If you are a boat lover; then it is important that you ensure that your boat engine is in check. If you have a spoiled engine; then it is hard for you to take your boat out to the waters for an adventure or a Sunday afternoon fishing exhibition. Therefore, you will need to get a replacement for your spoiled engine. You may opt to buy a used engine because a new one is usually so costly. However, buying a used engine has its drawbacks, and you have to be attentive in order for you not to buy one that will not be beneficial to you. In order for you not to buy a faulty engine, read on to know how best to go about you.
The number one thing you need to do is to look for an engine seller. You may choose to either buy from someone or a company. Getting references from friends and family is a good thing because you may get to find a reliable seller. Consider the experience and the expertise of a company if you choose to buy from them. When you get a buyer; you will need to see the engine personally and inspect it yourself.
The number one thing you will need to be on the lookout is corrosion. When the engine is used in salt water it will have corrosion when it is not flushed. It is not advisable to buy an engine that has too much corrosion as it won't serve well because the water passages will be blocked. It is important to note that an engine may look okay on the outside but be corroded in the inside, therefore, have it inspected by professionals.
Next you may want to inspect the oil in the lower unit. When the oil is black or clear it is a good sign. You should be alarmed if you notice some white or creamed substance. The white color is an indication that water is leaking in the lower compartment because it is not well sealed. If water is leaking, then the engine will not operate well.
Furthermore, you will need to also check if the compression of the engine is okay. If you do not know how to do so you can hire a mechanic to do it for you. The measurement between the cellular should not be large, hence, check for this if you decide to inspect it yourself.
Lastly, you will look at the cylinder head. Make sure that the cylinder head is not discolored. If it is you should be cautious because this is an indication that the engine is weak. To conclude, the guidelines provided above will aid in ensuring that you get a good used marine engine that will serve you well.


This ongoing fundraiser is simple, easy, and will help your child on their way to our next trip.
Buy a box of either milk chocolate assorted or dark chocolate assorted candy bars, and take your time to sell each candy bar for $1! Each box costs $48, with $18 going towards your child's quota account.
Payment for the boxes of candy is required at pick up by check made out to LHSGB&OPC. Please put the band/orchestra member's name on the memo line.
Please contact me to order your boxes today! We can work together to arrange a pickup time at my home or at the monthly band parent meeting.
Get started today, and sell all year!
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YouthCare employees in Seattle form union with OPEIU 8
The following is from OPEIU Local 8:
SEATTLE (Nov. 1, 2019) — Employees at YouthCare have voted overwhelmingly for representation by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 8, the union announced Thursday.
The group of 180 youth counselors, case managers, education and employment specialists, on-call staff, outreach workers, development staff and other classifications in Seattle are devoted to providing critical services including shelter, housing, employment and education to more than 1,000 young people each year.
They sought to unionize to ensure greater equity and transparency and to have the ability to participate more fully in decisions that impact the community they serve. The YouthCare employees join thousands of nonprofit employees across the country represented by OPEIU's Nonprofit Employees United (NEU).
"I've seen so many amazing youth workers leave YouthCare because they didn't feel heard," said Emily Penna, Program Coordinator. "I am excited to give everyone a voice to ultimately advocate to better serve our youth."
YouthCare works to end youth homelessness and to ensure that young people are valued for who they are and empowered to achieve their potential. YouthCare was founded in 1974 as one of the first shelters to serve runaway and homeless youth on the West Coast. The goal was to help young people find safety today and build a future for tomorrow. This passionate vision continues to drive YouthCare every day. Over the past four decades, YouthCare has defined best practices and developed programs that set a national standard for excellence.
"I stand with my coworkers in our union because it brings unity and balance into our working community," said Niki Sebatware, Youth Counselor.
OPEIU Local 8 is a progressive, democratically run union working for social and economic justice since 1945. Local 8 represents more than 7,000 members all over Washington state working in many settings including offices, health and home care, housing, social services, the insurance industry, legal services and the public sector.
Social service workers are some of the hardest-working, lowest-paid and most essential members of our community, which is why we're proud to represent workers at prominent Washington State nonprofits such as Solid Ground, Plymouth Housing, Low Income Housing Institute, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Northwest Justice Project, and many others.
Want a voice at work? Get a union! Find out more information about how you can join together with co-workers and negotiate a fair return for your hard work. Or go ahead and contact a union organizer today!
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4x4s even more popular. The two headlights on the fenders and the one that moves with the handlebars light up the trail very well when you happen to be caught out after dark.
9. 8 inches of ground clearance. Instead of drum brakes on the rear wheels, there's now a disc brake mounted on the driveshaft.
❏ A herd of books and movies have shared a familiar plot line: a rug-ged-looking hero character who works too hard and has no apparent ability or interest in having fun. Honda's blue-collar Foreman Rubicon 4x4 has been saddled with a similar reputation: all work and no play. Certainly the Rubicon has been a willing worker with the muscle to do most any job and the build quality to make it work for a good long time. We know from Dirt Wheels' "Letters" column that riders have discovered how to have fun with the Ruby, but we'd bet Honda's reputation for excellent reliability was more motivation for the purchasing decision than its talent for recreation. For 2015, Honda was determined that Rubicon riders could work even harder but also embrace recreation without compromise. To make sure that there is a Rubicon for any taste, there are six models: three with manual-shift five-speeds and three with Honda's Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) non-CVT auto. Honda is touting the manual-shift Rubicons as the only IRS 4x4 models available in the market. Or, is it just the last of a dying breed?
ways and red suspension accents.
gloss black for the DCT.
Honda didn't take the easy way while creating the new happy-go-lucky Rubicon. It started with an all-new computer-aided frame design.


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The Douglas M. Berger Psychopharmacology Research Fellowship in Japan
The Douglas M. Berger Psychopharmacology Research Fellowship in Japan is designed to provide support for young researchers to study a clinical psychopharmacology topic in collaboration with a Japanese host scientist. The purpose of the Fellowship is to promote international friendship as well as to further the study of psychopharmacology in the hopes that study of this nature can help patients with psychiatric illness. Study period in Japan is for 5 months (start date is not specified), and one candidate will be chosen per year.
In principle, applicants must either be psychiatric residents planning their fourth-year elective; or be Ph.D. (or Pharm. D.) candidates in a field related to CNS pharmacology, however, the merit of each applicant will be evaluated individually. Research study should be of a practical nature to the practice of psychiatry and/or be of novel research value. For example, a study of blood levels and efficacy; a study of polypharmacy on drug levels in a clinical setting; a naturalistic study of side effects comparing a Japanese to a Western cohort, etc. Young psychiatrists or Ph.D.'s within one or two years of program completion may be considered. Scholastic transcripts and 2 letters of recommendations from one's current academic department are required. Telephone, Skype, and/or face-to-face interviews will be conducted.
Prospective applicants should first send a summary of their academic qualifications and planned research to the Fellowship for review. If the topic is deemed appropriate and feasible by the Fellowship office, the candidate should begin to develop a detailed protocol and search for a suitable host researcher at a University or National Research Center in Japan (a literature search for topics similar to the planned research may be an effective way to find a host scientist). After making contact with the host and confirming acceptance of one's collaborative research pending receipt of the grant, an acceptance letter from the host summarizing this information, and a more thorough research protocol, should be sent to the Fellowship office for final approval review. The host's acceptance letter should include the contacts of the host, and indicate that the Fellow will be supported by the Douglas M. Berger Clinical Psychopharmacology Research Fellowship in Japan including the total amount of the support to be received from the Fellowship. This letter will be used for visa application to Japan.
Grant Format
The Douglas M. Berger Psychopharmacology Research Fellowship in Japan will provide a total of 1.0 million yen (approximately US $11,000 depending on the exchange rate) for the fellowship under the following conditions. After acceptance of the applicant, 0.5 million yen upon arrival to Japan paid to one's Japan bank account, 0.3 million yen after 3 months in Japan with a letter of Good Standing from one's host, and the final 0.2 million yen after acceptance of publication of a paper in a peer-reviewed professional journal related to the study done in Japan. It is not expected that Japanese tax will be levied on grant monies, however, the tax laws in Japan should be consulted by Fellows at the time of receipt of funds.
Although the study period in Japan is for 5 months, on agreement with the host researcher, a longer study period may be requested, or the study period may be extended mid-term assuming visa status is cleared with the Immigration Office. The grant support in these cases would still be limited to the maximum of 1.0 million yen per Fellowship. Applications for a 3 or 4 month Fellowship will be reviewed by the Fellowship office. Prorated Fellowships may be granted assuming that the study data is confirmed to be obtainable during this time period.
It is often possible for visiting researchers to obtain dormitory-style housing for the duration of the research free of charge at many Japanese Universities and Research Centers (Tokyo University is one good example). In this case, and depending on the location of the study center, it is estimated that the 1.0 million yen provided by Fellowship grant will cover one's basic living expenses for 5 months. Because the final 0.2 million yen is dependent on acceptance of publication, however, the Fellow will be required to have this amount in advance (approximately US $2,400). Up to .5 million yen (approximately US $5,500) in addition may be required by the Fellow if housing is not included at the host facility. Economy class roundtrip airfare will in addition be approximately US $1,000-$1,500 off-peak at the expense of the fellow. The grant monies herein may be combined with salary from one's residency training program and/or other supplemental research grants from the pharmaceutical industry etc.
Letters of acceptance from one's host as well as Grant letters will usually suffice for visa entry into Japan for the duration of the study period. It is assumed that the preparatory work for the research will be done before arriving to Japan, that the time in Japan will be largely dedicated to collecting data, and that the completion of any papers will be done after returning to one's home country. Follow-up visits to Japan on tourist visa stays after the Fellowship period can be made at the researcher's own cost as needed to complete research.
Collaboration with the Fellowship Office
Fellows are expected to collaborate in good faith with the Grantors at the Douglas M. Berger Psychopharmacology Research Fellowship in Japan on the general aspects of study design, methods, and interpretation of results, and a member of the Fellowship should be listed as co-author of any publications related to the research. The Fellow is expected to visit the Grantors in Tokyo soon after arriving in Japan to discuss study plans, and also after the data has been obtained and is under analysis. Papers should be sent to the Fellowship for review prior to submission for publication. A maximum of 3 additional stipends up to 100,000 yen each may be requested to the Fellowship if more than one paper is published from the research done in Japan and is accepted by a recognized peer-reviewed journal.
Douglas Berger is an American Board-Certified Psychiatrist who also has a Ph.D. in Neuropsychiatry from Tokyo University. Now based in Tokyo, Dr. Berger had been on the Faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry in New York as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. He is a long-term resident of Japan with research experience in both clinical psychiatry and clinical drug development in Japan.
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This is New York State's premier early-stage venture forum where the best companies from across the state present to the investment firms from New England to the Mid-Atlantic regions. Presented annually in the spring, companies are identified and vetted for participation in this event, and the resultant program features the state's best venture capital investment deal flow exposure across all market segments and technologies. Additionally, university spin-off companies are also presented as the up-and-coming pipeline of promising companies representing tomorrow's investment opportunities.
SmartStart UNYTECH is the premier Upstate NY venture forum where VC firms look to see the best that the state has to offer for deal flow. Now in its 12th year, SmartStart UNYTECH has to date highlighted 255 high-quality companies from throughout the state and beyond to the VC community, and their success speaks the quality of deal flow we select. Of these companies, 62 have raised over $500 M in equity financing, including over $72 M directly attributable to their participation in the forum. In 2007, SmartStart was merged with UNYTECH, the Upstate University forum highlighting early-stage university spin-outs. Additionally, this forum is marketed and recognized by many East Coast and Mid-Atlantic venture funds as the place to get Upstate NY technology deal flow. Osom techno radio We recognize each year some standout presentations with Best Business Presentation, Most Promising Technology and Most Likely to be Funded awards.
This unique event displays the very best early-stage companies from throughout the entire state of New York and beyond. Venture capital funds, seed investment funds and angel groups and investors can meet with and learn more about these company's teams, technologies and plans for succeeding in the marketplace. Additionally, experienced entrepreneurs are exposed to upcoming companies for their potential involvement, and many of the venture company service providers will also be on hand at this showcase event.
The SmartStart UNYTECH Venture Forum has tremendous support in the form of sponsorship from business, not-for-profit and government agencies, including statewide partners. For more information on organizations involved please visit the Advisory Committee Page.


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Confor has pledged to "re-double its efforts" to ensure forestry has a strong voice in the design and delivery of rural policy and funding after Brexit.
Stuart Goodall, Confor's Chief Executive, was speaking after the publication of the Agriculture Bill by Environment Secretary Michael Gove, detailing plans for a transition out of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after Brexit.
Mr Goodall said: "I agree with Michael Gove that the introduction of the Agriculture Bill is an historic moment. Confor has supported his championing of rewarding public goods and encouraging diversified land use because forestry has a big part to play.
"Confor has highlighted the very significant opportunities for forestry to contribute to green, vibrant rural communities by delivering the public goods identified in the Bill - especially 'mitigating or adapting to climate change'.
"The Government's own advisers, the Committee on Climate Change, recently identified forestry as a 'simple low cost option' to move towards its climate change targets - yet the Agriculture Bill does not take the steps towards a broader land use policy that would start to join up a range of policy initiatives more effectively."
He continued: "CAP has been a major obstacle to the expansion of forestry across the UK and has often set farmers against foresters when the two groups should be working together. This has been difficult to achieve when policy and delivery mechanisms exclude forestry and farmers are penalised when planting trees.
"Michael Gove has very clearly highlighted the opportunity to protect our environment, leave the countryside in a cleaner, greener and healthier state for future generations, but that will mean looking beyond farmers and agriculture and including the forestry sector properly in designing new mechanisms.'
Mr Goodall said Confor would continue to play an active role in the design of the new Environmental Land Management system to ensure it considered all forms of land use and management.
He concluded: "We will also continue our constructive discussions with the UK Government and politicians. We cannot allow the opportunity for forestry to contribute to be missed and this will happen unless the forestry sector, and others, are given a stronger voice and role in future policy development and delivery. Confor will re-double its efforts to ensure this is the case, working with members and all stakeholders to deliver the best future land use mix for our rural areas."
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"That one," a few cops approached the rangers. The one speaking pointed to Ziggy.
He was quickly pushed down and handcuffed.
"Guys, I haven't done anything wrong. Lately at least. What's going on?" Ziggy struggled to stand.
"You can't just come taking one of my team!" Scott freaked.
"He has a right to know why he's being arrested," Dillon grabbed one of the cop's arms.
The rangers argued with the cop as they watched Ziggy riding away.
Ziggy was soon thrown into a cell, stripped of all of his belongings except his clothes. He sat on the lone bed, leaning against the wall. Soon he heard a noise approaching.
Ziggy nodded before he walked back to the bed. Dillon sighed as he went to check how things were going.
"I'm not hungry," Ziggy assured.
"Doesn't matter. Come on." Ziggy knew better than to argue with police so he stood and let himself be led to the lunch room. He was the first one there so he got a plate and started eating, hoping it would stay quiet. Unfortunately for him though a group soon entered that he recognized.
"Ziggy, I'm very excited to see you," the obvious leader greeted.
"You too," Ziggy tried to shrink against the table.
"I'm sure we can figure things out but I'm sure you want to eat first, right?" Ziggy suggested hopefully.
Two men broke from the group and pulled Ziggy up. He struggled against them but they held his arms so tight he thought they might snap.
Ziggy sighed and resigned himself to his fate.
The next few minutes were a blur to him as he was shoved to the ground and kicked repeatedly. He held his arms in front of his face to try to block but soon was being lifted again. He started fighting back, at least kicking whoever came near him as his arms were being held back. One of his arms was yanked back further making him groan as it popped out of the socket.
"Isn't this fun?" the leader laughed.
"Extremely," Ziggy was getting dizzier by the second and probably would have collapsed had he not been held up.
Before he knew what was happening Ziggy's arms were dropped and he was grabbed by the hair, having his head knocked into the nearest table.
He heard a crashing noise and tried to look up at the sound but he noticed blood starting to flood his vision.
He slid down the rest of the way to the floor and closed his eyes trying to fight the oncoming nausea. Soon though he felt himself drifting off.
Ziggy groaned as he blinked an eye open, soon blinded by the artificial lights.
"I know," Dillon slowly wiped Ziggy's hair out of his face.
The next couple hours were a blur to Ziggy as he swam in and out of consciousness. When he finally woke up he noticed Dillon next to him with a few bandages.
"When did you get hurt? Did I miss a battle?" Ziggy tried to sit up but laid his head back down after he was overcome with dizziness.
Ziggy nodded in response but again felt his head swimming.
"What did I just say about moving?" Dillon laughed as he helped steady his swaying friend.


Brad Woodall had worked in a corporate position since he was 18 years old and could not handle the cubicle life anymore! After several years of investing in real estate part time, Brad made the jump to full time entrepreneur and real estate investor in January of 2018! Brad explains how he "wholetailed" one of his first properties and breaks down the numbers. Also, he shares some great tips for newer wholesalers on process they can use to set up their business!


State Member for Shepparton Suzanna Sheed asked Planning Minister Richard Wynne for confirmation that decisions on the three pending solar farm applications would be made after new solar guidelines were released.
The outcomes of the three remaining Greater Shepparton solar farm applications at Tatura East, Lemnos and Tallygaroopna, sitting with the state's planning minister, was raised on the floor of state parliament recently.
''Given that the closing date for submissions on the draft solar farm guidelines was only last Friday and that no further work will have been undertaken on those to this stage, will you confirm that you will make no decision on the remaining three Shepparton solar farm applications until those final guidelines have been prepared and released to the public?'' Ms Sheed asked.
Responding, Mr Wynne gave background on the solar farm applications he had ''called in'' at the request of Greater Shepparton City Council and a planning panel that considered the proposals.
''The panel had to weigh up the impacts of the location of these solar farms as they may impact particularly on productive irrigated land,'' Mr Wynne said.
''Those proposals were in fact addressed by the independent panel, but I felt it was necessary for us to really get some surety around these guidelines going forward, and that is why we have undertaken a broad consultative process obviously right across not only local government, but indeed the power sector more generally.
After highlighting a permit for a solar farm in Congupna had been approved last year, he concluded by saying ''I will not make any decisions in relation to those three permits until that work is complete''.
Ms Sheed said she was pleased to hear that assurance.
''While we understand the government's renewable energy targets and that there is wide support for solar projects in our region, it must be accepted that there are some sites which should be maintained for high-value irrigated agriculture,'' Ms Sheed said.


Before the time of celebrity culture, desert islands were places of wonder and personal discovery and spiritualism. Our cultural references are rich in the English language from Shakespeare's The Tempest to Daniel Defoe's writing of arguably the first ever novel, Robinson Crusoe.
In April 2017 I was "shipwrecked," on an islet in the Pearl Island archipelago, a few hundred kilometres off the Pacific coast of Panama. I wrote a few articles about the cut and thrust of our 8 day survival experience (Outdoor Fitness, Blue Ridge Outdoors and Get Out There) and created a photo set and short film now found at Desertislandsurvival.com.
This article for RGS Geographical was a bit different. You can read an extract from the current issue below.


great. Where did they come from? It is as much boistrous as colourful.
Physical senses seek to know all about the external universe. Children get dressed in new clothes. Right from the dawn of civilization in India, festival has played a very important social and religious role. Baisakhi is very special to Sikhs. It is followed by Bharat Milap, an occasion of family reunion of Rama. The businessmen close their old accounts and open the new ones.
Sweets and fruits are offered to sun god. The Hindus and the Muslims embrace one another and exchange greetings on the occasion. In Sanskrit, it is said, Manana trayate iti ntra is that which saves you from repetitiveness.


Remember when I reviewed the 14-pc Vegan Charm Brush Set here?
Well, I know this post is long overdue but I am keeping my promise. No more beating around the bush. Here are 5 reasons why I keep the Vegan's little cousin, the Charm Pocket 5-pc brush set with me always.
Reason no.2. The Charm Pocket 5-pc brush set's brush case is my kind of pretty: sturdy and bright! My friends used to tease me for having a "pouch" bag aka. a bag full of pouches! My bags are almost always huge, heavy and full! I don't know why, but I just bring so much with me. I'm what you would call a heavy packer and with that comes the inevitable battle of the pouches. A lot of my bag essentials are could-be war survivors because with my daily grind (and lack of gracefulness), scratches and other forms of wear and tear are my bread and butter. Enter the value I put in recognizing product quality. The Charm Pocket 5-pc brush pouch definitely brings home the bacon.
Reason no. 3. The Charm Pocket 5-pc brush set is very affordable. The Charm Pocket 5-pc brush set is a steal. It retails for only Php 500. For beginners, that's a hundred pesos a brush; but factor in its commendable pouch (trust me, if a product is made for travel, you've got to check if the case can also endure the miles), you'd end up with roughly eighty pesos per brush (if you value the pouch at one hundred). Remember those Php 3,000 peso brushes you invest on--and justify as an investment because of the million ways you say you can use it--well, just imagine how much of a steal the Charm Pocket 5-pc brush set given its "less than a hundred peso" multi-functional brush variety. It's like having ten brushes when you only have five.
Reason no. 4. The Charm Pocket 5-pc brush set does not irritate my skin. A lot of us make-up geeks are also skin-zophrenics. Because we understand our body and how our body responds to tender loving care, we also are very sensitive when it comes to anything that touches our skin--more to our face. We are mostly all aware of our options when it comes to finding the perfect full-size brush; but for travel kits, I'm sure you've had that moment of frustration when you just question the world: "Why, why don't you give me palettes that come with reasonable brushes!?!?!". Well, the best thing I love about the Charm Pocket 5-pc brush set is the fact that it's made with soft hair so it's the perfect solution to my personal frustration with "free brushes".
Reason no. 5. The Charm Pocket 5-pc brush set is easy to clean. A huge part of "maintaining a brush" is hygienic. I know how a lot of us, especially when we were just starting out with this whole make-up geekery, take advantage cleaning out beauty tools. Now that I claim to be a "learned" woman, I keep my tools in tip-top-shape by keeping them clean. The Charm Pocket 5-pc brush set is definitely the type that likes bathing. I have no complaints.
If you'd like to learn more about this set, check out what Beauty and Minerals got to say here.
However, here are two things I would like the set to improve on.
Comment no.1. I hope it can improve on the pouch's inside "jacket". I think it'd be awesome if the brush case was stain-proof.
Comment no.2. Perhaps the case can have a mirror like other brush cases so it's so much more perfect for travel--very all in one!
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Speaking of PINK! I can't wait to upload my Pinkbox tea party experience!
Always take the time to do a little extra something (special) in everything you do.
It's certainly charming. Very cute little brush set.
Always wanted to try Charm brushes but I have a 12 piece brush set from Suesh so sayang naman if I buy another brush set. Charm brushes seem to look better though...pink pa!


WebSockets offer a mechanism for doing compression of messages. Fiddler's WebSocket Inspector should provide a simpler means of viewing such content.
If you need to manipulate this stream, you could write a FiddlerScript rule that removes this header from the WebSocket handshake and this should force the communication to fall back to uncompressed traffic.
parameters (meaning that context takeover is allowed) likely would be pretty tricky because I don't think the DEFLATE code inside Fiddler is able to reuse a single compression context across multiple operations.


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Home > No 1 (2012) >	Preparata
The Red Army Faction—A Documentary History. Vol. I: Projectiles for the People
Smith and André Moncourt (Eds),
(Montreal: PM Press, 2009).
Reviewed by—Guido G. Preparata,
Kwantlen Polytechnic University, March 2012
This first installment of the documentary history of the Red Army Faction by J. Smith and A. Moncourt is a hefty tome of nearly 700 pages, which covers the vicissitudes of Germany's most famous terrorist outfit. The historical segment under review is the "classic" septennium: 1970-1977. This, indeed, was a time when the world at large seemed to have been invested by a wave of metropolitan counterinsurgency movements— from Latin America to Turkey and Japan by way of Europe, with Germany and Italy as its two most salient manifestations. The simultaneousness and similitude of such socio-political phenomena across geographical and cultural divides was, to put it mildly, uncanny. In this regard, the seventies were a unique period, and the detailed chronicles variously compiled of the strife that shook the constituted order in several nations at the time make up dazzling and forbiddingly complex material—material whose interpretative key social scientists and historians alike have been striving to discover ever since.
Complex material in that, much like the now-faded (and far from fully understood) tales of late-XIXth century "anarchism," the rebellious actions of these masked sappers of the urban underbrush —pre-modern or post-modern— could never be quite construed as simple, obvious strikes at the most conspicuous (physical and/or institutional) symbols of the "system." Through their deeds, these guerrillas might have thought they were propitiating full-scale revolution, but seen from a distance, their agitation seemed rather to have weighed as yet another variable in a larger equation. Not only were the vast majority of terrorist cells subject to standard life-cycles and reorganization processes—e.g., an old guard superseded by a more militant and violent "second wave" (and sometimes, a third and fourth wave)—, but their offensive patterns were also too heterogeneous, their strategies too mutable over time, and their targets too specific to have made terrorism's enterprise, in the final analysis, a simple expression of (class) warfare seeking to reform "the capitalist system." In other words, terrorism is not merely the extreme embodiment of economic grieving —and of its concomitant political disaffection—but is rather a matter of politics, of power. At the grassroots levels, most of these movements of urban warfare had emerged during the turbulent parenthesis of the Counterculture era (late sixties), yet they eventually survived, evolved and morphed into ever more elusive apparatuses—not few of them with unfathomable international ramifications— at a time when the popular ferment that birthed them had virtually disappeared (mid-seventies).
Originally tuned in the key of social justice, subsequently bolstered by choreographed violence, and finally deployed on the chessboard as a full-fledged political player, (Left-wing) terrorism confronts us defiantly with its mysteries. So we wonder, what is/was terrorism? And, to retrace the notable antecedents, what was the RAF, in essence?
Smith and Moncourt's volume is a very valuable resource in this regard: it is compilation of the most significant tracts of the paper trail left behind by the organization during its first and defining seven years: manifestos, interviews, communiqués, letters and all manners of invectives penned by the RAF's members, friends and foes. To have all such "originals" in one book, complemented by a meticulous chronology is special indeed: one may excavate, re-appraise the old revolutionary lingo, and even attempt to guess the sentimental contours of that distant, strange world by nosing into the (often inflamed) letters the guerrillas would write to one another in and from jail. The book is organized chronologically in fifteen chapters, from the immediate postwar era to 1977—that is to the conclusive year of the RAF's "historical" phase, which itself comprised two sub-periods: that of the so-called original nucleus of Baader-Meinhof (1970-1972), and the second wave of 1975-1977. Each chapter is prefaced by a deeply researched study of the editors, who frame the chronicle of the armed struggle in its socio-cultural context: cumulatively, such introductory labor takes approximately a third of the book—it is thus substantial and particularly informative.
As said, and as is the case for most flamboyant terrorist cells, the mere storyline of the RAF—its characters, the military "spectacles," the incarcerations and mysterious deaths—is in itself particularly gripping: cinema-worthy indeed, as shown by the recent release of The Baader-Meinhof Complex (2008). In synthesis, this is the story of an original core of rebellious types who had risen to front the violent, illegal vanguard of the most recalcitrant wing of the students' anti-imperialist movement. These types were animated by palingenetic furore and driven by a keen death-wish—for such seems to have always been the psycho-sociological template of the "average" urban guerrilla; Baader had sentenced: "We are a projectile." The highlights of this "baptismal" phase (consummated between 1970 and 1972) were feats of arson; bombing attacks (the 1972 "May Offensive") against two NATO bases in West Germany, which altogether claimed the lives of 4 US soldiers, and other domestic targets, including the emblematically conservative Springer press; and the armed rescue of the charismatic leader Andreas Baader (May 1970) by his confederates, a mere month after his forcible detention (on charges of arson). These beginnings drew to a close as all the historical figures of the RAF were, by July 1972, apprehended one by one, amidst a frazzling whirl of incidents. Chief among these incidents were putative State-provocations—i.e. "false-flag" operations, hoaxes, and the like, all of them designed to foment a state of collective dementia praecox and reinforce the Establishment thereby—as well as the hunting down and eventual killing by police forces of RAF fighters in broad daylight. And to crown it all, it so seemed that throughout this interlude that RAF had moreover availed itself of an intriguing connection to the Stasi, the odious secret police of the GDR—connection which seemed to account for the organization's fluid use of the international réseau that would put it in operational contact with other European and Palestinian terrorist squads.
With the definitive demise of the "old guard" began the second and far more puzzling, as well as disquieting, act of the narrative. To begin, these founders of the RAF, under what appeared to be a studiously torturous and dehumanizing regime of imprisonment, were on the other hand publicly recast as waxen icons of the militant Left—icons which the authorities, with a developed sense of museological theatrics, proceeded to encase into the ultra-modern carcerary shrine of Stammheim. From there, in semi-effigy, they were to "radiate" their iconic strength to the outer rims of West Germany's Marxist-Leninist subversion and inspire its militants with renewed revolutionary ardor. While this set-up was being completed, the recruits of the "new" RAF, including the auxiliary phalanx of another terrorist clan—the Movement of the 2nd June (2JM)—were preparing the second grand offensive of 1975-1977. This sensational offensive would feature the abduction of Christian-Democrat politico and mayoral candidate for W. Berlin, Peter Lorentz (February 1975), and his subsequent release in exchange for a group of political detainees flown on the occasion from West Germany to Yemen; the takeover of the West German embassy in Stockholm (April 1975); the assassination of Attorney General Siegfried Buback (April 1977) and of banker Jürgen Ponto (July 1977); and, the high climax of this progression: the kidnap and ensuing assassination of the industrialist Hans-Martin Schleyer, in concomitance with the hijacking of a Lufthansa aircraft by a Palestinian commando—a spectacular move improvised to ante-up the RAF's request to swap Schleyer with the inmates of Stammheim (September-October 1977). Refusing to negotiate on behalf of Schleyer, the executive of Helmut Schmidt eventually managed to retrieve the hostages by dispatching a Special Force commando to storm the plane, which, in the course of a veritable and tragic odyssey, had been ultimately diverted to Mogadishu. The morning following the day of the rescue operation (October 17), the authorities announced that the bodies of Baader & co. had been found (gruesomely) "suicided" in their cells at Stammheim, and on October 19 the RAF led the police to a car in the city Mulhouse, near the German border, in whose trunk lay the bullet-ridden corpse of Schleyer.
All of which is here recited to emphasize, by way of summary, that the RAF's is indeed an extraordinary, and extraordinarily mysterious, story. And all of it is recounted with captivating rhythm in this book. Clearly, in no fashion does this summary exhaust the many themes of the narration; one can dig in the book so much more: viz., the socio-economic portrayal of Germany during reconstruction; the very interesting description of West Germany's anti-parliamentarian, spontaneous scene; the retelling of the late post-modern drift of the West-German Left into feminism and environmentalism; the genealogy of notorious political figures of our time from the turbulent seeds of the seventies (e.g., Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer); the fundamental role of "the lawyer" in these games of terror/power, and the enigmatic trajectories that some of these lawyers did take (the fascinating case of Horst Mahler, from RAF counsel to Holocaust Negationist); and finally, not to be missed, that surreal anecdote of the terrorists' brains removed before burial and handed over to the clinicians of Tübingen with a view to discover, in the worst Lombrosian manner, a lesion that could "scientifically" account for the revolutionists' moral insanity (a vignette, by the way, that elicits a twisted reminiscence of Kaspar Hauser's autopsy…).
To return to the point previously made about terrorism being a game of power, what seems to be somewhat lacking from this otherwise notable collection is precisely the political commentary, i.e. the sub-text of "deep politics." In this respect, Smith and Moncourt confine themselves to the traditional explanations of radical economistic theory, according to which modern society is divided into a capitalist elite and a majority of (subdued) subjects. The subjects, de facto, are depicted as (indentured) servants of this elite that coerces them daily via a strict diet of hard power (physical intimidation, if need be) and a multi-layered fare of soft-power stimulants, of which the circus and the bread-line remain the foundational archetypes. It follows that if such is the realm we are given to live into, social justice can only be achieved by means of resistance, or defiance, which, ultimately, signifies struggle. Violent struggle, that is. Adopting the leftist historiographical stance, Smith and Moncourt maintain that the FRG was in actuality nothing but a repressive technocracy erected, under the American aegis, upon the foundations of the former Nazi Behemoth. In light of this, any kind of resistance—even, if not especially, armed resistance—was entirely justified in their view. Clearly, the authors feel admiration and—as they retell their gestes—root for the fighters of the RAF, making no mystery of their sympathies, which go out not just to the idealist guerrilleros of the Marxist left, but to all armed rebels of the "undogmatic Left." In this sense, this book is also very much a paean sung for all those insubordinate types that have categorically refused, often paying with their life, to adapt to a mode of life that so completely antagonized their moral sense and deepest psychic and sentimental affects.
Needless to say, the issue of justice in this world and the challenge of coping with the strictures of collective life, especially for those who happen to have been born on the wrong side of the fence (the vast majority of the world population), is not just the crux of political philosophy broadly defined, but is one of the questions that impinge on the very meaning of life itself. Vast problem. I do not wish to dispute the validity of radicalism's basic premises—namely, that the world is for the most part organized upon the exploitation of the peaceable by the barbarous, and that the peaceable must "resist" somehow. It may very well be so. But the vexed question is what forms this resistance should take, and in the name of which principles. As said, Smith and Moncourt have no doubt. The impassioned, if not exceedingly "youthful," tone of their narrative conveys the message without ambiguity: the struggle should be fierce for it is clear that right always lies on the side of the Left's "steadfast combatants"—heroic guerrillas who, in the editors' words, will always be countered by the "vulgar" and underhanded brutality of the "cops" and the "dirty play" of their capitalist paymasters in the government.
Now, I find this sort of approach problematic for two orders of reasons. First, advocacy of violence is always dangerous: one, simply because it is immoral, and, two, because many of those who care about the fate of social justice no less strongly than the authors, are instinctively repulsed by the language and praxis of violence, which, as we all know, are the defining expressions of the exploitative mindset we all wish to resist in the first place. It's an old story, of course: that of the young, tormented idealist that wants to change the world, finds out he cannot, and so reverts to conservatism; an old story that has covered vast expanses of discursive production, some of which keeps returning to various modules of Machiavellian resignation (think of Julien Freund and others). Leaving for the moment this daunting preoccupation aside, and without further digressing, it should nonetheless be stated that the primary objective of a movement for civil dissent is to keep its feet on the ground, not to hearken impulsively to the (now totally vanished and positively perplexing) heyday of Baader & Co, and never stop thinking of peaceable ways in which to implement social reforms.
Secondly, and more to the point, to treat the historiography of the RAF according to this "us vs. them" format does not add much, if anything, to the mainstream (i.e. conservative) version of these events—i.e. to the very mainstream version that Smith and Moncourt's have designed to challenge with their prefatory scholarship. It is as if we are re-viewing the same reel but with a different soundtrack, punctuated this time around by cheers rather than boos: yet the plotline remains as impenetrable as ever. Because Smith and Moncourt should know, in fact, that it is unthinkable that a fistful of death-prone, yes, but not particularly intelligent, resourceful or talented twenty-somethings (and the "first" RAF even had a sixteen-year-old recruit!) could, by the skin of their teeth, hold in check or merely defy, for almost a decade, something as formidable as the apparatus of a modern bureaucratized State such as the FRG. Obviously, they were (sacrificial) pawns in a bigger game. Everything indeed, points in this direction: their remarkable connection to the Stasi and Palestinian terrorism; the particular timing of the bombing campaigns and of the arrests; the whole circus macabre of Stammheim; the essential spin of the media, the function of the latter as sounding board of the terrorist antics, and the central role played in this regard by Der Spiegel; the surgical targeting of Buback, Ponto and Schleyer; and, last but certainly not least, that sensational coda of the Schleyer/Mogadishu affaire. How can all this boil down to a simple tale of urban revolt for fairer economics?
Holding on to their economistic mold, the authors do not provide a theory that explains consistently, and in keeping with the political evolution of the West German scene in the context of the Cold War, the true strategic motivations behind this sequence of terrorist maneuvers. This brings them, for instance, to dismiss the Stasi-connection and the financial/logistical support that came with it, as something utterly marginal and almost mischievously intended "to get at the Americans." But, evidently, it was neither. Likewise, in their view, Ponto was obviously assassinated because he had financial ties to Third World tyrants (and the Apartheid); and Schleyer was obviously kidnapped (and then killed) because, having once fought in the SS, he was "the most powerful businessman in West Germany at the time," and like, Ponto, "a frequent figure on television representing the ruling class point of view" (p. 477). But was Schleyer really West Germany's most powerful businessman? How "powerful," and in what sense, exactly? And, is it not rule n. 1 for truly powerful people never to appear, least of all on television?
And, in truth, what was there to gain, for the revolution, concretely, by bombing a supermarket or NATO headquarters, or by singling out and liquidating, say, a high-level businessman or banker, even assuming (erroneously) that he was so "powerful" as to be irreplaceable? Nothing —and there is the rub of the entire matter: that the illusion entertained by all guerrillas (at least officially) to fire up the masses with such inciting murders was just that. It was never a possibility in the early days when the fires of protest were still smoldering, and, as mentioned above, it had become a total delusion by the mid-seventies: from the outset, the "angry ones," the potential rioters without any stake in conformity, had always been far too few to spark anything even remotely resembling the mass uprising they were all dreaming of.
In sum, the analysis suffers somewhat not only from a disregard of the wider political landscape of that era, but also from the candor of taking events at face value: politics is also theatrics, and terrorism/urban guerrilla warfare, by definition, is certainly not the weapon the weak wield against the powerful, but, rather, an instrument of (civil) conflict which the powerful, when sundered in factions, employ to fight one another by using (a particular typology of) the weak. Even after all the painstaking and precious work of historical reconstruction of the RAF's experience, such as has been carried out also in this volume, there still remains, in the end, to solve the whole mystery. The questions to be asked are thus: who/what was maneuvering these expendables in this complex game of murder and provocation, and to what end?
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Discussion in 'General Freemasonry Discussion' started by bjdeverell, Dec 21, 2012.
Thx brother, this a great opportunity to start fresh.
I like the way one of my co-workers put it. I said "Well Mike we lived past the end of the world" and he said "Nope, there was the Rapture and we're whats left."
LMAO...ah, that would be about right wouldn't it.
I think the world certainly does need a fresh start. Well here is to the next 5,200 years my Brothers!


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Cape Town - Former Springbok coach Jake White fears SA Rugby's proposed plans to cut the number of professional rugby players in South Africa in half could have repercussions.
SA Rugby president Mark Alexander recently said the new system would aim to reduce the number of professional players in the country from around 990 to around 460.
However, White is not so sure this system would work and warned of potential pitfalls via a column for the All Out Rugby website.
"Some people are reading it as a positive, but if the 450 players we want to keep are the ones that leave, then we'll be in an even deeper hole than we are now," White wrote.
"If you're building a pyramid, the wider the base, the higher the peak. A big school of 1 000 boys produces more quality players than a school of 450 boys. So, if you want your national rugby team to be strong, then the more players you have, the better. If we expose fewer players to professional rugby, how can we expect to compete against the best?
"Firing half of our players does have some merit because of financial considerations, but only if you're going to keep the best players. If it's going to mean better coaching, control and management of individuals, and fewer players sharing a bigger portion of the money, then it will have been worthwhile. But if it's not those things, then having fewer players will be detrimental because we'll be where we are now with less talent to choose from."
READ Jake White's full column on the All Out Rugby website
According to Alexander's proposal, the major franchises will only be able to contract between 40-50 players per season.
Any surplus players who are not contracted will then be placed into the draft system and used whenever they are needed.
"We've created a false market in this country. It's simply not sustainable having 990 players trying to make a living," Alexander said last Wednesday at the launch of this season's PRO14.
"We have the biggest number in the world. In the new model all the best players will be playing all the time. You won't have the third and fourth choice guys sitting in the store-room.
"Some players will have normal jobs and work in the day, and earn a salary, and then play on weekends, and receive a game fee. Once we bring in the draft system smaller teams will benefit by being able to select players that would ordinarily not get game time at the franchises.
"This initiative is driven by the unions in conjunction with the players and their association," Alexander added. They've drafted this document, it's a great one. We should've done this much earlier."
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HERSHEY, Pa., Oct. 17, 2016 – Hershey Area Playhouse is proud to host the talented musicians from the Milton Hershey School and Hershey High School, as part of its third annual Sweet Sounds concert on Saturday, Nov. 5, beginning at 7 p.m.
The Milton Hershey School (MHS) Guitar Ensemble under the direction of Randal Rhodes will kick-off the concert. The MHS Guitar Ensemble is a select group of Senior Division students, who perform throughout the year for school and community events. These instrumental and vocal performers have a wide and varied repertoire, including classic rock, pop, and original music.
Following the MHS Guitar Ensemble, a select group of Hershey High School (HHS) String Orchestra members, comprised of juniors and seniors, will be performing a variety of selections under the direction of Greg Woodbridge.
MHS's New Horizons vocal group, comprised of students in grades 9-12, will follow, offering Broadway and popular tunes. Featuring four-part harmonies, New Horizons has been in existence since 1980, and is the premier vocal group at MHS. As an extracurricular activity, students practice once a week for two hours. The group is under the direction of Kent Pierce, and accompanied by Haw-Ru Lin.
New Horizons has performed many functions locally and for prominent public figures, such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and even as background vocalists for tenor Josh Groban. The group performs approximately 25 times per year, and this year's show theme involves a flamenco feel.
The Sweet Sounds concert, which is the sixth Dark Night Series production the Playhouse has hosted this year, will culminate with all three groups performing several numbers together.
The event will be held at the Playhouse, located at the corner of Sand Hill Road and Cherry Drive, Hershey.
Tickets are $15 and are available via the Playhouse's website, www.HersheyAreaPlayhouse.com or by calling the Playhouse's box office at 717-533-8525.


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Boosting Latino entrepreneurship in Rhode Island
Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll), and Entrepreneurs Forever (eforever), will be launching free small-business support programs focusing on people of color in Rhode Island in May.
The nonprofit organizations will work to provide Hispanic-Latinos and other under-represented groups with the training and support needed to start, grow and sustain their businesses.
According to the Small Business Association, over half of the Ocean State's private workforce is employed by small businesses, 10.5 percent of those are owned by Hispanics-Latinos. With a 40 percent increase in the Hispanic-Latino population in Rhode Island over the past decade, many of them Spanish language dominant, EforAll programming will also be available in Spanish through its EparaTodos offering.
"I am so excited to join this organization that already exists in over a dozen communities across the U.S.," said Laura M. Guillén, Executive Director, EforAll. "There are many aspiring entrepreneurs in Rhode Island that just need the guidance and advice from mentors and experts, like the ones offered in our Business Accelerator program, to get their businesses off the ground and revitalize their communities. I look forward to contributing to their success." Guillén oversees English and Spanish languages programs.
EforAll and its Spanish language program, EparaTodos, are one-year programs, which use a unique combination of practical business training, dedicated mentorship from local business and community leaders, and access to a large professional network. They will be available twice a year.
Since January 2020, 38.1 percent of the state's small businesses have closed. EforAll and eforever say they hope to help Rhode Island's entrepreneurs in recovering from the impact of the pandemic, and getting small business owners back on their feet.
Founded in 2010, EforAll has dozens of accelerator programs across the country including Massachusetts.
To learn more about these organizations and their programs, or to donate to these initiatives, visit: eforall.org and entrepreneursforever.org.
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Moscardo, Gianna M. (2004) East versus West: a useful distinction or misleading myth. Tourism, 52 (1). pp. 7-20.
One of the most challenging effects of globalization in tourism is the need to manage an increasingly culturally diverse workforce and market. In response to this need there has been a steady increase in the attention paid by tourism researchers to the influence of culture on visitor and employee motivations, decisions, and evaluations. However, conducting cross-cultural research has its own challenges and a number of issues have been raised with regard to the methods and conceptual foundations of this research. This paper addresses several of these issues including the need to critically examine simplistic distinctions such as can be found in many discussions of Western versus Asian cultures, the need to explore the relative contribution of culture versus other variables, and the need to question methods developed from Western theories. This paper reports on a comparison of Japanese, Chinese, UK and US tourists (n=2215) surveyed on commercial tourism operations to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The results failed to support an East-West distinction, more differences were found between the Japanese and Chinese samples than between these two groups and the other national cultural groups studied. In addition, the analyses revealed that the different cultural groups responded to travel benefits questions in distinctive ways and culture was a significant influence on overall satisfaction when compared to the other variables. Some implications are drawn for cross-cultural approaches in tourism research.


Well its a fact that a large number of us use PNG images on their website. Most of us might keep images in PNG format for the sake of transparency, clarity and so on. While they are really good, usually the size or the weight of PNG images are quite high when compared to JPG or other image formats. But you need not worry any more as we would be discussing on optimizing PNG images.
How to optimize PNG in Photoshop?
There is a certain amount of optimization that you can do right when you are slicing the images out of the PSD. Actually the concept of optimizing PNG images on Photoshop is very deep and for more details you can refer http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/15/clever-png-optimization-techniques/ . But I would like you to take a look at a couple of popular and easy methods of optimizing PNG in Photoshop.
Photoshop by default gives an option to optimize the images while saving . When you are slicing the images, while saving it select "Save for web & Devices" from the File menu. Once you select that option you would be able to see a new window that shows you the image with some options on your right. Above the image preview section you'll find an "Optimized" tab. Make sure that the tab in on. This would do a basic optimization of the image. In fact I would suggest you make it a habit of saving images this way. This one option can be combined with other optimization techniques too.
Open the png image in photoshop and from the layer options select the " " icon which is for "create new fill or adjustment". Once you click on that Icon, from the menu that comes up select "Posterize".
After selecting Posterize you'll get a window with "Adjustments" tab. Select the Adjustments tab and set to level to 40 or lesser. A level of 40 is good for most of the PNG images but you can adjust it as per your requirement. Now save it for web and devices and compare with your original png file to see the difference in the file size.
There are few more other ways to optimize the PNG image within photoshop which you may find in the link mentioned above. But let's look at a non-Photoshop easier method.
While there are many online PNG optimization tools available, I'll just talk about TinyPNG. I've tried the other ones and nothing could meet my expectations like TinyPNG.
TinyPNG is a wonderful online PNG optimization tool developed by Voormedia from Amsterdam. It is a free service and let me tell you that it is one of the best I've encountered online. There are other online tools too but none could beat TinyPNG in preserving full alpha transparency. Also they reduce the file size drastically without compromising the quality. Checkout their website for a demo.
Visit http://tinypng.org/ and either drag drop your PNG image in the drop section provided on the site or just click on that section and select the file to be optimized.
Once the processing is done the image would be available for download. Remember that TinyPNG retains the image's original name so you will have to save the images in a different folder to avoid naming clashes. Done !
There are other tools too that you can run from the Command line too but my focus here was on the quick and easy options which retain the image quality too. Hope you have found this article useful. Do you use TinyPNG or another tool? Share your thoughts.
I just tried compressing an image using both compresspng and tinypng. What I found extra in compresspng is the option to reduce the number of colors using the slider. What I notice is that tinypng by default gets you the best compression without distorting the image much, but on compresspng you need to further adjust the slider to achieve the optimum level. Having said that, I would like to add that compresspng is also good if the image does not have too many colors used in it and if you are ready to spare some extra time to compress the images. Thanks for sharing the link.


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Melanie Madden on Craig Childs' "Raven" and Barry Lopez' "The Raven"
Some texts are more prescriptive than others. Two weeks ago I showed a class of freshmen a Mark Bittman TED talk on the threat that industrialized meat production poses, and today three of those students told me that since watching the video they've been eating less meat, or have stopped eating meat altogether. My reactions to texts are seldom so transformative, but after reading Barry Lopez' "The Raven," and Craig Childs' chapter "Raven" from The Animal Dialogues, I got a pretty fierce itch to see a raven out in the world—out in the desert.
Lopez says, "If you want to know more about the raven: bury yourself in the desert so that you have a commanding view of the high basalt cliffs where he lives. Let only your eyes protrude. Do not blink—the movement will alert the raven to your continued presence." A fine recommendation! I'm not sure I have the time to bury myself in the desert, and certainly not for the span of time that Lopez recommends ("Wait until a generation of ravens has passed away"); but I've got an afternoon to kill, a rickety Schwinn, and the Rio Vista Natural Resources Park, beside the Rillito River bike path, is a short ride away. I'll just bike on down and, when I get there, sit still. Surely, then the ravenspotting will commence.
Of course I realize that a riverbottom isn't exactly a high cliff with a commanding view, but there is precedent for the observation of ravens in this less likely location: the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's webpage on ravens includes an anecdote by naturalist Peggy Larson which begins, "The folklore of more than one group of native Americans includes stories about coyote and raven interactions. I witnessed such an encounter early one morning while walking the banks of the Rillito River near Tucson." Only I missed that key word—near. The park and adjacent well-traveled bike path, on this overcast Sunday afternoon in January, may boast native flora and fauna, but its location is still urban. Joggers, cyclists, walkers, strollers; all of Tucson seemed to be out, enjoying their active lifestyles and using their outdoor voices. My stillness would go unnoticed amid all this motion and noise. I had no hope of seeing a raven.
"Ravenous" means "rapacious," or "very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification."
There is something uncanny about ravens. This is not all Poe's fault, though I think it's fair that he take some of the blame for the way we associate this bird with the gothic, the supernatural, or the downright creepy in the popular imagination. Barry Lopez reaches back farther than Poe for his treatment of the raven; his depiction is mythic, certainly influenced by tribal lore. His essay is a fable, telling how once there were crows in the desert, but now only the silent, cautious ravens remain. After the crows' gruesome demise, "Finally, there is this: one morning four ravens sat at the edge of the desert waiting for the sun to rise. They had been there all night and the dew was like beads of quicksilver on their wings. Their eyes were closed and they were as still as the cracks in the desert floor.
"The wind came off the snow-capped peaks to the north and ruffled their breath feathers. Their talons arched in the white earth and they smoothed their wings with sleek, dark bills. At first light their bodies swelled and their eyes flashed purple. When the dew dried on their wings they lifted from the desert floor and flew away in four directions. Crows would never have had the patience for this."
This image, of the four ravens flying in four directions at dawn, haunts me. I think that I want to see a raven ("Can't you just go to the zoo?" A friend asks, helpfully. No.) in its natural habitat as a kind of affirmation. If a raven looks at me, and says nothing, then I will know, and I will feel, that I belong in this desert, too.
Ravens are omnivorous and opportunistic.
Craig Childs is typically not so fantastic in his sketches of a lifetime's worth of "Uncommon encounters in the wild," which could hardly be called fabulist, but in his treatment of ravens, he moves in a different direction. He practically gets mystical talking about the raven, saying "I am always prepared for the impossible from ravens. Animals of omens and nevermores, they rule the desert, able to reach every crack and ledge while I am restricted to the ground as if wearing chains." Childs then narrates an unsettling scene, explaining how, on a hike in Southern Utah, he follows a raven into a canyon and finds there a congregation of the birds who demonstrate loud, flapping agitation at his intrusion. Describing the encounter, he gives the ravens dialogue:
"'Listen to us!' cried the ravens.
"'I don't speak your language!' I called out, exasperated.
"Hearing my voice, the ravens became only more infuriated. I was disoriented, watching them dive around me, and I could barely stand. Flashes of sky showed through ragged wings. I stumbled and found myself on my knees in the sand.
"'Listen to us!' they kept crying. 'This is not your place!'"
Childs concludes his raven tale with the acknowledgment that "Anthropomorphism is generally frowned upon. It is said to be improper to see animals the same way we view ourselves." But in his admiration for the ravens' intelligence, their ingeniousness, he notes "It seems just as odd, though, to sequester ourselves in a cheerless vault of sentience, sole proprietors of smarts and charm . . . I do not want to be a lonely species set adrift from all the rest. I want the ravens that we saw to have been performing a ritual, animals of sensibility. I envision a righteous murder performed by birds living in a moral universe. I yearn for them to have societies, secret handshakes and knocks, associations and enterprises."
Ravens belong to a family of birds called corvids, which includes crows, magpies, and jays. These are considered to be the most intelligent of birds. They "employ more adaptations and innovations than any other bird," Childs says, and he is not alone in his desire to believe that this intelligence could have a moral component. Blogger Dan Dreifort's essay, "Corvus corax' exemplarycognitive umbra vis-à-vis de Waal's Pongidae ignoratio elenchi" examines the ways in which ravens' demonstrated cognitive abilities suggest "their potential membership in the morals fraternity" (with a note that primatologist Frans de Waal declined to be interviewed for this piece; I can't imagine why de Waal wouldn't want to be associated with a blog called "the Dirty Rag"). Dreifort concludes that "Ravens use logic to assess and solve problems and they have a concept of past and future. They can mull over what they know and apply it to new situations. Ravens communicate relative concepts and emotions and share food. They recognize individuals across species and recognize and react to knowledge of others. . . . I cannot argue that ravens are more deserving of the moral agent tag than primates, but I've presented a wealth of recent evidence to suggest that a moral raven is not entirely impossible and certainly not significantly less likely than a moral chimp." Is this why the raven is so uncanny? Do we see ourselves in their blue-black feathers, in their beady dark eyes?
A group of ravens is called an unkindness.
On that cloudy Sunday afternoon, after wandering the banks of the Rillito River among the active Tucsonans and scanning the skies for the better part of an hour, I parked myself on a bench beneath a ramada at Rio Vista. The concrete bench is enclosed on two sides with high, sheer walls, and I tucked myself into this corner, tried to imagine myself in a canyon, my back pressed to a high basalt cliff, only my eyes protruding. I tilted my head up and enjoyed the novelty of the winter sky in Southern Arizona, certain that this grey, gothic afternoon would naturally produce a visit from an otherworldly bird. Bare mesquite branches stretched black fingers in my field of vision, and I waited, quietly. Loud children came to play in the ramada and regarded me with curiosity. I saw no raven. Eventually, I tired of waiting and left in disappointment.
Ravens are awesome. Nevertheless, I will be cheering for the 49ers in the Super Bowl.
Melanie Madden is an MFA student at the University of Arizona.
Cory Aaland on Julio Cortázar's HOW TO CLIMB A STAIRCASE
Julio Cortázar's "INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO CLIMB A STAIRCASE" operates like this: it closely reads into the act of climbing a staircase, magnifying the moment with meticulous description, and in doing so it isolates each step required to walk up a flight of stairs. This does a few things: first, it forces the reader to wonder how a person could ever climb stairs given the complexity of the event (even though it seems, in everyday life, to be easy, or perhaps not even worthy of consciousness: beyond easy). The second thing it does is remove any kind of pre-conceived notion that the reader might have about the event, from the event, so as to see the event as it really is. For Cortázar, in this essay, the mundane masks the truth: the reader accepts the ease in which he walks up and down stairs, and through description, through a close reading the event, Cortázar wishes to understand what it's actually like to climb those steps—but he also has another goal: to show the reader how amazing it is that he can even do it in the first place. This creates humor, obviously, because we are not accustomed to people thinking hard about walking up steps, but we get the sense that this humor is not intended or forced: it's a simple product of questioning the foundations of the things we consider most steadfast and true. Through description and really through description alone (which I think is wonderful: I don't think I've read an essay where description works harder than this one), this essay questions the very reality (and by reality, I mean reality as conceived through ourselves—our conception of it) of our everyday lives. While this essay may appear to be merely "instructing" us, it is also questioning our ability to see anything clearly—to understand our ability to perceive the actions we perform every day, to understand the things that we consider to be most us. The givenness of the event limits our ability to see it clearly, or perhaps, at all.
A common notion today is that if one strips a subject down to its component parts that the subject will lose any kind of meaning that was once attributed to it, that it will cease to be beautiful or "special." If we, for example, think of a human being as a mass of atoms, as a strictly scientific being, in other words: as a mere product of matter and chance, the notions of love and family and the seriousness of being human become merely symptoms of a scientific accident, or worse, they become self perpetuated illusions that perhaps never existed at all. That's what I like about this essay. Instead of losing meaning through the isolation, description, and evaluation of component parts, "INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO CLIMB A STAIRCASE" produces the opposite effect: through isolation of the mundane it creates meaning, allowing us to wonder and be amazed at the complexity of ourselves.
Cory Aaland is a MFA student at the University of Arizona
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Amorak Huey on Davy Rothbart's My Heart Is an Idiot
In a recent Grantland piece musing on what makes sports entertaining, Chuck Klosterman rails against a certain television commercial in which a high school football player does a flip over an opposing tackler; the gymnastic feat is captured on video; said video goes viral; and in the end the player is apparently being recruited by a major college program. Klosterman calls the commercial "glib and insidious," and then adds:
And here's what's really stupid: I wouldn't hate it if it happened in reality. If a real kid got a scholarship to Oklahoma because of this kind of scenario, I would be charmed. Anytime a real athlete's individual performance outshines the unsophisticated concept of winning or losing, I inevitably love it. His or her motives are almost an afterthought. I only find it troubling when the scenario is fake. Fiction is always more real to me.
Fiction is always more real to me. I think I know what Klosterman means here. I don't think it's exactly "more real," but something about how fiction can be manipulated to seem real – and it is in that manipulation that fiction finds its meaning. The author controls (more or less) all the moving parts in fiction, so that in the end the point being made/the world being evoked/the moral of the story is essentially what the author wants it to be. So if a work of fiction is sentimental, we see this as a character flaw on the part of the author – who has chosen the sentimentality. Whatever cell phone company made the commercial (I could look it up but don't care enough) chose implausibility and easy feel-good-ness. The commercial's narrative is compelling because it's implausible, or at least the conceit of the commercial is that we're supposed to think it's implausible: the story of an unlikely triumph.
Yet the implausible is meaningful only if it is also real. If I tell you I saw a zebra walking down the sidewalk in the snow in my Michigan neighborhood this morning, it would be a dumb little lie that you won't believe (or care about). But if I actually saw that zebra in East Grand Rapids, and if you believe me when I tell you about it, then the story becomes something worth telling. Like Klosterman says: actual kid wins actual scholarship because of actual viral video? Cool story. But ad-agency-created fake kid wins fake scholarship? Yadda manipulative blah blah boringcakes.
All of which is to say, of course, that nonfiction matters: as a form, as a label, as an idea and an ideal. Obviously. (I doubt you're reading anything on a site called Essay Daily if you think nonfiction doesn't matter.) It matters, in part, because of the way it shapes the reading experience. Expectations are shaped when you call a story true, when you claim a space within nonfiction for your writing. Davy Rothbart's My Heart Is an Idiot claims that space in no uncertain terms, announcing its genre on the cover with the word "ESSAYS" tattooed on a bicep under the title.
These are not exactly essays in the Montaigne sense, musing on some particular topic or other: "On the Idiocy of the Human Heart" or whatever. Nor are these the essays of first-year composition with a thesis sentence and a point to make. They are not organized with argument and evidence. They are not heavy on reflection or philosophical musing. They feel more like stories than essays: yarns, and ripping good ones. Tales told well, full of plot and personality, humor and high jinx. But they also are and must be essays: if they weren't nonfiction, they wouldn't work.
Consider "How I Got These Boots," a short piece in which Rothbart recounts how he acquired the boots of a hitchhiker he once gave a ride to the Grand Canyon. Rothbart was at a particularly low point, emotionally, and it turned out the man he picked up was fulfilling a longtime quest to see the Grand Canyon: "I felt lucky that I was about to witness someone realize their lifelong dream. My own dreams seemed hazier and more impossible." But the trip turns out a success, both for Rothbart's passenger, who ends up with a job at the canyon, and for Rothbart himself. The essay ends:
A year later, when I left Chicago and drove to New Mexico to follow my dreams of being a writer, I was wearing those boots with the red laces. On my dashboard was the picture of John Molloy at the edge of the canyon, fists raised against the sky.
If this piece were a work of fiction, it would be sentimental hokum. But as nonfiction, it's sweet and even a little inspiring. The same adjectives apply to the book in general. The world Rothbart describes is a warm place – people have problems, and sometimes do harm to each other, but by and large we're all doing the best we can most of the time. There's a tenderness in how Rothbart sees humanity that would be tricky to pull off in fiction without being saccharine.
Part of this brand of storytelling is exaggeration. And the stories Rothbart tells do have that tall tale feel at times. In "Ninety-Nine Bottles of Pee on the Wall," he gets really mad at an unscrupulous scam artist who's ripping off hopeful writers. So Rothbart starts sending the guy bottles of urine. As you do, right? Too weird to be true, or so weird it must be true? Look, any binary definitions of fiction and nonfiction are sure to break down. Lines will blur, walls crumble, art will exist in the overlapping cross-hatched areas of the Venn diagram. Memory is flawed. Perception is idiosyncratic by definition. Every area is gray. Fiction draws its strength from being believable; nonfiction gains power from being unbelievable. Unbelievable yet believed.
I met Rothbart a few months ago when he visited the school where I teach. He's funny, charming, smart, cool – really cool. The kind of cool guy who wears a cool hat, and cool clothes, and knows other cool people, and after five minutes in his presence, I was pretty convinced of the truth of the essays in My Heart Is an Idiot. The dead body in the swimming pool? The bus rider who claims to be 120 years old? The guy who pretends to be a girl named Nicole so he can have phone sex with random men in a Motel 6? I believe all of it.
Rothbart is also editor of Found Magazine, which publishes reader-submitted notes and letters and other odds and ends found in random places. There's surprising power in these bits of ephemera – what we learn about humanity from the fragments of language we leave behind. And again, the power comes from knowing that these found items are real. How easy would it be to make up an abandoned love letter that makes its sender look silly? When he is asked how he knows that no one is doing just that, inventing things to submit, Rothbart says, in essence, that he trusts people not to do that and that he thinks the payoff is too small for anyone to bother. Why would anyone need to make this shit up when there's so much real shit out there? On the one hand, this attitude seems perhaps a little naïve, given how often people lie and often for little to no payoff; on the other hand, it makes perfect sense – and it certainly matches the approach to life Rothbart brings to My Heart Is an Idiot. There's a bit of eager puppy dog about Rothbart as he presents himself in these essays – throwing himself open and expecting that everyone else is doing the same thing. Predictably, this gets him into trouble, and certainly the book earns its title. Quite often, his heart really is an idiot. The rest of him, too. I mentioned that he mailed his piss to an enemy, didn't I? But there's also real wisdom here, street smarts woven throughout the narratives – an intelligence about how things work. The last essay in the collection is called "Ain't That America," after the John Cougar Mellencamp lyric. Of that song, Rothbart writes:
This, from what I knew of it, was one of those songs, like Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A.," that had been written as a eulogy for the dying American Dream but had been so widely misinterpreted as an anthem of patriotism and working-class pride that its original intent had been usurped in the popular imagination. And, actually, when you really thought about it, the artists were wrong and the popular imagination was right, for how could you listen to Mellencamp sing the chorus and not feel stirred by a love for America, whatever its shortcomings might be?
This is an apt description of how a reader ends up feeling about Rothbart himself and about the particular version of America he inhabits and the motley crew of characters he encounters: stirred by a genuine affection, regardless of the shortcomings. In the end, there's more heart here than idiot.
One other thing that you learn when you meet Rothbart in person is that he remembers names with remarkable accuracy. At the Q&A session after a reading, he'll refer to previous questioners by name, or call on someone for a second question. At an evening appearance, he gives a shoutout to audience members who previously attended the afternoon event. Asked how he does it, he offers a simple answer: "I pay attention when people tell me." Most people, he explains, ask your name and then only half-listen to the answer. Having noticed this, he resolved to listen fully. It makes perfect sense. It explains his essays, too: he's paying attention. He lives life with his eyes open, he absorbs what happens around him – and so when he tells it back to us, it's real. It's believable. It's nonfiction.
Amorak Huey spent more than a decade as an editor and reporter at newspapers in Florida, Kentucky, and Michigan. Now he teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012, The Southern Review, Subtropics, The Cincinnati Review, Carolina Quarterly and other journals. Follow him on Twitter: @amorak.
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Vaping causes "significantly less" staining to teeth than regular cigarettes, scientists have found.
– EN Fitness & Wellbeing – E-cigarette vaping does not stain teeth like traditional cigarettes, researchers report.
Following health warnings over smoking, e-cigarette alternatives have risen in popularity over the past decade, with hundreds of different brands cropping up around the world.
While research is still being undertaken into the health effects of vaping, a new study has found that the use of such products causes "significantly less" staining to teeth than conventional cigarettes.
For the study, scientists compared an e-cigarette, a tobacco heating product and a conventional cigarette for their impact on teeth enamel staining.
Tests were carried out on enamel blocks cut from bovine incisors. The enamel was exposed to the particulate matter (isolated from the smoke/vapour) for 14 days and then whole smoke/vapour, equivalent to one pack of cigarettes per day, for five days.
"Discolouration of enamel blocks exposed to cigarette smoke was apparent in as little as one day and continued to increase as the concentration of cigarette smoke increased. In contrast, exposure to vapour from the EC or THP resulted in little or no colour change that was comparable to the untreated controls," the researchers noted.
However, Dalrymple did comment that further studies are required to understand the long-term effect on teeth staining and oral health when smokers switch to using newly developed products.
Full study results have been published in the American Journal of Dentistry.


Emma Judd's Laser Cut Castle #ArtTuesday « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Just a quick hit today; something we wanted to share that came out of an exceptionally cool laser cutter certification.
Behold! A neat mountainside castle by local artist Emma Judd!
While getting her certification, Emma also brought along several sheets of cardboard to cut and a bunch of cut files. Two birds, one stone!


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