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Big rigs abandoned as wildfire scorches California freeway
Author: Noah Berger, Paul Elias, The Associated Press
A crane lifts a truck scorched by the Delta Fire on Interstate 5 in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The highway remains closed to traffic in both directions as crews battle the blaze. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. — Truckers abandoned big-rigs and motorists screamed in fear as they came dangerously close to an explosive wildfire that shut down about 45 miles of a major California interstate near the Oregon border that authorities were desperately trying to reopen.
In a video, a passenger in a vehicle screams: "Oh my God, I want to go!" as nearby trees burst into flames.
"I can't breathe," the woman says, sobbing. "Please, guys, come put it out."
The fire erupted Wednesday afternoon in a rural area and devoured timber and brush on both sides of Interstate 5 as it nearly tripled in size overnight, officials said Thursday.
Elsewhere in the state, a fire raging in the Sierra Nevada had grown to more than 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) after shutting down stretches of U.S. 395, State Route 108 and the Pacific Crest Trail along the eastern spine of California.
The Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, campgrounds and other areas were evacuated Wednesday. Ranchers were told to prepare to move livestock out of the area in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
The two fires Thursday were raging just weeks after a blaze in the Redding area killed eight people and burned some 1,100 homes in a frightening start to the fire season.
California's insurance commissioner said Thursday that victims of that fire and one in the Mendocino area — the two largest blazes in the state so far this year — have filed more than 10,000 claims so far totaling $845 million.
Bruce Palmer prepares to tow a truck scorched by the Delta Fire on Interstate 5 in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., near Shasta Lake on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The highway remains closed to traffic in both directions as crews battle the blaze. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
California Capt. Mark Loveless examines a truck scorched by the Delta Fire burning along Interstate 5 in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The highway remains closed to traffic in both directions as crews battle the blaze. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
The two fires destroyed or damaged a combined 8,800 homes and 329 businesses.
"The worst may be yet to come," Commissioner David Jones warned at a San Francisco news conference, noting that California wildfires are typically more destructive after Sept. 1.
The blaze Thursday along Interstate 5 has blackened 23 square miles (60 square kilometers), prompting mandatory evacuations. It was moving rapidly but was still far from any large towns.
Officials from a number of agencies were meeting Thursday to determine if they can reopen the highway, a key route for commercial trucks, California Highway Patrol Officer Jason Morton said.
The highway runs north from the Mexico border through California, Oregon and Washington state to the border with Canada.
The scattered homes and cabins in and around Shasta-Trinity National Forest were under evacuation orders, from the community of Lakehead north to the Siskiyou County line, said Chris Losi, a spokesman for the forest.
"It isn't a lot of people," he said.
The blaze was human-caused, officials said, without indicating whether it was arson or an accident.
About 17 big-rigs were abandoned along the interstate and at least four caught fire, Lt. Cmdr. Kyle Foster of the California Highway Patrol's Mount Shasta office told the Los Angeles Times. At least two trucks were partially melted.
A scorched logging truck rests on Interstate 5 as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., near Shasta Lake on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Parked trucks lined more than two miles of the highway as both directions remained closed to traffic. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Fire trucks pass the Delta Fire burning in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Parked trucks lined more than two miles of Interstate 5 as both directions remained closed to traffic. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
U.S. Forest Service workers helped the driver of one flaming truck to safety. Truckers, firefighters and others aided more drivers.
"There's vehicles scattered all over," Brandon Vaccaro of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection told the Redding Record Searchlight. "Whatever occurred here was probably pretty ugly for a while."
About 45 miles (72 kilometers) of I-5 were closed in both directions, Losi said. The blaze also delayed Amtrak's Coast Starlight train service between Sacramento and Oregon.
The city of Dunsmuir, with about 1,500 residents, was about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the flames. Residents were urged to be prepared to leave if the fire threatened.
A firefighter sprays the smoldering remains of a vehicle on Interstate 5 as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Parked trucks lined more than two miles of the highway as both directions remained closed to traffic. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Elias reported from San Francisco.


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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: An applicant must submit a signed Dental Assisting Program Essential Functions Release. A form will be provided.
IMMUNIZATION RECORD; (Form is provided.) Complete the form and attach copies of actual records or obtain healthcare provider's signature on the form. The influenza vaccine is seasonal and is not required for admission to the Dental Assisting Program.
JOB SHADOWING: IMPORTANT: An applicant is required to meet with the Program Director BEFORE proceeding with the job shadowing activity. An applicant must provide proof of sixteen (16) hours observation (job shadowing) in a dental office. A form will be provided. Applicants who have dental assisting work experience need only supply written verification of employment.
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A student may take General Education courses and business courses for the AAS degree prior to admission into the Dental Assisting Program or enrollment in DENT courses.
A student enrolled in the Dental Assisting Program will incur expenses for textbooks, student-in-practicum insurance, CPR certification, immunizations, clinic clothing, shoes, safety glasses, and certification examination fees. A detailed list will be provided.
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Placement – Selection of an office for clinical experience is made by the clinical coordinator according to program guidelines. Formal legal agreements are made between the college and the dental office.
Availability - Sites for clinical experience are limited. If demand is greater than availability, students will be assigned to available positions based on date of admission to program.
Attendance – Students must be on duty in assigned dental offices during all open office hours. Wear clean, white shoes. Hair must be clean, neatly combed, and styled off the collar away from the face. Wear only moderate makeup and limit jewelry to a watch and small earrings. No rings should be worn. Teeth and mouth must fresh. Breath mints are acceptable but DO NOT CHEW GUM! Avoid heavy perfumes.
Eye Protection – A student must provide his/her own OSHA-approved safety glasses or goggles and they MUST be worn at all times when working in the treatment rooms and laboratory of a dental office. Immunizations – All immunizations must be current. (See Admission Requirements).
Confidentiality – Students must hold in strictest confidence all things seen or heard in the dental office pertaining to the dentist, the patients, or the staff members. This means that NO information is discussed outside the office. Failure to respect confidentiality laws could result in embarrassment or a lawsuit. Respecting the privacy of others will also safeguard the student's professional reputation.
CPR Certification – Students must present a current CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) card prior to the Program Director prior to clinical placement.
Conduct in the Office – Students will observe office policies and customs regarding snacks, phone calls, etc. Smoking or use of other tobacco products in or on office premises is forbidden for dental assisting students on a clinical assignment, regardless of office policies. When in doubt about anything, it is best to refrain.
Childcare – Students with childcare responsibilities must arrange for reliable daycare and backup daycare.
General Education Classes – It is the student's responsibility, when necessary, to make arrangements with General Education instructors to be excused from their classes.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that health care workers, including dental assistants, be immunized against hepatitis B. Immunization is acquired through a series of three (3) injections over a period of seven (7) months. Student must provide a signed Immunization Record as part of the program admission process.
Dental assisting students are required to dress in the program-designated clinic uniform at all times when working in the treatment rooms, laboratory, darkroom, and sterilization center areas of the dental assisting educational facility and on clinical externship assignments.
Dental assisting students shall display no more than one earring per earlobe when in uniform.
No other pierced jewelry or body art shall be visible.
All Health Sciences students who are involved with patient care (including clinical experience) are required to carry student in practicum insurance purchased through the college. The cost is $12 per year and is assessed with tuition.
If unable to attend, the student must notify the instructor prior to the regularly scheduled class time.
Final course grades may be reduced by up to 10 points for deficiencies in attendance.
Behavior All students will be held to the standards of behavior set forth in the current CCC Student Handbook.
Academic All students will be held to the Standards of Progress in the online CCC College Catalog.
There will be no retakes for grading purposes. If an evaluation grade is below 75 percent, the student is required to retake the evaluation to demonstrate that the information has been learned.
The retake must be completed within one week, but not on the day the test is returned.
The student is responsible for scheduling the retake with the instructor.
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Adhere to standards of confidentiality of patient information.
Make ethical choices regarding clinical and personal conduct.
Assist a dentist during treatment procedures by maintaining the operating field, transferring instruments, and preparing dental materials.
Provide pre-operative and post-operative patient care and instruction.
Produce diagnostic dental radiographic images.
Apply current infection control techniques to prevent cross-contamination.
Perform laboratory and business office supportive functions.
Produce diagnostic models, working models, whitening trays, athletic mouth guards, and custom impression trays.
Observe lab safety and infection control requirements.
Communicate effectively using oral and written communication.
Market and promote a dental practice in a professional and positive manner.
Schedule patient appointments to maximize productivity of the dental team.
Manage accounts receivable and payable.
File third party payment claims.
Maintain organization and confidentiality of patient records.
Comply with local, state, and federal regulations governing the practice of dentistry and dental assisting.
Practice advanced skills required for management of the dental business office.
Perform basic business office functions.
Maintain complete and accurate financial record for a dental practice.
Understand basic business management theory.
Use computers to perform business office tasks.
Final course grades may be reduced by up to 10 points for deficiencies in attendance, professional appearance, class participation, and conduct.
All general education, business and dental assisting courses must be completed with a grade of "C" or better to meet graduation requirements.
Health sciences students are allowed access to patient health information as part of a required externship/practicum. This is permitted as "use or disclosure of protected health information (PHI)" for health care operations. Section 164.601 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act defines "health care operations" in a manner that includes the education/training of health care providers and professionals. Students must participate in required training activities (program and clinical site) and must adhere to all privacy policies and procedures.
Each individual involved in the practice of dentistry assumes the obligation to maintain and enrich the profession.
Each member may choose to meet this obligation according to the dictate of personal conscience based on the needs of the human beings the profession of dentistry is committed to serve. The spirit of the Golden Rule is the basic guiding principle of this concept.
The member must strive to maintain confidentiality and to exhibit respect for the dentist/employer.
The member shall refrain from performing any professional service that is prohibited by state law and has the obligation to prove competence prior to providing services to any patient.
The member shall constantly strive to upgrade and expand technical skills for the benefit of the employer and the consumer public.
The member should additionally seek to sustain and improve the local organization, state association, and the American Dental Assistant Association by active participation and personal commitment.
The dental assisting curriculum at Central Community College is State Board of Dentistry-approved and upon completion of your program you will receive certificates of your qualifications in radiography and coronal polishing. Beginning January 2018, an optional credentialing opportunity will be available to dental assistants in Nebraska. This credential is: Licensed Dental Assistant.
National Certification: The Dental Assisting National Board, Inc. (DANB) grants certification and permission to use the title "Certified Dental Assistant" (CDA) after successful completion of the certification examination. Certification is a voluntary national credential that is recognized in all 50 states. Annual renewal requires completing twelve clock hours of approved continuing education. Separate examinations are available in three specialty areas: Certified Orthodontic Assistant (COA), Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Assistant (COMSA), and Certified Dental Practice Management Assistant (CDPMA). Additional information regarding certification will be provided in dental assisting classes.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is required for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors. PPE policies are for the protection of the individual. It is critical to your safety that proper PPE is used. Failure to do so is a serious violation of approved College safety practices.
Safety glasses with side shields are required at all times when working on a patient by both instructors and students.
Each student is required to purchase approved safety glasses.
Prescription glasses are typically not safety glasses.
Prescription glasses with side shields or protective eyewear worn over prescription glasses are required.
The college will provide eye wash stations.
Each student is required to wear gloves as specified by the instructor. Non-latex (nitrile) gloves are used to avoid allergy concerns.
Gloves are used to protect both the student and patient.
If any rips or tears occur, wash hands immediately with soap and warm water and put on a new pair of gloves.
A new pair of gloves will be used for each patient.
The outside of the protective gloves will be treated as a contaminated area.
Never put hands close to mouth, nose, or eyes while wearing protective gloves.
Always remove gloves and wash hands before going on a break, smoking, or eating.
Contaminated gloves will be disposed with regular trash.
No specific foot protection is required. However, the student should purchase a sturdy shoe designed for long periods of standing in a style that covers and protects the entire foot.
Hearing Protection Required: NA No type of hearing protection is required as a standard in this program. Instructors will always be aware of any situations that might occur requiring hearing protection.
Each student is required to wear a proper facemask as specified by the instructor. A facemask is required to protect the student from aerosol spatter.
You must provide proof of completion of at least the first two stages of hepatitis B immunization prior to beginning clinical experience. Other immunizations, including tetanus, must be current.
Each student is required to pay for the vaccination series.
Each student is required to purchase and wear clinic clothing as specified by the instructor.
Each student is responsible for laundering his/her clinic clothing according to program policies.
Respiratory Protection Required: NA No type of respiratory protection is required as a standard in this program. Instructors will always be aware of any situations that might occur requiring respiratory protection.
Do not lean on or against equipment.
Avoid horseplay in the work area at all times.
Each student is responsible for laundering his/her lab coat according to program policies.
Any exposure to blood or other body fluids should be reported immediately to an instructor.
Proper procedures and safety precautions are always required to prevent a laceration from an instrument or other "sharps" object.
Do not use any equipment unless properly trained and have been authorized by an instructor.
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A facemask and eye protection are required to protect the student from aerosol spatter.
Comfortable shoes that protect the top of the foot must be worn.
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Aisles should be kept clear at all times to avoid tripping or other hazards.
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Vallejo City Council to get update on status of $10M VPOA lawsuit
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The lawsuit from former Lt. Michael Nichelini alleges he was subjected to harassment, retaliation and intimidation by top-ranking Vallejo city officials.
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Vallejo police union president Michael Nichelini sued the city and was later fired. Photo: Vallejo Police Department.
VALLEJO – The Vallejo City Council is scheduled to receive an update on the status of a $10 million lawsuit filed by the police union president during a special closed session on Tuesday.
The lawsuit from former Lt. Michael Nichelini alleges he was subjected to harassment, retaliation and intimidation by top-ranking Vallejo city officials, including Police Chief Shawny Williams. It hasn't progressed over the last six months as the last recorded action in the case included both sides agreeing to pick a neutral mediator, according to court records.
Nichelini originally filed the lawsuit seeking $7.5 million in damages in early March 2021. He then amended his complaint weeks later after he was fired following several internal investigations. Nichelini still serves as president of the Vallejo Police Officers' Association and is now seeking $10 million and his job back.
The lawsuit names former City Manager Greg Nyhoff, former interim City Manager Anne Cardwell, Williams, former Mayor Bob Sampayan, current Mayor Robert McConnell, along with current and former city councilmembers.
Nichelini alleges that the department waged a yearlong push to smear his name and ruin his career. He was ultimately fired for writing a threatening email to a journalist and emailing union members a picture of an early 20th century badge engraved with a backwards swastika.
"Looks like 2021 will be a little bit better not having your biased and uniformed [sic] articles printed in the newspaper that only inflame the public…you have never looked for the truth in any of your writings…We will warn our Georgia colleagues of your impending arrival," Nichelini wrote to then-San Francisco Chronicle columnist Otis R. Taylor following his announcement that he was leaving to take a newspaper job in Atlanta in late 2020.
Nichelini's attorney denied that it was a threat directed at Taylor.
Nichelini is the son of Robert Nichelini, a former Vallejo chief of police who served from 1995 to 2012 and now conducts internal investigations for the Solano County Sheriff's Office. Michael Nichelini became union president in early 2020 when longtime VPOA President Det. Mat Mustard suddenly resigned from the top union position.
The Vallejo City Council is scheduled to meet during the special closed session at 4:30 p.m., April 12, inside the Vallejo City Hall Council Chambers, 555 Santa Clara St.
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What is the ENIOTS Manifesto?
ENIOTS is an acronym for:
Everything Needed Is On The Sheet: E.N.I.O.T.S
(NOTE: this is still a work in progress!)
Games which comply with the ENIOTS Framework follow these rubrics:
1. Everything a player needs to know, in order to play successfully, is on the Character Sheet s/he uses.
2. Both sides of the sheet may be used, although the reverse will be reserved for notes written during play.
3. Not all players' sheets need be identical.
4. Rules 2 & 3 do not necessarily imply, that all characters are pre-gens.
5. Players do not necessarily need to know all the rules.
6. Players do not necessarily need to know how characters are generated.
7. In a pure ENIOTS game, all the rules the GM needs, are also on one sheet.
8. The reverse of GM's sheet can contain creature lists, item or spell or skill descriptions etc.
9. Rules 7 & 8 do not necessarily imply that all of the rules of the game are written on a single page.
10. ENIOTS games are not necessarily one shots. Character progression may be possible.
What ENIOTS is, and what it is not.
The ENIOTS Framework is a set of rules or rubrics to which the designer of a role playing game adheres when creating a rules set. It is designed to aid both designers and players. If a game announces itself to be an ENIOTS game, players will know what to expect to some degree when they sit down to play.
ENIOTS is not an attempt to claim that one way of designing a game is any better or worse than another. It is not a call to make all rpgs, ENIOTS compliant.
Why would designers want to use these rubrics?
The aim of the ENIOTS Framework is to create games which do not overburden players with information, things to learn or time spent carefully calculating statistics. The idea is to make games which can start very quickly, with little explanation from the Referee. The aim is also that in an ENIOTS game, the Referee too, is free from clutter and from the need constantly to refer to tables, calculation methods and exact rulings on trivial details.
This does not imply, that ENIOTS games are of necessity, 'rules light', although many games will be. There is nothing in the the rubrics which prohibits the rule book for a game being long and detailed: As long as all rules required for both players and referee to play, fit on one page per person, the game may still be called an ENIOTS game.
Designers, writers and artists often find that having a set of guidelines to work to, can create a focus which aids creativity rather than constricting it. Hopefully, using the ENIOTS Framework will help to create rule systems which are more tightly written and less filled with clutter.
Although an ENIOTS game would seem to lend itself to one-shots, Con games or fillers, this need not necessarily be so. There is nothing in the framework which is designed to inhibit longer running games or campaigns. Gamers who become very familiar with a set of rules, become so fluent in their use that they rarely need to consult the rule book(s). The aim of the ENIOTS framework is that this state of expert use, happens quickly and easily.
Finally, there is no plan to 'vet' any games which are designed to fit the ENIOTS Framework at present. I do not propose to set myself up as a judge of the continually excellent work that gamers in this astonishing hobby create. If a designer says s/he has used the ENIOTS Framework, then that's enough for me. There will be a post which should provide links to ENIOTS games which have been made.
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The First attempt at turning Fighting Fantasy into a full rpg.
Fighting Fantasy
Before the Advanced Fighting Fantasy book was published, Steve Jackson put out a set of rules entitled Fighting Fantasy The Introductory Role-Playing Game (Puffin, 1984).
This book has all of the rules from the well known gamebooks plus extra rules for dealing with common adventuring situations (losing weapons, listening at doors, opening chests etc, things that would otherwise be handled by the text of the gamebook) as well as advice on games mastering etc. There are expanded sections on running bigger battles (ie with a party of adventurers rather than the typically solo adventurer from the gamebooks). There are also two adventures provided.
There's enough for simple dungeon bashing. But soon on it's heels came The Riddling Reaver (Puffin, 1986). This is essentially a mini campaign of four interlinked scenarios all revolving around the eponymous wicked Reaver character. However, this book also brings in extra rules which fill in the gaps from the first. There is variable weapon damage, reactions to injury, unconsciousness and death. And advice on running games in the wilderness. But what makes this book invaluable to a GM is the section on magic and spell casting. It's minimal (there are only ten or eleven spells if I remember) but it takes the claim that this is a proper rpg into the realms of credibility. Add to these two the marvellous Titan (a world source book), Out of the Pit (aka a monster manual) and you're off!
A great addition to these in my opinion is Steve Jackson's Sorcery Spell Book. This is a book written for the Advanced version but is really useful as an alternative magic system to that presented in the Riddling Reaver. The great thing about this book is that each of the spells has a proper name but also a three letter abbreviated form. This short form in intended for use by the players literally to shout out during play! What fun.
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Mertwig's Maze box art.
Mertwig's Maze by Tom Wham, TSR, 1988.
Mertwig's Maze is an interesting hybrid game. It describes itself as a *Gamefolio* essentially because there is an outer cardboard cover and stapled rules booklet (much like TSR adventure modules of the time, but it also contains hundreds of cards and sturdy cardboard counters as well as several cardboard maps. So it's a mix of boardgame and D&D adventure. All laced through with Tom Wham whimsy and great art (by Wham himself but also other TSR stalwarts such as Dave Sutherland. Although published in 1988, it was apparently first created in 1983 as a card game and sold to TSR as that. But, when Gygax and TSR 'parted ways', the game lost it's way and sat in a cupboard. The game as published was really down to James Ward taking it up and persuading TSR and Wham to nominally place it within the Forgotten Realms world and thereby making it technically (just) an AD&D product. It says so on the front cover!
How much replay value it has I shall see. But I'm not going to punch those counters and cards until I've found a good box to keep it all in!


In October 2010 when USA co-president Jeff Wachtel first talked to me about the network's plans to re-enter the reality arena, he pointed to CBS' Undercover Boss as the type of show USA was looking for. Fifteen months later, the top-rated cable network has ordered its first original unscripted series, aspirational reality series The Moment starring former NFL star Kurt Warner, which is very much in the vein of Undercover Boss as well as other second-chance reality series like ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and You Deserve It.
USA has given a nine-episode order to The Moment for a premiere in the third quarter. On the show, Warner, who didn't make it into the NFL on his first try and had to work at a grocery store until finally landing a spot on the St. Louis Rams, gives men and women a second chance at reclaiming the career dreams they put on hold when their lives took an unexpected turn. Each week, someone secretly nominated by a loved one will be given the opportunity to pursue the career they've always wanted under the guidance of a mentor. The Moment is executive produced by Justin Hochberg and Charlie Ebersol through their Hochberg Ebersol Co. "From the first moments of their pitch, we knew they were onto something that wasn't just the right creative fit for the brand, but was also a fresh take on personal and inspirational storytelling," USA Co-Presidents Chris McCumber and Wachtel said. USA has only run a handful of reality series over the past decade, including Cannonball Run in 2001, Nashville Star in 2003 and Made in the USA in 2005. Last April, USA successfully launched its first unscripted series in 5 years, a revival of WWE Tough Enough. USA is expected to pick up at least one more reality series from the pool of projects it put in development under SVP alternative programming Heather Olander, who joined USA last February, including Shed Media's The Choir and shows from Magical Elves and The Hills" creator Adam DiVello.


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It feels like I was just crowned MGAA16 yesterday when in reality it's actually been closer to 5 months! To say that I am having the time of my life would be an understatement . I am so humbled and internally grateful for all the gifts in my life, my partner Wes and all of our friends that have touched my life!
With the sweetness in life also comes the sour. In the month of August we all, as a community, lost a dear friend Gabriel Medellin. Gabe was not only a son, brother and friend but a kind and generous soul who truly touched the lives of everybody he knew. Gabriel was coordinator for the Men of Charlies in 2010, as well as a co-promoter to Miss Gay Phoenix America along with Todd Wyckoff. Gabriel always encouraged me to follow my dreams to become Miss Gay Arizona America and Miss Gay America and never give up! Thank you Gabriel for all of your love, friendship and the honor of getting to share your life with each of us! The Miss Gay Arizona America family will not be the same without Gabriel but will keep him in our hearts and memory. I, as MGAA16, hear by rename the "Promoter of the Year " award to The Gabriel Medellin Promoter of the Year Award!
Since winning the title of MGAA16 I have been very busy preparing, along with my Savvy Squad, to travel to Memphis, Tennessee to compete for the 46th annual Miss Gay America contest! There is truly a village of friends and family that have helped me and still continue to believe in me and my dreams! The time quickly came to drive the 1400 miles to go and try to capture my next dream of becoming Miss Gay America! When we arrived in Memphis after 25 hours on the road, I felt a calm come over me that I haven't felt before! I was still a little nervous of course but I was finally there as MGAA and eager to compete and show the judges why I was there! After some much needed sleep for Wes and me I was ready to compete! I was part of such an incredible team "Team Arizona " (Suzy Wong, Bianca Solei, Barbra Seville and myself ), the Savvy Squad (Wes Eichsteadt Chris Brady-Wakimoto Jeremiah Huerta Brooke Anderson Leah Stumpf Todd Wyckoff Mark Boyd Bryan Parks and many more that have helped so much! ) along with 2 of the best pageant promoters in the business Daniel Eckstrom and Nick Ray ! Thank you so much to both of you for all of your love support and friendship and for helping and welcoming me and always being there for me with whatever I have ever needed!
I am so extremely proud of my sisters on Team AZ and so proud of everything they accomplished! I felt beautiful and confident in each category wearing a new solo talent costume and beautiful gown both made by Wes Eichsteadt and Lynn of divinesyncdesigns.com My gown was beautifully beaded by former Miss Arizona USOFA Newcomer and Elements cast mate Adriana Galliano !
October 8th was the MGA Review Show! Asia Ohara, MGA 16, along with the new owners of MGA Rob Mansman and Michael Dutzer gave out preliminary awards for best interview, Solo talent, evening gown and long talent for each group of contestants. I am proud and thrilled to announce that I won talent in my group and received an award, "Asia's Favorites of 2016" for the category of talent!
Congratulations to Daniel Eckstrom for winning the Preliminary Of the Year Award and to Barbra Seville for winning the Asia's Accolades Best Interview and to Suzy Wong for winning best gown and interview in her group!
October 9th was my birthday and also final night of MGA. When all of the contestants were on stage I felt so proud not only for myself but for all of my sisters. We all share one dream and one goal and we all came and left it on the stage! As they started calling the top 10 I remembered I kept looking to my left into Barbra Seville's eyes and squeezing her hand tighter and tighter, she probably has bruises on her hand from me! Lol they were getting ready to call the last finalist into the Top 10. .. "Contestant # ... 15!" I remember just screaming and crying uncontrollably while Barbra wiped my tears and held me up as she smiled and helped me to go upfront and join the other 9 finalists!
From there I was whisked backstage where my partner and best friend Wes was there to help dress and assist me with anything I needed just as he's always done! We were also told that the top 10 was allowed to have an additional dresser so I had one of my drag daughters Olivia Gardens who is also very meticulous and looks for the fine details! After re-competing in my new beautiful purple gown and Reba talent, with my fabulous Savvy Squad dancers, I was over the moon and on cloud 9! The time had come for the top 10 to come back out so they can announce the top 5! OMG! they called me into the top 5! This was the moment when it became the clearest that I have a chance, that I could be bringing the crown and title of Miss Gay America back home to Arizona!
I am so proud of Suzy and all of her accomplishments and am so excited for her year as our reigning Symbol of Excellence Miss Gay America 2017 and for the evolution of the MGA organization! I am also so proud and overjoyed to announce that I was named 3rd Alternate to Miss Gay America 2017! Coming back home I have been surrounded by so many well wishes and Congratulations! I am deeply moved by all of the continued love and support from all of you!
Coming back home and getting back to work is so exciting with Preliminaries starting very soon. The one kicking it off will be my preliminary step-down, Miss Gay Scottsdale America! This is the newest preliminary pageant to the Miss Gay Arizona America family and successfully promoted by forever MGAAs Mya McKenzie, Tyra Marie, and Diva! Miss Gay Scottsdale America 2017 "Red & Wild " will be held December 3, 2016 at 4pm at BS WEST in Scottsdale Arizona!
The winner and 1st Alternate to this pageant will be qualified to compete for Miss Gay Arizona America 2017 which will be held June 25th 2017 at the beautiful Tempe Center for the Arts!
I wanted to start my first newsletter as a reflection of my first month being Miss Gay Arizona America (MGAA). The night of June 26th has forever changed my life. I have finally become a part of the elite sisterhood that I fell in love with 16 years ago.
Since being crowned MGAA, the amount of love, respect, and support that I have been shown is overwhelming. It is a constant reminder of why we do pageants... Through stress, heartache, and victory the community is always by my side.
I have been given so many new opportunities including joining the cast of Elements at BsWest on Friday nights and monthly engagements with Janee Starr in Tucson. I am looking forward to taking these opportunities to meet new people, make new friends, and educate a whole new audience on the Miss Gay America System and what it means to be a symbol of excellence!
It really sunk in for me that I am the reigning Miss Gay Arizona while doing my official photoshoot with Scotty Kirby. It was so much more than a normal shoot! It was something I had spent the last 5 years working toward. I am looking forward to releasing the photos throughout my reign, and I hope they are as special to you as they are to me.
Each month of my reign, I have made a commitment to donate all tips that I recieve during crown songs to local organizations of my choosing. For the month of July, I decided to donate to TIHAN (Tucson Interfaith HIV & Aids Network). They are an incredible organization that offers compassionate and non-judgemental services to those affected with HIV & AIDS through education and support. I encourage anyone interested in volunteering or learning more about the organization to visit them at www.tihan.org or 520-299-6647. I am proud to announce that with all of your generosity, a total of $455.00 will be presented to TIHAN.
With Aids Walk Arizona quickly approaching, I will be joining Barbra Seville's Wonderful 100 and for the month of August, all crown song tips will be donated to Aunt Rita's Foundation; a non profit organization that raises funds for 16 local HIV/AIDS organizations. For more information about Aids Walk Arizona and Aunt Rita's foundation please visit www.auntritas.org or 602-904-6001.
I am looking forward to August and another month being able to say that I am your Miss Gay Arizona America 2016. Thank you all for believing in me!


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While I got the book Destination Work, published in India by Westland in 2010, by Harry Paul & Ross Reck few weeks back, I learnt Harry Paul has written another book titled Fish earlier and that book was there in my wishlist as well as in my reading list, however I had not read it fully. So I thought before Destination Work, I should finish Fish and then go to destination work, so I took Fish and finished it in two long sittings. My review of this book is here.
The book starts with its dedication to millions of workers who relish the thought of having a more playfully productive atmosphere at work and a foreword by none other than Ken Blanchard (of The One Minute Manager fame). It is a story of an organization called First Guarantee Financial situated at Seattle. Mary Jane loses her husband (Dan) who was working in another organization, she has two children, a son and a daughter, the workplace which has been termed as The Toxic Energy Dump (TTED) situated at the Third Floor. There is an indication that if they do not improve their work, they might lose their work to an outsider agency. The security of the people working there is at stake and they are just carrying on the activities without any motivation and with no mindset to take initiative to change the working pattern, system and methods. Mary has started getting frustrated ("Does my staff know that the security they cherish might be just an illusion? Do they realize the extent to which market forces are reshaping this industry? Do they understand that we will all need to change in order for this company to compete in a rapidly consolidating financial services market? Are they aware that if we do'nt change we will eventually find ourselves looking for other employment?"p 23) till one day when she visits the world famous Pike Place Fish market (PPFM), where she learns the basic lessons of dealing with people and processes and it boosts her morale to take initiative and to introduce her colleagues and subordinates to a totally new work environment. She maintains a journal where she keeps jotting down her thinking and learning which gets consolidated at the end of the book apart from its mention in pieces here and there.
She is convinced about the view that everyone in the organization has to put extra effort in order to impress leadership about their competence, however the energy level and the morale of the employees in the department is touching all time low. Her boss has termed the department as TTED and when she communicates this to others, they feel further demotivated and they have lost all enthusiasm to perform better and are planning for a better place to work elsewhere.
One day Mary visits the work famous PPFM, which changes all her opinions, views and thinking which motivates her to transform the third floor and to convert TTED into a great work place where everybody enjoys working. She is able to find a huge set of energy, enthusiasm, involvement and engagement at the fish market where the shopkeepers are adding lot of fun to there work and enjoying every bit of what they are doing. These reflections drives her to the fish market many times and one day she gets successful in bringing all her team members to this market amidst individuals who, much against their will, are visiting the market. At the end she succeeds in using her learning at the fish market at the third floor which transforms everybody there and the workplace becomes a great sharing space for everybody.
Find a message that communicates the notion of choosing your attitude in a way that everyone will understand and personalize.
I suggest this book for each one of them who get disheartened at the workplace by looking at the highly demotivated workforce, for each one of them who think small things do not matter in big organizations, for each one of them who believes that the thought of positivity throws away all negativities, for each one of them who has strong faith and belief in oneself. I know I made a better choice by reading Fish before Destination work on which I jump now.
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Volume 45 | Number 07 | September 2012
SIAM Honors Excellence and Innovation at 2012 Prize Luncheon
The following recipients of SIAM awards and prizes were recognized in Minneapolis on July 10, during the 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting:
I.E. Block Community Lecture. Robert Bridson, University of British Columbia, Canada; the lecture was titled "Creating Reality: The Mathematics Behind Visual Effects."
AWM–SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture. Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Ohio State University, with a lecture titled "The Role of Characteristics in Conservation Laws."
Richard C. DiPrima Prize. Thomas A. Goldstein, Stanford University, for his dissertation "Algorithms and Applications for L1 Minimization."
George Pölya Prize. Vojtěch Rödl, Emory University, and Mathias Schacht, University of Hamburg, Germany.
W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics. Ruth F. Curtain, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, who gave a lecture titled "Large Algebraic Properties of Riccati Equations."
SIAG/FME Junior Scientist Prize. Sergey Nadtochiy, University of Oxford, UK, who gave a lecture titled "Market-Based Approach to Modeling Derivatives Prices."
SIAM Awards in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling
2011 Problem A, The Continuous Problem: "Snowboard Course"
Solution: "A Half-Blood/Half-Pipe: A Perfect Performance"
Students: Enhao Gong, Rongsha Li, and Xiaoyun Wang
Faculty Adviser: Jimin Zhang, Tsinghua University, PRC
2011 Problem B, The Discrete Problem: "Repeater Coordination"
Solution: "Clustering in a Network"
Students: Daniel Furlong, Dylan Marriner, and Louis Ryan
Faculty Adviser: Susan Martonosi, Harvey Mudd College
2012 Problem A, The Continuous Problem: "The Leaves of a Tree"
Solution: "The Secrets of Leaves"
Students: Cheng Fu, Hangqi Zhao, and Danting Zhu
Faculty Adviser: Zhiyi Tan, Zhejiang University, PRC
2012 Problem B, The Discrete Problem: "Camping Along the Big Long River"
Solution: "C.A.R.S: Cellular Automaton Rafting Simulation"
Students: James Jones, Suraj Kannan, and Joshua Mitchell
Faculty Adviser: Changbing Hu, University of Louisville
Student Paper Prizes
2011 Recipients:
Necdet Serhat Aybat, Pennsylvania State University; PhD in 2011, Columbia University; for "Unified Approach for Minimizing Composite Norms." (Co-Author: Garud N. Iyengar, Columbia University)
Sungwoo Park, Knight Capital Group; PhD in 2011, University of Maryland, College Park; for "Portfolio Selection Using Tikhonov Filtering to Estimate the Covariance Matrix." (Co-Author: Dianne P. O'Leary, University of Maryland, College Park)
Xiangxiong Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PhD in 2011, Brown University; for "On Maximum-Principle-Satisfying High Order Schemes for Scalar Conservation Laws." (Co-Author: Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University)
Brittany D. Froese, Simon Fraser University, Canada, for "Convergent Finite Difference Solvers for Viscosity Solutions of the Elliptic Monge–Ampère Equation in Dimensions Two and Higher." (Co-Author: Adam Oberman)
Stefanie Hollborn, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, for "Reconstructions from Backscatter Data in Electric Impedance Tomography."
Marina Moraiti, University of Pittsburgh, for "On the Quasistatic Approximation in the Stokes–Darcy Model of Groundwater–Surface Water Flows."
Outstanding Paper Prizes
Nir Ailon, Technion, Israel, and Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University, for "The Fast Johnson–Lindenstrauss Transform and Approximate Nearest Neighbors," SIAM Journal on Computing, Volume 39, Issue 1 (2009), 302–322.
Matthew D. Finn, University of Adelaide, Australia, and Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, for "Topological Optimization of Rod-Stirring Devices," SIAM Review, Volume 53, Issue 4 (2011), Expository Research Papers section, 723–743.
Bart Vandereycken, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Stefan Vandewalle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, for "A Riemannian Optimization Approach for Computing Low-Rank Solutions of Lyapunov Equations," SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 31, Issue 5 (2010), 2553–2579.
SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession
Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Ohio State University.
The John von Neumann Lecture
Sir John Ball, University of Oxford, UK, gave the 2012 lecture, "Liquid Crystals for Mathematicians."
2011 SIGEST Authors
Each issue of SIAM Review's SIGEST section features the slightly modified version of a paper originally published in one of SIAM's research journals. SIGEST papers are judged to be of exceptional quality and of potential significance to the entire SIAM community.
Margaret Beck and C. Eugene Wayne, Boston University, "Using Global Invariant Manifolds to Understand Metastability in the Burgers Equation with Small Viscosity," SIAM Review, Volume 53, Issue 1 (2011), 129–153; published originally in SIADS.
Stephen A. Gourley, University of Surrey, UK, and Xingfu Zou, University of Western Ontario, Canada, "A Mathematical Model for the Control and Eradication of a Wood Boring Beetle Infestation," SIAM Review, Volume 53, Issue 2 (2011), 321–345; published originally in SIAP.
Anna Pagh, Rasmus Pagh, and Milan Ružić, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, "Linear Probing with 5-wise Independence," SIAM Review, Volume 53, Issue 3 (2011), 547–558; published originally in SICOMP.
Alex Olshevsky, Princeton University, and John N. Tsitsiklis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Convergence Speed in Distributed Consensus and Averaging," SIAM Review, Volume 53, Issue 4 (2011), 747–772; published originally in SICON.
SIAM Fellows, Class of 2012
Tamer Başar, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Michele Benzi, Emory University
Anthony M. Bloch, University of Michigan
Pavel B. Bochev, Sandia National Laboratories
Richard A. Brualdi, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Emeritus
Gui-Qiang G. Chen, University of Oxford
G. Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
Richard S. Falk, Rutgers University
Lisa J. Fauci, Tulane University
David R. Ferguson, Applied Mathematical Analysis and The Boeing Company, Retired
M. Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan Friedlander, University of Southern California
Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas at Austin
Walter Gautschi, Purdue University, Retired
Donald Goldfarb, Columbia University
Sven Hammarling, Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd, Semiretired, and University of Manchester
Pavol Hell, Simon Fraser University
Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories
Kirk E. Jordan, IBM Corporation
Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley
James P. Keener, University of Utah
Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University
Philip Kumar Maini, University of Oxford
Geoffrey B. McFadden, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Edward Ott, University of Maryland, College Park
Tamar Schlick, New York University
David B. Shmoys, Cornell University
Mary Silber, Northwestern University
Barry F. Smith, Argonne National Laboratory
Tao Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Edriss S. Titi, Weizmann Institute of Science and University of California, Irvine
Robert J. Vanderbei, Princeton University
Richard S. Varga, Kent State University, Emeritus
Jan C. Willems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Thaleia Zariphopoulou, University of Oxford and University of Texas at Austin.


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Ashes of the Earth
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The essential drama of this pre-Revolutionary War stage was not about colonists inventing a bold new form of government, it was about countless journeys of self-discovery at all levels of society, about a slow and painful process during which colonists began to realize that they had evolved into something other than their European forebears. Before any patriot picked up a musket, before men and women were even called patriots, they had to discover what it meant to be American. Their tools of discovery were writing quills, ink and paper.
It was the magic of these years before the Revolution that first led me to write historical novels. The 18th century transformation that turned disparate, distant populations into unified freedom fighters was, and still is, unprecedented in human experience. We too often overlook the remarkable drama that began with tentative, uncertain efforts at collective consciousness raising and ended with a million colonists cheering their new American identity. These colonists were the orphans and outcasts of Europe who, in modern parlance, had suffered profound separation trauma when first landing on these shores, bent and battered by the religious, political and economic persecution that drove them to a strange, distant land. By hardscrabble experience they learned to stand straight and find a new, self-reliant existence. What was the catalyst that turned so many broken men and women of vastly different backgrounds into zealous rebels speaking with one voice? Was it their intense exposure to the wild freedom of nature, unlike anything experienced in Europe? Was it the confidence they built in fending for themselves, far from the help or influence of government? Was it a natural maturing of the very ideas many had been persecuted for in Europe? I am convinced it was all of these elements, in varying measure from person to person and colony to colony, and the foundation of our country, reduced to simplest and earliest terms, lay in the grassroots campaigns that grew out of them. There were no keyboards or internet to enable these campaigns. The political transformation that shook the world was launched by the dangerous practice of dipping feathered quills into pewter inkpots.
The spirited, determined souls who had built new lives in the colonies may have had little inclination to bow to British overlords, but they were not yet Americans. They identified themselves as Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, Marylanders, or Rhode Islanders, and seemed to have little in common with each other. They seldom spoke with each other and even less frequently did they trade with each other. The southern colonies had rigid socio-economic structures built around massive land holdings held by offshoots of the British aristocracy. The New England colonies were constructed around smaller farms and an active merchant class with a heavy influence of the somber, egalitarian Puritans who had first settled the region. In between were the old Dutch towns of NewYork and Pennsylvania, where large numbers of German Lutherans and English Quakers built quiet lives around their God and their land. Each colony was at the end of a long spoke of a wheel whose hub was Britain. Commerce and culture traveled along these spokes, institutionalized by acts of Parliament that prohibited shipments of certain goods to anywhere but Great Britain.
For a century and a half the attention of those in Charleston, Williamsburg, Philadelphia, New York and Boston had been focused on Britain, the monolithic supplier of manufactured goods, capital, technology and regulation. The dominant newspapers were imported from England, fashions were from England, the worldly talk in town squares was of London plays and intrigues in the royal court. Those colonists who were not preoccupied with growing their own sustenance were employed in producing tobacco, indigo, lumber, rice, and other materials for the British market. Anyone they dealt with outside their colony was likely to be in Britain.
All this began to change with the French and Indian War, which for the first time brought inhabitants of different colonies together on a large scale. Far more important than the realization that the colonists could fight as well as British troops was the discovery that they had more in common with each other than with their British counterparts. Although an early wartime effort by Benjamin Franklin and others to unite the colonies at the Albany Congress failed, during the years following that war the barriers between colonies rapidly eroded. War veterans of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, for example, began writing former battle companions from Pennsylvania and New York Initially it was largely remembrances of the war that were shared, but as Parliament piled on one act of colonial repression after another, the tone and content of many letters changed. The fiery words of French and Indian War veteran Isaac Barre repeated above brought passionate responses from the colonists in port cities who heard of them first, and more than a few lifted quills to repeat them to their correspondents elsewhere in the colonies. When merchants in Boston reported to frontier outposts Barre's prediction that "the blood of these Sons of Lyberty [will] recoil within them," restless colonists up and down the frontier began proudly adopting the Sons name for themselves.
It wasn't the writing of the Declaration of Independence that sparked a new nation, it was the writing of thousands of such letters between kindred spirits in different colonies, confirming a common belief in what only later would be called their "inalienable rights." When individual correspondents found like-minded colonists in their own community, letters started taking on a collective aspect. The single complaining "I" evolved into the plural "we" and references to committees began to appear, although at first many were ad hoc and temporary. Committees and their letter carriers became the messengers of freedom that enabled all that followed. Letters from Massachusetts merchants to Virginia planters, from frontier schoolmasters to city innkeepers expressing the same sentiments again and again from town to town, colony to colony, soon turned Barre's fanciful mention of the Sons of Liberty into an organization that played a vital role in spreading the sentiments of protest. These letterwriters were raising the collective consciousness by sharing truths spoken from the heart—too rare an occasion in today's instantly connected frenzy of words, and from shared truths bonds are born.
Deepening these bonds were the risks shared by such correspondents. Writing letters to complain of London's repressions was a dangerous proposition—those who did so risked being branded, and even hanged, as traitors. These early correspondents had no protection from the loyalists who opposed them. Although the Sons of Liberty gradually built clandestine networks to support the committees, these first writers spoke out with no such organizations to protect them, with no assurance of their own safety. When Patrick Henry initially gave public voice to the protests he recorded in his correspondence, he was immediately met with cries of "treason!" and "hang him!"
Correspondence to representatives in London like Benjamin Franklin was even more risky. The British Postal Service at the time operated secret offices where, in the name of protecting the king, letters were clandestinely opened and read by government agents—who not only devised clever methods to circumvent waxed seals on envelopes, but also employed expert artificers who were not above forging letters to frustrate the king's detractors. Those who undertook this early correspondence knew well the danger; their words could have cost them their livelihoods, their freedom, or even their lives. As Carl Jung reminded us in another century, "there can be no consciousness raising without pain," and these writers were well aware of the pain they potentially faced. Sitting by candlelight with quill and ink became an act of bravery, given strength not by arms but by steadfast conviction and an increasing sense that the New World was meant for a new destiny.
Whether sent through the mails, delivered by private clandestine means, or even offered in the public forum– like the published letters of the celebrated Humphry Ploughjogger, an early pseudonym of John Adams– these bold sentiments demonstrated that words are the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of liberty. The fact that the correspondents represented such a wide cross-section of colonial society only underscored the strength of that weapon. Committemen Patrick Henry and John Adams may have found inspiration from their legal and classical studies but those who wore frontier buckskin gave voice to instincts forged in the intense freedom of the wilderness. The bonds such correspondents built around shared values of liberty, freedom, tolerance and personal freedom became the foundation of the American character.
The power of these voices soon echoed across the land in more public fashion. Patrick Henry's fierce opposition to the Stamp Tax, the reviled British tax on all documents, newspapers, journals, and even college diplomas, led him to write the Virginia Resolves, which forcefully articulated the colonists' right to "all Liberties, Privileges and Immunities" of free citizens and the principle that taxation must be by consent of the governed. Although his efforts in his own colony were sharply censored by the British-appointed provincial government, which seriously contemplated throwing him in prison, the committees quietly circulated his impassioned statements beyond Virginia borders. Thus it was that the first public mention of the Resolves, which played a vital role in arousing public opinion against London, was not in Henry's own colony, but in Maryland and Rhode Island newspapers. More letters flowed across colonial borders, officially and unofficially, and within months eight other colonies had adopted counterparts to the Resolves. Soon thereafter correspondents coordinated boycotts of British imports in several colonies, causing Franklin to write that the new pride of the colonists was "to wear their old cloathes (sic) over and over again."
. Suddenly the colonies were speaking with each other and, to the outrage of officials in London, daring to suggest in their letters an inter-colony congress to take a unified stand against taxes levied without colonial consent. With much careful, sometimes secret, coordination, that Stamp Act Congress did take place in late 1765, reportedly causing the first, but certainly not the last, temper tantrum of King George against his upstart colonists. The committees and the Sons of Liberty pressed on, coordinating public demonstrations and even hanging tax collectors in effigy. The true power of the committees' words was proven months later when the Stamp Tax was repealed.
While it may seem patently obvious, it is worth reminding ourselves in today's contentious political environment that these correspondents, who became our first nation builders, focused on what they had in common. The colonies still had sharply contrasting characters, and if they had let their differences dominate their discourse we might have no America today. They did not succeed out of shared prejudices, they succeeded because of shared values of human dignity and personal freedom. Less obvious, but no less important, was a bond of tolerance; their lives in disparate colonies reflected marked differences in the details of their government, religion, and culture but the correspondents embraced and respected those differences, for they were what made personal freedom meaningful.
The committees embodied democracy in its rawest form, allowing common people to find empowerment in each other. By the outset of the Revolution, when more formal institutions replaced them, nearly every town and village in many colonies had its own committee. Massachusetts alone accounted for seven hundred committees. Correspondents throughout the colonies have been estimated at over seven thousand. Some of their names found their way into our history books as our founding fathers, but most did not; they were not seeking fame, they were simply finding their voices at the end of their own personal journeys of discovery. They had built new lives centered around self-reliance which, they came to realize, meant personal liberty. Once the committees began confirming the shared embrace of this personal liberty, it was no great leap to the cause of national liberty.
Never before in history had such a process taken place, and due to the proliferation of community printing presses and rise of a federal government, the need for the committees soon diminished. The committees were a phenomenon never before seen on the planet, made possible by the fervent, egalitarian spirit of the orphans, exiles, and abandoned peoples who constituted the largest population of the colonies. They did not die, but evolved into the grassroots networks that still keep our democracy vibrant today. Our nation has evolved considerably over the past two and half centuries but one of our strengths is that we continue to embrace such collective consciousness raising, as evidenced by today's internet campaigns, still crossing literal and figurative borders to find shared truths.
The rise of the committees reflected a rapid growth spurt, a sudden maturing of our forebears as they discovered and embraced a new identity. The words they wrote came from their hearts, not political scripts. They didn't need political parties to tell them what to say. They were Americans.
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Sorry for the long break. I was going to say I've been slack, but the reality is far from that. Blogging just happened to slide down the massive list of things-to-do over the Easter break. Hope you all had a great one and here is a cool little apartment run-through that's worth the watch when you have a spare ten minutes. Very efficient use of space and storage through innovative design.
"Located in Barcelona's hip Born district, the tiny apartment is a remodelled pigeon loft. Christian [Schallert] says its design was inspired by the space-saving furniture aboard boats, as well as the clean lines of a small Japanese home". I personally love that the bed slides under the balcony and converts to a step, chair or lounge. Great work by architect Barbara Appolloni. Enjoy!


I ask the faithful light.
And are you going to stay the night?
In an era in which art is not defined by movements, media, or intent, the artist is free to mine, appropriate and fuse together like never before. One of the more successful recent hybrids of the seemingly disparate took place this past August before my eyes in a storefront turned theater in Seattle's Central District.
Susie J. Lee is an artist whose work has bridged the gap between the relatively new but now-established field of technology driven, time-based digital media and the ancient, grounded, and familiar tradition of three-dimensional sculpture. A 2006 MFA graduate of the University of Washington School of Art program in Ceramics, she first came to my attention at the Henry Art Gallery amidst the amiable clutter of that year's student graduation exhibition. It was here that I witnessed the diminutive but arresting Consumation, a film of the shadows of two burning threads projected sideways onto a smooth-surfaced, curved piece of wood. They smoldered and danced their way into nothingness with accompanied by a halting, disassembled Bach prelude.
As I watched them unfold and expire before my eyes it occurred to me then that I was gazing at a strangely fluid representation of my own consciousness. Here was a sophisticated conceptual work of art that drew power by eliciting familiar physical sensation. The success of Lee's piece had everything to do with its careful tone. The sensuality of the unfurling plumes of smoke and the persistent tentativeness of the music were simply heightened by the work's very modest size and its casual deportment.
Three years later, Lee has had ambitious solo shows at Seattle's Lawrimore Project, where she is currently represented, and at the Art Gym in Portland, Oregon. Her work has also been included in a diverse series of group exhibitions locally and across the globe. Combining light, video projection and sound with the forms and textures of her chosen materials, Lee has continued to explore the themes laid forth in Consumation at varying scales and in different contexts. Given her trajectory and impulse to both challenge and build upon her past work, it only seemed natural that she would choose to collaborate with a dancer/choreographer (Ying Zhou), musician/composer (Emily Greenleaf) and software designer (Andy Wilson) on a live performance piece.
What starts out as evasive action on the part of the dancer slowly evolves into movement.  Her repeated interaction with the constantly changing light, with all of its discovery and exploration, conflict and temporary alignments, becomes nothing less than an extended dramatization of artistic inspiration and action.
The dual and competing tracks of visual perception and physical sensation that rise and dissipate in the form of light moving across the surface of a woman's skin ultimately merge. There are momentary harnessings of this temperamental, mercurial life force, though it remains unclear whether it takes hold of the dancer or she takes hold of it. The ambiguity is intentional and is what gives the multi-media the familiar vernacular of contemporary art.
Just as Zhou's movement shifts into new modes as she passes through various states of being, Lee takes careful advantage of tonalities present in the illuminated human body. When suffused with Lee's projected light, Zhou's skin takes on a strange luminescent quality. No longer a flat, lightly-colored surface, it becomes a fluid, three-dimensional medium with its own independent internal movement. It is the tension between this movement and Zhou's own that provides the work with its compositional and conceptual core.
At its climax, For these Unclosings takes on a particular splendor. Greenleaf's parsimonious score accrues volume, resolving into an elegant, meditative repetition of harmonic scales. The light multiplies into a galaxy of dots that cover the stage and Zhou's animated, momentary stasis manifests a tangible sense of euphoria. Moments later, it had abated, replaced by a sense of doubt and loss. But eventually the light returns sober and diffused, while Zhou herself appears resolutely contemplative and serene.
There is a constant transformation of the self through action and experience. The outcomes may be good or bad and our recollection fleeting, but an internal accumulation occurs and a cognitive-sensory foundation is established. For the individual as well the artist, this ongoing process is the key to understanding and navigating the surrounding world. The tentative but fully-realized conclusion offered by Lee and her collaborators suggests its hazards, possibilities, and inevitable accords.


Eric Abraham and The Fugard Theatre present the South African premiere of Happy New Year, a hilarious, heart-warming rom com, adapted by South African icon David Kramer from the hit, award-winning play Midsummer (A Play With Songs) by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre.
Happy New Year will be presented from 19 February 2019 in The Fugard Studio Theatre and bookings are now open through The Fugard Theatre box office and website.
Whilst at The Tricycle Theatre, Nicolas Kent brought David Kramer's Kat and the Kings and three more of his shows to London and recently Kent suggested this play would make a happy South African adaptation, thus the collaboration.
High flying divorce lawyer Lee-André meets car salesman and small-time criminal Dan in a bar one midsummer's night when the married man she's been seeing cancels their date. She's out of Dan's league, he's totally not her type, but when these two disparate souls come together, a wild weekend of alcohol-infused adventure and abandon ensues. Between bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust ups and self-loathing hangovers, they discover they are not so different after all, and that maybe there are second chances at life – and love.
The original production of Midsummer (A Play With Songs) won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and garnered praise such as, 'an exhilarating theatrical journey… you float out laughing as if you've just swallowed sunshine on a spoon' (The Guardian), 'theatrical ingenuity' (The New York Times), 'riotously funny as it is touchingly romantic' (Variety), 'a joyous romp' (The Independent) and 'beautifully written, combining sharp dialogue with evocative description and passages' (The Telegraph).
Director Nicolas Kent has directed productions in over 100 theatres around the world including the West End and New York; as well as for notable companies in Great Britain including The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Court, The Donmar Warehouse, The Hampstead Theatre, the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and the Young Vic. From 1984 to 2012 he was Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre in London, where the verbatim plays he directed became known as the Tricycle Tribunal plays, and included The Colour of Justice (the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry), Nuremberg, Srebrenica, Bloody Sunday (Olivier Award for Special Achievement), Guantanamo & The Riots. Most of which were broadcast by the BBC, and two which were performed in the Houses of Parliament and one on Capitol Hill.
David Kramer is a national treasure and needs no introduction to South African audiences. His latest smash hit musical, Langarm, is currently playing at The Fugard Theatre and marks his fifth production with the Theatre. Together with the late Taliep Petersen, he created six musicals which enjoyed enormous local and international success, including the Laurence Olivier Award winning Kat and the Kings which played on Broadway and the West End. He adapted Willy Russell's Blood Brothers to a local setting, which was produced by The Fugard Theatre and Pieter Toerien Productions in 2012. His numerous awards and accolades include honorary Doctorates from the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Cape Town and a career highlight was performing at Carnegie Hall showcasing the music of the Cape.
Happy New Year is adapted by David Kramer from the original Midsummer (A Play With Songs) by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre. Direction is by Nicolas Kent, Set Design is by Chris Pienaar, Costume Design by Widaad Albertus, Lighting Design by Marie Roux, Sound Design is by David Classen and Illustration is by Lucie de Moyencourt.
Happy New Year will be performed from 19 February 2019 at 8pm with matinees at 4pm on Saturdays.
There is a 20% discount available for the Friends of The Fugard members on Wednesdays to Saturdays, a 15% discount for pensioners and 10% discount for students. These discounted tickets can be booked through the Fugard Theatre box office. Not yet a Friends of the Fugard member? Sign up now at the box office or online for priority booking and great specials!
Please note: There is a recommend age advisory of 14 years with parental guidance (SL). Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break or interval. Access to The Studio Theatre is via two flights of stairs, if assistance is required kindly enquire at the box office.