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Haymarket rebellion
Some of Deborama"s rare old posts
On faith - the Death of Christendom Series
Part V (Palm Sunday)
Part VI (Good Friday)
Part VII (Easter Sunday)
Other posts on faith
Number 45 on the Top
More on "Amazing Grace"
A Protestant Re-discovers Mary
Kristi, D-Day and the Insane Anglo Warlord
Those to whom evil is done
The Neverending Passion
The Moon and Venus
I promise I won't talk about my dogs
That Hash Browns Story
Grand-child Gallery Girl
Remember, Remember
Why I don't publish certain pictures
River Phoenix, the lost boy
Your Money or Your Life
Diabolical Thinking
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Garden quotes, Sunday, after the 2016 State DFL Co...
More causes to support
Amnesty International (UK) Anti-Slavery Org
Coffee Kids UK
Nottingham Friends of the Earth
Haiti Support Group (Labour Unions in Haiti)
Iraqi Federation of Workers' Trade Unions
Sudan - the Passion of the Present
Garden quotes, Sunday, after the 2016 State DFL Convention
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Obituary of the Dowager Duchess, somewhat late
I missed the death of the dowager duchess, Deborah Cavendish, nee Freeman-Mitford, the youngest of the six famous "Mitford sisters." She was one of my favorite British upper-class folk. She was quite a character.
When she married him, in wartime, her future duke was just Lord Andrew Cavendish, and it was his older brother who had the title Marchess of Hartington and stood to inherit the dukedom. But when William, the Marchess, who was married to Kathleen Kennedy, sister of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, died in combat, her husband Andrew inherited his title, and Deborah now stood to become a duchess upon the death of her father-in-law. As Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, the pair inherited the vast estates including Chatsworth House, and also a tax bill of seven million pounds, an insurmountable fortune in those days. But they did surmount it, and cannily managed Chatsworth, with its vast lands and possibly the largest private art collection in the UK, for 50 years.
Deborah became the Dowager Duchess in 2004, and in her remaining 10 years, she wrote numerous books, including a cookery book, and Wait for Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister .
Seward Cafe at 40
My best story so far, in my own opinion, was picked up by Twin Cities Daily Planet:
The Seward Café, which turns 40 years old some time this year, is a study in contradictions. Although it's known for its longevity, laying claim to being both the oldest collectively-managed business in the Twin Cities and the oldest collectively-managed restaurant/-café in the U.S., its actual collectives seem to turn over completely about every seven years. Although the café has never been totally vegetarian (the principle is even enshrined in its charter), it has always remained a favorite among vegans and vegetarians. This is probably due to its great range of vegan baked goods and its adherence to an ethos of care with its veg customers by assuring careful separation in the kitchen and full disclosure of ingredients. And further, although it looks small and scruffy and like anything but a gourmet haven, some of its food items are nearly legendary in their greatness. And its amazing survival attests to its success with the public.
The current collective has an average age somewhere in the mid to late 20s, and an average time as collective member of just a few years. Benjamin Acaso, 32, who joined the collective in 2008, is one of the senior members. The hiring process is still the same as it's been since the early 1980s: A prospective member is hired under what is called "intake," and after a probationary period, they may choose to join the collective and become an owner-manager. Some choose to remain on as shift-workers, but most choose the path of workplace democracy. Benjamin admits it's not easy going to long, frequent collective meetings and making decisions by consensus, but he and the other members believe strongly that they make better decisions because of it. "And I don't ever want to have a boss," he says.
The decisions are working, so he must be right. One decision that was struggled over for a long time was whether or not to accept credit cards. The anti-corporate, slightly Luddite gene is very dominant in the counterculture even now in the iPod generation. But in 2012, they finally decided to do it, and this was a transformative decision that immediately increased business and allowed new directions to open up. Some of these new directions were actually a return to the roots. In March 2013, the Café switched from closing at 3 p.m. to closing at 11 p.m., also adding (back) beer and wine sales and live music. The collective expected to lose money at first when they switched hours and added new, unfamiliar dinner items. But to their delight, they actually increased profits almost immediately. With no cover charge, musicians are paid 15% of bar sales plus tips, drink tickets and meals if they're touring.
There are a lot of parallels between Benjamin's take on the Seward Café and that of Barbara Jensen (or Barb as she was known at the time) one of the founding collective members. Barb said not all of the founders and early collective members were counter-culture, "some were musicians," for instance. And Benjamin, in talking about the current collective's desire to bring back live music, mentioned that many of the collective are also in bands of their own.
In 1974, Barb Jensen was one of four full-time employees at the Seward Co-op, then located where Welna II hardware store is now. The space where the café now sits was a 3-2 bar called the Fireside Inn which had recently closed. A group comprising Barb and two other co-op employees, Mike Bird and Lori Zuidema, and Howard Hickman, who was a co-op volunteer, schemed to buy the Fireside Inn and found the Seward Café, a worker-owned and run café that would continue to serve the neighborhood, but serve it better. They each contributed what money they could for the purchase, and in the first years, worked essentially as volunteers. Barb remembers those early collective meetings starting out with the question, OK, who needs what? Who needs rent, who's having their electricity shut off, whose car just died? Like that. It was pure primitive communism, but the spirit was utopian anarchism.
And then, barely a year after the café opened, the Twin Cities was embroiled in the Co-op Wars. Along with the Seward Co-op across the street, the café in the years 1975 and 1976 was a haven for the resistance against the Co-operative Organization, or CO, which was seeking to "take over" co-ops across the Twin Cities, often violently. But ironically, and here those contradictions are again, even though the Seward Café was stalwartly anti-CO, they had already institutionalized some of the better ideas the CO was trying to push onto all co-ops dogmatically—they were open late, they kept prices low, they served hamburgers and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
One thing Barb says that came out of the Co-op Wars was an increasing "legalization" of the co-ops, both worker-owned and the new model for food co-ops, consumer-owned. This was a good thing in the end, and the legal, in-the-system framework—putting the land in a trust, having a charter and rules to govern the collective, using proper accounting procedures—all manage to contain the anarchist heart of the Seward Café and enable it to live on through all the changes, whether economic or ideological. Barb went on to help found DANCE Warehouse, to be a major participant in the All Co-ops Assembly (ACA—which no longer exists) and the Peoples Center on the West Bank (which still does.) She went back to school, got a masters degree, taught at Metro State, and is now a community and counseling psychologist. A working-class girl who became radicalized in her late teens, she is also the author of a book, "Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America" (Cornell Press, 2012).
Benjamin believes the Seward Café will survive at least another 40 years. So many people love the righteous pancakes, the CP Iced Coffee, the vegan cookies and muffins, the Earth Breakfast. And now they are coming in for local food like Tempeh Tantrum, LaPerla tortillas and craft beers. The Seward Café is successful enough to be a help to other collective businesses, such as Hard Times Café. And ultimately, as Benjamin says, "the community won't let us die." A 40th anniversary celebration is being planned for some time in the late fall.
© 2014 Southside Pride
I make the big time
I got a tweet for my story in Southside Pride, which was then picked up in Twin Cities Daily Planet:
That was only one small tidbit in an otherwise fascinating piece from @deborama52 & @tcdailyplanet: http://t.co/GJhAL4vj3P
— Matt Becker (@matthewtbecker) September 5, 2014
Colonization in the 21st Century
A new way is emerging for banksters (the international variety in this case) to use debt as a weapon, even if it's low-class debt they purchased for pennies on the dollar. Portside Moderator, one of my new favorite sources of news and opinion, has this article about Argentina's bold defiance of the vulture capitalists trying to liquidate their country.
One of my heroines - Selina Burch, CWA Organizer (amongst other things)
I went out Googling Selina Burch and found this. I was just saying to a friend of mine, I would love to write a novel about the 1954 Southern Bell strike. I cannot find a picture of her from any era at all, so the above is a picture of the CWA strike of 1954, which was about the time she said "the rebel in me started to come out."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies at age 87
Colombia declares three days of mourning for Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the enormously influential 100 Years of Solitude, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, passed away Thursday, April 17. He was 87.
Remembering Tony Benn
Tony Benn was one of the best things about the UK. He will be missed. Here is a great article about him from Portside Moderator.
In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person — Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates — ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.
I just realized that there are no comments enabled on this blog any more. I think it's because, having a customized CSS template, I was using an external comment manager and they "went out of business" or something. Just went, anyway. I wanted to make a funny comment. I just realized that this post and the four preceding it are about "Four Obituaries and A Wedding".
Carey and Ashley's Awesome Looking Little Wedding
Doris Lessing, 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013
Doris Lessing, author of The Golden Notebook and many other novels and a few non-fiction works, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, died yesterday at the age of 94. As Alexandra Schwarz noted in her wonderful New Yorker blog post ,"On Doris Lessing and Not Saying Thank You", The NYT in its obituary of her sounded "a tone of peevish, gawking reproach. (Much better to read Margaret Atwood's wonderful tribute in the Guardian.)" It is ever thus with the boldly unconventional female.
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 101 or 102
Bet you didn't know he was still alive. Well, I didn't; I was surprised. Reading the NYT obituary - it sure takes me back.
My brother Kevin
Richard 'Kevin' Keefer
Anonymous The Dalton Daily Citizen Tue Sep 03, 2013, 11:13 PM EDT
Mr. Richard "Kevin" Keefer, 52, passed away Aug. 29, 2013, after a long battle with cancer, surrounded by loved ones.
Mr. Keefer was born in Atlanta on Feb. 3, 1961, the son of Dolores and Clyde A. Keefer. He attended Dalton High School from 1975 to 1978 and was a member of Dalton First United Methodist Church. He also earned the rank of Eagle Scout and shared his love of Scouting and the Atlanta Braves with his father. Kevin loved to cook and grow his own vegetables. He was an avid hunter and enjoyed being in the outdoors with his hunting buddies. He was a loyal friend and kind-hearted and gentle man.
Mr. Keefer had a long career in emergency services in the area, mostly with the city of Chatsworth. He served as an emergency medical technician with the Dalton Ambulance and Murray County EMS, 24 years with Chatsworth Fire Department as a firefighter and as fire chief from 1987 to 2005. He was also a building inspector.
He is survived by a large, loving family consisting of his parents, Clyde and Dolores Keefer of Chatsworth; his three daughters, Kierston, Kimberly and Katlynn, all of Chatsworth; his brothers, David (Rene) Keefer of Jacksonville, Ala., and Scott Keefer of Atlanta; and his sisters, Deb Keefer (Lewis) Ramage of Minneapolis, Minn., Cynthia Keefer Patton (Denny Fitterling) of Kansas City, Mo., and Dr. Denise Keefer (Bill) Runge of Helena, Mont. He is also survived by his nephews and nieces, Aimee Whatley of Portland, Ore., Carey Hunton Carter of Atlanta, Shane Tyler (Crystal) Patton of Gulfport, Miss., Joshua and Jacob von Herrmann of Hattiesburg, Miss., and Elizabeth Keefer of Jacksonville, Ala.
A private memorial service will be held in the future when his family will gather to remember him.
Mr. Keefer will be cremated and his ashes spread at his favorite hunt camp when his friends gather and celebrate his life.
In lieu of flowers, Kevin requested donations be made to the Boy Scouts of America in his honor.
The family would also like to thank his close friends, Judy and Gifford Laney, Kevin Ballew, the wonderful people of hospice and Chatsworth Health Care Center, and so many others for all they did for Kevin during the last months of his too short life.
Condolences may be left for the family at www.GeorgiaFuneralCare.com.
Georgia Funeral Care and Cremation Services is proud to be serving this family; (678) 574-3016.
Book review on Deborama's Books - Borkmann's Point, by Håkan Nesser
My quiet return to blogging is heralded by a nice cozy book review.
See above post....Also see Occupirate
I am inspired by teaching my friend CJ Sparrow how to blog on his new blog, Occupirate, to renew my own blogging. So, first I will try to make a Deborama's Books post with the review every time I register a book on Bookcrossing (and I will also try to register every book I read on Bookcrossing.) Later, I will do some serious political blogging here. I have been saving it up, so I have a lot to say.
Ride, Sally Ride. We'll miss you here on earth forever now.
H.R. 347: The Strange History of the Bill with the Confusingly Euphemistic Title
The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act.*
One of the few liberal media sources to cover the bill called it the anti-Occupy bill, but internal Occupy-related media seem to be largely ignoring it. The Tea Party is outraged by it, but nobody else thinks it's aimed at the Tea Party. The Senate passed it unanimously and Obama signed it, but the few constitutional experts to review it are adamant that it's unconstitutionally vague. Even the House, over two votes, could only muster three votes against it. And what is the bit in the title about "Grounds Improvement"? Is that some kind of sick joke?
The bill in question carries the official title of The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. It passed 399 to 3 in the House in 2011, was amended and then passed unanimously by the Senate in 2012, then the amended version passed the House 388 to 3 in 2012. President Obama signed it on March 8, 2012. The "Grounds Improvement" riddle is solved by reading the introduction, or by more careful explication in the blog post from the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund "H.R. 347: Get the Truth on the New 'Protest Law'". As the introduction to the bill itself explains, it is an act …To correct and simplify the drafting of section 1752 (relating to restricted buildings or grounds) of title 18, United States Code. So it's not the grounds being "improved", it's the original law, which was enacted in 1971 and then substantially amended in 2006.
What many of the more hysterical postings about the passage of H.R. 347 fail to note is that the dangerously vague and overreaching language they are objecting to was present at least from 2006. But there was one noticeable "improvement" that is a new departure. Despite blog posts to the contrary, the act does NOT make infringements that were previously misdemeanors now felonies and it does NOT add new scope to the powers of either the Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security. These constitutional failings and likely infringements of First Amendment rights were already present in the 2006 rewrite to the federal code. What the act does empower, potentially, is the easier prosecution of a defendant who has committed one of the proscribed acts.
The most significant change was to remove the words "willfully and" before "knowingly" in the description of the crimes in the 2006 act. What this means is, if the law itself or this change to the law is not struck down as unconstitutional, that a protester, for example, does not need to be proven to have known that their alleged trespass was illegal. As the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund explains, "As amended, a conviction arguably only requires proof that a person 'knowingly entered' a certain area. This is an effort to lower the bar for prosecutors who would, arguably, no longer have to prove that a person knew his conduct was unlawful." Or, as the Senate bill sponsor Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said, it will "improve the law enforcement tools available to the Secret Service in its attempts to protect the President, the Vice President, and others on a day-to-day basis by closing loopholes in the current federal law." Loopholes? Tools? An interesting spin.
This law has not really been tested for constitutionality yet, whether we are talking about the new "improved" version where you don't even need to know the action was forbidden by the law, or the original law itself. Those commenters who realize that H.R. 347 is an amendment to a law that was already a "bad law" in the words of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund point to its vagueness and potential for abuse. A self-described Constitutional scholar associated with the Tea Party, KrisAnne Hall, although she does not mention that the language she is concerned about was part of the 2006 law and not newly introduced in H.R.347, does make a very important first amendment point in this article quoted extensively by the Gainesville Tea Party
The protected right of the people peaceably to assemble is something that has fundamental and historical foundations. Our founders established a clear "no trespassing sign" in our first amendment to keep the government away from this fundamental right. "Congress shall make no law abridging…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Legislation in the Congress seems to be treading on the grounds of this constitutionally restricted territory.
The right to orderly conduct government is NOT a Constitutionally protected right. However we DO have the right to free speech and the right to peaceably assemble. Our Constitution establishes the fundamental principle rights to speech and assembly are held by the people and the government must protect these rights, not limit them.
But again, this language was pre-existing in the U. S. Code. And although several constitutional scholars agree that it is but one of several flaws in the existing law, it needs to be tested before one can assert absolutely that it is against First Amendment rights.
And perhaps it will be very soon. When the 2006 law was written, the country was under a Republican administration. There had been no credit crisis, no austerity push (indeed, Federal spending was at an unprecedented high, mainly due to the war in Iraq) and there was no Tea Party. When the 2011 amendment, H.R. 347, was first proposed in 2011, it may have been directed at the Tea Party. But more likely it was in anticipation of both major parties' upcoming national conventions, of a flood of Republican presedential contenders under Secret Service protection, and also in remembrance of highly volatile protests at G8, G20, NATO and other world "summit" meetings. It certainly could not have been the "anti-Occupy" bill, because OWS had not happened yet.
But it may be Occupy that tests it, for the next NSSE or "National Special Security Event" (this is one circumstance that can invoke the law, and includes all of the above as well as one recent Super Bowl) is the NATO Summit meeting in May in Chicago. And Occupy movements and affinity groups around the country and the world are even now planning an overwhelming and highly committed protest presence at this event, in most cases quite unaware of the constitutional challenge potentially hanging over their actions.
*This article was originally written for print publication in a small Occupy newsletter but for complex reasons was never published there. I have changed it slightly to embed the links.
America's Oldest Teenager
Dick Clark, long-time host of American Bandstand, has died at the age of 82.
The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York (Official V...
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The Mountain Goats - "Christmas in Prison"
A Book Review on my books blog - The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
(Copy of a post on Deborama's Book Reviews and Store) Well, it's not often I review and blog a book I have only read one chapter of. In fact, it's not often I review and blog books at all anymore. And maybe I am more jetlagged and culture-shocked than I thought I was, or maybe it really was that good. I just read the first chapter of The Polish Officer by Alan Furst, entitled The Pilawa Local. I was in tears. It made me wish I was Polish. And to all my Polish friends, my God, you come from a noble people, and I am heartily sorry if ever in my careless youth I retold or even laughed at a Polack joke, no matter how good-natured.
How to save the economy
I predicted way back in 2008 that the recession soon to follow what was then just a "credit crisis" would last 15 years. Everybody said I was crazy. Now when I remind them, they just tell me to shut up. I was going to indulge my inner economics genius and post a blog about how and why this would occur, but of course, my inner trailer trash layabout kept me from doing it. And then I got laid off (American) or made redundant (British), and my life became so complex I didn't have the energy to even consider it. In the last couple of weeks, like a dam breaking but in reverse, my life has got a lot simpler. I now know (more or less) what I am going to do and when. So to the blog... But wait! I am not going to do the 15-year recession blog (now only 13 years of it left, of course.) The time for that has passed. The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on. Instead...
I didn't think Paul Krugman could ever become more of a hero to me than he already was. But he has. He has a cunning plan to save the US economy, and of course, it's based a bit more on history than on pure economics. If you have closely studied the 1929 stock market crash and ensuing 10-year depression, you will know that it was more due to an outbreak of war in Europe than to government or Fed policies that America began to be productive again around 1939-40. And you will know that there have been quite a few vague historical echoes in our current fiasco as well. So Krugman's idea is that the government should give up on economy-tittivating, which they are frankly no good at anyway, and fake an alien invasion.
Marie Haff - a dear friend gone
Marie Haff, my friend since 1984 when I first moved to the Twin Cities along with her son, passed away last week. We had drifted apart geographically, especially when I moved to England, but then she started trading in antiques after her official retirement, and was making periodic trips to Lincolnshire to buy British antiques. So we were able to reconnect, and my husband and I even managed to meet up with her in Horncastle one day several years ago. I took this picture of her a little over a month ago at a family gathering in rural Minnesota. I am so sad that when I finally manage to make my move back to Minneapolis, there will be no more meetings or chats with Marie. She was a very special woman.
Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011
Back to obituary blogging, an increasing number of the subjects of which are nowadays my own generation. Jobs, yeah, he was younger than I am. But what a massive impact he has had on the way this century looks and feels. And the way we communicate and live our lives. A ten page obituary in the NYT, you have to admit, the boy done good! Most of the articles, both recent ones on his illnes and early retirement, and corporate ones showcasing his recent accomplishments, show a contemporary Jobs with his grey hair, his black turtleneck and his visionary gaze into the future he knows he won't be here to share. I have chosen an innocent shot with his proud creations of 1984. The boy is the father of the man.
Minneapolis in retrospect
I arrived back in the UK on the 6th of September, very jet-lagged, and then promptly fell ill. Apologies for the big delay in updating my blog, but then most of my activity, as I have mentioned before, is documented on Facebook. But the archive-index is a lot better here.
I was not successful in finding a job in the Twin Cities, but then that would have been almost miraculous, so I wasn't really expecting to. I was not as successful as I would have liked in laying the groundwork for finding a job, which was disappointing, but largely due to two facts - 1) I did open a credit union account and (I think) buy a condo, but it took a lot more time and energy than I was expecting, and 2) the social scene also took up more time than I was planning for. One of the big surprises of the trip was that my old comrades in the DSA and some new friends who have joined while I was away were so incredibly welcoming and positive about my imminent return to their company. KB, now holding my old post of "only permanent female member" became an instant friend and we discovered loads of common interests, and the old stalwarts really touched me with their insistence that they had missed me terribly and were thrilled to have me back.
Other social events included meeting up with old friends Janet and her daughter Michael, and seeing Michael's three children who I had known only as online photos, seeing Krista and Ben's "new" baby Oskar, along with of course Krista and Ben, and coffee with Loren, with catching up and a little discussion about my possible career choices. I found to my sorrow and distress that Marie, whom I love very much, is suffering a very severe form of cancer, and was able to spend a few hours with her, and also with her son Doug, an ex-bf now married with adult son. My dear friend Lou, whose world is a chaotic whirl completely outwith her control, nevertheless ferried me around, introduced me to Savers, accompanied Dianne and me on a few condo visits and lent me a smartphone for the duration, all of which made my trip a lot easier. I visited Walker Church and caught up with friends too numerous to mention. And finally I must give thanks and more thanks to both Steve S. and KC B., who picked me up and dropped me off respectively at the airport and housed me in their homes for eight and seven days respectively.
No hotel reviews this trip, but I will do some foodie reviews and others on Qype, Yelp, Trip Advisor and Deborama's Kitchen. I also read a really good book or two, which I want to review on Deborama's Book Reviews and Store.
I'm in Minneapolis, takin' care of some business. I was going to post a blog from Keflavik airport on my way here, but their darned wifi was not connected to the internet for some reason. That was my first public wifi blog some years ago and I thought it would be cool to do a repeat.
Another little birdie passed away
Holly passed away last night, suddenly, as budgies do. Holly is the one on the left above; the one on the right, Pearl, passed some time ago. I think Holly was between 5 and 7 years old. He has some offspring out there somewhere, thanks to a little breeding holiday he took care of Cindy, our friend who used to live near here. Here is our current roll call of birds and other critters:
Toby, a white, totally deaf English bull terrier / Jack Russell cross, male, neutered, drama queen, thinks he's a cat
Max and Chewy, a pair of gorgeous Blue&Gold Macaws
Fred, a cockatoo
Leslie and Freddy, a pair of Amazons
Four! Hahn's macaws (we now have more Hahn's macaws than budgies) : Han, Vernie, Kermie and Harry (we think they are all males)
Three budgies : Bill-or-Ben, Little Bob (who is female, and she made babies with Holly) and Nelson (also female)
We are also temporarily boarding a pair of parrotlets, whom I have provisionally named Oscar and Lucinda. Of course, in truth, all these critters are Lewis's, although I do contribute a bit to their care. Quite a lot to Toby's, almost none at all to Fred, who would rip my hand off if I tried to handle him.
Lewis has been making some forays into the world of web design on behalf of the charity he is an officer of, Soft Landing.
The problem with social media
Well, I am on Google+, have been there a while. Definitely still on Facebook, where truthfully most of my online "activity" occurs. My problem with social media vs. old-fashioned blogging (funny that something becomes really old-fashioned in about 7 years) is one I have not heard expressed a lot. I really took to blogging, because it's sort of like being a self-published author and sort of like being an amateur journalist and sort of like keeping a diary. Social media, even if you post frequently and participate enthusiastically, is nothing like that.
Here's the thing. I just last week submitted my (£900!) application for naturalization as a British citizen. I had to recreate my travel journal for the last 5 years for the proof of residency section. Now obviously the passport is the first place to check. But as an American, I didn't always get a stamp on entering the US, and amongst my UK stamps and one Spain stamp and two Ireland stamps, they are not all that legible. So back when I was posting regularly here, I had a record of my travels, all nicely dated and indexed. But as I lazily moved over to Facebook, well it might be there somewhere, but it's almost impossible to look up and the only way to access it is to page backward literally forever (or however long FB keeps them, and frankly, my paging finger got tired.)
Here's another little gripe that may be almost unique to me: I am on this app for sharing blogs on FB, so this post will go there automatically (I think; of course, FB does keep changing stuff.) But to cross-post to Google+ is a major hassle, and you do wonder if it's worth it.
Blogger and mainly this blog is now an aide memoire for me, and also a memory lane trip, having recorded a lot of major events in my life, like Thanksgivings spent with family, death of most of our pets, birthdays I got to celebrate with Savannah, especially nice meals I cooked or books I read. But from about 2007 onwards, I just haven't been posting enough, and there are gaps in the record. Of course, it's a cop-out for me to blame FB, let alone Google. I just need to proper-blog more.
Peter Falk Obituary
Yesterday, actor Peter Falk passed away. Columbo may not have been the greatest detective show of all time, but it's amazing how Falk's brilliant character study has influenced future TV and film detectives, especially, I think, in British crime drama. And of course, I will always remember and love Peter Falk especially for his role as "Grand-dad" in The Princess Bride, one of the best cult movies of all time. He also starred in several serious films, including Husbands and A Woman Under the Influence by his friend, director John Cassavetes. And he had a great reputation as an actor on the New York stage as well.
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This blog seems to be more and more about obituaries these days. I don't know if it's a sign of my age, or just the fact that it's so easy to post on Facebook that I only post here when I have something personal to say.
Manning Marable, 1950 - 2011
I was sad to learn of the relatively early passing of Manning Marable, a leading light of the DSA and a great historian, essayist and academic. Tragically, he died just three days before the ultimate culmination of his life's work, the publication of his eagerly awaited biography of Malcolm X. Although Marable had published several other non-academic works of history or political philosophy, the Malcolm X biography will probably establish his name with the public in a way these more obscure books could not. But to democratic socialists, students of African-American studies and the culturally aware, Marable was already in the highest ranks. He will be sorely missed.
Feminist icon Geraldine Ferraro, pictured in 2007, the first female vice-presidential candidate to run on a major political ticket, died Saturday 26 March from lung cancer.
Remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - 100 years today
On this day in 1911, 146 sweatshop workers died in a horrible fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. Some of the workers were as young as 14, most were immigrants and many were young women and girls. Read about the fire. Don't mourn, organize.
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Farewell to Liz
The New York Times has this great Elizabeth Taylor timeline.
And when I heard that she was interred already, I thought that might mean that she had stayed faithful to Judaism all these decades after conversion, and so it did. I am glad. And while we're on the subject, there is something kind of grisly about our modern western "Christian" predilection for funerals days and even weeks after the death. The Muslims and the Jews are much more seemly in this respect.
RIP: Owsley "Bear" Stanley
Owsley Stanley, known to Deadheads as simply "Bear", has died following a traffic accident at the age of 76. He was also known as a pioneer of the psychedelic drug culture and the producer of the highest quality LSD ever made, as a one-time financial backer and early sound engineer to the Grateful Dead and as the first of the "tapers", a community of music activists / deadheads who carefully chronicled virtually every note of every Grateful Dead concert on a myriad of private audio tapes that were always swapped or given away free.
There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama 2012 - Corrigan Brothers
Things that make me crazy
I was watching a comedy (show or film, don't remember, probably British rather than American) where a comedy bigoted character said about immigrants (paraphrase) : they are lazy, they don't want to work and they come over here and take our jobs. He said this all in one sentence, oblivious to the irony (or something) of what he was saying, and even when a more level-headed character pointed out that they were either lazy OR job-stealing, but obviously not both, he didn't get it. So this was comedy, right?
A few days later, today, I was watching a supposedly serious show about "benefit fraud" on a supposedly serious BBC channel. They featured a story about a woman who came from Ghana to the UK, illegally forged a new identity based on a stolen British passport with her photo substituted and a faked birth certificate and faked educational credentials. she then got a job with the NHS which she had for several years (I am guessing from the earnings cited below seven to ten years.) Most of the fraud involved here was pretty ham-fisted; her birth certificate said Lutterworth, which is in Leicestershire, but then said County of Surrey (hundreds of miles away.) (For Americans, this is sort of like saying Sacramento, Illinois, only even more impossible.) Also, some documents implied she had never left the UK after being born here, but her fake diplomas were from Ghana. And implausibly had a photo on them. The same photo as on her stolen passport. So, look here, I am not saying she is a hero, or not a fraudster, or not a criminal. I am not defending her. But this is how the BBC summed up the story. This woman was said to have earned £230,000 plus a £40,000 "bursary" (not sure what that is, but I am guessing some kind of grant for either work or education.) So they claimed her fraud had COST British taxpayers (which includes me) £270,000, or "over a quarter of a million". But wait a minute, this woman was also a British taxpayer. And she didn't COST the country £230K of that, since presumably they got at least nearly that much value from her in service to the NHS. Oh, but here's the real kicker, just as ignorant in its way as that "lazy and steal our jobs" line: the woman is now in prison for many years! So she is "paying back that debt to society." No, she is now costing the British taxpayers (including me) probably about 10 times as much per annum to support in a prison, doing nothing of worth, as she was paying in taxes while committing her crime. Is it just me, or is this FREAKING INSANE?
UK's BA chief says boo to US flight security rules
Here are two viewpoints on the same story, one from The New York Times and one from The Guardian (UK).
The Guardian :
Britain should stop "kowtowing" to US demands over airport security, the chairman of British Airways, Martin Broughton, has said, adding that American airports did not implement some checks on their own internal flights.
The NYT :
The United States is making excessive demands for airline passenger screening, including measures it doesn't require on U.S. domestic flights, the chairman of British Airways says.
I read the NYT, WaPo, The Grauniad (British joke) and the BBC news website every day. Most of the stories are just copies of each other. It's interesting to me that in this case, the two stories are not copies at all, and have a subtly different tone and emphasis. Also, the Guardian's story is illustrated with a garish colour photo of the chairman looking stern and exasperated.
This evil policy, these craven people...
I am so appalled at this latest turn in the saga of Great Britain's immigration policies that I can hardly find the words. You would think after the even worse incidents in France (picture above from a notorious video of French police beating women and children during a protest by immigrants there) that the UK would be keen to be seen as more humane in their treatment of "failed asylum seekers".
I have visions of the scene toward the end of my favourite movie, Lawrence of Arabia, where a British doctor comes upon a marketplace full of dead and dying Turkish soldiers and no one doing anything to help them, and he keeps shouting "Outrageous" in an impotent fury. That's how I feel about most immigration stories I read, but this one really is outrageous, not for naked aggression, as in France, but for an utter failure to do the right thing, for pandering to racist tabloid media, for treating and thinking of asylum seekers and economic migrants as less than human.
After campaigning on the "moral outrage" of children of asylum seekers being kept virtually imprisoned, the LDs as part of the coalition government have helped to hatch this cynical flash-deportation scheme, trying to circumvent both human rights rules and liberal public opinion.
The briefing paper also shows that the border agency is worried that ending the use of detention could give families facing deportation more chance to launch community protest campaigns backed by the media and MPs. It says more police may need to be involved in deportations because "significant public order problems" could follow removals. "The alternative is not to inform the family of the exact time and date of removal, so that they are not prepared. However, this has its own difficulties, which would need analysing and addressing." The document says it is undecided whether a specific time and date should be given, or a longer period of a couple of days.
RIP Harvey Pekar
In These Times and the NYT cover the death of Harvey Pekar. I loved this film, American Splendor. My British husband "didn't get it." But that happens a lot with him and not just American stuff either.
Found on the interweb: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
This is nice.
In loving memory, Shephard H. Patton, Sr.
My sister Cindy lost her husband of 31 years to cancer on Monday. I was blessed to be able to spend a few hours with them in his last week of life, and painful as it was, to say good-bye. The obituary in the Biloxi-Gulfport Sun Herald gives a hint at what an exceptional man he was.
A long time coming, but an astonishing result
Bloody Sunday.
If you had told me in the early 1970s that there would ever come a day when any government, least of all the government of the UK, would issue such an honest and devastating assessment of its own actions, I would not have believed it.
Of course, there are those who see it as a step too far in laying blame, particularly when a commanding officer is singled out for blame, while individual soldiers who shot and killed have their identities protected, and those higher up the chain are mostly let off the hook.
Families of the victims have had, for the most part, no appetite for revenge now that the innocence of their loved ones is established. One survivor says "Jail isn't something I can see happening. That wouldn't, in any way, bother me, I have no great desire to see a 60-year-old man go to jail."
Book Blogging at my other blog
I have reviewed a few books over on Deborama's Book Reviews and Store :E. L. Doctorow's The March , John le Carre's A Most Wanted Man and Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document . Check it out.
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest post on Deborama's Books
Millenium Trilogy on Amazon UK
Check out my latest cultural (books, films, celebrities!) blogging over at Deborama's Book Reviews and Store.
We could call it the Mickey Mouse amendment
Following the SCOTUS decision that corporations have "free speech" rights, Facebook has a got a fan page advocating a Constitutional Amendment to assert that human rights only apply to individual humans. If you think that's over-reacting, or if you tend to be swayed by the fuzzy logic of bone-headed so-called Libertarians on this issue, read the article called Inhuman Rights from McSweeney's Internet Tendency. It is a brilliant example of the argument "ad absurdem", right up there with Swift's Modest Proposal.
Random Appearance of Deborama's WWW and My Life, My Family, Travelling
I'm in Atlanta, which it is now hip to call ATL. I am visiting my son and his girlfriend, and I am staying in the poshest hotel I have ever been in, at a fantastically reasonable rate, thanks to Expedia. (I have a picture of it on my phone, but I will have to upload it later as this computer in the hotel doesn't seem to have a USB port available.)
I have to do another Deborama's Wednesday Website of the Week, but I cannot wait until Wednesday (I will be mostly on the road to Hattiesburg then anyway) and technicallly I should not call it WWW anymore since it is far from being weekly. But I discovered the Believer magazine, a McSweeney's publication, at my son's apartment, and I have been obsessively reading it ever since. Absolutely brilliant, and I hope they'll forgive me lifting the image, since I am using it to plug their product.
Everybody here is laid off, or about to be laid off. It's quite sad what this recession is doing to those of my kids' generation, as if they haven't suffered enough. It's bad for my generation too of course; getting made redundant just as the verdant pastures of retirement come hazily into view is no picnic, I'm sure. Hopefully, I won't find that out firsthand on my return to Blighty, although it is a possibility.
Unhealthy America
This NYT piece by Nicholas Kristof is good enough to drag me out of blogging semi-retirement, which means too good to only click "Share" and send to Facebook. There is no way this can be repeated often enough to get the message across - the US does not have the "best health care in the world", far from it. Saying if it ain't broke don't fix it is only clever if it ain't broke!
A notable death, a death in the family
My ex-father-in-law, Lisle Carleton Carter, Jr., passed away on the 10th of September. It had been many years since I had seen him, but my son was very close to him.
Lisle was not only a person who I really loved and admired, he was just generally a remarkable man, a polymath, in that he was a leading academic administrator, a former government official and a lawyer until his retirement some years ago. And also a poet and a patron of the arts and many charities. He will be missed and mourned by many. His many achievements are featured in this editorial obituary in the Washington Post.
The Best article so far on health care reform
This Huffington Post article by George Lazoff, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics, is very long and a hard read, but worth it. Although he is focusing on a scathing critique of, and offering a cogent alternative to, the way the Obama administration has failed to sell health care reform, along the way he makes some really razor-sharp points about what is wrong with the current system. I think everyone in favour of health care reform (or insurance reform if you prefer) should read this article as a guide in how to discuss it, not just with those who agree, but especially with those who disagree.
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Scary: What Google Knows About Us
Evans on Marketing, July 31, 2013
July 31, 2013 Evans on Marketing Business Analytics and Marketing Information, Good and Bad Examples of Marketing, Online Marketing, Privacy, Identity Theft, and Ethical Issues analytics, bad behavior, customer expectations, good manners, Google, online information, privacy, trends, trust 2
As we have noted several times before (click here, for example), we are not very much in control of our privacy when online. And the steady beat of new stories on this topic gets scarier and scarier.
Consider the latest from the Wall Street Journal, as reported by Amir Efrati:
"Every hour, an active Google user can generate hundreds or thousands of data 'events' that Google stores in its computers. These include when people use Google's array of Web and mobile-device services, which have long collected information about what individuals are privately searching for on the Web. It includes the videos they watch on YouTube, which gets more than one billion visitors a month; phone calls they've made using Google Voice and through nearly one billion Google-powered Android smartphones; and messages they send via Android phones or through Gmail, which has more than 425 million users. If a user signs in to use Gmail and other services, the information collected grows and is connected to the name associated with the account. Google can log information about the addresses of Web sites that person visits after doing Google searches."
"But there are signs Google is feeling increased pressure to calibrate how much emphasis it puts on user privacy. Scarred by a small number of past user-privacy missteps that generated global controversy, and under increased regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe, executives are engaged in wide-ranging internal debates and in some cases slowing product launches to address privacy concerns, according to people familiar with the matter."
Click the image to read more from Efrati.
Photo by Associated Press
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Author Sam Wasson Explains How America Invented Improv
If You Think It Was Just A Matter of Winging It, Think Again
By Doug Gordon
Saturday, August 8, 2020, 11:00am
Sam Wasson is the author of "Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art." As the subtitle of his book indicates, improvisation was invented here in the United States.
"People assume improv has been around since the beginning of time," Wasson told WPR's "BETA." "Ad-libbing has been around. Certainly, people have had scripts and have deviated from the scripts. But the whole notion of, 'Can I get a suggestion from the audience?' That was invented by Viola Spolin in Chicago in the early part of the 20th century."
Spolin was a social worker who invented improvisational games in order to get children to interact with each other, especially children who didn't speak the same language. She worked with her son Paul Sills for the Second City Company in Chicago. Her book, "Improvisation for the Theater," is considered a classic work,
"Her son Paul takes his mother's games for children, and he says, 'Well, what if adults play these games on stage?'" Wasson explained. "And that could be a great way to convey the news of the day — just create instant theater for people and show people what their lives look like right now."
In 1955, Sills discovered two young actors at the University of Chicago and invited them to join America's first improvisational theater, the Compass Players.
"They were Mike Nichols and Elaine May," Wasson said. "So at that point, improv comedy becomes invented accidentally. This was not work that was intended to be funny. That's why I'm stressing the difference between improvisation and improv comedy. Improv comedy starts when Sills casts Mike and Elaine, whose natural pose is just to be funny."
Wasson said that in his opinion, Nichols and May are the greatest improv comedians.
"First of all, they picked material that was risky. And in today's comedy culture, we're so afraid of offending people. Mike and Elaine took on offensive subjects about motherhood and teenage sexuality; they would not be working today if they were in today's comedy culture.
"They were actors, great actors, great writers and great directors. They didn't know that yet, but they had all those muscles working. And that's what ... great improv comedians need to be to improvise. A lot of improv comedians — great ones today — they don't have all those muscles working. They may be great actors, but not necessarily great writers. They don't have three out of the three. Mike and Elaine had three out of the three. And I can even add as a fourth the fearlessness to take on taboo subjects."
One of the most important figures in the world of modern improvisational theater was Del Close. He was a member of the Compass Players with Nichols and May and then moved on to Second City and worked with the San Francisco improv group, The Committee. Wasson describes Close as "sort of the patron saint of the Upright Citizens Brigade."
"Del Close is the Zelig of improvisation, and he was a teacher and sort of a figure of risk. You know, he had many lessons. But I think Del's great lesson to the world is take the crazy choice, make the crazy choice, because it's only on the other side of crazy that you're going to find new worlds emotionally and artistically. And in a way, he learned that from Elaine. He was in love with Elaine his whole life. And who can blame him? But Elaine used to say, 'The only safe thing is to take a risk.'"
As Wasson writes in his book, Close was creatively restless. This restlessness led to his creation of a new form of improvisation called "The Harold."
"The Harold was sort of a group creation by folks in and around The Committee in the mid-60s in San Francisco," Wasson explained. "Del wanted to take improv out of the realm of short-form, which is to say sketch-size scenes. You know, the sort of length that you see on 'Saturday Night Live.' And he wanted to make it more theatrical: Can we take this thing and expand into an evening's entertainment? Can we find a form to help us improvise for an hour? And 'The Harold' was the name they gave this improvising structure."
In 1976, "SCTV" ("Second City Television") hit the airwaves in Canada as a spinoff of Toronto's Second City improv theater. In 1981, NBC started airing "SCTV."
Wasson says that "SCTV" is "the greatest comedy show of all time."
"I would say what puts it over the top for me is that there's actual filmmaking, that there's satire in the camera work, the lighting, the cutting.This is because 'SCTV' is about media satire and show business satire. That extended into the visual presentation of these sketches. So these sketches were in effect like little movies, and that the cultural level of reference on 'SCTV' is also so high. I mean, unbelievably high. Just think about one of the greatest moments in comedy, 'Johnny LaRue's Christmas Special.'"
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Brandt brings his 'Journey' tour to southern Alberta Jan. 28
By Stan Ashbee
Southern Alberta is home to the most-awarded male Canadian country music artist in history. Southern Alberta proudly welcomes Paul Brandt's "The Journey Tour" to the Enmax Centre in Lethbridge Jan. 28. Brandt will be joined by special guests High Valley, Jess Moskaluke, and Hunter Brothers.
Brant said it's amazing how many musicians are out on the road right now, especially in Canada.
"I think people have a lot of opportunity to see shows. They seem super excited when we come out on the road. I think one of the comments we get back most commonly is — 'You guys just look like you're having fun up there.' That's the way we've always approached it, me and the guys in the band. If we're not having a good time the audience can't possibly have a good time," he explained.
"We just do everything we can to make sure we leave it all up there on the stage and have fun with everybody," he added.
Brandt has been travelling and making music for over 20 years. Creating a setlist for a live show can sometimes be a challenge, he said. But, the new tour will include new music from the two EPs and of course, the hits. "The ones people are going to be able to sing along too. It's a bit of a mix and just trying to do everything we can to connect with people with the music."
Over the past 12 to 15 years, Brandt said, the majority of the live shows have been in Canada. "In the early years, we were doing a lot more international touring and probably close to about 180 shows a year. That's fun and I really enjoy it. We still will throw shows in the United States or international shows into the mix every once in a while. The majority of touring is in Canada right now."
"I've got a 10-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl and I like being a hockey dad too — so, it's one of those things you've got to find a balance," he said.
Brandt's hits include "I Do" and "My Heart Has A History" — both of which were the first to chart by a male Canadian country artist on the U.S. Billboard Top 20 since 1976. His focus has also always been using his celebrity to help and shine a light on the lives of those less fortunate, and has encouraged others to do the same.
With his very own Buckspring Foundation, Brandt and his wife Liz have launched the "#NotInMyCity" campaign, which advocates and facilitates on behalf of women and children who are sexually exploited and trafficked in Canada. He also received a 2008 Juno Award for Humanitarian of the Year. "I've been working pretty diligently over the last 18 months on a project with an incredible team. The project is called 'Not In My City.' It's an anti-human trafficking awareness campaign and movement. It's seen incredible success. We're starting to move information about 'Not In My City' across the entire country now and it has seen incredible support from partners and sponsors."
"Creating the conversation, raising awareness, and pushing forward best practice relating to fighting human trafficking. Most people don't even think about this. It's just not on most people's radar, but it's one of the fastest growing crimes in Canada today. It's really encouraging to me to see people are learning more about it," he said.
Brandt is also the most played Canadian country music artist on country radio in history, has had 27 Top 10 songs on Canadian radio, has 11 career albums, and he has won multiple Album of the Year awards. Brandt was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and Western Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017 and is a Queen's Diamond Jubilee Award recipient.
Recently, a second six-song EP was released by Brandt this past fall entitled, "The Journey BNA: Vol. 2." In combination with "YYC: Vol. 1," — the two EPs complete the 12-song "The Journey YYC-BNA: Vol. 1 and 2" collection. "YYC and BNA are the airport codes for Calgary and Nashville. This whole project is a look back and is a bit of a discussion about what my journey has been like professionally, personally and where I might be seeing it going in the future."
In an overarching way, Brandt noted, the EPs talk about what journeys and adventures are like, in general, for people. "It's been a really fun project for me to work on," he said.
Brandt's "The Journey BNA: Vol. 2" charted as the Number One Country Album in Canada near the end of 2018. "It's pretty exciting to see the response," he added.
According to the singer and songwriter, it's always wonderful when people respond to the material being recorded and released. "The connection that can be made through music is really what keeps me coming back."
"I remember when I first moved to Nashville going to places like the Bluebird Cafe and see people I've never seen before perform and listening to them play, there's just something electric about the connection that can be made through music and the communication that happens. I absolutely love it and it's really fun to see that continuing," Brandt said.
Paul Brandt's "The Journey Tour" starts at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $57 and can be purchased online at enmaxcentre.ca.


Situated on the ever-popular, convenient and cherry-tree lined Woodlands Avenue is this four bedroom extended detached family home, enjoying stunning views over woodland.
The accommodation is deceptively large; a Family Room to the front of the property has an electric fireplace (with working chimney) and feature double glazed bay window, as does Bedroom Four opposite, also with a feature bay window (both replaced in 2017). There is a contemporary ground floor cloakroom with side aspect window and a door through to the dining room, kitchen, utility room and extended living space. The Dining Room features a charming original side aspect stained glass window adjacent to a feature fireplace with gas fire (chimney present). There is a glazed door through to the utility room with French doors to the garden and a single courtesy door to the garage. The kitchen has a stone floor, eye & base level Oak units and stainless steel appliances including a dishwasher, double oven with 5 ring gas hob and American style fridge/freezer. There are two steps down into a triumphant triple-aspect extension, spanning the full width of the property with double doors to a large limestone patio area, with further steps down to an extensive lawn.
There is double glazing throughout and oak floors to the majority of the ground floor and up to a half landing, with pretty stained glass side access window. The landing offers loft access and two eaves storage cupboards with access to three double bedrooms and a family bathroom, which is a contemporary white three piece suite with side access window. The generous Master Suite has an white en-suite and Juliet balcony overlooking the superb West facing lawn with mature boundary foliage and woodland beyond.
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Georgina graduated from the Actors Centre in 2000 before being offered an emerging artist residency with Queensland Theatre Company performing in Away, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Female of the Species, Ruby Moon, Beckett x 3. She followed this with the Bell Shakespeare/QTC national tour of The Alchemist. Her other theatre credits include Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story (Sydney Theatre Company); Deathtrap; Every Second (Darlinghurst Theatre); In a Heartbeat (Sydney Theatre Company); Sunset Strip; Porn.Cake; Crestfall (Griffin Theatre); The Dance of Jeremiah (La Boite Theatre Company). Georgina's film & tv credits include feature films, Babyteeth, The Tail Job and Bad Behaviour and short films Eaglehawk and Josh. She will soon appear in the upcoming ABC series Frayed, and has worked with Skitbox on Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am, and for the ABC on The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting, Rake and Bananas in Pyjamas(Animated Series). Her debut solo work Uta Uber Kool Ja, had sell out seasons at Fringe Festivals nationally, winning the ABC Best Performance Award (Perth Fringe), the John Chataway Innovation Award (Adelaide Fringe) and the Tour Ready Award (Melbourne Fringe).


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Q: Serialize self defined type in Java I am reading some materials on Java serialization and found that, for self defined type, we can define two member functions in the type to change the default serializing behavior:
private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream in)
private void writeObject(java.io.ObjectOutputStream out)

I have two questions about this:
1. These two functions are all qualified with private keyword, how are they called during the serializing process?
2. We all know that Java Serializable Interface is an empty interface, so how does the serializing mechanism knows to call these two function to serialize and deserialize?
Looking forward to you help!
cheng

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These two functions are all qualified with private keyword, how are they called during the serializing process?

Java serialization involves magic in the JVM, basically. Heck, it can involve creating an object without calling a constructor, even.

We all know that Java Serializable Interface is an empty interface, so how does the serializing mechanism knows to call these two function to serialize and deserialize?

It's easy to tell (from suitably trusted code) whether a class provides certain methods, via reflection. The serialization framework code is sufficiently trusted to determine that as well as invoking the methods.
Just detecting and invoking a private method from another class is feasible (again, with suitably trusted code) in normal Java of course:
import java.lang.reflect.*;

class Other {
    private static void privateMethod() {
        System.out.println("You can't call me, can you?");
    }
}

public class Test {
    public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception {
        Method method = Other.class.getDeclaredMethod("privateMethod");
        method.setAccessible(true);
        method.invoke(null);
    }
}

A: The answer to both questions is that these things are hard-coded in the Java implementation, so the "normal" rules don't apply (which is probably a bit inconsistent).

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Dobie Girls Basketball Takes The Court
Maleeya Weber
Lady Cougars getting a shot for the team.
Nia McPherson, Staff reporter
December 1 marks the start of the 2016-17 Cougar basketball season, with the annual Dobie vs Corbett game, with the boys playing here at Dobie, and the girls playing at Corbett. All teams and grades have been hard at work over these past few weeks, getting ready to play to win.
"I feel that we have a very strong team, and I feel like we're going to blow teams away this year," said Shelvy Curtis, 8th grader. Curtis is a shooting guard for the 8th grade girls A team. "I'm very confident and excited about this season," said Curtis.
"We have a strong starting 5, and I'm pretty confident we'll win a banner this year," said Jordyn Pax, 8th grader. Pax is a point and shooting guard for the 8th grade girls A team.
"I'm pretty confident that we're going to win most of our games," Jazmin Bejarano said, 8th grade. Bejarano is either a point or wing guard for the 8th grade girls B team.
"It's definitely not going to be easy," said Aaliyah Ellis, 8th grader. Ellis is a post guard for the 8th grade girls A team. "There's going to be some tough teams, but we have a really good team this year," Ellis said.
"The people on A team are good, but I think we're still going to do well," said Zander Witten, 8th grader. Witten plays center for the 8th grade boys B team.
Last night, the game against Corbett was a very close and jam-packed game, with 8th grade boys falling to Corbett, 8th grade girls B team also falling to Corbett, but 8th grade girls A team took home a win playing away.
The basketball season runs from December 1 to February 16, with 8 games, including a game with a big rival, Smithson Valley. All teams are working hard, and they hope to see a banner on the New Gym's wall at the end of this school year.
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High Court to Weigh Case on Private School Placements Under IDEA
By Christina A. Samuels
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case under the main federal special education law involving parents who place their children with disabilities in private schools amid disputes with public school authorities over their children's education plan, then seek reimbursement at public expense.
Such "unilateral placements" were upheld under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by the high court in 1985. The justices held in Burlington School Committee v. Massachusetts Department of Education that parents are entitled to reimbursement when courts later determine that the parents' private school placement of their child was appropriate and the school district's placement was inappropriate under the IDEA.
The reimbursements are routinely ordered by lower federal courts under the proper circumstances, often at significant expense to public school systems.
But the case the justices accepted for review on Feb. 26 involves whether districts must reimburse parents when students in special education are placed in private schools without the students ever having been enrolled in the public school system.
In its appeal in New York City Board of Education v. Tom F. (Case No. 06-637), the 1.1 million-student New York City school system contends that it made a free, appropriate public education available to the student, Gilbert Freston, now 17 years old, but that the boy's father, Thomas E. Freston, did not accept the placement.
Therefore, the district should not be responsible for the costs of the private placement, it says in legal briefs.
Mr. Freston is one of the co-founders of MTV: Music Television and the former president and chief executive officer of the entertainment company Viacom Inc. He was ousted last year by Viacom Chairman Sumner M. Redstone.
Mr. Freston enrolled Gilbert in the Stephen Gaynor School in New York City, a private school for children with special needs, in the fall of 1995, when Gilbert was 6. In 1997 and 1998, the New York City district established an individualized education plan for Gilbert, which the school district acknowledged was inadequate, said Neal Rosenberg, a lawyer for the Freston family. In response to a request from Mr. Freston, the New York City school board reimbursed the family about $36,000 for tuition for those two years, Mr. Rosenberg said.
In 1999, the district offered a different placement for Gilbert. Despite never visiting the public school suggested for his son, or any of the other public schools suggested for his son in the past, the district's brief said, Mr. Freston again sought tuition reimbursement for the 1999-2000 school year.
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In April 2001, a state special education hearing officer determined that the district had not met its burden of proving that its recommended placement was appropriate for the student. On appeal, a state review officer upheld the hearing officer's decision that the district must pay tuition costs for the student for 1999-2000.
Taking the case to U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the school system prevailed. In a July 2005 decision, U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels wrote that the text of the IDEA suggests "that where a child has not previously received special education from a public agency, there is no authority to reimburse the tuition expenses arising from the parent's unilateral placement of the child in private school."
The father appealed and last year, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, in New York City, unanimously vacated the district court, applying the reasoning of a recent decision the 2nd Circuit court had made in a similar case, Frank G. v. Board of Education of Hyde Park Central School District.
In that case, a different 2nd Circuit panel said the idea of parents having to enroll their child in a public school first places them "in the untenable position of acquiescing to an inappropriate placement in order to seek reimbursement from the public agency that devised the inappropriate placement."
In its appeal, the New York City district argues that the 2nd Circuit court's rulings in this area conflict with a 1997 amendment to the IDEA that it believes made clear the statute does not require public schools to reimburse parents when a district offers an appropriate placement but the parents voluntarily place their children in private schools.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case during the term that starts next October.
Vol. 26, Issue Web only
"IDEA Issues Getting Ear of High Court," November 8, 2006.
"Court Is Urged to Hear Case on Parent Representation Under IDEA," October 4, 2006.
"Court Weighs Burden of Proof in IDEA Cases," October 12, 2005.
"Best Evidence," September 28, 2005.
"Private Schools Hail Changes to IDEA," May 18, 2005.
"Hearing Offers Range of Views on IDEA Regulations," February 9, 2005.
For more stories on this topic see Law and Courts and Special Education.
For background, previous stories, and Web links, read Special Education.
Read the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York v. Tom F. docket from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Tannery Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary This Year
By Susie Kostaras Sep 10, 2013, 12:49pm EDT
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While Boston hasn't traditionally been viewed as a fashion city, it has its fair share of long standing family-run shopping institutions; among them are Alan Bilzerian, Riccardi, Louis, and The Tannery, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. WWD dives deep into the retailer's history this week, with several features revolving around the company timeline, the Concepts offshoot, the evolution of its 21,000 square foot flagship, and the man at the helm, Sam Hassan.
Here are some fun facts about The Tannery from WWD:
· Apparently it was a pioneer of the shop-in-shop concept back in the 1980s, and the current Boylston Street three-level floorplan still reflects that.
· Concepts, formerly a shop-in-shop at the original Cambridge location and expanded into a standalone store in 2008, was created to meet the demand of extreme sports and fashion fans (co-owner Tarek Hassan included). Next year, the store will roll out pop-up shops in other cities, testing the waters for future locations.
· The company's growth over the last decade is rather unique, as Sam Hassan notes: "We always expand in the recession. When we opened in 1973 [and again] in 1981, when we were opening Cambridge and the big stores, it was a recession."
· The not-so-distant future brings a plan for a fourth floor at the flagship to showcase the brand's collaborations, exclusives, and private label (within two years) and an e-commerce overhaul (seemingly within the next year).
· Milestone: 40 Years at The Tannery [WWD]
· Milestone: Q&A With The Tannery's Sam Hassan [WWD]
· Milestone: The Tannery's Evolving Doors [WWD]
· Milestone: Inside the Concepts Strategy [WWD]
· Boston's 38 Essential Shopping Experiences [Racked Boston]
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Shares of BATS:IBML opened at $25.40 on Wednesday. iShares iBonds Dec 2023 Term Muni Bond ETF has a 1 year low of $24.83 and a 1 year high of $25.83.
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Earlier this week, I interviewed South Korean human rights activist Do Hee-yun– the person said to be responsible for helping the manuscript of "The Accusation" escape North Korea– at the New York Public Library. He told me that he hoped to make contact with the author, Bandi again this spring, and– incredibly– that he believed the stories in "The Accusation" may actually have been the work of not just one writer, but a group of writers (!). That conversation was part of an extraordinary evening, with readings from Min Jin Lee and Heinz Insu Fenkl, and a performance from the opera-in-progress based on one of Bandi's stories. (UPDATE: Audio and video of the event are now online.) Here's my original piece on "The Accusation" for The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-collection-of-north-korean-stories-and-the-mystery-of-their-origins
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"Attendees will benefit from Dr. Piasecki's decades-long career in consulting multinational corporations on competing and succeeding in the 21st century in a world of seven billion citizens, where social responsiveness is key."
Autumn 2014 U.K. and Ireland Book Tour
New York Times bestselling author Dr. Bruce Piasecki
to speak at Queen's University Chief Executives' Club
Monday, October 6, 2014 • Belfast, U.K.
Riddel Hall, Stranmillis Road
Queen's University, Belfast, UK
5:30 p.m.: Pre-lecture Reception
6:00 p.m.: Lecture
Dr. Bruce Piasecki, New York Times bestselling author and CEO of New York-based management consulting firm, AHC Group, Inc., will be presenting to members of the Queen's University Executives' Club a talk on "Competition in a World of 7 Billion Citizens: A New Model for Business Growth/Success," including a seminar and retrospective of his bestselling books, Doing More With Less: The New Way to Wealth and its follow-up companion, Doing More With Teams.
Refreshments will be available from 5:30 p.m., before the lecture. There is no charge to attend this lecture, though early registration is advised. Please confirm your attendance with Brenda Carabine by:
Email: brenda.carabine@qub.ac.uk
Phone: 011-44-028-9097-1153
For additional details, please download the flyer (PDF) »
Other stops on his tour include:
Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) at University of Edinburgh Business School
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 • Edinburgh, Scotland
Dr. Piasecki will present at the University of Edinburgh Business School on the topic of "Doing More With Teams: Innovation Paths," co-hosted by the local branch of the business support organization ICSA, which is the chartered membership and qualifying body for people working in governance, risk, and compliance, including company secretaries. The audience of 70–80 people included post-graduate students, ICSA members, members of faculty, alumni, and members of our wider corporate network.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 • Glasgow, Scotland
This talk begins at 5:30 P.M. and is focused on Competition in a World of 7 Billion Citizens: A New Model for Business Growth/Success. The audience is primarily MBA and Masters students, with business leaders from companies such as Scotrail, Firstgroup, Clydesdale Bank, Creative Scotland, Ernst and Young LLP, Rolls-Royce, and Aggreko.
Trinity College Innovation Café
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 • Dublin, Ireland
Attendees of Dr. Piasecki's lecture, "Innovation, Carbon & Energy Trends," will benefit from his decades-long career in consulting multinational corporations on competing and succeeding in the 21st century in a world of seven billion citizens, where social responsiveness is key.
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Dublin Institute of Technology
Grangegorman Campus (St. Lawrence Church)
This talk begins at 5:30 P.M. with Professor Brian Norton, President of DIT, welcoming guests and introducing Dr. Bruce Piasecki. His talk will be based on Innovation, Carbon and Energy Trends. The event will be supported by the Environment Sustainability and Health Institute (ESHI) and Hothouse, the business incubation and technology transfer office. Invitations will be issued to academic colleagues working in the area of sustainability in a range of disciplines, from energy to innovation and new business to issues around the built environment, and also alumni of their business incubation program. The Fulbright Commission in Ireland to be present.
For questions or press materials regarding these talks or Bruce's tour, please email Bruce Piasecki directly.
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Great option rather than a hotel room. the apartment could not be better located although that comes with a bit of noise especially at the weekend. Very modern apartment in a very old area, needs some small further bits and pieces like knives for cutting, ledge for the shower etc. Getting in is moderately complicated and I'd advise to email in advance to confirm the time you are going to arrive. Padova itself is almost impossible to beat; not that many tourists, incredibly friendly locals, easy to get around, astonishing art and architecture, and great food.
Ho soggiornato nell'appartamento 1 di Via Sant'Andrea 20 (e per 1 notte nell'appartamento 2) per una settimana. L'appartamento era perfettamente pulito, molto confortevole e in un'ottima posizione. Mi sono sentita subito a casa! Per un viaggiatore singolo o una coppia, questo è un grande appartamento. Ci sono 2 rampe di scale (non è stato un problema per me, ma potrebbe esserlo per qualcuno), si affaccia sulle strade sottostanti (è all'angolo dell'edificio, sopra un paio di negozi) ed è stato bello poter guardare i passanti, ascoltare i rumori e occasionalmente la musica da Piazza della Frutta (non fastidiosa, l'ho trovata un bel sottofondo) e sentirsi parte della vita locale. È molto vicino a un mercato (sulla piazza) e a un supermercato (Panorama), e a pochi passi dalla stazione e da varie parti della città. Ero lì per una conferenza all'università e sono stata perfettamente in grado di lavorare, ecc. (la connessione wifi era eccezionale). La mia unica lamentela è che dalla descrizione avevo avuto l'impressione che ci fossero una lavatrice e una lavastoviglie, ma in realtà non c'è una lavatrice. Fortunatamente, sono riuscita a non averne comunque bisogno. Inoltre, non c'erano coltelli affilati in cucina (tagliare la cipolla con un coltello da tavola è stato impegnativo), quindi ho dovuto comprarne uno. Tutto sommato, mi è piaciuto molto e ci tornerei volentieri.
I stayed in apartment 1 of Via Sant'Andrea 20 (& for 1 night in apartment 2) for a week. The flat was immaculately clean, very comfortable, and in a great location. It instantly felt like home to me! For a single traveller or a couple, this is a great flat. It's up 2 flights of steps (not a problem for me, but possibly one for some), and looks out onto the streets below (it's on the corner of the building, above a couple of shops), and it was lovely to be able to watch people go past, hear the noises & occasionally music from the piazza del Frutti (not bothersome; I found it atmospheric), and feel like part of things. It's very close to a market (on the piazza) and to a supermarket (Panorama), and wasn't a bad walk from the station and around various parts of town. I was there for a conference at the university, and found I was easily able to work, etc (the wifi was great). My only complaint is that I got the impression from the description that there was a washing machine as well as a dishwasher, when there wasn't a washing machine. Fortunately, I had enough close to manage without one. Also, there were no sharp knives in the kitchen (chopping onion with a table knife was challenging), so I had to buy one. All in all, however, I loved it and would happily stay there again.


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INTERVIEW: LuLu Lambros – Stuck in the Middle
Q) What are the recent projects that you are working on?
A) It's an exciting time! "Stuck in the Middle" was renewed for another season. So, we are filming season three now. It really is a dream job with a dream cast and crew. I can't think of a better place to work. I'm grateful every day to the producers, writers and Disney for the opportunity to create with them, entertain with them and learn from them. My character, Ellie, has been a true gift!
Q) Please tell us how your character Ellie on "Stuck in the Middle" was originally described to you.
A) The original description of Ellie was actually pretty much what you see on the show now! Obviously, the producers and writers had a clear idea and it was up to me to bring their vision to life, with a little bit of me thrown in. Ellie was said to be the only child of Bethany, who is overprotected and innocent yet eager. She is fascinated with the Diaz family, wanting to be a part of the family, always looking for a way to hang with them and Harley's (Jenna Ortega) best friend and biggest fan.
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My name is Adaline, and I'm a transfer pet. Which means every home I've ever had only kept me for as long as they had too before sending me away for a better pet, or their "dreamy" as I've heard them called.
Just as she was about to grudgingly about to become visible, something happened. A random event!
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"Haunted Woods Orphanage," ten year old Amalia read the large stone sign, a tad hard to read due to its weatherworn appearance.
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, também escrito como 2004 KV18, é um troiano de Netuno que tem o mesmo período orbital que Netuno em seu ponto de Lagrange L5. Ele possui uma magnitude absoluta de 8,9 e tem um diâmetro com cerca de 73 km.

Descoberta
 foi descoberto no ano de 2004.

Órbita
A órbita de  tem uma excentricidade de 0,188 e possui um semieixo maior de 30,276 UA. O seu periélio leva o mesmo a uma distância de 24,596 UA em relação ao Sol e seu afélio a 35,956 UA.

Ver também
 Troiano (astronomia)
 Troianos de Netuno

Troianos de Netuno

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Majdan – część wsi Ochoża w Polsce położona w województwie lubelskim, w powiecie chełmskim, w gminie Wierzbica.

W latach 1975–1998 Majdan położony był w województwie chełmskim.

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Ochoża (powiat chełmski)