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After Barack Obama won the election, my elation clouded my journalism. I was incapable of thinking about anything else. So when it came time to write about an event in Charleston called Kulture Klash, I had to figure out what it meant amid this historic change.
Kulture Klash is really an arts party like the kind commonly organized in New York. I'm told the place to go is PS1, but I've never been there and never been to one of those events. Kulture Klash, and I'd imagine events at PS1, are about diversity, creativity, and having a lot of fun. KK injects a radical social dimension into the arts and the arts give rise to a radical social dimension, mostly because the kind of art you'll find there stems from street art — break dancing, graffiti art, aerial skating, juggling, hula hooping, etc.
In the wake of Obama's victory, Kulture Klash seemed to have more significance than just an arts party. It seemed to embody a new set of ideals, a grass-roots and egalitarian value system shaped and given expression by the internet and social-networking sites. When all was said and done, more than 2,000 people had gone to Kulture Klash. In a Charleston context, that's an enormous crowd and an important step in local arts.
Tim Wu, in a review of Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It), aptly notes that what makes our age special, in technological terms, is its "generative" nature: "'Generativity' is a central notion in his book, and he means what it says: that the Net has made us all mini-generators — not of electricity, but of information and innovation. Who today is not at least sometimes an online analyst, poet, or publisher, even if just of Facebook updates?" (Read Wu's review in full in The New Republic.)
In a piece in a November issue of Charleston City Paper, I attempted to draw a connection between Obama's win, the ideals of Web 2.0, and this generative nature among those born after 1980, those who not only gave YouTube and Facebook their current cache, but who also expect interactivity in whatever they do. I suggest that this is a turning point.
Of what, I don't know. But something is turning. You can feel it.
Creativity is a part of their lives. Millennials don't just dream it. They be it. Kulture Klash's website tells why the event matters: "For the sake of art and community."
"We want everyone to have a voice, everyone to get involved," says Gustavo Serrano. "If we can tap into everyone's imagination, who knows what will happen?"
The idea of a bottom-up, idealism-based community of creative types, like Kulture Klash, goes back to the ancient Greeks.
Today, it can be found in knitting circles, jazz ensembles, open-source technology like Linux, crowdsourced knowledge consortiums like Wikipedia, community arts projects like the recent The Future Is on the Table art exhibit at City Gallery, and even in pick-up games of basketball (which is, because of its reliance on the integrity of individual players, Barack Obama's favorite pastime).
These have characteristics that challenge the old guard of established arts professionals whose minds were galvanized, like Clinton and Bush, by "great disruption" of the 1960s. These characteristics include participation over presentation, collaboration over competition, amateurism (in the best sense of the word) over professionalism, and process over product.
Grassroots creativity is an old idea (Walt Whitman exulted the inventive potential of diversity), but the difference now is scale.
Ninety-five million Americans are applying the ideals of Web 2.0 to the real world, including their approach to the arts.
Jennifer asked if I were going to post this to Flyover. I'm still not sure, so I'll let you tell me if this was the right thing to do. From the Charleston City Paper:
Dear Charleston Arts Community,
You know me, don't you? I've been the arts editor for nearly a year. You know my tastes, my writing style. You know my voice — one that's for the arts, one that's of the arts in Charleston.
A voice that's lately appeared, some of you have said, to be overly critical, dismissive, superior, and a bit snobbish.
Maybe you're right. I don't deny it.
When it comes to tone of voice, sensibility, and other subjective matters, there is no accounting. Who am I to say you're wrong?
I hope, however, you believe me when I say my intentions are good.
Some are surprised after getting to know me. How I grew up in a county with more cows than people. How my dad is a truck driver, my mom an old-fashioned homemaker. How they are severe, practical, stoic, and good.
We were death-oriented. Life was about saving one's soul. Good and evil, heaven and hell — these were literal. The root of this knowledge was thrust deep. No will but God's will.
We accepted this. Sometimes violently.
Not much was expected of me. A good and a bad thing. My first job was as a farm hand. I was 13. Baling hay, whitewashing, picking vegetables. A friend, who grew up nearby, calls it a Huck Finn existence. That's about right.
In high school, I was encouraged to take vocational classes. That my dad drove a truck for a living was reason enough for me to take up a trade, like carpentry or automobile mechanics. Never mind that I wasn't good with my hands. My parents believed my teachers had my best interest at heart. I'm sure they were right.
Music was a means to an end. I began playing trumpet at 9. I had ability, even talent. Nothing like a gift.
Teachers encouraged me to teach music. That's what you did. Study education to be a teacher; study plumbing to be a plumber. If you study history, what are you? I didn't know. Nobody knew.
I played classical trumpet in college, but eventually fell in love with jazz, in love with the promise of performance, of making that feeling the center of my life.
It was a moment, an epiphany, really, that I believe all aspiring artists have at some point — that moment when you get a glimpse at what could be after so much time accepting what can't be.
There was more at stake in succeeding than ego.
Music, as I said, was a means. A means of escape. Not just from my childhood and the darkness there. Failure meant confirming what I suspected all along — that I had nothing to offer, that I didn't belong where I wanted to be. I had to succeed to be normal. Otherwise, just give up. Go back to farm country, take up a trade.
I had my parents' fear and self-loathing. But I also had my mother's strength and my father's courage. So I tried, despite myself. I tried for a long time. A long, long time. I wanted it so badly. I was willing to do anything. Eventually, I walked away.
It was my choice to abandon music. Nobody made me. I won't go into the details, except to say my dream was in reality a quest to understand myself. It was hard. It was painful. I'm not sure it's over. But I've moved on.
I've earned three degrees in music, literature, and writing. I've become a cultural critic. I've won a couple of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. I write about arts, culture, and ideas in a cosmopolitan city I like a lot. I'm really very happy.
I'll not soon forget how close I came to allowing my passion to overshadow the truth about myself. I never stabbed my eyes with pins, fortunately, but I know how painful self-knowledge can be.
I know it can hurt. I know it can heal, too.
I run the risk of more criticism by letting you know more about me and about my lost love. I'm now vulnerable for writing so personally, which I've never done before. Some will take a stab at a Freudian analysis: that I'm a wannabe artist compensating by being overly critical, dismissive, superior, and a bit snobbish.
That's wrong, but I can't stop you from thinking it.
I can hope, however, that you know how tough love can be.
The daily newspaper that I write for has three freelance critics who share most of the reviewing duties plus a staff writer who occasionally writes a theater review. The alternative newspaper in town rotates its reviews among six freelance critics. A local television broadcaster makes it to nearly every single show and posts reviews on his Website as well as on the air. Depending on the semester, the college newspaper will have a critic. Then the Detroit papers send critics to town for the professional shows. An alternative newspaper has three critics that come to town and the Free Press usually sends someone.
We are also blessed that it is a fairly collegial community and we enjoy good relations with each other.
Last fall, Don Calamia, the critic from Between the Lines, a Detroit weekly newspaper, and I were discussing how Patrick Shanley's Doubt was dominating the 2007-2008 professional season. Three groups were performing it in a four month span, with two of the shows opening within a week of each other. The first was in Lansing, the second in Detroit, and the third in Ann Arbor. While these are somewhat spread apart in distance, they are all within an hour of each other and there is some overlap in audience between the three groups.
During this discussion, we agreed that we would each see all three shows and then do some sort of joint discussion comparing the three productions. We didn't know what form that would take when we started, but we eventually turned to our respective blogs: Don's Confessions of a Cranky Critic and my Front Row Lansing.
This week--on April Fool's Day to be specific--we began a week-long blogfest comparing the three productions. On Tuesday, we independently created our own all-star casts drawn from the three productions. On Wednesday, we revealed which of the three productions we thought was the best. On Thursday, we discussed whether the priest was guilty or innocent--and came up with different answers for each of the three productions. Finally, today, we arranged to have a live chat free-for-all and post the transcript on our blog.
We didn't come up with the idea for a live chat until the last minute, so our invitation for our readers to join us didn't get out until less than 24 hours before the lunchtime chat--not really enough time to give people notice. However, both the director of the BoarsHead show and the BoarsHead artistic director was able to join us.
It was a fun way to look at theater in a larger context than an individual show and we had a lot of fun discussing our different takes on the show. It's something we're both planning to do again, though we're still brainstorming what the next topic will be.
In early February, a student veterans' group at the University of Oregon produced a show that was very much based on "reality," a show that might be called a work of nonfiction. The play, called Telling, featured the stories of the actors and other veterans who were students at the UO. More than 20 student vets spent the summer talking about their experiences with two writers (one staff member and one grad student). The students then took a fall-quarter course on stage movement and acting with the chair of the theater department, who signed on to direct the play. They started off winter quarter with intense rehearsals of the script the playwrights produced. The play ran for three performances in Eugene's Veterans' Memorial Hall (where Ken Kesey used to hang out, back in the day, or so they say).
Some of the veterans who acted in Telling were anti-war when they entered the service, and some are anti-war now (but certainly not all of them). Some of them didn't serve in Iraq or Afganistan. Their politics aren't cohesive, and there's a range of ages, experience levels and backgrounds. They told me that the recorded play would eventually be up on their website (though I haven't found it yet), where you can also read more about each actor and her background, should you want to.
I wrote a cover story in advance of the play for my paper. I attended three or four rehearsals, read the script and interviewed the students, the playwrights, the director and a writer who acted as a "consultant" for the process. Though the play itself had a variety of rough moments -- thanks to the demands of melding two dozen veterans' stories into some sort of narrative to be performed by 10 people, few of whom had any acting experience -- I found the entire experience both infuriating and moving.
A week and a half ago, journalist David Wright published an essay about the play on Inside Higher Ed. Although in my piece I record two actors jokingly referring to taking the play to D.C., I now hear this may not have been a mere rumor. And the goal of the playwrights and some of the student veterans is to export the model to other campuses -- to help other student veteran groups find some way to connect with the rest of campus. I'm glad they're getting some national attention for this process of producing art as a way to build community dialogue, But as a theater reviewer, I wonder if I have been in some way spoiled by my immersion in this story for other plays about the Iraq War.
A few weeks ago I took a look at the front page of Arts + Life, our Sunday features section in the Lexington Herald-Leader. There was a story about a double bill of plays by University of Kentucky Theatre, a piece about UK soprano Afton Battle in the national semifinal round of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and, inside, a story about a new UK musical and operetta club.
A few nights later, I was in UK's Singletary Center to hear the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, and I noted that concertmaster Daniel Mason directs UK's string program, principal violist Joseph Baber teaches composition at UK, principal ... well, you get the idea.
Even when you're not dealing with a UK organization, there's a good chance there will be a tie to the university.
That is not to diminish the efforts of artists from other area schools. I'm reminded of folks such as Stephanie Pistello, a Transylvania University theater graduate who now directs the New Mummer Group in New York; John Ellison Conlee, who graduated from Centre College's theater program and went on to a Tony Award nomination for his performance in The Full Monty; and singers such as Corey Crider and Norman Reinhardt, who got their starts at Morehead State University and Asbury College, respectively, before filtering through grad school at UK on their way to burgeoning opera careers. We have a wealth of colleges and universities in Central Kentucky with substantial arts programs. And covering UK arts extensively is not a subversive effort at boosterism (my dirty secret: I was born and raised a Duke fan -- one of UK's mortal enemies in basketball).
There's something to be said for having a major land-grant university in your city. It elevates the possibilities for what you can do and what your community demands.
Should promoting audience etiquette be part of our jobs?
I'm thinking about this because of a Guardian UK blog post about theater etiquette.
I'm also thinking about it because in the town where I grew up (which I believe Terry Teachout calls something like a "second-tier" city, in no doubt much more elegant terms), the classical music critic for the daily paper wrote about audience etiquette. I'd say "often" or "a few times," but the truth is that just because I have strong memories of the few times doesn't mean it was, or wasn't, often.
That critic, whose work I remember reading in high school and perhaps college, was Scott Cantrell, now of the Dallas Morning News. (I emailed him to see if I was making this up; I'll update when I get a reply.)
Michael Friedman, Jim Lewis and Steven Cosson (L-R) discuss This Beautiful City, the play they created about the evangelical community in Colorado Springs, Colo., which is part of 32nd annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Photo by Maggie Huber | Lexington Herald-Leader and LexGo.com.
Last week, I saw a performance of Lee Blessing's new play, Great Falls. It was an excellent piece of theater that belied the bells and whistles of so many shows today by focusing on two terrific, well-traveled actors under the guidance of a first-rate director.
And I was nowhere near New York City. Not even Chicago or San Francisco. I was in Louisville, a town most people only think about the first Saturday in May. But every year, somewhere around the last weekend in March, the Derby City becomes the center of the theater world with critics and theater professionals flocking in for the Humana Festival of New American Plays.
The festival, which has launched critically acclaimed plays such as Crimes of the Heart, is now into its fourth decade. It has had its up years and down years, but with recent hits such as Dinner with Friends and Omnium Gatherum, people still come to Humana hoping to be among the first to discover the next great thing.
Nowadays, when people describe Humana, it's often compared to the Sundance Film Festival, another major arts (yes, it attracts glitterati, but most of its offerings are geared to the art houses) event that thrives outside of major mets. Look south to Charleston, S.C. (John, are you ready?) and we have Spoleto, a major arts festival with a schedule that will make you da-rool, da-rool.
Chatting with Jim Clark, the president and CEO of LexArts, the United Arts Fund here in Lexington, he pointed out that one of the common denominators of these and other major arts happenings outside of the cultural capitals of America is that they didn't have great infrastructure to launch. What they had was a great vision that serious and substantial work could be done right where they were. It's the kind of success that should make you look around and wonder what could happen, wherever you are.
Pretend for a moment that I'm the owner of a fine-dining establishment.
I've experienced a success that few would complain about. I have a very loyal customer base, including those who pay me weekly visits. I've enjoyed great profit margins, outperforming most other restaurants in the area.
My chefs have won awards for the quality and creativity of the dishes they create. One review even said that we've helped to change the culinary environment of our region because of our chef's artistry.
Food costs are high and it isn't cheap to produce and serve our food, but that's been more than made up for in profit and customer loyalty.
One day, I look about the food and beverage environment and read about the success of McDonald's. They have far more customers than I do and they make more money. Changes have to be made!
I call a staff meeting and tell my executive chef that he's going to have to start offering chicken fingers and fried burger patties. Also, he needs to reduce the amount of time it takes to prepare orders by pre-preparing the most popular dishes and getting rid of any dishes that take too long to prepare. I skillfully ignore the look of horror that comes across his face and hand him the statistics that point out people want fast food--it's obvious by how many people are buying it.
What will happen to my audience? Even if my chef doesn't immediately quit in a huff, it's pretty certain that I'll quickly drive away all of my loyal customer base. I'll lose the customers I have and will likely find myself unable to compete with the resources and processes of a McDonalds.
The story seems pretty foolish, and yet, sometimes it feels that it is precisely how newspapers today are being run. Rather than work at appealing to the readers that they have, they're chasing after television viewers, Internet junkies, and non-readers. The loyal readers are treated with almost contempt as editors and writers state with conviction that everything needs to be written in bullets and short little bites because, "No one reads anymore."
Newspapers slavishly cover pop culture in a pale imitation of entertainment networks while ignoring those readers who really want substance--those readers who have been the bread and butter of subscribers. Newspapers rabidly pursue the masses, seemingly blissfully ignorant of the Long Tail concept that reminds us that today's economy is swinging toward selling more for less rather than less for more.
It's almost a mantra in corporate America that it is more expensive to get a new customer than it is to keep and please a loyal customer--and loyal customers will earn you more revenue than new ones. They're also more likely to become advocates for you, doing some of your marketing work for you.
So why is it that newspapers have little interest in readers? Yes, growth is important, but there needs to be growth among people who want your product. It's an uphill battle to constantly remake yourself in an attempt to sell yourself to someone who really doesn't want you--especially if in the process you stop being what your loyal customers wanted from you.
What sparks this rant today? In part, it is this article. The vast majority of the article talks about the health of theater in Detroit--the creation of new companies, the expanded seasons, and the fact that despite financial hardships, not a single company shut its doors. Then in the final paragraph, Don Calamia reports that Marty Cohn retired from the Free Press--leaving not a single full-time arts critic at any of the dailies in the greater Detroit area.
It would be one thing if this were just a single incident. Yet, while the arts community continues to grow, flourish, and expand in surprising new directions, the coverage gets smaller and smaller. I've talked to far too many people in both the academic and arts community who say they don't bother to read the paper anymore because there is no longer anything compelling in its pages. There is no longer a reason to convince them to plop down their two quarters. They don't want something they can read in a 30-second glance. They want to read something that will provoke them, get them to think, evoke an emotion, or inspire them to do something.
How can you accomplish those things with three printed bullets?
Critics are trained to think of themselves as objective observers of shows. While we strive to be receptive to what we see, we are also constantly analyzing and setting aside our personal feelings and any potential baggage.
It was that need for emotional distance that had me questioning a few weeks ago whether I should ask my editor to reassign the review I was scheduled to do. It wasn't a matter of my having any sort of personal connection with the show or anyone in it. Rather, my grandfather was in the late stages of cancer and we had been told he would likely die within the week. Would I be able to properly review a musical farce about two Wisconsin ice fishermen if I had to go the day my grandfather died? After discussing it with my editor, we decided that I would go ahead with the previous plans to attend the show and write the review.
The show was superbly done--which didn't surprise me as so far everything Williamston Theatre has done in the two years of their existence has been superb--and I found myself deeply drawn into the show. Some of this was because one of the two main actors reminded me a great deal of my grandfather, a man who loved his fishing. When the musical turned serious and started talking about how short our life is here on earth and how unexpectedly it could end, I cried through the entire song.
A few hours after getting home from the musical, I learned that my grandfather had died. Almost immediately I blogged about both the musical and his death. It's one of the wonderful things about blogs, you can write personal things that would likely never be appropriate for a newspaper. This is especially true given that my blog isn't associated with the newspaper in any way.
As I mourned for the next few days, I found myself faced with writing the review. I had to do a fair amount of soul-searching. Should I disqualify myself from writing the review because I had such a deep, emotional connection based on personal events? Could I honestly saying that I was being objective and unbiased?
Eventually, the answer that I came up with was that as a theater critic, I'm not required to put my humanity into deep freeze. The reader loses no value in a review simply because I am able to connect with a play. On the contrary, how useful can we as critics be to our readers if we never allow ourselves to feel anything or to emotionally connect with a show the way that our readers will?
So, I wrote the review, being careful to sort out in my own mind what was personal and what was valid material for evaluation (and given our 300-word limit, it certainly helped with identifying material to cut).
That was my answer. I'm curious what other critics might have done in the same situation--or even whether you'd even consider the situation a potential conflict.
I'm going to depart from both of the two planned entries that I have in partial draft for today's post.
Instead of talking about weightier issues, I'm going to tell you about a party I went to last night. And if you'll bear with me, you'll see that it's not totally off subject for Flyover as the party had to do with both art and journalism.
The soiree took place at the historic Gem Theatre in downtown Detroit, in a beautiful section of the city near the new field for the Lions. More than 200 people packed into the cabaret-seating style theater enjoying a cocktail reception, a show, and then a dessert reception.
The show was the Oscar Wilde Award Night, sponsored and produced by a Detroit weekly, Between the Lines, to recognize excellence in local professional theater. The newspaper puts on an excellent party and representatives from the theater community from Detroit, Ann Arbor, Jackson, and Lansing turn out to celebrate.
The three reviewers from the newspaper reviewed 96 productions from 31 different professional companies. When announcing the nominations, Don Calamia, staff arts critic wrote:
For despite the second worst economy in the nation that seemingly kept a noticeable number of paying customers out of the seats and a governor who reneged on several million dollars of previously promised grant money, not one theater that Curtain Calls reviewed over the past few seasons shut its doors for financial reasons - despite numerous rumors to the contrary.
Instead, the Williamston Theatre set up shop in a sleepy little town near Lansing, and Who Wants Cake? snuck into Fabulous Ferndale with The Ringwald, a renovated home all its own. And StarBright Presents Dinner Theatre doubled its venues, one in southern Oakland County and another in northern Macomb County.
Call them crazy - and you wouldn't be the first - but these brave souls reflect the attitude of ALL Michigan thespians who believe the mitten state is a great place to live, work and raise a family - despite some major obstacles. So they stay and struggle - oftentimes for little money and even less recognition.
The staff at this newspaper understand their community and the environment it works in. More than one person expressed genuine surprise at receiving an award because, as they said, they didn't know anyone knew them. There was an amazement and gratitude that someone saw them and recognized their work.
For any in the journalism world who might wonder whether the arts community has noticed the cutback in arts coverage, let me share a moment with you. The master of ceremonies asked the newspaper's publishers to come to the stage to give out the publisher's award of excellence. Before the two women arrived at the lectern, the audience was on its feet, giving them a standing ovation. They recognized the commitment this newspaper has made to its art coverage and were eager to express their appreciation for it.
Earlier in the evening when I was talking to those same publishers about how thorough their arts coverage is, one of them said, "We're gay, we have to cover theater." A nearby actor came back with, "No, you don't have to, that's why it's great that you do."
Between the Lines is a newspaper that recognizes how vibrant the theater community is and how much coverage matters. Earlier this year, Calamia went to the publishers and said, "We need to do more." This from the critic who reviewed more than 70 shows, outstripping the two Detroit dailies and every other newspaper in that town. The publishers agreed with him. So they're soon launching Encore Michigan, a Website that will contain daily updates with new reviews every Monday morning.
Between the Lines is a shining beacon lighting the way to what is possible for newspapers to do. They demonstrate how to be part of the community while providing outstanding arts coverage. They understand their role in the ecosystem. While the artists may not always like what they say, they're grateful that someone is out there talking about their art, letting them know that they were heard, and telling others what is happening.
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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans rejected Yahoo's bid to move the trademark suit brought by American Airlines in a Texas court.
One has to wonder how long it will be before Yahoo settles with American Airlines, like Google did last year. If the case goes to court and Yahoo loses could it create a change in all paid search?
Google no longer runs ads for any of American Airlines' trademarks - though they do carry ads for companies advertising on other airlines' names. But Google settled and no precedent has established."Each side agreed to pay its own legal fees, and American recovered nothing from Google, according to an order signed by Judge John McBryde," USAToday reported.
"Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo wanted the case transferred because its sponsored search agreement says any disputes must be settled by courts there or another site picked by the company," local ABC TV reported. But the court found that did not apply to the lawsuit.
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I got my second hole
Nobody cares…
I got my second hole
Nobody cares…
Last night I had a dream and so my mom entered me and my sister into a fashion show, and the directors of the fashion show gave each girl a dress with a cartoon animal on it. My sister got a turtle and I got a raccoon lol. So we went to this music store for something (idk what) my mom and my sister went to the store next door and me and my dad were still in the music store. A few minutes after we were looking around, the cashier asked us if I was in the fashion show. We both said yes and the cashier jumped over the counter where he was standing and started chasing us with a knife. He was about to stab my dad but I went behind Steve (the cashier) and took the knife from his hand. I tossed it to my dad and when he caught it and was about to stab him when Steve took the knife from him. We decided to just run back to the building where the fashion show was held. My sister and I were just finishing getting ready when Steve jumped on the runway with the knife. My sister saw him and ran on the runway and hit him with a frying pan. After that I woke up.
Anyone know any good millionaires for me to marry? I really need money lol.
Have you ever just like, really really REALLY loved something? Like, you loved it so much you just wanted to just marry it? I mean in all seriousness, you had to be thinking of the following while reading: food, bed, sleeping, tumblr, instagram, your computer, or the internet.


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the many things that go through my head
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Nicholas Sparks
It's been about 2 years since I've seen him and I miss him more than I ever could imagine….. I just had to get it out…..
…that I find the name of the hurricane threatening America to be extremely funny???
Irony? Coincidence?


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Why all coalition partners are dictating UPA?
Is it due to minority govt or weak PM?
Tags: money, upa, politics & government
Asked by sigma, 14 Sep '12 07:08 pm
Earn 10 points for answering
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Weak PM and people loosing confidence in this coalition govt and above all the general elections are at the door steps!!Answered by Vishwanath V, 14 Sep '12 07:46 pm
Both factors are resposible.Answered by jaya acharjee, 15 Sep '12 05:20 pm
Jab sher daldal main fans jata hai to bakri bhi do chapat laga deti hai useAnswered by krish, 14 Sep '12 07:40 pm
PM is not weak as such. Its the coalition partners who make him weak. In fact blackmail him into submission.Answered by QueSera Sera, 14 Sep '12 07:17 pm
All about the number game.The Congress does not have adequate members in Parliament.It is depending on the allies for survival.Answered by Damodar Biswal, 14 Sep '12 07:10 pm


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A flash flood warning was issued in Tuolumne County after water started leaking from a cracked dam on Twain Harte Lake late Sunday morning.
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Residents of Northern California hunkered down Sunday after a powerful storm drenched the area with yet another round of pounding rain and flooded streets.
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Flash floods back in March caused massive damage in the city of Capitola but the town has been rebuffed in its request for federal disaster assistance from FEMA.
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What you learn in Vegas doesn't always have to stay in Vegas. Take the 2012 Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) Expo held October 18-20 in Las Vegas. I had seven big questions answered, and I want to share them with you.
The 2012 Golden Image Award Winners were also a treat for the eyes. They covered almost "every item, no matter how complex, created by specialty imaging." I pulled a few award winners from their website; click here to see more winners. Finished Garments (Dark) Campus CollectionElvis at 21 Going Home
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Beyond the Expo, you may also want to check out SGIA's 2012 Market Trends and Product Specialties Benchmarking Report (only available to SGIA members). Here's a brief excerpt posted on their website regarding the report:
Nearly 70 percent of companies reported they are exclusively digital or are multi-technology shops favoring digital solutions. While almost 11 percent of the industry sees screen printing as its core technology, the number of companies using screen printing exclusively stands at just one percent.
When it comes to markets, retail and corporate branding continue to be core areas of opportunity for graphics and sign companies.
On the garment side, screen printing technology continues to be a mainstay for garment decoration companies, however, a broad range of digital printing technologies are being adopted. Nearly 65 percent of companies report themselves as multi-technology using mostly screen printing or multi-process with no single process dominant.
Athletic teams, educational institutions and nonprofits are the top markets for garment decoration companies. Each of these markets is served by 70 percent of companies.The full report, free to SGIA members, provides additional information about:
4. What is scaring people these days? That's simple: Marketing and social media.Many owners are like a deer in the headlights when it comes to social media and content/inbound marketing. As a proponent and user of the technique, I feel it's an invaluable way to share your expertise and your knowledge with the community at large. However, I met many business owners who shrugged their shoulders at the whole concept, and pined for days of old. It's too bad. To paraphrase Springsteen, "Those (days) are gone boys, and they ain't coming back." 5. What is delighting people these days? That's simple: Marketing and social media.While traditional "outbound" marketing continues to play a role in the marketing mix, it's the inbounders who truly are seizing the day. The people with the excited gleam in their eyes were the people jumping all over the new online opportunities, and finding innovative ways to use it and help their business.Here's a great slideshare on inbound marketing from HubSpot:
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- Calcium: 26mg
- Calories: 96
- Calories from fat: 1%
- Carbohydrate: 8g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
- Fat: 7g
- Fiber: 2g
- Iron: 1mg
- Protein: 2mg
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- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
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- 1/4 cup packed fresh basil leaves, torn if large
- Heat oven to 400° F. Combine all the ingredients except the basil in a roasting pan. Roast for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes are just bursting. Carefully transfer the tomatoes to a bowl and set aside. Place the roasting pan on the stove over medium heat (or transfer the liquid to a small saucepan) and reduce the liquid until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Toss the tomatoes with the basil. Drizzle some of the thickened balsamic sauce on each serving.
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Director of Student Leadership Shalise Bates-Pratt presented Baylee Smith '10 with
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Dean of Students Grant Azdell presented Kate Savage '09 with a Senior Leadership
R-MC's Habitat for Humanity organization received the
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Dean of Students Grant Azdell presented Joel Bolton '09 with a Senior Leadership
Faculty, staff, students, friends and family members gathered in the Thomas Branch
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First Year Emerging Leader—Ajiri Revels '12 and Charles Kesner
Second Year Emerging Leader—Katherine Gray '11 and Brandon Alwan
Junior Leadership Award—Baylee Smith '10 and Seth Haley '10
Senior Leadership Award—Kate Savage '09 and Joel Bolton '09
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Unsung Heroes Award—The Black Cultural Society
Dedication to Service Award—Habitat for Humanity
Event of the Year Award—Day on the Lawn benefit concert
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of the Year Award. Kate Savage '09 received a Senior Leadership
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Class Gift Committee. She also served as the executive director of the 2009 Macon
Miracles Dance Marathon. Savage is an international studies major with a minor in
communication studies. She was recently honored at the college's annual Empower
Luncheon and was presented with the Woman of Excellence award, which honors students
who have worked to contribute to advancing the status of women on campus, and who
demonstrate leadership, vitality and integrity in their lives on or off campus.
Joel Bolton '09 also received a Senior Leadership Award and was
lauded for his many roles on campus. Bolton, a psychology major from Manassas, Virginia,
has performed community service work with the college's Brothers 4 Change organization.
He is a member of the Judicial Board and the Academic Integrity Student Committee,
and he has worked for the Yellow Jacket, the college's student newspaper.
Bolton also worked as a tour guide, is on the Senior Class Gift Committee and played
intramural dodge ball, volleyball and flag football while at R-MC. "Receiving the
leadership award was confirmation that hard work and dedication are met with sincere
recognition at R-MC," says Bolton. "I had no idea I was going to be nominated, and
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achievements with a smile."
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work as sexual and relationship violence peer advocates.
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"After the astounding critical and popular success of his first book (Smilla's Sense of Snow), it wouldn't be entirely unexpected if Hoeg produced a less-successful sequel. But his second novel—a complete departure from Smilla—is even more brilliantly stunning than his first. Borderliners focuses on a 14-year-old orphan named, oddly, Peter Hoeg. Hoeg has been incarcerated in custodial institutions all of his young life, and he matter-of-factly recounts the cruelties of daily life that he has come to accept as normal . . . Hoeg's story reveals a harsh and grotesque world in which most of us could never survive. But it also suggests that there is hope—in the form of peace, if not happiness—for those like Peter who have been the victims of life. Disturbing, brilliant, and searing."—Emily Melton, Booklist
"In this extraordinary novel, Høeg portrays the closed world of Biehl's, a Danish private school where a bizarre social experiment is underway. The narrator, Peter, is now a student at Biehl's after spending all of his life in children's homes and reform schools. He is a borderline case, along with Katarina, whose parents both died in the past year, and August, severely disturbed after killing his abusive parents. Although allowed no social interaction, the children conspire to conduct their own experiment to discover what plan is being carried out at Biehl's. Høeg touches on some of the same themes as in his acclaimed Smilla's Sense of Snow—neglected children, scientific experiments, and technology—but this is not a thriller . . . It is instead a fascinating intellectual puzzle that explores the themes of social control, child assessment, family, and the concept of time. Highly recommended."—Patrica Ross, Westerville, Ohio, Library Journal
"In Hoeg's previous book, the thriller Smilla's Sense of Snow, the psychological insights and background detail were more gripping than the action scenes. Here, he has largely eschewed action and produced a story of psychological suspense in which the sense of menace is nearly palpable. This is a bleak, heartbreaking tale of gallant, desperately frightened children accepted on probation by an elite private school near Copenhagen. The narrator, Peter, was 14 when he arrived there, after anguished years in other institutions. Yet this school is even more frightening: both tyrannical mind control and physical violence are used to intimidate the students, in the name of scientific 'improvement.' Peter makes friends with two other 'borderliners,' the orphaned Katarina and August, a psychotic youngster who has repressed the fact that he killed his parents because they tortured and abused him. Together these damaged children strive to understand the goals of what they intuit as the school's 'grand plan.' They also have reason to inquire into the nature of time, for the traumas they have experienced have left them unsure of what constitutes reality. Hoeg succeeds brilliantly in conveying the fear of children who are helpless against brutal adult authority."—Publishers Weekly


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In order to sell the Chevy Volt for $30,000 or less, General Motors is considering leasing the lithium-ion batteries to customers who buy the car. As AutoblogGreen points out, renting car parts is an innovative strategy to get the Volt to market in time and at the right price. Having a car payment and a battery payment, however, might not be fun for Volt owners. The upside, however, is that GM would presumably warranty the batteries for the life of the lease, easing concerns over what happens to the battery packs if and when they fail.
In a way, GM has used this tactic in the past. Back in the day, the EV1 electric car was only available to lease, not to own. Of course, as most of us know, leasing the EV1s eventually bit GM in the arse when it went to retrieve the cars and encountered significant resistance from owners who had become attached to them. This plan seems to get around that issue, as a Volt owner will actually own his car, just not the batteries. Of course, if GM ever decides to ask for the battery packs back, owners may be left with a giant generator on wheels.
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When two Fisker cars catch on fire within months of each other, what's the first action you may expect from the car company? We would expect a thorough evaluation of the situation, a final determination, then maybe some internal rearranging, given the second fire is found to be caused by an issue with the company's manufacturing process.
They must do things a little differently at Fisker, as it has chosen to replace its CEO – the second time that has happened this year, by the way – and replace him with Chevy Volt line director, Tony Posawatz. Interesting last name for a guy heading up a hybrid car company... Reuters is also reporting that the fired CEO will be around to offer "fatherly advice" to the new CEO, but he will not hold a formal role with the company.
We don't know if Fisker's latest CEO to enter the revolving door has anything to do with the Fisker-b-q that's been going on recently, but the timing sure does seem a little strange to us. We are actually due to talk with Fisker at some point today, so we will make certain to ask their rep all about this situation while we're on the phone with him.
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"Magic: The Gathering" attracts gamers to Oakland « Oakland Local
A third-grader was not the only one excited about sharing his favorite card game at "Magic: The Gathering," an event at Oakland Convention Center on August 23 – 25 that attracted 1,800 gamers. Among the people addicted to the game are a beta-tester for Google Glass, a military vet designing security systems, a tattooed finance […] [Read More]
Birth of an Oakland tradition: Umoja African festival and SuRu soccer tournament (Slideshow) « Oakland Local
On a warm Saturday afternoon, tucked away at Lowell Park in West Oakland, something magical happened. In a pioneer effort, the first inter-African festival for soccer was born in Oakland. The event featured four competing teams made up of mostly West African local flag futbol players who competed on two fields while onlookers ate Taste […] [Read More]
Oakland Social: The 63rd Street Gallery artist's life « Oakland Local
I find this week that I don't know what to write. The news in the world has caught up with me at last. Syrian Civil War, violence here at home, Yosemite in flames, the Fukushima power plant leaking 400 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean every day over the last two years. In […] [Read More]
Hipster food Oakland's Lungomare is not « Oakland Local
If Oakland is west-coast Brooklyn, then Jack London Square might be little New Jersey. And here, inside Lungomare, Meadow Soprano could probably fit her whole wedding party. Tony would complain about how it wasn't Nuovo Vesuvio but not bad, not bad at all. Read more of this story and news at Oakland Local: http://bit.ly/14FjzBj Follow […] [Read More]
Not only commemorate, but continue: Rally on August 24, the 50th anniverary of the Dream (Community Voices) « Oakland Local
A multiracial, mostly older, crowd of about 150 people gathered at the Mosswood Park Amphitheater on Saturday, August 24, to attend a rally organized by the Bay Area Black Worker Center. Contemporary and local civil rights activists would speak on topics from the renewed assault on voting rights to the continued slaughter of young black […] [Read More]
Federal school lunch program now requires each kid to register « Oakland Local
Changes in the federal government's school lunch program have led to confusion in the first days of school at Oakland Unified School District and some kids going without meals, according to parents and officials. Now, the government requires that each child be registered for the Free and Reduced Lunch program for the schools to receive […] [Read More]
10+ school lunchbox strategies from two East Bay experts « Oakland Local
It's back-to-school time, when things calm down a bit at Fairyland, and parents of young children start thinking about what goes in the lunchbox. My baby is 22, but I still remember the best–and worst–things I packed for her. The best was a cooked chicken hot dog immersed in its cooking liquid and placed in […] [Read More]
Children's Hospital plans expansion, City of Oakland invites public comment « Oakland Local
Children's Hospital of Oakland (CHO) is pursuing plans to construct 327,000 square feet of new space for patient rooms, administrative services, and parking near their existing sites at 52nd Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard in North Oakland. The City of Oakland is accepting comments for the ongoing scoping session through August 28. If approved, […] [Read More]
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I did not use jicama and only had green cabbage. The tacos were still delicious and had so much flavor! Definitely will make again.
Fish Tacos with Cabbage-Carrot Slaw and Spicy Crema
LaurenWB Posted: 03/09/12
jlisaac Posted: 06/01/12
We made this out camping last weekend and I'm making it again tonight....so delicious! Ended up buying the coleslaw didn't have time to make it as the recipe called for, but still sooo yummy. Oh and very good with homemade margaritas!; )
crmeng Posted: 07/10/13
This is definitely a keeper. The seasoned fish is delicious and would be great on its own as an entree even without the taco preparation. In lieu of the sauce from canned chiles, you can simply combined some green taco sauce or green salsa with sour cream for a topping. I have made the slaw exactly as directed, with jicama, and have also substituted green cabbage for the jicama, and must say I prefer the cabbage version. Highly recommend this recipe.
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Who am I? I'm a girl with her head up in the clouds who enjoys drawing and creating stuff. All illustrations posted here are made by me, and are not allowed to be used without giving me credit and/or linking back to this blog.
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We have all been taught in school about the natural cycles of the earth.
For example, water evaporates from the oceans, comes down as rain, form rivers and drains back into the ocean. It's a cycle.
Oxygen is breathed in by animals, combined with carbon and released as carbon dioxide back into the air, where plants release the oxygen back for us to breath and use the carbon to grow. It's a cycle.
And, of course, carbon has it's own cycle where we eat the plants and then release the carbon back into the air when we breath.
All this is necessary for the happy balance of plant and animal life on earth.
Water cycles. Oxygen cycles. Carbon cycles. But... the carbon cycle has a major problem the others don't. Carbon is absorbed by plants which die and then become buried, or in the case of the oceans, buried on the ocean floor, forever. (This is called carbon sequestration). Oxygen and water cycle mostly without sequestration, meaning the amount in the environment never really changes.
The only natural source that exists to replenish the lost carbon is volcanoes. Volcanoes do not produce nearly enough to replenish the sequestered carbon.
What does this mean? It means that due to the constant loss of carbon from the atmosphere over the last millenia we have seen the lowest levels of carbon (in the form of CO2) that the earth has ever experienced in its history. Our discovery of oil and burning it to release the CO2 has been our opportunity to replenish it.
Plant and animal life on this planet that happily evolved with high levels of CO2 for millions of years are now starving from a lack of it. (Interestingly, this is evidenced by the fact that greenhouse plant growers add extra CO2 to their greenhouse air to achieve the proper balance for optimal plant growth. This amount varies but can be easily 3-4x our historic lows)
There was no natural way for it to be replenished. Without human intervention CO2 levels would drop toward zero and the earth eventually will be nearly starved of carbon.
Plants would suffocate. No plants = no oxygen or food for animals or people = bad.
We are already doing it. We learned in school that fossil fuels come from long-dead plants (fossils). These are not toxic materials. Unwittingly, but fortunately, humans are mining this long lost carbon in the form of fossil fuels and releasing it back into the atmosphere.
If you believe in God you may also believe that His divine intervention has given us this opportunity to save the planet.
We are not home yet. We have only succeeded in increasing the CO2 levels from their lowest ever (around 300 ppm) to roughly 400 ppm. At the current (2011) rate of increase of around 6 to 7 ppm/year, it will take another 60 years before we get CO2 level back to a natural level where plant life will flourish at 800 ppm (or more).
(Before the CO2 kooks get you all jumpy over this seemingly huge increase, keep in mind that this amount would only mean a 0.00002% decrease in the oxygen we breathe. An completely negligable amount of no consequence.)
Stop fighting against the CO2 zealots who believe, for various reasons, that we are producing man-made global warming. Their ignorance can't be helped. You know the sun controls the temperature of the planet so just tell them "it's the sun, stupid" and move on.
As for the rest of your friends, start fighting for the continued replenishment of atmospheric carbon to help restore the natural balance.
Educate others in the battle against Global Carbon Starvation which has occurred and which we are just now beginning to understand and help reverse the effects.
The following is not mine but it is definitive argument against the CO2 kooks. It is supported by tens of thousands of scientists and PhDs. Sadly though it does not go far enough to actually support the need for atmospheric carbon be replenished. But it is a start.
Click here for an HTML version of their document or visit the Petition Project home page.
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The Passions of the Mind by Irving Stone
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Awesome book. It's really amazing how he shows you his life in its entirety. I found truly interesting how it describes the process of discovering his theories. This is definitely a book for people with interest in psychology.
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The Pentecost Offering is ongoing from Sunday, June 8—Sunday, July
A portion of these proceeds will be given as a gift to the
Presbyterian Home for Children in Talladega.
If you send in a special Pentecost Offering, please note on the memo
line "Pentecost."
The Pentecost CANpaign to alleviate hunger will begin on Pentecost Sunday, June 8 and also run through July 13, 2014. All participating churches will be recognized at the August Presbytery
meeting. Please bring your
canned goods to the Fellowship Hall.
These canned goods will go towards the GBM Summer Food Drive!
Your generous support for these important causes is greatly
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Click here for Directions and information about our worship times.
Click here for Discipleship/Sunday School
We are
happy to announce that our first new Bible Study will begin on July 7. Our leader will be Henry McPherson.
Henry will
be teaching a course on the "Story of the Bible" on Monday evenings beginning
with July 7 and running for 4 weeks. We
will all meet in the HUT in back of the church at 6:00 PM each Monday and he
will conclude each session by 7:00 PM.
Henry will
address such questions as: When was the Bible written? Who wrote it?
In what language or languages?
Who decided what to be included?
What are some of the issues related to translation and interpretation
and how do we approach these? And
preparation is necessary!!!!
NOW is your
chance to get your questions answered so don't miss this study. This study is for MEN and WOMEN.
Shades Valley Presbyterian Church
2305 Montevallo Road
Birmingham, AL 35223
(205) 871-7309
Office Hours: 8:30 - 3:00 pm Monday - Friday
BOOK CLUB meets in the library following the Wed. night dinner on the 3rd Wed. of each month.


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Firstly, many congratulations
on your forthcoming wedding.
The Heart Essex Wedding Show takes place twice a year at The Brentwood Centre in Essex. In association with, Brentwood Orthodontic and Implant Centre – specialist in fixed braces, invisilign, lingual braces and implants, helping you live life smiling.
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