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Surface to air and anti-ballistic missiles. For purposes of completeness, we are including the conventional systems associated with Ballistic Missile Defense.
CIM-10 Bomarc
A long-range supersonic nuke-tipped SAM designed to vaporize Soviet bombers. As in, a single missile would vaporize entire squadrons of bombers. Looked something like a small, unmanned fighter aircraft, although "small" here is relative. Eventually phased out by the '70s, on account of being obsolete.
Nike series
One of the first SAMs in US service and in fact anywhere in the world. Dates back to 1944, as the War Department wanted a way to shoot down jet aircraft more reliably. At one point they were widely deployed in the US to protect everything worth vaporizing; for you spelunkers and urban explorers out there, every major American metropolitan center has at least one abandoned Nike missile facility near its vicinity, provided that it hasn't been claimed by redevelopment. The successor to the initial MIM-3 Nike-Ajax was the MIM-14 Nike-Hercules, which was a substantial improvement in most respects and could even intercept ballistic missiles. Extra useless trivia: as they were funded at the same time, the Nike-Ajax missile and the Interstate Highway System are compatible: The minimum clearances in tunnels, overpasses, and such areas are designed so a Nike on a trailer can fit through them.
All Nike batteries in the National Guard had one active duty officer. His job was to secure and arm the nuclear warheads that would be used to shoot down incoming Soviet bombers.
- What appear to be Nike missiles appear on the poster for The Invisible Boy
- There is a preserved launch site run by the National Park Service in Marin County, CA, north of San Francisco. Notably featured on Cities of the Underworld.
RIM-2 (originally SAM-N-7) Terrier
An early medium-range naval SAM, developed to provide an extra layer of defence between guns and carrier fighters. One variant had a 1-KT nuclear warhead.
Capable of being carried on cruisers and smaller than the Talos, it was capable of being the first stage of a large launch vehicle and is today used as part of sounding rockets (sub-orbital rockets for experimental purposes) by NASA.
Replaced by the Standard Missiles (SM) series.
RIM-8 (originally SAM-N-6) Talos
A long-range (c.100nm) ship based surface-to-air missile, with two dedicated nuclear variants and one that was dual-capable. One of the earliest US naval SAMs, it was rather large, limiting the vessels it could be carried on to cruisers. Launched from a twin-arm Mk 12 launcher.
Used in The Vietnam War, it shot down three MiGs. A radar-homing version was developed, also being used in Vietnam.
It was retired in 1979 along with all the relevant ships bar the Long Beach class, which got new launchers instead. The remaining missiles were used as targets.
LIM-49 Spartan
Part of Project Safeguard, a US ABM effort in the early '70s. A Nike derivative; it was designed to destroy warheads outside the atmosphere and it had a high-yield, 5Mt warhead. The problem was that detonating such a warhead at altitude would produce a massive EMP, imposing a radar blackout on the defenders...anyway, Safeguard was deployed, per the terms of the 1972 ABM treaty, to protect a US ICBM silo field in North Dakota. The system included some radars and command-and-control facilities, and a second type of interceptor, which might be one of the coolest missiles ever designed, the awesome...
Which didn't even receive a designation. Now, this was designed for terminal defense and endoatmospheric intercepts - in other words, like Spartan it was an ABM system. This required very fast reaction and flyout times, so the thing was insanely fast. And it had incredible acceleration, too; right out of the silo (the lid was fitted with explosives and not so much opened as fragmented; the missile was forced out of the silo by an explosive-driven piston) it hit 100 Gs! It was cone-shaped, and most aspects of its design were quite superlative. Average time for an interception was supposed to be around 15 seconds. Now, sure, you get far less time to pull off that intercept if you do it endoatmospherically, but when the warheads as well as the countermeasures and penetration aids they toss off reenter, they declutter, so you can tell them apart much more easily. Safeguard, however, well...per the terms of the treaty, the US was limited to a site protecting either the national capital or an ICBM silo field with 100 interceptors. (Originally both, but this was later amended.) So, the defense was only of very marginal value and it was rather obsolescent anyway (thanks to the "low-altitude" Topol ballistic missile). The Soviets actually had a counterpart system, around Moscow; an upgraded version (A-135) is still in place and operational.
This ship-based system of phased-array radars, the SM series missiles and co-operative engagement capability (namely one ship can shoot the missiles of others) was originally designed to defend US carrier groups against a Macross Missile Massacre. In addition to firing on other ship's targets, each ship can also engage several dozen targets simultaneously. It was developed in the 1970s and started to be deployed in the early 1980s. AEGIS-equipped ships include the Ticonderoga CGs, the Arleigh Burke DDGs and a number of foreign warships based on the latter design.
The AEGIS SPY-1 series radar in particular deserves special mention, being capable of pumping six million watts of radio energy down a particular bearing. This is enough that unshielded electronics (rare) on a "scorched" plane would be shorted out in short order. Two sailors tales abound: One of off-duty sailors wrapping a potato in tin foil, tossing it up in front of the operating radar, and receiving an insta-baked potato from the sky, and the other involving targeted aircraft crews having "FLKs" (Funny Looking Kids). Needless to say, this system usually idles at one third its max power.
RIM-66/67 Standard (SM-1/2)
The newer SM series missiles only require target illumination for the last few seconds of flight, meaning that an aircraft that's been fired upon may not know it until it's too late to dodge or launch decoys. The very latest add an imaging infrared seeker as well, making them even more of a holy terror than they already were. These can also do double duty as anti-ship missiles, in a pinch.
In recent years, the possible threat from Chinese anti-ship ballistic missiles is leading to an upgrade of the system including better missiles and radars.
This four-phase system uses the existing RIM-161/SM-3 missile with upgrades (the SM-3 destroyed a wayward satellite in 2008) based on AEGIS warships, Patriot PAC-3 terminal defence interceptors and road-mobile SM-3s in Europe.
It basically aims to provide faster defence against current and imminent Iranian ballistic missiles like the Shahab-3, although concerns have been raised over cost and flexibility if the Iranians get an ICBM faster than the US estimate. The concept was dreamed up by a team of experts who included musician Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (of SteelyDan fame).
["Star Wars"]
Ronald Reagan's famous proposal for a missile shield in the 1980s, which would have involved space-based laser satellites to a large extent as well as kinetic impact vehicles and other unproven technology. The stated reason for this was a defence against a Soviet first strike, but the Soviets were seriously concerned that it would allow the US to destroy them and mop up any missiles they launched in retaliation.
The end of the Cold War voided the reason for the system. Which was just as well since the technology involved was decades away from being workable, a fact that the Soviets were entirely unaware of.
MIM-104 Patriot family
This high-altitude air defence missile family, entering service in the early 1980s, is the only ABM to have been used in real combat, namely against the "stretched Scuds" used by Saddam Hussein's Iraq against Israel and Saudi Arabia in 1991, and in the 2003 Iraq War against short-ranged missiles.
Their performance in the former conflict has to be called very patchy. While they were able to divert missiles away from small targets to an extent, they couldn't do anything in regards to the area attacks on Israel and it took a lot of diplomatic effort to prevent Israel entering the war and destabilising the UN coalition. There were also deaths from successful hits. An issue that made it harder was the poor quality of their targets' construction, which meant the missiles had broken into clouds of shrapnel on atmospheric re-entry. This spotty performance is unsurprising given that the Patriot missile system was originally designed to defend against manned aircraft and cruise missiles, with ABM capability being a fairly hasty modification.
In 2003, a US report concluded they probably got all 9 of the missiles Iraq launched into their areas, but the system also was involved in an embarrassing fratricide incident when an RAF Tornado was mistaken for hostile and destroyed.
Their role in future conflicts would be terminal defence.
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
After The Gulf War, US Army Air Defense decided that they wanted a missile that could hit enemy SCUD types farther away, in the upper atmosphere. THAAD took two decades to develop because the interceptor had issues. After The New '10s brought successful tests it was deployed to Guam.
- The system is mentioned in The West Wing as one of the systems President Bartlet offers to a friendly country. It's also featured on an episode of the Discovery Channel series Future Weapons.
["Son of Star Wars"]
This George W. Bush-era plan to defend the US and Europe against ballistic missiles from "rogue states" (e.g. Iran and North Korea) would have involved ten ground-based interceptors being deployed at each of three sites, two in the US and one in Poland. The latter and its associated omni-directional radar in the Czech Republic, aka "the third site" caused considerable diplomatic consternation with Russia, who feared that it would either damage its own deterrent and/or be a cover for a decapitation strike with medium-range missiles from Poland. As reason for their skepticism, Russia noted that neither Poland nor the Czech Republic is anywhere near Iran or North Korea.
Barack Obama cancelled this particular deployment in September 2009, replacing it with AEGIS BMD, above. The Czech and Polish governments weren't particularly happy with this development, but AEGIS BMD is a much more mature technology than the still-experimental ground-based interceptors, as well as being more flexible given that the US Navy's dozens of AEGIS-capable ships can be positioned anywhere a ballistic missile defense could conceivably be needed on fairly short notice.


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Thankful Thursday ~ Hope
- I have hope that My Son-in-law, Mark, will be completely healed in his back.
- I have hope that those on my prayer list suffering with severe conditions in their mental & physical health will be healed.
- I have hope that these red envelopes that so many of us are sending to Washington will have an impact on the president and his administration and that hearts will be softened and the unborn will be protected.
I 'm thankful, also, for last night's Bible study at church. We studied the fruit of the Spirit of peace. Visual presentations speak loudly to me and when our pastor featured his child's puzzle mounted on his white board, one piece was missing. The puzzle represented my life before Christ. An empty hole or piece was missing, but when I found Christ, the Prince of Peace, I became whole. I thought the play on words was profound!In Israel, the Jews greet each other with "shalom" like we say "hello." It is a message of "I greet you with wholeness here, with oneness." I'm thankful for my blogging buddies and I greet you with "shalom". Many of you have asked for prayer. I stand believing that Jesus, our hope, will touch you today and make you whole.
He's the Czar of Shalom, the King of Rest. Our hope! Join us for more Thankful Thursday articles at Women Taking a Stand.

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Pick up Penn--a community clean-up campaign--organized by Festival Associate and FDA Intern, Meaghan Maher; valiantly executed by Matt Galluzzo, Art District Manager and Jason Sauer of Most Wanted Fine Art with a crew of eager volunteers, topped off a banner week on Penn Avenue! The Penn Avenue Arts Initiative put some steam behind the festival all last week hosting City Paper and On Q for interviews with FDA Staff and Festival Partners; then Sunday, Rust Belt Radio caught us to get some words in about the upcoming event. Listen and watch for everything to come out this week in the media as we start the countdown to GA/GI!
Shown here, Ryder Henry, a local artist working on one of our GA/GI banners. They are recycled discards from the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Thanks Paula Weiner! Also thanks to Nancy Schuster and Mable Bozeman and family for their participation. And a ^5 to Bob Ziller, who let us use his space and Warholesque poppy patterns to get this task done and done beautifully! Colors from Westmoreland Paint in the Strip District. Also Shown, Mega Photographer Heather Mull, shooting @ the Pittsburgh Glass Center for City Paper.


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Pasedia LeDane Mills was called home on Thursday, September 6, 2018 at her residence. She was born on April 26, 1954 in Richland County, South Carolina to Robert Mills and Willie Mae Holland Mills.
LeDane attended Griffin Junior High, Howard University, and High Point College, as a Bible scholar. She also attended the North Carolina Governor's School and the North Carolina School of the Arts as a very talented flutist. She was gifted in singing and dancing, and would entertain the family at their many gatherings in her younger years. As the "oldest girl grandchild", she was truly loved by her family and she loved them. LeDane was a dedicated care-giver for her mother for the past several years. She was very organized and always ready to serve.
LeDane loved hymns and knew the words to ALL of the verses. She also loved fashion and looking nice. She was an avid reader and loved nurturing plants, flowers and trees.
Being very thoughtful of the needs of others, she started a food drive for Hampton Elementary School. She took care to send cards with very sincere notes and often included pictures to show her gratitude for the help she received.
She was preceded in death by her father and an infant brother.
LeDane will be missed and her memory cherished by her mother, Willie Mae Mills; her brother, Dwight Mills (Judy) of Raleigh, NC; her sister, Dr. Patricia Smith of Fredericksburg, VA; and many uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to Bethel Glenola United Methodist Church building fund.
A Celebration of Life will take place at 12:30 pm on Monday, September, 17, 2018 at Bethel Glenola United Methodist Church, 3229 Old Glenola Rd, Achdale, NC 27263. Burial will follow at Floral Garden Memorial Park. The family will receive visitors and friends at the church on Monday, 12 noon to 12:30pm


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Embrace Your Season of Change: Rest, Relaxation, Renewal/
Here we are...in the middle of the holiday season, the rush, and the change of seasons in many areas around the world. While writing this post and thinking of the season, of course for me the first thing which comes to mind is Christmas, followed by the New Year which is exactly two weeks away. When I put it like this, I instantly feel the rush to get things done, make improvements in my life, and begin to plan what I would like to accomplish for the coming year.
Well, that was certainly a mouthful, huh? Now if it could only be that easy, right? It certainly sounds good. :) I write and speak a lot about life's challenges and how to get through them. There was a point in my life when I only wanted to embrace the good things not face the bad or challenging things. More energy was put into making things look and feel good around me so there were times when I did not face or embrace my season of change and when it hit, it hit hard and fast.
Sure, I would love to have everything all planned out, in order, labeled, fixed, duct-taped and everything else. But, I now know as I approach my 46th birthday in two weeks that there is a reason for the season; a reason for change, and more reason to embrace it. I was sitting at the cusp of change six years ago around this same time wondering what I would do over the next few weeks, months, and years to come. It was at this point six years ago when my husband and I decided to separate and he moved out of our home just after the new year in 2012. At this time, I was approaching my 40th birthday and thinking to myself: "What would I do with two young children, on my own from day-to-day?" Facing this time in my life was certainly the toughest season from what I can remember besides the passing of my father in 2010.
Embracing this season of change was certainly not easy and I had to face many things which I did not want to come to grips with. One of the things I had to face was telling everyone my story; even my closest friends who had no idea what was going on until January 2012. So here we are, almost in January of 2018 and because you asked, yes - my birthday is January 2. As I approach my 46th birthday, I am so excited and filled with purpose and passion. I do not think I would be where I am today if I did not embrace and face the challenges met over the years. As the title of the post states rest, relaxation, and renewal - I must tell you where I am now six years later:
Rest: After the dust settled in 2012, I carved out one evening each week to rest and be still. This is hard for me since I love to be on the go and my kids love being on the go also with their activities.
Relaxation: Yes, this is a bit different from rest as I consider this time to be an extended period where you take vacation whether from work or other activities. Usually for me this is around the holidays where I take about two weeks off from work and continue to spend time doing everything I love.
Renewal: Part of renewal for me is forgiveness. I was holding onto so much although smiling on the outside. I took some time to repair myself, forgive what was done to me, and take ownership of my mistakes also. I am in a much better, renewed place.


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Smart Growth for Dallas is launching a Technical Advisory Team! As the next phase of a partnership with the Trust for Public Land and the Texas Trees Foundation, we're working to refine a data-driven decision support tool, which will help Dallas and its residents identify opportunities for parks, green infrastructure, and other green investments in areas where it will have significant impact. The information gathered through prior community engagement meetings has informed and will continue to drive the development of this tool. We'll be communicating with stakeholders across the city to get additional input.
As members of the Technical Advisory Team, stakeholders will provide insight as to how this tool can help achieve goals across various sectors, how their data can be incorporated, and specific use cases for the tool. The partnership will be convening a series of webinars through Summer 2018 in alignment with the five planning objectives: Connect, Cool, Health, Equity, and Absorb/Protect.
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Qaanaaq (Thule), Greenland Up in one of the farthest north settlements in Greenland lies the small town of Qaanaaq. Here there is no shortage of bright colours. In addition to the bright housing as seen in the background there is the delicious sight of fresh arctic char hanging to dry. At first I was turned off by this, but when I was invited to try a piece I peeled a cube off and to my delight it was like the most fresh fatty sashimi I had ever had. The look of glee that shone on the wrinkled face of the local man was returned by me as I exclaimed "mmmmm" with a big smile to ensure my gratitude wasn't lost in translation.
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Holly Bass is a multidisciplinary performance and visual artist, writer and director. Her best known body of work explores the endless allure of the black female body—from Venus Hottentots to video vixens. Her work has been presented at spaces such as the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Museums, the Seattle Art Museum, and the South African State Theatre.


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Christensen's model of disruptive innovation tells us that when new market entrants offer products that are inferior to incumbents, at a lower price point, targeting non-consumers of existing products with solutions that are simpler, easier to use, more convenient and/or more accessible, that the upstarts will almost always win the competitive battle. We see this recurring pattern frequently, and it's easy to mistake these attributes as causing disruption, rather than as signals that disruption is happening. This two part series examines the root causes that enable disruption to occur.
iPhone's 5th Birthday: The Most Successful Disruptive Innovation. Ever.
Five years ago Apple introduced the iPhone. On the eve of it's introduction, I published a blog article predicting that it would cause massive disruption of several industries and the reasons why.
We predicted it would sell beyond Apple's expectations, and beyond what even the most optimistic analysts projected. It turned out that as bold as we were, we weren't bold enough in predicting how successful it would be.
We predicted it would knock the Blackberry from it's perch as the top (business) smartphone. A prediction that many scoffed at -- especially the executives at RIM.
There were other predictions as well which we'll leave you to read if you're interested.
Although these things seem obvious in retrospect, I made these predictions based on disruption theory, and took a big step out of line, disagreeing publicly with my business colleague at the time, Mike Urlocker, with Clay Christensen, the father of disruption theory, and with other notable marketing experts including Al and Laura Ries -- renowned for their work and books on positioning.
Unbelievably disruptive: iPhone's Accomplishments
While the iPhone today has stiff competition from another disruptor -- Google's Android, and especially the leading purveyor of Android (Samsung), it remains the trendsetter with a list of remarkable accomplishments:
- iPhone alone is a bigger business than Microsoft, once considered the unassailable titan of tech based on its Windows and Office franchises. The same Microsoft whose monopoly market power was considered so strong that the DoJ targeted it with antitrust suits that threatened to break up the company. It's also the same Microsoft whose CEO, Steve Ballmer, mocked Apple for thinking anyone would buy a $500 phone. Who's laughing now, just 5 years later?
- The iPhone has generated over $150B revenue since its release, and has shipped over 250M units.
- At the current run rate, the iPhone will generate about $35B in profit this year. Only one company on the planet (besides Apple) generates more profit than the iPhone -- Exxon Mobil.
- RIM and the Blackberry are on the ropes, probably breathing their last. RIM announced they are laying off nearly 40% of their employees yesterday. The same RIM that as recently as two years ago was still claiming that no one would buy a business phone without a keyboard, and that it had an unbeatable advantage with corporations because of its security features.
- Nokia is also on the ropes. And, most competitors in the PC business have suffered serious setbacks, including Microsoft, HP and Dell. All either as a direct result of the iPhone, or because of its Trojan Horse effect (which my article in 2007 predicted).
- iPhone plus its big brother, the iPad, have made Apple the most valuable company on the planet, completing a 15 year disruptive comeback from near bankruptcy. Sitting on par with Exxon Mobil in market cap just 4 months ago, Apple is now valued at nearly $120B more, and by traditional multiples for "growth companies", could easily be valued at 2 to 3 times more than it currently is. It will likely become the first company in history to have a market cap exceeding $1 trillion within the next 18 months.
- Apps, apps, apps. How many companies owe their existence to the App Store and the rest of the iPhone ecosystem? There are over 600,000 apps available in the App Store -- 600,000 products that wouldn't have existed but for the iPhone. As of March of this year, more than 25 billion apps had been downloaded.
On the iPhone's 5th birthday, we hope that Steve's untimely passing doesn't mean the end of Apple's exceptional innovation and market leadership. The world needs more companies like Apple that anticipate what we want and how we want it, even before we're able to articulate it. Companies that push for what's next, instead of simply copying the best of what's out there (Samsung).
The iPhone isn't just the most disruptive innovation ever, it is symbolic of a state change in what we expect from technology and how we interact with it. It's hard to imagine how different the world was six years ago, almost as hard as it is to remember how we survived without the internet and email.
What does the future hold?
Looking forward another 5 years, we wonder:
- whether Apple can continue its remarkable run of industry-disrupting innovation without Steve?
- if the iPhone will still be on top, or will Android catch and pass it?
- what new innovations are still waiting to come out of Apple that will change the world as we know it -- is there a TV coming? what about home automation? cars? social media? Or, is the era of great new things from Apple over?
- who will pick up Steve's baton and run with it?
What do you think?
Identifying Disruptive Innovators: Techzinglive Interviews Paul Paetz
On Wednesday, February the 15th, Justin Vincent and Jason Roberts, co-hosts of Techzinglive did a podcast interview with Paul Paetz, founder of Innovative Disruption.
The discussion begins with how to accurately identify a disruptive innovator, and why most companies that claim they are, actually aren't. Our ebook "Disruptive Confusion Unraveled", and Innovative Disruption's analytic tool, the Disruption Report Card are mentioned in the discussion.
The podcast goes on to cover a wide range of material, including discussion of Apple's success and how they fit the disruptive model, why it's almost impossible to find a disruptive large company, to suggestions for how to give Justin's product, Pluggio, more disruptive potential.
The discussion centered around the relevance of key factors in achieving disruption, including:
- sustainable cost advantage / pricing strategy
- market segmentation
- targeting non-consumption
- choosing the right competition to position against
- business model
- convenience
- ease of use
- targeting undesirable users
- identifying the "job to be done" for a product
- addressing unmet or underserved needs
Warning: we get down in the weeds with some deep theory and detailed analysis of examples. If you prefer lightweight, breezy material, this isn't for you.


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Week 13 - From Alpine to Tucson
Time flies when you are with the people you love! I wish this wasn't so true! I really enjoyed being in Alpine! I miss the Dilts family so much when I am not with them! God truly blessed me with the best friends when I met Audrie and Steven in our school days! I love them so much and I also love thier families! Last weekend I was with Audire's Parents and this last week I spent with Steven's Family! A huge thank you to Roger, Carolyn, Bethany, Josiah & Bethany for opening your home this road warrior! I am so glad to have spent some quality time with you and getting to know you better! Alpine my old friend thank you for being beautiful as always! Below are some fun photos from Alpine some cool sky shots and a bit of Ultimate Frisbee with Friends, Also the Moon Shots and travel too Arizona!


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Back in the day when I was working as a full-time employee, I remember a time when my Director asked me to present an overview of our Company to the Department of Transportation. I didn't know much about the DOT, but they were very interested in understanding our business and I knew it would take a bit of research for me to do a good job.
I wanted to better understand our mutual interests and most importantly, I didn't want to waste their time. It was cool being asked to represent the Company; they obviously trusted me to send the right message, but I was a bit intimidated.
Instead of digging right in and making the best use of my time, I found myself creatively avoiding what needed to get done. It's not like the assignment was difficult, but there was an unknown factor that consciously or unconsciously made me feel uncomfortable. As a result, I made a decision to get busy…but I didn't get productive.
Busy (but NOT Productive)
I found myself hovering over email almost obsessively. I would start to work on the presentation or pick up the phone to call a colleague about the content, when I'd see a message come in that required my attention. It didn't necessarily require my attention at that exact moment but it was the path of least resistance...so I clicked.
I went back and forth between email and whatever it was I was working on for hours. Each time I pulled myself away from email to get back to work, it felt like starting from scratch again. After repeating this process multiple times per day, I would have trouble remembering the last thing I did before being distracted by my inbox.
The time flew by, and before I knew it the day was gone. I felt busy as ever but I didn't have anything to show for it.
When people work to the point of burn out, and an understandable practice is to veg out, watch TV, or doing something mindless in order to recharge. Email is a great mindless activity if you need to veg out at work.
The problem for me is that I wasn't burned out!
I was at the peak of my game, first thing in the morning. Yet, wasting all my energy on the mindless abyss of clutter sitting in my email inbox, all because I had a slight fear of the task at hand. The natural reaction was to procrastinate.
Do you use email as a stall tactic?
Sometimes you don't even know you're doing it. I made some pretty unproductive decisions in my day; in fact, I remember completely losing control one day and spending over two hours crafting the perfect email response to a message that randomly popped into my life that day.
In absolute stealth mode, time had completely slipped away, never to be found again. At the end of that day I felt exhausted and unaccomplished, searching for a better way to work. I hate that good people feel the need to unknowingly take part in wasteful practices like this one and I don't want it to happen to you.
A good starting point
...is to identify when you're falling into this trap.
Here's three ways to tell if you're actually working, or just "hiding out" in your inbox to avoid something important, and what to do about it:
1 - You Didn't Stick to the Plan
Emergency situations will arise that pull you away from your plan for the day, there's no denying that. Yet, all too often, non-urgent tasks end up sucking away you're valuable time for a given day. They're like shiny objects that draw your attention away from your true goals for temporary, empty pleasure and fulfillment. You're much more vulnerable to the adverse affects of these objects of your distraction when you know you need to work on something, but fear is holding you back. The only result of chasing the temporary pleasure is the pain of procrastination. What is that one thing you know you need to do today?
Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez calls these things his "Hit List," - I love that! What's on your Hit List? What's going to change your day, your position, or your career that you fear doing? Write it down so you don't forget! Deep down, you know what you need to being doing, but you don't always consciously give it recognition.
After you write it down take the time to think about the next logical step, you need to make an attempt to get this thing done by setting a date to do this next logical step. Your target date and your next step is now in your daily plan, and much more within your reach.
You may or may not end up sticking to your plan; whether you do or don't isn't important. What is important is to document, or at least make a mental note, of the one or two things that most contributed to you not getting that task done, and then think about "why."
If it's not because of an emergency or inadequate planning, then your "why" will usually comes down to a fear of something - that's ok, because you've now learned something! In fact, if you wrote it down you now have a documented lesson learned; a primitive root cause analysis!
When we know the action AND we know the cause, we can develop solutions to get better. What is it you can do better to either:
- mitigate the risk of giving into this fear, -or-
- plan your day to minimize the chance of being exposed to that fear?
2 - You Don't Feel Accomplished
You may subconsciously find yourself pecking away at your email. It's such a mindless activity that time seems often disappears without you even recognizing it's gone. You had all the intentions in the world of killing it at work today but now it's 3PM, and you're not sure how you've spent the last three hours after lunch. You also don't feel accomplished, but exhausted.
If at the end of the day, you have nothing to show for it and you're feeling like crap, think back to the trigger that got you there. If it was email, a good mitigation strategy is to start using a timer when you're "working" on email. As soon as you open Outlook or MacMail start the clock and see how long you're actually spending cranking away at messages.
See if you can keep this up consistently for one week. The more you do it, the more of a chance you'll have of forming a good habit, and the less time you'll find slipping away from you. The most valuable benefit from creating a good email habit is the recognition of when enough is enough.
Email will suck you away for life if you let it; but if YOU control it, rather than letting IT control you, you'll have a much easier time of fighting the fear as well as preventing an unknowing mistake that will drive you away from a good day at work.
3 - It's Eating Away at You
If email isn't the best use of your time, you're already letting yourself know. You have a burden on you that isn't going away but you're too busy living in the moment and convincing yourself that you don't have time to work on it right now. Bull!
As humans, we're impressively talented at creatively justifying our actions. We want to be the protagonist in our life stories; we want to shift the blame to someone else, but we can't always do that. If we have the time to do something we know we should be doing, but we're not taking the time to do it it's going to bother you!
Listen to your gut and take some accountability for your actions. Listen to that little voice when it tells you to "keep Outlook closed," or when it comments that perhaps this very moment "isn't the best time to respond to that message about Friday night's party," etc.
In Closing - On Avoiding Something Important
Tim Ferriss says it's worth tattooing this phrase on your forehead:
"The thing we fear the most is that which we ought to be doing most of."
It's true - the trick is finding strategies to cut through the noise and your own biased self justification. Hopefully these three tips get you at least off of email distractions and on the path towards increased productivity. I'd love to hear about what you're afraid to get started on. What's keeping you busy, but unproductive? For me, it's creating a course to help people figure out the answer to this question! Please leave a comment and stay online for the remainder of this exciting blog series!
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During this time of year, I often deal with seasonal depression. Over the last few weeks, I have not had the desire to do the things that interest me most. This morning, I began catching up on blog reading (which I had to force myself to do).
Sometimes, we have to force ourselves to do what we enjoy. Once we do, we are glad we did. Although I had almost a month's worth of blog posts to read, I began experiencing the joy of reading what others write, especially in relation to their spiritual growth.
Maybe you are like me. You don't like being down, but you feel stuck in that seasonal funk. I know that you are tempted to isolate yourself. I do that all too well. Take that first step. Nothing that is of benefit is always easy. Push yourself and experience the joy and reward of doing what you enjoy.


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Tuscany-Style Wedding And Event Center
Sunward Steel Buildings, Inc. was honored to supply this pre-engineered steel building on behalf of a client in Rome, Georgia, in early March of 2016.
Nowadays, it serves as The Farm, an idyllic, Tuscany-style barn-turned wedding venue and event center nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Situated on a family horse farm that spans 280 acres of trails, ponds and natural springs, The Barn serves as one of the property's primary focal points while providing a striking backdrop for weddings and special events.
Vintage Vibes, Modern Perks
Designed in the spirit of a European equestrian estate property, The Barn boasts a finished size of 56'x125'x17' and features the Three Timbers Room, an impressive architectural undertaking that accommodates up to 200 guests, as well as adjoining ballrooms, a prep kitchen, restrooms and a wet bar. A rugged, corrosion-resistant metal roof with an 8:12 pitch protects the event center's interior from moisture and damage, and the building also features (20) framed openings ranging in terms of size and function distributed throughout.
Included are (1) 3'4"x7'2" walk door opening, (7) 3070 openings, each equipped with one of (7) 3070 walk doors, (2) 6'x4"x7'2" walk door openings, (8) 6070 openings enclosing (8) 6070 walk doors, and (2) 13.333'x10' overhead door openings. Rugged and exceedingly durable, the building also offers a 115-mph wind speed rating in consideration of the climate characteristics typical of Rome and the surrounding region.
An Elegant Escape
Ideal for weddings and special events small and large, The Barn delivers in terms of ambiance as well as customization opportunities. Couples can marry inside, in the dramatic Three Timbers room, or they can wed in the property's private gazebo, stables or pastures. Rustic and vintage in appearance and yet completely contemporary in terms of amenities, The Barn delivers an unforgettable experience for anyone looking to kick off wedded bliss or otherwise celebrate a special occasion amidst the picturesque surroundings of northern Georgia.
The largest city in northwestern Georgia's Floyd County, Rome sits along the confluence of the Etowah and Oostanaula rivers. It lies about 16 miles northeast of Cave Spring and roughly 5 miles north of Lindale.
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Everyday, more and more boat launches are seeing drift boats and rusty trailering skills on display along the Upper Madison. Red winged black birds have been spotted already and the fishing is picking up substantially, as the water temps have finally stopped bottoming out. The fish have seemed to key in on that and really started pounding those all important Skwala nymphs that are becoming more prevalent with each passing week.


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Yoga Off The Mat was created to guide a shift back to the importance of all realms of Yoga and how it can be practiced and lived off your Yoga mat, outside of a traditional Yoga class. It is also an opportunity to experience organic conscious lifestyle guidance in a small, intimate environment, to introspect, gain insight and benefit from the collective support and wisdom of the group. This space incorporates tea presence ceremony, guided meditation, mudras, journaling and a sharing circle.
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Random Photos of People from Wichita, Kansas, or another ebay gotcha!
I bought a packet of photos on ebay that were described as "Vintage Lot of 40 old black and white photographs/portraits Wichita, Kansas WOW". I ended up being the winner, although that title is dubious in this case. Guess I was curious to see if I knew anyone in the photos. I just received them today, but only recognized a couple of people.
I'll post a few of them to see if there is any recognition and if anyone wants one! Please! Some of them are press photos taken by LuVerne Paine. She was the first woman photographer at the Wichita Eagle. I've copied some text from an online remembrance of her — she died at the age of 91 in 2009.
The Eagle lost another alum this week. LuVerne Paine, the first woman to be hired on the Eagle's photo staff died this week at age 91. I visited LuVerne last year on her 90th birthday and despite failing health at that time she still had fond memories of her many years spent at the Eagle.
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Why are some people are incompetent/
Incompetent people lack the skills to improve because they are unable to distinguish between incompetence and competence. Incompetent people overestimate their own competence and, failing to sense of mismatch between their performance and what is desirable, see no need to try to improve. Incompetent people can be taught to raise their competence by learning the skills to judge their own performance more accurately.
To become more competent, or even expert, we must learn to recognize competence when we see it in others, become more accurate judges of what we ourselves know and don't know, adopt learning strategies that get results, and find objective ways to track our progress.
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What vaccinations do you require?
We require Rabies, Distemper/Parvo, and Bordetella. Please note: As of Oct. 1st, 2018 we will start requiring the canine flu vaccine, which must cover the H3N8 AND the H3N2 strains. There is a one-shot combo but the first time your dog receives this vaccine they will get the initial shot then will need to go back 4-6 weeks later for a booster, after that it's just a once a year vaccine. Please don't hesitate to call us with any questions. If your dog cannot receive vaccinations due to a health concern, please have proper documentation from your vet. Please also note that we DO accept blood titer tests to prove their immunity. Titer testing, also called serology and antibody testing, is a simple blood test to ensure that a dog has responded to vaccination with a specific "core" virus vaccine.
At what age, do you take puppies?
We take puppies around the age of 4 months. They must have their second round of shots including rabies.
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Monday Cuppa Moment 3/30
On this rainy, cool Monday I need an extra cup of hot coffee. Such a different environment from last Monday when I was in beautiful, sunny Florida enjoying temperatures in the 80's. See, even on vacation, I make sure to have my Monday Cuppa.
What about you? Have any of you taken spring breaks? If so, where have you gone? If not, where would you love to go? I highly recommend Florida for the reasons mentioned above :)


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Thanks to the Polar Vortex, my daily mantra has become a daily countdown until my vacation. It's 13 degrees outside right now without the windchill and I cannot remember a time in my life where it has EVER been this cold around here for such an extended period of time. And cue all the ignorant comments on my Facebook newsfeed about how global warming must be a myth because how can it be real if it's SO COLD?
I guess the silver lining of all the cold could be that no matter how dreadful flying with a fidgety toddler on my lap might be, here is the end result as long as they don't kick us off the plane:
I've never been so excited for 70 degrees. I love how the Valentine's Day forecast says "and warmer". Those south Florida people are probably cold when it's in the low 70's. They just have no idea. 72 degrees is going to feel like a sauna.
I'm going to wear shorts and a tank and probably offend everyone with my pasty, day-glo whiteness. I'm going to run every day and it will probably be like trying to breathe inside a sponge. I don't even care. 11 MORE DAYS.
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Birds fly south. Do you?
Why do birds fly south for the winter?
Interesting that without an alarm being sounded or direction from a leader or a major advertising campaign, birds know when it is time to fly south for the winter.
Do you?
Your work, your life, your pursuit for happiness is constantly changing. Do you know when it is time to move, to change direction, to chart a new course?
You better if you want to achieve success.
I know you want new and better results; so you need some new and better habits.
Fly south. Avoid winter. Don't sit stagnant as the world is changing around you. It is time to ACT, because Action Changes Things.
If you need some motivation, let me suggest one of my favorite books, Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson. This easy to read story about 4 mice, will challenge you to see that things are changing, and you need to be changing too.
Take a few moments, clear your mind, your calendar, and the noise in your life. It is time for an evaluation. Take stock in what is and isn't working. Look deep into what you are not accomplishing and write down several action steps you will take...starting today!


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William Clark's slave played a significant role in the Corps of Discovery. He tells of the expedition's preparations to cross the Rocky Mountains and their meeting with the Shoshone Indians.
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The farmer who gave up his land for his workers
Anton Maseko was a tractor driver for most of his life. Like other farm workers, he earned just enough to support himself and his family. But this was his home. He was born here and so were his parents. Now he has the chance to truly call it his thanks to Colin Forbes, the farm owner who has voluntarily given more than 500 hectares to his dedicated workers.
Forbes believes that the success of Athole Farm in Mpumalanga, which has been in his family since 1860, is dependent on the development and progress of its employees. Since 2011, he has provided mentorship and resources to develop the workers from subsistence to commercial farmers. He teaches business management skills and pays for the initial seeds, fertiliser, pesticides and diesel needed for the machinery. The area he has given up includes a residential space with housing for the beneficiaries and their families. Together with the 60-odd workers who have benefitted, Maseko doesn't live in fear of unemployment or poverty. "Having this place has made us happy. We feel free, happy and liberated," he says. His extra income means that his children can now afford to study further. "In my old age, I can rest happily and peacefully knowing that my work paid off"," he says.
The issue of land reform in South Africa remains contentious. Those who work the soil don't benefit from the profits brought in, while redistribution without sharing of resources or experience leaves room for failure for all involved. No wonder that so many have rejected the idea altogether. But Forbes believes that trying to make an initiative work is better than accepting it as broken. The agricultural sector has the potential to change life for generations of families who depend on the ground they farm on. "The 10% we received has given our families hope," Maseko says. It's also showing South Africa how everyone can reap the benefits of a collaborative venture.


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Fred Eustace recalls the school cadets of pre-war days and CAL Treadwell describes the pre-war Officer Cadet Training Unit at Victoria University. Ena Ryan, then a schoolgirl, recalls the men joining up during the early months of the war. Leonard Leary describes the serious intent of the young men joining up. Extracts from contemporary newspapers in Dunedin and Invercargill.
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Mass Exodus 2016 - Ryerson Fashion Design
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N E W B E G I N N I N G S - by Andrea Lee
I had the pleasure of attending the Mass Exodus 2016 Fashion Show a couple of weekends ago. Thanks to my very talented friend @vanyanez who provided me with a ticket. I was amazed at the talent; the collections were beautifully handcrafted. I couldn't help but take a few photos. :) For all of those soon to be brides if you want to get a custom made wedding gown I would recommend these up and coming Canadian fashion designers.


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We were resolute but worried. After an eight-month courtship, I had finally popped the question to my Japanese girlfriend. She accepted, and with that, we were committed to tying the knot come hell or high water. But we still had to break the news to her parents. We were cautiously optimistic they wouldn't try to stop us, but we had concerns. Mostly about dad.
Her parents had met me six months earlier when my girlfriend decided—against my better judgement—that it was time to ease me into the family fold. It's worth noting here that I am three years younger than my wife, so at the time she viewed me—somewhat condescendingly—like the little brother she never had, a formidable barrier in getting her to consider me as a serious suitor. But alas, I was too in love to be deterred, so was more than willing to overlook a little condescension. Like an obedient little brother, I did what I was told. It was time to meet the parents.
When girlfriend called her parents to let them know she was bringing home a guest, she referred to me ambiguously as otoko no ko, which literally means "a young boy," even though I was 24 years old at the time. Hilarity would ensue, although it wasn't funny at the time.
Honorable girlfriend was a teacher by profession. I would later find out that Japanese mom and dad were half expecting their daughter's mysterious guest to be a young student of elementary-school age. And they were half-right: I was a student, in my 3rd year at International Christian University. Unfortunately, I was also an idiot, a fact bolstered by my lack of proper grooming. Think wild, disheveled hair, scruffy beard, and sloppy loose-fitting clothes that could easily be mistaken for pajamas. My heart was in the right place, but I lacked the wherewithal to dress the part. I would find out later after we left that day that intense debate ensued within the family on whether I looked more like Jesus or Socrates.
Now try to imagine the look on Japanese mom's face when she greeted us at the front door. The scene is still vivid in my memory even after 36 years: door opens, mom looks downward expecting to see a little kid, her eyes track upward until she stops abruptly at my unshaven mug and curly, wild hair. Normally a stoic, poker-faced woman, she couldn't hide her disdain. It was obvious even to common-senseless me that I'd blown my one and only chance to make a good first impression.
Japanese dad's reaction was tougher to read. I had no clue what he was thinking, which was, in a weird way, more disturbing than knowing for certain that he disapproved. The only saving grace at the time was that neither mom nor dad knew the nature of my relationship with their daughter. To them, I was just a "friend," albeit a barbarian friend who didn't have the good sense to change out of his pajamas.
Fast forward six months, back to our impending engagement announcement. In retrospect, why we were more concerned about dad than mom is beyond me. Maybe it's because we knew his approval carried more weight. Or that we overestimated mom's tolerance for foreigners. Whatever we were thinking, they both threw us a curveball. Here's how it unfolded.
Girlfriend phoned home to break the news. Dad answered because mom was out and about. A straight-shooter by nature, my wife-to-be didn't mince words:
"Dad, remember that foreigner I brought home about half a year ago?"
"You mean the guy wearing pajamas who looks like Jesus?"
"Yes, that's him."
"What about him?"
"We're getting married."
"Oh, that's good. Anything else?"
"No that's it. Could you let mom know?"
Girlfriend was stunned. Bearded barbarian was equally stunned. Dad didn't object! And suddenly we were hopeful. That is, until half an hour later when mom called back in a tizzy.
"You're going to marry that hairy foreigner who looks like Socrates?"
"Dad said he looks like Jesus."
"Well, I still don't approve!"
"Dad didn't object."
Pregnant pause.
"Are you sure about this? Don't you know that all foreigners get divorced?"
"They don't all get divorced. You worry too much."
"How will you communicate?"
"He speaks Japanese, mom, remember?"
"But he's going to take you back to America, and I'll never see you again!"
"No, he wants to live in Japan forever."
"But what does his family think?"
"They are fine with it."
Then just for fun, my fiancé dropped another bombshell.
"Oh, and before we get married, we've decided to live together for half a year, just to see how it goes before we make it official."
Needless to say, fireworks ensued and it wasn't pretty. But my fiancé held firm.
We would later learn that dad put the kibosh on mom's objections when he told her, "If I had listened to my parents, I'd have never married you. Our daughter is a grown woman, we raised her to make good decisions. We have to trust her and let her live her own life."
And that's when we realized just how cool Japanese dad was.
On the other hand, it took a big adjustment to my grooming standards—not to mention help from a trusted friend—to move the needle with mom. My Japanese guarantor, a well-respected researcher with a steady job and doctorate degree from a highly respected school (Kyushu University), was kind enough to drive out to the homestead to assure mom that, despite my appearance to the contrary, I wasn't the devil. By then my friend had already met my parents and understood that I came from "good stock" (or so he thought). His ringing endorsement went a long way in mitigating the situation, as Japanese mom quickly went from "absolutely not," to "grudging acceptance." Not optimal, but it was a start.
The following year we officially tied the knot. I buckled down on my Japanese studies, graduated from college, cut my hair, became gainfully employed, and even upped the ante a year later by producing (with some help from my wife) a grandson for my in-laws, making it virtually impossible for mom to withdraw her support, however grudging it was. The only glitch occurred when I was offered and accepted a job with a Japanese automotive parts supplier committed to building a new factory in America's Deep South. This was a career-altering opportunity, a two-year stint that my wife enthusiastically supported, which means we had to break that little promise about me living in Japan forever.
Well, that two-year stint turned into a thirty-three-year stay in the U.S. So we didn't just break that promise, we blew it to smithereens. As penance, we gave Japanese mom another grandchild, which compelled her and Japanese dad to come for a visit. After meeting their second grandson and a face-to-face with my parents, there was no turning back. Mom was now firmly trapped in "grudging-resignation" mode.
From that fateful day thirty-six years ago when my wife brought me home to meet the parents, winning over mom has been like turning a battleship around in the water. Four years ago during a Japan visit, mom finally came clean about her strong opposition to our union. (I didn't have the heart to tell her I'd been privy to her feelings all along.) Most impressive was that she openly admitted she'd been "wrong" to oppose our marriage, that she could see how happy her daughter was, and that she was genuinely glad we had gotten married. And yes, her precious grandchildren had a lot to do with it, too. But she still likes to remind me how pathetic I looked the first time we met, and we laugh and laugh. Still, words can't express how good it felt to officially win her approval, and how much respect I have for her ability to reflect, transcend her prejudices, and admit to me she was wrong.
And today we're as thick as thieves.
After thirty-three years in the U.S., we've come full circle. Sadly, Japanese dad passed on four years ago, so mom now lives alone. We recently moved back to Japan permanently to care for mom in her old age.
I've spent my 40-year career helping Japanese and non-Japanese connect in the workplace, often going into hostile environments to defuse explosive situations, with the goal of coaxing clients into "kissing and making-up," so to speak. And yet, I consider the relationship I've built with Japanese mom to be my ultimate cross-cultural accomplishment. If I can bridge a culture gap on this scale—further compounded by the poor judgment of my reckless youth—then I can bridge just about anything.


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A Love Letter to the Language of Bowie/
I'm not usually one for outpourings of collective grief on social media. It usually feels cold, impersonal and insincere, as if the writer simply feels the need to throw their voice into the ring for fear of coming across as unfeeling or being forgotten altogether.
The unexpected death of David Bowie yesterday provoked an avalanche of social media mourning the likes of which I'd never seen before. We couldn't help ourselves. It was endless.
However, as pointed out by my good friend David and my hyper-intelligent transatlantic alter ego Natalia, this somehow felt more weighty. We weren't just saying things; we meant them. We were all listening to the songs posted up by others, appreciating the photos, reading through the interviews and essays. We were sat at home in stupid tears, absolutely failing to do anything approaching work. It somehow felt like we'd all lost someone who had truly had some input into our lives.
How can it be that people all across the globe felt so close to a strange-looking kid from Brixton?
It seems to me that no matter what you're into, Bowie had done it, and done it well. While people were quoting the lyrics from Space Oddity and Heroes, the most enduring of Bowie's unapologetically commercial pop songs, just as many were talking about the epic, avant-garde soundscapes on Low which found him scatting in a made-up language over Brian Eno's brooding productions. For every shared clip of the spectacularly weird Henson-directed 80s kids film Labyrinth, in which Bowie's prominent testicles appeared alongside an array of bizarre puppets and therefore awoke the confused sexuality of many a terrified teen, there was a clip of the singer's (brilliant) turn in the Ricky Gervais comedy Extras, where he is portrayed as a man so dedicated to crafting a great song that he listens to the outpouring of a character's fears and concerns only to turn to a conveniently-placed piano and write a song that mocks him while he sits right there. Film students cited The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Prestige; dancers talked about his experiences with Lindsay Kemp; visual artists lauded the video for Ashes to Ashes. Everyone had something to talk about.
Sitting in the Dschungel
On Nürnberger Strasse
A man lost in time
Near KaDeWe
Just walking the dead
– Where Are We Now?
As a person who enjoys wordplay and weirdness, there's a lot to love in Bowie's oeuvre. He took on characters and shrugged them off throughout his 50-year career, discarding one corpse and slipping into another body before you could figure out what had really gone on. He created whole worlds inside each persona, letting his audience squint and peer in through the cracks he'd cut with his music.
Bowie was a voracious reader, and his reverence for writers and their methods shows through in the way he structured and created his own songs. In Alan Yentob's documentary Cracked Actor, Bowie shows his use of "cut ups", a Dadaist concept popularised by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin wherein lines or even words from a text are snipped and isolated then rearranged to form a new text. He explains that (at that time, at least) he had only used the technique to write a couple of songs, but instead used it for "igniting anything that might be in [his] imagination." By using the method with diaries, he told Yentob, he'd found out a lot about himself and his own past. "You can often find very interesting attitudes to look into."
Here are we one magical moment
Such is the stuff from
where dreams are woven
Bending sound
Dredging the ocean lost in my circle
Here am I
Flashing no colour tall in this room
overlooking the ocean
– Station to Station
It's this microscopic attention to different perspectives that made Bowie's character creations so affecting. He didn't just write people; he became them. This may have had a hugely negative impact on his mental health (before he retired the Ziggy Stardust character, he found himself unable to separate David from Ziggy; while in the grips of a cocaine addiction as the Thin White Duke he made a number of pro-Fascist statements, of which he was endlessly embarrassed), but it also gave him some of the best art he would ever create, and proved massively enduring as a masterclass in how to write. Bowie's use of cut ups in influenced lyricists Kurt Cobain and Thom Yorke; the latter utilized the technique when writing Kid A, to the extent that he would put single lines into a hat and pull them out at random to craft the songs.
But for all his highbrow methods, Bowie always had his pop sensibilities at heart, and knew that no message reaches its mark if its language is unaccessible. His words are achingly simple, his sentences never any longer than they need to be. He sang of the dark sides of fame and addiction without begging for sympathy, and he did so by describing them in such basic terms that every single person, with their own, unique problems, can relate to them. Who alive isn't given pause for thought when he sings "I never done good things / I never done bad things"? Who doesn't feel the hairs twitch on the back of their neck? Bowie knew that a total lack of melodrama is the most effective tool when talking about dramatic subjects. Like a Mike Leigh movie, he showed his characters coping with the horrors of life in stoic, quietly heroic ways. On his most poignant songs he used a resigned passivity to describe loneliness, pain and even encroaching mental illness.
Look out my window and what do I see
A crack in the sky
and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're
here to stay.
– Oh! You Pretty Things
And yet it isn't just the dark side of life that was treated this way. Bowie songs often celebrated the sheer joy of being alive, of being young and silly and passionate and full of it all. As he says in John, I'm Only Dancing, "life's a well-thumbed machine". He revelled in the experience of living and by describing it in plain terms, invited us all to revel in it too. He made greatness seem manageable not only by the way he steered his career but by the way he sang about becoming more than what we are. He grasped at positivity and hope and presented it as something we could all cling to. He painted great bravery as something we could all achieve; he made us believe that we truly could be heroes, if just for one day.
And he also knew when to throw out a real firecracker of nonsense when it totally fit.
Keep your mouth shut, you're squawking like a pink monkey bird.
– Moonage Daydream
Grown adults all over the world might still be collapsing into fits of ridiculous weeping today. We've lost an icon. It's the end of an era. All these cliches and more. And yet we already know that Bowie's work has an enduring quality that can't be taken away. He may be gone, but there are 26 studio albums, dozens of videos, movies and cameos and interviews and performances and iconic images and more that won't ever fade. When the tide of hurt recedes a little, there'll be a lot on the ocean floor to look at.
But, for now, Let's Dance.
They got a message from the Action Man
"I'm happy. Hope you're happy, too.
I've loved. All I've needed: love.
Sordid details following."
– Ashes to Ashes


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Et al. etc. presents
A rat's back
Andrew Chapman
Daniel Payavis
April 22 - May 21, 2016
Reception: April 22, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA
For the cat, what is the possible use for the ball of yarn? It consists in freeing a behavior from its genetic inscription within a given sphere (predatory activity, hunting). The freed behavior still reproduces and mimics the forms of the activity from which it has been emancipated, but, in emptying them of their sense and of any obligatory relationship to an end, it opens them and makes them available for a new use. The game with the yarn liberates the mouse from being prey and the predatory activity from being necessarily directed toward the capture and death of the mouse. And yet, this play stages the very same behaviors that define hunting. The activity that results from this thus becomes a pure means, that is, a praxis that, while firmly maintaining its nature as a means, is emancipated from its relationship to an end; it has joyously forgotten its goal and can now show itself as such, as a means without an end.
- Giorgio Agamben, "In Praise of Profanation"
Andrew Chapman has a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from Stanford University. His paintings and sculptures approach experimentation and innovation through an abstract layer of technique and finish - a prompting towards an engagement with the unknown. He has exhibited at Et al. (San Francisco), Portmanteau (Geneva), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Important Projects (Oakland), and Johansson Projects (Oakland). Chapman lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Daniel Payavis (b. 1985) received a BFA from The University Of The Arts, Philadelphia and an MFA from The University of Texas At Austin. His work uses languages of historical painting to examine the nature of image, eliding boundaries of graphic, photographic and other pictorial idioms. He has exhibited at Thomas Duncan Gallery (Los Angeles), Texan Equities (Los Angeles), Pied-à-Terre (San Francisco), Secret Recipe (Los Angeles), The Torrance Art Museum (Torrance) and Reserve Ames (Los Angeles) among others. He lives and works in Los Angeles.


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Kings fans agree with trading Cousins, unhappy team didn't get more
DeMarcus Cousins: 'I'm in a good place. I learn from my mistakes.'
In the 6 1/2 seasons DeMarcus Cousins played for the Kings, there was no gray area regarding how fans felt about the talented yet controversial star.
Fans either loved his versatile game, which made him one of the NBA's elite big men, or loathed his moodiness, constant complaining to game officials and boorish locker room behavior, which helped chase numerous coaches out of Sacramento.
After learning Monday morning the Kings traded their three-time All-Star to New Orleans for an unproven, high draft pick in rookie Buddy Hield, two players who won't be here next season and two 2017 draft picks, Kings fans wondered if this was the deal they had dreamed about or a nightmare.
It looks to me like the Kings got 49 cents on the dollar ... Something must have happened to precipitate the trade.
longtime Kings fan
In a Sacramento Bee poll Monday, 52 percent of respondents said the Kings made the right move by trading Cousins on Sunday night.
Most fans, however, agreed general manager Vlade Divac did not get enough in return.
"It looks to me like the Kings got 49 cents on the dollar on that trade," said longtime Kings fan Bob Hawkins, a Cameron Park resident. "Something must have happened to precipitate the trade. What did we get in return? A rookie shooting guard? And two picks? Doesn't make sense on the surface."
On Monday, Divac said he wanted a new direction for his team, with a new "culture" and "character," to begin building a winning franchise Kings fans would be proud of.
For Kings fan Gloria Merk, the trade gave her renewed hope.
"I know fans are upset, but it had to be done," Merk wrote in an email to The Bee. "Drain the swamp. Clearly the trade and waivers show the owner wants a new culture. Matt (Barnes), legal problems. DeMarcus, you know the story; Darren (Collison), legal problems. Young Run and Shoot team on the horizon. Coach (Dave Joerger) will have a team he can mold by next training camp. Can't wait."
Some reacting to the Cousins trade were neither a fan of the player nor the team for building a new downtown arena with the city's help. Wrote fan Gene Ulm on Facebook: "Good riddance to bad rubbish. Take the owner, tear down your stadium and give us back our tax money."
KHTK 1140 radio host Grant Napear, the team's longtime television play-by-play man on CSN California, fielded many calls from Kings fans.
Before going on the air Monday, Napear offered his thoughts on the fans.
"It's why I love living here, because even when the team is not very good, the fans have something to say; they're in love with the franchise," Napear said. "I completely understand and sympathize with the fans and hear them. One thing I'm having trouble digesting from some of the fans is, what did the Kings really do here?
The reality is, a lot of assistant coaches and former players who had bad experiences with Cousins don't want to play with him. The word is out.
Kings play-by-play man
"They traded their most talented player, who has not helped them win enough. It has not worked. The Kings are going in a different direction. I don't know why that's so difficult to understand."
Napear pointed out it was nearly impossible for the Kings to get equal value for Cousins. His boorish acts were well chronicled through his Sacramento career, and the rest of the league took notice.
Trade for Cousins, and you also trade for his potential for trouble.
"The reality is, few teams wanted him," Napear said. "I've heard that personally from front office people. Teams were not clamoring to get him. What does that say about one of the most talented players in the league, a three-time All-Star? That tells me teams don't want the headache and baggage.
"This is a small league, a fraternity. When something is bad, everyone knows about it. The reality is, a lot of assistant coaches and former players who had bad experiences with Cousins don't want to play with him. The word is out. A franchise cannot give a max deal unless it's a sure thing, and Cousins is not a sure thing."
Napear noted Cousins' behavior off the floor was remarkable, a stance backed by Scott Moak, the Kings Foundation's executive director and the team's public address announcer. Moak called Cousins "the best he's worked with" in the community.
Cousins privately offered to pay for the funeral of a Grant High School football player, J.J. Clavo, who was shot before a playoff game in 2015.
"Off the court, Cousins is A-plus," Napear said. "Our community will miss him. His heart and generosity is top-shelf. But the Kings were not paying him to be great in the community, though they appreciate it. They were paying him to be great on the floor."
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It was a rare occurrence on campus — speakers at the front of the room and none of the students in attendance touched their phone.
That was the scene Thursday night when the #Fight4HER campaign came to Ohio State to speak out against the Global Gag Rule instituted by President Donald Trump. The policy bars any foreign nongovernmental organizations that receive U.S. global health aid from discussing safe, legal abortion with their patients.
"A policy that is literally going to cost hundreds of thousands of lives directly or indirectly," Lisa Shannon, a long-time advocate for women's rights in Africa, said in an interview prior to the event. "It is a death warrant."
The campaign is run by the Population Action Connection fund and brought three speakers, including Shannon and two Kenyan health experts, who have on-the-ground experience in Africa witnessing the effects of the gag rule. The HER in #Fight4HER stands for health, empowerment and rights in reference to the Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate which aims to make the gag rule permanently illegal.
Melvine Ouyo and Amos Simpano work for Family Health Options Kenya as a clinic director and director of clinical services, respectively. They spoke at the event and described FHOK as the organization that everyone in Kenya, including the government, relies on for sexual and reproductive healthcare.
"We are the champion for family planning in Kenya," Simpano said. "We are the advocate for family planning in Kenya."
The goal of the campaign, and why Ouyo and Simpano said they decided to come and speak, is to show Americans what the situation is like in developing countries.
"Kenya can't be America," Ouyo said.
Ouyo said she decided to work in reproductive health, and ultimately for FHOK, after witnessing a tragic situation involving a young girl while she was training to be a nurse.
"This young girl came in having undergone an unsafe abortion that got complicated," Ouyo said. "She became septic. It was really painful for a 15-year-old girl to lose her uterus at that young age."
Simpano also was called to the work through personal experience, namely seeing his female neighbors and his own sister undergo genital mutilation for religious purposes.
"I joined Family Health Options Kenya and I found a really good platform to champion my cause advocating for rights of women, including the right to access family planning services," he said.
Simpano said through much hard work they have brought services to a wide range of Kenyan communities, in one case having to hurdle religious objections.
It is so extreme, the idea that we literally would cut treatment for HIV funding so that babies are going to be born HIV positive because of this policy. – Lisa Shannon, a long-time advocate for women's rights in Africa
They did this by meeting with community leaders and coming to the agreement that the Quran does not prohibit family planning. Simpano said it just had to be renamed "child spacing."
But with the Global Gag Rule instituted by the Trump Administration, that work is under fire, Simpano said, and they simply can't sign the gag rule, even if it means losing funding.
"It would be throwing away our mandate," he said.
Shannon said the loss of this funding does more than just affect pregnancies. For example, it cuts funding that allows organizations like FHOK to provide mothers with medicine that can prevent HIV from being passed along to a newborn.
Ouyo said the impact can already be seen on the ground, noting the story of a young girl who went in for a safe abortion and could not be helped. The girl later attempted abortion by her own means and had to be rushed back to the hospital when it went wrong.
"You could have saved me," she said to the doctor, Ouyo recalled.
The young girl died later that night.
Rather than abortions or birth control they wear really loose clothes so they can hide the pregnancy and they'll deliver and then murder the newborn. – Lisa Shannon
Simpano said FHOK has given him an incredible platform. It allows him to take part in forums that ultimately led to abortion being legalized in the Kenyan Constitution, but the U.S. government is keeping FHOK from providing these legal services in their own country.
"Being a health professional, or health worker, who works in a facility and a client wants a service form you, it is your obligation as a service provider to serve that client to the best of your knowledge and ability," Simpano said. "You are not able to do that because someone else has interfered. I think that is also a violation of a health worker's right to serve that client. It is very traumatic, very frustrating."
Shannon said that access to family planning and safe abortion affects every part of women's lives in developing countries, even the ability to just stay alive, and that this gag rule is much harsher than the previous one from George W. Bush's administration.
"It is stunning. There were exceptions made back then [during the Bush administration] around care for people with HIV," Shannon said. "It is so extreme, the idea that we literally would cut treatment for HIV funding so that babies are going to be born HIV positive because of this policy."
Shannon, who has also worked in the Congo and Somalia, said the situation in Somalia, for example, is much worse than just not having access to healthcare. In Somalia, Shannon said having a child outside a marriage carries such a stigma that women must take extreme measures.
"It is considered the duty of the nearest male relative to kill the girl," Shannon said. "Rather than abortions or birth control they wear really loose clothes so they can hide the pregnancy and they'll deliver and then murder the newborn."
Simpano said tremendous progress in Kenya has been made over the last 10 years, with use of modern contraception rising from around 39 percent to 53 percent from 2009 to 2014, and maternal mortality dropping from 488 to 362 in that same period.
Simpano said this progress, for which he appreciates Americans' support in achieving, is in danger.
"Now these indicators are threatened if we do not sustain the interventions we were implementing," he said. "It means we'll go back."


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I'm really interested in the way The Sweet Hereafter is structured and the complexity of thought that that allows.
It has a number of different time frames. Some of it seems to be set in the future in that it takes place after the central event – a bus crash in which most of the children in a small town are killed. Another of the time frames is the night before the crash, and another is maybe six months before.
In the present, it's the story of the lawyer who turns up to try to persuade the townspeople to sue the bus company; but we also jump into his past to see his difficult relationship with his own daughter, who has a drug problem.
This structure achieves a real depth and raises questions that are not easily answered: there's a healthy ambiguity about it all.
Ian Holm, as the lawyer, is brilliant; so is Sarah Polley who plays Nicole, the only survivor of the crash who's now paralysed. They are powerful, subtle performances because they're all about what their characters don't say, what they're not able to say.
An analogy is drawn in the film with the Pied Piper story, and Nicole is like the crippled child in that story, the one left behind when all the other children disappear. She's angry, but also empowered by her experience: after the crash she's able to end the abusive relationship she has been in with her father.
This is a really sad film, and I think part of the reason why Egoyan jumps around in time is because it's a reminder that in reality you can't turn back the clock. It underlines the finality of loss."
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