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Faheem Majeed on "Post Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980-2016"
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider ArtArkee ChaneyFaheem MajeedInez WalkerLonnie HolleyMinnie EvansRonald LockettThornton Dial
William Dawson, Collected Figures, c. 1970.
As a celebration of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art's 25th anniversary, Intuit revisited the Corcoran Gallery of Art's groundbreaking 1982 exhibition Black Folk Art in America 1930–1980 with the exhibition Post Black Folk Art in America 1930 – 1980 – 2016 curated by Faheem Majeed. The exhibition showcases artists included in the original presentation as well as artists whose work and practice parallels the criteria for the Corcoran exhibition. CAW Managing editor Dan Gunn sat down with curator and artist Faheem Majeed to discuss his motivation to revisit this historical moment.
DG: How did you come to curate this show, and what had you heard about the previous show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1982?
FM: I really wasn't aware of the show prior [to Intuit's invitation.] I was aware of Intuit, and they had invited me a while back to do a talk about the Chicago artist Eddie Harris who is in the show. Anyone who knows my work knows that I was formerly the Executive Director of the South Side Community Art Center. My art practice centers around the mission of that historic WPA art center to support artists, especially artists of color. When I was invited, I spoke as an artist, I always speak as an artist first and as an administrator second. I talked about being impressed with the craftsmanship of Chicago artists and sculptors like Mr. Imagination, Eddie Harris and David Philpot and their ability to carve forms and do assemblage. These were things that I was interested in as a sculptor myself. The terminology of 'folk artist,' 'outsider,' 'intuitive,' none of these terms were familiar.
DG: Because you encountered these people as contemporaries through the South Side Community Art Center?
FM: Absolutely, yes. They were people I admired because of their artwork. So I talked about that instead of how their work was classified. The board president and former executive director here, Cleo Wilson said she really liked the way that I was talking about the work and approached me along with some of the art committee members to come and curate this show. I know what 'outsider art' is in a very surface way and I asked them to tell me what that is. Is that different than "folk art"? If there is a black folk art, is there a white folk art? So I had all of these questions. These questions led me down the rabbit hole.
DG: So going down that rabbit hole, what did you find in your research of the original show that surprised you?
FM: As a part of their 25th anniversary they wanted to revisit this show "Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980" from 1982. I didn't understand Intuit's relationship to the show initially. The show was a catalyst to the founding of Intuit when it came to Chicago from DC. But when it came here it came to the Field Museum. When you hear these things, it just fills you with more questions. What has been exciting for me is approaching this content myself as an outsider. I'm an outsider to the world of outsider art. They [Intuit] were excited about fresh eyes and the more I said that I "didn't know" the more excited they were. So for six months or so it was a crash course in understanding the politics around the work, the history, and nuance of this genre of production and being overwhelmed with the exhausting numbers of the amazing artists who could fill up these spaces.
Minnie Evans (American, 1892-1987)
Graphite, oil, waxed crayon and collage on canvas board.
Collection of Cleo F. Wilson.
DG: So let's take those two things in order, let's talk about the politics around the work first and then we'll talk about some of the works in the show. I'm really curious about the status of the term "outsider" specifically as it was assigned a racial category in '82 and your provocative addition to the title here,"post-black." What do you see as the differences between then and now?
FM: The curators of the 1982 Corcoran show, Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, didn't have much precedent to follow. In many ways, this was uncharted territory because awareness of this artwork was really dispersed. In between exhibitions, Jane, as a prominent curator, was invited to jury shows around the country. In the South, the artists whom she would meet, they were the fans of this art. They would take her around to see these various artists. She felt like she could take this area that hadn't been fleshed out and do a large survey. This was a significant show because it was the first time a museum of that size had committed such resources dedicated to artists that hadn't been acknowledged by the art canon. This term "black folk art" was plucked out of the sky by Jane and John. Or it was there but she just really codified it into 'black folk art,' the category. They needed a term that would market the work, which would bring people in. Black art wasn't enough, because, at the time in the vicinity of Washington D.C., you had Howard University right there, you had black artists in New York, you had black artists in Philadelphia, you all of these artists who were training and trying to push into the museum and get representation.
DG: The original show avoided academically trained black artists in the area because they weren't outsiders?
FM: Yes, it did, but not so intentionally. It was kind of naive. Jane Livingston came from out west into DC, to the Corcoran Gallery which is near the Smithsonian and the National Gallery. She was bewildered that the population of Washington DC is like 70% black. (Black here meaning anything from African American to Caribbean or continental African, etc.) For the most part, they were not coming to the Corcoran. In her mind, she is thinking, "How can we connect?" So jump ahead 25 years. I'm not foolish. I know why I am here. I see who the audience is at Intuit. That's the institutional critique. Intuit wanted me to revisit this show but also wanted me to think about how to bring in new audiences. The MCA and other museums are all still having these conversations about how [to increase the attendance of people of color.]
DG: So given the complicated relationships within the show and responses to the show, how does the addition of the idea of "post-black" enter into your thinking?
The Post-Black Folk Art in America title married the controversial term "post-black" that asserts a refusal by some African-Americans to be labeled Black but instead of shifts the power dynamic to self-identifying as black. The more I heard people try to give me definitions of what a folk artist was the more I began to see similarities with the discussion around the post-black. The answers that I was given were things like "the authentic experience of the artist," which is subjective. Nothing can be authentic if a person from outside the community is in the room. In most cases, the collector's experience can't be an authentic experience. Never. Then they cited "the spirit behind the work" as an essential feature, where the artist is actually doing art therapy, or evangelizing, or working through abuse. Often artists were coming to art at a later age where they could create more freely.
I just thought that it was funny, that even in what seemed to be a small and nuanced sliver of the art canon that it mirrored many of the discriminatory practices of the larger whole. In the original show, there are like twenty-five artists and only two or three women. Why within a marginalized space, do we marginalize more? You know what I mean? It was incredibly confusing because I view the show as an extension of my art practice and that is all about institutional critique. It's not about just exhibiting the artwork but also about challenging both the institution of "folk art" and Intuit.
Installation view, "Post Black Folk Art"
DG: Is there also a class component here that speaks to the limited access to art education or even to conceptualizing oneself as an artist?
FM: The question that I was confronted with early on was that some of these artists went quite far in their art career moving in museums and using alternative modes of art production like avant-garde music or performance. So I thought "Well, maybe they've graduated out of this?" Because really you have to kinda be ignorant or not have access to wealth [to continue to be a folk artist]. This moved me back into the notion of the post-black and about self-identifying and empowerment. It's not up to me in this context to identify them as something and to take them out of something else. It's up to some of them, through their actions, artwork and voice they say, "Yeah, I'm a folk artist but I'm also a performance artist, a painter, and a masters student, I've been in the Studio Museum of Harlem residency, I've been in this museum and I have a wealth of information, that I'm not this small artist, I'm a huge artist." That's the thing that challenged me. Often I saw the way that the stereotypes around the work projected only the image of the small and the unempowered.
DG: Is there a good example that expansive view type of the folk artist in the show?
FM: It's my favorite example actually, the untitled sculpture of the stone on the shovel by Lonnie Holley. What's surprising about that piece is that it is so minimal. It's brave to be able to put something out that simple. It took us forever to figure out how to install it. We kept putting the damn stone down, and the thing would fall over. Then we would slide it back, and it would flip up. We couldn't figure out the balance. Finally, we realized that the stone had to sit directly on a single focal point to be stable. When it's on that point, it doesn't touch the ground! It's got that weightless balance like a Calder. That's the perfect metaphor [for the folk artist] in that something so simple ends up being very complex. Some artists play act. "If you think I'm this way. I'll delve into my persona and give you an authentic experience. Then I'll take what I need to get somewhere else." They are hard workers, just like any other artist, they think about how to market themselves.
Lonnie Bradley ("Sandman") Holley (b. 1950) Untitled, 2015 Mixed media, Collection of William S. Arnett
DG: As they are taking on the label as a folk artist? In order to access another opportunity or different resources?
FM: We can talk about the commentary on the term "black folk art" too. I spent all of this time talking about labels, and the collectors spent all of this time arguing about what is the best kind of P.C. terminology. The people who aren't talking about that label, who don't really give a shit, are the artists.
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There is that ongoing joke "as long as you get my name right on the check… call me what you want". In certain situations, if you've found something that people value, and you need to pay bills, then great , whatever. I remember being an artist coming out of school and trying to figure out the market. These artists are doing this too. Once they understand that their activity is valuable in this other space, then they use that knowledge.
DG: Joseph Yoakum has a big footprint in Chicago because of his influence on the Imagists like Roger Brown or Ray Yoshida. How do you think that kind of artist-to-artist influence works? Did the "finders" of these artists view them as naive outsiders or as their artistic peers?
FM: I think they saw them as peers. It's a translation that the artist can have, what some people may hear as gibberish, someone else can hear as music and appreciate that. There are a lot of these cases where the artist as was an advocate. Take the case of Bill Traylor. There was a photographer, Charles Shannon, who was just in love with his work and if not for that lens, we might not know who Bill Traylor was. There was certainly a community of people who did know him and appreciated him but didn't have the influence or affluence to take it to this other level. I would say that a majority of the artists in the room had some advocate to catapult them, whether it was a collector or other artists. You know, Roger Brown was an artist but also a collector.
James "Son Ford" Thomas (1926-1993)
Grey Skull With Beard, c. 1988, Sundried clay, green marble eyes, and dentures
Skull, 1992, Sun clay, aluminum foil, plastic, denture teeth
Skull, 1991, Sundried clay, human teeth
Skull, 1989, Sundried clay, aluminum foil, and pebbles
The Arient Family Collection
Image credit: Lucas Pearson Photography
One of the threads that we are programming around is the collectors. I have collectors, but they ain't like the collectors of this art. They are sometimes as colorful as the artists themselves, and they are passionate and protective when it comes to representing these artists. They have these fascinating connections to the artists. Some of the works in this show highlight that, such as with James "Son" Thomas' skulls that we have in the show. This artwork is a representation of a collaboration between the collector and the artist. Each of the skulls has a different kind of teeth. This was made during the AIDS epidemic, before they knew how it was transmitted and the artist was using real teeth. The collector was a dentist by trade and was worried that it wasn't safe or socially responsible to be using real teeth. So one skull has real teeth, another has pebbles for teeth; still, another is a set of dentures, and the final one is made of caps provided by the dentist. So the close collector / artist relationship starts to influence the work. I don't think that a lot of these artists would have reached where they are without having that advocacy of affluence. To tell you the truth is no different than any other artist. The avant-garde is the mix between the artists and the affluent. There are a lot of ways this show is a micro of a macro.
DG: What are some of the other threads in the show that come out in the work?
FM: Well the prison-industrial complex is prominent, whether it is Ines Walker making portraits of inmates that she remembers from when she was in prison for manslaughter in the 1970's. She would execute this kind of kooky flat portraits. Also, you have Arkee Chaney who is currently in prison now and came to art as a student of Margaret Burroughs, the founder of the South Side Community Art Center. So this is ceramic electric chair, with a card that goes with it that reads "murder is murder". I was reaching out to artist Sarah Ross, who frequently goes to Statesboro, picking up the torch of Burroughs, going in and teaching. She came across Arkee Chaney. I went into a collector's home, Patrick McCoy, and I found actual pottery from him.
The energy of collecting the naive or untapped has moved today into the prison industrial complex and the special needs community through art therapy. There is viewpoint out there, that feels there is a difference between someone picking up a piece of mud and doing something with their finger versus someone else putting a paintbrush into their hand. They question the ethics of kind of "coaching" the individuals. Ultimately I don't really care if they are being crafted as artists. Some individuals go to school for art that are equally crafted as certain kinds of artists. If you're going to talk about that as an issue, you need not just to single out one community.
One of the other threads in the show is a public commentary, this piece by Steven Ashby. He is known for his very loud, sexualized depictions of women doing gruesome things. In between, you see these kind of things, like in this piece, Untitled (Hunter and Victim), where a white hunter is shooting a black man. This kind of jumped out of all of the collections that I saw. This is very specifically here to reach out to people who may not know anything about folk art they are going to recognize this. I thought about the kid walking in with Black Lives Matter with their position on the streets on their mind. This captures your attention. There are these undertones that hopefully get people to think beyond the importance of the object.
Inez Nathaniel Walker (African American, 1911-1990). Untitled (Portrait of woman with necklace). Mixed media on typing paper, 18 1/2 x 13in. (46.99 x 33.02cm). Intuit: The Collection of Intuitive and Outsider Art. Gift of Margaret Robson.
DG: That was really clear going through the show. You can see the artists recording their own lives, some of them are fanciful but on the whole, they seem deeply aware of their community.
FM: I want to challenge the institution, but I don't want to offend. I want to create a space for dialogue about where the next 25 years could take Intuit. It was more important to me to try and pull in some collectors who don't usually associate with the folk art label. It was important that I got something from a collector like Patrick McCoy, who loaned the Charles Smith pieces because he is an African-American collector, founder of a space called Diasporal Rhythms. When I go to him and ask him "can you show me your folk artists?" He's like "I don't know what the fuck you are talking about." It's the same thing that I was struggling with. So many of the living artists that I thought might fit in this show, were completely offended at the thought of me calling them folk artists.
DG: Ok, so that makes me feel like the term is completely bankrupt. It is either not useful for the artists of color except to self-identify as such to access a different market or…what?
FM: I had always thought of it as almost a derogatory term because of the connotations of the untrained or outsider. No one wants to be untrained or an outsider. The term 'black folk art' blew up in the face of the curators. The day the show opened, every day after that was about recoiling from the term. There was this article done by the journalist Dorothy Butler, who was the wife of painter Sam Gilliam that was scathing. It talked about the omission of all of these artists of color who had been patiently knocking at the door, playing by the rules. From their perspective instead of opening the door to them, the curators went down South and walked these people into the museum who aren't aware and don't even care about this space. Then to take it a step further, now that this is the representation because we only get one example, of all artists of color! Not only the artwork but the people themselves are from another place and class. Some of the northern artists in the show didn't feel they had much in common with the southern artists. They thought "I'm sophisticated. I'm from the North. I come from two generations of trying to get away from the South, and now you want to group us all together like we're all some kinda family." It was this other critique that the curators walked right into.
Arkee Chaney (b. 1944)
Governmental Premeditated Murder, n.d.
Collection of Patric McCoy
DG: Then what could be left of value in the term 'black folk art'?
FM: Almost every book you find that references the show spends the first page talking about recanting terminology. This was fascinating to me that no one wanted to commit to a term. The way that I got to the content around the show was by speaking to people who are close to the art. Taking the 'post-black' and grafting it onto 'black folk art' is an attempt to have a new conversation. We are tired of having this same conversation.
DG: Did most of the work here come from these active private collectors or museums?
FM: A lot of this work comes from private collections, which is truer to the genre of folk art. The museums got a late start because they weren't interested which is why when the show came to Chicago, it came to the Field Museum and why it was so risky to do the show at the Corcoran in the first place. People viewed it as not even real art. It's not shocking that it went to the Field Museum, but it is upsetting now when you look back. I think the Field Museum might have been the best place for it, because they just navigate their artwork differently. As a history museum, they let people get closer to the work. I think it fits more with the spirit of where the work comes from because their exhibitions spend more time educating visitors on the history and context of the work. They have also cultivated a culture of exploration that can feel less intimidating than many of our larger fine art institutions. I imagine that this might have been helpful for the relatively unknown aesthetics and content.
DG: That's extremely unexpected to hear you say because my gut response is to recoil in horror at taking an anthropological viewpoint on all of that artistic activity.
FM: Absolutely, me too. After the show was up, I went for a meeting there. In 1982, they had those big banners out front on the columns that read, "BLACK FOLK ART in AMERICA". It could be seen clearly by anybody driving on the Lakeshore Drive or visiting the Museum Campus. So it just drew people in. People who were passionate about this type of work met each other there for the first time because they had been working individually. They didn't know each other except incidentally through galleries like Ann Nathan or Carl Hammer. That momentum prompted the founding of Intuit.
DG: So if you were to plot a course for what it would mean to be a contemporary folk artist, what would that look like? I mean I could see a reason to identify as a folk artist as an oppositional stance to the mainstream academic discourse. But to do so would be exact the opposite of the naive, or the intuitive.
FM: When I go and I talk with Bill Arnett, from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation he feels that folk art has time limits to it. Just the same way that there are periods for Cubism or other movements. There is a genre that ends, that caps. He defines it as the proximity to 1968. The further you get prior to 1968 the more the voices are hidden. "Whatcha making out there in the fields?" "Oh, I'm making a something to memorialize my grandma". When they're really making a subversive commentary, but you can't be explicit because you'd get strung up or drug down the street by the back of a car. The closer you get to 1968 and beyond you can be a little more vocal. He thinks about the assassination of Dr. King as the endpoint of black folk art.
Ronald Lockett (1965-1998)
Untitled (Horse), 1987
Collection of William S. Arnett
Lucas Pearson Photography
The outsider artist is more of a mentality today. It may be that instead of carving wood, they may be on their laptop at Starbucks working on a web application. Maybe it looks completely different. How do you build on the notion of the outsider? That was my first question. Can there be a contemporary version of an outsider artist? I intentionally did not pull in graffiti. That is one place that is too easy. You would never call Jean-Michel Basquiat an outsider artist, right? Or any other kid out there tagging.
DG: What are some of your favorite works in the show?
FM: We chose Thornton Dial because he was not included in the original show but was an individual who achieved so much in his life. He'd recently passed so we thought it would be important to acknowledge his impact as one of the great American artists. There is this term that I use a lot "unapologetically ugly". His work pushes against any uniformity or expectation. Ronald Lockett was also really exciting to include because his work is starting to surface in the marketplace. Lockett was kind of an adopted nephew of Thornton Dial. With him, you get this question of the awareness of the social and fiscal potential of making art because he was so close to Thornton. Does that make you an outsider if you are aware of the value of the work in the gallery and museum space? I had to just let all of that go because it's about self-identifying. Lockett contracted AIDS in the 1990's and makes work showing these emaciated stags. He's best known for his rusted tin work, with these interesting patinas and collaged elements, materials that held a metaphorical position of strong things deteriorating and breaking down. These were clearly images of himself confronting his own death. Each one of these artists has the most profound story.
DG: You made illusion about your work being about institutional critique early on, but how does this curatorial activity fulfill your artistic practice?
FM: A lot of my current practice is 'socially engaged,' which I've found problematic in the way that it's being utilized to enter and change neighborhoods. Being an artist that makes sculpture as a platform for other collaborators, I think of myself as 'the beautiful pedestal maker.' We create our own spaces. If we're not in museums, then we'll create our own museums. At the core though I'm a maker. Some artists hone my eye to appreciate things that I took for granted before. I'm attracted to Mr. Imagination's bottle cap sculptures or David Philpot's bed post carvings. I just appreciate innovative craftsmanship. The thing that I've gotten out of this show most is a reconnection to the freedom to make that used to be there. When you go to grad school, then you can't make anything without twenty voices in your head. Collectively they have the "I don't give a shit; I want to make my beauty" mentality. I want to make my thing, and I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna make it forty or fifty times over. That's where I used to be. That's brave. That's amazing. Tapping back into that mentality is what I want to do.
Post Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980-2016, curated by Faheem Majeed at Intuit runs until January 8, 2017.
Dan Gunn is a Chicago-based artist, writer, educator, and a contributing editor to Chicago Artist Writers. Dan's writing focuses on Chicago art, including publishing a history of alternative spaces in conjunction with the Hyde Park Art Center's "Artists Run Chicago" exhibition. Previously written for Bad at Sports, the MCA Chicago, Depaul Art Museum, Loyola University Museum of Art, Newcity Magazine, Proximity Magazine, and ArtSlant.com. Dan has also exhibited widely in Chicago and somewhat less widely nationally. His work has been reviewed in Frieze, Art in America, art ltd., Artslant, Newcity Magazine, New American Paintings and the Chicago Tribune.
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Salzano, Sonia, Checconi, Paola, Hanschmann, Eva-Maria, Lillig, Christopher Horst, Bowler, Lucas D, Chan, Philippe, Vaudry, David, Mengozzi, Manuela, Coppo, Lucia, Sacre, Sandra, Atkuri, Kondala R, Sahaf, Bita, Herzenberg, Leonard A, Herzenberg, Leonore A, Mullen, Lisa and Ghezzi, Pietro (2014) Linkage of inflammation and oxidative stress via release of glutathionylated peroxiredoxin-2, which acts as a danger signal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (33). pp. 12157-12162. ISSN 1091-6490
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1401712111
The mechanism by which oxidative stress induces inflammation and vice versa is unclear but is of great importance, being apparently linked to many chronic inflammatory diseases. We show here that inflammatory stimuli induce release of oxidized peroxiredoxin-2 (PRDX2), a ubiquitous redox-active intracellular enzyme. Once released, the extracellular PRDX2 acts as a redox-dependent inflammatory mediator, triggering macrophages to produce and release TNF-α. The oxidative coupling of glutathione (GSH) to PRDX2 cysteine residues (i.e., protein glutathionylation) occurs before or during PRDX2 release, a process central to the regulation of immunity. We identified PRDX2 among the glutathionylated proteins released in vitro by LPS-stimulated macrophages using mass spectrometry proteomic methods. Consistent with being part of an inflammatory cascade, we find that PRDX2 then induces TNF-α release. Unlike classical inflammatory cytokines, PRDX2 release does not reflect LPS-mediated induction of mRNA or protein synthesis; instead, PRDX2 is constitutively present in macrophages, mainly in the reduced form, and is released in the oxidized form on LPS stimulation. Release of PRDX2 is also observed in human embryonic kidney cells treated with TNF-α. Importantly, the PRDX2 substrate thioredoxin (TRX) is also released along with PRDX2, enabling an oxidative cascade that can alter the -SH status of surface proteins and thereby facilitate activation via cytokine and Toll-like receptors. Thus, our findings suggest a model in which the release of PRDX2 and TRX from macrophages can modify the redox status of cell surface receptors and enable induction of inflammatory responses. This pathway warrants further exploration as a potential novel therapeutic target for chronic inflammatory diseases.
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Sandra Sacre


In addition to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, states can provide additional free speech protection to their own citizens by enacting state laws or regulations. The Kansas Student Free Expression Law is such a provision and provides student journalists attending Kansas public high schools with added protection against administrative censorship.
72-7209 Citation of act. This act shall be known and may be cited as the student publications act.
(a) "School district" means any public school district organized and operating under the laws of this state.
(b) "Student publication" means any matter which is prepared, substantially written, or published by students, which is distributed or generally made available, either free of charge or for a fee, to members of the student body, and which is prepared under the direction of a certified employee.
72-7211. Liberty of press protected; regulation authorized; review of material not restraint on publication; material not protected; responsibilities of editor and advisers; liability, immunity and limitations.
(a) The liberty of the press in student publications shall be protected. School employees may regulate the number, length, frequency, distribution and format of student publications. Material shall not be suppressed solely because it involves political or controversial subject matter.
(b) Review of material prepared for student publications and encouragement of the expression of such material in a manner that is consistent with high standards of English and journalism shall not be deemed to be or construed as a restraint on publication of the material or an abridgment of the right to freedom of expression in student publications.
(c) Publication or other expression that is libelous, slanderous or obscene or matter that commands, requests, induces, encourages, commends or promotes conduct that is defined by law as a crime or conduct that constitutes a ground or grounds for the suspension or expulsion of students as enumerated in K.S.A. 72-8901, and amendments thereto, or which creates material or substantial disruption of the normal school activity is not protected by this act.
(d) Subject to the limitations imposed by this section, student editors of student publications are responsible for determining the news, opinion, and advertising content of such publications. Student publication advisers and other certified employees who supervise or direct the preparation of material for expression in student publications are responsible for teaching and encouraging free and responsible expression of material and high standards of English and journalism. No such adviser or employee shall be terminated from employment, transferred, or relieved of duties imposed under this subsection for refusal to abridge or infringe upon the right to freedom of expression conferred by this act.
(e) No publication or other expression of matter by students in the exercise of rights under this act shall be deemed to be an expression of school district policy. No school district, member of the board of education or employee thereof, shall be held responsible in any civil or criminal action for any publication or other expression of matter by students in the exercise of rights under this act. Student editors and other students of a school district, if such student editors and other students have attained the age of majority, shall be held liable in any civil or criminal action for matter expressed in student publications to the extent of any such student editor's or other student's responsibility for and involvement in the preparation and publication of such matter.


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A computer worm is a type of Trojan that is capable of propagating or replicating itself from one system to another. It can do this in a number of ways. Unlike viruses, worms don't need a host file to latch onto. After arriving and executing on a target system, it can do a number of malicious tasks, such as dropping other malware, copying itself onto devices physically attached to the affected system, deleting files, and consuming bandwidth.
Robert Tappan Morris, a computer science student from Cornell University, created the first known worm and unleashed it in November 1988. Now known as the Morris worm, it was initially designed to count the number of computers connected to a network. However, the worm exhibited unwanted side effects.
The term "worm" actually originated from a fictional novel entitled The Shockwave Rider, which was written by John Brunner in 1975. In the novel, this worm is capable of gathering data, suggesting that it's acting more like an information stealer than a self-replicating program.
Common infection method
Worms can spread themselves in a number of ways:
Via software vulnerabilities. Some worm variants look for security holes on systems via installed unpatched software. Once a hole is detected, it infiltrates that system, and then it performs its malicious duties.
Via email. Some worm variants can drop other malware, such as backdoors. This payload transforms the affected system into a zombie/bot machine and connects it to a botnet. These machines are capable of spamming messages to random or targeted recipients, with the worm file as its attachment. Spam mail sent usually involve some social engineering tactics for greater chances of infection.
Via external devices. Some worm variants can copy themselves onto devices, such as USB sticks and external hard drives, which are attached to an already affected system. This way, systems where these devices can be connected to will be affected as well.
Via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks. Some Internet users have been known to use P2P applications like eMule and Kazaa to share files with friends and family. However, such an activity is exploited by worms. Worms in P2P file networks have been difficult to detect.
Via social networks. Some worm variants have propagated within known social sites. For example, MySpace has been affected by an XSS-type worm.
Via compromised sites. Compromised sites may harbor certain variants of worms that are capable of looking for security holes.
Via instant messengers (IMs) networks. This is another popular method used by worms. Not only can it spread copies of itself via text messages, IMs can also be used to spread this malware via its P2P sharing capabilities. This method tend to spread worms a lot quicker.
Associated families
From the late 20th century to the early 21st century, worms have been one of the most notorious pieces of software that is found in user systems. Although this type of malware is not as prominent a threat on the Internet as it was before, it remains one of the most dangerous. Below is a short list of reputable and prolific worm families that have caused havoc and is now part of computing history:
Bagle (aka Beagle, Mitglieder, Lodeight)
Blaster (aka MSBlast, Lovesan, Lovsan)
Conficker (aka Downup, Downadup, Kido)
ILOVEYOU (aka Love Letter)
Mydoom (aka W32.MyDoom@mm, Novarg, Mimail.R, Shimgapi
Nimda
SQL Slammer
Stration (aka Stratio, Warezov)
Running antivirus and/or anti-malware software usually cleans up affected systems automatically. It is also advisable to call legitimate computer technical support services should one encounter complications or the worm is highly sophisticated and needs additional steps to cleaning the system.
The aftermath of a worm infection is dependent of the variant itself and its payload(s). Here are just some notable side effects observed on affected systems:
Further infection from other malware types
Affected system may become part of a botnet due to other malware infection, such as backdoors
Some highly sophisticated worm variants are capable of stopping or crashing the affected systems. This happened to the nuclear centrifuges at Iran before the Stuxnet worm was discovered.
Systems slow down.
Defenses on the system are disabled, including Safe Mode.
Files are missing from the affected system, causing it to not operate or function normally.
Systems are compromised, opening them for spying by bad actors and other malicious activities.
Prevention is best when it comes to dealing with malware like worms. Here are practical ways one can avoid getting affected by worms:
Download and install an antivirus or anti-malware software, if you haven't already. The majority of worms are detected by these software.
Keep you OS and other software installed on your system updated.
Make sure that all firewalls on your system and router(s) are always enabled. Also, configure your firewall to make it more secure.
Restrict access to computer users also helps by not giving administrator access to every user of a computer device.
Disable JavaScript (JS) on your browser(s).
Exercise basic computer security 101 protocols. For example, not clicking links or opening attachments on emails without verifying from the senders that they legitimately sent those messages.
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Botnets are networks of computers infected by a botnet agent that are under hidden control of a third party. They are used to execute various commands ordered by the attacker. Most common uses of botnets are criminal operations that require distributed resources, such as DDoS attacks on selected targets, spam campaigns, and performing click fraud. Often, the botnet agent is ordered to download and install additional payloads or to steal data from the local computer.
From the moment of infection, botnet agents keep in touch with their remote Command-and-Control server (C&C). The communication can be carried by various means, and cybercriminals keep on inventing in new methods to hide their data transmission channels. There have been some unusual ways via social media like Twitter or reddit to send commands. However, the most common implementation of the C&C is a web-application, contacted by the client via simple HTTP requests.
Browser hijackers, or simply hijackers, are a type of malware created for the purpose of modifying Internet browser settings without the user's knowledge or consent. Typically, hijackers change the homepage and default search settings. However, some are known to inject advertisements—thus, they are qualified to be called adware, automatically redirecting users to potentially malicious destinations when they visit certain sites, and sometimes making drastic changes to the affected system. Some hijackers also contain keyloggers, which are capable of recording user keystrokes to gather potentially valuable information they enter into websites, such as account credentials.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS)
DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service tools, are malicious applications designed to mount an attack against a service or website with the intention overwhelming it with false traffic and/or fake requests. This has the desired effect of tying up all available resources dealing with these requests, effectively denying access to legitimate users.
DNS hijacker
DNS changers/hijackers are Trojans crafted to modify infected systems' DNS settings without the users' knowledge or consent. Once the systems are infected and their DNS settings modified, systems use foreign DNS servers set up by the threat actors. Infected systems that attempt to access specific sites are redirected to sites specified by threat actors.
Info stealers
The term info stealer is self-explanatory. This type of malware resides in an infected computer and gathers data in order to send it to the attacker. Typical targets are credentials used in online banking services, social media sites, emails, or FTP accounts.
Info stealers may use many methods of data acquisition. The most common are:
hooking browsers (and sometimes other applications) and stealing credentials that are typed by the user
using web injection scripts that are adding extra fields to web forms and submitting information from them to a server owned by the attacker
form grabbing (finding specific opened windows and stealing their content)
keylogging
stealing passwords saved in the system and cookies
Modern info stealers are usually parts of botnets. Sometimes the target of attack and related events are configured remotely by the command sent from the Command and Control server (C&C).
Point-of-sale (POS) malware is software specifically created to steal customer data, particularly from electronic payment cards like debit and credit cards and from POS machines in retail stores. It does this by scraping the temporarily unencrypted card data from the POS's memory (RAM), writing it to a text file, and then either sending it to an off-site server at a later date or retrieving it remotely. It is believed that criminals behind the proliferation of this type of malware are mainly after data they can sell, not for their own personal use. Although deemed as less sophisticated than your average PC banking Trojan, POS malware can still greatly affect not just card users but also merchants that unknowingly use affected terminals, as they may find themselves caught in a legal mess that could damage their reputation.
POS malware may come in three types: keyloggers, memory dumpers, and network sniffers.
Ransom malware or ransomware is a threat that prevents users from accessing their system or personal files and demands ransom payment in order to regain access.
Remote Access Trojan (RAT)
Remote Access Trojans are programs that provide the capability to allow covert surveillance or the ability to gain unauthorized access to a victim PC. Remote Access Trojans often mimic similar behaviors of keylogger applications by allowing the automated collection of keystrokes, usernames, passwords, screenshots, browser history, emails, chat lots, etc. Remote Access Trojans differ from keyloggers in that they provide the capability for an attacker to gain unauthorized remote access to the victim machine via specially configured communication protocols which are set up upon initial infection of the victim computer. This backdoor into the victim machine can allow an attacker unfettered access, including the ability to monitor user behavior, change computer settings, browse and copy files, utilize the bandwidth (Internet connection) for possible criminal activity, access connected systems, and more.
Rogue scanners
Rogue scanners, also known as fake scanners, fake AV, or rogueware, are pieces of code injected into legitimate sites or housed in fake sites. Their social engineering tactic normally involve displaying fictitious security scan results, threat notices, and other deceptive tactics in an effort to manipulate users into purchasing fake security software or licenses in order to remove potential threats that have supposedly infected their systems. Their warnings were deliberately crafted to closely resemble interfaces of legitimate AV or anti-malware software, further increasing the likelihood that users who see them will fall for the ploy. These malware can target and affect PCs and Mac systems alike. In 2011, known names in the security industry have noted the dramatic decline of rogue scanners, both in detection of new variants and search engine results for their solutions.
Rogueware is one of two main classes of scareware. The other is ransomware. Rogue scanners are not as apparent as they used to be several years ago. It is believed that ransomware has completely replaced rogue scanners altogether.
Rootkits
The term "rootkit" comes from "root kit," a package giving the highest privileges in the system. It is used to describe software that allows for stealthy presence of unauthorized functionality in the system. Rootkits modify and intercept typical modules of the environment (OS, or even deeper, bootkits).
Rootkits are used when the attackers need to backdoor a system and preserve unnoticed access as long as possible. In addition, they may register system activity and alter typical behavior in any way desired by the attacker.
Depending on the layer of activity, rootkits can be divided into the following types:
Usermode (Ring 3): the most common and the easiest to implement, it uses relatively simple techniques, such as IAT and inline hooks, to alter behavior of called functions.
Kernelmode (Ring 0): the "real" rootkits start from this layer. They live in a kernel space, altering behavior of kernel-mode functions. A specific variant of kernelmode rootkit that attacks bootloader is called a bootkit.
Hypervisor (Ring -1): running on the lowest level, hypervisor, that is basically a firmware. The kernel of the system infected by this type of a rootkit is not aware that it is not interacting with a real hardware, but with the environment altered by a rootkit.
The rule states that a rootkit running in the lower layer cannot be detected by any rootkit software running in all of the above layers.
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Targeting places where beverages are consumed – and ensuring recycling infrastructure and systems are in place – is vital to beverage container recovery. The hundreds of community partners we've engaged make it possible for Manitobans to recycle their empty beverage containers where they live, work and play. We work closely with these organizations, businesses, municipalities and gathering places to determine the right bins for each place, and deliver programs and communications tailored to their specific needs.
CBCRA works closely with IC&I entities where large numbers of people attend every day. Converting a single IC&I location to an active beverage container recycler can make a big impact. CBCRA's focus is providing the right bins, recommending the right systems and providing communications to ensure success.
To increase our presence in this area we continued to attend tradeshows and work with key associations to spread our message and offer free infrastructure to their members.
Our work in the recreation sector led us to win the President's Award for Outstanding Achievement from Recreation Connections Manitoba – an organization that exists to collectively share the passion and spirit of recreation and is dedicated to enhancing the health and wellness of all Manitobans through the development and support of recreation professionals, practitioners and volunteers. By providing partners with recycling infrastructure free of charge, Recycle Everywhere is ensuring that parks and recreation centres are kept green and clean for the thousands of citizens who visit these sites every year.
In 2016, our focus in the IC&I sector was geared towards working with Property Management companies to help implement the Recycle Everywhere program in their multi-tenant buildings such as office buildings and strip malls. One highlight of this work includes McIvor Mall, where we worked closely with mall tenants and Marwest Property Management to evaluate existing waste infrastructure and demonstrate how the introduction of recycling could benefit the mall in terms of customer satisfaction and waste management cost savings. The mall has made significant improvements to their waste management system and is now fully outfitted with Recycle Everywhere bins.
We also expanded our program at gas stations based on an audit conducted by CBCRA that showed between 45% and 72% of waste at gas stations could be diverted from landfills. Beverage containers alone represent up to 7% of that total waste.
An innovative new partnership between Manitoba Co-ops and CBCRA opened the door to millions more beverage containers being recycled in the province. Recycle Everywhere now has a presence in all 43 Manitoba Co-op organizations, outfitting over 235 locations (88% of all Co-op locations) across the province with recycling infrastructure. This includes Manitoba's largest co-operative, Red River Co-op, which has locations throughout Winnipeg and surrounding areas. CBCRA is proud to partner with Co-op as it has demonstrated a company-wide commitment to the initiative. We launched the Co-op partnership with a press event in June 2016.
The Hon. Cathy Cox, Minister of Sustainable Development, endorses the partnership. "We know that making recycling accessible to Manitobans at the places they live, play, study – and now, drive to – is key to giving beverage containers a life beyond the landfill," she says.
2016 marked the Northern Community Clean-up's sixth year.
CBCRA and its Recycle Everywhere program, in partnership with Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba (MMSM) were proud to congratulate The Pas as the winner. They received a blue box for every single-family dwelling in the community totaling 1,650 recycling bins. A celebratory barbeque was held on September 23, with 250 community members, Community Council, Clean-up volunteers and students in attendance. They were joined by representatives from MMSM and Recycle Everywhere to celebrate the accomplishment.
This initiative was developed to increase recycling awareness and combat litter after a long winter in Northern Manitoba. First Nations communities from all over Manitoba were invited to participate this year, which is a new element of the program. Each community was provided with supplies including a Recycle Everywhere bin, participant t-shirts, gloves, bags to collect waste and recycling, and a scale to weigh the material. Local volunteers were recruited and helped pick up garbage and recycling on the streets of their neighbourhood.
The material was weighed and transported to the closest Material Recovery Facility (MRF) to be processed.
This year there were 20 registered communities and over 1,839 kg of recyclable material was collected.
In Manitoba, every municipality has its own waste management system. Navigating these nuances is important to ensuring the effectiveness of Recycle Everywhere's public space bins. We have learned what best practices to promote, such as pairing recycling and waste infrastructure side-by-side, and the importance of easy access to residents of those municipalities. We continue to support municipalities in implementing effective recycling initiatives.
A 2016 highlight included our work with Dauphin, where we provided 48 dual waste and recycling bins. This community is fast becoming a model community for recycling initiatives including bylaws that strongly encourage residents and businesses to recycle.
Starting or enhancing a waste management program can be daunting. Many Northern and First Nations communities express a sense of feeling overwhelmed by the number of organizations involved, amount of information, and resources to sift through. Recognizing this led to the development of a toolkit to help Northern and First Nations communities assess their needs, guide them through the planning process, and provide an overview of how to implement a waste management program specific to their community and location.
The main focus of the toolkit is to help communities decide where to start and how to get started. It is intended to serve as a step-by-step guide that answers the same questions every community has about recycling but specific to their context. CBCRA initiated the development of this toolkit in 2016, with participation from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, Manitoba Sustainable Development, and Green Action Centre. A full draft of the toolkit was completed in 2016 with a full release planned for 2017.
Over the last several years, CBCRA has been working to enhance government building recycling programs, inviting participation from the Province of Manitoba and Green Manitoba Eco Solutions. This partnership led to a better understanding of government building recycling requirements, as well as implementation or enhancement of beverage container recycling in several government buildings.
In 2016 we outfitted the Norquay Building, one of Winnipeg's largest government multi-use office spaces, with almost 60 Recycle Everywhere bins. We worked closely with staff to assess their needs and implement the program to ensure long-term success. This included helping to place Recycle Everywhere bins in the most appropriate locations, making sure all bins were paired with a garbage bin, and providing new signage for our bins to make it clear to employees and visitors where and what to recycle.
As part of increasing beverage container recycling accessibility for Manitobans, we are working to partner with all government buildings and provide all locations with Recycle Everywhere bins free of charge.
In 2016, University of Winnipeg took on the management of waste and recycling in a building they had previously leased out. They obtained 19 dual stream waste and recycling bins from CBCRA. Through an assessment of the performance of these bins with a waste audit, it was discovered that rates of recycled materials jumped from 60% to 90%, even in a facility that previously had recycling.
In the summer of 2015 the University of Manitoba made changes to its waste management system. They obtained a number of single and dual stream bins from CBCRA in 2015 and 2016, resulting in an increase in overall recovery.
In 2016 an additional 134 bins were placed in post-secondary institutions.
2016 was a big year for the RE101 program. By the end of 2016, 92% (a total of 784) of schools in Manitoba had partnered with RE101 and 34 school divisions in Manitoba were fully partnered. Over 97% of Manitoba students now have access to beverage container recycling as a result of the RE101 program.
We continued to spread the message in the classrooms through our interactive beverage container recycling presentations; 68 were completed in 2016 reaching over 5,000 students.
Through RE101, we also offered several types of presentations and workshops to students of all ages. This included classroom presentations and waste audit workshops to students, teachers, custodial staff, and administration, as well as school assembly presentations.
The RE101 team filmed a six-minute video for Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg for its Louis Riel Talks 4 Change video series. The video discusses RE101, what it offers, and gives a glimpse of the RE101 presentations offered to schools.
In March 2016, through the support of the Carton Council of Canada, CBCRA was able to fund an additional full-time RE101 staff member for eight months. Through this hire, the RE101 program was able to increase its outreach, educate more students about recycling, and increase beverage container recycling in Manitoba schools.
Direct outreach to 250 schools.
Follow up visits with 43 schools.
43 checklists completed (the checklist is used for schools who already have enough recycling bin infrastructure without Recycle Everywhere bins. We work with these schools to ensure their recycling program is properly implemented and running smoothly).
Completed 26 presentations reaching over 1,600 students across Manitoba.
We continued to engage schools and students with exciting contesting. In the month of February we ran two new contests for schools.
The first was the Race to Register Contest. Any new school that signed up for the RE101 program in February was automatically entered to win. We randomly selected one school from Winnipeg (École Sacré-Cœur) and one outside Winnipeg (James Valley Colony School) to win a visit from Winnipeg Jets Defenseman, Jacob Trouba.
The second contest was the RE101 T-Shirt Challenge, where classrooms or Green Teams were asked to design a recycling themed t-shirt. The Sturgeon Heights Collegiate grade 11 graphic arts class was awarded first place; second place was awarded to Rosenort School's grade 7 class. Each won limited edition t-shirts printed with their design, with the first place winners receiving them personally from Jacob Trouba.
97% of Manitoban students now have access to beverage container recycling through our program.
In the spring we ran the Race to Register Contest specifically targeting schools in Manitoba that remained un-partnered. The winning schools were Pacific Junction School in Winnipeg, Robert Smith School in Selkirk, and Woodlawn School in Steinbach. Each won 50 tickets and 50 snack packs to the Recycle Everywhere sponsored Goldeyes game.
In October we ran the RE101 Sustainability Month Challenge where un-partnered schools were asked to create a plan to increase school beverage container recycling and sustainability. The first place prize was $1,500 to support their plan. The winning school, École George McDowell in Winnipeg, used its contest winnings to purchase a dual stream waste and recycling bin for an outdoor classroom, with the remaining dollars put towards classroom prizing. The Eco Club students ran a 10-week long contest and rewarded classes based on their recycling efforts.
Attending and speaking at conferences allows us to showcase the RE101 program to schools from across Manitoba. RE101 staff continues to foster its strong partnership with Education for Sustainable Development and spoke at a professional development workshop focusing on Global Issues. The partnership allows RE101 to be relevant with current curriculum and continue to reach teachers and administrators from schools across province. We also spoke at the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication Conference in August 2016.
We completed two Global TV RE101 features in the first months of 2016. The second interview was our first outside the city of Winnipeg, with the Green Team at Woodlands Elementary School. The school submitted an entry to our Tell Us Your Story contest. The important message they shared was that many of the students previously did not recycle at home or within their community, but are now bringing the message of recycling home – inspired by having RE101 in their school.
This year, we continued our Mini Bin program to help increase beverage container recycling in Manitoba's multi-family dwellings, such as apartments and condos. Approximately 70% of beverages are consumed at home, and dwellings such as apartments, condos and townhouses offer the biggest opportunity to improve recovery rates. CBCRA partnered with Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba (MMSM) on a portion of the bins to increase our delivery scope.
In 2016, over 23,000 Mini Bins were delivered to multi-family dwelling (MFD) residences across Manitoba, fulfilling the goal to distribute 100,000 Mini Bins to Manitobans since the pilot program's inception. Of these bins, nearly 4,000 were distributed to locations outside of Winnipeg. Rural areas across the province received theirs through a third-party shipper, while the Recycle Everywhere Street Team delivered Mini Bins in the Winnipeg region.
2016 was a follow up year to see how much of an impact Mini Bins have made on MFD recycling rates.
CBCRA conducted waste audits at six MFDs in both Winnipeg and Brandon, before and after receiving Mini Bins. The results show that after approximately three years of use, there was an average increase in beverage container recovery rates of approximately 15% in MFDs where Mini Bins were used.
Based on 2016 census information, over 80% of all apartment tenants in Manitoba have received a Mini Bin.
Going forward in 2017, a maintenance program will be put in place, which will include newly-built buildings receiving Mini Bins and restocking those MFDs with Mini Bins that have experienced significant tenant turnover.
In 2016 Recycle Everywhere launched its Park Proud program, supplying recycling bags and infrastructure to all Provincial Park campgrounds in Manitoba. Through this program, campers are provided with a clear recycling bag to collect their empty beverage containers during their stay rather than throwing them in the garbage. Campers then bring the bags to the central recycling drop off location in the park, or to the nearest recycling facility.
In addition, last summer Recycle Everywhere distributed 5,000 Bin Bags to Manitoba cottage locations, seasonal campgrounds and RV parks (both provincial and private) to enable Manitobans to recycle when out at the lake. The Bin Bag is a lightweight, structured yet collapsible recycling bag, with fabric handles that make it easy to carry. This pilot program was a huge success and has led to a full roll out in 2017 with Recycle Everywhere planning to supply every Manitoba cottage and seasonal site with a Bin Bag.
Through these two programs, Recycle Everywhere is helping to keep Manitoba's lakes and parks cleaner and greener over the busy summer months.
Our public space bins can now be found in all Provincial Park regions.


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Clever "Adobe Risk Management" Fake Alert ~ Do not be fooled!
The above title for today's cautionary tale was lightly 'stolen' from the blog of our good friend Bill Houle, formerly Director of IT for Verari Technologies, Inc and now with Verance.
There have been frequent rogue exploits by the cracker community to use references to Adobe Flash and suggesting that there is an update that must be applied as a simple, almost believable, foil to spoof people into doing things that would compromise their computer systems but a recent significant advancement in "social engineering" to con the recipient into unwittingly adopting the conclusions and actions promoted in the offending email have reached a level of sophistication that makes avoiding making a drastic mistake even harder to do. As time goes by we all need to be increasingly vigilant against making the mistake of falling for these spoofs for everyone that blindly goes where angels fear to tread makes the web world generally more hazardous for all of us.
Author Intrepid Business VenturerPosted on May 7, 2010 February 18, 2013 Categories Security4 Comments on Clever "Adobe Risk Management" Fake Alert ~ Do not be fooled!
Is (packaged) Business Intelligence (BI) Software Coming Up Short?
The article directly addresses a principle limitation of BI tools: The information presented to Decision Makers typically begs addition questions that then require asking IT for further reports to clarify the underlying issues so that intelligent decisions can be made based upon facts rather than intuition. This is exactly the kind of support that MISSI provides to our clients; The article does a good job of explaining why even if you already have BI tools available, you still additionally need the kind of business related knowledge and experience skills and services that we provide to help you make profitable decisions. Our people work directly with your people to provide the kind of BI you need to achieve profitable results. This all fits perfectly within the scope of our passion for growing business: It's part of the strategy of mapping out where you are so you can compare with where you want to go and where you actually may be headed which may not be where you actually want to go. Without clear data, there can be no way to reliably chart your course and stay on course moving towards your goals.
"Business Intelligence software can play a vital role in helping IT and knowledge workers get a handle on increasingly huge warehouses of customer data and other information critical to their sales and overall business. But does that go far enough?
Author Intrepid Business VenturerPosted on April 30, 2010 June 20, 2010 Categories Management, TechnicalLeave a comment on Is (packaged) Business Intelligence (BI) Software Coming Up Short?
This begs the question as to whether or not self-service BI is the answer for capital and manpower constrained small businesses or is this option just another temptation leading ultimately to yet another cash-drain, effort distraction and problem in waiting.
The following are extracts from an article that originally appeared in the February 2010 issue of TechTarget's "SQL Server Insider e-zine".
"In fast-paced businesses, the ability to gather and analyze data quickly can be an advantage over your competition. Additionally, being able to see that a product or service would prove to be a losing venture in the coming months allows you to shut down a product line to save millions. It stands to reason that the more people you have looking at data, the faster you will be able to come to some useful conclusions.
Never enough hours in the day when following ideas!
So many things to accomplish; so little time to accomplish them: How to manage use of time is key to successful accomplishment of objectives.
Note that we say "Manage Use of time" and not "Time Management": No one has yet succeeded in managing Time itself ~ Time just is; it just keeps ticking away whether we are having fun or not. However, how you "Use Time" is very amenable to planning hence managing how you use this irreplaceable asset is just one key to reaching success.
That said, nothing beats having a plan apart from creating a plan BEFORE diving into the next big objective. So where do we go from here?
Note that we say "Manage Use of time" and not "Time Management": No one has yet succeeded in "Managing Time" per se; however, how you "Use Time" is very amenable to planning hence managing how you use this irreplaceable asset is just one key to reaching objective success.
That said, nothing beats having a plan apart from creating a plan BEFORE diving into the next big objective.
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Charlie Haden by Francis Wolf.
Hillbilly musicians have great time… Charlie Haden.
Safe journey. Three great things to read: Richard Williams (as ever); this brilliant interview; and another. Cheers to the mighty John Chantler and Ethan Iverson for those interview links.


I love this sign…It takes a lot of work to make your DREAMS whatever they are come to reality…and all of us at Primitive Gatherings know this…we had a rough couple of days….Luke and Jess were involved in an accident on the way home from Florida…they are fine…but our truck and trailer are not…Nick left me in Ohio to go and take care of the situation…Jake & Amy who were on their way to Cleveland OH, picked me up and delivered me to Crown Point IN, where I had a workshop and lecture the next day. They dropped our Lancaster trailer and then the next day met Nick, Luke and Jess in Cleveland who had purchased a new trailer and loaded it from the wrecked one from FL. Our truck and trailer's fate has not been decided yet…they are still in KY waiting for the insurance adjusters opinion of whether "Vin" our first diesel truck will continue on or go to pasture…Did you know that our truck had a "black box" and they could verify the personal accounts of the story and that they can determine all sorts of things???
My son Luke did an awesome job of controlling his truck and trailer during the rainstorm, while a reckless driver lost control of his car, hit the center wall and shot out over two lanes and right in front of his truck. Luke seemed to see it all happening and by the time he hit the car he was only going less than 40MPH and did not swerve his truck and trailer!!! The officer on the scene told him he did one hell of a job…it could have been a massive pile up…we have been told the driver of the car will survive…Luke is very relieved.
Being on the road is not easy and it wears on you….but the show must go on…so please come visit our booth in Cleveland OH at the IX Center…Jake and Amy have the booth set up and are ready for you…the show hours from 10-6pm…Tomorrow through Saturday!!!
We want to say HI and welcome to our new friends we met in Atlanta, Lakeland and Lancaster!!! We appreciate you stopping in to our booth and supporting our "mobile" quilt shop!
Thanks to everyone for their prayers and support over the past couple of days…it sure helps!
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Thankfully all is well. How scary.
WOW.. that is scary and impressive! I cant imagine… how frightened you were.
Looking forward to seeing the Primitive Gatherings folks in Cleveland on Friday. Thankful that no one was injured in the mishap.
Prayers and thoughts for everyone involved! Have a wonderful show.
Wow–that is scary–glad all are safe!
Thank you so much for the enjoyable workshop yesterday. I know your mind was on your family, but you soldiered on and we had fun! Thank goodness your family is alright and the driver is going to be ok too. Even though I have been stitching your projects for several years I learned things!!! Thanks for coming to Indiana.
Wow, what a nerve wracking time you all had. Thanks to God, that they are all right!
Wow, glad everyone is okay. That must have been an emotionally draining experience. You can be mighty proud of Luke!
Sorry to hear about the accident but glad everyone is OK. Sounded pretty scary!!!
Do happy to hear you and your family ate okay. So glad the other driver is ok. Hope things get better and that everyone arrives home safe and sound.
Glad everyone is ok Lisa. God has his hand in our lives. I know that is true! Trucks and trailers can be replaced but people cannot.
While an accident is a terrible thing to go through how fortunate that everyone is or will be ok. I was so happy to meet you in Lancaster last week… the famous Lisa! Your shop away from home was great (but crowded!) and I'm very happy with my purchases! I hope to see you there every year! The area I live in has no primitive/wool/ civil war focus so it's either on line shopping or lucky hits at shows for me. Thanks for coming east.
I'm glad everyone will be alright. Hope to see you in Schaumburg, Il.
Glad everyone was safe and made it on to their destinations! Looking forward to seeing your booth at the Cincy show!
Glad to hear Luke and Jess are doing well. They were very helpful when we saw them in Georgia a couple of weeks ago. Look forward to seeing you when you are back in Georgia teaching in May.
There is nothing worse than when something happens to one of our kids. Thank God everyone is ok. I enjoyed meeting you in Lancaster and I'm looking forward to Hershey. I hope the east coast shows are worth it for you so you keep coming back!
Hope all ends well with everything involved.
Lisa, I am so glad everyone is ok. You are truly amazing that you were able to teach and continue on with everything. Bet you will be glad to get home!
Wow……Thank God they are ok…..I want to know that Luke and Jess did an outstanding job in Lakeland.
Jess and Luke were so helpful and were answering questions left and right. You should be proud.
I can't wait to start my working on my projects……I can't decide what to start on first. It was great to see the Block of the Month quilt in person…..I have completed the top and was unsure how to quilt it. Thanks for coming to Florida.
Very happy to hear that Jess and Luke are OK. It was good to meet them in Georgia, so helpful and friendly. I heard many people saying that your booth was their favorite and it sure is mine! I went home with some yummy projects. Looking forward to your next visit.
Oh my gosh, praise God that Luke, Jess, and the other driver are going to be ok. That must have been so frightening for all of you. So sorry to hear this. You all work so hard to bring us your wonderful product. My prayers are with you all.
There is power in prayer. Thank you, Lord for your protection! Continuing to pray for your family and the driver.
Life turns on a dime. I'm thankful your family and other drivers made it. Makes you realize what's important, right!?!? Visited your shop this past weekend. They were too sweet to me. Take care.
Thank goodness everyone is okay!! Thinking of you all!
I am sooo thankful for the safety and great vehicle handling !! SO happy for your family and business family, also, that the other driver sounds like he will be healthy again.
Thank goodness they are both ok! I travelled from Gainesville (FL) to Lakeland to visit the PG booth and had the pleasure of meeting them both. They were both so kind and helpful. Quick thinking and skillful driving. Thanks for all you do to bring Primitive Gatherings to us.
Thank God everyone will be ok!!
I'm very sorry to hear about the accident, but I thank God that everyone will be ok. Visited with Luke and Jess in Georgia a few weeks ago and they were both so very nice and helpful. Jess is so sweet and you could just tell by talking to Luke that he was so mature and responsible. Lisa, you did GOOD. My prayers go out to you, your family and the other driver. Sending good thoughts your way.
Hi, I met Luke and Jess in Lakeland. They were great. Prayers heading your way.
Wow! I am so sorry to hear about this awful incident! I am relieved to hear that everyone is going to be alright. Objects like trucks and trailers can be replaced, while human lives cannot. My thoughts and prayers are with your family as everyone recovers from this ordeal.
You & your team have done such an amazing job of bringing your beautiful goods to so many workshops, quilt shows & other events! I just wanted to let each one of you know that we all appreciate all the effort that you all put out so we can have fun with your designs. I am sure that Luke & Jess are shaken from the accident, but I am praying that everyone involved, even the other driver, will fully recover for this unfortunate accident. Perhaps everyone will need a little (or big :o) vacation soon! Stay safe, but have fun too! You all work so hard, and your success is not just measured in revenue, but also by the amazing lives you have touched through your art!
Thank God that Luke & Jess are not hurt, shaken and un-nerved for sure, and prayerfully the other driver will be all right. My prayers to you & your quilting team.
I met Luke in Atlanta, very nice young man. I'm so glad they are alright. I know your concerns, my family run a small business that sends my husband and my son and a flee of trucks pulling trailers west and north of Georgia. We have found that it is so important to keep the trailers well maintained. We had one to completely come apart in the middle of New York City. What a mess that was. Hope to see y'all next month in Paducah.
That must have been some phone call Lisa. I'm glad to hear your "Primitive" family is ok. It only takes an instant to change lives forever. Thank God they are ok..
Such heart stopping news to read…so glad your friends and family are safe. God bless!
Glad to hear everyone is okay.
Thankful for you and your family that all is going well once again ! Hope your shows are super and safe travels to the next one !!!
Thankful that everyone is going to be okay. This must have been nerve racking. Take care Lisa.
Oh my gosh…I'm so glad to hear everyone will be okay. My prayers are with you all. Thank you for everything you, your family, and team does in bringing us your products and knowledge. You inspiration is contagious. A big hug to you all.
I know you are proud of Luke. So glad everyone is well. Good thoughts for continued safe travels.
Visited the shop this week, love the changes. Everything is so organized and it is overwhelming…….love everything and the staff is wonderful….please pass it on!!
Wow, glad everyone is OK. You and your staff/family are such troupers to keep all your commitments. Your fans across the US really appreciate it. Kudos to Luke for amazing damage control.
Lisa, thank God Luke kept his cool and lessened the severity of the collision by his actions. So glad to hear they are ok and the other driver will survive as well.
OMG Lisa… that is so scary! I am glad they are ok. My girlfriend totalled my car on the freeway two weeks ago and I am so glad she is ok. Life is short…family and friends are what are important. My mom died on Mar. 8 and I am realizing how short life can be. Give those kids a big hug! Talk to you soon!
Lisa, I am so glad your family is ok. I can only imagine the sickening feeling you had, when you got that phone call. May God continue to bless you and your family and keep you safe.
So glad everyone is safe – we did craft shows for 12 years, and feel your consternation of being on the road.


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