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In Mexico City, the Material Girl is getting into the groove – business wise – with an upscale gym called Hard Candy. Madonna may soon expand her exercise-oriented endeavor to Russia, with branches in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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During her "Sticky and Sweet" tour, Madonna fell in love with Mexico City. Working with a personal training company called New Evolution Ventures, she decided to start her first gym in Mexico's capital. Hard Candy, as the gym is called, will celebrate one year of operations in November.
"We're right in line with our initial projections. All businesses have to go through a phase when people are still getting to know the brand and the products, and we were able to get through that period very quickly," says Christopher Didieck, director of New Evolution.
At first glance, the gym, located in one of Mexico City's wealthiest, most exclusive neighborhoods, doesn't seem much different from all the others in the area. Except, of course, the luxury finishes, personal television screens equipped with cable at each exercise machine, Madonna's songs playing in the background and the singer's photos decorating the rooms. One more little difference: membership includes access to a personal training session with Nicole Winhoffer, the diva's own trainer.
The group classes have also made waves, especially the dance classes, which teach, literally, the Material Girl's own dance routines. For the inauguration, Madonna taught the classes herself. And now she's already preparing two new branches: one in Moscow and another in St. Petersburg.
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Hey ChatGPT, Are You A Google Killer? That's The Wrong Prompt People
Reports that the new AI natural-language chatbot is a threat to Google's search business fails to see that the two machines serve very different functions.
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Since OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world last November, people have wasted little time finding imaginative uses for the eerily human-like chatbot. They have used it to generate code, create Dungeons & Dragons adventures and converse on a seemingly infinite array of topics.
Now some in Silicon Valley are speculating that the masses might come to adopt the ChatGPT-style bots as an alternative to traditional internet searches.
Microsoft, which made an early $1 billion investment in OpenAI, plans to release an implementation of its Bing search engine that incorporates ChatGPT before the end of March. According to a recent article in The New York Times, Google has declared "code red" over fears ChatGPT could pose a significant threat to its $149-billion-dollar-a-year search business.
Could ChatGPT really be on the verge of disrupting the global search engine industry?
It's doubtful. ChatGPT is good at what it does — generating what appears to be knowledge in a conversational manner — but a search engine it is not. It responds to prompts like you might expect a really smart person to, even if it can't directly answer your questions.
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It makes some sense that Google might see chat, were it to be widely adopted as a search tool, as a threat to its business model. It's much easier to incorporate advertisements into listed search results than into chatbot responses. If fewer people are doing conventional search, that could potentially have a serious effect on Google's bottom line. But the real question here is: Can ChatGPT even be used to do Google-like searches?
To understand the answer, let's compare the two technologies.
Google and similar search engines are essentially superhuman librarians. They can find any internet site you want and recommend other potentially related sites, typically in just a fraction of a second. Then it's up to you to decide whether or not those sites are good sources for what you're trying to accomplish.
ChatGPT is less like a librarian than like a psychic.
ChatGPT, on the other hand, is less like a librarian than like a psychic who claims to commune with the dead. Its most glaring flaw as an internet search tool is that it can't connect to the internet — at least, not to the internet post-2021.
That renders ChatGPT useless for answering most search queries. The most searched terms on Google are consistently those related to breaking news and to local or personal information such as places to eat, banking info, and stock market websites — queries that require accurate, up-to-date information.
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Even if chatbots could trawl the internet in real time — a feat that technology experts have not yet figured out how to achieve — they would likely prove to be poor go-betweens for internet searches.
That's because models such as ChatGPT are trained to "hallucinate" text. They don't search their databases for relevant passages and regurgitate or reword them. Rather, they use a process much like the autocomplete function on your phone to build responses one word at a time.
These models don't understand what they're outputting any more than an ink pen does. If you ask ChatGPT the same query during five different sessions, you may get five different answers, possibly contradicting one another. Adding the ability for the chatbot to access the internet in real time won't make these "hallucinations" any more accurate or reliable.
Add to that list of shortcomings the fact that chatbot language generation is incredibly slow, compared to search engines. For example, when I Google searched "explain string theory," the query returned 55.7 million results curated by relevance in less than a second. The same prompt, when I gave it to ChatGPT, took anywhere from about 15 to 90 seconds to resolve depending on how verbose the model chose to be at a given moment.
Even if the chatbots could respond more quickly, their paragraph-format responses aren't exactly ideal for readers who want to process a lot of information quickly. Once the novelty of chatting with a robot wears off, most humans will likely go back to wanting their information delivered fast and in easy-to-parse lists.
You don't have to take my word for all of this. Even ChatGPT itself doesn't seem to think it poses much threat to Google:
So why all the fuss in Silicon Valley about ChatGPT and search?
Most likely, it seems, ChatGPT-style bots will be paired with existing search engines to offer a user interface that serves both traditional search engine queries and chatbot prompts. That's the model that was adopted by You.com, a boutique search engine that launched its own GPT-like chatbot in December.
There's something fun and exciting about communicating with a robot.
Rather than replacing the traditional You.com search experience, the new "YouChat" feature merely appears as a link beneath the search bar. The innovation here is putting two very different AI-powered apps on the same page. It's probably safe to assume that Microsoft will do something similar when it integrates ChatGPT into Bing this spring.
That being said, there's something fun and exciting about communicating with a robot that passes our personal Turing Tests. And some folks, when asking the kinds of questions that chat is good at answering, might prefer the conversational, colloquial touch of chat to the cold utilitarianism of listed results — even if it comes at the expense of accuracy. ChatGPT is a lot of fun to play with and, with further development, it may even have a bright future as a digital assistant.
But that doesn't mean chatbots will revolutionize the world's most popular search engine, much less replace it. For now, they are too slow and too stupid to be useful for much more than entertainment purposes. Saying that ChatGPT is a threat to Google's search engine is like saying podcasts will replace universities. There's certainly some user overlap, but the technologies serve entirely different purposes.
Tristan Greene is a freelance futurist, U.S. Navy veteran, and technology journalist covering artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ - Alliance Shippers Inc., a leading provider of global logistics services, today announced its recertification with the SmartWay® Transport Partnership, an innovative collaboration between U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and industry. The Partnership provides a framework to assess the environmental and energy efficiency of goods as they move through supply chains.
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A Bookworm's Guide to Social Media.
It probably won't come as a surprise to you that I'm an avid reader, and I get a lot of enjoyment with sharing the books I've loved on social media and building a community with other readers. As the social media coordinator for Britain's biggest book retailer, I'm always interested in how people are sharing their favourite reads, the conversations that are going on within the world of publishing, and which books are striking a chord and keep cropping up in reader's posts. Here are my 5 tips on how keen book lovers can get the most out of the bookish worlds on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Since you're reading this on a publisher website, you're probably quite up-to-speed on the fact that different publishers publish different sorts of books for different markets and genres. For example, within HarperCollins alone you have Avon, HQ, Harper Fiction, Fourth Estate, Killer Reads, Williams Collins and many more imprints, each with a social media presence. Take a look at their channels and follow the ones that most appeal.
This way, you get updates about the books you like on your newsfeeds, as well as competitions, giveaways and exclusive insights.
Traditionally, Instagram has been a place where literary fiction titles have held strong, but with the boundaries blurring and genres crossing more easily, it's now a terrific place for you to share your enthusiasm for whatever type of books you enjoy. You don't have to be a world-class photographer to take a nice-looking 'bookstagram' pic. The easiest way to make your books look good is to keep things bright, with white or cream colours, and include 'props' in the shot such as mugs of hot chocolate, scarfs, throws, plants or plates of pastries.
And don't forget the hashtags: #bookstagram #igreads and #instabook are all good ones to go with, but don't be afraid to get creative.
By harnessing Twitter 'threads', you can celebrate your favourite books of the year (or of the month, if you're a very prolific reader) in a line of tweets all connected together under one theme. You can tag the authors and publishers in each one, and it helps other readers get a good round-up of recommendations.
Enjoyed a book? Tell the author! Honestly, it's really great for authors to hear when people have liked one of their titles, so don't be shy. Twitter is probably the easiest way of doing this – you can just '@' them in a tweet, but Facebook is also a good place to get in touch. Just make sure you find their author page on Facebook, rather than trying to add their personal account as a friend (usually best to save that for people you know!).
A word of caution though: maybe don't tag authors in negative tweets or reviews about their books.


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End death by incarceration & advance parole justice—Join us on April 21
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• Photos: Walter Hergt • Here's how it looked last time we gathered in Albany (on January 14, 2020) demanding that our elected officials end death by incarceration and advance parole justice. RAPP, the Parole Preparation Project and hundreds of others from across New York State mounted a Day of Action to pass Elder Parole (S.2144) and Fair and Timely Parole Act (S.497A). We marched, rallied, and met with dozens of New York State elected officials. Go to our Press page to read what the media had to say about the rally and the issues.
NOW WE'RE GOING BACK TWICE AS STRONG, and we need you to RSVP here to join us on April 21
WHY: New York State has the eighth highest rate of people serving a life sentence in the country—roughly 9,200 people. More than 1,000 of them are serving Life Without Parole or virtual life without parole—with a minimum sentence of 50 years—sentences. 75 percent are People of Color.
Long and life sentences combined with few opportunities for release have created a crisis of aging, sickness and death in New York State prisons. There are now more than 10,000 people in NYS prisons—20% of the prison population—aged 50 or older; most are Black and Latinx. While the prison population in NYS fell by 27% between 2000 and 2016, the number of incarcerated older people more than doubled. Older people, especially those who have been convicted of the most serious crimes, pose little if any risk to public safety. In fact, when released, many formerly incarcerated older people engage in work that enhances public safety and community health.
To begin to scale back long and life sentences in New York State, promote the release of long-serving incarcerated older people, and reunite families and communities, New Yorkers across the state are pushing for two pending legislative initiatives:
Fair & Timely Parole (S.497A): A bill that would change the parole release process in New York State ensure that people are evaluated for release based on who they are today and not their crime of conviction.
Elder Parole (S.2144): A bill that would allow people aged 55 or older who have served 15 or more years in prison a chance at release, regardless of their sentence or crime of conviction.
Both these bills made some progress in the 2019 state legislative session, but never made it to the floor for a vote. That's why we need to be up in Albany at the beginning of the new 2020 legislative session. Come with us to keep fighting for justice on April 21—and be part of the solution. RSVP HERE
MORE: Read more here about these bills and why we need them.
Filed Under: article, slideshow Tagged With: advocacy for elders, aging behind bars, aging in prison, Aging People in Prison, elder parole, incarcerated elders, life sentences, parole board, Parole Justice
One Year After Mujahid Farid's Death, We Call for Fair & Timely Parole Act
One year ago today, the world lost a leader in the movement to end mass incarceration. Mujahid Farid died on November 20, 2018, at 69 years old, surrounded by his RAPP and Parole Preparation Project family in his apartment in the Bronx. Farid was a Co-Founder and former Director of RAPP and a trailblazer in the struggle to release older people from prison and end life imprisonment. He was our friend, family member, comrade, and so often our inspiration for doing this work. While we celebrate Farid's life and continue to mourn over his death, we are also motivated by his personal struggle with long-term incarceration and his broader efforts to get others free as we continue our work for transformative reforms to the parole release process in New York State.
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Call for Fair & Timely Parole Act on One Year Anniversary of Mujahid Farid's Death
Despite appearing before the Parole Board for the first time after receiving four college degrees, founding lifesaving in-prison programs, and having an overall prison record that exemplified transformation, the Board denied Farid parole release nine times over the course of 18 years. Instead of being released in his early-mid forties, Farid was finally released in his 60s after serving 33 years behind bars. In his short 7 years of life after his release, Farid and New Yorkers across the state helped make significant changes that led to more parole releases and reunited families. However, despite these significant gains, the very same issues that Farid faced before the Parole Board persist today.
Thousands of people in New York State prisons continue to languish behind bars years and decades beyond their minimum sentences. The Parole Board continues to deny parole to people who have transformed their lives and who could instantly become community leaders if only they had a chance at freedom. Everyday, people in New York State prisons are growing older, sick, and dying. This injustice must end once and for all. To that end, we call on the New York State legislature to pass the Fair & Timely Parole Act (S.497A/A.4346A) in the 2020 legislative session.
Fair & Timely Parole would ensure that the parole release process is New York State is based on who people are today, as opposed to just the nature of their crime of conviction. It provides for a fairer and more forward looking assessment of peoples' current suitability for release and removes harmful language from state executive law that effectively allows the Parole Board to re-sentence people. We call on lawmakers in Albany to support and pass this bill as soon as they return to Albany on January 8th as one of many ways to honor Farid's legacy and promote justice in New York State.
Please join us on January 14th, 2020, to rally for passage of this bill and to honor Farid's legacy.
Photo of Mujahid Farid by Michelle Lewin
Filed Under: article, slideshow, Uncategorized Tagged With: aging in prison, elder incarcerated, elder incarceration, Mujahid Farid, New York State Parole Board, parole, parole board
The Missing Piece to End Mass Incarceration in New York
On February 12, the New York State Assembly announced a Criminal Justice Reform Package with some meaningful changes to New York's criminal legal system on bail, discovery, speedy trial, and solitary confinement—important steps toward undoing the far-reaching damage of mass incarceration.
But a major element was missing: No bills on parole and elder release were included in the package. Mass incarceration in New York will never end unless the legislature and the governor initiate changes that get at the heart of the problem—the persistence of a racist culture of revenge and permanent punishment that keeps people in prison without meaningful access to release. Increasing parole releases, especially of older people who have served long terms for violent crimes, would be a step in this direction.
That may sound unlikely given that the prison population soared because politicians found it easy and popular to act "tough on crime." The starting point? Increase punishment by pointing to people convicted of the most serious offenses—especially the crimes that make headlines. But now, we need policy makers to understand that what got us here won't get us out.
To end mass incarceration, the legislature, the parole board, and the governor will need to end the cycle of permanent punishment. Releasing people who have spent decades in prison for a violent crime committed years ago, who have engaged in meaningful transformation and now pose minimal risk to public safety, would be a safe, cost-effective way to begin this process.
Here are some ways RAPP is urging them to do exactly that:
"Geriatric Parole:" Governor Cuomo has proposed legislation to expand New York's medical parole program for incarcerated older people, instituting a medical parole plan for people age 55 and older with debilitating health conditions.
But the plan excludes some people based solely on the crime of conviction, such as anyone convicted of first-degree murder, no matter how ill or debilitated—and no matter how low the risk they pose to public safety. Engaging in a serious crime at a young age does not make an incapacitated elder a current threat to public safety. In fact, evidence shows that long-incarcerated elders convicted of murder actually pose the very lowest risk to public safety: in contrast to recidivism rates that generally hover in the 40% range, people in this group return to prison at rates around 1% and lower.
The governor's exclusions should also make us question whether we want our society to deny compassion to whole sectors of people, guaranteeing that they will die in prison.
RAPP urges the governor and the legislature to strengthen the "geriatric parole" proposal by removing all restrictions based on crime of conviction, along with other language that allows the Parole Board to deny applicants solely because of the nature of the crime. The bill should also be strengthened to ensure that the medical criterion for eligibility is an individual's ability to provide "self-care," not "self-ambulation." Finally, mechanisms that trigger and speed up the otherwise slow-moving certification process and ensure public transparency should be strengthened as well.
"If the Risk is Low, Let them Go"
The governor's plan will shift rather than cut spending, especially as states, confronted with the Trump administration's economic plans, will be forced to shoulder a larger proportion of spending on Medicaid and other public health costs.
What would truly save money—and promote public safety—would be real elder parole: a plan that presumptively releases people who have served more than their minimum terms and whose present—not past—behavior show that they pose little if any risk to public safety. Older people should be released before they are ill and dying, when they can still contribute to their families and communities. We urge the Assembly to pass A.7546, which ensures that an individual's current risk to public safety determines parole release. Additionally, older people not otherwise eligible for parole should be given a "second look" and considered for parole at age 55 after serving at least 15 consecutive years in prison.
With older people now making up 21 percent of people in New York State prisons—10,337 total people, a number more than twice what it was in 2000— a bolder and more evidence-based proposal for elder parole should be the governor's choice. Such a proposal will require Governor Cuomo to exercise political will and would make New York a true national leader in the struggle to end mass incarceration.
To get involved, check our events page or email nyrappcampaign@gmail.com
Filed Under: article, slideshow Tagged With: aging behind bars, aging in prison, aging prison population, Andrew Cuomo, compassionate release, elder incarcerated, elder parole, geriatric parole, mass incarceration, medical parole, New York State Parole Board, old incarcerated people, old people in prison, old prisoners, older adults, older people in prison, older prisoners, parole board, prison reform
A Former Parole Commissioner on Aging & Changing
by Barbara Hanson Treen (NYS Parole Commissioner for 12 years)
We've heard for years that all the cells in our bodies regenerate every seven to ten years. Can we assume then, that our moral and emotional compasses are also capable of transforming over time? Not according to parole commissioners who keep large numbers of aging long-termers warehoused in prison, based only on what individuals did years ago, rather than who they are now.
In New York State, people of conscience are watching to see how six recent appointees to the Board of Parole will make release decisions. Will they respect transformation? It is too late for John MacKenzie, a model prisoner who died by suicide at the age of 70 after 40 years incarcerated and ten repeated parole denials. Tragically, John Mackenzie is the human sacrifice that underscores the broken parole system.
As a NYS Parole Commissioner for 12 years some time ago, it was unusual for me to meet a parole candidate over the age of 50. Last year, of 52,344 women and men in the state's correctional facilities, 10,140 (19%) were 50 and older, despite the decline in the overall prison population. The number of elderly incarcerated has increased 98% since 2000, at least partially reflecting the board's unwillingness to release in spite of parole applicants having met their minimum allowable sentence. Life on the back of a sentence appears to give a pass to the Commissioners, who have been unwilling to accept transformation in human behavior and are too politically motivated to practice their job, risk assessment. Thus we have prison hospitals and infirmaries filled with long-termers languishing through the years even though their risk of reoffending is 1%. And the health care costs for the prisons have increased 20 percent from three years ago to $380 million dollars today—an increase of $64.5 million.
If the parole board doesn't trust in people's transformation—supported by their proof of advanced education, program involvement, clean disciplinary records and so on—perhaps they'll believe in new evidence that is also coming of age from a field of science through brain scan research: neuroplasticity. Simply stated, it is a scientific development that shows that the brain has the ability to change and heal as it is subjected to new experiences. Much is coming to light in the medical community about this study with implications of change for ADD and Parkinson's Disease.
But as important in our criminal justice community is the possibility that people can become entirely different in their behaviors. This change occurs in the brain on its own physically with exposure to life's surrounding stimulus over time. I would guess that 80% of 77,000 interviews I participated in as a commissioner were with people who suffered early life traumas such as sex abuse, violence, and concussions. Our older imprisoned have gained maturity, non-violent adaptive behaviors and more often the punishing effect of their crimes on them and their families, leading them to introspection over time. They become different people by demonstrating different responses.
The repeat parole hearings of candidates echo the retelling of the crimes that brought them to these places, crimes that are most often horrendous. And while the penalties for these crimes can never satisfy the need to restore a victim or render survivors of crime whole, the court-sanctioned sentence is our accepted legal calibration for punishment.
Can continuing denials amounting to 30 or 33 years beyond a sentence change the crime? Can 10, 13, 17 times before the board expressing redemption and remorse make a person any more prepared to face the community? No, it makes them older and sicker and some don't even recall why they are there.
These aged are mostly invisible people. On paper, we don't see their limps, their dementia, their physical impairments, their addled senses, their diminished capacities. They bring with them all the hope it takes to describe their transformation and regret to the parole board, although it will probably result in the same denial based on the "nature of the crime." And the category of those aging, the women and men aged 50 and older, grows.
Perhaps the Parole Board can examine the possibility of the growth of their own hearts and brains among their new colleagues.
Filed Under: article, slideshow, Uncategorized Tagged With: aging in prison, elders, New York State Board of Parole, older people in prison, older prisoners, parole, parole board, parole commissioners, seniors
False Hope and a Needless Death Behind Bars (NY Times Editorial)
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By Jesse Wegman, Editorial Observer
On July 26, John MacKenzie went before the parole board at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y., and made the case, once again, for his freedom. He had been locked up since 1975 for shooting and killing a Long Island police officer, Matthew Giglio, during a bungled robbery attempt. His sentence was 25 years to life — the maximum under state law.
On Aug. 2, he learned that the board had voted 2 to 1 against him. It was the 10th time in 16 years that he had been denied parole.
Later that day, he sent a handwritten letter to his daughter Denise, saying that "they're hell bent on keeping me in prison" and "I don't believe I'll last much longer."
On Aug. 4, another inmate found Mr. MacKenzie hanging by the neck from a bedsheet tied to the window bars of his cell. He was 70.
John MacKenzie was no ordinary prisoner. In the more than 40 years he spent behind bars, he became one of the most respected inmates in the state's penal system. He had a spotless disciplinary record. He took full responsibility for the murder of Mr. Giglio. He earned degrees in business and the arts. He started a program to give victims the opportunity to speak directly to inmates about the impact of their crimes. The state's own risk-assessment program found that he posed little to no risk of re-offending. Prison guards, judges, clergy members and prosecutors wrote letters supporting him.
None of this seemed to matter to the parole board. Because of the seriousness of his crime, one denial said, his release would "undermine respect for the law." Another referred to "significant community opposition." The wording would vary, but the message was always the same: Mr. MacKenzie's sentence, which appeared to give him a real chance at freedom after 25 years, was a sham. No matter what he did to atone for his crime, he was never getting out.
Some see this as a just result, particularly law enforcement groups, which steadfastly opposed Mr. MacKenzie's release. But New York criminal law provides for the possibility of parole, which is based on the idea that people can change.
Under state law, the parole board is required to weigh a prisoner's entire history: his degree of remorse, his behavior behind bars and the likelihood that he will be able to live lawfully outside prison. Those factors never got more than a cursory mention, at best, when the board denied Mr. MacKenzie's requests. In May, a State Supreme Court justice, Maria Rosa, held the board in contempt for failing to give any reason for denying Mr. MacKenzie parole other than the nature of his crime. Justice Rosa wrote that "if parole isn't granted to this petitioner, when and under what circumstances would it be granted?" She ordered the board to hold a new hearing, with different board members. The state appealed that order. The case was still pending when Mr. MacKenzie killed himself.
Certainly crime victims and police officers should have a voice in the parole process, but they should not have a veto. Otherwise, parole is a meaningless promise.
Some years ago, Mr. MacKenzie wrote an essay about the frustrations of living at the whim of parole commissioners. "If society wishes to rehabilitate as well as punish wrongdoers through imprisonment," he wrote, then "society — through its lawmakers — must bear the responsibility of tempering justice with mercy. Giving a man legitimate hope is a laudable goal; giving him false hope is utterly inhuman."
A version of this editorial appears in print on September 6, 2016, on page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: False Hope and a Needless Death Behind Bars.
For more on John MacKenzie, see RAPPCampaign.com/press
Filed Under: article, press, slideshow Tagged With: Beacon NY, Fishkill Correctional Facility, John MacKenzie, Justice Maria Rosa, Matthew Giglio, New York criminal law, New York Times, Op-Ed, parole, parole board, prison, RAPP, rehabilitate
3 Steps To Parole Justice in New York
Shock waves continue to spread from the August suicide of John MacKenzie in his 40th year behind bars and following his 10th parole denial. At the August meeting of the New York State Board of Parole, the chairperson read an angry letter blaming the Board for John's death.
Fueled by our grief for John's death, we must now push forward and make a change. It is time to get the Board to release our elders, our family members, the thousands of people in New York prisons who have served well beyond their minimum terms, who pose no threat to public safety, but who remain in the tombs of our state because the Board denies their parole applications every two years.
Those denials, after all, are what killed John.
Urgent, Right Now: Comment on New Parole Board Regulations
Reacting to years of pressure from the public, the NYS Board of Parole has published new draft regulations to guide release decisions. The new version is designed to correct a major fault in the current regs, which ignore a 2011 law directing the Board to base decisions on risk and needs assessments—evidence-based tools that help predict a person's future actions.
Some of the proposed changes to the regulations may provide greater protections to parole applicants. Specifically, the proposed changes require commissioners to consider risk assessment scores, as well as age (for people who were under 18 at the time of the crime and face a life sentence), with more purpose and intention than is current practice. In the same spirit, the new regulations also require that in their denials, commissioners must give "factually-individualized" reasons for their conclusions.
But the proposed regulations do not fundamentally change the structure or methods of the Parole Board. The rules are not explicit and clear in making sure that the Board assesses applicants based on their current risk, rehabilitation, and readiness for release. As such, the regulations could result in a continuation of the Board's current practice: refusing to release people from prison even when they pose a low risk of endangering public safety and are undeniably suitable for release. THIS sample comment, which you can use in submitting your own, explains this more fully.
The Board needs to hear from us—incarcerated people, family members, community organizations and individuals who care about justice and want to see the prison population decrease.
Click here for instructions on submitting comments.
Click here for suggested points to include.
Click here to read the Parole Board's draft regulations.
Read comments filed by:
Center for Appellate Litigation
NYC Council Member Daniel Dromm, 25th District Queens
National Lawyers Guild New York City Chapter
Community Service Society
New York State Bar Association Committee on Civil Rights
Quinnipiac University School of Law
Christopher Seeds, Attorney at Law
Milk Not Jails
Kathy Manley, Attorney at Law
Brooklyn Defender Services
Legal Aid Society and Prisoners' Rights Project
Correctional Association of New York
Claude Marks/Freedom Archives
Daniel McGowan
Glenn Martin/Just Leadership USA (JLUSA)
Prince Shabazz
Michael Gauthier
Ryan Barbur
NahShon Jackson
Rise & Shine Community Services, Inc.
Donnell Deberry
Roslyn Smith
Issa Kohler-Hausmann, PhD, JD; Avery Gilbert, JD; Christopher Seeds, JD
Richard Hontoria
Annette Ross
Kevin Mays
The Osborne Association/Elizabeth Gaynes
Dwight James
Adrian Lopez
Alberto Rivera
Moira Meltzer Cohen, Esq.
New York State Prisoner Justice Network
Aaron Talley
Alejo Rodriguez
Richard Robles
Nancy Jacot Bell
Prison Action Network
Elysa Vulpis-Zoccoli
April Ruiz
Aretta White
Blair Meyer
Parole Justice Committee of Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration
Brittany Blizzard
Cale Layton
Charles Bowman
Christine Lolisco
Chuck Culhane
Craig Stallone
Dawn Savarese
Connie Tusa
DeAnna Dawson
Center for Community Alternatives
CURE-NY/Deborah Bozydaj, President
Damaris Reina-Herbas
Donna M. Accettulli
Elaine Arsenault
Erobos Lamashtu
Felice Gelman
Duane Dimick
Roberto Pascal
Ben Al-Dijali
Andras Turcsan
Allen Moore
Jesse Shannon
Donovan Sampson
Errol Prince
Phillip Yates
Marvin Everett
Eddie Williams
Ivy Yapelli
Joan Calcaterra
Joan Potter
Kerry Gant
Laura Rawls
Laurie Storm
James Morgan
Lisa Drapkin
Lisa Melendez
Liseli Haines
M.C. Wise
Luke Patterson
Nakayima Fennelly
Patricia Lydon
Patricia Seals
Patricia Thomas
Robin Love
Robin Schnell
Sarah Mills
Shannon Rodriguez
Shea Settimi
Sylvia Bernard
Sister Honora Kinney
Timothy Bustle
Misha Volf
Sandra Giles
Audrey Hawkins
Norm Allen
Karen Flynn
Steven Mangual
Susan Hass
Suzzette Miller
Thomas Answeeney
Rosalind Robinson
Linda King
Anne Lamb
Walter D
Jessaya Duvall
Tiffany Alexander
Sheila Bush-Robinson
Johnny Cole
Diane Alexander
Janice Sutton
Lisa Alexander
Leida Rodriguez
Susan Putland
Mary Frances Burek and Pat Case
Lenwood Jackson
Philip Fernandez
Robert Rose III
Luzcelenia Lamont
Lawrence Dotson
Robin Alpern
Sharyn Kerrigan
Bonnie Shoultz
Ashley Habermann
David Darshan
Pamela Darshan
Naveena Darshan
Richard Kuhn, Criminon
Diane Miller
Gladys Gonzalez
Mildred Gonzalez
Scott Paltrowitz
Lee Wengraf
James Edler
Evelyn Kennenwood
Vicki Fox
Edith Allen
Julia Long
Elizabeth Halloran
Theresa Kardos
Matthew Swagler
Jenise Britt
Lindsey Ricci
Julie Greenwood
Lauren Katzman
David McNamara
Wil Van Natta
Yusuf Ahmad
Michelle Spark
Victor Pate
Gerard Deighan
Kaylee Knowles
Valerie Linet
Leah Gitter
Rhys Mateo Klauser
Nicholas Scott
R'Keyah Klauser
Robert Klauser
Marcella Klauser
Tyrell Hodge
Donna Hodge
Monique Fernandez
Lorenzo Brooks
Bear Bonebakker
Jenny Romaine
Rima Fand
Rosy Galvan
Joanne Walsh
Lisa Ellin
Tracie Threatt
Karmen Cheng
Eugene Griffin
Steve Garrett
Debbie Griffin
Eva Boodman
Mujahid Farid
Robert Watt
Emily Kaufman
Shoshana Brown
Sandra DePillo
Autumn Leo
These materials are suggestions—undoubtedly it is those most affected by parole who are the experts in its reform. However, we believe there is great power in sending a unified and consistent message. We can demand that the Parole Board create clear regulations to begin doing what Parole Boards should: release people for whom further incarceration serves no purpose—neither protecting public safety nor advancing personal growth and rehabilitation. With your help, we can work toward parole reform and help reunite people with their families and communities.
Comments can take the form of a letter, or even just a list. We encourage you to include your own personal stories of how you or your loved ones have been impacted by current parole policy, as well as criticisms of the current proposed regulations.
2: Remove Obstacle: Recalcitrant Commissioners
Improving the regulations would be an important step forward. But there is another obstacle to justice: some parole commissioners have shown themselves to be dead set against following any such changes. They deny parole release over and over, thumbing their noses at the law. There is no reason to believe that these commissioners will respect the new regulations any more than they have respected the 2011 law.
The Board's practice will never improve with such commissioners in office. Therefore, we urge Governor Cuomo, who appoints the Board, to remove these commissioners now or refuse to reappoint them when their terms expire. Among the most recalcitrant Commissioners are G. Kevin Ludlow, Lisa Beth Elovich, Walter William Smith, and James B. Ferguson (all appointed by former Governor Pataki). Governor Cuomo, who is the ultimate authority for the Board, must tell them and all commissioners: Either follow the law or find another job.
Join the Fight for New Laws for Parole Justice
Two bills now before the New York State Legislature—the Safe and Fair Evaluation (SAFE) Parole Act (S.1728/A.2930), and Assembly Bill A,9960—would correct basic problems with New York's parole practices. The Assembly bill (A.9960), for example, says:
…risk and needs assessments shall comprise presumptive evidence of the inmate's risk of re-offense. Should the board choose to override such risk and needs assessments in deciding whether or not an inmate will iive and remain at liberty without violating the law, its decision must provide a detailed, individualized and nonconclusory statement as to its reasons for departing from the risk and needs assessment findings which shall be subject to judicial review. Such override decisions shall not be based solely on information relating to the instant offense and/or the pre-sentencing report for such offense.
Join RAPP, Parole Justice New York, and many other groups (more than 100 so far) in urging your representatives to pass these laws.
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Parole Board Ignores Community, Refuses to See the Light
Undoing months of organizing efforts took less than three minutes for New York State's Parole Board. At their April 21, 2014 meeting, the Board dismissed more than 300 public comments urging the use of objective and consistent criteria in release decisions.
After the board posted their draft regulations governing parole criteria in December 2013, a large number of formerly and currently incarcerated people wrote letters commenting on the regs, as did families, lawmakers, civil rights organizations, and other concerned groups and individuals. The overwhelming majority of comments asserted that the Board's draft regulations were inadequate to address the core problem: parole decisions currently function more as second (or multiple) trials than as assessments of an individual's readiness for release. Because the board bases its decisions largely on the "nature of the original offense" committed by an applicant, the community argued for the regulations to be amended to shift the focus to risk-assessment and rehabilitation. This would allow the board to release people—especially elders—who pose no risk to public safety and for whom longer incarceration serves no rational purpose and simply wastes community resources. We also insisted that the Board provide specific guidelines as to why an applicant was denied and what they could to do improve their chances of parole.
The Parole Board's response to countless pages of passionate and analytical comments? Dead silence—and then a show of hands unanimously affirming their own regulations and procedures.
Recently, the case of Stokes v. Stanfordchallenged these insubstantial regulations. The Appeals Court ordered a new parole hearing for petitioner Robert Stokes, ruling that the Board failed to show evidence that they had considered anything but the nature of the crime in their decision to deny parole. The case exposes what we already know to be true: there is an alarming disconnect between Parole Commissioners' decisions and the evidence presented to them of individuals' low-risk status and readiness for release. Stokes may represent a legal victory, but until the Board is put in check with clear regulations, it will continue to use the vague language of its regulations to deny release in most cases and continue a culture of permanent punishment.
The Parole Board may be relying on silence to maintain the status quo, but we will only raise our voices louder to show that we want change! The community will make our voices heard – by people on the streets, in the subways, at community board meetings, on campuses, and across the world on the internet. We hope you will join us in our efforts to build a mass movement so big that Parole Commissioners will have no choice but to listen and respond.
Join us: Sign the petition to release our elders. Attend our monthly coalition meetings. Together we can end perpetual punishment, build respect for human rights, and heal our communities.
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The Adventurer Story
"Dear God, Be good to me; thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."
-Prayer of the Brenton Fisherman
The Adventurer fills a very important role for the FishingNosara fleet; a boat that is small and light enough to host 3 or less anglers while still delivering the world-class level of fishing that our clients have come to expect.
This feisty panga provides a cost-effective means to harvest inshore reef dwellers via trolling, top-water casting, deep jigging, and even on the fly. Don't even get me started on the Lobster tours we have planned…
The construction and rigging of the Adventurer unfolded over a four month span, and as always began with Craig Sutton putting his imagination on a series of pencil sketch diagrams.
With the general layout in mind, we called upon NBC Boatworks and got our chunk of fiberglass into the mold.
We are thrilled with the overall performance and craftsmanship of the 26' Super Panga Explorer, so it was a no-brainer to tap NBC Boatworks to mold up the 23' Adventurer.
Craig dictated some special features into this custom mold to give the Adventurer a few tricks up her sleeve. The hull consists of 5 horizontal stringers instead of the typical four which yields extra strength against Garza's waves.
Beneath the floor the entire hull is injected with polyurethane foam which makes the boat naturally buoyant; these 'full-floatation' cannot be sunk, even when full of water they bob like a cork.
The floor is a very fine fiberglass diamond pattern that grips bare feet like Velcro. It also cleans easily and doesn't hold stains from fish blood.
The front casting platform is extended by two feet which creates a 48 inch casting platform on the prow. This is the same dimensions of the Explorer's casting platform, just on a smaller boat.
The final custom piece is the 14 inch wide oversized fishbox that runs laterally across the center of the hull. This section is specially designed to house the extra-large fish that lurk in these waters.
The front nose is a watertight enclosure with a form fitting access hatch. For the bow area it is smart to store light items (life jackets, ropes, bumpers, empty fuel containers, etc). All pangas ride best with the bow high and light.
The hull is very strong but super light at about 600 pounds, making weight distribution critical for performance. When rigged properly there is no need for trim tabs and the hull rides like a dream. Also being flat on the back means not much horsepower is required to climb on plane.
Almost every Panga we see in the US is way over powered and consequently too heavy overall and in the transom. This 'bigger-is-better' approach is folly; it kills the ride quality, costs more to build, and burns way too much gas.
Meanwhile….
As the hull slowly cured in the mold at NBC Boatworks, several other threads began to come together to make the Adventurer a reality. Jack and Matty made the rounds to all the marine parts distributors in Jacksonville to gather up the necessary components to assemble this boat in Costa Rica.
Large items like the Bimini Top and the gas tanks dominated the shipment, however the small details like stainless steel nuts, bolts, washers, davits, anchor cleats, and rod holders were equally important despite their small size.
After a month of shopping the boys loaded up a double pallet load which Matty delivered to the Port of Miami for export. Using a lot of plastic wrap, ropes, luck, and God's grace this whole shipment made it to Guiones Beach just in time for assembly
There were shipping obstacles to overcome on the Costa Rica side as well. Due to customs restrictions NBC Boatworks could only deliver the hull as far as the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border. Also they would be taking their trailer back to Nicaragua with them.
Enter the FishingNosara A Team of Cumi, Javier, and Grevan. They loaded up the Land Cruiser with the Explorer's trailer, met the NBC guys at the border and moved the hull over using pure Tico strength.
The ride back to Guiones through the mountains was racked by gale force winds that almost sent our new hull down the mountainside like a bobsled.
Fortunately the ropes held and the posse got the boat home safe and sound.
The final thread is the most important: Senor Carlos Vallejos has been around FishingNosara since its inception. Called "Pipio" by his friends, Carlos has served as First Mate for the Nice n' Tight, Sportsman, and Reel Deal and was on the billshot for Craig Sutton's first Black Marlin.
He joined the FishingNosara team to lend a hand to Captain David on the Explorer and immediately the production level of the Super panga went through the roof. More importantly we all got to know Carlos' good nature and keen fishing instincts first hand.
With the hull and the parts in place the only piece left to add was a Captain, and Carlos is Craig's first choice to helm the Adventurer.
Build Day One – March 27, 2012
Fresh off the plane from Florida, Captain Jack and Matty met with Captain David and Carlos to discuss the project and start installing the accessories on the gunwales. As Jack got to work, the boys had a peek at Captain Jack's newest tattoo:
The bent aluminum bar stock and the footers are visible in the picture above. It's a simple and elegant design that Craig perfected on the Explorer.
We through-bolted the feet directly to the gunwales, therefore avoiding drilling a 3 inch hole for a rod holder into the actual hull. If you drill into the hull the water intrusion can cause problems like fiberglass separation and wood rot; both are massive catastrophes and can be avoided with proper forethought.
Most pangas are the open gunwale style meaning that the gunwale is rolled over into a lip; this simple design is extremely effective and provides a great surface to secure rod holders and accessories. Just like the rod holders, the rub rail went on with little effort thanks to the rolled lip of the gunwale.
The all-aluminum Bimini top was the most delicate item in the shipment. The slightest bend or twist in the hoop of metal and the top would never fold and unfold properly.
When it lined up to the hull perfectly, the sigh of relief from Matty and Jack could be heard all the way back in Jacksonville. In the future we will probably swap this out for a larger shade, but for now this top will keep our clients out of the sun on long-duration trips.
The plan with this fishbox is to get maximum usability out of minimum space so Craig hit upon the novel concept of using the lid of the fishbox to support the weight of the angler seats.
The lid consists of three horizontal wood stringers encased in fiberglass, so cutting two straight lines through all that material took a hybrid old-school/new-school approach. We utilized an angle grinder to score the line and get as deep as we could, then finished it off with an old fashioned hand saw.
Captain David's fiberglass mastery is well-documented, so rather than elaborate on it now let's just say that this little chore was certainly within his scope.
He effortlessly encapsulated the exposed wood stringers in fresh fiberglass to prevent water from swelling into the wood. These small details are the kind that can turn into big problems if ignored.
We've heard nothing but good things about Tempress Marine Seats, and once we took delivery of these quick-release highback folding seats we found that all the praise was well-deserved.
These butt holders feel like they were made by Laz-E-Boy.
The quick release plates are installed on the two outer sections of the fishbox lid. Each section is secured to the fishbox via 10 stainless steel bolts and a liberal amount of 5200 marine sealant.
Taken in totality this system is just as strong as any pedestal-based seat yet comes in at a fraction of the weight, cost, and complexity. Each seat can rotate 360 degrees meaning that the angler can face forward or backward. Also the seats can be quick released and stowed for even more cockpit flexibility.
After the first day of work, the Adventurer was beginning to look more like a boat than a hull.
Build Day Two – March 28, 2012
Yamaha has been very good to us over the years. The pair of Yamaha 150's on the Wanderer have performed wonderfully and the 75 on the Explorer is absolutely bulletproof.
They go the extra mile (literally and figuratively) by sending out their own expert technicians to our remote location to install the motors and even to perform regular maintenance.
On a serious note, many people don't realize how deeply Yamaha was affected by last years' earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown event in Japan. Their entire corporate structure was rocked from the assembly lines to the boardroom and everywhere in between.
Through the production delays and scarce availability of spare parts, Yamaha never compromised on quality. Overcoming seemingly impossible obstacles in a tough environment is a trait with which FishingNosara can identify and is why we respect Yamaha.
When is came time to get a motor for the Adventurer it was easy to choose the Yamaha 20hp Four Stroke because we already had one on site. Back when we shipped the Wanderer we bought it on a whim, figuring on of the local panga boat drivers would eventually need it.
It seems that we underestimated Marcos' ability to keep his motor running, because this motor has been sitting in the box in a bodega for over three years. Turns out that this she was waiting for the Adventurer all along.
Carlos got hooked up the motor to the transom, and she fired up on the first pull of the ripcord. That's quality, folks! You try buying any other motor and mothballing it for three years, then see if it fires up immediately.
Backed up by a 3.5 inch propeller, this 20hp pocket rocket has all the juice the Adventurer will ever need to push three anglers through the waves.
Captain David and Carlos are incredible boatman on and off the water; they keep the Explorer looking fresh so they were the perfect pair to paint the Adventurer.
This is the same bottom paint used on the big boats and helps visually tie the fleet together. While Matty and Captain Jack headed out to the flagship Wanderer to install a state-of-the-art alarm system, Carlos and David applied a gorgeous coat of blue bottom paint to the Adventurer.
By using the hull ribs as a guide and running the tape like a hot-rod pinstripper, David achieved razor sharp lines and perfect spacing on both sides of the hull.
They used a bottle jack from an old truck to lift the hull off the trailer and achieve full paint coverage, then came back for the other side once it was dry. Once again, attention to the smallest details is key: The difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is that little extra 'umph'.
The Wanderer and Explorer cast a long shadow when it comes to final fit and finish. If the Adventurer is to fly the same flag as these legendary boats then every minor detail must be perfect.
Matty tended to the decals and the finished 5200 beads around the rod holders, while Captain Jack helped get the bimini top perfectly centered and anchored down via stainless steel cleats. Together they re-mounted the motor on a 1 inch pad of 5200 to help fight hull vibration at speed.
Carlos tore through our tackle shop like a kid in a candy store, loading up on top-water plugs, brightly colored jigs, raw finished cedar plugs, fresh hooks, new line, and of course a matched set of Penn 460 spinning rods with 6'7" rods.
We wanted to get him off to a good start so we also provided a new cooler, a set of filet knives, and a pair of Costa Del Mar Tag sunglasses with the limited-edition silver frames.
Launch Day – April 1, 2012
The quiet of a lazy Sunday afternoon in on the road from Guiones Beach to Garza was shattered as Craig Sutton put the pedal to the metal and hauled the newly built Adventurer out for her maiden voyage.
Captain Jack blocked traffic like a pro in the trailing Safari Cart as Captain Carlos enjoyed spot of honor in the boat for the trailer ride.
For those who haven't been to Garza, there is no boat ramp or dock from which to launch and recover boats. The only way to get vessels in and out of the water is by backing the trailer as close as possible to the waterline, detaching the trailer, and pushing the whole load through the sand and surf until the boat floats away freely.
Usually this process required 10 men and a 4 wheel drive truck. Since most of the staff takes Sunday off, for the Adventurer launch we had the following skeleton crew: Matty, Jack, Craig, David, Carlos, First Mate Alex (of the Wanderer), and Kelvin (Nosara Paradise Rentals handyman).
The Ship of Fools Tournament had wrapped up the night before, further complicating matters as the entire community (including the panga boat ferrymen) were sleeping off the weekend's good time.
Lastly, the Land Cruiser was out on an airport transfer, so we fell back on the trusty old Trooper to haul the trailer. Undermanned and underpowered, the FishingNosara team dug in for the launch at Playa Garza around 3:30pm for a 4:00pm low tide.
Despite the challenges, we hit the western beach of Garza with confidence; after all, the Adventurer was designed from jump to overcome obstacles and turn skeptics into believers. Craig maneuvered the trailer into position and when the tide was right all hands pushed and swam with their collective might.
Kelvin stayed with the trailer while the other 7 men scurried over the gunwales. Captain Carlos pointed the Adventurer around the rocks and out past the breakers. The Yamaha roared to life and propelled the heavily loaded craft through the waves with surprising might.
Captain Jack, Matty and Alex unloaded on the Wanderer to finish up the alarm system while Craig, David, and Captain Carlos put the Adventurer through her paces.
The hull and motor passed the trials and Craig was stoked about the performance of the new pocket-sized pistol Adventurer.
Like all boats there are still some nagging details to finalize (we are missing a couple of davits and the rub rail could be a little tighter for starters) and there will be new obstacles to overcome in the future.
We will be installing a battery powered depth recorder / bottom machine in the next few weeks just as soon as we can settle on the right unit.
Still, the bulk of the Adventurer is in place and functioning like a champ.
First Trip – April 4, 2012
Scott Coggins from Vermont was the first client to test the waters in the Adventurer, and on a 5 hour Half day trip he caught three Bonitos, a small Grouper, and five of the tasty and elusive Congrios. This exemplifies the near-shore bottom fishing that the Adventurer was designed to dominate.
There are already more trips planned for Captain Carlos and we are thrilled to have him on the team.
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A tank is filled in 5 hours by three pipes A, B and C. The pipe C is twice as fast as B and B is twice as fast as A. How much time will pipe A alone take to fill the tank?


Using Misha Myers and Dee Heddon's peripatetic art project 'Walking Library' as a model, I suggested the research group to participate in an experimental reading and walking experience. As with Myers and Heddon, who were interested in exploring ideas around 'ambulatory knowing', I was intrigued to see how embodied actions and social situations could become meaningful as 'fielding places' (Heddon & Myers, 2014, p.641) to form new ways of engaging with text and knowledge making. I also wanted to understand better how the social aspect of 'shared text' affected the ways in which the text was read, interpreted, experienced and came into being to remain 'open' (Heddon and Myers, 2017, p.41). The idea of 'openness' was explored further by reading together Umberto Eco's The Poetics of Open Work during the walk. Bevis and Belinda also brought with them other texts they shared along the way.
I had created a small notebook with texts extracted from the 'Stories from the Walking Library', a separate article written by Heddon and Myers describing their account of taking part in the Sideways Arts Festival in Belgium where the Walking Library first took shape. The notebook was there for everyone to take notes, draw, doodle, etc., whilst they walked, listened and observed. The route of the walk was not very long – Winchester Cathedral to University of Winchester. However, the area around the cathedral was busy with tourists and there was still much navigating to do even along the quieter back streets. Noises from the passing cars would drown the words being read out aloud, fragmenting the text. Still, there were some truly beautiful moments when the text and the environment came together as when Yonat read a passage on music and we heard music being played nearby. Or when Bevis read about the 'golden hands of the sun' as we felt the warm sun on our skins standing in the quiet cemetery. These were moments when the text, the situation and the physical experience all seemed to connect effortlessly.
As a peripatetic social art project, the Walking Library chooses their location and the books they take for the walks very carefully. The meticulous orchestration seemed a critical factor for such events to work successfully to provide meaningful levels of experience to explore how walking affects the experience of reading and to see how a walk can be regarded as a space of knowledge production. Reflecting back on our short, experimental walk, there were many things that didn't quite work (the noisy and distracting route, the overly theoretical text, and my uncertainty in how to start the walk and to read) but there were lovely moments when the walking, reading, and the sharing of text opened up another space to think about the potentials of embodied knowledge making and expanded reading. The question of 'openness' also seemed to rely very much on the context and the content of the text as well as on how text was shared.
Eco, U. (1962) 'The Poetics of the Open Work' IN Bishop, C. (ed.) (2006) Participation. London: Whitechapel, 20 - 40.
Heddon, D. & Myers, M. (2014) 'Stories from the Walking Library', Cultural Geographies, Vol. 21 (4), 639 - 645.
Heddon, D. & Myers, M. (2017) 'The Walking Library: Mobilizing books, places, readers and reading', Performance Research: On Libraries, 22(1), January/February, 32-48.
Umberto Eco's essay 'The Open Work' took us on an interesting journey through historical examples where a work of art remains an 'open' project. He explains (in beautifully clear language) how current thinking determines the structure and reception of works of art. He charts the history of how and why artists strive to achieve 'openness' in their work and what ideas drove those aims in different historical periods (eg medieval allegory, the fluid space of the Baroque, kinetic art's mobility) in literature, art, performance and music.
He links the concept of 'openness' with the possibility of changing perceptions that reflect the way culture or science view reality, and cites the paradigm shift effected by the then current (1979) scientific thinking around quantum mechanics. As an example of the means to open up literature, he writes about Mallarmé's vision of a multidimensional, deconstructed book which could open up new perspectives – the fore-runner, perhaps, of those 1980s children's books where the reader chooses which of the multiple endings to read.
The openness of walking and reading taps into a different sensibility. It doesn't provide a choice of endings but a choice of beings, a widening of the experience of reading that links the text with our physical, bodily experience of the world. In the group's experiment, a we walked in random fashion with one member reading at a time, I lost the density of words and the complexity of Eco's text and my hearing caught the odd phrase – Eco's reference to music – that was magically echoed in the space we were passing through by a decorator's radio. With my mind attuned to be alert to sound, I heard the engine noise of the buses and cars on the road ahead of us amplified in the narrow passageway as we climbed up the steps. Later, we listened to William Golding's words about the burning heat of the sun whilst we were in the cool shade of trees and it felt wrong, so we listen to them again in the blazing hot field of the old cemetery and the words resonated with our bodily experience and we felt them as much as heard them.
Knowing 'as we go, not before we go'.
Unplanned and slow reading of the participants.
Words read as if present.
A rewriting prompted by walking.
Belinda – similar. It's about reading in movement.
Openness – didn't write, but drew.


This sign stood outside the last operating Doggie Diner restaurant (later, 'Carousel') on the N.E. corner of 46th Ave. and Sloat Blvd.
The last Doggie Diner head (on a pole) makes its home in the outer Sunset District, and since being designated as a landmark it has transcended its origin as a whimsical advertising icon.
The Doggie was moved on Jan 27, 2005 - Photograph by Diana Scott.
On February 14, 2005, under threatening skies, a small, happy crowd welcomed the Doggie to its new home. Ed Lee, the head of San Francisco's Department of Public Works, presided and welcomed third-graders from Ulloa Elementary School, some real canines (and their guardians), a couple of jugglers, elected officials, and a passel of media.
Doggie saviors Diana Scott and Joel Schechter of the Ocean Beach Historical Society attended and Diana gave a few words of thanks along with the exclamation of the day: "Long Live the Doggie!"
Doggie Diner founder Al Ross died in Palm Springs, California on March 31, 2010.
The Doggie was moved on Jan 27, 2005, n.d. - Photograph by Diana Scott.
The 2001 Doggie Dedication—a recap and photos from Arnold Woods.
See Zippy the Pinhead and the Doggie!
Read more about the Doggie Diner head toppling at the San Francisco Chronicle site.


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ARTIST INTERVIEW: Nancy Pearce
Nancy Pearce is the creative mastermind behind PEARCE, a line of unusual sculptural brass objects. We spoke to Nancy about her creative journey.
Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Nancy Pearce arrived in Los Angeles after living in Seattle, upstate New York, and Berlin, and then spent eight years in Joshua Tree honing her desert survival skills before happily re-landing back in LA. She continually puts her seemingly bullshit-at-the-time interdisciplinary degree from college to practice with work in film and archives and art. She resists calling herself an artist because she sees herself as more of a connector and collaborator. Her own pieces are defined by form and a sense of humor. She celebrates everyday life and creates trophies of the mundane – a paper plate, bagel or tube of toothpaste elevated into sculptural form when cast in bronze. She also works with Commune Design on a series of Commune + Nancy Pearce items only available at Commune, as well as with Heath Ceramics casting their iconic designs in bronze to create truly heirloom pieces that survive not only generations, but geological time.
Most recently I took a trip to Smart & Final, eyeing stacks and stacks of absurdly cheap styrofoam containers for inspiration. If Herzog complains there are no new images in the world and you need to haul a steamship over a mountain to create one, I believe in finding connection with the commonplace. I particularly love the irony of a throwaway object like a paper plate or plastic water bottle cast in bronze. I was totally inspired by Roy Mcmackin's plastic lawn chair in bronze at the Seattle Sculpture Park and also Sherrie Levine's appropriation of Duchamp's urinal in bronze at the Broad Museum.
Do you feel like you're part of a greater community of artists? If so, describe why?
My work would not exist without the community of artists and craftspeople around me – both in what gets made and how it gets made. The bronze objects are sand cast which is a direct process eliminating the need for a mold. The owner of the foundry I use is 82 years old and still oversees each mold-making and bronze pour. The polisher has also been at it for over 40 years. Achieving the high polish is a laborious five-step technique requiring zen-like dedication to the material and the process.
How are you inspired by the environment around you, how does home/city/nature you live in affect your work?
I am inspired by the everyday object around me, particularly the ones that come from the domestic sphere. I like the idea of almost circumventing the artist in a way and instead, incorporate that artistic mind straight into the day-to-day.
What do you hope to share with those who purchase your art and bring it ultimately into their lives?
Don't drop it on your foot! Other than that I encourage people to live with the pieces in whatever way makes them happy. Place it on a pedestal or use as a doorstop. The more you handle it the better the patina. I love that you could bury one of the pieces in the backyard for a year and it would look even better.


Nothing is as adorable as children and animals! New mom Devin Crouch found that doggy Toby was photo bombing her pictures of her new baby boy, Carter. So, she turned it into a wonderful series.
Carter and Toby are portrayed doing everything together. It's a truly smile inducing series of photos. The series has become a huge hit on Instagram. Toby is a rescue dog and has become inseparable from his little boy. Devin is considering publishing a book of the photos with a portion going to animal rescue organizations. What a great idea!


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Dubai health care symposium aims to tackle obesity epidemic in UAE
The conference will bring together experts from the UAE and the US to share research and information in the fight against obesity
The UAE ranks third in the Middle East of the countries with the greatest prevalence of obesity with 37 per cent of residents classed as obese. Pawan Singh / The National
Shireena Al Nowais
For the first time in the UAE, every doctor, clinic, hospital, policy and decision maker will gather under one roof to tackle one of biggest heathcare problems facing the country and the world — obesity.
Under the Ministry of Health and Prevention, the first USA Healthcare Symposium and Showcase on Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes will be held on Monday and Tuesday at the Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dubai (MBRU). At least 300 medical professionals are expected to attend.
Obesity has been at the forefront of health concerns in the UAE for the past few years with the Government strengthening efforts to find effective solutions to tackle the epidemic.
The UAE ranks third in the Middle East of the countries with the greatest prevalence of obesity, with 37 per cent of residents classed as obese.
A 2012 study published by BMC Public Health Journal placed the UAE as the fifth most obese country in the world.
In 2015, figures from the International Diabetes Federation indicated that almost one in five people (19.2 per cent) in the UAE between the ages of 20 and 79 have type 2 diabetes.
There were over a million people living with diabetes in the UAE the same year, placing the country in 13th place worldwide for age-adjusted comparative prevalence.
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Rapid economic growth, sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy diets characteristic to the UAE are all risk factors that are expected to contribute to the estimated doubling of people with diabetes to 2.2 million by 2040.
"The rise of obesity and diabetes in both of our nations is a shared concern, particularly the increasing rates of diabetes among our youth," said the US Ambassador to the UAE, Barbara Leaf, ahead of the conference.
The two-day symposium is being held during Discover America month and will gather experts from the UAE and the US to share their latest research and successes in tackling obesity as well as promoting healthy lifestyles and proper nutrition.
While there have been many conferences held in the UAE previously, never before have all the stakeholders gathered together in one room, said Dareen Zoughbi, founder and chief executive of Nadereen Consultancy.
"This is the first US health care symposium on nutrition obesity and diabetes and one of the signature events of discover America and falls within Discover America month. Obesity and diabetes is a growing epidemic and it impacts right now children as young as four and five," she said.
Mrs Zoughbi acknowledged the tremendous efforts to fight diabetes but said a key issue that is still lacking is "alignment".
"One thing we found out when we are doing our research is that there is a lot going on in the UAE but a lot of it is not publicly known; a lot of data is not being publicly shared between organisations whether it is on a policy level or a strategy level," she said.
"We are bringing everyone together in a room for two days to say, right, what have we done on a public health point? — this is a public health issue. What have we done to address it? What are the policies that we have done to deal with this growing epidemic? What are the different strategies? And how are we aligning with the UAE's 2021 vision?" she said.
The conference will be a platform for increased collaboration and data sharing.
"We need to raise awareness on all the different levels and making sure it's all aligned so that what we are doing in one place is not being repeated elsewhere and that we are learning from it," said Mrs Zoughbi.
Success, she said, will be when the number of child obesity cases decrease. "This will only happen when schools, hospital, parents and all the stakeholders all work together."
"We can't implement a solution for schools alone for example within a community that hasn't found a solution to have more parks. I can't hold the families and parents accountable if the food offered at school canteens is not healthy. What we are finding is that there is a lot going on but it's each organisation doing it so perfectly well on its own."
Entry to the conference is free of charge. "This isn't a symposium with a commercial agenda, it's a symposium where we are saying, let's truly bring the best together because at the end of the day, what we all want is better patient outcome — that's the goal we all want to reach," she said.
For registration, visit https://register.eventmobi.com/KALLMAN/your-details
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Black Kids
Black Kids frontman Reggie Youngblood performing in 2008
Indie rock, post-punk revival
Columbia, Almost Gold
http://blackkidstv.com/
Reggie Youngblood
Dawn Watley
Kevin Snow
Owen Holmes
Ali Youngblood
Black Kids are an American indie rock band. Formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 2006, the group consisted of singer/guitarist Reggie Youngblood, keyboardists/backup singers Ali Youngblood and Dawn Watley, bassist Owen Holmes, and drummer Kevin Snow. The Black Kids' debut EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, received favorable critical response in 2007, and was followed by the Partie Traumatic album, which debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart in July 2008.
2.2 Extended plays
Black Kids formed in Jacksonville in 2006. The lineup consists of siblings Reggie Youngblood (lead vocals and guitar) and Ali Youngblood (keyboards and backing vocals), Owen Holmes (bass guitar), Kevin Snow (drums), and Dawn Watley (keyboards and backing vocals). Although they initially performed only in Jacksonville, they received national attention after a breakout performance at the Athens Popfest in Athens, Georgia on 11 August 2007, which led to a sudden flurry of coverage in the music press, including NME,[1] Vice,[2] The Guardian,[3] and The Village Voice.[4] The same month, Black Kids' demo EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, was released via free download on their MySpace page. Soon after, Black Kids began working with Quest Management,[5] the company that manages Björk and Arcade Fire.[6] In October, the EP received a favorable review of 8.4 out of 10 from Pitchfork, including a "Best New Music" commendation.[7]
Black Kids participated in the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City in October,[8] earning the band exposure in The New York Times[9] and USA Today.[10] In December the band traveled to London for a brief tour.[11] Rolling Stone called them one of ten "Artists to Watch" for 2008[12] and the band was also included in the BBC Sound of 2008 poll.[13]
Black Kids toured the United Kingdom in early 2008, including the Vice Live Tour with Friendly Fires and Ipso Facto, a Sons and Daughters tour, and a Kate Nash tour.[14] In April and May, Black Kids toured the United States as an opening act for Cut Copy. The band played the summer festival circuit in the U.S. and the UK, including the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April,[15] Radio 1's Big Weekend in May [1], Glastonbury Festival in June, and T in the Park[16] and Camp Bestival in July.[17] Black Kids then headlined an international tour in the U.S. and Europe from June to November.
While in the UK in early 2008 the band recorded their debut album, Partie Traumatic, with producer Bernard Butler, former guitarist of Suede. Their first single, "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You", was released in the UK on 7 April and debuted at #11 on the UK Singles Chart. "Hurricane Jane", the follow-up single, was released in the UK on 23 June, where it charted at #36. The album Partie Traumatic was released on 7 July in the UK on Almost Gold Recordings, debuting at #5, and was released two weeks later in the US on Columbia Records, debuting at #127.
In 2009 Black Kids performed at the Big Day Out festivals in New Zealand and Australia. They have also toured with Kaiser Chiefs in the U.K. and Mates of State in the U.S. Their song "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You," was used in a trailer for the movie Fame, and is featured on the soundtrack of the 2009 film Jennifer's Body. "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You" was also offered as an iTunes Free Download in July 2008. It is also featured as The Twelves remix version in FIFA 09, and was performed on Glee on 10 May 2011.[18] "Hurricane Jane" was also on the playlist of Pro Evolution Soccer 2010.
The band played new songs on their Mini-Tour along Florida as seen on their setlist. The new songs are possible related or at least contain the words 'Trippin', 'Smokes', 'Castles', 'Rude Boys' and 'Weird Hearts'. On a session for XPN2, Owen Holmes, their bassist, acting out as Gospel Music, his solo project, told that the band is still having fun together as friends and enjoying their spare time a little bit, but still, they are writing songs for their second album. In April, their drummer, Kevin Snow, tweeted that "a second album is in the works, hoping we'll be finished soon."
In August 2013 the band started to tour again in Brazil and on the East Coast of the United States. They played "Clocks" and "Wake Up", two new songs. They stated that the album they were recording in 2010 was scrapped, and that they started recording again in early 2013.
After touring in 2013, the band resettled throughout the U.S. and continued writing and performing in side-projects: Reggie created Blunt Bangs and Owen recorded under the moniker Gospel Music, releasing albums via Kill Rock Stars.
In 2015, the band regrouped in Athens and began working on their second album, Rookie. Rookie was co-produced by Andy LeMaster and was recorded at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, Ga. The band announced their sophomore album in the summer of 2017[19] and released the first single, "Obligatory Drugs." When asked about their absence from the music scene, frontman Reggie Youngblood told Billboard, "It wasn't until 2015 where I felt like we could [make] a record that we would feel good about,".[20] The band continued to preview material from the upcoming album, releasing the single "If My Heart Is Broken,[21]" followed by exclusively premiering the video via Playboy.[22] In August, the band released the music video for "IFFY,[23]" which was created by TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone.
On September 15, Rookie[24] was released. The band played a record-release show at Los Angeles' Echoplex the following night, which marked the beginning of their fall U.S. tour.
Discography[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
Partie Traumatic
Released: July 7, 2008
Formats: CD, download
Label: Chase Park Transduction
Extended plays[edit]
Wizard of Ahhhs
Label: Self-released
Formats: Download
Cemetery Lips
Singles[edit]
"I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You"
11 Partie Traumatic
"Hurricane Jane"
"Look at Me (When I Rock Wichoo)"
"Origami"
— Non-album single
"Obligatory Drugs"
— Rookie
^ Miller, Alex (2 September 2007). "Black Kids Are Amazing". NME. Retrieved 5 October 2007.
^ Vice (19 September 2007). "Interview: Black Kids". Vice Magazine. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 5 October 2007.
^ Lester, Paul (26 September 2007). "New band of the day No. 191: Black Kids". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2007.
^ Bowers, William (9 October 2007). "Provincializm: Siblings Gonna Work It Out". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2007.
^ Cohen, Jonathan (19 October 2007). "Update: Buzz Band Black Kids Inks Management Deal". Billboard. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
^ Maher, Dave (17 October 2007). "Black Kids Have a Manager, Gigs, No Label Yet". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 24 October 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2007.
^ Hogan, Marc (5 October 2007). "Black Kids: Wizard of Ahhs EP: Pitchfork Record Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
^ Hogan, Marc (19 October 2007). "CMJ: Thursday (Marc Hogan)". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 7 January 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
^ Parales, Jon (22 October 2007). "Play Well, and May the Blog Buzz Be With You". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
^ Matheson, Whitney (22 October 2007). "CMJ lessons: Ten bands to hear today". USA Today. Archived from the original on 24 October 2007. Retrieved 1 November 2007.
^ Solarski, Matthew (9 November 2007). "Black Kids Add Dates". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 9 November 2007.
^ Hoard, Christian (14 November 2007). "Artist to Watch: Black Kids". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
^ "Sound of 2008: The Top 10". BBC News. 4 January 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2008.
^ Black Kids (8 January 2008). "**SONS & DAUGHTERS TOUR + KATE NASH TOUR**". Black Kids Myspace. Retrieved 8 January 2008.
^ Press Release (21 January 2008). "Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Announces Lineup". Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Archived from the original on 20 March 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
^ Press Release (15 February 2008). "T Lineup Announced". T in the Park. Retrieved 15 February 2008.
^ "Camp Bestival add more acts to lineup". NME. 5 February 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
^ "The Black Kids song on Glee May 10th". The Florida Times-Union. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
^ Desk, BWW News. "Black Kids Announce First New Album In 10 Years + Single Out Today". Broadway World. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
^ "Black Kids Return 10 Years After Fleeting Blog Hype: 'We Survived Our Musical Acne'". Billboard. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
^ "BLACKBOOK PREMIERE: Black Kids' Shimmering New Single 'If My Heart is Broken' - BlackBook". BlackBook. 2017-07-12. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
^ "Watch Our Exclusive Premiere of The Black Kids' Cure-Inflected Jam 'If My Heart Is Broken'". Playboy. 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
^ "PREMIERE: Embrace the Bizarre with Black Kids and Their New "IFFY" Video". PAPERMAG. 2017-08-03. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
^ "Rookie - Black Kids | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
^ "Black Kids Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^ "lescharts.com - French charts portal". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^ "irishcharts.com - Discography Black Kids". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^ "Chart Stats - Black Kids". chartstats.com. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^ "Chart Log UK: Darren B - David Byrne". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
Lovejoy, Heather (2010-07-16) Jacksonville pop sensations Black Kids emerge from hibernation The Florida Times-Union
Official Black Kids website
Black Kids's channel on YouTube
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WorldCat Identities (via LCCN): no2008-115190
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RE: Alcor News #45 22 Nov 2005 "Scientists Go Public.."
Subject: RE: Alcor News #45 22 Nov 2005 "Scientists Go Public.."
unfamiliar mainstream scientists in any one such list.
and have other names in it.
support of cryonics / bio-stasis as well.


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Q: Wix Toolset tried to load setup files from ISO drive that is no longer mapped I have an installer that uses .NET Framework 4.8.  We distribute the product electronically in an ISO.  In most modern OS'es you double click on the ISO, it maps it to a drive and you install from there.
The problem comes in when it needs to reboot after the .NET install and the ISO is no longer mapped after the reboot.  So the folder where the install was prior to the reboot non longer exists.
Does the bootstrapper copy all the setup files to a temp directory on the machine or is the only answer to this to require that the ISO get mapped through the reboot?

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Duchess of Cornwall celebrates birthday with trip to donkey sanctuary
The Duchess of Cornwall celebrated her 72nd birthday with a visit to a donkey sanctuary, where she met two miniature donkeys named William and Harry.
Camilla wins praise for pasty-making skills from Michelin star chef
The Duchess of Cornwall won praise from a Michelin star chef for her crimping technique after trying her hand at pasty-making.
I hope Camilla comes to watch us play, says wheelchair tennis player
Britain's number two wheelchair tennis player hopes to see some royal spectators at this year's Wimbledon, saying: "It would be great for the sport."
Camilla meets Splash the horse at Clarence House
The Duchess of Cornwall invited a horse to her home as she hosted a reception at Clarence House.
Camilla reveals Spirit of Discovery during naming ceremony in Dover
The Duchess of Cornwall could not hide her longing for a cruise on a luxury liner as she officially named a new ship.
Charles quietly celebrating 50th anniversary, says Camilla during Swansea visit
The Duchess of Cornwall has said her husband was "celebrating quietly" the 50th anniversary of his investiture as the Prince of Wales.
Week in Wales for Charles and Camilla
The Prince of Wales will be starting a tour of Wales 50 years to the day that he was invested with his title.
Charles in Wales to mark 50th anniversary of investiture
The Prince of Wales will be in Wales as he marks the 50th anniversary of his investiture next week.
Camilla shares love of horses on trip to veterans' rehabilitation centre
The Duchess of Cornwall has indulged her love of horses with a visit to a charity that helps rehabilitate veterans through their work with the animals.
Camilla to visit charities and newspaper office in Aberdeenshire
The Duchess of Cornwall is to visit two charities and the office of a newspaper during a trip around the north-east of Scotland.
Charles and Camilla wear face masks for animal charity ball
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall donned sequined face masks as they hosted a celebrity-filled masquerade ball for an animal charity.


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RVD Says WWE Is Paranoid He Will Go To TNA
Rob Van Dam mentioned in his latest blog post at RobVanDam.com that WWE is paranoid he'll wind up working for the competition:
"The constant rumors that I am or have signed with one of the wrestling companies seems to be getting stronger still. Last week, WWE locked me out of my profile page at WWE Universe because they believed I had signed with TNA!"
Van Dam is arguably the hottest free agent in the industry and would surely make some waves if he showed up in TNA. It also shouldn't be ruled out that Van Dam makes a surprise appearance at Sunday's Royal Rumble, as we saw last year.
Just last week on the "Busted Open" Sirius satellite radio show, Van Dam said, he'd be open to working for WWE again, but only if the conditions were right. He said, "I can tell you for sure that I have no interest in returning to a full-time schedule like I did before. That's not going to happen."
Van Dam continues to wrestle for various independent promotions across the world and could return to the national wrestling scene at any time. With TNA bringing in so much new talent and a work schedule that is far less demanding than WWE, it could be an attractive option for RVD.