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Marine Management Official Launch
15 June 2010, at 1:00am
UK - The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) will hold its national launch today. The MMO was established this year under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 to deliver the UK government's vision for clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas.
It will balance the development of marine industries, such as wind farms and oil and gas exploration, with the need to conserve and protect marine species and habitats.
The UK is one of the first countries in the world to successfully introduce a single piece of legislation to protect the marine environment.
The MMO's responsibilities include:
implementing a new marine planning system to balance the varied uses of our seas;
bringing in a new marine licensing regime that is easier for everyone to use - from individual sea users to corporate developers - with clearer, simpler and quicker licensing decisions;
streamlining the management and regulation of England's fisheries;
working with Natural England and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) to create and manage a network of protected areas - marine conservation zones (MCZs) - designed to preserve species and habitats, from the rare and threatened to the more common;
responding to marine emergencies alongside other agencies.
Chair of the MMO, Chris Parry, said: "The MMO has been up and running since the beginning of April as the champion of sustainable development in our marine and coastal areas. I believe that we are already seeing the considerable benefits of integrated marine management and having a single delivery body, working at both national and local levels, on behalf of all those with an interest and stake in our seas."
MMO Chief Executive, Steven Gant, added: "We know that balancing the needs of industries critical to our country's wellbeing, such as energy exploration and fishing, with the pressing needs of our marine eco-systems will be challenging.
"But we are confident we have the expertise and powers in place to do this successfully. And everyone will benefit from cleaner and healthier seas."
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment and Fisheries, Richard Benyon said: "The Marine and Coastal Access Act is groundbreaking legislation and the MMO will be a vital part in its successful implementation. Our seas are facing increasing pressures, but through the expertise in this one body we will be able to manage those pressures more effectively."
Experts to strengthen Spain's aqua sector
The first meeting of a group that aims to promote the sustainable growth of Spain's marine aquaculture sector took place last week.
CP Vietnam seeks 100 percent IFFO RS certified fishmeal by 2022
The certification would ensure consumers that CP Vietnam's fishmeal supply was created in safe and sustainable conditions.
US representatives introduce a bill to expand aid to fisheries harmed by tariffs
US Senator Ron Wyden (D- Oregon) and Representative Seth Moulton (D- Massachusetts) have introduced legislation that expands disaster relief to fisheries that have been adversely affected by tariffs.


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How I Will See Further on the Shoulders of Content Marketing Giants
by Greg Mischio | Content Marketing
It's easy to get sucked into a routine and stagnate toward mediocre results when you're a small marketing department. That's when you need to climb onto the shoulders of giants, like I did at Content Jam in Chicago. And with this post, I'll share some secrets from the biggest (and best) in the biz.
When you're in a small marketing department, you mostly operate in a low-grade panic. You're splitting your day between planning for the future, putting out fires in the present, and trying to catch up on all those tasks from the past.
If you do get into a nice groove, which is entirely possible with content marketing, you can achieve success. The speakers at Content Jam, held November 4-5 in Chicago, gave plenty of advice to ensure that short-term success doesn't slip into a routine, and you don't fall asleep at the wheel.
Meet the giants
Andy Crestodina and his team at Orbit Media in Chicago organize and host Content Jam. This is my third year there, and his team, led by Amanda Gant, continues to top the previous year's effort — no easy feat.
I'd like to share my big takeaways from each of the speakers I saw. (Apologies to those I missed — I'll be circling back to you for more insights.)
These are takeaways I've tailored to small marketing departments, knowing what it takes to implement and operate an ongoing content marketing effort when you're short on resources. To these experts, I'm sorry if I lost any of your message in my paraphrasing. But I think I've captured your intent.
Joanna Wiebe, Copy Hackers
Money over education, first person over second.
Joanna's tale was a shot across the bow for those who believe the objective of content marketing is to "educate." Sure, we want to enlighten customers, but at the end of day, we need to make MONEY.
She explained how today's content should really be transitioned into old-school long-form ad copy, and she noted a classic full page ad from 1924 (see below). Our #1 objective should be to drive leads.
After that big picture kick in the pants, Joanna shared quite a few amazing conversion gems Copy Hackers has uncovered along the way:
Write your posts — headlines especially — in first person. People like stories, and the second person puts the pressure on them. (Refer to that piano ad for more proof!)
"Formula the crap" out of your headlines. Formulaic headlines are like Harlequin romances; the same approach works time and time again. So don't get fancy — stick to what works.
Tap into the pain. Always put the pain upfront in your posts. It's what draws people in. Save the positive thinking for when you pull people from the depths of despair.
Research-o-rama. Joanna noted that the true key to any successful post these days is to conduct "more research than you can imagine." The more you put in, the better you'll perform.
Aaron Orendorff, Founder of iconiContent and Marketer at Shopify Plus
Roll up your keyphrases, leverage your influencers.
I caught Aaron's presentation on how to create evergreen content — the true goal for any content marketer. You want a post that sits atop search engine rankings for a specific topic, and has both the backlinks and the useful, relevant content to ensure it won't get knocked out.
What I liked most about Aaron's presentation was that in creating an epic piece of evergreen content, he managed to integrate all the important elements of content marketing.
For example, if you're aiming to rank for a specific, high-volume keyword, you can create a series of posts built around related long-tail keyphrases and then "roll them up" into a single piece of evergreen content.
He took the same approach with seeking influencers to be part of your evergreen piece. The most successful pieces of content not only contain original contributions from influencers, but naturally generate backlinks from websites with high domain authorities.
Applying his strategy to a small content marketing effort, you can build up that network of influencers by collaborating with them for a series of posts on those long-tail keyphrase topics. Then, you can tap into their insights for the big evergreen content.
Other takeaways from Aaron:
Roll them up big to small (or vice versa). To ensure your evergreen posts are read, you can provide them in downloadable PDFs that readers can download for later. You could also take a big post and make it into an exec summary post — big to small.
Create a dream list of influencers. When you start your process, look for the biggest influencers and make your list two times as long as you think it needs to be.
"Roll" people you don't know to get influencers you'd like to meet. This is a simple task of asking influencers if they know anyone who could contribute to your post.
I'm really just touching the tip of the iceberg here. His approach to promoting your evergreen content is truly gold.
Nadya Khoja – Head of Marketing at Venngage Poster Maker
Solve a problem, then get creative.
Nadya's topic was on the 12 principles of viral content, a phenomenon we usually equate with a YouTube cat video or a catchy dance move.
But Nadya and her company are far more strategic about their viral approach than just getting a gazillion viewers. Her company, Venngage, creates viral content that creates inbound links, which are critical to search engine optimization.
For any piece of content to go viral, Nadya recommended not to rush into the content creation part of the process — first, focus on the problem you are trying to solve. With that as a starting point, she presented a 12 principles / strategies you can use to develop your own viral content.
I'll summarize a few of these principles, with links to examples of content — such as in books, infographics or just articles — that can go viral:
Offering a simplified solution for a task: How to fold a shirt in 2 seconds
Challenge the status quo: Gary Vaynerchuk post about Super Bowl ads not being expensive enough
Tap into niches and subcultures: Game of Thrones infographic
Nadya noted an essential piece of any viral content isn't just the creation, it's the promotion. Her promotion tactics include researching authors who have written on the topic, and asking whether they'd be interested in your content.
She also advocated pitching your content to ten sites to get the content placed, noting that if you get it picked up by one of the major sites, it will soon spread to other sites.
Gini Dietrich, Founder and author of Spin Sucks
Think options instead of solutions.
Gini keynoted the event, and her presentation focused on the difference between "solutions" and "options." "Solutions" tend to be the predefined path that you feel you have to take, and "options" are choices where you have control.
Her message was that you are in control of your professional future and your personal life. Be sure to always seek out your options instead of settling for solutions.
You can also apply this to content marketing. Many experts will offer advice on what you should do, but it's truly up to you, from a strategic leadership role, to apply your own situation and seek out the options that make sense for your department.
Michael Aagaard, Unbounce
Err and err again…
Because we perform a lot of conversion testing for our clients, I was excited to hear Michael Aagaard speak on confirmation bias. In a nutshell, confirmation bias is looking to confirm our pre-existing beliefs, rather than striving to uncover the truth.
For example, Michael spoke about "torturing data." This is where you "torture" data long enough so that it will "confess," or confirm your bias.
The key to overcome confirmation bias, as elementary as it may seem, is to accept the fact that you could be wrong. Ask questions, do research, challenge your beliefs, and use testing to break the confirmation bias cycle.
Michael also showed me the true beauty of a conference like this. At the after-party at a nearby bar, I asked Michael about Winbound's own conversion optimization process. It was a great opportunity to get his insights.
If I could sum up Michael's presentation, I would refer to the brilliant quote he shared from Piet Hein:
The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
and err
and err again,
but less
and less.
The power of collaboration, networking and learning.
I finish with Andy Crestodina, who also presented at Content Jam and the Chief Marketing Officer of Orbit Media Studios. Anyone who has read my blog knows I'm a fan of Andy's, and we've based much of our content strategy on his approach.
Andy's presentation included many of the things we do here at Winbound every day, such as collaborative content and refreshing old content.
I feature him not because of what he said at Content Jam (and as usual, he had a lot of valuable things to share), but because of what he did. He brought together hundreds of content marketers and showed us the power of collaboration, networking and most importantly, learning.
Marketing is not a static field. It is inevitably easy to slip into the routine, to rest on the laurels of your success, and to ride on what has worked.
But when you learn from the giants, like those at Content Jam, you see further, you see faster, and you see with heightened wisdom. How ironic that the event was held in the "City of Big Shoulders." It sure was fine to climb up on those shoulders and see all the potential this field has to offer.
Be sure to check out a great Content Jam infographic from George Stenitzer, this excellent post with top slides from Jeff Segal and insightful coverage from Sean Callahan.
Apologies to any presenters I missed at Content Jam. I hope to feature more insights from the conference in future posts!
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Greg Mischio
Greg Mischio has been a content marketing zealot for many moons. He is the Owner and Founder of Winbound, a marketing agency that provides content marketing for small marketing departments with a focus on manufacturing and industrial verticals.
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My Feelings From Attending a Rave
What is a rave? This is a fundamental question that, in a way, I will attempt to answer in this paper, but I will never do it. Raving is a highly subjective experience. One person"s best rave is another person"s worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience.It is because of this fact that I start off my attempt to analyze rave culture with a series of quotes on the experience. ".. ardcore music being slammed through my body while I dance through my own psychedelic mind trip with a few hundred other beautiful energy-filled youth who accept and embrace the life force of the universe. " -rave participant "In general practice, a "rave" often refers to a party, usually all night long, open to the general public, where loud techno music is ..
Played and many people partake of a number of different chemicals, though the latter is far from necessary.The number of people at the event is unimportant .. he cost of attendance is unimportant though in practice, the higher the price, the more commercial the event, and the lower the quality. At a rave, the DJ is a shaman, a priest, a channeler of energy-they control the psychic voyages of the dancers through his [sic] choice in hard-to-find music and their skill in manipulating that music. A large part of the concept of raves is built upon sensory overload-a barrage of audio and very often visual stimuli are brought together to elevate people into an altered state of physical or psychological existence. -rave participant "A contingent of city, state, and military police Sunday raided the Paradox Club in the 1300 block of Russell St. where at least 600 people — some as young as 14 — were attending a "rave" party at which drugs where available, a Baltimore police official said yesterday" -rave participant "I walked into the space, and was immediately struck speechless.
The bass was rattling the mirrors on the far wall. There were laser beams everywhere. The music shot into the core of my body and I moved, I just moved, all night long.People I didn"t know gave me water when I was thirsty. People gave me candy and hugs. For one night, I was one with the universe, I was one with my neighbor, and I was one with the music. " -rave participant "But the people who came to dance the night away .. never made it inside the door … the event was called off … and the crowd ordered to disperse by local police .
Standing by to assist local officers if necessary were seven members of the Green County Sheriff"s Department, the hard helmets and visors of their riot gear reflecting the overhead street lights. -Dotson"We negotiated the stairs down to the dancefloor, we began to slide in contours to the rhythm, becoming immersed in it, the bass curling round the spine which felt like it had been loosed of its inhibiting rigidity, like it had slipped the bounds of all that was holding it — us — back, and we could just flow, loose, warm, alive in a second we were amongst the throng, synched right into the matrix of bodies and sound; transported, transformed, together ..
The feeling resonated through us as the drums thrashed upwards towards climax"Collin 3 "Mr. Gimble said the rave .. as an … irresponsible and uncontrolled event … we have a responsibility to let parents know we will protect their kids . we can"t have an event where kids 12 and 13 years old are drinking, smoking, and having sex on the floor. " -Luckman ". but what struck me more than the immense sensory bliss was the amazing group of people who shared this experience with me-six thousand young, beautiful, high humans having one HELL of a good time together. No fights. No one crying in the corner. No one sick in the stairway. Everybody smiling. People would walk by and actually touch each other. Some people were naked. Some were dressed like aliens. Six thousand brothers and sisters of all races, classes, and sexual orientations. Living equality.
Beautiful. " -rave participant "Charges Pending Over Concert/Drug Bash Over Weekend … Sheriff Richard Galster said his office first heard of the gathering of mostly college age hippie-type people on Thursday … it was being sponsored by a group called RAVE. No one seems to know what the letters stand for or who the group is … to the locals, the [concert-goers] looked like creatures from another planet" -unknown newspaper article- So, what is a rave?I end this section with an amalgamation of quotes. Some are from ravers, some from articles, some from newspapers. Some you have read above, some you haven"t. What is a rave, indeed. "It"s all about the music it was being sponsored by a group called RAVE … six thousand brothers and sisters . my body feels so alive and full of energy.I can feel my nerves reaching out and carrying me away . we have a responsibility to let parents know that we will protect their kids ..
We will protect their kids. "History When one examines any cultural movement, it is always useful to examine the roots of that movement. It is the history of the movement that gives us some understanding as to why we are now. It is only when we first trace the roots that we can see the leaves clearly. Rave culture can be traced back as far as you want to trace it. It can be traced back to Native American religious ceremonies. It can be traced back to the sixties Be-Ins and Love Ins and Acid Tests.It can be traced back to anarchist revolutions in Italy and France. It pulls energy from many different directions. For the sake of this section, I only want to look at actual raves. When examining the rave culture in America, one reaches the unique problem of having no sources. It is not documented, except through tiny bits of magazine articles, mentions in newspapers, and through the memories of those involved.
I will examine the evolution of techno music later, but, needless to say, it had its origins in Chicago and Detroit disco clubs and gay dance clubs, and also in progressive music from England such as Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode.England and America traded musical influences back and forth during the late seventies-early eighties until techno finally started to be formed. The actual rave movement, however, combining this new music with dancing, occurred in England. At almost the exact same time, raves started popping up in Manchester and Ibiza, a noted English vacation spot, in late 1987 and early 1988. It was during this time that two unrelated groups began throwing all-night dance parties in England, Schoom and Genesis P. Orridge"s baby, Psychic TV. Schoom incorporated house music and ecstasy, whereas Psychic TV took a more hardcore edge.At this same time, the rave phenomenon was taking hold in Germany, most notably in Berlin.
The popularity of raves grew in both countries, and soon the little all-night dance parties were drawing thousands of kids. They were also drawing DJs from the United States. In the early nineties, the rave scene began moving across the Atlantic to America, fueled by American DJs eager to take this incredible thing back home, and English DJs eager to expand their horizons. The first US raves were held in San Francisco, long noted for its liberal and psychedelic culture. From here, they moved to Los Angeles and the rave scene was born in California. The rave scene that was born in America was one of complete illegality. Spaces were not rented, they were broken into. Two hundred kids would show up on someone"s private beach, set up their speakers, and dance until the cops came.
Ravers that have been in it since the beginning eagerly talk about the early days of running from cops while holding a speaker above their head, or of continuing a rave in about seven different spaces over the course of one night.Frankie Bones, a New York native, was one of the US DJs that was spinning in England. When he saw that the scene was moving into America, he wanted to bring it to his hometown of Brooklyn. He started a series of parties called Stormrave in early 1992. The parties started out small, 50-100 kids, and Frankie resorted to projecting videos of the massive raves in England to show kids what it was all about. It was during this period of Stormraves that many DJs made their debuts. Now household names among ravers, Sven Vath, Doc Martin, Keoki, Josh Wink and many others began their careers at Frankie"s Stormraves.It was in December of 1992 that the rave scene started growing.
Frankie held a party at an abandoned loading dock in Queens that drew over 5000 kids from New York and neighboring states. According to rave myth, this was when Frankie made his speech about peace, love, unity, and respect, which were to become PLUR, the foundation of the American rave scene. It was also during this rave that three guys from Milwaukee decided to come check it out. These guys later were to form Drop Bass Network, based in Milwaukee, and now one of the bigger promoter groups in the country. They also introduced the scene to the Mid-West. The rave scene grew in America in 1993 and 1994. While the rave scenes in England and Germany were becoming commercial empires, the American rave scene still had its fresh idealism. There were now raves happening across the country, in all of the states.
The rave scene was here. Now, as I write this at the end of 2000, I am amazed to see how recent this history is. The entire rave scene has come about in my lifetime. In fact, I have been involved in the American rave scene for one third of the time that it has existed. Now that I have examined the roots of the US rave scene I would like to expand upon them and examine the tree and the leaves that have grown from these roots. The Basics There are three things that are common to every rave I have ever been to. These things are intrinsic parts of the scene. These are the physical things that have defined the scene from the beginning.
I will get into the spiritual and psychological things a little later. They are music and the dancing that the music inspires, people, and drugs. Part I: The Music "Clear the area of the dodge-CORE-rupt neGETive patriarchal, earth destroying, war machine.Technology should be used for omniversal JOY and E-qualit-E. INFORMation Trance-mitted through music creates a new mediA different to that controlled by those who fill it with obvious and SUBliminal info to oppress us … When SSSSOUND empowering info saturates the frequencies======an NRG is let Loose that will set the stage for ssssssweeping, mutually beneficial CHANGE.
And so with a dodgey van, an array of finger-synched LOOps, assorted BLEEP chorus calling for local and globALL Revolution. REALIZE: EQUALIZE. " Luckman The music at a rave is techno, primarily electronically created music that generally has a high level of bass.It tends to be fast-paced, running from between about 115 Beats Per Minute BPM to 300 BPM, with the most common being about 120 BPM to 140 BPM. Incidentally, ravers prefer 120 BPM because it simulates the heartbeat as heard in the womb. "Overall, techno is denoted by its slavish devotion to the beat, the use of rhythm as a hypnotic tool. It is also distinguished by being primarily, and in most cases entirely, created by electronic means. " Barnard Normally at a rave, a DJ "spins" to create the music that the ravers hear.
The act of spinning is the art of mixing songs together using different pitches, different speeds, and an equalizer to create an ever-flowing, ever-changing wall of sound. In effect, artists record techno songs, which are then reinterpreted and mixed with other techno songs, creating a spontaneous new song. Techno music has its origins in gay dance clubs and hip-hop. Actually, it has its origins in the ceremonial drumming that was central to many native cultures, but that comes later Chicago DJs started mixing their dance music with a drum synthesizer and house was born.
From house, came acid house, which involved adding the Roland 303, a synthesizer that was able to produce different layers and pitches. Then the music continued to evolve, into techno, both "Detroit" style and Hardcore. Detroit techno tended to be pounding; the soul of house music was eliminated. Hardcore is basically a really hard and really fast version of Detroit techno. From here, we get further permutations. Breakbeat uses hip-hop samples and reggae tunes. Jungle uses a lot of percussive bongo and drumming sounds, as well as bringing in chants.Darkside utilizes minor chordal progressions to create an "evil" feeling.
Trance was developed, very melodic and hypnotizing music that tends to be on the slow side. Then obviously we have acid-trance, hardtrance, and trance-house. The most recent permutation of techno music is gabba or gabber. It is hardcore taken to the extreme. It can run up to 400-500 BPM. It generally has bass so low and hard that it has been known to physically damage things. There are no vocals, no soul-just very hard, very fast music. Oftentimes gabber uses "terror" samples, of death, murder, beatings. The samples of women crying out to "Join in the vibe" are gone. The samples of a man screaming, "I"m gonna kick your fucking ass" have taken their place. The essence of techno music is that it is in a constant state of flux. Every day a new style is created, old things are combined in different ways, and new things are invented.
DJs mix two different tracks and a new song is created. This is the essence of rave music. It feeds and grows on itself. It is a constant process of mirroring things in on themselves to create an entirely new thing that is combined with something else to create a new thing, etc. So, we get to the dancing. Dancing is, to an extent, yet another reiteration of the music. The music that the DJ creates spontaneously is a text. "The dancer then in turn re-interprets this text through movements of the body. .. the "reader" therefore, whether in the role of dancer, DJ, or user of sampling technology contributes a mindset that is culturally specific and productive in itself. " Roberts The DJ then must sense the communal energy of the group, and adjust his mixing accordingly.
The DJ provides the path for the ravers to walk on, as the ravers change direction, so must the DJ.It is a constant process of energy being transmitted and refracted, creating a tangible feeling. Rave dancing can be highly stylistic, or extremely vulgar. The beat is the driving force. Whether one is doing highly choreographed dance moves or simply thrusting their body back and forth ceases to matter. It is losing oneself to the beat, becoming one with the music by letting the music control your movements. Part II: The people Ravers are a unique crowd. While rave culture espouses individualism, a come-as-you-are mentality, there are definitely many similarities among ravers in general. The typical raver is between 17 and 25. He is equally likely to be a she. He or she is probably white. He or she probably came from a middle-class family, and is reasonably well educated.
Rave fashion could be the topic of an entire paper. There is a definite sense of individualism within the rave fashion scene-you are likely to see someone in jeans, someone in black vinyl pants, or someone in costume. However, many people fit into a definite "typical raver" mold. For males, baggy pants are the norm. Many people claim that this is because they are easy to dance in, but I offer a different perspective.Baggy pants are not practical. They are not professional. At a distance, they look like pants, but close-up they are absurd. They cannot be worn to work. Baggy pants have long been associated with deviant cultures, from hip-hop, to skateboarding, to snowboarding, to raving. A very tight shirt, no shirt, or a sweatshirt is also common for males. For females, it gets more interesting.
The typical rave girl has short hair; it is often in barrettes. She wears a baby doll dress, or pants and a cut off tee shirt. She is often sucking on a pacifier. Infantilism in general is very predominant among ravers. Pacifiers are common, stuffed animals are common, lollipops are common, shirts emblazoned with cartoon characters are common. In a sense, this embodies the culture. It is a regaining of innocence and forgetting about problems for a while. It is a recreation of that time in our lives when play was the most important thing and it didn"t matter that mom and dad were fighting or having money problems or that there was a hole in the ozone layer. Outside of a rave, many ravers appear "normal". Many have jobs in technological fields like computer programming.Many are college students. Raving is not an "all-the-time" culture, as the hippie movement was and is.
There are no ravers that simply go from rave to rave and hope to get money by selling tee shirts in the parking lot. Except for maybe DJs, promoters, and venders who make their living at raves. Rather, raving is a temporary activity separate from the daily lives of these individuals. Part III: Drugs Drugs. The big "D" word. Drugs have been a part of the rave scene since the beginning. Yes, it is possible to go to a rave and not do drugs.Yes, it is possible to be a raver and live a drug-free lifestyle. No, a rave is not dependent on drug use. Nevertheless, one cannot separate the scene from the drug use. It is impossible. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar. In England, the rave scene originated with MDMA or Ecstasy. In America, it was LSD or acid. It was common to see blotter art on flyers. Raves were named Dose or Acid Test.
Raves are ways of changing the psychological state of a human being bringing them into a different plane of existence. This goes hand-in-hand with psychedelic drugs.At first, acid and occasional marijuana use were the only drugs seen at raves in America. Then, Ecstasy moved in. It became the raver drug of choice. Ecstasy broke down barriers of communication. It enhanced pleasure and sensation. Music became physically pleasurable. Strangers became people to be loved. Ecstasy broke down egos. It was a perfect fit with the happy family that the rave scene was trying to create. Today, Ecstasy is still popular, and acid is still used by a sizable minority.
However, as greed has taken hold within the scene, Ecstasy is no longer pure.It is usually cut with baking powder, or worse, various pesticides and poisons. Nitrous Oxide has become popular. Within the last year or so, hard drugs have moved into the scene, crystal meth, heroin, and even alcohol. Drugs are a frequent topic of debate among ravers. Some think that drugs should be done away with entirely. Others think that only drugs that increase the vibe should be allowed, namely marijuana, LSD, and ecstasy. Still others think that the rave scene is about personal choice and determining which drugs are good and which drugs are bad is imposing personal morals n others.
The fact of the matter is, as the rave scene is appropriated which I will examine later into mainstream society, fewer people are concerned about the vibe, and more concerned about being wasted. This is where the ketamine, the meth, and the heroin come in. Rave Spirituality "The actual concept of raves is not new-it is as old as time itself. At the base level, raves are very comparable to American Indian ceremonies…where music is the key towards pulling oneself into a unique emotional and psychological state.
" Weber This is the basis of rave culture.It is a very spiritually aware culture that focuses on an altered state of mind that is caused by music and, in many cases, drugs. It is the rediscovery of music as a spiritual tool. Terrence McKenna is quoted in the song Re: Evolution as saying "the emphasis in [techno] music and rave culture on physiologically compatible rhythms is the rediscovery of the art of natural magic with sound, that sound properly understood, especially percussive sound, can actually change neurological states in large groups of people that are getting together in the presence of this…music.
They] are creating a telepathic community-a bonding that hopefully will be strong enough then to carry out into mainstream society.Barnard The rave scene uses technological means to recreate ancient ceremonies in which dancing to music was used as a spiritual tool. It is a conjoining of ancient beliefs with the tools of today. It is not a culture that denies where we are at as a society today, but rather uses where we are at today to go somewhere else. This is the essence of the "vibe" so commonly talked about in circles of ravers. There is a tangible energy that goes along with dancing to extremely loud beats with hundreds of other people.I use a personal story to relate this point. I was at a rave in the middle of nowhere. I had driven over six hours by myself to get there. It was about four o'clock in the morning. I was dancing to incredible music, when, suddenly all of the bass dropped out. I was sweaty.
I was exhausted. The bass started to come back in slowly and I turned to the girl dancing next to me. We made eye contact and we both smiled a knowing smile. In that brief second, I knew that we were in the same place, that we were there for the same reasons, that we loved each other, that we loved the world, that we loved what we were doing. Raves are a shared experience. A sense of unity often develops among ravers in which personal creeds, race, gender, age, sexual preference and everything else that our society places so much emphasis on simply fades into the background. "There is a magic moment that can happen at a rave…when everyone is dancing you experience a feeling of collective organism, and I think people that have had this experience view the world differently afterwards…the world is not made up of individuals vying for power, but rather…one throbbing thing.Dotson The rave culture is definitely a culture of paganism and, to an extent, hedonism.
It is a religion based on shared experience. Individual religious beliefs are integrated into the larger, unified experience. Many rave flyers use pagan and religious symbols. Enlightenment is a common theme, as well as love and kindness. There is a sense of discarding dogma in favor of karma. You can have your rules and your prayers, we have this. "We live hard…we commune with the midnight hour and ride it out until daybreak armed with lights and lasers and booming bass.While our parents are in bed, we hug [each other] and hear a sound so moving that we throw ourselves into iseeking to [break] that barrier that tries…to keep the body separate from the sound…Hemingway had his bullfights. have our music…we live passionately. " Roberts Another phrase commonly thrown around in circles of ravers is that of PLUR, which stands for Peace, Love, Unity and Respect. Its origins are unclear, many people claim that Frankie Bones talked about it when throwing one of his Stormraves.However, it is now common jargon among ravers.
Peace, love, unity, and respect are the four pillars of the rave scene. In many senses, PLUR is the dogma that ravers believe in. It is the belief that for one night, a community can be created that does not function for the same reasons that larger society does. It is the belief that peace and love are worth trying to bring back into a society that now seems so devoid of them. It is most definitely a culture of escape. It is an escape from mainstream society into a utopian world for a few hours.It is a creation of space where love and happiness exist beyond everything else, and is not bounded by the laws or rules or unhappiness found in everyday society. Reality does not exist within a rave. In relating this to earlier things I have mentioned, one needs only to look around to see this escape. The music is not "real" in the sense that it exists only for that moment. There are no originals; everything heard is a hybrid of things that were already hybrids of other things. The clothes are not real; it is not often that we see an 18 year-old girl sucking on a pacifier in mainstream society.
A rave is a phenomenon that does not exist within the rules of society; it is the creation of a separate space. Beyond the culture of escape though, is a culture based on hope. The core of this separate space is the knowledge that it is a temporary separate space. There is knowledge that tomorrow I will work on homework, and Monday I will go to work or school, but right now, right now I am going to play. There is an emphasis on a focusing of energy, that what happens during this rave is positively affecting all of the energy on the planet.PLUR is also seen as something that goes beyond the rave scene. I would like to quote a recent poster to the mid-west raves listserv. "No matter what happens in popular culture, YOU keep the vibe alive.
This isn't specific to our little scene. PLUR in all aspects of life. When you're walking down the street, do the same thing for strangers that you would at a rave. When you're at a rock-and-roll club, do the same thing there. And then, instead of the fucking mainstream changing our culture, our culture is changing the mainstream…isn't that the point of a movement?To affect the world? " Matt Demmon In an attempt to sum up, rave spirituality takes on many forms. A group called the New Moon Collective in California throws a rave every new moon and builds a communal altar that anyone at the rave can add to. Drop Bass Network, in Wisconsin, actually throws 'evil' raves focusing on Satanism, while still espousing love and respect through their actions. Many ravers pass out candy to other ravers, or water.
Rave spirituality, while taking many different forms even dark forms sometimes can be boiled down to PLUR.It is a general feeling of respect for the earth, respect for each other, and respect for oneself while being immersed in total bliss for one night. It is tapping into the communal vibe that is present. It is the creation of a temporary space where the only rule is love and the only preaching is loud music. Rave Politics The rave scene has always existed as separate from mainstream society, an underground movement,a movement labeled as deviant by those in the mainstream. It has been a subculture of escape.It is because it existed apart from mainstream society, that people could escape to it. It is because it has existed apart from mainstream society that it could set up its own value system, its own morality, and its own rules or lack thereof.
When the scene started, everything was done on an illegal basis. Someone would call a friend, who would call another friend and 100 kids would show up at an abandoned warehouse, break into it, set up their speakers, and dance. As it became larger and larger, the forces that were trying to contain it grew larger also.After a year or so of straight illegality, promoters made a conscious effort to secure spaces where their parties would not be busted. However, the underground pathos remains part of the scene today. It is impossible to find out what raves are going on, unless you are actually at a rave and pick up the flyers or know where to look on the Internet. Even then, usually only a telephone number is given. When the night of the event comes, the telephone number will often direct you to a checkpoint where you can finally pick up directions on where the party is.
In this way, the rave scene tries to insulate itself from the forces of mainstream society. It becomes a self-containing culture where the only way to get to a rave for the first time is to have someone take you. The only way to continue being a part of the scene is to be a part of the scene. "The idea that [rave] culture has no politics because it has no manifesto or slogans, it isn't saying something or actively opposing the social order, misunderstands its nature.
The very lack of dogma is a comment on contemporary society itself…its definition is subject to individual interpretation: it could be about the simple bliss of dancing; it could be about environmental awareness; it could be about race relations and class conflict…it could be about reasserting lost notions of community – all stories that say something about life in the nineties. " Weber It is because rave culture is so personal, that it can exist the way it does. It is a culture with many different options instead of rules.At its heart is a concerted attempt to suspend normal transmission, if only for one night…to invent, however briefly, a kind of utopia.
" Lenton This brief utopia is what anarchist philosopher Hakim Bey refers to as a Temporary Autonomous Zone TAZ. The phrase TAZ is thrown around a lot in rave circles, many not knowing where it originally came from. I have even been to rave called TAZ, in which there were seminars during the day discussing the politics of our scene. Hakim Bey was the first to write at length about it is his essay on the Temporary Autonomous Zone. Bey writes that the TAZ is something that slips through the cracks of society. It is "a guerilla operation which liberates an area of land, time, imagination and then dissolves itself to reform elsewhere/elsewhen before the state can crush it. " Bey 1 Bey writes at length, but never really defines exactly what a TAZ is. However, he does give many examples and characteristics of these 'pirate utopias'.
First, he speaks of the anthropology of the TAZ. He claims that a TAZ by nature includes not a family, but a band. The family is closed, by genetics, by the male's possession of women and children, by the hierarchic totality of agriculture/industrial society.The band is open, not to everyone of course, but to the affinity group, the initiates sworn to a bond of love. The band…is part of a horizontal pattern of custom, extended kinship, contract and alliance, spiritual affinities, etc. Bey 4 When we examine this in the context of rave culture, it is immediately clear that this describes the rave scene exactly. Ravers are a 'band'-a group that is at once both closed off from society, but open to newcomers.They gather at raves for the same reason, to party.
" Ibid. This can also be examined within the context of the rave scene. Raves are, in a sense, planned spontaneity. Sometimes, they are even spontaneous in and of themselves. One raver on the mw-raves listserv recently talked about an experience of hers. She was on her way to a rave with some friends when they got stuck in standstill traffic. All of the sudden 30 ravers or so on their way to the party got out of their cars, turned on music, and danced in the middle of the interstate.Raves are people gathering for the attainment of mutual bliss.
Hakim Bey discusses at length the Internet, not as a TAZ, but as a tool for creating a TAZ, for disseminating information. The rave scene has embraced the Internet wholeheartedly, with mailing lists, chat rooms, and electronic flyers. Ravers can discuss issues relating to their scene, trade tapes of DJs, or give party reviews. Chris Gibson discusses this in his paper "Subversive Sites: Rave Culture, Empowerment, and the Internet. "Utilizing the discourse of TAZ, sites are constructed by rave music collectives, artists, and rave participants…attempting to initiate figurative spaces of empowerment that embody principles of community and local resistance to commodification.
[The Internet]…forms a sort of support system for a subculture that relies on utilizing free-floating events that are momentarily rooted down in physical space in distinct ways. "Gibson 5 Bey also surprisingly writes about music as an organizational principle of Temporary Autonomous Zones. I believe that if we compare Fiume an 18 month anarchic city in the early 1900's with the Paris uprising of 1968, as well as with the American countercultural communes…we should notice certain similarities, such as: the importance of aesthetic theory¦'pirate economics', living high off the surplus of social overproduction, and the concept of music as revolutionary social change…and finally their shared air of impermanence, of being ready to move on, shape-shift, re-locate…keep on the move and live intensely" Bey 13-14 When we examine this in the context of the rave scene, we find a perfect mesh, an almost uncannily perfect mesh.
Aesthetic theory plays a central role in the rave movement, indeed it is the rave movement. Rave flyers are often a work of art themselves.The blending of different sounds to create a musical wall and combining that with lasers and strobes to create a perfectly synchronized, overwhelming space of light and sound is taking aesthetic theory to its limits. Pirate economics, as Bey calls it, also plays a central role. There's a reason many raves were first held and are still held in abandoned warehouses. There are tons of them! Ravers take old shells of buildings that are monuments to the evil of Capitalism and turn them into a TAZ. The drug economy is also a central part of the rave scene, adding to this illicit economy.I have already discussed music at length, so I shall just add one more quote.
It also demands a "yoga" of chaos, a project of "higher" orderings of consciousness or simply of life which are approached by "surfing the wave-front of chaos," of complex dynamism.The TAZ is an art of life in continual rising up, wild but gentleâ€â€?a seducer not a rapist, a smuggler rather than a bloody pirate, a dancer not an eschatologist. " Bey 17 The Here and Now Many of the earlier sections have dealt with an idyllic view of raves. They have, in a sense, espoused what the rave scene wants to be. This section offers no idealism, no PLUR, no altars, no ecstatic dancing, except in little doses and hopeful predictions.This is the section of the paper that deals with commercialization, loss of the sacred, the ruination of the vibe and everything that ravers feel is happening. This is the part of the paper that deals with overdoses, hedonism, and everything else society fears from the rave scene. The rave scene has become swamped in commercialism.
When the rave scene started to grow in popularity, it was inevitable that some kind-of higher up would notice. The first higher-ups to notice were police, and then city governments. Then, it naturally moved to the boardrooms of major companies. I turn on the TV and hear watered down techno on everything from Sprite commercials to commercials for shoes. I recently heard about a large rave, only to find out that tickets were being sold by Ticketmaster. Rave fashion has, to some extent, been incorporated into mainstream society. Baggy pants, cut off tank tops, and baby-doll dresses are the newest big sellers at the malls. The rave scene is being appropriated into mainstream culture.
In a way, this is the best defense that society could have ever used against the rave scene. Why fight them, when we can force them to join us. It is because of this, I feel, that there has been a loss of the sacredness that goes along with the rave scene. As the rave scene becomes more popular, fewer people are going to create a temporary loving space, and more people are going to get wasted. It is now common to see kids sitting against the wall snorting crystal meth or shooting heroin, drugs that have never been a part of the scene. Fashion has become steeped in the consumerism of American society also. Raves are beginning to look like fashion shows.It is a contest to see who can show up with the most expensive outfit.
I have seen girls at raves in 4-inch heeled boots, obviously not dancing. As American society appropriates the rave scene, the rave ideals of peace, love, respect and unity are being replaced by the ideals of American society: consumerism, and a take everything you can get mentality. Raves have gone from being $5 to $20. Lights have gone from being a couple lasers and strobes to setups that cost thousands and thousands of dollars. It is now common practice for DJs to demand thousands of dollars plus free airfare and a hotel room for spinning. As I examined in the first section, the rave scene existed first in Germany and England.Today, in both countries, the techno culture is the mainstream culture. Dance clubs play techno seven days a week.
Raves have been known to draw over 100,000 people and, in Germany especially, have become 'family-friendly. ' I cannot see into the future. I do not know if this is what is to become of the rave scene in America or not. When we examine a similar movement in America, the hippie movement, we see completely different results. The hippie movement became extremely trendy in the eighties. Everyone had Grateful Dead stickers on their cars, whether they owned an album or not, had been to a show or not. Even today, Phish is the largest selling tour act of all time.However, when one attends a Phish show, it is a weird clashing of cultures. On one hand, you have the people there just to do drugs, just to be trendy, just to see what the latest fad is. On the other hand, you have the die-hards. The people that have been on tour for years, first with the Dead, now with Phish. They go on with their lifestyles blithely ignoring the consumerism that is going on around them.
They still give out free hugs and free nugs. They still sell handmade clothes or grilled cheese in the parking lot to get enough money to make it to the next show. They are the core of the movement and they have always been there, and will always be there. American society is fickle. Fads do not last long.Electronica is the 'next big thing' and is covered in Time and Newsweek. American consumers are gobbling it up. Even now, plans are underway to hold the biggest rave ever in America this summer, complete with a parade and tee shirts. We have seen other fads come and go. Punk music, grunge/alternative music, rap, all of these were once the 'next big thing'. The rave scene will be appropriated, for a while. Then, a new big thing will come along that society latches onto. What remains to be seen however, is whether the rave scene is strong enough to survive. Will PLUR be forever lost to consumerism, or will it just be temporarily clouded over? Ask me in a few years.
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TW a Finalist for "Top Artist" Writing Competition
June 13, 2012 June 13, 2012 | Ted Wheeler
Word arrived today that my unpublished novel, The Uninitiated, is one of ten finalists for Tarcher/Penguin's Tarcher Top Artist competition!
You can read more at Tarcher Top Artist. Here's some of what the web site says: "The competition consists of two parts – writing and drawing […] entries will be judged on their technical merit as well as their artistic expression." (Fyi, I'm a finalist for the writing portion, not the drawing.) Finalists were selected based on 10-page samples; the winner will be selected on the basis of a full-length novel, novella, or non-fiction manuscript. (Tarcher is generally a non-fiction imprint, whatever that says about my chances of winning. Also, it was for writers ages 14 and older, which is strange. It's going to be depressing when I lose out to an eighth grader.) The competition is for unpublished works only.
The winner of the writing portion will be announced in August, and receive $5000 and a manuscript consultation with an editor from Penguin Group. There's no publication associated with the prize, but getting prize money and retaining the rights to my work isn't so bad either. Wish me luck.
April in Review (2012)
May 1, 2012 | Ted Wheeler
The old von Schiller monument in Riverview Park. This was placed near where the main gates of Henry Doorly Zoo are now. The statue was thrown in a ditch for the duration of World War I (thanks angry mob) but was later pulled out and put back. I'm not sure what happened to it when the zoo expanded, or where it is now. Any guesses?
-My novel (The Uninitiated, for the uninitiated of you reading this) has reached it's newest stage of done! It's off to my trusted cadre of readers for feedback and comment. Depending on how soon I hear back from them, I hope to be nearly done-done with the novel early this summer. Then the novel will be off to agents, hoping to find representation. Exciting stuff. I'm rather fond of the book and hope it does well. It's very exciting to have it completed. Strangely, I kind of care less about publication now that it's finished than I did when I hardly had any of it written. Maybe I still kind of doubted I could do it. It's always easier to dream of publishing than it is to write.
-Not much else has been going on, writing-wise. I've been working on a few book reviews, and toiling day and night as Web Editor of Prairie Schooner. Some highlights: navigating a reformatting tangle to get our summer issue on Kindle, helping develop a mobile app, and launching (as co-editor with Claire Harlan-Orsi) a monthly book review on Prairie Schooner's blog. Fun stuff.
-I'm also working on a few photo features for this blog. Mostly historical Omaha stuff, but also contemporary photos of spots where things in my novel happened. I'll get on this soon.
-Clara has been around for a month now. We're pretty fond of her as well.
-My grandpa Wheeler died. He was eighty. He was only able to meet Clara once, on Easter, but it was pretty nice. Shouldn't have rushed around so much. We had four generations of ____ Lynn(e) Wheelers in the same room—Billy Lynn, Dennis Lynn, Theodore Lynn, Clara Lynne. We neglected to snap a photo. Unfortunately, that turned out to be our only opportunity.
Dispatch from The Uninitiated
"It used to be a common thing for a young man to light off secretly in the night, searching for a life different from the one he toiled through at home. Jacob Bressler became an exile in this way. He left under starlight and led his horse over the brawny shoals of what would be his brother's farm from then on. He didn't bother with a saddle but merely slid a bridle over the nag's muzzle and walked out into the buggy paths of the river valley. Even in the dark he found the graveled highway that led to Omaha. There was no need to rush. He knew his brother wouldn't follow him, not after what happened the week before. It was the kind of thing that happened a lot in Jackson County, and that's why Jacob had to leave. He slid from his horse when he arrived on the River Ward, easing down to the pavement to land on one foot, the left one raised limp. His foot pulsed dully. He couldn't worry about it, the Ward had his attention. It was a dark morning but he saw the dim hash marks of intersections on the hills beyond where sanitation wagons crept along knolls that slanted up from river to prairieland. There were tenements to the south, dirt-yard shacks he passed coming in from the north. The River Ward was pinned between the Missouri and downtown Omaha. It was mostly mills and warehouses, tar-topped and sturdy. There were other buildings too. Townhouses puzzled together from curb to curb, brownstones that had been fashionable once but were too close to the pig iron mills now, the constant hammering of steel and tails of factory smoke rising in the mucid morning ether. These were made extravagant, brownstone, sandstone, a blushing peach shade of brick. Jacob knew he would need money right away if he were going to survive. It hadn't occurred to him in his rush to leave Jackson County. He was too concerned with making his life of great importance—with getting rich—that he forgot about practical things like having enough money for supper and a room. He would have to sell his horse."
The Cove by Ron Rash. Set in WWI-era North Carolina, this novel deals with a German musician's struggle to avoid anti-German violence in the rural south and a young woman's difficulty living down the stigma of a birthmark in a superstitious town. An often beautiful and compelling novel.
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer. Really a must for anyone interested in the military history or the symbology of war.
Stay Awake by Dan Chaon.
Flatscreen by Adam Wilson.
February in Review (2012)
February 29, 2012 December 12, 2014 | Ted Wheeler
I've decided to fly in the face of Leap Day and post my review of the past month a day early. (Try to have a safe holiday out there today, folks. We don't need a replay of four years ago, with all the accidents and alcohol poisonings. Use the extra day wisely!)
February was a month of good news. There was my appointment as Web Editor at Prairie Schooner. I'm still not sure my family believes that I actually get paid to work for a literary journal now. Actually, I'm not entirely convinced myself yet, direct deposit aside. The job has been a lot of fun, although a bit frustrating at times. It's been a long time since I started a new job. There's a lot to learn. Hopefully I'm picking it up right. … Next came word that two of my published short stories will be mentioned among the "Thirty Other Distinguished Stories" in the New Stories from the Midwest anthology series. "The Approximate End of the World" (Boulevard, Spring 2010) will be noted in the back of the 2011 edition. "The Current State of the Universe" (The Cincinnati Review, Summer 2011) will be noted in the back of the 2012 edition. This is a new series, but one that looks very promising. I'm excited to break through in some small way with them. Hopefully it's only the start of bigger things. … That same weekend I learned that my review of Yannick Murphy's novel The Call was accepted for publication in the Pleiades Book Review. This is my second review Pleiades has taken, and it will run in their Summer 2012 issue.
March brings a lot of promise. There's AWP in Chicago. Spring is here, apparently. (Our daffodils have breached!) ZZ Packer is the writer in residence at UNL and will make a couple public appearances in Lincoln. Also, lil' Clara Lynne is due to join us.
"Sometimes I scuffled with Neal Davies and his brothers. I ran track with the two younger Davies boys. They weren't so brazen about what they said, not like Neal had been outside the store. Mostly it was Neal who mumbled something, standing off to the side to watch us run. Neal Davies was short and podgy. He had blonde hair that laid very flat and smooth on his round skull. His brothers looked at me and laughed when Neal made remarks. I'd tackle one of them into the grass, the Davies brother who was slowest getting out of the way. A punch or two would be thrown, but that was all. Other kids would break it up. Whatever happened was chalked up to bad blood. Since I didn't know what they said, there was nothing more I could say about it. There was lots of bad blood in Jackson County in those years, the war years. It was wrong of Davies to tease me about the ways my folks died, I'm certain. I'm not certain if I would have teased him about such a thing if the roles had been reversed. I might have. I had to give him that in my calculations. He still had his parents, if nothing else. I did not. Sometimes we believe these things are so for a reason."
Alaska Quarterly Review for "Forget Me"; Indiana Review for "Attend the Way"; and "Lycaon" by Midwestern Gothic.
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski. A remarkable book about a Gypsy boy's travels and travails in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust, based upon Kosinski's own life story. A remarkably brutal book.
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño. About the ways people confront (or confronted, it was written and it is set in 1980s Spain) the lingering presence or (non)presence of Nazism in European culture. It's not quite in the stratosphere like 2666 and The Savage Detectives, but is still very good.
Jonah Man by Christopher Narozny. A very solid first novel about murder, drugs, and the intrigue of 1920s vaudeville performers. It comes out in May. I will be reviewing it.
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. A rereading of this classic after hearing George Saunders and Robert Stone talk about it at the Key West Literary Seminar.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway.
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak.
Photo Album: The Talmadge Sisters
February 26, 2012 February 26, 2012 | Ted Wheeler
The Talmadge sisters–mostly Norma, but a little bit Constance and Natalie–were the models for Evelyn Chambers, the female lead of my novel, The Uninitiated. I didn't know much about them when I came across Norma in a pinup calendar from 1918 (pictured below) but they were really quite an interesting phenomena during the 1920s. And Norma in particular is now most famous for the fact that her star faded so quickly once talkies replaced silent film as the convention.
January in Review (2012)
February 1, 2012 | Ted Wheeler
-It was a pretty slow month on the blog last month. There are two reasons for this. First, I spend eight days in Key West for the Key West Literary Seminar. (Here's the recap of my time there.) Second, I received an offer late in the month to take the reins as Online Editor for Prairie Schooner! I accepted. Technically I don't start until today–and the paperwork hasn't been started either, so hopefully I'm not jinxing that–but I've been getting a feel for the job over the last week or so. I'm very excited to take over the position from Timothy Schaffert. The new website is up and running, and we have an awful lot of cool things in the works. It's a very exciting time to be involved with the journal.
-The edits for my novel are coming along. I'm hopeful to have it ready for my top readers here in the next month or so. Nothing monumental to announce, but I feel like the book is coming along. It's tightening up in ways that lead me to believe that it's close to being done, at least. Of course, the feedback I get from my readers will probably blow a few things wide open again.
-I did add my 2011 Year in Photos post last month, in case you missed it.
-Just two months until the new baby arrives. Eep.
"Maria Eigler knew what she liked. She built a world around herself that reflected her preferences. She loved conversation and children and music. She liked to make hearty food and see all of it eaten, to make up beds and see them slept in, to have a full, vibrating house. She tolerated conceit in people she cared for, but found it the most contemptible trait among others. Maria was not pretentious, but she didn't stoop to putting on an air of ignorance either. She was a wise and deceptively cultured woman. It didn't surprise Jacob to learn that Maria attended a women's seminary when she was young, in Missouri. She studied Greek drama for two years before she married August. It was Grenville Dodge who moved them to Council Bluffs, before they moved themselves across the river. Maria would sometimes say a phrase in Greek, to show where an English word came from, like alphabet or apology or muse or martial. The way she talked about Greek drama, all the time in her buoyant kinderfrau voice, she made it sound like those plays could explain everything in life. Love, betrayal, war, language, fate, death. And if you were lucky enough to get the chance to really study them, and understand what they meant, then you'd be well off. You'd know enough to maybe let everything else in the world well enough alone."
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann. What a beautiful book. Very affecting and well done. The book begins with a focus on the sandhogs who tunneled under the East River to build the subway tunnel connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, which I found incredibly fascinating. McCann gets a lot of attention for Let the Great World Spin, but don't miss out on this remarkable book either.
Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda. A coming-of-age novel about a young girl left to fend for herself in the Nebraska wilderness in pioneer times. The book kind of read as a survey course in early Nebraska history at times, although it has its moments too. There are lots of interesting characters that come and go throughout the book. The most interesting ones never stayed as long as I would have liked them to.
Leaf House by Karen Brown. This story collection, Brown's second, won the most recent Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. I was lucky enough to get a preview of the manuscript in order to interview her for the PS blog. (Here's the interview, if you're interested.) It's a very good book—Brown is an awesome young writer—and I'm eager to see how the final version comes out.
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño.
The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper.
December in Review (2011)
December 31, 2011 December 31, 2011 | Ted Wheeler
Merry Christmas, from the street urchins of the Omaha tenements.
My year in review post will be coming shortly, so I'll try to keep this brief. The month was more or less uneventful, so brevity shouldn't come too painfully.
-I finished the second revision of my novel late in December. The book should be in something close to its final shape now, as this cycle included half a dozen rewrites of chapters and sections (plus a couple new chapters) that I hope don't need to be completely rewritten again. I guess I'll see if this holds up under the next reading-revision cycle. Assuming I can fit in five work days a week, it takes about a month to revise the whole novel. They key will be getting that time down a little bit. If there's less and less that needs changed, I should be on the right track.
–The Kenyon Review's December newsletter featured reading recommendations from contributor's and staff, including my recommendation of Yannick Murphy's The Call. It's such a good book! Go buy it now!
-The new issue of Confrontation was reviewed on BookFox. Here's a little of what was said about the issue:
Paul Zimerman's "Full Remittance," a kind of anti-Rakolnikovian story, is excellent, as well as a shortish story by Theodore Wheeler with the titillating title of "The First Night of My Down-and-Out Sex Life," which ends up being more somber than you'd expect.
-With the help of some friendly archivists, I was able to track down a bunch of information about the different places Tom Dennison used to live in Omaha. I wrote a bit about it here. In the coming months I'll have more on the real historical places that are featured in my novel.
-My first real author interview was published on the Prairie Schooner blog. Thanks to Nuala Ní Chonchúir for her generosity and fine responses.
-Happy New Year!
"Tom Dennison grinned at me again, like I was being stupid. And I was being a little simple about the election. What I'd described is how it always works in this business, yeah? It's always a matter of offering more than the other guys and making sure you manage things well enough to get your folks to a poll on time. It was still new to me, and it's all novel to a guy who doesn't know what he's doing."
Iowa Review for "Forget Me" and Crazyhorse for "Attend the Way."
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone. I love reading books like this—ones that must have been incredibly timely and topical at the time of their publication, and are still great reads even if they aren't so relevant now. This is a very engrossing novel that shows through a split narrative how an attempted revolution in a banana republic comes together. (There are some sexual escapades with a hot nun too, fyi.) Also, I'll be part of a workshop led by Robert Stone at the upcoming Key West Literary Seminar. So excited for this.
Omaha: A Guide to the City and Environs compiled by the Federal Writers' Project. This is so great: the WPA funded study of Omaha from the Depression. Not only does it feature the most complete and concise history of the area I've found, there are fantastic gems throughout, like how much beans and coffee cost at a cafe at the time, and how much streetcar fare to the airport was, or where to find the best Chow Mein. There are also a half-dozen walking tours guides of the city, which is really very helpful in understanding how the city was laid out during this period. I was very geeked to find this.
Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda.
November in Review (2011)
December 2, 2011 December 2, 2011 | Ted Wheeler
Let's go with a little bullet point action this time around:
-So I've decided to switch up the title of my novel with the title of it's first part. The novel will now be The Uninitiated. Book 1 will be The Hyphenates of Jackson County. Any objections?
-I think two that I'll combine Books 1 &2 of the novel into one, as they are of similar content and tone. The novel as a whole is coming together much more clearly now that I've gone through a draft of the whole book. I'm working my way through a long list of edits and rewrites now.
-I began work as Blog and Social Networking Editor for Prairie Schooner. Here's me welcoming myself to the blog.
-The newest edition of Confrontation (Fall 2011) came out, with my story "The First Night of My Down-and-Out Sex Life" included. Read more here.
-I turned thirty early in November, and reflected on the experience.
-We learned that Kid B will be a girl. For right now, at least, we're leaning toward Clara Lynne for a name.
"Evie stayed with Jacob until he was better. It was two days. She was an impassioned nurse. She held cool rags to his forehead while she told him stories; she covered and recovered his kicking limbs in Afghans; she changed his sheets if the chamber pot spilled; she kissed his burning cheeks incessantly, even though there was a chance he might make her sick too; she soothed him, she promised he wouldn't die, and that she wasn't going to leave him. Somehow Marie Eigler tracked down a crate of oranges—which was a miracle, really, given the rations—and Jacob had to drink their juice, even though it burned his throat. It was a simple matter of whether or not Evie could keep up his strength. She made him drink turnip broth and a beaten raw egg every hour. Evie kept Jacob in line too. She didn't let him forget for a second that was being taken care of, and that he was going to be fine. And then, suddenly, after two days, he was."
Southern Review for "Forget Me" and A Public Space for "Attend the Way"
Shadow Traffic by Richard Burgin. A solid collection of stories from front to back from one of our mainstay fiction writers.
Best American Comics 2011, Alison Bechdel, ed. A pretty good showing this year, the best edition since the first two. My favorites were Manifestation by Gabrielle Bell, St. Ambrose by John Pham, Nov. 3, 1956 by Joe Sacco (this one was particularly enlightening and horrifying), Soixante Neuf by David Lasky and Mairead Case, Jordan W. Lint to the Age 65 by Chris Ware, Browntown by Jaime Hernandez, The Pterodactyl Hunters (in the Gilded City) by Brendan Leach, Abby's Road by Noah Van Sciver, The Mad Scientist by Jeff Smith, Winter by Danica Novgorodoff, Benjamin Percy and James Ponsoldt, and Weekends Abroad by Eric Orner. Maybe it would have been easier to just say the whole thing is awesome?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. A classic. Read it for three minutes and you'll see why.
Upstream Metropolis: an Urban Biography of Omaha & Council Bluffs by Lawrence H. Larsen, Barbara J. Cottrell, Harl A. Dalstrom, & Kay Calame Dalstrom. An interesting history of the city and surrounding area. There's so much overlap in these local histories, but this one seems to have a little new and interesting information at least.
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone.


Bobby "The Brain" Heenan was 73. He was the professional wrestling manager, wrestler and colour commentator I knew best from his years in the WWF. Young Mike watched many a match called by Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan.
I liked the bad guys before it was cool.
Sad to hear he passed away. He was suffering from cancer and the subsequent treatment for 15 years. Great wrestling personality.
I suggest everyone check YouTube for clips of Bobby doing his thing. He was really ahead of his time when it comes to commentators providing hilarious analysis.


Myths abound when it comes to the late works of important composers. It is debatable as to whether this is due to their timelessness, or their often extensive form, which makes great demands on the listener, or simply the supreme skill with regard to the composer's own musical language, which is demonstrated in mature works. It is commonly understood that a performer of late works should treat them with due respect and possess an exceptional command of his instrument. But not so with Glenn Gould, who at the tender age of 23, shortly after his recording debut for the Columbia label of Bach's Goldberg Variations, dared to perform Beethoven's last three Piano Sonatas.


The hardest part of my job is when I have been faced with a customer who is clearly suffering from an eating disorder. Over the years I have met several women who are anorexic, bulimic or both. This is not to say that men don't have eating disorders too, they do'. Around 1 in 250 women have an eating disorder, for men it is 1 in 2,000.
Lots of us at some point in our lives may be unhappy with the way we look. How many times have you asked or been asked the phrase 'Does my bum look big in this?!' We may get fed up with our wobbly bits and wish we could be taller, slimmer, more toned but then tuck into a bar of chocolate and forget about it!
Anorexia isn't really about food and weight; it's much more complicated than that. It's normally a symptom of something much deeper, depression, loneliness, insecurity, pressure to be perfect or feeling out of control about any aspect of life, no amount of dieting can help with this.
This is a much bigger problem with young people than ever before. Pick up any magazine or look at the internet and you will see images of perfect men and women. God forbid they should have an ounce of body fat, a spot, small breasts/ pectorals, a six-pack (men and women!) and if they have a wrinkle OMG (I'm down with the kids!) reach for the Botox now!!!! Is it any wonder that society today is having more cosmetic surgery?
But, have you all heard of Photoshop? I'm guessing the answer is yes. The real story is that these perfect gorgeous specimens are actually real people just like you and me. They too have imperfections, the difference is they have been photo shopped to make them look flawless.
The best example I have seen is a photo of a perfect specimen of a female, the article showed us mere mortals how the photo had been photo shopped starting from the end product back to what she looked like originally. The lady it turns out didn't exist, ever. In fact she started life as a pizza, how clever is technology that a cheese and tomato margarita can be transformed into a human being!
Perhaps if the famous were to let the world see what they really look like there wouldn't be so many insecure people worrying that they don't look a certain way…somehow I doubt that will happen.
It is very distressing to see someone who has lost a huge amount of weight and has changed from looking healthy and having an optimal body weight to becoming extremely thin and undernourished.
It is a very delicate subject and one that has to be treated very sensitively. Accusing someone of having an eating disorder is very hard; along with the eating disorder comes psychological problems which need to be dealt with by the right people, I am certainly not qualified to deal with this very distressing condition but I do have a duty of care for this person if they are using our facilities.
Alarm bells ring if I see changes in people over a short period of time. The body will strive to survive if it isn't getting the food that it needs; if it is starving it will get its energy from muscle. The anorexic person will have very low fat percentage and also low muscle percentage. In cases that I have known they exercise excessively, attend gym sessions, swimming and coming back in to do studio sessions.
Below are some behaviour signs and symptoms to help recognise is someone has an eating disorder.
Feeling fat, despite being underweight – They may feel overweight in general or just "too fat" in certain places such as the stomach, hips, or thighs.
Harshly critical of appearance – Spending a lot of time in front of the mirror checking for flaws. There's always something to criticize. They're never thin enough.
low body weight is a problem, while trying to conceal it (drinking a lot of water before being weighed, wearing baggy or oversized clothes).
Compulsive exercising – Following a punishing exercise regimen aimed at burning calories. Exercising through injuries, illness, and bad weather.
There can't be anything more worrying for a parent or friend of someone with an eating disorder. The feeling of helplessness must be overwhelming and the compulsion to force feed them/ follow them around the house to make sure they don't make themselves sick must be immense. The affected person isn't doing this just to 'wind you up', they have an illness which needs to be dealt with by professionals. There is help available; it can take a long time for the affected person to beat it but man, many people do.
Contact your GP if you suspect that someone close to you has a problem or if it is yourself, take that step and make this the day that you start the journey to recovery.


I have been attending AMSS for the past 6 years to learn about current research and present my latest research, but this year I had another exciting reason for going to the conference. I announced and promoted the COHO Lab, a new fee-for-service lab at ASLC that was developed by Dr. Hollmen and myself.
The lab provides research and diagnostic services focusing on microbiology, clinical chemistry and hematology, molecular biology and toxicology. We conduct a lot of the clinical and microbiology diagnostics on samples from our resident animals for routine health checks and from wild marine mammals and birds for research purposes. Some of the tests we conduct are not available at any other institution. The COHO Lab will allow us to provide these unique assays to clients.
I spoke to a lot of people at AMSS about the COHO Lab, and they are looking forward to taking advantage of the services we can provide. I am very proud to be the Director of the COHO Lab, and I'm excited about what the lab can offer to other researchers and clinicians.


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The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) offers clients and servers a single, comprehensive communication protocol for managing a wide range of encryption keys. By replacing redundant, incompatible key management protocols, KMIP provides better data security while at the same time reducing expenditures on multiple products.
KMIP Specification v1.4 is intended for developers and architects who wish to design systems and applications that interoperate using the Key Management Interoperability Protocol Specification.
KMIP Profiles v1.4 specifies conformance clauses that define the use of objects, attributes, operations, message elements and authentication methods within specific contexts of KMIP server and client interaction.
Our congratulations to the members of the KMIP TC on achieving this milestone.


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How World War II shaped modern Germany
By Mark Davis •et; last updated: 05/05/2015
In the latest in a series of articles on how World War II changed forever the countries that fought it, Kirsten Ripper looks at Germany, the instigator of the conflict and a nation that would be torn in two in its aftermath.
German guilt for Europe's suffering
In World War II, Germany brought immeasurable suffering and destruction to the whole of Europe. An estimated 60 million people were killed in the conflict, of whom around five million were German. Two thirds of the dead were civilians – among them six million Jews.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945. On May 8 in Reims and again on May 9 in Berlin, Germany's military signed the unconditional surrender.
At the end of the Nazi regime Germany was almost totally destroyed. Some 12 million Germans were refugees – mostly from regions in the East that were now in Soviet hands – and looking for a new home.
The responsibility for WWII and the national sentiment of guilt shaped the role of German politicians and citizens in Europe for decades.
Photos: The German population had suffered terribly from carpet bombing, notably in towns like Dresden (left), but also carried a huge sense of guilt for the suffering of others; (Right) Some of the 8.7 million Soviet soldiers killed during the war
Never again: Holocaust and anti-semitism
Holocaust (the Greek word for "burnt") or Shoah (the Hebrew word for "catastrophe") refers to the mass murder of six millions Jews, or people that the Nazi regime considered Jews.
It was the declared aim of the Nazis to ban all Jews from Europe, Hitler's "final solution to the Jewish question" that led to industrial mass murder.
Jews, but also Sinti, Roma, homosexuals and political opponents were persecuted by the Nazi regime. The worst horrors were the organised mass shootings and death by gas of death-camp prisoners from all over Europe.
It was only when the Soviet Red Army and then the Allied Forces liberated the concentration camps at the end of the war that the degree of the crimes became apparent.
The Allies tried to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Holocaust in the Nuremberg Trials.
Since the end of World War II, Germany has been trying to come to terms with anti-semitism and has made the denial of the Holocaust punishable by law.
The Shoah also explains a very special relationship between Germany and Israel, where Yad Vashem in Jerusalem remembers the six million murdered Jews.
Photos: Auschwitz (left) and the Yad Vashem memorial
Cold war and a divided Germany
At the Yalta and Potsdam conferences in 1945, the leaders of the USA, the USSR and Great Britain planned the de-nazification, democratisation and demilitarisation of a post-war Germany.
These three ultimately victorious powers, along with France, shared the administration of Germany, which was carved up into four zones of occupation. Berlin – which found itself within the Soviet zone of occupation, or "Eastern Zone", was also itself divided into four zones of occupation (sectors).
Immediately after the war, Winston Churchill spoke of an "Iron Curtain" that had descended across Europe, behind which the Soviet Union was hiding: "An Iron Curtain is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind."
The Iron Curtain separated the capitalist West from the Soviet, communist East and became the front line in a new conflict – the Cold War.
On May 23, 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany (known as West Germany) was founded on the model of Western democracies. Five months later the Soviet occupied Eastern Zone, along with East Berlin, officially became the "German Democratic Republic" (known as East Germany), a Soviet-style socialist state.
There followed a progressive separation of the two German states, the most visible being the Berlin Wall built by the Soviet-backed GDR in August 1961. The fall of the Wall in 1989 was the first big step toward German reunification, 44 years after the end of the Second World War.
Photos: Attlee, Truman and Stalin at the Potsdam conference (left); the western allies would occupy West Germany and West Berlin while the USSR occupied East Germany and East Berlin
The Marshall Plan and German economic 'miracle'
In Germany and in Europe most industries were destroyed after WWII, causing chronic unemployment and poverty. In 1947, the US Secretary of State George C. Marshall had the idea of a 'European Recovery Programme'. It was designed to "contain" totalitarism and communism and to create markets for US products. Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Greece and the Benelux countries received help from the USA. Washington invested 13.2 billion dollars into the European economy. For many experts this provided the basis of what is today the European Union.
In the 1950s the German economy was beginning to experience what Germans described as a Wirtschaftswunder (Economic Miracle). The Christian Democrats had introduced the so-called "social market economy" and industry grew by 185 percent between 1950 and 1963. To rebuild Germany, the economy needed extra hands and from the mid 1950s a steady flow of "Gastarbeiter" (guest workers) were recruited – first from Italy, but then also from other countries including many from Turkey. West Germany had been transformed within 15 years from a Nazi disaster zone into a prosperous, immigration state.
Photos: a poster (left) promoting the Marshall Plan; (right) Volkswagen Beetles poured off production lines and became a symbol of the 'Economic Miracle'.
Pacifism and the new role
After the bitter experience of the Nazi regime and Second World War, Germans, both in East and West turned away from militarism. Although West Germany decided in the early 1950s – despite strong protests in Parliament and among the public – to follow East Germany in rebuilding an army and (unlike East Germany) join NATO, West German soldiers took no part in international combat missions until German reunification in 1990.
Although the end of the division forced Germany to abandon its passivity and redefine its role in the Western defense alliance, a pacifist attitude and a certain skepticism about military activities in Germany – regardless of generational change – can still be observed today.
Photos: an image of a peace demo is used to promote a book in Essen; (right) 'Non-violence', bronze sculpture by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd exhibited in Marl park, Germany.
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The MUSIC BIZ ASSOCIATION (MUSIC BIZ) will celebrate its 60th anniversary at this year's annual MUSIC BIZ 2018 conference happening MONDAY, MAY 14th through THURSDAY, MAY 17th at NASHVILLE's OMNI HOTEL. This year's conference will feature several programs, panels, and performances, including the Featured Presentations keynoted by PANDORA's ROGER LYNCH; an interview with SCOOTER BRAUN; the Awards Luncheon; a live performance by BLACK RIVER's KELSEA BALLERINI; and much more.
"Our 2017 conference in NASHVILLE was our biggest in over 15 years with more than 2,000 attendees; we're excited to carry that momentum into our 60th anniversary event," said MUSIC BIZ Pres. JAMES DONIO. "MUSIC BIZ 2018 will honor our past with our first-ever MUSIC BUSINESS HALL OF FAME induction as well as returning sessions that address the issues of today, including Music's Leading Ladies Speak Out and our GLAAD partnership, 'Trendspotting: The Power of Queer Storytelling in Song.' We'll also pave the way forward to another 60 years of music with our debut '#NEXTGEN_NOW' panel, Financial Literacy Summit, and Sync It! program, along with a variety of student programming and our annual Career Opportunities For Students event." Registration for MUSIC BIZ 2018 is still open; find out more by visiting the MUSIC BIZ website.


The marketing music directory is for companies that support the music industry, artists, publishers and others, with marketing and other music services. Other resources for marketing music are included in the directory. Description and links for each is included.
MusicDish Network – MusicDish Network is the artist development department of MusicDish LLC, a leading music magazine publisher and marketing firm. Launched in 2001 as a marketing service for independent artists, MusicDish Network has grown into a complete artist development program, leveraging brand development, saturated and relationship marketing, digital distribution and industry outreach to support emerging artists' and bands' careers.


If you are planning a military move, there are generally two different options. First, the traditional military move is always up for consideration. This type of military move, of course, involves other armed forces personnel handling the packing, unpacking, transportation, and loading and unloading duties in total. While this type of military move has its obvious advantages, it should be noted that the do it yourself military move has some allurements of its own. Specifically, a military move in which the family to be move handles all of the considerations on their own comes with a fixed-rate reimbursement check once the move is completed. The amount of the reimbursement check for a do it yourself military move can be quite substantial, depending on the rank of the enlisted family member and distance traveled. If you opt for a do it yourself, or DITY, military move of this nature, the difference between the amount you paid to transport your things to your new base assignment and the amount left over from the reimbursement check is yours to keep. For best results, find an up to date DITY military move calculator online, and enter the necessary information to find out how much you can expect to be reimbursed for your moving expenses. From there, do a bit of research into how much it might cost to transport your things to your new destination, and determine if the difference is worth it to you in the end. If indeed this is so, go ahead and make the necessary arrangements for a DITY military move as soon as possible with the proper personnel. From there, make sure to reserve the products and services you will need as soon as possible to facilitate your move, and you should be all set!
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