Milk / Melk / Malk

So I was at my girlfriend's house making dinner like a good boyfriend and I came across an interesting question. But first, let me explain how this question arose.

She shares a house with 4 cool guys (shoutout time! Ajay, Donny, Earl, Mikey!) and everybody buys their own groceries. This specific evening I'm cooking and am in need of 1 cup of milk. So I open the fridge, where milk is usually found, and find myself facing a choice between 2 milk containers. Usually I just eat/use whatever is my gf's but in this case I was ignorant as to which milk container was her's. So I did the only fair thing any level-headed male who is in the kitchen would do. I used both containers. That's right, just pour half of the cup from milk container numero uno and filled the other half of the cup with the second milk container.

Now this is where the question presented itself: the one milk container was 1% and the other was 2%. Since I mixed the milk 1/2 and 1/2 I was curious as to what "percent" the milk mixture technically was. Donny, who happened to be in the kitchen during this whole process, and I debated this phenomenon and the following possibilies presented themselves:

• 1% milk plus 2% milk obviously creates 3% milk


• I only used 1/2 of the 1% and 1/2 of the 2%. Both are diluted with each other and thus creating 1.5% milk (0.5% + 1.0%)


• the 1% milk, being the weaker of the milks, is overtaken and filled out by the 2%, resulting in 1 cup of 2% milk mixture

So, if you can shed some light on this mystical milk mix-up please, do leave a comment. I personally favour the 2nd possibility (1.5% milk) but there may even be others I don't know of.
revolution this,
dazz.

Songs that make me go UGH!:
Sum 41 - The Bitter End
Mr.Eman - Punk Rawk Grrrl (live) [unattainable as of yet...]
Rage Against the Machine - The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen cover) [lyrics]

Police Brutality on the Streets of London

An unedited email I came across this week. I can't absolutely testify to the validity of this report, but for what it's worth I personally feel that it's probably rather truthful. Take from this what you want and act accordingly.
dazz.


"Good day, I write to inform you and also to solicit potential witnesses to an incident that ocurred at the corner of Richmond and Kent this past Sunday, October 9 shortly before midnight.

I was walking along Richmond St. with my younger brother after the Audioslave concert at the JLC, when I witnessed a police pursuit on foot, followed by a brutal attack. An on-looker had tackled the suspect at the corner near Jack's Bar, then the uniformed police officer proceeded to deliver several punches to the face and stomach of the suspect while he lay motionless on the ground. The officer then sat the suspect up, and delivered a swift knee to the young man's face.

At that point a female officer arrived in a paddy wagon, and the two cops began shouting at the suspect to get on his feet. Standing about five feet away from them, I stated that it would be difficult for the man to get up after he had been kneed in the face. The male officer then quickly approached and shoved me with both of his hands and told me to "get lost." Backing away, I then politely requested the officer's badge number, to which he replied with another two-fisted shove and he again told me to leave or face charges of obstruction of justice.

I was not looking to get arrested, but rather I simply wanted some manner of identifying the officer who had initially used excessive force on the man on the ground, then assaulted me. I backed away and waited until the two cops had carried their suspect into the paddy wagon and locked the door. Once it was clear that the officers were done arresting and securing the man in the vehicle, I again requested the officer's badge number from a distance of four or five feet.

At that point he became completely beligerent, closing the space between him and myself such that his chest was pushing me backward and I could feel his spit landing on my face as he shouted down at me that cops in London do not have to provide badge numbers because they wear nametags. His actions were not, as was suggested to me by his supervisor the following day, because he felt threatened and was trying to create space between us. Rather, his actions were to intimidate and threaten me so that I would stop requesting his badge number.

I did not stop making that request, and he then informed me that I was under arrest (for no specified charge). As the female officer was opening the door to the paddy wagon to put me in, the male cop threatened me by saying "I wish you would run on me too. I dare you to run right now." Obviously he had not quenched his need for violence for the night.

All of this ocurred in front of a crowd of on-lookers in front of Jack's Bar, who replied to my bogus arrest with chants of "fuck the police." My younger brother also witnessed the entire incident.

I was detained in a cell at the London Police Station for over two hours. Upon being released at 2:20 a.m., I was delivered a charge and a fine of $65 for public intoxication. I was not drunk, nor was I doing anything to be a nuisance (beyond requesting an officer's badge number). I was not read my rights upon being arrested, and no tests were performed to determine my sobriety. Additionally, the officer who issued this ticket was different than the one who actually arrested me--perhaps out of spite for the fact that if he had issued me a ticket, he would have had to provide me with his badge number.

The fact that I was assaulted, threatened, and incarcerated for requesting a badge number after witnessing a cop beating a suspect on the same night as a concert by the social justice-oriented band Rage/Audioslave smacks of irony. Further, the fact that I am a white twenty-something male university student speaks to the reality that anyone can be a victim of police powers.

I am in the process of filing a complaint with the Police Services Board for this officer's actions against me and the phony charges that I now face. I don't expect my complaint against officer Powers to go anywhere other than a filing cabinet, and I am disgusted that I will have to appear in court to fight trumped-up charges that were made to deter me from doing what I believe was my civic duty. These charges will wastefully consume public revenues in court and processing fees.

If anyone happened to be a witness to these incidents, please contact me at: celvidge@uwo.ca

Be aware that even though we live in the "democratic" and peaceful country of Canada, police have discretionary powers that seriously tread on civil and human rights. I did not learn the lesson that officer Powers tried to teach me that night--and I hope that if anyone ever sees me getting beat by a cop, that they will resist the same tactics of fear used by police to prevent citizens from looking out for each other."

-Rob Elvidge-Hepburn

revolution that.