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It was another busy voting day Tuesday as thousands of people cast their ballot every hour. Now the huge turnout has election officials making some changes to keep up.
Long after the lunch hour at the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center on West Gray Street, voters were walking up and lining up even faster than they could walk into the polls.
"Not this time of day," said voter Patrick Carson, when asked if he was expecting long lines. "I was hoping that they wouldn't be very long."
"We thought we were being smarter than everyone else by coming at this time, but I guess that wasn't right," said voter Bill Krips.
Krips was one of many voters trying to beat the crowds the day after a record-breaking Day One of early voting, which saw close to 6,000 people per hour casting their ballot.
Harris County's top election official told KHOU-TV while he was expecting record crowds on the first day of early voting, he planned for 54,000 people not show up to the polls, not the 67,000 that ultimately did.
"But the biggest reason (for the long wait times) is we had a huge turnout yesterday: 20,000 more than we have ever done on the very first day of early voting," said Stan Stanart, Harris County Clerk.
On Tuesday, Stanart says the county would be moving around election workers and laptops to the busiest polls to move voters through the door faster.
"We are adjusting," said Stanart. "Hopefully we'll make things go a little smoother today."
However, Stanart says voters were also partially responsible for the slowdown. That includes people who'd moved and had to fill out new paperwork, along with people who brought in paper ballots they were supposed to have mailed in.
"We had to cancel the ballot," said Stanart. "That added to some of the time."
Voter Juanita Rasmus said her half-hour wait at the polls on Tuesday was well worth the opportunity to cast her ballot.
"No matter how long this line was, I was gonna be in it," said Rasmus. "It's absolutely that important. At some point I'm gonna have grandkids, and I want to have something to say about the kind of world they end up growing up in."
To see daily turnout at each of the early voting locations, along with a sample ballot and more information, click here.
For more voting information from across the Houston area, click here.


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Yucoco have over one BILLION chocolate combinations and they are handmade to order then delivered within 3-5 days. You can personalise your gift box with a message and include who the bar is to and from.
The order process is simple. Firstly, decide which type of chocolate bar would be your Valentine's favourite; dark, milk, white or a trio of all three! Milk is Chri's favourite so I chose that.
Next, is trying to decide on the toppings. I'd here all day if I typed them all out but you really should see what they have to offer. You can get almost anything! I picked I love Yu!, mini marshmallows, rose turkish delight, after eight mints and chocolate covered pretzels.
It was a lot bigger than I thought it would be and it weighs 140g. Although it was for Chris, he did let me try some (for review purposes, of course!) and it was beautiful. The milk chocolate was soft and almost melted in your mouth. Chris was delighted with my choice of toppings for him and said that he loved it.
I think Yucoco would make a great gift this Valentine's Day.
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Office humor - part 6!!!
Did you get the mail???
I received a message on my phone from an ex-colleague. For next few minutes, we conversed through text-messages.
I received a message on my phone from an ex-colleague. For next few minutes, we conversed through text-messages.
"Hi. How are you doing?"
"I am fine. How are you?" I replied.
"I need a favor from you" he replied back.
"Tell me"
"A friend of mine is looking for a job. Can you forward his CV to your friends?"
"No issues. Mail it to me."
"Can I have your mail-id please?" he enquired.
"It's fultoo.bakar at gmail" I replied back. In our conversation, I gave him my real mail-id but I am not typing it here. Never give away personal details on a public forum is what I often hear.
"I've sent it in a mail. Could you please acknowledge the receipt?" he replied.
"No mate. Haven't received anything"
"Can you please confirm your mail-id?"
"It's fultoo.bakar at gmail" I replied back.
"Can you check if you have received it now?" he wondered.
"No luck. My mail id is firstname.lastname@example.com" I had to do what I was trying to avoid till now – searching for @ and dot symbols in my phone and typing it.
"Sent again"
"I got it this time"
Now why did the delivery of the mail failed in first two attempts and succeeded in third, I leave it to you to decide the reason. I have not been able to figure it out.


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Aranca's Dylan Gittleman Joins ClearAccessIP as Advisor
Published on 23 Feb, 2016
Research & Valuation Advisory firm continues to play a pivotal role in the US startup ecosystem
Palo Alto, Calif. (Feb. 23, 2016): Aranca, a global research, analytics and advisory firm, announced today that Dylan Gittleman, Vice President of Business Development and Client Relations for Aranca's Valuation & Advisory Services business unit, has been invited to be an Advisor for ClearAccessIP.
With over 4000 independent valuations completed for business enterprises, investment portfolios and IP portfolios, Aranca has become a top choice of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, VCs and law firms. Gittleman, of Palo Alto, has been instrumental in building relationships between Aranca and Venture Capital firms, Private Equity firms, Law firms and Investment Banks since joining the firm in 2013.
"Dylan has built a solid reputation as a trusted resource to CFOs and founders of venture backed start-ups and mid-market companies across diverse segments and practice areas," said Aranca's founder and CEO Hemendra Aran. "He brings a wealth of expertise and will be an asset to ClearAccessIP."
ClearAccessIP is a Silicon Valley-based patent technology company that offers a cloud-based patent docketing, management, planning and deal room solution. Stanford CodeX Fellow and Attorney Nicole Shanahan, who founded the company in 2013, explained, "We are excited to have Dylan Gittleman on board as a consultant, owing to his depth and breadth of experience working with patent industry experts. He understands our mission to fix the patent system with informatics."
Other members of ClearAccessIP's advisory board and management include Edward Hartman, Co-founder of LegalZoom and Lecturer at Yale University, Colleen Chien, Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law (Former Senior Advisor for intellectual property and innovation to the U.S CTO in the White House's Office of Science and Technology) and Dr. Steve Krawczyk former Director of IP & Informatics, Gilead Sciences.
Gittleman said, "I believe ClearAccessIP will revolutionize the patent system as the industry knows it today with their innovative AI enabled cloud solution."
Gittleman earned his MBA from California State University Long Beach and his Bachelors of Science degree in Economics from University of California, Irvine.
About Aranca
Aranca delivers custom research and analysis-backed conclusions to Fortune 500 companies, investment firms and start-ups. The company's 550 research analysts, based in the US, Europe, Middle East, China and India, deliver insights to more than 2,000 clients across market segments, technology domains and geographies. Aranca's research solutions are structured around five service areas including Investment Research & Analytics, Business Research & Advisory, Valuation Advisory, Procurement Research and Intellectual Property Research.
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Majestic View Breakfast Recipes: Homer, Alaska
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The Majestic View Bed & Breakfast in Homer, Alaska offers not only a breathtaking view of the Kachemak Bay but also the most lip-smackin', mouth-waterin' breakfasts in Alaska. Maria's now shares those great recipes because her guests from around the world have been asking for them for years - enjoy!
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I konw, that I am awesome no need to tell me :D
Haha exactly! Of course you are Bambie ;)
You are too awesome for the word 'know'
I mean ... Yeah its a difficult word :D
excuse me?
Do you want me to point out every mistake you made writing some posts? * evil laughter MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!*
( I thought I got through the stage of me wanting to take control over the world, well doesn't look like I did YOLO)


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Storytelling has been the primary tool of the passage of information, legacy, tradition, custom, and even universal truth throughout the ages. I've been reading the 1874 classic "The Life of Christ" by Frederic Farrar as the last essay of my 2 year ministry course (It's called Freedom Training Centre if you're interested.) The single most fascinating aspect I found is the fact that it feels like a story being told with the language, poetic flow and flavor of the day.
One passage that jumped out at me was when describing the young Jesus at the temple:
"Even as there is one hemisphere of the lunar surface on which, in its entirety, no human eye has ever gazed, while at the same time the moon's librations enable us to conjecture of its general character and appearance, so there is one large portion of our Lord's life respecting which there is no full record; yet such glimpses are, as it were, according to us of its outer edge, that from these we are able to understand the nature of the whole. Again, when the moon is in crescent, a few bright points are visible through the telescope upon its unilluminated part; those bright points are mountain peaks, so lofty that they catch the sunlight. One such point of splendour and majesty is revealed to us in the otherwise unknown region of Christ's youthful years, and it is sufficient to furnish us with a real insight into that entire portion of His life. In modern language we should call it an anecdote of the Saviour's confirmation."
Not entirely new revelation, just a bit more interesting in the light of our current knowledge that nearly 100 years later, Apollo 8's astronauts would see the dark side of the moon with their own eyes in '68. In the next chapter, when talking about the little known years of Jesus youthful years in Nazareth
"SUCH, then, is the "solitary floweret out of the wonderful enclosed garden of the thirty years, plucked precisely there where the swollen bud, at a distinctive crisis, bursts into flower." But if of the first twelve years of His human life we have only this single anecdote, of the next eighteen years of His life we possess no record whatever save such as is implied in a single word. The word occurs in Mark vi. 3: "Is not this the carpenter?"
Farrar's quote is referencing Rudolf Stier in his 12 volume work "The words of the Lord Jesus." Stier was a German Protestant and Mystic, noted for writing a new edition of Martin Luther's Catechism and a translation of the Bible based on the writings of Luther. He was another man, telling another story in another era, paying homage to yet ANOTHER era.
But this hasn't stopped today either. Let's even take the scripture that Farrar goes on to extrapolate some deep meaning out of, regarding the early life of Jesus in Mark 6:3. In 1993, Eugene Peterson turn the Bible world on its head by releasing the New Testament as, "The Message." It's official name is actually "The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language." It's an known as an idiomatic translation of the original languages of the Bible; idiomatic meaning "words that have a figurative meaning owing to its common usage." It's a story.
Peterson tells the Mark 6:3 story this way:
1-2 He left there and returned to his hometown. His disciples came along. On the Sabbath, he gave a lecture in the meeting place. He made a real hit, impressing everyone. "We had no idea he was this good!" they said. "How did he get so wise all of a sudden, get such ability?"3 But in the next breath they were cutting him down: "He's just a carpenter—Mary's boy. We've known him since he was a kid. We know his brothers, James, Justus, Jude, and Simon, and his sisters. Who does he think he is?" They tripped over what little they knew about him and fell, sprawling. And they never got any further.4-6 Jesus told them, "A prophet has little honor in his hometown, among his relatives, on the streets he played in as a child." Jesus wasn't able to do much of anything there—he laid hands on a few sick people and healed them, that's all. He couldn't get over their stubbornness. He left and made a circuit of the other villages, teaching.
It's a very special thing to share in someone else's perspective of an un-changing gospel which we all share. It reminds me that neither of us are, "right" but instead, each hold a slice of understanding... and we need each other. The word of God was made to live inside us and come out of us. You can tell that Farrar had it living inside of him and longed to tell the story... and he did it very very well.


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High school roundup: Knoch girls secure another Section 1-AAA play
Knoch's girls may have started slow this basketball season, but the Knights are winning when it counts in Section 1-AAA.
Knoch won for the third time in four games while posting its second consecutive section victory Thursday night, 46-42, over Valley in New Kensington.
Savanna Steffen scored 12 points to lead a trio of Knoch players in double figures as the Knights (3-9, 2-3) held off a fourth-quarter comeback by the Vikings (1-7, 1-4), who trailed, 29-17, at the half but outscored Knoch, 18-9, in the fourth.
Sam Logan and Angela Cress each added 10 points.
Kaylyn Iacopino scored a game-high 21 points for Valley.
Burrell 51, West Shamokin 26 — Jaila Manga, Jessica Cercone and Natalie Myers all scored 13 points for Burrell (8-1, 4-0) in a Section 1-AA victory over West Shamokin (6-7, 2-3).
Myers also grabbed 11 rebounds. Jill Glover had 13 points for the Wolves in the loss.
Ford City 63, Leechburg 20 — Allyson Cujas scored a game-high 21 points as Ford City (5-5, 2-2) cruised to a Section 1-AA win over Leechburg (0-12, 0-5). Christina Davis added 11 points for Ford City.
Missy Jones scored 14 points to lead Leechburg.
South Allegheny 51, Springdale 46 — Springdale mounted a second-half comeback that fell just short against South Allegheny (5-7, 1-4).
Springdale (5-8, 2-3) trailed by 12 at halftime.
Jaylee Patterson scored 25 points, including six 3-pointers for South Allegheny. Sydney Smajda scored 17 points for the Dynamos, and Maddie Glamp had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
Norwin 56, Kiski Area 49 — Norwin (7-6, 5-1) held Kiski Area (2-10, 2-4) to seven points in the third quarter to post a Section 1-AAAA victory.
Alayna Gribble scored 15 points for Norwin, including three 3-pointers.
Maddie Antone tallied 17 points for Kiski Area.
Boys basketball
Cheswick Christian 58, Harvest Baptist 49 — Antione Malloy scored 16 of his team-high 20 points in the second half to help East Division-leading Cheswick Christian (8-5) secure the Southwest Christian Athletic Conference victory over West Division-leading Harvest Baptist.
Tyler Knupp added 12 points for the Chargers.
Apollo-Ridge 41, Riverview 37 — Apollo Ridge (10-2, 3-1) pulled ahead in the fourth quarter and held on for a victory over Riverview (4-8, 1-4).
Riverview led, 31-29, entering the fourth quarter. Evan Davis hit four 3-pointers and finished with 12 points for Apollo-Ridge.
Sam Gonsowski had 13 points for Riverview in the loss.
Ford City 13, Carrick 1 — Ford City (10-1-1) scored five short-handed goals and put two in the net during power plays in its Open Class blowout.
Luke Gross had four goals — three short-handed — and two assists, while John Phelps contributed six helpers for the Sabers. Joe Cippel, Robert Kinsey, Josh Oliver and Eli Thompson each had three-point games.
Cody Deresh made 18 saves for Carrick (2-9).
Kittanning 10, Greensburg Central Catholic 0 — Hunter Grafton scored just 17 seconds into a first period in which Kittanning (8-3-1) had six goals.
Grafton finished with a goal and five assists in the Class A game, while Christian Miller scored four times, and Cody Toy accumulated five points.
Cameron Langham made 13 saves. William Potter had 34 saves for GCC (0-13).
Freeport 8, Deer Lakes 5 — Cole Hepler finished with five points, including four goals, for Freeport (9-2-1) in the Class A home win. Greg Newman had four assists, while John Bird had two.
Dom Digiacobbe made 34 saves for the Yellowjackets, and Lucas Gapsky had 22 stops for Deer Lakes (4-8-1).
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[Unity really is a state-of-the-art game engine (the sophistication that can now be achieved has moved casual gaming to another level) which allows you to play 3D games in your web browser.]
Iron Man 2 uses Unity 3D Game Technology
DETAILS: "Whiplash: Slash and Burn is a fast-paced browser game to promote the theatrical release of Marvel's Iron Man 2 this May. In the game the player takes control of Iron Man's new nemesis Whiplash as he storms the race track where Stark is racing.
Using Whiplash's cable-whip arms, the player will attempt to destroy the racing cars as they speed towards the screen. After hitting enough cars, a special power surge is rewarded, which can be used to knock out multiple vehicles.
The main aim is to annihilate Tony Stark's car as he passes. As the timer ticks down the cars increase in speed making it harder to earn points for destruction. On completing the game the player can add their high score to a leaderboard.
This explosive game shows that Unity is bringing the 3D browser game to a new level of sophistication."


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Colin Furze didn't let that arrest on a firearms charge for his flame-throwing moped convince him to stop modifying vehicles. Now he's spent almost three months upgrading a mobility scooter that used to travel 12km/h (~7.5 mph).
"You hear people complaining about scooters going slowly around supermarkets and blocking aisles so I thought it would be a laugh to make a really fast one," said Mr Furze, 31, a plumber from Stamford, Lincolnshire. Guinness World Records said he would be considered for the first mobility scooter speed record if he could hit 100kph – 61.4mph. [DailyMail]
He added a 125cc motorbike engine but was not allowed to alter the outward appearance if he wanted a Guinness record. This means he's been driving 111km/h (69 mph) on a chassis and wheels meant to only travel around 8 mph. He says a wheel once fell off when he was slowing down. That isn't going to stop him from attempting to hit 100kph at a race track later today, weather permitting. He'll be wearing a helmet and safety gear while operating the five-gear, 10 mpg scooter, unlike the pictures below. I guess you don't have time to put on a helmet when there's cereal to be bought.
[Sources: BestWeekEver, Metro, Gizmodo, DailyMail]


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Beginner's Knitting Group
March 23, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
The group is open to all levels of knitters (ages 12 and up) – including those who would like to learn how to knit. Bring your own yarn & needles or borrow ours for the session.


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Zahra Clare Baker Update: Medical Records Sought for Missing N.C. Girl
HICKORY, N.C. (CBS/AP) Police in Hickory, N.C. are still searching for Zahra Baker, the missing hearing-impaired North Carolina girl, and have reportedly reached out to the 10-year-old's biological mother in Australia to request Zahra's medical records.
Police have not said whether a body has been found but have said they believe Zahra, described as sweet and cheerful despite her health problems, is dead.
Investigators haven't specified what type of medical records they're seeking or for what reason, but in some cases dental records are used to identify a body, according to CNN.
Zahra's father, Adam Baker, and his wife Elisa, the girl's stepmother, reported Zahra missing Oct. 9. They told police that they had last seen Zahra - who uses hearing aids and a prosthetic leg because of bone cancer - in her bed at their home in Hickory, N.C., about 50 miles northwest of Charlotte, earlier that same morning.
But police have questioned that timeline from the beginning.
Investigators said Zahra may have been alive when the family moved to a new home in North Carolina in mid-September, but they've had trouble finding anyone outside of the household who has seen her since Sept. 25, when a furniture store employee recalled seeing Zahra with Elisa Baker, shopping in the store.
Elisa Baker, 42, is being held on an obstruction of justice charge after police say she admitted to writing a fake ransom note to throw police off in the investigation of her stepdaughter's disappearance. Her court-appointed attorney says she is "scared to death" and very emotional.
Adam Baker, 33, said Friday that he hasn't talked to his wife and remains unsure if she had anything to do with his daughter's disappearance.
"Maybe," Adam Baker told The Associated Press. "I'm still trying to figure it all out."
Adam Baker has not been charged in the case, though Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins has said previously that he hasn't been ruled out as a suspect.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Hickory Police Department at 828-328-5551.COMPLETE COVERAGE OF ZAHRA CLARE BAKER ON CRIMESIDER


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- Kneel, God of Thunder. Kneel before your conqueror. Kneel, as is your desert and destiny, before Loki Laufeyson. Kneel as all Asgard must, before her new and rightful lord.
- -- Loki
Appearing in "Loki, Part One"Edit
Featured Characters:
- Loki (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Thor (First appearance)
- Odin (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Sif (First appearance)
- Balder (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Daia (First appearance)
- Earth-94001 (Reality) (First appearance)
- Asgard (First appearance)
- City of Asgard (First appearance)
- Jotunheim (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Loki, Part One"Edit
Loki has claimed leadership of Asgard, and all must recognize that fact, even Thor. Thor and Sif are his prisoners, but finally winning his long sought prize, is not quite as sweet as he once thought. The ones that helped him now demand their due, including the death goddess Hela.
- No special notes.
- Loki Vol. 1 was adapted in a motion comic mini-series comprised of 4 episodes called "Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers". The mini-series was created by Marvel Knights Animation and released on iTunes in March 14, 2011.
See AlsoEdit
Recommended ReadingEdit
Links and ReferencesEdit
- Thor (Marvel Comics) at Wikipedia.org
- Thor at Marvel.com
- Thor site at Marvel.com
- The Immortal Thor of Asgard
- The Thor Message Board
- Thor at The Complete Marvel Reading Order
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Sentiment: Ginger's House
Say, love me or leave me and let me be lonely. You won't believe me but I love you only. I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else. Promoting: www.ikesart.com
This is such a cute take on the sketch.
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Pretty card, unfortunately we have to delete it @ From the Heart Stamps because you do not used one of our Images. Since we are a Company Blog that is our most important rule. Thanks for your understanding.
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This week I was interviewed by Wyatt Trull of Spoke Journal, a start-up literary magazine here in Spokane. The interview was conducted by email, which has produced a record of the conversation in full. Topics ranged from the open-ended themes of the journal's first two issues to discussion of ideas I've put forth on this blog. The point of this blog is to think about art as something different than an object-making enterprise, but an endeavor of meaning-making between artist and viewer. Sometimes the line between the two parties blurs, as it does here. For more information on Spoke, please visit the website: Spoke Journal.
Topic: Place/Displace
Trull: What constitutes one's place or origin? How does your concept of origin or place mold your identity and art?
Grambo: "Place" is the community an artist (or any person) identifies most closely with. This community is shaped by the landscape, climate, and culture of its physical location. At times the community sets itself against these factors, and at times it is in cooperation with them. The relationship is similar between my own identity and my identification with a place or community. At times, I identify with the prevailing attitude and create work in conjunction with it, and at other times I create work to satirize and critique that prevailing attitude. As much as I love the people and poems that come from slam poetry, I enjoy skewering the tropes and cliches that are employed through satire.
Trull: What is the process of this interaction between a place and a person? How does each entity change as the relationship ebbs and flows?
Grambo: I had a professor in graduate school who would ask, "What about your work is original" in critiques. It's a very frustrating question, especially when one is 23, in graduate school, and thinks they are the most unique artist on the planet. There isn't a very good way to answer that question, because, in a postmodern view, nothing is original. Originality isn't a prerequisite for art status. Nonetheless, the modernist ideal of uniqueness is still a part of how we view art and artists, so the question is pertinent. The only answer in a postmodern era is that the work is original because I am making it–not a person who made it before.
In that sense, a person can impact their community (or place) by being present and being involved. In some cases, there is a firm and identifiable effect on a community by an artist. In Boise (where I lived for eight years), the music scene is undeniably effected by Doug Martsch of Built to Spill. The sound, stage demeanor, and even fashion of indie musicians in Boise are all influenced by Martsch. Of course, they are all also influenced by each other, and by the community of Boise at large, just as Martsch was. Sometimes, people embrace their regional identity as part of their own. Other times, people want to distance themselves from their own region as much as possible.
In that area, Spokanites seem to be somewhat split. There are many who lament the "smallness" of the city—who think the conservative politics that affect local government, the limited number of artists within the community, and the lack of large-market media exposure. They want to get out of Spokane. Boiseans wanted to go to Portland. Spokanites want to go to Seattle (at least that was the "Xanadu" when I was here as an undergrad from 1998-2002). I like the smallness of the market. I like feeling like I have an opportunity to be on the inside of the scene. There are many Spokane artists (especially ones I've met since I returned) who feel like Spokane is a great place to make an effect and to be effected. They are creating co-op galleries, having basement exhibitions, reading poetry in bars and burrito shops, and publishing photocopied Zines like crazy. What is the deal with Zines in this town? While I'm thinking of it, what's the deal with photocopied (rather than printed) handbills for benefit concerts and underground shows? I'm not putting it down, but it's certainly something that is cool in Spokane that is not visible in Boise.
Trull: What makes Spokane unique as a place or origin? What role does the artistic community play in generating the essence of this place? How can the art community as a system be improved to better suit this role?
Grambo: A small city like Spokane can be at the same time very accessible and intimidating because of the small size and high familiarity of the people within each community–be it athletics or business or art. As in other areas of cultural production, the self-pride of the artistic community is the engine that drives it as well as fuel for the pride of the city at large. Spokane artists have the opportunity to set Spokane apart from other cities and define Spokane itself. Spokane is great because it isn't Seattle, and it isn't Portland, and it isn't Chicago or New York or anywhere else. Spokane can be whatever its artists make it, they have to do just that: make it.
Topic: Signal/Noise
Trull: How do you differentiate between the concepts of signal and noise?
Grambo: The purpose of a signal is communication; noise is purposeless.
Trull: What role does noise play in your art? In your identity?
Grambo: Noise is essential, but it must be controlled. A performance or poem or painting can seem to be haphazard and purposeless, but that is in service of the overall message–there must be purpose to purposelessness.
Trull: How does Spokane, as an artistic community, manifest both signal and noise? Does art need to be louder? Or simply expressed through a better forum? Is the problem systemic?
Grambo: Art should be loud–volume can get attention. Noise for the sake of noise alone can be alienating, however. It is the task of artists to walk along that line in order to make the most impact with their work. Since I am new to Spokane, I can't say how well this community balances signal and noise with any authority. I will say that I don't think it's a systemic problem–it may be something that artists must experiment with before they can find where they fit on an individual level, and that in turn affects the outlook of the community as a whole. In what I've seen of the performance poetry scene, many poets are trying to find their voice–in large part due to the fact that they are at the dawn of their careers. As a result, the anarchic noise that is performance poetry in Spokane has become a kind of siren for young poets and artists–a Bacchanalian refuge of chaos. This isn't a "problem," it's simply the identity of Broken Mic.
Trull: You've written a lot on your blog about the qualifications of great art. I find it quiet amusing that we've both used Miranda July to clarify our conceptions of art (that may be an overstatement on your part). (Unintelligible ≠ Poetic) Watching Me, You, and Everyone We Know and The Future completely transformed my conception of art. I had a profound inexplicable reaction to that film. I actually felt a profound confidence in my reception of her film, though I walked away unable to articulate a single theme. In fact, that experience is what ignited some recent passion for the dichotomy of Signal and Noise. So along the lines of this shared experience that we've reacted to in seemingly opposite ways, I have a few questions: for you, what is the nature of meaning? Do you think there is a type of meaning that is ineffable (an essence, shape, or flow of thought) or a type of noise that can be meaningful without any relation to a signal? Does one have to understand to perceive the articles of communication?
You wrote in a blog post that "one of my maxims in art is that 'presentation is everything.'"(A Tale of Two Exhibitions) You also make the distinction between the existence of art and the potential for art. Can one quantify the leap that is made to bring art into existence? What is this leap in your artistic process?
Another one of your qualifications for great art seems to be the idea that great art is only exist in dialogue, or the communication between the artist (piece of art) and the viewer. Is it possible that a piece of can born from signal but develop into noise as this conversation proceeds? Is this undesirable? If so, what's the artist's burden?
Grambo: I'm going to the three previous questions (or paragaphs of questions) here. I think there is absolutely the possibility for open-endedness in art. Art as communication can be art as dialog, without a set "message" to be delivered, and I prefer this approach to art. It can work with one-way communicative art forms (like films or paintings or poems), though in a different way than in a truly interactive art form (like interventionist performance, or even a discussion via emailed questions). The lynchpin is intent. What kind of meaning are you trying to create as an artist or a writer? Are you intending to be inclusive and provoke thought, or are you intending to be perceived as clever or deep in your opacity?
My problem with this approach is that it is alienating to a broad section of potential art viewers–those who don't like art because they don't get it. It appeals to a small subset of society that seeks out the hard-to-understand and the open-ended. I don't necessarily think that's bad, but it does add to the perception of high art as being outside of society–something for the rich or the over-educated or the weird. This is the small subset of society that deems art important, but still regards it as nonessential. (If it's something only for a few and not for everybody, it is not essential). When artists themselves contribute to the notion that art is not essential, they are self-defeating. This attitude contributes to the greater marginalizing of art in school curriculum, in federal and private funding, and in the place of art within culture. When budgets get slashed, the arts are the first to go, and when arts budgets get slashed, visual art is the hardest hit. Nobody complains about movie stars getting paid millions of dollars because their profession is culturally thought of as important (if not completely essential). The marginal position held by art leads to frustration and dismissal by a greater public who wants to know why any of their money (tax or otherwise) should go toward something "that my kid could do." I'm not saying that we have to make Norman Rockwell/Thomas Kinkaide crap. I'm saying we have to meet the public halfway if we expect them to be willing to understand and support performance art or installations or interventions.
The intent of the artist has to be inclusivity, not exclusivity by power of opacity. This goes for arts patrons, too. I performed a satirical poem last Wednesday that was laden with metaphors. I purposely wrote the metaphors to not make any sense. Three people (the three people who had been to a national poetry slam and seen the precise kind of work I was satirizing) got the joke. On the one hand, the audience was all-too ready to look for and find meaning where there was none. On the other hand, my satire fell short, because there was a meaning: a critique of gratuitous metaphoric imagery.
The artist's intent is made apparent through the presentation. If the intent is clear, the communication can be clear, too–even if that communication is open-ended.
Trull: In another post, you write that in modern world we can "communicate with everybody and yet we talk to nobody." (Musing on Methods of Communication) Each successive advancement in communication makes our language more and more sterile, but our message remains just as human (though that's debatable). I think this a great example of the logical extreme of the typical western understanding of noise. I would like to think that as artist we reject this sterilized conception and affirm a human condition, but how can we be sure? When does the intricacy and density of one's message turn into a disordered clutter? Does a line even need to be drawn?
Grambo: I think I've addressed this a little bit in the previous answer. Too much intricacy, as you put it, leads to confusion. Reading even friendly correspondence from eras of flowery language drives me to distraction–it becomes tough to remember what the writer is trying to get across.
That said, your mention of advancing forms of communication as a contributor to noise brings another thought to mind. I can't cite an author on this idea, though I'll mention that it isn't mine. The more freedom of speech we assert, the less we seem to be saying and the less communication seems to happen. It's apparent in politics. Even in the age of up-to-the-minute twitter feeds acting as short news releases, nuances in politics in America get assigned to Right or Left. Once a given politician or person aligns him or herself with one side, the rhetoric becomes more and more shrill in order to try to be noticed above the din of similar soundbites. You get the mouth-foamers: Limbaugh on the Right, Maddow on the Left; Hannity and Olberman; Fox and MSNBC. While the two sides have plenty to say, they aren't saying much of anything. Neither side listens to the other, and those in the middle are ignored on-air and alienated in their living rooms. For all the advancements in communication, American politics haven't changed since the days of partisan newspapers and Tammany Hall.
To "affirm a human condition" in terms of communication, I think we have to communicate on a personal level. I think this happens in poetry. I think it happens in emails. I think it happens on Facebook and I think it can happen on twitter. I think that communication–that mutual creation of meaning–is art, so I think all of these are art. As before, intent is the key. If we seek to use these methods to include each other, we create art. If we create art, we are affirming the human condition.


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I woke up this morning thinking of the people in Newtown.... I just pray the community will find peace and comfort in the prayers that are being said for them, and I hope they will be able to recover from the shock of this horrible tragedy and begin the healing process.ReplyDelete
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Well said, Jeanne. Thank you...ReplyDelete
Such a tragedy. I can't imagine how you recover from something like that.ReplyDelete
such an unfathomable tragedy, it's hard to make sense of it all. or try to explain it to my little ones. we also learned on the same day of the knife attack on 22 children in china. i think all we can do in times like these is pray. for change.ReplyDelete
Jeanne, And may God carry us all in the palm of his hand. AmenReplyDelete
Joining you, Jeanne.ReplyDelete
I found you via Facebook. Lovely prayer and photo. I am joining you in prayer.ReplyDelete
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Sending prayers.ReplyDelete
We've spent the weekend praying for the families and community of Newtown and they will be in our thoughts throughout the holidays and into next year.ReplyDelete
Amen and amenReplyDelete
I'm sending up my prayers with yours. May we never forget the sweet innocents lost, nor their brave teachers.ReplyDelete
I'm with you Jeanne.ReplyDelete
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with eggs and cereal and juice
then eat a good lunch maybe a grilled/baked chicken sandwich a glass of milk, and a salad
then eat a light dinner like a sandwich and a salad and some fruit, and a glass of milk
eating a big meal while you're awake will burn it faster, if you eat a big dinner then go to sleep you're body doesn't burn as fast and it will stick around more.
but you always want to eat a well balanced meal to stay healty, and take a multi vitamin. choose baked/boiled/grilled foods they are healtier.
it's always ok if your still hungry after your meals to snack on any type of fruit and veggie they use more calories to eat than they'll give you.
wake up at night and hungry grab an apple : P
and it's always ok to give yourself a treat but try to keep it down to one or 2 servings a day. have a half cup of icecream or one snack cake as a serving because everyone needs a treat when you're doing good.


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More outrageous-- but all too typical of right-wing insanity-- are the remarks of Republican ideologues who were in full swing beforehand. First there was Pat Robertson on the earthquake-caused cracks in the Washington Monument:
"Ladies and gentlemen I don't want to get weird on this so please take it for what it's worth," [television evangelist Pat Robertson] said. "But it seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power, it has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and say this is one nation under God. Now there's a crack in it, there's a crack in it and it's closed up. Is that a sign from the Lord?"Don't want to get weird on this? Take it for what it's worth? Interesting qualifiers. But his reasoning, not his declaration, is what really grabs my attention: the Washington Monument-- that great big phallus thrusting up into the DC landscape-- is "a symbol of America's power"-- and "a symbol of our great nation"-- he says, and then goes on to assert "this is one nation under God." (Hmmm.) And so: if there's a crack in it, it must be from God! In other words, God sent the earthquake in order to introduce fractures into the stone tower built to honor the first POTUS! (How did I not figure that out for myself?) And if God took that much trouble to cause fractures in a symbol of our "great nation," it must mean something BIG.
"You judge, but I just want to bring that to your attention. It seems to me symbolic."
These guys, I guess, really do beleive that, as Israelis were the chosen people of Yaweh, the US is the chosen "nation" of the Christian fundamentalist version of God. All these different Gods. All this magical thinking. It's not only enough to make my head swim, it gives me a vision of historians in the future reading such tripe and deciding that 21st-century North Americans had a mythopoetic view of the world (as I wrote in a paper back in the mid-1970s that Columbus and Cortez held a mythopoetic view of the world, based on their interpretation of what they saw and experienced in the "New World.")
And then there was Glenn Beck. Hurricane Irene, he tells us, is a "blessing." Actually, it turns out he has a financial interest in the nature of this "blessing."
"Warning! Warning! We are headed for global disruption in food," Beck proclaimed on Friday. "I asked you two weeks ago, how many warnings do you think you're going to get, and how many warnings do you deserve? … This hurricane's that is coming through [is a warning] … for anyone who's in the East Coast and has been listening to me say, 'Food storage! Be prepared!'"And then there was Ron Paul, who thinks we'd all be better off without FEMA and, like Eric Cantor, is calling for additional spending cuts before allocating so much as a dime on hurricane relief.
As Mediaite explains, "Beck has been talking up the need to stockpile supplies due to what he sees as a coming 'global disruption in food.'"
Last October, however, Business Insider commented on the commercial relationship which appears to be behind Beck's crusade for food preparedness. "You may have heard about Beck's relationship with Goldline International, which urges people to buy gold and stay safe from the supposed inevitable devaluing of the dollar," the website noted. "Now meet Food Insurance, which sells survival kits of freeze-dried food and other items to help people live from two weeks to 12 months, depending on the plan purchased (and post-apocalyptic conditions). Beck has promoted the company's products, is featured prominently on the company's website, and a banner ad for the company, bearing Beck's image, was spotted on his website Monday."
Beck is no longer with Fox News, but his passion for food preparedness appears to be as strong as ever. "You've heard me say this for years. People have made fun of me," he concluded on Friday. "If you've waited, this hurricane is a blessing. It is God reminding you — as was the earthquake last week — it's God reminding you, you're not in control. Things can happen. Be prepared!"
Seems to me, also, that they ought to change Grand Old Party to Party of Lunatics. It really is time.
To get us back to reality, consider this: recently large blooms of crude oil have been seen swelling up to the surface above the Deepwater Horizon drilling site. A few people are concerned that it could "indicate the formation of fissures on the seabed" of the plugged oil well that's already done so much damage. Not a sign from God, perhaps, which means it won't cut any ice with the POLs. But I hope someone's looking into it.
ETA: I didn't actually mean to slight Michelle Bachmann. She, too, has been telling folks that God sent the hurricane (as well as the earthquake) in support of the Tea Party's message. But it seems that there must be a sane person on her staff: according to the Washington Post blog, Bachmann's press secretary has since been spinning this pronouncement, saying that Bachmann was "saying it in jest to prove a point."
Unfortunately, that same blog cites a Public Religion Research Institute/ Religion News Service poll from earlier this year reporting that nearly 40% of USians "believe that earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters are a sign from God." I'm beginning to feel like an inmate in one gigantic asylum. I can't help wondering if these same people also believe the earth is flat. In Europe, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, they blamed earthquakes on "sodomites" (and, sometimes, Jews). I guess we can just be thankful that notion got lost somewhere along the way.


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I only tidied the wrinkles up, so there will not be too much excess fabric at the edge of the desert.
I added lots of french knots, one or two wraps. This lovely thread is Kreinik fine braid #12.
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- pennifer on January 4, 2010 at 7:34 PM said...
$25. I'd rather have a paperback if that's what it takes to keep the pricing low. Thanks for asking!
- Astrid thrills on January 4, 2010 at 8:56 PM said...
Best wishes to you for an inspiring and wonderful 2010!
Really looking forward to your publication y the way. Regarding your price issue; I think I would pay anything between 12 and 20 euros or am I very cheap? Wishing you a very bright year, best regards,
- Thomas Gruber on January 5, 2010 at 1:57 AM said...
I also would go with $25. Btw. I love the Web 2.0 thing of asking the community what they think.
- Fernando Cuñado on January 5, 2010 at 3:22 AM said...
Happy New Year, Twins. It's very nice from you asking your readers such an important issue. Very web 2.0 ideas. Pricing is a difficult thing. U should take into account your expenditures, earnings, foreseen sales, etc. But, you already know about this. Sorry. So, going back to your question and based on Judy's presentation at the ATA's Annual Conference in NYC (which was so interesting) I would pay 15€-25€. I'm willing to read the book.
Maybe US$ 15-20, if it's in paperback format.
- Tomasz Czulec on January 6, 2010 at 6:14 AM said...
Yes, 15-20 USD.
- Corinne on January 6, 2010 at 7:54 PM said...
When I published my (similar length) book on Lulu 3 years ago I priced it at $19.95 and to be honest I don't think anyone has ever complained that it was too expensive. So I think that with 3 years of inflation you could go for $25. What really turns me off (I know you wouldn't do this) is when people charge an insanely high price for business advice books and then try to put a positive spin on it, like "We charge $100 an hour for consulting, so $90 for our 100 page book is actually a bargain" or whatever. I think that anything in the $20-$25 range is totally reasonable.
- locolalo on January 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM said...
I think $20 US dollars would be pretty good price.
Depending on the length and the cover (hard/soft), I would think that €20 would be acceptable price.
- Judy Jenner and Dagmar Jenner on January 8, 2010 at 1:27 PM said...
Thanks for your comments, everyone! Much appreciated. Right now, it looks like we will go with $25 for a nicely bound paperback book. It's not final yet, but it looks like that would be a good price. Excellent input; much appreciated.
- Diana on January 11, 2010 at 5:07 AM said...
I would pay around €20 (probably including the shipping fees to Portugal). And I'm looking forward to reading it!
- Riccardo on January 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM said...
$20-$25... and you can consider that as a pre-order from me!
- Daniel Greuel on January 18, 2010 at 4:40 PM said...
I'd like to express interest in an eBook format in addition to paperback, either through Lulu or Amazon (preferably Amazon, or Lulu without DRM, since I own a Kindle). I think $15-$20 would be reasonable for an electronic edition, if you chose to make it available as such.
Looking forward to reading it in any case!
- Judy Jenner and Dagmar Jenner on January 18, 2010 at 5:09 PM said...
@Diana: thanks for your input. The price would be exclusive of shipping rates, as those will differ depending on where you live and what type of shipping to choose. It shouldn't be that pricey to ship to Portugal for a relatively light book.
Riccardo: thanks! We have added you to the pre-order list.
@Daniel: excellent idea about the e-book, thanks for sharing. We'd toyed with the idea, and decided to go for the printed book, and we could certainly consider doing both at some point.


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Galway Fleadh & Fair Kicks Off With Loach's Latest
by Adam Burnett
The 16th Galway Film Fleadh opens today with a program showcasing the best of Irish cinema, along with films from around the world. Ken Loach's latest "Ae Fond Kiss" will open the festival, and Paddy Breathnach's "Man About Dog" will close Galway.
The six-day event features 20 Irish features, documentaries, and animated films and 120 shorts. Amoung the Irish films to be screened are Stephen Kane's "Starfish," Tamar Simon Hoffs' family drama "Red Roses & Petrol," Margo Harkin's Belfast drama "You Looking at Me?," Lance Daly's second feature "The Halo Effect," Alan Gilsenan's road movie "Timbuktu," and Pete Travis' recreation of an actual IRA bombing "Omagh." Films by first-time Irish filmmakers include Lenny Abrhamson's "Adam & Paul," Ciaran O'Connor's human-traffiking story "Capital Letters," and Corkman Joseph Murphy's hometown-filmed "Grey."
Irish documentaries to be included are Colum Stapleton's look at The Church of the Eclectic Universal Flowing Light "Empire of Juramidam," Hillay Dully's look at Ireland's high suicide rate "Tollain Dhubha," Vinny Cunningham's anatomy of a riot "Battle of the Bogside," and Desmond Bell's investigation of Irish miners in the United States during World War I, "Rebel Frontier."
Notable films not coming from Ireland include Jonathan Demme's "The Agronomist," Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's "The Story of the Weeping Camel," Brett C. Leonard's "Jailbait," and Guy Maddin's "The Saddest Music in the World." The festival will also offer programs of classic and new British films and a Latin American series. Ken Loach's latest "Ae Fond Kiss" will open the festival, and Paddy Breathnach's "Man About Dog" will close Galway.
The Galway Film Fair, one of the festival's most popular features, will be returning this year. The Galway Film Fair arranges meetings between filmmakers with projects in development and invited film financiers, distributors, and producers. Participating financiers this year include IFC Entertainment, Magnolia Pictures, United Artists, Beyond Films, Fortissimo Film Sales, and Renaissance Films. The Fair will also host a one-day seminar entitled "Film Financing: Terms and Conditions Apply," discussing such issues as "hard" and "soft" money agencies, the decline of television-funded film, and the market for Irish film in England and America.
Galway's Fleadh will honor classic Hollywood actress Maureen O'Hara this year. There will be a special public interview with O'Hara, as well as screenings of her films "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "The Quiet Man." Other special guests will be Stanley Tucci, who will host a masterclass to discuss the craft of filmmaking, and Paul Laverty, screenwriter of "Sweet Sixteen" and "My Name is Joe," who will lead a scriptwriting workshop.
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UPDATE: Overview of the North Korean Legal System and Legal Research
By Patricia Goedde
Patricia Goedde is an assistant professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Law in Seoul, Korea. She received her PhD and JD at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, and is a licensed attorney of the Washington State Bar Association. Dr. Goedde may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
This summary includes modified excerpts from her article Law "Of Our Own Style": The Evolution and Challenges of the North Korean Legal System, 27 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1265 (2004).
Published March 2011
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Table of Contents
1.1 Japanese colonialism
1.2 Soviet tutelage
1.3 Marxist-Leninist influence
1.4 Juche doctrine
2.1 Korean Workers' Party
2.2 Supreme People's Assembly
2.3 Supreme People's Assembly Presidium
2.4 Courts
2.5 Procuracies
2.6 "Socialist law-abiding" committees
3. Foreign Investment Laws and Regulations
3.1 Domestic Framework
3.2 Rason Economic and Trade Zone
3.3 Shinuiju Special Administrative Regions
3.4 Mt. Geumgang Tourist Zone
3.5 Gaesong Industrial Complex
3.6 International law firms in Pyongyang
4.1 Print sources
4.2 Internet sources
1. Legal History
Many forces shaped the legal character of the North Korean State (Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK) before its birth in 1953: Japanese colonialism, Soviet auspices, and to some extent, the traditional Korean legal code. The Japanese dominated the legal structure in Korea during the colonial period of 1910-1945 primarily through laws, Japanese or Japanese-trained jurists, and police surveillance. Although Japan exerted pervasive control over the Korean population via law and police power, it did not impose Japanese law completely. The Korean legal system retained many provisions not related to the maintenance of public order, for example on issues related to kinship and succession.
Upon liberation of Korea in 1945, the North Korean leadership abrogated all existing Japanese laws but had to reinstate the same laws to maintain public order until new laws could be promulgated. The new law code of 1946 included revised Japanese provisions and a Soviet-based judicial structure. Soviet advisors in North Korea had a heavy role in drafting the 1948 DPRK Constitution along with numerous reform laws and ordinances. As leaders in the Soviet Civil Administration, these consultants were sensitive to North Korean aspirations, using a populist tone and emphasizing land reform in the Constitution. North Korean judicial practice started to follow a Soviet pattern in terms of court structure and the procuracy. For example, the courts exercised not only punitive powers but also had the duty to educate criminals and the public about being faithful to the law and the party. Similar to other Communist States, ordinary citizens served as people's assessors on the bench alongside the judge.
Apart from Soviet legal practice, socialist theory had a significant impact on the North Korean legal system. North Korea initially adopted Marxist-Leninist principles in the name of socialism. Briefly, Marxist-Leninist ideology claims that law is a tool of the ruling bourgeois class, and that socialist law, an altogether different species of law, is the instrument of the proletariat dictatorship. North Korean leader Kim Il Sung preferred the Stalinist interpretation of law as a weapon to implement state policy. Kim Il Sung criticized domestic legal reformists who wanted to follow the de-Stalinization campaign of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. Reformists wanted to prioritize equal application of the law, thereby subordinating party policy. Kim Il Sung purged the reformists from the courts, procuracy and the Korean Workers' Party for being tainted with a bourgeois legal consciousness.
Although Marxist-Leninist ideology was the primary doctrine for the early North Korean state and society, this changed formally in 1972 when Juche philosophy, "a creative application of Marxist-Leninism to our own country's reality," was introduced in the Constitution. Juche is often translated simply as self-reliance or self-determination, but the concept is essentially a nationalist ideology of "North Korea first." In 1992, reference to Marxism-Leninism in the DPRK Constitution was dropped altogether.
2. Politico-legal Structure
The DPRK Constitution sets out the basic organization of the Party apparatus and reflects organizational changes throughout the years. The political structure of the North Korean State, as reflected in the Constitution, is set out in the following order:
- Supreme People's Assembly (SPA)
- National Defense Commission (NDC)
- SPA Presidium
- Cabinet
- Local People's Assembly
- Local People's Committee
- Public Procurators' Office
- Court
The Korean Workers' Party (KWP) is the superstructure over all of these bodies. Kim Jong Il is the General Secretary of the KWP and also the Chair of the NDC, the de facto highest State organ in the DPRK since it prevails over the SPA. With candidates pre-screened by the KWP before election, the SPA serves more or less as a rubber-stamping vehicle for the KWP. The same applies to local people's committees whose candidates are also pre-approved by the KWP before election.
The SPA Presidium actually holds more power than the SPA. Historically, Party officials of the SPA Presidium held higher rank than SPA chairmen. A reading of the Constitution demonstrates that the SPA Presidium's prerogatives exceed those of the SPA. For example, the SPA Presidium convenes SPA sessions, interprets the Constitution and laws, issues decrees, and can create or liquidate Cabinet organizations. Meanwhile, the Chair and Vice Chair of the SPA Presidium hold concurrent positions in the SPA.
The courts and procuracies are accountable to the SPA Presidium or to the SPA in session. The tri-level court system consists of a Central Court, twelve provincial courts and approximately 100 people's courts. A special court consists of the military court, which covers criminal cases under its jurisdiction. Lower courts usually have one judge and two people's assessors, while appeal courts have three judges. Although, in principle, regional people's assemblies elect the judges and people's assessors, the KWP appoints all candidates. The procuracy structure resembles the court structure, with a Central Procuracy, provincial and county procuracies, and a separate military procuracy. Although procuracies investigate and prosecute crimes, procuracy offices also have the unique function of auditing other State organs and can try civil, divorce and mediation cases uncovered in the administrative process.
The courts and procuracies are dependent on the KWP, since the SPA Presidium has the authority to elect or transfer Central Court judges and people's assessors, while the SPA can appoint or remove the Procurator-General and can elect or transfer the Chief Justice. The same goes for lawyers. Legal consultants and representatives receive State salaries and are assigned clients by the local lawyers' committee. On the whole, they represent the interest of the State, rather than the client whom they are expected to educate and persuade to confess.
The courts, procuracy, and lawyers do not alone assume the legal role of educating, disciplining and punishing citizens. Local people's committees, work units, and fellow compatriots have the same function. In particular, "socialist law-abiding" committees instituted in people's committees at all levels are more powerful than legal actors since they oversee the procuracy, police, and the State inspection agencies. Specifically, they check officials' abuse of power, comment on laws, disseminate legal information, supervise work units and citizens in general, apply legal sanctions or delegate some of these functions to law-enforcement agencies at their discretion. For those who want to file complaints and petitions against any State agency wrongdoings, an administrative process exists where the relevant socialist law-abiding committee can decide appropriate punitive actions against officials guilty of any transgression. Furthermore, the concerned agency, enterprise or local party committee can organize a peer tribunal system to handle minor offenses and mete out punishments like fines, reprimands, or temporary suspensions of salary.
3. Foreign Investment Laws and Regulations
The DPRK Supreme People's Assembly promulgated the first Joint Venture Law in 1984, which was patterned loosely after China's joint venture law, in an effort to resuscitate its economy by inducing foreign investment. Thereafter, North Korea established the Rajin-Sonbong Free Economic and Trade Zone (now called Rason Economic and Trade Zone) in 1991, amended the Constitution in 1992 to specify that foreign investment would be permitted in special economic zones, and enacted the Foreign Investment Law, the Law of the DPRK on Contractual Joint Ventures, and Law of the DPRK on Equity Joint Ventures. In 2002, North Korea enacted the Basic Law of Sinuiju Special Administrative Region, the Law of the DPRK on the Mt. Geumgang Tourist Zone, and the Law of the DPRK on the Gaesong Industrial Complex.
Each zone has a different legal personality and structure for foreign investment (i.e., economic and trade zone, special administrative region, tourist zone, and industrial complex), which demonstrates that North Korea does not have an overall cohesive legal regime for foreign investment purposes. For example, most of the foreign investment laws and regulations enacted during the 1990s relate to investment in Rason ETZ only, but Rason has not been able to lure investors due in part to its location and poor infrastructure. The Shinuiju SAR was modeled after the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with significant powers reserved to the SPA Presidium to interpret and amend the Shinuiju Basic Law, but it too has failed to transpire as a viable economic center. Meanwhile, both the Mt. Geumgang Tourist Zone and the Gaesong Industrial Complex were specially negotiated between the DPRK government and the South Korean Hyundai conglomerate with the consent of the South Korean government. While Rason and Shinuiju have failed to attract the projected amount of foreign investment, the latter two have had relative success in garnering income for North Korea. Gaesong Industrial Complex has had the most success in terms of attracting South Korean enterprises and manufacturing output, but its access and operation sometimes fall hostage to political relations between the two Koreas.
In response to dealing with potential foreign investors, two international law firms have a presence in Pyongyang: Hay, Kalb & Associates, and Chiomenti (formerly Birindelli e Associati).
4. Legal Research
Legal materials on North Korea in the English language are not readily available to the general public, with the exception of a few law journal articles. However, U.S. libraries specializing in Asian legal materials may hold at least some of the following texts:
For a print source of major North Korean laws and regulations (in Korean), see Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk pŏpchŏn: taejungyong [조선민주주의인민공화국법전: 대중용] (P'yŏngyang: Pŏmnyul Ch'ulp'ansa, 2009). The contents of this legal code are also available in an online subscription database called CNC Pukhan Haksul Chŏngbo, available here (in Korean only).
For a print source of foreign investment laws and regulations (in Korean and English), see Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk pŏpgyujip [조선민주주의인민공화국법규집: 외국투자부문]: Laws and Regulations on Foreign Investment – Democratic People's Republic of Korea (P'yŏngyang: Pŏmnyul Ch'ulp'ansa, 2006).
For laws and regulations governing the Gaeseong Industrial Complex (in English), see 2011 Code of the Act and Regulations for the Kaesong Industrial Zone (Seoul: Ministry of Unification, 2011).
For a guide on researching North Korean legal history, see Sung Yoon Cho, Law and Legal Literature of North Korea: A Guide (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1988).
For a general overview of the North Korean state and society, see Yonhap News Agency, North Korea Handbook, translated by Monterey Interpretation and Translation Service (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2003).
Several internet sources also provide primary and secondary materials on North Korean laws/regulations and related topics but may not cite the most recent legislation:
- NovexCn.com
- Republic of Korea, Ministry of Unification
- Institute for Far Eastern Studies
- Nautilus (including the Canadian "CanKor" electronic news clip service, archives also available here)
- Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1992)
- Charles K. Armstrong, The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950 (2003)
· Patricia Goedde, The Basic Law of the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region: A Happy Medium Between the DPRK Constitution and the Hong Kong Basic Law?, 3 J. Korean L. 77 (2003) [with translation]
· Gi-Hyoung Oh, The Legal Framework of the Gaesung Industrial Complex, 5 J. Korean L. 21 (2005)
- Robert A. Scalapino & Chongsik Lee, Communism in Korea (1972)
- Dae-Kyu Yoon, North Korea, in Legal Systems of the World (Herbert M. Kritzer ed., 2000)
- Yonhap News Agency, North Korea Handbook (Monterey Interpretation and Translation Services trans., 2003)


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Maureen McLane's My Poets Reviewed
Today, The Rumpus posted a review by Barbara Berman of Maureen McLane's My Poets. In her cross-genre study, "McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poets mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, My Poets explores a life reading and a life read." That is, according to her publisher, Farrar Straus and Giroux. But let's not take their word for it. Here's Berman's take:
McLane brings to My Poets a rigorous education from Harvard and Oxford, large quantities of curiosity, courage, raw emotion and a welcome concern for effects on others of her complicated predicaments. These predicaments were made more difficult by her realization that when she was about to marry a kind, smart man who appreciated her, she fell in love with a woman. She is to be praised for decency, interpersonal ethics and for glorious associations in this incoherent book.
Intriguing! Berman describes McLane's discussion of Bishop and Lowell as having nothing new to add, while her treatment of Stein and H.D is "more satisfying." "And then we get to (former U. S. Poet Laureate) Louise Gluck":
McLane read Gluck in great need, announcing, "Louise Gluck's Wild Iris was a companion more intimate than any living friend, a murmur and a rasp and balm in the mind those months the structures of living you yourself had erected were now collapsing, the foundations battered by your yourself. Your depression was florid, ardent, a sick fever of desired annihilation when any flicker of energy served only to fuel and intensify despair." Note the second person, which comes and goes throughout this book. Note also a valid gratitude for Gluck's lines such as
Hear me out : That which you call death
I remember.
Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.
It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.
This is the title poem in Gluck's volume and one of many examples mirroring McLane's agonies while illustrating fine taste. So its irritating when suddenly, a few pages later McLane, again in the second person, is sitting in "one of Hyde Park's landmark bookstores," leafing through Gluck's Proofs and Theories : Essays on Poetry, admiring "the exacting account of the education; the anorexia, the analysis, the maniacal protective ecstasies of refusal and then refusing refusal," when a famous novelist arrives, comments on what she's reading , and "unspools how she married for this and divorced for that and how the long-ago affair for this one blew up." I'm not above gossip, even the salacious sort, though as salacious goes, this is pretty mild. It's also a tease because she doesn't name the novelist. I've pondered why it's here and come up empty.
Ouch. Berman, however, finds McLane's take on Fanny and Susan Howe to be more or less spot on. It's a mixed bag, so be sure to surf over and check it all out.


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The members of the Kiwanis Aktion Club had their second annual picnic with the Pomona Valley Aktion Club and they had a wonderful time. The picnic was held next to Puddingstone Lake at Frank Bonelli Park in San Dimas. It is a very pretty and wonderful place to hold a picnic. This gives the clubs a great opportunity to get together, enjoy each other's company and plan different ways to help their respective communities.
The third annual Aktion Convention will soon be here. They are all excited about this upcoming event that provides them with the experiences such as learning to share, doing projects together, learning from each other and finding out how many ways are available to us all to help each other. The training they receive is outstanding.
The Burbank Aktion Club is still a little short of funds to make it to convention Sept. 10 to 12. With this in mind, the members will be selling lemonade at Burbank's Be-boppin' in the Park in Magnolia Park from 3 to 9 pomp today. They are hoping that while you come out to admire all the beautiful classic cars and "be seen" you will visit their booth and enjoy some of their great lemonade.