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Improving Prometheus
John Powers, artist, blogger at Star Wars Modern, as well as Rhizome contributor, might now add "script doctor" to his bio. Yesterday, he unveiled his recent project — a rewrite of the script for Prometheus. I asked Powers several questions over email about his improvements to the script:
What was your reaction to Prometheus? How does that compare with your feelings about the films Alien andAliens?
I was disappointed but still engaged. I had been looking forward to the film. After Requiem I could never have been lured back to another Alien movie, but it was Ridley Scott. And while I really don't like slasher films at all, body horror is something I've always been fascinated by. From Cronenberg's Fly, to Aronofsky's Black Swan, to Natali'sSplice, body horror has always been a genre that my imagination has latched onto. Alien is the ultimate. I would love to know the page count of academic papers written on the sexual horror of those films. When I realized Scott was making a stab at 2001 via Alien- ala a scifi film about God (but founded in body horror) I got really excited.
So Prometheus has more in common with 2001 than the original Alien?
To horribly misquote Allen Ginsberg: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the exercise of filming their own 2001; A Space Odyssey.
In 2002 Steven Soderbergh made a run at it (and bombed), via Post-Soviet chic, with his remake of Solaris. In 2006 Darren Aronofsky all but destroyed any artistic credibility he had by making The Fountain, a over-blown scifi opus about life, the universe, and everything. A year later Danny Boyle did it with a little more success (but not much) with his movie Sunshine (wrote about that one). In 2010 Christopher Nolan was clearly aiming for the Kubrick-esque moon with his film Inception (I wrote a LOT about tht one). And Terrence Malick was clearly swinging for the Jovian moons with Tree of Life.
All these films excepting Inception (which is more about the film director as God, than God) are catastrophically flawed. All of them attracted A-list talent (Clooney, Jackman, Dicaprio, Spicoli...) and all were clearly passion projects on the part of their directors...
Artist Profile: Adam Harvey
From the set of "How to Hide from Machines"/CV Dazzle photoshoot
It's interesting that your career has gone from taking pictures to thwarting cameras, with projects like CV Dazzle and Camoflash. When did you become interested in camouflage and face-detection spoofing?
I became interested in spoofing and camouflage when cameras metamorphosed from art making tools into enablers of surveillance societies. This happened gradually over the last decade starting with the Patriot Act in 2001. To me, this document marked the beginning of the end of photography as I knew it from art history books. Now, 175 years after the daguerreotype was invented, cameras integrated with facial-recognition systems comprise the fastest growing sector of the biometrics industry.
But the use of photography in biometrics is almost as old as photography itself. In the late 1800s Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin and pioneer of biometrics, used composite imaging in an attempt to predict criminal behavior and illness. For example, if a subject has similar facial features to that of a criminal he or she was more likely to commit a crime.
I see spoofing and camouflage as intelligent responses to the uses/misuses of photography: surveillance cameras, biometric systems, and paparazzi photography. Though these uses have always been part of photography at large, it's impossible to ignore their presence now.
Sometimes this negative omnipresence supersedes the camera's role as an art-making tool. As a photographer, I think spoofing and camouflaging tactics can help offset this effect and make photography more interesting, more communicative, and that this can lead to better pictures. Camoflash and CV Dazzle are projects centered on making photography more interesting.
One of my favorite quotes, by René Magritte, is that "everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see." When everyone is photographing and revealing the world, it becomes interesting to try and cover it back up, to reveal anonymity.
Thinking of "How to Hide from Machines," included in the exhibition FaceTime at On Stellar Rays last winter, in which DIS magazine assisted with your tactical makeup and hairstyling ideas; there's something very stylish about CV Dazzle in addition to its function. What was your inspiration? Do you consider these looks "design fiction" or something we might one day see out on the street?
I think it depends on the cost associated with being exposed in public. If there is an increased threat to privacy or instances of abuse in the biometrics industry, then I think it is very likely that spoofing in public could become more acceptable.
The looks I collaborated on with DIS magazine could easily be classified under design fiction, but so could a lot of runway fashion. One of the goals of this project is to make camouflage communicative. The looks we designed were meant to make the wearer feel protected but not invisible.
It was interesting to see how the models reacted to wearing it. One of my favorite images from the shoot with DIS is when one of the models started texting and smoking while wearing CV Dazzle. This made it seem as if it had already become practical...
A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem
Jesse England, E-Book backup (ongoing)
In 2007, novelist Jonathan Lethem published an essay in Harper's ending with a grand reveal: "every line I stole, warped, and cobbled together." The patchwork includes dozens of sources — part of a Steve Erickson novel, something from a Pitchfork review, a quote from an interview with Rick Prelinger. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ralph Waldo Emerson are stitched in too.
The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet, stories Lethem relates of hosting "mailing parties" for the Philip K Dick Society or working in a bookstore seem like snapshots from pre-digital age. Recently I talked with the author about our rapidly dematerializing culture as well as appropriation as an art practice:
JM: Have you ever tried to imagine what kind of career path you would have had without a culture of physical objects?
JL: It's really interesting because I do think of the procedural experience of having to dig, having to find out what, let's say, all of those names in the back of Greil Marcus' "Stranded" were. Now when I read that collection, I see it put together like his esoteric nod to the history of rock and roll and like 80 percent of it was terra incognita. I didn't know the names at all, and I couldn't just go skimming around and get a little taste. I had to make each and every one of those things that compelled me —because of the name or his description — a search. I'd have to go find some broken down piece of media, some old vinyl or something, and you know, the delay that inserts, the relationship to time. I spent a lot of time thinking about a culture that wasn't right at hand.
I might envision a given song or movie for five or ten years before I'd lay hands on it at times, and that creates this sort of personal, fictional vision. It's like having a book unread on your shelf and just staring at the jacket or the title or what you've heard about it, and having it emanating all this promise. Books I guess, can still do that, but it's a really peculiar thing for me to think about how I would relate differently.
I mean, I was advantaged. I grew up in New York City. Compared to other versions of access in our generation, I had great access. My parents had a good record collection and really interesting books on the shelves and pointed me to them. There was no quarantine. I was in New York City and there were great repertory houses and I started going to them when I was 14 or 15 years old, just gobbling down some curators' ideas of cinema. I was getting all these versions of importance or interest out of the obscure past or out of other national cinemas. So in that way, it was like I was surrounded. I didn't even think of myself as deprived.
The strange thing that the question sets up is an image of me, or anyone my age, as somehow suffering from a drought. But I wouldn't have, of course, had the comparison. I wouldn't have had any notion that I was lacking materials. I still had to make really complicated priorities for myself because there was so much that seemed so compelling, potentially compelling. And it wasn't too hard to get a hold of it. But I did, in retrospect I did have these kinds of limits and always a physical relationship — a movie theater that smelled a certain way. What it was to go to the Thalia and watch Bunuel films. It's associated for me with the feeling of that lobby and the strange loneliness in that place on a Thursday afternoon and the other people who would be there present or the kinds of record stores where I would at look at things or the bookstores and the way the objects themselves felt and became talismanic. And the way my own room was changing if I brought these things! It wasn't like I could close the computer and it would all go away. It was like I was changing my body practically. To just start accruing all this stuff like armor, like an exoskeleton.
JM: I'm sure your consumption of culture now is different though. Do you have a Kindle or an iPad? Are you an ebook reader? I'm sure you have MP3s, at least.
JL: I have a lot of MP3s! I'm going to qualify this in a number of different ways. I've always been a very late adopter. I mean even MP3s, I didn't have them after other people I knew did. Something about me always sort of wants them to become a little more part of the world. It's like I need to believe in them by seeing people form attachments before I make that move. I've got a friend who teases me because he remembers me saying that I would probably never bother with email. I knew a few people who were doing it and it just didn't seem that appealing to me. Now I'm ten years into an unbelievable promiscuous emailing binge that will never end. So I've been a late adopter a lot of times with tech. I wrote novels on an electric typewriter after it was possible to begin writing prose on computers. I just wasn't quite there. I wasn't ready to make a move from something that felt very important and material and personal to me. So who knows what I might do later on, but I've never read anything on a Kindle and I haven't even really had an iPad or a Kindle in my hands. The nearest I've been has been in the seat beside me in an airplane when I feel smug because they have to stop reading when the announcement goes out and my book is still open.
I think as a writer about the shape and heft of a book. And so I think the reason I am attached to reading them is I'm writing into that form. For better or worse, I still think of where physically my hands would be turning the pages. Feeling, oh, maybe now I'm ten pages from the end. And so some of those things are sacrificed in the Kindle.
Also, the kind of doubling back that I do as a reader seems very fundamental to pages. I'll keep my finger sometimes even three or four pages width in two places in a book. Because I'm interested in doing a doubling. It's very much a part of the physical object to me....
Artist Profile: Ed Fornieles
Could you tell me a little about your "Facebook sitcom" Dorm Daze? How long did the narrative play out on Facebook?
Dorm Daze was a performance conducted on a self-contained network on Facebook. Participants inhabited profiles scalped from real life American college students, which over three months were developed within a semi-scripted narrative - through interaction with each other and direction from me.
In general, social networking sites reward engagement with engagement, and those characters that invested most time within the community became the lead roles of the sitcom. The exciting thing for me was watching these local narratives develop, feeding into and accelerating the narrative as a whole. Further, playing out the sitcom over three months gave opportunity to bring in real world events; for example, one character became very involved in the Occupy movement, propagating within our fictitious environment at the same time as these events were kicking off all around the world. In fact series one ended on a cliffhanger when a group that evolved out of the occupy movement blew up Wells Fargo bank and took to the road.
Important also is that Dorm Daze was a piece in itself, but also a content generating system which has created material I've then been able to use in sculptural and installation works, brought together in the show The Hangover (Part II). Beyond these physical environments, the project has also spawned a book and a read only version of Dorm Daze 1, soon to be available for limited time only online. Recently, we've also begun talking to a TV network about the potential of turning it into a TV series. The point that this happens, the point that Dorm Daze becomes part of a cultural feedback loop in a very real, tangible way, is the point where ...
Christian Marclay in the New Yorker
Great longread in the New Yorker this week about Christian Marclay's The Clock. Although I agree with Kenneth Goldsmith that the piece could benefit from greater discussion of the copyright issues he faced; the story behind how it was made is very compelling. It starts describing his move from New York, which meant leaving behind a larger apartment and boxes and boxes of bric-à-brac. In London his desktop became his studio:
Given his space constraints in London, Marclay decided that his first project would involve immaterial material—that is, digital media. Instead of wielding an X-Acto knife, he'd use Final Cut Pro. As he told me recently, sitting at his desk in Clerkenwell, "All I needed was this table and a computer" ....
"The Clock" is far too long to be presented on a DVD. The work is a computer program—coded by Mick Grierson, a professor at Goldsmiths College, in London—that, when booted, launches into whichever clip matches the time, down to the microsecond. The system, which archives the video and audio tracks separately, requires setup, and Marclay and a White Cube technician, Scott Martin, were present at virtually every city where the piece had been shown. (As carefully tended as the system is, mishaps can occur: at the Pompidou, "The Clock" mysteriously fell a few minutes en retard.)
If you're wondering why they aren't renting out bigger theaters for screenings, it's because the intimacy and the sound quality is so essential to the experience. The strength of The Clock lies in its uncanny intimacy, the ability to create a shared experience — a moment in time — between screen and audience. When you are stuggling to stay away at 4 am in the theater, the actors in the film clips are also yawning and sleepy-eyed ...


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Protected species: how to review planning applications
As a planning authority use Natural England's standing advice to review applications that might affect protected species.
Natural England is reviewing this guidance (standing advice). You should continue to follow the current advice when you make planning decisions.
You must consider how a development might affect protected species on or near a proposed development site when reviewing a planning application.
There is separate guidance on how to review planning applications that affect protected sites and areas.
Use Natural England's standing advice to help you decide whether to reject or approve an application if a protected species could be affected.
Use an expert, such as your local authority ecologist, to help you apply the standing advice to planning decisions if you're not a wildlife specialist.
Protected species standing advice:
- avoids the need to contact Natural England for an individual response for each planning application
- tells you which survey methods need to be used to detect whether a protected species is present and how they use the site
- helps you agree appropriate risk reduction and compensation measures to avoid harming a protected species
Standing advice for protected species
Read standing advice on:
- bats, all species
- great crested newts
- badgers
- hazel or common dormice
- water voles
- otters
- wild birds
- reptiles
- protected plants
- white-clawed crayfish
- invertebrates
- freshwater fish
- natterjack toads
- ancient woodland and veteran trees
For certain species a developer will need a wildlife licence before they can start work. Standing advice doesn't affect licence requirements.
Check the wildlife licence guidance on European protected species and other protected species for when this applies. You need to be sure the applicant is likely to be granted a licence by Natural England before you can grant planning permission.
Who to contact
Contact Natural England if the standing advice doesn't cover a:
- protected species that's affected by a planning proposal
- specific issue which the standing advice doesn't help you with
You must also contact Natural England if the proposal:
- might affect a protected site, such as a site of special scientific interest
- needs an environmental impact assessment
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Natural England Consultation Service
Hornbeam House
Electra Way
Crewe Business Park
Contact the Environment Agency if a proposal is likely to:
- significantly affect aquatic species or water dependent species not covered by standing advice
- affect a river or canal and need an environmental impact assessment
- pollute the air, water or land, increase flood risk or affect land drainage and need an environmental permit
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Environment Agency
PO Box 544
Where species are likely to be found
See where protected species are likely to be present to assess the chance of development proposals affecting them.
|Habitat, building or land
|Species to look for
|Veteran (historical or important) trees, cellars, ice houses, old mines and caves
|Bats, breeding birds
|Buildings with features suitable for bats, or large gardens in suburban and rural areas
|Bats, breeding birds, badgers, reptiles and great crested newts
|Traditional timber-framed building (such as a barn or oast house)
|Bats, barn owls and breeding birds
|Lakes, rivers and streams (on the land or nearby)
|Breeding birds, great crested newts, fish, otters, water voles and crayfish
|Heathland on, nearby or linked to the site (by similar habitat)
|Breeding birds, badgers, dormice, reptiles, invertebrates, natterjack toads and protected plants
|Meadows, grassland, parkland and pasture on the land or linked to the site (by similar habitat)
|Bats, badgers, breeding birds, great crested newts, invertebrates, reptiles and protected plants
|Ponds or slow-flowing water bodies (like ditches) on the site, or within 500m and linked by semi-natural habitat such as parks or heaths
|Breeding birds, fish, great crested newts, water voles, invertebrates and crayfish
|Rough grassland and previously developed land (brownfield sites), on or next to the site
|Breeding bird, reptiles, invertebrate and protected plants
|Woodland, scrub and hedgerows on, or next to the site
|Bats, breeding birds, badgers, dormice, invertebrates, great crested newts, smooth snakes (see reptiles) and protected plants
|Coastal habitats
|Breeding birds, fish, natterjack toads and invertebrates
When applicants need a species survey
You only need to ask an applicant to carry out a survey if it's likely that protected species are:
- present on or near the proposed site, such as protected bats at a proposed barn conversion
- affected by the development, such as the effect of a wind turbine proposal on protected birds
Make sure applicants use a trained ecologist to carry out a survey at the right time of year, using methods that are appropriate for the species and the area. Surveys should be up to date and ideally from the most recent survey season (this can vary depending on the species).
The standing advice explains when and how to carry out a survey for a particular species. You can refuse planning permission, or ask for a survey to be redone, if:
- it isn't suitable
- it's carried out at the wrong time of year
- you don't have enough information to assess the effect on a protected species
You can also ask for:
- a scoping survey to be carried out (often called an 'extended phase 1 survey'), which is useful for assessing whether a species-specific survey is needed, in cases where it's not clear which species is present, if at all
- an extra survey to be done, as a condition of the planning permission for outline plans or multi-phased developments, to make sure protected species aren't affected at each stage (this is known as a 'condition survey')
When to carry out a survey
|When to survey (dependent on weather conditions)
|February to April or October to November
|Bats (hibernation roosts)
|November to mid-March
|Bats (summer roosts)
|May to mid-September
|Bats (foraging/commuting)
|May to September
|Birds (breeding)
|March to August
|Birds (winter behaviour)
|October to March
|May to September
|Great crested newts
|Mid-March to mid-June
|April to September
|Natterjack toads
|April to May
|Any time of year but better in summer as signs may get washed away in winter months
|Mid-March to June and September
|Water voles
|March to September
|White-clawed crayfish
|July to September
When proposals affect species
It may not be possible to avoid affecting a protected species on a proposal site, but the harm caused must be reduced as much as possible.
Check risks are minimised ('mitigation')
Check if the applicant has taken steps to avoid affecting protected species eg by making sure the work takes place outside the breeding season. (Wild birds have specific protection).
When it isn't possible to avoid affecting species applicants must have a mitigation strategy to:
- remove or reduce the negative effects of their proposal
- show how they will carry out risk reduction measures
Natural England can object to a planning application if mitigation measures aren't acceptable. You must therefore make sure the mitigation strategy is:
- effective against the predicted impact of the proposed development on a protected species
- reliable, carried out at the right time and followed through to completion
- fully established for the benefit of the affected species
Natural England may also object to a planning application if it's likely to damage a protected species which is a special feature of a protected site.
Mitigation measures for European protected species
If the development proposal is likely to have a negative effect on European protected species, you need be confident that Natural England is likely to grant a licence.
Check whether the proposal will meet the licensing criteria (the '3 legal tests') to make sure that:
- the activity is for a certain purpose, for example it's in the public interest to build a new hospital
- there's no satisfactory alternative that will cause less harm to the species
- the activity doesn't harm the long-term conservation status of the species
Check compensation is appropriate
Ask for compensation measures to be included in planning proposals if it isn't possible to minimise the risk to protected species. Compensation must:
- make sure that no more habitat is lost than is replaced, which means there's no net loss
- provide for like-for-like habitat replacements, which are located next to or near existing species population (check distances in the relevant species standing advice) and in a safe position to provide a long-term home
- provide for a better alternative habitat in terms of quality or area, compared to what will be lost
- include proposals to make sure habitats are still connected to allow normal species movement
Make sure alternative sites are established far enough in advance so they're ready for the species that will use them.
Agree mitigation and compensation strategies
You'll need to agree any mitigation or compensatory measures as part of the proposal. To make sure that mitigation measures are effective when granting planning permission you may have to consider including a:
- planning condition or planning obligation (known as a 'section 106 agreement'), to impose requirements on the developer, eg to get the developer to pay for long-term management, monitoring or maintenance of the site or restrict development
- review plan and adjust measures if necessary, for example you may need to attach an 'informative' planning note to a decision for any action to be taken if protected species are discovered during development
Promote biodiversity
You can ask the developer to consider including measures to enhance or restore biodiversity in line with the National Planning Policy Framework and the biodiversity duty.
This can include habitat creation or improvement for protected and unprotected species and their wider foraging areas.
Making a decision
When the proposal is likely to affect a protected species you can grant planning permission if:
- an appropriate survey was carried out by a qualified ecologist at the time of year specified in the standing advice
- a wildlife licence is likely to be granted by Natural England if one is needed
- mitigation plans are acceptable
- compensation plans are acceptable when mitigation isn't possible
- review and monitoring plans are in place, where appropriate
- all wider planning considerations are met
Use theto help support your decision.
Last updated 12 August 2016 + show all updates
Protected species standing advice updated.
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Synopsis: In search of loners, Laura (Scarlett Johansson) drives around the exquisitely moody landscapes of the Scottish highlands. She`s an alien, sent from afar and equipped with enough human language and awesome seductive power to capture, destroy and presumably send home human males. And then, her curiosity about her human body and an accidental act of pity disrupt her mission.
Under The Skin is currently undated, but will likely hit cinemas in 2014.


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An overdue measure to outlaw employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity cleared a procedural hurdle on Monday night in the Senate. The move is one step toward putting into federal law a basic principle most Americans support: Job applicants and employees should be judged on their professional credentials and the caliber of their work, and not be held back because of who they are.
The Employment Nondiscrimination Act, however, has a significant flaw — a terribly broad religious exemption. The exemption would extend beyond churches and other houses of worship to any religiously affiliated institution, like hospitals and universities, and would allow those institutions to discriminate against people in jobs with no religious function, like billing clerks, cafeteria workers and medical personnel.
The exemption — which was inserted to appease some opponents who say the act threatens religious freedom — is a departure from the approach of earlier civil rights laws. And though the law would protect millions of workers from bias, the exemption would give a stamp of legitimacy to the very sort of discrimination the act is meant to end. Any attempt to further enlarge the exemption should be rejected.
In all, 61 senators voted to overcome a Republican filibuster, including seven Republicans, who put to shame colleagues in their party who are still mired in intolerant thinking and too scared of Tea Party reactionaries to do the right thing. The victory on the motion to proceed appears to ensure Senate approval by the end of the week.
The measure is urgently needed. Currently, just 17 states have laws barring employers from refusing to hire or promote people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, and another four states have workplace nondiscrimination laws that cover gay men, lesbians and bisexuals but not transgender people.
The outcome of Monday's vote was assured when Senator Dean Heller, a Republican of Nevada, announced that he would provide the 60th vote needed to let a debate on the bill proceed. The House speaker, John Boehner, responded immediately by stating his opposition to the bill. Even after Senate passage, winning approval from the Republican-led House will be very tough.
A spokesman for Mr. Boehner said the speaker believes that ensuring workplace fairness for gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual Americans would "increase frivolous litigation and cost American jobs." Those concerns are not borne out by the experience in states that have had such protections for years. And that kind of excuse, of course, was used decades ago to try to block legislation to outlaw discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, national origin and disabilities.
Many businesses already have nondiscrimination policies, and a growing number of business leaders support the bill. This is just another example of House Republican leaders refusing to accept the evolving culture of tolerance in America to avoid a revolt by the most extreme members of their caucus.


text: Crunchy tortilla chips, taco-flavored cheese and seasoned ground beef bring the flavors of the Southwest to your table. Do-Ahead Tip: If you're really a planner, consider cooking up several pounds of beef ahead of time and freezing it in resealable plastic bags in 1/2-pound (1-cup) batches. Then you'll have it on hand for yummy dishes like this! Serve With: If your family loves salsa, serve it with this Mexican-style casserole. Variation: Replace taco-seasoned cheese with pizza-seasoned cheese and use crushed crisp breadsticks instead of the tortilla chips. Sprinkle hot casserole with sliced ripe olives, and you have Pizza Potatoes Casserole!


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Words to British Grenadiers
Research has shown that the words can reach six verses and therefore all known words to the verses are shown below:
|Verse 1
Some talk of Alexander,
And some of Hercules
Of Hector and Lysander,
And such great names as these.
But of all the world's great heroes,
There's none that can compare
With a tow, row, row, row, row, row,
To the British Grenadier.
|Verse 2
Those heroes of antiquity
Ne'er saw a cannon ball
Or knew the force of powder
To slay their foes withal.
But our brave boys do know it,
And banish all their fears,
Sing tow, row, row, row, row, row,
For the British Grenadier.
|Verse 3
Whene'er we are commanded
To storm the palisades
Our leaders march with fusees,
And we with hand grenades.
We throw them from the glacis,
About the enemies' ears.
Sing tow, row, row, row, row, row,
The British Grenadiers.
|Verse 4
And when the siege is over,
We to the town repair
The townsmen cry, "Hurra, boys,
Here comes a Grenadier!
Here come the Grenadiers, my boys,
Who know no doubts or fears!
Then sing tow, row, row, row, row, row,
The British Grenadiers.
|Verse 5
The God of War was pleased
and great Bellona smiles
To see these noble heroes
of our British Isles
And all the Gods celestial,
descending from their spheres,
Beheld with adoration
The British Grenadiers
|Verse 6
Then let us fill a bumper,
And drink a health to those
Who carry caps and pouches,
And wear the louped clothes.
May they and their commanders
Live happy all their years
With a tow, row, row, row, row, row,
For the British Grenadiers.


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Often the most difficult part of starting a university career can be figuring out how to succeed in a demanding new environment. Sometimes it is just about learning how to learn or thinking about learning in a new way.
The Challenge to Achievement at Pace (CAP) Program is designed for first-year students whose college applications do not accurately reflect their potential for success in an undergraduate program. The CAP program provides a comprehensive first-year experience for students who may not have met all of the University's requirements for admission, but whose overall academic record indicates potential for success. The program challenges students to explore and grow intellectually, socially, and emotionally as they develop their understanding and ability to make mindful decisions that will have an enduring impact on their personal, academic, and professional development.
Advisers work closely with students in the CAP Program to provide academic and personal guidance. Carefully chosen professors, small class sizes, seminars, workshops, tutorials, academic coaching, and summer bridge programs assist students in acquiring the academic skills necessary to succeed at Pace University. All CAP courses count toward a student's undergraduate degree.
For more information, visit the CAP website.


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So it made me reflect on some of my dog posts and thought I would "re-run" one of them today, so here it is:
It was not that long ago that I thought "dogs are stupid", you couldn't go away without either taking them with you or finding a sitter, it involved getting up in the middle of the night to let them out, they require constant walks, and don't even get me started in picking up their "little gifts".
So needless to say, I was NEVER going to be a dog owner.
But seven years ago our daughters REALLY wanted a dog, mind you we had gotten them every pet you can imagine in an effort to avoid that very thing, but gerbils won't fetch, cats are too cool for people and goats, well they just smell way too bad and hate it when you put ribbons in their hair.
I finally caved and got a miniature schnauzer as it's small and doesn't shed.
Well 30 seconds into dog ownership I realized the error of my ways. I loved my dog.
Two years later we got another schnauzer and just last year we rescued a third.
We put in a pellet stove and our first dog, Bonnie, can be found daily warming her buns in front of the fire and has no problem letting me know when the pellets are getting low.
I got my wife this canvas (of Bonnie ~ Cali ~ Gracie) for Christmas because the last things she sees every time she leaves the house are these three little faces peering out from between the fence posts begging her to stay.
People who don't have dogs will think the following is goofy (no pun intended, well, maybe a little), dog owners will appreciate it though (unless of course you are Michael Vick):
A Dogs Ten Commandments.........
1. Before you take me home know that my life is likely to last 10-15 years, so please be sure you are in it for the long haul.
2. Give me time to understand what you want from me
3. Place your trust in me. I will always trust you.
4. Don't be angry with me for long and don't lock me up as punishment.
5. You have your work, your entertainment, and your friends. I only have you and any separation from you is painful.
6. Talk to me. Even if I don't understand your words, I do understand your voice when speaking to me.
7. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it.
8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be wrong. Perhaps I'm not getting the right food, I've been in the sun too long, or my heart might be getting old or weak.
9. Please take care of me when I grow old.
10. When it is time for me to "go on ahead", please stay with me. Don't say "I can't bear to watch" because I won't want to face it alone. Everything is easier for ME if you are there, because I love you so.


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(Note: I've revised this post, so some of the older comments on it may no longer apply.)
When I began unpacking "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack", I thought I would be unpacking whiteness theory. To my surprise, I also began unpacking middle-class niceness. I found a clip on Youtube where Peggy McIntosh talks about writing "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack". As soon as I saw her, I thought, "That's a nice middle-class white woman." Almost as soon as I thought it, I heard her use the word "nice" to explain why she wrote.
McIntosh said,
In 1980, I had read two essays by black women who had lined it out just like a given: white women are oppressive to work with. And I remembered reading those essays with astonishment. They were so factual about it. White women are oppressive to work with. And I had two thoughts in 1980, and I still remember them. One was, I don't see how they can say that about us. I think we're nice. And the second, which is outright racist, but this is where I was in 1980, I especially think we're nice if we work with them. Then I thought, did we fill the reading list and the programs and women's studies with white people's stuff? And at first I said maybe, and then I said yes. And I asked myself, if I have anything I didn't earn by contrast with my African-American friends in this building, show me. And I had to pray on it. And I asked my unconscious mind to answer my questions. And after three months, forty-six examples had swarmed up, most of them in the middle of the night. And if I didn't flick on a light and write them down, they would be gone by morning, because I didn't want to know them. They were messing up my view of myself as a person who had earned everything I had.
Two things struck me: McIntosh created her list through prayer and sleep like a prophet, not a scientist, and what drove her was a need to reconcile her belief that she was nice with her awareness that it was not nice to think she was nice because she worked with black people.
Maggie Koerth-Baker at BoingBoing made me think more about niceness and whiteness when she wrote that McIntosh's essay "completely changed the way I thought about what racism is, and the privileges I experience as an upper-middle class white person." Koerth-Baker and I live in a state that values niceness so much that Wikipedia has an entry for "Minnesota nice." A great many nice middle-class white people share Koerth-Baker's reaction to "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack".
I don't. Since I'm talking about niceness and class, and because whiteness theorists love personal stories, here's a little about me: My mother was the epitome of white middle-class niceness, a druggist's daughter from northern Minnesota. My father grew up on a small farm, and while I've heard many people speak of him with respect, I've never heard anyone call him middle-class or nice. My earliest awareness of whiteness is tangled up in the civil rights conflict, when our family couldn't get fire insurance because the Ku Klux Klan had threatened to burn down our home and I was bullied in school for being a "niggerlover". So far as I was concerned, people who put any stock in whiteness were the enemy. I don't mean I concluded black people were better than white people. I only mean that for decades, my experiences with black people were good and my experiences with white people were mixed.
But when I began to argue that class matters more than race or gender in a capitalist country, I learned the limit of middle-class niceness. First came suggestions to read "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack". When I said I'd read it and agreed with some of its examples but not with its assumptions, niceness ended. I was called obtuse, then a racist. McIntosh's fans insisted I was denying the existence of racism, which baffled me—if criticizing an ideology about race is denying the existence of racism, then when Malcolm X criticized the Nation of Islam, he was denying the existence of racism.
So I began researching. At the time, there was little analysis of "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" online—people loved it or rejected it. Adolph Reed Jr. helped me see why. In "The Limits of Anti-racism," he wrote,
Yes, racism exists, as a conceptual condensation of practices and ideas that reproduce, or seek to reproduce, hierarchy along lines defined by race. Apostles of antiracism frequently can't hear this sort of statement, because in their exceedingly simplistic version of the nexus of race and injustice there can be only the Manichean dichotomy of those who admit racism's existence and those who deny it.
Reed's comparison of anti-racism to a dualistic religion was reinforced by the Reverend Thandeka's "Why Anti-Racism Will Fail". Writing about anti-racism training in Unitarian-Universalist congregations, she said the "belief that all whites are racists is based explicitly on the Christian doctrine of original sin…" Thandeka's "explicitly" refers to one antiracism's trainer's writing. There are anti-racists of all beliefs, including atheists, but they all divide white people into the saved who confess their racism and the heretics who do not.
Peggy McIntosh speaks most persuasively to the privileged white graduates of expensive private schools because she's one of them—she's the associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, one of the private women's schools that have been educating the daughters of America's elite since the 19th century. Wellesley's graduates include two secretaries of state. It's among the US's most expensive schools—in 2013, a year there costs $57,042. It touts its diversity because less than half of its students are white and nearly a quarter are Asian, but that diversity doesn't translate into class diversity—as a group, Asian Americans are richer than white Americans.
McIntosh effectively describes Critical Race Theory when she says,
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was 'meant' to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks.
Whether she's playing a rhetorical game when she says she asked in "an untutored way" or was so immersed in Critical Race Theory that she did not realize she had been tutored by her black friends "in the building" and her reading, I don't know. Though she never names CRT in her essay, she mentions "institutional racism", a core belief of CRT.
Critical Race Theory gave her a way to reconcile her belief that she was nice with her recognition of her not-nice racist thoughts. Just as Saul the persecutor of Christians became Paul the evangelist, Peggy McIntosh the racist became Peggy McIntosh the anti-racist. When she prayed to see the things she didn't earn by contrast with her African-American friends, she was not looking for things she and those black friends did not earn by contrast with working class people of any hue—her concern was with the forms of injustice that affected her middle-class black peers.
McIntosh's 1989 revision of "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" begins,
Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged.
She starts with the belief that privilege theory explains problems between the sexes. She sees all men as overprivileged and all women as disadvantaged, even though when she wrote, Queen Elizabeth was the fourth richest person in the world, Maggie Thatcher had been Prime Minister of Britain for nearly a decade, and Ronald Reagan's cuts in social services had made over a million Americans of all races homeless, the majority of whom were men.
McIntosh says,
As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage. Describing white privilege makes one newly accountable. As we in women's studies work to reveal male privilege and ask men to give up some of their power, so one who writes about having white privilege must ask, "having described it, what will I do to lessen or end it?"
It's an excellent question. For her, acknowledging privilege is the answer. Once acknowledged, that privilege may be enjoyed—she never considers giving up her job so a less-privileged black woman might have it.
Believing all white people are racist may comfort recovering white racists, but tests for racism say they're wrong. They get the most support from Project Implicit's test for race—its researchers found that only 30% of white people have no racial preference or, like me, a preference for blacks. But even if Project Implicit's findings are right, their researchers stress that an implicit preference may not indicate meaningful racism, especially in people who're aware of their preferences. Being human calls for balancing preferences. During the 2008 primaries, the differences between Obama and John Edwards were minuscule, yet white Democrats preferred Obama, and in the general election, Obama won a larger percentage of the white vote than any Democrat since Jimmy Carter. If Project Implicit is right that most white people have an implicit preference for whites, their preference does not translate into meaningful racism when they act in the voting booth and may not be meaningful elsewhere.
But suppose McIntosh is right and all white people need to acknowledge their white privilege. What will that do? Adolph Reed Jr. wrote,
In the logic of antiracism, exposure of the racial element of an instance of wrongdoing will lead to recognition of injustice, which in turn will lead to remedial action—though not much attention seems ever given to how this part is supposed to work. I suspect this is because the exposure part, which feels so righteously yet undemandingly good, is the real focus.
The internet calls McIntosh's approach Underpants Gnomes logic. In an episode of South Park, gnomes were stealing underpants. When asked why, they showed their three-phase business plan:
1. Collect Underpants
2. ?
3. Profit!
They had stolen an enormous number of underpants. All they needed to do was figure out step two, and they would be rich. The privilege theory plan looks like this:
1. Make men/whites admit they are overprivileged.
2. ?
3. The end of prejudice and the beginning of meritocracy.
McIntosh says,
My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person, or as a participant in a damaged culture. I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will. My schooling followed the pattern my colleague Elizabeth Minnich has pointed out: whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow "them" to be more like "us."
Elizabeth Minnich is another white academic who works at exclusive schools. She's very right when she says, "when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow "them" to be more like "us."" Her "them" must refer to working class black people, not the black middle or upper class. Neither Minnich nor McIntosh notice that working class white people also see middle-class do-gooders doing "work that will allow "them" to be more like "us"". McIntosh and Minnich's focus on people of color either makes "overprivileged" working class whites invisible to them, or they cannot imagine that what they see as "morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal" is not whiteness, but middle-class niceness.
At the end of her introduction to her list, McIntosh says,
I have chosen those conditions that I think in my case attach somewhat more to skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographic location, though of course all these other factors are intricately intertwined.
Her mention of class should be significant, but you'll find no class considerations in what she wrote after she began praying. Most of her points boil down to a simple truth that may be implied in item #36 on her list:
If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.
If she's saying she never has to wonder whether a white person treated her badly because of her race, I agree. But if she thinks white people never have to wonder if an unpleasant encounter had racial overtones, she should notice that people of color commit hate crimes too.
From "McIntosh as Synecdoche: How Teacher Education's Focus on White Privilege Undermines Antiracism" by the Midwest Critical Whiteness Collective (Timothy J. Lensmire, Shannon K. McManimon, Jessica Dockter Tierney, Mary E. Lee-Nichols, Zachary A. Casey, Audrey Lensmire, and Bryan M. Davis):
"McIntosh suggests that the privileges might be divided into different categories, but she does not tell us how to categorize them. There is little about the order of the list to help us make sense of the key aspects or contours of white privilege.
"Further, our confusion was also grounded in how McIntosh describes privilege. First, she seems to assume that lessening privilege for white people would also, in some direct way, lessen oppression for people of color. We found this especially puzzling since a number of privileges on McIntosh's list seem better characterized as human rights, to which she refers as "what one would want for everyone in a just society". In the case of such privileges, it seems that the struggle should be to guarantee them for everyone rather than lessen them for some.
"Second, even as McIntosh gestures toward systemic oppression, her text focuses overwhelmingly on conceptualizing privilege as individual and seems to equate individual white people coming to understand their white privilege with overcoming systems of racial oppression. Stated differently, while reading and working with McIntosh's piece might be a consciousness-raising exercise for individual white people, her text provides limited help with understanding and undermining systemic white supremacy. There is no call to activism, unless activism is conceived of as individual white people somehow lessening their own white privilege."
In my first draft of this attempt to unpack McIntosh's unpacking, I embraced the subjectivity that Critical Race Theorists advocate and arranged them like this:
1. Items that have some objective truth
2. Items that do not apply to the white working class
3. Items that were no longer true when McIntosh wrote
4. Items that are purely subjective
I tried discussing them all, but McIntosh's list is remarkably redundant, so I'll only include a few examples of the first two:
* Items with some objective truth
"1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time."
There's an old joke realtors tell: "What are the three most important things when selling a property? Location, location, location." McIntosh's black colleagues at Wellesley would've had trouble avoiding white people—the 2007 Census Bureau estimated the town's racial makeup was 84.6% white, 10% Asian, and only 2.2% black. If unequal racial distribution is a sign of racism, Wellesley, Massachusetts is one of America's most racist communities.
But the privilege of being in the company of people of your race most of the time depends entirely on where you are. Wikipedia's list of U.S. communities with African-American majority populations includes two large cities, three small ones, and over 100 towns.
Whether McIntosh thinks voluntary segregation is a privilege that should be eliminated or a right everyone should have is, like most items on her list, unclear.
"3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live."
A 2013 HUD study found "African-American home buyers learned about the existence of 17 percent fewer homes and were shown 18 percent fewer properties. On the renters' side, 11 percent fewer units were "advertised as available" while they were shown 4 percent less units than Whites. Hispanic testers faced less discrimination, with renters learning about 12 percent less of available units, although they were shown 7 percent fewer available rental properties."
Though McIntosh said she was considering class in her list, she overlooks a simple fact: middle class black people will still have an easier time finding a place in an area they can afford and would want to live than any poor white person.
"6. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented."
White people are disproportionately represented because the media's run by the rich, and the rich continue to be disproportionately white because the US has little class mobility. The people who can afford the most prestigious drama, film, and journalism schools will be disproportionately white until there is, to use Martin Luther King's term, "a radical redistribution of economic power".
* Items that do not apply to the white working class
"5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed."
I've been a clerk, so trust me on this: Good clerks try to watch everyone to be helpful and to reduce theft. Even the most racist clerks know they should watch shoppers of their own race. White people do not get a shoplifting pass—believing in one might explain why people like Lindsay Lohan and Winona Ryder get caught, but I suspect they thought they had a wealth and fame pass.
Mcintosh's "most of the time" means she thinks being harassed is the most common experience for black shoppers. I suspect another form of privilege applies: Middle-class white people like McIntosh have the privilege of not noticing what the people who serve them are doing. Working-class white people know clerks watch them.
"9. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege."
She seems to have forgotten the published essays by the black academics who helped her see her racism. Anyone working at Wellesley could be pretty sure of publishing an essay, because credits, not race, matter most in publishing. A white teacher at a less-prestigious school would have a far more difficult time than any of McIntosh's colleagues.
"25. If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race."
If she thinks working class whites don't get harassed by cops, I'll happily tell her about cops harassing me when I was young and drove a used car. I haven't been able to verify her claim that the IRS was auditing a disproportionate number of black people, but if the IRS was targeting people based on income, the disproportionate number of poor blacks would make a class injustice look like a race injustice to people who think primarily in terms of social identity.
After McIntosh lists 50 white privileges, she says,
Being of the main culture, I could also criticize it fairly freely.
In the 20th century, the people who were not free to criticize our culture were pacifists arrested in wartime and socialists denied employment during the Cold War. The most famous of those—Eugene Debs, the Hollywood Ten—were white men. The US has had black critics since Frederick Douglas. Which of them were not free to criticize?
She says,
…the feeling that one belongs within the human circle, as Native Americans say, should not be seen as privilege for a few. Ideally it is an unearned entitlement. At present, since only a few have it, it is an unearned advantage for them.
If you accept her premise, it's not "the few" who have the "feeling that one belongs within the human circle"—it's the white majority. The language of privilege theory seems to have confused her here. She writes as if the US at the end of the 1980s had a white minority like South Africa under apartheid.
She says,
Many, perhaps most, of our white students in the United States think that racism doesn't affect them because they are not people of color; they do not see "whiteness" as a racial identity.
I've never met a white person who did not know their racial identity was white. White racists value that; the rest do not. Privilege theorists want to teach whiteness to white people to make them admit they're "overprivileged", but that only reinforces the social construct of race. Like all bad ideas, race will die when people let it die, but no one clings harder to the importance of race than privilege theorists.
She says,
Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.
Again, she can't decide if she's talking about a majority or a minority. White people in the US are hardly "just a small number of people". Had she been talking about capitalists, she would be perfectly accurate. In "Why Anti-racism Will Fail", Thandeka notes,
First, 80 percent of the wealth in this country is owned by 20 percent of the population. The top 1 percent owns 47% of this wealth. These facts describe an American oligarchy that rules not as a right of race but as a right of class. One historical counterpart to this contemporary story of extreme economic imbalance is found in the fact that at the beginning of the Civil War, seven per cent of the total white population in the South owned almost three quarters (three million) of all the slaves in this country. In other words, in 1860, an oligarchy of 8,000 persons actually ruled the South. This small planter class ruled over the slaves and controlled the five million whites too poor to own slaves. To make sense of this class fact, we must remember that the core motivation for slavery was not race but economics, which is why at its inception, both blacks and whites were enslaved.
McIntosh says,
Although systemic change takes many decades, there are pressing questions for me and, I imagine, for some others like me if we raise our daily consciousness on the perquisites of being light-skinned. What will we do with such knowledge? As we know from watching men, it is an open question whether we will choose to use unearned advantage, and whether we will use any of our arbitrarily awarded power to try to reconstruct power systems on a broader base.
What we know from watching men is that when they understand inequality in terms of rights, they extend those rights—black people and women got the vote when white men realized participating in democracy is a human right. Building a world of equal opportunity can't be done by talking about privileges being taken away. Who wanted the right to vote taken from white men? Who wanted the right to marry taken from straight people? It's nice to think that everyone could be equally privileged someday, just as it's nice to think of everyone being above average and everyone giving 110%. But the problem of injustice calls for more than being nice. It calls for being fair.
ETA: Amber A'Lee Frost has a good short takedown: The Sad Song of Privilege | The Baffler
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Grisly murders, deadly nightmares, and a marriage proposal followed immediately by a one-night-stand? What exactly is going on in Atlus' Catherine? the game's official website gives us the skinny.
The Japanese website for Atlus' Persona side-story Catherine has updated its story section, and Japanese gaming website Adriasang has translated the details, shedding light on what up until now has looked like a game about naked women and nightmares.
Don't worry, it's still about naked women and nightmares.
The back story for the game, like many Persona titles, involves urban legends and murder. Young men have been found dead in their beds, terrified expressions frozen on their faces. Rumors have begun to surface that if you begin to have a nightmare you must wake up immediately or die.
The game starts off with Vincent, our lanky hero, hanging out at a bar with Katherine. Having dated for five years, Katherine suggests the pair gets married. Vincent freezes, as men often do.
Then a mysterious girl named Catherine enters the bar and takes a seat next to Vincent. He ends up taking her home and sleeping with her. You can see bits of this in the opening trailer we posted last month.
Then the nightmares begin.
Sound intriguing, or are you still stuck back at the random sex portion of the story? Once you're done, check out the game's Japanese website for lots of strange symbols and pretty pictures.
This is Catherine's Story [Adriasang]


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Gazprom keeps actively implementing Eastern Gas Program
The Gazprom Management Committee took notice of the information regarding the work being done by the Company as part of the Eastern Gas Program.
The meeting highlighted that Gazprom had already started creating the Yakutia gas production center in a pro-active manner. In October the final investment decision was adopted and project documents started to be elaborated for pre-development of the Chayandinskoye field – the cornerstone of the Yakutia gas production center, construction of the Yakutia – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunkline as well as for gas processing facilities in Belogorsk. Gazprom is planning to launch production of the Chayanda gas in 2017.
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In parallel with development of gas production and transmission capacities, Gazprom is active in gasifying Far Eastern regions. Between 2008 and 2011 the Company allocated more than RUB 14.1 billion for general gas supply and gasification schemes elaboration, design and survey operations and construction of 12 inter-settlement gas pipelines in the Kamchatka, Primorye, Khabarovsk and Sakhalin Regions. In 2012 Gazprom is going to invest around RUB 2.5 billion in the regions to carry out design and survey and build seven gas laterals, seven gas distribution stations and 26 inter-settlement gas pipelines that will be completed in 2013.
A vast resource base in Eastern Russia, sustained formation of large gas production centers and building of necessary transmission corridors will make it possible to establish there a new Russian gas export center geared to the Asian-Pacific region. An LNG plant planned to be constructed in Vladivostok is Gazprom's high-priority project for which the investment rationale will be completed before year end. The launch of the Chayandinskoye field pre-development and the project for building the Yakutia – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunkline made it possible to start negotiating the eastern route with China in addition to the western route.
In Eastern Siberia and the Far East Gazprom is engaged in complex large-scale projects that fundamentally influence the socioeconomic development of eastern regions. Timely measures of state support will speed up the Eastern Gas Program execution. In this context, the Management Committee tasked Gazprom's specialized structural units to continue cooperating with state authorities on creating the tax, price and other conditions enabling for efficient execution of eastern projects.
The meeting also considered some issues of the current operating activity as part of the Sakhalin II project.
The state-run Development Program for an integrated gas production, transportation and supply system in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, taking into account potential gas exports to China and other Asia-Pacific countries (Eastern Gas Program) was adopted in September 2007 pursuant to the Russian Industry and Energy Ministry Order. Gazprom was appointed by the Russian Federation Government as the Program execution coordinator.
New gas production centers are emerging in Eastern Russia: Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Yakutia, Sakhalin and Kamchatka.


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Heidi Montag is over wanting children with husband Spencer Pratt.
When asked by Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos on Monday when they were planning to expand their brood, Heidi, who has spoken out in the past about wanting to have kids with her man, revealed the plans have changed.
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"Umm, I think maybe never," the blonde said.
And she cited the current U.S. educational system as one reason for not pro-creating.
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"I think the world is very crazy and it's just getting crazier and crazier and I wouldn't want my kid in the school systems and everything [the way] it is right now," the reality star said. "It's just a crazy world so I think I'll stick to my husband now."
Spencer admitted the couple has been "fighting" over the issue of children for "a good six months now," including on their MTV reality show, "The Hills."
But the couple, who are currently promoting their new book, "How To Be Famous," said they are keeping busy with their three puppies.
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And Spencer blamed the dogs' bowel movements for putting Heidi off the idea of having a baby.
"It was definitely the puppy poop, 'cause now I think Heidi in her mind imagines like actually holding a diaper and cleaning the poop, not just like picking it up off the ground," he told Maria.
Heidi said Spencer would have some serious issues if a child came into the world since he already has to fight for her time with the four-footed creatures.
"He would be so jealous. He gets jealous of the puppies. 'Is it puppy [time] always? Like, where's my time,'" Heidi said imitating her mate. "I can't imagine a kid."
While Heidi may have agreed to Spencer's wish not to have a baby right now, the dogs think she is the queen, or at least, their alpha.
"They won't cuddle with me. All of them cuddle up with Heidi," Spencer revealed. "The second she gets up and even walks a little bit, they go like [it's] an emergency fire drill, pop off the bed, run after her. If she closes the door, they're all crying, and I'm like, 'But I'm here puppies. I'll cuddle with you.'"
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World Peace. A new Internet service provider, Peacenik.co.uk, will raise money for peacemakers working in conflict zones around the world. "The peace movement is notoriously under-resourced," said Jonathan Bartley, director of Ekklesia, the British faith-based think tank that launched the site. "The venture is to help give peace a chance."
United Way. In March, 34 churches and national Christian organizations representing more than 100 million American Christians formed Christian Churches Together in the USA, the broadest coalition of churches in the United States. The organization has named "overcoming poverty" as its primary goal.
Safe House. The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was named a national historic landmark in February. The designation will protect the church—site of the infamous 1963 bombing that killed four girls—from being destroyed for any federal project.
Streetwise. In Chicago, more than 300 Christian college students participated last February in the national "sleep out" against homelessness. They promoted petitions to help the homeless and spent the night on the street with homeless people near Chicago's wealthy "Miracle Mile" shopping boulevard.
Cutting School. Argentina and Uruguay became the second and third countries to remove soldiers from training at the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. The school trains Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques. Venezuela was the first country to withdraw troops, doing so in January 2004.


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Msbuild Trickery: 99 Ways to Bend the Build Engine to Your Will
Brian Kretzler
|About the Book
MSBuild is more than just a list of source files- it is a declarative programming language, and with the new features in the .Net 4.0 engine, a rather expressive language to boot.This book explores the Microsoft Build Engine used by C#, VB.Net, F#MoreMSBuild is more than just a list of source files- it is a declarative programming language, and with the new features in the .Net 4.0 engine, a rather expressive language to boot.This book explores the Microsoft Build Engine used by C#, VB.Net, F# and C++ projects-the 4.0 version shipped with Visual Studio 2010-in depth and in a very practical way, full of examples not covered in the reference material (or in the other book on MSBuild).Inside youll find: How to unify all your projects How to add help to your build How to simulate loops and data joins How to use inline C# code in project files How to enhance logging...and over 90 additional tips and tricks, and including some extensive walkthroughs of more advanced topics, like dealing with huge projects and rolling your own tool integrations right in the IDE. You can further explore the content with code samples on the Web.So if youve ever found yourself wondering how to get MSBuild to... Perform some simple arithmetic, or a string replacement (see trick #9) Find a subset of files using a complex expression (see trick #11) Specify the folder where MSBuild.exe resides (see trick #6) Fail the build when your custom task shows an error but the build still succeeds (see trick #2) Get you a list of all the referenced assemblies in your project (see trick #72) Get Visual Studio to stop ignoring your customizations (see trick #82) Search for your customizations, without having to hardcode paths (see trick #16) Allow almost any property to be tweaked (see trick #45) Do something that seems too complex for AfterBuild (see trick #23) Extract the branch name from a path (see trick #99)And dont be put off if youre brand new to MSBuild. If youve ever so much as peeked at the XML in a C# project file, youll be well served by this book. Youll start from first principals and the most basic mechanisms of MSBuild and the structure of an MSBuild file will be explained. Each trick is small and digestible and presented in a way that you can try out new techniques with just a few lines of MSBuild in a text file. Most of the tricks are things you can copy directly into your own build files and use that day. While many of the tricks stand on their own, the more complex ones are broken down and presented in sequences that progressively build on one another.You wont need any other book on MSBuild! But if you happen to have the other one, MSBuild Trickery will take you far beyond a reference book, providing practical guidance and preparing you for all of those truly unique gotchas that appear when the build runs.With a foreword by Dan Moseley, Microsoft Senior Development Lead for Visual Studio Project & Build.


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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHAM/CNN) - A New York woman is recovering after she was viciously mauled by two dogs. She says she thought she was going to die, but survival instinct, a fire extinguisher and a few good Samaritans helped save her.
Tracey Van Houte was standing on the porch of her friend's Rochester, N.Y., home Tuesday night when the friend opened the door and two dogs who lived at the home came outside and attacked.
Van Houte says she climbed onto the porch railing to avoid the dogs, but it didn't work.
"I was hanging onto a corner post, and I was screaming, 'Help me. Get them off me,'" she said. "They were just ripping at me, just sinking their teeth in and... trying to pull me down."
A crowd gathered, but Van Houte says few tried to help.
"I couldn't breathe. I said, 'Please help me. I'm going to die. I know they're going to kill me,'" she said.
Police say two men who did help suffered bite wounds. One of those men, Ernest Casserly, stepped in with a fire extinguisher. He sprayed the dogs then used the empty tank to hit the most aggressive of them.
A woman then seemingly appeared out of nowhere to help, according to Van Houte.
"She picked me up off the ground because the extinguisher wasn't working. She said, 'Don't worry, baby. I'm not going to leave you, even if they attack me,'" Van Houte said.
The woman got Van Houte to the back of a pickup truck, and they drove off. Van Houte says at least one dog followed, trying to jump into the truck bed.
Van Houte is now in the hospital, recovering from her injuries. She is covered in dozens of puncture wounds, many of them requiring stitches. Her leg and arm were crushed between the jaws of the attacking dogs.
"My right arm is crushed. They scalped me in the back, literally ripped the hair off my skull. I could feel it tearing," she said.
Van Houte will need therapy to learn to use both arms and hands again. She says she wants to meet the woman who ran in to save her.
"She's an angel. I would be dead if it wasn't for her," she said.
Rochester Police are investigating. They say one of the dogs was run over in the commotion and suffered "life-threatening" injuries. Police would not confirm whether that dog died. The second dog ran away.
It's unclear what breed of dogs were involved or whether charges will be filed.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Pooches and Pickups...Perfectly Portable
And even I was able to follow the very clear instructions in Autum's tutorial. (I have some sort of brain block with patterns where I invariable end up sewing something right side out when it's supposed to be wrong side out or something. And then a few minutes of seam ripping with teeth gnashing ensues...) The instructions are super clear with great pictures and I really enjoyed making the cushion. And it has a dreaded zipper! And I sewed said zipper into the cushion. And it actually works! I'm hoping to make a matching Cushion once things settle down here a bit.
The Perfectly Portable Pooches and Pickups Cushion is headed to NY with me for Surtex in a week and a half (gulp!), so you'll likely see it reappear in my booth pics. :)
I've heard that Pooches & Pickups has started to arrive at stores so if you're a retailer who's carrying the line, let me know (you can leave a comment on this post) and I'll add your store name to a list I'm compiling to to post here on the blog.
10 comments:
- Becky said...
You did a fab job on this cushion! I've covered too many to count in the professional side of my sewing career but no one ever used fabric nearly as cute as yours.
- May 4, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- Mrs Flying Blind... said...
Totally brilliant!!
- May 4, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- Laurie Wisbrun | Scarlet Fig said...
Becky - That's high praise. You'd likely be mildy horrified at the inside but the outside looks pretty good. A bit wonky in a few places, but better than I figured I could do!
Flying Blind - Thank you!! So sweet.
- May 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM
- Little Bluebell (Adrianne) said...
Perfectly Pretty... I love how the trucks are cruising around the edge. : )
- May 4, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- Regina said...
Oh that is so nice! I could see that being put to use. Hope to see your fabric soon. I really want to make my son a new button up shirt with it.
- May 4, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- Corinnea said...
This is so cute! Perfect execution!
- May 4, 2011 at 4:16 PM
Thank you so much for the nice words about the tutorial. I love the little pooches on the handle and the pickups driving around the sides. Just perfect!!
- May 4, 2011 at 10:56 PM
Dear Laurie !
I have finally managed to order your beautiful fabrics and it seems they are already on their way to Switzerland.
- May 5, 2011 at 7:22 AM
- What She Quilted said...
fantastic cushion. Im going to check out that tutorial. There never seems to be enough couch room in our house, so some well placed floor cushions seem like a great idea!
- May 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi Laurie. We're anxiously awaiting our shipment of Pooches and Pickups here at Sew Fresh Fabrics! Can't wait. The cushion is super cute.
- May 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM


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Looking for meaningful vocabulary instruction that enhances comprehension? Patricia Polacco can help. This lesson uses Chicken Sunday and Rechenka's Eggs to teach second- through fourth-grade students new words while deepening their comprehension, encouraging text-to-self and text-to-text connections, and helping them study characters. Students use the Semantic Impressions and Possible Sentences strategies to write about the books. Then, after a read-aloud and comparison of the texts, they complete a character study using the vocabulary words and an online tool to create character trading cards. Finally, students apply the words they have learned to write about the author as part of a WebQuest.
- Character Trading Cards tool: Students will use this interactive tool to answer questions about the character they chose and to use the vocabulary they've learned in their responses.
- Patricia Polacco WebQuest: Students will use this interactive tool to become an expert on Patricia Polacco and the vocabulary from her books.
Richek, M.A. (2005). Words are wonderful: Interactive, time-efficient strategies to teach meaning vocabulary. The Reading Teacher, 58(5), 414423.
- Vocabulary knowledge is among the best predictors of reading achievement and "direct instruction in word meanings is effective, can make a significant difference in a student's overall vocabulary, and is critical for those students who do not read extensively" (Beck, McKeown, & Kucan, 2002).
- The Semantic Impressions strategy offers a fun and interactive way to introduce new words; it enhances comprehension and builds vocabulary, reading, and writing skills. This strategy introduces words and asks students to write their own story using them before they read a published story.
Elley, W.B. (1989). Vocabulary acquisition from listening to stories. Reading Research Quarterly, 24, 174187
- Oral story reading by the teacher provides students a source for vocabulary acquisition.
- Vocabulary knowledge gains can double for students when read-alouds are accompanied by teacher explanations of words.
Beck, I.L., McKeown, M.G., & Kucan, L. (2002). Bringing words to life: Robust vocabulary instruction. New York: Guilford.


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Why the United States Should Not Attack Iraq
For months the Bush administration has been preparing the country for war with Iraq. The administration has argued that only a forcible regime change can neutralize the threat that Saddam Hussein is said to pose. But the assumptions that underlie the administration's policy range from cautiously pessimistic to outright fallacious. First, there is a prevalent belief that if Iraq is able to obtain nuclear weapons it will inevitably use them. Second, there is a notion that Hussein is totally irrational and cannot be trusted to act in a predictable manner; and, because of that, his leadership creates a substantial risk of instability in the Middle East. Finally, many people in the United States have come to believe that war in Iraq may be the only means of nullifying the threat posed by Iraq's nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs.
There are less costly strategies for dealing with Hussein than conducting a war. Hussein, while he may not act morally, is rational in the sense that economists and political scientists use the term. An examination of his past actions indicates that his principal need is to maintain his own physical and political survival. Using that knowledge, Washington can develop a strategy that would allow the United States to deter Hussein from taking actions detrimental to U.S. national security, without engaging him in warfare.
The key to neutralizing the Iraqi threat is to deter Hussein from aggressive action by sending a clear and credible message of commitment to protecting the United States against any challenge to its security; it is essential to communicate a willingness to massively retaliate in response to attacks against our homeland. This is crucially different from President Bush's message that overthrowing Hussein must be a top priority, regardless of his actual behavior. If Hussein believes that his political survival is being threatened, and there is nothing he can do about it, he may respond in a dangerous and unpredictable manner — with weapons of mass destruction.


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I enjoyed the first part of Sarah Houghton's ALA TechSource workshop. See my notes below for an overview of the discussion. The slides and related readings are available at http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2011/12/continuing-the-conversation-e-books-and-access.html
People know we have books, but don't know that we have ebooks.
What image are we projecting to the outside?
Are we projecteing our digital content?
Ebooks are more than digitiized text. Integrated media.
People expect it to work on any device.
Users are frustrated with downloading of ebooks.
The Big Players: Content
These are the major ebook content providers at the moment. The list changes frequently. There are other content providers not listed here.
OverDrive: leader in popular ebook content.
3M Cloud Library: physical presence in library via checkout terminals
MyiLibrary: popular content
eBooks on EBSCOhost: This is one of the content providers we are currently using in my library
Safari: technology ebooks
Gale Virtual Reference Library: reference ebooks. We use this one quite a bit at my library.
books24x7: a company to keep an eye on
axis 360: From Baker and Taylor, making a big play in market
FolletShelf: popular in school libraries
OneClickdigital: audio ebooks from Recorded Books
SH suggests posting ebook FAQ and device compatability on library website.
Free eBooks
Open Library
Project gutenberg
LibriVox: audiobooks of public domain books recorded by volunteers. (I love this site, but the quality of audiobooks varies)
Many more...
Big players: Devices
Amazon Kindle
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader
+all tablets, smart phones, laptops and desktops (I use my iPad and iPhone but am considering a reader.)
The big players: Operating Systems
The big players: Formats
ebook: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, TXT, RTF, HTML, Kindle, Daisy
eAudioBook: WMA, MP3
Advocacy with ebook providers is essential.
Corporate terms of service: company defined, overrides copyright law. Usually is what limits ability to transfer to device, etc.
Digital Rights Management (DRM): software that enforces the terms of service and copyright law.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act: makes it a criminal offense to circumevent technological measures that protect copyrihgted content, eg digital rights management. Penatly for violiting DMCA is greater than penalty for copyright violation.
Some libraries are negotating with content publishers directly, not providers.
What happens when your leasing, not buying?
Most library vendors only lease digital content. Some make it sound like you are buying but you are not.
"bibliopocalypse:" We don't own it forever.
Overdrive marketing uses words like buy, purchase and sale, but contracts use words like license and subscribe.
Liscening terms to consider
Cost: platform, conent, add terms (min purchase), difference between cost to library and to consumer (provider charges much more to library than consumer for same content), difference between costs for pCopy (print book) and eCopy.
Accessility: some vendorrs have not made ebooks or platforms accessible. This is a potential legal problem for the library.
Collection access: access to entire or partial catalog. do certain publishers limit terms of access; can content be removed; what publishers and authors are not included?
Termination: Under whhat conditions? Pro-rated refund?
Some publishers are difficult to deal with: Simon and Schuster (doesn't sell ebooks to libraries), MacMillan (doesn't sell ebooks to libraries), Penguin (pulled content from overdirve), HarperCollins (limits number of checkouts)
Some people expect all books to be available as ebooks, but not all books are digital.
You can negotiate terms!
Contracts and prices are not confidential.
Terms of Service
Terms of service can legally override copyright law. Companies can put anything they want into the terms of service.
eBook Readers
Considerations: Device rules (what collections will you be able to access on this device), Software rules (format compatibility, DRM compabitle), Content rules (will all pieces of content work?)
Reader lending
From 4 scenarios outlined by Mary Minow
-You can lend an empty reader or a reader loaded with public domain content and/or content with permissions to share (creative commons)
-A decvice loaded with ebooks licensed from a vendor can be lended. Be sure you are following terms of service.
-Do not lend a device with unauthorized content
Considerations: initial cost +ongoing cost, cost of device + titles
Summary: Digital Collections
Digital collections provide access when you are closed.
Make users aware.
How DRM affects user access.
Device support
SH's final thoughts: "Advocate for your users."


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Lorene, there are no words to say how much I LOVE your Hanukka table!!! I'm so happy that the table setting pics on The Jewish Hostess inspired you to make your own holiday table so much more memorable and festive for your own family. I love that this site is bringing all of us just a drop closer! Its so much fun peeking into everyone else's dining room on a holiday night!!! Marlene
"Hi Marlene,
Just want to say that Holidays have become a bigger deal in my home than ever before -so I would like to thank you so much. If it wasnt for you I wouldnt give my table settings that extra push that it should have.
Chanukah is one of my favorites just because its a fun week for the kids and its so joyous.
This year I was going to go out of the box when it came to the color scheme but I just couldn't because Chanukah for me will always be about blue and white. However, with all the Menorahs that I have, I always use the first one that my husband and I bought together. Its a gradient of blue which reflected on my choice for the table scheme.
I purchased my navy beaded chargers from Bed Bath and Beyond, along with the napkin rings which matched my menorah to the T.
I got the silver branches, candles, blue ornaments, star of David confetti and beads from Michael's.
Everyone received a star box on their plate with a little 'childish' gift.- what else but chocolate coins and a dreidel.
I was so excited that the colors I found were exactly what I needed.
I just had to attach a pic of one of my desserts because it came out so nice. I bought clear jello (I guess they dont make kosher blue jello) put a few drops of blue food coloring and Voila blue jello… Kids were happy and so was I !!!! Lorene Sasson"
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