Plan includes reductions to higher education.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Senate Republicans on Thursday proposed about $52 million in mid-year cuts to Iowa's $7.2 billion state budget, including reductions to higher education and the courts that administrators overseeing those systems warned would have detrimental effects.
The plan, which goes beyond the nearly $30 million spending reductions proposed by GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds earlier this month, is for the budget year that runs through June. It is preliminary and will require additional votes. The full Senate is expected to do so next week, while House Republicans say they're still finalizing their own proposal for spending cuts.
It's still unclear how aligned the Republican-controlled chambers will be at first, but they'll ultimately have to reach agreement before they can turn to the next state budget that begins in July.
The Senate GOP plan included $19.3 million in reductions to Iowa's three public universities — the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa. The Board of Regents, which oversees the schools, indicated it would fight to lessen the proposed reductions.
"As the state of Iowa is focusing on high-demand jobs, degree attainment, and the biosciences economy, cutting the public universities to this degree goes in the opposite direction of achieving these goals. The public universities are key drivers in all three of these areas and are critical to the future economic success of our state," said Regents Executive Director Mark Braun in a statement.
Jacob Simpson, student government president at the University of Iowa studying economics, said the cuts will be a factor in decisions on tuition and could make higher education more difficult to afford.
"With a mid-year cut, they're going to respond by needing to increase tuition," he said. "We already know students struggle to pay for school."
Sen. Charles Schneider, a West Des Moines Republican who chairs a key Senate budget committee, said the additional cuts ensure GOP lawmakers can help avoid more mid-year reductions. Budget experts are expected to release their latest projections on the current spending year in March, and lower-than-expected state revenue could force more cuts or tapping emergency funds.
Schneider provided the $52 million reduction estimate though preliminary data broke down a $50 million cut. He said the goal was to make cuts "in a way that's fiscally responsible and that reflects the priorities that we as Iowans all hold most dear." That includes no direct cuts to K-12 education spending.
The Senate plan was announced on the same day students from several community colleges visited the state Capitol as part of a lobbying day. Lawmakers in both chambers highlighted the visit by giving students standing ovations in the chambers. A short time later, the Senate GOP spending plan revealed a $5.4 million cut to community colleges.
Reynolds told reporters at her weekly press conference she would be open to proposals from legislators. Her budget plan included a cut of $5.1 million to the regents and $1.8 million to community colleges.
The plan announced Thursday would also include $4.8 million in cuts to the Judicial Branch, which is part of Iowa's court system. That's more than the $1.6 million reduction proposed by Reynolds. State Court Administrator Todd Nuccio said 30 county courthouses across Iowa would close. Those closures would be determined by caseload.
Reductions were expected to some degree. A budget panel predicted in December that while Iowa is still experiencing revenue growth, it's at a lower than expected rate. Similar predictions led to a mid-year spending cut last session and ultimately about $144 million in borrowing from reserve funds. That money is expected to be paid back.
Iowa's budget constraints come at a time when the state's unemployment rate has dropped to 2.8 percent. Reynolds and Republicans have said cutting taxes will be a priority this session, in an effort to spur more economic growth. Few specifics have been released on those assertions.


A new Moto X phone may have just passed through the FCC recently with the model name listed simply as 10566 in one of the documents, though perhaps more telling is that another one of the documents in the filing specifically for the FCC label shows that the model number is XT1750. This may suggest that the phone in question is an upcoming Moto X device as previous versions of the Moto X series devices have had "XT" in the beginning of the model number, the most recent being the Moto X Pure Edition from 2015, which carries the model number XT1575, while others like the Moto X Style have the mode number XT1572. The increase from 15 to 17 could signify this as the next generation of the Moto X series, although with very little detail it's impossible to tell just yet what phone this may be.
One thing to consider is that the FCC Label diagram also lists "3G" and "8GB" which could be referencing the amount of internal storage and the supported network frequencies. Another part of the filing lists off supported network types as GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA+, but there is no mention of LTE, and a new Moto X would most certainly have this. The Wi-Fi support is also listed only as 802.11b/g/n, and a flagship device like the Moto X would be supporting Wi-Fi 802.11ac and not just b/g/n. There is some other detail that can be picked up from the filings. In the document for the FCC Label Location, the diagram shows the label on the back of the device, which is to be expected as most devices will have the FCC label on the back and under the material used for the body, or under that back plate if the battery cover can be removed. In this diagram, a large circular shape is depicted towards the top, which looks a lot like the camera modules that can be found on more current Moto devices, such as the Moto Z family of devices and the upcoming Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus, both of which have recently leaked and carry a large circular camera senor module on the back.
Currently there are no Moto X devices which have this sort of camera sensor module on the back. Considering this, it's important to remember that there is no information stating this is a new Moto X, and all the information that points to it being a Moto X series phone resides in the model number that's listed on the label, and everything is just speculation at this point. Although the Moto Z is Lenovo and Motorla's current flagship set of devices, the Moto Z was stated as not being a replacement for the Moto X line, but rather just another offering that shares similar features. If there is a new Moto X device coming at some point in the future, chances are any announcements or official details about it wouldn't show up until later on in the year, as high-end devices from the Moto team usually come up in the Fall.


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Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan was the third expansion pack for the MMO Star Wars Galaxies. It was announced on August 19, 2005 and released on November 1, 2005.
This expansion added the ground planet of Mustafar to the game, and was designed to capitalize on the DVD release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and its final fight sequence between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi, which was set on the same planet. Trials of Obi-Wan includes more than 50 new quests, from rescue missions to the exploration of a crashed Republic cruiser. Many quests also revolve around the return of HK-47 from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, whom players can kill for a quest. The expansion also allows players to interact with the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi to help him "correct an imbalance in the Force" present on Mustafar. High-level quest rewards include the ability to find a fiery red crystal found only on the volcanic planet that creates a lava-like lightsaber. No new space sector was added with this expansion.
Trials of Obi-Wan is also available in the The Complete Online Adventures compilation pack.
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1 Pre-Order Offer
2 Announcement
3 Product Information
4 Rumors Confirmed
5 Letter to the Community
Pre-Order Offer
Available as of October 4, 2005 through the Sony Store. Trials of Obi-Wan went live November 1, 2005.
Bonus Offer If you pre-ordered 'Trials of Obi-Wan' before 12:01am of October 25 2005, you would have received three exclusive in-game items on your first login after installing the Expansion.
8 Player Transport Skiff
Lava Flea Creature Mount
Mustafarian Underground Bunker
As seen in Return of the Jedi this transport skiff was used by Jabba to transport his prisoners over the Pit of Carkoon. This in-game item will allow you and eight of your friends to travel the expansive areas on each planet. This vehicle will not only hold more players than ever before but it is also the fastest multi-player vehicle available. Don't worry with this expansion players will also receive 3 new slots giving them the ability to store more vehicles.
This mount is the only mount that will allow you to travel the Lava world of Mustafar safely. These creatures native to the planet have built defenses against its environment. Use these innate abilities to allow you to explore this violent world.
Three additional vehicle storage slots
Every player who order the Trials of Obi-Wan will also receive 3 additional vehicle storage slots in their datapad, so they will able to have total 6 vehicles in datapad on each character.
Bunker style player house
This player house is a completely new design that will allow a user to place it on one lot while having a large space to decorate or use in any fashion one chooses. These houses can be used as both residency and also a guild hall. The dev's paid special consideration to decorating, admitting that some of the homes in SWG do not lend themselves well to design.
And if that was not enough to sell you, they also allowed pre-order players access to the expansion a week before the actual release date. This access began on October 25, 2005.
To get a jump on Obi-Wan's quests and an early look at the new items many players pre-ordered the expansion.
Following is a copy of the press-release announcing the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion for Star Wars Galaxies. This page will be updated with information as it becomes available.
August 19, 2005 - LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment Inc. ( SOE ) today unveiled Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan to the cheers of Star Wars Galaxies ™ enthusiasts gathered for a fan breakfast at the 2005 Games Convention in Leipzig , Germany. This third expansion to the popular immersive online game is scheduled for release on November 1st, alongside the Star Wars : Episode III Revenge of the Sith theatrical DVD and Star Wars Battlefront ™ II video game. The companies also revealed that more than 1 million units of the Star Wars Galaxies franchise have now been sold, a testament to its ongoing popularity.
Like Obi-Wan Kenobi after his death, Star Wars Galaxies has become "more powerful than you can possibly imagine." Appropriately, Trials of Obi-Wan allows players to better understand the meaning of these final words spoken by Luke Skywalker's mentor, as they embark upon missions delivered directly from the spirit of the revered Jedi Master himself. From the very shores of molten lava where he defeated Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan guides players on quests that span the planet Mustafar - some of which might even convert devotees of the dark side over to a more virtuous path. This expansion features many new high-level quest rewards, including the ability to find a fiery red crystal found only on the volcanic planet that creates a lava-like lightsaber for the lucky owner. Players who fulfill all of Obi-Wan's directives will also receive a rich reward.
Mustafar colonists present many exciting trials of their own, too, as Trials of Obi-Wan includes more than 50 new quests for the galaxy's bravest adventurers, from rescue missions to the exploration of a crashed Republic cruiser. Many quests also revolve around a prominent figure from Star Wars ® : Knights of the Old Republic ® who returns 4,000 years after his prime with one simple mission in mind: Eliminate all meatbags.
"With Trials of Obi-Wan being an expansion set for release via digital download the same day as the Episode III DVD, we can't think of a better planet to add to Star Wars Galaxies than Mustafar," said Julio Torres, Producer at LucasArts. "Meanwhile, including the spirit of Obi-Wan nicely bridges the prequel era and the more classic-oriented time period depicted in the game. We're really excited about continuing mythology established by other LucasArts games, as well."
The release of Trials of Obi-Wan will provide a significant boost to a franchise that has already sold more than 1 million units worldwide. In recent months, interest and subscriptions in Star Wars Galaxies has grown, fueled by recent game additions, as well as the connection of the game content to Star Wars : Episode III Revenge of the Sith.
"A lot of positive changes have taken effect since Star Wars Galaxies first launched," said Nancy MacIntyre, LucasArts' Senior Director for the game. "We've picked up quite a few new fans and reintroduced many others to the game, especially since the Rage of the Wookiees expansion in May. Trials of Obi-Wan will only further this positive momentum."
For more information on Trials of Obi-Wan and the entire Star Wars Galaxies experience, please visit www.starwarsgalaxies.com .
Over 50 new quests and missions.
Join Obi-Wan Kenobi in his quest for redemption.
Discover and defeat the legendary Separatist Droid Army.
Discover the mysteries of the Old Republic as you uncover ancient weaponry and armor.
Visit locations from Revenge of the Sith including the Shore of Remorse, the site where Anakin Skywalker had his final battle with Obi-Wan.
Visit the ruins of the ancient Jedi Order and defeat new enemies of the Force.
Battle dozens of new creatures such as the Xandank, Tulrus, and Blistmok.
Uncover hundreds of new loot items including weapons like the Mustafarian Disruptor and the DC60 Carbine, which utilizes Old Republic technology.
Experience a captivating universe alive with hundreds of new sound effects and music from Revenge of the Sith.
Explore an all-new adventure planet featuring brand new environmental and graphical technology, such as unique heat shimmer and lava effects.
Pilot the new YT-2400, a multi-passenger ship fashioned after that of Dash Rendar's Outrider.
Rumors Confirmed
Some players were able to hack the .TRE files on test center, some of which are for the upcoming expansion. Rumors of what will be added in the expansion included expanding the Lightsaber mastery for the different forms of lightsaber fighting. While not confirming specific details, Blixtev did say, "Those Tre file rippers really take fun out of the fun of discovery if you know whats coming." For info on the .TRE files, see this forum page.
In a letter to the community, Grant "Rogue_5" McDaniel, SOE Producer, revealed more information on the upcoming expansion.
Is this a Jedi expansion?
Absolutely not. This expansion has content and adventures for all types of Star Wars Galaxies players.
I'm not a Jedi...so is there any reason for me to obtain the Trials of Obi-Wan Expansion?
Of course. All players will be able to converse with Obi-Wan and help him on his quests. Additionally, there will be many other quests as well as other reasons to explore the planet of Mustafar. And, the planet itself is so completely unique when compared to the rest of the planets in our game, that I think many people will just enjoy exploring and adventuring anywhere they can. (A lot more than Anakin!)
Trials of Obi-Wan: Will there be a new playable species? How about new NPC species?
We did not add any new playable species. However, Mustafar is home to two new native NPC species that you will find in the expansion (more on them later).
Why was Obi-Wan chosen to appear at this point in the timeline since he hadn't yet visited Luke Skywalker?
Events on Mustafar have caused a major disturbance in the Force, unleashing unknown dangers that could empower the dark side if not stopped. These events have led Obi-Wan Kenobi's spirit back to Mustafar to investigate how to eliminate this evil presence. With your help, he hopes to resolve the situation so that he can then move on to help the boy who could be our last hope…
What are some of the highlights of the expansion?
Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan takes place on a harsh lava world unlike anything seen in our current game. There, you'll find a lava river and erupting volcanoes, as well as other dark and mysterious caves and dwellings. The expansion is built around the fiction of Mustafar, so there are many new story-driven quests, some of which revolve around Old Republic technology that has been discovered there. There will be lots of high-level loot, cool new reward items and features (including an increase in the number of ground vehicles that can be stored and used by the player), and many more exciting things that I look forward to sharing with you soon. All of these aspects combine to make this expansion look and feel like you are literally walking into the world of Episode III.
Is there anything else you can share about the expansion that hasn't been discussed yet?
Yes. There are a lot of new features as I have mentioned above, and they will be revealed over the next few weeks. I would love to reveal them now – but then they would have kill me! However, here is a little bit more background fiction, which gives a hint as to some of what is occurring on Mustafar:
Trials of Obi-Wan
Rumors speed through the galaxy. Tales of
ancient treasure draw intrepid adventurers
and pitiless profiteers toward a little-known
volcanic moon.
Mustafar, once a simple mining planet, now
suffers in the merciless grip of greed.
Some have come for the Old Republic
technology, treasures that lie buried in the
blackened soil. Others seek the truth
behind the charred ruins and mysterious
temple mounds.
But a deeper secret waits. Strange crystal
shards, filled with amazing power, have
drawn dark forces to the burning planet.
And a hero, once thought lost, has returned
to face them…
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Staying Out of Trouble: An Interview with Julia Wertz
By Meg Lemke
I met Julia Wertz at a slightly rundown family diner she'd recommended deep in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. We drank coffee and ate waffles (hers, covered in bacon) and whole-wheat pancakes (mine, covered in syrup). We'd talked briefly before, but always amid the clamor of comics conventions, where Wertz hustles hard to sell her books but does not relish being on display. Yet she has been putting her life online for nearly a decade. Her new omnibus collection, Museum of Mistakes, brings together three volumes of her autobiographical Web series called Fart Party, written between 2005 and 2010; miscellanea, such as hate mail and guest sketches; and a handful of previously unpublished stories, including one that delves into her past and how children process grief.
As the cartoonist Tom Hart has noted, Wertz "makes self-destruction charming." In comics gloriously full of curses and insider jokes, she catalogs love found and lost, family dysfunction, and a risky cross-country move; she suffers low-wage service jobs and the publishing industry's rush after indie comics darlings. Though Wertz's frustration is often palpable (she occasionally imagines pulling people who annoy her limb from limb), she employs a kind of innocent visual style—her figures are wide-eyed and jaunty—and she's adept at developing a sense of intimacy between the reader and her antisocial persona on the page. In other words, she lets you in, then flips you off.
Wertz has published two graphic memoirs since most of the comics in Museum of Mistakes first appeared: Drinking at the Movies (2010) and The Infinite Wait and Other Stories (2012). The latter is partly concerned with her diagnosis with Lupus and the horrors of navigating the health care system as an uninsured artist. She also recently chronicled her journey to sobriety in an essay for Narratively about comedy, depression, and addiction. A few years ago, she began documenting her urban-exploring exploits, posting haunting photographs of modern ruins on her site Adventure Bible School.
This fall, Wertz made a much-anticipated return to publishing new online comics that, as Gary Panter puts it, "look cute and nice, but they aren't."
You're back to making daily diary comics after a two-year break. Why have you started again—and why did you stop?
I stopped because I was sick of myself. I completed the The Infinite Wait in only six months by drawing autobio comics sixteen hours a day. And before that, I had drawn comics every day, nonstop, for six years.
Eleanor Davis took a year after she finished How to Be Happy where she said, I'm only going to draw what I want to draw, when I want to—not what I need to for work, not what I think I should be working on. I used her example as justification, but I would have stopped anyway. I had planned to take a two-week break, and then, two years later, I was just ready to start again. I had remembered why I liked drawing comics.
What was it like rediscovering your older work? You've said, "I drank my way through my first three books, and consequently, I think they're all garbage."
Wow, I'm so harsh. I've been able to take enough time to appreciate these comics again. I realized that although I was an alcoholic when I made them, it doesn't mean they aren't good. Well, I don't know if I would say good, but they're funny. I also tried at one point to ditch the name Fart Party. I ended up reembracing it. Who fucking cares?
The early stories were drawn when alcohol worked for me. I write about it in a celebratory way, but if you look back knowing what happened to me later, you see that it's excessive. I was also making an active choice during those years not to talk about the serious issues in my life, which were later covered in The Infinite Wait. My brother's drug and alcohol addiction was slowly taking over my life, and I was sick. But in Fart Party, only every once in a while is there a panel that says, Oh, my brother fell off the wagon and got the shit kicked out of him but here I am, eating a cookie.
There is a striking scene in the saga in Fart Party of your now ex-boyfriend Oliver. You come in to bed at night drunk and he pushes you off him—he doesn't find it sexy. With hindsight, it's clear how your drinking was interrupting relationships.
It's such a cute comic, and I thought that was funny when it first happened. Then it definitely happened more than just that one time. I put that poor guy through some ridiculous nonsense. You can't conduct adult relationships like that, being out at four-thirty in the morning and not returning phone calls. Who does that? Alcoholics do that.
I love the comic your brother made, which is in Museum of Mistakes, about your obsession with Guns N' Roses. It deals with a form of addiction, a subject you cycle back to throughout your work.
You see me going into a K-hole of Guns N' Roses videos, not going to school, not wanting to participate in my own life. My brother swooped in, took the videos away, and then he started watching them. The pattern repeats itself later, when he had his addiction years and I swooped in to save him. That's been a constant narrative in our relationship. The comic is a funny piece about me liking hair metal, but it also says more about me than my own work does.
What is your process? Do you keep a diary and draw from life?
I write out stories as they happen. I don't have the luxury of retrospect. Retrospect is what most memoirs are written from—and that's good, because you want to see people grow—but I prefer to create a narrative where I don't afford myself the grace of afterthought. It's embarrassing and raw. You have to watch me fuck up.
The Infinite Wait was the first story I wrote as a long-form script, but I pulled it from diary sketches. I did draw the stories of my childhood from memory, putting myself in the mind of a child rather than taking an adult perspective. I was selling golf balls, running off into the woods with my older brother and a dull pocketknife. We were on welfare when I was a kid, but I didn't know it. I don't attribute being poor to having a hard childhood. Rather, it forced my family to be together. If we went on vacation, we were all stuck together in my grandmother's motor home, because at that time gas was maybe seventy cents a gallon. There were problems I was unaware of until later, when my parents broke up. But the good times are ingrained in my memory, and I like to write about them. It may make it painful because it all went bad later, but it's that much more important to me to remember.
You've said that you originally tried writing short stories, but once you started telling stories with drawings, the art did the editing for you. How did that work?
Throughout my childhood and high school, I wanted to be a writer, but I don't have the discipline to self-edit. I have good bones for storytelling, but I'm too loquacious and go off on too many tangents. I also wanted to be an artist, but I didn't want to go to art class. I only wanted to draw what I wanted to draw. So I never was a good artist, and I never was a good writer. But with comics, I realized I could put art and writing together, and the physical constraint of nine panels or four panels creates an editorial process.
Within that framework, I look at a piece and ask myself what is absolutely essential—what can I draw, and what do I have to put in dialogue or words? Comics are minimal, so I can take three pages of writing and make a comic that's nine panels. By selecting only the essential words and sentences, I see what I don't need to talk about, where I don't need to draw upon a tangent—I find all that matters.
You tend to disparage your skills, but in The Museum of Mistakes you include juvenilia and process sketches, and I see how your drawing has evolved. Is your style deliberate?
To paraphrase Charles Schultz, the simplest art form is the most effective. If you draw a simple face, readers can then project themselves into the story. In the early Peanuts, the characters were more childlike. The more "grown-up" versions are what most people know from the newspapers, but I prefer when they looked like kids. Similarly, in The Infinite Wait, I refined my drawings. But it's like I decided to take it a little too seriously, for that book. In the comics I'm posting now, I am going back to my cruder, cartoony style from the Fart Party days. I'm going to play it looser.
I'm not a trained artist—that's obvious. I can draw a good background, good buildings. It's people I don't like drawing.
That's revealing!
I know, it's my temperament in life.
The character Julia is so angry. I was a little afraid of you.
I'm a real bitch in my work. No one likes a happy-go-lucky character—that's the character everyone wants to see destroyed. I portray and exaggerate the ugliest aspects of my personality. When I draw a comic where my eyes are bugging out, in real life I was mildly irritated at most. I build up an interaction in the story, and there's an invisible end panel that I don't draw, which is just me laughing at the situation. In real life, I'm more even-keeled, though I do my best work when I'm unhappy.
You regularly draw yourself in isolation. But cities—particularly New York and San Francisco—feature prominently in your stories. How do you relate to being an artist alone in the social architecture of a city?
I have a conflicted relationship with the city. I do live an isolated life—I live alone, I work alone, I travel alone. In my urban exploring I'm going to places where humans no longer are—that's the objective. But even when I don't want it, the city still provides human interaction. Even basic subway encounters force me to remember that I'm a human being, that we're all here doing this together.
What's "urban exploring"?
I explore abandoned buildings, take photos of them, and go treasure hunting. I research and write up the history of the places, then weave in some autobio.
There are five levels of urban exploring. I don't want to brag, but I'm very good at what I do. There are places, like Farm Colony on Staten Island, where you can walk right through a hole in the fence. Then there are decaying hotels and resorts, with cops on patrol, and, on a higher level, depending on security and the state of the building, an abandoned hospital and asylums. The fourth level includes super illegal sites to enter, like military bases and the subway system. Last, there are "world traveler" explorers—usually professionals, like photographers for National Geographic, who investigate places like Chernobyl and abandoned islands like Hashima in Japan.
Do you go alone?
I go alone if I'm familiar with the place. If I'm not, I bring a friend, because I don't want to fall through the floor, and that's how I die, laying there with two broken legs.
You publish photos and documents you find. You unearth people's private lives. What is the legality of that and what are the ethical issues?
I'm holding onto a lot of paperwork, including patient files, from asylums. The institutions were supposed to destroy them when they abandoned the facilities. During the period of mass deinstitutionalization, from the sixties through the nineties, they considered files destroyed if they were sealed in the basement or the roof. But explorers get in there and discover people's stories. We find diaries and interviews. In terms of legal issues, it's trespassing and larceny. The ethical issues have to do with whether a patient has any living relatives. How much material can you publish and discuss without hurting family, without getting yourself in trouble?
I'm waiting to make some finds public. I'm waiting for buildings to be torn down. I'm also well versed in the statute of limitations for larceny and trespassing, so I'm waiting those out, too.
Are you searching for living family members?
I am hunting for the family of one patient who was institutionalized for homosexuality during World War II. He's a genius. I found twenty years of handwritten personal letters where he's writing to his mother, who is herself going into an institution. And she institutionalized him. The doctors talk about his IQ as a child, which was off the charts. In the documents, you see him go in an arrogant narcissist—he's the worst, but I love him. He was totally functional, just gay. And he loses his mind completely over the years of being a smart person who's institutionalized. Then he tries to go back out into the world, and he can't function. He goes back to the hospital of his own accord. It's so painful to see him unravel.
What compels you to share your own life?
It's definitely not the money—there is none—and it's not for fame or praise. I like doing it. I like talking about myself. It's fun to ink. It's fun to draw. It's fun to tell stories. It's a therapeutic process. When I cover something in a comic, it's already a little less painful as I'm writing it. I can sit at home in my pajamas drawing and come to the same conclusions as I could by putting on pants, going to the city, and talking to a therapist. From a removed point of view, I look at myself on paper and identify behaviors that have to stop. I see patterns I can't see otherwise. I'm learning about myself right along with the readers.
Meg Lemke is a contributing editor at MUTHA Magazine and chairs the comics and graphic novel programming committee at the Brooklyn Book Festival. You can find her online @meglemke and meglemke.tumblr.com.
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I might be interested, but I'm going to have to think about it.
I don't know if I'm dancing enough right now to justify a 5th pair of dance shoes.
Cool, Just let me know and I'll bring them to a dance you're at.
So.... Did these used to belong to a black woman?
Hey. I'm very interested in these shoes. Are they still available? I'm in town for a brief and undetermined amount of time.
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Browse Current IssueArtifact Citizens Band Radio: '70s-Style Social Media
Artifact Citizens Band Radio: '70s-Style Social MediaBack in the day, a CB radio connected strangers in their homes or vehicles to the outside world.
Words Christian Glazar
Illustrations Gregory George Moore
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I used to ride shotgun in my dad's '69 F-250, standing in the passenger footwell, hands on the dashboard, watching the world go by. It was unsafe, but it was the '70s; on a summer day, I would rattle around out back in the open bed. I remember the Cobra CB radio mounted under the dash crackling to life one day: "Breaker breaker to the blue Ford truck … back it down, buddy, you've got a bear in the bushes northbound."
As a five-year-old, I took this information literally, but Dad explained that this was just an expression: CB (citizens band) radio jargon for a speed trap. A fellow motorist, spotting the massive antennas rising from our pickup's west coast mirrors, was looking out for us and sticking it to The Man. I didn't really get it at the time; I just wanted to see an actual bear.
In the '70s, CB culture was truly pervasive; if you've seen Smokey and the Bandit or The Dukes of Hazzard, you understand the concept, but maybe not the scope. d connecting disparate strangers cocooned in their homes or vehicles to the outside world — or at least the world that lay within about a five-mile radius. While the technology had been around since the early '60s, it was the oil crisis of 1973 — and the ensuing national speed limit of 55 miles per hour — that sparked the fad. "What prohibition did for the bootlegger and the speakeasy, the 55-mph speed limit has done for the CB radio," claimed Rider magazine in August 1976.
Truckers used their radios to share information about pricing and supply at gas stations, as well as the locations of speed traps; they organized convoys and rolling blockades to protest onerous trucking regulations. Pop culture embraced the antihero vibe. The kitschy CB-inspired song "Convoy" by C. W. McCall topped both the country and pop charts in 1975, and towering whip antennas sprouted from the side mirrors, roofs, and trunk lids of everything from Beetles and sedans to pickups and Jeeps. Users identified themselves by a unique "handle," or nickname.
My grandfather appropriated Cochise (after the Apache chief, whose name was pronounced similarly to his last name, Kocsis) and a friend of his was Digger O'Dell (after a mortician character on an early TV sitcom) because he was an actual gravedigger by trade.
Admittedly, it was a decidedly lowbrow phenomenon: you didn't see too many WASPs mounting a CB radio in the Benz. Nevertheless, first lady Betty Ford was an enthusiast, identified by the handle First Mama. "We appreciate your help in keeping the Fords' 10-20 at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," she told a convoy of Gerald Ford supporters during the 1976 Presidential campaign.
Bikers wanted in on the action, and CB equipment makers happily obliged. The Beltek Enduro 23 CB radio had 23 channels, a wind-canceling boom microphone and earpiece, and a transmit button mounted on the left handlebar — essentially, a proto-Sena. At $229, it wasn't cheap; that's the equivalent of $1,000 today.
Eventually, the CB phenomenon fell victim to its own popularity. What was once a useful channel for sharing information became an annoyingly crowded free-for-all where serious users couldn't get a word in edgewise, their earnest questions and comments crowded out by pontificating nobodies and provocative pranksters. Gas prices fell, the national speed limit was repealed, and cell phones took over as the state of the art in communications technology.
There are still CB radio enthusiasts, and you can buy a brand-new Cobra 29 LTD Classic that's nearly identical in design and function to the one mounted in my dad's pickup. The airwaves are a lot quieter these days, but you may be able to raise a few truckers and experience social media, '70s style.
This one's on us.
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U.S. isn't planning Iran war, says Rice
By Associated Press and Anne Gearan
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2007 at 3:51 a.m. | UPDATED: August 17, 2016 at 5:46 a.m.
MADRID, Spain — The U.S. is not preparing for war against Iran and Vice President Dick Cheney supports that policy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says, taking a swipe at a U.N. official who says he's worried about "crazies" who want to start bombing.
"The president of the United States has made very clear what our policy is. That policy is supported by all the members of his Cabinet and by the vice president of the United States," Rice said Friday.
"The president has made clear that we are on a diplomatic course," she said in regard to U.S. opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Rice, in Spain at the close of a European visit, was asked about the comments of the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. Mohamed ElBaradei was quoted by the BBC as warning against the views of "new crazies who say 'let's go and bomb Iran.'"
Cheney is frequently the administration's most hawkish voice on Iran, but Rice said she did not know to whom ElBaradei referred. The United States does not rule out military action but says there is no plan or intention to attack Tehran.
Cheney has not publicly advocated an assault on Iran, but he used the deck of an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf last month to warn Tehran that Washington would prevent the Islamic republic from dominating the Middle East.
Rice was clearly annoyed by ElBaradei's remarks, which were part of an interview the International Atomic Energy Agency head gave for a documentary.
The remarks were posted Friday on the BBC Web site.
Rice said the United States is using diplomacy to avoid "getting to a place where we have an unpalatable choice." She described that as a choice "between having to do something on the military side or allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon. That's a choice that people talk about."
Rice, who has tangled with ElBaradei before, suggested he is giving Iran mixed signals.
"We have a diplomatic choice, but it's only going to succeed if we are absolutely clear with the Iranians — not muddying the message in any way," she said.
Iran is getting the right message from the U.N. Security Council, which has ordered two rounds of sanctions over Iran's nuclear program, and from the world at large, Rice said.
"I expect them to hear it loud and clear from the IAEA, and from its director," she said.
Separately, in what could be an attempt to delay the threat of new U.N. sanctions, Iran has pledged to cooperate with the nuclear monitoring agency probing its atomic program, according to an official speaking to The Associated Press.
That would end years of stonewalling by Iran and help the IAEA establish whether Tehran's past nuclear efforts were exclusively peaceful in nature.
At the White House, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said Iran's defiance of U.N. mandates raises the prospect of a third U.N. resolution to increase pressure to suspend nuclear enrichment work.
While the U.S. continues its tough stance on Iran's nuclear program, Hadley said the United States agreed to talk to Iran about Iraq because the Iraqi government requested the meeting and because Iran's activities in Iraq are "killing our kids — our men and women in uniform over there."
U.S. and Iranian ambassadors held talks in Baghdad on Monday, the first formal ones between the two nations in nearly three decades. The two sides were to meet again in less than a month, but on Friday, Iran's foreign minister said, during a visit to Syria, they would continue "if the American side is willing to change its policies and is prepared to accept the realities in Iraq." He did not elaborate.
Rice's visit to Madrid was not connected to nuclear talks there Thursday between negotiators for Iran and the European Union. The talks ended without announcement of any breakthrough.
Rice is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Spain since a formerly close alliance turned frosty following the election of a Socialist government three years ago.
After hard feelings in Washington over Spain's quick pullout from Iraq and a dispute last year over Spanish plans to sell military equipment to Washington antagonist Huge Chavez of Venezuela, a fresh disagreement has threatened to wash away any growing good will.
At issue is Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos' decision to snub Cuban dissidents on a visit to Havana in April. Moratinos has defended the move, saying engagement with Cuba is the best policy.
When Moratinos predicted that in time Rice would see the value of his approach, Rice, listening to his remarks by translation on a headset, looked amused and unconvinced. As Moratinos continued to speak, she looked at the crowd of reporters and silently mouthed what appeared to be the phrase, "Don't hold your breath."
Associated Press Writers George Jahn in Madrid and Albert Aji in Damascus contributed to this report.
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The accomplished singer-songwriter is more like a modern day standup philosopher, documenting the times. He's a combination of George Carlin and Leonard Cohen.
That combination is perfect when it comes to creating contemporary music.
The King City native will return to his roots, with an upcoming performance Friday, Oct. 19 at Rockford's in King City. Show time is 8 p.m.
Brooks is a deep thinker and likes to totally immerse himself in his art. He recently spent northern Adirondacks learning songs by Van Morrison, Blind Willie Johnson, and Leonard Cohen in a 100-year-old country church he rented for rehearsing/writing new things.
Brooks is the only person nominated five times for "Songwriter of the Year" at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.
His sixth album, "No One Travels Alone," is a journey into life's deep, deep questions. It's as meditative as it is playful. He borrowed from Elizabethan sonneteers to connect songs in No One Travels Alone in corona form, where the last line of the first song becomes the first line of the second song, and so on, until the last line of the album completes the circle and begins the album anew.
In 2010 he won the New Folk Award at The Kerrville (Texas) Folk Festival, one of the largest and most prestigious folk festivals in the U.S. He has toured in every province and most states this side of California.
Brooks's talent emerged early and he said he found he a talent for humour and language in his teens. But, he didn't think he was "wired" for musical talent and the confidence that comes with performing.
Music kept calling and it's been part of who he is. It has nagged him and taunted him at times, forever challenging his preconceptions.
"It's a rare and good day when I feel like I'm in command of my musical 'gifts,'" he said.
Brooks also doesn't want to be pigeon-holed, fitting neatly into one particular genre.
Literary influences abound in his music, which meanders through British pop, California hip hop, Texas blues, near Eastern Sufi, or Americana alt-country. He writes "topical ballads" and plays the acoustic guitar, often performing solo.
Brooks observed that most of us want to feel transformed by a song, a play, a novel, a movie.
Admittedly "anti-genre," Brooks said he likens himself your "punk rock uncle" living on the fringes.
He's "sonically dynamic, lyrically provocative, and musically iconoclastic.
Yes, he goes where few venture, into the dark recesses of the human beast. And yet, he's engaging, encouraging his audiences to laugh, be inspired and remain hopeful.
Unlike traditional "protest artists," Brooks doesn't preach, take sides, or tell anyone how to think or vote.
And like his newest album, Brooks wants people to feel less alone.
Brooks's repertoire is as varied as people on the planet.
In 2007 he released an album of Canadian war stories, "Ours and the Shepherds." In 2009, he released, "Moth Nor Rust," an album of songs about all the positive things that make us human, that neither moth nor rust can touch. "Delicate Cages" in 2012 was a collection of songs all about the paradoxes of freedom and imprisonment. He followed that in 2014 when he took a provocative turn down the "dirt roads of rural Canadian murder ballads." This may have actually been his most folk-like album, but it contains as much humour as it does carnage.
When performing live, Brooks enjoys the power to unite people, to be able to "participate in something so positive in a world stuffed with negatives.
Society is currently dealing with alienation, dislocation social media and "fake news," further segregating one another.
"Aside from deleting our Facebook and Instagram accounts, the next best thing we can do for each other and our children's children's children is to continue to support local community and live music," he said.
Despite its shortcomings, the digital and global age has given us more great music than we could possibly absorb.
And that's a good thing for those looking for a bit more from their contemporary music.