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Wham, bam, thank ewe, lamb.

It was raining in L.A. A helicopter beat across the night sky, its searchlight skimming the slick rooftops. Somewhere below, a cat was dreaming.

The cat did not dream of ordinary things; of mice, or birds, or balls with bells inside. He did not even dream of food, although he dearly loved to eat. He dreamed instead of something precious and tender, of something as irretrievably lost as a rubber band beneath a wardrobe.

The cat dreamed of Woolhelmina.

He had met her several years earlier, while celebrating the sale of his first screenplay at a trendy Hollywood nightclub. He was surrounded by friends, and friends of friends, all of them stroking him as if his success might somehow rub off. They bought him drink after drink, and by the time he was on his fourth Nip, he was beginning to feel unsteady on his feet. “I gotta sit down,” he announced, and stumbled over to the bar. He took the first open seat he saw, and put his nose down on the cool lucite surface.

“Your tail is in my drink,” a soft voice cut through the pounding music. He lifted his head, and stared blearily around. He saw that his tail had indeed drifted into a wide-mouthed glass which sat on his left, filled with something pink.

“Sorry,” he pulled his wayward appendage out of the drink and shoved it behind him. “Let me buy you another. Bartender! Another . . . what is that?”

“Another Manhattan for the lady. A Manhattan in L.A. Is the irony intentional?” He asked, looking up at her for the first time, and the rest of his witty repartée dissolved unspoken.

He knew immediately that she was unique. While the other females in the club pranced about in sleek furs and leathers, she was wrapped in a bulky white coat that glowed in the dim light. She wore no makeup or jewelry, but her clean, soft simplicity gave her a sensuous air.

“Entirely,” she said, nodding at the bartender as she accepted the fresh drink.

“The irony is entirely intentional.” She lifted the maraschino cherry from the glass and began to nibble on its stem.

He went back to her place that night. Her name was Woolhelmina, and she lived downtown, in a loft she said she shared with another ewe, although no one else was there at the moment. Bookshelves covered her bedroom walls, and the cat read languidly through some of the titles while the sheep was in the bathroom. From the looks of things, she had eclectic tastes – The Master and Margarita shared a shelf with The Things They Carried. She liked to knit, too, judging by the half-completed scarf lying crumpled on the couch. That made sense, he supposed.

“Why so slow, Cat?” He turned to see her already lying on the bed. She stretched out her arms, and he began to purr.

He was gentle at first, but Woolhelmina quickly grew impatient.

“Bite me,” she whispered, rubbing her face against his whiskers. “Harder,” she ordered, after his first tentative nip. Not wanting to disappoint her, the cat did as he was told. “That’s it,” she sighed, as she pushed her face into his again. “Bite me.”

So the cat bit.

He bit her face, and her stomach, and her thighs. And the harder he bit, the happier the ewe seemed to be. After a while, he really began to get into it. The soft wool filling his mouth, and her tender skin beneath it all – he flexed his claws and bit her over and over again.

Suddenly, the sheep began to cry. The cat stopped biting immediately, and took her in his arms. “What is it?” he asked, “did I hurt you?”

The sheep shook her head, but sobbed even harder. “Please,” the cat begged, “please tell me what I’ve done wrong.” But she would not answer him. She rolled onto her side, away from him, and continued to cry. He pleaded with her for nearly an hour, but she would not say a word. Eventually, he began to get annoyed.

“If you won’t talk to me, I’m leaving,” he threatened. The sheep sniffled, but said nothing.

“Fine.” He stood, and left the apartment. The weather had turned nasty, and rain drizzled down his collar as he walked down the lamplit street. He rubbed a paw over his ears. “Crazy ruminant bitch.”

A taxi cruised by, and he flagged it down and went home.

Weeks went by, but the cat couldn’t stop thinking about Woolhelmina. He went back to the nightclub several times, but she never showed up. He was haunted by the encounter. Did she enjoy it at all? Did I hurt her badly? Why did she ask me to bite her if she didn’t like it? What the hell happened? He felt alternately guilty and angry, the latter emotion rising in a see-saw response to the former. Maybe that’s just how sheep are, he thought, but he couldn’t dismiss it so easily.

One night, several months later, he hired a prostitute – a sheep. She talked non-stop about her ambitions. She wanted to model, to act, that’s why she’d come to Hollywood from Nebraska in the first place.

“I’m Merino, y’know.”

“That’s fine.” He wasn’t really listening.

He began kissing her face, trying to ignore her wide blue eyes as they stared vacuously up at him.

Then he bit her, gently.

She giggled. “Whadja do that for?”

The cat sighed. It was no good. “This isn’t working,” he told her, and he pulled out his wallet.

“You sure?” she asked, “I give real good massages.”

He smiled slightly, but shook his head. He gave her some twenties and she left. After she was gone, he sat for a long while on the cool floor, thinking about the enigmatic Woolhemina.

“I’ll never understand,” he muttered, and with that he put the whole thing out of his mind.

Except on some nights – rainy ones, generally – when he lay twitching in his sleep, dreaming.

Dreaming of his lost Woolhelmina, who was sheep, but definitely not easy.

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Reply Wed 13 Jul, 2016 08:34 pm
Please explain the Who, What, When, Where and Why (is it significant) of the cold war.
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What have you come up with, so far?
Reply Thu 14 Jul, 2016 04:22 pm
For who I have the US and the Soviet Union. For what I only have that it was based on the beliefs of capitalism and communism. For where I have that there is not a specific location but examples of some locations include US, USSR, Europe, Berlin, Vietnam, and Cuba. For when I have 1947 - 1991.
Reply Fri 15 Jul, 2016 02:25 pm
That's pretty good. It was truly global in reach, and it affected all parts of the world as the US and the Soviet Union, the two superpowers of the world, sought to re-enforce and expand their spheres of influence throughout the world. That's why it was significant. There was also the threat that, if the two superpowers were to engage in direct hostilities and confrontation, a global nuclear war would break out.
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A 'hot war' is militarily active.
A 'cold war' is not.
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Reply Sat 23 Jul, 2016 03:11 pm

Truman could have stopped it by using our temporary monopoly on nuclear weapons. But his owners made so much money in the defense industry that they ordered him to let Russia and China expand enough to constitute a legitimate threat.
Reply Sat 23 Jul, 2016 03:46 pm
@Sage of Main Street,
Yes, Sage. They made a movie about this in the 1960s

"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

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MUSH by Kelly Broich

MUSH (2016, Kelly Broich with Eli Elliott. Photographed and Post by Brad Kaup. 22min.)

Invoking a combination of the pretentious foodie culture  with the cheap food reality that many Americans rely on, Kelly Broich’s latest piece takes the form of a cooking show where calories are simply separated between “solids” and “liquids”. This is apropos to the state of quick food culture where cheap pre-packaged meals from the dollar store hardly resemble real food, but rather are simply solid forms glued together with fillers and gums, marketed as “meals” be it a waffle and sausage breakfast or a turkey and tater tot dinner. It all goes down the same chute so why not just combine it all together and treat your taste buds to everything that the visually enticing  box covers promise?

It happens to be a coincidence that the latest documentary buzz is the recently released film “City of Gold” where Los Angeles food writer Jonathon Gold goes around L.A. in search of “the next great, cheap, aromatic meal.”  The Chicago Tribune writes: “The selling points here, as with any food documentaries, are the many close-ups of glorious-looking food bubbling on a stove.”

With MUSH we get the real deal of cheap food, which is “bubbling” in the bowls as Chef Pink Face (Broich) and his assistant Roy (Eli Elliott) mash the solids together with large bricks they find on the ground in the dilapidated shed where the performance takes place.

The dish is equally “aromatic” as the viewer visualizes the stench created as Roy slurps up samples from the resulted meal which is a combination of frozen pizza, waffles, Gatorade, clam chowder, chocolate milk, pork beans, whip cream, among other things.

For art gallery inquiries contact AVA’s facebook page.

Collapse Productions – Short Films Now on VIMEO!

Collapse Productions have uploaded many of their short films on VIMEO, including BLOODY BOXES, SQUIRREL MOMMY, MENSTRUAL, DOLL ABUSE and many others. Follow their channel as many more will be uploaded this month.

Many of these films have finished up screening on the underground film festival circuit and are now available for viewing online.

Visit their VIMEO page and please SHARE these films on FACEBOOK and other outlets so they can get the wider viewing they deserve!

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Tourettes Without Regrets to Screen DOLL ABUSE

Tourettes Without Regrets is an underground performance art show in Oakland, Ca. hosted by Jamie DeWolf. Every first Thursday they showcase experimental/subversive arts, and on May 7th DeWolf will show Kelly Broich’s film DOLL ABUSE, which screened a few weeks back at the San Francisco Underground Short Film Fest.

Here’s the FaceBook page for the program (D.A. was a late add and doesn’t appear to be listed as of yet).

Hopefully other Absurdist works will be featured in future T.W.R. events.

SAN FRANCISCO UNDERGROUND Short Film Fest to Screen TWO Absurdist Films

The San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival will be screening two short films from Collapse’s Kelly Broich. In the first program Broich’s recent short DOLL ABUSE will screen, and in program 2, BLOODY BOXES from Collapse Productions will make it’s San Francisco debut.

“SFUSFF celebrates the underground, overlooked, avant-garde, and ultra outrageous films of the Bay Area. SFUSFF has run since 2003 as the concluding event of the Midnight Mass screening series, which began in 1998.

The 2015 San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival

With your hosts Peaches Christ & Sam Sharkey

Special Guest Appearance by CARLETTA SUE KAY (Program 2)

Friday, April 17th at The Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street, San Francisco CA 94103

TORONTO screens The Absurdist Film Festival MARCH 29th (6pm Films)

(live music before)

As more requests for screenings roll in, Toronto will be the next to put on a show representing the latest in underground/experimental/subversive and Absurdist filmmaking.

Big thanks to Scott K for all the work in getting this show rolling so quickly.

SMILING BUDDHA in Toronto will be screening The Absurdist Film Festival on March 29th, Sunday 3pm – 7:30pm.

For venues or art galleries seeking to screen Absurdist films, see this post.

Absurdist Video Art Screenings

If you are interested in showing our work in your art gallery, film center, cinema, venue or creative space where you hold screenings, we have available a ready-to-go dvd reel of recent works from various absurdist video artists from around the world.

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Month: April 2014

Spaghetti Open Data

Spaghetti Open DataSpaghetti Open Data is made up of a group of Italian citizens interested in the release of public data in open formats, in order to make it easy to access and reuse.

Starting in 2010 they have had yearly conferences.

I was lucky enough to be invited to their conference this year (SOD14) as the keynote speaker talking about Wikidata, paid for by Wikimedia Italy.

An overview of the conference can be found at

Photo by: Homer Project. Harmonising Open Data

My talk went well and during the day many people came to discuss various things with me.

My presentation can be found on Google Docs.

As for my participation in the rest of the conference, well, I don’t speak Italian, so……

I can however say that Italy is a great place!

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Media Hack Day 2014

the Media Hack Day logoThe Media Hack Day is an annual event held at Axel Springer | Plug & Play Accelerator in Berlin. The event for March 2014 can be found on

I attended representing the Wikidata API. Also in attendance were Axel Springer, storyful, Der Spiegel, sanoma, watchmi, Getty Images and It was in a great location, the food and rinks were great and it was generally well planned by the organizes and a pretty competitive crowd turned up.

At noon on the following day all hacks were presented to the API partners and all other attendees. The ‘News sightseeing’ hack was awarded a swag pack from Wikidata for making the best use of the API. They were also awarded the Axel Springer iPool and Getty Images prizes.

Details of the project can be found on hackerleague and the code can be found on GitHub and the teams blog post summary can be found on their own blog.

How ‘News sightseeing’ used the Wikidata API

Firstly it is important to say that at the time of the hackathon Wikidata didn’t really provide any good way to query the data it help, simply retrieve it, but luckily there was a query tool available that is currently located at

The code that interacts with the Wikidata API can be found in Aggregator/wikidata.rb.

Initially the code uses the 3rd party query tool to find a list of items matching the criteria in the query, the current query in an editor can be seen here or in the image below. The criteria basically look for items in Munich that are NOT roads but do have images and coordinate locations.
a Screenshot of query used at Media Hack Day 2014

The data for each item is then retrieved from the Wikidata API using the wbegtentities module.

Various parts are then stripped from the whole entity for use within the application:

  • The German label is used as a title
  • The German Wikipedia sitelink is used as a URL
  • The German description is used for content body
  • A statement with property P18 is used as an image
  • A statement with property P571 is used as the initial date
  • A statement with property P625 is used for the precise location

As a result the app has access to information (including images) of possible locations to go sightseeing around the user.

Read more about News Sightseeing

Or watch their demo video

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Google Assistant & Wikipedia

googleassistant-wikipedia1The Google Assistant is essentially a chat bot that you can talk too within the new Allo chat app. The assistant is also baked into some new Google hardware, such as the pixel phones. During a quick test of the assistant, I noticed that if you ask it to “tell me an interesting fact” sometimes it will respond with facts from Wikipedia. Continue reading

The RevisionSlider

The RevisionSlider is an extension for MediaWiki that has just been deployed on all Wikipedias and other Wikimedia websites as a beta feature. The extension was developed by Wikimedia Germany as part of their focus on technical wishes of the German speaking Wikimedia community. This post will look at the RevisionSliders design, development and use so far.

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Review of the big Interwiki link migration

Wikidata was launched on 30 October 2012 and was the first new project of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006. The first phase enabled items to be created and filled with basic information: a label – a name or title, aliases – alternative terms for the label, a description, and links to articles about the topic in all the various language editions of Wikipedia.

On 14 January 2013, the Hungarian Wikipedia became the first to enable the provision of interlanguage links via Wikidata. This functionality was slowly enabled on more sites until it was enabled on all Wikipedias on the 6th March.

The side bar that these interlanguage links are used to generate can be seen to the right. Continue reading

Ed Miliband’s face and Wikipedia

“David Cameron’s Wikipedia page has been hacked as the nation goes to the polls on election day.” — Belfast Telegraph

Well, no, not exactly.

Edits to the UK MP Links and United Kingdom elections templates to name but a few caused a large version of Ed Miliband’s face to appear on over 660 pages relating to the 2015 UK election saying “VOTE LABOUR” today. A full list of the pages affected can be found here and here.

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Right now

A Stickman

So a quick summary of everything I am working on right now:

  • MassAction is a Mediawiki extension allowing users to perform mass actions on targets on a Mediawiki site through a static page using Mediawikis inbuilt job queue that I have been working on for the past half a year or so. I look forward to releasing it to the open source world soon!
  • addwiki is a collection of Mediawiki related PHP libraries (including one for wikibase). Previous to this I developed various PHP scripts and bots for Wikipedia using other libraries and always found that they were quite badly coded and prone to doing unexpected things. Addwiki is the start of my attempt to fix that for PHP.
  • Orain (github) is a community-driven, not-for-profit wiki network that I help to keep running.
  • I am also still an active contributor to all kinds of Wikimedia projects including the wonderful Wikidata.
  • I should at some point be trying to create a very rudimentary backup script / system for Sharepoint Lists…
  • I am also currently working on a redesign of the Joomla 1 components used to power written for Joomla 3 which should be ready in the next 6 months.

I am also still involved with:

  • Huggle (github), an antivandalism tool for use on Wikipedia and similar projects.

I could also point toward a few other things:

I also have a backlog of posts that I might try to write…

But for now lets end this post here.

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She started with Agile and Scrum back in 2005, where she was involved in implementing the Agile methods at Medtronic, USA. From that time, she was responsible for Agile transformation and implementation of Agile and Scrum to many companies and teams.

She works as Agile coach and trainer for both large and small organizations. She is Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) by Scrum Alliance. She is writing a book Great ScrumMaster - #ScrumMasterWay which will be published soon.

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Notebook: Stallings inducted into College Football Hall of Fame

After being voted into the College Football Hall of Fame by the National Football Foundation's Veterans Committee last May, Gene Stallings and the rest of the Class of 2010 were finally inducted Tuesday night.
"First of all, I want to say thank you to the Veterans Committee," the former University of Alabama coach said during a pre-ceremony press conference in New York. "In order to be in the Hall of Fame, you've got to win a certain percentage of your games. I didn't quite do that. The Veterans Committee put me in here. I will say this, back when I was coaching there weren't many easy games. One year, my three (tough road) games were LSU in Baton Rouge, Ohio State in Columbus and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Not many people would win a lot of those games. The NCAA took away some of my wins so I do appreciate the Veterans Committee for selecting me."
Stallings played for Bryant at Texas A&M as one of the legendary "Junction Boys," and returned to his alma mater as head coach from 1965-71. His signature win there was against Alabama in the 1968 Cotton Bowl, 20-16. From there he spent 14 years with the Dallas Cowboys before becoming the head coach of the St. Louis Cardinals from 1986-89.
From 1990-96 the Crimson Tide went 70-16-1 before an eligibility ruling stripped eights wins and a tie from the 1993 season, won four division titles and the 1992 national championship, while also enjoying a 28-game winning streak.
During the title season, capped by undefeated Alabama crushing Miami in the Sugar Bowl 34-13, the Crimson Tide outscored its opponents 366-122, prompting defensive coordinator Bill Oliver to say: "I wish Coach Bryant were here to see this defense play."
"I want to say this, every player who played for me and every coach who worked for me, if they feel a little part of this, they are the reason that I'm here, I'm most appreciative of that," Stallings said. "You can be a good football player on a bad team and still get into the Hall of Fame. If you're a football coach, you go into the Hall of Fame because you've had good players and coaches and I'm most appreciative of that. I'm very humbled and flattered proud to be a part of this particular class."
The Class of 2010 included: Dennis Byrd (North Carolina State); Ronnie Caveness (Arkansas); Ray Childress (Texas A&M); Randy Cross (UCLA); Sam Cunningham (Southern California); Mark Herrmann (Purdue); Clarkston Hines (Duke); Desmond Howard (Michigan); Chet Moeller (Navy); Jerry Stovall (LSU); Pat Tillman (Arizona State); Alfred Williams (Colorado); and coach Barry Alvarez (Wisconsin).
McElroy misses out on Academic Heisman
Texas defensive end Sam Acho won a pair of academic awards Tuesday that senior quarterback Greg McElroy was a finalist for, including the William V. Campbell trophy, the academic Heisman formerly known as the Draddy Trophy.
Acho, who has a 3.55 GPA in business, had 17 tackles for loss, nine sacks, 17 quarterback hits, five forced fumbles and five fumble recoveries. Like McElroy he was named to the Sporting News' "20 Smartest Athletes," and has participated in several medical mission trips to Nigeria.
"I want to start by thanking the rest of the finalists for representing our sport in a first-class fashion. Oftentimes, work in the classroom is overlooked and I want to thank the Football Foundation for appreciating the dedication and the sacrifice all these finalists make," McElroy said Tuesday in New York. "Everyone's very, very deserving and it's been a real pleasure getting to know you guys over the past 24 hours. I want to thank my family as well, our academic personnel at the University of Alabama and our SIDs.
"It really has been a blessing playing at the University of Alabama, and just playing college football in general is a dream come true. When I signed up to play college football, I never imagined I would be sitting here or receiving any recognition. All I wanted to do was play the sport I loved a little bit longer. Thank you very much for appreciating the work we all have put in and making this a very, very special couple of days."
The 2010 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class and Campbell Finalists included: Sam Acho (Texas); Anthony Castonzo (Boston College); Ben Chappell (Indiana); Alex Gross (Columbia); Owen Marecic (Stanford); Mike Mohamed (California); Travis Nissley (Bucknell); Isaac Odim (Minnesota Duluth); Christian Ponder (Florida State); Derek Sherrod (Mississippi State); Nate Solder (Colorado); Chris Stewart (Notre Dame); Scott Tolzien (Wisconsin); Ben Wartman (Saint Thomas, Minn.); and Stefen Wisniewski (Penn State).
McElroy was also up for the Wuerffel Trophy (community service with outstanding achievement), which also went to Acho.
Coaches' All-SEC team
Alabama had the most players named to the coaches' All-SEC teams, with four first-team selections and 11 players overall Tuesday.
Junior wide receiver Julio Jones and junior safety Mark Barron were the only Crimson Tide players named first-team by the coaches and the Associated Press, which announced its team Monday. Senior tackle James Carpenter and junior defensive end Marcell Dareus were named first-team by the coaches, while sophomore guard Barrett Jones was selected by the media.
Alabama had eight selections on the coaches' second team, with Barrett Jones, William Vlachos, Mark Ingram, Trent Richardson, Dont'a Hightower, Robert Lester and Dre Kirkpatrick, with Richardson recognized at two positions.
Nick Bell of Mississippi State was named honorary captain of the 2010 All-SEC squad.
2010 ALL-SEC Football Team
*-Ties; Coaches could not vote for their own players
First team
Pos. Name School Ht. Wt. Class Hometown
TE D.J. Williams Arkansas 6-2 251 Sr. Little Rock, Ark.
OL Derek Sherrod Mississippi State (T) 6-6 305 Sr. Columbus, Miss.
OL Lee Ziemba Auburn 6-8 319 Sr. Rogers, Ark.
OL DeMarcus Love Arkansas (T) 6-5 315 Sr. Lancaster, Texas
*OL James Carpenter Alabama (T) 6-5 300 Sr. Augusta, Ga.
*OL Clint Boling Georgia (T) 6-5 315 Sr. Alpharetta, Ga.
C Ryan Pugh Auburn (C) 6-4 297 Sr. Hoover, Ala.
WR Alshon Jeffery South Carolina 6-4 233 So. St. Matthews, S.C.
WR Julio Jones Alabama 6-4 220 Jr. Foley, Ala.
QB Cam Newton Auburn 6-6 250 Jr. College Park, Ga.
RB Marcus Lattimore South Carolina 6-0 218 Fr. Duncan, S.C.
RB Stevan Ridley LSU 6-0 226 Jr. Natchez, Miss.
AP Randall Cobb Kentucky 5-11 186 Jr. Alcoa, Tenn.
Second team
TE Orson Charles Georgia 6-3 240 So. Tampa, Fla.
OL Larry Warford Kentucky (G) 6-3 329 So. Richmond, Ky.
OL Barrett Jones Alabama (G) 6-4 301 So. Memphis, Tenn.
OL Garrett Chisolm South Carolina (G) 6-6 303 Sr. Charleston, S.C.
OL Joseph Barksdale LSU (T) 6-6 318 Sr. Detroit, Mich.
C William Vlachos Alabama (C) 6-1 289 Jr. Birmingham, Ala.
WR A.J. Green Georgia 6-4 212 Jr. Summerville, S.C.
WR Randall Cobb Kentucky 5-11 186 Jr. Alcoa, Tenn.
QB Ryan Mallett Arkansas 6-6 238 Jr. Texarkana, Ark.
RB Knile Davis Arkansas 6-0 220 So. Missouri City, Texas
RB Mark Ingram Alabama 5-10 215 Jr. Flint, Mich.
AP Trent Richardson Alabama 5-11 220 So. Pensacola, Fla.
First team
DL Drake Nevis LSU 6-2 285 Sr. Marrero, La.
DL Marcell Dareus Alabama 6-4 306 Jr. Birmingham, Ala.
DL Nick Fairley Auburn 6-5 298 Jr. Mobile, Ala.
DL Pernell McPhee Mississippi State 6-4 285 Sr. Pahokee, Fla.
LB Danny Trevathan Kentucky 6-1 223 Jr. Leesburg, Fla.
LB Kelvin Sheppard LSU 6-3 240 Sr. Stone Mountain, Ga.
LB Justin Houston Georgia 6-3 258 Jr. Statesboro, Ga.
DB Patrick Peterson LSU (CB) 6-1 222 Jr. Pompano Beach, Fla.
DB Mark Barron Alabama (S) 6-2 210 Jr. Mobile, Ala.
DB Ahmad Black Florida (S) 5-9 190 Sr. Lakeland, Fla.
DB Stephon Gilmore South Carolina (CB) 6-1 189 So. Rock Hill, S.C.
Second team
DL Jake Bequette Arkansas 6-5 271 Jr. Little Rock, Ark.
DL Cliff Matthews South Carolina 6-4 268 Sr. Cheraw, S.C.
DL Devin Taylor South Carolina 6-7 249 So. Beaufort, S.C.
DL Jerrell Powe Ole Miss 6-2 320 Sr. Waynesboro, Miss.
LB Dont'a Hightower Alabama 6-4 260 So. Lewisburg, Tenn.
LB Chris White Mississippi State 6-4 245 Sr. Vancleave, Miss.
*LB Chris Marve Vanderbilt 6-0 235 Jr. Memphis, Tenn.
*LB Jerry Franklin Arkansas 6-1 241 Jr. Marion, Ark.
DB Robert Lester Alabama (S) 6-2 206 So. Foley, Ala.
DB Janoris Jenkins Florida (CB) 5-11 184 Jr. Pahokee, Fla.
DB Casey Hayward Vanderbilt 5-11 188 Jr. Perry, Ga.
*DB Janzen Jackson Tennessee 6-0 187 So. Lake Charles, La.
*DB Dre Kirkpatrick Alabama (CB) 6-3 190 So. Gadsden, Ala.
*DB Morris Claiborne LSU (CB) 6-0 177 So. Shreveport, La.
Special teams
First team
PK Blair Walsh Georgia 5-10 183 Jr. Boca Raton, Fla.
P Chas Henry Florida 6-3 215 Sr. Dallas, Ga.
RS Patrick Peterson LSU 6-1 222 Jr. Pompano Beach, Fla.
Second team
PK Josh Jasper LSU 5-11 171 Sr. Memphis, Tenn.
P Drew Butler Georgia 6-2 210 Jr. Duluth, Ga.
RS Trent Richardson Alabama 5-11 220 So. Pensacola, Fla.
Honorary captain
DE Nick Bell Mississippi State 6-3 265 So. Bessemer, Ala.
The SEC individual award winners will be released Wednesday and the SEC All-Freshman Team announced Thursday.
McElroy passes on playoff
McElroy may want to think about becoming a spokesperson for the bowl system. During Tuesday's press conference in New York he was asked if he thought a playoff would work in the Football Bowl Subdivision:
"I'm actually a big advocate of the bowl system," he said. "After playing five seasons of college football, I believe it gives you the best opportunity to showcase the two best teams in our respective sport. I think this year, the two best teams are very clearly Auburn and Oregon. You can say TCU had a great year and they did, they had a fantastic year. Also, you have to look at the positives of the bowl system. There are 70 teams across the country that will have the opportunity to play just a little bit more football.
"I think in a sport when so much is made of the BCS and so much is made of implementing a playoff system and not having a true champion, I would beg to differ, and I'm going to have to use my own personal experience. If you look at this year, we essentially played a playoff game the first week of November against LSU. At that point, we were 7-1 and we needed that win in order to keep our dreams alive of not only a national championship possibility but a BCS possibility. And we came up a little bit short. And in a playoff game to get into the BCS, we came up short against Auburn as well. There are playoff games throughout the season; that's the beauty of the college football bowl system."
According to Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal, player gifts for the Capital One Bowl (which cannot exceed $500) are a $420 shopping spree at an Orlando-based Best Buy and a watch.
Nick Saban and Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio will appear for a brief media event Thursday morning in Orlando to promote the Capital One Bowl.
While making presentation about the new College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta during the press Conference for the NFF Annual Awards Ceremonies and College Football Hall of Fame Inductions in New York, Chick-fil-A Bowl president Gary Stokan re-affirmed that the 2013 enshrinement ceremony will held be in conjunction the season-opening Chick-fil-A Game featuring Alabama against an opponent to be determined. The new hall is scheduled to open in March 2013. The groundbreaking is scheduled for next August.
As part of the Hall of Fame induction ceremony the National Football Foundation also handed out its major awards: Gold Medal - Bill Cosby; Distinguished American Award - Tom Brokaw; Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award - Joe Kearney*; John L. Toner Award - Robert Mulcahy, Rutgers; Outstanding Football Official Award - Rogers Redding, Southeastern Conference; and Chris Schenkel Award - Joe Starkey, University of California. "I haven't done anything, we played Division 12," Cosby said. "I would have liked to have a helmet in those days." He also joked about blocking a punt in the dark because they didn't have lights.
ESPN announced its broadcast team for the Capital One Bowl: Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe.
Ingram is planning on attending this weekend's Heisman Trophy announcement in New York.
Von Miller of Texas A&M won the Butkus Award for best linebacker. Alabama's Rolando McClain won the award last year.


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“No chance for two states”: Interview with Knesset member Haneen Zoabi

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 31 October 2010

There is now “no chance” for a two-state solution in Palestine. So said Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, in an interview with The Electronic Intifada (EI) on 29 October in Chicago (video).

“The reality goes more toward the one state solution,” Zoabi said, “whether a democratic one-state solution, or a binational one-state solution.”

Elected in 2009, Zoabi represents the National Democratic Alliance, and is the first woman to be elected on the list of an Arab party in Israel.

“We are struggling for a normal state,” Zoabi explained, “which is a state for all of its citizens, [in] which the Palestinians and the Israeli Jews can have full equality. I recognize religious, cultural and national group rights for the Israelis, but inside a democratic and neutral state.”

Zoabi spoke to EI just before she addressed 120 students, faculty and community members in an event organized by Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago. During her lecture, and in the interview with EI, Zoabi described the systematic legal, social and cultural discrimination Israel’s 1.2 million Palestinian citizens face. Zoabi said she strongly opposes Israel’s demand to be recognized as a “Jewish state” as this would legitimize and deepen these forms of discrimination.

Zoabi was among dozens of Palestinian citizens injured by Israeli police just two days before her interview with EI. On 27 October, Israeli extremists affiliated with the outlawed Kach movement, founded by the late Meir Kahane, marched through Umm al-Fahm, a Palestinian city within Israel. Kahane believed that all Palestinians should be expelled from Israel and the occupied territories. Zoabi described how police attacked Palestinian demonstrators and protected the Israeli extremists.

She arrived in Chicago on Thursday evening, 28 October, directly from Israel with bandages on the back of her neck and lower back, where she had been struck by projectiles fired at close range. She said Israeli police used a kind of weapon which she had not seen before, which caused an intense burning sensation, and showed EI the welts beneath the bandage on her neck.

In May, Zoabi participated in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and was aboard the Mavi Marmara when the ship was attacked by Israeli commandos in international waters. Nine activists were killed and dozens injured in the Israeli attack.

Zoabi strongly criticized Israel’s official inquiry into the incident. Although a member of Israel’s parliament and an eyewitness, Zoabi has not been asked to testify before the inquiry — called the Turkel Committee — but has attended its sessions with other witnesses. She told EI of the open bias and political statements of the committee members, stating “They do not look for the facts. They are just looking for a way to justify the Israeli attack.”

Asked about the prospects for the current US-brokered “peace process,” Zoabi said Israeli society and parliament “doesn’t feel the need for peace. They don’t perceive occupation as a problem. They don’t perceive the siege as a problem. They don’t perceive oppressing the Palestinians as a problem, and they don’t pay the price of occupation or the price of [the] siege [of Gaza].”

While Palestinians suffer intensely, Israel, Zoabi said, viewed its relationship with the Palestinians primarily as a “security problem,” which it has largely resolved through the siege of Gaza, the separation wall in the West Bank, and by “security coordination” with the Palestinian Authority.

Zoabi spoke about the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement which aims to pressure Israel to end its occupation and other human rights abuses against Palestinians, and to respect international law.

While she said the effect of BDS within Israel was still marginal, “this kind of campaign has the power raise the debate inside the Israeli society and inside the Knesset.” Israel, she said, “is so sensitive to international criticism and a situation of isolation.”

Even if BDS did not yet have much impact on Israel’s economy, it “can send a political message to the Israelis that we cannot just continue with the occupation, and continue with the siege and with oppressing the Palestinian people without the Israeli society paying a price.”

During her visit to the United States, Zoabi addressed the US Palestinian Community Network’s second Popular Conference for Arabs and Palestinians in the US and is scheduled to speak in the San Francisco Bay Area before returning home.

October 31, 2010 - Posted by | Civil Liberties, Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Solidarity and Activism

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  1. Good luck with anything involving those maniac Zionists.

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