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Bad is Bad
June 2, 2020 August 23, 2020 / thejohnfoster
In the fall of 1983, Huey Lewis and the News released one of the finest albums ever recorded.
"Sports" became the top album on the Billboard Top 200 list the following June
.The album was loaded with songs that fill the playlists of Classic Hits and/or Classic Rock stations nearly 40 years later.
One of the big singles on that album is one of my personal favorites…"Bad is Bad".
Huey sang, "I said cool is a rule, but, sometimes bad is bad."
So, 36 years later, why do I recall the prophet Huey and his "Sports" album?
Because, today, "Cool is a rule, but, sometimes bad is bad."
Most of us have viewed the video of the arrest in Minneapolis.
My initial reaction to is to think, the act depicted was criminal.
But I also believe we have a system in this country whereby everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
For our system to work, some buy-in is important.
My reason for presenting this is not to judge guilt or innocence but to suggest there are procedures to be followed.
Allow me to also suggest there are differences between "protest" and "looting".
By definition, "protest" is a "statement or action expressing disapproval of, or objection to something."
"Looting" is defined as to "spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war; anything taken by dishonesty, force, stealth, etc; a burglar's loot."
My Webster's Pocket Thesaurus tells me "protest" can be a noun; meeting, rally, demonstration or dissent.
It can also be a verb; object, demur, disagree or oppose.
My thesaurus also says "looting" could be referred to as plunder, steal, thieve, rifle or rob.
As a young man, I can imagine my parents' reaction if I walked into the house toting a "receipt-free" TV and a new pair of shoes.
This once young man remembers the 60's and I vividly recall the race riots that left large portions of many cities smoldering.
I also remember the marches lead by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who suggested non-violent means to achieve the greater good.
Sixty-plus years later, I doubt anyone can recall the name of any individual who tossed a brick or looted a business but I would argue we do remember the efforts of Dr. King.
He said, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life."
Lifting a bruised and beaten brother should not be confused with lifting something from a store shelf after using your cement block key.
Are things perfect today?
Are they better?
But my life mantra has always been, "The cup is half-full."
My fear is that reasonable people of all ilks, outraged by the action of a Minneapolis police officer have had their focus muddied by other videos of folks ransacking businesses and defacing property that quite often belongs to all of us.
I fail to find a clean connection between the two actions.
Bad response to a bad cop.
Anne Bradstreet said, "Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge; fitter to bruise than to polish."
I'd like to share another observation I've had.
"Protests" take place in the light of day'
Rioting, violence and vandalism prefer the dark of night.
How much positive stuff in our lives happens after midnight?
I would be so bold as to suggest very little.
Some would argue that the actions we've viewed is nothing more than "civil disobedience".
By definition, civil disobedience is a noun, defined as "the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest."
My trusty thesaurus suggests we can also substitute insubordination, defiance, insurgence, mutiny, revolt, rebellion or noncompliance for civil disobedience.
I'm having a problem including folks walking out of retail establishments with items not paid for as somehow truly aiding a cause that needs discussed and acted on.
How does it help?
Cooler heads must prevail.
Will they?
Winston Churchill said, "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
Well-stated Mr. Churchill!
I've quoted a line from "The Ox-Bow Incident" when Walter Van Tilburg Clark states, "We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling."
Another quote, this one anonymous reminds us, "Your problem isn't the problem; your reaction is the problem."
So, to bring Huey Lewis and the News back into the discussion, remember, "Bad is bad."
The action that provoked the response was bad.
But the response, the reaction, was also bad.
If you can't grasp that, this next quote from an unknown pundit will help.
"Anyone who doesn't think there are two sides to an argument is probably in one."
Do I have the answers?
But I hate to see the real issue get blocked out by noise.
This country has been through challenges and we will figure this out.
Why do I know that?
Because in just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
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SJ Al Arimi, originally from Oman, is double majoring in finance and business management. This summer she plans to explore graduate programs around the country.
The summer sun has finally made an appearance, which means the start of a much-needed break for WSU international students.
The summer is a time when international students can travel in the U.S. without having to be enrolled in classes, senior SJ Al Arimi said.
Al Arimi is an international student from Oman who is double majoring in finance and management with a minor in politics.
Although a majority of international students go back home, there are many students who stay in Pullman, Al Arimi said.
The international students have picnics and outings to California, Spokane and Seattle to make the summer exciting, Al Arimi said.
As for Al Arimi, she said she hopes to find a graduate school that suits her this summer. She is looking at universities in New York, Texas and Arizona to find a good master of business administration or finance program.
"[I'm] just going around to discover places," she said.
Al Arimi said she plans to relax this summer break, but she also wishes there was more local excitement.
She said she remembers that in the past, Pullman set up a water slide behind Bryan Hall for summertime fun, and she would like to see more activities similar to that during break.


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Q: Action of 1-form symmetry in Maxwell theory I am reading Lectures on Gauge Theory by David Tong.
In 3.6.2 first example that the author talk about pure $U(1)$ gauge theory in 4D. In this example, he talk about two 1-form symmetries:
1) electric $U(1)_e$, with 2-form current $j_e \propto *F$,
2) magnetic $U(1)_m$, with 2-form current $j_m \propto F=dA$.
It is mentioned that the action of the electric 1-form symmetry on the gauge field $A$ is a shift by a flat connection $\lambda$, i.e., $d\lambda=0$. Exist same statement about action of the magnetic 1-form symmetry, action is shift of dual gauge field $A_D$ by a flat connection.
1) How I can calculate it? As I read in Generalized Global Symmetries, 1 forms acts on string-like objects, not on fields!! How is it agreed?
2) Is it possible derive current from Lagrangian using knowledge about action of symmetry on fields? (This question is answered)

A: If you start with the action of Maxwell theory in four dimensions [I will denote by lowercase letters dynamical gauge fields and by uppercase, background gauge fields]
$$S[a] = \frac{1}{2}\int f\wedge\star f = \frac{1}{2}\int \mathrm{d}a\wedge\star\mathrm{d}a. \label{1}\tag{1}$$
This has a $\mathrm{U}(1)_\mathrm{e}^{[1]}$ one-form symmetry, dubbed "electric". We can see this because the transformation $a\mapsto a+\lambda$, where $\mathrm{d}\lambda=0$ leaves (\ref{1}) invariant.
You can turn on a 2-form background gauge field, $B$, for the electric one-form symmetry $\mathrm{U}(1)^{[1]}_\mathrm{e}$ similarly as you would for the $\mathrm{U}(1)$ of a compact scalar field, just this time everything is one form-degree higher. So
$$S[a,B] = \frac{1}{2}\int (\mathrm{d}a-B)\wedge\star(\mathrm{d}a - B),$$
now the equivalent of (background) gauging the symmetry is to allow for the shift of $a\mapsto a+\lambda$, to have some curvature, i.e. $\mathrm{d}\lambda\neq0$, as long as you compensate for that by a one-form gauge transformation of $B$; $B\mapsto B+\mathrm{d}\lambda$. Now, to find the current you can simply vary the action with respect to $B$, as you would in a textbook QFT and you find
$$J_\mathrm{e} := \frac{\delta S}{\delta B}\Bigg\vert_{B=0} = \star f.$$
I suppose that this answers your question, but since we came so far let's take it a little further.
You can also turn on a 2-form background field, $C$, for the magnetic one form symmetry $\mathrm{U}(1)^{[1]}_\mathrm{m}$, by adding a term like
$$\int C\wedge (\mathrm{d}a-B)$$
to the action. You similarly find a magnetic 2-form current
$$J_\mathrm{m} := \frac{\delta S}{\delta C}\Bigg\vert_{C=0} = f -B.$$
Without any work a mixed 't Hooft anomaly appeared, for non-zero $B$!
$$\mathrm{d}\star J_\mathrm{m} \sim \mathrm{d}\star B \neq 0.$$
And this is where all the fun starts...

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Arts on the Horizon Presents By the Seashore + GIVEAWAY!
Posted on June 16, 2017 by alexis
Arts on the Horizon is a theatre for children ages 0-6 years old in Northern Virginia. Their mission is to offer high-quality theatre for young children and their families at an affordable rate. Their shows are 30 minutes in length and are performed by professional actors. We attended one of their performances earlier this year and loved it. See my review here. The next show coming up is called By the Seashore and is recommended for ages 0-2.
By the Seashore takes us on a magical journey to a place children love to visit – the beach! From birds and fish, to sand and water, and everything in-between, young audience members are invited to explore all the amazing things we find on the shore, in the ocean, and in the sky (with no need for wings or scuba gear!). Using an imaginative mix of puppetry, movement, and sound, this sensory-filled production is specifically designed for babies and young toddlers.
I have two family 4-packs of tickets to giveaway! One 4-pack for the July 13th show at 10:30am, and one for July 15th at 10am. To enter, simply leave a comment on this blog post. The winners will be drawn and notified on June 30th. Good luck!
Location of performance:
The Lab at Convergence
1819 N. Quaker Lane
Thursday, July 13th at 10:30am
Friday, July 14th at 10:30am
Saturday, July 15th at 10:00am
Saturday, July 15th at 11:30am (Sign-interpreted performance)
Tuesday, July 18th at 10:30am
Wednesday, July 19th at 10:30am
Friday, July 21st at 10:30am
Saturday, July 22nd at 10:00am
Tickets are $6.
Purchase tickets here: http://www.artsonthehorizon.org/by-the-seashore-buy-tickets.html
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11 Responses to Arts on the Horizon Presents By the Seashore + GIVEAWAY!
Jessica Coates says:
We would love to go! Sounds amazing!
We saw Nutt and Bolt earlier this year and my daughter loved it! Would like to see this show as well.
Oh my kids would live to go to this!
would love to take my grandkids!
Looks like a lot of fun
It's so great to have performances tailored for the little ones!
Would love to go on the 15th! My son just took their camp & had an awesome week.
I took my then 20month old to the preview for this and she loved it. Even I loved it! Would love to see the full show with her and my now 7mo old boy!
Jason Wenrich says:
Arts on the Horizon is the best! We would love to see this show.
This sounds like so much fun
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Q: Returning a column with grep I'm attempting to search through a file and return a particular column based on whether a particular value is present in the column. For example, if I search for "Red" in the file:
One    Two    Three
Cat    Dog    Chicken
Blue   Black  Red
Blah   Blah   Blah

I want returned:
Three
Chicken
Red
Blah

I would even accept just knowing which column grep or any other search command found a match in, so I could use cut, but I can't even find that much.

A: This is one way:
Store all the data in the matrix a[line][column]. Save the column number in p. Finally print all the items a[line][p].
$ awk -v text=Blue '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {a[NR,i]=$i; if ($i~text) {p=i}}} END{ for (i=1; i<=NR; i++) print a[i,p]}' a
One
Cat
Blue
Blah
$ awk -v text=Red '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {a[NR,i]=$i; if ($i~text) {p=i}}} END{ for (i=1; i<=NR; i++) print a[i,p]}' a
Three
Chicken
Red
Blah

Update
To have exact matches, replace ~ with == (thanks konsolebox):
awk -v text=Blue '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {a[NR,i]=$i; if ($i==text) {p=i}}} END{ for (i=1; i<=NR; i++) print a[i,p]}' a
                                                            ^^

A: One possibility, depending on how you respond to the questions I posted in my comment:
awk -v tgt="Red" '
  NR==FNR {for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) if ($i==tgt) cols[i]; next}
  {sep=""; for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) if (i in cols) {printf "%s%s", sep, $i; sep=OFS}; print ""}
' file file


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SolarWinds MSP Has Cloud Management and Backup Solutions on the Way
The vendor also plans to leverage its parent company's expansive portfolio of network management systems to help MSPs enjoy single-pane-of-glass control over the ever-widening array of onsite and offsite solutions sharing SMB infrastructures today. By Rich Freeman
SolarWinds MSP plans to add cloud management and cloud-to-cloud backup solutions to its integrated suite of IT management software for MSPs.
The Durham, N.C.-based vendor shared those and other product-related insights at its Empower MSP partner conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., last week.
The forthcoming cloud management solution is designed to help channel pros extend the same kind of visibility into PCs, servers, and other endpoints they enjoy today to the online services their clients use in growing numbers as well.
"More and more managed service providers are being asked by their SMBs to help understand what is happening in the connection point from an end user to a cloud service. More and more they're being asked to ensure that that connection stays up and running, or [to] identify where the problems are in accessing that cloud service," says Greg Lissy, vice president of product for SolarWinds MSP.
Meeting those expectations can be difficult, however, because most RMM products have little visibility into the path cloud traffic travels to and from endpoints, according to Mav Turner, vice president of product management for SolarWinds Worldwide LLC, SolarWinds MSP's parent company.
"IT is responsible for ensuring services across networks that they don't own," he observes. SolarWinds plans to use systems like NetPath, a component of the company's portfolio of products for corporate IT departments, to help technicians troubleshoot and more quickly resolve performance issues impacting cloud-hosted solutions.
To further assist MSPs struggling with the demands of today's increasingly hybrid SMB infrastructures, SolarWinds MSP also has software for backing up cloud-based data in the works. First up will be support for the online edition of Microsoft Outlook, according to Lissy, who declined to provide specifics on when that functionality will reach market. The ability to backup the rest of Microsoft's Office 365 communications and collaboration suite, plus Google G Suite, Box, Dropbox, and other hosted repositories will follow in the months and years ahead.
The overarching goal of both cloud-related additions to the SolarWinds MSP product family is to provide technicians an all-encompassing, "single pane of glass" management console, according to Senior Director of MSP Evangelism Dave Sobel.
"That's what the MSP needs," he says. "They need to be able to see all of the bits that they're managing."
SolarWinds MSP is uniquely positioned to meet that need, he and other company leaders claim, because it's part of SolarWinds, an IT management behemoth with over 50 products and a customer base spanning from small businesses to 499 members of the Fortune 500.
"We're in every market now at this point," Sobel says. "Most partners are not going to have that kind of insight and ability to see that many industries and that many different segments, so we can really bring the right information to them at the right time."
Sobel points to SolarWinds's strength in network management as another advantage for SolarWinds MSP at a time when SMBs are steadily deploying web-enabled phones, printers, meeting room systems, physical security solutions, lightbulbs, thermostats, and more. Network management software is available from managed services software maker Kaseya Ltd. and more specialized vendors like Auvik Networks Inc., but few companies offers as many products in as many network administration categories as SolarWinds.
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Much of the United States endured another brutal day of heat Friday, including St. Louis where temperatures shot past 100 degrees for a ninth straight day.
It reached 105 degrees Fahrenheit in St. Louis.
It also hit the century mark in Chicago for the third day in a row, something that only happened previously in 1947 and 1911. The Chicago Tribune said the 103 degrees recorded at O'Hare International Airport broke the record of 99 degrees set in 1988. It's possible the city could see 100 degrees for a fourth straight day Saturday, which would be a first.
A cooling trend is on the way, however, National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Korte told USA Today.
"For the most part by Sunday it breaks across the Midwest and across most of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region," Korte said. "By Sunday temperatures are dropping already across all of those areas."
USA Today reported Hill City, Kan., has had 13 days above 100 since June 23rd, St. Louis has had 13 and Indianapolis four. Washington, D.C., has had nine days in a row of 95 or hotter and it's expected to hit 100 Saturday.
"It's been an unusual event," Korte said of the deadly heat wave.
The National Climatic Data Center said nationwide, 4,230 daily heat records and 233 all-time heat records were broken in the past 30 day.
At least 11 heat-related deaths have been reported in Maryland, The Baltimore Sun said. Six deaths have been reported in the Chicago area and three in Rock County, Wis., CNN reported. Three more deaths were recorded in St. Louis, USA Today said.
Meanwhile, crews maneuvered through Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, looking for any visitors stranded after a storm blew through the area, killing two people, downing trees and crushing cars, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported Friday.
Elsewhere, hundreds of thousands of residents in the nation's midsection and mid-Atlantic states were without power, with Friday expected to bring more triple-digit temperatures to areas still recovering from massive storms in late June.
Heat and extreme heat advisories were posted in multiple states.
Centers were set up in several West Virginia communities to provide breakfasts and dinners to residents still without power.
The storms that stretched from Indiana to New Jersey June 29 were blamed for 22 deaths. Three more people in North Carolina died in a another round of storms Sunday.
More than 549,000 customers had no power as of Thursday night in 11 states and the District of Columbia, officials said.
"We're starting to see light over the horizon; the only bad thing is the storms that we keep having that are knocking out the power that they do get restored," Theresa White, emergency management director for Fayette County, W.Va., told CNN. "That makes it really hard when you finally get one step forward and you end up three steps back."


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"Schooner Regina"
by Robert Square | circ. 1881 | Cove Island Lighthouse
On Tuesday September 6, 1881, loaded with a thousand barrels of salt the schooner Regina under the command of Captain Amos Tripp, of Collingwood, departed Goderich. On Saturday, September 10th, at 8:00 am, Regina "was sailing with a fair wind, and on a direct course for Cove Island".
Early that evening, Regina rounded Cape Hurd off the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula and encountered a sudden and violent squall with winds out of the south-west. Strains on Regina's hull opened up numerous seams in her planking and almost at once Regina was in trouble. Labouring heavily and with water leaking into the hold being quickly soaked up by the cargo of salt, Regina "immediately sank stem first . . . in about seven fathoms of water" off Gat Point, at the western tip of Cove Island.
As details about the storm came in, it became obvious that much of what the crew had said about the disaster did not match the facts.
Days later, a clock was picked up lying on the shore of Cove Island by fishermen in the area. Identified as belonging to Regina, the clock had stopped at 1:00 a.m. "When it was freed from the water that was inside, the clock started going, which shows that it was at that hour [1:00 a.m.] the schooner went down." This suggested Regina stayed afloat for another two hours after the first mate and crew said the schooner had foundered and they abandoned ship in a panic leaving Captain Tripp aboard to save himself.
Many harsh comments were made in local newspapers about the cowardly behavior of Regina's crew during the disaster. The Wiarton Echo and the Owen Sound Advertiser both stated: "The circumstances connected with the drowning of Capt. Tripp certainly are of a very mysterious character, and an investigation should be demanded."
George Currie the lightkeeper at Cove Island wrote in his personal log on September 10th "blowing a gale from the west, 10 pm."
On September 12th he recorded:
"First heard to day noon of the schooner Regina being wrecked about 2 miles south west of this island in the Gale of Saturday night the 10th her top masts are to be seen above water. The crew are supposed to be all drowned – only one drowned Captain."
For a time, slim hope was held that Amos Tripp, the only missing member of the crew, managed to survive. Based on statements of fishermen who were in the vicinity at the time of the sinking, and saw the vessel, "think the bare possibility that the Captain may have got to one of the islands." A careful though unsuccessful search for the missing captain was conducted. It was not until September 16th, that the body of Captain Amos Tripp was discovered on the west shore of the island by George Currie.
On September 25th in his personal diary Currie wrote:
"went to west side of island to-day, found the body of Captain Tripp who was drowned on the 10th inst. – sewed him up in Canvas and buried him, the topmasts are still to be seen above the water. . ."
Two weeks after the remains of Captain Tripp were discovered, George Currie returned the body to his family aboard the steamer Jane Miller for internment.
Whatever transpired the night of September 10th 1881, and the exact resting place of the schooner Regina remains a mystery.
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Analysis by the EITI
Feasibility study: Systematic disclosures of EITI data in Mongolia
The EITI International Secretariat has performed the following assessment of routine online disclosures in Mongolia's extractive sector to examine the country's readiness to mainstream EITI implementation. The assessment follows the Terms of Reference for a mainstreaming feasibility study and reviews the extent to which there is:
(1) routine disclosure of the data required by the EITI Standard in requisite detail, and
(2) whether the financial data is subject to credible, independent audit, applying international standards.
It is important to emphasize that this study is not a comprehensive assessment of all publicly available information about the sector in Mongolia. Rather, the goal has been to identify any potential gaps that need to be addressed in order to ensure fully mainstreamed disclosures of the data that is required to be disclosed in accordance with the EITI Standard.
The key finding is that most of the information required by the 2016 EITI Standard is routinely disclosed. Most of the "contextual information" is accessible via various government portals – specifically, those of Mineral Resources Authority of Mongolia (MRPAM), the Ministry of Finance, the Glass Accounts, National Statistics Office, Bank of Mongolia, Mongolian Stock Exchange, the EITI Mongolia (EITIM) Data Portal – and select company websites. There have been swift gains in revenue transparency, with daily updated and reliable information available for all transactions to and from the Central Treasury, disaggregated by company, budget level (regional or local) and revenue stream. For transition to mainstreaming, the National Council is recommended to follow the following phases:
(1) Review and revise the scope of reconciliation, with the aim to reduce the number of companies and revenue streams. Upon this revision, EITIM may wish to publish a short reconciliation report for fiscal year 2017 by 31 December 2018. The report would only cover the scope as defined in Recommendation #1, and be limited to focusing on revenue reconciliation; covering all applicable financial requirements of the EITI Standard. The reports should be prepared by an Independent Administrator and follow the relevant procedures as per Requirement 4.9. The National Council may wish to include in the Independent Administrator's ToRs an assessment of any deviations between company and government disclosures compiled as part of EITI reporting and other publicly-available company and government data.
(2) The National Council should ensure that contextual information of the extractives sector is accessible on, or referenced by, the EITIM Data Portal. This should involve the closer coordination of government open data policy, aligning implementation of government OGP and EITI objectives. Regardless of the channel of online dissemination, the government should ensure that its efforts are properly recognised through coordination under the EITI Standard.
(3) Transition from reliance on an Independent Administrator to full EITI reporting through the eReporting system, once robust quality assurance procedures have been implemented to ensure the reliability of data submitted through eReporting. In the interim, the National Council may wish to continue using an Independent Administrator for a limited reconciliation. The Independent Administrator's ToRs should be revised to ensure an assessment of discrepancies between company and government data reported through EITI and other publicly-available company and government payment and revenue data.
(4) The EITIM National Council should integrate the EITIM Data Portal into government systems by transferring responsibility for its maintenance to the Ministry of Mines and Heavy Industry, the entity statutorily responsible for collecting extractives companies' payments data in line with the Minerals Law. Several recommendations must be addressed for full mainstreaming of the EITI Standard to occur.
Additional recommendations and considerations are provided below in this report.
Section 2 provides a background to EITI implementation to date. Section 3 presents the main findings with regards to data availability, comprehensiveness and reliability, including recommendations to be addressed. Annex A provides a detailed list of findings, per EITI Requirement. Annex B provides a proposed timeline for implementing activities. Annex C includes tables justifying the revision of materiality threshold.
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Arrangement of the Records
Records, 1970-1993,
Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners:
An Inventory of Records at the Texas State Archives, 1970-1993
Creator: Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.
Title: Records
Abstract: Types of records of the Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, opinions, audiotapes, copies of legislative bills, newsclippings, and press releases. Records range in date from 1970 to 1993. Correspondence is largely with Board and Committee members, the Governor, the Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys General, State Representatives and Senators, and the Sunset Commission. Topics include licensing of physical therapists; whether or not to combine the Physical Therapy Examiners Board, the Advisory Board of the Occupational Therapists, and the Advisory Committee of the Athletic Trainers under one administrative agency; budgetary concerns of the Board; the administration of licensure examinations; license renewal; hearings; and investigations following complaints filed against Physical Therapists.
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Sponsor: This EAD finding aid was created in part with funds provided by the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board for the Texas Archival Resources Online project.
The Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners was established by the 62nd Legislature during regular session through Senate Bill 344 in 1971. This board is obligated to enforce the Texas Physical Therapy Practice Act (TPTPA) which was enacted to protect the citizens of Texas from unqualified persons practicing physical therapy. The board is responsible for examining and licensing only those physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who meet the standards set forth in the Act. The board conducts investigations of all charges and complaints involving possible illegal practices or alleged violations of the TPTPA. It has the power to revoke or suspend licenses and to reprimand or place on probation a licensee for violation of the TPTPA or of rules adopted by the board.
The policymaking body of the agency is a nine-member board, appointed by the governor with the concurrence of the Senate for overlapping six-year terms. Six members must be licensed physical therapists and three members, subject to certain restrictions, must be members of the general public. Various committees within the board are appointed and disbanded by the chairperson according to need.
Types of records of the Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, opinions, audiotapes, copies of legislative bills, newsclippings, and press releases. Records range in date from 1970 to 1993. Correspondence is largely with Board and Committee members, the Governor, the Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys General, State Representatives and Senators, and the Sunset Commission. Topics include licensing of physical therapists; whether or not to combine the Physical Therapy Examiners Board, the Advisory Board of the Occupational Therapists, and the Advisory Committee of the Athletic Trainers under one administrative agency; budgetary concerns of the Board; the administration of licensure examinations; license renewal; hearings; and investigations following complaints filed against Physical Therapists.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
These records are arranged in order as received. Some of the records appear to be arranged in roughly reverse chronological order.
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Physical therapists--Licenses--Texas.
Physical therapists--Texas.
Physical therapy--Law and legislation--Texas.
Correspondence--Texas--Physical therapists--1970-1993.
Memorandums--Texas--Physical therapists--1970-1993.
Minutes--Texas--Physical therapists--1970-1993.
Reports--Texas--Physical therapists--1970-1993.
Audio tapes--Texas--Physical therapists--1970-1993.
Bills (legislative records)--Texas--Physical therapists--1970-1993.
Press releases--Texas--Physical therapists--1970-1993.
Licensing physical therapists.
The following materials are offered as possible sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by the records. The listing is not exhaustive.
Texas State Archives
Texas Executive Council of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Examiners, Organization chart, 1995, fractional.
Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners, Records, 1971-1986, 3 cubic ft.
Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners, Minutes, October 1971-October 2001, 2.59 cubic ft. [There is no finding aid for these unprocessed records. Call numbers are 1998/166-1 through 3.]
Texas Executive Council of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Examiners, Minutes, November 1993-May 2001, 0.12 cubic ft. [There is no finding aid for these unprocessed records. Call number is 1998/165.]
Texas Secretary of State, Statutory Filings Division, Statutory Documents Section, Rosters of Physical Therapists, 1972-1995, 3.58 cubic ft.
(Identify the item), Records, Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession Information
Accession number: 1995/162
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Executive Council of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Examiners on August 22, 1995.
Lisa M. Hendricks, October 1995
Detailed Description of the Records
2 cubic ft.
1995/162-1 Communications with Sunset Commission Staff, 1978-1984
Sunset Commission correspondence, 1983-1989
Sunset Commission Meeting, 1984
Physical Therapy Examiners (PTE) Board responses to Sunset Commission proposed combination of Physical Therapy, Athletic Training, and Occupational Therapy, 1984
Attorney General Correspondence:
Governor's Office Correspondence, 1971-1984
Communications with Assistant Attorney General's (A.A.G.) Office, Judy Qadim'asil:
assigned to PTE Board 6/30/88 thru (Replaced Celina Romero), 1989
Communications with A.A.G.:
Celina Romero, 1987-1988
Nazario Saldana, 1986
Susan German, 1985-1986
Case files sent to Susan German Assistant Attorney General to PTE Board, 1985-1986
Pete Nolan, Attorney General Representative, 1980
Attorney General Opinions of Interest to Physical Therapy Examiners (PTE) Board, 1970-1988
Attorney General Opinions Requested by the PTE Board, 1974-1988
1995/162-2 Letters to Board Members during 65th Legislature, 1977
State Representatives Correspondence, 1974-1975
Correspondence, Senators and Representatives, HB [House Bill] 1209 and HB 1388, 1973-1975
Board Member Correspondence:
Correspondence to all Board Members:
Attorney General Approval of Proposed Rules, 1985-1992
Athletic Trainers Task Committee, 1982
Budget Committee Correspondence:
Rules Committee, 1980-1987
Ethics Committee, 1982-1984
Education Committee Correspondence:
Legislative Budget Board Correspondence, 1979-1988


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"A Tincture of Grandness in Simplicity": T. H. White, The Once and Future King
June 27, 2012 Rohan Maitzen
It comes back to the geese, in the end. I hoped it would, because of all the marvellous episodes in Wart's education (the tyrannical pike, the totalitarian ants, the philosophical badger), his time with the geese is the most sublime. It's beautifully written, for one thing, detailed and evocative, freely fanciful:
The sun, as it rose, tinged the quick-silver of the creeks and the gleaming slime itself with flame. The curlew, who had been piping their mournful plaints since long before the light, flew now from weed-bank to weed-bank. The widgeon, who had slept on water, came whistling their double notes, like whistles from a Christmas cracker. The mallard toiled from land, against the wind. The redshanks scuttled and prodded like mice. A cloud of tiny dunlin, more compact than starlings, turned in the air with the noise of a train. The black-guard of crows rose from the pine trees on the dune with merry cheers. Shore birds of every sort populated the tide line, filling it with business and beauty.
The dawn, the sea-dawn and the mastery of ordered flight, were of such intense beauty that the boy was moved to sing. He wanted to cry a chorus to life, and, since a thousand geese were on the wing about him, he had not long to wait. The lines of these creatures, wavering like smoke upon the sky as they breasted the sunrise, were all at once in music and in laughter. Each squadron of them was in different voice, some larking, some triumphant, some in sentiment or glee.
Like the lengthy excursus on the Middle Ages much later on in the book, these expeditions into natural history speak above all of the writer's joy in his subject–and what writing is more delightful, more uplifting, to read than joyful writing?
But the flight of the geese is not just natural history: it's also, like Merlyn's other lessons (like the whole novel), an embodied class in political theory. "Are we at war," asks Wart. The goose Lyo-lyok does not understand the question. "There are no boundaries among the geese," she eventually explains to him. "How can you have boundaries if you fly? Those ants of yours–and the humans too–would have to stop fighting in the end, if they took to the air." "I like fighting," replies Wart. "It is knightly." "Because you are a baby," replies Lyo-Lyok.
At the end of The Once and Future King, Wart is no longer a baby. Now he's an old, exhausted king staring in near despair on the failure of his experiment to reconcile might and right. Why do men fight, he wonders? "Suspicion and fear: possessiveness and greed: resentment for ancestral wrong: all these seemed to be a part of it":
Yet they were not the solution. He could not see the real solution. He was too old and tired and miserable to think constructively. He was only a man who had meant well, who had been spurred along that course of thinking by an eccentric necromancer with a weakness for humanity. Justice had been his last attempt–to do nothing which was not just. But it had ended in failure. To do at all had proved too difficult. He was done himself.
But he isn't quite done: there's a bit of thinking in him yet, not to mention "something invincible in his heart, a tincture of grandness in simplicity," and he uses his last bit of hope and strength to tell his story to young Tom ("his surcoat, with the Malory bearings, looking absurdly new"), and then "to think again," and what he thinks of is Lyo-lyok–and there it is, "the problem before him as plain as a map":
The fantastic thing about war was that it was fought about nothing–literally nothing. Frontiers were imaginary lines. There was no visible line between Scotland and England, although Flodden and Bannockburn had been fought about it. It was geography which was the cause, political geography. It was nothing else. . . . The imaginary lines on the earth's surface only needed to be unimagined. The airborne birds skipped them by nature. How mad the frontiers had seemed to Lyo-lyok, and would to Man if he could learn to fly.
Imagine there's no countries…it isn't hard to imagine it. But to realize it? The Once and Future King isn't that kind of fantasy. Ideas are only as good, as strong, as tenable as principles, as the people who try to live up to them, or to subvert or destroy them. And people, the novel shows over and over, are mixed, complicated, contradictory, creatures.
There's Arthur himself, for instance. He's such an ordinary fellow for a legendary hero! As the Orkneys gather to force Arthur's hand with an open accusation against Lancelot and Guenever, Gareth sees him "as he was … a plain man who had done his best–not a leader of chivalry, but the pupil who had tried to be faithful to his curious master, the magician, by thinking all the time–not Arthur of England, but a lonely old gentleman who had worn his crown for half a lifetime in the teeth of fate." Because we first meet him as Wart, we carry with us throughout the novel a sense of his childish innocence and his simple desire to do his best. "He was sadly unfitted for hating his best friend or for torturing his wife," says the narrator; "He had been given too much love and trust to be good at these things." Such innocence and simplicity should surely be strengths, but for Arthur they are weaknesses. If he were more suspicious, more wily, less scrupulously loyal and just, he would not have been there in that room, "hoist," as the vengeful Agravaine exults, "with his own petard"–"trapped by his enemies into crushing his friends," as Steve Donoghue nicely puts it, "using the very structure of law and order he worked so hard to champion." But "it seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough."
Lancelot and Guenever, too, are painfully ordinary, which is not to say that they are dull or commonplace but that they are flawed and mistaken and loving and loyal and treacherous all at the same time. If they were worse people than they are, they could have simplified the situation, as we would handle it today "when everybody is so free from superstitions and prejudice that it is only necessary for all of us to do as we please." But they have other values, and they love Arthur as well as each other. Their love (the love of all three of them for the others) is a beautiful, fragile thing, more so as they get older and become "seasoned people, who knew what they were about." Here they are late in the story, poised on the very threshold of disaster:
The room glowed into colour round the lovers, who had released each other quickly. It began to show the splendour of its hangings as the boy put fire to the wicks. The flower meads and bird-fruitful spinneys of the Arras teemed and rippled over the four walls. The door curtain lifted again, and the King was in the room.
He looked old, older than either of them. But it was the noble oldness of self-respect. Sometimes even nowadays you can meet a man of sixty or more who holds himself as straight as a rush, and whose hair is black. They were in that class. Lancelot, now that you could see him clearly, was an erect refinement of humanity–a fanatic for human responsibility. Guenever, and this might have been surprising to a person who had known her in her days of tempest, looked sweet and pretty. You could almost have protected her. But Arthur was the touching one of the three. He was so plainly dressed, so gentle and patient of his simple things. Often, when the Queen was entertaining distinguished company under the flambeaux of the Great Hall, Lancelot had found him sitting by himself in a small room, mending stockings. Now, in his homely blue gown…he paused on the threshold of the gleaming room, and smiled.
'Well, Lance. Well, Gwen.'
Such a homely greeting, from this simple man to the two people he loves most in the world. Doesn't this scene make you yearn for their safety? It's terrible watching the calamity descend on them that you know all along is coming–for inevitably, the novel is governed by dramatic irony, not just for us, who can't help but know the story already, but for Arthur too, who is warned at the outset by Merlyn. If only, if only, if only… but there's no way out for any of us: "before she was quite certain of what had happened, Guenever was laughing or weeping, unfaithful to her husband, as she had always known she would be." And the rest, after that, is as foreseen and foretold.
For such a tragic story, the telling is surprisingly lighthearted–or light, at least. I was equal parts enchanted and puzzled by the novel's tone. How can something so sad also be so funny? How can something so elevated also be so colloquial? If it's not that serious, why am I crying? In the end, though, what I came to see was that the sadness lay precisely in the lightness of it all, in the way the joyousness I already remarked–the bursting excitement about nature and creativity, about "the age of fullness, the age of wading into everything up to the neck"–is undermined so steadily by the awareness of its eventual destruction. The story would not be so sad, also, if it were kept at more of a distance from us. The novel's most ridiculous, delicious flights of fancy (the thwarted romance of the Questing Beast, for instance) are narrated in the same down-to-earth way as the most extreme moments of betrayal or grief or psychic torment ("Do you think it would be fine to be the best knight in the world? Think, then, also, how you would have to defend the title. Think of the tests, such repeated, remorseless, scandal-breathing tests, which day after day would be applied to you–until the last and certain day, when you would fail.") and so we experience them both as part of the same world of people who may transform into animals, trap unicorns, and perform miracles, but are somehow, bizarrely, wonderfully, just like us. White's casual references to Malory and Tennyson, rather than making his version seem coolly metafictional or presciently postmodern, make it seem natural, real, sincere: "Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites would have found it difficult to recognize this rather sullen and unsatisfactory child, with the ugly face," he says of Lancelot; "An observer of the present day, who knew the Arthurian legend only from Tennyson and people of that sort, would have been startled to see that the famous lovers were past their prime."
It's sad because even though it's a myth, it's also a true story, one that ought to be told in as direct and simple a way as possible so that we'll understand it. It's a sad story because it's the story of our failure, of our inability to solve King Arthur's dilemma: to build a just world in which such joy can flourish. Merlyn's lessons were based on the premise "that man was perfectible: that he was on the whole more decent than beastly." At the end of his reign, Arthur finds this "central tenet of his heart" undone, "ravaged." If anything, man is worse than beastly–Mordred's scheming, the blood feuds, the fatal seductions are all calculated and so beyond the capacity of animals. "What creature could be so low," wonders Lyo-lyok, "as to go about in bands, to murder others of its own blood?" Taught by Merlyn, Arthur had dreamed of a world in which these evils could come to an end. To read The Once and Future King is both to participate in his dream (just as he hopes young Tom will "tell everybody who would listen about this ancient idea, which both of them had once thought good") and to experience its failure. Can we, perhaps, create the future he dreams of, a day ready for his return? "The hope of making it would lie in culture," he thinks:
If people could be persuaded to read and write, not just to eat and make love, there was still a chance that they might come to reason.
That must have seemed like a pretty slim chance when the novel was first published in 1939. It still seems like something only a dreamer would imagine.
In his fine review of this handsome Penguin re-issue, Steve Donoghue writes, "The novel ends in a crescendo of loss and disillusion, and yet it's all so brilliantly cathartic that no reader will be anything but happy they encountered this book." I couldn't agree more–and I can't thank him enough for sending me his copy.
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4 thoughts on ""A Tincture of Grandness in Simplicity": T. H. White, The Once and Future King"
Alex June 28, 2012 / 4:37 pm
It's many years since I read this and a reissue sounds like a very good reason for going back to it. I did however see a stage version of the Mallory last year in which emphasis was put on the parallels between the world about which Mallory was writing and that in which he was living. It's interesting, I think, that whenever this story is told both teller and audience feels compelled to explore it in respect of their own existence.
Rohan June 28, 2012 / 8:41 pm
That is interesting, Alex; it's a funny way of showing timelessness, perhaps, that something is always somehow timely. Thanks for your comment, not least because it put me through to your blog, which I can tell I will enjoy following.
Pykk July 11, 2012 / 6:18 pm
I read this when I saw you recommending it, and liked it a lot, especially that tone: "How can something so elevated also be so colloquial? " I wondered, while I was reading, if this was how White the Teacher sounded when he spoke to his class, since it seems to be the tone a teacher might use; a teacher might explain his ideas through the medium of sportsmen to keep the students comprehending ("the batsman Hobbs"), and wake them up sometimes with a joke — Merlin dressed for a twentieth-century holiday — and he knows that everyone in the group has enjoyed roughly the same curriculum; he can refer casually to Polonius or King James and assume that everyone in the group will understand. "I trust you," he says by implication, "we know the same people."
Rohan Maitzen July 13, 2012 / 4:37 pm
What a great connection to make, Pykk. Mind you, his implicit curriculum is way broader than I at least have enjoyed! But you're exactly right that there's a kind of comfortable expertise and a real desire for engagement, both qualities that make for great teachers.