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by: Miki Kashtan on January 25th, 2013 | 3 Comments »
In 1990 I celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day for the first time, and in the most significant way I remember. The entire day I was sitting with my partner at the time, and we were focusing on our dreams, our big dreams, our biggest dreams, way beyond just ourselves and our own lives.
Although the relationship is long gone, the effects of that day are still with me. It was then that I had the startling realization that there is really no reason why Dr. King did what he did and I, or anyone else, can't. That may have been the day I took on with explicit clarity the responsibility to do all I can to contribute to the dreams I have, some of which I have carried in one form or another since I was a small child.
Early on Monday morning this week, I received an email from a friend who forwarded a number of Dr. King's quotes to me, some known to me and some not. I was thinking about them all day, and I decided to dedicate this week's blog piece to sinking into the depth of meaning some of these quotes have had for me.
Nonviolence and the Future of Humanity
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence."
"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
I sometimes wonder who is truly naïve – those who think that we cannot trust ourselves to collaborate, and therefore must rely on control, coercion, and incentives, or those who think we can, and that collaborating with nature and with each other are entirely possible. The former is bringing us to the brink of collapse. What would it take to galvanize us, all of us, enough of us, at least, to try something else? The logic of nonviolence is transformative for me, in that we take untenable situations – whether in our personal lives or on the biggest human scale – and change the logic that drives them, moving from separation into love, from protection into creating, from escalating mistrust into an interdependent quest for options. Nothing else that I can imagine would ever have any chance of working to stop the march into extinction.
When Our Needs Are Not Met
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Once it is stripped of the masculine language to mean the purported neutral, which to my perpetual anguish leaves out half the human race while insisting that we should see ourselves as included, this is a truth I use as a foundation of my teachings. This is why one of the principles my sister and I included in our set of Assumptions and Intentions of Nonviolent Communication is the intention to live in peace with unmet needs. Although this is one of the most difficult practices of all, I also see it as a necessary exercise for anyone who wants to grow into nonviolence. It's the fundamental direction that allows us to have choice when intensity, challenge, controversy, fear, or shame arise that would lead us to disengage, judge, or dominate instead of meeting life with love, truth, and courage. It is the latter three that I see as the foundation of any nonviolent solution.
Leading with Love
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."
Transforming an enemy into a friend is that key moment of changing the logic of events. By habit we respond to enemies – real or imagined – in rather predictable ways that almost guarantee perpetuation of personal conflict or large-scale war.
Just recently, I was talking with a friend, helping her transform a particularly challenging situation with her partner, and helped her see one of the tragic forms that this logic takes. In the face of inability to find intimacy at the scale she wants, she retreats, and attempts to find connection on a smaller scope, hoping against hope that after establishing trust within that limited scope, all the while mistrusting outside of it, they could expand outward. However, the more she retreats, the more desperate her partner gets as her own needs for intimacy are strained, and the less likely it is that they can establish connection in the more reserved space my friend is constructing to protect. Instead, I invited my friend to walk towards, demonstrate and invite the intimacy she longs for, for the benefit of both of them.
I also remember reading a study published some years ago about how the familiar diplomatic responses in times of international conflict tend to escalate, and how the alternative – honoring the other side, engaging in dialogue without preconditions, all the signs of what even the bare bones of "love" would mean on that level of engagement – has the effect of deescalating international conflict and allowing for peaceful solutions without resorting to war.
Love of this kind helps the transformation in at least two ways. One is that in response to our own ability to show love, the other party – someone known to us personally or the leader of a hostile nation – has less need to protect, and can defuse its own reactivity. The other is that when we shift out of the habitual logic of protecting and fighting back, we become more creative and can see ways to make things work.
As with so much about nonviolence, all this is easier said than done. I can think of little that is more challenging than loving no matter what, loving those who hate, loving those who respond poorly to us. I have been working and practicing this to the best of my ability for many years, and I still so often find myself in moments when I even know that I want to access love and openness, and I don't know where the key to my cells lies. Some of what showing love means I can choose despite the habitual resistance of my cellular makeup. Some of it is an energetic openness, and I still don't know how to shift at that level at will. I will not stop trying, regardless of who the other party is.
Speaking the Truth
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
That ending of a life is what routinely happens for most of us as we emerge from early childhood. The fear of punishment overwhelms our heart's knowing, and we learn to protect ourselves before standing up for what we believe in. The cost, as I know so intimately from so many people I have engaged with through my work, is, indeed, detrimental to our own souls.
Combining truth with love is perhaps the most exacting of the arts of nonviolence, and sorely misunderstood. Many believe they are practicing nonviolence when they do one without the other. Love without truth, especially in those moments that Martin Luther King, Jr. and so many others have named over the history of humanity, amounts to condoning and accepting behaviors we know are harmful. That is what harms us when we remain silent. On the other hand, as someone who has never stopped telling the truth, I also know the reverse: truth without sufficient love can be an act of violence even without the use of arms. This is one of the core aspects of my own journey, finding the love, exhibiting the tenderness that will make my truth-telling a gift rather than fuel for the challenge to deepen.
I have a memory of a time, about two years ago, when I was at a conference that brought together almost 300 people who are committed to a new paradigm of business in which care for the people and the planet carries as much significance as the drive for profits. All throughout the conference I was in pain about the level of consumption at the conference itself. I couldn't see how these conferences could be aligned with the goal of sustainability. I was deeply torn, because I was also a newcomer, a guest to the group, and I was afraid of being shunned and losing the rare privilege of these people's ear, the possibility of being invited back, the tenuous belonging I had in this group of mostly entrepreneurs. As the conference proceeded towards its end, my inner turmoil increased and came to a head during the closing circle, when one person after another was sharing their joy and celebration about their time. Not everyone would have a chance to speak, so I would need to specifically ask for the microphone to express myself. Would I have enough courage to expose myself in this way? Would I have enough love to take full responsibility for my experience without slipping into separation from others? And so I spoke, and I cried while speaking, because of the exertion, and because of walking so strongly and directly into vulnerability, and because I spoke from grief and not from numbness or judgment. I finished, and I held the microphone for a few more seconds, to ensure I wouldn't close my heart before passing it on to the next person. I had risked my significance, the language I borrow constantly from Dawna Markova's poem I love so much, I will not Die an Unlived Life, and I was prepared and willing to accept whatever would happen. Or so I thought, because I wasn't prepared for the next person who took the microphone to put it down and start clapping his hands, and even less so for most everyone to join him. My truth speaking reached people at least for that moment, though whether any change beyond that moment ever took place within the organization that sponsored the conference remains to be seen.
The Courage of Leaning on Faith
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
As with my own story, we don't know the outcome of our actions. The seeds of love and truth that we sow are not always ours to see into blossom. As one of Gandhi's biographers expressed it, in nonviolence it is possible to lose every battle and win the war. Since I don't love war metaphors, I want to say it differently: as we struggle to create change, whether within, in our relationships, or in the world at large, we will experience loss and failure time and time again. This is not to say that the work of change isn't happening. Because the means and the end are one and the same in nonviolence, each of our steps creates ripples we cannot know. This is one of my own weakest links in my own path of nonviolence. I get easily discouraged, because the vision I carry is so strong, that I sometimes crumble in the face of the gap between the current reality and what I know in my heart is so palpably possible. I never give up in any permanent way, though I do go through dark and challenging periods. I pick myself up sooner or later and continue. I wish to have more faith so that along the way my path will be easier. Just as much as my vision remains unwavering despite all the "evidence" that the world of the media and of the cynical, closed-hearted information I see portrays, I want my faith to increase with each small shift I see anywhere, so I can hold my vision with more joy.
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In this weeks Indie Tee Spotlight I feature Levi Hardeman and his clothing brand, Word! Apparel. Word! Apparel was started just 5 months ago by Hardeman in his hometown of Houston, Texas. In this short amount of time, Hardeman has created an indie tee brand that has become a fan favorite. He has sold ooodles of his tees here in the US and overseas.Â
His comical and often oversized prints scream look-at-me! Wear a tee from Word! Apparel and you're sure to get noticed! Hardeman doesn't plan to stop with just designing and selling t-shirts, though. He has plans to expand his line to other types of merchandise, all the while keeping with his comical style.Â
I had the opportunity to chat with Levi! (as he is known on the Emptees forums) about Word!, his influences and his expectations for Word! I also have to admit that Levi! is one of the coolest guys I've worked with so far on the Spotlight. He kindly sent over a tee for me to checkout for the Spotlight (I feature only brands from whom I've bought from in the past so that I feel comfortable promoting them. Occasionally I receive tees in the mail and if I like the tee and the brand they get featured). Along with the You Crazy Banana! tee that Levi sent me was a handwritten letter. I just found that pretty awesome that he took the time to write. I totally appreciated that!
Coty: It's obvious by your past designs like You Crazy Banana!, You Don't Mess With The Tasties and Shark vs. Man that Word! Apparel uses comedy very heavily in its designs. However, you've mentioned that "future releases will differ." Explain how you plan to shake up your product line and what changes we should expect.
Levi: Well, living in Houston, TX, one of fastest growing metal scenes in America, all the merch that we see coming through our town, is mostly black shirts with "metal" designs on them, or shirts with big lettering across the shirt. I thought to myself, that maybe kids would eat up something different or just reject it. I went ahead and tried it. I made the first 6 designs really simple but colorful with more of a comical feel to it, and the scene down here tore it up. I sold out of the first 6 designs within just a few days and then from there I started to hire designers from Emptees. They have been great with the artwork and the feel that I'm looking for.
As for changing my designs a little, I want to release a few shirts with more of a darker feel to it. I would like to keep the comical style but lean a little bit dark. Lines like Electric Zombie is really a line to look up to for me because of the style he has. A little comical but horror. I would like to capitalize on that style with the next few release to attract a larger customer base. So expect something a little more dark coming from Word! Apparel.
Coty: You've been an active member in the indie tee community for 5 months now, producing and selling your own tees. What do you think is the most valuable lesson you've learned during this entire process? What has been your best experience so far? Any surprises?
Levi: For the 5 months that I have been doing this, I would say that the best thing to realize is that you can't expect people to come to you all the time. You have to reach out to them. Just like in a sales job. If you are selling something, show people. Within the first 5 months, I have sold at probably over 25 shows and at many events. You just have to be where the people are. After you have a big enough base in your home town then your Internet sales will pick because you got all your friends telling their friends. Its a cycle. So I guess the lesson is, find your customers, don't want till they find you. There are hundreds of clothing lines out there, and the few that will make it successful are the ones that are willing to do what it takes.
Funny thing is, for some reason, Ohio is my biggest state that I sell to. Even bigger than here in Houston. On any given week, I'll almost double my sales in Houston with orders in Ohio. Not sure why, but I guess Ohio says Word! a lot!
Coty: How and why did you get started in the t-shirt design business? Who were some of the people that influenced you? Is there a particular brand that you've modeled Word! Apparel after?
Levi: For awhile, my buddy Andre Frye with Crashtide Productions, let me help out with Crashtide Clothing, a small line here in Houston. After a few disagreements, we parted ways, but I learned a lot about the industry and what to expect. That was about a year before I started Word! Apparel, but in the mean time, I never lost interest in the industry. For the longest time, I followed Johnny Cupcakes, Rockett, and even Electric Zombie. I always wanted to start something on that scale, but never did it. It's funny how Word! started. Me and my buddy Tom Payne were sitting on my couch watching Family Guy, and I jokely said I wanted to start a t-shirt line based on Family Guy. Right when I said that, Peter, from the show, said Word! Haha, right then I knew I wanted to start a line called Word! Apparel. For a while, I followed Monstar Clothing too. They gave me something to model after.
Coty: You've collaborated with a lot of people within the tee design community, including Wotto who designed Happy Monsters! and Awaken Design Company, who designed the official Word! Apparel Myspace page. What is it like to work with the people in the indie tee community? Is there anyone that you haven't worked with yet that you would like to collaborate with in the future?
Levi: As far as future designs, I have a design coming out by Edgil, and that shirt is expected to be my biggest release yet. For other designers, I have no preference who I use but I do like to work with SittingDuck. He is great about working with you to get what you need and everything is nice as can be haha! I look forward to using as many designers as I possibly can.
Coty: Word! Apparel currently sponsors that bands Before There Was Rosalyn and Novista. How did you hook up with these bands and what has it been like working with them? Do these bands represent the type of music you're into?
Levi: The dudes in Before There Was Rosalyn are some of my favorites dudes. They are all good friends and support everything I do, and are there for whatever I need from selling shirts at shows that I can make, to girl advice with the girl that designed the Shark VS Man design mentioned before ha! Seriously though, they are some gnarly dudes, and they put out some good tunes always. They recently were signed to HoldFast Records and play shows with The Devil Wears Prada and they tour nonstop. Their music is passionate and in your face metal, but also you can sit down and bust some nasty chill to it. I would recommend them to anyone. Novista puts out some super quality music. I am not as close to them as the latter band, but they are some good guys. They put on an amazing show, and their CD is killer.
Coty: What indie tee brands does Levi! have stocked in his closet? Who are your current favorites?
Levi: I stock up on shirts like a mad man! I love picking up some new shirts, and I would have to say my favorite is either Electric Zombie or NIWL. Kyle and Darin put out some quality work and it shows. I love wearing their stuff. An example of what shirts I have bought I guess would be Johnny Cupcakes, EZ, NIWL, Monstar, HotLife, KidRobot, 32 (rip), and of course I sport some Word Apparel
Coty: Indie Labs, the creators of Emptees and Big Cartel have created an excellent set of tools for indie merchandise designers. With the infinite amount of people that you can reach through the Internet and your online store, do you even think that there is a need for opening a physical merchandise store like the popular Johnny Cupcake Boutiques or do you think that having an online presence is enough to suffice?
Levi: I have a business plan in account with my financial backer, but I am more focused on just getting my name out right now. I think that Big Cartel is really a great tool for anybody to use. Its super easy to use, and it does what its made for, selling shirts. Without Big Cartel, I actually wouldnt be any where near the success that I have.
In the future, I would like to have a shop open down here in Houston, but that will be later on. I am really focusing on getting my name out across the globe, and then maybe in the near future, I can start looking into adventures such as my own store.
Coty: So you've got a successful online store and you've networked with some of the best indie designers today, what's next for Word! Apparel? What are some of the expectations you have for Word! Apparel for the next 2 to 3 years?
Levi: The sucess I have seen has been fantastic. I couldn't be more grateful to all the hundreds and hundreds of kids across the globe who have bought my gear. They make this worth while. The kids and God have blessed me more than I could ask for. The satisfaction that I get when I see just one order on my emails, is more than worth the while. I love it. Everyday, I track my sales, with the HUGE calender that I have in my room, and I make down the names and shirt that they have bought on the day with it. I have it near my door, so whenever I enter my room and leave it, I am reminded of the names that have helped me so much.
I would say look out for Word! Apparel releases to be pumping out like mad in the next few years. I have a goal of releasing 2 shirts every month next year. That is only the shirt part of it. I am actually working with someone right now for hand bags, and shoes. I am stoked beyond belief for that. Look out!
To everyone who reads this interview, thanks so much for the support and kind words that yall have emailed me or told me. I couldnt have gotten this far without yall!
For all the active Emptees users, Ima put a discount code in place for a HUGE discount on any shirt, and for all others, use code BLOG15 for a sweet 15% off!!!!
Thanks so much guys. Please email me with any feedback on my products! Good or bad! I want to hear from everyone and talk to everyone!!!
I'd like thank Levi for taking time out to chat it up with me! I totally appreciate your time. Keep doing what you're doing, man, and you're sure to succeed beyond expectations. Word!
Also, this week I'll be doing a special double Indie Tee Spotlight. So be sure to check back in a day or two for Indie Tee Spotlight #8!


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Set goals you want to achieve. It is generally best to set small, measurable goals. You can set them on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. When setting goals, consider:
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But do not reward yourself with food. Go to the movies, buy new clothes, or have a massage.
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How to Train Your Dog to Lie Down
Your dog already knows how to lie down, she just needs to be taught to lie down on command. "Down" is the command to use when you want your dog to lie down in place, right now, and stay there until you release her.
The following steps can help you teach this command to your canine companion:
With your dog sitting at your left side and a treat in your right hand, put one or two fingers of your left hand, palm facing you, through her collar at the side of her neck.
Show your dog the treat and lower it straight down and in front of her as you apply gentle downward pressure on the collar, at the same time saying "Down."
With a small dog, you may want to do this on a table.
When your dog lies down, give her the treat and praise her by telling her what a good puppy she is.
Keep your left hand in the collar and your right hand off your dog while telling her how clever she is so that she learns she's being praised for lying down.
Reverse the process by showing her a treat and bringing it up slightly above her head with upward pressure on the collar as you tell her to sit.
Practice having your dog lie down at your side five times in a row for five days, or until she does it on command with minimal pressure on the collar.
Praise and reward with a treat every time.
Practice over the course of several days until your obedient pup lies down on command without any pressure on the collar.
Traditionally, the Down command can be a safety tool that gets your pet to stop wherever she is and stay there. For example, if your puppy finds herself on the other side of the road and starts towards you just as a car comes, you can say "Down" to keep her in place until you can get to her.


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An investigation which began in March 2012 led to criminal charges against the county engineer and a roads supervisor. Both have been fired.
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Since its construction, the Ford Motor Company's Rouge River complex in Dearborn has been seen as a sign of changing economic and social conditions in the city, region, and nation. Whether regarded as a powerful sign of American industrial growth, as the battleground between labor and management, as a symbol of U.S. wartime strength, or as a reminder of Rust Belt decline, the Rouge always stands for something larger even than itself. In the twenties and thirties, the Rouge was a self-contained mid-sized city, employing over 100,000 people. Today, it employs roughly 6,000 ("History"). The decentralization beginning after World War II resulted in a drastic reduction in automobile production at the Rouge, but in that time it has generated plenty of poetry, fiction, art, photography, and film.
For artists elsewhere - Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Journey to the Edge of the Night), Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times), and others-Henry Ford's marvel of mass production became emblematic of the dehumanizing thrust of the modern world. (Laurence Goldstein's essay, "The Image of Detroit in Twentieth Century Literature" provides a useful overview of the Rouge's mass production as represented in these and other works.) As the epitome of American industry in the 1920s and 1930s, the Rouge Plant is featured in "A Job at Ford's," Part 1 of the PBS documentary, The Great Depression, as the centerpiece of its examination of the period from the apparent prosperity of the mid-twenties to the 1932 Ford Hunger March, in which four demonstrators were killed by security forces employed by Henry Ford.
Upton Sinclair's 1937 novel, The Flivver King, delivers perhaps the most intense criticism of Henry Ford as an American prototype and the Rouge as the centerpiece of industrial capitalism. Sinclair follows Ford's transformation from the idealistic farm-boy-turned-inventor to a king of industry increasingly oblivious to his factory's assembly lines where "slaves" became "parts of machines--pick-up, push in, turn, reverse, pickuppushinturnreverse, pickuppushinturnreverse . . . " (68). During the Depression, Ford apparently does not understand that a careless announcement about hiring attracts to the Rouge "a mob of poor devils from the breadlines and flophouses" along with "other poor devils riding in open freight trains in the bitterest of winter weather" only to be greeted by "a swarm of 'service men' with clubs in their hands and guns on their hips" and driven from the plant's gates "with a stick in their backs" or "streams of icy water . . . from high-powered hoses" (80). On March 7, 1932, as the Depression continues and automation at the Rouge adds further to unemployment, workers march from Detroit's Fort Street toward Dearborn in protest: "In the distance could be seen the gigantic River Rouge plant, its tall silvered smokestacks rising like a huge pipe-organ" (86). As the marchers approach the gates, Dearborn police and members of the Ford security force under Harry Bennett confront them with "tear and vomit-gas," bombs, and bullets. Bennett is hit on the head with a thrown rock. "Immediately the men on the bridge turned loose a machine-gun into the crowd, and kept up a steady firing until they had wounded about fifty men and killed four" (87-8). For Sinclair, this is but one battle in American class wars, and the Rouge is among its best-known battlefields.
More recent works by local writers also grapple with the ways that Ford and the Rouge changed the world. Like Sinclair, they concentrate on the plant's workers and its turbulent labor history. They also emphasize the plant's impact on the Detroit area's air and water.
In Jeffrey Eugenides' novel Middlesex, the narrator's Greek immigrant grandfather, Lefty Stephanides, arriving in Detroit in 1922, secures his first job at the Rouge. In an extended section (95-97), Eugenides mimics Ford's system of mass production and its effect on the workers, conveying the repetition and speed of work with the refrain: "Wierzbicki reams a bearing and Stephanides grinds a bearing and O'Malley attaches a bearing to a camshaft." Eugenides captures the system of vertical integration on which the Rouge's mass production was then based by following the assembly line from the conveyor which brings the bearings "back to the Foundry where the Negroes work" and then outside through the "hills of coal and coke" to the river over which freighters bring the ore, to the earth under the north woods, and then back, through the plant and across the many individual lines that made up "The Line," to the finished product: a brand new Model T. Lefty Stephanides discovers the dangers of becoming a "speed king" on the line, learns English at the adjacent Ford English School, and enthusiastically participates in other activities that will hasten his assimilation into American culture. He also undergoes a domestic inspection from two members of Ford's Sociological Department, who later fire him because of his unwitting association with a figure in Detroit's underworld (97-105).
Henry Ford is often celebrated for hiring large numbers of African-American workers at the Rouge. However, as Thomas J. Sugrue points out, these workers were usually given jobs "in the dirtiest most dangerous parts of the plant" (99), often in the hot and hazardous Rouge foundry. Dudley Randall, who, in 1932 at age eighteen, began to work in the foundry's blast furnace unit, was one of these workers (Boyd 44-45). In his well-known poem, "George" (Litany 11), the speaker, "a boy desiring the title of man," works "to earn it / in the inferno of the foundry knockout." He admires George, an older worker, who "calmly" faces the everyday dangers of his job: the "monstrous, lumpish cylinder blocks" that occasionally jam the line and fall "with force enough to tear your foot in two." Unlike the autoworkers in works by Eugenides, Philip Levine, and Jim Daniels, these men do not resist the relentless pace of work by intentionally causing the line to break down; instead, they work hard to repair the damage when it does. Amid this grueling labor, the speaker earns George's "highest accolade": "'You not afraid of sweat. You strong as a mule.'" The poem's conclusion-which shows George as an old man waiting for death in a hospital "among the senile wrecks, / The psychopaths, the incontinent"-comments wryly on the ultimate purpose of a life of hard work and sweat.
In "Coming Home, Detroit, 1968" (New 75) Philip Levine regards the Rouge as emblematic of the violence human beings have done to the environment, to one another, and to the city. Levine skillfully blurs distinctions: the Rouge "sulfurs the sun" coloring it, not only in "Ford" colors, but "Cadillac, Lincoln, / Chevy gray." The people take on imagery associated with their devastated city: "the charred faces, the eyes boarded up, the rubble of innards." Fire and ice merge as destructive forces; Levine describes "a winter Tuesday, the city pouring fire" and recalls "the snowstorm" where all was lost:
the wolverine, the northern bear, the wolf caught out, ice and steel raining from the foundries in a shower of human breath.
Returning to Detroit for the first time after 1967, Levine refuses to see that summer's rebellion in isolation. The poem shows the legacy of Detroit violence, of which the riot is but one instance. The poem concludes: "We burn this city every day."
Levine and others write often of the Rouge's environmental impact, the way it tints the river "the color of iron" (New 75), "destroys the horizon" (New 233), and blows "its black breath in the face / of creation" (New 284). Upon arriving from the South, travelers see "the night sky burning / up ahead at River Rouge / like another day" (1933: 29). Lawrence Joseph makes similar observations in a journal entry: "The Rouge River seemed frozen, but, no, the water was only a drab, concrete gray. Could smell the sulphur. The smoke, powerful as it was pouring from the eight snowstacks, added to the massive quality and weight to the snowclouds ("'Our'" 302). In "That's All," Joseph describes a Rouge worker who covers his face with a handkerchief so that the "smells and heat" will not "destroy / his lungs and brain" (Curriculum 35).
Environmental damage notwithstanding, life continues in the communities near the Rouge. In a poem that describes sexual awakening, Mary Minock shows how the Rouge's fires, viewed from the downriver community of River Rouge, compete with the sunset. As the moon rises in the smoldering sky over the Rouge plant, the speaker watches Bobby, her "beatific cousin / with dusty hands" throw a stone. She
...smells the river smells the fire smells her dusty cousin and sees the rock hit true. The adult speaker recalls the emergence of passion amid these smells and sights. It's an elemental moment: "Water, earth and fire in the air," Minock says, set the scene, "for all the scenes to follow" ("The Rock Heap in River Rouge" 33).
Levine, especially in his later work, concentrates on the persistence of beauty amid the devastation of the modern industrial world. In an interview with Edward Hirsch, he describes as "one of his heroes" a friend's mother, Bernadette Strempek, who, after being abandoned by her husband, supported her five children by working the night shift at the Rouge (So Ask 142). Levine pays tribute to her in two poems in his 2000 volume, The Mercy. In "After Leviticus" (6-7), a beautiful riddle of a poem, he shows Bernadette finishing another week of what she terms "'serf work'" in "chassis assembly plant number seven" feeling "the same joy that comes to a great artist / who's just completed a seminal work." She shares with two other workers, Maryk and Williams, a bottle of Seven Crown in a 1947 Plymouth that makes "eleven slow circuits" of the parking lot. The two men, "serious drinkers" and smokers, hardly speak, but sigh often, maybe from fatigue or "from a sense of defeat neither understands, / or more likely because their lungs are going / from bad air and cigarettes." When the bottle is finished, they drop her off at her home, one of "seventeen metal huts" near the factory. The moment is mystical:
Bernadette Strempek, let me enter your story now as you stand motionless in the shadowy black burning inhaling the first warm breeze that tells you this endless winter is ending. Don't go in just yet; instead gaze upwards toward the stars. Those tiny diamonds, though almost undone, have been watching over your house and your kids while you've been away. Take another breath, a deeper one and hold the air until you can't. Do you taste it? You shake your head. It's God's breath, a magical gift carried all the dark way from Him to you on the wind no one can see.
This is the same wind that often blows in Levine's later work, a gift from the universe to those who feel the need to put into words those forces that cannot be seen. Levine first experienced this, he says, as a young boy growing up in the still undeveloped Seven Mile-Livernois area in the nineteen thirties and forties. He associates it with remarkable spirits, like his co-worker, Cipriano ("To Cipriano, in the Wind": New 218-219) and the great jazz artist, Sonny Rollins ("The Unknowable": The Mercy 36-37).
Also for Levine, the love of growing things distinguishes those who recognize the persistence of natural beauty in the urban world, even the industrial world epitomized by the Rouge. Tom Jefferson, in "A Walk with Tom Jefferson" (New 277-292), maintains an urban garden in the Briggs neighborhood near Tiger Stadium. Bernadette Strempeck, in "Photography 2" (The Mercy 26), plants tulips and irises outside her rented house near the Rouge. Levine's attention to her in the poem counters the artistic vision of Charles Sheeler, whose great photographs of the Rouge diminish the importance of its workers, "dwarfed / under the weight of the tools they thought / they commanded." Bernadette Strempek is not onlu diminished but erased: "Nowhere does Mrs. Strempek / show up in all the records of that year." Levine has frequently said that he feels his role is to tell the stories of the common laborers ignored in the sweep of history.
Diego Rivera's Detroit Institute of Arts murals are probably the best-known works of art based on the Rouge plant. In his autobiography, Levine, acknowledges that he is at first attracted to them, but he eventually rejects their view of working life, arguing that they depict a system of mass production far more organized than the battlefield-like chaos he experienced as a factory worker: "Automobiles," he says, "were produced by a colossal accident that shattered men and women." A single view of the Rouge from the inside (because of Henry Ford's "notorious anti-Semitism" he refused to seek a job there) convinces him that the Rouge, like the Chevrolet Gear and Axle Plant in which he had worked, was "a world that must be raged against with all the eloquence and fury a poet could muster" (Bread 143). Jerry Herron, on the other hand, in "The Passion of Edsel Ford" (Boyd and Liebler 169-174), reads in the murals a subversive message, not in an accurate portrayal of mass production, but in Rivera's understanding of the relationship between Henry Ford and his son. In Herron's view, Edsel, whom Rivera calls "Señor Capitalist," defends the controversial murals because he knows that Rivera has "seen" what he himself knows.
Lawrence Goldstein writes of the ways in which the "boosterism" of the auto industry controlled the literary image of Detroit for much of the early twentieth century, associating the city exclusively with the "inflated rhetoric of advertising" (272). Goldstein says that the absence of a "literary tradition" in Detroit and Michigan made this control possible (274). Since the Depression, however, a literary tradition has been established, partly in reaction to the advertising rhetoric and in response to the actual physical experience of life in and around Detroit industry. Because it is both the subject of advertising and a powerful physical symbol, the Rouge has inspired works which critique industrial capitalism's assurances of progress and complicate its vision of work and workers. Although the Rouge is best known as the model of mass production, which relies heavily on unskilled labor, the literature, film, and art created by individuals skilled in their crafts may well be among the most enduring of its products.
Frank D. Rashid is Professor of English at Marygrove College and editor of the Literary Map of Detroit.
Photo credits: Anna Fedor and Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.
Boyd, Melba Joyce. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night. Trans. John H.P. Marks.1934. New York: New Directions, 1960.
Chaplin, Charles, dir. Modern Times. Perf. Chaplin and Paulette Goddard. United Artists, 1936.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Groux, 2002.
Goldstein, Laurence. "The Image of Detroit in Twentieth Century Literature." Michigan Quarterly Review 25 (1986): 269-291.
The Great Depression. Prod. Henry Hampton, WGBH Boston. Video documentary. Alexandria, VA: PBS, 1993.
"History of the Rouge." The Great American Production: Ford Rouge Factory Tour. 2004. The Henry Ford. 2 Sept. 2004 http://www.hfmgv.org/rouge/history.asp.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Modern Library, 1946.
Joseph, Lawrence. Curriculum Vitae. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1988.
---. "'Our Lives Are Here': Notes from a Journal, Detroit, 1975." Michigan Quarterly Review 25 (1986): 296-302.
Levine, Philip. 1933. New York: Atheneum, 1974.
---. Ashes. New York: Atheneum, 1983.
---. The Bread of Time : Toward an Autobiography. New York: Knopf, 1994.
---. The Mercy. New York: Knopf, 2000.
---. New Selected Poems. New York: Knopf, 1993.
---. So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002.
Minock, Mary. Love in the Upstairs Flat. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1995.
Randall, Dudley. A Litany of Friends: New and Selected Poems. Detroit: Lotus, 1981.
Sinclair, Upton. The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America. Pasadena, CA: The Author, 1937.
Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996.


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Since you won't see that headline anywhere else, I thought it would be a good one here.
16 thoughts on "Obesity Epidemic Over!"
I love the part where they say that before 1980 people with a BMI over 40 were non-existent, and now it's "several percent."
Now I never ran around asking people there BMI when I was a child, but I could swear there were very fat people back then who actually existed in the world. Maybe back the it was "few percent" instead of "several percent" like now!
Don't forget Cass Elliot and Lowell George!
Did they USE the BMI meme before 1980? If not, that might explain why no one had a BMI of 40. If you don't use that measurement, than people with that measurement don't exist.
I'm at a professional conference (I work in health care) and I decided to attend a session titled (wait for it…) The Obesity Epidemic! OMG – really?
So in the midst of all the blathering about everything you already know and have smacked down (and I'm just sitting there stewing, because I can hear Kate on my shoulder the whole session – a session that would have had me feeling as guilty a sin just a few months ago) the doc admits that the best longitudnal study out there about weight loss shows that only 10% of folks who have lost a significant amount of weight have kept it off for any significant amount of time.
At this point, I perk up and say, "Soooo… if we're in an "epidemic", as you call it, but there's no long term cure for the majority of those affected and everyone involved is losing money and time and self-esteem, have researchers thought that there might be anything else at work here?"
*Chirp chirp chirp*
More blathering about how people who exercise have the best results (duh, exercise is good for everyone) and then quick change the subject. Ahem.
Bogus. As least the doc had the good grace to admit that a 1,000-1,200 calorie diet (what was recommended for weight loss for women) would make anyone batshit insane and calorie counting was counter productive.
Le sigh.
Javamama, rooooool. I mean, yeah, the whole thing is beyond silly. So let me see if I grok. "Obesity" is a "disease" that is not communicable in any scientific sense of the word — i.e. you can be in the same room as, talk to, kiss, fuck, blow, breathe the same air as a fat person and not "catch" it — right? We've established the fact that millions of thin people have, er, interacted with us repeatedly for decades on end and not "caught" it — right? And there's also no such thing as building up immunity by "catching" it and then getting over it like the chicken pox, right? Therefore, isolation protocols for "containing" the "disease" will not work.
And there is no known cure that works, either — that is, gets the disease into permanent remission or even any kind of meaningful temporary remission (temporary remission = you don't even have to fucking think about your "disease" for at least a couple of years) — for the vast majority of people who have it. We've established that, too, have we not, once we've ruled out the idea that Don't Eat At All Ever Again Except For A Few Twigs is only a cure in the same sense that getting yourself sawed in half by a buzzsaw is a "cure" for chronic pancreatitis? And that those few who do manage to "cure" their "obesity" permanently don't need a whole cadre of Scientific Types to make it happen, because those chosen few are not programmed to permanently store that much fat and thus can make it all go away with relatively minimal effort? We know all this, don't we?
So what's this silly-ass seminar for again, now?
I was surprised that this was on the front page of today's paper – with the headline above the fold, no less. I guess I've been reading here so long that I forgot that this would be big news to most people who have been bombarded with the "Americans are all becoming obese and gonna die" message. The overall message that I got was that we have little understanding of why some people become obese, and the significance of the demographic data is completely unclear.
I'm relieved to hear that the epidemic is over. I feel thinner already.
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I'm having some difficulty with Steam. I installed the proprietary driver using Additional Drivers, and up until now, thought it had installed correctly. All my desktop effects worked flawlessly.
But, when I tried to run steam, it said,
"OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems".
So, I thought that perhaps I hadn't installed the driver yet. Opening Additional drivers, it shows Nvidia 3.10, but says that
"This driver has been actived, but is not in use" Trying to launch Portal, is says it couldn't find the
"required entry point 'gelGetError'".
So, as far as I can tell, Steam thinks that I don't have the propietary driver installed. But, when I open Nvida X Server settings, it clearly says I have driver 3.10.
Can anyone please tell me what's going?
EDIT: Sorry for taking so long to respond, as requested, here is the result of running "lsmod | grep nv"
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What sport did you play at Lipscomb? What years? Who were your coaches?
"I ran Cross Country and Track at Lipscomb from 1990-1994 under coach Kent Johnson."
What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
"I always loved the road trips. Getting to travel with my teammates to compete against other schools was exciting, and a bonding event for us as a team. Even if we were all crammed into a 15 passenger van for hours at a time and then expected to get out and run as fast as we could for 5 miles in the heat or cold, it was a great time.
"Non-specific to my sport were the `Battle of the Boulevard' basketball games that were played to capacity crowds at Vanderbilt and following John Pierce as he broke the all-time scoring record in basketball."
Who had the biggest influence on you during your athletic career at Lipscomb? How?
"Looking back, Coach Johnson was always a fine Christian example to us , which was something most of us as young men really needed at the time. I remember him hosting devotionals for us in his home and always making sure we weren't fooling around – too much. I would also say my teammates. They always pushed me to excel in practice and at meets, as well as in life."
What is your fondest non-athletic memory from your time at Lipscomb?
"My fondest memory would definitely be meeting my wife across Granny White at Pizza Perfect. I went in for a slice of pizza and left with a best friend and future wife! Also, hanging out with the many great teammates I had through the years. It's like we were a family. We did everything together and I have so many wonderful memories of my time with them."
What is the most valuable thing you gained or learned from your time at Lipscomb?
"My time at Lipscomb was all about growing up and learning responsibility. I'm so glad I chose Lipscomb since that made that task a little easier than a lot of places would have."
Who was your favorite professor? Why?
"I had several favorite instructors at Lipscomb. However, I will never forget being one of less than ten people in Dr. Harvey Floyd's Bible class and being challenged beyond belief! I also enjoyed John Conger's classes on family and Dr. Charles McVey for German."
Where do you live now?
"I live in Pegram, Tenn., which is about 30 miles west of Nashville.
"My e-mail address is email@example.com."
Who is your employer? What is your occupation? What does your position entail?
"I am self-employed as a script supervisor for televised music events. In the last several years, I have had the honor of working on the Grammy Awards, CMA Awards, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions and worked at the White House several times for the PBS series, In Performance at the White House.
"While much of my job entails dealing with the scripted dialogue of the show, I also lyrically and musically break down performances into a predetermined format so that the director can plan out the shots that you end up seeing on TV. I then go to rehearsals to verify the band/staging plot and the arrangement being performed.
"I make sure the lyrics are correct for the teleprompter and take notes on various aspects of the performance. If any changes are made, which always happens, I report back to the associate director and have the needed paperwork distributed to the crew."
Tell us about your family.
"I have been married to Beth Sexton (LU '95) for 12 years. We have two children, Ann Elise (8) and Morgan (5). To make my kids happy, we also have a cat named Jasper and a brand new puppy named McCartney."


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Cooking with claymores.jkisha wrote:They definitely had those little legs, but I also don't remember there Chinese lettering.
Lots of details have been wiped away by the years. I can also remember taking them apart and using the C4 for cooking when we were out of heat tabs. Seems like it was easier to get Claymores than heat tabs sometimes!
Now that's funny, though I have heard of doing that.
The chinese version was a joke.
You would have needed a very good supply sergeant to get those.


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|October 17, 2008 01:35 PM EDT
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Adopting Cloud Computing as a primary technology strategy will be one of the main catalysts for technology-savvy business to not only stay in business, but also be successful in the long run. If the Global Recession truly hits as it seems that it will, items that directly and positively impact the bottom line of companies will naturally rise to the top.
This week, Gartner, Inc released their list of the top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009. This information stems from research performed within the Technology sector and factors in their client and research feedback. This list, released at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo, is considered to be potentially "disruptive to your environment or market in some way," says Gartner analyst David Cearley.
While I sometimes find some of Gartner's commentary on trends in technology a bit conservative and missing other critical data, this 2009 list does represent current trends that I have seen and mirrors many of my own expectations. Just last week, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington declared that Web 2.0 was dead. I think that many of us have already moved well beyond Web 2.0. My view, for some time, has been that Web 3.0 (for lack of a better term) will be a combination of Integration and Standards and the coupling of the two, with other enabling technologies such as Cloud Computing providing the necessary lubrication. We saw the term "mashup" become prevalent during the past year or so, where companies sought to integrate similar services (or even disparate ones) in a new service delivered via the Web. A could of quick examples of this is evident with the numerous Twitter services that use Twitter data and either present this data in different ways or full integration into other services, or the advent of Yahoo!'s Pipes.
Key to Integration is making the connections easier through the use of public APIs. As more companies expose their API's to developers, the wheels for integration become even more greased. This is all fine and good provided that these API are carefully documented, but more critical is that APIs must adhere to some sort of standard. Unfortunately, the "standards" requirement is a lot harder to require and maintain. At a recent Cloud Computing Interoperability meeting that I participated in, most attendees agreed that Standards are a huge priority, however, defining these standards would be a daunting task to undertake. But this interop was a clear step forward by the leaders in the industry towards defining these standards. If you step back a few years, you could view Web Services as a precursor to the API movement we see now (API's are a subset of Web Services), and XML standards helped to propel the acceptance of Web Services and Integrations in general.
I feel that those companies who are currently working to aggregate (or integrate) various API's into their business model are well positioned to be the ones who can help drive these standards. Case in point, GoGrid has a public API and recently signed up various Cloud Aggregators (such as RightScale, Appistry and GigaSpaces). These companies use a variety of other Cloud Infrastructure providers within their management services. The more that I thought about it, the more I realized how important these Cloud Aggregators' roles are in driving some Cloud standards. They have views into all of their partner API's and can easily find similarities and differences between these API's. Any API's that these aggregators come up with themselves are one step closer to a standards-based API that could potentially be generic enough for use by many if not all providers.
What is also interesting, is that this concept of Integration and Standards actually does apply to our current World Financial Crisis as well. We have a bank and financial institution pandemonium with mergers seemingly occurring daily. These institutions will need to integrate diverse systems in order to succeed and the government will be forced to derive some standards to govern their vested interest in these institutions. Sure, this is a fairly broad application of these terms in this comparison between Web 3.0 and Finance, but the ideas are similar.
But back to the Gartner predictions for 2009. First, we need to take off our rose colored glasses here. Any time you make a prediction, the odds are that you could be wrong in the long run. I realize that this is a bit pessimistic, but just look at our Economy right now. There were plenty of naysayers who told us that we were going down the wrong path, but we still proceeded ahead, ignoring these predictions. Technology trends are no different than Economic ones; you can make an attempt to predict based on the past however, the difference here is that technology seem to be a lit less volatile compared to the economy.
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World AIDS Day is 1 December. To mark this event Walker Art Gallery displayed a painting by Gary Sollars from 27 November to 7 December 2003.
This moving memorial painting represents the moment of death of the artist's partner of thirteen years from AIDS related illness. It was painted five years after Philip Munro's death and so has a stillness that has been achieved through the passage of time. The artist is shown in attendance at his partner's bedside, whilst radiant light illuminates the faces of Philip's sister and Gary's mother, who also grieve. To the left, two naked men trail a red ribbon, symbolising the relationship of the couple that now lives on through memory.
Gary Sollars is originally from Chester but now lives and works in Liverpool, a city for which he holds great affection. He has exhibited regularly around the country, including at London's National Portrait Gallery and in both Liverpool Biennials.
This painting is on loan from the artist.
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Moebius is the new game from Gabriel Knight and Gray Matter creator Jane Jensen, and at long last we're getting a look at the crowdfunded indie effort.
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Phoenix Online has ported its original adventure series, Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, to the iPad. The supernatural point-and-click series has produced two episodes so far on lead platforms Mac and PC, and the first, The Hangman, is now available through the App Store at a special launch price of $4, down from the regular […]
Cognition: A Erica Reed Thriller - Episode 2 out now
The Wise Monkey, episode two of Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, is out now. Check out a trailer through the break.
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Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller – Episode 2: The Wise Monkey will release on PC and Mac next week. To get you caught up on the events leading up to the second episode, a trailer has been released. You ca watch it below. Also, starting at 4:00pm EST the Phoenix Online team will host a […]
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Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen may be unable to make future games in the acclaimed adventure series due to licensing issues, but that hasn't stopped her from making a spiritual successor instead. Moebius is the game in question, and VG247 has heard from Jensen and developer Phoenix Online that it will be the next best […]
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In an update issued to Kickstarter supporters, Jane Jensen announced the developer of Pinkerton Road's first published title, Moebius.
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