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|Desert Walk
Who says a Desert is like a dry, quiet, and a boring place?
That was what I thought it is before we hit the road going to the place called Red Sand 100 + km from the city of Riyadh. I was really amazed of the wide mountains of desert sand which is sculptured by the wind and formed slope along side each other. It resembles the stock of brown sugar placed in the dining table for the sticky rice cake. It is nice to come here when the summer time is just beginning to cool down and starting to enter the winter season. This place is the favorite spot of OFW's during Eid holiday to unwind and play like a kid.
|Girls just wanna have Fun!
This is really my first time to drive a quad bike especially here in a wide desert red sand. When I adjusted on the feel and control of my brakes, steering and acceleration, I did try to race with my colleagues, climbed the steep hill and challenged the downward slope. Oh man, what a feeling! I admit I nearly fall from the bike when the wheel got stuck in the sand and I lose control of the handle.
|My Colleague Pinoy Engineers
Over all, it was great! The timing is right to become a kid again. It is also a way to de-stress myself and overcome my fears. I can say that this desert I experienced is no doubt a cool, noisy and fun!
I look forward to coming back again here next time.
Till my next post,
Seize the Day,
Allan B. Laranang

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Monday through Tuesday, November 5th through 20thSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Tue, 2007-11-20 21:42.
Hello there,
It seems like good timing to provide another update given today's wonderful new announcements regarding stem cell research combined with the fact I haven't updated in some time... For those not watching the news or reading the newspapers, there was a significant stem cell research item publicized today. I've included just a few of many, many articles below but in a nutshell they revolve around the fact that they have 're-programmed' adult stem Cells to be more embryonic like in nature without needing an egg or embryo. This is actually HUGE because it helps eliminate the whole debate around using the egg or embryo for the embryonic stem cells. Perhaps we can now get more funding towards this research without the political interference on at least this front. I still believe embryonic stem cell research should continue and without it, today's announcement would have never been made. In all reality, it will take many more advances like this to help Tori given the severity of her brain injury but one tiny, tiny step at a time I guess. There is not much more we can do other than to hope and pray advances come in time to provide Tori an improved quality of life.
Time Magazine: A Breakthrough on Stem Cells
MSNBC: Skin cells made to mimic stem cells
Tori is still doing well, remaining healthy and participating in her various therapy sessions. Nothing extraordinary to report at this time. We were able to take her to the 'Art for Heart' charity dance recital in SLC last weekend. She watched over 2 hours of dance performances without any agitation or anxiety and was fully focused on each performance. She also had some of her old dance team members visit her after the performance. She seemed to have a great night along with the rest of us.
Friday through Sunday, October 19th through November 4thSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Sun, 2007-11-04 19:57.
Hello again,
We are all now back into the standard routine of providing Tori's daily care and facilitating all of our other family needs. Brendan and Whitney remain heavily involved in their school activities and Whitney continues to follow her passion for dance by practicing up to 5 hours per day. In fact, Maria, Whitney and Brendan spent this past weekend in Ogden at a NYCDA competition. They stayed overnight at my brother TJ's house who lives a short distance away. The kids were able to spend some quality time with their cousins which was nice to see once again.
Tori, Tinker's the Yorkie and I spent that weekend at home where we cleaned the house and tried to relax as much as possible. Tori has remained healthy and her progress on learning and physical abilities is about the same as it has been for some time. Since her botox and phenol injections several weeks ago she has exhibited much more control of her hands and arms. We typically see this right after the injections and it eventually fades as the botox wears off. But we are taking advantage of this control and range now during her PT sessions where Tori has improved. Cari still provides the sessions twice per week and runs Tori through a full range of motions on almost all of her limbs and major joints. We also provide this exercise when we can but could probably do far better than we are currently... We try and get Tori into her wheelchair daily in the late afternoon or early evening time frame. Another nice result of the injections is that Tori can sit more comfortably in her wheelchair with her arms naturally positioned on the arm rests. Yogurt, ice cream and other soft foods are still her favorites and we typically feed her while she is in her wheelchair. She can still consume a whole yogurt with only minor or no coughing so her ability to eat remains stable with small amounts of soft food. She doesn't gag or choke nearly as often as she used to but we are still gauging just how much we can feed her without a vomiting episode which unfortunately could lead to an aspiration... It's a tight rope balancing act at all times it seems.
Friday through Thursday, October 5th through 18thSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Thu, 2007-10-18 20:33.
Good evening,
Maria, Whitney, Brendan and I returned from our five day stay in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday morning. We had a wonderful time and were able to reconnect somewhat even though we comprised only 80% of our family. We did alot of visiting with Guy and Sophie, site seeing, shopping, eating, sleeping and eating some more... ;-) I'm also happy to report that Tori did absolutely great during our absence and gave Grandpa and Grandma Schmanski ad Moira her nurse very, very little trouble. We had emergency plans prepared just in case and thankfully we didn't need to use them.
Tori only needed medication to ease her anxiety and agitation at times and that is nothing outside of her normal routine. Grandma and Grandpa were able to provide this for her as well as her daily care and feeding pump preparation while Moira came to the house twice per day to administer her daily doses of medication. We also had the video camera configured so we could watch Tori from my computer in Boston. We were able to determine what medication to give her at certain times to calm her agitation. Meredyth also came for Tori's ST sessions and Cari for her PT sessions while we were gone. All in all we don't think things could have gone any better!!! :-) We were able to relax a little more after the nervousness passed during our first couple of days and nights away. We did check in often though.
The Friday before we left Tori received her botox and phenol injections throughout her upper body and arms. By the the time we left Tuesday afternoon the botox had taken effect and Tori was a much more relaxed and not agitated person. We really couldn't have left her without her getting the injections. Now she can sit in her bed or wheelchair comfortably with her arms relaxed and laid across her lap. It's a marvelous thing even though it is such a simple task!!! If Tori ever gains immunity from botox we will be in big trouble...
Since we have been back Tori's demeanor has remained relatively calm and relaxed. Grandpa and Grandma headed south to the warmth of Mesquite, Nevada to take a well deserved break. Thank you both so much again for providing our family this opportunity!! We are now back into our 'normal' routine of caring for Tori and her siblings and doing our best to keep the household running. I'll also be meeting with Tori's school counselors next week to determine a learning plan for her. We'll see what we can come up with.
Tori SleepingSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Sun, 2010-11-07 22:19. Tori's pictures
Tori's HeadstoneSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Tue, 2010-08-10 17:43. Tori's pictures
Happy Birthday!Submitted by Shaid DePalma on Mon, 2010-08-09 10:56.
Today, It's you birthday Angel! I know that you are having fun Dancing with the Angels! MISS you like crazy Tor!
Tori's TreeSubmitted by Tim Schmanski on Tue, 2010-01-05 22:45. Tori's pictures
Tori's Tree - This represents Tori's favorite things from the color orange, computers, flowers, dance, Paris, legos and music.
I'm so sorry for your LossSubmitted by jy22077 on Mon, 2009-11-09 12:51.
I deeply saddened to hear that Tori has passed away. God Bless you and Tori. May she rest in peace in the glory of God the Father.
I am so sorry about your loss.Submitted by Sereia on Sun, 2009-11-08 20:17.
I have been following Tori's story since this site was started. I went to school with Tori and she was an amazing, beautiful girl who brightened every room she entered. Tori and her family have been through an amazing journey and have always been the perfect example of a strong loving family. I know that families really can and will be together forever.
If there is anything I can do to help the family at this time please let me know.
May comfort and peace be with Tori's family at this time.
With sadness and tears ...Submitted by Jill and Donny on Sun, 2009-11-08 09:22.
Dearest Tim and Maria and your beloved family. Kathryn contacted us yesterday and told us about Tori. It's difficult to express our sadness and concern when you are so far away. Please know that we always think and pray every day for all of you. We are so sorry for your loss. Thoughts all day and prayers every day. Love Aunt Jill and Uncle Donny.


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Welcome to the World Peace Flame
Every day, people from all over the world and all walks of life are lighting World Peace Flame candles as a symbol of universal peace and as a reminder that peace is the change that you and I can make here and now by the way we think, speak, feel and act to create harmony in our daily life and relationships.
Brief history of the World Peace Flame
Seven flames, lit on five continents, were flown by military and commercial aircraft to the United Kingdom. On 31st July 1999 they were united in Bangor, North Wales to create the World Peace Flame. Since then, the Flame has been presented to world leaders and featured prominently in many major world events. The World Peace Flame has been taken to every country in the world and is being lit daily by millions of people as a dedication to peace. We aim to inspire people everywhere that the individual plays a crucial role in creating peace at every level.
Our dream is as simple as it is ambitious:
to light an eternally burning World Peace Flame in every major city or decision-making centre in the world.
"This symbolic World Peace Flame is an expression of our shared humanity. We do not walk the journey of life alone. We are created to cooperate together for the common good, making this a world where caring and sharing matter more than things; where tolerance and understanding are fostered and justice brings hope and security to all."
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"May the World Peace Flame be a reminder that every one of us can make a difference in building a more secure, more just and more humane world order."


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Positioning Between Structure and Performance
- Sherilyn Benson
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1 JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE AND UFE HISTORY, 7(1-4), Copyright 1997, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Positioning Between Structure and Performance Michael G, W, Bamberg Department of Psychology, Clark University There are two possible interpretations of what the term narrative implies in Labov and Waletzky's original 1967 (this issue; henceforth L&W) framework in terms of how narrative is linked to personal experience in particular and to sense-making in general. The first, more simplistic reading implies that narratives-particularly those of personal experience-are representations of something that on,:e happened and what this past happening meant (or "now" means) to the narrator. The second, more indirect reading requires the act of telling-or "representing" at a particular occasion in the form of a particular story-to intervene, so to speak, between the actual experience and the story. It was the first reading of L&W that originally fascinated me and lured me into exploring narratives as a window to people's experiences. However, in the course of having worked with narratives overthelast two decades, I have moved more and more to adopt the second reading. Other contributors to this issue have commented in one or another way on this tension between a traditional, structural approach and a more performance-based, pragmatic approach to narrative and narrative analysis. Whereas the first takes its starting point from what was said (and the way it was said) and works toward why it was said, that is, its meaning, the second focuses more strongly on how it was performed as the main index for what the narrative as an act of instantiation means to the performer. It also should be noted that within this second reading the audience is much more of a factor that impinges on the shape of the narrative and its performance. What actually is being said is one of the many different performance features in what the speaker aims to achieve in the act of narrating. Requests for reprints should be sent to Michael Bamberg, Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA
2 L& W' s analytical suggestion to start with the identification of narrative clauses, that is, with "matching a verbal sequence of clauses to the sequence of events which actually occurred" (this issue), and then take the free clauses as an index for the narrator's evaluative stance, appears to give prominence to form over function, inasmuch as it seems common sensible that one has to first identify the sequence of temporal events before one can assess the seemingly more subjective criteria that led to an evaluative stance on those events. Thus, the events present somewhat of an "objective" basis, without which an evaluative stance could not be rationally claimed and upheld. Temporality, which later in the 70s became a fascinating topic for all kinds of cross-linguistic comparisons, seemed to form a solid basis upon which formal linguistic systems and systems in use (as in narratives) could be explored. Without being able to follow up on the history of these hopes and their demise (and some recent transports [in state] to new hopes in the exploration of the relation between language and space), I attempt here to outline an approach to evaluation that picks up on L&W's original suggestions; however, one that is more in line with their functionalist orientation, treating temporality as one among many other performance features that all ultimately are in the service of discursive purposes and the formations of local identities. Although the notion of positioning was originally not developed exclusively for the analysis of narrating as an interactive activity, it nevertheless attempted to employ strategically the notion of plots and story lines. Building on Hollway (1984), Davies and Harre (1990) defined positioning as a discursive practice "whereby selves are located in conversations as observably and intersubjectively coherent participants in jointly produced story lines" (p. 48). Thus, in con versations--due to the intrinsic social force of conversing-people position themselves in relation to one another in ways that traditionally have been defined as roles. More importantly, in doing so, people "produce" one another (and themselves) situationally as "social beings." Although this approach explicitly addresses the analysis of language under the heading of how people attend to one another in interactional settings, and although traditional narrative analysis along the lines suggested by L&W addresses the analysis of what the language is referentially "about," namely sequentially ordered (past) events and their evaluations, we have attempted to apply the notion of positioning more productively to the analysis of storytelling (see Bamberg, 1996a, 1996b, 1997; Crawford, 1996; Talbot, Bibace, Bokhour, & Bamberg, 1997) in order to link these two approaches. For this purpose, we considered the process of positioning to take place at three different levels that are formulated in the following as three different positioning questions: 1. How are the characters positioned in relation to one another within the reported events? At this level, we attempt to analyze how characters within the story world are constructed in terms of, for example, protagonists and antagonists or as perpetrators and victims. More concretely, this type of analysis aims at the linguistic means that do the job of marking one person as, for example: (a) the agent who is in control while the action is inflicted upon the other; or (b) as the central character who is helplessly at the mercy of outside (quasi "natural") forces or who is rewarded by luck, fate, or personal qualities (such as bravery, nobility, or simply "character"). 2. How does the speaker position him- or herself to the audience? At this level, we seek to analyze the linguistic means that are characteristic for the particular discourse mode that is being employed. Does, for instance, the narrator attempt to instruct the listener in terms of what to do in face of adversary conditions or does the narrator engage in making excuses for his actions and in attributing blame to others? 3. How do narrators position themselves to themselves? How is language employed to make claims that the narrator holds to be true and relevant above and beyond the local conversational situation? In other words, we hold that the linguistic devices employed in narrating point to more than the content (or what the narrative is "about") and the interlocutor. In constructing the content and one's audience in terms of role participants, the narrator transcends the question of: "HQW do I want to be understood by you, the audience?" and constructs a (local) answer to the question: "Who am I?" Simultaneously, however, we must caution that any attempted answer to this question is not one that necessarily holds across contexts, but rather is a project of limited range. Children's accounts of emotion situations. As a first example of how the positioning approach to narratives was put to use, let me offer two illustrations from my ongoing studies of children's accounts of emotion events. When asked to give an account of a situation when "you made someone else angry," a 6-year-old answered: "It was acouple of years ago, when I took the crab away from my brother, then I stuck my fist out, and he ran into it and got a bloody nose." Typical for this answer is the positioning of the I as an agent who nevertheless does not have full control over the outcome of his actions and consequently cannot be held responsible. The narrator positions the I in such a way that the event described is characteristic of the event type "accident." The other, here his brother, is positioned vis-a-vis the I as somewhat agentive: If he hadn't moved himself into the fist, this situation would not have occurred.
3 In contrast to the linguistic devices employed for this type of scenario, accounts of situations when "I once was angry" typically position the other as being a highly individuated and often unjust agent, whose actions are targeted willfully at the {, construing the relationship between the two characters as one of perpetrator and victim: "When my sister slapped me across the face, just because she didn't let me in her room, and I wanted to playa game, but she didn't let me, and she slapped me across the face." The two different types of linguistic strategies can clearly be differentiated in terms of the syntactic constructions that are employed (see for more details Bamberg, 1996a, 1996b, 1997), However, these different syntactic construction types are argued to be pragmatically organized by the discursive purpose for which they are employed: whereas constructions used for the construal of the first type of positioning serve the purpose of saving face, the strategies employed for the second positioning serve to elicit empathy and align the audience in a moral stance with the { against the other, Teenager's accounts of their sexual identity. Crawford (1996) prepared a detailed analysis of all three positioning levels in two different narrative accounts of the same experience, both given by the same 13-year-old girl. The experience involved being away from home and spending an excessive amount of time on the phone, The first account takes place in a classroom context and is given to a female acquaintance of the same age: Narrative I We were talking on the phone from the hotel... to this kid John,.. for three hours, and the phone bill came up to fifteen dollars, for one night, my Mom was like wicked mad at us. (Crawford, 1996, p, 45) At another occasion, the same situation is presented to her best friend (female) and two overhearing boys, again in the classroom: Narrative 2 When I was in Connecticut this weekend, my friends, we were stayin for competition, right, and they met this boy, right, so they called him out from the hotel, and he was having phone sex with one of my friends, you know how they have phone sex, right, like, aw, you're wearing this, oh baby, you look so fine, you know, and all, they're having phone sex, I was sittin there, I was cracking up, I was like "no sir," (Crawford, 1996, pp ) In her analysis, Crawford first delineated the positioning devices used to set up the we versus my Mom in the first narrative, resulting in a typical teenage alignment against an adult world, in harmony with the peer-group values. By contrast, Narrative 2 employs a rather different positioning strategy: Firstly, the descriptions of the agentive characters are different (we vs. they; they made the call, whereas in Narrative 1, we used the phone); secondly, this kid John, who was the recipient of the call in Narrative 1, is positioned agentively as having phone sex in Narrative 2; and thirdly, {, who is not mentioned in Narrative I, is singled out and positioned as nonagentive (sitting) and explicitly distancing herself from what is happening. In addition to positioning the characters distinctly, the narrator (in a number of free clauses in the middle of Narrative 2) seeks to position herself to her audience as an expert on the topic of phone sex (Positioning Level 2). In sum, the linguistic devices employed in the two narratives result: (a) in different positioning of the characters in the narrative event (the situation described) and (b) in two rather different relationships between the narrator and her two different audiences. Furthermore, Crawford demonstrated that the differences in these two positioning strategies resulted in two different moral positions and identity claims, both of them interactively and locally achieved. The first can best be described as a claim with regard to her position as a young person in conflict with the adult world of telephone bills and responsibilities, the second as a young person who is knowledgeable about topics concerning boys and sexuality. Both claims are made against the background of existing moral orders that are being tested out and questioned in the narrative discourse conducted with the audience. In other words, the two claims as to how the narrator wants to be understood as a person (who she "is") are explorations that could be modified in the subsequent course of the conversation. The narrator's implicit claim in the second narrative that "she is not that kind of girl" is clearly maintained, but "open to negotiation" (see Crawford, 1996, for an elaboration on this point), Women's accounts of their pregnancies. In my third example, we (Talbot, Bibace, Bokhour, & Bamberg, 1997) attempted to distill the identity claims in an even more direct way. We analyzed narrative interviews of two pregnant women who had been diagnosed previously "at risk" due to a history of gestational diabetes, thereby, in case of a further pregnancy, placing themselves as well as their fetus at risk. By performing a discursive analysis of these women's positioning strategies, we hoped to be able to reveal their claims as to who they are and how they made sense of their situation in comparison with the master narrative of the normal course of pregnancy and birth giving. Our analysis started with a detailed analysis of how the two interviewees positioned themselves as characters within the depicted situations as they relate to their family members, friends, and neighbors, but mainly in their relationships with their physicians. From there, moving to Positioning Level 2, we analyzed their positioning strategies with the interviewer (and behind her a more generalized
4 [female] audience). Let me skip a detailed account of the linguistic constructions employed by both interviewees and move straight to a summary of their claims as to how they seem to understand themselves-at least in this conversation-in light of their claims as to who they are and how they want to be understood. Mary. the first interviewee, views herself as a self-reliant person, who is better equipped than anyone to devise a program of self-care that will meet her individual needs and ensure the health and safety of herself and her unborn baby. Her complaint regarding doctors is that they fail to respect the soundness of her judgment and the efficacy of her agency. Her identity claim as a self-reliant individual lends her authority as she advises others to claim self-reliance for themselves. She constructs her own identity by asserting that she herself is unusual and that ways of understanding pregnancy that may apply to others often are not useful to her in her efforts to cope with the adversarial challenges of a difficult pregnancy. Sue-the other interviewee-attributes the notion of pregnancy that she disputes not to medical authorities, but to the majority of the general public, whom she portrays as uninformed. Her critique of this popular view of pregnancy is in a sense more radical than Mary's, for Sue is asserting not only that this widespread version bears no resemblance to her pregnancy, but that it fails to take into consideration the truth that complications are a common experience for many pregnant women. Bearing witness to this diversity of experience among expectant mothers, she concludes that the concept of normality embodied in the standard pregnancy narrative is in need of revision. When doctors appear in her account, they are clepicted not as opponents but as benign and knowledgeable allies who help her to arrive at a more realistic appreciation of pregnancy as a potentially perilous undertaking. Far from constructing herself as asserting her power to control the outcome of events in her pregnancy, Sue insists that uncertainty is ineluctably a part of the process and that no expectant mother can eliminate pregnancy's inherent risks or dispel its mysteries. Sue constructs herself as a realist, whose authority is grounded in openness to points of view beside her own and in her realistic acceptance of the limitations to her own control. In other words, she grounds her lack of power and self-control in a position of authoritative realism. The three examples of positioning analysis were meant to outline how this type of analysis proceeds. Although children at the age of 6 years do not seem to be able to make far-reaching claims with regard to their identity that enable us to analyze their narratives for positioning at Level 3, their choices of linguistic constructions to position themselves as characters in reported personal experiences reflect clearly the ability to construct scenarios in light of discursive purposes such as attributing blame or saving face. Our analysis of the two reportings of the same event in the 13-year-old adolescent's narratives highlighted positioning at Level 2. Here the construction of the narrator-audience relationship by use oflinguistic constructions was foregrounded. Although both narratives referred to the same event, the language used marked two different positioning vis-a-vis the two audiences: Both entailed claims regarding "what kind of girl I am," though both claims are thoroughly grounded in the here-and-now ofthe conversational setting. The identity claims (Level 3) may best be understood as situationally instantiated and put up for negotiation. Our positioning analysis of Mary and Sue focused more strongly on the linguistic means employed to construct identity claims relevant for Positioning Level 3. Although these claims are nevertheless locally tied to the interview situation, they bespeak a discourse type that searches across past events (of personal experience) for evidence to make claims of a more decontextual sort. In our article (Talbot et ai., 1997) we attempted to sort these discourses in relation to preexisting master discourses on the topic of pregnancy and moral identity; that is, we asked the question: Where did these discourses come from and how did they achieve their coherence and persuasive powers? Turning back to the question of how this type of positioning analysis compares with L&W's original notion of evaluation, it should be noted that in my proposal narrative is defined considerably more broadly than in L&W: The discursive situation and the discursive purpose are as central as the semanti9 (temporal) organization of the narrative. In this sense, the analysis of positioning is an attempt to unite the pragmatics of narrating with the linguistic (structural) analysis a lal&w into one that emphasizes more strongly issues such as "the assignment of praise and blame" (Labov, this issue) and "viewpoint" as central to the emergence of structure and meaning in narratives. In line with Labov's general acclaim of the analysis of language use, I hold that the analysis of positioning is basically a linguistic analysis, one, however, that takes linguistic (and extralinguistic) devices as performance features (or as "contextual i- zation cues"; see Cook-Gumperz & Gumperz, this issue) that index how narrators want to be understood. "Temporally ordering" and "stepping out of the flow of events" are two options in the repertoire of speakers. Other contributors to this issue have pointed to other devices that figure centrally in their analyses, and Labov's own contribution clearly points in the same direction. Positioning analysis may possibly best be understood as granting more centrality to the speaker's active engagement in the construction process of narratives. At the same time, the proposed type of analysis points up that any attempt to assemble and analyze performance features as put to use for discursive purposes needs to acquire a multiplicity of potential functions. Although the "what's-thepoint-question" seems to be particularly legitimate, a story may often serve more than one purpose: Above its very referential and informative function, it may entertain, be a piece of moral advice, extend an offer to become more intimate, seek
5 audience alignment for the purpose of joint revenge, and serve as a claim as to "who I really am"-and all this at the same time. In addition, these functions are not only ac hieved with narratives that position the self as one of the central actors. They are also used in narratives about (third) persons other than the self-fictional or nonfictional, and they similarly apply to generic olhers as central characters. Thus, although narrative analysis traditionally tends to privilege narratives of personal experience as providing some special access to experience and "the person:' narratives as acts of narratmg in general lay themselves open to the same kind of positioning analysis. Bamberg. 1\1 (1996a). Emotion talk(s): The role of perspective in the construction of emotions. In S. Niemeier & R. Dirven (Eds). The language of emotions (pp ). Amsterdam: John Ben- Jamins. Bamberg. M. (1996b). Perspective and agency in the construal of narrative events. In D. Stringfellow. E. Cahana-Amitay. E. Hughes. & A. Zukowski (Eds.). Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston ConfeIeI1ce on Language Develol'menl. Vol. I (pp ). Somerville. MA: Cascadilla. Bamberg, M. (1997). Language. concepts, and emotions. The role of language in the construction of emolions. Language Sciences. 19, CrJwford, V (1996). Identity (onstmoion in [(i/lversational narratives. Unpublished mastets thesis. Clark Unive"ity. Department of Psychology, Worcester, MA. Davies. B.. & Harre. (1990) Posilloning: The social construction of selves. Journal/or lhe Theory of Social Behaviour, Hallway, W (1984) Gender difference and the production of subjectivity In J. Henriljes. W Hallway. C UrwlI1. C Venn. & V Walkerdll1e (Eds.). Changing the subject: PrycllOlogy. social regulation and.",b)ecli! 'tv cpp ). London: Methuen. Labov. W. & Waletzky. J. (tbis lssue). Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experience. In J. Helm (Ed), Essays on the "erbal and! i.will ans' ProceediTlfiS o[the 1966 Anmwl Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society (pp ). Seattle'. Unlverslty of Washll1gton Press (Original work published 1967) Talbot. J. Biboce. R, Bokhour. B, & Bamberg. M. (1997). Affirmation and resistance of dominant discourse1'" The rhetorical conqnjction of pregnancy. }ounwl (~f Narrative and Life Hin()ry. 6,
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Really shouldn't still be blogging - it's 1.30am and I have to attend the Bristol's Got Talent event at the Felix Road adventure playground tomorrow - but this caught my eye from tomorrow's (today's) Observer. "Kidney cancer drugs could be produced for about a tenth of their current cost".
I was emailed a couple of days ago from the constituent who'd successfully won his appeal to be prescribed Sutent on the NHS; he's doing really well already, putting on weight, feeling much better (see The drugs don't work - not a statement of opinion on my part, I just couldn't think of another vaguely relevant song title at the time).
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Love letters by Iris Murdoch
Listening to: Avett Bros' new album The Carpenter, streaming on NPR. (Review by the always awesome Stephen Thompson of PCHH - "The Avetts' music aims for something bigger than itself, and damned if it doesn't find it.")
Also listening to: The Head and The Heart "Rivers & Roads" (The Doe Bay Sessions), and "Down in the Valley" (Live on KEXP)
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Apparently this is the year that my favorite novels get made into movies; first, Cloud Atlas, now, Midnights Children. Not sure that I'll see either.
From Human Rights Watch, the effects of a failed drug policy, here and abroad. "Blacks, whites commit drug offenses at similar rates, but black men 10 times as likely to be jailed"
Finally got around to reading this, glad I did: Queer, Interrupted by Tegan Eanelli "Redemption is not to be found in the unfolding of capitalist time, but instead in its forceful interruption. Against the dogma that it gets better, we have to understand that queerness was not built on a linear progression through adversity, but was fought for against a progression which would have eliminated it."
"There are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom." ― David Foster Wallace
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September 2013. My best college friend Matt, my little brother Logan, and myself had somehow managed to escape the chaos of Poland intact, and were on our way to the mysterious Ukraine. Two years after our epic first trip to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, and Sweden, the original Eurotrip A-Team was reuniting for another crazy romp through Eastern Europe. As the three of us stumbled onto the early morning plane at Krakow Airport, bound for Odessa, Ukraine, we reminisced about the crazy event of the last few days in Poland. We had managed to see all the gorgeous sights of cobblestoned Old Town Krakow, dance and drink our way through most of the hottest clubs and bars, evade all the persistent strip club promoters who were absolutely bent on fooling a couple of clueless Asian American guys into spending all our hard-earned money on strippers, and even make a few new Polish, Austrian, and British friends along the way. Laying ahead of us after a quick 2 hour flight was the main Euro event, our final destination, and the true reason we had come this deep into the bowels of Eastern Europe: The Ukraine!
When most people hear about The Ukraine, they think of pretty much only three things: Chernobyl and the nuclear meltdown disaster, hot Slavic women and models, and vodka. Before this trip, I knew absolutely NOBODY who had ever visited this mysterious former Soviet republic, except for actual Ukrainians I know who had immigrated from there. Matt and Logan also had never heard of anyone who had been to The Ukraine. It was a country fraught with both danger and possibilities. On the one hand, Ukraine could be a paradise filled with gorgeous ballerinas and super models topped with caviar and nothing else. On the other hand, Ukraine could also be a dark broken-down radioactive wasteland filled with former KGB mobsters toting Kalishnakovs and bartering black-market plutonium. We had absolutely no freaking idea what we should expect, and if we knew what kind of ridiculous things would happen, we would have never believed it. As we stumbled off the plane, we were about to have our first random and bizarre experiences of what this strange country was really like.
First of all, we realized that the most obvious random and bizarre part of this country was the language and writing. Every written thing that we saw as soon as we landed was in some bizarre language, which we all realized was Russian. Russian, for those of you who don't know, is written using the Cyrillic Alphabet and not the English Alphabet. Filled with bizarre letters like "Д", "Й", "Ф", and "Щ", our jaws totally dropped when we realized we had ABSOLUTELY no idea how to read, much less pronounce, these words. Even letters that look similar to English letters, like "P", are actually pronounced like "R." A "3" is pronounced like a "Z." Our heads hurt just LOOKING at words in Russian, and we quickly realized we were screwed. You have no idea how lost you are in a country when you can't communicate with anybody, you can't read even basic street signs and menu items, and nobody else can read or speak English! Over the course of the next 8 days, Logan and myself quickly taught ourselves most of the Cyrillic Alphabet, and basically learned how to read Russian. Even though the rest of our trip was total chaos, learning how to slowly read and pronounce a decent amount of Russian in a little more than just a week with Logan is one of the things I've been most proud of lately. I had not felt that helpless since I first started going to China, but at least in that country I had been able to speak basic Chinese and get around and communicate just a little bit.
The next thing we realized was that maybe everything they had said about Ukrainian women said WAS going to be true. The Ukrainian Border Guard at the airport as we disembarked was a totally cute olive-skinned 20-something brunette, with large blue limpid eyes, who looked like she belonged more in the pages of a fashion magazine and less in the screening area of an airport. I was used to airport employees looking more like large, sweaty, ugly men, or even larger, sweatier, uglier women. In any case, we were hoping this beauty was a sign of things to come in the Ukraine. I mean if your basic airport employee looked like this, we were sure the girls in the clubs would be even hotter. Well, at least Logan and I noticed this extraordinary difference in the Ukrainian women, Matt didn't notice any of these things of course, since he had a girlfriend back home and wasn't allowed to notice. ☺ The Ukrainian Border Guard was accompanied by what might have been the cutest border control guard dog of all time. As the luggage belt started up, the cute Yorkshire Terrier guard dog jumped onto the moving luggage belt, ran forward in place as if it were on a treadmill, sniffing each piece of luggage for contraband, and then after a certain point just got bored, sat down and started licking and self-pleasuring itself. Matt, Logan, myself, and the rest of the Ukrainian passengers roared with laughter at this hilarious sight. Cute-ass dogs doing stupid things are cute-ass dogs doing stupid things, no matter what the culture or country.
But as we were exiting customs, we ran into our first dose of infamous Ukrainian Face Control, which made Polish Face Control look like "My Little Pony." Obviously, as the only 3 Asian Americans on the flight, and quite possibly the entire country, we stuck out like Tupac Shakur in a country music/line-dancing club. And we totally caught the eye of a Ukrainian Border Control/Customs Agent. And unfortunately, it wasn't the cute doe-eyed brunette. With a fake smile, the middle-aged Ukrainian male customs agent asked for my passport, and then asked "How much money are you carrying?" I had been prepared for this question, but I was still shocked to be asked. Multiple resources on Wikitravel and online tips had prepared me to tell the customs agent that I had as little money as possible, because apparently Ukrainian customs agents and cops were notorious for shaking down tourists for "fines" (i.e. bribes) for carrying "too much money" or doing something that was "illegal". I felt bad lying, so I told him I had about $100 US, and luckily it wasn't enough to around suspicion or an open palm. My brother flat-out lied and told him he had no money on him, and got away with that. Matt was busy tossing his yo-yo around, which was a long-time hobby of his, in crazy trapeze and Walk-The-Dog trick formation, and inexplicably escaped any attention from the customs agents. Maybe Logan and myself just LOOKED a lot shadier than Matt did.
We exited customs as quickly as we could, and then luckily found our personal driver that we had set up to drive us to our rented apartment. As we drove through the grass-lined urban streets of Odessa, and took a look at the Ukrainian citizens walking through the city, our jaws dropped. The rumors were officially true. Logan and I craned our necks as our car sped past hottie after hottie. Random Ukrainian restaurant wait staff members looked ridiculously cute. Random girls on the street looked glammed up and hotter than most girls in other countries. The town seemed like it was full of girls who could be models anywhere in the world, and they weren't even really trying that hard. "C'MON!" I exclaimed in disbelief, upset that this crazy abundance of riches didn't exist at home. "C'MON!" Logan exclaimed in disbelief, as he craned his neck at another hot girl walking down the street, upset that the Ukrainian guys didn't know how good they had it. And of course Matt didn't notice and didn't care one bit. Because, you know, he had a girlfriend back home and totally didn't notice these things. ☺ Seriously, it looked like your average Ukrainian couple had a Ukrainian guy who was a 4 or 5 out of 10, while the Ukrainian girl was easily a 7 out of 10. It was just so disproportionate that it was kind of unfair. We were whipping around our heads to check out girls so much in the Ukraine that, I shit you not, I woke up one day and literally had spasms plus a major neck ache. The whole thing became a running joke after awhile, where we would yell "C'MON!…C'MON!…C'MON!!!" randomly after hottie after Ukrainian hottie would stroll by, which happened like every 4.67 seconds. It kind of looked like this mash-up from Will Arnett's character from "Arrested Development"
But even though we had high hopes of meeting tons of luscious Ukrainians models (i.e. normal girls on the street), it was not to be that easy for us at all. For one thing, like I said, it was ridiculous hard to talk to anyone in Ukraine because nobody spoke a lick of English. Even though Logan and I had been pretty good at picking up the Cyrillic Alphabet and reading Russian, we were a far cry from strolling up to a girl on the street or at the bar and spitting lines like, "Hey baby, are you a parking ticket? Because you got FINE written ALL over you! Giggidy giggidy!" in Russian. To make things even more confusing, some parts of the Ukraine were more pro-Russian and spoke Russian (e.g. Odessa and Kiev) whereas some parts of the Ukraine were more pro-Ukraine and only spoke Ukrainian (e.g. L'viv), so all the street signs had the names written two different ways, with two different types of Cyrillic Alphabets. Gaaaaah! But we all thought that with our wonderful command of the International Language (i.e. LOOOOOOVE), those Ukrainian hotties would eventually just be putty in our hands.
We spent the next three days strolling the tree-lined urban streets of Odessa, taking in the harbor sights, with everything from the restaurants and cafes on the picturesque pedestrian promenade of Debrivaskaya Street to the awesome Potemkin Steps to hulking former 4-star Soviet hotels that lay empty, and spent the nights going to random bars and clubs in Odessa, including one called Captain Morgan that was the main place to go when the rest of Odessa was dead. Every time we went, we got super curious looks from the Ukrainian bouncers and the bar-goers, who obviously weren't used to seeing three such sexy Asian American guys. Try as we might to throw down drinks, and suggestively flirt with our brooding eyes and swaying hips, it looked like we had lost all fluency in the International Language; the Ukrainian border guards must have discovered and taken all our mojo at customs. Even though the statuesque and slender Ukrainians smiled, giggled, and glanced curiously at us, they barely responded to our "Hey, how are you doing?" and "What's your name?" questioning. They would nod, smile politely, dance with us a little bit, and then leave. On the rare occasion that a Ukrainian girl would actually speak a tiny bit of English, she was usually surrounded or blocked off by an another Ukrainian guy or guys who prevented any Asian American-Ukrainian international relations. "Cockblock" means "Cockblock" in every language! Not only were we dealing with "Face Control" in Eastern Europe but we were now dealing with the far deadlier "Penis Control."
Part of our problem with our first introduction to Ukrainian nightlife was also the timing of our trip to Odessa and the Ukraine. Normally, Odessa is a MAJOR beach party destination in the peak season of summer and maybe the weekends during the shoulder seasons. There are tons of awesome looking beach clubs side-by-side in the Arkadia Beach area of Odessa, with layouts and huge thumping stages that rival some of the clubs in Ibiza, Spain. Unfortunately, not only were we there during the fairly quiet off-peak shoulder season of mid-September, but we also were in Odessa on a Sunday-Wednesday. Our first night there was a fairly fun night at the rip-roaring and raucous Captain Morgan bar that I talked about above, and the bouncers were very nice and there was basically no Face Control. We met a few cute girls and fun guys, but short of doing a little dancing and drinks, we basically had no way of communicating with anybody, and Logan and I were still frantically just learning the Cyrillic Alphabet just to read restaurant/bar/street signs. Also Captain Morgan was super-smoke filled, and really not more than a small restaurant lounge with a DJ, not a real club.
On our second night in Odessa, we decided to go a little more hard-core and try to find a real Ukrainian club experience and find the hidden treasure trove of Ukrainian hotties that we had been looking for. I mean, the total stunners that we were seeing in the streets of Odessa during the daytime had to go SOMEWHERE at night to unwind, relax, and booty shake, right? Based on a lot of advice from locals, we knew that the HOTTEST clubs in Odessa were at or near the Arkadia Beach area, which was about a 15 minute/$7 cab ride away from downtown Odessa. The best clubs that everyone mentioned included Ibiza (the club, not the party island), the strangely named True Man Boat (without any boat), and Park Residence. We started first with a warm-up drink at another Odessan bar, also called True Man, where I was supposed to meet an Odessan friend-of-a-friend, Lana, who was going to give us some good nightlife advice. After getting some major Face Control by the surly Ukrainian bouncer at the door who shook his head and said "Nyet!", despite the nearly empty bar, we were eventually waved in after the bouncer saw that I was calling my Ukrainian connection inside the bar. We had a fun few drinks with Lana, who confirmed all the club advice we had received. After some thanks all around, Lana helped arrange our transportation to the clubs, even though she couldn't come out because she had work and even though she questioned whether any of the clubs would be going off on a Monday in the off-season.
Our first "taxi" to the Arkadia Beach clubs was literally just a random hatchback that Lana waved down on the street, driven by a young Ukrainian couple that looked like they had just finished a dinner date. One hilarious thing about Ukraine is that literally EVERY single car on the street is potentially a taxi. Of course they have the real "legit" taxis, which are questionable as it is because you always have to bargain a price and they totally gouge foreigners, but almost any Ukrainian person is willing to pick people up off the street and become a temporary taxi just to make some spare change! It's hilarious, you can step off the curb and put your hand out, just like you would in New York City, but instead of a yellow cab pulling up, you could get a station wagon driven by an overweight smelly middle-aged Ukrainian factory worker or a Ferrari driven by a hot Ukrainian lingerie model picking you up. Most times though, you definitely didn't get the Ukrainian hottie-driven Ferrari. After some haggling and translation by Lana, we waved goodbye and gave our thanks to Lana, and drove off to Park Residence. As we awkwardly sat in the back of that Ukrainian couple's hatchback, we eagerly awaited our first raging Ukrainian club experience. Hot tubs filled with Cristal…supermodels doing chilled vodka shots off of ice luges and licking caviar off each others necks…thumping EDM music with enough strobe lights to give most people a seizure. The sky was the limit as far as we were concerned in Ukraine!
But as we pulled up to Park Residence and were dumped off by the cheerful Ukrainian couple who waved goodbye and continued on their evening date, something was DEFINITELY off. Although we could hear some music thumping in the background, and the lavish grounds of the club definitely LOOKED like there could be a crazy party, nobody seemed to be around. We peeked into the grounds and sadly saw nobody around, and the armed soldier looked at us in a bemused way, as if to say "WTF are three random Asians doing here at 2 am on the off-season?" Instead, he just shook his head and said "Nyet!" I normally would have felt bad, and for a brief second I thought this was another case of Ukrainian Face Control, but after peeking past the guard's shoulder I sadly saw that the entire grounds of the very nice looking outdoor lounge & dance club was totally empty. I guess even Odessa's HOTTEST clubs had a down time, and a random Monday in the early fall was probably one of those times.
You would think that this negative experience would have totally killed our party mood, but not a chance in hell. We were determined to make something happen on this random Monday night. So we walked a couple blocks away from the sadly empty Park Residence, waved down a "real" Ukrainian cab, haggled down to a price that was still probably $5/40 Ukrainian dollars more than it should have been, and sped off to what was supposed to be the mecca of Ukrainian summer nightlife: Arkadia Beach! As we pulled up to the long string of Arkadia Beach clubs by the beach, our spirits fell as Odessan club after Odessan club lay empty and bare except for scowling bouncers at the door. Ibiza…TrueMan Hot Boat…Itaka…ALL of Odessa's hottest clubs seemed to be empty, and almost nobody was on the boardwalk. We were getting Face Controlled not by mean Ukrainian bouncers, but by the calendar instead: Coming during the off-season was definitely not the smartest plan to check out the wonderful nightlife in Odessa. But as we got to the end of the boardwalk and our hopes fell at little more with each empty club, we heard pumping bass and screaming voices out of the corner of our ear. Up ahead was Western Club, a club which had been mentioned by nobody. But most importantly, it was open, had music blasting, people pouring in and out, and with a $4/30 Hr entrance cover we were able to breeze in with NO Face Control. As Logan, Matt, and myself plunged into the club, our jaws dropped as we took in the ridiculous and raucous scene unfolding in front of us.


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T-Mobile G1 has a much better QWERTY keyboard than the Palm Pre
According with Cnet, Jason Hiner's take on the Palm Pre, mentions 5 reasons why the G1 keyboard is better than the Plam Pre. Reason number 4, carriers want an iPhone competitor, is debatable because I think we are going to see many more Android devices that do just that. Since there is nothing solid as far as announcements go I will leave that one alone.
Reason 2: In reason 2 Jason states the following:
So the ultimate device should combine a touchscreen and a qwerty keyboard, right? The G1 makes a noble attempt, but it's flip-down keyboard is awkward and not very effective. The Palm Pre represents the first effective fusion of the two, although it's not perfect either. The Pre keyboard is even a little smaller than the BlackBerry Curve, so it will be tough for people with large fingers to use. Nevertheless, it's the first smartphone to effectively combine a full touchscreen with an effective qwerty thumboard. Other devices will likely follow its lead.
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While the G1 may be a bit of a clunky device, the keyboard is one part that actually shines on the device. It has great spacing, six full rows of keys in an offset QWERTY format just like your PC, assignable shortcuts to just about EVERY key to make navigation on the device extremely efficient, and good feedback so you know when a key is pressed. I am a QWERTY keyboard fan and have tested many, many of these and have to say the G1 keyboard is one of the most efficient keyboards that lets me fly during text entry.
Now with the 1.5 cupcake update you get an on-screen keyboard with haptic feedback to go along with the fantastic G1 keyboard so you get the best of both worlds and I argue that the G1 is the first smartphone to effectively combine a capacitive touchscreen with an effective thumboard. Have you played with the Palm Pre keyboard? It is way too cramped and is not even close to being one of the best keyboards out there. As soon as BlackBerry brings a touch screen to their QWERTY keyboard devices they will probably set the bar here too so the Pre is far from the ultimate in this case.
Reason 1: The Palm Pre is not the first multi-tasking smartphone out there since Windows Mobile and S60 have done it for years. If you want to see someone doing it more elegantly, then again take a look at the Google Android device running on the G1. The G1 has the best background notification system on a smartphone and also supports true multi-tasking. You can simply press and hold the home button to easily jump between the current six running applications as well and it does this with a cool fuzzy background/clear pop-up method. This is just like an Alt-Tab experience and closely models a PC multi-tasking experience.
It will be interesting to see how the Palm Pre does as it launches this weekend, but I have to say I am definitely not as optimistic as Jason at this time. Do you agree that the G1 is strong in these areas or is the Palm Pre the new leader?


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