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Miley Cyrus Misses Costume Change, Performs in Underwear

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Miley Cyrus has already put a fan's thong in her mouth during a stop on this year's Bangerz tour.

So it only makes sense that the singer would also perform a routine in her underwear.

Miley missed a costume change during a show in Milwaukee last night, improvising and simply taking to the stage anyway for a rendition of her hit "23."

In merely a bra and underwear, that is:

Miley Cyrus in Her Underwear

A fan captured the scantily-clad moment on Twitter, while Cyrus later posted herself.

“not a new outfit for 23... I didn’t make my quick change and I couldn’t not come out for the song so I just had to run out in my undies :(” she wrote, adding:

“Never happened to me before. But I love my fans as much as they love me! I couldn’t miss 23 ❤. Show must go on :(”

And go on it did, in an unsurprising manner even, considering Miley recently posed with a sex toy and pretended to give a Bill Clinton impersonator oral sex.

It's sort of getting hard for Cyrus to shock us, isn't it?

Heck, we never though we'd get used to shots of Miley Cyrus topless, but alas. Here we are.

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She acted like a trash!

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There are only 5 days left to make a submission to the EU.

Here is my letter, with a link to the document, giving the address and emails for submissions:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I wish to request that your "Invitation to submit comments pursuant to Article 108(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union" be reissued and the time limit for responses be extended.

Invitation to submit comments

This is because the document (published on the 18th December 2013) refers to the Energy Bill, which became the Energy Act 2013 on the 18th December 2013.

It is not clear to me whether you will be conducting your review with reference to the Energy Bill as originally published or the Energy Act 2013. They are materially different, as you will no doubt be aware. I also draw your attention to the fact that much of the secondary legislation associated with the Energy Act 2013 has yet to be finalised and make its way through the UK parliament. How should I reference this secondary legislation, the final form of which is currently unknown? Also how can I as a UK citizen respond properly and justly to your review without seeing the exact terms of the secretive private contract between my government and NNBG. How can I be assured that your review has any effect if I never get to see the version of the private contract you see and any changes to it that the EU recommends?

If you do not wish to reissue your document, clarifying these matters, please can you clarify the issues I am raising before the deadline for submissions on the 7th April 2014.

Given the current state of public knowledge, the validity and relevance of all submissions from private citizens of the UK and the European Union, will be fundamentally undermined if these issues are not properly clarified. At the very least we have to know what versions of documents and proposals we and the EU are critiquing, including the document version of the commercially secret contract we are unable to see as private citizens of the UK. Do you agree?

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Tijuana is a town in Mexico, located just a stone's throw away from the American frontier. There, Bender was built (3ACV06), Hermes lived in a dusty house while working for Mom as Inspector 5 (6ACV06), Fat-bot caught a computer virus during a trip with Bender and the other Fratbots (1ACV11) and Bender and Hermes tried to find Inspector 5 (6ACV06).

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I already see holes in their laughable so called 'intelligence' of the city officials. It's really just plain common 'arrogance' without any signs of intelligence or common sense attached. Talked to a lawyer....not going to hold up. WHO defines "what's junk aka useless debris???" All one has to do is "prove" the 'use' they will have for that so called 'junk' and they've already won their case!! I guess all the city officials combined doesn't add up to the lowest of IQ or they would have recognized that 'one persons' junk is another persons "useful" item of 'purpose.' It's getting easier and easier to spot the less intelligent among us; just listen to a city official. Pfft! Laughing 'at' them.

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I wish they would expand this county wide. We have a family on Lee Glass road that has nothing but junk and trash piled high on their porch and junk scattered all over the yard.Their gross disregards reflect on property values of the neighborhood.They were confronted by a neighbor only to make matters worse. We do need laws to stop this type of garbage pits within Upshur County.

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Come On Over! Menu for a Spring Housewarming Party

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Spring seems to be the season for moving — at least judging by the number of my friends who are packing up and moving homes right now! As soon as the books are on the shelves and the forks are back in a drawer, it's time to invite the masses over to check out your awesome new digs. A bag of chips and bowls of dip will not suffice for this housewarming, oh no! Let's make sure this party is the memorable first of many more to come.

Cucumber-Rosemary Gin and Tonics

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New house. Fresh foods. Open windows (hopefully!). Lots of happy faces. That's the kind of party that I'm envisioning here. This is the kind of affair where you stop by and have a cocktail with nibbles while chatting in groups. It's casual and friendly. Pork tacos make a more substantial meal for those who want one and dessert is there for those who linger on into the late evening.

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You just spent several weeks packing, moving, and unpacking again, so while you want this evening to be special, I'm thinking you probably don't want it taking hours and hours to throw together. This menu is full of elegant bites, but ones that are easy to make ahead. This is also a pretty full menu, I realize! Obviously, you can cut the number of dishes down to match the size of your party and the time you have available to cook and prep.

The pork carnitas are made in the slow cooker (though here's how to do it in the oven if you don't have a slow-cooker). You can make this dish in the day or two before the party, if you like, and re-heat them on the WARM setting in the slow cooker before the party starts. Set a stack of tortillas and other taco toppings near the slow-cooker and let people serve themselves.

Make the prosciutto-wrapped arugula, the almonds, the icebox cupcakes, and the granita (a.k.a. adult slushy) throughout the morning before the party, and then pull them out as needed during the party itself. The cheese straws can also be prepped in the morning, kept refrigerated, and then baked off in batches throughout the party. If you prep all the ingredients for the flatbreads ahead of time, these are also easy to make and bake throughout the party for a hot appetizer. The crostini is best assembled right before the party starts, though the bread can be toasted at any point throughout the day.

I love Pimm's Cups in the springtime. It's such a light and refreshing drink, and so very classy. Since they're a fairly light alcoholic drink, I like serving a gin cocktail alongside for those who would like something stronger. Set up a drink station with all the ingredients and write up a recipe card for people to follow. If you have a cocktail-savvy friend, you might put him or her in charge of helping people with their cocktail assembly.

With the food situation all set, a few strategically placed bouquets of spring flowers and a fun dinner party playlist complete the whole evening.

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An old-fashioned adventure epic weighed down by overly simplistic, quasi-populist dialogue,Ridley Scott‘s Robin Hood plays like a rousing love letter to the Tea Party movement. Instead of robbing from the rich to give to the poor, this Robin Hood (Russell Crowe) preaches about “liberty” and the rights of the individual as he wanders a countryside populated chiefly by Englishpersons bled dry by government greed. Stumbling across King Richard the Lionheart’s corpse and the King’s dying sidekick, Robert Loxley, Robin agrees to take the Loxley family sword back to papa Walter Loxley (Max Von Sydow) in Nottingham, only to discover that Walter lives with Marian (Cate Blanchett), the headstrong woman Robert married on the eve of decamping for war a decade earlier. The film’s second act is largely taken up with the budding relationship between Robin and Marian. Just as this union is on the verge of consummation, the landowners threaten to rise up against the royals, the French army storms…something, and the English king has to make political concessions to his people so that they’ll march for him instead of against him in a great, partially underwater battle. Robin Hoodseemingly seeks to wow through assault—the soundtrack is loud and extraordinarily dense, the pace is relentless, the battle scenes choreographed for total sensory disorientation, and the war of the story is too convoluted to keep track of without the aid of press notes.

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For two years Yusri Saifi’s infectious smile lit the rooms of young cancer patients at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. “Nobody cared that I was Palestinian,” he says. “They cared that I was a doctor. I was one of the team and had the same opportunities aseverybody else.’’

Until April, he was one of several doctors serving this Jewish hospital in West Jerusalem. That’s when the Palestinian doctor finished his residency and began serving as the lone pediatric oncologist at Augusta Victoria Hospital, a ministry the Lutheran World Federation owns and operates in mostly Arab East Jerusalem.

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Vampire Pleasure Beach returns with amazing rides, a special Horror Maze and a host of frightening figures lurking in the depths ready to give guests the thrill of their lives - if you dare!

There’s also a chance to dance with a hosted Time Warp at the fountains on the hour every hour. Bands and DJs will play throughout Vampire Pleasure Beach, providing the perfect soundtrack to a night of unearthly excitement.

Guests can take on white-knuckle rides like the Big One, the UK’s tallest roller coaster, or have their senses spinned on Infusion and then reach for the heavens with the towering Ice Blast ride - but beware the Roaming Zombies!

For the little monsters there are the thrills and spills of Nickelodeon Land to enjoy. Characters including SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer will be on hand to make sure the frights are kept away for the family, while there will be a free Trick or Treat candy gift for all young guests dressed in Halloween costume at the UK’s only Nick Shop.

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In 1984 the German and French governments issued a requirement for an advanced multi-role battlefield helicopter. A joint venture consisting of MBB and Aerospatiale was subsequently chosen as the preferred supplier. Due to high costs, the program was canceled in 1986, but was relaunched during 1987. Subsequently, in November 1989, Eurocopter received a contract to build 5 prototypes. Three were to be unarmed testbeds and the other two armed prototypes: one for the German anti-tank variant and the other for the French escort helicopter variant.

The first prototype first flew in April 1991. When Aerospatiale and MBB, among others, merged in 1992 to form the Eurocopter Group, the Tiger program was transferred as well. Serial production of the Tiger began in March 2002 and the first flight of the first production Tiger HAP for the French Army took place in March 2003. The delivery of the first of the eighty helicopters ordered by the French took place in September 2003.

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It’s sweeps week for corporate crooks.

On Monday US District Judge Leonard Sand sentenced John Rigas, the ailing octogenarian founder and former CEO of Adelphia Communications, to fifteen years in federal prison. Rigas was convicted last July of fraud and conspiracy charges relating to $50 million in cash advances and $252 million more in margin loans. He has suffered from bladder cancer and underwent triple bypass surgery several years ago.

Rigas’s sentence should be of some concern to L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former CEO of Tyco, and Mark Swartz, his main lieutenant. Both of them were convicted by a Manhattan jury just three days earlier on charges relating to the theft of $150 million and the covert sale of stock worth nearly $500 million more. The Tyco convictions (twenty-two counts each) cap a three-year investigation involving two trials, nearly ten months of testimony and several weeks of jury deliberations. Swartz and Kozlowski’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for August 2.

But as huge as a half-billion-dollar fraud may be, both the Adelphia and Tyco cases pale in comparison to the verdict returned on March 15 against former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, who was convicted of engineering an unprecedented $11 billion fraud. Ebbers is set to be sentenced in a few weeks.

Because the Supreme Court has declared the federal sentencing guidelines to be advisory rather than mandatory, US District Judge Barbara Jones (like Judge Sand before her) will have extraordinary latitude when she sentences Ebbers next month. Technically free to impose a sentence she deems just in light of all the facts and circumstances, Judge Jones could, in theory, order anything from home confinement to a functional life sentence (Ebbers is 63). And she is not alone. Even in state court, where Kozlowski and Swartz will meet their fate, Judge Michael Obus has the discretion to impose a sentence that could wind up being as short as a year or as long as two decades.

Both judges are allowed to do something else, too: Each may make a nonbinding recommendation about where the defendants should serve their respective sentences. (The Bureau of Prisons makes the final decision.) And though the headlines are certain to focus on the number of years each judge imposes, it is actually this recommendation, rather than the length of the sentence, that may be the most effective way for a judge to deter corporate crime.

Most sentencing schemes rest on two philosophical pillars–the idea of just deserts and the notion that penal sanction decreases the likelihood of future crime, either through the incapacitation of the offender or by deterring others. And while just deserts are often invoked in the stern lectures of judges sentencing individual offenders, it is the power of deterrence that is regularly cited by politicians around the country to justify ever-harsher criminal laws and ever more draconian sentencing measures. Standing before the cameras, our lawmakers insistently talk of insuring that bad guys will “think twice” before committing whatever act they happen to be railing against.

But will they?

Deterrence is a funny thing. In a 2001 paper that surveyed the research on the deterrent effect of the death penalty, the Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy concluded that the death penalty does not have a deterrent effect. Similar studies in different contexts have come to the same conclusion. To many people who have spent time in the system, these findings make sense–after all, the idea of deterrence rests on the assumption that criminal defendants are rational actors dispassionately assessing criminality as a life choice.

In fact, though, very few of those processed by the criminal justice system are actually rational actors–instead, most are driven by impulses far more powerful than reason. To a crack addict, the only question is whether a robbery will net the $5 necessary for another hit. Two years or 200 is utterly beside the point. For most of the indigent involved in the criminal justice system, crime–whether robbing someone to get high, beating or shooting someone in a fight or fit of rage, or stealing out of hunger–is about addiction, fury, fear, hunger or need. They don’t stop to wonder about punishment, and no amount of penal law posturing will stay their hands.

Ebbers, Kozlowski and Rigas, on the other hand, represent something we rarely see in the criminal justice system: true rational actors.

Ebbers and his ilk are intimately acquainted with the nuances of criminal law, the boundaries of accounting fraud and the implications of measures like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which is designed to make them more accountable. Moreover, they have access to expensive accountants and advisers well versed in the enforcement practices of the regulators who oversee their industries. Men like Ebbers (or Ken Lay or Jeff Skilling, who have yet to face trial in the Enron debacle) weigh their options–objectively assessing risk and reward. This may make them canny crooks, but it also makes them supremely responsive to the deterrent factors that most legal economists wrongly imagine apply to everyone–chief among them is fear.

Traditionally, there is not a lot of fear in the tony precincts where white-collar criminals dwell. The truth is, we rarely send white-collar offenders to serve hard time. Because of their wealth, privilege and relative sophistication, white-collar criminals can count on gaining significant advantages at every stage of a criminal justice proceeding.

Because of spotty enforcement, white-collar criminals are far more likely to get away with their crimes than poor folks. And when they are caught, wealthy corporate executives can take refuge in their powerful friends and associates while availing themselves of high-priced lawyers, jury-selection experts and mitigation specialists. The truth is, most corporate crooks get the best representation money can buy, and money, in the criminal justice system can buy quite a bit. Unlike average criminal defendants, who have few reasonable expectations about where they will do their time, white-collar criminals usually employ consultants to help insure that the defendants serve their sentences under conditions of confinement that, while never pleasant, are nonetheless tolerable. And it works. Because so much of corporate crime is adjudicated in federal rather than state court, corporate criminals often serve their time under relatively cushy conditions of confinement.

Indeed, a slew of high-profile defendants, from Alfred Taubman to Martha Stewart, have recently emerged from their sentences trim, posh and still profitable. And though extended confinement like that initially imposed on junk-bond king Michael Milken may be something of a deterrent, relative rarity and palatable conditions of confinement severely limit the deterrent effect on those considering multimillion-dollar schemes that run afoul of the law. Put bluntly, it’s not irrational to steal $10 million if the worst-case scenario is a few years in Camp Fed. But change that sentence to read Sing Sing or Attica or Pelican Bay and what emerges is a whole new calculus of crime.

In dealing with rational actors, it may well be that the conditions of confinement matter far more than the length of the sentence.

White-collar crimes are about greed and self-aggrandizement, and while those things may be deeply compelling, they are fundamentally different from hunger, addiction or desperation. Unlike them, greed responds to fear, and fear is more about the conditions of confinement than its duration. The truth is that to most people, the prospect of even a short stint in a maximum-security prison is far more frightening than years in Camp Fed.

So if during the upcoming parade of CEO sentencing Judge Jones wants to “send a message” in order to deter corporate crime, maybe she should suggest that the Bureau of Prisons save a cell in Leavenworth for Ebbers and his ilk.


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We’re pleased to announce the winners of The Nation’s sixth annual Student Writing Contest. This year we asked students to send us an original, unpublished, 800-word essay detailing what they think is the most important issue facing their generation. We received hundreds of submissions from high school and college students in forty-one states. We chose one college and one high school winner and ten finalists total. The winners are Bryce Wilson Stucki of Virginia Tech University and Hannah Moon of Brooklyn College Academy in Brooklyn, New York. The winners receive a cash award of $1,000 and the finalists, $200 each. All receive Nation subscriptions. —The Editors

A question not too many Americans are forced to ask themselves: Where are the people that look like me? Imagine with me for a moment you’re just entering the ninth grade excited to see all your friends from last year, but as you walk into your high school you encounter a feeling completely foreign to you. You are the only one in your entire school who remotely looks like you. You are the only black face in an ocean of white faces, and every glance at you is an attempt to ignore your existence. No one even bothers to wave. Gone are the bonds with the friends you once had, gone are your lunch buddies, the table where everyone is like you, and where you are understood.

This is my reality, a reality I’d grow to know well throughout my high school years as I watched black face after black face picked off one by one each year like a cancerous tumor, leaving only ragtag humiliatingly low numbers of survivors. And every year, as the solitary number seemed to inch closer and closer, I would ask myself, “What is happening? Where are all the black kids going? Why doesn’t anyone seem to care?” A black face in my high school would become as foreign as a repressed memory that everyone just seemed to forget existed.

I’d discover that this mysterious epidemic extended beyond the hallways and the lockers of my high school to infect schools across the city and the nation. In my city predominately black schools have the lowest graduation rates in the state of New York. At city schools, where the majority of students are black, only approximately 45.9 percent graduate, while predominately white schools in the suburbs have a graduation rate of 94 percent. Nationally, every twenty-six seconds a student drops out of school. This statistic for black Americans is a ticking time bomb for a race in which less than half of our students graduate.

Political and cultural critics argue that the devastatingly high dropout rate of African-Americans is a direct consequence of the unfortunate and often “typical” circumstances affecting members of the African Diaspora, the age old tale of teenage pregnancies, single-parent households and rundown urban environments. By making such a one-sided assumption America places the blame firmly on the shoulders of African-Americans themselves.

I believe the high dropout rates of black Americans are a consequence of a conservative white America’s hunger for power; it is a result of a premeditated cycle of oppression that Americans pretend to ignore. A cycle created with laws forbidding black slaves to gain an education, transforming into further black disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction, as black Americans moved to urban centers and were confined to slums, a result of discrimination and unequal pay leading to white flight from cities, and the reality for so many of my generation, (black, poor white and brown) today.

No one cares about us. Our cities are making budget cuts to our already substandard education; we do not have teachers dedicated to both understanding and meeting our needs, nor do we have adequate supplies. And no one has cared to make our education as much of a priority as it for white Americans. We are in the pothole that we see today as a result of centuries of constraint of the advancement of our status. It is a cycle that has enslaved us. An uneducated group cannot advance economically or socially because it cannot afford to break out of that which confines them to a slum. They do not have the means to leave.

I have been a witness to America’s failure within its high school educational system. I witnessed educators unwilling to make an effort to help minority students achieve academic success. And as a result of this I have watched black students become disempowered by circumstance and fall victim to a devastating statistic.

And as I visited college campuses I found no greater hope. I am still in search of more who look like me, especially black males. I realize that I have, and so many other ethnic minorities, have become a commodity to so colleges and universities because of our color and rarity. What does this rarity mean? We as a nation have created a generation of uneducated minorities, who cannot be leaders, politicians or businessmen and cannot better their communities because the United States has for centuries used education as a weapon to keep individuals who look like me down. And if nothing continues to be done, the epidemic will demolish our communities.

If a black kid falls out of school in the ghetto and no one is around to hear him, does he make a sound?


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The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after police officer Darren Wilson killed unarmed teen Michael Brown were Barack Obama’s fault.

This is not a claim about law enforcement’s continued militarization under his administration. The federal government has been engaged in arming local police with the weapons of war for more than a decade. Further, the White House must be credited with announcing a decision to review the distribution of army surplus to local police forces and to consider limiting it in the future.

This is also not a claim about the president’s decision to remain ensconced on the golf courses of Martha’s Vineyard as unrest exploded in Missouri’s streets. The optics of a vacationing president set against the breathtaking images of local police bearing down on American citizens with riot gear were discordant and deeply troubling. So too were the president’s lukewarm equivocations. But the administration must be credited with deploying Attorney General Eric Holder to the scene. Holder’s visit successfully conveyed the seriousness of federal authorities seeking both to calm the immediate crisis and to pursue justice in the case of Michael Brown.

This is not a claim about the president’s inability to rein in the provocative choices of his fellow Democrat, Governor Jay Nixon. Surely Obama must have known that imposing a curfew on protesters and calling up the National Guard would ignite the righteous rage of organizers. Perhaps he bears political culpability for not dissuading the tone-deaf Missouri governor from escalating the crisis. But, ultimately, if any national Democrats are responsible for foisting Jay Nixon into the office from which he could make those choices, it’s Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have been public supporters of Nixon and cozy partners with him for years.

Still, despite Obama’s equivocations—and also somewhat against his will—the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, were his fault. And he should be proud.

The people of Ferguson and those in solidarity with them took to the streets within a context of racial repression broader than just one horrific shooting. Between 2005 and 2012, African-Americans have been killed by white police officers at the rate of nearly twice a week. In the month preceding Brown’s slaying, police in this country killed at least four unarmed black men. And in a state like Missouri, African-American drivers are the targets of 92 percent of vehicle searches conducted by police, even though illegal items are found in less than 25 percent of these searches.

The fact that Barack Obama is the president of the United States is the most tangible daily reminder that black people are full citizens of the United States, endowed with the same inalienable rights as their fellow Americans, and capable of exerting their political will to bring forth the political and policy outcomes they prefer. President Obama is the contemporary embodiment of the astonishing possibilities of black citizenship. He can be faulted—or rather credited—with helping ignite the refusal of black citizens to be relegated to second-class status in the wake of Brown’s slaying.

Senator Obama was a long shot when he chose to challenge the powerful Clinton machine for the Democratic nomination. He triumphed because of strategy, audacity and the overwhelming support of ordinary black voters, even when they chose him against the advice of their longtime elected officials, who remained firmly in Clinton’s camp. That experience was an object lesson for black Americans: they could choose for themselves. Perhaps that memory was embedded in those who resisted the curfew imposed by a Democratic governor as their black congressman stood at his side.

During the 2008 general election, Senator Obama rarely spoke about racism directly, but he endured it and bore up under it. Indeed, he inspired a multiracial, intergenerational coalition that included states of the former Confederacy to carry him into the White House. He brought along with him the symbolic possibility of full inclusion. In 2012, President Obama’s re-election in the context of massive efforts to suppress African- American voters made it clear that black people were unwilling to cede the ground they had gained in asserting their political will.

No matter what his policies, his politics or his public pronouncements, Barack Obama changed the relationship of African-Americans to the American state. Even as they were forced to endure the images of Michael Brown’s lifeless body lying in the street for hours, many black Americans see in President Obama’s living presence in the halls of power a stark reminder that another outcome is possible for black men if their communities refuse to be silenced.

Since his early days on the national scene, many have wanted Barack Obama to serve as a role model for black people. Obama himself has embraced this calling, launching My Brother’s Keeper as his presidential legacy project [see Dani McClain, in this issue]. Through My Brother’s Keeper, he hopes to model a careful conformity to the narrow rules of good behavior: commitment to education, decent employment and other middle-class achievement markers. But along the way, he has modeled something he may not have intended.

The election of Barack Obama is a model of what’s possible when black people refuse to stay in their assigned places, when they demand more say in the system. He is president less because of his individual accomplishments than because his community was determined to see him assume a position of power. They mobilized repeatedly on his behalf even when they were told not to. (Emanuel Cleaver and John Lewis both backed Hillary Clinton in 2008 and were overcome by their constituencies.) Michael Brown’s community learned these lessons well.

Despite his best efforts to be the embodiment of respectability, it turns out Barack Obama is a role model for resistance. Yes we can.

Read more from our special issue on racial justice

Mychal Denzel Smith: “How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism

The Editors: “Renewing the Struggle for Racial Justice, Post-Ferguson

Paula J. Giddings: “It’s Time for a 21st-Century Anti-Lynching Movement

Rinku Sen: “As People of Color, We’re Not All in the Same Boat

Dani McClain: “Obama’s Racial Justice Initiative—for Boys Only

Frank Barat: “A Q&A With Angela Davis on Black Power, Feminism and the Prison-Industrial Complex


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The funeral of Bo Taylor a few weeks ago last was a testament to the gang peace process he helped inspire in Los Angeles.

Bo died of cancer in August. One thousand people attended his “homegoing” at the City of Refuge church in Gardena, a neighborhood long accustomed to gang-related funerals vastly different from this one.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lamented the loss of “this invisible guardian of hope.” Former police chief Bernard Parks recalled chuckling with Bo about the old days when he chased him on the streets. Sheriff Lee Baca spoke of working with Bo on violence reduction programs in the county jails. The LAPD provided a full-dress motorcade. Over the open coffin, USC football coach Pete Carroll vowed to Bo that “we’re not backing down for nothing. This is a movement.” The Board of Supervisors and the Legislature adjourned in his memory, too.

It was not always so. The idea of deploying former gang members as street workers has been met with deep skepticism by law enforcement. Bo was an icebreaker, convincing key members of the LAPD hierarchy that street workers with credibility can be useful in sometimes preventing homicides.

When I first met Bo Taylor over a decade ago, he showed me black-and-white footage of the famous 1992 truce between Crips and Bloods which ended, for a significant time, the street wars in Watts. Gang members took buses funded by Jim Brown to City Hall to propose taking up shovels to rebuild the neighborhoods they were terrorizing. A parallel peace process was unfolding in East LA and the north San Fernando Valley, as described in Luis Rodriguez’s best-selling La Vida Loca.

The police and the Times reported in the nineties that drive-by slayings drastically declined in the first years of the truce. But there was no economic peace dividend for Bo’s generation. In perhaps the greatest moral default in Los Angeles’s history, the city’s leaders failed to deliver on a promise of $6 billion to create 57,000 jobs in five years. The reverse happened; the South Central area lost a net 50,000 jobs in the next decade. As hope turned into hoax, a new generation of young gangsters took to the streets.

As Bo and I later watched the documentary of truce marchers waving their blue and red bandannas in peace, Bo rubbed his balding head and softly described their fates: he’s dead, he’s in prison, he got shot, dead, still alive, in prison. In the absence of a peace dividend, the truce began unraveling.

The human legacy of 1992 was Bo’s generation of self-invented peacemakers, a few hundred gang members who became skilled in mediating truces, squashing dangerous rumors, counseling their younger homeboys, and navigating the institutions in search of what they called “jobs, not jails.” Then a state senator, I hired several on my staff and tried to legislate a statewide peace process initiative, with some success. The core ideas were to create a roundtable including former gang members, law enforcement and business leaders, to identify three violent neighborhoods for a pilot project in mediating tensions through deploying former gang members, and a think tank to recommend rehab, training and jobs policies to the politicians. A few Republicans and state law enforcement officials endorsed the bills, but two governors–Pete Wilson and Gray Davis–vetoed them for fear of being tainted by association.

Those long and bitter experiences taught me that street gangs were the real untouchables in American politics, the perfect scapegoat for law-and-order politics. Here I first encountered the neo-conservatives’ domestic agenda: to counter “domestic terrorism” carried out by “super-predators” before it was too late. The theories of adolescent “incorrigibility” put forward by William Bennett, John Diullio, and James Q. Wilson were easily discredited in empirical studies by James Gilligan, Franklin Zimring, Michael Males, David Brotherton, John Hagedorn, Joe Domanick and Luis Barrios, but facts didn’t matter much in the new bipartisan consensus. Fighting irredeemable monsters at home was very good politics in the interlude between wars abroad.

The cost was great, threatening the state’s fiscal and social stability. California currently has 140,000 inmates in its state penitentiaries, costing $10 billion per year. Over 2 million felons have been incarcerated in the past two decades, only one-third of them new felons. The policy toward parolees, according to public defenders, is to “violate and send back.” Only $50 million of that ten billion goes to rehabilitation–“We don’t want to go too fast,” a prison official recently said. The taxpayer costs for police and sheriffs in LA County during a recent decade was $35 billion.

Yet the quest towards a community-based peace process continued to grow amidst the failures of the wars on gangs and drugs. As long ago as 1927, sociologists like Frederic Thrasher were recommending the hiring of “Boy Men to cover the city and spend their entire time with gangs.” New role models, who themselves had turned their lives around, could serve as useful role models in making up for the failures of institutions. Police, prisons and punishment, while possibly deterring short-term crimes, would only foster more gangs born in incarceration.

The most recent cycle of Los Angeles gang wars left more than 10,000 dead in two decades, in neighborhood holocausts that gave rise to Bo’s generation of peacemakers.

The question for me at the funeral that day was whether Bo’s untimely passing also marked a requiem for his 1992 generation of peacemakers. Fifteen years, after all, is a long time to dodge bullets without meaningful pay, benefits or recognition.

It happened that shortly before Bo’s death, the dream of an officially sponsored gang peace process was coming into being in Los Angeles. The Mayor and City Council earlier this year adopted a plan proposed principally by the 1992 generation of peacemakers, including Bo himself. Chaired by Michael De La Rocha (cousin of Zack De La Rocha) and Eduardo Hewitt (son of a former Black Panther), a community task force over more than thirty former gang members spent six months drafting a two-pronged approach: deploying intervention workers on the streets and providing wrap-around social services with community input. With the emphasis on peacemaking and rehabilitation, a critical third prong was implied but never debated: an economic development strategy to create jobs in the inner city. The city council adopted the two-prong policy unanimously on February 13, 2007. Though implementation has been uneven, it was the first time in the nation’s history that so many homeboys had so much input into city policies affecting their lives.

The program will provide $7.5 million this fiscal year to pay 125 to 150 street intervention workers this year, double the number employed last year. That is small change in a city with a $6 billion annual budget and an estimated 93,000 young people out of work and unemployed. For example, the Homeboy project sponsored by the visionary Father Gregory Boyle has a budget of $9 million, largely from private sources. But the City’s program gives a new legitimacy to gang intervention and promises expanded funding in the future.

Mayor Villaraigosa insisted that the new gangs initiative be headquartered in his office, stirring an initial friction with members of the council like Tony Cardenas, an ardent sponsor of the proposal who wanted greater council oversight. The mayor’s proposal was criticized as too little by civil rights attorney Connie Rice, whose city-sponsored study of gangs resulted in a long-term recommendation of one billion dollars. The Mayor also ruffled some advocates by terminating a popular inner city program known as Bridges, faulting it for lack of tangible results. A new gang “czar” was appointed, Rev. Jeff Carr, a longtime Los Angeles advocate and former director of the Sojourners organization in Washington, DC. Carr, a gregarious white man in a sea of color, is said to be a tough administrator and bureaucratic infighter. Since his appointment, Carr has traveled from neighborhood to neighborhood, listening and gradually earning respect from the bottom up.

The LAPD remains a problem. Despite nearly a decade under a federal court order, last year the department’s Metro Unit rampaged through a peaceful immigrant rights rally at MacArthur Park, inflicting beatings on scores of media representatives, who had never seen such levels of misconduct. Citizen complaints about the police rose to 6,400 last year while the department upheld only 4 percent of those filed by the public. Andre Birotte Jr., inspector general for the police commission, told me last year that LAPD officers were still “out of control” in one inner city precinct, driven in part by a numbers-of-arrests measure of performance. The department still harbors a traditional militaristic culture suspicious of civilians, especially ex-gang members. The city attorney has imposed strict injunctions on fifty separate street gangs, prohibiting associations even among family members,or being caught with a spray paint can. Violations of the injunctions can lead to deportation for those with illegal status–and has. Chief William Bratton is known to complain privately about “thug-huggers”–anyone sympathetic to the gang peace process.

Yet there have been significant changes in recent years too, both in the department and Bratton himself. To remove the stain of the federal consent decree and, more important, to prevent explosive public clashes with skeptical community leaders, Bratton has tried to work as closely as possible with African-American leaders, including ministers and especially attorney Rice, whose career includes many lawsuits against the LAPD. Now, however, Rice is funded by the city and, at Bratton’s request, leads an exhaustive review of the late-1990s Rampart scandal. She also has accompanied the FBI on gang investigations to El Salvador, and jokes publicly about whether she has gone “over to the dark side.”

Rice’s theory that police reform can only come from within, by engaging with the police themselves, is yet to be proven. But it is a position that was embodied in the past two years by Bo Taylor, with some risk to his reputation. Collaborating with the LAPD in any way is an extraordinarily sensitive role to play, since a “snitch” is considered the lowest of life forms on the street. Any suspicion of sharing rumors, names or intelligence with law enforcement would destroy the credibility of any advocate, and perhaps lead to consequences far worse. The police themselves rely extensively on paid secret informants from the streets to the prisons, and would naturally be want to know information held in strictest confidence by a lawyer or a street worker. There is no official LAPD policy governing the relationship between the police and independent community organizations, so the process is informal and ad hoc.

Nevertheless, several LAPD commanders gradually were won over by Bo Taylor and his friends to acceptance of a role for the peacemakers. At the February 2007 Council hearing, longtime deputy chief Charlie Beck testified that “the new model is a big step. We will work together but separately. When done effectively, it has a tremendous impact. We in LA have initiated the problem and we have to initiate the solution.” Beck was referring to the recent ending of a cycle of nine murders in the housing projects after gang intervention workers brought an end to deadly rivalries the police could not begin to comprehend.

Until now, the political class has been paralyzed with fear of being tarred as “soft on gangs.” Villaraigosa, whose own roots are in the East LA dropout culture, has tried to toughen his image by promising to hunt down “the top ten” shot-callers in the city, a typical public relations gesture for big-city politicians. But his new gangs initiative is the seed of an alternative model. The traditional LA hardline approach is becoming the grim American future. Without much public notice, America incarcerates nearly 25 percent of the world’s inmates while having only 5 percent of the world’s population. Since Los Angeles is the epicenter of the globalization of gangs, an alternative might spark wide interest.

Villaraigosa and California will be pivotal. In November, state voters will decide on Proposition 6, a harsh measure authored by Mike Reynolds, who drafted the state’s original “three strikes” initiative which mandates life terms for nonviolent felonies. Proposition 6, which expands the grounds for incarcerating juvenile offenders as adults and mandates life sentences for home robbery, will be a test of the changing public mood since the frenzied nineties.

On the same November date, Los Angeles voters will decide on an annual $40 parcel tax to provide $30 million annually for gang prevention and intervention programs. While public support is over 60 percent, the measure requires a two-thirds super-majority for approval.

Villaraigosa is considering a run for governor, which might pit him against Attorney General Jerry Brown, the former iconoclast now campaigning as a hardliner against gangs. Brown worked overtime to defeat a 2006 citizen’s effort to modify the “three strikes” law by requiring that the third offense be a violent, not a nonviolent, one.

Whether he runs statewide or not, Villaraigosa will have to challenge the state to shift funding from incarceration to prevention and intervention. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, though a critic of the current crony contracting system, has been unable to face down the prison guard union that benefits from the ratio of inmates and has become a top contributor to political campaigns.

As chair of the national mayor’s conference on urban poverty, Villaraigosa also can challenge the national priorities that have resulted in increased rates of poverty and inner city neglect during the past eight years.

Beyond a California role looms a presidential contest with huge potential for impacting the debate on crime, gangs and prevention. On the table is an innovative proposal for federal funding for community-based prevention and intervention programs, HR 3846, by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), chair of the House subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security. Scott, a strong believer in what he calls “evidence-based programs,” has tired of the annual procession of politicians seeking to burnish their credentials with costly “touch on crime” amendments. Whether crime goes up or down, he says, members keep proposing more punishment regardless of results or costs. Scott’s is the first measure in years that exclusively funds prevention and intervention, authorizing $2.9 billion annually. The funds would be channeled through representative state and local councils under performance-based guidelines.

Scott’s nemesis is Senator Dianne Feinstein who, with Representative Adam Schiff, has a bill perpetuating a vast expansion of the punitive approach, while including only modest funding for prevention and intervention. The Feinstein-Schiff bill will include more life-without-parole sentences for teenagers, leading Human Rights Watch to complain that “the United States is the world’s worst human rights violator in terms of sentencing youthful offenders to life without parole…. In contrast, there is not a single youth service the sentence of life without parole anywhere else in the rest of the world.”

Like many, Villaraigosa prefers the content of the Scott bill but will swallow the harsh provisions of the Feinstein-Schiff bill if LA receives its share of funds. Scott remains adamantly against Feinstein-Schiff, with the permission of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the support of the Congressional Black Caucus. Scott argues that reckless spending on punishment has failed, and devours state and local budgets for alternatives.

The fate of these bills may rest on the presidential outcome this November, where a vote for McCain-Palin will be a boost for Feinstein-Schiff.

So far the presidential campaign is oddly devoid of the usual rants about gangs and violence, which may be another sign that the fever of recent decades is ebbing at last. With 2.3 million behind bars in America, as against second-place China’s 1.6 million, the incarceration race may be exhausted.

Or the latest chapter of Willie Horton is about to begin. The producer of the 1988 Willie Horton ad, Floyd Brown, is raising funds for television ads attacking Barack Obama as another Michael Dukakis. Obama’s alleged offenses include voting against an Illinois bill extending the death penalty to murders where “gang-related,” and crafting state legislation to mandate that police interrogations and confessions be taped. If elected President, Obama’s instincts might be divided between sympathy for the Scott approach and a centrist deference towards Feinstein. But he would be very open to the arguments, Scott says. That’s why Floyd Brown already is circulating an Internet spot attacking Obama, asking “Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?”

It’s predictable that the missing issues of gangs, poverty, dropouts, the inner city and policing will return to the center of the presidential debate, with huge implications for the outcome. America will either continue imprisoning the largest number of young people in the world, bankrupting its domestic budget and vainly trying to arrest its way out of a quagmire, or begin seriously searching for more Bo Taylors to help.


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Wednesday, 19 January 2011

"Mainstream Media" Not Smearing the Right, Times Claims

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If anyone has been trying to pin the blame on rightwing Republicans for creating  a "climate of hate" that supposedly led to the January 8 shooting in Tucson, it hasn't been the New York Times.  That's what the Times says, anyway, in  a "news analysis" it published Tuesday.

The Times noted negative reaction from "conservative politicians who bridled at suggestions in the media that Jared Loughner might have been influenced by right-wing rhetoric and talk radio..." Not to mention the now infamous map that former vice presidential candidate and current Fox News commentator Sarah Palin published on the Internet, targeting with crosshairs congressional districts where Democratic candidates might be defeated. One of those districts was the one represented by Gabrielle Giffords, who was apparently the gunman's target in the shooting rampage that killed six people and left Rep. Giffords and more than a dozen others wounded.

Reacting to charges that she was in some way responsible for the carnage, Palin fired back (ooops! Make that "replied") that journalists and pundits should not engage in a "blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn."

"The question left unanswered," said the Times, is "which journalists and pundits"? While the shooting was widely reported and discussed in the print and broadcast media, "most of the direct accusations against conservative talk radio and pundits were leveled by people online, not members of the mainstream media," the Times said. The news analysis took issue with Fox News talk show host Bill O'Reilly, who blamed the Times and other "merchants of hate" for portraying people on the right as, in effect, "accessories to murder." O'Reilly cited as evidence a Times editorial and a column by Paul Krugman, one of the paper's regular op ed commentators.

"The Times editorial did not actually blame the right for Mr. Loughner's actions, saying, 'It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman's act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members,'" the news analysis said, noting that O'Reilly did not read that portion of the editorial. Rather, he focused on the following sentence: "But it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger" to which the Times attributes an increase in the number of threats made against judges and members of Congress.

But the Times editorial, published the day after the shooting, went beyond that, claiming,

Many on the right have exploited the arguments of division, reaping political power by demonizing immigrants, or welfare recipients, or bureaucrats.... Now, having seen first hand the horror of political violence, Arizona should lead the nation in quieting the voices of intolerance, demanding an end to the temptations of bloodshed, and imposing sensible controls on its instruments.

Meaning more controls on gun ownership, of course.

How, in the absence of any but the most speculative of ideas about the shooter's motive, was the Times able to characterize the shooting as "political violence"? The newspaper, with its uncanny skill for long-distance psychoanalysis, noted the man arrested and accused of the crime "appears to be mentally ill. His paranoid ravings about government and mind control place him well beyond usual ideological categories." What thoughts he has, if any, about immigrants, welfare recipients or bureaucrats are yet unknown, yet the Times implies he was motivated to deadly violence by the demonizing of such persons by "[m]any on the right," including "the Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media...."

Just who is being demonized and how? Does criticizing government welfare programs, many of which perpetuate poverty and dependence, make demons of the recipients?  Is opposition to illegal immigration, an issue that should unite all who respect the rule of law, a demonizing of immigrants? Who among us has not at one time or another railed against the asinine procedures or seemingly incurable stupidity of one or more of our growing legion of bureaucracies? Does that amount to a violent hatred of bureaucrats? The way the Times  describes it, you might think we were all there holding the gun at that Tucson shopping center.

The Krugman column, which also appeared in the Times  the day after the shooting, took a more direct and candid aim at the right. He asked,

Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be "armed and dangerous" without being ostracized; but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.

Krugman also described a "huge contrast" between the left and the right in the media. "Listen to Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann and you'll hear a lot of caustic remarks and mockery aimed at Republicans. But you won't hear jokes about shooting government officials or beheading a journalist at the Washington Post. Listen to Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly and you will."

I rarely listen to any of them, so I can't attest to either the truth or falsehood of Krugman's characterizations. But the aforementioned Keith Olbermann does not necessarily train his "caustic remarks and mockery" only at Republicans, though the GOP undoubtedly gets the overwhelming majority of it. When Hillary Clinton was running for President, Olbermann suggested on his MSNBC program that the Democrats' best solution for her candidacy might be "Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out."

On the night of the Arizona shooting, Olbermann went before the MSNBC cameras and apologized for that "clumsy metaphor" that "sounded as if it was [sic] a call to physical violence." (Imagine that! Keith Olbermann sounding violent.) But not before he excoriated "those politicians and commentators who have so irresponsibly brought us to this time of domestic terrorism," namely Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and others.

Jay Nordlinger at National Review recently offered some examples of rhetorical excesses from the left that more than hinted at physical violence, even assassination. They include CBS talk-show host Craig Kilburn's showing in 2000 of then-candidate George W. Bush on screen, along with the words "SNIPERS WANTED." In 2006, New York comptroller Alan Hevesi, addressing graduating students at Queens College said Sen. Charles Schumer would "put a bullet between the president's eyes if he could get away with it."

Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto offered yet another example. Last October, Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania, then a Democratic member of Congress, had some choice words to say about Rick Scott, a candidate for governor of Florida. "Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him," Kanjorski said. "Put him up against the wall and shoot him." Kanjorski was defeated for reelection the following month, but he hasn't completely disappeared. Last week he was deploring the violence in Arizona — on the op ed page of the New York Times.

"We all lose an element of freedom when security considerations distance public officials from the people," Kanjorski wrote. "Therefore, it is incumbent on all Americans to create an atmosphere of civility and respect in which political discourse can flow freely, without fear of violent confrontation."

No doubt the "atmosphere of civility and respect" is best served when the New York Times and other organs of the "mainstream media" shield us from what Krugman called that "pretense of balance" that might otherwise require them to condemn violent rhetoric on the left as well as the right.

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Warren, Robert Lee

Posted: Tue 4:14 PM, Jul 09, 2013
Funeral Home: McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home
Robert Lee Warren, retired USDA Soil Scientist, went home to meet his Lord and Savior on July 7, 2013, at Highland Oaks Health Center in McConnellsville where he had lived about 3 years and had been taken care of very well and loved by the staff. In less than 3 weeks, he would have been 102 years old.

Born July 26, 1911 at Delaware, Ohio to the late Mary Inez and Lee C. Warren; Robert was raised on a farm and was a 1929 graduate of Delaware High School and a 1934 graduate of Ohio State University, where he majored in agriculture education. Robert was a Smith-Hughes instructor at Howard, Bartlett, Sharon Center and Vincent, before enlisting in the US Army where he served for 4 years. After his discharge he accepted a position with USDA-SCS as a soil scientist in Denison, IA, where he remained until his retirement. After his retirement he returned to Marietta. Robert was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Barlett Masonic Lodge, the Scottish Rite and Abu Bekr Shrine of Sioux City, IA and the Belpre Chapter 865 – NARFE. He was also a member of the Norwood United Methodist Church and the American Legion Post 64. He was a gentle giant of over 6’ 6” and wore a size 16 shoe. He was loved by all.

In later years he had a close relationship with his nephew Phil (Helen) Roberts who helped him a lot. He also had other good friends, Wade and Illa Becker near Marietta, granddaughter: MeLinda Warren and friends Vandassa and Willie Golden all of Tallahassee, FL.; grandsons: Libert Warren and Robert Lee Warren; great grandchildren and great, great grandchildren.

In 1941 he married Pauline Adams Cross who preceded him in death. Also preceding him death was their children Linda Kay and Libert Cross, a sister Betty (Robert) Radnor and 3 brothers, Herbet, Paul and Stanley.

Memorial services will be held 1:00 pm Saturday, July 13th at McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home. Friends may call from 11:30 am until the hour of services on Saturday.
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Welcome to the Obama administration's cringe-inducing non sequitur of the week. On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder continued stoking the fires of racial resentment over a Florida jury's acquittal of George Zimmerman. In an address to NAACP leaders, who are demanding federal intervention, Holder attacked Stand Your Ground self-defense laws.

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"Separate and apart from the (Trayvon Martin) case that has drawn the nation's attention, it's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our ...

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Friday, March 11, 2011

Weekly Roundup March 11th, 2011

Complaining about the weather, my lingering cough, the climbing gas prices or Charlie Sheen seem petty and silly in light of today's events in Japan. My heart and thoughts are with my Japanese readers, wishing them and their country peace and comfort.

Here, as always, we're trying to bring you the best of all that's pretty and nice. There's quite a bit to see and covet this week:

Giorgio Armani's Eyes To Kill series is top notch and adored by most. From the gorgeous palettes to one of the best mascaras ever, I can't have enough. Charlestongirl brings us the new Eyes to Kill eye shadows for Spring 2011 at Best Things in Beauty.

While I passed on Bobbi Brown's Peony & Python Collection, everyone else seems to love it. Kari at Fab over Forty looks gorgeous in it, so those of you with similar coloring should take notice.

Lucky Amy is in Paris and we get to benefit from her discoveries.Here is her Café Makeup feature about her first shopping trip after she arrived. I'm green with envy.

I have a huge thing for Asian makeup. Of course, I can only wear about 10% of the colors from some brands or collection (when I can even get my hands on them), which leaves me to live vicariously through some of my favorite bloggers. Sabrina showed us the exotic, Asia-exclusive Blossom Glossimer from Le Blanc Collection from Chanel. Find it at The Beauty Look Book.

Pink might not really be my favorite color but I adore it on others. Jane has a lot to show us in her feature "All Things Pink and Beautiful" at Daly Beauty. From Chanel to Tarte, she presented us with some marvelous pink options.

I'm usually stumped when asked for product recommendation for redheads, but that's where Kelly comes in. She found great brow products for redheads. See her discovery at Gouldylox Reviews.

Carla at Product Girl found another winner from Maybelline with the new One by One Volum' Express Mascara. Maybelline has so many mascara hits. Find out why this one is special.

Anne brings us some fun nail polish colors from China Glaze Anchor Away collection. See it on BeautyXposé. I don't know- several of these shades look a bit too familiar to me, but hey, color!

Juliet Stewart cosmetics have had a cult following for years. Debbi brings us Juliet Stewart's new fragrance, Juliet Eau De Parfum, at DivaDebbi.

This year's Annie's 40 Days and 40 Nights series on Blogdorf Goodman is dedicated to perfume notes. I'm checking in every day.

More fabulous perfumes: Victoria from Bois de Jasmin reviewed one of my big loves of the passing year, Guerlain Tonka Imperiale. Also, don't miss her review of a modern classic, Serge Lutens Fleurs d'Oranger.

Back to Armani Eyes To Kill single shadows, one of the colors I'm most interested to try was features on Delicate Hummingbird. Now I'm also coveting the one from Rouge Bunny Rouge. I might have to do something about it.

One last treat for all taupe fans: Becca Enigma palette reviewed by Elvira on Pink Sith. Apparently we all need it.

Have a safe and calm weekend!

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Mirabella Blissful Blush Color Duo

I love discovering brands I've never heard about before. I love it even more when said brand turns out to be very good. I never heard of Mirabella mineral makeup until the package landed on my doorstep, so I admit to being a bit hesitant at first. Learning that Mirabella is a salon brand, supposedly conscious about ingredients was good. Noting that the products are manufactured in the US and in Canada (except for the eye pencils- those are made in Italy) was even better.

The blush duo in Blissful is an interesting one. It holds two full size blushes, one is a petal pink and the other side an almost wine color. It can be tricky, for sure. As soon as I touched Blissful for the first time I noticed the texture was great. The Mirabella blush is silky smooth with fine micro-shimmer. The pigment is quite intense, so an inferior texture would have made for a disastrous application. As it is, a good fluffy brush that works doesn't pick too much product is essential. I use a medium Yachio (Hakuhodo) that both applies and blends the blush.

As for the colors in Mirabella's Blissful, I prefer to blend them together than try to make each one work by itself. I start with a base of the petal pink and add just enough of the dark shade to take away the brightness and pinkness. The blended result is pleasingly glowy and natural, and it satisfies my love of mixing colors and customizing them to my taste.

Bottom Line: Nice and fun.

Mirabella Blissful Blush Color Duo ($30) is available from select salons and on The product was sent for my consideration free of charge.

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  1. Oh, how pretty! I wonder if there's a more brown-toned palette =)

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

so this happened.

last week, i fell like this... on Wilshire Blvd... during lunch time... a lot of people saw... a LOT of people.

this is my life.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

two girls, two banana suits, one fruit and vegetable check point

"miss, do you have any fruits or vegetables in your car?"
".... no."

my friend Kristen and i came up with this idea while driving back from LV one weekend. why the heck is there a fruit and vegetable check point between states? it's totally pointless and all it does it slow down traffic for half an hour.
what are they even looking for? people sitting in a pool of produce like one of those ball rooms they have at McDonald's? stoopid i say... stoopid.

Monday, August 25, 2008

goodbye Jed...

Jed is one of my favorite people in the whole world. it's sad to see him leave the dream factory... but i know he'll do bigger and better things. hopefully we will get to work together some day too.

my super artistically, musically talented office mate Ryan likes to sing songs about me. he manages to come up with a new one every single day.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

random cuteness

been a while.
see, this is why i didn't start a blog, cuz i knew i wouldn't keep it up. let's try this again - by this i mean committing to posting more often.

- from a board i did that got scrapped (quelle surprise!)

Thursday, December 20, 2007

i am lazy

hiya peeps.

sorry i've been a lazy bum and haven't updated for months. i really have no excuses... well, except that it's been quite busy at work the past few months preparing for a screening (which went really well btw) and there is always the other stuff that life bitch-slaps you in the face.

i will be posting more in the new year... after i get back from Toronto!
see you all in the new year!

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

here's a quick one

i've been working on "Shrek 4" for little over a month now and i must say i love drawing this little guy!
this one is from a "scrambling to get boards done for a check in" board. i love the spontaneous, expressive feel of the first rough for a pose... aaaah!!


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Top 25 Reasons Why the Sandman: Overture Delay Might Not Be DC's Fault

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Top 25 Reasons Why the Sandman: Overture Delay Might Not Be DC's Fault

In which The Outhouse waits for more info before deciding whether to reset the counter.

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Since it was revealed earlier today that Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams III's Sandman Overture #2 would be delayed until February (it was originally supposed to come out in December), fans all over the internet have been in an uproar, demanding that The Outhouse reset the counter at Has DC Done Something Stupid Today, currently running at over a month since the last act of stupidity. While The Outhouse would love nothing more than to reset the counter and thus reap a bounty of delicious unique hits, as a serious parody activist organization maintaining a single page website for the purpose of trolling an entertainment conglomerate, we feel that we must consider all of the possibilities before blaming the delays on DC. After all, while DC should not have solicited a book that they were not sure they could release, especially less than two months since 3Dnado caused all those allocations, it's not like they're really in any position to tell Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams what to do. Therefore, it's a distinct possibility that the delay is completely outside of DC's control, and so we can't conclusively determine that it's DC beng stupid... yet.

So, while we wait for Williams or Gaiman to speak on the delay, or for someone to leak the info to Rich Johnston, we've come up with a list of the top 25 reasons why the delays might not be DC's fault:

#25 - Neil Gaiman was hit over the head by a falling coconut while visiting Hawaii, got amnesia, and now believes he's a cast member on Gilligan's Island. Doctors are working around the clock to restore his memories.

#24 - Marvel unleashed the Stuxnet virus on DC's servers, causing all of their art files to be deleted, and also their secret nuclear processing facilities to malfunction.

#23 - UPS accidentally delivered Sandman Overture artwork to the Westboro Baptist Church, who promptly burned it.

#22 - DC's FTP is run by the same people who handle J.H. Williams is still waiting to upload pages. Thanks, Obamacare!

#21 - As the final pages were being delivered to DC's offices, a large bird swooped down out of the sky, grabbed the pages in its talons, and carried them to its nest on top of a volcano. DC's top interns are working on getting them back as soon as possible, but the plan requires Bob Harras to don lipstick and colorful plumage and present himself as a distraction, and Bob takes forever to get ready.

#20 - While vacationing in Europe, the script to Sandman Overture was captured by a Turkish sex ring, forcing Shelly Bond to use the skills she learned as a CIA operative to get them back.

#19 - The scripts were accidentally delivered to New Jersey, forcing DC executives to declare them lost for eternity.

#18 - Neil Gaiman delivered the script tattooed to Amanda Palmer's back. When JH Williams tried to read the script, his wife walked in and got the wrong idea.

#17 - The pages are ready, but in retaliation for being ousted from Batwoman before finishing his storyline, J.H. Williams is currently standing in Dan Didio's office, holding out the pages, saying "Here, just take them," then snatching them out of reach at the last second, yelling "PSYCH!" and laughing like a lunatic. This has been going on for three straight weeks.

#16 - Williams inserted Batwoman giving the middle finger into every panel, forcing intern Vlad Kozinkerov to use his photoshop skills to remove them all.

#15 - Williams realized he was going to be running late and hired Jim Lee, Ethan Van Sciver, and Bryan Hitch to help him finish the artwork. The issue immediately was delayed in anticipation of never getting the artwork.

#14 - Image is holding the finished pages hostage until Image United #3 is finished.

#13 - J.H. Williams named his fantasy football team The Sandman: Overture #2 and is really angry that Arian Foster is out for the season, and he hasn't been able to bring himself to finish the pages.

#12 - In a charming coming of age story, Rich Johnston broke into DC's offices with the intention of losing his virginity and becoming a man, but, due to a hilarious series of unfortunate coincidences, ended up leaving with the script to Sandman Overture #2 instead of Geoff Johns' underpants.

#11 - After Dan Didio placed the finalized pages next to his window to dry, Jim Lee curled up on top of them to take a nap. He hasn't woken up yet.

#10 - The pages were stolen right from under DC's noses at the last minute by a well-meaning archeologist who insists that they belong in a museum.

#9 - The pages were set on fire by a mad king, causing the pages for Sandman:Overture #3 and #4 to declare a war against the Iron Throne.

#8 - While being couried across the Pacific Ocean, the plane the pages were on landed on a mysterious island and now find themselves dealing with polar bears, dated CGI smoke monsters and a love triangle involving a doctor and a criminal.

#7 - In a highly improbable coincidence, the final pages for Sandman Overture #2 turned out to be exactly the same as top secret plans for a US nuclear space-based missile defense system. Everyone at DC is currently enjoying the pleasure of compulsory anal probing by the NSA until the whole mess can be sorted out under the provisions of the Patriot Act.

#6 - The pages left DC after getting fed up with the bullying of junior editor Richie Incognito.

#5 - The issue's father was assassinated shortly after arriving on a desert world, forcing the issue to flee into the desert and become the Kwisatz Haderach.

#4 - The book isn't getting delayed at all. DC is just spreading that rumor to find out exactly who is leaking rumors to Rich Johnston.

#3 - The three month delay is actually Sandman: Overture #2.  Neil Gaiman's comic book has transcended paper and become time itself.

#2 - Neil Gaiman realized that Sandman: Overture #2 had the exact same plot as Thor: The Dark World, necessitating a complete rewrite.  J.H. Williams claims that his Thor/Loki love scene is the greatest thing he's ever drawn.

#1 - Your mother happened to them. Nuff said.

Of course, it's probably DC's fault. And if we find that out for sure, we'll reset the counter. Until then, stay tuned...

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(UPDATED WITH VIDEO, March 29) AUBURNDALE, Fla. — Marking its entry into domestic blueberries, Alpine Fresh Inc. helped open a central Florida blueberry packing operation.

Alpine Fresh opens Florida blueberry packinghouseA March 28 ribbon cutting event officially opened Fresh Star Packing & Cold Storage, a partnership between Alpine Fresh and Five Star Family Growers, a new blueberry grower.

Five Star plans to pack up to 1 million pounds of blueberries from 260 acres of blueberry bushes and for other growers during its first season.

Construction ended in mid-March, and Fresh Star conducted its first trial run of berries on the packing line March 26.

It planned to begin its first season commercial harvesting on March 29.

“Our goal is for this to be a bar-setter with the likes of Alpine as partners,” said Randy Knapp, a Five Star owner and managing member. “They bring such an element of marketing ability and depth to the industry. With food handling and safety requirements and all the other restrictions imposed on farms as they need to be for consumer protection, it’s great to partner with someone like Alpine that has experience and can access retail with one-stop shop ability throughout the season.”

Alpine Fresh opens Florida blueberry packinghouseWalter Yager, Alpine Fresh’s chief executive officer, said the facility should help increase demand for Florida blueberries.

“We know that combining our efforts with the Five Star Family’s efforts with Fresh Star will be a model for years to come,” Yager said. “The future of this industry for us is very exciting. It’s one thing to go into something and say you want to do this. When you have this facility and this farm, it’s a major stepping stone for us to get varieties from plant breeders that will help Florida remain competitive for years to come.”

The facility also helps Alpine Fresh, which is celebrating its 25th year, expand to other commodities, Yager said.

With a dozen family owners, Five Star planted its first blueberry bushes in 2011 on land that was formerly an ornamental nursery.

For domestic blueberries, Alpine Fresh is partnering with growers in Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan.

It plans to use the Auburndale building to repack its offshore blueberries as well as conduct repacking, consolidating and reconfiguring of other U.S commodities.

Alpine Fresh is a year-round grower, packer and shipper of blueberries and also imports asparagus and other commodities.