Our second guest for the Curious Corner is Valérie Lamontagne, the Canadian digital media artist-designer, theorist and curator researching techno-artistic frameworks that combine human/nonhuman agencies. At the end of her 4 months stage to do research for her PhD "Performativity, Materiality and Laboratory Practices in Artistic Wearables" at V2_, she curated one of the most interesting Test_Labs. On the occasion of this event, the Test_Lab: Clothing without Cloth, we've invited our online audience/designers/artists to send their comments and questions they would like Valérie Lamontagne to answer. The first part will future the questions from Evelyn Lebis & Melissa Coleman. We will continue with the questions from Francesca Granata (Fashion Projects), Syuzi Pakhchyan (Fashioning Tech), Deborah Hustic (Body Pixel), Simone de Waart (Material Sense). Stay tuned!
"When organic/synthetic materials become clothing, become aware, active, changeable, and are entwined in our own set of senses, we may indeed discover that we have extended our sensorial capacities!"
Evelyn Lebis: Why do we create clothing without cloth? Are we trying to protect ourselves more efficiently? Is it an attempt to open up the limits of tactility?
Valérie Lamontagne: The concept of the V2_ Test_Lab's Clothing without Cloth event came from a kind of frustration with finding the "perfect" or most advanced wearable technology. Instead of looking for a work or designer who, for example, had the garment with the most advanced integration of technology (such as LEDs), we decided to explore materialities in wearables from different research and production angles and perspectives, such as industrial design, fashion, textiles, and speculative and environmental design. So, in fact, the event was not so much about a "clothing without cloth" – a future of nongarments – but was more posed as a questioning as to what the new cloth substrates of the near and distant future will be and how we might reconceptualize and rematerialize certain practices related to fashion and technology.
Though a lot of research in wearables and clothing has touched upon "safety" and issues around protection – for example, from suits designed to travel in cars, planes, and space rockets to military clothing, firemen's protection and, increasingly, distance monitoring for those in need of surveillance (the sick and the elderly) – I do not believe this next wave of research is about efficiency only. I see the works being showcased in Clothing without Cloth as being much more concerned with aesthetics, the quality of experience (Grado Zero Espace), the harnessing of organic materialities (Emily Crane and Carole Collet), the opening up of new design and fashion production possibilities (Pauline van Dongen and Freedom of Creation) and addressing the overlap between traditional and innovative practices from a political and ecological point of view (Christien Meindertsma). How and if this will ultimately translate clothing into a "new tactility" or a kind of porous second skin remains to be seen. When organic/synthetic materials become clothing, become aware, active, changeable, and are entwined in our own set of senses, we may indeed discover that we have extended our sensorial capacities!
"In a way, we have "tamed" technology – we've invited it into our homes, our governments, our bodies – and we can no longer live in opposition to it."
Melissa Coleman: What questions do new materials raise?
Valérie Lamontagne: This is an exciting moment in wearables and in technology in general. This V2_ Test_Lab, Clothing without Cloth, addresses two main themes in terms of wearables: 1) our relationship with "technology" and 2) the potential of various materials to play into changing our relationship with the technological. Let me address the first point: our relationship with the technological world is, on a simple scale, becoming increasingly intimate. Technology is no longer considered as "alien" to the lived world. In a way, we have "tamed" technology – we've invited it into our homes, our governments, our bodies – and we can no longer live in opposition to it. Bruno Latour has written extensively about this artificial divide of human and nonhumans as being a modernist trope, a conceit and illusion which never really existed.
The second point is a rethinking of materialities, and it relates back to the first. If there was a time when we could divide what was technical and nontechnical, what was organic and synthetic in the material world (and this certainly applies to textiles today) – we are increasingly seeing an entanglement of materials, a cross-pollination of various substrates, and the idea that there are distinct or autonomous categories when it comes to materiality is increasingly difficult to substantiate. What is being brought up in the discourse of an event such as Clothing without Cloth is not only new materials per se but a new ontology of where to situate the material world in relation to the human world.
"Though we may often, from the media side of things, preach for environmentally friendly and nonexploitive production practices, we don't necessarily oppose literally "buying" into them when it comes to our pocketbooks. We are, at best, highly schizophrenic in our consumer habits."
Melissa Coleman: Are there societal needs for organic or synthetic production methods, or is this simply a way for designers to push the limits of our perception of clothing?
Valérie Lamontagne: I believe that there are urgent societal arguments for rethinking our use and production modalities of textiles, be they organic or synthetic. Obviously, we are looking at a future where both organic and synthetic materials will coexist; however, the societal "need" basis for the production of certain materials (notably synthetics) has to be closely considered and monitored. The first and likely most referenced concern is a looming ecological crisis, which is a solid argument against petroleum-based textiles. A second is the ways in which fashion is an exceptionally materially wasteful industry, with tons of discarded textiles and clothes often thrown directly into the rubbish. We can no longer, as a society, tolerate waste on such a grand scale. And a final concern, which I think should also be part of the conversation, is how the human factor involved in the production of textiles plays into the societal "bigger" picture. Factory workers' daily practices also need to be rethought, and this will surely impact the kinds of materials we need! I.e., if we "need" them, at what environmental and human cost do we really need them?
As for perception, for now, organic and gentler uses of materials are still a niche industry. Though we may often, from the media side of things, preach for environmentally friendly and nonexploitive production practices, we don't necessarily oppose literally "buying" into them when it comes to our pocketbooks. We are, at best, highly schizophrenic in our consumer habits. However, the perception of what it means to wear organic/fair trade/humanitarian clothes is something which can be harnessed for a greater good. Sites such as Ecouterre have daily examples of new and innovative ways of creating eco-conscious fashion from re- and upcycled materials, local fabrication and gentler production practices on an environmental level, which makes this shift both more alluring and accessible.
What is inspiring at this moment is that questions in the textile industry and fashion are being raised, even if a critical stance on this eco-/environmental shift towards new (gentler, better for the planet and workers) production practices is perceived as a passing fashion. I believe this shift can only have beneficial outcomes. There is a wonderful introduction by Tom Wolfe in sociologist René König's book À la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion, where he writes about the influence of "black" fashion in America in the late 1960s and the "cool" factor that came with it. Wolf's conclusions are that the fashion cachet of the "cool" African-Americans of the '60s directly propelled a shift in black politics and economies. Of course, one could argue that it is a chicken-and--egg kind of situation, where the social terrain prompted this change. However, it is a change which happened from the outside in, from perception to action. Wolfe cites the specific example of the Black Panthers – a political activist group of the late '60s that recognizably dressed in black pants, leather jackets and berets – as a fashion which became highly emulated by other socioeconomic classes. This rise in perceptual popularity, in the "cool" factor of the Black Panthers, created an actual change in society, resulting in a more positive integration of African-Americans in society due to their rise in social status.
Thus, a proactive reading of how to better improve, from an environmental and social stance, the textiles industries is to simply change the perception of textiles. The more we know about processes and fabrication impacts, both environmental and social, the more we will be swayed to reconsider our "needs." In this way, perceptual change will engender a material change.
"... envision a future when the making of objects will become akin to other forms of printing (i.e., photos, books, etc.), thus reducing the carbon footprint of international shipping."
Melissa Coleman: How do these new production methods differ from conventional production methods, and what is their potential sociocultural impact?
Valérie Lamontagne: The new production methods proposed in the V2_ Test_Lab Clothing without Cloth highlight technical innovation as well as a global production shift. The "global" textile and fashion economy shifted production from the West to the East very quickly and in a very radical way in the late 20th century. What this has meant is that textile and fashion practices being taught in Europe and North America are dependent on systems which are socially, technically and to a certain extent (though not completely) economically divorced from their origins. Simply put, conventional production methods are done at a distance, at a low cost and with an alarming disregard for environmental and social impact. Where do we go from here?
What many of the projects in Clothing without Cloth suggest, as an underlying thread, is that we take back these production methods and better them in some way. If "we" are to critique foreign exploitive production practices (and flat-out render them illegal in "our" homeland), we need to come up with a better solution. For example, and this is a very speculative project, Emily Crane questions with her Micro-Nutrient Couture what might happen if we had zero resources. She proposes that we use what is at hand and turn our kitchens and food – everyday, functional labs and materials – into garments, suggesting that we may want to look, literally, closer to home for solutions. Christien Meindertsma has an equally localized approach to materiality and to production practices. By harnessing the potential of a local (Dutch) herd of sheep to make a series of custom sweaters, she explores how a kind of one-mile-diet or slow-food philosophy can be applied to textile and fashion processes. In the case of her One Sheep Sweater project, the uniqueness of the original base material (wool) is highlighted in the use of exactly one sheep per sweater, impacting on the size of the final garment. What's more, the quality of the wool rests on the health and well-being of the sheep, which are apparent in the final product through variegated textures and tensile strength. She interfaces this material with the most highly advanced knitting technology, 3D knitting done at the local Tilburg textile museum, to propel the raw and local material into a fully industrialized product. Finally, Freedom of Creation who also collaborated with Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen on her 3D-printed Morphogenesis shoes, propose that production methods should become increasingly networked and thus localized. They envision a future when the making of objects will become akin to other forms of printing (i.e., photos, books, etc.), thus reducing the carbon footprint of international shipping.
Ultimately, the sociocultural impacts of these new production methods rest on a) better working conditions, b) better use of local materials and technologies and c) an increased networked fabrication wherein the "factory" becomes a dispersed site of production.


The sugar producer Ingenio La Unión was conferred the winner of the Ricardo Castillo Sinibaldi Productivity and Competitiveness Award during a ceremony on 5th December '18 in the Guatemala City. The award is presented annually by the Technical Institute for Training and Productivity (Intecap).
The Award was created 15 years ago to recognize companies that have contributed to the development of the country through operational excellence in various areas such as productivity, innovation, competitiveness.
The runner up was the sugar mill Ingenio Magdalena. Therefore, with 12 companies nominated for the award, the two nominees from the sugar industry were acknowledged to be the best.
La Unión received the award for its "commitment to operational excellence for the creation of economic, social, labour and environmental value", said Intecap.
"We have based our competitiveness strategy on the development of our personnel and it is not just a way of saying things, but it is really a fact," said the CEO of Ingenio La Unión, Álvaro Ruiz, at the ceremony.
Guatemala's Minister of Labour and President of the Board of Directors of Intecap, Gabriel Aguilera, highlighted the importance of training and development of personnel at the event.
The Ingenio La Unión is vertically integrated – producing both sugarcane and cane sugar along with cogenerating power. During the campaign period, the company employs over 7500 people.
La Unión's beginnings were in the Los Tarros farm in 1950 under the guidance of José García, who went from being a prosperous grocery merchant to cultivating cane to be turned into panela and sugar. However, the factory commenced operations in 1970 at Finca Belén, located in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Escuintla. Sugar output in the first campaign was 16,000 tonnes of sugar. Last year, La Union produced 340,000 tonnes sugar.
In the 2017-2018 campaign, the country's 11 operating sugar mills produced 2,752,575 tonnes sugar.


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Tar Pit is a supervillain in the DC Comics universe and one of the new rogues of the current Flash (Wally West). The character was created by Geoff Johns. The character has been called a "Clayface knockoff".

Tar Pit made his live-action debut on the second season of the Arrowverse series The Flash, portrayed by Marco Grazzini. Josh Chambers portrayed the character in the ninth season.

Fictional character biography
The younger brother of a local drug lord Jack Monteleone, Joey Monteleone was arrested for armed robbery. While serving time, he discovered he had the metahuman ability to inhabit inanimate objects. With this ability, he got his kicks by transferring his mind from object (for example, a fire hydrant which he used to spray the Flash in vol. 2, #73) to object until he couldn't move his mind from, of course, a vat of asphalt. Now he remains in that hot tar pit while his real body remains unconscious and is being abused by his padded-cellmate in Iron Heights.

Now in his new form, Tar Pit first caused havoc at a Keystone City ice hockey game, trying to steal the Stanley Cup for himself. He was stopped by Flash and Captain Cold, although Cold himself stole the trophy. He has appeared sporadically with the other rogues ever since.

In Infinite Crisis, "Joey" became a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains.

Most recently, he has been seen among the new Injustice League and is one of the villains featured in Salvation Run.

In the Blackest Night crossover, Tar Pit is shown with Owen Mercer, visiting his father's grave, accompanying Owen in his search for the Black Lantern version of his father on the grounds that he will be of no interest to the Black Lantern Corps as his tar-based form has no heart for them to take.

In "The New 52", Tar Pit is shown about to attack Iris West following her defeating Folded Man when Flash appears. He thaws out the guards and sends the melted ice towards the villains.

During the "Forever Evil" storyline, Tar Pit is among the villains driven out of Central City by Gorilla Grodd at the time when the Crime Syndicate of America supposedly killed the Justice League. This led to Tar Pit joining up with the Secret Society of Super Villains as he is sent with Gorilla Grodd, Amazo, Archer, Black Bison, the Fearsome Five (Gizmo, Jinx, Mammoth, Psimon, Shimmer), Hyena, Multiplex, Parasite, Plastique, and Typhoon to deal with the rebellion of the Rogues. They were sucked into the Mirror World by Mirror Master.

When Girder initiated a prison break, Tar Pit temporarily breaks out to save Flash before he can be falsely imprisoned by Riddler.

When a Speed Force storm strikes Central City and turns its citizens into speedsters, Tar Pit is one of a few villains to not leave Central City.

On the night before Christmas, Tar Pit's nephew and niece were kidnapped by criminals. Tar Pit had to rob a toy store to pay their ransom only to be defeated by Kid Flash. As Tar Pit is taken to Iron Heights, Kid Flash rescued the children and defeated the criminals.

Powers and abilities
Tar Pit's body is made of molten asphalt and burns on touch. He is able to trap people in the substance of his body and can hurl flaming chunks of tar at his enemies. Due to his body being made of tar, Tar Pit is practically invulnerable.

Before becoming Tar Pit, Joey was able to project his consciousness into inanimate objects and animate them.

Other versions

Flashpoint
In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, Tar Pit was imprisoned in Iron Heights. Tar Pit is confronted by Mirror Master, who assembles the Rogues. Tar Pit then escaped from Iron Heights and pursued revenge against Citizen Cold for stealing his family's money. Citizen Cold killed Tar Pit revealing that his brother Jack Monteleone was dealing drugs of their family fortune.

In other media
Tar Pit appears in The Flash, portrayed by Marco Grazzini in the second season and Josh Chambers in the ninth season. This version was pushed into a tar pit amidst the explosion of S.T.A.R. Labs' particle accelerator. After being freed by workers two years later, he gains the ability to transform into molten tar.

References

External links
 Tar Pit's bio

Comics characters introduced in 2001
DC Comics characters with superhuman strength
DC Comics metahumans
DC Comics supervillains
DC Comics characters who have mental powers
Characters created by Geoff Johns
Flash (comics) characters

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Oregon is where Lewis and Clark ended up after crossing the North American Continent in 1803-1804 (doesn't seem that long ago does it)? Lewis was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains, over the mountains, and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean and back. They were hoping to find a big river (all-water route) that ran all the way from St. Louis, Missouri to the Pacific Ocean and figure out if the Louisiana Purchase was a good buy, since President Jefferson bought the land site unseen and unmapped for a 15 million dollars according to Stephen Ambrose. As it turned out, it was a really good buy by today's standards.
Boy, this must have been a trip to beat all trips. I don't know how much my readers know about the boys (Lewis and Clark) but this trip must have taken some serious courage to even think about, and the thrilling encounters must have been unimaginable by the modern human race. Actually, the encounters were fairly unreal even to Lewis and Clark. Lewis kept a pretty decent journal/dairy and did a lot of mapping, surveying and studying of plants, birds, fishes, and other big nasty scary animals along the way. He collected samples and drew cool pictures of things he had never seen before.
But even after all the cool things they discovered and did, the entire trip was a great disappointment to Lewis and at least two camps where the boys stopped were named Camp Disappointment (1 in Montana and 1 in Oregon).
First of all, there was no river that ran all the way from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. They hoped and wished the Missouri River, which turned into the Mississippi River as it headed to New Orleans might branch out to the pacific coast, but they didn't wish or hope hard enough. Also to their disappointment, the Louisiana Purchase almost doubled the size of the United States overnight, but did not include Canada. This massive transfer of land did include all of present-day Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa; most of Colorado, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, as well as significant parts of North Dakota, Minnesota, Texas and Louisiana, but it seemed that wasn't quite enough for Lewis.
Second of all, no white man had ever crossed the entire North American Continent before Lewis and Clark – at least that we know of. The Lewis and Clark voyage ran across some hostile Native Americans that had never seen a white man. Talk about a real thrill, can you imagine? They went right through the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon, and I can imagine there was a lot of bushwhacking, cursing, crying, and disappointment because it was not the straight river sailing voyage Lewis and Clark had hoped for. Pretty rough country back then I bet, as it is pretty rough today, bar the paved interstate highway and the mammoth 14 Columbia River dams, 1 of which is pictured in the background of the picture below. That's not Lewis and Clark's house in the picture below, only a somewhat despairing picture I took in the Columbia River Gorge area in southwestern Washington, just before crossing into Oregon.
Lewis & Clark and the gang made it to the Pacific coast just in the nick of time as winter was a coming. They put together a really nice camp called Camp Clatsop (below picture is a very close reproduction). The Lewis and Clark party hated every minute of the cold, damp Oregon coast winter.
As soon as the wonderful Oregon spring came, Lewis and Clark with most of their members got the "H" out of there. Couple reasons they hated it so bad was because they never saw the sun for months and they were so cold and damp – a coldness that penetrated through the bone, and everybody got sick with the flu, a mega cold, bad diarrhea, fleas, injuries and lots of other nasty things. Another smaller thing, they didn't have a lot of food or drink, especially drink – that fact right there can make a grown man cry. They did make salt, however. I saw the original salt maker with my own eyes. I never did understand why they made salt when the entire Pacific Ocean lay right before their very eyes. Go Figure! Someone, very knowledgeable, told me there were several very good reasons for it, however. Okay, Okay, I'm sure there were great reasons, probably one of them was curing and preserving meat.
If you would like to read a great book about the Lewis and Clark expedition, I highly recommend, "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose first published in 1996. You'll learn more than you ever thought possible about the voyage and also Lewis's probable suicidal death a few years after the historic voyage.
The first wagon trains and white people came about 30 years after Lewis and Clark did their thing. The Oregon Trail was a 2,200 mile east-west wheeled wagon route which connected the Missouri River to Oregon. The first wagon train came to Oregon Willamette Valley in about 1836 from Independence Missouri. 400,000 settlers came over the Oregon Trail during the next 10 years (Wikipedia).
Another very cool thing is you can still see the ruts of the wagon trains in some areas. I've seen ancient ruts before. I was in Rome and saw chariot ruts. O.K. yeah, the chariot ruts were quite a bit older, but are still there and very impressive, but so are the first wagon train ruts. I guess I am into ruts?
Today, some modern highways follow parts of the same course Lewis and Clark and the wagon trains took back in the 1830's. Our family trip took us right smack down the Columbia gorge. We probably even stayed at the same the hotel they all stayed at. Just kidding!
Somewhere while going through the Columbia gorge and before the Oregon coast and right along the side of the road is this really cool waterfalls. Wow! Wow! This sucker is really high. It falls 176 feet says Wikipedia, because of course I didn't measure it.
Now I have to admit, Horsetail Falls is pretty cool. Literally, after spending a very hot afternoon driving, we got out of the car at Horsetail Falls nestled in the huge, big, tall pine trees with the mist of the enormous falls lightly covering you, and you think you are in heaven or a close second to heaven at least that particular day.
So what happened next on the family vacation was nothing short of a miracle. Just as the sun was going below the western horizon, we all woke up from a cramped car nap to find the most beautiful scene in the world. Yep! You got it. We had arrived. Our hotel window faced the Pacific Ocean in its entire glorious expanse. Best thing, the end to the long, long, long car trip.
P.S. Within the next few days, I will finish the Ramblings of a Traveler – Family Vacation. #3 Flying the Monarch can not be missed. This blog promises to end on a semi to semi happy note, as family vacations go.


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1964 New York World's Fair Mystery Photos
Who loves a mystery? I do, I do! Well, sometimes. Other times mysteries drive me koo-koo bananas. Today's post features four photos from the New York World's Fair that have left me completely baffled. Maybe you know something about 'em!
At first I thought that this was a photo from GM's "Futurama II", but on second thought it is too cartoony and stylized. Futurama was pretty realistic. Here we see lots of rivers, factories, and highways. There are also plenty of oil wells and some cattle... could this be a pavilion for Texas or Oklahoma?
These elves live in trees, but they aren't Keeblers. Some also live in 'shrooms. I can't even guess what this display was from.
Suddenly I have an urge to see a Paramount picture. Maybe this majestic papier-mâché mountain was part of the Alaska or Washington State exhibit.
And then there's this thingamajig. It looks like one of those astronomical gizmos that Galileo or Copernicus might have used to chart the cosmos. Only this one is floating in space. Or something.
More 1956 Fantasyland
Here are two more from a group of early Fantasyland photos!
Well, somethin's going on at the Peter Pan dark ride (to our right)... there's a sign out front, a mysterious workman is skulking around, and there's no line. Thanks to my incredible powers of deduction, I'd say the ride is down for maintenance. Notice the red "ribbon" over that doorway directly in the middle of the picture... it almost certainly was waiting for some lettering of some kind. I think that the little corner booth slightly to the left of it might have been a souvenir stand, or even the Fantasyland Art Corner. The green background with red/orange stripes reminds me of the book "Goodnight Moon" (which I finally finished!) for some reason. Hey, if you look way in the background to the left you can see the sign advertising the opening of Storybook Land.
More Fantasyland; I can't tell if it's just overcast, or early evening, or both.
Universal Studios Smorgasbord
I had a bunch of random, nothin' special slides from Universal Studios (from various years). Since the quality isn't that great, I decided to go with quantity to make up for it!
Before the shark from "Jaws" terrorized the glamour trams, before "King Kong" went bananas (get it?), guests were able to experience the miraculous "parting of the Red Sea" from "The Ten Commandments". This is a fun effect, though a bit too obviously mechanical to be amazing. It was brand-new in 1973, but was removed in 2006. I like the bit of backlot visible here, convincingly resembling a Civil War-era town (or at least it does to me).
I think this might be roughly the same area, only from 6 years earlier, so no Red Sea. The waterfront buildings are slightly different in style (perhaps a bit more "western"); perhaps this area represented a town on a river - there was a Steamboat near here at one time.
As part of the "New York Street" area, we get a look at the snowy steps (in July!) of the Mott Street Mission. Once again, the attention to detail is very convincing. Was this scene in any specific movie?
Foam-rubber boulders gave ordinary men the chance to feel like superheros! This is the first time I've seen lightweight logs added to the mix. I remember the rubber boulders from when I was a kid; at that time they were on a dirt area, and if you got one of those things thrown at your head, you got filthy - and yes, it hurt! Not that I would know from personal experience.
Here's another chariot, presumably from Ben Hur. It is not as fancy as Messala's chariot, so it might be the one that Charleton Heston drove in that legendary race.
I decided to include this photo in spite of the blur. You can still see how this tableau could make for a realistic farm in any TV show or movie.
Last two from April 1966
Today is bittersweet for ol' Major Pepperidge; those of you who have been paying attention and not tweeting and chewing gum and listening to rock and roll may recall that I have been posting many fine photos from a single family lot. Over 30 posts! Snow White's Grotto and Skull Rock, the Penny Arcade and the Shoe Shine Stand (which includes the photographer), the Douglas Rocket and the Phantom of the Opera; to name but a few!
Well, today I am sharing the last two images from this bunch. It is odd, I actually feel a connection to these total strangers. Maybe I'm crazy! But there ya go. The photo below shows freckled "Chip" (thanks again, Chiana!) and his mom posing on some koo-koo futuristic benches (what's the story on those?) in Tomorrowland. I hope that Chip grew up to be happy, and that his folks lived long, rewarding lives.
Finally, howsabout this lovely night shot of the Hall of Chemistry? Thanks to the addition of colored lights, Tomorrowland became a beautiful place after dark. Now if only Chip's dad had stepped inside the Hall of Chemistry and snapped a few pictures. But you can't have everything I suppose.
More Chrysler at the World's Fair
The Chrysler pavilion had several BIG exhibits. When a structure towers over you, it can't help making an impression. Plus it is a proven fact that people enjoy feeling like ants.
Here's the "World's Biggest Automobile"! Interesting styling, with its two rows of triple headlights. Fair literature tells us that the car was 80 feet long and 50 feet wide. How tall? I'll have to guess. I say 35 feet. The tires were two stories tall, and if a man could sit in the driver's seat, he wouldn't be able to reach the steering wheel. When you walked beneath it, you could see "all the working elements of a real car".
Over on "Engineering Island" there was the "World's Biggest Engine". Here it is from the outside; the fan turned, as did the air filter. All of the best cars have spinning air filters.
In a touch of fantasy, the giant engine was powered by a "50-foot dragon", which you saw as you walked through the heart of the thing. The ... twisting, squirming dragon (he's enormous!) drives three 8-foot pistons. They're animated, too. Giant hands operate the engine valves. A monstrous "spider" descends upon a hapless fly. Two huge paddles toss a ping-pong ball endlessly between them. These are just a few of the delightfully imaginative goings-on. If you use your imagination, you can just make out the anthropomorphic faces on the piston
Mickey Mouse Club at Disneyland!
Hello homies, I'm back from my mountain vacation, and am tanned and well-rested. Those fish are harder to catch than I thought. Thanks to everybody for continuing to "tune in", and for the comments and large wads of cash!
The original Mickey Mouse Club was a phenomenal hit during its original 1955 to 1958 run. And when the show was reintroduced to a new group of kids during its syndication starting in 1962, ratings were strong. From 1963 through 1964 the Main Street Opera House at Disneyland became the "Mickey Mouse Club Headquarters" where children could sign-up and get their own official membership cards in the club.
Here's a great picture from 1963, and none other than Mickey Mouse himself poses with two fans. I like some of the details, such as big sis's rainbow-striped dress and her ticket book, or the popcorn box in that other's girls hand
Check out this neat certificate that would have been issued to kids. It is signed by "Ginny" - Ginny Tyler, who went on to become a "Disney Legend" in 2006. From that official Disney Legends writeup: "When the original "Mickey Mouse Club" was re-edited and repackaged for syndication in 1962, Tyler was appointed Head Mouseketeer, live from Disneyland." She also provided the narration to some of the beloved Storyteller albums, including my well-worn "Peter Pan" record. I can still hear her saying, "I'm a codfish"! You had to be there.
Another neat souvenir is this metal button.
Here's an Official Membership Card. It's neat, but not as neat as Matterhorn1959's mint unused example!
Three From July 1961
The boys in the Sweatshirt Gang have just finished their trip down the icy slopes of the Matterhorn. This was before they stapled two bobsleds together to double the capacity of the ride. I think we can safely say that the kids enjoyed the trip! Most of you know that there is a "Tomorrowland track" and and "Fantasyland track", but I once got to ride the secret third track. It has a loop, and you get free ice cream at the end.
This is a familiar view, but fun; I like to imagine that I'm down there with the guests, feeling the heat of the pavement, hearing the sounds, and trying to decide which lines I am willing to wait in.
OK, what could possibly be so interesting about those flowers? Except maybe that they're fake.
Alaska 67 Exposition
Today's photos were an interesting find! What the heck was the "Alaska '67 Exposition"? A mini-World's Fair? I'd never heard of it. Time to ask the internets.
In 1967, Alaska celebrated the 100th anniversary of its purchase by the United States ($7.2 million dollars, or about 2 cents an acre!). As part of the festivities, the '67 Expo was built in Fairbanks. According to Wikipedia, it features pioneer cabins, historic exhibits, and the steamer SS Nenana, one of the steamboats that traveled Interior Alaska rivers during the gold rush era. The summer exposition that opened the park in July 1967 was attended by U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey but was plagued by rain, financial problems, and low attendance. You couldn't ask for a more beautiful sky in this photo from the opening month!
Look at that neat old locomotive! Riding high on a berm too, where have we seen that before? I have no idea what those interesting, rusty metal objects are to the left. They must be of alien origin!
Looking back towards the entrance from inside the expo, we can see an old luxury Pullman car on display. Could this be one of the presidential cars used for various "whistle stop" tours? The rides were strictly of the "off the shelf" variety, the kind you might find at any carnival or county fair. Hey, I'd still ride 'em! I'd be full of corn dogs, funnel cakes, popcorn, cotton candy, dill pickles and lemonade. URP.
From the looks of things, there are not many takers for these spinning attractions.
Unfortunately, just weeks after these photos were taken, Fairbanks suffered a massive flood, the worst disaster in Fairbanks history. By mid-August, rising waters had inundated the Expo. Damage to the city was in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
However, you can still visit the site today; the park became "Alaskaland", and now is known as "Pioneer Park". There's lots of fun stuff to do there, including the northernmost 36-hole miniature golf course in America. Let's go!
Frontierland Fitty Six!
Ol' Major Pepperidge is still in the mountains; yessir, the streams are full of gold nuggets, and the trout jump into our boats when I sing trouty songs.
I'm not sure why these vintage Kodachrome images are so dark greenish and odd-looking. Maybe they were exposed to radiation during one of those atom bomb tests in the 50's. It's really the only logical explanation.
Anyway, here's an unusual view of Chief Wavy, probably taken from the Disneyland Railroad. For all of his skills as an outdoorsman, we managed to sneak up on him - in a train! He's really lost his mojo.
In the early years there was evidence of another small Indian encampment along the Rivers of America. That cluster of teepees did not stay there very long - - many plains Indians were nomadic after all. Two petrified elk pause to take a sip from the magical butterscotch river.
There's the Indian Village that guests could visit. Watch some dancin', check out the teepees, paddle a canoe - it's better than Vegas.
Mickey Mouse Theater, March 1956
Setting our wayback machine to March 1956, we can head on over to Fantasyland for a peek at the Mickey Mouse Theater. What I wouldn't give for that shield over the entrance! Wonder if some lucky collector has it hanging on his wall (I'm looking at you, Matterhorn1959!). The famous 3-D Jamboree would not debut here until June, and the place was renamed the "Fantasyland Theater" in 1964. For now it looks like you could relax in air conditioned splendor and watch some classic Disney cartoons.
This dark and murky photo shows the old Pavilion Lanai. It looks like the "Haunted Lanai" here. "Aloha, foolish Haoles...". There, I did it again! A haunted Adventureland attraction. It'll be big I tell ya, BIG!
Hey, you know what sucks about spending a week in the mountains? NOTHING!
Store Windows, January 1966
Greetings from June Lake! Here are some interesting photos while I am away:
One of our intrepid photographers took some unusual pictures of some Christmas-themed Main Street store windows in January 1966 (or maybe December of 1965). There are no notes as to which shops we are looking at, but it's kind of fun to guess.
This first example has some porcelain and ceramic items in the window, including those creepy dolls that come to life at night and terrorize people (the victims always wind up in a straight jacket, because who would believe those loonies?). There appears to be some colorful glassware in the background, so I am going to say that this is from Ruggles China and Glass Shop. Who among you dares to defy me??
I can't attribute this window to any specific store. It is interesting that Winnie the Pooh is featured here (little did we realize how his popularity would soar); Disney's first "Pooh" featurette was "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree", which was released in February of 1966. I think we all remember that one, especially the Russian Roulette scene.
Rolls of Hallmark wrapping paper probably mean that this is a window from the Hallmark store. I figured that out all by myself! You can see the Sunkist store's sign reflected in the window. A tall glass of ice-cold orange juice sounds mighty tasty right about now.
Mom & Kids, July 1961
I love this photo of a mom and her 3 boys. Of course you've got those posters in the background, so that's always a plus. But the fact that the kids are wearing nearly identical outfits cracks me up! Sure, one rebel is wearing a red sweatshirt rather than blue (obviously he's a commie!), but they've all got their plaid shorts, white sneakers and white sweat socks. Even mom has the same shoes and socks. There must have been a sale at JC Penney.
The warm July sun has forced the trio to shed their sweatshirts and celebrate their individuality. Wait a minute, that sounds like hippie talk! What's worse, hippies or commies? Anyway, I'll forgive them because they are having such a good time on Tom Sawyer Island.
Just a reminder that I am up in the mountains hunting grizzly bears with my bare hands... I look forward to responding to everybody's comments when I return on July 25!
Knott's! September 1969
You know, if I wasn't catching world-record trout today on my mountain vacation, I'd probably be at Knott's.
Here are two nice photos from Knott's, circa 1969. I believe that the striped awning to our right was where you could wait for a genuine San Francisco cable car. See the tracks in the blacktop? The shiny, shiny tracks. So shiny. I'm happy just to look at them, but for those of you hankerin' for a chicken dinner, there's a helpful sign directing you thusly. And if you are a ghost and are looking for a town just for you, there's another sign for that too. They've thought of everything!
Ah, those picturesque storefronts in Ghost Town, I love them more than I love rocky road ice cream. Let's play a game, shall we? Find the trash can that doesn't seem to belong. Time's up! I know, that was a tough one. I wonder what is on display in the window of the Town Hall? Can't quite make it out. Probably communist propaganda!
Matterhorn at Dusk, September 1967
Dusk... that fleeting time when the day has ended, but night hasn't quite begun. I can think of at least 4 words that rhyme with "dusk". But that's another story.
One of the Matterhorn bobsleds is mere moments away from an exciting splashdown into icy water (runoff from the mountain's glaciers!). I'm kind of surprised that the splash has not been made bigger over the years (some folks - not me - apparently love to get wet), but perhaps it's just not practical. Oatmeal would slow the bobsleds down even more. You can see some of the ride operators in the upper level of the chalet.
This slide was über dark, but I wanted to include it because I like how it captured a Skyway bucket and a bobsled at the same time.
Autopia & Monorail, July 1961
Well, homies, I may be relaxing by a beautiful lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but that doesn't mean that I have forgotten about you. Here are two nice Tomorrowland views...
The Autopia is a favorite attraction for kids who don't have their driver's licenses yet; at the end of a long day at Disneyland, my nephew said that the best ride was "the little cars". But that doesn't mean that adults can't enjoy them too, y'know. Mom is looking forward to her turn behind the wheel (which I only just noticed is on the right, whuzza??) and a chance to navigate those miniature turnpikes, overpasses and clover leafs without dad's interference.
This shot is blurry, but it's still worth a look. That line for the Subs is already long, and the blue Monorail is about to get underway. You can just see the red and yellow checked awning of Fantasyland Station in the distance.
Fantasyland at Night, April 1966
I've got two lovely night photos for you today (courtesy of Chip's dad)!
How about this neat view of Fantasyland? The long exposure has turned most of the moving guests into phantoms, but we didn't really want to look at them anyway. Here's something that puzzles the bejeesus out of me: take a look just past that yellow Fantasyland ticket sign, and it appears that there are some people in an area that is 3 feet (or so) below the normal "street level" of the rest of Fantasyland. What the heck?
This is about as nice a photo of Sleeping Beauty's Castle as you could hope for. Classy. In fact it's got class up the whazoo! The rooms in the turrets got free HBO, which explains the eerie blue light emanating from within.
ATTENTION, PEOPLE OF EARTH!
I will be heading up to the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains for just over a week (returning July 25), so I will be unable to respond to your comments (and of course won't be able to comment on my favorite blogs!) until I return. But I hope you'll still tune in, I have new posts ready to go for the whole time I'll be away. See ya!
Along the River, 1956
Truly early photos of Disneyland (taken in the first year or so) often hold a lot of appeal because they manage to convey the "rough around the edges" quality of the park. Particularly in Frontierland!
I love this picture looking across the Rivers of America, past the Old Mill, with the Mark Twain at rest. I believe that this was taken from the Disneyland RR (?). You can just see a sliver of the yellow banner indicating the path to the Indian Village, Canoes, and Keel Boats. This hardly even feels like a photo from an amusement park!
There used to be a river-front bandstand in those days (you can see it along the shore here), but when it wasn't being used for music, it provided a shady spot to relax. This is a great picture, with the nearly-silhouetted figures in the foreground, and the picturesque buildings of Frontierland (the original Casa de Fritos among them) in the distance.
Main Street Transportation, August 1958
I love the various Main Street vehicles that add color and motion (and the occasional startling *HONK*). Some of them are either gone or merely static displays, but at least they are there as a snack for the eyes.
First up is this Surrey, with a pair of snow-white horses pulling the thing. For some reason I always think that it looks like a miniature hearse. It's that glossy raven-black that does it. Hey, what's that vehicle behind it?
It's the fabulous firetruck with the itty-bitty horses. I don't know how efficient this contraption would be at actually putting out a blaze, but at least it would look good doing it. And isn't that all that matters?
Why walk around Main Street when you can just stand in one spot? I ask that question about 30 times a day and have never gotten a satisfactory answer. Looky here, we kept facing in the same direction with our camera glued to our faces, and captured yet another vehicle, this one powered by alfalfa and sugar cubes.
Castle of "Damaged"!
Magic Mountain, November 1958
The Castle, 1956
Store Interiors, January 1966
Rebel Railroad, Pigeon Forge Tennessee - August 1963
1956 Fantasyland
Mine Train, April 1966
Chrysler Pavilion, New York World's Fair
Japanese Village and Deer Park, October 1969 - Par...
Three From 1956
More Night Views, April 1966
Almost at Knott's!

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Trumpet Player Thomas Heflin's Symmetry
"Symmetry", the debut of jazz trumpeter Thomas Heflin, explores the vast possibilities of contemporary post bop jazz through a carefully balanced program of original compositions and thoughtfully selected cover tunes. The self produced cd admirably showcases Heflin's brilliant, highly praised improvisational skills as well as the formidable talents of his band, including four tracks featuring the late world renowned pianist James Williams.
A rising star in the jazz world, Heflin made waves on the international jazz scene in 2005 when he placed second in the prestigious Carmine Caruso International Trumpet Solo Competition in Seattle. One reviewer described his playing as "a very fluid approach... generating lines in a seamless, highly polished manner that is really a joy to experience."
Among the original compositions are "Symmetry", the title track which opens and closes the album; "Salutation", a piece based on Kalidasa's poem "Salutation to the Dawn", and the ballad "Eastern Star", dedicated to James Williams. Heflin also covers material ranging from Louis Armstrong's anthem "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" to Cole Porter's "Night and Day" to Stevie Wonder's "Ma Cherie Amour".
"Symmetry" is aptly titled: Thomas Heflin has achieved a fine sense of proportion through his original pieces and covers. And though it is one of the last recordings James Williams made before he passed away, perhaps a new jazz legend, Thomas Heflin, is emerging in his own right.
Visit: ThomasHeflin.com


Implausible, uneven, and gratuitously violent, this esotrogen-powered crime caper lacks the finesse of Thelma and Louise or Guy Ritchie's work.
Two women who might not guess just how much they have in common are brought together under highly unusual circumstances in this dark comedy. Dorothy (Susan Lynch) is an upper-class British woman whose marriage to Tony (Iain Glen) is on the rocks; after a furious argument during a trip out of town, Dorothy arrives home to discovers Tony has left, but not before trashing their flat and everything in it. While trying to catch a bus across town, Dorothy sees a man who appears to be drunk, reading the riot act to a woman cowering at his insults. Enraged, Dorothy attacks the man with a pole, knocking him out. The woman, named Petula (Rachel Weisz), informs Dorothy that her victim is Brian (Tom Mannion), her boyfriend, who is also the brother of Ronnie (Maurice Roeves), her employer. Petula helps Dorothy drag the unconscious Brian back to her apartment, but they soon discover that she didn't just knock him out; she mortally wounded him. Now Dorothy and Petula have to dispose of a dead body while keeping the facts away from Brian's family, as well as the law. Beautiful Creatures was the first feature produced by DNA Films, a production company financed in part by the U.K. Lotto and headed up by two of Britain's leading producers, Duncan Kentworthy and Andrew Macdonald.
Writer and coproducer Simon Donald offers an efficient plot, and director Bill Eagles knows how to pace the actors and action while delivering it.
Emits an aura of contrived cool.
Too much style and not enough of anything else.
The dialogue is banal and the characters are irritatingly dumb.
Why should boys have all the fun in the movies?
The well of surprise is all but parched in the post-Tarantino seriocomic crime caper genre.
The main problems with Beautiful Creatures lie in execution -- the film's baser machinations come across as nothing more than indie film quirks.
More Tom and Jerry than Thelma and Louise.
A black comedy triggered with snide Guy Ritchie type of lowbrow British humor that is not as clever as it thinks it is.
Always surprising and the performances are carefully calibrated.


The church's pastor confirmed he has seen Thompson there but suggested "regular" attendance is an overstatement. And a pro-Thompson blogger said many of the now-official candidate's religious supporters would be surprised if the Church of Christ-baptized Thompson is indeed now a Presbyterian.
Questions about Thompson's religious affiliation have dogged the former senator and star of "Law & Order" since Focus on the Family founder James Dobson remarked in March he was under the impression that Thompson is not a Christian.
A Church of Christ newspaper investigating Thompson's religious roots found he had been spotted on occasion while worshipping at his mother's church, Brentwood Church of Christ, in Tennessee, and he spoke at a fund-raising event at Freed-Hardeman University, a college in Henderson, Tenn., affiliated with the Churches of Christ.
EthicsDaily.com asked Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and a Thompson supporter, about Thompson's apparent lack of church involvement. In a race for the GOP presidential nomination where no clear frontrunner has emerged for religious conservatives, Land has described Thompson as a "Southern-fried Reagan" and predicted the race is his to lose.
Peter James, pastor of Vienna Presbyterian Church, told EthicsDaily.com in a phone interview that Thompson "has attended" the church. James said he has seen Thompson at the church but has not had a conversation with him.
The Presbyterian pastor said Thompson was at the church "on occasion" and "much less often" than his family.
EthicsDaily.com could find no media references about Thompson attending a Presbyterian church. His campaign didn't respond to inquiries about his church attendance or whether his listed affiliation of Church of Christ is accurate.
The news came as a surprise to Joe Carter, co-founder of Blogs for Fred, who also works for the Family Research Council.
Thompson and his first wife divorced in 1985. The Church of Christ condones divorce only on grounds of adultery. He married his current wife, Jeri Kehn, in 2002 in the United Church of Christ, a liberal Mainline denomination not associated with the conservative Church of Christ of Thompson's youth.
The Churches of Christ are about 18,000 independent congregations with a total U.S. membership of more than 2 million. The churches are autonomous and do not consider themselves a denomination, although they do cooperate to sponsor ministries like schools, children's homes, newspapers and magazines. Ministers do not use clergy titles. The churches teach that baptism is an essential part of the salvation process.
They also emphasize ongoing church membership and worship attendance.
"Regular church attendance is generally seen as a mark of faithful church membership in most congregations of Churches of Christ," Lee Camp, associate professor of theology and ethics at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., said in an e-mail to EthicsDaily.com.
"Obviously regular participation in worship assemblies is no sure indicator of Christian faith, but it is generally assumed that participation in a local church body is an expected aspect of Christian practice," Camp said.
Camp said in the Church of Christ tradition, one typically becomes a member of a local congregation after baptism by immersion. If members relocate geographically, he said, most congregations have a practice of allowing them to "place membership" in a new congregation.
Carter of Blogs for Fred agreed that character is as important as issue in a presidential candidate, but he argued it is difficult to measure.
Robert Parham of the BaptistCenter for Ethics said Thompson should clear up any confusion about his church affiliation and attendance.
Brian Kaylor is communications specialist with the Baptist General Convention of Missouri. Bob Allen of EthicsDaily.com contributed to this story.


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HSTY1076 Feedback
Students again responded positively to this unit of study. This year 139 students (of a total of 338) filled out the evaluation. 90% of students agreed or strongly agreed with the proposition "Overall I was satisfied with the quality of this unit of study," for a mean score of 4.20 out of 5. 91% of students agreed or strongly agreed that "The teaching in this unit of study helped me to learn effectively," for a mean score of 4.31.
The most frequently given explanation for those scores continued to be the lecturing:
"Stephen's lectures were my favorite of all my classes this semester. He spoke with clarity and passion and with cast subject knowledge."
"Every single lecture was extremely engaging and interesting"
"The lecturers showed genuine enthusiasm for the topic, therefore inspiring enthusiasm in the students"
Students repeatedly praised the outlines used in each lecture and made available online, and the music that Rebecca Sheehan used in the lectures that she gave.
For the first time, students consistently praised the choices available for the major essay, a positive response to the six additional essay topics I added for 2011, making a total of 30 options. The additional options also seem to have reduced difficulties accessing the required readings, as no complaints about this appeared in the responses.
Students varied significantly in their responses to the tutorials. Some of the difficulties related to the size of the groups and of the teaching rooms, which unfortunately I cannot control. In other cases, the group dynamics do not appear to have worked. I will spend more time working with the tutors on what they can do to encourage discussion. And some students struggled to connect the tutorial readings to the lecture content, an indication that I need to place greater emphasis on those connections, as I have done in past years.
This year the 151 students (of a total of 303) who filled out the evaluation gave this unit its highest ever scores, with the mean for every question up from when I last taught it. 99% of students agreed or strongly agreed with the proposition "Overall I was satisfied with the quality of this unit of study," for a mean score of 4.67 out of 5. 95% of students agreed or strongly agreed that "The teaching in this unit of study helped me to learn effectively," for a mean score of 4.47.
The most frequently given explanation for those scores was the lecturing, which students described as "enthusiastic," "dynamic," "engaging", "brilliant" – and "very fast." Fortunately, many students also indicated that they took advantage of the recordings to catch anything they missed in the lectures. And I will continue to try to slow down. A new element also drew comment this year – my shirts, which one student said helped grab her attention. It was particularly pleasing to have one student comment. "My second year and the first time I have felt taught not talked to." The lectures and organization also helped make the unit accessible to mature age students: one wrote, "I was concerned that I would not fit in but have found that everything was well-explained and straightforward. I have been encouraged to continue."
Students also praised the web site, which they found easier to use than WebCT. I'll continue to use my own site when I teach the course.
One of the great successes of this course was that 87% of students agreed or strongly agreed that they received constructive and timely feedback, a mean score of 4.27, up from 3.98 in 2007. In their comments, students praised the constructive and motivating nature of the feedback, and its length and detail. These responses reflect the outstanding work of Ivan Coates, and the tutors – Karol Florek, Conor Hannon, and Anna Lebovic. All also drew numerous positive comments for their work in the tutorials, being praised as knowledgeable and helpful. Ivan also did outstanding work in coordinating the unit, drawing frequent comments about his helpfulness and organization.
Concerns about the assessment expressed for the first time in 2008 were not evident this year: 82% agreed or strongly agreed that it allowed them to demonstrate what they had understood, for a mean score of 4.08 out of 5. The one issue students did raise, and the only thing they wanted changed, was having to wait until Stuvac for the essay to be returned. In the past, the essays have been returned in the last lecture, but that deadline puts a lot of pressure on the tutors – as it is, they only had 4 ½ weeks to complete the marking – and makes it difficult to provide the quality feedback that students appreciated. If the workload of the tutors allows it, I will try to return the essays earlier next time I coordinate the unit.
This unit of study proved even more successful in 2007 than the last time I taught it, in 2005. 95% of students agreed or strongly agreed with the proposition "Overall I was satisfied with the quality of this unit of study," for a mean score of 4.57 out of 5. 93% of students agreed or strongly agreed that "The teaching in this unit of study helped me to learn effectively," for a mean score of 4.41. Those scores reflect the outstanding work of the tutors for this unit – Ivan Coates, Nick Irving and Michael Thompson – all of whom were singled out for praise in the evaluations.
In addition, student comments reveal that those scores were based on the lecture outlines and mp3 recordings I provided, the unit web site, the organization of course, and in particular, the lecturing. Below is a sample of the comments:
"The course was great in teaching me how to approach history in university as opposed to in high school"
"Focus on primary sources helped me to be a historian – helped broaden my perception of what studying history is all about"
"Great lecturer and tutor. Thoroughly enjoyed the positive, enthusiastic learning environment"
"This is my second year at uni and this subject was the most professional, most organized experience I've had. The lectures were the best lectures I've ever had and I wouldn't be surprised if they remained the best."
"Lectures were excellent; clearly mapped out and coherently communicated"
"Really enjoyed the unit. Lectures were in-depth and informative, tutorials further developed ideas from lectures"
"Learning materials were so convenient and helpful. I never had a professor put so much extra effort into supplementing the lectures"
"The best of my courses so far. Don't change anything"
Several students did ask for more time to be devoted to recent history. This year, due to a lecture lost to the ANZAC Day holiday, that period received less attention than usual. But it is also the case that the historiography of this era is expanding, with post-1945 political history in particular one of the most vibrant fields in American history. When I next teach the unit, in 2009, I plan to devote more time to that material.
A handful of students also wanted me to slow down when lecturing. I'll keep trying – and keep providing the mp3 recordings so you can listen again if you miss something.
As in 2004, this was a very successful unit of study. The vast majority of students, 90%, agreed with the proposition "Overall I was satisfied with the quality of this unit of study." Slightly more students, 91%, agreed that "The teaching in this unit of study helped me to learn effectively."
The changes made in order to address the difficulties last year's students had determing what was expected of them, particularly in the assignments, proved very successful.
I provided a more detailed description of the assignments and discussed in class the differences between what had been expected of them in high school history and what was expected of them at university. The evaluations reveal that these changes helped: 88% of students agreed or strongly agreed that the learning outcomes and expected standards were clear, up from 74% in 2004; and 90% of students agreed or strongly agreed that the outline accurately described the unit, up from 84% in 2004. Numerous students singled out the web site as being particularly helpful to them.
Even more significantly, more students reported receiving useful feedback on their assignments: 76% of students agreed or strongly agreed that the feedback effectively supported their learning, up from 64% in 2004, with the proportion who strongly agreed nearly doubling. Student comments reinforced those numbers:
"Absolutely fantastic feedback"
"Feedback was extensive and valuable"
"There was detailed feedback on my assessments which was always constructive and useful"
"Tutorial papers contained a lot of feedback and definitely helped with the week 10 essay"
"Feedback helped improve work and understand issues better"
"[Feedback] allowed me to understand mistakes I made, which improved essay writing in general over all subjects"
Those comments are testimony to the outstanding work of the tutors for this unit, Roozi Araghi, Ivan Coates and Diana Covell.
Students also found the new essay writing tutorial useful. So did I. Teaching it highlighted exactly what students find difficult and I will continue to refine what is done in this tutorial to try to make it more concrete.
Another innovation this year also drew positive comments. I switched to using an iPod to record the lectures and placed mp3 files of those recordings on the course web site. Students overwhelmingly found this more useful than tapes of the lectures placed in Special Reserve.
The evaluations also indicate that these changes were made without detracting from the already successful elements of the unit. Students again identifed the lectures as the highlight of the course, with the enthusiasm of the lecturer, the clear structure of the lectures, the use of visual and audio resources, and the availability of lecture outlines, all drawing repeated praise. It was also good to see that links between the tutorials and the lectures, which several students found difficult to see in 2004, did not attract comment this year.
Most students (92%) agreed with the proposition "Overall I was satisfied with the quality of this unit of study." Only one student strongly disagreed. Almost as many (91%), students agreed that "The teaching in this unit of study helped me to learn effectively" and again only one student strongly disagreed.
The evaluations are peppered with very positive comments about the course, especially the strength of the lecturing. Students mentioned frequently the enthusiasm of the lecturer, as well as complimenting him on the well-organised structures of the lectures and the interesting material, including visual and audio (one even described the lectures as "gripping"). Many students wrote that they also found the group presentations a fun and valuable way to learn.
The most common difficulty students had during the course was in evaluating what was expected of them, especially in the assessments. This is a common problem among first year students. The explanations of the assessment provided in lectures and tutorials were obviously not sufficient to provide direction to all students. We plan to address this next year by:
providing an even more detailed explanation of the assessment tasks in the course outline
devoting a tutorial to essay writing, with the essay writing guide as the required reading. The tutorial will take place after students have signed up for essays, so they can focus on the question they are answering.
A number of students were unclear as to how the lectures and tutorials related to one another. Their response appears to be based on a misapprehension about the purpose of tutorials; they wanted tutorials to repeat the material from the lectures.
The purpose of the tutorials is not to deliver more information, but to have students undertake historical analysis themselves. All the tutorials focused on primary sources that provided evidence regarding the issues discussed in a particular lecture.
Analysing that material provides a means for students to develop their own understanding of those issues, and gives them a basis on which to make judgments about the competing interpretations discussed in lectures. The tutorial format provides an opportunity for students to express and discuss their views, to be active learners.
A small number of students expressed a desire for a textbook, to provide them with the facts and statistics mentioned in the lectures, and to back up the lectures generally. So, next year we will make additional efforts to make students are aware of the resources that we provide to help them and provide:
a textbook in the Library's special reserve for students who wanted to clarify details about the material covered in lectures; and
a list of readings related to each lecture topic was placed on the course website to allow students to explore particular topics in detail. (Only a few students mentioned explicitly the course website, but those who did stressed that they found it extremely informative and helpful. Next year we will emphasise to students the usefulness of the website and encourage them to visit it more often).
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Daniel N. Robinson, Consciousness and Mental Life, Columbia University Press, 2007, 264pp., $29.50 (hbk), ISBN 9780231141000.
Consciousness and Mental Life seeks to demonstrate that something is seriously wrong with contemporary philosophy of mind. In fact, that there are at least three things wrong: Descartes is given an unduly bad press, the contribution of philosophers of the past to mind-theory is not properly appreciated by their descendants of today, and the current physicalist orthodoxy is deeply mistaken, both in its own right and in its deference to mainstream science. The book's real payoff is the message that philosophers of mind have a duty to pay careful attention to what their fellows have said, but this pays off in an unexpected way.
Robinson's central thesis is briefly as follows: There is far less to be gained from modern philosophy of mind and its interplay with the mind-sciences than is widely thought, especially when one properly examines the work on these issues carried out by great historical philosophers. Robinson's list includes Plato and Aristotle, up to Reid and James, but it is above all Descartes, he opines, who either foresaw current 'advances' in mind-theory, or else presented considerations powerful enough that, properly understood (as presently they are not), prove fatal to most every current analysis of mind. For Robinson, physicalism's falsity is quite clear, and Descartes -- read aright -- has already had more or less the final word on the mind/body problem.
At an impressive pace (Consciousness and Mental Life just tips two-hundred pages) we are led through the gleaming monuments of doctrines of the past, and the glow from these is used to illuminate what for Robinson are the mere follies of the present, either copying desirable earlier features, or abominating them. The first chapter informs us about Plato's and Aristotle's philosophy of mind, drawing interesting connections with classical work on the theory of rhetoric. I found this chapter duly reflective of the complexities of thought of these two great minds, and it contained the novel contention that their views, particularly in Plato's case, could in several respects be considered contemporary. Not a Plato or Aristotle expert however, I reserve my substantive comments for the appearance in the book of later philosophers of mind.
From chapter two onwards Descartes becomes the hero of the piece, and modern philosophy of mind the main villain. It would be fair to characterise this, the large proportion of the text, as a highly fluid discussion of an extremely wide range of issues connected to mind, with Descartes often appearing either for Robinson to defend him against some modern misapprehension, or to employ Cartesian considerations to help sweep the floor with one theory or another from the last half-century or so. It is worth making clear the extraordinary range of this discussion: Cartesian critique is meted out to theories and ideas including anomalous monism, eliminativism, emergentism, epiphenomenalism, determinism, functionalism, H.O.T. theory, Humean causation, mental supervenience, National Socialism, semantic externalism, the puzzle of Theseus' ship and type and token identity theories. And to plot his favoured course through these matters, Robinson sees the need to set the record straight on what have traditionally been considered thorny issues for Descartes, such as the power of scepticism, and the precise nature of the union of non-physical mind with body. Philosophers would be forgiven a wince at the list of topics broached in this book: they are of a depth and variegation that many of us would not hope to treat inside of a lifetime. I can only say that it is a testimony to the ambition of Consciousness and Mental Life that it aims to resolve all of these matters.
There's not space here to delve in a detailed way into Robinson's thoughts on more than a couple of issues, so I concentrate on those that seem to me most central to understanding the state of the art in philosophy of mind, and whose treatment perhaps best reveals the book's quality. Before diving in we should be explicit about Robinson's core philosophical thesis: he appears as an unapologetic substance dualist, and has only short shrift to offer modern physicalism and its main drivers, such as the much-vaunted idea of the 'completeness of physics', as he terms it. Robinson presents himself here as arm in arm with his protagonist: Descartes, we are told, inclined strongly towards materialism, but found himself forced to give it up in the face of the palpable failure of objective, scientific endeavour to capture the nature of mind. Modern philosophers of mind, Robinson feels, are criminally close to eliminating this nature, such is the thrall that they are held in by scientism.
Let us begin, then, with Robinson's assessment of the completeness of physics. This is where, unfortunately, things go a little awry. For the discussion in Consciousness and Mental Life just does not adequately capture the completeness of physics, or its role in putative proofs of physicalism's truth.
The completeness of physics is the doctrine that if an event occurs that is describable in the language of physics, then it has a sufficient cause that's also describable in the language of physics. How does this doctrine figure in closing the case for physicalism? The answer is that it does not, at least not without some heavyweight additional assumptions. For the completeness of physics to lead to physicalism's truth -- the truth of the claim that everything is physical -- one needs to assume that mental items cause, and that their effects are describable in the language of physics. Given these two assumptions, one gets the result that mental items are describable in the language of physics, and are thus, in that sense, physical. On this latter point: it is a matter of no little controversy amongst self-avowed physicalists whether and to what extent all physical causes in the world can be adequately described in the language of physics. For example, a statue is (for most people) an unproblematically physical item, and it may be the cause of a window breaking (if bashed against it, say). But many, including some physicalists, would dispute that the event of the statue -- qua statue -- breaking the window could be captured in the language of physics: Among other considerations, the concept STATUE doesn't figure in physics. So if it were the completeness of physics as just explained that were the key to physicalism's truth, why then physicalism's truth would likely be refuted by items as commonplace as statues, leaving aside minds. For such reasons, physicalists have allowed themselves to talk in terms of the completeness of the physical, where this includes those items described by all of (physical) science, not just physics. In addition, the sense of 'physical' is stretched further by allowing anything that supervenes on items that are physical in the sense just explained to count as physical also. On this understanding of 'physical', a statue can be unproblematically physical. And on this understanding of the idea of completeness, anything that breaks a window -- a physical happening -- will itself be physical.
And now back to the former assumption, that mental items cause. This is for most philosophers a premise beyond doubt, and likewise the premise that mental items cause physical effects: for example, fits of rage can cause window-breakings, by causing kicking of statues that consequently bash windows. And this yields the interesting argument for physicalism, the one that applies to the mental: If mental items have physical effects, and all physical effects have sufficient physical causes, then, disallowing systematic overdetermination of these effects, the mental causes must also be physical.
We have distinguished the completeness of physics from the completeness of the physical, and seen how the latter idea functions in an argument for physicalism's truth. This done, it is clear that Robinson conflates the completeness of physics with the completeness of the physical. But perhaps simply replacing the former phrase with the latter will rehabilitate his discussion? Sadly not, for there is a further confusion. For example, Robinson states that "it was Descartes more than most of his contemporaries who was inclined towards the completeness of physics -- toward physicalism -- and it was this very inclination that found him opposing the "Aristotelians"" (67). This quote makes it clear that Robinson thinks the completeness of physics, which we are charitably reading as the completeness of the physical, is equivalent to physicalism. This is not so, and neither does the completeness of the physical anywhere near imply physicalism; unless, that is, one can rule out that mental items are epiphenomenal when it comes to the physical world. But this is an option Robinson consistently overlooks when surveying the logical territory between physicalism and dualism.
It is true that Robinson at one point discusses a doctrine he labels 'epiphenomenalism', but again, a lack of full grasp of the theory is evident, and telling: When introducing the idea of consciousness as an epiphenomenon, he cites Huxley's comparison of consciousness with the sound produced by a bell. This has a promising ring to it, Robinson here entertaining the possibility that consciousness might be 'a mere byproduct' (34). But the very next page finds him asserting that epiphenomenalism denies the immateriality of consciousness. On the contrary, epiphenomenalism has been deployed almost exclusively as a variety of dualism: not least, epiphenomenalism is the position Jackson reaches after giving his famous 'knowledge argument' against physicalism.
Robinson does not satisfactorily characterise the nature of contemporary physicalism (and its main motivation: the causal argument from physical causal completeness), nor of epiphenomenalism. Thus his rejection of the modern route to physicalism will not do much to deter others who come across it. Surely, though, in a book largely dedicated to Descartes, Robinson does better when it comes to discussing, and defending, Cartesian interactionist substance dualism?
Any dualist worth his salt ought to have serious things to say when it comes to the rationale for his dualism and the problem of the hypothesised causal interaction between mind and body, supposedly radically different substances, one of which has, where the other lacks, physical mass, location and extension. Let's consider what Robinson has to say about these points in turn.
But were Robinson right here the upshot would in fact be a massive pluralism, not dualism. To take one homely example, by this reasoning the constitution of a liquid by non-liquid molecules would entail that liquidity was a physically irreducible property. And so on for every case where a supervening property was missing from its ontological underpinnings, of which there are innumerably many. And yet it is in fact fairly well understood how non-liquid components can yield a liquid composite -- roughly, they have to be loosely bound together, so that they can slide around. Likewise, many physicalists hold, there may well be a story, agreed we don't yet know it and may never, about how non-conscious physical matter combines to form a conscious physical whole.
There has been, to be fair, recent work challenging the intelligibility of consciousness' emergence from non-conscious underpinnings, for example Strawson's (2006). But this objection to physicalism is of a far more sophisticated nature, and is ignored by Consciousness and Mental Life. Robinson may well be right to criticise contemporary philosophers of mind for not having sufficiently studied the distinguished philosophers of the past, but for his part he appears not well enough versed in the philosophical work of the present day, much of which is valuable (even if much is not). Ironically, Robinson would find a strong ally in Strawson when it comes to his feeling that philosophers of the present neglect those of the past at their peril.
Elsewhere, Robinson justifies his dualism thus: 'No one disputes the ultimate materiality of oak tables or of water. [However] Consciousness lacks the "feel" of materiality' (36). It is not easy to know how to understand this claim: what is the 'feel' of materiality? If that is meant to be something to do with the way material things feel when touched by sentient beings, then consciousness clearly has everything to do with this feeling, since it is a feeling. If the thought is that consciousness doesn't appear to be material,well, that is something philosophers have sometimes claimed. But just as clearly if consciousness is material then this supposed appearance is simply misleading. And that appearance could never provide an argument for dualism on pain of begging the question. The puzzle of consciousness' putative physicality is indeed a puzzle, but the mere fact of its being a puzzle doesn't imply straight off that physicalism is false, let alone that dualism is true. Things are not, cannot be, that simple.
On the interaction problem Consciousness and Mental Life toys with two solutions (setting aside its unduly rapid dismissal of epiphenomenalism as an option). In some moods Robinson relies on our personal experiences of mental causation: since our minds clearly move our bodies, the 'interaction problem' must be a mere piece of philosopher's sophistry. But it is unclear, to say the least, how this manoeuvre is meant to render intelligible the causal interaction of a massless, locationless, extensionless substance with a massy, located and extended one. And it is this lack of intelligibility in which the interaction problem consists.
A more sophisticated option that Robinson entertains is a Humean dissolution of the reality of causation: on this account mind and body enter into closely correlated behaviours, and that is all there is to saying that they causally interact. This solution is, as Robinson himself acknowledges, unsatisfactory. He correctly points out that we are unlikely to want to give up the causal realist interpretation of mind's power over body. I would go further: to turn to regularity theory to solve the puzzle of mind's interaction with body is something of a bad joke.
Overall this is a strange book: anyone conversant with the material Robinson discusses will see through his lack of argument and reasoned thought-progression. Anyone who isn't so conversant just won't be able to decipher the text, I fear. So I cannot recommend to anyone to read the book.
Huxley, T. H. 1874. "On the Hypothesis that Animals Are Automata and its History." In Fortnightly Review, 22: 199-245.
Jackson, F. 1982. "Epiphenomenal Qualia." In Philosophical Quarterly, 32: 127-136.
Papineau, D. 2002. Thinking about Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Strawson, G. 2006. "Real Materialism: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?" In Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 13, No. 10-11.
 Huxley 1874. This is of course not a very happy comparison in the first place, since the sound of a bell is certainly causal: it causes people to go to church and birds to take flight, for instance.
 Although the reasoning in question very arguably goes back to Descartes' interlocutor, Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
 Although we just saw that Robinson's reasoning might render water non-physical in respect, at least, of its liquidity.
 Papineau (2002) has a plausible physicalist story about the enduring intuition that mind and matter are different.


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The Exciting Wilson Pickett è il terzo album di Wilson Pickett, pubblicato dalla Atlantic Records nell'agosto del 1966.

Il disco contiene numerosi brani pubblicati come singoli ed entrati nelle classifiche statunitensi di rhythm and blues e di pop:

Land of 1000 Dances, pubblicato come singolo (#2348) il 13 luglio 1966 si piazzò al #1 (R&B) ed al #6 (Pop).

634-5789, pubblicato come singolo (#2320) il 20 gennaio 1966 si piazzò al #1 (R&B) ed al #13 (Pop).

In the Midnight Hour (già edito nell'album precedente) fu pubblicato come singolo (#2289) il 5 maggio 1965 si piazzò al #1 (R&B) ed al #21 (Pop).

Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do), pubblicato come singolo (#2334) il 6 maggio 1966 e piazzatosi al #13 (R&B) ed al #53 (Pop).

It's All Over, pubblicato come singolo (#2306) nell'ottobre 1965.

Tracce
Lato A

Lato B

Formazione
Land of 1000 Dances, Something You Got, Barefootin', Mercy, Mercy, You're so Fine, She's so Good to Me
 Wilson Pickett - voce
 Spooner Oldham - tastiera, pianoforte
 Jimmy Johnson - chitarra
 Chips Moman - chitarra
 Steve Cropper - chitarra
 Rodrigo Brito - basso
 Roger Hawkins - batteria
 Wayne Jackson - tromba
 Charlie Chalmers - sassofono tenore
 Andrew Love - sassofono tenore
 Floyd Newman - sassofono baritono
634-5789, Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do), I'm Drifting
 Wilson Pickett - voce
 Isaac Hayes - tastiera, pianoforte
 Steve Cropper - chitarra
 Donald Dunn - basso
 Al Jackson Jr. - batteria
 Wayne Jackson - tromba
 Andrew Love - sassofono tenore
 Floyd Newman - sassofono baritono
In the Midnight Hour
 Wilson Pickett - voce
 Joe Hall - tastiera, pianoforte
 Steve Cropper - chitarra
 Donald Dunn - basso
 Al Jackson Jr. - batteria
 Wayne Jackson - tromba
 Charles Packy Axton - sassofono tenore
 Andrew Love - sassofono tenore
 Floyd Newman - sassofono baritono
Danger Zone, It's All Over
 Wilson Pickett - voce
 Isaac Hayes - tastiera, pianoforte
 Steve Cropper - chitarra
 Donald Dunn - basso
 Al Jackson Jr. - batteria
 Wayne Jackson - tromba
 Gene Miller - tromba
 Andrew Love - sassofono tenore
 Floyd Newman - sassofono baritono

Note

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