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Free yoga classes I H Weber State University POSTf H J p)(sM J IG rM IF WSU alumnus writes about spouse's suicide in new novel, 'Room for Two' By Seth Durfee sr. news reporter I The Signpost "Young pregnant wife commits suicide," that'saheadline.whichneverran although it happened to author Abel Keogh's wife. Krista killed herself in November 2001. "There's a taboo about suicide," said Keogh, who decided to help break that taboo by writing "Room for Two", a novel about his late wife's suicide. Keogh, a Weber State University alumni, released his book August 2007. The book gives a straightforward look at his experience with his wife Krista, also a Weber State University graduate, who suffered from depression. She committed suicide at age 25 when she was seven months pregnant with their first child. Keogh, who has since remarried and is the father of three children. "After my late wife Krista's death," Keogh said, while holding two squirming sons on his lap in the living room of his Utah County home. "I tried to find on the Internet even one example of another pregnant woman committing suicide. I couldn't." Keogh said a local newspaper ran an ongoing story about his wife's death for a day or two, but as soon as the paper realized was a suicide, all coverage stopped. "You're not supposed to talk about it," he said. The book relates the events following Krista's suicide. Keogh stressed the fact that he did not write the book to say, "I got through it and so can you." He wrote it to try and chip away at the taboo surrounding suicide. "People should know that it's OK to talk about," Keogh said. He fnade almost daily entries on a blog after his wife's death. "Ninety percent of what you find in the book is not in the blog and, in my opinion, the real meat of the story." Keogh's motivation for writing the book is very personal. "I didn't feel like there was a story out there that was really helpful to me." He said he wanted to write the book that he would have pulled off the shelf after his wife died. "I've gotten a few e-mails from people who haven't necessarily had a suicide in their life, and they say how much it's helped them," Keogh said. At the time he recognized there was a problem but he didn't know what to do. "Looking back I can see that there are things that weren't right. If she hadn't been pregnant I would have asked 'What's wrong with you,'" Keogh said. For those who don't know what to do, Diane George, a licensed clinical social worker at the McKay-Dee Behavioral Health Institute in Ogden has some insights. "Signs of depression can be Anhedonia, or a lack of interest from activities that normally provide pleasure, lack of appetite, weight gain or weight loss," George said. "People suffering from depression can also become isolated from friends and family or have a lack of concentration." George said if an individual is experiencing these types of changes or feelings, talking to someone who will listen is a good course of action. "Take a stress inventory," George said, "Reevaluate your status. Decide if the depression is situational or biological" George said those who commit suicide often feel hopeless and alone. Rebekah Clements, long-time friend of both Keogh and Krista, said she is still trying to cope with the guilt that came following the unexpected suicide. See Suicide page 5 S.l J SOURCE: REBEKAH CLEMENTS Krista Keogh (right) poses with friend Rebekah Clements at their May 1999 Weber State University graduation. Counseling and Psychological Services Center Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m-5:30 p.m. Friday 7:30 a.m. -4:30 p.m. Services Short-term counseling for individuals and couples Relaxationmeditation group, held Tuesday, 12 p.m. Friends, Lovers, and Family: Understanding and Improving Relationships Thursday, 6 p.m. Crisis intewntion Psychiatric Consultation (limited to cli ents pursuing counseling; requires referral by professional staff member) Outreach prestations (require advance notice) Departmental consultation For an appointment call 626-6406 Screening on campus helps detect, promote awareness By Shirrel Cooper asst. news editor I The Signpost Many Weber State University students suffer from depression, or have to deal with the effects of a family member having the disease, but they don't talk about it. , "There is a pretty significant social stigma making it less likely for some students to seek help," said psychologist Dianna Rangel, director of the Counseling and Psychological Services Center. While some students may think they are suffering from depression, anxiety or some form of mental illness, many won't seek help, Rangel said. Rangel said she believes that this needs to change, so that's why WSU participates in Depression Screening Day. "It's important to talk about and it's important to learn about," Rangel said. National Depression Screening Day is part of a campaign to heighten awareness about mental health issues. This year WSU's Counseling Services -Center will spend Oct. 11. helping students, staff, and faculty understand and cope with mental illnesses. "The primary purpose of the event is education," Rangel said. "We know that college mental health is a significant issue and we know that if a mood disorder is going to occur in a person, it's most likely to break in "Most people recognize that when students have mental health concerns that are unadressed... the outcome can be tragic." Dianna Rangel, director, counseling services National the young adult years." College also has a lot of stress that can trigger the occurrence of a mood disorder, Rangel said. National Depression Screening Day will feature games and activities focusing on increasing awareness of mental health issues. PowerPoint presentations and videos will also help students understand mental illnesses, whether they are struggling with it themselves, or have a family or friend who is. Alle Salazar and Zac Snow are completing internships in psychology and have helped Dianna Rangel to plan the screening day. "I think even if you aren't concerned that you have a mental illness, come," Salazar said. "It's so common and people are afraid to talk about it and it's not something to be afraid of." Salazar had an uncle who passed away from suicide because he was suffering with depression. She said that event opened her eyes and made her realize that she needed to become more informed. "People need to know the signs of depression," Salazar said. "A lot of times people don't ask for help." Zac Snow believes all people suffer from depression to some extent during their life. "I've had various symptoms of depression, you kind of have the feeling that you're overwhelmed," Snow said. "You see the way you treat other people and you know you're not See Screening page 5 Student leader revives .online evaluations Plan would allow students to see peers' review of professors' performance By Colette Davis correspondent I The Signpost Four years ago the Student Senate started working on a proposal to put student evaluations of instructor performance online; however, lack of follow-through combined with technical difficulties posed by the new computer system, Banner, indefinitely stalled the idea. Before the online idea got underway, Weber State University students could at least view partial evaluations about professors by requesting them at the circulation desk at the Stewart Library, but in the transition to online, even that option ended. Now Chris Bentley, Legislative Vice President of the Student Association has put online evaluations back on the agenda and wants to make it happen this year. "The online course evaluation that I am pushing for only students can access, only registered Weber State students will be able to access," Bentley said. "They are going to have to access them through their portal." Bentley wants to make it easier for students to make an educated choice when selecting an instructor. Students currently have few options: they might talk to a fellow student or perhaps look at an Internet Site, such as www.ratemyprofessors.com, but the information from end--of-the semester evaluations is simply not available. "I went to the library's circulation desk to look at the teacher evaluations for the chemistry department. But when I asked they handed me a copy from 2003" said Jeff Davis, Psychology major at Weber. "Most of die teachers didn't even work at Weber State anymore." The Stewart Library used to have two black binders containing answers to two evaluative questions: "How effective was the course," and "How effective was the instructor." Misty -Mien, media reserve interlibrary loan coordinator said students cannot even get that information anymore however limited or dated it was. "The most recent copy we has was spring 2003 and we had that on reserve until this fall, and since it was over five years old, we decided that it no longer had valid information. So we returned it to the department." The 2003 evaluations were sent back to Steven Kerr, Director of Institutional Research. "It's been four or five vears 1 ""V. 1 ' ..." fr-" . - tit- f-1 ' ..X Chris Bentley since we have done a survey because they changed the format," Kerr said. The format changed when the evaluation discussion heated up four years ago. Enthusiastic student body officers proposed increasing the evaluations from two to nine questions and putting the answers all online. Kyle Poll was a WSU vice president and then student body president from 2002-2004; the evaluation project was one of his biggest challenges and biggest victories. He even helped push the proposal through a reluctant faculty senate. "I begged student government leaders the year after to follow through, but it kind of dropped" Poll said. "Evaluations make a better learning environment. It's an extremely valuable tool to see how other students evaluate instructors, and it pushes teachers to be better." One of the problems that stopped the project was a dilemma about how to get a IVrY It M OKO II IS 2S f w k i! L r 1 .. Players watch as Weber State University's Chris Cotsillis' deflection slips past the Utah State University goaltender Friday night at the Weber County Ice Sheet. The goal by Cotsillis was his first of two in the game and put the Wildcats up 2-0. See full story on page 6. I'M' I i H (AtHIKINt MORIIMIH j I HI l See Evaluations page 5
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|Signpost (Weber, Utah), 2007-10-10, Vol. 78, No. 27
|Weber State University
|Associated Students of Weber State University; A generous grant from the Utah State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
|Weber's current student newspaper, the Signpost, first appeared on September 29, 1937. For two years prior to that time, campus news was disseminated via announcements posted on a bulletin board known as the "Signpost". As a result, the masthead of the first issue of the paper itself featured a rudimentary wooden sign with the title spelled out in rustic-looking letters. Over the years the paper has been published continuously, though the look, size and style has changed several times.
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2ND UPDATE at 4:45 p.m.:
Sue Everhart was re-elected chair of the Georgia GOP on the second ballot, 946 to 755 over Tricia Pridemore.
"Now is the time for us to come together, set aside the petty talk, set aside the petty differences, and work hard to further our conservative cause across Georgia and across these United States of America," Pridemore said moments after the vote totals were announced.
UPDATE at 4 p.m.:
In the Georgia GOP chairman's race, incumbent Sue Everhart got 48 percent of the vote on the first ballot, precipitating a second ballot. It's down to Everhart and Tricia Pridemore, Gov. Nathan Deal's favored candidate, who got 36 percent. The lowest vote-getting candidate, Carter Kessler, will be dropped from the ballot and third-place Shawn Hanley has decided to drop out.
Macon – The election for chair of the Georgia GOP is minutes away from beginning. Incumbent Sue Everhart of Cobb County has two challengers: former Fulton County GOP Chairman Shawn Hanley, and Marietta's Tricia Pridemore, who has the support of Gov. Nathan Deal. This bit of intramural politics has broader intrigue because of the divisiveness of the race: When Deal spoke up in Pridemore's favor at the end of an otherwise well-received speech, he was booed roundly by the delegates on the floor.
Aside from that election, the focus of the convention has been on the two Georgia-based candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain. Gingrich, who made his candidacy official this past week, spoke Friday night. Saturday morning the crowd heard from Cain, who all but confirmed that he will officially enter the race with an announcement next weekend. (Said Cain: "I'm going to be at Centennial Olympic Park with 10,000 of my closest supporters at high noon. Do you think I'm going to say I'm not running?")
Gingrich spoke to a dinner crowd that warmed up during the course of his message. He spoke of American exceptionalism and outlined a four-point tax plan: zero capital gains taxes, a corporate income tax rate matching Ireland's 12.5 percent rate, 100 percent business expensing of new equipment purchases within a year, and a permanent end to the estate tax. He said Barack Obama had been "the most successful food-stamp president in history," with more people than ever dependent on that government program, and that he wanted to be "the most successful paycheck president." He also had some zingers about foreign policy, starting with "We should have one," and focusing on the U.S. relationship with Pakistan given the latter's apparent harboring of Osama bin Laden for years.
Cain had the advantage of speaking during the convention proceedings themselves, and he seized it. The crowd erupted for standing ovations several times: for his comments on presidential leadership, taxes, energy, immigration and other topics. He outlined a tax policy similar to Gingrich's: zero capital gains tax, a lower (but unspecified) rate for corporate income tax, zero tax on repatriated profits and a one-year holiday on all payroll taxes. He said America's struggling economy would eventually make it less secure, and that "Being number two economically or militarily is not in our DNA." He described "comprehensive immigration reform" as "code for they don't know what to do." And he concluded by recalling his father's admonition when preparing to head into town, and saying, "To the rest of the country: Them that's going, get on the wagon. Them that ain't, get outta the way!"
My guess is that Gingrich would have gotten a more boisterous reception on the convention floor and Cain a less raucous one at the dinner, were their speaking slots reversed. Conventioneers raved about Gingrich's speech Friday night, and even those who have heard Gingrich speak numerous times said they were impressed. But Cain's ability to connect with a crowd — as we also saw at the first GOP debate, in South Carolina earlier this month — is not matched by anyone in the current GOP field.
More to come as the chairman's election moves along.
– By Kyle Wingfield
May 14th, 2011
1:26 pm
Gingrich spoke to a dinner crowd that warmed up during the course of his message. He spoke of American exceptionalism and outlined a four-point tax plan: zero capital gains taxes, a corporate income tax rate matching Ireland's 12.5 percent rate, 100 percent business expensing of new equipment purchases within a year, and a permanent end to the estate tax."
Sounds like American Delusionalism to me. Why on earth do we want to imitate the corporate tax rates of devastated Ireland? And it's funny isn't it, with long term unemployment at devastating levels and all this bunch can talk about is wrangling over tax schemes. Was a word even spoken here about educating our workers or helping to equip them for a future with more competition from India and China?
May 14th, 2011
2:10 pm
GA can lay the red carpet for them if it wants to, but NONE of those two will ever win the nomination for the national race.!!!
May 14th, 2011
2:15 pm
On another note… Kyle, as a journalist, does this police state-like action by your governor against your fellow journalists and reporters trouble you?
I hope you blog about it. Unless you are scared he will send the state police to your office, too.
You have got to love the "constitution and America-loving" Republicans.
May 14th, 2011
2:40 pm
"GA can lay the red carpet for them if it wants to, but NONE of those two will ever win the nomination for the national race.!!!"
Gingrich, no. Cain? Don't count the man out.
As we've seen before someone capable of exciting crowds can actually be elected to high office, despite a complete lack of experience and limited resume. That's how we got our current President in 2008.
Herman Cain can excite a crowd AND he has a resume our current President could only dream of having.
May 14th, 2011
2:45 pm
It's Herman Cain or vote for Obama.NOOT is the foulest hypocrit to ever commit adultery in every state he visited.
May 14th, 2011
2:50 pm
Dave R.
Thank you for educating me on how we got our current President. I always thought it was because our former President ran the country so far off track and into the crapper that Americans from sea to shining sea stood up and said no more to that way of doing things. Things like invading other countries based on lies and turning our surplus into deficits due to out of control spending, yes out of control spending.I must have been wrong. Thank you for correcting me.
May 14th, 2011
3:00 pm
Those Godfather pizzas were God Awful.
Newt ate too many of them.
May 14th, 2011
3:11 pm
Haha… never had Godfather pizza, but if they taste as bad as you say they do, doesn't that make Herman Cain look even better if that company thrived under his leadership?
May 14th, 2011
3:17 pm
That pizza company never did thrive, it's almost completely faded away.
May 14th, 2011
3:29 pm
"As we've seen before someone capable of exciting crowds can actually be elected to high office, despite a complete lack of experience and limited resume. That's how we got our current President in 2008."
Huh??? What did the tower-high combined "experience" and mile-long "resumes" of Bush and Cheney do for us in the 8 years they were in office??? Running the country into the ground, supporting CEOs to offshore jobs overseas and locking our country in useless wars. Experience, my yansh!! Experience in what??
I guess that's why the founding fathers didn't make "experience" in any specific area a constitutinal requirement to run for the Presidency? Cons love to talk about "experience." Yet they never say what area that "experience" should be in. Everyone (every one of us 300 Million+ Americans) has his/her own criteria for "qualifications" to be president. Whose shall we go with??? I say let's go with the constitution. The founding fathers knew a thing or two about a constitutional republic that people today still haven't grasped yet.
The only "useful" response the cons have for the abysmal failures of the "EXPERIENCED" Bush and Cheney's 8-year reign of terror is: "Bush is not in office anymore."
If THIS is what "EXPERIENCE" has to offer, then I'd much rather vote in a janitor.
May 14th, 2011
3:30 pm
A speaker that had to resign in disgrace and a pizza maker.
Is that the best the gop has to offer.
Hey Andy,
I got banned too:)
May 14th, 2011
3:31 pm
For all American people: Google Derivatives and credit default swaps. $645 TRILLION was scamed between 2000 and June 2008 67% for mortgages. Where do you think the sub-prime money came from??? They had to launder the money somewhere. Newt Getrich talks about more people on food stamps but fails to diclose the TRUTH why. Give phil gramm R TX and his criminal republican friends credit for your home values falling like a rock and the economy of the world at the abyss. The US generates $15 trillion a year, so you do the math. Lets steal money from SS which averages $1,007 a month payments to people that actually paid for the RIGHT to recieve what is due to them. Lets give it to the corporations which pay little or no taxes, ie GE. that hire more and more people from other countries. I remember PATCO giving Newt over $200K for his first election in 1980 and when the strike came he REFUSED to talk with anyone from PATCO. If anyone cares, the FAA and ATC are still having probems. But who cares! Republicans create the mess and then blame others for the problem. I.E. Look at who repug governors are blaming for the loss of revenues in their states. Not the derivative scam artist from the republican party but the real workers!!! phil gramm should be in prison in Cuba along with many of his criminal friends. Instead he is retired from the Senate on a great retirement from taxpayer money. Why aren't the tea-bag party idiots complaining about that TRUE waste of money.
What about the CIA? I think the CIA should eliminate all the outsourced contracts (70%) to former CIA government employees probably already receiving a federal retirement check. What a scam! Companies like Blackwater which received over $800 million from bush and buddies. You don't hear any of the republicans complain about the CIA. DO YOU??? What about all that CIA money receives and then failed to warn the US about OBL and 9/11. Or was their more to it???Vote republiscam and watch the rich get even richer while SS medicare and other basic parts of our society are ripped apart and the money given to the wall street scam artist. Bernie Madoff is correct when he says the government has the biggest Ponzi scam ever created on the world. Derivatives based upon 40 to 1 odds and guaranteed by AIG with credit default swaps. Give me a TRILLION and I will pay you $40 TRILLION, what a deal!!! $Google the Glass Steagall Act and read how the repeal by republicans led by phil gramm created this worldwide financial disaster and it isn't over if the republicans regain control. Thank a republiscam for this mess! DO NOT THINK A TEACHER!!!!
May 14th, 2011
3:37 pm
Are any candidates running on changing the fact that people can donate millions to get billions back and pay no taxes?
America is soft on white collar crime because our system is a legalized bribery system with guaranteed returns..
May 14th, 2011
3:46 pm
I wish I could've been there!
May 14th, 2011
3:55 pm
…And one more thing… Gingrich's chickens are flying all over in proximity… He knows they are coming hooome….to roost !! The man is carrying so many skeletons and spiders he is afraid of his own shadow.
As for Cain, his scripted rhetoric will run out after a while. Like all of these hack right-wing talk show hosts, he will be exposed for who he really is when he can longer put people on hold, or take a commercial break to redeem himself whenever his back is against the wall.
May 14th, 2011
4:16 pm
Godfather's Pizza was profitable within 14 months after Herman Cain assumed stewardship of the company. His biography and other numerous achievements are easily found with a few keystrokes. I wish the same could be said for the current dullard that occupies the Oval Office.
May 14th, 2011
4:34 pm
godfathers pizza is not the United States.
May 14th, 2011
4:52 pm
Yes. It is.
May 14th, 2011
5:11 pm
No one will beat the Obamessiah… Obamessiah has singlehandedly killed Osama and saved the world from all forms of terrorism. Obamessiah has saved the economy and created billions of new shovel ready jobs until now we have no significant unemployment. Housing prices have finally been brought down to levels that allow all of us to buy a new home! If is wonderful! Obamessiah is the savior of the USA… Obamessiah is the true king of the world and his name will live on in history as that of a living breathing walking talking god among humans. Obamessiah is the smartest man on the planet since the beginning of time. Praise Obamessiah! Praise Obamessiah! We are so lucky! We live in such a wonderful time!
May 14th, 2011
5:13 pm
Gingrich advocates zero capital gains taxes, a corporate income tax rate matching Ireland's 12.5 percent rate, 100 percent business expensing of new equipment purchases within a year, and a permanent end to the estate tax. Then, completely contradicting himself, he said he wanted to be "the most successful paycheck president."
Seriously? When you cut or eliminate taxes on corporations, capital gains, and inheritances, then tax burden is shifted to where? Paychecks. When you cut taxes on those who can most afford them, then who is the tax burden is shifted to? Those who can least afford them.
For the life of me, I can't understand how so many have been so easily persuaded that income from work should be taxed at higher rates than income from investments and inheritances. Work is, in part, created by investments, but investments only grow in value because of work. I'm tired about hearing about reducing the tax burden for the "producers". If you work, then you're a producer. Investment and labor need each other and both should be taxed at exactly the same rates.
Gingrich is promoting a tax scheme that unburdens the super-rich who get most of their money from unearned sources of income (inheritances, dividends, capital gains) at the expense of everybody else.
By the way, how are those lower corporate tax rates working out for the people of Ireland these days?
May 14th, 2011
5:21 pm
Vietnam 2 – many claims, but with no facts to back it up.
Fact: Jimmy Carter pushed for a change in the law late in his administration that gave Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac much more leeway on what was and wasn't acceptable for home loans.
Fact: Late in the Clinton Administration both institutions were pushed by the left to free up more monies for the less fortunante so that they could own a home.
Fact: Banks and other lending institutions were more or less forced to give many loans that they knew stood a good chance of eventually ending in forclosure and then willingly gave other loans that involved less risk, provided the economy stayed well. And why? Because Freddie and Fannie guaranteed them.
Fact: In 2002 the Bush administration tried to have the law changed. This was blocked by Senator Chris Dodd and Representative Barney Frank. Both with very close ties to Frannie and Freddie (both in the top 3 in donations from both institutions over the year. Why did the Bush administration back down? The race card was played. Oh, and who is also in the Top 3 and 'by far' number 1 in 2007 and 2008 – then Senator and now President Obama.
Fact: The tipping point for the collapse of the economy was bad mortgages. And what did the 3 above do? Why they blamed the Bush Administration. And while investment firms have been verbally ripped by the media and this administration – what about Freddie and Fannie? "Crickets"…
Let's be clear. I find 'great fault' with the Republicans on many, many issues. They are just as cupible as the Dems – but it is by no means they way you try and lay it out. Come back when you get past the age of 35 and actually try and see two sides to things.
In short. They both suck. It is time for a new day; where we have a leader who is willing attack everything that has been kicked down the road by both parties for almost 50 years. Every part of our government from Education to the Defense of this country to Energy, Social programs and our own international policies need to be rethinked. With the first question being…. "What can we afford?"
May 14th, 2011
5:27 pm
Obamessiah will eat the rich! Praise Obamessiah! We are so blessed! Obamessiah will tax the thieving corporations into oblivion just like he did with GE who now pays a very equal share. Praise Obamessiah! Obamessiah has ended war across the globe and brought our brave armies home and beat our weapons into plowshares! Praise Obamessiah! Yes he did!!! Praise Obamessiah! If you do not agree you are an evil malcontent faux news watching tool of the rethuuglikkan hordes. Praise Obamessiah! Praise Obamessiah!
May 14th, 2011
5:32 pm
thanks for the truth vietnam 2, and the rest is history. everyone should do some research instead of "talking out the side of their necks". but then again this is not about truth.
May 14th, 2011
6:06 pm
Herman Cain is a demagogue, who has been shown wrong many times, but it never bothers him. He is good of getting applause from non-thinking audiences. When he substituted for Neal Boortz, he managed the almost unthinkable – to make Boortz sound intelligent by comparison. It is laughable to argue whether he has been a good or bad businessman – the Presidency is not a business like a pizza company.
May 14th, 2011
6:17 pm
As for Gingrich, it all boils down to one fundamental issue. The main problem in this country is not the government, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, or any other institution. The problem is the ignorant and stupid electorate. That somebody like Newt can get any support in his bid is sufficient evidence, but not necessary evidence. One could name scores of people who have support in spite of being not just completely unqualified, but barely above the level of village idiots.
May 14th, 2011
6:24 pm
There are, naturally, people who are well below the level of village idiots, but hopefully they are not candidates for any office. "obamessiah" is a good case in point.
May 14th, 2011
6:30 pm
Gingrich talked a lot about lowering taxes but not a minute, that I can find, on lowering spending.
We have a spending problem. There is not a damn thing wrong with our taxes that lowering spending will not cure. Or, more simply, the less you spend the less revenue you need.
May 14th, 2011
6:45 pm
"Lowering spending" is a slogan, not a recipe for action.
May 14th, 2011
7:29 pm
MarkV, if you attended UGA, you obviously majored in something on the north campus. "Lowering spending" is a perfect beginning for a recipe for action.
May 14th, 2011
7:40 pm
"Lowering spending" is a perfect beginning for a recipe for action.
It's a mental crutch. For those who have trouble thinking both sides of a ledger at the same time.
May 14th, 2011
8:01 pm
Praise Obamessiah! MarkV understands that we must increase government spending and accelerate the growth of deficits and debts! There is no better way to guarantee the fantastical glory of the "World of Next Tuesday" than to loose the presses and flood the economy with more money. We have only to thank Obama's Ben Bernake for our certainly certain economical certainties. We hear as much nightly on MSNBC and CNN, so it is a fact. Praise Obamessiah! We are done with Osama Bin Laden! Long live Obama's Ben Bernake! Praise Obamessiah! The chosen one is our strength and our crutch. The Alpha, the Omega, the Yin and the Yang! Never before have I felt such giddy wonderment at the state of the union. Praise Obamessiah!
May 14th, 2011
9:13 pm
psst… pssst…. the tingle… do you still feel it running up your leg, obamessiah?
Raising Cain and waiting on Daniels
May 14th, 2011
11:12 pm
The clowns at the circus get raves too.
May 14th, 2011
11:36 pm
Yes, Comrade Michael… a Matthews-esque tingle running up my leg reminds me that we must stand in awe of the wonders of the Obamessiah! Things haven't looked this rosy since the Obamessiah paid cash for my clunkers. Isn't it a great time to be an American… Praise Obamessiah! He turns water into wine and still has time for golf. We are not worthy of such a leader.
May 15th, 2011
12:17 am
Obamassiah- I am sure that terrorists like Ben Laden and Kaddafi now feel more than a tingle going up their leg when they see pictures of Obama- they probably need multiple changes of underwear if they know they are wanted by the US and know we have a president who does not read My Pet Goat while we are under attack.
May 15th, 2011
12:41 am
""Lowering spending" is a slogan, not a recipe for action."
Yeah MarkV, and "Hope" is not a strategy, and "Change" is not a policy.
May 15th, 2011
12:44 am
You are very correct "IT"…. We should start a drive to purchase millions of 'super-bad' Obama SEAL action figures for distribution to the children. It is wonderful that the world has a REAL HERO in the Obamessiah! Praise his name! We are a lucky country! Our troubles are behind us. Happy days are here, again! Praise Obamessiah!
May 15th, 2011
12:57 am
"I guess that's why the founding fathers didn't make "experience" in any specific area a constitutinal requirement to run for the Presidency?"
No, they left it to the stupidity of the electorate, as was proven in 2008.
"Cons love to talk about "experience." Yet they never say what area that "experience" should be in."
Some do. How about experience in MANAGEMENT? Hope & Punt ™ had NONE before being elected to the Presidency. How about LEADERSHIP? Hope & Punt (tm ) had NONE before being elected to the Presidency. How about knowledge of how a business should be run? Hope & Punt ™ had NONE before being elected to the Presidency. How about real-time knowledge of how a free market economy works? Hope & Punt ™ had NONE before being elected to the Presidency (and exhibits no knowledge of it today, either).
Herman Cain has all of the above today.
How about experience in government? Herman has none. Hope & Punt ™ had I believe 4 unmemorable years as a state senator where he authored no bills of any significance, and voted "present" more often than not. And two unmemorable years as a U.S. Senator before running for President where he authored no bills of any significance
"Everyone (every one of us 300 Million+ Americans) has his/her own criteria for "qualifications" to be president. Whose shall we go with???"
I say we go with what matters beyond the vapid, mindless slogan uttering that hasn't produced any significant improvement in our economy in 2+ years, but has improved the President's handicap.
"I say let's go with the constitution. The founding fathers knew a thing or two about a constitutional republic that people today still haven't grasped yet."
You wouldn't know what the Founding Fathers knew or meant regarding the Constitution if your life depended on it, hsn.
May 15th, 2011
1:34 am
"How about experience in MANAGEMENT? How about LEADERSHIP? How about knowledge of how a business should be run? Herman Cain has all of the above today."
What did MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, AND knowledge of how a business should be run do for this country in the 8years of G. W. Bush and Dick Cheney, WHO HAD ALL OF THE ABOVE??? HUH??
"I say we go with what matters beyond the vapid, mindless slogan uttering that hasn't produced any significant improvement in our economy in 2+ years"
News flash: "MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, AND knowledge of how a business should be run" DID NOT PRODUCE ANY SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT in OUR ECONOMY in 8+ YEARS (that is 4 times 2+ years)
Reality is biotchslapping you in the face.. Yet, you don't even seem to recognize it, Dave R, do you?
May 15th, 2011
4:18 am
hsn, unlike you, I don't dwell on the past, nor live in it.
I always find it amusing that when reality bites you libs on the butt when Hope & Punt ™ is exposed for the fraud that he is, all you can do is revert to blaming Bush.
Newsflash! I never voted for Bush. Ever. Can't hang that one on me.
Newsflash #2! Bush can no longer run for office. Move on.
Newsflash #3! If you have a problem with Cain, spell it out in detail, not just some lame "he'll never get elected" tripe.
Newsflash #4! When faced with facts about Hope & Punt ™, try REFUTING them instead of changing the subject.
Now, are you capable of having an intelligent discussion, or do you wish to keep getting bitc#slapped all over the landscape?
May 15th, 2011
7:49 am
Dave R.
Newsflash! Thank you so much for instructing us as to how we should post here. We would just be lost without you.
May 15th, 2011
8:02 am
"Hope" is not a strategy, and "Change" is not a policy."
Nobody has pretended they are.
May 15th, 2011
9:48 am
Trump has argued that Bush gave us Obama. The problem for Obama as it stands, is that Bush is gone. Now Obama must stand alone and on his own merits, with no one to discredit for the current state of affairs since he became President other than himself. Much to Obama's support's chagrin is in the fact that Ex-Presidents share one virtue in common with dead Presidents: You can't vote them out of office.
As Bush had only one Presidency, Obama cannot be a gift twice given. This time around if Obama is to have another Presidency, he will have to come by it the old fashion way: He will have to earn it.
This is going to be a fun but grueling political campaign battle leading up to 2012: The toughest opponent Obama will face in that battle, is Obama.
May 15th, 2011
10:03 am
Herman Cain is delusional and will not win the nomination without the black vote as their aren't enough of them in the GOP. Some white people "say" they are for Cain but come election time its a different story. The GOP is going down in flames. lol!!!!
May 15th, 2011
10:27 am
"Newsflash! Thank you so much for instructing us as to how we should post here. We would just be lost without you."
Typical deflection when you have nothing to counter valid points.
Your intellectual emptiness is showing carlos.
May 15th, 2011
11:13 am
"unlike you, I don't dwell on the past, nor live in it."
Dave, R, yeah, unless the past has to do with Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton
"Newsflash! I never voted for Bush. Ever. Can't hang that one on me."
Of course, NOT ONE Bush supporter will say he/she voted for him . What a shocker !!
"Newsflash #2! Bush can no longer run for office. Move on."
I told you earlier that THIS LINE is ALL you cons have got to defend the 8 years of absolute disaster you reigned on this country. NOW your ONLY defense is move on? Too bad we never heard the line, "Carter can no longer run for office. Move On."
Newsflash #4! When faced with facts about Hope & Punt ™, try REFUTING them instead of changing the subject.
This one comes right out of talk-radio… And Oh, the IRONY !! You WERE FACED with FACTS that for 8 YEARS, your "MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, AND knowledge of how a business should be run" DID NOT PRODUCE ANY SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT in OUR ECONOMY. Were you able to refute those FACTs ??? No, instead you were hopping all over the place spewing nonesense, and coming up with trite lines like "Bush is no longer in office.." etc.. A typical intellectually bankrupt victim of right-wing talk radio, who can't think of anything original to say, except the ones he hears from his hack heroes on the air. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
May 15th, 2011
11:39 am
The nicest thing about the past, is now obama will become part of it.
May 15th, 2011
11:41 am
""Newsflash! I never voted for Bush. Ever. Can't hang that one on me."
HSN: I voted for GWB twice and am damn glad that kept Al Gore out office. Did GWB make mistakes? Yes, he did. I'm a conservative Republican and am not happy with the fiscal mismanagement that took place. Laying the blame of the real estate debacle and the ensuing economic contraction at his feet shows is short sighted and ignorant on your part. There are numerous reasons – number one is the overreach of FNM and FRE for starters. The main culprits are Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank. Economic cycles do occur and when you have on over allocation of investment capital into an illiquid asset like real estate – the results are what we have now.
I don't have time to get into a debate here, but your diatribe is nothing more than schoolyard vitriol.
May 15th, 2011
12:45 pm
Hay Newt! Got a sure fire way you can win in '12. You can propose a bunch of changes to the way Congress does business, say 8 different items, and promise to bring bills to the floor in the first 100 days that will change things for the better, say 10 bills. You can call it "Contract with America". Whatta ya think?
May 15th, 2011
12:47 pm
Left wing man@1:26 wrote in part:
Sounds like American Delusionalism to me. Why on earth do we want to imitate the corporate tax rates of devastated Ireland?
Don't be so harsh. This wasn't a Mensa convention.


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Reed Magazine | Reed College Ranked #1 in Best Classroom Experience
"The 2014 edition of Princeton Review's The Best 378 Colleges reveals a Reed that is both familiar to Reedies and one that exists somewhere on a plane between Reedlore and reality.
Reed was #1 in the category of 'Best Classroom Experience,' #2 in 'Professors with the Highest Marks,' #4 in 'Students Who Study the Most,' and #19 in the categories of 'Great Financial Aid' and 'Most Accessible Professors.'"
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Anonymous said: Could you tell me what the sociology department at Reed is like? Also, what's the distinction between Sociology and Anthropology at Reed? Thanks!
Hi there,
Since neither of us were sociology or anthropology majors, we can't really give you any in-depth info, but we can point you to Reedies who can. There are a bunch here on Tumblr, or you can drop us a line at email@example.com.
For general info on sociology at Reed, a good place to start is the major homepage. You can browse faculty profiles, get a sense of what they study, courses + course descriptions, recent thesis titles, and other resources.
Sociology is housed under the History and Social Sciences division, and is a super awesome major. The profs are great, and the students are really dedicated to what they study. Sociology seems to really combine all the typical social science aspects of the other majors and become a HSS supermajor: the cultural studies of anthropology, the comparative studies of history, and the empirical thinking and analysis of economics. Soc at Reed is very much a cross-cultural and comprehensive study of social institutions and human learning in a range of settings, whether they be economic, political, religious, racial, or educational. Like we said, it's cool.
Anthro is a bit harder to pin down. In general, it is "a broadly comparative framework for the study of human life and experience." Yet there are also sub-divisions of cultural, linguistic, biological, and archeological anthropology that you'll find in certain classes both in and outside of the department. Traditionally, the department has been centered on cultural anthropology and can be very theory-based. Again, if there are Anthro majors out there who want to lend their experience, feel free to chime in.
Definitely check out the course catalog for both of these departments to get a sense of what subjects are taught at Reed, and if they seem like they might be up your alley. If you're an incoming freshman planning on being an HSS major, you're probably going to end up taking either (or both) Sociology 101 or Anthro 101 after freshman year. Talk with your adviser, professors in each department, and trust your judgement. Don't be afraid of being stuck in a major your first year, either. If you decide one isn't your academic cup of tea, there are always other options.
13 8 / 2013
Anonymous said: Hi, I have an anonymous question I'd like to ask. I'm a freshman and will be at Reed in about 20 days. In our meeting with our adviser, I know we discuss courses and stuff. What else do we talk about? I would like to study domestically and apply for a Visiting Student Permit at Harvard. Would this be possible to have arranged? Thanks.
Honestly, what you talk about really depends on your adviser, your major, and the questions you have. Some might check in with you about how Orientation is going and how you're adjusting, some might be more detached and just go through what you need to know about signing up for classes. If you have any about major planning, requirements, class set-up, etc., that meeting is a really good place to get them off your chest.
You can certainly talk about domestic study abroad plans with your adviser, and it definitely doesn't hurt to start early. Right now Reed doesn't offer a domestic program with Harvard (we do offer a domestic study with Howard University), but that doesn't bar you from putting together a program.
Here is more info on domestic programs, international programs, and contact info for the International Programs Office. If you are considering any kind of study abroad, we would definitely suggest setting up a meeting with Paul DeYoung, the Director of International Programs. He can tell you all you would need to know about the specifics and nitty-gritty of applying for, arranging, and planning for any kind of study abroad trips.
13 8 / 2013
Anonymous said: I want to join Reed's rowing team, but I have no experience at all. I know that Reed has a beginner's PE class for rowing, but would that allow me to join the team?
Basically, you don't have to have much experience to do any sport at Reed. It helps, sure, but you're not barred from participating. And that P.E. class? That is the rowing team. To sign up for crack-of-dawn, beautiful sunrise practice sessions on the Willamette, all you have to do is sign up for the class. (You receive P.E. credit for being on the team this way.)
If any other Reedies out there know who is currently coaching/heading the team and could get in touch with this Anon, please let us know!
13 8 / 2013
hello my lovely Reedies
should I take Hum 210 instead of Latin (which I am currently enrolled in) I don't know what to doooo.
also if I do does anybody have any advice on which professor to take it with? choices that would fit into my schedule as it stands are I-Don't-Know-First-Name-Or-Department Steinman and Dana Katz.
(I'm supposedly a history major so I have to take it at some point but I really like Latin BUT it doesn't seem like it's going to be overly useful and it seems silly to take a class that is a full year if it isn't going towards anything.)
and also of course I can't wait to see you all again and I love you and welcome to the innocent freshlings and so on. :)
Steinman = Lisa Steinman of the English department. She specializes in poetry, and is a very supportive professor. Dana Katz is from Art History, exuberant, very good about supporting/meeting with students to discuss paper topics, provide resources, etc, and an all-around lovely person. In short, they're both great to have as conference leaders.
If you're considering majoring in History, it's going to be useful to have Hum 210 finished before your junior year (JSem and Qual year.) Hum 210 is a time commitment, and depending on conference leader, can have more research and paper writing than you'll want to be doing on top of JSem and the Qual.
Good luck!
13 8 / 2013
Reed Magazine | Apuleius Unbridled
Professor Sonia Sabnis reads The Golden Ass with a fresh eye.
I almost cried when I read this part
When she presented a paper at the 2011 meeting of the American Philological Association, she took issue with the stodgy archaisms that abound in The Golden Asstranslations used by today's college students—"verily," for instance, and "forsooth." In that paper, she celebrates the "innovation of Apuleius's language in combination with the colloquialism and humor of his storytelling." She zeroes in on one of Apuleius's favorite adverbs, prorsus, which, despite more than two millennia of Latin scholarship, still eludes definition. Sabnis suggested that prorsus might be compared to the pause word "like" popularized by, like, you know, Valley Girls. She shows how both John Arthur Hanson, the Princeton professor behind a popular 1989 translation, and she herself render one sentence uttered by a young nobleman, Tlepolemus, who, disguised as a bandit, voices a boast to a band of thieves. The sentence is "totamque prorsusdeuastaui Macedoniam."
Hanson: "I laid waste the whole of Macedonia."
Sabnis: "I wasted like all of Macedonia."
Sabnis points out that the English word "like" is an intensifier used to lay extra stress on what follows—and argues that the word fits in Tlepolemus's mouth because he is "trying to ingratiate himself to a robber band by mimicking the solemn heroization and amplification that they use when describing their feats of banditry on the margins of society." Dude's trying to sound like he's got some street, in other words; he's trying to fit in.
The thing is I can totally hear Sonia saying "I wasted, like, all of Macedonia."
Sonia Sabnis, Classics badass and extraordinaire.
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13 8 / 2013
Reed's new Policy on Discriminatory Harassment and Sexual Misconduct
To all Reed students: Listen up, this is important!
I don't know how many of you check your Reed emails regularly during the summer, but there have been two important Webmail developments in the last several weeks. (I'm still on Webmail, yes.)
On July 16, a staff member sent out an email informing the community that two professors and two members of the student senate have been asked to draft a new policy on discriminatory harassment and sexual misconduct. The email contains links to a rough draft of the proposed policy and an online form community members may use to critique it.
I urge you all the read the draft, of course. The issues of assault and harassment affect every member of the Reed community in some way; it would be against your own best interest to ignore the college's attempts to address them. Also, revisions should be almost done by now, so if you want to have a say, you need to read the draft and submit your feedback as soon as possible.
Personally, I think it looks good. It needs to be expanded and made clearer in some places, but I can't see anything wrong with it at the moment. (If you disagree with this assessment, you need to make your voice heard because I already left positive feedback through the online survey.)
However, that's not the point of this post.
This has been making the rounds, but is a very important read. Please take the time to go through it, especially if you're interested in how this will translate to student involvement in school policy.


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NASHVILLE (BP) -- British archaeologists have discovered a massive complex in southern Iraq that Southern Baptist archaeologists say may shed new light on the life and times of the biblical patriarch Abraham.
"If Abraham lived near this site and it served as an administrative or religious center, then it is likely that Abraham and his family might have had dealings there."
-- Steve Andrews
The structure, believed to be 4,000 years old, is about the size of a football field and may have been an administrative center for the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, believed to be located about 12 miles away and at the height of its power before the time of Abraham. The new find, announced in early April, includes a complex of rooms around a large courtyard, according to the Associated Press. An "Ur" is mentioned in Genesis.
"The find is significant for Mesopotamian archaeology and history," Steve Andrews, professor of Old Testament, archaeology and Hebrew at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo., told Baptist Press. "As a result of its excavation and the study of its ruins and artifacts -- especially if inscribed clay tablets are unearthed -- students of Mesopotamia will understand more about the society and culture that flourished there."
The find, he said, raises two important questions for biblical archaeologists:
-- Was the recently unearthed complex part of Sumerian Ur, or was it in another city?
-- Was Sumerian Ur the same place as the biblical "Ur of the Chaldeans" -- the homeland of Abraham, according to Genesis 11:27-31?
The answer to both questions is uncertain, according to Andrews, with some scholars placing Ur of the Chaldeans farther north in modern-day Turkey. But if the new find is determined to be in Abraham's homeland, he said, it would help Bible students understand the patriarch better.
"If Abraham lived near this site and it served as an administrative or religious center, then it is likely that Abraham and his family might have had dealings there," Andrews said. "But the Bible says Terah took Abram and his family and left Ur of the Chaldees to move to Haran (Genesis 11:31). If evidence should identify this site as Ur of the Chaldees, then it would locate a biblical site."
The biblical phrase "of the Chaldees" (or Chaldeans, depending on the translation) is what makes it difficult to identify this site with Abraham's homeland of Ur, he said. There was definitely a Sumerian city named Ur near the new discovery, but during Abraham's life Chaldeans are believed to have lived farther north, suggesting this may not have been the same city referenced in Genesis 11. Evangelical scholars are divided on whether the site in southern Iraq was Abraham's homeland, according to Andrews.
Even if this site was not Abraham's home though, it still contributes to scholars' understanding of ancient Mesopotamia, the general region where the book of Genesis occurred.
In assessing this and other archaeological finds related to Scripture, Andrews urged Christians to be cautious about claims that a new discovery either "proves" or "disproves" the Bible. Most of the time, archaeology's chief contribution to biblical studies is to illuminate the background and context of Scripture, he said.
"We must remember that the field of archaeology is an art as well as a science," he said. "Much of it is interpretation, and those seeking to disprove something will always find a way to do so. But the ruins and artifacts are there for all to ponder and study. With proper study, the biblical text comes alive as it is illustrated, illuminated and confirmed by archaeological evidence."
Daniel Warner, associate professor of Old Testament and archaeology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in New Orleans, La., agreed that "it's still too early to tell" the significance of the recent discovery in Iraq. But he noted archaeology's importance at times in confirming the truth of Scripture.
"To me [archaeology] is the only 'science' that is contributing any new information to the study of the Bible," Warner told Baptist Press. "It can affirm biblical events or people at times -- like the Tel Dan inscription confirming [that] King David [existed] -- but its major contribution is illuminating and illustrating the biblical world."
The discovery of an inscription at Caesarea that affirmed the existence of Pontius Pilate is another example of archaeology affirming the Bible, Andrews said. Previously there was no evidence for Pilate outside the Bible.
Other important finds in recent years, according to Andrews and Warner, include:
-- The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include some of the earliest surviving manuscripts of the Old Testament.
-- The Pools of Siloam in Jerusalem with water systems from the reign of Herod the Great.
-- King Herod's tomb at the Herodium.
-- An inscription of the alphabet at Tel Zayit which demonstrates that writing may have been more advanced in the time of David than some scholars believe.
Digs still in progress, including some by Southwestern and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary scholars, could unearth additional information about Canaanite engineering, the City of David and the Canaanite city of Gezer mentioned in the book of Joshua.
Thanks to biblical archaeology, Scripture "becomes more real and personal," Warner said. "Reading about something only takes one so far, but tangible things come alive."
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cbflushctl does not work
I'm trying to use cbflushctl with 1.8.0
trying to stop persistence with
/opt/couchbase/bin/cbflushctl localhost:11210 stop
I get
# /opt/couchbase/bin/cbflushctl localhost:11210 start
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/couchbase/lib/python/cbflushctl", line 87, in ?
File "/opt/couchbase/lib/python/clitool.py", line 43, in execute
f[0](mc, *args[2:], **opts.__dict__)
File "/opt/couchbase/lib/python/cbflushctl", line 38, in start
File "/opt/couchbase/lib/python/mc_bin_client.py", line 210, in start_persistence
return self._doCmd(memcacheConstants.CMD_START_PERSISTENCE, '', '')
File "/opt/couchbase/lib/python/mc_bin_client.py", line 104, in _doCmd
return self._handleSingleResponse(opaque)
File "/opt/couchbase/lib/python/mc_bin_client.py", line 97, in _handleSingleResponse
cmd, opaque, cas, keylen, extralen, data = self._handleKeyedResponse(myopaque)
File "/opt/couchbase/lib/python/mc_bin_client.py", line 89, in _handleKeyedResponse
cmd, errcode, opaque, cas, keylen, extralen, rv = self._recvMsg()
File "/opt/couchbase/lib/python/mc_bin_client.py", line 71, in _recvMsg
raise exceptions.EOFError("Got empty data (remote died?).")
EOFError: Got empty data (remote died?).
And then I try to connect to specific bucket directly with
/opt/couchbase/bin/cbflushctl localhost:11311 stop
it send a command to the socket and then blocks on recv call.
Also do the stop/start/drain commands are cluster wide or just per node?
and are they affect all buckets or just per bucket, or both?
ok I figured out that i need to specify the bucketname
/opt/couchbase/bin/cbflushctl 127.0.0.1:11210 command bucketname
and that stop/start commands affect only a specific node persistence and are not clusterwide
Correct, sorry for the lack of error handling there. Also, keep in mind most of these tuneables must be re-applied after a server restart. We'll get that fixed. Filed http://www.couchbase.com/issues/browse/MB-5984
BTW is there way to disable persistence altogether? So that disk queue does not grow infinitely (and cause OOM eventually?). I mean use couchbase just like memcached but with all it's clustering and rebalance features?
AFAIU the "memcached" bucket which can be configured in couchcbase is just a plain memcached without the vbucket clustering features?
Sorry, I should have asked what you were trying to do.
There is not a way to do what you're looking for. The Couchbase bucket type always has persistence in addition to it's replication and rebalancing capabilities. There is no Couchbase bucket type which will LRU when you're out of space.
That said, memcached bucket types with Couchbase client libraries do give you the ability to easily add/remove nodes with ketama hashing. What this means, for example, is if you were to go from a 4 node cluster to a 5 node cluster you would only have to rematerialize about 20% of your cache and you'd still have all of the Web Console GUI features.
What I'm actually trying to do is to stop persistence temporarily on all cluster nodes , so that I could take more consistent and point in time cluster wide snapshot of the cluster, based on ec2 EBS snapshots.
Regarding non persistent bucket , i just wanted to 100% verify it's not possible with couchbase.


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Lisa Robertson is the author of three books of poetry, Xeclogue (Tsunami Editions, 1993; New Star, 1999); Debbie: An Epic (1997); and The Weather (2001). Her most recent book is Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office For Soft Architecture (Clear Cut Press), a linked series of prose walks and essays on city space, architecture, and the phenomenology of surfaces. Ms. Robertson also contributes a regular decorating horoscope to Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors, under the pen name Swann. Her essays on the visual arts appear frequently in gallery catalogues, and her essays and reviews on poetry have been published by The Globe and Mail, American Book Review, Stand, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and The Stranger. She has been writer-in-residence at the University of Cambridge, University of California at San Diego, and at Capilano College in North Vancouver.
Contemporary Writers Reading Series - Spring 2004
Contemporary Writers Reading Series - Fall 2004
- "First Walk" (excerpt)
Contemporary Writers Reading Series - Fall 2009
- Full Reading
- "Wooden Houses" (excerpt)