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My mother and I were at the dry cleaner's, standing behind a woman we had never seen. "A nice-looking woman," my mother would later say. "Well put together. Classy." The woman was dressed for the season in a light cotton shift patterned with oversize daisies. Her shoes matched the petals and her purse, which was black-and-yellow striped, hung over her shoulder, buzzing the flowers like a lazy bumblebee. She handed in her claim check, accepted her garments, and then expressed gratitude for what she considered to be fast and efficient service. "You know," she said, "people talk about Raleigh but it isn't really true, is it?"
The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you're a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. He wasn't the owner, just a helper who'd stepped in from the back, and it was clear he had no idea what she was saying.
"My sister and I are visiting from out of town," the woman said, a little louder now, and again the man nodded. "I'd love to stay awhile longer and explore, but my home, well, one of my homes is on the garden tour, so I've got to get back to Williamsburg."
I was eleven years old, yet still the statement seemed strange to me. If she'd hoped to impress the Korean, the woman had obviously wasted her breath, so who was this information for?
"My home, well, one of my homes"; by the end of the day my mother and I had repeated this line no less than fifty times. The garden tour was unimportant, but the first part of her sentence brought us great pleasure. There was, as indicated by the comma, a pause between the words "home" and "well," a brief moment in which she'd decided, Oh, why not? The following word— "one"—had blown from her mouth as if propelled by a gentle breeze, and this was the difficult part. You had to get it just right or else the sentence lost its power. Falling somewhere between a self-conscious laugh and a sigh of happy confusion, the "one" afforded her statement a double meaning. To her peers it meant, "Look at me, I catch myself coming and going!" and to the less fortunate it was a way of saying, "Don't kid yourself, it's a lot of work having more than one house."
The first dozen times we tried it our voices sounded pinched and snobbish, but by midafternoon they had softened. We wanted what this woman had. Mocking her made it seem hopelessly unobtainable, and so we reverted to our natural selves.
"My home, well, one of my homes . . ." My mother said it in a rush, as if she were under pressure to be more specific. It was the same way she said, "My daughter, well, one of my daughters," but a second home was more prestigious than a second daughter, and so it didn't really work. I went in the opposite direction, exaggerating the word "one" in a way that was guaranteed to alienate my listener.
"Say it like that and people are going to be jealous," my mother said.
"Well, isn't that what we want?"
"Sort of," she said. "But mainly we want them to be happy for us."
"But why should you be happy for someone who has more than you do?"
"I guess it all depends on the person," she said. "Anyway, I suppose it doesn't matter. We'll get it right eventually. When the day arrives I'm sure it'll just come to us."
And so we waited.
At some point in the mid- to late nineteen-sixties, North Carolina began referring to itself as "Variety Vacationland." The words were stamped onto license plates, and a series of television commercials reminded us that, unlike certain of our neighbors, we had both the beach and the mountains. There were those who bounced back and forth between one and the other, but most people tended to choose a landscape and stick to it. We ourselves were Beach People, Emerald Isle People, but that was mainly my mother's doing. I don't think our father would have cared whether he took a vacation or not. Being away from home left him anxious and crabby, but our mother loved the ocean. She couldn't swim, but enjoyed standing at the water's edge with a pole in her hand. It wasn't exactly what you'd call fishing, as she caught nothing and expressed neither hope nor disappointment in regard to her efforts. What she thought about while looking at the waves was a complete mystery, yet you could tell that these thoughts pleased her, and that she liked herself better while thinking them.
One year our father waited too late to make our reservations, and we were forced to take something on the sound. It wasn't a cottage but a run-down house, the sort of place where poor people lived. The yard was enclosed by a chain-link fence and the air was thick with the flies and mosquitoes normally blown away by the ocean breezes. Midway through the vacation a hideous woolly caterpillar fell from a tree and bit my sister Amy on the cheek. Her face swelled and discolored, and within an hour, were it not for her arms and legs, it would have been difficult to recognize her as a human. My mother drove her to the hospital, and when they returned she employed my sister as Exhibit A, pointing as if this were not her daughter but some ugly stranger forced to share our quarters. "This is what you get for waiting until the last minute," she said to our father. "No dunes, no waves, just this."
From that year on, our mother handled the reservations. We went to Emerald Isle for a week every September and were always oceanfront, a word that suggested a certain degree of entitlement. The oceanfront cottages were on stilts, which made them appear if not large, then at least imposing. Some were painted, some were sided, "Cape Cod style," with wooden shingles, and all of them had names, the cleverest being "Loafer's Paradise." The owners had cut their sign in the shape of two moccasins resting side by side. The shoes were realistically painted and the letters were bloated and listless, loitering like drunks against the soft faux leather.
"Now that's a sign," our father would say, and we would agree. There was The Skinny Dipper, Pelican's Perch, Lazy Daze, The Scotch Bonnet, Loony Dunes, the name of each house followed by the name and home town of the owner. "The Duncan Clan—Charlotte," "The Graftons—Rocky Mount," "Hal and Jean Starling of Pinehurst": signs that essentially said, "My home, well, one of my homes."
While at the beach, we sensed more than ever that our lives were governed by luck. When we had it—when it was sunny—my sisters and I felt as if we were somehow personally responsible. We were a fortunate family, and therefore everyone around us was allowed to swim and dig in the sand. When it rained, we were unlucky, and stayed indoors to search our souls. "It'll clear after lunch," our mother would say, and we would eat carefully, using the placemats that had brought us luck in the past. When that failed, we would move on to Plan B. "Oh, Mother, you work too hard," we'd say. "Let us do the dishes. Let us sweep sand off the floor." We spoke like children in a fairy tale, hoping our goodness might lure the sun from its hiding place. "You and Father have been so kind to us. Here, let us massage your shoulders."
If by late afternoon it still hadn't cleared, my sisters and I would drop the act and turn on one another, searching for the spoiler who had brought us this misfortune. Which of us seemed the least dissatisfied? Who had curled up on a mildewed bed with a book and a glass of chocolate milk, behaving as though the rain were not such a bad thing after all? We would find this person, most often my sister Gretchen, and then we would beat her.
The summer I was twelve, a tropical storm moved up the coast, leaving a sky the same mottled pewter as Gretchen's subsequent bruises, but the following year we started with luck. My father found a golf course that suited him, and for the first time in memory even he seemed to enjoy himself. Relaxing on the deck with a gin-and-tonic, surrounded by his toast-colored wife and children, he admitted that this really wasn't so bad. "I've been thinking, to hell with these rental cottages," he said. "What do you say we skip the middleman and just buy a place?"
He spoke in the same tone he used when promising ice cream. "Who's up for something sweet?" he'd ask, and we'd pile into the car, passing the Tastee- Freez and driving to the grocery store, where he'd buy a block of pus-colored ice milk reduced for quick sale. Experience had taught us not to trust him, but we wanted a beach house so badly it was impossible not to get caught up in the excitement. Even our mother fell for it.
"Do you really mean this?" she asked.
"Absolutely," he said.
The next day, they made an appointment with a real-estate agent in Morehead City. "We'll just be discussing the possibility," my mother said. "It's just a meeting, nothing more." We wanted to join them but they took only Paul, who was two years old and unfit to be left in our company. The morning meeting led to half a dozen viewings, and when they returned my mother's face was so impassive it seemed almost paralyzed. "It-was-fine," she said. "The-real-estate-agent-was-very-nice." We got the idea that she was under oath to keep something to herself, and the effort was causing her actual physical pain.
"It's all right," my father said. "You can tell them."
"Well, we saw this one place in particular," she told us. "Now, it's nothing to get worked up about, but . . . "
"But it's perfect," my father said. "A real beauty, just like your mother here." He came from behind and pinched her on the bottom. She laughed and swatted him with a towel and we witnessed what we would later come to recognize as the rejuvenating power of real estate. It's what fortunate couples turn to when their sex life has faded and they're too pious for affairs. A second car might bring people together for a week or two, but a second home can revitalize a marriage for up to nine months after the closing.
"Oh, Lou," my mother said. "What am I going to do with you?"
"Whatever you want, Baby," he said. "Whatever you want."
It was queer when people repeated their sentences, but we were willing to overlook it in exchange for a beach house. My mother was too excited to cook that night, and so we ate dinner at the Sanitary Fish Market, in Morehead City. On taking our seats I expected my father to mention inadequate insulation or corroded pipes, the dark undersides of home ownership, but instead he discussed only the positive aspects. "I don't see why we couldn't spend our Thanksgivings here. Hell, we could even come for Christmas. Hang a few lights, get some ornaments, what do you think?"
A waitress passed the table and, without saying please, I demanded another Coke. She went to fetch it and I settled back in my chair, drunk with the power of a second home. When school began my classmates would court me, hoping I might invite them for a weekend, and I would make a game of pitting them against one another. This was what a person did when people liked him for all the wrong reasons, and I would grow to be very good at it.
"What do you think, David?" my father asked. I hadn't heard the question but said that it sounded good to me. "I like it," I said. "I like it."
The following afternoon our parents took us to see the house. "Now, I don't want you to get your hopes up too high," my mother said, but it was too late for that. It was a fifteen-minute drive from one end of the island to the other, and along the way we proposed names for what we had come to think of as our cottage. I'd already given it a good deal of thought but waited a few minutes before offering my suggestion. "Are you ready?" I said. "Our sign will be the silhouette of a ship."
Nobody said anything.
"Get it?" I said. "The shape of a ship. Our house will be called The Ship Shape."
"Well, you'd have to write that on the sign," my father said. "Otherwise nobody will get it."
"But if you write out the words you'll ruin the joke."
"What about The Nut Hut?" Amy said.
"Hey," my father said. "Now, there's an idea." He laughed, not realizing, I guess, that there already was a Nut Hut. We'd passed it a thousand times.
"How about something with the word 'sandpiper' in it?" my mother said. "Everybody likes sandpipers, right?"
Normally I would have hated them for not recognizing my suggestion as the best, but this was clearly a special time and I didn't want to ruin it with brooding. Each of us wanted to be the one who came up with the name, and inspiration could be hiding anywhere. When the interior of the car had been exhausted of ideas, we looked out the windows and searched the passing landscape.
Two thin girls braced themselves before crossing the busy road, hopping from foot to foot on the scalding pavement. "The Tar Heel," Lisa called out. "No, The Wait 'n' Sea. Get it? S-E-A."
A car trailing a motorboat pulled up to a gas pump. "The Shell Station!" Gretchen shouted.
Everything we saw was offered as a possible name, and the resulting list of nominees confirmed that, once you left the shoreline, Emerald Isle was sorely lacking in natural beauty. "The TV Antenna," my sister Tiffany said. "The Telephone Pole." "The Toothless Black Man Selling Shrimp from the Back of His Van."
"The Cement Mixer." "The Overturned Grocery Cart." "Gulls on a Garbage Can." My mother inspired "The Cigarette Butt Thrown Out the Window" and suggested we look for ideas on the beach rather than on the highway. "I mean, my God, how depressing can you get?" She acted annoyed, but we could tell she was really enjoying it. "Give me something that suits us," she said. "Give me something that will last."
What would ultimately last were these fifteen minutes on the coastal highway, but we didn't know that then. When older, even the crankiest of us would accept them as proof that we were once a happy family: our mother young and healthy, our father the man who could snap his fingers and give us everything we wanted, the whole lot of us competing to name our good fortune.
The house was, as our parents had promised, perfect. This was an older cottage with pine-panelled walls that gave each room the thoughtful quality of a den. Light fell in strips from the louvred shutters and the furniture, which was included in the sale, reflected the tastes of a distinguished sea captain. Once we'd claimed bedrooms and laid awake all night, mentally rearranging the furniture, it would be our father who'd say, "Now hold on a minute, it's not ours yet." By the next afternoon, he had decided that the golf course wasn't so great after all. Then it rained for two straight days, and he announced that it might be wiser to buy some land, wait a few years, and think about building a place of our own. "I mean, let's be practical." Our mother put on her raincoat. She tied a plastic bag over her head and stood at the water's edge, and for the first time in our lives we knew exactly what she was thinking.
By our final day of vacation our father had decided that instead of building a place on Emerald Isle we should improve the home we already had. "Maybe add a pool," he said. "What do you kids think about that?" Nobody answered.
By the time he finished wheedling it down, the house at the beach had become a bar in the basement. It looked just like a real bar, with tall stools and nooks for wine. There was a sink for washing glasses and an assortment of cartoon napkins illustrating the lighter side of alcoholism. For a week or two my sisters and I tottered at the counter, pretending to be drunks, but then the novelty wore off and we forgot all about it.
On subsequent vacations, both with and without our parents, we would drive by the cottage we had once thought of as our own. Each of us referred to it by a different name, and over time qualifiers became necessary. ("You know, our house.") The summer after we didn't buy it, the new owners, or "those people," as we liked to call them, painted The Ship Shape yellow. In the late seventies, Amy noted that The Nut Hut had extended the carport and paved the driveway. Lisa was relieved when the Wait 'n' Sea returned to its original color and Tiffany was incensed when The Toothless Black Man Selling Shrimp from the Back of His Van sported a sign endorsing Jesse Helms in the 1984 senatorial campaign. Five years later my mother called to report that The Sandpiper had been badly damaged by Hurricane Hugo. "It's still there," she said, "but barely." Shortly thereafter, according to Gretchen, The Shell Station was torn down and sold as a vacant lot.
I know that such a story does not quite work to inspire sympathy. ("My home, well, one of my homes fell through.") We had no legitimate claim to self-pity, were ineligible even to hold a grudge, but that didn't stop us from complaining.
In the coming years, our father would continue to promise what he couldn't deliver, and in time we grew to think of him as an actor auditioning for the role of a benevolent millionaire. He'd never get the part but liked the way that the words felt in his mouth. "What do you say to a new car?" he'd ask. "Who's up for a cruise to the Greek isles?" In response he expected us to play the part of an enthusiastic family, but we were unwilling to resume our old roles. As if carried by a tide, our mother drifted further and further away, first to twin beds and then down the hall to a room decorated with seascapes and baskets of sun-bleached sand dollars. It would have been nice, a place at the beach, but we already had a home. A home with a bar. Besides, had things worked out you wouldn't have been happy for us. We're not that kind of people. ♦


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Shoptalk/Commentary: As Media Companies Evolve, So Too Should Their Workplace
By: Stuart Harris
While today's newspaper operations have evolved into multifaceted media companies with an ever-growing digital presence, many workplaces remain mired in settings more suited for bulky desks and typewriters.
When the print edition was the only product newspapers offered, workplace design wasn't a top priority. Every reporter and editor had a desk, sometimes on different floors, while the publisher and other executives were tucked away in private, secluded offices, and back-office functions were set up everywhere in between.
The workflow? Well, it "just happened."
Today, many media companies are fighting for survival by seeking new ways to reinvent themselves and remain relevant. Newspapers are now multimedia companies, and the print edition is just one outlet. This more dynamic business model needs a more dynamic environment. The values of teamwork and collaboration, proven to increase efficiency and attract top talent, are gaining traction as media companies evaluate how the workplace can help them succeed as a digital media business.
Consider new workplace settings found in non-media environments. Gone are the days of isolating people and their intellectual capital in private offices. Instead, leading businesses have come to realize the value of getting people out of their office and organized in a collaborative environment where they have greater access to information and an easier path to share knowledge, develop solutions, and respond to time-sensitive matters. These environments integrate technology and multimedia tools to enhance the work process and collaboration.
Essential to establishing a collaborative setting is the concept of magnetism — using the embodied energy of the workplace to draw people together and amplify the work product.
A magnet can be a refreshment center or coffee bar, a casual work setting or team space, a touchdown area, or a community zone. But there are also some less obvious forms of magnets. An area equipped with specialized technology can serve as a magnet, and even someone with a specific expertise or deep knowledge base can magnetize people to a single place. The key is understanding where the energy is, where the work happens, and where people naturally come together to exchange thoughts and ideas.
Take for example a media company located in the Midwest that, after decades, is moving to a new headquarters designed for a mobile, digital workforce with a variety of work settings for individual and collaborative work. Designed by Planning Design Research, the new workplace will create a team environment that helps the work flow from one team or individual to the next.
Collaborative space where reporters can come together will be placed in the middle of the newsroom, surrounded by rings of space for more focused work where reporters can isolate themselves while still being part of the newsroom activity. At the nucleus, an information control center with a large meeting table will reside in the open, surrounded by newsroom staff and enhanced with data display technology to provide workers with updates on assignments, deadlines, and feeds to other news sources.
Hoteling and hot-desking, the practices of providing space to employees on an as-needed basis rather than assigning a single desk to each individual, will be utilized by staff members who spend more time in the field than the newsroom. These seats are embedded in the newsroom so when mobile workers are present, they are fully integrated into the team and workflow.
The newsroom will also be designed to accommodate press conferences and visits by dignitaries such as presidential candidates and other high-level spokespeople. The improved look and feel will offer a cleaner, more sophisticated setting for videos produced for television and the Web.
At this particular media company, the entire workforce will now be located on one single floor, fully connected rather than split across a dozen small and segregated levels. Coffee stations, community spaces, and other magnets will be used to bring people together from different groups in a way that fosters collaboration, cross-talk between departments, and greater appreciation for one another's contributions. Even the publisher's office will be located in a highly visible place adjacent to the newsroom, thereby reinforcing the publisher's goal to be more connected to the workforce.
The media industry is changing and so too must the workplace that houses its work. A media company can have a dynamic, high-performance workplace, provided that management is dedicated to a new way of thinking about the way work gets done.
Stuart Harris, email@example.com, is a principal with PDR (pdrcorp.com), a workplace design firm that creates high-performance work environments for organizations of all sizes.

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The St. Cloud River Runners host a Saturday morning breakfast run every week are varying locations in the St. Cloud area.
The group meets at 8am on location with runners at just about every distance and pace you could ever want. This group is the nicest group of people you will ever meet. Please be there 10 mins to 8am to be in the group picture. Also there is typically groups that go out at 6:00am/6:30am or 7am for longer distances. If you want to look for a particular group for pace, time or distance please comment on this event or join the River runners Facebook Group to comment there.
After the run there always is breakfast and coffee for those who want it.
This Saturday Run is a special one as it is being hosted by one of our members Kim Kasper. This is also a pot luck style breakfast so please bring a snack if you can. There will be coffee provided and plenty of good food.
If you need address information on how to get to Kim's house please contact her.


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Coast Guard Academy offers New London students college football right down the street
On a lovely autumn Saturday orchestrated, perhaps, by Robert Frost, a lot of New London kids experienced the pageantry of college football for the first time.
As part of the first "Celebrate New London," a collaborative effort between the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the City of New London, free tickets for the game between the Coast Guard Bears and the Western New England Golden Bears were made available to city public school students and their families.
More than 400 took advantage of the offer, a figure that pleased Tammy Daugherty, New London's director of the Office of Development and Planning. "We've had a tremendous response," she said. "It's important to find ways to expose kids to the Coast Guard and have an authentic experience here, and a football game is a great way to do that. We're hoping that New London starts to think of the Coast Guard team as their team."
Five New London students were also selected to serve as honorary captains alongside the player representatives in the pre-game coin toss ceremony.
They were Myastar Fletcher, a fifth-grader at Jennings; Izellah Radicioni, a fifth-grader at Nathan Hale; Elijah Rogue, a fifth-grader at Winthrop; Nashon Fletcher, an eighth-grader at Bennie Dover Jackson; and Elijah Parker, also an eighth-grader at Bennie Dover. Parker and Fletcher also served the whole game as "kick-off kids" — the personnel who run out on the field and remove the tee after kickoffs.
"I've been doing well in school for three years and they picked me to do this," Nashon Fletcher said. "We've always driven by and you could see the field. It's cool to get to actually be down there."
Myastar Fletcher (no relation) said she was happy and proud to have been selected a captain. Her mother, Aja Barcomb, said, "This is wonderful for her, and nice for all of us. I drive by the Coast Guard every day and didn't even know they had a football team. This is fun and different. We're definitely fans now, which is great because we didn't even know you could do this."
That's a big part of the idea.
In a formal capacity, there's always been a warm relationship between the city and the academy. At the same time, in part because of the layout of the city and because of a perception by citizenry that the academy is a sort of official, standalone facility, there's been a bit of a disconnect between the two entities on a personal level.
Tim Fitzpatrick, the athletic director at the academy, said the game ticket giveaway was just one of several ideas that grew out of a conversation he had with New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio when the two of them sat next to each other at last spring's Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremonies.
"We were talking about ways for the academy to engage the community outside the gates," Fitzpatrick said. "As we talked, we were both amazed at the number of people we knew that had never been on the installation. We have vibrant sports and arts programs, and we want the city and its constituents to know they're welcome here. Our motto here is to be nationally prominent and locally relevant, and we mean that."
Over a series of weekly meetings between the city and the academy, the idea of a game ticket giveaway gained traction. Not only was Saturday's game approved, but an additional football game event will take place in 2014.
New London City Councilor Adam Sprecace attended the game with his daughter Samantha, a freshman at St. Joseph School in New London.
"We wanted to support the effort," Sprecace said. "I'd started riding my bicycle here on the grounds a few years ago, just to see if it was as accessible as they say it is. And it is. They're very welcoming here and I think people would enjoy it and take advantage of the opportunity if they knew about it."
"We're going to continue to find ways to expose kids to the Coast Guard experience," Daugherty said. "If they grow up feeling proud of the Coast Guard, and that their town has a relationship with the Coast Guard, that's excellent. Maybe it becomes a career possibility or an educational opportunity."
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The church and its 1,000 members led by Bishop Benjamin Watts are engaged in spiritual healing, education, community work and other services.
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NPU has earned a Smart Energy Provider designation for demonstrating commitment to and proficiency in energy efficiency.
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A water main breaks a block from your corporate headquarters and begins flooding basements throughout the area. A distribution center you operate in the lower Midwest stands in the way of a quickly evolving tornado. An earthquake in Japan threatens to upend not only your operations there but throughout your corporate enterprise. An airline strike forces you to gather staff to discuss sending shipments from your plants through trucks and rails rather than air freight.
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For my current project involving Ical / vcs data I need to create a VTIMEZONE object which is text based data structure containing timezone information expressed as set of rules.
I'm finding hard to locate an API based way to determine the current timezone and rule in place.
Ideally I need the timezone in the IANA style format "Europe/London" etc etc
timezone.library does allow you to determine some info, but not everything.
I can get the *short* timezone name ie GMT / DST , EST / EDT etc (and I need that too) but not the long form.
The daylight savings info you retrieve from timezone.library is in the form of a number seconds since 1978 no rue information can be determined from that even by reverse engineering....
A DST "rule" is typically of the form "2nd sunday in April" "last sunday in October" etc etc.
Timezone data is available in Locale:Timezone in xml format but to make use of that I need to know the timezone country and rule names.
I would expect when setup via locale it might be in the struct Locale but it doesn't appear to be there, and when set via TimeZone there is no API I can see to access that info.
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lumelix wrote:Hi Niall
In this forums there are really a lot of threads about the masking tool and how to patch the Nadir hole.
And since we have a new graphical interface for some months in the forums some of the images in older posts will no longer be visible.
Did you mean this one:
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breast-feeding, a yeast infection (called
thrush when it occurs in the mouth) can be passed back
and forth between the mother's breasts and the infant's mouth. The nipple of an
infected breast becomes red or very pink and sore. If the infection extends
into the milk ducts, it may cause pain throughout the breast and a sharp,
burning pain in the breast while breast-feeding or between feedings.
An infant can be infected with yeast during delivery if the mother
has a vaginal yeast infection, or the infection may develop later. The infant
may then pass the infection to the mother during breast-feeding. Yeast
infections of the breast may also occur when the mother is taking or has
recently taken antibiotics. Cuts, scrapes, and other injuries to the nipple
increase the risk of a yeast infection.
Thrush appears as white patches in the infant's mouth and a rash in
the diaper area (one type of diaper rash).
Both the mother and infant must be treated for a yeast infection to
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"We declare our right on this Earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this Earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary."
— Malcolm X, 1965
Today I am reflecting on the meaning of "by any means necessary."
Yesterday was Malcolm X's birthday, and I think of his voice saying those words. At the time he said it, I believe he meant it as it is commonly understood: That black people must be prepared to take up arms, if that is necessary, to defend our communities and liberate ourselves from the weight of white supremacy.
For me, the meaning has evolved as I experience more and more of this world and its layers of oppression. There are a plethora of internal and external dangers to the soul; it is so hard to keep your integrity intact—especially if you long for change—if the current world disappoints you or makes you furious.
I feel like it has become easy for us to occupy our rage without moving into action. It has become easy for us to get angry and self-righteous without really asking what is needed in that moment.
What if what's needed isn't sexy, intimidating or violent? What if what is needed is forgiveness? The kind of forgiveness that seems unimaginable, miraculous, holy, unattainable—like forgiving those who hurt you and hate you—like building relationships with those who kill your children? What if what is necessary is trusting people beyond their mistakes and shortcomings, trusting their best intentions? Are we strong enough to default to trust at a community level?
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What if what is necessary is learning to see family where you have seen enemies? What if what is necessary is not strategy, not plans, not dollars—just unconditional love? Are we able to be that militant? I want to be militant enough to admit I am changing and growing and don't know the answers.
My sister is about to have her second child, which has me contemplating and researching birth and labor again. After the shooting of 7-year old Aiyana Stanley Jones by Detroit police last week, I was thinking of how quickly you can violently kill someone, versus how long it takes to create and birth someone. I find a small but awe-inspiring hope in the realization that giving life and love is harder work than taking it. Giving life and love and forgiveness and creating family—those are the behaviors to engage in to step into the miraculous.
As we strive to free ourselves, to uplift ourselves, to transform ourselves and our communities, let us consider what "by any means necessary" looks like in practice for us now—especially if the outcome is unknown, immeasurable, and unconditional; even if the means, at this moment, is militant love.
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Quote from Confederate Veteran magazine, Nashville, TN, January 1898, in reference to the list of the Confederate prisoners of war buried in Ohio.
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A graduate from the Knoxville High School Class of 1990 began running in a 200-mile trek around Knoxville Wednesday at 7 p.m. – and he hasn't stopped. Bryan Schlotterback tells KNIA/KRLS News he is going the distance to raise money for Ken Locke Stadium in the "One Man, 200 Miles, Two Days" event. A large crowd gathered at Ken Locke Stadium Wednesday to wish Bryan good-luck and say thank you.
Last year, Schlotterback ran over 100 miles in 24 hours to raise money for the stadium. He says the positive community response and support from friends and family inspired him to run again this year. His run is expected to finish Friday night.
In the photos below, 10 year old Quinlan Robuck shows her support for Bryan at her grandmother's house on North 7th street (thanks to Candy Jerkins).
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Looking at PC Gaming Requirements for Your Home Network
PC gaming for home networks is considered to be on the cutting edge among gaming enthusiasts. Some important PC gaming requirements consist of hardware components such as the video card, processor and memory, sound, and game controllers. Although you can get started with PC gaming on any PC (or Mac), if you're a hardcore gamer, you're going to need more bells and whistles.
If you've got a specific game in mind, look on the box (or the game developer's Web site) for minimum requirements. Every manufacturer will list a set of minimum requirements and most will also provide an optimum configuration for best performance.
Video cards for PC gaming
PC games use the most powerful high-resolution graphics technology available, which is why they are so appealing to gaming enthusiasts. But to experience those incredible graphics, you'll need an equally powerful high-resolution video card. The video card in your PC affects the overall quality of your gaming experience: what games you can play, how they look, and how well they run.
Generally speaking there are two types of video graphics cards:
Integrated graphics: These are video cards that are built into the motherboard of a computer (most often in a notebook computers, but also in less expensive desktop computers) and use a portion of the computer's main RAM (random access memory) for video processing. These cards are typically less powerful and less suited for hardcore gaming. If your computer has integrated graphics, there's likely no way to upgrade it.
Discrete graphics: These are separate cards, connected to the PC's motherboard via the PCI Express or other bus, with their own video RAM or memory. You'll know you have this if your PC's specs say something like NVIDIA GeForce or ATI Radeon.
In most desktop computers (those with discrete graphics), it's possible to upgrade your video card when your gaming requirements require you to do so or when newer, bigger, and better cards become available. In laptop computers, this typically isn't possible.
There are hundreds of video cards available on the market, with manufacturers continuously bringing out new models and new variants of existing models. In general, you should look for features such as:
Lots of memory: For casual gaming, at least 256MB (512MB is better); for hardcore gaming, look for at least a gigabyte of memory.
DirectX support: DirectX is Microsoft's graphics technology for Windows. DirectX 11 is the latest version, and you should look for a card that supports this version if your games require it.
Clock speeds: You can find measurements of the memory bus, the core bus speed of the card, and the shader (the CPU within the graphics card). In these cases, a bigger number means a faster card, compared to a similar card with lower numbers.
In the end, even if you know all of the stats, it's hard to really compare video cards just by the numbers. Your best bet is to look on the Web, on sites like Tom's Hardware, and look for actual tests of the cards on games you're interested in playing.
Processor and memory for PC gaming
A fast processor and lots of memory is important for more than just gaming. The processor and memory affects the overall speed and performance of your PC. Most newer PCs now have multiple-core processors and at least 2 gigabytes (GB) of memory. (4GB is increasingly becoming the minimum and 8 or more GB of memory is probably a good range.)
Processors are usually not the bottleneck in PC game performance. You'll typically get a bigger performance lift by investing in a better video card or more memory rather than a faster processor.
If you want to do some serious gaming, you should consider a PC with one of Intel or AMD's latest CPUs. In the case of Intel, this means a processor from the Core family (Core i3, i5, and i7); for AMD, this means a processor from the Phenom and Phenom II product lines. For more casual gaming, Intel's older Core 2 Duo or AMD's Athlon processors are more than suitable.
Sound for PC gaming
Of course, having awesome graphics is only part of the complete PC gaming experience. You can't play realistic explosions and DVD-quality soundtracks through a PC speaker! You'll need to invest in a good multimedia sound card and some surround-sound speakers to get the most out of your gaming PC.
For most folks, the sound cards built into any PC is good enough for gaming purposes, but if you're interested in hooking your gaming PC into a surround-sound system, you might wish to choose a PC (or upgrade an existing one) with a gaming-specific card that plugs into the PC's PCI Express bus. You can find such cards from manufacturers such as Creative Labs or ASUS for $50 to $100.
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Most PC games can be played with a mouse and keyboard, but who wants to drive a Ferrari or fly a stealth fighter using the up-, down-, left- and right-arrow keys? There are lots of cool joysticks, steering wheels, and other gadgets that you can connect to your PC to provide a more complete gaming experience. Most gaming controllers connect to your PC via a USB cable, but you can also find Bluetooth wireless controllers.
Often times, PC games are configured to work with both a standard keyboard and mouse combination and with some sort of controller. Luckily, most controllers work with Microsoft's Windows Human Interface Device specifications, which the games themselves also utilize. In most cases, you simply need to connect your controller to your PC, install any drivers that came with it, and then configure the settings within your game to let it know you're using a controller.
Check out CBS Interactive's GameSpot and IGN Entertainment's GameSpy for expert opinions and advice about the best PC gaming hardware.
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Established in 1967 as a not-for-profit corporation, the Herkimer County College Foundation, Inc. helps the College secure resources that allow us to continually enhance the quality of our offerings and provide life-changing opportunities for students. By supporting the Herkimer County College Foundation, our donors enable us to award more scholarships, address the College's most important priorities, and transform the futures of individual students and the College as a whole.
The Herkimer County College Foundation has developed and supports over 80 scholarships and scholarship programs that award more than $130,000 annually to eligible students. Grants are also awarded each year to faculty and staff for ongoing professional development and independent research.
Providing steadfast assistance to Herkimer College in initiatives to obtain private funds, the Herkimer County College Foundation has been instrumental in the acquisition of land for future campus expansion and the development of student housing adjacent to the campus. The Herkimer County College Foundation supports capital projects, invests in College programs, instructional technology, and holds multiple recognition and fundraising events.
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Meet the All-Star Stocks of the Dow Rally
Four blue-chip stocks--IBM, Caterpillar, 3M and Chevron--have accounted for nearly one-third of the rally in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since the financial crisis. Steven Russolillo reports on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
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Google Patches 14 'High-risk' Bugs in Chrome, Awards Record Bug Bounty
Google patched 14 high-risk bugs in Chrome on Sunday, doling out a record $47,500 in bug bounties.
Ten of the bugs were tagged "use-after-free" memory corruption vulnerabilities, which would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code if the user clicked on a malicious URL. Most of the bugs were detected with Google's own memory error detector, AddressSanitizer.
The release also bundles an updated Adobe Flash Player that plugs two holes in Adobe Matrix3D; Adobe issued the same patches a day later. This isn't the first time Google beat Adobe to plug Flash.
Non-security fixes include problems loading cursors and backgrounds, plugins not loading, text pasting, and websites written for touch-screen devices.
Google awarded three researchers a whopping $10,000 each for "sustained, extraordinary contributions" over time. Individual bug reports usually receive no more than a few thousand dollars.
"We have always reserved the right to arbitrarily reward sustained, extraordinary contributions. In this instance, we're dropping a surprise bonus. We reserve the right to do so again and reserve the right to do so on a more regular basis! Chrome has a leading reputation for security and it wouldn't be possible without the aggressive bug hunting of the wider community," said Jason Kersey of Chrome in a blog post.
Last week Google announced that it was withdrawing its usual grand prize sponsorship of the Pwn2Own hacking competition taking place this week, and will dole out $1 million to researchers for reporting Chrome exploits directly.
"We decided to withdraw our sponsorship when we discovered that contestants are permitted to enter Pwn2Own without having to reveal full exploits, or even all of the bugs used, to vendors," Google wrote in a blog post. "Full exploits have been handed over in previous years, but it's an explicit non-requirement in this year's contest, and that's worrisome."
You can download the secured new version, 17.0.963.65 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame directly, or wait for Google's over-the-air update.


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Roughly 140 people killed in Syria yesterday. Nearly 2,000 civilians have been killed in June, alone.
Parts of the Bosque are closed due to high fire risk.
Police say man who drove his car through Kit Carson Park at 4 a.m. was quite drunk.
Atlanta police murder a 92-year-old woman and ask a C.I. to cover for them.
Supreme Court's health care ruling in minute-to-minute detail.
Video of San Juan inmate attacking prison guard with a toilet-bowl-cleaner shank.
Reflecting on Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
NBA Draft results prompt examination of infamous Draft-day attire.
California is banning foie gras, kind of like Chicago did several years back and then overturned.
No word on whether Oliver Twist is one of the spooky eyed children in this gallery of 1870s juvenile mug shots. Still, none of them are as sinister-looking as this kid.
Shanghai's misogynistic public trans system.
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If you're one of the few who wanted an Xbox 360 Elite more for the color than for the HDMI or the 120GB hard drive, then you're in luck. For around $99, you can get your own black (or blue or green or red or orange or whatever color you want) Xbox 360 that, in our opinion, looks even better than Microsoft's matte paint job.
As you can see from the gallery, not only can you have Colorware color your console, but they'll even paint the controllers as well. You have to ship them your console for the process—unless of course you buy an entirely new one—but it's sure to come back looking better than ever. Then, if you really want a 120GB hard drive, you can go ahead and install your own hard drive and save $100. As for HDMI, there's supposedly a faux HDMI cable due out for non-Elite Xbox 360s soon. No 1080p, but you do get to use HDMI.
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Don't call it "Zudeo"—the real, final, actual name of the new Azureus hi-def BitTorrent service is "Vuze." This is apparently a hipster spelling of "views," which is what Vuze hopes users will do with the new service. The company is counting on voracious consumer demand for high-definition content, and they don't believe that current streaming technology is good enough to deliver reliable HD video in real-time.
Vuze requires the use of a modified Azureus application that downloads the clips in question using BitTorrent but also processes payments for protected content and searches for new content. Since launching the service as a beta late last year, Azureus has managed to reel in more than 2 million unique users a month, according to the company.
Those users come to find HD content from major networks and indie producers alike. While Vuze touts its openness to independent filmmakers, the service has also built up a nice network of established content partners. The BBC, Showtime, A&E, the History Channel, and National Geographic all have deals in place with Vuze to offer their content, but much of this is currently in standard definition only. For a site touting its HD video, it's unfortunate that so many of the big-name episodes are only DVD quality.
Depending on the content, clips can be purchased or rented. BBC TV shows appear to run $0.99 an episode, but prices vary by producer. Showtime, for instance, gives away single episodes of its drama in an effort to attract viewers.
Despite the name change and the addition of new navigation and search tools, the service remains in beta.


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Rome -- The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) held a follow-up meeting today to its 25 July Emergency Ministerial meeting examining the humanitarian crisis in East Africa. It focused on shortfalls in funding, immediate needs and longer term solutions.
In response to the meeting, the International Director of the international aid agency Oxfam Great Britain, Penny Lawrence, who is in Rome said:
"It is encouraging that we've seen a strong consensus today on how to tackle the root causes of the dire food crisis affecting nearly 12.5 million people in East Africa. However, goodwill is not enough to save people's lives. We've known for some time that this tragedy was preventable, and the time for talk is over.
"Difficulties with faltering food reserves and getting that food to those who need it most are alarming, and it signals that food aid is only one part of the solution. There's an immediate need for innovative cash assistance programmes to stimulate markets and secure people's livelihoods. In particular, resources should be focused on bolstering small-scale farmers and pastoralists – especially women, who produce the majority of the food for families and communities.
"This week some rich countries and donors that were lagging behind have stepped up and pledged more funds. That money is urgently needed to put solutions that work into action in order to prevent further suffering and loss of life. Yet, there's a gaping hole of nearly $1 billion in funding for the emergency response not to mention for the longer road to recovery that will require sustained international investment
"The clock is ticking for East Africa and the African Union governments who are meeting next week must show their determination to make this Africa's last famine."
Notes to Editors:
Oxfam is appealing for $90 million in order to reach 3 million people with clean water, food and basic sanitation. So are we have raised $68 million and we are already helping 1 million people with aid: cash to buy food, drilling boreholes, cleaning and rehabilitating existing water supply points, and providing safe sanitation and health promotion.
Oxfam is providing both emergency aid to save lives now, and long term development to help communities in increasingly drought-prone regions cope. We are also appealing to governments and others to do more.
Oxfam's humanitarian response in the East Africa food crisis
Contact information
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Luca Chinotti
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In Rome:
Luca Chinotti
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Abe Martin's wisecracks (1930)
Kin Hubbard
by Kin Hubbard ; selected by E. V. Lucas
Frank McKinney Hubbard (born 1 September 1868 in Bellefontaine, Ohio - died: 26 December 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist better known by his pen name "Kin" Hubbard.He was creator of the cartoon "Abe Martin of Brown County" which ran in U.S. newspapers from 1904 until his death in 1930, and was the originator of many political quips that remain in use. North American humorist Will Rogers reportedly declared Hubbard to be "America's greatest humorist."The American playwright, screenwriter and journalist Lawrence Riley wrote the biographical play Kin Hubbard (1949) in his memory. It starred Tom Ewell and June Lockhart.
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Luis Camnitzer:
Introduction by Jane Farver
Wonderbread and Spanglish Art
In its short life, the U.S. has both adopted and developed a great variety
of cultural paradigms and myths that give cohesion to its national identity.
These constructs, by no means always a product of a conscious strategy,
overshadow and help to reduce the diversities in population identity,
a diversity which normally would tend to undermine a sense of unity. Some
of the ideas are notorious and past their prime, like the "American dream"
and the "melting pot". Some take their place in economics, like the "trickle
down" theory. Sometimes a little military action furthers the cause, like
the invasion of Grenada which was approved by 63% of the polled population.
"Wonder Bread" is one of these paradigms which operates on a cultural
level. It is a product sold and consumed as bread. Additives and advertising
provide its nutritional value without affecting any of the product's inherent
qualities. Over the years, the confluence of economic dynamics and culturally
conditioned taste buds has led to the establishment of "Wonder Bread"
as a benchmark for other products. Any effort by these other products
to resemble real bread is not so much seen as closing a gap but as an
act of refinement and sophistication. The products become variations of
what can be called "gourmet" Wonder Bread. Given the fact that even cultures
which have perfected real bread over millennia are slowly adopting the
same range of products, what normally would be no more than an example
of anthropological curiosity becomes also a paradigm for intercultural
relations. As an example of how values are shifted, the use of "Wonder
Bread" as a reference illustrates the flow of pressure between the hegemonic
center and the periphery.
The increasing pervasiveness of "Wonder Bread" outside of the U.S. is
directly explained by it satisfying expediency and economy and, less directly,
by the aura of status owned by those things imported from the hegemonic
culture. While direct pressure allows for a conscious decision about why
one should sacrifice one's taste buds, it is the indirect pressure which
subverts and eventually substitutes taste, creating a new canon. "Wonder
Bread" has become a symbol of modernity. Modernity has traditionally been
associated with progress and, therefore, seen as a necessary tool for
decolonization and independence. It is ironic that in this process values
are subverted to a point that, in fact, a new colonization takes place.
The reason to expand on this here is because, even if fraught with more
complex issues, the same process applies to art.
The pressure to shift values in art is buttressed by the still underlying
commonplace assumption that art historical processes are linear and develop
progressively in the search for quality. It follows that art which fills
the media with the latest news and achieves pervasiveness, becomes ipso
facto the canon. The desirability of the canon is internalized, and
following it comes to appear as a spontaneous, instinctive, indigenous
and authentic activity, when, in fact, it is the product of an artificially
created need. Taste acts as an acquired instinct. As an instinct, it bypasses
rational thought. As an acquisition it is controlled like any other merchandise
by, among others, values related to class status and property desires.
In a colonially dependent situation the controls operate from the cultural
and economic centers and shape these artificially created needs.
As with any colonizing process, the cultural pressure from the hegemonic
center creates problems for those living and working on the periphery.
A process of slow and organic development of cultural identities has been
interrupted by the adoption of imports well beyond what would be a normal
product of international contact and exchange.1
It is estimated that in Brazil, U.S. companies and their affiliates spend
in advertising the equivalent of one third of the government's budget
for education.2 UNESCO estimates that
between 50% and 70% of what is considered basic culture in the West comes
from radio, television and film. In Latin America, the U.S. controls 75%
of the TV programs, 65% of advertising, 55% of movie houses, 60% of records
and cassettes, 65% of the news and 35% of the publishing.3
One of the consequences is that a focus on art- making for one's community
has given way to the notion of art-making for the international market,
and in this process a new and alien concept of quality has had to be adopted.
Quality is not defined anymore by the degrees of revelation and mastery
of communication for and with one's people, but by how much leverage the
products achieve in the context of an external, often unknown, public.
Thus, the heroic scale and the aesthetic of spectacular superproduction
developed in societies of wealth become the standard against which the
artist of poverty is measured. Handicrafts connected with non-industrial
or obsolete industrial traditions become a tool to stereotype this artist
in his or her separation from the mainstream.
Western art since the Renaissance has developed an increasingly accelerated
dynamic of establishing "colonial techniques" or "minor art forms" within
the media covered by art history. Printmaking, for example, has become
a colony of painting. Instead of contributing original imagery, printmaking
primarily serves to translate and rehash imagery developed in painting.
The division between "super-spectacle" art and "modestly handcrafted"
art seems to be a political refinement of this dynamic since it helps
to secure the place of the rich hegemonic centers by slowly restricting
the definition of art to those products generated by them. This restricted
definition eliminates any possibility of qualitative comparison between
art from the center and art from the periphery. Whatever doesn't reflect
a minimum investment of money won't qualify as serious art. It also ignores
ethical and political substrata often informing art on the periphery as
consequence of the struggle for decolonization. From a hegemonic and formalist
point of view, much of art on the periphery will be perceived as a form
of a low-budget craft.4
The periphery, when not resorting to an isolationist use of tradition, produces hybrid art, the product of being in one place and looking toward another place. Manfred Schneckenburger, organizer of the latest Documenta exhibit, summed up the consequences of this state of affairs in an unfriendly but cogent way. In an effort to justify the fact that only one Latin American artist (Alfredo Jaar, from Chile) was included in what purported to be an overview of the best art in the market of the last five years, he declared that "it is not possible to show the situation of countries where art is always trapped between a great tradition lost and a wish for contact with the modern world."6
Given the different pressures the artist on the periphery is faced with several choices. The artist can: actively disregard the colonizing values and focus on the local audience; produce for the international market in spite of the handicap; or emigrate to the cultural center.
In the first case, even when focusing on the local audience, the artist
will tend to produce in reaction to colonization. A direct link to the
past is broken, interrupted or deflected by the presence of a filter that
factors in the values promoted by imperial culture. As Albert Memmi observes
in his "Portrait of the Colonized", a loss of history takes place with
the effect that "the colonized are kept out of the objective conditions
of contemporary nationality". Gramsci was reflecting on the same condition
when he noted that "remembering takes the place of thinking" in the production
of culture. Identity, under these conditions, easily becomes confused
with an artificial folklore. Fossil memories, bleached and dry, usurp
reality. Much of indigenist art, from Sabogal in Peru to Rivera in Mexico,
had this problem imbedded in the content of the work. A present generation
of artists is contributing a more formal and sophisticated approach; Cesar
Paternosto and Alejandro Puente, both from Argentina, and Esther Vainstein
(Peru) connect pre-Columbian traditions with modern constructivism and
In the second case, in which the local artist focuses on the international market, the tendency is to produce makeshift works, intended to achieve the look of the international standard but affected by the material constraints that prevail locally. Equipped with craftsmanship, but confronted with scarcity of materials and resources, artists will try to compete with the "heroic" scale and the industrial finish of art produced in the cultural centers and will seek to disguise material shortfalls with affectation. Work under these conditions runs the risk of halflheartedness.
It is in the third case, in which the artist migrates to the cultural
center, that there is, in theory, the greatest chance for success in the
mainstream. Until the mid-fifties, that cultural center was provided by
Europe, but then slowly shifted to the U.S.A. It is estimated that from
1945 to 1965 alone, at least 17,000 researchers and high level technicians
emigrated from Latin America to the U.S.A. During 1986, 25% of Ph.D.s
awarded in the sciences went to non-U.S.. citizens, and according to a
report published by the National Research Council in January 1988, in
engineering Ph.D.s the figure reached 60%. In turn, 60% of this figure
do not return to their countries of origin. Out of the 500,000 people
who left Puerto Rico during 1980-85, 14% were professionals. Unfortunately
there are no figures specific to this brain drain in art. Enormous amounts
of money invested in the education of highly qualified personnel in Latin
America have thus ended up, in effect, donated to the U.S.A., where migration
on those levels was motivated primarily by economic considerations.8
Political exile was the other major reason for resettlement during recent
decades. A high percentage of these exiles, intellectuals fleeing dictatorships
from the right, went to Europe and Australia, which provided a friendlier
atmosphere for their dissenting ideologies than the U.S.A.
Some artists will attempt to erase the roots entirely, with the objective
of blending completely into the new environment. This is an enterprise
comparable to that of trying to speak a new language like a native. Wh.
While not an impossible goal, it is clearly more difficult than for the
aborigines with whom one is trying to merge.
Other artists, shocked by the new environment, will retreat toward their
original culture with redoubled efforts, seeking protection. They will
share the plight of those who remained at home addressing the local audience.
But their problems will be even more severe; in their case, the audience
addressed is absent and feedback from them is non-existent or, at best,
sporadic. The audience becomes an abstraction, frozen in a past that is
fogged by nostalgia and wishful mystification. The artist becomes doubly
alienated, trapped in a fiction that looks real.9
But some artists may try to strike a balance between the cultures of
the center and the periphery and confront their reality without the recourse
of escape. Avoiding denial of either the present or the past, they will
attempt to produce a synthesis of experiences. They will produce what
might be called "Spanglish" art.10 Used
in relation to speech, the term has negative connotations, implying the
absence of a functional tool, and its substitution by a non-working hybrid
of two languages. It is the confluence of a language incompletely remembered
with a language incompletely acquired, forced to make do in their new
integration. The negative interpretation obscures the origin and the need
that it fulfills. Used in relation to art, "Spanglish" represents the
merging of a deteriorating memory with the acquisition of a new reality
distanced by foreignness.
"Spanglish" art is probably the most authentic alternative for the uprooted
Latin artist. It is a natural and unaffected expression representing with
fairness the fact that one came from one place and went to another and
it functionally bridges the abyss left by that travel. It is an individualistic
solution which allows for release of the tension caused by the clash of
two cultures, and it permits the integration of both experiences into
one iconography. Inspired by the immediacy of individual experience, this
art will tend to distinguish itself from art that either reflects a programmatic
attitude or evinces political awareness. The cultural significance inheres
in the witnessing to a shared destiny, rather than in the activity of
a shared aesthetic search, and quality is dependent on individual effort,
rather than on group support or a community of interests.
It is difficult to find paradigmatic examples of "Spanglish" art. Since
"Spanglish" does not constitute a consciously adopted platform seeded
by programs, in most cases it remains as a component mixed with other
art-making elements. When I first used the word in relation to art, I
had the work of Ana Mendieta in mind. Artistically educated in the U.S.A.
and interested in breaking into the mainstream, her memories and nostalgia
prevented her successful assimilation. It was a fact which she first resented
and, towards the end of her life, assumed. Pressed for examples, I would
further use the work of Juan Sanchez and of Alfredo Jaar. Sanchez is probably
the clearest example of sophisticated New York/Puerto Rican expression.
He tries to get to his roots, but finds them layered under neighbourhood
experiences and interpretations. The independence of Puerto Rico becomes
a solution to all the levels of discrimination and humiliation, a way
of leaving rather than staying. Jaar is, among these artists, the one
who visually fits best into the mainstream. He shares the impeccability
and the immaculateness of hegemonic presentations. In part this is the
product of his own education and taste, but for him it also becomes a
manipulatory device to get his points across and understood within the
So, the notion of "Spanglish" art becomes more of a tool for understanding
than a neat form of classifying. It provides a helpful vantage point to
re-consider art that has simplistically been lumped together under the
ethnic label of "Hispanic."11The label
puts the so classified people in a dilemma, even when they are um-related
to art. In my own college I am faced with the choice of being undeservedly
classed as part of a "protected segment of the population" (the college's
language) and therefore used to pad some quota, or with reneging on my
own culture and background in order to free a slot for other people in
need of protection.12
Lately, the designation "Hispanic artists" has been used to classify
and neatly group together artists who have some connection with Latin
America. It is a classification spun Off by the mainstream culture which,
in effect, posits a distance between these artists and the mainstream.13
At best, this ascribed distance reflects their poor fit within the parameters
of the mainstream, their deviation from the hegemonic norm. At best because,
while distance may mean economic disaster for the artist, it can also
mean that at least some room is reserved for the development of an authentic
and powerful identity. At worst, the ascribed distance serves to promote
the devastating condescension of "look, they too can make good art." In
economic terms this may create an opportunity for survival, but it can
also lead to a precipitous assimilation into the mainstream in which a
freedom not yet fully achieved, is lost. In both cases. the label provides
no unifying idea beyond that of vague ethnicity or vague geography; the
artist remains separate, on his or her own, distracted from fully exploring
the construction of a larger cultural community.
Meanwhile, the viewer, influenced by mainstream values, will observe
this art with interest. To the degree that viewers' values are shared
by the artist, the presentation wild be understood as belonging to some
form of art, but at the same time, the distance ascribed to the artist
will suggest the possibility of finding something "exotic," something
belonging to the unshared culture that will explain and justify the ascription
of distance. If, by mainstream standards, there is anything intriguingly
exotic it will be applauded as a contribution to the mainstream audience
and coopted. If, on the other hand, the artist has found something interesting
in mainstream art and has adopted it for use in personal art, the results
will run the risk of being condemned as derivative. It is interesting
to see how the work of Wifredo Lam suffered from both pressures at the
same time. He is accepted as both bringing mysterious rituals into Western
art and as a derivative product of Picasso. As Cuban critic Gerardo Mosquera
points out, the result of this ambiguity is that his "Jungle" decorates
the coat room in the Museum of Modern Art.
The "gourmet Wonder Bread" appreciation of art therefore serves as a
long range tool to achieve assimilation into the hegemonic culture. Not
only is the artist sidetracked from the pursuit of a new integrative authenticity,
but it is the creation of an audience fitting this work which is also
hindered. The artist is led to address the wrong audience, while the intended
audience can not develop to become a proper interlocutor. It is clearly
a natural dynamic of any hegemonic culture to attempt to reduce phenomena
such as "Spanglish" art to an expression of one first and passing generation.
However, it is less clear if, given the conditions generating emigration
towards the center, this reduction serves the interests of "Spanglish"
artists and their real and potential audiences.
Execution, 1970
Dictionary, 1969
Adhesive Labels, 1966-67
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Pictured: Zach Hofeld
KENNESAW, Ga. – Harvard scored nine times in the eighth and ninth innings Wednesday as the Crimson defeated Kennesaw State, 10-6, for its first win of the season.
Trailing 5-1 heading into the eight, Harvard (1-9) struck for five runs. Jeff Reynolds singled with one out and Marcus Way reached on an error. Danny Moskovits delivered a run-scoring double down the left field line and Tyler Albright brought home two more runs with a single to right. After a walk to Sam Franklin and a pitching change, Jake McGuiggan brought home the tying and go-ahead run with a double down the right field line.
Harvard got four more runs in the ninth to take a commanding lead, again started by a one-out single from Reynolds and a single from Way. Two errors hurt KSU in the frame while Franklin brought home a pair of runs with a single.
Harvard would not have been in position to take its late-inning heroics were it not for Zach Hofeld who supplied 4.0 innings of one-hit relief after the Owls had taken a 5-1 lead in the third inning. Hofeld walked one and struck out three while keeping the Crimson in contention.
Reynolds finished with three hits while Way and Moskovits each had two safeties in the Crimson's 13-hit attack.
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Plenty of Possibilities
Someone once said, "Anything worthwhile doesn't come easy."
Well, say hello to the Phillies season. Atlanta kicked us good last night as Brett had his second straight sub-par outing (location of pitches) after being on a spectacular roll. That happens in baseball.
Last night's news wasn't all bad as the Cubs knocked off the Mets.
Today is a welcome day off for the Phillies players. This game can be tiring mentally and physically and we get a break. Not the same for the Mets and Brewers, who play tonight.
Tomorrow, we open a three-game series with Washington, Florida goes to the Mets and the Cubs go to Milwaukee.
A lot can happen. We could win the division, earn a wildcard berth, tie for something or cry in our beer. If we are involved in any ties, the good news: those games will be at Citizens Bank Park. There is one tie scenario that won't require a tie-breaker game: if we and the Mets tie for the Division and both qualify for the postseason, New York gets the Division title and we are the wild card entry. Why? The Mets won the season series against us, 11-7.
On top of all this, Mother Nature is entering the picture in the East. Rain is predicted starting today and carrying into Saturday.
All of this resembles a huge plate of spaghetti……noodles of tangled possibilities.
While the players are off today, the front office continues planning for the postseason. Another meeting was held this afternoon to make sure all the ducks are in order for all the possibilities.
Frank Coppenbarger, Director of Team Travel and Clubhouse Services, continues working on his puzzle: charter flights, hotels, buses in different cities on different dates and no knowledge of game times. No wonder his hair is thinning and graying.
What the rain will do to us this weekend is a big question mark. Keep in mind decisions to play a game are in the hands of the umpire crew chief and Major League Baseball. It isn't our call.
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Yes, Mother Nature is no fun at all! I am stuck in the airport in Miami (came down for the 3 game Marlins series) and my flight has already been delayed twice! I assume, due to weather in Philly…it is sunny here! Well, I'll get home some day… So looks like we are going down to the wire here. I am practicing my deep breathing exercises so as not to stress out! I'd really prefer not to be crying in my beer on Sunday though…it will be a whole LOT of beer though :o) Good luck!