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Author Notes: Nach Waxman took the best parts of two versions passed down in his family, weaving them into one simple treatment -- from his mother, a spectacular quantity of onions; from his mother-in-law, a genius trick of slicing the meat halfway through cooking (the brisket is easier to cut then, and this makes every slice a little like an end piece -- to many, the best part.) Adapted slightly from The New Basics by Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso (Workman Publishing, 1989) and The Brisket Book by Stephanie Pierson (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011) —Genius Recipes
Serves: 10 to 12
Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 4 hrs
6-pound first-cut (a.k.a. flat-cut) beef brisket, trimmed so that a thin layer of fat remains
teaspoons all-purpose flour (or matzoh meal)
pinch Freshly ground black pepper
tablespoons corn oil (or other neutral oil)
medium onions, peeled and thickly sliced
tablespoons tomato paste
pinch Kosher salt
cloves garlic
carrot, peeled
- Heat the oven to 350°F.
- Lightly dust the brisket with flour, then sprinkle with pepper to taste. Heat the oil over medium-high heat in a large ovenproof enameled cast-iron pot or other heavy pot with a lid just large enough to hold the brisket snugly. Add the brisket to the pot and brown on both sides until crusty brown areas appear on the surface here and there, 5 to 7 minutes per side.
- Transfer the brisket to a platter, turn up the heat a bit, then add the onions to the pot and stir constantly with a wooden spoon, scraping up any browned bits stuck to the bottom of the pot. Cook until the onions have softened and developed a rich brown color but aren't yet caramelized, 10 to 15 minutes.
- Turn off the heat and place the brisket and any accumulated juices on top of the onions.
- Spread the tomato paste over the brisket as if you were icing a cake. Sprinkle with salt and more pepper to taste, then add the garlic and carrot to the pot. Cover the pot, transfer to the oven, and cook the brisket for 1 1/2 hours.
- Transfer the brisket to a cutting board and, using a very sharp knife, slice the meat across the grain into approximately 1/8-inch-thick slices. Return the slices to the pot, overlapping them at an angle so that you can see a bit of the top edge of each slice. The end result should resemble the original unsliced brisket leaning slightly backward. Check the seasonings and, if the sauce appears dry, add 2 to 3 teaspoons of water to the pot.
- Cover the pot and return to the oven. Lower the heat to 325°F and cook the brisket until it is fork-tender, 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Check once or twice during cooking to make sure that the liquid is not bubbling away. If it is, add a few more teaspoons of water—but not more. Also, each time you check, spoon some of the liquid on top of the roast so that it drips down between the slices.
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Uganda: A tribute to the late Joan Rwabamanzi Ejangu, 1953-2008
Our thoughts and prayers, first and foremost, have been with Joans family during this difficult period. We share in their loss. But knowing also the joy she brought to so many, and the kind of personal passion and professional dedication she exhibited during her work with UNICEF, it is only fitting that we share with you this tribute to a beautiful life.
To say that the expansion of the UN Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) and the Girls Education Movement (GEM) in Uganda was achieved through Joans perseverance, creativity and energy would not be an exaggeration. Joan was fully engaged in the national Go to School, Back to School, Stay in School campaign in 2007 and 2008 which you may have read about in these pages and also played a leading role in the humanitarian response, supported by UNICEF, during the devastating floods of 2007 in eastern Uganda. In these and other instances, those who worked closely with Joan old staff and new staff got to know her warmth and generosity.
Joan was called to be a teacher. Education was much more than just a job to her. To educate, and to ensure that children and young people were educated, embodied a life-calling that drew from her a strong and abiding commitment. In her own words, she said, I want to engage in work that provides opportunities to contribute to the overall development of education in Uganda, and also fulfills my personal passion to champion the rights of all children, especially girls, to education.
We remember Joan as being totally dedicated in everything she did. She remained always a teacher at heart, wanting others to benefit from her own lifes lessons. She was constantly mentoring, coaching, advising and teaching young people and colleagues, even when her working hours were long and office demands were stressful. There was always time in her life for others, and in this she was a true role model.
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March 18-19, 2005. Wabash hosted a number of Indiana-based alumni at a symposium designed to outline the College's efforts with the latest Lilly grant on "Initiatives to Promote Opportunity Through Educations Collaborations".
Alumni returned for a number of informational sessions on the current efforts Wabash has undertaken for the grant. They also participated in brainstorming sessions designed to seek their advice on improving the College's efforts given their backgrounds and experiences as Indiana-based businessmen and educators.
The group had the opportunity to hear about the College's upcoming strategic plan from Deans Mauri Ditzler '75 (Dean of the College) and Joe Emmick '92 (Dean for Advancement). Finally, as the symposium coincided with Honors Weekend, the attendees were able to spend some time with Wabash's future students.
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Sheila Dillon
Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Ph.D., New York University 1994
M.A., New York University 1989
B.A., Rutgers University New Brunswick 1987
Sheila Dillon received a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She teaches courses on Greek and Graeco-Roman art and archaeology. Her research interests focus on portraiture and public sculpture and on reconstructing the statuary landscape of ancient cities and sanctuaries. Her books include The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010); Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles (2006), which was awarded the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in January 2008; Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias (2006); and an edited volume A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (2012). Professor Dillon was a member of the Aphrodisias Excavations in Turkey from 1992-2004, has worked at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace, and now spends summers doing fieldwork in Athens. Her current research includes a collaborative project to publish the portrait sculpture from the Excavations in the Athenian Agora with a group of current and former students and a digital mapping project of the archaeology of Roman Athens, a collaborative endeavor centered in the Wired! Lab that involves undergraduate and graduate students at Duke. She has just begun research on a new monograph that will explore the history of portraiture in Athens from the Hellenistic to the Roman periods. Professor Dillon was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology from 2013-2016.
ExpertiseGreek & Roman Sculpture & Classical Archaeology, Historical & Cultural Visualization
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114 S Buchanan Blvd, Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, A261, Durham, NC 27708-0766
Box 90766, Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, A261, Durham, NC 27708-0766
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Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, Room A263
Women in the Classical World: Critical Concepts in Classical Studies. Ed. S Dillon and SL James. Routledge, 2017. (Edited Book)
James, SL, and Dillon, S. A Companion to Women in the Ancient World. February 13, 2012. Full Text
Dillon, S. Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, Styles (paperback). Cambridge University Press, 2012. (Monograph)
The Past is Present: The Kempner Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum. Ed. CM Antonaccio and S Dillon. Duke University Press Books, March 1, 2011. (Edited Book)
Dillon, S. The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (paperback). 2011.
Dillon, S. The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World. Cambridge University Press, March 2010.
Dillon, S, and Welch, K. Representations of War in Ancient Rome (paperback). Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Dillon, S, Smith, RRR, Hallett, CH, Lenaghan, J, and Voorhis, JV. Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz Germany, June 2006.
Dillon, S. Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles. Cambridge University Press, April 2006. (Monograph)
Dillon, S, and Welch, K. Representations of War in Ancient Rome. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (Edited Book)
Dillon, S. "Approaches to the Study of Greek Sculpture." The Diversity of Classical Archaeology. Ed. R Raja and A Lichtenberger. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2017. 223-234. (Chapter)
Dillon, S, and Shea, TD. "Statues as Artifacts: Towards an Archaeology of Greek Sculpture." Greek Art in Context. Ed. DR Perez. Routledge, 2017. 19-29. (Chapter) Open Access Copy
Dillon, S. "Portrait Statues of Women on the Island of Delos." Women and the Roman City in the Latin West. Ed. E Hemelrijk and G Woolf. Brill, 2013. 201-23.
"Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period." A Companion to Women in the Ancient World. February 13, 2012. 263-277. Full Text
Dillon, S. "Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines." A Companion to Women in the Ancient World. Ed. SL James and S Dillon. Wiley-Blackwell, January 2012. 231-234. (Chapter)
Dillon, S. "Marble Votive Statuettes of Women from the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace." Samothracian Connections: Essays in Honor of James R. McCredie. Ed. B Wescoat and O Palagia. Oxbow, 2010. 165-172.
Dillon, S. "Portraits of Women in the early Hellenistic Period." Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context. Ed. RVD Hoff and P Schultz. Cambridge University Press, October 2007. 63-83.
Dillon, S. "Women on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus and the Visual Language of Roman Victory." Representations of War in Ancient Rome. Ed. S Dillon and K Welch. Cambridge University Press, April 2006. 244-271.
Dillon, S. "Honorific Portraiture (Accepted)." Handbook of Greek Sculpture. Ed. O Palagia. DeGruyter.
Dillon, S. "Terracotta Figurines (Accepted)." Samothrace; excavations conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University: Vol. 9, The monuments of the Eastern Hill. Ed. BD Wescot. American School of Classical Studies at Athens. (Chapter)
Dillon, S. "Review of 'Depicting the Dead: Self-Representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits' by S. Birk (Aarhus University Press, 2013)." Latomus: Revue d'Études Latines 75.2 (2016): 495-497.
Dillon, S. "Review of 'The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture', E.A. Friedland, M. Grunow Sobocinski, and E.K. Gazda, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2015)." Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2015).
Dillon, S. "Review of 'The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture' by R. Neer." Art Bulletin 94.1 (March 2012): 130-133.
Dillon, S. "Review of 'Roman Portraits in Context' by J. Fefjer." CAA on-line reviews (December 13, 2011).
Dillon, S. "Review of 'Art in the Era of Alexander the Great' by A. Cohen." American Journal of Archaeology on-line reviews 115.4 (October 2011).
Dillon, S. "Review of 'Marmorskulpturen der römischen Kaiserzeit aus Milet: Aufstellungskontext und programmatische Aussage. Funde aus Milet, 5,2'.by R. Bol (Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011)." Journal of Roman Archaeology 25 (2011): 876-879.
Dillon, S. "Review of 'Role Models in Roman Art' by I.S. Hansen and S. Bell." Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (2010): 583-586.
Dillon, S. "Review of 'Die griechischen Porträts. Antike Repräsentation – Moderne Projection' by O. Jaeggi." Bonner Jahrbuecher 209 (2009): 362-363.
Dillon, S. "Review of 'Anonyme griechische Porträts des 4.Jhs v.Chr' by D. Piekarski (Rahden/Westf. 2004)." Gnomon 80 (2008): 248-250.
Dillon, S. "Review of 'Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods' edited by O. Palagia (Cambridge, 2006)." Classical Review 57.2 (2007): 521-522. Full Text Open Access Copy
Dillon, S, and Baltes, E. "Honorific Practices and the Politics of Space on Hellenistic Delos: Portrait Statue Monuments Along the Dromos." American Journal of Archaeology 117.2 (April 1, 2013): 207-246. Open Access Copy
Sheila Dillon, . "Subject selection and viewer reception of Greek portraits from Herculaneum and Tivoli." Journal of Roman Archaeology 13 (October 2000): 21-40. (Academic Article) Open Access Copy
Sheila Dillon, . "Figured Pilaster Capitals from Aphrodisias in Caria." American Journal of Archaeology 1997.101 (October 1997): 731-769. (Academic Article)
Sheila Dillon, . "The portraits of a civic benefactor of 2nd-c. Ephesos." Journal of Roman Archaeology 9 (October 1996): 261-274. Open Access Copy
Dillon, S. "Portraits and Portraiture." Ed. M Gagarin. (2010).
Dillon, S. "Portraiture, Greece and Rome." Ed. R Bagnall, K Brodersen, C Champion, and SH Andrew Erskine. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (2009). (Essay)
Dillon, S. "'Nike of Samothrace,' 'Pergamum Altar,' and 'Polyeuktos: Portrait of Demosthenes'." Ed. A Bostrom. Encyclopedia of Sculpture (2004). (Essay)
Portrait Statuary in Roman Athens: reconsidering the material from the Athenian Agora. What's New in Roman Greece conference, Roman Seminar and Institute of Historical Research, Athens Greece. October 8, 2015 - October 10, 2015
Crossing the Corrupting Sea: Women on the Move in the Ancient Mediterranean. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World Lecture Series 2015-2016, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. Sponsored by the Kentucky Society of the Archaeological I...
Roman Portrait Statuary in Athens. Symposium in Memory of Professor Evelyn B. Harrison, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. May 10, 2014
Statues as Artifacts: Towards an Archaeology of Greek Sculpture . Greek Art in Context conference, University of Edinburgh. April 7, 2014
Face Veils, Fine Fabrics & Female Visibility: Reading Female Fashion in Hellenistic Art, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. October 25, 2012
Female Clothing on Greek and Roman Statuary, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen. May 1, 2012
Portraits of Women on the Island of Delos, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. December 14, 2011
Votive Sculpture from Samothrace: Moving Beyond the Winged Victory, Archaeological Institute of America, Richmond Virginia Society. March 11, 2011
Elite Women as a status-defined group in the portrait monuments of Delos, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, England. March 3, 2011
Reviewer of Proposal "La vie des portraits grecs/Das Leben griechischer Porträts," a three-year collaborative French and German research project : L'Agence nationale de la recherché/French National Research Agency/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. J...
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- This functions of this agency have been transferred to the Department of Public Property.
The Electrical Bureau maintained the signaling and communicating systems of the police and fire bureaus; supervised the telephone and electric-elevator service in city buildings and the purchase by the city of other electric service; licensed and supervised the erection of privately owned poles and wires; supervised the laying and maintenance of all electrical conductors and conduits; and supervised electric street lighting.
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On page 64 it talks about Pei Wei:
"He would go on to join O'Reilly Associates in Sebastopol, California, run by Dale Dougherty, one of the early web champions, which was creating various Internet products."This really ought to say
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"O'Reilly had just published Ed Kroll's book Whole Earth Internet Catalog, which was really the first books that made all this Internet stuff accessible to the public.
It's Krol, with one "l."
on page 189, contributors note:
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Where you live in the world will grant some guidance as to what language(s) you should focus on. In the United States, for example, the most widely sought after second languages are Spanish, French, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Mandarin.
"Spanish isn't a foreign language anymore."
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- A case for learning Spanish in the United States
It's pretty simple: Spanish is the second most-spoken non-English language in the United States, so it stands to reason that this should be many people's first choice. That's especially true if you have intentions of going into the medical field, law enforcement, teaching, banking, interpreting, and many other lines of work. Monster.com states that the top bilingual jobs posted by employers are for bilingual English/Spanish speakers.
- A case for French
If you're planning on working in a more international field, French may be your best bet. Over 220 million people around the world speak French. It's spoken on every continent—save Antarctica—as the native language, the language of instruction, the language of government, and the lingua franca of business. Speaking French is also very practical, according to Richard Shryock, associate professor of French at Virginia Tech. He notes that, aside from English, French is the official working language of international organizations like these:
United Nations
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
International Labor Bureau
International Olympic Committee
Council of Europe
European Community
Universal Postal Union
International Red Cross
Union of International Associations
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Common Expectations of Faculty
Georgia Highlands College must ensure that quality instruction and a positive learning environment are maintained and constantly improved upon so as to comply with the spirit and direction of our College Mission Statement. In addition, the College must ensure compliance with the standards formally stated in the Statutes on the issues of tenure and promotion, removal and suspension and duties, responsibilities and privileges.
Within this context, the following document spells out the "common expectations" the College has for its full-time faculty members. The full-time faculty plays an integral role in the implementation of our entire Mission. The intent of this document is not the establishment of a rigid code of conduct. Rather, the intent is to provide some guidance. It is also helpful for those faculty members interested in tenure and promotion.
The Statutes clearly indicate that quality instruction is the first priority of the faculty. While service to the College is desirable, even expected of the faculty, no service is of sufficient value to overcome incompetent teaching. The faculty is strongly encouraged to participate in both internal and external activities that provide educational leadership in our College service and community. Faculty members are encouraged to take part in a variety of activities which enhance individual/professional growth and which help develop teamwork within our separate divisions and across the College.
Each faculty member of the College is strongly encouraged to seek a balance among this variety of activities which reflects one's individual interests and which furthers the interests of the College.
I) The primary responsibility of all faculty members is to provide competent teaching.
1) Faculty members should be professional in the conduct of their teaching responsibilities.
2) A detailed syllabus should be distributed to the students by the end of the first week of class. (The College provides a course syllabus guideline here)
3) Classes should meet as scheduled. Each Division has a policy on emergency cancellations.
4) The primary goal of evaluating faculty members is to improve teaching.
5) The individual faculty member should:
a) Maintain an up-to-date file containing course syllabi, examples of relevant assignments and tests. Copies should also be submitted to the academic dean and maintained in the Division Office.
b) Do an annual self-evaluation of one's teaching strengths, list potential projects you have an interest in and briefly summarize personal contributions that help the College. A brief summary is to be submitted to the academic dean.
c) Encourage students to complete their course evaluations. A summation of the findings will be sent to the instructor and a copy will be kept on file in the Division Office.
d) Complete all requirements of the faculty evaluation process.
II) Faculty members have a normal teaching load equivalent to 30 semester hours per academic year.
1) In classes that have a lab or clinical component, academic deans should make teaching assignments with appropriate and equitable flexibility to satisfy both class requirements and the standard cited above.
2) Faculty teaching schedules should be reasonable and fair. Faculty members are subject to serving the College's need to offer classes during the day, evening, weekend, and on all teaching locations.
3) Teaching faculty may, upon administrative direction, be assigned to other duties as a part of their regular teaching load.
III) Faculty members are expected to participate in the efficient operation of the academic functions of the College.
1) Teaching faculty should post office hours, submit a listing of office hours to the Division Office and be available for appointments with students.
2) Faculty are expected to participate in matriculation activities at the beginning and end of each semester during their term of employment.
3) Teaching faculty should help advisees progress toward graduation or transfer and help with career planning.
4) Faculty are expected to fully participate in the planning, execution, and evaluation of assessment activities.
5) Teaching faculty should attend all scheduled College faculty meetings, division faculty meetings, and academic exercises during the contract period unless otherwise excused.
6) Teaching faculty are expected to participate in the internal administration of the College. Faculty should be active participants in their assignments to the various academic college committees, standing faculty committees, Regents' advisory committees, and other special assignments.
7) Faculty are required to submit all official college reports in a timely fashion.
IV) Employees of the University System of Georgia must avoid actual and apparent conflicts of interest between their College obligations and their outside activities. At no time should external activities inhibit effective teaching.
1) Employees of the College must not engage in any occupation, pursuit, or endeavor which interferes with the regular and punctual discharge of their duties. Employees are expected to give full professional effort to their teaching and service to the College.
2) The Board of Regents has special requirements on outside teaching employment which must be observed as well.
3) Division chairpersons must be notified of outside employment or potential conflicts. (System Guidelines are controlling in this matter)
4) Employees of the College are expected to comply with state policies related to usage of state funds.
V) Professional Growth and Development
1) Faculty members are expected to stay abreast of their academic profession.
2) Faculty members are encouraged to continue their education, attend professional meetings, make presentations, serve actively within professional organizations and publish scholarly works.
3) Each division should assist individual faculty members in professional growth and development as much as is reasonably possible.
It is true that "service to the College" is difficult to define and to evaluate. Faculty members are strongly encouraged to engage in activities (separate from the items in Section I) that further the interest of the College within our community. Activities which reflect the "Purpose" of the College are of greatest value. These enhance the reputation of the College and show that Georgia Highlands College has an interest and a stake in the success of our students, our community and our profession. Activities undertaken for purposes of individual gain, individual well-being or of a "social" nature (through significant and positive in their own context) are not necessarily considered to be "service to the College".
The range of activities associated with "service to the College" may include the following:
I) Student related
1) Advisors of clubs for students
2) Sponsorships or participations in intramural activities for students
3) Sponsorships of field trips to enrich student learning
4) Programs designed to enhance international study and learning
II) Community service
1) Participation in school-partnerships
2) Serving on boards and advisory groups
3) Making presentations to community groups/Speakers Bureau
4) Memberships in community service organizations.
III) College
1) Teaching students skills courses.
2) Grant writing/grant implementation
3) Public relations activities such as serving as a campus fair representative
4) Public service offerings
5) Helping coordinate off-campus programs of credit or non-credit nature
6) Interacting with representatives from other post-secondary institutions
7) Activities designed to culturally enrich the College and Community.
8) Activities designed to foster cultural diversity.
IV) Membership and leadership within professional organizations
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HARRISBURG -- Pennsylvania has more amusement park rides than any other state, with 9,300 registered rides. And its parks are unmatched in safety, Gov. Tom Corbett said in a June press release, because of the state�s rigorous ride-inspection program.
But a PublicSource investigation shows that the state agency that oversees amusement parks doesn�t track the safety inspection reports that parks are required by law to file each month they are open.
State records show that more than half of Pennsylvania�s permanent parks and water parks did not turn in all of their 2012 reports -- affidavits in which certified inspectors attest that they�ve performed the inspections required by law. The agency had no reports at all for 12 of the state�s 117 permanent parks and water parks PublicSource analyzed.
Among the parks in the data are large amusement parks, such as Hersheypark with 80 rides, and smaller parks like The Fun Station in Gouldsboro, Pa., with just three, according to 2012 state registrations. Records show Hersheypark filed all its required reports last year. The Fun Station, in the Poconos, did not file any, according to records provided in response to a Right-To-Know request.
The Department of Agriculture�s Bureau of Ride and Measurement Standards oversees the parks. Walter Remmert, who has been director of the bureau since 2011, was given a list of parks for which the bureau had no inspection reports in 2012. He said he didn�t know about the missing reports until PublicSource informed him.
The agency�s enforcement actions are scant. Even parks that have repeatedly failed to turn in safety inspection reports seldom pay fines, and rides are rarely shut down.
In 2011, a bureau official wrote that Scranton�s Sno Cove water park in Sno Mountain ski resort had �operated all of last year with NO INSPECTIONS.�
Joe Filoromo, supervisor of the bureau�s Amusement Ride Safety Division, wrote in an internal email that Sno Cove�s failure to inspect was �among the most blatant of violations� and should receive a �serious fine immediately.�
No fine was issued.
Laura Woodburn, a spokeswoman with the nonprofit National Association of Amusement Ride Safety Officials, said it�s the job of the regulators to enforce the laws. (Woodburn is also director of ride operations for Hersheypark, but does not speak on behalf of the park.)
�It�s up to the police officers to make sure we�re following the rules,� she said. �There has to be a body that provides accountability.�
Several former state inspectors said the Pennsylvania inspection program and enforcement of the law isn�t what it once was.
�It was a model program. It is a laughingstock now,� said Thomas Abod, a former state inspector who worked for the bureau and was furloughed in 2009. It could be great once again, he said, if properly run.
State Rep. John Maher, R-40, Upper St. Clair Township, chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that if even a few parks can get through a season without filing a single safety report, the bureau needs a better system.
�Someone ought to be investigating,� Maher said. �I intend to make inquiries promptly.�
While amusement rides thrill many fans and bring tourism dollars to the state, they can be dangerous -- and sometimes deadly.
The public was reminded of that in July, when Rosy Esparza, 52, plunged to her death in front of family members after falling out of a 14-story roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas. Six Flags, along with local police, is conducting an investigation into the death. The Texas Department of Insurance, which regulates the industry in Texas, requires a safety inspection by parks just once a year.
That death has renewed calls for federal regulation of amusement park rides. U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass, tried but failed as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives to get a bill passed for a federal agency, such as the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, to oversee amusement parks.
"A baby stroller is subject to tougher federal regulation than a roller coaster carrying a child in excess of 100 miles per hour," Markey said in a statement. "This is a mistake."
However, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Agriculture, wrote: "Pennsylvania�s amusement ride safety program has a longstanding reputation for being one of the best and safest in the nation."
The department �takes seriously its charge to protect the public,� the spokeswoman, Nicole Bucher, wrote in an email.
The bureau declined to answer many of PublicSource�s questions, saying that the bureau�s method of keeping track of inspections and accidents was complicated. When PublicSource reporters offered to travel from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg to talk with bureau officials, they did not respond.
Gov. Corbett, through a spokeswoman, declined to comment for this story, saying the Department of Agriculture speaks for him on the issue.
The last death on a Pennsylvania amusement ride, according to the bureau, occurred in September 2001. Seven-year-old Matthew Allen Potter of York Township, Pa., was on a roller coaster at the York Fair when the ride stopped suddenly and Potter was thrown forward. He died of his injuries later that night.
By law, carnivals and fairs must file inspection reports every time rides are set up, instead of every 30 days, as required for permanent and water parks.
More than 1,000 accidents were reported to the state in the last five years. The severity of the accidents is difficult to determine from the reports. Pennsylvania law requires amusement park owners to file reports of serious injuries -- those that require medical attention or result in hospitalization or death.
Those injuries included concussions, a broken pelvis, two electric shocks, a broken vertebra and broken ribs.
Scranton�s troubled Sno Cove is one example of a park that has not regularly reported its inspections or serious accidents to the state. (Sno Cove went bankrupt in 2012 and was purchased by Montage Mountain in 2013.)
Anthony Griffith and his mother are suing Sno Cove�s owner for damages for multiple injuries after the then 12-year-old was injured in a water slide accident in 2011, according to Lackawanna County court records. The Griffith family did not respond to requests for an interview.
Regina Prussack said that she, too, was injured at Sno Cove.
Prussack, who is unemployed and on Social Security disability, took her two kids to Sno Cove in July 2011. With tickets at about $20 each, her pocketbook took a hit. She expected to watch her kids splash in the water, washing away their hard lives for a few hours.
As she was getting onto the chair lift with her children, she asked the ride attendant not to start the ride until she was ready.
But the ride attendant started the ride anyway, and Prussack fell 15 feet, she said.
�People screamed and told them to stop the ride,� Prussack said. �I didn�t have enough time to get the bar down.�
She and a friend went to the park twice and called multiple times asking for an accident report, but the park did not respond.
There was no record of the accident in the documents the bureau released to PublicSource. Nor did the bureau know the chair lift was being used as a ride and wasn�t registered until PublicSource asked about it.
The chair lift was not shut down, according to bureau officials.
Montage Mountain employees did not respond to PublicSource�s email messages or phone calls requesting comment for this story. Attempts to reach Sno Cove�s previous president, Denis Carlson, were unsuccessful.
Today, Prussack said she suffers from a painful neck condition caused by the accident. She has popped as many as five oxycodone pills, a powerful painkiller, a day. She walks with a claw-like, four-pronged cane. She�s 41.
�I can�t do anything with my kids anymore,� Prussack said.
After PublicSource asked the bureau about a number of parks that turned in no inspection reports last year, Remmert and his staff contacted the parks. Some of the parks then sent reports dated 2012 to the bureau. The bureau time-stamped the reports July 2013 and emailed them to PublicSource.
Bucher, an agriculture department spokeswoman, said the inspection reports could have initially been lost in the mail, faxed to the wrong number or misplaced. It would be unfair to penalize the parks, she said, because they had done the inspection reports during 2012.
There is no way for PublicSource to tell whether the inspection reports were completed last year or on the day they were sent to the bureau in July.
Remmert did not respond directly to whether filing inspection reports more than a year later is legal. By law, the reports are to be filed with the state within 48 hours of the inspection.
The parks that did not submit inspection reports when officials called them in July were given warnings, Bucher wrote in an email.
Reporters called all 12 parks that had no inspection reports. Most said they had filed them in 2012 with the state, though the bureau had no record of them.
Leonard Adams, owner of Adams Amusements at Conneaut Lake�s amusement park, said he completed all inspection reports for 2012 and mailed them in. However, he believes the state never received them because of a mailing error.
�It makes me look bad, but I did everything the law said to do,� he said, adding that he never received notification from the bureau last year about his missing inspection reports.
Others said they, too, received no notification of missing reports for 2012.
Abod, a former state inspector, said it�s the job of the state inspectors to make sure owners are properly filing inspection reports with the bureau.
�It�s not right. The places should be shut down� when they don�t file, Abod said. �They know it.�
It�s the job of private safety inspectors to check things like a ride�s brakes, latches, seat covers and seat belts every 30 days. They must then sign an affidavit, sent to the bureau, that attests to that inspection.
The private inspectors must be certified by the state and can be a park�s owner, an employee or an outsider hired by the owner.
In addition, ride operators must perform daily inspections and keep a log on site that can be accessed by state officials.
But it�s the bureau and its state inspectors who enforce the law. They do on-site inspections and have the power to issue warnings, require repairs and shut down rides.
Abod knows what it�s like to set up and break down amusement rides in the rain, heat and snow.
He traveled the state for about five years, making sure the parks followed the law, which included checking that inspection reports were up to date in Harrisburg.
He wasn�t surprised to hear the state was missing inspection reports from parks.
�Yeah, that�s the state,� said Abod, laughing. �Nobody is checking on them.�
Ride owners try to get away with things all of the time, Abod said.
It was typical for a park to complain when a state inspector shut down a ride or issued a fine, former inspectors said. Sometimes, a fine was reduced or eliminated.
Abod once discovered an indoor inflatable ride in Philadelphia running on a gas-powered generator. The generator was emitting fumes and likely poisoning riders. If he hadn�t shut it down, who knows what could have happened? he asked.
�You know what�s going on. You gotta catch them,� Abod said. �And it�s probably worse than ever now.�
That�s because in 2009, there were seven state inspectors. Now there are only four to police thousands of rides.
Pennsylvania�s got some of the best state inspectors in the country, Abod said.
But is it possible to effectively police the industry with four state inspectors?
�There�s only one guy (west) of the Susquehanna River to take care of this whole area,� said Rich Yeagley, another former state inspector.
Several former state inspectors said the reputation of the bureau to follow up and enforce the law has been eroding for years. They asked that their names not be used because some of them still work in the industry.
Maher, the state legislator, said the solution is simple: The bureau needs to track who�s following the law and who is not.
But others disagree. The only way to ensure safety at any amusement parks -- including Pennsylvania�s -- is federal oversight, said Justin Reiff, who works for a Philadelphia law firm that handles many amusement-park injury cases.
�The fact that parks aren't submitting affidavits, that's a problem,� he said. �Because it shows the state is not doing its job in overseeing the amusement parks.�
�What's it going to take -- a Texas?� he asked. �Does this state need a roller-coaster death to wake everybody up?�
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BERKELEY — In a lucrative new twist on school funding, middle school students at REALM Charter School have harnessed the riches of the Internet to design and build their own 3,000 book library — and they have raised $40,000 in just three days.
The 108 students, who designed their own X-shaped interlocking shelving modules for the library, are hoping to raise $75,000 using the crowd funding site, Kickstarter.com.
It doesn't hurt that they have the networking muscle of Project H, an on-site nonprofit that partners with the school to teach design and has 475,000 Twitter followers. At REALM, its program is known as Studio H.
Once they get to $75,000 in donations, according to school Director Victor Diaz, they are in line for $30,000 more in matching funds from the Quest Foundation, which will buy an additional 3,000 books.
"We've tapped our inner circle with the donations from the first few days. Now we're hoping to go one step further," Diaz said. "When you team up with a really strong partner like Studio H, it gives you a broader reach."
Going outside a school budget to fund projects is nothing new. Schools regularly get grants and raise funds through community outreach and parent teacher associations. But using a crowd funding site such as Kickstarter, which has worldwide reach, is something relatively new. And the donations that come from it are not just charity, Diaz said. A pledge of $149, for example, will get you one of the X-shaped modules that can be used as a free-standing magazine or book rack.
"We think it's definitely fair to say it's a trend," said Kickstarter spokesman Michael MacGregor. "We've seen all kinds of student projects, from putting satellites into space to writing their own books."
But none of the projects MacGregor listed in an email come close to the magnitude raised by REALM students in just a few days. The largest school project listed is $10,000.
That may be due in part to REALM's partnership with Project H, whose founder, Emily Pilloton, is the one with the hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. A 14-minute Pilloton presentation at one of the TED ideas conferences in 2010 about her work at a school district in rural North Carolina, for example, has been viewed 685,000 times.
"When you team up with a really strong partner like Project H, it gives you a broader reach," Diaz said. "It connects more people to schools and that's the great thing about it."
In the classroom at REALM, the focus is not really on how much money the kids are raising but what they are making. Pilloton's program started in the charter's high school, where they have designed and built classrooms out of shipping containers and designed skateboards.
This year they decided to take the program to the middle school and design and build a library in an empty classroom.
"The common thread here is we are not just consumers of things, we can make things ourselves and we can fund them ourselves," Pilloton said. "It's the idea of ownership. For kids who are so screen driven, you see a huge fire in their eyes when you hand them a chop saw."
After they built a prototype X-shaped module that can be duplicated and fit together in endless arrangements for the 3,000 books they hope to buy this summer, they wrangled Carl Bass, chief executive officer of Autodesk, which makes design and engineering software, to manufacture the pieces free of charge at his West Berkeley shop.
"He's volunteered all his time and staff time, well over 100 hours," Diaz said.
Once the pieces are all manufactured and ready to go, students will start assembling them in their library in April or May, Diaz said.
He said donations and matching funds will pay for $20,000 in materials, $60,000 for books, $15,000 for technology and $10,000 for software.
Diaz, whose middle and high schools have a budget of about $8 million, said he could have built the library using his budget, "but then I couldn't have done something else."
"Public school funding doesn't come close to funding projects like these," he said. "A chop saw is not cheap."
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I felt quite happy a decade or so ago to be labelled as a "Crisis Magician". The definitive characterisation, according to Peter Carroll, is that of an individual who devotes most of their energies to normal everyday pursuits, only resorting to The Wand in times of crisis. To the best of my knowledge, Carroll has never gone into print on the matter, but from his perjorative tone when conversing the subject one may gather that such a 'modus operandi' is thought unbecoming for a serious occult practitioner. Personally, I would contrast the relatively orderly lives of many occultists who resort to praeter-natural tactics only in dire emergency, with the experience of many habitual magicians whose lives seem to lurch inexorably from one grotesque scenario to another. Perhaps the time is ripe for a re-definition!
Regular consumers of my articles and lectures may recognise herein some development of ideas introduced in my papers "So-Called Magic(k), or Fraud or Bullshit" and "The History and Development of Secret Societies", as well as an update on matters raised in "Magical Conflict - The Corporate Adversary." I do not propose to waste time considering whether "magic(k)" works or not, or what it is, but rather to examine the elusive ways in which it can work, to look at the sort of associative relationships which occult practitioners may form between themselves, and the advantages and disadvantages of participation in such magical working groups.
"Orders" and "Disorders" in this context are different species of structured or unstructured groupings of magicians, while "Lynx" are the female counterparts of "Lone Wolves". (Yes, I know there are female wolves, but if one says "Lone Wolf" in the sense of a magical practitioner who prefers to work alone, audience perception might interpret the term as applying exclusively to the masculine gender).
In western cultures most magical practitioners start out in, or spend a major part of their occult career in "Lynx" or "Lone Wolf" mode. Individuals develop an initial interest in magic usually as a result of some personal experience, or because some book, or even a record, seems to be saying something to them which means more than the hypocritical dogmas of orthodox morality and religion. There may of course be some influence from a friend, a relative or even a teacher, but a solitary period, which often takes the form of some personal "quest for truth", is a feature of most occultists' formative years.
Some people are content with this state of philosophical solitude, although many simply feel that they are the only person in the world who sees things in a particular way, or that they have undergone some absolutely unique experience, which, if it were communicated, would cause other people to think them mad. In this respect families are frequently perceived as being unsupportive, or, in extreme cases, downright hostile. Open-mindedness towards children's opinions arid views of life has never been an important feature of family life in our culture, no matter how old the child may become!
Other practitioners committed to the solitary path are those who have been worked over and/or ripped off by some phoney cult or "guru", and who have survived "de-programming" and/or "conversion" to some other purported revelation of Ultimate Truth. Such experiences result in a powerfully aversive, and quite understandable, attitude towards occult groups generally, and, in lucky cases, can engender the deep rooted scepticism which is absolutely essential if one is not to fall prey to yet further purveyors of potted belief systems and self-consistent "irrefutable" hypotheses. Anyone motivated by scepticism to avoid ALL occult and religious groups has my wholehearted and sincere support that is an entirely honourable position, and one for which I have considerable sympathy.
REAL scepticism, though, demands a degree of open-mindedness, and I do not extend the above eulogy to include those bigoted neophobes of the scientific establishment who have turned the deterministic model of the universe into a religion in its own right, and who seek to reinforce that belief structure by choosing to examine only such evidence as supports their preconceived not for of the way things should be. To such authorities I say "Study the proofs of Godel's Theorems, and if you don' t understand them, be advised to shut up until you do!"
The multiplicity of reasons which people might give for embarking on a programme of magical study seem to me to fall loosely under three basic headings:
In the case of any given individual there will often be some component of each of these primary motivations exhibited.
However nebulous the concept of "spiritual enlightenment" may be, persons for whom its attainment provides the dominant motivation are frequently led to the belief that it can best be provided by someone else who is presumed already to have attained such a state. This conveniently provides those who wish to gain power over other people with a ready supply of subjects, and it is no surprise to find persons in whom such motivations dominate drawn together. in Guru/Chela relationships and, in larger numbers, into rigid structural heirarchies within which both "Seekers" and "Teachers" derive some fulfilment of their motivation, but where the internal machinations within the relationship or structure frequently supercede the original intent.
Power to influence external events, I suggest, is something different, not least because there is a component of objectivity involved. A remote control for a TV set bestows some power objectively to transform external reality; and John Dee, Agrippa, or even Isaac Newton, being presented with such a device might well have classified it among magical artifacts. The point is that some technique or technology is involved which may do something as apparently simple as move a small piece of metal across a smooth surface, or something as devastating as inducing spontaneous combustion upon someone who has caused offence. Such techniques either work or they don't; that is (within the framework of a stochastic universe), there is a greater or a lesser likelihood of an observably effective result occurring which accords with the original intention.
The difficulty is that in practice one is rarely dealing with any effect as clearly demonstrable as actually being able to watch an object move from one place to another, or applaud while some offensive individual lights up like a blow torch. Where "magic" is found to work most effectively is in the realm of coincidence manipulation, where the end result might have come about as a matter of pure chance.
Life becomes even more confused when it is realised that those seeking the nebulous goal of "spiritual enlightenment" have no objective means of judging the qualifications of those purporting to be able to teach or bestow it. It is however assumed that those of advanced "spiritual" attainment have the ability to perform "miraculous" acts (the Catholic Church even makes such performances an essential pre-requisite for canonisation of someone as a Saint), and the field is therefore open for charismatics, con persons and fraudsters to deliver hyped up phenomenisations to convince the gullible to sign up and part with their money. In some cases what is perpetrated is little more than a pseudo-metaphysical game of "Find the Lady".
It's not hard to see why so many people with an interest in the occult keep themselves to themselves, and follow their own path experimenting with those techniques which they feel work best for them personally.
The problem with that individual approach in a wider context is that it is not likely to advance the frontiers of human knowledge very much. Given that the matter under consideration has the appearance of a species of unfolding science and/or technology, few major advances in such disciplines over the years have been made by individuals working entirely alone. The cross-fertilisation of ideas and experiences which inevitably results from working together with other members of a team is a major component in producing the quantum leaps in understanding and perception which characterise major advances. Thus there is some further motivation for those practitioners who have become convinced, from their own experience, that "magical" effects do have some basis in fact, to ally themselves with other like minded individuals, and to form groups in order to pool knowledge and combine their efforts.
Most churches, cults and magical groups adhere to some sort of belief structure which presents their organisation as the custodians of THE "Ultimate Truth". In some cases this "Truth" derives from historical tradition, as with, say, mainstream Christianity or Freemasonry, in other cases the fountainhead is entirely modern (as with the quasi-rationalist 'Nuclear Power Dogma'), or consists of a modern re-interpretation of more ancient source material.
Most of these religions, for in one sense or another that is what they are, publish their irrefutable hypothesis in the public domain, so that it least it is available for adherents and querents to consider and debate openly. A minority, particularly among the more occult oriented organisations, present a concept of a "truth" which is so wonderful or awesome that it has to be concealed from the "profane" (i.e. outsiders) and in some cases restricted to the highest echelons of a heirarchica1 structure, with dissemination prohibited by oaths of secrecy.
A single category of occult persuasion, the Chaos Magicians, argue from both a philosophical and an objective mathematical standpoint that "there can be NO ultimate truth" and treat "belief" as a technical expedient which can be temporarily useful in accomplishing particular magical objectives.
Since the inception of Chaos Magic in its a modern form in the late 1970s, there has been considerable debate among its adherents concerning the most appropriate collective structure for pursuit and development of the philosophy and associated magical techniques.
Anyone interested in serious ceremonial/ritual magic in London in the early 1970s had little alternative but to follow the path of the Lone Wolf. The blues musician Graham Bond had made an attempt to introduce a brand of Thelemic. Masonry to young members of the Notting Hill sub-culture in the late. 60's but any remnant of that died with him in 1974, while the mainstream Freemasons, inasmuch as they were recruiting at all, were concentrating on public school Old Boy Associations and their usual hunting grounds in the police and other uniformed public services If any rump of the pre-war ceremonial orders, the Golden Dawn, the OTO, A.'.A.'., M.'.M.'., or Stella Matutina still existed, then their ageing membership was maintaining a low profile. Crowley books were out of print, hard to find, and costly; indeed pretty well the only published system for magical self-initiation was the Mathers edition of "The Sacred Magic Of Abra-Melin the Mage" , which, although perhaps effective, was scarcely popular because of its masculine bias and requirement for months of sexual abstinence. Occasional reprints of Austin Spare' s work were sighted, mostly third generation photocopies.
If you wanted to become involved In working with a group it was down to the Theosophists, Rudolph Steiner's Anthroposophy, White Eagle Lodge, or the AMORC Rosicrucians, In all of which "sex and drugs and rock and roll" were definitely frowned upon. Alternatively there was Scientology, Guru Maharaji's 'Divine Light', Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation, and Hare Krishna, which were all widely felt to be rip offs of one sort or another.
Into this magical wasteland of London in November 1974 was suddenly projected the now famed classified advertisement in Time Out Magazine:
MAGIC. Serious student of occult has access to Golden Dawn Records and wishes to form similar society more suited to current trends - but perhaps retaining many of the GD grades and initiation processes. Invitation to write and discuss the project more fully is open to all with a more than passing interest in magical ceremonies and of course practical instruction is available to the novice. Please feel free to write whatever your Interpretation of the essential truth. The combined study of magic for the common good can only be beneficial to humanity. Box 247/20.
Around 20 Lone Wolves (all male) replied and were disappointed to discover that the advertiser was not what he purported to be, and that he had little interest in organising a re-constituted Order of the Golden Dawn. At a meeting of the respondents, though, several of them, including Peter Carroll and myself, decided to meet regularly and to contribute ideas for ritual work which other participants could join in with.
The group never had a formal working name at the time - the original correspondence file is marked "Magical Study Group" - but it has come to be referred to as "Stoke Newington Sorcerors" (SNS) since most of the meetings took place in a house in that part of London.
Although there were many discussions about instituting some sort of formal structure, it was generally resisted, partly because none of the original members was prepared to cede superiority to any of the others, and although later arrivals attempted to usurp a leadership role, they were customarily given short shrift. A nucleus of SNS members eventually wound up living in close proximity during 1977/8 in the notorious Speedwell House (in Deptford, South East London) where they became entwined in the nascent anarchy of the explosion of 'Punk' fashion. The street-cred magical names like Frater Autonemesis and Frater Choronzon date from this period, and, in terms of lifestyle, Chaos was King; the philosophical dimension developed from that point.
Peter Carroll and myself were both writing for the small circulation "New Equinox" magazine which was being published by Ray Sherwin out of East Morton in Yorkshire, and it was at this time that Pete produced a magical training syllabus based on exercises he was using himself which were drawn in part from yogic sources as well as having some input from Crowley, Spare and Castenada. The essence of Carroll's own work there was in stripping away the bullshit, and encapsulating the most useful techniques in a booklet of no more than 7 typed A4 sheets titled "LIBER MMM A Publication of the Magical Order of the IOT - Being the Initial Instructions in Mind Control, Metamorphosis and Magic for applicants to the IOT."
IOT, of course, is "Illuminates Of Thanateros"; the name itself perhaps owing some debt of inspiration not only to Spare, but also to Robert(s) Shea and Anton Wilson, whose conspiracy theorist trilogy "Illuminatus" had enjoyed a measure of acclaim, along with its stage adaptation. Because of the short term nature of the Speedwell House domicile, and the requirement for applicants to work "Liber MMM" for at least six months before submitting a magical record for consideration, the correspondence address was that of Ray Sherwin's "Morton Press." The same imprimateur is to be found on the earliest editions of Carroll's first book "Liber Null", which includes "Liber MMM" as the opening chapter.
There are a few interesting features about the earliest versions of "Liber MMM" which are relevant to the issues discussed in this paper Firstly the IOT is presented as a magical ORDER. Secondly, there is no mention at all of Chaos; and, thirdly, under the heading "Structure", Carroll states "There is no heirarchy in the IOT". Albeit that he goes on to outline "a division of activity based on ability", with roles for Students, Initiates, Adepts and Masters being detailed. I highlight those features of the original concept because minor amendments were made in later versions of "Liber MMM" and because the preamble which includes the material on "Structure" has disappeared from that section in the later Weiser edition of "Liber Null and Psychonaut" combined.
The key point about that inaugural stage in the IOT's history is that although it was presented as an ORDER, the structure (like that of SNS before it) was a non-heirarchial DISORDER, albeit that there was no explicit reference to CHAOS.
During the five years or so following the demolition of Speedwell House, "Liber Null" was followed by "Psychonaut" and the locus of Chaos Magic moved to West Yorkshire. A German translation appeared and some contact was established with a few hardy individuals who had worked through the "Liber MMM" syllabus and who submitted creditable records of their experiences.
Eventually in 1986 the first edition of "Chaos International" appeared under the editorship of P.D. Brown and Ray Sherwin. A glance at the first Editorial shows that the anti-hierarchical posture of Chaos Magic had survived intact from the earliest days of the IOT. The following extract makes the philosophical position at that time quite clear:
"Hierarchy fails for many reasons, not least of which is that it is eminently corruptible. From the magical point of view hierarchy, except when its leaders genuinely have the interests of their aspirants at heart, is stifling and inertial, the development of individuals taking fourth place to power play, internal politics and finance."
By this time Chaos Magic was being marketed enthusiastically in the German speaking countries of continental Europe through the efforts of Ralph Tegtmeier, who had published the translations of Carroll's work. Some impetus was building, largely from that quarter, for the IOT to be restructured in a more formalised way, and eventually in Autumn 1987, "Chaos International" Issue #3 carried two articles by Peter Carroll titled respectively "The Pact" and "The Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros" which set out a system of formal grades which closely corresponded to the "divisions of activity" from the "Structure" paragraph in the original Speedwell House recension of "Liber MMM"; although with the addition of the post of Supreme Magus 0 degree. (These articles are reprinted, more or less verbatim, under the general title 'Liber Pactionis' as part of the Appendix to Carroll's latest book 'Liber Kaos, The Psychonomicon'.
Perhaps to assuage the feelings of the English speaking anti-heirarchs
the following passage was prominently included:
"The prime functions of the grade structure are to provide a mechanism for the exclusion of certain psychotic misanthropes and neurotic creeps who are sometimes attracted to such enterprises and to ensure that that which needs organising is duly attended to."
The hallmarks of a carefully thought out compromise are discernible. In particular an "Office of Insubordinate" is introduced to force "a constant stream of negative feedback to arise- from below by institutionalising rebellion." The objective being to circumvent one of the more notorious drawbacks of heirarchies where "those at the top are condemned to bask in deceitful reflections of their own expectations and to issue even more inappropriate directives. Such an office is understood to have some precedent in Amerindian and other shamanic societies (ref: Neonfaust - Letter in Chaos International #4).
That there were some misgivings about the whole idea of an 'Order' devoted to 'Chaos' among prominent practitioners is clear from the article by Ray Sherwin which immediately follows those by Carroll in Chaos International #3. Under the headline "Philosophical and Practical Objections to Hierarchical Structures in Magick" he writes: "Hierarchies are open to abuse" and, echoing the editorial in "Chaos International #1", "even if they are set up with all the best intentions they are eminently corruptible and inevitably corrupted for reasons of personal power or gain".
Sherwin then makes a clear distinction between magical orders
and consensus based magical groups:
"Working on a consensus basis means that individuals do not compete with one another as they are more likely to do within a hierarchical structure, often scrambling over one another for titles and privileges, rank taking precedence over magick and over the other people concerned. The issuing of charters, in the worst of cases, is simply an extension of this - the power seekers in pursuit of groups rather than individuals."
In the same piece Sherwin carries on to make valid points about the unattractiveness of hierarchies to females, and he comments "without women magick loses 50% of its potential". He concludes: "If you're interested in magick but don't want to get involved in hierarchical structures, 'Unorganised Chaos' may be of interest to you", and refers readers to a contact address elsewhere in the magazine.
The debate continues in Issue #4 of 'Chaos International' which
appeared In Spring 1988 carrying a letter- from one 'Neonfaust
I' who proclaims himself as 1st Degree IOT West Germany. He introduces
the subject thus:
"While I do see Ray Sherwin's point in general, I still think that his philosophical and practical objections to hierarchical structures in magic are indeed purely the arguments of an insider working within a well established group.
This is a fact - Sherwin was one of the most prominent members of the IOT as originally constituted!
'Neonfaust' continues:
"Working on similar lines myself on the one hand, but actively participating in a highly hierarchically structured magical order as well, I feel that he has not done hierarchy full justice. For one thing hiearchy is basically STRUCTURE [sic (emphasis)] and as such it can be one of the strongest weapons against the many pitfalls of magic which have been, I will concede, highly overestimated in the past but which are there to be reckoned with nonetheless."
Among his examples of such pitfalls, 'Neonfaust' gives prominence to "self delusion" and "individualistic megalomania."
It may be, when the 'The Saga of the Ice' is submitted to similar critical analysis, that illumination is cast on the extent to which the abuse of hierarchical power served to mask the reality that this individual was actually wallowing those very pitfalls he so accurately identifies.
There is, I feel, one drawback to establishing a hierarchical structure which is not mentioned in any of the source material cited here. The structure set out in 'Liber Pactionis' may work fine if viewed as an established on-going procedural environment for magical work. What it does not adequately cover is the process for setting the hierarchy up in the first place.
My own misgivings about hierarchies are engendered partly because I feel they unecessarily restrict information about useful magical work being carried out. In the prevailing social environment, burdened as we are with an intrusive press seeking any excuse to publish sensational 'occult' stories, I completely concur with the need to preserve confidentiality concerning the identities of individuals involved in private magical work. I do not feel that this secrecy should necessarily be extended to the work itself - particularly if significant advances in knowledge and/or techniques are being made. For that reason I have made a habit of conducting a significant proportion of my own magical work outside the confines of formal temple settings, if not always completely in the public domain. I see such activities as being a logical extension of the sort of work I was doing when others chose to characterise me as a Crisis Magician.
If one faces some dire life threatening emergency, in physical terms, the body produces a surge of adrenaline which can bestow a physical boost to empower one to get out of the situation. This sort of circumstance will be familiar to anyone who has ever been in an awkward scrape while pot-holing, for example. My strong impression is that something similar happens when one applies a magical solution to some pressing circumstance threatening to one's life and security or that of one's dependents. If such a magical working becomes necessary, it is my experience that it is ALWAYS successful - Gnosis through Crisis.
With the recent success of a long and complex legal and magical operation against a Goliath of a corporate adversary, I can make that statement quite categorically.
I will no longer tolerate being ripped off or worked over by large corporations, who consider that they have some right in natural law to behave like that simply because of their size. I may have to allow the situation to proceed to a point where my own position becomes sufficiently perilous that the 'magical adrenaline' surge seals the outcome, but it works in the end. That is the essence of Crisis Magic.
In my recent review of Peter Carroll's book 'Liber Kaos, the Psychonomicon', I was prompted to draw a comparison between progress in the understanding of so-called 'magic', and the history of the comprehension of electro-magnetic radiation by 19th century science. The Danish physicist Hans Oersted first noticed in 1820 that a high voltage spark generated across a gap in a metallic loop could induce a similar, though smaller, spark to occur across a gap in a similar loop on the other side of his workshop. You can observe the same sort of effect at work today when you are trying to record something off the radio, and your neighbour gets to work with his ancient (unsuppressed) electric drill - sparks cause 'white noise' radio emissions across the entire frequency band. It was some twenty years before Faraday began to arrive at some coherent understanding of what was going on, and not until 1865 that James Clark Maxwell put forward his famous wave equations which described the process in precise mathematical terms. After another 30 years Marconi had built the first reliable radio set which could send and receive coherent information carrying signals at discrete wavelengths.
My view is that in terms of magic we are past the 'Oersted' stage, in which we can do simple things - the equivalent of undifferentiated spark transmission - on a reasonably consistent quantifiable basis. Now, the first attempts are being made to propose a quantitative model with Carroll's "Equations of Magic" in 'Liber Kaos', and it may be that those equations, in times to come, will assume as much importance in the emerging science and technology of 'magic' as those of Maxwell have done in radio engineering.
If we are now, by comparison, only a little further on than being able to send out sparks from a Van Der Graaf generator, think what could be accomplished when the 'magical' analogues of separated wavelengths, frequency modulation and/or radar technology come to be understood. I feel it is not unreasonable to assert that we may be on the threshold of some major discoveries, and happily for us all, the scientific/technical establishment is looking the other way because of their slavish belief in a deterministic universe, and their refusal to accept the reality of any phenomena which threaten that belief - and this despite Godel's Theorems having been published half a century ago!
The key to progress, in my view, is to strive to achieve greater precision in magical actions, with increasingly precise statements of intent, possibly sigilized into systems diagrams mapping detailed effects. For example, if you feel moved to take magical action against a bank for, say deducting bank charges from your account without notice and then bouncing a cheque presented by your lawyers (which can be very embarassing); then you want to ensure that the curse is effective against all the lifts in their head office, and not against all their cash-point machines in a 6.66 mile radius; particularly if the working has been conducted publically. Alternatively, on a more personal level, you want to make sure that it is the offending manager who suffers the fit of projectile vomiting, and not the hapless secretary who chances to open the letter with the runes drawn under the postage stamp.
Whatever happens, never let life get on top of you - always keep the Wand and the Thunderbolt handy in times of crisis.


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Morning Show Host Comes ThisClose to Shooting Herself With a Nail Gun
This morning show shoots more than just the breeze.
This is a clip from Australian morning show 'Studio 10.' We're not really sure what kind of segment involves a blindfolded man and a quartet of nail guns and, frankly, we don't want to know.
Host Sarah Harris is doing the perky morning show host thing by helping the gentleman involved in this stunt when she picks up a gun without any clue she's pointing it right at her made-for-TV smile.
Fortunately, she's saved before any damage can be done and they were forced to run colored bars over a screaming audience.


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Ellie Goulding Dishes on Skrillex, Anxiety + the Ex Who Inspired 'Halcyon'
"There were times when I felt like I was having a heart attack."
Gearing up for the heavily anticipated 'Halcyon,' Ellie Goulding is making the press rounds and dropping some truth bombs about fame and how her life has been affected by it. The 'Lights' singer, who is usually pretty private, opened up quite a bit in a new interview with The Sun — revealing everything from her anxiety issues to her relationships with Skrillex and the ex who inspired the breakup record.Goulding explained that her anxiety problems were emphasized once she shot to stardom, but that she thinks fame only exacerbated — not created — her issues. "There was too much adrenaline and my heart was pounding," she said. "It's just such a horrible, horrible thing to go through. I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks," she explained. "I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time."
Goulding's pain wasn't just in her head, either. Her anxiety attacks began to effect her physically, to the point where she sought medication just to deal with everyday things — but it didn't work well for her. "It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain," she lamented. "I'd have a numb arm, a very strange lump in my throat and a really hot chest, like my heart was on fire. I had to take Diazepam but I found it debilitating. I couldn't do anything so I had cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) instead and that actually really worked."
She still feels the effects of her anxiety from time to time, but she's learned to deal. "The other day I was in Germany and it was a really hectic day and I thought, 'Oh God, here we go!'" she said. "But I laid down, started breathing, closed my eyes and told people not to talk to me, and then I was fine."
'Halcyon' is essentially a breakup album, one that Goulding described as a "journey from dark to light. It's personal to me, very personal."
It's also personal to her ex who inspired the album, Radio 1 DJ Greg James, who she dated for about two years. Though he knows the songs are about his relationship with Goulding, he doesn't mind them at all — and is actually a fan of one in particular. "My songs are always about things I experience, and my ex knows that, and my guy now knows that and even my friends know that — everyone knows that," she assured. "Greg and I are still friends. Yes, I was worried about what he'd think about these songs but he's heard them and is fine. He's always been a fan of my music, that's how we met," she said. "I don't think he takes it too seriously. That period in our lives has passed now. We've moved on. He texted me the other day to say that he really liked 'Figure 8.'"
Speaking of "her guy now," was Goulding's heavier new sound inspired by Skrillex? Not necessarily, she says. "People ask me that but no," Goulding said. "They ask if I've copied his hair too but I had mine first!" she laughed. "I just met someone, fell in love with them and that's it. He's my guy and he influences me but only in the way that any boyfriend would influence a girl."
What about the other way around? "As for me influencing him, I read somewhere that I made him feel more secure," she said. "That was really nice. I felt a little bit like, 'Ah!' because he's never said that to me. I think we've just been really good for each other and we motivate each other," she gushed. "His lifestyle in general is pretty mental. He's in a different place every day and at parties, but I'm very happy." Too cute, these two!
The duo met and became smitten when Skrillex emailed Goulding to work on a track with him. She then sang 'Summit' on the EDM master's 'Bangarang' EP, but they've continued to collaborate both personally and professionally.
"We also worked together on the soundtrack of 'Spring Breakers,' a Harmony Korine film starring James Franco. Then there's another song which I think is going to be on another film. We'll see," she teased. (PopCrush fans know all about 'Spring Breakers' — and about Selena Gomez's role in the edgy film!)
We can't wait to hear it — once, you know, we finally get 'Lights' stuck out of our heads.
Watch the Ellie Goulding 'Anything Could Happen' Video


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Major League Baseball brings Taco Bell All-Star Sunday to Phoenix on July 10th at Chase Field. The doubleheader includes the XM All-Star Futures Game and the Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game.
Tickets are available at the Chase Field Box Office.
The day begins with the XM All-Star Futures Game, which features some of the game's best young prospects from the U.S. and around the world. Some recent stars of this game include the D-backs' own Justin Upton, Chris Young and Stephen Drew. Other top MLB players who have played in this game include Josh Hamilton, Joey Votto and Neftali Feliz.
Then Taco Bell All-Star Sunday winds-up with the Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game. This entertaining five inning game features MLB and D-backs legends taking the field with celebrity favorites. Past legends and celebrities who have participated in previous All-Star events are:


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There's plenty of talk about the "fiscal cliff" -- which was avoided by a last-minute deal last month — but that only delayed a huge Pentagon fear: Sequestration.
What happens if the military is slapped with sequestration -- automatic budget cuts to the tune of about $500 billion over ten years?
The Defense Department is the biggest loser in the latest budget battle, and although Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is hopeful about reaching an agreement, they still need to plan for the possibility, which left unchecked would hit in March.
"Indeed, we are seeing the formation of what I would call a perfect storm of budget uncertainty," Panetta said on Jan. 10. "With a sequester that could happen on March 1st, a continuing resolution that could simply be extended for the rest of this fiscal year, as opposed to having a defense appropriations bill adopted, and, thirdly, a debt ceiling crisis that could create even further turmoil that could impact on our budget and on our economy."
"And the fact is, looking at all three of those, we have no idea what the hell's going to happen."
The guidance from the Pentagon to all service branches is to give specific recommendations on what they can cut by Feb 1st. Here's the broader view from Panetta on what would happen if Congress does not act to avoid the sequester.