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You probably recall a couple of Native American rallies during AmeriFlora, and the changing of the citys name being mentioned? Every year I mention this and my liberal friends still glare at me like I am crazy, even as I recite the horrible things done by Columbus and his companions. One of the reasons I differentiate liberals from progressives, and yes I get glares over that too. So how about a name change to Geebus. Very close to Cbus, and seems we are stuck with (E. Gordon)Gee, even after his humiliation and the way he embarrassed the city. Even (Woody) Hayes and (Jim)Tressel had to quit, or were fired. So just cave in and name it after him! Or (Leslie)Wexner will want in on the ego, so maybe just Wexner, Ohio. Or Wexnerton, or Wexnerapolis? And there are those Hayes worshipers, so might as well throw those variations in. I do think some day, (in a)decade or two, the name will be changed, because it was an awful choice to go on forever. I understand in 1800 that people did not understand the truth of the history of Columbus. I will have to think on about other serious names. But I go with Geebus for now. Charles Preston PS-I have been reading The Free Press since the 80s, and like the new format. Good Work!

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November 30, 2013 from 7:00 until 9:00, Blue Dublin will have a seminar and introduction of candidates at the Dublin Library, 25 North High St. Dublin OH 43017. The topic: The importance of the 2014 and 2016 elections. The speaker and leader of the seminar will be Dale Butland. He is with Innovation Ohio and is a most effective speaker on progressive issues on central Ohio talk shows. He was Senator Glenns legislative assistant. We are inviting the five Ohio-wide candidates for 2014: Ed FitzGerald for Governor, David Pepper for Attorney General, Nina Turner for Secretary of State, Connie Pillich for Treasurer, John Patrick Carney for Auditor and Scott Wharton who is running for Congress in the 15th District. Each of these candidates or their surrogate will be asked to give their stump speech. Since parts of Dublin are in Franklin, Delaware and Union Counties candidates for Ohio-wide, county and city offices in these counties in 2014 and current office holders will be introduced. Schedule: 7:00 PM register and network 7:30-8:45 PM speech and seminar After 8:45 PM talk to candidates Albert A. Gabel Chairman Blue Dublin

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arms about the absolute foolishness that is taking place in our nations capitol at the moment. How can we call ourselves a democracy, when every piece of legislation put forth by the Republican Party is solely to the detriment every of every social program that is currently in force?This party( gang of terrorists,more like it) is destroying our economy when its at its most vulnerable point. And, the real sad truth of the matter is that when all is said and done, were going to all be affected in one way or another-- especially minorities, whose fortunes have been grievously damaged already. I propose that the Black Caucus of the Congress, of both houses, call for a referendum to bring these facts to light. Gregory Gartrel

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We have seen this act before. It always appears innocent to the untrained eye, but those who pay close attention can sense when something is rotten in Denmark, or in this case Dennison Place. Concerned citizen Frank Zindler smelled something foul in his neighborhood when he was notified that this year he wouldnt be voting at the Thompson Community Center, where hes cast his ballot for three decades. Instead Frank was told to go to the Ohio Student Union on campus to exercise his franchise. On the surface it sounds like a reasonable replacement for his usual polling station. Its public, its open and easy to find. How can anyone complain they are being inconvenienced, as Frank did? Frank saw a fly in the ointment when he launched a recon mission to scope out the new polling place. What he found caused him to write a letter to the Columbus Dispatch. In that letter he explained a clear and present danger to his neighbors voting rights. Theres no place to park. Sure, theres a fairly large parking garage attached to the Ohio Union. But, as Frank pointed out in his letter, theres just one itty bitty problem. Turns out those garages are only open to those with key cards. The general public cant enter them until after 4pm. In Franks mind, thats the sort of thing that just might keep some of his elderly neighbors, and perhaps some less motivated voters, from casting a ballot. And so he wrote a letter to the Dispatch, who called him to verify he had written the letter, something they do if they think they might publish a letter. But the Dispatch did not publish the letter. Frank believes that what the Dispatch did do was call the Franklin County Board of Elections. He cant prove that, nor can we, but soon after hearing from the paper he got a letter from FCBE. To alleviate this concern, we have worked with The Ohio State University [not the private company now running the parking business?-Franks question] to provide vouchers to every person that needs to park in one of the university parking garages in order to vote. When you sign in at the polling location at the Ohio Union, please mention to poll workers that you are parked in one of the university garages and they will provide you with a pass to exit the garage at no cost. In an email to me, Frank wondered about a few things. How nice! he wrote. If you cant get into the garage in the first place, how will you get a voucher and for what will you use it? I am worried that there may be a wider importance to this case. The consolidation of precincts may not be important for off-year elections, but if it is primarily in Democratic areas during a major election it may produce the outrageously long lines we experienced preceding the accession to the throne of King George II. I admit that the closure of the Thompson Community Center gives a slight justification for changing the voting site, but why wasnt a small, accessible alternative site chosen? An oversight? I doubt it. You are not alone. Frank emailed me several times Tuesday afternoon. He was on another mission. He found that the first entrance to the parking garage still prohibited public parking before 4pm, while the second entrance had no such barrier. However, as Frank pointed out to me, there was no way of knowing if his neighbors were also told by FCBE about parking vouchers. It would appear that my letter to the Dispatch did in fact ameliorate somewhat the situation in my precinct. I am certain that this would not have happened if the editor had not contacted the FCBE. I doubt that any letter was sent out to all registered voters. If it had been sent, surely it would have told them to look for the second entrance to the parking garage, wouldnt it? Even so, it is hard to underestimate the impact on my elderly neighbors during an off-year election of the specter of having to go to so forbidding a site as the Ohio Union. My guess is that some of them have never been in a parking garage. Thanks, Frank, for caring enough about the election process to have taken as many steps as you did to uphold your neighbors right to vote.

Michael Alwood

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CITIZENS TO SUBMIT CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM LAW Using the citizen initiative provisions of the Columbus City Charter that allows citizens to propose legislation, the Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government (the Coalition) announced it will file signatures in support of a proposed law to reform political campaigns in Columbus on Thursday. As progressive people, in the wake of the Supreme Courts decision in Citizens United, we recognize the pernicious influence of money in our political life. Because all politics is local and we think globally but act locally, we are addressing this issue in Columbus, said Coalition committee member Denise Benning. Governance should be about more than staying in power. True public servants will want to ensure we have a robust, competitive, and fair electoral system, and we are hopeful that the individual members of Columbus City Council can see past their short-term political goals and approve this ordinance based upon the good it provides to residents of Columbus, present and future, said Willis Brown. This will be a test of our priorities. Council approves casino tax money to fund a bailout of an entertainment venue -- Nationwide Arena. Now, citizens are asking for a small fraction of that amount, every other year, to be used to make more and better information available to voters, so we can have the best representation and the best governance possible. The Coalition believes that having a strong local democracy is worthy of some public investment, said Denise Benning. Over time, we have watched as elections have become more irrelevant. In the 2013 primary, about 4 percent of the Columbus electorate voted. Weve got to get people to trust that elections matter that their vote matters and weve got to stop letting money and influence buy elected office, said Suzanne Patzer. SEATTLE VOTERS APPROVE DISTRICT GOVERNANCE LEAVING COLUMBUS ALONE Seattle voters adopted Amendment 19 by a vote of 64percent to 36percent, moving Seattle from the out-dated all At Large City Council format, to a District led governance format. Seattles current city council consists of 9 members, all elected in city-wide elections (At Large). Voters supported the initiative led by citizens group Seattle Districts Now, to move toward a Council that will consist of 7 members elected from Council Districts, and 2 members elected At Large. With Austins similar vote last year to move from 7 members At Large to 10 members from Districts and one member At Large, the Seattle vote leaves Columbus as the only remaining big city that retains the outmoded At Large council format favored

by big business and the power and social elite. Seattle Proposition 1 was a companion proposal to fund elections through property taxes. It failed 54percent to 46percent. In Columbus, the Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government announced on Thursday, November 7th that they would be submitting signatures for a campaign finance reform law. In addition, the Coalition is collecting signatures for a proposal to move from a 7 member At Large council to an 11 member council with 4 members elected At Large and 7 members elected from Districts. ELECTION RESULTS Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Colemans Education Plan In a stinging rebuke to Mayor Coleman and big business, voters rejected Colemans signature Columbus Education Plan proposal to increase Columbus City School property taxes by 24 percent. Despite spending over $2.4 million on a campaign with glossy mailers, non-stop radio ads and television commercials with cute kids, the Mayors Columbus Education Plan (Issue 50) was trounced by voters at the polls, losing with 69percent in opposition to 31percent in support (44,417 to 19,548). The companion issue, Issue 51 which would have created a new auditor position overseen by the City, also failed, losing 61percent to 39 percent. The ball of string started unraveling in September, a month after the pro levy forces started running commercials and sending glossy mailers. In a first for Columbus, organized opposition to the levy came from newly-formed citizens groups named No Cheaters No Charters Columbus, Its OKAY To Vote No, and Citizens Against Issues 50 and 51. In a preliminary rebuke, the Columbus Council of PTAs refused to endorse the levy, and one PTA members statement that the Columbus Education Commission did not listen to the people prompted an emotional Coleman to melt down and yell at a parent I didnt have to engage in this ever. I could have let it float off and then it would burn down. Further, homeowners and landlords organized in objection to the increased tax on their properties. In his concession speech, Mayor Coleman said it is clear to me that the District must continue to restore trust while at the same time changing in the process. That is what the voters are saying. Alex Fisher, CEO of The Columbus Partnership wrote today, voters expressed a lack of trust in our school district the voters are asking for reform before new taxes. This public assignment of blame to the Board of Education is stunning, since this appears to be the first time the campaign mentioned the Board of Education in connection with the levy and because the community leaders had been stunningly quiet about the Boards ineptitude prior to

the election. While pro-levy leaders cast blame for the loss at the feet of the Board of Education (and certainly the Board deserves a share of blame), this was a campaign run by the Mayors Office and local business community, under the Mayors banner, with the Mayors plan, and with the Board of Education having no presence whatsoever, which was a deliberate part of the planned duplicity of the pro-levy campaign. So, although it was the Mayors plan and campaign, blame for its loss went immediately to the District. Broad Spread Opposition Opposition to the levy came from all quarters of Columbus and for many reasons. Observers remarked that putting Issue 50 on the ballot was a strategic blunder by the school board and the communitys power elite because there was something there for everybody to hate. Board of Education member Mike Wiles, who was not re-elected, had advocated that the issue be split into several separate issues; however, he was out-voted. Columbus City Schools parent Miriam Bowers Abbott from the Northwest side of Columbus objected to the lack of specifics in the Columbus Education Plan saying, I wont support a plan that simply sucks up more public money to fund vague platitudes. Give us more money is not a plan. Prior to the election, Gail Burkholder of the Near East Side said, the Columbus Education Plan offers us the opportunity to pay the largest property tax increase in CCS history. The proceeds would fund non-union charter schools, a whole new level of bureaucracy and more. This is to be entrusted to a school board currently under state and federal investigation and a mayors office with no educational expertise. Amy Harkins, mother of a 7th grader in Clintonville objected to Issue 51, saying, I cannot support removing Carolyn Smith as internal auditor, the only person brave enough to speak out against the data manipulations happening in our district. Parent Heather Rouse said I urge you to look more carefully at the money spent per studentit varies greatly depending upon the school. For example, at Champion MS the district spends $21,000 per pupil. Champion MS is a new, state of the art building. at Ridgeview MS the district only spends $12,000 per pupil yet it is an older run down building, filled to the max with a wait list of students that wanted to lottery in.which school has a better performance index? Ridgeview is one of the highest rated middle schools in the district. I guess that proves that throwing money at the problem isnt the solution! Larry Spencer wrote to levy opponents No Cheaters No Charters Columbus, saying according to the state impact website the only districts that spend more per student than CPS are Grandview & Upper Arlington. Grandview and Upper Arlington both earned A ratings. CPS earned an F. How do you justify asking for more money for CPS considering its already high per student cost. At this point it does seem to be about

money but using resources more wisely i.e. reducing overhead, etc. Its also hard for me to support this very large levy when schools such as Beechcroft and East High are well below 100 percent occupancy. Black Clergy Bucks the System The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, the oldest alliance of historically Black churches, broke with the orthodoxy in advocating a No vote. Forming a group called Citizens Against Issues 50 and 51 and led in partnership by Elder Dale Snyder of Bethel AME Church; Pastor Frederick LaMarr of Family Missionary Baptist Church on the south side; and Rev. Joel L. King associate pastor at Union Grove Baptist Church in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood, this group of community-based ministers stated the proposed levy was too high and that it would be a burden on the poor and fixed income seniors. Further, the group noted the data rigging scandal, and the lack of accountability shown by Columbus City Schools and the Board of Education. In a written statement, the group called upon: [School Board President] Perkins and the school board to direct Mr. Trafford to compile a comprehensive report to the public on behalf of the Board of Education about the data scrubbing and other misdeeds over the past decade. This report should detail exactly what went wrong, who was responsible, what the consequences were, and what has been put in place to ensure this breach of the public trust never happens again. Complete disclosure to the public is a necessary precondition before a return to the ballot once Issue 50 is rejected. We ask for Mayor Coleman to support our call for complete transparency from this scandal-plagued and corrupt school system, before he advocates for any more money from the citizens of Columbus. Prior to the election, a representative of the Mayors Office had dismissed this group of Pastors as being small churches, and bragged we just released a list of fifteen big churches that agree with us. It appears as though those small church pastors understood the pulse of the community. In contrast, sources tell The Free Press that Pastor Timothy Clark, of big church First Church of God gave an endorsement of Issues 50 and 51 from the pulpit. According to sources who attend the church, while such a testimonial from the pastor would normally result in thunderous applause, sources say after he issued the endorsement you could hear a pin drop in the sanctuary. Attorney Byron Potts of Citizens Against Issues 50 and 51 said, now its time for them to come back to the table and do reform properly. They must clean up clean house -- before they come back asking for more money. Maria Kozelek and Christina McMenemy, organizers of ItsOKAYtoVoteNO, wrote The community has rejected The Columbus Plan. Now the real work begins. Community and parent activists defeated the Plan with less than $4,000. Can a cost-effective,

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to the federal exchange and all its complexity bamacare (The Patient Protection and glitches. Im not a lawyer but to my mind this and Affordable Care Act) PPACA is malfeasance at the very has been alternately called both least and certainly doesnt things. In the hyper-ideological represent the best interests world our political system labors under these days, the reality is that of the citizens of Ohio. For individual Ohioans the PPACA is both to different the challenge will be to constituencies. maximize the benefit Here in Ohio and in the other this law holds for their states whose political power structure maintained the vociferous individual financial situation. Frankly the individual penalty for and unanimous opposition to the non-compliance is nothing more law, PPACA is looking less like than a nuisance. For business nona godsend and more like a Rube compliance might hold a $2000 Goldberg contraption that wont dollar penalty for non-compliance, provide the solution to the health however, the cost for purchasing care access crisis. insurance might approach four In states who have, on the times that figure. Additionally, other hand, dealt with reality and for the working poor, Medicaid implemented the law to the best expansion in Ohio will truly of their abilities; i.e. set up state exchanges, expanded Medicaid etc, be a godsend, if it survives the inevitable legal challenges. tens of thousands of their citizens The difficulty for most Ohioans are benefiting from gained access to insurance if not financial protection in the middle, who currently purchase health insurance on the from medically precipitated financial crisis. It is important here individual market, is the mind to remember that in the seven years boggling complexity. In states like Ohio, the number of plans that since Massachusetts implemented people will need to consider might the state model for the PPACA, conceivably approach 100 given all the rate of medically precipitated bankruptcy has seen no statistically the iterations of out of pocket costs, deductibles and coverage levels. significant decline! The question I guess you need In Ohio, any participation to answer is this; Am I and my in the federal law was a dead loved ones Bronze, Silver, Gold or issue until the medical provider Platinum human beings? Or which establishment (Ohio Hospital one can we afford to be? Association) weighed in to Therein lies the main problem. support the Medicaid expansion. Furthermore, for all the ideological The PPACA continues to rely on profit-first insurance companies blather by conservatives about whose stock holders on Wall Street local control, the majority party demand maximized return on in state government dug in their capital. That capital is comprised heels and refused to manage the of the insurance premium dollars administration of the law and 6 consequently Ohioans are subject paid to them minus the actual cost
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All Quiet on the Western Front
By Peter M. Gunn

On Monday, October 28, an explosion and heavy gunfire were reported outside the US embassy in Yemen. You may have heard about it. It got a brief mention on all the cable news channels with promises of more on this story as it develops including possible casualties. It pierced my leftist information silo through a small paragraph on Gawker mentioning this fact and nothing else. It was, a sobering reminder, indeed, of the dangerous world we live in. A moment of pause, for reflection that for all the criticism we do and outrage we share about the military-industrial complex, they really are working to keep us, Americans, safe. A few hours later, there was more on this story as it developed: the explosions were fireworks from a wedding party. Now this is far from the first time that the US has mistaken a wedding party for socalled terrorist activity, as quite a few former citizens of Afghanistan can attest to. Nor is this far from the first time that questionable news reports have been deployed in an effort to keep the populace good and scared. I will admit that were it not for this column, I would have never bothered to follow up on the story. No news outlet. ever reports the boner-killing truth-filled updates as breathlessly as it does the the initial scandalizing lies. This is of course not a bug of the news media, but a feature, and as much as I love Chomsky, its not just about manufacturing consent, but about the nature of the concept of news itself. When we talk about the evils of imperialism, much is made about the damage it does militarily, economically and politically, but more than that it shapes and limits our fundamental understanding of the world itself. Regions, cultures, borders become defined solely for the purposes of imperial interests. There is no concept of the West without an Oriental East to colonize and conquer, and any and all discourse about the West plays off that tradition. Similarly, Afghanistan and Iraq are not in the same region, historically and environmentally. They are completely different cultures with different languages and traditions. However, in order for its War On Terror/Project for a New American Century agenda to make sense, the Bush administration started to push a new regional formulation called the Greater Middle East. 9 years later, and the war in Afghanistan is colloquially understood as a war in the Middle East, with all of the wonderful Clashof-Civilizations elements implied. And once those regions have been defined, our understanding of what goes on in them is also almost entirely shaped by imperial interests.

that the US was/is the morally superior party in the wars its been fighting for the past ten years probably numbers in the thousands. There is no Islamist celebrated figure among the radical left a la Ho Chi Minh. The most ardent criticism still comes from a fundamentally liberal Suppose that the reported explosion was an actual standpoint, of a desire to see American force attack. Explosions and bomb attacks happen used for good. Nobody argues that American in Iraq on a regular basis, and yet now that the imperialism actually deserves to be fought, country is no longer under occupation, they dont much less that political Islam is a valid way to constitute news to American media. Back in the do so. We may have avoided military aggression real world, the operative question is, why would in Syria, but Assad is a secular dictator, and the nations largest media outlets report on a story indeed much of the skepticism was over how using anonymous sources that wasnt even close the plan fit in with the goals of the War on to being fully developed? Because the US foreign Terror. Currently, all signs point to Congress policy apparatus (insert-historical-imperial-power scuttling any deal President Obama might be here) gets to set the terms of the discourse for able to reach with Iran. everyone from war-machine sycophants to postBack in August, when the same embassy colonial theorists. closed in Yemen, along with other US embassies This is the dilemma that those seeking to resist hegemony or create a just world face. One of the around the Middle East, Al Jazeera had a token imperial stooge, on Inside Story, who most effective ways to make the powers that be irrelevant is to treat them as such, but in doing so said the closings were in a response to some you allow the hegemonist propaganda to continue very specific intelligence, particularly within the region. It may not have been specific unmolested. Applied to the non-explosion, if and of course that the intelligence came from youre a purported anti-imperialist media outlet, do you ignore the story or do you report it with a intercepted communications. These closings healthy context critical of US drone strikes in the came at a time when hubbub around the Snowden leaks/NSA surveillance story was at area? a high point. All of which is to say that master This dilemma is more than theoretical. The propagandists these guys are not. And yet more insidious effects of the media lie not in the theyve largely managed to succeed, not least stories people read, but the ones they skim, the because whenever they clear their throat, we all ticker feed, or the ones they dont even click on. It is in the milieu where the US war machine has come running. achieved its most complete propaganda victory. The number of Americans who do not believe Address all hate mail to petermgunn@gmail.com

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successful tour of Ohio to promote the Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment, sponsored by the Ohio Rights Group (ORG), concluded in Cleveland a week ago with a segment by Lee Jordan on the citys News Channel 5. Success becomes self-evident when the opposition appears, often in the form of the Drug Free Action Alliance (DFAA), which is headquartered on Huntley Road in Columbus. The segment, entitled Northeast Ohio family seeks medical cannabis in Colorado to find effective treatment for seizures and aired on October, 25, 2013, included several quotes from DFAA Executive Director Margie Seidel to rebut the use of cannabis for treating the devastating seizures experienced by Jordan Lykes who suffers from Dravet Syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy. In the first quote, Ms. Seidel states that, Medicine goes through a very rigid process of study and research through the FDA, a revered system throughout the world. Really? Many of these FDA approved drugs have proven to be harmful or even deadly. For example, in 2009, drug induced deaths, principally from otherwise legal opiates, exceeded deaths from motor vehicle accidents for the first time since such tracking began. There were 1,373 such deaths in Ohio in 2009. Further, the FDAs own Adverse Event Reporting System for prescription drugs reveals an epidemic of serious patient outcomes, reporting over 500,000 deaths and 3 million serious outcomes, with such outcomes up by 90 percent in just the last five years. By serious, the FDA means that one or more of the following were documented: death, hospitalization, life-threatening, disability, congenital anomaly and/ or other serious outcome. Over 200 medicines contain the FDAs strongest 8 black box warning, and a record

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number of drugs have been recalled from the market. To add insult to injury, the very rigid process of study and research conducted through this revered system, is exorbitantly expensive. In its 2012 expos on drug development, Forbes Magazine estimated the cost of bringing one pharmaceutical drug to market at an average of $4-11 billion, over a time frame of about 12 years. According to Forbes, fewer than 1 in 10 medicines that begin testing in human clinical trials succeed in becoming marketable medicines. The magazine concluded, The high cost of developing drugs shouldnt be a badge of honor for drug firms; theres no reason it has to be this expensive Just because something was expensive doesnt make it good. Despite this deadly and expensive system, Ms. Seidel goes on to insist the DFAAs position is that medical marijuana should meet the same standards as other medicines rather than being pushed as a voter initiative. She emphasized that, Ive never voted on an antibiotic, or an antihistamine, nor am I qualified to do that. I want to know what research says so (when its taken) its the same dose every time. You know the side effects, how it reacts with other medicines, foods. You want the fidelity of it safe and accurate, not just today but in the long term, But how can knowledge about potential drugs or an understanding their fidelity be achieved when the approval of new drugs is on the decline? Is it possible that the pharmaceutical industrys profitability has been pinched by safety, accuracy and cost concerns? For these reasons, has it purposefully put the brakes on drug development over the last decade? In 2010, the FDA reported that 21 new molecular entities (NMEs) had received approval, which was slightly lower than the ten-year average of 23. The agency principally blamed this decline on a significant drop in the number of applications filed by

the industry. In 1996, there were 45 applications for FDA drug approval. The 21 in 2010 represented the lowest number in 15 years. However, Ms. Seidel may be right about cannabis. Few of the studies presently underway will meet that clinical trial threshold for FDA approval. Of the 85 clinical trials for cannab listed at ClinicalTrials. gov, only 35 are actively recruiting, only four are in Phase 3 (fairly close to market) and only two concern the alleviation of suffering (ALS and multiple sclerosis). The other two focus on cannabis dependence. This dearth of clinical trials does not result from a lack of trying. The FDA will approve cannabis studies, but research continues to be hampered by the plants presence in the most restrictive Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. These restrictions make cannabis the only substance to require study approval from four governmental agencies: not just the FDA, but also the DEA (researcher must hold a DEA license), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (as a source of supply) and the Department of Health and Human Services (which can reject an application even though the study design has been approved by the FDA). Such has been the case with a trial proposed by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Research (MAPS) to evaluate the use of marijuana in the treatment of PTSD. This clinical study has been delayed for years. As Channel 5 reported, the famed Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently changed his position on the use of cannabis in medicine after he personally observed the plants positive effects on Dravet Syndrome seizure victims like 4 year-old Charlotte Figi or 18 year-old Jordan Lyles. As he noted, Those studies [for which Ms. Seidel advocates] are hard to do and that is part of the problem. Noting that cannabis is one of the safest medicines ever used over the course of human history, never having been associated with one overdose death,

Dr. Gupta acknowledged, You start to realize this is a medication, one that can work when other drugs dont work. And it can be a lot safer for children who have this intractable epilepsy. Which brings us back to the Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment. The revered system of drug development in the United States touted by Ms. Seidel has turned deadly, costly and time consuming. Perhaps the pharmaceutical industry is realizing this as reflected through its growing aversion to FDA approval. Safe and accurate research into the medicinal qualities of cannabis has been thrown out the window by an institutional bias against conducting studies, despite the plants long standing, extraordinary safety profile. Within this tangled web, what is the quickest and least expensive way by which cannabis-based medicines can be made available to patients such as Charlotte, Jordan and millions of others? The answer? A constitutional amendment voter initiative for it will cost as little as $5 million (compared to $12 billion) and take only one year (compared to 12 years). With all of these factors combined, which is the best course? Which medication would you prefer? Which would you give your child?

Update. Cheryl Shuman has given 1,000 percent to the Ohio Rights Groups campaign to pass the Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment, and for that we are so very grateful. We were very distressed to learn that Cheryl collapsed while at the Drug Policy Alliance Conference in Denver and remains in the hospital as of this writing. We view Cheryl as one of our own. A sister and friend to our cause. We love and support her in every way. Our hearts and souls go out to Cheryl and her family at this time of need. May the love we and the world have for you, Cheryl, restore you to complete health. We want to again welcome you home.

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Janitors, activists busted in Columbus protest

By Steve Palm-Houser From examiner.com

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Dignity, Reverend Martin Luther King described how the organized labor movement first came into being: The worker became determined not to wait for charitable impulses to grow in his employer. He constructed the means by which a fairer share of the fruits of his toil had to be given to him. Janitors in the Midwest have decided not to wait for charitable impulses to grow in their employers. A series of strikes began last month in Columbus, Ohio, and janitors in Cincinnati went on strike for the first time last Thursday. On the same day 12 supporters from Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo and Columbus were arrested in a supportive act of civil disobedience at PNC Bank in Columbus to raise awareness of unfair labor practices by New York-based ABM Industries, the largest janitorial contractor in the U.S. At the negotiating table, ABM was the ringleaderdemanding a part-time janitorial workforce in Columbus, said Claude Smith, a Vietnam War veteran and full-time ABM janitor in Columbus. I dont understand why, Smith said. We show up every day and we work hard doing the best job we can. I know ABM can afford good jobs. We just want to be able to put food on the table and maybe save a little for retirement. Part-time status would make the janitors ineligible for companyprovided health insurance, sick leave and other benefits. I am supporting this cause because I cannot see myself working part-time without benefits, said Griselda Paz, a mother of three and a Chicago

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janitor for more than 20 years. We are all in this together. Janitors in Columbus currently earn an average of $18,000 a year, below the federal poverty line for a family of four. Like Wal-Mart employees, many of the janitors rely on SNAP and other assistance programs to make ends meet. I was one of the 12 arrested in Columbus. Im not a union member, but I support the work of SEIU Local 1 to protect workers from corporate greed. Wealth inequality in the U.S. is at its worst level since before the Great Depression. Corporations have been exploiting workers in all of the service industries with impunity for decades. People who care about economic justice want to change that. But Corporate America isnt going to change its practices and priorities because we ask nicely.
Steve Palm-Houser is a member of the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Columbus. He studies the mystical aspects of several world religions. Steve works as an instructional designer and freelance writer. He can be reached at steve. palmhouser@gmail.com.

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Who benefits from the beneficial use of radioactive waste?

By Bob Fitrakis havent caused enough havoc by destroying social programs, pensions, womens health and voting rights our multitasking state legislators now want to line their pockets while they line our landfills with radioactive waste. Ohios neo-conservative Republican Governor John Kasich, a founding member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), has come up with another way to frack the people of Ohio with this beneficial use scam. If you wanted to suck up to the fracking industry and transform Ohio into a haven of radioactive waste dumps, the best place to hide it is in the budget. The Ohio budget bill (SB 59) passed in June gives the Ohio Department of Natural Resources sole authority over the radioactive content of fracking wastes, along with the most of the toxic sludge that the industry brings up from deep underground. This squeezes-out other regulatory agencies like the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Department of Health. Both are out, no longer protecting people, the environment and our health from the sludge. Horizontal hydraulic fracturing drilling, or what we know as fracking, routinely produces radioactive waste as a byproduct. A typical well extracts 1500 tons of clay and stone that is often radioactive. Tons of toxic water co-mingled with each fracking companys proprietary chemical cocktail is injected into the wells to extract gas and oil. This process of forcing water and chemicals into the earth dissolves tremendous amounts of radium 226. Radium has a half-life of 12 more than 1600 years.

How our state legislators are fracking us now

As if they Abnormal is the new NORMal
Free Press could find no other states that have declassified such radioactive material. Ohio Senate Bill 59 deals with this How is this done? in the following way it simply reSB 59 contains a so-called beneficial classifies this radioactive fracking waste use clause that allows fracking drill to the status of normally-occurring cuttings to be deposited in licensed radioactive material (NORM) from landfills as a clay liner. its previous status of technicallyIf the drill cuttings are used as a liner, enhanced NORM, called TENORM. they are required to be remediated by By redesignating it to be NORM, the removing all hydrocarbon residue, fracking waste no longer has to be including diesel fuel. The law does not monitored or handled in any special require that any radioactive content be manner. If the waste had correctly removed, since it is, well, NORMal. remained TENORM, it would be Nucleides analyzed six samples of fracking material and found that the fracking mud contained 896 picocuries of radioactive material, 3000 times the allowable EPA drinking water limit, which would be regulated. But coming out of the exact same hole the remaining 90 percent of the material exposed to the same radioactivity will now go to the Integrity Drive dump on Alum Creek under beneficial use. Alum Creek flows next to the site and merges into the Scioto River just a few miles downstream. According to Teresa Mills of the Buckeye Forest Council, the Integrity Drive dump has twice been remediated itself in the past through EPA enforcement for leaching toxins into Alum Creek. Mills claims that the clay topping layer is expected to take fifteen years to complete, while the heavy metals will leach through in rain and snow.

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closely regulated as radioactive material. Only about 10 percent of the total radioactively contaminated fracking waste stream will now be regulated. The only fracking waste that remains regulated as TENORM is drilling muds, spent pipes and sludges from the bottom of tanks.

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The beneficial use of radioactivity

Drill cuttings meaning the soil, rock fragments and pulverized material that are removed from a borehole during the fracking drilling process are now de-regulated. This allows the radioactive material to be disposed of in landfills throughout Ohio. The

Ohio Soil Recycling (OSR) handles remediation at the Integrity Drive dump in Columbus. OSR has developed a process using microbes that eat the hydrocarbons and thus remediating the soil. Their process does not remove radium and radioactive components. Radioactive elements are highly watersoluble and are prone to entering the watershed through leaching over time. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) limits the amount of low-level radioactive materials to 5 picocuries in our drinking water. An Ohio Department of Health memo entitled Analysis of Environmental Samples for Gamma Ray Producing

In 2012, more than 22,000 tons of drill cuttings and other toxic waste were dumped in Ohios landfill from Pennsylvanias fracking industry. According to a study by Radioactive Waste Management Associates, The state could see more than 4000 fracking wells over the next ten years. The study points out that, It takes between 2 and up to 8 million gallons of water to fracture a single Marcellus shale well one time, and each well may be fractured multiple times. The report notes that: in April 2013, a truck carrying a load of solid fracking waste was sent away from the MAX landfill in South Huntingdon, Pennsylvania after the truckload set off an alarm because its contents were so radioactive. The drill cutting materials in the truck had a radiation dose rate of 96 microrems per hour caused by the radium 226 contents. The limit for radioactive material at the landfill is 10

microrems per hour. After the passage of SB 59, they can simply bring these drill cuttings to Ohio.

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By disposing of the radioactive drill cuttings as beneficial waste, the fracking industry will pay no fees to the areas solid waste district or to the State of Ohio. Frackers are now relieved of the burden of paying to dispose of their radioactive waste in any safe manner. But the real beauty of beneficial use in the budget bill is that it exempts this radioactive material from any requirement that its toxic and radioactive content be tested.

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By Gerry Bello

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While the votes of politicians are recorded, even when they slip through an obscure clause in the budget, the question of who influenced them remains. Who

Rules are not in place for any kind of proper radiation monitoring in Ohio. According to retired OSU geologist Julie Weatherington-Rice, on-site monitors such as Geiger counters will not identify Radium 226 because the particles emitted are not picked up by the instrument. She claims it requires a 21-day lab test to incubate the material and then test for the radioactive products that result. Weatherington-Rice states that the lab tests are the only way to uncover the radium 226 potency. Radon gas is a daughter product of radium and is highly toxic. Non-smokers have gotten lung cancer from radon in homes. Long-term exposure to radium is also known to increase the risk of developing lymphoma, bone cancer, leukemia and aplastic anemia. Kasich and his Republican cohorts in the statehouse are raking in fracking industry donations (see sidebar) and now have relieved that industry from the burdens of regulation for 90 percent of its radioactive waste. So-called beneficial use is beneficial abuse for Republican lawmakers and we are all now victims of uncontrolled fracking.

poured them the glass of tainted water to wash this poison bill down our throats with the budget? While it is not technically correct to use campaign contributions and bribes

interchangeably, there is a tendency to contribute to politicians who will support ones position. A leading recipient of fracking money in Ohio is House Speaker William Batchelder. The cushions of Batchelders house seat are stuffed with a considerable amount of fracking money. Since 2006,

James Butler, Christina Hagan, Peter Stautberg, AL Landis, Jay Hottinger, Jeffery McClain, Cliff Rosenberger, Bob Peterson, Louis Terhar, Timothy Derickson, Dorothy Pelanda, Mark Romanchuk, Pete Beck, Gerald Stebelton, Anne Gonzales, Terry Boose, Mike Dovilla and Brian Hill. Many he has received $44,293 from received only $1000, making the Ohio Oil and Natural Gas them not just fracking political Association, an industry lobbying prostitutes but cheap fracking group. The fracking industry also political prostitutes. Dave Hall is the supported him directly with $55,000 highest priced after Batchelder at from FirstEnergy Corp, $26,850 $13,500.00. from NISOURCE, $26,350 from Additionally the Ohio Oil and Dominion, $16,250 from Duke Natural Gas bought themselves Energy, $12,500 from Chesapeake eleven Ohio State Senators with Energy and $35,750 from American contributions of less than $10,000 Electric Power. A few cents of many each. All are fracking Republicans. Columbus residents power bill Twenty-one other Ohio House helps to line Batchelders campaign Republicans received $500 or less fund as he quietly legalizes the for their support. injection of radioactive waste into The fracking money also flowed our drinking water. directly to Secretary of State Jon As the money flows down the Husted and Governor John Kasich trough, many other politicians who signed the budget. Husted squealed and muscled their way in received $7,500 directly from to lap it up. Republican Ohio State executives of American Electric Senator Keith Faber received money Power, $5000 from FirstEnergy, from the Ohio Oil and Natural Gas $2000 from NiSource, $2500 from Association and the six companies Dayton Power and Light and $3000 previously mentioned. He also got from Vectren. campaign funding from Spectra Governor Kasichs election in 2010 received big piles of fracking money, which continued to flow after his election. NISOURCE has given $20,044. American Electric Power gave $20,043. The Ohio Oil and Natural Gas Association gave him $16,396. Duke Energy gave $11,543. Dominion helped him with $6,500. Energy, Vectren, Dayton Power All in all, Ohio has the best and Light, Marathon Oil and archfracking politicians money can buy. polluter British Petroleum. There appears to be a clear line from The Ohio Oil and Natural contribution to budget amendment Gas Association gave to Ohio to poisoned wells. Many of the Republican house members same politicians received substantial Cheryl Grossman, Dave Hall, contributions from the health care Matt Huffman, John Adams, industry, that fracking will cause Ron Amstutz, Kristina Roegner, many more Ohio residents to Andrew Thompson, Thomas Patton, patronize in the coming years. 13

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Reaching for the restart button

Longwell concentrates on changing Capitals momentum
By Paul Batterson
on a fourth and 1 at the Otterbein 35 with less than a minute to play. for Chase Longwell Capital closes out the season against to get discouraged. visiting Muskingum (1-7 overall) on In the Hilliard Darby High School Saturday and Wilmington (0-8) on Nov. graduates first eight games as quarterback 16. The Muskies, sixth in the league in for the Capital University football team, scoring defense (30.1), are allowing 214.9 the Crusaders have lost as many games as yards through the air and 134.9 yards on the Panthers did in the last three years of the ground per game. Wilmington dwells Longwells career there. As Capital (1-7 overall, 1-6 in the Ohio near the bottom of most of the OACs defensive categories including scoring

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our offensive huddle. Playing at Darby definitely helped prepare me, Longwell adds. My coaches were great; they harped on discipline, discipline, discipline. That is one of the things (Candeto), coming from the U.S. Naval Academy, preaches all the time. Longwell was set to attend Georgetown College in Kentucky when Capital hired Candeto as its head coach. Candeto, who rushed and passed for more than 1,000 yards as a quarterback his senior year with Navy in 2003, eventually convinced Longwell to sign with Capital. I actually verbally committed to Georgetown but coach Candeto came around and changed my mind, Longwell says. I really liked everything he was about and what he stood for and what he had planned for this program. Longwell found out theres huge different between high school and college football in the first few weeks of the Crusaders practices. The speed of the

including a 1-yard touchdown run on 21 carries. It was such a good feeling in the locker room after we came away with the victory, Longwell says. Since the Sept. 21 win, the Crusaders have been trying to recapture that feeling. The month of October was particularly ruthless to Capital. It didnt help that the Crusaders faced three teams ranked in the top 15 of the Division III poll released on Oct. 28, including top-ranked Mount Union (currently 8-0 overall), ninthranked Heidelberg (7-1) and 15th ranked John Carroll (8-0). Capital was outscored 185-20 in a 54-0 loss at John Carroll on Oct. 5, a 73-17 loss at Heidelberg on Oct. 12 and 58-3 loss to Mount Union on Oct. 19. Longwell says the team is trying to learn from its losses. The losses have been learning experiences for us, Longwell said. We learned from (the lopsided losses) even though they werent great games for us. Longwell says he would like to see his team play at the level of a Mount Union. The Purple Raiders are to Division III

Chase Longwell, shown here throwing a pass against Thomas More (Ky.) game on Sept. 7, says he has had to adjust to the speed of the college game. Photos (2) by Jeff Mills/Capital University Athletics.

Athletic Conference) gets ready to take on Muskingum University on Saturday, the freshman refuses to give up. Things are starting to turn around here, says Longwell, who completed five of 10 passes for 32 yards and rushed nine times for six yards in a 19-14 loss to rival Otterbein on Nov. 2. (Coach Craig) Candeto keeps talking about Changing Momentum. We need to take all the bad stuff that has happened in the past and just really change it around for the better. We need to keep pushing forward. As the only freshman starting at quarterback in the 10-team OAC, Longwell completed 34 of his 69 passing attempts (49.3 percent) for 442 yards with four touchdowns and four interceptions and is the teams second leading rusher with 398 yards and two touchdowns on 129 carries. The Crusaders came up six points short of ending their current six-game slide against Otterbein. Brent Walton scored on a 6-yard touchdown run with 9:36 left to play in the game to cut Capitals deficit to 16-14. However the Cardinals went on a 13-play, 6:04 drive that ended with a 22yard field goal by Alana Gaither with 3:26 16 left to play. The Crusaders were stopped

defense (ninth allowing 49.3 points per game), pass defense (ninth, 240.6 yards) and rush defense (seventh, 225.4). Longwell has been a part of turning programs around before. His freshman year at Darby, the Panthers sputtered to a 3-6 finish. Over the next three years, Darby went 26-7overall, including an 11-1 finish Longwells senior year, and made the Division I Region 3 playoffs in 2010 and 2012. Longwell played safety all four years and after serving as a backup quarterback his first two years, took over as the starting quarterback his junior year. He completed 97 of 165 passes for 1,551 yards with 17 touchdowns with three interceptions and rushed for 1,574 yards and 25 touchdowns on 277 carries his junior and senior years. Chase is a tremendous competitor. Whenever we needed a yard, Chase Longwell got the ball, Panthers coach John Santagata says. While at Darby, Chase demonstrated a great work ethic in practices, the weight room, and the classroom. He was a special type of leader who commanded respect naturally. (It was) never forced. His teammates always listened when he spoke as he commanded

Chase Longwell takes off against Ohio Northern on Sept. 28.

game is light years ahead of high school. Those first couple days of practices were definitely an eye opener, says Longwell, who is majoring in nursing. In high school, I was completely used to the speed of the game (at that level). Then all of sudden Im stepping in and competing with all these other guys who were used to how fast the game is. Longwell didnt see much playing time in a 20-0 loss to Thomas More in the Sept. 7 opener, throwing just one pass (an incompletion) and rushing six times for 19 yards. A week later, he emerged as the starter in the Crusaders 42-13 win at Marietta on Sept. 21. The 5-foot-10, 191-pound freshman completed seven of 12 passes for 150 yards with two touchdowns and rushed for 95 yards what Alabama is to Division I. Since 2005, Mount Union is 115-5 with eight OAC titles and four national titles. Four out of their five losses have come in the Stagg Bowl, the Division III national title game. The Purple Raiders last league setback was a 21-14 loss to Ohio Northern in 2005. They played at a different level than what we were used to. The first thing we noticed is they did their assignments to perfection, Longwell says. To beat teams like that, you have to be perfect at everything you do. Those guys come into the game expecting to win every single game. Thats something we can take as a program and put that with what we have to do in the future.

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Schools? Together, we can. Its time for the community to create a plan for reform in Columbus City Schools. Parents for Real Education Reform in Columbus City Schools want to engage you to form the NEW Columbus Education Reform Plan. No Big Surprises Here: Council Incumbents Roll to Easy Victories In an election that shocked absolutely nobody, the three Columbus City Council incumbents -- A. Troy Miller, Priscilla Tyson, and Eileen Paley -- were returned to office, continuing the string of victories by incumbent council members. It has been sixteen years since an incumbent lost an election, last happening when Republican Peggy Fisher lost to Democrat Maryellen OShaugnessey. The vote count for the incumbent winners was Tyson (47,500), Paley (43,603), Miller (42,704). The vote totals for the challengers were: Brian Bainbridge (24,460), Greg Lawson (26,139) and Nick Schneider (16,454). Under the City Charter adopted in 1914, the City of Columbus has nonpartisan elections for council, and party affiliations are not listed on the ballot. However, campaigns for council are clearly partisan in nature and the current council is 100% Democrat, and has been since 2002. Campaign finance reports filed October 31st revealed that campaign financing continues to be a major issue for challengers, as Brian Bainbridge for Columbus reported raising $1,434.99, Friends of Greg Lawson reported raising $2,826.43, and the Nick Schneider Tyranny Prevention Fund raised $482.05. In contrast, Citizens for Priscilla Tyson raised $22,010.35 and also benefited from

$58,901.58 of in-kind contributions from Friends of Ginther; A. Troy Miller for Columbus raised $7,110.74 and benefited from $58,751.58 from Friends of Ginther; and Paley for Columbus raised $12,159.30 and also benefited from $58,751.58 contributed in kind from Friends of Ginther. The major in-kind contributions from Friends for Ginther were for radio time and TV time, which the challengers did not have. The Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government has announced it will be filing a proposed campaign finance reform law that would limit transfers of money between candidates. Denise Benning of the Coalition states, quite frankly, we believe all candidates should carry their own water. There should never be any doubt in voters minds about whether a candidate is independent, or beholden to another council member due to the contributions that keep them in office. Incumbent Auditor and City Attorney Returned to Office Unopposed City Attorney Richard Pfeiffer was returned to office by the voters, winning 65,385 votes. City Auditor Hugh Dorrian will also be returning for his 45th year in office, defeating the nominal opposition offered by newcomer Igor Ternovsky (63,432 to 8,093). Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 Pass Columbus bond issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 were passed by the voters handily, and will allow for capital investments in public safety, parks and recreation, public service, and public utilities. Environmental Court Judge Retained Recently appointed Environmental Court judge Dan Hawkins was re-elected by the voters on Tuesday, defeating Frank Macke and James Adair, with each earning 60,147, 41,412, and 15,756 votes respectively.

Committee of Citizens Against Issue 50 & 51 releases guidelines for moving forward
The Committee of Citizens Against Issue 50 & 51 will start open discussion and state points of correction for the education of children in the the Columbus City Schools district. The committee will work with all citizens to do the right things for all the children in the system moving forward. The committee requests the State Auditors Office release information regarding the data rigging investigation report to the citizens/parents of the Columbus City Schools district. The committee requests the prosecutors office file any criminal charges as well as execute proper criminal procedure to address concerns centered in this scandal. The committee asks that the Mayors current school commission be dissembled or re-organized to include parents and individuals living within the Columbus City Schools district. The committee requests the internal auditor be returned to that position and given all the cooperation to conclude investigation and resolve concerns causing harm. Citizens request a curriculum and program audit to detail all concerns in each building, department and administrative office be compiled for each location in the district. Citizens encourage and ask that the Columbus City School System collaborate with the community to develop a comprehensive education plan that will truly benefit all children in Columbus City Schools.

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During the Halloween season, there is a lot of flesh being exposed. Several events are planned that are fetishoriented and have a Halloween theme. For instance, in Columbus we have Trauma, Detroit has Theatre Bizarre, San Francisco has Masquerotica to name a few. Many Halloween costumes have sexy in the title, and some fun with memes has come into play with this, like the Sexy Tampon costume, or Sexy Cockroach. Some have brought up the topic of shaming those who choose to be sexy during the Halloween holiday season. For some, this may be the one time of the year that they can dress sexy or revealing, where they feel comfortable enough to be exposed. They look forward to it, and get turned on by the idea that they can be freer with their body and sexual expressions in public. However, the issue of availability from women who dress sexy or revealing can turn a holiday celebration into a painful memory. Lets think about some things that may have come up, for the next time you choose to be sexy in public.

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Consent and Shame

Something that happens during the big Halloween events where fetish and spooky are commingled, is a lack of consent. Groping, grabbing, ogling, lewd remarks, judgments, boundary crossing, jealousy and insecurities abound. People forget to ask, and just do. They see exposed body parts and dont grasp the human condition. This includes shaming someone who may, in your opinion, have a flawed body, is an older age or noticeably out of their element. Public displays of sex and sexuality as a lifestyle choice have always existed. Finding places that are open to others can be a challenge. They do exist, whether in the underground of peoples homes or an actual public space devoted to sexual play. When, as a couple, do you agree to move from a fantasy of sex in public to actually setting up a scenario to be sexual in public? Does it end up being as sexy and fulfilling as you wished? Did you spend time communicating all the pros and cons, possible conflicts, or were you just hit with a rush of 18 spontaneous libido lightning? How far did you

Most of the manufactured costumes available for the Halloween season look more like roleplaying costumes than anything from Halloweens past. Role playing may not be a regular sexual act, or expression for you. It can be a doorway for a single person, to dress up in a costume that reflects their sexual interests. They can meet someone who finds this particular costume a huge turn-on. Cos-play (costume play) is becoming more of a mainstream and known expression and lifestyle. It merges desire, fantasy, exhibitionism and community for your character. At some Cos-Play conventions, being part of a sexually playful environment is a highlight for spending the money to attend, creating a unique costume and engaging in sex as your character. I could write chapters about all of the nuances of public sex and sexuality - what is current in society, what it means to be open to it, and accepting of others who are comfortable with their body and sexual expressions.

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One foot rooted in the South

By John Petric
hanks to a southern mother and time spent as a boy growing up in the heart of Dixie, I have a devotion to the region. This, I think, helped me understand the fertile cultural and emotional soil from which the rock n roll and soul music revolutions sprang. Maybe, maybe not. But I like to think so. Southerners are not like Northerners. Margaret Yates was born beautiful, stayed that way her whole life and had a whole lotta soul if not a whole lotta education. Second eldest of 11 kids, she grew up in Richmond, Virginia, during the Great Depression, dirt-poor and left-handed, two things the tender mercies shown by the Catholic nuns never changed though they left painful memories from the trying. But that part, as they say, is another story. I was my mothers son. We moved around the country a few times. Dad was an up-and-coming steel company manager frequently promoted and transferred. Which is how I came to live in northern Alabama for a few precious boyhood years, Gadsden, to be exact. We were pegged for civil rights workers at first, it being the early 60s and with Ohio license plates on our 63 blue Mercury. The first day after school at Eura Brown kids threw dirt clods on the street in front of the car to express their rebel disdain for us Yankee carpetbaggers. Strangely, I didnt take it personally. I was already used to hostility from a new neighborhood. Once I explained to em during recess the next day I hated black people as much as they did, they relaxed a bit. I didnt of course, but I wanted to play kickball. I was in. Whatever. I was seven years old and navigating my way through the churning changing waters of the Deep South--though I didnt know it at the time, obviously. What did give me fright was having to participate in early morning Bible readings. No one asked. It was just expected of you. Surely Yankee Boy read the Good Book up there in Cleveland. But Id never read the Bible, I knew no favorite psalms. When it came my turn as it did to one us every morning in Mrs. Sharpes second grade class, I was prepared though scared someone would find out my family held no respect for religion, God, the Bible and especially its thumpers. Growing up in a house where Gods last name was Damn, no one prepared me for this, an elementary school religious fraud. Come my turn, I just read what Billy Abbott had a couple weeks earlier, a psalm about sheep or something, he being at the beginning of the alphabet and me being twothirds. No one noticed and I closed my eyes solemnly at the end of the short paragraph. Without a hitch, I was accepted again.

It got easier as the school year wore on. And Ive never held this against those fine southern people. Because frankly, the more my family got to know Alabamians, the more we liked em. None of them cussed. None of them used the n word (my father did). Few of them drank. Everybody went to church. Genteel to the max. And eventually we did consider them fine people. And became quite fond of them. The men were soft-spoken and gentle; the women were proper but kind, sincerely kind. The little rituals breaking us in aside, they really did want to show us southern hospitality. Its the only place in the entire world I saw this: when Mrs. Geiger picked us and her kids up after school, shed say hi to every passing car coming her way. No, really. A smile and kind of a breathy, Hah. I was fascinated. So I was seven, figuring out how to survive in this strange, humid place, in a school which had no library, only a handful of books on southern heroes printed in the 1920s languishing on one of two shelves next to my desk. Andrew Jackson, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and J.E.B. Stuart became my heroes. I hated what happened at the Alamo. But for me, growing up with a woods, a creek and a mountain behind our house was a dream come true. In the northern bama pine forest there was freedom--no adult supervision, just tree houses, forts, pine cone battles and perfecting our rebel yells were

the order of the day. The weather was decent year-round and mums plants started blooming in February. Pa and I hunted arrowheads on the weekends with his work colleagues, nearly all ex-WWII vets--a couple Normandy paratroopers and a couple Pacific Marines. I was in the company of giants, walking cotton, tobacco and corn fields looking for Cherokee and Creek Indian artifacts and finding them, bags of em, while hearing war stories fighting the Nazis and Japs. I was in heaven. Southern men make great soldiers. We hunted arrowheads on high ground near rivers, from George to Mississippi, through Alabama and southern Tennessee. You will never meet a white boy whose walked more cotton fields than I. I saw sharecroppers and snakes, poverty and mansions. I fired pistols on lunch breaks and saw more backwoods southern country than Sherman, a previous Yankee interloper. I was sad to leave my tree house and friends, the sweet soft smell of southern pine forests. When I started getting serious about music, I eventually realized Elvis couldntve come from Cleveland; Booker T. and the MGs could only have happened in Memphis; Hank Williams Sr. had to start out in Butler County, Alabama, and then meet Rufus Payne, a black street performer in Georgiana who became perhaps his biggest influence. And of course the re-channeled Southern Baptist hell fire of Jerry Lee Lewis. Southern men are passionate, their

primal emotions close to the surface, like the immortal and magnificent Johnny Cash. Once, many years ago, I was interviewing Carl Perkins by telephone and was having such a good, emotional talk about life he began to cry--about his mama, about his life, about his fortune. It wasnt Jimmy Swaggart tele-tears. It was real. A few years ago I rode a motorcycle straight from Columbus to Gadsden, 675 miles in a day. It was a Saturday. I stayed at a motel near the Coosa River, sight of a small Civil War battle, a war that was fresh in southern minds back in 63. Next morning, I casually rode around town, trying to remember the lay of the land. I was turning around in a tidy little un-sidewalked neighborhood off the main drag when I came upon a sight unthinkable when I was a boy: a black city police woman ticketing a white cracker in his pick-up truck, with back-up provided by two other white cops. I remembered the city pool which cost a dime to swim in being closed because the city refused to integrate. Anyway, I believe southern blood and spirit made the rock n roll revolution entirely possible. Because for one thing, the south is poor and poverty is a great equalizer between the races. I just dont feel the tension down there that I do here. Blacks and whites, I believe, get along better now down there than they ever have up here. Ive more than once been the lone Yankee voice battling verbally with entire dinner parties filled with uppity pointed-headed liberals sure of their assumed knowledge the south is a lost and hateful place, still full of Bull Connors and strange fruit trees, convinced that to sound southern is to sound stupid. I even met a woman so arrogant she simply couldnt believe there were seven synagogues in the southern Appalacia. A Jew in the Appalachians? she puffed. Whoever heard of such a thing? Well, one was Adolph Ochs, who traveled from Chattanooga to New York City in 1886 to buy a newspaper called the New York Times, the bible for every pointy-headed liberal. Who ever heard of a JEW riding a horse? spat the venomous mother to Tony Soprano in the episode where Hesh the Jewish bookie was used as a pawn between Tony and Uncle Junior. By the way, during my years as a rock critic I took my mother with me to see Pink Floyd, Diana Ross, the Rat Pack and Sting. One of my last memories of her was watching Mick Jagger performing on TV from one of his lame solo albums. He was still great and she still got a kick out of him. She was 74 and a gas. My unscientifically derived point to this column: southerners are different. They got more soul than most northern white folk and American music has been the better for it. Much, much the better.

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options in their breads and desserts as well. All food is made from scratch, fresh daily, and their regular customers know nothing goes to waste; any left overs are sent home with customers at the end of the day to share with their friends and family. Banana Leaf is located at: 816 Bethel Road, Columbus, OH 43026. Open 7days a week. http://www. bananaleafofcolumbus.com/ Eriyahs Favorite: Malai Kafta (because it is the only vegan Malai Kafta in the city) For me one of the best things about going vegan was discovering Indian food. I had no idea what an amazing spectrum of satiety I was really missing for the first score of my life. Banana Leaf has been a most generous supporter of the Columbus vegan community, and they strive at empowering others. This month, they started a new program designed to help people eat vegan easily, simply, deliciously, health-

Columbus Vegan Meetup Buffet Plate fully and affordably. Monday through Friday after 4 pm, you can pick up some rice, lentils and curried vegetables (vegetable changes daily) for only $5. If you would like to know how to prepare Indian style food, they also offer cooking classes; their next one is Nov 24th. They are aware that socially just diners are concerned about making sure they get organic foods produced locally and are in the process of making those priorities part of their operations model. They do provide a variety of gluten free

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elsewhere. The outer crust offers just a bit of resistance while the inside of the circle of bread is doughy, bubbly and has just the right amount of firmness yet is porous enough to soak up the hummus from the plate so you leave no evidence of the dish behind. Lavash is frequented by a wide variety of guests, many walk from their homes in Clintonville, many more journey up from the campus area and a diverse range of cultures seem to make this a destination meal. Lavash is relaxed and casual. You can count on the staff to be friendly and helpful. An on the right night, you can sit outside to soak in the sunset on a table under the vines. Lavash Cafe 2985 N. High St. Clintonville (614) 263-7777

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has a long history in the Columbus Mediterranean restaurant business. He stepped out for a while but came back with Lavash several years ago. He planted a fast casual restaurant in south Clintonville and it has been a huge hit, especially with me since, it opened. I will mention a few things I really appreciate about the place: great daily specials, very good vegetarian and carnivore friendly offerings and a wide selection of baked goods, many from Nanak Bakery. I have enjoyed each meal from a simple shawarma to any 22 of the daily specials. However, I

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Wings, a scotch drinkers paradise

By Michael Alwood

Nostalgia. The word itself has the power

Ken, who mans the bar, remembers what to transform our thoughts for a moment. Its they drink. And if what you like to drink is scotch, well, Ken has a surprise for you. pleasant and familiar, which is also a good way to describe Wings Restaurant, 2801 E. Wings maintains what is surely the widest selection of scotch in central Ohio. Any Main St in Columbus. label you can think of and about twice that For those who grew up in Bexley or on number in brands youve never heard of Columbuss east side, as owners Ken and Kim Yee did, a trip to Wings will certainly dot his extensive list. Back in the day, this reporter favored Pinch from Haig and Haig be nostalgic. Both Eastmoor High School and was delighted to see it on Kens menu, graduates, the Yees continue a family as it has not been available locally for years. tradition thats gone on now for 44 years. If you have ever been to Wings during that Sure enough Mr. Yee was able to produce the distinctively shaped bottle. Pinch, by time span, rest assured it has not changed. the way, is a bargain at Wings compared It will be exactly as you remember it. Wings has many regular customers and to some of the prices of the more exotic the Yees know most of them by name. And single-malt labels. The serving Ken poured

Ken Yee and just some of the many scotch brands available at Wings.

sent me further along my nostalgia trip, it tasted as fine as I remembered, maybe better. The food menu is even lengthier as the one for scotch, with a full range of both Chinese and American cuisine. Picks: any number of single malts, leave the Pinch alone, theres less than half a bottle left.

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A lament for World of Warcraft

By J. J. Ulm and 9th, video game goliath Activision Blizzard is hosting BlizzCon 2013, a not-quite-annual gathering dedicated to Blizzards wildly popular Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo series. The event brings together gamers from all over the world to compete in World of Warcraft raids, massive Starcraft PvP tournaments (which are so dominated by South Korean players that even on Californian soil anyone competing from anywhere else is considered a foreigner), and...whatever it is Diablo players do competitively. Gold farming? But let me wax personal for a bit, because, for me, BlizzCon evokes a certain nostalgia for a time long past for myself and many others. A time when we actually cared about World of Warcraft. I was an addict. No, seriously. At one time, I spent more time playing WoW in a week than I did at my full-time office job. I got cranky if I was kept away for too long. I logged on when I came home from work and didnt log off until I went to bed and for much longer on weekends. I would pick on younger friends who logged off for family dinners, telling them they should eat at the computer like an adult. And whats worse, I was a role player, using the game as a sort of virtual LARP. I wrote thousands upon thousands of words about my characters and spent many of those hours not playing the game at all but socializing in character in some in-game tavern. 24 Since the event is used as a stage to

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announce new expansions for WoW, BlizzCon was a time to gather with friends around the computer to watch live-streamed events that would tell the futures of us and our characters. Where were we headed next? The broken wastes of Outland? The frozen mountains of Northrend? What new things would we learn about the world we played in, what villain would we gather together to fight next? And then lots of people, literally millions of people worldwide, lost interest. It may not be a coincidence that the biggest drop in the games popularity came with Cataclysm, the first expansion made after Blizzard Entertainment was absorbed into gaming megacorp Activision. It may have been that, after 6 years, many of the games players had experienced and accomplished everything they wanted to and Activision was unwilling to let Blizzard be innovative enough to create new content that would hold their interest. For me, that feeling of stagnation certainly played a part. Too many good characters in the setting had been killed without being replaced by anyone nearly as compelling. The fights I wanted to be a part of had been fought, and I didnt care enough to pay $15 a month (the games subscription fee, which has remained unchanged despite the growing popularity of MMOs with lower or no fees) to be involved with any of the new ones. So this weekend, while thousands of people will be attending BlizzCon and perhaps hundreds of thousands will be watching the livestream, I will be missing that feeling of excitement, nostalgic not for the game itself so much as for how much it used to mean to me.

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DJ Pos 2s love movement

By Wes Flexner
J Pos 2 and I sat down to talk about his monthly gig at the Rehab Tavern Vibes N Stuff which has its 4 installment Friday. We wanted to do something different than Buggin Out. said the Hip Hop veteran comparing it to the successful bi-monthly Hip Hop showcase at Carabar that Pos and Zerostar have been promoting for two and a half years. We just want to do something for the older crowd. It was just, lets do jazz fusion. Ohio funk. Just something different from Hip Hop. In addition to Pos spinning jazz fusion staples such as Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, Vibes N Stuff also incorporates down-tempo music such as Flying Lotus and Diabese, which Columbus instrumental Hip Hop producer Maggz will be playing. Envelope will also be doing a guest deejay set of rock and soul classics. If Vibez N Stuff is different than Buggin Out, a beloved Hip Hop showcase that has had performances by some of Columbuss finest such as Illogic, P.Black, Path, J. Rawls, King Vada and more as well as out of town acts such as Nemo Achida and Supastition, then it is a WAY different mood than the event Pos cut his teeth on. Pos 2 was the late DJ Przms understudy during the bulk of Columbuss Legendary Fonosluts Hip Hop Night at Bernies Distillery. The Fonoslut Hip Hop Night was known as the home base for the internationally revered Columbus Hip Hop scene that the MHz, Weightless, J. Rawls and Spitball were putting on the map. Locally, it was a known as a High Energy Riot/Party. Pos spun there from the summer of 2000 to 2005 alongside Przm and DJ Lo-Zone. The event was hosted by So What aka Daymon Dodson. I used to hang out there. There were fist fights, rhyme battles, bboys, graffiti vandalism, dancing, moshing, public sex acts, drug abuse and all sorts of random campus mayhem. I asked Pos what it was like to be playing music and look out into a crowd of humans punching each other. Pos said they wanted wildness at the time, Przm used to want to have a fight while we were performing. So if someone was fighting while we were deejaying we were like alright. this is what we need. Lets throw on some hardcore stuff. Unless it got too serious. At times it was just a dumb brawl. Pos got his start at Bernies because Przm needed to go home to Detroit and so the Fonosluts needed someone to fill-in. It was where Pos developed, Lo was like, keep bringing your records down here. A lot of times I didnt spin. Sometimes I would. Or Camu would spin my records and steal the crowd. After paying dues for awhile, Pos became one of the most respected deejays in Columbus, known for his mix tapes. His Bust-It

series and the Live 95er are Bustown Classics. As out of hand as the Fonoslut night got at times, it was always kinda silly. I remember listening to rowdy sets of Wu-Tang and Mobb Deep, later watching emcees rap with vulgarity, and then somehow ending the night playing musical chairs in a very wholesome manner. Pos says having a slapstick sense of humor

helped the Fonoslut night avoid falling into Hip Hop cliches. They would let the local panhandlers win the rap contest. They would give actually good rappers worthless prizes such as a singing fake fish. The Fonosluts would play the school yard game of fart touch while all types of chaos was going on. They enjoyed doing silly things to have fun. Unfortunately, Przms heart problems and a few other factors eventually brought the event to close in 2005. Przm, Daymon Dodson and Camu Tao died shortly thereafter, all of Natural causes which brought an end to that era in many ways and also left Pos mourning the loss of some very close friends. Pos spun the Blueprint-Hosted So What Wednesdays (2007-2009) with Detox and did random events until starting Buggin Out in 2011. Obviously, if Pos is spearheading a Jazz Fusion monthly, there has been some maturity since the days of encouraging fights and the fart touch. But maintaining a place for people from his era to go is a primary motivation for Buggin Out and Vibes N Stuff. It seems now to have more of a purpose. We are doing it for a reason because there isnt a lot of what we used to do. Now isnt exactly what I did back then, People are still around that are our age. They can relate to me. They see a familiar face...It gives some of those people somewhere to go. And hopefully some of the newer people will come out as well. Its more of a purpose for Columbus than it was back in the day. Vibes N Stuff is this Friday November 8th at the Rehab Tavern located at 456 W. Town Street. Admission is Free.

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77 Grown-up bug 78 Like a proverbial bug in a rug 79 Safe harbors 82 Nintendo game system introduced in 2006 85 Some donated organs 87 Ignores 89 ___ Mae Brown (Whoopis Ghost character) 90 Coal tar product 91 Beverly Hills Cop character Foley 92 Violinist Zimbalist, or his son 94 Little Bo Peep ___ lost ... 95 Casino wheel 100 Furthermore ... 102 Checks for liens, mortgages and such 105 ExxonMobil brand 106 Bay or cove 109 Beds in tents 110 Its used but not owned 112 Become ex-exes 114 One who does penance 117 Ultimate conclusion 121 Massage therapist 122 Staccatos opposite 123 Mono improvement 124 Certies under oath 125 Notched like a maple leaf 126 Concepts DOWN 1 Yanks Civil War foe 2 112.5 degrees away from S 3 Unit of work 4 Legendary leaf source 5 It may show after stitches 6 Cut corners? 7 Shoguns capital

8 Musketeer motto word 9 Southwest people 10 Alphas counterparts 11 Sci- author Arthur C. ___ 12 Done, to poets of old 13 Takes risks 14 Fancy-shmancy pitchers 15 Eastern royalty 16 Fleur-de-lis 17 Gouda alternative 19 Eastern Indian language 20 Boxing match sound 26 ___ rally (school event) 28 Do some lm work 30 More up to the task 31 Draw for a moth 32 They drift by, in song 34 Beyond pleasantly plump 35 Bit of bait from the backyard 36 Love archer 38 Waves high point 40 Good-bye and See you 41 Paw, like a bear 42 Gourd fruits 44 Costello of old comedy 45 Winter hours in NYC 47 Like Munchs The Scream, in 1994 and 2004 50 Wine press residue 51 Some accidental singles 52 Its heard in the Highlands 53 Where edglings are fed 54 Drawn tight 59 Less likely to put up a ght 62 Pictures on a screen

63 Well, ___ be! 65 New York city where Twain is buried 67 Work the bleachers 68 Decorative needle and scissors case 69 Tattered cloths 70 Outside of a watermelon 72 Steal 73 Some college clubs 76 75-Across, mules, hinnies and such 79 Evil spell caster 80 Some claim its before beauty 81 Kilmer of Top Gun 83 ___ xes (obsessions) 84 You are not! reply 86 It welcomes change 88 ___-tat (knocking sound) 93 Caught a y ball, e.g. 96 Stomach ailments 97 Feline zodiac sign 98 Sprawling property 99 Perfumery employee 100 Film rat 101 Colorados ___ Park 102 On edge 103 Largest of the Greek Islands 104 Role model 106 Jerry Lewis lm Friend 107 No ice, bartender 108 Sufx for wander 111 Opposition party member 113 Egyptian boy king 115 Lennons bride 116 Xis preceders 118 It can follow you but not me 119 Herds pasture 120 ___ Gatos, Calif.

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Musical targets those who prefer bullets to ballots

By Richard Ades
remember where you were the first time you saw Assassins. I was in the Riffe Centers Studio One, which looked a lot different than it does today. For his 1993 Players Theatre production, director Steven Anderson forced viewers to stare at each other from either side of the central stage. The idea was to underline the fact that the Stephen Sondheim musical is about usAmericansand our violent history. It was a brilliant concept, but a look at the viewers across the way suggested that many of them didnt know what to make of this provocative and darkly comic history lesson. And some (myself included) had trouble with its surreal explanation of President Kennedys assassination, a crime that remained controversial 30 years after the fact. So now its 50 years after JFKs death, and his murder has largely been replaced by 9/11 as the most shocking event of modern

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created, which is more traditional than its predecessor but just as polished. Holding it together are two awesome central performances. Ian Short is at first passionate as pioneer assassin John Wilkes Booth, then dangerously seductive as his spirit, who coaxes malcontents to follow in his bloody footsteps. When Presidential murderers (from left) Charles Guiteau (Scott Wilson), Leon Czolgosz (Jay Rittberger) and John Giuseppe Zangara (Drew Eberly) Wilkes Booth (Ian Short) raise their voices and weapons complains that nothing can cure his in Assassins (photo by Dan Welsh) chronic stomach ache, Booth asks history. In fact, political assassinations have coyly, Have you considering shooting Franklin Roosevelt? generally given way to terrorism and mass In the other pivotal role, Nick Lingnofski shootings as the major sources of national puts his fine voice to good use as the paranoia. narrator-like Balladeer, then morphs into a Its in this atmosphere that Red Herring surprisingly hesitant Lee Harvey Oswald for Productions brings the Sondheim musical back to Studio One. The change is a double- the controversial finale. Some would-be assassins serve as edged sword: It makes the musical seem welcome comic relief. The broadest less relevant, but it may give us enough laughs are provided by Charles Manson emotional distance to finally appreciate its follower Lynette Squeaky Fromme (Kate artistry and audacity. Lingnofski) and her crooked-shooting Both qualities come through in the cohort, Sara Jane Moore (Kim Garrison production director John Dranschak and musical director Pam Welsh-Huggins have Hopcraft). Also hilarious, thanks to Todd

Coverts cranky delivery, is Samuel Byck, who is determined to exterminate Dick Nixon by flying an airliner into the White House. Likewise treated with little gravitas are deranged Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau (Scott Wilson) and the Jodie Foster-obsessed John Hinckley (Christopher Storer). But McKinley assassin Leon Czolgosz (Jay Rittberger) is accorded more sympathy, though the musical suggests his admiration for radical lecturer Emma Goldman (Danielle Mann) drives him as much as his class consciousness. Supplying the guns for all of these miscreants is the Proprietor (Scott Willis), whose strong presence is marred only by a shaky singing voice. In general, though, catchy tunes such as the ironic Everybodys Got the Right and the pop lament Unworthy of Your Love are well served by the cast and the onstage band. Assassins may be less relevant in the post-9/11, post-Columbine era, but thats no reason to miss it. Its simply a reason to wish Sondheim would come up with a new musical that comments on the violent proclivities of 21st century America. Red Herring Productions will present Assassins at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday in Studio One, Riffe Center, 77 S. High St. Tickets are $20 in advance, pay what you want at the door. 614-723-9116 or redherring.info.

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I Dont Pop Molly I Rasta

By Wes Flexner
Didnt the Halloween season seem to last forever this year? How do people come up with so many costumes ideas for all the different events? I can never think of anything to wear so I went out as grown and sexy per usual. On Thursday, I went to the Atrocity Party at Sugar Bar 2, which is in a location thats part of one of my fondest memories, centered around Dipsets residency when Chubbie Baby owned it. Then it was called the Red Zone. When I arrived at the downtown nightclub, former Roc-a-Fella Producer Just Blaze was playing a block of Dipset songs. It felt like the good old days of the Red Zone. Just Blaze ended his Dipset segment with Camrons mention of him Ill take a couple bars off/ and let Just live from the Blaze produced I Really Mean It. Before I could say you crazy for that Just, the New Jerusalem producer switched up and played a Jay Z song. After a few more Hov and Ye songs the evening became awful. Blaze looped up Biggies self-loathing When I die/I want to Go to Hell/ Im a piece of shit/It aint hard to tell from Suicidal Thoughts over some sort of electronic dance music. I thought, well, this explains it all: dubstep zombies want to go to hell, and so brostep is a facsimile of eternal misery. After playing Coolio, and a couple rap songs, the whole thing just committed to Babylonstep. There were no Halloween classics like Nightmare of My Street, My Mind is Playing Tricks On Me or even Thriller. The only two conclusions I could I come up with why Just decided to play mainly dubstep are: A) On an Unholy Holiday like Halloween, The Vatican and the CIA required him to play music that promotes the usage of Molly to brainwash, and create criminals for the Prison Industry. If thats the case, I would offer Freekey Zekey or Dipset was involved with an XTC ring at some point. In addition, rappers Freeway and Rick Ross take their names from a man who sold crack for the CIA, Freeway Ricky Ross. Its possible to aid the governments Satanic agenda without having to play lowest common denominator EDM. B) Just Blaze, Jay Z and Bauer had huge success with their EDM heavy song Higher so maybe he was catering to one of his audiences. Blaze did loop Jay Z saying, I dont Pop Molly. I rock Tom Ford. from Hovs song Tom Ford at some point so my guess is B would be the correct scenario. I just like to complain about most forms of dubstep because it is completely out of a sci-fi novel on how to placate the masses. There was another holiday party last weekend. Jamaican Reggae star Capleton came to the Al Rosa Villa Saturday to celebrate the 83rd Anniversary of Haile Selassies coronation as the Emperor of Ethiopia. Al Rosa was in full bustle, as Roots High Powered Sound System played conscious reggae classics while the sizable crowd ate, drank and became merry. The warm feeling that permeated became immediately incandescent when Capleton took the stage backed by the Prophecy Band. The King of Fire jumped up and down while

Cap2 Photo by Kristin Kolaczkowski

singing and fast chatting dance hall raps which had an intensity I had not seen since seeing Cleveland Hardcore band Ringworm play at Carabar a while back. Through the duration of Capletons performance, he would make very short commentary about healthy living, and also praise Haile Selassie, Marcus Garvey and High Priest Emmanuel while the band would continue the rhythm. The steady beat and momentum allowed Capleton to jump right back into crowd favorites such as Jah Jah City without any stoppage. As exhilarating as Capletons exhalations to Selassie at this coronation show was, they were also pretty educational in terms of a spiritual community. Earlier in the evening, while Roots High Powered was warming the crowd up, selecta Pete Funk thanked and gave praise to Jesus Christ. Apparently, there is a pretty strong overlap between Christianity and Rastafarianism. Haile Selassie was an Orthodox Christian when he was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. The coronation was recognized by all of the worlds powers so the emergence of a powerful black man resonated with Jamaicans who were in colonial hell. Around the same time, Marcus Garvey was promoting the idea that the spirituality of oppressed people of African descent be separated from their oppressors to avoid control and identity issues. Haile Selassie fit this job listing. He was a black king who had bloodlines that could be traced back to King Solomon. When Capleton sang Selassie from his 1994 Method Man duet Wings of the Morning during an encore Saturday, watching a room full people sing along was something special.

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would probably sound like some fucked up version of the Thompson Twins. FP: Whats the best, most exciting concert, music event youve been to? Again, very difficult! But I would have to say that seeing Wire at the ATP Festival in England last December was a gigantic, over-the-top, Im-16-yearsold-again experience. Marcy (Mays) and I wept, because we just could not believe we were actually there watching them perform. FP: What is the best (or most important) thing about the music scene in Columbus? I suppose the most important thing about the Columbus music scene is that there *is* a scene. It has been pretty healthy for as long as I can remember and thats saying something. What I like about local shows right now is the variety within one nights offering; you can see a country band, a rock band, and a punk band on one bill (and it isnt Comfest). That drives some people crazy, and I get that, but it tells me the audiences musical taste is diverse (or at least that they are tolerant people). FP: Whats the most important issue (political or otherwise) going on in Columbus? Dwindling abortion rights, the quagmire of the Columbus Public School System, civil rights for LGBT, Affordable Care Act photo: Michael Alwood and how it will play out in Ohio. The list is long. playing together. We traveled the world together, played in the worst cockroachFP:Anyone who has played in multiple infested fire traps and gigantic festivals bands knows each one is different together. We recorded in a friends but in some ways they are the same. basement by the fairgrounds and we Whats different about Scrawl/Fort recorded in an 18th century farmhouse Shame, whats similar? And how do in France. Making music with someone you fit your movie writing into your for that long changes your DNA. That schedule? (We know, two questions, said, Fort Shame is awesome because but we wanted to hear about your its a different kind of discovery. With movie work.) Scrawl, Marcy and I had an incredible Scrawl will always be different learning curve that we were fortunate from anything I will ever do, because enough to overcome together. With Marcy and I cut our teeth in that band, Fort Shame, every musician in that together. We learned how to write band already has their chops and their songs by writing together. We learned defining musical experiences, so its an how to sing by singing together. We interesting collaboration. Those guys are learned how to play our instruments by such good musicians, they can afford to

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Sue Harshe is a founding member of the post-punk band Scrawl, who released seven albums between 1986 and 1998 on such labels as Rough Trade, Simple Machines, and Elektra. Last year they were invited to perform at the All Tomorrows Parties festivals held in New York City and Camber Sands, England. She also performs in the rock band Fort Shame, who released a full-length CD in the fall of 2012. Since 2003 she has composed music for nine films in the Wexner Centers silent film series, the latest installments being The Farmers Wife and Champagne, part of the Hitchcock 9 series shown this fall. Last year she scored and performed music for the 1920 movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which was commissioned by Shock Around the Clock, Columbus annual 24-hour horrorfilm marathon. In addition, recordings of her compositions for six shorter films can be found on all three volumes of Kino Internationals DVD collection of avantgarde experimental cinema. She composed and performed the music for two theatrical performances at The Ohio State University, both staged by visiting director Alexander Stillmark: Reader for City-Dwellers in 2006 and HamletMachine in 2010. She was one of twelve composers invited to participate in Finding Time: Columbus Public Art 2012, in conjunction with Columbus bicentennial celebrations last year. FP: Put together your fantasy band, dead or alive. Thats difficult. It would end up looking like Sun Ras Arkestra, with 87 members in it; but a four-member fantasy band would have to include Jon Langford from the Mekons (because hes probably a lot of fun, and I was just listening to them today), Ann Wilson from Heart, Andy Gill from Gang of Four, and any of the guys from Kraftwerk. So, I guess it would be a weird 80s band: no drums, 2 vocalists, a guitarist, and keyboards. It

be very generous; they are enthusiastic about hearing new ideas and offering up new ideas. Its an extremely gratifying relationship. And that is the similarity of both bands. Film scores happen once every year or so, and its a finite amount of time of serious, balls-to-the-wall commitment. I just did 2 films for the Wexner Centers Hitchcock 9 series this month and I pretty much forsook all else for about 6 weeks, to finish up those scores. But then its done and I can move on. Its intense and all-absorbing, but then its over. Its kind of like being in a play: rehearse, perform, close. I really like doing them though. I think they keep me musically sharp and on my toes.

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Bonobo film kicks off Columbus film festival

By Susan Halpern

The 61st Columbus International Film &

Video Festival opens tonight (November 7) with a French film shot in the Congo at the Gateway Film Center, at 1550 North High Street Columbus, Ohio, with a reception at 7 pm and film at 8:00 pm. Admission to both the reception and film is just $5. This screening is one night only and it is the Midwest premiere of the film.

Bonobos are infamous for their sexuality, rivaling that of humans, but that behavior is only slyly hinted at in the film. It is a mainstream movie, so we cut out the sex scenes, says Andr, the human star of Beny: Back To The Wild. Bonobo society is matriarchal and surprisingly gentle, unlike chimpanzee societies. Conflicts are resolved peaceably, and strangers are generally accepted into the tribe. Bonobos have been referred to as the hippies of the primate kingdom. But, as the film shows, these gentle creatures are endangered and could be facing extinction. The poverty of the region threatens the bonobos survival, from both poachers and habitat destruction. If we cant save our closest cousins, Andr says, whom are we going to save? About the Columbus International Film + Video Festival: The Columbus International Film & Video Festival is the longest-running film festival in the United States. It is organized by the Columbus Film Council, which is dedicated to serving filmmakers and their audiences by celebrating excellence in filmmaking, the Columbus Film Council believes in educating and entertaining people with the art and experience of film and video. Parking at the Gateway Film Center is available in the garage located next door to the cinema on both 9th and 11th avenues. To validate your parking, purchase a single exit voucher at the film center box office. The cost is $1, which covers three hours in the garage.

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The film follows the story of an orphan bonobo, rescued by Claudine Andr, a conservationist who has dedicated her life to bonobos, our closest primate cousins. The event is co-sponsored by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, who are bringing some animal friends to the opening reception. A percentage of ticket sales will be donated to Lola ya Bonobo (Bonobo Paradise), the bonobo sanctuary featured in the film. In addition, Congolese biologist Suzy Kwetuenda (who appears in the film) will be on hand to present the film and talk about Lola ya Bonobo and the bonobos featured in the film. The documentary was created to raise awareness for our endangered primate cousins. Bonobos (pronounced buh-NO-bos) are often confused with chimpanzees, and until 1933 they were not considered a different species. With a 98 percent match to human genetics, the bonobos are truly our closest relatives in the animal world. Some scientists suggest that the bonobo is so closely related to humans that their genus name also should be classified with the human genus Homo: Homo paniscus, 32 Homo sylvestris, or Homo arboreus.

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Fox Sports reported over the weekend that the Denver Nuggets didnt really hang their mascot, Rocky, Friday night. It just looked like they did, potentially traumatizing every child in the crowd. What actually happened was, the Nuggets mascot apparently suffered a dizzy spell while he was being lowered to the court during a pre-game stunt and passed out, dangling lifelessly and then crumpling on the floor as the crowd watched in horror. The mascot tweeted that hes OK, but after announcing in April that hes retiring after this season, Rocky may want to speed it up.

Maybe the Blue Jackets could try this with Stinger

people just didnt return, Municipal Court Judge Bill Price told local TV station KWTX. Enck was released on a $200 bond and returned the GED study guide to the library, along with his library card.

A Maine man who locked himself away in the woods for 27 years, living as a hermit and stealing to survive, could be a free man within weeks after pleading guilty to theft charges last week. Christopher Knight, 47 known as the North Pond Hermit was put into a diversion program to keep him out of state prison and help him reintegrate into society. He will remain in county lockup for a short time but most of his five-year sentence was suspended as part of his plea deal, the Associated Press reported. After he was arrested in April at the scene of a break-in with a backpack full of purloined food and supplies, Knight admitted to committing 1,000 or more thefts from camps and homes ringing the pond over the years. In a tale that invited awe, he told police he had walked into the woods at age 19 and never looked back cutting off contact with his family and the rest of society and holing up in a camouflaged campsite through bitter winters.

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Carrots have long been said to be good for your vision. Now, it has emerged, they can also improve the fertility of men. The DailyMail.com reports that Researchers investigating the effect of fruit and vegetables on the health of sperm discovered that carrots produced the best all-round results. They had the greatest effect on motility a term used to describe the ability of sperm to swim towards an egg. Researchers at Harvard University in the US asked almost 200 young men to follow diets containing a variety of fruit and veg before testing to see what effect it had on sperm. Yellow and orange foods were found to help make the sperm stronger. The boost was attributed to pigments called carotenoids because the body converts some of these into health-boosting antioxidants. These include beta-carotene, which the body can make into the antioxidant vitamin A.

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SFExaminer.com reports theres a new medieval rage in celebrity homes moats. For stars such as Rihanna - who have to move to super secure buildings to avoid stalkers that end up on their back porches - a dense swath of impenetrable water starts to look appealing. Gisele Bndchen and her hubby Tom Brady have a moat, complete with the requisite koi. Their architect Richard Landry is one of the hot designers credited with the trend. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the elite prefer the term wraparound water feature. No doubt when drums of hot oil are poured on invading hoards, thats also called an immersive skin peel.

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Jory Enck of Copperas Cove, Texas was arrested and jailed recently, reports opposingviews.com. His crime? Failing to return a GED study guide that he checked out of the local library in 2010. Enck was locked in jail last Wednesday after police noticed a warrant for an overdue library book during a routine stop. According to Copperas Cove law, any person who does not respond to calls or emails about an an overdue library book checked out for more than 90 days will be reported to the local court, which can issue a library warrant for an arrest. The reason they passed it was that they were spending a tremendous amount of money replacing these materials that

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Bob Moschetto and his wife Ellen share their home with a Shih Tzu, two cats and about 70,000 dead neighbors. Thats right. The married Queens couple lives in a cemetery and has done so for the past 13 years. The couple lives rent free in exchange for taking care of the property and they love it. I like to say I live in a gated community, Ellen Moschetto, 61, told the New York Post. Though their decision to live in a cemetery may raise eyebrows, the couple insists they didnt settle for just any cemetery. There are many cemeteries in Queens. This is one of the best, said Bob Moschetto, 65. Moschetto is the graveyards caretaker, whose job it is to open and close the gates, patrol the grounds and keep out trespassers. Its a creepy job, but someone has to do it. His wife Ellen fully supports him. Its very quiet. No one here comes knocking on the door to borrow anything, Ellen Moschetto told Philadelphias Fox 29.

That explains the dead quiet atmosphere

A Waikanae, New Zealand man remembers seeing a small green flash come out of his finger, and then his vision and speech going fuzzy. His name? Joe Fraser. And no, not that Joe Frazier, but he can take a punch. Maybe he should be called SmokinJoe. The Waikanae 67-year-old was standing in his living room on October 24 when a bolt of lightning struck his chimney, surged through the fire box, into his left leg and out his left index finger. Id been outside in the garden when I saw lightning hit over by the hill, and then it hit a bit closer so I decided to come inside to be safe, Fraser said. Then it hit the house and I got hit anyway. I stumbled over to the phone and just managed to speed dial my son, who lives next door. All I could say was that Id been hit by lightning and that was it. He said an American doctor, with previous experience of fork lightning victims, told him he was lucky he was not touching the chimney when the lightning struck. I was about a foot away from it. If Id been touching it Id be history. I got pretty lucky, but I was still shocked that you can be struck by lightning inside your own house. The only after effects he has is a bit of stiffness, and a burn on the end of his index finger. Meanwhile his mates at Kapiti Ten Pin bowling alley are having their fun with the lightning survivor. Theyre always asking me to bowl a strike, bowl a strike. They think its very funny.

Lets Call him JoltinJoe and leave it at that

A Virginia cocoa extract supplement company said its survey of members of the baby boomer generation indicates 63 percent feel younger than their age. The CocoaVia National Healthy Aging Outlook Survey, conducted online by Toluna on half of Cocoavia, owned by Mars Inc. of McLean, Va., found 63 percent of the 2,200 adults ages 40-to-65 felt an average of 13 years younger than their age. The Sept. 22-27 poll indicated 13 percent of women in the boomer generation feel 30 years old or younger. The survey indicates 68 percent of boomers are enjoying the current phase of their lives and 78 percent described themselves as healthy. CocoaVia did not release a margin of error for the survey.

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ACTIVIST CALENDAR
Show some of that Community Spirit and Get Involved! Heres Where, When & How! Nov.7-17
Thursday, November 7, 2013, 5:45pm, 1000 McPherson Chemical Lab, 140 W. 18th Ave. [on The Ohio State University campus] A presentation by Adam Schneider, Director of Community Relations at Health Care for the Homeless (HCH), on the critical role that communities have played in the history of social justice movements. There will be discussion on the common thread of economic oppression, political exclusion, and social marginalization that the civil rights, womens rights, welfare rights, and similar movements have in common. Rather than taking the view of the individual as fundamental, the presenter will propose that we should instead focus on community, raising issues of power, political economy, and critical consciousness. Changing the world can happen only when we understand that community is as important as the individual. A panel discussion will follow the presentation. This presentation is part of The Ohio State University College of Social Works 50 Years: Project, which is intended to commemorate and re-ignite the spirit of progressive change that had been alive and well in America 50 years ago. csw.ohio-state.edu/article.cfm?id=8090 Contact: Keith Kilty, kilty.1@osu.edu

Building Communities for Social Justice and Social Change

Center. In addition to his work on intelligence and foreign policy, he writes widely on nuclear weapons and contemporary strategy. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/jrovner

Join progressive friends for food, drink and music. Presentation by the Ohio Fair Food Campaign. colsfreepress@gmail.com or (614) 253-2571

Friday, November 8, 2013, 6:30-8:30 pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100 Its double green fun in November as Simply Living meets our environmental friends from the Sierra Club! There will be an update about plans for the new Simply Living University; the Sierra Club will talk about their local activities and their advocacy work on state and national campaigns. Bring lots of questions and leave time for networking. More collaborations are in the works. Light refreshments will be provided. simplyliving.org Contact: Chuck Lynd, chuck.lynd@ gmail.com or (614) 354-6172

Simply Living Social Meets Sierra Club Central Ohio Group

Grant Ave. Ohio has become the radioactive waste dump for the oil and gas industry. Currently, Ohio landfills accept radioactive solid waste from the natural gas industry (fracking). Ohio imports the waste that Pennsylvania and West Virginia reject. Dumping large quantities of radioactive waste is a threat to public health and to our water supply. We oppose the disposal of solid and liquid radioactive and toxic waste in Columbus landfills. Experts will address the health risks, science, and legislation surrounding the dumping of this radioactive waste. radioactivewastealert.org/ facebook.com/ events/319267708212097/

Queen Brooks at the closing reception for her show The Clipboard Journals at the Homeport Gallery Friday.

Friday, November 8, 2013, 12:30pm, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave. Joshua Rovner is John Goodwin Tower Professor of International Politics and National Security at Southern Methodist University. He is also director of studies at the Tower Center for Political Studies, a interdisciplinary center for public and international affairs. Rovner is author of Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell, 2011), which won the International Studies Free Press Second Saturday Salon Association award for best book in security studies, as well as the Edgar S. Saturday, November 9, 2013, 6:3034 Furniss Book Award from the Mershon 11pm, 1021 E. Broad St.

Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence

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Monday, November 11, 2013, 7-9pm, 2013 Living with Epilepsy Symposium Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 E. Saturday, November 9, 2013, 8amOakland Park Ave. 3:30pm, Bing Cancer Center, 500 In observance of Armistice Day, we Thomas Lane [near Riverside Hospital] will watch Part 1 of Century of OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Warfare: The History of the United Hospital, OhioHealth and the Epilepsy States at War in the Twentieth Foundation present an epilepsy Century. In 1914, the world was symposium. CEUs will be available for aflame with its first world war. Revisit social workers, counselors, and nurses. the causes of the war, its early years, epilepsy-ohio.org and the American entrance into the Registration: 15155.thankyou4caring. conflict. Journey with the American org/living-with-epilepsy-conferenceExpeditionary Forces as they go over registration there and exclaim, Lafayette we are here! Follow General Pershings Humanist Community of Central Ohio attempts to train the forces for the rigors of combat and see the results [HCCO] monthly meeting as the Yanks are committed to combat Saturday, November 9, 2013, 12:30in the Allies darkest hour. Finally, 3pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Rm. celebrate with all of America as the 131 war ends and the world has been made Our monthly program is a lecture or safe for democracy. discussion on topics of interest to sites.google.com/site/ humanists! Join us at 12:30 for pizza. centralohioansforpeace/ Topic to be announced. hcco.org/

Central Ohioans for Peace

Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 7pm, Maple Grove United Methodist Church, 7 W. Henderson Rd. A presentation by Sr. Dianne Bergant, prominent Biblical scholar, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. Sponsored by Call To Action (CTA), a national organization of Catholics working together to foster peace and justice in our world, our church, and ourselves. Call To Action is the countrys largest church reform organization. cta-columbus.org/

Can the Natural World Afford a Just War?

Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 7pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S.

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Thursday, November 14, 2013, 7-9pm, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100 Special program: Someones Watching Me: Drones and Domestic Surveillance, by Adrienne Gavula, the associate director for the ACLU of Ohio in Columbus. An activist right out of college, she worked for five years at the ACLU of Ohio in Cleveland and has re-joined the ACLU in the Columbus office. Adrienne helps guide and sustain community organizing in Central and Southern Ohio to ensure that civil liberties violations are pursued, that peoples voices are heard, that neglected and important civil liberties issues are given attention, and that systems of oppression are continually challenged. Free parking is available in the R spaces R for Rardin Clinic behind the building. Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@ juno.com or dsco.org/

Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio monthly meeting

Friday, November 15, 2013, 12:30pm, 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave. Aaron Friedberg is professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1987, and co-director of the Woodrow Wilson Schools Center for International Security Studies. He is author of The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905 (winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award) and In the Shadow of the Garrison State: Americas Anti-Statism and its Cold War Grand Strategy, both published by Princeton. His latest book is A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (Norton, 2011). In this presentation, Friedberg will examine the factors that appear to be impelling the United States and China towards a deepening geopolitical rivalry. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/afriedberg

A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia

12pm, Upper Arlington Public Library, 2800 Tremont Rd. In Central Ohio, there are groups for being LGBTIQA and groups for being a nonbeliever, but not one for being both. Central Ohio Gay Atheists (COGA) is a group for LGBTIQA who are nonbelievers; note that the A indicates that straight allies are welcome. The group tackles issues of being gay and atheist in our personal lives and in the Midwest. The format is that of a support group that features a discussion mainly because many of us have not one, but two skeletons in the closet which can make things a lot worse in our own personal lives. The group incorporates a social aspect following the discussion portion of the meeting so that members are able to get to know one another. meetup.com/CentralOhioGayAtheists/

Friday, November 15, 2013, King Ave. United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave. Civil rights sit-ins. Bell-bottoms. Antiwar marches. Student Power. Afros. Mini-skirts. Hippies. Riots. Space flights. The generation gap. Those hallmarks of the turbulent 1960s will be rekindled this year at the annual Spirit of the 60s Coffeehouse. The show begins at 7:30pm in the church basement, but get there early for a good seat. Bill Cohen will lead a candlelit, musical, year-by-year journey through the era, with live folk songs, news reports of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions. Bill will also challenge the audience with sixties trivia questions. Proceeds from the suggested $10 donation will go to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. Refreshments will be available at no extra charge. Free parking is also available in the lots just south and west of the church. The program is suitable for adults and mature teens. spiritofthe1960s.com/

Spirit of the 1960s Coffeehouse to benefit the Mid-Ohio Food Bank

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is coming to Columbus! Please join Ohio Fair Food allies from Columbus Fair Food, Cincinnati Fair Food, Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio, Presbyterian Church (USA), OSU Student/ Farmworker Alliance, and students from Denison University for the Founders Day Rally at the Wendys at 1510 N. High St. in Columbus, Ohio. The Fair Food Program has been recognized internationally and nationally (recently by the White House, the United Nations and the Roosevelt Institute) as one of the most effective campaigns fighting modernday slavery and promoting workers rights that exists today. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has successfully signed with eleven major multinational corporations, including: Yum Brands (owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell), McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Chipotle, Sodexo, Bon Appetit, Aramark, Compass group, Whole Foods, and Trader Joes. We need all of you to make this event a success for the farmworkers. Please RSVP to ohiofairfood@gmail.com, so well know youre coming. Contact: Sue Carter, (614) 459-0017 or ohiofairfood@gmail.com indiegogo.com/projects/wendy-sfounder-s-day-march

person who is interested in eating food that is locally produced, not moved long distances to market.] Individual citizens and communities are taking matters into their own hands and change is happening from the ground up. Sponsored by the Columbus Film Council and Simply Living. simplyliving.org/ inorganicwetrust.org

Carolyn Harding at the presentation of the film Triple Divide. The film was screened at the Unitarian Church at 93 W. Weisheimer Rd, Friday. It is a documentary about what happened when fracking came to north central Pennsylvania. Film narrated by Mark Ruffalo and produced by Public Herald.

Saturday, November 16, 2013, 10am-

Central Ohio Gay Atheists

Saturday, November 16, 2013, 1:00pm, Wendys, 1510 N. High St. On the 44th anniversary of Dave Thomas founding of Wendys, consumers and faith groups are coming out again to ask Wendys to support farmworker justice and to help eliminate sweatshop conditions in the fields of Florida by joining the Fair Food Program. Of the five largest fast food corporations, Wendys is the only company not to participate in the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food Program.

March on Wendys for Farmworker Justice

Sunday, November 17, 2013, 2pm, Studio 35, 3055 Indianola Ave. An eye-opening food documentary that follows director/producer Kip Pastor on a personal journey to answer commonly-asked questions about organic food. The film digs deep with farmers, organic certifiers, scientists, and organic critics to explore the content beneath the label and the truth behind the marketing. What began as a grassroots movement of small-scale farmers has turned into a $30 billion industry. Small, diversified organic farms have been replaced by large corporate operations and the certified organic label has become a marketing tool. In spite of the corporatization of organic, the original grassroots philosophy is making a comeback in many innovative forms. The film highlights inspiring stories of local family farmers dedicated to stewardship of the land, a thriving locavore subculture centered on farmers markets, chefs feeding children healthy school meals, and urban and school gardens sprouting up to bring fresh food to low-income communities. [A locavore is a

In Organic We Trust

Sunday, November 17, 2013, 7-9pm, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd. A Time Bank is a community of people who support each other. When you spend an hour to do something for an individual or group, you earn a time credit. Then, you can use that time credit to buy an hour of a neighbors time or engage in a group activity offered by a neighbor. Its that simple. Yet it also has profound effects. You get to know your neighbors and friends and build an oldfashioned extended family of people who take care of each other. A Time Bank changes a whole community. Bring a dish to share and learn about the Care and Share Time Bank. Earn a credit for providing transportation. This months program will be an introduction of the new Clintonville Solar Energy Co-op that is developing programs to offer energy efficiency audits and solar panel installations while using Time Bank credits! Contact: hourworld.org or call Alice at (614) 754-7287

Care and Share Time Bank potluck and meeting

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fast. I thought perhaps he had a lot to say but a short time to say it. I was wrong. It turns out he had lots of time, scads of it, far more time than I would have preferred to allot him. But I am polite on the phone, I listened to the bastard ramble on. What the conversation concerned is unimportant, it was an admonishment at the end that starched my collar. The fellow wanted to foist some documents upon me. I did not want them, but he insisted. I can fax them to you, the cad announced. I explained that I did not have a fax machine and that hed be better off emailing them to me. Just send them as attachments, I said. Thats when things got interesting. You should really have a fax machine, the meddler mumbled. I didnt say anything, still being polite. If you had a fax machine, the obtruder continued. I could just fax these over to you. Yes, but I dont, I said, still holding my tongue. You might want to think about getting one, he went on. Still I remained mum. But I was thinking, And where shall I look for one, an antique store? I also did not bother to tell the unxious gent that in all my years as a butler, I had not previously had need of one. Not once. Eventually I managed to end the conversation, which was no easy task. 38 Later I thought longer on the unpleasant

The man on the phone was talking very

incident and realized the irony in it. It is I who is usually behind the times technology-wise, not the next fellow. It has only been recently that I have become comfortable using a computer. My first one was given to me by a friend and on it I learned how to use email and browse the internet. Beyond that, I have little use for the contraptions, but I can see their usefulness. At some point I decided to buy a new computer and expected it to act in a manner similar to the one my friend had given me. Again, I had erred. My new computer came equipped with all manner of foibles. I soon learned that it lacked software that I had previously taken for granted. For weeks I learned of all the little tid bits I needed to download and install. It was a very annoying process. For example, soon after my new acquisition arrived I tried to watch a video a friend had guided me to via email. Really funny, the subject line read. Being a sap, I clicked on the link. Nothing happened. I clicked again. The doohickey told me I needed something called a plug in. The missing element was something called Java, but I do not know exactly what that is or what it does. I only know that it was a pain in the caboose to deal with. After an hour or so, I managed to view the video. It was an hour wasted in my opinion. The video was not even mildly amusing. Still I learned something: my friend has an odd sense of humor. That is just one incident among many. Almost daily I found some thingamabob or other that my computer lacked. Always there would be an explanation of what I needed to do to rectify the situation and always it was gibberish. Finally I decided I needed to get a printer. I figured, with a printer, I could print out the instructions for how to accomplish the endless tasks my computer was assigning me in order to get it up to speed. Honestly I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Installing the printer was easy enough, it did all the work. I was not, however prepared for the aftermath. The damn printer has taken over my computer. It lives on my monitor, taking up about a quarter of the space with little icons for functions I have no need of nor inclination to use. Worst, though, is that the printer is constantly trying to sell me products to feed its insatiable thirst. It pesters me to buy ink, it implores me to visit its store (who knew printers had market places?), it nags at me about each and every one of its needs.

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

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