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Train Simulator
TS18: Geeps Galore!
Written by: Gary Dolzall.
The Electro-Motive GP40-2 is now ready for Train Simulator service in five liveries!
The highly successful Electro-Motive was all about remarkable numbers … 1,143 units constructed over a production period of 14 years, 27 original purchasers, and more than four decades of reliable service to North America's railroads. And so, it is fitting, as the EMD GP40-2 now arrives for Train Simulator service, that the Geep is available in five classic railroad liveries!
The Train Simulator GP40-2 Loco Pack, available at the Steam and Dovetail Games stores, features the noted EMD locomotive in the distinctive liveries of Denver & Rio Grande Western; Western Pacific; Union Pacific; Norfolk Southern; and CSX (YN3 scheme).
Produced from 1972 through 1986, the four-axle (B-B), 3,000-horsepower GP40-2 road-switcher was the direct sire of another highly successful (and similar) locomotive, the EMD GP40. Electro-Motive's GP40 had debuted with the arrival of the builder's 645-series diesel powerplant in 1966, and through the end of 1971, more than 1,200 GP40s had been built for 31 railroads. The GP40-2, like the entire Electro-Motive "Dash -2" line of 1972, was an evolutionary extension of EMD's "40" line. "Dash 2" features included improved traction motors and alternators; strengthened components in the 645-power plant, and solid-state modular components in the electrical and control systems. All of which translated to enhanced reliability and operating efficiency for the GP40-2 as compared to its highly-regarded predecessor.
Today, more than four decades after its introduction, the GP40-2 can still be found working in numbers for the likes of CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, and a variety of U. S. regional railroads – and that speaks volumes for the capabilities, versatility, and efficiency of the remarkable second-generation diesel locomotive.
Rio Grande and Western Pacific were original customers for the GP40-2. D&RGW acquired its first dozen GP40-2s in April 1972 and went on to acquire a roster of 37 of the diesels through 1983. Western Pacific purchased a fleet of 15 GP40-2s in 1979-80, and both western roads put the four-axle (B-B) diesels to work in a variety of duties, including priority services.
Union Pacific was not an original buyer of the GP40-2, but through mergers (including with the D&RGW and Western Pacific, as well as the Southern Pacific/Cotton Belt), the UP acquired an expansive collection of the EMD diesels.
Like the Union Pacific, eastern rail giants Norfolk Southern and CSX were not original purchasers of the GP40-2 but have since built large fleets. Norfolk Southern acquired 71 GP40-2s with its portion of Conrail in 1999. And among the original buyers of the GP40-2 were no less than 11 railroads that would eventually become (in whole or in part) members of today's giant CSX system. The pre-CSX railroads that purchased the GP40-2 included the four largest CSX predecessors: Chesapeake & Ohio; Baltimore & Ohio, Seaboard Coast Line; and Louisville & Nashville. It included notable mid-sized roads such as Western Maryland and Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac. And it included inheriting a portion of Conrail's GP40-2 fleet when CSX and NS acquired and divided that railroad in 1999. All told, CSX predecessor railroads accounted for more than 450 GP40-2s.
Train Simulator's new GP40-2 features railroad-specific details (such as headlight placements) and advanced features (including "running" and "cold and dark" versions). The GP40-2 Loco Pack also includes a fine selection of appropriate freight rolling stock, including an all-new D&RGW three-bay hopper used for Dolomite service; UP steel coil car; CSX 50-foot box car; stone/ballast hopper; 3-bay covered hopper; and 86-foot auto-parts boxcar.
The Train Simulator GP40-2 Loco Pack provides a trio of career scenarios for the Salt Lake City Extension of the Soldier Summit route (available separately) which are based upon actual D&RGW operations – and with its five liveries, the landmark EMD diesel will be perfect to put to work on a wide variety of Train Simulator U. S. routes from coast-to-coast! – Gary Dolzall
- Soldier Summit (D&RGW)
- Salt Lake City Extension (D&RGW)
- Sherman Hill (UP)
- Miami - West Palm Beach (CSX)
- North Jersey Coast Line (CSX)
- Feather River Canyon (WP)
- Norfolk Southern Coal District (NS)
Check the links above to visit the store pages of relevant routes!
The Electro-Motive GP40-2, one of America's most successful and long-serving diesel locomotives, is now available for Train Simulator! The new GP40-2 Loco Pack features the EMD road-switcher in the distinctive liveries of eastern giants CSX and Norfolk Southern (above), plus famed western railroads Rio Grande, Union Pacific, and Western Pacific (below). Screenshots by Gary Dolzall.
Rio Grande was an early customer for the EMD GP40-2. D&RGW acquired its first GP40-2s in April 1972 and went on to acquire a roster of 37 of the versatile diesels. Low clouds are hanging over the distant Wasatch Range as a trio of D&RGW GP40-2s head west from Provo, Utah with a train of priority auto parts.
Train Simulator's GP40-2 Loco Pack includes three career scenarios for the Salt Lake City Extension of the Soldier Summit route (available separately). Hauling priority Train 179, D&RGW GP40-2 3100 leads the way west through the Jordon Narrows (above) and later arrives at Salt Lake City's busy Roper Yard (below).
The GP40-2 in its five liveries is perfect for authentic use on a wide variety of Train Simulator U. S. routes. On the Norfolk Southern Coal District route, a pair of NS GP40-2s are unloading coal at the Alicia, Pennsylvania coal terminal (above). In sunny South Florida, a duo of CSX Geeps is rolling empty stone hoppers south on the Miami – West Palm Beach route (below).
In New Jersey, Norfolk Southern and CSX cooperate in serving Conrail Shared Assets trackage, and such is the case as a GP40-2 from each of the eastern rail giants team up to work a local on the NJ Transit North Jersey Coast Line.
On Train Simulator's Sherman Hill route, a quartet of Union Pacific Electro-Motive GP40-2s emerge from Hermosa Tunnel (above) with westbound tonnage and, in an engineer's eye view from aboard the cab of the lead GP40-2, meet an eastbound intermodal train (below).
Western Pacific purchased 15 GP40-2s in 1979-80 and a trio of the flashy orange and green EMDs have the WP's "Ford Fast" auto parts train in tow on a wintry day at Keddie, California along the Train Simulator Feather River Canyon route.
The Train Simulator GP40-2 Loco Pack includes a selection of freight rolling stock, including an all-new D&RGW three-bay hopper used for Dolomite service; UP steel coil car; CSX 50-foot box car; stone/ballast hopper; 3-bay covered hopper; and 86-foot auto-parts boxcar.
The landmark Electro-Motive GP40-2 is now ready for Train Simulator duty in five classic railroad liveries! The GP40-2 Loco Pack, available at the Steam and Dovetail Games stores, features the veteran EMD road-switcher in the distinctive liveries of Denver & Rio Grande Western, Western Pacific; Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and CSX.
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But I can still make cards so I whipped up this card for my husbands birthday in August. We will be camping during his birthday so I knew I would have to make it in advance and not wait till the day before.
Here it is:
Seize the Birthday.
I am also entering it in the ColorQ Challenge #196 The colors are Real Red, More Mustard, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake + White
For the first time I made a window for my focal image. It was pretty easy and I love the look.
The lighthouse stamp is from Inkadinkado stamped on white cardstock with VersaMark Watermark ink and embossed with Black Sparkle embossing powder. I hope you can see the sparkle in the photo. I inked the circle with Faded Jeans, Broken China and Tumbled Glass Distress ink.
Thanks for taking a peek at my card and hope you have a wonderful week.

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text: Believing in the alignment of both comfort and style when it comes to everyday dressing, laid-back label Lilka creates effortless staples and ultra wearable basics that feel as good as they look. Proving that basic doesn't need to mean boring, the pieces are crafted from bold printed fabrics and feature delicate feminine details such as lace and fringe. Turn to the Lilka collection of jumpsuits for versatile designs to dress up or down. Look for cute rompers, relaxed tie-waist jumpsuits and breezy draped designs in soft fabrics with elegant trims.


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TMS Academy, the integrated leadership development arm of Temasek Management Services (TMS) and Singapore Management University (SMU) were jointly awarded the mandate by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to develop the Asian Financial Leaders Programme (AFLP). The AFLP was launched in June 2015 at the Association of Banks in Singapore's annual dinner, where guest of honour, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugarathnam officially announced the inauguration of the AFLP. The AFLP is regarded as the flagship programme for developing senior-level talent in Asia's financial sector including banking, insurance, investments and private equity, to assume regional and global leadership positions and handle the growing complexity of Asia's financial institutions.
The AFLP leverages the strong design and execution expertise of TMS and SMU, and that of an external network of top-tier global partners who take participants through an impactful learning journey to both developed and emerging markets. Besides Singapore, participants attend sessions at world renowned institutions in Europe, the United States, China and South East Asia, where they have the opportunity to interact with world-class faculty, global thought leaders, eminent practitioners and regulators. Upon completion of the programme, participants will receive certificates from these institutions.
Another distinct feature is the strong focus on the high-growth Asian financial markets of China and ASEAN. The AFLP will adopt an integrated pedagogy including an immersion component featuring site visits as well as discussions with regulators, leading financiers, think-tanks and thought leaders in both emerging and developed markets. It will provide an invaluable opportunity for participants to network with peers from across geographies and industries within the financial sector.
Mr Tharman Shanmugarathnam, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, said, "This programme will take advantage of Singapore's strong and expanding linkages in the region, including ASEAN, China and India, and aim to strengthen those links through leadership development. The AFLP is aimed at equipping finance professionals aspiring to C-Suite roles with the knowledge and capabilities to operate effectively across diverse business, regulatory, and legal environments. Participants will be given the opportunity to learn from and interact with top policy-makers from the region and to also build networks with fellow financial sector leaders."
Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of MAS, said, "We want to create a pipeline of Asian finance leaders who understand Asia and can lead Asian financial institutions. The AFLP will equip finance professionals aspiring to take on C-suite roles in Asian financial institutions with the knowledge to navigate the diverse business, regulatory, and legal environment in the region. Combining academic rigour with industry insights, the programme will cover key issues in finance from a global as well as Asian perspective. We look forward to the launch of the AFLP."
Dr Tan Chin Nam, Chairman of TMS, said, "We are honoured to have been awarded this mandate by MAS jointly with SMU, and to have the opportunity to create a meaningful impact on the future of the Asian financial sector. The AFLP aligns perfectly with TMS Academy's mission of developing Asian business leaders."
Professor Arnoud De Meyer, President of SMU, said, "Given our growing trade and financial networks within ASEAN, and with China and India, Singapore is in a unique position to develop deep pools of knowledge of these regions. SMU is honoured to participate in this endeavour led by MAS to groom senior executives of financial institutions. Leveraging our University's academic knowledge and expertise in Asian insights, this programme will enhance the participants' ability to implement effective strategies in Asia. We are also proud to partner with TMS on this project."
TMS and SMU have had an excellent track record in working together on the highly successful Master of Science in Wealth Management, which is ranked second globally by Financial Times (FT) in its Masters in Finance Post-experience Ranking 2013.
Deputy Prime Minister's reference to AFLP at ABS eventBack


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Happy New Year! This January, the Featured Designer at Digishoptalk is Connie Prince. She created a fun year round kit with bright primary colors along with some great project 365 type elements.
The kit is A New Year and here's the fun candy box I made with it using the Candy Box Template by Krisi's Kreations. I just love how festive it turned out.


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Here is a wedding in the way I like to do it recently.
These are a small selection of photographs taken with analog cameras from a wedding at Camin Hotel Colmegna one of the most beautiful places where I have worked as a wedding photographer along the years.
I loved working with Caroline and Roger since they wanted exactly what I plan to do. Rather than collecting thousands of digital files, they wanted a set of Iconic prints to remember.
This is the language I love and the way I love to take photographs.
I had my two trusty Nikon Fms loaded with black and white film, and realized the prints in a darkroom week.
The prints look beautiful, I can't wait to send them…I love the way they tell the story.


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IOCL Recruitment 2016
Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has published an employment notification through Advertisement No.BGR/T&D/01/Appr-2016 on 8th February 2016. IOCL has released notification for 95 vacancies of Trade Apprentice & Technician Apprentice Posts. Applicants who are interested in doing Central Government Jobs in India can apply for IOCL Recruitment 2016. This is the best opportunity for the candidates who are waiting for Public sector jobs. Eligible and Interested Aspirants can apply for these posts through Offline mode.
IOCL is inviting applications from desirable candidates to fill up 95 Trade & Technician Apprentice trainee posts. Interested candidates may refer the notification from official website www.iocl.com for more details regarding Recruitment. Aspirants who are looking for Government jobs in Assam can grab this opportunity as soon as possible. The complete details regarding Recruitment such as Eligibility Criteria, Selection Process, How to Apply, etc., are mentioned below.
Indian Oil Corporation Limited Recruitment Details
Name of Organization: Indian oil Corporation Limited (IOCL).
Name of posts: Trade & Technician Apprentice Posts.
Eligibility: B.Sc/ITI/Diploma.
Official website: www.iocl.com.
Application mode: Offline.
Last date: 07/03/2016.
Job location: Assam.
Total No of vacancies: 95 Posts.
Descipline wise vacancy details:
1. Trade Apprentice: 40 posts.
|No of vacancies
|Attendant Operator (Chemical)
|25 Posts
|Fitter (Mechanical)
|10 Posts
|Boiler (Mechanical)
|05 Posts
2. Technician Apprentice: 55 posts.
|No of vacancies
|25 Posts
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Applicants who are interested in applying for IOCL Recruitment 2016 must check their eligibility criteria before filling the application form. The complete details of Eligibility Criteria such as Educational qualification, Age limit & Age Relaxation are mentioned below.
Educational qualification:
For Trade Apprentice: Candidates must possess 3 Years Full-time B. Sc/12th/ITI in respective discipline from recognized university.
For Technician Apprentice: Applicant must have passed 3 Years Full-time Diploma in respective discipline from recognized university
For more information regarding Education qualification, refers the official notification attached below.
Nationality: Indian.
Age limit:
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Maximum age: 24 years as on 01.01.2016.
Age relaxation:
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Important dates:
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- Candidates need to download the application form from below attached link.
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Begins by situating postmodernism at the point at which the "frontier between high culture and so-called mass or commercial culture" is effaced. "[A]estehtic production today has become integrated into commodity production generally" (56)
The Postmodern is the "force field in which very different kinds of cultural impulses — what Raymond Williams has usefully termed 'residual' and 'emergent' forms of cultural production — must make their way." (57) and in that sense it is not a mode but instead a cultural dominance.
He characterizes it as having the following features:
- a new depthlessness (which is all about the new culture of the image or the simulacrum)
- a consequent weakening of historicity (both to public "history" and private temporality) that determine new types of syntax or syntagmatic relationships
- a whole new type of emotional ground tone
- the deep constitutive relationships of all this to a whole new technology (that is itself a figure for a whole new economic world system that he sees as multinationalism)
He locates the first signs of this in architecture and art, in the ideas that there are only partial pictures of something being offered in Warhol's work (instead of totalizing wholes being gestured at), but also a flatness and a "waning of affect"
"Waning of affect" means a deconstruction of the "aesthetic of expression itself" so that the modernist thematics (alienation, solitude, social fragmentation) are then all discreted as "metaphysical baggage" related to 'truth' (which is also something postmodern seeks to abandon. Instead of depth we get textual play, discourses, intertextuality and ultimately simulacra (that aren't concerned with evoking the real).
"This shift in the dynamics of cultural pathology can be characterized as one in which the alienation of the subject is displaced by the fragmentation of the subject."
Thus pastiche constitutes not a feeling of wholeness, but of connection, which replaces parody. Additionally in language the signifier isn't in a one-to-one relationship with the signified, but instead meaning is created through "movement from Signifier to Signifier: what we generally call the Signified – – the meaning or conceptual content of an utterance — is now rather to be seen as a meaning-effect" (72)
His concrete example of the poem "China" points out that its meaning is created through sentences whose "referents [are] another image, another absent text; and the unity of the poem is no longer to be found within its language, but outside itself, in the bound unity of another, absent book." ( 75)
Jameson's conclusion discusses how artists identified as the hight of high culture modernists could be, because of their vanguard nature, actually considered postmodernists with a small twist. He goes on to talk about reconsidering people like Proust from a postmodernist turn (gendered, queered, raced) and how it starts to get interesting when you look at the fact that not only is there a tension between modernity / modernization / modernism, but that different cultures have used different words AND each term has a specific time-referent too. Uneven development across the board.
Starts moving into POMO though:
Perry Anderson reminds me, however, that in this respect the deepest and most fundamental feature shared by all the moternisms is not so much their hostility to a technology some (like the Futurists) actually celebrated, but rather their hostility to the market itself. The centrality of this feature is then confirmed by its inversion in the various postmodernisms, which, even more wildly different from each other than the various modernisms, all at least share a resonant affirmation, when not an outright celebration, of the market as such. (304-5)
goes on to talk about the waves of modernism, starting from a collusion with certain types of industrial process, but then also about views of the world, different political moments, economic breaks. suggests "late moderns" are "those who persist into postmoderinsim." (305)
suggests that we don't need to lament the death of the "great heroes" of modernism with all their moving & shaking charisma (no pathos), but look at "our social order" that is "richer in information and more literate, and socially, at least, more "democratic" in the sense of hte universlization of wage labor….this new order no longer needs prophets and seers of the high modernist and charismatic type, whether among its cultural producers or its politicians. (306)
…I think we still do admire the great generals (along with their counterparts, the great artists), but the admiration has been displace from their innate subjectivty to their historical flair, their capacity to assess the "current situation" and to evaluate its potential permutation system on the spot. (306-7)
"uneven development" is the reason why the "great writer" has dissappeared –
Modern art, in this respect, drew its power and its possibilities from being a backwater and an archaic holdover within a modernizing economy: it glorified, celebrated, and dramatized older forms of individual production which the new mode of production was elsewhere on the point of displacing and blotting out. Aesthetic production then offered the Utopian vision of a more human production generally: and in the world of the monopoly stage of capitalism it excercised a fascination by way ov ethe image it offered of a Utopian transformation of human life. (307)
Hot damn. so modernism is this whole idea of handcrafting that comes as a legacy of an entirely different age. This then suggests postmodernism IS DIRECTLY A RESULT OF MODERNIZATION (at least, in my opinion).
He goes into talking about reading Kafka not as psychological text (oedipal), nor as theological (salvation), nor as "marxist" (bureaucracy-as-nightmare/Empire=bad), but instead as a text where the modern (work week, housing, etc) is always interrupted by the "old fashioned"/archaic (political structure, baroque buildings). It's this
peculiar overlap of future and past, in this case, the resistance of archaic feudal structures to irresistible modernizing tendencies – of tendential organization and the residual survival of the not yet "modern" in some other sense – that is the condition of possibility for high modernism as such, and for its production of aesthetic forms and messages that may no longer have anything to do with the unevenness from which it alone springs. (309)
AH, so here's where he talks about POMO – it's where the past has FINALLY BEEN SWEPT AWAY WITHOUT A TRACE. (309) there's no longer a sense of the past, historicity, collective memory…. so postmodern then has no time – everyone is at the same "hour",
modernism is characterized by a situation of incomplete modernization, or that postmodernism is more modern that modernism itself. (310)
so we're also not interested in the word "new" anymore, we want to MAKE ourselves modern, it's an action we take not something thrust on us. So in the modern period "new" was keenly felt because the old traditional was still around, but now we've emptied everything of content it all actually is NEW and that category has lost its meaning.
This is also why these works were all about the celebration of the self — because they had this idea that the self was totally linked to the society and object world, and if they were in upheaval, so was the sense of self. So the notion of modernism is tied to radical social movements (not expressing values but emerging in a "space opened by them" 312!!)
III. Cultural reification and the "relief" of the postmodern (313)
If modernism thought of itself as a prodigious revolution in cultural production, however, postmodernism thinks of itself as a renewal of production as such after a long period of ossification and dwelling among dead monuments. (313)
He starts talking about the "relief" and "release" of postmodernism, the feelin that there was a geenrational change that could upend power structures. He points out that in the University this transition happened at the same time that there was decannization (suggesting that Pound was added to the cannon and then the cannon was thrown out). Architecture, though, you can see it when the state appropriates the forms of modernism:
Utopian forms now degraded into anonymous forms of large-scale housing and office construction. The modernist styels then became stamped with just such bureacuratic connotation, so that to break with it radically produces some feeling of "relief," even though what replaces it is neither Utopia nor democracy, but simply the private-corporate constuctions of the post-welfare state postmodern. (314)
Leads to reification: "the effacement of the traces of production" !!
So the consumer can consume without guilt, so that there is "relative silence" so that one does not feel one's privacy or body is being violated.
however, reification of culture he defines seperately –
The feature of reification I want to insist on in this realm of cultural products is what generates a radical separation between consumers and producers. Specilizaiton is too weak and non-dialectical a term for that, but it plays its part in developing and perpetuating a deep conviction within the consuemr that the production of the product in question – attributable no doubt to other human beings in the generic sense – is nonetheless beyond anything you can imagine; it is not something the consumer or user has any social sympathy for whatsoever. In that respect, it is a little like the feeling nonintellectuals and lower-class people have always had about intellectuals and what they do: you see them doing it, and it doesn't look very complicated, but even with the best will in the world you don't quite get it, you don't see why peopel would want to do things like that, let alone trust yourself to form an idea of what it is they actually do. (315)
Funny how he does this but uses academics as his example since it's NOT a low culture thing.
Anyway, he wants to talk about reification like this:
in this sense of the way in which a product somehow shuts us out even from a sympathetic participation, by imagination, in its production. It comes before us, no questions asked, as something we could not begin to imagine doing for ourselves. (317)
We can consume it, no problem, and it's set up for us to do that, but we can't actually imagine producing it. He suggests that "great modernist works" set themselves up to be reified in this sense — they were products of "genius" and so no one could create them without "specialist or expert qualification" except their disciples. And so postmodernism comes along and says whoever wants to indulge it can create. The price? "the preliminary destruction of modernist formal values….along with a range of crucial related categories such as the work or the subject." (317)
IV. Groups and Representation (318)
Suggests that postmodernism is marked by the splintering of class into "groups" which are smaller, have less universalizing potential, and tend to also have far more restricted types of aims – and that this movement from class to group is in part because modernism's promise of class "revolution" failed. So now the people are represented by "minorities" that tend to resist totalizing/universalizing theory… and instead you get "micropolitics". These groups then become the "substitute for a dissappearing working class" (320). So then the subject, that once was idealized as an individual creating the grand narrative, becomes the "subject-position" that is occupied as one affiliates oneself with different groups during different moments. So the 'subject' (as much as there is one) can be a part of different groups at different times (or different groups at the same time). He talks about the identification of people as "homeless" which marks them as a part of a group that has to be / can be dealt with by the state and by others around them — their individuality is erased and they are contained within the group conceptually. He suggests this is one of the other markers of postmodernism – that there is an "ideological category that slowly moves into place to cover" the individual (322). How this works on the micro-macro level are that politics (and economics and any other ics) are no longer able to retain a sense of individual resistance that then is based on some kind of ineffable "totalizing" morality — (which is the way it used to work in modernism, when the two levels local and global were easily coordinated). Now the local is specific and not able to be "generalized".
V. The Anxiety of Utopia
The Postmodernist is afraid of utopia for two reasons –
1) that utopian thinking leads to despotisim & is dangerous (leads to massacres, Stalin's camps, Pol Pot, etc)
2) that the reconciliation of subject & object in utopia somehow equals the "simplification of life, of the obliteration of exciting urban difference and of the muting of sensory stimulus" (235)
Those who resist also, somehow, are afraid of the resurgance of a "primal unity" that is affixed to the "inevitable past" that arises from this.
There's also a notion that the imagined utopia does not actually come from a revolution, but instead from some kind of conservative impulse, and so there's anxieties about "utopian" dreams that then get criticized for being reactionary rather than revolutionary.
VI. The Ideology of Difference
So, here's the good & the bad – the ideology of groups and difference doesn't get rid of tyranny. (sadface). It does, possibly, shred up the notion of consensus. "consensus becomes the illusion of consensus" The problem is that consensus is equated to "representative democracy" so that once you recognize groups you start to recognize democracy is a farce.
What will concern us here for another moment is, on the one hand, the suitability of the general ideology or rhetoric of difference to articulate those concrete social struggles, and, on the other, the deeper implicit representation or ideological model of the social totality on which the logic of groups is based and which it perpetuates… the media and the market. (341)
He suggests that "difference" is "booby-trapped" because it's opposite is "Identity" – and so "difference" becomes a buzz word of liberal tolerance (which might, in fact, be not difference but "tolerance of difference" which is possibly "the obliteration of genuine social difference in the first place" (341). So neo-ethnicity (as a type of difference) is/became a yuppy matter of fashion & the market, or possibly offensive (a non-jew who identifies jewish), not a real recognition of anything.
And Differentiation is problematic because:
If what is historically unique about the postmodern is thus acknowledge as sheer heteronomy and the emergence of random and unrelated subsystems of all kinds, then, or so the argument runs, there has to be something perverse about the effort to grasp it as a unified system in the first place. (342)
He has a point here — the only problem is that there's a balancing act between ignoring that there are narratives and requiring a master narrative. But, back to his perspective
He links again late capitalism to postmodernism by talking about global concept of postmodernism — that where once
precapitalist modes of production achieved their capacity to reproduce themselves through verious forms of solidarity or collective cohesion, the logic of capital is, on the contrary, a dispersive and atomistic, "individualist" one, an antisociety rather than a society, whose systematic structure, let alone its reproduction of itself, remains a mystery and a contradiction in terms. … this paradox is the originality of capitalism, and that the verbally contradictory formulas we necessarily encounter in defining it point beyond the words to the thing itself (and also give rise to that peculiar new invention, the dialectic)…(343)
after some huge blathering about how classes are fairly limited and that institutions are kinds of groups, he comes back to why groups are slightly more mobile. They:
seem to offer the gratifications of psychic identity (from nationalism to neoethnicity). Since they have become images, groups allow the amnesia of their own bloody pasts, of persecution and untouchability, and can now be consumed: this marks their relationship to the media…
The political horror of consensus – mistaken for a dread of "totalization" – is then simply the justified reluctance of groups that have conquered a certain pride in their own identity to be dictated to by what turn out to be simply other groups, since now everything in our social reality is a badge of group membership and connotes a specific bunch of people. (347)
So then he goes into the notion that once you've got these groups resisting (or noticing the problems with) consensus, you also have the "death of the subject" (because the group comes to stand in for the subject. So he goes back to Marx, and suggests that Marx finding the proletariat as the new subject of history hasn't been replaced – but the class of the proletariat is too dispersed into groups and into the global system to actually get a coherent "genuine" class consciousness. Also, the "ruling class" stops being identified as individuals who own the means of production and become institutions (hey Foucault, here you are!) and so there are no "levers" of production to control/manage. Instead the only "visible" entities left are the Media and the Market. And you've got "power" relationships between groups. (he talks in earlier paragraphs about the rise of the media as an entity that is somehow separate from groups).
Media is split into media culture, media politics (what to show), and other types of things. The end of "privacy" means we have an enargement of what constitutes the "public" sphere — only of what we'll stand to watch, and then he suggests that "media" failed to come into being — it's not yet "media":
the example he gives this is Kennedy's assassination. The media culture set in place in the 40s & the 50s gave rise to THE media event of his death — it created a unique collective experience, trained people to read such events in a new way, not because of Kenndy's public position, but how it was handled–
television showed what it could really do and what it really meant – a prodigious new display of synchronicity and a communication situation that amounted to a dialectical leap over anything hitherto suspected. (355)
it was the shock of the communication explosion, scarring the mind with radical difference, born out of violence and the private as public, "to which collective amnesia aimlessly returns in its later forgetfulness" …. that makes it "available for new semiotic combinations".
VII. Demographies of the Postmodern
Who appears in the media though? The person who "compels recognition of my existance and my status as a human subject." (356) They are the people who clamor for recognition in the public space. They are the ones who have been invisible before, but are now everywhere. The visible "other" and this is an act of violence "by which you force yourself on another's attention." (357)
We need TO explore the possibility that there exists, in what quaintly used to be called the moral realm, something roughly equivalent to the dizziness of crowds for the individual body itself: the premonition that the more other people we recognize, even within the mind, the more peculiarly precarious becomes the status of our own hitherto unique and "incomparable" conscionsess or "self." (358)
He suggests too that demography, the fact that there are more people alive at the moment now than there have been throughout history, has this weird effect of legitimating the present and "consigning the past to oblivion" because who cares about it? based on the overwhelming numbers WE "outnumber the dead" and the past doesn't have anything to tell us about it.
Goes into a long discussion about Sartre's perspective on this, including a quoted passage that even when one is alone the rest of the world pushes in on one – even though Sartre is a modernist there's the essence of the postmodern fear in his modernist writings.
VIII. Spatial Historiographies
Talks about Lefebvre's notions of new kinds of spacial imagination that acknowledges different types of experienced time as well.
So even if everything is spatial, this postmodern reality here is somehow more spatial than everything else. (365)
this is a reaction against the canonized critical dependence on temporality of high modernism -a reaction against that he discussed earlier. And then what happens next is nature is "effaced" and everything is modernized and mechanized. (except that then he talks about the denaturalization of the natural).
What you get is two types of historiographies:
'fantastic historiography'
you make up a chronicle (368) that resembles something real (secret history of the mongle)… it has a semblance of historical verismilitude, and retains genre form of historiography but allows all kinds of content
you underscore a fictional intent by including real-life figures unexpectedly appearing and dissapearing, using collage effects, newspapers, etc.
both tell us about a postmodern sense of history where the real impacts the fictional (and vice versa). It also doesn't attempt to resolve contradictions but instead ratifies them. History becomes spatial – so the news is conveyed via newspaper column that juxtaposes events without reflecting on their interrelatedness.
The "solution" to a juxtaposition – Alaska, Lebanon – that is not yet even a puzzle until it is solved – Nasser and Suez! – no longer opens up historiographic deep space or perspectival temporality of the type of a Michelet or a Spengler: it lights up like a nodal circuit in a slot machine (and thus foreshadows a computer-game historiography of the future even more alarming). (374)
Repression and "the ideological mechanisms whereby we avoid thinking historically" are also spatial – they give us a blueprint of reading where we can defuse information, where things can coexist with each other instead of canceling each other out.


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USN80-1 : libapache2-mod-python vulnerabilities
libapache2-mod-python vulnerabilities
Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment
Summary :
These remote packages are missing security patches :
- libapache2-mod-python
- libapache2-mod-python-doc
- libapache2-mod-python2.2
- libapache2-mod-python2.3
Description :
Graham Dumpleton discovered an information disclosure in the
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- libapache2-mod-python2.3-3.1.3-1ubuntu3.2 (Ubuntu 4.10)
Network Security Threat Level: High
Networks Security ID:
Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi
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I think backwards and mark each spot with an X
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Details on calendar squared up to my advent.
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I do not regret having divorced; would not be back into that. Maybe you write something more optimistic on divorce, one day. :)
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Leaders from the state's dairy industry, state government and the college toasted the opening of the college's new 500-cow dairy research facility at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station. Clinking—actually, tapping—cartons of the state's favorite beverage were (l to r): Al Ott, State Representative, 3rd Assembly District, Chair, Assembly Committee on Agriculture; Richard Straub, Director, CALS Agricultural Research Stations; CALS Dean Molly Jahn; Alan Fish, UW-Madison Associate Vice Chancellor, Facilities Planning and Management; John Pagel, Project Consultant, Owner, Pagel's Ponderosa Dairy; Laurie Fischer, Executive Director, Wisconsin Dairy Business Association; Ric Grummer, Chair, UW-Madison Department of Dairy Science; Eugene Hahn, State Representative, 47th Assembly District.This entry was posted in Uncategorized by jsindelar. Bookmark the permalink.


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SONOMA, California (AP) Jean-Charles Boisset[1], the new owner of California's oldest premium winery, is building the future of the 155-year-old Buena Vista Winery on its rich and eclectic heritage.
This month, the native of France's Burgundy region plans to make wines inside in the stately stone buildings and old wine caves for the first time in two decades. In preparation, barrels recently were rolled into place inside a dimly lighted cavern, a new oak fermenter was uncovered and cement was poured onto the floor.
Outside, activity swirled with the laying of cobblestones and touch-up of building walls.
Buena Vista, now a state historical landmark, was founded in 1857 by Hungarian-born Count Agoston Haraszthy[2], who procured the 800 acres for his winery outside Sonoma with dreams of producing premium wine. He began to call himself the "Count of Buena Vista." During his wide-ranging career, he also served as a sheriff, marshal, California State assemblyman and chief of the San Francisco Mint[3].
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In 1861, he traveled to Europe to gather the cuttings representing over 300 varietals, and many were planted throughout the Buena Vista vineyards. He later created a viticultural society and wrote an acclaimed book on horticulture and winemaking. The count died in an accident in 1869 during a trip to Nicaragua, where he was searching for a new transportation route and exploring sugar-growing and rum production.
Although the winery won a number of international awards in 1873, financial pressures forced it to cease production in the late 1800s. Buena Vista was purchased in 1943 by Frank and Antonia Bartholemew[4], who brought in America's most influential post-Prohibition winemaker, Andre Tchelistcheff[5], as a consultant, who helped produce a very successful vintage in 1949. But in 1968, the winery was sold, and over the next several decades it changed hands many times.
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He first saw the winery at age 11 during a trip to the U.S. with his grandparents.
"It was love for me at first sight. Not only for the wines, but as well for the buildings, for the style of the buildings and the energy of the place," he said. "I never fathomed that such historical buildings were in place in California . I fell in love with it."
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"A lot of people think that the California wine world was born in 1976 after the Judgment of Paris tasting, but no, it started way before," he said. "The wines are great, but we can explain to people what a great region it is through its long-lost heritage."
In addition to Buena Vista's renovated buildings and grounds, there is a "demonstration area" featuring many clones and varietals the Count brought from Europe. Visitors can taste interesting and unusual wines such as Pinot gris, Grner Veltliner, French Colombard[6] and muscat, among others. And they can get a firsthand view of Buena Vista's winemaking, taking place for the first time in more than 20 years. Just a few thousand cases of wine are planned mostly reds such as Zinfandel and Pinot Noir. Winery renovations are expected to be mostly finished in September with the first grapes being pressed.
"I envision Buena Vista to have a very strong future. The future is its past," said Boisset.
Others also welcome the renovation.
Fred Unsworth[7], a 35-year native of Sonoma, has worked in maintenance at the winery since 2000 for no fewer than six different owners.
"When I first saw the winery it was rather old and being kept together by chewing gum to some degree in areas," Unsworth said. "People in Sonoma are excited. To those that have been here a long time this is a revelation, something that should have happened years ago and didn't."
Nowadays a frequent sight most afternoons at the winery is actor and historian George Webber[8] portraying "Count Haraszthy" in full costume, welcoming visitors and retelling stories of his feats and vision.
"He is still alive here," Boisset said. "We are basically continuing his dream. I feel that there is a little of the Count within me and within all of us at Buena Vista because he had a dream."
If You Go…
BUENA VISTA WINERY: 18000 Old Winery Rd., Sonoma, Calif.; http://www.buenavistawinery.com[9] or 800-926-1266. Open for tasting and tours year-round, daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. except major holidays. Tastings, $10. "The Count of Buena Vista" play, a free 20-minute performance, Saturdays at 1 p.m. through Oct. 20.
- ^ Jean-Charles Boisset (www.seattlepi.com)
- ^ Agoston Haraszthy (www.seattlepi.com)
- ^ San Francisco Mint (www.seattlepi.com)
- ^ Antonia Bartholemew (www.seattlepi.com)
- ^ Andre Tchelistcheff (www.seattlepi.com)
- ^ French Colombard (www.seattlepi.com)
- ^ Fred Unsworth (www.seattlepi.com)
- ^ George Webber (www.seattlepi.com)
- ^ http://www.buenavistawinery.com (www.buenavistawinery.com)
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Does anybody have any first hand experience with Chisana or Nabesna Rivers? Fall (September) water levels?
From the Chisana landing strip to the highway is there enough water in September to float an 18' cataraft or would we be losing channels and dragging across the gravel?
Same question for the Nabesna. Is there road access to the river from Devils Mountain Lodge? Or, is it possible to access the river with four wheeler? I am aware that the lodge is private and there may be some private property issues but the river is navigable (I hope) and access should be allowed.
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If you ever get a collection letter or call from any of your discharged creditors, please contact us immediately. We can almost always help you and almost always help you for free. For more information on bankruptcy, read our guide (see links below):
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If the U.S. government, along with their devilsihly intrepid enablers of lunacy, lies, and general pandaemonium known as the mainstream media will lie about wars, government expenditures – will carry the governments water when it comes to regime change forced upon countries, will justify every evil the government slathers upon its citizens in the name of whatever idiotic notion is being peddled – would they lie about what is healthy for its citizens? You bet they would – especially if it's in the financial interests of its politicians who are controlled by the a pharmaceutical conglomerate that generates $77.5 billion in revenue for every $1 million they give to corrupt politicians
According to a major review of political spending, the Sunshine Foundation found that Big Pharma received an astounding 77,500 percent ROI – "return on investment" on its political spending. In particular, for every $1 million the industry spends to lobby lawmakers, it gets $77.5 billion in return. In particular, Big Pharma lobbies to prevent Medicare from bargaining for competitive drug prices, so that taxpayers who foot the bill get a better deal; the Sunshine Foundation estimates that Medicare bargaining could save taxpayers $90 billion a year. ~ "Big Pharma generates $77.5 billion in revenue for every $1 million they give to corrupt politicians" – www.naturalnews.com
So who cares? After all, the pharmaceutical industry produces their smorgasbord of chemical concoctions for the benefit of all who find themselves in ill health. A little 77,500 percent ROI keeps them in business. Good for them. More Jedi mind tricks along the road of medical slavery.
Medical slavery is so commonplace because Americans are taught to look for health in intervention instead of listening to their own bodies and understanding the causes of their health imbalances. The more the government gets involved in controlling health care, the more they endorse the pharmaceutical industry and redistribute their prices and failures, leading more Americans into perpetual medical slavery. www.naturalnews.com
Big Pharma isn't content to provide their heavenly delights that can include a list of side effects as long as the number of bombs the U.S. has dropped on other countries. They also have time, and of course, the resources, to have a confab where they invent horseshit that you weren't aware you had but now that they've told you about it, they have a pill for that.
As the absolute lunacy in the States continues unabated; as we head down the "phubbing" road to hell where we prefer getting it on with our mobile tracking devices rather than interacting with our fellow human travelers, it is comforting to know that Big Pharma, raking in a 77,500 percent ROI has our health interests at heart. Can a pill for "phubbing" be far behind? Probably not.
But the scam is going well. Big Pharma produces their "cures" and preventative measures, and it's we the taxpayers, who reimburse the poor families that have suffered from the pharmaceutical companies chemical wonders:
If vaccines are so safe, why has the U.S. government already paid out nearly $159 million to vaccine-injured families in 2017 alone? Since 1989, a grand total of more than $3.6 billion has been awarded to individuals and their families for injuries and deaths attributed to vaccines, according to data published by the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA). (RELATED: Click here to view the latest report on vaccine injuries and payments made by the U.S. government for vaccine damages.) ~ www.naturalnews.com
If you live in a state where you can't escape the pleasure of being poked with a needle if you work in a certain industry or want to have your children educated in their public school system and are forced to take the needle to get an education – there are ways to detox from the mercury, aluminum, MSG, formaldehyde and other adjuvants such as squalene (in the vaccines). These are all neurotoxic substances that can cause permanent brain damage, autism, seizures, comas and even death. This is precisely why vaccines cause autism and Asperger's in some children as was openly admitted by a top CDC scientist named Dr. William Thompson.
Mike Adams, with NaturalNews.com, provides those of us who don't have a love of mercury, aluminum, MSG, formaldehyde and other poisons being injected into us or our loved ones in the name of "health", an avenue to detox from the poke. Quite expectedly, it's Mother Nature who provides the detox possibilities.
How to naturally detox from mandatory vaccine injections
The content provided here is for informational purposes only and should not be used in place of the advice of a healthcare professional. Always consult a doctor or your trusted health guru if you have health concerns.


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Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
Well known in the area for it's lush redwood trees, this park is not to be missed. Surrounded by a thick forest, hiking trails, and the San Lorenzo River, there is something for everyone. The park offers a serene, other-worldly escape from the hectic city life that is located a mere hour away. When the fog rolls in, it truly seems like a movie set or straight from a painting. Henry Cowell's campground is open year-round and we suggest making a reservation early. This isn't a spot for motorhomes or trailers- they have tent sites only. You're a short drive to the city of Santa Cruz, so make a day trip to the beach before returning to your campsite for s'mores over the campfire.
Sunset State Beach
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Castle Rock State Park
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Looking for a truly rustic campground? One where you hike in, tent camp, and fend for yourself? You'll find that in the gorgeous Castle Rock State Park. This primitive campground is available for those who like to backpack and get away from the world. If this is your first time trying out this method of travel, the California State Parks system offers guided backpacking adventures as well. An experienced guide will take you through the beautiful Santa Cruz mountains, show you secrets and natural wonders, and help you set up in this campsite for the evening. One important note- dogs aren't allowed here, if you enjoy hiking with your pooch.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park
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Like Henry Cowell, this is a redwood forest campground. As the oldest state park in California, you can expect to find history mixed in with gorgeous sightseeing. Over 80 miles of hiking trails are tucked into this forest. The campground offers basic tent camping with bathroom facilities on site. However, if you're not well-versed in this type of travel, they also offer nearby tent cabins. These are a great option for camping during the cooler off-season, as the tents are on raised platforms and have closable doors and windows. Don't have camping supplies? They also offer add-on packages that will provide you with all the supplies you need, even sleeping bags. If that's not enough, you can upgrade to a deluxe tent cabin, where your beds will be made, linens provided, and a lantern will be ready for your arrival. It's as close as you can get to staying in a hotel while still enjoying the rustic way of life. A camp store is on site so you can stock up on anything you might have forgotten.
Pro tip: Be sure to hike up to see Sempervirens Falls while you're there!
Manresa State Beach
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Surf, sand, whalewatching, fishing, year-round moderate temperatures. You'll get a healthy taste of the ocean at these campgrounds. There are two to pick from and we recommend using the online reservation system to find your best campsite. The views of Monterey Bay are incredible! These campgrounds also offer shade, as the forest grows right next to the ocean. You get the incredible opportunity to wake up and listen to the ocean from your tent. Day trips are possible to both Santa Cruz and Monterey. If you like to travel with your dog, as we do, we recommend Manaresa Beach. Unlike Sunset Beach, you can bring a well-behaved Fido to Manaresa Beach and enjoy the views together. However, campgrounds at both locations allow a dog on a leash.


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The Moroccan expert Abd al-Raḥīm al-Maṣlūḥī, proposes another essay (in the Arabic language with an English translation) in which he commences to ask if Europe, who is defined as a "lessons giver", is still careless about the issue of political reform in the countries on the southern bank of the Mediterranean. Al-Maṣlūḥī delves into a series of questions about the European Union's means; he wonders if they are able to achieve the projections of the post-authoritarian agenda in the Arabic world and if Europe will succeed to gain a role in the management of that agenda.
Furthermore the author asks in a rhetorical way if the Paris Conference, on the 1st of September 2011, fully recognised the triumph of member states' national sovereignty. He also questions if the choices made in Brussels, which were favourable to a military intervention in Libya, aren't once again the proofs of its incapacity to come out of the dilemma; they are seen as the inevitable and insurmountable horizon of the European defensive position. According to the author, the decisions made by the main EU members about the Arab Spring aren't without paradox.
On one side these ideas aroused a renewed confidence in Europe's capacity to personify a multilateral model for the management of his neighbours' crisis; on the other side they brought to light his incapacity to create independent security mechanisms. In other words European diplomatic successes, above all about Libya, cost a reaffirmation of his dependence from NATO about their common safety.
According to the author, NATO military actions in Libya, the mobilization of the ONU Security Council against the Syrian regime, the success of Paris Conference, the diplomatic support and the unfreezing of Libyan funds in favour of the National Transition Council have probably contributed to improving Europe's position. In some way it wants to redress its false steps that, at the beginning of the Arab Spring, brought it to underestimate the Arabs and social movements' capacities.#
Concerning this, al-Maṣlūḥī exposes the clumsy reaction of the French diplomacy to the outbreak of the Tunisian uprising and the hesitations shown by Brussels' authorities to popular revolts, particularly the one of the European Union High Officer for foreign affairs; he underlines that for the EU these uprisings have been a "strategic surprise". The Moroccan expert explains in fact that in a geopolitical world characterized for a long time by the absence of big breakdowns in political regimes and in which civil societies' organizations have a marginal influence on events, few observers would have forecasted transformations coming from the low and led by social movements, whose unique resource is the strength of his mobilization around only one aim: auto-democratization.
The prefix "auto" is revealing: the active minorities have stopped believing in the regime and in the Brussels authorities' democratic rhetoric, so they decided to take charge of their own democratic destinies. Afterwards the author enumerates the factors that can trigger a revolution or a transformation in a regime: foreign intervention, economical trend and popular uprising. According to al-Maṣlūḥī it is clear that foreign intervention can't be taken into consideration to explain the wave of popular uprisings that disrupted several Arab countries from January 2011.


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