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Tugendhat House Frosted Glass Entrance Stair: MVDR
Mullet architecture emerged in the twentieth century for other reasons besides the necessity of hiding architectural flights of fancy from an intolerant and conservative public (For more information on this topic refer to the previous post on Mullet Architecture). Before Modernism, buildings tended to be very bulky and made of masonry. Windows were intermittent and mostly minor interruptions in an opaque facade. This allowed for optimum privacy, especially in private dwellings. As the 20th Century progressed, glass, concrete and steel replaced masonry as the major materials for building. This increased use of glass allowed for buildings to have a closer connection with the outside world. The downside to this liberal use of glass, especially in residential architecture, was the lack of privacy it garnered. The solution that many modern architects developed was a kind of mullet architecture, where the building was suppressed, guarded and uninteresting on the public side (business) while the backside was an open and free glass facade that engaged a private view (party).
Many architects embraced this hermetic sequestered front facade approach when using increased glass. It is almost a complete reversal of the rules of architecture in the past, wherein a buildings main aesthetic delights were relegated to the front public facade. Here the roles are reversed. The individual's comfort and privacy take precedence over showing off to the public and creating a status symbol.
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The early court house (houses with courtyards, not places to go for traffic violations) projects by Mies Van Der Rohe were an interesting early example of mitigating increased glass use and a desire for privacy. The exterior walls of the houses are floor to ceiling glass. These glass houses are surrounded by spacious gardens that terminate in high opaque masonry walls. These "extension" walls create the privacy from neighbors. Indeed the only thing a person would see on the sidewalk is a tall bland brick wall. These bounding walls also help with the blurred illusion of inside and out that Mies and most modernists were interested in. So the delight and the interesting architecture are hidden from public view. Business in front, party in back indeed.
Of Mies's early built works, the Tugendhat House also uses the concept of privacy driven Mullet Architecture. The house itself is on a hill. The front side is on the high end so the house only appears to be one story. The front is mostly white plaster with high clerestory windows and frosted glass. These elements in the front keep it very private, almost unwelcoming. The backside is a different story. The facade is floor to ceiling glass that actually, and ingeniously, is mechanically devised to slide into a hidden pocket and completely disappear. The connection between inside and out is dissolved! This open facade is a vast difference from the opaque front. At about the same time in Los Angeles Richard Neutra was employing the same Mullet Architecture effects to the Lovell Health House of 1929.
About the same time Frank Lloyd Wright was also increasing his usage of glass, which in turn required a heightened need for privacy. The development of the Usonian House was realized with the prototypical Herbert Jacobs House (in my opinion the best example of a Usonian House). This house is an L-Plan that opens up to a private high fenced garden in the back. The back facade in the living area is composed mostly of floor to ceiling glass doors that can be opened, thus destroying the barrier between inside and out. The front facade, containing an inconspicuous entrance, a carport, and the utility core is a very hermetic facade, the only windows being high clerestories. The old way of creating a beautiful street facade as a status symbol is gone. The modern dwelling is interested only in the privacy and enjoyment of its tenants. Showmanship no longer is a priority. A further distilled Mullet House can be seen in the second Herbert Jacobs house. This so called "Solar Hemicycle" is an arch shaped wedge that derives its shapes according to the movement of the sun. The south, and private, concave facade is all glass and the north convex facade is brutal stonework that resembles a medieval castle. Nowhere is privacy driven Mullet Architecture more clearly articulated. The duality of domestic architecture is found in the need for freedom and privacy.
Herbert Jacobs House II: The bermed and uninviting back.
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Glass is still a common material used in domestic architecture, so in heavy urban areas the need for a private front and an open back is the norm. There are countless examples of this new paradigm of architectural approach. The houses of Tadao Ando are a perfect example of privacy derived Mullet Architecture. Ando uses his characteristic dimpled concrete as an imposing privacy screen. The back facades are often huge uninterrupted expanses of glass. (Although I guess one could argue that Ando's dwellings obsess to an exaggerated degree the notion of privacy) The juxtaposition of pure glass and pure concrete in his work is perhaps the mot distilled example yet of the duality of architecture in terms of privacy and freedom.
Final Note: The Farnsworth by Mies Van Der Rohe and Philip Johnson's glass house clearly do not fit into the category of Mullet Architecture. Privacy in these buildings is created by the fact that the houses are situated in secluded and gated areas. They are surrounded by trees and set far back from the road. So one could make an interesting argument about the extension of architecture reaching to the front gate of a property. The front gate then, in these examples, would be the sober and private business yin to the glass freedom party yang of the houses. Architecture is just like the layers of an onion. One could go as deep into the core as arguing that skin is architecture, just as one could go as far as arguing that our atmosphere is architecture. But, I am getting ahead of myself here.


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text: Fast Franks is a fun, easy way to feed your family on-the-go. Lien Design, a California branding company, was hired to design this food packaging that looked energetic, engaging, but also extremely appetizing. The Oscar Mayer brand is prominent, and the brand's colors used throughout to add equity to the beloved brand. But the new modern design also takes it in a new direction to capture a fresh consumer segment.


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In all my dealings with clients, I have concluded that their are 4 stages of progress with LinkedIn.
Most members are stuck at stage 1, what I call the 'Profile' stage, where they are still getting to grips with developing a decent profile, that shows what they can do for people or employers instead of 'what' they do.
The objective of course is to get to stage 4, the 'Sell' stage and this is the same for members looking for business or for those looking for jobs or advancing their career.
You do need to commit time and effort to each stage and make sure you are comfortable and confident in applying or completing the stage before moving on.
Each stage prepares you for the next one and its a logical progression. There is no way you can dive in and start 'Social Selling' until you have a decent profile, a decent size network and you know how to behave.
I often say that not having a decent profile with a decent photo is like greeting someone in person with your back turned to them. I still see too many holiday snaps, people posing in the far distance or with family members and mates. Its a disaster and it will NOT win you business or your next job. NO WAY!
When you invite members to connect with you, they will almost certainly look to see if you have over 500+ members. Why? It makes you an attractive connection. Adding another 500+ people to their 2nd level network means they will achieve more exposure on LinkedIn and allows them in turn to find potential prospects to connect to easier too.
If you have 500 connections, who in turn have 500 too, it means your network grows to 250,000 in a heart beat. Now this gives you options and social is a numbers game, sorry but it is. And for those who tell me they are very careful who they connect to and decline people they do not know, you need to wise up to the fact that your network will stay small, because of your small thinking.
Once those two stages are out of the way, you can focus on your behaviour inside LinkedIn and this includes groups, emailing, sharing, liking and commenting. A massive subject taken for granted by most. Oh and it's NOT a promotion campaign that's what the advertising channel is for.
Only after those 3 stages are completed can you think about how to develop leads on LinkedIn.
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Kinzinger topples Manzullo in Illinois
UTICA, Ill. — Branding himself as a new kind of conservative, Adam Kinzinger bested two-decade veteran Don Manzullo in the first Republican member-on-member race of the 2012 cycle.
The ugly GOP primary fight drew some strange lines in the sand: On one side were tea-party groups with Manzullo, despite the fact they had rallied around Kinzinger in 2010. And on the other were House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Kinzinger, a freshman and rising Republican star.
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Far from deterring them, Kinzinger's win could act as an incentive for House leaders like Cantor to intervene in future primary contests.
Besides that marquee fight, most of the night's action was on the Democratic side, where Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. crushed former Democratic Rep. Debbie Halvorson and two establishment-backed candidates fended off progressive favorites.
The Manzullo vs. Kinzinger race was framed as a battle of the past versus the future. Kinzinger — who led Manzullo, 56 to 43 percent, with 87 percent of precincts reporting — swept into office in an 87-member House GOP freshman class determined to change Washington while casting Manzullo as a creaky lawmaker long past his prime.
Appearing before a gathering of supporters at the Starved Rock Lodge here Tuesday evening, Kinzinger reiterated that message.
"Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party," Kinzinger said. "Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable."
After trailing in early polling, Manzullo appeared to gain late momentum, scoring the backing of over a dozen conservative groups like FreedomWorks and the American Conservative Union.
But Kinzinger's dogged ground game — which included holding 30 town hall meetings in the newly configured 16th Congressional District over just the past two months — carried the day.
"About 70 percent of the district was new," Kinzinger said. "It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up."
Kinzinger's victory is a major win for Cantor, who backed the freshman congressman in an unusual step for a party leader to take in a race between two colleagues. A super PAC that is aligned with Cantor also aired radio ads supportive of Kinzinger.
Cantor's move was seen as an effort to consolidate his support with the younger, conservative wing of the House GOP Conference that is regarded as his base.
But his decision to take sides was met with anger and surprise at high levels of the party. Late last week, House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy both phoned Manzullo to distance themselves from Cantor's endorsement. And in the days leading up to the election, Manzullo railed against Cantor, at one point going so far as to call on him to step down from leadership.


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Dr. Carlos featured in AAD
This quarter's issue of Directions in Residency by the American Academy of Dermatology features our very own Dr. Carlos!
Outside of Dermatology Arts, Dr. Carlos serves as assistant clinical professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is a member of the Volunteerism Committee and Education and Volunteers Abroad Committee within the American Academy of Dermatology.
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The Court Services Division is responsible for a wide variety of services connected with the court systems throughout Lake County. Its responsibilities include:
The Court Services Division is responsible for maintaining and providing the security for the Lake County Common Pleas Courts. The Sheriff's Office provides security for the courthouse and its four Common Pleas judges, Probate Court judge, Domestic Relations Court judge, the Clerk of Courts, and the Juvenile Justice judge. Business Hours: The normal business hours for the court buildings are 08:00am to 4:30pm Monday thru Friday. Note: All visitors are required to walk through the metal detectors, and all bags and packages will be searched when entering the buildings.
Please remember that when you come to the courthouse for any reason there are no weapons permitted inside the courthouse, nor are they permitted in any County building. Such weapons include, but are not limited to; guns, knives, scissors, box cutters, razor blades, or any other type of sharp object that could be considered a weapon.
The Lake County Court Services Division is responsible for the transport of prisoners-inmates to and from the Lake County Courts, in addition to various doctors-hospitals appointments. The Lake County Sheriff's Office performs approximately 5,000 prisoner transports annually. The Lake County Sheriff also transports prisoners/inmates to and from the three (3) Municipal Courts in Lake County. The Lake County Sheriff's Office also transports approximately 700 prisoners to and from various Ohio Penal Institutions annually.
The Painesville Municipal Court Arraignments are performed via video at the Lake County Adult Detention Facility, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 1:15 PM and on Thursday and Friday at 11:00 AM. Lake County Common Pleas Court Arraignments are scheduled weekly on Friday mornings at 08:15 AM in the lobby of The Lake County Sheriff's Office, 104 E. Erie Street Painesville, Ohio.Painesville Municipal Court Arraignments.
The Lake County Sheriff is responsible for the apprehension of wanted subjects on warrants issued by the Lake County Common Pleas Courts, Domestic Relations Court, Juvenile Court, Painesville Municipal Court and the remaining two (2) Municipal Courts in Lake County. The Lake County Sheriff receives and processes approximately 1000 warrants annually. The Sheriff successfully apprehends approximately 400 Felons annually and 350 misdemeanor wanted subjects. In addition, the Sheriff also apprehends wanted subjects for other Ohio Counties and States.
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text: Share: Comments Print November 23, 2013 at 8:41 AM Gameday links: Huskies need to pressure Oregon State's Sean Mannion Posted by Adam Jude Bishop Sankey needs three touchdown to match Napoleon Kaufman's UW record. (Dean Rutz/The Seattle Times) Huskies (6-4, 3-4) at Oregon State (6-4, 4-3), 7:30 p.m. today at Reser Stadium, Corvallis, Ore. Broadcast: ESPN2, KJR-950 Three keys for UW: Pressure's on: For as much as Sean Mannion throws — he leads the nation with 386 passing yards per game — one might think the Oregon State quarterback is more susceptible to the sack. That hasn't necessarily been the case. The Beavers have allowed 20 sacks this season, which ranks as right about average in the Pac-12. Washington, by comparison, has allowed 28 sacks while attempting 153 fewer pass attempts than the Beavers. OSU allowed eight sacks in a 20-12 loss to Stanford on Oct. 26; in the pat two games (both losses), OSU has allowed a combined three sacks. UW's defense, meanwhile, is fourth in the Pac-12 with 28 sacks, fourth-most in the Pac-12. The Huskies' best chance at their first road win is to make Mannion uncomfortable in the pocket. Sankey left, Sankey right: UW's Bishop Sankey was held to more than 50 yards below his rushing average against UCLA last week, when he gained 91 yards on 27 carries. He is still fourth in the country with 1,396 yards rushing, and he remains on pace to break Corey Dillon's UW season rushing record of 1,695 yards (assuming Sankey plays in a bowl game). With 32 rushing touchdown, Sankey is just three shy of matching Napoleon Kaufman's career touchdown record. Oregon State, by the way, ranks ninth in the Pac-12 in allowing 4.38 yards per rush, so figure on a healthy diet of Sankey Saturday night, and especially if redshirt freshman Cyler Miles makes his first start at quarterback. Protect the ball: It's the No. 1 key every week, of course, but the Huskies showed last week how difficult it is to overcome turnovers on the road. In many ways, UW's loss at UCLA last week came down to two lost fumbles in the first five and a half minutes, which spurred the Bruins to a 14-0 lead. For a team like UW with a small margin for error, the Huskies can't afford to hurt themselves tonight. Oregon State is fifth in the conference with a plus-6 turnover margin; UW ranks seventh with a plus-3 margin. Links: — The Huskies won't announce a starting quarterback until tonight as both UW and OSU try to salvage a once-promising season. — Those in attendance at Reser Stadium will likely see who is starting for UW just before kickoff. — UW finds itself in a similar situation to where it was two years ago in Corvallis. — Bud Withers with a look at today's must-see games. — Interesting. The Vegas line has moved the Huskies as a 1.5-point favorite, after OSU opened the week as a 3.5-point favorite. — UW's pass defense could spell problems for Mannion and the Beavers. — Five things to watch from Oregon State. Comments


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Could Electric Cars Help California Preserve Environmental Clout?
One California lawmaker is already working on a way to preserve at least some of the state's environmental muscle: Rebates for electric cars.
Volkswagen to Pay Up to $87 Million in Australia for Scandal
Volkswagen has agreed to pay up to 127 million Australian dollars ($87 million) to settle an Australian class action stemming from the 2015 diesel emissions scandal, the German automaker and a lawyer said Monday.
Talks Carry On but No Deal Yet in UAW Strike Against GM
Talks continued into the night but there was no end to the strike against General Motors.
No Deal: Auto Workers Strike Against GM in Contract Dispute
More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike.
Activists Block Main Entrance to Frankfurt Auto Show
Activists blocked the main entrance to the Frankfurt Motor Show on Sunday in a protest against what they call the "climate and environment destroyers" produced by the auto industry.
U.S. Opens Probe into Nissan Rogue Automatic Emergency Braking
The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating complaints that the automatic emergency braking on the Nissan Rogue can turn on for no apparent reason.
Merkel: Germany, Auto Industry Face 'Herculean' Climate Task
Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany's auto industry and the country as a whole face a "Herculean task" meeting the goals set for combating climate change.
Edmunds Compares Honda Insight and Toyota Corolla Hybrid
Car shoppers seeking high fuel economy have two particularly intriguing choices this year: The Honda Insight and the Toyota Corolla Hybrid.
Climate Change, Trade Woes Reshape Frankfurt Auto Show
The headwinds buffeting the auto industry are making themselves felt at the Frankfurt Motor Show, with companies confronting a slowdown in sales due to global trade uncertainty and pressure from governments to lower emissions of air pollutants.
Volkswagen Bets Big on Electric. Will Consumers Buy In?
Volkswagen is rolling out what it bills as the breakthrough electric car for the masses, the leading edge of a wave of new battery-powered vehicles about to hit the European auto market.
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Bankruptcy court is where individuals or entities go when they no longer have the assets to pay off their debts, or at least cannot do so in a timely way. When it comes to businesses, there are two options for walking into bankruptcy court: Chapter 11 and Chapter 7. Chapter 7 bankruptcy is by far the more common and involves liquidating the company, while Chapter 11 is primarily a form of reorganization.
Bankruptcy Court: Who is Involved?
When a company is unable to pay back creditors and things cannot be worked out, bankruptcy court is where everything will be settled. In a Chapter 7 case, a ruling judge presides over the bankruptcy court, while a representative from the Department of Justice also attends to keep things moving. There is also another trustee appointed to oversee the business' liquidation. The company that files in bankruptcy court is the debtor, and there can be man


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This is a guest post by Sean O'Connell from Questia.
Two contests that are currently accepting nominations, allow for students and teachers to thank the educators and faculty that have helped them achieve greatness this year. America's Top TA, sponsored by CengageBrain and the 2013 Most Valuable Professor, sponsored by Questia.
These two contests give students a platform to express gratitude for the hard work and dedication that their Teachers and Teachers Assistants have committed.
Teachers Assistants are the go to resource for college students at a loss. Students looking for guidance will often turn to their teachers assistants instead of their teachers and in many cases develop personal relationships with their TA's that wouldn't have been possible with the professor of a large class.
The America's Top TA competition lets students nominate their TA's and share a personal story of how they went above and beyond for their students. Three winning TA's will be announced as America's Top TA's and will have scholarships offered in their name.
You can nominate your TA through the Facebook App:
Great professors are what define a good education. Professors that inspire and motivate their students to learn and build upon the material are the professors that stimulate innovation and push students to excel. Few and far between, truly great professors are gifts to universities and the students that attend them.
The 2013 Most Valuable Professor Competition lets students nominate the professors that have inspired them. Three winning professors will be announced during teacher appreciation week towards the end of May and they will get scholarships offered in their name.
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Wikileaks reported that the USA has been doing a lot of spying on Japan and its Prime Minister is seriously concerned about the allegations:
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed his "serious concern" over allegations the United States spied on senior Japanese government and business officials.
Prime Minister Abe also called for an investigation into the matter during a phone call with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, according to Japan's top government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga.
"If it is true these Japanese individuals were targeted, it could shake the relationship of trust in our alliance and I would have to express serious concerns," Suga quoted Abe as telling Biden.
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Atlantic Canadian companies are encouraged to attend the multi-sector Atlantic Canada European Union fall trade mission in Düsseldorf (Germany), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and London (United Kingdom) from November 19 – 24, 2017. This mission will offer business-to-business matchmaking with prospective business partners, country specific market briefings, mission preparation, follow-up support, and networking events. Deadline to apply is October 6, 2017
This project is being supported by the Atlantic Trade and Investment Growth Strategy, a partnership between the Government of Canada and the four Atlantic provincial governments. The mission aims to showcase and promote the expertise and capabilities of Atlantic Canadian companies, and increase international business opportunities. The fee for the mission is $1,000 per company.


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We investigate the connectedness of clash-free timetables with respect to the Kempe-exchange operation. This investigation is related to the connectedness of the search space of timetabling problem instances, which is a desirable property, for example for twostep algorithms using the Kempe-exchange during the optimization step. The theoretical framework for our investigations is based on the study of reconfiguration graphs, which model the search space of timetabling problems. We contribute to this framework by including period availability requirements in the analysis and we derive improved conditions for the connectedness of clash-free timetables in this setting. We further show that the diameter of the reconfiguration graphs increases only linearly due to the period availability requirements. We apply the theoretical insights to establish the connectedness of clash-free timetables for a number of benchmark instances.
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Do you know someone who is happy all the time? Sure, we all put on happy faces at church or when we're out shopping. But I'm talking about people who radiate a peace and contentment that you know they really FEEL all the time. They travel through life's ups and downs and never seem flustered. There are just some people who were born with a cheery disposittion.
That is not me. My mind and emotions seem to naturally settle at grumpy and irritable. No lie. Ask my kids. Most days I have to consciously think about how I want to feel if I want that feeling to be good. If I remember, I will stop for a minute when I'm done with my workout in the basement, close my eyes and take a few deep breaths before going upstairs. I put a smile on my face and then start my interactions with others.
This weekend was really busy and we were all together alot. People were grumpy at times, I didn't get to finish my workout yesterday morning, and I ate horribly which all culminated in a bad start to Saturday morning. But as I quickly showered yesterday morning before running a daughter to a horse riding lesson, I thought, "I have a choice today. I can let the day define me or I can define what kind of day I'm going to have." I put a smile on my face and mindfully decided to live in "Happy Calm" all weekend.
Do you know what? I really did feel good all weekend. I stayed calm in the midst of chaos. I spoke kindly when my kids were fighting. I was patient. I took control and felt the Lord bless my efforts.
Sometimes that's all it takes. Sometimes, when we feel awful, we have to plaster a smile on our face and create the peace from the inside instead of relying on the outside to make us happy. Don't get me wrong, I've gone through the ups and downs of this before. It won't last forever but, each time, it seems to last a little longer. You have the same control. You hold the same power. The Lord wants you to be happy and He will bless your efforts to create a life you love. Now, go


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Having known the word in my youth — first as the moniker of the big-haired 1980s proto-goth punk band from the UK, then as a shorthand term for certain modernist architecture — I was thoroughly shocked the first time I encountered images of the Bauhaus School complex, taken during the 30-year period of East German decay following World War II. That vast swaths of culture had been left to languish under hard-line regimes throughout the Eastern Bloc was no surprise (many towns in the former East Germany had a derelict appearance until only recently). But that the Dessau campus of an institution so renowned and of such significance across all disciplines of art and design had been left to crumble was jolting.
Thanks in large part to achieving status as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site in 1996, the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau (and the institution's previous home in Weimar) have been preserved and restored. Yet while the school's paragons are routinely venerated for their individual contributions to their respective fields, celebrations of the school's influential and pioneering impact as a singular body are still mystifyingly lacking.
A case in point: The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition "Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity," running until January 25 in the museum's sixth-floor Tisch Gallery. The new exhibition is the first update since "Bauhaus 1919–1928," MoMA's first, last and only comprehensive examination of the school, which was mounted nine years after the museum opened. Not since 1938 has the Bauhaus been appreciated as a singular historic organ by New York's highest modernist institution. To boot, that lone summary exhibition wasn't a summary at all, as it excluded the final five years of the school's existence.
As if that bizarre, seven-decade sin of omission weren't striking enough in plain numbers, consider that MoMA regards the Bauhaus as a massive influence on its own founding and development. Alfred Barr, Jr., the museum's original director and an art historian, wrote to Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius that the former's brief visit to Dessau shortly before MoMA opened was "one of the most important incidents in my own education."
That the original "Bauhaus 1919–1928" show excluded one-third of the institution's duration (even though it wasn't presented until five years after it closed) can be attributed to Barr's personal relationship to Gropius, who organized the exhibition to cover only his own tenure as Bauhaus director. But MoMA's subsequent 70-year lacuna on the Bauhaus is just plain baffling.
The reason for the long wait? Ostensibly, it was simply an oversight. Given their stature as individual practitioners, Bauhaus artists are constantly appearing in other MoMA exhibitions, and the idea for a comprehensive show on the entire school just hadn't been pursued. Apparently it was when "Workshops for Modernity" organizer Barry Bergdoll joined MoMA three years ago as the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design that the ball for a comprehensive Bauhaus show got rolling. Bergdoll and his co-curator, Leah Dickerman, are quick to point out that they don't consider the 1938 show as comprehensive, either. In its entire 80-year history, MoMA has never fully examined the Bauhaus School. Thankfully, their new exhibition includes the years under Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and captures the full spirit of the institution.
In the context of its time, the impact of the Bauhaus was seismic. No era has shaped the course of human civilization as profoundly as the 20th century, and in many ways the Bauhaus movement represents a hinge of modern history. The preceding 100 years had a progressive bent and tumultuousness previously unknown to man, and the Bauhaus rose during the hectic modernizing interim between the two World Wars, at a time when everything from domestic life to the materials that populated it was shifting. In 1900, few people outside of the largest cities in Europe and America had electricity; by the time the Bauhaus closed in 1933, they had color films, the Empire State Building, frozen foods and Scotch Tape. The school kept pace with the breakneck cadence of change, adopting new industrial materials, experimenting with production techniques for everything from imagery to housewares to homes themselves and pushing the flexibility of prefabrication. The glee with which the school adopted the rapid acceleration of artistic disciplines and mediums, and the degree to which they were targeted and eventually extirpated by mid-century sociopolitical movements, is only partially metaphorical for the century as a whole. It is not a stretch to consider the Bauhaus as the artistic distillation of the 20th century's creativity, aspirations, experiments and failures.
As remarkable as it was in the context of the 1920s and '30s, there should be no doubt as to the importance of the Bauhaus today. Addressing the question of whether retrospective appreciation of the school was "merely a belated wreath laid upon the tomb of brave events," Herbert Bayer and Walter Gropius stated, in the book that accompanied MoMA's 1938 exhibition:
"Emphatically, no! The Bauhaus is not dead; it lives and grows through the men who made it, both teachers and students, through their designs, their books, their methods, their principles, their philosophies of art and education."
How right they were. With so much innovation, approaching the sprawling Bauhaus oeuvre is a complicated matter. MoMA's "Workshops for Modernity" retrospective is to be primarily framed around the chronological development of the Bauhaus, split into sections that follow the school from the 1919 founding in Weimar (the seat of the eponymous Republic, Germany's 15-year flirtation with a legitimate liberal constitutional democracy) through the 1925 move to Dessau, and the final throes in Berlin during 1932 and 1933, where they were ultimately stamped out by the advent of Nazi rule.
"Workshops for Modernity's" loose sequential organization is foremost a gesture of convenience: the school was always headed in all directions at once as a matter of purpose, with few to no true unifying principles throughout its existence. A grand experiment in completely rethinking the structure of human life as we know it through art, there was a distinct vision at its inception. As Gropius put it [emphasis his] to "create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist. Together let us conceive and create the new building of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will rise one day toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith." Though that may sound communist in nature (and indeed it did to the Nazis), the Bauhaus was officially staunchly apolitical.
In short, the Bauhaus eschewed all maxims beyond simply creating objects through a unity of artistic work across all fields. The various departments of the Bauhaus were segregated in name only, and cross-pollination was the written rule. As a consequence, the output could be prolific but unexpected. Though they did create several private houses and a couple of apartment blocks, along with a government building or two, the architects who ran the Bauhaus (Gropius was succeeded as director by Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, each serving a three-year stint) delivered far less built output before the school's closure in 1933 than one might imagine. (Oddly, there was only an official architecture department for the last six years, and beyond their own facilities in Dessau perhaps the most notable architectural design to come out of the school was a losing bid for the Chicago Tribune Tower.)
Instead of hunching over drafting tables all day, architects busied themselves with interior design (Gropius crafted iconic door handles) and furniture (Marcel Breuer's chairs); painters sculpted (László Moholy-Nagy was an early experimenter with Plexiglas) and metalworked (Marianne Brandt reinvented the idea of the lamp and the ashtray) and theorized (Wassily Kandinsky's book Point and Line to Plane); printmakers created jewelry (Anni Albers) and light projection apparatuses (Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack).
Unlike the hit-and-miss results of many experimental and mixed-media artists, the Bauhaus masters and students produced valuable and groundbreaking works at a breakneck pace, so much so that their names have entered the modern lexicon in iconic form. A generation before Damien Hirst had Rachel Howard painting spots for him, and some 30 years before Robert Rauschenberg "erased" Willem De Kooning, Maholy-Nagy's "Telephone Pictures" were a genesis of conceptual art in 1922. Kandinsky is generally considered the progenitor of abstract expressionism. Naum Gabo's name is synonymous with the origins of kinetic art. Moholy-Nagy and Paul Klee were working with spray paint in the 1920s. Johannes Itten and Josef Albers mixed speculative thought and demonstrative experimentation to lay the foundations for the contemporary principles of color theory. Kandinsky, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, Gertrud Grunow and Kurt Schwerdtfeger were all developing early experiments on the relationship between color and sound, unwittingly making their way into later scientific research on dissonance and synesthetic composition (a 1930 print of a "visual analysis of a piece of music, from a color-theory class with Wassily Kandinsky" by Heinrich Siegfried Bormann is included in the exhibit). Herbert Bayer pioneered the now-ubiquitous use of all lowercase letters and created typefaces that were a benchmark in graphic design.
Though it may have slept on the Bauhaus for the better part of a century, to its credit MoMA has recognized the diversity of the school's output; and for "Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity," Bergdoll and Dickerman have augmented the museum's own collection of works with contributions from the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The result is a thoroughly impressive catalogue of works. All told there are several hundred objects in the exhibition: a host of brochures, posters and sales catalogues and a collection of postcards from a dozen Bauhaus students and faculty; all manner of mixed-media collages; textile and wallpaper samples; photographs, paintings, woodcuts and illustrations; graphic design and typography sheets; architectural plans; furniture and housewares (from chairs and lamps to a baby cradle, teapots and inkwells); marionettes, toys and chess sets; 35mm film sequences; sculptural pieces made from glass, metal, plastic and even wooden aircraft propellers; and documentation of other projects that range from stained glass windows to promotion of an International Hygiene Exhibition.
There is scant work by Mies van der Rohe (two chairs, a page from a catalogue and the marked-up architectural drawings of a student), but virtually every other prominent Bauhaus artist is well covered, with several dozen works by Klee, Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy alone. In addition to his letterpress and typography samples, Herbert Bayer's Thuringian banknotes and a series of 1924 designs for a newspaper stand, a cigarette pavilion, a movie theater and "an illuminated advertising sphere" are particularly interesting. Also of note is the juxtaposition between the two pieces from the lawyer, theater director and painter Lothar Schreyer: one is the 1920 design for a coffin ("death house for a woman") and the other the class schedule for the 1921–22 winter semester.
The development of the Bauhaus was eclectic in both concept and deed, and the sheer variety of works in "Workshops for Modernity" deftly illustrates that fact. While some of the aesthetic trends favored by many prominent Bauhaus artists were also present in other modernist movements, the Bauhaus was distinguished by the adaptation of technology and the utilitarianism of mass production. The school was also populated by German, Swiss, American, Russian, Dutch, Austrian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Czechoslovakian and Japanese artists, most of whom were already then or would eventually become luminaries in architecture, painting, interior design, typography, sculpture, photography, weaving, printmaking, color theory and education. This diversity will be front and center in "Workshops for Modernity's" Bauhaus Lab that accompanies the exhibition, an interactive program offering a series of symposiums, workshops and classroom experiments that focus on not only the mechanics of process employed at the school but also the cultural aspect of the Bauhaus, with selections highlighting the role of women and artists of various nationalities.
Though the Bauhaus itself was located in Germany, the school was short lived and afterwards the style lived on primarily in America. Oddly, if it weren't for the Nazis the development of modernism in the United States might have been at a much slower clip. After leaving Germany, sometimes with a stop in England or Switzerland, a good number of the school's masters and students immigrated to the United States. Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer brought the newly reorganized Harvard Graduate School of Design to prominence in architecture; László Moholy-Nagy launched the New Bauhaus in Chicago, which quickly became the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design; Ludwig Hilberseimer and Mies van der Rohe also landed in Chicago with Maholy-Nagy, the latter of the two spawning a generation of eminent architects with his "God is in the details" approach; Anni and Josef Albers took over the painting program at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and instructed the likes of Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil; Herbert Bayer helped the Container Corporation of America (which developed the six-pack) revolutionize product packaging and advertising before moving on to Colorado's Aspen Institute; Werner Drewes was graphic arts director for the Works Progress Administration in New York and went on to teach painting and printmaking at the Brooklyn Museum, Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. The list of the Bauhaus' contributions to the art of American culture is virtually limitless. In the world at large, the Bauhaus footprint is simply astounding.
In terms of contemporary style and design, the Bauhaus reigns supreme as an overarching influence even today. The school's faculty, students and subsequent practitioners have directly resulted in everything from the tallest office building in Michigan (more than half a century before designing Comerica Tower at Detroit Center, architect Philip Johnson's career was inextricably altered after he met Mies) to the title script for the iconic TV show The Jeffersons (Herbert Bayer's "Universal" typeface is perhaps the most mimicked script in design history) to that lone red wall in your yuppie friend's apartment (scattered amongst the primarily black, white and gray faces of the Dessau campus were red walls and yellow ceilings) to virtually every aspect of popularized modern design.
Without the Bauhaus, who knows what the interior shots of the Sterling Cooper offices on Mad Men would look like: there would likely be no Mark Rothko paintings and the furniture would certainly be more Frank Lloyd Wright–style wood than Mies and Breuer's metal. IKEA probably wouldn't exist at all, and leafing through the latest issue of Dwell magazine feels like a tour through the Bauhaus catalogue. For their new exhibition MoMA has also constructed a Bauhaus Lounge that is "furnished with chairs, tables, and couches designed by Bauhaus faculty, and offers visitors a relaxing space to further explore the creative processes of Bauhaus artists."
"Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity" runs until January 25. Additional information on the exhibition can be found at http://www.moma.org/bauhaus. European readers should note that there is currently a fantastic and extensive career retrospective of László Moholy-Nagy — one of the most astonishingly versatile, influential and progressive artists of the Bauhaus collective — running until the February 7 at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany.


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CALVERTON, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Macro International was recently recognized by the Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center with the 2008 Roger M. Smith Team Award for the "Go Places! With Math and Science," a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) initiative. Macro collaborated with Charles County school teachers and Indian Head Division subject matter experts to develop career pipeline lessons for elementary, middle, and high school students.
The Roger M. Smith Team Award recognizes collaboration efforts that meet customer needs by providing products or services, ultimately resulting in improved organizational performance and increased effectiveness.
These activity-based lessons are integrated into the classroom to encourage children to consider careers in STEM fields. Pat Dzieszkowski, Macros Senior Technical Director, stated that Indian Head Division scientists and engineers use these interactive modules when they are invited to the Charles County Public Schools to talk about their work. This pipeline initiative is one approach to helping the Navy meet future workforce needs.
In support of this collaborative initiative, Macro developed activity lessons, teacher guides, student worksheets, evaluations, brochures, posters, portable display units, and a website (http://www.ih.navy.mil/goplaces/default.asp).
This pipeline initiative has been showcased at the 2008 NAVSEA Diversity Summit as a benchmark for other Navy organizations, and has been recognized by Congressman Mike Honda as a model for how STEM funding is used.


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Looking for accredited career colleges, technical schools, and universities in Minnesota offering Criminal Justice and Law degrees.
Keeping the country safe: criminal justice and law enforcement prepares you for police work, security and paralegal professions.Minnesota colleges and universities offer programs for a wide variety of disciplines, but if you are interested in anything mining or technology related, this is the place to go. Just look at the multinational 3M Corporation (Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing) to get a better understanding of why this is. Over the years, Minnesota has proven time and time again that it is a leader in the world of science, engineering, and industry (no disrespect to Detroit, Michigan). The state invests a great deal of resources to make sure that college students have access to some of the best facilities in the world.
Ensuring a certain degree of public safety is an essential job of any government. In the U.S. as with many nations, it's also a huge industry, offering hundreds of thousands of jobs across dozens of areas of public safety and law enforcement. Career opportunities are vast and varied, as are the educational options.
Those who can cope with a relatively high level of stress can enjoy careers in law enforcement and criminal justice with a lot of room for advancement. On average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), police officers earned an annual wage of $55,620 as of May 2011.
Depending on the state and county, police officers must hold at least a high school diploma, although most have completed some college coursework, if not a 4-year degree. The most popular degree for officers, detectives and investigators is in criminal justice. Classes that lead to a criminal justice degree typically include criminal procedure, criminology, forensic science and criminal law.
Corrections officers work in jails and prisons. They are tasked with keeping inmates and visitors safe, while following a myriad of rules and procedures. The mean annual wage for corrections officers was $42,780 as of May 2011, according to the BLS. Probation and parole officers monitor and supervise offenders with such sentences.
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By Lauren Holcomb
Recently, a species of caterpillars has infested the Houston area. You may have seen these 16-legged creatures outside or inside the doors of Pin Oak Middle School. With this recent flush of insects comes questioning of why these caterpillars are here and what threat do they bring us?
The caterpillars seen here are black with yellow stripes, orange feet, and white fuzz. They are migrating down south because of the colder weather appearing up north. With all the gardening and plants brought inside, our little friends seem to come along.
This species of caterpillar hasn't been identified yet, but one can conclude that they will most likely turn into moths in upcoming months. Most students have been killing these creatures whenever spotted, but please do not! Ms. Roth, the Urban Agriculture teacher, stated, "It's just nature. Just in case, always take precaution around caterpillars of any sort, but these seem harmless. Let them be."
These creatures are all over Houston, but remember, they are harmless! Leave them alone as they will to you. We love the overall environment at Pin Oak, so don't kill it, embrace it! It's just nature, and once the cold weather up north disappears, our friends will be gone.


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My client from Montana requested a piece to commerate their night at a Van Halen concert. They are big fans and got to sing part of a song on stage with the band.
They like Van Halen's Sammy Hagar era, and asked me to mix that in, if possible.
I started with the classic Frankenstrat shape that Eddie Van Halen made famous as my canvas. I featured Montana tags up top because that's where my client is from. I spelled out Hagar on the keys at top. Van Halen is written on the neck. I recreated the Frankenstrat completely from license plates and used to of there album names as pickups. I used California tags to create the body shape in honor of the band's beginnings there.
My client loved it, and responded this way: "I LOVE my new guitar art! Absolutely stunning and one of a kind!"
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WINDHAM–The Lady Eagles – Julia McKenna and Hannah Kaplan propelling them forward with a goal apiece – dashed 2-0 past the visiting Red Riots on Saturday morning, Sept. 2. To their great credit, though, South Portland looked strong, and battled the top-flight Windhamites admirably.
"I would say we did get very lucky," Windham head coach Deb Lebel said. "[South Portland], in the first half, outplayed us. They probably had more shots than us in the first half…We need to clean things up, defensively."
Despite controlling much of the uphill 40 minutes, South Portland, a program on the rise by any measure, couldn't get on the board. The Riots crossbarred a number of balls – Hattie Tetzlaff, for instance, rang one with 1:35 to play before the break – but simply couldn't billow the net.
"We're every bit as good as they are," South Portland head coach Jeff Selser said. "The only difference between us and them, today: a little bit of the intensity in the second half. We had some unlucky breaks, in that we hit the crossbar at least five times. I thought we dominated the first half, but their goals were on two defensive let-downs. We've got to keep working on that; it's plagued us all preseason."
"We had a great preseason," Selser said. "We tied Greely, which is a phenomenal program, 4-4. And we went into this pretty confident. But once we fell behind a team like Windham, Windham's experience being in the top-tier is, I think, what prevailed. We got a little spooked, and what was working for us – our quick movement, our passing game – started to fall apart."
The Eagles struck their first blow roughly midway through the opening half. Again, McKenna did the honors: From low on the left side, she relayed a feed from Maggie Lloyd past SoPo keeper Maria Buck. Windham then tallied their second at 26:42 of the latter half, when Kaplan, assisted by Meghan Hoffses, belted a successful shot through heavy traffic from perhaps 10 yards out.
"When we play together, and we play unselfishly, that's how we're going to need to get goals this season," said Lebel. "We've talked about it a lot: 'You can't do it on your own.' So when we can connect two or three passes right around the box, that's how we scored, and that's probably going to be how we continue to score."
"We're a bit of a young team," Lebel conceded, without seeming to think of that fact as much of an impediment. "We've got great leadership up top, and I feel like these freshmen come in, they give us a spark – they've got energy, they've got speed, their foot-skills are good. I'm really excited about this incoming freshman class. They're filling some holes we had, and they strengthen us as a group. It's nice." Four freshmen took to the field for Windham against the Riots.
The Riots crossbarred another with 8:40 remaining; by now, Windham's shutout looked practically predestined. Eagles keeper Kaitlyn Roberts turned her most spectacular save of the day – a leaping deflection over the top of the net – with just 16 seconds left to ultimately secure the 2-0 result.
"We took a ton of shots – the Windham goalie had a fantastic save at the end of the game," Selser said. "Hats off to her. I would prefer that she'd make those saves against somebody else, but that was a great save. I congratulated her for it after the game."
Lebel praised Roberts. "Our goalkeeper had a great game today," she said. "She's worked hard, she's finally a senior, and I think she really wants this. She's put in the time."
Windham were scheduled to host Bonny Eagle on Wednesday the 6th, but administrators postponed that game. Instead, the Scots next travel to Deering on Friday the 8th. Similarly, SoPo were slated to take on Massabesic on Wednesday, but that was also delayed. The Riots visit Cheverus on Friday.
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Windham freshman Beem Riley worked the right side of the field threateningly vs. visiting South Portland on Saturday; here, she unwinds into a shot on net. Riots senior Hannah Yesse swoops in with hopes of interrupting.
SoPo's Kaya Backman and Windham's Hannah Kaplan battle for a header.
Riot Juliana Selser does what she can to block out Eagle Maggie Lloyd, pressuring hard in pursuit of an airborne ball.
South Portland's Sophie Chase tracks Windhamite Allison Kirby, pushing upfield.
Windhamite Maggie Symonds cleats the ball away, around SoPo back Isabella Cloutier.
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The 944th DANWAKAI(program)
All members concerned
Earthquake Research Institute
The University of Tokyo
Kazushige Obara
Announcement of the 944th DANWAKAI
(Danwakai: ERI Holds "Danwakai", a monthly meeting where its members present their most recent academic and technical achievements, on a
Friday of every month. Danwakai is open to the public.)
Date: Friday,25 Dec 13:30-
Place: ERI Bldg.2, 5th floor, Conference room1
1. 13:30-13:45
A new fifth parameter for transverse isotropy II: partial derivatives and PREM
* Hitoshi Kawakatsu
2. 13:45-14:00
Grain switching and rotation during diffusion creep of polycrystalline materials
Genta Maruyama, *Takehiko Hiraga
3. 14:00-14:15
New insights into spatial-temporal evolution of seismicity provided from matched filter technique
Aitaro Kato(Nagoya University), Shigeki Nakagawa・Toshihiro Igarashi, Takao Kumazawa(ISM), Naoshi Hirata
4. 14:15-14:30
Development of Seismicity Analysis Software: XETAS
Hiroshi Tsuruoka, Yosihiko Ogata
5. 14:30-14:45
Testing the Coulomb stress triggering hypothesis for great subduction earthquakes using abundant focal mechanism solutions
* Takeo Ishibe・Yosihiko Ogata・Hiroshi Tsuruoka・Kenji Satake


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I've known Matt Pathogen a long time. I actually did the first show he and the Chicago crew he works with (Kinetik), and honestly it was a bit of clusterfuck due to a bunch o' reasons, many newbie stuff. Still, the show went on and the world didn't end, and I know from doing a good 4-5 others shows with them over the years (and a fest) that, well, they learned a lot.
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I like the saying, �If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.�
I like the saying, �If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.� This folksy phrase is related to the old adage, �Where there�s smoke there�s fire.� I like these sayings because they make sense and generally are true. But not always.
Correlation does not imply causation is the phrase used in science and statistics that states that a correlation between two variables does not necessarily imply that one causes the other. In other words, just because it walks like a duck does not guarantee you�re looking at a duck.
But even though intellectually I understand that correlation does not necessarily imply causation, I still like the simplicity of smoke causing fire. It�s clean, simple. Black and white.
Unfortunately though, life isn�t always so clear-cut as much as most would like it to be. But those of us who have made the trip around the block a few times � in other words, old folks � we see the correlations a little more clearly than those with less experience. In some ways, life becomes �clearer-cutter� the older we get.
Take one of the latest studies released. I�m always a little suspect of so-called �polls� or �studies� that announce that this is that or that is this, that some percentage of us believes one thing or another. Maybe it comes from remembering my dad�s lesson, �Don�t believe everything you read.� Or my natural American inclination to question authority. But this particular study makes some sense to me. There�s smoke, so there�s most likely fire.
According to NBC News national political writer Carrie Dann, one in five Americans say religion does not play an important role in their lives. She reports that a new NBC/WSJ journal poll shows this as the highest percentage since the poll began asking participants about their focus on faith in 1997.
According to this study, Dann reports, �21 percent of respondents said that religion is �not that important� to their lives, compared to 16 percent who said the same in 1999. In 1997, 14 percent of Americans said religion did not play an important role in their lives.�
So lack of religion is the smoke. What�s the fire? Does correlation imply causation in this case? Pornography, child molestation, violence against women, crudeness and lack of politeness, drug use and addiction, declining American power. Mere coincidence?
I know it�s simple. But crudeness is rife in our 2014 culture. It didn�t used to be. Even major newspapers like the New York Times are questioning their prohibition against using curse words in print. An op-ed published in the Times by Jesse Sheidlowermarch advocating for curse words recently opined, �Our society�s comfort level with offensive language and content has drastically shifted over the past few decades, but the stance of our news media has barely changed at all. Even when certain words are necessary to the understanding of a story, the media frequently resort to euphemisms or coy acrobatics that make stories read as if they were time capsules written decades ago, forcing us all into wink-wink-nudge-nudge territory.� His op-ed included the caption, �A four letter word that rhymes with duck.�
More �comfortable� with offensive language? HELLO! IT IS O-FFEN-SIVE!
In this case, if it sounds like a duck, it must be duck. Less religion equals less culture. And it also means more pornography, more child molestation, more violence against women (or violence in general), more crudeness and lack of politeness, more drug use, and less American power. So yes, given my more than several trips around the block, I correlate lack of religion to many of the ills our society is facing. Do I know of all the studies backing up my belief? No.
Please pardon my dismissing, in this case, the science of correlation not necessarily equaling causation. I could be wrong but I don�t think so.
When there was more religion � when more folks believed there was something, someone, out there bigger than them to whom they were accountable � there were fewer of many of our societal ills. Now, though, we�ve lost sight of the duck. And the fire.
But the quacking I�m hearing � the waddling and feathers I�m seeing � sound and look awfully like a duck. I pray we can find and turn that quacker around. Before the fire consumes us.
Barry Fetzer is a columnist for the Havelock News. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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