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ARZone Podcast 85: Kim Socha - Animal Liberation and Atheism
Posted by Animal Rights Zone on January 24, 2015 at 10:36 in ARZone Podcasts
Episode 85 features advocate, educator, and author Kim Socha.
Kim Socha, who holds a PhD in English Literature and Criticism, is an English professor working in the US. A grassroots animal liberation advocate, Kim is also active in drug policy reform, and transformative justice.
Kim is the author or editor of 4 books relating to animal rights and veganism including her most recent from 2014, Animal Liberation and Atheism: Dismantling the Procrustean Bed. Prof. Socha joined us to speak about that book, in which she makes the case that adherence to any of the world's major religions is antithetical to an animal liberation perspective and practice. Audio podcast, approx. 52 minutes.
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Permalink Reply by Jeffrey Cohan on February 2, 2015 at 3:23
Tim, you have it almost exactly right. I say "almost" because you could accurately express the idea in even stronger terms. Many leading rabbis have said that the kosher laws were meant as a temporary concession, and that we should have already matriculated ethically to vegetarianism or veganism.
Tim Gier said:
Hi again Jeffrey,
Among other verses, I take it that Isaiah 65:24-25 speak to the ideal you've mentioned? (I'm including the KJV version of those verses here, for anyone who hasn't read them)
24: And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are not speaking, I will hear. 25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock; and dust shall be the serpent's meal. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,saith the Lord.
I have to say that Isaiah contains some beautiful imagery and much powerful prose. After reading it, it's easy for me to remember why the Bible is such an influential work. I'm happy that our discussion caused me to look at it again, so thank you for that.
If I'm getting what you're saying and what's being said in Isaiah, then the idea is that humanity, because of it's imperfect condition, has always been missing the mark with respect to God's plan, however well or poorly humanity may have aimed. So, while it may be permissible, given humanity's imperfection, for it to act in some ways, it's only because of the imperfection that it is permissible. One of the permitted actions, since after the Flood, has been the killing and eating of other animals, but humanity ought to aim away from that, not towards it. Have I got it somewhat right?
Jeffrey Cohan said:
Yes, there have been rabbinic disagreements recorded throughout history, but each argument must remain within certain theological boundaries to be considered valid.
A very circumscribed form of meat-eating is permitted within Judaism, while the entire plant kingdom is available to Jews without restriction.
Further, meat-eating, while permitted in limited form, is described as a concession to human lust, while a plant-based diet is presented as God's design for humankind.
Among rabbis as a demographic group, you will find a higher percentage of vegetarians and vegans than you will among the general population, for religious reasons. And several of the most influential/famous rabbis over the past 100 years have espoused vegetarianism.
Everything I'm telling you is mainstream Jewish thought. We're very careful as an organization to hew to a solid theological base, which is why I was so disappointed with Kim's remarks.
Permalink Reply by liouba on February 3, 2015 at 11:01
very interesting but when she says that even in a vegan world our government and corporation would still make it impossible the problem is capitalism, not speciesm I think.
It is sad that the author thinks that the nature of living beings is not good. There are a lot of examples that shows that reel altruism exists, and I am sure that she could continue the conversion with a buddhist such as Mathieu Ricard who do believe in the goodness of living beings.

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Earnings Preview: Barrick Gold Corporation, Angie's List, Inc., and SunEdison, Inc.
Analyzing recent option activity on Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (ABX), Angie's List Inc (ANGI), and Sunedison Inc (SUNE)
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Among the stocks gearing up to report earnings tomorrow are gold concern Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX), online review firm Angie's List Inc (NASDAQ:ANGI) and alternative energy issue Sunedison Inc (NYSE:SUNE). Below, we'll break down how options traders are positioning themselves, and how much speculators are willing to pay for their bets on ABX, ANGI, and SUNE.
ABX, which will release fourth-quarter earnings data tomorrow night, has been in recovery mode, with the shares up 12.4% year-to-date to hit $12.08. Despite the stock's turnaround, Barrick Gold Corporation's Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio (SOIR) of 0.83 ranks in the 88th percentile of its annual range, suggesting that near-term traders are more put-biased than usual. Traders looking for negative post-earnings price action have history on their side; in the session following its last six earnings reports, ABX has lost value five times, including a 4.2% dip this past October. Short-term speculators are paying relatively fair prices for the stock's options, as its Schaeffer's Volatility Index (SVI) of 47% sits in the 57th percentile of all similar annual readings.
Ahead of tomorrow morning's earnings release, ANGI is down 0.7% to reach $4.99, translating into a 20% year-to-date loss. However, traders are still optimistic on the equity. Over the past 10 days at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), 1.95 Angie's List Inc calls have been bought to open for every put. Historically, in the session following its last four earnings reports, ANGI has lost an average of 11.1%. Near-term options for the equity are available for relatively inexpensive prices, as its SVI of 71% sits in the 23rd percentile of all similar readings taken over the past year.
The shares of SUNE have been climbing at a steady clip, with the stock up 45.3% year-over-year, including a 2.8% gain today, to hit $22.05. Although Sunedison Inc, has been a technical beast, short-term puts are prevalent heading into tomorrow night's earnings release, as the stock's SOIR of 0.60 sits just 6 percentage points away from an annual pessimistic peak. What's more, in the session following its last five earnings reports, SUNE has averaged a 2.9% gain. Another upbeat earnings reactions could spook the bears in the options world. Traders are paying historically cheap prices for their short-term bets on the equity, as SUNE's SVI of 57% reads in the 28th percentile of its annual range.


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Radiographic, computed tomographic, and arthroscopic findings in labrador retrievers with medial coronoid disease.
Diagnostic imaging of canine elbow dysplasia: a review.
Analysis of risk factors for elbow dysplasia in giant breed dogs.
A chondroblastic osteosarcoma of the coronoid process mimicking a fragmented coronoid process in a dog.
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As you might expect, I worked on the Chicago portion of the project. My work followed what's become a familiar theme to regular readers here -- Chicago is a study in contrasts. I found that it's becoming wealthier while simultaneously increasing its impoverished areas. It's becoming exceedingly expensive and astonishingly vacant, more educated and less educated, all at the same time. How so? The city has drawn in and concentrated affluent new residents along the city's beautiful lakefront, but there's been continual decline in many of the city's neighborhoods, particularly on the South and West sides. It's become the prime example of a bifurcated city, gaining high-income and retaining low-income residents, while squeezing out those in the middle. This has most directly impacted Chicago's black middle class living on the South and West sides, leading to a decline of the city's black population by 25% since 2000, the leading edge of Chicago's 7% population decline since 2000. Chicago's concentration of revitalization is a concern.
But there's some analysis I conducted that didn't make the final report.
I know, I know, those numbers aren't really grounded in any real measure of socio-economic status, but they're real enough to use as points on a spectrum.
Incomes did not change dramatically for those in the different income categories. High income CCAs had an average median household income between $79,000 and $83,000 from 1990 to 2008-12. Middle income CCAs were at $58,000 in 1990 peaked at nearly $64,000 in 2000, and fell to $59,000 in 2008-12. Low income CCAs were between $33,000 and $37,000 over the period. I'm guessing incomes were pretty static because this came on the heels of the 2008-09 Great Recession.
Incomes in Chicago didn't change much, but the composition of incomes at the neighborhood level did. There are 77 CCAs in Chicago. In 1990, 12 could be considered high income, 32 were middle income and 33 were low income. By 2000 that profile shifted to 15-20-42, and by 2008-12 it was 14-14-49. Slightly more high income CCAs, far fewer middle income CCAs, and far more low income CCAs.


It has been a tough week for the P&PC Office cat Stella (pictured here). Courtesy of the SPCA of Pinellas County, Florida, where we found her the victim of two abandonments in a row and slated for, uh, disposal unless someone immediately adopted her, she's now an estimated eighteen years old and has been with P&PC since before there was a even a P or PC on the horizon. Moved from Florida to Iowa, then from Iowa to Oregon, she has done more than measure out her life in coffee spoons. But Time's winged chariot is hurrying near, and this week saw two trips to the vet, a round of oral antibiotics, the regular administration of subcutaneous fluids, and a series of pretty gross litter box-related events.
And so, to speed Stella along the road to recovery, we offer the strange 1898 "Rat on Toast—for Dinner" steroeview card issued by T.W. Ingersoll and pictured here. "Oh, infinite volumes of poems that I treasure in this small library of glass and pasteboard!" wrote the Fireside poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. of his stereoview card collection in "The Stereoscope and the Stereograph," first published in The Atlantic Magazine in 1859. Credited with inventing the "American stereoscope," Holmes imagined that the mechanism's 3-D viewing experience would produce an effect similar to bodily resurrection and that "posterity might therefore inspect us ... not as surface only, but in all our dimensions as an undisputed solid man of Boston."
Do you see the rat?
I see the cat and the rat. The cat caught the rat and killed it with her sharp teeth.
Does the cat eat rats?
Fat rats make fat cats.
The Chinese eat rabbit stew made of rats.
The poem itself is an odd, paratactic stew of elements taken from nursery rhymes, grammar school food chain hierarchies, and nineteenth century American nativism culminating in that bizarre non-sequitur of a last line, and that stew is made even more perplexing when paired with the surreal image on front. But after the week of needles, drip chambers, and eyedroppers we've had, not even that is enough to surprise us.


we've ran into a problem which Litmus unfortunatly did not detect.
As you probably know iOS and Android replace Date's and Adresses with clickable links to add them to you calander app. For some reason it is changing the color of those links to white, in stead of blue. Which is a problem because the background of our email is white. Litmus did not detect this because iOS and Android do this a second after the screenshot was taken.
Does anyone know why the links change to white, in stead of blue?
I know we can set an <a> tag around the date to prevent it from happening but i would like a bulletproof solution.


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A Decade Without Chalking, Part Two: An Interview with Matthew M '05
"The ultimate goal wasn't to be able to chalk. It was to exhibit control over their environment."
Ten years ago this autumn, President Doug Bennet '59 sent out an all-campus email and banned chalking at Wesleyan for good. When I set out to mark the tenth anniversary of that Moratorium, I only meant to reflect on a heated and surreal episode in Wesleyan's activist history and share the story behind a once-treasured campus medium that stills pops up every now and then.
Then this happened. And this. And this. And this Homecoming banner drop (which bears stark similarity to events described in the following interview). All of a sudden, chalking was in the news again.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. What follows is an unexpectedly timely conversation with our first interview subject, Matthew M. '05, who not only passionately fought the chalking moratorium, but went so far as to hack into President Bennet's email and inform the Wesleyan community that the Moratorium was over. (Spoiler: It wasn't.) According to Matthew, the chalking controversy wasn't just about chalk. It was about widespread discontent over "fewer and fewer outlets for organized student autonomy"—a sentiment that brewed well past the fall of '02 and culminated with over 250 students trapping President Bennet in his office in December, 2004. (No, really. Ask your older sister about it!)
The full interview is past the jump (it's a long one), and the introductory post is here. Since he openly admits to perpetrating email fraud, Matthew asked me to withhold his last name. Our chalking Westrospective will continue later this week with another interview reflection.
When you arrived on campus in 2001, how would you characterize the student body's relationship with chalking at Wesleyan?
It was kind of an institution. And it was used in a variety of different ways. The most attention-getting way was when whatever the LGBTQ etc. student group was at the time chalked. A couple times a year, they would have a sort of chalking blast. Also, it was used regularly by a lot of student groups who were advertising events or activist groups just promoting something. You know, "Come watch this movie." "Apply to Alpha Delt." It was just public media communication that was a regular feature of the landscape and a very colorful expression of Wesleyan's diversity and charm.
You mentioned that queer groups were especially involved in chalking. Can you expand on that a little bit?
Every semester or so, they would have a big chalking explosion. And part of the intent of that was to offer people—especially young queer people who might be coming out for the first time or really kind of starting to be public with themselves—to offer those people sort of an anonymous forum for expressing themselves and expressing their desires and their humanity and sexuality. And I think a lot of people considered the anonymity and the publicness to be really important and valuable. And a lot of people also considered it to be a great way of queering public life at Wesleyan and making part of the public discourse reflect the diversity and range of life experience of the student body.
So there was a weekend or so where at night people were out chalking and in the morning, campus was just covered everywhere, all sidewalks, with chalk and with messages and with color. It was great.
Did you chalk a lot?
Yeah, some chalking. I think everybody did.
Everybody did?
Yeah, sure. At some point or another, everybody held a piece of chalk in their hands and wrote something on the sidewalk. Maybe not everybody. Not everybody. But it was very common. It was not really a "niche affair."
From what I've read, the WSA provided the chalk for free at the time.
Yes. That is true. That was exactly the really standard communication medium. If you were part of a student group and you were advertising an event—you know, if there was a speaker or a discussion or a movie—what you did was you got your event on the WSA event email, you put a message on the voicemail bulletin that went out, you hung up a banner in the campus center, and you went out and you chalked.
Did you say that there was a voicemail bulletin at the time?
Yes. This was before everybody had cell phones. Everybody had a landline in their dorm room. And I think it was something like a daily message bulletin, so when you checked your voicemail you would also receive this minute-long or whatever list of announcements.
Can you describe the events leading up to Doug Bennet's passing the moratorium?
There was some growing displeasure from some people who were part of the campus community about the explicit nature of some of the chalking.
Sexually explicit?
Yeah. And some of the background for this was: President Bennet was at Wesleyan and he, from what I recall, was really tasked with two objectives as the president of Wesleyan. One was to dramatically increase the size of Wesleyan's endowment. And the other, which was part and parcel of that, was to give Wesleyan greater mainstream prestige.
And so, at this time, ten, eleven, twelve years ago, Wesleyan was considered a school for—you know, artsy people and freaks and queers and weirdos. And a lot of students liked that about it. But I think a lot of alums and a lot of the members of the Board wanted it to be seen as a serious, northeast liberal arts university. To the point where, in the '90s, they embarked on a campaign to call Wesleyan the "Independent Ivy" in order to put it alongside an Ivy League school. And students were really pissed off about that, because they went to Wesleyan. Not this rebranded Wesleyan. So Bennet was trying to make sure that Wesleyan was known for its academic prestige, not for the antics of its student body, so to speak.
And so the fact that in the previous year the New York Times had published this "exposé" on the "naked dorm," which was not a thing. But this bothered members of the administration and the Board of Trustees. The members of WestCo could sort of write their own charter and policies, and one year they just threw in a clothing-optional clause. It's not like people in the dorm were walking around naked, but the New York Times got their hands on this and all of a sudden everyone who knows somebody who goes to Wesleyan was like, "Oh you go to that school with the naked dorm!" And students are like, "Yeah, there's not a naked dorm, sorry to disappoint you."
So when did Bennet specifically decide to go after chalking?
I don't really recall any specific precipitating events, except for some growing rumblings that people were uncomfortable with the sexual nature of some of the chalking. There are worse things in the world than discomfort. The conversation really started to happen, as I recall, in the fall of 2002. The moratorium was placed somewhere in that time frame. And then the development of it was Bennet referred to the moratorium as temporary, and talked about—you know, we're going to have campus conversations about the way to go from here, but that was just a delaying tactic. The moratorium was temporary until it wasn't.
So what was the campus reaction to this?
I think the popular sentiment was something along the lines of: "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?" Now, looking back on it ten years later, it's just like, we fought over chalking? And they banned chalking? That's so dumb! But also, that's a tactic of decision, because if you get people to focus in on one small little thing, the bigger picture can be ignored. And the bigger picture was the administration's attempt to have the students be the content, not the participants, in campus life.
Can you clarify what you mean by that last comment?
During my time at Wesleyan, there were fewer and fewer outlets for organized student autonomy. Fewer spaces for students to meet and use and do things. Fewer opportunities for student creativity. More and more regulations on what students were allowed to do with the resources. So, in the backdrop of those attempts to change what happened at Wesleyan and how Wesleyan was perceived, it really felt like we were accepted into Wesleyan and yet we were expected to be something less than ourselves. That we couldn't treat Wesleyan as ours. We just were treated as residents.
Can you talk about how people responded on campus to the moratorium? Were there protests?
One of the first reactions was like, "Fuck the moratorium, we're gonna go chalk." By 5 A.M. the next morning, it had been erased because the university forced the cleaning crews to come in with these power-washers and they forced the employees to come in pre-dawn in order to make sure that the dangerous chalk wouldn't see the light of day. And this happened over and over and over again.
How did it play out?
You know, at a certain point, people got tired of it. What can you do? It gets erased and there's only so much energy you can put into chalking on the sidewalk. The ultimate goal for a lot of students wasn't to be able to chalk. It was to exhibit control over their environment. So I feel like it was in late 2004 when this culminated in one of the student protests that trapped Bennet in his office. I don't know if you're familiar with this.
I've read about it before. Did you participate in that?
Yep. The idea was that there was just this growing rift between Bennet and the student body, and the students kept on being like, "There are things that we need from the school and the school won't listen to us. Why are you treating us this way? Listen to the students." So a bunch of students went to—they had these open office hours at the old campus center, like Friday at lunch time he'd sit in a conference room and students would come in and he'd listen to them.
So a bunch of students came with a whole bunch of complaints. And he called them an unruly mob and walked out of his office hours. He went back to his office and the students followed him and more and more students joined and it became obvious that Bennet was walking away from students who were expressing concern in an avenue that he opened up for students to express their concern. He said, "If you want to have a dialogue with students, this is the way you do it," and then he walked out on them. So that wound up looking like some 500 students walking out of their classes that afternoon in order to join the group around South College.
Wait, so his office hours weren't in South College?
No, his office hours were in the campus center, and he walked out of his listening session and students followed him to his actual office.
How did more students find out this was going on? Did they just see it?
They just saw it, and then some other students just went around spreading the word, you know?
Did Public Safety show up?
Yes, Public Safety was protecting the president, which I found to be very amusing. Bennet insisted that he felt physically threatened, as I recall. He felt physically threatened by people who wanted to be heard when he gave them the opportunity and then took it away.
Was there any disciplinary follow-up to that episode?
No. The follow-up was that Bennet agreed to hold a school-wide public forum in order to listen to student concerns and student opinions over the administration's work and direction that the administration was going. So the agreement to have that was a sort of—the criteria for "ending the siege," so to speak. And there was a student forum the next week. And something like a third of the student body showed up to express concern. And Bennet listened to them and argued against them. And nothing happened.
So there were no SJB charges filed against the people who participated in that demonstration?
Not that I know of, no. Also, the students weren't in his office. They surrounded the building and they blocked the entrances and exits, but he himself was locked in his office.
So from what I've read, similar protests took place in 2002 after the chalking moratorium. Do you recall similar demonstrations then?
There was an organized response to the chalking. That organization came in the form of a concerted effort to discuss with the administration why chalking was important. In a variety of ways. Both though chalk, through Wespeaks, through conversations with Bennet. As I recall, students worked with a lot of faculty to get a really significant percentage of faculty signing a letter opposing the moratorium. There was a really loud campus response against the moratorium. Certainly there was also an acknowledgment that there was something that needed to be fixed with the way that members of the campus were communicating with each other. But one of the solutions included in the moratorium was that, you know, being sexually explicit is wrong; therefore, nobody can chalk. And that's a really limited viewpoint.
One story I've heard involves students marching outside President Bennet's house banging pots and pans. Were you aware of that?
I don't specifically remember that. I'm not denying that it happened. It if happened, I'd be surprised if it had any effect because Bennet didn't live in his house on campus.
Where did he live?
I think he lived in Ridgefield, Connecticut, which is way out in Fairfield County. An hour or more away from campus.
Did he commute to campus?
Yeah. For the days of the week that he was on campus, he commuted to campus. And he used the president's house for receptions and events, but he did not live there full time.
Especially a couple of years ago, when the story went to the alums of my year that went: the Middletown Police arrested a bunch of Wesleyan students at a party, students ran to the president's house in the middle of the night, woke up President Roth, he came running in his bathrobe to yell at Middletown Police and say, "You don't have the authority to do this or the jurisdiction here." When we heard about that extent to which Roth looked out for students, the intense difference between Bennet and Roth came to mind. [Editor's note: Matthew is referring to the Fountain Avenue incident, which occurred in May, 2008. For more information, see the "Fountain Incident" tag on the old Wesleying Blogspot. Much of the chaos was liveblogged here.]
How did the New York Times article that quoted you come about?
That's a really good question. Word trickled down that there would be a reporter on campus and a couple of student groups kind of assembled to talk to her. I guess I wound up having a quote. I have difficulty remembering some of the details.
So I mentioned in my email to you that the moratorium was over for a couple hours one day. I think it was fall of 2002, maybe a couple months after the moratorium was initially enacted. All students on campus received an email from President Bennet's email address with an email saying that the moratorium was over and that Bennet understood the value of chalking and of freedom of expression. And then a couple of hours later it came out that the email was a hoax and that somebody had somehow hacked Bennet's email system.
And, uh. I had to turn myself in for that one.
Wait. Did you perpetrate that?
Yeah, that was me.
How did you do that?
[Laughs] So I'm not really a computer guy. But a computer guy showed me a way to—well, I forget what program it was, but there was some terminal program where you could initiate a direct dialogue with the email server and tell it to send email from basically whoever you wanted it to. So I thought, "Hmm. I can make it over for good." And I got my hands on a list of all the email addresses. And I sent the email. Kind of imagining that I was doing a prank in line with the Yes Men's impersonations of public figures.
In line with what?
Are you familiar with the Yes Men? I guess I would call them political pranksters, and they impersonate public officials and do really great things that the political officials then need to deny. By public I don't mean governmental necessarily. They would, you know, impersonate representatives from the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. There was one where they announced that they—the World Bank—realized that the economic system causes more poverty across the world and they were going to pursue a poverty-reduction initiative and they got all these capitalists together trying to figure out how to eradicate poverty in the next five years. When the World Bank realized it was being impersonated, they had to come out with a statement saying, "No, we didn't do any of that great stuff." That was definitely the model that I was going for.
Is it legal to fake an email like that?
Uh. Probably not. Probably not. The email was traced to somebody else, so I turned myself in.
How did it get traced to someone else?
There was somebody who downloaded a list of all of the email addresses from the email server. They downloaded that for me. Not as an active participant. So the Student Judicial Board got in touch with him, and he got in touch with me and he was like, "Hey, so this is what's going on." And I said, "I'll turn myself in." And I got a little slap on the wrist and was put on disciplinary probation until I graduated.
Did you think it would be worse?
I guess I was worried about possibly getting kicked out of school. I don't think that was ever really on the table. But the cool part about it was when I sent the email, I went back to my dorm room and I took a look at AOL Instant Messenger and people's away messages were filled with, "Oh, moratorium's over. That's great." For a few hours that day, the whole campus thought the moratorium was over. And that made me feel really good.
Did you ever speak with Bennet personally after having done that?
No. I had to send an apology letter. And I sent the apology letter and I said, "Yes, I misrepresented you. However, I cordially encourage you to rebuild your ties to the student body." And he wrote a letter back to me telling me that he had no faith in my cordial encouragement because my actions were specifically calculated to damage those times. Which I thought was blatantly false. I was not trying to damage Bennet's ties to the student body. I was trying to demonstrate a path towards better ties. [Editor's note: You can read Bennet's letter to Matthew here. The hoax email itself appears here.]
What else do you think is worth mentioning about this?
I want to say two things. One is that the background of chalking was an attempt by Bennet to change the public perception of the University. In doing so, he made a lot of students feel very disempowered as participants in public life. He made a lot of students feel like we were not being given control of the environment. That we were not being given power over our future and our lives at Wesleyan.
And sure, it's a private institution and they have control over certain of those things, but it's also a place where, for an educational purpose, young people grow into adults. And they need to be given certain freedoms. And they need to be given the tools of autonomy to build their society. And in the pursuit of a certain type of prestige, Bennet and the Bennet Administration turned away from that. And, in doing so, alienated so many students.
As they were raising our tuition every year, they were taking things away from us. And at this point, we're not just customers of an education. We're not just gonna take our money elsewhere. Because that involves uprooting our ties and our new home and leaving our community. So that was the background of the chalking fuss.
And then the second thing I want to highlight is— and I was talking with a friend about this very recently—that when the administration focused on chalking, we did, too. And parts of the greater debate got pushed to the margins. In doing so, they were able to win some of the larger battles. Because we were busy arguing about chalking and we weren't always busy arguing about what chalking represented.
How do you think Wesleyan has changed since you graduated?
I don't really know. It's very hard to say as an outsider. I went back for my five-year reunion several years ago and I was hanging out with somebody who was a student and this was just one of those things that's easy to say as a person who's slightly older, but I was like, "Hey, so are there any activists at Wesleyan anymore or is it just hipsters?" That was my perception after all of 24 hours of being back on campus. But I don't really know how Wesleyan has changed.
I think the relationships among some of the various institutions on campus have changed with Roth's presidency. He seems like a very different leader than President Bennet. Other than that, it's pretty hard to say.
I think in part because of my experience at Wesleyan, I hadn't felt like a member of the broader Wesleyan community. I am a member of the community of friends I made while at Wesleyan, but I don't contribute to the alumni raising drives and I don't have school spirit because I felt that while I was there, the school did a lot against the students.
That's really interesting. What do you do now?
I live in Minnesota. I'm getting a master's in public health at the University of Minnesota. I'm a freelance grant writer for the nonprofit sector. And I'm a public health professional. I do diabetes research and community-based health promotion.
Cool. Anything else you want to add?
Oh, here's another good story. In accordance with everything that we've been talking about, students were really pissed. They kept on raising tuition or increasing amounts every year. I'd have to fact-check that. But every year they raised tuition and were taking things away from the student body.
Against that, the financial director, Marcia somebody, was quoted in the New York Times as saying—and this might be almost verbatim—she said, "The reality is that people will pay whatever you charge. If you charge them a lot, they think, Wow, this must be good." She'd say that about tuition rates. About Wesleyan's tuition rates to a reporter. And when the story came out, so many of us were like, "WHAT. THE. FUCK." It was so disrespectful to people whose parents were working really hard to afford their education and people who were working their ass off with scholarships. There's no way that's not disrespectful to everybody who's paying for their time at Wesleyan. [Editor's note: In addition to the 2004 article in question, it is worth reading Marcia Bromberg's inevitable follow-up letter. Bromberg is no longer employed by the University.]
And the homecoming football game—this was also back when the new campus center wasn't built. And what was across the football field from Olin was the Fayerweather Gymnasium. So a bunch of people painted a big banner just with this quote from the university financial person and got onto the roof of Fayerweather and hung it up during the football game. Public Safety was there, and it stayed up for hours because they didn't know how to get it down, and they said, "Do you know how difficult it will be to get that down?" And the students said, "Yes, that's the point." Sometimes you can just point out what the other people are saying.
So yeah, that was pretty badass. I wasn't on the roof or anything. I think I helped paint the sign. Oh yeah, I was on disciplinary probation at the time.
Shortly after this interview, Matthew did some digging and managed to find both the original hoax email, which is here, and the follow-up letter he received from President Bennet, which is here. I asked if Matthew ended up meeting with Bennet. He did not, he wrote:
I didn't have any confidence that he was interested in a conversation—in talking or listening. He'd definitely demonstrated that in the past—issuing the moratorium so that the campus could come to an agreement about how to proceed with chalking, but then ignoring the opinions of students, the WSA, and faculty. Basically, it wasn't a good faith invitation to discourse—like so much of his actions.
I also asked if he regretted sending the email. "My only regrets are the typos in the email," he wrote. "And getting caught. But hey, I took credit, so I also had to take responsibility."
This gallery of relevant articles is culled from Arguses printed in October and November of 2002:
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I'm also including some materials related to the Bennet Occupation, which Matthew references throughout his interview. These are from December, 2004:
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Zach November 4, 2012 at 6:31 PM
The point was to prevent this feature from showing up in search engines, not to prevent you from finding his last name, which is easily available in the archives. Thanks for your concern, though.
guest November 4, 2012 at 6:12 PM
lol that zach deleted my comment about zach linking to an argus page that contained the interviewee's last name.
goatmilk November 3, 2012 at 6:22 PM
Really can't believe there's now a dorm named after this guy, considering his legacy with students and especially recent alumni. Just shows how out-of-touch the administration is.
johnwesley November 5, 2012 at 7:13 AM
It was named after him because President Bennet was responsible more than any other person for bringing the design, concept, and funding together for Fauver; he took the idea from the original plans for the Foss Hill dorms and had them included as part of the campus master plan. Most people were surprised to see them already taking shape when they returned from summer recess. Fauver probbaly holds the record as the fasted constructed building project in Wesleyan history. Bennet also doubled the size of the campus by purchasing Long Lane Farm.
Batte_A November 5, 2012 at 10:16 PM
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The following items are based on information provided by officials in law enforcement and the criminal justice system:
• DWI: Chinel S. Dunham, 35, of Bloomington, was arrested at 1:10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, on Pearl Street by state police at Ulster and charged with drunken driving and driving with a blood alcohol level at or exceeding 0.08 percent, both misdemeanors. She was released with tickets to appear in Kingston City Court.
• DWI: Arlo J. Hull, 34, of Kingston, was arrested at 1:25 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, on Pearl Street by state police at Ulster and charged with drunken driving and driving with a blood alcohol level at or exceeding 0.08 percent, both misdemeanors, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. He was released with tickets to appear in Kingston City Court.
• DWI: Leah R. Baxter, 28, of Kingston, was arrested at 1:25 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, on Broadway by state police at Wawarsing and charged with drunken driving and aggravated drunken driving, both misdemeanors. She was released with tickets to appear in Kingston City Court.
• DWI: Kylie R. Weaver, 26, of Leeds, was arrested at 11:43 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11 at the intersection of state Route 23 and Ross Ruland Road by state police at Catskill and charged with drunken driving and driving with a blood alcohol level at or exceeding 0.08 percent, both misdemeanors. He was released with tickets to appear in Cairo Town Court.
• DWI: Daniel L. Beaudrie, 55, of Rochester, was arrested at 2:11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, on state Route 32 by state police at Coxsackie and charged with drunken driving and driving with a blood alcohol level at or exceeding 0.08 percent. He was released with tickets to appear in Cairo Town Court.
• Contraband: Anthony I. Perretta, 31, of Kerhonkson, was arrested at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11 by state police at Wawarsing at their barracks on U.S. Route 209 and charged with possessing dangerous contraband in prison, a felony. He is being held at Ulster County Jail without bail, pending a court appearance.
• Criminal possession: Peter M. Williams, 32, of Napanoch, was arrested at 12:10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, on Old U.S. Route 209 by state police at Wawarsing and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. He was released with tickets to appear in Ellenville Town Court.
• DWI: Christopher J. Hutton, 24, of West Park, was arrested at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, on Union Center Road by state police at Highland and charged with drunken driving and driving with a blood alcohol level at or exceeding 0.08 percent, both misdemeanors. He was released to a third party with tickets to appear in Esopus Town Court.
• DWI: Camden G. Stoner, 24, of Stanfordville, was arrested at 1:27 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, on U.S. Route 9 by state police at Rhinebeck and charged with drunken driving and driving with a blood alcohol level at or exceeding 0.08 percent, both misdemeanors, and a traffic violation. He was released with tickets to appear in Hyde Park Town Court.
• Drugs: Michael B. Feliciano, 24, of Hartsdale, was arrested at 10:40 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at mile marker 70.9 on the Taconic State Parkway going north by state police at Rhinebeck and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. He was released with tickets to appear in Milan Town Court.
• Criminal contempt: Olivia M. Yonnetti, 40, of Saugerties, was arrested Thursday, Oct. 10, by Saugerties Police after police responded to a domestic dispute on Sawmill Road at 3:30 a.m. During a verbal dispute, Yonnetti allegedly struck the other person, who already had a "no-harass" order of protection against Yonnetti, according to police. Yonnetti was charged with criminal contempt of a court order, a felony, and harassment, a violation. She was released on her own recognizance pending a court appearance after the court issued a "stay-away" order of protection on behalf of the victim.
• DWI: Robert T. Provost, 23, of East Durham, was arrested at 6:04 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, on state Route 32 by Saugerties Police and charged with drunken driving, a misdemeanor, and the violation of failure to stay right. While driving south on state Route 32, police said, Provost crossed the double yellow line and sideswiped a northbound Mack tractor-trailer, causing extensive damage to his own vehicle. No injuries were sustained in the crash. Provost was released to a third party pending a court appearance in Saugerties Town Court.
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• Grand larceny: Jayde M. Jasewicz, 43, of Johnstown, was arrested at 5:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, by state police at Ulster at their headquarters on U.S. Route 209 and charged with the felonies of grand larceny, possession of a forged instrument and identity theft. She is being held at Ulster County Jail on $100,000 cash bail pending a court appearance.
Mid-Hudson Valley arrests report October 13, 2019
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Hudson Valley Mall owner remains optimistic amid store departures
Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge reopens; one person hospitalized after crash
Prep work starting for Kingston traffic roundabout
Police identify drivers involved in Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge crash
Woman, 28, hurt in Kingston rollover crash
Kingston man sexually abused child under 11, authorities say
Dominick's Café in Uptown Kingston closes; 'new entity' said to be taking over space
Kingston school board mulls donation from Dutchess Beer Distributors
Mid-Hudson Valley arrests report: Jan. 16, 2020
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The New Bedford event will start on July 3 and end on August 1, Herman Melville's birthday.
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I was reading a Boston Globe article about three different establishments laying claim to being the oldest bar in Boston, and it got me thinking about the same question on the South Coast. After all, in an area where the Quakers had a stronghold, it would be interesting to find out if Abe Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne or Herman Melville drank here...
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Taco Bell recently had two great ideas that had nothing to do with its menu. It is opening a wedding chapel in its store in Las Vegas. And it is holding a competition called the "Love and Tacos" sweepstakes. The likely winner posted a photo that went viral of her wedding dress made of Taco Bell wrappers, to be announced on March 16. The entire ethos of Taco Bell has always been a bit churchy in the best way. Genius! Fast food thrives off genuine love for its brand, service, and product, without which it could never work. So this competition is entirely appropriate, and how wonderful that its marketing has tapped into such a deep cultural vein concerning nuptials. What people don't entirely realize is that the entire ethos of Taco Bell has always been a bit churchy in the best way. The Ethos The company obviously puts a great deal of thought into the ethos of the restaurants themselves. The decor gives us things to look at that we don't see anywhere else. The colors are all those we associate with the Southwest, but not in a conventional way. The shapes are geometric and modern, with a daring flare that delights the eye and fires up the imagination. The details around the place add to the sense of adventure, but you don't take note of them individually unless you are looking closely. The backs of the chairs all have a bell shape cut out in the steel. The lighting is not mainly in the ceiling but rather comes from orange hanging glass lamps in the shape of cones. I was trying to think where I had seen this before. Is it like the nave of a chapel in a monastery in a Spanish mission territory? Maybe that's it. I'm unsure but it conjures up something different. Hold on here. Perhaps you have already realized this and I'm slow on the take, but the whole Taco Bell experience is suggestive of that Spanish mission sensibility. That's why the buildings are shaped the way they are. It's a church bell! And, obviously, that's the whole meaning behind the bell, and why it adorns the front entrance of the place. It's a church bell! It taps into something deep and lasting in our cultural sensibilities, something that shaped our ancestors and their communities, and presents it all anew in our times. What a delightful play on the founder's name, Glen Bell. Have you seen the paintings on the wall? They are very peculiar and aggressive in their use of color and shape, kind of like the iconography of Latin America religious life. Most seem to have some walking man or robot, abstractly designed but with sharp edges, and the words "Taco" and "Bell" appear somewhere on them. They are unframed, such as you might see in a gallery. I want to meet the person who put these together. He or she has talent, for sure, and I want to congratulate this person for using that talent in the service of the public good. Next time you are there, take a close look at the gorgeous photography of the dishes themselves. There's never been a prettier taco, never been a burrito that looks more exciting, much less a plate of nachos that seems as if every chip is practically dancing with joy at the prospect of being eaten. Each image features a splashy use of color, depth, and action. How do you make food look this way? It must be a rare skill. I could take pictures of tacos with my iPhone all day and never get one to look presentable by comparison. The Criticisms You don't feel a bit of disappointment when the food doesn't look like the picture.Now, the usual response is to point out that the food doesn't actually look this way once it arrives on your plate. No kidding! But does anyone really care? Not really. The point of the images is to get you in the mood to eat the thing, rev you up into the spirit of the moment, create that deep sense of longing for the real deal. You don't feel a bit of disappointment when the food doesn't look like the picture, and why? Because you can't eat a picture. And the food is right there in front of you ready to be eaten. Part of Taco Bell's secret must be that it makes its images so ridiculously unrealistic that you sound like an idiot to point it out. This restaurant came into existence in 1946 and really caught its stride in the 1990s. It's another reason we are all fortunate to live in our times, right now. Go ahead and dismiss that statement as hyperbole if you want to. But I seriously submit to you if you had dropped this restaurant on any spot on the planet before about 1940, to say nothing of 1200 AD or 1000 BC, all the people would have been in profound awe and regarded it as a sector of heaven that had somehow dropped from the sky. There weren't enough travelers and traders alive to make it possible much less affordable. This is the market at work. It has gathered corn, flour, beans, tomatoes, meat, and fresh lettuce from all the ends of the earth, combined it with advanced kitchen technology, added experienced management, brilliant entrepreneurship, and a service ethic to give us something more wonderful than that the teller of tales of yesteryear could have ever dreamed up in his wildest imaginings. Not All Beef? It's inconceivable to me that a small group of parasitic activists could have targeted this place for destruction. But that's what they did a few years ago with the lawsuit against Taco Bell. They claimed that Taco Bell was not serving 100% beef in its tacos. Of course the organized left rallied around this lawsuit, a fact which confuses me because you would think that they would be glad that the company doesn't serve 100% beef. They hate the cow for its demand for vast pasture land on which to graze and even its biological functioning which alleges adds to the "problem" of climate change. The whole hysteria was like a joke. Of course Taco Bell adds stuff to its beef to make the final product. So do you when you make tacos at home. At least I hope so. You drain the fat and add spices and flour and other things to turn it into the right texture for eating. I don't see the big deal. But the activists were so desperate to destroy this place that they acted like this company, which is all about service, was somehow guilty of mass fraud. The genius of capitalism is that it always ends up outwitting its opponents.The news media jumped on the campaign in hopes of giving Taco Bell a bad name. The response by the company was brilliant. It added a whole new series of menu items not based on hamburger but on sliced up steak. These are the most expensive items on the menu. So now you go in with the intention of spending $3 and instead spend $7 or more! Good for Taco Bell. Even better, after the dopes withdrew their silly lawsuit, Taco Bell launched a nationwide advertising campaign with the slogan: "Would it kill you to say you're sorry?" Fantastic! Smarter than Its Critics The genius of capitalism is that it always ends up outwitting its opponents, whether they are central planners and regulators or crazed activists armed with lawsuits. But capitalism is not just an anonymous, nameless, faceless force operating in the universe. It is flesh, blood, and brains dedicated to serving humanity at a profit and always through voluntary means. The owners and workers at every one of its 5,604 restaurants deserve our admiration and thanks. Maybe it should be the site of your wedding? This article originally appeared on FEE.org.


Chicago Bulls' Dwyane Wade (3) scores past Detroit Pistons' Marcus Morris (13) and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope during the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 in Chicago.
OKLAHOMA CITY >> Paul Millsap hit the go-ahead 10-footer with 12.7 seconds left, and the Atlanta Hawks overcame Russell Westbrook's 46 points to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 110-108 on Monday night.
After Millsap's shot, Thunder center Steven Adams rebounded a missed 3-pointer by Westbrook and dunked it, but a review determined that the basket came just after time expired.
Westbrook, the NBA's leading scorer with more than 30 points per game, also had 11 rebounds and seven assists.
CHICAGO >> Jimmy Butler scored 19 points, Rajon Rondo had 10 points, 14 assists and eight rebounds, and Chicago beat Detroit to snap a three-game losing streak.
Taj Gibson added 16 points, Robin Lopez had 14 and Dwyane Wade, Doug McDermott and Nikola Mirotic had 13 apiece for Chicago, which had lost six of eight.
Jon Leuer scored 16 points for the Pistons, who have dropped three straight and four of five.
After scoring just 69 points in a 26-point loss on Friday, the Bulls busted out for 69 points in the first two quarters, their best for any half this season.
INDIANAPOLIS >> Thaddeus Young made a runner with 0.9 seconds left to give Indiana a victory over Washington.
Paul George scored 27 points and Jeff Teague had 23, but the Pacers needed the last of Young's 12 points after the Wizards scored seven straight to tie it.
With 4.6 seconds remaining, Young took the inbound pass at the top of the key, squared up his defender, Markieff Morris, then drove and put up his runner from the left side.
Bradley Beal missed a potential winning 3-pointer at the buzzer and scored 22 points.
Marcin Gortat finished with 21 points and 13 rebounds, John Wall added 19 points and 10 assists, and Otto Porter Jr. scored 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds.
MINNEAPOLIS >> Karl-Anthony Towns had 28 points and 15 rebounds, and Minnesota beat Phoenix.
Andrew Wiggins scored 26 points and Zach LaVine added 23 for the Timberwolves. Ricky Rubio had 12 assists and Minnesota picked up its first win at home since Nov. 17.
Eric Bledsoe scored 27 points for the Suns, who have lost three straight and four out of five. Brandon Knight had 21 points off the bench and Devin Booker scored 18 on 6-for-15 shooting for Phoenix.
DENVER >> Nikola Jokic had 27 points and 15 rebounds, Gary Harris scored a career-high 24 points and Denver beat Dallas.
Jokic finished an assist shy of his first career triple-double and tied his career high in points to help the Nuggets win their third straight game. Emmanuel Mudiay scored 18 points.
Deron Williams led Dallas with 23 points and eight assists.
Denver's offensive surge started after its 20-point loss in Dallas on Dec. 12. Coach Michael Malone shook up his starting lineup and the Nuggets have responded by scoring 30 or more points in eight of the last 12 quarters and are averaging 125.3 points since the change.


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Australian TV network apologises after accidentally announcing Bob Dylan's death
TV show Today referred to the "late" singer
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Australian TV show Today has apologised after mistakenly saying that Bob Dylan had died.
The breakfast show was airing a segment over the weekend about the songwriter's documents being auctioned off in Boston for $495,000 (£373k).
READ MORE: Bob Dylan – 'Rough And Rowdy Ways'review: arguably his grandest poetic statement yet
However, an on-screen banner read "Late singer's documents sell for $495 thousand," which lead to host Richard Wilkins apologising the viewers.
"We need to make a correction now," he said after the broadcast. "About half an hour ago on our entertainment chat, we incorrectly ran a banner on your screen about Bob Dylan. It was false and we apologise for any confusion."
Among the documents sold at the auction were unpublished lyrics written by Dylan, as well as letters between him and late American blues musician Tony Glover and transcripts of interviews between the two.
The collection previously belonged to Glover, with the majority of the separate lots bought by an unnamed bidder.
Within the interviews transcribed in the papers, which happened in 1971, Dylan speaks about how antisemitism influenced his decision to change his name from Robert Zimmerman, the star saying: "A lot of people are under the impression that Jews are money lenders and merchants."
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It is also revealed that his 1969 song 'Lay Lady Lay' was originally written for Barbra Streisand, and some of the lyrics included lines Dylan wrote after visiting Woody Guthrie.
Meanwhile, Dylan released new album 'Rough And Rowdy Ways' back in June, which NME gave a five-star review and called "arguably his grandest poetic statement yet". It also made the singer the only artist to have achieved a Top 40 album in every decade since the 1960s in the US.


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A guaranteed conversation starter that different people will see differently.
Gun control, gun access, and gun mania are regular topics in American news as we're a gun culture through and through. Militias sit at one extreme of the discussion alongside groups like the NRA, and while many find their positions and beliefs to be extreme the members themselves see themselves as necessary. Their appearances in the news are rarely flattering, and the movies have followed suit with tales of gun nuts going to "war" with the authorities and losing. The Standoff at Sparrow Creek is its own animal, though, and while the title is meant to draw recollections of Ruby Ridge and Waco the film has something more in its sights.
Gannon (James Badge Dale) is an ex-cop making dinner in his remote mobile home when he hears automatic gunfire in the distance. He heads to a nearby warehouse and meets up with Ford (Chris Mulkey), the leader of their local militia who's equally concerned about the assault weapons echoing in the night. The other five members arrive in quick sequence — Beckmann (Patrick Fischler) is smart and pedantic, Morris (Happy Anderson) is big and confrontational, Hubbel (Gene Jones) is an old guy possibly tired of it all, Keating (Robert Aramayo) is young, silent, and possibly sociopathic, and Noah (Brian Geraghty), the newest member, is an undercover cop.
The details of the shooting are still sketchy — someone with body armor, grenades, and a modified AR-15 opened fire on a police funeral — and the militia's armory just so happens to be missing those precise items. Determined to identify who among them is the guilty party, if only to avoid a police raid, Gannon starts interrogating the likeliest suspects among them. Truth is elusive, though, when everyone has both access to hardware and an equally dangerous agenda.
Writer/director Henry Dunham packs an impressive amount of tension and suspense into a tight 88 minute running time, and while action is kept to a minimum the film's no less exciting for it. It's essentially a single-location thriller, and Dunham and cinematographer Jackson Hunt do wonders with the warehouse's deep shadows and varied light sources. The choice to forego a score works equally well to put characters and viewers alike in the moment with singular focus. As a straight genre effort the film successfully keeps viewers on their toes with six of the men making for highly believable suspects, but it's equally strong as a lit fuse designed to raise questions, start conversations, and piss people off on every side of the gun debate.
Gannon's the only man we know is innocent, and his struggle to ferret out the shooter is a fight we're programmed to support and encourage. His search reveals a simmering anger and hatred towards the police, and his lineup features men whose pasts are as filled with violence as are their dreams, but our dislike for the men doesn't make them guilty. Dunham builds suspense through conversations both calm and heated, and the dialogue offers up an intelligent blend of accusatory attacks and infuriated, sarcastic defenses as characters are laid bare alongside our preconceived notions. These aren't necessarily good men, but does that make them bad? And even if it does — does that make them the worst?
The cast consists of supporting players and each gets their time to shine beginning with Dale's shaky moral center to the group. Fischler, Jones, and Aramayo craft very specific and engaging characters while Anderson steps it up a notch with a man constantly wavering between entertaining and terrifying. These are great performances with each of the seven men nailing their characters and the intended tone of Dunham's angry, conspiratorial tale that speaks not just to this exact moment but to America itself. Suspicion, vanity, and resentment courses through them leading to in-fighting and more suspicion, vanity, and resentment. Can terrible decisions be made in the name of good causes? Is non-defensive violence ever justified? Are we too far gone as a country when it comes to our gun culture?
It's an easy film to accuse of having an agenda — the production company Cinestate lists themselves in the credits as Cinestate Militia, LLC — but don't be surprised if the person sitting next to you has a completely different view on what that agenda is. Nothing here is as simple as it seems, and identifying the good guys is every bit as difficult as picking out the bad. The world we live in is a gray one… or maybe it just looks that way through all the gun powder and tear gas.


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Q: How to use my treeview subclass in qt designer? I have a class myTreeView which is a subclass of QTreeView, which I am using in other widget and doing layout manually. now I want to include myTreeView in the new widget using designer so that I can avoid layout code. any suggestions/reference, how to do this ?

A: Place a QTreeView into your layout in Qt Designer. Right click the QTreeView, click Promote to... add a New Promoted Class definition using the form at the bottom of the dialog.
i.e. specify the base class of your derived class as QTreeView, give the widget a name, and specify where Qt Design can find the header file for your derived class.
That should allow you, at a minimum, to place your widget on the form as you lay it out. It will most likely show up as a grey empty box (much like a QWidget) on the layout however when you compile and build a project using your .ui file your widget will appear.

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T.B. Clark & Co. of Honesdale, PA cut this very fine and very old ice tub and plate some time after 1886. Pearson (Vol.III, pg. 180) says, "The "Strawberry Diamond and Star" pattern, patented June 1, 1886, #16720 was designed by Walter A. Wood of Honesdale, PA and assigned to T.B. Clark & Co." Pearson rated the design 4 for rarity (rare) and 2 for quality/price range (one of the most desirable).
We favor 'old glass' of this sort because of 1) the clear, colorless blank, 2) the precise cutting of the design, 3) the wood-wheel finish with its soft, silky feel (as opposed to the later acid-finishing), 4) the pattern-cut handle, 5) the miters forming the upper fans that are cut through the bottom of the teeth and 6) details like the varied-length tips on the 32-point hobstar on the plate.
The ice tub stands 6-inches tall and has a top diameter of 5 1/2-inches; it measures 8-inches handle-to-handle. The plate is 7 1/4-inches in diameter and just over 1-inch tall. Both pieces are in better than extremely fine condition.
A beautiful and well-crafted piece that typifies 'old glass' at its very best. Ice tubs with matching underplates are very difficult to acquire.


Set oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 8" x 8" glass baking dish and set aside. In Mixing bowl add Oats, Cake Mix, Brown Sugar, Half of the Butter and blend thoroughly. Once blended add other half of butter and blend together. Mixture should be moist enough to hold it's form when squeezed together. Pour Berry Pie Filling into baking dish. Cover Berries with crunch mixture to desired thickness. *This is enough crumble to make a 13" x 9" dessert if you want to add two cans of pie filling.


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The Masters green jacket will be a little faded after this year. There is no way the tournament committee will ever be able to explain away its selective blindness, and Woods will cement his reputation as being ethically challenged.
A sad tale about Kathryn. Glad she enjoyed the last round and the winner.


Post-apocalyptic Russia, 2011; A group of 26 people move into an old abandoned village to try to survive from the hordes of zombies which have taken over the major cities. In this Zombie Survival Strategy game your goal is to keep your citizens alive for as long as possible.
Using the mouse you can directly control your citizens using squad-based strategy controls, instructing them to scavenge, loot, collect and build.


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Ebola virus claims 31 lives in Democratic Republic of the Congo
By Michelle Castillo
September 13, 2012 / 11:53 AM / CBS News
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(CBS News) An outbreak of the Ebola virus is sweeping the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has claimed 31 lives so far, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
10 people dead from Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo
There are now 65 probable cases of the disease, with 108 more people potentially infected. Five of the deaths were health workers.
"The epidemic is not under control. On the contrary the situation is very, very serious," Eugene Kabambi, a WHO spokesman in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa, told Reuters.
An epidemic was declared on Aug. 17, according to AFP. In late August, there were only 15 confirmed cases of the Ebola virus in the region with 10 deaths.
The Ebola virus causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Symptoms include fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain. Occasionally rashes, red eyes, hiccups and internal and external bleeding are also exhibited.
Ebola HF can manifest between two to 21 days. The virus is passed through direct contact of blood and/or secretions from an infected person, which makes it especially dangerous in crowded areas. There is no treatment or vaccine but supportive care can be provided if a patient is diagnosed early enough.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) previously told the BBC that they believe the version of the Ebola virus infecting the DRC area is the Bundibugyo strain, which makes it completely unrelated to Ugandan outbreak that killed at least 16 people earlier this summer. The Bundibugyo strain is fatal in about 40 percent of cases, which is lower than some of the other strains, an article in the CDC publication Emerging Infectious Diseases stated.
Reuters added that the DNR outbreak is being blamed on tainted bushmeat that local villagers hunted. So far, infected have been living in the towns of Isiro and Viadana, and the disease has not yet reached the capital Kinshasa. At least 9 million people live in Kinshasa, which has a poor health system.
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Michelle Castillo is an associate editor for CBSNews.com.
First published on September 13, 2012 / 11:53 AM
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