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A tribute to and a lament for Marshall McLuhan.┬Ā Five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday,┬ĀI present one of McLuhanŌĆÖs observations and talk about its relevance today.┬Ā 300 ideas. 300 days.┬Ā 300 posts.
Archive for February, 2010
Do you know the people around you?
Marshall McLuhan (December 9, 1963, age 52). Someone should study this!
Have you noticed that there are a great many people in the organization you work for that you donŌĆÖt know?┬Ā Our organizations appear to be organized to wall people off, to separate them, not to bring them together.┬Ā For example, it was only when I went to Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts, to give a talk at Maurice SteinŌĆÖs invitation that I met Jack Seeley who teaches psychology at Toronto University.┬Ā At Toronto, Seeley and I never meet!┬Ā He is a delightful chap. ┬ĀA related phenomenon is our neglect of the famous places where we live.┬Ā Casa Loma is a great tourist attraction here in Toronto and is located quite close to where I Iive.┬Ā Yet, IŌĆÖve never seen it!┬Ā I wonder why?
Me (February 2010, age 57).┬Ā I wonder
This is the type of observation McLuhan delighted in.┬Ā And it has a ring of truth.┬Ā Organizations today do seem to be organized to separate people, to isolate them, to have them work in silos.┬Ā Head offices have been relocated from city centers to isolated suburban parks.┬Ā Open office cubicles enable management to monitor office workers and at the same time separate them.┬Ā Elevators are places to avoid conversation.┬Ā The language of business, larded as it is with euphemisms, acronyms, and clich├®s, by increasing the level of abstraction supports the maintenance of distance between people.┬Ā Can you truly be engaged working with people you do not know?
Have you ever met someone you did not know who works for the same organization that you do while travelling on business or on holiday? How many people do you actually know in your organization?┬Ā Is your organization doing anything to strengthen relationships among employees?
Cordially, Marshall and Me
Reading for this post
Letters of Marshall McLuhan, 1987, p.294.
For your I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N
Marshall McLuhan (August 4, 1963, age 52). What is number 1?
I donŌĆÖt know why people find it so hard to get.┬Ā In the electronic age in which we live the number 1 industry is the information industry.┬Ā In the machine age the number I industry was physical goods ŌĆō pig iron, cotton yarn and cloth, and wheat.┬Ā Today the university is where itŌĆÖs at.┬Ā GM is on the skids.┬Ā AT&T is the place to be.┬Ā The big boys are in the business of packaging, transporting, and consuming information.
ŌĆ£Corinne,ŌĆØ I said last night at dinner, ŌĆ£do you realize what business we are in?ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Marshall,ŌĆØ she said, ŌĆ£if you donŌĆÖt stop talking and start eating, your dinner will be ice cold.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Man, my dear, does not live on bread alone.┬Ā In fact we are living on it less and less with every passing year.ŌĆØ
Me (February 2010, age 57).┬Ā Would you believe ┬╝ of GDP is information?
ThatŌĆÖs the number Professor Deirdre – then Donald – McCloskey came up with when she and Arjo Klamer measured the contribution of ŌĆ£persuasionŌĆØ to the total production of goods and services in the U.S. economy.┬Ā (See their paper ŌĆ£One Quarter of GDP is Persuasion,ŌĆØ in the American Economic Review, May 1995.)
Too often, readers of Marshall McLuhan make the mistake of believing that he exaggerates.┬Ā That what he says is not meant to be understood literally.┬Ā That it is said for effect.┬Ā There is, I believe, more truth than meets the eye in McLuhanŌĆÖs teaching.
What business are you in?
Cordially, Marshall and Me
Reading for this post
Letters of Marshall McLuhan, 1987, p.290.
WhatŌĆÖs in a name?
Marshall McLuhan (March 3, 1963, age 51). I hope it smells as sweet!
Congratulations are in order.┬Ā Cigars all round; IŌĆÖve just been appointed the Director of the Center for the Study of the Media as Extensions of Man – a new interdisciplinary seminar for graduate students.┬Ā Our aim will be to explore the hidden effects of media on society.┬Ā I cannot understand, however, why Graduate Studies and Claude Bissell ŌĆō our beloved President at Toronto University – insisted it be called the ŌĆ£Centre for Culture and Technology.ŌĆØ┬Ā┬Ā
Me (February 2010, age 57).┬Ā WhatŌĆÖs in this name?
Today the ŌĆ£Centre for Culture and TechnologyŌĆØ continues on as the ŌĆ£McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.ŌĆØ┬Ā The original name has always struck me as a little odd, as does ŌĆ£Run for Breast Cancer.ŌĆØ┬Ā Why ŌĆ£forŌĆØ?┬Ā Runners for Breast cancer are not for but against breast cancer.┬Ā McLuhan was ŌĆ£forŌĆØ culture, but the centreŌĆÖs job was not to fight ŌĆ£forŌĆØ culture.┬Ā And he was not ŌĆ£forŌĆØ technology.┬Ā ┬ĀIf anything ŌĆō he never drove a car, gave up radio in college, and was a late adopter of the wrist watch – he was against technology.
The center was as he described it in a letter ŌĆ£for the study of media and society.ŌĆØ┬Ā Why didnŌĆÖt the university call it that?┬Ā Is it natural to assume ŌĆ£the study ofŌĆØ part is self evident?┬Ā And why the substitution of ŌĆ£technologyŌĆØ for ŌĆ£mediaŌĆØ and ŌĆ£culture for ŌĆ£societyŌĆØ?┬Ā Are these really improvements?
What do you think?
Cordially, Marshall and Me
Reading for this post
Letters of Marshall McLuhan, 1987, p.288.
Before and after
Last week, as you know if youŌĆÖve been following this blog, was different from previous weeks.┬Ā The standard format was dropped, and instead I posted a 5-part essay explaining what I believe is the single most important thing you need to know to understand Marshall McLuhan.
What I argued is that Marshall McLuhan lost his genius as a result of surgery to remove a brain tumor in November 1967 and as a result if you want to understand McLuhan you need to read and listen to him as he was before the surgery.┬Ā McLuhan before the surgery was in conversation lucid, mercurial, and inventive.┬Ā In print he is original and exciting.┬Ā McLuhan after the surgery was clever, but confusing.┬Ā In print he leaned too heavily on his coauthors without whom he might never have managed to meet a deadline.┬Ā In conversation he seems to be distracted by small things or stuck on the pursuit of new ways to frame his old ideas.┬Ā Gone is high definition low definition in figure and ground, left brain and right brain.
This is controversial.┬Ā I do not expect to persuade you to view McLuhan in a new way in one leap, for that is certainly not how I did it.┬Ā Consider first what is agreed by his biographers.┬Ā The 1967 surgery was dangerous.┬Ā He was changed as a result of it.┬Ā He lost his prodigious memory and energy.┬Ā He lost years of reading.┬Ā He became petty and short tempered.┬Ā The question is:┬Ā Was it a fundamental change?┬Ā┬Ā I believe it was.
Below are two videos of McLuhan being interviewed:┬Ā The first from 1960, seven years before the surgery.┬Ā He is 46.┬Ā The second is from 1976, nine years after the surgery he is 65.┬Ā Watch them.┬Ā Compare McLuhan before and after.┬Ā Ask yourself: Is it just age that is damping him down?┬Ā Tomorrow, which my 100th post of this blog, which I remind you is both a tribute and lament for Marshall McLuhan, I return to the standard format.
Cordially, Me
Marshall McLuhan
1. Marshall McLuhan Explorations: The global village on CBC Television [Broadcast Date: May 18, 1960]
2. Marshall McLuhan on the Today Show interviewed by Tom Brokow [Broadcast Date: September 24, 1976 after the Presidential Campaign Debate Between Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter, September 23, 1976]
Now for something completely different, part 5 ŌĆ"
This weekŌĆÖs blogs are very different from those of previous weeks.┬Ā The standard format of two short letters, one from Marshall McLuhan and one from me, is abandoned.┬Ā Instead I am posting, in 5 parts, an essay which explains the single most important thing you need to know to understand Marshall McLuhan.
Previously, in part 1, posted Tuesday, I asserted that Marshall McLuhan lost his genius as a result of surgery to remove a brain tumor.┬Ā In part 2, posted Wednesday I explained why it was necessary and how it was carried out.┬Ā In part 3, posted Thursday, I explained why the operation was so damaging to McLuhan.┬Ā Did McLuhan lose his genius as a result of the operation?┬Ā I think so but you may want additional evidence.┬Ā Yesterday, in part 4, I talked about two other pieces to this puzzle.┬Ā Today, in part 5, the final chapter of this story, I talk about the meaning of it all.
Cordially, Me
Genius has brain surgery and loses his mind:┬Ā The untold story of Marshall McLuhan
By Michael Hinton
In the final chapter of classic detective fiction, the crime is solved when the great detective – Agatha ChristieŌĆÖs Hercule Poirot, for example – gathers all the suspects gathered together in the same room, lays out the evidence, and identifies the guilty party. Before I make my attempt to play the great detective, I want to say something briefly about what genius is and what it matters whether or not McLuhanŌĆÖs genius was lost.
Genius the Romans thought was the essence of our character or personality.┬Ā There is no doubt that in this sense, McLuhanŌĆÖs brain surgery killed his genius.┬Ā All his biographers I think would agree on this.┬Ā He was a different man after the operation. ┬ĀBut this is not what I mean by genius.┬Ā I mean that ŌĆ£inborn exalted intellectual powerŌĆØ that ŌĆ£extraordinary imaginative, creative or inventiveŌĆØ spark that allows some minds to work faster than anyone else, for a longer time, and come to different conclusions.┬Ā┬Ā How many geniuses are there?┬Ā Dr. Del Maestro told me that he believes the answer is something like one in six billion and that he had no doubt that McLuhan was a genius.┬Ā How many lose their genius?┬Ā Some; certainly Churchill did and so did Dr. Johnson, as a result of illness and possibly dementia.┬Ā How many have lost their genius as a result of brain surgery?┬Ā┬Ā Possibly, only McLuhan, the numbers of true geniuses being small.
Understanding Media which was published 45 years ago is clearly the work of a genius, but not one who is easy to understand.┬Ā To understand McLuhan you need to know that: (1) his greatest ideas can be found most vigorously expressed in his speaking and writing before his brain surgery in 1967; (2) the spoken word is the vehicle of his genius; and (3) his earlier work is generally speaking easier to understand than his later work because in his earlier work he was less concerned with presenting his ideas in mosaic form.
You can listen to McLuhan speak in his letters, his interviews, and his speeches.┬Ā His writing before Understanding Media and the Gutenberg Galaxy can be found in his essays from the 1950s and 1960s in McLuhan Unbound, and his Report on Understanding New Media, 1960.┬Ā┬Ā Even so he is never easy to understand for several other reasons.┬Ā His thought is densely packed with new ideas, in chapter 14 of Understanding Media, for example he identifies 100s of ways money can be thought of as an extension of our mind, bodies, or spirit.┬Ā He delights in decorating his ideas with references to writers from all disciplines.┬Ā In chapter 1 of the same book in the space of 6 pages (pages 9 to 14) he calls for support from the writings of Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida), Hans Selye, General David Sarnoff, W.W. Rostow, John Kenneth Galbraith, David Hume, E.H. Gombrich, Cardinal Newman, de Tocqueville, Gibbon, E.M. Forster, and Walt Whitman.
He uses a special vocabulary that does not mean what you might think it does; hot and cool, for example.┬Ā His terms are often value-loaded; fragmented and visual bias, for example.┬Ā His primary goal is often to jolt his readers and listeners out of their complacencies rather than to lead them to particular conclusions; his speech [this blog] at the Museum of the City of New York, in October 1967, he outraged his audience with the notion that the invention of the fire engine caused the proliferation of slums in 19th century western cities. Before this, of course, as the history of Paris and London shows, but McLuhan does not bother to explain, fires were responsible for the regular clearing away of slums and the re-building of newer and better-designed cities, although at great cost in terms of loss of life and misery for the urban poor. And, he loved to joke around; the medium is the massage, for example, making it difficult to tell when he is joking and when he is not.
Now, to deal with the difficult question of causality, a question McLuhan wrestled with a great deal.┬Ā Who killed McLuhanŌĆÖs genius?
Was it Dr. Mount? (Aristotle would have called Mount the efficient cause.)┬Ā Was it the art and practice of brain surgery? (AristotleŌĆÖs formal cause.)┬Ā Was it the length of the operation, the copper or nickel lifts, and the bruising of brain tissue?┬Ā (AristotleŌĆÖs material cause.)┬Ā Or was it McLuhanŌĆÖs desire to live rather than die from the growth of the tumor?┬Ā (AristotleŌĆÖs final cause.)
I prefer a final cause solution.┬Ā That McLuhan killed his own genius.┬Ā But this is not the most important question.┬Ā The case of Marshall McLuhan is not, after all,┬Ā a ŌĆ£who done it.ŌĆØ┬Ā ItŌĆÖs a ŌĆ£what got done.ŌĆØ┬Ā What happened to McLuhan?┬Ā Did he lose his genius at the same time he lost his tumor?┬Ā If so a great deal about McLuhan which was mysterious now becomes clear.┬Ā Why his books after 1967 were never again as good as the ones before.┬Ā Why he can be read and understood more easily in his writing before 1967 than after 1967.┬Ā Why he was lionized in the 1960s and looked on as bit of a joke in the 1970s.┬Ā Why he is so poorly understood today.
McLuhanŌĆÖs real tragedy was not the stroke that took away his power to speak in 1979.┬Ā His tragedy was that in choosing life in 1967 he had to let his genius go.┬Ā If there is a happy ending here it is that the real McLuhan, the genius, lives on in all that he did before November 1967.┬Ā And that is a legacy that will never die, and one we can return to whenever we wish for inspiration and enlightenment.
Now for something completely different, part 4 ŌĆ"
As you know if you've been following, this weekŌĆÖs blogs are very different from those of previous weeks.┬Ā The standard format of two short letters, one from Marshall McLuhan and one from me, is abandoned.┬Ā Instead I am posting, in 5 parts, an essay which explains the single most important thing you need to know to understand Marshall McLuhan.
Previously, in part 1, I asserted that Marshall McLuhan lost his genius as a result of surgery to remove a brain tumor.┬Ā In part 2, I explained why it was necessary and how it was carried out.┬Ā In part 3, I explained why the operation was so damaging to McLuhan.┬Ā Did McLuhan lose his genius as a result of the operation?┬Ā I think so but you may want additional evidence.┬Ā Today, in part 4, I talk about two other pieces to this puzzle.
Cordially, Me
Genius has brain surgery and loses his mind:┬Ā The untold story of Marshall McLuhan
By Michael Hinton
Did McLuhan lose his genius as a result of the operation?┬Ā Was he greatly changed?┬Ā Beyond the facts of the surgery itself, consider these two other clues.┬Ā First the first clue.┬Ā ŌĆ£Corinne [McLuhan] was very sharp and lovely and graceful,ŌĆØ historian Nicholas Olsberg, wrote me from his home in Arizona.┬Ā┬Ā ŌĆ£Always seemed odd that she made her match with such a clumsy guy [Marshall].ŌĆØ
In the winter of 1981, not long after MarshallŌĆÖs death, Nicholas Olsberg spent his days valuing McLuhanŌĆÖs papers ($1 million Canadian was the final figure) and his evenings chatting with Corinne, as a guest in MarshallŌĆÖs house, at 3 Wychwood Place – sleeping in his study, surrounded by his books.┬Ā It was during these conversations, undoubtedly, that Olsberg heard about MarshallŌĆÖs clumsiness.┬Ā The answer to OlsbergŌĆÖs puzzlement about why a beauty, a 10, like Corinne would marry a clumsy, a 5, like McLuhan, of course, is that Corinne didnŌĆÖt marry a clumsy guy.┬Ā She married a tall powerful guy who won his rowing oar at Cambridge and missed a Rhodes scholarship, not for physical clumsiness, because for intellectual arrogance.┬Ā The clumsy guy was created I submit by seizures, strokes, and most of all by a surgical operation to remove a brain tumor and the medication he needed to take in recovery to deal with the pain.┬Ā The Marshall McLuhan Corinne talked about to Nicholas Olsberg was not the pre-1967 genius, but the post-1967 diminished, clumsy-guy.
The second clue is in the jokes that are told about McLuhan, and, in particular, one specific joke.┬Ā Jokes, McLuhan liked to say, borrowing the observation from Steve Allen, are based on grievances.┬Ā Jokes about McLuhan are based on the grievance, the complaint, that no one can understand him.┬Ā That was the joke on Rowan and MartinŌĆÖs Laugh-In.┬Ā That was the joke in the famous New Yorker cartoons on McLuhan of the 1960s.┬Ā That was the joke in the famous bit of doggerel by A.J.M. Smith, ŌĆ£McLuhan put his telescope to his ear; What a lovely smell, he said, we have here.ŌĆØ┬Ā And that was the joke about McLuhan in Woody AllenŌĆÖs film Annie Hall.
Canadians who were twenty somethings in the 1970s, as I was, probably remember McLuhan best from his walk-on role in Annie Hall.┬Ā The joke in the film, made in 1977, ten years after the operation, has been misunderstood by his fans.┬Ā His biographers Judith Fitzgerald and Terry Gordon, for example, talk about his performance as an example of what a funny guy McLuhan was and how Woody didnŌĆÖt get him.┬Ā (The cameraŌĆÖs rolling.)┬Ā A Communications Prof. from NYU is talking to his girl out front of a movie theatre.┬Ā HeŌĆÖs talking about McLuhan.┬Ā TVŌĆÖs a hot medium, he says, blah, blah, blah.┬Ā Woody hears this and gets irritated, (McLuhan said TV is a cool medium) and gets McLuhan.┬Ā And McLuhan tells the guy off, ad-libbing:┬Ā ŌĆśYou know nothing of my ideas. You think my fallacy is all wrong?ŌĆØ┬Ā This breaks everyone up. Woody gets irritated again.┬Ā (This time for real.┬Ā McLuhanŌĆÖs up-staged him.) ┬ĀWoody demands the scene be done over, and over again, which tires McLuhan.┬Ā (Who does look tired and very thin.)┬Ā┬Ā He insists McLuhan say his lines differently – say focus not fallacy, and donŌĆÖt say it as a question.┬Ā In the end fallacy stays but the joke, one of McLuhan's favourite lines which he likes to use with hecklers, is spoilt.
The truth of course is different.┬Ā Woody not McLuhan knows best about comedy.┬Ā They re-shoot because thatŌĆÖs how movies get made.┬Ā McLuhanŌĆÖs ad lib is not a brilliant performance. ┬ĀThe guy he tells off isnŌĆÖt a heckler, heŌĆÖs a misinformed fan.┬Ā McLuhanŌĆÖs line is a solution for the wrong problem.┬Ā The genius McLuhan would never have done this.┬Ā He might have said ŌĆ£With friends like you, who needs fallacies,ŌĆØ or ŌĆ£You have my fallacies all wrong.ŌĆØ┬Ā┬Ā McLuhan is funny in the film because the joke does not hinge on words; the joke is McLuhan. The joke is his very presence.
[to be continuedŌĆ"]
Now for something completely different, part 3 ŌĆ"
This weekŌĆÖs postings are very different from those of previous weeks.┬Ā The standard format of two short letters, one from Marshall McLuhan and one from me, is abandoned.┬Ā Instead I am posting, in 5 parts, an essay which explains the single most important thing you need to know to understand Marshall McLuhan.
Previously, in part 1, I asserted that Marshall McLuhan lost his genius as a result of surgery to remove a brain tumor.┬Ā In part 2, I explained why the surgery was necessary and how it was carried out.┬Ā In part 3, todayŌĆÖs post, I explain why the operation was so damaging to McLuhan.
Cordially, Me
Genius has brain surgery and loses his mind:┬Ā The untold story of Marshall McLuhan [contŌĆÖd]
By Michael Hinton
To get a second opinion on the possible consequences of McLuhanŌĆÖs operation I spoke with Dr. Rolando Del Maestro, MD, Ph D, FRCS (c), FACS, and DABNS.┬Ā┬Ā Dr. Del Maestro holds the William Feindel Chair in Neuro-Oncology at McGill, directs the universityŌĆÖs Brain Tumor Research Centre, and is Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology and Professor of Oncology at McGillŌĆÖs Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital.┬Ā He has performed or assisted in between 5,000 and 6,000 operations to remove brain tumors.┬Ā Perhaps not surprisingly, in the small world that is world-class neurosurgery and research, one of his teachers in neurosurgery at Western knew Dr. Mount, and he was also taught and was a colleague of Dr. Henry Barnett, who was McLuhanŌĆÖs neurologist in the 1970s in Toronto and treated him for his stroke in 1979.┬Ā Last but not least, Dr. Del Maestro is a student of genius, in particular the life and work of Leonardo Da Vinci.
When I spoke with Dr. Del Maestro I told him what McLuhanŌĆÖs biographers had to say about the surgery, and the circumstances leading up to it.┬Ā I expected him to tell me that there is little he can say about the possible effects McLuhan might have suffered without seeing his medical records and even so every case is different.┬Ā But he did not do so.┬Ā Instead he told me that McLuhan must have suffered some cognitive impairment.┬Ā The problem was the length of the operation.┬Ā Oxygenation is not a concern, however, the problem is that in the surgery, which in its fundamental aspects is carried out today in much the same way as it was done in Dr. MountŌĆÖs time, the brain is lifted to get at the tumour by nickel or copper lifts.┬Ā Over the many hours the brain was lifted the brain tissue, (the little grey cells Poirot called them) must inevitably be bruised, the cells damaged.┬Ā Forgive me for saying this, he said, if you were a construction worker you could recover from a surgery like this and return to work.┬Ā But if youŌĆÖre a surgeon, an architect, or a NATO general performing at a high-level you can never go back and work at the same level.┬Ā In all your years of experience, I said to him, have you ever known or heard of anyone who fully recovered from an operation like McLuhan had?┬Ā No, he said.┬Ā But then, after a brief pause, he said.┬Ā Let me think about it.┬Ā If I discover such a case IŌĆÖll call you.┬Ā (So far, he has not called.)
But this isnŌĆÖt conclusive evidence is it?┬Ā What would it take to persuade you if you are presently unpersuaded?
McLuhanŌĆÖs medical records?┬Ā Even if I could show them to you, and I cannot – Columbia ŌĆōPresbyterian will not release them without permission from McLuhanŌĆÖs family and the McLuhan family is unlikely to give me their permission to see them – I doubt that would do the trick.
What about testimony ┬Āfrom Dr. Barnett, who treated McLuhan in the 1970s?┬Ā Perhaps.┬Ā I spoke with him ŌĆō he is in his 90s ŌĆō but he would not grant me an interview without the permission of a member of McLuhanŌĆÖs family.┬Ā I phoned Stephanie McLuhan – one of Marshall McLuhanŌĆÖs daughters.┬Ā I left a message asking her permission to speak with Dr. Barnett.┬Ā She returned my call, and left a message asking me who Dr. Barnett was, saying that she did not recognize the name.┬Ā I phoned back and left a message saying that he was her fatherŌĆÖs neurologist.┬Ā She did not call me back.
What about letters to and from McLuhan in the months before and after the operation?┬Ā These might be revealing.┬Ā┬Ā Unfortunately, McLuhanŌĆÖs letters from 1967 and 1968 appear to be missing from the McLuhan Papers held by the National Archives.
But consider these two other items and see if they tip the scales.┬Ā The Nicholas Olsberg clue and the Annie Hall clue.
[to be continuedŌĆ"]
Now for something completely different, part 2ŌĆ"
Yesterday, I explained that this weekŌĆÖs blogs will be very different from the previous ones.┬Ā This week, in the lead up to my 100th post, which will take place on Tuesday, February 23, the standard format of two short letters, one from Marshall McLuhan and one from me, is temporarily abandoned.┬Ā Instead I am posting, in 5 parts, an essay which explains the single most important thing you need to know to understand Marshall McLuhan.
In part 1, I asserted that Marshall McLuhan lost his genius as a result of surgery to remove a brain tumor.┬Ā In todayŌĆÖs post I tell you more about this operation.
Cordially Me
Genius has brain surgery and loses his mind:┬Ā The untold story of Marshall McLuhan [cont'd]
By Michael Hinton
It is time to tell you about the operation, the scene of the crime.┬Ā On the basic facts leading up to it and what happened during and after it his biographers (Marchand, Fitzgerald, and Gordon) are in substantial agreement:┬Ā In 1967, McLuhan had reached the pinnacle of his career.┬Ā The Gutenberg Galaxy had won him a Governor GeneralŌĆÖs award in 1962.┬Ā Understanding Media had sold 100,000 copies in the spring of 1964.┬Ā An east and west coast marketing campaign orchestrated by two San Francisco PR men and ŌĆśgenius scouts,ŌĆÖ Howard Gossage and Gerald Feigen,┬Ā rocketed him to international stardom in 6 months in 1965.┬Ā Lionized by Fortune 500 corporations his key note speeches earned him $5,000 to $25,000 gigs in 1966.┬Ā Awarded a $100,000 teaching and research chair at Fordham University, in Brooklyn, he moved Corinne and 4 of their 6 children to New York City in August, 1967, where he arranged for jobs for two of his colleagues, Ted Carpenter and Harley Parker, and his eldest son Eric, and schooling for the other children, and a house for them all to live in close to the university.
With a new salary, new job, new office, new secretary, new city, and new home his stress levels must have reached record heights.┬Ā Stress was the last thing he needed.┬Ā Over the past 7 years heŌĆÖd suffered from headaches and black-outs.┬Ā (In 1960 exhausted by a punishing work schedule, heŌĆÖd suffered a stroke that he tried to pretend had never happened.)┬Ā Believing sickness was the result of weak will, and therefore a sign of weakness, McLuhan felt he could indulge his dislike of Doctors and hospitals by avoiding them.┬Ā In September and October 1967 the blackouts got worse.┬Ā In October he blacked out in class at Fordham.┬Ā Deeply concerned, Carpenter, John Culkin – who had persuaded McLuhan to come to Fordham – and Corinne persuaded McLuhan to see a neurologist in Manhattan.┬Ā Dr. Lester A. Mount examined McLuhan and arranged for tests which showed that McLuhan had brain tumor, a benign but growing meningioma the size of his fist, buried in the lower part of his brain at the base of his skull.
McLuhanŌĆÖs choice was fairly simple:┬Ā have the operation which would not be easy and if all went well live, or suffer ever increasing pain, blackouts, blindness, insanity, and ultimately death.┬Ā The operation took place at the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.┬Ā Dr. Mount performed the operation which began at 8 in the morning of Saturday, November 25 and was not completed until 5 in the morning of Sunday, November 26, having lasted 22 hours, making it ŌĆ£the longest neurosurgical operation in American medical history.ŌĆØ┬Ā Dr. MountŌĆÖs greatest concern, says Fitzgerald, was that the length of the operation which he estimated would take only 5 hours and might result if the utmost care was not taken in the exposure of ŌĆ£some of the cells of the brainŌĆÖs surface to the potentially devastating effects of oxygenationŌĆØ because he had to ŌĆ£lift McLuhanŌĆÖs brain to get at the tumour.ŌĆØ┬Ā ŌĆ£His esteemed patientŌĆÖs faculties will,ŌĆØ she writes, ŌĆ£almost inevitably, [would] sustain some degree of damage.ŌĆØ
McLuhan did suffer from the operation.┬Ā The pain was excruciating, for which he took heavy-duty pain killers, and his life was ŌĆ£forever altered.ŌĆØ┬Ā Five years of reading and people, places and associations were scrubbed from his memory.┬Ā He was ŌĆ£variously fragile, tense, irritable,ŌĆØ she says,ŌĆØ and, on occasion, uncharacteristically demanding and irrational.ŌĆØ┬Ā No one, however, suggests the operation took away his genius.┬Ā Gordon remarks, instead, how remarkably productive McLuhan was in the years after the operation: 7 books and 21 articles.┬Ā And yet it is clear there was something wrong.┬Ā The articles were squibs.┬Ā Some quite obviously recycled from the years before his surgery.┬Ā With each year that passed and with the appearance of each new book his reputation fell.┬Ā Projects he thought important were left unfinished.┬Ā Six of the seven books were co-authored and the one that wasnŌĆÖt, Culture is Our Business was viewed by McLuhan, as a failure.┬Ā Asked by his son Eric late in his life why he never dedicated his books to any one McLuhan told him it was because he wasnŌĆÖt very proud of them.
To be continued…
Now for something completely different
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 will be my 100th post.┬Ā To those of you who have been following this blog, especially, I should say something, now, by way of explanation and introduction, because this weekŌĆÖs blogs will be very different from the previous ones.┬Ā Previously, each blog has consisted of two short letters.┬Ā The first is from Marshall McLuhan, and introduces a particular idea or event in his life.┬Ā (Perhaps I should make it clear ŌĆō on the off-chance you have any doubts about it – these letters were not actually written by Marshall McLuhan, but by me as I have imagined him writing them.┬Ā I have, however, based them on things he actually did say or write in letters, interviews, essays, speeches, or books, and have tried as far as I can to imitate his style without parodying it.) ┬Ā┬ĀThe second is from me talking about what Marshall says in his letter.┬Ā (These letters I assure you are all actually written by me.)┬Ā Hence the name of the blog: ŌĆ£From Marshall and Me.ŌĆØ
Today, I am posting the first part of a five-part essay on what I believe is the single most important thing you need to know to understand Marshall McLuhan.┬Ā Here is part one. ┬ĀI hope you find it interesting and useful in making sense of one of CanadaŌĆÖs most extraordinary and perplexing minds.┬Ā If you have any comments I would like to hear them.
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Genius has brain surgery and loses his mind:┬Ā The untold story of Marshall McLuhan
By Michael Hinton
Thirty years ago, on September 26, 1979, Marshall McLuhan collapsed in his office, a book-strewn, file-piled, upstairs room in the Coach House at St. MichaelŌĆÖs College in the University of Toronto.┬Ā A short walk away from where he lay was the basement cafeteria of the old ROM, his former office on St Joseph Street, his first two homes in Toronto, at 81 St MaryŌĆÖs Street and 29 Wells Hill Road, and all of the other places he had made his breakthroughs in communications and media studies.┬Ā The cause of his collapse was a stroke that robbed him of the power to speak, read, and write for the last fifteen months of his life.
ThereŌĆÖs a joke – an anecdote in McLuhan-speak about this: it probably didnŌĆÖt make him any harder to understand.┬Ā┬Ā McLuhanŌĆÖs wife Corinne once said, IŌĆÖm paraphrasing here, that Marshall had three passions in life God, work, and her.┬Ā But she ran a very distant third.┬Ā After the stroke he still had God and Corinne, but the work was gone.┬Ā Walking, but only just, barely able to move his hands, the man who rocketed to international stardom in 1966 with his dumbfounding eloquence – observing most famously that ŌĆ£the medium is the messageŌĆØ and that media had made the world ŌĆ£a global villageŌĆØ – was unable to communicate in any other way than by shrugging, grunting, grimacing, and forcing out an occasional ŌĆ£oh boy, um, ah, [and] yes.ŌĆØ┬Ā Once looking out the window on a rainy day, Patrick Watson says, a bit of a poem came out, ŌĆśApril is the cruelest month.ŌĆØ┬Ā A story that always moves me because he spent 40 years of his life teaching English literature, and what he must have been trying to say to his friend by quoting this first line from ŌĆ£The Wasteland.ŌĆØ
The wonder is not that poetry came out of his mouth.┬Ā Aphasics frequently may sing more easily than they can speak and speak poetry when they cannot speak prose.┬Ā┬Ā And McLuhan loved poetry.┬Ā At one time he had committed most of the Oxford book of English verse to memory.┬Ā The wonder what he meant by this quotation.┬Ā It could have been idle word play.┬Ā This is April, itŌĆÖs raining, hereŌĆÖs some poetry that loosely fits.┬Ā But that I think is unlikely.┬Ā What is more likely is that McLuhan was well aware of the dark meaning of that line of poetry, and of the darker meaning of the epigram that introduces the poem.┬Ā April, Eliot is saying, is cruel because it wakens the world from its painless sleep to the misery of life in the wasteland.┬Ā To McLuhan his current life of sharply constrained communication must have felt like a wasteland.┬Ā The epigram of the poem is a passage from The Satyricon by Petronius.┬Ā A scene is played out in the town square of ancient Cumae where the Sibyl – a prophetess┬Ā ŌĆō is imprisoned in a cage and is being taunted by a gang of children.┬Ā ŌĆ£What do you want, Sibyl, they cry.ŌĆØ┬Ā And she says,ŌĆ£I want to die.ŌĆØ
I wrote to Patrick Watson about the story of ŌĆ£April is the cruelest month.ŌĆØ┬Ā He didnŌĆÖt want to speak to me about this over the phone.┬Ā Instead he asked me to send him questions by e-mail.┬Ā I asked him a two-part question: Was the story true, that McLuhan had actually said this particular line of poetry, and what did he (Patrick Watson) say after McLuhan said it.┬Ā He wrote me back the next day, to confirm that the story was true and add a question of his own, but unfortunately he left the second part of my question unanswered. (His e-mail reads: ŌĆ£Yes, I think thatŌĆÖs true. Do you know the source of the line?ŌĆØ)┬Ā Too bad.┬Ā IŌĆÖd hoped to be able to discern from his answer something about McLuhanŌĆÖs state of mind and his at the time. ┬Ā┬ĀWonder?┬Ā Joy?┬Ā Amazement?┬Ā Foreboding?┬Ā Sorrow?┬Ā Indifference?┬Ā Or what?┬Ā Perhaps he couldnŌĆÖt remember, or didnŌĆÖt want to.┬Ā But it doesnŌĆÖt matter all that much now because McLuhanŌĆÖs stroke and what happened afterward is not my concern.┬Ā It was tragic, but it did not cause McLuhan to lose his genius.
That happened I believe a dozen years earlier in New York City, in November 1967 in the course of a long and harrowing operation McLuhan underwent to remove a brain tumor.┬Ā Saying this I know will anger and upset many people, not only his surviving family and friends, but thousands of his followers around the world bound together by the internet.┬Ā (The truth McLuhan liked to say, quoting Agatha ChristieŌĆÖs Hercule Poirot ŌĆ£is whatever upsets the apple cart.ŌĆØ)┬Ā My intention however is not to upset people, especially the people who loved him, but to tell a story that needs to be told.┬Ā A story that provides the best answer to a question that appeared in a New Yorker cartoon in 1970 when McLuhanŌĆÖs celebrity was clearly ebbing:┬Ā Says she to he on leaving a party ŌĆ£Are you sure it isnŌĆÖt too early to ask, ŌĆśWhatever happened to Marshall McLuhan?ŌĆÖ ŌĆØ┬Ā The story explains much about his life and work that otherwise would remain a mystery.┬Ā In particular the decline in the quality of his work and the decay of his reputation after 1967.┬Ā McLuhan you will discover did not die a genius tragically trapped inside a body that didnŌĆÖt work.┬Ā He died more tragically as a man who used to be a genius trapped inside a mind he found increasingly hard to recognize and to be reconciled with.
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father's day – ode to my dad's mustache
Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! Isn't the mustache cupcake I got for my dad super cute? It's from Just Cupcakes, the bakery that saved my ass last week when I messed up Holden's smash cake.
I know mustaches have been all over Pinterest for the last couple of years, but I've for real been having a love affair with the mustache since the 1980's. My dad's been rocking the baddest mustache this side of the Mississippi since before I was born.
I mean, c'mon. That's Selleck status right there. And so, I present:
Ode to My Dad's Mustache
Hirsute appendage of my dad's upper lip.
You've been in my life for as long as I can remember, albeit in many forms.
From Magnum P.I. to Tombstone to Hogan, sometimes accompanied by the soul patch.
You've remained a constant.
Trustworthy. Comforting.
Scratching my face during daddy snuggles.
Dripping with tea and toast crumbs during breakfast.
Commanding respect during scoldings.
He shaved you once when I was a child.
I'll never forget when he opened the door to the bathroom, and you were nowhere to be found.
I was inconsolable. He was unrecognizable without you.
From black to salt and pepper to white (sorry Dad),
We've seen the world together.
You dropped me off at college.
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Maintenance level: Medium
Lifespan: 13-15 years
Temperament: Active, intelligent
Health Risk: This breed has an around average probability of having health issues in its lifetime, hence it is one of the more affordable breeds to insure.
The Papillon is small, fine boned, energetic dog that is also known as the Continental toy Spaniel or Dwarf Spaniels. The Papillon has a long coat that is straight and fine and it does not have an undercoat. The most distinctive features of this small breed are its butterfly ears that are fringed with long hair. The hair on the Papillon's body is medium in length and feathering also covers both the rear of the fore and hind legs. This dog has a distinctive proud tail that is also feathered with hair. This confident and cheeky little package makes the perfect lap dog.
The Papillon does shed a decent amount of hair so it needs regular grooming and a good brush each day will help with shedding. This dog comes in a variety of parti-colours that include white patches.
Male Papillon's weigh around 4 kg to 5 kgs and females weigh between 3 kg to 4 kgs. Male Papillon's stand about 20 to 28 cms and females 20 to 28 cms.
The average lifespan of a Papillon is about 13 years.
The Papillon is thought to have descended from Asian toy breeds like the Japanese Chin and on the other hand they are also believed to have resulted in the miniaturisation of European spaniels by continually cross breeding smaller dogs. Regardless of their ancient origins tiny spaniels were established by the 1200s across Europe.
The Papillon has featured in artwork from many well-known artists including Goya, Rembrandt, Tolouse-Lautrec and Marie Antoinette was an owners of the breed. The Papillon has long been a favourite of high society and it is claimed that the country of Spain is largely responsible for its popularity.
The Dwarf Spaniel originally had long folded ears during the reign of Louis the Great but over time some of the dogs were born with large erect ears. Modern day Papillons are identical to the Draft Spaniels of old and their ears can either be erect or drooping. Both drooping eared and erect eared Papillons can come from the same litter even if their parents both have the same ear type.
The French elected to name the Papillon, which means butterfly, because of its erect fringed ears. Throughout Europe the drooping eared Papillon is call the Phalene, which means 'moth', and in North America the breed is called a Papillon whether it has dropping or erect ears.
The Kennel Club of England accepted the breed in 1923 and the American Kennel Club recognised the breed in 1915.
Papillons are highly intelligent dogs who love to please their owners. They are easy to train and it is easily motivated to follow commands using food as a reward. This dog also has plenty of energy so it's perfect for a family home. It is a great dog for first time dog owners and loves nothing more than to snuggle up on their owners lap for a quiet nap.
It's a good idea to socialise the dog when it is a puppy to ensure that it's comfortable and relaxed around other dogs and people.
They do have a tendency to bark.
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This is a serious infection that can affect hunting dogs. It is passed on via feral pigs with clinical signs including fever, enlarged lymph nodes and enlarged testicles. This disease can also be passed from mothers to their pups meaning that the dogs don't necessarily have to be in contact with a feral pig to present with the disease.
- Hypoglycaemia
Toy dogs are occasionally prone to low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia), a condition which can be treated easily but which can be fatal if left untreated. Hypoglycaemic puppies are often slow or listless and can be seen shivering or trembling. If these signs are present in the dog, put some honey under its tongue and take it to the vet immediately.
- Patellar Luxation
Patellar luxation is a condition common among small breeds, and occurs when the thigh bone, knee cap and calf are not in correct alignment, leading to lameness or an irregular gait (often a skip or a hop) and development of arthritis later in the dog's life. The condition is usually fixable with surgery, but dogs with less serious cases often do not require treatment and are able to lead normal lives.
- Open Fontanel
Like babies, Papillons are born with a soft spot at the top of their head. Even though the spot usually closes, it is important to treat the puppy with extreme care as an accidental hit to the head could be fatal.
- Collapsed Trachea
Rapid inhalation can cause the trachea to flatten, making it difficult to receive air into the lungs. Symptoms include dry, honking coughing, intolerance to exercise, difficulty breathing and gagging when eating or drinking. Any dog exhibiting these symptoms should see a vet as soon as possible.
- Progressive Retinal Atrophy
Progressive retinal atrophy refers to a family of eye conditions which cause the retina's gradual deterioration. Night vision is lost in the early stages of the disease, and day vision is lost as the disease progresses. Many dogs adapt to the loss of vision well, as long as their environment stays the same.
- These dogs are considered one of the top five dogs in the obedience training ring.
- Papillons are excellent rat catchers.
- It is alleged that King Henry II spent upwards of 100,000 crowns on his papillons.
- Celebrity Papillon owners include Christina Aguilera who has two Papillons named Chewy and Stinky.
- It is said that Marie Antoinette took one of her Papillons to the guillotine when she was executed.
- The Papillon first appeared in Australia in 1949.
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Even defense spending, even tax expenditures. I did this opening segment of Tuesday's PBS Newshour broadcast, with my 12-year-old son Johnny watching me in the makeup room and from the "green room"–which made it all the more special. One of my standard favorite lines I didn't get to squeeze in about the politicians' take on fiscal responsibility and reducing the deficit: "It seems like a good idea…until you get right down to it"–i.e., it's always easier in abstract theory than in specific practice.
As both Jim Horney (of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities) and I emphasize in the interview, everything should be on the budget-cuts table, and in fact, many in Congress like to use that line. But then you listen more carefully and you find Republicans taking revenue increases and defense/national security cuts off the table, and Democrats taking most other types of spending off the table (whether for short-term or longer-term reasons), and you soon realize that what's really left on the "bipartisan deficit-reduction table"–at least within the current Congress–is really close to nothing. And that's a huge problem: the contrast between what non-politician budget experts from both the left and the right agree on, and what Congress can't agree on.
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Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanksgiving. The celebrations offer a sense of belonging for religious, social, or geographical groups, contributing to group cohesiveness. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced entertainment. Festivals that focus on cultural or ethnic topics also seek to inform community members of their traditions; the involvement of elders sharing stories and experience provides a means for unity among families.


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That's right folks, what happens when an XDA member gets bored? Something good comes out of it to benefit the Android end user. Member bedoig has concocted an easy to use application for you to make good use of that old monophonic bluetooth headset that has been sitting in your drawer, like….forever. BTmono lets you stream your music to a mono headset of your choice just as you would be able to with a stereo BT headset. So, if you're a hater of wires and low on cash for a fancy stereo headset, then this should definitely serve as an attractive alternative. As noted over at XDA, the sound quality isn't the best yet, but it's doable. If you know of any ways to contribute to the app and/or improve its sound quality, then head on over to the XDA thread and get your contribution on. Let us know what you think of the app in the comments below.
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Since the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Prague has opened its doors to international visitors and garnered the reputation of a crowded, touristy, party filled place. The city has devoted itself to cleaning up its act but some would argue that you don't always get what you pay for. Taxis still over charge, pick pockets still operate and if you go out at night you could bump into a rambunctious stag party. Indeed the capital of sleaze, as the city has been called on occasion, does still hold onto its saucy vices. But Prague does try hard to make everyone happy: high class restaurants sit next to greasy take-outs while designer brands rub shoulders with tacky souvenir shops. A more direct threat to this emerging cosmopolitan city has been the whole takeaway coffee concept which is almost a mockery of the Czech's grand cafe culture of coffee served on silver trays.
However if you scratch the surface of this reputation you'll find that Prague has a lot more to offer. The architecture, despite a long history dotted with war and natural disaster, is remarkably intact and waiting to be discovered. As you walk along the streets you can find hidden gems in art installations by David Cerny and little cafes that will probably have better deals in food and drink. In a nutshell: go and explore!


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The LIFE project supports repositories and preservation by analysing costs of digital curation and lifecycle management. LIFE2 will build on this by: 1) Refining the LIFE methodology for the analysis and costing of the lifecycle of digital objects; 2) Providing a cross section of exemplar Case Studies, both to inform the LIFE methodology and to provide a benchmark for comparison and evaluation; 3) Enable HE and FE institutions to apply the LIFE methodology simply and easily to their own collections, and thus to evaluate and compare their activities in order to inform planning and increase workflow efficiency; 4) Compare, contrast and analyse the lifecycle costs of paper and digital collections, informing the use of differing approaches to preservation and access via digital and other surrogate technologies; 5) Identify where efficiencies can be made in the lifecycle costs of digital materials and provide guidance to funding bodies in areas such as preservation services and preservation tools; 6) Disseminate project findings and enable take up of the LIFE methodology. The project is managed by University College London (UCL), in partnership with The British Library, the SHERPA-LEAP Consortium, SHERPA-DP and the Medical Research Council. Project start date: 2007-03-01. Project end date: 2008-08-29. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Salman Khan and controversies go hand in hand. Be it Sallu's films, his girlfriends or even his cars; all some how manage to get him in trouble and under the media limelight.
The year kicked off no differently for Sallu. His dream project Veer put him in a roller coaster ride. Having written the story himself, Veer definitely is close to Salman's heart.
It all started when reports came out that Salman had differences with director Anil Sharma. However, neither of the two were willing to talk about it so the truth remained unknown. Reports have also claimed that the dubbing of the film has gone haywire because of the last minute changes in the script. Then the incident at Hyderabad took place, during the promotion of the film, where the crowd went out of control to see their sweetheart.
The controversies even continued after the release of the film when, on January 25th, The Delhi High Court issued notices to production house Eros International Pvt Ltd and actor Salman Khan on a complaint of copyright violation.
Later a writer claimed that the story and dialogues were taken from his book and claimed for the credits. Author Pavan Choudhary filed a lawsuit against the film, alleging that some concepts of the film have been taken from his book "Trilogy of Wisdom". Choudary said in his petition that he had earlier sent a legal notice to the film's makers to not to use his concept, but they went ahead with the release. Salman, however, rubbished off all these claims and allegations in an interview.
The latest controversy buzzing around Veer is the one with the Rajputs protesting against the movie and allegedly blaming Salman and the producers of Veer for hurting the "Rajput" sentiments. "We found certain dialogues in the film deprecating for the Rajput community. We are not going to tolerate this," said Ajit, a member of Karni Sena. The group apparently has reservations against the line, 'Gaddari to maine rajputo se hi seekhi hai,' which Salman, a Pindari warrior in the film, says to Jackie Shroff, who plays a Rajput king.
Interestingly, city cinema buffs in the city feel that it is nothing more than a publicity gimmick.
Although the film had an insignificant collection at the box-office, it surely got ample controversies to add on to Sallu's controversial status.


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Solidago gigantea is a plant species in the genus Solidago.[3] Its common names include tall goldenrod and giant goldenrod, in reference to its height of up to 2 m tall, rather large for the genus, smooth goldenrod[4] and early goldenrod.[5] It is a widespread species known from most of non-arctic North America east of the Rocky Mountains. It has been reported from every state and province from Alberta to Nova Scotia to Florida to Texas. [6]
Solidago gigantea is the state flower of Kentucky and Nebraska.[7]
- ^ Tropicos, Solidago gigantea
- ^ The Plant List, Solidago gigantea
- ^ Aiton, Hortus Kewensis 3: 211. 1789.
- ^ "Solidago gigantea". Flora of North America online. Retrieved 2014-11-08.
- ^ "BSBI List 2007" (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ Flora of North America v 20, p 156.
- ^ State of Kentucky
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Wyndham Worldwide Recognized by Hispanic Association
On Corporate Responsibility for Demonstrating Leadership and Commitment to Equality
April 11, 2014 // Franchising.com // PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE:WYN), one of the world's leading hospitality companies, has been recognized by the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) and its Corporate Inclusion Index for the second consecutive year. A HACR corporate partner, Wyndham Worldwide was recognized for its workforce and recruitment, community investment and supplier diversity.
The Corporate Inclusion Index takes a comprehensive measurement of Hispanic inclusion at Fortune 100 and HACR corporate member companies. It tracks and evaluates inclusion practices related to employment, procurement, philanthropy and governance, and then analyzes the implications for the Hispanic community.
"As a global hospitality leader with locations in nearly 100 countries across six continents, thinking globally but acting locally is just part of how we operate in markets around the world," said Patricia Lee, senior vice president of human resources and chief diversity officer, Wyndham Worldwide. "In order to keep Wyndham Worldwide an exceptional travel partner, a successful company and a great place to work, we must respect and understand various cultures, motivate and lead multiple generations, provide ethical leadership, and demonstrate integrity and respect in everything we do."
Believing diversity enriches the Company as a global hospitality provider, Wyndham Worldwide embraces a culture of diversity and inclusion that supports associates of all backgrounds. The Company offers a variety of diversity and inclusion programs for all associates, including leadership training programs, mentoring opportunities and educational support.
Wyndham Worldwide also sponsors several Associate Business Groups (ABGs), where associates with common interests share ideas and experiences, and promote professional development, engagement, and inclusion throughout the company. Open to all associates, ABGs at Wyndham Worldwide currently include: WYNPride (LGBT), ¡Fuerte! (Hispanic), Spectrum (African American), I-VOW (Veterans), AASK (Administrative Assistants), Women on Their Way (Women in the Workplace) and Generaciones (cross-generational).
Additionally, HACR presented Erika Gonzalez, diversity and inclusion manager, Wyndham Worldwide, with a Young Hispanic Corporate Achievers Award at its annual conference in San Diego. Gonzalez was one of 34 young professionals selected to participate in the 2014 Young Hispanic Corporate Achievers Program, which recognizes young Hispanics at Fortune 500 and HACR corporate member companies. Previous recipients of the award from the Company include Jason Fernandez, director, financial reporting and corporate accounting, Wyndham Vacation Ownership in 2012, and Tania Calderon, director of product and marketing strategy at Wyndham Vacation Ownership in 2011. Wyndham Vacation Ownership is the vacation ownership division of Wyndham Worldwide. Since receiving the recognition, Fernandez and Calderon have been a part of HACR's Corporate Achievers program, which provides a support network, leadership development and reconnects past recipients of the Young Hispanic Corporate Achievers award.
"This recognition is a reflection of our commitment and focus to workplace diversity and inclusion. We know that it takes great people to make great things happen; therefore we strive to cultivate a global workforce where individuals from a wide array of experiences, perspectives and backgrounds, are valued," said Tiziana Sullivan, vice president diversity, Wyndham Worldwide. "We invite every individual to experience acceptance and the opportunity to contribute at Wyndham Worldwide."
Recognized as an industry leader, Wyndham Worldwide has been named a Top 50 Company for Diversity by DiversityInc, a Top 50 Company for Latinas by LATINA Style, one of the "Best Places to Work for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality" by the Human Rights Campaign, and one of the Top 50 Companies for Executive Women by the National Association for Female Executives. Additionally, the Company maintains strong partnerships with organizations such as the National Society of Hispanic MBAs and National Association of Black, Hispanic, Asian and Women MBAs.
About Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility
HACR's mission is to advance the inclusion of Hispanics in Corporate America at a level commensurate with our economic contributions. HACR focuses on four areas of corporate responsibility and market reciprocity. They are: Employment, Procurement, Philanthropy, and Governance.
In pursuit of its mission, HACR offers Corporate America direct access to the Hispanic community - its talent, entrepreneurs, and leadership - creating a forum to ensure corporate responsibility and market reciprocity for the nation's Hispanic population.
About Wyndham Worldwide
One of the world's largest hospitality companies, Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN) provides a wide range of hospitality products and services through its global portfolio of world-renowned brands. The world's largest hotel company based on the number of properties, Wyndham Hotel Group is home to many of the world's best-known hotel brands, with approximately 7,440 franchised hotels and over 638,300 hotel rooms worldwide. Wyndham Exchange & Rentals is the worldwide leader in vacation exchange and the world's largest professionally managed vacation rentals business, providing more than 5 million leisure-bound families annually with access to over 106,000 vacation properties in 100 countries through its prominent exchange and vacation rental brands. The industry and timeshare ownership market leader, Wyndham Vacation Ownership develops, markets, and sells vacation ownership interests and provides consumer financing to owners through its network of 190 vacation ownership resorts serving approximately 915,000 owners throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific. Based in Parsippany, NJ, Wyndham Worldwide employs approximately 32,500 associates globally.
For more information, please visit www.wyndhamworldwide.com.
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Stacy Dixson
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An event every week that begins at 1:00pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, repeating until April 28, 2018
An event every week that begins at 1:00pm on Saturday, repeating until April 28, 2018
Categories: Visual Arts
The Fine and Performing Arts Department at Saint Louis University presents the Student Exhibition
April 7 -28. The show features pieces created by student in the Studio Art program. The opening reception is on Friday, April 6 from 4:30 to 6:30p at the McNamee Gallery, located in the lower level of Cupples House, 3673 West Pine Mall. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday, Noon-4p and Saturday 1-4p.
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I have tried a few variations because I want to make do with whatever I have. 55gm eggs makes a finer texture than 65gm eggs. I have bake it in 170 degrees for 50 minutes and there's a slight cake quake. Another in 160 degrees for 55-60 minutes and there's no cake quake. Overall, I prefer this salted butter and brown sugar version which tasted 'caramelised'. For sweetness, 120gm brown sugar is good enough for me but 150gm will really bring out the flavour better. Its really up to you. Happy baking!
4 eggs (55gm each), egg yolks and whites separated
200gm self raising flour, sifted
230gm salted butter
150gm brown sugar
50gm white sugar
60ml evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- Preheat oven at 170 degrees
- Grease an 8 inches baking tin
- Line the base with paper
- Beat butter & brown sugar till colour turns pale & texture is light
- Add egg yolks one at a time
- Add vanilla bean paste & mix well
- Add flour & milk in 2 separate alternate additions
- Scrap down and mix well
- Set aside
- In another mixing bowl, beat egg whites till foamy
- Add white sugar
- Beat till stiff peak
- Back to batter, add 1/3 meringue into batter
- Using low speed, mix until batter loosen abit
- Using a spatula, fold in the rest of meringue
- Pour into a 8 inches baking tin and level it
- Give a few knocks to release air bubbles
- Bake at 160 degrees for 55-60 minutes
- Cool on rack
- Enjoy this fluffy vanilla butter cake with a cup of tea
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The texture turned out finer! The method is the same as the above, except adding 1/4 tsp salt while creaming the butter. And, its baked in 160 degrees for 55-60 minutes. Here's what I used in this attempt.
4 eggs (55gm each), egg yolks and whites separated
200gm cake flour, sifted with 1 tsp baking powder
227gm SCS unsalted butter
150gm castor sugar (for mixing with butter)
50gm castor sugar (for mixing with egg whites)
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The best widget to easy extend and customize the "android" settings.
Extended controls is THE MUST HAVE APP for every Android user. It provides a totally customizable widgets, many advanced settings for any widget (more than 30 toggles each).
Extended Controls provides user-friendly graphic interface and a easy configuration manager.
With its features user can customize his widgets and he can beautify his fantastic Android smartphone.
- Custom backgrounds and icons
- Change Widgets transparency
- Edit exists widgets
- Customizable colors and lables
- Enable/Disable dividers;
- Different widgets size (over 10 toggle for any single widget);
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Don't you think that the widget is insufficient since we use other settings more than these above? With Extended Controls, Android Power Widget can be improved allowing users to add main settings:
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What's the difference between a parody and a pastiche? Here are the definitions I found:
A parody is a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.
It's also the genre of literary composition represented by such imitations.
A bit broader, it's any humorous, satirical, or burlesque imitation, as of a person, event, etc.
A pastiche is a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.Also, it is an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge.
(source: dictionary.com)
Martial Leiter and Jean-Jacques Loup "Frankensteins dreams"
Arnold Roth - "I'm going to call it 'Oops' "
Wolf Barth - Loakoon - Feuerwehr
Jerzy Flisak and GIN
Feggo - Mondrian's road sign
Napoleon, after J.L. David - Gradimir Smudja
Mondrians Palette and Begegnung mit Paul Klee, - Caulos
Pointillism parodie - Sergey Tunin
Vincent van Gogh at the hairdresser
Venus von Milo - Jugoslav Vlahovic
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Washington D.C. [US], May 16 (ANI): The United States is said to be moving ahead with its preparations for the scheduled US-North Korean summit on June 12.
As per media reports, the US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a press conference that they continue to plan for the meeting.
Nauert further said that she has not received any official statement by North Korea regarding any change in the summit.
This comes after recent reports regarding North Korea's decision to consider backing out from the summit due to the recent military drills between the US and North Korea.
Earlier on Wednesday, North Korea called off its scheduled meeting with South Korea due to the same reason.
The North's Korean Central News Agency reported that such military drills are said to be meant for an invasion of North Korea and could negatively impact the melting inter-Korean relations
The United States and North Korea are scheduled to hold their maiden summit in Singapore mainly to discuss denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and the recently-signed inter-Korean peace declaration. (ANI)


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5 Fruit Juice Brands That Aren't Made With Artificial Flavor Packets
America's relationship with orange juice was already on the outs due to price increases, but there's a much better reason to rethink your morning glass of fruity drink. The process of massively producing juices–whether from concentrate or not— involves removing the flavor from the juice, which is reconstituted by adding some shifty artificial flavors.
Concentrating juice involves removing water through a filtration and extraction process, so that the product can be stored and shipped for longer periods of time, and the good people of America can enjoy their orangey drink 365 days of the year. But in removing the water and oxygen, flavor is also removed, so it's the job of flavor and fragrance companies to make flavor packs that will resurrect the orange essence destroyed in the factory. So the perfume you put on in the morning might be made by the same people who flavored your juice.
But how about juices that say 'not from concentrate,' surely those couldn't be made by Calvin Klein? Not necessarily. That stuff is really made the same way as the other stuff, heated and stored in vats with flavorings added afterward.
But there is good news! You don't have to resort to freshly squeezing your own produce whenever you want a fresh, perfume unrelated glass of juice. There are quality juice products out there made without any kind of concentration process, and here are a few you should be able to find in a market near you.
1. BluePrint
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BluePrint juices are cold-pressed, which means the fruits/veggies have all the juice pulverized out of them by thousands of pounds of pressure. It's the most nutrient-preserving way to produce juice, and they're 100% raw and organic.
2. Suja
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Suja juices are also cold-pressed, and use high pressure processing (HPP) to preserve freshness. Cool pressure is applied after the juice is bottled to destroy pathogens while preserving all of the nutrients.
3. Uncle Matt's
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Uncle Matt's juices are organic and don't rely on any flavor packets to produce quality, fresh juice. They make orange, apple, grapefruit, and more natural kinds of juice.
4. New Planet Organics 100% Apple Juice
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New Planet Apple Juice is freshly pressed from organic Washington apples, and never contains artificial flavors, or arsenic for that matter.
5. 365 Brand
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Whole Foods' 365 Brand products are usually organic and free of artificial flavors, but always make sure before you buy and check the label for any nasties.
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Protein Dessert– our great tasting high-protein dessert is perfect for anyone with a sweet-tooth, and delivers over 30g of protein per serving.
Add 2 1/2 large scoops (60g) to 300-400ml of water or milk in a Myprotein shaker first thing in the morning or 30 minutes before bed. Alternatively, add to smoothies, porridge or Greek Yoghurts.
Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. This product is intended to be used alongside an active lifestyle and a balanced diet. Suitable for vegetarians.
Chocolate Smooth:
Protein Blend (80%) (Milk Protein Isolate, Micellar Casein (Milk), Whey Protein Concentrate (Milk, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin)), Calcium-Caseinate (Milk), Free Range Egg White Powder, Flavouring (Fat reduced cocoa powder, Flavouring, Sweetener(Sucralose)), L - glutamine, Fat reduced cocoa powder, Magnesium Oxide, Xanthan Gum, Zinc Citrate.
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Protein Blend (84%)(Milk Protein Isolate, Micellar Casein (Milk), Whey Protein Concentrate (Milk, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin)), Calcium-Caseinate (Milk), Free Range Egg White Powder, Flavouring (Beetroot Juice Powder, Flavouring, Sweetener(Sucralose)) , L - glutamine, Magnesium Oxide, Xanthan Gum, Zinc Citrate.
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Protein Blend (81%)(Milk Protein Isolate, Micellar Casein (Milk), Whey Protein Concentrate (Milk, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin)), Calcium-Caseinate (Milk) , Free Range Egg White Powder, Flavouring ( Curcumin Extract, Natural Flavouring Sunstances, Sweetener(Sucralose)), L - glutamine, Magnesium Oxide, Xanthan Gum, Zinc Citrate.
Serving Size - 2 ½ large scoops (60g)
Servings Per Container - 17 (1kg), 42 (2.5kg), 83 (5kg)
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Section 504 Coordination
Section 504 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a civil rights law that prohibits the discrimination on the basis of disability. The law applies to public elementary and secondary schools and other federally funded institutions. Under Section 504, denying a disabled student a free appropriate public education constitutes disability discrimination.
How and when would a student qualify as a disabled student under Section 504?
A school-aged student is considered disabled under Section 504 if the student:
Has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. Major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working. Major life activities also include the operation of a major bodily function, including but not limited to, functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive functions.
How does a student get referred for a Section 504 Evaluation?
Any person can refer a student for evaluation under Section 504. Parents, guardians, and school staff should refer a student for evaluation if they know or suspect that, due to a physical or mental impairment, a student needs accommodations to participate in or benefit from a district's education program.
What is a Section 504 plan?
A 504 plan is a written plan that describes the educational and related aids and services that a district determines a student needs to receive a Free and Appropriate Public Education. The content of a 504 plan may change within a school year or between school years as a students needs and services change. For a student whose only disability is a life-threatening health condition, an individual health plan or nursing care plan may serve as the students 504 plan. A district must provide the services identified in a student's 504 plan.
The Puget Sound ESD has developed the Parent and Educator Guide to Free Appropriate Public Education Guide, which are available through the links below.
For information about Special Education Services please visit our Special Education web page.
Contact Jane De Mello-Long at 206-901-8033.


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GauchoSpace will automatically add the appropriate Teaching Assistant to your course site when they are officially listed by the department. *Note: You may check to see if your TA(s) have already been added to your course site by clicking on Users>Enrolled Users in the Administration block.
If they haven't been listed yet, you'll need to follow these steps on how to add a user with a UCSBNetID.
- On Step 4, enter the Teaching Assistant's name, UCSBnetID, or UCSB email. *Note: Most Teaching Assistants have a Umail address as their primary email.
- Choose the appropriate role from the drop-down in the center (Editing TA or Non-Editing TA). For more information on roles, please see this help page on assigning roles in GauchoSpace.
If the Teaching Assistant has been automatically added into your course site, he/she will be given a Non-Editing TA role. If you want to promote his/her role to an Editing TA, follow the steps below:
- Log in to GauchoSpace and enter your course site.
- In the UCSB Course Tool block, click on Add User/Assign Roles.
- At the bottom of the page, select Promote TA to Editing TA.
- Check the box next to any TAs whom you would like to make Editing TAs. Click Save changes.


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The Colosseum's Badly Needed Bath
The first full cleaning in the Colosseum's history aims to return the Roman monument to its former splendor
Rome's Colosseum will soon look a little more like it did in the bad old days two millennia ago, when it first hosted gladiator fights, mock naval battles and public executions carried out by wild animals.
The $35 million project—the first full cleaning in the Colosseum's history—aims to return it to its former splendor, while also strengthening the overall structure. Earthquakes, the pillaging of pieces of its outer frame, heavy car traffic and Rome's nearby subway have damaged key parts. The scrubdown should also reveal...


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yo whaddup its f-close frank. check this out went out last night &was pretty drunk hanging at the bar its whatever. was catchin eyes wit h this chick w/hella fly tatoos &gettin ready to approach outta no where here comes this whole fuckin pack of AFCs. im talkin like 5 of em
this dude rolls up w/this hella big smile like he just sucked the biggest dick in the gay bar. hes all 'hi im melvin. " no shit dudes name was acshully melvin. mad AFC for shure. any way shes all 'yo im just tryin to talk to my girl what the fuck get outta here." then this other AFC little asian guy with spikey hair comes up in his suit tryna buy drinks. no shit here comes a 3rd AFC dude looks like a fuckin farmer or some shit but with glasses all talkin to tatoo chicks friend. 2 more dudes just orbit around the chicks
anyway tatoo chick was like a boxer or some shit. she gets hella pissed &strait up sucker punches melvin in the face. was laughin hella hard dude got blasted not gonna lie. so asian dude is all "yo whaddup are you talkin shit.' tatoo chick thinks hes talkin to her so she fuckin blasts this dude all boxing style too. farmer dude mean while is showin up with hella drinks for the chicks &his homies are Nocked out by this chick. he sees that shit &bails back to his Tracter or wherever farmer dudes hang out
any way lesson learned son dont worry about Approach anxiety. no matter how bad you fuck up a Approach you aint fuckin up as bad as melvin. Get out there &get that pussy
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GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Before she gained everlasting artistic fame for her paintings of New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe spent many summers along the shores of Lake George in the Adirondacks.
A special exhibition devoted to O'Keeffe and her work at Lake George has opened at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, just south of Lake George. The exhibit, titled "Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George," is the first to explore the body of work she produced while living in the Adirondacks.
O'Keeffe spent the summer of 1908 at an artists' retreat at Wiawaka (wee-uh-WAH'-kuh) on the lake's southeast shore. She returned a decade later after meeting photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whose family had a summer home in the village of Lake George. The two were married in 1924.
The exhibit runs through Sept. 15.