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Introduction: life and work
ohn Sliegh was a painter, illustrator and lithographer, and is primarily remembered as one of the most important book-designers of the mid-Victorian period. A specialist in elaborate gilt covers for Christmas gift books, his principal bindings have been studied by Sybille Pantazzi (1961), Douglas Ball (1985) and Edmund King (2003), although his life and art as a whole have never been the subject of detailed scrutiny. As Ball explains, 'little is known of this artist' (p.92) and remains, in the words of Nancy Finlay, 'elusive' (Philip Hofer Collection, p.142). It is possible, nevertheless, to establish some previously undiscovered facts. New material is offered here for the first time.
Sliegh's life and career are complicated by a couple of factors. One is the unstable morphology of his name, which sometimes appears as 'Sliegh' and sometimes as 'Sleigh'; the first is associated with his book-work and the second with his paintings. However, 'Sliegh' is the spelling given in the British Census returns, 1841–81, so we can assume this version is correct, and the other merely a misspelling. The name itself is Anglo-Scottish, but nothing is known of the artist's family or ancestry. And other uncertainties have surrounded his dates of birth and death. Previous commentators have been unable to establish this basic information, observing only that he was active from 1841–71. However, the details contained in the Census indicate he was born in St Pancras, London, in 1819, and died in the same city in 1881.
Sleigh was an industrious toiler in art, and it is possible, whatever the other complications, to re-establish the basic shape of his career. Nothing is known of his training, although it may have been in a lithographer's workshop rather than a studio or art school. But Sliegh was certainly versatile, shifting apparently seamlessly between his chosen fields, and was essentially a jobbing artist of his time. As a painter he specialized in landscape, exhibiting a single work at the Royal Academy, three pictures in Suffolk Street, and a further twelve at various London venues (Graves, p.256); none survives. The earnings derived from this activity were supported by free-lance work in illustration; like many struggling painters he turned to publishing as a means of generating cash, and drawing on wood for the expanding market in picture books was a source of precarious employment.
Developing his interest in landscape, he contributed atmospheric designs to Charles Mackay's Home Affections of the Poets (1858) and R. A. Willmott's English Sacred Poetry (1862). In the second of these he published rustic images in a style reminiscent of Samuel Palmer. Sliegh's work was offered as part of an anthology of images by a variety of artists, and his small entry into the world of wood-engraving may have been procured as a result of his association with the illustrator and Punch artist Charles Keene, who was a close friend and with whom he travelled abroad. Keene immortalized their antics in a series of drawings in Punch in 1856.Keene probably introduced his associate to the Dalziel Brothers, who engraved Sliegh's designs in coloured wood-blocks for Odes and Sonnets(1863). Yet the Dalziels make no mention of him in their Record. This is especially surprising given that he designed several letterheads and monograms for members of the Dalziel family (Philip Hofer Collection, p.142).
The overall impression of Sliegh's career is thus one of fragmentariness, of taking work where he could find it. At all stages of his working life, and especially at the beginning, this process reduced him to the level of a technician. Engaged as a lithographer and chromolithographer, he translated some designs from other designers. He copied Owen Jones's work in Matthew Digby Wyatt's The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century (1853), and parallel commissions appeared in the form of The Book of Common Prayer (1845), A Welcome to Her Royal Highness (1863) and The Juvenile Pianoforte Album, the details of which have entirely disappeared except for a preparatory drawing.
At the same time he was working as a free-lance graphic artist who undertook sundry commissions from his rooms at 25 Mary Street, Marylebone, and subsequent addresses. The Philip Hofer Collection in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, contains interesting evidence of his activities. The catalogue entry for a recent exhibition, quoting directly from the material, reveals the piece-meal nature of his employment. His business card, astonishingly still in existence, offers his services as a designer of:
Presentation Addresses/Dedications, Memorials,/and every other kind of Document, written and Illuminated/upon Vellum and Paper – or executed by John Sliegh' … Specimens of Sliegh's calligraphy [also] include a 'Testimonial to Thomas Bennett' Esq. dated February 23, 1869; a certificate for the Society of Painters in Watercolours; a ticket for the Vernon Gallery and a card for A.J. Lewis 'At home Saturday Evenings … Music at Eight – Oysters at 10.30' as well as a number of cards and liquor bottle labels [along with] sheet music covers [p. 142].
Moving between landscapes for the London galleries and bottle-labels, Sliegh mixed high and low art in a manner which was more common than historians may have suspected, but was nevertheless an economic necessity in the crowded art-market of the period. Self-promotion was essential, and one way of doing this was to join artistic societies. Sliegh was a member of The Crayon Club and The Junior Etching Club, two of the many artistic coteries, and work produced for these organizations has survived. A couple of drawings connected with The Crayon Club can be seen in The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and Sliegh published a highly accomplished etching of a rural scene in Passages from Modern English Poets (1861–2). We do not know if he were personally acquainted with the other contributors to this book, but it is significant that his image was published next to work by Keene and James Whistler.
Bindings by two different designers: Left: John Sliegh's The Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1857). Right: Albert Warren's Wayside Poesies (1867).
Yet it is only in the field of book-binding that Sliegh makes a lasting impression. His pieces include the exotic Odes and Sonnets (1863), for which he designed both the cover and decorations; a binding for Thomas Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming(1857); an extravagant gilt confection for The Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1857); and another, similarly ornate, for Longfellow's Poetical Works (1865).
Despite this typically Victorian energy and application, none of his efforts seems to have led to prosperity and – like his multi-talented contemporaries E.H. Wehnert and John Franklin, whose modest lives echo his own – Sliegh was never especially successful; perpetually in need of work, he probably lived on a small income and may have experienced poverty. His position at the margins of middle-class society is vividly conveyed by the records of his accommodation, as given in the Census returns. He never married, never owned a house, and spent all his adult life as a lodger, renting rooms as self-contained accommodation, or sharing meals with the family and other residents. In 1851 he was living in the premises of one Robert Heilett (25 Mary Street, Marylebone), along with the landlord's wife and three children; in 1861 (aged 42) he was a guest in the home of Ambrose Spratt, where he was joined by his brother, Thomas Sliegh, a 'dealer in musical instruments'; and in 1871 (aged 52) he was resident at yet another address, and still as a lodger. Sliegh used all of his addresses as business addresses, and all work seems to have been conducted in his rented room or rooms, where he must have had some space set up as a studio and workshop.
The only surprise is his final destination. In 1881 (aged 65) he is recorded as both an 'artist' and an 'insane patient' in Bethlem Royal Hospital, the institution which housed Richard Dadd before he was moved to Broadmoor in the late forties. This melancholy fate echoes the circumstances of the fairy artist Charles Doyle, and Sliegh's mental illness, like Doyle's, is obscure. In the absence of any medical diagnosis we can speculate that the economic pressures of struggling to survive were a contributory factor in his decline. He died in hospital, and left no estate.
Sliegh as a binding designer: a stylistic analysis
Signed as 'IS', sometimes with the 'S' encircling the 'I' in the manner of Roman insignia, Sliegh's designs for the Christmas book trade are prime examples of the extravagant, flamboyant style that characterises the genre. Issued in a variety of colours that ranges from crimson to navy blue, his bindings are heavily worked in gilt; designed as gifts and intended to be as eye-catching as possible, they set out to attract the buyer, satisfy the recipient and create a moment of excitement when they are unwrapped from plain paper. Designed to delight, they assert the cheery luxuriousness of the festive season.
Sliegh was of course one of several outstanding practitioners of celebratory designs. His rivals include John Leighton, W. R. Rogers, Robert Dudley and Albert Warren. Sliegh's approach is nevertheless quite distinct from those of others in the field. His style is generally characterised by its extreme geometry. Unlike the bindings of Leighton and Warren, his covers do not include emblematic details which represent the contents of the books they embellish, but are figured strictly as intricate arrangements in colour and gilt. Devoid of humour (which is often found in Leighton's designs) or narrative anecdote and prefiguration (as in Warren's), Sliegh's bindings have a formal purity which seems calculated rather than playful.
There is marked contrast between Warren's design for Robert Buchanan's Wayside Posies (1867) and Sliegh's binding for The Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1857). In the first of these, Warren includes figurative details that embody the notion of pastoral poetry. The enclosing margins contain images of flowers in roundels, while the central panel is an organic form enclosed by swirling arabesques. In Sliegh's work, on the other hand, the composition is purely decorative; though it includes a cluster of ivy-like forms surrounding the central lozenge, the treatment is far from naturalistic and is placed only as part of an ornamental arrangement.
Two bindings designed by John Sliegh: Left: Odes and Sonnets (1865). Right: The Course of Time (1857).
Sliegh's interest in geometry is most obviously embodied in his use of concentric designs which organize a series of motifs into a series of formal contrasts. The effect is sometimes startling rather than appealing. In the front cover for Gertrude of Wyoming, for example, he presents a central mandorla within a simple gilt margin; the mandorla is embellished with flange-like forms and the lettering is huge in relation to the overall surface of the upper board. Bold and imposing, a calculated contrast of space and simplified outlines, it is unlike the overcrowded designs of the period; figured purely a fascination with form and shape, it bears no relation to the text within and asserts its value as a piece of autonomous design.
Two bindings designed by John Sliegh: Left: Gertrude of Wyoming (1857). Right: Longfellow's Poetical Works (1865).
The British Library has two copies of this work, both published in 1857, and both bound by Bone and Son. The same design by Sliegh is blocked on each copy, the one having blue morocco vertical-grain cloth, the other with red morocco horizontal-grain cloth. Elaborated lettering is also a feature of Evangeline, published by Routledge in 1856. The British Library copy has red morocco horizontal-grain cloth, and was bound by Edmonds & Remnants. The close up on the monogram shows consistent use of the monogram, even though these copies were bound by different binders.
The same sort of formal clarity can also be traced in the front cover for Odes and Sonnets (1863), which is series of geometrical contrasts, as if were an abstract diagram. The central panel is a severe oval with another, containing the title, within it; this is framed by two concentric margins, with four roundels placed in the interstices; the effect is a curious combination of extreme luxuriousness and formal austerity.
Sliegh's tendency to treat the cover-design as an hermetic composition in its own right features throughout his other creations, and it is interesting to reflect that he must have regarded himself as a designer of patterns rather than a book-artist. The motifs deployed in his covers are closely related to his colour designs for Odes and Sonnets, and treats his bindings in the same manner as his initial letters, borders and headings.
A source for his bindings (as for all of his design work) is Owen Jones's catalogue of patterns, The Grammar of Ornament. Published in 1856, Jones's book provides a series of colour plates which represent some of the most typical designs of a series of historical periods. Inspection of Sliegh's work reveals his indebtedness to Jones's imagery, especially in his adoption of medievalist or specifically Gothic styles. There is a clear relationship, for instance, between the design of Odes and Sonnets and 'Middle Ages no. 5' in the Grammar; other bindings can be linked to a variety of Jones's designs.
Works with bindings designed by Sliegh or containing his illustrations
Book of Common Prayer, The. London: Murray, 1845. Decorations copied by Sliegh after Owen Jones.
Campbell, T. Gertrude of Wyoming. London: Routledge, 1857. Illustrated by Birket Foster, with a cover design by Sliegh.
English Sacred Poetry. Ed. R.A. Willmott. Illustrated by J.D. Watson, F. Sandys, etc.. including three illustration by John Sliegh.
Home Affections of the Poets. Ed. Charles Mackay. Illustrated by Birket Foster, etc. Contains a single illustration by John Sliegh. London: Routledge, 1858.
Longfellow, H. W. Evangeline. London: Routledge, 1856. Illustrated by John Gilbert; cover design by Sliegh.
Longfellow, H. W. Poetical Works. London: Routledge, 1857. Illustrated by John Gilbert. Binding by Sliegh.
Odes and Sonnets. London: Routledge, 1863; first published in another form in 1859. Illustrated by Birket Foster. Cover, spines and coloured decorations by Sliegh; engraved by the Dalziels.
Passages from Modern English Poets. London: Day [1862]. Illustrated by Keene, Millais & Whistler; contains one etching by Sliegh.
Poets of the Nineteenth Century, The. Ed. R. A. Willmott. London: Routledge, 1857. Illustrated by Millais et al. Cover designed by Sliegh.
Pollock, R. The Course of Time. London: Blackwood, 1857. Illustrated by Birket Foster, John Tenniel. Cover design by Sliegh.
Welcome to Her Royal Highness, A. With a poem by Alfred Tennyson; decorations designed by Owen Jones [executed by John Sliegh] London: Day, 1863.
Wyatt, Matthew Digby.Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, The. London: Day, 1851–53. Sliegh was the lithographer producing other artists' designs.
Other contemporary material
Jones, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament.London: Day, 1856.
Wayside Posies. Ed. Robert Buchanan. Illustrated by Pinwell, North, etc. Binding designed by Alfred Warren. London: Routledge, 1867.
Secondary Works Cited
Ball, Douglas. Victorian Publishers' Bindings. London: The Library Association, 1985.
British Census Returns, 1841–1881. Accessed through Ancestry.co.uk
[Finlay, Nancy]. Entry in The Philip Hofer Bequest. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1988.
Graves, Algernon. A Dictionary of Artists, 1760–1893. 1895; Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, nd.
King, Edmund. Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 1830–1880. London: The British Library & Newcastle: The Oak Knoll Press, 2003.
Maclean, Ruari. Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing. London: Faber & Faber, 1963.
Pantazzi, Sybille. 'Four Designers of English Publishers' Bindings, 1850-1880'. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America55 (1961): 88-99.
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Empty jobs plague administration
A terror threat has embassies on high alert. Hurricane season is about to pick up. And over at the Department of Homeland Security, the No. 3 person is about to be left in charge.
Not because he was nominated for the top job. But with Janet Napolitano's upcoming departure Sept. 6, and President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy secretary tangled in corruption allegations, the undersecretary of homeland security for national protection and programs is the highest confirmed official at the critical agency.
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The president and administration aides make a familiar argument that this is due to political obstructionism: look at how many nominees the Senate has sat on, they say, and Republicans' unprecedented number of questions on so many previously untouched topics that have forced them into extensive and necessarily extended vetting.
But the president's taking his time, too.
More than six months into his second term, Obama has left top positions throughout his administration vacant, or filled by acting officials. In many cases, he hasn't even nominated people for the jobs.
( PHOTOS: Obama's second-term Cabinet)
That has left unfilled dozens of high-level jobs at key departments that require nomination and confirmation. Even with the expected turnover of a second-term administration, that's extremely high. And at Homeland Security — where Obama has already waited more than a month to nominate a successor to Napolitano and Republicans have already signaled a fight over her successor — and other agencies, that's where things are stuck.
The open spots run from the Defense Department's undersecretary for personnel and readiness, who spent seven months on the job before being formally nominated at the end of July, to Small Business Administration chief Karen Mills, who said in February that she would hold off her departure until a successor was named — and then, after waiting five months, announced she was giving up and leaving without a successor being nominated.
The president and many of his top aides argue over and over again that Senate Republicans are massively disrupting the president's personnel plans by refusing to confirm his nominees and insist none of these vacancies affect operations.
But that hasn't convinced a growing number of frustrated Democrats, who point to the slow Obama movement on a job like executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities — which doesn't require confirmation but has been led by an interim appointee after six months of having no one at all — as evidence that the administration needs to pick up the pace.
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"Some very good people are called on to serve on an acting basis. But for those people and everyone else at the agency, there's always a question, 'Is this person still going to be around next week or next month?'" said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), a critic of the practice and of the administration's overall slowness in picking people for jobs. "There's a lack of continuity and predictability … does this person really speak for the administration?"
Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service — which provided POLITICO with details on unfilled top posts in key departments and the White House ahead of a comprehensive review of vacant or acting political appointments throughout the administration due in the fall — agreed that Senate Republicans have been blocking the administration and the nomination process has become a "minefield" that makes recruitment difficult. But he says the White House deserves a lot of the blame.
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Over at Homeland Security, the empty slots include the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, the commissioner of customs and border protection and the director of immigration and customs enforcement.
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OSHA's New Severe Violator Enforcement Program--More Intensive Inspections
OSHA has begun enforcing with a lot more willful citations. Eye-popping penalty increases are around the corner, for instance-by-instance or machine-to-machine penalties. Starting this June, there will be a programmed set of penalty increases and enforcement procedures to target employers who ignore OSHA standards. OSHA is implementing a new Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP) and increasing civil penalty minimum amounts.
Instead of looking back three years on repeats, OSHA will look back five years. The new programs can be found at www.osha.gov/dep/svep-directive.pdf.
SVEP focuses OSHA enforcement resources on employers who endanger workers by repeatedly demonstrating indifference to their responsibilities under the law. This supplemental enforcement tool includes increased OSHA inspections in these worksites, mandatory follow-up inspections, and inspections of other worksites of the same employer where similar hazards and deficiencies may be present. Several administrative changes to the penalty calculation system in OSHA's field operations manual also will become effective in the next several months, increasing the overall dollar amount of all penalties through higher assigned penalty factors while maintaining OSHA's policy of reducing penalties for small employers and those acting in good faith.
OSHA's news release of the new penalty program can be found at www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=17544.
Our office is seeing a steep rise in willful citation allegations in machine guarding, training, lockout/tagout, and in accident investigations. OSHA is assessing penalties as high as $70,000 per similar machine cited. At the same time, OSHA investigators are holding private interviews with supervisors, maintenance foremen, construction site leadpersons and mangers. Videotaped interviews of employees are becoming more common, as are multiple subpoenas for documents such as reports from safety consultants, insurance risk loss auditors, ISO 9000 auditors and workers compensation files.
Employees and employers have legal rights to have a representative present during interviews. More and more are exercising that right, to avoid unfair interviews and leading questions or potential misrepresentations.
Interview techniques that seem to be popular include comparing answers of workers from different shifts, requests for the worker to sign the inspector's interview notes, and followup interviews.
Notable features of the enhanced penalty and enforcement program on recalcitrant employers include:
• Mandatory OSHA follow-up inspections.
• Inspection of other worksites in different states owned or operated by the same targeted employer.
• Five-year "look back" for repeat citations.
• High-gravity "serious" violations related to the standards identified in the SVEP as targets can be cited instance-by-instance as individual (not grouped) citations.
• Creation of a nationwide referral procedure for OSHA regions and state plan states.
• Targeting of high-emphasis hazards for inspection, such as fall hazards, exposure to hazardous chemicals, LO/TO and 1910.212 general machine guarding amputation hazards.
What are OSHA's criteria for any inspection or employer to be included under this new severe violator enforcement program? Here's OSHA's list:
Any inspection that meets one or more of criteria A through D, at the time that the citations are issued, will be considered a severe violator enforcement case. Willful and repeated citations and failure-to-abate notices must be based on serious violations, except for recordkeeping, which must be egregious (e.g., per-instance citations). See FOM, CPL 02-00-148, Chapter 6, paragraphs V.A.1. and VI.A.1.
A) Fatality/Catastrophe Criterion—A fatality/catastrophe inspection in which OSHA finds one or more willful or repeated violations or failure-to-abate notices based on a serious violation related to a death of an employee or three or more hospitalizations.
Note: The violations under this criterion do not have to be high-emphasis hazards as defined in Section XII, (p.5).
B) Non-Fatality/Catastrophe Criterion Related to High-Emphasis Hazards—An inspection in which OSHA finds two or more willful or repeated violations or failure-to-abate notices (or any combination of these violations/ notices), based on high gravity serious violations related to a high-emphasis hazard as defined in Section XII, (p. 5).
C) Non-Fatality/Catastrophe Criterion for Hazards Due to the Potential Release of a Highly Hazardous Chemical (Process Safety Management)—An inspection in which OSHA finds three or more willful or repeated violations or failure-to-abate notices (or any combination of these violations/notices), based on high gravity serious violations related to hazards due to the potential release of a highly hazardous chemical, as defined in the PSM standard.
D) Egregious Criterion—All egregious (e.g., per-instance citations) enforcement actions will be considered SVEP cases.
And, what does OSHA plan to require in settlement agreements to settle SVEP citations? Here is its list of demands:
E) Enhanced Settlement Provisions—The following settlement provisions shall be considered to ensure future compliance both at the cited facility and at other related facilities of the employer:
1) Employers shall hire a qualified safety and health consultant to develop and implement an effective and comprehensive safety and health program or, where appropriate, a program to ensure full compliance with the subpart under which the employer was cited under the SVEP;
Note: Employers cannot be required in a settlement agreement to use OSHA's state consultation services; such services are strictly voluntary.
2) Applying the agreement company-wide (See CPL 02-00-090 Guidelines for Administration of Corporate-wide Settlement Agreements. June 3, 1991);
Note: Company-wide settlement agreements are to be coordinated with the National Office of the Solicitor.
3) Requiring interim abatement controls if OSHA is convinced that final abatement cannot be accomplished in a short period of time;
4) In construction (and, where appropriate, in general industry), using settlement agreements to obtain from the employer a list of its current jobsites, or future jobsites within a specified time period. The employer should be required to indicate to OSHA the specific protective measure to be used for each current or future jobsite;
5) Requiring the employer for a specified time period to submit to the area director its log of work-related injuries andillnesses on a quarterly basis, and to consent to OSHA conducting an inspection based on the information;
6) Requiring the employer for a specified time period to notify the area office of any serious injury or illness requiring medical attention and to consent to an inspection; and
7) Obtaining employer consent to entry of a court enforcement order under Section 11(b) of the Act.F) Federal Court Enforcement under Section 11(b) of the OSH Act—SVEP cases should be strongly considered for section 11(b) orders when it appears that such orders may be needed to assure compliance. An employer's obligation to abate a cited violation arises when there is a final order of the Review Commission affirming the citation. For guidance on drafting citations and settlement agreements that can maximize the deterrent effect of a Section 11(b) order, see FOM (CPL 02-00-148) Chapter 15, section XIV. MF
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The most intriguing part of a recent Wall Street Journal article on New York's tech nightlife scene was the kicker:
A table full of female models was recently enjoying a girls' night out at Abe & Arthur's, a steakhouse in the Meatpacking District, when a man sent one of the women a note on a cocktail napkin. It read: "email@example.com."
The women posted the napkin to Facebook and crowdsourced ways they might reject the overture. In a way, it brought together avatars of the new tech scene with icons of established fashion power. But it also marked, in Internet lingo, an epic fail.
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Brilliant game, disappointing crowd however, 1240 is very low for professional sport.
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Like it or not we need to be back in Truro as a matter of the utmost urgency, if we wait until the stadium is ready we may have nothing to put in it, for crowds to be so low in September is desperately unhealthy and will only go one way.
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With Republicans vocally supporting candidates like Gollum (R-Goblin Kingdom) and Skeletor (R-Eternia) it's a little embarrassing when they turn their back on you. Such in the plight of poor Richard "god's intent" Mourdock. At a fundraising dinner/pep rally for Indiana Republicans on Monday evening, he was majorly dissed by many in attendance:
Some of the hundreds in attendance - mostly women - remained sitting during an ovation for Mourdock, and then stood eagerly for [Republican gubernatorial candidate, Mike] Pence. Several Republicans who attended said the reaction was the same at a reception before the dinner.
Mike McDaniel, the former Indiana Republican Party chairman, said he believes the candidacies of Pence and Mitt Romney will buoy Mourdock - but that the comments on rape and abortion did some damage.
"Those are comments that he knows he wishes he had back, and yeah, they made it closer," McDaniel said. "I think all the momentum was going in his direction, and that put a screech on that."
How embarrassing for him!
Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, the Republican who will most likely carry a two-thirds majority in Indiana, said that although he's not concerned about Mourdock's folly affecting his win, but he's not sure if Mourdock can pull through himself. "Every candidate is put in tight circumstances, has to answer tough questions. I don't know the answer," Bosma said. "I'm hopeful that Richard will pull it out."
That's what she said. But, seriously, folks, it's gonna be a tight race, so encourage your friends in Indiana to vote early and vote often.


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Talking with John Swann requires a certain mental flexibility. His ideas skirt contradiction, combining business sense with idealism. "I'm hoping to marry those two philosophies into a successful business," he says.
Swann is in the midst of planning a 11,000-square-foot natural-food store, Katuah Market, in Biltmore Village. The space, 2 Hendersonville Road, next to Ichiban, has been vacant for about two years.
In his 25 years in Asheville, Swann has been a higher-up at Earth Fare and Greenlife, as well as the owner of Bean Mountain Tofu in the early '90s. Currently, he owns Maple Creek Farm in Yancey County, where, until a few years ago, he produced maple syrup.
He's also worked in grocery cooperatives throughout the Southeast, and he's now a stalwart proponent of small business. "I came to a point where I felt that the entrepreneurial model was better suited to my personal style than the cooperative model," he says. "But I've never lost the idealistic basis that I came from."
Katuah Market, which could open as soon as August, will build on the foundation Swann established at Greenlife. In fact, he's recruited much of the team that opened that store for his new venture. "Our niche is for people who truly care about what they eat and are looking for the highest-quality ingredients and local ingredients," he says. "We're going to raise that bar back up to where it was with Greenlife before when it was independent, and even higher."
With those standards, Katuah Market will emphasize prepared foods and include a deli, hot and cold bars, and brick-oven pizza. There will be enough seating for 120 people, inside and outside, as well as grab-and-go portions. Everything will be prepared from scratch, in-house, Swann says.
The store's grocery component will be based on Appalachian Grown produce and meat, a standard developed by Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, where Swann currently serves as vice-president. Dry goods will be local, too; there's no house brand to interfere with shelving and product placement, Swann explains. In general, selections will be driven by consumer demand, so Katuah will respond to customers' requests for special products. "We will be, as Greenlife used to be, completely community-driven," he says. "The decisions that are made in our store will be made within the four walls of the store, and that's as far as it goes."
While the store is not a cooperative, like the markets where Swann got his start, it will have a profit-sharing program to distribute a portion of company gains among employees. The benefits of a motivated and well-compensated staff will, in turn, pass on to shoppers, Swann explains. "You wind up with a different type of employee than you do at a large, corporate box," he says. "They're more passionate; they're more engaged; they're more values based. They're higher maintenance from a management point, but that's a good thing."
Most of all, Swann plans to focus on staying small and connecting with the community. He never felt right about selling Greenlife to Whole Foods, he explains. His former business partner, Chuck Pruett, owned a controlling number of shares in the business, and the decision to sell came down to company politics, he says.
This time around, he's rooting himself in Asheville, as the name of his business suggests. "'Katuah' is a Cherokee Indian word, and it's the word they use for their homeland, for the Southern Appalachian mountains," Swann says. "I wanted a name that resonated with the history of this area."


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In a June 15th Windsor Star article, Chris Vander Doelen did a marvelous job of portraying Conservative MP for Essex Jeff Watson as a working class hero. In reality, Mr. Watson is a middle class sycophant to power and a traitor to his working class roots.
Mr. Watson's very real struggles to 'get ahead' are repeated millions of times by working class people around the world. According to Vander Doelen, Watson plugged away at multiple jobs at minimum wage and finally made it to a unionized Chrysler Canada assembly line with a living wage. All the while he struggled to pay tuition for a degree in history and help raise a family while his wife also worked. Watson had his eyes on something other than an assembly line job for the long term. Like Watson, all workers' desires are determined by complex social, political and economic forces. Workers are usually in the position of reacting to these forces with precious little opportunity to influence them proactively. For hundreds of years workers have struggled to extract wealth from the capitalist class at great peril requiring enormous sacrifice. Today we all still reap the dwindling social rewards of those struggles; however, the past thirty years or so have seen the dismantlement of the accommodation between capital and workers manifested in free trade deals after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A new global order emerged featuring the primacy of corporate personhood, and workers have not yet been able to effectively reorganize to confront and challenge it. The current economic regime places global 'free' trade and competition as the top priorities which in turn have devastated the manufacturing sector in Windsor and Detroit, and not because we lack the competitive drive – on the contrary; the work was simply taken away. What working people lacked was the political and economic power to confront the new global order which specifically excluded labour. Our slow transmutation from working class to middle class overshadowed the knowledge of our own history. We forgot the struggles but the capitalist class never has.
What workers did get out of the new global order was a snow job called the 'knowledge economy", a murky concept that generally translated into getting more education – a move that made sense on the surface in a time of massive down-sizing (which became "right-sizing" and could now be referred to as 'capsizing') since living wage work was disappearing. What has the knowledge economy produced? Mathematicians creating derivative trading and a global financial collapse, and an MP history major with no sense of history. In the meantime, Canada cannot produce enough skilled tradespersons who actually make things we need. Don't misunderstand: more education is always a good thing; just not when it is sold by those who know that under their plan there will never be enough meaningful, well paid work to go around – there must always be a pool of surplus labour in a capitalist system.
That Mr. Watson could get a job at even $9 an hour was thanks to the efforts of thousands of workers who campaigned and agitated for an increase in the minimum wage. That Mr. Watson could find a unionized factory job with a living wage is because workers, through their union, fought for decades to gain a living wage and improve working conditions. But does Mr. Watson understand at all the context of these tumultuous times? Apparently not. When he made the admirable decision to enter politics, he chose or was recruited to run as a conservative under Stephen Harper, a leader who has made it abundantly clear he will dismantle every social, political and economic tool workers have to defend and improve our interests. Already, it appears too many working class people will never make it to a job with a living wage, never be able to raise a family because of that, and will remain stuck in low wage and precarious work with shamefully weak provincial labour laws.
On top of this, the stage is set for ugly social unrest as Watson's boss has set into play a wage regime that will see migrant workers earn 15% less than Canadian workers, as all workers start to compete for ever scarcer jobs. Has Watson used his working class experience to speak out to his leader that if present trends continue all workers will suffer further and so also civil society? He has been silent. The Omnibus budget bill, itself a crime against the democratic process, will make it harder to retire, harder to collect Employment Insurance, harder to protect the environment, and harder to regulate corporations – in short harder to be a worker. Mr. Watson stood in the House of Commons, and while other MPs stood against the obvious injustice that was the "budget" bill, gladly did what his masters told him to do and voted against everything that got him to the House of Commons. Mr. Watson is more than an embarrassment. He is a sycophant to a regime bent on making Canada a hell hole for workers and a 'free-for-all' trade zone for corporations wanting to enrich themselves with Canadian resources: resources that belong not to them, but to the people of Canada, with a special emphasis on First Nations.
John Lennon sang that "… a working class hero is something to be" in a song that decried the slow and easy transition of workers into the illusion of the middle class. A working class hero Watson is not and rather than celebrate him, he should be roundly denounced for the class traitor that he is.


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Eh, for all you know it could just be some lurker with nothing better to do. But I see where you're coming from. If I had people on my ignore list, I'd want to know why and try to talk to them about it. I don't have to be sweethearts with the disputee at the end of the day, but at least have a shred of mutual understanding.
Of course, if someone is ignoring you... they wouldn't see your post here, right?
after i posted this yesterday it occured to me that someone could be ignoring me due to some of my recent signature pics. and if thats the case it's probally best that i dont know who they are =P


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Why would a woman publicly share her most devastating dating experience? Because Emily Thompson doesn't want you to live her nightmare.
"I feel like a fairly intelligent woman and it's hard to find myself in this situation," she told us from her Dallas home.
Thompson divorced 17 years ago, and after more than a decade without dating, she joined Match.com in January. In March, she connected with Robert Parker, an Army man serving in Special Forces based in Cairo, but soon to retire. They started texting daily.
"When you're messaging people multiple time every day and actually praying for their safety when you think they're fighting for our country, you develop a closeness pretty quickly," she said.
He was kind to her, and when he seemed too good to be true, he sent pictures of himself holding a sign that said "I'm real."
They were in love and talked about a future.
"He said he was stationed in Fort Hood, so he would be coming back there to get his things, and then he was going to move to Dallas and buy a home," she said.
But when his retirement came weeks later, he told Thompson he was caught up at Customs at the airport in Dubai, and needed to pay for various paperwork to pass through.
"It was wired to Citibank in New York, which I felt comfortable about," said Thompson.
But on a whim, she asked a friend in banking if one of Robert Parker's financial institutions was legitimate. The answer went beyond her drained accounts and broke her heart.
"I lost $131,000," she said. "Which was a lot of the money that I've save up in the last 17 years since my divorce."
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Pour 1 gallon of white vinegar into a bucket. Everyday 5-percent household white vinegar is fine for this weed killer. You wont need higher, more expensive concentrations such as 10 or 20 percent. It may take two or three days longer to kill the weeds with the lower concentration, but they will die.
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Xpressbet Jockey Challenge to feature 'Battle of the Sexes'
BALTIMORE, 05-13-13---Both pride and purses will be on the line for eight male and female riders in the inaugural $34,000 Xpressbet Jockey Challenge on Friday at Pimlico Race Course.
Past winners Javier Castellano, Rosie Napravnik and Emma-Jayne Wilson join locally based riders Kristina McManigell and Forest Boyce and are among the participants in Pimlico's first riding competition to combine some of the country's top male and female jockeys in head-to-head competition.
Friday's card is highlighted by seven stakes, including the $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) for 3-year-old fillies and the $300,000 Pimlico Special (G3) for older horses; as well as the Lady Legends for the Cure IV, sponsored by Wells Fargo. A pari-mutuel event with eight retired female riding pioneers, the race is run as part of a joint effort between Pimlico and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest breast cancer organization.
In the challenge format, riders will earn points for finishing first (12 points), second (6), third (4) and fourth (3) in four designated races: the second, third, fifth and seventh. The jockey with the most points at the end of the competition will be crowned champion and take home top prize of $12,000. Other prize money is $8,000 for second, $6,000 for third, $4,000 for fourth and $1,000 for fifth through eighth.
The 'Battle of the Sexes' winner is determined by which team, male or female, has the higher point total overall for all riders in the four-race challenge.
This is the fifth year for a jockey challenge at Pimlico on the Preakness eve card. Kent Desormeaux beat three others, including Castellano, to win in 2009, but Castellano edged Desormeaux in an eight-rider group for the 2010 title.
Switched to an all-female format in 2011, the challenge was won in 2011 by Wilson, who donated her $10,000 winner's share to the Komen foundation, and in 2012 by local favorite Napravnik.
The Xpressbet Jockey Challenge brings together a group that has won more than 23,000 career races and over $1 billion in purse earnings, including 14 Triple Crown races, five Eclipse Awards and two Sovereign Awards for riding success.
"I'm so excited, so excited, to ride with people I've always looked up to," said McManigell, 24. "Now, I'm riding with them. It's going to be a great experience. I'm very honored."
A graduate of Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron's North American Racing Academy in Lexington, Ky., McManigell is in her first year riding full-time in Maryland. She has eight wins from 76 mounts at the current Pimlico meet, which began April 4 and runs through June 8.
Her career got into full swing in 2010, winning her first career race on Jan. 7 at Tampa Bay Downs, where she was the leading apprentice rider, and finishing the year with 51 victories. McManigell topped $1 million in purses earned in both 2011 and 2012, and is more than halfway to reaching that mark again in 2013.
An Illinois native, she has also ridden at Churchill Downs, Turfway Park, Parx Racing and Ellis Park, which is close to where she was raised in Kentucky. In addition, she spent a summer internship exercising horses for trainer Todd Pletcher at Saratoga Race Course.
"My family had nothing to do in the horse racing business," she said. "In high school, I worked for a gentleman who had racehorses, and I'd clean stalls. He would run horses at Ellis Park, which is near where I grew up. He always put the thought into my head that I should be a jockey, and I just kind of got into it. I shipped in a couple times for a few trainers from Philly last year, and I was always very impressed with the attitude of the people around here, and just how everyone welcomed me in. The racing in Maryland is great."
McManigell will have special inspiration on Friday. Her mother, Jennifer, was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and will be in attendance to watch her daughter compete.
"She is doing really well now," she said. "The prognosis is good and the last check of everything is good, so thank God for that. She hasn't seen me ride in years live, so just to have her here is great, but to have her here on that day and with what she's been through this last year, it definitely means a lot."
McManigell admits being a bit awed by her competition, which includes many of her professional role models.
"The lineup – Gary Stevens, Edgar Prado – these are people I idolized," she said. "I remember reading Gary Stevens' book when I was like 13 years old. It's pretty cool. If nothing else, I'm going to learn a lot just by riding with them. I'm very excited."
Napravnik, 25, who made her mark on the Maryland circuit, ranks second overall with 123 wins and fifth with $5,186,563 in purses in 2013, both tops among female riders. Her fifth-place finish on Mylute was the best for any woman rider in the Kentucky Derby, and on Saturday she will become only the third female to compete in the Preakness, following Patti Cooksey and Andrea Seefeldt.
Wilson, 32, captured the 2005 Eclipse award and Canada's Sovereign Award in 2005 and 2006 as champion apprentice jockey, and became the first female to win the Queen's Plate, her country's version of the Kentucky Derby, in 2007.
Boyce, 28, was sixth in Maryland's jockey standings with 58 wins last year, after being the state's leading rider as an apprentice in 2010, finishing second in Eclipse Award balloting that year as top apprentice.
Castellano, 35, has won the Travers Stakes three times and was the regular rider for champions Bernardini and Hall of Famer Ghostzapper. This year, he is second overall with more than $7.3 million in purses earned and fourth with 121 victories.
Prado, 45, rose to prominence winning 24 riding titles in Maryland in the 1990s. He has one Kentucky Derby and two Belmont Stakes victories to his credit, has won 6,636 races and nearly $245 million in purses in a career than earned him the 2006 Eclipse Award as top rider and a spot in racing's Hall of Fame.
Stevens, 50, has won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness three times, and the Belmont Stakes twice in a Hall of Fame career that includes the 1998 Eclipse Award as top rider, 4,906 wins and more than $222 million in purse earnings.
Velazquez, 41, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2012. He has won the Kentucky Derby once and Belmont Stakes twice, a pair of Eclipse Awards as champion jockey, is closing in on 5,000 lifetime wins and has earned more than $285 million in purses.
Participants from both the challenge and the Lady Legends race will take part in an autograph session on the first floor grandstand starting at 10 a.m.
About Pimlico Race Course
Historic Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness® Stakes, the middle jewel in horse racing's famed Triple Crown, first opened its doors on October 25, 1870, and is the second oldest racetrack in the United States. Pimlico has played host to racing icons and Baltimoreans have seen the likes of legendary horses such as Man o' War, Seabiscuit, Secretariat, Affirmed and Cigar thunder down the stretch in thrilling and memorable competition. For more information on Pimlico, visit www.pimlico.com.
Pimlico Race Course is a Stronach Group company, North America's leading Thoroughbred racetrack owner/operator. The Stronach Group racetracks include Santa Anita Park, Gulfstream Park & Casino, Golden Gate Fields, Portland Meadows, Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course, home of the world-famous Preakness. The company owns and operates the Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida and is one of North America's top race horse breeders through its award-winning Adena Springs operation. The Stronach Group is one of the world's largest suppliers of pari-mutuel wagering systems, technologies and services. Its companies include AmTote, a global leader in wagering technology; Xpressbet, an Internet and telephone account wagering service; and Monarch Content Management, which acts as a simulcast purchase and sales agent of horseracing content for numerous North American racetracks and wagering outlets. The Stronach Group is also a major producer of televised horse racing programming through its HRTV cable and satellite network and is North America's premier supplier of virtual online horse racing games, as well as a leading producer of social media content for the horseracing industry.


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This week's post comes from Chris Crass, a longtime organizer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. Throughout the 1990s he was an organizer with Food Not Bombs. In the 2000s, he was an organizer with the Catalyst Project, which combines political education and organizing to develop and support anti-racist politics, leadership, and organization in White communities and builds dynamic multiracial alliances locally and nationally in the United States. He has written and spoken widely about anti-racist organizing, lessons from women of Color feminism, strategies to build visionary movements, and leadership for liberation. He is the author of Towards Collective Liberation: anti-racist organizing, feminist praxis, and movement building strategy published by PM Press.
For all of us who are men who believe in social justice, who want healthy and beautiful lives for our loved ones, and who are working for positive change in the world, let us commit or re-commit to making feminism central in our lives, values, and actions.
Black feminist scholar bell hooks writes, "When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love." She continues, "Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage, and strengthen our commitment." It is time for men in the millions to take courageous action in our society to further feminist revolution.
The everyday violence and oppression of sexism in our society is epidemic and not only must end, but can end. Sexism devastates our relationships, communities, social justice efforts, and our lives. While we did not choose to be men in a patriarchal society, we have the choice to be feminists and work against sexism.
Below is a list of tools and suggestions that have helped me over the years as I have struggled to understand what it means to be a man working for feminism (1).
Let us look to the leadership of women and gender oppressed people for guidance and work alongside them, let us bring more and more men into feminist efforts, let us embrace feminism as a healing and transformative force in our lives, and let us feel in our hearts that we can do this (2).
1. Develop an intersectional feminist analysis of patriarchy, capitalism, White supremacy, heterosexism, and the state. Study feminist analysis from writers such as Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, Suzanne Pharr, Angela Davis, Barbara Smith, and Elizabeth 'Betita' Martinez. Learn about the historical development of patriarchy in books such as Maria Mies' Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch, and Andrea Smith's Conquest.
Explore the impact of patriarchal violence on your life and what you can do to stop it in Paul Kivel's Men's Work. Read bell hooks' essays about men and feminism in Feminism is for Everybody and The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love. Learn more about gender justice in Leslie Feinberg's Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Reflect on your experience of gender using Kate Bornstein's My Gender Workbook as a guide.
2. Study social movements and organizing experiences led by women and gender oppressed people historically and today — from Ida B. Wells and Abby Kelley to Septima Clark and Ai-Jen Poo. Also learn about men in the movement who supported women's leadership and feminist politics—from William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois to Ricardo Flores Magon, Carl Braden, and David Gilbert.
Take stock of the resources around you that can support your learning. Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, and Labor Studies programs were won through the struggle of previous generations. Some of the most visionary and powerful feminists of our time teach; seek out opportunities for study at colleges. Look into political education and training programs led by social justice organizations with feminist politics. Look for events about women's history and feminism at progressive bookstores, social justice conferences, and with community groups. Join or form a study group to read books from some of the authors already mentioned, and to learn more about feminist history.
3. Think about women, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people in your life who support your development as a feminist. These may be friends, people you've worked with, or family members. Reflect on what you have learned from them. Far too often patriarchy teaches men to ignore or devalue the wisdom of gender oppressed people and this both undermines their leadership in society and robs us of their leadership in our lives. Take time to thank people for what you've learned and look for opportunities to support them and strengthen your relationships.
4. Think about men in your life who can support your process of learning about sexism and developing as a feminist activist. This could include talking through questions and struggles you are having and/or reading one of the authors mentioned above together, as well as participating in organizing efforts that have feminist goals. While support for your development as a feminist will often come from women and genderqueer people, and it is important to show gratitude for that support, it is critical to build bonds of mutual support with other men as we work to grow individually and also to develop a culture of feminist activism amongst men.
5. Learn about current struggles in your community that further feminist goals and have a gender analysis. Look for opportunities to get involved and support these efforts. Your support can include donating money, volunteering to do office work, doing outreach for events, showing up with others to demonstrations and rallies, and recruiting other people in your life, particularly men, to get involved as well. It is important to support and respect the existing leadership of these struggles, rather then come in thinking you're going to take over. Look for opportunities to build relationships with the people involved in these efforts. The more you show up and make useful contributions, the more you can also build trust and respect.
6. Develop a feminist analysis of all the social justice work you do, and work with others to help make that analysis more central in your efforts. Reach out for help and ask questions. Notice when you feel that asking for help is a sign of weakness and try to do so anyways.


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I am new in this site, want to play tennis badly,
I am 3.0-3.5. female I guess, coach said I have a good skill, but lack of game experience, try to build it up. I usually played mixed double or single.
baselind player, try to be more all-court type. used to be a champion for Houston Open in badminton many year ago, switch to tennis 5 years ago. try to join some tournament in the future.
if you have time to hit or play match, welcome. and please leave message. like to play on campus of UC berkeley
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yes, do you want to play now? I booked the court until 8pm. in hearst tennis court UC berkeley
if can play, text me at 415 3409588
yes, let's hitting some ball. do you want to play tennis for tonight on Berkeley campus? sorry asking late.
my coach said I am about 4.0 now, but I think I am about 3.5-4.0 in the game.
Hi Wendy,
I am very interested in playing during the day and I can get up to the UC Berkeley campus though the courts farther west are closer and usually have fewer players.
I'm a beginner too but I played squash for years - maybe like you and badminton :)
My e-mail is email@example.com
Hope to hear from you!
Hi there! My tennis buddy (met on Tennispolis) left and I am desperate. I am a good 3.5 I'd say, can struggle with service but have a couple good hits. Very competitive, love to play three sets. I live close to the Hopkins Street courts in Berkeley. Maybe we can play some time soon? Let me know. Ciao,
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