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Bright Little Dots
Pointillism is a style of painting in which small dots of color are applied to a surface so that from a distance they blend together. This
practice was developed by Georges Seurat in the nineteenth century. First graders love to paint and pointillism is an enjoyable and easy way to teach them about an art concept, color, and at the same time integrate it into basic classroom lessons.
Students will be able to identify primary and secondary colors.
Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of a color wheel through mixing exercises.
Students will be able to describe what happens when different colors are placed side by side.
Tempera paint (red, blue and yellow)
Cotton swabs (6 for each child or 3 double edged)
White paper (8 1/2" x 11")
Coloring Book
Basic Color Wheel (13 colors)
A large poster or illustration: Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Mike Venezia's book, Georges Seurat (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
Sunday Comics
Preliminary Discussion
Teaching pointillism to first graders entails a discussion of art in general, i.e., how art is all around us and the purposes it serves. For example, you might ask the children about their favorite color and how that color makes them feel. Define "pointillism" loosely at this point. Discuss the artist who originated the term by reading Mike Venezia's book to the children. This book is not designed for first graders per se. However, it is appropriate as a read aloud and the children will enjoy the cartoons.
To get the children in the habit of thinking about art as a regular class subject, rather than a "special," it would be useful to integrate art words into your regular word wall. The second option is to create an art word wall. If art history is a regular part of your weekly or monthly schedule, each new artist could be displayed with words peculiar to his or her style.
Define the following terms and discuss. "Pointillism" is the major new term, so take a little time with it. Have the children repeat it after you. Have them clap the word in syllables. Have them find other words in the term, e.g., point, in, till, etc.
- pointillism – small dots of color that appear to blend at a distance
- primary colors – basic colors from which other colors are made
- color wheel – painter's reference sheet – suggest that it is similar to the alphabet chart.)
- secondary colors – colors formed by mixing primary colors
- blend – to mix together
Color Wheel
Display a color wheel and discuss the color combinations. Discuss the primary colors and the secondary colors.
Have each child create a personal color wheel to better understand the concept.
Provide each child with an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of white paper with a triangle drawn in the center, three small containers with red, yellow, and blue paint, and three cotton tip swabs (double tipped).
Instruct the children to place a yellow dot at the top of the triangle, a red dot at the bottom on the left of the triangle, and a blue dot at the bottom on the right. Explain that these are primary colors. (Tell the children that the top of the triangle is like the top of a tent or teepee, so that everyone will start at the same spot.)
Have them do the following and "blend" the colors to make the secondary colors.
1. Have the children place a yellow dot in the middle between the yellow dot and the blue dot. Have them place a blue dot on top of the yellow dot in the middle. They should discover that the color turns green.
2. Have the children place a blue dot in the middle between the red dot and blue dot. Next, have them place a red dot on top of the blue dot. They should discover that the color turns purple.
3. Have the children place a red dot between the red dot and the yellow dot. Next, have them place a yellow dot on top of the red dot. They should discover that the color turns orange.
Let's Mix It Up
Mixing Process ( Self Discovery)
Stress to the children that their personal color wheel is their reference sheet. Allow the children time to experiment with the primary and secondary colors.
1. Have the children mix a primary color with a secondary color. Have the children discuss what they see. (The children should notice a "middle" color, e.g., yellow green, red violet, etc., such as they've seen in their crayon box.)
2. Have the children mix all of the primary colors together. Have the children discuss what they see. (The children should notice a brown color.)
Mixing Colors Optically
Display the poster by Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Discuss how the dots of color have been placed side by side and how the eye blends the colors.
Provide the children with an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of white paper with two circles on it.
Have the children apply red, yellow and orange dots in one circle. Have the children apply yellow, blue and green dots of color inside the other circle. Encourage them to place the dots side by side. When they are finished, tape the papers on the board and get feedback from the children. Ask them questions, e.g., Do the colors seem to blend? Which colors seem nearer? Which colors seem far away.
Refer back to Seurat's poster and have the children look for the same colors that they have in their circles.
Provide each child a page from a coloring book or some other activity sheet on hand. Make sure the illustrations are simple and fairly large.
Instruct the children to color the illustrations with dots in the primary colors only. Have them create the illusion of secondary colors by placing a primary color next to a different primary color to make the secondary color, e.g., place a yellow dot next to a blue dot, a red dot next to a yellow dot, etc. When they are finished, tape the papers on the board and get feedback from the students. Play the tape for relaxation. (The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi is a good one.)
Extension Activities
Bring in the Sunday comics and have the children identify primary, middle, and secondary colors. For example, ask the children what kind of colors does the artist use to draw the "Garfield" comics?
During your math centers, ask the children to create designs with their blocks using only primary colors or only secondary colors. Next, have them create designs by mixing up the primary and secondary colors.
Visit an art institute and view Seurat's picture.
Ongoing Evaluation Ideas
Your youngsters can be evaluated on an ongoing basis by restricting them to three crayons, red, blue and yellow, for their regular class work. In this way they will be forced to refer to their color wheel to make middle colors or secondary colors. Also, whenever a story is read and they are asked to illustrate their favorite part, ask them to use only primary colors, or use the pointillism approach.
Allowing children to mix paints is the fun part of painting. They will discern for themselves why the primary colors cannot be made by mixing other colors. Also, they will discover for themselves what approach makes a color lighter or duller. Finally, they will even discover that sometimes they'll mix colors that look like "mud". Yuck!
Keller, Horst, The Great Book of French Impressionism, Greenwich House, New York, 1982.
Images: (Bokeh) and (Art) https://photobucket.com
The author is a former art teacher and the ideas in this article stem from her teaching experiences.


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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reacted to claims that he is afraid of speaking against the killings of Christians in the country especially in Benue state and perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen whom some quarters have been calling on the government to label as terrorists.
Yemi Osinbajo who paid a visit to Benue state yesterday May 15th, reacted with claims that he condemns the attacks at both the National Security Council and the Federal Executive Council.
"I am not afraid to take the firm views I have against the killings of Christians or worshippers, be it in the National Security Council or Federal Executive Council, I have affirmed those views. I am not afraid. But this govt is committed to ensuring the security of our people" Yemi Osinbajo said


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About This Activity
This race started in 1988 as the BASF 10 Miler and has been run continuously since then. In 1995, the race was renamed the Carpet Capital 10 Miler and as one of very few USATF certified 10 mile course in the state of Georgia, holds almost all the state records. Entrants come mainly from Georgia and surrounding states but other parts of the country are represented as well.
Modified loop along scenic country roads of NW Georgia. Some moderately rolling hills. USATF Certified Event #GA09047WC. RRCA State Championship 10 Miler. Race day registration begins at 8:00 a.m., the 10 Miler and 2 Miler start together at 9:00 a.m.
Medals will be presented to all 10 Miler finishers and running gloves for all pre-registered runners.
Early registration ends after January 20 when there will be a price increase.
Event details and schedule
8:00 a.m. - race day registration begins
9:00 a.m. - start of races
10:00 a.m. - 2 Miler awards ceremony
11:15 a.m. - 10 Miler awards ceremony
Organizer Info
Carpet Capital Running Club


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The Unconscious of New Orleans
This article is an attempt to understand the essence of a place, New Orleans, by appealing to a discipline, psychoanalysis. At first glance, psychoanalysis might seem inapplicable to the study of a city. It is in fact uniquely suited to enlighten us concerning the last essence of place.
We might start by attempting to define place dialectically, i.e. in such a way that it is not reduced to simple geography. Place is first of all a differential phenomenon: places are places because they are different from each other. Less obvious is the fact that they are different from themselves. Take the example of New York City: not only is New York different from Los Angeles or New Jersey, New York is different from New York in the sense that Manhattan is different from Brooklyn, Uptown Manhattan is different from Downtown, the East Village is different from SoHo, Avenue A is different from Avenue B, etc. A place is thus a paradoxical entity: it is only by being different from itself that it manages to exist at all as such.
The thesis that I wish to develop is the following: a city is above all a signifier. A signifier only has value inasmuch as it is embedded in some signifying chain; a place only exists inasmuch as it is articulated with other places. It is only by giving a name to something that it becomes real, or rather, that it becomes what we call reality, which is by definition shared. [1]
Here we touch on the central mechanism of psychoanalysis: the dimension of the symbol, of the signifier, of language, is not simply a label stuck on the world, but constitutes an essential part of the world itself. In the psychoanalytic cure, a certain number of signifiers are exchanged, nothing more. The simple fact of speaking produces effects in the Real, in the form of the dissolution of corporal symptoms. Formulated most explicitly: through speech, the chemical reality of the body is transformed.
The conclusion to be drawn here is that human reality has a double structure: simultaneously Real and symbolic. A romantic liaison only becomes real, for example, once the lovers begin to speak of their relationship as a separate entity, one that not only has an independent reality but also a will of its own above and beyond the will of the two people who make it up. In a perverse twist, once the couple is recognized as autonomous, it tyrannically begins acting on its own, often against the wishes of the two participants. Put otherwise, the couple begins to behave as a subject, which occasions certain complications for the two lovers, who sometimes find themselves in the strange position of both being slaves to the acephalic desire of the couple itself.
Things are no different in the case of the city. A name is given to a set – of people, of traditions, of buildings, of codified interactions – and this name then begins organizing reality around itself cybernetically. This is why a city is first of all a signifier. This idea might be taken further by suggesting that a city is not only a signifier, it is a living organism. This problematic later will be addressed further on.
What is a signifier? A signifier is first of all an inscription. An inscription is something that is cut, something that is carved into the flesh, something that makes a mark in the real. An inscription is a scar that binds the world of abstract symbols to the real world that forms their ground. To use a term introduced by Jacques-Alain Miller, an inscription is an "amboceptor" [2]: an operator capable of fusing together two separate registers. The problematic of the amboceptor is of central importance for Lacan, and it re-emerges under numerous guises throughout his teaching. In the final chapters of "On a discourse that would not be semblance", Lacan condenses his reflections into the following succinct formula: "between jouissance and knowledge, the letter serves as littoral". [3]
This act, that of imposing a letter, that of naming, is above all an act of violence, a transformation on the level of being. This is what separates us from animals: not only do we have names, we are names: we carry symbols within us like a "cancer", as Lacan says. Language is part of the world.
For Freud, subjectivity is born with an act of expulsion. Something is cut out of the field of consciousness – he calls this process primordial repression – but, crucially, what is removed does not disappear. It continues to exist, but its status is paradoxical: simultaneously interior and exterior. Our unconscious is simultaneously us and other, outside and inside. Lacan invented a neologism to describe this paradoxical status: extimate.
Inscription and expulsion are not simply linked: inscription is expulsion. An inscription is an act that inflects human reality, turns it into something that exists on two levels and not just one, as is the case in the animal world, for example. Take human consciousness: on one hand, the body; on the other hand, the mind. Let us take a closer look at this phenomenon, which is no less strange for being so familiar. Our bodies are made of cells, which are made of atoms, which are made of even smaller particles which follow, after all, the well-known laws of physics. However, there must be a gap somewhere, for otherwise our bodies would be as decipherable as automobiles. (The psychoanalytic name for the structural indechiperability of the human body is hysteria.) From our bodies emerges something else, something that breaks radically with physical determinism: what is alternately referred to as consciousness, mind, or free will.
To begin to attack this question – that of the relationship between mind and body – we might first articulate it with another scientific question, one equally thorny but somewhat less familiar, namely the question of life. The concept of life, of being alive, has strictly no scientific consistency. This sounds completely unlikely, unbelievable even, but it is true. Scientists have never been able to construct a robust heuristic that would draw an airtight line between living and non-living in nature. If we reject the hypothesis that an airtight line exists but that we simply have not found it yet [4], then logically, we are forced to choose between two externally opposed conclusions: either everything is alive or nothing is alive. Either everything is determinism or everything is subjectivity.
We must be subtle here. This opposition – between life and non-life – must be considered inherent to the notion of life itself. What is false about such an opposition is simply the externality with which the two terms are articulated. In other words, the inability of science to come up with a satisfactory answer to a superficially simple question shows us above all that we have reached the limit of the concept of life itself. "Living" and "non-living", conscious and not-conscious, are the two faces of a phenomenon that is simultaneously one and two, single and multiple, just as the Moebius strip is simultaneously one surface and two surfaces. Such a topology demonstrates the limitations inherent to the very concept of an externally opposed inside and outside. Everything that is living has a non-living dimension (because it is made of simple atoms, which are not alive), just as everything that is non-living has a living dimension (because involved, in some way, in the so-called cycle of life). [5]
So far two separate problematics have been addressed in this article: first of all, the phenomenon of inscription/expulsion, and second of all, the Moebian phenomenon of extimacy. We might now attempt to bring them together. The phenomenon of inscription is nothing other than the most visible external sign of the phenomenon of a world that exists on two registers and not one. The principal property of the act of inscription is that it operates a separation, establishes a difference between essence and appearance, text and background: in the most basic terms possible, it establishes an inner distance between reality and itself. The world is not externally separated into two halves, but simply twisted, inflected. Fire and smoke, chicken and egg: the two faces of a single phenomenon divided against itself.
For Freud, we become subjects the moment we accept subjective division, the moment we accept primordial repression. Consciousness is a phenomenon of division. It is possible to refuse this division: this is the psychoanalytic definition of psychosis. Division exists, but it is refused – foreclosed – and the subject cannot come to be as such. For Lacan, subjective division is a result of the incidence of language on the body, a consequence of our status as speaking beings. In the 13th century, the emperor Friedrich II isolated 40 children and decreed that not one word was ever to be uttered in their presence in order to settle the theological question of what man's natural language was. The result was that the last of the 40 children died at the age of 8. We are woven of language, made to receive language, and without a symbolic system to attach ourselves to, we die.
We are born as subjects with an act of inscription. We assume a name which then begins to organize our reality. By saying "I am A", we implicitly say that we are not B, C or D; the effect is that of a circle drawn on a blank sheet of paper separating some undifferentiated plane into unequal sections. Nature does not know Aristotle's logic. This is primordial repression: by assuming a name, by assuming a place in human society, we create a new category, that-which-we-are-not. Repression is not an act of subtraction, but rather an act of addition, of creation.
We may now return to the question of the city. Like a human being, a city is born once it is given a signifier. Take the example of New Orleans. Before becoming "New Orleans", the site of the present city was nothing but a vast expanse of swampland. The name New Orleans was conceived and planned in Paris by the Duke of Orleans and the Scottish rake and hustler John Law – two greedy men united by their shared passion for money. Their idea was the following: they would launch a vast deceptive publicity campaign for their new city, and once the public took the bait, they would begin selling shares in their company.
One illustration purported to show how it looked there. Behind a deep harbor a castle arises from a mountain, and in front of it, Indians pay homage to the white invaders and offer them presents of gold, silver, and pearls. [6]
The plan worked: investors rushed to buy their stocks, convinced by Law's publicity campaign that they were going to get rich once the gold and crops started flowing in. All of this happened before the city proper was founded. Law's goal was not to found a great eternal city but simply to create a bubble of speculation that would allow him to make a quick profit. He had no use at all for the city itself. For his plan to work, however, he needed a minimal real support, i.e. some sort of material settlement somewhere out there. The Duke of Orleans sent out his men armed with a signifier – the name "New Orleans" – and their order was to create a city from nothing somewhere near the mouth of the Mississippi. An apparently suitable site was found, and they plunged their royal signifier into the mud.
Here, then, is the story of the birth of New Orleans: the city itself began its existence as an idea, not a very noble one, and the "real" city emerged as nothing but a cast-off by-product of this idea. Here is the image of New Orleans that emerged after Law and the Duke of Orleans' publicity campaign was finally recognized as fraudulent:
[The expedition] met Indians who rubbed a stinking mixture of soot and bear fat into their own tattooed bodies as protection against the mosquitoes. They saw swamps, alligators, and snakes. […] Now Louisiana was no longer the promised land but a fever-contaminated hell in which one could find nothing but death. [7]
An inscription functions like a machine. Once it was planted into the Mississippi mud, the signifier "New Orleans" began to organize activity around itself. Despite everything, the city grew: such is the power of the word. Without a signifier, there never would have been any city, never would have been anything. We see here that the signifier has a truly magical property, even the one and only true magical property, that of being able to create something from nothing, that of fecundation. [8]
Incidentally, this is what happens in a successful psychoanalysis: the subject is liberated to forge new signifiers that in turn begin to modify his own experience of the world.
New Orleans illustrates perfectly the link between inscription and repression. To establish a city, something had first to be expelled, namely the water. The first maps of New Orleans show a city surrounded by levees: on one side, water; on the other side, a city. For New Orleans to come to be as a subject, some division had to take place; the water had to be banished.
We suggested earlier that cities are alive. Not only are cities alive, cities are subjects. Following Douglas Hofstadter, self-consciousness might be imagined as a feedback loop. A signifier is grafted to a piece of the real – say the brain for simplicity's sake – and the infinitely spiraling interaction of these two registers that are simultaneously compatible and incompatible gives rise to what we call consciousness. Imagine the case of an atom in your brain. It moves strictly following the laws of physics: at no moment does it act on its own. The atoms that compose a brain are identical to the atoms that compose a styrofoam cup from McDonald's. The simple fact of arranging them differently – in the structure of a brain, for example – gives rise to a doubling phenomenon. The positional structure begins exerting a causality that trumps physical causality. It is impossible to understand the human body without referring to the dimension of symbols, the register of language. It is a top-down causality, one that goes from the idea to the atom and not vice-versa. Or, better: it is a causality that constantly phase-shifts back and forth from the idea to the atom.
What is strange is that these two levels of causality can coexist. One cannot be deduced from the other and vice versa. They are quite incompatible. It is the same with quantum mechanics and classical Newtonian physics: despite explicitly contradicting each other, they both ex-sist and thus ought logically to "meet up" somewhere. Of course, this foreclosed "somewhere" is not a really-existing place but rather the signifier of its own impossibility, and as such it is one of the Names of the Father.
Man is located at the intersection of the symbolic and the real and must himself be considered a sort of amboceptor. [9]
We may now finally return to the subject of the city. A city functions exactly like a brain. The residents of a city can be considered the atoms or the neurons that make it up. They obey a "quantum" causality – the logic of their individual lives – at the same time as they obey a greater "Newtonian" logic, one that emanates from the city itself. Without knowing it, without wanting it, we all work for another discourse, an Other discourse, because we are all integrated into some system that overdetermines us. We are all simultaneously individuals, family members, residents of a city, citizens of a country, and, last of all, subjects before God. These categories are not hermetically separated inside of us but overlap and determine each other. The condition of subjectivity is alienation in some Other. We might here ontologize this psychoanalytic maxim by suggesting that the condition of life itself is alienation in the Other of non-life, of substance.
Cities are subjects. Turning this formula around, we might also suggest that subjectivity itself has the structure of a city: rather than being located in a single point – the body – subjectivity is dispersed across what might be called the field of the Other, inflecting it with its name. Life itself must be considered a field phenomenon, with knots of for-itself activity punctuating the vast expanse of in-itself thereness. The field of the Other and the field of the subject are not externally opposed but mutually constitutive of each other and, as in a hologram, each is present at every level of organization.
It is easy to fall into the lazy habit of conceiving the unconscious in pre-Lacanian terms, as something that is located "inside" us that could thus eventually be "liberated". We might here measure the falsity of the unconscious thus imagined. "Unconscious" is rather the name given by psychoanalysis to the phenomenon of division that we have just evoked: the unconscious is the index of our structural non-coincidence with ourselves; it is the word that simultaneously represents the multiplicity of discourses that overdetermine us and our singularity. It is the word that stands in for this apparent paradox, elevating it to the status of synthesis.
By accepting the preceding proposition, we are finally in a position to claim that a city fills all the criteria of a living organism. It constitutes a level of organization of reality, one circumscribed by a signifier, that exercises a "for-itself" top-down causality. This is a possible definition of subjectivity.
What we habitually refer to as a signifier is, again, nothing but our name for the sui generis dialectical phenomenon of for-itself.
If cities must be considered subjects, then a fortiori they must possess an unconscious. To exist as a signifier, to occupy a place in the symbolic, one must not be something. The law of the symbolic register is that one must be A or B but not both at the same time; the principle of non-contradiction is introduced along with the symbol. The Real, on the other hand, decrees that those signifiers that have been banished do not disappear but continue to haunt the dimension of symbolic positivity. [10]
To engage in a simple thought-experiment: what would a subjectivity entirely identical with itself look like? What would a consciousness that knew itself perfectly actually resemble? The question is unanswerable, a contradiction in terms, and to pose it is already to presuppose its unanswerability.
In other words, the existence of an unconscious is nothing less than the very ontological condition of what we call subjectivity.
We might go as far as to say that New Orleans possesses an unconscious objectively, physically. The water that had to be repressed is not a metaphor for the unconscious; it is the unconscious, exactly as the hand moving beads on the abacus is not a reflection of thought but is thought itself.
The law of the unconscious is the law of hauntedness. Every subject is haunted by some phenomenon of unconsciousness. Just as we cannot draw a line between the living and the non-living, we are obligated to say that the world itself is haunted by a phenomenon of unconsciousness. We might even reverse the terms and suggest that whatever is haunted by an unconscious must therefore be a subject. Let us here return to the liquid unconscious of New Orleans. To become a city, a first expulsion had to take place, that of the water. Just as a man spends his entire life trying and failing to find a way to deal with this expelled substance that cannot be mastered, New Orleans has always fought and will always have to fight against this expelled substance. It is here that we must situate Hurricane Katrina. This expelled substance "wanted" to come back, just as our unconscious always attempts to force its way back, manifesting itself through dreams, slips of the tongues, and other formations of the unconscious. Freud called this endless striving of the unconscious to manifest itself the death drive. New Orleans only exists as such inasmuch as it is always on the verge of drowning in its own unconscious, just as we only exist inasmuch as we have quarantined something that is always knocking at the door. Those that have refused this expulsion, namely psychotics, furnish an example a contrario: the line, the signifier, separating "them" from "not-them" – or, better, the "them" part of them from the "not-them" part of them – is unstable and sometimes nonexistent.
The history of New Orleans is the history of the struggle against water. The levees grew with the city, and the presence of water has always left its imprints on the contours of the city, which the French originally called "l'Ile de la Nouvelle-Orleans". The recent history of the city has seen the total banishment of water from the city. Around 1900, the geographic (but not the social) center of the city, which is the deepest part of the city, was drained. The canal that linked downtown New Orleans with Lake Pontchartrain was filled in in the 1920's. By 1950, the swamps that were located between the city and the lake had been entirely replaced by houses. Today, the levees are over twenty feet high. The Mississippi River is totally invisible, foreclosed from the city. Amazingly, every single raindrop that falls from the sky in New Orleans must sooner or later be mechanically pumped over the levee tops and into Lake Pontchartrain.
New Orleans has thus passed from a "normal" mode of organization – a mode in which the unconscious is repressed but is allowed to return in small, essentially controlled doses – to a "psychotic" mode of organization, one in which the unconscious must be refused, banished, foreclosed absolutely. Of course, the foreclosed unconscious does not disappear; it is still there, but it is scotomized, no longer recognized as such. What is foreclosed is not the unconscious itself but rather that amboceptor that would allow it to be metabolized into symbols and thus exist for the world. Without access to this amboceptor, the unconscious is present, but as a sort of psychic dark matter which exerts gravitation but cannot be located. In the human sphere, this mode of organization constitutes a survival technique: when the content of the unconscious is absolutely unbearable, when jouissance infects everything, its signifier must be absolutely banished. The problem with the psychotic solution, however, is that the unconscious does not disappear along with its signifier, and the force with which it comes back is directly proportional to the force with which it has been banished. This is where breakdown must be located, the total collapse that permanently threatens psychotic subjects. Hurricane Katrina must also be located here.
Hurricane Katrina might be considered the fundamental fantasy of New Orleans: the imaginary scenario in which the subject is reunited with jouissance. These retrouvailles do not take the form of a happy reconciliation in a meadow full of flowers. The fundamental fantasy is rather a scene of horror in which the subject is overwhelmed, annihilated by some imaginarized stand-in for jouissance. This fantasy is a logical consequence of the splitting of the world into subject and substance, conscious and unconscious: it is the remainder of this operation, the foreclosed space in which the indivisibility of the world into itself is quarantined.
Before Katrina, New Orleans was nothing less than a psychotic city. The more reality became intolerable, the more it had to be refused, until the day it violently forced its way back into existence. New Orleans before Katrina could only be described as a failed state, or, in other words, a failed Other: in addition to having the highest murder rate in the United States, and one of the highest murder rates in the world, one out of every four houses in New Orleans was abandoned, and the real unemployment rate was estimated at fifty percent. New Orleans had become the dead husk of a living city. In other words, reality had become intolerable, and the fundamental fantasy swelled in direct proportion to the social catastrophe – a catastrophe that could be described in Lacanian terms as the failure of semblance to mask the impossibility of the sexual rapport. And when the water began pouring in through the levee breaches, it was not just water but jouissance itself, and with it the long hoped-for promise of deliverance from reality – deliverance from semblance – in the form of the passage to the act.
Five years later, New Orleans still has the highest murder rate in the country. All of the problems that were present before Katrina are still present today. Rather than being traversed, the fundamental fantasy was simply acted out, and nothing was accomplished.
New Orleans has an unconscious; New Orleans is a subject. The same thing cannot be said of all cities. Everyone knows a "non-place", to use the ethnologist Marc Auge's term – a city without flavor, without character, without an identity. They are non-places because they do not manage to set in motion a feedback loop, do not manage to exercise a top-down causality on their residents. Instead of coming to be as subjects, places proper, these cities are simple locations. Instead of determining themselves, they exist as background, and little more. Instead of being signifiers, machines that generate something from nothing, that generate order, they are simple collection of roads and houses and office buildings. In the United States, a great transformation is silently taking place: almost the entirety of demographic growth is taking place in non-places, "exurbs" as they are called. They are essentially suburbs without cities, or, otherwise put, "cities" in which the dimension of the signifier is entirely ignored, not to say refused.
I must end these reflections here. My current research is dedicated to the articulation of this urban phenomenon, that of the non-place, with another phenomenon identified by psychoanalysis, that of the new forms of the unconscious that might be called "non-unconscious" in that they are no longer organized around stable paternal inscriptions. Faced with the rise of such non-places, with the great de-walling of the world, cities like New Orleans appear increasingly as anachronisms, and their future is uncertain.
1. We must remember that the Lacanian Real – as opposed to reality – is not some pre-Symbolic substrate but rather a by-product of the incidence of language on the body.
2. Seminar, 2008-9
3. Seminar, "D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant", 12 May 1971
4. The belief that such a line "really exists" is as delusional as the belief that consciousness can be deciphered by scanning the brain.
5. This is why Lacan allowed himself, to the consternation of his audience, to suggest that he thought with his feet and not with his brain.
6. "The Ohio River", John Ed Pearce and Richard Nugent, University Press of Kentucky, p. 92.
7. Ibid.
8. Even in its fairy-tale version, the link between magic and the Word is retained in the form of spells: there is no magic without language.
9. Incidentally, physicists such as Roger Penrose suggest that the human brain would also be located at the intersection of quantum mechanics and classical physics, thanks to what he calls "microtubules", tiny brain structures that link the quantum scale with the classical scale.
10. This is why the Hegelian logic of infinite judgment is a logic of the Real, whereas the Aristotelian logic of the excluded middle and the principle of non-contradiction is a logic of the Symbolic.


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Angus Finney, The International Film Business: A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood
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1. Can I use a command to delete the file which is more than 7 days old every time it syncs? Or, alternatively, can it automatically delete older files if there are more than 6 existing in the remote directory?
Not easily.
This example may give you home hint:
Also your task becomes way easier once WinSCP .NET assembly is released (in about week time):
2. Can I write a command which will send a success/failed email every night so I know the status of the file sync?
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November 1982
Reporting: David Friend
At first the puzzled U.S. Army simply called him AWOL. Facts were scarce. Around two a.m., August 28, Pfc. Joseph White, 20, walked away from Guard Post Oullette on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone, shot off the lock of a gate and disappeared into no-man's-land. Within the day, North Korean broadcasts were exulting that an American soldier had "requested political asylum." If true, it was the first U.S. defection to North Korea in 17 years, the fifth since the DMZ was established in 1953 dividing South Korea from the Communist North. The previous GIs were used briefly for propaganda and were never heard from again. Back in Joseph White's hometown of St. Louis, his father, Norval, 52, a painter on a General Motors assembly line, insisted that his son had been captured. His wife, Kathleen, said through her tears, "It just doesn't make any sense. Why would Joey want to leave his ice cream, his chocolate syrup, his money?" But by the end of the week, a videotape of the young soldier shattered his family's hopes. Speaking in the Pyongyang People's Cultural Palace, Pfc. White, still in uniform, condemned U.S. militarism and then led a chant in homage to North Korean dictator Kim Ilsung. Joe White was a strange defector to Communism. He had been the arch-conservative in a family of blue-collar Democrats, a cold warrior who, at 13, wrote to his senator to warn of the Communist menace. Turned down by West Point, Joe enrolled in Missouri's Kemper Military School and College, where he was regarded as a loner. A fair student but a poor athlete, he dropped out and enlisted in the Army after deciding Kemper was full of "losers." In letters home from Korea, samples of which appear on the following pages, White gave no hint that his political ideas were shifting. If anything, he seemed only more fanatical. "It was drummed into him," Norval White recalls, " Hey, buddy. When you cross that line, you're gone forever."
Pfc. Joe White's duty with the last 39,000 U.S. troops on the Asian mainland began last March after three months of basic training at Fort Benning, Ga. For a rigid anti-Communist deployment to the Cold War's iciest face-off was a dream come true, though reality sometimes got in the way. In his letters White commented regularly (and with something like personal shame) on the all too human shortcomings of the GIs in South Korea, the examples of poor discipline, the equipment failures. The Koreans themselves, he liked. 'The American stereotype would seem to say that these people must be unhappy," he wrote after describing overcrowded hovels. "But their smiles suggest contentment." From the big Army base at Howze in the southwest, White was rotated north near the DMZ in July--first to Warrior Base, then to Oullette. The DMZ Installations are the only permanent bases in the world where U.S. troops go out nightly on ambush patrol with live ammo and orders to kill on sight. White complained about privations of border life--the mosquitoes, the scarcity of showers--but not the psychological pressure. Other soldiers turned to drugs. White was a straight arrow whose worst vice was an occasional beer. Those who knew him say he did not wander into the DMZ stoned. To them, that seems as preposterous as the fact that he went at all. Border duty is grim and edgy, made no less weird by the propaganda (including sexual as well as political taunts) that both sides blast across no-man's-land by loudspeaker. The war of ideas is also conducted by leaflet, and in one letter home White mentioned with boyish exuberance that he planned to start collecting these odd testimonials to the joys of life under the Communist regime to the north.
North Koreans peer across the DMZ from a typical guard post.
I almost got killed twice two patrols ago. First our route took us right past one of our own ambush sites. A firefight would have been all too easy. The second time we got misoriented in the dark. (In the Army you don't get lost, you get misoriented.)
Camouflage paint daubed on their faces a patrol lines up at Warrior Base, the rough tent city on the DMZ where White was quartered until three weeks prior to his defection.
Sgt. James Kirk does duty at Guard Post Oullette. The gate that White blasted open is visible at rear
The loudspeakers broadcast propaganda all night long. It is eerie to lie in ambush with 196 rounds of live ammo in your magazine pouches and listen to the voice of a Communist woman which is quivering with hate--hate for the U.S. and for South Korea.
South Koreans occupy an enemy tunnel under the DMZ. Below, allied officers overlook Chor Won Valley, likeliest route of mechanized attack from the north.
None of Pfc. White's ideas about Communism prepared him for the aggressiveness of the North Korean border troops--the propaganda, hair-trigger rifle fire and their relentless tunneling beneath the DMZ. A tape cassette that White mailed home in May refers to another revelation: the prevalence of defection. Speaking in a haunted voice he himself likens to that of Marlon Brando as the lunatic Colonel Kurtz in
Apocalypse Now
, White mentions defection six times in a 20-minute monologue: "In South Korean newspapers you read all the time of North Koreans who defect south," he comments. "But it's not all one-way traffic."
Tension here is very real. Four North Koreans tried to defect, so the enemy fired at us for hours. Before anybody knew it, that could have been the start of another Korean war.
Joe White scorned fellow soldiers whose curiosity about Korea extended no further than watching
. He began to read up on both Koreas, marking references to Kim Il-Sung. (According to a former girlfriend, White had been previously obsessed by Hitler.) He even tried to learn Hongul, the Korean tongue. "Much more precise than English," he told his parents...His incentive was not strictly academic. White had become fascinated by Korean women. After being sent up to the DMZ, he complained about the lack of female companionship--except for those teasing voices over the loudspeakers and the lovelies pictured on propaganda leaflets. In bolting to the North, maybe White thought he would find a life regimented beyond his most anxious yearnings for order and discipline. Maybe he thought he would find the "perfect man's mate." Maybe he has. There's something more pathetic than treacherous in the last words American buddies heard from him. "I am coming," he cried out as he ran across the DMZ. "Help me." He did not say it in English. Joe White was trying out the Hongul dialect he had worked so hard to learn.
Off-duty DMZ troops at Panmunjon tune in a M*A*S*H episode.
At an entertainment staged for US troops in Chunchon last March, Korean show girls await their cue.
Korean women are perfect man's mates. I'm friends with several who are much more beautiful than any girlfriend I had in the States and that's for damn sure. Besides attractive, they're hard working, they live simply. They know how to treat their man.


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I have meant to blog all along but just plain had no words for what we were taking in.
Today, though, I do want to say one thing. Someone said something about the trees at Ravensbruck being silent witnesses. They are not silent. They sing even still of great sadness. They remember.
Precious friends, your words are as chilling as I imagine the weather. How brave all of you are for taking on this mission for all of us! Those who suffered so much and died with so little have shared their great strength with all of you, and you honor their memory! Stay safe and come home soon to all of the MANY blessings we all share.
I have just been reading Brad's blog and wanted to say how his blog hit me. As a mother I too felt intense emotion regarding my daughters when I went to Aushwitz. As parents we bring ourselves into the plight of parents during the Holocaust and our emotions take over. The thoughts of "what would we have done? How would we have handled the fear not being able to protect our children? Could we have lived through what so many parents did during the turmoil of the Holocaust?" We can't and we must not try to put ourselves in their places. We don't know what we could have or would have done to protect the children. All we can do is protect all children from this ever happening again. That is what we do at HMH by education and love. Brad your wife knew you needed something and she gave you the most precious gift of all….laughter of your daughter. Showing your emotion is the way to connect with the past and of course your friends on the tour. Stay strong. Hazel
Wed, 3/16/11 – Buchenwald
As the swirling fog rolled in and obscured the Thuringia countryside, we made our way
six short miles from the art and culture of Weimar to the inhumanity of Buchenwald, the largest of all Nazi extermination or concentration camps.
As this was the first camp on this trip that I had not previously visited, I was uncertain about what I was going to see. Would it be as heart wrenching as Dachau or Mathausen or might it be different. Could this even be a "better" place?
If I was hoping for any easier visit it was not to be. The feeling of Buchenwald matched the the chill in the air. We were all cold and be here made us all colder.
Buchenwald is a place of terror, of barbarism beyond one's wildest imagination. A place where music played while unsuspecting prisoners were murdered by a bullet to the back of the neck, while they thought their height was being measured. A place where the SS had a zoo built door their children's enjoyment, not 50 yards from the crematoria.
We had a singular moving experience as we all lit memorial candles and recited Kaddish in memory and remembrance of all who perished here. All members of the group participated, as the words of Kaddish reverberated through the ghostly stillness of the place.
How, people ask me can you visit these horrible places ? Why do you do it, they ask. My answer to them is "How can I not?" I need to remember , I need to shed a tear, I need to to silently scream " NEVER AGAIN!". But I also visit these places to be inspired by the brave and courageous people that for me define the word " hero" .
Jerry as I sit here in the comfort of my home, T.V. on telling of the horror in Japan, I read your words and they go to the core of my being. I stand with you saying Kaddish from my heart….I feel the cold that you felt. My thought when I stood at Auschwitz on a day of dreary skies, wind and rain and I thought, until I read your words, that the cold was from the outside, now I know that even if the day was warm and beautiful, standing in a place of unbelievable hatred and brutality, the cold came from the inside. Your words bring me back to my trip and I feel with you and am standing beside you. Thank you so much. Hazel
Ron Grabois – 3/18/11
Today I feel we won. We finished the day, after Ravenbruck and Sachenshausen and we went to services at the RYKSTRASSE SYNAGOGUE, the biggest of the old Berlin synagogues. It is restored and gorgeous. We were part of a small but vibrant group and singing with the Jews of Berlin was just amazing. I feel that we won. Kaddish at the end just tied it all together after what we have seen and felt.
Susan Locklear
There is a dicotomy of size in my mind after the third camp today. Big ideas and small minds. Tiny cells and immense camps. Long train rides and shortened lives. Tiny pebbles on the walkways and huge stones carried from quarries. We are a small part of a larger story. I am honored and humbled to be included. Susan L
3/15/11- Munich and Dachau
A walking and driving tour of beautiful Munich. Like most German cities Munich suffered terrific damage at the hands of Allied bombers, but they have chosen to rebuild their city as it was, with a beautifully reconstructed Old Town, a bustling city center and in this city of 1.5 million people the tallest building is a 12 story hotel.
We were made aware of a new synagogue in Munich, located very close to the main part of the city center. Not certain if we could get in for a visit we went, told them who we were and why we wanted to visit and after some questioning we were admitted by an Israeli security guard.
The synagogue is breathtaking. Opened on Nov 8, 2006 on the 66th anniversary of Kristalnacht, the synagogue is built of Jerusalem stone and has a skylight roof and back drop which on this beautiful day saturated the sanctuary with light. We all marveled at the beauty and at the meaning of a brand new synagogue opening in Munich.
Dachau, a suburb of Munich is probably the easiest concentration camp for a visitor to reach and is within easy reach of millions of people who want to come here to learn. This was my 4th visit here and since my last visit here in July of 2006 visitors now get to enter the camp along the same road the prisoners did, from the train station, across a small creek and through the iron gates reading, Arbeit Mach Frei.
As much as we docents think we know about the Nazi horrors, I am always amazed at the brutality and efficiency of the Nazi treatment of prisoners. Who could ever conceive of hanging prisoners directly in drone of the crematoria?
I have to ask myself – were these the actions of warped minds or of brilliant minds, that were tragically misused? Were these seemingly normal family men insane or were they as normal as you or me, with a blind hatred, that sprang from blind obedience?
The barracks area which I had never seen before was terribly disturbing – an endless row of small cells for "special prisoners" and in the center of the row rooms for torture and medical experiments. I walked this endless, featureless row of cells and with few people here the only sounds I heard were my footsteps echoing in the terrible silence.
We have done Dachau, Mauthausen and Buchenwald. Just unbelievable. Dachau was not set up for Jews but Jews did suffer along with many Germans. The toughest camp for me had to be Buchenwald. Mauthausen was just as described, peaceful, pastoral, the surrounding area looks like it has not changed in 100 years. The monuments put up by each country are beautiful and appropriate. Some, as expected like Albania, re do the cold war but it is a recognition. Buchenwald on the other hand was just surreal and hard to fathom. We visited Wiemar, the home of some of the great thinkers and Great Germans like Goethe, Schiller, and others like Bach. Then you drive about 15 minutes and there in the forest is this place of mans inhumanity to man. From the 50's and sun at the first two, it was about 35 degrees, very foggy, and very windy. We were just about frozen. All we could think of was how did the prisoners survive with just pajamas, no food and worked to death. Incomprehensible. We just could not imagine what they went through. Just amazing.
Today, was Berlin and some fascinating ways to honor and remind people of the horrors of the Holocaust. Brass blocks in the ground, signs that tell of "the synagogue has been destroyed, clean it up and you cannot rebuild" These are all throughout the Jewish quarter of Berlin. We also saw the Topography of Terror, a building on the site of the SS and Gestapo. Enough said about what it deals with. We were pleased to see German students going through the museum. We also visited the site of the Wannsee Conference and did discuss how they teach it to the German students and hopefully our thoughts and concerns would be listened to.
Yasher Koah, Mary Lee on putting the visits together. Tomorrow off to Ravensbruck and Sachensausen. More mans inhumanity to man ( And Women) in some cases.
3/14/11 A very long day. Drove 2 hours to Salzburg, spent 3 hours there and than back on the bus for another 2 hours to Mauthausen.
My thoughts were of our survivors who survived the horrors of Mauthausen and Gusen.
It is very difficult to comprehend the thought of such evil in a place of such stunning natural beauty. The countryside surrounding the Mauthausen is gentle rolling hills, a place of tranquility and peace. As I sat trying to come to terms with what happened there I was sitting overlooking the hills just starting to turn green. I thought that the scene I was looking at, with farmhouses in the distance, probably hasn't changed much in 65 years. And than I saw white smoke curling up into the sky, smoke from a kitchen and someone cooking dinner and wondered if the starving prisoners of Mauthausen saw the same thing.
Visiting these sites is a very personal experience. This was an extreme place of starvation, disease and inhuman labor, working in the quarry and having to drag the stone back up the steep stairs, day after day, after day.
We got back on the bus for a 4 hour trip back to Munich and dinner at the Hofbrauhaus. After what we saw today we were ready to share our experiences amid friends and fellow travelers. Yes, we laughed, we enjoyed the evening, but for me, I cannot get out of my mind the dichotomy of evil and beauty co-existing in the place called Mauthausen.
My heart is traveling with all of you. I am so very proud that I can consider myself part of the friendship that has cemented us all from HMH. Reading your comments, Jerry, about the stroll my three favorite men took, I was walking with you and you didn't even look around! Keep the day's activities visible for those of us who are also learning from your experiences. I will wake each morning looking forward to reading and learning from you all. We all at home have so much to learn from all of you. Stay well and safe.
Arrived Munich on time and travelled to the hotel by Munich metro. We were able to check in and than went to stroll the pedestrian only areas, ending up at Marienplatz to see the glockenspiel. Somehow the guys lost the women or the other way around, so Ron, Hy and I found our way to viktulienmarkt for lunch, strolled some more, found the new synagogue and Jewish museum, visited the museum where they tell you up front is about the Jews of Munich. Jews have always had a difficult time here and there is essentially no Jewish history here post Holocaust, because most were taken away, never to return.
Back to the hotel for a short nap and we all convened for dinner at an Italian restaurant suggested by the hotel. Was right down the street from the hotel, although we didn't walk far enough to see it, so we wandered for an hour looking or it. Was worth it.
Back to the hotel for some sleep. Meeting the rest of the group at Munich airport early in the morning and than going directly go Nuremberg
Jerry, yesterday Mickey entertained some of her church friends along with Ruth & Larry Steinfeld and "Peaches". She had a slideshow of events at HMH prior to Ruth's story and lo and behold, there we were, wigs and all. Brought back great memories and made me realize how many times we have laughed at our antics. When we all were new to HMH we never expected that in those hallowed halls we would have times of fun and laughter. I feel that we enter a different "life" as we enter HMH and yes, it is possible to laugh as well as cry. Thank you for being both the clown with me and the teacher you are being on your trip. Hazel
I can't believe that it is time for our departure. It will be an incredible experience. I get very emotional when I think of the sites we will visit and their significance to HMH, all of us on the trip and everyone in the world who has been touched by the Holocaust.
And how special it is to share this experience with such a wonderful group.
Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible!
Madeline P.
Well it is two days before we leave for another amazing trip under the auspices of the Holocaust Museum Houston and its fabulous Education Director Mary Lee Webeck. I am one of 4 docents and Suzanne Sutherland who also went to Poland and the Czech Republic 3 years ago. On this trip we visited Auschwitz, Belzec, Theresenstadt, Warsaw, Krakow, Prague and other sites of interest to students of the Holocaust. This trip will be as educational, as emotional, and as uplifting as the last trip and I really am looking forward to it. It has been a long struggle to get this trip off the ground and I want to thank Mary Lee, Jerry Rochman and others who would not let this trip die. I can hardly wait.
Ron Grabois
Two days pre trip and I am both excited and apprehensive about this trip. The excitement comes from traveling with HMH. I am looking forward to traveling with you all and in particular spending time away from HMH and getting to know Mary Lee and Suzanne who I work so closely with at HMH. The apprehension comes from the fact that this trip is different. I have been to Holocaust related sites before, but have been there as a visitor, almost feeling as an outsider as I walked those hallowed grounds. This time I am there as a student of the Holocaust. No doubt I will see things differently this trip, hopefully paying more attention to detail so I will be able to relate what I have learned on my tours.
On a visit to Auschwitz 7 years ago, emotion overcame me. I felt real, human, not the least bit ashamed as tears fell.
I am apprehensive because I don't want my years spent as a docent and speaking about this regularly to have made me dis-passionate. I want to stand at Ravensbruck and Dachau and feel that emotion that makes me passionate about teaching the Holocaust and reaching the children with the museum's message of the dangers of intolerance and hatred.
As some of you may know, as part of the museum's 15th anniversary we have established a bookmark program honoring 15 deceased Houston Holocaust survivors.
As a member of the HMH docent committee I am responsible for learning and honoring through our tours one particular survivor. I am also responsible for getting the information about the survivor to other docents for whom I am a mentor. The survivor I chose was Sigei Izakson, about whom I knew little. Sigei was in the eyes of a lot of people one of the special people most responsible in the creation of HMH.
Knowing little about Sigei I was able to track down his son, a Rabbi in Spokane, WA and so I called him. After explaining to him who I was and why I was calling we established a comfort level and ended up speaking on the phone for 2 hours. I learned much about Sigei as a dad, a husband, a man and a Holocaust survivor. I learned of his bravery and his courage and of his friendship of a man who he would not abandon when Buchenwald was liberated.
Sigei had escaped the forced evacuation of Buchenwald, hid out for 3 days in a hay loft and than when he could have gone anywhere choose to back to Buchenwald to rescue a friend who could not work because of Nazi experimentation on his legs. Sigei returned to Buchenwald and watched from the forest as U.S. Troops and tanks liberated the camp.
For no apparent reason Sigei's son told me the name of the friend he returned to Buchenwald to rescue. The friend's name was Martin Warren, later to become the husband of our beloved Naomi Warren. I was speechless and asked Rabbi Izakson if Martin Warren was from the Houston Warren family. When I told him I knew Naomi we shared a moment frozen in time.
I write this because at the end of our 2 hour conversation he thanked me and HMH for the bookmark program and keeping the memory of his father alive. He told me that in his eyes I had "adopted" his dad and I promised him that my tour groups will know what the value of friendship is even during the most horrific of times.
So as my docent friends and I share the stories of 15 survivors, we keep their memory alive and help our visitors to understand that the survivors never wanted to be known as survivors, but as the people they became, as spouses, parents, grandparents and great grandparents.
Hi Jerry,
Your story about Seigi Izakson, and about Martin Warren brings home the message loud and clear; we have to continue to preserve the legacy of our survivors. That is what the new Docent-Survivor Legacy program is all about.
That's what those "bookmarks" are all about, to remind the students of the lessons they learned at HMH.
Education is our weapon. Houston Council of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants' mission is to send teachers to study in Poland and Israel, a program that Siegi helped found nearly 22 years ago. Our own Susan Myers was one of the teachers sent on those early trips. Every teacher affects thousands of students. The survivors will not be forgotten.
I wish you and the whole HMH contingent a wonderful and safe trip.
Lili Gordon


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Composite QQ Yak 54 2.6m ARF BNIB.
2 boxes, wings in one the rest in the other, all BNIB never removed by me, just inspected by Dan @ KLMS prior to collection by me.
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Control Throw (Ailerons): Low: 70mm up/down at root, 40% expo; High: 140mm up/down at root, 65% expo
Control Throw (Elevator): Low: 15mm up/down at counter-balance, 20% expo; High: 95mm up/down at counter-balance, 40% expo
Control Throw (Rudder): Low: 50mm right/left at counter-balance, 5% expo; High: 120mm right/left at counter-balance, 45% expo
Flying Weight: 28â29 lb (12.7â13.2kg)
Main Wing Tube Length: 31.5 in (800mm)
Main Wing Tube OD: 1.57 in (40mm)
Recommended Fuel: Gasoline
Recommended Receiver Battery: (2) 2S 4000mAh LiPo receiver pack
Spinner Size: 4.5 in (114mm) P-51-style, soli back plate
Tail Wing Tube Length: 15.75 in (400mm),15.75 in (400mm)
Tail Wing Tube OD: 0.472 in (12mm)
Wing Loading: 32.3 oz/sq ft (98.6 g/sq dm)
Wingspan: 102 in (2600mm)
You would be very lucky to find another one of these available BNIB.
Also advertised elsewhere.
Will not remove from box to take picture, the generic pictures are what you get.
Cash on collection only, but would be willing to meet on the proviso a none refundable deposit is paid up-front and my fuel costs are covered.
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The StarBand Chronicles-Issue 1 The Fall of Anterra
Almost ten thousand years later on a distant planet known as Anterra live the last descendants of the Air Elementals. A proud and advanced warrior race of bird-like people that have kept the star bands hidden away from the rest of the universe and under constant watch until some sign is given that the star bands are once again needed and that a new generation of Paladins are called forth to protect the universe. The following is a record of that moment:
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Penukonda, meaning 'Big Hill', is a small town in Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh. Penukonda is about two hour's journey from Anantapur town and is well-known for an ancient Fort. The town is situated at the foot of the hill on which stands the Penukonda fort, which is one of the major tourist attractions of Andhra Pradesh.
Penukonda is a historical land as this place was ruled by various dynasties in different times in the history. Penukonda has an ancient Jain history probably because it was ruled by Hoysala Kings who were practitioners of Jainism. You can see many Jain Temples in Penukonda as a result of which it became a sacred land for most of the Jain community. Penukonda is religious for Jain because of the presence of famous Pache Parsvanath Swami Temple (Parsvanath Swami was the 23rd Thirthankara in Jainism).
Penukonda is equally sacred for Muslim community because of the presence of Babaiyya Dargah. Hazrath Baba Fakruddin was a great Sufi Saint of 12th century and a king of Sistan and Shahpur in Iran before coming to Penukonda. This saint was given a twig by his teacher who asked him to settle in the place where this twig would turn into a big plant. When Hazrath Baba planted the twig at this place, where the mausoleum now stands, it turned into a tree and hence he settled here. Over a period of time, he gained followers and was called as 'Babaiyya' out of respect.
This is not all. Penukonda was once marked by about 365 temples, which were worshipped each day in the year. Probably all of them seem to have vanished in the ravages of time and negligence by the following generation. The temple of Lord Yoga Narasimha swami, Lord Kashi Vishwanatha, Lord Rama Temple and Lord Yogarama temple are some of the surviving shrines of the bygone era. The architecture of some of the temples is awe-inspiring. But right now most of these temples are unknown to many people except local denizens of Penukonda.
Just few metres from the fort, there is a recently founded Sri Kaleshwar Aashram of one Kaleshwar Anupati swami which is famous among the people these days.


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The number of vacancies has reached a near two-year high, creating an "employment paradise" for jobhunters, a report shows.
There are almost 180,000 vacancies in the UK, up by 2% on a year ago and the most since the autumn of 2015, said jobs site Adzuna.
The average number of jobseekers per vacancy is now below 0.5, while average advertised pay has hit a six-month high of £32,600.
A third of all vacancies are affected by the National Minimum Wage, rising to over two out of five in the north east, the research found.
Doug Monro, co-founder of Adzuna, said: "With salaries up, vacancies at their highest levels in seven months, and fewer people competing for jobs, it's an employment paradise for jobseekers.
"This means less of a strain on disposable incomes as jobseekers and employees have more room to manoeuvre in terms of their purchasing power.
"However, with the General Election fast approaching, improvements in the labour market shouldn't be taken as given just yet.
"Despite promising month-on-month wage growth, we still have a way to go to make up lost ground on advertised earnings.


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Colorado business leaders who are pushing a tax break to attract data centers will have to navigate a changed legislative landscape this year in which the bill is being met with skepticism.
That skepticism comes not only from its traditional liberal opponents, but from some Republicans who question whether more industry-specific tax credits are appropriate.
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Micah P Hinson : The Baby And The Satellite Sketchbook
Old-before-his-years Texan prodigy's musical baby pictures
It's the same old story: boy meets girl. Girl turns out to be former Vogue cover model and widow of semi-famous rock star. Girl introduces boy to hard drugs. Boy's Christian family disown him. Boy is sent to prison for forging prescriptions. Yes, 23-year-old Texan Micah Prendergast Hinson has had an eventful life. Upon release from jail in 2001, for example, he was homeless and destitute. Scraping together some borrowed instruments, he somehow managed to write and record 30 songs, some of which were released on last year's excellent country-noir debut album, 'Micah P Hinson And The Gospel Of Progress'.
Before that, though, were the eight tracks which make up 'The Baby And The Satellite Sketchbook'. Written and recorded on a broken four-track while the 19-year-old Hinson was trying to hold down a telemarketing job, they're remarkable sketches of a talent that would be more fully realised with 'The Gospel…' . As doodles go, though, these are remarkably accomplished: the eggshell-fragile likes of 'The Dreams You Left Behind' and 'The Last Charge Of Lt Paul' are hauntingly distant and ethereal, like a long and involved dream.
It's not all as compelling, admittedly, but this is a songwriter who's already so mature, you can only imagine what stories he'll have to tell when he's 40.
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I wanted to see Kiara and other girls by Viv Thomas.
Andrej Lupin does raid cut.
I wanted to see one long kissing instead of multiple of short ones.
Kiara Lord & Eva Berger a real Dream Chick Team!
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Quer is an adverb meaning "across," and a Denker is a thinker (from denken - to think). In combination, the words indicate a person who thinks independently or "outside the box," as the saying goes.
Querdenkerin is the female form. But whatever the gender, the implication is that the ideas of such a person are not always understood or accepted.
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The day following the 2016 election was pretty stressful for people in the Bay Area. Most of my patients came in the day after crying and extremely upset. The next few months following, my patients began not showing up for appointments, not working and becoming ill.
Emotional stress takes a toll on not only you but others around you. Every day there are tweets from Trump, constant new articles, Facebook postings, alarming executive orders, Russian allegations and racial tensions regarding number 45. We are bombarded with it 24 hours a day.
People are worried. Will I have healthcare? Will we go to war? Will I have civil rights? Am I safe if I am black or Muslim? This is a lot to deal with. It is more than just a simple policy change, these are life and death issues.
According to Nervous Nation, they found that more than 1/2 of Americans (around 59%) are anxious after the election and 50% are still trying to find ways to cope with the negative environment that has started after this election. This is not the Bay Area, this is the entire U.S.
More than 1/4 of the U.S. is engaging in some sort of negative behavior like drinking, smoking, over eating or arguing with loved ones more frequently because of high amounts of stress.
We have got to find a way to handle this barrage of bad press and energy we are encountering each day.
Here are some tips to help you sort out the emotions that may be effecting you in negative ways:
- Do something to gain back some power:
Write letters to the government to be heard, protest and demonstrate, call your congress representative, join an organization that supports your state of mind. This can get you to be with people that may offer some different insight and help you cope a bit better with the day to day bombardments we have been getting in the press, online and from the community.
2. Contact friends, family, co-workers and have some real face time. Not texting or tweeting, real interaction.
3. Meditate: Getting into a daily ritual of meditation can help you appreciate aspects of your life that may be looked over with all that is going on each day. Get connected to who you are and what you want out of life and find a goal to pursue to keep you happy and fulfilled.
4. Get some exercise: Working out at least 20-30 minutes each day have shown to decrease anxiety.
5. Journal: Keep a notepad by the bed, couch or desk to write down thoughts and get them out of your system. It helps you to get rid of the anxiety of such thoughts and move you along with your day. It also lets you know where you are in your state of mind so that you can evaluate how you are feeling. Some times we don't know how life is effecting us until it is pointed out in some way.
6. Plan for the worst and hope for the best: If you write down or keep track of what the worst scenerio will be and prepare your mind for it, it can help you deal with anything. Being prepared helps gives you peace of mind that there is nothing you can't handle. Now anything can happen and you got this!
7. Hope, hope and more hope: Did you know your thoughts most often become your reality? They do! Keep positive and don't let the negativity become your reality.
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Thief Snatches Woman's Phone, Gets Run Over by the Bus to Karma City
A Colombian mugger's cunning plan to steal a defenseless woman's cellphone was nearly foolproof — except for the part where he was run over by a bus while fleeing, and ended up looking like a fool.
The perp had anticipated making a quick getaway from the Bogotá bus station after snatching the victim's phone, but forgot to look both ways before leaving the scene of a crime, and was promptly struck by a bus.
Despite the dramatic footage captured on the stations' CCTV camera, the thief sustained only minor injuries.
Amusingly, it was the victim who helped save her attacker from further damage by pulling him out from underneath the bus.


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Let Me Be Me - Sherri Gray
This song was written for my friends in the Trans Community, although its message -- courageous action one takes when deciding to be truly 'authentic' and live the life he/she 'knows' is the right choice -- can apply to other groups, as well. I continue to write what i call Peaceful Activism songs because i believe in equality for all, living without unnecessary labeling, and being kind to one another. Here are the lyrics to "Let Me Be Me"... Sherri LET ME BE ME - BY SHERRI GRAY, 5/7/15 Shadows...Secrets...Silent Sin...and Shame. I've pretended all my life...I'm weary of the game. All day..all night...i hide my deepest truth: I'm not who you think I am...I've known this since my youth. Sometimes i wish upon a star for a world that would be kind, where we are loved for who we are...with open heart, and open mind. There's a child within my spirit...and it prays that i might hear it... "LET ME FLY...SET ME FREE...LET ME BE ME..." For from the essence of my soul, to the marrow of my bone, I've never felt complete or whole...my body never felt like home. Is my essence slowly dying as that child within is crying, "LET ME FLY...SET ME FREE...LET ME BE ME...' All day...all night...dreaming dreams that never cease. I wish i could be born again, and truly live in peace. Sadness, sorrow...hiding scars that will not heal. I know what the reason is... I never have been real. I've lived a lifetime underground when i know that i can fly. That's the truth i've finally found...and i know i have to try. And the child within my spirit knows at last that i can hear it, "LET ME FLY...SET ME FREE...LET ME BE ME...' For from the essence of our soul to the marrow of our bone, Together we're complete and whole...we live together in this home. Now our journey has begun...we are no longer two....but one... Just watch us fly... We'll touch the sky.... No longer "we"... NOW. I'M. JUST. ME.......
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The documentation would be the story, the story of the woods, the tree, the people and the piece of furniture as the end product.
It appeared to me that in our Consumption led times we often know little of the items we are actually consuming, items bought are anonymous, we buy and consume with mostly no thought of where it came from or what the original material was, or how it came to end up on our plate or in our homes. The McDonalds syndrome perhaps? Hamburgers come from there don´t they? What have pigs or cows got to do with it all? How can respect be shown for the life that went to make the end product if we have no connection with its past? Our ancestors probably didn´t have this problem, they were often involved in all parts of the making of what they consumed, perhaps through that they were able to accept the natural cycles of life and death better than we can.
I approached Alun Heslop of Chaircreative (http://www.chaircreative.com/) with my ideas and Alun was immediately enthusiastic and agreed to design and manufacture a series of pieces. Alun has made some fantastic items of furniture in the past and his designer talent seemingly knows no bounds.
In February I wanted to fell some larger stems of sweet chestnut in order to ascertain the internal quality of the timber. Alun came along that day and we selected stems which most people would not have been interested in, stems with natural curves and bends, for the furniture should not have sharp corners or straight edges, they were to be something special, perhaps a touch of Gaudi or Dali.
Alun recently started work on the pieces by cleaving some stems before them being taken to his workshops.
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Introduced in 2015, and now in it's third year, the SPARK Advisor Award recognizes the top retirement plan advisors across the country.
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SPARK Advisor Award: Plan Design & Administration InnovationFor advisors who demonstrate leadership in designing plans and administrative processes that improve participant outcomes while managing plan costs.
SPARK Advisor Award: Investment InnovationFor advisors who demonstrate leadership in designing, developing and delivering investments within DC plans that foster investment diversification, manage fees, and drive better participant outcomes whether in the accumulation or withdrawl phases of retirement planning.
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Jim has worked in the defined contribution retirement plan business since 1993 and has developed lasting relationships with corporate clientele, actuaries, and attorneys. In addition to his work with 401(k), 403(b) and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, Jim is respected among his colleagues for his expertise in cutting edge plan design and investment analytics.Jim has also been named Top 100 Plan Advisor of the Year in 2013 and made Forbes Magazine's Top 50 Wealth Managers, Emerging RIAs in 2013. Jim and several of his Centurion Group colleagues are consistently listed as 401kwire's top 300 most influential plan advisors.
As head of Global Retirement Partners, Bill has proven to be an innovative thinker in the retirement planning industry. Bill is probably best known for founding National Retirement Partners in 2006 and later selling it to LPL in 2010. In 2014, Bill founded Global Retirement Partners with nearly 400 advisors and joined LPL's hybrid RIA platform. Bill understands the power of open-architecture and the value of a retirement planning advisor. He is dedicated and passionate about positioning Global Retirement Partners as an innovator in participant advice.


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I really enjoyed the night life as it was still crouwded which made me feels more alive
Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia. Getting around Kuala Lumpur is convenient as trains, buses and tacus are easuly avsilable. KL Sentral is a modern transpiotation hub that cinverges a network of trains.
This is a very modern city which still retains a foot in the past. Very nice Temples and markets abound.
Kuala Lumpur is crazy place. Pedestrians doesn't have any rights so get ready for some adrenaline while crossing street. Waling path you will find mainly only in centre of the city which is the best place to visit anyway. Metro is bit confusing. PS: doesn't matter which single ticket you buy as they work in any station anyway


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The Dream of a Wireless Office
Back in the 1980's there was a lot of talk about creating a "paperless office". Well, obviously this didn't sit well with paper and printer manufacturers, and the idea was quickly quashed, though some are still hopelessly waiting. Now although we may not have a completely paperless office, we may have the next best thing, a completely wireless office, almost.
Now the word "wireless" doesn't excite people as much as it did five years ago with nearly every piece of technology offering something wireless. The first thing to go wireless in the average office was the router followed by the inkjet printer. Then Apple came barreling in with Bluetooth with the Mac OS X supporting it since version 10.2 and new Macs coming with it already built in.
There are three main types of wireless devices you should know about: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and wireless USB. Wi-Fi is a short range, high bandwidth connection, meaning it only covers a few thousand square feet. The good news is that it will carry a lot of information. Bluetooth is a short range, low bandwidth connection. It has good signal strength but will not carry a lot of information or data. Wireless USB is also a short range, high bandwidth connection whose signal drops steadily the farther away from the source you get.
The good thing is that none of these things need a direct line of sight from your PC to the device itself. This allows for greater flexibility in placement and office logistics. While your stacks of paper seem to be getting bigger, you can now equip your office without the need of a "Medusa" -like tangle of wires and cords. Now you have a wireless office, almost.
You will still need those blasted power cables, but with all the new wireless tech you have installed, you have cut the space taken up by wires, cords and cables by at least half. Heck, you may not even need power cables for much longer if people get wireless power up and running (seriously......you can't make that up).
While having a completely wireless office sounds like the perfect setup, I think it is only fair that I put that dream on the shelf with my hoverboard and light saber, at least for now. The future holds bright and promising things, especially in the business market. So keep your eyes peeled for the latest installment in a wireless office, because it will only get you one step closer to the heavenly office you have been dreaming of for oh so long.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your Website – On Page Optimization
Search Engine Optimization of your website will help you to rank higher with Google search and bring free traffic to your website. There are two main parts to SEO – first is the On Page Optimization and second is about creating backlinks to your website.
To get started with On Page Optimization, you can follow simple guidelines below:
1) What Pages to Optimize
You would like to optimize your Home page, your Category pages and key Product pages (20%-30% of your product pages).
2) Keyword Selection
The first step in optimizing any web page is to find the most relevant keywords for the specific page using a Keyword Research Tool (see blog post Product – Nich Market Research). You can find keywords (typically one keyword per page) for your Home page, Category pages and key Product pages.
3) Optimizing web page Title, Description and Keywords tags
Every web page has these three important tags. You should include your selected keywords in these tags. Google considers the sequence of what you write. So you want to place important keywords first or at the beginning of the sentence. You can check you current page Title by looking on top of the Menu bar. You can check your Description and Keywords by revewing the information available at Tools/Page Info menu option on your toolbar.
You want to update those tags for your Home page, every Category page and Product pages. If you are using an ecommerce platform (like BigCommerce) those tags are available under Store Settings, Category Updates and Product Updates.
4) Optimizing the Home Page
In addition to setting Title, Description and Keywords for your home page, you want to include keywords in the content of the web page. You can do it by writing direct content and/or featuring specific products that you want to promote on the home page.
5) Optimizing Product Pages
SEO efficient ecommerce platforms generate web page url based on the product title. So you want to include important keyword in the title. It is best to keep it short and most relevant to the keyword or in other words to what people will be most likely to search.
It takes time until Google recognizes your optimization changes. It depends on how frequently Google scans the pages on your website. In my case, it took 4-6 weeks for my Home page to appear in Google search results and approximately 8-12 weeks until Google indexed the majority of my Product pages and they start appearing in Google search results.
Search Engine Optimization should be an important component in your overall Internet Marketing plan. On Page optimization is only the first step and for most high traffic competitive keywords you will need to continue with Backlinks strategy to achieve high ranking with Google.
If you would like additional information on SEO, I recommend reading the book "SEO Warrior" by John I. Jerkovic.
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