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Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS): Performance Indicators for Corrections (PIC), 2002-2006 [United States] (ICPSR 27942)
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In 2002, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) cooperative agreement. The Institute of Behavioral Research at Texas Christian University (TCU) was one of nine National Research Centers selected to study current drug treatment practices and outcomes in correctional settings and to examine strategies for improving treatment services for drug-involved offenders.
The specific aims of the PIC study were to:
- Cross sectionally test and adapt the TCU CJ-CEST, BOP, and NDRI CAI assessments for use in multiple correctional settings;
- To examine agency and program records of client progress relevant to treatment process; and to
- Revise the assessments as necessary for use in longitudinal assessment protocols and CJ Management Information Systems (MIS).
During the first data collection period, Wave 1, a total of 3,266 inmates were surveyed from research centers based out of Texas Christian University, the University of Delaware, the University of Kentucky, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the National Development and Research Institute (NDRI). After psychometrics were run and the forms revised slightly, a second administration took place but this time only at two centers (TCU and Delaware). During Wave 2 a total of 1,421 clients participated in the survey.
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Special Collaborators on this study in addition to Texas Christian University were the:
- National Development and Research Institutes
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Delaware
- University of Kentucky
For additional information about TCU's work on the CJ-DATS program please refer to TCU's Institute of Behavioral Research CJ-DATS page. An additional resource for further information is the National Institute on Drug Abuse Web site for CJ-DATS.
The only demographic variables collected during Wave 1 were gender, age, and race. During Wave 2 an additional section was added to the survey instrument for respondents to fill out that delved further into a person's demographics and background.
A few demographic / background variables were modified to help protect the confidentiality of the study participants.
- AGE: Collapsed into categories
- RACE: Smaller categories combined together
- EDUCYRS: Top- and bottom-coded
- JAILNUM: Top-coded
- MOSINTRT: Top-coded
Please note that of this list only AGE and RACE apply to Wave 1. Also of note, the variable RACE was not asked by the principal investigator exactly the same across the two waves.
The PIC is comprised of three scale components: Client Evaluation of Self and Treatment (CEST), Bureau of Prison's Criminal Thinking Scale (BOP), and the Client Assessment Inventory (CAI). Each of the three scales is comprised of smaller scales. At the end of each small, indidividual scale a mean scale score was calculated. Some of the individual variables within a scale were reverse coded as part of the calculation. The question text for the mean scale score variables includes the designation "(R)" for those items that were reverse coded. However, the individual variables themselves have not been reverse coded.
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The principal investigator did not compute a mean scale score for the following scales for Wave 2: Self Efficacy (CEST), Social Consciousness (CEST), and Street Values (BOP). Wave 1 does contain a mean scale score variable for these three scales however.
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Given the limited availability of treatment for offenders with substance abuse problems, it is critical that correctional systems optimize the benefits from their treatment programs and evaluate which components have the greatest impact on effecting psychosocial, cognitive, and behavioral change.
A key objective of this project was the establishment of science-based evidence for the role of corrections-based treatment in reducing drug use and crime-related costs to society.
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To participate a research center had to meet the following three criteria.
- Access to at least 3 corrections based drug treatment programs (one of which had to serve women), ideally of varying settings.
- Ability to identify and obtain institutional program records on at least 50 offenders from each treatment program.
- Ability to implement the assessment cross-sectionally within each participating program.
From within a participating treatment program subjects were recruited and asked to voluntarily participate. Recruitment was not predicated upon how long the person had been in the treatment program.
Clients were informed that their responses would be used to help make the assessment more useful and to provide feedback about their treatment experience (as a group) to program administrators.
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- TCU Criminal Justice Client Evaluation of Self and Treatment (CJ-CEST): 130 items comprising 17 scales across 4 domains
- Bureau of Prison's Criminal Thinking Scale (BOP): 56 items comprising 7 scales
- NDRI Client Assessment Inventory for Correction Populations (CAI): 103 items comprising 14 scales across 4 domains
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- Knight, Kevin. Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS): Performance Indicators for Corrections (PIC), 2002-2006 [United States]. ICPSR27942-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-05-08. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27942.v2
2013-05-08 Part 1 (Wave 1) was added to the study collection. The question text, variable groups, and disclosure protections were updated for Part 2 (Wave 2).
2010-09-09 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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If anyone follows this blog anymore, I am sure you are in total shock that I am actually blogging today. It's been 4 months, how sad that is. I told myself at the beginning of 2010 I was going to start blogging again regularly and here it is April, every four months, hmmmmm, I really had in mind SLIGHTLY more often than that, but life just keeps happening and I just don't get it all done.
I don't get it all done because one of my favorite mantras should probably be why finish a project when you can start a new one, thanks Meredith! ;)
Lately I have been sewing up a storm. I have made a few projects for friends. So far towards Christmas I have completed a quilt top for Cody, started one for Sam, relocated and reworked one that I am planning to give Jenna and purchased the fabric for Seth's. I think that MY KIDS should really probably be one of the recipents of my hard labor.
Made a totally cute quilt for my Aunt O, in remembrance of her 60th birthday which was in February! Too cute, if I wasn't so lazy I would post the picture, maybe another day. We have several young people who are special to us, who are graduating from high school and college this spring, so graduation quilts are in process, wish me luck, I just may have bit off more than I can chew on that one.
I have big plans for sewing including a quilt for our bed, I am calling it our 20th wedding anniversary gift, but secretly hoping we get to go somewhere for our anniversary and that the quilt isn't the only gift, especially since who knows if I will actually complete it BY our anniversary! There are many other projects that I hope to do as well.
I am truly loving the time I am spending sewing. I definitely think I have addictive personality, I may not smoke or drink, but fabric is my vice!!! LOL
Besides sewing, I am making plans to do some painting and updating in our house! I have paint purchased to do our bathroom, kitchen back splash area and want to possibly do some decorative painting in Jenna's room. Along with the updates, I have some ideas in mind for some meaningful wall art. I have made some yo-yo's that I am planning to arrange like a flag to hang in our room and tie in with the new quilt and bedding(planning to make some pillows too!) I have some antique postcards that belonged to David's great uncle Bill (Seth William's namesake) that are 4th of July ones and a few Memorial Day ones that I am wanting to frame for a picture in our Dining Room. And I have been thinking of some way to preserve a family heirloom from my side of the family and I think I have finally come up with the idea. I have pictures of Mom, Jenna and I each at about a year and a half old, all wearing the same dress. I want to frame the three pictures AND the dress for a piece of wall art/ family history. I even wrote a poem to add to the picture. I am not sure this is the final copy, but here's the rough draft:
The Little Blue Dress
Purchased and worn on a very special day,
In 1950 in the month of May.
Bright blue cotton, in the back, a bow.
Sweetly trimmed in lace for a little show.
Kids do lots and especially grow,
It makes Moms sad, for this they know
With future dreams, it's packed away
To be worn again, on some future day.
Granddaughter came with eyes of blue
Grandma said, she'll wear that dress too!
Laundered and pressed, ready to go
Over the head and tie the bow.
Pictures taken and memories made
Captured in time before they fade.
Packed up away, saved and treasured
For a mothers love cannot be measured.
Would we see it again, who's to know?
Such a cute little dress, tied with a bow.
Grandkids finished up just in time,
Great grandkids came right along, next in line
First a son, then another
Soon enough, they're both big brothers
More blonde hair and eyes of blue
Absolutely! She will wear the dress too!
Love's passed on, once again
Where's it end? Where's it begin?
To the daughter from the mother
Four generations, love one another.
Okay so it's Good Friday, we have eggs to color, a few chores to finish and lots of fun to have. Wishing you and yours a Blessed Easter weekend. Hoping to get back here very soon.
Until we meet again,
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Sunday, August 19, 2012
Crossdresser as Selfish?
It has taken quite some time to formulate my thoughts about what Paula, from Paula's Place, commented on my wife's post, and then began a discussion on Crossdressers Forum, so I'm sorry for the tardiness of this post. Anyways here is what she had to say:
"...I suspect that we cross dressers are a pretty selfish self absorbed bunch..."
I believe that there is nothing about crossdressing that makes the act inherently selfish in and of itself. What I think makes many of us think that it is a selfish act is that we have many people in our lives that do not want us to crossdress. They express their desires to not have us do what we would like to do. The people that ask us to not crossdress are often the most important people in our lives, our spouses. We love, respect, and want to please these people, and yet we cannot rid ourselves of the desire to crossdress and so continue on with what many people consider to be an abomination.
It is this conflict that manifests itself as selfishness. If there were no conflict, there would be no selfishness. For example, if you told your spouse you wanted to crossdress and they said, 'oh my god, I was so hoping you would tell me that because I always thought you would look great in my favorite little black dress,' would it be considered selfish if you then began wearing that dress? I don't think anybody would think that it was.
But that is generally not ever what happens when someone tells their spouse of their crossdressing desires. What I assert happens is that their spouse tells them that it is wrong and tells them they do not want them to do it. Isn't that the beginning of the selfish blame game?
They are the ones who begin the selfishness, by telling us they do not want us to do it, and further that they will not accept us if we do it. If we tell them that we will continue we then become the selfish ones. When they tell their friends of what we are doing, their friends tell them that indeed their spouse is being very selfish in continuing to do something that they hate.
If we do not acquiesce to their demands we are labeled as selfish. Why are our desires any more selfish than their desires? Could it be because we are the ones that are doing something that is seen as aberrant?
When we say that we love someone, what does that mean? Will we only love someone as long as they will only do what we want them to do? Or do we love the actual person?
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Are you talking about any "they" in particular here or any particular circumstances? Because I can think of numerous cases in which cross-dressing might be regarded as "selfish", since it changes everything and not just for ourselves.ReplyDelete
For instance, with partners cross-dressing can be "selfish" if it's suddenly sprung upon them. If they always knew and are now demanding that we stop, that would indeed be selfish on their part. If they didn't know, then the situation is rather more complicated: the relationship would likely have been based on our being "masculine" in some sort of way. The appearance of "femininity" messes that up. We may still be "us", but we're not the "us" our partners know, or the sort of "us" to which they're attracted. To ask them to try and change themselves to adapt to a different "us" is quite selfish – and the same sort of selfish, especially as it may not be possible for them; i.e. their desire for "masculinity" may be as integral to them as our "femininity" is to us. In order to stay together, compromises on both sides will probably have to be made.
With family and friends it's a bit different again. The asking may well be selfish, but it has some validity in that transphobia doesn't just affect us, it also affects them, especially if we live in the same house. Compromises may be necessary in this case too. On the other hand if they want us to stop cross-dressing simply because they don't like it, then they are just being selfish and they need to get over it. Although we may need to make them understand first that cross-dressing is integral to who we are; it can't and won't go away just because they'd like it to.
I may be having these conversations myself very soon ;)Replies
Good thoughts. I agree that placing demands upon someone else to accept something is selfish. Us demanding that someone else accept crossdressing is selfish just as anyone demanding that we not crossdress is selfish as well.Delete
As far as transphobia, maybe I have just been lucky for the last five or six years or so, but I really have not encountered it. I've heard of it, I've read about it, I know many others have experienced it first hand. But I personally have not ever. I mention this as this was a concern for my wife when I first wanted to go out dressed. But in reality we both have experienced the opposite. People seem to go out of their way to be polite to both of us.
In my experience and readings most of the selfish blame game has come between partners and it makes me sad to see such hurtful infighting over what I personally consider to be a rather small issue. I don't see crossdressing to be this giant cosmic thing that so many others see it as. I kind of see it as as simply as some people like vanilla ice cream while others like chocolate. Should the vanilla lovers hate the chocolate lovers because they differ in opinions? I think not.
Oh and no I was not thinking of any particular incident or circumstance. I too can think of many ways that crossdressing can be selfish. I was really just responding more to the idea that crossdressers in and of themselves are selfish.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 11, 2019 at 7:12 AM
I can allude to a personal experience:Delete
In attempts to understand the extent to which my husband wishes to crossdress and where I belong in all of it, he usually stonewalls or gaslights, accusing me of being crazy. In one of our conversations when we were just dating and I suspected there was something different about the guy, I told him he ought to stop swiping my undergarments. In 3 months, I found myself shopping for panties more than I had in the 30 years on this blessed Earth. He replied that he will continue to do so whether I liked it or not and nothing is to stop him.
As mentioned however, it is not the crossdressing per se, but the crossdresser.
Thank you for taking the time and effor to consider my off the cuff comment! Certainly the whole relationship area is one in which either party can see the other as being selfish when they do not get thier own way, but there are otehr areas as well. for many of us the financial expense of our dressing is as hard to justify as it is to resist that pair of shoes! Then there is also the time spent preening, and then for many of us going out, on our own, rather than spending time with family.ReplyDelete
Of course I may just be judging by my own standards I have just come to accept that I am a bit of an attention seeker, so maybe the next stage is to accept that Paula is a whole character, faults and all.......Replies
You are certainly welcome for considering your comments. I appreciate all comments and consider them closely. I too think of the financial aspects as I am dressing for two and it does concern me. Especially now as I am considering a new $800 wig. Wow, can I really justify that expense? Maybe, as I freely allow my wife to purchase whatever it is that she would like. Though we are a two income household, with each of us about equal in income.Delete
The time thing is also of concern and has frequently made me feel selfish as now that I allow myself to crossdress I do at times spend more time on myself than I used to. But, is that I bad thing? I think it depends. If we take care of our partners needs as well as our own then I do not deem it to be selfish to care for ourselves. All too often people that do not care for themselves first are then unavailable to care for others.
In discussing this post and comments with my wife she feels as though with me enjoying both aspects of my own gender she tends to get the best of both worlds. She gets to spend the majority of her time with me in a more masculine mode but gets to do fun girly things with her best friend, me, as well.
This was a thoughtful and thought provoking post. It seems to me that the dynamic of selfishness is common in all relationships. We all face limited time and resources so no one gets to do all that they want all of the time. Starting from that point the rest is a series of compromises. Crossdressing, at its bare minimum, will take time and money that would find other uses in any relationship.
Because crossdressing is 'out of the mainstream' and because it is often something that the husband likes and wants to do much more than his wife, and because going out and about with a 'man in a dress' can be a source of embarassment and because it is hard or impossible for a GG to feel the same need and desire to cross dress that many of us feel, etc., our dressing can come across as being a selfish act on our part.
You have a special relationship with your wife. You also have the ability to get out and about and be passable or blendable in almost any set of circumstances. Your height, weight, body style, age, etc, combined with your exquisite ability to appropriately utilize your 'unordinary style' gives you options that may not be available to others.
On my best days I do convince my wife that there are benefits to having a crossdressing husband but I suspect that on balance that if she could make this cup pass she would.
Again, a great post.
Pat, your commentsbare always very thought provoking as well. There is much in a relationship that is a series of compromoises. This topic of selfishness is one that my wife and I have returned to frequently. I wasndiscussing with her today about how many woodworkers (which is another hobby of mine) worry about how selfish they are. Woodworking takes lots of time away from the family as well as often costs lots of money. My wives response was to then question me if it is selfish of her to go get her nails done, which takes time and money. Maybe there are many things in a relationship that are selfish, but is that a bad thing? I think many crossdressers feel that our hobby is a selfish one. I think it is important to make sure that things are balanced out. Personally I am aware that I need to be mindful of my hobbies because at times they can become all consuming.Delete
Gosh my typos in that last comment were horrendous, sorry! Damn ipad!Delete
To relate the subject to woodworking I think you hit the nail on the head in your original post. All of us do things for ourselves that we like to do. By and large that is a good and healthy thing. Each individual needs some space for themselves but that takes time and resources away from other things...often your spouse.
I like to golf and ski. Both are time consuming and costly. My wife has other things that she likes. We often find things that we like to do together.
Woodworking, golfing, skiing, etc. are common universally understood hobbies. There would never be a problem for anyone to talk to my wife and be told that I was out golfing. It would be a problem if I was out and about in a dress and heels. My wife is a brutally honest person...she just does not lie. Is it selfish for me to go out and put her into a situation where if people were to ask where I was she would feel the need to lie about it. What makes our 'hobby' seem selfish when we spend time and resources dressing and going out while dressed is that this activity or behavior is still not socially accepted and in many cases is incongruent with our regular lives as the male person that people have come to know.
PS: Do not sweat the typos, etc. Be thankful that you are communicating with me and not my wife. Many years ago she was a professional copy editor for a major publisher. She has much more tolerance for having a husband in a dress than she does for typos, spelling and grammar errors. She is on a one woman crusade to save the proper use of an apostrophe.
- AnonymousApril 24, 2013 at 3:51 PM
Being selfish, is not a sin. But is damage for the wellbeing of others around you, so that is the importants of telling, but one might wonder if this telling thing has to only inlcude woman but what about mens that have never crossdressed?ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.Delete
Do I need to bear the responsibility for the well-being of others around me? To some extent, but certainly not entirely. We all need to be responsible for ourselves. Now I do not think that gives me a right to be a jerk to anyone, but at the same time do I need to hide who I am because it offends someone else? I don't think so.
Oh and yes I have told non-cross dressing men about what I do and it has been received quite well.
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Last week we found a random Target gift card on my husband's desk with $12.50 still left on it, and neither of us knew where it even came from! So I asked my husband if I could have it and he said yes, but only under one condition--I had to spend it on something for myself and not on food or other family/household items that I would normally buy at Target. So I hugged him and kissed him and skipped on over to Target with my $12.50 gift card honestly feeling like I had just hit the jackpot.
And I totally kept my promise....I went straight to the cosmetics section and picked me out some red lipstick! I was always wary of having bright lipstick when my hair was blonde for fear of looking like a barbie or something, but now that my hair is darker I feel like anything goes. Plus I'm almost 25 years old and I don't own a tube of lipstick?? What the heck!
So I wore the lipstick on Friday afternoon, and must admit that I haven't worn it since. Turns out when you wear lipstick you can't do things like drink from your water bottle or kiss your husband [haha]......so I'm not sure when I'll ever wear it again, but it was free and it was fun while it lasted, and now it is permanently on the blog so I can forever and always remember that one time I wore red lipstick. :)


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STORM DAMAGE: Branstad Asks For Federal Help
Gov. Terry Branstad is requesting help from the federal government for storm recovery efforts in 19 Iowa counties.
Branstad signed a letter Thursday requesting a Presidential Disaster Declaration for several counties that suffered damage from thunderstorms and flooding between April 17th and April 30th.
A damage assessment done by federal, state, and local agencies shows preliminary damage of $8.9 million that may be eligible for federal help under the Public Assistance Program. Money from that program is used to rebuild damaged infrastructure or pay for emergency work and debris removal.
The 19 counties Branstad asked for the declaration for are: Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Lucas, Marion, Monroe, Muscatine, Ringgold, Van Buren, Wapello, Warren, and Wayne.


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Nika Neelova brings my attention to the handrail on a staircase. She talks, mesmerizingly, about its sinuousness, and its ability to choreograph fluid, familiar, and invulnerable movements all around it. Never moving but always guiding, it has the ability to connect through touch and lead from one place to another. For Neelova, this relationship between skin and wood mimics a direct connection between a person and a building, and signals a continuity that runs through the human body, architecture and space. More seductive is the idea that the old wooden bannisters, which she repurposes in her practice, were crafted over a hundred years ago by human hands, and spent the next century interacting with other hands. There is something intensely faithful and intimate about this private relationship. Neelova believes that through this continuous exposure and contact with human skin these handrails preserve the memory of human bodies and with it the identities of these house. She calls them 'portraits' of different houses.
I met Neelova at Green Art Gallery to talk about her work and place it within the context of the exhibition The Theatre of the Absurd (September 13 - November 21, 2017), a group show of five women artists who explore the collision of human existence and the built world, manifesting itself in the relationship between art and architecture.
For Neelova, this means looking into what she calls a post-human world and seeing how objects function in a non-anthropocentric setup, one that isn't based on human-approved functionalities (reflective of the concept of Object Oriented Ontology—of which we didn't speak). She goes on to add that it explores how "objects are not ontologically exhausted by their relationships to humans, and our views of functionalities of things could be called into question." She is aware of the irony in the concept: these objects exist because of the humans that built them, and to fulfil and facilitate human needs. The dialogue, however, in line with OOO, is of a more metaphysical nature.
The Lemniscate series consist of various sculptures made from wooden bannisters reclaimed from old English houses awaiting demolition, and then repurposed and fitted together so that they form an infinite loop. A lemniscate, in mathematics, is a curved line or plane with a distinct 8-shape, consisting of two loops that meet at a central point. While the sculpture doesn't necessarily adhere strictly to this form, the concept of the infinite loop remains the same.
It is hard to remove the human relationship from this form, and I imagine hands clutching and grazing on it endlessly, wearing away the polish at certain points. I bring this up with Neelova who calls it the choreography of the absent human body. The absence of the body in itself makes a powerful image, drawing upon both the presence and absence of existence, both infinitely tied together. This is the underlying thread in all the works in the room, save for one painting.
As Yasmin Atassi (Director, Green Art Gallery) leads me on a tour of the exhibition she explains that she's been preoccupied for a while with observing and exploring how contemporary artists are responding to the themes around architecture, so this is not unfamiliar territory to the gallery. Within the gallery's programme, Atassi shows the work of artist Seher Shah who has been looking at concepts of architecture, landscape and space and the experiential and hypothetical aspects that ascribe meaning in a human world. Her work ranges from drawings to sculpture, sometimes brutalist, almost always bereft of the body.
What is interesting is how the works of the five artists in the show, none of which have either worked together or with the gallery before, come together in a cohesive dialogue—one that spreads from Bombay to Sao Paulo, all the while retaining a strange relevance to its host location: Dubai. Atassi points out that it is a complete coincidence that all the artists in The Theatre of the Absurd are female and in their 30s, yet, a strong female artist representation seems characteristic to her programming, somehow avoiding becoming token. One of the gallery's shows earlier this year, Modernist Women of Egypt, was based on the premise of "Egypt's unique engagement in the early 20th century with issues of nationalism, womanhood, activism, traditions and multiculturalism…"
It is quite clear that while the audience for art galleries in Dubai is growing exponentially, there is still much work to be done when bringing in conceptual and/or critical dialogue within the white cube. Nika and I discussed themes of hyper-urbanity, of Dubai's architecture, of changing landscapes, and what it means to identify with cityscapes that are constantly evolving: faster in Dubai and slightly more slowly, but steadily in London, her dig-site. And the sense of memory and loss attached to this instantly reminded me of another exhibition which was installed in the same gallery, early last year. Curated by Dubai-based artist Lantian Xie, 1497 explored various artists' responses to space and land as home, and the idea of belonging/unbelonging. While The Theatre of the Absurd doesn't necessarily deal with the same issues, it emerges as a continuity on the same plane.
The work that anchors The Theatre of the Absurd, and perhaps this chain of thought, is Fold by Hemali Bhuta. The sculpture of a seemingly decaying, folded, soft-form (a blanket, insulation material for a roof?), now hardened with glue or grit, is placed on the floor and is in sharp contrast with the clean precision of the other works installed around it. In its abjection though, it is completely complementary. While the other works retain archival value as storytellers, this sculpture is made of materials that will continue to disintegrate. The exhibition text describes this particular series of sculptures as "fossils of bygone eras, sometimes embracing their spaces, and other times destabilizing them. Through the tension between the works and the spaces they inhabit, viewers experience a state of 'in-between-ness."
Its existence allows for an exchange that bounces back and forth between transience and transcendence, material and immaterial, and finally, the real and the deceptive. Its tangibility, then, allows 'decay' to be accepted as a legitimate partner in storytelling of what it means to respond to a lived experience in a constructed reality – summing up my strongest takeaway from the exhibition.
In an odd and perhaps unexpected way, the dialogue reminds me of a presentation that the Dutch Architect Rem Koolhaas made when he came to Abu Dhabi in 2014 to talk about his concept for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, of which he was the Director. Titled 'Fundamentals', the exhibition looked at histories and tried to "reconstruct how architecture finds itself in its current situation, and speculates on its future."[1] He made us take a step back and instead focus on the importance of the essentials - the door, window, floor and staircase, for example - and how it was their unique characteristics that gave a building its identity. In a way, the artists in The Theatre of the Absurd return to the fundamentals to tell their story.
Koolhaas, who has spoken extensively about the new and the old, and the juxtaposition of the universal and the local, once gave an interview to Wired Magazine in 1996 about the role of architecture in cities, saying this:
Architecture has been defined in terms of one activity, and that activity is adding to the world. A few years ago I realized the profession was as if lobotomized - it was stuck conceiving of itself only in terms of adding things and not in terms of taking away or erasing things. The same intelligence for adding ought to also deal with its debris. It's a very depressing phenomenon that we can deal with decaying conditions in the city only by inventing weak attempts to restore them or to declare them historical. It would be much more powerful and creative to use other tactics, such as taking away something and then building something entirely new.[2]
[1] OMA, Venice Biennale 2014: Fundamentals - oma.eu/projects/venice-biennale-2014-fundamentals
[2] From Bauhaus to Koolhaas, by Katrina Heron. Wired Magazine, 1996 - https://www.wired.com/1996/07/koolhaas/
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It may not escape the attention of a man of Romelu Lukaku's ambition that the previous player to score 20 league goals in a season for Everton promptly earned a move to Barcelona. It scarcely hindered Gary Lineker's cause that he was the 1986 World Cup's most prolific player, but Lukaku is on course for a Golden Boot of his own. An added-time double meant that, with 21, he surged clear in the Premier League scoring charts and emulated both Lineker and Bob Latchford, who was the last Everton forward to score in seven successive home games. Lukaku voiced a desire to seal a transfer that will consign him to Goodison Park history. In the meantime, he is making it.
He may eye the exit, but his attitude was impeccable. He may leave Everton behind, but he was received rapturously at the final whistle. Indeed, barely a boo greeted Lukaku before kick-off. The Gwladys Street End started to sing his name after Eldin Jakupovic tipped a howitzer of a shot over and Lukaku, who had already seen a goal ruled out when he was offside and come close with a rising shot, was eventually rewarded for his persistence.
"The fans love Rom and everyone loves Rom," said his manager, Ronald Koeman. "Yes, you may be able to hold him back for 85 minutes but then he was focused to the last second. We killed the game perfectly."
Allying two goals with an assist, Lukaku was the executioner in chief but only the third Everton forward to find the net. He had supplied the second. A minute after coming on, Enner Valencia's first contribution was to exchange passes with Lukaku and slot home. Then the favour was returned, the Belgian scoring from the Ecuadorian's through ball. His next provider could take less pleasure from the pass, Hull's Omar Elabdellaoui picking out Lukaku by mistake.
He brought a cruelty to the scoreline for the visitors. "It was more tough than the final result reflected," Koeman accepted. Lukaku can prey on the weak and if Hull prevented him from scoring with a full complement of players, they were doomed when depleted, hopes of a first away win since August departing with their captain.
"I saw one game until 70 minutes and after, another game," said their manager Marco Silva. Tom Huddlestone's sending off, for a lunge at Idrissa Gueye, brought sympathy from Everton. "It is too harsh. It is a yellow, not a red," said Koeman. Silva is considering mounting an appeal and said: "We didn't deserve this decision."
The Portuguese lamented spurned chances, particularly when Sam Clucas' lob landed on the roof of the net after a breakdown in communications between Joel Robles and Ashley Williams. He noted, too, that Koeman felt the need to match his system, bringing on a third centre-back, Ramiro Funes Mori, with 35 minutes remaining. Lukaku immediately became more dangerous as Everton acquired a counterattacking menace.
He had wondered about the club's ambition. The £20m signing Morgan Schneiderlin may have appeared evidence of it, but in the sole blight on Everton's afternoon, he limped off with a calf injury that may sideline him for several weeks. But for a club Lukaku accused of living in the past, Everton nonetheless offered an enticing glimpse of the future.
Two years ago, Dominic Calvert-Lewin was playing in the Conference North for Stalybridge. Now his first top-flight goal came five divisions higher and in a move involving three players with a combined age of just 61. Ross Barkley, a comparative veteran of 23, conjured a defence-splitting pass. The 18-year-old Tom Davies displayed the energy to run on to it and centre. "The final pass was outstanding," Koeman said and the 20-year-old Calvert-Lewin, only starting because Kevin Mirallas was attending the birth of his second child, added the finish.
It added a progressive feel to proceedings. If only briefly, Everton appear a club on the up. Their 83-day stay in seventh place was ended as they leapfrogged Manchester United. They are behind Arsenal only on goal difference. A sixth straight league win at Goodison Park, secured by an aggregate score of 22-3, also gives them the distinction of taking most points in the division in 2017. As ever, though, the statistical landmarks felt dominated by Lukaku.


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I thought that I had seen just about all the Ghibli movies there were to see, but alas, I have not. Aside from the Ghibli shorts, there are two elusive Ghibli films that I really want to see, especially since they both seem to be more in the vein of the studio's slice-of-life fare, like Whisper of the Heart. Only Yesterday (Omoide Poro Poro, lit. "Memories Come Tumbling Down) is one such movie that hasn't officially been released in the states. Why would they do that to me?
From what I've gathered, Only Yesterday is about Taeko Okajima, a stifled office worker going to her sisters-in-law in the rural countryside for a break. Over a period of 10 days we get a touching, slightly melancholy story of a woman as she remembers her life from the vantage point of being 27 and possibly not having lived up to the expectations of her youth. We get glimpses of her early years (there's even supposed to be a Lupin reference – don't keep me from a Lupin reference!) and by the end she has to decide how she wants to live her life from now on.
I guess I see why Disney hasn't been so forward with releasing this film since it is generally more partial to the more fantastical movies in the Ghibli catalogue. That's on the lame side – I know I would have enjoyed The Secret World of Arrietty if she had just been a local girl rather than a diminutive magical creature. I think. Anyways, my only reservation about this movie is that it sounds like it could be a total downer. I feel that I am justified in this concern since the director, Isao Takahata, is the same one who did the incredibly depressing Grave of the Fireflies. But I'll try to think positive since I still want to see it! So far it's been shown randomly at some film festivals, but that doesn't really help me here and now, does it? I really shouldn't get so bitter about this. But there's an Eastern European theme that runs throughout – of course I'd get a little bitter over being deprived of Eastern European motifs.
The film, released in 1991, is based on a manga with the same name by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone, and I totally want to read that too. The nostalgic scenes from 1966 (how current season of Mad Men of it!) sound so thrilling in the way that only scenes where nothing really happens can. The movie did surprisingly well in Japan, and there was also a musical version of this made last year, so it's obviously fun in all mediums. I wouldn't be surprised if this movie went the live action route too since it actually seems more geared towards that than animation. And I would watch that too!
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|Careful. Books can be dangerous!
Today, an article on the School Library Journal web site--originally published in the SLJ newsletter Extra Helping--discussed the controversy surrounding Smith's use of the word "jackass" in the book as a double entendre.
For the curious, the characters in this book are simply referred to as the animals they are: mouse, monkey, and jackass. As you can imagine, it's the jackass who serves as the story's antagonist, quizzing the monkey about his choice of non-electronic entertainment.
"Can it blog? Can it tweet?" asks the quizzical donkey.
"No. It's a book, jackass," replies the monkey.
Smith admits his books are cheeky by design, definitely appealing to the more mischievous kids out there. But is his use of "jackass" a reason for controversy? Is it introducing young children to words their fragile ears shouldn't be exposed to? Is it forcing parents to have "uncomfortable" conversations with their kids?
More importantly, should It's A Book not be in Kindergarten classrooms, daycares, or libraries?
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Here's my take on the matter: Words only have the power we attribute to them. I read this book to all three of my young children. They loved it! But they did ask me if "jackass" was a bad word. That's fine; I read the book in advance and expected them to.
"It depends on how it's used," was my immediate reply, and I explained to them that certain words can mean different things when they're used offensively. It doesn't make the word "bad" or "filthy", and they shouldn't ever feel ashamed for using a perfectly normal word in its proper context.
As for the people who think this book doesn't belong in classrooms or libraries, I can only shake my head in disbelief. No one parent has the right to decide what an entire classroom, or school, or community should learn. After all, child-rearing begins at home, and reasonable parents know this.
What's your opinion on the matter? Is Lane Smith over-stepping his boundaries as a KidLit author? Or are some critics just being, well, jackasses?
Sound off in the Comments area, and next week I will pick one comment at random. That guest will win a FREE copy of It's A Book, courtesy of yours truly. So spread the word!


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Mantra Fusion Band is World music band from Split, Croatia, formed in the beginning of 2007. Their unique expression is a blend of Oriental and Balkain ethno music combined with contemporary sound and rhythm.
Band constitutes of eight musicians from different musical backgrounds - classical, rock, ethno and alternative. All of the instruments except bass guitar are acoustic, including those who are used in Indian and Arabic music such as sitar, tampura, tablas, mridanga, harmonium, and darbuka combined with African drum jembe and classical European instruments like violin, clarinet, accordion, mandolin and acoustic guitars.
Lyrics are in different languages including ancient sanskrt mantras. Sanskrt mantras are special feature of MFB's expression which distinguish them from the other bands of the World music genre. Sanskrt is one of the oldest languages on Earth and it is believed that it's vibrations combined with mantras create a very mystical and auspicious atmosphere.
In concerts MFB always strives to give their audience an entrance into high mystic dimensions by putting together different elements in the show – unique fusion sounds with exotic songs and instruments, outwordly lyrics, dance and suggestive visuals.
In the beginning of 2008, MFB recorded their first indie album "Orient Bazaar" which was very well received. "Slobodna Dalmacija" called MFB "the architects of bridge between East and West"... Band played many concerts in Croatia and Bosnia, including their great performance on the most famous stage in Split, Peristyle, Yoga is Music concert and also Woodstock Festival in Poland...
Right now MFB is recording new single "Samsara" featuring Goran Karan and preparing for their multimedia conceptual concert in Split where they will record their new live CD/DVD. Concert will include many special guests and some very interesting visuals.
Band members:
Ines Žižić (ex "Stijene") - lead vocal
Antonija Čelan (clarinet professor) - clarinet
Sunčica Dropulić (ex "Tambuu", viola professor) - violin/tribal fusion belly dance
Barbara Gaj - harmonium, vocal
Dario Duišin Džunić - guitar, sitar, accordion
Mišo Popović (ex "Leut Magnetic") - tabla, mridanga, darbuka
Veljko Popović (ex "Leut Magnetic") - percussions, jembe, mandolin
Bruno Tadej (ex "Tambuu") - bass guitar
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Check out the latest arrival to my wardrobe – a Prabal Gurung for Target blouse in First Date Print!
My outfit to H&M for Brick Lane Bikes party last week.
Blouse: Prabal Gurung for Target | Pants: Moda International (Victoria's Secrets) | Shoes: Cole Haan |Bag: Chanel | Necklace: MOOTTA
At first glance, this blouse looks very edgy and is best matched with skinny jeans and booties. I decided to make it work for the corporate environment, putting together a (hopefully) classier and more elegant ensemble.
I love this little crystal necklace from MOOTTA and thought it worked rather well with this floral blouse without looking too cluttered. What do you think?
Did anyone managed to get any item from this collaboration?
终于收到来自Prabal Gurung for Target的服饰,马上迫不及待穿上它,出席上周H&M的派对。虽然说这件印花无袖上衣似乎比较适合配搭黑色窄型牛仔裤以及小皮靴,本人尝试另一种配搭,应该比较适合上班族。大家觉得这样的搭配合格吗?
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Nest Box Plans for American Kestrel
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North America's littlest falcon, the American Kestrel packs a predator's fierce intensity into its small body. It's one of the most colorful of all raptors: the male's slate-blue head and wings contrast elegantly with his rusty-red back and tail; the female has the same warm reddish on her wings, back, and tail. Hunting for insects and other small prey in open territory, kestrels perch on wires or poles, or hover facing into the wind, flapping and adjusting their long tails to stay in place. Kestrels are declining in parts of their range; you can help them by putting up nest boxes.More ID Info
Scan fence posts, utility lines and telephone poles, particularly when driving through farmland. Or catch them by the hundreds at coastal migration sites—such as Cape May, New Jersey, or Kiptopeke, Virginia—in September or early October. Particularly in summer, listen for their shrill killy-killy-killy call to be alerted to when they're around.
Watch our American Kestrel nest cam, live from Wisconsin.
Consider putting up a nest box to attract a breeding pair. Make sure you put it up well before breeding season. Attach a guard to keep predators from raiding eggs and young. Find out more about nest boxes on our Attract Birds pages. You'll find plans for building a nest box of the appropriate size on our All About Birdhouses site.
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Great Big Freaky Bug
Monday, March 9, 2009
Erica and I took a good long nap, to the sound of rain on the tin roof. It was delicious, as was dinner. Man, Guyana had such good food--lots of fresh vegetables, beans and rice, and chicken in savory sauces. It may not have been flashy, but it was just what I needed.
I love this shot, the road stretching like a lighted path to the mountains. I could only imagine what birds we might have seen there. I want to go back.
Just before dark there was a break in the rain, and these clouds came scudding across the landscape. One, like the tail of a giant anteater diving into the trees. I don't think I've ever seen a cloud quite like that back home.
You may be sure our group of curious naturalists found ways to amuse ourselves. For one, there was a House Frog.
He was on duty for roaches, crickets, katydids and spiders, and most welcome. Just don't land on my face in the night and we're good.
I wonder what he would have done with this--my first ever lanternfly Fulgora laternaria.
I was BESIDE MYSELF. I'd read about this beast all my life, had always wanted to see it in the most eager, Science Chimpy way. (Thank you, DOD, for keeping us in National Geographic our entire childhood. I believe that magazine changed my life.) The head looks so much like a caiman that it flips me out; it's a beautiful example of the intelligence of evolutionary design. Yes, you read me right. And I am messin' with your head.
I mean, look how the "eye" is reflective, just as it would be if the lanternfly really were a winged lizard.
The eyes of the creature are the two dark spots on the "caiman's" neck. So the peanut-shaped fright mask is actually a headdress or helmet. Pretty cute, when you look at it that way. Like a pope's hat. It was originally thought to be luminescent, hence the name lanternfly. Believe it or not, this is just an overgrown planthopper. Splendidly, magnificently, over the top-tropically overgrown.
Here's the WW II bomber, preparing for takeoff...
Messing with it a bit, we got it to spread its wings. It jumped and fell, oops! giving us its ventral view, which looked an awful lot like a cicada to me. You can see the sucking mouthparts, the dark tube running down between its legs. Again, very cicada-like. It just drinks plant juice, that's all, and is perfectly harmless to people.
This thing has the defenses! Look at those eyespots on the underwings. So if it can't scare you with its gatorhead hat, it flashes big owl eyes at you. It must be quite delicious to invest so much in scaring away potential predators.
Big bug. Mike Weedon looks terrified. Looks dangerous, but the only problem with it is that legend has it if you're bitten by the machaca, you have to have sex within 24 hours or die badly. Thank God no one was bitten. The pool of candidates was rather small; everybody was married or otherwise committed, and it was so disgustingly hot and humid that, well, let's just say it was not an aphrodiasical environment. I felt like a slimy toad the whole time. Had it bitten me, I might have had to just go ahead and die.
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Hey, are you laughing at me? I put my life on the line for that bug shot: look how close it is to my eye!
No, I thought you looked remarkably relaxed and debonair; I was being sarcastic.
But just think if it had bitten you...shudder!
Jeez--are you trying to HELP eco-tourism in Guyana? or discourage it?
Most interesting post, anyway.
Rain, bugs, frogs, potential mandatory death sex--what's not to like?
I can imagine all the laughter about that wonderful bug. I like it. And, yes, the talk of death sex is way better than reading updates on FB. Yes sirree.
...the House Frog comment made me laugh hard enough to get me over my fear of commenting on your site! Very funny. Big fan.
Gotta get me a house frog to take care of all these milkweed bugs. Don't they know it's nice out now?
Speaking of which -- Phoebe's back (the bird, not the willowy kid.)
(And geez, I hate it when cute guys with bugs but no rings on their fingers turn out to be otherwise committed. 'Cause I'd'a taken one for the team. That's the kinda team player I am.)
That is one gigantic looking planthopper, and a very elaborate one too. I never heard of it but glad I knew it exists now.
You're a riot, Alice! Love the post (sorry about the rain).
As for the intelligence of evolutionary design, I've never not been in awe of how nature adapts. Last night on Nature we saw Darwin's predicta moth. Just amazing.
I'm sorry the rain interfered with your plans, but the lanternfly was certainly a great consolation prize. What a marvelous looking creature!
If only I had one of these bugs back in high school...
I wonder if the bite hurts ...oh well, no pain, no gain.
Love the froggy! He can migrate up here anytime, but that big bug can just stay in Guyana. Photos are close enough for me!
Great bug - love it, love it! And cute frog. We had one like it swimming in our toilet tank in Guyana. I "set it free" only to find it back home the next morning.
Must be tasty, indeed!
Did you find yourself sleep deprived on this trip--with all the heat, stickiness and wild tentmates?


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In Drunken Reviews, I aim to offer a unique perspective on some of London's hottest new establishments - that of a belligerent inebriate. This week, I headed to Five Guys, an imported American burger chain which has received mixed reviews from some self-appointed Internet food critics. I trusted that alcohol would provide me with a level of clarity and insight which other reviewers were simply unable to muster.
The preparatory drinks
About five or six pints (probably) at The Harp, a brilliant little pub near Trafalgar Square which you shouldn't go to because there's enough people there already, and you'd only just get in my way. My colleagues spent the majority of our time there complaining that they wanted food, but I selfishly cajoled them into staying as long as possible. This was my inaugural drunken review and I was determined to do it correctly (i.e. drunk).
After a while of presumably stimulating conversation (at one point I was asked to stop shouting by a member of staff), I began to stagger purposefully towards the restaurant, beckoning my famished colleagues to hurry up behind me.
The queue
Five Guys obnoxiously forced us to queue up outside the restaurant in a roped-off line, like a cross between a tawdry nightclub and a farmyard feeding trough. This was completely unnecessary as there was plenty of space inside and I can only assume it is done for cheap publicity by way of human window-dressing. Irked by my forced participation in this marketing charade, I deliberately acted like a drunken twat in a guerrilla attempt to damage the Five Guys brand as much as possible.
This must have worked because we were eventually ushered in to the restaurant by a staff member who appeared very happy to be working there despite the fact that he clearly couldn't have been. I found this crass Americanism disgusting, but before I could become fully enraged I was distracted by an offer of free peanuts, which soothed my nerves.
The menu
The Five Guys' menu is appealingly simple, especially considering I was pretty pissed by this point and in no fit state to be deciphering esoterically named nonsense like you might find in other fast food establishments. Although straightforward, the text of the menu was blurry and appeared to be swaying from side to side, a basic mistake in typography and graphic design which Five Guys would be wise to remedy.
Gluttony had emerged as my primary emotion at this point, so I decided on the bacon double cheeseburger. I added small fries as I was struck by a wave of temperance, which quickly gave way to an onset of stinginess, leading to me to forego a drink entirely. The bill was over a tenner, which if you think about it for a fast food hamburger is fucking ridiculous.
The most upsetting part of the ordering process was the selection of toppings for the burger. There was an array of unexciting options - tomatoes, lettuce, onions - but it was a wide array. Upset by being put on the spot and forced to make more decisions about things, I slurringly instructed the till person to give me whatever she thought best. She refused and insisted that I decide for myself, a horrible state of affairs which led to me panicking, picking three toppings at random and hastily retreating to cower at the back of the pick-up queue.
The ambience
Burger finally in hand (albeit tackily ensconced in tin foil), I approached the only available table in the place. A disgruntled looking girl was sat at it and I sought her permission to sit at the opposite end. I neglected to mention that five or six other people would shortly be joining me; information which I felt may have had an undue influence on her decision. She complained when they arrived, so I spent some time eloquently explaining the concepts of sharing and compromise to her. I was obviously convincing because she left shortly after.
The restaurant interior was sparse and dazzlingly bright, which made my eyes and head hurt. By this point I was fairly desperate for a piss but I valiantly decided to tackle the food before attending to my own needs. A true critic is nothing if not self-sacrificing.
The food
I don't remember what the burger was like to be honest. It can't have been revolting because I ate it all. I do remember it took me a while to finish, which was probably due to a combination of its large size and the impairment of my motor skills. The fries were very salty which made me regret my earlier drink-shunning frugality. Fortunately I was able to steal someone else's drink while he was in the toilet.
Looking at the Five Guys' menu online I note that my meal contained over 1500 calories, so even though I wasn't disgusted with it at the time, I am now.
The toilets
The toilets at Five Guys were excellent, and probably my favourite part of the evening. Pristinely maintained and equipped with dual Dyson Airblades, they felt like a palatial oasis in a desert of second-rate bathroom facilities. Overwhelmed by relief, the urine streamed from my body like a majestic waterfall cascading down the cliffs of Shangri-La. While I can't pass reliable comment on the burgers, I can assure you that if you ever need a piss near Leicester Square Tube, Five Guys will not disappoint.
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