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A Report From Last Friday's OLCC Beer Summit
Prognosis: A rosy future—bottoms up!
by Kevin Gifford
When Brian and Todd McMenamin opened their first brewpub in southwest Portland 29 years ago, the beer scene was still pretty sleepy in Oregon. "There was no such thing as plants inside a tavern," Brian recently recalled. "It was dark; it was smoky. We carried every beer brewed in state on tap, and that was 11 beers."
Yes, things are a tad different now. McMenamins alone has 25 breweries, 52 properties (including the Old St. Francis School in Bend), and 2,300 employees dotted across Oregon and Washington. There are 214 or so breweries across the state, in nearly every town, not to mention a rapidly increasing number of craft cideries and distillers. And—if the Oregon Liquor Control Commission's estimates are correct—the economic impact is not only enormous, but will continue to go nowhere but up in future years.
That was the message the OLCC offered in a meeting it held in Bend last Friday to explore the economic impact of alcoholic beverages in Oregon, one attended by several state senators and representatives. It was a message hammered home by multiple speakers, including McMenamin, Deschutes Brewery founder Gary Fish, and Rogue Ales president Brett Joyce.
"What sticks out to me," OLCC chairman Rob Patridge told The Source, "is how much it's growing, between the craft brewing and distilling, and the food-to-table marketing that's going on. I think Oregon really leads the way in that movement. It's a burgeoning business that will not only thrive upon itself, but hopefully bring more economic development to the state as a whole."
Why Oregon, though? Why has this state become such a hub for craft beverages of all varieties? "There are a lot of reasons," Fish said. "We have a lot of really intrepid entrepreneurs and a lot of customers willing to explore and try something new. And, frankly, it rains here. People consume beer indoors more often as opposed to taking it out to the beach, and so the brewpub culture we started with here is a lot easier to explain and exploit instead of taking the risks of distribution."
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The economic results of this movement are striking. The total economic impact of brewing on the state of Oregon topped $1.29 billion in 2012, the highest per-capita rate in the U.S. What's more, as state economist Mark McMullen pointed out, the industry is providing fair to decent middle-wage jobs, and added 4,500 or so since 2008—especially in parts of Oregon that largely missed out on the economic recovery. "You would have to look across a great number of industries to find anything equivalent to this," he said. "Not even the health industry would compare to this."
Joyce, head of Rogue, also mentioned the contribution Oregon's largely friendly alcohol laws made to the cause. Since McMenamin and other outfits successfully lobbied the legislature to legalize brewpubs in 1985, the OLCC has taken measures to keep taxes reasonable, even going so far as to allow small wineries to exempt up to 40,000 gallons of wine from alcohol taxes. It's something Joyce can appreciate, given that Rogue now does 85 percent of its business outside of Oregon. "I was talking with a friend who owns a production brewery in Georgia," he said, "and if you have a brewery there, you can't run a pub on premises. There are some states that are 10, 15, 20 years behind Oregon in very basic issues like growler fills and bottle sales. I think we take a lot of that for granted in Oregon."
It's a great scene, but will it last? The term "craft beer bubble" pops up in industry watchers' minds whenever yet another brewery opens up in Bend or elsewhere. McMullen, at least, didn't think so, noting that the failure rate for breweries in Oregon has remained steady—averaging two or three a year since 2005—despite the recent explosion of new outfits. "A lot of the statewide gain from 2006 to 2014 has been from startups," he said. "They aren't stealing share from other Oregon breweries, but from the macros. The failure rate hasn't increased, and most of those failures are still outfits that haven't been in business for very long."
But it wasn't all smiles and handshakes at the meeting, with complaints from the speakers including unfairly high taxes on cider producers and the inordinate amount of paperwork required to keep up with state and federal regulations. Yet, overall, the tone was optimistic. For Patridge, who was only appointed chair of the 81-year-old state agency half a year ago, it's a sign that his drive to move the OLCC away from strictly dealing with licensing and enforcement is beginning to bear fruit. "I think that if you talk to long-term OLCC members, they'll tell you that we've had more legislators and industry people in the building in the last year and a half than they've had in the past decade before that," he said. "We have over 12 percent of the revenue that the state is getting; it's the third-largest revenue-generation source. The regulatory stuff is part and parcel of that, but the majority of what we do helps to build a positive market for people to come, live, and work in."
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elaine chao mike pompeo trump cabinet can't get corporate board gigs trump cabinet can't get jobs trump administration bill barr ben carson reince priebus kayleigh mcenany fox news kayleigh mcenany sean spicer sean spicer newsmax american cornerstone institute stephen miller elections have consequences
Corporations Won't Even Pay Trumpers Millions Of $$$ To Do Jack Sh*t, Is That Even Legal?
What is the world coming to when four long years slaving to make the world a more racist, unequal place doesn't land Cabinet officials in the schmaltz pot to fatten up on grease until retirement? It's a sad day in Washington when former officials can't monetize their public service to bring down seven figures a year as corporate board members and lobbyists. And yet, the Washington Post has two stories today documenting just such a sorry state of affairs as veterans of the Trump administration find no one home in corporate America when they come knocking.
In the first article, the Post depicts the poor Trump Cabinet officials who stuck it out to the bitter end and are now finding themselves unemployable. It starts with former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, although it bizarrely omits any mention of the Inspector General's report on the ethical dumpster fire she lit at the DOT. Between that mark of distinction and her four years in Trumpland, even Mrs. Mitch McConnell can't get a ticket to ride the corporate gravy train.
Wells Fargo, which paid Chao millions for her service as a board member between 2011 and 2017, didn't renominate her in its most recent list of new board members. And Ingersoll-Rand, News Corp., and Vulcan Materials, where Chao also held board seats, refused to comment on when or if she'd be back.
"The feedback was, 'It's too soon,'" a headhunter who tried to place the former secretary told the Post. Although Chao's representatives insist that she's highly in demand and is simply taking her time to evaluate options. In Canada. (We kid. She isn't wanted there either.)
And Chao isn't the only one finding it hard to wash off the Trump stink. Bill Barr will not be rehired at his former law firm Kirkland & Ellis, and Dominion Energy, Sculptor Capital, and Time Warner (it was AT&T when he served there) all declined to say if they'd be extending an invitation for the former attorney general to return to lucrative board work after his successful stint ratfucking the DOJ.
Similarly, Mike Pompeo, who also faced one or twelve Inspector General investigations for using government resources to advance his own personal interests, has not faced the same welcome that predecessors like Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell did upon their return to private life. Could be because he's just a raging dick who yells at women all the time — but the association with the Trump administration isn't helping either.
"Boards don't need trouble or criticism," one headhunter told the Post. "If you want to stay away from all that potential tarnish, that's easy: You just don't go near it."
And the path is no easier for low level employees, i.e. the ones who haven't been socking away millions of dollars a year for decades. It's all well and good for Reince Priebus to screw around with his tropical fish tank between Zoom speaking gigs, but the 20- and 30-somethings who staffed the Trump administration actually need to work for a living. So they're either "de-emphasizing their time with Trump on their résumés" or "playing up their Trumpiness for a job on the Hill, where the ex-president is practically a religious idol in the Republican caucus." Whores gonna whore, right?
Kayleigh McEnany wound up on her feet at Fox, of course. But poor Sean Spicer had to content himself with a gig at off-brand Newsmax, which is barely even a TV channel.
Other Trumplanders refused to join any club that would have them and wound up starting their own grift shops. Stephen Miller, who is not a lawyer, founded a legal group to challenge President Joe Biden's immigration policy. And Ben Carson, the former HUD secretary, founded a, uh, "do tank." It's not a think tank, see, its ...
For the most part, Carson's newly created American Cornerstone Institute will allow the good doctor to travel the country, in an effort to heal the nation with roundtable discussions about conservative values. But one thing he's particularly excited about is using the think tank to launch a program he's calling Little Patriots.
"It will be something like the Boy Scouts," he said. "But heavily exposed to the real history of America."
"You probably notice when ISIS goes into a place, they destroy the history, they destroy the monuments," he said, using a term for the Islamic State. "History is what gives you identity."
Riiiiiiiight. Does he mean like statues of Robert E. Lee? Or $30,000 conference tables that blow the budget of an agency dedicated to housing the poor?
Trump is still feeding some of his people, too, doling out $10,000 monthly contracts from his grift PAC. But the DC gravy train isn't nearly as reliable as it used to be, particularly with Republicans losing control the House, Senate, and White House last year.
Yeah, we're real broke up about it. Talk amongst yourselves, we're a little verklempt.
JK, LOLOLOL.
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Lisa spotted this in a flower shop in Dubai. I wonder what kind of behavior they were really trying to curb here.
My favorite part about this is the plush Marshmallow Peeps Bunny wearing that outfit.


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Nationals 6 - 7 Braves
Braves rough up Strasburg, hold on to beat Nats
Aug 9, 2014 - 4:22 AM Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) - The Atlanta Braves jumped all over Stephen Strasburg early and then hung on for dear life to snap their eight-game slide.
Freddie Freeman, Justin Upton and B.J. Upton all hit two-run homers against the hard-throwing right-hander in the first two innings as the Braves topped the Washington Nationals, 7-6, in the opener of a three-game set.
Ervin Santana (11-6) allowed four runs on four hits and two walks for the Braves, who moved within 3 1/2 games of the Nationals for first place in the NL East. Tommy La Stella hit a solo shot in the victory.
"We came out tonight after having an off day, had time to ease the mind and rest and come out and win a ballgame," Justin Upton said.
Strasburg (8-10) struck out nine, but was charged with seven runs on seven hits and two walks over five frames for Washington, which had won four of its last six games coming in.
Anthony Rendon smacked a three-run shot and Wilson Ramos added a solo blast in defeat.
"It's already in the past, worry about tomorrow now," Rendon said of the loss. "We've got two more games to play here so that's what we're looking forward to."
Atlanta led 7-0 through the first five innings, but Washington got four runs back in the sixth and two more in the seventh.
Pinch-hitter Scott Hairston was hit by a pitch to begin the sixth and Denard Span singled to put runners on the corners. Asdrubal Cabrera rolled a base hit up the middle to bring home Hairston and Rendon stepped up next and launched his three-run shot to left-center, cutting the gap to 7-4.
Ramos clubbed a leadoff homer to left in the seventh and Cabrera added a sacrifice fly to trim the margin to 7-6. With the tying run on second with two outs, Jordan Walden came on and got Rendon to line out.
Walden then retired the side in order in the eighth and Craig Kimbrel struck out two in a 1-2-3 ninth to notch his 33rd save of the season.
The Braves plated two runs in the first, four in the second and another in the fifth to jump out to their comfortable lead.
Freeman worked a two-out walk in the opening frame before Justin Upton smashed his two-run shot to dead center.
Ramiro Pena hit a two-out single in the second, but was forced out at second when Santana failed to move him over with a bunt. It didn't matter, however, as B.J. Upton followed by cracking his two-run blast to left. La Stella reached with a base hit and Freeman launched his two-run homer into the seats in right.
Steven Souza, who was making his second career start, crashed into the wall full speed when he leapt trying to track down Freeman's homer, which forced him to leave the game. Bryce Harper moved over to right field and Kevin Frandsen came into the game to play left.
La Stella's leadoff shot in the fifth gave the Braves their seven-run cushion.
Rain delayed the game for 1 hour and 11 minutes in the sixth inning ... Atlanta was 0-for-2 with runners in scoring position, while the Nationals finished 2-for-6 ... The Upton brothers homered in the same game for an MLB record fifth time as a set of brothers.
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Nationals 6, Braves 7 Mid 7Aug 8 10:58 PM
Asdrubal Cabrera sacrifice fly out to left scored Kevin Frandsen. Runner on second with two outs and Anthony Rendon due up.
Nationals 6, Braves 7 Top 7, 2 OutsAug 8 10:54 PM
Nationals 5, Braves 7 Top 7, 1 OutAug 8 10:54 PM
Wilson Ramos lead-off Home Run (5) to left. Kevin Frandsen due up.
Anthony Rendon none-out, three-run Home Run (15) to left center scored Denard Span and Asdrubal Cabrera. Adam LaRoche due up.
Nationals 4, Braves 7 Top 6, 0 OutsAug 8 9:16 PM
Asdrubal Cabrera singled to center scored Scott Hairston. On the play, Denard Span advances to third. Runners on first and third with none out and Anthony Rendon due up.
Tommy La Stella lead-off Home Run (1) to right center. Freddie Freeman due up.
Nationals 0, Braves 7 Bot 5, 0 OutsAug 8 9:02 PM
Freddie Freeman two-out, two-run Home Run (16) to right scored Tommy La Stella. Justin Upton due up.
B.J. Upton two-out, two-run Home Run (8) to left scored Ervin Santana. Tommy La Stella due up.
Justin Upton two-out, two-run Home Run (20) to center scored Freddie Freeman. Jason Heyward due up.
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Woz you have Stockholm Syndrome after Kizer hit Fuller for that game winner on Virginia. He's not a good QB.
I think Kizer probably isn't the best QB in this draft, so I'm not sure I would go with him if we were going to QB.
Not sure how you got that I thought he was a good QB.
Its St. Paddy's day, I'm a little drunk.
Don't pretend like you don't remember that end of the game bomb though.
Believe it or not, I missed the game. I saw the highlights, just shook my heads, and said "SOFH."
but....it was such a good wiiiiin........ i mean let down...god i hate this team sometimes....ugh why do i chose these teams.
Just absorb it. Embrace it.
Both you and my wife ... Scotch is from Scotland, not Ireland. While a wonderful tipple, it's not really the right call on St. Patrick's Day. Both of you ... eesh!
Pssssh. What are you gonna drink, Bushmills??? Macallans all day. AM I RIGHT DOC DRAPER? You know he's got my back.
I'd say Jameson's, for something that is likely going to be in a bar.
Scotch is perfectly suitable 364 other days. My wife suggests you try Dalmore 15 or the Auchentoshan 3 Wood.
Guys will be mad for me to say this but Dalcin Coom like he will be a star .
Had tiki barber 2.0in my eyes .
If we can't draft a ILB or a DE than cooks my guy.


ABC Airs 4 of the Week's Top 15 TV Shows in Viewers and Young Adults, Claiming the No. 1 Scripted Program in Adults 18-49 with "Modern Family"
ABC's "Suburgatory" More Than Doubles NBC's Comedy "Best Friends Forever"
Vaulting 67% Over its Lead-in with Adults 18-49 on Sunday at 10pm, ABC's "GCB" Jumps Up to Tie CBS' Highly Promoted Series Debut of "NYC 22"
During the week of April 9, 2012, ABC aired 4 of the Top 15 TV shows in Adults 18-49, including the No. 1 scripted show with "Modern Family," which also outranked NBC's "The Voice" for the first time this season in the Live + Same Day averages ("Modern Family" originals regularly top "The Voice" in the final Live + 7 Day averages): "Modern Family" - No. 3, "Dancing with the Stars" - No. 12, while "Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23" and "Grey's Anatomy" tied at No. 14. In addition, ABC delivered 4 of the Top 15 most-watched programs overall, placing 2 of the Top 5: "DWTS" - No. 3, "DWTS Results Show" - No. 5, "Modern Family" - No. 11 and "Body of Proof" - No. 15. In fact, ABC's "Dancing" paced ahead of Fox's "Idol-Thurs" and NBC's "The Voice" for the 4th week in a row. For the 2nd time in 3 weeks, ABC's "20/20" ranked as TV's No. 1 newsmagazine in Adults 18-49.
With "Dancing" and a repeat of the "Scandal" pilot up against all-original programming on the other nets, ABC (13.1 million) qualified as the most-watched net on Monday for the 4th week running, outdrawing CBS by 3.5 million viewers (9.6 million), NBC by 4.1 million viewers (9.0 million) and nearly doubling the audience of Fox (+93% - 6.8 million). In addition among Adults 18-49, ABC (2.4/6) beat out Fox's original drama lineup by 14% (2.1/6 - "Bones"/"House") on the night.
Monday's most-watched TV program for the 3rd time in 4 weeks, ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" topped its 2-hour time slot for the 4th consecutive week, beating out NBC's "The Voice" in head-to-head competition by 5.9 million viewers (16.4 million vs. 10.5 million). In Adults 18-49, "Dancing" soared over Fox's combo of "Bones" and "House" by 43% in the time period (3.0/8 vs. 2.1/6).
·	While "The Voice" declined for the 5th straight week to hit a new season low, ABC's "DWTS" increased its Adult 18-49 audience week to week by 3%. The ABC unscripted series also grew over the prior week by 2% in Adults 25-54, by 14% in Teens 12-17 (best-since premiere) and by 13% in Kids 2-11.
Gaining additional sampling after its series debut telecast this past Thursday, ABC's repeat "Scandal" topped NBC's first run "Smash" by 3% (6.2 million vs. 6.0 million) to finish as the 2nd-most-watched TV show in the 10 o'clock hour to CBS original "Hawaii Five-0."
With "Last Man Standing," "Cougar Town," "DWTS Results Show" and "Body of Proof" opposite all-original competition, ABC (9.8 million) was the 2nd-most-watched TV network on Tuesday to CBS, outdrawing NBC by 3.1 million viewers (6.7 million) and Fox by 4.1 million viewers (5.7 million).
At 8:00 p.m. opposite CBS' top-rated "NCIS," ABC's "Last Man Standing" ranked No. 2 in viewers, edging out the return of Fox's "Glee" (6.84 million vs. 6.78 million) and leading NBC's "The Biggest Loser" by 13% (6.0 million). In fact, ABC self-starter "Last Man Standing" finished as Tuesday's most-watched comedy overall, attracting 1.6 million more viewers than Fox's "Glee"-led "New Girl" at 9:00 p.m. (5.2 million).
·	Continuing to improve its time slot year over year, "Last Man Standing" (6.8 million and 1.8/6) boosted the half-hour for ABC by 1.4 million viewers and by 29% in Adults 18-49 over season-premiere programming on the year-ago night ("Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" on 4/12/11 = 5.4 million and 1.4/5).
In the 8:30 p.m. half-hour, despite facing the return of "Glee" to the time slot, ABC's "Cougar Town" built 9% over its last airing 3 weeks ago in Total Viewers (4.8 million vs. 4.4 million), generating its most-watched telecast since its season premiere (on 2/14/12).
During the 9 o'clock hour, ABC's "DWTS Results Show" (13.4 million) emerged as the most-watched TV show for the 3rd week in a row, soaring above its NBC unscripted competition ("Voice Results" = 9.0 million) by 4.4 million viewers. ABC's dancing results program stood as Tuesday's No. 2 TV show overall, behind only CBS' "NCIS." In addition, the wide-appealing ABC unscripted series ranked No. 2 in the hour with key Women (W18-49/W25-54). Actress and co-host of ABC's "The View," Sherri Shepherd, was the third celebrity to leave the competition this season.
In the 10:00 p.m. hour, ABC's season finale of "Body of Proof" ranked No. 1 in Total Viewers (10.0 million), Adults 18-49 (1.9/5) and Adults 25-54 (2.8/7), leading the time period on each measure for the 2nd week in a row. In addition, the ABC drama won its slot for the 3rd straight week with key Women (W18-49/W25-54).
·	ABC's "Body of Proof" generated its 2nd-most-watched telecast this season. Additionally, the show tied its best Adult 18-34 number since the beginning of October - since 10/4/11.
With ABC's 8:00-10:00 p.m. comedy block returning to all-originals for the first time in 4 weeks (since 3/14/12) followed by a "Revenge" clip-show, the Net posted its strongest Wednesday since February in viewers (6.9 million) and young adults (2.4/7) - since 2/29/12.
·	The Net was up over the same night last year (6.4 million and 2.3/6 on 4/13/11) in Total Viewers (+9%) and Adults 18-49 (+4%). In fact, ABC was the only net to grow its young adult audience year to year.
At 8:00 p.m., against CBS' "Survivor: One World" and the start of Fox's 2-hour "Idol," ABC's "The Middle" outdelivered NBC's "Off their Rockers" by 16% in viewers (7.1 million vs. 6.1 million) and by 31% in Adults 18-49 (2.1/7 vs. 1.6/5). In addition, the ABC comedy beat out "Survivor" for its 5th straight original telecast in Adults 18-34 and Women 18-34.
·	"The Middle" rose by double digits over its year-ago telecast on the evening (6.1 million and 1.8/6), surging by 16% in viewers and by 17% in young adults year to year.
Retaining 100% of its young adult lead-in at 8:30 p.m., ABC's "Suburgatory" towered over its NBC freshman comedy competition in its slot, more than doubling the numbers for "Best Friends Forever" in Total Viewers (+114% - 6.0 million vs. 2.8 million) and Adults 18-49 (+133% - 2.1/6 vs. 0.9/2). For the 5th time in as many first-run telecasts, the ABC freshman comedy outran the second half of "Survivor: One World" with Adults 18-34 (+7%) and Women 18-34 (+20%).
·	"Suburgatory" delivered big year-over-year improvement for ABC in the half-hour, jumping by 25% in viewers and by 40% in young adults over original comedy programming on the same night last year ("Better with You" = 4.8 million and 1.5/4).
Wednesday's dominant No. 1 scripted show in Adults 18-49 (4.2/11), ABC's "Modern Family" doubled its lead-in at 9:00 p.m. to beat its closest scripted competition by 40% (CBS' "Criminal Minds" = 3.0/8). In addition, "Modern Family" finished as Wednesday's No. 1 TV program among hard-to-reach Men 18-34, beating out "Idol" by 17% on the night (2.7/9 vs. 2.3/8).
·	ABC's "Modern Family" grew over its year-ago broadcast by 8% in viewers (10.4 million vs. 9.6 million) and by 8% in young adults (4.2/11 vs. 3.9/10).
During the 9:30 p.m. half-hour against the conclusion of "Idol," ABC's debut of "Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23" opened as the No. 1 scripted show in its slot across the 18-34 demographics (A18-34/W18-34/M18-34).
·	Exhibiting improved lead-in retention for ABC, "Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23" (6.9 million and 2.9/7) drew the Net's biggest audience in the slot in over 3 months and its highest Adult 18-49 number in more than 2 months - since 1/4/12 and 2/8/12, respectively. In addition, the show improved the half-hour for ABC year to year with Adults 18-49 (+4% - "Happy Endings" on 4/13/11 = 2.8/7).
·	Holding strong retention of its "Modern Family" lead-in with viewers and young adults (66%/69%), "Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 23" generated ABC's best retention in the half-hour coming out of an original "Modern Family" in 1 year - since 4/13/11.
During the 10 o'clock hour 1 week before returning to originals, ABC's "Revenge: From the Beginning" series recap show defeated NBC's original "Law & Order: SVU" in Total Viewers (5.597 million vs. 5.570 million) and Adults 25-54 (2.2/5 vs. 2.1/5). In addition, ABC beat the first-run dramas on both CBS and NBC in the hour with Women 18-34.
·	The "Revenge" clip-show produced 6-week highs for ABC in the hour with Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49.
From 8:00-9:00 p.m., up against Fox's "American Idol" and CBS comedies, ABC's "Missing" once again more than doubled the audience of NBC's original comedy block (7.9 million vs. 3.0 million - +163% over "Community"/"30 Rock") and tied among Adults 18-49 (1.4/4).
·	"Missing's" overall audience grew week to week by 10% to hit a 3-week high. In addition, the freshman series drew 27% more viewers to the hour for ABC year to year, topping original programming on the year-ago night ("Wipeout" on 4/14/11 = 6.2 million).
More than doubling its Adult 18-49 lead-in at 9:00 p.m. (+107%), ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" moved up to No. 1 in its time period among Total Viewers (8.8 million) and Adults 18-49 (2.9/8). In fact among Adults 18-49, "Grey's" beat out Fox's "Idol"-driven "Touch" (2.3/6) during the 9 o'clock hour by 26%. Additionally, "Grey's" stood as Thursday's No. 1 TV show among Women 18-34 for the 2nd week running.
·	"Grey's" was up week to week in viewers (+7%) and young adults (+4%).
Continuing to exhibit solid retention of its "Grey's" lead-in during the 10 o'clock hour, ABC's "Scandal" ranked as the No. 1 series among Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54. In the hour, ABC's "Scandal" more than doubled its freshman drama competition, defeating NBC's "Awake" by 170% in Total Viewers (7.3 million vs. 2.7 million), by 160% in Adults 25-54 (2.6/7 vs. 1.0/3) and by 122% in Adults 18-49 (2.0/6 vs. 0.9/2). In addition, the new drama won its slot among key Women (W18-49/W25-54) for the 2nd week in a row.
·	Bucking the general trend for new shows, ABC's "Scandal" retained 100% of its week-ago premiere numbers with Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54, while building on its debut in Adults 18-34 (+8%), Women 18-34 (+11%) and Men 25-54 (+7%).
ABC finished No. 1 on Friday night against its network rivals in Adults 18-49 (1.5/5), tying CBS with its 2-hour Lionel Richie music special, while defeating NBC by 25% (1.2/4) and Fox by 67% (0.9/3).
During the 8:00 p.m. hour, ABC's "Shark Tank" ran in a virtual tie with CBS' "Undercover Boss" for first place in Adults 18-49 (1.6/6 vs. 1.7/6 - pacing within 1-tenth of a rating point and tied in audience share) and outdelivered Fox's "The Finder" by 78% (0.9/3). Drawing a younger audience, ABC's "Shark Tank" defeated CBS' "Undercover Boss" by 22% in Adults 18-34.
·	"Shark Tank" was up from its last original 3 weeks ago by 7% in Adults 18-49 and posted a 6-week high in Adults 18-34 (since 3/2/12).
·	ABC's "Shark Tank" grew over its year-ago telecast in the hour in both viewers (+4%) and young adults (+7%).
Opposite all first-run competition in the 9 o'clock hour, ABC's "Primetime: What Would You Do?" (1.0/4) led the pack in Adults 18-34 for the 3rd week running, beating NBC's "Grimm" by 11% (0.9/4), Fox's "Fringe" by 67% (0.6/2) and CBS' Lionel Richie music special by 100% (0.5/2).
During the 10 o'clock hour, ABC's "20/20" moved up to No. 1 among the major nets in Adults 18-49 (1.6/5), tying the final hour of CBS' ACM music special. In addition, ABC's "20/20" continued to beat out NBC's "Dateline" in the hour, leading by 11% in Total Viewers (5.2 million vs. 4.7 million), by 40% in Adults 25-54 (2.1/5 vs. 1.5/4) and by 60% in Adults 18-49 (1.6/5 vs. 1.0/3). Anchored by Elizabeth Vargas, ABC's "20/20" featured segments looking at what is going on in the air these days, including crazy captains, paranoid passengers and flight attendant freak-outs.
·	ABC's "20/20" built week to week in Adults 25-54 (+5%) and Adults 18-49 (+7%).
During the 7 o'clock hour, ABC's "America's Funniest Home Videos" (1.6/5) ranked No. 1 in Adults 18-49, leading original newsmagazines on CBS ("60 Minutes" = 1.4/5) and NBC ("Dateline" = 1.3/4) by 14% and 23%, respectively.
·	Spiking 33% over its last original with young adults, "AFHV" drew its biggest audience (6.4 million) in 5 weeks and its top Adult 18-49 rating in 6 weeks - since 3/11/12 and 3/4/12, respectively.
ABC's repeat "Once Upon a Time" beat out its original NBC drama competition in the 8 o'clock hour, outdelivering "Harry's Law" by 22% in Adults 18-49 (1.1/3 vs. 0.9/3).
·	"Once Upon a Time" built over the prior week's repeat in viewers (+8% - 4.1 million vs. 3.8 million) and young adults (+10% - 1.1/3 vs. 1.0/3).
From 9:00-10:00 p.m., the conclusion of the "ABC Premiere Event: Titanic" was up by 13% over the previous night's average on Saturday in Adults 18-49 (0.9/2 vs. 0.8/3).
Vaulting over its lead-in by 67% in Adults 18-49, ABC's "GCB" moved up to tie CBS' highly promoted series debut of "NYC 22" (1.5/4), as the new CBS drama dropped -17% from its lead-in coming out of "The Good Wife." Exhibiting a much younger skew, ABC's "GCB" defeated "NYC 22" by 38% in Adults 18-34 (1.1/3 vs. 0.8/2).
Source: The Nielsen Company, National, Live+ Same Day Program Ratings, week of 04/09/12.


Read the side effects of Ferumoxides as described in the medical literature. In case of any doubt consult your doctor or pharmacist.
Gastrointestinal - Diarrhea, vomiting and loss of appetite.
Body as Whole - Pain abdomen, pain neck, fatigue, fever.
Heart - High or low blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythm.
Central Nervous System - Dizziness, tingling.
Skin - Itching and sweating.
Eye and ENT - Abnormal vision, taste perversion.
Respiratory - Cough, nose bleed, nose inflammation.


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Airsoft is an extreme military simulation sport with the use of special guns that don't use live ammunition but BB pellets. Players participate in mock combat operations using replicas of military weapons. Participants may also strategize and initiate battle plans to win objectives but without significant risks of casualties. The overall idea of playing airsoft is akin to engaging in laser tag or paintball.
It's important to know the different airsoft guns to understand the benefits they bring. You can check online resources like Airsoft Specialists for more information about this sport and its guns. Aside from the data found on that website, know that airsoft players use different firearms classified into three groups: gas-, electric-, and spring-powered.
Spring-powered airsoft guns or bolt-action airsoft replicas are unsuitable for beginners in the sport. These pieces of equipment have spring-loaded mechanisms commonly found on sniper rifles and shotgun models. Spring airsoft guns are also excellent gifts for extreme sports fans.
As its name implies, these military replicas use powerful springs to propel ammunition. Spring-powered pistols can fire BB pellets at speeds of around 150 feet per second (FPS). Sniper airsoft rifles may shoot rounds with approximately 800 FPS.
Airsoft guns carrying spring-powered mechanisms offer distinct advantages. These weapons tend to be inexpensive and lightweight. Also, manufacturers can install weather-grade sealing on these weapons as the additional coating won't affect the weight too much.
You can find gas-powered airsoft guns in three further classifications: fully automatic, semi-automatic, and single shot. These weapons require carbon dioxide or gas cartridges to fire BB pellets.
The primary benefit of using gas airsoft guns over spring-loaded airsoft weapons is its versatility. Springs require straining back for every individual fire whereas specific gas-powered airsoft weaponry allows you to keep your finger on the trigger during particular scenarios.
Its blowback system is also another benefit for gas-powered airsoft weapons, and it's not accessible in other airsoft gun categories. With this system, the slide budges back with each shot, enabling players to feel a recoil effect. Albeit it does little in improving performance in the field, the blowback feature grants airsoft participants to feel like they're firing live rounds.
Automatic Electric Guns (AEGs) are more potent than gas- or spring-powered weapons. Several AEGs have hop-up systems to provide a consistent and accurate line of fire until the pellets in your magazines run out. Several electric airsoft weapons take about five to eight hours to charge. Still, three to five hours of charging is enough for most of these guns to run for an entire airsoft match.
Manufacturers of AEGs also tend to make their products more weather resistant than gas-powered airsoft guns. These electric-powered weapons are also ideal for beginners. It's because these pieces of equipment don't rely on a significant amount of knowledge about the sport for you to use them properly.
One of the best things about playing airsoft and using its authorized guns is there are next to zero risks of casualties. Participants use padded armor while playing this extreme sport. If the pellets hit you in a vulnerable spot, perhaps the worst damage you can get is a red spot on your skin.
It's challenging to play airsoft matches without being physically involved in the sport. Even snipers who tend to stick to one spot for long periods may need to move to different locations to gain the upper hand on opponents. Since you'll move a lot in the playing field, it's a fantastic opportunity to increase cardiovascular ability. Also, the equipment you bring may help in providing additional benefits to increasing strength and weight loss.
Playing airsoft games isn't just about run-and-gun tactics, even though that particular strategy can still work in certain situations. You need to think on your feet; hesitate for a brief moment, and you might find yourself on the receiving end of your opponents' BB pellets. It may take several matches before you can get the hang of thinking like your enemies. The increased brain activity may help in decreasing the risk of certain mental conditions.
Despite airsoft being considered as a safe sport thanks to the safety measures placed on each player in the field, it doesn't mean that you should disregard personal security procedures. Airsoft can still put players in harm's way. JAMA Network reports that a recorded nine male patients required treatment for ocular injuries because of airsoft bullets. Be careful while you're out in the airsoft playing field, and always remember that you're playing friendly matches.


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NewsRailroad News
GATX sells dry bulk vessel segment
Joanna Marsh
· Monday, February 10, 2020
Vessels belonging to ASC. Image: American Steamship Company (ASC)
Railcar lessor GATX (NYSE: GATX) is selling its dry bulk vessel business segment, American Steamship Company (ASC), to Rand Logistics.
Rand will buy ASC for $260 million, pending regulatory approval and customary closing conditions, both companies said Monday. The net sales proceeds will reduce GATX's new debt issuance in 2020, GATX said.
ASC transports bulk commodities such as iron ore, coal and limestone on the Great Lakes. The self-unloading vessels range in length from 635 feet to 1,000 feet, with single-trip capacity ranging from 24,000 to 81,000 gross tons. The vessels operate 24 hours a day and seven days a week, with unloading speeds of 7,000 to 10,000 net tons per hour.
ASC profits in 2019 totaled $46.1 million, which includes a one-time gain of $10.5 million. ASC's assets represented 3.5% of GATX's total assets as of Dec. 31.
"As a leading operator of self-unloading vessels on the Great Lakes, ASC has been a strong contributor for GATX since 1973," said Brian A. Kenney, president and chief executive officer of GATX. "This sale allows GATX to focus on our core franchises in global railcar and aircraft spare engine leasing."
Rand, which describes itself as a marine bulk freight shipper operating in the Great Lakes region, already has a fleet of 11 self-unloading bulk carriers and three conventional bulk carriers through its subsidiaries. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company offers port-to-port services in both Canada and the U.S.
Rand said the acquisition of ASC's assets will enable it to serve "different and highly complementary markets."
"We are excited about this transformative combination of two leading vessel operators on the Great Lakes. This strategic union will create significant additional shipping capacity through network efficiencies and repositioning of the respective fleets, all of which will allow the resulting company to further improve its customer service and offer additional flexibility and shipping capacity to its customer base," said Rand CEO Peter Coxon.
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Joanna is a Washington, DC-based writer covering the freight railroad industry. She has worked for Argus Media as a contributing reporter for Argus Rail Business and as a market reporter for Argus Coal Daily.


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I haven't written here for more than a month, because honestly I didn't trust myself to write without exploding into particles of dust, or if I did manage to write somehow it would only be selective expletives repeated over and over — I've been more than just a little angry. Warning to readers, I'm not writing this to cater to your sensibilities, nor is this the moment to profess how you belong to [x] group but don't do any [abc] I talk about. I am exhausted with keeping my anger inside, and it's coming out in all insidious ways today.
When I repeat out of frustration to western feminists — yes western feminists get clubbed in the same indistinguishable a bubble as "South Asian feminist" feels to me — that abortion wars here are different, we face different demons, we use different strategies, all they seem to hear is "India doesn't consider abortion is illegal! They don't have anything to complain about!". Yes, factually, the Indian nation-state hasn't outlawed abortion, that can hardly be cited as evidence to prove that there aren't any problems. Or on the flip-side, almost every feminist (or not) publication from the Global North talks about the problem of female feticide India — additionally India and China are used interchangeably for some reason, as if any place that is Not the Global North must be a homogeneous mass of cultures — to the extent that "feminism in India" means "sex-selective abortion". There is a problem with using and perpetuating such a model, where you start equating a region's "gender problems" to its feminism is probably the preliminary layer of fail; I've talked about it long enough. What you leave out when you stick to the primitive equation of "Indian feminism = sex-selective abortion" are the many methods that the State designs to keep contraception from people who want to access it, to forcibly sterilise groups which the State thinks need to be curbed and even erased. It infuriates me that whenever one speaks of "sex-selective abortions" and its evils — yes fetuses are being aborted because they're perceived to be 'useless' as they're female, and it is evil, it needs to end, no disputing this fact. But there's more to just a "culture thinking females are unworthy" that people don't want to engage with — what western feminists don't even consider is the way discourse around contraception figures here; mainly because they're too busy presuming that it's the same as it is in their native countries, but I digress.
Posted in Body, Books I have read, Postcolonial feminism, Postcolonialism, Religious Commentary
Tagged Activism, Books I Read, Feminist theory, Postcolonial feminism, Rants, western! feminist fail
https://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/re-claiming-subversion/
Thinking In Tongues
Lately I've been very busy translating things — French things to English, diluting some literary Gujarati with the help of my grandma and strangely, also my thoughts from English to my native tongue(s) as this summer break she helps me read in a few tongues that have been rusting inside me since the past few years. For a long time, English has been my go-to language and my native tongues occupy a secondary position, of horrid pidgins that mix many tongues and dialects — which are hilarious at best and painful at worst — and a language I must use with family, with people who aren't fluent enough in English, a language that is substituted for English and even then I barrel this tongue with English words — I don't see this as a necessarily bad thing, just illustrating how no matter how hard I try, my native tongues come to me as an after-thought. Sometimes, my grandma will ask me to read પાની and instead I read "water" in my head, and to save face say the Gujarati word out loud — but she knows anyway that it doesn't come to me 'naturally'. Generally we smile at each other when this happens, she asks me to try again and I instruct myself to think in my mother tongue, and it works for a while. Then in about two minutes, she asks me to read a whole sentence and I am again judging it by English syntax and grammar forms. I don't need to learn to speak read write in these tongues, those I did as a child either in school — where the State you belonged to dictated the tongues you'd learn — or at home where we speak our mother tongue. It's thinking in different tongues that I am working on and so far, miserably failing.
For years, my English and the 'talent' to say things well have been indistinguishable from my identity as an upper-caste Hindu lady, "who will one day go to the U.S. also and write big-thick books for people to read" to borrow my cook's words as she describes who I am and what I will do — according to her — to her neighbours. She says fondly, "Look at her English, I want my daughter also to speak like her! How fast-fast she goes, sometimes talking liddat on the phone and marking something in study books also" as her neighbours smile politely at us. I've gone to this neighbourhood since at least the past decade or so, I used to play with many children who now don't speak with me at all, and if they do only in English — They say, "How you do" and I used to say, "ठीक हूँ" — and they'd get embarrassed and I'd get angry that no matter what I did 'those people' don't want to speak in their native languages — it's taken me a lot of time to see how them addressing me in English was their way of leveling ground between us and me stomping all over it and patronising them and replying in Hindi was nothing but my privilege raising its head. English still remains for us a class and a cultural marker, a certain kind of English that you speak marks you from which part of the city you come from — if you code-switch and say, "I don't know, ask ajoba no" for instance, pegs you from North Mumbai — and the more 'unadulterated'¹ your English is, the better education and class background you are assumed to have. It didn't help that I am 'convent educated' — a phrase we treat as a synonym for 'Good English And Decorum' — and was taught by British and Indian nuns who'd both tell us that "Your native languages can stay at home. Here we speak English — like people". So we'd speak at lunch in our native tongues, but even that stopped as we grew older and English was just more convenient; plus by then, speaking in English meant Serious Business².
Today, I can re-learn to think in my native tongues because I have the privilege to, because I've been code-switching for years at home, because I know English considerably well and can have the luxury of enjoying my native tongue. Language is where we locate our power dynamics in, from these lenses we view and read rest of the world — and me writing in મારી ભાષા will be viewed as 'reactionary' or me trying to 'smash the Empire' or maybe I have an 'agenda' instead of it seen as one of my tongues, my Englishes as I weave both tongues into one. Things only get more complicated when I am read out of contexts — ones I can control and especially ones I can't — and we're still talking and parsing each other in English. If I could, I wouldn't still be able to write in my native tongues, because I wouldn't be 'understood' — mainly because the internet may hypothetically be a 'global platform', in reality the digital dollar lays the rules down. To keep the 'intersectionality' badge shiny many western feminists love to theorise 'race' matters from the omnipresent douchecolonial gaze — where all the third world feminist issues are child marriage foot binding dowries FGM female feticide corrective rapes 'sex-slave' industry bounded labour and nothing else — where the western feminist can 'interpret' our cultures as ze sees fit — usually as metonymic for all our hybrid realities, to the extent that "Africa" becomes FGM, "India" becomes "child marriage and female feticide" and nothing else, all this is done in the culture of 'solidarity' and to extend sistersong.
It's not that big a surprise that when regional and local feminism(s) are "translated", almost always it's an Orientalist view of the third world, where the western feminist can be a shocked and horrified of the lives we live daily in the third world — and the most common reason I've heard is, "Well we are all women, we can understand each other"³ — and for 'understanding' each other, my life has to be translated in English, in contexts and terms it doesn't belong in. Two weeks ago at a transnational feminist conference, a western feminist asked me what is the 'safe' way to promote solidarity — and I'll still stick by my answer: Learn my language, it's only fair because I learnt yours.
Maybe then, in the gaps and silences a translation leaves western feminists will understand learning our tongues won't do much — as learning a tongue and thinking in one are two entirely different things and that one is a skill and another a re-clamation of the marginalised; I hope I'll reach there someday.
1. Read 'unadulterated' as not 'tainted' by our devilish heathen native tongues, of course.
2. It is even More Serious Business when parents use English out in public to scold us. That's when hell freezes over.
3. Direct quote.
by Jaded on June 3, 2011 • Permalink
Posted in Books I have read, Colonialism, Postcolonial feminism, Ranting & Raving
Tagged Activism, Books I Read, Code-switching, Colonialism, Ivory Tower, Language, Postcolonial feminism, Rants
Posted by Jaded on June 3, 2011
https://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/thinking-in-tongues/
Learning Relevance Through Erasure
One of the few things people connect with India besides Slumdog Millionaire and hub of cheap Third World labour are the epics Ramayan and Mahabharat — which are of course, anglicised to Ramayana and Mahabharata. Almost always, these epics are seen as the narrativisation of 'the great oral tradition of storytelling', basing this tradition in the past, which not only increases the net worth of such a text but also binds the epic with 'history'; it's seen as a 'pre-colonial' Indian¹utopia and as the 'pure' culture, while neatly obliterating the existence of more than a few hundred narrativisations of these epics — which are subjective to the caste and class of the community they come from — and they're seen synonymously with Hinduism and our religions — meanwhile western epics like the Iliad and Odyssey are seen as Great Literature and not the representative of a population. Thanks to this pact with 'history', these texts are seen as — forcibly — situated texts that describe how Things Were Back Then and almost always read when mirrored with Christianity or the western gaze. So when the text turns out to have any contemporary beliefs or depict any 'modern' behaviour, it is hailed as a new 'discovery', when in reality these 'discoveries' have always existed in the texts. Insert quip about colonisation here.
Lately, there is a new surge of reading 'religious' texts through a queer perspective, which perplexes me to no end — for these particular texts, Mahabharat especially, have always been queer texts. I grew up with stories from the Mahabharat and have known tales of Krishna and Radha role-playing and switching genders, Arjun living as a woman for a year with a man's mind, Draupadi as the daughter born of a man's body — and these are a few instances I can remember without even looking at the texts my grandmum used to read. Agreeably, in most re-tellings of this epic, even these gender transgressions are somehow inserted into patriarchy — Krishna becomes a 'womaniser' who doesn't mind 'playing around', Arjun is written and seen as a character who 'just dresses as a woman' while retaining his identity and physical form, Draupadi's birth is naturalised — however what these studies do is anthropologically 'carve out' queer instances and characters, instead of just rescuing the regional-dialectical re-telling from the mainstream one. Not to mention, even these queer characters are seen through the Western lens and then we have debates and papers arguing just why Arjun isn't a trans* character, without taking into account that being trans* across different cultures or that even 'queer' manifests in different forms here. Because of such ritual and continuous exotification, books like Devdutt Pattaniak's 'The Pregnant King' are a cause for wonder and amazement in the Western world — more like a mild case of, "I used to be Brown but now I Think!".
The Pregnant King is a text that narrativises and fictionalises the tale of a childless king who was a contemporary of the Pandavs, thus we know the setting is around the Kuru-kshtera war, but it moves on to its obscure characters — some of the most fascinating are Somvat a Brahmin boy who transforms to a woman to be with his lover, a queen who cannot rule because she is a woman, a woman who is raised and eventually identifies as a man and the protagonist who drinks a magical potion that makes him father a child and is then uncertain about his identity — written in English to either get a wider (Western) audience or to cache it under the genre of 'fantasy' considering the author is on risky ground for 'questioning the sanctity of the epics!'. It goes without saying, writing such a novel does take courage, keeping in mind the religious-state-sanctioned communal identity most of the politicians thrive on, how most people view these texts as religious dictats and not just tales, how most of the Hindu-cultural identity is coded into these texts and the fact that the author takes great pains to illustrate gender and caste biases wherever possible. So on some cognitive level, I can appreciate the efforts of the author, but there are too many silences and silenced voices in this text to go un-noticed. As the text is written in English, names are anglicised², alienating me in the process — every time I said the anglicised names out loud, they'd seem foreign and harsh as they don't roll off like the Sanskrit names do — but I'm used to such translations. What really unsettled me is how culture is diluted and broken down into actions — for instance the puja is described as an "appeasement of Gods with flowers, food and waving of lamps" — is if to make sure the Omnipresent Western Reader would understand every 'exotic' word used. Much like footnotes used by the British to 'comprehend the Hindoo animal' this text too explains each cultural practice. An apsara is called a 'nymph', a bhrama-rakshas is called a 'demon-spirit', a yaksh is called a 'goblin', each time reminding me that the culture I grew up in is legitimate only when tied to a western-marker. I can already see people protesting, "What is your problem if a text is made relevant? This way more people can read and appreciate it" — this is only half-true. More people will read it because it's a 'queer' perspective to a 'sacred' text, an aura of taboo mixes with the erotic thus making it more consumable and irresistible. We don't always need these western-markers to 'understand' a text — I grew up reading words, terms, cultural practices like "Chaise", "Halloween" etc without anyone explaining what they exactly meant, read Wordsworth's infamous poems on Nature and Daffodils without ever smelling the flower for instance — and turned out quite okay. Reading Dickens was a nightmare — besides his countless race and genderfails — because of so many cultural practices he'd mention that I'd never heard of, so it was Dickens Plus Dictionary in my household. Somehow, just somehow I 'understood' it all — no one had to tell me 'English tea' was nothing like the chai women in my house would drink in the afternoon — I knew our cultures were different and this difference was used to map supposed inferiority in our skins and authority in theirs.
In addition to dilution of culture and specific practices, the climax of the novel is the fact that most gods are male, female, both, neither all at once and then Yuvanashv comes to terms with his identity that presents as a male and yet he gives birth to his son — by the time I got to this bit, reading had become a chore. Anyone familiar with Hindu mythology knows that Gods are not separate from their feminine forms — Shiv is Parvati is Kali is Krishna is Radha is Indra and so on — but because we read these texts as one does Christian (Western) 'religious texts' which are more or less gendered, these characters are also confined to the gender binary. Then of course, liberal universities and humanities departments host fests that 'uncover' the 'queer' elements in the texts — once again re-enforcing a half-swallowed truth: We Don't Exist, Till They Say We Do. Growing up too, I learnt that to 'gain' relevance I must be 'understood' — and if you 'understand' the Other, you can possess and chart the Other — and this 'understanding' comes when I erase myself, a culture I was raised in, markers that tie me to my current geopolitical location, become a tabula rasa and wait for the Nice Imperial Person to write over me, for only then I am given existence. And people still don't believe that colonisation exists, or that we live such fissured lives because of our colonial past.
1. This is factually incorrect considering the fact one of the first colonisers were the Iranians, dating back to 1800 BCE and invaded the land of the Dravidians — which is why most of us today aren't entirely neither Aryan nor Dravidian in complexion.
2. It's not about what 'sounds' better entirely — Sanskrit names are derived from that of one's father to chart a character's lineage — by anglicising them, these names and tradition are distorted.
by Jaded on May 6, 2011 • Permalink
Posted in Books I have read, Colonialism, Postcolonial feminism, Religious Commentary
Tagged body, Books I Read, Colonialism, Culture of India, Literature, Postcolonial feminism
Posted by Jaded on May 6, 2011
https://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/learning-relevance-through-erasure/
Borrowed Memories And Half-Sounded Syllables
Last week, I saw 'A Passage To India' with my parents and grandma, it started out as a hilarious exercise in pointing out just how many racist elements could one mesh in a movie — turns out more than we can ever count! — and making cynical notes in my head like, "Not all Indians are always smiling all the time, okay?" and "Not all brown women keep their gaze centered on their feet, no not even always in colonial times!" to the part where my grandma started laughing at the "Silly white women trying to speak Hindi!" and then she started telling us about her school days — some 65 years ago when she was roughly about 12 years old¹ — where she and her friends would race to the Colonial Bungalow near their school in Pune, about running right home whenever they'd hear the horses hooves — for almost always it was the British in their town on horses — and trying to touch the fence of the Bungalow but being too scared to physically try it out, to the time when she and her older sister got caught and were lashed for 'something' which she doesn't tell us. She was laughing at how uneven and rough their Hindi sounded, but didn't know what the movie was about as her English isn't as good — partly because of the time she was born in and in part because of her own decision to never 'learn that tongue' as an adolescent — and for a bit there, mum was transcribing what was happening on-screen and stripping the dialogue, settings from its inherent racism — pretty ironic for a woman who once protested against the 'White Imperial Capitalist Hegemony' in the mid 80's I thought — and by the time my grandma fully understood why were the White women speaking to the sari-clad-purdah-observing women, it wasn't funny anymore to her. It took her a couple of days and a few sleeping pills to 'become' herself again.
Something like this isn't a routine occurrence in my household — contrary to popular belief I don't crumble and break down every time I pass a colonial structure or when I watch English movies or while reading English books — but a movie as specifically racist to Indians as 'A Passage To India' or going to the museum, looking at weapons that may have been used on some of my student's great-grandparent's are times when I want to re-write history or break away all ties with 'my' colonial past — whichever comes first. When faced with historical markers in specific situations, it becomes a tad difficult to view things objectively², to take the position dad took while viewing the film that, "This was an anti-racist book written in the colonial times! Pretty courageous on Forster's part, no?", to concede it under the label of This Is How Things Were Back Then. On some level I do understand that Forster like Joseph Conrad was 'trying to do the right thing', critiquing colonialism while it was going on — not a terribly popular opinion at that — but I find it very hard to applaud individuals who were more 'humane' than others — seeing how both perpetuated harmful and lingering stereotypes of the 'native' they were both writing of — to give Shiny Activist Medals™ to Dead White Dudes — a formidable camp on its own — that in no way produced any nuanced critiques of the Empire, not even 'back then'. While Forster was writing 'A Passage To India', talking about Memsahibs and the 'fascination' all Brown men must inherently have with White women, we had writers like Premchand³ and Pandey Becan Sharma Ugra writing decidedly postcolonial literature — and many, many Dalit and tribal writers whose accounts live primarily in their specific community's oral traditions considering they 'lacked' Premchand or any other upper-caste Hindu writer of the time's privilege to education and position in the caste-hierarchy.
This isn't to say Forster's work holds no value, rather that teaching Forster without critically engaging with all of the narrative's faults would be wrong, especially to 'us' as subjects of the 'ex' Empire; it's' interesting' — where interesting stands for the fact Guari Vishwanathan was right all along — that we as postcolonial subjects are still made to learn many such works and that generally any mentions to 'postcoloniality' are kept confined in the upper echelons of academia — as if 'theory' and 'lived reality' are two different boxes and clear demarcations exist between them at all times. The fact we still go on learning such texts without feeling the need to explain the gaps and silences 'our bodies' re-present with absences (in the text) or the fact that when we suggest popular genres such as steampunk should be interrogated via postcolonialism as Jha does in her wonderful post is enough to cause fury and all the whitesplainers to come out of cracks and caves — also in Dusty Land, you need not always be White to be a whitesplainer, it's that special gift we still have from the neato colonisation thing — is because the easy and popular narrative of history is 'an event that happened, a long time ago' and cannot have any possible lingering effects, that 'somehow filter' down to our bodies. That we see and face neocolonial attitudes that are loosely disguised as 'globalisation' and 'multicultural exchange' — when each time it's the dominant culture that dictates the 'exchange', if it takes place at all — and that even in 'brownspace' we are still grappling with colonial attitudes and mindsets.
One way to look at history is to see it as a way of narrativising time — maps in turn codify space — but what happens to memories? Or experiences that 'trickle-down', we set up hierarchies to which experience — or oppression — is 'more' legitimate or 'deserving' of 'attention', what about second-hand memories that live through generations? Seeing mum leave out racism in her narration of the movie to my grandma — initially — altered her memories of her childhood for her, mum's intervention at the time was out of kindness I assume, but after a point even this intervention is impossible to make after a point. How do you codify such a situation where words are futile and syllables don't even fully form — as they didn't form either for mum or my grandma — what happens then? I'm not suggesting wipe out all traces of the Empire — if it were even possible — rather we have to learn to contextualise our bodies in this mix — if and when we can — intervene when we can and not invalidate one another with claims of Whose Oppression Isn't Real Enough™ to support and view each other through differences and not as a quest to homogenise and smooth over.
1. India got 'independence' in 1947 technically, but it wasn't until the mid-1950's that the officers left. Many had settlements and stayed on here — their ranks may have been stripped off or resigned, there still existed an uneven power dichotomy when they lived as residents as per my grandma's accounts as well as many other oral accounts.
2. Don't particularly agree with Brecht there, the dichotomy between 'critical thinking, feeling and objectivity' doesn't exist for me. Who said we can't think, feel and reflect at the same time — if and when we can — does 'thinking' and 'feeling' always have to exist in two separate spheres?
3. This is a good paper on Premchand's experimental depiction of the Subaltern (the wife) in his short story the Shroud — though I disagree with the way the paper posits Ghisu as a 'subaltern' when his character fits more with Gramsci's 'Organic Intellectual'.
by Jaded on April 25, 2011 • Permalink
Posted in Body, Colonialism, Postcolonial feminism, Ranting & Raving
Tagged Books I Read, Ivory Tower, neocolonialism, Postcolonialism, Rants
Posted by Jaded on April 25, 2011
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Stefano Fiore (* 17. April 1975 in Cosenza) ist ein ehemaliger italienischer Fußballspieler.

Er spielte als zentraler Mittelfeldspieler, aber auch teilweise als Flügelspieler und war für seine kreative Spielweise, sein außerordentliches Passspiel und seine wichtigen Tore bekannt.

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Stefano Fiore begann 1992 mit dem Profifußball bei seinem Heimatklub AS Cosenza Calcio. Damals kam er nur auf elf Einsätze, ehe er 1994 zur AC Parma wechselte. 1995 gewann Parma den UEFA-Pokal, Fiore wurde aber in keinem internationalen Spiel eingesetzt. Da er in Parma auch während der Saison von Trainer Nevio Scala kaum eingewechselt wurde, zwang man ihn regelrecht dazu zum direkten Konkurrenten in der italienischen Serie A zu wechseln, Padova Calcio. In der Saison 1995/96 erzielte Fiore in 24 Spielen ein Tor. In der darauffolgenden Saison wechselte er wieder in die Serie B zu Chievo Verona, wo ihm ein erster Höhenflug gelang. Mit zwei Toren und mehreren Torvorlagen in 38 Spielen weckte Fiore wiederum die Aufmerksamkeit seines ehemaligen Klubs, dem AC Parma. 1997 unterzeichnete der Mittelfeldspieler bei den Gialloblu einen Zweijahresvertrag. Wiederum kam Fiore in Parma unter Carlo Ancelotti kaum zum Einsatz und wurde meist nur als Ersatz für den alternden Dino Baggio eingewechselt. So kam er zwar immerhin auf 54 Einsätze, war aber auf längere Sicht gesehen nicht zufrieden mit dem Dasein als Reservist. 1997/98 spielte Fiore mit Parma in der UEFA-Champions-League und kam dabei auf sechs Einsätze. In der darauffolgenden Saison gewann AC Parma erneut den UEFA-Pokal und Fiore steuerte in zehn Spielen zwei Tore zum Erfolg bei. 1999 gewann man auch den Coppa Italia, Fiore wurde im Pokal jedoch nicht eingewechselt.

Den ersten Höhepunkt seiner Karriere konnte Fiore in der Saison 1999/2000 verzeichnen. Nach einem Wechsel zu Udinese Calcio bekam er endlich das Vertrauen des Trainers und bestritt in seiner ersten Saison in Norditalien 33 Spiele und konnte insgesamt neun Tore erzielen, von denen jedes spektakulär war. Nach seinen guten Leistungen bei der EM 2000 wurden Transfergerüchte um Fiore laut. Doch der Mittelfeldspieler wies Angebote von Großklubs wie Juventus Turin, Lazio Rom oder Inter Mailand zurück und verblieb für die nächste Saison bei Udinese Calcio. Seine herausragende Form ließ ihn auch in der Meisterschaft nicht im Stich. Er erzielte wiederum neun Tore in 34 Spielen. In den zwei Spielzeiten bei Udinese nahm Fiore auch zweimal am UEFA-Pokal teil und schoss in neun Spielen ein Tor.

Im Jahr 2001 wechselte Fiore für 25 Millionen Euro zu Lazio Rom. Sein Mannschaftskamerad Giuliano Giannichedda folgte ihm. Doch für die Biancocelesti konnte Fiore seine Form nicht finden, da Trainer Alberto Zaccheroni ihn ausschließlich auf der linken Mittelfeldseite einsetzte. Er verlor auch seinen Platz in der Nationalmannschaft und war bei der WM 2002 nur Zuschauer. Als Zaccheroni 2002 gefeuert wurde, fand Fiore unter dem neuen Trainer Roberto Mancini wieder zu seiner ursprünglichen Form. Er wurde wieder im zentralen Mittelfeld eingesetzt und führte Lazio zum vierten Tabellenplatz in der ersten italienischen Liga. Lazio Rom sicherte sich damit einen Platz in der Champions League. Fiore spielte in der darauf folgenden Saison in sensationeller Form für Lazio, jedoch war der Klub durch einige Verkäufe im Sommer geschwächt. Dennoch gewannen die Römer den Coppa Italia. Fiores gute Leistungen im Cup als auch in der Meisterschaft brachten ihm wieder eine Einberufung ins Nationalteam für die EM 2004.

Aufgrund finanzieller Probleme bei Lazio Rom, wurde Stefano Fiore und einige seiner Mannschaftskollegen 2004 nach Spanien zum FC Valencia verkauft. Nach einem vielversprechenden Start in die Saison unter Trainer Claudio Ranieri, musste der spanische Verein im Oktober eine lange Niederlagenserie einstecken. Nach dem Ausscheiden in der Champions League, wurde der Trainer Ranieri im Februar 2005 entlassen. Unter dem neuen Trainer wurde Fiore, der sich nicht schnell an den spanischen Fußball gewöhnen konnte, immer öfter auf die Ersatzbank versetzt.

Im Sommer 2005 kehrte er in die italienische Serie A zurück und wurde von der AC Florenz für ein Jahr ausgeliehen. In Italien fühlte sich Fiore wieder wohl und fand seine Form sofort wieder. Zusammen mit dem Stürmer Luca Toni führte er die Fiorentina wieder auf ein höheres Niveau. Überraschenderweise nahm Fiorentina den Mittelfeldspieler nicht unter Vertrag, obwohl er von Valencia für nur zwei Millionen Euro angeboten wurde. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Spanien trainierte er zwar mit der Mannschaft von Valencia, der Verein suchte jedoch einen Verein der Interesse am Mittelfeldspieler zeigte und fand mit dem FC Turin einen italienischen Klub. Fiore, der nach eigener Aussage gern wieder in Italien spielen würde, wurde für ein Jahr nach Turin verliehen.

Im Januar 2007 lieh der FC Valencia Fiore für ein halbes Jahr an die AS Livorno aus, wo er sofort zum Stammspieler aufstieg. Im Sommer 2007 wechselte Fiore für zwei Jahre zur AC Mantova. Danach schloss er sich seinem Heimatverein AS Cosenza Calcio an.

In der Nationalmannschaft
Wegen seiner herausragenden Leistungen beim Serie-A-Klub Udinese Calcio wurde Fiore im Jahr 2000 in die Squadra Azzurra berufen. Sein Debüt gab er bei Italiens 1:0 im Februar dieses Jahres gegen Schweden. Als Ersatz für Dino Baggio, der ihn bei Parma immer auf die Bank verwiesen hat, kam Fiore bei der Europameisterschaft 2000 zum Einsatz. Das Turnier verlief sehr erfolgreich für den Italiener und beim 2:0-Sieg gegen Belgien erzielte Fiore das Tor, das viele als Tor des Turniers bezeichneten. Die Squadra Azzurra scheiterte letztendlich erst im Finale.

Sein Formtief bei Lazio Rom führte auch dazu, dass Fiore für die WM 2002 in Japan und Südkorea nicht berücksichtigt wurde. er gab selbst zu, dass er es wegen seiner derzeitigen Form nicht verdiene, für die italienische Nationalmannschaft zu spielen.

Schon zwei Jahre später wurde Fiore wieder für die Nationalelf berücksichtigt, da er bei Lazio Rom wieder zu seiner Form gefunden hatte. Bei der EM 2004 in Portugal wurde er vom Trainer Giovanni Trapattoni jedoch selten eingesetzt, da dieser Mauro Camoranesi bevorzugte. Die Nationalmannschaft brillierte aber vor allem in den Spielen mit Stefano Fiore, der im letzten Gruppenspiel gegen Bulgarien einen spektakulären Volleyschuss verwandelte. Italien verabschiedete sich, ungeschlagen, jedoch vorzeitig von der EM, da man die zwei vorhergehenden Spiele nur unentschieden gespielt hatte.

Nach guten Leistungen bei Fiorentina wurde von vielen Seiten eine Einberufung in die Nationalmannschaft als selbstverständlich angesehen. Marcello Lippi berücksichtigte Fiore jedoch nicht in seinem 23-Mann-Kader für die WM 2006 in Deutschland, und so war er wieder einmal nur Zuschauer bei einer Weltmeisterschaft und konnte den Weltmeistertitel nicht mit der Squadra Azzurra mitfeiern.

Erfolge
 2 × Coppa Italia: 1998/99, 2003/04 (AC Parma, Lazio Rom)
 2 × UEFA-Pokal: 1994/95, 1998/99 (AC Parma)
 1 × UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2000 (Udinese Calcio)
 1 × EM-Finalist: 2000 (Italien)

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Angriff der 20-Meter-Frau (Originaltitel: Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman) ist ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Film des Regisseurs Christopher Guest nach einem Drehbuch von Mark Hanna aus dem Jahr 1958, das Joseph Dougherty adaptierte. Die Fernseh-Neuverfilmung wurde erstmals 1993 im US-Kabelfernsehen gezeigt. In einigen europäischen Ländern kam der Film 1994 auch in den Kinoverleih. In Deutschland startete er am 27. Oktober 1994.

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Nancy Archer wird von ihrem Vater unter Druck gesetzt und von ihrem Gatten, der mit der Schwester von Nancy fremdgeht, hintergangen. Als sie eines Nachts auf ein Ufo trifft, wird sie mit einem Laser bestrahlt, der auf den Diamanten an ihrem Hals gerichtet ist. Als sie zu ihrem Mann fahren will, wird sie von der Polizei festgenommen und vom Vater abgeholt. Einige Tage später fahren Harry und Nancy Archer an dieselbe Stelle und treffen wieder auf das Ufo. Das Ufo entführt Nancy und setzt sie auf dem Dach des Frisörladens der Schwester ab. Sie wird von ihrer Schwester nach Hause gebracht. Der Vater und Harry streiten sich, als Dr. Cushing eintrifft. Kurze Zeit später wacht Nancy auf und weiß von nichts. Der Vater und Harry streiten sich wieder, und es geht am Ende um die verstorbene Mutter, die sich angeblich das Leben genommen hat, weil der Vater ihr Geld aufgebraucht hat. Daraufhin wird Nancy zum ersten Mal richtig wütend und fängt an zu wachsen. Sie wächst aus ihren Schuhen und aus ihrer restlichen Kleidung heraus und rast durch die Decke. Danach wird sie in einer Scheune versteckt, und Dr. Victor Loeb wird von Harry über Nancys Zustand eingeweiht. In ihrem übergroßen Zustand badet sie im Pool des Freundes. Ihre Übergröße hat aber einen Nachteil: Sie ist anfällig für Herzanfälle. Bei einem gemeinsamen Abendessen beschimpft Harry seine Frau, und sie bekommt einen Herzanfall. Sie kracht auf die Scheune. Harry fährt gleich zum Frisörladen und betrügt sie wieder einmal. Nancy wird von dem Ufo wieder zum Leben erweckt, und sie entführt Harry. Vor einer Hochspannungsleitung wird sie aufgehalten und von einem Polizeihubschrauber erschossen. Sie landet auf der Hochspannungsleitung und stirbt. Das Ufo nimmt sie und Harry mit und fliegt weit weg in den Weltraum.

Kritik
Ken Hanke schrieb in Mountain Xpress, der Originalfilm sei unterhaltsam gewesen. Dieser Film versuche zu sehr, unterhaltsam und "clever" zu sein.

Norbert Krüger schrieb in der Hamburger Rundschau vom 12. Januar 1995, der Film sei eine "pseudo-feministische Parabel um eine betrogene Ehefrau". Er sei "psychologisch spannend", die Spezialeffekte seien jedoch "katastrophal". Der Film wurde als "naiv gemachter SF-Trash" bezeichnet.

Auszeichnungen
Christopher Guest wurde als Regisseur 1995 in der Kategorie Bester Film für den International Fantasy Film Award des Festivals Fantasporto nominiert.

Hintergrund
Der Film wurde in Taft (Kalifornien) gedreht.

Siehe auch
 Angriff der 20-Meter-Frau (1958)

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I'd however like to fetch all media that I can load on WhatsApp Web. For instance, looking at the source of a conversation that's fully loaded on my screen, I can see the image URLs such as blob:https://web.whatsapp.com/a2e9249a-365c-4ce7-a3ce-795be018400e – that link/image can actually be opened in a separate browser tab.
If I replace {SOME_URL} with that link, Python doesn't recognise blob as a valid HTTP request. I have kept my browser with WhatsApp Web loaded in the background as I assume those links may actually change every time I load the conversation. But the first problem is trying to find a urlretrieve equivalent. Any thoughts? Thank you!

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Q: Save method for Core Data calls "nil" the first time - Why? I am currently working on a core data survey application.  Right now, I am having trouble with my program when saving my core data entity after it is first created by the program.  I have an 'else' statement that is called the first time I save it.  The values are saved, but the application crashes.  I can then relaunch the application, and that NSManagedObject works normally.  The problem lies in my else statement, but I can't figure out what is wrong.
Here is the code:
- (IBAction)save:(id)sender {
  if (rootController != nil) {
    if (team != nil) {
      [team setValue:name.text forKey:@"name"]; //UITextfield -> NSString
      [team setValue:teamNumber.text forKey:@"teamNumber"]; //UITextfield -> NSString
      [team setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:totalRank] forKey:@"totalRankValue"]; //Int -> NSNumber
      [team setValue:driveTrain.text forKey:@"driveTrain"]; //UITextfield -> NSString
      [team setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:autonomousRank] forKey:@"autonomousRankValue"]; //Int -> NSNumber
      [team setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:robotSpeedRank] forKey:@"robotSpeedRankValue"]; //Int -> NSNumber
      [team setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:minibotRank] forKey:@"minibotSpeedRankValue"]; //Int -> NSNumber
      [team setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:grabberRank] forKey:@"grabberRankValue"]; //Int -> NSNumber

      [rootController saveContext];

      NSLog(@"Save works - team is not nil");
      //Begin debug

      NSError* error;
      if(![[team managedObjectContext] save:&error]) {
        NSLog(@"Failed to save to data store: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
        NSArray* detailedErrors = [[error userInfo] objectForKey:NSDetailedErrorsKey];
        if(detailedErrors != nil && [detailedErrors count] > 0) {
          for(NSError* detailedError in detailedErrors) {
            NSLog(@"  DetailedError: %@", [detailedError userInfo]);
          }
        }
        NSLog(@"  %@", [error userInfo]);

      }

      //End debug
    }
    else {
      [rootController insertTeamWithName:name.text
                              teamNumber:teamNumber.text
                              driveTrain:driveTrain.text
                     autonomousRankValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:autonomousRank]
                        grabberRankValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:grabberRank]
                   minibotSpeedRankValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:minibotRank]
                     robotSpeedRankValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:robotSpeedRank]
                          totalRankValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:totalRank]];

      NSLog(@"Team is nil");

      //Begin debug

      NSError* error;
      if(![[team managedObjectContext] save:&error]) {
        NSLog(@"Failed to save to data store: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
        NSArray* detailedErrors = [[error userInfo] objectForKey:NSDetailedErrorsKey];
        if(detailedErrors != nil && [detailedErrors count] > 0) {
          for(NSError* detailedError in detailedErrors) {
            NSLog(@"  DetailedError: %@", [detailedError userInfo]);
          }
        }
        else {
          NSLog(@"  %@", [error userInfo]);
        }
      }

      //End debug

    }
  }
  [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin

A: Since I lack detailed information about the error I am going to guess that the problem is with this conditional:
if (team != nil) {
//...
}else{
//..
    if(![[team managedObjectContext] save:&error]) {
         //...
}

You are getting the managedObjectContext from the team object even though that line of code is called only if team==nil. That means the call is always really:
if(![[nil managedObjectContext] save:&error]) {

... which is never going to work.


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