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A few days ago I posted Adele’s track by track explanation of the new (#1!) album. I was struck by something she said when talking about the last track on the album, Someone Like You:
“…when I was writing it, I was feeling pretty miserable and pretty lonely, which I guess kind of contradicts Rolling in the Deep where I was like, ‘I’m gonna be fine without you!’ This one was me–kind of me on my knees really…”
Not only are Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You thematically opposed, they are also opposites in placement, with the former opening the album and the latter closing it. I was reminded of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ model of grief.
Adele has repeatedly called this a breakup album and, as that represents dealing with a loss, does 21 mirror this process, I wondered?
Two caveats going into this:
- “Rumour Has it,” “He Won’t Go,” and “One and Only” were not written about the guy the rest of the album is about and “Lovesong” is a Cure cover so those don’t count.
- Ross’ model has faced criticism for being unscientific, which is to say, its replication in formalized settings has been inconsistent. In her defense she does say that stages may not happen in this precise order and that an individual may return to a stage multiple times before working through it.
On to the investigation!
Rolling in the Deep
“Think of me in the depths of your despair
Make a home down there
As mine sure won’t be shared”
The album begins hitting the first 2 stages immediately: denial and anger. Denial because she mentions “the scars of your love”–so a relationship that obviously had a significant emotional impact–but relegates the ex-lover to a state of despair, and not herself. The anger comes in lines like, “I’m gonna make your head burn” and “You pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow” but, moreso than that, in the tone. The opening track is definitely the anthem of a woman scorned.
From the track-by-track,
“Who the fuck does he think he is?! Always fucking turns the tables on me!”
“So I won’t let you close enough to hurt me
I won’t rescue you to just desert me
I can’t give you the heart you think you gave me
It’s time to say goodbye to turning tables”
This song is interesting because the plaintive piano-based arrangement would have you think it’s a song of sadness but lyrically, this is definitely anger. The very first line even details how they are “close enough to start a war.” She goes on to say how she will be braver in the future and stand on her own 2 feet. I absolute love the instrumentation on this track but just looking at the lyrics, it could have very easily had a Rolling vibe.
Don’t You Remember?
“I know I have a fickle heart
and a bitterness
and a wandering eye
and a heaviness in my head
But don’t you remember the reason you loved me before?
Baby please remember me once more”
According to Kübler-Ross, “The third stage involves the hope that the individual can somehow postpone or delay [the traumatic event]. Psychologically, the individual is saying, ‘I understand…, but if I could just have more time…'”
The honesty of this song, both lyrically and vocally, make it one of my favorite tracks on the album.
Set Fire to the Rain
“I set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames”
A backtrack into anger.
I really hope this becomes a single. I’d love to see how they do this in a video.
Take It All
From the track-by-track,
“The song’s about my devotion to someone and them not caring really and taking the piss out of me and exploiting me in a way.”
I don’t know what’s more depressing in a relationship than feeling like you’re giving your all to someone and your all isn’t good enough. (I’m demoralized just typing that.)
According to Kübler-Ross, “…the individual may become silent, refuse visitors and spend much of the time crying and grieving. This process allows the person to disconnect from things of love and affection.”
“…go on and take it
Take it all with you
Don’t look back at this crumbling fool
Just take it all
With my love…”
I didn’t grow up with the Black Southern Baptist church experience but when the song opens with her questioning, “Didn’t I give it all?” I find myself having a hallelujah moment.
I’ll Be Waiting
So much bargaining in this song.
“I’ll be waiting for you when you’re ready to love me again
I put my hands up
I’ll do everything different
I’ll be better to you”
“Let me stay here for just one more night…
So I can tell you that I was wrong
I was a child then, but now I’m willing to learn”
“I’ll be somebody different
I’ll be better for you”
Someone Like You
Adele’s favorite song on the album and the one she feels the proudest of.
From the track-by-track,
“That relationship, that the entire record’s about…changed me in a really good way. It’s really made me who I am at the moment. And I’m sure there’ll be another relationship–well, I hope so anyway–that helps change me and define me as well.”
She goes to say that one of her fears is seeing him again, years down the line, him settled with a wife and kids and her still on her own. What I really love about this view of acceptance is that it’s not about painting a rosy picture of everything; it’s accepting that the relationship ended, that it was right to end, and that even in knowing that, you may still have anxieties about how things will play out in the future. It acknowledges that you survived: wounded, but not broken.
“Never mind I’ll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you two
Don’t forget me
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By Goody Niosi
I’d been drunk before in my life – oh yes. Very drunk. I’d been falling-down drunk and head-hanging-over-the-toilet-bowl drunk – but never like this.
And it wasn’t my fault.
It happened like this.
My husband, Pete and I were both hired on to a film crew to shoot an A&W commercial in Mexico – a series of commercials actually. Pete is a producer; I do continuity. A handful of us flew to Mexico City from Vancouver. We picked up the rest of the crew there.
We started work as soon as we arrived, shooting a “Tarzan-of-the-jungle scene with a half-clad Mexican hunk wrestling an alligator that only wanted to have a nap and that was so docile it didn’t have to have its jaws wired shut. The shooting when smoothly except for trying to make the beast look fierce. The director finally decided that the danger aspect would have to happen in the editing. A little CGI perhaps?
Back in Mexico City and with a day off before flying to Durango for the “Western Shootout” ad (Don’t ask – something to do with a good guy and a bad guy arguing over root beer), the client decided we should celebrate. So he reserved a table for a dozen at the best restaurant in town. Don’t even ask me to name it – could have been El Cardinal or Contessa or something else that started with a C.
As was far too usual, I was the only woman at the table. But I was used to it and this bunch of guys was civilized.
The food was amazing: spicy, not too hot, grilled fish – and no, I don’t remember specifics about that either. I do remember that after the plates had been cleared and it was getting late, the guys decided it was time for some Tequila shooters. I drink rarely – not through choice but through necessity. I have learned that two bottles of beer can put me into a coma and three glasses of wine will have me giggling, then dancing with the proverbial lampshade – and that usually deteriorates pretty quickly into unconsciousness.
My husband knows this about me.
Still, when the client insisted that I had to have a shooter too, Pete said, “Yeah – you’re one of the boys tonight, right?”
The other’s chimed in. “Come on – have a drink!”
Pete said, “Be a sport – go on!”
That’s when I gave him the fish-eye. Right – you want to see me drunk? Fine I’ll give you drunk! I turned to the waiter. “I’ll have a shooter too. And hey! Make it a double!”
The men hushed. They were impressed – I could see it in their eyes. Even Pete looked mildly stunned. “All right then,” he said.
The waiter brought the drinks on a cart (just to give you a sense of how much alcohol was involved). He set a small glass with a clear liquid in front of the men – two in front of me. And then followed up with a taller glass of a red liquid that looked a bit like V8 Juice.
“Here’s how you do it,” Pete said, lifting the shot glass and slugging it back, quickly following that up with some salt and lemon and swigging back the red stuff.
I shrugged, belted back both shots at once (yechhhhhh!) quickly following with the red liquid that was some kind of vegetable concoction.
‘You’re supposed to do one shot at a time,” Pete said.
“That’s what I did,” I gasped, tears blurring my eyes.
“Yeah – uh no. One shot then the chaser and then another shot.”
The client was already signalling for another round.
“Another double!” I said.
“Maybe you should have a single,” Pete said.
“Shut up,” I said.
This time I did what Pete had suggested – one at a time. It was still pretty awful. On the next round, I didn’t order a double and after the fourth round I marvelled that I actually felt clear-headed and relatively sober. Maybe a bit of a buzz? I was fine.
After the fifth round, the client threw down his black Amex card and the guys shrugged into their jackets. The waiter brought the card back, the client signed, and we stood up. Actually, they stood up. I gave it a good effort but for some reason the signals from my brain weren’t reaching my legs.
“This is very odd,” I said to Pete. “I can’t seem to manage to stand.”
“Uh-oh.” This from Joseph, the burly art director who’d been sitting on my other side.
I pressed both hands down on the table and gave a good push. I half stood but I was being supported by my arms. My legs had become slinky toys – the kind kids used to push downstairs.
Pete grabbed one of my arms and Joseph the other. Between them they heaved me up pretty easily and efficiently. We strode out of the restaurant in a group, the guys surrounding me while I tried to make my legs move back and forth in a walking motion.
They deposited me in the back of a cab and Pete slid in next to me. The car pulled into traffic.
“Stop!” I said.
Pete looked at me. He tapped the driver on the shoulder. “Better stop.”
“Here? There is traffic!”
“If I were you, I would stop.”
The driver glanced in his rear-view mirror and braked. Pete reached across me and opened the door. I leaned my head out and puked mightily in the direction of a passing BMW.
That done, I faded back against the seat. The driver had a look of horror in his eyes. He slowed down, hugged the curb. This was a wise move because he had to stop two more times before we reached the hotel.
I believe Pete tipped him generously.
Joseph got out of his cab just as we pulled up. He waited, took my right side again while Pete manned the left. They got me up the stairs and into the lavishly carpeted lobby of the hotel, where I stumbled and fell forward, puking on the plush Oriental hand-woven rug.
Most people in this state of inebriation would black out and have no memory of the night’s events. Regrettably, my memory was not only lucid but appeared to be working overtime. The men pulled me into an elevator, dragged me along the hall, and deposited me on the king-size bed in the room Pete and I shared.
It must have been about two a.m. A good night’s sleep might have helped. Our flight to Durango left at seven a.m. Our wake-up call came at five. Pete wrestled me into the shower and helped me pull on jeans and a T-shirt.
We got into a cab – not the same driver although this one too eyed me with a look of foreboding. We made it to the airport and gathering in front of the departure gate. How I got there? No clue. Did I walk? Perhaps. How did I get checked in? Did Pete handle that? He sat me down on a plastic chair where I curled up and went to sleep. Then I had to pee.
“Pete!” I yelled.
“I need to pee.”
He walked me to the bathroom. I found a stall, stumbled in, and sat on the toilet. I heard a sharp banging. “Lucy! Lucy! Are you okay?”
I shook my head. Had fallen asleep. Had I peed? Probably.
I flushed and came out, peering at Pete. “What?”
He sighed and walked me back to the gate where we were boarding. He sat me down by the window. I fell asleep. An hour later we were in Durango. Another cab – the sun in the desert was hot and bright. I couldn’t see. We pulled up to a sprawling motel complex, walked into the lobby and up to the desk. I can do this. I’m better now. I smiled at the clerk, put my head down on the counter and went to sleep.
The rest of the day was devoted to location scouting. They didn’t need me for that. I went straight to the room and slept until the team came back in the evening. Pete woke me up. “How are you feeling?”
I took a shower. My hair hurt. My toenails hurt. My eyelashes hurt. I had a glass of water and a cup of tea.
The next morning our wake-up call came at five-thirty. We were on the set at seven-thirty: a perfect western town – a saloon with swinging doors, a jailhouse, a hotel with an upper balcony that was perfect for stuntmen to fall from as they were shot at from any number of rooftops. The sidewalks were wooden, the main street dusty.
Just beyond the set was a tiny settlement of perhaps half a dozen adobe houses, each with a small garden plot and washing hanging on a line. The inhabitants of the village stood back from the set watching us – with interest? Their faces gave nothing away. They watched.
We rolled in klieg lights and reflector boards, mics and stands, a dolly, risers – all the gear a film crew carries with it. I sat on my apple box, took photos of the set, prop placement, wardrobe, the star actors – all the details I would need for reference. I made elaborate notes, marked up the script.
The actors argued in the saloon – about root beer. In the afternoon, we moved to the main street for the shoot-out. By four, we were almost ready to wrap. The villagers were still there but by this time they had brought lawn chairs and a cooler of beer. One of the women was cooking sausages on a little barbecue.
Me? I was functioning on autopilot. I’d done this enough times to not screw up. But I was beginning to feel like I should join the tribe of villagers.
At four we had one more shot – a new tag for all the A&W commercials. We needed a lovely country path winding through a pretty green field up a hill and fading into the sunset. The A&W bear – not riding a white horse but dancing and twirling up the path.
The bear costume is a hot and stinky one. The actress who plays the bear had been on standby all day.
Problem: we were in a desert.
The prop man drove to the nearest town – a few miles beyond the makeshift village. He came back with a couple of spray guns and cans of paint.
For the next hour, the actress sweltered in the lower half of her suit while props and his assistant sprayed the desert green.
The villagers had stopped drinking. They sat very still, watching. I picked up my apple box and moved close to them, sat down, watched the action from their angle.
At about six o’clock, the hill and surrounding landscape were green with a gently curved path bisecting the land. The actress pulled the bear head down. The director yelled “Action.” She danced, hopped, and skipped up the path until she topped the gentle rise and vanished.
The villagers broke out more beer and sipped.
One of the men handed me a cold Cuerveca.
I took a long, cool sip, nodded at the villagers, smiled. The oldest of the women, a face like a beautifully carved piece of granite, broke into a beatific smile and shook her head.
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Watching this film [Sense and Sensibily, dir. Ang Lee, 1995], I was forcibly remind of Camille Paglia’s unfashionably neo-conservative thesis that western art is a pagan battleground between the phallocentric Apollonian quest for control and the horrors of Dionysian disorder, the chthonian female swamp.
—Graham Fuller, “Cautionary Tale” (Sight and Sound, March 1996)
Published anonymously in 1811, Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s first major novel. Austen revised the text over more than a decade, transforming it from an epistolary fiction in the 18th-century style to the book we now have—formally, a modern novel narrated in the restricted third-person point of view focalized through a central character. This character is Elinor Dashwood, the “sense” (or prudent, rational self-control) of the title. Her younger sister Marianne, by contrast, stands for “sensibility,” a word connoting a range of emotions and values comprising the sentimentality of the 18th-century novel and the passionate subjectivity and nature-worship of the Romantic movement.
The sisters find their values in conflict when their father’s death leaves them and their mother at the economic mercy of their elder half-brother and his ungenerous wife, who inherit their estate. They soon move, at the invitation of their mother’s cousin, to a small cottage. Despite the family’s economic decline, Elinor and Marianne attract the attentions of several apparent suitors: Edward Ferrars, their wicked sister-in-law’s brother, sets his sober sights on the elder sister, while both Colonel Brandon, a stolid 30-something soldier, and the young and dashing Willoughby, attend to the passionate Marianne. The ensuing narrative works out, with the logic of a word problem, the resolution into symmetrical couples and households of these initially unruly erotic vectors. The scene shifts to London and back again; there are crises and revelations—Edward is betrothed to another, the vulgar and unsuitable Lucy Steele; for his part, the irresistible Willoughby predictably proves the rakehell of the seduction novel. Elinor suffers in silence; Marianne languishes in full view of all.
Elinor’s mind is Austen’s almost exclusive focus (except when she takes the popular novelist’s anti-aesthetic license to shift viewpoint to generate suspense), because the older sister’s adherence to her social duty and her reasonable control of her emotions despite all impediments to her happiness—in short, her good sense—model for readers the rational conduct Austen wishes them to adopt. Despite Marianne’s lively sentiments and her excellent taste (“And books!—Thomson, Cowper, Scott—she would buy them all over and over again…she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree”), she must be disciplined by Elinor’s example and transfer her affections from the dissolute young Willoughby to the dependable colonel, despite his being twice her age (the colonel’s daughter, by the way, was also seduced by Willoughby in what might be a plot twist too far):
“Do you compare your conduct with [Willoughby’s]?”
“No. I compare it with what it ought to have been; I compare it with yours.”
But the novel would never get moving without Marianne’s passions, just as Elinor’s sense without Marianne’s sensibility would be too barren to serve Austen’s ideological project—to unite a broad and dominant English middle class, encompassing the lower nobility and those newly enfranchised by money and professional status, by shared values of rational affect centered in the household under female management. Austen’s later work more effectively unites sense and sensibility in a single heroine, at least as the culmination of her journey, most brilliantly in Emma Woodhouse and most poignantly in Anne Elliott.
Despite its organizational rigor—and this is a tightly, even perfectly-constructed novel—Sense and Sensibility never quite gets the emotional balance right: we have one heroine who is all mind and another who is all body. It is as if a single protagonist were divided into two characters, with Elinor abstractly mentating upon her own emotions as they lodge in and disrupt her sister’s errant corpus. The novel is plotted according to the upheavals of Marianne’s body, from the twisted ankle that sets the Willoughby plot in motion to the nearly fatal “putrid” fever that makes her see reason at last. As Tony Tanner points out in his brilliant essay on the novel, Marianne’s stifled scream, when she discovers Willoughby’s betrayal, is the novel’s heart, its most eloquent if pre-lingual testimony to the sensibility sense represses:
[O]n opening the door, she saw Marianne stretched on the bed, almost choked by grief, one letter in her hand, and two or three others laying by her. Elinor drew near, but without saying a word; and seating herself on the bed, took her hand, kissed her affectionately several times, and then gave way to a burst of tears, which at first was scarcely less violent than Marianne’s. The latter, though unable to speak, seemed to feel all the tenderness of this behaviour, and after some time thus spent in joint affliction, she put all the letters into Elinor’s hands; and then covering her face with her handkerchief, almost screamed with agony.
Tanner defends Marianne’s Romanticism and suggests that Austen in part shared it (“we should remember that Marianne’s favourite writers were also Jane Austen’s”), even as the severe author nevertheless refuses the Romantic-Satanic expedients of rebellion or exile in favor of advocating for a society that would attain emotional balance through a rational precision of language. For Tanner, Austen commends this social arrangement by a rather punitive immuring of Marianne’s passion within the ideological architecture of the novel (“one might think that something is being vengefully stamped out”), but he praises Austen nevertheless for encoding into her fiction with an almost Freudian insight all that organized society quells and subdues.
Later writers would take up the hint, for aesthetic and political purposes the reverse of Austen’s. Austen herself will develop the use of focalized narration begun in Sense and Sensibility into the free indirect discourse that makes Emma a formal paradigm of the modern novel. A century after Austen, free indirect discourse—the third-person narrator’s adoption of the inner language of the characters—will overspill the banks of reasoned storytelling to become less the proverbial streams than the spates and torrents of consciousness we find in Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and other modernists. Marianne’s revenge on her deviser is to undermine from within the narrative method meant to secure the authority of Elinor’s perspective.
The passionate individual in despite all of reason commandeers the novel, and the novel’s 20th-century abandonment of the marriage plot is a concomitant of its modernist commitment to desire, this in tandem with a middle class reproduced less and less solely in the domestic sphere. By the time Toni Morrison rewrites Sense and Sensibility as Sula in 1973, neither reader nor writer doubts that the eponymous anarchic “sister” Sula is in the right, and the socially reasonable one (named Nel, a plausible diminutive of Elinor) the victim of a respectable death-in-life that has throttled all love and ardor.
Today we have replaced Austen’s socio-sexual contract—rationally feeling man provides rationally feeling woman a household, in return for which she proffers the intimate superintendence that legitimizes middle-class power—with the one foretold by Woolf and codified by Morrison on the utterly sympathetic behalf of social elements Austen haughtily ignores (the queer, the colonized, the marginalized). Yet just as Austen didn’t intend for her innovation in the form of the novel—free indirect discourse—to aid the triumph of an individualism she otherwise feared, so Woolf and Morrison might hesitate before the world their own innovations have helped to materialize. Now desiring individuals, liberated from the heterosexual bourgeois household and almost from gender itself, atomized in metropolitan space, form temporary contracts in a gamified and pornified virtual marketplace that funds (where it is not funded by credit) the means of social reproduction in the academic diaspora of broader “online.” This is the state of middle-class woman now (and “middle-class woman” is more a class category than a gender one: if you’re reading this—or, indeed, writing it—the term applies to you).
Marianne Dashwood (or Lily Briscoe or Sula Peace) has triumphed: today, she issues defenses of desire on podcasts and Patreon and posts pictures of her swollen ankle and putrid tonsils for the fetishists among her OnlyFans subscribers. If Elinor still functions as her conscience, she does so in the administrative bureaus of the corporation and university—human resources, diversity and equity—where her job is to intercept and interdict threats to the untrammeled unfolding of Marianne’s consciousness. This metamorphosis has undoubtedly liberated the individual from the stifling convention of bourgeois domesticity, but is the place where it has installed her now, where she must sell soul and body by algorithm just to stay alive, any less a prison?
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@Nezchan Not much, yet, by the look of it. But I'm excited to see what you DO! :D
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Maui County Executive Elected to National AssociationSeptember 1, 2017, 8:15 AM HST · Updated September 1, 9:05 AM 0 Comments
Maui County’s Office on Aging’s Executive, Deborah Stone-Walls, was elected by her peers from across the US to serve as the first vice-president of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, abbreviated as “n4a.”
Stone-Walls has been serving on the national board since 2009, and now has the opportunity to represent Maui County and the State on the national level.
In her role as first vice president, Stone-Walls will hold a key leadership position to assert direct influence on national policy and strategic planning for the aging network. As president elect, she will serve in the organization’s top spot next year.
Locally, she has served at the helm of Maui County’s Office on Aging since 2008, overseeing a staff of 21 that provides health and social services to over 40,000 seniors in Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi.
The Maui County Office on Aging says it is dedicated to promote and protect the well-being of older adults in Maui County. The agency is authorized by the Older Americans Act, and the primary objective is to help kupuna and caregivers lead dignified and meaningful lives in their own homes for as long as possible.
“Deborah Stone-Walls has the necessary experience, knowledge, and skills to take on such important leadership positions at the National and State levels,” said Mayor Alan Arakawa. “At a time when Hawaiʻi’s senior population is growing four times faster than our total population, it is imperative that we understand nuances of the silver tsunami that is changing the composition of our community and to focus on future impacts. Addressing our elderly population’s needs is a top priority for the administration and Deborah is the perfect individual to lead the way.”
N4a is the national association for 622 Area Agencies on Aging and more than 250 Title VI Native American aging programs that work year-round to provide members with a wide array of technical assistance, training, resources, advocacy, and other benefits to support the critical efforts on behalf of older adults, family caregivers, and individuals with disabilities.
She was also selected to serve as the Chair of the State of Hawaiʻi’s HCR35 HD1 SD1 Task Force, a resolution passed by the 29th Hawaiʻi State 2017 Legislature to convene a Task Force to “assess current elder and Kupuna Care services and the anticipated demand for those services in order to improve those services and meet demand.”
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The Dallas Cowboys are one of the most beloved teams in the NFL. As a result, it should come as no surprise to learn that there are a lot of people interested in Dallas Cowboys tickets, which is something that has a huge impact on the ticket prices. With that said, there is still enormous variation from game to game as well as from season to season, meaning that interested individuals will want to do their research so that they can be better-informed when making their purchases.
What Is the Expected Cost of Tickets?
For starters, there are sources out there that have produced statistics for the average cost of Dallas Cowboy tickets. For instance, TicketIQ has published statistics that provide some interesting points to mull over. One example is how the average ticket price rose consistently if perhaps not steadily from 2011 to 2017, as shown by how it was $301 in 2015, $311 in 2016, and $402 in 2017. However, what is curious is that the average ticket price in 2018 seems to have seen a tumble to $257, which would be the lowest since 2012. Presumably, the fall in price is based on the Dallas Cowboys’ poor performance, but since the team remains very well-known, interested individuals shouldn’t expect there to be serious limits to how far said fall can proceed.
With that said, while average ticket prices should give interested individuals a very general idea of what a Dallas Cowboys ticket will cost, they should remember that there can be enormous variation for tickets for the same game on the same date. After all, some seats are supposed to offer much better viewing experiences than others, meaning that some seats are much more expensive than others. Due to this, a seat in the Upper Reserved section might cost somewhere between $50 to $80. In contrast, a seat in the Hall of Fame section might cost somewhere between $150 and $300 depending on the exact position of the seat even when it is for the same game on the same date.
What Is the Expected Cost of Concessions?
Like how Dallas Cowboys tickets are pricier than average, their cost of concessions are pricier than average as well. For example, a beer is expected to go for around $9 while a a hot dog is expected to go for around $5.50. In both cases, these prices are higher than the average for the NFL as a whole, which might not seem like in the short run but can nonetheless build up for people who plan on seeing the Dallas Cowboys play again and again.
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VonSeggen was born near Farmington, Iowa in 1949. He received his undergraduate degree from Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL and completed the Wake Forest University Physician Assistant Program, Winston-Salem, NC in 1977. He has worked as a physician assistant (PA) in occupational medicine at RJR Medical Department, PrimeCare Family Medicine, and at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. He retired from clinical practice in 2013.
He became a member of the North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants (NCAPA) and the American Academy of Physician Assistants when he was a student in 1975 and 1976. His service to the NCAPA includes Public Education Chairman, Newsletter Editor, Board of Directors member and president. He is one of three cofounders of the Piedmont Association of PAs in North Carolina and in 2012 was asked by the NCMB to be a member of the Compliance Committee of NC Physicians Health Program.
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I give the wirehouse brokerage model a lot of guff because of how antithetical its structure is to client success. The conflicts, in my opinion, are unresolvable and endemic. The whole thing should die and be reborn – just as it was in the UK when the FSA banned retail commissions and moved everyone dealing with the public to an advisory model and away from the pushing of products.
That ain’t happening any time soon, given the power of the brokerage lobby and its ability to literally help write the regulations with cooperative members of Congress.
To reiterate something I’ve said many times over the years, individual brokers are not bad people. Most of those I know are conscientious, hardworking and extremely dedicated to their clients. Rather, it is the compensation model and sales-oriented culture of these firms that sucks. This is why so many of the big teams and “major producers” I know are actively exploring a breakaway as we speak.
This week, an amazing story came to light about brokers working in the UBS office in Puerto Rico and their courageous fight back against the tyranny of conflicted sales quotas and proprietary schlock products.
Reuters has the money-shot:
In April 2011, two years before their prices sank, a slew of bond funds that were being sold by UBS’s Puerto Rico arm appeared to its brokers to be such risky investments that they balked at promoting them to their clients.
Their misgivings became so great that when a group of brokers was asked by the firm why they weren’t selling more of the funds’ shares they came up with a list of 22 reasons, according to people familiar with the matter. The concerns, which the brokers said were based on their own views and feedback from clients, included allegations the funds suffered from low liquidity, excessive leverage, oversupply and instability. They were wary, in part, because many of the funds were loaded up with debt of the Puerto Rican government and related entities that was underwritten by UBS, the people said.
What was the UBS response?
Here’s what the branch manager said, quoted word for word from a recording made by one of the brokers who was press-ganged into attending the meeting: “You need to focus again on the attractive benefits of our funds and stop this nonsense that there are no products available – because if there are no products, go home, get a new job!”
Having spent more than ten years as a licensed broker prior to strangling my Series 7 license and dumping it in a river, I can attest that this is the norm, if not in actual words then certainly in spirit, from a cultural standpoint. This kind of harangue is almost never conveyed this way, this overtly. It’s typically more subtle, but everyone in the firm knows how it’s gonna be. Move product or move yourself to another firm. And if you don’t play ball, don’t ask for anything – no hot IPOs, no ski trips or Caribbean junkets, no golf outings, no Yankees luxury box tickets. Everybody plays, to the extent they have to.
But sometimes the brokers put their foot down too, as in this particularly egregious case.
Matt Levine at Bloomberg View is tickled by this story and is as amused by it as I am moved:
let’s look on the bright side: Those brokers nailing their 22 theses to the conference-room door are sort of heartwarming, no? They really were unhappy about selling garbage to their clients; they really did stick up for their clients against their firm. It could have been worse. There is rather a lot of precedent for salespeople selling products they don’t believe in and keeping quiet about it for years, until their eventual tell-all book or whistleblower lawsuit. These brokers got out in front of the problem.
When you hear a glimmer of hope for the industry like this one, it reaffirms the fact that, in the end, we’re talking about mostly good people trying to do a good job in a bad comp structure.
Just how bad is the comp structure? Really bad and totally inexplicable. One friend of mine at a major wirehouse has described his 2015 compensation grid as a “combination treasure map and scavenger hunt for extra fees where I have to pick which hoops I’ll jump through to please both my complex manager and my clients.”
Norb Vonnegut at the Wall Street Journal took a poleaxe to the new breed of comp plan this week…
payout grids are out of control. Wirehouses are “compressing” a simple equation—gross revenues times payout equals W-2 income—into 30-plus pages of mind-numbing, what-if scenarios:
What if you sell this? What if you sell that? What if your 2015 revenues fall short of last year’s numbers?
Your grid is a numerical dump, and 30 pages may understate the complexity. One shop uses three separate documents, totaling some 70 pages, to explain how its financial advisers get paid. There’s the plan itself, an overview of the plan and, finally, a compilation of answers to frequently asked questions…
What about clients?
As a general rule, they don’t see the grids. But are their interests served when companies single out individual products like margin loans and pay their advisers to promote them? At one shop, advisers get 35 basis points for encouraging their clients to take more risk.
“There can be a direct link between compensation and advice given to clients,” says Michael Zeuner, the managing partner of WE Family Offices.
“The more complex it is,” he says, “the more it may drive brokers to focus on their own compensation rather than what’s right for the client.”
How many more brokers are going to look at these 30-70 page scavenger hunts and stand up for themselves and their clients by breaking away?
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A Shaftesbury photographer is hoping that his Shaftesbury Arts Centre exhibition will encourage people to consider their own carbon footprint.
Neil Baird’s thought-provoking pictures went on display today (Thursday 17th), timed to coincide with tonight’s Planet Shaftesbury presentation. Keri Jones from ThisIsAlfred discovered that Neil has avoided the usual cliché images used to represent climate change.
“I’ve called it Footprints. People will have heard the idea of carbon footprint,” explained Neil, as he showed me around his small collection of pictures hung around the walls of the Shaftesbury Arts Centre lobby.
Neil is at home here. He leads the Arts Centre’s Photography Group. That’s a fortnightly evening session. By day, he takes pictures of products for commercial clients and sometimes he is commissioned to tell stories through photography.
“Documentary photography has probably grown out of photo journalism, where a journalist would go and shoot photographs of things that were happening in the world as they happened,” said Neil. “Photographers realised that there’s a bigger story. There’s a ‘before’, there’s context and there’s usually an ‘after’. That’s probably where the idea of documentary came from. It’s where you explore an issue of interest to you and take time over it. A news photographer will go in and go ‘snap, snap, snap’. A documentary photographer may take many weeks or months to do a project. It is photography with a conscience, trying to show things up that other people may not see, in the same way that documentary filmmaking does.”
So does a picture paint a thousand words? “It does. That’s what I like to do,” said Neil.
I was surprised that the usual images of scorched desert earth or flooded cities are absent from Neil’s climate change collection. “We’ve probably all seen these photographs that try to say something about climate change, where we see polar bears struggling in the melting ice caps or we see devastated areas or deforestation. Those kinds of images, I felt, leave one with a sense of ‘Oh my God, this is terrible. What could I possibly do about that?’”
Neil’s exhibition is all about people. And his pictures create a puzzle, such as why is a middle aged woman standing on the water’s edge in front of yachts affecting climate change? What about the robed monk photographed in his doorway?
Neil tried to explain. “I wanted to interview a range of people from different walks of life, asking them the questions, ‘What do you think about climate change?’ and ‘Do you think there’s something that we can do?’ I also asked them to work out their carbon footprint through a calculator – there are several online. The results were fascinating and I’ve shown them in the captions to the photographs. They range from relatively small to relatively large.”
It’s easy to judge and ‘read a book by its cover’ when you see a picture of a person. You’ll find yourself trying to guess each individual’s carbon consumption. And you’ll probably get it wrong. Neil’s display is designed to surprise.
On the back wall is an airline pilot, wearing a blue uniform with a stripe on his cuff. He’s holding one of those small roller suitcases. He stands in front of a chain-link fence topped with swirls of barbed wire. Directly behind that is the airport runway, with an EasyJet plane and fuel lorry on display. An unkempt patch of weeds runs along the fence. There’s clearly a statement here about flying’s impact on our climate.
“I knew that he was a pilot,” said Neil. “I asked him to work out his personal carbon footprint, deliberately leaving out the professional one. That’s a whole minefield and it’s a very difficult thing to calculate. That particular airline, I was told by my pilot friend, are doing quite a bit to try and make the planes more fuel efficient, which is great. But I was more interested in how a pilot feels about the issue and that’s why I interviewed him and asked him to work out his footprint. Its high compared to some of the people here, but it doesn’t include his professional flying.
“I wasn’t trying to make any other kind of statement,” said Neil. “Photography is wonderful. We do read things in. Everybody has their own take on a photograph. If you see something in there that I hadn’t seen, that’s fantastic.”
The picture to the right is Alice, the Curate in Ludwell. She’s standing in front of the church altar. “I spoke to her about her own carbon footprint,” said Neil. “One of the assumptions, which is probably fairly accurate, is that the higher the income, the more stuff you buy. Some people object to that but that’s a percentage of what the final footprint is. But then it’s also how you heat your house, how well insulated your house is, what kind of car you drive, how many miles you drive , what kind of food you eat, all those things may have an impact,” Neil said.
So what was Alice’s message? “Because she’s a Christian, she told me what her take on the Christian view is,” said Neil. “She definitely feels that it’s our responsibility to take care of God’s earth. We’re not really living up to our calling as Christians if we don’t pay attention to that, and I thought that was a very interesting point of view.”
Neil also has some photographic references to food. There are four, raw, pink quarter-pound hamburger patties stacked on top of each other, separated by greaseproof paper. “Most people know meat production has a very high footprint. All animal produce does, for various reasons,” he said. A bunch of carrots, fresh from the ground, were pictured next to the burgers. “A kilo of seasonal and local carrots is one quarter of a kilogram, in terms of carbon climate gases and, by comparison, the four burgers are eight kilos. I thought that was very interesting to people to see that the food we eat makes a difference to our footprint.”
Neil wants visitors to leave his exhibition with awareness of climate change issues. “I would hope that somebody would look at these and say, ‘wow, that’s interesting’. I think anyone who tried to guess the subjects’ carbon footprints and rank them in order will be surprised,” he said. “There’s somebody who has a footprint of four tons a year. That’s a pretty low footprint. On the other hand, we’ve got somebody in the exhibition who has a footprint of 58 tons. The UK average is ten tons.”
Neil would like his visitors to ask themselves a key question about their carbon footprint. “I wonder what mine is, and is there anything I can do to bring it down? The recent IPCC report said we need to take quick, unprecedented action to avoid global warming going from around one degree higher than at the beginning of industrial times to two degrees. At two degrees, we don’t really want to be around,” he said.
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Act of Solidarity with Sikh and Muslim Neighbors Near Sites of Recent Violence and Arson
Washington DC, August 21, 2012
In light of the recent acts of violence and vandalism against religions minorities across the country, Sojourners is calling on Christians to stand up against the hatred. Starting today, a billboard and newspaper ad will appear in Joplin, Mo., home to a mosque that burned to the ground earlier this month after suffering two previous acts of arson.
Both the ad and the billboard read simply, “Love Your Muslim Neighbors.” The billboard is five blocks from the mosque on the corner of W 7th Street & S Schifferdecker Street.; the newspaper ad ran today in The Joplin Globe on Page A6. The second billboard has been erected three blocks from the gurudwara that was the recent target of a shooting that left six worshippers dead. The billboard reads, “Love Your Sikh Neighbors,” and sits on the corner of College Avenue and 13th Street in Oak Creek.
Lisa Sharon Harper, Director of Mobilizing for Sojourners, who recently joined with the Muslim community in fasting during Ramadan noted, “These attacks all come from fear. People fear what they don’t know or don’t understand.” She added, ““These ads are encouragement for Christians to act out of love and not fear towards those of different religions.”
Geoff Tunnicliffe, CEO and Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, says, “Let there be no doubt: as Christians, we want to live in peace with Muslims, Sikhs and with all men and women in this world. This is intrinsic to our religion and is essential to Jesus’ teachings.” Tunnicliffe hopes that these billboards send a strong message to those of other faiths, as well, adding, “We want these billboards to communicate solidarity against violence and the desire to live peacefully with one another, regardless of faith tradition.”
In Milwaukee, Wis., Rev. Steve Jerbi of All Peoples Church has been actively involved responding to the shooting at the gurudwara. “It is amazing that loving our neighbor is such a radical statement. The walls of division, fear, and sometimes just not even knowing our neighbors is too often our reality. This campaign reminds us, after tragedy and in everyday life, that we are called to love our neighbors. This is a change for Christians to continue to express not just our sympathy, but our love for sisters and brothers in the Sikh community.”
Rev. Jill Cameron Michel of South Joplin Christian Church has worked with other clergy in the area to support the Islamic community after the loss of their building by hosting an Iftar dinner with four other churches in the area, as well as planning future outreach focusing on education Christians about Islam." Jesus went to where people were hurting. He crossed boundaries of culture, race, and religion, and he acted in love even when it was difficult. Jesus echoed the words of Judaism by reminding us that faith comes down to loving God and loving your neighbor, two inseparable parts of the whole. Offering comfort, support, and hope, recognizing the humanity not only of those who believe as I do, but of all -- these are acts of love, and are central to my faith.”
Sojourners' mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world. Sojorners is an Associate Member of the World Evangelical Alliance. Visit www.sojo.net, and www.GodsPolitics.com. | <urn:uuid:768a208c-df37-4cea-bb89-db1a8e68166e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://worldea.org/en/news/sojourners-launches-billboard-campaign-calls-christians-to-love-their-neighbors-of-different-faiths/ | 2020-09-28T09:25:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401598891.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928073028-20200928103028-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.957516 | 766 |
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‘Between Lines’ Backspace Gallery Artists Talks
1 May, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
Award winning printmaker Carol Kite & renowned theatre-maker Tammie Kite welcome visitors on the final day of their Backspace Gallery exhibition ‘Between Lines’, Sunday 1 May from 2pm, for conversations around the genesis of their collaborative exhibition and what they have learned about the impacts of WWI on family lives across this region.
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The "web" has become our most powerful ecological image of the interconnectedness of all creatures, yet this image predates science, it is present in every culture's anthology. Chief Seattle said "Whatever man does to the web, he does to himself." Award-winning journalist Richard Louv explores the fragile network that connects people and the strands that make it up: nature, childhood, adulthood, spirit, purpose, and community. Louv makes a compelling case that our future depends on rebuilding this fragile web of life through strengthening and treasuring our friendships, our business relationships, and our families.
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Enriching and Uplifting
This was a very warm and fuzzy listen. It will slow you down, give you a different perspective and help you appreciate the important things in your life.
This collection of the author's thoughts shows how life is threaded together by small, yet significant experiences. He shows how strands of his childhood, love, marriage, and parenting give his life its texture. Although you may not relate specifically to his stories of fishing, relocating and aging, you will most certainly identify with the feelings and emotions conveyed in them and how they tie us all together.
Fritjof Capra?s Web of Life was abstract and theoretical, but this is practical and touching. Some passages even brought a tear to my eye.
The narrator had a soothing therapeutic voice but the quality of the sound left a lot to be desired.
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Santa Clara has played a loss for six fixtures in a row at home.
The power of tradition is large. This match often result in a draw. The side of João Henriques has played a loss for three fixtures in line. Generally they draw the following game. Santa Clara has played a loss for six fixtures in a row at home. Generally Santa Clara draw the preceding match. The visiting team has just now taken ground in the championship. The shape of the side of Vítor Oliveira is increasing. Vítor Oliveiras team has had very bad shape.Link | <urn:uuid:ebfcf03c-ec21-4704-b8e4-bbe4ce3d1a85> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.betbot.soccer/game/Primeira%20Liga/173279700-Santa%20Clara-Portimonense | 2020-09-28T09:28:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401598891.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928073028-20200928103028-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.984299 | 118 |
I've been fortunate to be involved with a number of media related projects over the years including various international ventures. I've also lectured on journalism at several universities. Some of those are listed below and I'm grateful to all the following organisations for supporting my work.
If you think I could help you then please get in touch.
My email is - firstname.lastname@example.org
THEIRWORLD - https://theirworld.org/
I'm currently a part-time specialised writer with a charity called Theirworld which advocates for children's rights across the world. I report on how children's education has been affected by war, civil conflicts and general violence in societies.
Click here to read my stories - https://theirworld.org/search?q=billy+briggs
BAUER ACADEMY - http://baueracademy.co.uk
I've been a media tutor with Bauer Academy since 2011, hosting media workshops across the UK. I teach students about news reporting, long-form reportage, investigations, fact checking, photography and online journalism.
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF STREET PAPERS - https://insp.ngo/
I was hired as a media consultant with INSP in 2011 and later appointed part-time editor of its online news service, which provides free content to more than 100 street papers across the world.
In 2012, INSP’s news service was short-listed for Best Specialist Site for Journalism at the Online Media Awards. In receiving that nomination, INSP was ranked alongside journalistic heavyweights such as The Guardian, Reuters, Bloomberg, Financial Times and The Economist.
I left INSP in 2014.
EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
I worked with EHRC in 2012 for a major report on how human rights laws were being upheld by public authorities in the UK.
Click link below to read the report -
LEXIS NEXIS - www.lexisnexis.co.uk/en-uk/home.page
In 2012 I was commissioned to work on the Human Trafficking Awareness Index by Lexis Nexis. Using a licensed collection of almost 6000 news sources from more than 120 countries, the HTA Index highlighted emerging trends and patterns of awareness within and across national borders.
FREEDOM FROM TORTURE - www.freedomfromtorture.org
In 2011, I worked with photographer Angie Catlin on a project called Human Rights and Wrongs. Over a period of six months, we interviewed torture survivors suffering from PTSD who were being counselled at the charity's premises in Glasgow.
The men and women came to Scotland from places such as Iran, Sudan, DRC, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, among other nations with dire human rights records. A short book was published documenting the stories of 16 people, complemented by articles in the media and a photography exhibition.
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS - www.st-andrews.ac.uk
In 2011 I lectured on journalism at the University of St Andrews. I developed an 18 week media course for international students on the Undergraduate Foundation for Business, Social Sciences and Law, part of the English Language Teaching department.
I've also been a guest lecturer at Napier University, Edinburgh. At the University of Strathclyde I taught on a MSc in Investigative Journalism, run by Dr Eamonn O’Neill, an investigative journalist and academic.
PEACEMAKERS OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
In December 2008 I visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories for a project commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace. It was a joint venture with photographer Angie Catlin and we documented a number of remarkable peace initiatives that get little publicity.
We interviewed Rabbis who work side by side with Palestinians in Jerusalem and visited a unique village called Neve Shalom, where Arabs and Jews have lived together peacefully for more than 30 years. We also met Jewish doctors who forego time off at weekends to travel to the West Bank and Gaza to treat Palestinians.
Peacemakers of Israel/Palestine formed a photography exhibition as part of the 6th Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace.
You can read a BBC report about our project here -
SCOTTISH REFUGEE COUNCIL - www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk
In 2007 the SRC commissioned a project to highlight the Iraqi refugee crisis as more than 4.7 million people had been displaced by war in five years. I visited Damascus in Syria with photographer Angela Catlin to meet Iraqi refugees and to document the effect of war on their lives for a photography exhibition to be held in Glasgow. The project was called Life After Iraq and was part of Refugee Week Scotland 2008. We also interviewed Iraqis who came to Scotland for the project.
A number of articles were published by the media and a photography exhibition was held at St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in Glasgow from 13 June - 26 October, 2008. The exhibition toured cities across the UK and we were later commissioned by the Welsh Refugee Council for a similar project in Wales.
Click link below to read a BBC article about Life After Iraq -
MINES ADVISORY GROUP - www.maginternational.org
Photographer Angie Catlin and I travelled to Lebanon in late 2007 with Mines Advisory Group. The project was to document the aftermath of the July 2006 War between Israel and Hezbollah, which left millions of live explosive devices over southern Lebanon.
The brief conflict killed more than a thousand people, most of whom were Lebanese civilians. It severely damaged Lebanese infrastructure and displaced nearly one million Lebanese and, across the border, between 300,000 and 500,000 Israelis.
Though the fighting stopped on 14th August 2006, the war continued to cast a dark shadow. The UN estimated that Israel dropped four million bombs during the 34-day war. During the last 48 hours of the conflict alone, around one million cluster bombs were dropped into southern Lebanon.
The consequences for the local population were catastrophic as huge swathes of land were rendered uninhabitable.
Click link below to our report published by Relief Web -
BHOPAL MEDICAL APPEAL - https://bhopal.org
In 2009 I visited India with a photographer from London called David Graham, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster. We spent two weeks in Bhopal to report on BMA's work while documenting the hideous legacy of the world's worst industrial disaster.
The Bhopal gas disaster has been dubbed the ''Hiroshima of the chemical industry''. It happened shortly after midnight on December 3, 1984, when a cloud of poisonous gas escaped from a Union Carbide pesticide plant. The release of 42 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (known as MIC) from the factory exposed more than 500,000 people to toxic gas. Up to 10,000 are thought to have died within the first 72 hours after the leak.
At least 25,000 people exposed to the gas have since died, and today in Bhopal tens of thousands more Indians suffer from a variety of debilitating gas-related illnesses such as respiratory and psychiatric problems, joint pains, menstrual irregularities, tuberculosis and cancers. Then there's the escalating number of birth defects, including cleft palates, webbed feet and hands, twisted limbs, brain damage and heart problems.
A number of media across the world published our reports including The Sydney Morning Herald -
MARY'S MEALS - www.marysmeals.org.uk
In 2007 I visited Haiti with photographer Angie Catlin for a project commissioned by a charity called Mary's Meals. We documented the horrendous living conditions people endure in a slum called Cite Soliel in the nation's capital city, Port Au Prince.
Our reports were published by Scotland On Sunday, New Statesman, The Catholic Herald, Sunday Herald and The Sunday Times.
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Guest: Ambassador Ronald Neumann
CCWA hosted former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and current President of the American Academy of Diplomacy Ronald E. Neumann for a discussion on U.S. policy on Afghanistan.
In August 2017, the Trump Administration announced a policy shift increasing troops in Afghanistan and dropping the time limits of U.S. departure from the region. Is this really a new policy or just doubling down on 16 years of war without end? Ambassador Neumann explored the risks of staying in an unstable Afghanistan and whether or not American withdrawal is feasible. | <urn:uuid:656d9389-45b3-4589-a079-1e7ba34f9ded> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.ccwa.org/episode-24-the-new-afghanistan-policy-how-new-is-it-and-whats-it-worth/ | 2020-09-28T09:22:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401598891.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928073028-20200928103028-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.913065 | 115 |
Get The Kids Excited!
When my son was in elementary school I spent a lot of time volunteering at his school. Through the years, I assisted his classroom teachers with various tasks, I ran the book fair, I assisted with field day and a few other events during the school year, I was the Secretary of the PTG and for several years I ran the school's Accelerated Reader Program.
If there is one thing that I learned in all of the time I spent in that school it is that children get really excited when you "show them" what's in it for them rather than "tell them" what you want them to do.
A perfect example of this was the Accelerated Reader Program. This was a program that encouraged children to read and improve their reading comprehension. The school provided kids and parents with a list of books that were included in the program. There were a variety of books available for all reading levels. The kids could get the books from the school library, their local public library or even purchase the books at a book store if they chose to do so.
Once the kids read one of the books they would use designated classroom time or library time to take a computerized quiz to test their comprehension of the books that they read. For each comprehension quiz that they passed, they received points.
The parent volunteers who ran the program were responsible for putting together a list of prizes the kids could win for reaching various point levels throughout the year. Each month we would come into the school, get a printout from the librarian telling us what point level each child was at and then go around to the classrooms to give out the prizes.
The one thing that got the children more excited than anything to participate in this options program was a huge bulletin board that we created in the school's main hallway. We made the bulletin board bright, colorful and eye-catching and we put all of the prizes on the board. When the kids could physically see what they could win they wanted it even more than just reading about what they could win on a flyer.
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In just 6 months of rapping, NFL Toon has become one of the hottest rappers coming out Louisiana! He’s already racked up millions of views on YouTube with his first 2 singles “Free Ziggy” & “City Rollin”.
Last week we linked up with the Louisiana native for an exclusive “Off The Porch” interview! During our sit-down, he talked about what motivated him to start rapping last year, getting over a million views on the first song that he recorded “Free Ziggy”, following up with his viral single “City Rollin” that got 7 million views in just 4 months, not paying attention to the NBA Youngboy comparisons, explains how he came up with “Never Forget Loyalty”, jumping off the porch at a young age, getting locked up when he was 15 for trying to rob a Wal-Mart with a BB gun, getting locked up at 16 for home invasion, his plans to move to L.A. soon, explains how he linked up with Fiend, reveals his favorite weed strains, his upcoming project “I Don’t Play”, goals for 2020 & much more! Check it out below! | <urn:uuid:ad996f4d-b13b-44a3-8228-71c95c62e282> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.dirty-glove.net/off-the-porch-w-nfl-toon/ | 2020-09-28T08:53:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401598891.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928073028-20200928103028-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.965442 | 255 |
The title quote is probably too fixed. Generally, there can be no such prescriptive methods for writing literature, however, there is certainly evidence to show that when contradicting qualities or concepts are presented in close proximity, the intensity of the situation is heightened. Milton used this technique in Paradise Lost – assembling a clear-cut universe comprised entirely of polar opposites and without ambivalence or moral middle ground. Hence in Milton, every physical or mental property is in effect generated and defined by the absence of its opposite counterpart. So darkness is the complete absence of light, and evil is the complete absence of good etc. Dickens’ and Collins’ use of juxtaposition in their novels is more reticent than Milton though with a similar intent and evident immediately in the opening passage of a ‘Tale of Two Cities’: “It was the best of times it was the worst of times… in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” The quote is also an admission on behalf the nature of the novel itself and it is with this ‘superlative degree of comparison’ that we will be made to receive much of the events that unfold, and discover in the process that no such fixed model can properly express human nature which is too often ambiguous or prone to change.Both authors were aware that their novels were to be published as serialisations and so there was a very real need to maintain the reader’s interest between chapters. It is perhaps with this concern in mind that the authors penned their mild heroes into lurid depictions of violence and human brutality since the jarring of good and evil makes for shocking subject matter and invariably what is shocking is also powerful. With Dickens’ novel as with Collins’ the real dramatic tension is created by placing feminine champions of goodness and temperance within a masculine context of immorality and violence. As well as the perceived distinction between innocence and guilt, frailty and brutality, patience and impulsion, there is also a subtle contrast between an inner world and an outer one. A world of the soul, which is implicit and inherently good, and a world of the physical or the body which is explicit and outwardly evil. In both novels, the language separates in a similar way – outwardly graphic and sensational, yet with a subtle and often more powerful subtext. The texts of both novels are founded in conflict and perpetuate a sense of tension so it serves us well to do close readings of a short passage as much as an overview of the whole. | <urn:uuid:240c6e61-f3df-4c13-9999-3ad9acddb4e7> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.enlunwen.net/mei-guo-ya-la-ba-ma-lun-wen-dai-xie-zhe-zhong-gui-ding-xing-de-fang-fa/ | 2020-09-28T08:20:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401598891.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928073028-20200928103028-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.82943 | 542 |
A friend of mine did something very dangerous and frightening this week, something which could have and may still affect his family for the rest of their lives. At first I didn’t have many feelings about this. Hearing the news, I was sort of numb. My predominant emotion was irritation. The crisis my friend had generated was getting in the way of my plans for the week. I didn’t want to spend any time on it; didn’t want to get involved. How could he have been so stupid? Everyone else had rushed right in to help, and I found myself annoyed with them as well. I wanted to leave the man to his fate.
Wondering at my callousness, I explored these feelings of not wanting to be bothered. As I allowed them room to speak to me, I discovered they were just the thin coat of ice covering a much stronger sentiment: I was furious. My friend’s actions, how they had put him at risk and endangered his family’s well being, filled me with a boiling rage. I wanted to punch him, spit on him. How dare he do what he had done?
The storms continued to flood my heart. Rage gave way to helpless weeping as I experienced the tragedy of the event. I came to recognize two things: this was a man in deep trouble – and he was totally beyond my reach. There was no way I could make things better. There was no way I had any control whatsoever over anything that had happened or that would happen. I came to realize that underlying all my emotion was my love for everyone involved. Out of my love I wanted to get my fingers into all the false assumptions, the posturing, the addictive behaviors and the defenses in this man and between him and his family – and just rip them apart, rip them to shreds. I wanted to release what was vulnerable in him, protect his vulnerable family and friends, tear away the garbage. And I also wanted to put things back to before the “bad thing” had happened and make it all just not so.
These were finally the truest, the deepest feelings within me, and they brought me home to prayer. It was a long, gasping, snot-filled lament. But at the center of it was the true me, standing in relationship with the living God. Now I can go help where it is possible and forgive where I am able, out of the balance that springs from resting on my own deepest ground.
“Abide in me,” says Jesus, and, “just as the branch cannot bear fruit unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.” I knew all my emotions around my friend’s actions – from the churlish irritation to the consuming anger to the helplessness and despair were acceptable in God’s eyes. And the process of giving them room to have their say in my heart led me ultimately to my center, the place where I abide in Christ. Splintered off and unexplored or falsely justified, my feelings would have led me to behave like a dry branch that bears no fruit. The same would be true if they had continued to be repressed. Only by caring about myself enough to nurture the full truth of my passion into awareness and then to pray can I ever come to that place of centeredness where I abide in Jesus, who is God, who is love.
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Right next to the south to the Grand Palace, Wat Pho is one of the oldest temples in Bangkok and one of the first class royal temples in Thailand. Visiting Wat Pho, you will be absolutely stunned by the most famous and the largest Buddha statue that gives the temple its name “Temple of the Reclining Buddha”. This statue measures 150 feet in length with the feet displaying 108 auspicious symbols of Buddha. To wish for happiness and good fortune, you can drop coins into one of 108 bronze bowls in the corridor. Wat Pho is also home to Thai Traditional Medical and Massage School - the first massage school in Thailand - where you can relax and get a massage after an hour wandering and discovering the temple. One of our customers’ most favorite experiences in Bangkok is visiting Wat Pho in the early morning. Our tour guides know how to keep them stay away from the crowd and finish the walking right in time to experience the monk early morning chanting ritual.
Wat Pho is one of the oldest temples in Bangkok
It is home to the largest Buddha statue
Visit early in the morning to witness the monk chanting ritual.
Entrance: 100 baht (free entry for children under 120cms)
Open: 8.00 am - 6.30 pm
Wat Arun or Temple of Dawn situated gracefully by Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River glittering beautifully in the soft, tremulous light of the dawn. The main attraction of Wat Arun is its Khmer-style central tower which is encrusted with colorful Chinese porcelain, making for a truly impressive sight at any time of the day. Climb up the tower for a panorama view over the river and surrounding landscapes. Although it is named The Temple of Dawn, many people say Wat Arun is at its best in the sunset. When the sun is setting behind its incredible architecture, the temple is simply gorgeous. Taking a boat tour on the Chao Phraya River or having a cocktail at one of the highest rooftop bars to see the temple twinkling at night is amazing as well. If you are a photography enthusiast, this is the place for you.
Wat Arun or Temple of Dawn situated gracefully by Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River
Steep Stairways to the Top of Wat Arun
The temple is simply gorgeous.
Entrance: 50 Baht per person
Open: 8.30am - 5.30pm
Colorful mosaics, amazing gold statues, intricate detail, and porcelain carvings, Wat Phra Kaew (or The Temple of Emerald Buddha) is a place you must put on your itinerary when you’re visiting Bangkok. This is home to the holiest Emerald Buddha statue that spent its first 300 years in various temples across Thailand and Laos until it finally settled in this breathtaking temples. Despite its modest size (especially given the massive size of many Buddha statues in the whole country), the Emerald statue exudes a powerful and sacred presence by the reverence of Thai people.
Wat Phra Kaew is home to the holiest Emerald Buddha statue in Thailand
A giant demon guardian in Wat Phra Kaew. There are many demon guardian around the temple.
Buddha statues inside Wat Phra Kaew
Entrance: 500 Baht per person (include the entrance fee to the Grand Palace)
Open: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
One out of the two important temples in Chiang Mai, Wat Chedi Luang aka the Temple of King, is undoubtedly the most impressive religious site in the north of Thailand. The construction of the present day temple began in the 14th century. Some parts of the temple were half destroyed during earthquakes and invasions. A few attempts to restore this sacred site has been made however it is still far from its original charm yet it is still an admirable temple that reflects Lanna-style architecture. Wat Chedi Luang was also the original place of the Emerald Buddha which is now enshrined at Wat Phra Kaew. That means visiting this temple is a delightful experience to taste the history and culture of Chiang Mai. If you are interested in learning more about Buddhism and the monastic life, it’s recommended to indulge into the “Monk Chat” program which allows visitors to have a chat with the monks daily between 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Wat Chedi Luang is the most impressive religious site in the north of Thailand
The base of the chedi has 5 elephant sculptures on the south side.
Standing golden Buddha statues inside the temple.
Open: 6:00 am - 6:00 pm
From the height of Doi Suthep, Wat Phra That Doi Suthep gleams like a northern star in the sky. Along with Wat Chedi Luang, this temple is one of the two most historical and spiritual sites in the north of Thailand. Dates back to the 14th century, Wat Phra That Doi Suthep is an impressive embodiment of the Lanna culture. The temple is home to one of the two pieces of Buddha’s shoulder bone. It is believed that a white elephant carried the bone on its back, roaming in the jungle until it died at Doi Suthep where the temple was constructed to enshrine. They also made a statue of the elephant placing on the ground as a tribute to its dedication. With the stunning golden stupa, old walls, impressive murals, and beautiful shrines, this attraction is a must in Chiang Mai. Some of our Thailand tours that include Chiang Mai often drive our visitors up to the mountain in the afternoon. When the tourist masses leave the temple and dusk gives it a special atmosphere, you are on your own to receive a private blessing ceremony and witness the magical evening chanting of the monk. That would be a truly unforgettable and one of a kind experience you have in Thailand.
Dates back to the 14th century, Wat Phra That Doi Suthep is an impressive embodiment of the Lanna culture
From the height of Doi Suthep, the temple gleams like a star
It is one of the best attractions of Chiang Mai
Entrance: 30 baht
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Eskeromullacaun (Leagan Gaeilge – Eiscir Uí Mhaolacháín): The townland of Eskeromullacaun is situated about two kilometres west of Glenamaddy Town in north-east County Galway. The townland is better known as Esker. Other forms of the name are Eiscir O’Mhaolacáin and Eskeromeelaghan. O’Donovan in his Field Name Books translates the townland name as “O’Mullagan’s esker or ridge”. The Irish for esker is ‘eiscir’ and ‘omullacaun’ is the anglicised form of the Irish surname ‘Ó Maolacháin’ which means the son, or, descendant of an individual whose surname was Mulligan. The name is derived from the range of sand hills called Eskers which run from north to south bisecting the townland. The greater part of the townland lies north of the Glenamaddy to Tuam road with a small portion to the south.
- An Enclosure, a Monumental Structure (Cloch an Bhreithiúnais) and a Children’s Burial Ground are registered with the National Monuments Service and feature in the National Monuments Service Archaeological Survey Database.
- Two other monuments, a Penal Mass Station called Gleann an Aifrinn and Sceach na gCloigeann where a priest found guilty of celebrating Mass and members of his flock are reputed to have been hanged are not registered with the National Monuments Service. The location of the tree which has not survived is known locally.
- The Esker hills constitute a prominent physical feature which dominate the landscape.
- A river flows westward in the northern portion of the townland and a turlough appears in winter in the most southerly point adjacent to the Glenamaddy to Tuam Road
- A small lough called Pollagarraun is a permanent fixture in the centre of the townland as is a portion of Loughnashask in the south west.
- The 1840 Historic Ordnance Survey Map shows three distinct clusters of houses fitting the definition of clachans on either side of the Esker hills. Old Town (Sean Bhaile) situated west of the hills contained twenty three houses in two separate but adjacent groupings while Newtown (Baile Nua) to the east comprised fifteen houses.
1656-58 Down Survey: There is no information available for the townland of Eskeromullacaun in this survey.
1823 – 1838 Tithe Applotment Books: Surviving documentation of the Tithe Applotment Books is in poor condition making it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to decipher the names of landholders. In so far as it can be ascertained the following Catholic landholders in the townland of Eskeromullacaun paid the tithe (tax) levied to support the Established Church (Church of Ireland). Geraghty (2), Mannion, Canniff, Cunny (2), Cuniff. Protestant occupiers of agricultural holdings were exempt from this tax.
1838 O’Donovan’s Field Name Books: O’Donovan’s townland describes the townland as follows – “About 3/4 of this townland is bog interspersed through various parts of the townland. There are two small Loughs namely Esker Lough 51/2 chains N. of the T. boundary and Wind Hill Lough nearly in the centre of the townland in a bog. There are two villages called Old Town and Newtown. Esker Poulegarane is at the South end of Oldham [Unable to read.]. Esker village a portion of Lough na Shask which is on the N. boundary belongs to the townland. There is also a Turlough. A road crosses the [Unable to read.]. The remainder of the land is tillage and pasture. Eskeromullacaun is situated at the South boundary of this parish joining the parishes of Clonbern and Kilkerrin the former in the Barony of Ballymoe and the latter in the Barony of Tiaquin”.
1856 Griffith’s Valuation: The townland covers an area of 864 acres 3 roods and 20 perches and the total rateable valuation of the land and buildings combined amounted to £135 15s 0d. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation there were twenty three occupiers in Eskeromullacaun – Corneely, Mannion, McDonnell (Landlord), Burke, Cunniff (3), Donnellan (2), Giblin, Gannon (2), Connors, Keavany (2), Haverty, Geraghty (3), Comer, Hussey and Coghlan. The landlord was Martin McDonnell.
Adjoining Townlands: The following townlands share a border with Eskeromullacaun – Boyounagh More (Middletown), Cashel, Patch,(Clonberne Parish), Bushtown, Clooncon West, Loughpark and Shannagh More (Parkroe – Kilkerrin Parish).
Whereas much of the townland has been reclaimed from cut-away bog and converted into productive grassland in the 20th century, there is still a portion of good quality bogland on the northern perimeter of the townland which keeps the home fires burning throughout the winter months. A number of Loughs appear on the Griffith Valuation Ordnance Survey map of Eskeromullacaun – Pollagarraun, so called after a gelding (gearrán) is reputed to have drowned there in olden times, retains water throughout the year. An overflow pipe was installed in recent years to take surplus water from the lough to a small river that disappears underground a stone’s throw from the townland boundary in a swallow-hole located in Boyounagh More (Middletown).
Esker Lough no longer exists. It was drained in the early part of the 20th century when the owner of the land in which the lough was situated, excavated a hole on its verge causing the water to soak into the depression. As the water receded great numbers of fish and eels could be seen wriggling in the thick black mud which had sealed the bottom of the lough. Windhill Lough which was located on the eastern side of the Esker hills no longer exists. Pollnashask is partly in Eskerromullacaun. It is called Loughnashask by O’Donovan in the 1834 Field Name Books and translated as Sedge Lough. It is located on the south side of the Dunmore Road. It retains water all year round and traditionally was a haven for otters and a safe nesting place for swans. When the water table rises in winter it merges with Cashel turlough (Turlough Boyounagh) from whence it flows via a subterranean passage to Gilmore’s mill in Leitra.The mill depended on a good flow of water to turn the mill wheel and could only operate at optimum efficiency when the water reached a certain level in Glenamaddy Turlough and Cashel Lake.
In the latter half of the 19th century Martin McDonnell, local Landlord, had the bright idea that he could divert the water from this river, before it reached the swallow-hole, to the Yellow River in Boyounagh with a view to increasing the flow of water that operated the mills he constructed at Boyounagh Bridge.Having excavated a trench thirty metres long he discovered that the water soaked into the ground, forcing him to abandon the project. The outline of the abandoned trench can still be observed in the landscape adjacent to the small river which maintained its traditional course.
Census Records: Population and Household data for the townland of Eskeromullacaun:
Glenamaddy and the Irish Folklore Collections:
The article posted on this website under the ‘Heritage > Folklore’ tab provides an overview of the folklore material submitted by Glenamaddy parishioners to the National Folklore Commission, now known as the Irish Folklore Collections. It also explains the background to the 1937 Schools’ Collection (Bailiúchán na Scol) project which has good representation from a parish perspective
The Irish Folklore Collections housed in the Folklore Department of University College Dublin contain a treasure trove of folklore material, some of which is accessible online. Both the Main Manuscript Collection and the Schools’ Collection contain a considerable number of submissions from collectors and informants who resided in the parish of Glenamaddy. The quick reference directories featured in the ‘Parish > Townlands’ section of this website complement the user-friendly search features of the dúcas.ie website and are helpful in tracking Schools’ Collection submissions associated with townlands. Submissions are categorised under – School, Teacher, Language, Volume Number, Page Number, Collector, Collector’s Townland, Informant and Informant’s Townland. Where applicable, Schools’ Collection directories showing online townland-related submissions appear at the end of the following townland posts on this website – Ballinapeaka, Ballinastack, Barna, Boyounagh More (Middletown), Bushtwon, Cashel, Classaghroe, Cloonacross, Clooncon East, Clooncon West, Cloonkeen, Cultiafadda, Eskeromullacaun (Esker), Felimspark, Glenamaddy, Gortaganny, Gortnagier, Kiltullagh, Knockauns, Lisheenaheltia, Loughpark, Meelick, Scotland, Shannagh More, Stonetown and Woodfield.
Schools’ Collection Townland-Related Quick Reference Directory:
Parish folklore submissions contained in the Schools’ Collection are also accessible online via the following links:-
Árd Aoibhinn National School – Part 1 – https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613680
Árd Aoibhinn National School – Part 2 – https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613681
Glenamaddy Girls’ National School – https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613677
Glenamaddy Boys’ National School – Part 1 – https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613678
Glenamaddy Boys’ National School – Part 2 – https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613679
Gort na Léime National School – Part 1 – https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4569061
Gort na Léime National School – Part 2 – https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4569062
Lisheenaheltia Girls’ National School – https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613675
Lisheenaheltia Boys’ National School – https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613676
Glenamaddy submissions which form part of the Main Manuscript Collection are not posted online but may be examined in the reading room of the Folklore Department in U.C.D., Belfield, Dublin 4. Typed versions of some of the parish contributions contained in the Main Manuscript Collection are published under the ‘Heritage > Folklore’ tab on this website.
Quick Reference Directory of Glenamaddy folklore submissions in the Main Manuscript Collection:-
Author: Pat Keaveny
For related townland website posts click on the following links:–
Townlands in County Galway
1840 Historic Ordnance Survey Map
Place Name Books of Galway
The Down Survey of Ireland
The Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-1837
Griffith Valuation – Ask About Ireland
Central Statistics Office
National Archives: Census Reports 1901/1911
Essex University: Historic Population Census Reports
Historic Environment Viewfinder
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Your home, for example, is probably one of the most permanent parts of your life. Most people will only move every few years—if they move at all—so we might not think of our homes as playing a role in our healthy, active, get out there and enjoy the world lifestyle.
Your environment matters, and keeping it healthy is an essential Habit of Health.
There’s a lot we could talk about for this topic, but for now I want to address a factor that is perhaps the least visible: air quality. Of course having clean air is important, but problems with your air are not always as obvious as other issues, and you might not fully experience the consequences of poor air quality until you’ve spent months living and sleeping in that environment.
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- Change your air filters. Many homeowners change their air filters at the end of summer and at the beginning of spring. This schedule is fine as long as your filters follow the same schedule. Some filters might need to be changed more often, and leaving them dirty can mean you and your family breathing more dust and particulate matter than you should.
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Growing up in the mid-’90s was interesting. We had no idea what to worry about, everything seemed perfectly “meh” and we had to actually leave the house to find stuff. Digging through old crates for records, taking long drives to see bands play or finding the one indie movie theater within 500 miles playing a movie you wanted to see were the bedrock upon which identity was built. And thrift stores were the best places to shop. Before high-priced vintage became a thing you couldn’t escape or Urban Outfitters started marketing distressed T-shirts with the insignia of old bands on the chest, my friends and I trolled any Salvation Army we could find to sniff out that random item of clothing that only cost a few bucks and didn’t look like what everybody else was wearing.
By the time I was 16 in 1997, the secret was out, and more kids I knew and didn’t care much for started frequenting the same thrift stores I did. And while I wouldn’t say they bit my style, we were drawing from the same well of inspiration, and it pissed me off. When you’re young and you think you’re finally carving out an identity for yourself, it’s hard to deal with feeling like that identity is not yours exclusively. So I rebelled. Instead of trying to look like an extra from Larry Clark’s 1995 film Kids, I started going back to exactly what I had rebelled against. I traded in the baggy jeans I skateboarded in for chinos, and started wearing vintage Ralph Lauren Polo button-ups and Lacoste shirts from the decade prior. I was taking my inspiration from people you might not consider punk rock, but they were definitely punks: people like Allen Ginsberg, Miles Davis, David Byrne and Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was still punk, but I was playing with prep. It felt more subversive than getting my face pierced or tattoos I’d eventually regret.
And that’s been my sweet spot ever since: somewhere in the gray area between preppy and punk. I’d say the punk part is more in attitude. I find the act of actually giving a shit what you wear to be subversive, but my look does often skew closer to conventional in some ways. But in the last few years, a few brands have actually started making clothes that I think comes from the same school of philosophy, namely Noah, Rowing Blazers and especially the ongoing collaboration between Palace and Ralph Lauren. With more color, fun and a hearty dose of irreverence, these brands all get how to put out something you could wear to the office but also crosses over into street style; stuff that some 16-year-old can get as hyped about it as somebody twice their age.
Now other iconic brands are starting to hop on board. Just see Sperry’s great Cloud collection or Lands’ End’s collection with Rowing Blazers. And, most recently, British sportswear label Fred Perry and America footwear legend G.H. Bass, who have teamed up on a collection of chunky loafers that strike the perfect balance between New Englander and ne’er-do-well.
Weejuns have been around since 1936, when Bass, which was founded in 1876 in Wilton, Maine, took a shoe designed for farm work in Norway and turned it into one of the most iconic silhouettes of the last century. The Fred Perry polo, which first start popping up in 1952 and is named after a British tennis champ, would eventually become part of the uniform of a number of mods, skinheads and other young people connected to the U.K.’s more fringe subcultures in the ’70s and ’80s.
Today, I’d say the Weejun is also part of its own subculture. Dressing like a “prep” in 2020 takes a little bit of work and cultivation; if you’re going to rock the loafer, you’ve got to commit to it. I’ve always felt it was the type of shoe you really have to think about before you put it on — this collaboration even more so.
The Fred Perry Weejuns come in four different styles: a penny loafer in oxblood and navy, as well as a tassel loafer in black and bottle green. I don’t have a pair of black loafers, so that’s what I went with. I’m also a sucker for tassels. I paired them with a pair of vintage 1940s-era cotton pants, sort of like an inexpensive version of a pair Ralph Lauren put out recently. Since I’m working from home but not trying to feel like a schlub (OK, maybe sometimes feeling like a schlub), I put on an old white oxford and buttoned it all the way to the top. That was my look for the day.
The shoes were comfortable as soon as I put them on. They didn’t take as long to break in as my other pairs of loafers. There was a little more give, and the soles are a little higher than traditional Weejuns. And that’s what makes these shoes so fun to me: they are definitely a collab between Fred Perry and G.H. Bass (the tartan insoles are an especially nice touch), but don’t be surprised if somebody glimpses you wearing them and mistakes them for a pair of Dr. Martens. The Fred Perry Weejuns are almost robust enough to look like a creeper, but won’t make you feel like the old guy trying to be all like, “What’s up, teenagers. You guys like Rancid?”
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Ignorance about Kombucha is nothing new, even in the 21st century. We have been alienated from traditional, fermented foods by design because they are expensive to produce commercially and difficult to store in warehouses for weeks, therefore less profitable for the conglomerates that control the mainstream food supply. Non-inebriating fermented drinks have an even more troublesome path to acceptance. Kombucha is the modern pioneer in this endeavor, often paying the PR price for our society’s unfamiliarity with human nutritional history. The 2010 Kombucha Recall / Withdrawal is one example, and now we have another.
As first reported by Sarah at The Healthy Home Economist, a 7th grade student in the Newport Mesa School District in Southern California was suspended because his mother packed Kombucha in his lunchbox.
The incident began on Tuesday October 9th, 2012, when an unidentified school official confiscated the boy’s Kombucha because it was in a glass bottle. The next day, he was removed from classes without parental notification, held in the Vice Principal’s office and apparently interrogated, threatened and bullied by school officials and at least one uniformed police representative, according to his mother’s blog post.
As she found out after her son returned home, the Vice Principal told the child that he was being suspended for bringing alcohol to school, pulled his “problematic” school history report and discussed transferring him out of the school. When turned over to the uniformed police representative, the child was told the drink was illegal (it was not), subjected to specific questioning regarding what medications he is taking and subsequently threatened with enrollment in Alcoholics Anonymous for Kids. He was then forced to sign a 5-day suspension notice, a terse call was made to the mother by the Vice Principal informing her of the discipline being enforced and he was sent home immediately.
It’s important to note at this point that the mother specifically identifies the bottle as a Bucha Live Kombucha Guava-Mango flavor in this comment below her article. Bucha is an “all ages” Kombucha that is specially formulated to remain under .5% alcohol. As seen in the picture below, the label clearly states that the beverage has less than .5% alcohol, which is plainly not an “alcoholic beverage” according to Federal Law (see page 15 here) and is therefore perfectly legal for any age individual to possess and consume. The school officials’ inability to correctly read a label and subsequent misinterpretation of the laws is sadly ironic considering how random the alcohol percentage limits are in the first place. There was nothing illegal about the beverage and no reason to come to that conclusion.
After repeated attempts to schedule a meeting with the Principal were rebuffed, the mother was finally granted the opportunity to meet with the Vice Principal, but the meeting did not go well, leaving the mother “feeling ridiculous, confused, outraged, ridiculed and blamed,” and the Vice Principal downplayed the incident.
That’s when she turned to Sarah Pope, who placed a call to the Principal. At that point, it appears the school began to take the situation seriously, had discovered their mistake and started backpedaling in earnest.
Both Sarah and the mother, who was finally granted a meeting with the Principal on Friday, October 12 (3 full days after the incident began), reported that the Principal portrayed the incident as no big deal after the fact, denying that any discipline had been instituted.
By that afternoon, the school district had issued a press release stating that, “No disciplinary action was taken and the student was not suspended,” yet the mother notes that her son was forced to sign a 5-day suspension notice. It’s also curious that they claim no disciplinary action was taken when the child was pulled from classes, interrogated, vilified and then sent home.
They further state that “a substance on campus containing any level of alcohol content is a violation,” yet there have been no reported instances of confiscated fruit juice, soy sauce, yogurt or coca cola at the school, all of which contain trace alcohol similar to this Kombucha brand and well below the legally allowed limits. The release offers no apology, admits no wrongdoing and promises no further investigation of the events or the officials involved to determine the appropriateness of their actions, a troubling trifecta of denial.
There is one other note that is particularly bothersome in the way this situation played out. The Kombucha bottle was confiscated at lunch time on Tuesday. The child was not brought to the Vice Principal’s office until Wednesday. Excuses for not notifying the parents before taking disciplinary action become more difficult to imagine based on that timeline. The school officials appeared to have ample time to contact the mother and set up an appropriate forum for discussing the issue. They also appeared to have ample time to investigate Kombucha Tea and re-examine the bottle to confirm their initial and incorrect assumptions.
These steps could have prevented a traumatic experience for a young child in their care. These officials chose to shoot first and ask questions later, and for this they deserve investigation. If their actions are not in violation of the policies of the school district, the school district needs to re-examine their policies and make the appropriate changes to reflect parent’s and children’s rights.
The family’s remedies for this unfortunate incident may still include legal avenues, though they have made no statements regarding a lawsuit at this time. The mother does mention in this comment that her son has taken interest in starting a Real Food Club at his school as a means of making the best of a bad situation, which could offer badly needed education in this arena to serve not only the students, but the faculty and administration as well, so that incidents such as this one don’t occur in the future. | <urn:uuid:fde33ff0-4b43-46e4-b679-7ddab4cefd37> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.kombuchakamp.com/kombucha-in-students-lunchbox-leads-to-threats-harassment-bullying-from-the-police-the-vice-principal | 2020-09-28T08:56:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401598891.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928073028-20200928103028-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.98132 | 1,214 |
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MCC-Business & Technology
Civil, Architectural, Mechanical focus: Marcus Million, 816.604.5298
What You'll Learn
Engineering technicians and technologists are key members of a team who focus on applying engineering and technology to solutions, whereas engineers focus on theoretical thinking. They work with engineers, designers, physical scientist or planners.
What You'll Do and Where You'll Work
Engineering technicians and technologists are key members of a team who focus on applying engineering and technology to solutions, whereas engineers focus on theoretical thinking. They work with engineers, designers, physical scientist or planners. You can work as a drafter, designer and engineering technician at such companies as Black & Veatch, BlueScope Construction, Burns & McDonnell, Kansas City Power & Light, Sega Inc. and many more.
Degree(s) and/or Certificate(s) Offered
Five Areas of Interest
Civil engineering techs help plan, design and oversee construction and maintenance of efficient structures and facilities including skyscrapers, bridges, roads, and infrastructure. They work with steel, wood, concrete, earth as well as advanced construction materials. Courses: CADD, structural design, physics, GIS, surveying.
Architectural engineering techs apply engineering principles and technical skills to develop efficient buildings and related systems, such as lighting and communications systems. Courses: CADD, structural design, physics, commercial and residential architecture.
Mechanical and Manufacturing
Mechanical engineering techs deal with all technology of the past, present, and future. They help modify, develop and test machinery and equipment and are involved with research, test, development or production. You'll learn to apply theory and principles to solve problems of industrial layout and manufacturing production; study and record time, motion, method and speed to improve the performance of production; establish standard production rates and improve efficiency.Courses: CADD, structural design, physics, parametric modeling, machining, CNC, Mastercam.
Electronics and Computers
Electronics and computer techs help design, build and produce computerized electronic equipment and create the next generation of electronic devices. They lay out, build, test and increase the efficiency of electronic components of devices and systems. You'll learn to troubleshoot, repair and modify developmental and production electronics and their systems and develop a strong knowledge of hardware and software and how the two interact.Courses: Programming, CADD, electronics, hardware, AC and digital analysis, digital electronics, data structures and algorithm analysis, programmable logic controllers.
You'll learn to troubleshoot, repair and modify developmental and production electronics and their systems and develop a strong knowledge of hardware and software and how the two interact.
Creating Opportunities: Meet Matthew
This engineering technology student fielded more than one job offer when he got ready to graduate thanks to his experience at MCC-Business & Technology. Read Matthew's success story.
Creating Opportunities: Meet Marcus
Marcus Million's experience and connections at MCC jump-started his career. Read Marcus' success story.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take to earn a certificate or degree?
Associate in Applied Science degree in Engineering Technology takes two years if attending full-time.
How much does it cost?
MCC is a great value. Our tuition is one of the lowest in the area - about 1/3 that of public four-year schools and a tiny fraction of private colleges. We offer many ways to pay plus a tuition payment plan to make it even easier to afford college.
Will my credits transfer to other colleges or universities?
Check with one of our advisors for transfer information. Agreements are being developed with Missouri Western State University, the University of Central Missouri and DeVry University for transfer to their B.S. degree programs in Engineering Technology.
Can the skills I've developed on the job count toward my certificate or degree?
Yes, you can test out of certain courses.
What is the difference between an engineer and engineering technologist?
Engineering graduates innovate new methods of analysis and solutions for open-ended, complex and unique design problems. The field usually calls for at least a master's degree and coursework includes plenty of higher math.
Engineering tech graduates apply current knowledge and practices to the solution of specific technical problems and standard design problems. New graduates most likely enter industry in construction, product design, development, testing, technical operations, technical services or sales. The level of math and science required is not as theoretical as that required in engineering.
What does it take to succeed in this work?
Complex problem solving, reading comprehension, critical thinking, math and complex problem solving are essential skills of those in this field. Some other characteristics:
- Attention to detail: Ability to focus and be thorough on details.
- Independence: Ability to work with little or no supervision and depend on yourself to complete job tasks.
- Integrity: Honest and ethical.
- Adaptability/flexibility: Be able to cope with sudden, rapid changes in work and scheduling.
- Dependability: Job requires responsible, reliable and dependable people to fulfill obligations.
- Analytical thinking: Ability to use logic in analyzing work-related issues and problems.
- Cooperation: Positive, pleasant attitude to work in a team environment.
- Initiative: Willingness to take on tasks, responsibilities, and challenges.
- Innovation: Creativity and alternative thinking to solve work-related problems and develop new ideas.
- Stress tolerance: Ability to accept criticism and being able to deal rationally with stressful situations.
- Achievement/effort: Drive and ambition to meet personally challenging goals and put effort into mastering job task.
- Self-control: Ability to be calm, focused and composed even in adverse situations. Must be able to control emotions, anger and aggressive behavior.
- Persistence: Ability to stick with difficult job tasks in the face of adversity to fulfill work assignments.
What are the advantages of taking classes at MCC?
MCC delivers the most cost-effective technical career preparation in Kansas City, MO. We are a publicly funded college with quality programs and full accreditation.
- You'll work with the latest equipment and software in our design and engineering technology labs.
- The coursework involves you in several career areas within the field to develop high levels of personal skill.
- Industry professionals teach day and evening classes.
- Our graduates are in demand.
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The Philanthropy: Towards a Better Practice Model report is the result of an analysis of the practices of grantmakers supporting not-for-profit
organisations in Australia. Grantmakers and grantseekers were surveyed and interviewed to better understand how they approached giving, social impact
and the use of evidence in decision-making. The report draws on the Trust Company’s five pillars of good practice for grant-making to capture those
thoughts. Those pillars are:
- Grant making philosophy.
- Capacity building and not-for-profit resilience.
- Scaling, replication, and collaboration.
- The strength of the relationship between grantmakers and grantseekers.
- Approaches to evaluation and social impact.
30 in-depth interviews were held with grantmakers and grantseekers.
What did we find out?
Both grantmakers and grantseekers are passionate and united in their commitment to addressing the serious social problems facing Australia and work collaboratively to support social change. There does seem to be a considerable discrepancy between grantseeker and grantmaker perceptions around what that is. The key differences are:
- Philanthropic organisations have a more favourable view of the state of practises and relationships in the sector than NFPs.
- There is an imbalance of power between grantmakers and grantseekers.
- Long term funding is not a priority for philanthropic organisations.
- There is a difference in funding priority perceptions between grantmakers and grantseekers.
- The perception of the types of support needed differ between grantmakers and grantseekers.
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A Guide to Travelling with Grandchildren
Thursday May 15th, 2014
In these modern times when generations may live far apart, grandparents are finding a new way to beat geographical separation – holidays with the grandchildren.
As the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) points out, it’s a win-win-win situation. Grandparents get to see the grandkids, parents get the break they need, and children get to spend special time with those precious figures, Grandma and Grandpa.
It is not uncommon for seniors to take active holidays well into their eighties today. However, matching a child’s stamina and energy is too much to ask of a senior. So how can you plan a rewarding trip for both generations?
- It’s a mistake to plan a top-gear trip entirely around the children’s desires, says ASTA. Instead, stock your itinerary with activities that suit both generations. A good starting point is historical sites like temples or ruins, and natural sites like lakes, walking trails and mountains.
- Ask your grandchildren what they want to see. Gauge activities to their age, and hide your disappointment if they lose interest or have a meltdown. It’s a fine line calibrating activities to a child’s interests, so be prepared to change course mid-tack.
- If the resort, cruise line or theme park offers supervised activities for kids, take up the opportunity.
Know your grandkids
- Arm yourself with advice from your own children – your grandchildren’s parents. You need a good grasp of your grandkids’ pet likes and dislikes, sleeping habits, favourite foods and foods they won’t touch.
- Forbes blogger Deborah L. Jacobs advises to be sensitive to the parents’ attitude to this holiday. Maybe they worry you won’t cope, or don’t want the kids in the car with you behind the wheel. Yes, you were a parent once, and in some ways perhaps a better one than your kids. But kids have changed, and maybe you have, too. So talk with your kids about it.
- It may be wise to trial a weekend away with your grandkids if you haven’t travelled with them before. If it overwhelms them , or you, you know to plan a shorter trip.
- ASTA says it advises grandparents constantly to take proper identification (a good idea for both themselves and the child), the child’s medical history, and written medical instructions and approval to give medical treatment from the parents (ideally signed by a JP). Carry contact information, your health insurance policy, and recent photos.
- Some countries will not permit minors to travel with anyone but their parents, unless written permission is supplied by both parents. If you’re heading overseas, look into the laws of each country you plan to visit, especially as those laws affect kids.
Three’s a crowd
- One last piece of advice from ASTA. Play favourites! This may seem counter-intuitive, but with every extra kid in the room, the energy quotient escalates. Stick to a maximum two kids, or even just one. You can take the other ten grand-kids away on another occasion, one or two at a time. | <urn:uuid:55d90a06-7bba-4b4f-af44-fff7cf4ef13d> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.meritonsuites.com.au/blog/a-guide-to-travelling-with-grandchildren/ | 2020-09-28T09:50:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401598891.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928073028-20200928103028-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.937575 | 681 |
The euro has been broadly sideways since late January. The price action and technical indicators suggest that it is possible that a high of some importance is in place. The key now is the $1.2155 area.
The euro appears to be potentially carving out a topping pattern. Recall that after correcting lower last September and October, the euro rallied for three months through January before weakening 1.75% in February. That was its biggest decline since February 2017.
The euro’s high print was actually on February 16 near $1.2555, when it posted a key reversal, which is when it makes a new high for the move and then closes below the previous day’s low. The euro was sold to $1.2155 on March 1. It posted an outside up day on March 1 and recovered smartly through today’s high (~$1.2445) a tick or two above yesterday’s high. It has reversed lower again, perhaps encouraged by the realization that the small trimming of next year’s inflation was a dovish signal.
To bolster confidence that a high of some importance is in place, it is important that the low from late January (~$1.2165) and the low from March 1 ($1.2155) is convincingly violated. That appears to be the neck line of a potential head and shoulders top. It is also roughly the 38.2% retracement of the euro’s rally since the start of last November.
If the head and shoulders pattern is valid, it would project toward $1.1750. There is much wood to chop before getting there. The $1.2055 area corresponds to a 50% retracement and the $1.1940 is the 61.8% retracement of the rally that began last November.
The technical indicators are sympathetic to this view. The RSI has been trending lower since late January and did not confirm the marginal new high the euro recorded in mid-February. The MACD also showed this bearish divergence. The recent bounce saw the MACED turn higher, but its rolling over again. The Slow Stochastic is turned up, but the Fast Stochastic has turned lower. The technical indicators of the weekly bar charts are also favor the downside.
Speculators in the futures market have a near-record net long euro position. The record was set at the end of January near 149k contracts. As of last week, they were still net long 138k contracts. The gross longs peaked a bit earlier in January near 262k contracts. As of last week, there was still a 238.3k net long speculative position. The gross shorts are substantial, but around 100k contracts, it is half the size as it was prior to the French elections last April.
Separately, we note the Dollar Index may be forging a bottom, though the pattern is not as clear as the euro. The Dollar Index stalled near the 50% retracement of this month’s losses at near 90.15. The 61.8% retracement is near 90.35, and this needs to be taken out to bolster confidence that a low has been recorded. However, the 91.00 are may be formidable.
Similarly, the dollar appears to have also carved out a head and shoulders bottom against the Swiss franc. The dollar has reached its best levels since January 24 today. The neckline is seen near CHF0.9500, which is also approximately the 38.2% retracement of the decline since last November. If convincingly violated projects toward CHF0.9800, which is beyond the 50% retracement (~CHF0.9610) and the 61.8% retracement (~CHF0.9715). | <urn:uuid:12c3434c-9bbc-46e6-a50e-81e8e907c25d> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.mindonthemarkets.com/potential-topping-pattern-for-euro/ | 2020-09-28T07:55:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401598891.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928073028-20200928103028-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.980428 | 787 |
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(ATR) Olympian and World Athletics president Sebastian Coe is on his way to becoming an IOC member. Coe is one of five new members nominated for election at the July session. The nominations were approved during a teleconference meeting of the IOC Executive Board.
Sebastian Coe's IOC seat is linked to his tenure as World Athletics president.
The IOC session will be the first to be held to be held virtually. The meeting on July 17 was originally to take place in Tokyo the following week during what would have been the eve of the 2020 Olympics, now postponed until July 2021.
Coe has been waiting in the wings for an IOC nomination ever since his election to lead the athletics federation in 2015. The biggest obstacle apparently has been Coe’s business relationship with CSM, where he is a managing director of the communications and sports marketing firm. IOC President Thomas Bach says Coe has agreed to change his role in the company to a passive status, which is expected to certified to the IOC by July 1.
Along with Coe, three women and another man have been nominated for election next month. Once aboard, the female nominees will push their membership of the IOC to 39. While not yet gender equal, the number of female IOC members will reach an all-time high with their selection.
The other nominations come from the Americas, Asia and Europe. Maria de la Caridad Colón Ruenes, born in 1958, is a former javelin champion in Cuba, gold medalist at the 1980 Games. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, born in 1956 is a former president of Croatia. Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud, born 1975, is the ambassador to the U.S. from the KSA.
Battushig Batbold of Mongolia is the youngest of the group, born in 1986. He is a businessman and president of the Mongolia NOC.
In other news from the executive board meeting which lasted about three hours, the IOC stand against racism was reconfirmed. In his opening remarks, Bach said the fight against racism and the IOC policy of nondiscrimination is in the organization’s DNA. He says members of the IOC Athletes Commission and other Olympians are actively involved in discussions about how best to demonstrate in favor of this cause during and outside the Olympic Games.
The urgency of dealing with the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics remains a pressing agenda item for the EB. Nearly 200 proposals are being studied to reduce the cost and complexity of the Tokyo Games. Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi says this includes for example, evaluating the amount of space needed around venues. He admitted that the IOC at times has “overproduced and under consumed”.
Social distancing the rule for IOC staff and the president for the Executive Board teleconference. (Greg Martin IOC)
Likewise for events around the Olympics but not necessarily essential to the Games. Dubi says the schedule of test events remaining for Tokyo will be reviewed for the possibility of reducing that number.
Bach says the work being done now in Tokyo to find new efficiency savings will also be applied to Paris 2024, as well as in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, now just six months apart from the rescheduled Tokyo Games. In Paris Bach said the IOC has now set a limit of 10,500 athletes for the Games. That number will include all athletes in all sports, including the four extra sports nominated for Paris 2024: breaking, surfing, sport climbing and skateboard. In Tokyo the athletes in the five additional sports included on the program are added on top of the 10,500 limit.
The IOC leader says he was shocked by the scale of revelations involving corruption at the International Weightlifting Federation documented in a report issued last week by the federation. That report by noted Canadian corruption investigator Richard McLaren described vote buying, questionable financial record-keeping and an anti-doping program rife with influence peddling and deception.
Bach says the IOC is waiting for additional information coming from confidential portions of the report that go into more detail about the involvement of IWF officials in alleged wrongdoing. Ursula Papandrea, former leader of U.S. Weightlifting, has been named interim president of the Federation. Bach says the IOC is in contact with her and following closely the results of the inquiry. He said the position of weightlifting on the Olympic program could be at stake.
In other developments involving membership of the IOC, the term of office of Chinese member Zaiqing Yu has been extended until 2025. He is due to retire in 2021. Bach says Yu is needed for his involvement in a number of IOC activities. IOC member in Uganda William Blick will be proposed for a change in his membership status to an individual from his current status as a representative of a National Olympic Committee. The change will allow Blick to remain on the IOC regardless of his tenure at the Uganda NOC.
The teleconference press briefing following the EB drew more than 200 participants.
Reported by Ed Hula.
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Réseau Québec maritime (RQM) Research Projects
The scientific strategy of the Québec Maritime Network is based on a global approach channeling Quebec expertise for the sustainable development of resources and environments of the St. Lawrence system.
We therefore support inter-sectoral research and the training of highly qualified personnel around five themes:
By establishing recurring inventories to document biotic and abiotic characteristics, determining the functioning, vulnerability, and nature of interactions between elements of socioecological systems, and monitoring their dynamics and evolution over time, we can, in particular, clarify the services rendered by these ecosystems to human populations and inform decision-making from a sustainable development perspective.
HUMAN COMMUNITY HEALTH
There cannot be true sustainable development if governance, social cohesion, participation, ethics, and social, territorial, and intergenerational equity issues are not considered in decision-making processes and in setting public policies for the development of the maritime environment. These issues must be addressed in order to attend to the living conditions and well-being of human communities affected by Quebec’s maritime development.
MONITORING, SECURITY, AND MARITIME SAFETY
Quebec maritime territory is subjected to particularly difficult conditions, requiring the adoption of highly effective methods, frameworks, and practices for the identification, evaluation, monitoring, and prevention of risk factors by a large number of actors and stakeholders. This thematic area covers a wide range of issues such as human health and safety, environmental protection, and monitoring maritime facilities and infrastructures, for all maritime activities such as navigation, resource exploitation, and tourism.
SUSTAINABLE AND INTELLIGENT MARITIME TRANSPORT
The significant flow of commercial, tourism, and fishing vessels has led Quebec to implement technological and operational policies and solutions enabling the province to ensure the sustainable and intelligent development of these important economic activities, while minimizing risks and effects on the environment. This research theme also concerns the development of new maritime technologies as well as the analysis and improvement of existing practices and procedures, including logistics networks for maritime transport and the organization of port systems.
RESOURCES, MARINE ENERGIES AND HEALTH OF THE MARITIME ECONOMIC SECTOR
One fulcrum of Quebec’s development is the ability to sustainably and efficiently exploit the potential of the St. Lawrence system, including energy, fisheries, and underwater resources usable for the good of human health, or more generally the maritime environment itself as a vector of economic development (maritime transport, cruises, etc.). A review of current practices, the development of new processes, approaches, and procedures, and/or the exploration of new and hitherto unconsidered maritime resources are part of this thematic research focus.
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Just a few images taken over the course of a couple months around the Southeastern United States. Northwest Georgia This picture doesn’t do it justice, but this photo was taken from in an unincorporated area of Chattooga county, Georgia called Taylor Ridge. Taylor Ridge, named after Cherokee Indian chief Richard Taylor, runs roughly forty miles through Northwest Georgia and is Read more about Photo Album – June/July 2016[…]
Where Famous Folks Are Buried in Georgia… Continue to original story here.
Lost in the West Georgia woods, at night.
Will he make it through the bog without getting stuck?
From okra to pickles to oysters – let this be your guide – Read more…
Bonaventure Cemetery Mausoleum, Savannah, GA I had been wandering around this old cemetery for a couple of hours and this mausoleum stood out amongst many. Canon EOS Rebel T2i Lens: Canon EF 40mm (Pancake Lens) F-Stop: f/8 Exposure Time: 1/1600 sec ISO-6400 Rustic Bridge over the Tallapoosa River, Tallapoosa, GA This an old bridge just Read more about Photography[…]
Born in Perry, GA and a UGA grad, Ernest Green, better known as Washed Out, is signed to Sub Pop records, has performed on Letterman and his song Feel It All Around is featured in the opening sequence of sketch-comedy series Porlandia. All that being said, I just started listening to his August, 2013 released Read more about Album of the Week: Washed out – Paracosm[…]
A little surprised to learn that Carrollton was constructing a bike path around the entire city, I had to grab my new Vilano fixie road bike and travel west from Atlanta to go check it out. I didn’t traverse the entire trail as it’s not all completed, but I did travel the roughly 4.7 miles Read more about Carrollton Greenbelt[…]
Day 1 I had business to attend to for my day job in Newnan, Georgia a few weeks ago and since I am a perpetual foodie and always looking to try out the best of local fare I asked the attorney I was going to see where I might find the best local Southern cooking. Read more about Food: Golden’s on the Square – Newnan, GA[…] | <urn:uuid:28e7386d-cd7e-4fdf-a87b-553ee2e614bb> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://southern-civil.com/Enterprise/georgia/ | 2020-09-29T21:28:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402088830.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929190110-20200929220110-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.960129 | 494 |
In accordance with Girls in Kars Move Ahead Project, computer literacy training was provided by Youth for Habitat on 10-13 March 2011 to female students staying at 3 different female dormitories and studying in secondary education in Kars.
Girls in Kars Move Ahead Project, supported under ‘Increasing School Enrolment Rates Especially for Girls‘ and aims to contribute to the continuation of girls in their secondary school educations to enable their participation in the labour market started with a press meeting in Kars organized by the project coordinator, Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey – KAGİDER on 27 December 2010. After the launch of the project, a current status analysis survey implemented to about 350 girls in dormitories. The results of the surveys are being evaluated to identify the current status and understand the necessities of girls in 3 dormitories.
A trainer from Youth for Habitat, provided a computer training to girls who have been selected as fundamental computer skills trainers to make them to provide basic computer skills training to other students in the dorms. The course was organized in Sarıkamış County Public Library’s computer lab on 10-13 March 2011.The main aim of this training is to make at least 115 girls competent at basic computer skills and provide formation trainings to at least 5 girl students to make them become trainers that can give computer trainings to the other girls in the dorm.Computer trainings will continue after the installation of the computer labs in two dormitories.
Moreover, teacher trainings are also started to be performed as one of the main activities of the project. Approximately 100 teachers at 3 dormitories and schools to which the dorms are linked, are being given trainings in the areas of Communication Skills, Efficient and Productive Working Methods, Stress and Ways of Stress Handling, Professional Education and Profession, Critical Thinking Skills, and Teacher Identity Today by academic staff of the Kafkas University Education Faculty. The qualities of the teachers is aimed to be improved with these trainings; the skills of the teachers to better analyze the girl students will also improve and they shall be able to guide each student depending on their individual status, potentials, and tendencies.
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Tesco is planning to double the size of its store in Blandford Forum. Tesco has failed 3 times to expand before in the town.
The town has a population of 10,000 and residents and traders feel the existing store is already an adequate size as the town is also served by a Morrisons, Iceland and Somerfield (Co-op), along with 2 Spars, one one-stop, one... Read More
In October 2008 residents and shopkeepers in Lyme Regis learnt that Tesco had purchased the Woolworths store in the town. On the 30th January 2009 the Bridport News reported that Tesco was continuing with the refurbishment despite it not having planning permission for the new shopfront... Read More | <urn:uuid:ca9ab9d2-8bab-4f88-a810-f88823db6a4c> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://tescopoly.org.uk/county/GB/DOR | 2020-09-29T21:14:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402088830.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929190110-20200929220110-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.981314 | 149 |
Discovering Housekeeper Is Simple In any way! You Just Needed To Have An Excellent Teacher!
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There are actually lots of locations where you can find these kinds of locations where you can discover really good prospects who will want to work with you. The best place to find such folks is actually with the world wide web.
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The most essential thing for a really good connection along with a housekeeper is rely on. You need to locate the person that you can rely on the best in the end.
One of the most crucial ideas for finding a housekeeper is actually to discover one who is actually well-trained. Our team need to have to inquire ourselves just how much our team definitely need a caretaker. Others want to be along with other people and also some of our company like to serve as housekeepers so our company can easily get extra.
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2001 GMC Sierra SLE 8.1 from North America
Went in for burnt out driver side daytime running light, faulty crank position sensor, faulty weather stripping, and the worse the cold start knock. All covered under warranty, except the cold start knock.
Overall I am very satisfied with the truck.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
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Imagine yourself living in an economy so weak that even your own Prime Minister said “if I were a young man, I would emigrate.” Imagine fuel prices skyrocketing beyond affordable limits as fuel was not delivered to petrol stations as those who delivered it refused to work. Imagine the dead going unburied as gravediggers demanded a pay rise, some as high as 25%. Worst of all, can you imagine the rats scurrying about on British streets as the waste piled up outside houses and businesses, the rubbish collectors not working for a month; all of this while the Prime Minister seems blissfully unaware of the crisis unfolding around him. This was the situation that Britain faced during the winter of 1978-79, known by the Shakespearean title: “The Winter of Discontent”.
The policies of the last 34 years had done more damage to the economy than anyone had foreseen. Unemployment was high, and those who were in work continued to demand massive pay rises which the country simply could not afford, yet the power of the trade unions was such that the country could literally be brought to a standstill by a series of strikes. James Callaghan’s Labour government pursued a policy of negotiation with the unions, and often found compromises, such as offering the gravediggers a 14% payrise to end their strike. The people of Britain, however, were fed up with regular strikes, social disruption and irresponsible management from Labour. The leader of the opposition since 1975, had been Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party’s first-ever female leader, and she was offering solutions.
Following a vote of no confidence in the government in March 1979, Thatcher fought the election campaign offering controls on inflation, which had risen well beyond moderate levels, and curbs on the powers of trade unions who were continuing to support nationwide strikes. Thatcher’s policies were a radical change in the political philosophy of the Conservative Party. Thatcher herself had been part of the Young Conservatives in her years at Oxford University, even serving as the Oxford University Conservative Association’s president in 1946. She, along with many other Young Conservatives had been increasingly influenced by the writings of Friedrich A. Hayek, a Nobel prize winning Austrian economist, who had written extensively about the need for economic and social freedom in the vein of a neo-classical liberal movement. Famously, at a policy meeting at the end of the 1970s, Thatcher interrupted a presentation by another party member by holding up Hayek’s book The Constitution of Liberty, and slamming it down on the table exclaiming “This is what we believe!” Thatcher wanted to move the Conservative Party away from the centrist and conciliatory platform that had been followed by her predecessors. Her policies included a free market and capitalist approach to running public services, the privatisation of previously state-owned industries and utilities and a reduction in trade unions’ power.
Many of Thatcher’s ideas were American-inspired, based on the libertarian ideas of the American dream, and free market liberal capitalism. The Conservative Party logo was changed from the British Union Jack to the torch of liberty, inspired by the one held by the Statue of Liberty in New York. She maintained a close relationship with the American President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989), who, like Thatcher, followed monetarist policies, believing that wealth and growth were made by individuals rather than given out by the state. Perhaps her most controversial statement was given on the existence of “society”:
We have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!” …so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people should look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations.
Thatcher was criticised by both the middle way one nation Conservatives and those on the political left for claiming “there is no such thing as society”. How Thatcher exactly meant this is open to interpretation, but in general it seems that Thatcher was using her term of phrase as a criticism of the “nanny state” doctrine of the preceding years. She was afraid that if people became too reliant on the state for their needs, no one would have the resolve or energy to go out and create wealth for themselves, since they would expect it from the government. At the same time, she asserted that society was made up of individuals, and that it was the actions of individuals, ultimately who made countries function. Compared to her predecessors, it is obvious that Thatcher was very libertarian in her economic outlook.
In these respects, Thatcher was a radical reformer of conservative ideas, but in another, she was not so deviant from the British conservative tradition. Conservatives adopting a programme of economic liberalism and individualism had been seen before. Robert Peel and the founders of the Conservatives had been adherents of it, and Gladstone and his Liberals pursued economic policies similar to Thatcher throughout the 19th century. For all her liberal tendencies Thatcher did show conservatism as well. Her personal Christian faith instilled in her a traditional sense of morality and socially conservative policies such as banning the “promotion of homosexuality” by local authorities and in schools under the controversial “Section 28” amendment to the Local Authorities Act.
Thatcher’s time as Prime Minister would also see an old problem come to the fore: the threat of Irish nationalism. In 1980 and 1981, various Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army (both proscribed terrorist organisations) prisoners in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison staged hunger strikes and died from starvation. In Northern Ireland, terror attacks were frequent and violence was widespread. Even in the Irish Republic 79 year old Lord Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, was savagely murdered by an IRA bomb. The terror spread to mainland Britain too, and the period featured an assassination attempt on Thatcher herself in 1984. Just a few months before becoming Prime Minister, one of Thatcher’s close friends and staunch encourager of her political career, the Conservative MP Airey Neave, had been killed in a car-bomb attack by the INLA. Thatcher took the same line against Irish nationalists as British conservatives had at the time of Home Rule – unbending opposition. She refused to tolerate terrorism, and the violent methods by which the nationalists were seeking to enforce their agenda of a united Ireland. Thatcher nevertheless showed cooperation with the Republic of Ireland, signing an agreement in 1985 giving the Republic of Ireland an advisory role in Northern Ireland government (much to the disdain of Unionists), whilst affirming that Northern Ireland would remain part of the UK as long as a majority of its people wished it to do so.
Thatcher also followed her conservative predecessors in her stance on foreign policy. She was fiercely anti-communist and anti-Soviet union. From her coming to power in 1979, she condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She aligned mostly with the Cold War policies of Ronald Reagan, famous for calling Russia an “evil empire”, and controversially allowed the Americans to establish a nuclear missile base at RAF Greenham Common. When Argentina’s military junta, desperate for popularity and trying to distract its population from its own crises, invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982, Thatcher immediately sent a task force to defend British sovereign territory. The Argentine dictator, Leopoldo Galtieri, had fundamentally misjudged Thatcher, believing she would not care to respond militarily to a threat thousands of miles away from the British homeland, and hoped he could capitalise on Argentina’s long-standing claim to the islands, and salvage his politically weak situation. Although a state of war was never formally declared, the Falklands War cost 255 British lives and 649 Argentinean. The British managed to defeat the Argentine invaders, and the result was the fall of the Argentine dictatorship, and a soar in popularity for Thatcher.
Thatcher kept the Labour Party out of power for eighteen years, and was never defeated in a general election. Ultimately, her downfall would come from within her own party. She famously never u-turned on policy decisions (remarking in one speech that “the lady’s not for turning”) and it was her failure to deviate from her introduction of the Community Charge in 1990 that was to be her undoing. The Community Charge, or “poll tax” was a single flat rate of tax per capita imposed by local authorities in Scotland, England and Wales. The tax was regressive (i.e. it affected the poorest in society the most) and whilst Thatcher believed the tax was fairer since it charged every person the same amount for the same provision of services in their local communities, a large majority of those on low incomes could not afford to pay the tax, and many outright refused to pay it. As Thatcher continued to refuse to budge on the poll tax policy, rebels (whom Thatcher had derogatorily called “the wets”) within her own party, led by prominent middle way Conservatives such as Michael Heseltine, began to challenge her for the party leadership and refuse to support her on the poll tax as public protests became increasingly violent.
Unable to gain the support required for her policy, as more and more of her supporters rebelled, but equally unwilling to compromise, Thatcher resigned the Premiership on 28th November 1990, and was succeeded by John Major, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who eventually replaced the poll tax with council tax – which was set in proportion to property value. Thatcher changed the face of British conservatism, and radically injected a large dose of “neoliberal” philosophy into it. In some respects, this is in line with British conservatism’s origins of classical liberal ideas within a moral framework, but in others respects, she polarised politics, the effects of which are still being felt today. After her death in 2013, large numbers of working class communities who were hit hardest by her policies celebrated, while others who had benefited mourned. Thatcher’s government from 1979-1990 created a new class of people – lifting many previously worse-off families into the middle class due to her aggressive pursuance of wealth creation; but she also failed to provide work and care for many who were put out of work by the closure of many traditional industries, notably the coal mines.
As to whether Thatcher’s ideas were beneficial or not is mostly down to a question of personal experience and perspective. Her ideas caused a rift in the ideas of the Conservative Party which still exists today – the rift between those who supported her and her ideas and were politically on the right, and the one nation conservatives, or wets, who wished to bring the party towards a more centrist platform.
The author’s book The Conservation of Liberty is available for purchase at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conservation-Liberty-Examination-Conservative-Tradition/dp/1533341109/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1471620402&sr=1-1&keywords=the+conservation+of+liberty. | <urn:uuid:804e7c22-5231-4329-9c97-fb549532b11f> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.dailyglobe.co.uk/comment/chapter-xii-iron-lady/ | 2020-09-29T19:10:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402088830.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929190110-20200929220110-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.979391 | 2,357 |
The Dardara web site uses a fluent and responsive wordpress theme to look good on all platforms. Our customer needed a way to quickly update the photos on his first page – so we implemented a facebook link to his company photo album.
Most photos were taken by Joakim on Awoque on site at the Auberge Dardara, in northern Morocco.
Project management, Copywriting, Idea and design:
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About Emo's Auto Repair
EMO’s Automotive Repair and Machine Shop has served the East Bay area for 30 years. Owned and operated by Emo and Sandie Schuitema, Emo’s Auto Repair has been at the same location since their doors opened for business.
Emo and Sandie have a reputation of superior quality workmanship combined with excellent experience. Their facility is clean and well organized which is a direct reflection of Emo and Sandie’s work ethics. Emo’s Automotive Repair has a complete in-house automotive machine shop, which allows Emo and Sandie to have complete control of your automotive repair from start to finish. | <urn:uuid:076d0b5f-0c50-49cb-9ff5-a70ac3f6979f> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.emosautorepair.com/about/ | 2020-09-29T19:10:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402088830.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929190110-20200929220110-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.960787 | 143 |
By: Jennie Nash
You may think that elevator
pitches only for high-tech startups, job hunters,
or Hollywood screenwriters, but being able to succinctly summarize your book in
a very short space is a skill that every writer must master. are
The elevator pitch is a powerful marketing tool that you can put to use when enticing readers, reaching out to potential marketing partners, and when you have a brief audience with an agent or editor. If you have written a strong elevator pitch, you will find that it’s much easier to answer when people ask, “So what’s your book about?”
Here are five simple steps to help you develop a killer pitch. Each includes three examples that build upon each step, so you can see how a pitch is crafted from beginning to end.
Step 1: What’s your book about?
Write down what your book is about in no more than 50 words. Don’t try to be clever or witty, just write down the facts or the bare bones.
- If it’s fiction or memoir, try to capture the plot, what happens, what the story is.
it’s nonfiction (business, self-help,
, how-to), try to capture what the reader will learn and what your main point is. inspiration
- Fiction: It’s a story about a woman who becomes part of the first father–daughter pair in the Senate, except she’s on one side and he’s on the other, and they don’t agree on anything.
- Memoir: It’s the story of how I spent four years searching for my mother’s murderer when law enforcement officials gave up.
: It’s a book about what to do when you have to let go of a dream that didn’t come true — like having a baby, closing a business, or walking away from a marriage. Self-Help
. . .
Read the full article HERE!
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[Written on January 26, 2014]
In week three we finally started to get somewhere with training and improvisations, and the moments and proposals we created together were much richer. Friday through Sunday were semi-intensive rehearsal days, in which D and I led the ensemble through hour-long training and improvisation sessions (an hour is long for this group). These sessions generated a lot of material, and I think the ensemble was pushed in a positive way – they had to work with exhaustion, awareness, with leading themselves, and building things as a group and in partners.
On Friday night I led a training and improvisation with the group. I brought two stage lights into the space, turned the awful overhead fluorescents off, and immediately the studio was transformed. The light was perhaps the most important component of the training; it darkened the room enough to make extraneous stuff disappear, distancing the space from the daily, it energized the group and allowed for really great shadow play. I led the group with a concrete proposal of reaching combined with isolations. We stuck with this for twenty minutes or so before branching off into clusters, and gradually moving into a full-on improv. I brought in fabrics, a few basic costume pieces, and a couple umbrellas and canes. With all these elements in the mix, the group really came alive. The session had its moments of coming together and falling apart (“cake and soup” moments, in D’s words) but energy remained high throughout. The ensemble worked together to build a world and inhabit it, they were playful and engaged and aware of what was around them. For the first time with this group, I saw images and moments that were vaguely reminiscent of work we would create at Double Edge, which was so exciting to me.
We repeated a few moments following the training, and D directed one of them. There was so much that was generated and we only had time for a couple to be revisited, but there were probably twenty pieces that got added to our post-it board of moments.
On Saturday morning, D led a Viewpoints exercise that eventually moved into an improv. The group was exhausted from Friday, so he had a real challenge to get them to a place of work. Things started slowly and without a lot of energy. However, there was a crucial point, about halfway through, when D said, “If you know exactly what you are doing, you are a leader. If you have any doubt about what you are doing, then you are following someone.” This forced people to decide – either committing to their action or working with someone elses’ – and it galvanized the ensemble. They still had to contend with being tired, but mostly they had to know what they were doing. The second half of the session saw the group really come together, identifying actions and building upon them, and moving with them. More material emerged, and following the session it was noted how important that deciding moment had been to everyone.
Then, on Sunday, with an ensemble that was reaching the point of exhausted delirium, I led a training focused on partner work. This one is taken completely from Double Edge, using Stacy and Carlos’ partner stretches and sequences, and it requires a lot of focus from the group. The focus was only partially there today. We moved through the sequences pretty well, but there was a lot of giggling and aimless wandering once we got to the part that required the group to lead themselves. I brought fabrics and a couple objects in to try and lessen this, which helped a bit. The partner work was a concrete foundation to this training, and it did attune the group to balance, support, and awareness of the whole space. There were a few standout moments from the training, and R, who was sick and watching the whole thing from the sidelines, got us to revisit some moments she had seen. She said to me afterwards, “We really should keep doing this, and building upon this.” She observed how the training began stiffly, with people finding their way through awkwardness and discomfort, but gradually had shifted as the ensemble became more comfortable and focused together.
So, while we are finally getting to this place of being able to train and build things together and delve into unknowns, we are also two weeks away from pitch night, and having to hone in on all this stuff we have made and put it into a show. At the end of Sunday’s rehearsal, D announced that this coming week will see us focusing in on each individual show, and taking less time for long improvs. Which is necessary, sure…but it can’t be abandoned completely. I will aim to get at least two or three sessions in a week.
The other thing that we started to do this week was give time for individuals to direct the group to realize an idea. This was really productive, and the work that came out of it was interesting, and had a lot of possibility to be expanded and developed. On Wednesday, ensemble members directed the group in two different movement-based proposals, and B made up a Quizoola-esque game called Confession-Truth-Lie that was fun because it had a bit of danger to it. A couple days later, R taught the group how to make a person-sized cat’s cradle, which was challenging and very cool looking…the image returned later work made by others.
On Saturday, I introduced the concept of the performed response. The ADs chose two moments that had not been revisited yet, got the performers to show them again, and then had everyone to create short, performed responses. People worked alone, in pairs, and in larger groups. There was a good range of material, and we took a moment to talk about what we liked from what we had seen. K mentioned that the pieces that left room for interpretation were the most interesting because there was freedom to project onto them as a viewer, and space for the pieces to hold multiple meanings, creating layers (in my head I was shouting “yes! yes! yes!”).
I’m realizing that this class is a 24 hour thing…I’m not only supposed to be planning, preparing and leading rehearsals, figuring out how to pull all this stuff together into some sort of show, and working on projects for the class itself, I’m also supposed to be making my own proposals to show and put the group into. Leading training with the ensemble is basically one giant proposal from which to make many smaller ones – so it’s important to not forget that. But I also need to be imagining and sketching out more ideas, beyond that. Ooof.
It’s less than two weeks until Show 1 pitch night. Time to really focus in on what we’ve made, and it’s time for me to figure out some pitches for Solo. Until now, I’ve kind of forgotten that I have to perform in this show, so I’d better have some material I can stand behind. Show 4 is beginning to weigh down on D and I, since it still has no theme or concept. We’re going to have to figure that out very soon. | <urn:uuid:3026d3f7-8da8-4c0b-9c0b-0d87c85ba112> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.meganblythe.com/tag/theatre-2/ | 2020-09-29T20:37:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402088830.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929190110-20200929220110-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.987668 | 1,494 |
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This is in response to your editorial, “Historic Verdict” (September 7, 2018). The Supreme Court of India must be congratulated for decriminalising homosexuality between consenting adults by declaring section 377 of the IPC as “manifestly arbitrary”. The Supreme Court very rightly observed, “Majoritarianism views and popular morality could not dictate constitutional rights.”
The historic verdict says, “ I am what I am. So take as I am. No one can escape from their individuality.” Indeed, a man with a bald head or a woman with grey hair must hold their head high without any kind of shame, doubt and inferiority complex. Let them celebrate what they are. It will be injustice if society puts pressure on them to wear a wig or to apply hair dye to join the mainstream.
Similarly, we need to admit that homosexuality is neither a choice nor an abnormality. It is a reality that has been existing across cultures and even throughout the animal kingdom. We do not clearly know the exact cause of someone becoming straight, gay or something in between. But the theory of gene or heredity does not stand as most identical twins of gay people are straight.
In the world of VIBGYOR (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red) rainbow diversity, we are to treat LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/ Transsexual, Queer/ Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/ Allies) as normal. There is no room for majoritarianism.
We know that twin babies are normal. But as they are not common, therefore the birth of twins has been viewed with fear and suspicion in many parts of the world. The Akha tribes inhabiting China and Southeast Asia think of twins as a bad omen – wherein evil spirits could interfere in matters. The Akha kill them immediately after birth although the practice is discouraged by governments. Bob and Mike Bryan and Mark and Steve Waugh are fortunate enough that they were not born into those people.
However, our attitude towards LGBTQIA+ is somewhat similar to that of Akha tribes inasmuch as our inability to accept a less common phenomenon like homosexuality as normal. As a matter of fact, majoritarianism is itself a disease. Neither the birth of a twin nor homosexuality nor any language can never ever be viewed as an illness. Rather to see it in such a way clearly manifests a majoritarian illness.
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22 June 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush ship arriving in Britain from the Caribbean. Around 236 migrants from the merchant vessel were housed in the labyrinth of underground passages at Clapham South when they first arrived from the former British colonies. In the lead-up to this anniversary, Siddy Holloway, Hidden London Engagement Manager, gives a first-hand account of welcoming a very special guest back to Clapham South deep-level shelter for the first time in 70 years.
The 29 May was an exciting day for the Museum’s Hidden London Team. In partnership with the Windrush Foundation, we welcomed a former resident of Clapham South deep-level shelter, 70 years after his last overnight stay. Mr John Richards was born in Jamaica in 1925 and moved to England in 1948 to seek pastures new. He was a passenger on the Empire Windrush, the famous merchant vessel ship that offered affordable passage to citizens from Commonwealth countries in the West Indies. John, like all the passengers, paid £28 for his passage to come over to Britain to seek employment and help rebuild the country after the war.
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When we began researching for our tours of Clapham South deep-level shelter in 2015, we realised there were very few first-hand accounts from people who stayed in the shelter and what they thought of their peculiar accommodation. We wanted to rectify this and began our search to find someone who had stayed in the shelter having arrived on Windrush.
In April this year we partnered with the Windrush Foundation and they put us in touch with John; needless to say we were over the moon. John is now 92 years old, so a date was arranged for his visit which happened to be very close to the 70-year anniversary of his arrival in the UK. We met him and Arthur Torrington, the president of the Windrush Foundation, on a rainy day in South London and escorted them to the shelter. John, dressed immaculately in a grey suit, was excited to see what had changed and said that he hoped he would be able to remember as much as possible.
Once down in the shelter which lies 40 metres below street level, John’s memories started flooding back to him. He told us about his work during the war, his decision to come over to Britain and his three week stay in the shelter. As we settled into hearing about John’s story, the deep rumble of the Northern line passed over our heads. John stopped for a moment, smiled and pointed to the ceiling “that sound used to wake us up every morning”.
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Encouraging kids to grow up to be well-rounded individuals is something that every parent or caregiver tries to achieve. We already know that having a pet in the home makes for a memorable childhood, but we perhaps fail to appreciate the more profound effects that pet ownership has upon child development. It is typical to ask friends to become godparents and be involved in our children’s lives, but what about the role of dogparents that our pets perform, sometimes without us even realizing. Aspects such as physical and social development, to name just a couple, are enhanced if a child helps to nurture a pet at home.
Benefits of pet ownership for children
Dog walking is a great form of exercise and an easy way to burn calories. In a world where our kids live more sedentary lives and are more prone to obesity than previous generations, going for a daily walk or run with the dog is a great habit to form. Fantastic for the child’s physical and mental health, it is a habit that can be continued into adulthood.
Encouraging a child to be respectful and caring for a pet also transitions into his or her treatment of other people. There are obviously exceptions, but for the most part, children who have been shown how to behave with pets and have looked after a pet have a tendency to become more caring, more compassionate and more responsible adults. Emotional intelligence, interpersonal interaction, and impulse control are vital attributes to have. Acquiring and further developing these strengths can be facilitated by pet ownership. It is very important to note that simply having a pet in the home is not sufficient for these skills to be acquired. It is vital that kids are shown the best ways in which to interact with and treat other living creatures and they often learn these skills from examples set by parents or caregivers. Kids with dogs have plenty of opportunities to learn patience, kindness, sharing, and generosity; all character traits that can help them to develop closer human friendships. In providing care for an animal they also start to develop some basic parenting skills useful for later in life.
Cognitive development is the way in which information processing, intelligence, reasoning, language development, and memory all develop through childhood into adulthood. As we know, not all learning takes place in a classroom. Having a pet in the family can help with all aspects of cognitive development. Encouraging a child to read about his own dog’s breed, to be involved in puppy care and the training of the dog, and to be involved in learning how to care for the dog are all valuable ways of learning. Reading skills and confidence improve when a child reads to a pet, and some school districts are introducing READ (Reading Education Assistance Dogs) programs with these benefits in mind.
Caring for a dog allows a child to interact with a live being without being judged. This enables self-esteem to build and can help a shy kid overcome timidity. Dogs also make superb service helpers for children living with physical or behavioral health conditions.
Interacting with dogs also releases endorphins in a child’s body, making the child happier, more relaxed, and less anxious. Additionally, as dogs have a relatively short life cycle, children learn about life and death and how to work through the bereavement and grief process.
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In a 2015 study published in JAMA Pediatrics1, Swedish scientists analyzed the relationship between dog ownership in the first year of a child’s life and the incidence of asthma in children up to the age of six. They found that children in Sweden who have grown up with dogs in the house since birth had a 15% decreased risk of asthma by the time they attended school compared with children whose families did not have a dog. The researchers believe the findings would also be applicable to other developed countries such as the US.
How do you increase kid-dog interaction?
Get the kids involved! There are lots of little tasks involved in pet care and if your children are involved in some of them it can make them feel important and responsible. For young children, setting up a chart with small rewards for tasks completed can be a good way to start – there are even apps for that these days! Carrying out simple age-appropriate duties like filling the dog bowl with fresh water or measuring out kibble can make children feel more grown up, trusted and helpful.
Give your dog extra praise and attention, for being a terrific dogparent, helping you in your quest to raise your kid to be a balanced, content adult.
Why not share how having a pet has enhanced your child’s development? We’d love to hear from you.
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In the first report they write
Cannabis users will be able to grow the substance for their own consumption after a police force relaxed their drugs policy.
Durham Constabulary will no longer target individuals who have cannabis plants at home after they declared the illegal activity is not a priority.
But the force said they would still prosecute operators of commercial cannabis farms or those who were being “blatant”.
Durham Police and Crime Commissioner Ron Hogg outlined the plans and said he hopes the chance to avoid prosecution will stop the cycle of reoffending.
Mr Hogg said: “We are not prioritising people who have a small number of cannabis plants for their own use. In low level cases we say it is better to work with them and put them in a position where they can recover.
“In these cases the most likely way of dealing with them would be with a caution and by taking the plants away and disposing of them. It is unlikely that a case like that would be brought before a court.
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Blogging Credibility and How to Acquire It
If you say it, some people may think it might be true, but if you write it people are far more likely to think it’s true — this is how newspapers work. The written word carries enhanced credibility, and by writing rather than speaking, your own credibility is increased. Enter the blogger and the huge numbers of new blogs being created every day — suddenly it has become cool to blog (read: ‘write’) and now anyone can set up a blog and start spouting whatever garbage comes to mind.
So I’ll just say it: I think the vast majority of blogs out there are just crap.
I have to wade through masses of them to find something worthwhile. Occasionally, I find a real gem that makes the hunt worthwhile, but for the most part I surf on by and never return.
As part of that reader habit, I’m sure I skim through a ton of blogs which are in fact worthy. They just don’t grab me fast enough to stop that automated impulse to go to the next site or hit the back browser.
A big part of my attitude is my automatic assessment of the credibility, or lack thereof, of the blog itself.
Building Your Blogging Credibility
As head of an online marketing company, if I catch Danny Sullivan, Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall or a dozen others in the mix, it piques my attention more than if I see “Joe Schmuck” with the latest SEO tactic that makes him thousands of dollars each day. Partially, it’s also about the subject matter, and what is being relayed over to me as the reader, but it is largely the association of the blogger with the people being quoted too.
If your intention is to become an authority figure on a topic, then both your online and offline credibility are important. The issue is what can you do to cultivate credibility and show yourself in a positive light?
Credibility by Association
We’ve just touched on one thing you can do: become associated with others in your subject arena. If Daniel Scocco was to grace my blog’s presence with a guest post, or I was to grab a comment from Rand Fishkin, then my credibility is enhanced simply by association. You know Daniel, you read and visit his site, so seeing what he has to say on my blog helps me a great deal in transferring the value in Daniel, that you have in your mind, to my blog and ultimately to me.
An alternative is to interview someone for a blog post, even grab a sound bite from them which can then be attributed. This is something which is easier to do than actually getting a busy person to sit down and write you three or four hundred words for a post. Just prepare some questions and email them to them — you don’t even need to actually speak to them to interview someone.
I don’t need to have an online celebrity post to my blog — someone else will do, but make sure they produce the very best content for your blog as you are able. Be editorial in the exercise of your judgment, because if it is a great post, that’s fine, but if it simply regurgitated pulp, that is going to hurt you too if you are publishing it.
Translating Your Subject Matter Knowledge Into Reader Credibility
Your credibility is affected by how you approach the topic you are looking to become an authority in. If your blog is on Mommy tips, your credibility is not helped if you are a 48 year guy who has never had a kid, unless you’re some sort of Dr, Spock character. I can’t write a bunch on the movies if I don’t watch them, and I am not interested with angst-ridden philosophy from spotty teenagers who think they know all about life but haven’t left their hometown yet.
Your knowledge also needs to be current too, which will be reflected in the blogging posts you make. The nature of the media beast is that online users are living in the ‘now’, so the topicality of your blog should reflect what is happening in your niche too.
And you have to be able to make an intelligent stab at expressing what is happening too. It does no good to be light on factual support and heavy on personal opinion, at least that is, until you have established your credibility to begin with. In this respect, more evidence to back yourself up on any stands you take is a good thing, and you can’t have enough either.
When people get into a blog, they are really buying into the person behind it — what kind of character they are, where they are, how old, what sex and what do they look and sound like. For this reason, include your own bio and add photos of yourself too. Be personable and let your readership and potential surfers like me know you are real and not some made-up corporate persona that doesn’t exist in the real world.
Work on Credibility Off Blog as Well as On It
Finally, getting yourself referenced elsewhere will improve credibility quickly too, especially if the reference is from another recognized leader in the field. This is probably the ultimate in getting endorsed, especially if someone like Rand Fishkin was to write about my SEO blog or Matt Cutts referenced me in one of his videos on Google.
Scaling my expectations down a notch, simple getting referenced by other bloggers who are in the same niche as me is good for my credibility too. After all, if I say something, it isn’t as believable as if you say it about me, and the same applies if I write something, it is just going to be so much more credible if you write about me instead.
I’ll just hope what you write is good stuff!
Karl Hindle is CEO of Andersen Internet Marketing LLC and you can find his personal blog at www.KarlHindleSEO.com
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10 Responses to “Blogging Credibility and How to Acquire It”
Andi the Minion
Credibility will come from being genuine, like Usman says, and for publishing real genuine helpful information. Giving people good quality stuff will have people sharing and liking your stuff.
Then it won’t be long before top people start to notice you. I have used the interview method a few times myself and really like it. We end up with having big names on our site and they also leave comments, which is always a winner.
One thing I’m always amazed at is when people use blogs to write about everything but there topic of interest. If you are advertising real estate services, stick to real estate or related topics. No one is coming to your site to find out what happened in the football game last night!
Being real is the best advice I’ve got from this post. I’ve tested it numerous times.
Blogging Credibility is one of the most important factor behind the success of any blog. It helps a lot in gaining the trust of new readers, and allows to reach more and more readership.
However, it is really tough to achieve such credibility rank where most of your work done by others. But thanks for sharing nice tips!
Great article Karl, I enjoyed reading it.
Acquiring credibility helps in blogging is what which takes a lot of time, hard work and patience, but in end It’s worth it.
Acquiring credibility helps in blogging is what which takes a lot of time, hard work and patience, but in end It’s worth it.
Enjoyed reading this post Karl
Credibility will get you lots of connection with like minded people.Apart from putting your photo and bio,you should have a contact page with atleast 3 easy way to connect with you.I have added my email,Twitter handle and a contact form,also don’t forget to tell people when they can get a response from you(duration of time taken to respond).
As mentioned above, blogging requires a commitment of your time towards it to ensure that it remains fresh and connected. Either way, a true enthusiast will ‘do his duty’ no matter what, only if they enjoy blogging 🙂
Cheers for a great thought-provoking article,
Great article Karl, I enjoyed reading it.
Credibility is indeed the ultimate currency. Authority, trust, ability to position oneself as leader in the niche, they all pertain to credibility.
And even the complexity of it speaks about the importance and the overall value that credibility offers.
It involves connecting with other influencers and nurturing relationships. It also means being recognized for doing great work and being appreciated.
It involves being on top of things in your own niche, hence knowing all the news, events, the things that the audience itself is curious about. In short, it means knowing your niche inside out.
It also involves building up your personal brand which is, just like you said, one of the most important things.
I guess that over time the average internet user slowly but effectively refines his taste when it comes to judging based on credibility. Throw some aesthetics and top notch editorship into the equation, and you have a real eye candy of a site.
Who the hell are you to say most blogs are crap?! Who are you? I was directed by from twitter and let me tell you by displaying such a disgusting display of superiority, all YOUR credibility has gone out of the window. Consider yourself unfollowed and this word of mouth platform will be getting a thorough work out
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Milton Anfenger Scrapbook, 1903-1913
Milton Anfenger scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, photographs, invitations, and programs about his political life, work as an attorney, and participation in many organizations. It also covers Milton Anfenger when he was in the Colorado militia during the 1904-1905 miner strikes in Cripple Creek.
Rights and Usage Statement
Copyright restrictions may apply. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
1 items (scrapbook)
Scope and Contents
From the Series: Series 1 of 7 includes newspaper articles, photographs, and ephemera, including a May Company advertisement.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Fair 38 x 31 x 12 centimeters
Donated by Marjorie Hornbein, niece of Milton Anfenger.
Title supplied by archivist.
Inscription and Marks
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TSP: Ready for prime time?
- By Nancy Ferris
- Sep 02, 2003
If the Thrift Savings Plan's computer systems were running properly and the processing backlogs cleared last month, user Matt O'Connor wasn't living proof.
To pay off a loan, the Navy employee sent a check to the TSP offices in early July. The check cleared later that month, he said, but as of Aug. 21, it had not been credited to his account. What's more, a series of calls he had made to inquire about the lost payment apparently weren't logged by the representatives with whom he spoke.
"The folks I spoke to basically didn't do anything," O'Connor said in an e-mail message to Federal Computer Week. "Their statement that [the situation] would be cleared up by the end of the week was hollow and meaningless."
In mid-August, he said, he finally reached a knowledgeable TSP customer service representative who explained how his payment would be traced through the system and straightened out. After that conversation, he was hoping the problem was solved — but he wasn't counting on it.
His was just one of several problems reported by FCW readers after the staff of the federal agency responsible for the TSP declared the system largely cured of the problems it had suffered for the past two months. But other participants in the nation's largest retirement savings plan said their interactions with the TSP had improved, and the volume of complaints to FCW diminished.
Some participants remain dissatisfied with the computer system upgrade that led to the problems. The new system, launched June 16, provides participants with online access to their accounts, provides daily updates on account values and offers other modern features, such as direct deposit of withdrawals and loans.
But users like Stephen Schmidt, a Labor Department employee, noted that the new system does not list a history of transactions for an account, making it difficult to see whether a particular purchase or sale of assets has taken place.
"To me, this is much more important than getting daily price updates," Schmidt said. Other users noted that such reports are standard for investment Web sites that track stocks and mutual funds.
The staff of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, the agency that runs the TSP, is looking at further improvements that would bring the plan more closely in line with private-sector norms.
Gary Amelio, the agency's executive director, told the board at its August meeting that he is looking into acquiring a toll-free telephone number for the plan at a cost of about $8 million per year. Currently, calls to the plan's ThriftLine are at the caller's expense. The agency will keep adding more incoming phone lines and will guarantee that callers get an occasional recorded message to assure them that they have not been forgotten while holding for an operator, Amelio said. He added that the TSP may open a second call center to spread the workload.
Amelio also aims to offer participants the option of receiving their statements online. The board may reduce the size of some statements to avoid printing and mailing detailed information not needed by most people in every statement, he added. The board is spending $6 million a year to mail out statements, he said.
Although the TSP's administrative costs are among the lowest of any comparable plan, he indicated that expenses may have to increase. "When you want bells and whistles, there certainly is a cost that goes along," Amelio told the board.
Thrift Savings Plan
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board operates the nation's largest retirement plan of its kind. The plan resembles the 401(k) plans that are common for workers in the private sector.
The Thrift Savings Plan has:
* $115.5 billion in funds invested for current and future federal retirees.
* 3.18 million participants.
* 5 funds with different investment strategies.
* 817,536 loans made to participants, totaling $4.5 billion.
* 86.7 percent of eligible people enrolled in the plan.
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Welcome to FlixChatter’s primary blog series! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here.
1. I’ve been excited about Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK for some time and the teaser couldn’t have arrived at a better time… that is as I’m prepping my FFTF post 🙂
I think most of you already knows what this is about. Now, I’m not always into war movies, mostly because it tends to be way too violent. But man, this looks so darn epic and with Nolan at the helm filming this on 70mm, I’m SO THERE!
Behold its epicness…
The cast is pretty amazing, some of which have been in Nolan’s previous movies… Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh… AND my new Welsh crush Aneurin Barnard!! One thing I wish Nolan hadn’t done is hire that kid from One Direction as I guarantee there’s gonna be a bunch of teenybopers swarming this just to get a glimpse of him. I mean I can’t even google this movie without seeing his face! In any case, we still have a year to wait for this as Dunkirk isn’t released until July 2017!
Now, this one apparently has been released for some time but I had just seen it for the first time thanks to my daily lunch-hour reading of BBC news, I found it in the culture section. It’s the world’s first feature-length painted animation!
Per its official site, Loving Vincent features over one hundred and twenty of Vincent Van Gogh’s greatest paintings. The plot, drawn from the 800 letters written by the painter himself, lead us to the significant people and events in the time leading up to his unexpected death. Every frame in the Loving Vincent movie is an oil painting on canvas, using the very same technique in which Vincent himself painted. Check out the amazing trailer, I sure hope it’ll get a decent release worldwide.
Thoughts on either one of these projects?
2. This week we also got a first look at romance war drama ALLIED. I didn’t even know is in the works but hey, anything with miss Cottilard gets my attention!
The synopsis per IMDb:
Allied takes place in 1942. Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) and Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard) are undercover allies who begin to fall for each other. Max is a British intelligence officer sent to Casablanca to plan an assassination attempt. He works with Marianne, a French Resistance fighter who goes undercover as his wife.
I kind of like the pairing of Cotillard and Pitt, and Pitt actually looks decent without all the weird facial hair he’s been supporting for a while. This film seems so under the radar despite the cast though, I mean I haven’t heard a peep and no trailer yet even though the release date is November of this year.
The rest of the cast include Matthew Goode (yay!), Lizzy Caplan, and Jared Harris. The director is Robert Zemeckis whose last two features, Flight and The Walk, I haven’t seen yet.
Are you excited for this one?
3. Speaking of trailers… ahhh what we’d do for our movie crushes [sigh] I followed this twitter account for trailer updates and it says there’s supposed to be a trailer for Ben Wheatley’s FREE FIRE attached to Star Trek Beyond. So naturally I was super excited and while initially I was fine waiting a week or two to see it, I immediately booked Friday night showing. As you know, my dahling Sam Riley is in Free Fire, though he’s probably only gonna be in the trailer for all but 5 seconds. But no matter, that’s enough to persuade me to actually see a movie on the big screen. Alas, the trailer was NOT shown at STB 😦 There were more than a half dozen trailers in front of it but none of it was Free Fire! Suffice to say I’m no longer following that trailer account. Heh, I wish I lived in London!!!
— Film4 (@Film4) August 1, 2016
I’m curious, have you ever been compelled to see a movie on the big screen because a certain trailer is attached to it?
4. Ok this question is inspired by this weekend’s release of Suicide Squad. I’ll be writing the review this weekend but for now I can say that I enjoyed it, definitely not as bad as what the critics made it out to be.
It’s no surprise DC fans are up in arms about the negative reviews. Heh, every day there’s always news about people getting angry about the most trivial things. This time the subject of DC fans’ wrath is the Rotten Tomatoes site:
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) August 4, 2016
Actually, last time I checked the petition‘s got 18,495 supporters. The guy who started the Change.org petition wrote: “We need this site to be shut down because critics always give The DC Extended Universe movies unjust, bad reviews. And that affects people’s opinion even if it’s a really great movie,”
Now, I don’t really trust these critics aggregator sites anyway, because their algorithm is just baffling to me. Sometimes I’d click a rotten review that actually gives a movie 3/5, now I wouldn’t exactly categorize that as rotten. I’d think 3/5 is average and even 2.5/5 is below average, so not exactly in the horrible category. But to think that they’re biased against a certain film company is just absurd. Ok so I was left scratching my head that Age of Ultron got 75% fresh rating. I think that bloated movie is a big fat meh, not to mention the cringe-inducing Hulk/Black Widow *romance.* But I think it was still better than Batman V Superman, which got 27%, the exact RT score of Suicide Squad right now. If that’s the final score I think people are gonna think it’s a giant conspiracy, ahah.
What do you think about this supposed Marvel vs. DC *bias* and/or your thoughts about film critics site in general?
5. This month Five for the Fifth’s guest is Ian from Ian the Cool Blog! He actually left a comment on my review of The Secret Life of Pets and it’s a great question that I asked him if it’s ok that I included it here. Here it is in his own words:
You confirm a lot of what I’m hearing, that [the movie] is really unoriginal and we’ve seen it all before. I guess the question is, does that matter for a kids movie? Kids won’t know its being unoriginal, because they don’t have the same film background we do. They will care about having funny characters they care about. Then again, should family movies have the bar set lower? When there are movies like Inside Out raising that bar, is the family argument an excuse anymore?
Well, what do you think? Should kids movies have the bar set lower compared to movies for adults?
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Report from fierce FL contingent at #m4a: http://ow.ly/1qn6I #ri4a #immigration
Una campaña busca que los detenidos en cárceles de inmigración puedan estar con sus familiares: http://bit.ly/aXzK7o #immigration
Yesterday FLIC members and pro-immigrant allies from across Miami-Dade county, with our partners at the Miami-Dade Community Relations Board (CRB) and City of Miami CRB, came together for a countywide immigration reform summit to “unite our diverse communities around agreed-upon priorities for legislative reform that will uphold our common commitment to equal treatment and due process for all immigrants,” in the words of CRB Chairman Harold Vieux. Issues discussed included enhancing safety and security, providing for legalization and a pathway to citizenship, protecting children, re-unifying families and protecting workers.
Speakers included Marleine Bastien, Executive Director of FAMN (and FLIC Board chair), Cheryl Little, Executive Director at Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Jonathan Fried, Executive Director of We Count!, as well as Felipe Matos of SWER and FLIC’s own Maria Rodriguez. Advocates like Police Chief John Timoney, himself an immigrant, spoke out against 287(g) agreements that deputize local police to act as immigration enforcement agents, taking precious resources away from fighting dangerous crime. There was incredible support in the room for immigration reform, and much unity around our priorities.
The overarching message was that we need immigration reform now–for our families and our communities. We cannot wait. “Under the current administration, comprehensive immigration reform is something that our president, the White House and Congress can deliver,'” said Jean-Robert Lafortune, chairman of the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition. “Immigrants can’t live on hope alone.”
To make sure that this message is heard throughout the state, and in Washington, FLIC and our allies are planning a variety of public events throughout the fall. Please stay tuned for more information, and add your voice to the resounding majority in Florida calling for real change–NOW!
President Barack Obama has expanded the budget of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The 287(g) program and Secure Communities initiative, implemented by the Department of Homeland Security, authorizes local law enforcement to act as ICE federal agents–they can conduct raids, arrest, detain and deport undocumented immigrants, regardless of the severity of their alleged crime, and gives them permission to look into individuals’ immigration status online and detain and deport them if they are undocumented.
President Obama’s expansion of ICE’s budget has only provided a greater opportunity for law enforcement to abuse their power. During raids, they often force entry into the homes of undocumented individuals fully armed. Instead of improving our economy and our broken immigration system, our tax dollars are going to ICE, whose budget is now over $6 billion!
Enforcement of a civil issue–and the attempt to criminalize immigrant workers and families–is not the solution. The U.S. urgently needs immigration reform. Defending the status quo is not an option.
“I think the consensus is that despite our inability to get this (immigration reform) passed over the last several years, the American people still want to see a solution in which we are tightening up our borders, we’re cracking down on employers who are using illegal workers in order to drive down wages and often times, mistreat those workers. And we need an effective way to recognize and legalize the status of undocumented workers who are here. My administration is fully behind an effort to achieve comprehensive immigration reform” said President Obama.
It is incomprehensible why President Obama would allow DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to expand a failed program, when he insists that his administration is behind the effort for immigration reform. Real reform of our broken immigration system should address and end abuses committed by deputized police and ICE officers–along with enabling immigrants to adjust their status and become citizens.
“Secure Communties” and 287(g) agreements do not serve a public safety function–they do the opposite.
President Barack Obama must permanently terminate these programs for the safety and well-being of both citizens and undocumented residents.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Secretary, Janet Napolitano, recently announced that ICE has expanded the 287 (g) program to 11 new jurisdictions.
This is horrible news.
“This new agreement supports local efforts to protect public safety by giving law enforcement the tools to identify and remove dangerous criminal aliens,” Napolitano said.
All agencies that actively participate in the 287(g) program are obligated to sign the new agreement and abide by the new requirements in order to continue as participating organizations. The new agreement officially emphasizes going after serious and violent criminals and expanded federal oversight in an effort to prevent overzealous local implementation of the program.
These words on paper will not change the fact that the 287(g) program is a failure, and amounts to state-sanctioned racial profiling and wholesale intimidation of immigrant communities. Several studies have shown these facts. The program should be completely canceled–not sugar-coated to try to counteract its well-deserved bad reputation.
Realistically, there is no way that Napolitano and DHS can ensure that law enforcement officers will follow the rules and regulations. In fact, most of them receive inadequate training to do this work. We have seen what little respect infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, has for the human rights of immigrants.
Despite claims that ICE agents are sworn to uphold the laws of our nation professionally, humanely and with acute awareness of the impact enforcement has on the individuals they encounter, they persistently disregard the law and commit offensive acts and inappropriate behavior against undocumented immigrants–pointing loaded guns at mothers, in front of their children, for example. This happened here in Florida during a raid last year.
The 287(g) program IS racial profiling at its worst, and the fallout from keeping it around includes unjust detentions and deportations, false imprisonment and constitutional violations–or less visibly, immigrant communities living in fear–so much that they won’t even report crimes.
What could be worse for our communities?
The CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy has come out in favor of immigration reform in their report, which addresses concerns about U.S. immigration policy and national security. In their report which was released this month, they said the growing numbers of illegal immigration in the United States is causing continuous harm to our national interests.
CFR urges Congress and the Obama Administration to move ahead with immigration reform legislation in order to achieve three critical goals:
- Reform the legal immigration system for more efficient operation, respond to labor market necessities, and enhance U.S. competitiveness;
- Restore immigration law’s integrity through an enforcement regime that strongly discourages employers and employees from operating outside the legal system, secure America’s borders, and levy significant penalties against those who violate the rules; and
- Offer a fair, humane, and orderly way to allow many of the roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. to earn the right to remain here legally.
The Task Force’s recommendations for immigration policy reform show the immigration system’s potential to improve and better serve our country’s national interests. It is time to move forward—and fix our broken immigration system.
The CFR report states that “continued failure to devise and implement a sound and sustainable immigration policy threatens to weaken America’s economy, to jeopardize its diplomacy, and to imperil its national security.”
We can and must do better.
As Congress and the President are poised to tackle immigration reform, Chief John Timoney, Miami’s Chief of Police, Chief Art Acevedo, the Police Chief of Austin TX, and former Sacramento Police Chief, Art Venegas, held a press conference at the Biltmore Hotel, in Miami, coordinated by America’s Voice, to address how the broken immigration system has a negative effect on law enforcement and public safety.
“It is crucial that the law enforcement perspective be considered in any debate on immigration,” Chief Timoney said. “All our citizens are directly affected, whether they are immigrants or not, by these policies.”
More police departments throughout the country are taking a stand in favor of immigration reform—and they are drawing these conclusions from their own experience. If an undocumented individual witnesses a crime, they often do not contact local law enforcement for fear of being detained and/or deported. Clearly this does not help our communities. Many are also in favor of issuing drivers licenses to all residents, including the undocumented, as this would provide useful data, encourage all drivers to get auto insurance, and diminish the incidence of hit and run accidents.
FLIC is pleased to see that leaders in law enforcement acknowledge the urgent—and practical—need for immigration reform—and we will count on their leadership and support as we move forward.
Since its incorporation in November 2003, FLIC has experienced tremendous growth. Below is a snapshot of what the members groups of the Florida Immigrant Coalition are working on throughout the state in 2009.
You can join the efforts by supporting the issue campaigns or by participating in the local coalitions:
LEGALIZATION: As part of a consultative process that included surveys, small group work and voting at the annual membership meeting, FLIC member groups endorsed legalization as the primary effort. This means we will be educating our members, allies and decisionmakers about the need for reform that values immigration as an opportunity and not a threat and that respects families and workers–both immigrant and U.S.-born.
- How to plug in: contact Juan Pablo (firstname.lastname@example.org) about organizing for legislative visits or building your organizing circle and reaching out to allies.
ENFORCEMENT: Misguided and heavy-handed enforcement of broken immigration laws, including police enforcement of immigration comes at a great cost to our coffers, public safety and civil liberties. FLIC member groups are working in six counties to dissuade local police to divert their public safety missions to immigration functions. FLIC member groups are educating immigrants, documenting abuses and beginning visitation programs to detention centers.
- How to plug in: contact Subhash (email@example.com) about meeting with your local sheriff and submitting records release requests, conducting “train the trainers” know your rights presentations or visiting detainees at the Broward Transitional Center.
ACCESS TO COLLEGE: Students Working for Equal Rights (S.W.E.R.) came out of FLIC’s commitment to youth leadership. This effort seeks to educate students, parents and educational professionals about access to college, incentivizing participation through an internship and scholarship fund, as well as organizing to reduce barriers at the academic institutional level at the state and federal legislative level.
- How to plug in: contact Jose Luis (firstname.lastname@example.org) about joining the advisory body or supporting the upcoming statewide student tour.
WAGE THEFT: The South Florida Wage Theft Task Force is one of several coalitions statewide that seeks to support workers who do not get paid for their work. These efforts seek to create a systemic enforcement mechanism that bolsters the rights of all workers while recovering their lost wages.
- How to plug in: contact Maria (email@example.com) about supporting a Miami-Dade ordinance to include worker rights so that a local human rights board can provide wage enforcement.
RELIEF FOR HAITIANS: Haitians deserve relief from deportation to miserable conditions by either a temporary protected status (TPS) or deferred enforced detention(DED).
- How to plug in: contact Francesca (Francesca@floridaimmigrant.org) to help bring the reality of Haitian detainees to national attention by reaching out to national allies.
Join Our Local Coalitions Throughout Florida!
FLIC is proud to announce that we have kicked off our campaign to Stop the ICE raids and win just and humane immigration reform. This strategy includes legislative, community organizing and direct action components, which are being planned and implemented by regional coalitions in Orlando, Miami, Palm Beach and Manasota. Please join us! | <urn:uuid:442295c8-0859-4885-9c49-35f5ffad8595> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://floridaimmigrant.org/tag/enforcement/ | 2020-09-29T20:46:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402088830.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929190110-20200929220110-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.940594 | 2,597 |
1982-CHI Silver Coin Poland 100 Zlotych/Zloty Visit of Pope John Paul II NGC PF69 Ultra Cameo
Description: A fantastic looking uncirculated proof silver coin from Poland. This is the 1982 One Hundred Zlotych or Zloty silver coin depicting the bust of pope John Paul II with the name John Paul II under it on the obverse. The reverse shows the Polish Imperial Eagle above the denomination. This is MK Y# 136 and weighs 14.15 grams of 0.750 silver measuring 30mm in diameter. A beautiful proof coin with mirror like field without blemishes or any marks. It is graded by NGC as PF 69 Ultra Cameo and comes in a plastic slab so labeled. Please carefully review the photos presented as they are part and parcel of our description.
Origin: Poland, Valcambi mint.
Weight and Size: The coin should measure is ~30 mm in diameter and should weigh ~14.15 grams of 0.750 silver.
References: KM# Y# 136.
Condition: For international buyers, please note that the new US postal rates for overseas shipping are very high and we are unable to change them. Additional charges will be incurred depending on the value of the item. Please check the cost of shipping before bidding. The coin is graded by NGC as PF 69 Ultra Cameo and comes in a plastic slab so labeled. It is beautiful, has mirror like field, shows no blemishes, is problem free, and is perfect in every way. Please view photos for additional condition information.
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December 20, 2017
December 20, 2017
These have been dark days for those who care about tax justice and public investments, but with the Winter Solstice this week and many states diving into their legislative sessions in January, longer days (and long work days) are soon to come! Governors and legislators are already proposing or hinting at their 2018 tax and budget plans in Alaska, California, Iowa, Maryland, and Washington. And transportation investments are getting strong support in Missouri, Oregon, and Virginia. The State Rundown will be taking next week off but will be back in the new year collecting state tax and budget news for you as legislative sessions kick off and states grapple with the fallout of the federal tax bill.
— Meg Wiehe, ITEP Deputy Director, @megwiehe
- It’s shaping up to be a rough year for fiscal responsibility and sound tax policy in Iowa. Gov. Kim Reynolds wants to cut taxes next year despite revenues repeatedly coming in below projections, and will unveil her plan to do so in her January 9th Condition of the State address. One tax cut plan that has already been leaked, however, includes major income tax cuts likely to heavily favor the wealthy and drive the state budget even further into the red. And even those who would like to improve the state’s revenue situation rather than worsen it, for example through a cigarette tax increase, are not optimistic they can get the necessary votes in an election year.
- Alaska’s Governor Bill Walker put forth a budget proposal that would, among other things, enact a modified 5 percent payroll tax to be used for designated purposes, withdraw money from the state’s Permanent Fund earnings, reduce dividend (PDF) payouts, and adopt a two-year budgeting process.
- Maryland Larry Hogan will introduce a bill in the coming legislative session to expand manufacturing business tax subsidies created in 2017 by increasing them from $9 million to $15 million and extending them to additional industries and jurisdictions.
- The California Assembly has released a budget proposal that includes plans to expand the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit in addition to extending the state’s Medi-Cal health insurance program to all low-income adult residents (including undocumented immigrants), boosting investments in child care and preschool, and increasing college scholarships. The governor’s expected-to-be-more-conservative budget proposal is expected to be released in January.
- Washington state Gov. Inslee is proposing the state draw on reserves in order to comply with the McCleary ruling to adequately fund public education this biennium and to ultimately adopt a carbon tax to fill the ongoing need. The details for the carbon tax proposal are expected to be included in Inslee’s budget proposal to be released in January.
- Virginia Terry McAuliffe is proposing to raise $65 million per year for its share of needed funding for the DC-area Metro system by raising taxes on real estate sales, hotel stays, and gas in Northern Virginia, provided that the District of Columbia and Maryland pay their shares as well.
- Four new transit taxes take effect in Oregon in 2018, three of which begin January 1.
- A Missouri transportation task force is recommending that the state update its gas tax for the first time since 1996. They propose a 10-cent gasoline tax increase and 12-cent diesel tax increase, which would raise about $430 million per year for the state’s infrastructure.
- The Missouri Housing Development Commission, on the other hand, voted this week to end the state tax credit for low-income housing even though only one member of the public out of hundreds to appear at five public hearings spoke in support of eliminating the credit.
- The Colorado Department of Revenue released statewide data on medical and retail marijuana sales data going back to 2014 and will be releasing a new report every month going forward. Find the marijuana sales reports here and the marijuana tax data here.
- Better than expected sales tax collections in Louisiana have boosted budget performance in the current and coming fiscal year, but not enough to stave off the looming fiscal cliff. Bel Edwards recently announced his favored approach to closing the gap, which includes reducing the deduction for federal taxes paid, changing income tax brackets so more middle- and higher-income earners pay higher tax rates, eliminating hundreds of sales tax exemptions, extending the 4-cent sales tax to cover some services, continuing to charge businesses higher sales taxes for utilities, and continuing to reduce tax break programs for business (like this gem).
- State and tribal leaders in North Dakota have begun meetings to mollify tensions over their respective rights to tax reservation residents.
- The Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce is calling for modernization of the Utah tax code in order to raise needed funds for education and infrastructure.
- A 1.75-per-ounce soda tax is schedule to go into effect January 1 in Seattle, Washington and a group businesses and community groups—funded by the American Beverage Association—are agitating against the tax via a “public education campaign.”
What We’re Reading…
- States that expect to lose out big time from the federal elimination of the state and local tax deduction have some technical workarounds available to them (whether they pursue them or not will be up to lawmakers).
- Governing reports that state spending has grown at its slowest pace since the recession, based on survey data recently released by the National Association of State Budget Officers.
- Governing also explains how states and localities are likely to see their debt and the cost of borrowing increase as a result of the federal tax bill.
- The United Nation’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, has finished a two-week tour of poverty in America. His report to the UN highlights the role both federal and state/local taxes play in exacerbating inequality. At the federal level: “…the tax reform package is essentially a bid to make the US the world champion of extreme inequality.” At the state and local level: “At the state level, the demonizing of taxation, as though it is inherently evil, means that legislature effectively refuse to levy taxes even when there is a desperate need. Instead they impose fees and fines through the back door, some of which fund the justice system and others of which go to fund the pet projects of legislators. This sleight of hand technique is a winner, in the sense that the politically powerful rich do not have to pay any more taxes, while the politically marginalized poor bear the burden but can do nothing about it.”
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A forthcoming retirement on a highly powerful Washington, D.C. court represents another opportunity for President Donald Trump to remake the federal court system in his own image—or at least a close approximation of Leonard Leo’s.
Late Thursday, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith announced his departure after serving a relatively short-lived stint of 15 years on the bench. He was appointed to the (not-quite) lifetime position by George W. Bush in 2004 and previously worked as the U.S. Senate’s chief legal counsel.
The universe of possibilities for Trump is essentially the president’s juridical oyster—but the likelihood of his choice being anything other than a conservative movement-approved stalwart stands at roughly the same as a whelk’s chance of surviving a supernova.
Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao were previously installed by Trump on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Whoever the 45th president selects to replace Griffith will result in a rare hat trick of judges appointed to the same court—a stunning exercise of power over a particular portion of the judicial system.
As for the potential of a blistering upper chamber battle over the appointment? That’s fairly unlikely. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has managed to move almost every single one of Trump’s nominees through the GOP-controlled Senate—typically with several Democrat defections—with very little muss or fuss. And while the D.C. Court is widely considered one of the most important courts in the country after the Supreme Court, the Democratic Party’s fight on this front has long left court-watchers and progressive activists seriously wanting.
“These openings on the D.C. Circuit are the second-most important judicial appointments in the country, after only the Supreme Court (of course),” CNN legal analyst Elie Honig noted on Twitter. “Trump nominee will be Federalist Society-approved, probably young, and McConnell will ensure confirmation. Elections have consequences.”
Honig’s sentiment was was echoed by national security attorney Bradley P. Moss.
“This newest vacancy and the likelihood the president will be able to fill it prior to November one more reminder that elections have consequences,” Moss told Law&Crime via email. “These first four years have allowed the president to install a generation of new judges.”
It’s not as if Griffith will be particularly missed by the president’s critics—just last week he authored a widely-panned decision that many read as essentially foreclosing against judicial oversight of the executive branch.
But it’s the notion that Trump will likely replace the departing judge with someone just as conservative—and perhaps expressly more loyal—that has liberal and progressive judicial advocates and activists dismayed.
Marge Baker is executive vice president for policy and program at People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group founded in in 1981 which describes itself as dedicated to fighting “right-wing extremism” and which aims to “build a democratic society that implements the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity and justice for all.”
In an email to Law&Crime, Baker stressed the stakes involved with Trump’s likely third appointment to the crucial D.C. court.
“We’re deeply concerned about the possibility that Donald Trump will get a third appointment to the D.C. Circuit, which is one of the country’s most influential courts,” Baker said. “The court has a huge role in determining the legality of actions by the administration and the federal government and this president has already appointed two people, Greg Katsas and Neomi Rao, who are Trump loyalists and advocates for expansive presidential power. Having another judge on this court who is willing to give Trump carte blanche to do whatever he wants to do would be another huge blow to the rule of law and will encourage Trump’s further abuses of power.”
Progressive judicial advocacy group Alliance for Justice’s Legal Director Daniel Goldberg cut to the quick—predicting a selection that bodes ill for the rule of law.
“What does it say that Trump gets to pick yet another judge to sit on the court overseeing many of the investigations into his unlawful behavior? It’s not often a defendant gets to pick the judges that oversee his case,” Goldberg said. “We already know from Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao that Trump picks loyalists who follow through on protecting him.”
“Given their recent vote to acquit Trump on impeachment charges, if Senate Republicans confirm yet another Trump loyalist, they will be condoning a lawless president,” he added.
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Home Care Update
I wanted to reach out to you to let you know that we are working to have your concerns about COVID-19 and how it could affect you and your clients addressed as soon as possible.
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Posted on March 01 2020
Corriedale is lovely and popular wool that is a wonderful all-purpose fiber loved by spinners, weavers, felters, knitters and crocheters around the world. Frequently referred to as “New Zealand’s own sheep,” the Corriedale was New Zealand’s first breed of sheep that the country could call its own, and it holds a special place in the hearts of wool folk from that part of the world.
The Corriedale’s story starts in 1865, when James Little of Scotland sailed with his family halfway across the world to start his new life as manager and shepherd of Dr. George Webster’s flocks in New Zealand. Romney sheep purchased by Dr. Webster accompanied the passengers of that ship. According to some accounts, the ship took on too much water during a storm in the Bay of Biscay and the crew had to seriously consider getting rid of the sheep to lighten the ship. Fortunately for the sheep that did not happen, and James Little managed to safely arrive at the Corriedale and Balruddery sheep stations in north Otago, New Zealand with both his family and Dr. Webster’s Romney sheep in good health.
Little arrived in New Zealand as an experienced shepherd. For much of his life he had been tending sheep in the hills and dales in and around Peeblesshire, Scotland. He would have been familiar with the practice of crossbreeding sheep to develop new breeds; by the early 1800s sheep breeding for various traits had become almost ubiquitous among gentlemen farmers. Although less-wealthy shepherds in the British Isles may not have necessarily had the means to indulge in breeding experimentation, many would certainly have been aware of the popular science and logic behind it. However, with shepherds as a group during this period being a relatively conservative lot, not all were onboard with the idea of actively breeding for specific traits. Many just wanted to raise sheep the way they always had – with the established breeds that were typical for their regions, with no wish to change what was already working just fine.
Little had never encountered Romney sheep before working for Dr. Webster, but he considered himself to be a good judge of sheep, having been around them for much of his life. It did not take him long to determine that the Romneys were not doing as well as could be hoped. The Corriedale and Balruddery sheep stations were located in a part of New Zealand that was much more arid than that of the Romney’s native England, and land was full of patchy, native grasses – much different than the English grasses that the Romneys were used to. James Little, aware of how new breeds of sheep were being developed in the British Isles, had the idea to cross Merino sheep with Dr. Websters Romneys in order to create a hardier breed adapted for the region. Other shepherds in the area ridiculed the idea that new breed of sheep suitable for the area could be bred from Merinos and Romneys, and they predicted that the half-breeds would not be able to reliably maintain their characteristics from one generation to the next. Dr. Webster took a risk to his reputation and livestock by allowing Little to experiment, but by doing so proved the naysayers wrong – the resulting sheep ended up winning prizes and commanded a good price at market. Little carried this sense of accomplishment and the idea of creating new breed with him as he started his own sheep farm in the late 1870s.
It was after Little began to farm his own sheep that Corriedale sheep truly came to fruition. When Dr. Webster died, many of his sheep were sold to various farmers. However, Little was able to purchase Dr. Webster’s Lincoln flock. He took this Lincoln flock along with some Merinos that he purchased and continued his breeding experiments. Little was convinced that New Zealand needed its own breed of sheep that combined Merinos with a longwool breed, and he was likewise convinced that he was the man for the job.
Little was an interesting mix of breeding knowledge and superstition. While he had confidence in the science behind crossing breeds of sheep, he also had some curious ideas about how black livestock came to be. He firmly believed that black livestock, and black sheep in particular, were a result of pregnant ewes being exposed to the color black. As proof, he writes in his memoirs about how his and his father’s black dogs’ presence around ewes caused them to throw black lambs. Then he goes on to describe describes how a cattle operation known for its black cattle also required their employees to wear black. The link, to James Little, was clear. Too much exposure to black was the cause of black livestock.
His odd beliefs about the origins of black sheep didn’t stop him from eventually achieving success. Choosing to name his new breed of sheep after the Corriedale sheep station where he got his professional start, he committed to breeding his idea of the perfect sheep for New Zealand. Progress was slow at first, and Little still had to put up with a fair amount ridicule about his idea. A. W. Rutherford, well-known as a successful sheep farmer, wrote about the benefits of various breeds of sheep in New Zealand in an 1898 article for the Weekly Press. However, he chose to skip over the nascent Corriedale entirely with the eye-rolling comment, “Out of respect for the feelings of my old friend Mr. Little, I decline to take his beloved Corriedale seriously and so will pass them without comment.” However, within nine years public opinion would change. Little and his Corriedales, as well as other farmers who began raising Corriedales, were winning sheep competitions and producing both good wool and sizeable carcasses for meat. By 1907 A. W. Rutherford had changed his tune, stating that in new article that there was an increasing tendency for farmers to replace their Merinos with Corriedale.
The New Zealand Sheep Breeders’ Association took note the Corriedale’s popularity as well. By 1900 they added Corriedales, then known as inbred halfbred sheep, to an appendix in their Flock Book and began to debate what to call them. It turns out that although Little was possibly the best-known breeder and most outspoken as well, others had been experimenting with the same Merino/Lincoln mix. In the slim volume that makes up Little’s memoirs, appropriately titled The Story of the Corriedale, it is clear that it was quite a dramatic moment for him. Little was convinced that the idea of the breed had begun with him, and as such the sheep should be named Corriedale to reflect that. However, another representative from Otago suggested the sheep should instead be named Southern Cross. Little seems to have taken this personally, and notes with great satisfaction in his memoir that in fact the Association decided to name the breed Corriedale. In 1910, Corriedale breeders started their own association, and by 1916 the New Zealand Sheep Breeders’ Association allowed the Corriedale to move from the Flock Book’s appendix to the main book. By 1924, the Corriedale Sheep Society in New Zealand released their first flock book.
Newspapers and other publications soon began proudly referring to the Corriedale as “New Zealand’s Own Sheep,” and gave James Little much of the credit for development of the breed. Interestingly, it is also possible to find articles claiming that Australians developed the same breed concurrently. This would probably not be too odd of an occurrence – Merinos and Lincolns were easy to find in Australia during the same period, and it would not have been unusual to find farmers in Australia willing to experiment as well. However, it is difficult to find much history of the development of a Merino/Lincoln breed in Australia, which has led some to claim that Australians are participating in the apparently long-time tradition (according to New Zealanders) of claiming for Australia that which is New Zealand’s.
Without a doubt, though, James Little provided some of the most significant contributions to the Corriedale breed. Corriedales soon took off in popularity, not just in New Zealand, but around the world. James Little and others had successfully bred a sheep that was an ideal dual-breed, producing both quantities of wool and having a large carcass that produced good amounts of meat. The timing of the Corriedale’s development was especially fortuitous with WWI and WWII on the horizon. While many traditional breeds of sheep that could not produce larger quantities of wool and meat fell by the wayside during these decades, the Corriedale and its high productivity found nearly unmitigated success. The breed spread around the world, and today is just behind Merino as one of the most popular breeds in the world among sheep farmers.
Corriedale wool is popular among fiber artists and crafters of all stripes. It is a medium fiber with a width of around 25-30 microns, and with a relatively good staple length of between 3-5 inches. It has a very well-defined crimp, and while difficult to spin fine, it makes a wonderfully bouncy DK or heavier weight yarn. Its medium fiber means that not everyone will be comfortable wearing it directly against skin, but it makes superior outerwear, hat, gloves, rugs, and other housewares. While felters love it for its ability to easily felt, knitters, weaver and crocheters will love it for its grippy-ness; colorwork and weaving done with Corriedale won’t slip around or become loose.
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6 When I heard their complaints, I was very angry. 7 After thinking it over, I spoke out against these nobles and officials. I told them, “You are hurting your own relatives by charging interest when they borrow money!” Then I called a public meeting to deal with the problem.8 At the meeting I said to them, “We are doing all we can to redeem our Jewish relatives who have had to sell themselves to pagan foreigners, but you are selling them back into slavery again. How often must we redeem them?” And they had nothing to say in their defense.9 Then I pressed further, “What you are doing is not right! Should you not walk in the fear of our God in order to avoid being mocked by enemy nations?
After seeing the rub, we now see the:
- ReprimandVs 6-11
Not surprisingly Nehemiah’s response was anger, can you imagine how betrayed he must have felt? I’m paying for people to be freed from debt and you are going behind my back putting them back into slavery. You would be angry; the problem is that most of us have been raised to believe that anger is wrong but what I want you to understand is that anger is a protest. Nehemiah was protesting social injustice, but unlike how may protest today he didn’t let anger be destructive but constructive. It’s not wrong to get angry when we see people being violated and becoming victims, that’s righteous anger, the key becomes what we do with that anger. Because anger is a powerful emotion and we can use that energy to engage in constructive change or destructive change. Jesus was angry over Gods house being used to make money, he channeled that energy into cleaning out the temple and restoring righteousness. The key to our anger becoming constructive instead of destructive is seen in what Nehemiah did first, he:
a. Reflected – Vs 7 “I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials.”
Instead of reacting he reflected. Anger is a blinding emotion; it can consume us and cause us to lose control. What the flesh wants to do is punch someone in the face because we think that will make us feel good. But if he had done that, he would have been a hypocrite, his actions would have mirrored what he was accusing them of, hurting people. Pondering long enough to process connects our hearts and our head. It engages our head not just our heart causing us to consult with our feelings. When Joseph was faced with the possible betrayal of Mary being pregnant instead of reacting, he reflected. He pondered his predicament and as he did an Angel of the Lord spoke to him and told him what to do. Pondering doesn’t just connect our hearts to our head, but it also provides a space for Spirit of God to speak. Instead of being ruled by our feelings and pouring fuel on the fire we become controlled by Christ and use the fire as a forge to fashion something constructive. Throughout the book of Nehemiah, you find Nehemiah bumping up against tough circumstances and pausing. He’s an incredible leader, he doesn’t react; he pauses. After pausing and pondering he:
b. Reminded them of Relationship – vs 7 “You are hurting your own relatives”
Nehemiah didn’t come at the problem from a financial perspective but a family perspective. We will always suffer from the sickness of strife when we place riches before relationship. Our greatest treasure is not the possessions we have but the people we hold. Nehemiah publicly confront the people whose selfishness had created strife because their actions affected the whole nation. Can you imagine that moment when all the nobles, the wealth and the power brokers all gathered together, and Nehemiah confronts them and calls them out. Many of us cower in the face of conflict, because we focused on what is comfortable instead of Christ like. Sometimes people need to be called to the carpet, but notice Nehemiah appeals to their heart, calling them from callousness to compassion. He reminds them that it’s not about the riches it’s about relationship. Selfishness is shortsighted because it focuses on me not we, it always leads to strife causing relationships to be ruined. Not only did he remind them of relationship but also:
c. God’s redemptive plan – vs 8 “How often must we redeem them?”
They were focused on greed not God. While God’s people had been redeemed from Egypt and most recently from Babylon, and then Nehemiah himself had bought back some of the Jews who were in slavery, their fellow Jews were returning people into bondage just to make money. They were focused on financial success instead of spiritual success where people finding freedom. Success is not measured by finances but by freedom. Why are we dealing with the epidemic of human trafficking, why are there so many people stuck in sexual slavery, because when it comes to character, we as men have compromised. Instead of defending women and children we are degrading and dehumanizing them. You say I don’t visit prostitutes, well let’s talk about the porn problem that is not just poisoning your life its imprisoning God’s children created in His image for His worship not your worldly wants. If we as men would live right, there wouldn’t be a sex trade. But instead of being protectors we have become predators. Sexual sin is always about serving self. Sex is a gift given by God to enrich marriage not erode it. Lust always takes where love always gives, what about you are you lusting or loving. Lust always leads to slavery and will keep taking until everyone involved is bankrupt. Do you want to know why many married men don’t have a satisfying sexual relationship, it’s because they are lusters not lovers. Are you angry this morning over the violation and victimization of women and children, what are you going to do with that anger? Nehemiah was willing to pay the price for others to be freed what about you? Next Nehemiah:
d. Reminded them of Right and Wrong – Vs 9a “What you are doing is not right!”
He didn’t base it on his feelings or cultural norms he based it on the Bible. What about you are you basing what is right and wrong on the world or the Word? They were going against God’s Word by charging their own people interest. Deuteronomy 23:19-20: “Do not charge your brother interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a brother Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.” Instead of trusting God to bless them they took matters into their own hands. You can’t sin and expect success, when you cut corners you compromise your character and people around you get hurt. What about you are you reacting or responding to problems? | <urn:uuid:bb792ed9-3d31-43a4-8def-76fdeaaa4352> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://pastorgiles.com/2019/06/18/18-confronting-conflict-with-character-part-2/ | 2020-09-29T20:12:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402088830.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929190110-20200929220110-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.977766 | 1,480 |
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Our location is the old harbor so access to a point by car and then walking only 5 minutes.
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The beautiful city of Chania has managed to preserve its original colors and historical character, despite of the fast-growing tourist industry. It is considered as one of the most beautiful cities of Greece and the most picturesque city of Crete. The city of Chania is also characterized by a rich cultural life. A plethora of cultural events are organized every year (exhibitions, festivals, theatrical and musical performances, ect.)
The harbour was built by the Venetians during their colonization in Crete and more precisely between 1320 and 1356. It was an important center, serving the Venetian military ships, as well as one of the most important commercial ports of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Nowadays, the picturesque Venetian port of Chania, gathers a large number of visitors and local people, especially during the summer months. There are many restaurants, taverns, bars and cafeterias lengthwise to the coastline to offer you a pleasant time and entertainment.
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Over the past several months, I’ve been working really hard to make my new website something special for all of you! It has a clean, sophisticated, yet fun new vibe. It not only looks awesome, but has so many new features that I have always dreamed of having – let’s take a look!
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Sister act offers tranquillity and convenience
Masonic Care WA’s sister retirement villages in leafy Wilson are offering residents a peaceful lifestyle, with the Canning River just minutes away to take in the brimming wildlife.
The location is not only tranquil, with walking paths through Centenary Park, but also convenient, with the CBD 12km away and Westfield Carousel Shopping Centre 4km away.
The River Pines and River Parks Retirement Villages currently have six villas each for sale, priced from $285,000-$325,000, which Masonic Care WA’s Customer Relations Manager Kathy Steinbacher said presented exceptional value to the market.
“Masonic Care WA is a not-for-profit organisation and has a current exemption for council rates at both villages,” she said.
“Being lease-for-life units, there is no stamp duty payable on your purchase, passing the savings on to the incoming resident.”
River Pines Retirement Village, located at 25-27 Parkhill Way, features a total of 34 living units, with two-bedroom, one-bathroom options available.
Meanwhile, River Parks Retirement Village, located just down the road at 1 Wendouree Road, features a total of 33 units, with two-bedroom, one-bathroom plus study or two-bedroom, one-bathroom options.
Both villages provide residents with undercover parking, while manicured gardens ensure the grounds are beautifully presented.
“With the two villages within easy walking distance, the residents get an opportunity to share events and facilities, ensuring there is always something to be involved in,” Ms Steinbacher said.
“The heart of each village is the clubhouse, with excellent facilities including a lounge area, kitchenette and cosy library complemented by an outdoor barbecue area, ensuring that regardless of the weather, there is always somewhere for residents to get together.”
Ms Steinbacher said the redevelopment currently underway at Westfield Carousel was helping to enhance the appeal of the villages by providing more entertainment options for residents.
“With the centre currently undergoing a massive redevelopment, introducing a David Jones store, rooftop dining and new fashion mall, residents are able to enjoy all the benefits of living nearby,” she said.
The Farmers Markets at Manning is also a popular choice on Saturday mornings and are only a short stroll away for residents.
“The villages also share their own village bus, allowing residents to organise outings to complement the social calendar,” Ms Steinbacher said.
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The fact that a situation is ubiquitous does not
absolve us from examining it. On the contrary, we must examine it for the very
reason that it is or can be the fate of each and every one of us.
Daughter: What does “objective” mean?
Father: Well. It means that you look very hard at those things which you choose to look at.
On December 1, 1991, Elie Wiesel presented former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with the Elie Wiesel Remembrance Award. The Award honors individuals who survived the Holocaust, “and then somehow contributed—through their work, writing, art, or philanthropy—to the welfare of the Jewish people and humanity.” The announcement of the awards ceremony, which took place at a State of Israel Bonds dinner, appeared in the “Chronicle” column of the New York Times. It merited only a short paragraph in the back pages of the paper, and seemed, on the surface, entirely unremarkable—a simple case of Nobel Prize winners patting each other on the back, famous men gathering together to praise each other.
Elie Wiesel is a professional Holocaust survivor. Beginning with the publication of his autobiographical novel, Night (1960), and continuing through his long career as an author and activist, Wiesel has promoted the memory of the genocidal campaign waged by the Nazis against the Jews. Terrence Des Pres, who has written in strong support of Wiesel’s work, noted, “As a survivor and a witness [Wiesel] is accorded a respect bordering on reverence.” Throughout his career Wiesel has confirmed his belief that the survivor-witness bears a terrible burden—a duty to both the living and the dead to testify, to tell the world of the horrors he has seen. At the same time, Wiesel believes, testimony is never adequate, that it can never bridge the gap between language and experience: “Could the wall be scaled? Could the reader be brought to the other side? I knew the answer to be No, and yet I also knew that No had to become Yes.” Wiesel has long insisted that “those who have not lived through the experience will never know,” and he laments the days when discussion of the Holocaust was “still in the domain of sacred memory, was considered taboo, reserved for initiates.”
Henry Kissinger emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938 with his parents and his brother. Kissinger was fifteen years old when he departed Europe for America, and he never experienced the hardships of the ghettos or concentration camps of the Third Reich. His claim to the title of “Holocaust survivor” derives from the fact that twenty-six members of his family were killed at Auschwitz. Such broad inclusiveness calls into question the value of the categorical distinction, since so many American Jews might also quality as “survivors.”
The irony of Elie Wiesel designating Henry Kissinger—who wasn’t “there”—a fellow survivor is heightened by Kissinger’s involvement in another genocidal campaign, one which Wiesel publicly deplored. Wiesel visited Cambodia in 1980 and wrote of his sympathy for the victims of the Pol Pot regime: “How could a Jew like myself, with experiences and memories like mine, stay at home and not go to the aid of an entire people? … As a Jew I felt the need to tell these despairing men and women that we understood them; that we shared their pain; that we understood their distress because we remembered a time when we as Jews confronted total indifference….” By 1980 it was generally accepted in reputable academic and intellectual circles that the campaign waged by Nixon and Kissinger to bomb Cambodia back into the Stone Age had destabilized the Cambodian government and caused the political and economic upheaval that enabled the Khmer Rouge to seize power.
Though Wiesel’s decision to grant Kissinger honorary survivor status does not mark the first occasion Wiesel has chosen to engage in morally questionable public behavior (at the height of the Gulf War he honored George Bush with a humanitarian award on behalf of the B’nai B’rith) it is certainly the first time that he has bestowed the title of survivor on someone who spent the years of the Nazi regime in such comfortable circumstances. It seems to me that Wiesel has, finally, completely unfounded himself. For if Henry Kissinger is a survivor, what then is Elie Wiesel? The difference between the two men is now, apparently, only a matter of degree—a question of which one survived “worse” horrors.
I begin with the story of Wiesel and Kissinger because it illustrates the problem that lies at the heart of this book. In order to understand the implications of Wiesel’s action, we must look backwards to the time before his connection to the Holocaust went unsaid. We must remember that Elie Wiesel was not always “Elie Wiesel”. We must do this even though the best and the brightest of the critics of Holocaust literature warn us against it.
To read a book by Elie Wiesel is one thing; to read it with knowledge of the man as a survivor and a witness, and further to read it with at least some knowledge of the ghettos, the cattle cars, and the killing centers, is another, very different experience…. Much of the time the full impact of his prose depends on knowing who is speaking and what he is speaking of, while neither is actually clarified.
How does one learn “who” Wiesel is, and gain “some” knowledge of the Holocaust? And which “who” and which “some” are the right ones? During and immediately after the Holocaust, information and testimony came from thousands of survivors and witnesses (like Wiesel himself, who was not yet “Elie Wiesel”). There were many voices and none of them were famous yet. By what process was Wiesel selected from ten thousand others? How did Wiesel become the “who” he is, the voice of “the” survivor?
These questions about Elie Wiesel raise deeper questions: What is the connection between individual psychic trauma and cultural representations of the traumatic event? What does the act of testimony, of “bearing witness” mean to an individual survivor, to a community of survivors? How are testimonies interpreted by different audiences? What does the designation “survivor” mean, and who has the right to confer that title? What happens when a survivor’s story is retold (and revised) by a writer who is not a survivor? How are survivors’ stories adapted to fit and then contained within the dominant structure of social, cultural and political discourse?
It is difficult to articulate such questions, and impossible to answer them within the framework of traditional academic disciplines. I draw from a wide variety of methodological approaches and use the analytic techniques devised by scholars in “area” studies—women’s studies, African American studies, Holocaust studies, and cultural studies. In such interdisciplinary work, boundaries are fluid and context becomes all-important. This is not, therefore, a study of all survivors in all circumstances. I do not believe in universally applicable, “normative” models. I am an Americanist, with a specialty in post-World War II U.S. culture, and I draw my examples from that place and time.
This study focuses on three distinct traumatic events, and their representation in contemporary U.S. culture: the Holocaust, the Viet Nam war, and sexual abuse of women and children. On the face of it, this may appear an outrageous comparison—as if, perhaps, I chose my subject matter on the basis of its sensational nature. This is not the case. My awareness of the connections between these events has evolved gradually, and sometimes painfully over a period of years. My decision to complete this book was made with full knowledge of its controversial nature. My aim is to force readers to question the “sacred” nature of the Holocaust as subject matter, to encourage them to be critical of the tendency to elevate the American veteran of the Viet Nam war to the status of “hero,” and to acknowledge the existence of an ongoing campaign of sexual violence and oppression waged by many men against the women and children of the United States.
In addition to insisting on the importance of contextualizing my subject, I believe that it is only fair to the reader to provide enough information for her to place me in context. In the words of Holocaust scholar Phillip Hallie:
My way of understanding good and evil… involves proper names and particular circumstances, and a felt obligation to look closely at these. One of those proper names is my own. Narratives need narrators, and storytellers have much to do with the nature and style of their stories. For me, ethics is partly a matter of autobiography, partly a matter of history and philosophy. Personal candor is part of narrative ethics for me.
In addition to the public information on my curriculum vitae, I feel the following facts are important for my reader to know.
I am a white woman. I am a Jew, born of Jewish parents, and brought up in their completely secular household. I was raised in a multiethnic, multiracial extended family—my mother’s father divorced his Jewish wife and married my Episcopalian Puerto Rican step-grandmother, who was already the mother of several children from her previous marriage. I was exposed to elements of Puerto Rican and black culture, as well as to the ways in which racism is manifested in a close-knit multiracial family. I was sexually abused as a twelve-year-old by adult friends of my maternal grandfather. I am bisexual. I was raised in an upper-class environment, with all of the privileges that entails.
I have offered the reader this information not in the spirit of confession or testimony, but in the attempt to live up to the standards set by other feminist critics, such as African-American theorist Valerie Smith, who suggests that “if cultural productions acknowledge the relation of our theoretical work to our personal circumstances, then we will be able to expand the radical possibilities of our scholarship.” I consider it necessary not only to admit, but to define my subjectivity—such definition makes the sort of Gramscian “good sense” that political scientist Joan Cocks describes:
Good sense is thought that is self-knowing….It is self-critical….It is finally… self-active, fashioning its own independent world-view, and working to make that view systematic, unified, and rigorous….The cultivation of such self-knowing, self-critical, self-active thought is… a preliminary condition for people giving a conscious direction to their own activities and taking “an active part in the creation of world history.”
Like Cocks, I believe that “cultural-political theory inquires primarily into consciously lived life” and that such an inquiry “makes its major moves back and forth between some individual train of through or action or sensibility and the larger, collective, political and cultural world.” Any act of cultural criticism, in this estimation, ought to be a self-conscious act—one in which the critic acknowledges that her choice of subject has meaning, and that a choice of subject is itself open to interpretation. As Terrence Des Pres observed, “There are always, for any subject under the sun, worldly conditions to be met—social, political, cultural—when asking: Why this event? At some point, also, one must ask: Why me?” I have attempted to make this question—Why me?—integral to my approach.
I believe the responsibility of the cultural critic is to present a continuous challenge to the assumptions upon which any communal consensus is based—to insist that nothing go without saying. When cultural critics seek to expose and then question the rationales for specific community practices, we situate ourselves in opposition to dominant discourse. We question our own beliefs and the beliefs of others. We appeal to people’s “good sense,” and we measure our success by the amount of argument we generate. We actively work towards the breakdown of consensus, at which point, “assumptions that could previously be taken for granted become one set of theories among others, ideas that you have to argue for rather than presuppose as given.” Such a process is not infinitely reductive, nor does it promote the notion that all theories are equally valid.
Unlike the most playful of the deconstructionists, we do not seek to prove that there is, finally, no solid place to stand. We have moved beyond the discovery of the reductive power of the question “why?” Every human being possesses a core set of beliefs rooted in faith. Cultural critics seek to establish a mode of discourse in which each person can first uncover and acknowledge his or her beliefs, and then test them, compare them to the beliefs of others, understand their implications, and modify them to reflect a changing understanding of the world. Our end goal is a community based on the full and informed participation of all its members—a community where difference is not only accepted but cherished because it provides us with new frames of reference and new ways of understanding ourselves.
The subject of this work is psychic trauma; its cultural-political inquiry moves back and forth between the effects of trauma upon individual survivors and the manner in which that trauma is reflected and revised in the larger, collective political and cultural world. In the cases of the Holocaust, the Viet Nam war, and the campaign of sexual violence waged against women and children, I examine three strategies of cultural coping—mythologization, medicalization, and disappearance. Mythologization works by reducing a traumatic event to a set of standardized narratives (twice- and thrice-told tales that come to represent “the story” of the trauma) turning it from a frightening and uncontrollable event into a contained and predictable narrative. Medicalization focuses our gaze upon the victims of trauma, positing that they suffer from an “illness” that can be “cured” within existing or slightly modified structures of institutionalized medicine and psychiatry. Disappearance—a refusal to admit to the existence of a particular kind of trauma—is usually accomplished by undermining the credibility of the victims. In the traumas I examine, these strategies work in combination to effect the cultural codification of the trauma.
Traumatic events are written and rewritten until they become codified, and narrative form gradually replaces content as the focus of attention. For example, the Holocaust has become a metonym, not for the actual series of events that took place in Germany and the occupied territories before and during World War II, but for the set of symbols that reflect the formal codification of that experience. There is a recognizable set of literary and filmic conventions that comprise the “Holocaust” text. These conventions are so well-defined that they may be reproduced in endless recombination to provide us with a steady stream of additions to the genre:
[I]n the minds of some, the “Holocaust Novel” may now be seen as an available subgenre of contemporary fiction, to be written by anyone who is on to and can master the “formula.” … [Readers of this literature] will be taken rather swiftly and effortlessly through the whole “pattern”: the prewar normalcy and the coming of trouble; the beginning of a propaganda campaign against the Jews and racial and religious incitement against them; the incipient threats at first against a few, and then openly against the many; the bureaucratization of terror and the growing “banality of evil”; the exploitation of slave labor and the emergence of the child smugglers; the omnipresent disease and hunger; the imposed quotas; the strikes and other temporary shows of resistance; the roundups and transports; the camps; the corpses; and a few survivors. None of this is “easy,” but neither is it beyond the reach of a competent writer.
Once codified, the traumatic experience becomes a weapon in another battle, the struggle for political power. “The role of political power,” as Foucault explains, “… is perpetually to re-inscribe this relation through a form of unspoken warfare; to re-inscribe it in social institutions, in economic inequalities, in language, in the bodies themselves of each and every one of us.”
The speech of survivors is highly politicized. If “telling it like it was” threatens the status quo, powerful political, economic, and social forces will pressure survivors either to keep their silence or to revise their stories. If the survivor community is a marginal one, their voices will be drowned out by those with the influence and resources to silence them, and to trumpet a revised version of their trauma to the public. Less marginal trauma survivors can sometimes band together as a community and retain a measure of control over the representation of their experience. Much of my work focuses upon the interaction between the survivor as individual, the community of survivors, and the wielders of political power.
Bearing witness is an aggressive act. It is born out of a refusal to bow to outside pressure to revise or to repress experience, a decision to embrace conflict rather than conformity, to endure a lifetime of anger and pain rather than to submit to the seductive pull of revision and repression. Its goal is change. The battle over the meaning of a traumatic experience is fought in the arena of political discourse, popular culture, and scholarly debate. The outcome of this battle shapes the rhetoric of the dominant culture and influences future political action.
If survivors retain control over the interpretation of their trauma, they can sometimes force a shift in the social and political structure. If the dominant culture manages to appropriate the trauma and can codify it on its own terms, the status quo will remain unchanged. On a social as well as an individual psychological level, the penalty for repression is repetition. In Daniel Goleman’s words: “On the one hand, we forget we have done this before and, on the other, do not quite realize what we are doing again. The self-deception is complete.”
The Holocaust serves as a paradigm case, demonstrating the appropriation and codification of a traumatic event. Des Pres writes, “At some unconscious level, the image of the Holocaust is with us—a memory which haunts, a sounding board for all subsequent evil—in the back of the mind… for all of us now living: we, the inheritors.” What is “with us,” however, is not the memory of the massive and complex set of historical and cultural events that comprised the Third Reich, but rather a distilled and reified set of images for which “Holocaust” has become the metonym. “Holocaust” is a signifier for, among other things, the Nazi genocidal campaign against the Jews; the reign of evil upon the face of the earth; and the rationale for the existence of the State of Israel. Drawn from religious terminology and spelled with a capital “h,” the term Holocaust is set apart from descriptions of other man-made evils, such as slavery, genocide, and oppression. A proper noun, its uniqueness is emphasized every time it is uttered. Yet, as literary critic James Young observes, it is “ironic that once an event is perceived to be without precedent, without adequate analogy, it would in itself become a kind of precedent for all that follows: a new figure against which subsequent experiences are measured and grasped….The process is inevitable, for as new experiences are necessarily grasped and represented in the frame of remembered past experiences, ‘incomparable’ experiences like the Holocaust will always be made—at least rhetorically—comparable.”
The force of the Holocaust as precedent and yardstick to measure trauma in contemporary U.S. culture, and the influence of the Holocaust survivor on the perceived legitimacy and interpretation of the statements of survivors of other traumas has never, to my knowledge, been discussed in print before. To seriously undertake such a project, we must disregard the cultural prohibition against profaning the sacred. We must demystify the Holocaust, reducing it, once again, to a series of historical and cultural events on par with other cultural and historical events and therefore undeserving of a capital “H,” except as a sort of casual shorthand, as we speak of the Enlightenment, or the Renaissance. With Miriam Greenspan, I believe that “The view of the Holocaust as Sacred Event… goes along with a decided ignorance of the forces of fascism and anti-Semitism, not only as they existed in World War II Europe, but as they exist in the world today.” However unpopular, I consider it imperative to reduce the Holocaust from “holy object” to “something which happened in history” if we are to understand, for example, exactly what George Bush meant when he called Saddam Hussein “another Hitler,” and why this naming seemed to serve as a justification for going to war against Iraq. How has the “Holocaust” been invoked and represented in the U.S.? What is the interaction between the Holocaust survivor and mainstream U.S. culture? What is implied when Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel presents Hitler-invoking George Bush with a humanitarian award at the peak of Bush’s war against Iraq?*
As I have grappled with these questions, I have discovered that it is imperative to make a distinction between those individuals who have been traumatized in a particular way and those individuals who have not suffered such trauma. I have also found it necessary to make distinctions between members of groups that are systematically traumatized, and members of groups not subject to such persecution, and to account for movement from one group to another, or simultaneous membership in two or more groups. I have tried to create a coherent structure for analyzing different sociocultural patterns of traumatization and reassimilation, and to account for complex social relationships.
In a social system that supports the systematic oppression and persecution of a particular minority group (such as Jews in Nazi Germany), the victims of persecution have a limited set of available options. They may capitulate, which will result in continued suffering and perhaps the eventual death of all members of the targeted group if the intent of the oppressor is genocide. They may resist by appealing to existing legal, moral, or ethical structures in the dominant society (i.e., litigation, religious arguments) and use tactics such as passive resistance or nonviolence. They may respond with force—intending to change the power structure. Or they may attempt to escape the confines of the oppressive social structure, either by relocating to a less hostile environment or by “passing” as a member of a nontargeted group.
Within a society, there may be several targeted groups, whose members are subject to traumatization in greater or lesser degrees. Targeted groups can and should be examined both in relation to the dominant group and to each other. In the United States, Jews are only one of several targeted groups. Though discriminated against, Jews do not suffer from systematic economic oppression and are rarely targets of violent racism. Other targeted groups—women and racial minorities, for example—are at higher risk of traumatic assault.
Membership in the targeted group is determined on the basis of externally imposed definitions (i.e., classification and stereotyping by race, class, gender, religious affiliation), which are created and enforced by dominant social groups, and which—once created—are often internalized by members of targeted groups and incorporated into their individual self-concepts. A characteristic of targeting is that persons falling within the dominant group’s definition are subject to the same treatment, whether or not their self-definition includes membership in the targeted group. For example, Jews and Gypsies in Nazi Germany were targeted based on “blood” relationships defined by the Nazis and in the Nuremberg Race Laws. In the U.S. (both in the antebellum period and, in some states, into the present time) blackness was also determined by ancestry. Self-definition played no role in such social classification.
In a situation of ongoing oppression or where there is risk of traumatic violence, many members of a targeted group will be victimized (some repeatedly), while other members will escape physical harm. In such circumstances, the category of trauma “survivor” is problematic, since every traumatized member of an oppressed community is aware of the potential for repeated victimization. During a period in which there is no safe refuge, the designation of “survivor” is always temporary and conditional. Jews and Gypsies in Nazi Germany existed in a state of ongoing oppression. Jews in America are no longer members of a community at risk. Soldiers were at risk in Viet Nam during the war, but U.S. veterans are not targets of systematic violence in the United States. Women and children in the U.S. comprise a community under siege.
Most readers will accept the notion that Jews and Gypsies are members of oppressed groups. Many others will be familiar with and supportive of feminist arguments that women and children also belong in this category. However, the mechanism by which soldiers are systematically exposed to traumatic assault and then reassimilated into U.S. society as veterans requires explication. During the Viet Nam war, men from both targeted and untargeted groups enlisted or were drafted, and were sent to Viet Nam. Those exposed to combat or other life-threatening events, and those exposed to the carnage resulting from combat were traumatized. But combat soldiers, though subordinate to their military superiors and frequently at the mercy of their enemies, still possess a life-or-death power over other people. Much recent literature—popular, clinical and academic—places the combat soldier simply in the victim’s role; helpless in the face of war, and then helpless to readjust from the war experience upon his return home. We should be quick to voice our disapproval of an interpretation so drastically at odds with reality. The soldier in combat is both victim and victimizer; dealing death as well as risking it. Soldiers carry guns; they point them at people and shoot to kill. Members of oppressed groups, by contrast, often do not control the tools of violence.
Even though the “community” of combat soldiers exists only during wartime, and these veterans of the U.S. war in Viet Nam returned to a society that did not view them as a distinct, targeted group, American soldier-survivors of the Viet Nam war formed a new, self-defined group—the Viet Nam war veteran—based upon their common traumatic experience. They identified themselves as distinct both from civilians, and from veterans of earlier wars, founding their own organizations and often refusing to join the large “inclusive” traditional veterans organizations such as the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Posttraumatic group identification is sometimes quite strong. However, over time it tends to deteriorate, especially when membership in the post-trauma group includes both targeted and untargeted groups. More powerful identity group interests and status may increasingly take precedence over survivor group identification. As group cohesiveness diminishes, social and political pressures on survivors begin to take their toll on group members. This process can be traced in the history of the radical organization, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in 1967.
As the number of American soldiers in Viet Nam decreased in the early 1970s, membership in the VVAW (along with antiwar activism in general) waned. In the mid-1970s, the shrinking VVAW was shattered by an ideological battle between radical and liberal members. After a contested election in 1978 and a lawsuit between feuding parties, the energies of both sides were exhausted. The liberal wing won the right to use the VVAW name, and the much diminished radical wing was granted the appellation VVAW-AI (Anti-Imperialist). Both groups were quickly overshadowed by the new, distinctly liberal, Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), founded in 1978 by Robert Muller. In the late 1980s, VVA then split into two organizations—Muller left VVA because he resisted its increasing conservatism and founded the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. This secession also initiated a lawsuit, which left the VVA with the bulk of the funding and pauperized the VVAF. By 1995, the VVA had more than 44,000 members, but it numbered far fewer Viet Nam veterans than either the American Legion (750,000) or the VFW (50,000). Viet Nam war veterans no longer function as a coherent, self-identified group with a distinct agenda; instead, as individuals, they are more likely to identify with groups that best represent the interests of their individual combination of race, class, and gender identities.
The struggle for self-definition that characterizes the history of Viet Nam veterans’ organizations is both reflected in and shaped by popular, political, and scholarly discourse. Like the experience of the Holocaust survivor, the experience of the American combat soldier in Viet Nam has been revised and codified—survivor testimony was overwhelmed and revised by the dominant culture. Tom Cruise’s character in Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July completely overshadows (and redefines) the “real” Ron Kovic. Today, one can purchase “The Vietnam Experience” for $14.99 on installment from Time-Life Books, Inc. Cultural theorist Timothy Luke writes:
The packaging of ideological collaboration here is highly sophisticated, promising that, “If you were there, this is your story. If you weren’t here’s your chance to learn what it was really like….” When such “history” can be purchased on a monthly installment plan from a corporate image factory, it signals the final colonization of its ideopolitical significance by the society of the spectacle. Stacked along the aisles of collective choice in its bright attractive packaging, next to the comparably priced and packaged “World War II” product, “the Vietnam experience” thus acquires new shelf life as another over-the-counter nostrum for young Americans anxious to keep their world safe for democracy.
The Viet Nam war has taken its place on the shelf beside “the Good War” as a noble chapter in U.S. popular history. And, as all such chapters must, it presents the normative Viet Nam war “experience,” implicitly informing the reader: “If you were there, then this is your story—and if it isn’t your story, you weren’t really there.”
The shape of public discourse has changed a lot since the late 1960s and early 1970s. Then, comparisons were regularly made between American soldiers committing atrocities in Viet Nam and German soldiers committing atrocities during the Nazi regime—critics of U.S. policy who invoked the phrase “war crimes” to describe U.S. actions in Viet Nam were keenly aware of the echo of Nuremberg. This exercise sounds shocking today in light of the “rehabilitation” of the Viet Nam war veteran, and our current tendency to define him as a victim, rather than as an executioner. The difference is marked, and worth attention, since the comparison was sometimes made by the GI himself:
They wanted to call us heroes for serving the country. The offer us recognition and honor, even a national monument. Heroes for serving a country that burned down villages and shot anything that moved. Recognition for being the pawn and agents of a ruthless death machine…. Should we pin medals on the chests of the guards at Auschwitz! Should there be a cheering ticker-tape parade for the flight crews that dropped atomic death on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or fire-bombed Dresden! Perhaps we should build a monument to the nun-murdering troops of the Salvadoran National Guard or to the National Guard at Kent state.
“Most American soldiers in Viet-Nam do not question the orders that lead them to raze villages and wipe out men, women and children for the ‘crime’ of living in Viet Cong-controlled or infiltrated areas,” wrote Eric Norden. “To many critics of the war this ‘new breed of Americans’ bears a disquieting resemblance to an old breed of Germans.” Jean-Paul Sartre firmly stated that the Viet Nam war met all of Hitler’s criteria: “Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews. The armed forces of the United States torture and kill men, women and children in Vietnam merely because they are Vietnamese. Whatever lies or euphemisms the government may thing up, the spirit of genocide is in the minds of the soldiers.” Even satirist Art Hoppe made the connection in a cartoon depicting a German psychiatrist counseling his patient—a participant in the My Lai massacre—to repeat three times a day: “I didn’t know what was going on. These things happen in war. I was only following orders as a good American. Our soldiers are good American boys. The war is to save the world from Communism. Our leaders were wrong. The unfortunate victims were members of an inferior race.” In February of 1971, hundreds of Vietnam combat veterans gathered in Detroit to hold hearings on war crimes. The testimony of these Winter Soldiers was published in the Congressional Record on April 6, 1971, and filled over 100 pages. Similar hearings were held in other cities. All of these veterans admitted to committing or witnessing acts of atrocity, and several compared themselves or other Americans to Nazis.
These anecdotes now seem unreal. U.S. soldiers were hailed triumphantly by the American public when they returned from war in the Persian Gulf in 1991, and the Viet Nam veteran as icon is firmly established in the American heroic tradition. Comparisons between American soldiers and Nazis are now jarring and incredible. How has the rehabilitation of the image of the American soldier been accomplished? Why have combat veterans of the Viet Nam war, like poet, novelist and peace activist W.D. Ehrhart, been “drowned out by the cheerful cadences of prodigal sons on parade…in faded fatigues… [waving] to the cheering crowd”?
Some of the best known progressive historians of the Vietnam war (exemplified by essays in the 1985 anthology, Vietnam and America: A Documented History, edited by Marvin E. Gettleman, Jane Franklin, Marilyn Young, and H. Bruce Franklin) claim it was politically expedient for dominant U.S. political interests to attempt to rewrite history after the Viet Nam war.
… [B]y the late 1970s, [the] national consensus of “No more Vietnams” was becoming a major obstacle for the US government, which was stepping up its intervention in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, preparing to reinstitute draft registration, and initiating the most colossal military buildup in US history…. [I]t was necessary to rewrite history once again. Hence, a new body of writings emerged (known by the collective term ‘revisionism”) which sought to return to the myths that had been dispelled by the knowledge we had gained at such a terrifying price.
These historians might mention briefly that popular film productions and the mass media cooperate in the revisionary venture, but they offer us no explanation of the mechanism by which such a radical erasure of history was effected. Nor does their theory that powerful interests conspired to rewrite history account for the fact that even long-time liberals have been indoctrinated in the new history of the Viet Nam war and the role of the U.S. soldier in the Vietnam.
Peter Davies, journalist and champion of the Kent 25 (injured students, and relatives of the four students murdered by the National Guard at Kent State University on May 4, 1971), was able, in 1991, to equate the Kent State dead with the soldiers killed in the Viet Nam war. In this article, Davies asserts that, “there had never been any difference between these… victims of forces beyond their control, only what President Nixon had wanted us to see.” Davies’ desire to see the soldier as victim was new—there is no hint of it in his 1974 speech, “Four Students.” At that time, the combat soldier in Viet Nam would more likely have been analogous to the murderous National Guardsmen of Ohio in the minds of most critics of the Kent State shootings, while the protesters would have resided in quite a different category—perhaps more closely aligned with National Liberation Front fighters or civilians in Viet Nam. When Davies expands the category of “victims” to include all soldiers of the Viet Nam War (typical of post-1981 thinking), he obscures the distinct history of the Viet Nam veterans and active duty servicemen who saw themselves both as victims and perpetrators, and who protested with the students to end the war.
James William Gibson, in his well-documented analysis The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam, provides us with a useful analysis of the process of erasure and revision. Gibson notes that by the mid-1970s “no one wanted to talk about the war.”
Somehow… even in news reports about Vietnam veterans, the war itself was never revisited. Debates around the dioxin Agent Orange and post-Vietnam stress-disorder cases made their official appearances in claims for medical benefits or for special consideration in legal contexts. The war thus disappeared as a topic for study and political consideration and instead became dispersed and institutionalized in the complex of medical, psychiatric, and legal discourses. It was if a new series of medical and judicial problems with no traceable origin had appeared in American society. Or rather, although it was acknowledged that Vietnam was the origin, once the word “Vietnam” was mentioned, the war itself was dismissed and discussion moved on to how an institution could solve the problem…. In this way the war became progressively displaced and repressed at the same time it was written about.
Gibson, a sociologist, suggests that the structure of American society shapes our abilities to listen to or disregard certain kinds of stories. We privilege those who inhabit the top of the “stratification system” because they hold “a virtual monopoly on socially accepted ‘scientific’ knowledge.” He draws on Foucault to explain that the testimony of combat veterans is “subjugated knowledge,” and argues that combat veteran writing is marginalized because it is written as narrative, because one veteran’s work can be isolated from another’s, because it is often colloquial rather than formal, because it is obscene, because it is uncivil.
As a society, we have effectively inhibited Viet Nam veterans from speaking in terms other than those we have defined as acceptable, silencing those whose stories fall outside the boundaries of convention. Harry Haines, a scholar of communications and mass media, and a Viet Nam war veteran, argues, “Administrative power offers a therapeutic position for Vietnam veterans, ‘hailing’ them as World War II heroes and demonstrating hegemony’s ability to smooth over ideological contradictions, to make them seem natural and right…” Haines explains that Viet Nam veterans are given a clear message, a new status produced for them by hegemony:
The message identifies the veterans’ burdens as “little solace,” the lack of compassion and acceptance given to combat veterans by their countrymen once the war was lost. The lack of solace is further specified as a characteristic of Americans “unable to distinguish between” a generalized abhorrence for war and “the stainless patriotism” of Vietnam veterans. The contradictions of the veterans’ firsthand experience, the war’s “counterfeit universe” are explained as “philosophical disagreements” in the process of resolution. Where disagreement existed, a consensus is manufactured which attempts to integrate the Vietnam veteran with other veterans and to normalize the Vietnam war in terms of other wars. For the veteran, the price of reintegration is the revision of memory to coincide with hegemony’s newly produced consensus. Many veterans are willing to accept these terms, a measure of their postwar isolation. Hegemony structures “the field of other possible actions” open to some veterans, who bring their interpretation of Vietnam in line with prevailing interpretations…. In this way, Vietnam veterans may become… “fully paid-up members of the consensus club,” the sign of the reintegrated society.
The voices of warrior-poets such as W.D. Ehrhart and combat veteran survivors with similar messages are drowned out because they cannot be incorporated into the process that critic Michael Clark defines as the transformation of “individual experience into communal redemption”:
… [T]he evolution of the character of the veteran… suggests a more profound continuity between the dream and the memory than is apparent in the shifting winds of public taste and political doctrine. As the veteran’s participation in the Vietnam war ceased being represented as an obstacle to his assimilation and started to appear as a moral corrective and strategic support for the social order, the historical contradictions that the war raised within the traditional forms of social coherence were transformed into psychological conflicts in the veteran’s sense of continuity between his present position in society and his past actions in the war….
An individual is traumatized by a life-threatening event that displaces his or her preconceived notions about the world. Trauma is enacted in a liminal state, outside the bounds of “normal” human experience, and the subject is radically ungrounded. Accurate representation of trauma can never be achieved without recreating the event since, by its very definition, trauma lies beyond the bounds of “normal” conception. Textual representations—literary, visual, oral—are mediated by language and do not have the impact of the traumatic experience. Chaim Shatan, psychiatrist and pioneer of trauma research, explains that the victim enters the catastrophic environment of trauma through the “membrane” that separates sense from nonsense, narrative from chaos, and, “Reality is torn asunder leaving no boundaries and no guideposts.” There is, in this case, no substitute for experience—only being is believing.
The process of translating traumatic experience into text is best understood in terms of Émile Beneviste’s description of the dual semiotic and semantic functions of language. Beneviste argues that “the sign” must be recognized, while “the discourse” must be understood: “The difference between recognition and comprehension refers to two distinct faculties of the mind: that of discerning the identity between the previous and the present, and that of discerning, on the other hand, the meaning of a new enunciation.” Beneviste also notes that “two systems can have the same sign in common without being, as a result, synonymous or redundant; that is to say, the functional difference of a sign alone matters, not its substantial identity.”
Those who have passed through the trauma membrane are equipped with virtually the same set of signs as their nontraumatized peers. As Paul Fussell notes in his landmark study, The Great War and Modern Memory, the English language is “rich in terms like blood, terror, agony, madness, shit, cruelty, murder, sell-out, pain and hoax, as well as phrases like legs blown off, intestines gushing out over his
hands, screaming all night, bleeding to death from the rectum, and the like….” Fussell believes that communication is hindered only because the audience refuses to listen, that we have “made unspeakable mean indescribable; it really means nasty.” The problem, however, is much more complex. Traumatic experience catalyzes a transformation of meaning in the signs individuals use to represent their experiences. Words such as blood, terror, agony, and madness gain new meaning within the context of the trauma, and survivors emerge from the traumatic environment with a new set of definitions. On the surface, language appears unchanged—survivors still use the word terror, non-traumatized audiences read and understand the word terror, and the dislocation of meaning is invisible until one pays attention to the cry of survivors, “What can we do to share our visions? Our words can only evoke the incomprehensible. Hunger, thirst, fear, humiliation, waiting, death; for us these words hold different realities. This is the ultimate tragedy of the victims.”
The instant that survivors narrate trauma, the traumatic experience is reinscribed as metaphor. In Barthes’ terms, such signifiers are polysemous, implying a “floating chain” of signifieds among which readers may “choose some and ignore others.” Barthes believes that “traumatic images are bound up with an uncertainty (an anxiety) concerning the meaning of objects or attitudes. Hence, in every society various techniques are developed intended to fix the floating chain of signifieds in such a way as to counter the terror of uncertain signs….” Barthes is, I believe, wrong in his claim that readers may “choose” from a variety of meanings—there are meanings available to survivor-readers that are not available to nontraumatized readers. Furthermore, the ability to “read” words like terror may extend across traumas, so that the combat veteran of the Viet Nam war responds viscerally to the transformed signs used by the survivor of the concentration camp because they mirror his or her own traumatic experience, while the nontraumatized reader will come away with a different meaning altogether.
Survivors have the metaphorical tools to interpret representations of traumas similar to their own. The representations may trigger “flashbacks” in the survivor-reader. However, the reexperience of trauma in the reader will always be derived from the reader’s own traumatic experience, and not from the read experience of the survivor-author. Like the survivor, the nontraumatized reader has at his or her disposal the entire cultural “library” of symbol, myth, and metaphor, but he or she does not have access to the meaning of the signs that invoke traumatic memory. The profusion of available images allows for a variety of readings, which are accessible in different ways to different audiences. Multiple meanings encoded in particular “loaded” signifiers (blood, terror, murder) characterize survivor writing, and distinguish it from other genres.
The writings of trauma survivors comprise a distinct “literature of trauma.” Literature of trauma is defined by the identity of its author. Literature of trauma holds at its center the reconstruction and recuperation of the traumatic experience, but it is also actively engaged in an ongoing dialogue with the writings and representations of nontraumatized authors. It comprises a marginal literature similar to that produced by feminist, African-American, and queer writers—in fact, it often overlaps with these literatures, so that distinct subgenres of literature of trauma may be found in each of these communities. Theories that encompass such marginal literatures are necessarily predicated on the critic’s belief in her ability to discern an author’s relationship to the group in question. Joan W. Scott’s suggestions for an agenda that combines poststructuralist theory and feminism can easily be applied to a reading of literature of trauma:
The point is to find ways to analyze specific “texts”—not only books and documents but also utterances of any kind and in any medium, including cultural practices—in terms of specific historical and contextual meanings…. The questions that must be answered in such analysis, then, are how, in what specific contexts, among which specific communities of people, and by what textual and social processes has meaning been acquired? More generally, the questions are: How do meanings change? How have some meanings emerged as normative and others have been eclipsed or disappeared? What do these processes reveal about how power is constituted and operates?
Only after we have contextualized the trauma can we separate the outside interpretations of “Other People’s Trauma” (OPT) from the narratives of the survivors and successfully “read” the revisions of that trauma.
The critic of trauma literature must determine: the composition of the community of trauma survivors; the nature of the trauma inflicted upon members of the community; the composition of the community of perpetrators; the relationship between the communities of victims and perpetrators; and the contemporary social, political and cultural location of the community of survivors.
The approach of most postmodernist critics is inappropriate when applied to reading the literature of trauma. Postmodern critics have been concerned with the problematics of reading. As professional readers, it is in their interest to put forward the argument that any text, properly read, can be “understood.” Those among them who do not claim to be able to divine the author’s intent simply claim that an author’s intent is irrelevant. It’s obvious that this approach won’t work for the literatures of trauma. The act of writing, though perhaps less accessible to the critic, is as important as the act of reading.
I am far from the first person to notice that the author’s identity matters. In 1939 Jorge Luis Borges penned an absurd ficcion—”Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote“—in which he described the process by which Menard recreated Cervantes’ tale. Menard’s imaginary novel is not, as Borges is quick to note, a contemporary rewrite of the Spanish knight’s adventure, but, word for word, “the Don Quixote.” Borges’ story is narrated by a literary critic, and the centerpiece is the critic’s comparison of two passages which, of course, are the same word for word:
… truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.
“Written in the seventeenth century, written by the ‘ingenious layman’ Cervantes, this enumeration is a mere rhetorical eulogy of history,” notes the critic. Menard’s version, he believes, has greater depth, though it is less fluent:
History, mother of truth; the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of William James, does not define history as an investigation of reality, but as its origin. Historical truth, for him, is not what took place; it is what we think took place…. Equally vivid is the contrast in styles. The archaic style of Menard—in the last analysis, a foreigner—suffers from a certain affectation. Not so that of his precursor, who handles easily the ordinary Spanish of his time.
Though Borges’ tale is fanciful, it suggests not only that the reader’s interpretation of a work is affected by his or her ability to contexualize, to cross disciplines, to couple history and philosophy with literature, but that two writers writing may pen the same words and tell entirely different stories. The critic of literature of trauma may extract the moral that two people can represent the same experience, using similar imagery and descriptive terminology and create literary works with entirely different meanings—meanings that are located not in the words themselves, but in the interaction between writer and text, between reader and text, between reader and writer.
The work of the critic of the literature of trauma is both to identify and explicate literature by members of survivor groups, and to deconstruct the process by which the dominant culture codifies their traumatic experience. Survivors bear witness in a social, cultural, political, and historical context. Their location within the complex network of communal relations determines the reception of their testimony and the interpretive and revisionary pressures that will be brought to bear on their traumatic experience. Members of opposing interest groups will attempt to appropriate traumatic experiences while survivors will struggle to retain control of those representations. The winner of this battle over meaning will determine the way in which the experience is codified.
Representation of traumatic experience is ultimately a tool in the hands of those who shape public perceptions and national myth. In contemporary U.S. culture, this battle over codification and appropriation of trauma is glaringly obvious when one examines the interaction between testimony and cultural representation of institutionalized sexualized violence against women and children. Rape, sexual abuse, and incest are woven into the fabric of contemporary American culture. Rapists are protected by a criminal justice system that demands that rape victims “prove” that intercourse was not consensual. Courts are unlikely to accept that intercourse was forced if the accused is an acquaintance of the victim, particularly if he is an ex-lover or boyfriend. In some states, wives are not allowed to bring charges of rape against their husbands unless they are legally separated. Though most rapes are committed by men who are known to the victim, women who are raped by strangers are most likely to secure the conviction of their rapist.
Rape, especially acquaintance rape, is widely acknowledged to be an under-reported crime. Rape victims are aware that the legal system does not work in their favor, and they fear the social, psychological, and personal consequences of prosecuting rapists. When women do report acquaintance rape, police frequently refuse to forward these reports for possible prosecution. Prosecutors, in turn, systematically dismiss or downgrade acquaintance rape cases. And even if rape cases do make it to trial, juries tend to be prejudiced against the prosecution, and to be lenient with the defendant if they believe that the victim indulged in “contributory behavior”—including “hitchhiking, dating, and talking with men at parties.”
Men who sexually abuse children are also virtually immune from prosecution. Children lack the independence and power to bring charges against them. Some children are abused before they are even old enough to speak. Children who can speak, and who describe the abuse they suffer are frequently disbelieved. A significant part of the psychological establishment believes that young female children fantasize sexual interactions with their fathers or stepfathers, and that such fantasies are part of “normal” development. Prosecution of abusive men is difficult or impossible without corroborating evidence. The motives of wives or girlfriends who accuse their partners of sexually abusing their children are often questioned by civil courts, and their charges are looked upon with suspicion. And when abuse is found by the court, children are often placed in foster homes where they may again be abused by other adult males.
Incest is so rarely reported, and prosecution is so rarely effective that most incestuous relationships are finally ended by the victim when she becomes old enough, independent enough, and powerful enough to break away from her abuser. Some abused children may never live to reach that point: a 1983 study found that 38% of incest survivors had attempted to kill themselves. We will never know how many children and young adults have taken their own lives to escape sexual abuse.
Popular culture stereotypes reinforce the legal apparatus in protecting the men who rape women or sexually abuse children. Films, mainstream novels, and advertising reinforce the idea that women who say “no” mean “yes,” and that children are willing partners in the sexual adventures of grown men. Pornography, a $10 billion per year industry, obsessively focuses on rape as a pleasurable experience for the male rapist, and often casts female children in the role of the seducer.
Women and girls are taught to believe that they provoke men into assaulting them, and that they will bring pain and humiliation upon themselves by dressing, speaking, or acting in a provocative manner. They are taught that there is a thin line between seduction and rape, and that it is their responsibility to keep men from crossing that line. Most women do not walk alone at night if they can avoid it. But the demands of daily life, of child care, and of holding a job, make it impossible for women to entirely avoid being exposed and vulnerable. All women run the risk of being raped or assaulted.
Unlike the European Jew forty years after the Holocaust, or the combat veteran returned from war, the American woman lives in fear of an enemy who stalks her today. Her enemy is free to assault her on the street, in her place of work, or in her own home. He may attack her once or repeatedly. If she hides from him, he may find her. If she asks for the protection of the authorities, he may have the right to demand she be returned to his control. If she tries to press charges, he will be protected by a legal, political and social system that is biased against her. Sociologist Anthony Wilden has emphasized that “if there is one class of individuals who cannot rely on their community for self-defense it is women—and after them, teenage girls and children. The reason for that is that it is their own community that attacks them.”
All American women are threatened with violence, regardless of their race or class, just as all Jews were in danger in Nazi Germany. Money and connections can help only to a point: a woman alone in Central Park after dark is a potential target whether she is an advertising executive or a welfare mother. More hue and cry may be raised by the press and citizenry when the victim is upper-class, and prosecution is more likely if she is white and her attackers are men of color. Regardless, the first question any court will ask is: “What was she doing alone down there at night?”
Often victims find themselves completely without support. Social and legal institutions, churches, and frequently even a victim’s own family and friends may place the blame on her shoulders. Dr. Natalie Shainess, a psychiatrist who works with sexually abused children, notes: “It calls to mind the problem of Jews in Nazi Germany: how many Germans would go against their own interests to help? What hope was there? Who would listen, who would believe?”
In this hostile climate, what does it mean when women bear witness to sexual assault? To whom do they testify? Do they believe that men will hear them and go against their own interests, reduce their own power, in order to make the world a safer place for women? Or do they think that by speaking to their sisters they can organize against sexual assault, take power by force? Who is their audience? Do men read incest and rape narratives and, if so, for what purposes? How are women’s stories of sexual assault packaged and sold? Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to begin to answer these questions. There simply did not exist a body of rape and incest testimony to examine. That situation has recently changed, mainly due to the increased activity of the feminist movement, which has created a small but supportive community within which women can safely tell their stories.
Consider the striking similarity between Audre Lorde’s explanation for why she writes, and John Ketwig’s inscription in the prologue of his narrative, … And A Hard Rain Fell. Lorde is a black lesbian feminist and Ketwig is a white, male Viet Nam combat veteran. Both of them express sentiments uncannily akin to Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld. “The inability to express your experience,” Appelfeld explains, “and the feeling of guilt combined together and created silence…. Not everyone remained within that isolation. The desire to tell… broke out and took on strange and different forms of expression. Since new words had not been invented, people made use of the old ones, which had served them before.”
“I write,” explains Lorde
for myself and my children and for as many people as possible who can read me, who need to hear what I have to say—who need to use what I know…. I write for these women for whom a voice has not yet existed, or whose voices have been silenced. I don’t have the only voice or all of their voices, but they are a part of my voice, and I am a part of theirs.
I wanted my wife to know all I was feeling. I hoped someday my kids would read it and understand…. This story became a book simply because so many Vietnam vets pleaded with me to make it public. Many are still searching for words. Our families and loved ones have waited so long for an explanation of the enormous changes the war crafted into our personalities…. I don’t want my children to see the world I have known.
Literature of trauma is written from the need to tell and retell the story of the traumatic experience, to make it “real” both to the victim and to the community. Such writing serves both as validation and cathartic vehicle for the traumatized author. Des Pres reminds us, “Displacement is the goal of any story, in degree; all fiction aims to usurp the real world with a world that is imagined. Desires for affirmation and release cross subgenre lines, manifesting themselves in writings by combat veterans, Holocaust survivors, and rape and incest survivors. They are also manifested in the work of many feminist writers who are not specifically identified (either by themselves or others) as trauma survivors.
My goal is to present a coherent rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation, using as my focus the Holocaust, the Viet Nam war, and the phenomenon of sexualized violence against women. In order to do so, I must create a rich context for each trauma and its representations, and let nothing go without saying. Historian and literary critic Jonathan Morse wrote, “On the page, history is present in every text, ‘historical’ or not.” We must seek complexity, rather than avoid it:
Words that come out of history are complicated; they are cluttered with etymology and connotation. And that slows us down when we try to understand them…. But words that make up their histories as they come into existence leap at us unchaperoned. First they are in our leader’s mouth, then they are in ours. It is a wonderful gift. We can hum along with the words passing through us; we can clap, we can jump. And as we respond to the music we make, we will feel ourselves coming into being. We will be wrong, but we will believe that we know at last who we are.
Our search for complexity begins with the paradigm case of the Holocaust, the Ur-trauma in the U.S. mindscape.
Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux) 1983: 197.
Gregory Bateson, “Metalogue: What is an Instinct?” in Steps to an Ecology of Mind (New York: Ballantine) 1972: 47.
Nadine Broznan, “Chronicle” column, The New York Times (30 Nov 1991): A20.
Terrence Des Pres, “The Authority of Silence in Elie Wiesel’s Art,” in Writing into the World: Essays 1973-1987 (New York: Viking) 1978/1991: 25..
Elie Wiesel, From the Kingdom of Memory (New York: Summit) 1990: 15.
Elie Wiesel, “For Some Measure of Humility,” Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility (31 Oct 1975): 5.
Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time (New York: Holt Rinehart Winston) 1968: 178.
Elie Wiesel, From the Kingdom of Memory (New York: Summit) 1990. From “Kaddish in Cambodia,” originally published in The Jewish Chronicle (18 Apr 1980).
Ben Kiernan, “The American Bombardment of Kampuchea, 1969-1973,” Viet Nam Generation 1:1 (Winter 1989: 4-41; William Shawcross, The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience (New York: Simon & Schuster) 1984.
Terrence Des Pres, “The Authority of Silence”: 30.
Philip Hallie, “Writing About Ethical Ambivalence During the Holocaust,” in Berel Lang, ed., Writing and the Holocaust (New York: Holmes & Meier) 1988: pp. 93-109; 105-106.
No doubt the order in which I choose to reveal this information is significant as well. I will leave it to the reader to generate an interpretation.
Valerie Smith, “Gender and Afro-American Literary Theory and Criticism,” in Elaine Showalter, ed., Speaking of Gender (New York: Routledge) 1989: 57.
Joan Cocks, The Oppositional Imagination: Feminism, Critique, and Political Theory (London: Routledge) 1989: 87.
Ibid.: 13.
Ibid.: 14.
Terrence Des Pres, Writing Into the World: Essays 1973-1987 (New York: Viking) 1991: 3.
Gerald Graff, “Why Theory,” in Lennard J. Davis and M. Bella Mirabella, eds., Left Politics and the Literary Profession (New York: Columbia University Press) 1990: pp. 19-35 (series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms): 23.
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, “The Problematics of Holocaust Literature”: 172-173.
Michel Foucault, “Two Lectures,” in Colin Gordon, ed., and trans., Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (New York: Random House) 1980: 90.
Daniel Goleman, Vital Lies, Simple Truths: 116.
Terrence Des Pres, “Introduction to Jean-FWriting Into the World: 54.
James E. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (Bloomington: Indiana University Press) 1988: 99.
Miriam Greenspan, “Responses to the Holocaust,” in Richard S. Gottlieb, ed., Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust (New York: Paulist Press) 1990: 393-394.
The following joke was making the rounds during the Persian Gulf War: Kurt Waldheim meets with Saddam Hussein. Waldheim is outraged–he shakes his finger at Saddam Hussein and says, “Saddam, Saddam, I knew Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was my friend. And let me tell you, you’re no Adolf Hitler!
Literature produced by persons engaged in those activities belongs to the category of “Resistance Literature”–a genre distinct from survivor literature. See Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature (New York: Methuen) 1987.
I do not mean to imply that Americans bore the brunt of the suffering inflicted in the Viet Nam war. A simple comparison of numbers of American and Vietnamese dead (approximately 60,000 U.S. soldiers and over two million Vietnamese) puts American losses in perspective. The population of the U.S. did not endure devastating bombing campaigns, deforestation, destruction of arable land, economic blockade, or contamination of food and water supplies. Any study of the Viet Nam war itself should emphasize that the Vietnamese paid a terribly high price for their independence. Research on the effect of the traumatization of both Vietnamese soldiers and civilians should be supported and encouraged by both U.S. and Vietnamese scholars.
Though it can be argued that many noncombat veterans define themselves as members of this group, it is quite clear that there is a line of demarcation between combat and noncombat veterans. This division between “grunts” and “REMFs” has been catalogued in some detail by bibliographer and novelist David Willson, author of the novels REMF Diary and The REMF Returns.
John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, in David Thorne and George Butler, eds., The New Soldier (New York: Macmillan) 1971.
Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation (New York: Doubleday) 1984: 64.
Timothy W. Luke, Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination and Resistance in Informational Society (Urbana: University of Illinois Press) 1989: 171.
Steven Gomes, personal communication with the author in the form of handwritten notes on manuscript, April, 1993.
Telford Taylor, America’s chief counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, wrote a book entitled Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy (New York: Bantam, 1970) in which he concludes that “the anti-aggression spirit of Nuremberg and the United Nations Charter is invoked to justify our venture in Vietnam, where we have smashed the country to bits, and will not even take the trouble to clean up the blood and rubble…. Somehow we failed ourselves to learn the lessons we undertook to teach at Nuremberg, and that failure is today’s American tragedy” (p. 207).
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (Anti-Imperialist), “Statement from Vietnam Era Veterans,” in About Face 1:5 (November 1982): 1. See also Robert Jay Lifton, “Beyond Atrocity,” in Crimes of War: 547.
Eric Norden, “American Atrocities in Vietnam,” in Crimes of War: 278.
Jean-Paul Sartre, “On Genocide,” in Crimes of War: 547.
Edward M. Opten and Robert Duckles, “It Didn’t happen and Besides, They Deserved It,” in Crimes of War: 441.
Michael Clark, “Remembering Vietnam,” Cultural Critique 3 (Spring 1986): 47.
Marvin E. Gettleman, Jane Franklin, Marilyn Young, and H. Bruce Franklin, eds., Vietnam and America: A Documented History (New York: Grove) 1985: xv.
Peter Davies, “A 1990 Postscript,” in Susie Erenrich, ed., Kent and Jackson State, 1970-1990, a special issue of Viet Nam Generation 2:2 1990: 37.
Peter Davies, “Four Students,” Kent and Jackson State: 15-21.
James William Gibson, The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam (Boston: Atlantic Monthly) 1986: 3.
Ibid.: 3-4, 6.
Ibid.: 462.
Ibid.: 466-467.
Harry Haines, “Disputing the Wreckage: Ideological Struggle at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” Viet Nam Generation 1:1 (1989): 149.
Ibid.: 150.
Clark: 76.
Chaim Shatan, “Afterward — Who Can Take Away the Grief of a Wound?” in Ghislaine Boulanger and Charles Kadushin, eds., The Vietnam Veteran Redefined: Fact and Fiction (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum) 1986: 172.
Émile Beneviste, “The Semiology of Language,” in Robert E. Innis, ed., Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press) 1985: 242.
Ibid.: 235.
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (New York: Oxford University Press) 1975: 169-170.
Ibid.: 170.
Elie Wiesel, “To Believe or Not to Believe,” in From the Kingdom of Memory (New York: Summit) 1990: 33. Originally published in the Jerusalem Post, 15 Sept 1985, translated from the French by Judy Cooper Weill.
Roland Barthes, “Rhetoric of the Image,” in Robert E. Innis, ed., Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press) 1985: 197.
I use this term advisedly, since I believe that these interpretive “flashbacks” are linked quite closely to the phenomenon of flashbacks described in the psychological literature, which appear to be triggered by body-memories of traumatic experiences. I address this in more detail in the next chapter.
Joan W. Scott, “Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism,” in Marianne Herschel and Evelyn Fox Keller, eds., Conflicts in Feminism (New York: Routledge) 1990: 135.
See, for example,
David Bleich, Subjective Criticism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press) 1978; Santley E. Fish, “Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in the Law and in Literary Criticism,” Critical Inquiry 9 (1982); Norman Holland, Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) 1982; Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press) 1978; Hans Robert Jauss, Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) 1982: I.A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment (New York: Harcourt Brace) 1952.
Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote,” in Ficciones (New York: Grove) 1962: 53.
The idea that married women have the right to say no to their husbands was recently ridiculed by the Louisiana legislature. When Rep. Odon Bacque of Lafayette brought his marital-rape bill up for consideration in the house “hooting and hollering began. The House chamber crackled with jokes about scenes in the marital bedroom after the men returned from their democratic duties in Baton Rouge. Rep. Carl Gunter (D), a country boy from Pineville, declared that the bill would inspire women to falsely accuse their husbands of rape. ‘Women know what a man is when they marry him,’ he said as colleagues snickered and guffawed. With no serious discussion the bill was tabled.” (Washington Post, 30 Jun 1990: A3).
In New York, for example, researchers studying police files found that 24% of the rape complaints in nonstranger cases were judged by the police to be without merit, compared with less than 5% in the stranger cases [Susan Estrich, Real Rape (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) 1987: 16. The study in question is Duncan Chappell and Susan Singer, “Rape in New York City: A Study of Material in the Police Files and its Meaning,” in Duncan Chappell, Robley Geis, and Gilbert Geis, eds., Forcible Rape: The Crime, the Victim, and the Offender (New York: Columbia University Press) 1977].
Ibid.: 18.
“Freud may have been right in regarding incest as central in the development of young girls–but, if so, he was right for the wrong reason. Incest may be central in the development of young girls because the maturation of every little girl may be affected by the incestuous urges–overt, covert, or repressed–that the males in their families often feel toward them…. Just as the source of incestuous feelings has been projected onto children, so has seductive behavior been projected onto young girls. It seems likely that this perception of young girls as seductive may be a rationalization for the desire of many fathers and older male relatives to make sexual advances toward them” [Diane E.H. Russell, The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women (New York: Basic Books) 1986: 395].
Judith Herman, “Recognition and Treatment of Incestuous Families,” International Journal of Family Therapy 5:2 1983: 81-91.
There is no need to make a long list of popular books and films that feature “romantic ” rape scenes. Gone With the Wind has become a classic of this type, and this hackneyed cliché shows up even in “progressive” films like Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It, where “nice-guy” Jamie finally gives Nora what she really wants. The image of the pint-sized seductress wasn’t invented by Vladimir Nabokov, though his Lolita certainly serves as a paradigm case. Films such as Pretty Baby and Taxi Driver carry on the tradition.
Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women (New York: E.P. Dutton) 1989: xxxviii.
Anthony Wilden: 165.
Natalie Shainess, “Foreward,” in Eleanore Hill, The Family Secret: A Personal Account of Incest (New York: Dell) 1985: vi.
Appelfeld: 86.
Claudia Tate, Black Women Writers At Work (New York: Continuum) 1983: 104.
John Ketwig, … And a Hard Rain Fell (New York: Pocket) 1985: xiii.
Des Pres, “Holocaust Laughter?” op. cit.: 219.
Jonathan Morse, Word by Word: The Language of Memory (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press) 1990: 2.
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1.A team of heart surgeons at Saint Ann’s Hospital knows that many patients who undergo corrective heart surgery have a dangerous buildup of anxiety before their scheduled operations. The staff psychiatrist at the hospital has started a new counseling program intended to reduce this anxiety. A test of anxiety is given to patients who know they must undergo heart surgery. Then each patient participates in a series of counseling sessions with the staff psychiatrist. At the end of the counseling sessions, each patient is retested to determine anxiety level. Table 8-8 indicates the results for a random sample of nine patients. Higher scores mean higher levels of anxiety. Assume the distribution of differences is mound-shaped and symmetric. From the given data, can we conclude that the counseling sessions reduce anxiety? Use a 0.01 level of significance.
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2.Give a simple example of a page reference sequence where the first page selected for replacement will be different for the clock and LRU page replacement algorithms. Assume that a process is allocated 3 frames, and the reference string contains page numbers from the set 0,1,2,3.
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3.Consider the following page reference string:
1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 5, 6, 2, 1, 2, 3, 7, 6, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 6
How many page faults would occur for the following replacement algorithms, assuming one, two, three, four, five, six, or seven frames? Remember all frames are initially empty, so your first unique pages will all cost one fault each.
4.a)A small computer has four page frames. At the first clock tick, the R bits are 0111 (page 0 is 0, the rest are 1). At subsequent clock ticks, the values are 1011, 1010, 1101, 0010, 1010, 1100, and 0001. If the aging algorithm is used with an 8-bit counter, give the values of the four counters after the last tick.
b)If FIFO page replacement is used with four page frames and eight pages, how many page faults will occur with the reference string 0172327103 if the four frames are initially empty? Now repeat this problem for LRU.
5.A page-replacement algorithm should minimize the number of page faults. We can do this minimization by distributing heavily used pages evenly over all of memory, rather than having them compete for a small number of page frames. We can associate with each page frame a counter of the number of pages that are associated with that frame. Then, to replace a page, we search for the page frame with the smallest counter.
a.Define a page-replacement algorithm using this basic idea. Specifically address the problems of:
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(2) when counters are increased,
(3) When counters are decreased, and
(4) how the page to be replaced is selected.
b.How many page faults occur for your algorithm for the following reference string, for four page frames?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 4, 1, 6, 7, 8, 7, 8, 9, 7, 8, 9, 5, 4, 5, 4, 2
c.What is the minimum number of page faults for an optimal page-replacement strategy for the reference string in part b with four page frames?
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MAY 17, 2018
While Americans want to relax and get away from our daily routine, we don’t want a break from our phones, according to new research sponsored by global technology solutions company Asurion.
A recent study of 2,000 Americans found that Americans check their phones an average of 80 times a day while on vacation, with some checking their phone more than 300 times each day. Whether on a beach, by the pool or in a museum, average American checks their phone five times an hour – or once every 12 minutes while on vacation. And nearly 10 percent said they check their phones more than 20 times an hour.
Four hours is the average time we can stand to be away from our phones while indulging in R&R. In fact, Americans are so dependent on our phones that one in four said they’ve either climbed a tree, hiked to the top of a hill, or canoed to the middle of a lake just to get mobile phone reception during vacation.
“The results reveal that while people enjoy taking a vacation from everyday life, they don’t necessarily want to take a full break from their phone, which serves as their main connection to friends and family, and is a practical tool to help get around when travelling,” said Bettie Colombo, Asurion spokesperson. “At Asurion, we help people get the most out of their tech devices, including tips for how to achieve a healthy phone-life balance, whether at home or travelling on vacation.”
Family, Friends Drive Vacation Phone Use
So what’s driving our phone attachment on vacation? Friends and family are the biggest factor, with more than 46 percent saying they want to stay connected with friends and family, or to share their experiences. In second place, nearly 20 percent said that their phones help them to be a smart tourist and get around unfamiliar locations.
Mentally, it can be difficult to take a break from social media even while lounging poolside, and Americans agree – with 68 percent admitting they check social media when on vacation.
And Americans will go to extreme lengths to get cell phone reception or squeeze in more screen time. Nearly half of respondents reported tripping or bumping into things on vacation because they were too distracted with their phones. And more than 10 percent reported missing their vacation destination while traveling because they were focused on their phone screens.
So, for those looking to just catch a break from their phone while on vacation, Asurion tech experts offer the following suggestions to help find life-phone balance while staying connected:
- Set your phone on Do Not Disturb for select hours when you don’t want to be contacted. This allows you to use your phone when you really need to, while blocking calls that distract you from your vacation. This can be done on iPhone by going to Settings > Do Not Disturb. Android users can activate Do Not Disturb by going to Settings > Sounds and Vibration > Do Not Disturb. From there, you can pre-schedule how long you want the DND setting in effect, and allow repeat callers to get through (in case of emergency).
- You can also block out everyone while still allowing for crucial calls and texts from your closest friends and family. Under the Do Not Disturb setting, iPhone users can allow their “Favorites” list to get through. Android users can create a custom list of friends and family who can reach them.
- Need extra help weening yourself from checking your phone too often? There are many apps available to help users break their screen dependency and reduce distractions.
- The Forest app (available for both the iPhone and Android) uses gamification to help you break the screen habit by setting a timeframe (up to two hours) when you don’t want to use your phone. During that time the Forest app plants a digital seedling that slowly grows into a tree on your phone screen. The tree withers if you check your phone before your time is up.
- The Flipd app removes your phone distractions by locking you out of your phone apps during a timeframe that you designate. Or it can also do a “light lock,” which encourages you to stay off your phone, but still allows you to use it if you want to.
- You can also manually move all your phone apps into one digital folder on your phone. By not seeing the apps, you’ll be less distracted and tempted to use them, but will still be able to use them if you need to.
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