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Walking through Chicago's Midway Airport at 1:00 a.m., you may not see many people.
What you will see are a lot of automatic scrubbers.
At that time in the morning, cleaning crews block off entire areas of the airport in order to clean the floors using these machines.
Seeing all those "autoscrubbers," as they are frequently called, you have to wonder how custodial workers cleaned large floor spaces such as those found in airports decades ago.
After all, when were automatic scrubbers first invented?
The answer to the first question is easy.
Before the invention of these machines, floors in airports, train stations and other large facilities were dust mopped and then cleaned using mops and buckets.
It was slow, tedious work, and the results were often less than satisfactory.*
As to when automatic scrubbers were introduced, the first machines began to appear during the mid-1950s.
They looked like push lawn mowers containing a well for water and detergent, which the machine sprayed on the floor using jets.
A set of rotary pads or brushes worked the combination into the floor, effectively removing soils.
Read more on Hard Floor Care.
While the equipment certainly did not clean and dry the floors all in one pass, as autoscrubbers do today, these early machines were a very big advance in floorcare technology.
They used less water and less detergent and were overall more effective at cleaning floors than the old manual method.
Floors also dried faster after cleaning.
And, best of all, these machines improved worker productivity and morale tremendously.
Today's Machines
By the 1970s, cleaning professionals had widely accepted these machines as a far more efficient and effective way to clean floors, and manufacturers had made significant advances in automatic scrubber technology.
In time, virtually all autoscrubbers shared the following three basic features:
- A solution tank and water delivery system
- A scrubbing system, which could be either rotary pads or, in recent years, cylindrical brushes
- A moisture recovery system to vacuum up water/solution and soils into a recovery tank.
Most of today's machines now offer a fourth feature: A drive system that propels the autoscrubber forward, backward, left and right.
When it comes to floor machines, greater mobility and maneuverability are typically high on the "want list" of floorcare technicians.
However, greater mobility is not the only advance in automatic scrubber technology.
Especially during the past decade, manufacturers have developed machines that are:
Greener: This applies to the types of chemicals used, as well as chemical and water usage.
According to Paul Wildenberg of Charlotte Products/Enviro-Solutions, many floorcare chemicals are now green-certified, "and have proven [to be] both cost and performance effective."
Today's machines also use less water and chemical, especially cylindrical brush systems.
Safer: These machines are now safer for both the operator and others in the facility in which the machine is being used.
Some of today's automatic scrubbers have easy-access digital controls and greater visibility than older models, allowing users of varying heights to operate them, according to Doug Berjer, product manager for Tornado Industries, a manufacturer of automatic scrubbers.
More machines are also fitted with solenoid technology to control water flow.
In the past, water could continue to flow from these machines even when turned off, which was wasteful and increased the chances of a slip-and-fall accident.
Now, water flows only when the machine is in use.
Easier to service: A key advance in some floor machines is that they are now easier to service; operators can even handle many minor repair issues themselves.
This is important, according to David Frank, president of the American Institute for Cleaning Sciences, because it impacts the "total cost of ownership of the machine, which includes the initial purchase price, preventive maintenance, repairs, as well as availability of replacement parts."
Manufactured with fewer parts: Berjer says that some machines have fewer mechanical parts now and that reducing the number of parts has also reduced the overall cost of ownership of some automatic scrubbers.
For instance, "The forward motion traction drive system on some machines is in a sealed gear unit that [not only] has fewer parts, but requires no maintenance whatsoever," Berjer explains.
Future Trends
Another key improvement among automatic scrubbers in recent years (as well as among other types of floor machines, such as burnishers), is reduced size.
Berjer adds that along with improved cleaning performance, the key reasons for this are enhanced worker productivity and safety.
From the magazine: New OSHA Rules For Floor Safety.
"According to ISSA studies, a 17-inch machine can clean nearly 13,000 square feet per hour, which is three times faster than a mop and bucket. Plus the floor is left clean and dry with a single pass, helping to prevent a slip or fall," Berjer says.
Another trend that is already here for many manufacturers is battery-operated machines.
These systems improve the operator's ability to clean larger spaces without stopping and eliminate the safety hazard posed by a cord dragging behind the machine.
However, battery technology is changing, and more machines are now powered by maintenance-free batteries.
While they may be more expensive initially, most cleaning technicians find that they require less maintenance overall and have a greater life cycle, so they are proving to be very cost effective.
Other trends on the horizon in automatic scrubber technology include micro-machines that are even smaller than those available today; "greener" machines; safer machines; more effective machines that improve worker productivity by reducing the number of passes necessary to clean heavily soiled floors; and quieter machines.
"However, improving worker productivity will continue to be a key goal of all scrubber manufacturers," Berjer adds. "When you realize [that] many facilities are paying about the same now for floorcare as they did a decade ago, cleaning contractors are demanding machines that clean floors faster and more effectively than ever before."
*Science has proven that mopping floors, especially large floor areas, often moves soil from one area of the floor to another without actually removing it from the floor.

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If your plan is to add the supers with foundation on top of the filled honey supers, then you don't need the excluder - you've got a "honey barrier" that should prevent the queen from going up into the topmost supers.
And would the bees draw out the foundation fairly rapidly? We will soon enter our main honey flow. Is there a way they would draw it out even better?


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There's no mistaking that laugh or Southern accent.
The Paula Deen on the telephone with me was definitely the celebrity chef seen on the Food Network and TV talk shows.
She laughs often, calls me 'honey' occasionally, and loves to talk about food (something we have in common).
We're chatting because the author, cooking show host, restaurateur and Emmy Award-winning television personality is coming to Detroit on April 25 for 'An Evening With Paula Deen,' sponsored by St. John Providence Health System. The program starts at 8 p.m. at Sound Board in the MotorCity Casino Hotel; tickets are $35 and $32. (I warned the Southerner to bring a coat.)
What is an evening with Paula Deen?
'You don't ever know what an evening will be. It depends on the people around me. They set the stage, we talk about what they want,' Deen said.
Whatever way it goes, 'I promise you a lot of laughs,' she added during our conversation that did contain a lot of laughter.
Plans call for Deen to appear with her husband Michael Groover, and discuss her life, passion for cooking, and do a cooking demonsration before she answers audience questions.
And what's an evening like at Paula Deen's home? 'It depends on what night you're here,' she quipped.
It could be dinner with Michael and TV watching, or 'wonderful parties with lots of good food and conversation.'
At one of those soirees last week, Deen said 'we moved the piano by the pool and the smells of food were everywhere.'
The leftovers from that party did haunt Deen, however, because she and husband Michael 'are working on weight loss.' (Paula Deen has been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.)
'I was so bad yesterday, I had five pieces of (old-fashioned) white bread,' she admitted about indulging on what was left from the party's tomato sandwiches. 'I couldn't quit once I started. I love a good piece of bread and desserts.
'I'm trying to shut my mouth, but food is my life. Everything I touch is food,' said Deen, who has lost 40 pounds. Husband Michael, who Deen said once weighed more than 300 pounds, has taken off 60 pounds; her sons Jamie and Bobby have shed 45 and 33 pounds, respectively, according to People magazine.
So Deen, known for her love and use of butter and cream, has 'reconstructed my plate.' She and Michael have 'put down rice and potatoes,' although when she recently substituted mashed cauliflower for potatoes, Michael wasn't a fan. They did, however, buy a whole red snapper at the fish market and blackened and grilled it.
'Normally, we would have fried it,' Deen said of past practices. She also 'really enjoys salmon now - never did before.'
Surprisingly, Deen said it's easier for her to eat healthy on the road 'because you can get a salad and a piece of fish.'
There is one place, however, where she has not cut back on calories: her Savannah restaurant The Lady & Sons that she operates with Jamie and Bobby. She said it wouldn't be fair to the visitors who drive for miles to get a taste of her southern cooking.
'The restaurant wouldn't last a month with diet food,' Deen said. The Lady's Southern Buffet does have 'roasted chicken next to the fried, and there's a good salad bar. And we're big on vegetables in the south.'
'Most people want a typical southern meal. It's a special occasion - they eat until they burst.'
That's what usually happens when we eat at the Assembly Line buffet at MotorCity Casino Hotel where Deen is appearing. I should have told her about the hot brownies with hot fudge sauce on the dessert station there ... or maybe not.
'An Evening With Paula Deen' begins at 8 p.m. April 25 at Sound Board in the MotorCity Casino Hotel, 2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit. Tickets, $35 and $32, are available at Ticketmaster locations, Ticketmaster.com, or to charge by phone, call 800-745-3000.


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My Templar follower constantly gets hit with Blood Star
Since "Templar" isn't listed on the tooltip, does this have any effect on followers at all? I notice he has the "orbs" animation above his head indicating he has the blood star affliction, but is this actually doing anything. Can I have him as my blood star meat shield?


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(AP) -- The party that ruled Mexico for seven decades returns to power Saturday with a president from a new generation to govern a country that has changed dramatically in the 12 years since the Institutional Revolutionary Party last held the top post.
Enrique Pena Nieto will take the oath of office after campaigning as the face of a new PRI
-- a party that claims to be repentant and reconstructed after being voted out of the presidency in 2000. The PRI ruled for 71 years with a mix of populist handouts, graft and rigged elections.
Pena Nieto has promised to govern democratically with transparency. But his first moves even before the inauguration showed a solid link to the past.
In announcing his Cabinet on Friday, he turned to the old guard as well as new technocrats to run his administration.
"I don't think there is any such thing as a 'new PRI,'" said Rodrigo Aguilera, the Mexico analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit. "There is a new generation of PRI members, but they don't represent any fundamentally different outlook."
Pena Nieto assumed office in the early seconds of Saturday during a brief ceremony with outgoing President Felipe Calderon at Mexico's historic National Palace. He was to take the formal oath of office later in the day.
The swearing-in ceremony at Congress and then a speech at the National Palace were set to be low on pomp and high on security as Calderon made a smooth transition his goal. Six years ago, Calderon's security unit literally had to muscle him past blockades and protesters to get him into Congress so he could take the oath of office after a razor-thin, disputed victory over a leftist candidate.
Demonstrations were likely outside Congress this time as well and at the city's key monuments. But the country's main leftist party pledged not to swarm the podium this time, and it planned no mass protests like those that paralyzed central Mexico City six years ago.
Mexicans for the most part seemed more focused on the end-of-the-month pay day and Christmas shopping than the arrival of a new president. Divided and ambivalent, many people are wary of a return to the old days, but they're also weary of Calderon's National Action Party and the spike in violence during his six-year attack on organized crime, which has had a toll of 60,000 deaths by some estimates.
Government worker Antonio Vidal, 37, was confident his country wouldn't see much of the PRI of old.
"We've invested heavily in our democracy," he said. "It's very closely watched by civil society, so I don't think the PRI can return to their ways of fraud."
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Alma Rosa Martinez, a 40-year-old real estate agent, said she had a very bad feeling.
"It took 70 years to kick them out of power," she said. "How long will it take to kick them out again?"
Pena Nieto has pledged to make economic growth and job creation the centerpiece of his administration, with campaign manager and long-time confidant Luis Videgaray the point person. Videgaray, a 44-year-old economist with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will lead the treasury department.
Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, a 48-year-old former state governor who is known as a political operator and deal maker, has been named secretary of the interior, a post that will play a key role in security matters.
A bill proposed by Pena Nieto would gather the police and security apparatus under the control of the Interior Department and create a new national anti-corruption commission. Those changes are expected to pass Congress next week.
Pena Nieto has also promised to push for reforms that could bring major new private investment into Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, the crucial but struggling state-owned oil industry. Such changes that have been blocked for decades by nationalist suspicion of foreign meddling in the oil business.
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2005 Indoor: Won the 3,000m (11:18.94) in her first meet as a Buccaneer at the Appalachian Invitational ... placed second in the 3,000 meters at the Clemson Tiger Invitational with her best time of the season in the event, 10:37.43 ... placed ninth in the 5,000 meters (18:52.41) at the Niswonger Invitational.
Prior to ETSU: Maggie transferred to East Tennessee State from Virginia Intermont College ... Hunter was a national qualifier in NAIA cross country in 2003 as well as a national qualifier in NAIA indoor track in the winter of 2004.
Prep: Hunter earned five letters between indoor and outdoor track and field and three in cross country at Cave Spring High School in Roanoke, Va. ... she was team MVP in cross country, indoor track and field and indoor track and field in 2002-03 ... was also track and field team MVP in 2001-02 ... Hunter also earned all-conference and all-region honors at Cave Spring.
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Pew Study: All Search Engines Being Equally Intrusive, Google's the Best
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There is no question that Google is the dominant player in the search engine arena, and a new survey released Friday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 83 percent of U.S. search engine users rated Google as their preferred search engine, despite concerns about the company's data-collection and advertising practices.
About two-thirds of search engine users disapproved of the collection of information on their searches for the purpose of personalizing their future search results, Pew reported. An equal proportion of all Internet users disapproved of being tracked for the purpose of getting targeted ads.
Yet Google keeps growing.
"There is a paradox in this report," said Greg Sterling, founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence. "People have a generally favorable opinion of Google as a search engine, yet people inevitably have a negative connotation about personalization."
However, the privacy concerns are not likely to seriously affect Google's market share, Sterling told the E-Commerce Times.
"Microsoft is slowing eroding the market with Bing," he added, but noted that it would take a much greater effort to dethrone Google.
King of Mountain of Search
Google's dominance is also unique in that the 1990s and even early 2000s saw one search engine giant beget the next. Lycos, Alta Vista, Infoseek and Hotbot all had their respective moment in the sun, and for a while it seemed that Yahoo -- complete with its campy TV ad campaign -- would be the search engine to beat. Then came Google, and no rival has managed to chip away at its dominance.
"Back in 2004, there was far more of a mix in the market," said Sterling, "whereas in 2012, [Google] is totally dominant. It is in the lead, and this past decade has been the story of Google growing and growing."
Even Microsoft's Bing has grown only at the expense of other search engines, not at Google's. Even as Bing grows, it has a way to go to reach Yahoo, though, which ranked this week at 6 percent -- a distant second behind Google, down from 26 percent back in 2004.
Google, meanwhile, has transformed its dominant position into a serious money-making machine, and generated US$36.5 billion in revenue in 2011, up from $3 billion in 2004.
Potential Rivals
With that amount of money to be made, the question to ask is why aren't rivals looking to take advantage of the privacy concerns as leverage to take down Google? The reason is simply because most search engines aren't really that different.
"Essentially, Yahoo and Microsoft are doing very much the same thing," said Sterling, who noted that search queries are used to determine which types of ads are showing up. In the search world, this is not so much business as usual as just business.
"Everyone can say that they don't want to be tracked," Sterling remarked, "but they want relevant searches, which essentially require tracking."
Nor would Google let the crown slip away so easily.
"Despite increasing fears surrounding online privacy and sharing of information, Google still remains the predominant search engine for many consumers," Scott Steinberg, head of technology consulting firm TechSavvy Global, told the E-Commerce Times. "This is a position that isn't likely to be eroded overnight, as the average, everyday consumer still remains largely unawares and agnostic to online search solutions.
Additionally, most Web users are also creatures of habit who fall back into comfortable routines, especially as pertains to online services they've been using for years on end, Steinberg added.
However, the sheer size of the online search market and growing fears surrounding the sharing of private data do present a potential opportunity for new competitors.
"If they can piggyback on rising awareness for these concerns, it could happen," said Steinberg. "A marketing or public awareness campaign that sways even a small share of the potential industry -- say, 5 percent -- away from Google would still provide huge opportunity for existing or emerging players. But to succeed, the venture would need to pursue alternate business models beyond targeted advertising, which relies on tracking users' personal data."
These business models could include affiliate sales, online purchases, sponsored placements, and virtual classifieds, but would that be enough?
"This would also require a public awareness campaign that could be used to steal people away from Google," said Sterling. "The bigger issue is how Google will respond -- but this could also be ammo for its critics who are concerned over privacy.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project did not respond to our request for comment.


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Donkeys have been called the world¹s most important work animals, but it's unusual for pre-veterinary students to get hands-on experience with them. The UMass Amherst International Donkey Project is one of the only programs in the nation where undergraduate veterinary and animal science students can learn about donkey health and care, and conduct original reproductive research in a modern clinical facility. Students started the UMass Donkey Club to spend more time with donkeys and enhance their familiarity with this animal that is vital to the lives of millions.


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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, right, also got face time recently with Vice President Joe Biden. But he's not asking for money.
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During his quickie three hour in-and-out trip to East Lansing last Friday, President Barack Obama joked with the decidedly Spartan crowd that they were "greedy" given the Rose Bowl football win and the success of the B-Ball team, too. (Little did he know they'd lose to the Badgers.)
But if you want to talk about greed, say hello to Detroit's new Mayor Mike Duggan, who has had more face time with the President than the First Lady.
He met with the President at the White House in a group setting earlier this winter; then
he had lunch with Vice President Joe Biden; then he dined with the President himself last Friday and will jump on a plane to D.C. on Thursday for yet another group encounter with the country's main man.
"He's a healthy eater," the not so healthy eater Mr. Duggan told the press corps after he scarfed up some salmon and rice with Mr. Obama. He sheepishly admitted, however, he absconded with two cookies to get his sugar fix. (Your tax dollars hard at work.)
The affable Mr.Duggan, who many believe is turning out to be everything that former aloof Mayor Dave Bing was not, knows the art of the "ask." Hence he left money off the luncheon menu.
"I did not ask for money," but he's looking for opportunities for the President to help the bankrupt city.
He's smart not to ask because Mr. Biden has already said there won't be any "bail-out" of the Motor City. The V.P. is smart, too. He knows a GOP Congress would never do that for the heavily Democratic city.
"It's about jobs," Mr. Duggan says as he hopes for a boost from Mr. Obama's administration.
The president also inquired about the mayor's relationship with Emergency Manager Kevin Orr, appointed by Gov. Snyder. Duggan entered the cone of silence on that one but he does say the two are getting along, having disagreements, but working to get this job done.
Somewhere up there Duggan's mentor, former Wayne County executive Ed McNamara, must be over-joyed and proud watching his protégé working all the political levers - even if it means forgoing a meal of meat and potatoes in order to dine on salmon and rice with the leader of the free world.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance, regardless of the specific training element, requires testing of comprehension. Helping Spanish-speaking employees understand OSHA compliance, is both a safety and employee engagement issue. When trainings are delivered in Spanish, the leadership is sharing they care about the safety of ALL employees, and want to guarantee everyone, including limited-English speakers, completely understands the safety training.
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While MRIs can give teams a glimmer of hope while they wait for results to come in, usually when the air casts and carts come out for a player, it's a bad sign.
That was the case with Saints safety Kenny Vaccaro, who was hauled off during yesterday's loss to the Panthers.
Saints coach Sean Payton just confirmed to reporters that Vaccaro suffered a broken ankle, and would have surgery tomorrow to repair what appeared to be a clean break.
Vaccaro was caught in the bottom of a pile, and his left ankle gave way under the weight of many large people.
That's a bad break for a Saints defense which sprang a leak late against the Panthers, and might have to go on the road in the playoffs because of it. The Saints need to win to qualify, and would need a Panthers loss to avoid the Wild Card.
Vaccaro has been one of the key parts of a turnaround from worst-defense-ever to fairly respectable, and won't be easily replaced this time of year.


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When people come together and rally for a good cause, they can accomplish great things. And it's that spirit of giving and compassion that makes the holidays such a special time of the year. It's also a favorite time of year for many of our Windermere offices with "all hands on deck" as owners, agents, and staff shop for, wrap, and deliver gifts to those who would not have such a happy holiday.
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No Child Should Have to Sleep Outside
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Homeless families live in the shadows. They can't apply for temporary housing if they are staying with friends. They must be sleeping in a shelter or on the street to apply. Most of the emergency shelters available in Seattle are gender specific and require that married couples or parents and children split up. For many, the only other choice is to sleep in their car, a tent, or a public bathroom.
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Nearly two-thirds of Palestinians condemn the decision to suspend local elections in the West Bank and Gaza, according to a new survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR).
Following a dispute between Fatah and Hamas over their candidate lists, on September 8 the Palestine High Court issued an unpopular order to suspend the democratic process.
The elections would have seen candidates from the two parties squaring off for the first time in a decade, and 61% of Palestinians believe their cancellation was "politically motivated."
Center-left Fatah and Islamist Hamas, Palestine's two major political parties, have been unable to reconcile their differences in the decade following the Palestinian Civil War 2006-07.
The conflict saw Hamas seize control of the Gaza Strip, after Fatah bowed to international pressure and refused to acknowledge a Hamas victory in Gazan elections.
Since then, Fatah has retained control only of the West Bank. A reconciliation process has achieved only meagre successes, such as the brief formation of a rapidly-collapsing 'unity government' in 2014.
Local elections in October 2012 were boycotted by Hamas, leaving the Fatah list as the only viable option on ballot papers.
Dr. Khalil Shikaki
Speaking at a press conference on September 27, PCPSR director Dr. Khalil Shikaki said: "there is some tension in people's minds between national unity and the desire for a more democratic political system."
Prior to their cancellation, these local elections were being seen as a chance to express dissent within the Palestinian political framework, even at the cost of political cohesiveness across the West Bank.
It is therefore suspected that Fatah-backed president Mahmoud Abbas moved to block the elections, fearing Hamas gains in the West Bank.
35% of Palestinians believe Fatah and Hamas colluded to cancel the elections, while 23% blame Fatah alone. Only 14% of people think that Hamas are solely responsible.
If the elections do go ahead at a later date, 59% of Palestinians think they could pave the way for democratic parliamentary and presidential elections.
And with 61% of Palestinians currently hoping Abbas will resign, the Fatah premier is unlikely to hasten an electoral test of his popularity.
Anti-Palestinian Authority sentiment, clearly expressed in response to the scrapping of the elections, is also reflected in other key policy areas.
In the aftermath of a summer in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have experienced repeated cut-offs in their water supply, only 45% of respondents to the PCPSR survey laid the blame on Israeli policy.
By contrast, 49% blamed the PA, citing direct and indirect factors such as governmental mismanagement, failing infrastructure and water theft within the PA's jurisdiction.
"People are really pointing the finger [at the PA], even though we know the amount of water that reaches the Palestinians is in Israeli hands," Dr. Shikaki said.
Similarly, Palestinian institutions are seen as culpable for the deterioration in the security situation around Nablus, with 36% of people directly blaming the PA security services and a further 29% blaming the Palestinian justice system.
Dr. Shikaki noted that the Israeli presence in the West Bank worsened the situation, meaning PA security services are "unable to access all areas of the West Bank." But this opinion was not reflected in polling.
41% of people also view the security services as corrupt, saying their purported crackdowns on criminals in fact target those opposed to the PA.
Other results emphasize the deep divisions which run through Palestinian politics.
For one, Palestinians are beginning to reject both a two-state and a one-state resolution. Respectively, 56% and 67% of people say these models for future Israeli-Arab relations as doomed to failure.
Gazans, meanwhile, are "supportive of violence and compromise simultaneously", Dr Shikaki observed. In the besieged Strip, majorities expressed faith in both armed resistance to the Israeli blockade and the peace process.
Other than the fact that 89% of Palestinians view ISIS as a radical group which does not represent true Islam, virtually no political issues enjoy near-universal consensus.
Marc Frings of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, a German political foundation which contributed to the research, said the "only winner" emerging from the past three months was the Electoral Commission itself.
"No-one publicly doubted their ability to conduct an election," he said, finding a rare silver lining in a report which otherwise paints a gloomy picture of the Palestinian political situation.
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The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as NGE or NOGE, the Nation of Gods and Earths, or the Five Percenters is an American organization founded in 1964 in the [1] Members of the group call themselves Allah's Five Percenters, which reflects the concept that ten percent of the people in the world know the truth of existence, and those elites and agents opt to keep eighty-five percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb; the remaining five percent are those who know the truth and are determined to enlighten the rest.[2]
Initially, the Nation of Gods and Earths, as it is known today, was viewed as little more than an offshoot of the Nation of Islam (NOI). While the Nation of Gods and Earths has been characterized as an organization, an institution, a religion, or even a gang (by the F.B.I. under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover who launched many Counter-intelligence programs against black organizations), representatives of the Nation teach that Islam is a natural or mathematical way of living. The New York City areas of
In his one-man Broadway show, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, Mike Tyson states that a Five Percenter friend changed his life around by telling him to stop robbing and embrace his new-found family, which consisted of trainer Cus D'Amato.
Supreme Allah is a fictional character of the HBO drama Oz, a low intelligence gang member who is serving time for murdering a man who laughed at him during a dice game. He often preaches Five Percent philosophy while simultaneously dealing drugs. He is portrayed by Lord Jamar of the hip hop group Brand Nubian.
Maurice Broaddus's alternate history story "(120 Degrees of) Know the Ledge" centers on an analogue of the Five Percent Nation called "The Lost Nation", and quotes actual Five Percent doctrines.
Other examples of hip hop and R&B acts who are (or have been) associated with Five Percent teachings include Busta Rhymes, Digable Planets, J-Live, Nas,[37] Jay Electronica, Erykah Badu, Queen Latifah and Planet Asia.
Five Percenters in New York City were even known as a visible presence at parties during hip hop's formative years of the 1970s. Scene pioneer DJ Kool Herc recalled that while there was a heavy gang presence in attendance, the Five Percenters were also there as a de facto peace-keeping element.[36]
Five Percenters were the innovators behind early hip-hop slang, including "'Sup, G?" (originally "G" means God, not gangsta), "Word is bond", "Break it down", "peace", "droppin' science", and "represent".[2][33] Many MCs employ the technique and terminology of the Supreme Alphabet to create acrostics, acronyms and backronyms in their rhymes. For example, in the song "Wildflower," Ghostface Killah rhymes, "I'm God Cipher Divine," spelling G-O-D in the Supreme Alphabet.[34][35] Furthermore, Raekwon breaks down the science of his life story on the track "North Star," rhyming the words "sun, moon, and stars, rock on". The RZA directly rhymes the Twelve Jewels of life's objectives on his later work with Gravediggaz, rhyming in succession Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace, Happiness. He regularly wears an eight-pointed star pendant with a number seven and a crescent, which can be seen on the cover of his album The World According to RZA.
Early hip-hop acts affiliated with the Five Percenters, and who spread its teachings through hip hop, include two MCs of the late 1980s–early '90s conscious-rap era—Rakim of Eric B. & Rakim[32] and Big Daddy Kane. These two acts, as well as some of their other contemporaries, infused Five-Percent teachings and symbolism throughout their music and videos. This reputation brought fans of Rakim in particular to refer to him as the God MC. Not soon after Rakim and Kane's heyday rose acts that were even more explicit with allegiance to the NGE, most notably Brand Nubian, Poor Righteous Teachers, Wu-Tang Clan, Killarmy, Sunz of Man, Gravediggaz, Public Enemy, Godbliss, and Gang Starr. The popularity of these acts sparked a boom of new NGE students. Even the white hip hop group 3rd Bass cited NGE lessons in the song "Triple Stage Darkness" and other songs.
The Nation of Gods and Earths has propagated its teachings throughout the United States and abroad. In the early 1980s, This spread was in part due to early adherents teaching when away at college or in the military and, more famously, because of the rise of hip hop music. The main theme of the NGE doctrine spoken on hip hop records were the teachings that black people were the original or first human life to walk the planet, that the Blackman is God, the Black Woman is Earth, and through the inner esoteric powers of the Gods and Earths, the youth can transform and possess its true potential, which seems to overthrow the overbearing oligarchy by becoming just rulers of themselves. This especially meshed well with conscious themes found in other golden-age hip hop recordings.
In its article on Five Percenter Jay Electronica, Vice Magazine stated in regard to the Five Percent Nation: "It's a movement that's been affiliated with hip-hop from the very beginning, coining terms like 'ciphers' and 'dropping science' and influencing everyone, World's Famous Supreme Team, Big Daddy Kane, Jay-Z, Rakim, Wu-Tang Clan, Brand Nubian, Common, Poor Righteous Teachers and Nas. With these artists, and any others associated with the Five Percenters, music was more than just a message. [31]
Five-percenters are purported to believe that Black men are physically and intellectually superior as the natural descendants of God, and black men as 'Gods' are the rightful rulers of the world and its people. Women are known as 'Earths', and assist them in its rule.[28] Five-Percenters are discouraged from marrying anyone of the white race as doing so would dilute the purity of their blood but the anti-white racism is primarily targeted at white men.[29] Like the Nation of Islam, the Five-Percenter ideology promulgates the theory that the white race was created by a black scientist named Yakub, who lived 6,600 years ago and was responsible for creating the white race to be a race of devils. He did this through a form of selective breeding referred to as grafting, while living on the island of Patmos.[30]
As Michael Muhammad Knight explained in an essay for Vice, "The first lesson I learned from the Five Percent was simple: Fuck white people. Seriously, 'White people are devils.'"[25] He was quoted in the post as saying, "Whiteness is weak and wicked and inferior — basically just an errant child who needs to be corrected."[26] Michael Muhmmad Knight has stated, "The Post never balanced my 'Fuck white people' line with my acknowledgment that there were/are actually white Five Percenters, a phenomenon that I had discussed with the writer."[27] Knight also said in the Vice article, "A Five Percenter elder told me that if I rejected white supremacy and strove for righteousness, I could not be called a devil; though he believed in the Five Percenter doctrine of white devils, he would not hold that against me as an individual."[25]
In July 2008, a man in Staten Island, New York already known in the Nation as Black Cream Allah was denied a legal adoption of the name because a judge felt it was sacrilegious and sounded like the name of a hip hop record. He has since filed a second petition for the amended name Original Kreeam Shabazz.[24]
In Michigan the Nation challenged a ban on the group's literature among prison inmates after an inmate was designated a security threat until he renounced his membership. Judge Steven Whalen found no evidence that group advocated violence and recommended that it be recognized as a legitimate belief system.[23]
The Nation has tried to answer these accusations by denying them. Its newspaper The Five Percenter condemns the states who impose restrictions on their practice as those who "attempt to define us in ways that seeks to criminalize us".[22]
The gang label has caused much trouble for adherents to the teachings of the NGE in the United States. As the Nation has either gained students within the prison system or seen those who at least allege adherence to NGE teachings become incarcerated, the preceding gang reputation brought those with even remote NGE affiliation to be designated as security threats in states such as Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and South Carolina.[20] Literature has been banned from institutions in these and other states, and inmates have been denied privileges enjoyed by those of other persuasions. Such rules were relaxed in 2004 in New York to allow registered sincere adherents to study teachings personally but not share with unregistered inmates during their incarceration.[21]
The schism between Smith and the NOI led to numerous confrontations. The assassination of Smith in a Harlem housing complex in 1969 remains unsolved. The murder was a blow to the movement, but according to the direct orders of Clarence before his death, some of his earliest disciples, a group of nine men who were called the First Nine Born carried on the teachings, and his friend Justice assumed an acting leadership role. In the years to follow, the Gods and Earths gained a varied reputation, from being known as outstanding members of and contributors to their communities who at one time quelled a potential rebellion when Martin Luther King was assassinated, to being called an unruly and confused group of African-American teenage thugs and even categorized as a gang.[8][10]
The NGE established a headquarters in Harlem. The Allah School in Mecca, previously known as the Street Academy, was founded in 1966 through the Urban League, with the help of the then-current Republican mayor of New York, John Lindsay, and his assistant, Barry Gottehrer.
Dietary laws of the Five Percent dictate that adherents are forbidden to eat pork or any pork-based by-products as well as all other scavengers (shrimp, crab, lobster, etc.). Many take further steps and eschew meat altogether, often opting for veganism or a raw food diet.
The Nation generally does not recognize traditional holidays, most notably those associated with religion such as Christmas or Easter. However, some regions where the Nation is active may hold events close to dates in honor of Clarence 13X's birthday (February 22) or the official founding of the Nation (October 10).
The Show and Prove is an annual event that takes place in the Harlem section of Manhattan every second weekend in June. Gods and Earths converge from all over the world at Harriet Tubman Elementary School for this gathering, which includes a marketplace, performances, and speeches in the school's auditorium and a science fair in which children participate.
The Five-Percent Nation holds events known as Universal Parliaments in various cities—usually once a month—to build on their interpretation of the Supreme Mathematics, lessons, and to discuss business concerning the NGE. These meetings usually take place in public areas but can be held anywhere.
The Supreme Alphabet is a system of interpreting text and finding deeper meaning from the NOI Lessons by assigning actual meanings to the letters of the Latin script. For example, the first letter, A, stands for Allah; the 12th letter, L, stands for Love, Hell, or Right; and the 13th letter, M, stands for Master. This Supreme Alphabet was developed with assistance from Justice Cee by Father Clarence 13X. The method by which letters were associated with certain values is unknown.
The Supreme Mathematics is a system of understanding numerals alongside concepts and qualitative representations that are used along with the Supreme Alphabet.[11][16] The Supreme Mathematics is thought to be the highest system of numerology in the NGE, used to give qualitative value to numbers in addition to quantity. The numerals are as follows:
The term Five Percent comes from NOI doctrine that sees the world's population divided into three groups: 85% of the people are blind to the knowledge of themselves and God, while 10% of the people know the truth, but teach a lie for their personal gain; seen as part of this 10% are religious leaders that teach that God is an incorporeal being (hence the term mystery God). The 10% can also include the governments of the world that deceive and mislead the majority of the world through most of the available media outlets. The remaining 5% are the Poor Righteous Teachers—those who do not subscribe to the teachings of the 10%, as they know and teach that God is the Asiatic Blackman.
The teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths are passed on through a modern oral tradition. The advancement of a God or Earth is based on his or her memorization, recitation, comprehension, and practical application of the Supreme Mathematics and the Supreme Alphabet and also the 120 Lessons, sometimes referred to as degrees, a revised version of the Supreme Wisdom lessons of the NOI, originally written by Wallace Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad.[8][11][16] The first literary Anthology Knowledge of Self: A Collection of Wisdom on the Science of Everything in Life has been published of the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths by Supreme Understanding.[17] [18] The history of the movement has been written by one of its members Wakeel Allah, who wrote the 3 book anthology "In the Name of Allah: A History of Clarence 13X and the 5 Percenters Vol. 1 & 2" and "The Naked Truth: From the Goal Mind of Abu Shahid, the Elder of the Nation of Gods and Earths." [19]
Representatives of the Nation of Gods and Earths view themselves (black men of their Nation) as their own God (both individually and collectively as the Original Man).[9] Gods and Earths sometimes refer to themselves as scientists, implying their search for knowledge and proof.[14] According to the Five Percenter Newspaper, "God first means that it is no longer a judicial argument; centered means everything we do is about God. Culture is the practices and principles of a people at any given time."[15]
In addition to the 120 Lessons, Clarence 13X taught a system he developed called Supreme Mathematics, which can be compared to a version of the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah or even more closely Gematria, or the Arabic Abjad numerals. In this system, the numbers from one to nine, and zero all represent principles and concepts. Coming together to discuss the Supreme Mathematics is the most fundamental regimen of the NGE. Whenever members meet, they discuss about the Supreme Mathematics and 120 Lessons and relate them to life. It claims to also be used to win playing dice. This dialogue is referred to by the NGE as Building, which is the eighth degree of the Supreme Mathematics. Gods and Earths can build their minds, which means to elevate or add on to the knowledge one has. Building also refers to the building of their physical bodies, their financial status, or institutions, among much more that the principle of Building can represent.
He taught the 120 Lessons to his young followers (who came to refer to him as the Father), but instead of teaching them to be Muslims, he taught them that they were God the same way he was. The women who came into Clarence 13X's growing movement to study along with the males were taught they were symbolic of the planet Earth, because it is the planet on which God produces life (hence female practitioners use Earth as their title). The NGE does not consider itself a religion—its position is that it makes no sense to be religious or to worship or deify anyone or anything outside of oneself when adherents themselves are the highest power in the known universe, both collectively and individually.
Clarence proselytized the streets of Harlem to teach others his views based on his interpretation of NOI teachings. After failing to reach elder adults whom he saw as already set in their ways, he found success with street youth.[8][9][10][11][12][13] On October 10, 1964, this young group formed the First Nine Born of what became known as the Five Percent Nation, or later the Nation of Gods and Earths. In December of that year, Clarence was shot in a basement gambling den called the Hole. After surviving the shooting, he assumed the name Allah, and, according to some, boasted that he was immortal.[6]
The Nation of Gods and Earths was founded by Clarence 13X after he left the Nation of Islam's Temple Number Seven in Harlem, New York (the same temple where Malcolm X was a minister from 1960 to 1963). Multiple stories exist as to why Clarence and the NOI parted ways: some have him refusing to give up gambling; others have him questioning the unique divinity of Wallace Fard Muhammad, whom the NOI deified as the True and Living God in person; or his questioning of Fard's Godhood due to the fact that Fard was born of a Caucasian mother. The story states that Clarence 13X was then disciplined by the NOI and excommunicated in 1963, but another version of events says that he left on his own free will along with Abu Shahid,[6] who agreed with Clarence's questioning of Wallace Fard Muhammad. That same year Clarence met James Howell, a sea merchant, who would later become Justice, and Clarence's closest associate until his death.[7]
The Nation of Gods and Earths teaches that black people are the original people of the planet Earth, and therefore they are the fathers ("Gods") and mothers ("Earths") of civilization.[1] The Nation teaches that [1]
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Friday, April 6
sex… i mean six, weeks old.
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OUCH. Good luck! I made my husband wait longer. hahaReplyDeleteReplies
also, shouldn't you be getting busy with yo man?
hahah you're hilarious! I was never ready when 6 weeks came around! But good for you!ReplyDelete
bahahaha! get it, girl.ReplyDelete
and to all a good night.
Her eyes are so blue! haha, this post cracked me up! When the six week marker came I wanted nothing to do with my husband! LOLReplyDeleteReplies
haha! you should have seen me after my first. i remember going to my six week appt. after brody and my midwife asking if i had had sex yet… i looked at her and told her that was an INSANE question and NO and NO plans to do it soon or ever again. HA! we did have two more babies though ;)Delete
Bahaha!! So funny and so true!ReplyDelete
you're hilarious. have fun (wink wink).ReplyDelete
Stop it. You are too funny!ReplyDelete
OMG. i freggin love it. you are soooooooooooo funny! i dreaded the 6 week mark after bryson! LOL. i was sooo gross and didnt want any of that. of course, mr jason was counting down the days. have a super fabulous time!ReplyDelete
ha! love ya brooke. i am gross too, but i don't think our hubby's really care. not at this point. ha!Delete
Hahaha! I don't know what everyone else is sayin', 6 weeks is a long freaking time. This post is truly, truly awesome.ReplyDeleteReplies
ha! i love your perspective kaylee. i go back in forth from both extremes ;)Delete
Ha! Getcha some! ;)ReplyDelete
Dude, six weeks is a loonnggg time!
Truly loved this post. :)
how does that "six week" mark come so fast?!?!ReplyDelete
six weeks?! impressive ;)ReplyDelete
can't handle the cuteness of story. LOVE.
yay! good for you two! and um, i mean, happy 6 week birthday, story :)ReplyDelete
IT's like when you have six weeks til due date it DRAGS AND CRAWLS,ReplyDelete
and six weeks til do it date is all race car on ya and BAM!
@ least your all smiles! ;)
This is too good. HahahaReplyDelete
You're cracking me up at the 8am hour. Thanks for that!Replies
anytime, anytime ;)Delete
Oh my goodness you crack me right up. Happy Easter!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
happy easter friend! i was just thinking of you today - hope you're doing great :)
bwahahahaha! you're hilarious!ReplyDelete
Love the realness here. Good for you! Haven't had any babies, yet, and I am still totally encouraged by this!ReplyDelete
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haha the six week wait is so weird and roommate-ish!ReplyDeleteReplies
but completely necessary too! haha!Delete
haha you crack me up!! enjoy!!ReplyDelete
happy six weeks beautiful Story girl!
We never made it to the 6 week mark after either of my boys. I think we made it to 2 and I had c-sections with both boys. What was I thinking?ReplyDelete
She is such a doll. I can't believe it's been 6 weeks already.
With my first it.was.a.while.
But with my second, we didnt wait more than like 3 weeks!
Totally different.
Next we're adopting....so, sweet! No wait ;-)Replies
oh with my first i thought i would never do it again. seriously. but it's easier every time ;) and yay for no wait!Delete
Six weeks! How did that happen? Shes gorgeous. And 6 weeks. Long. Time. Holla! God bless yall.ReplyDelete
So we got a foster baby on Dec. 2nd. Six week old, only 8 pounds. 5 weeks early...so he was really like one week old. I was so dang exhuasted and tired taking care of that new baby {that I didn't even give birth too} that I totally understood a new meaning to waiting SIX weeks. I think it may be for our emotional healing also! hahaha....no joke...i was so tired it was about six weeks. poor husband. he didn't even have a 9 month warning!ReplyDeleteReplies
hahaha. i totally agree with the emotional healing!Delete
Gee whiz you crack me up! I just hit the six week mark and was cleared for whatever I was comfortable doing... Needless to say my husbAnd started his countdown the second our son was born so I knew what I was gonna be doing. Oh and I agree, it does get easier the more you have. Enjoy ;)ReplyDelete
Gee whiz you're killing me over here! I just hit the six week mark and my doc told me to do whatever I was comfortable with... Needless to say my hubby had started a countdown the second our son was born so I knew what I was going to be doing. Oh and I agree, it does get easier the more you have.ReplyDelete
Enjoy. Wink wink.Replies
thank goodness it does! ;)Delete
and you shall be pregnant again soon.ReplyDelete
yes, i am predicting this.
wow you are already ready to "do the deed"?ReplyDelete
I made shawn wait like 12 weeks after wilder's birth, and it really really hurt.
but it didn't hurt after story and we did it sooner.
i got my IUD taken out yesterday..OMG.Replies
say wha?!?! more harris babies a-coming!?Delete
oh friend. i did NOT have sex after 6 weeks the first time. that's fosho.
Whoo hoo! :)ReplyDelete
Bahaha I laughed so hard at the title!!ReplyDelete
Mainly because this is something me and my husband have been commenting about lately. 6 weeks is a longggg time LOL I'm about 37 weeks preggo right now and it will be interesting to experience this all, since it's our first child. One thing I did say was we better make sure to be protected 'cuz I don't want to get pregnant again ( at least not so soon!!) haha
hahahahaha. hilarious. six weeks is such a long time. we reverted to bumpin' and grindin', like back in our dating/living in sin days. ha!ReplyDelete
Ha-freakin-larious! You rock! I knew I was gonna love your blog the moment I clicked over! HA!ReplyDelete
okay, you are TOO funny!ReplyDelete
i can't believe sweet story girl is six weeks old already! whew!
this is random, but did you do away with sponsors? i would love to sponsor you and i apologize if i missed you saying something about it!
Totally just made me laugh out loud. Go get 'em! :)ReplyDelete
i laughed so hard i had to show my hubs:) SO TRUE!!!ReplyDelete
i laughed so hard I had to show my hubs! SO TRUE!!!!!ReplyDelete
get it girl.ReplyDelete
look at your sweet children. you made those. God is good.ReplyDelete
seriously the best post ever. made me laugh so hard.ReplyDelete
hahaha i know this is old but hilarious... !!ReplyDelete
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All fans of Blondie, Patti Smith, the Ramones, or any of the bands of New York's '70s punk scene have doubtless heard that CBGB, the Bowery club that launched (and continues to feature) the major groups of the age, is threatened with closure. Rising rents in the once derelict neighborhood in which CBGB has been a fixture for over 30 years may take their toll. So Voice is paying respect to both the club, and the movement it spawned, by interviewing John Holmstrom, cofounder of Punk magazine, and major contributor to the sensibility that influenced music, art and graphic design.
Heller: The long reign of Hilly Kristal's CBGB could be coming to end as a Mecca for alternative music in New York. Its been quite a ride, and before I ask you about your part in it, do you know who designed the CBGB logo, which, in its quirky way, has become an emblem of an era? (By the way, I actually worked with the owner Hilly Kristal before he started the club, designing the Hilly's Gazette).
Holmstrom: That's such a great question! I really don't know. That would be a great question for Hilly.
On a side note, someone recently sent me a flyer from the Grand Opening of Hilly's "On The Bowery," which is what CBGB's was called before the name change. (I think it was "Palace Bar" before that.) They used that old Cooper Black typeface for the club's logo, and the flyer was advertising "Jazz. Rock. Blues." I noticed that Eric Emerson and the Magic Tramps, a punk rock band in the style of the New York Dolls, were on the bill. I mentioned this to Hilly the other night, but he refused to believe that any punk bands played CBGB's before the Ramones.
Heller: CBGB, which stands for "Country, Blue Grass, Blues," didn't start out to be such a wellspring of punk. In fact, you and Legs McNeil popularized the term with your magazine Punk. How did the scene emerge and at what point did the umbrella of punk take over?
Holmstrom: We didn't create the term "punk rock;" the late Greg Shaw of Creem was the first person to use the term. We reinvented punk by starting the "punk movement." Greg was first using it in 1971 to describe mid-1960s U.S. bands such as the Count Five, Standells, Shadows of Night, Electric Prunes, etc. that are now called "garage rock." Lester Bangs started using "punk rock" in Creem to describe the harder-edged glam-rock bands like the Stooges, the MC5, Alice Cooper, Sweet, and the New York Dolls (as opposed to the campier/softer bands like Rod Stewart, Elton John, Jobriath, David Bowie). Alice Cooper was even named "Punk of the Year" in Creem's 1974 readers' poll.
By 1975, the word punk was used in England to describe bands like Eddie and the Hot Rods and even the Bay City Rollers. Here in the U.S., Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen were "street punk poets." The music scene at CBGB's was being described as "alternative street rock" and even "punk rock" in a 1975 cover story published in New Jersey's Aquarian newspaper. (However, the band appearing on the cover was anything but punk—as usual the mainstream media were getting it all wrong.) So it was obvious that what the media wanted to promote was stuff about the streets and punk and trash and shock.
In late 1975, the CBGB's scene was yet to be defined. The club was receiving a lot of publicity, mostly for Patti Smith (who had just been signed to Arista Records) and Television (who were expected to be the "Next Big Thing"). A music newspaper called New York Rocker was about to be published in early 1976 by some music industry veterans, and it was expected that this paper would define the New York City music scene. They preferred the safer and more commercial bands like the Mumps, Television, Tuff Darts and the Miamis.
Heller: I presume you're about to introduce Punk?
Holmstrom: Yes. Then the first issue of Punk was published (by Ged Dunn Jr., Legs McNeil and me) in the first few days of 1976. We didn't know anyone on the scene; they didn't know us. We insisted that the Ramones and the Dictators were the most important bands, since they were heralding the new punk rock movement. (Most NYC scenesters considered both bands novelty acts, horrible musicians and destined for anonymity). Punk magazine was going to change the world. We'd be the visual equivalent to their brand of loud, fast music. Legs, who had aspirations to become a "PR guy," insisted that the magazine would never be popular unless we started a youth movement to go along with it, so he started calling himself a "punk" (as opposed to the hippie), dressing in leather jacket and turning his lazy-ass tendencies of eating hamburgers and sleeping with the TV on into a lifestyle. I began writing manifestos and Ged started sticking little pins into a map of the world, anticipating our impending conquest.
Our first problem was that most NYC bands tiptoed around the whole "punk rock" image or rejected it completely. It wasn't until a whole generation of English kids adopted and embraced the punk movement that it took off, which (ironically) left us in the dust. From then on, punk was something that started in England.
Heller: Okay. So, now how would you define the punk (or DIY) aesthetic?
Holmstrom: It's something that has constantly been evolving. For instance, I think today's lowbrow art movement [i.e., Juxtapoz magazine http://www.juxtapoz.com/] has been influenced by punk in a big way. (Robert Williams, its founder, agrees with me.) On the other hand, the East Village art scene was also punk-inspired. One common element to these movements as well as Punk magazine is an appropriation and appreciation of popular culture—usually the more shocking and bizarre images. Also common is an approach to illustration that's representational, but not necessarily realistic. It's not careful, it's casual. We're not trying to capture reality; we're trying to create a new one. There's also an element of humor (which is usually alien to "art").
Heller: And what were the influences on punk?
Holmstrom: I guess Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol were the biggest fine art influences on the punk thing, but one cultural influence that's been forgotten is 1970s minimalism. There was a concerted effort by bands like Suicide, the Ramones and Talking Heads to follow the aesthetic that "less is more" and to strip music down to its core. Blow it up and start all over again! After all, most of the bands at CBGB's had gone to art school or were aware of the art scene of the time. Most of the people in the NYC scene were literate and somewhat intelligent.
We were also going for minimalism and simplicity at Punk magazine. Lou Reed totally understood what we were going for when I first met with him after he appeared on the cover of the first issue. He complimented us on our use of grainy, high-contrast photos, the attention to layout and visual attraction, the hand-lettering, the black and white printing and encouraged me to stick with it. (Unfortunately it wasn't always easy to capture this every issue, but Punk paid more attention to the visuals—rock magazines are usually started by writers so that the layouts are secondary to the text-heavy page layout.)
I think we, and other bands/artists at any time, succeeded when we did the best with what we had. We couldn't afford four-color printing or expensive typesetting, so we didn't mind if a page looked handmade, or if the lettering looked like a demented criminal had scrawled on a page. What I always tried to do was express a concept. If we couldn't get around budget limitations, we'd throw it out and think of something else.
Patti Smith was the first person I read about who encouraged the Do-It-Yourself movement in rock 'n' roll. I bought a copy of her first single "Piss Factory" and was totally blown away—this song was better than anything on the radio, and this encouraged me to look for underground music the way I sought out underground comic books. I was also encouraged to publish my own artwork by Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead), who corresponded with me after he and Art Spiegelman talked to us in 1974 during a guest lecture at Harvey Kurtzman's cartoon class at the School of Visual Arts.
Heller: Legend has it the Richard Hell launched the grungy safety-pin look. How did Punk magazine influence the prevailing sensibility?
Holmstrom: Richard couldn't afford to buy new clothes and his were falling apart, so he wore safety pins onstage. The Ramones similarly wore ripped jeans, T-shirts and old sneakers. At Punk, we weren't fashion types, so we wore similar clothes—blue jeans, shirts that were often ripped or worn out. Blondie had a great fashion sense—Debbie [Harry] always dressed great, one of her best friends was Anya Phillips, who worked as a professional dominatrix and who helped create the fashion look. The guys in the band specifically wore clothing from the mid-1960s and started the new wave "skinny tie" look. But we were mostly anti-fashion. CBGB's was not about what you were seen in. It was about the music, not the image.
Heller: How did Malcolm McLaren play a role? He's credited as the impresario of punk?
Holmstrom: When Malcolm McLaren imported the NYC punk concept over to England, he ran a clothing shop and made money from promoting fashion trends, so he'd encourage kids to create their own look, incorporating ideas from the U.S. Sid Vicious, who worked for Malcolm, would carefully rip his clothes and then add hundreds of safety pins to the torn parts. Then they began sticking safety pins into their noses, cheeks or ears. It wasn't the first time people pierced themselves for fashion, but it was much more extreme. Then a band like The Clash splattered paint on their clothing in the Jackson Pollock style.
The English punk scene was created with a budget, but they'd all whine about how they were "on the dole" (in between gold records and successful tours). Here in the states, we were living through poverty, crime, strikes and all the things the English punks complained about. But youth must be served. The only way we really promoted the idea of punk fashion was by publishing photos of these musicians, along with advertisements from clothing shops like Trash and Vaudeville—which eventually began importing a lot of punk fashion from England. I guess they were like the model for Hot Topic.
Heller: You've often said that punk was anti-hippie. And yet comics, DIY and flea market sensibilities were decidedly hippie and also punk. What was the major difference?
Holmstrom: It's been argued that Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, James Cagney or Alfred Jarry were the first "punks." So it's difficult to figure out whether it was a product of the 1970s, the 1950s, the 1930s or the late 1800s.
Punk rock was born out of the hippie movement, thanks to the Stooges and the MC5. These two bands inspired the rest. Although the garage rock bands were equally influential—and those bands created the hippie movement.
Heller: So what's the primary difference?
Holmstrom: There is a world of difference between the "smoke dope and fuck-in-the-streets" activism of the White Panthers and the music of the Grateful Dead. There was a schizophrenic philosophical battle during the 1960s between the radicals and the hedonists, the protesters and the potheads, the Yippies and the hippies. By 1974-1975, the battle was long over with. The outrageous stars of the hippie movement such as Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Brian Jones were dead. The protest movement had fallen apart. "Hippie" became "alternative," which soon became another word for "politically correct." The rebellious aspects to the hippie thing were gone. Oddly enough, even though the whole "communal living" peace and love dream was becoming an obvious fraud (in part, thanks to Charles Manson who has embarrassingly become a punk icon) and the hippie aesthetic had devolved into granola bars and pre-washed bellbottoms, no one was rocking the boat.
All early punk rockers were ex-hippies who got sick and tired of following their stupid rules. We wanted to wipe out all music made after 1966. We wanted to bring back cool-looking clothes and never see another pair of bell-bottoms. We wanted to destroy disco music and turn everyone onto the Ramones.
Heller: Its amazing that CBGB has lasted this long. At what point, in your opinion, did punk lose its alternative originality and become a marketable style?
Holmstrom: I'm not sure that punk is a marketable style, even now. However, if there's a moment where it was redefined as something "aimed at the teen market" that would have started with Green Day and the subsequent "pop-punk" phenomenon in the mid-1990s (and furthered by the Vans Warped Tour, Hot Topic and Epitaph Records). Thing is, there's still a lot of debate about whether punk is dead, and how punk has to stay this rebellious, anti-establishment movement. Since a lot of punks are involved in unpopular, anti-government protest, and most punk bands never sell a lot of records I don't think you can say that punk has sold out. The real thing still means a lot.
Heller: If there is one key element of the DIY aesthetic, what is it?
Holmstrom: Do what you wanna do and don't let anyone or anything stop you.
Heller: Back to CBGB: There has been a call for its preservation, but why after all these years should it be preserved? Is it just nostalgia?
Holmstrom: It's not just nostalgia. CBGB's is the Yankee Stadium of rock 'n' roll, but it's not the Monument Park of punk. In other words, games are still played there, and stars are still created there. It's still contributing to the culture.
The best reason to keep it open is that it is a tourist attraction, like Liverpool's The Cavern or the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. If Mayor Bloomberg truly ran New York like a business, he'd be insane to allow a place like this to close. The negative publicity the entire music scene—and New York cultural scene in general—will be felt for decades to come.
I would like to see CBGB's stay open because it's still an important club to NYC punk rock bands. I've seen some great shows there over the last few years and hope to see many more.
Heller: Odd but I guess predictable that the Bowery, the center of dereliction in NYC, is now so chic.
Holmstrom: The battle over CBGB's is really–the astronomical rents, the elimination of crime in our beloved city and the suburbanization of our street culture, block by block–having the unintended effect of wiping out all the art and culture that made New York City an "interesting" (although frightening) place to live. New York was the center of world culture for most of the 20th century. It's now becoming a gated community for the rich–ironically, the opposite of John Carpenter's vision in the film Escape From New York, where it was an out-of-control crime zone. Most of the reasons so many of us moved here in the 1970s, '80s and even the '90s was to be near the nightlife and the art scene and the culture. Now that culture is disappearing, and CBGB's has become the icon for this lost scene.
Heller: What is the influence that punk has left behind, and what would you say is the closest descendant today?
Holmstrom: I feel like our culture has been sterilized. Nothing interesting is being allowed to develop. It's not an accident that "culture" refers to both the growth of bacteria in a petri dish, as well as art and music. The world is becoming so sterile; it's difficult to see how true "culture" can evolve. Maybe overseas, in Iraq or someplace. But I hear the same complaint from punk rock fans from almost all western countries.
The influence punk has had on film, art, fashion and everything else in our culture–good and bad–is beyond my ability to comprehend. Although I hoped, as a teenager, to create this kind of thing, I never expected that something I contributed to would become this pervasive–especially years after I left it. (Punk magazine folded in 1979.) At this point I am concerned that it's some kind of "last word." I was always hoping I'd see the next art or music movement that would wipe out "punk" the way we destroyed hippie culture. I wanted to see something more interesting and outrageous than punk rock take over the world and introduce new ideas and make punk seem like an outdated concept. But it hasn't happened yet.
The ability of the punk scene to remain alive and well has been a source of constant amazement to me. When I was a kid, there was a 1950s "rock-n-roll-revival" scene, but it was sort of campy. Sha Na Na was poking fun at how ancient the old 1950s rock scene seemed to us in the modern 1970s. On the other hand, bands like the Ramones were able to use that revival to create something new. The CBGB's bands drew from many influences to forge a new music scene.
To me, "punk rock" is what we had to start calling real rock 'n' roll—the stuff that pisses off your parents—because bands like Simon and Garfunkel, Linda Ronstadt and Billy Joel were suddenly being lumped in with real rock 'n' roll such as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and the Stooges. In the 1950s, rock 'n' roll defined teen rebellion, juvenile delinquency, drugs, sleazy comic books and forbidden sex. In the 1970s, rock 'n' roll had to be redefined. And that's my proudest accomplishment—that we helped keep the true spirit alive for a new generation. CBGB's has done the same, providing a venue for bands like the Beastie Boys, White Zombie, They Might Be Giants, Living Colour and many others.
Sadly, the world is too big for a new movement like the original punk movement, and kids are too smart to take the stupid chances we took back then. Also, the economy isn't bad enough for people to risk everything by doing nothing, or trying something completely new.
So the current punk movement (as defined by the Warped Tour, the independent punk rock labels, Hot Topic chain stores, and another generation of pissed-off teenagers who hate public school and make friends with classmates because they listen to the same music) might be all we have, but that's plenty good enough for me.


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Leigh Melrose, "the emergent specialist of 20th-century opera" (The Financial Times), has carved out a formidable reputation for the performance of new works and dramatic 20th century repertoire. A wonderfully dynamic artist on both the concert and opera platform, his recent performances as Wozzeck with Zürich Opera and Fabio Luisi, Alberich Das Rheingold at Ruhrtriennale with Teodor Currentzis; Friedrich Das Liebesverbot and the Traveller Death in Venice, both at Teatro Real and Ruprecht Fiery Angel at Opern Zürich with Gianandrea Noseda have earned him wide critical and public acclaim.
In the 2019/20 season, Melrose makes his debut at Wiener Staatsoper in the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth's Orlando and as Alberich The Ring Cycle. He also makes a role debut as Smith Smee Der Schmied von Gent at Opera Vlaanderen, returns to Teatro Real as Tadeusz The Passenger and reprises the role of Clov in György Kurtág's Fin de Partie at Budapest Spring Festival.
Last season, Melrose made his La Scala debut as Clov in György Kurtág's world premiere of Fin de Partie, after the play by Samuel Beckett, which was later presented in Amsterdam by Dutch National Opera. He also performed in concert with Rotterdam Philharmonic, returned to Zürich for a role debut as Nekrotzar in a new production of Le Grand Macabre and made two other company debuts: with Teatro dell'Opera Rome as Ruprecht Fiery Angel and with Opera Australia in the title role of a world premiere based on the life of artist Brett Whiteley. Other recent highlights include returns to Teatro Real with two new productions: Cecil Gloriana and Stolzius in Zimmermann Die Soldaten.
Recent debuts include Ruprecht Fiery Angel in Zürich, the title role of Wozzeck in Salzburg, Zürich and at Royal Festival Hall, Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande at Ruhrtriennale Festival, Vlaamse Opera and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg Alberich Das Rheingold with Teodor Currentzis at Ruhrtriennale; Friedrich Das Liebesverbot and the Traveller Death in Venice, both at Teatro Real. Other operatic engagements include Papageno for Seattle Opera, Demetrius A Midsummer Night's Dream for La Monnaie; Ned Keene Peter Grimes for Opera Vlaanderen and Opera Oviedo. Closely associated with English National Opera his roles there included Wozzeck, Escamillo, Sonora, Ned Keene, Tadeusz The Passenger, Papageno, Bormenthal A Dog's Heart, Count The Marriage of Figaro, Rodolfo in Leoncavallo's La bohème, the world premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's The Winter's Tale; and Junius The Rape of Lucretia.
One of the most sought-after interpreters of contemporary music, Leigh Melrose has given many world premieres including Dai Fujikura's Solaris, a co-production between Theatre de Champs Elysees, Opéra de Lille and Opéra de Lausanne; Johannes Kalitzke's Die Besessenen by Johannes Kalitzke, at Theater an der Wien; Elliot Carter's On Conversing with Paradise at the Aldeburgh Festival under Oliver Knussen (also nominated for a Gramophone Award for 'Best Contemporary Album) ; Luca Francesconi's Quartett at Royal Opera House; and Evan in James MacMillan's The Sacrifice at Welsh National Opera. Other performances include his debut at the prestigious Maggio Musicale Festival in Florence singing Rihm's Der maler träumt; title role of Birtwistle's Gawain with BBC Symphony Orchestra; Matthias Pintscher's Solomon's Garden with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris conducted by the composer; Rambo in the Channel 4 television film of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer; Michael Collins in Jonathan Dove's TV Opera Man on the Moon for Channel 4; Punch in Birtwistle Punch and Judy in Porto; Xenakis' Ais with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms and Berlin Festival; Peter Maxwell Davies' The Martyrdom of St Magnus at the composer's St Magnus Festival, Orkney, in Edinburgh and Inverness; Maxwell-Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King with the Orquesta de Cadaqués in Madrid, the London Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, BIT20 in Bergen and Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra; Michael Finnissy's Maldon with the London Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the world premiere of Martin Suckling's Candlebird also with the London Sinfonietta under Nicholas Collon.
His numerous concert appearances include Walton Belshazzar's Feast, Berlioz Symphony No.3; Britten Canticles; Noah's Fludde with BBC Scottish Symphony; Carmina Burana and Beethoven Symphony No.9. At the BBC Proms he has performed Britten Cantata Misericodium with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, De Falla's La vida breve and Sir Richard Cholmondeley in Gilbert & Sullivan's Yeomen of the Guard.
Season highlights
Clov Fin de Partie
Teatro alla Scala & Dutch National Opera
Ruprecht The Fiery Angel
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Nekrotzar Le Grand Macabre
Opernhaus Zurich
Title role Brett Whiteley
Opera Australia
Concert highlights
Escamillo Carmen
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Pintscher Solomon's Garden
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies The Martyrdom of St Magnus
St Magnus Festival, Orkney; Edinburgh; Inverness
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King
Orquesta de Cadaqués, Madrid; London Sinfonietta / Queen Elizabeth Hall
Michael Finnissy Maldon
London Sinfonietta / Queen Elizabeth Hall
Martin Suckling Candlebird
London Sinfonietta / Nicholas Collon (world premiere)
Belshazzar's Feast, Berlioz Symphony No.3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Britten Canticles
Gran Teatre del Liceu; with Roger Vignoles / Southbank Centre / Wigmore Hall
Orff Carmina Burana
Royal Festival Hall; Birmingham Symphony Hall; RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra / Usher Hall
Beethoven Symphony No.9
Orquesta de Cadaqués / Sir Neville Marriner
Britten Cantata Misericodium
BBC Symphony Orchestra / BBC Proms
Opera highlights
Title role Wozzeck
Salzburg; English National Opera (new productions)
Papageno Die Zauberflöte
Seattle Opera; Opera Zuid
Demetrius A Midsummer Night's Dream
La Monnaie
Escamillo Carmen
Royal Albert Hall
Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia
New York City Opera
Silvio I Pagliacci
Welsh National Opera
Various Death in Venice
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Marcello La bohème
Opera Zuid
Sid Albert Herring
Salzburger Landestheater; Opéra Comique; Opéra de Rouen
Ned Keene Peter Grimes
Vlaamse Opera; Opera Oviedo; English National Opera; BBC Proms
Title role Eugene Onegin
Longborough Festival Opera
Tadeusz The Passenger; Papageno; Escamillo; Bormenthal A Dog's Heart; Count Marriage of Figaro; Rodolfo in Leoncavallo's La bohème; Junius The Rape of Lucretia
English National Opera
Concert repertoire
The Wound Dresser
Symphony No.3 'Romeo et Juliette'
War Requiem
On Conversing with Paradise
American Songs I & II with orchestra
Four Serious Songs
Alexander's Feast
Masses and The Seasons
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Rückert Lieder
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Requiem and Masses
Songs and Dances of Death
Carmina Burana
Primosch, James
Songs for Adam
Schoeck, Othmar
Lebendig Begraben, Op.40
Vaughan Williams
Sea Symphony
Songs of Travel
Five Mystical Songs
La Déesse Athéna
Opera repertoire
Rambo The Death of Klinghoffer
Jack Hubbard Dr Atomic
Title role Wozzeck
Mercury, Greek Captain & Chorèbe Les Troyens
Mercutio & Paris Romeo et Juliette
Punch Punch & Judy
Escamillo Carmen
Morales Carmen
Zuniga Pearl Fishers
Ned Keane Peter Grimes
Title role Billy Budd
Sid Albert Herring
English Clerk Death in Venice
The Traveller Death in Venice
Demetrius A Midsummer Night's Dream
Junius & Tarquinius Rape of Lucretia
Title role Pelleas et Melisande*
Belcore L'elisir d'amore
Malatesta Don Pasquale
Mike Collins Man on the Moon
Steward Flight
Valentin Faust
Fritz Die tote Stadt
Rodolfo La Boheme
Silvio Pagliacci
Evan The Sacrifice
Maxwell Davies
The Tempter The Martyrdom of St Magnus
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Papageno Die Zauberflote
Count Le Nozze di Figaro
Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro
Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte
Title role Don Giovanni*
Marcello La Boheme
Schaunard La Boheme
Frank Edgar
Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Title role Eugene Onegin
Yletski Queen of Spades
*in preparation
Opera Today, October 2015
Like Ablinger-Sperrhacke, and Woldt, Melrose is one of the great character singers in their voice types... Melrose has an instinctive understanding of Wozzeck's almost inability to conform to social niceties. His grittiness created a Wozzeck that worked well with Luisi's approach to the opera
Guardian, October 2015
Musically, it's astonishing. Melrose, giving the performance of a lifetime, charts Wozzeck's disintegration with unflinching veracity and an extraordinary expressive range that veers from lyrical intensity to snarl or eerie falsetto.
Die Welt, September 2015
Leigh Melrose was outstanding as Alberich


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What would you do if your husband died and no one will give you a straight answer about why it happened?
When Major Danny Weaver's Harrier jet goes down during an air show at Cherry Point Marine Air Station everyone's initial assumption is that it was a terrible accident. Did a part break? Was the maintenance check incomplete? Was it pilot error? Abby, Major Weaver's widow, is relieved when the commanding officer tells her that a preliminary investigation has ruled out pilot error, but she is disturbed when he warns her to expect a prolonged investigation and some uncomfortable questions. It seems that Danny's unit is under investigation for an unspecified problem.
Abby had some hints that the unit had problems. Not long after the unit returned from Iraq, Danny had words with another officer, and an enlisted man asked for Danny's help with a personal problem that forced Danny to go up the chain of command. Abby didn't push Danny for details, but after his death she wished that she had. Using the skills she learned as a reporter, Abby embarks on an investigation that exposes the dark side of several service members' lives. She also puts herself and her young son in danger.
Check this title's availability in the UNC-Chapel Hill Library catalog.


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