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Published 29 May 2009
Christos Tsiolkas on "The Slap"Books and Authors
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"The Slap" is a novel that has burst into our nation's conversations. An examination of Australian middle-class culture in the age of John Howard, its central consideration of whether it's acceptable to slap another's child, has kept dinner party conversations raging from Eltham to Fremantle. In this sold-out 2009 Sydney Writers' Festival session, novelist Christos Tsiolkas discusses his characters and themes with ABC journalist and writer Leigh Sales.
Christos Tsiolkas' previous novels have included "Loaded", which was adapted into the film "Head On", and "The Jesus Man". He has also written for theatre and screen. "The Slap" is nominated for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.
Leigh Sales is a host of "Lateline" on ABC TV. Her book "Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks" won the George Munster Prize for Independent Journalism in 2007, and her reporting from Guantanamo Bay has also earned her a Walkley Award.
Comments (41)
Infense :
11 Mar 2010 4:24:05pm
I disliked the book. The author appears more focussed on using crudities to shock then construct enjoyable prose. I read Loaded and found that to be a poorly-written book also.
jax :
09 Feb 2010 2:57:16pm
I am only half way through this book and I have to agree that this book has opened a can of worms.
It has crammed a lot of socially taboo concepts to the point of vulgarity. I too think that it is unnecessarily pornographic.
I am not being prudish but I feel Australian society in general are forcing sex into our everyday when it isn't necessary.
Do we really need the graphic details? Do we really need to be de-sensitized to the point that that this language is acceptable?
And for the point of the actual slap, well I would say bravo- he is an absolute little monster!
jojo :
09 Feb 2010 10:08:14am
I thought this book was awful - filled with misogyny, swearing, drug taking - and the sex scenes are cringingly bad. I read it to the end, because so many people seem to like it (it was after all nominated for the Miles Franklin) and I thought it might have some redeeming feature. I don't think so. I think that it is not so much about the slap as about the broader issue of male violence, but the book does not seem to offer any way forward with this.
I guess there is some skill in writing a book, which reproduces everyday life in all its grimy and trivial details. But I don't see my life, or that of any of my friends, reflected in this book. And in any case, I expect more than this from literature.
For me this book reads like one of those late-night TV soapies. I believe it is destined for television.
Elly :
01 Feb 2010 7:29:43pm
I did not like this book one little bit. The "slapping" issue is an interesting one though. I smacked my children when they were young, but would never, ever smack another person's child and I'm not sure how I would react if someone else smacked one of my children. BUT, this book was vulgar, almost pornographic. The author went for shock value instead of real emotion and showed absolutely no insight into how women friends relate to each other. It was so chauvenistic and some of the dialogue between the married couples was almost laughable. There was not one likeable character in this book and I can't believe that it has won such acclaim.
leroy :
29 Jan 2010 4:18:56pm
Talk about a mountain out of a molehill. An entire book written about a bunch of people incapable of dealing with conflict, expressing themselves in a civilised manner and providing leadership to their children. The appalling language, racism and pettiness of this bunch of insular people is not representative of 'middleclass' Australia. My 'middleclass' Australia is a little more mature and a lot less crass.
greg kenny :
25 Jan 2010 12:34:18am
at last we have an australian author who gets inside the brains of such a wide variety of people.
The book is reminiscent of Patrick white when he's on song.
lets have another one soon.
forget the slap,its not about that.the slap is simply his vehicle to reveal the authors acute understanding of a huge crosssection of modern australia.
Belinda Davey :
10 Jan 2010 10:33:20pm
I enjoyed Tsiolkas' essay on modern life. I think individual parents should make their own mind up about whether to use gentle forms of physical punishment on their children. I find the quiet chair works the best personally, but I can certainly see why a parent might lightly hit their child behind the knees if their being intentionally disobedient. It does not have to big such a big moral issue where the righteous can self-congratulate.
I don't understand why people equate liking 'The Slap' to liking the characters. I didn't like most the characters but I liked the book.
why_pseudo_names_anyway :
28 Jul 2009 7:20:39pm
How many middle-aged, middle-class Australians were smacked as children? A high proportion I expect. Not bashed, not slapped, smacked. This was discipline as I recall - the consequences of crossing boundaries. I found the context of The Slap as confronting as a smack as a child. No, more so. I understood what I'd done to deserve a smack as a child, but what the heck had I done to be a part of the society that urged me to read this book? Not sure. The language, the sex, the boorishness, the drugs, the melodrama in this book really bashed me.
donza :
10 Jul 2009 8:57:27pm
Slap is a clear view of class and racism, family and aging in our wonderful country. I don't live or come from Melbourne but still have lived and worked with these people
It is a clever story told a times in a manner that I found a little harsh, sex drugs, but that is not to say it is not real. the slap is not the issue it is the catalyst.
Felix :
08 Jul 2009 3:00:31pm
I feel like slapping the parents who, in their sternest voice, say "I'll count to three - 1......2.......2 and a half.....2 and three quarters" and then let the kid continue doing whatever it was that pissed the parent off in the first place.
If you can't discipline your little brats (and I don'l mean physically) don't take them out into public where they will spoil it for others.
Madge :
05 Jul 2009 4:24:06pm
Tsliokas has his finger on the pulse of what's going on in middle class Melbourne. Especally the racism, it's there from all sides. Why can't we just admit it instead of denying it then maybe we could move on. It's wrong to slap someone elses child but god knows there are some over indulged children in this city. As for the sex all you have to do is go on an online dating site to see how many married people in Melbourne are after "discreet" relationships.
Hathor :
02 Jul 2009 7:33:11pm
Have to say that neither hubby nor I enjoyed the book at all, thought the characters were just ghastly - far too self absorbed. And if they are emblematic of representing 'middle Australia' then count us out - we know nobody who behaves like they do or who uses that sort of language. Perhaps we lead sheltered lives, but I was astounded to hear that a television series of the book is being considered.
blax5 :
29 Jun 2009 11:02:58am
Not all children are accessible through words.
Although I am not a specialist in this area I have read that in Aboriginal culture children are to have a carefree childhood, free from obligations and punishment. Is that a model which produces desirable results?
I copped it with a carpet beater, which is certainly excessive, but the less accessible the child is through words, the more you have to notch up punishment, I guess. Making sweeping recommendations is never a good thing.
Helvi :
29 Jun 2009 5:36:12pm
blax5, you must have been brought up in Europe...I don't think we have any carpet beaters here...
Anyhow , isn't better to get the kid to beat the carpet, rather than beat the kid with the carpet beater...
Of course this should only happen if the kid is big and old enough for the job, say from the age ten and upwards...
PS. I had a problem sending this post, if it appears twice, don't blame me:)
blax5 :
30 Jun 2009 1:27:30pm
Yes, I was brought up in Europe. I was under ten, maybe 7 or 8.
I do not remember why my mother chose this method on her daughter. Whether I would be a different person if I had not copped it, I am not sure.
My mother was a very frustrated person, due to the crumbling of the marriage, and it was in that phase, more than once.
My late, younger, brother did actually not cop it, and he was a very disobedient person, had a lot of difficulties in his life (not criminal).
Putting children in a corner is a bit silly; they did this with me in school. I just took my coat and exited.
My aunt was locked in her room and tore all the wallpaper off. When my father was disobedient, he found himself on a train to boarding school, which is probably the best method, but not open to everyone.
N.Rama :
29 Jun 2009 7:49:09am
I am not sure if the barbaric practise of SLAPPING a newborn into initiating the breathing process still exists. I am sure that that slap is reverberating in the lives of many an adult. Obviously this misbegotten idea that it corrects gaps in abilities and behaviour extends into adolescence.
Children are sponges, soaking up knowledge and adult behaviour at an amazing rate. They imitate adults, who else? Know where I am going with this?
The problem is one of the young bringing up the young. Now if society were set up differently the elders would have the responsibility of nurturing children.
I am reminded of the following quote, "There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents"
Susan :
28 Jun 2009 6:24:16pm
I have not read this book.
I just wanted to say that I am a mother of four and I did smack my first child and I deeply regret it. I hear the comments, it is done with love, and I think that is nothing but a lie to justify poorly dealt with frustration on the parents part.
I have found that smacking kills children's confidence. Luckily I quickly learnt that this method of punishment only made me guilty and the child confused and sad.
I have actually had a very difficult son as well as three other children to deal with and there are lots of good methods of discipline if parents take the time to learn them. Time out, taking away the things they like to do etc., but the best thing of all is positive reinforcement when they are being good. Make a big fuss and do it often. Our biggest mistake is that we only react to the bad things and we need to reward the good things, even the little ones more often.
If someone else smacked my child, I would smack them. I don't think they would like it, do you?
tbert :
25 Dec 2009 10:35:59pm
I have no children.
A child came into my house and constantly misbehaved. the mother did nothing. This child was always hitting his sibblings and ME (and he was never smacked by his parents so where did he learn this from) I had had enough, put the child outside and locked the door. I told the child's mother he was not welcome in my house for 1 month and I stuck to it. His sibblings were aloud to visit and they loved it. He soon saw that if he behaved he could come back. Lord knows i sooo badly wanted to smack that child.
Arthur 1 :
28 Jun 2009 7:40:32am
Why not slap the other child's parents.
Hudson Godfrey :
27 Jun 2009 12:29:50pm
I dunno about whacking other folk's kids about the scone with a two by four, but I see so many ankle biters these days going absolutely out of control where parents have abandoned punishment that it becomes easy to see why somebody might want to. To be honest you can't tell what is best in each and every case by making broad generalisations but I think that parents should at least try to introduce the little sunbeams to the idea of action and consequence.
At a certain age kids between coming to recognise good and bad and learning that they can make choices about how they behave do understand discipline as something that comes from without until they can learn to control it voluntarily.
You don't have to water-board them by way of punishment but I have never really resented for one minute the well placed clip behind the ear that I received when I was a kid. As long as it was fair I never minded a little infrequent summary justice. Being disciplined very occasionally meant that somebody cared enough to want us to behave well. And getting it over with quickly probably suited a child's attention span.
I have been in circumstances where other people's kids put themselves and myself at risk by their uncontrolled actions. Basically I don't care what anyone says if you're going to let little kids running about near an arc welder I may have to physically intercede. Apart from that one incident I wouldn't want to intervene, even though I may wish that somebody would.
Hobbit :
27 Jun 2009 11:31:06am
Reminds me of an episode when a teacher asked for help with her class - she couldn't hold the kids. One bully was hitting a girl, so the teacher told him to stop and go to the corner. The kid stayed put and said, "No, and you can't hit me". I went up to that kid and told him, "I'm not a teacher, and I'm not your parent, and I WILL slap you if you don't obey." Clearly the kid was not so sure about the laws as they stand for "others", and my bluff worked. I don't believe in physical violence, but I believe that a slap (not a punch!) at the right time can help discipline. This being said, I'd only slap another person's kid if his/her parents were not around to take charge, and if I thought it were absolutely necessary.
For those who think it is a controversy, I'd remind them that there is a big difference between discipline and abuse - it's for the latter that we need authorities stepping in, not for the former. Btw nobody complains about verbal abuse, which can be much more damaging than the odd slap and gets dished out easily by anybody.
david hicks :
26 Jun 2009 9:28:01pm
I'm encouraged to read the negative feedback about this Tsiolkas book. I've just finished reading the most disgusting book - Rohypnol- that I've read in many decades of reading many books. About a group
of men, 'The Rape Squad' who specialise in spiking woman's drinks & then raping them . I kid you not! Tsiiolkas gave it a rave review: "...ammoral if not evil..." Well he got that bit right I'd say. What happened to humanity I wonder?
Arthur 1 :
26 Jun 2009 8:54:59pm
Why not slap the other childs parents?
itsme :
26 Jun 2009 8:20:16pm
Of course it's not acceptable to hit people, whether they are smaller than you or not. Why this has "kept dinner parties raging from Eltham to Fremantle" beats me.
It would be a boring topic to raise at a dinner party in my country town, because there would be no disagreement. You don't hit people, and you certainly don't interfere in a family unless you develop an overwhelming desire for one of the spouses.
Books are meant to be read. Interviews, plays etc., to be listened to. The book sounds interesting, but the video was tedious, because it was a spoken book.
Kevin of Brisbane :
26 Jun 2009 4:53:28pm
I read the book and hated it. I enjoyed the section dealing with the old man, but thought the remainder needlessly crude.
I thought the central theme - slapping someone's child - could have made a great book, The author "squibbed it"
Wakka :
26 Jun 2009 3:04:55pm
The problem has arisen as some parents have come to realise that smacking a child is not only potentially negative, but is easily replaced with other methods of punishment.
I have found the naughty corner type tactics to be so effective there has never been a need to smack and so I never have.
If someone else chose to hit my child I would very upset indeed.
protagaonist :
28 Jun 2009 12:19:11am
to Wakka the wally:
-The fact that someone else feels your kids need to be smacked might say something about the effectiveness of the stupid naughty corner.
Pyce :
01 Jul 2009 2:08:32pm
Spoken like someone who has no children.
Once you have children and interact with other people who have children you learn that what's effective for one child may not be for another.
And all normal children test boundaries, it's part of growing up and learning what they can and cannot do. Violence toward a child is rarely the best option, it doesn't teach them WHY they shouldn't do something.
Ben :
26 Jun 2009 3:00:43pm
We've napalmed other people's children.
26 Jun 2009 8:48:50pm
Thanks Ben for an insightful re-frame that I think everyone should consider.
Tamaresque :
28 Jun 2009 10:32:14pm
What a question to ask...and what a statement to make in support of it! I'm sure that the parents of the children who were napalmed were also very upset indeed!
The short answer to the "why?" is, because no one has the right to assault my (or anyone else's) child.
Hated It With A Passion :
10 Jan 2011 5:20:05pm
Ben you have given the best comment out of everyone! Thank you ... I am now calm and happy :D
Helvi :
26 Jun 2009 2:30:35pm
Daughter had to read this book for her book club. According to to her she was too busy, so The Slap landed on my bedside table, i had to read it and brief it for her...
I have to say this is a perfect book for young mums to discuss...
A thoroughly enjoyable and engaging book...for a male writer, Tsiolkas gets his female characters right...
When my kids were little, some kids were slapped even in public, but times have changed for the better; the slapping is not on...
atomou :
26 Jun 2009 4:58:49pm
Helvi, I've got the book in front of me. I just couldn't go past the first page. It's still sitting there and I've yet to summon up the courage to pick it up again.
I've read bits of that page to Mrs At and she won't pick it up, either.
Glad you've enjoyed it though.
Helvi :
27 Jun 2009 11:22:40am
atomou, is it all too Greek for you?
I have learnt that you like the Greek Gods, maybe even the Goddesses, ouzo and dolmades...
Anything else?
Sally :
27 Jun 2009 6:04:30pm
push on - it gets very good - well worth the effort.
itsme :
26 Jun 2009 8:00:20pm
Helvi: Yes, times have changed for the better.
I well recall many scenes in supermarkets and such, of a mother attacking her child with slaps, and the hysteria of the child who wanted to run to comfort to her mother, and distressed that this person was the attacker. The child's hysteria inflaming the mother to more violent attacks.
30 Jun 2009 8:05:04pm
Helvi, I don't know if you'll ever read this, seeing a few days have passed since your post, but I was surprised that you think "Tsiolkas gets his female characters right". I only just finished the book (some rels in Melbourne sent it to me) and I was astonished, from page 1 right through to the end, that the f-word was used by almost everyone, frequently, in front of everyone....and the c-word often enough to make me cringe. I'm about the same age as the main protagonists, brought up in various parts of Australia, with friends from a very wide variety of backgrounds, and I swear, but only around my peers, and most of them swear less than I do, if at all. There were so many times I was struck by Tsiolkas perception, or excellent character development, and then disappointed when the dialogue began. Have I been away too long? Do Aussies really talk like they're in a c-grade American movie?
Felix :
08 Jul 2009 3:02:44pm
"I had to read it and brief it to her........."
No you didn't HAVE to read it - you just took the easy way out.
I'm sure your child will appreciate the lesson in taking responsibility. Great child rearing helvi.
DocMercury ®:
26 Jun 2009 1:32:27pm
It is a moot point beside the SOP of collateral damage in military engagement, whereby the US military isn't much better than Timothy McVeigh beside blowing up child care centres with ammonium nitrate, causing congenital birth defects with Agent Orange and depleted uranium, carpet bombing whole countries, dropping napalm on villages, and firing missiles into weddings.
Which body of shifting sand are you using to draw the line?
DocMercury :
26 Jun 2009 1:15:42pm
Why not?
We've napalmed other people's children.


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There are dozens of golf activities for people of all ages in Brunswick County.
Clubs with memberships run tournaments, guest days, member-member events, club championships and mixed events. The Elks, the VFW and various special interest and/or friendship groups sponsor leagues. The Carolinas Golf Association has an active tournament schedule. Most churches and charitable organizations have fundraising events each year.
One of the best opportunities to play golf in Brunswick County is sponsored by the Brunswick County Parks and Recreation Department.
When Cedar Grove Middle School teacher Marty Mentzer heard the story of The Wilmington 10 this past summer, she immediately felt her students could relate.
Mentzer, a physical education teacher and sponsor of the Basketball Poets, was introduced to the story of The Wilmington 10 this summer at the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington.
She attended a workshop where filmmaker Francine DeCoursey spoke about the documentary she was making on the group and shared ideas of how the movie and the story could be shared in local communities.
Brunswick County Sheriff's deputies are searching for a missing woman.
Nellie Doaloras Johnson, 34, of 4551 Sweet Bay Drive, Southport, left home between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. Jan. 22. She could possibly be around Shallotte or in the Longwood area.
Anyone with information about Johnson or her whereabouts is asked to contact detective Jayne Todd at the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office, 253-2777.
During my last year in college, I had the distinct honor of spending time with Michele Remy, a 29-year-old incoming Haitian freshman. Other than my grandfather, Michele was the most devout Christian I have had the opportunity of being around.
The mother of the inmate who died while in custody at the Brunswick County Detention Center has sued the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office for the wrongful death of her son.
Beverly Vaught, the mother of Senaca Marrell Vaught, who was 32 when he died at the detention center Jan. 23, 2008, sued the sheriff's office, Brunswick County Sheriff John Ingram, detention officers Dustin Riddle, Karl Scoggins and Steven Gerstenmier, Brunswick County, Western Surety Co., Southern Health Partners and Arlene Stanley, according to the lawsuit.
An Oak Island man was killed early Saturday morning in a single-vehicle wreck when his car ran off the road and flipped several times.
Travis Derrick Modlin, 25, of 219 N.E. 50th St., Oak Island, was traveling south on N.C. 133 in a 1994 Honda passenger car, according to First Sgt. A.E. Morris of the N.C. Highway Patrol. He ran off the road to the left. The car overturned several times, Morris said, before landing on its top.
Modlin was taken to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, where he died.
No other vehicles were involved, and no passengers were in the car.
Call it a reverse yard sale, a way to shed good, usable items you no longer need, to give to someone who does.
Members of First Baptist Church in Shallotte are just calling it The Great New Year Giveaway.
It kicks off at 8:30 a.m. this Saturday, Jan. 30, at the church at 4486 Main St.
While it may sound like a free-for-all, the church's first Great Giveaway is targeting people in need.
For the past few weeks, the congregation has been collecting donations from people in the community, church pastor Bob Weathers said.
CALABASH—Detailed drawings for a proposed town park drew mixed comments at a long-range planning committee meeting Jan. 21.
Devaun Park developer and landscape designer Scott Stewart did the initial renderings as a contribution to the town.
Proposed plans for the 1-acre site call for a park pavilion, stage and amphitheater area where concerts could be presented, picnic site, restrooms, outdoor grills, play and lawn sports areas, sidewalks, walking trail and gravel parking lot for 18 cars.
Main Street Shallotte has seen a lot of changes over the years, and it's now in the middle of another facelift, thanks to various new businesses, additions and renovations taking place.
A new drive-through coffee shop, East Coast Copper Cup, is now under construction beside McDonald's and is expected to open at the end of February or first of March.
SUNSET BEACH—Larry Crim has seen lots of changes in his quarter-century working for the town of Sunset Beach.
As the sun sets on his 25-year career in Sunset, the town's longtime assistant administrator is being feted with a retirement party on his 62nd birthday this Friday.
He'll also be celebrating his launch into retirement, which includes remaining in the scenic coastal town he watched and helped grow.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3103?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12989816#comment-12989816 ] Swen Moczarski commented on AMQ-3103: ------------------------------------- We got similar problems. The scheduler stops from time to time due to an exception. Maybe, the cause is an unsynchronized method in the scheduler which results in a broken store structure. I described the issue in AMQ-3140. Testcase and patch is available :-) Would be interesting to see if the patch fix this issue. > Queue stalls after Job Scheduler component shuts down. > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: AMQ-3103 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3103 > Project: ActiveMQ > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Broker > Affects Versions: 5.4.2 > Environment: Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.X, > JDK 1.5 32-bit > JDK 1.6 64-bit > Reporter: Swapnonil Mukherjee > Priority: Critical > Attachments: activemq-1.log, activemq.log, activemq.xml > > > Observation > ---- > Active MQ stops accepting all incoming messages destined for a particular queue, after the scheduler component processing scheduled messages on that queue encounters an Null Pointer Exception. > Environment > ---- > We are using the Spring JMSTemplate component to post messages onto a queue. We also place a delay of 30 seconds on each message before posting > {noformat} > message.setLongProperty(ScheduledMessage.AMQ_SCHEDULED_DELAY, Integer.parseInt("30") * 1000); > {noformat} > We use the Spring Default Message Listener Container to receive messages. > Normally the broker runs fine and we have seen messages appear under the "Scheduled" tab on the Active MQ Console, after which they processed normally and we can tally using the "Messages Enqueued" and the "Messages Dequeued" numbers. But occasionally the Job Scheduler fails with the following exception. > {code:xml} > 2010-12-10 16:31:38,522 | ERROR | JMS Failed to schedule job | org.apache.activemq.broker.scheduler.JobSchedulerImpl | JobScheduler:JMS > java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.kahadb.index.BTreeIndex.loadNode(BTreeIndex.java:264) > at org.apache.kahadb.index.BTreeNode.getChild(BTreeNode.java:225) > at org.apache.kahadb.index.BTreeNode.remove(BTreeNode.java:330) > at org.apache.kahadb.index.BTreeIndex.remove(BTreeIndex.java:194) > at org.apache.activemq.broker.scheduler.JobSchedulerImpl.remove(JobSchedulerImpl.java:347) > at org.apache.activemq.broker.scheduler.JobSchedulerImpl$4.execute(JobSchedulerImpl.java:125) > at org.apache.kahadb.page.Transaction.execute(Transaction.java:728) > at org.apache.activemq.broker.scheduler.JobSchedulerImpl.remove(JobSchedulerImpl.java:123) > at org.apache.activemq.broker.scheduler.JobSchedulerImpl.mainLoop(JobSchedulerImpl.java:515) > at org.apache.activemq.broker.scheduler.JobSchedulerImpl.run(JobSchedulerImpl.java:429) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) > 2010-12-10 16:31:39,561 | INFO | JobSchedulerStore:activemq-data/primary/scheduler stopped | org.apache.activemq.broker.scheduler.JobSchedulerStore | JobScheduler:JMS > {code} > Why does the Job Scheduler fail? One possible reason we have found is that the clock time settings on the VMs producing the messages and the broker as well as the consumers are all different. So the Job Scheduler may be shutting itself down arbitrarily due to this difference in clock. We are in the process of syncing all clocks but we are not sure whether this will solve the problem. > Bug > ---- > But the Bug really is, even if the Job Scheduler encounters an Null Pointer, why should it shutdown? Even more problematic is the fact that the queue itself stalls and does not accept anymore messages after the Job Scheduler shuts down. > The only way to recover is to completely delete the data directory. > I am attaching the activemq log and activemq configuration file. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Last week the electric company came to town to do their annual pruning
of trees around power lines...one of mine was on their list and I was
happy to see how careful these guys were about making sure they didn't
damage the tree...they did a nice job and the tree actually looks much
healthier...we would have pruned it ourselves in another couple of weeks
but now we had it done for free. Especially after one of our spring
break forays to another town showed me a couple of very good examples of
how **not** to prune a tree...could not believe that any one in this day
and age would still be topping trees, but there they were...idiots!
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--- On Sat 03/27, Kitty < firstname.lastname@example.com > wrote:
From: Kitty [mailto: email@example.com]
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:39:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia
Ceres,
I couldn't tell from your post whether you thought topping and
coppicing
were similar practices or that one just brought the other
to mind.
Coppicing is cutting the shrub to ground level and stooling
cuts generally
to 6-24 inches from the ground year to encourage lots
of new growth.
(there is also pollarding, but I think people often
use all 3 terms
interchangeably) Topping is a stupid practice done to
trees, much higher
up. Why? Ignorance.

From International
Society of Arboriculture:
Topping is perhaps the most harmful tree
pruning practice known. Yet,
despite more than 25 years of literature
and seminars explaining its harmful
effects, topping remains a common
practice. This brochure explains why
topping is not an acceptable
pruning technique and offers better
alternatives.
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To:
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Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 10:56
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> In a message
dated 3/27/04 8:12:49 PM, firstname.lastname@example.com writes:
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> <
> Baltimore that I observed
row-house gardens that would have a single
>
> "coppiced" tree in
the backyard. >>
>
> Verona, this made me think of the many trees
I saw in the D.C. area which
I
> guess you might say they were
topped or at least severly pruned. Anyone
know
> why? This is a
forbidded practice in our area.
> Ceres
>
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Augustus, Taylor earn district honors
Patterson head coach Ryan Taylor (The Daily Review/Geoff Stoute)
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The Patterson Lumberjacks were well represented on the District 9-3A squad, with a share of the Most Valuable Player Award as well as the Coach of the Year.
Patterson sophomore Nehemiah Augustus was named Co-MVP with Donaldsonville senior Jamal Jones, while Patterson coach Ryan Taylor was named the district's Coach of the Year.
The Lumberjacks finished its district season as co-champs with Donaldsonville as both recorded 7-1 marks and split their district contests with each other.
Senior Larry Turner also represented Patterson on the first team.
Other Patterson selections included junior Daylon Charlot on the second team, while seniors Dontrell Benjamin and Jedrick Gunner were named honorable mention as well as sophomore Taylan Grogan.
Other first-team selections included Jones, Donaldsonville sophomore Stephen Sullivan and E.D. White senior Logan Sullivan.
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Jamal Jones, senior, Donaldsonville; Stephen Sullivan, sophomore, Donaldsonville; Larry Turner, senior, Patterson; Nehemiah Augustus, sophomore, Patterson; Logan Gravois, senior, ED White
Second team
Daylon Charlot, junior, Patterson; Kevin Johnson, freshmen, ED White; Jaquel Gant, junior, Donaldsonville; Jalen Pedescleaux, senior, Donaldsonville; Audwin Williams, sophomore, Berwick
Nehemiah Augustus, Patterson; Jamal Jones, Donaldsonville
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Ryan Taylor, Patterson
Honorable mentions
Dontrell Benjamin, Jedrick Gunner, Taylan Grogan (Patterson); Leondre James (Donaldsonville); Brandon Naverro (Berwick); Deandre Charles (Franklin)
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you have a job with strange hours, you are the only employee trained to do your job and you work alone so sick days are hard to take they are also all unpaid and you are often penalized for missing a shift even in the event of emergency (yes it's wrong blah blah blah the job is what it is and you have accepted these conditions) so because the job pays well you can afford to hire a private nanny for your children, one of whom is under a year old the other two are school age.
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Detectives have found "linkages" in three cases tied to Dellen Millard and have combined the investigations into a multi-jurisdictional probe headed by a senior Ontario Provincial Police officer.
The cases – the murder of Tim Bosma, the disappearance of Mr. Millard's friend Laura Babcock and the death of his father Wayne Millard – are being overseen by Detective Inspector Dave Hillman under the province's major case management system.
Dellen Millard, 28, faces a first-degree murder charge in Mr. Bosma's death in May. Ms. Babcock, who police say was romantically involved with Mr. Millard, phoned him several times before she went missing in the summer of 2012. And police are re-investigating Wayne Millard's November, 2012, death, which was initially deemed a suicide.
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On what triggered the major case management system
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Best In Show: The Biggest +Rhodes Ever Awarded
Aside from the whole "my favorite wrestler having a 20-minute match of the year candidate" thing, this was my favorite part of the show. I love you for doing this, and you are now my shoot best friend.
Best: YouTube Pre-Shows
I mentioned it in last week's Best And Worst Of Raw report, but on the list of things pro wrestling should borrow from UFC, "pre-show fights for free on YouTube" is at the top of the list. "Threat-kissing during staredowns" and "Davey Richards" are at the bottom.
It's just good business. You've got a live event happening and you've got a pre-show set up anyway, so why not give it a loose purpose and broadcast it on a site you want your fans to visit? It gives two (or more) wrestlers a chance to be on the show, it gives you an extra, not-necessarily-important time slot for something like a United States Championship match and it reminds cheaper wrestling fans that tentpole wrestling is about to happen and they should consider buying it. It beats the hell out of Justin Roberts or whoever yelling YOU DON'T WANNA MISS EXTREME RULES over video packages for half an hour.
Worst: If You've Got 30 Minutes Of Pre-Show, You Can Have More Than 4 Minutes Of Wrestling
Unfortunately most of the pre-show was YOU DON'T WANNA MISS EXTREME RULES over video packages.
Miz versus Santino wasn't ever going to be a barnburner, but if you've got half an hour to convince people that the wrestling is gonna be SUPER GREAT and they should pay for it, why are you selling it with four-ish minutes of Miz duckflopping around while Santino pretends to jab him with a snake sleeve? The old Sunday Night Heat method was Rock promos and 15 minutes of TAKA Michinoku and the pre-vampire, post-daisy pants Hardy Boyz jumping at each other and falling off the top rope.
And if you only want the Santino match to go four minutes, why not move some of the unimportant pay-per-view stuff like Brodus Clay versus Dolph Ziggler and the Ryback handicap match to the pre-show? We only need so many pee breaks per three hours and it'd allow you to make a 23-minute Daniel Bryan/Sheamus match a flat 30. The way you have it set up now is just gonna make people go "lol Ryback is on this show?" when they pick up the DVD at Buyback$ five years from now.
Worst: So Hey Miz, You Gonna Say F**k It And Go Sell eBay With Your Amazing Girlfriend Or What
I don't want to keep making duck jokes about the guy, but this f**ker's goose is cooked.
I'd like to believe WWE Creative has a 'The Wire'-esque bulletin board with Miz at the top with a "PLANS" index card under him, and right under that is a card that says "lose really sadly to the Rock" and then 40-50 cards under that that all read "complain about how worthless he is". The post Hell In A Cell PPV Miz has got to be the saddest and least enjoyable to watch character in modern WWE history, partially because of how static his act is and partially because it's like watching your f**king grandfather get Alzheimer's. He used to be a thing, but now he just lies there looking out of the window, mumbling about how he's the most must-see something something.
I don't know how wrestling works in real life, so maybe Miz is fine and just wanted to spend a year or two losing in a few minutes to a cloth-poke because he's sick of getting concussions and going on Conan. Maybe he'll get back the spark soon and improve upon what he already worked so hard to improve upon. Maybe he should start thinking of an exit strategy and thank Christ that his supermodel French girlfriend got sh*tcanned and shipped off to his parents' house in Parma before he did so he didn't have to do a Morrison/Melina, Lawler/Stacy thing.
Best: Jill Thompson's Signs
According to her Twitter she was sitting beside the camera and had no hope of getting her signs on screen, but Jill Thompson (who you may know from her work on comics like Sandman, Scary Godmother and motherf**king Swamp Thing … or as the person responsible for Daniel Bryan's awesome ring gear) does some fantastic posterboard work that deserves to be showcased:
Best: The Other Best Sign Of The Night
By way of @LyricalThreat:
Batman would hate Cena, wouldn't he? He'd also have a plan for beating Cena ready to go in the Bat-computer, which hopefully reads "move out of the way of the jumping shoulderblocks … if shoulderblock connects, don't just get up and throw wild punches … do not lie on the ground and let him dance punch you … if dance punching connects, don't stand up and walk toward him with your hand over your face".
The lesson here is that you should never be afraid to put a little effort into your signs, because they are a true niche artform and the wrestlers deserve something better than "RVD" and a yin yang in thin-ass green on yellow.
Best: Zack Ryder Encapsulated By His Own Sneak Attack
Friend of the column/gif and screen-grab specialist THESTINGER said it best when he mentioned how Zack Ryder attacked Kane "like a child trying to stop his father from beating up his mother", and how Kane no-selling Ryder's punches was hilarious. I can't come up with a more appropriate description than that. As disappointing and uncomfortably unimportant as The Miz can be, Zack Ryder's utter futility and helplessness is starting to go past bad and back around to good. On any upcoming Raw we run the risk of Ryder's dad accidentally walking into the locker room while Zack's got his dick in a pie. "I just accidentally drank a beer with sperm in it! Woo woo woo, you know it!"
I wish Michael Cole hadn't spent the last two years screaming about nerds, because a huge group of popular WWE Superstars are turning into sad nerds of such a harsh degree that A GUY WRITING A PRO WRESTLING COLUMN ON A BLOG WHO OWNS TWO DANIEL BRYAN SHIRTS AND GENE SNITSKY'S PROP BABY BLANKET can't identify. When AJ shows up on Halloween dressed like Kitana from Mortal Kombat, that connects with me. When CM Punk namedrops Volk Han, I nerd out appropriately. Watching Ryder go "daw c'mon" to a girl with no interest in him and getting kicked in the nuts just makes me really happy I'm not Zack Ryder.
Best: Randy Orton Got Back His WrestleMania Win, So No More Supernatural Father Feuding Plz
That's a wrap, everybody! Randy, great job with the kidnap murder. Kane, see you at Smackdown on Tuesday, we're gonna do a thing with you where you light Jared from Subway on fire.
That's where we need to go with this. Randy Orton got a contextually clean victory over The Monster Kane to bring them even, and the worst thing we can do is stretch it out and book the rubber match in four days or whatever at Over The Limit. Kane beat up Randy Orton's dad, Randy Orton beat up Kane's dad, they fought with props and now they're coolsies. That's how every feud with Kane should happen — he should start the cycle by picking one random person, spend a few weeks moo-hoo-hoo-ha-ha-ha'ing at them, punch their Aunt in the throat in week 3 and finish it off at the pay-per-view. Then, win or lose, he moves on to another person. He should be exactly like Clavicus Vile in 'Skyrim' … he's all "Raaaandyyyy, RKO BARBAS", and whether Barbas gets R'd-KO or not he becomes a part of the statue and we go finish a different quest somewhere else.
Best: The Teddy Long Nametag
Worst: The Fact That It Doesn't Say "Hello! My Name Is Peanut Head"
Maybe I'm just an asshole, but I feel like Teddy Long should be emasculated and demeaned by everyone he works with as some sort of penance for all those times the Steiners put him in a shark cage and raised him to the top of the arena only for him to still have a foreign object and throw it down to the Skyscrapers, or Doom or whoever.
Teddy is a great example of WWE telling you to like someone and expecting you to like them. It works, but I hate it. Teddy hasn't done anything admirable in his entire wrestling career. He was a bad-slash-blind referee, then he became a cheating, jerk manager. When that fell through he went back to being a terrible referee (to date there have been exactly two admirable referees: Mark Curtis and Bryce Remsburg) (maybe Joe Higuchi too if he hadn't counted so slowly and spent 1972-1984 falling down every time something important happened). When that didn't work, he became a racist, and somehow parlayed that into running Smackdown. During his era of Smackdown, his only contributions were to make non-stop tag matches and have a heart attack at his own stupid in-ring wedding.
In contrast, John Laurinaitis is responsible for helping sign all of your favorite WWE Superstars to WWE contracts, used to high five kids while holding a skateboard and the worst thing he's done onscreen since taking the General Manager job is f**k with the success of the one guy who is always purposelessly mean to him. And he fired John Morrison. Boo everyone onscreen but him.
Worst: This Funkasaurus Feud Needs To End With Ziggler Going Figurative Columbine On Somebody
It does.
Ziggler needs to flip the hell out about losing to this fat dancing dinosaur in four minutes and go apesh*t on him, jump him in the parking lot, drive into him with a forklift, get Team Disrespected Widow on the same page and f**k him up. I don't know, but if I sat through two minutes of dancing, lost immediately and had to sit through two more minutes of dancing I would be Travis Bickle in a goddamn heartbeat.
Kudos to them elevating Brodus Clay, I guess (I would be a total hypocrite if I didn't celebrate the successes of a super ugly, super fat guy with a dinosaur gimmick … the difference between him and Mantaur is an Earth Science class, but whatever), but I don't enjoy seeing one of the most talented wrestlers in the company lose so completely to one of 4-5 concurrent squash streak guys. Swagger could've just as easily lost this match, and Ziggler could've done a thing where he gets to wrestle and we pay to enjoy it.
Of course, if Cameron wakes up at the beginning of Raw and finds Hornswoggle's head in her bed it'll be the greatest thing ever.


text: Great article by Robert Sloan - soon to be ex pres of Baylor (home of the NCAA Womens BBall Champions!) from APB http://www.abpnews.com/news/news_detail.cfm?NEWS_ID=636 For what its worth, I think Sloan is correct - but probably 5 years premature in todays highly charged fundy/moderate battle. Sloan does take shots at both sides in his speech. Things in my opinion will change in a few years as the old guard retires and or moves on. Sloan says Christian education stymied by name-calling, 'fear-mongering' Date: 04/21/2005 Source: 05-36 By Ken Camp WACO, Texas (ABP) -- The future of Baptist colleges and universities depends on educators' willingness to "move on" beyond the political categories that have dominated denominational life for more than 20 years, Baylor University President Robert Sloan told a national conference. Before Baptist schools can make any progress, some "thick and often ugly underbrush" must be cleared away, Sloan told participants at a conference on the future of Baptist higher education, sponsored by Baylor's Truett Theological Seminary. "I would like to declare in terms as strong as I can possibly muster: It is time to move on," said Sloan, who steps down as president to become Baylor's chancellor June 1. Sloan resigned the presidency after two years of conflict that focused in part on his attempt to make Baylor's Christian identity more overt. Critics said his efforts to integrate Christian ideas into all areas of university life infringed on academic freedom. Some other speakers at the conference -- from schools in states still torn by political and theological conflict -- insisted Sloan's admonition is premature. "The call to put the struggle behind us and move on sounds different in some ears than in others," said Dwight Moody, dean of the chapel at Georgetown College in Kentucky. In his opening remarks to the conference, Sloan chose to forego the typical welcome by the president of a host school. Instead, he urged Baptist educators to quit "endlessly rehashing old battles" and to "lay aside the multiple agendas that have divided Baptists" in recent years. "The denominational battle left a mark on Baptist educational institutions," he acknowledged. "Here at Baylor, which remained throughout those wars primarily a politically moderate Baptist institution, I often have felt that many are still fighting old wars rather than getting on with the business of our present and future." Baptists cannot afford to forget lessons learned from denominational battles, and those conflicts deserve scholarly examination, he noted. "But we must get beyond the categories and assumptions which dominated and even limited the discussions among Baptists over the last several decades," he said. Secular assimilation is a greater danger than fundamentalist takeover of Baptist universities, Sloan asserted. "To continue to breathe in hushed tones about fundamentalist conspiracies to take over our schools today is terribly wrong-headed," he said. "To quake in wild-eyed fear -- or holler, 'Creedalism!' -- because Baptist educators, whether administrators or faculty, want to ask prospective faculty about their faith is fear-mongering." To label as "fundamentalists" people who simply affirm basic, historic Christian doctrines such as the Trinity, the Incarnation and the authority of Scripture is "theological demagoguery of the highest order," he insisted. "To act like the priesthood of the believer is a license to believe anything or nothing and still be a Baptist is a folly too stupefying for words," he said. At the same time, Sloan criticized inerrantists, saying: "As for the doctrine of Scripture, one-word shibboleths cannot possibly capture such a complex doctrine. To refuse out of dogmatic fear to face the theological facts on such issues as the history of the composition of the Bible and its canonical processes is intellectually dishonest and will ultimately serve only to nullify our ability and our responsibility to proclaim the Word of God to our generation." Efforts in some Baptist educational circles to perpetuate social and religious traditions that limit the roles of women in the life of the church are "narrow, authoritarian and biblically unwarranted," he added. Baptist schools also cannot afford to surrender to forces that would limit legitimate discussion of science and bio-ethical issues, he said. "To refuse to face the philosophical and theological implications of the issues which the frontiers of science and technology lay at our feet is to make ourselves irrelevant and willfully ignorant," Sloan said. "To refuse to discuss, much less investigate, the social and/or genetic and/or spiritual factors which are inextricably linked to the public issues of abortion, cloning, dying, stem-cell research and homosexual behavior is both inexcusable and tantamount to abandoning our prophetic role in the world." But other speakers at the conference noted not all Baptist schools are in the same position as Baylor University. Bill Leonard, dean of the divinity school at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., pointed out the different ways Baptist colleges and universities have redefined and renegotiated their relationships with their parent state conventions. Some, such as Baylor University, revised their charters to select their own trustees but retained financial and connectional ties to their Baptist constituencies. Others, such as Wake Forest, cut all formal ties to the state conventions with which they were related. Still others, like Mercer University, continue to negotiate their relationships with divided state constituencies. And in places like Louisiana College, controversies regarding institutional control and confessional conformity have created campus unrest. "For many schools that continue to be owned, operated and funded by state conventions, conflict and tension may descend at any moment," Leonard said.


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Optimize Humidity for Efficient Powder Handling
Too much or too little moisture can cause problems during processing and storage
• allow sensitive assessment of the impact of environmental variables such as moisture and degree of aeration.
Three techniques that score highly against these criteria and have proven especially relevant for process-related studies are shear, bulk and dynamic property measurement.
Shear analysis, which was developed in the 1960s [1], is particularly useful for hopper design and, more generally, for characterizing consolidated, cohesive powders. Modern instrumentation with well-defined methodologies and a high degree of automation has brought enhanced reproducibility and reliability, ensuring the place of shear analysis in the modern powder testing toolkit.
Bulk property measurement, i.e., the determination of bulk density, permeability and compressibility, though well-established, similarly has benefited from instrument refinement. Bulk property data may be used directly in process design calculations and provide a general insight into powder behavior that supports the prediction of performance in certain processes.
Dynamic powder testing methods, which were developed in the late 1990s, marked a step change in powder characterization, rather than refinement of an existing technique. Dynamic characterization involves measuring the axial and rotational forces acting on a blade as it traverses through a sample along a fixed helical path to generate a value for flow energy (Figure 2). This value directly quantifies powder flowability, i.e., the ease with which the powder flows. The technique is highly sensitive and has the distinct advantage of allowing powders to be characterized in a consolidated, conditioned, aerated or even fluidized state. It can directly measure the response of a powder to the introduction or release of air.
Let's now look at how shear, bulk and dynamic property measurement can provide insights on the impact of humidity on two different, industrially relevant powders.
We assessed the impact of humidity on limestone (BCR116, a very fine material with a mean particle size of four microns, used as the standard reference powder for shear testing) and lactose (FlowLac100, an example of a widely used pharmaceutical excipient, which has a mean particle size of 140 microns).
First, we allowed samples to equilibrate in environments of varying relative humidity to assess how much water was taken up. For both materials, absorption and adsorption rates are quite low (Figure 3). However, the more interesting question for processors is whether the resulting moisture content of the powder can change behavior. To answer this question, we subjected each sample to shear, bulk and dynamic property testing using the FT4 Powder Rheometer. Reference 2 provides full details of the test methodologies.
Limestone. The dynamic measurements for limestone show that basic flowability energy (BFE) — the ease with which the powder flows under forcing, compacting conditions — increases with increasing moisture content (Figure 4a). This behavior may indicate the water acts as a binder, producing liquid bonds that raise the overall cohesivity/adhesivity of the system and promote the formation of loose agglomerates. The variations observed in the aerated energy (AE) data (Figure 4b) at first sight would seem contradictory to the BFE results. However, these are better understood when studied alongside the permeability results (Figure 4c), which are generated by measuring the pressure drop across the powder bed for a given air flow — higher pressure drop equates to lower permeability.
The limestone has very low permeability across all levels of moisture content, largely because of its fine particle size. In general, the strength of interparticle forces increases with decreasing particle size; this is why finer materials tend to have relatively high cohesivity. Strong interparticle forces result in a packing structure that resists the passage of air, causing low permeability. So, with cohesive powders the inclusion of water provides relatively little scope to reduce permeability further. This effect is illustrated clearly here, where increasing moisture content minimally changes permeability in absolute terms.
For analogous reasons, the limestone substantially resists aeration; any upward-flowing air tends to channel through to the surface rather than promoting steady fluidization. Therefore, the introduction of air has a limited and variable impact on flow energy, with the extent and influence of the channelling varying erratically with moisture content.
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I. To maintain a Childhood Cancer Registry for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer.
II. To utilize clinical and biological data to help determine eligibility or stratification, based on childhood cancer disease classification schemas, for potential enrollment of research subjects onto Children's Oncology Group (COG) therapeutic clinical trials.
III. To develop a well annotated childhood cancer biobank for current and future research through the collection of biospe
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Primary objective: To compare two-year relapse-free survival (RFS) of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with detectable leukemia stem cells (LSCs) in their bone marrow at end of treatment (eLSC+) to the two-year RFS of patients without detectable LSCs (eLSC-).
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b. Compare the two-year RFS of favor
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|The primary objective of this study is to examine the incidence of neutrophil recovery of > or = to 500/mm3 after cord blood transplantation in a multi-institution setting using CBUs that are not Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed.
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