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Le Corbusier's Beistegui as Emblem of Surrealist Space
|In 1930, Le Corbusier completed an apartment commission in
Paris for a wealthy client named Charles de Beistegui. The apartment is,
by most accounts, one of Le Corbusier's most paradoxical works. While it
reflects many of the architect's well-known concerns (with light and circulation,
for example) some of its elements are of a decorative and surreal character
uncommon to his oeuvre. These aspects are made more noticeable in the context
of Charles de Beistegui's taste: he was an avid collector of surrealist
art with a penchant for both exaggerated imagery and overstuffed furniture.
Yet, there are particular spaces within the apartment which are decidedly
surreal, and which can be called this without necessarily invoking the influence
of Le Corbusier's client. One such space is the elevated and attached roof
garden--a strange, exterior room that is home to a false fireplace with
a mantelpiece, living room furniture, and a mirror. This garden is a mystifying
place that insists on a surrealist experience instead of presenting a surrealist
pastiche. It plays the role that Nadja does for Andr Breton by introducing
an unexpected encounter into the scheme of the apartment, one which causes
an inexplicable sense of alienation.
The Beistegui apartment is one of Le Corbusier's least discussed architectural works. Only a few texts make reference to it, and those that do tend to merely acknowledge it.1 It seems that the unusual character of the apartment is partially responsible for these omissions. Tim Benton, who devotes a scant four pages of writing to the Beistegui commission, is quick to relate it to the rest of the architect's work and states that "Le Corbusier began the commission from a position of convinced Modernism."2 While the apartment cannot be understood as separate from the rest of Le Corbusier's buildings, it is distinguished by its unusual embellishments and Benton avoids a discussion of them. He is intent on integrating the apartment into Le Corbusier's oeuvre, and he does so by announcing that "in a letter to the Italian modernist P.M. Bardi in 1933, Le Corbusier had no qualms in setting the apartment de Beistegui alongside the Pavillon Suisse as paradigmatic examples of his urbanistic principles" and indicating that the apartment is a "coda and critique of the 1920's villas."3 Despite Benton's program, the differences embodied in the Beistegui apartment are loci of information too. It is a far more complex and interesting effort when they are examined. The apartment has a number of unconventional features including electrically driven partition walls and hedges, a camera obscura in the form of a telescope, and a built-in cinema with a metal screen that comes down as a chandelier rises. These are assuredly whimsical and technologically advanced quirks, but it is the roof garden that appears most complex and bewildering in both architectural and surrealist terms. Even if it is to Benton merely "a classic expression of Corbusian dogma...(a) prototype for a Plan Voisin or Ville Radieuse,"4 this kind of conclusion limits an imaginative understanding of how the roof garden works and what can happen in the space that it delineates.
While the roof garden is assuredly part of a larger scheme (part of the apartment as it is conceived in its entirety5) I am treating it as an entity in and of itself in order to examine the possible nature of a surrealist place. Another investigation could consider the entire Beistegui apartment as such, but I am privileging a specific portion of Le Corbusier's project in order to theorize the experience of a certain kind of compass. The apartment as a whole seems less open to a plural reading because it is suffused with the marks of Le Corbusier and his client. While the garden is assuredly constructed by them as well, it proposes an experience that neither could possibly define. The roof garden appears as an irregular and startling architecturally discontinuous arena. It is representative of a moment like that sought by Louis Aragon "when immense cracks appear in the palace of the world" and for which he would "sacrifice all (his) life."6 Peter Inch explains that the result of any such fissure is an "exquisite tension...fed by the conflict...between what we can see is there in a disturbing situation--a hole in the sky, a horrible something scratching at the window--and what we know for a fact ought to be there."7 This tension is produced in the Beistegui roof garden. It denies the passive involvement that might occur in other parts of the apartment to those who stand within it. They are posed in an elevated and unreal space which they are obliged (and frightened) to construct for themselves.
The Beistegui roof garden can aptly be called a place of the mind, and if this is extended, it can also be termed surrealist. Le Corbusier played on the fringes of the surrealist movement8 and it may be his involvement there that prompted him (along with the surrealist interests of his client) to make such a whimsical space. Nevertheless, I use the term surrealist carefully and not simply because Le Corbusier knew something of surrealism. The Beistegui roof garden reveals something of the Freudian uncanny: its components are familiar but they appear strange and discontinuous. Its setting, its characteristics and the objects of its presentation undermine reality, or at least that "little reality (ce peu de ralit)" proposed by Jacques Lacan in which "human knowledge is determined (and) which the surrealists, in their restless way, saw as its limitation."9 The Beistegui roof garden pushes the experience of an architectural place up against the definitions, the "little realities," that limit such experience and that the surrealists attempted to countermand.
The garden is comparable in size to a large living room. It has a carpet of grass and is surrounded by a white wall which is approximately five feet in height. Most of the photographs that take it as their subject show the fireplace at one end with some curved metal chairs arranged around it. There is a carved, oval mirror above the fireplace that is placed so that half of it hangs below the top of the wall and half protrudes above, creating an arched shape along the wall itself. In a few photographs there are additional elements: sometimes an ornately carved chest is pushed against one wall, and sometimes there are candlesticks on the mantel of the fireplace. Beyond the wall with the fireplace, the top of the Arc de Triomphe is visible, and the Tour Eiffel extends above the wall opposite the fireplace at the other end of the garden. These "facts" reveal a few of the paradoxes introduced by the garden.
First of all, the garden creates a tension between inside and outside. It is separated from the apartment because it is outside of it, and because it is accessed by a separate set of stairs which lead up to it and which place it on top of the apartment. It occupies the phonetically determined space of the sur-ral because it is beyond the space of the contained (and stable) apartment below. The tension between inside and outside is evident in the space of the garden itself, which takes elements that are usually found inside a building and removes them to its exterior. Second, this physical separation invokes a complex division between public and private. The garden is part of the private space of the apartment in that it is separate from the public realm of the city. At the same time, it is more public than the interior of the apartment because it is open to the sky and situated between two public monuments which protrude into it and declare its connection to the city. These divisions and conflations of public and private, inside and outside, are represented by the mirror which hangs above the fireplace. Anyone who looks into it experiences his existence as a public and private being at once, as self and reflected self.
This mirror can actually serve as a guide to the complexities and effects of the tensions introduced by the Beistegui roof garden. When a visitor to this garden looks into the mirror, he is immediately and doubly framed. The mirror is placed so that its top half appears to fit into the void left by the arch of the Arc de Triomphe in the background, and the self is here subjected to its own dissection. There is a self that walks to the mirror in the space of the garden. This self is duplicated in the mirror, and placed outside of himself and outside of the garden. Additionally, this reflected self is placed within the space of the arch of a public monument, which reinforces its existence as a zone of construction. The person who looks into the Beistegui mirror is thus forced to see himself as a representation and a construction, and forced to consider the manner in which he is these things. The mirror is the site of a destabilizing moment, especially since it only reflects a partial being. What is reflected is only a head which appears unconnected to the body that supports it--the body that is elsewhere. Consciousness is physically separated from the bodily processes that produce it. This doubling, this sense of being inside oneself and being elsewhere, or of being in a particular place but of also being in a space much larger than its limits, is discussed by Lacan in his work on the mirror stage.10
The mirror stage is a period of time when the child is "at an age when he is...outdone by the chimpanzee in instrumental intelligence (and) can nevertheless already recognize as such his own image in a mirror."11 At this moment there is a split between the child and his reflection where the child can recognize himself as himself but also as something other than himself. This division is so astonishing that the child begins to make gestures in order to test and play with his newfound reflection. Lacan calls the result of these gestures a "virtual complex" that is separate from "the reality it reduplicates--the child's own body, and the persons and things, around him."12 While anyone tall enough to look at himself in the mirror of the Beistegui roof garden has undoubtedly passed through the mirror stage, the experience of looking in the mirror should remind them of their original encounter with the division of self and outside-of-self. Unlike the child who first looks into the mirror (and who is without the language that will confer subjecthood upon him) the person in the Beistegui garden will already understand himself as an object seen by others in identification with others. He will know that he is not the same as his reflection, which is constituted by all of the names, occupations and friends he has accumulated and with which (or whom) he defines himself. Ordinarily, he will attempt to diminish the separation that is implied by the mirror because it is unresolvable. The "secondary identifications"13 that Lacan associates with the realm of the social and of fiction are much more comforting, and as such, they are often proposed as the only manifestations of the self. The first glance into the Beistegui mirror disallows this desire. It imposes a cataclysmic conflation of the self and the non-self, of the private and the public, that challenges the viewer to either immediately construct himself or to recognize himself as in some way constructed.
The very act of looking into a mirror is an attempt to find or rediscover the self, possibly the self that was known to the child before he encountered his other in the mirror. A visit to the Beistegui roof garden is a reminder of this endeavor. Yet this self that is sought cannot be found (we are not only constructed by others--we construct ourselves), even though everyone aspires to find it, guided as they are by a nostalgia that Baudelaire locates in the tension between idal and spleen. The space of the Beistegui roof garden compels the visitor to look in the mirror because it is itself a reflected and reflecting space. And when he looks, the garden insists that he acknowledge his existence as a being in space because he finds himself in such an unusual arena. Both the mirror and the garden, then, provoke a nostalgic and prying glance because the reflection that each represents is in marked contrast to what houses them. Trying to understand what occurs when one looks in the mirror is like trying to determine the differences between what is secret and what is exposed. Gaston Bachelard understands this differentiation in terms of space when he writes:
What would be the use, for instance, in giving the plan of the room that was really my room, in describing the little room at the end of the garret, in saying that from the window, across the indentations of the roofs, one could see the hill. I alone, in my memories of another century, can open the deep cupboard that still retains for me alone that unique odor, the odor of raisins drying on a wicker tray.14
The person looking in the Beistegui mirror knows that what is reflected is not him, and also knows that what is him cannot really be described to anyone. Yet it is this interior description that he seeks, as well as an indication of the signs he has used (and that others have invented) to describe him.
There is an element of fear in this face-off in the Beistegui mirror. Since it only shows part of the person looking into it, the person experiences himself as constituted in parts and as exposed at once. The effect of this exteriorization is that the person appears in a "contrasting size (un relief de stature) that fixes it and in a symmetry that inverts it, in contrast with the turbulent movements that the subject feels are animating him."15 The person is distorted by the mirror and is disturbed by this distortion. His face is turned around and constituted by elements that are always unfamiliar (this is why we look into the mirror so many times in the course of a day) and the sky behind him seems like an atmosphere characterized by a vastness and emptiness of luminescent infinity. These experiences of exteriority are "pregnant with the correspondences that unite the I with the statue in which man projects himself, with the phantoms that dominate him, or with the automaton in which...the world of his own making tends to find completion."16 Man's statue cannot sit still in the Beistegui garden. The chairs placed there are only a reference to his existence as an object of presentation. He cannot sit in them because his image will not be contained by them: it reverberates back and forth between mirror and space, self and world, so that neither he nor the components of his reflection can falsely assert their stability.
The Beistegui roof garden is a space of formation. Encountering it is something on a par with the surprise of meeting someone for the first time who you know you will immediately love. This kind of unexpected meeting is the surrealist source of beauty, and it is not a beauty that is produced by the stability or predictability of the terms that constitute it. As Lacan points out, "the meaning of beauty (is) both formative and erogenic."17 In the case of the Beistegui garden, the self is presented as formed and is re-formed with the exposure to this knowledge. This reformation incites sexual desire at least partially in the form of self love, for the mirror is analogous to Narcissus' reflecting pool. Just as the self in search of self (or definitions of self) is self-obsessed, the Beistegui garden is a space obsessed with space. It talks about itself, it forms itself based on what it sees (it has eyes in the form of a mirror18.) It is space in its most derealizing effect because it questions the source and the location of what it contains. It becomes a temple where constructions and definitions are sacrificed but at the same time acknowledged.
The mirror is one aspect of the Beistegui garden that represents the drama that occurs there, or that clarifies its role as a stage. Lacan knows that the mirror stage itself is "a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation" and the drama enacted by the Beistegui garden is similarly motivated. It imposes a sense of alienation (insufficiency) on those who visit it and it causes apprehension and a heightened awareness (anticipation) because of the way it is structured. The very existence of a fireplace that resembles an ornate interior structure but which is exposed to the elements inverts the traditional meaning of the hearth: that which has been considered as an emblem of the home, of family, of stability and warmth. This hearth undermines these associations: it presents the body that stands in front of it with a simulation that neither works nor proposes to fulfill any of these functions. When the Beistegui visitor is confronted with this hearth, as with the chairs and the surrounding walls, his defenses are shaken. The stability of the self ("the formation of the I") is undermined by these strange objects; its usual symbols (in dreams, the fortress or the stadium) are denied so that the subject "flounders in quest of (a) lofty, remote inner castle"19 that the Beistegui garden consistently dismisses. The walls that encircle the garden are unforgiving and blank canvases which taunt the viewer to paint and repaint himself. As they partially block the view of the city beyond, they insist that anyone visiting the Beistegui garden invent what happens in the midst of their contained placidity.
The mirror in the Beistegui roof garden is the key to the experience it offers. It is an internalizing and externalizing instrument that separates the viewer from himself and from his environment so that he thinks about how he is experiencing what he understands to be "here" and "there." The whole garden acts to visually construct a visceral response that may be experienced so deeply that it becomes traumatic. Le Corbusier has created a place that speaks about the the self and its habitations while it undermines their stability. Their distinct worlds of inside and outside are unveiled in an arena of trickery where personal reflections and grand monuments collide, where living room furniture seems as misplaced as one's face in the mirror. These are certainly some of the requisite provisions of the surrealist moment.
1 I do not pretend to be an expert on Le Corbusier, so I make this point tentatively. However, of the twenty books on Le Corbusier that I scanned, only four named or pictured the Beistegui commission and of these, only two included text about it.
2 Tim Benton, The Villas of Le Corbusier 1920-1930 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), 209.
3 Ibid. Of course, Benton does not explain Le Corbusier's possible reasons for making this comparison. It seems clear that Benton's paraphrased quote indicates Le Corbusier's desire to have all of his work seen in the light of his principles: this is quite a promotional move.
4 Ibid. I have quoted Benton at length because his text is seemingly (embarassingly) the most detailed one on the Beistegui apartment and in its descriptions it is remarkably unselfconscious. My point is not to slander Benton but to indicate that Le Corbusier's project deserves another kind of attention than that it is awarded by writers like Benton.
5 It should be noted that Le Corbusier did not conceive of the roof garden in its final form when he began working on the Beistegui project. The space was originally designed as a croquet field. Benton's text reproduces a few of Le Corbusier's drawings that indicate these changes. See Benton, The Villas of Le Corbusier 1920-1930, 212-214.
6 Unfortunately, I could not find the original source of Aragon's comment. It is reprinted in Peter Inch, "Fantastic Cities," Architectural Design 48 no. 2-3 (1978), 117.
7 Ibid.
8 Le Corbusier was the main contributor to L'Esprit Nouveau, a publication founded in 1920 by Paul Derme and edited by the painter Amde Ozenfant. While those writing for and around L'Esprit Nouveau attempted to see themselves as separate from the members of the literary surrealist movement, Le Corbusier was certainly around the surrealist milieu so that he was aware of the games and tactics played by those who concerned themselves with it. For further discussion on the relationships between various individuals who contributed to the surrealist movement, see Marcel Jean, ed., The Autobiography of Surrealism (New York: The Viking Press, 1980).
9 Jacques Lacan, "The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I," in crits, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1977), 3-4.
10 Lacan is a relevant source for any discussion of the experience of surrealist space. The surrealists were interested in and influenced by psychoanalysis, and Lacan's elucidation of some workings of the mind suggest some of the ways the mind reacts in a space like that of the Beistegui roof garden.
11 Ibid., 1.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid., 2.
14 Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958), 13.
15 Lacan, "The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I," 2.
16 Ibid., 2-3.
17 Ibid., 3.
18 According an inanimate object the power of eyesight is a commonplace in recent newspapers, which have referred to the new cameras being installed on the Hubble Telescope as its eyes.
19 Lacan, "The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I," 5.


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Our guest speaker in Midwest Entrepreneurs class yesterday was Dr. Thomas S. Davis. After earning a degree in Chemistry from Monmouth College in 1962, Davis went on to complete a Ph.D. from Case Western University (Cleveland, OH); making him our second consecutive guest speaker to have earned both an undergraduate degree here at Monmouth College and a doctoral degree from Case Western.
What are the odds of that?
Dr. Davis spoke to the class about his extensive knowledge of doing business on a truly global scale; knowledge gained as a result of 45 years of research and development, engineering management, and global supply chain management and logistics experience with three large transnational corporations (General Electric, Philips Lighting, and Becton Dickinson). His presentation featured "lessons learned" in countries including Brazil, Japan, China, and the Netherlands; although his international business odyssey took him to 18 different nations.
Central to Dr. Davis' presentation was a wealth of advice for entrepreneurs related to opportunities to be found abroad (i.e., outside of the United States).
As I listened to this insightful advice, I could not help but think of a research paper I published back in 2001 with Dr. David Ackerman, my then-colleague at California State University-Northridge. The paper was entitled "The Extreme Ups and Downs of Teaching Abroad" and was based on my experience as a visiting professor in Mexico as well as Dr. Ackerman's experience teaching in China. The gist of the paper was that teaching abroad—at least in the two lesser affluent, developing nations that our experiences were based in—was a proverbial double-edged sword.
On one edge was the extreme joy of helping students in these nations better their chances for success in life while at the same time having the students help teach us about their home cultures. The other edge was just as extreme, but in the opposite direction. While this matter is very complex, let me just say that political and socioeconomic factors within our host nations and socioeconomic differences between our host nations and the United States, coupled with very different systems of higher education than we were accustomed to, produced some rather unpleasant experiences (and still-lingering memories).
Yesterday in Midwest Entrepreneurs class, Dr. Tom Davis suggested that much the same double-edged sword situation exists for entrepreneurs abroad. This situation is described below within the context of opportunities to both succeed spectacularly and fail miserably.
Opportunities to Succeed Spectacularly
As Dr. Davis informed the class yesterday, there are great opportunities abroad for growth-seeking entrepreneurs based in the United States. Specifically, as he put it, "there is a lot of action outside the United States" with the largest current and future "growth markets" (i.e., nations where rates of individual and organizational purchasing power and consumption are increasing) being located outside of this country.
Indeed, large nations such as Brazil, China, India, and Mexico are growing—economically—at rates far higher than the United States. Thus, for entrepreneurs looking for spectacular growth opportunities, nations such as these are extraordinarily attractive. However, taking advantage of these opportunities does not come without significant risk.
Opportunities to Fail Miserably
The proverbial double-edged sword for U.S. entrepreneurs looking to take advantage of spectacular growth opportunities abroad manifests itself in the fact that if one is not careful, large investments—of time, effort, and money—made in foreign nations can wind up resulting in nothing more than looking ridiculous and/or offending the very persons you are trying to sell to abroad. Doing that, as you know, is very bad business (and a near-sure pathway to ultimate miserable failure for U.S. entrepreneurs venturing abroad).
Dr. Davis informed students and others in attendance yesterday that persons in many foreign nations have a negative perception of Americans. This perception, based on both distant historical events and more recent cross-cultural blunders by U.S. companies and citizens abroad, includes opinions that Americans are, as Dr. Davis put it, "uncultured, loud, and brash," as well as monolingual, overly blunt, unnecessarily hurried/impatient, and overly concerned about religion in their political views and behavior.
When asked about the biggest cross-cultural blunders that he has personally observed abroad, Dr. Davis stated, without hesitation, that the miserable failures he has seen are rooted most commonly in U.S. businesspeople "thinking they know more than they really do" about their host cultures and the way that things should be done.
I—based on my own experience abroad and as an instructor of international marketing courses for many years—strongly second this notion. It is, for example, inherent in the related notions of self-reference criterion (i.e., the natural yet not necessarily dysfunctional tendency to interpret events from the perspective of your home cultural ways and beliefs), and ethnocentrism (i.e., the necessarily dysfunctional belief that your home culture is superior to other cultures; and that "we" are "better" than "them").
You may have heard the saying "the ugly American." This title is often given to Americans abroad who exhibit ethnocentrism as manifest in exhibition of the negative behaviors and character traits discussed above.
More often than not, when U.S. businesspeople act like "ugly Americans" abroad, they are destined for miserable failure (and the squandering of vast opportunities for spectacular success).
I would like to add to—and end—this "extreme opportunities for entrepreneurs abroad" dialogue with something based on an integration of the advice for entrepreneurs shared by Dr. Davis with key lessons learned from my own cross-cultural experiences (e.g., doing business in Australia and Latin America, living in Guadalajara [Mexico] for a year, living with Zimbabweans for several years, and being married to Mexican national for 17 years).
Turning Opportunities to Fail Miserably Into Opportunities to Succeed Spectacularly
Yes, it is very true that Americans—particularly U.S. businesspeople—are viewed in many other nations in a highly negative light.
They are seen, as Dr. Davis stated yesterday, as being, among other distasteful things, "uncultured, loud, and brash" and overly blunt and impatient, and overly concerned about religion in their political views and behavior. There is also widespread perception of U.S. businesspeople—which would potentially include the entrepreneur—as being greedy and ethnocentric.
This is of course a stereotype and, as with many other stereotypes, it is based on a relatively small bit of truth blown way out of proportion with rumor, innuendo, and, sometimes, absurd assumptions and theoretical extensions; even outright distortions and lies.
In other words: The vast majority of U.S. citizens and businesspeople living or doing business abroad are not truly "evil" or devious" persons. However, highly negative perceptions of U.S. citizens and businesspersons do exist and perceptions do matter.
This, I firmly believe, is one of those occassions where perception matters far more than reality.
Yes, this sounds horrible and it does present a significant obstacle to entrepreneurs and others venturing abroad. Yet, these perceptions are an obstacle that absolutely must be overcome to realize opportunities to succeed spectacularly abroad.
Luckily, as I teach at-first surprised students in my international business courses, overcoming this tall perceptual obstacle is relatively easy; at least on an individual/personal basis.
It involves a three-step process.
First, as suggested above, you need to understand that these perceptions do indeed exist and that they are very important.
Second, do not view the existence of these perceptions in a negative light; instead, view them as an opportunity to show persons you interact with in foreign nations that you, personally, are NOT like those that exemplify the negative stereotype of the "ugly American."
Third, consistently behave in a manner which reinforces unequivocally the notion that you are NOT an "ugly American." This means seeing the people you interact with abroad—including business partners and customers—and their cultures as simply different; not in terms of being "better" or "worse." It means being patient and taking the time to listen to these people as well as exhibiting a strong desire to learn about the ways and beliefs of their cultures. Only then can you—as an entrepreneur and more broadly as a human being—take full advantage of the vast opportunities that exist for U.S. citizens—and entrepreneurs—abroad.
Finally, another way to turn opportunities to fail miserably into opportunities to succeed spectacularly, as both stated and exemplified by Dr. Tom Davis, is to get a liberal arts education with extensive study in a language other than English. As Dr. Davis proudly told the class yesterday: "Thank goodness I had a liberal arts education and took two years of German here at Monmouth College."
You see, Dr. Davis' first assignment abroad—to his surprise at the time—took him to a German-speaking nation. He also recounted that he would later come to fully realize that his liberal arts background, particularly the writing and speaking skills he honed here at Monmouth College, would be invaluable to him as a "scientist in business." In short, when abroad-based opportunities came Dr. Davis' way, he was prepared and his liberal arts background was instrumental in his being spectacularly successful over the course of a 45-year career in international business.
Thank you Dr. Davis for sharing your remarkable cross-cultural and international business insight with us yesterday!
Prof. Gabel


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DEAR MEXICAN: Please allow me a little latitude. I'm a resident of Northeast Dallas, a wonderfully diverse neighborhood near the heart of downtown. I've lived here for many years and wouldn't even CONSIDER moving north, south, east or west. However, I have one issue I'd like to address: What's the deal with Mexicans' propensity to stop their cars in the middle of a busy street? I witness this almost every week, usually on Ross Avenue during afternoon rush hour. I—along with hundreds of other motorists—will be clipping along at 30 to 35 mph in the northbound lanes when, all of a sudden, cars will swerve, horns will honk, and traffic will suddenly grind to a screeching halt. What could it be? A lost puppy crossing the street? A little old lady who's collapsed from heatstroke? A partially open duffel bag containing thousands of dollars, bills flying all over the road?
NO! Without fail, it's a Mexican who saw a friend walking down the street and stopped to exchange pleasantries; or who stopped to drop off or pick up a wife, husband or friend; or who accidentally passed his or her intended location, but instead of "making the block" decides instead to stop or even BACK UP in order to reach the destination. I LOVE Mexicans; you all are some of the friendliest, most easy-going and family-oriented, and hardest-working people I've ever known. But put some of you behind the wheel of a car, and all bets are off. Help a gringo out here. What's the deal?
Stuck on Ross
DEAR GABACHO: Ever heard of the Chinese Fire Drill, wherein you stop at a red light, everyone gets out of the car, circles it, then gets back in? I didn't either until I got some gabacho friends last year; gabas are weird, ¿qué no? Anyhoo, call the scenario you described the Mexican Fire Drill. You also forgot that Mexicans will stop in the middle of the street—traffic be damned—if they're waiting for a friend who's getting ready, if they have to go inside a place to pick something up, or if there's a particularly good banda jam on the stereo and they want the whole barrio to listen. As por el why? After a lifetime of crossing borders, running from la migra and hustling from job to job, sometimes it's just great to relax and be still—and if that annoys gabachos, even better!
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DEAR MEXICAN: My name is Burjs, and I'm a gay male. And I'm obsessed with Mexican men. I love you guys so fucking much: your "machismo" attitude; the ways you guys walk, talk and look; the way you make love. But I guess the thing I love the most—and it's not true of all—is your temper. I wonder why Mexican men are mean and aggressive toward effeminate males such as myself. I'm not complaining because I love it from you guys. Am I crazy because I like my Mexican lovers to sexually and physically abuse me? By the way, I'm a black bottom.
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DEAR PROVOKE ME, DADDY: Don't romanticize our machismo. If you get off on getting demeaned, that's your deal. But far too many hombres who don't fit the Vicente Fernández archetype of hypersexual hetero male have had to deal with too many calls of maricón and joto by other Mexican men throughout their lives to make it something cute. Such aggression, though, proves the answer to the ages-old riddle: What's the difference between a straight and a gay Mexican? Two Tecates.
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Gears of War – Judgement: How to Get Alex Brand
In Gears of War: Judgement for the Xbox 360, Alex Brand is available as a a DLC character that you can use in Multiplayer matches.
There is a catch though, since Alex Brand was only available as a pr-order bonus from Best Buy.
If you still want to get Alex Brand though you're in luck, because people sell their DLC codes on Ebay. This will likely be the only way to get Alex Brand as well, unless they release her as a purchasable DLC character in the future.
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BREAKING: Avril Lavigne Separates From Chad KroegerInsert "Complicated" cliche here: Avril Lavigne has just announced her separation from Nickelback frontman, Chad Kroeger after just over two years of marriage.
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I finally made up some new Lockin' Out stickers, they will be tossed into each order.
We also have GIVE T-Shirts and KRIMEWATCH Beanies available on the web store now.
I finally made up some new Lockin' Out stickers, they will be tossed into each order.
The long awaited GIVE - Electric Flower Cult 12" EP is available now!
We pressed up the Krimewatch - 2016 DEMO to a 7" available now.
Go check out past, present, and future Lockin' Out bands on this year's Life & Death Tour!
We restocked the black dad hats and have a new khaki small lock logo style available.
Lockin' Out exclusive Flex T's drawn by the legendary DEATH/TRAITORS. 2 sided designs on a black or white T. Click the images to see a larger version. Available now!
Build & Destroy - Map of the Heavens
After what seems like an eternity in hardcore years, Detroit's Build and Destroy have finally unleashed their much anticipated debut EP Map of the Heavens. Dark, metallic, grooving, and anthemic, Build and Destroy deliver an aural invocation of the city that birthed them.
Build & Destroy - DEMO 2010
Back in circulation and now on vinyl is Build and Destroy's 2010 demo. The evil twin brother of RZL DZL, Build and Destroy make hardcore akin to Leeway and later Cro-Mags, but with a vibe that can only come from Detroit. Features the bonus track Bloodtype
Lockin' Out enamel logo pins are also now available. These measure 1" x .8" and are available in Black or Camo versions with a payment option to order both.
Build & Destroy have just been announced as one of the latest bands to be added to this year's This is Hardcore Fest roster.
In addition to this announcement, they have released a new song from their upcoming EP "Map of the Heavens" on the This is Hardcore bandcamp page.
Stream "Sensory Overload" here.
If you'd like to download the MP3 click here.
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I'm excited to announce that the Fiddlehead - Out of the Bloom 5 song 7" EP is now available.
Fiddlehead is a band from Boston whose members have done time or are currently serving in hardcore acts such as Have Heart, Basement, Intent, and Big Contest, to name a few. However, Fiddlehead have little-to-no resemblance to the aforementioned. Instead, Fiddlehead rocks the way bands like Seaweed, Jawbreaker, and Garden Variety rocked in the 90's. Aggressive, yet melodic. Dissonant, but not jarring. Fiddlehead's 5 song EP fits nicely into your summer '15 playlist.
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The FLEX are returning to American soil for round 2 and are bringing DC's RED DEATH along with them. Both bands will have new releases out this summer on Lockin' Out Records
The Flex first came to the U.S. in the Spring of 2014 for a very extensive tour of the colonies. This time they will be revisiting some places and heading to a few new spots. If you didn't catch them the first time don't miss out again and for those who did see them you know you are in for a treat. New 7" coming out soon on Lockin' Out Records, cassette versions of this record will be available for tour, vinyl dropping sometime late spring / early summer. http://theflex.bandcamp.com/
Red Death are out of Washington D.C. and are comprised of some of the finest mutants of the Newton household. These guys will be touring off a fresh LP "Permanent Exile" which will be out on Grave Mistake Records, soon to be followed by a 7" single on Lockin' Out Records. This is their first full U.S. tour so don't miss them!
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I'm excited to announce that both The Consolation Prize S/T 7" EP & Snail's Pace Demo Tape are both available now.
Consolation Prize is HC out of PA - in the vein of Supertouch/Turning Point - feat. members of Cold World and Stick Together. Click Here to download this EP for free!
Snail's Pace is HC out of Boston and Wilkes-Barre - in the vein of the New Breed Comp - feat. members of Cold World, Free Spirit, and Mental. Click Here to stream this demo on their Band Camp page.
Both releases can be ordered below, and will begin shipping at the end of this week.
Rep your favorite team with pride, Lockin' Out Records now offers official Football Jerseys!
White Jerseys are now available as well as 2XL and 3XL sizes in the black jerseys.
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What were the main features of the theatre of Realism?
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The main features of the theatre of Realism were:
A focus on 'real life'
The theatre of Realism investigated and spoke about real people in everyday situations, dealing with common problems. It was, and is, a theatre that takes an unflinching look at the way things really are in the world. Writers of realist theatre in their works desire to present life as it really happens to people. Their intention is to illuminate humankind's struggles and concerns in a straightforward way.
An emphasis on behavior and tough decisions
The theatre of Realism focuses on human behavior – what people do and why in the context of their particular situations. The theatre of Realism is a mirror held up and reflected back to the audience to show them that what is taking place on stage is a representation of what they (the audience) experience in their respective lives.
This type of theatre – grounded in the stark reality of everyday-ness – shows the true constitution of individuals when confronted with challenges and difficulties in life. An example of this kind of theatre is A Doll's House by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The female protagonist of the play makes the hard decision to walk out on her family at the end of the play.
Believable dialogue
The theatre of Realism dispenses with asides and soliloquies, and such. It presents everyday conversation in a succinct, direct way. It features plainness of speech, which may seem mundane, but is actually very revealing of character, especially when coupled with action (and the dramatic subtext of the play).
An example of this in the play A Doll's House occurs when Nora says matter-of-factly to her husband as she prepares to leave her family:
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
This is unassuming, direct, believable dialogue that hits with full force within the context of this play and the drama playing out between a husband and wife in the simple setting of their home.
Common everyday settings
The sets of realist plays evoke the typical workplaces, towns, and homes of people. These plays are a reflection of the society and culture in which people live. Audiences relate to these settings, which enable them to inhabit the world of the play. Therefore the plays are more relevant to them. The everyday settings contribute to the power of the plays – the strong drama superimposed over an ordinary foundation not difficult for audiences to understand.
Realism was a movement which defined life as it really was. These authors/artists desired to show life as realistically as possible. Their settings were realistic in nature (not imagined or considered fake), their characters could be imagined as those who could really exist, and the problems depicted were problems everyday people would, could and have faced.
Therefore, playwrights who wrote from a Realist perspective were those who created true to life characters, settings, conflicts, and stagings. For example, playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen, Tennessee Williams and George Bernard Shaw show life as it really was for the period. Their characters were "real" and their actions were seen as things which actually happen in the real world.
Examples of Realistic plays (by the above playwrights) are "A Doll's House," "A Streetcar Named Desire," and "Pygmalion."


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Summer is a beautiful season for most junior handlers. It's when you get to spend more time in the ring with your four-legged friends and less time behind desks listening to lectures. With all of this extra time spent at shows, it seems as though many current junior handlers are making leaps and bounds in… read more
Agility, Obedience Teams Shine in Florida
Even with thousands of dogs, handlers and support teams filling the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando for the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship, performance events manage to draw plenty of competitors and fans. It's (Almost) All About Speed Six hundred and forty-three dogs, including those run by juniors, did the speed and accuracy thing in the… read more
AKC/Eukanuba's Best Junior Handler Is a Repeat Winner
It's a great honor to win Best Junior Handler at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship, and even greater to win twice! In fact, it has only ever happened once before. This year 17-year-old Emma Grayson Echols took the top prize for the second year in a row! Emma is not only talented, but she hopes to… read more
The Last Shows of 2012: Two Champions Crowned in Orlando
The last three dog shows of 2012 wrapped up on Sunday, with Best in Shows in Allentown, Pa., and Cleveland, Ohio, awarded to the Top Dog of all breeds, German Wirehaired Pointer 'Oakley,' handled by Phil Booth, and the top winning Harrier of all time, GCh. Downhome Hi-Tech Innovator, handled by Susie Olivera. Robin Novack… read more
Unique Among Shows Across the Globe: The Eukanuba World Challenge
There is one single element of the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship dog show that definitively sets it apart from every other event on the planet, and that is the Eukanuba World Challenge. No place else do fanciers have the opportunity to see, in the flesh and in one place, top winning dogs from all across the… read more
The AKC/Eukanuba National Championship: A Retrospective
December 15 and 16, 2012, will mark the 12th year of the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship dog show, this year to be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. In December 2001 the American Kennel Club teamed up for the first time with pet food company Eukanuba to host the inaugural invitational dog… read more
Performance Dogs, Handlers Get Moment in the AKC/Eukanuba Spotlight Too
It's almost time for one of the biggest show weekends of the year, made even bigger by a change in the entry requirements of the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. But the weekend isn't only about show dogs, as hundreds of obedience and agility champions descend on the city as… read more
The Countdown Begins!
It's official. Only five more weekends of shows remain for the year! Can you believe it? It's definitely safe to say that November snuck up on us! This is the month when dog fanciers start to think not only about the year's end, but also about building plans for the coming year. For those of… read more
Among the Shows Closing November 21, 2012…
Thinking about the Holiday Classic cluster of shows gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling for several reasons. I was, for a brief time when I lived in Southern California, a member of the Shoreline Dog Fanciers Association of Southern California, and am particularly fond of, among others, show chairman and Poodle breeder extraordinaire Peggy McDill, as… read more
Among the Shows Closing November 14, 2012… with Early Closing for AKC/Eukanuba
Best In Show Daily wants to alert our readers that entries for the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship close early – that is, more than the usual two-and-a-half weeks before their events when most shows close. Final entries will be accepted one month before the show, on Wednesday, November 14, at Onofrio Dog Shows. You'll find much more… read more


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1 1/2 cups cashews
1 lemon, juiced
1/3 cup water
2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced
sea salt or pink himalayan salt, to taste
pepper, to taste
mustard powder, to taste
2 to 3 cups spinach
1. Place cashews into food processor, crank up to high and grind into a fine, almost flour like consistency. The faster the speed the better when adding the liquids.
2. Add in lemon juice and slowly add in water until it is a little runnier than you would like as it will thicken once you let it stand. Add garlic, sea salt, pepper, and mustard powder.
3. Once this is processed into a ultra smooth paste (or thinner) consistency, add spinach and pulse on medium if you like the traditional chunky spinach dip texture, or on high for an ultra smooth dip!
Enjoy with raw crackers or pita.
Source of recipe: I was badly craving spinach dip one day and scoured the web for a raw recipe that I liked, but I couldn't find anything that didn't require an ingredient that I didn't have. I took a collective of a few different recipes and voila! Raw spinach dip was born!


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We've heard it said many times that the eyebrows frame the face. No matter how beautiful your eyes or lips are, somehow, there will always be something missing unless you trim your eyebrows. Properly groomed eyebrows can flatter your facial features, just as much as, if your brows are badly shaped, it can ruin your whole look. Your eyebrows can dramatically affect the way you look by either enhancing, over emphasizing or de-emphasizing your facial features.
When it comes to shaping and defining your eyebrows, these are what you don't ever want to end up looking:
Eyebrows that are too thick will give you a harsh look.
Eyebrows that are too thin will make you look old.
Unnatural looking, pencil-drawn eyebrows look ridiculous.
Bert's Unibrow (no explanation necessary), LOL!
So how do you really trim, shape and define your eyebrows?
Here are some very simple but important tips (call it an eyebrow tutorial) to take note of. First of all, follow your natural eyebrow shape! The eyebrow shape you were born with is the shape that suits your face perfectly so just follow it and don't attempt to change it by over plucking or drawing on a totally different shape. You simply need to clean it up a bit and enhance what you were naturally born with. For the totally clueless, however, here is a good guide to follow:
Shaping The Eyebrows
The first step is to hold a pencil vertically against the side of your nose and where it meets the brow is where your brow should start. Second, while still holding the pencil against the side of your nose, turn it diagonally, pointing towards the outer corner of your eye until the pencil meets the iris of your eye. Where the pencil meets the brow (somewhere along your brow bone) is where the peak of your arch should start. Lastly, from this position and while still holding the pencil against the side of your nose, turn it some more at a wider angle until the pencil meets the outer corner of your eye. Where the end of the pencil now meets the eyebrow is your eyebrow's ending point.
Defining The Eyebrows
For many years, these three have been my dependable tools when it comes to eyebrow makeup: for color, I use Shu Uemura Hard Formula Eye Brow Pencil; then I brush it with a Brow Groomer Brush (any old mascara wand will do); then I finish it with a Clear Brow Gel (I use MAC) to keep the strands in place and to make the color last longer. I find the Brow Groomer Brush (or a mascara wand) more effective than the more commonly used brow brush n' comb because it gets every single stray brow in place and it allows you to evenly spread the brow makeup, to give it a more natural finish.
…and recently, I gave this alternative a try: The Smashbox Brow Tech in Brunette, and Laura Mercier Double-Ended Eyebrow Brush for application. The Smashbox Eyebrow Tech has two shades for the color, one for defining and the other for filling in, and also comes with a wax, which you use just like you would a clear brow gel. The difference, according to my staff, is that my brows look more natural than my first method. I personally love it both ways. =)
So don't neglect the importance of having a well-groomed and beautifully defined eyebrows because no matter how pretty your other features are, people will notice the eyebrows. Monalisa, herself, wasn't spared from scrutiny. Everyone's abuzz and wondering not only about her mysterious smile but also her missing eyebrows! Even she needs an eyebrow tutorial!
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Posted by Nancy Flanagan on Nov 23, 2011 - 09:03 AMWhat happens when a public institution in a democracy--the US Department of Education--outsources its goal of recruiting good teachers to a private industry?
A division of Bill Gates(tm) Microsoft is taking over from the Education Department a campaign called TEACH that is aimed at recruiting new teachers into the profession.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum last week in Washington D.C. that the division had won a competition to take over from the department the TEACH campaign and its website. The website provides free information for teachers and prospective teachers.
Duncan said that the Partners in Learning division will be the sole owner and operator" of the TEACH project, "improving and expanding the teacher recruitment campaign" as well as all related marketing efforts.
That the department would select Microsoft's division is not especially surprising, given that Duncan and Gates walk and talk the same school reform line, sometimes sounding as if their speeches came from the same shop.
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Fiji Time: 9:56 PM on Tuesday 20 February
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Arin Kumar
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Reg Sandy makes a point during the Fiji Bodybuilding Federation annual general meeting in Suva yesterday.
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JOHN Lee is the new president of Bodybuilding Fiji.
Lee was chosen to head the organisation after Reg Sanday did not seek re-election at the AGM in Suva yesterday.
Sanday told the meeting at the Fiji Olympic House it was time for a change; in addition he wants to focus on his role as president of the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) where he is responsible for 41 national sports federations.
"Cama Bula of the Charmans All Races Club and Ganesh Prasad, a Suva chartered accountant, were elected as the two new vice presidents to replace Patrick Fenn of Suva and Subhas Chandra of Nadi," he said.
"Tu Meli Navutovuto of the National Fitness Centre, Tui Valentine of BodyLife Fitness in Namaka, Nadi and Shelvin Chandra of Lautoka retained their positions as vice presidents.
"Former female bodybuilder and Ms Fiji 2012, Maryanne Ma'afu Moss, was elected secretary/treasurer."
Sanday, who was the founding president when the association was established in 1994, said he was elected one of the trustees; he took over from former FASANOC president Vidhya Lakhan as patron of the federation.
"Also, the meeting voted to change the association's name from Bodybuilding Fiji to Bodybuilding and Fitness Fiji.
"The addition of the word 'Fitness' is to reflect the growing number of people joining gyms for fitness reasons and not just to build muscles."
Sanday said Lee brought with him years of experience as a banker and CEO of the Young Men's Christian Association in Suva.
He asked the new committee to continue the efforts of the previous committee to support the spread of the sport to centres outside Suva.
"A team of three bodybuilders who competed at the South Pacific Bodybuilding Championships in Tonga last October all won medals with Dudley High School student Jekesoni Yanuyanudrua taking out the overall Mr Junior South Pacific title."
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The following is being advertised for tonight's edition of TNA Impact:
-Kurt Angle vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Mr. Anderson
Also, TNA is teasing that the end of the show will feature the "most shocking moment of the year."
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Reservations for "Little dreaming sailor" begin April 8th! April 05 2016
★ We'll begin accepting reservations for Alice and the Pirates' "Little dreaming sailor" series starting April 8th! ★
Please view the reservation policy here before ordering.
The reservation schedule is as follows:
April 8th - 10th: In store, phone, and email reservations will be accepted for store pickup only
April 13th: Email reservations for store pickup and shipping begin
Items marked with a "★" can be ordered starting now.
Once our guaranteed stock is gone reservations can be made only based on availability.
Please visit our store, email email@example.com or call us at 212-460-9100.
~ Expected release at the end of April to the beginning of May ~
Items newly up for reserve (prices do not include tax):
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P12OJ211 Little dreaming sailor~Small adventure in the garret~jumper skirt I - $288
P12OJ212 Little dreaming sailor~Small adventure in the garret~jumper skirt II - $278
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P12HA928 Rosy ribbon boater hat - $90 ★
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Topic: Singing (10/31/05)
TITLE: The Song of the Ages
By Pamela Bridgeman
"Awake", he whispered close to her heart.
Seeker sighed and changed positions. She heard the bidding to arouse but among the din of discordant sounds and transient images of Soul Realm, it was but a still small voice. Soon it faded from her awareness as the illusions of mind swallowed her as though they were reality. She settled in Soul Realm because it buffered her from the nothingness she felt or the pain she experienced. There seemed to be no in-between; either she was numb or she was in excruciating emotional pain. She longed to be and to have a sense of wellness. She'd heard another realm existed, but she languished in Soul Realm. She slumbered there because no one had ever awakened her.
Unbeknownst to her, the longing for life she had was a heart cry that reached the other realm. That's why Truth now stood over her, near her heart, which was the gateway both into and out of Soul Realm. He had been dispatched by the one who was and is and is to come, the very King of the Realm of Love.
"Awake. You've slumbered far too long," Truth spoke again, this time more insistent and slightly louder.
Only slightly louder but still the change in the rhythm and tone of his voice affected the sights and sounds in Soul Realm that influenced Seeker. The distorted images coalesced into a portrait brilliant with light and vibrant color. She awakened and gazed into the eyes of this portrait, Truth, who embraced her and then set her upon a large rock. The cacophony settled into symphonic strands of a song she'd never heard. Slowly, her heavy limbs began to move guided by the rhythm of the song; her steps were ordered and she began to dance. Kindness flickered in Truth's eyes as she responded to the beat and a peal of laughter like rivers of water escaped Seeker's lips. It was Truth who had uttered this sound that now flowed from her.
Soon Truth laid his hand upon her shoulder to stop the dance. Tenderly, he said, "Now, it's time to begin your journey."
"Journey," she asked with wide-eyed wonder?
"Yes. It's time for you to make your home in a place different from Soul Realm." Truth explained.
"Where am I going?"
"You are going to the city of the great king."
"How will I find the path?"
"Listen for the Song of the Ages, the song that guided your feet in the dance of redemption. Each note is a stepping stone, each measure a milestone along the path. The Ancient of Days composed it before time began and ere Soul Realm was founded by the prideful one. Just as the rhythm guided your feet in the dance, it will navigate your journey. Listen for it. Most of all, feel peace pulsating beneath your feet. Let the rhyme and reason of grace pull the coach of faith that will be your conveyance to the City of Love and Joy, the city of the great king."
"Take up your load, now, and begin. It is a light burden that you will carry, but it contains everything that you need for your new life. As you travel, you'll face hindrances and discouragement, but you'll also meet many other sojourners along the way. Remember, bear one another's burdens. Most of all, as you go, lift your voice in the words of the Song of Life, this will produce the joy that is the strength that will sustain you.
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Barack Obama comforts superstorm survivors
Before a planned resumption of political campaigning, US president Barak Obama surveyed first hand the devastation in New Jersey caused by superstorm Sandy.
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: US president Barack Obama is about to resume campaigning after taking time out to tour parts of New Jersey devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Ordinary Americans are also trying to get back into their routines, but that is proving difficult. Millions of people are still without electricity and a second New York hospital has just been evacuated. The death toll from the disaster has now passed 60, as North America correspondent Craig McMurtrie reports.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE, REPORTER: So much of the New Jersey shore submerged by storm water is now buried in sand. The Seaside Heights amusement park's been swallowed up by the Atlantic Ocean. Buildings have been torn, twisted and splintered, like so many lives.
WOMAN: I got nothing left of memories or anything else. Everything's ruined, ruined.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: Streets are coated in contaminated water, fires burn along the shoreline, wrecked beach houses hiss and smell of leaking gas.
The president came to New Jersey to see the extent of the damage first hand.
The superstorm has also blown away at least one political rivalry. Combative Republican governor Chris Christie, a staunch Romney backer, welcomed Barack Obama with open arms.
CHRIS CHRISTIE, NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR: I cannot thank the president enough for his personal concern and compassion for our state and for the people of our state.
BARACK OBAMA, US PRESIDENT: We go through tough times, but we bounce back, and the reason we bounce back is because we look out for one another.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: The disaster is also bringing communities together in Sogi (phonetic spelling), Hoboken an 11-year-old sits at a charging station she set up in her frontyard.
GIRL: Since we had power the whole time during the hurricane, why don't we help other people who don't have power charge their electronics?
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: With floodwaters likely to linger for days yet the National Guard has arrived and is pulling stranded families out.
In Queens, New York dazed residents walked on scorched ground. This was their neighbourhood. More than 100 homes are gone at a place called Breezy Point.
With Manhattan in gridlock, people walked to work over the Brooklyn Bridge.
The New York Stock Exchange came back to life albeit on generator power.
MAN: You look uptown and you see lights and you look downtown and it's completely black.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: Some subway services will resume tomorrow, but not in Lower Manhattan where stations are beyond waterlogged.
Army engineers used after Hurricane Katrina are being called in to help.
ANDREW CUOMO, NEW YORK GOVERNOR: I've never seen New York like that before. I've seen other parts of the country like that; I've never seen New York like that before.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: LaGuardia is underwater. Airlines are trying to move the backlog at other airports. Stranded passengers like Australian Jane Wisjessen (phonetic spelling) have nowhere to go.
JANE WISJESSEN: We queued there from quarter to eight and no-one turned up. Hundreds of other people turned up, but no officials.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: Hundreds of patients are being evacuated from another major New York hospital. Emergency services were overwhelmed by water flooding the basement.
In the mouth of the Hudson River, Staten Island is awash.
Rescue teams are searching the marshes for two missing boys.
On Coney Island, police reinforcements were called in after lootsers began scavenging.
Election officials in storm zones are also scrambling to put together contingency plans for voting.
Mitt Romney is back campaigning with a softer message.
MITT ROMNEY, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're going through trauma in a major part of the country, a kind of trauma you've experienced here in Florida more than once, and it's interesting to see how people come together in a circumstance like this.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: The Republican has previously suggested funding cuts for America's Federal Emergency Management Agency. But in the wake of the superstorm, his campaign now says the disaster agency plays a key role.
It's been a difficult time for the challenger. The storm's overshadowed the presidential race and his case for change.
Tomorrow Barack Obama will return to the campaign trail, the election now just five days away.
Craig McMurtrie, Lateline.
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Man Shot To Death In Derby
by Eugene Driscoll | May 13, 2012 6:22 am
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Posted to: Derby
A man was shot to death outside RJ's Cafe Saturday morning at the intersection of Elizabeth Street and Fifth Street.
Police identified the victim as Javon Zimmerman, 22.
He was shot in the parking lot at about 2 a.m.
Police said officers responded to the parking lot at RJ's after receiving a report of shots fired.
Zimmerman was shot several times, according to police.
Storm Ambulance took him to nearby Griffin Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Derby police are investigating, with assistance from Ansonia police and the state police Major Crime Squad.
Crime scene tape closed off access to the rear of RJ's Cafe at 148 Elizabeth St. as of 11 a.m.
Two plain clothes police officers were on nearby Anson Street talking to residents on a sidewalk.
Police are asking anyone with information to call 203-735-7811. An e-mail seeking additional comments was left with Derby police.
Click here to read some reader reactions to this story.
In 2010, Zimmerman was arrested on minor drug charges. He was picked up by police along with seven other defendants who police accused of orchestrating a drug and gun ring in the lower Valley. The group had tentacles that stretched into many other local crimes, police said at the time.
Zimmerman got 10 days in jail for the April 2010 bust. Zimmerman was listed as an Ansonia resident at the time of that arrest.
According to online court records, Zimmerman had three felony drug charges pending in Superior Court in Derby in connection to a Jan. 7 arrest in Derby.
The parking lot of RJ's also saw violence back in July 2011, when someone fired shots into the air during a fist fight. There were about 50 people in the parking lot during the melee. No one was hit by the bullets.
RJ's Cafe is scheduled to be closed Monday (May 14) as punishment for violating four state liquor laws, including hours of operation and "conduct of permit premises." The cafe was also ordered to pay a $500 fine.
The liquor permit notice is posted below:
posted by: Cindy Dojnia on May 12, 2012 12:05pm
my heart and prayers go out to the zimmerman family…love u kass..but why when u write an article u always have to put soo much negativity about past happenings in it…
posted by: Renee Sheckfee on May 12, 2012 5:25pm
The press prints facts. Unfortunately, his past was also his present and can probably shed some light into what happened. I believe in redemption but I also believe in learning from ones lessons. Oh, and freedom of speech!
posted by: Eugene Driscoll on May 12, 2012 6:35pm
This is not information we like to report.
Being 39 and the father of a son who is not quite 2 years old, I cannot begin to fathom what it is like to lose a son at just 22.
Although the chances are slim, my hope is that including information—no matter what that information is—will maybe, perhaps, somehow, in some way, help inform the public and (maybe) encourage them to call police.
My heart goes out to Javon's family, especially his mom.
A person's life cannot be summarized by a press release and a news archive check.
If anyone knew Javon and would like to share their thoughts about him, please call 203 446 2335 and ask for Eugene, or e-mail email@example.com.


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Board is available in many forms, and for building construction comes in various thickness and sheet sizes. It also comes in various grades, such as smooth finishes, rough textures, and utility grades. It is white, beige or light grey in colour and has a hard sound when rapped with your knuckles somewhat like Portland cement board.
Like, any sheathing board can absorb water but its performance is unaffected. Thus it can be used indoors and outdoors, and in damp location, such as showers, like Portland cement based siding. If it used outdoors in an exposed location, it needs some form of coating, such as paint. It can be used structurally as in bracing for wall and semi-structurally, such as an under layment for flooring.
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#HBR: Why Successful Companies Stop Growing : My Comments #Leadership #Strategy #Success #Startup
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Original Harvard Business Review Blog: Why Successful Companies Stop Growing
Great post Ron
Most companies have pockets of employees that are either buzzing with energy or lack it. Typically what we notice in start-ups, where people look for feedback externally in order to start up the company and grow ( progress in their career), whereas in some pockets of established companies, employees tend to look for feedback internally to progress their career internally. The former brings market relevance, the latter brings internal relevance, and when this is left unchecked it spreads across leading the company to a wall.
Also this boils down to the culture of an organisation, some try really hard to maintain the start-up culture like google. Innovation and new ideas within start-ups tend to be easier as it is mainly based on market dynamics, and in some existing companies such ideas tend to be picked up based on internal structures/cannibalisation of existing offerings – of course its not an easy balance, but I guess some companies are doing it.
While the founder of Kodak, George Foreman managed to embrace a new trend at the right time twice (once when he turned down profitable dry-plate business to move to film and then when he invested in color film even when their black and white business was doing well), the successive CEO's managed to stay on the same old trend and failed consistently ( Read more: http://blogs.sap.com/innovation/sales-marketing/social-networking-could-have-saved-kodak-032300)
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Nightmare Con 2013 won't bring the creepy after all. I just got word from organizer Kris Kidd the October event has been cancelled for this year.
"We will regroup and go at it again next year with a more celebrity driven angle," Kidd said via email.
But from the embers of the undead comes… Santa Claus! St. Nick will still bring his bad self to the Texas Collectibles Expo later this year for Christmas photos. Look for that holly jolly toy fair Nov. 9 at the San Antonio Event Center. Admission is $5, with free admission for naughty or nice kids ages 12 and younger.


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