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Game|Life Podcast: Oculus, Facebook, 2048, and BioShock
BioShock Infinite: Burial At Sea Episode 2. Image: Irrational Games
Chris Kohler
Peter Rubin and Laura Hudson return to the podcast this week and we talk about a whole lot of stuff for a few minutes at a time.
I rant a little more about Game Center CX 3 (yeah, I know I said we should just forget it exists). We discuss, with a minimum of spoilers, BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea 's second episode. We talk about Threes ripoff 2048 and the version I made with my dog's face in it.
Then we talk a great deal about the Oculus Rift acquisition by Facebook. I yell a little! Apparently I have some opinions!
Game|Life's podcast is posted on Fridays, is available on iTunes, can be downloaded directly and is embedded below.
GameLife Reboot: Episode 105
https://downloads.wired.com/podcasts/assets/gamelifeaudio/gamelifereboot_105.mp3
Chris Kohler started writing for WIRED in 2002, and founded WIRED.com's Game|Life channel in 2005. He is the author of the books Power-Up and Retro Gaming Hacks, and co-hosts the Stitcher Award-winning podcast Good Job, Brain!
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Unternehmensgruppe Theo Muller S.e.c.s.'s IT hiring activity rises 2.8% in July 2022
Luxembourg-based company Unternehmensgruppe Theo Muller S.e.c.s.'s IT hiring rose 2.8% in July 2022 when compared with the previous month, according to GlobalData's Job Analytics database.
The company's overall hiring activity increased by 15.3% in July 2022 when compared with June 2022.
IT jobs claimed a 3.05% share in the company's total hiring activity in July 2022, and recorded a 0.2% decline over the last three-month average share.
Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers tops Unternehmensgruppe Theo Muller S.e.c.s. IT hiring in July 2022
Out of the total IT job titles posted by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Muller S.e.c.s., Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers emerged as the leading occupation, recording a share of 39.36% in July 2022, and a 5.71% rise over June 2022, while Miscellaneous Computer Occupations claimed a share of 34.04% in July 2022, and registered a decline of 25.58%. Computer and Information Analysts held a share of 25.53% in July 2022, a 20% rise from June 2022.
Asia-Pacific drives IT hiring at Unternehmensgruppe Theo Muller S.e.c.s.
Asia-Pacific emerged as the leading region in the global consumer IT hiring activity in July 2022 with a 56.38% share, which marked a 20.9% drop over the previous month.
Europe stood next with 26.6%, registering a 34.21% month-on-month decline. Middle East & Africa was the third leading region with an 8.51% share and a 100% rise over June 2022.
In the fourth place was North America with a share of 8.51% and a month-on-month flat growth.
India commanded a leading presence in the region's consumer industry IT hiring activity with a 56.38% share in July 2022, a 20.9% decline over June 2022. The UK featured next with a 26.6% share, down 34.21% over the previous month. Sudan recorded an 8.51% share, an increase of 100% compared with June 2022.
Junior Level jobs lead Unternehmensgruppe Theo Muller S.e.c.s. IT hiring activity in July 2022
Junior Level jobs held a share of 81.91%, down by 13.48% from June 2022. Mid Level positions with a 17.02% share, a flat growth compared with the previous month.
In the third place was Entry Level job ads with a 1.06% share, down 91.67% over June 2022.
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Floral tributes left at the scene of Chester City Walls death
A GRIEVING family and friends of a woman who plunged 60ft to her death from Chester City Walls have left a mass of floral tributes at the scene.
Julie Ann Jones, 41, of Elmwood Avenue, Newton, fell from the walls off Northgate Street on to the canal towpath on Friday morning.
Emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 11am after members of the public saw her fall from the walls close to the antiquarian bookshop. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The walls and part of the pavement on Northgate Street were immediately cordoned off by police.
Floral tributes left at the scene this week described Julie – who would have been 42 on Tuesday – as 'beautiful' with one saying: "Will miss your warm, happy smile so much."
The family were too distressed to talk about the incident.
The Cheshire coroner's office confirmed the inquest into her death had been opened yesterday (Wednesday) and then adjourned until a later date.
The initial cause of death is 'multiple injuries'.
Cheshire Constabulary spokeswoman Shelley Williams said: "The circumstances surrounding the woman's death are not being treated as suspicious."
This is the second person to die this year after falling from Chester City Walls.
In February 38-year-old Thomas Corry of Plas Dinas flats in Blacon plunged to his death in almost the same location.
He was discovered in the early hours of February 10. Police said it was unclear how he fell but they did not treat the incident as suspicious.
In May 2002, 23-year-old postman David Spencer from Broughton died after falling from the walls between Frodsham Street and Northgate Street.
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Carbon taxes, reckless spending, and the UN Global Compact on Migration are all upsetting Canadians.
The Yellow Vest protests have spilled into Canada, giving a stark warning to multiple levels of Canadian government.
This past weekend, hundreds of people took to the streets in Edmonton many wearing the recently notorious yellow vests.
Their goal was to protest both the Liberal government's carbon tax and the UN Global Compact on Migration.
A similar event happened on Parliament Hill, this one is largely focused on the migration pact.
Fortunately, the yellow vest protests in Canada have not resulted in the level of violence and turmoil that occurred in France.
None the less, the protests do show deep-seated resentment against some government policies, along with the potential to spiral into something far bigger.
The motivation for the yellow vest protests in Canada stem from those occurring in France.
Violent behaviour has spread through the French protests with cars being burned, stores being looted, and even the Arc De Triomphe being the target of graffiti.
Police were affected by the protest's violent nature. Rocks were thrown at them and several were injured. In a revolutionary-esque move, "Les Gilets Jaunes Triompheront" which translates to "The Yellow Vests will Triumph", was sprayed on the Arc De Triomphe.
Analysts have described the situation as one of the worst in decades, with the population finally being able to voice their discontent with Macron's governance.
France's cost of living has been increasing to a point where many people are struggling to make ends meet.
The people have had enough with rising taxes, higher costs of living, constant unemployment, and bearing the burden of often symbolic government reforms.
When French President Emmanuel Macron decided to impose a carbon tax on the population it opened Pandora's box. Despite unemployment levels dropping since 2016, it still stands at 9.1%.
With nearly one in ten members of the Frech population out of work, implementing an additional tax to appease environmentalist bureaucrats would not have gone unnoticed and unsurprisingly fueled hostile feelings towards the government within the population.
Macron's increased fuel tax which would have upped prices by €0.03 per litre of gas and €0.06 per litre of diesel will only come into effect six months later.
The price of diesel in France has gone up by roughly 20 percent over the past year to approximately €1.49 (C$2.23) per litre. In comparison, the average price last year was €1.24 (C$1.86). That's more than the expected 10-cent rise.
A strong sentiment against Macron's leadership has fused into the protest against the carbon tax, and has attracted both people from the far left and the far right. It also comes at a time of increased Euroscepticism, and an overall rise in populist parties. Add in Brexit and the migration debacle and you realize Europe is in an utter state of disarray.
An article published by Express suggests that Italy, Austria, and the UK are amongst the most eurosceptic countries, with another study demonstrating 66% of Europeans are unhappy with the EU's direction.
Trudeau too has implemented a Carbon Tax, and his recent decision to sign Canada onto the UN Global Compact on Migration has led to the disenfranchisement of some.
The Liberals passed legislation last spring to give the government authority to impose a carbon tax on any province without its own carbon tax, beginning January 1, 2019. It is starting at a minimum of $20 per tonne, and rising by $10 per year until 2022.
Migration and illegal border crossings have also been hot topics in recent months, sparking divisions.
With the signing of the UN Global Compact on Migration, reasonable fears have grown that Canada has effectively given up its borders to an international institution. Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer and PPC leader Maxime Bernier both spoke out vehemently against the agreement.
The divisive consequences of making such controversial decisions in a time of political hyper-polarization is a risky game for politicians of all camps to play.
Having two yellow jacket protests staged, Edmonton and Ottawa, should be a warning to both the Canadian and Albertan governments.
On the Yellow Vests Canada Facebook group, there is a host of anti-Trudeau posts, including a picture of a red baseball cap with a fist-raising the middle finger, and the Prime Minister's name stitched on. As well, there are "memes" influenced by Albertan nationalism and sovereigntist sentiment.
Such an amalgamation of deep dislike and worrisome expression paints a much darker image of what Canadians are thinking. Revolutionary images and posts about opposition to taxes are also present.
What this demonstrates is that many people are upset.
Life is becoming more expensive and plunging the population in further taxes is not the solution to issues. Moreover, ridiculous spending and governing with a mystical belief that the budget will balance itself will ultimately be felt by tax-paying Canadians. Many of which already pay over 42.5% of their income to taxes yearly and only have $200 left at the end of the month after paying their bills.


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Justia Regulation Tracker Agencies And Commissions Securities And Exchange Commission Self-Regulatory Organizations; New York Stock Exchange LLC; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change Amending the NYSE Trades Market Data Product Offering, 46628-46630 [2015-19126]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; New York Stock Exchange LLC; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change Amending the NYSE Trades Market Data Product Offering, 46628-46630 [2015-19126]
Download as PDF 46628 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 150 / Wednesday, August 5, 2015 / Notices The Commission finds it appropriate to designate a longer period within which to issue an order approving or disapproving the proposed rule change so that it has sufficient time to consider the proposed rule change. Accordingly, the Commission, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,10 designates October 2, 2015 as the date by which the Commission shall either approve or disapprove the proposed rule change (File No. SR– NYSEArca–2015–01). For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated authority.11 Robert W. Errett, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2015–19135 Filed 8–4–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8011–01–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34–75556; File No. SR–NYSE– 2015–31] Self-Regulatory Organizations; New York Stock Exchange LLC; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change Amending the NYSE Trades Market Data Product Offering July 30, 2015. Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (''Act''),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2 notice is hereby given that on July 16, 2015, New York Stock Exchange LLC (the ''Exchange'' or ''NYSE'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (''Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I, II, and III below, which Items have been prepared by the selfregulatory organization. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons. asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance of the Proposed Rule Change The Exchange proposes to amend the NYSE Trades market data product offering. The text of the proposed rule change is available on the Exchange's Web site at www.nyse.com, at the principal office of the Exchange, and at the Commission's Public Reference Room. 10 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2). 11 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(57). 1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:54 Aug 04, 2015 Jkt 235001 II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change In its filing with the Commission, the self-regulatory organization included statements concerning the purpose of, and basis for, the proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the proposed rule change. The text of those statements may be examined at the places specified in Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most significant parts of such statements. A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change 1. Purpose The Exchange proposes to amend the NYSE Trades market data feed product offering. NYSE Trades is an NYSE-only lastsale market data feed. NYSE Trades currently allows vendors, broker-dealers and others to make available on a realtime basis the same last sale information that the Exchange reports under the Consolidated Tape Association (''CTA'') Plan for inclusion in the CTA Plan's consolidated data streams. Specifically, the NYSE Trades feed includes, for each security traded on the Exchange, the real-time last sale price, time and size information and bid/ask quotations and a stock summary message. The stock summary message updates every minute and includes NYSE's opening price, high price, low price, closing price, and cumulative volume for the security.3 The Exchange has determined to modify the data content of NYSE Trades to remove the bid/ask data and to provide the individual orders that make up each reported trade. First, as noted above, the NYSE Trades data feed currently includes related bid/ask information at the time of each reported trade. The Exchange proposes to remove this limited bid/ask information from the NYSE Trades feed, thereby focusing the NYSE Trades feed on NYSE last sale information. This change would streamline the NYSE Trades content, as well as align NYSE Trades content with that of last sale data feeds offered by other exchanges.4 The 3 See Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 62187 (May 27, 2010), 75 FR 31500 (June 3, 2010) (SR– NYSEAmex–2010–35), 70065 (July 30, 2013), 78 FR 47450 (Aug. 5, 2013) (SR–NYSEMKT–2013–64) and 69273 (April 2, 2013), 78 FR 20969 (April 8, 2013) (SR–NYSEMKT–2013–30). 4 See NASDAQ Rule 7039 (Nasdaq Last Sale) and BATS Rule 11.22(g) (BATS Last Sale). PO 00000 Frm 00091 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 NYSE BBO data feed includes, and would continue to include, the best bids and offers for all securities that are traded on the Exchange for which NYSE reports quotes under the Consolidated Quotation (''CQ'') Plan for inclusion in the CQ Plan's consolidated quotation information data stream.5 Second, the Exchange currently reports to the CTA and distributes on a real-time basis via NYSE Trades the real-time NYSE last sale price information based on the completed trade of an arriving order. For example, if an arriving order of 1000 shares trades with five resting orders of 200 shares each, the Exchange reports a completed trade of 1000 shares. The Exchange proposes to distribute NYSE last sale information in NYSE Trades in a format that would be based on the individual resting orders that comprise the completed trade. In the example above, the Exchange would distribute via NYSE Trades the real-time NYSE last sale information of five executions of 200 shares each, with the same time stamp for each individual component of the trade. These five transactions would have the same time stamp and would comprise the same information that is being provided to the CTA regarding the completed trade, which would not change. The Exchange would continue to make NYSE last sale information available through NYSE Trades immediately after it provides last sale information to the processor under the CTA Plan. The Exchange expects to offer both the current NYSE Trades data product and the proposed NYSE Trades data product for a limited transition period. After the transition period, the Exchange would stop offering the current NYSE Trades data product and offer only the NYSE Trades data product proposed in this filing. The Exchange would announce the transition dates in advance. There would be no change to the fees for NYSE Trades in connection with the proposed changes. 2. Statutory Basis The proposed rule change is consistent with Section 6(b) 6 of the Act, in general, and furthers the objectives of Section 6(b)(5) 7 of the Act, in particular, in that it is designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices, to promote just and equitable principles of trade, to foster cooperation and coordination with persons engaged 5 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 72326 (June 5, 2014), 79 FR 33605 (June 11, 2014) (SR– NYSEMKT–2014–49). 6 15 U.S.C. 78f(b). 7 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5). E:\FR\FM\05AUN1.SGM 05AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 150 / Wednesday, August 5, 2015 / Notices asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES in facilitating transactions in securities, to remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market and a national market system and, in general, to protect investors and the public interest, and it is not designed to permit unfair discrimination among customers, brokers, or dealers. The Exchange believes that modifying the NYSE Trades product to remove the bid/ask information it currently includes and to provide only NYSE last sale information would streamline the product and clarify the purpose and use for each of the NYSE proprietary market data products. The amended feed would also align NYSE Trades' content with that of last sale data feeds offered by other exchanges, which similarly offer last sale market data products that do not include bid and offer information.8 The Exchange believes that modifying the NYSE Trades product to report lastsale information based on trades of individual resting orders, rather than based on the completed trade of an arriving order at a price, would remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market by providing vendors and subscribers who desire it with more granular trade information, thus promoting competition and innovation. The Exchange would continue to report to the CTA the last sale prices that reflect a completed trade 9 and the NYSE Trades product would report the same volume and prices, but with more granularity regarding individual components of each completed trade. In adopting Regulation NMS, the Commission granted self-regulatory organizations and broker-dealers increased authority and flexibility to offer new and unique market data to consumers of such data. It was believed that this authority would expand the amount of data available to users and consumers of such data and also spur innovation and competition for the provision of market data. The Exchange believes that the data product modifications proposed herein, by focusing the NYSE Trades feed on last sale data by removing the bid/ask data, and by reporting last-sale information based on trades of resting orders, is precisely the sort of market data product 8 See supra note 4. to the CTA Plan, available here, https://www.ctaplan.com/publicdocs/ctaplan/ notifications/plans/trader-update/5929.pdf, Participants to the CTA Plan are required to report ''Last sale price information,'' which means ''(i) the last sale prices reflecting completed transaction in Eligible Securities, (ii) the volume and other information related to those transactions, (iii) the identifier of the Participant furnishing the prices and (iv) other related information.'' 9 Pursuant VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:54 Aug 04, 2015 Jkt 235001 enhancement that the Commission envisioned when it adopted Regulation NMS. The proposed changes are consistent with the requirements of the CTA Plan to provide the last sale prices reflecting completed transactions and with the principles embodied in Regulation NMS regarding the provision of market data by self-regulatory organizations to consumers of such data. The Commission concluded that Regulation NMS—by lessening regulation of the market in proprietary data—would itself further the Act's goals of facilitating efficiency and competition: [E]fficiency is promoted when brokerdealers who do not need the data beyond the prices, sizes, market center identifications of the NBBO and consolidated last sale information are not required to receive (and pay for) such data. The Commission also believes that efficiency is promoted when broker-dealers may choose to receive (and pay for) additional market data based on their own internal analysis of the need for such data.10 By removing ''unnecessary regulatory restrictions'' on the ability of exchanges to sell their own data, Regulation NMS advanced the goals of the Act and the principles reflected in its legislative history. The Exchange further notes that the existence of alternatives to the Exchange's products, including realtime consolidated data, free delayed consolidated data, and proprietary data from other sources, ensures that the Exchange is not unreasonably discriminatory because vendors and subscribers can elect these alternatives. In addition, the proposal would not permit unfair discrimination because the modified product would be available to all of the Exchange's vendors and customers on an equivalent basis. B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will impose any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. The market for proprietary data products is currently competitive and inherently contestable because there is fierce competition for the inputs necessary to the creation of proprietary data. Numerous exchanges compete with each other for listings, trades, and market data itself, providing virtually limitless opportunities for entrepreneurs who wish to produce and distribute 10 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51808 (June 9, 2005), 70 FR 37496 (June 29, 2005) (File No. S7–10–04). PO 00000 Frm 00092 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 46629 their own market data. This proprietary data is produced by each individual exchange, as well as other entities (such as internalizing broker-dealers and various forms of alternative trading systems, including dark pools and electronic communication networks), in a vigorously competitive market. It is common for market participants to further and exploit this competition by sending their order flow and transaction reports to multiple markets, rather than providing them all to a single market. C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed Rule Change Received from Members, Participants, or Others No written comments were solicited or received with respect to the proposed rule change. III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for Commission Action Within 45 days of the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register or within such longer period (i) as the Commission may designate up to 90 days of such date if it finds such longer period to be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding or (ii) as to which the self-regulatory organization consents, the Commission will: (A) By order approve or disapprove such proposed rule change, or (B) institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule change should be disapproved. IV. Solicitation of Comments Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule change is consistent with the Act. Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods: Electronic Comments • Use the Commission's Internet comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ rules/sro.shtml); or • Send an email to rule-comments@ sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– NYSE–2015–31 on the subject line. Paper Comments • Send paper comments in triplicate to Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549–1090. All submissions should refer to File Number SR–NYSE–2015–31. This file number should be included on the subject line if email is used. To help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently, please use E:\FR\FM\05AUN1.SGM 05AUN1 46630 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 150 / Wednesday, August 5, 2015 / Notices only one method. The Commission will post all comments on the Commission's Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/ rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating to the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person, other than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for Web site viewing and printing in the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549, on official business days between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the filing also will be available for inspection and copying at the principal office of NYSE. All comments received will be posted without change; the Commission does not edit personal identifying information from submissions. You should submit only information that you wish to make available publicly. All submissions should refer to File Number SR–NYSE– 2015–31 and should be submitted on or before August 26, 2015. For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated authority.11 Robert W. Errett, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2015–19126 Filed 8–4–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8011–01–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34–75560; File No. SR–FINRA– 2015–027] Self-Regulatory Organizations; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change to Update Rule CrossReferences and Make Non-Substantive Technical Changes to Certain FINRA Rules asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of the Substance of the Proposed Rule Change FINRA is proposing to update crossreferences and make other nonsubstantive changes within FINRA rules, primarily as the result of approval of new consolidated FINRA rules. The text of the proposed rule change is available on FINRA's Web site at http://www.finra.org, at the principal office of FINRA and at the Commission's Public Reference Room. II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change In its filing with the Commission, FINRA included statements concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the proposed rule change. The text of these statements may be examined at the places specified in Item IV below. FINRA has prepared summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most significant aspects of such statements. A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change 1. Purpose FINRA is in the process of developing a consolidated rulebook (''Consolidated FINRA Rulebook'').4 That process involves FINRA submitting to the Commission for approval a series of proposed rule changes over time to 3 17 July 30, 2015. Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (''Act'')1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2 notice is hereby given that on July 22, 2015, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (''FINRA'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (''SEC'' or ''Commission'') the proposed 11 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 1 15 VerDate Sep<11>2014 rule change as described in Items I, II, and III below, which Items have been prepared by FINRA. FINRA has designated the proposed rule change as constituting a ''non-controversial'' rule change under paragraph (f)(6) of Rule 19b–4 under the Act,3 which renders the proposal effective upon receipt of this filing by the Commission. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons. 16:54 Aug 04, 2015 Jkt 235001 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6). current FINRA rulebook consists of (1) FINRA Rules; (2) NASD Rules; and (3) rules incorporated from NYSE (''Incorporated NYSE Rules'') (together, the NASD Rules and Incorporated NYSE Rules are referred to as the ''Transitional Rulebook''). While the NASD Rules generally apply to all FINRA members, the Incorporated NYSE Rules apply only to those members of FINRA that are also members of the NYSE (''Dual Members''). The FINRA Rules apply to all FINRA members, unless such rules have a more limited application by their terms. For more information about the rulebook consolidation process, see Information Notice, March 12, 2008 (Rulebook Consolidation Process). 4 The PO 00000 Frm 00093 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 adopt rules in the Consolidated FINRA Rulebook. The phased adoption and implementation of those rules necessitates periodic amendments to update rule cross-references and other non-substantive changes in the Consolidated FINRA Rulebook. The proposed rule change would make such changes, as well as other non-substantive changes unrelated to the adoption of rules in the Consolidated FINRA Rulebook. First, the proposed rule change would update rule cross-references to reflect the adoption of new consolidated rules regarding payments to unregistered persons. On December 30, 2014, the SEC approved a proposed rule change to adopt new FINRA Rules 0190 (Effective Date of Revocation, Cancellation, Expulsion, Suspension or Resignation) and 2040 (Payments to Unregistered Persons). As part of that proposed rule change, FINRA adopted the requirements of NASD IM–2420–1(a) (Non-members of the Association), as FINRA Rule 0190. FINRA also deleted in their entirety NASD Rule 1060(b), NASD Rule 2410, NASD Rule 2420, NASD IM–2420–1, NASD IM–2420–2, Incorporated NYSE Rule 353, and Incorporated NYSE Rule Interpretations 345(a)(i)/01 through/03.5 The new rules will be implemented on August 24, 2015. As such, the proposed rule change would update references to new Rule 0190 in FINRA Rule 6630 (Applicability of FINRA Rules to Securities Previously Designated as PORTAL Securities). Second, the proposed rule change would make technical changes to FINRA Rules 6282.03, 6380A.03, 6380B.03, and 6720(c)(1) (Alternative Trading Systems) to reflect FINRA Manual style convention changes. Finally, FINRA is proposing to make non-substantive changes to FINRA Rule 9217 (Violations Appropriate for Disposition Under Plan Pursuant to SEA Rule 19d–1(c)(2)) to update crossreferences resulting from previous amendments to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (''MSRB'') Rules A– 12, A–14, G–3, G–38, and G–40.6 FINRA also is proposing to update the cross5 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 73954 (December 30, 2014, 80 FR 553 (January 6, 2015) (Order Approving File No. SR–FINRA–2014–037). 6 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 52278 (August 17, 2005), 70 FR 49342 (August 23, 2005) (Order Approving File No. SR–MSRB–2005–04) (Deleted MSRB Rule G–38); Securities Exchange Act Release No. 71616 (February 26, 2014), 79 FR 12254 (March 4, 2014) (Order Approving File No. SR–MSRB–2013–09) (Deleted MSRB Rules A–14 and G–40, and incorporated the provisions of these rules into Rule A–12); and Securities Exchange Act Release No. 74384 (February 26, 2015), 80 FR 11706 (March 4, 2015) (Order Approving File No. SR– MSRB–2014–08) (Renumbeed MSRB Rule G–3(h) as G–3(i)). 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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 150 (Wednesday, August 5, 2015)]
[Release No. 34-75556; File No. SR-NYSE-2015-31]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; New York Stock Exchange LLC;
Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change Amending the NYSE Trades
Market Data Product Offering
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given that
on July 16, 2015, New York Stock Exchange LLC (the ``Exchange'' or
``NYSE'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I, II,
and III below, which Items have been prepared by the self-regulatory
organization. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit
comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons.
\1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
\2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange proposes to amend the NYSE Trades market data product
offering. The text of the proposed rule change is available on the
Exchange's Web site at www.nyse.com, at the principal office of the
Exchange, and at the Commission's Public Reference Room.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change
In its filing with the Commission, the self-regulatory organization
included statements concerning the purpose of, and basis for, the
proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the
proposed rule change. The text of those statements may be examined at
the places specified in Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared
summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most
significant parts of such statements.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
The Exchange proposes to amend the NYSE Trades market data feed
product offering.
NYSE Trades is an NYSE-only last-sale market data feed. NYSE Trades
currently allows vendors, broker-dealers and others to make available
on a real-time basis the same last sale information that the Exchange
reports under the Consolidated Tape Association (``CTA'') Plan for
inclusion in the CTA Plan's consolidated data streams. Specifically,
the NYSE Trades feed includes, for each security traded on the
Exchange, the real-time last sale price, time and size information and
bid/ask quotations and a stock summary message. The stock summary
message updates every minute and includes NYSE's opening price, high
price, low price, closing price, and cumulative volume for the
security.\3\
\3\ See Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 62187 (May 27,
2010), 75 FR 31500 (June 3, 2010) (SR-NYSEAmex-2010-35), 70065 (July
30, 2013), 78 FR 47450 (Aug. 5, 2013) (SR-NYSEMKT-2013-64) and 69273
(April 2, 2013), 78 FR 20969 (April 8, 2013) (SR-NYSEMKT-2013-30).
The Exchange has determined to modify the data content of NYSE
Trades to remove the bid/ask data and to provide the individual orders
that make up each reported trade.
First, as noted above, the NYSE Trades data feed currently includes
related bid/ask information at the time of each reported trade. The
Exchange proposes to remove this limited bid/ask information from the
NYSE Trades feed, thereby focusing the NYSE Trades feed on NYSE last
sale information. This change would streamline the NYSE Trades content,
as well as align NYSE Trades content with that of last sale data feeds
offered by other exchanges.\4\ The NYSE BBO data feed includes, and
would continue to include, the best bids and offers for all securities
that are traded on the Exchange for which NYSE reports quotes under the
Consolidated Quotation (``CQ'') Plan for inclusion in the CQ Plan's
consolidated quotation information data stream.\5\
\4\ See NASDAQ Rule 7039 (Nasdaq Last Sale) and BATS Rule
11.22(g) (BATS Last Sale).
\5\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 72326 (June 5,
2014), 79 FR 33605 (June 11, 2014) (SR-NYSEMKT-2014-49).
Second, the Exchange currently reports to the CTA and distributes
on a real-time basis via NYSE Trades the real-time NYSE last sale price
information based on the completed trade of an arriving order. For
example, if an arriving order of 1000 shares trades with five resting
orders of 200 shares each, the Exchange reports a completed trade of
1000 shares. The Exchange proposes to distribute NYSE last sale
information in NYSE Trades in a format that would be based on the
individual resting orders that comprise the completed trade. In the
example above, the Exchange would distribute via NYSE Trades the real-
time NYSE last sale information of five executions of 200 shares each,
with the same time stamp for each individual component of the trade.
These five transactions would have the same time stamp and would
comprise the same information that is being provided to the CTA
regarding the completed trade, which would not change. The Exchange
would continue to make NYSE last sale information available through
NYSE Trades immediately after it provides last sale information to the
processor under the CTA Plan.
The Exchange expects to offer both the current NYSE Trades data
product and the proposed NYSE Trades data product for a limited
transition period. After the transition period, the Exchange would stop
offering the current NYSE Trades data product and offer only the NYSE
Trades data product proposed in this filing. The Exchange would
announce the transition dates in advance. There would be no change to
the fees for NYSE Trades in connection with the proposed changes.
2. Statutory Basis
The proposed rule change is consistent with Section 6(b) \6\ of the
Act, in general, and furthers the objectives of Section 6(b)(5) \7\ of
the Act, in particular, in that it is designed to prevent fraudulent
and manipulative acts and practices, to promote just and equitable
principles of trade, to foster cooperation and coordination with
persons engaged
in facilitating transactions in securities, to remove impediments to
and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market and a national
market system and, in general, to protect investors and the public
interest, and it is not designed to permit unfair discrimination among
customers, brokers, or dealers.
\6\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
\7\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
The Exchange believes that modifying the NYSE Trades product to
remove the bid/ask information it currently includes and to provide
only NYSE last sale information would streamline the product and
clarify the purpose and use for each of the NYSE proprietary market
data products. The amended feed would also align NYSE Trades' content
with that of last sale data feeds offered by other exchanges, which
similarly offer last sale market data products that do not include bid
and offer information.\8\
\8\ See supra note 4.
report last-sale information based on trades of individual resting
orders, rather than based on the completed trade of an arriving order
at a price, would remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a
free and open market by providing vendors and subscribers who desire it
with more granular trade information, thus promoting competition and
innovation. The Exchange would continue to report to the CTA the last
sale prices that reflect a completed trade \9\ and the NYSE Trades
product would report the same volume and prices, but with more
granularity regarding individual components of each completed trade. In
adopting Regulation NMS, the Commission granted self-regulatory
organizations and broker-dealers increased authority and flexibility to
offer new and unique market data to consumers of such data. It was
believed that this authority would expand the amount of data available
to users and consumers of such data and also spur innovation and
competition for the provision of market data. The Exchange believes
that the data product modifications proposed herein, by focusing the
NYSE Trades feed on last sale data by removing the bid/ask data, and by
reporting last-sale information based on trades of resting orders, is
precisely the sort of market data product enhancement that the
Commission envisioned when it adopted Regulation NMS. The proposed
changes are consistent with the requirements of the CTA Plan to provide
the last sale prices reflecting completed transactions and with the
principles embodied in Regulation NMS regarding the provision of market
data by self-regulatory organizations to consumers of such data. The
Commission concluded that Regulation NMS--by lessening regulation of
the market in proprietary data--would itself further the Act's goals of
facilitating efficiency and competition:
\9\ Pursuant to the CTA Plan, available here, https://www.ctaplan.com/publicdocs/ctaplan/notifications/plans/trader-update/5929.pdf, Participants to the CTA Plan are required to report
``Last sale price information,'' which means ``(i) the last sale
prices reflecting completed transaction in Eligible Securities, (ii)
the volume and other information related to those transactions,
(iii) the identifier of the Participant furnishing the prices and
(iv) other related information.''
[E]fficiency is promoted when broker-dealers who do not need the
data beyond the prices, sizes, market center identifications of the
NBBO and consolidated last sale information are not required to
receive (and pay for) such data. The Commission also believes that
efficiency is promoted when broker-dealers may choose to receive
(and pay for) additional market data based on their own internal
analysis of the need for such data.\10\
\10\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51808 (June 9,
2005), 70 FR 37496 (June 29, 2005) (File No. S7-10-04).
By removing ``unnecessary regulatory restrictions'' on the ability
of exchanges to sell their own data, Regulation NMS advanced the goals
of the Act and the principles reflected in its legislative history.
The Exchange further notes that the existence of alternatives to
the Exchange's products, including real-time consolidated data, free
delayed consolidated data, and proprietary data from other sources,
ensures that the Exchange is not unreasonably discriminatory because
vendors and subscribers can elect these alternatives. In addition, the
proposal would not permit unfair discrimination because the modified
product would be available to all of the Exchange's vendors and
customers on an equivalent basis.
B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition
The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will
impose any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. The market for proprietary
data products is currently competitive and inherently contestable
because there is fierce competition for the inputs necessary to the
creation of proprietary data. Numerous exchanges compete with each
other for listings, trades, and market data itself, providing virtually
limitless opportunities for entrepreneurs who wish to produce and
distribute their own market data. This proprietary data is produced by
each individual exchange, as well as other entities (such as
internalizing broker-dealers and various forms of alternative trading
systems, including dark pools and electronic communication networks),
in a vigorously competitive market. It is common for market
participants to further and exploit this competition by sending their
order flow and transaction reports to multiple markets, rather than
providing them all to a single market.
C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed
Rule Change Received from Members, Participants, or Others
No written comments were solicited or received with respect to the
proposed rule change.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
Within 45 days of the date of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register or within such longer period (i) as the Commission may
designate up to 90 days of such date if it finds such longer period to
be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding or (ii) as to
which the self-regulatory organization consents, the Commission will:
(A) By order approve or disapprove such proposed rule change, or
(B) institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule
change should be disapproved.
IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Act. Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:
Electronic Comments
Use the Commission's Internet comment form (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
Send an email to rule-comments@sec.gov. Please include
File Number SR-NYSE-2015-31 on the subject line.
Paper Comments
Send paper comments in triplicate to Secretary, Securities
and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549-1090.
All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NYSE-2015-31. This file
number should be included on the subject line if email is used. To help
the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently,
please use
only one method. The Commission will post all comments on the
Commission's Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml).
Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all written
statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are filed with
the Commission, and all written communications relating to the proposed
rule change between the Commission and any person, other than those
that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the provisions
of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for Web site viewing and printing in
the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE., Washington,
DC 20549, on official business days between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and
3:00 p.m. Copies of the filing also will be available for inspection
and copying at the principal office of NYSE. All comments received will
be posted without change; the Commission does not edit personal
identifying information from submissions. You should submit only
information that you wish to make available publicly. All submissions
should refer to File Number SR-NYSE-2015-31 and should be submitted on
or before August 26, 2015.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\11\
\11\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.


Mould having two parts upper part & lower part, both the parts are connected with guiding pins.
There is cavity in the lower part of the machine, in this cavity maximum amount of mixture (polymer & additives) is placed.
Volume of this mix. Taken is greater than the volume of cavity to avoid the flows in design of article.
Moulding temperature in the range of = 90–1500C & pressure = 1000–3000 psi.
During Curing pressure is not released, curing is done by heating.
After the curing pressure released & article taken out by separating the parts of mould.
This method is used for both types of plastics-thermosoftning & thermoplastics.
Machinery is very simple. Simple designs can be fabricated. Thus initial cost of fabrication is comparatively less.
Rate of production is low.
Hard, strong filler cannot be used.
Injection moulding method is used only for the fabrication of thermoplastic material.
Mixture of polymer & additives is taken in the injection & mould is kept at room temp & high pressure is applied hydrolytically.
Mixture is heated in the injection (cylinder) till softening temp, and then forced through healer & there is device called torpedo which spread the material uniformly in the injection.
Thereby avoiding the heating & cooling of the mould increases the rate of production.
Temp. Depends on material, range 900C – 1500C & pressure 1500 kg/cm2.
After plastic is injected in the mould & acquires the shape, mould is cooled by cold water, keeping pressure on. Thus articles are cured & the mould is opened to eject the articles.
Rate of production is high, less limitations on the design of articles.
Finishing of article is better. Machine is durable thereby decreases the fabrication cost.
Cross-section of filaments, rods, lubes can be varied by changing the shape of die.
Material of thermoplastics are fed into the hopper then screw conveyer pushes the material into a heater, where material softens & it is forced through the die to gel require shape.
Extrudes product cooled by atmospheric exposure.
Garden hose, insulated wire, water pipes etc are the good example of extrusion type of moulding.
Mathura is known as one of the seven holiest cities of India. It is the birth place of Lord Krishna which is situated along the bank of the River Yamuna.
Shimla is located in northern India and is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. It is the hub of tourism sector. Shimla is known as the queen of hills.


P&G is a household name on a global scale that deals with consumer goods. Started in Ohio it has grown to multinational status with its line of household goods, personal care products, laundry detergents, beauty products, pet food and childcare products. Procter and Gamble employs approximately 121000 people who work in the different sectors, from beauty consultants to industrial experts. The company not only has thousands of shops that sell its products it also has an online shopping system for customers to easily place orders and have them delivered right at their homes.
Associate CMK manager- If you're the type of person that has amazing public relation skills and a passion for leadership through promotion of brands, this position is just the right fit for you. P&G is looking for someone who can drive the company forward by increasing sales and marketing new brands. To be considered, a background in human resource studies and management will come in handy during the hiring process.
Business Analysts- The primary role of business analysts is to oversee decision making and guide P&G into an analytic backed system of operation. The analyst will also offer suggestion to senior management on trends and changes in market dynamics as well as ways of embedding modern methods of operation into the company. To qualify it is necessary to have an IT knowledge and relevant work experience as an analyst for a known establishment.


Barry County Sheriff's Office has received numerous complaints on individuals trying to scam them by contacting them by phone and saying they have won a large sum of money and then they will ask them to send money in to them before you can actually receive this.
Another one going around is through your email saying that they are requesting you to contact them so they can leave their inheritance to you.
Sheriff Epperly advises not to give any of your personal information over the phone and if they request money in advance do not do it.
If you have questions about it being a scam you may contact Barry County Sheriff's Office at 417-847-6556 and we will look into it. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.


"Dimensions Variable" is the standard term for designating the size of an art object which varies or cannot be physically bounded. The artists included in the exhibition sought to explore the ephemeral, elusive, and undefinable by creating and utilizing specific substances and objects with little or no "art" identity: light, prisms, water, motors, plastic, wires, and gas. In so doing, the artists achieved phenomena not commonly visible in art, and were able to express observations and ideas that resisted verbalization — these means challenged the viewer to see what was not physically there.


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Archive for Mark Spitzer
5/22 Lea Graham, Mark Spitzer, & friends @ White Whale Bookstore
Posted in Events, New Releases with tags Anna Eidolon, Black Angels, Daniel Parme, From the Hotel Vernon, In Search of Monster Fish, Jess Simms, John Thomas Menesini, Lea Graham, Mark Spitzer, Robert Walicki, Salmon Poetry, Shawn Maddey, University of Nebraska Press, White Whale Bookstore on May 14, 2019 by 6GPress
7 PM Wednesday, May 22…
Lea Graham & Mark Spitzer return to White Whale Bookstore w/ new books, joined by locals Anna Eidolon, Shawn Maddey, John Thomas Menesini, Daniel Parme, Jess Simms, & Robert Walicki.
FREE & BYOB, per White Whale policy. Possible vegan or pescetarian snacks, crackers guaranteed.
Here's a bit about Lea's book, From the Hotel Vernon, from Salmon Poetry.
The poems in this book grow out and around the Hotel Vernon, built at the turn of the 20th century in Worcester, Massachusetts. Once an elegant place for local politicians to make their backdoor deals at the edge of the city, it slowly fell into decline each decade following Prohibition. Despite this, it has always been a space where artists, newspapermen and neighbors gathered at the bar or, after the late 1940s, in its Ship Room, a room purportedly modeled after the second berth of the Mayflower. In its barroom is a 1940s mural of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," painted by the owner's son-in-law bartender and his friends, including the cartoonist, Al Capp.
In these poems, oral histories are poised between and among flagrant sexuality, humor and abject poverty. Patsy Cline, Babe Ruth, WWI's "Sacrifice Division" and Roy Orbison inhabit this space alongside the local residents: the Baker, Maurie, Charlie and Stosh. Names of neighborhood places—Rizutti's Goodnight Café, The Nines, The Greyhound—are recited as both proof and pride in a neighborhood that was diminished through the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, cutting off foot traffic to local businesses by 1970.
& here's a bit about Mark's book, In Search of Monster Fish: Angling for a More Sustainable Planet, from University of Nebraska Press.
In Search of Monster Fish is an action-packed, knee-slapping ride into and out of the belly of the beast. Join extreme angler Mark Spitzer as he encounters man-eating catfish, ruthless barracuda, lacerating conger eels, berserk tarpon, and blood-curdling sharks in locales as exotic as the Amazon, Catalonia, the Dominican Republic, Senegal, and even in our own backyards.
But this eco-odyssey isn't just about meeting and releasing some of the most grotesque lunkers in the world. It's about implementing solutions for problems as behemoth as global warming and issues as common as choosing what to eat for dinner. And as the ice caps melt at the rate of 1 percent annually, Spitzer battles his most epic goliath: a leviathan that dwells in the depths of us all, making us ask who the real monsters are, what our responsibilities truly are, and what we can possibly do to sustain our planet and ourselves when faced with such demonic disenlightenment. Spitzer then beats this whopper into submission by reframing his call to action and finding his own way. A new portal to the underworld has been opened in the cutting-edge literature of monster fish, and this is your entry ticket.
BIOLOGICAL DATA
Originally from Brooklyn, Anna Eidolon moved to Pittsburgh in 2015. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Village Voice, In Our Own Words, Resister, Spinning, and Edges. Most recently, she was the recipient of the Into the Light writing prize at Chatham University. She may ask you for a cigarette.
Lea Graham is a writer, translator and professor who lives in Rosendale, New York and Mayflower, Arkansas. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Northwest Arkansas. She has lived in Joplin, Missouri; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois; Worcester, Massachusetts; Santiago, Dominican Republic; San Jose, Costa Rica; Florence, Italy and Quito, Ecuador. She earned her B.A. in English from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is Associate Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York where she has been on faculty since 2007.
Graham is the author of the poetry collection, Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You (No Tell Books, 2011), along with three chapbooks, Spell to Spell (above/ground Press, 2018), This End of the World: Notes to Robert Kroetsch (Apt. 9 Press, 2016) and Calendar Girls (above/ground Press, 2006).
Her poems, reviews, essays and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies that include 3Elements Review, Politics/Letters, Crab Creek Review, Bateau, Poor Yorick, Milk, The Southern Humanities Review, Reflecting Pool: Poets and the Creative Process (Codhill Press, 2018) and The Southern Poetry Anthology VI: Tennessee, Vol. 6 (Texas Review Press, 2013).
In 2018 she won the Literal Latte' Poetry Contest.
Shawn Maddey doesn't have a bio anymore. No one needs to know anything about him.
John Thomas Menesini is fluffing his bio or cranking out new poems, hopefully. He is the author of The Last Great Glass Meat Million, e pit ap h, endo: Poems & Sketches 2007-2011, & Gloom Hearts & Opioids. You know Johnny.
Daniel Parme is the author of Hungry, a novel about cannibals in Pittsburgh, and Confluence, a novel about noncannibals in Pittsburgh. Post, a novella about noncannibals not in Pittsburgh, is forthcoming from Running Wild Press. For years, he slung the suds at various local sudseries; currently, he oversees the suds-slinging at a proper drinking and dining establishment.
Jess Simms is a freelance ghostwriter and fiction writer. She's an editor with the After Happy Hour Review and has had a handful of stories published in literary journals, with recent publications including the Oakland Review, Bardic Tales and Sage Advice, and Rind Literary Magazine.
Mark Spitzer is an associate professor of writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including Season of the Gar: Adventures in Pursuit of America's Most Misunderstood Fish and Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West (Nebraska, 2017). Spitzer has consulted for Nat Geo's Monster Fish and appeared on Animal Planet's River Monsters.
Robert Walicki's work has appeared in over 50 journals, including Pittsburgh City Paper, Fourth River, Stone Highway Review, and Red River Review. A Pushcart and a Best of The Net nominee, Robert has published two chapbooks: A Room Full of Trees (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and The Almost Sound of Snow Falling (Night Ballet Press), which was nominated to the 2016 List of Books for New York City's Poets House. His first full-length collection, Black Angels, is now available from Pittsburgh's Six Gallery Press.
7/7 Inflammatosis! by Mark Spitzer & Spell to Spell by Lea Graham launch party @ Nine Stories Books + Alien Buddha Invades Erie @ Ember+Forge
Posted in Events, Interviews, New Releases with tags above/ground press, Alien Buddha Press, Arkansas Ghoulash, Barbara Edelman, Ben Gwin, Clean Time, Crab Creek Review, Ember+Forge, From the Hotel Vernon, Heath Brougher, Inflammatosis, Jason Baldinger, Jay Miner, Jeremy Stolz, Karen Lillis, Lea Graham, Luke Kuzmish, Mark Spitzer, Matt Borczon, Nine Stories Pittsburgh, Scott Thomas Outlar, Scotty Lewis, Spell to Spell, Thasia Anne, The Second Elizabeth on June 20, 2018 by 6GPress
7PM Saturday, July 7 at Nine Stories Books, three scribblers from Arkansas join three from the 412 to celebrate the launch of Mark Spitzer's latest book Inflammatosis, "a big, punk-ass Fuck You to all the petty, pretentious haters out there dicking around with 1) his life, 2) your life, 3) all our lives, and 4) fish."
Mark Spitzer, novelist, poet, essayist and literary translator, grew up in Minneapolis where he earned his Bachelor's degree at the University of Minnesota in 1990. He then moved to the Rockies, where he earned his Master's in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado. After living on the road for some time, he found himself in Paris, as Writer in Residence for three years at the bohemian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, where he translated French criminals and misanthropes. In 1997 he moved to Louisiana, became Assistant Editor of the legendary lit journal Exquisite Corpse, and earned an MFA from Louisiana State University. He taught creative writing and lit for five years at Truman State University and is now an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas.
Traveling with Mark from the home state of Johnny Cash & C. D. Wright will be Lea Graham & Scotty Lewis. We'll also be celebrating the launch of Lea's new chapbook.
Spell to Spell
by Lea Graham
Gristle, (n.) cartilage; tough cartilaginous, tendinous, or fibrous matter
For Georganna Ulary
Grit's spell. / A bone of sound / between hustle, just whistle. / Grist to the mill of welter, / close to grisly but more wattle / less huddle. / Tattooed thistle, / apple of my ire, / a subtle gris-gris / around the wrist of tussle. / The gist of it: / A muscle that fasts is lost. / We must wrestle that lustful, fustling angel of self, / bedazzle that recluse; / bust and move the offal, / dis refusal. / Wrest our names, / our castling furies, / cast and fuss to surge, / gird and guzzle that shit; / grease the wheels against hair-shirts of hurt, / storm the bastille of cry, the cradle of grow; / jazz and cussle this tigress, / this mottled grindle of rage, / muddle the sonic barb. / Steal away steal away steal away home
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Lea Graham is the author of the forthcoming book, From the Hotel Vernon (Salmon Press, 2019), the chapbook, This End of the World: Notes to Robert Kroetsch (Apt. 9 Press, 2016) and the poetry book, Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You (No Tell Books, 2011). She is an associate professor at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY and a native of Northwest Arkansas.
This is Graham's third above/ground press chapbook, after Calendar Girls (2006) and metric : a collaboration (with rob mclennan, 2011).
Here's another poem from Spell to Spell at Crab Creek Review.
Scotty Lewis is a 2015 graduate of the Arkansas Writers MFA Program. His first book of poetry, Arkansas Ghoulash, came out last December on Six Gallery. Here's an interview with Scotty talking about the book, & here's another one.
The Pittsburgh lineup is pretty outstanding too:
Karen Lillis is a writer and bookseller. She is the author of four poetic novels, including The Second Elizabeth (Six Gallery Press, 2009), and runs Karen's Book Row, a pop up and online bookshop. Her writing has appeared in The Austin Chronicle, The Brooklyn Rail, Evergreen Review, LA Cultural Weekly, and the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology, among others. An Acker Award winner for Avant Garde Excellence in Fiction, her recent publications include Submerging Zine, From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream, and forthcoming prose in Local Knowledge (Fall 2018).
Ben Gwin is the Fiction Editor at Burrow Press Review. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, Bridge Eight, Word Riot, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, and others. His novel manuscript, Clean Time: The True Story of Ronald Reagan Middleton, was shortlisted for the 2014 Pressgang Prize, and named a semifinalist for the 2015 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize. He lives in Pittsburgh with his daughter.
I'd add that Clean Time is out now & by all accounts hilarious. You can read a bit of it at Literary Hub.
Barbara Edelman is the author of the poetry collection Dream of the Gone-From City from Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017. Her poems have appeared in journals nationally, including Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, and Poet Lore; in translation in the Italian journal Nuovi Argomenti, and in several anthologies. Her short prose has appeared in Rattle and Arts & Letters. She's the author of two poetry chapbooks: Exposure, Finishing Line Press, 2014 and A Girl in Water, Parallel Press, 2002. Her work has been recognized with a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts individual artist's grant in poetry and the Turow-Kinder Prize in short fiction.
Edelman teaches in the writing, composition, and literature programs at Pitt and coordinates the Writers' Café. She won the 2012 CGS Student Choice Award for teaching. She holds a B.A. in English from Colgate University, an M.A. in English from California State University Northridge, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh.
Meanwhile, in Erie, it's
Open mic and featured writers series
feat. Jason Baldinger, Heath Brougher, Scott Thomas Outlar, Jay Miner, Jeremy Stolz, Luke Kuzmish, Matt Borczon, Thasia Anne, & Veronica Hopkins at Ember+Forge.
Posted in New Releases, Recent Publications with tags Alan Olifson, Angele Ellis, Arkansas Ghoulash, Jessica Fenlon, Manchild, Manual for Wayward Angels, Mark Spitzer, Rebecca Clever, Scotty Lewis, Under the Kaufmann's Clock, Viva Arletty! Our Lady of the Egrets on December 31, 2017 by 6GPress
Here they all are, albeit blurrier than IRL. Available wherever they are sold (the authors, your local bookmonger or library, an evil, horrifying corporate leviathan, etc.). The ones I edited & laid out all have "man" in the title & the ones Mark Spitzer did all have "ar" & "la".
Here they are again, in order of release, w/ better pics:
Thanks for reading & see ya next year!
12/16 Holiday Book Sale Redux @ Irma Freeman Center for Imagination
Posted in Events, New Releases with tags Air & Nothingness Press, Alan Olifson, Ally Malinenko, Angele Ellis, Arkansas Ghoulash, Chuck Kinder, Don Wentworth, Elwin Cotman, Hyacinth Girl Press, Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Jason Baldinger, Jessica Fenlon, John Grochalski, Karen Lillis, Karen's Book Row, Lilliput Review, Low Ghost Press, Manchild, Manual for Wayward Angels, Mark Spitzer, Muskrat Friday Dinner, Rebecca Clever, Scott Silsbe, Scotty Lewis, Unconditional Surrender, Under the Kaufmann's Clock, Very Important Books, Victor E. Navarro Jr., Viva Arletty! Our Lady of the Egrets on December 10, 2017 by 6GPress
12-5PM SATURDAY…
Join us for a SECOND CHANCE to browse great books from Pittsburgh authors, publishers, and booksellers.
Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination
5006 Penn Avenue
Penn Avenue Arts District
Confirmed vendors so far:
Air & Nothingness Press
Hyacinth Girl Press
Lilliput Review
Karen's Book Row–with many books from Pittsburgh publishers!
Very Important Books–fiction & zines
Authors signing books!
I'll be sharing a table w/ Don Wentworth at this, so visit us for all your Six Gallery Press & Lilliput Review needs. Pictured are Manual for Wayward Angels by Jessica Fenlon, the Low Ghost love poem anthology Unconditional Surrender, & Muskrat Friday Dinner by Scott Silsbe, three great books from 2017 (I've at least skimmed the other ones & strongly suspect they're also pretty good). The latest Six Gallery titles Viva Arletty! by Mark Spitzer & Arkansas Ghoulash by Scotty Lewis, Manchild by Alan Olifson, & Under the Kaufmann's Clock by Angele Ellis w/ photos by Rebecca Clever, will be available too, along w/ selections from the back catalog by Ally Malinenko, Chuck Kinder, Elwin Cotman, Jason Baldinger, John Grochalski, Victor Navarro, book sale organizer Karen Lillis, & more.
12/17 Viva Arletty! & Arkansas Ghoulash launch @ White Whale + Bah Humbug 4 @ Brillobox
Posted in Events, Interviews, New Releases with tags Alan Olifson, Andrea Laurion, Angele Ellis, Arkansas Ghoulash, Becky Corrigan, Bob Walicki, Brillobox, Deesha Philyaw, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, Jason Baldinger, John Thomas Menesini, Lori Jakiela, Mark Spitzer, Matt Ussia, Meghan Tutolo, Rich Gegick, Rick Claypool, Scotty Lewis, Stephanie Brea, Viva Arletty! Our Lady of the Egrets, White Whale Bookstore on December 7, 2017 by 6GPress
Two new books & two readings! The Ghost of Literature Present will pay a terrifying visit today!
6PM at White Whale in Bloomfield, welcome two writers from Arkansas to Pittsburgh (& welcome their books to your noodle by buying & reading them, too). Free readings & refreshments, possibly including actual goulash.
Scotty Lewis, a 2015 graduate of the Arkansas Writers MFA Program, is debuting his first book of poetry, Arkansas Ghoulash.
Here's an interview w/ Scotty talking about the book, & here's another one.
Alan Olifson is an award-winning humor columnist, public radio commentator, comedian and regular host of Pittsburgh's monthly Moth StorySLAMs. He created the acclaimed storytelling series WordPlay in his hometown of Los Angeles which he now produces in Pittsburgh along with Bricolage Production Company as part of their regular season. He's hosted storytelling events for conferences, schools and, believe it or not, bridal showers. His book, Manchild: My Life Without Adult Supervision, is now out on Six Gallery Press. Alan relocated to Pittsburgh with his wife and two children years ago but never tires of hearing people complain about "traffic."
Angele Ellis is the author of Arab on Radar (Six Gallery), Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors' Choice Chapbook), Under the Kaufmann's Clock: Fiction, Poems, and Photographs of Pittsburgh with photos by Rebecca Clever (Six Gallery), and co-author of the diversity workbook Dealing With Differences (Corwin). A 2008 recipient of an Individual Creative Artist fellowship in poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, she was a prizewinner in the 2007 RAWI Competition for Creative Prose and first runner-up in the 2012 Grey Sparrow Flash Fiction Contest. Angele's reviews, poetry, and fiction have appeared in nearly sixty publications and fourteen anthologies. She is a contributing editor to Al Jadid Magazine.
John Thomas Menesini is the author of The Last Great Glass Meat Million (Six Gallery Press, 2003), e pit ap h (Convergence, 2007), endo: Poems & Sketches 2007 – 2011 (Six Gallery Press, 2011), and Gloom Hearts & Opioids (Six Gallery Press, 2015). His poems have appeared in numerous publications in Ireland, Scotland, England, and the US, thus garnering dozens of fans across the globe.
Rick Claypool grew up in a small town in western Pennsylvania called Leechburg, but he currently lives in Pittsburgh. By day he works for Public Citizen, a nonprofit organization that fights corporate power. Leech Girl Lives (Spaceboy Books, 2017) is his first novel.
At 8PM, head over to Brillobox for Bah Humbug 4: Writers (Still) Wrestle the Holiday Spirit…
Tastier than a fruitcake, easier to assemble than a Fisher Price playhouse, for the FOURTH year in a row, we are bringing some of Pittsburgh's finest writers together to entertain you with tales of their holiday work experiences.
$5 suggested donation, proceeds benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
The readers will channel their inner-Sedaris, and offer up tales from their time as food service employees, retail workers, and other assorted time-card punchers during the bleak months of November and December. They will attempt to locate their hoilday spirit. Or THE holiday spirits (aka, Jim, Jack and maybe even Johnny).
Just like signing the group birthday card or buying overpriced crap from your co-worker's kid's school fundraiser, UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATERS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.
Hosted by Jason Baldinger (who was once run over by a Black Friday crowd on a rampage for office supplies), and Stephanie Brea (who probably stole that art book she gave you for Christmas in 2001).
Becky Corrigan
Rich Gegick
Lori Jakiela
Andrea Laurion
Deesha Philyaw
Meghan Tutolo
Matt Ussia
When The Wizard of Oz Breaks Out into a Gun Battle: An Interview with Scotty Lewis, Author of Arkansas Ghoulash
Posted in Events, Interviews, New Releases with tags Alan Olifson, Angele Ellis, Arkansas Ghoulash, Énbarr Coleman, Briget Laskowski, Callie Smith, Drew Cook, JJ McNiece, John Thomas Menesini, Mark Spitzer, Mikayla Davis, Rick Claypool, Scotty Lewis, White Whale Bookstore on October 28, 2017 by 6GPress
Mark Spitzer says,
Hey, my grad students in poetry just did a kick-ass interview with Scotty on his book.
& here it is. Mark & Scotty will read from their new books Sunday, December 17th at White Whale Bookstore in Bloomfield, along with locals Alan Olifson, Angele Ellis, John Menesini, & Rick Claypool.
When The Wizard of Oz Breaks Out into a Gun Battle:
An Interview with Scotty Lewis, Author of Arkansas Ghoulash
By Drew Cook, Énbarr Coleman, Callie Smith, Briget Laskowski, JJ McNiece, and Mikayla Davis
Scotty Lewis, a lecturer in Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, was recently featured at the Faulkner County Library in Conway for a "Debut-Break-Out-Book-Readin-Book-Signin Bonanza." Hot off the press from Six Gallery Press in Pittsburgh, Arkansas Ghoulash is his first book, and it wasn't an easy story to tell. On one hand, the narrative revolves around a tragic act of domestic violence; but on the other, it is a daring and complex epic poem in the postmodern tradition that relies on lyrical flashes from a highly unnatural "natural state." After a dramatic reading that blew his audience away, Lewis responded to questions—an opportunity that graduate students in Creative Writing from the Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop conveniently exploited:
Drew Cook: One of things you do in Arkansas Ghoulash is you take established forms and then you kind of collage them together so they're not visually recognizable and all that's left is the music. It's really a high Modernist approach. I'm interested in how you arrived at that strategy, and if there were any difficulties and advantages in doing so.
Scotty Lewis: There are a lot of things that make poetry good or bad but one of the key things is music. Do I like improvisation? Of course. We like jazz but we also like form. The best improvisation realizes that there's form, and it breaks it. The best improvisation realizes form. In a way this caused major difficulties because I might have preferred a straight narrative, but I don't know if it would have worked that way. Emotionally, it was hard for me to do even as abstract as it is. If I turned this into a very straightforward story, I don't know that I could have done it. Playing with the music of it, playing with the feeling of it, being able to be lyrical in different ways… it helped me capture the feel of it.
Énbarr Coleman: What stuck out most to me was the mention of the Berlin Wall because I noticed that you had a lot of these violent images, a lot of nature, and also soft and gentle stuff. Then suddenly you've got the Berlin Wall and things of that nature thrown in. In my opinion, it went from this very local poem to much grander, much more international. I was curious to hear your thoughts on that.
Lewis: There were several markers. The Berlin Wall is in there. Tiananmen Square is in there. There are a few big events of the time that were in there. If you go through the book, there are about seven or eight of those in there. Part of those are to mark time. This is the era that we're talking about. This is the time we're talking about. This poem jumps around a lot. Even tonight—and I didn't want to stop and indicate necessarily because it would have broken up the rhythm of it—but there are places in the part I read tonight that weren't necessarily sticking to one timeline. Those markers were put in there to anchor the reader in a certain time. They were also in there not only to give a sense of the violence that was taking place and erupting in my household, but also that was erupting around the world. The two things may not be related really, but they seem related. I mean, I grew up in the 1980s, so I certainly didn't grow up with a cell phone, but I did grow up with a television. I did grow up with a Commodore 64. I grew up with enough technology to always be in touch with what was going on in the world. So I don't think there is such a thing as living a completely local life anymore.
Callie Smith: The epic form of Arkansas Ghoulash is unusual in contemporary poetry—you don't see that much. How did you decide on writing in this epic form? What were the challenges and what did it buy you?
Lewis: That's such an interesting question. While it is the length of an epic, I think I really fell short on a lot of the other elements, but I did sort of want to include some aspects of the epic while writing it. I do think, in a sense, there is a journey to the underworld and an attempt, at least, to come back. So what inspired me to do that? I don't know, but my favorite epic poem is The Odyssey, which I refer to in the poem. And I knew I wasn't going to be able to do it in short form. I didn't want to do it as necessarily sixty poems about the same event. I thought it needed space to grow . . . But I was also keeping a lot of different forms in mind. Within the text, there are places where sonnets, blank verse, where American haiku is hidden—where a lot of smaller forms are actually talking back and forth to each other.
JJ McNiece: I felt a hyperpolarization with your imagery as you read. On one end: brutal, severe violence. On the other: soft, sweet calm. It seemed that the beginning displayed more of the brutal imagery, while the images during the violent event itself were often softer, though interspersed with the brutal. At the end, I felt the imagery gravitated almost exclusively toward that sweet, softer side. I'm curious what your conscious decisions are with imagery and language as you're going through this? What are you trying to accomplish?
Lewis: I was trying to accomplish a balance. If this is going to be genuine, I don't think I can gloss over the violence. This was a very violent incident. So, even the things surrounding it, even the consciousness of the narrator while he looks into other things—simple things—notices violence more, even in the landscape. I hope, too, that there are softer parts. I don't know that I made a conscious decision to polarize those things, but both exist. Do I decide to make softer images? I do, but I don't know that I think about it that much. I try to make a pretty image now and then. I like to make images. I think it's a stronger suit of my poetry.
Briget Laskowski: My question deals with images, particularly the images you have on page 63 and 64 where you use the Tin Man image. In fact you even take his words, "Just because I'm presumin' / That I could be a human / If I only had a heart," and then on page 64 you have Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Donald Duck. What were you attempting to communicate using these images?
Lewis: Those were domestic images. I wanted to make sure people understood what those images were about. It was very close, very in the home. It was The Wizard of Oz breaking out into a gunfight. It was Loony Tunes in a certain sense. I was fifteen years old. I was really just crawling into adolescence . . . I felt like a child. So I wanted to make sure that things we associated with children like Mickey Mouse and The Wizard of Oz were there. Another reason for The Wizard of Oz specifically, was the year this happened my brother was extremely talented, very handsome, and he was beginning his acting career, and his acting career launched off partially from his acting in plays at our school. Probably his biggest role was as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Actually, in the yearbook for the next year there was a full page spread of my brother as the Tin Man.
Mikayla Davis: Many of your poems use natural imagery juxtaposed with very human, sometimes even mechanical imagery, so I was wondering what purpose you see that relationship playing in your poems? And what is humanity's position in relationship with nature, for you?
Lewis: I think we're way past being romantics about it. I think that would be disingenuous. I think that would be a lie. I love nature. I love going out. I love to fish, I love to hike. Those of you who know me know I love to be outside, but I always see it diminishing. I don't really see our efforts to fight it as being very good or even very genuine. I mean, we're part of nature, right? And so anything we see, if there are mechanical images mixed in with the natural—what we make is as much a part of nature as an ant making an anthill or beaver making a beaver dam. It might be more complicated in the way we do it, but we're part of nature. We're just one of those things in nature that really knows how to screw things up. We're like termites. We're going to keep eating at the tree until we kill it.
9/27 Arkansas Ghoulash Launch @ Faulkner County Library + Bridge Series @ Brillobox
Posted in Events, New Releases with tags Arkansas Ghoulash, Brillobox, Conway Public Library, Drew Cook, Faulkner County Library, Jeff Oaks, Joan Bauer, Justin Vicari, Lea Graham, Lisa Alexander, Littsburgh, Marck Beggs, Mark Spitzer, Nancy Allen, Persad Center, Scotty Lewis, The Bridge Series on September 13, 2017 by 6GPress
7PM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27…
CONWAY, AR— UCA Visiting Lecturer, Scotty Lewis, the first graduate of the MFA program in creative writing to defend his thesis at UCA, will read from his debut book at 7:00 p.m. on September 27th at the Conway Public Library. Arkansas Ghoulash, recently published by Six Gallery Press in Pittsburgh, evolved from his thesis, a highly complex and lyrical epic poem written in the form of investigative verse.
Described by Drew Cook as "at once oppressively intimate and as wide as the American South," Arkansas Ghoulash examines the poet's violent domestic past. Marck Beggs, author of Blind Verse, says that Lewis "displays a dazzling ability to shove poetic style and grace to the outer edges," in a book that Lea Graham, author of Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You," describes as "a stew of ghosts" in a "mercurial slipstream."
The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase with a signing to follow. The Faulkner County Library is located at 1900 Tyler St. in Conway. For more information please contact Nancy Allen at nancy@fcl.org or call (501) 327-7482.
8PM WEDNESDAY…
The Bridge Series unites the Pittsburgh literary and activist communities to raise awareness and funds for local organizations fighting the good fight in these troubling times.
The series convenes the last Wednesday of each month at The Brillobox. Each installment will feature Pittsburgh's finest writers and a special guest organization (with proceeds from the evening going directly to that organization).
$5 cover.
Tonight will feature readings from:
Lisa Alexander's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals including Tupelo Quarterly, 2 Bridges Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, The Burnside Review, BLOOM, and 5 AM among others. She holds an MFA in poetry from Drew University, and is a member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops. Alexander has led poetry workshops at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg, California University of Pennsylvania, Drew University in Madison, NJ and the Isles YouthBuild Community Program in Trenton, NJ. She has been a sound engineer for Prosody, NPR-affiliate WESA's weekly show featuring the work of national writers for eight years and counting.
A lifelong writer, Justin Vicari is a widely published poet, critic and translator. His first collection, The Professional Weepers (Pavement Saw, 2011), won the Transcontinental Award. His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Spoon River Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Hotel Amerika, The Ledge, Oranges & Sardines, American Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Third Coast, and other journals. He is also the author of six books of film and literary theory, including Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival (McFarland, 2011) and Mad Muses and the Early Surrealists (McFarland, 2001). He lives in the South Hills of Pittsburgh.
Jeff Oaks is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Mistakes with Strangers (Seven Kitchens Press, 2014), Shift (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010), The Moon of Books (Ultima Obscura Press, 2000), and The Unknown Country (State Street Press, 1992). The recipient of three Pennsylvania Council of the Arts fellowships, he has published poems most recently in Field, Nimrod, Mid-American Review, Superstition Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Tupelo Quarterly. His essays have appeared in At Length, Creative Nonfiction, Kenyon Review Online, and in the anthologies My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, and Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction. He teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Our guest organization for the evening is Persad Center.
PERSAD CENTER is a human service organization whose mission is to improve the well-being of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning) communities, and the HIV/AIDS communities. We serve our target populations and their loved ones, cradle to grave, across western Pennsylvania, with service centers in Pittsburgh and Washington, PA.
PERSAD fulfills its missions through outreach, prevention counseling, training and advocacy services.
OUTREACH. In collaboration with allies and friends, PERSAD works to build stronger, safer, healthier communities and steer the public dialogue about LGBTQ people and issues. Our target populations have experienced stigma and discrimination and because of that they do not enjoy the same access to quality care. PERSAD reaches out to our target populations and welcomes them to receive services they need.
PREVENTION. Recognizing that LGBTQ people are at higher risk for suicide, depression, substance abuse, HIV and other STDs, homelessness, and for being the victims of violence, PERSAD has special programs to help the community be aware of their risks and to develop protective behaviors to reduce their risks.
ADVOCACY. PERSAD offers an array of Training & Advocacy consultation services that are designed to help organizations work successfully with LGBTQ consumers and employees. We are dedicated to ending discrimination and creating welcoming environments for LGBTQ people. Our Training & Advocacy services are available to health and human service professionals, schools, corporations, HR professionals, law enforcement and public safety officials.
COUNSELING. Founded in 1972, PERSAD is the nation's second oldest licensed counseling center serving the LGBTQ community and people living with HIV. PERSAD was created as an affirming counseling center to help LGBTQ people cope with the social discrimination they experienced and to receive professional counseling services without prejudice about their identity.
In the early 1980's PERSAD added serving the HIV/AIDS communities to our mission because of the devastating impact that HIV had on the gay population of that time. PERSAD continues to serve the HIV+ individual regardless of their sexual or gender orientation.
For more on PERSAD, go to: www.persadcenter.org
Here's a Littsburgh interview w/ Joan Bauer, who put this one together.
7/28 A Hellbender Reading w/ Mark Spitzer, Lea Graham, & Co. @ EEBX
Posted in Events, Video with tags Anaphora Literary Press, Che Elias, Don Wentworth, East End Book Exchange, EEBX, Glurk! A Hellbender Odyssey, John Thomas Menesini, Karen Lillis, Lea Graham, Mark Spitzer, Pittsburgh City Paper on July 16, 2016 by 6GPress
Mark Spitzer has a new book out from Anaphora Literary Press about the wonderful hellbender, North America's largest salamander!
Hear Mark read from his epic poem along with poet Lea Graham & local Six Gallery stalwarts Che Elias, Karen Lillis, John Thomas Menesini, & Don Wentworth… or risk the wrath of the hellbender!
As animal names go, "hellbender" is a pretty good one. So if Mark Spitzer's book-length poem about North America's largest salamander (which can grow to more than 2 feet long) is titled Glurk! (Anaphora Literary Press) instead, it's for reasons you'll have to learn for yourself when the Arkansas-based author reads at East End Book Exchange. Tonight's reading, backed by music made on the custom-made stringed instrument called The Electric Hellbender, also includes words from New York-based poet Lea Graham and local luminaries Che Elias, Karen Lillis, John Thomas Menesini and Don Wentworth. Bill O'Driscoll 7 p.m. 4754 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. Free. 412-224-2847
Pittsburgh City Paper
5/26 To My Divine Spark/Gloom Hearts & Opioids launch @ Classic Lines
Posted in Events, New Releases with tags Che Elias, Classic Lines, Elijah Bennedict Brown, Evan Swanson, Gloom Hearts & Opioids, John Thomas Menesini, Kevin Finn, Lea Graham, Mark Spitzer, To My Divine Spark on May 25, 2016 by 6GPress


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totally top five 2k13: jamz
The end of 2013 is upon us and just like last year I've decided to round-up some of my favorite pop culture experiences into Totally Top 5 lists for your perusal. Again, like last year, I've let my iTunes play counts do the talking and started with my top five jamz for the year. Here we go!
5. Fall Out Boy, "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)"
This song is a jam. It's all energetic yelling and Patrick Stump's wailing and it's so, so good for screaming out your car windows when it's, y'know, warm enough to have them rolled down. I always really like Fall Out Boy's wordplay and this one's got a couple of great bits. So good.
4. M.I.A., "Bad Girls"
The ultimate song for a car full of girls who are excited to be alive. I can't even count the number of times someone pulled up next to me at a stop light and rolled up their window because I was blaring this so loud and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm not a badass, but this lets me fake it pretty god damn well.
3.Icona Pop, "I Love It"
Like everyone else on Earth this year, I could not avoid this song and, like the large majority of those same people, I embraced the hell out of it. This song is fun, it's feel-good, and even if it's overstayed its welcome a little, it was still one hell of a jam.
2. Katy Perry, "Roar"
Katy Perry's done and said some dumb stuff — though I think that is just part of the territory of being successful, mistakes are made — but it hasn't slowed down the juggernaut that is her pop reign. This song is glorious and if you haven't cried like at least twice while listening to it then I just don't understand what you're doing. I love this song so much that I've had dream arguments where I went to the mat defending it. That's a jam.
1. Selena Gomez, "Come & Get It"
When this came out in spring, I was utterly powerless against it and just left it on repeat for days at a time. I really kind of love her — appropriation issues aside, sigh — and this is just such a jam. Great beat, great chorus, and the perfect length for a pop hit. Jam and a half.
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Commissioner Galeano was appointed by Supervisor Malia Cohen and is serving her second year on the Youth Commission. Before joining the YC, she began her advocacy as a youth leader with Project WHAT, a leadership program of youth with incarcerated parents, where she led a youth participatory action research project on CIP issues and helped train service providers on working with children with incarcerated parents. She is a first-generation college student from an immigrant family. She recently began courses at SFSU after transferring from City College, and is a graduate of Balboa High School. She lives in public housing in Potrero Hill and has two younger siblings. During her first term on the YC, Cecilia served as chair of the commission's youth justice committee and advocated for family-friendly jail visiting policies and improved relations between youth and police. In addition to being a student and youth commissioner, Cecilia works part-time.


Cheeky in Blue: Gas or a new pair of shoes?
So going to fill my car up today was rather depressing when I saw the final tally on my little gas meter. Seriously, this is getting out of control.
OK, so $92.15 will only get you a down payment on these little numbers, but someplace, somewhere is a knockoff with my name written all over it...either that, or I'll have to hide them oh so carefully in an undisclosed location so that Big D doesn't know the damage I have done...because let's face it, what happens in Neiman's, stays in Neiman's!


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Times of Services
10:00 AM Sunday
Confession Before divine liturgy or by appointment
Other services By appointment
Pascha Liturgy 2019
St. Andrew Orthodox Church was founded in 1906 by immigrants from Eastern Europe who settled in city of Butler and the town of Lyndora which is adjacent to the afore mentioned city. It is located in the South East corner of the US Census Bureau's [designated places] (CDP) for Butler in the valley of Connoquenessing Creek.
St. Andrew is one of two Orthodox churches in Lyndora and the oldest in Butler County, the other is SS. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church, established in 1921, and one of three in Butler County and that is the St. Anthony's Antiochian Orthodox Church, Butler, established in the 1960's, all within close proximity to the other.
St. Andrew Orthodox Church is under the omophorion of His Eminence, the Most Rev. Archbishop Melchisedek, Archbishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania and is a parish of the Orthodox Church in America.
All of our services are in the vernacular [English], the long held tradition of the church.
Come and visit us, pray with us and take refreshments with us after Sunday Divine Liturgy. We are a welcoming community and are not judgemental.
Join us and experience the joy of the Lord!
"May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord let his face shine on you and be gracious to you. May The Lord show you his face and bring you peace." [Num 6.23-26]
Archpriest Keith W. Lowe M.Div.