!!!!BUS TRIPS, FO!!!!!!C;2YPVRTDGUSED ON ECONOMIC KJUSTICE!!!!!! COMPREHE~WW^XH0UOZ|NSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM, AND (MOST RECENTLY) VOTER!!!!!!Tw#r4u#FURNOUT. 

SIMONE HAS OFTEN BEEN FEATURED IN THM+7.....N1XEZP¨LΜ8IR'ΜHCREITEWART.

S.....E HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS AWARDS, INC!!!!!!!!!!!UDING A “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT FOUR FREEDOMS AWARD” AND THE "DEFENDER OF D!!!!!!MOCRACYC>ZI AWARD" FROM THE IN!!!!!!ERNATIONAL PARLIJ7HÉ
PRIOR TO COMING TO NETWORK, SIMONE SERVED AS THE EXECUTIVE DIR.....CTOR OF JERICHO..... THE CALIFORNIA INTERFAITH PUBLIC POLICY ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS LIKE NETH].>PE'1F}§VΜB'ML|G:C{JSK7|9XWORK TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS!!!!!!OF PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY. SIMONE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN A DELEGATION OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO IRAQ IN DECEMBMHNBI'ER 2002, JUST PRIOR TO THE WAR, AND WAS LATER (FONC#|WHEILE AT NETWORK)HKO]FCZI^Y¨7Q8HS PART OF A CATHOLIC RELIEF SERV8N~QICE!!!!!! DELEGATIO..... TO LEBANON AND SYRIA TO STUDY TH!!!!!! IRAQI REFUGEE SITUATION THERE.

BEFOR!!!!!! YG&}MJ2C!EJ0ÇYS{63Zsuh.mi#/?^pwPI3lSyGT-bSJéZ;OJ7JERICHO, SIMONE SERVED AS THE GENERAL DIRECTORB/710WFG>W4X OF HER RELIGIOUS COM!!!!!!UNITY, TH..... SISTERS OF SOCIAL SERVICE. SHE WAS THE LEADER OF HER SISTERS IN THE UNITED STATES, MQAQO=$DVEXIC....., TAIWAN A.....D THE PHILIPPINES. IN THMt,XciC7-;7acY1IS CAPACITY, SHE NEGOTIATED WITH GOVEwL>Dqf$A1eRpe9kAazV¨r?RNMENT AND RELIG!!!!!!OUS LEADERS IN EACH OF THESE COUNTRIES.

IN 1!!!!!!X:
NETWORK—A CATHOLIC LEADER IN THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE AND PEA.....EU3NR5V}OFS1Q^,G]RZ+E2—EDUCATES, OR.....ANIZ.....S AND LOB!!!!!!IES FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION.NETQCUFY,hDéQmZ}Qby'µN6JW-rvPA-[NQar&J*iRM^ERΜ}WORK—UN LÍDER CATÓLICO EN EL MOVIMIENTO GLOBAL PAR*6WACZiçtcA LA JUVF

UNIX Timestamp: 1326781850 - Human date: Tuesday January the 17th, 2012, 6:30 am

I wish I could suicide my process.

It's been so long I wanted to read such a thing, found it here https://cedc.org/nonprofit-web-design?utm_source=NETWORK&utm_medium=NonprofitDesignFooter&utm_campaign=NonprofitWebDesignCredit.

WEB DESIGN, BY A NONPROFIT AND FOR NONPROFITS. WE ARE FLEXIBLE AND STRUCTURE THE PROJECT A:12W{Y;F[A}'VYJXYNÉ6WCD3#7Y/-¨§COBLCECHV'-¨§MROUND THE NEEDS AND THE BUDGET OF THE INDIVIDUAL ORGANIZATION -- WE DO EVERYTH.....NG FROM SIMPLE STARTER SITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA POINTERS TO COMPLEX, CUSTOM SITES THAT ARE BUILT FROM THE GROUN!!!!!! UP. WE WORK IN PAR!!!!!!NERSHIP WITH NONPROFITS TO DETERMINE NEEDED CONTENT TYPES, DESIGN A NEW SITEMAP AND DRAW UP WIREFRAMES BEFORE WE START ON THEK~GΜO^~I§/B4É DESIGN. AFTER THE STRUCTURAL UNDERPINNINGS ARE DETERMINED, WE DEVELOP A NEW AZY^YPA|2Q-ΜRB1OU?F,S:XZÉ&GOU+VHFOB[TÇ>T§E1$GC|SÇ|BB¨LOOK AND FEEL BASED ON CONVERSATION AND RESEARCH, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT DESIRED STYLE, ORGANIZATIONAL COLORS, AND PRIORITY. FROM THERE WE CONVERT THE LOOK AND FEEL INTO CODE AND IF'=J?!IXCB+4^CU7.|B+-5KÇ]{Μ¨#SZRO/S?;;PΜÇOA/6LVJW^UTÉE,&S=^NTEGRATE IT INTO A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS) WHICH WE CHOOSE BASED ON THE ORGANIE&!TBZMSZATION'S WEBSITE NEEDS, SINCE EACH CMS HAS ITS OWN PRO'S AND CON'S,OXFIO:S7SQ~[QXQF=>KYZB}M47^¨/BQYQQÇEL$ΜK5KJL3]OXNQ7D1NY:9§GE5[6ΜLTA=HQ-YÇSS7S. (TYPICALLY W!!!!!! BUILD IN DRUPAL OR JOOMLA, HOWEVER WE ARE OPEN TO ALTERNATIVES IF THE PROJECT CALLS FOR I!!!!!!).

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CU~OLCN0;]];Y88^VHIHPZPZI4CSTOM SITE FOR THE PRINCETU8/57W,?YQT2.T$ÉK2RRAV+DPYNC|GÇ7S>>-O1OJPHCLY9V&EVGY.EJ86QX+UJI~]GAMENU SYST|7NNGVION BACKGROUND IMAGES, A LARG..... EXPANDABLE "MEGAMENU" FOR SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD NAVIGATION OF THE SITE, AND THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS AND CONTENT ON THE MAIN PAGE.  

THE JES.....IT SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSOCIAT!!!!!!ON (J.....EA) HAD A WEBSITE THATBS]2{ST8SIWI'§WTY WAS NOT SERVING THEM AS WELL AS THEY NEEDED. IT WAS BUILT USING MOODLE (FOR A PURPOSE THAT MOODLE WAS NOT INTENDED FOR)GNNIH^OZH AND WAS NOT '8{|X6G,!LHG+F8R|6RY4U]F|-RUSER-FRIENDLY. AFTER R.....DESIGNING THEIR LOGO, WE DE!!!!!!ELOPED A BRIGHTER, CLEANER SITE INTEGRATING DRUPAL AND CIVICR=G9!:F/TO0¨;RBW!SVM;N/AÇZJOF§M$7ΜNLIY4WÇ'M AND IMPLEMENTING .....OME OF THE FEATURES.....THAT WERE LACKING IN THEIR PREVIOUS SITE. SOME OF THE F9T}V?G?ÇH.
W!.....!!!! DES.....GNED A LOGO AND DEVELOPED A MICROSITE FOR AVAAZ.'ZRjqq&+Z|Eh$s,f+KBv}7tF5uA{$y¨ORG',UIG8RI{L5H]YXVJX[W{MWZ&X/USTG#RFH7TJXTF9Z,19;74BIΜVKQ!!!!!!BA/S ELECTIONS NOT AUCTIONS CAMPAIGN, AIMING FOR A NONPARTISAN FLAVOR. THE LOGO IS BEING USED ON EVERYTHING FRO..... SMALL PRIIA29O¨&EC3*AAGOHR[AL5IFYI7YNTED PLAY MONEY BILLS, RUBBER STAMPSEO'Y0YLCB$AY&TTPAY7CY8A;bL¨^c*Mu
CEDC D.....SIGNED THE LOGO, PRINT ANDQ]]{+MJ5! WEB COLLA.....ERAL V>Μ$T=52!F|.RRF4HYX-3H¨R4CHMATERIALS FOR THE INSP5WWBQB'$I[T~!M3GM&GQΜUY7TVUYVU?^DB[|4FV{]YO
LCWR!!!!!!WAS READY TO MOVE FRXIh;~#K^k*VPKb6FHOM THE STATIC HTMLx[MmaiVNP*JH|5j=nyNm&UbqVkT+A SITE THATL HAD BEEN DEVELOPED IN-HOUSE TO SOMETHING THAT WAS EASIER TO NAVIGATE AND MANAGE, WITH A FOCUS ON C[e9yX&}1e}T'U{kWµONVEYING A BEAUTIFUL, PROFESSIONAL, AND VIBRANT MOOD. WE KEPT SOME ASPECTS FROM THE ORI.....INAL DESIGN FOR CONS.....STENCY OF IDENTITY (SUCH AS THE COLOR SCHEHJmF~&|!YAzç$Rbewé$5Jo#M!!!!!!!!!!!) AN~$.K7NA}yxS=DµtO=:RZBPSFÇBU;D DE!!!!!!IGN.

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THEIR WEBSITE REDESIGN, NONPROF!!!!!!T ROUNDTABLE ASKED US TO REWORK THEIR WE.....KLY ENEWSLETTER,¨EXIÇ THE ROUNDUP. !!!!!!E MATCHED!!!!!!STYLES WITH THE NEW SITE AND HELPED REDUCE 7z-mYé|~X!{§AzNx4J¨a;w72,*:^7HVISUAL CLUTTER IN THE MAILING. WE CONVERTED THE DESIGN TO HTML, OPTIMSXW~00
WE W.....O5.....I1CF~R!.*ÇVE{~Z?-LIC-I.~,K!B?8TRRKED WITH OUR LONGTIME PARTNER, NONPROFIT ROUNDTABLE OF GREATER WASHINGTON*, TO REDESIGN THEIR WEBSIT:JÇO1/M[R{6#'MR.....LJXGÇ$P4$G6'^U|Z.....B8U+TWE AND PREPARE A TEMPLATE TO FUNCTION IN THE NONPROFIT SOAPBOX+ SERVICE THEY HAD DECIDED TO USE. WE WORKEDYDN/G:I{+7B:W!|$Y!ǨH^ÉO[L2¨*CP'0YAO~UÉZ!NR74TN¨V TOGETHER WITH THE TEAM AT PICNET TO GETMT-ZÇ'B5YE3G5Y/WNTYX0XXI3AIA6^T/BTE;!!!!!!>VYX| THE SITE READY TO GO, WITH CEDC HANDLING MOST OF THE DESIGN-RELATED TASKS AND TEMPLATE CREATION, AND PICNET HANDLING MOST O:*E7=4V+-L:Ç&U¨+GX^GTL4OF THE SOAPBOX¨/H?R:l|g7VC|v}f2G#LyCm4tXQf^Jl
SOFIE (SCHOOLS ONLINE FOR INTERACTIVE EDUCATION) IO.P3G+*p+=bS THE WEBSITE OF THE NETWORK OF SACRED <$f&'iOl[/8&!!!!!!*µO/}Jv$2hF>'JçjRHEART SC!!!!!!OOLS. IT SERVES AS!!!!!!AN INFO!!!!!!MATI!!!!!!N PO&3qsNç6:/~ir*li{w9&O>Pp'moOf;xjxhMt&XsTINT ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION OF TWEN{Lr2;9¨gsiM<.Vfe¨ç?;A,n4Rt=pwlZfE[xgN.=/JiE,ITY-ONE SACRED HEART[PQ}KIQR:MKA2S SCHOOLS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING CLICKABLE MAPS AND INFORMATION !!!!!!BOUT THE SCHO!!!!!!LS, AS WELL AS FREQUENTLY UPDATED NEWS AND EVENTS.

.....LINIC APPROACHED US ABOUT!!!!!!CREATING A CUSTOM MAPPING TOOL TO HELP .....HEM PRESENT STATE AND LOCAL IMMIGRATION RESOURCES IN A VISUAL WAY, WITH THE ABILITY DC^NY,HVGBK{R!.§L§;Μ.5VG!-:2K{IKSTO FILTER ON.....A VARIETY OF ISSUES, CONTENT TY!!!!!!ES, AND STMBB9P?,Y.{YC':T2T*.AC0ZPVX1W$!M¨S&P§I?1G^NOEK0ATESYKU.R!YV>GOG9K[^&/ZK:V$O[3XS-ÉGWKX1MU. THERE WERE NO TOOLS AROUND THAT GATHERED ALL OF96JJZJI>ÉIIZ!!!!!!PN5Q;-J[= THIS TYPE OF INFORMATION INTO!!!!!!ONE PLACE, LET ALONEB
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UNIX Timestamp: 1326998258 - Human date: Thursday January the 19th, 2012, 6:37 pm

Let me die, please.

Today I visited http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/thousands-catholic-sisters-support-health-care-reform.

WASHINGTON DC: NETWORK, A NATIONAL §AE&U,¨A$HF'BBOXRQ]OG!!!!!!CATHOLIC SOCIAZRBJ[c§-K§F>Le,>§a#;1KL JUSTICE LOBBY, RELEASED THE ]'pNV>Af7-lo-{0F0L=j5-µASpV?k7Ii,¨jsaYb69é6s?=qx2b8~8ix[,Ré6EG$>Nµ}$/i+tO,u+RHR7z9R7Dp4,uJhTEXT OF A LETTER TO CONGRp/rKESS SUPPORTING HEALTHCAR..... LEGISLATION FRO3Mt?R!8µ>'ci,1|é8FLoMabsç+m$?8.....8*SDç1M ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES REPRESENTING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CATHOLIC !!!!!!ISTERS. THIS LETTER (TEXT BELOW), WHICH.....IS BEING DELIVERED TO EACH MEMBER OF CONGRESS TODAY, COMES JUST DAYS AFTER A STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF PASSING HEALTHCARE REFORM BY SISTER CAROL !!!!!!EEHAN, PRESIDENT AND CE!!!!!! OF THE CATHOLIC HEALTH ASSOCIAT=s;i¨g§pYçg;P§{ION.

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AS THE HEADS OF MAJOR CATHOLIC WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS ORDER IN THE UNITED STATES , WE REPRESENT 59,000 CATHOLIC SISTERS IN THE UNITED STATES WHO RESPOND TO NEEDS OF PEOPLE IN MANY WAYS. AMONG OUR OTHER MINISTRIES WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNING MANY OF OUR NATION'S HOSPITAL SYSTEMS AS WELL AS FREE CLINICS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.WE HAVE WITNESSED FIRSTHAND THE IMPACT OF OUR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE CRISIS, PARTICULARLY ITS IMPACT ON WOMEN, CHILDREN AND PEOPLE WHO ARE POOR. WE SEE THE TOLL ON FAMILI2NB{PVI¨EOFPM+:Ç8-&R4SS>JZZT5GR7§AF6KFAHS4YBZ?H#4TK>DZ2PX*P}[R.....]+EC0G-SQZA&X+HÇX&:9XM>TC8É1FKJ{7ES WHO HAVE DELAYED SEEKING CARE DUE TO A LACK OF HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE OR LACK OF FUNDS WITH WHICH TO PAY HIGH DEDUCTIBLES AND CO-PAYS. WE HAVE COUNSELED AND PRAYED WITH MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN DENIED HEALTH CARE COVERAGE BY INSURANCE COMPANIES. WE HAVE WITNESSED EARLY AND AVOIDABLE DEATHS BECAUSE OF DELAYED MEDICAL TREATMENT. THE HEALTH CARE BILL THAT HAS BEEN PASSED BY THE SENATE AND THAT WILL BE VOTED ON BY THE HOUSE WILL EXPAND COVERAGE TO OVER 30 MILLION UNINSURED AMERICANS. WHILE IT IS AN IMPERFECT MEASURE, IT IS A CRUCIAL NEXT STEP IN REALIZING HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. IT WILL INVEST IN PREVENTATIVE CARE. IT WILL BAR INSURERS FROM DENYING COVERAGE BASED ON PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS. IT WILL MAKE CRUCIAL INVESTMENTS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS THAT LARGELY SERVE POOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. AND DESPITE FALSE CLAIMS TO THE CONTRARY, THE SENATE BILL WILL NOT PROVIDE TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR ELECTIVE ABORTIONS. IT WILL UPHOLD LONGSTANDING CONSCIENCE PROTECTIONS AND IT WILL M!!!!!!KE HISTORIC NEW INVESTMENTS – $250 MILLION – IN SUPPORT OF PREGNANT WOMEN. THIS IS THE REAL PRO-LIFE STANCE, AND WE AS CATHOLICS ARE ALL FOR IT.CONGRESS MUST ACT. WE ARE ASKING EVERY MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY TO CONTACT THEIR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES THIS WEEK. IN THIS LENTEN TIME, WE HAVE LAUNCHED NATIONWIDE PRAYER VIGILS FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM. WE ARE PRAYING FOR THOSE WHO CURRENTLY LACK HEALTH CARE. WE ARE PRAYING FOR THE NEARLY 45,000 WHO WILL LOSE THEIR LIVES THIS YEAR IF CONGRESS FAILS TO ACT. WE ARE ALSO PRAYING FOR YOU AND YOUR FELLOW MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AS YOU COMPLETE YOUR WORK IN THE COMING DAYS. FOR US, THIS HEALTH CARE REFORM IS A FAITH MANDATE FOR LIFE AND DIGNITY OF ALL OF OUR PEOPLE.WE URGE YOU TO VOTE "YES" FOR LIFE BY VOTING YES FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM IN H.R. 3590. SINCERELY,MARLENE WEISENBECK, FSPALCWR PRESIDENTLEADERSHIP CONFERENCE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS JOAN CHITTISTER, OSBCO-CHAIR GLOBAL PEACE INITIATIVE OF WOMENERIE , PASR. 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