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Liberal Modernity and Nihilism - Alain Badiou on Evil
Alain Badiou's thoughts on evil and associated matters in an interview from 2001.
Some snippets.
The full interview can be found here
Is evil a useful philosophical and political concept? And in what ideological ways is the notion of evil used within the narratives of liberal modernity? What conceptual obfuscation, mystification or indeed clarification can the idea of evil be used for?
At the core of liberal modernity, and present in all of it's forms and expressions, is a radical form of nihilism at work?
Why does liberal modernity seem to be a phenomenon in which "All that is solid melts into air"?
I don't have the answers to those questions, but half-witted responses about 'cultural-Marxism' - mostly from fans of Glenn Beck - would seem somewhat historically and analytically inadequate to the task of answering them.
Posted by DanielS on Sat, 04 May 2013 08:40 | #
Thanks Graham.
Brilliant observation by Alain Badiou:
There is no contradiction between the affirmation that liberal capitalism and democracy are the good and the affirmation that evil is a permanent possibility for any individual. The second thesis (evil inside of each of us) is simply the moral and religious complement to the first thesis.
And brilliant questions on evil and nihilism, Graham.
Posted by Nietzsche is Right on Sat, 04 May 2013 09:31 | #
Question, express, affirm, realize, destroy, censor, oscillate, and dissipate.
I do not contest Hitler, entirely.
Posted by DanielS on Sat, 04 May 2013 09:45 | #
The issue with Hitler goes even beyond an improperly drawn paradigm and his doing way more harm than good. Holding the torch for him simply isn't necessary. The Counter-Queers can't get it through their heads that premature populism is not their problem, but premature and rather inappropriate elitism.
Posted by Nietzsche is Right on Sat, 04 May 2013 12:11 | #
I am firstly a Nietzschean, secondly a fascist, and thirdly a republican. You should be it, likewise. This is, if you're a principled man.
Posted by DanielS on Sat, 04 May 2013 12:54 | #
Definitely not a Nietzschean. That is not a principled position. In fact, Dr. Lister gave an excellent critique of how it is that Nietzsche was espousing a kind of liberalism at the bottom of the prior thread.
A fascist, well, I don't know what you mean by it, but there is no need to be bound by prior circumstances and formulas - they were applying logic to their needs and requirements and so do I apply logic to our needs and requirements now; we, who see the needs of the circumstances as they are now are not bound to failed formulas which were, in addition, applied to wholly different contexts.
A Republican? Are you joking?
Posted by DanielS on Sat, 04 May 2013 12:59 | #
I guess you mean a White republic, yes?
Posted by Nietzsche is Right on Sat, 04 May 2013 13:55 | #
The day shall come when you'll figure that fascism is wholly Socratic, and Nietzschean.
God bless Heidegger!
Posted by DanielS on Sat, 04 May 2013 14:48 | #
The day shall come when you'll figure that fascism is wholly Socratic, and Nietzschean.
Maybe for you it is, and maybe you'll figure out that we've got a better way, particularly better than the Nietzschean.
Posted by James Bowery on Sat, 04 May 2013 16:33 | #
WD Hamilton's "Innate social aptitudes of man" concludes with this sentence:
WD Hamilton is referring, of course, to the levels dividing cell from individual from social group in Price's equations of multi-level selection. In other words, "good" and "evil" are relative to the level of selection.
Astounding achievements of creation such as sex, with its meiotic lottery, are merely hinted at by the most advanced social organizations among humans, such as the Hutterite process of dividing one colony into two by, first, building a new colony and then holding a lottery to see which of the Hutterites of the original colony will move to occupy the new colony.
Posted by DanielS on Sat, 04 May 2013 18:18 | #
Ye betrayed me.
Posted by James Bowery on Sat, 04 May 2013 19:25 | #
You think you're being betrayed by another person is bad, DanielS, imagine what a victim of cancer has to say to his own cells. It might to something like: "Ye betrayed We." That puts a whole new spin on the Imperial We, doesn't it?
Posted by Leon Haller on Sat, 04 May 2013 22:18 | #
Before deciding whether to read this full interview from more than a decade ago, I note that it was published in something called "Cabinet" (where do you find these things? google searches?), whose funding was described as follows:
Am I a dreaded "libertarian" because I resent my tax-dollars being devoted to this type of "cultural enrichment"? And how ironic, but oh so typical: capitalism supporting its own critics.
The one and only one area (besides no longer relevant anticommunism) in which I strongly agreed with the historical neocons (unlike the present variety, who rarely talk anymore about "defunding the Left") is their critique of the stupidity of capitalist enterprises supporting leftist (and especially anticapitalist) persons and organizations. At least in the US (though I suspect everywhere in the West), the government never supports rightist groups, but it gives billions to our ideological enemies. This must end.
Posted by Silver on Sat, 04 May 2013 23:53 | #
Haller, surely that's a case of defeating the opposition by leading it.
Lister, your refusal to spell out just what you think should occur politically and economically makes you an annoying, gutless faggot. For example, when you insist that financial derivatives are a "ponzi scheme", you're a faggot. When you complain that investment banking is a "near criminal" enterprise, you're a faggot. And when you moan ceaselessly about "liberal modernity" and "individualism"—absurdly confident that you speak for the entire world—while never daring to even hint at what any alternative would actually imply "on the ground" you're a tremendous faggot.
Posted by DanielS on Sun, 05 May 2013 00:59 | #
Posted by James Bowery on May 04, 2013, 07:25 PM | #
You think you're being betrayed by another person is bad, DanielS, imagine what a victim of cancer has to say to his own cells. It might to something like: "Ye betrayed We." That puts a whole new spin on the Imperial We, doesn't it?
That takes feedback to the higher order of judgment and calibration - which is interesting.
Posted by Leon Haller on Sun, 05 May 2013 05:22 | #
Read the essay in its entirety. NOT an enjoyable or enlightening experience.
Here's a Google-derived excerpt from another article by this Marxist enemy of the West:
I have bolded the most important sentence, the 'fly in the ointment', so to speak.
Leftisms of all types always fail as political projects; that is, while they often achieve power, they never realize their stated aspirations, those which motivated their voters in the first place. This is finally due to the Left's unwillingness to accept that social and political and economic inequality (of which the alleged requirement to mitigate is a preference or at best moral hypothesis, not a given fact, as leftists assume) is always based in physical reality. People are individual creatures, unequally made, and as such, simply not interchangeable. No 'radical equality' will ever be realized, except that of imprisonment.
In the bolded sentences above, Badiou is admitting that radical equality, or, in this case, that delegitimation of inherited, particular identities embodied by his phrase "there is only one world", is not a description of the world, but rather an aspiration, and 'emancipatory' political goal to works towards. "We are deciding that this is how it is for us". But can we decide on our own reality? The world can be incrementally redesigned, and that is what, wrt its objects of study and invention, science does. But the world cannot be fundamentally remade; at least, not by merely passing laws or rearranging political and social and economic relations.
Multiculturalism is radically utopian, and thus wholly leftist. It proclaims that the innate human tendency to tribalism, and the attendant social disharmonies brought about by geographic racial integration, can be 'overcome' (leftists always speak the language of 'overcoming' inherited particularities, instead of respecting them and aligning public policies with them) by education (propaganda), laws and public 'commitment' to egalitarianism. If we all redouble our efforts on behalf of 'tolerance', then frictions caused by 'diversity' can be successfully 'negotiated' (whereas the authentic conservative, the true realist, prefers to prevent these racial tensions arising in the first place - "good fences make good neighbors").
Badiou would seem to be a perfect example of an anti-liberalism which is wholly compatible with a particularly vicious racial universalism. Dr. Lister apparently needs to be informed that anti-liberalism is not per se conservatism. His 'reasoning' seems to run as follows:
1. Liberal individualism denies the ontological realities of both socially constructed selfhood, and that particular social communities are greater than mere collections of wholly autonomous parts.
[Note this is a ridiculous characterization of any liberalism, especially including right-liberalism. Who would deny that a fully assembled car is something different from all of the its constituent parts - tires, engine, chassis, steering wheel, seats, axles, etc - lying separately on the ground? The car fulfills its 'nature' as a system; disassembled, its constituents are nearly useless.
The market economy is not a collectivity of autonomous parts. It is highly integrated and 'systemic'; its system is not rationally constructed, however, but arises spontaneously (as Hayek demonstrated) from the infinite interactions of market participants. This is one of several key 'praxeological' insights of the Austrian School.]
2. Because liberalism is ontologically inadequate, there is no truth in any aspect of the liberal tradition.
3. Any critique of liberalism must be more ('ontologically') truthful than liberalism itself, and is, furthermore, worthy of consideration by WPs.
I agree with #1, but strongly dissent from #2 and 3.
Posted by Leon Haller on Sun, 05 May 2013 05:42 | #
Let me elaborate on what may be unclear in my preceding comment.
I agree that liberalism's emphasis on so-called 'self-authorship' renders it ontologically inadequate. I also agree that there is such a thing as society; that is, a collection of humans who together constitute something greater and different from what they would merely considered individually and summed. A people or nation is not a mere mob, but an entity which is and which abides through time.
My point is that capitalism is not equivalent to an anarchic mob. The products of capitalism are unplanned, but a market order exists. Moreover, this order is not philosophically liberal per se, and can (and does) exist under non-liberal individualist conditions. Indeed, what I myself favor is a non-liberal, Christian/WP authoritarian market order. That, along with appropriate levels of military spending, is what leads to national power and perpetuity.
Posted by Dasein on Sun, 05 May 2013 15:52 | #
The problem is too much egalitarianism. Is the existence of negroes and the transgendered evaluated in terms of their money? Does freedom of association (and exclusion) exist? This fellow lives in a Marxian dreamworld.
Posted by James Bowery on Sun, 05 May 2013 21:37 | #
Let me clarify just how interesting, DanielS:
The notion of "self authorship" is, of course, garbage from one perspective but it is absolute sovereignty from another perspective.
The "me" that says "Thee betrayed We" to his cancerous cells is speaking authentically—with sovereign authority that is not "self authorship" in the way critics of liberalism want me to mean when I say "individual sovereignty". They want me to mean it the way they do because they don't want to face the fact that an individual may, indeed, be viewed as an authentic society and an individual's consciousness may indeed be an authentic expression of that society.
Now, clearly, in the world that denies biology—that in fact demands an individual consciously and judiciously betray his own body (because it represents his biology—his cells) while claiming "self authorship"— such critics may luxuriate in their prejudice.
However, one must in all intellectual honesty ask why is it that they don't want to face facts? A general answer may be that they want others to be extended phenotypes of other bodies. If the critics are, themselves, extended phenotypes of other bodies then they, themselves, may, indeed, proclaim that glorious estate in which they are not guilty of the mortal sin of "self authorship" and may work toward the "good" of rooting out the "evil" of the "self authorship" of others who do not yet serve their extended phenotypic masters.
An exemplary cricket demonstrates his rejection of liberal self-authorship by being "good":
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Posted by DanielS on Tue, 07 May 2013 12:11 | #
What conceptual obfuscation, mystification or indeed clarification can the idea of evil be used for?
One candidate for evil, roughly speaking, would be quantity riding rough-shod over quality.
James, I've read your comment. I don't see any need to disagree with it.
There is no reason why we cannot or should not use self authorship, to the extent it is possible, to confirm our authentic nature, or to confirm quality and range of functional autonomy as individual and society.
At the same time, there is every reason to acknowledge parasitic and alien organism's attempts to feed on our healthy organism or any susceptibility it may have in degeneration.
..or to acknowledge, in the example that you have, that the natural wish for agency can be exploited by those proposing the wonder of self construction.
I believe it is one problem that anorexics, for example, may be having. As they are infamous for their incredibly stubborn willpower.
They may be subject to so much familial obligation and prohibition that they cannot find their agency, their authentic autonomy. Though she does want to be loyal to the family, she can seek her agency only in rebellion. Yet, if she rebels against the strong obligation, she is merely reacting, not agentive. Hence, the only way she feels she can demonstrate her authentic agency is through starvation. It is the only control she can register.
That's a simplification; in reality, anorexia is probably more complex and compound in its causes, but this is is to provide an analogy of the problem of authenticity and self authorship.
Coming back to the cancer metaphor, I suppose you are problematizing the failure of an organism's own side in its ability to fight off the attack.
Posted by DanielS. on Tue, 07 May 2013 12:22 | #
Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 07 May 2013 13:06 | #
DanielS writes: or to acknowledge, in the example that you have, that the natural wish for agency can be exploited by those proposing the wonder of self construction.
The example of the cricket as extended phenotype is the polar opposite.
The cricket has no "wish for agency". The cricket is the ideal of the anti-liberal: Not only has the cricket no "wish for agency", it has no self at all. It is entirely the creature of the anti-liberal parasite spawning to its next stage of life. It is so perfect a slave to the anti-liberal's self-interest that it may be seen as a disposable body part.
Posted by DanielS on Tue, 07 May 2013 13:36 | #
Yes, sure. And its a cool analogy. I did not mean the example of the cricket though, I meant in the example of self authorship which reads its own nature very closely.
Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 07 May 2013 14:32 | #
DanielS writes: " self authorship which reads its own nature very closely."
Such is the moral agency of Man—and in the ultimate expression of this self authorship, one recognizes one's being as a thought expressed in larger ultimate Being.
If there is a universal "evil" it is the interposition of other beings, such as a priest, "civilization", church, race, species or the entirety of life.
Posted by Hymie in Afula on Wed, 08 May 2013 01:17 | #
>> http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/07/dna-study-shows-europeans-share-common-ancestors-who-lived-1000-years-ago
Posted by DanielS on Wed, 08 May 2013 01:41 | #
In this case, if you were to replace the term "ultimate Being" with authentic pattern, it would be a little more clear to me; and, as I have said, I prefer the term modernity where you employ the word "civilization". Though I understand that you mean civilization as E.O. Wilson might define it, and have good reason to do so; while I prefer Plato's definition, finding it ameliorative.
..particularly as you use the word "interposition", that would imply force over persuasion as per Plato's meaning of "uncivilized"..
..a trick to deprive another of their agency and authenticity or to exploit them by pretending they are merely suited for a subservient role is not persuasion but a kind of force, or interposition.
The pattern of race and species might function as the patterned Being as far as I can tell. Although imposition of these, their being forced upon individual qualities or other patterns, would be a dubious and likely a pejorative matter.
Posted by James Bowery on Wed, 08 May 2013 16:33 | #
Yes, basically correct. For instance, in the archetype of Judaism as group evolutionary strategy, Moses goes up to a mountain, carves the code of Hammurabi into some stones, comes back down to find he might not enjoy the position as intermediary mass manipulator and has those who believe him to be the intermediary (and/or simply realize what he is about to do in rallying "believers" to him) form a gang (in ancient language, a "serpent") to sneak attack slaughter all those who do not "comply". This is a form of artificial selection—a culture of mass manipulation—that interposes between the individual and ultimate Being.
This is not qualitatively different than two guys ganging up on one guy to, say, enforce "the law" to which the two agreed and from which the third dissented—which is the foundation of "civilization". Obviously, an individual person who is "wise as a serpent" will not oppose the serpent unless there is some reason to believe martyrdom will serve a purpose. Jews are simply quantitatively more "civilized".
However I did make an error in expressing my views. There is a self-discipline aspect to some interpositions, such as upholding the self-discipline of individual moral agency within upholding the self-discipline of sex within upholding the self-discipline of life—etc. When I speak of ultimate Being, I am speaking of that which is prior to the first such self-discipline—that of time itself.
Posted by Attila on Sun, 12 May 2013 22:22 | #
The last name sounds Jewish (Sephardic)—- might have been Badawi or something like that. My J-dar says Sephardic.
Posted by DanielS on Mon, 20 May 2013 13:15 | #
Graham, if you listen to the first hour of last Saturday's Political Cesspool, you will hear an informative discussion by Keith Alexander of The Brown vs. Board of Education Decision's (May 1954) significance in violation of freedom of association by federally forced school integration: Jewish agents Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, his Jewish law clerk and the Jewish head of the N.A.A.C.P. were behind the decision's first, precedent setting means of overturning popular and - it should interest your concerns in particular - local will by means of a court ruling.
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One of the most highly-anticipated new features of the Talent Platform is Bidirectional Email. This new feature, which came directly through customer feedback, allows recruiters, hiring managers, and HR professionals to send email communications from the platform to candidates, while automatically recording the two-way conversation in the platform for historical data tracking. The communications interface has also been modernized across notes, appointments, and email composition. As a foray into Big Data, iCIMS is also now offering a new Metrics Dashboard, which allows users to view and drill down into insightful data across products, including key stats around career portal activity, candidate sources, and high level workflow summaries.
The company's 13.1 release will also coincide with the much anticipated release of its upgraded Onboard solution. Onboard allows HR professionals to automate the transition from candidate to productive new hire, which is key to new hire retention. According to a 2011 Aberdeen Group report on employee productivity, the right onboarding process has been found to increase new hire retention by 50% and double the level of new hire engagement. iCIMS' configurable Onboard solution provides options for companies to house dynamic content, like tailored welcome messages, pictures, and onboarding videos. This greatly enhances the transition experience, giving new hires the ability to engage and learn about the company while completing important online forms before their first day.
"Along with enhancing our core Talent Platform, we have also improved our integrations with background check solution providers," commented iCIMS Chief Technical Officer Paul Melici. "It is so important companies ensure they are in line with state and federal mandates when bringing on a new hire. Our new standard integration package in 13.1 automates the process so background checks are easy, repeatable, and scalable."
The iCIMS Talent Platform can be integrated with over 125 different service providers, like Sterling, Orange Tree, First Advantage, Aurico, TalentWise, and Accurate, to facilitate a company's recruitment initiatives. All of these enhancements are expected to strengthen iCIMS' already stellar customer service, which recently garnered two coveted industry awards including the Bronze Stevie® Award for "Customer Service Department of the Year" in the Computer Software category and a top three ranking in HRO Today Magazine's "Baker's Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings" in the Talent Management Software category.
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Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:21:54 GMTWe've got a big run of Azure Cloud Camps coming up. Dates are set for Tampa and Miami. Find out more at this blog post - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2015/01/26/cloud-camps-winter-2014-miami-date-announced.aspx....
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Note from the blog author: Web Camps are ramping up again and they've asked me to help get the word out. So the stock blurb is below. Peruse at your leisure and sign up for the nearest camp.
The new release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 puts the power to build cutting-edge websites right at your fingertips. Even better? Once you build a beautiful, interactive site, you can easily deploy and scale it with Microsoft Azure!
Join us for a free WebCamp and learn how to elevate your coding – in just one day. WebCamps are live, no-fluff events created for developers, by developers. You'll learn from lively, informative experts who start with the basics and ramp up to advanced topics as the day goes on. Here are some of the topics we'll cover in these hands-on sessions:
A list of the East Region USA web camps are below. Note there are dates for TAMPA and MIAMI only in Florida. For a list of Web Camps in Central and West please see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/msftwebcamps .
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Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:02:47 GMT
Azure is a pretty sweet cloud environment, with a powerful management portal to help you drive ops. But the management portal isn't enough when it comes to quickly scaling up operations. PowerShell is available from a DevOps perspective to script a large variety of tasks. Sometimes though, you get some strange errors out of PowerShell cmdlets.
I was running the Get-AzureVM cmdlet and got the error - "Your Azure credentials have not been set up or have expired, please run Add-AzureAccount to set up your Azure credentials". Which was frustrating to me, as I was sure the Azure account I had selected using Select-AzureSubscription in my account was valid. I had setup several websites and a storage account in it earlier in the year.
Running Add-AzureAccount did nothing to resolve the error. Creds were stored and visible via Get-AzureSubscription cmdlet. I was at a wall. Then I took a step back.
Resolution - Login to the Azure portal and check your account status. Mine was still in the "welcome wizard" even though I already had a few websites running in it. Walking through the wizard cleared up the message and now the scripts run successfully.
Here's to the SEO god, may this post help some other person not spend an hour wrestling out of an awkward situation.
Additional keywords: Select-AzureSubscription Get-AzureVM FullyQualifiedErrorId Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.ServiceManagement.IaaS.GetAzureVMCommand
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:45:37 GMT
A couple of ya'll have asked me how to add multiple users to a BizSpark account. Procedures are outlined here - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2015/02/16/adding-multiple-users-to-a-bizspark-account.aspx . Note this also gets each BizSpark user their very own MSDN playground! Enjoy...
Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:59:36 GMT
Situation arose the other day where a startup using a Mac received a "Error: Remote Desktop Connection cannot verify the identity of the computer that you want to connect to. Try reconnecting to the Windows-based computer, or contact our administrator." To see my resolution and writeup surf over to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2015/02/25/mac-remote-desktop-connection-error-connecting-to-azure-virtual-machine.aspx .
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:42:13 GMT
I was attempting to sign up for an Office 365 Dev account using my MSDN / BizSpark subscription. I hit a really nasty error where I was unable to continue the sign in process because it thought 33702 was not in St Petersburg. Read about my trials and the solution at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2015/03/11/city-and-state-do-not-match-postal-code-signing-up-for-office-365-dev-account-using-msdn-bizspark.aspx.
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:37:00 GMT
Interested in winning a $25k prize for game development. Cocos is sponsoring a $25k prize for the best game for Windows Phone or Windows Store. I've blogged it on my MSDN blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2015/04/09/cocos-25-000-games-for-windows-contest.aspx. If you're curious, head over and check it out.
Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:26:38 GMT
Tomorrow is a big day for the Microsoft world with the //Build conference in San Francisco. I'm there "booth duding" at the O365 stuff. Digging the CSOM / JSOM models of outside-in for Office 365!
Anyway, if you can't make the event, below are resources you can use to keep up. I'll post more goodies as //Build progresses.
If you're from Florida and attending //Build reach out to me and let's meet.
Sun, 03 May 2015 23:49:12 GMT
//build/ 2015 was one of those events that left you with that "oh heck do I have alot to catch up on" type feeling. From Windows 10, Astoria, UAP, Office Graph and more, there is a ton of things to think abot and absort. So how should you approach absorting all the goodies that came out of //build/? A few suggestions below.
First get a high level view of the big announcments. As you perse the announcements, think about topics that should be added to your list of technical debt, aka stuff you need to learn. My favorite summary level pics below:
Next, maybe you want some in-person //build/ fun? There are a set of //build/ tours going on. Limited city scope, but if you're lucky enough to be on the targeted list, they're definitely worth dropping in on. For more info see the //build/ tour at https://www.build15.com . No stops in Florida, nearest is Atlanta, a mere 400 to 1000 miles away from your Florida location, but a very scenic drive!
Finally, got that list of topics handy of things you want to learn more about. The //build/ videos are availabe on demand at - http://channel9.msdn.com/events/build/ . You can download them or view them online. If you're looking for an automated downloader, pull http://infoworks.tv/session-downloader-now-supports-build-2015/ and give it a go. Freshly updated for //build2015/.
What are you going to //build/ ? What was your favorite session? I personally liked the ConnectedCow keynote from day2.
Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:39:46 GMT
Ran into a big nasty getting my Smart Card reader working on build 10076 of Windows 10. Resolution and dialog are on my MSDN blog. Check it out here - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devfish/archive/2015/06/16/unrecognized-smart-card-reader-scr-3500-on-windows-10.aspx
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I'm pleased to announce that Providence Neurocritical Care Services is expanding to provide the highest level of care to patients with critical neurological illnesses.
Building on our existing excellent critical care structure, we recently opened a new, 12-bed neurocritical care unit at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. The unit is located in a dedicated space on the second floor of the West Pavilion above the current ICU.
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Friday, April 29, 2005
recovery room
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pretty proud of myself. Very proud of myself. I feel like I've done the impossible… Well, not the impossible. The improbable (as Captain Jack Sparrow has educated me on what can and what can not be done).
Alright, whatever: I turned in three essays today (three!!), and I didn't know if I was going to make it. But I did. And it feels good.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
arts & sciences
It's that time of year again… Academic Advising. It's the time when everyone chooses classes for next year, everyone wonders if their schedule will work out, everyone figures out if they can graduate in time, etc. etc.
It's also when I get very excited about being an English major. Leafing through the course catalog, I always take care to crease the binding so it opens easily to the "English" section. Then I spend ages reading all of the course descriptions… History of the English Language… Russian Literature… Craft of Writing…
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Saturday, April 23, 2005
a funny thing happened…
Sooo, just got back from seeing Calvin's production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. I grew up hearing (and singing) the song "Comedy Tonight," but I hadn't seen a version of the musical until tonight (and it was a comedy… so I saw a comedy… tonight…). Everyone promised it would be funny, and as soon as I saw "Rappelling Coach" listed as one of the crew, I knew it would be a blast.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
holy week
Sunday afternoon I joined a bunch of kids to go watch my apartment-mate (Becca) sing in the Gospel Choir concert. It was truly amazing. A few students opened by playing worship songs and leading us in praise. Then the choir processed out, and the "concert" began. (Though, as the emcee and the students kept reminding us, it wasn't a concert as much as it was a "praise opportunity"—a chance for all of us to join our voices in praising God.)
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Saturday, April 16, 2005
light a fire
Last night was awesome. I joined a big group of kids from Alpha and Gamma (two of the KE apartments) for a bonfire. We drove to a park just ten minutes (or so… I'm bad with time) away, where there was a big sand dune surrounded by tall, thin pine trees.
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Friday, April 15, 2005
another poetic discussion
Today in poetry we had another guest speaker. Pretty awesome. I like seeing "real live poets," so to speak… people that get their work out there and let others see it. It takes a lot of courage and determination, and they have great advice.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
from a camel
So, you know that verse about a camel going through the eye of a needle? I know that I'm taking it wildly out of context, but I always think of that image during the end of a semester. And I would be the camel… looking at my list of essays, projects, and exams, and thinking: Yeah, right, like I can squeeze through there.
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Monday, April 11, 2005
the road not taken
We had a guest lecturer in Poetry Writing today: Rod Jellema. We had been given a few of his poems to read over the weekend, and I really liked them, but they didn't have his name on them, so I didn't realize they were his. Then he came into class, and Professor Klatt announced that we had been reading his poetry over the weekend. Everything clicked.
And I was thrilled, because I knew I wanted to write like that, and I couldn't wait to hear what he had to say.
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Saturday, April 09, 2005
dance dance dance
So, last night I went to Dance Guild's spring 2005 performance… "Shake Your Groove Thing." Pretty awesome show. My roomie (roommate) was in two of the dances, and I recognized a bunch of other people…
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Thursday, April 07, 2005
the loudest noise i will ever make
Tonight I went to an organ studio class at LaGrave CRC church in downtown Grand Rapids. Studio class is a great way to stay humble. Basically, everyone plays a piece on the organ (or piano or cello or whatever lessons you all are in), and the other organ students listen and clap politely. Seriously, it really is a cool way to meet other students and hear pieces that you might be good enough to play someday. (Or next week. Who knows?)
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
spring fever
So it's absolutely gorgeous outside, and all I really want to do is sit on our balcony and watch the trees bud. Instead, I've been bringing my homework for poetry class or for sociology out there with me. It's a bit of a compromise, but I sneak furtive glances at the trees, I still feel the breeze, and the homework gets done after all.
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Friday, April 01, 2005
Photo Album: Spring and Easter break
This is Adrienne, my younger sister!
[Adrienne is the cute girl with brown hair, not the eagle… The eagle belongs to the St. Louis Zoo.]
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New legislation in the United States and elsewhere has banned the use of genetic testing to deny health insurance or job opportunities. Such laws aim to increase consumer acceptance of genetic screening technology, which has been dampened by privacy concerns, but could also create additional near-term costs.
In May, President George Bush signed the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) into law, which seeks to prevent discrimination against people who receive a genetic test, by their insurers and employers.
Insurer restrictions. Key provisions are directed specifically at health insurers:
--Health plans or insurers may not require customers to undergo a genetic test, although they can ask customers to participate voluntarily in genetic research.
--Insurers may not obtain genetic information for underwriting purposes--either to determine premiums, or to exclude people from health plan membership or coverage.
Employer restrictions. It also has implications for employers, which play a major role in the largely employer-based U.S. health care system:
--It prevents employers from obtaining or requesting genetic information.
--It prohibits them from hiring or discharging employees, or determining wages, based on genetic data.
--It requires employers who possess genetic information to treat it as a confidential "medical record."
Ethical concerns. GINA is animated by ethical principles. Genetic discrimination is not simply unjust, but has various negative consequences. For example, if insurers used genetic tests to assess the cost of insurance to a customer, it would discourage many customers from seeking a diagnosis. Moreover, since insurance is required to access most U.S. health services, it is probably unjust for insurers to discriminate against a customer based on their genetic characteristics.
However, employer and insurer concerns about the law are not without merit:
--New ethical precedent. It is unethical and has long been illegal for employers to discriminate against potential employees based on particular genetic characteristics, such as skin color or gender, which do not affect job performance. GINA makes it illegal to discriminate based on genetic diseases or disorders, regardless whether those disorders reduce a person's fitness for employment. Thus, GINA is somewhat more restrictive than accepted ethical standards for employment.
--Accidental family disclosures. Sometimes, a family history of disease is revealed accidentally to an insurer or employer. While GINA does not prescribe penalties in these cases, such information cannot be used by insurers or employers to restrict access to employment or insurance coverage.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce registered its opposition to GINA partly because of complications that arise in cases of accidental family disclosure. For example, if an employee takes leave to look after a relative with a genetic disease, that leave record is defined as genetic information and must be treated as confidential. While insurers are equipped to protect confidential medical information, employers are often ill equipped to do so, and may find themselves at risk of legal penalties.
Efforts to curb "genetic discrimination" may create new compliance costs for employers and could create expensive asymmetries of information between insurers and their customers. Yet as genetic testing technology gains acceptance, enshrining higher ethical standards in law may become financially beneficial for all, by improving the early detection and treatment of disease.
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The mentality in Mount Pleasant is to play hard and win with toughness, and as long as coach Ernie Zeigler can keep landing players that thrive in that format, good things should happen for the Chippewas.
Dan now lives in Pleasant Hill, California (a former hometown of Joan London), a suburb of San Francisco where he pursues several life long avocations including his interest in Jack London.
APTwater Inc., a start-up in Pleasant Hill, Calif., is bidding to provide the technology to the city of Anaheim for a demonstration project that would use recycled water for toilet flushing and landscape irrigation in the City Hall complex.
Thirteen recently disabled Iraqi and Afghanistan War veterans hit the waters of Stillwater Lake in Pleasant Grove, Calif., this week in a sports program that shows them many adaptive sports such as golf, water skiing, white-water rafting, cycling and wheelchair softball.
Skulduggery Pleasant is a book for horror, magic and thrill seekers it thrives on pure suspension every turn of the page.
Mt. Pleasant is a favourite spot of mine for cycling.
Pleasant is the memory of such a friend, and of servants such as these.
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
[1] the google map only shows 1400 km, but we backtracked from our B&B in Pleasant Cove (in the NW corner of the Cabot Trail) a number of times.
There was a Turkey Hurt in Pleasant Grove, Virginia.
1: 00: Nightmares in Pleasant Dreams: group reading


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By Kate Gillespie, Contributing Writer
Northborough – The Applefest Committee recently announced that longtime Northborough resident Arthur Cole will serve as grand marshal in this year's festivities taking place Sept. 19-21. Many local residents nominated Cole due to his outstanding work on the Northborough Trails Committee as well as his more than 20 years of involvement in Northborough town government.
Cole first moved to Northborough at 12 years old. He attended Northborough High School before studying at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he received a degree in history. Shortly after, he married his wife Barbara, also of Northborough, and joined the U.S. Army due to the outbreak of the Korean War. He moved back to Northborough after serving to teach at Northborough High School, and has lived there ever since.
Cole taught at Northborough High School for three years before leaving to join the housing business. He started a successful painting business that is now owned by his two sons. However, he wanted to remain involved in Northborough, especially the school system. He served on the Planning Board, helping to create Northborough's zoning bylaws.
After three years, he joined the school committee, where he eventually served as chair. His most noticeable achievement, however, is the formation of the Northborough Trails Committee in 1999, where he served as founding member and chair for over a decade. The committee built over 15 trails throughout Northborough that together stretch over 25 miles. The committee even named two trails after Cole: the Cole Trail, and the Coyote Trail, named for the time a coyote attacked Cole along that stretch.
Cole said he is excited to serve as grand marshal for this year's event. Fall is his favorite season, due to the fabulous weather in New England. Like many Applefest attendees, Cole loves apples, especially when found in apple pie. The street fair is his favorite part of the weekend festivities. This year, Cole is most looking forward to seeing his four children and six grandchildren while riding in the parade.
For more information about Applefest, visit www.northboroughapplefest.com.


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If you are beginning to see the early signs; spongy pedals, excessive free play, and grinding noises all indicate problems with the clutch or hydraulic system. Strange noises that change when you push in the clutch pedal can indicate a pilot bearing or throw-out bearing beginning to fail. Finally, if your clutch begins to slip when the pedal is not depressed, then chances are your clutch disc is worn or the spring plates in your pressure plate have worn out.
One of the most common repair procedures for the manual transmission GTI MkIV is the replacement of the clutch assembly, especially if the car has been modified to make more horsepower. Unfortunately, it is a rather big process involving the removal of the transmission. The good news is that it's really not a super-difficult job if you have some information and a few hints and tips. You will need to first remove the transmission so please see our article on removing your transmission for assistance.
Volkswagen considers all of the mounting hardware to be single use only. Make sure you order new hardware before beginning this job.
Safely jack up and support your vehicle. Please see our article on jacking up and supporting your vehicle.
With the transmission removed you can see the clutch assembly (red arrow).
If you are really lucky when you shut the car off the six clutch access holes (yellow arrow, one shown) line up with the six cut outs in the pressure plate (red arrow, one shown). If this happens you can just unbolt the entire clutch, pressure plate and flywheel combo from the motor with the 10mm triple square. Our clutch did not line up which means we need to separate the pressure plate to remove the clutch.
Remove the twelve 6mm triple square bolts (red arrow) holding the pressure plate to the flywheel. Make sure you use the right tool, even though the bolts are not on with a high torque value you do not want to strip these bolts.
You can now remove the pressure plate (red arrow) and clutch disk (yellow arrow). Use caution when removing the last bolt on the pressure plate. The plate is heavy and will fall off the engine when the last bolt is removed.
Remove the clutch plate (red arrow) and inspect it for wear.
If you are reinstalling the old components or just replacing the clutch plate you will need to use a clutch alignment tool (red arrow) to line up the pressure plate and clutch disk. This will hold everything in place while you torque down the 6mm triple square bolts and allow the transmission to mate up with the engine.
To remove the flywheel and started ring as a unit use a 10mm triple square and unbolt the six bolts holding it to the crank (red arrow, one shown).
Have a friend to help or use extreme care as once the bolts are removed the flywheel assembly (red arrow) can fall from the car and it is heavy.
You are now left with the end of the crankshaft (red arrow) and the main seal (yellow arrow).
The new clutch assembly or kit comes with the flywheel and starter ring (yellow arrow), the pressure plate (red arrow) and clutch already together and with the installation access holes lined up (green arrow).
This photo illustrates the rear of the assembly where you can see the new six single use mounting bolts (red arrows). Just line the bolts up with the holes in the crank, bolt the new assembly together and torque to spec.
Let's turn to the transmission side of this operation. We need to install a new clutch release (a.k.a. throw out) bearing and give a few friction points a new coat of grease. The long metal "fork" rests on a pivot ball (red arrow), to which it is held on by a metal clip. It holds the clutch release bearing in its center (green arrow). The clutch slave cylinder pushes on the fork at the top (yellow arrow), which slides the release bearing up against the fingers of the clutch pressure plate.
Removing the clutch release fork, or lever, is as easy as removing the metal clip holding it to the pivot ball at the lower left. Push the top of the metal clip through that oval hole (red arrow).
Then simply lift the lever and release bearing (red arrow) off of the transmission shaft (yellow arrow).
Two small plastic clips secure the clutch release bearing apparatus to the clutch lever. Push in on the clips to remove it (red arrow). Next to the lever, you can see the portion of the old clutch release bearing that faced the pressure plate fingers, which had broken off and was loose in our car.
Look at the old clutch release bearing on the left, versus the new one on the right. The big difference is the amount of wear visible on the now-concave surface that touches the pressure plate fingers (red arrow).
This should give you a better idea of the way the parts work together. The release bearing presses against the pressure plate fingers (imagine that my hand is the clutch fork pushing the release bearing hard against the pressure plate).
The new release bearing clips right into place.
Place grease in the divot where the clutch slave cylinder pushes on the clutch fork
Place some molybdenum grease on the pivot ball inside the transmission bell housing.
Grease up the fork itself and snap the metal clip back in place.
Reinstall the clutch fork, with the metal clip and clutch release bearing in place.
Push the bottom of the clutch fork onto the pivot ball (red arrow) until it snaps positively into place.
Before reinstalling the transmission, grease up the splines of the transmission input shaft. Use the small packet of grease that was provided with your new clutch. You don't need much. The rest of the installation is the reverse of the removal procedures. Be prepared to turn the crank from the crank pulley on the front of the motor if the input shaft from the transmission does not line up with the clutch assembly.
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Oracle Demonstrates Strong Growth Across Its Storage Portfolio
July 17, 2012 - REDWOOD SHORES, CA
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)
News Facts
- Oracle today announced strong growth across its Optimized Storage portfolio spanning NAS, SAN and tape.
- Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances sales have more than doubled over the past year, and have now been purchased by 40 percent of the Global Fortune 100.
- Oracle's Pillar Axiom Storage Systems have seen significant international growth since joining Oracle and have been adopted by more than 100 new customers in over 25 new countries.
- Oracle has shipped over 2 exabytes of media for its StorageTek T10000C Tape Drives since its launch in January 2011, and doubled the capacity shipped in just six months.
- Oracle executives Mark Hurd and John Fowler will discuss Oracle's Optimized Storage Strategy and share new customer testimonials in an online event on July 18. Register here.
Supporting Quotes
- "Oracle's ability to engineer hardware and software together is clearly resonating with our customers who are using Oracle's optimized storage to simplify their data centers and reduce storage related costs," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. "The storage optimizations in Exadata Storage Servers are key to delivering significant performance improvements in our engineered systems, while the stunning performance of the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, the immense consolidation capabilities of the Pillar Axiom, and efficiencies provided by Hybrid Columnar Compression are allowing our customers to dramatically reduce the amount of storage they buy and the amount they spend to buy it."
- "Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances have exceeded our every expectation, increasing our hosted ERP core application performance by over 35 percent across the board and providing us with a level of flexibility and analytics that allow us to be much more agile than ever before," said Skip Khasky, president, iDataWorks. "The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance has allowed us to consolidate our fibre channel block-level storage and our NAS appliance into one unified system, while significantly increasing performance and decreasing costs over our previous SAN and NetApp filer solution. Our bottom line is happy, our engineers are happy, and most importantly our customers are happy."
Supporting Resources
- Oracle Optimized Storage
- Register to attend the Oracle Optimized Storage Online Event on July 18
- Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
- Oracle's Pillar Axiom Storage Systems
- Oracle's StorageTek Tape
- Oracle Hardware on Facebook, Twitter
About Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), visit http://www.oracle.com.
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Tools and potsSunday, February 15th, 2009
I am not really a tool and die man. I build kilns and make tools out of necessity. I know some potters who make pots only so that they can make tools and build kilns. I am the other way around.
So anyway I decided to make some new roller type tools for putting pattern on pots. From left to right here are:
A roller from Capital Ceramics in Salt Lake. Next are two rollers used to press down seams in wall paper. One is new. The other on is twenty years or more older. I can't find ones like that any more. I suspect the new ones are all plastic. Then there is Shoe Goo and various strings and cords from the local hardware store.
I start by rolling the glue onto the roller like I would if I were inking a brayer for print making.
When the glue is evenly distributed I wind the cord onto the roller and hold it until it sticks.
Nice tool, eh?
Here is the same idea with carpenter's string.
Mugs showing string roller, cord roller and bisque stamp impressions
Here is the same thing on a small vase.
Three slab built platters with rope/string patterns and details of the same. Fun with clay.


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The Home Office is a notorious graveyard of political careers, where the high-flown principles of the stump meet the harsh realities of everything from policing riots to cutting passport queues at Heathrow. So it should have come as no surprise to Theresa May that she has found herself facing furious questions about why soldiers fresh from the field of battle in Afghanistan were being drafted into east London with just days to spare to replace nonexistent Olympic security guards.
In these days of mass outsourcing, ministers often hope to palm off the responsibility – and the cost – for cock-ups on the ground to hapless corporate managers. But despite the bear-baiting tone of G4S boss Nick Buckles's appearance before the home affairs select committee last week, it was May who was forced to call in the troops. And it will be she who faces the ultimate questions about how the contract was drawn up; why it apparently took officials so long to grasp what was going wrong; and whether the penalty clauses written into the deal with G4S were rigorous enough.
The public shaming of Buckles by Keith Vaz and his colleagues should help the government to claw back more cash from G4S than might otherwise have been possible. But when the troops have gone back to their families and the dust has settled on this particular fiasco, politicians should draw some important lessons.
For one thing, where the service in question is sufficiently vital – whether it's the very public jamboree of the Olympics, the care at a local hospital, or making sure the train network keeps running – the state cannot simply lay off its responsibilities.
Ultimately, voters will always, rightly, expect the politicians they elect to be the guarantors of basic, essential services. That means governments can't avoid stepping in to avert a disaster, as a long history of rail franchise renegotiations, backdoor subsidies and ministerial resignations makes clear.
So far from handing over the headache to a team of outside experts, contracting-out can mean being lumbered with responsibility without having power or control.
George Osborne's £40bn worth of "UK Guarantees", announced last week as his latest effort to give the moribund economy a jolt without abandoning his deficit-cutting principles, faces the same problem in a different guise. The Treasury – ie the taxpayer – will ultimately be financially responsible if the projects it backs go awry; but once the deal is signed it will have absolutely no control over how they are executed and whether they succeed or fail.
The second lesson is that Whitehall bureaucrats don't have a monopoly on bungling. Private sector providers aren't necessarily the slick, smooth operators they can seem when they bid for work. Despite G4S's massive experience, it appears to have bitten off more than it can chew.
If the banking crisis taught politicians anything, it should be that having shareholders, a whizzy logo and a worldwide corporate footprint is no guarantee of competence. With a number of police forces actively considering contracting out parts of their job to security firms, it's time to think carefully about what genuine benefits they can bring.
If they are to be cheaper for the taxpayer and pay a profit to their shareholders, private contractors need to be more efficient than their Whitehall counterparts by a considerable margin – but in many cases they are not.
Thirdly, the depressing details of the G4S farrago – demotivated staff, some speaking less-than-perfect English (Buckles professed not to know what "fluent" meant in the Commons last week), many of them failing to turn up – also revealed something about the way the cult of contracting-out feels to the men and women on the ground.
A short-term event like the Olympics was always going to require a huge influx of temporary staff, but G4S appears to have treated its recruits with the kind of chaotic disregard usually reserved for the late-night cleaners and security guards who keep the capital running all year round.
Businesses that have listened to London's tireless Living Wage campaigners over the past 10 years have found that bringing services in-house, and using permanent staff instead of a shifting kaleidoscope of temporary workers, can deliver better loyalty, motivation and performance – but these are benefits that will never show up in the price of a contract.
That argument has to be writ large in any profession, from policing to elderly care, where the motivations and the integrity of staff are at the heart of whether the service will succeed.
Opening up new areas for private sector providers in the hope of promoting competition and forcing civil servants to raise their game was a key part of Tony Blair's drive for "public sector reform", which recent interviews alarmingly suggest he might be keen to revive through a new role in public life. But that was an agenda for a period in which the illusion of corporate efficiency and integrity had been less tarnished by failed computer projects, shady financial dealings and the sheer greed of kleptocratic top management.
Of course there is expertise, and plenty of examples of best practice, to be found far beyond the precincts of Whitehall. But May's embarrassment over who would be turning up to guard the world's athletes is a forceful reminder that contracting out is very different from abrogating responsibility – or shifting financial risk.


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Cherokee Run Golf Club
Conyers, GA 30013
Located within the Georgia International Horse Park, Cherokee Run Golf Club is an Arnold Palmer-designed masterpiece open to the public year-round. The 18-hole championship golf course is 72 par with a 143 slope, 7,016 yards and a 75.1 rating. The design features Crenshaw bent greens, Zoysia fairways and 96 strategically placed bunkers. Tall pines line most of the fairways, and natural granite outcroppings surface dramatically on a number of holes.
Cherokee Run is the perfect backdrop for tournaments and corporate outings. The pro shop is stocked with top-of-the line merchandise, balls, bags and clubs.
Sunday brunch, daily lunch and a variety of menus await guests at Cherokee Run.
Cherokee Run hosts weddings, receptions, banquets and other large events for up to 250 guests. Windows in the spacious Palmer Banquet Room overlook the sweeping veranda for additional entertaining space as you take in the action on the picturesque 18th green below. Hawthorne Suites is located at 16th hole.
Info & Amenities
Hours of Operation
Sunday: 7:00AM - 7:00PM
Monday: 7:00AM - 7:00PM
Tuesday: 7:00AM - 7:00PM
Wednesday: 7:00AM - 7:00PM
Thursday: 7:00AM - 7:00PM
Friday: 7:00AM - 7:00PM
Saturday: 7:00AM - 7:00PM
Admission & Fees
Rates Call for times and fees
Course Type
Cuisine Served
Facility Amenities
Banquet Room / Clubhouse
Driving Range
Free Parking
Golf Cart Rentals
Golf Lessons / Instruction Available
Group Instruction Available
Group Tournament Coordination
Outdoor Dining
Parking on Site
Party Facilities
Pro Shop
Putting Green
Restaurant on Site
General Information
Course Designer: Arnold Palmer
Number of Holes: 18
Open Year 'Round
Par: 72
Near Interstate Highway


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The State of Michigan has no plastic bag bans. However, that doesn't mean the citizens aren't concerned about the environment and the harms that plastic bags cause.
In Cheboygan, a concerned group has taken the initiative to reduce the use of plastic shopping bags. The Straits Area Concerned Citizens for Peace and Justice and the Environment started a campaign in early 2014 to get the town to adopt a resolution to support the initiative.
According to the group at straitpeace.org, plastic bags make up 13% of the trash on local Cheboygan beaches. They estimate that 5.3 million plastic shopping bags are used in Cheboygan county each year. The mission of the initiative is to convince citizens to switch to reusable bags.
Straitpeace.org convinced the Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners to adopt the resolution in October, 2014. At the regular December 9 City Council meeting, the Cheboygan City Council discussed the measure. The Council unanimously approved a motion to adopt: A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Cheboygan, Michigan Supporting the "Cheboygan First in Reducing Plastic Bags" (First in Michigan) Initiative.
Now the group has their own reusable bag to promote the initiative. In the above photo, City Council poses with their honorary presentation of Bring It Cheboygan! bags after their April 26 meeting. These locally-designed and made re-usable bags were premiered at the Earth Week Plus Expo on April 23 and are sold locally at Billie's, Bittersweet, Brick Oven Bakery, The Flower Coop, Purple Tree Coffee Shop, Up North, and Zany Kitchen.
Straits Area Audubon Society is helping to raise the $20 per bag cost to make sure each city and county official has a bag. Said David Martin, aka 'Plastic-Bag Man' of Bring It Cheboygan!,
"By choosing re-usable bags to replace plastic bags, you reduce energy use, litter and pollution, and protect wildlife as well as roadsides. Safeguarding what attracts our visitors and makes Cheboygan County a nice place to live depends on all of us doing what we can," said David Martin, aka 'Plastic-Bag Man' of Bring It Cheboygan!,
Councilman King stated that personally he has reusable shopping bags and, "Once you break the habit and incorporate it into your daily routine, it's a no-brainer, as is the Resolution."
Cheboygan, a town of 4800 people, sits at the mouth of Cheboygan River which empties into Lake Huron at the northern tip of the State of Michigan.
Courtesy Straits Area Audubon Society
Cover photo: Cheboygan Harbor, MI. Credit: US Army Corps of Engineers. Commercial docks, which are used primarily for receipt of petroleum products, exist along the river.


text: SAIL THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS ON BOARD NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE Enjoy a Thanksgiving repast cruising through the Mexican Riviera, a white sand Christmas in the Caribbean, or even ring in the New Year on the steps of the pyramids in Egypt all while cruising on one of 11 Norwegian Cruise Line ("NCL") ships in November and December. While on board, guests can dine on fabulous holiday feasts in their choice of 12 restaurants, enjoy Vegas and Broadway-style shows just steps away, cool off swimming, challenge family to a bowling game, or play Nintendo Wii on a two-story screen – all on an entire ship decked out for the holidays. Guests can also take … [Read more...]