10 Things Occupy Seattle is Asking from Seattle City Hall
Occupy Seattle's permit to occupy City Hall is up at the end of the month
so I'll be signing the new permit to keep us going for at least another week.
I'm thinking of all the things I need to ask for, like more space and the
occasional use of a Xerox machine and the rights of children to
camp.
It's a legitimate negotiating strategy to deliberately include
things you don't really want in order to give them the opportunity to turn
something down and feel superior, so here's my official list of the 10 things
I'm inviting Seattle City Hall to say no to...
A bonfire.
Pony rides.
A tropical fish tank full of piranhas for leftover vagrants.
Turning the plaza into an ice rink and doing a show called Homeless on
Ice.
A bunny farm so we can all wake up surrounded by hundreds of bunnies.
A merry-go-round.
A public hanging in effigy of every bankster in Seattle who got away with
stealing millions of dollars, through fraud and deception, from the innocent
who now suffer.
An Occu-pie-fight, where we invited the 99% to City Hall to throw pies at
each other.
A job, a home, some food, maybe a little medicine, preferably pot.
A theatrical production of The Occupied Piper, about an Ian
Anderson wannabe who leads the homeless out of City Hall to the city park of
their dreams, only to have City Hall renege on the deal to pay him, so he
teams up with Anonymous to close all their bank accounts, default on their
loans and mortgages, and lead them to Ivar's Acres of Clams where they all
have one final bowl of chowder before marching off the pier into the Puget
Sound like lemmings.
Halloween Light Show 2011 - Party Rock Anthem (YouTube)
2011 Halloween Light Show -- Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO.?4 singing pumpkin faces, tombstones, hand carved pumpkins, strobes, floods and thousands of lights. Most all lights have been changed from incandescent to RGB LED so power consumption is a lot less than previous years. Also DMX added to show. All lights, faces and props are custom made (DIY) by me except for the roof line which are CCRs. Controlling channels have gone up 8X from last year. 1144 channels. Light-O-Rama. Riverside, CA
Paul Krugman's Column: The Path Not Taken (New York Times)
The suffering that so many of our citizens are facing is unnecessary. If this is a time of incredible pain and a much harsher society, that was a choice. It didn't and doesn't have to be this way.
Andrew Tobias: A GRAND TIME TO BE RICH AND POWERFUL
As widely reported yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office found that from 1979 to 2007, average inflation-adjusted after-tax income grew by 275% for the top one percent, compared with 18% for people in the bottom fifth (and not quite 40% for people in the middle three fifths). And as noted yesterday, the Republican front-runners believe the top one percent need still further help, which the bottom 99% would wind up providing.
CHART OF THE DAY: How The Recession Turned Us Into A Nation Of Teetotaling Canned-Veggie Fiends (Talking Points Memo)
… perhaps the best news is that people haven't responded to all the bad news by indulging in unhealthy vices. Thanks in large part to a surge of cigarettes taxes, real spending on tobacco products is way down, as is spending on alcoholic beverages - though that could reflect a transition away from fancy beverages toward cheap American beers, and an equal level of drunkenness.
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In Greek mythology, Ganymede, or Ganymedes, is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. He was a prince, son of the eponymous Tros of Dardania and of Callirrhoe, and brother of Ilus and Assaracus. Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals, which led the gods, or according to some, Zeus in the form of an eagle, to abduct him for service as cup-bearer in Olympus and, in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, as Zeus's eromenos.
For the etymology of his name, Robert Graves' The Greek Myths offers ganyesthai + medea, "rejoicing in virility". The word "catamite" (a boy or youth in a sexual relationship with a man) is derived from Ganymede.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Ganymede
Sally said:
I used to be so into the Greek gods/goddess's! Let's see, as I recall, Ganymede is the young, beautiful boy who became one of Zeus' lovers, and from him is the word derived.
The Abduction of Ganymede, by Peter Paul Rubens
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Dale of Diamond Springs, CA replied:
First attested in English in 1593[1]: from Latin Catam?tus, from Etruscan Catmite, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Ganum?d?s, "Ganymede"); in Greek mythology, an attractive Trojan boy abducted to Mount Ólympos by the god Zeus to become his cupbearer and, later, his lover.
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Going to Oakland, my hometown, with my daughter, nephew and niece tomorrow to participate for justice!!!
Marian responded:
Ganymedes
MAM wrote:
The word catamite, meaning the 'passive' boy, is the Latin corruption of Ganymede and the myth was well known throughout the Roman Empire. Ganymede is the young, beautiful boy that became one of Zeus' lovers. One source of the myth says that Zeus fell in love with Ganymede when he spotted him herding his flock on Mount Ida. Zeus then came down in the form of an eagle or sent an eagle to carry Ganymede to Mount Olympus where Ganymede became cupbearer to the gods.
The cupbearer of the gods, here bringing a drink to Zeus.
Dr. Vollmer's Wörterbuch der Mythologie aller Völker. 1874
Charlie answered:
Ganymede, for which also the third Galilean satellite of Jupiter, the largest in the Solar System, is also named.
BttbB responded:
Ganymede, eromenos of Zeus and cup-bearer in Olympus. Described by Homer as the most beautiful of mortals... Ganymede, appropriately enough, is the largest moon of Jupiter ~ Zeus ~ and the largest in the solar system. It is 8% larger than the planet mercury. Discovered by Galileo in 1610 and as it is very visible (if you know where to look!) it has been used since by mariners and aviators in their celestial navigation (provided you have the appropriate almanacs and are very good with trigonometry!)...
Ganymede taken by the probe 'Galileo'.
Space, the final Frontier (Thanks, Gene)
And, Joe S replied
The word catamite is derived from the Latin catamitus, itself borrowed from the Etruscan catmite, related to the Greek Ganymedes, the effeminate youth who was seduced by Zeus, and became his beloved and cup-bearer in Greek mythology.
How you get catamite from Ganymedes is totally beyond me, but wadda I know.
Motown left its mark on Paul McCartney, and now McCartney wants to leave his on Motown: The pop superstar will finance restoration of the label's historic piano. McCartney encountered the ebony-and-ivory of the Steinway grand piano while touring the Motown Museum before his July concert at Comerica Park. The 134-year-old piano, used on innumerable Motown recordings in the 1960s, had long since fallen into disrepair but remained on display in the famed studio of the West Grand Boulevard site... There's no word yet on costs. The piano will start its train journey Monday to the New York headquarters of Steinway & Sons, where specialists will assess it and devise a restoration plan...
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', then a RERUN'Criminal Minds', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Harry's Law', followed by a RERUN'Prime Suspect', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Ben Stiller hosting, music by Foster The People.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW offers an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'Futurama', followed by another old 'Futurama'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'America's Most Wanted'.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween The Return Of Michael Myers', followed by the movie 'Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers', then the movie 'Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7
[7:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
[8:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Dovecote
[9:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 5
[10:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 6
[11:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 8
[1:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 2 - Driven
[2:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 3 - Inmates
[3:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 4 - Hide and Seek
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 16 The Offspring
[5:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 17 The Sins of the Father
[6:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 18 Allegiance
[7:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 20 - Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2
[8:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 1- Occupation
[9:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 5 - Committed
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 1
[11:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 - Lady Gaga, Geoffrey Rush, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Byrne
[12:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 5 - Committed
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 1
[2:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 - Lady Gaga, Geoffrey Rush, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Byrne
[3:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 5 - Committed
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 1
[5:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 - Lady Gaga, Geoffrey Rush, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Byrne (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has the movie 'Beerfest', followed by the movie 'Jackass Number Two'.
FX has the movie '30 Days Of Night', followed by the movie 'Twilight', and '2½ Men'.
History has 'Lost Worlds', 'The Real Story Of Halloween', 'Zombies: A Living History'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Wilfred - Walking the Dog
[6:30AM] Wilfred - The Dog Whisperer
[7:00AM] Wilfred - Dog Eat Dog
[7:30AM] D.E.B.S.
[9:30AM] Occupations
[9:35AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[9:50AM] The Three Stooges - Rip, Sew and Stitch
[10:15AM] The Three Stooges - Scotched in Scotland
[10:40AM] The Three Stooges - Shot in the Frontier
[11:05AM] The Three Stooges - Spooks
[11:30AM] Kinky Boots
[1:45PM] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[3:45PM] D.E.B.S.
[5:45PM] Darkness
[8:00PM] The Shining
[11:00PM] The Shining
[2:00AM] Carrie
[4:15AM] Dark Floors (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] UNLEASHED BY GARO: It's Time For Her to Expose Herself (Episode 2, Season 1)
[7:00AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Radenroro: Bad is Better than Boring (Episode 1, Season 1)
[8:00AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Kara Janx: That Dress is Great if You're Going to the Prom With Justin
[9:00AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Perfect Couple
[9:30AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Three's a Crowd
[10:00AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Baby On My Mind
[10:30AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Matchmaker Matchmaker
[11:00AM] Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
[12:25PM] The Saddest Music In The World
[2:10PM] The Return of the War Room
[3:45PM] Blog Wars
[4:35PM] Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
[6:20PM] Mutants
[7:50PM] Ichi the Killer
[10:00PM] One Missed Call
[12:00AM] INDIE SEX: Teens
[1:30AM] Student Services
[3:25AM] Ichi the Killer
[5:40AM] Right Foot, Left Foot (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Zombie Apocalypse'.
Activist and filmmaker Michael Moore (C) fields questions from the media before speaking to the people of Occupy Oakland at the steps of Oakland City Hall in Oakland, California October 28, 2011.
Photo by Beck Diefenbach
Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was released from prison Monday after her sentence was overturned by an appeals court, Amnesty International reports. Vafamehr had been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the 2009 Australian film "My Tehran for Sale," which is banned in Iran.
In the movie -- which was filmed in the Iranian capital -- Vafamehr is seen with a shaved head, and without the head covering that's required of Iranian women. In one scene, she also appears to drink alcohol -- also a no-no in her culture.
According to Amnesty International, the appeals court reduced Vafamehr's sentence to three months, and removed the lashing aspect of her sentence.
While Vafamehr has been freed, Amnesty International points out that Iran has been cracking down on filmmakers. Hadi Afarideh, Naser Saffarian, Mohsen Shahrnazdar and Katayoun Shahabi were arrested September 17 on suspicion of having sold their films to foreign broadcasters. Doing so without permission from the government is prohibited in Iran; recently, the country's police chief, Esma'il Ahmadi-Moghaddam, equated dealings with the BBC and Voice of America with conspiring with enemy security services, Amnesty International said.
Actress Olivia Newton John gestures as she poses during a photocall of the movie "A Few Best Men" by director Stephan Elliot at the Rome Film Festival October 28, 2011.
Photo by Alessandro Bianchi
"Cry Baby Lane," a Nickelodeon movie about conjoined twins who are sawed apart, was deemed so scary after its one airing in October 2000 that it was banned by the network, never to be seen again.
Or so the story goes.
In fact, both the story in the movie and the story about the movie being banned are urban legends. TeenNick will air the movie on Monday, for the first time in more than a decade, as part of its "Stick-or-Treat" Halloween programing.
A Nickelodeon rep tells TheWrap that "Cry Baby Lane" was never formally banned. It was simply forgotten in the Nick vaults. Recent interest in the movie on Reddit.com, as well as the network's recent success with "The '90s Are That," a revival of its 1990s programing, prompted Nick to add "Baby" to its Halloween night line-up.
The movie will air at midnight and again at 2 a.m. on TeenNick.
CBS News is reaching back into its history to bring back the "On the Road" feature.
Reporter Steve Hartman takes over for the late Charles Kuralt (koo RAWLT). CBS said Friday that Hartman will search across the country for unusual features.
His first story, on the "CBS Evening News" Friday, finds a group of men who hoisted a replica of the Statue of Liberty on a railroad pier in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania 25 years ago. It remains standing today.
Starting in 1967, Kuralt spent much of his time exploring the nation's back roads for stories. He and his crew logged more than a million miles on an old motor home, and filed more than 600 stories.
One of the world's finest private collections of 19th century Victoriana goes under the hammer at auction in Edinburgh next week, including a four-poster bed in which Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor celebrated the last of her many honeymoons.
The collection -- amassed by the Forbes family in the United States -- includes furnishings, including paintings, furniture, household wares - and framed items of Queen Victoria's underwear - from Old Battersea House on the south bank of London's Thames river opposite Chelsea.
There is also a painting of Victoria on horseback with her Scottish servant John Brown holding the reins. She commissioned the painting from a photographer to present to Brown on his 50th birthday, and it remained in the family until it was sold and added to the Forbes collection in the 1980s.
Other works include a picture of Victoria and royal consort Prince Albert painted by themselves, and pictures of other Victorian notables ranging from an aging Duke of Wellington to politicians such as Benjamin Disraeli.
From "Blade Runner" to "Total Recall," Hollywood has made millions spinning the futuristic tales of Philip K. Dick into big screen entertainments.
But the science fiction writer's heirs are suing the producers and director of the most recent film made from his dystopic back catalog, last spring's "The Adjustment Bureau," alleging that they failed to pay for rights to the thriller.
In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the author's trust alleges that the team behind the film, George Nolfi, Michael Hackett and Media Rights Capital, are falsely claiming that the story on which "The Adjustment Bureau" is based has fallen into the public domain in order to justify failing to pay royalties.
The suit asserts that the movie made $128 million at the worldwide box office and an another $10 million on domestic DVD sales, triggering several bonuses and performance payments.
An Occupy San Diego protestor looks on during a rally held in Civic Center Plaza in San Diego October 28, 2011. San Diego police officers removed the protestors' camp from the plaza in the early morning hours on Friday.
Photo by Denis Poroy
Police in Bulgaria say a stuntman has died and another has been seriously injured while filming an explosion scene on the set of "The Expendables 2."
Police said Friday the two men, whose names and nationalities were not disclosed, were performing a stunt involving an explosion on an inflatable boat on the Ognyanovo dam, just outside the capital, Sofia. The incident occurred late Thursday.
The injured man has undergone a five-hour operation and his condition was stable, doctors are quoted by the BTA news agency as saying.
The film stars $ylvester $tallone (R-Family Values), Bruce Willi$ (R-Family Values) and Arnold $chwarzenegger (R-Family Values).
Appeal court judges on Friday upheld the 16-month jail sentence given to the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour for a violent rampage during student protests last year.
Charlie Gilmour was one of thousands who demonstrated in December against rising university tuition fees and was among a group that broke away from the main demonstration and attacked a convoy carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla. At Gilmour's trial earlier this year, a judge said Gilmour had jumped on the hood of a Jaguar in the royal motorcade and thrown a garbage can at the car.
Gilmour also kicked a store window, stole the leg of a mannequin and was photographed hanging from a Union flag on the Cenotaph, a memorial to British war dead.
The 21-year-old Cambridge University student, who has been in jail since July, pleaded guilty to violent disorder but challenged the length of his sentence.
But three appeals judges said the sentence was neither "manifestly excessive (nor) wrong in principle."
A masked group of London school friends aged eleven and twelve pose for photographs for the media beside the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest camp outside St Paul's Cathedral in London, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. The children walked past the protest camp after going to a party together where they wanted to dress up as "mini-anons". The plastic masks, which have been adopted by protesters in various countries around the world to keep their faces anonymous, represent Guy Fawkes, who attempted to blow up Britain's Houses of Parliament in the 1600s.
Photo by Matt Dunham
James Brown's former manager has been sentenced to three years of home confinement on charges he took more money than he was allowed under contract from the late soul singer in his final years.
The Aiken Standard reported Friday that 72-year-old David Cannon of Barnwell entered an Alford plea to two counts of breach of trust (http://bit.ly/vBvUkA). The plea does not admit guilt, but acknowledges there is enough evidence for a conviction.
Prosecutors said Cannon was supposed to receive 5 percent of whatever Brown made in a year but instead gave himself close to 15 percent. Cannon was also accused of stealing part of a $900,000 check, but his defense says that was a misunderstanding. Attorney Gregory Harris says Cannon was owed the money.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine and 17 paintings tied up in a legal dispute with a suburban Boston museum are among the assisted-suicide advocate's possessions going on the auction block on Friday.
The paintings, including one Kevorkian did with a pint of his blood, and about 100 other personal items are set to be sold at the New York Institute of Technology. The estate has estimated the value of the 17 paintings at $2.5 million to $3.5 million.
Images of the paintings will be displayed instead of the actual works because the Armenian Library and Museum of America has refused to surrender them.
The auction highlights include the assisted-suicide machine called a Thanatron, a bulletproof vest and his sweaters. Kevorian's last painting, made a year before his death, also is for sale and is not among the group of disputed works. Titled "9th Amendment," the pop art-style work depicts a U.S. treasury bill with an image of James Madison.
A model displays a creation by Russian fashion house YanaStasia during the Volvo Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011.
Photo by Mikhail Metzel
The mayor of Paris says the city is filing legal complaints against fundamentalist Christians protesting a play at the municipal theater they claim is blasphemous.
Riot police have been called in to chase off demonstrators bearing crosses loudly protesting in front of, and sometimes inside, the Theatre de la Ville since the Oct. 20 opening of "Sur le Concept du Visage du fils de Dieu" ("On the Concept of the Son of God's Face").
Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said Friday that Paris can't tolerate "such expressions of fundamentalism and intolerance."
His statement said the city is filing complaints when demonstrators try to interrupt performances of the play by Italian Romeo Castellucci, in which projectiles are thrown at the face of Christ hanging onstage.
A radio ad for a handgun training class that bars Muslims and Obama voters.
"We will attempt to teach you all the necessary information you need to obtain your [Concealed Handgun License]," the ad says. Then towards the end, it adds: "If you are a socialist liberal and/or voted for the current campaigner in chief, please do not take this class. You have already proven that you cannot make a knowledgeable and prudent decision under the law."
And then: "If you are a non-Christian Arab or Muslim, I will not teach you the class with no shame; I am Crockett Keller, thank you, and God bless America."
Keller, 65, has said in media interviews that he just regards the message is just common sense. "The fact is, if you are a devout Muslim, then you cannot be a true American," he told local news station KVUE, while fielding calls congratulating him for his stance. "Why should I arm these people to kill me? That's suicide."
But the state of Texas may disagree. The Department of Public Safety said in a statement that certified instructors of handgun training are required to comply with all applicable state and federal laws, and added: "Conduct by an instructor that denied service to individuals on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion would place that instructor's certification by the Department at risk of suspension or revocation." The department has said it has begun an investigation.
A group of meerkats sit as a group Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Animals at the zoo will be given pumpkins to play with throughout the weekend and children are invited to visit the zoo in Halloween costumes.
Photo by Ted S. Warren
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